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This popular Work is continued in Weekly Num- bers at Three- pence, and in Monthly Parts, at One Shilling. London: Printed for KNIGHT and LACEY, Pater, nosler- row; and sold by all Booksellers. LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, ABERDOVEY NEW TOWN. CREAM OF ABBEVILLE For the Growth, Improvement, and Preservation of the Hair. Hp HE Proprietors of this Cream are M. perfectly aware of tlie innumerable Composi- tions, speciously introduced for the Culture and Improvement of the Hair ; they are also fully satis- fied of the total Inefficacf of very many of them. These Considerations, together vyith the almost daily Complaint they receive from Persons who are losing their Hair, have induced KEN D A LL & SON to make Public the CREAM OF ABBEVILLE, a truly deli- cate and genuine Exotic, its most invaluable Pro. perties consist iu preventing the Hair from falling off or turning Grey ; it produces Whiskers and Eyebrows; also eradicates the Scurf from the Skin of the Head, and is most pleasant for dressing ihe Hair. Sold Wholesale, by the Proprietors, KENDAXJEi & SOW, PERFUMERS, 15, BULL- RING, BIRMINGHAM, IN POTS, AT 2s. CD. EACH. gN Pursuance of an Act of Parliament, JL made and passed this present Session of Parlia- ment, Intitled " An Act for making and maintaining 44 a Railway or Tram Road, from or near a certain 44 Slate Quarry, called GloddfaV Lou, iti the Parish 44 of Llandwrog, in the County of Carnarvon, to the 44 Town and Port of Carnarvon, in the same County':'* NOTICE is hereby given, that a Plan and Specifica- tion of tbe said intended Railway or Tram- Road are left with Mr. HALL, Engineer, Bangor, and at my Office, situate at Penrhos, iu the County of Carnar- von, for the Inspection of any Person or Persons desirous of becoming the Contractor or Contractors, for making and completing ( except the Iron Rails) the Railway or Tram. Road and the Bridges thereon, which extends Ten Miles or thereabouts, who are requested, on or before the first Day of September next, to send me Proposals iu. Writing ( sealed up and indorsed Nantlle Railway") for making and completing the same. H. R. WILLIAMS, Clerk to the Company. Pevrhas^ megr Carnarvon, \ st August, 1825. N. B, § le, am Packets sail from Liverpool to Bangor Ferry, which is distant from Carnarvon about 8 Miles, Three Days every Week. THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED, In 20 Volumes, Crimson Cloth Boards, Price £ 5 5v 0'/ or in 41 Parts ( which may be had separately), Price 2s. 6d. each, THE PERCY ANECDOTES, © vieinal anQ gsdcct, BY SKOLTO AND REUBEN PERCY, Brothers of the Benedictine Monastery, Mont Benyer. IT is* uitneces- sary to enlarge on the va- ried Excellences of a Work, which has already received such uo unequivocal Mark of Public Ap probation, by the unprecedented Sale of upwards of Two HUNDRED AMO FIFTY THOUSAND Corns. NPHE SHARE- HOLDERS in the I NEW TOWN intended to be built near ABERDOVEY, are requested to attend a MEET- ING lo be held at the Raven Inn, in Aberdovey, on Thursday, the 8th of September, at One o'clock. The estimated loss from the fire which soro* weeks ago consumed almost Ihe wliole town of Salins, in France, is above seven millions of. francs; of which only about 350,000 were insured! This extraordinarily small proportion of insured to tut. insured property is one prouf of the backwardness of Ihe French in adopting useful institutions. In one of Ihe French Papers appears a document very singularly illustrative of the change which France has lately undergone iu point of moral and religious principle.. We all remember that in the early stages of the Revolution the Christian religion was forsworn, aud its professors plundered, pro- scribed, exiled, or massacred. ' Ibis stale of things, however, was too unnatural ti) last long, aud from the moment that the law permit led donations and bequests to he made to religious houses and charita- ble establishments, the annual eonti ibulions of that kiwi have been iueieasing, so ( hat iu 22 years they have amounted to near 23 . million* of franrs in money, 700,01) 0 francs in annual dividends, and 6| millions iu lauded property. Besides this, Ihere have been given or restored to the Clergy, by private individuals, 384 houses, 1,077 pieces ut land, 618 acres of culture, 28 libraries, 56 churches, 37 chapels aud abbeys, 3 convents, and 174 parson- age houses.— The number uf donors loo is very remarkable, amounting lo 13.082, of whom 7, S4! are men; and 5,241 women. It- had heen generally supposed that the greater part of these donations were made by females, but au exa< t inquiry has proved Ihe fact lo be very different.— The inferences which may be drawn from these statements are various. On tbe'one hand it is certainly gratifying to find Ihat piety and charily have nol been ex- tinguished by the selfish and impious philosophy of Ihe age; but oil Ihe other, a prudent statesman may perhaps see that it is iiccessary lo keep in view ihe old policy which dictated our ancient statutes of Mortmain. There are bounds to be put even lo a pious liberality: anil as the moiiey donations had increased from 210, t' 00 francs in 1802, to above 2,000,000 in 1823, we may fairly say, that thai sort of benevolence in France at present needs rather the rein than ihe spur. To Builders and Contractors, TURNPIKE MEETING. NOTICE is hereby given, That the GENERAL ANNUAL MEETING of the Trustees of Wellington District of Walling Street Roads will be held at the Hay Gate Inn, in the Parish of Wrockwardine, on Tuesday, the 6th Day of September next, at Eleven o'Clock in the Fore- noon, for ihe Purpose of auditing the Accounts, and other the general Purposes of the Act. THOMAS PUGII, Clerk to the said Trustees. August 6lh, 1825. @ alc0 ftp auction. THISJDAY. Valuable Freehold Land, at Bangor, IN THE COUNTY OF FLINT. NOTICE is hereby given, That the TOLLS arising at the Toll Gates upon the Turnpike Road leading from Shrewsbury, through Ellesniere, in the County of Salop, to Wrexham, in the County of Denbigh, called or known by the Names of Overton and Hanmer Gates, wilh the Musley Side Bar and Cock Rank Gate, and the Wynnstay Gate, wiil he LET BY AUCTION, to the hest Bidder, at the Bowling Green, in Overton, on Thursday, the 25th Day of August next, at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon, anil that the Tolls arising at the Cotton Hill, with Harlescott Side Gates, and at the Stockett Gate upon the same Turnpike Road, and also at the Hardwick Gate, upon the Turnpike Road leading frotn Ellesmere to Oswestry, will he LET BY AUCTION, to the hest Bidder, at the Town Hall, in Ellesmere, on Friday, ihe 26th Day of August next, at Eleven o'Clock iu the Forenoon, iu the Manner directed by the Act passed in the third Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, " For Regulating Turn- pike Roads;" which Tolls produced, on an Average, the last Year, the undermentioned Sums, above tile Expenses of collecting the same, and will be put up at those Sums respectively : — Overton and HanmerGates, with Musley Bar and the Cock Bank Gate £ 805 Wynnstay Gate 145 Cotton Hill and Harlescott Side Gates 513 Stockett Gste 278 Hardwick Gate and the two Side Bars 66 Whoever happens to he the best Bidder, must at the same Time pay one Month iii Advance ( if required) of the Rent nt which such Tolls may be Let, and give Security, with sufficient Sureties to the Satisfaction of the Trustees of the said Turn- pike Road, for Payment of the Rent agreed for, at such Times as they shall appoint. 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At the Wynnstav Arms Inn, in Wrexham; on Thursday, the 25th Dav of August, I8> 5, between Ihe Honrs of 4 aud 6' o'Clock in the Afternoon, subject to such Conditions of Sale os shall be then and there produced : rB^ HAT capital Messuage, Tenement, and A FARM, called THE CLAPPERS, together with Two Cottages, Outbuildings, and sundry Pieces of Land, containing by Admeasurement Ninety- one Acres and upwards," situate in Ihe Township and Parish of GRESFORD, in the County of Denbigh, and now in the Holding of Mr. John Isaac, whose Term therein will expire as to the Lands on the 2d Day of February next, and the House, Cottages, aud Outbuildings on the 1st Day of May following. N. B. The House anil Outbuildings are mostly new and in excellent Repair, pleasantly situated adjoining Ihe Village of Gresford, and distant from Wrexham 3 Miles, and from Chester 8. Appertaining to the said Premises ihere is a good Seal or Pew iu Gresford Churcll. Mr. JttuN ISAAC, the Tenant, will shew the Premises; and further Particulars maybe had by applying to Messrs. MII. NR and PARRY, Solicitors, Temple, London; or Mr. FOCI. KBS, Solicitor, Wrexham, at whose Office a Map is left for Inspec- tion. For Worms, Fits, Pains in the Stomach, Sfc. WrO RMS are the Cause of many inter- nal Afflictions, which vary so much in their Effects thai lltey may lie mistaken by the most emi- nent Physician, and prove equally fatal to the Con- j slitufions of Adults and Children, though the latter more extensively suffer from their destructive ra- ! vages. Their more usual Symptoms are Fila, Pains in the Stomach, Side, ami Head, Loss of Appetite, nnd Pale, Languid, and Emaciated Appearance in ihe Patient. Theexlraorilinnry Efficacy ofCfllNG's PATENT WORM LOZENGES in all such Com plaints, as well as Obstructions ill the Bowels, anil every Disorder whete opening or cleansing Physic is required, is so universally known, atiil lias heen inblickty acknowledged by so many Persons of Distinction and Ratik in Society, that it is unneces- sary here to enlarge on their peculiar Virtues. Sold in Boxes, at Is. I^ d. and 2s. 9d. by BtiTt. ER, Cheinis', 4, Chenpsiile, St Paul's, London; and by the principal Medicine Venders throughout the United Kingdom. Of whom may be had, PERRY's ESSENCE, which has been declared in highly respectable Journals to he the " best Thing ever discovered for the Tooth and Ear- Ache." In Bot- les at Is. l| d. and 2s. 9d. Freehold ESTATE, near Howie. BY WRIGHT & SON, At the Talbot Inn, Standford's Bridge, near Howie, in the CoUntv of Salop, on Monday, the' 29th Day of August; < 825, at 4 o'Clock in the Aflernooif, subject lo Conditions : \ Li, that newly- erected StoneHOUSE, small Barn, Cowhouse, and other Buildings, with a Garden, and about Four Statute Acres of good LAND adjoining the same, situate near HOWLE, iu the Parish of Chetwyud, and County of Salop. Mr. George Downes, tlie Tenant, will shew Ihe Premises ; and for further Information apply ( if by Letter, Post- paid) at the Office of Mr. J. BICKKRTON WILLIAMS, Solicitor, Shrewsbury; or THE AUC- TIONEERS, Drayton. AISO. Snook's Pectoral or Cough Pills, For COUGHS, COLDS, ASTHMAS*,' and SHORT- NESS of BREATH. It is well known that Coughs and Colds ( if not soon removed), are in many Cases attended with considerable Danger, for the Removal of which Ihe Pectoral or Cough Pills are with Confidence recom. mended as an excellent Medicine, and in most Cases a certain Specific; a single Box will be a sufficient Trial lo prove Iheir good Effects. Each of the above Pills are prepared and sold, Wholesale and Retail, by J. SNOOK, Chyinist and Druggist, Bridgewater, Somersi I, in Boxes, al Thirteen- pence Halfpenny each, Duly included, or a Family Box, containing three small Boxes, at Two Shillings and Nine. pence ; being a Saving of Seven- pence Halfpenny lo the Purchaser. *** The Stamp on each RAX of the FAMILY and PECTORAL PILLS, has Ihe Prupiietor'a written Sig- nature, none else are genuine. Sold Wholesale and Retail, hy Messrs. Barclay and Son, 95. Fleet Market; Sutton iCo. 10, Bow Church Yard ; Newbery and Sons, Si. Paul's Church Yard ; Mr. E. Edwards, 66, St. Paul's Church Yard; Messrs. Butlers, 4, Cheapside, nnd 220, Regent- street, London; 20, Waterloo- Piace, Edinburgh; aud 34, Sackville- sireet, Dublin; Mr, Hill, Drug- gist, Exeter; Mr. Clarke, Druggist, & c. Boston; aud Retail by W. & J. EDDOWES, Shrewsbury ; and the principal Medicine Venders in the Kingdom. Horse, Dog, and Cattle Medicines. BLAINE'S MEDICINES for the DISTEMPER and most other Diseases of DOGS, sanctioned by nearly Thirty Years'increasing Reputation, continue In lie prepared and sold by W. YOUATT ( lale BLAINE and YOUATT), Veterinary Surgeon, 3, Nassau Street, Middlesex Hospital; they are also sold bv Barclay and Sons ( ihe Whole- sale Agents), 95, Fleet Market, and all Medicine Venders. Mr. Youatt has likewise completed an Assortment of Medicines for every Disease of Ihe HORSE, the OX, and the SHEEP. He has been guided in the arrangement by ihe experience which his extensive practice has afforded him ; every Medicine has been successfully administered under bis own superintendence; ample Directions accom- pany every Packet; and the lowest possible Price is charged for each Article.— An Hospital for Dogs — Advice, as usual, on the Diseases of Animals, either at Mr. Y.' s residence or hy letter; and personal Attendance is given in Towu and ' Country. PLOUGHMAN'S DROPS A Medicine prepared by a Shropshire Gentleman Farmer, SUPERIOR. TO AT. I, THE PREPARATIONS IN THE WORLD, For the Cure of the Venereal Disease, the King's Evil, Scrofula, Scurvy, Fistulas, and every Dis- order arising from Impurity of the Blood. Southdown Sheep, Devon Oxen, fyc. At the Earl of BRADFORD'S Farm Yard, at WES- TON- UNDEIt- LIZARD, on Mondky, Septem ber 5th, 1825; ABOUT 120 PRIME SOUTHDOWN EWES and TIIEAVES; 3 two- years old OXEN and 2 COWS, in a good Stale for the Stalls or to kill ; a Team of 4 excellent Working DEVON OXEN; and several in- calf COWS, bred bv the lale W. CHILDB, Esq. Also a FRENCH BULL; and a few well- bred DURHAM COWS in- calf to capital Bulls; a capital HACK MARE, 4 Years old; an aged DITTO; aud a useful CART GELD- ING, 4 Years ulil. The Sale to commence at 11 o'Clock. N. B. About Twelve superior SOUTHDOWN RAMS TO LET. THE PLOUGHMAN'S DROPS are so well known throughout Shropshire, and indeed throughout the Kingdom at large, for the Cure of tbe above Disorders, and without the Aid of Mercury or of any Surgical Operation, that any Comment on their Virtues is quite unnecessary. As a Purifier of the Blood they are unrivailed in their Effects. And their Efficacy has been attested in numberless Instances; many of them on Oath before tbe Magistrates of Shrewsbury ; thus establishing their Pre- eminence over the Nostrums of ignorant Quacks, and ove, r tbe more established Prescriptions of the Regular Facnlty. In Cases of FEMALE DEBILITY, TURN OF LIFE, and any other Affliction of the Body arising from a changed or vitiated System, the PLOUGHMAN'S DROPS may be relied upon for a certain and speedy Cure. N. B. Doctor SMITH does not recommend a starv- ing System of Diet: he allows his Patients to live like Englishmen while taking the Ploughman's Drops. ' These Drops are to be had in square Bottles, with these words moulded on each, Mr. Smith's Ploughman's Drops," ( all others are spurious), at £ 1. 2s. the large, and lis. the small, Duty in- cluded, at PLOUGHMAN'S HALL, Upton Magna, near Shrewsbury ; also of W. and J. EDDOWES, and Cookson, Shrewsbury; Capsey, Wellington; Yeates, Salt Warehouse, Iron Bridge ; Partridge, Bridgnorth ; Griffiths, Ludlow ; Waidson, Welsh- pool; Price, Oswestry; Baugb, Ellesmere; Jones, Parker, Whitchurch; Procter, Drayton; Silves- ter, Newport ; Holmes, No. 1, Royal Exchange, London; and all other Mfd'sobs Ycaders, FOR THE GROWTH OF HAIR rglHE peculiar Properties of BEAU'S jlL GREASE for promoting and regenerating the 1 Growth of Hair being- now admitted as ati undoubted j Fact, it only requires that the Public should be par. j ticular to procure the Genuine Article to derive the ] desired Success; and this is more particularly ne^. j eessary as the great Demand has occasioned numer- ous spurious Imitations, which, being Mixiures of strong rancid Fats with pungent Essential Oils, are | extremely deleterious. J. ATKINSON, Perfumer, 44, Gerrard- Street, Soho- Square, London, respectfully informs the Pub- ] lie,, that his Bear's Grease is sent out genuine as j imported, without Admixture of any Kind, except 1 a little Perfume to keep it sweet. It is procured from the Animal in its native Climate, that being the State recommended by Physiologists. The following are a few of the Houses who sell Atkinson's Bear's Grease, and no one's else, from a Knowledge that his is a genuine Article:— In London, Mr. SMYTH, Perfumer to His Majesty, 117, GATTIS and PEIRCE, 57, Bond- street; SANGER, 150, Oxford Street; BARCLAYS, Fleet- Market; and in Shrewsbury by Mr. JOHN NIGHTINGALE, Mr. WIL- LIAM NIGHTINGALE, Mrs. HULME, and Mr. SAMUEL HULME, Perfumers; and by most Perfumers and Medicine Venders. CAUTION.- The lowest Price Pol of Atkinson's Rear's Grease, is 2s 6d. ; the next 4s.; the Words 44 Atkinson's Bear's Grease," are engraved on the Pot, not a Printed Label*, and is enclosed in a Wrap, j per with his. Signature and. Address. NPHE VEGETABLE TOOTH POVV- - » 1 DER has so long been in general Use that it is almost unnecessary to offer at^ y further Recom- mendation of it. Composed of Vegetables, without the Admixture of any Mineral or pernicious Ingre- dient whatever, it is free from the usual Objection against the Use of other Dentifrices. Its detersive Power is just sufficient to annihilate those destructive Particles which adhere to the Gums nnd the Inter- stices of the Teeth ; healing Injuries in the former, and promoiing a new Enamel ( where it has been injured or corroded) on the latter, it likewise tm- , parts a Firmness and healthy Redness to. the Gums ; and if used regularly will preserve tbe Teeth in a sound State to old Age. Sold in Boxes, at 2s. 9d. hy BUTLER, Chemist, 4, Chenpside, St. Paul's, London ; and by the principal Perfumers and Medicine Venders throughout the United Kingdom. Of whom may be bad, BUTLER's superior SILVER WIRED TOOTH BRUSHES, Is, each; nnd BUTLER's v. erv fragrant LAVEN- DER WATER, in Half- pints, at 3s ( id. Be careful to ask for BUTLER'S VEGETABLE TOOTH POWDER, and to observe the Name and Address of14 Butler, 4, Cheapside," are engraved on the Stamp attached to each Box of this esteemed Dentifrice, to distinguish it front IMITATIONS under similar Titles. List of the Subjects and Portraits contained in k the Work: PART PORTRAITS. I. HUMANITY W. Wilherforce, Esq. M. P. 2 ELOQUENCE Lord Erskine. 3. YOUTH The Sou of Sir Geo. Dallas. 4 GE'MtGEllI AND > Ofhis late Majesty, ami also HIS FAMILY... $" f our present Sovereign. 5. ENTERPRISE .'. Mniigo Park. 6. CAPTIVITY Sir Sidney Smith. 7. SCIENCE The lale Sir Joseph Banks, Barl. 8. HEROISM Marquess of Anglesea. 9. JUSTICE Lord Eldon. 10. INSTINCT The Eilrick Shepherd. If HUMOUR Geo. Colman, Ihe Younger. 12 IMAGINATION Sir Walter Scoff. 13 FIDELITY The Maiquess of Hastings- 14. 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In ibis Work the Rules are drawn up with I unusual Clearness, and areas free as possible from J technical Forms of Speech for the Learner's more j easy comprehension. Also a Scries of Examples | selected with Care, and accommodated to the present | State of Trade; are ample under each Rule, and a I Question worked to explain each Series. J 9. A Key,) Containing the solutions of the Questions I given much at Length, and in tbe correct. School- form j of Working, for the greater Ease and Convenience of j general Reference; together with additional Ques- I tions for the Use of Teachers in examining their F Pupils, but not included in the Arithmetic. PI ice ] 4s. 6d. bound in blue, and lettered. [ FROM THE GLASGOW CHRONICLR ] Clyde Iron- works have ceased working for the last five weeks, iu consequence of the colliers' combina* tfoii. The furnaces produce about 100 tons of pig iron weekly, or 5,000 tons a- year, and it requires above 20,000 tons of coal to melt the metal. It was, therefore, considered by the combination the most vulnerable point to attack first, as it was calculated that Mr. 0uulop would at once comply with their demands rather than stop his extensive iron- works* Tbe principal cause of dispute was, that the colliers wished to alter the mode of measurement, and to give Mr. Dunlop only 12 c'wt. instead of 13 cwt. to the cart as formerly. As Mr. Dunlop considered his measurement as fair as that of any other coal- work, he resisted the demand. About ten weeks ago, his Hamilton farm colliers sent to him a long roll of imaginary grievances and new demands, which he peremptorily refusing to accede to, they all struckrf The work has since been stopped, and the collier* turned out of their houses. The whole of Mt\ Dunlop's eollietS, amounting to about 300, also fol- lowed the example, and there being' uo coal to carry on the blast furnaces, from the short supply put up by the colliers, in a week after tbe strike, the iron- stone miners, lime stone workers, furnace men, labourers, ike. were thrown idle to the amount of 300, making in all 600 men, without including their families. What makes the case peculiarly hard is, that Mr, Dunlop's men were quite averse to a strike* A general meeting of combined colliers, consisting of about 2,000, was, however, held in the vicinity, to decide whether Mr. Dunlop's men should continue any longer to work for him upon their old terms* To their credit, every one of his infcti voted against striking, being perfectly satisfied with their em- ployer's terms. They were, however, outvoted, and obliged to submit to the general body, and present their grievances. They have since been supported by the combination They say that they receive 10s. a week, aud so much for their sons, according a* they could work. As there are 3,001) colliers around Glasgow, it only requires about a shilling weekly from each to defray the expense of the idle hands* The colliers thrown idle were perfectly able, if they chose to wOrk full time, to make 6s. 3d. a day, and when they wrought only-. four days a week, they made 20s. This is owing to tbe great increase of price they have successively obtained; as they novr get 2' 2 § d. for digging a cart of coals, the former price of which was 14d. A report is made every fortnight by the delegates of the state of the coal- hiils, and if the coals are accumulating, the grand committee at ShettlestOu order tbe various coal- works to put out only a certain quantity till the stock is diminished,) The consequence is, that the colliers, on an average, work only three- fifths of their time, and instead of putting but 50 hatches, first reduced it to 40^ ami then to 32. At this season of the year, there is generally 50,000 tons ( or about a fifth of the con- sumption of Glasgow) on the principal coal bills to meet the additional demand iu winter; hut at present there is no stobk on hand, thecolliers refusing to put out more than what is required for immediate consumption. Mr. Duulop is confident of being able to fill his works with new hands, but he is as yet rather averse to do this, as his old workers have been about the place from their infancy, are much attached to him, industrious and well behaved,, and never made any complaint till misled by others. It is a melancholy picture of the times vVhcn such a large body of workmen are so infatuated as to strike at the dictation of others. Instead of industriously work- ing, they are now to be seen playing at cards, or loitering away their time in other frivolous amuse- ments. Mr. Dunlop has several hundred houses in the form of squares for his workmen. Me charged 7^ d. per week for tbe rent of an apartment 10 feet by 15, and containing two beds. Those who wish an additional room half the above size, with one bed in if, pay one- half more. The colliers object to pay any rent whatever, ami this also forms one of their list of grievances Mr. Dunlop is determined not to yield to any of their demands, as from ihe price of iron falling, it is less profitable to manufacture. He is employed in repairing bis furnaces and other necessary improvements. He employs more than 50 horses in driving the iron aud lime- stones It takes about 40,000 tons of raw material to make 4,000 of pig iron. Above 20,000 tons of coal were formerly sold, besides tbe supply required for the consumption of the works. The iron works, w hich are beautifully situated on the hanks of the Cl\ de, have at present a gloomy and ruinous appearance, very unlike the vivacity and briskness which has so long distin- guished them. Il is a great number of years since they stood still. The inhabitants of Glasgow will miss tbe finely illuminated horizon which the flames created, particularly in a dark night, and which served as a cheerful beacon to ihe traveller in the surrounding districts. It is the intention of the combination, if they succeed against Mr. Dunlop, to strike against the rest of the coal masters, one by one, tili they get them till completely under their control as to measurement and price. The grand stand is determined to be made during next winter, and great apprehensions are entertained that the i community will at that time suffer sevetely for I want of coal. Last winter the combination was not so well matured. Next season there, will be no * stocks of coal at the pits, and a great rise in price i may therefore be expected. It is absolutely neces- sary that immediate steps should be taken on the subject, or public works and private families will suffer serious inconvenience from the want of fuel, I or be obliged to purchase it at au enormous rate, i This will cause tlie eyes of the public fo be more I fully opened to the evil consequences of combiua- r tion ;• and the colliers, by over- doing the thing, will probably bring the house about their ears. .- w. •.... i » , ——— r----- - —;-.:-.:. LONDON— SATURDAY. LORD COCHRANE.— The following '- particulars Yes pec ting Lord Cochrane come from a quarter on Which we can rely :— ts His Lordship had on Thuisday morning a meeting with, the leading members of the Greek Committee. His proposals to them are of the most liberal description. By resigning his situation of First Admiral of the Brazilian navy, his Lordship gives up nearly £ 6000 a year, and . a pension, upon retiring, of half that sum, settled upon himself and lady for - life; besides unliquidated claims to a considerable amount. His Lordship leaves it to Ihe Committee to settle the amount of the recompense to be awarded to him for his services : but he expressly Stipulates, that the auxiliary expedition shall be placed under his whole and sole control— the trammels in which his Lordship repeatedly found himself, while in South America, having tended greatly to impede, and even endanger, the success of his naval operations." Brussels papers to the 17th instant, have readied town. Subscriptions in aid of the Greeks are now opened in every principal town throughout the kingdom of the Netherlands; and as the same is done in France and Germany, it is clear that the feeling in behalf of that brave and patriotic people is rapidly growing stronger and more general. Paris papers of Thursday and yesterday have been received. The Duke of Wellington remained in that capital. His Grace had the honour of dining with the King of France at St. Cloud 011 Wednesday last. Brussels and Ghent papers have reached town to the date of Thursday. The Journal de Gaud has the following paragraph :— u Yesterday and the day before yesterday there passed through this city, Lords Sidmouth and Liverpool, on their way to the Hague through Antwerp, where it is said the Duke of Wellington will meet them. It is also said that a meeting of these personages will take place at Spa, and that the Duke of Cambridge and the King of Prussia will be there." Letters and papers have beer! received from Charleston to the 13th ult. which contain very late news from the western coast of South America. The dates fiom Lima reach clown lo the middle of April, when it appears that Callao was still in ihe hands of the Royalists, but was closely blockaded by seven men of war, and entirely cut off from Communication with the sea. On the land side the number of troops amounted to 5,000 men, and eccording to another account, a force of not less than 7,000 men was encamped before the fortress A grand entertainment in honour of South American Independence has been given at Buenos Ayres, by the British Settlers; it is said to have Cost 14,000 dollars. Qucbec papers announce the arrival of two vessels direct from China, with 19,000 chests of tea on board. They are the first ships that ever entered the St. Lawrence from Asia, and their arrival forms a new era in the commercial history of the colony. Hitherto teas had been smuggled from the United States into Canada, to an extent which deeply injured the revenue; but now tea is become Is. per lb. cheaper than in the United States, so that an end is put to the practice of smuggling in that article; or if it continue, the tide has taken a new and contrary direction, and for the first, time flows from Canada into the Ameri- can Union. Sir Walter Scott arrived in Dublin on Sunday, from his southern tour. The worthy Baronet in- tended leaving Ireland on Monday last, to proceed by Hols head lo Wales. BANKRUPTS, AUGUST 20 — Samuel Hodgson, late of Dover- street, Piccadilly, Middlesex, wine- merchant aad hotel- keeper.— Thomas Crowder and Henry Thomas Perfect, of Liverpool, merchants.— { jHorge Peake, of Milton, near Sittingbou'rne, Kent, shipwright.— Robert Hansford, of Combe Down, Monk ton Combe, Somersetshire, victualler.— George Augustus Ling ham, of Whitecha pel- road, Middle- sex, wine- merchant & brewer.— Bernard Connolly, of Great Portland- street, Mary- fe- Bone, Middlesex, tailor.— Philip Debell Tuckett, now or late of Gloucester, grocer and tea- dealer. afford t » rent seats, and also for th? comfortable reception of a very great number of persons who are anxiously desirous to attend the National Church, but. are not sufficiently affluent, to rent seats, were it, possible to obtain them.— At a meeting of the Committee, held in St. Chad's Vestry, on the 16th instant, it was unanimously determined, that a census of the parish should be immediately taken ( as required by the Act of Par- liament), on which to found the application to the Commissioners for a grant of money to erect a new Church in Frankwell.— The parish was divided into small districts, for the purpose of taking the census, and two Gentlemen appointed to each district, to ascertain the number of persons inhabit- ing each and every house in this large and populous parish. ST. CHAD'S BELLS.— The tenor belonging to this otherwise fine peal of bells having long been complained of by competent judges as ineffective, both as regards the science of ringing and as announcing the hour, it was resolved, at a meeting of the Trustees, held on the lltli February last, the Venerable Archdeacon Owen in the chair, That it should be exchanged or recast, with from six to eight, hundred weight of additional metal, under the direction of the then Churchwardens, who, in pursuance of such resolution, gave the necessary instructions to Mr. Mears, of London; and on Monday last the new bell arrived at the Union Wharf in Owner Rees's barge, from which it was safely landed yesterday, in the presence of several highly respectable members of the Old Union Society of Ringers in this town. It appears, and we hope will prove, a most excellent bell. It is in height 4 feet 6 inches, in diameter 5 feet 3 inches; its circumference at the mouth 16 feet 6 inches, at the head 8 feet 9 inches ; and its weight upwards of 2 tons 1 cwt. — Round the head of the hell is the following Inscription : — ST. CHAD'S PEAL OF TWELVE BELLS WAS CAST 1798. THE REVD. T STEDMAN, MINISTER. T JONES, A. DRINK WATER, W. HARLEY, R. LLOYD, CHURCH WARDENS. THE TENOR HAVING BEEN FOUND INEFFECTIVE WAS EXCHANGED FOR THIS BELL, 1825. THE REVO. T. STEDMAN, MINISTER. T. MEARS, OF LONDON, FECIT. SAMUEL TUDOR, PHILIP HUGHES, THOS. JONES, CHARLES T. CLARKE, CHURCH WARDENS. MAY ALL WHOM I SHALL SUMMON TO THE GRAVB THE BLESSINGS OF A WELL SPENT LIFE RECEIVE.. A fie*' months loader, and ft period of fifty years will have elapsed since our honoured guest's gallant Father was resident amongst us, participating in the civic festivities of those days, and discharging, the duties of the? highest municipal offices of the Borough! Those around me who remember him- - those around me who had the honour ai: d happiness of his acquaintance— will feel an additional gra- tification and pleasure at seeing those splendid talents, that public and private worth, which he so. pre- eminently pos- sessed, so ably sustained by his children. And our gallant Friend may rest assured, that when 5 wish him health long to enjoy the distinguished honour our Gracious Sovereign has been pleased to confer upon him, I speak the united sentiments of this ancient and loyal town. I will avail myself of this opportunity to recommend to those around me to embrace every occasion which presents itself of inculcating upon the minds of the rising genera- ...: u K„ cYanintonf tin tion, that it will be by their emulating the example of the " * * liral, and of the other illustrioas Warriors and gallant Adm: Statesmen who have from time, to time risi'n up among us, that this Country can maintain the elevated rank and sta- tion to which it has arrived, and that be enabled to transmit to their posterity, pine, and unimpaired, our excellent Constitution, its religion, its laws, aud its liberties.—( Great Applavie. J The health of Admiral Owen was drank with thunders of applause. Admiral OWEN ( evidently much affected) replied as follows : — GENTLEMEN—• I rise, under considerable embarrassment, to return thanks for the honour you have done me. My worthy friend has unfortunately placed my services in too strong a light. I have endeavoured to do my duty, where- ever place or circumstance has required it; but those duties were too humble and those services too insignificant to deserve $ 0 great, a compliment. 1 feel infinitely more proud to stand on the popularity of my father; and your reception of me is more flattering than 1 could possibly have expected. I am proud to return to the town of my youth; and if the Mayor will permit me, 1 will give the health of the Mayor, the Corporation, and the Inhabitants of this town, in a bumper as full as my heart could wish. The toast proposed bv Admiral Owen having been drank with due honour, the MAYOR returned thanks. Wooden Walls of Old England, the Check String of the World — Earl Powis, and Thanks for his Turtle— Archdeacon Corbett, and Thanks for his Venison— Capt. Fitzwilliam CKv'Cn ( who is now on the Coast of Africa), proposed by Panton Corbett, E'- q. Admiral OWEN here said — * Gentlemen, I thank you for this new mark of your kindness. Nothing would be more gratifying to my brother than to know that the memory of his father is held in such respect. I remember a toast in my youth, which I will give - All Friends round the WVekin." WAIVES. • MARRIED: Lately, Mr. Bright, mercer and draper, NewtoWri, to Miss Franklin, of Norfolk. At Churchstoke, M r. Elliott, of Sheffield, to Miss Williams, of Mellington, Montgomeryshire. DIED. On the 20th instant, the infant son of Edward Lloyd, Esq. of Bhagatt. On Saturday last, Mr. Francis Bray, of Welsh Pool, schoolmaster. O11 Monday last, Mr. John Lewis, formerly of Coed- y- dinas, near Welsh Pool. His weight ' was about 25 stone. On the 16th inst. aged 63, Mrs. Morris, wife of Robert Morris, Esq. Brownlow Hill, formerly of Chester, and of Morfa Lodge, Carnarvonshire. Lately, at Maengwyn, Cardiganshire, Mr. David Davies, aged 61 years. At the Denbighshire Great Session, Thomas Dickenson, from Adlington, Cheshire, was found guilty of stealing a horse, the property of Mrs. M. Jones, of llhiwlas, and was sentenced to seven years' transportation ; and William Yates, aged 22, from Lancashire, for stealing £ 100 in notes from the person of Richard Jones, of Ruabon, was sentenced to be imprisoned lo hard labour for six calendar months. ERYTHRINA CRISTA GALLI.— This elegant foreign plant, which is a native of Brazil, is now in bloom, a second time, this summer, in Mostyn Gardens: there are at present five branches, bearing their numerous beauties, and five more ready to burst forth, each branch containing from 50 to 80 flowers ; its flowers are very large, and a deep scarlet. AMNUA1L MNNEK, OAT SHEAF, PITCHFORD. FREDERICK CORR1NGI1AM MOST respectfully informs his Frienc and tlie Public, that Iiis ANNUAL DINNE will lake place on WEDNESDAY, the 31st August instant ; when he shall feel obliged to tlio: Gentlemen who please lo favour hiui with the Company. VF. NISOW wilt be provided. Mr. It AMEI. I,, Acton Pigot, / „ ... Mr. LEAKE, Wjte Cop," \ Pf « « lent.. *#* Dinner on the Table at Two o'Clock. MomriWENT To the late Sir THOMAS PICTON. On Tuesday last, the foundation- stone of the Monument about to be built to the Memory of General Sir Thomas Picton, on an elevated spot near the town of Carmarthen, was laid with grand Masonic Ceremony. There were present, to sup- port Sir Christopher Cole in his official capacity of Provincial Grand Master for South Wales, Lord Dynevor, Lord Lieutenant of the County ; Sir John Owen, Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire ; Wm. E. Powell, Esq. Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire ; the Lord Bishop of Salisbury ; Lord Robert Sey- mour; the Hon. G R. Trevor ; Lord Breatialbane, & c.; Ladies Dynevor, Owen, Seymour, Trevor, Burgess, See. & c — The crowd of spectators was immense, in presence of whom several excellent speeches and Welsh Poetical Compositions . were impressively delivered ; and the interesting cere- mony was conducted with the greatest etlar, without the intervention of the most trifling accident. The Right Hon. Lady Dvnevor, supported by Sir Christopher Cole, Grand Master of South Wales, and Sir W. C. De Crespigny, Grand Master for Hampshire, descended to the stone, when the Grand Treasurer, by order of the Grand Master, deposited the coins, & e. which were enclosed in a • •• n — j ;_< — 1 _ r ^ n .1 public d1njoer To Rear- Admiral Sir E. W. C. R. Given, K. C. B. TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1825. POSTSCRIPT. LONDON, Monday Wight, August 22, Bank Stock 1325 Red. 3 per Cts. 90* 3 per Ct. Cons. 89| Imperial 3 per Cts.— per Cents, per Cents. Red. 4 per Cents. 103$ Long Ann. 22 5- 16* India Stock — India Bonds — Ex. Bills ( I* d.) 16 Co us. for Acc. 89 g The difference so long subsisting between the ship owners and the sailors of Sunderland are ended; the latter having accepted the offers made to them, on Wednesday last, by the ship owners. New York napers to the 24th, ami Philadelphia to the 26th ult. have arrived this morning. It is Stated in the latter, thai one hundred aud eighty persons were reported at the Health office as having died during the preceding week ; some from drink- ing cold water, and some from the effects of the heat. A Brazil Mail has arrived, bringing letters and papers to the 10th of June. They contain little in addition to what we have already heard of the insur- rection at Monte Video. Much abuse is heaped upon Fi uctuoao Rihera, the leader of the revolt, who? is charged, in addition to his treason, with the guilt of ingratitude to his personal benefactor, the Em- peror His rebellion is said to have begun on the 27ih of April On Ihe 17th of May the news reached Rio, and the Emperor immediately con- voked a Council of State, Great celerity was used in collecting a force, so that on the 21st of May 2,000 men were embarked at Rio Janeiro, in pre- sence of the Emperor, who harangued them, and was answered by shouts of loyalty. Letters, it is said, bad been received contradicting the report that the Brazilian Colonel Ferrara, was taken pri- soner, anil stating, that on the contrary he had surrounded Ribera. The expedition sailed on the 25th, under the command of Lieut.. General Ma- gessi, convoycd by Vice Admiral Rodrigo Lobo. SHREWSBURY. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1825. I f BIRTH. On the 15th inst. the Viscountess Anson, of a son and heir. MARRIED. On the 14th inst. at The More, Mr. Edward Tanner, of £ aton, to Miss Everall, of The Beach. On ihe 7th inst. at Hinstock, Mr. Robert Henry Bickerton, to Miss Hannah Cotton. DIED. . On the 15th inst. at Leamington, the Right Hon. tadv Elizabeth Keith Heathcote, lady of R, C. Heathcote, Esq. of Longton Hall, Staffordshire, daughter of the late, and sister of the present Earl of Balcatras. On Wednesday morning last, of a consumption, aged 28, Mrs. Hitchcock, wife of Mr. Hitchcock, land surveyor, of this town. On Friday last, aged 39, Mr. George Wyclierley, horse- dealer, ofColeham, iu this town. On the 10th in> t. aged 37, Anne, eldest daughter of the late Mr. Hopkins, surgeon. Market Drayton. On the 13th inst. at Bayston Hill, near this town, Mrs Hartshorne, at the advanced age of 97. She was the mother of 13 children, the eldest of whom is now 77. At the time of her death she could reckon up 164 children, grand- children, and great- grand- children. Her piety was exemplary, and though her outward senses were much impaired, her mind was elevated to a sublime degree by the prospect of a happy immortality. Aged 80, Mrs. Frere, widow of Mr. John Fie re, of Bridgnorth. Visiting Clergyman this . week at the Infirmary, the Rev. W. G. Rowland:— House - Visitors, Richard Bratton, Esq. and Mr. W. Taylor. NEW CHURCH,— With great pleasure we learn that the necessary proceedings are commenced for obtaining a sum ol money to erect a Church, in Frank well, from the fund so properly granted hy Parliament for building New and enlarging Old Churches, in those parishes which are large and populous, and where there is not sufficient room in the present chinches for al I persons who are desirous to attend.— In this town it is perfectly well known that St. Chad's Church is quite inadequate for the « eeee » modation of a great many persons who can Of al! the duties which devolve upon the con doctor-* of a Newspaper, there is none more pleasing than that of recording the testimonials of public ap- probation conferred upon those who, by the exer- cise of their talents and valour, have rendered the most essential services to their Country. The histories of the nations of antiquity, the customs of our own land, aud the innate feeling, which must arise in every honest mind, of gratitude towards those individuals, by whose services the various members of the community have been enabled to reap the fruit of their labours in security and com- fort, all tend to enforce the truth of the opinions of eminent, writers, who have averred that in the Civic Feasts, such as we are about to notice, are to be found the source of that radiance which illumes the laurel wreath of the Hero, aud which, by eliciting and expanding the best feelings of our nature, furnish an incitement to the generous mind, that can hardly be said to arise even from the substantial honours and rewards justly awarded by the Executive Power on the behalf of the State. Admiral OWEN entered the Navy in the year 1783, aud in 1797- 8 attained the rank of Post- Captain. From the beginning of bis professional life to the time of his recent appointment to a Flag, his life has been a constant scene of arduous and difficult service, instances of which are to be found in every periodical publication, from the commence ment of the French war to its close. It may truly be said, that to him his country is, under Provi- 1 deuce, indebted for the protection of the British shores from the alarming designs and attempts of the enemy. His repeated and successful attack^, aud ( we may say) the annihilation ol the French flotilla from time to time,— the terror which he spread over, and the subjection in which he kept, the enemy's coast,— are circumstances too well remembered to be dwelt Upon. During a small part of the period when he bore the rank of Com- mander, and was not in regular employ, he served as a volunteer with his friend, Capt. Griffiths ( now Admiral Colpoys), 8twas with him on board his ship at Portsmouth, when the Mutiny assumed so formid- able an appearance. O'n that occasion he so bravely and judiciously resisted the, efforts of the Mutineers, that he was mainly instrumental iu subduing the dis- turbances oil board the ship, and instead of excitiug the hatred of the sailors, has ( as must be apparent to all) secured their highest esteem, their confidence, and their love. Since the termination of the French war, Admiral OWEN has been uniformly selected by Government, on account of his talents, his science, his experience, and his Courage, in cases of emergency and difficult^, For instance— to ta'ke the arduous command upon the Lakes in Canada — afterwards to put down the pirates in the West Indies: on both these ( as on all other) occasions,' he eminently distinguished himself, and for the latter service he received from the Merchants aud Planters of Jamaica a splendid Service of Plate, accompanied with the most flattering expressions of gratitude and respect. To recount all the benefits his Country has derived from his talents and exer- tions would be difficult: but let it never be forgot- ten,- that for humanity, aud for kindness towards all who have had the honour to serve under him or to possess his acquaintance, his character surpasses even that which he has so deservedly acquired for iiis skiil and bravery in arms. On Saturday evening-, the Gallant Admiral arrived in Shrewsbury, and proceeded to the dence of Joseph Loxdale, Esq. in Belmont ( where his kinsman, William Owen, Esq of Glansevern, and a select party of friends, were invited to meet him). His arrival was announced by a cheerful peal on the bells of St. Julian's, Which, with those of other churches, have since Continued to reiterate their notes in unison with the public gratification. Capt. BRACE,* an intimate friend of Admiral Owen, very opportunely arrived in Shrewsbury on Monday, on his way to Montgomeryshire, where he is going to spend a short time with his friends and relatives. The Committee immediately sent an invitation to the gallant Officer to dine on this happy occasion, which he very politely accepted. THE DINNER. The tables were laid in the Great Room in the T « - w i> Hall, which was tastefully and appropriately decorated. At. five o'clock, upwards of 100 gentle- men sat down ; the Mayor in the chair, supported on the right by Admiral Owen, and on the left by Joseph Loxdale, Esq.— On the right of Admiral Owen sat Captain Bracc. The Right Hon. the Earl of Powis, as announced in our last, had pre- sented a fine turtle to the Committee, and the Rev. Archdeacon Corbett had furnished an ample supply of excellent venison ; aud the whole of the display of viands and liquors was highly creditable to Mr Jobsou, of the Talbot Inn, under whose directions the dinner was prepared and arranged .— The dessert comprised every choice fruit, and was set out iu the most tasteful manner. After the cloth was removed, the following toasts were given :— The King : may he always feign in the Hearts of his People— The Duke of York and the Army— The Duke of Clarence and the British Navy. JOSEPH LOXDALE, Esq. then rose, and said- MA. MAYOR—- 1 rise with a mixture of regret and satis- faction to propose the health of our gallant guest, Rear- Admiral Sir Edward Owen— regret that our friends upon the Committee have not. entrusted it to some other person better qualified than 1 am— satisfaction at having all op- portunity afforded me of publicly testifying my gratitude and thanks to the gallant Admiral, for his conduct on many occasions, public and private; but particularly for his brilliant achievements during the late war, whereby he contributed his share in sustaining the glory and valour of His Majesty's arms, and in upholding the dignity and importance of the United Kingdom among the Nations of the World. Song — 44 England, the Anchor and Hope of the I tflass hermetically sealed, and consisted of all the VVorld."— The British Trio, Wellington, Hill, and j tf0ld, silver, and copper British coins of the present Lynedoch— Capt. Brace, who distinguished him- * « , , self so much at Algiers.—[ The gallant Captain returned thanks, in an appropriate speech, in which he expressed his gratification at being a participa- tor in procuring the release of so many fellow christians from slavery ] The Deputy Recorder of the Borough ( Joseph Loxdale, Esq.) and may we long enjoy the benefit of his services, proposed by Admiral Owen. —[ Mr, Loxdale returned thanks, and observed, that during the long period it had been his lot to fill the office, it had been his anxious endeavour to promote the welfare of every individual in this jurisdiction.— The Members for the County— Fair Salopians, proposed by Admiral Owen — The Members for the Borough.—[ Panton Corbett, Esq. M. P. returned thanks.]— Thomas Kynnersley, Esq. —[ Mr. Kyn- nersley returned thanks.] Town and Trade of Shrewsbury.—[ This toast having been drank, Mr Loxdale, in an animated speech, requested that the Admiral would sit for his picture, which he thought would be considered the most appropriate companion for that of his gallant predecessor, Admiral Benbow. j — J. Iti Hope, Esq. adverting to the diffident terms iu- whi^ h Admiral Owen had passed over his own services, a course in itself characteristic of the bravery of the Gallant Admiral, hoped he should be excused in recalling to the remembrance of the Gentlemen present, how often Admiral Owen had challenged the enemy in the harbour of Boulogne, aud bad. challenged them along the coast of France in peals of British thunder Mr. Hope's address elicited unbounded applause. Admiral OWEN said he should propose an amend- ment to Mr. Joseph Loxdale's request. In the course of his service, it bad been his duty to visit the dilapidated Tomb of Admiral Benbow, which was in the chancel of the church of Kingston. It would be to the honour of the town to restore ihis monument, for it was not even recorded there that the brave Admiral was a Salopian. — Admiral Owen then proposed, asatoast, " Admiral Benbow, nnd may his example stimulate the future race who are fo fight the Battles of this Country." ( Drank with immense applause.) Fox- Hunting— and Lord Berwick— were then given, and drank with due honour. Admiral Owen, in proposing the next toast, observed, there was but a narrow slip of water which divided us from our Irish friends : and he trusted thnt our friendship would soon bring- them to a proper feeling. The Admiral then gave— * The Man we can drink a Bumper with in the Dark ;" which was drank with great animation and applause. Several excellent songs were volunteered, and sung in fine style. - The near approach of the time of our publication here obliges us to close our report of a meeting which reflects the highest honour on all parties; aud we only repeat the expression of all present, when we state that the greatest praise is due to the Committee and Secretary for their judicious ar- rangements, which tended much to the pleasure of the evening. To Land Surveyors. APERSON of good Character and of industrious and sober Habits, who is well qualified, may have immediate Employment, by applying to THE PRINTERS. — None need apply but such as answer the above Description, to whom every reasonable Encouragement will be given. SHREWSBURY RACES. Sir BeUimjham Graham's Plate. FF. KSONS intending to run their Horses for the above Plate are desired to take Notice, that the Entry will be at the RIVKH INN, Shrews- bury, 011 THURSDAY, the First of September, between the Hours of Two and Five. Mr. S. LEE, Clerk of the Course. GENUINE TEA WAREHOUSE, RAVEN- STHEET, ( NEXT HOOK TO THE HAVEN INN). H. A. FLOYD, ( SUCCESSOR TO B. CAHUAC,) EGS to inform his Friends and the „-,,,, . Public, that he lias received an Additional reiffn, together w itli the Waterloo Medal of the lale Supply of TEAS, which he warrants GEN U1N E as sir Thomas Picton, nnd covered them with a plate imported by ( he East India Company. WM. GRIFFITHS, Mercer, Draper, Sec. lYIardol- IIeact, SHREWSBURY, RESPECTFULLY announces to HI Friends and the Public, that he has jut purchased at au excellent Market a terv extensiv Assortment of SHEETING nnd TABLE LINEN which he is enabled to otl'er at urtusoAi. t. Y Los Prticss, and which will be found upon luspectio highly deserving their Notice. WHITESMITH 8C BELLHANGER ISAHDOL, SHREWSBURY. WM." GHTINS ( Sort OF THE LATE RICHARD GITTINS) ESPECTFULLY informs his Friends ano the Public, that he has lately COMMENCE! BUSINESS in the above Line in the Shop . Second Door below Mr. BELL'S Library, MARDOL. Shrewsbury. W. G. having gained considerable Experience in Two of the First Manufacturing Houses iu LON- DON, hopes he will be able to give g- reat Satisfac- tion to all those Fr ends who may be kind enough to employ him. {^ WANTED, a LOCKSMITH and BELL- HANGER. bearing the following inscription This, The First Stone of the Column Erected to the Memory- of our Gallant Countryman, Lieutenant- General SIR THOMAS PICTON, Knight Grand Cross of the Bath, and of several Foreign Orders, Who, after serving his King and Country In several Campaigns, Died gloriously at the BATTLE OF WATERLOO, Was laid by The Right Honourable France* Baroness Dynevor, Assisted by Sir Christopher Cole, ( Knight Commander of the Bath, Captain in the Royal Navy of Great Britain, Member of Parliament for " the County of Glamorgan, and Provincial Grand Master of Masons for South Wales,) Ou the 16th day of August, 1825, The upper part of the stone was then lowered slowly to its destined position, the Band playing solemn music. After which, the Rev. John Davies, of Llandovery, Provincial Grand Chaplain for South Wales, invoked the blessing of the Great Architect of the Universe in the following words: O Almighty and Eternal God, by whom the foundations of the Earth were laid, and the curtains of the heavens were spread, and upon whom dependeth the success of every thing we take in hand: we, thy humble creatures, implore thee to bless and countenance this our present undertaking, that as it is begun in order, it may be carried on. in harmonv, and finally be crowned with success, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The Grand Master then proved that the stone was properly adjusted, by the application of the plumb, rule, level, and square, which were suc- cessively delivered to him by the. Junior and Senior Grand Wardens, and Deputy Grand Master. The mallet was then delivered to the Grand Master, who handed it to Lady Dynevor, with which her Ladyship gave three knocks, the band playing God save the King, amidst the enthusiastic applause of the assembled spectators, and a salute ol twenty- one guns from the dep6t. The scene at this moment was peculiarly impos- ing. Every person present uncovered instinctively as it were, one common sentimeut seeming to per- vade the assembled thousands;— every face was lighted up with enthusiasm, and every voice exerted to cheer the commencement of an under- taking which will transmit to posterity the self- I devotion and heroic achievements of one of the ablest and bravest Generals that ever graced the military annals of this or any other country. The tout ensemble at this time was interesting, mag- ni. ficent, and imposing, in the extreme ; the repeated and enthusiastic cheers of this vast assemblage; the discharge of artillery, and the gratification and delight which beamed forth from every counte- nance, formed a scene which may be witnessed but not described. The sun, too, which had been obscured throughout the morning, now shot forth his meridian splendour, and by imparting its glad- dening influence to the animating scene passing below, seemed to smile on the commencement of an undertaking, consecrated to genius,— to patriotism, — and to courage invincible. 11. A. F. has also on Sale an excellent Stock of COFFEE, which Article is now much cheaper, iu Consequence of the Duty being less. BURMESE WAR. STRAYED, Oil Sunday Night last, from a Field in the Village of FORD; HEIFER, Who- ever has found her and will return her to tlie Owner, Mrs LEIGHTON, of Ford, shall be hand- somely rewarded and all reasonable Expenses paid. 4 Light- Red ALDERNSY 17JL with a few White Marks on her Legs.- DEATH OF LORD RADSTOCK.— On Thursday afternoon $ Admiral Lord Radstock was seized, at his house in Portland- place, with a sudden attack of apoplexy. The strength of his constitution struggled with that of the malady till Saturday, When the hopes which had been entertained of his recovery vanished, and his Lordship expired. Admiral Lord Radstock, G. C. B. aged 72, was the second son of John, third Earl of YValdegrave, by the Lady Elizabeth Leveson Gower, sister of the late Marquis of Stafford. The Election of Town Clerk of Oxford termi- nated on Saturday, when the poll closed thus:— Mr. Robertson, 764 ; Mr. Taunton, 552. Majority n favour of Mr. Robertson, 212. A short time ago an uncommonly fine ass was imported iuto Liverpool, from Alexandria in Egypt. The animal has since, we understand, been pur- chased of the importer by the followers of the late Johanna Southcote, at Ashton- under- Line, in this county. VVe know not what use the admirers of the deceased prophetess propose making of it : hut it is said they regard it as an invaluable treasure, iu consequence of its being a native of the east. They gave, we understand, 125 guineas for the animal. Liverpool Courier. frljii^ iiiiwwTiiiii iiiiii'irlin iiiViiTww^ nirotireSiwuMww ~ MARKETJGEKAIIB, SHREWSBURY. In our Market, on Saturday last, the was 4^ d. per lb.— Calf Skins fid * It may be gratifying to our readers to know that Capt. Brace was* in the first- naval engagement at the commence- ment, of t- h « French War: he was then second lieutenant ou board the Polyphema, Capt. Lumsden, and the action took place in the Mediterranean. He afterwards com- manded the Kangaroo, and. by his extraordinary exertions pur5ued the French squadron destined for Ireland; he communicated the intelligence to Sir J. B. Warrcu, by means of which the French squadron was dispersed, and probably Ireland saved. Capt. Brace ( who has received the freedom of several towns in Ireland) has fought various gallant actions, and taken many prizes; he commanded the Impregnable line of battle ship at the siege of Algiers, where he bore the brunt of the enemy's batteries, and had half his crew killed or wounded. He succeeded Sir Ed ward Owen as Colonel of Marines; and we regret to remark that, from the constant and arduous service in which he was for so uuwy years engaged, his health is much ixipairei. price of Hides - Tallow 3| d. d. s. d Wheat, Old 11 0 to 11 6 New 10 6 to 00 0 Barley, Old .;.... 3 0 to 8 6 New 8 0 to 0 0 Oats, Old 7 0 to 7 Average Prices of Corn per Quarter, in. England and Wales, for the week ending Aug. 13, " 1& 25 : Wheat, 67s. 0d.; Barley, 42s. 6d.; Oats, 26s. Id. CORN EXCHANGE, AUGUST 22. We hare a fair supply of Wheat, and Flour fresh up to this day's market, from Essex, Kent, and Suffolk, and samples of fide old Wheat fully sup- port the prices of this day se'nnight; but the new that appeared this morning not being of so fine a quality as what came last Monday, lower prices were obtained for it. The Ports being now closed for the admission of Foreign Barley, and there being none of fine malting quality at market, higher prices were asked; but, upon the whole, prices may be quoted the same. Beans and Peas are very heavy sale, but not cheaper. Oats are Is. per quarter lower, owing to the magnitude of the supplies. Iu Flour and other articles there is no alteration. Current Price of Grain per Quarter, as under: Wheat 50s to 78s i White Peas 5!> s lo 54' Barley 40s to 44s I Beans... 50s to 52s Malt. 02s to 72s I Oats... 30s to 33 Fine Flour 60s to 65s per sack ; Seconds to ' 60s S MITH Ft E L I) ( per st. ofm. sin Icing offal). Beef.... 4 « 6d to 5s 2d I Veal 5s Od to 6* Od Mutton 4s 8d to 5s 2d ] Pork 5* 0/ 1 to 6s Od Lamb .... 5s Od fo 5s 8d FAIRS TO BE HOLDEN. Aug. 29, Gresford, Caerwys, Llandrillo — Brotm- grove- Sept. I, Uttojteler ( for cheese^— Cavfcrs- wall, Peukridge. At the Flintshire Great Session, on Saturday last, Edward Hayes alias Jones, was found guilty if stealings suit of clothes, 2 silk handkerchiefs, and other property, from the dwelling house of James George, of Wellington, and was sentenced lo be imprisoned two years to hard labour. BRECON GREAT SESSIONS.— Murder !— On Friday last, John Evans was indicted for the wilful murder of Margaret Williams, of the parish of Llandulas. It appeared, thai about two o'clock iu the morning of Monday, the 8th instant, the unfortunate woman was called from her bed by some one, when she went out of doors, thinly clothed, and did not return. On its being ascer tained that she had disappeared, a suspicion was aised that she had come to an untimely end; and as she was pregnant by the prisoner, means were taken for his apprehension, aud he was next day secured, aud committed lo prison. The matter having caused a very strong sensation in the neigh bourhood, great exertions Were made to discover the supposed murdered body; but Evans all along denied any knowledge of it. It was still, however, confidently believed that he had perpetrated the crime; and it was also thought that bis brother in law, Daniel Rowlands, was likely to know some- thing of the matter. Ou some address being used by the constable, a few days afterwards, the bloody secret in a great measure Came out ; and Rowlands stated, that Evans had brought the dead body to his house, on horseback, in the night, requesting him to lend a spade, and afford his assistance in burying the corpse. Rowlands likewise stated that the spade was lent, and that he went some part of the way with him, but from a horror of the pro ceedings he soon returned; lie also described the direction in which Evans had taken the body, aud the spot was al last discovered in a retired situation On removing the earth the remains of the un- fortunate woman were found buried, with the clothing she had on when she left her house, on' her side, about two feet below the surface; the person burying her having covered the grave with the original sods, and trod them with his feel without shoes, and carfully spread the spare earth at some distance, to prevent a discovery. On ex- amination of the body it was found that dealh was occasioned by Ihe dislocation of ihe neck of the unfortunate woman. When the circnmstances attending the discovery of ihe body were made known to Evans, he acknowledged his having buried it, but denied his committing murder. The Counsel for the prisoner made strenuous efferts to substantiate a flaw in the indictment, from au al.. ledged inaccuracy in its legal technicalities'; but they were over- ruled by the Court; and, after a trial of nine hours, the Jury returned a verdict of Guiltif. The Judge then pronounced the awful sentence, and the prisoner was executed on Monday last at Brecon, and his body given for disscctioa.— ' The unhappy criminal, who appeared Jo be uudei thirty years of age, and is said lo be possessed of considerable property, heard his dreadful doom with less apparent emotion than many of the auditors The miserable victim to the lawless passion of the • prisoner, besides being again pregnant, iiad a child living by the same barbarous father; and it has been stated, that he was paying his addresses to another female, who had discouraged his suit, in consequence of his funster guilty connection. The following interesting letter from the Com- manding Officer of the Bengal Artillery belonging to Major General Shu lab's division of the Bengal army, which we have been favoured with through the kindness of an highly respectable correspond- ent, willj we doubt not, be gratifying to our read ers. It is dated from Camp Bauskandee, Cachar, N E frontier of Bengal, March 5, 1825:— " 1 left off v\ ith our arrival at Sylhel on the 21st December, 1824. We remained there a few days, and prosecuted our voyage to Doodputlee, which was last jear one of the enemy's strongest posi- tions, and caused us the loss of many men. Here our journey by water ended ; a reef of rocks pre- vented further progress, & our labours commenced. I was busily employed from the 12th of January to the 16th of February, landiug my guns and stores, consisting of 65 pieces of artillery, ammunition waggons, See. & c. aud ou that day we commenced our march. The division consisted of about 4000 men, cavalry, artillery, and infantry. Our road was through grass and reed jungle, in many places from 20 to 30 feet high ; through marshes and over hills : constant rain, and storms of hail or rather ice, thunder, and lightning, added to our comforts : we were eight days reaching this place, a distance of only 20 miles; so you may form some idea of the difficulties we had to encounter ; at night we were obliged to encamp iu low marshy ground, and often mid- leg in water. My employment, and that of uiy brother artillery officers, I assure you, was no sinecure ; the difficulty iu getting forward the guns and waggons was very great, but by perseverance and hard labour we surmounted all. The country we are in is entirely depopulated,— not an inch of cultivation ; the policy of the Burmese is to destroy every thing, and we are dependant on our own commissariat for supplies. The badness of the weather, and the slow progress of the road ( for we are obliged to make one) detains us here. Figure to yourself a forest, which we are about to enter, of 20 miles in depth, never visited by the sun's rays, and from the constant rain a perfect marsh. At present no animal but an elephant can wade through it. Some hundreds of bullocks and camels, which attempted to get through, have perished iu the mud i and quagmires. Every tiling is at a stand until the road is in some measure cleared and become dry. There is one regiment in advance, with the pioneers who are making the road, and it is with much difficulty provisions can be conveyed to them. My guns will all be carried on elephants, or be dragged through by them. This road was tolerably good until the rain set in on the 17th, since which all the mischief has been done. But to proceed, after clearing this terrible forest, which is represented full of disease and death, we shall arrive at the foot of the mountains, over three ranges of which we have to climb; how, remains yet to be proved. They are from 2000 to 3000 or 4000 feet high, from the last of which the district and fortress of Munny- p > re, the object of our toil and labour, is to be seen in ou extensive and, some say, a beautiful valley below ; but I will tell you more about that when we get there, which just now I think is very doubtful. These mountains are, in places, very steep and rocky, but inhabited by a lace called Nagas, who take no part in the war. These people, many of whom visit the plains here for the purpose of traffic, are a miserable emaciated race, and bear witness to the poverty of their country aud the unhealthiuess of their climate. They possess nothing, and can afford us no assistance- iu supplies. Tlie distance we have to travel over these mountains is from 40 to 50 miles, but we are going in the dark. No European has yet been at Munnypore, and little or no information of what is before us can be gained This is the 5th of March, and the weather has been tine here these last two days, but bitterly cold at night. Our camp is on the bank of a small river. All around us, except the little plain we are on, is mountain aud thick jungle full of wild beasts aud game of every description— tigers, wild buffaloes, hogs, deer, 6cc. & c. The feathered tribe are numerous— pheasants, partridges, snipe, fowl, See.; so we have plenty of sport of every kind. The tigers, by- the- bye, are very troublesome, and several men, horses, and bullocks have been car- ried off by them I have hitherto been lucky, and lost pone. Willi regard to provisions, we have fared tolerably, but shall soon be reduced to the savory dish ot'dry, rice, relished with a few split peas, called 44 Dhall." I carry a small supply of these articles in one of iny portmanteaus. My marching establishment consists of an elephant, two horses, three bullocks, and a " Tattoo" alias pony,; and a snug little tent 10 feet square, with two pair of bullock trunks, and two portmanteaus. If I arrive at Munnypore with half of these I shall be fortunate The climate agrees very \ Vell with the Europeans, but the reverse with the Sepoys and natives of Hin- doostan. The mortality among theuf has been very great, and our regiments serving here are reduced to half their number. This species; of warfare i new totheiu, and the difficulty of procuring piope food very g- reat r our friends on the hills, the Nagas, will eat any thing ; cats, dogs, and carrion, dead or alive, is all the same to them. It is highly amusing to see them surround a dead bullock horse, or d « g, and the glee with which they eat i up as a delicate morsel. In appearance the Naga is more like a monkey tliah a human being, anil the ladies are particularly interesting. " I am now employed embarking my battering train in boats, as it is impracticable to get them through the forest and over the hills; the light guns only accompany the army. The accounts from the forest to- day are very unfavourable ; the ro& d still continues in a dreadful state, almost impassable." Montgomery and Pool House of Industry. ASTEADY active Person will be wanted, at the End of September next, ( when a new Regulation will take Place under a recent Act of Parliament,) to execute the Office of GOVERNOR and STEWARD of this House, in which there are usually about Two Hundred Paupers maintained and employed. He must be well recommended for Sobriety, Integrity, and Abilities, by some respectable Per- son, known to one or more of the principal Directors or Guardians, and must find Security for the due Execution of his Offices. He must assist the Directors' Clerk at this House in preparing Letters, & c. The other Duties are nearly similar to those in the Houses of Industry at Shrewsbury, Oswestry, Ellesiuere, Whitchurch, Worcester, & tc. ; and further Particulars may he known at this House ( between Montgomery and Pool), and at mv Office in Montgomery. The Candidates are desired to signify their Intentions, and send their Recommendations, to me, iu Writing, without Delay ; and to attend the Board of Directors at the House, on such future Day as will be advertised in this Paper, on which Day the Appointment will take place. E. EDYE, Clerk and Solicitor to the Direction, 2<) th August, 1825 NOTICE is hereby given, That the next M EETI > G of the Trustees of the Turn- pike Roads under and bv Virtue of an Act passed iu the Fifth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty King Ge rsre the Fourth, intituled " An Act for more effectually amending the Roads from Whitchurch, in the County of Salop, to that Part of the Road leading from Nantwich, in the County of Chester, to Newcastle. under- Ly ne, in the County of Stafford, which passes through the Township of Madeley, in t! ie said County of Stafford, and also from Hinstock, in the said County of Salop, to Nantwich aforesaid/' will be held on Tuesday, the 30th Day of August next, at the Dwelling House of George Hocknell, the Corbet Arms Inn, in Drayton- in- Hales, in the said County of Salop, at the Hour of Eleven o'Clock in theFoienoon ; at whicliMeeting the TOLLS arising at the several Toll Gates upon the said Turnpike Road, called or known by the Names of the Audlem, Adderley, and the Spoonley Gates, the Woodseaves Gate, the Birehall Gate, the Madelev Gale, and the Shropshire Lane and Bronj) hall Gates, he LET BY AUCTION, in the Maimer directed by the Acts passed in the Third and Fourth Years of the Reign of his said Majesty, " for regulating Turnpike Roads in that Part of Gieat. Britain called England ;" which Tolls were let the last Year at the several Sums under- mentioned, and will he put up at those or such other Minis as the Said Trustees shall direct.— Whoever happens to be the best Bidder or Bidders must at the same Time execute a Security, With sufficient Sureties, to the Satisfaction of the Trustees of the said Road, for Payment of the Rent at such Times, and in such Manner and Proportions, as they shall direct.— Dated this 30th Day of July* 1825. JNO. GROOM, Clerk to the Trustees. Aud'em, Adderlev, and Spoonley Gates £ 140 0 0 Woodseaves Gate* 195 O 0 Birch all Gate 74 6 0 Madeley Gate 436 0 0 Shropshire Lane and Bronghall Gates.. 160 0 0 Newport § Ternhitl Turnpike Tolls. NOTICE is hereby given, That the TOLLS arising at the several Toll Gates upon the Newport Division of the Turnpike Road leading from Whitchurch, through Ternhill,-. to Newport, in the County of Salop, will be LET BY AUCTION to the best Bidder, at the Dwelling House of Mr. William Liddle, the Red Lion Inn, in Newport aforesaid, oil Monday, the 26th Day of September next, between the Hours of Eleven in the Farenoon and One in the Afternoon, in Manner directed by the several Acts of Parliament passed for the Regulation of Turnpike Roads ; which Tolls produced the last Year the Sum of £ 601 above the Expenses of collecting-, and will be put up at that Sum. The best Bidder must ( if required) pay One Month iu Advance of the Rent at which such Tolls may be Let, and at the same Time give Security, with sufficient Sureties to the Satisfaction of the Trustees of the said Road, for Payment of the Rent agreed upon at such Times and in such Manner as they shall direct. R. FISHER, Clerk to the Trustees. Newport, 22d Aucru< t, 1825. A gentleman named Gape ascended alone at Chelmsford iii Mr. Graham's balloon, ou Friday week. Proceeding over the House of Correction, the caf caught one of the chimneys, and suspended Capt. Gape over a chevaux de frise, upon which he was momentarily in danger of being precipitated, bnt providentially be extricated himself, and re- mained at the top of tlie building; as soon as the ear was so lightened, the balloon rose, and at first continued very low; eventually, however, it soared for a considerable height, and remained within sight for about a. i hour, when it burst and suddenly fell a short distance from the Rodney, at Little BiiddoWj& nd has been restored to Mr. Graham. The Millions Hazard & Co. have distributed to the Public by Nevvling, of Shrewsbury, and other Agents, will be in- creased next Wednesday, when Four Prizes of £ 25,000, with other Capitals, must all be drawn — HAZARD nnd CO. are selling at their Old Offices, Royal Ex. change, - 26, Cornbill, and 324, Oxford Street, where they sold, 31st last May, 1,804, £ 30,01) 11, aud 3,627, £ 5,001); and in last Year's Lotteries, Five Prizes of £ 30,000 & £ 20,000 ; & by their Agents in SHREWSBURY, T. NEWJ- ISG, Printer, HIGH STREET; WOLVERHAMPTON, J. SMART, Bookseller; LICHFIELD, w. MORCAN, Bookseller; BIRMINGHAM, T. W. WOOD, Baolselier HIGH- STREET ; CHESTER, J. SSACOME, Bookseller, BRIDGE STREET. stolen or gtramU, Out ( if a Field leading out of tlie Lodge Lane, near WHITCHURCH, on tlie Morning of Friday, tlie lltli Day of August Instant ; \ Dark- Bay MARK, about 14 Hands Iii if li, with foer Black Legs, rising 3 Years old ; has a Swi » s Tail, and her Hack a little sore, having been hurt by the Saddle. Whoever will bring the said Mare to Mr. BDTI. ER, of the Lord Hill Inn, Whitchurch, if Strayed, shall be hand- somely rewarde I and all Expenses paid ; and in Case the said Mare should have been Stolen, w ho- ever will give information, upon Conviction of the Offender or OH'enders, shall receive a REWARD of FIVE POUNDS, by applying to the said Mr. BcTLKR - ir « 7c'JK~ rci, AusASlh, 1825. To Drapers, On cers, and others. TO BE LET, ALL that well- accustomed large and commodious SHOP, fit for carrying on an extensive Business in the above Branches, with a very good DWELLING HOUSE attached. The Shop is well situated ill the Town of OSWESTRY, fronting the Cross, aud commanding a View of the principal Streets, through which ihe Mail and other Coaches from Loudon to Holyhead pass daily. The Shop has lately been occupied iu tbe Drapery Business.— The Fixtures, such as Counters, Shelves, and Drawers,. to be taken at a Valuation. Auv Person wishing to treat for the above Pre- mises", may apply ( if by Letter, Post- paid) to Mr RICHARD MADDOX, Auctioneer, Oswestry, who is authorised to treat for the same. Oswestry, August 15, 182.9. This Advertisement will not be repeated. © ales Dp auction* A desirable little Property, NEAR THE OU) MILL, SHREWSBURY. TO BE SOLD, BRACE of capital WELL- BRED POINTERS, second Season, trained by a superior Breaker.-— For Particulars enquire of. Mr. JON AS, Atcham. ' jpHE GAME upon tbe different Farms M. belonging to THOMAS HARRIES, Esq. situate at CRUCKTON, SASCOTT, FORDS HEATH, CRUCK MEOLE, and ARSCOTT, having been much destroyed : It is requested that Sportsmen will not Shoot or Course thereon .— Unqualified Persons found trespassing or destroying the Game, after this Notice, will be proceeded against accord- ing to Law. NOTICE is hereby given, That I, the undersigned JOSIAH BOYDELL, the Commissioner appointed in and by a certain Act of Parliament made and passed in the 50th Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Third, entitled, il An Act for inclosing the Com- mons or Waste Lands iu the Manors of Glyndyfrdwy otherwise Glyndwrdwy, Rug, and Gwyddelwern, in the County of Merioneth," have this Day exe- cuted my Award as far as relates to the said Manors of Glyndyfrdwy otherwise Glyndwrdwy and Rug, according to and in Pursuance of the said Act. As Witness my Hand, this Twentieth Day of August/ 1825. JOS. BOYDELL. Witness— LEWIS JONES. Cfjt Brine!) & jFomgn PAPER COMPANY. CAPITAL £ 500,000, IN 10,000 SHAKES OF £ 50 EACH. 13Y MR. HULBERT, At tiie Nag's Head Inn, Wyle Cap, Shrewsbury, at | six o'Clock in the Evening of Saturday, the 27th nf August, 18- 25 ; JOHN KEY, Esq. Alder- man aud . Sheriff JOHN JORTIN, Esq. A. 1. VAI. PV, Esq. P. V. CIAMBLER, Esq DIRECTORS. THOMAS KELLY, Esq. Sheriff Elect. WILLIAMCLEMEXT, Esq. GEORGE MILLS, Esq. E. BEAUMONT VENN, Esq. 1UNKERS. Messrs EVERETT, WALKER, MALTBY, ELLIS & Co. SOLICITORS. Messrs. LOWDUASI, PARKS, and FRGBTH. rsVvVO very neat and newly- built small Conseau fi HOUSES, iu the Occupation of Horn- § . / J v phries and John Sankey situate near the Old Mill, " j^,., „ - Castle 1' oregate, Shrewsbury. The Houses are very convenient and always sure of Tenants, being so near Messrs. Marshall's Ma- nufactory, where Cottages are in great Demand ; there is " also about Seven Roods of Garden Ground attached, on which other Houses may be built to |> ay well. The Neighbourhood is the most improv- ing of any about the Town. For Particulars, and to treat for the same, apply * it the Office of THE AUCTIONEER, High- Street. THE CROGEN DOMAIN, NORTH WALES. STo to g, oia iss? Stuttiou, PEREMPTORILY, BY MESSRS. ( RLIED & GRIFFIN, At the Auction Mart, London, on Tuesdav, August 30th, at 12, IN ONE LOT •, fjpHE very important and valuable S Freehold ESTATES of CROGEN, TYDDYN LL AN, an I DSNAM : consisting of the MANSION, MANOR, and DEMESNE of CkooeN ; an excellent Family Residence called TYDDYN LLAN ; and seve- ral FARMS, LANDS, and SHEEPWALKS adjoining: CONTAINING TOGETHER Upwards of Three Thousand JJcres, and of the estimated Value of £ 2000 per Annum ; situate on each Side the River Dee, in the Parishes of Llandderfel and Llandrillo, in the most beautiful Fart of Merionethshire. The above Property being for absolute Sale, offers an Opportunity for Investment but rarely to be met with. The beautiful Situation of the Mansion of Crogen, on the Banks of the Dee, surrounded hy n considerable Extent, of rich Meadow Land, with Views of the bold surrounding Mountains and Wood Scenery, cannot well be described, and should he viewed to be adequately appreciated : and any • Family of Distinction, Gentleman Agriculturist, or Sportsman, desirous of a Residence with adequate Estate attached thereto, would find the foregoing highly deserving Attention— the Mansion being in perfect Order, and replete with every Convenience — the Estate capable of considerable Improvement, — and the Shooting and Angling not to be surpassed. The Roads in the Neighbourhood are excellent; a Daily Post from London passes through the Estate; and the Holyhead Road is within 4 Miles Distance. The Mansion is at present in the Occupation of THOMAS LEEKE, Esq. ; and the Estate may be viewed, and Printed Particulars ( with Plans annex- ed) had, by applying to Mr. OWEN, Llawr Cilan, near Corwen; descriptive Particulars may also be bad at the Owen Glendwr Inn, at Corwen ; of Mr. ANWYL, Solicitor, Bala-, M r. WILLIAMS, Solicitor, Shrewsbury • Messrs. LLOYD and WILLIAMS, Liver- pool ; Morrison's Hotel, Dublin; Hatchett's Hotel, Piccadilly; at the Auction Mart; of RICHARD GRIFFITH EH; Esq. Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, and at the Offic s of Messrs. CREED and GRIFFIN, Surveyors and Land- Agenis, J5, Token fjouse Yard, Lothbury, London, and at Heme! Hempstead. Elegant Household, Furniture. BY MR. SMOUT, On tbe Premises at the KECTORY HOUSE, New- town, Montgomeryshire, on Thursday and Fri- day, the 8th and 9* h of September, 182b ; rpHE neat & elegant HOUSEHOLD JL FURNITURE: comprising a handsome Ma hogany Celleret and Guard du Vin Sideboard ( nearly new), Piano Forte, Library Bookcase with Drawers, Mahogany Dining Tables with D Ends, Mahogany Secretary, Library and Card Tables, • excellent Carpels, rich Morine Window Curtains, Pier Glasses, several Mahogany Flu'ed- Post Bed- steads, Tent Ditto, Goose- feather Beds, Chests of Drawers, Tables, Chairs, the usual Routine of Kitchen Requisites, & c. & c.: Catalogues of which will be prepared in due Time, and may be had at the principal Inns in the Neighbourhood, and of THE AUCTIONEER, Abermule. The Sale to commence each Day at Eleven in the Morning. MONTGOMERYSHIRE. Valuable Freehold Estate, Cottage I Orne, Turnpike Security, BY MR. HOWELL, At the Oak Inn, in Pool, in the said County, on Tuesday, the 27th of September, 1825, between the Hours of 3 and 7 in the Afternoon, in the following Lots, and subject to Conditions : Lor I. AN excellent DAIRY FARM and desirable ESTATE, situate at BURGEDIN, in the Parish of Guilsfield, in the said County, containing 190 Acres of exceedingly good Land both for Pasture aud Plough, aud now iu the Oc- cupation of Mr. Bryan, or bis Undertenants. Lor II. A neat and elegant COTTAGE ORNE, with the Garden, and also Four small COTTAGES ( nearly adjoining thereto), situate in the Village of GUILSFIELD, in the said County, and now in the Occupation of Miss Jones, aud her Undertenants. Lor 111. A TURNPIKE SECURITY upon the Tolls of the Llanfair District of Roads in the said County. Lot 1 adjoins the Turnpike Roads leading from Pool to Oswestry, about 4 Miles from the former, and 12 from the latter. The Montgomeryshire Canal, passes through Part of the Estate. The Lands are of excellent Quality, and in a high State of Cultivation ; aud great Part may be irrigated. The Hay Tythes are covered'by a small Modus. The House and Buildings are iii a good State of Repair. The Cottage Orne is fitted up in a superior Style, and consists of Kitchen, two Parlours, aud other suitable Offices, and pleasant Lodging Rooms over the same; is situated in the beautiful and mucli admired Vale of Guilsfield, about 2 Miles distant from Pool, and forms a very desirable Residence for a small genteel Family. Mr. BRYAN will shew the Premises contained in Lot V; Miss HEYWARD, in Guilsfield, will appoint a Person to shew the Cottages ; and for further Particulars apply to Mr. RICHARD GHIFFITHES, Bishop's Ca » tlej or THIS AUCTIONED, in Pool. uence of the numerous Appli- Shares, the Directors turned their more extensive Employment of the Capital of the Company than was at first contem- plated ; and independently of the wide Field which presents itself for a most profitable Sale of the Article of every Description to the Inhabitants , of South America, the Directors have made a most advantageous and beneficial Arrangement for th Purchase of one of the oldest and best established Concerns in the Loudon Trade, from the 30th June last, the Capital of which, amounting to a consider- able Sum, is to remain with the Company for a certain Period, and, together with the Stock, is to be paid for by the Company by easy Instalments to the Sellers, who have agreed to take such Security as the first Legal Advice at the Bar shall think right between the Parties, but without, any persona Liability on the Part of the Subscribers or Members of the Company, thus putting the Company in Pos- session of au immediate . Source of Profit, and giving- them all the Advantages arising from ihe Possession of a long established Business and the Employment of an extensive Capital, without any personal Liability on the Part of the Subscribers to those furnishing ' hem with such immediate an extensive Means of carrying on their Operations An Advance has also taken Place of per Cent, on Paper since the Company was first iu Agitation occasioned by the extensive aud increasing De maud ; at the same Time ( hat the Raw Material remains at the Price ii did prior to this Advance. Under these Circumstances the Directors consider they would not be doing Justice to the beneficial Arrangements they have made, if they did not extend their Means of carrying on the same by au Increase . f Capital, from £ 250,000 to £ 500,( MM), in Shares of £ 50 each, thus giving the Public the Opportunity of partaking of the Advantages to be derived from their Exertions ; they have, therefore, thought it Right to make these Circumstance! known, and to notify to the Public that Applications ( Post- paid) for Shares will be received at their Bankers, Messrs. EVERETT, WALKER, MALTBY, ELLIS, and Co. Mansion House Street; or the Solicitors, Messrs. LOWDHAM, PARKE, and FKEETH, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, until the 29th Instant. Only such Amount will be called for as the Directors may consider, from Time to Time, advan- tageous for carrying on the Objects of the Concern. HEREAS WILLIAM SNOW, of DONNINGTON Wooft, in the Parish of Lille- shall, iu the County of Salop, Huckster, bath, by- Deed dated the', 1th Day of August instant, assigned all hi s personal Estate and Effects to Mr. JOHN HOMBERSLBY, of Ketley, in the County of Salop, and Mr. ROBERT HORTON, of Hadley, iu the same County, in Trust for the equal Benefit of all the Creditors of the said William Snow, who shall execute the said Deed on or before ihe 29th Day of September next: NOTICE is hereby given, that ihe said Deed is lefi at the Office of Mr. NOCK, Solicitor, Wellington, for the Signatures of such of the Creditors who shall be willing to cxeeute the same. MATTE^ JLOITjE& Y, To be all Drawn in One Day, WEDNESDAY, 31st of THIS MONTH, ( AUGUST), THK SCHEME; CONTAINS 2 PHIZES OF - £ 25,000 2 PRIZES OF - £ 550,000 2 PRIZES OF - - £ 5,010 2 PRIZES OF - - £ 1,055 Each £ 20,000 will have fa, 010 mote. Til Ell E All E Numerous other L'A PI i'A LS NO BLANKS. Every Ticket will receive Five Pounds. - Al! Money. Tickets and Shares, Chances for the above Prizes, ARB SELLING 11Y RICHARDSON, GOOBLUCK, & CO. At their old- established Office, 1114, Bank Buildings, Cornhill, London, aud ou their Account bv T. LEWIS, BOOKSELLER, BROAD STREET, WORCESTER. W/ fw Sun Life Assurance Society, CORNIIILIi, LONDON. MANAGERS. CHARLES POLR, ESQ. Chairman. Frederick Booth, Esq. Henry Uoiiltou, Esq'. Charles Boulton, Esq. Hon. P. PleydellBouverie William Burnie, Esq. John Cockerell, Esq. Thomas Dorrien, Esq. Thomas Dorrien, jun. Esq Charles Bell Ford, Esq. William Hamilton, Esq. Edward Harman, Esq. T Rt. Hon. W. Huskisson, M. P. Felix C. Lad broke, Esq. Henry Ladbroke, Esq. Charles S. Lefevre, Esq. Hon. Hugh Lindsay, M. P. Charles Littledale, Esq. Ilenrv Littledale, Esq. John Pearse, Esq. M. P. Brice Pearse, Esq. James Trotter, Esq. JOSHUA MILNE, Actuary. Ihe MANAGERS having had PRE- MIUMS calculated Proportional to the Values of the Risks at the different Periods of Life — which, under 45 Years of Age, when the Assurance is for the whole of Life, and under 55 for shorter Periods, are considerably lower than are generally required — Tables ofthe new Rates, with the Conditions of Assurance, may be had at the Sun Life- office, in Corn hill, and at. the Sun Fire Office, in Craig's- court, London ; also of any of the Agents for the Sun Fire Office. .. Cvrus Gittins. .. Thomas Griffiths. • S. Windsor. John Severn Ballard. Charles Spozzi. W. Newell. Edward Johnson. J. Kibble SHREWSBURY LUDLOW OSWESTRY WORCESTER HEREFORD CHESTER MACCLESFIELD .. Ross CARNARVON ...... . Co, NGL « TT) N W. Williams. William Booth. Extracts from the Evidence on the Linen Trade of Ireland. JOHN MARSHALL, Esq. Examined. Where do you live?— At Headingly, near Leeds. What are you ?— I am a spinner of flax. With regard to Irish flax, what comparison does the flax you get from Ireland bear, in point of good- ness, with the foreign ?— It is scarcely equal to the average of Flanders flax. Upon an average of the Seasons, for five or six years back, has the foreign coarse flax, or Irish coarse flax, borne the highest, price?— On the average, the Flanders flax has been the cheapest for the last three or four years. Is the English dressed flax a better article than the Irish dressed flax ? — It is better dressed in Eng- land considerably than it is in Ireland. How many hands do you emplov ?— We have about one thousand six hundred in the whole process of dressing flax ; in the different processes in the mill spinning, about nine hundred or one thousand. Hou many mills have jrou to make the quantity of yarn you have described in a year?— We have four different mills. How are they worked, by water or steam ?— By steam, about three hundred horse power. Has the experiment been made in England, of weaving by machinery ? — We have ourselves wove by machinery; we have now given it up, and confine ourselves to spinning. Did you find that it was likely to be successful in making a good aud saleable manufacture ? — I have no doubt that it would, but it has not yet succeeded to any great extent; not to any great saving of labour or expense. Is it your opinion, from the experiment you have made, that it is likely to be adopted as a mode of weaving linen yarn, in preference to the common loom? — I believe it will, in the course of ten or twenty years, but not much sooner. Has the introduction of those mills altered or taken away altogether the habit of spinning by hand in the country?— It has nearly extinguished the hand- spinning in Yorkshire. Was the hand- spinning conducted by vromen heretofore ?— Yes it was. Has the effect of that been to throw them out of the earnings they used to make by hand spinning, or is there any other mode of employ ing them in the establishments of those mill machines?— I believe the young women are employed in weaving cotton in the North of Yorkshire, instead of spinning. Is there much hand- spinning in Scotland ?— A great deal of the finer sorts of yams are entirely spun by band. Has it ever occurred to you to learn, from persons willing to purchase English mill- spun yarn, that the Irish regulation formed an impediment to the transaction ? — It forms some impediment, because it obliges the spinner to reel it purposely for that market, which is not liked in the English market. Is there any regulation by Act of Parliament respecting the sale of yarn in England ? — Not any ; the trade is perfectly at liberty in all respects. What quantity of flax do you suppose is consumed in manufacture in Ireland within a year?— I should suppose about twenty thousand tons. How much flax do you suppose is consumed in Scotland in a year in manufacture ?— I do not know the difference between Scotland and England ; in Great Britain, I believe, above thirty thousand. Have you auy idea whether the most part of what is manufactured in Great Britain is consumed at home, or exported Much the greater part is con- sumed at home. Have you any means of informing the Committee what quantity of flax was used in Great Britain about twenty years ago? — I have no exact calcula- tion ; I should suppose about from twenty to twenty. five thousand tons. Are you of opinion that the general circumstances of Ireland are favourable to the establishment of mills for the spinning of yarn? — I think they are not so favourable as those of England or Scotland Why are they not so favourable ?— On account of the difficulty of procuring and managing ma- chinery ; both in making it and managing it. Do you allude to the want of fuel for working steam- eugines ? T- J allude to the workmanship of the machinery, the people not being sufficiently skilful in Ireland. Supposing they got their machinery from Man- chester, or from the parts of England where it is manufactured ?— There have been machines sent ; from Leeds to mills in Ireland, but they have never succeeded much. Do you find any disposition among those indivi- duals with whom you are conversant— principally those in the same line of business with yourself— to go over and embark their capital in the construction of those mills ? — Not any : I apprehend that the spinning can be carried ou to more advantage in England than in Ireland, notwithstanding that the wages are higher in England, merely on account of the skill and experience of the workmen. Do you not think that if those manufactories were established in Ireland, the skill of the Irish would be very soon equal to that of the English ? — Not very soon; in time it would be equal, no doubt. From your experience, does it appear to you that considerable length of time is necessary to train good workmen to such a business as you carry on? I think a considerable time is necessary. Have you ever been in Ireland ?—- 1 have. Do not you think, taking them as a peasantry, their condition and appearance is much superior to that of those people who are engaged in large tovvus in the manufacture of cotton and linen in England and Scotland ?— Indeed I should think not; they are very superior to the p? op! e in the middle and south of Ireland, but not to the English manufac- turers, I think. Do not. you think their happiness, and health, and robustness, and that natural vivacity which attends health, is much superior to that of persons confined in close manufactories in England?— I am not aware of that. As a manufacturer, you state you would rather have the linen fabricated in the way that it is in Scotland than in the way that it is* in Ireland — namely, by machinery rather than by hand- work; but, as a political economist, do you think the advantages arising from the system of manufactur- ing linen in Scotland are so great as to overpower the advantages which you see existing in Ireland, from combining the trades of manufacturer and farmer together ?— I think they are quite as healthy and as happy when they are in large bodies, where they are employed together in manufactories. Do you think they are as moral ?— I do not know ; they have a different class of vices certainly, but upon the whole I should think they were as moral; they are certainly better informed. Are you aware that the linen manufacture has been established since the year 1632 ?— I arn. Are you aware that it has always been carried on precisely in the same way ? — Certainly. Do not you think it would be a very difficult thing to give up those habits which have been generated by years and by centuries, for the pur- pose of introducing a new mode of manufacture? — It would be very difficult, and can only be done in a length of time; hut the first thing to do is, to remove the obstruction to the trade being carried on diffe rently. The Committee understand you to say, that the only regulation you object to is, that requiring th buying and selling to be transacted in open market?— I should object to all regulations. Are the Committee to understand that you con template the possibility of large capitalists settling in Ireland, occupying the manufacturers as they at i present exist on the soil, or that you contemplate their removal from the soil ?— I do not contemplate any removal from the soil ; I imagine the first effect of the restrictions being removed would be, that some of the present small manufacturers would purchase the flax, and hackle it in a better way than it is done, put. it out to the spinners, and pay them for the work they have done. What you contemplate is, that there would be an improvement arising out of leaving trade wholly to itself?— Yes. That is, that there is no necessity to do any thing to induce it to take a spirited course: but that benefit would arise from leaving it to its own course?— I apprehend that would be the greatest benefit. Is the opinion unfounded, if it ever existed, that more immorality is to be found where males and females are brought together in manufactories in very great numbers?— I think the opinion is un- founded ; I think there is as much immorality in the country villages in England as there is in any of the manufacturing towns. Have you turned your attention much to the study of the science of political economy ? — Yes, I have. Have you, in the course of your experience, found, that in point of practise, the adoption ofthe general principles of that science is advantageous to the public interests ?— Certainly, as far as any experience I have had goes. lias the repeal of the regulating laws with respect to the woollen Manufacture " bees serviceable?— It is generally considered so by the manufacturers. Has the repeal of the Scotch linen laws been serviceable ?— I believe the Scotch manufacturers consider the repeal. as serviceable. iS$ t0ceUancoti0 Intelligent^. The Commissioners for building churches have agreed upon a vote of £ 5000, towards erecting a new church at Tun bridge Wells. A new Free Church is to be erected in Wolver- hauipton. MR. GREEN THE AERONAUT.— On Saturday evening last;, this gentleman made a fine ascent from the city of Worcester. The course of the aeronaut, was nearly direct from Worcester to Gloucester, passing over the country a little to Ihe eastward of TewkesbuB'y* tit which town it was distinctly visible* as it was also at. Cheltenham. Mr. G. calculates that he attained the height of at least two miles, and had in bis view at lliessme tihie, the cities of Gloucester, Worcester, and Hereford, the towns of Cheltenham, Tewkesbury, Upton, & c. and the entire command of, tbe Bristol Channel; which glorious prospect was only occasionally Interrupted by the intervention of floating clouds., A servant living in a most respectable family in the neighbourhood of Worcester, was duped out of a very valuable mare pony, bis own property, at Worcester fair, on Monday week, by tiie following stratagem : — Whilst showing the animal, . he was Accosted hy a man, having the appearance of a horse- dealer, who inquired the price of her. The owner said £ 18, to which the fellow objected ; but whilst pretending to be examining her and her paces, a second better- dressed sharper came up, mounted, and the dealer' 7 thereupon turned his attention to bis horse, and asked the money that would buy him. " Twenty- three pounds" was the reply, and, after a variety of mauceuvering, peculiar tr the fraternity, the bargain was pretended to be struck at that sum.— The second 4< gentleman," ( for so he described himself to be, and a doctor) having got rid of his own steed, now began to ad- mire the pony, and ultimately agreed to give £ 18 for her, He then said to the owner, " I am engaged to dihe with a friend of mine, a medical gentleman of this city," ( mentioning a respectable individual's name) " and I cannot stay to complete the purchase now • / will take the pony, and give you my horse, which I have just sold to that person for £; 23 ; you will receive the money, of him, and I shall expect you at the Star and Garter, at a certain hour, to pay me the balance of £ 5, which will be coming to me." The servant considering that, possessing the horse, he " had got Ball in the stable, 1' assented to this arrangement, and parted with his pony ; the " dealer,"_ of course, very readily acquiesced in it ; said bis name was George Robinson, and that he would be at the Crown Inn, with the money, in haif an hour. At the Crown Inn, our friend was in waiting as appointed, and an hour having elapsed and no George Robinson making his ap- pearance, he proceeded to the Star and Garter to acquaint the Doctor. Here he could obtain neither tidings of him nor of his pony, and a very little further inquiry soon convinced him that he had been made the dupe of a most Consummate piece of knavery ; that he bad been juggled out of his valuable pony, and that the " Ball he had tn the stable,"" instead of being worth three- and- twenfi/ pounds, was. dreadfully glandered, and not worth as man j shillings ! It appears that the two fellows who effected this ingenious artifice, are brothers, of the name bf William and George Ward, that they re well- known characters, and that this is not i the first trick of the sort" laid at their door. There is no doubt but immediately they got pos- session of the pony they went off with her, but in what direction her. unfortunate owner was unable to learn the slightest trace. The description of her which he gives, and which we mention in the hopes that it may perhaps lead to her recovery, is, that, she is a bay, about hands high, four black tegs, with white feet behiud, a sprig tail, and the hair rubbed from under the mane on the off side. At Bridgewater Assizes, two farmers, named Brookes ( father and son), were found guilty of tealing two sheep. The prosecutor, who is an extensive farmer, had for some years lost large numbers of sheep from time foUme. without being able to discover by whom the depredations were committed. In last April 33 sheep were stolen out of a flock of 120, and the discovery of 25 of the mis- sing t4> f> ep- in the prisoners' grounds led to suspicions being attached fo then), and finally to the proceedings. The prosecutor lives at Compton Martin, and is the holder of three farms, ami the owner of 800 sheep, and the prisoners1 residence, was at Cheddars, where tbe elder Brookes rented a. farm of about £ 60 a year. A number of witnesses spoke to the identity of the sheep; some went as far as to say ihev would swear to one ewe out of 10,000. CANDIDATES FOR \ I ATRIMONIAI^ HONOURS —^ The increase in the matrimonial advertisements puts us in mind ofa hoax of this sort which was successfully played off a short time since. It was agreed in a gay party of ladies aud gentlemen that au advertisement should be inserted in a London Morning Paper, as from a lady who felt inclined to taste the joys of matrimony, more speedily than to all appearance the ordinary way would " enable her to do, giving the longing' maiden a fair portion of beauty and riches. Letters were received in reply from betwen fifty and sixty swains of all descriptions, to each of whom an answer was ad- dressed, stating that so far the writer was not ob- jected to, but. that the lady would like, previously to his being introduced to her, " unseen to see bin?;"— at the same time requesting each to be in the pit at Brury- lane Theatre on a certain evening, dressedJn a particular way, and immediately on the conclusion of the first piece, to stand upon the benches, and apply a quizzing- glass to the right eye. All succeeded so well, that as soon as the curtain fell, above 50, of all ages, mounted the benches— from the smooth- chinned Adonis of fif- teen, to the sleek, portly, self- confident widower of fifty, and the shrivelled, worn- out, and emaciated bachelor of sixty, all adorned according to order in the gayest style, and with the utmost nicety to make the deeper impression on the heart of the fair prize. High swelled their bosoms with hope, as with studied action the sparkling glass was raised to the eye; but who shall paint the astonishment, dismay, and rage, alternately depicted on their countenances, ON discovering the sudden failure of all their hopes, With such velocity did they all descend from their unenviable altitudes, to " hide their diminished heads" among the crowd, that the decrepit lover of sixty, might have fancied his knees once more possessed of the pliancy of twenty. — If this should meet the eye of some of the actors in this humorous piece, they will readily believe that no Farce produced at Old Drury, ever went offso much to the satisfaction of the authors, though the actors thought, the conclusion rather too trag- ic to allow a repetition.— Hefts Mercury. ELOPEMENT,— Leamington has been thrown into an uproar, by the following occurrence. Wm. Allen Hupre 1.1, son of William Hurrelly Esq. of Foxton Hall, Cambridgeshire, became some time since the favoured admirer of MissTheodosia Caven- dish, the protege of Lady Mtisgrave, then a visitor at that fashionable watering place. The attentions ofthe young gentleman did not. escape the notice of her Ladyship, and she wrote to apprise his father of the acquaintance. The match did not meet the wishes of his parent, and a denial was tlie result. The young' gentleman, was, in consequence, to! his visits would no longer be permitted, and the- lady became more strictly watched. But love is ever fruitful in device, and opposition, it is well known, when directed against the stronger passions of our nature, only euereases desire, and sharpens ingenuity. The youthful pair, contrived, to keep up a correspondence, and on Thursday evening* last, while the family of Lady Musgrave were at the as sembiy, the young lady having been previously locked up in her apartment, the ardent lover con- trived to introduce himself into the house, broke out a pannel from the door of the chamber in which the fair captive was confined, and brought her forth in secret triumph through the aperture he had thus made. The hero of the story had arranged bis plans well. A chaise was in readiness to receive the fugitives, and without a moment's delay they made their escape, and were married on the following morning at West Bromwich. This conclusion of the affair seems to have been apprehended by the friends of the young gentleman, as his uncle set off post, to prevent the anticipated match from taking place, but arrived six hours too late to effect his purpose. The happy bridegroom is of a very re- spectable family, and the lovely bride is of high descent, being second daughter of Captain H Cavendish, late of the Royal Irish Artillery, and niece to the late Right Boa. Sir Ueery Cavendish and to Lady Waterp& rk. ARCHERY MEETINGS. SOCIETY OF KEEDWOOD FORESTERS— On Wednesday, a Grand Target of this Society was held at Blithfield, ^ taffi> rdsliire, the. seat of Lord Sa< xot. The disappointment^ occasioned by the Unfortunately wet state of the weather ou the day of the previous meeting at Mr. ArkwrighCs, was amply redeemed on this occasion; and we believe that so truly brilliant an entertainment had never been enjoyed by the members of this distinguished society. Shooting commenced at one o'clock and did not terminate until six, when the beautiful scenery of the park and the interesting employment of Ibe archers were exchanged for the elegant saloon of the mansion and Ihe pleasures of a most magnificent banquet. No less than two hundred ladies and gentlemen, who adorn the highest walks of life iu Staffordshire and of Derbyshire, were present. SOCIETY OF STAFFORDSHIRE BOWMEN — A Grand Target of this Society was held on Thurs- day, at Sandon. The shooting in the morning was interrupted by several slight showers,' but the afternoon proving singularly fine, a spirited com petition was kept up by the ladies and gentlemen present until after six o'clock. His Koyal Highness the Duke of York passed through this town on Sunday last on his way lo Barlow, to join the Dukes of Rutland,^ Devonshire, and Richmond, on a shooting excursion on Ihe moors, in that neighbourhood. His Royal High- ness looked remarkably well, and after a few mihutes occupied in changing horses ( during which be evinced the most condescending manners), he proceeded on his journey amidst the enthusiastic cheers of the - populace.*— Derby Mercury. It gives ns much pleasure to mention an instance of the returning good, Sense of a portion of ibe misled workmen. Sometime ago the journeymen bricklayers of Glasgow ahd neighbourhood, catch ing the general mania, were so foolish as lo form themselves into an association, the object of which was similar to those of the other combinations, whose inconsiderate acts we have but loo fre- quently had Occasion to notice. After ineffectually endeavouring for a considerable time to put in practice their regulations against apprentices, and other new workers, some of the moi'e sensible of their number apprehended Ihe same evil conse. quences which had befallen other bodies, who have combined, and wished to withdraw. It was accord- ingly proposed in the Committee to call a general meeting of the trade to ascertain their Sentiments on the subject. In the course of the discussion al the general meeting, it WJJS stated, lhat . they, had not reaped the smallest benefit from combination, but had suffered positive injury. It had destroyed the good understanding between them and their employers, who now looked upon them with dia trust and suspicion ; and were fast engaging new. hands, who would soon supply their places. It was then put to the vote, and carried by a large majority, that tbe association be dissolved. Every Scotsman present voted for the dissolution. The remaining funds were then divided among the members, ihe books were sold, and the secretary was presented with the plate that was made for the tickets of the association. The workmen being now left to act and think for themselves, will soon regain the good opinion of their employers —— GI a scjow Chron icte. CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.— A few weeks ago a young man in the employ of respectable brokers, lost, on his way to the Custom. house* a parcel of bank- notes, amounting to nearly £ 500. Hand bills were immediately issued, offering a large re- ward to any person who should restore the money lo the owners ; but some days elapsed, and no per- son came to claim the reward About a week afterwards, however, an innkeeper received a letter from a- gentleman who had pdi up ai his house, stating lhat, at the top of Dale street, on his way to ihe coach, he bad picked up a small paper parcel, winch, in the hurry of selling off on his journey, he bad not examined until his arrival at Cheltenham, and that be then discovered it con fainfri bank- notes to a large amount; Be requested that hand- bills might be immediately issued in Liverpool, staling Ibe fact, in order lhat the person who bad lost the money might have an opportunity of claiming it. The innkeeper happened to go lo the printer who had published ihe firsl hand bill, and the parties who had lost Ihe notes were ap- prised of the circumstance: they wrote. lo the gentleman, giving him as correct a description of the notes as possible; and he, satisfied that ihey were the owners, returned Ihe money, refusing lo receive the reward which had been offered lo the ( inder. — Liverpool Courier. Lord Bieadalbane's estate, which supports a population of 13,537 persons, commences two miles east of Tay Bridge, in ihe county of Perth, and extends westward ninety nine miles and a half to Easdale, in Argyleshire, varying iu breadth from three fo twelve and fifteen miles, and interrupted only by the property of three or four proprietors, who possess one side ofa valley or glen, while Lord Breadalbane has the oilier: so that, varying his direction a little to the right or left he can travel nearly one hundred miles from east to west on his own property. At the Bristol Assize of Nisi Prius, held before Mr. Justice Littledale, on Tuesday, a lad named Bird, obtained a special verdict of £ 50, against a person named Hoibrook* in compensation for severe damage sustained by a spring gun set in the garden of ihe defendant, into which he had entered o recover a strayed pea ben for a neighbour, not having had any notice of the gun being placed there. Near Westport, on Monday week, died John Norwood, aged ninety- eight years. He was sixty years in Ihe service of the family of Westport, and a pensioner for near twenty. During the whole of hat period, no person ever bore a better character, or possessed more fully the confidence of his em ployers. He was in the service of Col. A. Browne in Canada, and was one of the persons who sup- ported General Wolfe al the moment of his death at the battle of Quebec.— Cork Constitution On Friday last, as a child, about 14 months old, was playing near the edge of the quay, at the upper drawbridge, Leith, a very large Newfound- land dog, . belonging lo tbe captain of a vessel lying there, was running furiously along, when it canme iu contact with ihe child1, which it precipi- tated with some violence to a considerable distance into the harbour; the dog ran on, when a sailor on board the vessel to which the dog belonged, who happened to observe the circumstance, called the dog back, and pointed to the child which was floating— it immediately returned', plunged into the water, and seized Ihe child by the back. O of the spectators fearing that Ihe child's head might still- remain under the water, and thus occasion its death, although supported by llie dog, plunged in, and endeavoured lb take bold of it to bring it on shore ; the dog, however* woiild not allow him to touch il, in consequence of which a battle took place, in which, however, the dog ultimately pre- vailed, and brought Ihe little innocent, whose life it had unconsciously endangered, safe to the shore, amidst the greetings of hundreds who had witnessed the scene.— Edinburgh Slar. It is related of Mr. Cheselden, well known as having been surgeon to the Queen of George Ihe Second, that going into an obscure country town, he found a blacksmith, who, with the best inten- tions and the utmost confidence, was in ihe habit of performing the operation fur removing the cataract; pleased with his talents, be commu- nicated some instructions, and at a future time in- quiring what had been his success, 1 he- man replied, " Ah, Sir! you spoilt my trade, for after you ex- plained to me what I had been doing, 1 never dared to try again." . Tbe history of tbe old church of Pancras is not a little singular—- it is one of the oldest iu Middle- sex, an ! the parish it belongs to, one of the largest, being eighteen miles in circumference. The name was sent from Rome by the Pope expressly for this church, which has the only general Catholic burial ground in England, and mass is daily said at St. Peter's at Rome, for tbe repose of the souls of the faithful whose bodies are deposited therein ; it was also the last church in England whose bell tolled for mass, or in which any Catholic rile* were cele ; brated. A IcUer from Liverpool, dated Tuesday, Angus 1.6, says, " I am sorry to inform you that tbr highly respectable house of A and N. Richards and Co. have this morning suspended their pay- ments. They bold largely of cotton, and having further Consignments coming.. forward, "( bey" deemed it more prudent to adopt the painful expedient they have. done, than to force sales to meet their engagements Had this house, and the two former ones that had suspended their payments, been de- termined Sellers, there ' wonId- have- been' no occasion for them to have, stopped when they did, but they honestly arid boldly suspended their payments, with their warehouses full; and much of what they hold is on American account* and cauoot now be sold until instructions are rfrened from thence," AI Liverpool, last week, & torrent of rain so over filled a - sewer at Redmond- place, thai, owing, lo tlte slight formation of its arch, it burst, and water issued iu such abundance from the apertures! thereby occasioned, that the whole neighbo'urbood was inuftdated.- i- Tlie walls of the houses over the arch have likewise given way, aud many will require rebuilding. A licence of the iCing in Council was on Monday obtained by Messrs. Foord and D, rakeford, a genii, authorizing the repairs ofa British ship, now lying iu the river Thames, of 3.84. Ions,, at a port, iu the Baltic. This is one of the fust fruits of the com. bination among the operative shipwrights. The first general meeting of tbe Proprietors of the English and Bristol Channels Ship Canal took; place, on Thursday* at the London. Tavern. The Directors were appointed as required by ibe actg and several resolutions were passed, expressing the. determination of the subscribers to prosecute ihe undertaking with all possible dispatch. SINGLE BLOCKS OF STONE— The'enormous columns of granite destined for ihe portico of the nejv church now building in the Place ii'lsacc, at St. Petersburgb, are very remarkable. In order lo form a proper estimate of their size, we may give the comparative magnitude of the largest blocks known, both ancient and modern, I. The colurcm of Alexandria, commonly called Pompey's Pillar, holds the first rank : it is of a single block of red, granite, 67 feet 4 inches 11 \ lines. 2. The columns of the Church d'lsacc, just mentioned, in height 56 feet. 3. The columns whose ruins are near Mount Citorio, at Rome, height 52 feet 4 inches. 4, Columns of the portico of the Pantheon, height 46 feel 9 inches II lines. 5 Columns of the Cathedral of Casan, at St. Petersburgh, height. 42 feet. 6 Two columns of the Church of St. Paul, at Rome,- without the enclosure, height 38 feet 4 inches. 7. The columns near Ihe Baths of Dioclesian, and those of Caraeaila, now placed at Florence, near ihe Pont Trinite, of Ihe same height as the preceding. To these may be added a beautiful column of white marble, about 40 feet long* taken from a quarry on the south side of the Siniplon road; it wasdestined by Napoleon for the ornamental improvements of Milan. , The Efoile Paris Paper of Sunday contains the particulars of a dreadful explosion which took place on the 9. th iust. in the pqwdpr works of Rrpaulf « i At five minutes past one in the afternoon,, one of the rooms where Ihe powder is granulated blew np^ just as twelve workmen were coming in from din-, ner. These unfortunate persons were all destroyed in an instant, their bodies were blown to atomsc and some of their remains were afterwards found in a poplar tree 150 paces from tbe building. The quantity of powder which exploded was three thousand pound weight. An adjoining magazine,, which contained 25,0001b, was happily saved by the activity of the workmen, who directed against it the fire engines. The town of Tours, aboufc eight miles distant, sensibly felt the explosion, and many windows there were broken by Ibe shock. FRAUDS UPON THE BENEVOLENT— William Hemmingtonand John Brown, charged with obtain- ing, under false pretences, various sums of money from Sir Charles Forbes, Bart, of Fitzroy- squarej and others of the Nobility and Gentry, have beeni fully committed for trial ; and the Mendicity Society undertook to carry on the prosecution. Mr. Bodkin said it could be proved lhat, on ani average, the prisoners bad, during the last seven- teen or eighteen years, obtained no less than £ 40? per week from tbe Nobility and Gentry. porting EnteUtgence* HEREFORD RACES. 4 l l 2 2 3 3 dr dr Wednesday, August 17, the Wye Stakes of Twenty » five Sovs each. Mr. C. Day's ch. F Miss West ( S. MANN) 1 Mr Maddy's ch. c. Raffle , 2 Mr. Muusey's b. c. by Lismahago 3 Mr. Bodenham's b. f by Phantom 4 One drawn.— Won easy. The Herefordshire Stakes of Twenty Sovereign* each, with Fifty added.. Mr. Ormsby Gore's Hesperus ( S. DARLING) 1 1 Mr. Bodenbam's Truant 2 2 Two drawn — Won easy. The Hunters' Sweepstakes of Seven Sovereigns each, with Twenty added. Mr. Watts's b. in by Bustard.'.( S. MANN) 1 Mr. J. B. Phillipson's b g Uncle John... 5 Mr. Watts's ch. g. Trooper 3 Mr. Hill's ch. m. Polly Hopkins 4 Mr. Davis's gr. h. Lara 2 One drawn.— Won easy, Thursday, the Foley Stakes of Ten Sovereign^ each, with Twenty added. Mr. C. Day's Miss West .'....( S. MANN) 1 1 Mr Bodenbam's b. f 2 % Mr. E. T. Foley's ch. c. Raffle 3 3 One drawn.— Won easy. The City and County Gold Cup of lOOgs. added to a Sweepstakes of 10sovereigns each. Mr. Ormsby Gore's Rowlston 1 Mr. Q. Day's Sloe ........ broke doivn* Four drawn. In running the heat, Sloe dislocated a joint of on « of her legs. Earl Somers's Plate of Fifty Founds. Mr. Ormsby Gore's Hesperus DARLING) 1 1 Mr. Davis's gr. h. Lara 2 1 Three drawn.— Won easy. Friday, the Handicap of Three Sovereigns each^ with Forty added. Major Ormsby Gore's Hes'perus( S. DARLING) 1 1 Mr. Watts's Bustard mare 5 2 Mr. Price's ch. f. Vaga 2 3 Mr. Munsey's b. c. Nonsuit 4 4 Mr. Davis's g* r. h. Lara 3 {> Two drawn.— Won easy, The Herefordshire Yeomanry Plate of Three Gui- neas each, with £ 50 added by the Officers. Mr. J Walker's Tenburv Lass 1 1 Mr. Cookson's b. m. by Afortimer 2 2 Mr. Hill's ch. in. Polly Hopkins 3 3 Mr. Ball's ch . m. Priseilla Tomboy 5 4 Mr. F. Patrick's br. m. Miss Jane 4 5 OXFORD RACES.— Tuesday, Aug 16.— Match for 200 sovs. 8st. each, half mile, between Mr. Rawlinson's r. f. Resemblance, by Gainsborough, and Mr. Molony's bl. f. by Smolensko, was won by the former.— The Oxfordshire Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 15 ft. 32 subscribers, two miles, were won by Mr. Annesley's Triumph, beating Mr. C. Day's b. m. Victorine, Mr. Rawlinson's cb. f. Rarity, Mr. Tbornhill's ch. h. Dr. Eadv* Lord Warwick's b. c. Hajji Baba, and Mr. G. Dashwood's c. m. Ynysy- maengwyn ; 6 to 4 on Triumph,— won in a canter. — A Sweepstakes of 3 sovs. each, with 50 added, two miles, were won, at two heats, by Mr. Dilly's b. c. Hottentot, beating Mr. Hicks's b in. Plover, aud Mr. Boast's b. g. Healy ; a fine race won by a neck,— The Oxford Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 40 added, two miles, were won, at two heats, by Mr Dilly's b. c. Hottentot, beating Mr. Howes's b. e. Warwick ; two to one on Warwick ; won cleverly. — Wednesday, August. 17.— The Gold Cup, value 100 guineas, was walked over for by Mr. Craven's LongWaist.— The City Member's Piate of £ 50, for all ages ; the winner to be sold for £ 120, was won, at three heats, by Mr. Stephen's ch. m. Ynysy- lnaengwyn, beating Mr. Canning's b. c. Congeon, Mr. Boast's b. g. Healey, and Mr. Hick's b. m. Plover. — Handicap of 5 sovereigns each, and 25 sovereigns added. One mile. Was won by Mr. C. Day's Victorine, beating Mr. Jones's Congeon, and Mr. Stevens's Jesse. There is a venerable Gentleman, residing near Chester, nearly in his 90th year, who, for about 70 years, lias attended all the coursing matches in tbe neighbourhoodj aud still enjoyg excelUat bealtb. FOR THE SALOPIAN JOURNAL. Ali) portfolio. HO. XXXILT. TO A FLY. " Slight is the subject."— POPE. KITTLE Stranger, dost thou seek Pleasure in my sparkling Glass J Cautious, lest too far you creep, Aud the slipp'ry bound'ry pass. Now, methinks, you've had your fillj Joy lights up thy laughing eye, Yet on the brink you linger still : What other want wouldst thou supply ? Upward now with haste depart, Or, mark me, joy will turn to woe Vain the warning '. — dow n you dart, And flutter on the flood below — Thus Mankind, though Prudence call, At Pleasure's fount voracious drink, Giddy grow until they fall, Fall, aud in the whirlpool sink I Where, where's the friendly help they crave ? Succour soon too far is fled ! Not like Thee, whom now / save, They * re to peace JOT ever dead ! SHREWSBURY. W. England, Fifty Years ago. Tn seventy years the people of Grpat Bri> ain have advanced full eight millions. In twenty. five years, tbe number of inhabited bouses in England and Wales alone have advanced one half. Fifty years ago, the very existence of canals was a matter of incredulity. Fifteen millions of public wealth have now been profitably absorbed by these mighty ducts; and at least half as much more is at thishour destined for their formation. Fifty years ago, there was hardly a steam- engine in the kingdom. There cannot now be less than twelve thousand; a creation of power equal to at least a quarter of a million of horses; an energy which^ in a single day, would have raised up the great Pyramid of Egypt. Fifty years ago, our annual expoit of manufactured cotton did not amount to a quarter of a million in vaiue. It has now swollen to nearly thirty millions. In the same period, our exported woollens, in defiance of Saxon; Prussian, Spanish, and American competition, have advanced more than two millions. Fifty years ago, our imports of raw silk were only three hundred thousand p oinds , in weight. They are now nearly three millions, Fifty years ago, our export of iron was'hardly twelve thousand tons. It is now about ten times as much. Fifty years ago, our exports of linens were about four millions of yards; they are now nearly forty milli< Fifty years ago, the whole value of our exported produce, both native and foreign, was jusi fifteen jnilftons of money • the value of British produce ex- ported, alotn, is now more than fifty millions A hundred and fifty years ago, says old Tucker, there were only two or three vessels in Scotland above t. w hundred tons ; our whole tonnage is now more than a quarter of a million, employing twenty thousand fouls. A bundled and fifty years ago, says Chalmers, the whole navy of Britain did not amount to a hundred thousand tons; it is now at least three millions of tons, employing about two hundred thousand souls. — Edinburgh Observer. how 1 ofte » speak without any difficulfy, seldom with much. The imiure of mv disposition is very inimical to tl; e system ; if I did or could perpetually speak iu it, I should speak as perpetually well. Even under this unfavourable circumstance I feel perfectly confi- dent that the difficulty and disagrei? ability of speak- ug in the system will, in my case, wear themselves out, and that I shall ultimately be able to speak as fast and as fluently as I can scribble; more than sufficient for niy hearer's satisfaction, perhaps, but at least quite enough for my ow n.—- The last material point in the system is, the difficulty of acquiring its secret, the time and labour of acquiring its practice. To prevent * Discovery' from becoming a longitude or bisection problem with my readers; to prevent country parsons and village schoolmasters beginning with an El Dorado upon its foundation, aud ending with a madhouse ; in short, to prevent any one puzzling his wits to no purpose or a bad one, this is sufficient: the secret of the system is not one, but multifold. It is tin-- charm, nor ' panacea, neither a black ribbon round the throat ; nor a buiieh of1 holy Vervain1 for the breast; neither Balm of Gilead, Tar- water, nor the 4 Universal Restorative,' a potion, nor an operation. Neither Satan, nor St. David, are at tlie bottom of it; but Nature herself. By a long devotion to her service, and a close examination of her secrets, in plain English, by long experience and native sagacity, this system was discovered. It has no other basis hut Nature; aud until some other person investigates her as long and laboriously; ris sagaciously ajid successfully, its present discoverer will probably be its only one. Tbe secret, I say, is multifold; it is made up of many secrets, all of different, many of opposite effects. From this it follow* that to different Cases, different secrets are applicable; tO some, opposite ones. Yft. it frequently happens that secrets of exactly opposite effects are to be applied to the satiie case, only al different stages. The simplicity, atld at the same time intricacy of the System, are not its least remarkable features. Easy to be comprehended in its parts, but as a whole hardly to be compassed. Even if the secrets one and itll stood rubric, even if thjVv </<* re published, knowri and understood, they could but lil'le use of; the grand secret is,— how, Wtf, and to whom, to apply them. My knowledge of tiie Brosteiian Sys tein, intimate as it is with one part of it, and geneial as it is with all, would scarcely enable me to cure a parrot, if it spoke with an impediment,— unless, indeed, it happened to speak as I do myself. But complicated as it is, as a whole, no pupil can have any difficulty iu understanding his part of it, at least if he can understand his prayers. As to the time aud labour of acquiring its practice, these are with some the work of a moment; with lio one w ho is willing, more than a few days.— This last point may be also put iu the form ofthe following question : How long a time is necessary for such instruction in the system as will render it permanently effective? To this J answer, that of Course the difficulty not onlv of acquiring, but of persevering in the practice will depend on tlie disposition of the pupil and the nature of his case : some find none after tlr£ first tnoirfent, hour, day, week, & c.; I find considerable still ; aud others may find it for ever. But the time necessary for instruction generally falls short of two months, and is, 1 believe, mostly about one Such at least was the case whilst I was at Mr. Broster's. Some have found a week quite sufficient; some a day.— I do not know that I have any thing further to add to the above sketch, but that I never beard any pupil of this system, cured or uncured, regret the expense of it. For my own part, with the know, ledge rhat I now have of the System, were it to be tried again, I would try it." behind ran the He heard the hoof of thun- der on the ground, and bis master's voice urging his spirited steed towards the foaming surf— then a loud explosion, as of breaking billows; and, on gaining the sea- shore, lie saw a black point on the stormy surface of the ocean, but he never saw the brave S-— and his Arab courser more." On Monday turning was married, at St. eorge's church, Bloomsbury, James Bradshaw, Esq., of Grosvenor. place, to Miss Anna Maria Tree, late of Covent Garden theatre. Immediately after the ceremouy they left town for Dover, on their way to the Continent. The Commercial Power of Great Britain. [ BY THE BARON DUPIN, MEMBER 07 THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE.] In Europe, the British empire border*,- at once,, towards the north, upon Denmark, upon Germany, upon Holland, upon prance; towards the south, ffpon Spain, upon Sicily, upon Italy, upon Western Turkey. It holds the keys of the Adriatic and the Mediterra. nean ; it commands the mouth of fire Black Sea, as well as of the Baltic, fto sooner had its navy,— the arbiter of the Archipelago, ceaaed to be adverse to the cause of Greece, than, 011 the instant, tbe ports of Peloponnesus found new liberators in the posterity oftlie Heraclides: and, from Corinth toTenedo*, the sea which leads to the & osphorns became fo th- descendants of the Argonauts the road fo victory,, and to a second and a richer golden fleece— national, independence. In Europe, the British empire per. mils this conquest. In America, it gives boundaries to R'- issfa toward the Pole, and to the United Slates towards the tern, perate regions. Under the Torrid Zoiie, it reigns the midst of the Autilhs, encircles the Gulf Mexico, till, at la& t, if meets those new States", which il was the first to free from their dependence on their mother country, to make them more surely dependant upon its own commercial industry t— and, at the same time, to scare, in either hemisphere, anv mortal who might endeavour to snatch the heavenlv fire of its genius, or the secret of its conquests, it holds, midway between Africa and America, and on the road which connects Europe with Asia, that rock to which it chained the Prometheus of the modem world. In Africa, from the centre of that island devoted of yore, under the symbol of the cross, to the safety of every Christian flag, the British empire enforces from the Baibary States that respect w hich they pay- to no other power. From the foot of the Pillars of Hercules, it carries dread into the heart of the remot- est. provinces of Morocco. On the shores of the Atlantic, it has built the foits of the Gold Coast and of the Lion's Mountain. It is from thence that it strikes the prey which the black furiibh to tbe European races of men, and it is there that it attaches to the soil the freed- men whom it snatches from the trade in slaves. Ou the same continent, beyond fhe tropics, and at the point nearest to the Austriue Pole, it has possessed itself of a shelter under the very Cape of storms. Where the Spaniards and the Portuguese thought only of securing a port for their fillips to touch at — where the Dutch perceived 110 capabilities beyond those of a plantation— it is now establishing the colony of a second British people; and, uniting English activity with Bataviau patience, at this moment it is extending, around the Cape the boundaries of a settlement w hich w ill increase in the south of Africa, to tbe size of those siatea which it has founded in the north of America. From this new focus of action aud of conquest, it easts its eyes towards India ; it discovers, ii seizes, the stations of most importance to its commercial progress, and thus renders itself tbe exclusive ruler over the passes of Africa, from the east » jf another hemisphere. Finally,— as much dreaded iu the Persian Gulf and the E'- ythrean Sea, as in the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Archipelago, the British Empire, the possessor of the finest countries of the east, beholds its factors reign over eighty millions of subjects The conquests of its merchants hi Asia begin where those of Alex- ander ceased, and where the Terminus of the Romans could never reach. At this moment, from the banks of the Indus to the frontiers of China — from the mouths of the Ganges to the mountains of Thibet, all acknowledge the sway of a mercantile company, glint up in a narrow street of the city of London [ Thus, from one centre, by the vigour of its institu- tions, and the advanced stale of its civil and military Arts, an island which, in the Oceanic Archipelago, wouid scarcely be ranked in the third class, makes the effects of iis industry, and the weight of its power, to be felt iu every extremity of the four divi- sions of the globe; while at the same time, it is peopling and civilizing a FIFTH, which will follow its laws, will speak its language, and will adopt its manners, with its trade, its arts, its cultivation, aud its enlightenment. HINDOO CRUELTY. [ From" Forty Yedrs in the World, or Sketches and Tales 0/ a Soldiers LifeBy Capt. IValtace.] 44 Limgee Dorahjee, a respectable trader in jewe's, had a daughter called IfamuVa^ whose beauty equal- led the lustre of the finest diamond. 1 She was a form'of life and light, That seen, became a part of sight/ This charming young Parsee, or Peri, was about fourteen years old, an age at which the female figure attains perfection iii India i^ fgaUaiuoiis EntelUgeiu?. The King has been pleased to give and grant to the Right Hon. Matthew Aylmer, Baron Aylmer, K. C. B. a Lieutenant General in the Army, his royal license and authority, that he and his issue ( in compliance with a clause contained in the last will and testament of Richard Vl'h'itworth, some time of Batchacre Park, in the counties of Stafford and Salop, or one of them, Esq. deceased), may assume and use the surname of Whitworth after that of Aylmer, and also bear the arms of Whit worth, quartered in the first quarter of their paternal arms. WOLVERHAMPTON RACES —' The All- aged Plaie of 50 sov. was won, at 3 heats, by Mr. Gishorne's Elizabeth, beating Mr. Honldsworth's b. f. by Filho da Puta, Viscount Anson's br h Sir Rowland, Mr Mytton's br. f. by Blucher, and Sir G. Pigot's b. m. Miss Hobson.— This was the last race. The Journal de Paris says—- 4t A new impoHa- tion of 248 English sHeep, of the real Leicester breed, has just been effected in France. They have arrived in the best condition at the domain ol Petit Val, commune of Sacy; canton of Boissy St Leger. This flock is from the farm of Ligham, belonging lo Messrs. Rives, the most considerabli farmers in the county of Leicester." A few days ago, some boys in the neighbour- hood of Tovil, found a kingfisher's nest with six young ones in full plumage in it, and several persons went out of curiosity to see them, and observed that tbe nest was principally formed of fi h bones and sand. The old ones repeatedly fed their young with eels caught out of the adjoining 1 i ver.— Ma ids tone Gazette. The Anniversary Meeting of the Bath Auxiliary Methodist Missionary Society was held on Monday in Walcot Chapel; Dr. Adam Claike presiding. The Anniversary possessed peculiar interest from the presence of six Missionaries from as maiiy foreign stations; and 2,000 persons are calculated to have been present. The Rev. Walter Lory ( from the South Sea islands'-, who has visited New Holland, New Zealand, ami many of the islands of the Pacific Ocean, described many singular cUs toms of the inhabitants of these countries. At New Zealand, he witnessed the roasting of human heads ! He also saw the return of an army of abottt 3, Out) men, bringing with them 1,000 slaves taken in war, 20 or 30 of whom were split down the back, spread open, and roasted to feast their enemies. The number stated above was sacrificed before the missionaries could withdraw. Mr. Lory mentioned also a circumstance of a man having with his club knocked out his neighbour's bl- and eaten them, from passion and revenge,. which he thinks the great principles of cannibalism The inhabitants of some of these islands he represent as being astonished at tlie intelligence communi- cated bv writing.— The sum total of Ihe collections at this Anniversary amounted to £ V> 7. 15s. d. KILLARNFY, AIGLST 8— Sir Waller Scott left this place this afternoon, for Cork. Previou to his departure he paid a visit to Mr. Hallam, the celebrated author of the " Middle Ages," who is confined to his bed in const quence of having broken his thigh, in a fall from one of the rocks which project from the island of Innisfallen over the lake Captain Wise, whose death has occasioned a great gloom in Killarney, and indeed prevented the gentry from giving a stag hunt in honour of the great northern bard, was a brother of the gentle Yauima's prospects vere bright in the star of nlan who married a daughter of Lucien Bonaparte, B ROSTER! AN SYSTEM, For removing Impediments in Speech. [ from SOME OBSERVATIONS BY 44 A PUPIL," PUB- LISHED IN THE LONDON MAGAZINE.] 44 The next great point of the System to its power, " is its permanence. As to this, no one, I think, but a perfect fool could forget the System : and the sooner he forgets it the better. We have plenty of fluent folly already in the world, without setting other founts a flow. Men with 110 other faculty besides memory, and of that but a scanty endowment, must remember the System ; and its good effects w ill be exactly a « permanent as its practice. , There is nothing further to, be said upon this point.— From the consideration of its permanent effects, the mind naturally flows to the progressive effects of the system. These I am happy to testify are not merely proportional to the time and quantity ofthe practice, but in ratio vastly traiisceudant. In one week's labour, you reap one week's fruit ; in two you seem to reap four; iu three, twelve; and so on. The ' difficulty, disagreeability, and necessity of practising the system continually diminish. My own experi- ence is my hest evidence; for the first fortnight after my return from Mr. Broster's I was but little better than before; in the next I was a 44 new man 5" and Venus. In her tr 1 be women are treated with great Consideration : they act an important part iu the public and private concerns' of their husbands, unveiled,^ and, in point of personal freedom, they are under 110restraint beyond that which delicacy and the custom of their mothers impose. 44 Such was the lovely Yamma, and& uc. h were the promises of hope, when it was her fate to be rescued from imminent peril by the intrepidity of Captain S She liad' accompanied her mother, in a Covered and go'rge'ously- decoraled hackery, to a gnrdeir- house which belonged to her father 011 Cola- bah. They staid iii the garden rather longer than their ptteudauts wished1, pleased with its cooling fruits, neat waiks, silver streams, and shady trees The golden banana, glittering' mangoe, aud imperial jack, attracted their gaze and1 touch. At length their1 bullock's, in splendid housings, proud of tlV< music of the silver bells which played iu suspension from their necks, approached the bed of the tide. The raft was beginning to ply in the lower part of the channel, but the carriage^ RO'ad, along th'e crest of tfie hig h rock, was practicable, though the rising tide might be seen glittering in streams across it black ravines. The drivers and runners calculated that the bullocks worth! cross before the tide covered the rocks, and they urged theuY af full Speed. A strong breeze, however, came into Bombay Ivarbour, with the flow from the ocean ; and before the hack cry reached the shore, the ladies saw, with terror, that the. devouring element Was floating them, that their footmen were swimming, and in great ngftati striving to keep the bullocks' heads towards the land. Alarm soon finds utterance. The mother and daifgh ter mingled their cries, and wept in pity, more for each olher than for themselves ; but their ag drowned by the roar of the flood, and the crowd at the ferry were too much absorbed in their own views, and too distant, had it been otherwise, fo afford I hem aid. 44 At this dreadful, awful moment, Captain S was galloping from the fort; and, hoping that he should be in time to cross the rocks, be made direcli for the course of the hackery, saw the life struggl of the men, heard the piercing cry for help of the women, and plunged iu to their assistance. Hi horse was a strong docile Arab, aud Captain S being exceedingly fond of field spoi ls, had, accustom ed liiin to swim rivers, and even the lower part o fins ferry, though a quarter of a mile wide. Tbe horse, therefore, swam as directed to the hackery, and Capt.. S—, having perfect confidence in hii strength and steadiness, placed the daughter, who was as light as a fairv, before him; aud, with the mother clinging behind, gained Ihe shore in safety, while the hackery and bullocks were swept away by the force of the tide. 44 Many of the Parsees have fair complexions, and Yatnuia's was transparently so. Indeed she looked, though pale with flight, and dripping wilh brine, so much like Venus rising from Ocean's bed, that S pronounced her, in bis own mind, the loveliest of the creation. He galloped to the fort, procured palan keens, and saw the fair Parsees conveyed home safety. 44 I wish, for Capf. S ' s sake — I wish, for the sake of a happy termination to niv story— that his acquaintance with Yainma had here terminated Capt. S used every means in his power to win the love of Yauiuia. He corresponded with hi through the medium of fakiers, or religious mendi- cants and fortune tellers. He loved her to distrac- tion ; he offered to marry her ; for S had a soul too noble fo ruin the object of his adoration. She listened to the magic of his addresses ; she forgot all the customs of her tribe; she afforded her lover opportunities of seeing her: he visited her in the character of a Hindoo astrologer, and she agreed to leave father and mother, aud follow him for life Unfortunately they were discovered, and so promptly followed by three stout and well- armed Parsees, that S was nearly killed in an unequal contest to preserve his prize ; aud poor Yamiua was returned to her enraged aud disgraced family. 44 The heads of the tribe were assembled, and an oath of secrecy having been taken, the fair Yainma was introduced, arrayed as a bride, and decorated the daughter of ihe rich jeweller, Limgee Dorabjee. After certain ceremonies, her mother and grand- mother approached her, where she sat like a beauti- ful statue; and presenting a poisoned bowl and a dagger, said, in a firm tone— 4 Take your choice.'— 4 Farewell, father ! farewell, mother ! farewell, world'.' replied the heroic Parsee daughter, taking the deadly cup; 4 Fate ordained that this should Yainma's marriage,'— and she drained its contents ! Iler leaden eyes were watched till they closed in death : she was then stripped, arrayed as a corpse, and conveyed to the receptacle of the dead When S heard that Yamma was gone, and suspected, that she had been murdered, according to the customs of the Parsees, the noble fabric of t brain gave way, and reason fell from her thron 4 My horse, my horse!' cried he ; and as he pane- his war- neck, the seise saw the fire of his tear- staried eye and trembled. Away went horse and rider— far Captain Wise met his death under somewhat e> c tra. ordinary circumstances. There is a sporting club iii Kdiarney, consisting of the.- gentlemen in the neighbourhood. The members of this club trief a few days ago, to determine upon the toast that should be given for the1 ensuing season. The health of the Duke of York was objected to, on the ground of his having opposed the Cathfolii claims One gentleman, however,' , was desirous that the Duke's health'should be drank as a private gentleman. This was warmly opposed by Captain Wise, who concluded his objection by observing. " that his Royal Highness had trampled. upon their religion." The word religion was scarcely out < the unfortunate gentleman's mouth', when he fell upon the ground, and almost instantaneously ex- pired. Thursday the Mining Company of Ireland beg a smelting lead ore at Ballycbrus, in Ihe neighbour hood of Dublin. It is expected lhat they will be able to deliver the lead ore at 15 tons per week.- Dublin Freeman's Journal. Oiab Pheluir, the celebrated Persian poet, died lately at Ispahan, aged 96. He was the Voltaire of Persia, and has left behind him a veiy consider able number of manuscripts on mathematics astronomy, politics, and literature. TheSophihad just granted him a considerable pension from the Treasury ; he was very expensive in his living, h principal food being the flesh of larks, which wer brought from Europe, and he went very rarely on foot He has left no children. DIFFICULT JOB— The London Steam Wash- ing Company, in their advertisement for a con fidential servant, among other qualifications, state that he must be enabled to 44 manage'a number of women Tuesday last, died, al the Marsh, near Shire* Hampton, Mr. Edward Painter, aged 77. H death was occasioned by the stinging of a wasp, which was unobserved in a cup of beer which he was drinking, and although after very considerable ffort he succeeded in throwing the insect out of his mouth, he died of suffocation, in consequence f the swelling of the ihioat, within half an hour We had imagined that the power of the sol disant Cacique, Sir Gregor M4Gregor, and the reign of credulity, had been at an end. We leai however, by the French Papers, that such is not the case, and that he continues to exercise sove reign power, and with royal munificence to make extensive grants of territory, engaging in bold schemes of colonization, and finding Frenchmen billing dupes to lend themselves to such wild and visionary undertakings. THE MOORS.— The work of death on the moors commenced this day; - and, judging by the u prccedenled number of sportsmen who have cently passed through this city- on their way to the hills, their destruction will be immense. For week past, every coach going to the north or west has been occupied by gentlemen, gentlemen gentlemen, and dogs, all hurrying to the scene of action. On Tuesday the Quentin Durvvard steam, boat sailed from Newhaven for Inverness, with full complement of passengers, many of whom were sportsmen; and on Wednesday the Aberde boat, Velocity, also carried between two and Un- build red persons northward. Steam- boats and coaches are making a rich harvest this season from the prodigious influx of strangers, chiefly from England. We are glad to understand the sportsman's hopes promise to be realized. Every kind of game is said to be abundant, and in ex- cellent condition. The coveys are generally large, and in many districts the black game is so well grown as scarcely to be distinguished from the birds of last year. Some sportsmen think that the black cock has increased in numbers of late years, but lhat a proportionate decrease of muirfowl has taken place. Hares and partridges are plentiful; and pheasants are spreading rapidly over the Low- lands, more to the satisfaction of lairds than tenants — Edinburgh Observer of Saturday. A Dutch Jew, named Samuel Bondny, lately died at Amsterdam, leaving funds to build and equip six ships of the line of 74 gnus each : there were found in his house 44 casks full of coins of all the Princes in the world. A month was occupied in taking out and arranging these coins, and eight days in counting them. This man had for a long time followed the armies of France, visited all Europe, Africa, and America, and some of the establishments of Asia. He was ninety- six years of agf. " j The classical antients bad white walls on pur- [ pose for inscriptions in red chalk, like our hand Scientist Mi& ttlUMOUti. A pump for one of the Mexican Mining Com- panies, of 1,000 feel in length, has recently been cast at a furnace near Cincinnati. The bote is about four inches, and the pump was cast in 100 pieces, of ten feet in length each. This stupend- ous pump cost 6 cents per pound; and each piece eighing 1,000 pounds, the aggregate cost was 6,000 dollars. It was taken to New Orleans by the steam- boat Mississippi. From New Orleans was intended to ship it to some Mexican port, hence it is to be carried in waggons about 300 miles into the interior. Finally, it will be borhe thirty miles up a steep and rugged mountain, on the backs of the Indians, to its place of destination. This pump wiil be worked by steam.— New York Paper. The sailing master of a vessel belonging to a port oh the east coast of Scotland, was, on a voyage to the Mediterranean, captured by tbe Algerines, nd detained in slavery for eleven years ; five of hese employed at hard labour, with a ball lllbs. weight fettered fo one of his ancles, till released from so painful a situation by Lord Exmouth. Returning to his native town, sufficiently disguised iu tattered pparel, a toil- worn countenance, and an unshorn beard, he learnt thai his wife, after passing ten years in supposed widowhood, had married a second hus- band ; and that a son, left apprentice to the book- binding business, now kept a bookselling' and sta- tionery shop, in which he was assisted by a daughter. The liberated captive sought out and entered the shop, and on pretence of being recommended to bed, invite d himself home with them in the evening, nd there found his Jeau aud her new husband en- joying themselves around tbe domestic hearth. Aft circumlocution and preparing the way, he in- quired ( naming his wife) if such a woman still lived n the place, and that if she did, he had some intelli- gence of her husband to communicate. The question auSed the stranger to be looked upon with suspicion, as meaning in all probability to impose 011 them. At length, assuming tbe well- known look and tone of ndiminislied affection, he appealed to his Jean, if she did not recognise him under all his concealment The appeal was nut made in vain : the recognition was on both sides tender and affecting. On being asked, to which of the two husbands she chose to attach herself, Ihe 44 w ife of two husbands" emphati- ully exclaimed that Willie ( the first husband) had been the betrothed of her youth, her first love, aud he parent of her children, and now that he was, as t were, restored to her from the dead, her choice was Jo be his for life and death. The second hus- band, having had it put iu his option, by the real g- udemail, to appropriate what he could justly claim, acted extremely honourable, choosing- nothing save a gold watch he himself had presented to the sup- » sed widow when he wedded her; and, on its :> eiug restored, left the house, town, and that district of the country, never Since having been either seen or heard of. The prominent actor in this little inter- esting drama has now a vessel of his own, and is occasionally in the habit, in pursuance of his marine occupation, of visiting the port of Perth.— Perth Courier. Joe Miller is said to have been the proprietor of the principal booths at May Fair and Bartholomew Fair, and, acting the droll, became a universal favourite with the public, from which circumstance Colonel Motley prefixed his name as the ostensible Editor of the collection of jests gathered by him- self, and which are to this day the classical stand- ard with all punsters. Pawnbroking, as now practised, was established by Michael de Northburgh, Bishop of London, in the time of Edward III. and if redemption of any sum so borrowed was not made at the year's end, then the Preacher at St. Paul's Cross was in his sermon to declare, that the pledge wonfd be sold in 14 days if the borrower did not forthwith redeem it. The Caursines and Lombards practised the trade in the middle ages; but, through abuses, a mons p etafis was suggested in a sermon preached before Pius JL, and established between 1464, and 1471. Much fraud and mischief ensued here through a 44 Charitable Corporation," as it was called in 1726. Tbe three blue balls are the arms of a set of merchant's, from Lombardy, who lent money upon chattel securities. They are now more usually to be seen gilt, and are described by the vulgar, as meaning that it is two chances to one that ihe things pledged should ever be redeemed When, in 1791, the British lay before the fort > f Gooty, in the j£ ast Indies,- it was pronounced the deliberation of a military council, as if looks, impregnable. This report was delivered to Major Gowdie, commanding. He bluntly replied, 44 I have got the order in my pocket to take it." And on the morrow he assaulted and carried it. Plutarch notes that the country people were very busy in inquiring into their neighbours' afFa The inhab. tants of cities thronged the court and other public places, as the exchange and quays, to hear news. The old Gauls were very great news- mongers, so much so, says Caesar, that they even stopped travellers 011 this account, who deceived tbem, and thus brought error into their councils Juvenal notices the keenness of ihe Roman women for deluges, earthquakes, & c. as now, for wonder and private matters. Merchants and purveyor! corn, as now stockjobbers, used to invent false news for interested purposes. It was not uncom mon to put the bearers of bad news to death. 1 the middle ages, pilgrims and persons attending fairs were grand sources of conveying intelligence, Blacksmiths' shops, hermitages, & c. were other resorts for this purpose, in common with the mill and market. Great families used to pay persons i London for letters of news. In London, St. Paul'i church was the great place for advertising aud news. In Nichols's Progresses, a gentleman says, 44 that his lackey had not walked twenty paces in Pawies, before he heard that sundry friends of his master had taken leave at court, and were all shipl away." Servants were sent there on purpose to fetch news. Of the introduction of newspapers by the Gazetta of Venice, every body has read. Her bert calls 44 The Siege of Rhodes," by Caxton " the ancientest gazette in our language;" but to prevent the mischief of false alarms, in conse- quence of the Spanish Armada, the first news, paper, styled 44The English Mercury," the first number of which, dated July 23, 1588, is still preserved in the British Museum, then, as after wards, in the shape of a pamphlet, appeared in the reign of Elizabeth. To SNUFF- TAKERS.-— As a friend to nores of all denominations, I must here enter my solem protest against a barbarous abuse to which they art too often subjected, by converting them into dust holes and soot- bags, under Ihe fashionable pretext of taking snuff; an abomination for which S" Walter Raleigh is responsible, and which ought have been included in tbe articles of his impeach meut. When some 44' Sir Plume, ofaniber snuff box justly vain," after gently tapping its top with a look of diplomatic complacency, embraces a modicum " its contents with his finger and thumb, curves roun his band, so as to display the brilliant on his litil finger, and commits the high- dried pulvilio to the air,- so that nothing but its impalpable aroma ascend into his nose, we may smile at it as a harmless an not ungraceful foppery; but when a filthy clamm compost is perpetually thrust up the nostrils with voracious pig- like snort, it is a practice as disgtistin to the beholders as I believe it to be distressing the offender. The nose is the emunctory of the brain, and when its functions are impeded, the whole system of the head becomes deranged. A professed snuff taker is generally recognizable by his total loss of smelling — by his snuffling and snorting— by his pale complexion— and by that defective modulation of the voice, called talking through the nose, thougf it is in fact an inability so to talk, from the partial o total stoppage of the passage. Not being provided with an ounce of civit, I will not suffer my imagina- tion to wallow in all the concomitants of this di trick.— Taken medicinally, or as a simple steruuta" tory, it may be excused, but the moment your snuff is not to be sneezed at, you are the slave of a habit which literally makes you grovel in the dust: your snuff- box has seized you as St. Dunstau did the Devil, aud if the red- hot pincers with which he performed the feat could occasionally start up from au Oiuiskirk snuff- box, it might have the salutary effect of checking this propensity among our real and pseado- fashionablei. th. bills, of which the gates of Pompeii show instances. Plutarch mentions expedients similar to our hand- bills, used by tradesmen to obtain custom. Houses ere let by a " writ ing over the door, and auction eering bills run thus:— 44 Villa bona beneque edificata." 44 To be sold a good and well- built house." And " Julius Proculus will have an auc tion of bis superfluous goods to pay liis debts." But then, as aftei wards, the crier was the chief advertiser; and we hear of Mayors keeping criers, and a common horn or trumpet being used. Ben jonson somewhere says, that he will not have the titles of bis works affixed to the walls, or stuck pon a cleft stick. The Sheriff of London had two posts before his door, upon which he exhibited public edicts, & c. St. Paul's Church was, hOw- er, the grand place for sticking bills. If any hing was lost, the finder wrote his address below. Play- bills, See. were stuck upon posts, market " aces, See. The first Lord Bathui- st retained to the age of 91, not h s senses merely, but his wit, pleasantry^ rid spirits. His son, whom he survived, was Lord hancellor Apslcy. Sometimes when the Chan- cellor retired from his father's table, Lord Bathurst u'dsay, 44 come, how the old gentleman's gone, let us have another bott'e " CARRYING COAI. S— Three soldiers, in the 15th century, a German, a Scotchman, and au Englishman, being coudemned to be hanged in the , o\ V Countries; for plunder, their lives were begged"— the 4< benefit of clergy" in that part of the world— by persons who had occasion for their services. A brickmaker saved the German's life— that he might help him in his business; aud the ulprit thanked his stars. The Scotchman was taken by a brewer; and he only covenanted that he should not be compelled to make 44 small beer." When the Englishman's turn came, however, aud collie! appeared to demand him— dressed in the costume of the mine— grim, black, aud sooty— the Briton, looking at him for a moment, coolly observed; 44 that he had not been used to carry coals," aud the law had belter take its course. Whence, probably, the phrase— 44 We'll not carry coals," half proverbial, as used by Sha& speare and the writers of his day, to signify lhat the utterer was a man who would not bear indignity. Schooling among the classical ancients was paid for as now; the children being conducted to and ora the school by a slave called capsarius and padagogus, who carried their books in a box. Iso- crates made his scholars repeat what they bad beard t public acts. Roman boys used to smear their yes with oil, in order to sham blindness and avoid ir lessons. Plays were also acted in schools, and studied orations spoken. Iu learning their letters they were instructed by another boy or usher. They were moved to different schools according to profi ciency. A person, called grammatistes, taught them to read and write, and from thence they were sent to teachers, called calcu'atores, to learn arithmetic by calculi, or counters. They were taught to get by heart, and had holidays on the anniversaries of great fiien and the Sabbath, on which days they were invited out with their masters. They received pre senfs of cakes, were taken out by masters or ushers for exercise, and were punished with the ferule rod ; and if of noble rank, with eel- skins. Homer was taught to the Greek boys, and Virgil to the Roman "" he porticoes of temples were common places fo holding schools. Thither children of the highes: rank were sent; and from thence ( Tame the custom in the middle of schools being held in the partis, or room over the. church porch, alluded to by Shakspeare. In the middle ages, schools were kept for clerks, laymen, and girls. Two hundred chil- dren at a time, called little clericuli., were learning heir letters. - We find scholars, even at the university of Paris, petitioning that their master, who had offended, should be flogged, as was th^ ir way, noi exposed to legal punishment. Chancer mentions si girl's school at Bow, where French was taught ; and Iso, as a sign of polite education, they we strueted not to wet the fingers deep at meals, fork not being then in use, The cloth- yard was tin common instrument of correction ; and even Heloisa. at twenty- two years of age, was subject to the lash Lady Jane Gray complains of pinches, nipps, and bohbes, which she experienced from her parents to quicken her diligence. Tusser, besides speaking of loosed ears, aud bobbed lips, mentions Udall, the master of Eton, who gave him fifty three stripes for no, or a very small fault. So late as the reign of Charles the Second; the Duke of Newcastle, cautions the teachers of horsemanship against reviling thei pupils and harsh language, and throwing stones at them, which, says he, many masters do, and for that pifrpose carry tliem iii their pockets. A milde system was probably introduced by Mr. Locke' systeifrof education. The usher in the most ancien schools Was not wholly similar to the modern. II presided over the morals, dress, gait, & c. of the pupils, who vvere placed in a kind of anti schoo separated by a curtain, and practised their lessons which thev said to the usher before they went to th master. Then the curtain was drawn back. Th. famous Augusti. tr Was an usher of this kind. Th schoolmasters among- the classical ancients wer generally slaves, who front merit were often enfran hised. One is mentioned as having been at first weaver* In the middle ages, besides stationary there were itinerant schoolmasters. From a print Robert the Devil," a long black gown seems to have been their costume, at least in school. In th wood cuts iu Caxton the schoolmaster holds a rod i his hand, and the boy kneels before hiin. Free, Grammar schools, originated in 1447, in consequence of several clergymen of London having petitioned Parliament for leave to set up schools in thei respective churches, in order to check seminaries conducted by illiterate men. ADVICE.— Would a man wish to offend his friends? let him give them advice. Would a lover know the surest method by which to lose his mis tress? let him give her advice. Would a courtier terminate his sovereign's partiality? let him offe advice. In short, are we desirous to be universally hated, avoided, and despised, the means are alwa in our power; we have but to advise, and the consequences are infallible. The friendship of two young ladies, though apparently founded 011 the rock of eternal attachment, terminated in the following manner: 44 My dearest girl, I do not think your figure well suited for dancing, and, a sincere friend of your's, I advise you to refrain from it in future." The other delighted, as you may well suppose with such a mark of friendship, replied, 441 feel very much obliged to my sweet friend for her advice ; and as this fresh proof of her friendship demands some return, I would r< commend her to relinquish her singing, as some of her upper notes resemble ihe melodious squeakiu of the feline race." The advice of neither was followed : the one still continued to sing and the other to dance, and they never met but as bitter and implacable enemies— Gazette of Fa hion. A per& on 011 his death- bed, who had not been the best of husbands, was mentioning many things to his wiTe that he wished her to do after his decease, in the course of which she asked him whether there was any body in particular thai he wished her to marry? 44 Marry!" said the man, 44 Why, aye, you may marry the devil if you like." 44 No, my dear," replied ihe wife, 46 it is against the law to marry two brothers." WHEEL RUNNING.— Lord March, afterwards Duke of Queensberry, of sporting celebrity, having observed ihe uncommon 9peed with which a coach- maker's journeyman was able to run with a wheel 011 the pavement, thought it a good subject for a wager. A waiter in Betty's fruit shop, in St. James's Street, was famous for running, and Lord March laid a bet that a coach- maker's journeyman should run with the wheel of his Lordship's car- riage, faster than the waiter. The wager was accepted; but before the time of decision, Lord March discovered that the wheel with which the man was to run, was much lower than that to which he had been accustomed, and he was well assured that he could not run so well with a small wheel as with a large one. The dilemma was mentioned to Sir Francis Blake Delaval, who pro- cured planks sufficient to cover a palh on the course, which, by being laid ou blocks, raised the nave of the low wheel to the height of that to which the journeyman had been accustomed. The jockey club allowed the expedient, and Lord March won the wager. In 1& 17, Blunisell, a painter, for a wager of forty guineas, run a coach wheel the distance of thirty miles, in six minutes less than six houva.—- Percy Anecdotes of Pastimes. A new way of curing capricious Singers, or of making the unwilling sing.— John Abell, a famous singer and performer 011 the lute in the 17tb cen- ury, one day, during his stay at Warsaw, was equested by the King of Poland to sing al Court, A bell peremptorily refused ; and though it was intimated lo him that he would probably suffer om the royal displeasure, he still persisted irt declining it, and sent the King an apology by letter. In answer to this, he received a regular summons to appear, at a certain hour tn the King's5 palace. Abell obeyed, and though at first courte- ously enough received, he yvas presently forced to it down in an arm chair that slood in the midst of grand hall. No sooner was he seated, when tine chair flew up with him to a great height. The King, with his whole court, now made his appear- ance on a gallery opposite to Abell, ami, at the same time, a number of wild bears, of which there never was yet a scarcity in that country, were driven into the hall. The poor vocalist, almost dead with fright, was now addressed by the King, and was left lo choose, either to sing instantly, or o be let down and to await his fate anuyig the unceremonious inhah t ints of the desert. Winch part poor Abell took, it is; needless to mention, but he facetious narrator of this well authenticated anecdote says, Abell could not resist such a power- ful mode of persuasion, and, whether con amorc or not, he saiig so beautifully that the king and bears listened in silent admiration.— Gerber IVwr- Verbuch, part I. p. 10. EXCFLLENCE OF1 THETOORKOMAN HORSES. - Their powers of endurance are indeed aluio- J incredible; when train* d for a ehappow or plunder- ng expedition, they will carry their riders and pro- visions for seven or ( jiglit days together, at the tale of from 80 to 100 mile* a day. Ttieir mode nf tiflin- tng is more like that of our pugilistic and pedestrian rformers, than that adopted for race- horses* When any expedition of great length, and requiring- the exertion of much speed, is iu contemplation* Ihey commence by running their horses every day for many miles together; they feed them sparingly 011 barley alone, and pile numuds upon tbem at night to sweat them until every particle of fat has been removed, and the flesh becomes bard and tendinous ; of which they judge by tbe fee)' of the muscles, particularly ou the crest, at Ihe back of the neck, nd on the haunches; aud when these are sufficiently firm and hard, they s; iv in piai. se of the animal, that his 44 flesh is marble." After fhis ihe horse will proceed with wonderful expedition and perseverance for almost any length of time, without either falling off in condition, or knocking up; while horses that set out fat seldom survive. Upon an occasion. shortly before I was iti that pari of the country, wh- ii certain of the king's horsemen, with a party of the Yamoot and Gocklan, made a chappow on the Tncketh tribe, the former, who set out with horses fat and pampered, lost them almost every one, * Vhile he Toorkouiuns, with their lea n but powerful animals, went through the whole fatigue without inconvenience. They are taught a quiek walk, a light trot, or a sort of amble, w hich carries the rider ou easily at the rate of six miles an hour; but tbejr w ill also g(? a round canter, or gallop, for forty os* fifty miles, without ever drawing bridle, or showing tbe least symptoms of fatigue. A Toorkoman, wiift whom 1 was talking on this subject, with refeience to his own horse, offered to go from Mushed tu> Tehran, or to Bockhara, neitbei of w bicti jonrnies is less than five hundred miles, in six days at farthest ; and the possibility of the feat was confirmed by hundreds, both Persians and Toorkomans ; indeed, the distances to which their chappows have fre- quently extended, prove too fatally that the power exists. But I have teason to believe that their yahoos or galloways, and large ponies, are fully as remarkable, if not superior, to their large horses, in their powers of sustaining fatigue; they are stout, compact, spirited beasts, without the fine blood of the larger breeds, - but more within the reach of the poorer classes, and consequently used in by far greater number than the superior aud more expensive horses. — It is a common practice of llie ToOrkomans to teach their horses to fi^ ht with their lieeis, atid thus assist their master til the time oi action, and at the w ill of their riders to run at, aud lay bold of with their teeth, w hatever men or animals may be b< fore them ; this acquirement is useful in the day of battle and plunder, for catching prisoners and stray cattle, but renders them vicious and dangerous to strangers. Animals of the best breads cannot be had under a sum of money equal to £ 150 or £ 200 sterling ; for some of remarkable Mood and beauty, I have heard £ 350 to £ 400 demanded I and nothing possessing the mbs! moderate degree of goodness, untied with size and fignie, can be had under from £ 50 to £ 100 sterling.—[ The breed appears to be ' getting very sciVree, and Mr. F. thinks it will soon be exhausted — FrazePs Journey to Khorasan. THE MILITARY FO^ RCE OF CHTNA— The Russian traveller, M. Tithbowsky, collected during his stay in Chiiia some remarkable data relative to the present state of the military force of that empire, which, expressed in numbers, seems very formidable, . hut is far from being so in reality. He thinks, how- ever, that certain estimates, which make ilie Chinese army amount to a million of infantry and eight hundred thousand cavalry, are much exaggerated. The regular troops are divided into four corps, according to the several nations. The first corps, 67,800 strong, consists nf Mantchous, the conquerors of the empire, to which nation the family of the reigning Emperor belongs. These troops are 1 her flower of the whole army, and enjoy extraordinary privileges. The trecoud corps, of 21,000 men, con- sists of Mongols1. The third, of 27,000 men, i » composed of Chinese, whose ancestors joined the Mantchons, and assisted them in the conquest of the empire. The fourth corps, which is the least es- teemed, though the most numerous, is also Chinese t il is sta ed to amount to 500,000 We 11; who arev however, dispersed i s garrisons in the interior of the empire. If we add to these 125,000 Chinese militia, the whole Chinese army will make 740,000 men, of whom 175,000 are cavalry. There is, beside*, a Mongol cavalry, which, with respect to its sng. swizn- tion and fhe nature of its service, may be compare^ to the Russian troops from the Don and fhe Ural. Its amount is not accurately known, but is stated by some at 500,000 men -— All the Chinese soldiers are married; and their children, w ho are eutered in ihe lists of the armv from their very birth, recruit the corps to which they belong Besides arms, a horse* a house, and a quantity of rice, each soldier of tbe first, second, and third corps, receives a monthly pay of fhree or four lanes ( six to eight silver rubles), but must provide himself wilh clothing, whence there is a most laughable variety and irregularity iu th ® uniforms. The troops of the fourth corps are fur- nished by the government with lands, which they must cultivate for their subsistence. There is nr> army so easily recruited as the Chinese. Crowds flock to the standards to find a refuge from want and misery. Notwithstanding the immense sums which the maintenance of this force costs, and which is said to amount to 87,400,000 lanes, the spirit and dis. cipline of the troops are at an inconceivably low ebb : so that the late Emperor, Kia King, issued, in tfie year 1800, a proclamation, in which, after reminding Ihe Mantchous of the heroic deeds done by them iu former times, he reproaches tbem with having become more unskilled in the military art, and more- feeble than the Chinese themselves,, so many thou- sands of whom were overcome by a handful of their ancestors. A CONSCIENTIOUS JURYMAN.— Some time ago, a man threw himself into a Canal in Lincoln- shire, aud was drowned. An inquest was immedi- ately summoned, and the Jury, with one exception only, vvere unanimous in their verdict of Felo de *<?„ This 44 finding" would not suit him a. all, and s > he boldly expostulated with the Coroner, 44 Hot con ye foiud that a nion fell i' t/ C Sea, when be was found i' th' Conol?" 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