IMIMTIEE) BY W. & J* EBLDOWES, 9 oitttiut € OKM= MAlEKET9 SHREWSBIJIRY.- This Paper is circulated in the most expeditious Manner through the adjoining Counties- of E^ VSLAND and WALES. Advertisements not exceeding Ten Lines, inserted at Six Shillings each. VOL. XXXIII.— N0, 1680.] WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1820. PRICE SEVEN PENCE. TO THE FREE 8T INDEPENDENT BURGESSES OF TUB BOROUGH OF SHREWSBURY. GENTLEMEN, J^ JR. SLANEY hating offered himself as a Candidate to represent you in the next Parliament, permit me to request a continu- ance of lhat favour which placed me in the high and distinguished situation of one of your Representatives. From the time I re- ceived that mark of your confidence, I have constantly attended both the public and private TO THE Worthy and Independent Electors OF THE Borough of BRIDGNORTH. Gentlemen, Dissolution of Parliament being expected shortly to take place, permit me to solicit a renewed proof of that good opinion which has, for the Five last Parliaments, placed me in the situation of one of your Representatives, and to assure you, that, should I again be honoured by your choice, it shall be, as hitherto it has been, my constant endea- vour to promote your best Interests, and to preserve business of the House of Commons, and gladly I ^ violate those Rights and Liberties, both in Church 1 and State, which, under the blessing of Providence, we hare for so long a period enjoyed. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Tour obliged and faithful servant, THOMAS vriUTMORE. Apley Park, 0th May, 1826. A seized every opportunity of endeavouring to serve the interests of my Constituents. 1 have studied all the evidence I could procure that bore upon the several Questions that have been agitated in that House ; and whenever I could form a decided conviction which way I ought to vote, I have so voted, independent of every other consideration : and where, from con- flicting testimony, I have doubted what was most expedient, I have thought it my duty to retire without voting. That I have always decided right is more than 1 can hopefor ; though no one can have been more anxious to do so. Should you be pleased again to place me in the same Honourable Service, I trust I shall attend to your concerns with the same diligence and independence, and, if possible, with stronger feelings of gratitude and re- Gentlemen, Dissolution of the present Parliament being shortly expected, permit me to offer you my very sincere thanks for the friendship and con- fidence which I have uniformly received from you, since you did me the honour of electing me as one of your Representatives. I at the same time beg to acquaint you, that it is not my intention to offer myself as a Candidate at the ensuing Election ; but be assured that I shall never cease to reflect with pride and satisfaction on the connexion which has subsisted between us ; and, with every sentiment of attachment and esteem, I remain, Gentlemen, Your obliged and faithful servant, FRANCIS FORESTER. London, May 11th, 1826. TO THE Worthy and Independent Burgesses OF THE Borough of BRIDGNORTH. London, 5th May, 1820. Gentlemen, S a Dissolution of Parliament will pro- bably take place in the course of a short time, I hasten to inform you that it is my intention to solicit the honour of being again elected to represent spect. I am now attending to my duty in your ancient and independent Borough. Parliament; but as soon as the business of\ the Session is concluded, I shall hasten to pay nty personal respects to you. I have the honour to be. GENTLEMEN, Your most faithful and most obedient humble servant, PANTON CORBETT. LOHDOS, APBU 22, 1826. TO THE INDEPENDENT BURGESSES ov SHREWSBURY. GENTLEMEN, J HAVE now finished my canvass of your town, and for the pressnt respectfully take my leave of you. To the many who have given me their im- mediate and cordial support, I return my most grateful thanks; to tlie few who have for the present suspended their promises, I yet beg to offer my acknowledgments for the very flattering manner in which they were good enough to speak of my pretensions ; the kindness I have received on all sides I can never forget. I repeat the assurance I put forth in my first address to you,— that I profess Inde- ' pendent but Moderate Principles. The period for warm political animosities appears to have passed away, and moderate men of different opinions may now happily unite in one common purpose- vouring to benefit the condition of their fel- low- subjects, and to remove those defects which the lapse of time may have caused in our ad- mirable Constitution Amidst the severe distress which is felt i, some other populous towns, Shrewsbury still continues in prosperity;— that prosperity it shall be at all times my anxious desire to uphold. I trust I have seen every Burgess in this Borough— if I have forgotten any one, I am sure he will attribute it to accident rather than neglect. From the assurances given me, 1 have no doubt of success ; and am prepared to attend your call as soon as Parliament is dissolved. I leave my cause in your hands— in the hands of faithful, zealous, and honourable friends— the best guardians of all that is va- luable to man. If ever I desert my duty to them, I hope they will abandon and forget me. Your obliged and grateful Servant, ROBT. A. SLANEY. Rhrewphnry, Thursday Evening, May 4, 1826. JOHN LEE MING'S GENUINE HORSE MEDICINES, JVfparcd from the original Recipes ( late iu the Possession of GEORCF, BOTT, of Nottingham), hy BARCLAY nnd SONS, the sole Proprietors. LEEMING'S ESSENCE for Lame- ness in Horses; a certain Cure for Old Strains or Swellings, Slips and Strains of the Shoulder, Stifle, Hough, Whtrlbnne, Knee, Fetlock, Pastern,- and Coffin Joints, Strains of the Back Sinews, See. price Vs. 6d, per bottle. LEEMING'S MIXTURE, for Cholics, Gripes, Belly- ache, Fevers, Coughs, Colds, Strangles, Yellow Staggers, ic. price 4s. per bottle. LEEMING'S SPAVIN LINIMENT, for Spavins, Splents, and Strains in the Back Sinews, price 2 « . 6d. per pot. LEEMING'S SHOULDER MIXTURE, for Sore Shoulders aud Swellings, Galls of the Collar Saddle, & c. price Is. per bottle. LEEMING'S BALSAM, for all Fresh or Old ^ Vounds in Horses, price Is. per bottle. OBSERVE ..— None of these Medicines can be Genuine, unless the Names of " BARCLAY and SONS, Fleet Market, London," ara affixed; thev having purchased the Original Recipes from the Executors of George Bott, of Nottingham. When I last presented myself to your Notice, could only make professions of determined adherence to the principles of Independence, and of the exer- tion of my strenuous endeavours to promote that line of Policy which I considered the best adapted to further the Interests of all Classes in this great Empire. It is not now to professions only, but to acts, that I venture to appeal, as the ground upon which I hope for a eontinuance of that confidence, which was then, in a manner to gratifying to my feelings, reposed in me. Should I be fortunate enough to be again chosen as your Representative in Parliament, yon may rely upon a steady perseverance in the same line of conduct on my part. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your faithful and obedient servant, W. W. WHITMORE. DESIRABLE FREEHOLD mfDiPMBirav In Willington, Halghton, and Malpas In the Counties of Flint and Chester. Co Se Solft auction, BY VV. CHURTON, At the Red Lion Inn, in Malpas, in the County o Chester, on Wednesday, tbe 31st Day of May, 1826. at three o'Clock in the Afternoon, in the following or such other Lots as may be then agreed upon, and subject to Conditions : LOT I. ALL that FARM, ill a Ring Fence, with an excellent Farm House, Outbuildings, Yard Garden, Orchard, and ten Pieces of Pasture, Arable and Meadow Land thereto belonging,, containing 43 Acres or thereabouts, more or less, situate in WIL that of endea- I EINGTON, in the Parish of Hantner, and County of ' Flint, in the Holding of Mr. Benjamin Bennett, as Tenant from Year to Year. N. B. The Land- Tax of the Whole of this Lot. except one Piece of Land, is redeemed. LOT II. An excellent FARM, in a Ring Fence, wilh House, Outbuildings, Yard, Garden, Orchard and eleven Pieces of Arable, Meadow, and Pastu Land, containing 28 Acres or thereabouts, more or less, situate in HALGHTON, in the saiil Parish oi Hanmer, and now in the Holding of Mr. William Price, as Tenant from Year to Year. N. B. There is good Marl and Sand on both of the above Lots. LOT III. Al) that Piece of valuable Grass LAND situate irr MALPAS, Cheshire, containing2 Acres or thereabouts, more or less, in the Holding of M Charles Beckett, as Tenant from Year to Year. N. B. The Land- Tax of this Lot is redeemed. LOT IV. All that choice Piece of Land, situate i MALPAS aforesaid, containing Three Quarters of an Acre or thereabouts, more or less, also iu the Holding of Mr. Beckett, as Tenant from Year to Year. The Timber on Lots 1 aud 2 to be taken hy each Purchaser at a Valuation to be produced at tbe Time of Sale. The respective Tenants will shew the Lots ; further Particulars may he bad from Messrs. BROOKES and LEE, Solicitors, or from the Auctioneer, Whit church, Salop. PLOUGHMAN'S DROPS. A Medicine prepared by a Shropshire Gentleman Farmer, SUPERIOR TO ALL THE PREPARATIONS IN THE WORLD, For the Cure of the Venereal Disease, the King Evil, Scrofula, Scurvy, Fistulas, and every Dis- order arising from Impurity of the Blood. TO THE Worthy and Independent Electors OF THE town and Liberties of WENLOCK. J. COOPER INFORMS his'Friends, and Sheep- Breed ers in general, that his ANNUAL SHEW of RAMS for LETTING commences on THURSDAY, the lst f June ; when he will be glad to see any Gentleman ho will favour him with bis Company. BOURTON, NEAR MUCH WENLOCK, MAV 10, 1826. TO THE Worthy and Independent Electors OF THE Town and Liberties of WENLOCK. Gentlemen, relation, Mr. FRANCIS FORESTER, having announced his intention of retiring from the Representation of the Borough of Wenloch at the approaching Dissolution of Parliament, allow me to offer myself as a Candidate for the distinguished honour of succeeding him. I cannot reflect, without the liveliest feelings of gratitude, on the confidence which you have placed in my Family for a long series of years. Resident as I am and always shall le amongst you, our Interests must necessarily ever be united and you may rest assured that, should, you do me the honour of placing me in the proud situation to which I aspire, it will be my constant endeavour, in the discharge of my public duty, to preserve invio- late the envied Liberties of our happy Constitution, and to attend in particular to your prosperity and welfare. I am, Gentlemen, Your faithful servant, J. G. W. FORESTER Willey Park, May 11th, 1826. TO THE Worthy and Independent Burgesses OF THE Town and Liberties of WENLOCK. Gentlemen, AS the period cannot be distant at which you will again be called upon to exercise your elective privileges, I will no longer delay publicly announcing to you, that I do not intend to be a Candidate for the honour of representing you in the next Parliament. A llow me, however, to assure you, that I shall always gratefully bear in mind the kindness and, confidence which I have experienced from you during the last six years, and to express my best wishes for the prosperity of your most ancient and respectable Borough. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your obliged and faithful servant, WM. LACON CHILDE. London, May 11th, 1826. TO THE Loyal and Independent Burgesses OF THE Borouoh of WENLOCK. Gentlemen, Dissolution of Parliament being now most confidently expected, I feel it only a proper mark of respect towards you to express my intention of again presenting myself as a Candidate for the distinguished honour of representing your ancient Borough, when it shall actually take place. A t proper time I shall hasten to pay my personal respects to you; and I can assure you with the utmost sincerity, that, should your kindness qffbn me this highest object of my ambition, my best endeavours will never be wanting to promote on every possible occasion your individual and com- mercial interests, and to assert in Parliament that strict loyalty and independence which first intro- duced me to your notice. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your faithful and obliged humble servant, BEILBY THOMPSON. Escrick, near York, May 8th, 1826. NEW LEICESTER HAMS. m^ mmmm^ BARMOUTH. ni^ HE Public are respectfully informed, a JL COACH to the above Place will leave the BRITANNIA INN, SHREWSBURY, May 31st., and will continue to run, on WEDNESDAYS ONLY, during fhe Bathing- Season. Proprietors : — II. CART WRIGHT, Shrewsbury, T. WHITEHALL, Welsh Pool. W. LLOYD, Mallwyd, R. OWEN, Dolgelley, W. BARNF. TT, Barmouth. ^ aleg by auction. VALUABLE FREEHOLD PROPERTY, IN SHIFFNAL. LONDON THURSDAY, MAY 18. At the Star Hotel, in Shiffnal, on Friday, the 26th of May, 1826, at Five o'Clock in the Afternoon, in the following, or such other Lots as will be mentioned at the Time of Sale, and subject to such Conditions as will then and there be produced : LOT I. LL those Four several newly- erected MESSUAGES or Dwelling: Houses, with the Gardens behind and adjoining- to the same, situate at the Upper End and on the West Side of the High Street, in the Town of Shiffnal, in the County of Salop, now in the respective Occupations of Francis Pinches, Jones, Thomas Kaye, aud John Hams, Tenants from Year to Year, and containing by Estimation OA. 3R. 26P. be the same more or less. LOT II. All that MESSUAGE or Dwelling House, with the Yard and Garden behind and adjoining to the same, and also all that Bam, with the Yard behind and adjoining thereto, and also all that Garden, situate behind and adjoining to the first- mentioned Garden all which Premises are situate and being- on the South Side of Aston Street, in Shiffnal aforesaid, and contain together by Admeasurement 0A. 2R. 16I5. be the same more or less, and are now in the respective Occupa- tions of Hasleham Leake, John Powell, and Samuel Wild, as Tenants from Year to Year. LOT III. All those Two several MESSUAGES or Dwelling Houses, with the Yards, Gardens, and Appurtenances thereto respectively belonging, situate and being on the North Side of Aston Street, in the Town of Shiffnal aforesaid, and uow in the respective Occupations of Mrs. Phoebe Clemson, and Mr. Wil- liam Eyke, or his Undertenant Mr. Charles Smith, as Tenants from Year to Year. Lor IV. All those Three several TENEMENTS or Dwelling Houses, with the Gardens & Appurtenances thereto respectively belonging, situate on the East Side ofthe Horse Fair, in Shiffnal aforesaid, and now in the several Occupations of John Stockton, Jane Moore, and Edward Lowe, as Tenants from Year to Year. LOT Y. All that Piece or Parcel of Arable LAND ( in Lots suitable for Gardens or Building Ground), being Part of a Close of Land called tbe Townseud Field, situate and being at the Northern Extremity of the said Town of Shiffnal, and adjoining to the Road leading from thence to Newport, containing by Ad- measurement. 1 A. 1R. 16P. be the same more or less, and now in the Possession or Occupation of Mr. John Cuxson, or his Trustees. Mr. PETER OSBORNE will shew the Premises ; and any further Particulars may be known upon Applica- tion to him at Mr. Cuxson's Office in Shiffnal ; to Mr. JELLICOE, of Beighterton ; to Mr. STANIRR, Lizard Grange ; or to Messrs. PRITCHARD and SONS, Soli, eitors, Broseley. MONTGOMERYSHIRE. 6c act, ANEAT COUNTRY HOUSE, Fur- nislted or Unfurnished ( with or without Land), fit for the Residence of a genteel Family, within Seven Miles of Shrewsbury. Enquire of THE PRINTERS; if by Letter, Post- paid. Dav Shrewsbury; Procter, Green, Drayton; Houlston and Smith, Wellington ; Smith, Ironbridge and Wenlock; Gitton, Bridgnorth; Scarrott, Shitfnal , Stevenson, Newport; Roberts, R. Griffiths, Powellj J. and R. Griffiths, O. Jones, and Roberts, Welsh- pool; Price, Edwards, Bickerton, Mrs. Edwards, anil Roberts, Oswestry ; Griffiths, Bishop's Castle . Griffiths, Ludlow; Banglr, Ellesmere; Parker, and Evanson, Whitchurch; Franklin, Onslow, Went. r| pHE PLOUGHMAN'S DROPS are 11- so well known throughout Shropshire, an indeed throughout the Kingdom at large, for the Cure of the above Disorders, and without the Aid of Mercury or of any Surgical Operation, that any Comment on their Virtues is quite unnecessary. As a Purifier of the Blood they are 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 the Nostrums of ignorant Quacks, and over the more established Prescriptions j of the Regular Faculty. In Cases of FEMALE DEBILITY, TURN OP LIFE, and any other Affliction of the Body arising from a changed or vitiated System, the PLOUGHMAN'S DROPS may be relied upon for a certain nnd speedy Cure. N. B. Doctor SMITH does not recommend a starve ing System of Diet: he allows his Patients to livs like Englishmen while taking the Ploughman's Drops. These Drops are to be in square Bottles, with these words moulded on each, " Mr. Smithes at Sold by W. & J. EDDO> VES, Morris, Palin, Newling, I Ploughman's Drops" ( all others are spurious), > avies, Powell, Bowdler, Shuker, ana Pritchard, j £ 1, 2s. the large, and Us. the small, Duty in- cluded, at PLOUGHMAN'S HALL, Upton Magna, near Shrewsbury ; also of W. and J. EDDOWES, and Cook- sun, Shrewsbury ; Capsey, Wellington ; Yeates, Salt Warehouse, iron Bridge ; Partridge, Bridgnorth ; Griffiths, Ludlow ; Waidson, Welshpool; Price, Os- westry ; Baugh, Ellesmere ; Jones, Parker, Whit- church ; Procter, Drayton ; Silvester, Newport ; Holmes, No. 1, Royal Exchange, London; and all other Medicine Vend en. AT an Adjourned Meeting of the Trustees of the Burl ton and Llanymynech Turnpike Road, held at the Powis Arms Inn, in Ruyton, on the 28th of April, 1826, it was resolved, that Notice be given, that a SPECIAL MEETING ofthe said Trustees will be held at the Powis Arms Inn, in Ruyton aforesaid, on THURSDAY, the First Day of June next, for the Purpose of Letting the Tolls arising at the Turnpike Gate at Marton, and considering the Expediency of erecting a Toll- gate House there, and also a Toll- bar adjoining- to the Bottom of Plas- Cerrig Lane, near Llanymynech, and for appointing' Trustees in the Stead of those deceased, and also to appoint a Surveyor of the Road, and Clerk to the Trustees, and on other special Business. ( Signed by the undermentioned Trustees.) ROWLAND HUNT, Esq. Rev. GEORGE. EVANS, THOS. LLOYD, Esq. R. S. COMBERBAC1I, JOHN GLOVER. HEREAS JOSEPH CRANAGE, of WELLINGTON, in the County of Salop, Attorney- at- Law, hath, by Indenture bearing Date the tenth Day of May Instant, assigned all his per- sonal Estate aad Effects to WILLIAM TURNER, of Dot, hill Park, in the said County, Esquire, IN TRUST, for the equal Benefit ofall. the Creditors of the. said Joseph Cranage who shall execute the said Deed within Two Months from the Date hereof': NOTICE is hereby given, that the said Deed is left at my Office for tbe Signatures of such of the Creditors as shall be willing to execute the same. WILLIAM'NOCK WELLIRGTOK, UTH MAY, 1826. At the Bear Inn, Welshpool, on Monday, the 12th of June, 1826, unless previously disposed of by Private Contract, of which Notice will be given ;. THE following valuable FREEHOLD ESTATES, situate in the several Parishes of CASTLE CAEREINION, LLANFIHANGEL, LLANFYLLIN, LLANGADFAN, and LLANFAIR. Castle Caereinion. LOT I. All that M ESSUAGE, and also an Overshot WATER CORN GRIST MILL, called Melyn- y rhyd Mill, with about 6 Acres of excellent Meadow and Pasture Ground, with all the necessary Outbuiid- ingSj in the Possession of ~ This Mill contains two Pair of Stones ( the one of Frenches and the other Rye), a Drying Kiln, a Dressing Machine, and all other Conveniences necessary for the Business— Plenty of Water, and is situate adjoining the Road leading from Pool to Llanfair. LOT II. All that MESSUAGE or Dwelling House and Garden, adjoining the last- inentioued Lot, now in the Possession of David Thomas. LOT III. An Allotment of COMMON, on the Northern Side of the' Burwydd Common, containing 37 Acres, adjoining Lands of Lord Clive, Mr. Arthur Davies, and Mr. Stephens. Llanfihangel. LOT IV. All that capital MESSUAGE, called PEN- Y- PARK, with the Farm and Lands thereunto belong- ing, containing about 100 Acres, in the Possession of John Evans. LOT V. All that MESSUAGE, called PEN- Y FORDD, adjoining the last Lot, with the Farm and Lands thereunto belonging, containing about 101 Acres, in the Holding of Thomas Morris. LOT VI. All that MESSUAGE, called BRITII- DIR- COCH, with the Lands thereunto belonging, in the Possession of John Evans. LOT VII. All that MESSUAGE, called CAE YN CWM, with Lands thereunto belonging-, containin 60 Acres or thereabouts, in the Occupation of Edward Williams and Griffith Evans. LOT VIII. An Allotment of COMMON, on Rmw FAWR, containing 18 Acres, in the Occupation of John Evans. Llangadfan. LOT IX. All that MESSUAGE called LLYFRINIOG, with the Lands and Allotment of Common, in the Possession of David Francis. Llanfair. LOTX. All that MESSUAGE, Garden, and Barn near to the Town of Llanfair, in the Possession of Thomas Davies, Parish Clerk. For further Particulars, and to treat for the same apply to RICE PRYCE, of Manafon, Esq,.; JOHN B, WILLIAMS, of Glanhafren, Esq.; Mr. JOHN WIL- LIAMS, Solicitor, Market- Square, Shrewsbury ; o Mr. W. FOULKES, Solicitor, Welshpool; the latter of whom will appoint a Person to show the Premises. The Creditors ofthe late Mr. HENRY FOULKES. deceased, are desired to send the Particulars of their Demands to the Office of Mr. WILLIAM FOULKES, Solicitor, Pool, on or before the First Day of June next, in order to their being- examined previous to tbe Day of Sale of the above Estates ; if by Letter, Post- paid. Pool, 15th May, 1826. ( ONE CONCERN.) His Majesty has been graciously pleased to give £ 1000 to the fund for the relief ofthe distressed workpeople of Glasgow, £ 500 to those of Paisley, and £ 500 to those of Dublin. The Eton Montem, which took place on Tuesday, attracted an immense concourse of people; among whom were tiie Duke and Duchess of Northnmber- and, Lord., Prudhoe, Earl and Countess of Jersey, Mr. Secretary Canning^ Mr. and Lady Agar Ellis, General Sir William Grant,,' Earl and Countess of Verulam, wilh many other distinguished fashionables. The fineness of the day added much to the beauty of the scene ; and from an early hour in the morning, every road leading to Windsor and Salt Hiil was thronged with vehicles of all descriptions. It. is supposed that the carriages of the Nobility and distinguished fash- ionables alone exceeded in uumber one thousand. The Provost gave, as is usual, a public breakfast to several of iheNobilty and Gentry ; and at one o'clcfck the procession set out from the' rear of the College, through the play- fields, froai which they entered the Slough Road, and proceeded to Salt Hill, attended by two bands of music. Many of the dresses and cos- tumes of the young gentlemen were very splendid, particularly the Persian and Spanish, The captain was Mr. Pickering ; the salt- bearers were Sir John Mordaunt, and Mr. Chapman ( son of Sir John Chap- man). His Majesty was not present, but it is said that he sent his donation of one hundred guineas by Mr. Canning. BALLOON.— Fall of a Scaffold.— MR. Green, his son, and another person, ascended in a balloon on Tuesday afternoon from the Bowling- green of the Eagle, City- road. We regret the occurrence of a serious accident which took place about half an hour before the ascent. In a place called Tenter- row, be- hind the Eagle Tavern, the roofs ofa row of cottages of the meanest description were fitted up by the in- habitants for the reception of company, at a lower rate than that demanded for admission to the gardens of the Eagle.— On one of these, occupied by a person named Bart let, a dealer in cats' meat, a very heavy scaffolding had been erected, and was crowded with people. About half an hour before Mr. Green's ascent, this scaffolding gave way, and precipitated the spectators to the earth. Many persons were borne away severely injured, and very exaggerated reports of the extent of the mischief were circulated ; but upon inquiring particularly on the spot, it appeared that one person had a leg and another ao arm broken, and it Was said that the collar- bone of a third was dislocated. Upon the occurrence of the accident the sufferers experienced the most prompt assistance from the inmates of the Tavern. At a little before twelve o'clock that night, Mr. Green and companions re. turned safe to the Eagle Tavern, where they were received with loud and hearty welcomes. It appears they had effected a safe descent at St. Mary's Cray, Kent, on the estate of Percy Well Dyke, Esq. of East Hall, at whose mansion they received a most hospitable reception. ANTI REMINISCENCE. A few evenings since, Mr! Yates, after entertaining a very crowded and fashionable audience at the Adelphi Theatre with his " Reminiscences," called a hackney- coach, into which he entered, taking with him the receipts of the house, amounting to nearly £ 100, and was driven home Immediately after his arrival, he discovered that he had forgoiten the bag containing the treasure in the hackney coach, the number of which he had not ascertained— and all search after the driver proved unsuccessful. oo— —~ SIERRA LF, ONE.— A respectable Gentleman ( says the Glasgow Courier) has put into our hands a long ter from a friend of his, who was in Sierra Leone on the 26th January last, at the date thereof. Where he now is, is another question ; but he does most fervently pray that he was out of thai horrible place. YVe insert the. most striking parts of the letter: Sierra Leonet January 26, 1826. I am still in the land of the living, as you may suppose ; but in this country one's own assertion is not sufficient, as the military agents, wMien about to pay the troops, in addition to the account of the individual, that he is alive, require also the certificate of the Com- manding Officer of the corps. You can form'no idea of this horrible climate. Most of the Officers lately come out, are dead. Out. of the number of seven hundred men, some time ago in high health and spirits, and ready to go against the Ashantees, if that, had been necessary, it would now be difficult to find fifty, or half that number, fit for duty. Last year a detachment, consisting of one hundred and ten soldiers and six officers, medical commissaries included, were sent to garrisson the Isles des Los. Five Officers are dead. The men all nearly so. The survivors are wretched, miserable looking- spectres. Amongst the Military it consists with my knowledge, that one company, on a particular station, was three times re- iuforeed in a short period. In one month ( August) out. of eighty- nine, six Serjeants and twenty eight privates died ! Captain Ross, Aide- de- camp, and Lieutenant. Turner extra, died since the beginning of this month. This is the second nephew the General has lost. His two nieces are still iving, but they g- o home in the first ship. Tbe men composing the corps which are sent out from Britain being culprits and convicts, exceed any thing I can state, in licentiousness, depravity, aud villainy. They are nearly all low Irish. The crimes which are com- mitted in one company in a week would exceed belief. When a fresh batch comes out and are landed the scenes are dreadful, and did not the climate and fever carry them off so fast, 1 know not what we should do. The Senior Lieutenants on the coast at present are principally Clerks, & c. w ho are appointed pro tempore, by the late Sir Charles McCarthy, and confirmed hy the Government at home. 1' The Gazette of Tuesday contains a dispatch from Sierra Leone, from the late lamented General Turner, of th€ 2d of March, containing an account of an attack upon the natives On the Banks of Boom River. Although the attack, or skirmish rather, was of little importance, the details of it are interesting. Il ppears that the principal slave dealers, who are mostly Mulattos, who have been bred in England, and whose property and intelligence give them great influence, have exerted themselves lo the utmost in preventing the Chiefs from joining in any arrange ment with a view seriously to put down the detestable traffic in which they have so strong an interest. Three out of the five vessels on the station drew Too much water to allow them to enter the river, but by lightening the other two, the Albatross and Swift, they were got over the bar, and with the boats of the squadron, and four canoes, proceeded on the expedi- tion. Capta- H) Owen, of the Lieven frigate, Lieut. Mudge, and Lieut. Ovs- en, commanded ( he vessels and boats under the direction of the General. The Albatross grounded,, and could not be goi off nine miles below the enemy's first stockade, but the rest of ihe vessels and the troops, by unceasing exertion, arrived within two miles of it by two in the morning of the day after they set out. The consequence of this rapid advance was a complete surprise. The negroes fled to the bush without firing a musket, and left the stockade with no less than ten pieces of cannon loaded, above a hundred muskets, and a con- siderable quantity of ammunition, to the victors. Next morning, the party proceeded against Maccaba, a town fifteen miles farther up the river. On account of the density and rankness of the vegetation on the banks of the river, and in the approach to the town, some little difficulty was experienced in the outset, and two of the officers and eight of the men were slightly wounded, but these obstacles were speedily overcome, and the town taken. The death of Major General Turner will necessarily put a stop for some time to any attempt at improving this success, but there can be no doubt, lhat even this littie affair will not be without its advantage among savages, by whom force alone is appreciated. We confidently trust, that it will confirm the chiefs in their fidelity to the convention for prohibiting slave- dealing, and that it will humble those native slave- dealers who have so long been the pest of the coagt? and of the colony in particular.. The Importance of our North American Colonies. We have copied the following extract from tbe last number of the Quarterly Review, as embodying the substance of. some very forcible remarks on the sub- ject of our North American Colonies, contained in a pamphlet published by Judge Halliburton, of llalifav, Nova Scotia, entitled Observations on the Import- ance of ike North American Colonies to Great Britain • In reference to pur North , American Colonies, the modern economists say, " We defy any one to point ou t a Single benefit, of any sort whatsover, derived by us from the, possession of Canada, and our olher colonies in North America.. They are productive of heavy expense to Great Britain, but of nothing else. The admission of their timber has done much to cripple and destroy She advantageous commerce we formerly carried o » with the Baltic; and for whom are the people of Britain made to pay a high price for inferior limber? The answer is obvious. Every mats of sense, whether in the Cabinet or out of it, knows, that Canada must, at no distant period," be merged iu the American Republic." We are ready and willing io take up the defiance so cavalierly thrown out/ and we do spin the confidencu that we shall be able to shew the folly- and the fallacy of ihese gratuitous assertions. We think it will not be denied, that maritime power can alone spring from and be nurtured among mari- time states, and that il will increase and be supported with the increase of a maritime population. We suppose it will also be admitted, that whatever adds to the means and strength of a rival power is equiva- lent to the diminishing of the means aud strength of that power from which the addition has been made. If this be true, and if Canada and the other provinces " must merge, as every body knows, in the American republic," it is quite clear that America will gain,- and that England will lose,- just as great an advantage as Canada and the other colonies are capable of bestowing $ and that the evil to England will be far more serious and important than any advantage she Could hope for in getting rid of the expense incurred by the possession ofjiierci. If. Canada and the northern provinces must merge in the American republic, this can only happen by conquest or by cession. As to ihe latter, we should ha grieved, indeed, if we saw the slightest reason t( » suppose, that his Majesty's government ever for a moment contemplated such a voluntary sacrifice. We are well aware, at Ihe same time, that a very general but erroneous opinion has prevailed as to the policy of giving them up, rat Sic r than engage in a contest for their preservation. We have been told usque ad nau~ seam that they are a millstone round. our neck, that they are not worth retaining, & c. If there be any real grounds for any such opinion, Ihe sooner, un- doubtedly, the sacrifice is made the belter; but, as we devoutly believe it to rest on no foundation at all, we do hope and trust that his Majesty's ministers will publicly declare their firm determination to en- courage, protect, and defen'd, by all tbe means aud resources of the nation, the Canadas and the sister provinces, which is due to them ; aud, by so doing, discountenance al once ihe mischievous doctrines of the new school of political economy, which are too well calculated to keep up the erroneous impression. A sort of uneasy feeling has been created among country gentlemen in particular, because ihe Ameri- cans are and have been building some ten or twelve huge unwieldy ships of the line; as if these few large floating masses of limber were destined to annihilate the British navy. But these nervous people, we sus- pect,- have never given themselves ihe trouble of inquiring bow even ibis limited uumber of ships are lo be manned,—' whether the maritime states of America are now, or ever will be, able to produce seamen enough for even the little fleet they have decreed to build ? Let us see to what cxlent Ihe surrender of our North American colonies to the United States, as recommended by Ihese economists, would enable the latter to increase their naval power. America would, in the first place, gain an additional seacoast, equal in extent to that which she already possesses, and of a description very superior fo it for ihe formation of a navy and the support of a maritime population. Commencing at the noble bay of Passamaquoddy and its islands, where the American line now terminates, we find ihe inhabitants mostly seafaring people. The town of St. Andrew's is rapidly rising iuto mercantile importance, and is resorted to by numbers' of European fishing and coasting vessels. Hard , by is Ihe town of St. John's, at the month of the fine river of ( he same name, down which timber is floated iu such quantities as to engage many hundred vessels in exporting il lo Great Britain, and bringing back those supplies of British goods, which ihe wants of a rapidly increasing population annually demand. Ship- building is also carried on in ihe river lo a great extent. The colonies of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia', whose shores surround ihe bay of Fundyj can scarcely be exceeded, for the most part, in point of fertility. Gypsum and coal abound on all these coasts; and, difficult as the navigation is, on account of the rapid tides, there is scarcely the house of a farmer iu which some member of the family will not be found capable of taking charge of the coasting vessels, and con. ducting them in safely up or down this magnificent bay. The southern and eastern sides of Nova Scotia, from Cape St. Mary's to Cape North on the island of Cape Breton, may be called the fishing coast, and are peculiarly adapted to produce hardy and enter- prising seamen. They abound with numerous and commodious harbours, capable of affording shelter lo the largest vessels. The shores swarm with fish, and, notwithstanding the effects of the restrictions upon our commerce, which the liberal policy of ihe mother country is tiow about to remove, Ihe natural advantages of this part of Nova Scotia bas induced many enterprising mer- chants in the settlements along the coast, not ooly to> carry on the shore fishery to a great extent, but to employ vessels in ihe Labrador aud Bank fishery also. Now that Ihese restrictions are removed, aud ihe commerce of Ihe world is laid open to us, there can- not be a doubt lhat our population upon this coast w ill most rapidly increase, Ihe number of the fisher- men will very soon be more than doubled, and llie supplies which ihese fisheries will require, will increase Ihe coasting trade in the same ratio that ihe fisheries themselves increase, ihus producing, iu a vigorous and healthy climate, a most extensive nursery for hardy seamen. Now lei us suppose the United Slates to be iu pos- session of this immense line of seacoast and of all ibis . territory, one part of which indeed denirs to the ill' habitants a subsistence from the soil, but at Ihe same time affords them uol merely a subsistence, but the means of acquiring affluence from the sea - y w hile all the rest is not only capable of supporting fro in. the soil a numerous population, but abounds moreover in various useful minerals, and inexhaustible for# » U of limber for ship- building, and furnishes other supplies for an immense foreign and coast ing trade. Let us contemplate' the numerous inhabitants ' of this extensive coasl, vwho, from their pursuits, their habits, their laws, their language, their religion, and their fcelinsrs, bear a greater resemblance to llie inha- bitants of Great Britain than any other portion of the known world, and who are now well disposed lo con- tinue ber subjects. Let us view these persons ranged upon the side of her enemies, let us see I hem manning Ihe fleets of hostile- America, and engaged io en- deavouring to subvert that power which they are now desirous to support; let us see the treasures of Great Britain lavished to carry on a maritime war with America, in which, but for this accession of strength, the latter would not perhaps have engaged ; ami then let us ask ourselves if it would be wise, in ( hose who can retain them as subjects of Great Britain, to relin- quish ihera lo America, merely because they do not directly pay into her ireasury a revenue equal to ( lie expense of their cstabUshments I sags WABBSBAMASJIAB^^ •?. OF WALES. HOUSE OF LORJ^ S— WEDNESDAY. COiiN LAWS. A return of the wr'n and flour imported from the year 1808 to the present time was made to their Lord- ships. The Earls of MA^ IESBCRY and I. AUDF. RDALE afterwards. presented petitions from Suffolk'.' and Kent against any alteration in the Com Laws. HOUSE OF LORDS- THURSDAY. Several other petitions were presented on the same subject, and a conversation in consequence arose, in which mairy Noble Peers took part. The Earl of BIALMBSBURY wished the' Noble Lord ( Liverpool) to sa.\ that the duly of 12s. was not to have any bearing- on the decision of the general question .— Em I LIVFR- SPOOL said he had no objection to do so. When tiie duty of 12s. was laid on the com now in bond, and the same amount was imposed on any corn to be imported under those measures, it was never meant by that to decide lhat the sum of 12s. was to be the permanent doty, nor that if Parliament" came to a decision that the imposition of a duty was the proper course to he odft^ ted — Lord II BDKSDALB said, the . effect of the present measures would be a tax on agriculturists for the benefit not- only of the manufacturers, but of , the whole country ; and that if they were not to serve as a precedent,' they were nugatory, because they were unnecessary .— Earl LIVERPOOL had no wish at present to enter into further discussion oh the subject, hut when the Bill came before ihe House he should he ready to meet the objections of Noble Lords. He would repeat, however, that the measure was a tem- porary one, to meet a peculiar emergency. If the country were prosperous, and our manufactories fully employed, then there might be no necessity for the measure ; but if it were as it is at present, then there would exist a necessity to prevent distress,— Lord CLIPDFN thought that 12s. duty was sufficient, and the present state of the manufactures and the- currency required the proposed measures. — Lord CALTHORPI? said, that us tfye're was au apprehension, before ihe harvest could be fit for use, of a scarcity of corn, these precautionary measures were necessary. They were certainly a relaxation of the Corn Laws, but, under present circumstances, he considered that relaxation called for.-— The apprehension of any scarcity was denied by several Noble Lords. CRIMINAL justick. On the third reading ofthe hill for the improvement of Criminal Justice, the Earl of MALMESBOKY ob- jected to the payment of prosecutors' expenses out of the county rates, which he considered would prove a jgreat hardship on land- owners.— The Earl of LIVER- POOL in answer said, that the principle of the clause had not been adopted without very full communication with persons most competent to give an opinion-. In ca* es of felony the old practice was to he continued; but as to misdemeanors, only in special cases was there a power now given by the bill, to the officer presiding in court, to order expenses. In urging IN'obie Lords not to oppose the present bill, his object was to let it pass on account of the great improve- ments which its general provisions effected in the administration of justice, aud the advantages which it therefore conferred. As a general question, he c<- r- tainly thought that the expenses should be borne by the- country at large. His Lordship seemed also of opinion, with Mr. Peel, that a change with respect to the conducting of prosecutions was called for— viz. the assimilation of our law to that of Scotland, in the carrying on prosecutions for crimes, not only at the public expense, but bv a public officer who would be responsible fo- the criminal business of his district. The bill was then read a third time and passed. HOUSE OF COMMONS WEDNESDAY. IMPORTATION OF FORR1CN CORN. On the order of the day being moved for the bring- ing up the Report on ikis bill, Sir T. LETHBRIDGE said that, he found it would be vexatious further to oppose the measure, after the majorities by which Ministers had been supported ; he should therefore only hope that the Government would he cautious how they used the power thus placed iu their hands.— The CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER repeated that. Ministers had not the most distant idea'of prejudging the general question of the Corn Laws by the intro- duction of the measures under consideration ; and sifter a few remarks from Mr. II. SUMNER and Sir !{. HERON, the Ueport was . brought up and the bill ordered to be read a thiul time to- morrow. WAREHOUSED CORN BILL. On the motion to bring up tlie Report on this bill, . Sir ft. HERON said that the largest portion of profit resulting from the measure would accrue to persons residing in Liverpool. This remark Mr. MUSKISSON replied was incorrect, as there was twice as much bonded corn iu London as in Liverpool ; and instead of profit, the whole of the Hon. Baronet's fortune would not cover tha- loss which the importers must sustain when they had paid the duty of 12s. The bill was tljen reported, and ordered for a third reading. HOUSE OF COMMONS- THURSDAY. Lord MII. TON asked the Right Hon. Secretary for Foreign Affairs, whether it was the intention of his Majesty's Government to apply any portion of the public money to the relief of the distress in the manu- facturing districts ? — Mr, CANNING eaid, as the motion to come on to morrow evening would embraee the question proposed by the Noble Lord, he should reserve his sentiments until that motion came before the House. Should any thing, however, occur to occasion a postponement, of the discussion, he should in that case have no objection to state the intentions of £ 1iuiste. rs. The Corn Importation and the Warehou » ed Corn Bills were severally read a third time aud passed. COURT OF CHANCERY. The ATTORNEY- GENERAL, in moving for leave to " bring in a Bill founded upon the Report of the Chan- cery Commission, expnliated at great length upon the various propositions suggested by the Commissioners, nnd vindicated the Noble Lord at the head of that Court from the, illiberal attacks and violent aspersions which have been so unceremoniously levelled against him. His object, however, was, not to discuss the various clauses of the bill during the present Session, hut. that it should be printed, to enable gentlemen to If ive every attention to a subject of so much importance to the Judicial character of the country — Mr, WIL- LIAMS said he did not think the bill went far enough to reliere the delays, and remedy the practice and » tbuses, of the Court of Chancery.-— After a few words from MR. PEEL, the SOLICITOR- GENFBAL, Mr. M. A. TAYLOR, and Mr. BROUGHAM, leave was given to bring iu the bill, which was ordered lo be printed. HOU. E OF LORDS- FRIDAY. The bills for the admission of foreign and release of Bonded Corn were brought up from tlie Commons, read a first time, and ordered for a second reading on Tuesday.— The Bishop of FERNS moved for some official returns, for the purpose of shewing with more certainty the average income of the parochial ciergy of Ireland, which were ordered. HOUSE OF COMMONS- FRIDAY. Mr. BROUGHAM introduced his motion relative to the treatment of Slaves in the West Indies. The Learned Gentleman concluded a speech of great length by stating, that nothing effectual had been done hy the Colonial Legislatures to ameliorate the condition of slaves, and pledging the House to adopt, early iu the next session, measures for carrying into effect the recommendation of the Government and the House for that purpose.— Mr. WILMOT HORTON, in answer, stated that the resolution, if adopted, would go to censure the measures of Government, as idle and delusive. The censure, too, which it would inflict upon the Legislative Assemblies, he also contended, was not merited, as evidence of which he enumerated various measures enacted by them, tending to auie liorate the condition of the slaves, and evincing a desire to meet, the views ofthe House.— Dr. LUSHING- TOV, Mr. DENMAN, Mr. C. ELLIS, and other Members having delivered their sentiments, Mr. Secretary CANNING rose al a late hour, look a luminous review of ail the arguments which had been urged, aud deprecated any departure from that system of concilia- tion which had hitherto been pursued, unless it should he met by such a spirit of contumacy and resistance by the Colonial Assemblies as would justify the employ- ment of a more decisive course. The Right Hon. Gentleman also repeated his former declarations, that $ t was the. fixed determination of Government to come to Parliament for powers to give full effect, to it* intentioun, should tho necessity for such a step unfor- tunately occur. Mr. Canning then moved the previous question, and the resolution proposed by Mr. Brougham was negatived bv a division of 100to38. Lord EDWARD SOMERSET said that his noble rela- tive, Lord Charles Somerset, had arrived, and was anxious to meet the charges against, him at tli » e earliest opportunity. Mr. BEAUMONT said the case could not come on this session, but. he pledged himself, if in Parliament, to bring it forward in the next.— Mr. TIERNEY gave notice that he should on Friday call the attention of the House to the Report of the Committee appointed to consider the state of. the circulation in Scotland and Ireland. The usual sessional resolutions were, in the, course of the proceedings, moved and agreed to. The House, on rising at four o'clock on Saturday morning, adjourned until Friday next. All Committees are, however, to sit during the adjourn- ment. To a renewed inquiry, in the Bouse of Commons on Friday, whether any public vote was intended . for the relief of the distressed districts ofthe country, Mr. Canning1 replied, that Ministers, after the most anxious inquiry, and the most deliberate considera- tion ofthe subject, had determined not to apply to Parliament for a grant of public money for the purpose alluded to. The 301 h of the present, and the 3d of the next month, are each mentioned as the probable day on which Parliament will bs disiolred. LON DON— SATUHDAY. . Letters from Buenos Ay. res, dated 11th of February announce the receipt of letters from Valparaiso in eleven days^ with accounts of the capture of the Island of Chiloe hy the Chilian forces and fleet This is the last remnant of the Spanish army in South America. In consequence of the alteration of the weights and measures, the Lords of the Treasury have direct- ed the " Commissioners of Excise to take the duty on malt at the rate of 2s. 7d. the bushel only, from 5th Jan. 1826, and to prepare a Bill to give effect to that decision." WHO IS MR. JACOB?— Mr. Jacob was formerly a linen- draper in Newgate. street. At one time he acquired property by consignments abroad, became a farmer, and was a Member of Parliament; but over- fepeculation in the end ruined him; and he was made receiver- general of corn returns— Fanner's Journal. Earl Chesterfield completes his minority on Tuesday next, on which occasion rejoicings are to take place in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. An official return to Parliament states the following to be the quantities of Foreign Grain, & c. ware- housed in Great Britain on the 1st of May last: — Wheat, 270,688 qrs ; Barley, 29,919 qrs".; Oats, 227,600 qrs.; Rye, 4253 qrs.; Beans, 12,062 qrs ; Peas, 25( 5 qrs. — Wheat meal, and flour, 69,726 cwt. Oatmeal 20 cwt. We have good authority for assuring our country friends, that no alteration will be enacted this Session of Parliament in the laws that regulate the butter trade; but that a considerable improvement is intended to be made in the next session, accom- panied, however, by a reduction of 50 per cent, of the duty on foreign butter. This is a point of essential importance to the agricultural interests of Ireland, and should be deeply considered by the landowners, landholders, and the public in general, during the interval between the dissolution ofthe old Parliament and the meeting of the new one.— L& inster Journal. BURSTING OFTHE HADDINGTON CANAL.— The new sewer now executing at Paddington, having been left in an insecure state on Sunday night, the water from the canal forced a passage into it, and with the noise of an earthquake blew if up in every direction, forcing Ihe earth with it for several yards into a brick- field, sweeping down thousands of new bricks ; thence taking ils tremendous course along the fields towards Bayswaier, it fell with a roaring noise into the West bourne,. which it swelled into a rapid river. The loss lo the Canal Company will, it is thought, amount to severalthousand pounds, for it is not merely tbe re- constructing the sewer, paying the damage done, but the charge for detaining tiie merchandise in the packet- boats, which amounts, it is said, to some hundreds per diem, and which must now continue for some consideiable time longer, perhaps some weeks. The fields over which the current passed presented a most curious spectacle in the morning, being literally covered with people catching tbe eels and other fish which bad escaped, and which they were hunting for among the high grass. St was said lhat one man, in the early part of the morning, took two or three hundred weight of tine eels, and sold them at the market. The London Gazette, after the 27th of June is to be published on Fridays instead of Saturdays. BANKRUPTS, MAY20.— Joseph Smith, of Horncastle, Lincolnshire, wine and spirit- merchant.—— Edward Walter Hider aud John Goodinge, late of High Holborh, Middlesex, linen- drapers.— Peter Charman, of Piccadilly, Middlesex, jeweller— William Kaye, of Dykeside, Almondbury, Yorkshire, dyer.— James Firth, of Huddersfield, Yorkshire, tailor and draper. Samuel Bottomley, of Huddersfield, Yorkshire, woolstapler.— William Hartley, of Sheffield, provision- dealer.— ThomasTavler, of Clement's- innMiddlesex, money- scrivener.— Moses Moses and Lewis Moses, of Great. Prescot- street, Go ® dmavi's-. fields, Middlesex, merchants — Charles Dolton, of Chatham- place, Hack- ney, Middlesex, merchant.— Thomas Eustace Penner, of Newent, Gloucestershire, currier.— Samuel Prince Chapmnn, of King- street, Cheapside, London, ware- houseman.— William Svnapp, of Crawford- street, St. Mary- le- bonc, Middlesex, hatter & furrier.— Edmund Gibbs, of Brighton, Sussex, carpenter and builder.— John Hemhrow, of Worcester, tailor.— Wm. Anderson, of Manchester, dealer.— George Noyes, of Strand, Middlesex, lineal- draper.— Thomas Cooke the younger, of Birmingham, brass- founder.— Thomas Lea, of Bil- ston, Staffordshire, miller and victualler.— Samuel Gar forth and John Garforth, of Ovenden, Halifax, Yorkshire, merchants aad manufacturers.— William Maiben, of Brighthelmstone, Sussex, stable- keeper and corn- chandler.— John Parker Hall, of Liverpool, merchant,— John Ousey, of xMa^ ichester, oil- merchant. — John Dinham, Exeter, grocer and jeweller.— Joseph Cattell, of Wood- street, London, silkman and silk- manufacturer.— Frederick Holt* of Liverpool, mordant charcoal and acid- manufacturer.— John Twentyman the elder and John Twentyman the younger, of Kes- wick, Crosthwaite, Cuaiberland, woollen- manufac- turers.—- Edward Leadiey, late of Cloughton, York- shire, bacon- factor.— William Pearce, of Chester, stay and corset- manufacturer and commission- agent.— Benjamin Chesterman, of Holies- street, Clare- market, Middlesex, carpenter.-— Wm. Phipps, of High- street, Shoreditch, Middlesex, willow hat- manufacturer.— John Mayes Clarke, of Lower Marsh- street, Lambeth, Surrey, boot and shoemaker.— Samuel Slee and John Wood row, of Upper East Smithfield, Middlesex, brewers.— Thomas Warrington the elder, of Hart street, Mark- lane, London, wine and spirit, broker and agent. — William Jones, of Rainham, Kent, barge- master and wharfinger. INSOLVENTS.— Benjamin IRailey, jnn. of Size- lane, dry- salter.— Thomas Witts and James Ingleby Moss, of Cheltenham, mercers and drapers.— Alpheus Harris, of Dursley, Gloucestershire, cloth- factor and commis- sion agent.— William Heald, of Sheffield, broker and auctioneer. John Barnard, of Commercial- road, baker. ' journal- WEDNESDAY, MAY u, isas. 1 MISS RAWLINS, CORSET- MAKER, OST respectfully informs her Friends, We are requested to contradict the statement of the marriage of the Rev. J. M. Wood, as inserted in our last.-- The MS. copy, with the name of the person who brought, it to our office, have been forwarded to Mr. W. MARRIED. On the 16th inst. at Whitchurch, by the Rev. T Corser, M. A. George Corser, Esq. jun. to Frances, youngest daughter of the late John Clay, Esq. On Wednesday, the 17th inst. at Penn, bv the Rev. A. B. Haden, M. A. Thomas Mo « s, youtfgest son of William Phillips, of Chetwynd House*, - in - this county, Esq. to Ellen Pershouse, youngest daughHmof William Thacker, of Muchall Hall, in the county of Stafford, Esq. On the 18th inst. at Oswestry, by the Rev. G. W. Birkitt, A. M. Mr. John Lacon, ironmonger and grocer, to Mary, second daughter of the Rev. John Whitridge, of Chapel House. On the 15th inst. at Condover, Mr. Charles Savage, of Church Pulvcrbatch, to Anne, eldest daughter of Mr. John Goff, of Westley. Same day, Mr. Richard Price, parish clerk of St Mary's, in this town, to Eleanor, only daughter of Mr.' Pursell, builder. DIED. On Monday, the 22d inst. the Rev. John Mayor for upwards of forty years the respected Vicar of Shawbnry., in this county, aged 70. Haying long- laboured under a species of Angina Pectoris, sudden death had heen anticipated, both by himself and his friends. To the publick the deceased had been too long known not to be deeply and deservedly regretted In social and domestick life he had exhibited an amiable pattern of Christian virtue. He had adorned the clerical profession by. the extent of his biblical learning, the soundness of his doctrine, and the holi- ness ofhis life. And it affords animating consolation, that the loss sustained, by an affiicted family, and a sympathising community, is his gain — the energies of his powerful and cultivated mind, disencumbered by a mortal body, have already unfolded, under incal- culable advantages, amidst the light of heavenly glory. In London, after a short illness, Jane, the youngest daughter of Thomas Benyon, of New Grange, York- shire, Esq. and niece of B. Benyen, Esq. M. P. of Haughton Hall, in this county. On the 18th inst.. much regretted by her relatives and friends, Mrs. Rodenhurst, of High Ercail, iu her 85th year. At Eliesmere, on the 5th inst. aged 82 years, Mrs. Martha Lowe, relict of the late Mr. Samuel Lowe, tallow- chandler.— Also, at Ellesmere, on the 11th inst. Mrs. Elizabeth Lowe, aged87 years, late of Edgmond, in this county. On the 2d inst. in the 66th year of his age, Mr. Pitt, of Posenhall, near Broseley. His private virtues will long render his death severely felt by his family and friends : he was charitable without ostentation — open, candid, and sincere; in short, he possessed every good quality that could constitute the character of an honest, good man. On the 21st inst. at Chatwall Lawn, in this county, Mr. Samuel Dayus, in the 78th year of his age; a peaceful and truly honest man, and much respected by all who knew him. On the 17th inst. Mr. Thomas Reynolds, of Farley, near Pontesbury. On the 18th inst. at his house in Duke- street, Westminster, in the 79th year of his age,. the Right Hon. Sir Archibald Maedoiiald, Bart. On the Uth inst. in his 87th year, Mr, John Hoyte, formerly gamekeeper at Mustou, near Be. lvoir Castle. He was buried in the grave of his grandfather, Mr. John Hoyte, also of Muston, and the two John Hovtes had heen gamekeepers to every Duke of Rutland there has been. Old John Hoyte was keeper to the first, second, and third Dukes, and he who is lately deceased was keeper to the third, fourth, and fifth j Dukes, and also to the Duchess Dowager during the present Duke's minority. f . ft she has received from London some Fashion- able Patterns of' Corsets, with a large Assortment of Patent Spring Steels and French Laces. tVyle Cop, Shrewsbury, May 18. TO- MORROW. STIjeatre, o^ ruiugmirp. WHITNEY & CO. ATE received a large Supply of genuine D. MAI. VERN SODA WATER, in Gloss Bot- tles, which they can particularly recommend. They continue to prepare the CITRATF. D KALI, » o much used for allaying febrile Heat, and affording a most accurate and expeditions Mode of preparing Saline Draughts Also the Concentrated GINGER BEER POWDERS, for instantly making very supecior Ginger Beer— one Tea- spoonful of the Powder being sufficient to make a Half- pint Glass full, in the high- est State of Perfection. Seidlitz, Soda, and Lemonade Powders ; also Sa- vory and Moore's Seidlitz Powders, Thompson's Cheltenham Salts, fcc. & c. Highly- carbonated Ginger Beer, drawn from tlx Fountain ; very superior to the Bottled. Wri ECOP, MAY 23. So toe Uet, WITH IMMEDIATE POSSESSION, PEN'R ALLT HOUSE, MACHYN- LLETH, containing a Breakfast Room, Dining Parlour, Drawing Room, six principal Bed Rooms, four Servants' Rooms, two Kitchens, Cellars, Out- houses, and Stabling for three Horses.— A Garden adjoining, and Land, may be had, if required.— The Situation is pleasant, and commanding extensive Views of the surrounding Country. Further Particulars may be had by personal Appli- cation, or by Letter ( Post- paid), to Mr. THOMAS EVANS, Machynlleth, Montgomeryshire. HHHE WIDOW of the late WILLIAM J^ HOT. CHKISS, of Shoplateh, Shrewsbury, desires that all Persons to whom her late Husband was indebted at the Time of his Decease, would send in their Accounts for Examination ; and all Demands that are not sent in by the 1st of June, 1826, will be considered void. The said Mrs. HOTCHKISS requests that all Persons indebted to her lale Husband do pay he same as soon as possible to herself, in Shoplatch, or to her Brother, WILLIAM PUGH. MAY 24, 1826. DE CAMP ESPECTFULLY announces that he has, at a great Expense, formed an Engagement with that highly celebrated Actress, Of the Theatres Royal, London, Positively THREE NIGHTS only, vfz. Thursday, ZStk, Friday, 2Gth, and Saturday, 27th of May, 1826, DURING WHICH SHE Wilt APPEAR IS HI? It MOST POPULAR CHARACTERS. t On Thursday, 15th of May, 1826, Will he performed, The mmmmm smaMp&^ osa* THE PART OF LETITIA IIARDY, MISS FOOTE; In which she will introduce the favourite Song of " Where are yon going, my pretty Maid » " And a celebrated FANCY DAJMCE. MECHANICS' INSTITUTION. Wholesale avd Retail Grocer, TEA- DEALER, CHEESE, BUTTER, AND HOP- FACTOR, BENJAMIN" JONES ( LATE OF MARDOL) 113EGS most respectfully to inform his . J& Jy Friends and the Public, that he has Commenced Business nt his new Establishment on the WYLECOP, nearly opposite the Unicorn Inn, where he has selected every Article of the first Quality, and from the best and cheapest Markets, and where he is determined lo offer every Article, on Terms equal to any House in the Kingdom ; assuring his Friends that no Exertion on his Part shall be wanting to merit their Encouragement and Support. B. J. has regularly on Sale fine strong rich- fla- voured Teas, direct from the Honourable East India Company's Quarterly Sales, with Coffee, Fruits Spiqes, & c.; prime Cheese, Butter, Bacon, & c. LONDON, Monday Night, May 22, 1856. PRICES OF FUSDS AT THE CLOSE. Red. 3 per Cts. ' i 3 per Ct. Cons. 7Hj Imperial 3 per Cls.— 31, per Cents. — jj per Cents. Red. 84 4 per Cents. 94$ Bank Stock 200 Long Ann. U'f India Slock India Bonds 8 Ex. Bills ( I'd.) 9 Cons, for Acc. 78g We have received this morning, Peruvian papers to Ihe 24lh of January. They contain a correspond- ence of a very amicable nature between the French Vice- Admiral, Rosami l, and Ihe Ministers fur Foreign Affairs of Peru and Chili. The most friendly senti ments are expressed by Rosaincl, on tbe pari of ' tis Government, towards tbe New Stales. He also speaks of the satisfaction with which Ihe French King had heard of Ihe wishes of certain South American fami- lies, to have their children educated in France, and announces various arrangements made by the French Government, to facilitate the accomplishment of this object. The Chilian Secretary for Foreign Affairs, ac- knowledges llinse friendly professions with many ex pressions of gratitude. Me hopes, that at no distant period, France and Pern will he found connected by Hill more intimate ties. He alludes to the liberal principles acted upon wilh respect to Saint Domingo, hy Charles X, of whom he says, " he will be regarded, henceforth, as a fiiend to the tarred rights of men." In the Gaceta del Gohiemo there appears a letter from Ihe Chilian Agent in London, announcing the terms on which ships from South America may enter Ihe French ports, and thence inferring, on the part of France, a disposition to recognise Ihe Independence of tbe New Staler. Visiting Clergyman this week at the Infirmary, the Rev. John Richards:— Honse- Visitors, John Beck, Esq. and John Eaton, jun. Esq. The M> yor of this town has received an appli- cation from the Committees in London and in the North of England, requesting subscriptions for the relief of the distresssed manufacturers, and has directed books to be left at the different Banks, for subscribers to enter their names ar. d pay their sub- scriptions, which he purposes to remit to London to be disbursed under the direction of that Committee. THE ROMA1) CATHOTIC QUESTION.— At the re- quest of several Gentlemen of the Highest respecta- bility, we have in our 4th page inserted a letter on this subject to the Lord Mayor of London, from Mr. Poynder, a gentleman who fills an office of high trust and respectability in the city of London.— The letter presents, perhaps, the very best epitome of the present state of the Roman Catholic Question that has been offered to the public; and is as per. feet a chain of demonstrative reasoning as was ever employed on any subjeet.-- lt is, therefore, earnestly recommended to the consideration of every Elector in England. The Shrewsbury Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry, commanded by Colonel Dallas, assembled in this town on Thursday; they will be inspected this day and they will complete their term of permanent duty to- morrow. OXFORD, MAY 20 — On Wednesday last, the first day of Act Term, the Rev. Edward Burton, M. A. late Student of Christ Church, was nominated one of the Examiners in Liter is Hum » nioribus, and Richard Greswell, M. A. Fellow of Worcester Col- lege, an Examiner in DUciplinis Mathematicis et Physicis. SHREWSBURY HOUSE OF INDUSTRY.— On Satur- day last, a Special Assembly of the Guardians took place, for the purpose of consenting to the New Act of Incorporation now before the House of Lords, and of attaching the Common Seal of the Corporation of Guardians thereto.— The New Act is to eommer. c its operation on the 1st of October, 182fl ; when the qualifications of Guardians, instead of being a free, hold of £ 30, or an assessment for £ 15, will be a free, hold of £ 70, or an assessment for £ 25. This nevr clause, it was observed, would deprive the Parishes of the services of many persons best qualified for tbeofHces ofGuardian and Director.— The Directors are to ascertain the settlements of the Poor in the House on the 1st of October, 1826; and in case of disputed settlement, the cases are to be referred to 2 or more of the County or Town Magistrates.— The title ofthe Establishment under the New Act is to be " The Shrewsbury Poor United District," which title, Mr. Hazledine said, was very appropriate!- The heads of the Bill were read by the Rev. Mr. Langley ( the Chairman), the consent of the Guardi ans present was unanimously given, and the Com mon Seal having been attached, the assembly separated. CHANGE RINGING — On Saturday last, was rung, at Aston, near Birmingham, ( by ten of the society of the latter place,) a peal of New Trebl* Bob Royal, consisting of 5040 changes, ia three hours aud thirty- three minutes. CouaT OF CHANCERY.— In the House of Com- mons, on Thursday last, Mr. J. Williams, ia his observations on the Bill introduced relative to the Court of Chancery, noticed several cases of hard- ship that had occurred in that Court, aud in parti- cular the case of Mr. Wellings, who was a partner in a bank at Ludlow, and who would be entitled to £ 32,000 as soon as the Lord Chancellor should deliver his judgment, and who came into Court, and, addressing the Lord Chaucellor, said it was impossible to describe what he suffered from the postponement of the judgment, aud requested his Lordship would name an early day. The following Friday was then appointed by the Lord Chancellor, and on the appointed day Mr. Wellings again came into Court, stated the amount of his interest in the suit, that he was 72 years of age, had 17 children, and 72 grandchildren, and that he \ v* s anxious to settle his affairs. The Lord Chancellor then stated, that he had pronounced his judgment six months before. The Registrar went out of Court to look for the minutes of judgment, but could not find them, and on his return, having informed the Lord Chancellor of the circumstance, his Lordship promised that the minutes of judgment should be delivered, but this had never been done. The con- sequence of this delay was ruinous to Mr. Wellings; for in the month of March last a run waf! mode upon the batik in which he was a partner, ar. S'he became & bankrupt, and, in all probability, because so much ofhis property was locked up, awaiting the decision of the Court of Chancery. It is our painful duty this week to announce the stoppage of the Hinckley Commercial Bank of Messrs. Jervis and Co. This unfortunate occurrence took place on Tuesday last, and its calamitous con- sequences are deeply to be regretted.— Leicester Journal, May 20. Mr. Wakefield, who carried off Miss Turner, sur- rendered himself into custody at Stockport, ou Tues- day- last. WMTER FEW Morses may he soiled upon Winter Vetches, by applying to G. YOUNG, Canal Wharf. MAY 16,1826. WALK rfH F. Committee of the S H R O PS HI It P. I- MECHANICS' INSTITUTION gratefully ac- knowledge having received Donations of Books from the following persons : G. F. D. Evans, F. sq. Mr. T. Howell Mr. P. Horsman Venerable Archdeacon Corbctt, 2 Lota Mr. C. Hulberl Mr. C. Gittins W. W. Ilow, Esq. Mr. W. Woodroofe J. C. Wood, Esq. Marsh W. Lloyd, Esq. As/ on. The Committee also beg Leave to inform the Mem- bers, that a commodious Set of Roams are now fitting up ill Castle Court, for Lectures, Library, and School. ' Sjr* fhe School- room will be opened iu two or three Weeks. P. HORSMAN, Secretary. MARRIED. On the 11th inst. at Blaeiiporlh Church, hy the Rev. T. I, ewes, Vicar of Great Barrington, Capt. T. Lewes, late of the 23d Lancers, to Mary Anne Jane, second daughter of John Vaughan, Esq. of Tjllwyd, Cardiganshire. (> o the nth inst. at Llangadock, Carmarthenshire, David Lloyd Harries, Esq, of Llandingal House, Llau- overy, to Caroline, second daughter of the late Morgan price Llojd, Esq. of Glanseviu, in the said county. On the 15th inst. the inhabitants of the parish of Montgomery presented to their Kector, tbe Reverend MAURICE EDWARD LLOYD, a handsome and massive Pieceof Plate ( suitably inscribed), and accompanied it with an Address, expressive of their regard for him, and of their high approval ofhis conduct during the time he has beeu their Pastor— a period of more than thirty years.— Mr. Lloyd, in a man- ner and in language that will never be forgotten by those to whom it was addressed, returned his acknowledgments for this gratifying token of the esteem ofhis parishioners.— The Piece of Plate was furnished by Mr. Baker, of Shrewsbury. The King has been pleased to grant unto Sir Harford Jones of Boultibrooke, Radnorshire, and of Hautbrooke- Grove, Gloucestershire, Bart, authority that he and his issue may take the surname of Brydges, in compliance with the proviso in the last will and testament of his cousin, Mary Brydges.— Gazelle. FATAL ACCIDENT — As Mr. Kirkby, draper, of Bangor, was returning from Carnarvon, on Tuesday evening, his horse took fright on Vaynol hill, in passing a cart loaded with earthenware, the right stirrup broke, and Mr. Kirkby being a heavy man, fell with tremendous force to the ground upon the back part of his head : the fall caused a very exten- sive fracture of tlio skull, with great depression and extravasation ofblood upon thebrain. The deceased, who was 70 years of age, was well ktw) wn in the principality, having travelled as hawker of drapery goods, & c. through the principal towns in North Wales for upwards of 30 years. Late on Saturday night, the 13th or early on Sunday morning, the 14th instant, the office of Mr. Roberts, of Mold, was entered by means of false keys, and a way made into the strong room, in which was an iron chest, containing cash, bills of exchange, and local notes, to the amount of upwards of £ 4000, with which the thieves got clear off,— A reward of £ 200 is offered for the apprehension of the offenders.— See Advert. LIVERPOOL.— VVe understand that it has been determined to erect a line of Telegraphs for the com- munication of shipping and commercial intelligence, from Holyhead along the coast to this port. By Ihis means, in the course of a few minutes, the appear- ance of any vessel off Holyhtad wiil be known in Ihe Underwriters' Room at Liverpool. Commercial Chronicle. G. WILLIAMS, CFrom London J, HOUSE, SIGN, AND ORNAMENTAL PAINTER, Opposite the Talbot Hotel, fH EGS Leave most respectfully to ac- ? quaint the Nobility and Gentry of SHREWS- BURY and its Vicinity, that he has COMMENCED BUS I NESS at the above Place ; and as it is G. W.' s Intention todo ihe principal Part of the Business him- self, Gentlemen favouring him with their Orders may rely on their being executed in a masterly Style and Manner, and lie assures tliein that no Attention shall he wanting- on his Part to merit a Continuance of their Favours. N. B. G. W. intends introducing his Imitations of Wood and Marble, which he will undertake to imitate far superior to any seen in this Part nf the Country. WANTED, a good House and Ornamental Painter ; likewise a good House Painter. SUPERIOR IRISH LINEN WAREHOUSE, HIGH- STREET, SHREWSBURY. m& mimir mmaiBAiLiiDo SHREWSBURY. In onr Market, on Saturday last, the price of Hides was 3^ d. per lb.— Calf Skins 5il.— Tallow 3d. Wheat. Barley. Oats..".., Average Prices of Corn per Quarter, in England and Wales, for the tceek ending May 13, 1826 : Wheat, 59s. 10d.; Barley, 29s. 3d.; Oats, 23s. Id. CORN EXCHANGE, MAY - 22. Although our supplies last week, and those fresh in to this day's market, were rather small, the Wheat trade is extremely dull, fine samples having, with difficulty, supported the prices of this day se'nnight, and the business done was very trifling indeed. Barley is nominal in price, the Malting season having passed by, there is nothing doing- in lliis article. Beans are Is. and Pease of both kinds 2s. per quarter dearer. Oats sell freely, cud fine fresh corn is full Is. per quarter higher than on last Monday. In Flour, and ether articles, there is no variation in prices. Current Price of Grain per Quarter, as under : TONAR & CO. ITAVIN'G determined to close their Es- JiL tablishment on Saturday, June 3d, 1826, cannot leave Shropshire without, expressing their Gratitude to- the principal Part of the Inhabitants, and particularly to those Residents in Shrewsbury and its Vicinity, for the decided Preference given to every Article of iheir manufacturing, and respectfully in- form them that they'are now SELLING OFF their extensive Stock at the Belfast Wholesale Prices, which will afford the best Opportunity ever offered to those Families who may want a large Supply of Irish Linens, Damask Table Cloths, Napkins, or any Description of Sheetings, Long Lawn, Towelling Huckabacks, Gl ass Cloths, Rubbers, & c. Should any Lady or Gentleman be in Want of TON All & Co.' s Goods, previous to their Return at the Expiration of Twelve Months, any Order addressed to Ihem at the Linen Hall, Belfast", or No. 12, College Lane, Liver- pool, will meet the most grateful and punctual Atten- tion.— Family Coats of Arms wove to nny Device, MAY 24, 1828.— Licensed Ilawker, No. 93!) B. SHREWSBURY ORIGINAL COAI. PORT FELTSPAH CHIP? A, Earthenware, and general Glass Warehouse. T. BROCAS PRESENTS his grateful AcWvledg- IL ments for the Patronage he and his lale Father have received in the above Branches of Trade for the hist Forty Years, and very respectfully informs the Nobility, Clergy, Gentry, and Public, that after con- siderable Time spent in personally visiting llie princi- pal China anil other Manufactories in the Kingdom, he has succeeded in collecting some of ihe most Costly, Rare, ami UnrivalledSpecimens of Ornamental and Useful CHINA and GLASS, of British Production, of which he enumerates— , Every Description of Ornaments for Chimney Pieces, Sideboards, & c. Most beautiful Slobs, copied faithfully from original Paintings by tiie most celebrated Italian and other Artists, and which do Honour io the County of Salop. Elegantly chaste Jewellery Trays, with Views of tlm Nobility's and other Seals " around, accurately painted. Some matchless Specimens of open- work Vases,& e. richly studded with varied Flowers, Cupids, each carved upon the Palm ofthe llaud, in Imita- tion of Dresden, & c. Full and complete Tea Sets, of the newest Shape., Designs, and Patterns, at from 20 Shillings to 20 Guineas per Set. Ditto ditto Breakfast Ditto, wilh 70 and 80 Pieces, ditto 3 Guineas to 311 Guineas. Ditto ditto Dessert Ditto, at all Prices. Ditto Blue Printed Table Services of Wedgewood' » and Spode's Manufacture, at from 5 to 12 Guineas each. Ditto rich Japans, Burnished Gold, Enamelled Flowers, Landscape, Figure, and other Patterns, of Coal port China, sold at the Discount Profit. Of GLASS, T. B. has received lately some of the most beautifully Cut Handled Claret Decanters, Wine Coolers, Wine, Claret, Ale, and Goblet Glasses, Waler Ewers and Carafts, Hall, Passage, and Freuch Side- board Lamps, in great Variety. Patent Wine and Glass Botiles, of double Strength, at 55s. per Gross. In his CHEESE Warehouse, T. BROCAS has re. Ceived lately from the must famed Dairy Districts Rich ripe Cream Stilton, Parmesan, double and single Berkeley, North Wiltshire, & e. each of which he can safely recommend; and in ils Sea. son he expects his former Dairy of rich pale Derby Toasting Cheese. T. B. is the only Vender in Shrewsbury of Wedge- wood's, Spode's, and Coalport China, the latter of which has been patronized by the Society of Arts with a valuable Gold Medal, awarded for its'Superiority, and which is warranted NF. VER TO FLY WITH HOY WATER, and the ornamental GOLD is burnt into the llody ; and as he has succeeded, w ith much Labour and Anxiety, in procuring such a rare Assemblage. he begs to solicit the Inspection ofthe Connoisseur and Admirer of the Arts, w hich will amply repay them, ai T. B. has, in Addition to his before- mentioned very extensive Shew Rooms, appropriated another Room exclusively to an entire new Stock of Coalport Felt- spar China, to which he most respectfully invites their Attention, and would feel honoured by ail early Call. N. B. T. BROCAS'S Prices are the Manufacturers'; and from his extensive Dealings with the first China and Glass Houses, and his long Coiyiexion with th « Trade, he confidently appeals to the Reason of his Friends for a Preference to those Itinerant and other Dealers who procure Goods of a most inferior Quality, and palm them upon the Public for tbe best Goods: and to state most respectfully his Determination to be undersold ( in the best Ware) by no respectabls Dealer in the Trade. fcj" Patterns sent to any Part of the Country, fre « of Expense; and Credit given to regular Families. HEREAS ROBERT SHROPSHIRE, of DRAYTON- IN- 11AI. ES, in the County of Salop, Innkeeper, hath, by Indenture, hearing Date the 29th Day of April last past, assigned all his Personal Estate nnd Effects to Mr. GEORGE RAOFORD, of the same Place, IN TRUST, for the Benefit of all the Creditors of the said Robert Shropshire who shall execute the said Deed on or before the 24th Day of June next : NOTICE is hereby given, that the said Deed is left at the Office of Mr. STANLFY, Solicitor, of Drayton in- Hales aforesaid, for the Signature of such of the Creditors as shall be willing to execut* the same, DRAYTON, 17TH MAY, 1826. Bishop's Castle, loth May, 1826. MARY NORTON EGS Leave most respectfully to return Thanks to the numerous Friends and Customers of her late Son WILLIAM NORTON, deceased, for their kind and liberal Support since his Commencement in Business; and begs to acquaint them, that sin* has declined Business in Favour of Mr. C. PRICE, for whom she solicits a Continuance of those Favours. C. PRICE, MERCER, DRAPER, &. C. RESPECTFULLY informs his Friends . and the Public in general, tiiat he has taken and entered upon the House and Shop, together with Ihe Stock in- Trade, of the lale WILLIAM NORTON, deceased, and has also laid in a new and choice Assortment of Goods in the various Branches, and humbly solicits a Share of that Patronage and Support so liberally bestowed upon his late Predecessor, which will be thankfully received, and every Attention paid to merit a Continuance of their Favours. TWO HUNDRED POUNDS REWARD. RJJPIIE STALLION CHAMPION will ia J3- future always be at Home. WEM, May 23, 18- 26. Wheat 50s to 64s Barley 34s to 37 « Malt 50s lo 60s White Peas.. Beans.. Oats.... 42s to 46s 40s to 46s 28s to 34s Fine Flour 50s lo 55s per sack ; Seconds 45s lo 50s SMITH FI ELI) fper st. ofSlh. sinking - offalJ. Beef 4 » 4d to 5s 0( 1 i Pork 4s 4( 1 to 5s 4<! Mutton... 4s 2d to 4s 8d I Veal 5s Od to 6s Od Lamb 5s 6d to 6s Od LIVERPOOL. 8s. 3d. to 9 » . 6d. per701 hs. 3s. lOd. to 4s. 9d. per 601 hs. 3s. Od. to 3s. 5d. per 451bs. 7s. Od. to 7s. fid. pet36qts. 45s. Od. to 50s. 0d. per- 2S0lbs BRISTOL. Spring price of Wheat, per sack of 331lbs Foreign Wheat per bush, of 8 gall.... English Wheat, ditto.. Malting Barley, ditto Malt, ditto Flour, Fine, per sack of 2c. 2q. 5lbs., Seconds ditto Wheat Barley Outs." Halt Fine Flour s. 39 6 7 4 6 . 48 42 2 d. s. 6 to 00 3 to 6 0 to 7 3 to 4 6 to 7 I) to 50 0 to 45 6 to 3 WHEREAS, on the Night of Saturday, the 13th, or early on Sunday Morning, the 141b Instant, some evil- disposed Person or Persons BROKE INTO the OFFICE of Mr. ROSERTS, of MOLD, and BANK NOTES and BILLS were STOLEN thereout, as follows : Holywell Notes „...£ 1010 Bank of England Ditto, 10 of £ 50 each.. 500 Two Parcels Ditto of £ 50 each, of £ 1 Notes, in succeeding Numbers Mold Notes Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Whitchurch. One Bill of Exchange, drawn by Wm. Dovey upon John Taylor, Esq. London, payable to Douglas, Siualley, and Co. dated 12th May, at 7 Days' Sight ( not endorsed) for One Dilto, drawn by Walkers and Co. Chester, ou Walker, Parker, and Co. London, payable to Wm. Jones, dated Chester, 13lh M » yj at 3 Months' Dale, for " One Dilto, drawn by Thos. Ellis, of Buckley, upon the Rev. Mr. Crompton, payable at Mr. Gibbons's, 19, Coventry- Street, London, dated 11th May, at 6 Weeks' Date, for 35 Bankers, Shopkeepers, and others, are requested to apprehend and detain any Suspicious Persons who may offer for Payment, or in Exchange, any of the above Local Notes, or attempt to negoeiate the Bills of Exchange, Acceptance and Payment of which are stopped ; aud to send immediate Notice to DOUGLAS, SMALI. EY, aud Co. of Holywell, or to Mr. ROBERTS, of Mold ; and any Person who will give such Informa- tion as may lead to the Discovery and subsequent Conviction of the Offender or Offenders, shall receive the above Reward ou Application to the said DOUGLAS, SMALLEY, and Co. of Holywell, or Mr. ROBERTS, n Mold. 100 215 296 LOCO 700 NEW AND ELEGANT LIGHT POST COACHES TO ABERYSTWYTH. f | HHE Public are respectfully informed. f that the WELLINGTON Post Coach, carrying Four Insides only, will leave ihe Lion anil Britannia Inns, in SHREWSBURY, ami the Gogerddan Arms, in ABERYSTWYTH, every Monday nnd Friday Mornings at Five o'clock, by Way of Welsh Pool, Llanfair, Can Office, and Machynlleth, and will arrive in Aheryst. wyth nnd Shrewsbury by Eight o'clock the « iiui « Evenings. Performed bv W. TOMPKINS, > „. II. CARTWRIGHT, \ Shrewsbury. DAVIES, Aberystwyth, And the principal Innkeepers on that Road. Also, THE UNION Post Coach, carrying Four Insides only, from the Lion and Britannia Inns, in Shrewsbury, to the Talbot lun, Aberystwyth, every Tuesday and Saturday Mornings, at Five o'clock, by Way of Welsh Pool, Newtown, Llanidloes, und Devil's Bridge, and will arrive iu Aberystwyth and Shrewi. bury by Eight o'Clock the same Evenings. Performed by W. TOMPKINS, ? II. CARTWRIGHT, 5 Shrewsbury. EDW. EVANS, Talbot Inn, Aberystwyth. And Ihe principal Innkeepers on lhat Road. Will not be accountable for any Package or Parcel above the Value of Five Pounds, unless entered u » such and paid for accordingly. 63* All Orders for Places must be accompanied with a Deposit. TO THE PUBLIC. CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC. Oats, per 8 gall FAIRS TO BF. HOLDF. N. May 29, Cleobury, Llanymynecb, Madelev, Lane End," Newport 31, Llanbrynmair, Llangollen June 2, Dinasmowddwv. Birmingham| Fair, last week,; was well supplied with Beef and Mutton. The sales were, however, but dull, and great complaint of the scarcity of keep was made, in consequence of the long prevalence of dry weather. Beef fetched from 5Jd. to6| d. per lb; and Mutton from 5Jd. to 6d. The shew of good Horses was not large, but those of an inferior description were in great plenty; the latter sold at considerably reduced prices, while fresh and young horses sold Uigb. WHEREAS mv Wife, MARTHA LANGLEY, did, at or about the 14th Day of May, 1822, without any the least Cause or Provo- cation, abscond from me, and hath lived separate and apart from me ever since, and I have frequently heretofore cautioned the Public against trusting her on my Account, as I shall not be answerable for any Debts which she might contract; and whereas it hath been stated to inejTihnt certain Persons, in direct Opposition to suchTublic Notice, have given Credit to or trusted the said Martha Langley to some Extent on mv Account: Now I do hereby give this FUR- THER PUBLIC NOTICE, that I will not pay or satisfy any Debt or Debts which may have been con- tracted by her since the said 14th Day of May, 18- 22, or which may hereafter be contracted by her," so long as she shall continue to live separate and opart from . me. Witness my Hand, this 15th Day of May, 1826. SAML. LANGLEY, Eaton Conitantine. 3LAST ADDRESS. AS Contractors, whose Establishment i » nearly coeval with the Commencement of Lot- teries, we respectfully take Leave of the Public wiib grateful Acknowledgments for tbe Patronage we hare experienced for more than a Century ; and to remove any Doubts that may exist as to the serious Intention of his Majesty's Government to give up Lotteries, we feel it incumbent on us to make the following Declarn. lion,— viz. that the present is positively and inevitably the Last Lottery that will be allowed in this Kingdom 1 and we say this in the full Acceptation of the Word " Last," without any Reservation whatever. HAZARD & CO. In Order to render the Last, of Lotteries ns brilliant ns possible, we have, as Contractors, jointly with our Coadjutors, formed a Scheme, containing Six Prizes of £ 30,000 ( ALL TO BE DRAWN IN ONE DAY, 18th JULY), And we respectfully remind Ihe Public, that in One Lottery we sold ALL the £ 30,000 Prizes, and within these few Weeks, THREE £- 20,000 Prizes in One Day ItT The Price will be raised Twenty- four Shillings a Ticket ( Sha res iti Proportion ) on Monday next. Royal Exchange Gate ; 26, Cornhill ; and 324, Ox- ford Street, End of Regent- street; and by their Agents in Shrewsbury, T. NEWLING, Printer, High- Street ; Chester, J. Seacome, Booheller, Bridge- Street. 8ALOMAM JOUBNAL, AMD CJ0URIETR OF ' "' WALES FC— — GLOBE INSURANCE, LONDON. Fir* and Life Insurance and Annuities. ESTABLISHED 1803. ANY Person of Character and Respect- ability desirous of succeeding to the AGENCY for the GLOBE INSURANCE COMPANY at BROSELEY, or of being appointed at SHREWS- BURY or BRIDGNORTH, may apply to tlie Secre- tary for the Terms and Conditions of the Appointment. By Order ofthe Board, JOHN CHARLES DENHAM, Secretary. London, May 15,182F>. LUDLOW TRACER 1820. OSWESTRY Female Friendly Society. N'OTICE is hereby given, That the next ANNIVERSARY " of the OSWESTRY FEMALE FRIEND^' SOCIETY will be held on Tuesday, the 27th Day of June next. The Members will meet nt tbe Town Hall at Three o'Clock, proceed from thence ( attended by the Ellesmere Baud) to Church, nnd afterwards to Tea and Dancing at the Wynnstay Arms Inn. The Town Members are requested to attend at the Town Hall precisely at Seven o'Clock iu the Morning, and the Country Members at Ten, in Order to pay their Subscriptions, at either of which Hours new Members may be admitted. Every Member residing within the Distance of five Miles from the Town of Oswestry, not attending the Anniversary, will be liable to a Fine of Oue Shilling ; and 110 Member residing in Oswestry, ( unless pre- vented by Illness,) will be allowed to walk by Proxy, under a Fine of One Shilling ; and every Member to pay One Shilling per Annum, on the First Thursday in June, towards the Surgeon's Salary. H. HUGHES, Secretary. OSWESTRY, ICTH MAY, 1826. Tickets to be had of Mr. Price, Printer, Cross- Street, Oswestry. Co lie gjeUJ, 4 VERY clever Two- year old BULL, of I ® . the Alderney Breed.— Apply to THE PRINTERS ( if by Letter, Post- paid). rpHE CREDITORS of Mr. THOMAS JL REYNOLDS, late of FARLEY, deceased, are requested to 6end the Particulars of their Demands to Mr. WACE, Solicitor, Shrewsbury. All Persons indebted to his Estate are requested to pay their respective Debts to Mr. WACE, or to Mr. ONIONS, of Hoekstow. MONTGOMERYSHIRE EASTER QUARTER SESSIONS, 1826. Wednesday, July 51 h f in the Morning). THE LUDFORD STAKES OF IO^ S. each, for Horses of all Ages; three years old, 6st. 71b. four, 8st. five, 8st. 91b. six and aged, 9st. once round and the Distance; Marcs and Geldings allowed 31b. Tbe Slakes closed on the 1st of May. The Horses to be named on the Day of Entrance for Ludlow Races ( to the Clerk of the Races) between the Hours of Entry; any Horse that ever vion the Ludford Stake to carry 71b. extra. Lord Clive John Mytton, Esq. J. C. Griffiths, Esq. 11. Hallifax, Esq. lion: R. Clive E. Yates, Esq. T. A. Knight, Esq. Same Day, in the Morning. A STAKES of 10gs. each, for three year old Colts lo carry 8st. 71b. Fillies, Sst. 21b.; the same Distance as the Ludford Stake. Mr. Mytton's b. c. Bowsprit Mr. Beardswor'th's b. c. hy Milo, Dam by Alexander Mr. Griffiths's h. c. llarry, by Sir Harry, Dam Fanny Leigh Sir C. Cuyler's ch. c. Predictor Lord Clive names a Colt, brother to Rosaria Mr. R. II. Clive is a Subscriber, but did not name. In the Evening. A MAIDEN' PLATE of £ 50, given by tbe Members for the Borough of Ludlow, for Horses of all Ages that never won-±' 50 at any oue Time, either in Plate, Match, or Sweepstakes, previous to the Day of En- trance for Ludlow Races ;' three years old to carry « st. 121b. four, 8st. five, 8st. 9lb. six and aged, 9st. Mares and Geldings allowed 31b. ; the best of Heats ; something more than three Miles each Heat. The Hunters' Stake did not fill. Second Day fin the Morning). The ALL- AGED STAKES, with £ 20 added hy the Town of Ludlow, for Horses of all Ages ; three years old to carry 6st. 711). four, 8st. five, 8st. 111b. six, 9st. 41b. and aged 9sl. 71b. Mares and Geldings allowed 31b.; twice round the Course and tbe Distance; Horses having won once in 1826 ( Handicaps and Matches excepted) to carry 31b. twice 5lb. thrice, or a Royal Plate, 71b. extra. Mr. Mytton's ch. g. Euphrates, aged Mr. Salwey's b. m. Rosaria, 5 yrs. old Major Syers's ch. c. Cynibeline, 4 yrs, old Mr. Yates's b. c. Cain, 4 yrs. old Lord Clive's br. g. Speculum, by Spectre Mr. II. II. Clive's b. c. hy Milo A SWEEPSTAKES of 100 sov. each, h. ft. Lndford fitake Course. st. tb. 8 7 TO BE LET, And entered vpon immediately, RGHHAT CAPITAL MANSION, called I LLANFIGAEI, HOUSE, with the Outbuildings, Offices, Farm Buildings, Kitchen and Walled Gardens, and Orchard thereto belonging, situate in the Parish of LLANFIGARL, in the County of Anglesey. This elegant Mansion is of na uniform and modern Structure, comprising a Vestibule, Drawing Room, Dining Room, Break fast Room, together wilh Kitchen, suitable Closets and Offices, five cheerful Bed Rooms, and Servants' Rooms over the Offices, excellent Cellars, Laundry, Brewhouse, Bakehouse, and Washhouse, with Men- Servants* Sleeping Rooms over them. To Sportsmen this Residence is particularly desir- able, it being within an easy Distance of all the Fix- tures ofthe Anglesey Hounds, and is situate in one nf the most fertile Parts of the County of Anglesey, within two Miles of the Sea, and three Miles of Holy- head Bay, and the Gardens and Orchard are well stocked with choice productive Fruit Trees. The Tenant may he accommodated with any Quan- tity of Land not exceeding 25 Acres. For further Particulars apply to Mr. O. OWEN, Solicitor, Gadlas, near Beaumaris. HjPH E Justices assembled at this General M- Quarter Sessions of the. Peace of the County of Montgomery ( pursuant to the Statutes made in the Third Year of the Reign of their Majesties King William and Queen Mary, and the Twenty- first Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Second) assessed and rated the Price of Land Car- riage of all Goods whatsoever ( except Money, Plate, and Jewels) that shall be brought to any Place 01- Piaces within this County and Jurisdiction, by any Common Waggoner or Carrier, at the Rates and Prices following, viz. For the Carriage of all Goods and Parcels ( except. Money, Plate, or Jewels) brought to any Place within the County of Montgomery, and there delivered, from this Sessions until the next Easter Sessions, by any Coach or such like Carriage, One Penny Farthing per Hundred Weight of One Hundred and Twelve Pounds per Mile, and so in Proportion for a greater or less Quantity, except Parcels of Twelve Pounds or uuder, and for such Parcels, for the Carriage thereof from London and Shrewsbury respectively to tlie undermentioned Places in the County of Montgomery, the Sums following, viz.: 8. D. To Linen and Woollen Drapers, Mer- cers, Hosiers, Haberdashers, SfC. TO BE DISPOSED OF. ACONCfERN in the above Branches. . The Premises are eligibly situated in the Centre of the best Market Town and most populous Neigh- bourhood iu all North Wales. The Premises are ex- tensive, wilh good Cellars, well calculated ( in Addition to the above Branches) for carrying 011 tbe Grocery, Tallow Chandlery, and fhe Wine and Spirit Trade. Further Particulars may be known by Letter ( Post- paid) addressed A. B. Post- Office, Oveitoti. From London to Welshpool... Montgomery Newtown Llanfair Llanidloes ... Mallwyd Machynlleth. 2 4 2 4 2 8 2 8 2 11 2 11 3 2 From Shrewsbury to Welshpool... Montgomery Newtown Llanfair Llanidloes... Mallwyd Machynlleth TOLLS TO BE LET. " mj OTICE is hereby given, that the 1.1 TOLLS arising at Coalport Bridge Gate over the River Severn, leading from Broseley to Sutlon, the Side Gate leading to Coalport, and two other Gates on tbe said Road, will be LET, to the best Bidder, for one Year or three Years, as shall be then agreed upon, at the House of Mr. John Law, known by the Naine of the Red Lion Inn, in Broseley, in Ihe County of Salop, 011 Wednesday, the 7th Day of June next, between the Hours of three and six o'clock in the Afternoon of the same Day; and will he put np at tbe Sum of £ 178, being, the Amount taken last Year, over and above the Expenses of collecting the same; and to be entered upon tbe 24th Day of June next. Whoever happens to be tbe best Bidder must give Security with sufficient Sureties, lo the Satisfaction of ibe Trustees, for ihe Payment of the Rent agreed for ut such Times as they shall direct. E. F. GRIFFITHS, Treasurer to the Trustees for the same. The Trustees will be ready to enter into a Contract for the Repair of the Roads for a Term of Years at the same Time. COALPORT, 18TH MAY, 1826. Mr. Jones's h. c. by Poulton, out of Sorceress... Mr. Mytton's b. c. Bowsprit, by Rainbow, out of Cobbe., 8 7 Mr. L. Charlton's ch. f. by Castrei, out of Idalia 8 2 Mr. Benson's ch. f. by Woftil, out of Pomona.... 8 2 In the Evening. A PLATE of £ 50, given by the Members for the Borough, fur Horses of all Ages ; the same We ghts and Distance as the Maiden Plate, wilh tbe Addition of the1 Winner of one Plate or Stake this Year to carry 31b. of two, 51b. of three, or a King's Plate, 71b. extra. The South Shropshire YEOMANRY STAKES of figs, each, with a Cup of 30gs. Value added by the Hon. Viscount Clive; three years old to carry lOst. four, lOst. 101b. five, list. 61b. six aud aged, 12st. ; two mile Heats; the Winner to be sold for 70gs. if demanded in tbe usual way. A Horse that has ever won this Stake will not be allowed to start for tIiis Stake ; but those who have run for this Cup, and not won it, will he allowed to start. Qualifications as lo Bluster Days, & c. to be produced, as usual. To close and name to the Clerk of the Course, 011 the Entrance Day. Six Subscribers or no Race. Thomas Beale, Esq. Walter Tench, Esq. The Two Years old Stakes, and the Ilalston Stakes, did not fill. To pay Two Guineas and a Half Entrance for the Plates, and Half a Guinea lo the Clerk ; Weights and Scales gratis. To pay 5s. each for the Riders for the Stakes, and Winner of Plate or Stake One Guinea, as usual. To enter at the Feathers Inn, in Ludlow, on Monday preceding the Races, between the Hours of Four and t> eveu, or pay double ut the Post, which must be before Twelve" o'clock 011 the Day of Running. No Person to erect a Booth, or sell any Liquor, who does not on Ihe Dny of Entrance subscribe Half- n- Guinea and pay all Arrears. No Horse will be allowed to start, unless all Arrears at Bridgnorth, Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Ludlow, are paid up. All other Particulars, Rules, nnd Regulations whatever, as usual. Sir C. CUYLER, Bart. Steward. J. HICKMAN, Clerk. 1826. fisalegi auction. Old- established Public House, NOW IN FULL BUSINESS, AND TWO OTHER HOUSES. BY MR. PERRY, On the Premises, on Saturday, Ibe 3( 1 of June, 1826, ot six o'Clock in tbe Evening, in the following- Lots : LOT I. ALL that established, desirable, and well- accustomed PUBLIC HOUSE, called TIIE FISHES, situate in Fish Street, SHREWSBURY, lately occupied by Mr. John Davies, deceased : com- prising, on the Ground Floor, a commodious large Parlour, Back Parlour, Kitchen, Brewhouse, Pantries, Yard, and Offices, with two extensive Cellars under- neath ; on the Chamber Floor a spacious Club Room, aud four good Bed Chambers. LOT II. All those TWO DWELLING HOUSES, adjoining Lot 1, each containing, on the Ground Floor, a Parlour and Kitchen, Yard, & c. with appro- priate Bed Rooms above, now in the several Occupa- tions of Mr. David Cowley and Mrs. Newnes. Each Lot possesses valuable Advantages, by the Letting of Standings for Butchers on Market Days, and Lot 1 a Source of considerable certain Profit 011 those Days particularly. The Purchaser of Lot 1 will have to take to the Furniture, Brewing Vessels, Furnaces, and other Utensils, at a fair Valuation, and may have immediate Entry. 83=- For further Particulars apply lo Mr. WILLIAM JEFFREYS, Solicitor, Shrewsbury ; or Mr. PBRRY. And so in Proportion for any greater or less Distance. For the Carriage of all Goods and Parcels ( except Money, Plate, and Jewels) brought into any Place within this County, and there delivered, from this Sessions until the next Easter Sessions, by any Waggon or such like Carriage, Three Farthings for all Distances exceeding Ten Miles, and One Penny for all Distances less than Ten Miles, per Hundred Weight of One Hundred and Twelve Pounds per Mile, and so in Proportion for a greater or less Quantity, except Parcels of Twenty- eight Pounds Weight or under, and for such Parcels Sixpence, aud no more, for the Carriage thereof from Shrewsbury to Pool, and so in Proportion for any greater or less Distance. The said several Rates and Prices to include even- Expense and Charge whatever for the Carriage of such Parcel or Parcels to the Place where the same shall be delivered by such Common Carrier, in any Place within this County. By the Court, JOSEPH JONES, Clerk of the Peace of the County of Montgomery. West bury A ssociation, FOR THE PROSECUTION OP FEliOHS. , — OO 1 V The ANNUAL MEETING will he held at Mr. John Turner's, Halfway House, on Thursday, 1 st of June.— Dinner at c2 o' Clock. 7 E, whose Names are undersigned, have bound ourselves in Articles of Agreement. to prosecute all Persons who shall commit any Felony whatever upon any of our Property, at our joint Ex- pense ; and the better to effect our Intention, have resolved to pay the undermentioned Rewards to any Person who shall by his Evidence be able to convict any Person or Persons guilty of the following Offcnces. REWARDS. For Burglary, Highway or Footpad Rob- bery, in the Night Time £ 5 5 0 The tike in the Day Time 3 3 0 For burning any House, Barn, Ilovel, or other Building, or any Rick, L'ltack, Mow, or Cock of Grain, Straw, or Hay, or for setting Fire to any Wood .* 5 5 0 For stealing- or maiming any Horse, Mare, or Gelding. ..... 3 3 0 Thelike of any Bull, Cow, Ox, Bullock, & c. 3 3 0 The like of any Hogs, Sheep, or Poultry..,.. 2 2 0 For cutting down, destroying, or damaging Trees, & c 3 3 0 For breaking open, throwing down, level- ling, or destroying any Hedges, Gates, Posts, Stiles, Pales, Rails, or Fences 0 10 0 For stealing or destroying any Fruit Trees, Root, Shrub, Plant, Turnips, Cabbages, Potatoes, Parsnips, Peas, or Carrots, or for robbing any Orchard or Garden 0 10 0 For convicting any Servants of unlawfully selling, bartering, gi ving away, or embez- zling any Coals, Corn, Hay, or other his, her, or their Master or Mistress's Property 2 2 0 And for any other Offence not mentioned above, such Reward as a Committee shall think proper. MANCHESTER RACES. TUESDAY. The Produce States nf 50gs. each, h. ft. for three- ye^ r old colts,' 8st. 3lb.; fillies, 8st. Two miles and a distance. Sir W. Wynne's br. c. Sancredo, by Filho da Puta ( A STHOlt) 1 Sir T. Mostyu's br. c. St. David, by Filho da Puta - - 2 Two paid. A Free Handicap Stakes of 30 sov. each, 10 sov. ft., with 20 sov. added, for four- year olds. One mile and three quarters. Sir W. Wynne's br. f. Signorina, by Champion, 7st. 10lb. ( ARTHUR) L Mr. W. Houldsworth's br. c. His Grace, 7st. 6ib. - - 2 Mr. Panlden's ch f. Cinderella, by Walton, 7st. lQlb. - 3 Mr. Clifton's b. c. Toss, by Bourbon, 7st. 121b. - - 4 Lord Fitzwilliam's br. o. Dramatist, by Comus, 7sh 41b. - 5 Three paid. A Silver Gup, value 50 sov. added to a Sweepstakes of 5 sov. each, for horses, & c. not thorough- bred, and that have never won before the day of naming;. four- year olds, list.; five, list. 101b. • six and aged,. 12st. . Heats, two miles and a distance. Mr. Jopp's b. f. sister to Tawpv, 4 yrs. - - - 4 1 1 Mr. Wilson s ch. g. Architect, by Goth, 6 yrs. - 1 2 2 Mr. Kinder's br. m. Irwell, by Tagus, N5 yrs. - - 3 3 dr Mr. Jones's ch. f. Maria, by Khadamanthus, 4 yrs. - 2 dr Two drawn. WEDNESDAY. The Wilton Stakes of 10 sov. each, with 50 sov. added, for all ages; three- year olds, Gst.; four, 8st. lib ; tive, 8st. 101 b.; » ix and aged, 9st.; mares and geldings allowed 31b. Two miles and a distance. Sir T. Stanley's ch. c M'Munn, 4 yrs. - - ( SPRING) I • Mr. Mytton's br. c. Flexible, 4 yrs. - - - - 2 Mr. Hon Ids worth's b. c. Escape, 4 yrs. - - - 3 Mr. T. Simpson's b. h. Young Corrector, 6 yrs. - - 0 Mr. E. G. Hornby's br. m. Urganda, 5 yrs. - - - 0 Mr. Johnson's br. f. Proserpine, 4 vrs. - 0 Three paid. A Free Handicap Stakes of 30 sov. each, 10 sov. ft. with 20 sov. added; for five, six, and aged horses, & o. Two miles and a distance. Lord Darlington's ch. h. Barefoot, 6 yrs. 9st. ( SHEPHERD) 1 Mr. Gleave's b. h. Miller of Mansfield, 5 yrs. - - - 2 Lord Grosvenor's ch. m. Hybla, 5 yrs. - - - 3 Three paid. The St. Leger Stake's of 25 sov. each, with 50 sov. added, for three- year olds; coits, 8st. 61b.; fillies, 8st. 31b. One mile and. three quarters. Sir W. Gerrard's br. c. Euxton, by Rinaldo ( TEMPLEMAN) 1 Mr. Yates's b. c. Paul Prv, brother to Madame Poki - - 2 Mr. Johnson's b. f. Vesta, by Governor > 3 Lord Derby's b, c. Csestus, by Milo, out of Olivetta - - 0 Sir W. Wynne's br. c. Sancredo, by Filho da Puta • - 0 Mr. T. Simpson's b. c. Young Comus, by a son of Comu> 0 Mr. Clifton's b. c. Tom, by Walton, out of Jerry's dam - Four paid. His Maj esty's Plate of lOOgs. for four- year- olds and upward: four- year olds, lOst. 21b,; five, list ; six, list. 51b.; and aged, list. 7lb. Heats, three miles and a distance. Lord Fitzwilliam's br. c. Dramatist, 4 yrs. - ( LYE) 2 1 Mr. Houldsworth's br, h. Elephant, 5 yrs. - .12 Mr. Leicester's b. h. Don Antonio, 5 yrs. « •> 3 3 dr Three drawn. A LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS TOWARDS THE ERECTION OP A NEW CHURCH, INTENDED TO BE BUILT AT KETLEY, In the Parish of IVellinyton and County of Salop. L. a. Friday, July - 2S/ A fin the Morning). SWEEPSTAKES of Five Sovereigns each, for Horses, & c. not Thorough- bred. Four- year olds to carry lOst. 7lb.; five, 11st. 811).; six and aged, I2st. ( lib.; to have been regularly Hunted the preceding Season, and never to have won before the Time of naming; to carry for winning once after naming 41b. and twice, 71b. extra; Mares and Geldings allowed 31b. Certificates of Age and of having been regularly Hunted, from the Owner or Huntsman of a regular Pack of Hounds, to be produced to the Satis- faction of tbe Stewards before starting. Heats, twice round Ihe Course and a Distance. Ten Subscribers, or no Race.— To close on the 10th of June; nnd the Horses to be named on or before that Day to Messrs. WBATHEIIBY, or Mr. PARDOE, Clerk of the Races. Extensive SALE of valuable Household FURNITURE, in Chamber, Drawing, Joining, and Breakfast Room Furniture, Library of BOOKS, Cut GLASS, and CHINA, with excellent Brewing and Culinary Articles; WHICH will be SOLD by AUCTION, ou the Premises at FERNEY HALL, near Ludlow, in the County of Salop, on Tuesday, Wed- nesday, aud Thursday, the 30th and 31st Days of May, and 1st of June, 1826, ( being the Properly of HURT SITIVELL, Esq.) By Messrs. TUDOR & LAWRENCE, Commencing each Morning at 11 o'Clock. Catalogues of which will be prepared, and may be had at tlie principal Inns in Ludlow, Leominster, Hereford, Clun, Bishop's Castle, and Church Stretton ; at the Craven Arms, Newton; of THE AUCTIONEERS, Shrewsbury ; and at the Place of Sale. f ORD BISHOP of LICH- M- J FIELD and COVENTRY 50 Earl Gower 100 Lord Forester 100 Acton, Mr. Wellington 5 Aston, Mr. John, ditto 1 Anslow, Mr. John, ditto 1 Burton, R. Esq. Longner 50 Bucknall, Mr. Surgeon, Ketley 1° Birds, Rev. W. Hadley 5 Birds, Mr. ditto 5 Bradley, Mr. James, Ketley 2 Bourne, Mr. James, ditto 2 Bryan, Mr. Surgeon, Wellington 1 Baddelev, Mr. J. ditto 1 Barber, Mr. Waleott 1 Bourne, Mr. James, Ketley 1 Brown, Mr. John, ditlo 1 Buffery, Mrs. Wetting/ on 0 10 Beeston, Mr. Druggist, ditto 0 10 Barney, Mr. ditlo 0 5 Charlton, W. Esq. Apley Castle 50 Cludde, W. Esq. Orleton 50 Charlton, Saint John, Esq. Vineyard 20 Cartwright, Mr. Surgeon 5 Cameron, Rev. Mr. Snedshill 2 Clerks at Ketley Office 2 Clark, Mr. Thomas, Wellington 0 10 Dan by, Mr. ditto 5 Davies, Mr. Thomas, Red- lake 2 Dawes, Mr. G. Ketley 2 Dodd, Mr. Josiab, ditto 2 Dawes, Mr. Robert, ditto 1 Day, Mr. R. ditto 1 Dolphin, Mr. A 0 Eyton, Thomas, Esq. Eyton 50 Emery, Richard, Esq. Burcott 10 Evans, Mr. Hadtey Park 10 Evans, Mr. W. ditto 10 Emerv, Mr. W. Wellington 2 Ellis," Mr. M. ditlo 1 Evans, Mr. G. Ketley 1 Edwards, Mr. F„ Wellington 0 Espley, Mr. John, ditto 0 Frendland, Mr. ditto 0 Gilpin, Rev. J. Wrockwardine 2 Gitlins, Mr. Walcott 1 Griffiths, Mr. S. Ketley 1 Griffiths, Mr. James, ditto. 1 Hombersley, Mr. J. ditto 10 Whilton. Richard Topp, Esq. Rev. John Topp Mr. Puleston Mr. James Evans Yockleion. Mr. Thos. Meredith, Bank Mr. Thos. Meredith, Hrook Mr. Robert Meredith Mr. Richard Blakeway Mr. Thomas Blakeway Mr. Edward Tudor Mr. Richd. Nicholls, Park Mr. Thomas Bromley Westbury. Rev. Charles Leicester Mr. John Meredith Mr. Wm. Sambroiik Mr. George Geary Mr. Edward Randies Marsh and tVigmore. J. C. Wood, Esq. J Marsh ond Wigmore. Mr. John Lloyd Mr. David Evans Mr. John Turner Mr. Samuel Gittins Wallop. Richard Emery, Flsq. Cause. Thomas Lloyd, Esq. tlurst. William Atcherley, Esq. Winnington. Richard Jenkins, Esq. Mr. William Jacks Mr. Philip Preeee J. P. Johnson, M. D. Trefnnnt. Mr. Richard Broughall PeckrtaU. Mr. John Brown Wollaston, Mr. Wm. Jones. C. WOOD, Esq. Treasurer. B. Thompson, Esq. V. Lawley, Esq. Sir W. W. Wynn, Bart. It. Benson, Esq. M. G. Benson, Esq. R. Collins, Esq. H. G. Mytton, Esq. C. Tongue, Esq. S, Weaver, Esq. John Jones, Esq. Sir E. Smythe, Bart. John Mytton, Esq. Uiiett, Esq. In the Evening, SWEEPSTAKES of 10 Sovereigns each, with 25 Sovereigns added by the Town, for Horses, kc. of all Ages. Two- mile Heats. Three- year olds, 6st. 9lb.; ( Four, 8st. Illb.; 6ve, 8st. © lb. j six, 9st. Oil).; and aged, 9st. 21b.) a Winner once in 1826 to carry 31b. twice 51 b. extra ; Mares and Geldings allowed 31b.— To close and name ns above. F. XnwIey, Esq. M. P. | John Mytton, Esq. R.' Benson, Esq. Sir W. W. Wynn, Bart. Beilby Thompson, Esq. I H. G. Mytton, Esq. N. B. The Public Money will he withheld if walked • ver for. FIFTY POUNDS, the Gift of Beilby Thompson, Esq. for Maiden Morses, kc. of all Ages. Three- year olds, fist. 101b.; four- year olds, 8st.; five, 8st. 101b.; six and aged, 9st. lib, ; Mares nnd Geldings allowed 31b. Heats, twice round and a Distance. To pay 2 Guineas Entrance for the Plate and Half a Guinea to the Clerk ; Weights and Scales gratis ; and the Winner of each Stake and the Plate Oue Guinea as usual. To enter for the above Plate at the White Hart Inn, Wenlock, on the Tuesday Evening preceding tbe Races, between the Hours of Five aud Eight. No Person to erect any Booth or sell any Liquor who does not subscribe Half a Guinea and pay all Arrears. No Horse will be allowed lo start, unless all Arrears are paid up. No Smith to Plate any Horse who does not subscribe 10s. 6d.— All Disputes to be determined by the Stewards, or whom thev may appoint. SIR W. W. WYNN, BART. > _.„„_,,„_„ II. G. MYTTON, ESQ. J STEWARDS, THOS, PARDOE, Clerk of tbe Races. LION ROOM— THIS DAY. Extensive and splendid Collection of rich cur GLASS and Burnished Gold CHINA, in the newest Shapes, forming one of the most Magnificent and Superb Assemblages ever offered in Shrewsbury. BY MB. SMITH, This present Wednesday, tbe 24th Day of May, 1826, nnd following Days, in ihe Large Room al the Lion Inn, Shrewsbury, at Eleven o'clock : FOUR HUNDRED Quart and Pint Decanters, 100 Wafer Crofts and Tumblers, 100 Ditto Jugs, 50 Celery Bowls, 50Salad Ditto, too Salts, 100 Pickle Vases, 100 Jelly Glasses, 500 Tumblers and Goblets, 2000 Wine aud Ale Glasses, 150 Dessert Dishes, 100 Centra Bowls, 100 Cream Ewers, 100 Sugar Basons, with a great Variety of other Articles, both useful and ornamental. CHINA.— 100 Burnished Gold Tea Services, 100 Enamelled Ditto, 50Burnished Gold Dessert Services, 5Toilet Sets, 200 Ale Jugs, Part in Burnished Gold, 500 Sets of Ornaments, Vases, - Tapers, Inkstands, Wafer Trays, Baskets, kc. W. SMITH most respectfully solicits the Public to inspect the above Goods, flattering himself they will be found to excel any Thing ofthe Kind before offered in Shrewsbury. Tbe Property is direct from the Manufacturers, and will be disposed of without Reserve for their Benefit. Houlston, Mr. E. Wellington...., Horton, Mr. R. Hadley... Hombersley, Mr. J. Clerk Hawkins, Mr. Charlton Helks, Mr. S. Wellington Jones, Mr. A. Ketley Jones, Mr. G. ditto i ..... Jones, Mr. John, Wellington Jones, Mr. W. Church Street Jerwood, Mrs. Wellington Ketley New Company, by W. Lawley, Esq. Lawley Company, by II. Williams, Esq WILLIAM JACKS, Secretary. ftti! 5ccUanco « 0 Intelligence. FOUR PER CENTS, 1826. It is frequently asked by Persons desirous of investing Money in the Funds, which is the most advantageous Stock to purchase? The following comparative statement will evince the advantage of the 4 per cents, created this year, 1826, over every other Stock— it yields more interest— it can- not be paid off until after Sth April, 1833— and, if then redeemed, Government are bound to pay £ 100 for every £ 93.12s. 6d. now advanced, being a cer- tain profit of £ 6. 7s. 6d. This Stock also presents to the Holders of the other 4 per cents, ( which may be paid off or reduced in 1829) a decided advantage by exchange, which is important to all Trustees, as they can thereby secure the certainty of 4 per cent, interest, until the year 1833, instead of the liability of being paid off or having their interest reduced four years • ooner, and the importance of an extension of four years to the Holders is very considerable; for, if the 5 per cents, had not been reduced in 1822, the circumstances of the country would not allow of such a reduction of interest in the year 1826. Tbe following simple calculation will also evince the advantage to the Holders of 3 per cents, in making an exchange into tbe 4 per cents, created this year, 1826. £ 1000 Stock in Ihe Reduced 3 per cents, will produce £ 780, which will purchase in the 4 per cents. 1826, 833 2 3 producing an income of £ 33. 6s. 5d. per ann. instead of £ a0 per ami. being an increase of £ 3. 6s. 5d.— This will buy in the 4 per cents. 1826, 3 10 11 on 5th April, 1827, a 93j, the present price, making 0 10 0 2 10 0 1 0 Two new Milched Cows; Hay; House- hold Furniture ; and other Effects. BY MRT^ WHITE, On the Premises at Ryton, near Condover, on Fridav, the t6t. li Dav of May, 1826; mWO new Miiclied COWS, a small JL Quantity of HAY, Lot of HURDLES and other small Implements, together with the whole of the neat HOUSEHOLD GOODS and FURNITURE, Brewing and Dairy Vessels, and other Effects, the Property of Mr. RICHARD WILLIAMS: Particulars of which are expressed in Catalogues, and may be had of THE AUCTIONEER. Sale to begin positively at Tea in the Morning-. I. unn and Moore Lewis, Mr. Thomas Law ley, Mr. R. Hadley - Lead, Mr. J. Welling ton Large, Mr. Thomas, ditto Lomas, Mr. ditto Lead, Mr. R. ditto Lockitt, Mr. John ditto Mnckay, Mr. Ketley Grange Mackay, Mrs . ditto Millington, Mr. Ketley Morris, Mr. Richard, ditto Moore, Mr. Richard, Wellington Morris, Mr. J. ditto North, Mrs. Aston Owen, Rev. E. P Oliver, Mr. Wellington Oliver, Mr. Thomas, ditto Onions, Mr. W. Hank. Phillips, Mr. A. Wellington Perry, Mr. Wm. Ketley. Pritchard, Mr. R. ditto Povall, Mr. H. Charlton Povall, Mr. Thomas Pinches, Mr. William, Wellington Peplow, Mr. W. Watling Street Poole, Mr. B. Wellington Reynolds, Joseph, Esq. Bank House Reynolds, Charlton, and Co. Bankers, Welling ton Reynolds, Mr. Bank House Ridding, Thomas, Esq. Wellington... Smith, Mr. B. ditto Swift, Mr. A. ditto Snooke, Mr. George, ditto '. Turner, Mr. Dot hill Park Taylor, Mr. W. Ketley . Vaughan, Mr. J. ditto Webb, Mr. Surgeon, Walling Street......... Wall, Mr. Wellington Wvley, Mr. Admaston Whitiield, Mr. Wellington... Whittingham, Mr. Thomas, Ketley W a rd el I, M r. Wellington Webb, Miss, Bull's Head Inn, ditto.. Webb, Mr. John, ditto Walmaley, Mr. ditto,... 0 THURSDAY. Sweepstakes of 30 sov. each, h. ft. for two- year- old colts, 8st. 51b.; fillies, Sst. 21b. Three quarters of a mile. Lord Grosvenor's b. c. Bradford, by Blucher - - - 1 Mr. Houldsworth's br. c. Jonas, by Magistrate - - 2 Two paid. Sweepstakes of 30 sov. each, h. ft. with 20 sov. added, for three- year old fillies, 8st. 3lb. One mile and a distance, Mr. Johnson's b. Vesta, by Governor Mr. Clifton's br. Grizzle, by Amadis ----- i Three paid. The Manchester Gold Cup, value 200 gs. added to a Subscrip- tion of 10 sov. each, for all ages. Three year olds, 6st. Gib.. four, 8 § i. 21b.; five, Sst 10lb.; six and aged, 9st.; mares and geldings allowed 31b. Two miles and a distance. Mr. Leicester's br. f. Signorina, by Champion, 4 yrs. Lord Darlington's b. c. Memnon, 4 yrs. . Mr. Mytton's br! e. Flexible, 4 yrs. - ... - 3 Sir W. Gerrard's b. c. by Rinaldo, 3 yrs. - - - 4 Sixteen paid. Won quite easy. — Memnon the favourite. Mr. Dalton's Lottery and Mr. Mytton's Longwaist were also entered but did not start. The winning horse was little known, and the expectation was so general in favour of Memnon, that the odds were 3 to 1 upon him in the morning, and 6, 7, 10, and even 15 to 1 during the race. Many thou- sands have changed hands on the occasion. A Maiden Plate of £ 60, for horses, & o. that naver won, Three- year olds, 7st.; four, 8st. 41b.; five. Sst. 9lb.; six and aged, 8st. 12lb.; mares and geldings allowed 3lb. Heats, twice round the course and a distance. Mr. Johnson's b. f. Vesta, by Governor, 3 yrs. . - I Mr. Weatherall's b. g. Footman, 5 yrs. - - - - 2 Mr. Clifton's b. c. Tom, by Walton, 3 yrs. - - - 0 Mr. T. Simpson's b. c. Young Comus, 3 yrs. - - 0 Mr. M. Jones's br. f. by Sovereign— Thunderbolt, 3 yrs. 0 Mr. Wilkinson's ch. f." by Catton, 3 yrs. - - . 0 FRIDAY. Sweepstakes of 15 sov. each, 5 sov. ft. with 50 sov. added, for three aud four- year olds; three- year olds, 6st. 9lb.; and four- year olds, Sst. 61b. The St. teger course. Sir W. Gerrard's br. c. Euxt. on, 3 yrs. - - walked over, Thirteen paid. Sweepstakes of 10 sov. each, for hunters not thorough- bred, that have been regularly hunted the preceding season; four- year olds, list.; five, list. 10lb.; six and aged, 12st, Two miles and a distance. Mr. Johnson's ch. g. Bucephalus, by Catton, 4 yrs. - Mr. Rig- bye's b. g. Viper, by Regent, aged Capt. Ferguson's b. m. Miss Rose, aged - Mr. Boyd's br. ra. Irwell, by Tagus, 5. yrs, Oue paid. A Plate of £ 100, for all ages. Three- year olds, 6 « t. 7lb. four, 8st 2lb.; five, 8st. 10lb.; six and aged, yst. Heats, twice round the course and a distance. Mr. Clifton's ch. c. M'Munn, by Ardrossan, 4 yrs. . 1 Mr. Jackson's ch. g. Sir Roger/ by Comus, 6 yrs. - 2 Mr. J. Scott's br. f. Gift, by Magistrate, 3 yrs. - - 0 Sir W. Gerrard's b. c. by Rinaldo - - - - 0 The Garrison Stakes of 5gs. each, for horses the property of Officers of the Second Dragoon Guards and Garrison of Manchester, that, never won a £ 50 plate; to carry 12 » t. 7lb. each; thorough- bred horses 141b. extra. One mile. Captain Ferguson's b m. Mary Rose - Captain Copland's b g. Jenny - Mr. Griffith's b. g. Rapid Capt. Rivers's bay mare - - - - - A Handicap Stakes of 10 sov. each, h. ft. with 20 sov. added, Twice round the course and a distance. Mr. Houldsworth's br. c. Escape, 4 yrs. ~ Mr. Leicester's b. h. Don Antonio, 5 yrs. - Mr. Simpson's b. h. Young Corrector, 6 yrs. Mr. Weatherali's b. g. Footman, 5 yrs. - - - . o Mr. Johnson's br. f. Prosperine, 4 yrs. ^ One paid. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, May 17 and 18. THE KING V. PP. TO. This action was brought to recover from the defend, at, the builder of Ibe Custom House, the penalty of a Olid entered info by him for the efficient performance of the contract, and which, it was contended, had been forfeited, tbe piling 011 which the foundation was laid having given way. — Mr. l'eto defended himself from the charge ol carelessness or insufficient workmanship by averting that lie complied with the directions of Mr. Laiiig, the surveyor, who was appointed by th » Commissioners of Customs to superintend the building. To this It. was replied bv Government, that Mr. Laing was hot invested with such power or authority, nod was not appointed surveyor; and tbat if Mr.' Laing was appointed such surveyor, Mr. Pelo did not comply with ihe directions given by Mr. Laing. It was also alleged, that fhe spandrels of tbe arches were filled in with; rubbish, instead of, good brick- work. To Ihis Mr. Peto answered, thai Mr. Laing directed him to fill them up with rubbish. The Attorney- General ontended that all this had nothing to do with the facts ; that if Mr. Laing bad sanctioned the filling up lie spandrels with rubbish, it must have been by col. usion between Mr. Peto and Mr. Laing, with a'view to defraud the Government ; and that it was Mr. Peto'a duty, if lie knew the piles lo be insufficient to support Ihe edifice, to have consulted with the Commissioners, and not have persevered in a course which he knew would ultimately lie the destruction- of the building.— The trial occupied two days ; and afier witnesses were examined on boih sides,' the Jury retired, and afier three hours' deliberation, returned the following ver- dicts 011 each issue, eleven in number : — 1st, That there was a bed of hard gravel, and into which the piles cquld' have been driven : upon which hey returned a verdict for the Crown, but expressed heir opinion that the piles would have been forced nto it but for the interference of the surveyor, or the clerk of the works.— 2d issue was, that Mr. Laing was appointed surveyor of buildings; but uot for the Custom House. Upon this, the Jury found that he was authorized by the Commissioneis io superintend the building of the Custom House.- 3d. That Mr. Laing, or the clerk of the works, bad 110 power Id give directions respecting the piling, & c. The Jury found that Mr. Laiiig had such authority.— 4th. That tbe defendant did not pile according to'tbe directions of Mr. Laing. The Jury returned, that he did pile according to Mr. Laing's desire.— 5th. Wassdmewiiat varied from Ihe last, upon which the Jury found for defendant.— 6th. That Mr. Laing nor Mr. Day had authority to gitj; directions 10 fill op the spandrels of tbe arches, or to select wood for the roof of ihe Cusfoui House. The Jury found tbat they had.— 7th. Whether there was any collusion between Mr. Laing and Mr. Peto. The Jury found lhat ( here was neither fraud nor collusion'.— 8th. That Mr. Laing nor Mr. Day had authority to give orders to deviate from the original plan with respect to the spandrels of the arches. Thn Jury found that they had.— 9th. That the work was not done according to drawings furnished during the progress of the work. The Jury found that it was.— 10th. That in all the work, the orders given to deviate in the plans and designs were not well performed. The Jury returned that they were.— 1 lib. That the works were not doni to tbe approbation of Mr. I. aing. The Jury found lhat they were. In consequence of this verdict, Mr. Peto is relieved from any pecuniary consequences, save the expenses of defending the action. Il was intimated, in the course ofthe Attorney- General's reply, that ail action would ensue against Mr. Laing, whatever might be the result of the present. 836 13 2 Stock on 5th April, 1827, giving a sur- plus income of £ 3. 9s. 3d.— this will purchase 3 14 0 Stock, making 840 7 2 Stock on 5th April, 1828, giving a surplus income of £ 3. Vis. 3d.— which will purchase 3 17 2 Stock, making 0 5 0 0 2 0 50 n 0 30 0 0 10 10 0 2 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 2 6 0 2 6 5 0 0 5 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 5 0 0 60 0 0 10 10 0 5 5 0 5 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 5 0 25 0 0 21 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 10 0 0 5 1) I) 5 0 10 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 2 2 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 10 0 5 0 844 4 4 Stock on Sth April, 1829, giving a surplus income of £ 3. los. 4d.— which will purchase 0 6 Stock, making 4 84 S 4 10 Stock on 5th April, surplus income of £ 3. will purchase 3 11 Stock, making 1830, giving a 18s. 7d. — which 852 8 9 Stock on 5th April, 1831, giving a surplus income of £ 4. Is. lOd.— which will purchase 5 Stock, making 2 Stock on 51b April, 1832, giving a surplus income of £ 4. 5s. 3ii.— which will purchase 0 Stock, making 4 7 856 16 4 11 861 7 £ 892 10 0 N. B. This List has been published, inasmuch as the Committee conceive that it may induce some liberal Individuals to further this good Work by their Aid. Subscriptions received by Messrs. RtyxoLDS, CHARLTON, and Co. Bankers, Wellington. 2 Stock 011 5th April, 1833, giving a surplus income of £ 4.8s. lOd per annum. So that on the 5th April, 1833, if the surplus dividend is laid out, the amount of 4 per cents, will be £ 861. 7s. 2d.— producing an income of £ 34. 8s lOd. per annum, instead of £ 30 per annum which would arise from- tbe £ 1000 Reduced Stock. Now supposing Government is enabled, in the year 1833, to redeem the 4 per cents, or reduce the interest to 3| per cent, the Holder of the Stock will have the option of receiving tbe £ 861. 7s. 2d. in money, being £ 81.7s. 2d. profit, besides any bonus that may be then offered, also enjoying the same interest during the time which the Reduced 3 per cents, pays; and even should he prefer accepting the reduced iuterest of 3^ per cent, the income in that case would be £ 30. 2s. 8d. per annum, still leaving an increase of income above the Reduced Stock. If, ou the other hand, circumstances should prevent tbat reduction of iuterest, the person having so exchanged his Stock would be in the enjoyment of £ 34. 8s. lOd. per annum, instead of £ 30 per annum. To those who make it their business to watch the exchanges opon Stock, the following quotations from the price lists will show the advantage of au ex- change at the present time. Ou 2d March last new 4 per Cents were ... 912 3 per Cent. Consols 7f)| Difference 18j for £ 1 per annum. On 12th May ( Ihis month) 4 per Cent. 1820 93| 3 per Cent. Reduced 78 Difference.....". 15| ; s. 6d. for au increase of £ 1 being only £ 15. 1 per annum income. In the three Newmarket Spring Meetings, just terminated, his Grace Ibe Duke of Grafton has bad his usual good fortune, having won in stakes and matches ( including forfeiis) £ 5526. 10s. Mr. Wort lev lias heen pretty fortunate, having won upward of £ 3000. The running, the last week has, in 011 opinion, left Ihe Duke of Grafton's Dervise ( Ibe winner of Ihe 2,000 guineas slakes) decidedly the first public horse.— Lord Anson's Aladdin roll, who was Ihe favourite for Ihe 2,000, having won once, beating Recruit ( who has since run second in a field of horses), and ran a dead heat with Pigmy; Ihe Miltonia filly, who was beat oft' a long way in the 2,000 guinea stakes, wins her match in a canter— all which looks well for Dervise. Tbe Newmarket nags are very near together ; there has been nothing like a superior one shown.— From a Turf Journal. At. Bow street police- office on Wednesday, Edicard Archer, who bad been apprehended by Rulhven at Lewes, Sussex, was brought before Ihe magistrates, charged with stealing a parcel containing Bank of England notes, value £ 535, and other properly, belonging lo Messrs. Bolton, Wall, and Co. of Soho, from the London and Birmingham post coach. The prisoner, it was stated, lived with his sister at the back of Little Britain, near the Roae and Crown public- house, at which Evans, tbe guard of tbe Birmingham post coach lodged when in London. On the night lhat the parcel containing the notes was delivered lo Ihe guard, Ihe prisoner was inside the coach, but he returned to London by another coach the same night. A clerk of the Bank of England slated, that on the following morning £ 200 of the notes had been changed into sovereigns by the pri- soner, who gave his name as Thomas Matthews. The prisoner was committed to take his trial. The last meeting- of the commissioners in the bankruptcy of William Young Clarke, formerly a glover of Worcester, took place on Saturday week, when the bankrupt not having appeared at this 01- the two former meetings, he becomes a felon, ac- cording to the new act; which enacts, that if any person who may be declared a bankrupt, shall not, before three of the clock on tho forty- second day after notice of such declaration shall have been properly published in the Gazette, & c. surrender himself and submit to be examined, and discover all his real and personal estate, such bankrupt shall be deemed guilty of felony, and be liable to transporta- tion for life, or for not less than seven years, or to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for any time not exceeding » even years, as the Court before whom he may be convicted shall think fit toadjudge. By the former act, the non- appearance of' a bank- rupt to the commission subjected him to death. It is understood that Clarke has absconded to America. Extract from a pamphlet on the Insolvent and Bankrupt Laws :—" It is computed that 130,000 writs were issued in 1825 against debtors in Eng- land, of whom 75,000 were absolutely incarcerated. On the smallest calculation, the expenses they were antecedently and subsequently run to, by law pro- cess, must have amounted to £ 100 individually, and averaging- the whole, makes the snm total £ 8,325,000 taken from the pockets of their creditors, and shared among the legalists. Added to those losses, came the bankrupt list of 3,200 : allowing- eacb estate was injured to the trifling charge of £ 300 before and after striking of the dockett, increased the legalists' bills to £ 9,320,200." The works upon the Manchester and Liverpool rail- way, it is stated, are to commence in about two mouths; and it is expected that line? years will be required lo complete ( hem. KING'S BENCH, EASTER VACATION, 182S. The King v. the Worcester and Birmingham Canal Company. The parish of St. Peter the Great, in the city of Worcester, had assessed the Worcester and Birming- ham Canal Company for the land and buildings in that parish taken for the use of their canal, a" the increased value as applied to the purp. ses of the envoi, and not at the rate that adjoining lands and buildings were assessed, nnd ns the same would have been assessed in the hands of natural persons, if the same had not been taken for the purposes of the canal. Against this rate the Canal Company appealed, and at the Worcester City Midsummer Sessions, 1825, Ibe appeal was tried, when the rate was amended by reducing the same to the sum tbe lands and buildings would have paid if assessed at the same rate as ad- joining land and buildings; and tbe order of sessions having been removed by certiorari into the King's Bench, the same cameon'to be argued in litis vacation, when the Judges were unanimously of opinion, that, the Canal Company were only liable to be rated fur their land and buildings at the same rate as adjoining lands and buildings were rated, and as the same land and buildings would have been assessed in the hands of natural persons, if not applied to Uses of ibe canal. They therefore confirmed the Order of Sessions, with costs to be paid by the parish of St. Peter the Great. There was a similar case from tbe parish of St. Peter the Great, in the county of Worcester, which came on next to be argued, and received the sauie determination. It is presumed this question, which has been so often agitated, will now be set completely at rest. r J The Commissioners for the relief of Insolvent Debtors will hold Courts for Shropshire, at Shrewsbury, Tuesday, Julv 18. Staffordshire, at Lichfield', Monday", July' 17. Staffordshire, at Stafford, Thursday, July 20. Worcestershire, at Worcester and City, Saturday, June 24. Herefordshire, at Hereford and City, Monday, June 26. Cheshire, at Chester and City, Monday, July 30. General Grosvenor retires from the representation of Chester at the end of the present Parliament.— i The Hon. Robert Grosvenor ( son of Earl Grosvenor}, now attached to the Embassy of the Duke of Devonshire to Russia, offers himself as a Candidate to succecii the General in Ibe representation o Chester. General Grosvenor, and George Wilbrabam, Esq. of Delamere House, Cheshire, coma in for Stock, bridge in the next Parliament, on the interest of Earl Grosvenor. An advertisement in the Chester Courant of yesterday, announces that " a Gentleman of well, known Constitutional principles will offer himself," " in due time," in opposition to tbe return of tbe Hon. R. Grosvenor as a Representative for the City of Chester. Lord Easlnor retires from Ihe representation of the riiy of Hereford, on Ihe dissolution of the present Parliament. His Lordship's address to his constitu- ents, in which he signifies his intention, is dated from Nice. He says— " Recent events deter ine from again soliciting the respectable situation of one of your Representatives in Parliament, in which you have twice so honourably and so kindly placed me, and that at a period when you all know, that if offered to your choice I had every reason 10 expect I should again have been placed at the head of tbe poll. But from the turn your election system has lately assumed, and lbs nature of the contest which must take place, should I continue a candidate, I have reason to apprehend every recurrence of election will be a recurrence of contest, to which continuing system of exertion I could under no circumstances probably have found myself equal— but I feel myself still less so now, when not only my own health has recently experienced a severe shock, bul also tbat of my immediate family is such as may possibly render it a duty to reside abroad for some time to come." In Ihe hopes of the Noble Viscount altering ibis determination, a considerable number of respectable Freemen have resolved lo exert themselves lo secure his re- election, and a most active canvass is now making in his favour. £ The invitation to Mr. Huskisson lo permit liimsel again to be put in nomination for the representation of Liverpool in the ensuing Parliament, before il wan sent off. received Ihe signatures of 632 of Ihe most respectable inhabits nts of the town, of till political parties. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT !-— ON Friday EVENING, a poor chimney- sweeper of Tewkesbury, named Price, whilst employed in picking up the rooks for a shooting- party at the Lower Lode Ferry, was shot through the body by the accidental discharge of one of the fowling- pieces. An apprentice- boy from Cheltenham, named Buckman, ( who came there in dircct opposition to the commands of his master and his friends,) unin- tentionally shot the sweep near tbe heart, and so vro* t was the effusion of blood, that, but for the presence of a medical gentleman, he must have died in a few minutes. He now lies in a very dangerous slate, with little hope that he will survive many days, and i)<> chance of his ever being perfectly recovered. The boy attempted to shoot a rook, but the gun missing fire, he was examinfne; the priming, when il exploded, and the charge was lodged in poor Price's body. He was, of course, kept as quiet as possible, and it was wished that his wife should nol see him; but he was so anxious, next morning, to say one word to her, that she was admitted,— thcelection was uppermost in the poor fellow's mind, and his only request was, lhat she should not apply for parish relief, which would dis, qualify hita from votings being a freeman of Glouces- ter SALOPIAN JOUBNAlL, AMP COUJBIEM OF WALE8, ® FOR THE SALOPIAN JOURNAL. of t!; c past. KO. XXXIV. THE TOKEN. SAID ROSA, one day, As we roani'd o'er llie lav, " Our Friendship has never been broken, " Yet biesl though we've been, We liave never vet seen " Exchaiig-' d of our Friendship a Token. Here's mine," she exclnim'd, 41 Not of costly nor fant'd," And scarcely her words had she spoken,. An Emerald Crest She plac'd in my breast, Of Friendship her generous Token. " Alas f" then said I, " What can 1 now supply, " I wish that before'thou hadst spoken,. " Or that I had thought, And a Present had brought, " To hail thee with Friendship's pure Token : As I griev'd at my loss, A bright thought came across, Methought she had tenderly spoken 5 I fled to her breast, And her sw eet lip I prest With a Kiss—" there's of Friendship ray Tokfn ! Mix'd fear and surprise Beam'd fortii from her eyes, That thus all constraint I had broken, And, hanging her bead, Deeply blushing, she said — "' Was there e'er such a singular Tn/ cen ?" Then she fain would away, But I caught her to stay, " Here's a secret whose seal must b « broken ! " Thou fairest and best, " When thy sweet lip I prest, " ' Twas of Love and of Friendship a Token ! She made no reply, But methought iu her eye, I could read—" thou hast pleasingly spoken 3 sprang to her lip, • And as bees honey sip, I softly repeated tbe Token ! " Hail ROSA !" I cried, " Thou slialt walk by my side, " Till the thread of 111V life shall be broken ; " Through sunshine and sbowcr " VI e'll think on this hour, " Aud ever remember the Token !" tt ITijc Bontan Cst5jclic Question. [ The present Lord Mayor of London is a Candidate for the Representation of that City in the next Parliament. A respectable and numerous body of tbe Liverymen requested that he would pledge himself to oppose what is usually termed Catholic Emancipation: this he declined doing; and, in consequent^ the following letter has been addressed to him.] POOR'S RATES. [ HOUSE OF COMMONS.] RVPORT.— The Select Committee appointed to consider of the several returns made to the order of the house in 1825, relative to the sums assessed, levied, and expended, on account of the poor in England and Wales; and to report an abstract of the same, together with their observations thereon, to the house; and to whom the report, which, upon the 20th day of May, in tbe last Session of Parlia- ment, was made from the Select Committee 011 Poor Keturns, was referred:— Have, pursuant to the Order ofthe House, considered the matters to them referred, and haveagreed to the following Report: I he amount of the Poor Hates levied in the year ended 011 the 25th March, 1825, was £ 6,972,323, being more than that in the preceding year by £ 135,818,* and also rather more than the sum le- vied in the year 1822- 3, but less than that levied in former years, since 1812- 13, with the exception of 181V16, Which it exceeds by a small sum only. These comparisons refer to the total sums levied, including county rates, and other charges net ap- pertaining to the poor. These other charges scarcely differ in amount from the average of the last three years, namely, rather more than £ 1,200,000. The expenditure upon the poor only, ill 1824 5, was £ 5,786,991, and exceeds in a small proportion that of each of the two years last preceding. The expenditure has not increased in all the counties. It has increased in twenty- three in Eng- land and eleven in Wales ; it has decreased in nineteen in England, and one in Wales. The highest increase is in Carnarvon, where it is thirteen per cent. Of the English counties, the increase is greatest in Buckingham, where it is nine per cent. The increase is below oue per cent, iu Cornwall, Lincoln, Norfolk, and Shropshire. The greatest decrease is eight per cent, in Rutland; in Westmoreland it is below one per cent. All the counties in whieli the poor rates had increased last year, exhibit an increase this year also, with the exception . if Suffolk and Warwick; aud, in addition, there has been an increase in Bucks, Cornwall, Cumberland, Gloucester, Here- ford, Hertford, Huntingdon, Lancaster, Middlesex, Northampton, Salop, Somerset, Worcester, Angle- sey, Brecon, and Montgomery. Of the counties in which there was a decrease last year, Chester, Devon, Derby, Durham, Kent, Leicester, Monmouth, Northumberland, Notting- ham, Rutland, Stafford, Surrey, Sussex, Westmore- land, York, and Glamorgan, still exhibit a decrease. Your Committee have inserted in their Appendix a continuation of the several tables of comparison, • which wye added to the report of last year. it will be found, that notwithstanding a diminu- tion which has occurred in each of the last two years in the poor's rates of Sussex, that county is still the district of England in which the expenditure bears the highest proportion to the number of the people; and Lancaster is still i. t the opposite ex tremity ofthe scale. MAT 1,1826. * The amount for 1823- 4 is stated, in the Report ordered to be printed 20th May. 1825, at £ 6,833,630 ; but the few returns which were llieu wanting, and have been since received, shew the correct amount lo be £ 6,836,505. Tbe oilier items of the account for 1823 4, in Appendix ( A.) of I lie Report of 1825, Isave also been corrected. EXECUTION.— On Tuesday morning, Peter Nee- don, aged 23, and William Leech, aged 28, were executed iu front of Newgate, for highway robbery. SINGULAR LAW CASE.— A person ol the name of Salfcld, who held an oflice in Hesse Darmstadt, and who has been dead above 2011 years, lent iu 1622 to tbe city of Worms Ihe sum of 5000 dollars, at 5 per tent. His wife survived him. After her death the heirs of the husband claimed thise 5000 dollars, but the heirs of the wife disputed the claim. T he pro- ceedings were protracted lo an immense length by the ingenious lawyers, and at length the two parties came to a compromise for Ihe division of the fortune. But now the city made difficulties about the repay- ment. The storms of revolutions which followed, caused the affair to fall into oblivion, lint the heirs of the wife have lately come forward again, and the tribunal has decided, that if the heirs of the husband, Whose residence is unknown, do not appear within two months, the heirs of the wife shall receive the principal and the an ears of interest for 200 years.. ' Berlin Paper. DEMONIACISM.— Some ridiculous fictions were current in the Papal ages, concerning the various shapes nud figures in which the devil entered and imneout. iu a very high wind the unclean spirit in specie vespertilionis, or in the shape of a bat, flew down the throat of a recreant deacon, for not giving credit lo Ihe miraclcs of Sl. Virgilius, aud preventing the populace from paying their devotions to his leliques. Sl. Gregory mentions that several people had swallowed a devil, who had scaled himself, with, out such a design ( at least lie is exculpated of such by Gregory), upon a salad, over which Ihe sign of the Cross had not been made.— Gev. t. Magazine. To TAKE IMPRESSIONS or PLANTS.— Spread a specimen between two leaves of paper, and dry it in tbe usual manner; then wash over oue side with Indian Ink ; place the plant so prepared again between two sheets of paper, the lower of which is to be somewhat damp, with some paper above and below it, in a common press. The result will be a figure ofthe plant not unlike an aquatint engraving. RECEIPT TO PREVENT INFECTION FROM THE TYPHUS FEVER, for which Parliament gave to Dr. J. C. Smith, £ 5000.— Six drachms of powdered saltpetre, six drachms of oil of vitriol; mix Ihem in a tea- cup, by adding one drachm of the oil at a lime : Ihe cup to be placed, during preparation, on a hot hearth or plale of iron, and Ihe mixture lo be stirred wilh a tobacco pipe; tbe cup lo be placed iu different parts of the sick room. Panshanger 011k is the finest at this time in Ihe kingdom : it is growing 011 Earl Cowper's grounds 111 Hertfordshire. Ils contents in 1719 were 315 feel; in 1805, 810 feet; 1814, 984 feet, or 19 load, 34 feel. It is perfectly sound in every part, and very straight. To the Right Hon. the Lord Manor of London. MY LORD MATOR, Permit me very respectfully, as an humble indi- vidual of the Livery of I, ondon, whose suffrages you have solicited, to observe that the communica- tion you have lately made to your Committee, and which is stated, ill the official notice of it, to have been " received with the greatest satisfaction," has been viewed hy myself and some other voters with any other feelings than those of satisfaction. Admitting, as we most unequivocally do, the right of every candidate " to enter the House of Commons unshackled by any previous engage- ments" on the subject of the Roman Catholic claims, your lordship will, doubtless, admit as readily the right of every voter to ascertain how far the object of his choice is prepared to pursue such a course as may, in the judgment of such voter, be likely to contribute to the maintenance of the Church of England, and of that Protestant Consti- tution, which is the glory of this country, and the envy of the world. It was under the conviction that any farther concessions to the Roman Catholics could only operate most adversely to the best interests of the nation, that we considered ourselves justified in asking that pledge which your lordship has thought proper to refuse; and We apprehend that 110 little inconsistency is displayed by your late public vindication of neutrality, since we are unable to discover how, under your lordship's own confession, that " the Komish Religion is the most powerful and successful engiue the world ever saw in retard- ing the civil, moral, and religious improvement of mankind," you can yet deliberately refuse to vote against making further concessions to a system of crime and error, which is fraught with so much injury to the world at large, and to this country in particular. YourTordship will pardon mv remarking that yoil appear upon your own admission to have either proceeded too far, or not far enough. If the religion of the Reformation be really worthy of the regard you profess to entertain for it, you seem to have gone too far in deciding that what you admit to be truth does not demand the support of your vote. If the religion of Popery be really what you have yourself lepresented it to be, you do not appear to have gone far enough in withholding your pledge to vote against acknowledged error. In confirmation of these remarks, my lord, I will endeavour to shew that the pretended claims of the Roman ' Catholics to be put upon an equal footing w ith Protestants, are nothing less than a real inten- tion to be set above them. The Roman Catholic Relief Bills which have been now carried three different times by one branch of the legislature, have severally sought to effect an entire change iu the whole frame of the British constitution aud its laws by the following means: namely— 1. By abrogating the only sufficient test of Popery in framing an oath by which Roman Catho- lics can be no longer ascertained. 2. By recognizing the full supremacy of the Papal power in all ecclesiastical and spiritual con- cerns in this Protestant realm, without defining ( as never can be done) the extent in which obedience to a foreign power, although professedly spiritual, must incessantly affect the political allegiance of the King's Popish subjects. 3. By opening to Roman Catholics the high trusts of Privy Councillors— Members of Parliament— Chief Military, and Naval Officers— Lords of the Admiralty— Judges of the Realm— l. ords Lieute- nants— Colonial Governors— Magistrates— Sheriffs — Jurymen, and a variety of Civil Offices, which have been ever since the Reformation studiously and necessarily closed against the natural enemies of a Protestant Church and State. 4. By preparing,' in these strides of Papists to political power, for such encroachments 011 our Ecclesiastical Establishmeut, as cannot but end iu supporting an intolerant priesthood ( with the Jesuits at its head) by Protestant taxation, and so enabling that priesthood to accomplish its avowed object of supplanting the present Religion ofthe Reformation by reviving the original corruptions of Popery. 5. By thus facilitating and necessitating ( in defi ance of all history and experience) the erection of a persecuting power in a kingdom where not only the national establishment itself, but where numerous classes ofProtestant Dissenters, claim the protection of Government, in respect of the inalienable rights of conscience, the undisturbed exercise of religious worship, and the full enjoyment of civil liberty, 6. By losing all sight, in such inroads on the religion of the Holy Scriptures ( whether as pro- fessed by members ol the Church of England, or by right- minded Dissenters), of the radical and essential difference which subsists between a reli- gion of light and truth promulgated by the Almighty himself, and a religion of darkness and falsehood, which is incapable of being proved from Holy Scripture, thus annihilating all distinction between the worship of the one true and living God, sub- sisting iu a Trinity of persons, as revealed in the Bible— and the worship ofthe many Angels, Saints, and Idols of the Romish Apostacy; and in this way virtually renouncing the great fundamental doc- ilities of the Church of England ( more especially that of justification by faith only) as opposed to the dangerous doctrinal errors of the Church of Rome, as settled aud defined by the Council of Trent. It is true, that through the merciful protection of the Almighty, the bills which were thus passed iu the House of Commons, have been successively thrown out in the House of Peers, aud thereby the object of the sworn enemies of the Church of England and of our Protestant Dissei. ters has been hitherto defeated. The majorities, however, which have effected this triumph, have been so small as to lead us to " rejoice with trembling;" ond when - we consider how large a portion of those majorities was composed of the Bishops of the land ( who have thus, not for the first time, stood in the gap between the nation and its destruction); when we remember, further, that we have yet a Cabinet divided upou this vita! and momentous question; and when we still further reflect, that it is hopeless to expectthat oue branch of the legislature should always resist the declared opinions of the other; and not de sirable, for obvious reasons, that the trial should continue to be made, we shall see abundant caifse for anxiety and apprehension as to the probable issue ofthe present conflict. To the salutary influence of public opinion, our only rational appeal then appears to lie. Let the nation but once feel that Popery must keep its place, and not erect its sanguinary head in the place of our Tolerant Church, and benignant Government, and we are yet safe. In order to this, it seems desirable, that all who have votes in elect- ing members of parliament, and who feel as Protest- ants 011 this grave and solemn question, should consider the duty which is entailed upon them. The popular branch ofthe constitution can only be what tbe people will have it, or it would prac- tically cease to be the representative of the public. It has only of late years passed tbe bills which have been noticed, iu misconception of the public feeling on the Roman Catholic Question. The opposition to the claims of Papists has been hardly ever made a sine qua non with electors io the choice of their candidate, nor has the support of the Pro- testant Church aud the Protestant Constitution been required by them; on the contrary, they have taken it for granted that no popular representative could favour the introduction of arbitrary power, and that no member of the Church of England could assist in the setting up of Popery. Again ; these electors live at too great a distance from the times of bloodshed and persecution, to suppose that such scenes can ever be acted over again ; and they hear so much about the present enlightened age, that they imagine Roman Catholics are altogether changed from what they ouce were, and would no longer hate and destroy their fellow creatures even if they had the power to do so. Of this state of ease and indifference, the Papists and their friends (" wiser in their generation than the children of light") have taken ample advantage. They have availed themselves of the ignorance that has too generally prevailed on this question as favourable to the cause of darkness, and have extensively propagated, both in parliament and elsewhere, the delusion that Popery is another thing now than it has ever been before. As if, however, for our common preservation and deliverance, it so happens, through tbe overruling Providence of God, that the Church of Rome has, of late years, manifested greater bigotry than ever; her Pope and Priests have been more than ever opposed to every work of mercy, which is going on in the world, for the salvation of mankind aud the education of the poor; and all the exertions of that church—- even at our own doors— have most com- pletely proved to all " who have ears to hear," that she remains of her old opinion, that " Ignorance is tbe mother of devotion;" as, indeed, of such a devotion as her's, it certainly is. The Pope, who lately died, revived the nefarious Order of Jesuits, after it had been long suppressed by his predecessors, not only 011 the complaints of Protestants, but of Papists themselves; and he issued a most violent and unchristian bull against the Bible Society, while his clergy in Germany, and other parts of the continent, seconded his efforts in persecuting and expelling from tbe universities and churches, those of their own body, who distributed the bread of life to the world. The present Pope has issued a second bull against the Bible Society, equally disgraceful with the former, and has proved himself, in all other points, a worthy successor in the auti- christian church, over which he presides. The Romish hierarchy in England have at present contented themselves with converting considerable numbers of our population to their own creed, which they have been enabled to do chiefly by means of the extensive and well- endowed college of Jesuits, long established at Stonyhurst, in Lancashire, which holds constant communication, not only with other Jesuit colleges on the continent and in Ireland, but with the different Romish seminaries and private individuals of that faith here and elsewhere, and which college of Stonyhurst both trains and sends out Romish Priests, for the supply of tha whole of the United Kingdom; the chapels for whose use have been multiplied to a very large extent, throughout our own country, within the last 25 years, as will easily appear, on inspection of the Romish almanacks, which are published annually, where a list of the numerous and increasing convents, and other religious houses, will be found also. ' It is 111 Ireland, however, that the Romish priest- hood has displayed its spirit in a much less doubtful manner, and has exercised the same despotic sway over the mind and conscience, and often over the person and property of others, as has ever marked its character. There the Priests have studiously opposed the education ofthe people, as unfriendly to their own system of darkness and error. They have refused the Bible to the poor, keeping children from the schools where it was used, or expelling them after admission. They have anathematised from the altar those parents who have either per- mitted the Scriptures to be read, or even kept, iu their houses; or who have suffered their children to frequent the schools where the Bible was a class- book. They have prohibited all commercial inter- course with those who have offended them, and by such interdicts have effected their ruin, and driven them from the towns where they were carrying on business with credit to themselves, and advantage to the community. They have, of late, openly opposed the British and Foreign Bible Society, ut the several public meetings which have taken place; and have dared, in this late age of the world, to contend openly, in a Christian couuiry, against the duty and expediency of reading and circulating th Volumeof SacredTruth; and have actually asserted ( with their master, the Pope), that. " the Holy Scriptures have been productive of more harm than good." Nor is it' only by argument ( such as it is) that the Romish priests have sought to strengthen their own church and cause. It is sufficiently notorious to every resident in Ireland ( notwithstanding the assumptions of their own loyalty so freely made by the priests,' and so easily repeated ill certain quar- ters), that not only throughout the rebellion of 1708, as proved by Sir Richard Musgrave, but ever since that period, the priests have never ceased to foment and keep alive the spirit of faction and rebellion— a trade, which their powerful influence over their misguided followers has enabled them to conduct, on an extensive scale, and which their secret confessions have enabled them to conceal with a success entirely unattainable under a differ- ent system. Notwithstanding the mass of evil, of which Popery is the source and centre throughout the world, and in spite of the evil ( of which a very small part has now been noticed) existing iu our own country; notwithstanding the plain and solemn assurances of the Romanists themselves, that their religion is immutable, and the manifest proofs before our eyes, that their practical intolerance is as bitter as ever, and that their persecuting spirit, whereever they have the power, remains in all its force; it is certain that the House of Commons has now again and again passed such bills in reference to the Roman Catholic Question as will, without doubt, be succeeded by others of the same nature, if 110 expression oftheopinion of the country against such measures shall be brought before our national representatives at the peculiar period of a General Election. Already has the opinion of the people upon this important subject been submitted again and again in the shape of innumerable petitions against the Romish claims, as the question has suc-- cessively arisen for consideration in different ses- sions; but such petitions have had the fate of being presented to the Houses, whose members had not come together under auy particular reference to the Romish question, and because few of their constitu- ents had ever taken the trouble of asking either themselves or their representatives, how it was likely they would vote when such a question should arise. Of course, with no better instructions 011 what might have been the feelings or expectations of those who sent them there, it was only reasonable to expect, that the members of the Lower House would pursue their own views of what might be most expedient for the public interests; and that they would partake of the indifference which seemed so universally to prevail on thi subject of the further and more fatal encroachments of Popery. Now it is clear that the only way in which a geueral expression of the public voice can legiti- mately and properly take place, at the moment of a General Election, is by every real Protestant, who feels the force of such and similar arguments as have beeu adduced, resolutely making a stand iu favour of that Constitution, of which every elector is then ( though but for a short time) tbe guardian; and distinctly claiming a pledge of whosoever may be a candidate for his favour, that he will oppose any and all attempts to confer power, whether legisla- tive, executive, judicial, juridical, or civil, upon the sworn foes of England, her church, and govern- ment; in other words, a pledge that he w ill do no act in his capacity of a legislator, which shall involve the grant of ecclesiastical 01- political su- premacy to Roman Catholics. Let this duty but once be felt by those to whom the Constitution has confided the solemn trust of sending membeisto Parliament, and there can be no doubt that the nation will be then represented upon this all- important question in another way than it has been of late years, in consequence of its own neglect ;-~ a neglect which, however pardonable it may have been before some late decisions in favour of Roman Catholics, would now be nothing less than a criminal supineness when viewed in connection with the pressure of facts, and the evidence of experience. There can be no doubt that the public mind has for some time past been considerably attracted by the modern anomaly of one branch of a Protestant legislature pursuing a course, which can only become popular upon the supposition of a Protestant popu- lation ceasing to feel any interest in its own political security, and its own religious freedom. Awakened as that mind has now become to the consequences of certain decisions upon this vital question, it cannot be but that the sterling piety and strong sense of a large portion of our electors, if they will only follow up their own convictions into action, will produce a most important result. Though it were admitted that the mere numerical majority of electors might be at present disposed to favour the claims, it would still be probable that the influence of those persons among us who feel very differently may yet operate as leaven, which will, sooner or later, pervade the whole lump, and as salt, which may preserve it from general corruption. It may indeed be honestly felt by many who are diffident of their own limited means of usefulness, that they can effect but little in such a case ; but let no man imagine that his humble vote is of no importance, or suppose that he is dispensed from employing even his single talent in his master's service. It is impossible for any individual to calculate the value of his personal agency in the cause of truth, or fo estimate the blessing which may descend from above upon his honest determina- tion to exercise conscientiously the privileges, w hatever they may be, with which the Constitution has invested him. At all events, if he should shrink from the discharge of his own duty as an elector, he will have no right to complain, if any one whom he may assist to appear as his Representative should form an erroneous conclusion on a point of the utmost importance, merely from the want of being better informed 011 the wishes and desires of his constituents. If it should be said,- as it has been said by your Lordship, and no doubt will be said by many, both in and out of Parliament, who are interested in fabricating more Roman Catholic Relief Bills, that every member of Parliament should receive his trust unshackled, and be permitted to come to an inde- pendent conclusion upon every particular subject which may arise; the short answer seems to be, that, however specious this doctrine may be in theory, it, is now clear from experience that it is mischievous in practice; and that the unlimited confidence which has been hitherto reposed, having been abused as we have seen it, the time has arrived when some checks an? t guards appear essential ; and let it not be forgotten, that in endeavouring to induce electors in general to think for themselves, aud to exact pledges of their Representatives, it will be open to all classes of electors to do the same, and that, therefore, whoever among them may still deem it best that the Roman Catholics should carry their object, will have an equal right to make snch conditions as he can, and will be 110 worse off than his neighbour. What, then, it may be asked, does any one pro- mise himself if, after having admitted that the mere numerical majority of the electing body is more likely to favour than to oppose the Romish claims, he still indulges the hope that the candidates for our national representation will respect the appeal which will be made for Protestantism, and feel the force ofthe influence which it is his object to excite in her favour > 1 To this he replies, 1st, That he has a full confidence in the power of simple truth to obtain respect and reception, when error will not make the same way with all its meretricious dis- guises; and, 2dly, That he has a further confidence in the candidates for the British Legislature, that they wiil not knowingly oppose themselves to the declared opinion of the good and the wise among their constituents, although it should appear that such persons were to form a decided minority of those from whom they might receive their in- structions. At all events, it seems to be the duty of every individual voter, before he does his part, to lay hi3 hand upou his heart, and ask himselfhow far he can justify the vote he is about to give in respect of the religion he professes, the toleration he. enjoys, and the liberty he loves;— if, indeed, he can seriously believe, that Popery in power can endure any other Church than her own, can ever leave others in the enjoyment of liberty of conscience, and make no innovations upon the existing frame of our ecclesi- astical and civil polity, as established at the Re- formation, and confirmed at the Revolution; if he can really believe that Roman Catholics and their priests can now, for the first time, patronize or endure our Society for Promoting Christian Know- ledge, or our National Education Society, our Bible Societies, our Missionary Societies, our Religious Tract Societies, and our Education Societies, as soon as they shall have the power to molest and put them down, when he knows that, without that power, they have abhorred them and denounced their sup- porters, and have protested publicly against the one and the other; if he can honestly believe that a religion of superstition and ceremony, of idolatry and error, of priestcraft and delusion, is a fit thing to be encouraged aud supported by legislative authority, and, in addition to the toleration it now receives ( of which, in consistency with our own principles, we by 110 means complain), is deserving of being fostered, promoted, and paid, until it shall be strong enough to assert its own supremacy, and either to overthrow the existing religion, or at best to involve it in a perpetual struggle for existence ; if he can satisfy himself that an external supremacy to a foreign head, utterly impossible to be defined, and wholly inconsistent with the allegiance due from every good subject, has a fair claim to assist in making and executing the laws of a Protestant nation ; if such are the honest conclusions of his best judgment upon these points, let him vote for the member who either openly avows that he is the Protestant supporter of the Papal Church and cause, or, which generally amounts to the same thing, who refases altogether to inform his constituents how he intends to discharge the legislative trust about to be confided to him. If, on the other band, he desires to secure for himself, and preserve to his children, the right of serving God without persecu- tion, and of promoting the dispersion of the Bible, and the diffusion of the religion of the Bible, throughout the world ; if he wishes to keep the Church of England in her place, and, under her tolerant and benignant sway, to protect the rights and preserve the liberties of Protestant Dissenters; if he feels any anxiety for the education of the chil dren of his own country, above all, for their reli- gious education; and is further anxious for an extension of knowledge and civilization over the earth ; if he has any wish for the eventual triumph of light over darkness, of truth over error, and of holiness over sin ; if he feefs any concern for the honour of God as opposed to the worship of idols, and for the glory of the Saviour as contrasted with the substitution of innumerable means of interees sion, mediation, and salvation, sanctioned by the corrupt and unscriptural Church of Rome; if he really believes that no change should be made by the Papists, or their adherents, in the Protestant laws, by which we are so righteously governed ; i the Protestant Constitution, which was won by the struggles of our forefathers ; and in the Protestant faith, which was rescued from Popish pollution by the blood of the Martyrs, he w ill not fail to requir such a pledge from the candidates for his Parlia- mentary favour, as may prove that his religion does uot sit so loosely about him as to make him indiffer- ent in his duty to that God who has now been pleased, for above two centuries, to bless this en- vied nation, by means of her Protestant church, her Protestant government, and her Protestant legis- lature, uot merely in the preservation of her own security and happiness, but as the honoured instru- ment of evangelizing and enlightening whole nations sitting in darkness— as the great ark and bulwark of the expiring liberties of Europe— the main rally- ing point and refuge of the persecuted, the poor, and the ignorant, throughout the world, and, above all, as the assertcr and vindicator of the truth of God's holy and unadulterated Word and Sacraments, in opposition to all ancient and modern idolatry, and to all the unhallowed mixtures, and unscrip- tural additions, and traditions, of worldly and de- signing men from the first corruption of Christianity to the present time. Such, my Lord, are the reasons which have influ- enced me, as a Liveryman of Loudon-—" a citizen of 110 mean City,"— to decline voting for your Lord- ship ; in forming which conclusion I can assure you, that no one can feel more sincerely than myself the comparative insignificance of my single vote, and that I desire no less to enter into your Lordship's political reasons for coming under no pledge, as 1 cannot be ignorant that, in any pledge which might be given to so humble an individual, your Lordship may reasonably apprehend the defal- cation of far more important support in other, quar- ters. There are, however, certain principles which operate upon myself, and some others, with a force which, as Protestant Christians, as loyal subjects, and as plain Englishmen, we can never cease to feel for ourselves and our children ; and while we are most willing to leave all those who may differ from us to act for themselves, we trust that, until some better reasons can be adduced for indifference and neutrality than those which have been now sub- mitted in support of our particular views, we shall be permitted to exercise our privileges without the imputation of bigotry, and at the same time to state our reasons for doing so without offence. I have the honour to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient Faithful servant, JOHN POYNDER. New Bridge- street, May 10,1826. i$ ti0C£ llanrou@ Eimiligencc. SECURITY OF STEAM- ENGINES.— The Royal Academy of Paris report, as the means of preventing accidents from the explosion of steam engine boilers, that the boiler should be proved by tire hydraulic press In sustain a pressure five times greater than the working of Ihe steam. engine requires ; that a safely, valve should be attached lo lhe boiler, and loaded so as lo open at a pressure just above Ihat by which the boilers have been tried ; that the boiler should be surrounded by a wall 39f inches thick, standing 39 § inches from tbe boiler, aud that a metallic plug should be inserted in Ihe upper part of the boiler, formed of an alloy that will melt at a degree of little above Ihe temperature at which the engine works. STEAMING.— The coach, established 011 the Stock- ton and Darlington Railway, carried lately on one day no less than 158 passengers, the whole of whom were drawn hy two horses. A new coach has been launched by the Railway Company, which is more comfortably filled up than the former one, being lined with cloth, & c. & c. The inside fare from Stockton and Darlington, or vice versa, is Is. 6d. in the new coach, or ls. in the other. Both coaches have been taken of the Company al a given sum per annum, by Mr. Pickersgill, of Darlington, who in- tends to run them daily as heretofore.— Liverpool Advertiser. The report of the Committee on the Banking System of Scotland is to be drawn up by Mr. Peel. One important fact has transpired, viz. that the Scotch Banks at the present moment hold twenty- five millions in deposits bearing interest. There is a regulation of police at Copenhagen, Whereby every householder is to give bed and board, and surgical assistance, at bis own expense, to any passenger who may be injured by a fall 111 front of his premises, and ( his till be be quite recovered. We presume this regulation keeps the pathway wonder- fully clear of Iraps, barrows, boxes, orange peel, Ihe tops of vegetables, and many oilier nuisances, by which serious accidents are occasioned in certain other places. OLD BAILEY, MAY 15. ROBBBRY BY A HACKTFBY- OOACHMAN. Thomas Woolridge stood indicted for stealing, on the 5th of May, a purse, containing six sovereigns, the property of Mr. Owen Davies Owen, Steward of the Shrewsbury House of Industry, in the dwelling house of Mr. James Dowd. Mr. LAW staled the ease for the prosecution. The prosecutor stated, ihat on the5th inst. he resided at Oliver's Coffee- house, Westminster Bridge. On that day, he was driven there iu a backney- coac. lt; th coachman demanded 12s. for his fare. Witness inquired why he made so extraordinary a demand, at the same time laying his purse on the beer counter of the coffee- room ; after he had so laid it, and while he was speak- ing to a Mr. Thomas, witness turned round and saw the piisoner moving off, and lie got away with the purse. The prisoner was apprehended the next day, by Read, when he was dressed iu a new suit of clothes. Witness did not pay his fare, nor had it since been demanded of liini. Cross- examined by Mr. CRBSWBLL.— Witness was quite Sober on his arrival, hut very much fatigued. Is quite sure that he did not take the purse up himself. W. Thomas was at Oliver's Coffee- house, on the night in question, and heard an altercation between lb prosecutor and prisoner, relative to his fare. Saw the purse put 011 the counter of the bar, aud the abrupt manner in which the prisoner left the room. Witness is nephew to the prosecutor. John Cockhurn, Ihe porter at the Coffee- house, corroborated the statement of the preceding witness. Mary Dudson, the bar- maid, deposed to the prisoner having left the bouse without receiving his fare. Thomas Smith, the prisoner's employer, stilted, that the prisoner paid him JtI for Ihe day's work. He never A SIXTH CONTINENT!— An extraordinary phe- nomenon presented in the Southern Ocean may render our settlements i 11 New South Wales of still more eminent importance. A Sixth Continent is in tbe very act of growth before our eyes 1 The Pacific is spotted with islands through the immense space of nearly fifty degrees of longitude, and as many of latitude. Every one of these islands seems lo be merely a central spot for tbe formation of coral banks, which, by a perpetual progress, are rising from the unfathomable depths of the sea. The union of a few masses of these rocks, shapes itself into an island, the seeds of plants are carried to it by birds or the waves, and from the moment that it overtops tbe waters, it is covered with vegetation. The new island constitutes in its turn a centre of growth to another circle. The great powers of nature appear to be still in peculiar activity in this region; and to her tardier process she sometimes takes tbe assistance of the volcano and the earthquake. From the south or New Zealand to the north of the Sandwich islands, the waters absolutely teem with those future seats of civilization. Still the coral in- sect, the diminutive builder of all these mighty piles, is at work ; the ocean is intersected with myriads of those lines of foundation ; and when the rocky sub- structure shall have excluded the sea, then will come the dominion of man.— Monthly Review. said anv thin al Ol bing about not receiving a fare from a gentle- iver's Coffee- house; has known the prisoner from a child, and never heard any thing against him. John Palmer lives at 28, Queen- street, Blackfriars- road. On the day after the robbery, be met the prisoner, and inquired of him" whether he knew the prosecutor; be said he did, whereupon witness de- manded the purse, and gave, him in custody. Edward J. Burn keeps a clothes shop in Lower Marsh, Lambeth. On the 6th of May, the prisoneV urchased some new clothes of him, and paid him in sovereigns. Charles Read, a Bow- street patrol, apprehended the prisoner, who was dressed in a new suit of clothes. Witness told him he must go home, and take them off. " p made great resistance. The prisoner, in his defence, said, that he purchased the clothes with his own money, os he was going to be married the next day. He denied all knowledge of the robbery. Several respectable hackney- coach masters, who have known the prisoner from a child, gave him an unexceptionable character. Mr. Baron HULLOCK summed up the evidence. The Jury returned a verdict of— Guilty, Death, but strongly recommended him to mercy, in which the prosecutorjorned, believing it to be his first offence. HOUSE OF LORDS, MAY 17. MONTGOMERY AND OTHERS, THE SURVIVING EXECU- TORS AND TRUSTEES OF THE LATE DUKE OF QUEENS- BERRY, APPELLANTS — MARQUIS OF QUEENSB8RRY, RESPONDENT. , This was an appeal from the Courts of Scotland. The facts ofthe case were these. The late Duke of Queena- berry succeeded, in 1778, to certain estates under an entail, executed in 1769, by bis cousin, the preceding- Duke of Queensberry. This entail restricted the powers ofthe heirs in granting leases in the following- way—" That it shall not be lawful to any of the said heirs to set lacks, or rentals of the said lands, or any part thereof, for any longer space than nineteen" years, and without any diminution of the rental, or for tho letter's lifetime, in case of any diminution; of the rental; and that it shall not be lawful to any of the said heirs to take grassnms ( fines) for any lack, or rental, to b « set by them, but to set the said lands and estate at such reasonable rents as can be got therefor, so that the uceeeding heirs may not be hurt, or prejudiced, by the heir in possession setting the lands al an undervalue, or taking, by way of grassum, what fails annually to be paid out of the lands. 1' The penalty attached to the disobedience of their prohibition was the loss of all right or interest in the said lands, and that the leases so granted should become null and void. The late Duke, however, accepted the renunciation of tbe current leases, and let new ones at an increased rent; in conse- quence of which the present Marquis brought an action against the trustees in 1812, claiming damages of £ 150,000, on account of no less than 110 farms. Tha alleged ground of action was, that, by letting new leases before the old ones expired, all competition with the tenant was prevented, so that the lands could not be let at the besj rents whicb could be got, and that the renunciation of the unexpired terms of the old leases were so many virtual grassums paid to the landlord in consideration of the new lease which was substituted. This action gave rise to proceedings in the Courts below, which lasted for some years, when it was decided in favour of the Marquis of Queensberry, limiting bis claim only upon those leases which, if not surrendered, would have been subsisting at the time the action was commenced. This decision was ap- pealed against to the House of Lords in 1820, but was affirmed, without prejudice to any action or actions that might be afterwards brought on account of the other leases. An action was again brought on one of tha leases for the sum lost by the renunciation of the old lease; and the principle, as applicable to the others, was again discussed,—- when the Courts below again held, that the respondent, under the prohibiting clause, had a right to recover ; and this decision was a second time appealed against. The point at issue was the right of the heir lo recover hy action of damages, when a different penalty was attached to the violation of th ® prohibitory clause. It was considered to be a very novel sort of action.— Judgment deferred. The following are particulars of the accident that befel William Black well and John Penn, two abourers, who were buried by the falling in of a chalk- pit, near Amersham, last week. These men were in the act of sinking a shaft to seek for chalk, in the same manner in which a pit is dug for any other purpose, sieinivg the sides ( that is laying the bricks) as they descended; the brother of Blackwell was stationed above at the windlass.. Having dug to a depth of 40 feet, they came to a spot where they found sand on one side of them and chalk on the other. In placing the bricks in a shaft or well, a wooden cylinder, about four inches thick and of the circumference of the pit, is used, called a curve, on which the bricks are built up, and the whole is supported by buttresses formed of the soil underneath. The workmen as they clear away the earth gradually remove an inch or two from each of these buttresses, and the curve and the whole mass of brick. work upon it sink together, till they have de. scended to the required depth, whatever it may be. The unfortunate fellows who were engaged in this task oil the present occasion finding, when they gut to the sand, that Ihe side of I lie shaft could not be " formed into a buttress to support the curve and the super- incumbent mass of brick- work, and unwilling to lose their labour as they had met with a stratum of chalk, compromised their safety by placing a stick underneath lhe curve. They had not worked long after doing so, when the stick gave way, and, though the biicks did not immedi- ately fall, a quantity of earth came down upon them, and Penn, who was below his fellow- labourer, was buried as far as his thighs. Blackwell, when the earth fell upon them, told Penn that he would endeavour to climb to the lop of the shaft, and get assistance to clear away the earth, and relieve liiin. Willi this intent he began to climb, but in his attempt pulled out some of the bricks, when not only the whole of the bricks with which the shaft was steined, but the earth ou each side gave way, and crushed him in an instant. Penn, pro- tected by tbe curve, experienced but little injury from the falling earth. But the dread of so dreadful a death as being left lo perish underneath tlie earth rushed upon his mind. It may be judged, then, how anxiously he listened to the voices of persons above him, who came to dig for ( what they naturally expected to find) his and his companion's mangled corpses — his despair when they left him, as lie thought, to a wretched death ( for he knew nol that it was night when they paused from their labour)— and the renovation of his hopes when he again heard voices, and the noise of persons at work. Twice, he says, he either slept or lost his senses. About noon on Friday, the workmen had steined the pit to the depth of twenty- seven feet, and were then still twelve feet from the bottom ; lliey weie preparing to quit the pit, and go to dinner, w hen the poor fellow was heard to groan. It may be easily imagined hy any one that dinner was put off, nnd tliat their efforts to extricate him were redoubled; in less than an hour lliey had the satisfaction of hearing liini speak. About seven o'clock Blackwell was taken out dead. In another hour they had removed ihe earth as low as Penn's bead, but lie was so wedged iu by bricks and sand that it was found impossible lo raise him from the pit without first clearing away these impediments. As an intrepid fellow, of tbe name of Andrews, who had directed the whole of the operations, was engaged in this dangerous undertaking, lighted by candles, lie heard the sand give way; and, expecting that Ihe pit would close upon him, he told Penn that he must leave him to his fate, and desired to be drawn up. The shrieks and entreaties of Penn, however, induced him to hazard a second attempt; lie was again let down aud having succeeded in removing the bricks, lie fastened a rope round Penn's body, and between liii legs, for lie could uot clear away the sand in w hich Ilk legs were buried, and thus afforded a chance of pro- longing his existence, it being doubtful whether in drawing him up he might not receive an injury which would he fatal. It proved otherwise however, for although iu the first attempt to draw Penn out of the sand, he shrieked with agony, caused hy the tension of his limbs, he was drawn up in safety, after having lain under the earth at a depth of forty feet for the space of thirty. nine hours. Though very weak when first brought out, Penn is now fast recovering: Blackwell has left a wife and two children ; his wife laid in the day he died. In less than an hour from the time when Penn was taken up, the earth again gave way on all sides, and completely filled Ihe pit. A subscription has been set on foot for the benefit of the family of the deceased, and of Penn, and also for tht workmen.— Bucks Gazette. THE RUSSIAN SENATE. The following description of the constitution an< 5 powers of this body, is from a private letter in the Frankfort Journal of the 3d instant:— u Having beeu settled in Russia for a quarter of a century, and having returned only a few weeks ago to my native place, on family business, 1 find il difficult to conceive, when I read tbe newspapers, how tbe much- enlightened countries in Europe can have remained so ignorant as they . are of the most simple and notorious facts rela- tive to the institutions of my adopted country. Re- collecting the memorable events which, principally under the late reign, have drawn Russia and the other States of the Continent nearer together, I might be allowed to believe, that a knowledge of the Russian nation and Government, formerly confined to a few travellers, was now generally diffused among well- informed persons. But I now see, more than ever, that there are impressions which most men do not easily renounce, viz. those which leave on their minds ideas attached to certain denominations. Thus, for instance, tbe English papers, and after them the French, which translate them, continually describe tbe Senate of St. Petersburg!) as a representative body ; for no other reason, certainly, than that it bears the name of Senate. They seem to be ignorant that the members of that body, named by the Sovereign, paid by him, and removeable at his pleasure, have, in their collective capacity, none of the elements of a repre- sentative body ; and besides it is evident, that n tribunal, the business of which is to judge in civil and criminal affairs, to take cognizance of, and to publish the Ukases of the Emperor, and to controul in one of its sections only, the accounts and contracts of some of the functionaries of the Government, has in its nature no concern with the ordinary affairs of the in- ternal administration, or with the alterations ami improvements of which it may be susceptible. The first are confided to a committee of the Ministers, which sits at St. Pelersburgh. As for the plans rela tive to the administration, to measures lo be adopted on important occasions, the discussion of them is re- served to the Council of State, called the Council of the Empire, when the Sovereign is pleased to ask the advice of its members. This council is also a court of appeal, to decide in the lu. st instance on causes already brought before the Senate, when the decision has uo. t had in its favour two- lhirds of the votes, or when the Emperor orders them to be reconsidered. Yet neither the Council of the Empire, notwithstanding its high rank among the public functionaries, nor the Senate, have the smallest share in the deliberations on matters elating to foreign policy, which depend exclusively on the will of the Sovereign. " It is evident, there- fore, that the pretended counsels given by the Senator ® for the preservation of peace, with which tbe public journals have been filled, and their opinions respecting the legitimacy of the insurrection of the Greeks, must appear quite absurd to all readers who have soma acquaintance with the Russian Government." BANKRUPTS, MAY 16.— Thomas Taylor, of Clement'I- inn, money- scrivener.— Isaac Joel, of Preston, Lanca- shire, jeweller.— George Jones, of Wootton- under- edge, Gloucestershire, victualler.— William Pigott, of Nor- wich, grocer.— Henry Lewis, of Bridgnorth, Shropshire, innkeeper.— Jos. Longbottom, jun. of Bnry- street, Bloomsbury, job- master.— Peter Stelfox, of Dubcrosa, Yorkshire, woollen- cloth- manufacturer.— Josh. Wood, of Wakefield, Yorkshire, dyer.— William Jeffeoat, of Kenilworth, Warwickshire,, corn- factor.— Riehd. Pres » ton, of Preston, Lancashire, innkeeper.— YVm. HuuJon^ of Leeds, James Britton and John Huiiton, of Borrow- by, Yorkshire, linen- manufacturers.— Thos. Marshall^ of College- hill, Upper Thames- street, iron and, copper merchant.— John Lang- wiih, of Lougendale, Cheshire, ironfounder.— Richard Eecles, of Wakefield, Yorkshire, merchant.— John O'Neill, of Liverpool, merchant.— r Dorothy Jackson, of Birmingham, button factor.— James Clare, of Manchester, innkeeper.— John Varley, of Manchester, machine- maker.— Geo. Beardmore, of Burslem, Staffordshire, builder.— John Wallwork,, of Manchester, victualler.— John Dean, Thos. Dean, and Daniel Dean, of Portwood, Cheshire, iron- founders.— William Holmes, of York, carver and gilder. INSOLVENTS.— Thomas Douglas, of Brick- lane, St Luke's, carpenter ond builder.— Jos. Clarke, of Wor cester, coach- proprietor.— Win. T. Peacock, of Green wich, market- gardener. SHREWSBURY: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY W. & J. 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