This Paper is circulated in the most expeditious Manner through the adjoining Counties of ENGLAND and WALES. Advertisements not exceeding Ten Lines, inserted at Six Shillings each WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1820 VOL. XXXIIL— N SS3SS ^ alcg tsv auction Prime Linseed Oil Cake, FOR SALE, T THOMAS and JOSEPH I1ELLI CAIl's, on the Back, Bristol. s& alcs Up auction SHROPSHIRE Urifcate IS& ucation CAPITAL Coppice Oak, Ash, and Elm Timber. BY MR. WYLEY, At the Castle Inn, in Bridgnorth, in the County of Salop, on Thursday, January lilth, 1826, at Four o'Clock in the Afternoon, in the following, or such other Lots as shall he agreed upon at the Time of Sale, subject tu the Conditions to be then and there produced: RG^ HE following Lots of OAK, ASH, 4 and ELM TIMBER. Scribe. marked, growing in Coppices on the CAUGIILEY ESTATE, 5 Miles from Bridgnorth, 3 from Coalbrookdale, und about I Mile from the River Severn. In Bagley's Rough. LOT I. 50 Oak Trees, commencing No. 1 and ending No. 50. LOT II. 40 Ash Trees, commencing No. 1 and end- ing No. 40; 12 VVych Elms, commencing No. 1 and ending No, 12. In Bradley's Coppice. LOT III. 50 Oak Trees, commencing No. 1 and ending No. 50. The whole of the Timber is very lengthy, of good Dimensions, and superior Quality.* Mr. RICHARDS, of Dean Corner, will shew the same : and further Particulars may be had ou Appli- cation to Mr. WYLEY, Admaslon, near Wellington; Mr. CLAYTON, Lawley, near Wellington; or Messrs. PttiTCHABu, Solicitors, Broseley. Valuable Freehold Premises, in Newport. MOST CAPITAL OAK AND ASH 4 MARRIED CLERGYMAN, edu- Ja. cated al Eton and Cambridge, and now resident in a large, dry, and commodious House, in a pleasant healthy Village, about Twenty- three Miles from Shrewsbury, receives into his Family a limited Num- ber of Young Gentlemen of all Ages, not more than he can himself personally atlend to in every Particular. Instruction is given in Greek and Latin, and also in some of the Modern Languages ; iu Geography, History, Rhetoric, Algebra, Euclid, the Elements of Christian Theology, kc.— Strict Attention is paid to good Morals, and good Manners ; and corporal Punishments are not used.— Most respectable Refer- ences can be given.— For Terms, and further Particu- lars, apply to THE PRINTERS. QUINA 15ROOK & EDSTASTON WMm^ mmm^ BY POOLE & SON, At the House of Mr. Icke, of the Bell Inn, on Monday, the 23d of January, 1826, between the Hours of 4 and 6 in the Evening, subject to such Conditions as shall be then produced ; ALL that substantial Brick and Tile DWELLING HOUSE, with the Appurtenances to the same belonging, desirably situate near the Market Place, in the High Street, NEWPORT, in the County of Salop, iu tbe Holding of Mr. Meredith, Surgeon, the Proprietor, who is quitting the Situation on Account of ill Health, Tbe House comprises an Entrance Hall, Dining Room, Drawing Room, Kitchen, Pantry, and Brew- house, on the Ground Floor, with two large Cellars underneath ; three best Bed Rooms, with two over the K'tcbeo, one over the Brewhouse, aud four good Attics'; a two stalled Stable and other detached Offices; an inclosed Yard, with a good Pump, aud large Garden adjoining. F'or other Particulars, and a View of the same, apply to tbe Proprietor. On the two following Days will be SOLD, on the Premises, all tbe valuable aud modem HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE; Catalogues of which are ready, and may be bad at the Lion, and Crown, Newport; Talbot, and Phceuix, Market Drayton ; Jerningham I Arms, Shiffnal ; Talbot, Shrewsbury ; und from THE T AUCTIONEERS, Wellington. nnHE Pay- Day for Lime, Coals, Slates, IL & c. had from Messrs. JeBBand Co.' s Works at the above Places, is fixed for MONDAY, the 30lh Day of January, 1826, at Ihe White Horse Inn, Went ; where Attendance will be given from Nine o'clock in the Morning till Two in the Afternoon. Punctuality in the Payments being indispensable, all Bills not paid on the above Day will be charged One Halfpenny per Bushel extra on the Lime, a Halfpenny per Hundred Weight extrn ou the Coals, and the Slates, & c. in like Proportion. STOMACHIC APJGIES. IENT PI3L3LS, Prepared from a Prescription of the late Sir Richard Jebb, M. D. AND PHYSICIAN EXTRAORDINARY TO THE KINO. TVJ OTICE is hereby given, that the _ L ^ TOLLS arising at the several Toll Gates upon the Turnpike Road leading from Shrewsbury to Much Wenlock, called or known by the Names of Weeping Cross, Cressage, and Hurley'Gates, will be LET BY AUCTION, to the best Bidders, ot the House of Robert Thomas, at Cound Lane Inn, in the County of Salop, ou Monday, tbe thirteenth Day of February next, between the Hours of Eleven ami One o'clock, pursuant to and iu Manner directed by tbe Statutes iu that Case made and provided ; which Tolls produced Ihe last Year tbe respective Sums set opposite their Names, above the Expenses of collecting them ; viz. Weeping Cross Gate £ 206. Cressnge Gate aud ? < m Hurley Gate S N. B. These Tolls will be put up and Let in Parcels or Lots, and each Parcel or Lot will be put up nt such Sum as thtt Trustees of the said Road shall think fit. Whoever happens to be tbe best Bidder, must be provided with bis Sitrel. es, and 6ign an Agreement for Payment of tbe Rent in such Proportions aud at such Times us the Trustees shall direct. WM. WHALLEY, Clerk to tbe Trustees Shrewsbury, llh January, 1S26. il Oak and Ash Coppice TIMBEK. BY MR. WYLEY, IN NORTH WALES. At the Castle Inn, Bridgnorth, lu tbe County of ' Salop, on Friday, the 20th Day of January, 1826, at 1 Four o'clock iu the Afternoon, iu the following ' Lots : — viz. rA L0T { J OAK TREES, commencing at No. 1 and ending at No. 50. LOT II. 50 OAK TREES, commencing at No. 51 and ending at No. 100. Lor HI. 57 OAK TREES, commencing at No. 101 and ending at No. 157. LOT IV. 50 ASH TREES, together with the Alder Poles growing in tbe Coppice. The above Timber is of very large Dimensions 1 and excellent Quality, and suitable for the superior Purposes of the Navy. It is growing in a Coppice j nt LOWER EWDON, iu the Parish of Chetton, aud a short Distance from the Turnpike Road leading 1 from Bridgnorth to Ludlow, about four Miles from the former Place. 1 Mr. SANKEY, of Lower Ewdon, will appoint a J Person to shew the Timber; and further Particu- | lars may be had of Mr. WYLEY, Admaston, near Wellington, Salop. VALUABLE Coppice Oak, Ash, and other Timber. I BY MR. WYLEY, At the Raven and Bell Inn, Shrewsbury, on Wednes- day, the ' 25th Day of January, 1826, at 4 o'Clock in the Afternoon j J following Lots of very capital H TIMBER, numbered with a Scribe, and grow, ing on the LONG^ NER ESTATE, viz. Lor I. 43 OAIv Trees, No. 1 to 43, growing in the Long-- Wood. ! LOT II. 37 OAK Trees, No. 44 to 80, growing in ' Ditto. LOT III. 26 OAK Trees, No. SI to 106, growing in Ditto. Lor IV. 60 ASH, 61 ALDER, 23 ELM, 16 ASP, 3 POPLAR, and 2 WITHY Trees, growing in Rough on the Severn. LOT V. 40 OAK Trees, No. I to 40, growing on Lands adjoining. LOT VI. 100 ASI1 Trees, No. I to 100, and 2 SYCAMORE Trees, growing on Ditto. LOT VII. 11 large ELM Trees, growing in a Field by Mr. Sayer's. The above Timber is chiefly of very large Dimen- sions and excellent Quality, and the Oak is suitable for the superior Purposes of the Navy. It is situate on the Banks of the Severn and the Shrewsbury Canal, about 1 Mile above Atcham Bridge, and 3 from F Shrewsbury. Thomas Phillips, at Long- net* Hall, will shew the . Lots; and further Particulars may be had of Mr. WYLKY, Admaston, near Wellington, Salop. At the Cross Foxes, in Mallwyd, in the County of Montgomery, on Friday, the tenth Day of February, 1826, subject to such ^ Conditions as shall be then produced : 4 LL those valuable MESSUAGES or £. JL Tenements, MILLS, FARMS and LANDS, consisting of 406 Acres, I Rood, and 32 Perches ( more or less), of Arable, Meadow, Pasture, and Wood Land, called Aberangell Mill and Fulling Mill, Cefnllarf'dybo, G- wastadcoed, Penypentre, Abermv- naeh, Ralltddu, Clippie, Collfryn, Tymawr, and Eskirangell, with five COTTAGES and GARDENS in Aberangell, situate in the Parishes of Mallwyd and Cemmes, in the Counties of Montgomery and Merion- j eth, in the several Occupations of John Roberts, j William Ellis, Edward Parry, John Roberts, Thomas ' Pugh, Lewis Lewis, Rees Ellis, Robert Jones, Ro- derick Pugh, Elizabeth Jones, Widow, Rowland Jones, John William Astley, Esq. Rees Ellis, John David, David Hugh, Edward Roberts, and Hugh Pugh, or their Undertenants. | The above Farms possess extensive Sheepwalks on the neighbouring Hills, and are situate in the imme- diate Vicinity of the picturesque Vale of Mallwyd. I The Rivers Dovey and Angell, abounding with Fish, run through Parts of the Estate ; and the Woodlands I thereon are thriving, and cannot fail of being a Source of Profit. The Tenants will shew the Premises in their re. I spective Occupations ; and further Particulars may be J obtained on Application to Messrs. OWEN and JONES, J Solicitors, Macb. vulle. th, Montgomeryshire, at whose I Office a Map of the Estate is left for inspection. To Mothers, Guardians, Managers of Schools, be. WIDOW WELCH'S PILLS; FOR FEMALE COMPLAINTS. JVcrvoi/ s Complaints, and Debility, DR. FOTHERGILL'S NERVOUS DROPS.— To those who are afflicted with Nervous disorders and their various distressing affec- tions, as OPPRESSION OF SPIRITS, HEAD ACHES, LOSS OF APPETITE, INDIGESTION, SPASMS, TREMORS, FAINT- ING FITS, AND DEBILITY OR RELAXATION OF THE SYSTEM, it is confidently recommended to have recourse t<> the above celebrated Medicine, from which tbey are assured of obtaining immediate relief, and by a due persever- ance in it agreeably to the di rectiotis given, the com- plete re- establishment of their health. Sold in Bottles, at 4s. 6d. lis. and 22s. by Butler, Chemist, 4, Cheapside, London; and by the principal Medicine Vendeis throughout the Uniied Kingdom. Of whom may be had Dr. FOTHERGILL's TONIC FEMALE PILLS, recommended in general Debility of the Constitution, also as a safe and excellent remedy in those periodical irregularities which Females, of delicate and languid circulation,- more . especially the younger part, are liable to. In Boxes, at Is. l^ d. | and 2s. 9d. FOR COUGHS Pectoral Essence of Coltsfoot, rjHHE Herb Coltsfoot has long been' JL distinguished for its excellent Properties in the Cure of Coughs, and other Pulmonary Complaints; and this Essence has, in the Course of a long Prac- tice, been found the most safe and effectual Remedy for Coughs, and all Disorders of tbe Lungs. It gently opens the Breast, and immediately gives Liberty of Breathing, without any Danger of taking Cold, and thus it affords great Relief in Asthmatic Complaints.' It allays tbe Tickling which provokes frequent Cough- ing, cleanses the small Glands, relaxes the Fibres, aud thereby enlarges the Cavities of the Vessels. Thus it will prevent Consumptions, if taken before the Lungs, are ulcerated. It softens husky and dry Coughs, and heals Rawness and Soreness of the Chest. This Pectoral Essence is prepared by JAMES RYAN, Surgeon, ill Bristol; and sold in Bottles at 3s. 6d. each, by F. NEWBERY and SONS, 45, St. Paul's Church Yard; and, by their Appointment, in mOst Country Tow us. SHROPSHIRE OR, Cunning Exemplified. ' Three friends I have with HIP, 1 a lunatic said, His f> rm in the Boots of his Guide as pourtray'd ; ' Just so our protectors, two travellers more, Thus they, you, and I, make a party of Four.' These Four then arriv'd at an Inn for the night, The place of asylum al baud, all was right ; For while in deep slumber the Guide lay fast bound, The Insane the Doctor's Certificate found, And, speeding his way to the Mad- house,—' Pve got A friend,' be then said, ' whose unfortunate lot It is lo be craz'd ; — I shall bring him apace; But, mind, lie will wish to put me in his place, By swearing that 1 am the madman not him, With other crack- braiu'd unaccountable whim.* His steps then retracing, the Inn he regainVI, Asleep while the unconscious Guide still remained, And rousing him, both sallied forth to explore Tbe Country, till reaching the Asylum door, When out came the Keeper,— 4 We Four, 1 said the Guide, 1 My friend. Two Protectors my Boots in beside.*— 4 You hear,' cried the lunatic, 4 Reason is lacking, | He sees Two Protectors iu WARRREN'S Jet Blacking.' j 4 Aye, Aye,' said the Keeper, then pounced on his prey, And, clad him at once in strait- waistcoat array. ' ' Tis lie,' in amaze cried the Guide, 4 who is mad, Not me!' but attention was not to be had ; Tbey shav'd his head closely oid pinion'd him down, While scamp'ring the insane in triumph to Town. ' You've murder'd your Guide,' cried his friends in j despair, ' The Guide— why he's mad, as the maddest March hare j Aud safely secur'd— so be after him paekino-— The biter is bit, and through WARREN'S Jet Blacking' At the Crown Inn, Ludlow, in the County of Salop, j on Tuesday, the. twenty, fourth Day of January j next, at Five o'Clock in the Afternoon, subject to J Conditions; I Qry O M0ST CAPITAL OAK TIMBER Ol O TREES, numbered with a Scribe, in tbe following Lots:— j LOT I. 237 Oak Trees, numbered 1 to 237, standing on Hopton's Gate Farm and Hopton Farm, j in the Parish of Stanton Lacy, occupied by Mr. Thomas Wild and Mr. Francis Falkner. LOT II. \ 110 Oak Trees, numbered 1 to 110, standing in a Coppice ou Hopton Gate Farm aforesaid. LOT III. 106 Oak Trees, numbered 1 to 106, standing- on tbe Meason's Farm, in the Pari: sh of Bitterley, occupied by Mr. John Reynolds. j LOT IV. 209 Oak Trees, numbered 1 to 209, standing on Crow Leasow Farm, in said Parish of Bitterley, occupied by Mr. J* Shepherd. Lor V. 120 Oak Trees, numbered 1 to 120, stan ling on the Hills Farm, in said Parish o Bitterley, and on Lands adjoining. LOT VI. 95 Oak Trees, numbered 1 to 95, standing on Middleton Farm, occupied by Mr. Patrick, aud on Land adjoining, in said Parish of Bitterley. LOT VII. 1 Oak Tree, of very great Dimensions, standing in a Meadow in said Parish, in the Occu- pation of Mr. Beddoes, marked A. „ The above Trees are of large Dimensions, equal to any Purposes of the Navy, or for any Purpose stipe-' rior Oak Timber can be applied to, and will be found deserving the Attention of Persons in Want of large sound Timber; are situated near the Turnpike Road between the Towns of Ludlow and Bridgnorth,, about 4 Miles from the former and 16 Miles from the latter. Mr. TOMKINS, at Downton Hall, will appoint a Person to shew the Lots ; and Particulars may be had of Messrs. LLOYD, Solicitors, Ludlow; or Mr. GOULD, Golfa, near Welsh Pool. DECEMBER 10TH, 1825. DICEY & CO.' S TRUE DAFFY'S ELIXIR, SUPERIOR to every other Medicine for giving immediate Relief in the most painful Attacks of the Cholic, and in all Complaints of the Stomach and Bowels. As a general Family Medicine, DICEVs DAFFY j has long become « o jointly celebrated, from its superior i Quality to nil other Preparation* sold under the Name | of DAFFY'S ELIXIR, that no Family, particularly in the Country, ought to be without it; but, as effectual Relief is only to be expected by those who use the GENUINE MEDICINE, Purchasers are cautioned not to rely merely upon tbe Glass Bottle hearing the Name of DICEY K Co. as there are unprincipled People who buy up tbe empty Bottles for the Purpose of filling them with their own counterfeit Preparations, and which are thus imposed upon the Public as the True Daffy's Elixir— the only certain Criterion is to examine whether the Stamp Label which is affixed over the Cork, has the Words 44 DICEY & Co. printed therein ; and to observe that the Bill of Directions is signed 44 W. SUTTON & Co. LATE DICEY SUTTON." Sold at the Original Warehouse-, No. 10, Bow Church Yard, London, in Bottles at 2 » . and 2s. 9d. each; and by all the principal Country Booksellers and Venders of Medicines. Of whom may also be had, DICEY'* Anderson's, or The TRUE SCOTS PILLS, Price I*. Hd. the Box. — particularly for 44 DICKY'S." BETTON's BRITISH OIL ( the only Genuine), Is. 9d. the Bottle. PLOUGHMAN'S DROPS " fojOTICE is hereby given, that at a MEETING of the Trustees, to be holden at tbe Guildhall, in Shrewsbury, on Monday, the sixth Day I of February next, at Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon, I the TOLLS arising at the Gates nnd Weighing Ma- chines undermentioned, will be LET BY AUCTION, I for one or more Years commencing at Lady- Day next, its inny Lo agreed upon, iu the Manner directed b. v tbe 1 Act passed in the third Year of his Majesty King 1 George the Fourth, " For regulating the Turnpike 1 Roads;" which Tolls ( including the Weighing Ma- I chines) now produce the following Sums, above the I Expenses of collecting them, and will be put up ut 1 such Sums respectively — Whoever happens lo be the I best Bidder, must at tiie same Time pay one Month's I Rent in Advance ( if required) of the lient at which such Tolls may be Let, aud give Security with suffi- cient Sureties lo the Satisfaction of the Trustees of the said Turnpike Roads, for the Payment of the Rest of the Money Monthly. JOHN JONF. S, Clerk lo tbe said Trustees. The Tern and Emstrey Gates on tbe Shrewsbury District of tbe Watlitig Street Road, with the £ Bye Gates atCroukhill Lane aud at Wroxeler 1030 Tbe Meole Gate and Weighing Machine on the Road leading to Church Siretton, and the Check Gate at the End of Sutton Lane und at BaystonHill 500 Tbe Nohnld Gate and Weighing Machine on tbe Road leading to Longdeu aud Bishop's Cuslle, together with tbe Bye Gates belonging to the said Road 235 The Gate and Weighing Machine at Shelton, together with a Gate near the 8th Mile Stone on the Road to l'oul 705 The Trewern aud Middletown Gates on the New Branch of Road to Pool, also the Hose and Crown Gales on the Old Road 400 The Copthorn Gate and Weighing Machine on the Road leading to Westbury 350 The Gates and Weighing Machine on the lloud leading to Minsterley 420 The Cotton Ilill and Prescot Gates on the Road leading to Baschurub 335 SHREWSBURY, JAN. 4,1826. A Medicine prepared by a Shropshire Gentleman Farmer, SUPERIOR. TO ALL T11F, PREPARATIONS I N TIIK WORLD, For the Cure of the Venereal Disease, the King- Evil, Scrofula, Scurvy, Fistulas, and every Dis- order arising from Impurity of the Blood. rip HE PLOUGHMAN'S DROPS are It. so well known throughout Shropshire, and indeed throughout the Kingdom at large, for the Cure of the above Disorders, aud without the Aid of Mercury or of anv Surgical Operation, that any Comment on their Virtues is quite unnecessary. As a Purifier of the Blood they are unrivalled iu their Effects. And their Efficacy has been attested in numberless Instances; many of them on Oath before the Magistrates of Shrewsbury; thus establishing their Pre- eminence over ihte Nostrums of ignorant Quacks, and over the more established Prescriptions of the Regular Faculty. In Cases of FEMALE DEBILITY, TURN OF LIFE, and any olher Affliciion of the Body arising from a changed or vitiated System, the PLOUGHVIAN'* 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 lo live like Englishmen while taking the Ploughman's Drops. These Drops are to be had in square Bottles, with these words moulded on each, 4* Mr. Smithes PLoughi) ia) fs 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. aud J. EDDOWES, and Cook- son, Shrewsbury ; Capsey, Wellington ; Yeates, Salt Warehouse, iron Bridge; Partridge, Bridgnorth ; Griffiths, Ludlow ; Waidson, Welshpool; Price, Os- westry ; Baugh, EUesmere ; Jones, Parker, Whit- church ; Procter, Drayton ; Silvester, Newport ; Holmes, No. 1, Royal Exclunge, London; and all other Medicine V « uders. Chilblains, Rheumatism, Sprains, fyc, IMJTLER'S CAJEPUT OPODEL- ii. JP DOC.— Cajeput Oil, which is the basis of this Opodeldoc, has been long esteemed on the Continent, as a remedy for Chronic Rheumatism, Spasmodic Affections, Chilblains, Palsy, Stiffness, and Enlarge- ment of the Joints, Sprains, Bruises, and Deafness; ; and the experience of late years, in England, proves that it merits the high character given of it by the most eminent in the profession, in those obstinate complaints. Being combined in the form of Opodeldoc,, it is rendered more penetrating and consequently much more efficacious as an external application. Rubbed upon the skin, by means of flannel, or the warm band, it allays morbid irritation of nerves, invigorates the absorbents, and accelerates the circulation. Sold in Bottles, at Is. l| d. and 2s. 9d. by Butler, Chemist, 4, Cheapside, London ; and by the principal Medicine Venders throughout the United Kingdom. Of whom, also, may be had BUTLER'S CHILBLAIN CERATE, an excellent Remedy for Chilblains when broken; used also iu Scalds, Burns,. & c. Be careful to ask for BUTLER'S CAJEPUT OPODELDOC. SHROPSHIRE, At Guildhall, Ludlow, on Wednesday, the 25th Day of January next, at 12 o'Clock iu the Forenoon, subject to Conditions : LOT I. A A OAK Timber Trees, numbered with a Scribe, and marked with White Paint, standing ou a Farm called THE BOWER, situate in the several Parishes of Burfbrd and Greet, in the County of Salop, in the Occupation of Mrs. Morgan. LOT II. 79 ASH Timber Trees, also numbered as above, und standing ou the above Farm. Many^ of the above Trees are of very large Dimensions, the Whole are of excellent. Quality. Mr. SAMUEL ACTON, of Ludlow, will appoint a Person to shew the Lots, of whom any further Particulars may be had. THE BOWER is situate about 3 Miles from Ludlow, 7 from Cieobury Mortimer, and near the Turnpike Road leading from Cainharn, over the Clee Hill, towards Cleobury aforesaid and Bewdley. L^ diow, 17TH DECEMBER, 1S. 25, It is amongst the on dits< of Huntingdonshire, that Lord Sl. rttthaven will shortly lead to tbe hymeneal altar one of the danghters of tlie Marquis of Conyngh » ui,. with a fort tine of £ 80,000'. O. lon Ball is assigned as the residence of tbe noble pair, and it is said that very extensive alterations to tbe house lately built by tbe Earl of Aboyn. e will be made in the ensuing Spring.— Stamford Mercury. OLD- FASHION EI> HON ESTY.-— Mr. VV. Ni< h< d, manufacturer in Forfar, Scotland, failed in 1815. By frugal and industrious habits he has retrieved hu affairs, and a few days ago called hi* creditors together,, and paid them in full. k Co lie SoliJ fc?? Uvibatc ® mtp, LOT I. 1 A C? OAK Timber Trees, numbered with While I / V / Paint 1 to 147, standing in Knowl Wood, Harston Rough, Onk Hill, and Lands adjoining, iu the Parish of BUCKN'ELL. LOT II. 281 OAK Timber Trees, numbered in like Manner 1 to 281, standing on Turnpike Piece, Bylets, aud Hayes Coppice, in the said Parish. LOT III. 20 ASH Trees, scribed 1 to20, standing on the same Lauds. LOT IV, 30 ASH Trees, scribed 1 to 30, standing on the same Lands. The above Lots of Timber are situate about five Miles from the Town of Ludlow.— Tbe Oak Trees are of most excellent Quality aud large Dimensions, equul to any Purposes of the Navy. The Ash Trees are large aud sound. Mr,' JOKES, of Bncknell Cottage, will appoint a Person to shew the Lots; and to treat for the same upplv to EDWARD IIDMRLI, F. st|. Renishaw, near Chesterfield, Derbyshire; or Mr. GOULD, Golfa, near Welshpool. Due EMBER 10, 1825. T04I01EDW. » T^ iEHipanm TOLIL& o Shiffnal District. " CC Il 1VT OTICE is hereby given, That the Q ^ TOLLS arising at the Tull Gates erected on the '' Shiffnal Division ot tbe Walling Street Turnpike Road, commonly called by the Names of the Prior's l. ee and lied Hill Gates, will be LET ( separately) s BY AUCTION, to the best Bidder, at Ibe House of ^ Isaac Taylor, known by the Sign of the Jerningham H Arms Inn, in Shifl'ual, on Thursday, the 191b Day of January next, between the Hours of Eleven in the I Forenoon aud One iu the. Afternoon, for one Year o from the 2d I) nv of February next, in Manner directed ( by an Act pas « d in Ihe sixth Year of the Reign of i his present Majesty, " for maintaining and improving the Roads leading " through the Town of Shlfi'nal, and the Itoad " leading from Oaken Gates to Weston, in the " Counties of Salop and Stafford ;" by tbe several Acts for further improving the [ toads between Loudon and . Holyhead, by Coventry, Birmingham, ; and Shrewsbury"; nnd also by the last General Turnpike Arts passed in the present Reign. The I ; Bidders for the Tolls arising at the Prior's Lee Gate must make two distinct Biddings for the said Tolls, viz. one Bidding for the Tolls collected Under Author- I it,' of the first- mentioned Act, and another Bidding for the additional Tolls collected under Authority of tbe second- mentioned Acts ( of which a separate Account is to be kept). And the best Bidders must give Security, with sufficient Sureties to the Satis- I faction of the Trustees, for tbe Payment of the Rent it » reed for at such Times as they shall direct. And no Person will be allowed lo bid who does not pro- duce his Sureties at Ibe Auction. The Tolls produced the last Year— „ . . , < Old Tolls .. £ 700) - Trior s Lee Gate £ Additional Tolls. .. £ 175 \ 18'& Red Hill Gate £ 122 It. FISHER, Clerk to tbe Trustees. I Newport, 20th December, 1825. TVfOTICE is hereby given, that the TOLLS arising at the Toll Gates upon the Turnpike Roads leading from Shrewsbury to Preston Brockhnrst, to Shawbnry, and to Shrey Hill, and other Roads iu the County of Salop, called or known by tbe Names of Old Heath, llarlescott, and Berwick Gates, Cotwall and Crudgington Gates, Precs Gate, and Holloway Gate, and the Bve Gates thereto re- spectively belonging, will be LET BY AUCTION to the btst Bidder, ut the House of Itieburd Home known us tbe Turk's Head, in lladuall, iu the said County, on Wednesday, the First Day of February liext, between the Hours of Twelve ond Three o'Clock, iu the Manner directed by the Acts passed in the Third and Fourth Years of tbe Reign of His Majesty Kiug George the Fourth, " for regulating Turnpike Roads;" which Tolls produced the la. t Year the following Stuns : Old Heath, llarlcscott, and Berwick £ 456 0 t) Cotwall and Crudgington Gates 509 0 0 Pices Gale 29 0 0 | And Holloway Gate 20 15 0 Above tbe Expenses of collecting the same, and will he put up at those Sums— Whoever happens lo be the best Bidder must, at the same Time, pay- One Month in Advance ( if required) of the Rent at which such Tolls may be Let, and give Security, with Sureties, to the Satisfaction of the Trustees of the said Turnpike Roads, for Payment of tbe Re- mainder of the Money monthly. And at which Meeting other Business w ill be liansucted. JOHN WILLIAMS, Clerk. rpHESE very justly celebrated PILLS JL have experienced, through private Reconimend- aud Use, during a very long period, Ihe flattering Commendation of Families of the first Distinction, tis a Medicine superior to all others in removing Complaints of the Stomach, arising from Bile, Indi- gestion, Flatulency, and habitual Coativcness.—' The .. eneficial Effects produced in ull Cases for which they are here recommended, render them worthy the Notice of Ihe Public aud Travellers in particular, lo whose Attention tbey ore strongly pointed out as the most portable, safe, aud mild Aperient Medicine that can possibly b « made use of. These Pills are extremely well calculated for those Habits of Body that are subject to be Costive, as a continued use of them does not injure but invigorates the Constitution, anil will be found to possess lliose Qualities that will remove a long Series of Diseases resulting from a confined Stale of the Bowels, strengthen Digestion, create Appetite, and be ul distinguished Excellence in removing Giddiness, llead- acbes, & c. & c. occasioned by the Bile in the • Stomach, or the ill Effects arising from impure or loo great a quantity of Wine, Spirits, or Malt Liquor. Persons of tbe most delicate Constitution may lake ' lllcni with Safety in all Seasons of the Year; and in ' | all Cases of Obstruction arising from Cold or other I Causes, where an opening Medicine is wanted, they will be found the best cordial Stimulant in use. Prepared and sold, Wholesale and Retail, in Boxes al ' Is. ( id. and 3s. ( id. each Box, by VV. U1DGWAY, ! Druggist, Market Drayton. Sold Retail by Mr. , IIOHFIIKBYS, Shrewsbury; Bradbury, Wellington; Amos Edmonds, Shiffual; Gitton, Biidguorlh ; Evans I and Marston, Ludlow; Griffiths, Bishop's Castle; e Jones, Welsh Pool; Franklin, Wem; Roberts, Oswes- e try ; Parker, Whitchurch ; Stevens, Newport; Painter, Wrexham; Baugh, Ellesmere; Morgan, Slatforu ; ' Poole nnd Harding, Chester; und all other respect- ~ able Medicine Venders in the United Kingdom. ^ VTOTICE is hereby given, that the IT TOLLS arising at the Toll Gates upon lite Turn- pike Roads leading from Much Wenlock to Church Stretton, aud other Roods adjoining thereto, in the County of Salop, called or known hv the Names of Wenlock and Westwood Gate, Hnzlur Gate, and Bush- bury Gale, will be LET BY AUCTION, to the best Bidder, at the House of Mary Kliodeo, called the While Hart Inn, situate at Mucii VVenlock aforesaid, on Monday, the 13th Day of February next, between the Hours of Twelve and Three in the Afternoon, in the Manner directed by Ihe Act passed in the Third ^ ear ol the Iteign of His Majesty Kiug George tbe Fourth, u For regulating Turnpike Roads," which Tolls pro- duced the last Yeur tbe following Sums: £. s. p. Wcnlock and Westwood Cate.... 160 0 0 llazlar Gate 40 0 0 Rushbury Gate 12 0 0 above the Expellees of collecting the same, nnd will he put up at tho. eSums respectively.— Whoever happens to lie ihe best Bidder must at tbe same time pay one Month in Advance ( if required) of the Rent at which such Tolls tmiy l, e Let, iiud aive Security, with sufficient Sureties, to the Satisfaction of the Trustees of tit.- said 1 Turnpike Roads, fur Payment of the rest of the Money monthly. ' E. JEFFREYS, Clerk to the Trustees of Ibe said Roads. , WENLOCK, 9TH JANUARY, 1826. i \ I7IDOW WELCH'S PILLS arc ; * pu. ticularly eoi « tceol. U to all FEMALE*, from 1 Ibe Age of 14 or 16 Years and upwards; their < Celebrity as a Tonic, aud for removing all Obstructions in the Female System, curing what is vulgarly called , tbe Green Sickness, have been long known. The particular Nature uttd Symptoms of Female Com. plaints are given with every Box of Pills, aud worthy lite Perusal of every Person who has the Care of Young Women, as from their Treatment at ibis early Period depends their future Health and Comfort. The following Letter is inserted to demonstrate iheir efficacy : — Drayton, No it. 29. SIR,— Our Daughter, about fifteen Years of Age, hail been drooping, from a Cause we little suspected; she was very low in Spirits, her Complexion very pale, anil an habitual Head- ache, attended with Palpitations of the Heart. She appeared careless of every Object, I and inattentive to those Pursuits lo which young Persons are generally attached. In Fact, we were apprehensive that a ' Consumption had already com- menced. All Acquaintance recommended the Widow Welch's Pills, sold by you, us a proper Medicine for I young Women of her Age, and iu her Situation ; we accordingly tried them, and by persevering in taking three Boxes, her Spirits weie invigorated, her former j Complexion returned, Ihe Head- ache entirely removed, j and she is now completely restored to Health, Strength, and Spirits. Whatever" Use you may make of this Letter, will be equally agreeable to your Obedient and humble Servants, B. & S. ARMSTRONG. To Mr. B. SHAW. Purchasers must observe, ihe Medicine sold i" the Name of KKARSLEY, for the Widow Welch's Pills, are not the Genuine prepured by Mrs. SMITHBUS, who is the Grnnd- dnnghler of the Widow Welch, and I tbe only Person entitled to the Preparation; therefore I the Public will take particular Care that Ihe^ Name of EDWARDS, late Shaw and Edwards, No, t> 7, St. Paul's, I is engraved, hy Favour of his Majesty's Commissioners I of Stamps, on every Stamp accompanying the Box.— I Price 2s. Gd. per Box, Duly included. Sold by Messrs. W. and J. EDDOWBS, Shrewsbury, I und all Medicine Venders. This easy shilling and brilliant Blacking, prepare by Robert Warren, 30, STRAND, London, And sold ill every Town in the Kino- dom. Liquid, in Bottles fid. lOd. 12d. and lSd. each. Also, Paste Blacking, in Pols, 6d. 12d aud lSd. each. A Shilling Pot of Paste is equal to Four Is. Boltles of Liquid. SOLD AT Shrewsbury,} iv EODOWES, Drayton,... RIDGWAY. R'OO- UKS& CO. Newport... JONES. BUATTON, —— LOWE. STATHAM, Shi/ fnol,.... HARDING. DRURY, Wellington, 1IOUI. STON& j MORGAN and SMITH. AST EH LE Y , Ironbridge, G I, A Z EB ROO K . •—'—'—~ JONES, fiungor,..,. HUGHES, DAVIES, GBISNTH. NEVBTT, Hula DAVIES. HUMPHREYS. Carnarvon, OWEN, IVeoi, KYNASTON. WILLIAMS. Oswestry,... EDVVARDS. Do! gelh/, WN. i. iAMsiiSoN Ellesmere,.. BAUGH, Uolyhi'ad,.. JONES, FURMSTOM. .- RICHARDS. If elihpool, EVANS, St. Asaph, O. VEX. OWEN, Abergety,.. DAVIES. JONES, Amlwch,... ROBERTS. — GRIFFITHS. Conway,.... ROBERTS. IVentock .. CLIVELY. Barmouth,. GRIFFITHS. llodnet, PACE, Beaumaris, ALLEN. j Ilt'OHES, Disinterestedness of the Whig- Radical Press. [ from THE MANCHESTER COURIER.] The Examiner of Sunday last contains the fob lowing paragraph, ill allusion to the new daiW newspaper announced by Mr. Murray, tho book- seller — " Ministerial Papers.— It is a curious and grati- fying- fact, that the newspapers devoted to ' the powers that be,' whether in England or in Ireland, have, upon the whole, a greatFy inferior circulation to those, which advocate liberal sentiments. The Courier, of late years, has considerably decrease'! in circulation, while the Globe and Traveller lias advanced in proportion, aud now prints nearly KS many;— t'ie Post, Sun, and iVem Times have each But a moderate sale,— very inferior to the Timet, Herald, and Morning Chronicle.— These arc facta which, we should imagine, would deter a discreet person from adventuring in undertakings of this kinrl." " iiiiiume sase ut ttrgunteni, me correct- ness of tills statement, the newspapers devoted to the " Powers lhat be" ( on tha showing of this charitable Radical) pursue a course decidedly at variance with their own interests. He tells us that Tory journals do not circulate as widely as papers on the other side of the question, and expresses his surprise that this circumstance docs not " deter a discrect person from adventuring in such under- takings.'" If the members of the Tory press vvero actuated by the mean and sordid spirit which leads such writers as the editor of the Examiner to pan- der to the base passions of the mob; if they would consent to adventure their consciences in undertak- ings of this kind, merely in a mercantile point of view, and discreetly eschew that line of politics which may appear to them the least likely to profit them as tradesmen, they would probably avail them- selves, under particular circumstances, of the hint thus volunteered for their consideration. But if we' believe the Examiner and his friends, although servile in the extreme actording to' their definition of the term, we " adventure in a line of politics" in which we are almost certain of being at least unsuc- cessful, for the sake of supporting the « Powers that But the cant of faction in former days was that he loyal portion of the press was rewarded by Ministry. For the last few years, however, it ha* ieeu seen that Whigs have been the only persons vhose politics have availed them with his Majesty's Cabinet. Does a situation of trust and profit be- come vacant; Instead of being bestowed upon a person who may for a series of years have advo- cated, from a sense of honest conviction, the general policy of government, it is given to some hungry Whig, as a . conciliatory sop, to prove how liberal Mr. Canning and his friends can be when occasion serves them. If a Whig- libeller is convicted of fonily calumniating- public or private character, his punishment is almost sure to be a mere flea- bite, in order that the world may see that persons in author- ity are not actuated by party spirit. On the other hand, if an unfortunate Tory journalist ventures to speak with merited severity of some hero- of Whig- idolatry, he is, if found guilty, visited with the' utmost rigour of the law, in order that the public may be satisfied that his Majesty's Ministers are not disposed to screen the libellers of their own party ; — nay, it is well for the unhappy delinquent if, after having once paid his fines, he has not, as in the case of the proprietors of the John Ball, an imperative demand made upon him to pay them over again. This is no exaggerated view- of the subject, but" one founded upon facts, the knowledge of which is in the reach of all who may be desirous of becoming acquainted with them. Even the editor of the Examiner, himself, seems to admit, independently of tire passage above quoted, that the Tory press gains nothing- in the sh. ipe of a bribe for supporting the " Powers that be;" for, in speaking of the Morning Post, Sun, New Times, aud Courier, he goes on to say, " the hungry sheep look up and are not fed," whilst he is equally anxious to impress upon the minds of his readers that his own party contrive to make a pretty good living by their politics. We have always considered the scribblers of this faction, in spite of their blusters about thetr independence, a servile and time- serving crew, and we have now an acknowledgment that they are so from one of their own oracles. Jt is not, however, true, that the Tory papers arts • eatly inferior in circulation to those which ad- icate liberal sentiments. The Courier, notwith- anding the contemptible tricks resorted to by the lobe to foist itself into circulation, sells full oiie- lird more than that journal, although the latter is le only liberal evening newspaper that can boast sale beyond a few hundreds. The St. Jumes't ' hronicle, another supporter of the " Powers that e," is unrivalled iu circulation by any Whig > urnal, whether daily or otherwise. Among other eriodicals, the Quarterly Review and Blackwood's fagazine are considerably a- head of all similar ublications of liberal principles. Where, there- ire, are we lo look for the superior circulation oasted of, in behalf of his party ( for even his own ournal is au evidence that rancorous radicalism is ot popular just now, whatever it may have been) ' y tbe Cockney editor of the Examiner. r oh but, say such worthies as the editors of tha '< ced$ Mercury and tlie Manchester Guardian, the- em ark of our friend of the Examiner does apply, s it regards the provincial press. We do enjoy a arger circulation than our Tory neighbours. It is rue, that it does apply more or less to large nianu- ucturing towns, and for this very simple reason ; he lower orders of the people have been, for tho nost part, inoculated with liberal opinions: and if i journalist will but pander to the bad passions of hose whose numbers s i greatly preponderate over hose of the more respectable orders, he must ensure limself a wider circulation than can possibly lie :. tjoyed by a Tory contemporary. Suppose the lien of Messrs. A. and B.' s cotton- mill club to take 11 newspapers, tha great probability is that they ' Vill read nothing but Whig or Radical journals ; heir masters, however, are co iteuted to patronise me that is devoted to the " Powers that be." Hence the boasted superiority of e. rculation of Whig and Radical newspapers. But how does this iperate in offering advantages to advertisers. A person has an estate to sell, and announces that lis has in the journal which circulates among the ' operatives, aud iu that which is patronized, for the most part, by their principals. Whether is it better to have his advertisement perused by two or thre. i journeymen or one master! T here cannot be but one opinion on the subject. As far, however, as wa are concerned, we have nothing to complain of, since we can defy our boasting VVjiig and Radical neighbours to point out auy journal of the same age whose circulation exceeds that which we at present enjoy; and as it regards the high respectability of our subscribers, we can, on this point, challenge a comparison with any provincial paper, without fear of being worsted iu the strife'. But the liberals are indefatigable in polling each other; and thj Examiner having little better to do in this piping- time of peace, has, it would seem, been appointed trumpeter- general to the corps. SALOFIAM OF LO N DO N— S A TU. H D A Y, The Etoile Paris Paper of Wednesday fully confirms the important facts of the r. en unci at ion of the throne of his ancestors- by the Archduke Con- stantino, the accession of bis brother under the- title, of. Nicholas the First,, and the consequent military revolt nt St. Pet- ershurgh, the details of " which it subjoins as follows;--* < r Paris', . January 10. We have received from St. Petfisburglr most afflicting. intejlig- tMice. Ir announce*, that on the 26th ult. the niVtiiirVsfo of Nicholas the First uas published' This document, which is reuHnkably - well diavvu up, details with much perspicuity and historical precision, the roninitiation of Constantine ; and" the diplomatic acts by wiiieh it is attested are affixed tn it. On the 26th the regiments W the Guards were to take tiie oaih ; the same day, at eleven: o'eh ek iu the ino: rnin. g;, some of - then* stayed, behind', although the freater part Was already prepared; ft . w. a- s even no. wn that the ( Moscow regiment, interposed difficul- ties. Two companies rof grenadiers of this regiment s illied from their barracks with- their1 colours,- and pro- c I'. med Consiantine the First. These men proceeded tb''! lie'square of Isaac, where they were soon- joined by '. peat numbers of the people, by the soldiers of the bod grenadier regiment, and the marines of the guard. iv> other corps took part in the sedition, and it appears that the numbers ofthe factions did not. ex- ceed ;> 000. I ii formed of these disorders, General MiioradovHch proceeded to the square to address the rebels, But at. that moment a riian in plain cloth fired a pistol- shot at him, of which he died some hours afterwards. The Fmperor appeared without. arm^, and attempted toreelaim the mutineers, but without success. In the end, alter having exhausted all gentle means— after having in vain explained the circumstance of the renunciation of Constantino— he was forced to order his troops and artillery to advance. The rebels having formed themselves into a square, had the audacity to fire first, lint were soon dispersed and pursued in all directions. The number killed is said toamoun to two hundred. At six o'clock order was re- established, tlie troops remained faithful, and the greater portion of them bivouacked all night round lire palace. The Grand Duke Michael, who arrived ill St. Petersburg!! at the moment of the tumult, has suc- ceeded in reclaiming six companies of the Moscow regiment who took no part in the revolt, but who re- fused tVy take the oath of fidelity, and he led thein to the assistance of his brother Generals Frederiks and Scheuschin are wounded. The Emperor, who throug h- out the day displayed the most noble traits of cha- racter, reviewed the troops on the following day in garrison. T he marines of the guards manifested the most sincere repentance, and obtained their pardon ; many officers have been arresled. During four hours which were occupied in parleying with the troops before it was determined to employ force, the number of ti e relets was not greatly augmented ; and it is ve- y probable that the greater part were more misled than guilty •' Such is the account given in tbe French paper quoted, aiid there can be little doubt of its authen- ticity. The movement appears to have had all the features of a mere regimental mutiny,, as contra- distinguish edTrom a revolutionary, conspiracy. Per- fect tranquillity appears to have prevailed in the Busman capital on the 27th, the date of the [ atest advices. T ^ e Manifesto issued by the Emperor Nicholas on assuming the Imperial Crown, and the docu- ments appended to it relative to the Archduke Constantino's renunciation of the throne, are perhaps of greater interest and importance than any state papers communicated to the world for a long series of years. It appears beyond question from the documents now published, that on the death of the Emperor Alexander being made known to them, Constantine and Nicholas, at nearly the sanie time, and without any concert with one another, disclaimed the succession, « the elder brother confirming hi the most explicit man- ner a renunciation which he had given during Alexander's life ; the younger, notwithstanding the first renunciation, whieh was communicated to him, causing his brother to be [ proclaimed. When the suddenness of Alexander's death, the distance of the brothers from one another, and the dates of the communications are considered, it is impossible to doubt the spontaneous character of Constantine^ s renunciation. The mutives whieh induced him to consent to what appears so great a sacrifice,, are yetJ: and perhaps will long remain uncertain,, unless* hi3' own account of them be admitted, viz. that he considered it his duty to fulfil the will of his deceased brother, for whom . he is waid to ba. ve felt an extraordinary affection. One important point is- meanwhile established, t(; at the Crown of Poland remains Incorporated with the Imperial oner Conefantine claiming nothing in exchange for what he has surrendered,, but to remain as he is. The new Emperor closes his manifesto by a prayer that his reign may be nothing but a continuation of his brother's, and that he may faint all the wishes for Russia's hap- piness that aniivated him. BANKRUPTS, JAN. 14.— Richard Moore, heretofore of Piccadilly, Hanover- square, Westminster, after- wards of Richmond, Surrey, and now or late of Saint George the Martyr, JSouthwark, dealer.— James- Da- JTHII, late of Lime- street, London, provision- merchant. Richard Walker, of Oxford street, Middlesex, butcher.— John Groves, of Gun- street, Spitalfields, carpenter and builder. — Robert Pewters, of Bristol, hoot and shoe- maker.— Thomas William Riekards Watkins, of Hereford, scrivener.— Joseph Turner, of Chester, architect and marble- mason.— Charles Sheaf, of Harrington Mill, Worcestershire, miller.— Charles Delves Rrougbton nnd John Jasper Garuett, of Want- wieh, Cheshire, bankers.— John Kershaw, John Tom- Jinsoo, and Richard Ashworth Fuller, of Manchester, machine. makers. — William Wright, of Wakefield, " Yorkshire, innkeeper and victualler.— John Best, of Kidderminster, Worcestershire, maltster.— Andrew Ryder, of Budge- row, London, warehouseman.— Wnvrpn Maude Lamb, of Newcastle npon- Tvne, and Fat field, Durham, merchant - Joseph Bernard, of Gravesend, Kent, pawnbroker— George Eady, of Bromley, Kent, coach master.— William Hemming, of Thatcham, Berks, money scrivcner.— David Groves, of Norton- street, Saint, Mary le- Bone, Middlesex, grocer and cheesemonger Benjamin Lewis, of Tun- bridge Wells, Kent, baker.— John Blake, of ZraPs- Green, Mere, Wilts, draper and grocer.— Paul Beard, King's Stanley, near Stroud, Gloucestershire, clothier and manufacturer.— Charles Sayer and George Gard- i. er, of Great Tower- street, London, w holesale grocers. — William Smith, of Lombard- street, London, baiter and hosier — William Rowley, of Regent- street, Ox- ford- street, Middlesex, tavern- keeper. INSOLVENTS.— John Sanders, of Oxford, bookbinder end stationer.— William Dodd, of Jennyn. street, St. James's, Westminster, saddler and harness- maker.— George Davis, of High- street, Kensington, Middlesex, corn- dealer — William Webb, of Great Distaff- lane, London, packing- case- maker and carpenter. slaves. Any expVossion of discontent against the Government, from them, therefore, proves the ex- istence. of tfee strongest suspicion as to the' title of the ruling Prince, ; It is said that a day was to no purpose occu- pied in attempts to" tranquillize the mutineers and nsuvgerits, before the order to fire upon them was given. This, on the one side, relieves the Em- press Mother from the imputation of barbarity, which the first statement of her having ordered a summary slaughter cast upon her; but it evinces on the other hand, the formidable character of the'popular and military movement. That it was formidable, is also attested by the facf, that its, suppression was celebrated by a solemn Te I) cum in all the churches. Shrewsbury Quarter Sessions. OLD RATLBY.—- Oh Saturday, Mary Cain, aged 44, was tried and found guilty of the wilful murder id' Maurice Fitzgerald, by stabbing him with a sharp instrument, in her own" house,, near Gray's- Inn- lane, on the 261 h ult. The unfortunate woman was ex- ecuted this morning. Ctse Salopian journal. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY IS, ME. ggg- The, Sale of the " HOUSE IN NEWPORT," advertised in our Ist page, will take place at the house, of Mrs Icke, the ltaven and Bell Inn, in that town. A pressure of Advertisements, and other temporary matter, obliges us to postpone the letter of Mr. II. PlDQSON, relative to the Coins found near Aberdovev— the letter of " A CONSTANT FTL-: ADER" on the use of Charcoal in Founda- tions— with other favours— until next week. The verses by CONRAD shall also appear in our next g^ y1 As we have no Agent in Pandemomium, we are unable to ascertain how far the tale of " THE Devil, AND THE CARD- PLAYERS,' 1 fouaded ou facts stated to have recently occurred in this town, are correct. If auy of the parties will furuish us with an authentic account, it shall have insertion.— Our own " Devil," technically so culled, has uo acquaintance with the party to whom we allude. minus. On the 14th ult. al Rome, the Lady of W. H. Hvett, Esq. of Paiuswick House, iu the county of Gloucester, of a sou. On Friday Inst, at Horton Lodge, the Lady of the Rev. Edward Houifray, of a sou. MAR11I ED. Yesterday, at Oswestry, by the ftev. John Gibbons, Rector of llarlev, in this county, Peter lleywood, of the Inner Temple, London, Esq. Barrister at Law, eldest son of John Peuibrrton Heywood, of Wakefield, in the county of York, Esq. to Suit! Harriette, eldest daughter of Thomas Longuevilie Longueville, of Oswestry, Esq.- Lately, at Danley, by fhe T'ei. R. Clayton, Mr. Tipton, of Mossy 0rem, to Eliza, third daughter of ihe late Mr. Slaney Jones, of Daw ley. On the 2d iust. iit Market Drayton, by the Rev. J. P. Stuhhs, Mr. Saniui 1 John Aston, of Birmingham, to Miss Isabella Coekayne, of Market Drayton. DIED: On Monday last, aged 74, Mr. Tomlins, nine, merchant, of the Butler Market, in this town ; a man whose general conduct and deportment was such as to render him in life universally respected, and iu death as sincerely regretted. On Thursday morning-, suddenly, at Irnnbridge, Mr. John Haywood, w ire- worker and chandler. Ou the llth instant, sincerely regretted and de- servedly lamented by all who knew hiui, after a long and painful illness,' borne with Ihe most christian fortitude and resignation to the Divine wilt, in the 32d year of his age, Thomas, eldest sou of Mr. Thomas Meredith, of Yocklcton. On the l(! th inst. Mrs. Cross, wife of Mr. Cross, miller, of Cruck Meole, near this town-. On Thursday last, Mr. Williams, of the Queen's Head Tun, in this town On Saturday last, Mr. Samuel Humphreyson, of Chester- street! in this town ; a truly honest man. On Saturday Inst, in her 89th year, Mrs. l. lovd, widow of the lale Mr. John Lloyd, of Mux, in this county. On the 23d ult. aged d5, Mr. Charles Cox, for some years officer of excise at Liverpool, nnd formerly of this tow 11. Oil Sunday last, Mrs. Williams, of the Trumpet Inn, Mardol, in this town. On Wednesday last, much respected, Mr, John Bouiton, of Humphreslon, in this county. Ou the 7th iust. Sir William Barton, Kilt, one of the oldest merchants of Liverpool engaged in the West India trade, and fo. r many years p> iticipapof the firm of Barton, It- lain, and Higgtnson. Sir William was a true friend to the interests of that town, and on all occasions proved himself to he a steady aud zealous supporter of loyal and constitutional principles On the 7th inst. aged 54, Mr. John Dudleston, farrier, Fens- Wood, near Whitchurch. On the 11th inst. in her 74th year, Mrs. Jackson, relict of Ihe late Mr. Jackson, formerly the respect- able occupier ofthe Royal Hotel, Chester. LONDON, Monday Night, January 16. 1826, PRICKS OP FUSTS AT TUB CLOSE. Fed. 3 per Cts. 80j 3 p!* r Ct. Cons. 80 Imperial 3 per Ou.— 3', per Cents. — 3} per Cents. Red. 88| 4 per Cents. 97J Bank Stock - 215 Long Ann. 20 1- 16 India Stock 24IIJ India Bonds 12 8 Ex. Bills ( I id.) par Coos, for Acc. 81 $ A White BLACKBIRD !— On the 4tfi inst. Mr. Minor, of Shawbury, in this county, shot a white blackbird, and which does not appear to lie an old one. The curious may see it at the shop of ou> in- genious townsman, Mr. Shaw, who has stuffed it, and is preparing it for the Museum of A. V. Corbet, Esq at Acton Reynald. Ou Thursday last, an Inquest ivaa held on the body of the crnfortunaie gentleman, who, as stated in our last, was drowned hy falling into the river from Mardol Quay: a verdict of " arcideoial death" was returned. lie proves to he tlie Rev Evan Jones, late Curate of the Chapelries of Nerquis and Tryddyll. Flintshire, and a native of South Wales. Several letters have been addressed by , Wi. Whitney ( ihe gratuitous Secretary aud Agent of our Humane Society) to his relations, buf as vet no reply has been received — The remains of Mr. Jonew were respectably attended lo Ihe chuiTlnnril of St. Chad, on Monday hist, where they were interred : aud much praise is due to Mr. Whitney for his attention in making the necessary arrangements, and for Ihe pains he has taken in communicating with every person likely to know anything relative to the deceased gentleman. We have much satisfaction iu stating that thehighly respectable hank of Messrs Gillelt and Tawney, of Banbury, have resumed their. business, with every prospect of an increase in the confidence which they have so long and justly received from their friends and the public— Oxford Journal. Ao interesting occurrence has just taken place at St. lies. A French slave ship has been driven m by distress. She was fitted up with all the apparatus for the horrid traffic, chains, thumb screw s, & c. aud had on board five slaves, youths who were kept out ofa cargo lately landed in the West Indies- fo assist io ( he navigation of the vessel. The ship has been filling op io France for another voyageto Africa, and was taking these five slaves, who would prohahlv have been sold with the next cargo. The arrival of the vess< I under such circumstances excited considerable interest in the neighbourhood of St Ives; and some peison sent information to Mr. Wilberforee and Mr. Stephen. Through tht- m Chief Justice Best has been applied to", and lie has issued a writ of habeas corpus for bringing up the slaves to London. Some persons expressed a wish lo the French Captain to have one of the jouths, but he said he would uol sell him under forty pounds! — The vessel, too, it is understood, w ill be forfeited. The issue of the affair will, no doubt, prove the truth of the Poet's aphorism—" Slaves cannot breathe in England." Tbe French and German papers last received furnish a groat deal of informntion with respect to the public occurrences that took place at St. Petersburg!!, npon the Emperor's accession.— They leave us, however, as much as ever in the <? ark as to tiie private arrangements by which this anomaly iti the succession to the throne has been brought about. The most important circumstance connected with the late mutiny, or insurrection, as we must now call if, communicated by these journals, is the fact that the expression of discontent was not confined to the military : the populace appear to have joined very generally in resistance to the establishment of the Emperor Nicholas's autho- rity, and the shot by which General Miloradovitch, the Governor of St. Petersburgh, lost his life, was discharged by a citizen. It is pretty plain from this, that even in the Russian capital, the popular opinion was not clear that Constantine's se'Cession had been volun- tary. The Russian army, like all the armies of despotic Governments, is sufficiently prone to mu- tiny ; but the Russian people have proved them- selves ajjoa nil occasion* tb « meat submissive cf To the Editor of the Salopian Journal. 13, REGENT STREET, P. U. L MALL, 16rn JAN. 1826. Sin, The letter inserted in your Paper of the 4th Tnstnnt, by the command of the Earl of Pow is, appears lo have had the effect of creating au impression amongst some of our Subscribers in Shropshire, that the representa- tions made hy our Agent, of having obtained his Lordship's Patronage to our intended Map of that County, was not correct. Unwilling as we ore to enter upon public discus- sions, and particularly so where the Influence is so verv unequal, we lire bound, nevertheless, to protect ourselves so far as a candid statement of facts may be calculated to do so, against the adoption of any mea- sures which may be injurious to us. On perusal of the letter above alluded to, we lost no time in writing to our Agent, requesting he would furnish us with immediate Information on the subject. His reply is now before us, which enables us to declare, that we have the fullest assurance that his Lordship's Patronrge was conferred upon our intended Map of Shropshire in the usual way, and without any restriction. If it should be necessary, we will hand jou our Ajrcnt'a Letter for Insertion. We are, Sir, Your most obedient servants, 8RRKNW00D, PU1NGLE, & CO. As soon as the customary forms of the Court bad been gone through, ou Friday morning, the Deputy Recorder stated, that, in consequence of the late melancholy accident near the Welsh Bridge, the attention of the magistrates had again beeu di- rected to the unprotected state of the footpaths in the vicinity oi' the English and Welsh Bridges.— Mr. Lloyd, in consequence of a former communica- tion, had undertaken, on the part of the Earl of Tankerville, that a fence should be carried along the right- hand side ofthe road between tbe English Bridge and Colcham Bridge, and bc- fween'the, foo^ path and the Mill Pool in Abbey Foregate; and flic same gentleman haxi undertaken, on the part of Al s. Powys, that a fence should be placed on the left hand side of the road from the English Bridge to Coleham Bridge. On a former occasion, an intima- tion had been gi- t'en to the proprietor ofthe property ( once a timber- yard) near the Welsh Bridge, that he must keep tiie footpath between his property and the river properly fenced, and he ought to have fenced it immediately, as one life bad been lost there. The timber- yard had passed by grant from the Corporation about thirty years ago; the foot- path at that time went through the centre of the yard, and there were covenants in the grant which reserved that old road to the public; if, therefore, this public notice of the circumstance did not operate to indue the proprietor of the property to place a secure fence betweeu the present footpath and the river, an indictment or other legal proceed- ing should be taken for the purpose of opening to the public the old footpath, over which a building bas been erected. Mr Bather noticed the dangerous state of the footpath leading from the English Bridge to St. Mary's I riars; and observed, that if no other party- was liable, the inhabitants of a parish in which a dangerous footpath was situate might be indicted. The Court then entered upon the business of an indictment against Mr. John Watton, for stopping up and diverting an ancient footpath adjacent to fhe Holyhead Road, at Shelton — Mr. Watton pleaded Guilty to the Indictment; and it appeared from the affidavit of Thomas Griffiths, who is employed as a foreman upon that parf ofthe road, that it had be? n in the contemplation of the Commissioners and Surveyor of the Holyhead Road for five years past to alter the line of road at the point in question, in which event a secure footpath will be carried along the road in the line of that which was the subject of the present indictment. It also was stated, that the blame iu the case chiefly rested with the Commis- sioners, who had delayed their proposed alterations aud improvements.-—' The judgmeut of the Court was, therefore, deferred, or. the condition that the d f Mutant should enter into his owu recognizance iu £- 20 to appear at the next Epiphany Session*, and to undertake that in the mean time fie n^ .- v. ce be abated; for which purpose- the Magistrate will personally inspect the footpath.— The prosecutor appeared in Court with several affidavits by respectable inhabitants oY the vicinity, ' tending to shew the dangerous state of the present fbotpxiV, and the Bench stated that these affidavits might be. filed, and they would stand over to abide the result of the proceeding's. The Deputy Recorder stated, that prev: us- itodi the next Sessions the Magistrates would see- ttnvt j fhe nuisance was abated; and it was settled that ; Thomas Kynnersley, Esq. and Joseph Loxdaie, Esq. j should inspect the footpath the first fine Tuesday. The order ofthe . Magistrates for stopping ap tbe footpath leading by the house of John Eieck, Esq. towards Kingsland, was, on the motion of Mr. Bat er, confirmed and enrolled. Wiliiam W \ rhn ley, agt d 13, was convicted of stealing b, idles from a botfle rack on fhe premises of the Rev. J B Blakeway II appeared lhat the unhappy boy was an orphan, and uas out of employ, nit- lil [ he h^ d w. ukcd at a manufactory] iu rouse qucnce of a wo. uisd in his leg ; and be was sentenced to he imprisoned 14 days John Terns was charged with stealing a jack- ass, the prop.- rty of Rowland Rowlands, of Kerry — The prisoner had beeu iu gaol at Montgomery for 10 weeks on this charge, upon which he appeared lo take his trial at Ihe Montgomeryshire Sessions, on Thursday, hut no hill was found against him : he was then brought to Shrewsbury, on thegroiind that the jack ass had been seen in his possession in the Liber- ties of Shrewsbury. The case was gone into, and several witnesses were examined, but their evidence was such, that the case went fo tbe Jury without the prisoner being plated upon his defence, and be was of course immediately acquitted. PICKPOCKET. James Hob- oyd, aged 20, born at Sheffield, was convicted of feloniously stealing from the person of Owen Owens, a pocket book, containing four £ 5 notes and one £ 2 note, ou tbe 14th December last, being Shrewsbury Fair Day. ft appeared, from Ihe evidence of the prosecutor, of Mr. Laurence Parr, of Clive, and of tbe ostler al the Castle Inn, lhat on Ihe 14th December, Owen Owens, who manages the farm of Mrs. Sarah Groome, at Norlhwood, sold a quantify of cheese to Mr. Fnrmstone, of Ellesmere, for which he was paid £ 22 in bank notes as above described — Mr. Fnrmstone paid him at the Coach and Horses lun, and the prosecutor immediately proceeded lo the Castle Inn, the house lie usually put up at;- and where Mrs. Groome's team then was. Owens went info the kitchen of Ihe Castle Inn, and there the prisoner aud a companion were drinking together. The prisoner's confederate sal by Owens, and, pretending to slip down from bis scat, caught at Oweiis's breast, aud thereby was enabled to feel that Owen. s's pocket hi. ok was iu a pocket inside of his waistcoat Owens was not quite sober, and after some time he went lo the door of Ihe inn, in order to step into Mrs. Groome's carl, which another servant of Mrs. Groome's was putting the horses to, in order to go home. While Owens was standing there, Ibe prisoner came, to the door,- arid jostled against him; the prisoper then went into Ibe house again, but shortly returned, with his confederate at his heels: the prisoner then jostled Owens sa as to hold him tight against the door- way, and the confederate instantly lipped open Owcns's waistcoat, thrust in bis bund, extracted the pocket book, and run away ; Ihe prisoner also came into the street, and having thus ascertained that Ins companion was clear off, lie returned into the home ns if nothing wits the matter. Mr Parr, who sat on his hoise by the door, observed Ihe transaction; he did not see any thing in the baud of the thief, but suspecting what hail beeu done, he immediately asked Owens if he hnd " ot lost something; Owens fell for his pocket, bonk, hill il was gone; Mr. Parr said he was sure, from what had taken place, tbe prisoner was a confe. dcrati with Ibe thief who had escaped, and lie was immediately taken into custody.— These were the facts given in evidence ; the Jury immediately found Ihe prisoner Guilty ; and ( lie Court sentenced h. U( j to be transported for 7 years. The prisoner and his companion were strangers, and, Ihere is no doubt, formed a part of one of those gangs, who infesl the various towns at fairs and other public times; and we recommend lo innkeepers and their servants lo keep an eye on file actions of strangers whose manners or conduct are such as to exeilc the least suspicion.— In the present case, the prosecutor bad had so much liquor as to be unable to speak distinctly to what had occurred lo him; he said nothing about the pretended tumble mid conse- quent grab, wInch enabled the thief lo know where to find his plunder; but the ostler, who appeared lo be a keen fellow, and lo have had his eyes about him, spoke lo Ibis part of Ihe case so decisively, and conveyed such an idea of the evident object of the depredators, that this fact formed Ihe strongest pari of the case against Ihe prisoner, of the propriety of whose conviction there cannot be the slightest doubt. quoted 1 he- opinion of Jutlgi B ackfitone, to shew thai any individual might, io case of such nuisances or obstructions^ shale the same at once, hy throning the wall or other obstruction down, so lhat he commuted no riot in effecting h'is object. The Court staled thai every attention should be pai'Ulo tbe case as stated by Ihe prosecutor, and then asked the defendant's attorney what he, on the part of Ihe defendant, Wished lo say. The defendant's attorney, said, ( hat what his client had done— Certainly illegally done— had been under taken in consequence of Ihe avowed intentions, and wilh the sanction, of Ihe Holyhead Road Commis- sioners. He therefore wished for a reasonable delay, iu order to urge the Comm ssioners to carry into effect llieir proposed alterations at ( he point io question, as in that event Ihe public would have a much greater accommodation than the prosecutor sought to obtain for thein. At any rale, he trusted the defendant would be allowed a moderate time, to ascertain what were the Commissioners' intentions. The Court then received Ihe motion and affidavits tendered by Mr. Whallev, having previously slated thai ihe defendant would be allowed till next Sessions to file counter- affidavits. fWStl E next D R AY TON BALL will be M- on tiie 24th of January; Mrs. PETER BHOUGHTON, Mr. JOHN CREWE, • ^ MANAGERS. NEWPORT DANCING AND OAP> D ASSEMBLIES. f jPH E nliove Assemblies are necessarily 0. POSTPONED until THURSDAY, 9th Febru- ary, 1826, and WEDNESDAY, 8th March, 1828. AMBROSE BROOKES, > „, . WILLIAM J ELLICORSE, S ® ten'ar(' s- ^ porting. ( t? THE WEATHER PERMIT.) The Shropshire Hounds meet, on Thursday, Jan. 19th Shawbury Village Saturday, Jan. 21st Twtemlows Monday', Jan. 23d Nesscliff Wednesday, Jan. 25th Hardwick Friday, Jan 27th Tweinlows Saturday, Jan. 28th Condover At half past ten. Mr. Boycott's Hounds meet on Thursday, Jan . ! 9th Moseley Lodge Saturday, Jan. 21st , Badger At half past ten. COAL.— Notwithstanding Shrewsbury is, as it were, situate oil a bed of Coal, the price of that article, during the past week, has been as much as from 22s. to 26s. per ton ;— and for an inferior article, too, brought by land carriage, and with Ibe additional ad vantage of being some hundreds less or more than the weight charged, from the well known accuracy of some of the public Weighing Machines'.— To ihe poor, who buy small quantities by retail, ihe price charged has been slill higher than above mentioned. The statement, which has appeared in n neighbour- ing print, of a man having imposed upon the landlord uf the William Hill's Arms, in this town, by obtaining board and lodging for nothing, is not correct: no such event ever look place al that house. We have heard thai a circumstance of the kind alluded to did take place at another public. house, wilh a more ap- propriate sign— namely, T he Logger- Heads. We are sorry to have to announce that the expecta- tion, generally enlerlained, of the Nantwich Bank being able lo resume payments, is now at an end. A commission of bankrupt has issued. Al the Stafford Sessions on Wednesday, Sir Oswald se'ey. Bail. was unanimously chosen to succecd Sir George Cbelwynd as Chairman. .... nit hill Abbey was expected lo fall •.: . - ; iiwore i* did— th « - plaster and tbe flues of - ei.' umievs kepi fat ing in and sinking. There was u- wards of £ i: t'f) 0 worth uf glass broken. Grove House, Kittgsland. MRS. HEDGES lieosmost respectfully to io- fontff her Friends and the Public, that the Studies at the above SEMINARY will be resumed on Monday, the 23d Instant; when she hopes, by strict Attention lo the Improvement of those intrusted toiler Care, to merit a Share of their Patronage and Support. N. B. Vacancies for Two Parlour Boarders. . dPas^ ismable Sancing. MRS. MERGE HOT and SON present their respectful Thanks to those Friends and the Public who have honoured then) by their Patron- age, and beg to say, the ACADEMY on COLLEGE HILL will re. open on Tuesday, the 241b Instant; when they hope, fry every Attention, to merit a Continuance of their Favours, Rays of Instruction, Tuesdays and Saturdays at 3 o'Cloek.— Private Academy on Tuesday Mornings. Schools and Families attended within Thirty Miles of Shrewsbury. SA3LOP INFIRMARY. HHHE COMMITTEE appointed at a B- General Meeting ofthe Trustees on the 17th Day of November, 1825, to consider the Necessity of giv ing additional Means of Accommodation to the SaLor INFIRMARY, agreeably tn the Power vested in them at that Time to postpone liie Report of their Proceedings beyond the Period then fixed for that Purpose, if" it should be found necessary to do so, respectfully inform the Supporters of'this Institution, that, in Consequence of their Inability lo procure sufficient Information on which to ground their Report before the Spring Assizes, they are compelled to POST- PONE the GENERAL MEETING until WEDNES- DAY IN THE SUMMER ASSIZE WEEK; of w hich further Nutice will be given iu tbe Shrewsbury papers. CLIYE, Chairman. SHREWSBURY, JAM- ART 10TH, 1826. giDt& nal esraranut* School, TH F. REV. JOHN WOOD, MI\. Chaplain to the Earl of SIJSSFIELD, and late Tutor in that Nobleman' » Family, IiEAD- MASTER. HPHFS SCHOOL will HE- OPEN on Monday, January 30th. WESTRURY. TO JPJL 2To m JJoHT, { F. Hundred and Fifty Thousand of ? remarkably fine transplanted I. ARCII, from 3 to 4 Feet. — Apply to Mr. WILLIAM JONES, Shoemaker, Welshpool. This Advertisement will not be repeated. " f MEREDITH respectfully informs his » J » Friends and the Public, that his SCHOOL re- opens on Monday, the 23d Instant. Jan. 9, 1826. SAiOF INI1RMARY, JANOARY 14, 1S26. " l& TOTICE is hereby given, that a SiJE. 1 1 CI A L GENERAL'BOARD of Trustees is appointed by the Directors lo be held at this infirmary, mi TUESDAY, Ihe Twenty- eighth of February next at Twelve o'Clock, to ELECT a MATRON', iu the ROOM of Ihe late Mrs. WILLIAMSON. Any Person intending to offer herselfa Candidal ® for the Place, is desired to send Information thereof, with her Recommendations, to the SECRETARY, hefora Saturday, the Eleventh Day of February, iu Order that the Directors may have'rime to enquire into her Character and Qualifications.— The Salary is £ 30 pep Auuuui. JOHN JONES, Secretary. o At the Weekly Board, held this Day, IT WAS RESOLVED UNANIMOUSLY, That the Interests of this Charity, as well as the Comforts of its Domestic Officers and Servants, are very materially implicated in the Choice of a Person well qualified to fill up the Vacancy in the Office of Matron. That it is highly desirable that none of the Trustees should engage their Vites prior to the Day of Eleclioli when the Testimonials and Qualifications of the rei spective Candidates will be fairly investigated. That all such prior Engagements operate to the Discouragement of those who may he able to produce- Ihe most ample ami satisfactory Testimonials, but happen not to have auy Personal Interest among ihe Trustees; therefore, ihe Board of Directors be^ Leave earnestly to press these important Cousidera. lions on the Trustees at large. That these Resolutions he annexed to the Advertise- ment announcing tire Election of a Mairou for this Infirmary. rp E. JON ES betjs respectfully to inform I • his Friends, that his SCHOOLS for Young Gentlemen and Ladies will re- open, Ihe former on Monday, the 23d, and the latter on Tuesday j the 24th Instant. In T. E. JosES'S Schools Young Gentlemen are instructed in Ihe Classics, Mathematics, Commercial Arithmetic ( including Book- keeping by Single and Double Entry), Geography, Plain and' Ornanientai Writing, kc. Young Ladies in the Rudimmfs of the French Language, Geography with the Use of the Globes, English grammatically," Writing and Arith metio, Plain and Ornamental Needle. Work, Stc. Impediments in Speech and of Defective Utterance removed, and Case, of Amentia treated with Care. Separate Apartments and distinct Tables are appro- priated. Respectable References will he given, if required. CASTI. E TERRACE., SHREWSBURY, 16TH JANUARY, 1826. Trustees of the Salop Infirmary. N Consequence of the Death of Mrs. WILLIAMSON, late Matron to the SALOP INFIRM- ARY, I most respectfully beg Leave to oifo, myself a Candidate for ihe vacant Situation, and if iny Testi- monials of Character and Qualification meet your Approbation, permit me to solicit ihe Favour of your Vote and Interest on the Occasion'.— My present Situ- ation as Nurse in the Institution, which I have held for nearly Eight Years, prevents my having ths Honour of waiting upon the Trustees personally • but should I be so fortunate us to he Eleeietl, 1 pledge myself to perform Ihe Duties of the Appointment with the strictest Zeal nnd Integrity. I have the Honour to lie, Your very obedient humble Servant, JANE CHURCHILL. SALOP INFIRMARY, JAN 17TH, 1826. DARK BjVY MAIiS. TAKEN UP, In Meole Coleham, Shrewsbury, on the 9th Instant, % DARK BAY MA HE, in- foal— Any t\ Person having lost the same, by giving a proper Description, and paying the Expenses to the Cham- berlain of the. Corporation of Shrewsbury, may have fhe Mure again. HI& lMOnr ntEEIB& ILIDo- SHREWSBURY. In our Market, on Saturday last, the price of Hides was 4d. per lb.— Calf Skins 6d.— Tallow 3jd. J. d. s. d. Wheat 9 6 fo 10 5 Bailey 6 9 to 7 3 For" some i'ery prime samples, still higher prices were required. Oats 6 4 fo 7 4 On the whole, there was an evident tendency to advanced prices for Grain of every description. Average Prices of Corn per Quarter, in F. nglana ami Wales, for the week ending Jan. 7, 1825: Wiieat, 60s. Id.; Barley, 37s. 2d.; Oats, 24s. lid. CORN EXCHANGE, JAN. 16. Owing to the dense fog, we had no business trans- acted on our Market this morning, except a few granary samples to needy consumers, at the prices of last Monday ; but the prices of all kinds of Grain are nominally the same as on this day week. In Flour there is little doing, the millers preferring lo hold back-, in the expectation of a continuance of the frost, iu which case a rise in price is inevitable. Current Price of Grain per Quarter, as under : Wheat 50s to 66 » I White Peas.. 54s to 56s Barley 40s lo 42s 1 Beans 44s lo 48s Malt 62s to 66s 1 Oats 30s to 32s Fine Flou.* 55s to 60s per sack ; Seconds 50s lo 55s SMITH FI ELD ( per st. ofSlb sinking opal). Reef. 4s 6d lo 5s Od I Pork 4s 4d to 5 » 4tl Mutton... 4s 6d to 5s Od I Veal 4s 8d lo 5s 6d Lamb .. 0s Oil to 0s Od BRISTOL. Sprinig price of Wheat, per sack of s. d. s. '!• 33libs 00 0 to 00 0 Foreign Wheat per bush, of 8 gall.... 6 9 to 7 3 English Wheat, ditto. 8 0 to 8 6 Mailing Barley, ditto 4 9 to 5 6 Mall, ditto 7 6 tn 8 3 Flour, Fine, per sack of- 2c. 2q. 51bs... 54 0 to 00 0 Seconds ditto 49 0 lu 00 0 Oats, Old, per 8 gall 3 0 to 3 3 L1VEH POOL. GREAT WOLLASTON SCHOOL. fLjr JONES respectfully acquaints his M • Friends and the Public, that his SCHOOL will re- open on Monday next, Jan. 23d, 1826. l. USH BURY. FE WTR EL L's ACADEMY, for You th of both Sexes, w ill re- open on Monday, the 23d Instant; at which the Health and Morals ofthe Children are particularly attended to. A Quarter's Notice is required before it Pupil is removed. ARTIFICIAL TEETH. MT?. LEVASON, STJRGBON- DENTIST, A NN OUNCES to the Gentry of SHREWS BURY and its Vicinity, that he shall in future attend this Town Monthly,', and may, till the 24lh Instant, lie consulted in ' all Cases ' relative fo his Profession, at Mr. ROGERS'S, Grocer and Tea Dealer, Market Street ( opposite the Talbot). Those who have honoured him with their Patronage, have found his Mode of Practice both safe and efficacious. His Method of fixing Natural and Artificial Teelh, will he found superior lo most and equal to any now in Use, being worn with Ease, and answering the Purposes of Mastication, Articulation, & c. Anonymous and unpaid Letters not attended to. PRIDE- HILL. have HANMER AND GITTTNS OST respectfully beg; Leave to acquaint their Friends nnd the Public, that they COMMENCED SELLING OFF Ihe RE- MAINING PART of their WINTER STOCK at COST PRICE, consisting of ail Kinds of Furs, Ladies* Cloths, Gros de Naples, Norwich Crapes, Bombazines, Stuffs, Prints, Cloth and Worsted Shawls nnd Dark Silk Shawls, Cloaks, lined Gloves, Welsh Hose, Flannels, Stc. & e. ( dr* II. &. G. have on Hand an excellent Assortment of Irish Linens, Lawns, Diapers, Muslins, Luce, and Hosiery of every Description, which they offer at such Prices that Ihey feel assured will give Satisfaction. JAN. 18, 1826. MONTGOMERY GAQJL. ANTED, at Mont^ ome- y Gaol, single active Man, to act as TURNKEY, wh « will have Board and Lodging iu the Gaol. Also, nn active Man, to reside in the Town, and superintend the Working of the Prisoners confined IU Ihe Gaol and House of Correction for Hard Labour. Recommendations for Steadiness and Sobriety to he sent lo Mr ALLEN, Montgomery; and Personi com- petent for the Situations ore to afiend the Visiting- Justices, at the Dragon Inn there, at Eleven o'clock on Thursday, the 2< l of February. \ LL PER SONS to whom Mr. E. M. KIRKPATRICK, late of WHITCHIIHCU, io ih « County of Salop, Surgeon, deceased, stood indebted, are desired to deliver an Account of their respective Demands to Mr. ANDREW BEACAI. L, of Whitchurch, Surgeon : and those Persons who are indebted to Mr. Kirltpatriek's Estate, are desired to pay such Debts to Mr. Reaeall, without Delay. WHITCHURCH, JANUARY 16, 1826. RfOTICJEI. ALL Persons to whom the late OWEN" ROBERTS, of WEM, in the County of Salop, Esquire, stood indebted nt the Time of his Decease, are desired immediately to forward Particulars of their respective Demands to JOHN WALFORD, of Wem aforesaid, his Sole Executor : Aud all Persons in. debted to the said Owen Roberta are requested forth, with to pay the Amount of their respective Debts to Ihe said John Walford. WEM, 17TH JANUARY, 1826. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. Wheat Barley Oats........ Malt... Fine Flour ..- 8s. 5s. 3s. 8s. 50s 9d. Od. 3d. ( Id. Od. fld. per 70lhs. 6d. per601 lis. 6d. per 451 bs. Od; per36qts. to 53s. 0cl. per28l) ibs 9s. 6 « . 3s. 9s. The Sessions having been adjourned to yesterday, Mr. Whalley, I lie prosecutor of the indictment against Mr. Walton, then appeared to file affidavits, and lo make a motion, on Ihe subject of lhat indiclmeut.— The depositions of Samuel Hailey, Esq. Mr. Charles Nicliolls, Mr. W. Turner, Mr. Thornton, Mr. Boyce, Mr. T. Jobson, & c. as to Ihe obstruction and slopping up of ihe ancient footpath by Mr. Walton, and the dangerous slate of the present footpath, were sworn to hy those gentlemen; and Mr. Whalley moved, that llie Magistrates would issue their precept lo the pro- per officer to abate Ihe nuisance by removing Ihe obstructions placed across Ihe ancient footpath.— The prosecutor filed the cases of The King against W. aiid J. Stead, Hilary Term, 3< Hh Geo III. and of The King against Pappinean, Hilary Term, 12th Geo. II. to shew lhat ill his opinion the nuisance in the present case ought to be abated by the demolition or taking down vf the wall built across the footpath,— Ke also FAIRS TO BE HOLDF. N. Jan. 18, ( this day), Oswestry— 19, Wrexham— 25, Madeley, Wheelock- 27, Lostock- 28, Llangollen. At our Fair, on Tuesday and Wednesday last, Fal Sheep sold at from 6jd. to 6fd. per lb. Fal Pigs 5j< l. lo 6tl. aod Stores al about Ihe prices of the preceding Fair. Fal Callle brought 6U1. per lb. and Stores sold tolerably well. Owing lo the roads in several parts of Wales, "& c. being impassable from Ihe snow, the sup ply of Butter was very small, and, for the most part, of indifferent quality; lumps 10( 1 to 10 § d. tubs lO^ d. tollfd. peril).— Best Cheese ( wbich was a drug) sold at 60s. to 66s. per cwt and inferior in proportion. Hams Sd. to 9d. and Bacon 7d. lo Sd. per Ih. PRESTON HORSE FAIR.— Our great annual horse fair, which has been held here Ibis week, brought to. gelher a great number of the most respectable breed ers and dealers from all parts of ihe Kingdom. Hors- es of a superior description were scarce, aud ihose sold at the early pari of Ihe week fetched high prices— those ofa middling description, suitable for ihe road, could only be got clear of at a very considerable reduction from former prices. Many for which five and thirty pounds had been offered on Monday ( and perhaps little more I ban lhat sum asked al Ihe lime), the breeders were glad lo sell, on Wednesday, full 30 per cent lower; nod a considerable reduction in the prices look place earl) day. Two year olds, which showed promise of making" useful horses, were very eagerly bought at high prices. The scarcity of money, and the general refusal of breeders to lake local paper, have been the principal causes of so great a depression in Ihe value cf slock at this fair.— Preston Pilot of Jan, 7. mm AND COMMERCIAL HOTEL, Market- Place, Shrewsbury. EDWA RD O LIVER RESPECTFULLY acquaints the Nobility, Gentry, nnd Commercial Gentlemen who have heretofore patronized the, above Inn, as well as his ow n Friends and the Public generally, that he has entered upon Ihe same, and has made such Alterations and Improvements iu the Interior of the House, in Paint- ing, Papering, Furnishing, & c. as will conduce to render it one of the most comfortable and convenient as it is the most centrical Inn in Ihe Town. E. O. flatters himself, by unremitting Attention to their Wishes, by keeping a good STOCK of the choicest WINES and SPIRITS, good and well- aired BEDS, convenient Stabling, Coach. House, & o. he shall deserve and obtain the Patronage of the former Friends of the House, tbe Commercial Gentlemen, and the Public generally. JAN. 11, 1826. The total alteration in the Standard Measures of Capacity to be used throughout the Kingdom, induces us lo call tbe attention of our Readers lo the several tables and calculations published by Mr. Gnlteridgc, which will be found advertised in another column. SHIfFHAL. JANUARY 10TH, 1826. ISAAC TAYLOR OST respectfully informs his Friends and the Public, that his HOUSE- WARMING is fixed for FRIDAY', the3d ol February. PRESIDENTS, THE HON. THOMAS KENYON, J. MYTTON, ESQ. J. COTES, ESQ. T. WH1TMORE, ESQ. M. P. R. MOUNTFORD, ESQ. G. BISHTON, ESQ. Tickets, including Dinner, Wine, and Dessert, One Guinea each, to be had at the Bar of the JERNINCIIAM ARMS; nt the Lion, and Raven, Shrews- bury ; and at Hay- Gate. WHEREAS HUGH EVANS, of LLANIDLOES, in the County of Montgomery, Flannel Draper, hath, by Deed of Assignment bear, ing Date the 31st Day of December last, conveyed anil assigned all his Estate and Effects unto DAVID DA- VIES, of Llanidloes aforesaid, Currier, and RICHARH LEWIS, of the same Place, Mercer, IN TRUST for the equal Benefit of such ofthe Creditors ofthe said Hugh Evans who shall execute the said Deed on or before the first Day of March next: NOTICE is therefore hereby given, that such Deed now lies at the Office of Mr. T. E. MARSH, iu Llanidloes, for Execution by all such of the Creditors who may choose t- j avail them.- selves of the Benefit thereof. LLANIDLOES, JAN. 3, 1826. nnHE Commissioners named in a renewed Commission of Bankrupt awarded and issued, ag- ainst JOHN JONES, formerly of MALLWYD, in the County of Merioneth, Tanner, Dealer aud Chapman, a Bankrupt, aud late Copartner with DAVID JONES, formerly of MATHRAFAL, iu the County of Mont- gomery, and afterwards of Machynlleth, in the same County, Timber Merchant, Dealer and Chapman*, also a Bankrupt, in the Business of buying and selling- Timber, which latter Business was carried o » at Mathrafal, Machynlleth, and Mallwyd aforesaid, intend to MEET on the Twenty- sixth Day of January, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty- six, afc Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon, at the Oak Inn, iu Pool, in the said County of Monto- omery, in Order t » receive Proofs of Debts as well against the joint E& t. ite of the said Bankrupts as ayainst tbe appnroJe Estate of the said John Jones, under the said separate renewed Commission against the said John Jones; when and whereas well the joint Creditors of tire said David Jones and John Jones, as the separate Creditors of tlie said John Jones, who have not already proved their Debts under the said Commission, are to come prepared to prove the same-, and all Claims upon either Estate not then substantiated will he disallowed* B. WOOSNAM, Solicitor. ^ B^ HE Commissioners in a Commission of JL Bankrupt bearing- Dale the 9th Dav of Mar, 18- 21, aw aided and issued forth against VINCENT HAMMOND, late of LUDLOW, in the County « > f Salop, Wine and Brandy Merchant, Dealer and Chapman, intend to MEET on the 31st of January instant, at One in the Afternoon, at the Angel Inn, Ludlow aforesaid, to make a Dividend of the Estate and Effects of the said Bankrupt; when and where the Creditors who have not already proved their Debts are to come prepared to prove the same, or they will be excluded the Benefit of tbe said Dividend : and all Claims not then proved will be disallowed. THE CELEBRATED GREY HORSE, SIR The Property of Mr. WILLIAM BARNRTT, Plough Inn, Wellington, WILL COVER, this Season, at WEL- LINGTON, SHREWSBURY, WENLOCK, and BRIDGNORTH. Thorough- bred Mares, Five Guineas, and a Crown the Groom; Half- bred Mares, Three Guineas, and a Crown the Groom.— Further Particular* will be published in due Time, '' I^ HE Creditors who have proved their I Debts under a Commission of Bankrupt awarded and issued forth against VINCENT HAMMOND, of LUDLOW, in the County of Salop, Wine and Brandy Merchant, Dealer and Chapman, are requested to MEET the Assignees of the said Bankrupt's Estate and Effects, on Tuesday, the 31st Day of January Instant, at Eleven o^ Clock in the Forenoon precisely", at the Angel Inn, in Ludlow aforesaid, to assent to or dissent from the said Assignees commencing, prose- cuting, or defending any Action or Actions at Law, or Suit or Suits in Equity, for the Recovery of any Part ofthe Estate and Effects of the said Bankrupt; or to their compounding, submitting to Arbitration, giving Time to and taking Security from any Debtor or Debtors to the said Bankrupt's Estate, for the Pay- ment of their Debts, or otherwise agreeing to any Matter or Thing relating to the Bankrupt's Estate £ and on other Special Affairs, SALOPIAN JOURNAL* AMP COUBIEM, OIF %- aiejac bv Auction. Household Goods and Furniture. BY MR ™ PERRY, OK the Premises, on Thursday, the 26th Day of January, 1826; fSHHE Whole of the neat and genuine I HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, PLATE, LINEN, BOOKS, and other Property, of the late Mrs. CIJLI. IS, in FRANKWELL, Shrewsbury: consisting of Four- most Bedsteads with Hangings, Feather Beds, Mat- trasses, aud Bed Clothes; Mahogany and other Chests of Drawers, Dressing Tables and Glasses, Bason Stands, nnd other Chamber Articles ; Parlour Chairs. Sofa, Tables, and Pier Glasses; Paintings and Prints ; Bed and Table Linen ; China and Glass ; Ei" bt- dav Clock, Linen Chest, and other Articles appropriate to respectable Families, including some valuahle Books, and a few Articles of Plate. Catalogues mav he had of Mr. PERRY two Days previous.— Sale at Ten, for Eleven exact. CAPITAL Oak ff Ash TIM HE 11 § Underwood. BY MR. PERRY, jrd: Day of January, 1826, at Four o'clock in tbe At the Lion Inn, Shrewsbury, on Saturday, tbe 28ih jj 100a I? « aiii* n^ P. tn Afternoon: bv Unction. Valuable and extensive Dairy Stock of Young Cows, Ileifefs, and Dullsi DAIRY Of CHEESE, ASD CTBNSITSI BY MR. SMITH, On the Premises at l'ORTON, near Montford Bridge, in Ihe County of Salop, oil Mondaiy, the 30th Day of January, 1826; riHHE entire of the superior STOCK of fl COWSt, belonging to Mr. SAMUEL LEE, who is declining his Dairy. Particulars in a future Paper. ® To 6c Set, And entered upon 25th of March next, LARGE GARDEN, near the Town Walls, planted with Fruit Trees of various Descriptions ; Asprct S. S. W. commanding a beauti. ful and extensive View. For further Particulars apply to Mr. HILL, Swan- Hill Court, Shrewsbury. rg^ HE following LOTS of superior OAK, f. ASH, and other TIMBER TREES and HTNDERWOOD, growing in LOSCDEN COPPICE, in the Parish of l'outesbury, in the County of Salop: viz. LOT I. 391 Oak Trees, numbered with White Paint from 1 to 391 ; 2 Elm nnd 2 Ash, numbered 1,2, 3, and 4; 53 Oak and Ash Cyphers; and the Underwood now growing on 22A. 2R. 3IP. being that Part of tbe Coppice which lies North or North- west of the Carriage Road leading through the same io the Farm Homestead of Sir Heury Hflwley, Baronet. LOT II 528 Oak Trees, numbered with While Paint from 1 lo 528; 21 Ash, 2 Elm, and 1 Beech, numbered from I to 24; 275 Oak and Ash Cyphers; and the Underwood now growing on 32A. 3R. SI . being that Part of the Coppice which lies South or South- East of the said Carriage Road.— The Under, wood is of about 20 Years' Growth and of good Quality. Richard Davies or Richard Elkes, of Longden, will shew tlie Timber and Underwood ; and Parti- culars may be bad of Messrs. Li. ovn and How, Solicitors, Shrewsbury, of Mr. PERRY, the Auc- tioneer, and of Mr.' ROBERT OAKLEY, Builder, Shrewsbury. To Innkeepers and Families. fljouseljoUj ^ Furniture & IZSccts. BY MR. SMITH, At the Castle Inn, Castle Foregate, Shrewsbury, on Tuesday, tbe 31st Day of January, and Wednesday, tbe lst of February, 1826 ; ra^ HR entire of the HOUSEHOLD 4 FURNITURE, BREWING UTENSILS and CASKS, and other valuable Effects, belonging to Mis. CROWTHER, who is retiring from Business. Particulars in our next. iic Uet, AND ENTERED UPON AT LADY- DAY NEXT, WVMMJMWM? TRNWRN* WITH TWENTY ACRES OF PASTURE LAND. -—-—- oo • • House consists of an Entrance Mall, M. Dining- and Drawing Rooms, Study, and every requisite Domestic Office, five principal Bed Rooms with Dressing- Rooms, three excellent Rooms for Servants. There is a very good Garden, Co.- jeh house, Cow- house, two 3- sta! Ied Stables, with an excellent Saddle room, with spacious Lofts over. Dorringion House is situated 6 Miles from Shrews, bury on the Stretton and Hereford Road, where the Hereford Mail passes to and from daily. For Particulars apply to W C. CURTIS, Esq Dor. riugton House ; or Mr. COOPER, Solicitor, Salop. TO THE MERCANTILE WORLD. Published this Day, Price Is. Qd. A SET OK TABLES OF THE NEW . Si IMPORT DUTIES, chargeable by tbe Cus- toms ; also, a Table of tbe New. Duties of Customs and Excise ou Spirits distilled iti England, Ireland, and Scotland ; and on Foreign Spirits, Strong Waters, and Foreign Wines; and likewise ou Malt made iu Eng- land, Ireland, and Scotland; commencing from tbe lst and 5th of January, 1826, according to Act of Parliament. London: Published by K NIGI1T aud t AC V, Pater- noster- row, and sold by Leach and Gutteridge, 14, Charles- street, So'ho- square. WALm Shrewsbury, Birmingham, and London FIRST DISTRICT OF ROADS MON TGOMER YS HIR E. IN BY MR. PERRY, At the Lion Inn, Shrewsbury, on Saturday, the 28th of January, 1826, at Five o'Clock in the Afternoon, 1, valuahle OAK. ASH, ELM, and oilier S ( JO TIMBER TREES, and lfitl POLES, * 07 * growing on a Farm called THE HURST, nrar Westbnry, in the following, or such other Lots as tiiay be determined upon at tbe Sale: LOT I. 38 Oak Trees, 95 Ash Ditto, 38 Alder Ditto, 11 Elm Ditto, and 18 Withy Ditto. LOT II. 45 Oak Trees, 140 Ash Ditto, 15 F. lin Ditto, 10 Alder Ditto, 6 Sycamore Ditto, and 89 Withy Ditlo. LOT III. f Coppice. J 184 Oak Trees, 445 Ash Ditto, 41 Elm Ditto, 34 Scotch Fir Ditto, 4 Sycamore Ditto, S Ohesivnt Ditto, 160 Ash Poles. Lots 1 and 2 will be sold together, if more eligible to intending Bidders at the Sale. The Tenant, Mr. HINKS, will shew the respective Lots ; and for further Particulars apply to M r. PERRY Al Market Drayton, Salop. EXTEMBWJE BALE OP Oak Scantling, Coachmakers' and Wheel- wrights' Timber, Foreign und English Oak, Quarter and Flash Boards, Poplar, Ash, Elm, and Withy Ditlo, valuable wide Oak Coffin Boards, Laths, Hurdles, Lancewoad Spars, iSfc, iSfc. the Property of Mr. H. FUR BE 11, who is changing far another Premises ( lo save llie Expense attending the Removal of his extensive Converted StockJ : BY W. CHURTON, Without any Reserve, on Monday and Tuesday, the 23d and 24th Days of January, 1826, each Dav at Ten o'Clock : CloMPPisiNG a large Quantity of Oak J Scantling in Joists, Spars, & c. about One Thou- sand broad and narrow Felloes in Sets, long- and short. Wheelwrights'- Carriage and Gig: Spokes, Waggon aud Cart Sides, Wreaths, Blades and Shafts, Plough Beams, Handles and Feet, with a general Assemblag- e of Wheelwrights'Timber of every Description, Ladder Pins, Elm Coach Naves, Ash and Oak Planks, larg- e Assortment of fine wide Oak Coffin Boards of various Thicknesses, Foreign and English Oak Quarter and Flash Ditto, an Assortment of Poplar, Ash, Elm, and Withy Boards, Oak and Ash Posts and Rails, Oak Gaie Posts, Quantity of Oak Hurdles, about Twenty Thousand Plastering- Laths, Lancevvood Spars,- with a great Assortment of other Timber. N. B. The avove Timber is of excellent Quality, and will be sold in Lots suitable to Purchasers. NOTICE is hereby given, that a SPE- CIAL MEETING of the Trustees of the First District of Roads in Montgomeryshire, will be held at the Bear's Head Inn, at NEWTOWN, on Tuesday, the 31st Day of this Month, at Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon, to take into Consideration the Expediency, on proper Parliamentary Powers being" obtained, of advancing a Sum of Money towards erecting- a Bridge over the Viruiew at Llauvmvnech. * VV. OWEN, Glansevern, J. HAYES LYON, JOHN JENKINS, M. E LLOYD, W. PUGH, WYTHEN JONES, DAVID PUGH. JANUARY 12TH, 182TF. IN SIXTY HOURS, HpH E InhaVita~ 0~ S R E YVSBU RY Ja. and its Vicinity are respectfully informed, that a new FLY- WAGGON, for LONDON, will leaVe MOUNTFOKO'S Yard, DOGI'OLE, SALOP, every WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY EVENING, and rrive nt ihe Castle and Falcon, A'ldersgate Street, LONDON, in 60 Hours. Goods sent per this Waggon will not be afiifted until its Arrival. Performed hy WALLINGTON, WALLIS, CO. At BIRMINGHAM Goods are forwarded, as under, by respectable Carriers :— Worcester Cheltenham Bath Bristol, and all Parts of the West of England Warwick Leamington Banbury Oxford, and all of Berkshire Coventry Leicester Stamford Peterborough Northampton Cambridge, & c. Parts Eye and Ear Dispensary, " ESTABLISHED DECEMBER, 1818. SIKTH REPOET. President— WILLIAM CLUDDE, Esq. Treasurer— JOHN BECK, Esq. Surgeon— G. F. D. EVANS, Esq. COMMITTEE. Rev. J. B. Blakeway J A. LLoyd, Esq. P Corbett, Esq. M. P. E. Hughes, Esq. SALE OF Magnificent Effects. i MR. PERRY " AS the Honour to inform the Nobility nd Gentry of Shropshire and adjoining Coun- ties, that he is authorised to SELL BY AUCTION, on the 31st of JANUARY Instant, nnd Isi of FEBRUARY, iu tbe " spacious Rooms ni the LION INN, Shrewsbury, A MAGNIFICENT SERVICE OF PLATE, MOSTLY of the beautiful old Chased, USEFUL AS WELL AS ORNAMENTAL; consisting of a superbly Chased Break- fast Service, with every Requisite; complete Set of Gadroon Meat Dishes ; Knives, Forks, and Spoons, chiefly King's Pattern; large and small Waiters; richly Chased Bread Basket; Soup Tureen, elegantly Modelled and Chased as an anlient Galley, presented by Catharine the Great, Empress of Russia, as a Reward for a Naval Victory; Set of Dessert Knives nnd Forks, and a Set of EXTREMELY SUPERB ORIENTAL ACATE- HANDLB DESSERT KNIVES AND FORKS WITH CHASED SILVER GILT BLADES; richly Chased Tan- kards; Candlesticks; Cruet Frame; and several Articles of elegantly Chased and Gill Sideboard plate ; the whole weighing near FOUR THOUSAND OUNCES : a few rich and costly Items of Jewellery, Set with Diamonds, Rubies, and Pearls; GOLD WATCHES ; Specimens of superb PORCELAIN, of the rare old Sevres, nnd Dresden Manufacture; several ANCIENT PARISIAN (.' LOCKS, composed of Or- Molu and Buhl ; Candlesticks, Candelabra, and Girandoles, of the antient Or- Molu; a small Collec- tion of CABINET PICTURES, by the old Masters, mostly Flemish, and Framed in tbe original Carved Oak Frames, imported during tbe Revolution from the DUKE OF ORLEANS' COLLECTION: tbe whole for bona fide Sale, by Direction of Ihe Executors of a Person- age of high Distinction lately deceased. To be viewed on Monday, the 30th, from Eleven till Four — Catalogues lo be bad of Mr. PERRY four Pays previously,— Sale to commence at Eleven, for Twelve to a Minute. UNION ROOMS— THIS DAY, & c. Manufacturer s Stock of Woollen and Linen Drapery, Cotton Goods, Ho- siery, Lnre, Gloves, Yarns, Netting Caps, Artificial Flowers, tj c. BY MR. mi I. BERT, Jn the Union Rooms, Swan Hill, Shrewsbury, on the Evenings of Wednesday, January 18, 1826, and following Evenings; ACONSIGNMKNT of valuable SUPF. RFINE Broad aud Narrow West of England Cloths nnd Kerseymeres, Irish Linens, Printed Cottons, Corduroys, Cotton Counterpanes, Stuffs, & c. Also, a very extensive STOCK of Silk, Colton, Worsted, SEE. Hosiery ; French, Brussels, aud British Lace ; Gloves in every Variety ; Lad es' & Children's Lace and Muslin Caps, Frills, & e.; Lace Shawls aud Veils; Nankeen Habits; Muslins in great Variety : the whole of an elegant, useful, and valuable De- scription, not surpassed by any Stock ever offered on Sale by Public Auction in the Town of Shrewsbury. Sale to comnie'nce at Seven o'Clock each Evening, —' fhe Auction Room is very commodious! v and suit- ably fitted up, warmed by a Stove, and lighted wilh Gas. UKKEBEEMED PlfDGES. BY MR. HULBERT, In the Union Rooms, Swan Hill, Shrewsbury, on Wednesday, the 25th Day of January, 1826, at Two o'Cloek iu the Afternoon, and Six in the Evening-: \ GF. NKRAL Assortment of Unredeemed PROPERTY, pledged with Mr. ROBERT LUCAS, Pawnbroker, Pride Hill, Shrewsbury, from October, T823, to January, 1825: consisting- of about GO Yards < of broad and narrow Woollen Cloths, various Bed Covers, Blankets, Sheets, Tahle Linen, new Silk Wand, kerchiefs, Silk Hats, and a general Assortment of Wearing Apparel, & c. TIMBER. BY MR. BAUGH, At the Bed Lion Inn, Llanymynech, 011 Saturday, January 28lh, 1826, at 5 o'Clock iu the Afternoon, subject toConditions then and there to be produced : JO OAK TREES, 4 Sapling Ditto, 32 ELMS, 5 ZLf) POPLARS, 10 BEECHES, 14SYCAMORES, 8 LARCHES, Si 20 FIRS ; all Scribe- marked, and growing ot LLWYN YGIIOES, near Llauyniy- nech, within One Mile of the Ellesmere Canal, and elose to the navigable River Virniwy. For further Particulars enquire at Llwynygroes, wliere a Servant will shew the frees 3 or el ftlr. LLOYD, Builder, Llanjnijii « * h, STUD OF HUNTERS, USED WITH The Montgomeryshire Fox Hounds. BY MR. T. HOWELL, On Tuesday, the 31st Day of January, 1826, at One o'Clock in the Afternoon, in the Stable Yard al the Oak lnil, Welsh Pool ( to and from which Place there are daily Coaches to Ludlow, Shrewsbury, and Chester, all of which arrive in the Evening, and leave early in tbe Morning) ; rpi\ E TEN HORSES used with the M. Montgomeryshire Fox Hounds, aud the Property of Mr. JONES, of Maesmawr. 1. DUN GELDING, I4| Hands high, 6 Years old, bred by Mr. Richard Owen, of Castle Caereinion, near Welsh Pool, and got by Underbill's Alexander, Dam a thorough- bred Daughter of Old Revenge ( Son ofMarskeand Figurante by Regulus). This Horse, though low and small in Size, is of great Value and surprising Game, having carried, aud always in his Place, old Mr Jones, of Cwm- breeth, ( who rides at least 16 Stone,) 3 Days a Week, in the last nnd present Season, for several Weeks successively, up and down the Welsh Hills, and in the last 4 Days was up at the Death of 4 Foxes, not one of which was killed without severe Running for H Hour. 2. BLACK MARE-, 16 Hands, 7 Years old, bred by Mr. Whitfield, of Llansainttfraid, and got hy Meli- boeus, Dam by Old Caucus ( Son of Diomede nnd Grace by Snap). This Mare lived through the severe Chase of Thursday, the 8th of January, 1824, and carried Mr. Whitfield home afterwards, without any Refreshment, though he rides 16 Stone. 3. CHESNUT GRLDING, 15| Hands, 6 Years old, bred by Mr. Richard Bratton, of Burgedin, near GuiInfield, out of a well bred Mare covered by Mark Anthony and Driver. Has never been out when a Fox was found, but is active and of a good Constitu- tion, and goes well in a plain Snaffle. 4. GREY GELDING, 15 Hands, 7 Years old, bred by Mr, Downes, of The Argoed, near Oswestry, and got by Brother to Stamford, ( Sou of Sir Peter aud Horatia by Eclipse,) Dam by Vermin, ( Son of High- flyer and Rosebud by Snap,) Grandam by Smoker, ( Son of Pilot and Heron by King Herod). This Horse goes, and can hold to, a Racing Pace ; and last Season carried Mr. Downes ( about 17 Stone) through that Chase with Sir B. Graham's Hounds, from near Hals- ton over the Welsh Hills ( when several good Horses were killed), and lived well through it, and carried Mr. Downes safe home, though a free and straight- forward Rider. 5. BROWN BAY HORSE, 16| Hands, 9 Years old, bred bv John Dodson, Esq of Ctessage, and got by Lutwyehe, Dam by King Fergus, Grandam by Old Revenge, Great Grandam by Snap. This is a fine formed Horse, aud last Season carried the Whip- per- in through a severe Chase of 7 Hours, having changed to 3 different Foxes, with only one short Check, over the Montgomeryshire and Denbighshire Hills, and carried his Rider home ( 15 Miles) after wards, in good Spirits, aud quite ready again in 3 Days. 6. BAY MARE, 15 Hands, 10 Years old, bred by Robert Perrott, Esq. of Bronhyddan, aud got by Old Tickle Toby, Dam by OI< l Revenge, Grandam by Old Regulus. This Mare has been out only once this Season when Game was found, which was in October, but she took several Brushes last Year, when the Property of Thomas Prickard, Esq. 7. B/ vY MARE, 15 Hands, 6 Years old, carries 16 Stone, stout and straight- forward. Bought of Thomas Thornes, Esq. of Alherbury. 8. BLACK GELDING,' 16 Hands, 7 Years old, bred by Mr. Asterley, of Pentreheylin, near Llaiiy inynech, and got by a travelling Yorkshire Horse, out of the Vermin Mare, Dam of the late Hon Mr. Trevor's Lady Jane. This Horse is straight- forward and tough, and when 4 Years old lived through that severe Chase, with ille Montgomeryshire Hounds, from Corndon Hill almost to Knighton, and hack t « > (' lun, where they killed their Fox ( about 30 Miles, and eventually one Horse died and others were much injured), and brought his Rider safe home ( 22 Miles) to Welsh Pool that Evening, after going to the Ground in. the Morning 12 Miles. 9. BROWN GELDING, 16 Hands, 9 Years old, bred by Mr. Powell, of Bishop's Castle, and got by Candidate ( Son of Sir Oliver & Overlina by Overton), Dam an excellent Hunting Mare, out of a Daughter of Old Snap. This Horse, on Thursday, the 8th of January, 1824, before- mentioned, was mounted by the Whipper- in at 4 o'Clock in the Morning, and ridden 14 Miles to Covert, and ca- v^ ied him well, without one Fall, through a Chase of aill* east 60 Miles, and Home again 27 Miles, by the Turnp^ e Road, hy Eleven that Night ( full 100 Miles in all)|; withont receiving the least Refreshment, and was quitevplayful again in 3 Days, though he had carried hi*. Owner on the pre- ceding Monday, the 5th, through a'. Chase of one. continued Burst of at least 12 Miles, and about 6 more of cold Hunting. He is Master of 17 Stone, the Weight of Mr. Powell ( who bred him), who once rode him 18 Hours, and much of that Time at full Speed, in driving the Hill Ponies off'Clun Forest for the Earl of Powis, and it was the next Day that the present Owner saw him looking quite fresh and bought him. 10. GREY GELDING, 16. Hands, 9 Years old, bred by Mr". Jones, the Saddler, in Shrewsbury, and got by Lutwyehe, Dam by Acton Burnell Regulus, Grandam by Minister, Great- Grandam by Snap. This was the first Horse his Owner bought to follow Fox Hounds, and for 2 Years went through the har- assing Service of breaking in young Hounds, and was a chief Mean of bringing the Montgomeryshire Hounds to kill 54 Foxes out of 63 found last Season. Also, a CHESNUT GELDING, 16 Hands, (> Years old, got by Old Warwick. This is a good- tempered strong Horse, but untried. N. B. All the above Horses have been kept, from the Time they came into the Possession of the present Owner, both Summer and Winter cxactly alike^ with out taitiny. auy Greoa F » td. R. Burton, Esq. E. Cludde, Esq. R Phayre, Esq. Rev. E. Williams Thomas Lloyd, Esq. 4T a MEETING of the COMMITTEE, held at the Guildhall, Shrewsbury, on Monday, the 9th Day of January, 1826;— Present, RICHARD 1* 11 AY RE, Esq. THOMAS LLOYD, Esq. and EDWARD CI. UDDB, Esq.: The Reports of tbe Surgeon and of the Treasurer having been read and approved ; RESOLVED— I. That the Surgeon's Report of all tbe Cases which have come under his Inspection, from the 24th De- cember, 1824, to the 24th December, 1825, together with the Treasurer's Report of the Receipts and Dis- bursements, be printed under the Direction of the Committee, and sent to each of the Subscribers. II. That these Resolutions be inserted in each of the Shrewsbury Papers, together with the Surgeon's Report. RD. PHAYRE, Chairman. IN THE PRESS, • And will shortly be Published, For Schools, without Tables, Price 5s. and with Tables, for Practical Purposes, Price 10s. NEW SYSTEM OF BREWERY AND DISTILLERY STEREOMETRY. BY MR. GUTTERIDGE, Author of a New Set of Tables of Weights and Mea- sures, & c. Directly recommended to the Lords of the Treasury by his Majesty's Commissioners of Weights and Mca- ures, for its peculiar Brevity, Simplicity, and Ac- curacy. • Adapted to the Use of Schools. Loudon • Printing for KNIGHT & LACEY, Pater- noster- row. Who have this Day published, Price 2s. 6d. A NEW EQUALIZING COPPER- PLATE DIA- GRAM, with Precepts, by T. HOBLYN, Esq. for Wine and Spirit Merchants. Which, together with the PATENT IMPERIAL ROD, Price 30s. and DIP- RODS, for Coopers, Brewers, and Wine and Spirit Merchants, of Four and Five Feet, at 8s. and 10s. respectively, may be had, Wholesale aud Retail, of KNIGHT & LACK^, Paternoster- row"; and sold also by Leach and Gutteridge, 14, Charles. street, Sohd- square. SURGEON'S REPORT. Total Number of Patients Admitted and Discharged, from the Opening of the Institution : Admitted 1187 Discharged 1125 including 42 Patients cured of Blindness from Cata ractx, amongst whom were 6 Blind from Birth, and cured of Blindness by Operations. Patients remaining under Care from tbe last Report 48 Patients admitted since tbe last Report of Dec. 24, 1824, to Dec. 24, 1825 181 229 Cured and Relieved Absented themselves Incurable Remain under Care 163 2 2 62 229 Cured and Relieved, as under the following Heads : — Acute Inflammation 24 Acute Inflammation, accompanied with Purulent Discbarge 5 Acute Inflammation, with Ulceration of the Cornea 25 Amaurosis 4 Chronic Inflammation, with Vascular Cor- nea 7 Cataract 4 Contracted Pupil . ... 1 Diseases of the Lachrymal Passages. 1 Opacity of ibe Cornea 22 Ophthalmia Tarsi 25 Pustular Ophthalmia 17 Staphyloma 2 Strumous Ophthalmia 0 Trichiasis ... I Diseases of ibe Ear 16 163 G. F. D. EVANS, Surgeon. SECOND EDITIONS. Total Alteration in Measures through- out the United Kingdom. Weight and Measure O ffice pro tempore fo; Middlesex, 14, Charles- street, Soho- square THE AUTHORIZED TABLES 0F the CONSERVATOR of WEIGHTS and MEA SURES for the COUNTY of MIDDLESEX ( W GUTTERIDGE), Calculator of Imperial Tables lo tin City of London, are this Day published by KNIGHT nnd LACEY, Paternosler- row. They me as follows lst.— BOOKS. Quantity Equalization Tables for the Breweries England and Ireland, 2s. Ditto for Wine and Spirit Merchants of England, 2s Ditto for Wine and Spirit Merchants of Ireland, 2s. Ditto for Corn und Malt Dealers, & c. of England Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, 2s. 2d._ BOARDS - To hang up in Counting Houses, Shops, Bars of Inns, 4 For Wine and Spirit Dealers of England; one for Quantity, 2s.— One for Price, 4s.— One Ditto for Price, on a limited Scale, 2s. For Maltsters, Com Dealers, and Agriculturists of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wules : one fo Price, 4s.— Oue for Quantity, 2s. For tbe Irish Wine and Spirit Merchants: one fu Quantity, and one for Price, eacli 2s. For Magistrates, Com Dealers, and Agriculturists, i all Paris of England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales Jersey, and Guernsey, where Bushels and CuhAt are used, which differ from the Standard Bushel 2s. 6d. For Magistrates, Corn- Dealers, & c. in Wales, for all Ihe Welsh local Measures in particular, 2s. For Magistrates, Coro- Dealers, & c in Scotland, for the Scotch local Measures iu particular. Is. 3d. For the Standard Firlot, and tbe other Firlot of Lin lithgow, in Scotland, each Is. For all Persons using tbe local Bushels of 10 Gallons, and 9 Gallons, in different Counties of England, & c. each 2s. For Persons using the Jersey and Guernsey Gullon and Pot, 2s. 6d. For Brewers of the United Kingdom, one for Quan- tity, and one for Excise Duty, each 2s. Lithographic Figures and Dimensions of all Measures, Heap and Strike, 5s. Ditto of all Casks, as dccidcd by the Brewers and Coopers of London, 2s. 6d. 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In 1 large Volume, 8vo closely primed, with upwards of 800 Engravings on Wood, Price £ 2. 10s Boards. An ENCYCLOPAEDIA of GARDENING. Third Edition, in 1 large Volume, 8vo. elosely printed, with upwards of Seven Hundred Eugravings ou Wood, £ 2 Boards. MARRIED. On Wednesday last, at Bala, in the county of Merioneth, the Rev. J. Breeze, of Liverpool, to Miss Williams, of tbe former place. DIED. On tbe Stli inst. much lamented, Mrs. Thornely, wife of Mr. A. W. Thornely, Wrexham. At Denbigh, Marin, the wife of Mr. Richard Ro- berts, of the Bull Inn, Lately, at Manchester, John Walker, Esq. of Ru- thin. On the Sth inst. in Everett- street, Russell- square, London, Captain Charles Adams, It. N. youngest son of John Adams, Esq. late of Pelerwdll, in the county of Cardigan. Report says, that Viscount Dudley and Ward has purchased Ihe Crogen Estate, Merionethshire. Sir Edward Mostyn, Burt, kindly ordered two oxen, and a large quantity of blankets and warm clothing, to be distributed to the poor families iu ihe neighbour- hood of Talacre, on Wednesday last. Obstacles which it would be difficult for us to explain within a reasonable compass, bnt which may be readily conceived by the monied and mer- cantile portion of the public, have prevented the arrangement of affairs in either of the banking concerns in this neighbourhood, which are now unhappily suspended, so as to enable the parties to furnish , the public this week with any explicit proposition for future, payments. We have, how- ever, received information from respectable quarters, that the. concern of Gibbinsand Eaton is fully equal to pay 20s. in the pound, provided their affairs be wound up under a Trust, a measure which appears to be, decidedly popular among their creditors.— Cambrian, Swansea Paper. At the Glamorgan Quarter Sessions, on Wednes- day last, Eleanor Williams, widow, was tried and convicted of having procured a quantity of counter- feit coin, with intent to put the same into circula- tion, and was sentenced to eighteen calendar months' imprisonment in the gaol at Cardiff. CAUTION AGAINST FURIOUS RIDING.— The King on the prosecution of. Samuel Evans against David Erans, William Gibby, and Morris Gibby, T) overs. — The defendants were indicted at the November Quarter Sessions for a riot and assault; but they traversed tbe indictment, and it was triad at Car- marthen last Thursday. From the evidence on the part of the prosecution, it appeared that the defend ants, who reside in Pembrokeshire, in returning from Newcastle fair, in June last, were riding three abreast through a narrow road, so furiously as to endanger the lives of his Majesty's subjects. Four children were playing in the road, three of whom seeing the defendants ride at such a rate, escaped out of their way: but a poor woman, in endeavour- ing to rescue the fourth from such' imminent peril, was knocked down. A little further on they over- took the prosecutor, who was on foot: his wife and daughter were a little way before him, On horse, back ; aud judging them to be in Treat danger, he seized the bridle of David Evans's horse, and in- sisted, by virtue of his authority as a Surveyor of the High- road, on his going with him before a Magistrate. David, not relishing to be stopped in his racing career, peremptorily commanded Samuel to let go the bridle; but Samuel's wife and daughter were in danger, and he retained bis grasp until he was forced to let David's horse loose from the repeated blows he received from David's stick. Pursuing his way home, the prosecutor overtook To all Persons connected wiih the Revenue Department. ESSRS. KN 1GHT& LACEY ( Pub- Ushers of GCTTERIDGE'S Tables) respectfully apprise the Public, that, in Consequence of frequent Applications for Mr. GUTTKRIDGE'S PATENT IMPE- RIAL ROD, and also for his Rod for Constructing and Gnaging Casks, they have obtained a Supply, and are now prepared to execute any Orders they may be favoured with. 55, Pateinosier- mu\ Jan. 2% 1826. LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 33, Brtdge. sireet, Blackfriars, London. DIRECTORS: William Peatt Lilt, Esq. Chairman. John Wells, Esq. M. P. Deputy Chairman. 1. Richd. Coswav, Esq. [ Major Moody, Royal En- WI James Colqithuiiii, Esq. James Colviu, Esq, Cnpt. J. W D Duiulas, R N. Jus. Farqubar, Esq. M. P. Thomas Harrison, Esq. Geo. Ilenrv Hooper, Esq. John Kirkland, Esq. giueers. Sir F. Ommanney, M. P. Thomas Solly, Esq. A. Stewart, Esq. John Wilson, Esq. W. Whitmore, jun. Esq. William Wilsou, Esq. Solicitor— T. Haddan, Esq. Actuary, Mr. J. M. Rainbow. niE ADVANTAGES OF THIS IS- OFFICE, among others, are — 1. A Participation in Two- Thirds of the Profits. 2. Permission to pass lo Continental Ports between Brest and tbe Elbe inclusive. 3. Parties ( including Officers of the Army, Navv, East India Company and Merchant Service) Jmay be assured to reside in or proceed lo all Paris of the World, at Premiums calcu- lated on real Data. 4. Claims to be paid within Three Mouths, and the Directors are empowered to settle Differences bv Arbitration, 5. Tbe Assured may dispose of their Policies to tbe Company. No Charge out for Policy Stamps. The Prospectus, Tables of Rates, & c. lo be had at llie OfHce, in Loudon, or of the undermentioned Agent. T. G. CONY ERS, Secretary. OSWESTRY Mr. EDWARD PUGH. David and his companions at the declivity of a hill, waiting for him. They fell again on poor Samuel, and David conceiving that he could not belabour him enough with the stick which he had use before, received from William Gibby a whip with a brass nob on the top of it, with which be fell to work on poor S. unuel's head, and so wounded and ill- treated him, that he was completely stupified, and in danger of his mortal life. It appeared, however, that Morris Gibby had no hand in tbe assaulting of Samuel, but be was one of the rioters, and so the jury thought, for they brought in their verdict of guilty against the three for the riot, against David ''. vans and William Gibby of the assault, and acquitted Morris Gibby. The Court, after a very impressive charge from the Chairman, J. Jones, Esq. M. P. sentenced Morris to seven days' imprisonment, and to pay a fine of 40s. for the riot; and the two other defendants, David Evans and William Gibby, to 14 days' imprisonment, and to pay a 6ne of ten pounds each. fitiscflLuu- oiis SntdHgcncf. AU Lotteries being then prohibited BIT ACT OF PARLIAMENT. J. & J. Sivevvriuht, THE CONTRACTORS, ESPECTFULLY remind the Public, that this only Mode by which any Person may now speedily obtain A large Fortune for a few Pounds, Must very soon pass away forever. IN FORMING THIS, THEIR FIBJAIJ SCHEIE, J. & J. SIVKWRIGHT have been not only studious to retain all the approved Points of late Lotteries, many of which were first adopted by themselves, but to meet the Desire of Corresponde nls, they have introduced Six Prizes of ^ 20,000 ! & c. & c form'iig an Aggregate of A Quiivter of a All to be decided in One Day, littii Sterling-! w EDNESDAY, I st MARCH. Tickcts and Shares arc selling bv J. SC J. SHIP- WRIGHT, the Contractors, at their fortunate Offices, No. 37, Cornhill ; 11, Holborn, and 38, Iluyinarke^ London, where they sold 12,478, a Prize of £ 30,000! 3,613, a Prize of £- 21,055! Besides other Capitals in the last aud late Lotteries. Tickets and Shares are also selling by the following Agents : — JOHN WATTON, Chronicle Office, Shrewsbury ; J. BUTTERWORTH, Bookseller, Uigb Street," Bir- niiijrhatB. LIVERPOOL AND BIRMINGHAM R\ JL- ROAD.— At a meeting of the Commissioners of the Wirra! Turnpike- Roads, held on Thursday last, they formally declared their Opposition to the above undertaking. - The Commissioners of t* ie Chester and Whitchurch Turnpike Road, at a recent meet- ing, came to a similar determination. At a tneeliug of the owners and occupiers of land on the Cheshire line, held at Chester last week, it was resolved to oppose tbe Bill fur the Birmingham and Liverpool Railway, iu every stage of its progress. Tbe Bath City Bank of Messrs. Smith, Mogcr, and Evans has rc. opened.— The Mclksham Bank, Messrs. Moule, Son aud Co. have also resumed payment. A meeting of the Creditors of Messrs. Garrett and Sou, of Hereford, took place at the Black Swan, in that city, on Friday week, when Mr. G. Garrett, of London, pledged himself for Messrs. G. arid Sou, that every holder of their notes should receive 20s. in the pound; 10s. to be paid on the 25th of March, 6s. on the lst of July, and the remaining 5s. within twelvemonths. The Chairman expressed his hope, that if such would be the case, all idea of Bank- ruptcy would be abandoned. fCr'es of " Aro Bankruptcy !" J An animated discussiou then took place, when it was finally resolved, that, in conse- quence of the great confidence and faith which the Creditors of Messrs. G. and Sou at large have in them, that a letter of licence, for a period of twelve months, should be given them by all the Creditors, to enable them to pay the instalments as above mentioned. A female, about 35 years of age, has been levying contributions upon several benevolent individuals in St. John's and neighbourhood, by pretending, to be the widow of a shoemaker, who she said was drowned at the early part of the week iu the Severn, and strengthening her claims to their charity by appearing to them apparently in the last stage of pregnancy. The dissembler, with tears in her eyes, and seemingly at the very climax of distress, went last night with the same tale into th tap room of the Rising Sun, in Cripplegate, but some shrewd mortals there, suspecting her to be an impostor, a search was determined on, and after a rather severe labour, her accouchement was effected of— li. v petti- coals and a large bundl of rags.'— Worcester Herald, January 13. CHESTER SESSIONS.— George Wood was indicted for an assault oil William Sanderson, the nnder- keeper of Mr. Simpson, of Molton Hall, on Sunday, the 27th of November last. - The prisoner was dis- covered beating fhe bushes for game, and accom- panied by a greyhound, and when the prosecutor accosted him for the purpose of obtaining his name, he beat and abused him without mercy. Th « jurv found the prisoner guilty, at, d the Court sentenced him to be imprisoned for three calendar-. months, and at the expiration of that tirae to find two sure- ties in £ 10 each, and himself in £ 20, to be of good behaviour for the space of nine months, and to be further imprisoned until such securities be entered into. Joseph Wright, a man in the service of Mr. Wm. Jellieoe, of Weston- under- l. iifji'rd, was tried at the late Stafford Sessions for stealing a bag, aad about a bushel of malt, from bis master on the 29th Nov. last. The case was clearly made out against the prisoner, and amongst other witnesses adduced to support the charge, was his own father, to whom he had taken ( llio'as he stated without bis privity) tbe malt on the evening of tbe robbery. Tbe evidence went to prove, that on the 26th November last, the prisoner was employed to grind malt, and Mr. Jellicoe entertaining suspicions not favourable to the prisoner, appointed a person to post himself at a convenient place in the fold- yard and watch his motions. In the course of the evening the prisoner took the bag and malt, laid in the indictment, to a stable at some distance, a. id contrived the same night to convey it to his father's, about two miles from his master's, where it . vas found by the consta- ble the next morning. The prisouer received a good character from his master's son, who conducted the prosecution, and in consequence .' seaped with the very mild punishsseat gf t> yg> awatlis' imprisoaiasut. STAFFORD SESSIONS. UNPARALLELED BARBARITY OF POACHERS, Wiliam Thomas, alias John Emery, alias William Barnes, and Robert Wood, two yo'tmg athletic men, Were indicted, under an Act passed in the 5? t! i year of his late Majesty, with entering a. certain w ood, in the township of Bentley, and parish, of Wolver- hampton, belonging to Lord Viscount Anson, be- tween the hours of sjx in th- evening aad seven in the morning of the 29th of November last, armed, with intent to kill game. The singular circumstance of an aged female forming one of a small party on a night- watch for poachers; her intrepidity on the occasion; the bloody and brutal conduct of the poachers; and the very narrow escape with life of one of their victims' — gave to this case a degree of greater importance! and deeper interest than any other which engagej the attention of the Court. Mr. RUSSELL briefly stated the main facts of the case, and then called Mary Pinnett, a woman advanced in years, who deposed as follows:— I remember going with tor husband, Nicholas Piunett, who is a wood- ranger at Bentley, and my Soi- in- Law, James Bout ton, ta watch for poachers, on the evening of Monday, the 28th of November last. We went out about ten, and returned at eleven; after waiti-. g about ten minutes, we started again and went round the covers belonging to Lord Anson. Soon afterwards, we heard the report of a gun: in Herbert's coppice^ and on proceeding in. the direction from whence the sound came, we met a man in a field adjoining the coppice; I collar" d him; fa laugh ; J i asked him what he was doing at that timie of night; he said he was " going;" he then said " loose me, woman, are you going to rob me?" I said, no man; and asked him for his name, which he said was Emery ; this was about two o'clock. I kept tbe man collar'd, and sent my son- in- law to the constable's. Soon after, tbe man whom I held called out, as if to some companion, " Damn and blast your eyes, if you don't come over I'll confess;" upon which, Robert Wood, and another man, jumped over the hedge out of the coppice, and knocked my husband down; they then beat my husband with Robert Wood's guti until then broke it, and afterwards with his own gun, till they broke that too; they then jumped upon him; upon which I went to his assistance: they then turned from' hiiri to me, and knocked me down with a hedge stake. I got up aud was beatea and knocked down again several times. Before going away, they gave my husband a heavy blow on his head with the broken gun. They took my husband's broken gun With them, and left their own behind. Directly after ( hey ran away, I went up to my husband, and found he was not quite dead; but covered all over with blood. My husband has been compelled ever since that time until last Sunday to keep his bed; he is quite incapacitated for attending here,- ia consequence of the severe wounds he received that night. I know the ori- soners atjtbe bar to be two of the three men who com- mitted fhe offence. [ Witness's husband had several of his ribs broken, aad was otherwise much injured.] James Boulton, last witness's son- in- law, cofrobo^ rated her statement. James Pritchard, a hick smith, who lives at Lane Head, about half a mile from Herbert's Coppice, waa on the canal, bridge abbift ' twelve o'clock oil the niyht of Ihe 28 th November, and saw tbe two prisoners ami another man going in the direction of Lord Anson's covers at Bentley It was a fine moonlight niahl, and he knew tbe men. This witness spoke to a conversa- tion he had with Wood after bis apprehension, in the course of which be made a partial acknowledgment of bis guilt'. Thomas Moss, a waggoner, proved that the prisoner B irnes bad told him on I lie morning of Ihe 29th of November, that he, and Robert Wood, and Frederick Hickman " bad had a devil uf a fi^ bt with the keeper, aud bis wife aud son in- law, on the ni^ lit before." Ed- card Squire, a key smith, at Lime Head, look into custody the prisoner Barnes, who, on the road to the magistrates, confessed lo being out poaching on the niajlu in question ; and said that " the old woman, Piunetl, came up and shaked hint well ; she had six- teen times more spirit than the men," The Constable of Bilstim produced" a broken gun, which hijd been found in Barnes's box, at the house where he lodged, which gun Mrs. Piimctt proved lo be her husband's. Two other witnesses spoke lo partial confessions of the prisoners; after which Mr WHATELEY, on" tbe part of the defence, ad- dressed tbe Jury; urging principally the propriety of very great . caution in receiving thai part of the evi- dence which related to tbe personal identity nf ihe prisoners; for not nruirh dependance could be placed ou the recollection of a person, in the very coufosctl state of mind in which Mi's. Pinnett must necessarily have been during so violent an affray. An assault of a very aggravated nature, he admitted, had been cum mined ; bill bv whom be conceived must be a matter of conjecture. " SirO MOSLEY, Bart, the Chairman, after a minute summing op, staled that he could not point out a single circumstance which threw the least shadow ofa doubt on the personal identity or guilt of the prisouers. Verdict, Guilty. The Chairman sentenced each of the prisoners to be transported for seven . years, and desijmvted iheir offence, " one of the must atrocious of tbe description of which be bud ever heard ;" and said lhat il was a very providential circumstance thai Ihe wounds in- flicted on the keeper had not proved filial, as in that case, they would have bad to answer the crime will* their lives. WORCESTER SESSIONS.— William Wallitigton, aged 36, a cooper, was charged with entering a close at Beoley, npoa the manor of T. II. Hunter, Esq. about three in the morning of the 14th of Dec. last, armed. with a gun, and killing game therein. From the testimony of James Johnstone, gamekeeper to the prosecutor, and bis assistant, Thos. Wheeler, it appeared that tbe former hearing on the morning in question the report of a gun in the preserves, proceeded in the direction of th * sound, and in a close upon the Old Farm, IT observed VValliugto. i with a fowling piece in his band, and a bag slung on his shoulder. Oil the keeper's coining up to him, Wallington shewed great resistance, and knocked him down by a violent blcr- v with the butt end of bis gun. However, with the aid of Wheeler, he was ultimately overpowered, and in the bag were found four pheasants, which were warm and had evidently been recently killed. About the middle of the gun was what was called a " lark sight," which, we understand, is generally used by poachers, as greatly assisting them in their aim'by night. The Rev. Chairman. in pronouncing sentence expatiated upon tbe aggravated nature of the prisoner's offence, in tbe violence he had used, and which, but for the merciful interposition of Pro- vidence, might have amounted to murder; and sentenced him to seven years'transportation.. Tii: prisoner pleaded not to be s° nt out of the country, having a wife and three small children, but he wai removed from the bar. ASSAULT.— Thomas Randall and John Furby, defendants, and George Walters, plaintiff. The affair arose out of the strike tor higher wages by the cordwainers of Worcester, io November last. Tbe defendants and plaintiff were all of the craft ; the former chose to enrol themselves ia the list of malcontents, and quit their stalls, tlie latter, being perfectly satisfied with the wages lie was receiving, very prudently remained at bis work; hence lie incurred the displeasure of the accused, and they repeatedly vowed their determination tj punish him for so doing, as well as his brother, who was also a cordwainer, and followed ' lis ex. imple.- On the evening of the 28th of November, m- et. ing plaintiff with his brother and bis wife walking in High- street, they took that opportunity of can'yUsg tbe threat into execution—' Randall, utt ering epithets and abuse too gross to be mentioned '. ere, knocking' him down, and Furby, whilst be was'tlovvu, lei-:.' ci: ig him severely on t'ne head ! Randall pleaded guilty to the charge, Furby not guilty . the fury, however, satisfied, from the evidence laid before them, that a clear case was made out against both, r iturued their verdict accordingly, and, after soma very able and proper remarks by the Court, on the aggravated nature of their offence, they were adjudged to or. a month's imprisonment to hard labour, vv'iich sen- tence of course consigns them to the Iread- miil. In addition to this punishment, " they will have to pay the coats of conviction, amounting- to three or four pounds, aad, at the expiration of the month, before- being released, fiad sureties for their futari goadi behaviour. SAJLOPIAN JOUJRMAIL^ AMP COUI1IE1R OF- WALES, FOR THE SALOPIAN JOURNAI gage of tijc Piiet. NO. XII. ENIGMA. WITHOUT me Creation had never hern made, Sims never been vvitness'd, light never drspliiy'd ; In e! her 1 live, and wilh tempests 1 ride ; Each heart I support, over ihnuglit I preside. Of time the beginner— age ne'er will own me — Without me, oh ! what would eternity be ? In ibuudi r I speak, anil to terror give birth, y, i < reutleuess owns me, and transport, anil mirth. 11• In, vstery veil'd I uiv office pursue ; III the midst still of mortals", but never in view. In judgment I sit, though regarded the last. 1 reign in the present, the future, Ibe post. Sliunu'd by me not the proudest could ever subsist : Night, e'en nt noon- day. would beniglr, were I uiiss'd 1 live in the breafll : not a flow'ret thai blows, Nor a plant, nor a tree, but mv influence shows. Without nie no torrent, nor streamlet cuuld flow. To me Wealth and Poverty equal debts owe. Stiil met iii distress, the companion of youth ; Ever present with Piety, dimity, Truth. Without me stem Justice hud never apprar'd, Blest tidings been spoken, nor liberty beard. Depriv'd of me virtue had never been known: Display 1 abjure, though 1 live in a Throne. With Spirits I feign, and in initrhl ever dwell, " Vctic ' cr was in Heaven, the World, or iu llcll Now, Mr. Editor, I do not profess to be " learn- ed ill the law," bul, Sir, I do claim to possesiis moderate share of common sense; and I would fearlessly ask, — aye, even the most " learned Judge" in Ihe ( and,— to shew me any rule of English justice, or of common sense, by which that act which ( as it would- seem) is no crima when com- mitted, and for which ( it is said) no magistrate or coroner has a power lo commit the perpetrator for trial, BECOMES A CRIMR at a subsequent period, and that too oft r the criminal has been acquitted ef the offence with which she stood charged ! The question, Sir, is a serious one : if acts such as those 1 have alluded to can be perpetrated with impunity, the Justice ofthe laud is a nullity. I, for otie, bee to add ray mite of approbation of the conduct of the Magistrate who was active in his endeavours to ascertain how a SECRETED DEAD INFANT came by its deaih ; and I trust lhat the opinio^ of the Highest Earthly Tribunal will be taken upon ( be question of the power of a mciffis- trate to commit for the act. Q. tt For the Salopian Journal. THE LAOCOON.* THERE is a power enshrined within yon stone, That wins the eye, and makes the heart its own ; The glorious dream, in which the Sculptor found Those all but living forms, still hovers round ; The glowing impress of immortal Art Still burns and breathes iu every sacred part. Is this of human art ? or— when each asp Circled the victims in its deepening elasp ; When the priest's groan ( to- hear bis children's shriek; Express'd a pang which language enunot speak ; When all were folded in a living tomb ; — Say pitied not the Virgin Queen their doom— Did she not, wielding what none else might w ield, Change them to marble with her Gorgon shield ? It is a sight ta touch a God ! Behold The wretched Man bound in a dragon's fold ! — Each writhing limb is clad with agony ! Each turgid vein seems bursting inlo day 1 Tbe throbbing heart, where sinks his fangs the nsp, Leaps back, instinctive, from the horrid grasp ! These are corporeal paugs! — but who may truce The Mind's strong passions stamp'd upon that face ? There's war upon bis brow !— no strife of tear!— A Godhead's Patience combats w ith Despair! Through tlie wide nostril there's a passion's rush — A scorn for foes whom he hath fail'd to crush. On bis fall'n lip, aud in his uplurn'd eye, A Father's yearning love ye may descry ; Burninglv inark'd, as if ihe iufauls'f plain Hud just been thrilling through bis maddened brain. Murk ye the lofty forehead's side, just where The eye- brows sink !— au agony is there T A body pang— a fugitive : the rest Is held by scorn within bis mighty breast. — Ha 1 breathes it not r no, no ! the gazer's eye Fix'd in a trance of deepest ecstasy, Prometheus like imparts ideal tire Which ( unlike his) flames only to expire; For, over all outspread, that changeless glare Thrills on tbe heart that life is wanting there. Immortal Sculptor t— for to thee Were given I '( inceptions savouring less of earth than heaven — Thou cuuldsl not bid tiiy matchless statues live, Thou gav'st life's semblance- all that Man might give. They have no feeling f— thy God- guided steel Bestow'd the power of causing souls to feel. Thy name lu. th tied ! J— till This shall cease to he, Whoe'er, wliutfc'er thou wert, All Hail lo thee ! CAM BRI ENSIS. • To those who are unacquainted with classical history, a brief account of tbe catastrophe embodied in llns celebrated group may not be uninteresting. When Ihe Trojans, atter t'. e pretended retreat of their enemies, were about Introducing the fatal horse ( filled with armed Greeks) into their city, Laoeoiin, the priest of Neptune, endeavoured to dissuade them from so rush an act with all the eloquence he was master • if; and with that view thrust his s| iear into the bowels of the artificial monster. Minerva, to punish that zeal, which, il seconded, would have frustrated her design, sent two huge serpents to devour him and his two sons, as he was sacrificing to bis Patron- God. • t A wailing cry. ; If I mistake no*, the name ofthe sculptor is unknown. A RIDDLE. To the Ladies of * * * * is addressed the petition Of a person of character, rank, and condition — Aud who hopes, thro' the means of their lender com- passion, To be taken iu hand by tbe leaders of Fashion. Tho' no sceptre I wield, yet far wider my scope,— To all monarch* superior — excepting the Pope — Noble blood I ne'er boast of, nor pedigreed race, Yet my lowest descendants, of others take place ; No sword do I wear, yet I beat those that do, For compar'd with my conquests, e'eu Casar's were few ! Mv undisciplined infantry, weak, — yet conceited, Hare been cuptur'd sometimes— but / ne'er was de. feated, Excepting by one doubly conquering devil, To whom e'en my pride might have whisper'd, " be civil." Thus a hero by patent,- to conquer whose trade is, You'll guess w but a fav'rite l'ui grown with the ladies: As soon as they spy me they gaze with delight, And their pulse doubly throbs ; ( for they'ie slttl iu a fright Lest they publish, by any quick change ofcomplexion, What they'd willingly hide from all eyes! — our coii- ticxion !) Yet strange to relate, so capricious the sex is. That we part without tears ;— which iny pride sadly rexes. For to this separation, no blame e'er attaching, To renew our acquaintance each fair one is watching. And bemoans her hard fute, should 1 ne'er wait upon he i, As my company's deem'd a distinguishing honour. Mo wonder, you'll think ( I'm sogiven to range) That my shape and complexion 1 frequently change, Now — bashful, 1 blush with the hue of the rose,— Then shining, my ruby. likecountenailce glow.,— Oft like Hercules'aruied, I an JEihiop appear, When a robe superfine, white as eiminc 1 wear; Next as Knight ol the Carter I proudly took duwn, For then a snug place I bold under the Crown : But tho' luurels and coronets add to one's beauty, They impose on mv shoulders additional duty. Thus like Proteus I vary, still playing my part, Wilh nowinninp au air, that 1 gain every heart. And for ever contriving, howe'er ihey may w. itcli me, To slip thro' I he fillers of those u In) would catch me ; But, alas ! when in fight, forth to conquest I go, So fate bus determined — 1 full with the foe! No respite allowed — but by destiny hurried, ' Midst heaps of the vanquished — iiigloriou. lv buried. I see that you pity, aHlio' you don't cry, My unfortunate case— so 1 hid you — good bye ! Then deal with me gently, nor give such hard iliumps For llie future, good folks, lo tbe pour uct of tiuitipi, Who remains, as iu dultr hound. YOCR'S IN' THE LUMPS. Country . banks— Hanking System. In our Journal of the 28th ult. we made some observations, under the above head, which, we perceive, have been copied into several of the Provincial Papers, and which have attracted the notice of a writer in a neighbouring print, who, in urging tbe advantages of Joint- Stock Batiks on the Scotch system, charges us with " artfully confus- ing" the question of establishing branch banks from the Bank of England and the forming of Joint Stock Banks oil the'Scotch system. If the writer we have alluded to knew any thing of the person whom be charges with " artfully confusing" the case, he would not have used that remark: wc publish no sentiments as our own which we are either ashamed or afraid to avow in as " candid and fair" a manner as the most fastidi- ous man living could " wish." And to shew that we are uot afraid of bringing our observations to the test of public opinion, we gave, in our last Journal, a view of English banking and of Scotch banking, fiom the pen of a Scotch writer, whose predilection for the system of his country is ap- parent throughout his remarks. ' Fo those we subjoined some observations from a London Paper ( the Star/ the writer of which, though evidently favourable to the Scotch principle of banking, has good sense enough fo perceive, that, like other advertised panaceas, it ought not to be implicitly relied upon as an " infallible remedy." It is very justly observed by the writer last alluded to, that " it may admit of a doubt, at least, whether the combining the greater part of the Landed Gentry of a County as proprietors or part- ners in a Country Bank, each of w hom will have some influence iu obtaining loans or discounts, and have a personal interiatl in diffusing the circulation of local bank notes, bSthe most infallible means of preventing an excessive issue of accommodation paper, and consequent speculation, in the coun- try ?" The same writer also truly says, " the whole question relates to an " unnecessary issue of bank notes, which, yvnii. F. CONVERTIULE INTO GOLD, never- can maintain their value, unless in moderate quantity, whatever be the security." In this we perfectly agree, and upon this " the whole question" turns. No thinking person, we conceive, will venture to deny that tbe good ofthe country requires that its Government currency should be a metallic one. But bow can a metallic currency be secured to tho country, if vast Joint Stock Companies are to be established, v\ ho, from their very nature, yvould deluge the country with their paper,— who would acquire a gradual command ofthe wealth and pro- perty of the community,— and whose tendency woufd be,- by paper accommodation, to raise rents and prices to a fictitious and unnatural standard. The Editor of the Star says, by Joint Stock Companies " the ultimate security of the paper" would, be increased. Here we totally differ with him. The present security may be apparently increased, but the result ( whether near or remote) would be tbe bursting of a bubble that would involve our agriculture, onr commerce, and our liberties, in a ruin alike general and irretrievable. J'OLl TICAL ECO. XO. V Y. KB. To Ihe Editor of the Salopian Journal. SIR, In your last Journal I observed a paragraph, in which the commitment of a woman to gaol for secretly delivering herself of an illegitimate child, and for secretly burying that child in a garden, is noticed ; and from which it is to be inferred, upon the authority of those " learned in the law," that tbe Mayitiri t.: bad no power to commit the woman for that act, for that no oiieuce against the law had been committed by her. 1 recollect a similar case being tried at our Spring Assizes ill 1824, when a female from tbe vicinity of Ellesmere, who bad been committed by the Coroner for " concealing the birth" of her illegitimate child, was ordered to be discharged, the Learned Judge ( Park, I believe,) at the same time observing, that though the coroner was boutid to receive from the Jury a ver- dict alleging tbat the woman had concealed the birth, yet he ought not to have proceeded further upon it, us it was no offence in law; if, however, ( continued the Learned Judge), she had been com- mitted upon a verdict chargiug her with the Mur- der of the child, and the Jury before whom the case was tried had acquitted her of the murder, but bad found her GUILTY OF CONCEALING THE BIRTH, then the concealment would become an offence, for which tlie Judge yvould award a punish- mint. M'CULLOCH'S EVIDEBIC3. [ From Bluckwood's Magazine ] There are many most unaccountable things done in these days, and the examining of Mr. WCulloch before the Parliamentary Committee for inquiring inlo the state, of Ireland was one of them. Mr. M'Culloch has no personal knowledge of Ireland ; he was not called to sti. te facts respecting it; lie merely appeared as a Political Economist to edify the Committee with general doctrines. He is a public lecturer on Political Economy, and tha rage for this fashionable science being, as we suspect, strong upon the sagacious legislators, they resolved to obtain a lecture at an economical rate, under Ihe name of evidence ou the slate of Ireland. If our conjecture be just, they displayed in this far more cunning than generosity; but, however, certain money- market disclosures show lhat thrift is now the order of tbe day, even among gentlemen and nobles. It may be very proper for great people to be immoderately fond of great bargains, but we think it is not very proper for them to use Parlia- ment as their instrument. VVe do not like to see ' Parliamentary Committees using their privileges to enable them to " slake their glorious thirst for knowledge and science," aud especially for " eco- nomical sciencc," at a cheap rate, to the grievous loss of poor Mr. M'Culloch. We may be mistaken. Perhaps the philosopher was brought forward by the absentee landlords, to throw dust iu the eyes of the nation, yvhen the misery and depravity of their tenants were coming before it. Perhaps these individuals found a storm gathering around them, w hich could only be quelled by tbe bewildering dogmas of Political Economy. But whatever was the cause, Mr. M'Culloch, jvho is uot a man of business— who is neither an Irish landlord, nor an Irish farmer, nor an Irishman of any kind, who actually never saw Ireland, appeared before the Committee to dilate on the condition of the sister kingdom. L| looking over Mr. M'CulIocli's evidence, one thing'causes us prodigious amazement; this is— on some of the most important points, ho repeats precisely the same opinions, which we had, on more occasions than oue, published in this Maga- zine, touching Ireland, before he appeared before the C ommittee. In proof, we may refer lo what he says respecting subletting, emigration on a large Scale, the associating of the landlords, & e. It c. rluinly is exceedingly odd, that any Economist, after what we have said of the tribe, should come after us to do any thing but contradict us. We say not this from vanity, for the same opinions, for any ti. i. ig that we know to the contrary, may have been published ten thousand times before we published them. We wrote from our own observations, but it by no means follows that wc wrote what yvas new. We mention the matter, because in some quarters yve see it asserted that government is pre- paring a bill yvhich is to embody Mr. M'Culloch's • principles, touching subletting; yve see bis views touching emigration puffed most extravagantly as exclusively his own; we see it very broadly insi- nuated that tbe opinions contained in the only sound part of his evidence were utterly unknown until he condescended to lay them before Parlia- ment. This will not do: if we set up no claim to originality ourselves, we certainly must not permit any such claim to be set up by Mr. M'Culloch. The sage Economist, however, differs very yvidely from us in many things, and, w here he does this, we naturally imagine that he blunders excessively. His opinions ou some points are, we are pretty sure, perfectly original ; but, unhappily for him, these are not the opinions which are so hugely lauded by people in general. When lie hasveutuied to think for hims; I;', he bus produced in the public a vast portion of laughter, and yery little belief. Some of his opinions, which are peculiarly bis own, or at any rate, which are not ours, yve shall now examine. We are led to do this by the great importance of the general question, aud a wish to piotect our former papers on Ireland from mis- apprehension. We will begin with bis doctrines touching absenteeism. Something may still be added to the refutation which these have already received from various quarters. Nothing we think in mathematical demonstration could be clearer than this—- if ice import French manufactures and corns when our own manufactures and. agriculturists can abundantly supply us wilh both, we must employ French capital and labour, render idle an equal amount at least of British rapital and labour,- and greatly diminish the profits of the capital and labour of ihe whole country. If British landholders go to expend twenty millions annually iu France, this will only differ front our agriculturists as a body buying annually of France twenty millions' worth of French manufactured goods., instead of buying to tbe same amount of our own manufacturers, by its being infinitely more injurious to this country. If the opinions of tbe Biige Economist, however, be true, it must inevitably be true likewise,— 1. That rents employ no labour after tliev are paid lo the landlord. The landlord who expends fifty or sixty thousand per annum, gives no employment lo labour b\ such expendiluie. 2. Thai the rent of a landlord is in reality expended before it is put into bis hands, aud that, although lie may receive it iu solid sovereigns, be cannot expend i. again so as to employ labour. 3. That a nation can have no exports, unless its landlords, or others whom it supplies with iucuuie, dwell abroad. 4 Tbat ihe imports of a nation employ no labour. 5 That the cultivators of laud would have nu surplus p oduee lo sell, if ihey had no rents to pay. t> Thill a nation cannot have arty surplus agricultural produce, if its landlords be mil absentees. 7, Tbat were the absentee landlords to return home, each one— Heaven nrodeiau* his appeiite! would de- vour all the corn, frogs, and oxen, tbat his tenants could dispose of. 8. That if you take your business from your. Euo lisli tailor, aud give it to a French one,- it neither injures tbe one. nor I enefi- is the other. By buying all your goods of the Englishman, you do not employ him ; by buying the whole of the Frenchman, you would not employ him. Capital and labour cannot be deprived of employment, and ihey can never be superabundant. P. That all trades are wf equal value to a nation ; it makes no difference to a nation whether it has merely a population just sufficient to cultivate iu soil, or twice the number in addition engaged in tnnuufirelures and commerce. A nation can lose manufacture after manu- facture, and this will do il no injury ; in propoi lion as its manufactures may decrease, iis commerce and agri- culture will ineipase. If it lose tbe whole < rf its manu- factures, and nearly the whole of its commerce, it will lie able lo employ iis capital and population just the same in agriculture, although its lands shall be pievi. oust v fully occupied. If ihe whole of our manufacturers were throw n out of employment, they could i- uimediaiely be employed in our agriculture, and tbe nation would not lose by it. A nation is as rich, populous, and powerful, when il lias only its agriculttne, as it is when it has in addition au immense portion of com- merce aud munufactufes. 111. If all tbe people of independent fortune w ho now dwell in London, were to remove to Liverpool, and weie to he restricted from procuring a single niauufac- I II red article from London, this would uiithcr injure London, nor benefit Liverpool. 11. If land in this country, which pays tweury millions of annual rent, should belong to the King ot France instead of its present proprietors; and il bis Galiic Majesty should constantly receive the rent in raw p oduce, and never send a shilling of it back to be expended on the land, the case would be precisely the same to tbe nation at large, as it is at present, when the find belongs to inhabitants of this country, who expend the rent in British merchandize aud manufactures. 12. If fifty millions were annually taken from the p. ufils of this country, and added to those of France as a free gift, it would neither injure tbe one country, nor benefit Ibe other; it would neither make the one poorer, nor tbe oilier richer. It is not solely on account of Mr. M'Culloch that we have bestowed so much attention ou this doc- trine. The fact is— and we most earnestly beg our readers to keep, it in mind— that upon this doctrine stands what is callcd our new aud liberal system o" Free Trade.* England, beloved land of our fathers! If thy nobles and country gentlemen leave tliee to dwell constantly abroad— if thy country magistrates con sist of pennylcss, pert, aud place- hunting lawyers— if thy Ministry aud two Houses of. Parliament be composed of traders, weavers, lawyers, and philoso- phers; of such men as Alderman Wood, Alderman Waithman, Peter Moore, Joseph Hume, Sir Robert Wilson, Mr. Brougham, and Mr. M'Culloch, it will cause thy interests to be far better managed, thy village population be taken from the control of '" generous, high- minded noblemen and gentlemen, who are under the most powerful restraints for ex. rcising their influence and authority in the most beneficial manner, and be placfd uuder that of loyv- bred, mercenary people, almost wholly free from restrictions in the exercise of their despotic power, it will benefit the interest - and character of this population. If the many millions of rent which are paid to tliy landholders be sent to foreign countries to return no more— to be expended iu employing the labour and promoting the commerce and nianu- factuies of these countries, instead of thy own, it will increase thy wealth and prosperity. What pension wilt thou award, and how many statues of gold wilt thou decrce, totheastonishingPhilosophcr? Seriously— does it not surpass all comprehension, that a man who seems not to have been stark- mad — who is evidently as destitute of passion and enthusiasm as a flint— should have uttered such absurdities? They uot otily outrage common sense, but they fly in the teeth of the most decisive de- monstration. A single glance from Ireland to England is sufficient to cover them with derision, We thank those who put questions to Mr. M'Culloph like that touching the seven- eighths of the landed proprietors. They spurred him to the very climax of nonsense; they made him stretch the cobyveb of his philosophy, until he tore it to tatters: they constrained him to hold up his own doctrines to the ridicule of tbe most ignorant. Commerce aiid manufactures owe their origin to the lauded interest, and they cannot exist without it. Whatever wealth they may accumulate, they draw from it the chief portion. Why do not the agriculturists accumulatc large fortunes like the merchants and manufacturers? Are they less in- dustrious', less frugal, or less able ill business? No such thing. The merchant and manufacturer arc allowed to obtain the highest profit in their power, while tbe agriculturist is bound down to the lowest possible. If accident raise him to a level with them, laws are instantly resorted to, to bring him down again. They may charge him what they please, but he must charge them only what the government may suffer. The greatest additions that were ever made to the wealth of this country were made to it during the war by the agricul- turists, when nothing could be employed to prevent the latter from equalling tbe trading classes in profits. Neither this country, nor any other, was ever rich, when its landed interest was regularly poor; a d, in spite of the merchants and manufac- turers, if our landed interest be plunged into poverty, we shall soon cease to be a rich nation. It is ridiculous to ascribe the chief part of public wealth to those things which cannot exist without a landed interest, and which can scarcely contribute a shilling to this wealth without its assistance. Let us now look at other matters. Who have always been the chief patrons of literature and the arts? The great landholders. Who have always marched at the bead of civilization and refinement? 1 he great landholders. Who, by their pro- fuse expenditure, have given the greatest stimulants to inventions and discoveries of every description? The great landholders. Reasoning cn the question seems to be very useless when we look at Ireland. Here is a country, a large part of which has not in reality what is understood by the term, a landed interest. The landlords dwell abroad, and a very few of tbe cultivators are worthy of being called farmers. This part of Ireland is, to a very great extent, without commerce and manufactures, and it is poor, barbarous, and depraved; had it practically possessed a landed interest, the case would un doubtedly have been perfectly different. We have only space to touch very briefly on two other parts of the Philosopher's evidence. He Ireland, to teach what— the leading principles of J NEW WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.— Mr. Tindal has religion and morals? No! To teach children be- j given the following opinion upon the penal clauses in tween seven and thirteen " the elementary princi pies which show how wages are determined, or on what the condition of the poor must depend!" Now, let Parliament look at the combinations in Britain and Ireland, and it will discover tbat in both countries the labouring classes are perfectly familiar with these principles already. The weavers of England, the colliers of Scotland, aud the gas- men of Ireland, the most uncultivated " operatives," know perfectly, that if there be too many of them in their calling, it makes wages bad and work scarce. Several of the Combinations have made and enforced laws expressly to keep apprentices and others out of their callings; or, in other words, to prevent labour from becoming. superabundant in these callings. The teaching of such principles to the labouring population can have no other prac- tical effect than Combination. With regard to teaching children at school, that if they marry too soon they will do themselves great injury— this we think is equally unnecessary. Almost all our young people throughout our labour- ing population have this continually rung iti their e. irs, from their infancy to the time of their mar- riage, by parents and every one else— and they profit from it very little. People are impelled to marry at too early an age, by a passion which Political Economy can neither extinguish nor regu- late— by a passion which laughs to scorn reason, instruction, and even Mr. M'Culloch himself. Mr. M'Culloeh asserts that the morality of towns is to the full as good as the morality of the country, meaning by the term morals— honesty, and the intercourse between the sexes What the case may be in Scotland, we know not, but so far as it regards England, it is totally at variance with truth, and a gross libel upon the village population. In our villages, the doors of the stable, cow- bouse, and hog- sty, are rarely locked during the night, the poultry is left at large, the barn is very slenderly secured, quantities of valuable property are scattered about the farmstead, wholly unpro tected, the dwellings of the cottagers are protected iu the slightest manner, there is no watchman, or police- officer of any description, the whole of the villagers go to bed about the same hour, and are buried iu the deepest sleep during the night, and yet a serious theft is seldom heard of. If horse- stealing have noyv reached a great height, be it re- membered tbat it is chiefly carried on by tbe inhabit ants of towns, or those who have been taught their villainy in towns. When this is contrasted with the state of things in towns, what credit is due to Mr. M'Culloeb!? # * a * * Wc are sware lhat what has been said by parishes, wilh regard fo illegitimate children, has caused certain ignorant people to maintain that orrf village females are generally unchaste. The fact te, that in almost every case in which an illegitimate child is born in a village, the mother is tire vie! im of seduction, in some cases, perhaps, the seducer has no great diffi- culty in triumphing, bul wc believe thai i'u all be is compelled to give a solemn promise of marriage. He prevails by professing honourable love. Virtue is never sold for money. tVa'nf of space here compels us, against our w ishes, fo close our remarks on his evidence. Wc, perhaps, should not have noticed it at all, had it not been foi- ls tendency to prevent the absentee landlords of Ireland from doing their duty. That landlord who gives np the cultivators of bis estate— who perhaps cannot leave it without actual starvation— into the I hands of a per rentage agent, or middleman, to be tripped of their little property, fed on potatoes, clothed wilh rags, and plunged into the lowest abyss of penury, aud barbarism,— that landlord is morally guilty of a crime against his species and his country, which cannot be surpassed in enormity. Compared with him, what evils does the common robber, who dies on the gallows, inflict on individuals and society? Ilo who defends this landlord, and prevents him from changing his conduct,- is his accomplice in the crime. The feeling which now pervades the country, touching the conduct of the absentee landlords, will not, we trust, be stifled bv the nonsense of Mr. M'Cnlloch. We hope it will increase, until it force every oue of them lo lake his estate under bis oil « management. Maiiy of them are now anxious to'do fheir duly; if the remainder shelter Themselves nuclei- the Philoso- pher, aud persevere in their present course, we trust that at any rale they will uot go unpunished. If Ihe laws cannot roach men who consign their fellow creatures, by hundreds and thousands, to extortion, oppression, want, and misery, the press and public opinion can reach them, aud we hope tbat I hese w ill not be sparing in imprinting the brand aud inflicting the torture. ilttsccUfuimie intelligence. states that government ought to establish schools in • Many of tbe public prints, which uniformly puff the " new and liberal system of free trade" in tbe most fulsome manner, have pronounced Mr. M'Culloch's doctrine to be gross and glaring falsehood. Some of them have abused it in the most outrageous way possible. There is something in this exquisitely ludicrous. Mr. M'Culloch asserts that the man in tbe moon never wears a night- cap— It is a lie! — Mr. lluskissou asserts the same in somewhat different words— It is au obvious truth. Bravo, most sagacious Lditors! RUSSIA.— The transactions respecting the suc- cession to the Imperial Crown of Russia have been such as to baffllfe all reasonable conjecture. We noyv learn from an authentic source, that the Emperor Constantine— for so we suppose be ought to be called, having been so proclaimed, and syvorn to by tbe Russians at home and abroad— the Emperor Constantine has resigned his dignity to his younger brother, Nicholas, who has been sub- sequently proclaimed Emperor at St. Petersburgh. — Whether Constantine will be rendered inde- pendent in the Sovereignty of Poland, or will continue to govern that country, as he has hitherto done, in the character of Viceroy, a short time will show. The most prevalent,, opinion seems to be that Russian Poland will be restored to its inde- pendence. At all events it is known that Con- stantine is extremely popular there, and his marriage with a Polish Lady has greatly added to that popularity. It is not likely that Nicholas would ever remove him ; nor, indeed, is it probable that Nicholas would depart iu any great degree from the policy of Alexander ; with which policy, however, the erection of Poland into a kingdom, under a Russian Prince, is by no means incom-' patible. On Tuesday, two young men, who, with many others, bad ventured on the ice on tbe Canal in St. James's Park, before it had attained sufficient thickness, were unfortunately drowned. On the evening of Tuesday se'nniglit, as Mr. Hew- lett, shopkeeper, of Redgrave, was returning from Botesdale, he fell down as was supposed,. iu a fit, aud no assistance being at baud, he perished through the inclemency of the weather. He was fuund the next morning covered with snow, the track ofa solitary bare being discovered leading across his body. The Protestant Religion is making great progress io Italy. Churches are now erected in Rome, Leghorn, Venice, Bergamo, and other parts. An afflicting catastrophe lately look place in the Catholic Chapel at Callan in the county of Kilkenny, ' l'he congregation, alarmed at a report that the gallery wits falling, rushed lo the door, aud by the extreme pressure six women and three children were killed, and many others dreadfully bruised. DOCILITY OF THE LION — A remarkable inslance of this occurred iu this city yesterday morning. The head keeper of Messrs. Earl, James, and Sou's mena- gerie, now exhibiting, being absent, the magni- ficent male lion which forms part of this collection was fed on Sunday night by a strange keeper, who omitted to fasten tile door after he left ihe den. The watchman in going his rounds about three in the morning, discovered the king of beasts deliberately walking about tire yard, and surveying tbe surround- ing objiels w ith apparent curiosity. ' Fhe watchman immediately went to call the proprietor and some of the people connected with the exhibition, and when they arrived, they found the royal beast couchant on the top of one of the coaches in the coach- maker's yard, in Princess- strcet; as if be alone deserved to be free, and, conscious of bis royal dignity, was giving audience to bis quadruped subjects, who were ill durance around hiiu. With very little entreaty from Ibe proprietor, the Monarch of tbe forest deigned lo descend from his throne, aud very graciously followed a young lady, the proprietor's daughter, into bis den again.— Chester Courar. t. Same night, a large bear, who was, however, blind, broke loose from the same collection, and forced his way into the house of one James Fleming, a rope- maker, where he broke several of the utensils, aud having fortunately disturbed the family, the wife of Fleming left her bed in the parlour, which Bruin soon afterwards seized, and he was dragging the bed out of the house when he was sccured. Ihis Act :—" 1 do not think there is any specific pen- a ty for Selling by the Winchester Bushel, which can he enforced against the parties to such a contract: all the penalties referred to, appearing to be, for selling by short or insufficient weight, and for obstructing the examination of weights and measures. ' Fhe prohibi- tion of selling by tbe Winchester Bushel appears to me lo rest upon ihe provision, tbat a contract for sale hy that nuasurc, unless under a special agreement, shall be null and void." The Kent Herald, speaking of the objections of the Farmers to the new measure, upon the ground tbat the Imperial Bushel is larger than the Win- chester, observes, " For ourselves, yve think the fears of the farmers are groundless, and that the additional quantity will, of course, be compensated by an advance in price, equal to the quantity sold. If a quarter of barley is sold by Winchester measure for 30s. the price by the imperial measure will be 31s.; and whenever a sale is effected, the parties will certainly distinctly purchase by the Imperial or Winchester, and pay accordingly. It lias hitherto been customary to transact all busi- ness by tbe Winchester measure, in this county ; but this is by uo means the case in many others. In Hereford, for instance, all corn is sold by 10 gallons to the bushel; while iu the neighbouring county of Gloucester, they have only eight— the Winchester measure. Again, in Shrewsbury, wheat is sold 38 quarts, and oats 57 quarts to tbe bushel; while all foreign corn at the same places, bought and sold by the Winchester measure. Ill Wiltshire, three or four bushel measures are iu USB — the Winchester, 8i gallons, 8i gallons, 8| gallons, and even 9 gallons and a pint to the bushel measure; thus, when the samples are produced, tbe question is asked—" Which bushel do you sell by?" And the price paid is according to the quantity purchased. So it will be here; for no man wiil expect to buy a quantity equal to 31, at the same price as he would pay for 30." THE IMPERI AL NOGGIX.— A woman was brought before the Magistrates of Liverpool, last week, charged with being found drunk in the street oil the preceding night. Oil being asked how she came to be in that disgraceful state, she ingeniously referred it to have been caused by the new mea sures, by which she was " beguiled" into drinking more than her usual quantity; and she therefor hoped the Magistrates would look over it for that time. The worthy Magistrates smiled at the woman's ingenuity, and recommended her in future not to make so free with tbe " Imperial Noggin.' A Scotch parson once preached a long sernron against dram drinking, a vice very prevalent in his parish, and from which report said lie was not him- self wholly exempt. " Whatever ye do, brethren,' • aid he, " do it with moderation, aud, aboou alt, be moderate in dram- drinking. When you get up, in- deed,- ye may talc a dram, and anither just befor breakfast, and perhaps anither after ; butdinnabe always dram- drinking. If ye are out in the morn, ye may just brace yerself up with anither dram, and' perhaps tak anither before luncheon, and some, fear, tak ane after, yvhich is no so very blamable but dinna be always dram- dram- draming away Naebody can scruple for ane just afore dinner, and when the dessert is brought in, an' after it's ta'en away; and perhaps ane, or it may be twa, in the I course ofthe afternoon, just to keep ye fra' drowsy. I ing and snozzling; but dinna be always dram- drani. draming. Afore tea and after tea, and between tea and supper, and before and after supper, is more than right aud good ; but let me caution ye, brethren, no to be always dram- draming. Just when ye start for bed, and when ye're ready to pop ir. to't, and perhaps when ye wake in the night, to tak a dram or twa is no more than a Christian man may lawfully do; but, brethren, let me caution you not to drink more than I've mentioned, or may be ye may pass the bonuds of moderation !!!" A GOOD SHOT.— A lailor of Thuilaston, in this county, warning u little recreation during the present dull anil cold weather, must needs lake his gun, and go in quest of the feathered Iribe. Unfortunately, however, on d. scharging bis first shot al some spar- rows perched near a hay. stack, the contents were lodged iu the body of a fat sow feeding near Mr Gre- gory's barn door, which caused its immediate death ! The mishap proved rather a dear day's diversion for poor Snip, who was compelled to pay four pounds instanler, and walk off with his bacon, to avoid still worse consequences.— Leicester Chronicle. ENGLISH ARISTOCRACY.— In allowing them- selves lo be persuaded by Buike, that the extinction of fhe ancient Noblesse of France portended necessarily any danger to ihe English Aristocracy, these noble persons did injustice to the strength of their own order, and to the characteristics by which it is proudly distinguished from every other race of Nobility in Europe. Placed, as a soil of break- waler, between the People and the Throne, in a stale of double re- sponsibility to liberty on one side, aud authority ou fhe other, tile Aristocracy of England bold a station which is dignified by its own great duties, aud of which the titles transmitted by Iheir ancestors form Ihe least important ornament. Unlike the nobilitv of other countries, w here Ihe rank and privileges of the father are multiplied through his offspring, and equally elevate tlieni all above the level of the com- munity, the very highest English Nobleman must consent lo be the father but of commoners. Thus, connected with ihe class below him by public as well as private sympathies, be gives bis children lo the People as hostages for the sincerity of bis zeal in Ilieir cause— while on the other hand, liie People, in return for these pledges of the Aristocracy, scud a portion of its own elements aloft into lhat higher region, to mingle with its glories, and assert their claim to a share ill its power. By this mutual transfusion au equilibrium is preserved, like that which similar pro- cesses maintain io tbe natural world, and while a healthy, popular feeling circulates through Ihe Aris- tocracy, a sense of their own station in the scale elevates the People.— Moore's Life of Sheridan. SHERIDAN'S FUNERAL.— Moore has omitted one of the most touching aud heart- stirring anec- dotes connected with the funeral of poor Sheridan. ' Fhe noble and select company had assembled to pay the last tribute of respect to departed genius, and the coffin was about to be placed in the hearse, when an elegantly- dressed persouage, who pre- tended to be distantly related to the deceased, entered the chamber of death. At his urgeut intreaties to view tile face of his friend, tbe coffm- Iid was unscrewed; and, to the horror and surprise of the bystanders, he pulled out a warrant and arrested the body ! Mr. Canning' and Lord Sid- mouth went into an adjoining room, and paid the debt, which, we believe, amounted to £ 500. This anecdote we derive from authority.— Dumfries Magazine. SPRING GUNS.— The public will rejoice when tbe use of these infernal machines shall be decided illegal. On Saturday ihe following accident happened in Can- Wood, near Preston : — A youth named Lloyd, em- ployed in the factory of Messrs. German and Co. and whose labour was Ihe chief support of a widowed mother, went into the wood during the dinner hour, and coming in contact with the hidden snare of a spring gun, yvas dreadfully wounded about the legs, ll is greatly feared the youth will lie a cripple for life. The Fife Cause has been finally decided in the Court of Session in Scotland, iu favour of Ihe present Earl, who thus obtains property yielding £ 20,000 a year. An aged and respectable member of Ihe law pro- fession in Glasgow, who died lately, bad engaged tradesmen, about twelve months ago, lo place an ele- gant iron railing around his burying ground, in the High Church- yard, but they weie preveuledby other engagements from finishing it at once, and thus put their employer to the trouble of many visits, for the purpose of hastening the work, and at last he yvas obliged to threaten that he would engage the services of others. This bad the desired effect. The job was completed on Saturday week, and the owner died on Monday morning.— Scots Times. A labouring man, a few days since, wheeled a hag of flour from Calne to Marlborough,— a distance of 12 miles— in as many hours. Some heavy bets were pending, thai there was no man in Calne, who could perform the task in 16 hours. Many a stout fellow made the attempt, but could not proceed Buy farther wilh the charge than about a quarter of a mile. A bag of flour weighs2| cwt. and the roads at Ihe time were exceedingly heavy; so that the above cannot be con- sidered any mean performance. Tbe import of cotton d ui'iug the past year into the port of Liverpool atone amounted to 706,303 bags. The price of beer in the metropolis has been reduccil one halfpenny per pot. DIED, at ihe Infirmary, Newcastle, of apoplexy, John Ewan, aged 75. who for upwards of 25 years held the office of porter to lhat charily. In the coffers of Ihis ancient servant were found hoarded £ 1059. lis. gid. chiefly in gold, aud in his wardrobe 19 shirts, 15 coals, 15 waistcoats, anil 13 pairs of small clothes. The property of Ibis saving, and as he often termed himself " needy" man, has been divided amongst four of his relatives, three nephews and a niece. MELANCHOLY CASE.— Some time early in Octo- ber last, Francis Battersby, of Hightown, Esq. a respectable attorney, and a Coroner for the couuty, was bitten by a strange dog lhat came into his yard. Medical aid was resorted to as soon as it could be procured, the wounds in due time assumed ahealthy appcarance, and at the time of the fatal malady setting in were nearly healed. Mr. li. was in town so late as Thursday last, and transacted business in his professional capacity iu the Seneschal's office, aud was then, to all appearance, in good health and spirits. On Saturday the first symptoms of that disease appeared in the spasmodic affection of the throat a . d glands, when attempting to drink while at dinner, yvhich rapidly increased every hour to the most viojent and alarming paroxysms, until 12 ' clock yesterday, when death terminated his utferings.— Westmeaih Journal. On Saturday, at Shiplake, near Reading, Cap!. Me- Ihuen, and a gentleman of the name of Hartinglon, were beating a turnip field for game, when a bare got p, and Ihe Captain discharged bis gun, the contents of which entered the head of Mr Flarlington, who was covered between two hedges. The wounded gentle- man fell, and he was conveyed back to Shiplake with no hopes of recovery. The fees claimed by the different officers on the passing of a Bill through Parliament arc really enor- mous. It is said that tbe members for Devizes paid in this way fu. 1 seven hundred pounds in getting tho bill passed for improving thai town. In the Court of Common Pleas, last week, it was decided by Mr. Justice Best, lhat, unless it was inti- mated in tbe conditions of sale, a person could not legally be employed lo bid for the seller. " There is no such thing," observed his Lordship, " named in the conditions of sale; therefore there is a gross fraud. The highest bidder is by the conditions to be tbe buyer, and is it to be said that a person is to be there lo bid against a bona fide bidder?"— His Lordship expressed his astonishment tbat such frauds had nut been long since slopped. He had thought of it over and over again. He would declare bis opinion that bethought the plaintiff could uot recover. A MODERN HEROINE !— The famous Clara Wen. del, leader of a band of robbers, which has ramifications throughout all the East aud South of Switzerland, is a reniai kalilc phenomenon in her way. She is onlv twenly years of age, is endowed wilh rare intellectual faculties nnd personal beauty, and has been the author of 20 murders, 14 conflagrations, aud 1586 robberies. The corpse of John alius Brockcy Edmunds, who was executed al the Old Bailey on Tuesday lasl, was brought into Msrlow for interment on Wednesday, by Ihe very same horse he bad fwice stolen from Mr. Webb, of Marlow Bottom.— Etading Mercury. A fellow, calling himself Charles Thornton, was committed to Stafford House of Correction, a few days ago, for two calendar months to hard labour, for endeavouring to procure charitable contributions by false aud fraudulent pretences, at Bilston. This man was discharged from the same House of Correction on Ihe 21st of December last; having been at the tread- mill three calendar mouths for endeavouring lo obtain money in a similar way from Mr. Smith, attorney, at Rugeley ; he then called himself Charles Howard ; but whose real name is said to be Jonathan Bridge; he is about 40 years of age, stout made, pock- pitted and swarthy ; writes a good baud ; has much to say for himself; has written lo many gentlemen io Stafford- shire, offering to become a Hermit! and has been by bis own confession in most of Ihe gaols iu the kingdom, A GREAT MATCH LOST.— Capt. Peters, of Oadlcy, near Leicester, lost bis undertaking of 300 sovereigns lo ride half way, and go on foot the other half, from Hoddesdon, Berks, lo Ihe ISO mile- stone close on Doncaster, on Thursday, in 18 hours. He rode his seventy one miles upon eight horses.— The Caploio then shifted into flannel, and became a pedestrian the other half, of the distance of 142 miles. He went on regularly at the rate of six miles an hour ihe first thirty five miles, when he complained of u pain above the right ancle, and a vein the size of a nut protruded itself. After performing 50 miles, 20 minutes within ten hours, and having no chance of going on with any success, he resigned, having more than 21 miles to accomplish in four hours. HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY, EDINBURGH. Murder.— Tuesday, the High Court ol Justiciary met for Ihe trial of William Allan, lale of Monquhilter, Aberdeenshire, accused of murder aud robbery, Tbe indictment charged him with having, on 17th Sept. last, upon Ihe road leading from Fyvie lo Old Rayue, attacked A. M'Kay, tailor and drover, and wilh tbe loaded end ofa whip slruck him several times severely on the bead, face, and sides, whereby his skull was fractured, nnd one of his ribs broken; and, while in that stale, of having robbed him of a £ 1 note, and several pieces of silver coin; and iti consequence M'Kay died on 2d Oct. following. After a numerous list of witnesses bad been examined, the Lord Justice Clerk went over the evidence at great length, and concluded with expressing his opinion, lhat the cir- cumstantial evidence adduced was such as clearly to bring home guilt to the prisoner. The Jury were in- closed for aboul 15 minutes, when they returned with an unanimous verdict of guilty ; nnd Ihe prisoner was sentenced to be executed at Aberdeen ou 10th Feb. next, and bis body given for dissection.— Afler the verdict was returned, the prisoner could nol believe it, till assured of its nature by a person beside him, when he exclaimed, " O God, help me!" He again asked that person if he was sure; nnd, on receiving his answer, burst into tears, and sobbed bitterly while Ihe Judges were delivering their opinions. As a re- markable instance of chaugeahleness of feeling, we may stale, that the reading of his sentence, which was done most emphatically by the Lord Justice Clerk, seemed to restore him lo composure, for he sat down with a smile ou bis face, aud couvcrscd cheerfully wilh Ihe policemen. At the next Candlemas meeting of onr Agricultural Society, we uud - rstand a petition to Parliament will be proposed against any material alterations in the present corn laws, on tbe ground that the English farmer, with all his tithes, rates, and taxes, cannot enter into competition in the market with the foreign farmer, who has not these expenses to provide for. — Instructions to the county and other members of Parliament will also be proposed to the same effect. — Hereford Journal. BANKRUPTS, JANUARY 10.— Samuel Porter, of North Lop It am, Norfolk, banker.— Samuel Houldsworlb, of Roy ton, Lancashire, cotton- manufacturer. William lugelow, sen. and William Ingelow, jun. of Boston, Lincolnshire, bankers.— William Groves, of Worthing, cabinet- maker.— Henry Sheppnrd, of Frome Selwood, Somersetshire, clothier.— Jos. Clemenlaon, of Angel- court, St. Mai 1 iu's- 1e- Grand, silver- caster.— Ami Davis* and George Howell, of Cheltenham, plumheis audi glaziers. — Ann Constantine, of Bolton, shopkeeper.— Jos. James Ba vlis, of Leeds, commission. agent.— Henry Joll, of lladlow- street, Burton- crescent, carpenter.— James Stunrt Meikle'ham, aud Richard Be- ss, of Devour shire- street, Si. Mary- le- bone, and Pull- Mall, uphol- sterers.— Jos. William Wells, of Cambridge- terrace, Islington, builder. William Cllbbidge, of Wesl Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, paper. maker.— William Pjke, of Bristol, dealer.— Ebenezer llollick, Thomas Nash, William Searle, nnd Thomas Nash, jun., of Cain- bridge, hankers— George John Zrller, of Churles- street, Corenl- garden, copper plate printer. — John Edenborongh, Thomas Chittenden, and Thomas Bart- leit, of Queen- street, Cheapside, and Manchester, warehousemen.— George Wilkie, late of Pateruo. ter- row, bookseller.— William Perrin, of Chuihnm, Kent, grocer.— Edgar Achillcs Waugh, of Ironmonger- lane, clolh- factor. SHREWSBURY: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY W. & J. EDDOWES, CORN- MARKET ; To whom Advertisements or Articles of Intelli- gence are requested to be addressed. Advertise, mants are also received by Messrs. NEWTON and Co. Warwick- Square, Newgate Street ; Mr, BARKER, NO. 33, Fleet- Street; and Mr. HEI'. J\~ ELL, Gazette Advertising Office, Chancery- Lane, London ; likewise by Messrs. J. AT. JOHN• sro. v and Co. 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