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ifijL fx 4 i J|/ 411/ 111Ml 4I if4 41/ No. 613. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1837. PRICE CASE OF THE GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY, AS OPPONENTS OF THE SOUTH UNION COMPANY. THE Directors of the Grand Junction Company consider themselves justified in opposing the South Union Company, not only by their general claim to fair pro- tection, but also by the course of proceeding adopted towards them by the South Union Company. They will first attempt to establish their right to consider the South Union as a rival scheme, against which they have a claim to Parliamentary protection. They have embarked a vast capital in a public undertaking of the utmost importance, which, although now nearly com- pleted, has not yet made any return to the projectors for the risk and outlay they have incurred. They have cheer- fully done this in reliance on the justice of the legislature; which, having required the projectors to prove to its satis- faction the advantages of the line, and the probability of a fair revenue from the traffic upon it, allowed their bill to pass. The traffic from Manchester to London, and the revenues to accrue from thence, were principal features of the scheme which obtained the sanction of Parliament. The populous manufaeturingdistricts of South Staffordshire, and the towns of Stafford, Wolverhampton, Walsall, and Birmingham, were considered of so much importance, that the members for Staffordshire and Warwickshire were added to the com- mittee on the bill; and befote it left the committee, the chairman of the Grand Junction Company was required to pledge the Company to carry their line by Birmingham ; it having been suggested to leave that town altogether, and join the London line further east; whereby a shorter route to London would have been obtained. Had the Grand Junc- tion Company applied for the short line, in preference to that which they have taken, leaving out the district and towns in question, for the sole object of a shorter communi- cation between South Lancashire arid London, it would certainly have been refused them by Parliament. This, however, is now the main argument adduced by the South Union Company for projecting a line from Stone to Tam- worth and Rugby. The Grand Junction Company were anxious to have car- lied their railway through Macclesfield and the Potteries; but Mr. Stephenson, their engineer, having reported that this route was objectionable for a main line, the design was abandoned. Being now informed that a line can be found from Manchester through Stockport and the Pottery dis- trict, to! Stone or Stafford— although it will seriously injure them, tliey are not disposed to oppose it. The South Union Company, however, not contented with this, are applying for powers to proceed further southwards; with the declared purpose of shortening the distance to London—( a saving which cannot be shown to exceed ten miles in distance, instead of seventeen, as erroneously stated by the South Union Com- pany, and twenty to thirty minutes in time), and thus abstract- ing from the Grand Junction Company a great portion of their traffic, which they had reason to expect would be se- cured to them, when required by Parliament, on just grounds, to prefer the somewhat longer route, so as to place Birmingham on the main line from Manchester and Liver- pool to London. The Grand Junction Company, therefore, while willing not to contest the establishment of a communication from Manchester and Stockport to the Pottery and South Staf- fordshire districts, consider themselves called upon strenu- ously t(( oppose the line from Stone to Rugby, designed solely to compete with theirs, and abandoning Birmingham, to the manifest injury of the Railways from Lancashire and London to that town. When they were informed that projects were in agitation, hy avoiding Birmingham, to shorten the distance between Manchester and London, they felt it their duty to order surveys to be taken, and plans deposited, of the district through which the line might be carried :— in order that, if Parliament should consider the object proposed ( a saving of thirty minutes in a journey often hours,) worth the expense of making fifty miles of new line at a cost of a million : and a sufficient motive for the injury to be inflicted on the Grand Junction and London and Birmingham Companies, which liad already received their sanction, and had incurred risk and expense in reliance thereupon— in that case the Grand Junction Proprietors might assert their just claim to carry the project into execution. This was the purpose of the Directors in ordering the surveys and Parliamentary notices for the line from Stafford to 1' amworth and Rugby. The longer line by Birmingham had in the first instance been approved of by Parliament; the adoption of the shorter line would contradict its former sanction, and abstract the re- venues already appropriated by its authority:— it was, there- fore, only reasonable that if made at all, it should be made by the Grand Junction Company. The Directors now come to the particulars of the South Union Company's proceedings towards them. So far back as the 5th October, 1836, there was laid be- fore the board, with the consent of the chairman of the South Union Company, the scheme of a compromise, pro- posing that the latter should join the Manchester and Cheshire Company in a line from Manchester through the Potteries to the Grand Junction Railway near Stone;— and that the shortening of their line to the southward of Stafford should be left to the Grand Junction Company. No decisive result having ensued from the proposal, the Grand Junction Company proceeded to take such measures, with respect to a Stafford and Rugby line, as might enable them to advance the just claims of their Proprietors;— with the intention of referring the question of the necessity of such a line to the decision of Parliament. While the Di- rectors were engaged in these measures, on the 12th of De- cember, 1836, a communication was made to the chairman, through the medium of a letter to Mr. Edward Cropper, from Mr. Robert Garnett, who stated that he had written it after a conversation with his brother, the chairman of the South Union Company, on the subject of a compromise be- tween the rival projects, and with a view to the prevention of hostilities in Parliament. The IJireetors must here ob- serve that Mr. Cropper is interested to the extent of five shares only, and the Messrs. Garnetts have no interest at all in the Grand Junction Company ; and that, although this letter declares that it was written on Mr. Robert Gar- nett's authority solely, yet, from the mention in it of a pre- vious conference with the Chairman of the South Union Company, and from the fact that although a copy of it was shewn to him the day after it was sent, no step was taken by him to contradict or disavow the same,— it was reason- able to conclude that it was virtually authorised by the South Union Company. The substance of the proposition was as follows :—- That the Manchester and Cheshire and South Union Companies should unite to make a line from Manchester through the Potteries to the Grand Junction Railway at Stone. That a clause should be inserted in the act to be applied for by the combined Companies, pledging them not to pro- ceed to the southward of Stone, either for an indefinite period or a fixed term, say seven or ten years. That the Grand Junction Company should act as media- tors to effect a coalition between the Manchester and Cheshire and South Union Companies on the basis proposed. This proposition was at once, and without any modification, accepted by the chairman of the Grand Junction Company,• and on the same day, the 12th of December, the gentleman through whom the communication had been made, wrote, as it is stated, to the chairman of the South Union Com. panv, informing him of the Grand Junction Company's in- tentions, and inclosing the original letter in which the basis of the arrangement was described. To this an answer, dated December 17th, was returned to Mr. Cropper, then in London; but the letter being marked " Private and con- fidential," he was restricted from showing it to the Grand Junction Company; and they are still ignorant of its contents. At this period the Grand Junction Company had been in active negotiation with the Manchester and Cheshire Com- pany, with the object of an alliance for mutual protection against the South Union Company. On the receipt of the communication from Mr. Garnett, the chairman of the Grand Junction Company, fully relying on its bona fide nature, at orice suspended the measures then in progress,— and inquired from the Manchester and Cheshire Company if they were disposed to accept the Grand Junction Com- pany's mediation ; which they at once replied they were : — and it may be added that they are now willing to abandon the line down the Trent valley, provided the South Union Company will do the same. No further difficulty, therefore, was supposed to remain, and the official notification from the South Union Company was daily expected. While the affair thus remained in suspense, and all proceedings on the Grand Junction Com- pany's part were stayed in consequence, the South Union Company, it appears, were actively canvassing against them in all quarters; and at a public meeting at Tamworth in- quired why no deputation was present from their opponents ? whereas this Company conceived they would have done wrong in appearing on that occasion, and offering a line through Tamworth to the inhabitants of that town, while a negotiation for deferring the execution of such a line was actually pending. These circumstances, and the prolonged silence of the South Union Company, induced the Grand Junction Com- pany to press for a reply; and on the 31st December Mr. Garnett, the chairman of the South Union Company, sends, through the same channel that conveyed the origiual pro- posal, an answer in the following words: — " Dear Brother,— I will say at once that we will not listen for one moment to any mediation on the part of the Grand Junction Company, because they are not disinterested parties. I will, therefore, spare Mr. Cropper the trouble of coming up here to- morrow for such an object. This with- out prejudice Your's truly, WM. GARNETT. " Lark Hill, 30th December, 1836." The Grand Junction Company consider that they have just grounds for complaint against the South Union Com- pany for their proceedings in this matter; which, if not in- tended to mislead, have at least had the full effect in pro- ducing an erroneous impression as to their designs. The preceding statement, which the documents will strictly verify, will prove the Grand Junction Company to have acted throughout with entire good faith and promptitude; and they have a right to inquire why the chairman of the Sou h Union Company, who knew the proposal had been made, and who was at once addressed on the part of the Grand Junction Company so as to sho. v him that they coi - sidered the proposal an official one, did not without delay contradict it, if it were not intended to be carried into effect. This is a question which the Directors feel confident will not be overlooked by members of Parliament. Whatever be fieir views of the general question at issue, they will not approve of a line of conduct apparently at variance with principles of fair and open hostility. In conclusion, the case of the Grand Junction Company again- t the South Company, rests on the following grounds : 1 hat the Grand Junction line was sanctioned by Parlia- ment, after strict examination and proof of the advantage s it offered, no less to the public than to the projectors. Tha: the route to London through Birmingham was pro- perly insisted on by Parliament:— whereas a shorter line which the Grand Junction Company could have taken, if now made, will deprive them of a great part of the income which they were compelled to prove on obtaining the sanc- tion of Parliament. That the line has been executed at a great cost, and will be opened in June next:— and the countenance of Parlir. ment to any rival project,• which will so deeply affect ha success, may safely, and should in justice, be withheld until t) me has been allowed to show whether further accommoda tion be required or no; especially as the proprietors, having been subjected to the condition of proving a certain amount of traffic,. have embarked their capital under a just confidence that that traffic would not be interfered with, before the line is opened and tried. That the saving of time by the new line cannot be proved to exceed half an hour in a journey of ten hours; and to ob- tain this will demand an expenditure of a million-.— That the object is not sufficient to justify the interference with a district in itself of no commercial importance, and the ab- straction of a large amount of revenue already appropriated to a beneficial and well considered undertaking. That if, notwithstanding these reasons, such a line is deemed necessary by Parliament, the Grand Junction Com- pany, who were formerly required to pass through Birming- ham, should have the prior claim to the project. That, with respect to the South Union Company, the result of their proceedings, as already stated, has been to ihrow the Grand Junction Company off their guard ; and to arrest measures, for the due protection of their interests, which might have been taken, had it not been supposed that an arrangement was intended. Having thus submitted the leading features of their case, the Grand Junction Company leave it with entire confidence in the hands of honourable members of Parliament. JOHN MOSS, Chairman. Liverpool, January 10th, 1837. The following correspondence has taken place, in conse- quence of the publication of the above " Case." Manchester, January 26, 1837. To John Moss, Esq., Chairman of the Grand Junction Railway Company. Sir,— Having seen a document which is signed by you, entitled " Case of the Grand Junction Railway Company, as opponents of the South Union Company," I am induced to address these few lines to you, in order to correct some parts of the statement which refer to me, and which are certainly erroneous. I might add, that I think the course which I took, on the occasion referred to, is not fairly re- presented. 1st. It is asserted that I made a proposition to the Grand Junction Railway Company. 2d. It is concluded that I was virtually authorised to do so by the South Union Company. As regards the 1st., I have to observe that, as a Director of the London and Birmingham Railway Company, I could not be indifferent to the proceedings of the promoters of the projected rival railways, and I was desirous to see those parties come to more amicable arrangement; and under these feelings, I wrote a letter on the 5th of last month to my colleague, Mr. Edward Cropper, in which I recom- mended that he should use his influence to reconcile the rival Companies, with a view to prevent their entering into a hostile contest in Parliament. My letter was marked private, and Mr. Cropper was authorised only to show it to three other Directors of the London and Birmingham Railway Company who were then in Liverpool; and having taken these precautions, I never expected ( as I certainly never intended) that it would pass into any other Lands. It cannot, therefore, be fairly said that I made any proposition to the Grand Junction Company; in fact, my letter con- tained no proposition at all, but merely inyown suggestions, addressed exclusively to my colleagues on a subject highly interesting to the Company we represent. I do not blame my friend Mr. Cropper for allowing mv letter to be shown you, as I have no doubt he was actuated by the best inten- tions ; but I repeat that he did so without any authority from me. As respects the second, I wrote the letter entirely on my own responsibility, without the knowledge of my brother or the South Union Company; and I had no authority from either of them to make any proposition on their part, which, indeed, I distinctly stated in the letter itself, in the following words :—" In all I have written to you on this subject, you will clearly understand that I have had no official communi- cation from the South Union Company; I have merely spoken to my brother unofficially, and write this entirely of my own notion, under the sincere belief that some good may yet be done by negociation, if properly managed."— I am, sir, your most obedient servant, ( Signed) ROBERT GARNETT. Manchester, 26th. January, 1837. Grand Junction Railway Committee. 27th January, 1837. To Robert Garnett, Esq. Sir,— I should very much regret that any publication, bearing my name, could be considered as not fairly represent- ing what you, or any one, had said. It is on this account that I have examined very carefully your letter of yesterday with our printed statement, one of which I send, and at once reply to your two observations :— No. 1. does not deny the facts stated, but blames Mr. Cropper for having shown your letter. Without under- taking Mr. Cropper's defence, allow me to ask what it was written for, if not to be shown to me ? You must have forgotten that on the 26th December you wrote to Mr. Cropper:— " I do not complain of your showing the letter to Mr. Moss;— quite the contrary,— but I would rather not give a copy of it." Your observation, No. 2. puts a construction on your letter at variance with your first letter ; wherein you say you wrote it after some conversation that evening with your brother; and, in a subsequent letter, that " on the following morning, you read to him that part which related to the subject." I sincerely lament that you should, after a conversation with the Chairman of the South Union, ( your own brother) write out a plan for settlement, containing every' particular, and now call it unauthorised ; and that your brother, when next morning you read him a copy of it, did not at once say, ' this must be corrected." It is rather, hard upon the Company I represent, after we have accepted the terms, to be told the letter was without authority, and that your brother, who knew it was sent, will not " listen" to us. Before my name was attached to the " Case," I got it re- ferred to a gentleman who takes no part in the contest, that he might see that it was strictly corrected from the docu- ments. I took care that no expression. beyond what the case required should be inserted. No doubt the whole correspondence will undergo a Par. liamentary investigation. But so desirous am I that nothing but the truth should be stated, that I beg to offer that, if you and your brother will consent, the whole correspondence, without comment, be printed and circulated at the expense of the Grand Junction Company.— I am, sir, your most obedient servant, ( Signed) JOHN Moss. BIRMINGHAM AND DERBY JUNCTION RAILWAY. CONTRACT FOR WORKS. THE Directors of the. Birmingham and Derby Junc- tion Railway Company will meet at the Office," in Wa- terloo- street, Birmingham, on Wednesday the 29th day of March next, at twelve o'clock at noon, for the purpose of receiving Tenders for executing that portion of the Railway which lies between a point fifteen chains north of the Brick- yards at Cliff, in the parish of Kingsbury, in the county of Warwick, and a point thirty chains to the south of the pub- lic highway leading from Wiggiriton to Harleston, in the parish of Tamworth, in the said county of Warwick, the whole length being about five miles and " fifty- seven chains. The Contract is to include the Earth- work, Masonry, Bridges, and all other works required to complete this part of the Railway, except the furnishing the materials for the Permanent Way, and the laying the same; and the Con- tractor is to keep the works in repair for twelve months after they are completed. Plans and Specifications of the Works, and a Draft of the Contract to be entered into, will lie for inspection at the office of the Engineer, George Stephenson, Esq., 351^, Great George- street, Westminster, from the 27th of Febru- ary instant till the day on which the Contract is let. Printed forms of tender may be obtained at the Company's office in Birmingham, or at the office of the Engineer, and no others will be received. The parties tendering will be expected to be in attend- ance. The Directors do not bind themselves to accept the low- est tender. By order, THOMAS KELL, Secretary. Waterloo- street, Birmingham, Feb. 10, 1837. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that application is intended to be made to Parliament, in the Session of the year 1838, for an Act or Acts to alter, amend, explain, enlarge, repeal, and render mOie effectual some of the pow- ers and provisions of the several Acts relating>* o the Grand Junction Railway; and also to make and maintain a Rail- way or Railways ( with proper works and conveniences connected therewith), commencing by a junction with the Grand Junction Railway in the Parish of Runcorn, in the County of Chester, and terminating by a junction with the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in ( he Parish of Huy- ton, in the County of Lancaster, and passing from through or into the several Parishes, Parochial Chapelries, Town- ships, Hamlets, and Places of Runcorn, Aston, Daresbury, Kekewic, Moore, Norton, Acton- Grange, Higher Walton, Lower Walton, Fidler's Ferry, Marsbgate, Warford, Stock- ham, Ashnore, and Great Budworth, or some of them, all in the County of Chester; West Bank, Cuerdley, Widnes, Upton within Widnes, Upton, Widnes within Appleton, Appleton, Speke, Childwall, Widnes, Penketh, Great San. key, Farnworth, Farnworth within Widnes, Ditton, Little Tarbock, Tarboek, Hale, Hah wood, Little Woolton, .. iueh Wool ton, Garston, Allertou, Vyalton . m the Hill, Halsnead, Cronton, Rainhill, Bold, Whuftoh, Iluyton, Roby, Prescot, Warrington, and Wimvick, or some of them, all in the County of Lancaster. And further Notice is hereby given, that power will be applied for in the said intended Act or Acts, to deviate ( to the extent of one hundred yards on each side) from the line or lines of the said intended Railways respectively, as the same will be defined in the plans thereof to be deposited pursuant to the standing orders of Parliament. CLAY and SWIFT, Solicitors. Liverpool, Ist February, 1837. ULSTER RAILWAY. CONTRACT FOR WORKS. rpHE Directors will meet at the Railway Office, I- Belfast, on Thursday, the 9th dny of March, at Eleven o'clock precisely, to receive Tenders for Contracts for the following works.— To make and lay the Railway, finding all the Materials except the permanent Rails, Blocks, Sleepers, Chairs, Pins, Keys, and Treenails, from the Station at the Dublin- road, Belfast, to Antrim- lane, in Lisburn, with all the Excava- tions, Embankments, Bridges, Culverts, Gates, and Fences, complete, and to keep the whole in Repair, for a given time after the completion— Length about Eight Miles. A draft of the Contract, with Plans and Specifications of the Works, are now lying for inspection at the Railway Office, Belfast, where Printed Forms of Tender may be had, and no others will be attended to. The Tenders must be delivered, Sealed, on or before Eleven o'clock of the 8th day ot March; and parties ten- dering must attend in person, or by some one duly authorised on their behalf, at the time of Meeting. The parties whose Tender is accepted will be required to enter into a Bond, with Sureties, for the due performance of their Contract, in a penalty not less than 10 per cent, on the Gross Sum contracted for; and the Names of the proposed Sureties are to be specified in the Tender. The Directors will not bind themselves to accept the low- est offer. JAMES GODDARI), Chairman of the Directors. Belfast, 2nd February, 1837. DREDGE'S HEAL- ALL, or celebrated Embroca- tion has long been known throughout the West of England, as the most efficacious remedy for Rheumatism, Rheumatic Gout, Lumbago, Pains in the Limbs and Numbness, Sciatic and Paralytic Affections, Tooth- Ache and Face- Ache, Sprains and Bruises, Fresh Wounds or Cuts, Burns and Scalds, Spasn. s and Cramp, Stiffness of the Joints or Neck, Frozen Limbs, Chilblains before they are broken, and Hooping Cough. It is likewise an infallible cure for that dangerous disorder the Quinsey or Sore Throat, in which it was never known to fail after a few hours' application. It is also an excellent remedy for Whitlows, so common on the fingers of country people who are exposed to the cold, and is confidently recommen- ded to all who may suffer from any of these complaints. Observe— That none can be genuine unless the stamp affixed to each bottle contains the name and address of BARCLAY and SONS, NO. 95, Farringdon- street, who have purchased the property in this valuable article from the ex- ecutors of the inventor, WtLium DREDGE, late of Wish- ford, Wilts. Retail Price, Is. lUd. and 2s. 9d. per bottle. THE CHEAPEST AND BEST MEDICINES FOR COUGHS, COLDS, AND ASTHMAS. ( CHURCH'S COUGH DROPS, for recent Colds, J obstinate Coughs, and confirmed Asthmas, stands unri- valled. Its reputation for years past, and the various testi- monies of its efficacy, are a sufficient proof of the estimation in which it is held or all Asthmatic affections, recent Colds and Coughs, however obstinate, » nd disorders of the Breast and Lungs. Congealed Phlegm, Acrimony in the Fluids, and Obstructions in the Glands, are gently and safely dis- charged by easy expectoration, ft never disagrees with the stomach; a common cold yields to its benign influence in a few hours, and when resorted tobefore the complaint is far advanced, all danger of consumption is certainly prevented. CHURCH'S PECTORAL PILLS. When, with the Cough or Colds, there is great uneasiness and shortness of Breath, attended with Wheezing, the Pectoral Pills should lie immediately taken, as tliey will speedily produce relief. The Drops 2s. 9d. and 4s. 6( 1. per bottle; the Pills Is-- 1 l^ d. and 2s. 9( 1. per box. The genuine will have en- graved on the Government Stanip. EVAN EDWARDS, 67, St. Paul's." 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Henry Porcher, Esq. Maitin Tucker Smith, Esq. DIRECTORS. Henry George Ward, Esq., M. P., Chairman. George A. Musket, Esq., Deputy Chairman. W. Butterworth Bayley, Esq. | Edward Lee, Esq. Bazett David Colrin, Esq. | Major John Luard. John Fuller, Esq. I Thos. Willis Muskett, Esq. Pascoe St. LegerGrenfell, Esq. | Major George Willcock. ACTUARY. Mr. William Lewis. SECRETARY. Mr. John Cazenove. The Society undertakes to provide for families, without requiring the previous death of the parent. By the payment of a stipulated sum, or annual premium, parties may secure to all their future children ( however nu- merous) any sum ( from £ 25 to £ 2,000 each child,) on their attaining any specified age, from 14 upwards. Endowments are also granted to existing children. This Society grants Annuities to wives, payable after the death of their husbands. Example:— A person aged 25, by a half- yearly payment of £ 6. 2s. 9d., would ensure to his wife, now aged 20, an annuity of £ 50. during the re- mainder of her life, after bis death. All other annuities, deferred and contingent, are also granted by the Society. The usual Commission allowed to Solicitors. AGENTS. H. C. Langbridge, Bookseller, Birmingham. H. Merridew, Herald Office, Coventry. W. H. Payne, 20, Queen- street, Wolverhampton. SUN LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. MANAGERS. CHARLES POLE, Esq., Chairman. Charles Boulton, Esq. Hon. P. Pleydell Bouverie William Burnie, Esq. James Campbell, Jun. Esq. Harry Chester, Esq. John Coekerell, Esq. Thomas Dorrien, Esq. John Drummond, Esq. Charles Bell Ford, Esq. William Rd. Hamilton, Esq. Edward Harman, Esq. Henry Kingscote, Esq. Felix Ladbroke, Esq. Ch. Shaw Lefevre. F. sq. M. P. The Hon. Hugh Lindsay. Charles Littledale, Esq. Henry Littledale, Esq. George WardeNorman, E ? q Brice Pearse, Esq. Brice Pearse, Jun. Esq. Charles Richard Pole, Esq. Geo. Smith Thornton, Esq. JOSHUA MILNE, Actuary. THE MANAGERS having- had PREMIUMS cal- culated proportional to the values of the risks at the different periods of life— which, under 45 years of age when the Assurance is for the Whole Life, and under 55 for shorter periods, are considerably lower than are generally required Tables of these Rates, with the Conditions of Assurance, maybe had at the Sun Life Office in Cornhill; and at the Sun Fire Office in Craig's Court; or at 65, Wel- beck- street, Cavendish- square, London ; also of any of the Agents for the Sun Fire Office. The Rates of the Sun Fire Office have been greatly re- duced, the advantages of the reduction are immediate and certain, and no person insured in that Office is liable to the Risk of Partnership. Since the Reduction of Rates, NIN « - TKEN Offices, chiefly those lately established, have discon- tinued insuring against Fire. AGENTS. i, 1 Mr. James Price, Jun., 21, Exeter- row, and Birmingham j- Ml._ charles Yates, No. 1, Suffolk street. Coventry— Mr. T. Pratt, jun Wolverhampton— Mr. Win, Callum Lichfield — Messrs. Smith and Green Uttoxeter— Mr. F. Woolrieh Tamworth— Mr. Thos. Hill Lutterworth— Mr. S. Chap- man Kidderminster— Mr. John Batham Warwick— Mr. S. Browne, jun. Walsall— Mr. Thomas Hill Newcastle under- Lyne— Mr. W. H. Hyde Stafford— Mr. Arthur Mor- gan Dudley— Mr. I. Danks, sta- tioner Rugby— Mr. M. H. Bloxam Leamington— Mr. P. P. Saunders, solicitor Stratford- on- Avon — Mr. John Hardy. BLAIR'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PILLS. rfMIE extraordinary efficacy and complete safety of JL this Medicine, is now so fully established by such tes- timonials, as the public can at all times make reference to, either direct or through the medium of the respectable Agents, whose names and residences are given, that any lengthened description of its salutary effects is unnecessary. It is merely requisite to observe that for Gout, Rheumatic Gout, Rheumatism, Lumbago, Sciatica, Pains in the Head and Face, & c., it is a decidedly established remedy. But the Proprietor feels it a duty which he owes to the afflicted, to place before them a series of cures recently coirimunica- ted to him, one of which is the following: — An extraordinary cure of Rheumatism, communicated by Mr. Noble, the agent for Boston, Lincolnshire, to whom all enquiries in that neighbourhood are referred: To the Proprietor oj' Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills. Boston, July 2d, 1830. SIR,— Gratitude for the wonderful cure I have received, and a sense of duty which I owe to others who may be suffering from the same dreadful malady, prompt me to give you the particulars of my case, which you are at full liberty to publish, if you think fit, Iu the month of August, 1835, having recently had the small pox, I was exposed to a heavy rain, which thoroughly wetted me, and brought on a most violent attack of acute Rheumatism, from which my sufferings were intense, and I became whsted almost to a skele- ton. Several of the most eminent medical men in Boston attended me, but to no purpose ; and after dragging on nine months existence, in the most dreadful state of suffering, obtaining no rest either day or night, without using very powerful opiates, I began to despair of ever being cured. One of the bills, descriptive of your celebrated Pills, having been brought to the house, my mother resolved to buy a box, though ( as she told Mr. Noble the agent here, when she ap- plied to him for theinj she had not much hope of their doing nuy good. Strange to say, however, but not more strange than true, the first dose I took procured for me, what I had not enjoyed for months, a comfortable night's sleep, and in forty- eight hours my pain was entirely gone. Since that time my health lias been gradually improving ; I have had no return of my complaint, and am able to attend to my business. Any of my neighbours will attest the truth of my statement.— I remain, sir, your's ever gratefully, ANDREW CREEK. 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The reason for the adjournment was not far to seek. The largest room in the Public- office will not contain above 300 or 350 persons, and a public meeting of the inhabitants in such a room was a farce, in which only Tories could be actors. On Satur- day evening two gentlemen, Mr. J. M. Knott and Mr. Armfield, waited on the High Bailiff with a protest, in which, amongst other matters, they stated their determination on no account to meet their fellow- citizens within the walls of a Dissenting meeting- house. As Livery- street Chapel had been selected merely because the Town- hall, by reason of the falsely named improvements at present proceeding there, was rendered inaccessible, the High Bailiff' was anxious to accommodate himself to the Church prejudices of the protesters, and to find a place which on that score should be unexceptionable. Various communications took place between him and the two parties of requisitionists and protesters, the upshot of which was, that the re- quisitionists offered to their opponents to meet them in any place which should be mutually convenient, and to give them one entire half of the accommoda- tion, provided they were willing to pay one half of the sum requisite for its purchase. In answer to this plain matter of business proposal, which was communicated to the Tories by the High Bailiff, they, after accusing the High Bailiff of not having ad- dressed them in a manner sufficiently official, came to an unanimous resolution that they had a right to re- quire the half of any accommodation that the requisi- tionists might provide for holding the meeting, but that they would not pay one farthing towards any expenses that the providing of such accommodation might be attended with. Of course there was no more communication, direct or indirect, on the part of the requisitionists, with their very respectable and reasonable opponents; though, on Monday, an at- tempt was made by the High Bailiff' to procure a part of Beardsworth's repository, but without success. The adjourned meeting of the Requisitionists, which assembled at the Public- office on Tuesday, were thus reduced to the alternative of meeting, as originally Eroposed, in Livery- street Chapel, with the declaration efore them, that there the Tories would not meet with them, and thus, in appearance at least, shunning an encounter with these gentlemen, or holding their meeting in the open air, w here all parties could have ample room. They chose the latter alternative. Old Square, as the most sheltered spot in town was se- lected, and three waggons were drawn up there on Wednesday morning, for the accommodation of the requisitionists. From the beginning, the meeting at the Public- office was looked upon as merely pro forma; and even the pro forma meeting, it was fore- seen, could not be held in any room that the Public- office contained— for not less than from 500 to 1000 were expected to attend that meeting, and, in point of fact, by twelve o'clock there were at least 2,000 as- sembled in Moor- street, exclusive of about 1O0 Pro- testers, who were met in a room up stairs, and about 60 of the Requisitionists that were assembled in a room down stairs. A small hustings was, therefore, erected, in front of the room No. 5, in order to hold the meeting for adjournment. One- half of this hustings, it seems, from the report which we subjoin, and which we take, with some corrections, from the Tory paper of Thursday, was offered to the Protesters, notwithstanding their re- solution of Monday. Their reasons for declining the offer, and also for holding their meeting in the Court- room of the Public- office, will be seen from the report. Mr. Spooner having been called to the chair, after some discussion about'the intrusion of two or three in- dividuals of the anti- Church- rate party into the com- mittee- room of their opponents— we may just observe that a similar intrusion of the Church- rate party occurred in No. 5, the committee- room of the anti- Church- rate party— The HIGH BAILIFF being called upon, said " Gentlemen, I have very few words to offer to you. I have been in No. 5, and the requisitionists theie assembled have resolved upon certain arrangements which I have now to submit for your approbation. They propose to hold the preliminary meeting, for the purpose of adjourning, at the front of the Pub- lic- office; that I, as High Bailiff, shall he placed in the centre of the platform ; that they, as the requisitionists, shall occupy the platform on my right; and that you, as counter- reqnisi. tionists, shall occupy an equal proportion ol the platform on my left. (" Very fair.") They have desired me to say— as far as their rest lution can accomplish it— they intend, after the chair has been taken, to adjourn into the Old Square, where they have placed three wagons. ( Loud laughter.) These wagons they consider their property, and that they alone have a right to occupy them ; but when an; gentleman of the Conservative party wishes to address the meeting, they have no objection to his getting up into one of the wagons. They suggest, however, that the Conservatives should place wagons for themselves." ( Laughter.) The High Bailiff having concluded, said, if it was the wish of the meeting, he would now retire, and await their decision. (" Oh, no Stop, stop.") Mr. SPOON EH : I am sure we are extremely obliged to the High Bailiff lor condescending to do that, which our respect for the office of High Bailiff could not have led us to ex- pect from him. ( Hear, hear.) lie had, in the first in- stance, stated that it was his original intention to adjourn to a Dissenting Meeting- bouse; but, after a remonstrance on the part of the counter- requisitionists, lie gave up that intention, and endeavoured to procure the use of what was formerly called Beardswoitil's Repository— In that he had failed. The High Bailiff then kindly informed the counter, requisitionists, that he was at the hotel, and willing to re- ceive any suggestions they might make to him. I am not aware that the High Bailiff has yet determined what course to pursue— but I now call upon him to take the chair in the only legitimate place in which a town's meeting can be held — in the Public- office. ( Cheers.)— On the part of the supporters of the Church, I claim of the High Bailiff that the meeting be held in that place, and in no other. ( Cheers.) We are certainly obliged to the gentlemen of the requisi- tion for placing the wagons in the Old Square, and likewise for their courtesy in allowing us, if disposed to speak, to enter one of them—( laughter)— hut I beg to say, that if ever we enter wagons, it shall be without their permission, and certainly without laying ourselves under any obligation to them. ( Cheers.) I call upon you. then, Mr. High Bailiff, to take the chair in the Public- office, and to appro- priate to the speakers of each party a fair portion of room for their accommodation. That is the only legitimate place in which the meeting car, be held, and the only place in which we will consent to meet. ( Loud cheers.) The HIGH BAILIFF said he could not come to any decision without first consulting others upon the subject. He could only say, that if they were determined not to consent to the holding of the preliminary meeting in front of the Public- office, they were deviating from an understanding in which the magistrates had acquiesced on Monday last. Two gentlemen were now in the room whom he understood to concur in the arrangements made with the magistrates, that the preliminary meeting for the mere purpose of adjourning, was to be held in front of the Public- office. ( Cries ol No, no.) If the plan of meeting was to be altered, he could not give his consent without advice. A VOICE : Name the gentlemen to whom you allude. The HIGH BAILIFF : Mr. John Knott and Mr. Armfield. Mr. ARMFIELD arid Mr. KNOTT expressed their dissent. The HIGH BAILIFF, ( with great astonishment) : What do you say ? Mr. ARMFIELD said, I certainly never gave the High Bailiff nor any one else any reason to suppose that either I, or the party I represented, concurred in the propriety of holding the meeting in front of the Public- office. There was no such understanding. ( Cheers.) Mr. KNOTT said it was most distinctly understood at the meeting to which the High Bailiff had referred, that no con- versation which then occurred was to be considered as com- mitting their friends, and in that sense only lie had con- sented to the arrangement of holding the preliminary meeting in front of the Public- office; lie believed that any thing which the High Bailiff stated so strongly, was the result of misconception, and not of wilful misrepresentation; but certainly there was no understanding that he and Mr. Armfield consented to the holding of the meeting, for any other purpose but that of adjournment, in front of the Public- office. ( Cheers.) HIGH BAILIFF : I was not nware of that mental reserva- tion. Mr. THOMAS KNOTT : Not mental reservation. HIGII BAILIFF: I do not mean it offensively, but only that that qualification did not occur to my mind at the time Mr. T. M. Knott acquie ced personally in the arrangement. Mr. SrooNEii: It was clearly a mi- un lerstanding between the parties. Mr. ARMFIELD did not deny that the front of the Public- office was named, but neither he nor bis party were in the least committed to a concurrence in the arrangement. The HIGH BAILIFF repeated, that he thought there was a clear understanding between all the parties, and that all concurred in tiie arrangement; he had, however, known Mr. Armfield and Mr. Knott for years, and he was sure they would not misstate any occurrence within their own ob- servation. There was a mistake on one side or the other. [ It is proper to notice here that Messrs. Knott and Armfield had been distinctly held out to the requisi- tionists as a deputation from the protesters, and that it was in that capacity only that the requisitionists had ever entertained the idea of meeting with them. It now appears that if they had come to terms, the liego- ciation would at once have been rendered useless by such a declaration as is here put into the mouth of Mr. Knott.] The HIGH BAILIFF retired to consult with his colleague, Mr. James; and, in a short time, returned, and said that having conferred with the Low Bailiff, they were both agreed that the question ought not to be decided before twelve o'clock ; they should then see the state of the meet- ing, and judge the course it might he deemed neccssary to adopt. The Low BAILIFF said, they would allow him to state that the High Bailiff had throughout displayed the greatest solicitude that everything might be conducted fairly between the parties. For that reason he had, in company with him ( the Low Bailiff) consulted the Magistrates, ( Messrs. F. Lloyd and E. L. Williams,) on Monday; at winch time it was hoped that Beardsworth's Repository might have been obtained, and a harmless explosion of public opinion taken place. He deeply lamented that, from the answer they re- ceived to their application for the use of that building, Us re- fusal was placed beyond all question. The question then was, would tiiey he justified in holding the preliminary meeting in the public street. In his ( the Low Bailiff's) opinion, the fact of the nomination at the first election for the borough taking place in front of the Public office was a sufficient justifica- tion of the same course being adopted in the present case. This was the state of the question, and the unpleasant cir- cumstances in which the High Bailiff was placed. After some further conversation the High Bailiff asked if the protesters had any answer to the proposal of the requisitionists, to which there were loud cries of " No." Mr. SPOONER I apprehend, as the authorised represen- tative of the meeting, the oniy answer I can give you is, we look to you, sir, to keep up the old- established custom of holding public meetings,— we call upon you to hold it in the Public- office,— to see that fair play is given to all parties, — and if, at any period, you should he alarmed for the public peace, not to adjourn the meeting to the open air, where deliberation would be impossible, but to dissolve the meet- ing altogether. ( Loud cheers,) The High and Low Bailiffs then left the room. At 12 o'clock they returned, and silence being obtained, the HIGH BAILIFF said he was extremely sorry to be placed m his pre- sent awkward and painful situation. It was now ins duty to decide the question that had been raised that morning. He must say, from the large assembly which he saw in the street, and the numbers, which already crowded the Office, he did not think there could be a chance of taking the sense of the meeting in so small a room as the public court. He clearly understood that the acquiescence of the ma- gistrates had been concurred in on both sides, and acting upon that and the crowded state of the office and the street, ha should take the chair in the front of the building. The Tory paper says, that on the High Bailiff making this statement, there was " great disappro- bation;" we have been told that the hooting and his- sing was tremendous ; thatthe honourable gentlemanleft the room amidst a tempest of groaning, and hissing, and execration. The protesters then rushed into the Court- room, fearful, evidently, that it also would be taken from them, where, being fairly ensconced within the bar, they proceeded to plav out the play. The vision of Mr. Muntz, who arrived at the Public- office at the moment that the High Bailiff was about to take the chair, and who was unable to get access to the Committee- room otherwise than by passing through the Court- room, seems to have excited great alarm; and, in the hurry to get in, one or two of the enemy were included, whom they were fain afterwards to exclude, in order that the question might be discussed with all due deliberation. The number present in the Court - house was about 100, a smaller number certainly than we were led to expect from the mighty prepara- tions. In Moor- street, when the High Bailiff took the chair, there might be from 2,000 to 3,000. Immediately after this scene, it being now twelve o'clock, the HIGH BAILIFF made his appearance on the temporary platform erected in front of the Public- office, he was re- ceived with repeated cheers by the immense multitude in the street. After silence had been obtained he proceeded to read the requisition calling them together, and said that it rested with them whether or not he should adjourn the meeting to any place they thought proper. Mr. EDMONDS said they bad a straight- forward duty to perform, and that was to move, as he was about to do, that the meeting adjourn to the Old Square. II the gentlemen who were packed inside wished to follow them, they would afford their . speakers every accommo- dation and every opportunity of expressing their senti- ments. Mr. Edmonds concluded by moving the adjourn- ment. Mr. MUNTZ said lie was sorry to find after the repeated boasts and declarations of the Tories, that they refused to meet the people in that position where a fair, just, right, and legitimate determination of the question might be come to. They had that day a convincing proof, while they boasted of the advance they were making in power and in- fluence—( and apparently with some show of reason, for they kept it under a cloak)— and while they reviled their oppo- nents, when they had no opportunity of meeting them face to face, they were now afraid to come in contact with the very men they were attempting to traduce. ( Cfieers.) He hoped that they would still come and meet them, and in case they did so he begged that those assembled would hear their opinions, whether they were right or wrong. If they did noc do this they would he destroying their own cause— for if a man's cause was good, the more it was discussed the better; and if it was a bad one the sooner it was put an end tothebetter. ( Ciieers.) Mr. Muntz concluded by second- ing the motion. Tiie Higii Bailiff having put the question to the meeting, it was unanimously adopted, and the concourse of persons immediately adjourned to the Old Square, where several waggons had already been provided for the speakers in anti- cipation of such a change. MEETING. The HIGH BAILIFF rose to open the meeting. He com- menced by adverting to the protest addressed to him by the Conservative party, and particularly to their objection to meeting at Livery- street chapel. He said he had paid every respect to the protest, and he had done every thing in his power to procure a better place. He at one time thought lie should be able to procure the late Mr. Beardsworth's repository; he regretted very much that he had not been able to obtain that building. He knew of no other place where the meeting could have been so conveniently held. The requisition having been presented to h m, he thought it right to comply with its request. He had from the mo- ment of entering upon office, stated to individuals of both parties in the town that he considered it the duty of the High Bailiff to convene a meeting of the inhabitants when- ever a proper requeit was preferred to him for such a pur- pose. Both parties seemed to concur that such was his duty; and it was in compliance with it that he hail called them together that day. ( Cheers.) The subject on which they had met was a great national question which wa- now being agitated throughout t he whole country, and as petitions were being forwarded from all parts of ttie empire, he did not see why one might not properly go from Birmingham. ( Cheers.) It was not necessary for him, as their chairman, nor did he intend to say one word lor m against the subject; he considered it to he bis duty to pre- side over the meeting, and to hear their sentiments, and riot to express his own opinions. He was happy to say, it was a subject upon which be had never publicly expressed him- self. He had never voted on the question of Church- rates, at any time when they had been agitated in the town. He was glad he had not done so. He was, in this respect, pledged to no side; but appeared before them entirely in different. He had only one thing more to mention, and that was, that if they wished their decisions to have any weight in Parliament or elsewhere, it was indispensabb that they should act with perfect fairness, and hear all those who might be disposed to address them, whether for the question or against it. He begged them to give every man a silent and patient hearing; and that they would not inter nipt any of the speakers, but give all attention to every one. JAMES JAMES, Esq., Low Bailiff, stood forward to move the first resolution. He was received with loud cheers. He said they had heard the High Bailiff recommend fair play, and in that recommendation he most heartily joined. He would endeavour to secure it for every individual. Their friend Mr. Muntz, in addressing them at the Public office, had said it was a bad cause that was only to be defended by unjust means. He ( Mr. J.) was particularly anxious that they should make fair play the order of the day. It was not a little curious that fair play should be so closely connected with the subject that had then called them together. A great many of His Majesty's subjects felt that they had not had fair play, and be ( Mr. J.) was one of the number. Many piesent knew that he was connected with a place of worship which had been built at an expense of twelve thousand pounds— not one farthing of which had been obtained with- out the pale ot the congregation. That building was not in the state which some of the churches were said to be in, with the windows broken and the rain descending from the ceiling. It was not in the state of some of the churches, into which the clergyman could tiot enter without the danger of catching cold. It had no less than three hundred free sittings for the poor. The Church party boasted of their free sittings. That to a certain extent was correct. But they must recollect the circumstances under which these sittings were obtained. There were no free sittings in the old churches. Latterly, however, the clergy had applied for and had obtained a large Parliamentary grant, to enable them to build new churches; and then it was that free sittings were provided. The question was, who provided them? It was the people of England who paid for them out of the taxes of the country. How then could that be call d the poor man's church unless it were that the poor man had paid for it? There were other cir- cumstances worth noticing connected with the poor man's church. And here he wished to ohserve, that had it not been for the placards— he would say the morbid placards that the Church people had issued, he should not have ad- verted to these. But when he found himself designated as an infidel— an associate of all that was base and unworthy as half English and such like— he must admit he felt indig- nant, and called on, without any ceremony, to speak his sentiments. To come to these other items of the poor man's church— lie would ask, what did the poor man get from it for which he had not to pay ? If he went to the altar to contract marriage— there he must pay a fee. When he beeame a father, and the mother of his child presented herself to offer thanks for her preservation and recovery— then also be had to pay a fee. When the holy rite of baptism was to be administered to the child, there was a fee. And lastly, when the poor man was gathered to his last long home, the Church met him at the grave to receive her fee. ( Loud cries of hear.) He would ask them, was thatthe poor man's Church? Supposing that the poor could not pay the last fee how was it to be managed ? Why the parish must pay it for him, or his remains must not be in- terred according to the ceremonies of this poor man's Church. No later than last week ten pounds had been paid by the parish of Birmingham as funeral fees for paupers. ( Hear, hear.) And yet it was to support this Church that they were called on to contribute for the sake of the poor. Why should they be asked to pay for a Church which they n ver entered, and in the worship of which they never par- ticipated? It was most unjust to require them to do so; and the injustice of the principle was acknowledged even by those who enforced it. It was only lately that the Rev. Mr. Hiriton, of Reading, ( we understood,) a Baptist mi- nister, applied to a Tory clergyman to contribute towards the erection of his ( Mr. Huiton's) place of worship. What was the answer of tiie rev. gentleman ? " Why," said he, " I don't feel myself called on to contribute towards a place of worship with which I have no connexion." There was a candid acknowledgment, and if they could only get all churchmen to act upon that principle, they would be no longer under the necessity of meeting and agitating the question of Church- rates. But to return to the To'y placards. He was designated as an infidel. Now lie \ j.' as not a sceptic assuredly with respect to the truths of Christianity. But he certainly was a sceptic in respect to the doctrines of Church- of- Eriglandism. He did not use this term disrespectfully, because there were many gentlemen belonging to that church for whom he entertained a great esteem. Their excellent Chairman was a member of that Church, But he was true to his purpose, and nothing daunted, had that day brought them to the point. He ( Mr, J.) entertained no hatred or ill will towards churchmen ; he only asked them that they should entertain their op nions and make the ample funds already in their possession avail them for the purposes of supporting and propagating those opinions. He would tell them they must do so; and not compel the Dissenters to pay for that from which they received no advantage. He would tell them, until England, Ireland, and Scotland en- joyed a full participation in religious rights, that they would never be satisfied. " In conclusion ( said Mr James) on be- half of the millions of Dissenters in the three kingdoms, 1 * ay— we will be free." ( Loud cheers.) G. F. MCNTZ Esq., then came forward, and was received with great cheering. He said it had not been his intention to have taken part in the proceedings of the day, and it was only tliut moment the resolution lie had to propose was put into his hand. Although a Churchman, he was always op- posed to Church- rates. He was born a member of the church, and he intended to continue one until he saw reason sufficient to induce him to alter bis opinion; hut he was ashamed to see his church, which boasted of its wealth, compel others who had no connexion with it to pay for its support. He had always said, he would rather pay double rates than compel those who had no right to pay them. He would now refer them to the position in which they stood. For the last two or three years, the celebrated party to which they were opposed in the town, had professed that they only sought an opportunity that they might show their talents, their respectability, and their power. Now, he ( Mr. M.) would acknowledge that they had talent in a small degree. He acknowledged they had respectability in a large degree ; but he contended that they had power in a very small degree, and that it was daily diminishing. It was a very easy thing for men to go into a small room to divide upon certain measures, make long and fine speeches, and declare that all they did and said was just and right. All this was very easy. But why not come forward, and lay their cause before the public? It was no use for a man to say, " I can do so and so," it was no use for a man to vaunt and boast of his power, and refuse to come forward when called upon, and affordeda fair opportunity of exercising that power. On what ground had the Tories* adhered so pertinaceously ' to the small room of the Public- office? They talked loudly of a re- action in their favour— they spoke of their daily in- creasing power— and yet they dare not come foitli and show it. The fact was, their power was purely imaginary. They fancied that they possessed it, and then talked about what they fancied, until some of them, he had no doubt, were deceived into an opinion of its reality. If however, they could but screw their courage up to come before the public— if ever they dared to meet what he called the majesty of the people— they would find, that never did any set of men labour under a greater delusion. He hail long indulged in the hope of being brought into contact with these all- powerful, all- respectable, and all- talented men; merely that he should see if they really did possess the mighty attributes of which they boasted. He bail hoped that lie should have had an opportunity that day ; and was again disappointed. They were now, he believed, holding their meeting in what, no doubt, must appear to them a very large room— the court- room of the Public- office. How often had he told them that their power was a mere creatine of their imagination. How often had he said to them. " Let the people only have sufficient cause for assembling together, and then you will see what your power is made of." They did not believe him, nor would they, till they were com pclled, as they had been that day, to skulk into a corner ol a room, and there practically confess what they pretended to deny. What was the result of the last great Church- rate meeting at Birmingham? Why they were beaien without a shadow oi a chance,— they wen* not led a leg to stand upon. But they were not content wrh their defeat at the meeting; they must have a sell '"> of the votes. They had one. And what wa « the consequence? They found they were soundly beaten, and they never published the result. This was another instance of their ideal power. For his part, he reallvwishe 1 they would come out, and try their bands at public business. The fact was, he did not think they knew anything about How could any man do so who had been shut up in closet- for ten or a dozen of years, in hotels and Mich lik places ? When the Tories met in these nice little rooms, ihey saw the people in their imagination as so many cabbage stalks; when they came before the people every man appeared a giant to them. ( Laughter and cheers.) Having said so much about the Tories, he would now sav a few words le specting the immediate object of that meeting. The Church, to which he belonged, according to the present system, ac tually begged for its support. ( A cry " robs.") No. be liked to he moderate— it begged, and that was bad enough. Hie Tories might say it was just, because it was the law. Hut would any man tell him that it was just to tnke advantage ot an unjust law ? They must know the law was unju- t in princip e which compelled a man to pay for that for which he received no value. And it was. therefore, a fa; r in'er. ence to sav that they were unjust that enforced it. For Irs parr, he would repeat what he had offen belore said, that he would rather pay three times the amount for the sunport of the Church, than be disgraced bv raking money from those to whom nothing was given in lerurn. lie wondered that those men who talked of their great wealth, respectability, and independence. cnuUl come to the poor men of Birmingham and ask the paltry sum required for repairing and cleaning tbeir places of worship. What, he would ask, meant all the bother ahour these church- rates? Why agitate a question that the people of the tovn had already finally decided? What mattered it to us whether the law were repealed or not ? If it were not, we hid nly to doas we had lone before— po •- i porie them from year to year. As far as we were co - cerned the tax was at an end. ( Loud cheering.) ' 1 be people were on the safe side. They had the enforcement ! of the law in their own power. Most certainly, unless the Tories got a new law, they never would get another rate. If, therefore, they were content to flatter themselves that the law was not to he repealed, let them lay that miction to their Tory souls. Let but the people depend on them- selves and they bad nothing to fear. They must persist, spiritedly and fearlessly, regardless of the ill will, or Irowns, or taunts of their enemi s. There were some men whose praise was an insult to any honest man. He did not hesi- tate to say that he should feel ashamed if he had the good will of some of those who were opposed to him. The con- duct of many of them, to say the least of it, was paltry. The very men who had formerly denounced Political Unions, were now joining in Conservative Associations. They paid their subscriptions to such associations ; at the same time that they turned round and exclaimed against the Political Unions, for taking money as they said from the pockets of the poor people. This was most unworthy conduct. There never was, he ventured to say, a society that had achieved more with less means than the Political Union did. He did not hesitate to say that the trifling sum paid into the Political Union had effected a far greater revolution than had ever been effected by ten times the amount. If the Reform bill produced by that Union had been worked well, before this time they would have seen an end of all the grievances of which they complained. As yet, however, it had not been worked well. They had still to seek the abolition of Church- rates and various other exactions. In his opinion if a bill for the abolition of Church- rates passed the House of Com- mons this sessions, the Lords would not pass it. They'd reject it as they had done every measure of improvement. The Lords would never remove any tax upon the poor which they had the power to keep on. In conclusion, he would give the Tories a short advice— that was, not to con- sider themselves all powerful in the town, or all powerlul in the country generally. They might come into power again, but their Government would end as it did before, as soon as it began. Let them not boast of their power till they could come before the public; and then he could assure them that if ever any exciting cause arose to call forth the population, they wo Id find themselvesweak and miserable; all their boasted strength would melt into air, where alone it ever existed. He cheerfully seconded the resolution. Captain MOOUSOM said that it was not as a member of any particular denomination that he appealed before them that day— it was as a citizen, as one of themselves, seeking to assist those who were desirous of ridding them- selves of an unjust, an oppressive, and a vexatious impost. ( Hear.) He held this doctrine, that in civil societies they took no cognizance of a man's religious belief— morality, good order, and obedience to the laws characterising the true citizen, irrespective of religious creeds. ( Cheers.) The resolution which he had great pleasure in supporting, held compulsory exactions, in which of course were in- cluded church- rates, as repugnant to the spirit of Chris- tianity. He would ask any man to look to the history of the great Founder of Christianity, to read over the trans- actions of the followers of that founder, and the epistles written alter his decease, and if he had a candid mind he would leave him to judge whether or not compulsory ex- actions in support of religion were consistent with that Christianity which Jesus Christ died for, and which the apostles proclaimed to the world. ( Cheers.) But Chris- tianity sufficiently showed that violence or fraud could have no part in it— it commended itself to the minds ol men by its native beauty and its complete exposition of the moral attributes of the human mind. The true con- vert to Christianity devoted himself to its cause, and when he did so, was he likely to withhold from it that support which was necessary to carry it through the world ? ( Hear.) Well, then, if the history of Christianity avouched that which the spirit of Christianity in the New Testa merit proclaimed, let them see what had been done for five hundred years after it had been promulgated. It was not until that period that any compulsory support of reli- gion was attempted to he made, and up to the eleventh century all the contributions to religion in England were free. ( Cheers.) Let then) now look to the practice of those who said that the Voluntary Principle did not work. What did these persons do when they required exertions to be made towards objects of Christian philanthrophy when they wanted Churches to he built, or Missionaries to be sent to preach the Gospel in distant lands, did they not have recourse to the Voluntary Principle ; and by doing so, pay that homage to truth which error, when driven to the push, invariably did. ( Loud cheers.) But they were told that the Voluntary Principle would not work in affording a religious supply of instruction adequate to the wants of those who were supposed to he unable to pay for religious instruction themselves. Now he doubted very much whether there were any who were unwilling to pay for that instruction in religion which they wished to have. There was much stress placed on these free sit- tings, but he IHieved that poor men were as willing to pay for their single seats as lie ( Captain Moorsom) was disposed to pay for bis pew. ( Cheers.) America was an instance of the triumph of this principle. There some years ago religion was supported by legislative taxation, but since the compulsory system had been abandoned, it had made more progress than during the whole period of its enforcement. It followed, then, if Christianity spread most by the action of the Voluntary Principle, that Church- rates could not be required; and they were riot wanted, because there were already abundant means to maintain all the worship of the Established Church, and the endowments of that Church. Putting Church- rates and tithes out of the question, there would still he enough left to support all her ministers, and all the expenses of her forms of worship. ( Cheers ) He would now ask them whether the sentiments he had made known to them were those of an Atheist or an Infidel, for he had come there that day branded with these epithets ? ( Hear, hear.) He would only say, that he did not think either his principles or practice afforded any grounds for such a charge ; and he would leave those who made such charges, if they had any consciences, to settle it at the bar of heaven, the fountain of justice, whether they bad maligned men at least as worthy citizens as themselves. ( Loud cheers.) Mr. GEORGE EDMONDS supported the resolution, and after some humorous taunts against the Church party for their non- attendance at the meeting, who. after ab their boasting of power and apparent determination to exercise it, had thought proper to lock themselves up in a private room in the Pub lie- office, proceeded to say that never was there a more unfounded charge brought against any men than that of in- fidelity against the abolitionists of Church- rates. He called upon them to point out a man on the waggons around him who was favourable to or advocated the cause of infidelity. They could not do it, and it only showed the desperate shifts to which they were driven for argument when they had recourse to such unworthy means of upholding their tottering cause. He stood there to oppose coercion of every species on the ground of religion. It was not the paltry amount demanded for church- rates of which he com- plained, but the attempt to uphold and enforce a principle unjust and tyrannical. He contended that every man ought to worship God without the dictation or controul of the nursing fathers of the Church. He opposed coercion in religion, because no man could produce a sentence from the sacred Scriptures to show him that he had a right to lax another man lor the support of his creed. Mr. Ed- monds then went on to prove from the history of this country that the conduct of the heads of the Church from the time til Henry VIII. was, with few exceptions, tyran- nical and oppressive, and such as rendered it impossible rhey could have any divine right to fetter the consciences of the people, or compel i hem to pay towards the support of a slate religion. The church bad been handed over from one nursing father and nursing mother to another, until by their over Care for its safety, they had nearly stifled the baby. I le hoped the people would not suffer themselves to be iiuped or bullied by their enemies : not only on this but every other question ihey must show their determination to resist oppression and maintain their rights. They must keep down the ureat foes of universal liberty, for they might de- pend uptrn it, t they suffered the Tories again to come into power, ' hey would, as they bad before done, proclaim war against the tights of mankind, and, as far as they could, per- (> emale every abuse the nation now sought to get rid of. W . HKIIFFRN F. sq., in proposing the next resolution, said, be should teel almost ashamed were he to he satisfied with delivering a silent vote oil the subject under discussion,— a subject than which there weiehut few that more agitated men's minds, and which, he was sure, it was utterly im- po- sihle tor H. s Majesty's Ministers any longer to dally wiih, without forfeiting the confidence and support of those hosts of Dissent rs who ha I crowded around their standard, as the rallying point for the friends of civil and religious freedom He heartily echoed the sentiment of Captain Moorso'n. It was not as a Churchman,— it was not as a Dis- et. fr— it was ( lie trusted he might say us much) as a just man ( cheers)— as one who would wish to keep the scales even between conflicting parties, and who hated bgotrv and intolerance from whichsoever side it might proceed — it was in > his chaiacter, and under the influence of these feelings, that lie raised iiis voice against the preseat system of Church rates ; convinced as lie was, that that system, it it were not persecution, was, at all events, so nearh ulliedtoit as tobe hardly distinguishable from it. For, surely d we did not inflict torture upon the body, we did in- flier it upon the mind, when we compelled men to contribute to the support of a religion, which, not only they did not profess, not onlydid they condemn and denounce, but which, in tiie conscieiirioiisopinion of many amongst them, was,— if not an impassable barrier against,— at all events a stumbling- block in the way of salvation. ( Cheers.) He was aware that any such sentiment might, by some, be deemed harsh and il- I'beral; nor did he mean to say that it was his own; but this he did maintain, that Dissent wou'd he a mere mockery,— an i be delusion,— nay, worse, it would he the very spirit and e « sen< e of all captiousness and taction, unless the Dissenter really believed that the creed he professed, and the worship he observed, were, ( to say the least,) better calculated than any other to promote the great end of the Christian scheme, the salvation of immortal souls ! ( Cheers.) But if the Dissenter did really believe this, it was plain to demonstration that we did a cruel and unjustifiable violence to his consci- ence when we made him the painful and compelled instru- ment of upholding an antagonist system of worship, a system, in his opinion, productive of such calamitous results. Mr. Redlern sat'd he was willing to make one admission to the opposite party. He admitted, that if Churchmen belonged almost exclusively, to the very lowest classes of society ; if they were in a state of such abject poverty as to he unable to support the expence of decently solemnising their own worship; there would then be something like an excuse for making an appeal to the liberality of the Dissen- ter; though even then, he submitted, that that appeal ought to be made, not in the rude and insolent tone of the highway robber, but iu the mild language of entreaty and supplication. " Stand and deliver," was a somewhat singu- lar mode of propitiating those, of whoin we would solicit a favour. ( Laughter and cheers.) But to come to the plain matter of fact, he asked, whether Churchmen really were in such necessitous circumstances as he bad supposed ? Would they urge this plea in their own behall ? Would they allow him to urge it for them ? Would they not, on the contrary, reject it with scorn and indignation ? What, did not they constantly arrogate to themselves all the wealth and splen- dour of society ? Were they not incessantlg dinning their superiority in this respect, in our ears? Was it not their per- petual theme » their tiresome sing- song at all their Conserva- tive gatherings and drunken carousals ? Admitting the fact, then, ( for he would take them on theirown showing,) admit- ting tbeir claim to the exclusive possession of wealth, rank, and splendour; be asked, in the name of wonder, with what pretence of right,— with what colouring of justice,— did they presume to levy tribnte upon Dissenters for the benefit of the Church. ( Loud cheers.) " We find," ( Mr. li. went on to say) " all classes of sectarians,— I care not how poor, — how obscure,— how humble,— how numerically small they may he,— we find them all perfectly ready and willing, not merely to keep their own places of worship in repair, but to erect those places of worship at their own experice, and to support their ministers by voluntary contributions. ( Cheers.) And yet, the members of the Established Church,— the Corinthian pillars of society,— the high arid mighty men of the land,—( loud cheers,)— the men, with mitres arid coro- nets on their brows,—( continued cheering,)— with stars, crosses,— and badges of honour,— glittering on their bosoms, — the men with long rent- rolls in their muniment rooms,— and with vast estates in their possession stretching from one horizon to another,— these men, forsooth, for some unac countable reason or other, are unable even to keep their sacred edifices in repair,— notwithstanding that those edifices have been erected for them, of solid masonry, by the general sweat of the country, and notwithstanding that their ministers are supported by coutributions of tithe, wrung from all classes of the community. ( Long and continued cheering.) I ask, is not this monstrous? Is it to be en- dured? ( Cries of No, no.) Is it to be endured in a country where the principles of justice are known and ac- knowledged? Is it to be endured in a country boasting itself to lie free?" Mr. Redfern then went on to observe, that it was,— to be sure,— by no means, uncommon for Churchmen, when hard pressed with argument, and in the height of their zeal, altogether to repudiate the allegation, that they received contributions from the community, for the support of their religion—" Receive contributions,"— ( they were in the habit of saying) " Oh, no, nothing of the kind, we can assure you;— not only, iadeed, do do we not receive contributions from Dissenters, but we deny that we receive contributions at all. True, we are in the enjoyment of a munificent revenue, but the whole of that revenue, even to the uttermost farthing, we challenge as our own indefeasible propert)> as an estate lawfully vested in us, and with which the legislature has no more right to meddle than with the estate of a private individual." So argued the church sticklers; but so did not he ( Mr. R.) argue; and so, he was quite sure, would not bis townsmen argue. ( Cheers.) On the contrary, even though his townsmen were inclined to admit ( which assuredly they were not) that corporate property, for public purposes, was entitled to the same immunity from legislative interferenee as private pro- perty, they would still say that ecclesiastical revenues, ( more particularly that part which consisted of tithes and church- rates,) were not of the nature of corporate property,— of an estate vested in the church : they would still say, that those revenues were neither more nor less than a provision made by the state foithe sustentation and support of religion;— in precisely the same way in which a provision had been made by the state for the sustentation and support of the poor; and that, in like manner as the one had been, so the other might be, and ought to be, modified according to the wants of society and " the demands of justice. Mr. R. admitted that, at that period of remote antiquity, when this provision was first made,— however objectionable the arrangement might have been on the score of its inexpediency,— however better it might have been to resort even then to the volun- tary principle,— still it was not open to impeachment on the score of its injustice And why ? Because, at that time, the whole nation professed but orie religion, the Roman Catho- lic;— because dissent had riot as yet manifested itself; and because the entire revenues of the Church, when once col- lected, were applied to a common purpose of utility,— a pur- pose in which all conld participate. Was such the case now? It was surely a sufficient answer to this interrogatory, that of the multitude then present, he would not say a considerable number, ( that would only feebly express the fact,) hut rather an overwhelming majority were Dissenters from the estab- lished Church. It was sometimes urged, that the Churches of the establishment were public property, and that being such they ought to be kept in repair at the public expense. Now be, too, thought that they ought to be public property, — meaning, thereby, that they ought to be used indiscrimi- nately both by Churchmen and Dissenters; but as they were not so used— as, on the contraiy, they were used exclusively by one class of religionists, namely. Churchmen— he denied that they were public property. True, the Dissenter was at l berty to enter a Church, and to say his prayers there; and so was a Churchman equally at liberty to enter a Meet- ing- house, and to say his prayers there ; but as the Church- man did not consider that he was hound, on that account, to contribute to the support and repair of the Meeting- house, so, for the self- same reason, the Dissenter did not consider that he was hound to contribute to the support and repair of the Church. Mr. Redfern then proceeded as follows: — " I come now to what I will call the crowning absurdity in the arguments of the opposite party; they tell us,— and, what is more strange still, they tell us with a grave air,— with a solemn look, as though they do not intend it as a mere jest,— they tell us that the Church of England is the religion of the poor man. The religion of the poor man, indeed! Why if there be one plate, rather than another, where the spirit of aristocracy is to be found in its utmost insolence, it is— I have no hesitation in saying it— a rural parish Church. I have the scene even now " vividly present to my mind's eye. I see the great man of the place,— I see him lounging on sumptuous cushions, in a pew, richly em- blazoned with his armorial hearings, and surrounded by the tattered banners and sculp ured images of his forefathers. I see the poor man thrust into the aisle, there to sit humbly and uneasily oil a hard deal board. 1 see the officiating minister casting looks of bland dalliance towards the pew of the great man, perchance, his patron ; but, alas ! alas ! when his glances fall on the poor man's bench, 1 see nothing but disdain and superciliousness. No, lio, no, the religion of the Church of England is not the religion ot the poor man ; its atmosphere is far too aristocratic for him ; and the best proof that such is the case, is furnished by the simple fact that already he has left the Church, arid sought an asy- lum in the Meeting- house. Nor is this all; it must like- wise he con- idered, that if Dissenters were not compelled to contribute to the support of the Established Church, they would have all the more money in their own pockets; which money might be applied, and, ( judging ( rom the many indi- cations we have had of their philanthropic and Christian spirit) would doubtless be applied by tliern in providing ad- ditional accommodation for their own poor." Mr. Redferrt said he trusted he had now, with the assistance of his friend, Mr. James, effectually demolished the absurd position of that wretched counterfeit, Gracchus,— not, he wished to im- press on his townsmen, the true patriot Gracchus,— hut ra- the Gracchus Spurius,— the bastard of the Conservative As- sociation. He ( Mr. R.) now begged leave to repeat his former enquiry— heasked again, how was it that Churchmen claimed and exercised the arrogant right ol subsidising Dissenters, or, perhaps, he ought rather to say, in more homely and expressive phrase, of picking their pockets? Ii he were to task his utmost ingenuity,— if he were to rack his brains till doomsday— he really could not conceive, devise, or in- vent any other plausible answer than tliiB, namely, that there was, that there must be, amongst Churchmen, a deficiency of that pious zeal, of tiiat devotional ardour, which inspiied Dissenters to support their own religion at iheir own cost, and which would make them blush with very shame, would make them feel it as a deep and an iudelibie disgrace, weie they to owe any portion of that support to others. ( Loud cheers.) And it was a somewlAit singular circumstance, that this very lukewarmness, which he ( Mr. IT.) charged against the Church, and which, after all, he believed to be the great secret of the objection to the abolition of Church- rates,— it was singular that this very lukewarmiiess had been pointed out, and was much urged and insisted on by a subtle * reasoner of the last century, David Hume, who actually vindicated the policy of an endowed and established Chinch, on the ground of its tendency to abate that high tone of religious enthusiasm, which had always distinguished ilie Dissenting classes. Hence, then, if Hume were right ( and Mr. Ii. believed he was) we have, it would seem, an Es- tablished Church, not to promote piety, but to counten ct religious fervour,— not to elevate the soul to God, but to relax and enervate it by the contemplation of tbe mere pomp and frippery of a luxurious and splendid liii r- archy,— in a word, to make man of the earth earthy. ( Loud f i l l : BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. cheers.) It Was now more than two years since Ins towns- men had put, what, he trusted, he might designate as the final seal of their condemnation on Church- rates- at least, so far as this parish was concerned. He had not taken an active part in the proceedings of the magnificent meeting at which they had come to that resolu- tion; hut lie recollected very well the only argument worthy of any consideration that was urged by the gentleman who, then as now, was brought forward as the organ and oracle of the Conservative party. Probably, by that time, it had been hashed up again as a bonne bouche, lor the gentlemen locked up at the Public- office. The argument to which he alluded was as follows- that even though Church- rates were to be abolished, the only persons m whose favour the change would operate were the landlords, and, consequently, that it was a question in which the public had little or no interest. Mr. Hedfern admitted, that if the matter were to be considered as a dry question of political economy, Mr. Spooner might, probably, be in the right; but viewing it as a large question of civil policy, he ( M r. It.) had no hesita- tion in saying,- better, far better is it, that this odious im- post should lie remitted, even though the only persons vylio will profit by that remission should be the landlords, than that it should be continued from age to age— a perpetual source of unseemly dissensions, and unchristian bickerings- and a badge of degradation and ignominy to so large and respectable a body of our fellow- subjects. In conclusion, Mr. Redfern expressed his satisfaction that the Dissenters had taken their stand upon the linn ground of principle. There was no longer anv trimming, or compromise,— no longer any refining away'of the plain dictates of common sense. ( Cheers.) The Dissenters hail emphatically de- clared it,— they would not even pay a pepper- corn rent in acknowledgement of the supremacy of the Church of ling- land. They were bent and resolved upon it,— not only would they be free, but they would seem to be free. It was not enough for them that they might be released from the yoke,— 110, they likewise required that the very mark ot that yoke should be effaced from I heir necks. ( Cheers.) God grant them a safe deliverance! The Rev. THOS. MORGAN came forward to move the next resolution, and was received with loud applause. After a few prefatory observations, be said he had been amongst them nearer to forty than thirty years, and be now stood in their presence stigmatised as being associated with a band of infidels. ( Cries of Shame.) Had they ever found lnm an abettor of infidelity? ( No, no.) Had he not always tried to maintain the great principles of Christianity ? ( Yes.) Why, then, should he be branded as wishing to annihilate Christianity? No, they did not wish to destroy it; they wished to sustain it, by removing from it the disgrace which their opponents had attached to it. When he saw that famous placard, signed " Gracchus," and in winch all this opprobrium was put forth, he thought to see something in it, which would have sustained the character in which that title had formerly appeared in Birmingham, but it turned out to be apseudo " Gracchus." It concluded, indeed, with giving them very suitable advice, not, Judas- like, to betray the cause. He hoped they would take that advice, and not betray the great and good cause they had taken in hand. ( Cheers.) And who was Judas, that their opponents should have selected him as one not to be imitated ? Why he was a hypocrite, who, under the pretext of religion, committed the most enormous offence. He associated him- self with the friend of all righteousness, but he did so only for the purpose of getting hold of the money- purse. ( Hear, hear.) And they knew little more of him until he went and sold his master for thirty pieces of silver, and then went and destroyed himself. Money, filthy money, ap- peared to be his only object, and when he ( Mr. M.) con- sidered that fact, and the object of the present struggle on the part of their opponents, he did riot see but perhaps there was some propriety in their selecting him as one to whom they ought to direct the attention of their friends. He hoped, nay, he was sure, the people would not act like Judas. When he read the attack upon the infidels, he began to suspect his previous notions of infidelity were incorrect. He always thought men of that description were men who denied the divine revelation, yet he could not think that bis friend*, the Rev. Angel James and the Rev. Timothy East, who were no doubt with himself equally anxious for the abo- lition of Church rates, were men who denied Christianity or encouraged ipfidelity. The fact was theirfriends of the other party must attach some pecuiiar meaning to the word infidelity. There must be some other meaning " for the word in their vocabulary. They must mean a man wlio did not believe in the doctrine of Church- rates,—( laughter,)— a man who did not think it right to put his hand into other people's pockets. They had sextons who were paid for tolling the passing hell, but he could not believe the sound of that bell would drive away spirits from the air, and prevent them from taking the soul of the poor man into perdition, and he objected to pay for the tolling. He had no objection what- ever to see clergymen robed in nice white surplices, but he had an objection to pay for the washing of them. ( Hear.) He believed it right for Churchmen to go to the Lord's table and participate of that holy ordinance, but he did not think it right for them to make him pay for the bread and wine. He believed firmly in Christianity, but not in Church- rates. ( Cheers.) Whenever, therefore, they saw in future the title of infidel applied to any man by the Tories, they must conclude the party was not a believer in Church- rates. He moved the adoption of the petition. Mr. WILLS said, he bad so often expressed his opinions on the subject of Church- rates and on the subject of legal establishments of religion in general, that he now rose merely for the purpose of very cordially seconding the reso- lution which had been proposed by his reverend and infidel friend. ( Laughter.) He should have been extremely glad not to have taken any part in the meeting; but when he saw those with whom he was connected, if he might so say, by political party and religious opinions, stigmatised as infidels and with other terms of reproach, he would not shrink from taking his share of that reproach which had been so pro- perly applied to them. ( Cheers.) It appeared to him that the conduct pursued by their opponents on this occasion was only in consistency with that insulting language and conduct which had been systematically pursued towards Dissenters, whether in religion or politics. The perons who had used these words of reproach had only been throwing out what they had been taught by some of their reverend instructors. He did not mean those of Birmingham, from whom 110 sucti encouragement proceeded. But a reverend gentleman of the name of Gathercole had described every Dissenter as a child of the devil, and his friends in Birming- ham only followed Mr. Gathercole's example, and then asked them to pay Church- rates. For his own part he could only express his profound contempt at the endeavour to cry down a great question by such gross means. He re- gretted exceedingly that they had been called on to meet on this occasion in the open air; because he thought it indicated that there was " something rotten in the state of Denmark" at home. They bad a Town hall on which a very large sum of money had been expended, and he knew not why they should be deprived of the use of it. Matters were not right at home, and they would not be right until His Majesty's ministers gave them a system of local ma- nagement, which would place in the hands of towns at large, the management of their own affairs. ( Cheers.) He hoped it would not be long before that great question would be brought before his fellow- townsmen, and steps taken to represent their wishes upon the suiiject in the proper quar- ter, with a view to obtaining a good local government. ( Applause.) He supported most cordially the opinions ad- vanced by his rev. friend and the gentlemen who preceded him, because he was opposed upon principle to every com- pulsory form of religious establishments; be cared not whether it was the Established Church of England, the Established Church of Rome, or any other Church. Yet he was, nevertheless, a film believer in the evidences and truths of Christianty, and what lie believed to be real religion ; and he believed most firmly that the Christian re- ligion had God for its author, and he wished well to the pro- fessors of their common religion, of eveiysect and creed. When he looked to the history of the world to which, allu- sion had been so pertinently made by his friend Captain Moorsom, he saw in it the practical condemnation of all legal establishments of Christianity. They were told that Christianity required the assistance of large sums of money, the aid of the civil magistrate, and compulsory taxation. Now this he totally denied, and the burden of truth was on the other side. Let them see what had been the conse- quence of the system now sought to be upheld, in other ages and other countries. He would ask, if the tendency of Church Establishments had not uniformly been to en- courage persecution and oppression ? and be would ask upon what pretext they could be defended, except on the ex- plored doctrine of infallibility ? Yet when he looked to the history and the statutes of bis own country, he found that the most contradictory doctrines had been established in their several turns; and he found that it hud been even made capital to impugn any of the doctrines of the Church of Rome, which had formed the chief subjects of controversy between that Church and the Prostestants and Reformers. Persecution, he said, had always been a characteristic of Established Churches, and such being the fact, he bad ever been, and should continue, opposed to tile system. He regretted they had not some of the gentlemen of the other party to meet them on that occasion. Heexpected to have heard something new in support of Church- rates and com- pulsory exactions. As yet he had heard nothing from them through the medium of their placards or otherwise, which had the merit of novelty. He bad heard nothing which had not been uniformly advanced from the earliest periods of history, and in every country in support of every form of established religion. As he could not agree that every religion was of equal authenticity, so he was driven to con- clude that arguments which had been applied equally in support of them, all could not be just. He must say that the al usion to the Church of England, as exclusively the poor man's Church was not fair. He apprehended that every form of the Christian religion made some provision for the poor. ( Hear, hear.) When did the} first adopt any system which could give them tin- least ground for representing their church to be the poor man's church? Not until long after the Dissenters bad set them the example. ( Cheers.) And who paid for all this boasted free accommodation for the poor? Why did not he, and did not every Dissenter pay towards it as much a- any other man? ( Hear, hear.) And what right, he would ask, had they to claim it as being exclusively the poor man's church ? Although their I'riends, the Tories, were not pre- sent, he could refer to a document, which he presumed, contained all they bad to say upon the subject. The docu- ment lie referred to, was a set of resolutions entered into by the archdeacons of England, who had lately met and put forth a set of reasons why Church- rates should continue to be paid. Now the duty of the archdeacons, lie appre- hended, was to take care of the repair of the churches, and not to prescribe the means which were to be so applied. Surely they might have been contented to wait for the pro- mulgation of the plan, which it was the intention of Go- vernment to substitute for Church- rates, and not to urge the perpetuation of a mode of taxation offensive to a vast number of their fellow- subjects. Now, the archdeacons said the churches were open to all; why the same might be said of every place of worship, but did it follow that all should be compelled to pay for the repair of them? The archdeacons would say no. But the most striking argu- ment set forth by the archdeacons, was the assimilation of Church- rates to a rent- charge. Now, certainly this was the oddest rent- charge he ever heard of. They could not levy it without applying to the parishioners, who, according to the law which was said to constitute it a rent- charge, were empowered to assent to, or dissent from, the payment of it. ( Hear, hear.) He regretted that his friend, Mr. Richard Spooner was not present to maintain this and the other ar- guments in favour of Church- rates. ( Laughter.) In con- elusion, he begged to say he concurred in the proposition laid down in the first resolution, and therefore seconded Mr. Morgan's petition, and he hoped that ample justice would be done to it on presentation by the noble lord to whose care it was to be committed. The Rev. T. M. M'DONNKLL supported the resolution. He said the Tories were a set of men who did right to lock themselves up in a room, for it appeared to him from the effusions they had put forth, they were hardly fit to be at large, either for their own safety or that of others. They were then assembling, no doubt, as the people of Birming ham,—( laughter,)— and a petition would, no doubt, go forth from them as from the men of Birmingham, signed, as a matter of course, by all the bankers, and merchants, and ' squires, and tradesmen, and including, no doubt, all the talent, and respectability, and weight, and worth, and im- portance of the town. ( Laughter.) Did not this remind them of the celebrated three tailors of Tooley- street, who petitioned Parliament on one occasion, and commenced by saying, " We, the people of England." But, to be serious, were it not for the sake of indulging in a joke at the ex- pense of these gentlemen, their conduct could only be viewed as most atrocious. They had disturbed the peace of the town. They had placarded it with the most atrocious calumnies against their fellow men, and having disseminated their fire- brands amongst the community, they had neither the courage nor the manliness to come forward and maintain their foul slanders. The rev. gentleman adverted to one placard which called upon the people to beware of the priests, and to remember Maria Monk, and in reference to the latter part of it, said there never xtas concocted more infamous falsehoods than those contained in the publication referred to. The tale was one told in the year 1731, and the old book which contained it was laid hold of by the faction in America, and the atrocities supposed to have been related by Maria Monk were nothing more than pure fabri- cations, hashed up for their own wicked purposes from this old book. Mr. M'Donnell next adverted to the system of religious imposition, which had been practised in Ireland, under the old system of vestry- rates, and enumerated various ludicrous charges which had been made upon the parishioners by the beadles, sextons, and other parochial officers. In conclusion, he exhorted the people to firmness and unanimity in their opposition to religious exactions, for if they did not evince a determination to oppose them, they had only to expect similar treatment to that which had been practised towards Ireland. W. BOULTBEE Esq., was called upon to move the fourth reso- lution, inconsequence of Mr. J. Sturgehaving been obliged to leave the meeting. He said— the pleasure it always afforded him to meet his fellow- townsmen was not so great as it might have been, on account of the absence of their worthy friends, the Tories. Had he not been one of the Infidels whom they so liberally stigmatised, he might, from their numerous applications to the High Bailiff lor accommodation, have been led to expect the pleasure ol their company upon the present occasion ; but, to tell the honest truth, lie was not disappointed. He had seen from the first that nothing was further from their intention than to meet their . opponents fairly in the field. Their first objection was to the place of meeting, that was at once met by offering to meet at any equally capacious place which they would name. They would not appoint any place; but demanded accommoda- tion for " all the friends of the Church," and particularly half the platform. The answer to this modest request was that they should have half the platform if they would pay half the expense. This they refused. In commiseration of their needy circumstances they were then offered half the platform gratuitously— but nothing would biing them out— He ( Mr. B.) had, that morning, at the Public- office, told me of their leading men that we were extremely anxious to meet them fairly in the field, and that he would cheerfully do anything in his power to remove difficulties, but his offer was declined. It was evident that their cause was so bad, that they were ashamed and afraid to defend it before their fellow townsmen, and it was a satisfaction to know they had no other reason or excuse to offer for re- fusing us the pleasure of their company. He had spent more words upon the Tories than the whole party were worth. With respect to Church rates, the question was in a very narrow compass. He had been taught, when a boy, that " honesty was the best policy ;" were that still tile case, it would not be difficult to show the dishonesty of one man continually having his hand in his neighbour's pocket, and even the Tory would show their admission of the prin- ciple, if he we're to call upon them to pay his tailor or his shoemaker's bill— but they put honesty aside, and exclaim, with Shylock,—" I claim my bond—' tis mine, and I will have it." It was with shame and regret he had heard the infernal doctrine advanced by a minister of religion in his church. Infernal, was the most proper epithet he could think of; for, as the lawyers say, it must proceed from the instigation of the devil— he was ashamed to hear the cause of religion so prostituted— and it was with deep regret be saw a man cover himself with indelible disgrace, who, upon many occasions, had conducted himself with respectability, benevolence, and, as far as money goes, with the greatest liberality. Surely, if there is one thing more atrocious and disgraceful than another, more in opposition to true religion and morality— to everything that is honest and honourable— it is defending iniquity because it happens to be with < he letter of the law. Mr. DOUGLAS seconded the resolution. Mr. SAMUEL HUTTON then came forward and said he was entrusted with an important resolution, but as the day was so far advanced lie would do no more than meiely read it. The resolution went to the publication of the resolutions in the Journal and Philanthropist newspapers. By that means they would afford their opponents an opportunity of reading that which they would not come to hear. JAMES JAMES, Esq., proposed the insertion of the resolu- tions in the Herald newspaper also, and the resolution was put and carried. The Low BAILIFF was then called to the chair, and the Rev. Mr. M'Dohnell moved, in complimentary terms, a vote of thanks to the High Bailiff. It was seconded by WM. PHIPSON, Esq. and carried with three times three and long and continued cheering. The HIGH BAILIFF returned thanks. He said when he accepted the office he had the honour of holding, he had ex- pressed his determination to act during the year with strict impartiality between the two great parties which divided the town. He had endeavoured to do so, and if he had failed it was only in judgment, certainly not in intention. ( Loud cheers.) He believed lie had acted with impartiality, and he felt honoured by the expression of approbation he had that day received, and should endeavour, on all future occasions, to pursue the same unbiassed course. He again thanked them for the honour they had conferred upon him, by so highly appreciating his conduct. Three groans of compassion for the poor Tories, who were locked up in the prison, in Moor- street, were then given, and the meeting broke up at half- past three o'clock. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS. RICHARD SPOONER, ESQ. Sir,— In the Advertiser of Thursday last, Mi. Richard Spooner is reported to have stated that he had heard a Catholic priest of this town compare the Bible to " a druggist's shop, containing both poison and medicine," and say that " the odds were, if left to itself, the poison would prevail." Sir, there are three officiating Catholic priests in this town. 1 lea re my brethren to defend themselves if they they think it worth while; but for myself declare, that if I am the priest alluded to, the assertion is altogether destitute of foundation. A Mr. Twells, ( pray sir, who is Mr. Twells?) is also reported to have uttered an assertion respecting me, which, however, though untrue, is hardly worth contradiction. I am, sir, Your humble servant, T. M. M'DONNELL. To the editor of the Birmingham Journal. FRIDAY, FEB. 10, 1837. \ Mi-. HUME obtained leave to introduce his bill for placing- the financial affairs of Counties under the con- trol of Boards to be elected annually by the rate- pay- ers. Mr Hume proposes that these Boards shall con- sist of from twelve to twenty- four persons, according to the size of the counties; that the rate- payers shall elect auditors, in the same way as the members of the Board ; that Commissioners shall be appointed to di- vide the counties into electoral districts, the divisional districts, or unions made by the Poor- law Commis- sioners, to be adopted when no especial inconvenience would arise from so doing-; and that every officer act- ing- under the Boards shall be paid by salaries and not by fees. SIR EARTH. Y WILMOT, an experienced magistrate, was disposed to give the bill a trial; but suggested, that it should be confined in its operation to Middle- sex alone for one year. He admitted that it was de- sirable, in order to free the Magistracy from suspicion, that some arrangement should be made for a public and responsible management of the county finances. Captain PECHELL said when the gentlemen in the county- town and its neighbourhood were hospitable, then there was no lack of Magistrates at Qitarter- ses- sions ; hut where they shut their doors, the attendance was scanty. Lord JOHN RUSSELL gave a general support to Mr. Hume's bill; and observed, that some regular system for the appointment of Magistrates would be desirable. At present it lay with the Lord- Lieutenants to select whom they pleased; and some of them excluded cler- gymen, while others preferred them. For his part, lie objected to s lergymen on the bench. Colonel S. I IIORPE said, that the bill was of a dan- gerous and democratic tendency. Colonel WOOD would decidedly oppose it. Mr. A. CHAPMAN considered it a measure degrading to the magistracy, subversive of society, and an en- croachment on the privileges of the crown ! Mr. ARTHUR TREVOR reprobated the measure " ah ooo usque adfitiem." Mr. HUME introduced another bill, for lessening the Expenses of Elections. Col. SIBTHORPE protested against the hill, as calcu- lated to put a stop to old English hospitality. Leave was also given to Mr. Charles Buller, for a bill to amend the law relating to the trial of Contro- verted Elections, and to Mr. Charles Wood, for the better regulation of Post- office Packets. The Leasing- making-, Court of Session, and Small Debts ( Scotland) Court bills, were read a second time; as was also the English Recorders Courts bill, the object of which is to allow a Recorder to appoint a Deputy. The Irish Grand Juries bill went through the Com- mittee, and was reported. In reply to Mr. French, LORD MORPETH said that the Ministers were anxiously considering the means of preventing the anticipated scarcity of food on the North- west coast of Ireland. Lord JOHN RUSSELL informed Lord Stanley, that he intended to move for a Committee of inquiry into the working of the Education system in Ireland. NOTICES OF MOTIONS— By Mr. Divett, Suspension of the Writ for Stafford, on Monday; Lord John gave notice, that on Monday next he should call the atten- tion of the House to that part of the Speech from the throne that recommended a Poor- law for Ireland; Mr. Harvey, on the 14th of April, Select Committee to in- quire into the nature and extent of every branch and every kind of Revenue exclusively enjoyed or appro- priated by the Crown, with a view to a wise economy m any future arrangement of the Civil List. MONDAY. CHURCH- RATES.— A great number of petitions for the abolition of church- rates and tithes, and for the introduction of Poor- laws into Ireland, were pre- sented. CATHOLIC CLERGY.— Mr. MACLEAN presented a petition from Dr. Mulholland, praying for inquiry into the condition of the second order of Roman Catholic clergy in Ireland. The petitioner described at great leng- th grievances to which he alleg- ed he had been subjected from his diocesan, and which had deprived him of the means of subsistence in Ire- land. PRIVILEGE.— Lord JOHN RUSSELL drew attention to the late decision in the case of Stockdaje v. Hansard, in which the right of publishing any paper or report, unless for its members, was denied to the House. The law, as explained by the Chief Justice, Lord John said, materially affected the privileges of the House. The SPEAKER said he had paid great attention to the trial in question, and was decidedly of opinion the doctrine there laid down extended to an interference with the privileges of the House. The right honour- able gentleman then stated a case of difficulty which he already felt in consequence of the doctrine laid down by the Lord Chief Justice. Mr. WYNN and Mr. O'CONNELL concurred in think- ing the decision wrong-. If the sale of papers by order of the House could he questioned, the printing- might equally be questioned. After some further conversation, Lord J. RUSSELL said that he would give notice next evening on the subject, and state what he in- tended to propose. STAFFORD.— Captain CHETWYSD moved that the Speaker do issue a new writ for Stafford. Mr. DIVETT moved, as an amendment, that no writ he issued for the election of Stafford until ten clays after the commencement of next session. A short discussion ensued, in the course of which Mr. H. Hinde, Captain Chetwynd, and Sir Thomas Fremantle supported the motion; and Mr. Hall and other members opposed it. On a division the numbers were— JFor the issuing of the writ 152 Against it 151 Majority against Ministers 1 IRISH POOR LAWS.— Lord JOHN RUSSELL rose to explaiu the measure of Government for assisting- the poor of Ireland. The noble lord, who rose a little be- fore seven o'clock, first took a rapid glance at the his- tory of this country from the reign of Henry VIII. to that of Elizabeth inclusive, in order to show the enor- mous amount of evil to be remedied by the two laws passed in the 14th and the 43rd years of Elizabeth's reign for the relief of the poor. The conclusion drawn by his lordship from the facts stated on this head was, that though the amount of destitution in Ireland was enormous, the Legislature ought not to be appalled by its magnitude, nor to shrink from the invention and application of a remedy. In Scotland the principle of the 14th of Elizabeth bad been adopted, with the exception oi that part of it which entitled the able- bodied to relief. Lord John next re- ferred to the report of the Poor- law Commissioners presented to the House last year. That report recom- mended several measures for the improvement of Ireland; among others, a law giving- the right of re- lief to orphans, aged and decrepid persons— to those who were destitute and unable to work. It also recom- mended emigration. The Gpvernmeijt, after consult- ing with several authorities upon the subject, came to the conclusion that if relief were to be given under a legislative enactment, it ought not to be so circum- scribed as the report recommended. In the noble lord's opinion, widows, orphans, and impotent, were not more fitting objects of legislative protection than the able bodied and healthy when destitute of food, and willing to work, but unable to find employment. Accordingly, the principle of the bill, which it was proposed to bring in, would be that relief should be afforded for destitution, and for nothing else. In the opinion of Government, the subject of emigration ought not to be mixed up with that of Poor- laws. The relief should be in the workhouse. But it had been doubtful whether the provisions of the English Poor- law Amendment act could be extended to Ireland. To remove all doubts upon this point, Mr. Nicholls was sent to Ireland last year, and the result of his inquiry— which extended to all quarters of the country, where he consulted clergymen of all denominations— was, that there were no effectual obstacles to the intro- duction into Ireland of a system in many respects re- sembling the amended English Poor- laws. The details of the proposed bill will, therefore, assimilate as closely as possible to the Poor- law Amendment act. Lord John Russell quoted several extracts from the report of Mr. Nicholls, to prove the correctness of this view. The noble lord stated that the support of men- dicants falls at present almost exclusively upon the middling and more humble classes, and that these, the small farmers and cotters, contribute in food for the relief of beggars between 700,0( 10/. and a million sterling annually. The noble lord next adverted to workhouses, and contended at some length that out- door relief was inadmissible, and that there was no reason to apprehend evil consequences from the limita- tion of relief to those who would consent to take up their abode in the workhouse. Lord John described the details of the bill. This measure does not recog- nise the right of the destitute to relief; it merely in- vests the Commissioners and their agents with autho- rity to administer relief when applied for, leaving them a discretionary power of selection. As the right to re- lief is not declared by the bill, neither does it embody any law of settlement; nor does it embody the laws in force in England against mendicancy and vagrancy. When a pauper applies for relief at the workhouse, and is refused the liberty to ask alms will not be affected by the bill. It is proposed that the English Poor- law Commissioners shall be the Commissioners for Ireland also, their number to be increased by one, and one or two of them to reside in Dublin. The boards of guar- dians are to be elected every year. The first electors to be the county cess- payers ; all future elections to be made by the rate- payers. The rate to be applotted by the Commissioners and the board of guardians accord- ing to the actual value of the hereditaments. When the tenant pays the full yearly value, one half the rate is to fall upon the landlord and the other half upon the tenant. Holders of tenements under 5/. a year to be altogether exempt from the rate, as they are' not to be allowed to vote on the election of guardians. When the property of the rate- payer exceeds a certain amount, it is proposed to allow him a plurality of votes. There is no allusion to bastardy or apprenticeship. It pro- poses to place the existing charitable institutions un- der the direction of the Commissioners. These are the leading features of the proposed measure. Mr. O'Connell, Sir Robert Peel, Lord Stanley, O'Conner Don, and Mr. Shaw, congratulated Minis- ters uiion the course they had taken in regard to this question. Mr. O'Conneli declared that as Govern- ment had introduced the bill, he would lend most cor- dially everj effort of his to make the measure efficient. He took one objection, however, to the measure. It is proposed to erect fifteen or sixteen workhouses in dif- ferent districts as a beginning, each workhouse to be capable of containing 800 persons. Mr. O'Connell objected to such a piecemeal operation, on the ground that, as there was no law of settlement to confine paupers to their own districts, the whole of them mio- ht at once Hock to these workhouses. Lord HOWICK said that it was not possible to erect all the intended workhouses ( 100) at once, but that they should be built in rapid succession. In the in- terval the boards of guardians would take care, of course, to prefer the claims of those applicants who usually resided in the district attached to the work- house where relief was sought. MARRIAGE BILL.—- The Registration of Marriages bill was read a third time and passed. POST- OFFCE.— The Post- office Contract bill was read a second time. Mr. WALLACE inquired whether the change in the constitution of the Post- office would be carried into effect this session ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the general measure on the subject would be introduced in April. It was desirable that tlu financial year should close previous to that measure being brought forward. TUESDAY. RAILWAYS.— Two bills for deviations in the line of the Western Railway and the Leeds and Manchester Railway were read a first time. Leave was g'iven to the Manchester and Liverpool Railway Company to introduce a bill to make a railway from Manchester to Birmingham. CHURCH RATES.— A great many petitions were pre- sented against Church- rates; and two or three in their favour. QUALIFICATION OF MEMBERS.— SU- W- MOLESWORTH moved for leave to introduce a bill to repeal the statutes of the 9th Anne, c. 5, and the 33 Geo. II., c. 20, so far as the same relate to the Qualification of Members of Par- liament. He asked for the repeal of these statutes, be- cause fbey were, he conceived, vicious in principle and pernicious in practice. The statute of Aune merely called on a Member to swear he was qualified, but this being- found utterly inoperative, that of Geo. II. was passed ; according- to which, the member was called on ty deliver in a paper pointing out the parish in which his property was situated. This law w ould have been as easily evaded as the other but for certain standing orders of the House passed in supplement of it. Under all these checks, nothing was easier than to obtain a qualification— Any gentleman who has a sufficient sum at his banker's can obtain from his banker a rent- charge as a mere matter of business, for most of the London bankers possess landed property. If the gentleman who desires to he qualified does not possess a sufficient sum at his immediate disposal, he then applies to a friend or to an attorney, who generally can lind amongst his clients some person of landed property willing to grant a fictitious qualification. A deed is drawn up containing the rent- charge required, which deed never goes out of the possession of the attorney ; in the presence of two witnesses unacquainted with the nature of the tran- saction, a seeming payment is made of the sum ol money whicli would he required to make the transaction a real one. If there should be a petition, then the nature of the deed and the consideration are stated to the Committee of the House, and the witnesses prove the transaction to be a bona fide one. It was a fact that as to bona fide qualifications not one half of the House were in possession of them! Sir William read a letter from an eminent attorney, the authenticity of which he could vouch for. The follow- ing is a part— It is generally believed that one- third at the least have no bona jide qualification. ( Hear, hear.) On the eve of a dissolution of Parliament dozens of sham qualifications are made by solicitors, often drawn and settled by counsel. ( Hear, hear.) One solicitor in London is known, in " fashionable circles," as a gentleman who will " qualify" any candidate, " respectably introduced to him," for 100/. including the stamps. ( Hear, hear, and a laugh ) The letter concluded, after noticing a number of modes of fraudulent conveyance—" the law is a dis- grace to the statute book, and ought to be burned by the hands of the common hangman." Sir William spoke to the abstract argument— The qualification of property is generally advocated on the grounds that a person possessing a certain amount of pro- perty is said to have a greater stake in the country, and that iie is less liable to be biassed by motives arising from his own pecuniary interests. As for the greater stake in the country, the poorest men are more interested in good laws and good government than the richest— a law which destroys the former merely injures the latter. The poor are easily oppressed— the rich generally can take care of themselves. It is intelligence which teaches the real value of preserving the security of propei ty, and of aiding the accumulation of capital. ( Hear, hear.) 1' he mere feeling of clinging to property, which results from tiie possession of property unaccompanied by intelligence, not unfrequently endangers the security both of property and of capital. Mr. LEADER seconded the motion. Mr. ARTHUR TREVOR thought the motion a most obnoxious one. If they got rid of the qualification, men would be introduced into the House wlio would legislate on that in which they had no interest— pro- pcrty. Mr. EWART said it was right that the qualification should be now defended by the Tories, for it was the Tories of Queen Anne's days that first imposed it. In Scotland there was no pecuniary qualification for members, and no country was more excellently repre- sented. Mr. WARIIURTON hoped that at least leave would be given to introduce the motion. Mr. MACLEAN opposed and Mr. HUME defended the motion. Lord F. EGERTON spoke against the admission of the canaille into the House. After some further conversation, Lord JOHN RUSSELL objected to the motion, that it was not in accordance with the notice on the votes. He did not apprehend that any great mischief would arise from the abolition of the qualification, but he thought it better to modify than to abolish. He would, therefore, in its present form, oppose the motion. Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTH said, the motion was incorrectly printed in the votes. He would adhere to the terms he had now announced. A division took place after a few words from Lord Ebrington and Mr. Wakley, whei^ Jhe numbers were, for the motion, 104, against it, 133.— Majority for Ministers, 29. PLURAL VOTING IN VESTRIES.— Mr. WAKLEY ob- tained leave to introduce a bill to abolish this de- scription of voting. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said, he would oppose it on the second reading-. PATENT LAWS.— Leave was given to Mr. MACKIN- NON to introduce a bill to amend the patent laws. LIBEL.— Leave was given to Mr. O'CONNELL to in- troduce his bill for amending the law of libel. The same honourable member obtained leave to introduce a bill for facilitating transfers of lands vested in Ca- tholic ecclesiastical trustees. WEDNESDAY. Lord LEVESON took the oaths and his seat for Morpeth. CHURCH- RATES.— A great number of petitions were presented for the total abolition of Church- rates, and on other subjects. BRITISH MUSEUM.— In answer to a question front Mr. Havves, Lord Stanley stated that the trustees of the British Museum had done all they conld to effect the recommendations of the committee on that subject. The Museum would be kept open during the holidays every day excepting- Sunday. MUNICIPAL ACT AMENDMENT BILL.— Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL presented a petition from inhabitants of Hytlie, who complained that tliey had been unjustly and illeg- ally excluded from the roll of burgesses, solely on the ground that they had omitted to pay the shilling required for registration. He asked the At- torney- General to postpone his Municipal Corporation Act Amendment bill for a few days, in order that some remedy might be considered for this grievance. The ATTORNEY- GENERAL could not agree to any such arrangement, as it was important that no delay should occur in passing the bill. The House then went into committee on the Muni- cipal Corporations Act Amendment bill, and the several clauses were agreed to. The report was ordered to be received on Tuesday. Mr. ROBINSON obtained leave to bring- in a bill to amend the act of 3 and 4 William IV., c. 85, so far as related to the compensation provided for the mara- time officers of the East India Company. Mr. BAINES obtained leave to bring in a bill for the relief of persons elected to municipal offices under the act of 5 and 6 of William IV., c.. 17, as required by the 50th clause of the Municipal Regulation act. THURSDAY. CHURCH RATES.— Amongst other petitions presented against Church- rates was one from Glasgow, signed within a circuit of three miles by 42,000 persons. More than a hundred petitions were presented in all. BENEFIT SOCIETIES.— Mr. ATTWOOD presented a petition from Birmingham for the repeal of the present law for regulating these institutions. Mr. Wilkes and the Attorney- General supported the prayer of the pe - tition. Mr. SCHOLEFIELD also expressed himself favour- able to it. BALLOT.— Several petitions were presented in favour of Ballot. Mr. LECHMERE CHARLTON.— The report of Com- mittee of privileges was presented. It found that the privileg- es of the House had not been eufritiged by Mr. Charlton's incarceration. A long discussion took place on a motion of Mr. Wynne, to call the proprietor of the Morning Chronicle to the bar, for some remarks on the Committee, which was, however, withdrawn. PUBLICATION OF COMMONS' PAPERS.— Lord John Russell moved for a select Committee to inquire into and report on the law as laid down by the Lord Chief Justice, in the case of Stockdale v. Hansard, on this point. PLURALITIES BILL.— Lord John Russell obtained leave to introduce this bill. BENEFIT SOCIETIES.— Mr. Barlow Hoy moved for a Committee to inquire into the state of the laws af- fecting benefit societies. A brief discussion took place, in which a number o members spoke. Mr. P. Thompson said if Mr. Hoy introduced a bill on the subject he would give it his attention. The motion was rejected by 142 to 66. THE BISHOPS.— Mr. C. Lushington brought forward bis resolution, that the presence of the Bishops in the House of Lords is unfavourable to the interests of the Christian religion. Mr. Hawes seconded it. Mr. Hume supported and Lord John Russell opposed the resolution. Tt was also opposed by Sir RWiert Peel, aiul supported by Mr. C. Buller. On a division there appeared for the resolution 92, against it 197. [ There were, besides 3 pairs, so that, including tellers, the numbers wore 97 and 202.] HOUSE OF LORDS. The only business on Friday and Monday was presenting- petitions. TUESDAY, FEB. 14. CHURCH- RATES.— A number of petitions against church- rates from various quarters being presented, Lord Brougham drew the attention of the House to one with which he had been entrusted It came from certain clergymen and laymen-- 300in number— dele- gates of as many Dissenting congregations in different parts of the country, and would have been signed by at least 100 more, had not they been compelled to leave town before the petition was ready. Upwards of 500 of these congregations and meetings had been holden in the country, at which it was agreed to send deputies to town for the purpose he had already mentioned, though not many more than 400 or 420 actually came. He believed that no portion of His Majesty's subjects, either in character, ability, or station in society, were more respect- able than the great body whom these individuals who had signed the petition on this occasion represented. BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY A petition having been presented from Rugby, complaining of outrages com- mitted by the men employed on the Birmingham Railway, Lord WINCHILSEA took occasion to speak with great indignation against the conduct of the pro- prietors— There was another point which required some considera- tion, namely, that many of these speculations were under- taken solely for gambling purposes. The estimates brought before their lordships were often fallacious. He believed that this very company— the London and Birmingham Railway Company was about to apply to Parliament for the power to raise a further sum of money, nearly 2,000,000/., beyond that which was asked for in the first instance, to complete the line. Their lordships owed it to the public at large to guard them against such a proposition, such a gross fraud. The noble lord concluded with stating-, that he was no enemy to railroads. The Lords did not sit on Wednesday. THURSDAY. CHURCH RATES.— Anumber of petitions were pre- sented by Lord BROUGHAM and others. MARRIAGE BILL.— This bill was read a second time. fill: BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. THEATRE ROYAL, BIRMINGHAM. LAST WEEK OF THE SEASON. MR. DOBB'S BENEFIT. ON MONDAY, February 20, will be performed the Comic Opera of THE FARMER. COMIC SONG— NEW COMPANIES; Or, Jemmy Bufflebuff, Sharebroker, Auctioneer, fyc. After which, the Farce of LOYE LAUGHS AT LOCKSMITHS. A New Comic Song, called BILLY BUTTON, To he sung in Character by Mr. DOBBS. JIM CROW, BY MR. STANMORE. A VARIETY OF DANCING. To conclude with the Melo Drama of the CORNISH MINERS. Boxes, 4s Upper Boxes, 3s— Pit, 2s— Gallery, Is. Tickets to be had of Mr. DOBBS, 13, Upper Temple- street. HEBREW PHILANTHROPIC INSTITUTION. Published this Day, AN OCCASIONAL ADDRESS, written and spoken by Mr. EUGENE MACARTHY, on Tuesday, February 7th, 1837, at the Theatre Royal, Birmingham, in aid of the above Institution. Printed and Published by H. PIERCE, 44, High- street. Several loose Boxes, and Lock- up Coach- house to be Let. Enquire at the St. George's Tavern. MOST RECENT SELECTION OF THE NEWEST PATTERNS. JUST RECEIVED, aud are now selling- at PRICE'S GLASS and CHINA WAREHOUSES, 13, High street, Market Place, Birmingham. China of resplendent beauty and elegance in dinners, dessert, breakfast services, tea sets, and ornaments. Plain and rich cut Glass, of exquisite brilliancy and qua- lity, varied in all the innumerable articles. Earthenware dinner services and dessert ware, toilet sets, kitchen requisites, and every article in the trade, all at the CHEAPEST PRICES. N. B. Goods carefully packed and sent to all parts of the kingdom. > TO SHOE DEALERS. BOSTOCKand MATTHEWS, 15, Union Street, Birmingham, wholesale Boot and Shoe Manufacturers in Northamptonshireand Staffordshire, respectfully announce that they have opened the above warehouse with an exten- sive assortment of goods for the supply of the retail trade in Birmingham and the adjoining towns. As their terms are for cash payments only, the proprietors are aware that sufficient inducement must be offered to buyers as to price and quality, independently of the advan- tages of selection from a well- assorted stock, regularly sup- plied from the manufacturers. Similar establishments having been successfully intro- duced, and well supported, in other principal towns in the kingdom, B. and M. respectfully invite an inspection of their stock and price list, which they feel convinced will prove satisfactory and advantageous to the trade. IS, UNION STREET. N. B. By wholesale only. No connection with any re- tail House in Birmingham or the neighbourhood. COLOURING AND STENCILLING, TO IMITATE PAPER, IN ALL ITS BRANCHES, GLAZED AND BRONZED. EDWIN GEE most respectfully returns bis sincere thanks for the very liberal support he has received for the last fifteen years, and wishes to inform the Public generally, that he has a very great assortment of NEW PATTERNS, designed particularly to give an appearance equal to paper, at less than half its price, which can be seen at his Fish shop, New- street, opposite the Free Church ; or he will be most happy to wait on anyone with them, with a proper assortment of Patterns for Halls, Bed- rooms, or Parlours. ALL COLOURS WARRANTED FAST. N. B. Good workmen sent to any part of the town or country. Birmingham, Jan. 11, 1837. NOTICE. FT* HE Latest Editions of the Daily True Sun con- X taining the Debates in Parliament up to seven o'clock in the evening, price 4i^ d. Supplied by JAMES GUEST, STEELHOUSE- LANE, BIRMINGHAM. This, the cheapest and best of all the Daily Papers, may be seen gratis, daily, at 93, Steclhouse- lane. A copy to be sold second day at one shilling per week. each, per quarter. The Weekly True Sun 4^ d. 5s. The Weekly Chronicle 3^( 1. 4s. The London Dispatch 3Y2d. 4s. The Champion 4d. 4s. The Mercury ™ -— 4d. 5s. The Phosnix — 4d. 5s. Bell's Life in London —- 5% d. 6s. Weekly Dispatch 6Ud. 7s. The Birmingham Journal, Gazette, Philanthropist, and Advertiser, and every other newspaper that issues from the press, supplied to order at the residences of Subscribers, or sent, postage free, to all parts of the country. Country orders must be post paid, and accompanied by a remittance. Address, JAMES GUEST, 93, Steelhouse- lane, Birmingham. NOTICE. PUBLIC OFFICE, BIRMINGHAM. PJPHE Magistrates acting- for tlie Birmingham - i- Division of the County of Warwick, will, from and after the 20th inst., hold their Petty Sessions at the Public Office, in Birmingham, on MONDAY and FRIDAY in every week, instead of Monday and Thursday, as heretofore, Prosecutors and Witnesses on charges of Felony and Misdemeanor, and other persons having business to trans- act at such Petty Sessions, are required to give their attend- ance punctually at the Public Office at Ten o'clock on each By order of the Magistrates, WM. SPURRIER, W. H. GEM, H. M. GRIFFITHS. Birmingham, Feb. 14, 1837. TO THE CLERGY. THE GUARDIANS of the POOR of the Parish of Birmingham are desirous of engaging a CLER- GYMAN of the Estab. islied Church as CHAPLAIN to the WORKHOUSE and ASYLUM. A convenient Chapel isattuchedto the Workhouse, and the Chaplain will be required to perform Divine Service therein in the morning and afternoon of every Sabbath day, and in the evening of every Thursday, arid on those occa- sions to deliver a Sermon or Addiess to the poor; also to administer the Sacrament, when necessary. He will be re- quired to visit daily, or frequently, the various wards of the Workhouse, and of the Infirmary attached thereto, and to admonish, encouFage, and console the inmates. He will also be required to examine and superintend the religious instruction of the children in the Asylum, and generally to watch over the moral and religious conduct of all the in- mates of the Workhouse and Asylum. The Guardians are aware that the efficient discharge of such important functions will preclude their Chaplain from undertaking other fixed Ministerial engagements.— Salary, £' 150 per annum. Applications, accompanied by testimonials, are requested to be addressed to the " Religious Instruction Committee," at the Workhouse, on or before Saturday the 25th inst. WORKHOUSE VESTRY, February 14tli, 1837. SPECIAL MEETING OF THE MEDICAL COMMITTEE. IN consequence of the lamented death of Mr. J. L. PEDLEY, Resident House Surgeon and Apothecary in the Town Infiimary, a Vacancy in that Office has occurred. Candidates for the situation are requested to send Testi- monials of Qualification, addressed to the " Medical Com- mittee," on or before Monday, the 27th inst. Salary, £ 70 per annum, with Board, Washing, and Lodging. LECTURES ON PHRENOLOGY. MR. J. TOULMIN SMITH, who is now engaged in delivering a Course of Lectures on PHRENO- LOGY to the Mechanics' Institution, desirous of introduc- ing the Science more extensively to the notice of the In- abitants of Birmingham, proposes to give, at the Theatre in Cannon- street, on Friday Evening next, February 24th, A GRATUITOUS INTRODUCTORY LECTURE, illustrative of the progress, proofs, and eventual tendency of the Science of PHRENOLOGY, to commence at seven o'clock precisely. At this Lecture, Mr. S. respectfully invites and requests the presence of those I. adies and Gentlemen who feel an interest in the elucidation and diffusion of Scientific truths; and should he be succp^ fnl in awakening a desire for fur- ther information, , e will proceed t) deliver, at the same place, a Course of F1VK LIXI UUES, which will afford an insight into the entire data and bearings of the science. It is intended to deliver the first of these Lectures on MONDAY EVENING, the 27th instant, and to continue them on the successive Fridays and Mondays till completed. The Illustrations, by means of Drawings and Casts are numer- ous, and carefully selected. £ s. d. Tickets for the Course ... ... 0 10 0 Double Tickets, admitting a Lady aud Gentleman ... ... 0 15 0 Tickets to a Single Lecture ... 0 2 0 Prospectuses and Tickets to be had of Messrs. BARLOW , Bennett's- hitl, arid DRAKE, 52, New- street. TO THE GUARDIANS AND OVERSEERS OF THE PARISH OF BIRMINGHAM. GENTLEMEN, AVACANCY in the office of House Surgeon and Apothecaiy to the Town Infirmary having occurred by the decease of Mr. Pedley, I beg to offer myself as a Candidate for that appointment. I trust that the Testimonials of character and competency which I shall have the pleasure of laying before you will be considered satisfactory, and enable me to obtain the favour of your support; and, in the event of my election, I pledge myself to a zealous and faithful discharge of the duties con- nected with the office. * I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, AItlS HENRY NOURSE, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, and Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries. Birmingham, Feb. 14,1837. ARMY CONTRACTS. Office of Ordnance, Pall Mall, 6th February, 1837. NOTICE is hereby given to all Persons desirous of contracting to supply BEEF and MUTTON to His Majesty's Land Forces ( except the Foot Guards ge- nerally, and the Household Cavalry in Middlesex) in can- tonments, quarters, and barracks, in the counties of Eng- land severally, in Wales, in North Britain, in the Isle of Man, and in the Channel Islands, for four months from the 1st April next, inclusive, subject to the usual conditions of the Contracts,— That proposals in Writing, addressed to the Secretary to the Board of Ordnance, fealed up and marked on the out- side, Tender for Army Supplies, will be received at the Ordnance- office, Pall Mall, on or before Tuesday, the 7th day of March next; but none will be received after eleven o'clock on that day. Persons who make tenders, are desired not to use any forms but those which may be had upon application at the office of the secretary to the Board of Ordnance in Pall Mall; and of the Barrack Masters in the islands of Guern- sey, Jersey, and Man. By order of the Board, R. BYHAM, Secretary. TO THE CONSUMERS OF GAS. CAUTION! THE Agents of the two Companies who now supply the town are going about to obtain Signatures in sup- port of their MONOPOLY. Parties applied to should bear ill mind, that the establishment of a third Company will REDUCE THE PRICE, improve the quality, and increase the quantity of light in the Street Lamps. It is therefore evidently your interest to decline signing the Monopolists' Memorial, and to give your aid and SIGNATURES to the EQUITABLE GAS COMPANY. AN INHABITANT. TO CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS. / ANTED IMMEDIATELY, an ASSISTANT fully qualified to undertake the Dispensing depart- ment. Apply by letter ( post paid,) stating last situation, salary expected, & c., to W. W., Post office, Worcester; or per- sonally to S. E. CHURCHILL, Druggist, New- street, Bir- mingham. rfnilE Commissioners acting under a Fiat in Bank- L ruptcy, bearing date the 7th day of October, 1836, awarded and issued against WILLIAM THOMPSON, HENRY LEONARD, and RICHARD BROOK- HOLDING DAWES, of the parish of Aston, near Bir- mingham, in the county of Warwick, Factors and Manu- facturers, dealers and chapmen, intend to meet on Tuesday the seventh day of March next, at two o'clock in the after- noon, at Radenhurst's Royal Hotel, in New- street, in Birmingham aforesaid, in order to audit the accounts of the Assignees of the estate and effects of tlie said bankrupts under the said fiat, pursuant to an Act of Parliament made and passed in the sixth vear of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled " An Act to amend tile Laws relating to Bankrupts;" and tlie said Commissioners also intend to meet on the same day and at the same place, at three o'clock in the afternoon, in order to make a dividend under the joint estate of the said bankrupts; when and where the creditors who have not already proved their dehis are to come prepared to prove the same, or they will be ex- cluded the benefit of the said dividend; and all claims not then proved will be disallowed. Mr. WILLIAM WILLS, Solicitor to the Assignees. THE ONLY CURE FOR CORNS AND BUNIONS. RAMSBOTTOM'S CORN and BUNION SOL- VENT. By the use of this valuable remedy imme- diate relief from pain is obtained, and by its successive application for a short period, the most obstinate Corns are entirely removed without recourse to the dangerous opera- tions of cutting or filing. The proprietor pledges himself that it does not contain caustic or any other article that will inflame the skin; being white it will not stain the stocking; and the advantage it has over plaister is mani- fest, and fully appreciated, as the very high recommenda- tion bestowed upon it by every individual that has used it testifies. Price Is. ljd. and 2s. The various counterfeits that are attempted to be im- posed upon the public in lieu of this invaluable remedy, render it imperatively necessary for purchasers to ask for S. Ramsbottom's Corn and Bunion Solvent, and to see that it lias the signature of" S. Ramsbottom" written upon the label that is pasted on the outside of the wrapper of every genuine bottle, in addition to the name of the article, and words sold by Hannayand Co. 63, Oxford- street, being the name and address of the proprietor's wholesale agents. The following letter from Mr. John Winfield, of Bir- mingham, is one of many hundreds of the same tenor: — Gentlemen,- Having read an advertisement in a Birmingham paper, I was induced to purchase fron: your agent, Mr. Maher, Ann- street, a bottle of ltamsbottom's Corn aud Bunion Solveut;— after a week's application I found it had the desired effect. I have siuce re- commended it to many oi my friends. You are at liberty to make any use you please of this communication.— Your obedient servant, Birmingham, August6_ 1836. JOHN WINFIELD. To Messrs. Hamiay and Co. Sold by appointment by M. Maher, 34, Ann- street, and W. Wood, Bookseller, High- street, Birmingham; Parke, Woverhampton ; Rogers, Stafford ; Mort, Newcastle; Mer ridevv, Coventryj Dicey, Northampton. F ORD'S PECTORAL BALSAM of HORE- HOUND, and great restorative medicine, invented and published by the Patentee in the year 1794, of which up- wards of 100,000 bottles are annually sold. This is the most efficacious, safe, and approved medicine ever offered to the public, for the relief and cure of Coughs, Colds, Asth- mas, Hooping Coughs, and all obstructions of the Breast and Lungs. The following is from many other letters recently received by the Patentee, who submits it without comment to the at- tention of the Public. Sir,— I beg leave to hand you a case which I think merits public notice. A person of the name of Brown, livingin my neighbourhood, having a large family afflicted with Hooping Cough, I recommended him to try your Balsam of Horehouml; two of the children have been effectually cured within three months, and another is receiving daily relief. Any further particulars may be known by personal application to them, or to me, from whom the medicine was had. Several others have used it with the same success.— I remain, sir, your obedient servant, J- ROBINSON, Chemist, & c, Store- street, Bedford- square, 16th January, 1836. The extensive and still increasing demand for this medi- cine sufficiently proves the general estimation in which it is held in this kingdom, and the large orders for exportation, show that it is equally celebrated in the East anil West Indies, America, and on the Continent. To prevent any imposition on the public, tile proprietor has obtained the King's Royal Letters Patent. The Public will please to oh- serve that each bottle is enclosed in wrappers printed in red ink, and signed in the hand- writing of the Patentee in black ink, without which it cannot be genuine. Prepared by the Patentee, at Holloway; and sold in bottles at 10s. 6( 1., 4s. 6d., 2s. 9d. and Is. 9d. each by Wood, Southall and Co., Shillitoe, Churchill, Clarke and Son, Belcher, Butter- worth, Edwards, Collins and Co., Johnson, Bagnall and Co . Martin, Adkins, Cope, Smith, Birmingham ; Turner and Hollier, Hickman, Dudley; Morris, Berkley, E. and R. Fowler, J. Fowler, Stourbridge; Simpson, Fleeming and Seyde, Alexander aud Co., Wolverhampton ; and by most dealers in medicines. BIRMINGHAM BOROUGH BANK. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. James Russell, Esq., ITandsworth. J. Mellor, Esq., Willenhall House, near Coventry. William A. very, Esq. John Slater, Esq. G. B. Knovvles, Esq. AT a Meeting of the principal Local Shareholders of THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BANK OF ENGLAND, held at the Branch Baflk, in Bull- street, Birmingham, on the 4th day of January, 1837, A Deputation from the Board of Manchester Directors, having stated to this Meeting that it is contemplated to dispose of most of the Branches of the Bank, and having communicated, in confidence, the Profits realised by this Branch, and offered to transfer the good- will, to the Local Proprietary, on very advantageos terms, Resolved, That a Joint Stock Banking Company be formed, to be called " THE BIRMINGHAM BOROUGH BANK," having a Capita! of £ 200,000, in 10,000 Shares of £ 20 each, and that the Company shall be formed as soon as 5,000 Shares shall have been subscribed for. That a deposit of £ 2 per Share shall be paid immediately on the allotment of Shares. That a further call of £ 3 per Share shall be paid on or before the 1st day of April next, that three months' notice be given of any further calls, which shall not exceed £ 5 at any one time, and that not less than three months shall elapse between each call becoming due. That a Deed of Settlement be prepared without delay, which shall be signed by each Shareholder when required, under penalty of forfeiture of his Shares. That a General Meeting of the Proprietors shall be con- vened after the allotment of Shares. Application for Shares to be made to the Provisional Committee, undercover, to Mr. WILLIAM GOODE, Bull- street, in the following form. J. W. & G. WHATELEY, Solicitors. Dated January 4, 1837. FORM OF APPLICATION. I apply for Shares in " THE BIRMINGHAM BO- ROUGH BANK," and undertake to pay the calls, and comply in all other respects with the conditions of the Prospectus dated the 4th of January, 1837. Name. Residence Trade or Profession Date To the Provisional Committee of the BIRMINGHAM BO- ROUGH BANK, Care of Mr. WILLIAM GOODE, Bull- street, Birmingham. WINDMILL, PRITCHET- STREET. rpo be DISPOSED OF by PRIVATE TREATY JL the above old established and well- known RETAIL BREWERY, doing a good scope of business, which is likely to be considerably increased on account of the ex- tensive Works now erecting in the immediate vicinity. For particulars apply to the Proprietor, on the premises, who is leaving on account of other engagements. TO BE DISPOSED OF, a MILLINERY and STRAW BONNET BUSINESS, with a good House in a first- rate situation in this town, and which may be entered upon at Lady- day. The Fixtures in the Shop are adapted to the above Business, the Drapery, or any Fancy Trade. , Application to be made at the Office of this Paper. Birmingham, February 17th, 1837. TO WOOD TURNERS, WHIP MAKERS, PEARL AND WOOD BUTTON MANUFACTURERS, SPONGE DEALERS, AND OTHERS. POSITIVE and unreserved SALE by AUCTION, by SAMUEL BLOORE, jun., on Tuesday next, February 21st, ( by order of the Assignees of Wm. Clrarn- lev. u bankrnpt,) at Harrison's Sale Rooms, 95, New- street, Birmingham, comprising 6 tons of Bahama and Jamaica Lignum Vita;, 3 tons of Rosewood and Zebm Wood Planks, 50 cwt. of Turkey Box, Cocus Wood, Angico or Queen Wood, Lancewood Spars, Pearl, Shell, Turkey, and West India Sponge; Rattan Cane, Pencil Cedar, & c. & c. Sale to commence at eleven o'clock precisely. Particulars, in catalogues, may be had at the place of sale, or at the office of the AUGTIONEER, 1051^, New Street, Bir- mingham. TO JOURNEYMEN PLASTERER'S AND PAINTER'S. 7ANTED, in the town of Manchester, FOUR- HUNDRED JOURNEYMEN in the above trades. Wages 26s. per week to good Plasterers and House Painters. Modellers, Grainers, & c., according to merit. No person belonging to any Trade's Union will be em- ployed. Apply to any of the Masters in the above trade in Man- chester; or to Mr. HOWARTH, Gaping Goose, Hinde Hill, Manchester. A FIFTY POUNDS SOCIETY commence at the SHIP TAVERN, Fox- street, on WEDNESDAY, March 1st, 1837. Any Gen- tleman becoming a Member will confer a favour upon His obediently, JOSH. WILLIAMS. LIFE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT. ON Saturday, 18th March, will appear VOLUME FIRST of THE LIFE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART. By J. G. LOCKHART, ESQ., HIS LITERARY SECRETARY. Edinburgh: R. CADELL. London: J. MURRAY, and WHITTAKER and Co. NEW EDITIONS OF HAMEL'S WORKS. TTNIVERSAL FRENCH GRAMMAR. By J NICHOLAS HAMEL. 4s. G R A M M A TIC A L E X E R CIS E S u pon the F R E N C H LANGUAGE compared with the English. By N. HAMEL. 4s. QUESTIONS 011 the above; with KEY. 9d. KEY to HAMEL'S FRENCH EXERCISES. 3s. THE WORLD in MINIATURE; containing a curious and faithful Account of the different Countries of the World, for translation into French. New edition, com- pletely corrected to 1836. By N. 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AT a numerous and respectable TOWN'S MEET- ING, convened by the High Bailiff, of which public notice has been given, held at the Public- office in Moor- street; afterwards by adjournment in the Old- square, Bir- mingham, 011 Wednesday, the 15th of February, 1837, " to consider the propriety of petitioning Parliament for the im- mediate and total abolition of Church- rates, and to take such steps on the subject as may be deemed expedient." ROBERT WEBB, Esq., High Bailiff, in the Chair. The following resolutions were adopted.-— Moved by JAMES JAMES, Esq., Low Bailiff; seconded by G. P. MUNTZ, Esq. 1. That every religious association ought to depend for its support on Voluntary Contributions; and that it is un- just in principle, vexatious and oppressive in practice, and therefore utterly repugnant to the spirit of Christianity to uphold any form of religion by compulsory taxation. Moved by WILLIAM REDFERN, Esq.; seconded by WILLIAM PHIPSON, Esq. 2. That this Sleeting hails with satisfaction the prospect of a legislative measure, to be introduced by His Majesty's Ministers, by which the odious impost of Church- rates will for ever be extinguished; protesting at the same time, that it cannot be satisfied with any communication or substitute, or anything short of entire and unqualified abo- lition. Moved by the Rev. T. MORGAN; seconded by WIL- LIAM WILLS, Esq. 3. That the following Petition, founded upon the fore- going resolutions, be adopted, and that the Right Ho- nourable Lord Brougham be requested to present the same to the House of Lords, and the members for the borough, Messrs. Attwood and Scholefield, , to the House of Commons:— That in the opinion of your petitioners, every religious association ought to depend for its support upon voluntary contributions, and that it is unjust in principle, vexatious and oppressive in practice, and therefore utterly repugnan to the spirit of Christianity, to uphold any form of reli- t gion by compulsory taxation. That your petitioners hail with satisfaction the prospect of a Legislative measure about to be introduced by His Majesty's Ministers, by which the odious impost of Church- rates will be extinguished ; earnestly protesting, at the same time, against any commutation of or substitute for that tax, or anything short of an entire aud unqualified abolition. May it, therefore, please your honourable House to give such support to any measure so providing for the total abolition of Church- rates, that the same may, as speedily as possible be passed into a law. And your petitioners will ever pray. Moved by W. BOULTBEE, Esq.; seconded by Mr. DOUGLAS. 4. That the steps recently taken by the " Church- rate Abolition Society" of London, receive the cordial approba- tion and entitle the members to the thanks of this meeting, and that the members for the borough, the Low Bailiff, Capt. C. R. Moorsom, Lieut.- Colonel Moxon, Mr. Pare, Mr. Edmonds, Mr. T. Bolton, Mr. Charles Sturge, Mr. Douglas, and Mr. William Morgan, be appointed as Dele- gates, to attend such meeting of the Society as may appear to require their attendance. Moved by Mr. SAMUEL HUTTON, seconded by the Rev. T. M. M'DONNELL. 5. That the pioceedings of this Meeting be advertised in the Birmingham Journal, the Philanthropist, and tlie Bir- mingham Herald newspapers. ROBERT WEBB, High Bailiff. The Low BAILIFF having taken the Chair, it was Moved by the Rev. T. iVI. M'DONNELL; seconded by WILLIAM PHIPSON. Esq., 6. That the most cordial thanks of this Meeting are due, and are hereby presented to the High Bailiff, for the im- partiality of his preliminary arrangements, and his able and impartial conduct in the Chair. JAMES JAMES, Low Bailiff. CHURCH RATES. rg" UIE Gentlemen who signed the Requisition to the EL High Bailiff, for the Town's Meeting of Wednes- day, are requested to meet in the Public- office, on Mon- day next, at eleven o'clock forenoon, uroN BUSINESS or IM- PORTANCE. Friday, February 17th, 1837. DAILY GOVERNESS. ALADY, of great respectability and undoubted qualifications, is desirous of obtaining a limited number of pupils to instruct in the general rudiments of Education, including Music and French, ( 01- each branch separately,) 011 moderate terms. Most unexceptionable references given. Apply at 34, Charlotte- street, corner of Saint Paul's- square. GROOM AND GARDENER. I7ANTED, a sober, active, married Man, without v children, to take care of Horses and Cows ; aud ac- customed to the management of a Kitchen Garden. Apply to Mr. SIIIAWAY, Lower Rowley, near Dudley. A character will be required, and no one engaged until enquiry as to character obtained. BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18. The old proverb says, that when Heaven has deter- mined on destroying men, it takes away their judg- ment in the first place. If we are to believe this law, the Tories of Birmingham are verging upon destruc- tion ; assuredly, if we look to their conduct and their language for the last eig- ht days, never were a set of men more entirely demented. We can excuse their calling of names, for fear and feebleness are naturally clamourous, and not over select in terms ; but it is not so easy to excuse their entire neg- lect of the most ordinary rules of common sense in their arguments— for they will argue, dangerous as to certain descrip- tions of people attempts that way invariably are. In the course of the small agitation that has prevailed during the week— for really the agitation has been small— the party has been in such a quandary as never were elderly gentlemen or gentlewomen before reduced to. There has been such a running to and fro, so many meetings in DEE'S and elsewhere; such a protest- ing and deputationing as never were witnessed before — and what has been the upshot ? An assemblage of one hundred men in a little room with locked doors, big speeches, and beating hearts ; as much splutter and trepidation as if Heaven and earth had been mingling, and after all, the old result— a private petition, pri- vately carried round, privately signed, privately dis- patched! Could they not have accomplished all this without such a pother ? No one would have stirred to prevent them ; 110 one complained of what they did. To what purpose so much bustle, and fretting, and bo- theration? Either they wished to meet their fellow- townsmen or they did not. If the former, why skulk into a corner, when their fellow- townsmen were met and ready to receive them ? If the latter, why make so idle a display of strength, which ill effect amounted to just strength enough not to take the field ? If tliey were anxious to prove that they were small in num- ber, and in power, and in courage, really it required no such elaborate demonstration. It was not necessary to talk big and run away, to convince us of the truth of all or any of these items. The point had been set- tled long ago; and a thousand such exhibitions as that of Wednesday could not settle it more securely. Neither was it at all necessary to insult the HIGH BAILIFF to prove, that, like other fearful and foolish creatures, 110 set of men were so loud in their inso- lence when no harm was to be apprehended from its indulgence. Their pains to prove so plain a proposi- tion were arrant surplussage. They tell us that the meeting of the Reformers in Old Square was a small one. It was. We do not think that, at any time, there were above seven or eight thousand persons present; and before the close of the day we should say there was not more than half that number. In Moor- street, two thousand, or two thousand five hundred, was, we rather think, the greatest number assembled. And what does that prove? Why, that the talented, influential, respec- table, numerous, and powerful Tories of Birmingham, were afraid— friends and benefactors of the poor, as they describe themselves to be— to come before the smallest open- air meeting that ever congregated in Birmingham! The smaller the muster of Reformers, the more plain was the demonstration it afforded of the absolute insignificance of the opponents of Re- form. And yet such is the demented state of these poor men, that they would fain raise a tiny crow upon the paucity of their antagonists. See, they exclaim, by how small a band we have been beaten! The enemy before whom we scampered, mark how weak and contemptible he was? Why, if they had vanquished such an enemy their victory would have been a poor one; and surely, if victory would have been paltry, defeat must be doubly shame- ful. If they ran into holes and corners to avoid a rencontre with two thousand, with what face, we ask, would they appear before two hundred thousand? They have tumbled in the dirt, and, by way of lightening the ridicule of their fall, they invoke the special attention of the passengers to the feebleness of the blow that knocked them over! But this is but one specimen of their logic. What was the object of Wednesday's meeting ? To petition Parliament against Church- rates. We have it 011 the best authority, that the amount of such rates actually required for the complete maintenance of the edifices belonging to the Established Church, does not exceed £ 250,000 a- year. Of that sum the Dissenters do not contribute above £ 100,000. Now, what say these inexpressibly silly people, that call themselves friends of the Church? The Church will fall! her walls will be a ruin ! her voice will cease! England will relapse into the barbarism of the Heptarchy, if this pitiful sum of £ 100,000 be denied ! The Church of England is fat— she is covered with fatness— she has fat archbishoprics, fat bishoprics, fat archdeacon- ships, fat deaconships, fat stalls, with racks pressed down and mangers running over, in which, like other fat things, she may feed and rest. She has four millions of tithes, and lands and houses countless, and yet, deprive her of the power of adding to her riches one additional quarter per cent., picked from the pockets of the Dissenters, and she will forthwith perish of sheer penury! The Tory argument goes farther than this. The Church has not only all the wealth, and power, and respectability of the land; she has all the religion also! Her opponents are Atheists, Deists, or, worse than either, as they view them, Papists. And spiritual instruction is to cease in Christian Protestant England, if the Atheists, and Deists, and Catholics of England shall cease to uphold it! From such specimens of general, it is hardly ne- cessary to descend to the particular arguments em- ployed by these demented people; but there is one so exquisite that it ought not to be passed over. One of their bills of the day called upon the worthy folks of Birmingham to remember MARIA MONK. We believe that there are not ten sane men in England, that have not pretty well made up their minds upon MARIA'S story— that the greater part of its vouchers are sim- pletons, that some of them are knaves, and, as for MARIA herself, that she is compounded, in pretty fail- proportions, of both, being,- on proof, half mad, and rather more than half rogue. But grant that MARIA were a fit companion for St. URSULA herself; and that all she has said and written were true as the blessed Gospel, what does the argument amoui » ; to ? A cer- tain convent of Nuns, in the town ofMontreal, in Canada, North America, happen to be 110 better than they should be, therefore, till the day of judgment, or after, if necessary, the Dissenters of England shall be compelled to pay Church- rates! Really, this most notable inference reminds one of the cockney equation — g iven the length of Oxford- street to find the price of salmon in Iiungerford Market. The language of these facetious gentlemen is as felicitous as their logic. The friends of the Church are called upon in their placards to resist the attempts of the Atheists and Deists, & c. Resist! the thief resist the true man! The pickpocket resist the pas- senger! We can understand TURPIN resisting the officer, but what meaning are we to attach to TURPIN resisting the man whose watch he is appropriating- ? We had thought that we were the parti de resistance— we, the Atheists, Deists, and Co.,— we are certainly the robbees in this case. The Church resist us ! Why, if we were forcing our unhallowed offerings upon her, whether she would or not, she might resist— but we are not come to that. After all, theitjjpi is natural if not appiopriate. The Tories are such arrant poltroons that all their doings are but so many acts of resistance. They dare not assail. Their utmost courage amounts to a defence or a retreat. And hence their language. Which of the two was the public meeting ? There is something- so exceedingly absurd as well as impudent about all that the Tories say and do, that it is with difficulty a plain man can prevail upon himself to argue a question with them. That they have a right to hold their own meetings, and speak their own speeches, and pass their own resolutions, and carry them out in their own way, 110 one for a moment will deny; but that not content with this, they should in^ sist that their meeting is our meeting, and that our meeting is 110 meeting at all, goes beyond the limits, large as they are, of party quibbling and parly inso- lence. The meeting of Wednesday was called by the HIGH BAILIFF 011 a requisition regularly addressed to him. The right of the HIGH BAILIFF to call such a meeting has never been disputed, at least of late years. No farther back than Saturday last it was distinctly fill: BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. recognised by Mr. RICHARD SPOONER and his fellow- protesters, who, in their address to the HIGH BAILIFF, do not for a moment venture to challenge his right, either to call the meeting or to adjourn it, hut simply object to the place of adjournment. Perceiving ( they say) in the advertisement convening the meeting that it is intended to adjourn to Livery- street Chapel— We PROTEST against being called upon to assert our rights, as Members of the Church of England, in a Dissent- ing Meeting- house-, and we further signify to you, that should such an adjournment take place, it will preclude the opportunity, which we seek at your hands, of being present at the meeting, and defending the Established Church. It is recognised by Messrs. HEBBERT and HANSON, the official organs of the " Loyal and Constitutional Association," in their circular of Monday. We are directed ( say these gentlemen) by the Standing and Publishing Committee to call your attention to a meet- ing of the Inhabitants of Birmingham, convened by the High Bailiff, at the Public Office, Moor- street, on Wednesday next, at eleven o'clock, on the subject of Church- rates. They add that a requisition had been presented to the HIGH BAILIFF, requiring " HIM to make such arrangements as will ensure free access to the meet- ing, and a fair hearing to the friends of the Established Church." Also protesting against the indignity of their being called upon to vindicate the rights of the Church in a Dissenting Meeting- house, to which it is AT PRESENT proposed to adjourn the meeting. In all this, there is not a hint of a question about the HIGH BAILIFF'S power to convene or to adjourn. Neither in the private communications that took place between Messrs. ARMFIELD and KNOTT and the HIGH BAILIFF, or between the latter and the magistrates, was the power of the HIGH BAILIFF at all disputed- The assertion ofMr. SPOONER, that a public meeting at the Public- office, could only be held in the Court- room, was a mere gratuitous assumption. It was more. It was a piece of insolent dictation and as absurd as it was insolent, to demand that a public officer should hold a meeting for considering the question of adjournment, or any other, in a place, which that officer, on the best evidence— that of his own eyes— had declared to be incapable of containing even a small part of those by whom the question was to be considered. But these stupid Tories— for they are here and everywhere the poorest, brainless things that ever misrepresented hu- manity, will always knock their heads against one post or another. Supposing we admit their after- thought of Wednesday forenoon to be correct; that the Constable and not the HIGH BAILIFF is the pro- per person to summon towns' meetings; to what con- clusion does that admission lead us? That Mr. NADEN, who, as a constable, was, we admit, a very fitting person to preside over such a timid little flock, could, by assuming the chair, constitute the babblers of the Court- room into a towns' meeting? Most certainly not. If Mr. WEB^ had no authority to call the people together, then 110 authorised calling had taken place, and the meeting in the Court- house, the meeting in Moor- street, and the meeting in the Old Square, must all rank under the same cate- gory. The entire affair was vitiated in initialibus, and neither the eloquence of Mr. SPOONER nor of Mr. GUTTERIDGE, nor the silent dignity of the presiding constable could supply a remedy. But the miserable quibbling about the right of the HIGH BAILIFF, shows to what wretched shifts these pitiful cobblers of argument are reduced. What a state of weakness must they and their party be in, when, in a town such as Birmingham, they dare not raise their voices in any assembly that shall exceed 300 individuals! We this day publish Mr. ATTWOOD'S Letter to Sir ROBERT PEEL, on the subject of the currency, which, like all his other writings on that most important branch of political science, is pregnant with matter of vital interest, and which, now again, in an especial maimer, demands the most serious consideration of every class of society. This letter is not intrinsically . inferior to any of Mr. ATTWOOD'S former productions, although it bears some few marks of its having been hastily written, one or two of which have been eagerly caught hold of by the enemies of the productive classes, who, thereupon, affect to treat the author and his opinions with contempt. We notice these objec- tions Simply for the purpose of showing that they are mere cavils, and that those who resort to them are either very superficial or very disingenuous politicians. Mr. ATTWOOD says " Whenever the condition of the working- classes has been improved during the last twenty years, it has in every instance been produced solely by a relaxation of the principle of the bill of 1819." This, his opponents say, is proof positive of the erroneousness of his opinions, for it is not twenty years since the bill of 1819 was passed, and at the same time it is notorious that equal distress was suf- fered by the working classes in 1816, that is to say, long before the bill of 1819 existed ! Now, although this opinion may appear very formidable in the eyes of the unreflecting, yet it is, nevertheless, a mere cavil, or, if it be honest argument, it is so shal- low as to be tolerable only in a school- boy of ten or twelve years of age. It is the relaxation of the prin- ciple of the bill of 1819 which Mr. ATTWOOD speaks of, and that principle is the enforcing of the ancient gold standard of value; this principle was acted upon in 1815, when sovereigns were first issued, and this prin- ciple it was which brought on the distress and confu- sion of 1816, which distress and confusion were re- lieved by the renewal of the Bank Restriction bill, and which in its turn produced the prosperity of 1818. W e have heard of but one other objection, which we shall stop to notice. Mr. ATTWOOD says, if a pro- per standard of value had been established, " there could have been no fluctuations in England;" and lo • the Savants at once discover a prodigious mare's- nest! They demonstrate that any standard may be depre- ciated, and therefore that Mr. ATTWOOD can know no- thing about the matter! Now, Mr. ATTWOOD'S views, which are perfectly correct, are sufficiently obvious from the whole context of his letter. Mr. ATTWOOD does not mean to say there could have been no fluctu- ations, he means to say there would have been none ; and that simply because there could have been no ne- cessity for fluctuations : the Government has been driven, time after time, to relax the pressure of the standard, by the distress occasioned by low prices and want of trade, but if a proper standard of value had been established, there would have been no low prices but such as resulted from facility of production, con- sequently, the standard might have been maintained in its integrity, and therefore, there would have been no fl uotuations. LETTER OF MR. THOMAS ATTWOOD, TO THE RIGHT HON. SIR ROBERT PEEL, BART. 6, York- road, Upper Stamford- street, February 7, 1837. SIR,— In the debate in the House of Commons, last night, upon Joint Stock Banks, honourable members were so eager to address the House, that I found it quite impossible to get an opportunity myself. Much was said by honour- able members which I was desirous of obtaining an oppor- tunity of refuting; but there were three representations made by yourself, which I deem totally erroneous, and cal- culated, if not contradicted, to do much injury to the public cause. I am, therefore, induced to take this means of en. deavouring to counteract their effect on the public mind. I understood you to make the three following represen- tations : — First.— That CASH NOTES are MONET, and that to allow to the public the right of making and issuing them, is to allow them the privilege of COINING MONEY, and is a virtual interference with the King's prerogative. Secondly That workmen and labourers generally, have been benefitted by the bill of 1819, which made all the paper debts, taxes, and obligations of the nation, payable in stan- dard gold, without making any allowance or reduction what- ever for the increase of burthens thus effected. Thirdly— That the fluctuations of the last twenty years are occasioned by the metallic standard of value, and would have been occasioned under any other metallic standard of value which could have been adopted. With regard to No. 1, I have to remark that cash notes are not money, any more than bills of exchange, or bond debts, or mortgage deeds, are money. Cash notes are merely acknowledgments of debt from one party to another; and if to acknowledge a debt of 1/. or bl. in a cash note, payable to bearer on demand, be an interference with the King's prerogative, to acknowledge a debt of 500/. or 5,000/.. in a bill of exchange, payable to order two months after date, is at least, an equal interference. And in the same manner, a bond, or mortgage deed, or any other kind of acknow- ledgment given for debt, is the very same interference with the King's prerogative. The King's prerogative is to make the coin of the realm ; but it is not to prevent his subjects from contracting debts, either large or small; nor is it to prevent them from giving acknowledgments of such debts to each other, nor to prevent them from assigning and trans- ferring such acknowledgments to each other, according as their mutual wants and convenience may require. It is true that such acknowledgments of debt in the shape of cash notes, payable to bearer on demand, or in the shape of bills of exchange or promissory notes payable to order at a date, or in the shape of bonds or mortgage deeds, or in any other shape, and whether for £ 1000 or £ 1, or one farthing, cannot be made legal tenders, without an interference with the prerogative. But so long as they are not made legal tenders, and are not forced into circulation by legal power, but are merely made and issued just us the wants and con- veniences and free will of both the makers, issuers, and re- ceivers may require, it is absurd to say, that they can, in any way,- trench upon the royal prerogative, or that they can, in any way, be injurious to the interests of the parties receiving them, or to those of the nation. Little debts re- quire a medium of exchange, or of transfer with each other, quite as much as large debts, and perhaps more so; and so long as debts are allowed to be contracted, either great or small, it is absolutely necessary that the persons con- tracting them should be allowed to give acknowledgments of them, and that such acknowledgments should be allowed to circulate freely from hand to hand. Debts, whether great or small, are contracted only in the gratification of men's wants. As society now exists, generally speaking, debts can only be discharged through the use of acknowledgments or instruments of debt, passing from hand to hand, and thus transferring or ex- changing one debt for another, until sucli instruments of debt, having performed their functions, return naturally, for payment, to the source from whence they were issued. The making and issuing of such acknowledgments of debt, facilitate, therefore, the discharge of debts, and the gratifi- cation of human wants. As society now exists, to deny their circulation, is to deny to the people the only possible means through which their wants and necessities can be gratified. With regard to No. 2, I have to say that if the stringing up of the value of money could, by any possibility, benefit the workmen and labourers of England, I should thank God for the day in which you were born. But nothing on earth can be more erroneous. The workmen and labourers of England only exist through the suspension, from time to time, of the cruel and murderous bill of 1819, which com- pelled them and their employers to pay 40s. in the pound upon every tax and rent, and debt and obligation existing in England. During the lust three years, for instance, the bill of 1819 has been notoriously virtually suspended by the operations of the Joint Stock Banks and those of the Bank of England, and to this cause alone is to be attributed the improvement which has taken place during that period in the condition of the workmen and labourers of England. The temporary depreciation of the currency, effected during the last three years, by the operations of the Joint Stock Banks and of the Bank of England, assisted by the legal tender clause, and the abolition of the Usury Laws, has been exactly of the same nature, as that which was produced by the issues of £ 5 notes, and by loans of exchequer bills, and other accommodations which the Government had re- course to in the period from 1792 to 1797. The gold has again been " carried down" in mutual depreciation with the paper, as Montesquieu and Thomas Paine formerly de- scribed it, until at last, the gold is now again separating from the pHper, and again the pressure of the standard of value, is crushing at this moment both workmen and employers under its burthen. The same process is visible at all former periods, when the condition of the working classes has been improved during the last twenty years. It has, in every instance been pro- duced solely by a relaxation of the principle of the Bill of 1819. The Government have again and again been forced to relax the principle of that tremendous measure, in order to prevent the wild anarchy, or perhaps dissolution of so- ciety, which it would otherwise have occasioned. In 1816, the " Manchester Blanketeers," and the Staffordshire Col- liers, and the working classes generally, were goaded to mad- ness by its pressure. They were instantly relieved by a renewal of the Bank Restriction Act, and by renewed is- sues of Bank notes for two years. In 1819, 1820, and 1821, the " Northern Cloud" from Glasgow, the insurrections in Derbyshire, and the Cato- street Plot, gave ample proof that the pressure of the Standard was too severe. The late Mr. Huskisson stood by, like a Surgeon, feeling the vic- tim's pulse, to give notice from time to time how much of suffering it was possible for humanity to bear. All his pre- cautions were in vain. The wages of agricultural labour fell generally to 7s. or even 5s. per week. In 1822, the late Lord Castlereagh came forward, to relax again the prin- ciple of the bill of 1819. He brought forwards in the House of Commons five monetary measures in one day for the relief of agriculture, and thus again was produced the prosperity of 1823, 4, 5, respecting which Mr. Robinson, now Lord Ripon, made his famous boasting in 1824. But the " prosperity" thus produced among the working classes, was notoriously caused by the temporary suspension of the bill of 1819, and not by its enforcement. Where was that " prospeiity" when the bill of 1819 was again brought into operation by the gold separating from the paper, and pro- ducing the panic of December 1825? You, yourself, sir, were compelled to interfere to arrest the mortal ruin, which was then set in operation. You provided the 11. notes of the Bank of England. You caused the Bank of England to issue the 1000/. notes in the pur- chase of Exchequer Bills. It was in this way that you removed the panic, and relieved the country from a burthen, which would otherwise have crushed all workmen and all employers under its pressure. If you had then made your relief permanent instead of temporary; ifyou had abandoned the bill of 1819 in good faith, and had adopted a really " just money," whether metallic or paper, you would have had but little trouble in governing England. You would have had no discontent among the workmen, no ruin among their employers, no alienation of men's hearts, no conversion of the milk of human kindness into gall. But no sooner did you escape from the most tremendous calamity that ever threatened a nation, than, led by a strange and almost super- natural fatality, you proceeded again to place the bill of 1819 in operation! Long years of poverty and misery suc- ceeded. It was among the working classes that the misery was greatest. It was they who made the reform! Is it possible, sir, that you can believe, that these men would have made the reform if they had been benefitted by the bill of 1819? No, sir. It was grinding misery among the working classes, occasioned in defiance of all precautions, by the bill of 1819, which produced the reform; and it is that same grinding misery which will produce the wild revolu- tion which we have yet to face. With regard to the third object of this letter, I under- stood you to say, sir, that the " fluctuations" of the last twenty years, are inherent in the nature of a metallic stand- ard of value, and are not occasioned by the injustice, cruelty, unfitness, and impracticability of the standard which we have 80 long been vainly attempting tp enforce. This is a great error. If tfie metallic standard adopted by the bill of 1819, had been depreciated in weight, or fineness, or raised in nominal price, so as to accommodate itself to the state of depreciation then permanently existing in the practical cur- rency of the country, there would have been no " fluctua- : ions" at all. The metallic standard would have accorded justly with the prices of property and labour then peima- nentiy existing in England. It would have accorded justly with that permanent depreciation in the practical currency of the country, under which nearly the whole of the national debt had been borrowed, and nearly all the then existing private debts, and obligations of the country had been contracted. It would have accorded with the then existing state of wajes and of rents, and of Ministers'and and Judges' salaries, all of which had been permanently doubled in paper money. Such a metallic standard, if adopted, would have preserved the same prices of property and labour, as existed generally during the last ten years of the war. It would have administered the same justice, the same employment, the same prosperity, and the same contentment to all. There could have been no " fluctua- tions" in England. The rise of the price of gold to a level with the then permanently high prices of property and labour in England, would have secured to foreign nations the very same means and inducements to purchase our manufactures at high prices, as they now possess to purchase them at low prices. From what quarter then could fluctua- tions come ? These have been occasioned solely by the re- peated interferences of Government from time to time, alarmed at the sufferings and dangers which the bill of 1819 has brought upon the community, and more particularly upon the work- ing classes. It is notorious, that in this way, the Govern- ment interfered in 1816, again iu 182- 2, again in 1825 and 1826, and again in 1833! At each of these distressed periods, the Government would have been destroyed, and society itself would have been broken up, under the fury of a distracted people, if the Government had not at each period relaxed its infernal grasp upon the nation's throat. At each period, the continental level of prices and universal ruin among the farmers and landowners, would have been among the smallest evils that we should have had to con- tend with. At each period, the Government suspended the pressure of the standard, and had again recourse to a virtual, but temporary, paper system. At each period, the Government found shelter in the paper system; but no sooner had the workmen, and labourers, and the indus- trious classes generally recovered a temporary prosperity, than the Government proceeded again to enforce the bill of 1819! Hence, and hence alone, proceed all the " fluctu- ations," which we have endured. At one period the pride, folly, and greediness of the Government have made the adversity. At another period, the terror and alarm of the Government have made the prosperity. If the Govern- ment had, at either period, persevered in their object, no Government could much longer have existed in England. If the Government had, at either period, honestly corrected their error, and adopted a just, and equitable, and practi- cable currency, either metallic or paper, we shouid have had no " fluctuations," but a constant, and permanent state of general and solid prosperity among all classes of the com- munity. I think, sir, that I must have sufficiently proved that you are incorrect in the three representations which I under- stood you to make in the House of Commons last night. Without meaning, therefore, the slightest personal disre- spect towards yourself, and regretting much, if this, my ra- ther novel mode of proceeding to answer your arguments, should give you displeasure, I must beg leave to repeat the expression of my conviction : 1st. That cash notes are not money ; nor is the issue of transferable acknowledgments of debt, whether great or small, in any way, an interference with the King's preroga- tive; but the prevention of the issue of such instruments, by the power of Parliament, is a gross, anil arbitrary, and most injurious interference with the rights, interests, and liberties of the people. 2ndly. That the workmen and labourers of England have not been benefitted by the bill of 1819; but that every im- provement in their condition, which has been witnessed since the year 1816, has been occasioned solely, by the vir- tual suspensions of the principal of that bill. And, 3rdly— That the " fluctuations " of the last twenty years, are not occasioned by the natural operation of a me- tallic standard of value, but entirely by the Government at- tempting to enforce an arbitrary, unjust, and impracticable standard of value at one period, and virtually suspending that cruel and destructive object at another. It is true, sir, as you stated, that the original cause of all this misery, fraud and danger, may be traced up to the Bank Restriction Act of 1797. " Without giving any opinion on the subject of that Act of Parliament, or of the war out of which it arose, and which it was the means of bringing to a successful issue, I may be permitted to ob- serve, that the act of 1797 furnishes no excuse or palliation whatever for that of 1819. The one might be perfectly sound, just, and beneficial, whilst the other is wild, unjust, cruel and destructive in its operation. Ifaman is murdered in the highway by a robber, we must not therefore charge the blame upon such unhappy man's father, although casu- ists might possibly trace a remote connexion between the father and the son, without which the latter could never have been murdered. But the Act of 1797, was thought by the Government, and by the people, at the time, to be wise, just, and necessary. It was agreed on all hands, that we could not borrow one thousand millions sterling of public debt, without the aid of the paper system! It was agreed on all hands, that we could not borrow another one thousand millions sterling of private debts and obligations, without the aid of the paper system ! It was reserved for you, sir, and the bands of Jews and Lawyers, and of Whigs, Tories, and Radicals, among whom you had the misfortune to act, to discover in 1819 a truth, as you deem it, unheard of in the history of the worid before, viz. that it is easier to repay debts than to contract them. Wishing most sincerely, sir, both to you and them, a safe deliverance from the tremendous issues into which you have brought our unhappy country, I remain with respect, Sir, your faithful humble servant, THOMAS ATTIVOOD. The Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart. THE BANK.— The following statement appeared on Saturday morning:— The quarterly average of the weekly liabilities and assets of the Bank of England, from 15th November 1836, to 7th February 1837, is as follows : LIABILITIES. Circulation £ 17,868,000 Deposits 14,230,000 £ 32,098,000 ASSETS. Securities £ 31,085,000 Bullion 4,032,000 £ 35,117,030 The amount of Bullion it will be seen, in the coffers, of the Bank is a trifle beyond four millions. It is not all gold. About a million of it is silver. Such, at least, is the ordinary calculation. The official re- turns are defective in this important particular. Neither is the entire of the gold bullion deposited in Threadneedle- street. The Branch Banks have each a portion of it. The aggregate thus distributed over the country has been calculated at another million. As, however, it is doubtful, whether, in the case of a pinch, the Branch Banks could be compelled to pay in gold, and, if they were not, as their several stocks could be transmitted to the head office in eight and forty hours at farthest, this source of diminution can- not be much insisted on. By way of showing- that the drain on the Bank has not been an occasional one, but that, though slow, it has been marked with great regularity, we shall give the returns of Bullion from that which was made last June, down to the present time, together with the suc- cessive reductions:— RETURNS. June. July Augusts- September. October— November December,. January February ™ AMOUNTS. 7,362,000 6,926,000 6,325,000 5,719,000 .- 5,257,000 4,993,000 4,545,000 4,287,000 4,032,000 REDUCTIONS. 601,000 601,000 606,000 462,000 204,000 448,000 258,000 235,000 ,3,330,000 Total reduction in eight montlis„ Average reduction per month 416,000 In June last, the items of the return stood thus:— Circulation £ 17,899,000 [ Securities £ 27,135,000 Deposits 13,810,000 | Bullion.,. 7,362,000 £ 31,709,000] £ 34,497,000 The increase in the proportional amount of what are called securities, the larger portion of which consist of merchant's bills, is easily accounted for by the different rates cf discount in June and February. Of course, if the Bank increase its rate of discount, it obtains a nominally greater value in the shape of bills, than it gives in the shape of notes. The whole circulation, it will be seen, iu February exceeds that of September by £ 390,000; and the active circulation of the former period falls short of the active circulation of the latter by no greater a sum than £ 31,000. How comes it to pass then, it will be naturally asked, that, while the entire circulation is increased, and while the active circulation is diminished by so insignificant an amount, that, as your currency theo- rists allege, trade is about to be extinguished through- out the land, because the Bank is contracting its cir- culation ? Will £ 30,000, over or under, effect such a miracle ? Now, we admit the pertinence of such a question. It certainly, at first sight, appears incredible that so small a cause should operate so mighty an effect. But, let us examine the case somewhat more narrowly. The ordinary mode in which business, in this and in all commercial countries, is transacted, is by bill. Take the case of a manufacturer, who effects sales to the amount of a thousand pounds a week. He grants a bill for £ 500 for materials; and he takes a bill for £ 1,000 for his goods. The latter he discounts partly to meet the former, and partly to pay his workmen. As long as he can obtain ready discount, this process proceeds, the one bill regularly answering for the other. But, let one solitary bill be stopped ; and the consequence is not a solitary inconvenience, but the stoppage of every other bill, that is, directly or in- directly, nearly or remotely, connected with it. If the bill of £ 1,000 be not discounted, the bill of £ 500 must be dishonoured. Now, this like the former has been negociated; and if it be dishonoured there are other bills dependent on it, which must be, in the same way dishonoured. The length of the chain, and the mis- chief of a single interruption are equally incalculable. If a traveller, unaccustomed to the accidents of Lon- don streets, were, on passing down Ludgate- hill, to see omnibuses, coaches, cabs, waggons, carts, vehicles of all kinds, public and private, by the hundred, brought to a sudden stand- still, he would naturally imagine that some'very formidable cause of interruption had oc- curred ; and he would hardly be persuaded, by any proof other than ocular, that so mighty a check had been the result of the stumbling of a costermonger's donkey at Temple- bar. The case of a check to credit is not a little analogous to that of a lock in Fleet- street. The Bank of England refuses American bills— say to the amount of half- a- million— what is the result ? Why, the refusal, by the time it has travelled along the entire chain, has operated as a shock upon credit to at least six times the original amount. It acts first on the country Banks, they act on the merchant, the mer- chant acts on the manufacturer, and, from the manu- facturer, the effects descend upon the workmen. In reality, the Bank of England lias done little as yet in the way of contracting its issues; and the reason is plain. The very hint of such a process has so deeply affected credit, that it has driven down prices from ten to twenty per cent, in nearly every market of the kingdom. It has done more. It has seriously cut in upon wages. True, the nominal wages are the same; but, in very many instances, the men are upon three- quarter time, and, in not a few, on half- time. Such is the depth of the shadow that the coming- event has cast before it. The Bank is alarmed, and no wonder. It beholds what the mere boding of ruin can effect; and it dares not venture on the realisation of men's fears; towards which, notwithstanding, it is driven by a resistless necessity. It may be seen, from the above table, that there has been a constant drain of gold from the Bank coffers for the last eight months. The drain has not been great, but it has been steady. We have explained, in former papers, the cause of this drain. It is not the consequence of panic, commercial or political. It is the natural result of an unfavourable balance of trade, which unfavourable balance must continue so long as the price of goods are high, and the price of gold is low, that is, so long as the nation enjoys prosperity, and a standard regulated by PEEL'S bill. Hitherto the Bank has suffered in comparative inaction. The raising of the rate of discount, and the refusal to dis- count American bills infused fear and suspicion into the minds of the trading public. But this is all the length that it lias hitherto gone. It must soon go further. We are told that it is bargaining for the disposal of a portion of the dead weight; and that there is to be a funding of Exchequer bills. The first process will enable the Bank at once to withdraw one or two mil- lions of its notes without paying gold for them ; and the other process, though by a more circuitous route, will enable it to withdraw as many more notes as it may have Exchequer bills to fund; and this without risk of that depreciation which throwing two or three millions of Exchequer bills into the market would in- fallibly- produce. This leads us to notice a fact connected with the so called securities of the Bank, which is generally over- looked. These securities consist of the " rest," or balance- fund— the dead weight— Exchequer bills— mercantile bills— and, we believe, the Bank buildings. All these, as we have observed, are put down at their nominal value. Looking to that nominal value, people arc apt to say—" there can be no danger of the Bank ; its bullion and its securities exceed its liabili- ties by no less than three millions." Now, we don't need to go to the poet to have it proved to us that— The value of a tiling Is just as much as it will bring. What, then, would these securities bring, supposing the whole of them were at once thrown upon the mar- ket, as, in the event of a demand by the holders of Bank notes and of deposits, they must be ? Does any man believe that, with the exception of the gold, any part of them could be realised without a large sacrifice ? We do not hesitate to say that one million's worth of silver— the most available of these securities— thrown at once oil the bullion market, would send down the price to 4s. 6d., if not lower. The instantaneous sale of thirty- one millions of Exchequer bills, and commercial bills, and dead weight, could not be effected without a much larger sacrifice than ten per cent. There seems no reason to doubt, therefore, were the Bank called upon, at a day, or a week, or a month's warn- ing, to pay its liabilities, and were its creditors wil- ling to accept its securities at their fair market price, instead of three millions of excess, there would be a large deficiency. How ridiculous, then, to say nothing of its impu- dence, is the language of those who sneer at and en- deavour to run down the Joint Stock Banks, because, in some instances, they have been unable, at a mo- ment's warning, to liquidate their liabilities in gold, when it is plain to the most simple witted, who will but look fairly at the case, that, were a similar de- mand made upon the Bank of England, its gold, and its silver, and all that it lias, would not save it, for four and twenty hours, from the insolvent list. There have been two spirited and gratifying meet- ings during the week, in Wolverhampton and West Bromwich, to which we can now merely allude. We shall recur to them. SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE IRISH POOR.— A correspondent writes to inform us that a meeting of a Society so named was held on the 20th ult., at the Dolphin, Suffolk- street, when a letter was read from the Treasurer, stating his readiness to pay over the funds in his hands to any party who should be ap- pointed by the members of the Society for that pur- pose, and in terms ofthis letter a resolution was passed, authorising three of the members to receive the money from the Treasurer, and to remit the same, in equal portions, to five Protestant and five Catholic clergy- men in Ireland, to be named by the Society, to be by them distributed amongst the poor of their respectiv e congregations. Our correspondent goes on to state, that this resolution was, on the following day, com- municated to the Treasurer, but that he was not then prepared to handover the balance in his hands; and that an adjournment, first of one week, and then of another, took place in consequence— that on Friday, ( the 10th) a second general meeting of the Soeietywas held, when the Treasurer, being present, stated that he declined paying over the balance to the gentlemen appointed to receive it, and that he intended himself to transmit it to the parties for whose behoof it was meant. This arrangement was, it appears, objected to for various reasons, and no decision was come to. We have ni> concern in the affair, unless as public journalists; and we state these facts on what we deem respectable au- thority, but, at the same time, without vouching for their accuracy. We think the Treasurer and others who are mixed up w ith these funds, ought, for their own sakes, to afford the public some explanation why an attempt at distribution has not longago been made. It is now a number of months since these moneys were collected, and whether they be small or great, we can see, at present, no reasonable excuse for their having been kept so long from their proper destination. Whether they are sent by one man or another, can, of course, make very little difference. What the public want is, to see a plain state of the amounts— the re- ceipts, the expences, and to have the balance fairly accounted for. Ministers have this week been in a minority on the ques- tion of issuing a writ for Siafford, and in a majority, not so honourable, on Sir William Molesworth's motion for abolishing the qualification of members. To these ques- tions, and to the conduct of Lord J. Russell in opposing the repeal of Sturges Bourne's Act, we shall advert in our next. THE HIGH BAILIFF.— Our readers will see, from their own evidence, how the Tories treated this gentleman on Wednesday. Like all purely selfish factions, these persons honour authority not a moment longer than it can be sub- servient to their interests. In 1829, their organs advised the people of London to go to St. James's to hiss the King! For our own part, we have watched on this oc- casion the conduct of the High Bailiff with anything but partial eyes, and we declare with perfect sincerity, that his conduct has been marked by the most absolute propriety. Perhaps he was rather too courteous to the Tories— but it was well to leave them without an excuse. What a set of swilled ruffians were they who could hiss, and hoot, and all but hustle a man who demeaned himself so mildly! And without one word of censure from their leaders! These be your respectable people. THE THEATRE We regret that from a variety of circum- stances we have been unable to pay to this place of public entertainment, during the season, that degree of attention we should hare wished. Influenza and Politics are sad enemies to the Drama, and have, we fear, both been felt severely. It is now too late to remedy our unintentional neglect. The house closes in a few days. In the mean while, we request attention to Mr. Dobbs's bill of fare for Monday, which is various and piquant, and will not be the less pleasant that a part of it is genuine Brummagem. LITERATURE OF THE DAY— The new year has been most prolific in furnishing instruction and entertainment for the reading public, and writers cf first rate talent have been en- gaged on the different rival Magazines; but it absolutely excites astonishment ( as the editor of the Literary Gazette remarks of the New Series of" The Guide to Knowledge") to see the conductors of a clever periodica], abounding with highly useful matter, sold for the trifling sum of Twopence per number, and at the same time giving away a well- en- graved Portrait, which a few years ago would, of itself, been sold for some " shillings sterling!" Yet it is a fact, that this publication does even more than this ; for in ad- dition to its " Select Portrait Gallery," it now gives costly and beautiful " Medallions in basso- rilievo /" During the prevailing epidemic no friend can be so truly friendly as he who recommends a real relief from the trying attack of the Influenza. We have no little pleasure in say- ing, that our own experience confirms the strong impres- sion in favour of the beneficial effects of Mr. Woodhouse's Balsam of Spermaceti. It is a powerful antagonist of the dread enemy, and the fact deserves to be known. — Court Journal, Jan. 21, 1837. LATEST NEWS. The Foreign news of the day, as of the week, is altogether without interest. Commercial news from New York dis- cribe money as getting plentier, and confidence reviving. The four, and six months' Autumn bills will, it is said, all be met. A terrible fire has taken place at St. John's, New Brunswick. The loss is estimated at two millions of dollars. The English funds are high and steady. Consols 90. Ex- chequer bills 27s. to 29s. premium. The Share market is without alteration. MECHANICS' INSTITUTION. PHRENOLOGY. On Thursday evening last, Mr. Toulmin Smith continued the subject which had engaged so much attention on the pre- ceding Thursday. The room was again crowded, and the in- tense interest excited by the subject evidently continues una- bated. It will be perceived that the Lecturer, confident that his theme requires only to be understood in order to be uni- versally appreciated, proposes to deliver his course before a miscellaneous auditory, commencing with mi introductory GRATUITOUS LECTURE, explanatory of the various bearings of the science, and of its eventual influence on the state of society at large. [ See advertisement.] After briefly recapitulating the connected train of inductive argument by which the conclusion had been arrived at, that the quality of mind of each individual is correctly indicated by the exterior form of the skull— that form being an accu- rate representation of the form of the brain which it encloses, Mr. Smith proceeded to remark upon a declaration which had been made in the same room on a previous occasion by Mr. Mainwaring, that the skull exhibits great variations in thickness, and that this is always the case; so that the Phrenological examination is impossible, the exterior of the skull not representing the form of the brain. Mr, Smith showed, very clearly, that this declaration could only arise from an ignoiance either of anatomy, or of the simplest prin- ciples of Phrenology. He stated that Mr. M. had avoided stating whether the skull which he had exhibited as an ex- ample, was that of a healthy. individual, or whether it was an aged or diseased skull. It would be remembered that it had been stated, in the preceding lecture, that in either of the latter cases Phrenologists avowed the impossibility o£ positive predication cf mental manifestations from external manifestations. Mr. Smith showed, that, in making this declaration, Mr. M. was contradicting the authority of all the most eminent anatomists, who allow that the exterior does represent the form of the brain ; that if, as Mr. M. stated, this diversity in thickness was always present, it would create no difficulty in the way of the Phrenologist, since he would know in what portion of the skull the dif- ferent degrees of thickness prevailed. Lastly, Mr. S. wholly denied the correctness of the statement, that this diversity does prevail. He showed that it was not present in the skull which he then exhibited to them, and stated that, in the very numerous healthy skulls which he had ex- amined, it had never been present. Mr. S. then proceeded to state, and to combat, the various objections which have THE BIRMINGHAM ————— I I. II. I I I IB I111I MIL • JOURNAL. been raised against Phrenology. He showed that there is not one of these which does not spring wholly from the ignorance of the pi inciples of the science possessed by the objectors. He stated that, since nature is constant in all her laws, one single real instance of a case contradictory to Phrenology would prove the falsity of the science; hut no such single instance had ever been exhibited. After some observations on the divisions of the faculties, and the mode of observation of the development of their several organs in the living head, Mr. S. proceeded to explain the situation and functions of the nine organs of what had been termed perhaps erroneously) the lower propensities, viz.: 1, Ama- tiveness; 2, Philoprogenitiveness; 3, Concentrativeness; 4, Adhesiveness; 5, Comlrativeness; 6, Destructiveness; 7, Secretiveness; 8, Acquisitiveness; 9, Constructiveness. Mr. S. concluded with enforcing the grand truth, that God has bestowed on none of his creatures any faculty, the exercise of which, within due limits, is not healthy, vir- tuous, and beneficial. BIRMINGHAM EQUITABLE GAS COMPANY. The adjourned meeting of the Commissioners for con- sidering the report of the Committee upon the Equitable Gas Company's bill, took place on Monday last. The Com- mittee reported that the Equitable Gas Company were willing to contract for lighting as many of the street lamps at thirty live shillings, as were at present in existence; but for all future lumps to receive forty shillings. They they were willing to submit to the restrictive clauses in the Birmingham and Staffordshire Company's Act, but refused to admit those in the Act of the Birmingham Gas Company. Mr. C". IIEELEY moved that the report be received and approve!'. Mr. HUTTON moved as an amendment, to leave out the words " and approved." The Low BAILIFF called upon the Commissioners not to relinquish their authority over the public streets, nor to per- mit the proposed Company to break them up at their will. He disapproved of allowing their bill to pass without clauses similar to those in the Old Gas Company 4ct. In the Staffordshire Gas Company's act an appeal to the Sessions was allowed, which, when acted upon, always in- ,; VHI the Commissioners in expenses. He thought the ,' ominissioners were the fittest judges of what was best for maintaining the streets in repair, and in them ought the power to rest of judging whether they should be broken up or not. Mr. G. C. LINGHAM said, he saw no reason for the an- noyance arising from breaking up all their streets afresh. The existing Gas Companies were not such wealthy bodies as had been represented ; and he believed that the Stafford- shire Company had not yet paid til. 12s. 6d. per cent, to its proprietors, out of its profits; and, in fact, they charged but one shilling and six- pence per thousand feet for the public lamps. Mr. LUCAS said, the relative price of coal in this town was very much misrepresented. It was said coal was cheaper here than any where else, whereas coal was now full 16s. per ton; and though in London coal was sold at 25s. per ton, it produced full 50 per cent, more gas, and the coke sold there at a much higher price than in Bir- mingham. Mr. F. LLOYD maintained that the two Gas Companies were able to light as many public lights as the town might require for ten yeais to come, and as much for private con- sumption in houses or manufactories, allowing liberally for the same increasing demand as at present. The Gas Com- panies lighted the town at a great loss to themselves, and he thought it rather hard upon them, for the sake of a slight difference in the price offered by the proposed Company for the public lamps, to sanction a third Company, as the works erected in Fazeley- street were twice as large as those in Broad- street, and presented capabilities for making six hundred thousand cubic feet of gas every twenty- four hours. Mr. MERRY contended that great advantages would result to the town from a further competition in the supply of gas. Already the prices had been reduced by it to twelve shillings per thousand feet, and had lately been further reduced to ten shillings from the fear of this proposed Company. A great leakage was occasioned in the mains laid under the centre of the street, from the vibration produced by heavy Waggons, & c., which would be avoided if the mains were laid under the footway. Gas was an article of universal use,— the cheaper it was, the more it would be used. He thought the Commissioners should not stand in the way of public improvement; and be could assure them, that out of doors, there was a preponderating feeling in favour of a third company. Mr. BATES observed, that the supply of Gas in the neighbourhood of his warehouse, Snow- hill, was very defi- cient, he had frequently to light candles, paticularly on a Saturday evening, to enable him to transact business at his desk, over which lie had a gas burner. Mr. PUMFHREY said, that in New Town- row, where he had premises, and also in many streets adjoining, the public lamps gave very little light, and were almost useless. Mr. HARRALD said he should vote for opposing the Equi- quitabie Company, because he considered the Commissioners ought to erect gas works, anil supply the public lamps and the town, which would be the^ means of reducing the sum collected for lighting, watching, Sic.; and he hoped that if the Commissioners did nothing else they would desire their solicitor to get a clause inserted in the bill, reserving the best now vacant ground in the streets for the intended pipes of the Commissioners. Mr. CHARLES SHAW supported the Equitable Gas Com- pany. He expressed his surprise at the real or affected ignorance of some of the Commissioners, exhibited as to the state Of the question before the meeting. The fact of many parts of the town being badly supplied was too notorious to need other comment than had been made by Messrs. Pumphrey and Bates, the one referring to the short supply in Snow- hill, the other to New Town- row. The Equitable Gas Company consisted of a very large number of mer- chants, manufacturers, grocers, and other gas- consumers, who were desirous of supplying themselves and others with the article at the lowest possible prce ; and, which was of far more importance, of a superior quality to that of either of the existing Companies; and he ( Mr. S.) conceived the Commissioners had no right to spend the money of the rate- payers in opposing so reasonable, and, to the town generally, so beneficial an undertaking. He could not per- ceive any rational ground of objection to the clauses as they stood. in the Birmingham and Staffordshire Act of Parliament. Only'. two appeals had been made during seven years; these the solicitor urged had been expensive to the rate- payers. He ( Mr. S.) was willing that a clause should be introduced into the bill, making it imperative on the Equitable Gas Company to pay all costs w hen their appeal was not con- firmed Mr. G. C. Lingham ( whose tamily by the way were considerable holders in the Birmingham and Stnfford- shire Company,) assigned as a reason why a third Company should not he sanctioned by the Commissioners, that the Company in which his family are interested have not yet paid more than 6/. 12s. 6d. per cent.; surely this was no good reason, nor one that omild be entertained for a moment; there could be no doubt if the concern had been properly founded at a medernte distance from the town, and economically iu. i....„ eusuch measures taken as would prevent wholesale robberies of £ 1000— this con- cern would have flourished as the old one had done. Both Mr. Lloyd and Mr. Lucas were directors of the old Company, therefore it was fair to infer they would direct their observations to the protection of their own in- terests rather than that of the public. Mr. Lucas's quota- tion of til • price of coal was incorrect, if intended to apply to the prices of that u- ed by the Gas Companies here. Mr. Lloyd said the Companies had lighted the town at great loss to themselves ; this, be it remembered, only applied to the street lamps. The premium the shares hore proved, be- yond doubt, great profits had been made. The observations of Mr. Harrold went to show that another Company was wanted ; hut that he wished the Commissioners should take the place of the Equitable Gas Company; other Commis- sioners might be of the same opinion. The CHAIRMAN put the question, at the same time warn- ing those gentlemen who had any in'erest in the existing or proposed Company, that the act of Parliament prohibited them from voting ; when there appeared for Mr. Hutton's amendment . 10 For the original motion „„ 8 On the motion of Mr. W. H. Bates, seconded by Mr. \ V. II. Osborn, a resolution was passed, that the committee should be re- appointed, with power to watch the bill in Parliament, and, if necessary, to oppose it. PUBLIC OFFICE. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13th. ( Before brands Lloyd, Esq.) IN THE PRIVATE ROOM. HENRY WHITE. — This man was brought up this morn- ing on a warrant to find sureties to keep the peace towards Mrs. Elizabeth Tongue, t lie midwife, who gave evidence at the inquests upon his wife and child last week. Mr Edmonds attended on the part of the family of the deceased, and examined the complainant. She staled tha'thepii soner used violent and threatening language towards her and that she was in tear of personal violence from him The magistrates ordered him to find sureties, two in tei pounds each, and hmiselt in twenty pounds. The prisonei said he could nor ger any person to go ba 1 for htm, and lit was ordered to he committed to the Common Gaol until In procured sureties Mr. Edmonds then said he had another charge to pre'ei against the prisoner, under the 9 Geo. 4th, cap 31. sec. 1). It was thereby enacted that if any person should unlaw- fully and maliciously attempt to drown, suifocaie, or strangle any person, with intent to murder,* every such of- fender shall he guilty of felony and suffer death. Now he Mr. E. submitted that it was clearly in evidence on tin inquest that the prisoner, a very few hours after his wife's confinement, ran up into the room to her, threw himself upon her, and afterwards seized her by the neck with both hands, and attempted to strangle her. That this was done with intent to murder her, he ( Mr. E.) believed the evi- dence would amply prove. Indeed the Coroner stated, that if it could be clearly proved that the violence had been the immediate cause of the woman's death, the prisoner's conduct would he no less than murder. The Coroner there- fore was satisfied of the intent of the prisoner, when com- mitting the violence, and he now called upon the magis- trates to commit the prisoner under the statute he had just read. Mr. Griffiths said, he had some doubts whether the magistrate could entertain the charge after the Coroner's juiy had acquitted the prisoner. The jury had found that the man did not occasion the woman's death. Mr. Edmonds contended that this charge was one quite independent of the inquiry before the Coroner, and he had only referred to the proceedings on that occasion, to show the evidence he would be able to adduce in support of the present charge. That jury had only to inquire into the cause of the death, but the charge now before the magis- trate was an offence which was committed, whether the wo- man died or not. Mr. Edmonds then mentioned the case of Fursey, which occurred only a very few years ago, and which arose, as the magistrate would recollect, out of the Calthorpe- street meeting in London. The Coroner's jury in that case, returned a verdict of " Justifiable homicide," yet Fursey was afterwards tried for cutting and stabbing, but was acquitted. He might also remember the case of Styeh, the late Edgbaston watchman. The prisoners in that case were brought before Mr. Lloyd Williams, the magistrate, before the inquest was held, and that gentleman remanded the prisoners until after the Coroner's jury had decided upon the death of the deceased, observing, that m the event of a verdict not being found against the prisoners, he would entertain the charge against them upon the evi- dence before him. . Mr. Griffiths said, that as a matter of discretion he could hardly recommend the magistrate to entertain the charge, after the decision of the Coroner's jury. Mr. Edmonds further observed, that if the case rested upon a mere technical point, the magistrate might properly interfere, hut in this case the conduct of the prisoner was such as did not entitle his case to be viewed with any de- gree of favour. Mr. Lloyd said these cases did not occur often. Still there appeared to him to be a point connected with them which ought to be settled, and he would take the responsi- bility of entertaining the charge, and directed the depost tions to he taken. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16. ( Before Richard Spooner, Esq.) FORTUNE TELLING An ugly lo » king and grossly im- moral old wretch, who gave her name as Mary Ellis, was brought up charged with defrauding by offering to tell fortunes. Martha Martin, an interesting looking girl, and servant to Mr. Oakes, of Edgbaston, was examined, and from her statement it appeared that on Tuesday last the prisoner came to her master's house and offered to sell her some edg- ing. She refused to buy, and the prisoner then introduced herself as a fortune teller fully qualified to disclose to her all the secrets of futurity, particularly in reference to some rich youth, who was all but dying in love about her. She refused several times to hear her predictions, but at last overcome by a happy allusion which the prisoner made to some of her acquaintances, she consented to have her for- tune told. The prisoner then asked her for a shilling to brighten her intellects, and she immediately gave her one. This, however, was not sufficient, and the prisoner told her she must fetch six silver pieces of money or six articles of body linen, or she could not rule the planets and afford her the necessary information; the girl at first refused, upon which the prisoner commenced playing some fantastic tricks, looking up to the sky and then to the ground, as if invoking spirits from the other world. The poor girl could now no longer resist, and she immediately went and fetched her a gown, a shirt, a shift, a shawl, and two other articles. The prisoner put them under her cloak, and while the silly dupe was momentarily expecting to hear the glad tidings the prisoner ran off with the booty. The girl, however, in- censed at the disappointment raised an alarm, and the pri- soner was pursued and taken into custody. The magistrate asked the prisoner what she had to say in her defence, to which she replied in the most disgusting manner. Mr. Spooner said she was ceitainly the most profligate vagabond ever brought before him, and he only regretted the law did not enable him to inflict a greater punishment upon her than three months' hard labour to the House of Correction. Henry White was again brought up. The witnesses ex- amined upin the Inquest were interrogated by Mr. Ed- monds, and detailed the atrocities already laid before the public, . Mr. Spooner said, he did not think the evidence suffici- ent to reach the prisoner on the 9th of Geo. 4th. In order to prove an attempt to strangle, they should fix upon one specific act of violence committed by the prisoner upon the deceased, and that act must have been proved to have been sufficient to cause death. He did not think the evidence m the case sufficient for that purpose, but the prisoner could be indicted for a general assault with an intent to kill, and that would admit of more general evidence. The previous and subsequent acts of the prisoner could then be entered upon, and his general state of mind respecting his wife would be admissible. He could also be indicted lor a com- mon assault. . The prisoner was ordered to be remanded until Friday next, to afford time for the depositions to be taken. If the prisoner is lound guilty on the first of the above charges, upon which he will be indicted, he will be liable to two yeais imprisonment. James Elwell and John Price were committed for stealing a pair ol stockings from the shop of Mr. H. Parks, of Bull- street. Henry Morgan was committed for stealing a pair of boots from Mr. Jones, of Lichfield- street. Two young men named Milward and Brunner were com- mitted for stealing eight silk handkerchiefs from a line be- longing to a washerwoman named Millington, residing at Small- heath. NEWS OF THE WEEK. FOEEIG N. SERIOUS CALAMITY.— ( Extract of a letter from Troy, United States, dated Jan. 2, 1837:)—" Last evening, about seven o'clock, the hill at the lower part of the city slid down, covering up houses, barns, & c., with men, wo- men, and chi'dren in them. It has covered up every tiling halt way to the river, passing over Sixth, Filth, and Fourth streets, to Third- street. Never was there greater consternation; the whole city is in motion. Eight dead human bodies have already been found, and nineteen horses. It is impossible to say how many lives are lost. 1 have just come from the spot, and I saw them dig out two little children lying on a truckle- bed, sleeping the sleep of death, without a bruise upon them. Where Fourth- street was, the travelled earth is at least sixty feet high. Fortunately there were not many houses near the spot, but what were there are buried. It is calculated that seven buildings, each occupied by two or three families, are destroyed. There was one house upon the bill which has totally dis- appeared." TRAVELLING INCOG To- day, at noon, in placing upon the top of the Lyons diligence a basket which bad been brought a few minutes before, and which was said to con-, tain various articles of value, some motion was felt within the basket. On this being observed, the basket was opened, when a man was found concealed in it, who could explain his singular situation only by his wish to conceal his journey from his wife! In his basket were, along with him, ten bottles of champaigne, two cold fowls, two loaves, two pounds of chocolate, and a phial of ether. He had taken care to secure an opening, in order that he might breathe. — C. harte of Friday. THE EX- KING OF SWEDEN Carlsruhe, Feb. 3 The Ex- King of Sweden, Gustavus IV., known for many years past under the name of Colonel Gustavson, expired sud- denly on the 7th inst., at eight in the morning, in the town of St. Gall. Gustavus was born on the 1st of Nov. 1778. On Saturday, the Editor of the Gazette de France was sentenced to pay a fine of one thousand five hundred francs, antl suffer incarceration for three months, for the publication ol two articles, calling in question the King's right to the Throne. ANGLING EXTRAORDINARY We read the following in the Vosgien of Neufchateau of the 22( 1 inst. :—" M. Mois- n liet, a shepherd at Heroncourt, bad, during the month of September, lost several sheep without being able to dis- nver the cause. On the 8th inst., having driven his flock towards the Saone, at the moment when he put them to water, he « ' se veil on the opposite bank an enormous woh concealed among the rushes, and crouching like a dog asleep, t he animal soon after rose, went about 100 yards up the stream, and then jumped in, apparently with the intention d swimming across. Moissonnier ran towards the spot to which the wolf directed its course, and, as it was endeavour- ing to climb up the steep bank, struck it a violent blow on 11tj head with his crook. The animal, rendered furious with pain, again endeavoured to get up, at the same time • vvling most hideourly, but the shepherd, preserving his coolness, thrust the crook into Its throat, and thus held it : is with a fish- hook. The wolf suddenly retired, and drew the shepherd after it into the river, but the man still retained his hold, and soon succeeded in drowning his ferocious antagonist, which was of a prodigious size." The Carnival at Brussels never was known to be more brilliant. The number of attractive fetes and balls have far exceeded that of any pleceding year. Their Majesties have given balls every week. Two of these were private; and although limited to 200 invitations, a fourth of these were English. The King of Sweden has instructed the Minister for Foreign Affairs, for the execution of the treaty between France and Sweden for the abolition of the slave trade, to give to such French ships as the French Government shall declare to be employed as cruisers against the slave trade licenses to search in the seas agreed upon in the treaty for such Swedish and Norwegian ships as may be suspected ol being engaged in that trade, or to be fitted out for the pur- pose of carrying it on Hamburg papers, Feb. 10. DOME STIC. THE METROPOLIS. APPALLING MURDER On Tuesday afternoon, between twelve and one o'clock, a most dreadful occurrence was discovered to have taken place at the house of Mr. Gosbee, Princess Head Tavern, Buckingham- street, Strand. It appears that a little after midnight on Thursday, just as Mr. Gosbee was about to close his house, a man of very respect- able exterior, apparently about thirty- five years of age, accompanied by a smart interesting youth, of the age of twelve or fourteen, equally well attired, came to the bar of the house. The man applied to Mr. Gosbee for a bed for himself and the lad for the night; some demur was made to afford the accommodation hom the unusual lateness of the hour, and the parties being entire strangers; however, their appearance indicating respectability, Mr. Gosbee did not object to let them have a bed- room. The gentleman had a small bundle in his hand, which he gave to the lad before quitting the bar. Both Mr. and Mrs. Gosbee at the time noticed that tlu former appeared very thoughtful and de- jected. It was necessarily conjectured that the youth was son to the gentleman. Without partaking of any kind of refreshment, they went to the bed- room provided for them, which is situated at the back of the house, on the second floor. The elder of the parties, before going up stairs, re- quested of the landlady that the waiter would clean their boots in the morning. Between six and seven o'clock on Friday morning, Thomas Westley, the waiter, in passing from his room to go down stairs, observed the candle burning in the chamber occupied by the stranger and his supposed son; about half- past seven Westley went into their room for the purpose of fetching their boots. The father and son were then in bed; the former, addressing the waiter, said there was no necessity to clean the boots. At half- past nine o'clock Westley again went into their room to inquire whether they wished any breakfast to be provided for them ; both were still in bed ; the gentleman said he would give orders when they had risen. Not making their ap- pearance at half- past* twelve, Westley, the waiter, again went up to their room. On entering he was horror struck at the spectacle that was presented to his view ; both the man and lad were in the bed with their heads nearly severed from their bodies; the former was over the corpse of the youth, in a position that would warrant the supposition that lie had destroyed the poor lad whilst asleep, and afterwards put an end to his own existence ; a razor covered with blood was in the bed near the right hand of the miyi. Death must have immediately ensued upon the perpetration of the wounds. After the dreadful discovery, Messrs. Jones and Pettigrew, surgeons of Charing- eross Hospital, attended at the house, and gave it as their opinion that the murder and suicide hail been committed within the hour, from the warmth of the bodies. The person of the gentleman was searched, and some papers and documents found, and from such it is imagined that the name of the unhappy man is Bryant, and that he was a resident of Dartford, in Kent. From the inquest, it appears that the cause of the insanity of the unhappy man was a family quarrel. MORRISON'S PILLS An action for libel was tried in the Common Pleas, on Friday and Saturday, by adjournment- in which the maker of these pills was plaintiff, and Mr- Banner, as proprietor of the Weekly Dispatch, defendant The Weekly Dispatch has lor years devoted a portion of its columns to the exposure of what it deems the gross quackery and imposture of this man and his late partner, Moat. The mutual warfare was so earnest that Moat set up an opposition Dispatch, with a view, by its panegyrics ol the pills, to neutralize the effects of their wholesale con- demnation by the old Dispatch. There was a teligious paper— whose name we forget— set up by the same parties, anil in a great measure lor the same purpose. Mr. Mar- nier, it appeared, had at length pressed so hard on Morrison that those retaliatory n. e& ns of defence were considered in- adequate, and a civil action was the consequence. The principal sting iu the alleged libel seems to have been an insinuation that, notwithstanding the puffery about Morri- son's wealth, the men employed to manufacture gamboge, aloes, and cream of tartar, into the Vegetable Pills, had struck work for non- payment, of their wages. Mr. Sergeant Wilde, who defended Mr. Harmer, after a long and veiy humourous speech, called a host of witnesses to show the deleterious nature of these pills, more especially when taken in such quantities as the ignorant and rascally vendors are in the habit of prescribing. Mr. Kelly, professor of King's College, stated the composition of the pills No. 2:— aloes 5 grains, gamboge 4 grains, colocynth in powder 2 grains, gum 4 grains, cream of tartar 6 grains. No 1, contained no colocynth or gamboge. Mr. Hume, the chemist, corrobo- rated Mr. Kelly's evidence. Sir H. Halfoid, Dr. Roots, Sir Anthony Carlisle, and several other medical men, spoke more or less decidedly of the dangerous and poisonous nature of Monison's trash. Dr. Birkbeck said he knew Moat, he was first a blacking- maker, then a teacher of short- hand, then a brandy distiller. He had no medical education. Evidence was also given of the death of Richardson, at York, for which Webb, one of Morrison's distributors, was tried ( in 1834) and found guilty of manslaughter ; and of that of Mackenzie in February last, from pills administered, a hundred at a time, by an ignorant vagabond in the same employment.— The Jury found for the Dispatch on the count respecting the pills, and for Morrison on that which respected the latter's solvency— Damages £ 200. LORD DE ROOF— In consequence of the letters that passed between this nobleman and Mr. Cumming, Mr. Payne, and Lord H. Eentinck, in which Lord De Roos was openly and directly charged with cheating at cards, his lordship, for the clearing of his character, was advised to bring an action against Mr. Cumming. It commenced on Friday, and was continued through that day and Saturday, a great many witnesses having been examined. The two cases of cheating to which the witnesses swore were marking the high honours— the king and the ace— with the thumb nail, which they alleged from repeated inspection ol the cards with which his lordship played, he was in the almost constant habit of practising, and the trick called by the French, sautcr la coupe, by which, when his lordship dealt, the ace or king was certain to turn up. They also swore, that in dealing he was invariably seized with a pre- tended cough in giving way to which his hands and the cards sunk below the table, and that it was when the cards were so lowered that the trick was performed. An attempt was made to show by medical evidence, that his lordship was affected with a weakness and stiffness iu the joints, more par- ticularly of the wrists, which rendered it physically impos- sible for him to perform the trick of sauter la coupe, and Sir John Campbell, in his reply endeavoured to cast discredit on the witnesses, because they all acknowledged themselves to be gamblers, and some of them depended in a great measure, upon play for a livelihood. The game at which Lord De Boos played was short whist. He commonly played for five guinea points. He was a member of Whites, Boodle's, [ tile Sun calls it Noodle's, J the Traveller's, and Gr. abam's. It was at Graham's that the play took place. ' She glVitfhad been broken up and reconstructed, for the purpose of excluding some of the members, Lord De Roos amongsfrjothers, because of their deep play. The chaige against Lord De Roos was first communicated to him in an anonymous letter, but he paid no attention to it. His leaving England last year was alleged on the one side to have been a mere visit of business, and on the other, to have been suggested by a desire of withdrawing from the conse- quences of the charge. Mr, Thessiger was counsel foi Mr. Cumming. The jury, at a late hour on Saturday after- noon, found for Mr, Cumming on all the counts, thus esta- blishing the fact, that Lord De Roos was, as charged by that gentleman, guilty of cheating at cards. On Tuesday, at St. George's Church, Hanover- square, the long- expected nuptials of the Honoural le Emily Bagot and the Earl of Winchilsea took pla e at half- past one o'clock. The Bishop of Oxford performed the ceremony. DESTRUCTIVE FIRF Between three and four o'clock yesterday morning, Saffron- hill, were thrown into the greatest excitement and alarm in consequence of the dis- covery of a fiie in the lower part of the White Horse public- house. The family and servants escaped at the rear of the premises, but with no other covering than their night- clothes. FINSBURY.— A dinner intended to be given to Mr. Wakley took place at White Conduit Tavern on Wednesday. Mr. Wakley unfortunately did not attend. Mr. Harvey made a long speech in which he accused Mr. Hume of growing cowardly as he grew old ; for which Mr. II. was severely censured by Mr. Roebuck, and the consequence was not a little confusion. Harvey rose to quit the room hut was persuaded to stay and explain, which he did with great bitterness. Mr. Leader was in the chair. VOLUNTARY CHURCHES— On Monday, a public meeting was held in St. Alphage's, Greenwich, for the purpose of taking into consideration the best means of raising a suf- ficient sum to build a new church on Blackheath- hill. The Bishop of Rochester was in the chair. A subscription ol more than 11,000/. was announced by the chairman. On Sunday night last John Minter Hart, the notorious bill stealer and forger, together with twenty- four other con- victs, were removed from Newgate in the large van gene- rally used for the purpose, and which was strongly guarded, to Portsmouth, and put on board the Leviathan hulk, pre- paratory to their being transported for life. THE WEATHER IN 1836— From the register kept at the Horticultural Gardens at Chiswick, it appears that the quantity of rain was 28J inches, or about four inches more than average of the ten preceding years. The greatest heat was on July 5, when the thermometer in the shade was 94.5 deg., and the lowest on January 1, when it stood at 13 deg. PROVINCIAL. SEIZURE FOR CHURCH- RATES. — On Monday, William Brand, the officer, and John Drew, the collector for the parish of Allhallows the Less, entered the premises of Jo- seph Cooper and Co., Laurence Pountney- lane, with two warrants, signed by the Lord Mayor and Samuel Wilson, Esq., to distrain for Church rates. The amount demanded, including an incumbent and impropriation rate, claimed by the Rev. William St. Andrew Vincent, M. A., with 1/. 5s. the expenses of the distraint, was altogether 17/. lis. 6d., to satisfy which the officers took away fifty fine hats, value 36/. 5s. Major Gwynn Holforde has declared himself a candidate for Brecknockshire whenever a vacancy arises in its rcpre sentation, in opposition to its present Tory Member, Col. Wood. He declares himself a staunch supporter of the present Government, and of sound, well- considered, and rational Reform. The Oldham Radicals are in communication with W. Sharman Crawford, Esq., the representative of Dundalk, on the subject of his appearing as a candidate for Oldham at the next election.— Manchester Guardian. AN OLD UN._ On Sunday last, at Bristol, an old lady fell asleep during divine service, and let her Bible ' •" ( whn- li had large massive clasps); the noise awakeni t •!. the congregation were much surprised by hearing he . claim in a high key,—" What, Jane! you've broke aim Her jug, have you!" FATAL ACCIDENT— On Sunday week, a very fine boy, aged five years, the son of a lady in Norwich, iu the absence of the servant, went into the store- room, and took from the spice- b « x a phial, containing 2d. worth of the oil or essence of almonds, drank a part of it, and almost instantly fell into a state of paralysis. The poor child died in about half- an- hour. Three lailures were on Monday announced in Liverpool. The first failure is of a house engaged in the Irish trade, and whose liabilities are said to amount to 14,000/. ; the second of a manufacturing chemist; and the third of an individual engaged in the East India trade. The two last failures were not for any very great amount. SCARBOROUGH.— The Baptist congregation in this place have declined accepting a donation of 20/., sent them by Sir Charles Style, a candidate for its represen- tation. They state that' they have never yet solicited any- thing from any member for the borough ; and now, with the prospect of an election, the proffered gift of the lion, baronet tends to influence the minds of voters against their consciences— a mode of purchasing the suffrages of the electors which they are not disposed to barter.— Leeds Mercury. It is rumoured that in the event of a dissolution of Par- liament, Edward B. Farnham, Esq., of Quorndon will offer himself in opposition to C. M. Phillipps, Esq., one of the present Members for North Leicestershire. MB. BUCKINGHAM. — Mr. Buckingham has announced his intention to retire from the representation of Sheffield, whenever a dissolution of Parliament may take place. The Member has detailed the reasons which have induced him to come to this resolve in a long address. These reasons all resolve themselves into the impossibility which the lion, member finds of combining a due attention to the laborious occupations of a Representative with the fulfilment of those permanent obligations which he owes to his family and him- self. VALUABLE OFFER.— The following inviting announce- ment is copied from a provincial newspaper!—" Wanted, a boy of good education and of respectable parents ; his employ- ment will be to open and shut up shop, light fires, clean shoes and knives and forks, and to go of errands." A BROKEN HEART— Charlotte Harrison, the young girl who was committedin August last to Warwick Goal, to take her trial for the wilful murder of her own child, has died of a broken heart. The wretched creature, who was only seventeen, declared, up to the time of her death, that the infant was not killed by her Leamington Chronicle, A TARTAR— On Tuesday afternoon, a sheriff's officer and his assistant went to tBke possession of a house at High- worth, under process from the sheriff, when, on attempting to force an entrance, the daughter of the woman residing in the house came to the premises armed with a bean hook, and attacked the officer and his assistant, and on the arm of the latter inflicted a severe cut just below the shoulder- joint, completely dividing the muscle and exposing the bone. The officer and a constable, who had then arrived, were unable to take possession or capture the woman, owing to the interference and threats of the people assembled ; and she still remains at large, threatening vengeance against any person whoHiay attempt to take her Salisbury Herald. IRELAND. TITHE COSTS.— The Master of the Rolls last Saturday decided that he would not give costs in any tithe case which might be recovered by the ordinary process at the quarter sessions. This, we believe, decides the tithe war Dublin Post. During the past week alone the city and county Coroners have held no less than thirty- four inquests on the bodies of persons who came by their deaths by drowning.— Dublin paper. The election far the county of Carlow commenced on Tuesday, and there is not the slightest doubt of the success of Mr. Vigors. His majority will he ninety or a hundred. DUNGARVAN, FEB. 13.— Our election has commenced; we are all life and vigour— certain of success. Mr. Power was proposed by the Rev. Dr. Foran, and seconded by Mr. Longau; John M. Galwey, by Mr. Beresford Boate, and seconded by Mr. Kennedy, SCOTLAND. EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY— The Lords of the Treasury have at length agreed to allow the sum of 500/. towards finishing the necessary repairs of the University Glasgow Courier. We have been credibly informed that, in the district of Blackwater, in Perthshire, there are two fields of corn stand- ing uncut! — Scotsman. RAMSAYS, BONARS, AND CO.— The surviving partners of this old and respectable company have, we perceive, an- nounced their determination of retiring from business, and have made arrangements for winding up their affairs Scotsman. There is still such an increase of fever, that the Royal Infirmary cannot receive another patient; and a very great number of refusals are taking place daily. The managers of the institution feel embarassed for want of accommoda- tion ; and it is thought that additional wards will have to be provided Glasgoio Chronicle. REFORM The following resolution has been come to by the Dundee Radical Association:—" That the Dundee Ra- dical Reform Association approves of the principles of household suffrage, triennial Parliaments, vote by ballot, no property qualification, and payment of members, as stated in the address from the Birmingham Reform Coun- cil, hut they would add, as a principle of first- rate import- ance to good government, equal or district representation ; and that the mode of communication recommended by the Reform Association of Birmingham is excellent, and should he adopted as far as possible." [ We perfectly agree with the Dundee Radicals. To use a Scotch phrase— Dis- trict representation would be a great addition. E. B. J.'\ MARQUISATE OF HUNTLEY.— There has been forwarded to the House of Lords ( by command of his Majesty, to whom it had been presented) a petition from George Earl of Aboyne, praying to be enrolled in his due place in the union roll, among the peers of Scotland, as " Marquess of Huntley." A HEAL IRISH SQUIRE Of all the beings that ever lived Mr. Flaherty was the most forgetful. If ever man should have emigrated to Laputa, it was he. It would take a vo- lume to record his obliviscences; a few fragments must suffice. He mortally hated reading and writing; hut being, like mcst of his neighbours, a little in the law, or as they call it there expressively, ' clauiber,' he had once a letter to write by a certain day, which could not he dispensed with. This grievous evil he put off until he was too late for the post, and sweet Lidthy, who could best manage him on such oc- casions, had to sit down by him until he performed the feat. As the mail passed his gate, he went down to give it to the guaid, hut could not make ( hem hear him, so he mounted his mare, and set out after the coach. This he caught after about sixteen Irish miles hard riding. As soon as he saw it he commenced, " Hallo ! boy! stap the mail— stap the mail— here— here, guard my boy, here's half- a- crown for yu — put the letter into the two- penny post in Dublin, or nival luk me in the face agin.' ' My sai vice to your honour,' bowed the guard, fobbing the coin; ' but the litter, if you plase.' The Old Crack, meanwhile, had been rummaging his pockets. ' The litter ; the litter! eh! eh! eh! — Och, I'm the inluckiest villain that lives— the litter! I must have I ft it on the chimney- piece !'— Sporting Magazine. LITERATURE. HANDY ANDY. NO. II. ( Continued.) In a few days Murtough Murphy returned from Dublin, and to Merryvale he immediately proceeded. The squire opened to him directly his intention of commencing hostile law proceedings against O'Grady, and asked what most summary measures could be put in practice against him. " Oh! various, various, my dear squire," said Murphy; " but 1 don't see any great use in doing so yet,— he has not openly avowed himself." " But does he not intend to coalesce with the other paity?" 1 believe so;_ that is, if he's to get the pension." " Well, and that's as good as done, you know; for if they want him, the pension is easily managed." " I'm not so sure of that." •' Why, they're as plenty as blackberries." " Very true; but, you see, Lord Gobblestown swallows ail the pensions for his own family; and there are a great many complaints in the market against him for plucking tnat blackberry- bush very bare indeed; and unless Sack icatterbrain has swingeing interest, the pension may not be such an easy thing." " But still O'Grady has shown himself not my friend." " My dear squire, don't be so hot; he has not shown him- self yet " " Well, but he means it." " Mv dear squire, you oughn't to jump a conclusion like a twelve foot drain or a five- bar gate." " Well, he's a blackguard." " No denying it; and therefore keep him onyourside, if you can, or h# H be a troublesome customer on the other." " I'll keep no terms with liira ;— I'll slap at him directly. What can you do that's wickedest ?— latitat, capias— fee- faw- tim, or whatever you call it?" " Hollo ! squire, you're overrunning your game; may be, alter all, he won'< join the Scatterbrains, and " " 1 ie. 1 you its no matter; he intended doing it, and that's all the same. I'll slap at him,— I'll blister him !" Murtough Murphy wondered at this blind fury of the squire, who, being a goodhumoured and good- natured fel- low in general, puzzled the attorney the more by his present manifest malignity against O'Grady. But he had not seen the turn- over of the letter; he had not seen " bladdher,"— the real and secret cause of the " war to the knife" spirit which was kindled in the squire's breast. " Of course, you can do what you please; but, if you'd take a friend's advice " " I tell you I'll blister him." " He certainly bled you very freely.'' " I'll blister him, I tell you, and that smart. Lose no time, Murphy, my boy; let loose the dogs of law on him, and harass him till he'd wish the d 1 had him." " Just as you like, but " " I'll have it my own way, I tell you; so say no more." " I'll commence against him at once then, as you wish it; but it's no use, for you know very well that it will be im- possible to serve him." " Let me alone for that; I'll be bound I'll find fellows to get the inside of him." " Why, his house is barricaded like a jail, and he has dogs enough to bait all the bulls in the country." " No matter; just send me the blister for him, and I'll engage I'll 6tick it on him." " Very well, squire; you shall have the blister as soon as it can be got ready. I'll tell you whenever you may send over to me for it, and your messenger shall have it hot and warm for him. Good- bye, squire." " Good- bye, Murphy !— lose no time." " In the twinkling of a bed post. Are you going to Tom Durphy's steeple chase?" " I'm not sure." " a bet on it. Did you seethe Widow Flanagan lately? Youdid'nt? They say Tom's pushing it strong there. The widow has money, you know, and Tom does it all for the love o'God; for you know, squiie, there are two things God hates— a coward and a poor man. Now, Tom's no coward ; and that he may be sure of the love o'God on the other score, he's making up to the widow; and, as he's a slashing fellow, she's nothing loth, and for fear of any one cutting him out, Tom keeps as sharp a look out after her as she does after him. He's fierce on K and looks pistols at any one that attempts putting liis coinether on the » idow, while she looks ' as soon as you plaze,' as plain as an optical lecture can enlighten the heart of man; in short, Tom's al\ ram's horns, and the widow all sheep's eyes. Good bye, squire!" And Murtough put spurs to his horse and can- tered down the avenue, singing. Andy was sent over to Murtough Murphy's for the law process at the appointed time; and, as he had to pass through the village, Mrs, Egan desired him to call at the apothecary's for some medicine that was prescribed for one of the children. " What'll I ax for ma'am ?" " I'd be sorry to trust to you Andy, for remembering. Here's the prescription; take great care of it, anil Mr. M'Grane will give you something to bring back ; and mind if it is a powder, do not let it get wet as you did the sugar the other day." " No, ma'am." " And if it's a bottle, don't break it as you did the last." " No, ma'am." " And make haste." " Yis, ma'am ;" and off went Andy. In going through the vill tge he forgot to leave the pre- scription at. tbe apothecary's and pushed on for the attorney's; there he 6aw Murtough Murphy, who handed him the law process, enclosed in a cover, with a note to the squire. " Have you been doing anything very clever lately, Andy?" said Murtough. " I don't know, sir," said Andy. " Did you shoot any one with soda- wafer since I saw you last ?" Andy grinned. " Did you kill any more dogs lately, Andy?" " Faix, you're too hard on me, sir; sure I never killed but one dog, and that was an accident—" " An accident!— D— n your impudence, you thief! Do you think, if you killed one ol'the pack on purpose, we wouldn't cut the very heart out o'you with our hunting whips ?" " Faith, I wouldn't doubt you, sir: but sure, how could I help that divil of a mare runnin' away wid me, and thramplin' the dogs?" " Why didn't you hold her, you thief?" " Hould her, indeed !— you might as well expect to stop fire among flax as that one." " Well, be off with you now, Andy, and take care of what I gave you for the squire." " Oh, never fear, sir," said Andy, as he turned his horse's head homeward. He stopped at the apothecary's iu the vil- lage to execute his commission for the " misthris." On tell- ing the son of Galen that he wanted some physic " for one o' the childer up at the big house," the dispenser of the healing art asked lohat physic he wanted. " Faith, I dunna what physic." " What's the matter with the child ?" " He's sick, sir." " 1 suppose so, indeed, or you wouldn't be sent for medi- cine. — You're always making some blunder. You come here and don't know what description of medicine is wanted." Don't I?" said Andy, with a great air. " No, you don't, you omadhaun !" said the apothecary. Andy fumbled in his pockets, and could not lay hold of the paper his mistress entrusted him with until he had emp. tied them thoroughly of their contents upon the counter of the shop; and then taking the prescription from the collec- tion, he said, " So you tell me I don't know the description ot the physic I'm to get. Now, you see your'e out; for that's the description." And he slapped the counter impres- sively with his hand, as he threw down the recipe before the apothecary. While the medicine was in the course of preparation for Andy, he commenced restoring to his pockets the various parcels he had taken from them in hunting for the recipe. Noiv, it happened that he had laid them down close beside some articles that were compounded, and sealed up for going out, on the apothecary's counter ; and as the law process which Andy had received from Murtough Murphy chanced to resemble in form another enclosure that lay beside it, THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. / containing a blister, Andy, under the influence of his pecu- liar genius, popped the blister into his pocket instead of the packet which had been confided to him by the attorney, and having obtained the necessary medicine from M- Grane, rode home with great self- complacency that he had not forgot to do a single thing that had been entrusted to him : " I'm all right this time," said Andy to himself. Scarcely had he left the Apothecary's shop when another messenger alighted at its door, and asked " If Squire O'Grady's things was ready ?" " There they are," said the innocent M'Grane, pointing to the bottles, boxes, and blister, he had made up and set aside, little dreaming that the blister had been exchanged for a law process; and Squire O'Grady's own messenger popped into his pocket the legal instrument, that it was as much as any seven men's lives were worth to bring within gun shot of Neck- or- Nothing Hall. Home he went, and the sound of the old gate creaking on its hinges at the entrance to the avenue, awoke the deep- mouthed dogs around the house, who rushed infuriate to the spot to devour the unholy intruder on the peace and privacy of the patrician O'Grady; but they recognised the old grey hack and his rider, and quietly wagged their tails and trotted back, and licked their lips at the thoughts of the bailiff they had hoped to eat. The door of Neck- or- Nothing Hall was carefully unbarred and un- chained, and the nurse- tender was handed the parcel from the apothecary's, and re- ascended to the sick room with slippered foot as quietly as she could ; for the renowned O'Grady was, according to her account, " as cross as two sticks;" and she protested, furthermore, " that her heart was grey with him." Mrs. O'Grady was near the bed of the sick man as the nurse- tender entered. " Here's the things for your honour now," said she in lier most soothing tone. " I wish the d— 1 had you and them !" said O'Grady. " Gusty, dear!" said his wife. She might have said stormy instead of gusty. " Oh! they'll do you good, your honour," said the nurse- tender, curtsying, and uncorking bottles, and opening a pill box. " Curse them all," said the squire. " A pretty thing to have a gentleman's body made a perfect sink fof these black- guard doctors and apothecaries to pour their dirty stuff into — faugh!" " Now, sir, dear, there's a little blisther just to go on your chest— if you plaze " " A what!" " A warm plasther, dear." " A blister you said, yoH old divil." " Well, sure, it's something to relieve you." The squire gave a deep growl, and his wife put in the usual appeal of" Gusty, dear!" " Hold yoHr tongue, will you? how would you like it? I wish you had it on your • " " ' Deed- an- deed, dear,—" said the nurse- tender. " By the ' ternal war! if you say another word, I'll throw the jug at you!" " And there's a nice dhrop o' gruel I have on the fire for you," said the nurse, pretending not to mind the rising anger of the squire, as she stirred the gruel with one hand, while with the other she marked herself with the sign of the cross, and said in a mumbling manner, " God presarve us' he's the most cantankerous Christian I ever kem across!" " Show me that infernal thing!" said the squire. " What thing, dear?" " You know well enoHgh, you old hag !— that blackguard blister!" " Here it is, dear. Now, just open the brusto'your shirt, and let me put an you." " Give it into my hand here, and let me see it." " Sartinly, sir ;— but I think, if youd'd let me just " " Give it to me, I tell you !" said the squire, in a tone so fierce the nurse paused in her unfolding of the packet, and handed it with fear and trembling to the already indignant O'Grady. But it is only imagination can figuie the out- rageous fury of the squire, when, on opening the envelope with his own hand, he beheld the law process before him. There, in the heart of his castle, with his bars, and bolts, and bull- dogs, and blunderbusses round him, he was served— absolutely served,— and lie had no doubt the nurse- tender was bribed to betr: -. him. A roar and a jurfip up in bed, first startled his wife into terror, and put the nurse on the defensive. " You infernal old strap!" shouted he, as he clutched up a handful bottles on the table near him and flung them at the nurse, who was near the fire at the time; and she whipped the pot of gruel from the grate, and converted it into a means ot defence against the phial- pelting storm. Mrs. O'Grady rolled herself up in the bed- curtains, while the nurse screeched " murtlier!" and at last, when O'Grady saw that bottles were of no avail, he scrambled out of bed, shouting, " Where's my blunderbuss?" and the nurse- tender, while he endeavoured to get it down from the rack, where it was suspended over the mantel- piece, bolted outof the door, which she locked on the outside, and ran to tile most remote corner of the house for shelter. In the mean time, how fared it at Merry vale ? Andy returned with his parcel for the squire, and his note from Murtough Murphy, which ran thus : — " My dear Squire,— I send you the blister for O'Brady, as you insist on it; but I think you won't find it easy to serve him with it. " Your obedient and obliged, " MURTOUGH MUKPHY." " To Edward Egan, Esq., Merryvale." The squire opened the cover, and when he saw a real instead of a figurative blister, grew crimson with rage. He could not speak for some minutes, his indignation was so excessive. " So!" said he, at last, " Mr. Murtough Mur- phy— you think to cut your jokes with me, do you ? By all that's sacred ! I'll cut such a joke ori you with the big- gest horsewhip I can find, that you'll remember it. ' Dear squire, I send you the blister,' Bad luck to ycur impidence ! Wait till awhile ago— that's all. By this and that, you'll get such a blistering from me that all the spermaceti in M'Grane's shop won't cure you." MOHAMMED A LI. £ From Scott's Rambles. ] Previous, however, to my presentation at Mohammed Ali's court, accident had given me a sight of him. Strolling one morning through the citadel, a fine looking old man. mounted on a handsome charger, and attended by a single sais on foot, rode by me towards the gate leading to the city. He bowed on crossing my path, but fancying his salutation was intended for a fnend— who, I imagined, was close behind me— I did not return it. He repeated this compliment, which, ol course, I then acknowledged by a removal of my ha'. Waiting for the first coming up of my friend, I inquired,— " Who is that very polite old gentleman ?" " Who!— why. the Viceroy." " What ! the merciless tyrant, Mohammed Ali?" " The same."" " And does he ride into the city without a guard?" " Even so; you may see him Ihere most days, if you will only lie in the main street at his usual hour of taking ex- ercise?" So much, thought I, for ( he ta es told in England of t' e detestation in « liicli this " sanguinary monstel" is held by all classes of his subjects. A tew nights alrei- wiiid* my intioduction took place. My visit wos paid at night, it liriins during the Fast of the Rha- madan. The reception room used on these occasions is in a palace com ignous to thar of i he Viceroy, which contains also many ot the public ottic - ami the apartments of the Secrcan for the Home Depart merit. We alighted at a i- aml- onie IN- IIICO, and passing through a long wide passage, paved h slabs ot marble, arrived at a kind of aoie- rooir, cnovde ' ' ill attendants, dragomans, & c. From ilience we | I; I> I- II mm II large loom, filled wth persons of all kind- then prostrations most de- voutly to the Kasimii eoili. * . mot; and from it we were usheIe> I into the presence e t . !> er. a long and handsome apart men , ut the Im ther exu. y ol which sat the Egyptian Sovereign. Mohammed Ali was>.* ieo < bv one only of his secre- tarie— a young Arneniio Im translated the Viceroy's conv. rsmum mro French. s j him always" Son Altesse." The introduction WH- MINI > T! i,. ut ceremony, the Consul General mere y it eiitioniitc ' mites ot the different pre- sentees. H is Highness repeated 11 •< ones of each person very dis- tinctly after b in. and lien n- qu siedus to be seated, adding we were weh otne to Ins dnnrmons. In person, Mohammed A <* - lu » rt, and rather corpulent, but perfectly erect. His dress was studiously plain, being composed entirely of blue cloth. A handsome Cashmere shawl was folded round his loins ; white silk stockings, yel- low slippers, and a white muslin turban, completed bis cos- tume. He wore no jewels of any kind upon his person— not even a ring; but the pipe which be held in his hand and oc- casionally applied to his lips was blazing with diamonds and other precious stones. He is decidedly a handsome old man; but his fine grey beard is hardly in keeping with his vivacity and personal activity. In the expression of his quick and piercing eye, there is more of jocoseness than cunning; and if bis high and ample forehead does not give the lie to the assertions of his detractors, it forms the exception to the rules of Snurz- Iteim; for never did I see the organ of benevolence " more strongly developed." A peculiarity in his mode of wearing the turban— close down over his eyes— takes off much from the fine character of bis countenance, concealing his handsome forehead, com- pressing the eyebrows, throwing the eyes into shade, and giving them a sinister expression, which is foreign to them. But when, in the course of conversation, be be- comes animated, and pushes back bis turban, which he has a habit of doing, the unfavourable impression is instantly removed. He conversed with much freedom, joked and laughed a great deal, and was evidently in a gossiping humour. Though he does not profess to understand the French lan- guage, yet it struck me that he bad some knowledge of it, from the manner in which he often anticipated the answers made to his observations, before the interpreter had trans- lated them into Turkish. Having been informed that I had lately travelled through the Delta, be asked me a variety of questions as to the route I had taken— what I thought of the state of cultivation, & c. I was rather amused, on one occasion, when the conversa- tion flagged for a moment, at his jokingly desiring the inter- preter to request the Consul. General to say something. " Son Altesse dit, dites quelque chose!" was the literal trans- lation of the terms in which this unregal, though sufficiently despotic command, was conveyed. Shortly after our arrival, we were presenled with some thick sugarless coffee, served up in filagree silver cupholders. richly set with brilliants. This, 1 was informed, was no considerable honour. The Chilboque is a mark of distinc- tion reserved for persons of very exalted rank, which, being estimated according to his Highness's ideas, is oftentimes rather ludicrously bestowed. As in all Turkish apartments, the furniture was very scanty, consisting merely of India chintz window curtains, and a divan round three sides of the room, the cushions of which were covered with the same materials. From the ceiling a very handsome cut- glass chandelier was suspended; and, on the floor, stood six massive silver candlesticks, with feet about a yard in diameter, and dis- posed in two rows, so as to form a kind of avenue leading up to the presence. A seventh, of a more portable size, was placed near the others, as I first thought, to make up the mystic number; seven; but I afterwards found that it was kept at hand to enable the Viccroy to read any papers that might be presented to him. Our visit lasted altogether about an hour. During the whole of that time, the apartment was open to all such per- sons as had the usual right of entree, as well as to those whose names had been given in, as requesting an audience — if foreigners, through the Consuls of their respective nations. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. TO AETOS. They who live in si trading' street are not disturbed at the noise of carts! So said the sage of his shrill- toned querulous fair moiety; so say I to my furious antagonist, who, though he has had time to cool his anger, is still in a fever heat, while my pulse beats calm as an infant's. There are three grand questions drawn up in battle array, which I will answer in winding up this con- troversy ; but there are other matters which call for replies, ere I present myself at so solemn an audit. V'ou ask, " why wouldst thou have it inferred that when an over- ruling Providence shall have ordained that they should have an abundant entrance, & c., that even then their affections would justify them in keep- ing out of thy Zion ?"— and " if they will be the best judges whether it will be a duty to conform to the de- crees of Providence, or to resist them ?" You strive to father this sublime reasoning upon me, and exclaim " admirable Theologian!" but it is your own dear image, my children bear a striking resemblance to the portrait below. I reply, that if an over- ruling Provi- dence should so decree that they should have an en- trance into our Zion, then they will assuredly enter the Church, it being impossible to prevent the decrees of Providence coining to pass; in which case the ne- cessity of judging whether it be a duty would not exist, as they would be under the control of heaven, and the same power which prompted them to embrace the Church would also make them willing converts. I never argued, as you have misrepresented, that they were the best judges whether they shall obey the de- crees of Providence,- but I still assert that they are the best judges whether it be a duty to enter the Church, until the time of so signal a dispensation shall arrive. I shall use no ironical epithets as you have done, my statement is sufficient to show that your nets cannot entangle me. You ask, " how they can examine that which has no existence, viz., the grounds of their dissent ?" What! no existence ? Surely so great a number of intelli- gent men as the Wesleyans would not move constantly, pertinaciously, and blindly, in any path without en- quiring and knowing whither it led. I cannot agree with you that they go plodding and blundering on over stumbling blocks and impediments without being sensible of them ; I should be rather inclined to think they have cleared their way. You say, " to justify dissent they should show that the way of the Church is a less excellent way than that of the conventicle." Now, as many of'them hap- pily do not seem to think it a less excellent way, I will put less out of the question, and suppose the separate excellencies to be on a par, in which case they would have no more reason to justify them in leaving their own society, than. Episcopalians would have in joining other denominations, because they dis- cerned equal excellencies in their modes of worship. It is not mere equality that can preponderate in the scale of judgment, it must be a more excellent way; but as to the less excellent way, Christians have enough to do to mind their own ways, without scan- ning the imperfections of others. As to the " pap- spoons and go- carts," I ween they have had as much to do in forming your associations as they have the Wesleyans; and if you are ingenuous you will admit that religious tenets imbibed in youth cling to us all in maturer years. """ Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it," says the wise man. The chief matter is, being pap- spooned and go- carted into good principles and made honest men. You put this question :—" Did Wesley ever profess to have discovered those symptoms of perfection, which the Church is now said to exhibit?" and then you say " if he had professed this, you think it likely he would have returm d." I reply, Wesley having the care of his own Church, or rather of many Churches, and having laboured more than any pastor since the days of St. Paul, had not a moment's respite from his anxious toils and intense solicitude to consider the perfections or imperfections of other Churches; he was wholly engrossed in forming, watching over, and di- recting, his own establishments till the hour of his death, and he manifested such zeal- and sincerity for the cause, that I think nothing less persuasive than an > el- tongues would have diverted him from the firm and settled purpose of his soul to fix Methodism upon a sure foundation. I still say it remains problematical whether he ever would have re- entered the Church, even if he had lived to see an assimilation to his own id. as of perfection. His energies, by the providence of God, were directed into another channel; and I firmly believe the Holy Spirit actuated his mind, and that at a time when religion suffered a general de- clension, ( not only in the Church but among Dis senters,) he was an instrument in reviving the dying embers, and fanning them into flames of pure devotion. If he had heard a good report of our Zion, and had not then fr> quentedher courts, you would have branded him as a " causeless and eternal schismatic ;" but my opinion is that the Church has profited by this " schismatic;" she has since looked well to her own garments, and the result is, that she is now " arrayed in vjhite." Her doctrines are, as they ever were, con- sonant to the word of God; and now happily no supineness in discipline exists. It will be time enough lor you " to drive stray sheep back" when you find them wandering upon the mountains;" at present they do not wander but are at rest, therefore I cannot " justify the endless wanderings" of yourself about ( he folds, because it seems as if you were bent upon stealing the sheep. If I " mustered my train," and, like " the King of France, marched up a hill and then came down again," without " firing a shot," it certainly had this advantage; I saw your squalid corps drawn up in phalanx through consternation, and their skeleton frames tottering beneath the heavy logs of their miser- able muskets, whose unproved barrels never discharged shots, lest they should burst; hence was seen nothing' but flash, and though the muskets were levelled at my train they went off in an opposite direction, enveloping your corps in their own smoke. It was not wonderful that my band upon a hill stood to enjoy so comical a spectacle, without wasting their powder and shot. Let his corps alone, said my " Majors," and they will slaughter themselves. It seems you are in doubt whether I am a " shepherd." As a churchman you must have a beautiful idea of the talents and theology of your ministers, if, for an in- stant, you could imagine the weakest logician amongst them capable of entertaining the absurdities you have so charitably attributed to me. With respect to my prefix, " Haud," I am content to resign it to you, on condition that you place it before your style and title; then instead of an eagle you will be no eagle, and I shall be what you please— it con- cerns me not! You have essayed to cement the " reductio ad absur- dum" to my arguments, which, despite of your skill, will not adhere. I wish I could apply the argumen- tum ad judicium to your deductions; I should then have reason to hail you as a brother having an insight into the nature of men and things, and who would not expect the world to be inverted in order to indulge in wayward fancies. I perceive the sand of the glass kindly furnished by the Editor is well nigh exhausted, and admonishes me to draw to a close; but how can I describe my feelings in contemplating this awful crisis, summoned, as I am, to undergo the ordeal of the dread trio of astound- ing questions which, with a voice of thunder, appal my ears ? But, ah ! the time is come, and I must answer. Q— 1. " Is Dissent, per se, an evil?" Sometimes it is, and sometimes it is not; for instance, it would not be an evil to the Church, if spies in the camp, who pass for brethren, were to quit her precincts. Q.— 2. " Have all the causes which made Dissent necessary disappeared ?" I fear not; one of the causes which keeps Dissenters aloof is, when professing- Churchmen misrepresent them. Vere tu ex ipsis es. Q.— 3. " Is it the duty of a Christian to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace ?" Undoubt- edly it is ; and for this reason, I think the Wesleyans should not break up their own religious community; it was upon this principle, no doubt, that Mr. Heeley acted in passing his disinterested eulogium upon the Church of England. HAUD RIXOSUS. P. S. In replying to the first question, I admit that I have not considered it abstractedly. If you try to break the " bond of peace," by proposing questions calculated to engender strife, it does not follow that I should be so indiscreet as to answer them. You well know that there is a long pro and con connected with jour perse; and that in giving illy opinion I might involve myself in interminable disputes with others, to which I am at all times disinclined. Your gins set in the day- light are too visible to catch game. You would glory in setting all Christendom by the ears. ST. PHILIP'S CHURCH. " If we assemble the beauties of the edifice which covers a rood of ground, the spacious area of the Church- yard, occupying four acres, ornamented with walks in great per- fection, shaded with trees in double and treble ranks, sur- rounded with buildings in elegant taste, perhaps its equal cannot be found in the British dominions."— HUTTON. MR. EDITOR,— In availing myself of the advantage of your columns to offer some remarks on St. Philip's Church and Church- yard, I purpose, for the present, to abstain from expressing' any opinion as to the legal authority of parties, to deprive the public of any par- ticular walk, but to consider the subject of the pro- posed changes as a matter of taste, involving the pre- servation or destruction of an arrang- ement which has for very many years afforded great satisfaction and pleasure to inhabitants and strangers, and which so justly called forth the eulogium of our observant his- torian. St. Philip's Church was finished in 1719, and is situated on the most eligible spot for such an edifice that the town affords, nor could a more favourable situation be desired ; every approach to it is by ascent, and there is no danger but from unpardonable neglect, or want of judgment on the part of its parochial offi- cers, of the splendid effect of a noble pile so situated, being deteriorated by an unavoidable accumulation of earth in the burial ground, by which it is surrounded. We have recently, however, witnessed the introduction of numbers of cart loads of rubbish, by which walks have been raised, and tomb stones buried, instead of a judicious removal of superfluous soil from portions of the Church- yard where an accumulation had taken place. For a long time no other boundary than that indi- cated by the rows of trees, distinguished tiie agree- able and ornamental walks, which the goad taste of our ancestors had caused to surround the burial ground, and by such planting had manifested their desire not only to embellish, but also to perpetuate. They were conscious, that not for themselves, but for those who would live ages after them, were they pro- viding- a source of pleasure and enjoyment, which no improvement in art or science would enable them to effect for themselves, and whilst they took care to pre- vent the habitations of a rapidly increasing popula- tion from approaching too near the TEMPLE, which their piety and liberality had erected, they adopted means' to render its vicinity of increasing beauty and splendour. May we have the wisdom and the grace to preserve the advantages that have descended to us ! Nor were the cross- walks or approaches to the Church at first railed out, these, indeed, have been subjected to changes; originally there was an entrance and walk from Needless- alley towards the Church; Union- street was not then laid out, neither was Church- street on the opposite side; in course of time, as these streets rendered approaches from such points desirable, they were made, and others discontinued, amongst them, the one from Needless- alley, and one leading from the front entrance to the Parsonage- house towards the Church. The opening of Waterloo- street, suggests the propriety and necessity of an entrance at the south- western angle, corresponding with one at the north- western angle of the Churchi- yard, rendering the Southern avenue an agreeable foot- path for the whole of that side of Temple- row. Under all circumstances and alterations the beautiful avenues around have, till the present time, been held inviolate by successive wardens and other authorities, and I yet trust that public spirit will preserve them from meditated destruction It is the assemblage of the beauties of the edifice and the ornamental grounds in so favourable a situation, that Mr. Hutton pro- nounced to be unequalled in the British dominions, and it is this assemblage that is now sought, wantonly and wickedly in my opinion, to be destroyed by those whose duty it is, and whose pride it ought to be, ti preserve and to improve them. It is from the sur- rounding walks that the splendid structure has been so agreeably and advantageously contemplated and ad- mired by strangers and by natives; from thence the artist and amateur,— his view unobstructed by any outrageous prison- like fences,— has aforetime not only contemplated it as a whole, but been enabled to trace every architectural member of the body of the edifice, from the plinth of the pedestals of the Doric pilasters, to the urns on the battlements, as distinctly as lie would those of the tower from its base to the vane by which the cupola is surmounted. When the first meeting was held for the promotion of a subscription to repair the walks in the Church- yard, the public were assured that no intention of stopping- up these avenues or destroying the general effect existed, that preserva- tion was the object sought to be accomplished, and, on the faith of such assurance, money was raised ; but we are now informed that it is intended to close these walks, and deprive the public of their wonted pleasure and enjoy- ment. The alterations already effected in the intersect- ing walks appear to have been directed by the wardens and sidesmen of St. Philip's with a ground plan no doubt before them, but assuredly with a total oblivion of the elevation of the structure, and in contempt of every consideration of pleasing pictorial effect. Such alterations, and the further reform of the Church- yard by the destruction of the outer walks, and the advan- tage which I have attributed to the enjoyments of them, are, Mr. Editor, some of the miscalled improve- ments, planned, and, I am sorry to say, in part exe- cuted, by the officers of St. Philip's, and which, it appears, that a Committee of Taste, appointed by the Commissioners, to guard I presume, the interests of the town, reported that, after clue consideration, they had acceded to, and which they recommended the body not to oppose, but, on the contrary, to become actors in a piece of jugglery by which the town may be forced to contribute to the expensive deterioration of " the pride of the place." With your permission, Mr. Editor, I will resume my remarks on this painful sub- ject in a future journal. I remain, & c. 15, Ann- street. HENRY KNIGHT. POOR LAWS. No 4. There is one point touching the new law concerning bastardy, which I omitted to notice in my last. It is represented by the opponents of the new law as an in- tolerable grievance that the mother should be com- pelled, if able, to support her illeg- itimate offspring. First, iu answer to this objection, I would observe, that under the old law the same practice was observed in this respect as under the new. In Bucks, accord- ing to the evidence of Mr. Russell and Mr. Whately, and iu Nottinghamshire, according to Mr. Cowell, the plan of allowing the mother just as much as would suffice for the keep of the child, without reference to the sum paid by the father, that is, just so much as if she had been a widow instead of a wanton, she would have received, was tried, and with the most absolute success. The new law, in fact, does nothing more than piace the mother of an illegitimate child, and the widow who has a legitimate child, on the same footing. Can the most exigent friend of frailty ask for more ? I call it frailty, it is almost always vice, but be it the one or the other, surely no law cau be more pernicious than that which heaps favour upon weakness or error, while it metes out severe and scanty j ustice to the honest and upright. The next point of the new law which has been most severely blamed, is the treatment it prescribes for the out- door poor. I will show, very briefly, the manner in which the out- door poor were managed under the old law, before I proceed to notice their treatment under the new, merely premising one thing, namely, that it is quite a mistaken notion that the new law does not recogoise the principle of out- door poor. It does not, I admit, approve of it, but it distinctly admits it, and specially provides for its application, both as respects the impotent and the able- bodied poor. In some cases under the old law relief to the out- door poor was administered in the most straightforward and least troublesome way. To every man and his wife there was a certain allowance, the amount being calculated by the price of bread for the time, and for each child until it was seventeen years of age, there was also an allowance calculated in the same way. It does not appear that there was any previous inquiry as to the necessities of the applicant, nor subsequent to the application any attempt at supervision. Mr. Huish, overseer of St. Georg'e's, Southwark, remarks, that if they should employ one man to watch every twenty paupers, it would even then be impossible to ascertain whether they were im- posed on or not. Of the tendency of the system of out- door relief to extend itself, the same witness gives a sig- nificant example. " Not long- since," says he, " a very young woman, a widow, named Cope", who is not more than twenty years of age, applied for re- lief ; she had only one child. After she had obtained relief, I had some suspicion that there was some- thing about this young- woman not like many others. I spoke to her, and pressed her to tell me the real truth, as to how so decent a young woman as herself came to us for relief; she replied she was " gored" into it. That was her expression. I asked her what she meant by being- gored into it. She stated that where she was living there were only five cottages, and that the inhabitants of four out of five of these cottages were receiving relief, two from St. Saviour's and two from Newington parish. They had told her that she ivas not worthy of living in the same place unless she had relief too !" That a wholesale system of receiving out- door relief should lead to the most reckless improvi- dence, is quite natural. In one parish in the Bedford level, from certain local demands for labour, a la- bourer's family were enabled to earn from £ 60 to £' 70 a year. Yet a day or two's frost would send all the la- bourers in the parish to the poor's fund. When the magistrates were remonstrated with for ordering relief under such circumstances, the answer was—" Why, what are we to do? They spend it all, and then come and say they are starving and you must relieve them." Mr. Stuart notices a case of nine men who, having earned 15s. a piece in three days by task work, came upon the overseers for the other three, during- which they happened to be without a job. A more round- about system of out- door relief was the sys em of " roundsmen" as they were called. The parish in this case made a bargain with a farmer, or any one w ho wanted labourers, to supply him with a certain num- ber at a fixed price, the parish making up the differ- ence. In some instances the labourers were put up to auction ! In a parish in Northamptonshire [ Mr. Ri- chardson's Report] the paupers were sold to the high- est bidder once a month, the price varying according to the time of the year and the value of the article from Is. 6d. to 3s. a head. The clergyman of Yardly, Hastings, mentioned lo Mr. Richards bis having- seen a lot of 70 knocked down at 6d. per head per week ! Such was the creditable estimate of the labouring poor under the old law. Neither of the plans I have no- ticed is in strict accordance with the 43rd Eliz. which distinctly provides that, unless for the impotent poor, all relief shall be paid with an adequate return of la- bour. Agreeably to this provision there was a third mode of providing labour for the poor, namely, by the overseers themselves on the part of the public. It must be confessed that this last form did, at no time, constitute but a small part of the whole. By • he returns of 1832, while £ 6,685,000 were expended in the maintenance of out- poor, in various wav s, and til the maintenance of the poor, who cm not or could not work, only £ 354,000 were paiil lor parish work of every kind on the roads and in the house also. The causes of this small proportion arc i . I' « r to seek. They inay be expressed in one » t rd, u hi. h Mrs. Hamilton's well- known novel has rtn ed familiar to southern as well as northern ears— j . 1 contrive labour, and to see it executed, w- , to the parish authorities, a source of irksomeu which they mxiously sought to avoid ; and it » as only where the task was forced upon them that mey were reluct- antly prevailed on to undergo it. The nature of the Barometer at noon. Ex- treme during night. Ther- mome. ter 8 morn. Extreme heat during day. Ther- mome. ter at noon. State of Wind at noon. Remarks at « oon. Feb. 53 0 11 30 45 42 0 48 0 50 0 SW ltaiu 29 60 58 0 44 0 48 0 42 0 W Rain 13 29 50 38 0 48 0 52 0 50 0 SW Rain 14 29 65 40 0 48 0 52 0 4! i 0 w Rain 15 2!) 85 35 0 44 0 48 0 46 0 SW Rain Iti 29 80 46 0 50 0 56 0 52 0 SW Fair 17 30 0 45 0 60 0 54 0 48 0 W Fair work assigned to paupers, under the old act, could hardly have charms for those who decry the new. Every one can remember the outcry raised some years ago against the mode of employing paupers in some parts of Suffolk ( if I remember aright) where they were yoked to gravel carts like so many beasts of bur- den ! The lighter employments do not seem to have been, with the employed, any more desirable than the heavier. At Manchester, Warwickshire, ( I like to take my examples as near home as possible,) the magistrates would not allow the paupers to be em- ployed by the parish for more than three days a week; they were employed the other three in poaching and thieving; andsoou became so infamous that, when work was plentiful, nobody would accept of their services! I shall, in my next, notice the system of out- door relief to the impotent, as well ' as the interior regulations of the old workhouses. S. BIRMINGHAM MARKET. Com Market, Februaiy 16. A moderate supply of Wheat, with a good quantity of all other lands of Grain to this day's market. Old and new Wheat in good condition rather exceeded the terms of last week, while soft inferior samples might be bought at less money.— Burley, both malting and grinding, a very flat sale at a reduction of is. to 2s. per quarter.— Oats, of which the greater part were in very bad condition, were almost unsaleable,— Beans and Peas a dull sale at 6d. per bag less money. WHEAT—/) er G2lbs. s. d. s. d. Old 7 0- 7 !) New 7 0 — 7 G Irish o o — fl 6 BARLEY— po- Imp. Quarter. For Malting 38 0 — 41 0 For Grinding, per iQlbs 4 2 — 4 6 M ALT— per Imperial llushel. Old and new 8 0 — 9 0 OATS— per 39/ 6 » . Old 3 6 — 3 9 .. 3 6 — 3 10 .. 2 9 — 3 3 New Irish liEANS— per bag, 10 score gross, s. d. s. d. Old 19 0 — 21 0 Neiv 17 0— 18 0 PEAS— per bag of 3 Hush. Imp. FOE BOILING. While 20 0 — 21 0 Grey 17 0 — 19 0 FOII GRINDING. per bag of 10 score 18 0 — 20 6 New 17 0— 18 6 FLOU it— per sack » / 280/ is. net. Fine 48 0 — 50 0 Seconds 42 0 — 45 0 Hay Market, February 14. The supply of Hay was good; of Straw rather short. Hay, £ 6 10a. to £ 1 per ton ; Straw, 4s. 3d. to 4s. 8d. per cwt. TOWN INFIRMARY, FEBRUARY 17— Surgeon of the week, Mr. Rylaud. Patients admitted, 15; discharged, 15; in the house, 138; Out- patients visited and in attendance, 1001. Midwifery cases, 1. GENERAL HOSPITAL, FEBRUARY 17.— Ptiysician andSurgeon of the Patients of the week, Dr. Male and Mr. Jukes. Visitors, Mr. William Harrold and Mr. J. James. In- patients admitted, 28; out, 119. In- patients discharged, 32; out, 57. Remaining in the house, 174, BIRMINGHAM DISPENSARY, FEBBUARY 17.— Siclt patients relieved, 349; midwifery cases, 20. STATE OF THE WORKHOUSE UP TO FEB. 14. Wo. INFANTS. Men, men, Boys. Girls. Male. Fein. Total 164 166 7 20 8 It 376 Admitted since .... 15 13 2 3 2 4 39 Born in the House - 179 179 9 23 10 15 415 Dischgd, absconded, • 40 10 13 6 4 7 169 166 9 17 6 8 375 Number of Cases relieved last week 2,604 Number of Children in the Asylum... 194 * Of whom 4 men, 2 women, and 2 female infants died. METEOROLOGICAL DIARY. FURNISHEDBY MR. WOLLEN, BDOBASTON- 8TREET. MARRIAGES. On the 4th inst., at St. Philip's Church, Mr. William Smith, to Miss Ann Woodhart, both of Little Hampton- street. On the 14th inst., at Harborne, William Davis, of Great Hampton- row, to Emma Louisa, eldest daughter of Mr. Thomas Leonard, of Constitution- hill. On the 6th ult., at Edgbaston, Mr. James Suckling, to Miss Maria Napson. On the 15th instant, at St. Thomas's Church, by the Rev. W. Marsh, Mr. R. Hicks, eldest son of C. Hicks, Esq., solicitor, of Shrewsbury, to Miss E. Cooksey, of Broad- street, Islington. On Friday last, at All Saints' Leicester, by the Rev. Dr. Fancourt, T. Kenrick, Esq., of Oakley, West Bromwich, to Maria, eldest daughter of T. 1' aget, Esq., of the Eriar's Causeway. DEATHS. On Sunday last Eliza, wife of Theophilus Richards, Esq., of Handsworth Hall. On Sunday last, aged 72, Mr. Joseph Cattell, of Copt- heath, father of the late Mr. flenry Cattell, of this town. On the 9th inst., aged 69, Nancy, wife of James Haden, of Shad well- street. On the lltli ult., after a long illness, aged 27, Elizabeth, wife of Mr. John Fallows, of Monmouth- street, in this town. On the 14th inst., at the house of his brother- in- law, Mr. S. Passey, 148, Moor- street, William, second son of the late Rev. W. Bradley, of Coleford, Gloucestershire. On the 15th inst., at Thrapston, Northamptonshire, in his 89th year, Mr. William Hawkins, formerly of this town. On the 5th inst., in the 73rd year of her age, Frances Joyce, relict of the late Mr. Samuel Joyce. On the 11th inst., at Wordesley, Mr. Benjamin Evans, aged 63 On the 11th inst., Mr. Samuel Ensor, of Hockley- hill, aged 74. On the 15th inst., at Handsworth, Maria, wife of Mr. Thomas Remmett, of the Soho, aged 58. On the 27th ult., Mrs. Mary Clare, of Bristol- street, aged 68. Lately, at Hill Top, West Bromwich, Mr. Thomas Hodson, aged 87; Mary Martin, aged 84; Elizabeth Harriet, sister to the above, aged 78; and Mr. James Fnlwood, aged 88. On the 7th inst., at Worilsley, Mr. J. Bond, aged 66. On the 31st ult., at the residence of Mr. Horn, of Wood- row, Chadtlesley Corbett, Mr. Thomas Rogers, aged 67, formerly of London. On the 11th inst., after a lingering illness, aged 29, John Wells, youngest son of Mr. Thomas Wells, of Lawley- street. On the 7th inst., in his 16th year, William, second son of Mr. Abraham Nurse, of Sapcote, Leicestershire. On the 12th inst., in his 73rd year, A. Ashmore, Esq., of Yard ley On the 12th inst., deeply regretted by all who knew her, Maria, relict of the late Mr. J. Boyce, of Bradford- street, aced 71. On Friday week, at Leamington, after a short illness, Mrs K. Ketland, widow of the late T. Ketland, Esq., of tin* town. On Monday week, aged 77, Mr. Joseph Biddle, of Bir- mmghnin Heath. OH Wednesday, at West Bromwich, aged 68, Mary, relict of Mr. John Hood, of that place, and formerly of Ludgate- hill. of this town. On Saturday last, in the 81st year of her age, Mrs. Pal- let!, relict of Mr. C. Pallett, of Weeford, in the county of Staff, it'it. - vv ! On the 10th in- t a Leamington, aged 33, James Duff, Rsi|.. or Inncs Utilise. Elgin, son of General Sir James Duff II1 Huntiiitfdon Sussex. ()<> Wednesday week, at his residence, Edgbaston House, \ iil'Hin Francis, E- q. On Ilonday week, Mr. Thomas Hipwood, of VauxhaH ro* e, ak'ed 48. () Tuesday wee , aged 71, Mary, wife of Mr. Thomas VViHul, ol New . VI PHI ^- street. in ' omlay week at the house of her sister, Mrs. Penn^ f F.• IBI- I- IOII, Mr- . line Bullock, formerly of Walsall, in ii i - l- i \ ear. () vi,'> nday week a'ler a few day's illness of influenza, in rti7 i yi ur. \ nnf, > I'Cof Mr. Septimus Davis, auctioneer, P > tecror Cottaiic. . Vest Bromwich. () Saturday last. Wr. Aylesbury, surgeon, of Stafford, eil 56. Hi. the 4th inst.. > it Park- place, Aston, Lieut. George lani > v. aueil 67. ii. f uir- day week in her 56th year, Mary, wife of Mr. IN, Hiimlley. of Great Barr. On the 2nd inst. at his residence, Aspley House, Staf- iiNltire, Richaid Ciadock, Esq., in the 70th year of his THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. / LONDON GAZETTES. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. FEB. 8.— MATTHIAS FOWLER, Symington, wine- raorcliant. FEB. 9 THOMAS FORDHAM, Leadenhall- market, City, poul- terer. FEB. 9.— GEORGE POCOCK, 37, Booth- street, Spitalfields, manu- facturing chemist. FEB. 10.— JAMES ROSTRON, late of New York, merchant, but now of Edenfield, Lancashire. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. JOHN WILSON WTLLIAMS, Liverpool, timber- meicliaut, February 22, at the Clarendon- rooms, Liverpool. BANKRUPTS. £ The Bankrupts to surrender at the Court of Commissioners, Basing. hall- street, when not otherwise expressed. 3 HENRY WOODTHORPE, Avely, Essex, grocer, February 20 and March 24. Sol. Mr. John Sandell, 22, Bread- street, Cheapside. Pet. Cr. William Cobbold Woodthorp, Fan's- farm, Avely, Essex, yooman. Seal. February 8. THOMAS CHANDLER, Wood. street, Cheapsido, and City- terrace, City- road, warehouseman, February 17 and March 24. Sols. Messrs. Willis, Bower, and Willis, Tokenliouse- yard. Pet. Cr. • Charles William Tabor, Lewis Lloyd, Samuel James Lloyd, Ed- • ward Lloyd, and Lewis Lloyd, jun., Lothbury, bankers. Seal. February 8. NATHANIEL BINGHAM, 42, Old Bond. street, surgeon, February 17 and March 24. Sols. Messrs. Gresham and Miller, Castle- street, Holborn. Pet. Cr. Charles Biugham, Claremont. terrace, Penton- ville, gent. Seal. February 7. JOSEPH WEST, High- street, Shoreditch, grocer, February 17and March 24. Sols. Messrs. Oliverson, Denby, and Lavie, Frederick's- place, Old Jewry. Pet. Cr. John Salmon, Botolph- lane, mer- chant. Seal. January 25. JOHN BARNETT, Stourport, Worcestershire, Severn carrier, February 20 and March 24, at the Black Horse Inn, Kidder- minster. Sols. Mr. Michael, 9, Red Lion. square, London ; Messrs. J. B. and T. Hyde, Worcester ; and Messrs. Bird and Saunders, Kidderminster. Pet. Cr. Jonathan Worthington, Moorhill House, near Stourport, Esq. Seal. January 24. JAMES BROOKSBANK HIGGS and THOMAS GAY RANS- FORD, Manchester, hat- manufacturers, March 4 and 24, at the Coromissioners'- rooms, Manchester. Sols. Messrs. Johnson, Son, and Weatherall, Temple, London ; and Messrs. Seddon and Maw- son, Manchester. Pet. Cr. George Hall, Manchester, one of the registered officers of the Northern and Central Bank of England. Seal. February 3. CALEB RADCLIFFE BURY, Hulme, Manchester, drjsalter, March 4 and 21, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester. Sols. Messrs. Johnson, Son, and Weatherall, Temple, London j and Messr?. Seddon and Mawson, Manchester. Pet. Cr. George Hall, Manchester, one of the public officers of the Northern and Central Bank of England. Seal. January 31. JOSEPH LANCASHIRE, Wirksworth, Derbyshire, currier, Fe- bruary 28 and March 24, at the George and Commercial Inn, Wirksworth. Sols. Messrs. Adlington, Gregory, Faulkner, and Follett, 1, Bedford- row, London; and Mr. Hubbersty, Wirks- worth. Pet. Cr. Edward Wheatcroft, Matlock Bath, currier. Seal. February 2. JOHN ROBERT GREER, St. Stephen's- avenue, Bristol, provision merchant, February 20 and March 24, at the Commercial- rooms, Bristol. Sols. Messrs. Mackinson and Sanders, Middle Temple, London ; and Mr. John Kerle Haberfield, Nicholas- street, Bristol. Pet. Cr. George Thomas, Bristol, wholesale grocer. Seal. Fe- bruary 4. " WILLIAM BODMAN, Bristol, tallow- chandler, February 24 and March 24, at the Commercial- rooms, Bristol. Sols. Messrs. Makinson and Sanders, Middle Temple, London ; and Mr. John Kerle Haberfield, Bristol. Pet. Cr. William Orchard Gwyer and Joseph Gwyer, Bristol, merchants. Seal. February 2. DIVIDENDS. William Field, Brighton, carpenter, March 7— Otto Jacob George Hawkins, Upper Belgrave- street, Hanover- square, boarding- house- keeper, March 10— Thomas Carter, 31, Cateaton- 6treet, City, cloth- factor, March 3— John Paul, late of Newport, Isle of Wight, miller, March 3— John Gledhill Lee, Leeds, carpet- manufacturer, March 8, at the Court- house, Leeds— Job Whiteliouse the younger, Leaming- ton, coal- dealer, March 4, at the Crown Inn, Leamington— William Thompson, Henry Leonard, and Richard Brookholding Dawes, Aston, near Birmingham, factors, March 7, at Radenhurst's Royal Hotel, Birmingham— James Ererard, late of Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, farmer, March 3, at the George Hotel, North- ampton— James Beestou, Drayton. in. Hales, Salop, March 2, at the Phcenix Inn, Drayton - in- Hales— Robert Meaden, Manchester, inn- keeper, March 25, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester— Robert TWiuterbottom, Fur- lane, Saddleworth, Yorkshire, woollen- manufac- turer, March 10, at the Commissioners' - rooms, Manchester John Haycock Walduck, late of Birmingham, dealer in wines, March 3, at Dee's Royal Hotel, Birmingham - Joseph Wakeford, William " Wakeford, and Robert Wakeford, Andover, bankers, March 9, at the Star Inn, Andover— James Frankland, Liverpool, merchant, March 4, at the Clarendon- rooms, Liverpool— Thomas Daniell, now or late of Boulogne, France, copper- smelter, April 4, at Pearce's Hotel, Cornwall. CERTIFICATES, MARCH 3. Adam Berry, King- street, Portman. square, poulterer— Richard Smith, 109, Regent- street, woollen- draper— Henry Cooper, 26, Lon- don- street, Ratcliff, Hour- factor— John James, Love- street, Uristol grocer— John Gilbert Lynch, Macclesfield- wharf, New North- road, coal- merchant— George Petitt, Rotherhithe, carpenter and builder— Neheraiah Gerrard and John Gerrard, Manchester, cotton- spinners — James Hill, Montague- mews, Montague- square, hackney- man— Thomas Burrow, Stanley, Stoke- upon- Trent, Staffordshire, grocer — Michael Fowler, Bushey, Herts, cattle- dealer— Richard Witherby, Nicholas- lane, City, merchant. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Jacob Jeans and Jacob Cole, Bridge- street, Westminster, hatters — Matthew Wilson, James Wilson, and Christopher Wilson, Dar- lington, Durham, shag and stuff- manufacturers— Eli Woollright and John Black well, St James's- street, Brighton— James Crabb, James Raddon Crabb, and F rancis Raddon Crabb, Spring- hill, Hants, schoolmasters ( so far as regards the said Francis Raddon Crabb) Johu Cunnington and Desborough Walford, Braintree, Essex, at- torneys— John Jowett and Joshua Jowett, Bradford, Yorkshire, worsted- stuff- manufacturers— Benjamin Bennett and James War- burton, Clement's- court, Milk- street, City, warehousemen— John Gradwell and George Gradwell, Preston, Lancashire, corn- mer. chants— Money Fisher and Frederick Richard Fisher, New Sarum, " Wiltshire, builders— William Fairhurst, John Johnson, Edward Tilston, James Smith, and Walter Coffield, Liverpool and Chester, carriers by water— John Chamberlin and Clark Irving, 8, Ludgatel hill, City, drapers— Ebenezer Southworth and James Fletcher, Ley. land, Lancashire, bleachers— Samuel Bevington, Henry Bevington, James Buckingham Bevington, George Bevington, and Timothy Bevington, Bermondsey, leather- sellers ( so far as regards Timothy Bevington)— Edward Kirby, Edmund Goodwin, aud Julius L. Polack, Manchester, foreign aud general commission agents— Ed- mund Turner aud John Penberthy Mngor, Truro, Cornwall, bankers — John Taite, sen., and John Taite, jun., 228, Oxford. street, tailors — Jeffery Blackler Blackallei and William Short, Liverpool, sail- makers— Josiali Ansell and John Crowe, 4, Mount- street, and 12 IVIount- row, Grosvenor- square, carpenters— William Scott and John F. Marsh, 51, Percival. street, Northampton- square, working jewellers— Joshua Robinson and James Leacy, Liverpool, salesmen — Thomas Turner, Johu Yeomans, and Jered Yates, Sheffield, mer- chants— John Macmillan and John Cunninghame, Greenock, ship- chandlers— Archibald Glen and William Henry Dobie, Glasgow. ASSIGNMENTS. John Davies, Shoreditch, draper. Joseph Pomfret, Preston, Lancashire, draper and clothier. James Smith and John Broad, Reading, furniture- brokers. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. Joseph Dods, Edinburgh, grocer. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. " WILLIAM WRIGHT, Harrow- on- the- Hill, banker. BANKRUPTS. JOHN CHISHOLM, 2, Abchurch. yard, City, dentist, February 21 and March 28. Sol. Mr. F. Jeyes, 69, Chancery- lane. Pet. Cr Robert Robinson and John Robinson, Welbeck- street, upholsterers, Seal. February 11. WILLIAM LONGSTAFF and WILLIAM HENRY LONG. STAFF, 13, Bury- street, St. James's, Middlesex, tailors, February 23 and March 28. Sol. Mr. S. B. Jackson, 1, New inn, Strand Pet. Cr. Michael LongBtaff, Saint Paul's Cliurch- yard, woollen, draper. Seal. February 8. DESIRE DELLIER, Berners. street, Oxford- street, upholsterer February 22 and March 28. Sols. Messrs. Bailey, Smith, and Shaw, Berners- street, Oxford- street. Vet. Cr. Thomas Clarkson and Henry Turner, Coventry, furniture printers. Seal. February 11. JAMES WIGGINS, High Holborn, woollen. draper, February 24 and March 28. Sol. Mr. George Cox, Bush- lane, Cannon. street. Pet. Cr. John Drake, Russia- row, Milk- street, warehouseman Seal January 30. ALFRED TULLY, Church- street, Hackney, grocer, February 21 and March 28. Sols. Messrs. Bennett and Paul, 30, Bucklersbur y, Pet. Cr. John Webb, Colbrook. cottage, Colbrook- row, Middlesex aoda. water- manufacturer. Seal. F bruary 7. JOHN SHINDLER, Brompton, Kent, butcher, February 22 and March 28. Sols. Messrs. It. M. and C. Baxter, 48, Lincoln's- inn fields. Yet. Cr. Frederick Gurden, Chatham, gent. Seal. Fe. bruary 4. WILLIAM MASON, Pickett- street, Strand, bookseller, February 22 and March 28. Sols. Messrs. Le Blanc, Oliver, and Cook, 18. New Bridge- street, Blackfriars. Yet. Cr. William Elliott Oliver New Bridge- street, gent., ( executor of Thomas Cadell, deceased) Seal. February 11. THOMAS WARR, late of Allweston, Dorset, since of Blandford Forum, builder, March 6 and 28, at the Greyhound Inn, Blandford Forum. Sols Mr. Edwin Newman, Yeovil, Somerset ; and Messrs. Berford, Temple. Yet. Cr. Robert Leach, Martock, Somersetshire, gent. Seal. January 19. JOHN SYKES BRAMHALL, Bristol, cutler, March 3 and 28, at the Commercial- rooms, Corn- street, Bristol. Sols. Messrs. White and Whitmore, Bedford- row; and Messrs. Bevan and Brittan, Bristol. Yet. Cr. Henry Stephen Winter, Bristol, comb- manu- facturer. Seal. February 9. JOSEPH SAUL, Green- row, Holme Cullram, Cumberland, school- master, February 24 and March 28, at the Globe Inn, Cocker- mouth, Cumberland. Sols. Mr. George Capes, 5, Raymond's, buildings, Gray's- inn ; and Messrs. G. and S. Saul, Carlisle. Yet. Cr. Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, bookseller. Seal. February 4. HENRY DUNN, Manchester, provision- dealer, February 23 and March 28, at the Commissioners' rooms, Manchester. Sols. Messrs. Hume and Maude, 8, Great Winchester- street, London ; and Mr. James Barratt, jun., 3, Town- hall- buidlings, King- street, Man- chester. Yet. Cr. John Barratt and Samuel Barratt, Manchester, corn- merchants. Seal. February 2. GEORGE WILLS HEARLE, Devonport, Devonshire, printer, February 25 and March 28, at Elliot's Royal Hotel, Devonport. Sols. Mr. Henry Hickman Barnes, Ely- placo, Holborn, London; aud Mr. John Beer, Devonport. Pet. Cr. Henry Gilbard, Devon- port, linen- draper. Seal. January 20. JOSEPH SUFFIELD, Leicester, brace- manufacturer, February 24 and March 28, at the Caatle, Leicester. Sols. Mr. Richard Luck, Leicester; and Messrs. Taylor and Son, 14, John- street, Bedford- row, London. Pet. Cr. John Briggs Robinson and Frederick Scudamore Robinson, Leicester, woolstaplers. Seal. January 31. WILLIAM HOLTOM, Leamington- priors, Warwickshire, builder, February 28 and March 28, at the Lansdowne Hotel, Leamington- priors. Sols. Messrs. Taylor, Turner, Sharpe, and Field, 41, Bed- ford- row, London ; and Messrs. Haynes and Bloore, Warwick. Pet. Cr. John Manning, Leamington. priors, builder. Seal. Fe- bruary 6. JAMES GRAY the elder, Manchester, paper- manufacturer, Fe- bruary 23 and March 28, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester. Sols. Messrs. Adlington, Gregory, Faulkner, and Follett, Bedford- row, London; and Mr. Hart, Town- hall- buildings, Cross- street, King- street, Manchester. Pet. Cr. John Scott, Manchester, paper dealer. Seal. February 4. WILLIAM ROOM, Manchester, picker- manufacturer, February 28 and March 28, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester. Sols. Messrs. Adlingtou, Greaory, Faulkner, and Follett, Bedford. row, London ; and Mr. Hart, Town- hall- buildings, Cross- street, King- Btreet, Manchester. Pet. Cr. John Waring, Liverpool, hide- merchant. Seal. February 4. WILLIAM GEE, Nottingham, lace- manufacturer, February 25 and March 25, at the Georg.* the Fourth Inn, Nottingham. Sols. Messrs. Percy, Smith, and Percy, Nottingham; and Messrs. Austen and Hobson, Raymond's- buildings, Gray's- inn, London. Pet. Cr. Henry Percy, Nottingham, gent., one of the public officers of the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Com- pauy ( indebted unto the said Banking Company). Seal. February 3. OSEPH BUSSELL the younger, Taunton, Somersetshire, tailor, March 10 and 28, at the George Inn, Taunton. Sols. Messrs. Austen and Hobson, Gray's- inn, London; and Mr. Shillibar, Tauuton. Pet. Cr. William Parkhouse, Taunton, St. Mary Mag- dalen, cooper, and lately also of the same place, cooper and vic- tualler, and John Knott, of the same place, butcher. Seal. Fe- bruary 6. JOHN BIRKS PIGOTT, Darlington, Durham, linen manufacturer, February 23 and March 28, at the King's Head Inn, Barnard Castle. Sols. Messrs. Tilsons, Squance, and Tilson, 29, Coleman- street, London; and Mr. Allison, Darlington. Pet. Cr. Edward Parker Toulmin and Charles Parker, Darlington, bleachers. Seal. February 7. BOBERT THATCHER and WILLIAM THATCHER, New Mills, Derbyshire, cotton- spinners, February 25 and March 23, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester. Sols. Mr. John Law, Piccadilly, Manchester; and Messrs Adlington and Co., Bedford, row, London. Pet. Cr. Thomas Hulton, Manchester, cotton, merchant. Seal. February 2. SAMUEL BROWN and JAMES CHEETHAM, Manchester, com- mission- agents, February 25 and March 28, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester. Sofs. Messrs. Milne, Parry, Milne, and Morris, Temple, Loudon; and Mr. Edward Bent, St. Ann's, square, Manchester. Pet. Cr. Robert Redford and George Barnard, Manchester, commission agents and manufacturers. Seal. Fe. bruary 8. DANIEL DAKEGNE and THOMAS WANKL\ N, Manchester, flax- spinners, February 25 and March 21, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester. Sols. Messrs. Higsort and Son, Cross- street, Manchester ; and Messrs. Johnson, Son, and Weatherall, Temple, London. Pet. Cr. James Grugeon, Manchester, one of the public officers of the Commercial Bank of England. Seal. February 6. DIVIDENDS. Solomon Harris, 23, Wardour- street, Soho, timber- merchant, March 9— Samuel Roberts, Hastings, Sussex, shoemaker, March 9— Thomas Whytall, Upper- street, Islington, cabinet- maker, March 8— ' horaas Martin, now or late of Croydon, Surrey, linen- draper, March 8— John Haylmore, now or late of Abchurch- lane, London, currier, March 9— John Tinker Tidd and John Mallandaine, late of the Marlborough- road, Chelsea, candle. manufacturers, March 9- Francis Iveson, Beverly, Yorkshire, Marc 23, at the Beverley Arms Inn— William Wright, Rougham, Norfolk, horse- dealer, March 10, at the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich— Iidertou John Weatherley, New- castle- upon- Tyne, merchant, March 3, at the Bankrupt Commission, room, Newcastle- upou- Tyne— Samuel Cooke, Salford, Lancashire, timber- merchant, March 8, at the Commissioners'. rootns, St. James's- square, Manchester— George Combes, Chichester, common- brewer, March 10, at the Anchor Inn, Chichester— William Bryant Allen, Clapton, Somersetshire, tanner, March 9, at the Bull Inn, Bridport, Dorset— Edward Bevan and Michael Yates, Bristol, merchants, March 18, at the Commercial- rooms, Corn- street, Bristol— Gerard Co well, Manchester, aud John Acton, the younger, Wigan, Lan. cashire, cotton- spinners, March 24, at the Comrnissioners'- rooms, St. James' 8- square, Manchester— James Ennis Rose, Bath, haberdasher, March 15, at the White Lion Inn, Bath— John Chorley, late of Liverpool, merchant, March 15, at the office of Messrs. Leigh and Sanders, Basnett- street, Liverpool— Martin Charles Grafton, Al. cester, Warwickshire, tanner, March 10, at the Red Horse Inu, Stratford- upon- Avon. CERTIFICATES, MARCH 7. Thomas Burrow, Hanley, Staffordshire, grocer— Thomas Hughes, late of Creams, Lancashire, paper- manufacturer— William Williams, Liverpool, timber dealer— Francis Cooke, Kidderminster, carpet- manufacturer— Thomas Holcroft and George Holcroft, Salford, Lancashire, engineers— Stephen Pontin, 54, Tottenham- court- road, builder and fishmonger— Paul John Bedford, 15, Percy- street, Bed- ford- square, music- seller— Richard Child, Berners'- street, Oxford, street, upholsterer— George Thomas Ferrers, 2( 5, Great Pulteney- street, Golden- square, bedding- manufacturer— William Howell Phipson, Birmingham, coffee- house- keeper. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Joseph Jones, Thomas Hodson, Thomas Moorcroft, and Edward Jones, Liverpool, brass- founders — William Coker and Henry Yane, Narrow- street, Ratcliff, riggers — Mary Gilbert ( now Mary Bell) and Elizabeth Nelson, Nottingham, copartners in a ladies' boarding- school— William Wilson and Samuel Henry Copperthwaite, New and Old Malton, Yorkshire, common- brewers— William Kerr and William John Bewlay, Birmingham, gilt toy- makers— John Hardy, Wiltham- common, Lincolnshire, Robert Turner, and William Walkington, Grantham, bankers ( so far as regards Robert Turner) Jonas Kewney, William George Richardson, and Charles Giuniver Kewney, Nottingham, manufacturers of hosiery— John Sharp and David Wilkinson Sharp, Biugley, Yorkshire, worsted- spinners— Robert Yule Manson, Richard Gregson, and William Ritterskamp, Liverpool, tailors— Nash Crosier Hilliard and William Warren Hastings, Raymond's. buildings, Gray's- inn, attorneys— Daniel Croomeaud William Gaisford, Berkley and Lydney, Gloucestershire, attorneys— Daniel Gales and Samuel Parker, Aele, Norfolk, general shopkeepers— John Thomas James, Thomas Lewis, and Benjamin Lewis, Queen- street, Cheapside, merchants— Christopher Allen and John Rigby, Manchester, brass- founders— Ebenezer Maiden and Benjamin Maiden the elder, Bedford, millers— Ebenezer Maiden and Benjamin Maiden the younger, Bedford, bakers— William Worts aud Byatt Conner Walker, Colchester, surgeons— William Barras and John Swithenbank, Huddersfield, joiners— John Smith and John Davey, Goxhill, Lincolnshire, grocers— Charles Wood, James Barker, and George Riley, Bradford, Yorkshire, stonemasons— John Tooley and William London, Great Yarmouth, coach- buildera— John Dean, Bolton- le- Moors, and James Dean and Thomas Dean, late of Bolton- le- Moors, but now of New York, merchants. ASSIGNMENTS. William Samuel Camp, Brighton, sheriff's officer, and Ditcheting, farmer. Richard Francis Davey, Shoreditch, victualler. Richard Grose, Devonport, mercer and tailor. John Major, Great Russell- street, Bioomsbury, bookseller and publisher. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. Archibald Cunningham, Glasgow, grocer. GLOUCESTER SHIP NEWS, From February 9 to February 16. M PORTS : The Lady Napean. from Lisbon, with 200boxes of oranges, 73 bags of wool, 96 casks of argols, a quantity of corkwood, and 1 quarter cask of wine, consigned to Fox, Sons, and Co.; 6 hlids. of Bu- cellas, Johnsons and Tasker— May Flower, St. Michael's, 450 boxes of oranges, Phillpotts, Baker, and Lloyds— William, St. Michael's, 360 boxes of oranges, Phillpotts, Baker, and Lloyds— Homiana, Al- tona, 45 lasts of barley, J. and C, Sturg- e— Peter, Emden, 784f quar- ters of barley, H. Brown and Co— Gorland, Nautes, 1499 hectolitres of beans, and 6 tonneaux of barley, J. and C. Sturge— Fame, Beau- voir, 1832 hectolitres of beans, and 35 hectolitres of vetches, J. and C. Sturge— Mary Ann, Beauvoir, 2016 hectolitres of beans, and 33 hectolitres of vetches, J. and C. Sturge— Thomas, Tralee, 603 barrels of barley, and 185 barrels of oats, J. and C. Sturge— William Don- aldson, Galway, 121 tons of oats, M'Cheane and Bartleet— Porth, Padstow, 190 quarters of barley, J. and C. Sturge— Kitty, Bude, 84% quarters of oats, 64| qnarters of barley, and 12£ quarters of malt, W. Kendall and Son— Fame, Neath, 45 tons of copper, spelter, and brass, W. Partridge and Co.— Abeona, Mumbles, oysters, H. Sou- than— Venus, Cardiff, 57 tons of railway plates, J. G. Francillon— Newport Trader, Newport, 49 tons of iron, H. Southan. EXPORTS : The Anna, for Copenhagen, with 205 tons of salt, from Hentig and Howell— Antelope, Newry, oak bark, Thomas Jones- Briton, London, 381 tons of salt, Gopsill Brown— New Hope, Lan. caster, bar and hoop, & c., iron, W. Kendall and Son— Fame, Neath, clay and fire bricks, W. Kendall and Son ; clay and fire bricks, H. Southan ; clover seed, Gopsill Brown— Magnet Packet, Newport, 30 tons of salt, Gopsill Brown— William and Mary, Bridgwater, gen eral cargo, Stuckey and Co.— Abeona, Bridgwater, 23 tons of salt, and fire bricks, H. Southan. LONDON MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE, MONDAY, FEB. 13— Wheat, Essex Red, NEIV 48s to 50s ; fine, 53a to 55s ; old, 56s to 5Ss; white, new, 52s to 55s i fine, 56s to 58s; superfine, 58s to 60s; old, 60s to 63s.— Bye, 30s to 36i.— Barley, 28s to 32s ; fine, — s to — 8; superfine, 36s to 39s — Malt, 54s to 58s ; fine, 58s to 60s— Teas, Hog, 35s to 36s ; Maple, 36s to 37s; white, 34s to 36s ; Boilers, 37s to 38s Beans, small, 38s to 40s; old, 44s to 48s; Ticks, 32s to 36s; old, 40s to 44s ; Harrow,— s to — s Oats, feed, 22s to 24s ; fine, 25s to 27s ; Poland, 24s to 28s; fine, 29s to30s; Potntoe, 29s to 30s ; fine, 31s to 32s— Bran, per quarter, 9s Od to 10s 0d.— Pollard, fine, per ditto, 14s. 20s. PRICE OF SEEDS, FED. 13.— PerCwt Red Clover, English, 56s to 65s; fine, 70s to 80s; Foreign, 56s to C4s; fine, 70s to 75s White Clover, 60s to 70s ; fine, 75s to 84s.— Trefoil, new, 16s to 18s ; fine, 20s to 21s ; old, 12s to I8s— Trefolium, 12s to 18s ; fine, 2Qa to — s.— Caraway, English, new, 43s to 473 ; Foreign, 50s to 52s— Coriander, 14s Od to 16s Od. Per Quarter.— St. Foin, 35s to38s ; fine, 40s to 42s; Rye Grass, 28s to 35s; new, 35s to 45s ; Pacey Grass, 40s to45s; Linseed for feeding, 52s to 56s ; fine, 60s to 64s ; ditto for crushing, 48s to 508 Calary, 44s to 48s.— Hemp, 46s to 50s. Per Bushel.— White Mustard Seed, 7s Od to 9s Od ; brown ditto, 9s Od to 12s ; Tares, 5s Od to 5s 3d ; fine new Spring, 5s 6d to 6s Od. PerLast.— Rape Seed, English, 32/ to 34(; Foreign, 302 to 32f. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICE OF BRITISH CORN FOR THE WEES, ENDING FEBRUARY 9,1836 Wheat, 58s 9d; Barley, 35s 8d ; Oats, 24s 5d; Rye, 41B lOil; Beans, 41s 2d ; Peas, 39s lOd. DUTY ON FOREIGN CORN FOR THE PRESENT WEEK.— Wheat, 28s 8d j Barley, 9s4d; Oats, 10s 9d; Rye, 8s Od ; Beans, 8s Od ; Peas, lis Od. HAY AND STRAW Smithfield.— Hay, 80s Od to 95s Od ; Inferior, — s to— s; Clover, 95s to 115s; Inferior — s to— s; Straw, 42s to 50s. Whitechapel.— Clover, 100s to 120s ; new ditto, — s to — 8 ; seco( nd cut, — 8 to — s ; Hay, 84 to 90s ; new ditto, — s to — B ; Wheat Straw, 40s to 50s. Cumberland.— Fine Upland Meadow and Rye. grass Hay, 90s to 95s; inferior ditto, 85s to 90s; superior Clover, 110s to 1208 ; Straw, 45s to 48s per load of 36 trusses. Portman Market.— Coarse heavy Lowland Hay, — s to — s ; new Meadow Hay,— sto— s; old ditto, 84s to 95s ; useful ditto,— a to — s ; New Clover ditto,— 8 to— s; old ditto, 110stoll8s; Wheat Straw, 40B to 48a per load of 36 trusses. OILS.— Rape Oil, brown, £ 47 10s per ton; Refined, £ 49 10s; Linseed Oil, £ 35 10s ; and Rape Cake, £ 6 0s— Linseed Oil Cake, £ 13 Os per thousand. B FOGS AND DAMP AIR. ARCLAY'S ASTHMATIC CANDY lias, for many years, been proved an effectual preservative from the ill effects of the Fogs and Damp Air, which, in the Winter season, are so prevalent in this climate. Its effects are to expel wind, to preserve the stomach from the admission of damps, and to relieve those who suffer from difficulty of breathing. Prepared only by BARCLAY and SONS, 95, Faningdon- street, London; and sold by their appointment, by all respectable stationers, druggists, and medicine venders] in boxes at 2s. 9d. and Is. l£ d. each, duty included. Observe— None can be genuine, unless the names of " Barclay and Sons" are on the Stamp affixed to each box. COUNTRY MARKETS, & c. WARWICK, SATURDAY, FEB. 11.— Wheat, per bag, old 20s Od to 2is Od ; new, 19s Od to 20s 6d ; Barley per quarter, 36s Od to 40s Od ; new, 32s Od to 34s Od ; Oats, 30s Od to 36s 0d; New 26s Od to 32s Od; Peas, per bag, 16s 6d to 18s 6d ; Beans, 18s Od to 20s Od ; new, 14s Od to 17s Od; Vetches, 0s Od to 0s Od; Malt. 68s Od to 72s Od per quarter. WORCESTER, FEBRUARY II. — Wheat, old, per bushel, Imperial Measure, 6s 8d to 7s 2d. New ditto, 6s 8d to 7s 2d. Foreign ditto, OsOdtoOsOd. Barley, malting, 4s 6d to 5s Od. Grinding ditto 4s 3d to 4s 6d. Beans, old, 6s Od to 6s 8d. New ditto, 5s 6d to 6s Od. Oats, English new, 08 Od to 0s Od. Old ditto, 3s 6d to 4s Od. Irish, ditto new, 391b. a bushel, 0s Od to 0s Od. Old ditto • 191b. a bushel, 0s Od to 0s Od. Peas, white, boiling, 6s Od to 6s 6d. Grey ditto, 5s 6d to 6s Od. Grey Hog ditto, 0s Od to 08 Od. Vetches, winter, 0a Od to 0s Od. Spring ditto, 5s Od to 5s 6d. GLOUCESTER, FEBRUARY 11 Wheat, per bushel, 7s 9d to 8s Od. Barley, per Imperial quarter, 38s Od to 42s Od. Beans, per Im- perial bushel, 6s 4d to 6s 6d. Oats, per Imperial quarter, 25s Od to 30s Od. Peas, per Imperial quarter, 46s Od to 54s Od. Malt, per Imperial quarter, 0s Od to 0s Od. Fiue Flour, 49s Od to 51s Od. HEREFORD, FEB. 11.— Wheat, per bushel Imperial measure, 7s 9d to 7s lOd. Ditto, 801ba. per bushel, 0s Od toOs Od. Barley, 4s 9d to 5s Od. Beans, 6s 8d to 7s Od. Peas, 5s 9d to Os Od. Vetches, 0s Od toOs Od. Oata, 3s 6d to 4s Od. CHELTENHAM, FEB. 9.— New Wheat, 6s 9d to 7s Od per bushel, Old Wheat, 7s Od to 7s 6d. Barley, 3i 6d to 48 Od. Oats, 3s Od to 4s 3d. Beans, 5s 6d to 6s 9d. DR. FISCHELBERG, ( formerly of the Prussian Army,) wishes to remind those who may be in want of his professional aid, that he still continues to give advice at his Medical Establishment, No. 3, Christ Church Pas- sage. The Doctor's successful treatment of many com. plicated cases of Venereal disorders, renders him confident that a single application will convince his patients that a speedy relief from suffering may be obtained by attention to his advice and prescriptions. The Doctor also treats Piles successfully, both external and internal, by internal medicines only. During his resi- dence in Birmingham, a period of more than four years, he has met with much success in his professional career, and flatters himself that the public who may need his assist- ance will not fail to patronise him. Dr. FISCHELBERG is sole Proprietor of the justly cele- brated lioyal Prussian Herb Pills, for the cure of the Venereal diseases. Sold in boxes at 2s. 9d. and 4s. 6d. each, duty included, with proper directions for use, at the Doc- tor's residence; and also at the under- mentioned agents: Caldicott, bookseller, Wolverhampton; Walters, book- seller, Dudley; and Merridew, Herald- office, Coventry. Attendance from nine in the morning till ten at night, except Sundays, on which day he cannot be consulted later than two in the afternoon. Letters from the country, post- paid, containing a remittance, punctually attended to. . » Private entrance to the Surgery through the first entry in New- street. ^ T Observe, No. 3, Christ Church- passage. A TREATISE IS PUBLISHED By Messrs. PERRY and Co., SURGEONS, ON VENEREAL AND SYPHILITIC DISEASES, AND GIVEN WITH EACH BOX OF PERRY'S VEGETABLE PILLS, / CONTAINING plain and practical directions for the effectual cure of all degrees of the above complaints; with observations on Seminal weakness, arising from early abuses, and the deplorable consequences resulting from the use of Mercury; the whole intended for the instruc- tion of general readers, so that all persons can obtain an im- mediate cure with secrecy and safety. PERRY'S VEGETABLE PILLS, price 2s. 9d. and lis., per Box, a never- failing cure for every symptom of a certain disease, without confinement, loss of time, or hin- drance from business, are prepared and sold only by Messrs. PERRY and Co., Surgeons, at No. 4, GREAT CHARLES- STREET, four doors from Easy- row, Birmingham, and 48, Faulkner- street, Manchester; who continue to di- rect their studies to those dreadful debilities arising from the too free and indiscriminate indulgence of the passions, which not only occasion a numerous train of nervous affec- tions, and entail on its votaries all the enervating imbecili- ties of old age, but weaken and destroy all the bodily senses, occasioning loss of imagination, judgment, and memory, in- difference and aversion for all pleasures, the idea of their own unhappiness and despair, which arises from considering themselves as the authors of their own misery, and the ne- cessity of renouncing the felicities of marriage, are the fluc- tuating ideas of those who have given way to this delusive and destructive habit. In that depressing state of debility or deficiency, whether the consequence of such baneful practices, excessive drinking, or any other cause, by which the powers of the constitution become enfeebled, they offer a firm, safe, and speedy restoration to sound and vigorous health. It is a melancholy fact, that thousands fa]] victims to the venereal disease, owing to the unskilfa| ness 0f j| j; te_ rate men, who, by the use of that deadly poison mer- cury, ruin the constitution, and cause ulcerations, blotches on the head, face, and body, dimness ot sight, noies in the ears, deafness, obstinate gleets, nodes on the shin bones, ulcerated sore throat, diseased nose, with nocturnal pains in the head and limbs, till at length a general debi- lity and decay of the constitution ensues, and a melan- choly death puts a period to their dreadful sufferings. Perry's Vegetable Pills are universally resorted to for their efficacy in all impurities of the blood, and are parti- cularly recommended as an infallible cure for the vene- real disease, however complicated the disorder, or dread- fulthe system. They have effected manv surprising cures, not only in recent gonorrhraas and simple cases, but when salivation, antimonials, and the decoction of the woods, have been tried to little or no purpose. Messrs. Perry may be personally consulted from nine in the morning till ten at night, and will give advice to persons taking the above, or any other of their prepara- tions, without a fee. Attendance on Sundays from nine till two, at No. 4, Great Charles- street, four doors from Easy- row, Birming- ham ; and at 48, Faulkner. street, Manchester, where their Vegetable Pills can only be obtained, as no Book- seller, Druggist, or any other Medicine Vendor is sup- plied with them. Letters from the country, post- paid, containing a remit- tance for medicine, will be immediately answered. FAIRS TO BE HOLDEN - Warwickshire— February 18, Nuneaton.— Northamptonshire— February 20, Northampton; 24, Oundle.— Leicestershire— February 18, Kegworth; 23, Lutterworth.— Stafford, shire— 24, Walsall. ASHLEY COOPERS BOTANICAL PURIFY- ING PILLS are established by thirty years' experi- ence, are prescribed by most of the eminent Physicians and Surgeons in London, and are always administered at several public hospitals, as the only certain remedy for Gonorrhoea, Gleets, Strictures, and all other forms of Ve- nereal diseases, in either sex, curing in a few days, by one small pill for a dose, with ease, secrecy, and safety. Their operation is imperceptible, they do not require the slightest confinement, or any alteration of diet, beverage or exercise. They do not disagree with the stomach, nor cause any offensive smell to the breath, as is the case with all other medicines in use for these complaints, ami after a cure ef- fected by the use of these pills, the party willnotexperieenc any return of the complaint, as generally occurs after taking Balsam of Copaiba, and other drugs of the like nature, which only possessing a local action, merely suppressed the complaint for a time, without eradicating it from the con- stitution, and the patient on undergoing a little more fa- tigue than ordinary, finds all the symptoms return, and that they are suffering under the complaint as much as at first, and are at last constrained to have recourse to these pills, as the only certain cure. They are likewise a mostefficient remedy for Pimpled Faces, Scurf, Scorbutic Affections, and all Eruptions of the Skin. Captains of vessels should make a point of always taking them to sea, their unrivalled effi- cacy in curing Scurvy being known throughout the world. The following letter selected from numerous oilier pro- fessional recommendations forwarded to the proprietor when he first offered these pills to the public, may be considered interesting. From that eminent surgeon, the late Joshua Brookes, Esq., F. R. S., Professpr of Anatomy, & c. & c. Theatre of Anatomy, Blenheim- street. Dear Cooper,— I have tried your pills in numerous instances, and my candid opinion is that they are a must improved system of treat, ment for those peculiar complaints for which you recommend them, curing with rapidity, and with a certainty that I had never before witnessed; but what I consider their most invaluable property is, that they entirely eradicate the complaint, and never leavethose dis- tressing secondary symptoms ( that harass the patient for life) which usually arise after the use of those uncertain remedies, Mercury and Copaiba. I think you cannot fail to have a very large sale for them. Believe me, yours, very truly, JOSHUA BROOKES. Ashley Cooper's Botanical Purifying Pills are sold in boxes at 2s. 9d. and 4s. 6d. each, wholesale and retail, at HANNAY and Co.' s General Patent Medicine Warehouse, 63, Oxford- street, the corner of Wells- street, London, where the public can be supplied with every Patent Medi- cine of repute, ( with an allowance on taking six at one time) warranted genuine and fresh from the various makers. Orders by post, containing a remittance, punctually attended to, and the change, if any, can be returned with the order. Ashley Cooper's Botanical Pills aie sold by one or more respectable venders in every town in the kingdom, and any shop that has not got them will obtain them from London without any extra charge. Countiy shops can obtain them through any of the London booksellers. Sold by appointment by M. Maher, 34, Ann- street, and Wood, Bookseller, High- street, Birmingham; Parker, Wolverhampton ; Rogers, Stafford ; Mort, Newcastle; Merridew, Coventry. FRANKS'SSPECIFIC SOLUTION OF COPAIBA. ACERTAIN and most speedy cure for all Urethra, Discharges, Gleets, Spasmodic Strictures, Irritation of the Kidneys, Bladder, Urethra and Prostate Gland. TESTIMONIALS. From Joseph Henry Green, Esq., F. R. S., one of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons, Surgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital, and Professor of Surgery in King's College, London^ I have made trial of Mr. Franks's Solution of Copaiba, at St: Thomas's Hospital, in a variety of cases of discharges in the male and female, and the results warrant my stating, that it is au effica- cious remedy, and one which does not produce the usual unpleasant effects of Copaiba. ( Signed,) JOSEPH HENRY GREEN. 46, Lincoln's- inn. fields, April 25, 1835. From Bransby Cooper, Esq., F. R. S., Surgeon to Guy's Hospital, and Lecturer on Anatomy, & c., & c, Mr. Bransby Cooper presents his compliments to Mr. George Franks, and has great pleasure in bearing testimony of the efficacv of his Solution of Copaiba, in Gonorrhoea, for which disease Mr. Cooper has prescribed the Solution in ten or twelve cases with per- fect success. New- street, Spring Gardens, April 13, 1835. From William Hentsch, Esq., House Surgeon to the Free Hospital, Greville- street, Hatton street. My dear Sir,— I have given your medicine in many cases of Go- norrham and Gleets, some of which had been many mouths under other treatment, and can bear testimony to its great eflicacv. I have found it to cure in a much shorter time, and with more benefit to the general health, than any other mode of treatment I kHow of ; the generality of cases have been cured within a week from the commencement of taking the Medicine, and some of them in less time than that. Have the goodness to send me another supply. I am, dear sir, your's, very truly, ( Signed) WILLIAM HENTSCH. Grevillc- street, Hatton. garden, April 15, 1835. Prepared only by George Franks, surgeon, 90, Black- fnars- road, and may be had ofhis Agents, Barclayand Sons, Farringdon. street, London; Evans, Son and Co., Fenwick- street, Liverpool; Mander, Weaver, and Co., Wolverhamp- ton; at the Medical Hall, 54, Lower Sackville- street, Dub- lin; of J. and R. Raimes, I. eith- walk, Edinburgh; and of all Wholesale and Retail Patent Medicine Venders in the United Kingdom. Sold in bottles at 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and lis. each, duty included. Caution— To prevent imposition, the Honourable Com- missioners of Stamps have directed the name of George Franks, Blackfriars road," to be engraven on the Govern- ment Stamp. N. B. Hospitals, and other Medical Charities, supplied as usual from the Proprietor. Mr. Franks may be consulted every day, as usual, until Two o'clock. Sold by appointment, by Mr. Maher, 34, Ann- street, Birmingham; Merridew, Coventry; Owen and Gerdes, Liverpool; Bowman and Law, Manchester; and Deighton and Co., Betterby, York. DR. JOHN ARMSTRONG'S LIVER PILLS. " I care not how I am physicked, so it be not by the adventure of a Quack, but advice of a Physician, who I am sure will prescribe no more for me than may consist with my safety, and need doth re- quire."— Old Divine. THE Possessor of the Prescription from which those Pills are prepared, solely for him, by Mr. John T. Eddy, a scientific Chemist, obtained it from the late DR. ARMSTRONG, ( Lecturer at St. Thomas's Hospital, London, and Author of the celebrated Works on Typhus and Scarlet Fever, Sfc. Sfc.) for his Wife, who in' 1827 became the Doctor's patient, when evidently labouring under confirmed Liver complaint, and to all appearance in a deep decline. She had not long taken the Pills, at the prescribed inter- vals, before she was perfectly restored to health ; and has, with the occasional use of them, continued free from pain) and in perfect health and cheerful spirits ever since. The Possessor of this admirable Prescription, ( a gen- tleman of private fortune,) having distributed the Pills with the most extraordinary success amongst the poor in many counties in England, determined in 1835, to offer them at a price, to the public; his personal observation and experi- ence having convinced him. that they would prove a real blessing, if taken according to the Physician's Advice and Directions in the wrapper, to all— both old and young, children as well as adults; women pregnant, and after the month of confinement— who suffered from an inactive Li- ver, and thence all the attendant miseries of Indigestion • BILIOUS Affections ( so called); Flatulence, Jaundice' Dropsy ; Pain in the Sides and under the Shoulder Blades; Difficulty of Breathing; distressing Sensation of Choking; with the Complexion and white of the eyes, yel- low. The very first two pills generally afford such relief- such ease from every distressing pain— that the patient is at once surprised and delighted. The Medicine is gentle, though certain in its benign effects. The quantity prescribed to be taken is small, and not oftener than alternate nights. The attention of the Public is called to the following statement of facts : — A Cook in a gentleman's family complained to her mistress of such pain in her right side, and such loss of appetite, that she could not do her work, and thought that she must again give up her situation, as she had been obliged to do, for the same cause, in two previous places. Her mistress recommended her to try Dr. John Armstrong's Liver Pills, as she said all others had failed. The girl bought a box, and the first two pills relieved her from all pain, and she said she felt better than ever she had done in her life. The first two operated briskly— the next two gently— and afterwards only as a pleasant aperient; but the pain never returned. A sailor's wife had only been a fortnight confined, and was suffer- ing agonies in her hack and sides, evidently owing to an inactive liver, her skin being as yellow as saffron. A friend gave her some money to buy a box of Armstrong's Liver Pills. When that " friend in need" called to see the poor woman again, she was surprisingly better— scarce any pain in her side— no choking sensation— Bkin much clearer— and appetite and general health rapidly improving. A Magistrate, who was much troubled with boils, at the instance of a relative, bought a box of Armstrong's Liver Pills. Before he had taken six pills at the prescribed intervals, he was astonished at his perfect cure, and declared it was the best medicine he ever took in his life. Jaundice and Dropsical cases are immediately relieved. Hundreds of similarly striking cases might be noticed, but for the space they occupy in an advertisement, or handbill • and each bilious person who tries these Pills, ( most expen'. sive in their preparation to the Proprietor,) will furnish a most satisfactory and convincing case of cure or relief to himself. To Mr. John T. Eddy, Bishop's Stortford Herts. Medical Hall, Lewes, Sussex, October 4th, 1836. Sin,— It gives me much pleasure to be able to inform you that my sale for Dr. John Armstrong's Liver Pills, has within these two months, increased to a very considerable extent. I am almostdaily receiving fresh testimonials of their efficacy, as an " AntibiiioHs," from persons of respectability, residing in Lewes and its vicinity. Such is their celebrity, that numbers of my friends will not, on any consideration, be without a box in their possession. Will you kindly cause my name to be introduced in the list of venders in your advertisements ; and, at your earliest convenience forward to me, through Drew aud Co. Great Trinity- lane, some show cards and handbills headed witii my name and address. I am sir, your's respectfully, THOMAS FIGG. In Boxes, Is. IJd. and 2s. 9d. each. The large Box con- tains the quantity of three small ones. Prepared solely by Mr. JOHN T. EDDY, Bishop's Stort- ford, Herts, who is appointed Wholesale Agent to the Proprietor. To prevent imposition, the Hon. the Commissioners of Stamps have directed JOHN T. EDDY, CHEMIST, BISHOP'S STORTEORD, to be engraved in white letters on the Govern- ment Stamp, and each box is also sealed with the Armorial Bearings of the Proprietor. None else is genu- ine. The Public are particularly cautioned against the dishon- est tricks of the inferior class of Druggists, who it lias been discovered by the proprietor, will try to impose their own loose, and unboxed compounds upon the ignorant, for Armstrong's Liver Pills, thus disappointing and defraud- ing the Public and the Revenue at the same time. The Pills may he had of all Wholesale Dealers in London, and retail in Birmingham of Hodgetts, Hud- son, Wood, Maher, Shillitoe, Matthison, Atkins, and Knott; Banbury, Bartlett, Beasley, and Wigg; Bridge- north, Gitton, and Partridge ; ' Bromsgrove, Maund ; Burton- on- Trent, Thompson, and Wayte ; Coventry, Merridew, Coleman, Wyleys, and Brown; Daventryi Castell; Dudley, Rann, Danks, Turner and Hollier; Henley, Hopkins; Hinckley, Morton; Kidderminster, Steward and PSnnell ; Leamington, Stanley, and Davey; Leicester, Thompson Teear, Price, Parsons, Iron, Cooper ; Lichfield, Lomax and Morgan; Nuneaton, Iliffe; Stafford, Rogers and Morgan; Stourbridge, Morris andHeming; Stratford, Smith; Tamworth, Baker and Hawkesworth ; Walsall, Valentine, Beasley, and High- way, Warwick, Sharpe, Court, and Bayley; West Brom- wich, Cowell; Wolverhampton, Parke, and Simpson; Wor- cester, Deighton, Lewis, Twinberrow, and Stratford. MULREADDY'S COUGH ELIXIR. ONE dose is sufficient to convince the most scrupu- lous of the invaluable and unfailing efficacv of Mul- readdy's Cough Elixir, for the cure of coughs, colds, hoarseness, shortness of breath, asthma, difficulty of breathing, huskiness, and unpleasant tickling in the throat, night cough, with pain on the chest, & c. The paramount superiority of this medicine above every other now in use, for the cure of the above complaints, only requires to be known to prove the passport to its being, ere long, universally made use of for the cure of every description of Pulmonary Affection. To those who are unacquainted with the invaluable pro- perties of Mulreaddy's Cough Elixir, the following letters will exhibit its efficacy: — Manchester, Jan. 2nd, 1835. Dear Sir,— The cough medicine you sent me is certainly a most surprising remedy; six days ago I was unable to breathe, unless with great difficulty, attended with much coughing, which always kept my soft palate relaxed, and in a state of irritation, and the more I coughed the worseit was, and it, in its own turn, produced a constant excitement of coughing. I am now about, to the wonder of my friends and neighbours, entirely free from cough. One small phial of your inestimable medicine, ten years back; would have saved me not less than £ 3,000 in medical fees, but it would have done more— it would have saved my having had to swallow, from time to time, upwards of a hogshead of their nauseous, and, as they all proved, useless drugs. The agreeable flavour of the medicine is a great recommendation: I think you ought to put it up and sell it to the public, and if any one should doubt its efficacy, refer them to me. I shall have the pleasure of being with you in a feiV days, when I shall press on your consideration the propriety of making it up for sale ; it would prove an enormous fortune to your grand- children. If you make up your mind to do so, as I am what the world styles an idle man, you may enlist me in your service in any way that you think would be useful. But I should advise you to dace the management in the hands of one of the great medicine muses in London. Hannay's, in Oxford. street, are beingadvertised in all the papers here, as wholesale agents for Ramsbottom's Corn Solvent, which, by the bye, my girls all say is really a cure, and many other medicines. I should say this would be a very good house, Oxford street being one of the most public situations in Lon- don. All join me in kind remembrance to yourself and Mrs. M. Believe me, yours, verv truly, T. Mulreaddy, Esq. ' ROBERT GRANT. Golden Lion Hotel, Liverpool. Sir— To my astonishment, the other day, I had a visit from my old and esteemed friend, Mr. Hughes, whom lhad not seen for many years, and still more so was I when, finding that I had a severe cough, he drew forth from his pocket a phial, a portion of the cou- tents ofwhich he insisted upon my swallowing instanter, and left me the remainder, which I also took, and in the course of twenty, four hours I found myself quite free from even any tendency towards coughing; he now tells me that you are his oracle of health: I, therefore, beg leave to present my report at head- quarters, with many thanks, and trust that I may be able to prevail on you to let me have half, or a whole pint of the medicine to stow in my sea. chest, as I sail again for America in about ten days, and if 1 can, in return, afford you any service on the other side of the Atlantic, I am at your command. T. W. BUCHANAN. Master of the Brig Nancv, of Orleans. T. Mulreaddy, Esq. Birkenhead, Jan., 1835. Dear Sir,— The bottle of Medicine you left for mo the other day has greatly relieved the wheezing I have been so long subject to ; and I do not now find the cold produce the sensation it used previous to taking your medicine ; it used formerly to nip me 011 going out, aud I seemed as though I had a string run through my body, and ' he breast and backbones were drawn together. If you will be so good as to give me another bottle, I am sure it will work a perfect cure. I am, sir, your most obedient servant, T. Mulreaddy, Esq. NICHOLAS BROWN. Dear Sir,— The effect of your medicine, in curing our children of the Hooping Cough, has been like magic, for which I, aud Mrs. Wilson in particular, return our grateful acknowledgments, and the little W's shall not fail, ere long, to thank you in person. Rely on it, in our family you will bo styled doctor in future. Believe me, yours very sincerely, J. WILSON. Liverpool, Dec., 1834. My dear Sir,— You most assuredly deserve tlio thanks of society for presenting it with such an invaluable cure for Coughs. For years past, during the winter mouths, and aiways on foggy days, have I heretofore been compelled to confine myself a close and soli- tar y prisoner in my library, to prevent the possibility of being tempted to join in conversation, the excitement of which always produced such violent paroxysms of coughing, that I have been in constant dread of sudden dissolution, by bursting of a blood- vessel. At the commencement of the present season, by your kind liberality, I com. menced taking the medicine you sent, sind have taken twelve bottles. After I had taken three, I could respire as vigourously as in the early part of my life, and I now believe that 1 was then perfectly cured— a cure uot to have been expected at mv advanced age, 80 years— but I persevered in taking it until I bad consumed the whole twelve bottles. Your situation in life, I know, places you beyond the necessity of preparing an article of the kind for sale, butit must and shall be done, and if you neglect to do it, my sincere wish is that you may be lugged out of your retirement, and compelled to provide it in quantities equal to the boundless waters; aud you may rely upon it, that I, a locomotive proof of its wonderful power, will spare neither time nor trouble to promulgate its efficacy, until you will find your cottage attacked by myriads of my former fellow sufferers, for a share of your bounty, and I myself now apply for the first, trusting that your goodness will not suffer you to refuse me a pretty considerable quantity, and I promise to distribute it most usefully. Whenever you have made up for sale, send me one thou, sand bottles. Ever your sincere well- wisher, T. Mulreaddy, Esq. W. HUGHES. Chester, 12tno„ 1834. Esteemed Friend,— Thou hast my sincere thanks for thy Samaritan present. Thy medicine has had the promised effect, and com- pletely cured iny trying cough. If thou wilt let me have a quantity in a large bottle, I will, in return, enter thy name te any charitable institution thou wilt fix on. Thine, T. Mulreaddy, Eeq. JACOB ROBERTS. Mr. Mulreaddy begs to observe, that to publish copies of he whole of the letters lie lias received of the above tenor, would require several volumes. The selection here pre- sented lie considers quite sufficient, but begs to say, that upon trial of his Cough Elixir, it will give itself the best recommendation. It will be sold by his appointment, whole- sale and retail, by his agents, Messrs. HANNAY and Co., G3, Oxford- street, London ; and retail by every other respecta- ble vender of medicines in bottles at Is. l% d. each. Purchasers should observe that it is wrapped up in white paper, on which, in a blue label with white letters, are printed the words,— Mulreaddy's Cough Elixir, pre- pared by Thomas Mulreaddy, Liverpool, aud sold byhisap- pointment at Hannay and Co.' s, Patent Medicine Ware- house, 63, Oxford- street, London. Price Is. l^ d. and 4s. fid. Sold wholesale and retail by HANNAY and Co., 63, Oxford street, London, wholesale Patent Medicine Ven- ders and Perfumers to the Royal Family, where the public can be supplied with every patent and public medicine of repute; and also with the perfumes of all the respectable London perfumers, with an allowance on taking six or more of any other article at the same time. Orders, by post, enclosing a remittance, punctually at- tended to, and the change returned in the parcel, or sent to any partol London without extra charge. Sold by appointment by Maher, 34, Ann- street, and Wood, bookseller, High- street, Birmingham ; Parke, Wolverhampton ; Rogers, Stafford; Mort, Newcastle; and Merridew, Coventry. Printed and published by FRANCIS BASSET SHE^ STONE FLINDELL, of 128, Bromsgrove- street, at 38, New- sireet, Birmingham, where letters for the Editor may be ad- dressed, and where Advertisements and Orders will be re- ceived. ( All descriptions of Jobbiiigcarefully and expedi- tiously executed.) Agents in London: Messrs. NEWTON and Co., A, Warwick- square; Mr. BARKER, 33. Fleet- street ; Mr. REYNEI. L, Chancery- lane; Mr. DEACON, 3, Walbrook ; and Mr HAMMOND, 27. Lombard- street.— Saturday, February 18,1837.
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