k ' inilMWVT The _ - . I L . I L J L VV _... .. as?.... , • J i r i i o o j i NUMBER 18.395 ] THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1 8 2 9. 7 D. BY T H E H O N O U R A B L E T H E M A G I S T R A T ES OK E D I N B U R G H. WHEREAS, the practice of getting AFFIDAVITSapd OTHER OFFICIAL PAPERS Signed at the places of business and dwelling- houses of the Magistrates has been found to be attended with much inconvenience, the Magistrates have therefore REsoLvrD, and hereby INTIMATE, that one ot their number wUl attend daily at ELEVEN O'CLOCK in this Office; and they request, that in future, ail Persons having business of that nature with them, will call here at that hour. COUNCIL CHAMBER, Edinburgh, 12th Oct. 1829. ' SONS OF THE CLERGY. THE SOCIETY for the BENEFIT of the SONS of the CLERGY of the CHURCH of SCOTLAND, Incorporated by Royal Charter, will hold their stated GENERAL MEETING for fixing the Scheme of Distribution tor the ensuing year, of the sum annually given from their funds, in aid of Young Men, Sons of Ministers of the Church of Scotland, on Tuesday, the 10th day of November next. All applications for the Society's Aid, which should state particularly the situation of the Applicants, and be attested by so. re of the neighbouring Clergymen who have access to know the facts therein stated, must be transmitted, before ihe 5th day of November, to some of the Committee of Management or Office Be . rers, who will then meet to consider the applications presented. Committee of Management. Hon. LORD MONCREIFF, President. Rev. Dr Inglis. Rev. Dr D. Ritchie. Rev. Dr Chalmers. John Russell, Esq. W. S. Walter Cook, Esq. W. S. James Nairne. Esq. W. S. D. M'Ncill, Esq. Advocat-. John Bonar, Esq. of Ratho. Sir Henry Jaidine, Secretary. Andrew Tawse, Esq. W. S. Treasurer. " LADY YjJSTKlt'iTcHOkciL ~ THE Repairs on this Church being UOJV nearly completed, it will be R E - O P E N E D for P U B L IC WORSHIP on SABBATH FIRST. CITY CHAMBERS, Oct. 14, 1829. J ALT- HALLOW FAIR IS to be held in a P A R K at MYRESIDE, on the North Side of fhe Road leading from this CITY toCOLINl'ON, on MONDAY the 9th day of NOVEMBER next. COUNCIL CHAMBER, Edinburgh, 12ch Oct. 1829. S T A T U A R Y . A N E X H I B I T I O N OF A GROUP OF T H R EE F I G U R E S , Illustrative of a passage in Burns' FOng—" O ! Willie brew'd a Peck o' Mailt"— Executed by J . W. MARSHALL, I s now Open at No. 31, ST ANDREW'S SUOAUE. TH I S EXHIBITION will contain besides a few of Mr Marshall's other Woika— amongst which are Busts of LORD BYRON and NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE— the latter of , which was executed under tbe immediate superintendance of Dr STOKOE, who had the honour of atteuding the Emperor at St Helena, assisted by a correct cast taken by Dr Automarchi immediately after death. ' ' The Bust of Lord Byron < 274— J. W. Marshall,) however, we ought to confess, attracted us most. How nobly intellectual in character, how natural, how classic I And what a contrast does it establish with some other heads in its vicinity I We perceive here— forcibly— that it is mind— genius— not rank, that can truly elevate. This Bust of the titled Poet captivates."— Scotsman of February 17, 1827. Open fiom 10 o'clock A. M. till dusk. Admission Tickets, Is.— Season T ickets, 3s. 5th October, 1829. M R L E N N IE HAS heard with much surprise, that a report is current, " that he is going to retire.'' He assures his friends and the public that the report is PERFECTLY GROUNDLESS ; he has no such step in view. He has lately opened a Class for the Alphabet, which will be shut in a few days. A Private Class for Young Ladies, for History and Geography, was opened last week; and one for Elocution and Grammar will be opened on Monday first. 10, NICOLSON STREET, Oct. 14, 1829. SHAW'S WATER JOINT STOCK COMPANY. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, THAT THE STATUTORY GENERAL MEETING of the MEMBERS of this COMPANY, will be held within the ' l'oniine Inn, Greenock, upon the 6th day of November next, " being the first Friday of that month, at the hour of 12 o'clock noon. Greertock, Oct. 13, 1829. WANTED, At Martinmas next, TEN THOUSAND POUNDS, at Four per Cent, as a first security over an Estate of considerable value, with a collateral obligation lor payment of the interest in Edinburgh half yearly. Apply to Andrew Snody, S. S. C. 3. Shrub Place, Edinburgh, and 118. Constitution Street, Leith. DISTILLERY UTENSILS WANTED. WANTED to purchase, T W O STILLS, the. contents of the Wash Still from 400 to 500 Gallons, and the Spirit one to correspond ; a steam Engine from 4 to fi horse power, and Malt Mill with rolleis. Any person having any of the above at tides for Sal may hear of a purchaser, by applying by letter, post paid, to P. M. Courant Office, and at the same time stating tht lowest price they Would be disposed to take for them. BOARD OR FURNISHED APARTMENTS. AR E S P E C T A B L E FAMILY, residing in one of the Squares in the neighbourhood of the University, and occupying a self- contained house, larger than they require, will be happy to furnish aiiy professional gentleman of respectability with apartments peculiarly adapted to his use, or to receive into their family TWO or THREE LAEIES or GENTLEMEN as BOARDERS, or accommodate them with such apart ments as they require, handsomely furnished. Apply personally, or by letter ( post paid,) pi " Mr Robt. Jamieson, druggist, 19, South Hanover Street. LIST THIRD. COUNTY OF EDINBURGH GAME DUTY. Ist ¥ IST of PEXiSONS who have obtained J L l GENERAL CERTIFICATES ( D) at the rate of £ 3, 13s. fid. for the year 1829. Ansfruther, Captain, Edinburgh Anderson, William, Esq. Etiinburgh Aitken, Mr Thomas, Uphall. Brown, Jamies, Esq. George Street Bell, John, jun. Esq. W. S. Black, John Rcddie, Esq. Dysart. Cockburn, Robert, Esq. Edinburgh Cocfcburn, Jdtin, Esq Do. Crooks, Mr Thomas, Dean Crichton, J . Esq. 26, India Street Child, George Chaplin, Esq. Glencorse Craig, Wiiliam Gibson, Esq. younger of Riccarton Craw ford, William, Esq. of Cartsbuin Crichton, Walter, Esq. Southerness. Dudgeon, William, Esq. Charlotte Street, Leith Dawson, Mr James, Bonnytown, Linlithgow Dalgleish, Lawrence, Esq. of Sandydub. Forbes, Mr David, Edinburgh. Gibson, John, Esq. W. S. Greig, Wiiliam, Esq. Edinburgh. Home, Mr D. Edinburgh Hamilton, Francis, Esq. W. S. Home, James, of Linhouse, Esq. Inglis, Harry, Esq. VV. S. Kay, Alexander, Esq. Edinburgh. Leslie, Sir Charles Abm. Bart. Kirkbank Cottage, Kelso. Maitland, John, Esq. Clifton- hull Maxwell, Henry, Esq. George Street M'Kean, Alexander, Esq. 2. York Place Mitchell, Mr John Mackenzie, Mid- Lothian Moitrani, Charles, Esq. W ick. Newbigging, Mr Jariies, Grange, Lanarkshire. Oliver, Mr Robert, Turney Dykes. Pulteney, John A. Esq. 12th Royal Lancers, Piershill Pattullo, Lieutenant James, Mains Castle Roy, Robert, Esq. W. S, Shealfe, Lieut- General Sir Roger II., Bart. Edinburgh Suttie, Mr Alexander, Woodhall Stewart, Mr D. W. Hillside Straghan, H. G. Esq. Duke Street Scoit, Mr Thomas, Lauriston, Cramond Singer, Mr James, Edinburgh Scott, Mr Walter, merchant, Edinburgh Scott, R. H. Esq. of Wouden Scott, Mr James, Prince's Street Stuart, William, Esq. 21, St Andrew's Square Thorburn, John, Esq. Howe Street Veitch, John, Esq. W. S. Wilson, Mr Robert, Fushie Bridge Walker, James, Esq. W. S. Wilson, Mr John, Westsidewood. This day is published, By THOMAS CLARK, 38, George Street, Price Six Shillings, THE FOREIGN REVIEW, No. VIII. CONTENTS. ART. L- Phrenology. I I . Letters on Germany, by a German. I I I . Modern French Drama. IV. Muller; the Dorians. V. Bourrienne; Napoleon Buonaparte. VI. Political Economy. VII. Goldoni, Gozzi, Nota, Giraud ; Modern Italian Comedy. VIII. The'CM. IX. General Jackson ; The United States of America. X XV. SHORT REVIEWS OF THE NEWEST CLASSICAL, ITALIAN, FRENCH, SPANISH, GERMAN, AND DANISH PUBLICATIONS. XVI. Continental Literary Intelbgence. XVII. Important Foreign Publications of tbe last Three Months. London: BLACK, YOUNG, and YOUNG; BOSSANGE and Co j and WHITTAKER and C o . ; T. CLARK, E d i n b u r g h ; HODGES and SMITH, Dublin. No. I X . will be Published in December. TO OPEN ON SATURDAY FIRST, AN EXTENSIVE SALE OF SILK, MERCERY AND HABERDASHERY GOODS. FOR READY MONEY. TH E whole S T O C K of G O O D S b e l o n g i n g to the Sequestrated Estate of Henry & Armstrong, No. 39, Prinpe's StreU. The Stock consists of Silk Mercery, Haberdashery, Hosiery, Gloves, Ribbons, Shawls, Merinos, Prints, Scarfs and Handkerchief^, Laces, & c. & c. Great bargains will be given, as the whole must be immediately converted into cash. No. 39, Prince's Street, 14th October 1829. FASHIONABLE IRONMONGERY, 123, HIGH STREET. JO N A T H A N D A V I D S O N , IRONMONGER, r e - spectfully intimates, that he has on hand a very extensive Assortment of the most fashionable Dining, Drawing, and Bed- room Grates, Fenders, and F'ire- irons, Britannia Metal Tea and Coffee Pots, Paper- machie and Iron Tea and Coffee Trays, Slnoke, Vertical, and Windup Jacks, Kitchen Grates, Ovens, Boilers, and Culinary Utensils, & c. & c., which he is disposing of for Ready Money, at extremely low prices. J . 1). returns his sincere thanks to his Customers, and solicits a continuation of their patronage. H A R V E Y ' S S A U C E, FOR FISH, GAME, STEAKS, & c. ELAZENBY and SON gratefully acknow- • ledge the increasing demand and decided preference this much admired SAUCE continues to experience.'; antl are happy to announce, that on the 28th Jolyt 1829, they obtained a verdict in the COURT of KING'S BENCH, with FORTY POUNDS DA. M At. ES, against Mr W1NGKAVE, of ST PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, LONDON, for selling a SPURIOUS SAUCE, with a label to imitate that Sold for the Genuine Sauce; which continues to be prepared only at their WAREHOUSE, No. 6, EDWARD'S STREET, POltTMAN SQUARE, and cannot be Genuine unless the label of each bottle is signed " ELIZABETH LAZEN'BY," and the cork sealed with their full address. N. B— Country dealers not procuring it direct from E. LAZENBY & SON, are respectfully advised that every bottle procured from their Warehouse is wrapped in a primed statement of the actions they have maintained for pirating their name and signature. SALE OF HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, PIANO- FORTE, GUITAR, EIGHT- DAY CLOCK, ' & c. To be SOLD, by auction, at I. inkfield, Musselburgh, on Fii- ay, Kith October current, at eleven o'clock noon, T H E FURNITURE of said H O U S E , com- JL prising Dining Room, Parlour, and Bed Chamber Articles; amongst which are, a Mahogany Sideboard, Dining, Tea, and Breakfast Tables^ Chairs, Chests, Dt'awers, Carpets, Grates. Fenders and Fire Irons, an excellent Piano- Forte, Guitar and Case, Eight Day Clock, Crystal, China, and Stone Ware, Kitchen Furniture, Si c. . JOHN CHALMERS, Auctioneer. 1 2 3 , Exchange Buildings, l. eith, OCL 13, 1829. WANTED IMMEDIATELY, AYOUNG MAN, of good address, to take charge of a Grocer and Spirit Dealer's Shop in the country. Either a salary or a shire of the business will be allowed for his services. None need apply but those who can protluce the most satisfactory referen; es as to character, & c. Letters addressed ( post paid) No. 190, Courant Office, will meet with immediate attention. WANTS A SITUATION, AS CLERK OR TRAVELLER, AYOUNG MAN who has had upwards of ten years experience in the mercantile line, and who has kept the books of a respectable concern in town for these last four yeats;— be lias no objection to go to the country. Letters addressed A. B. C., Courant Office, will meet with immediate attention. Edinburgh, 14th Oct. 1829. " NOTICE. THE TRUSTEES OF LASSWADE DISTRICT are to apply to the Gener- 1 Meeting of Trustees of the High Roans til the County of Edinburgh, to be held in the County Rooms, on Tuesday, the 17th day of November next, for authority to IIEMOVE the GRANGE TOLL BAH, and place it farther south, at or near the bridge over the Powburn, and to Build a Toll- house there, and to levy ths same rates of toll at that B r when so removed as are at present levied at the Grange Bar. NO T I C E is hereby given, that application is intended to be made to Pailiament in the ensuing session, for leave to bring in a Bill to Continue, Alter, Amend, ai d Enlarge, or to Repeal the following Acts, viz An Act passed in the thirty- second year of the reign of his late Maj s y King George the Third, intituled " An Act for making, amending, widening, and keeping in repair, the Roads from the New Bridge over the Water of Almond, on the confines of the counties of Edinburgh and Linlithgow, by the town of Bathgate to Baillieston, in the county of Lanark ; and for making, • mending, widening, and keeping in repair, certain branches of roail from the said line of road, and for building a bridge over the Water of Avon, at Torphichen Mill ; and for discharging the trustees for executing two Acts passed in the twenty- sixth and twenty- seventh years of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, and two Acts passed in the fourteenth and thirty- first years of the reign of his present Majesty, from the care of such part of the road from Newhouse Inn to Glasgow, as leads from the confines of the parishes of Monkland and Shotts to the east boundary of Baillieston aforesaid, and putting the same under the power of the trustees appointed by tbis Act;"— and three other Acts of the thirty- fifth, thirtyeighth, and fifty- first years of the reign of his said late Majesty, for altering and amending the said recited Act; also to make, amend, widen, and keep in . repair, the roads and branches, and bridges authorised to be made, erected, and maintained by tbe said recited Acts; and to increase, alter, or modify, the tolls and duties thereby granted, or to grant other tolls and duties,— which roads so authorised to be made and maintained, lie in, and pass through the parishes of Kirkliston, Uphall, Ecclesinachen, Livirgston, Bathgate, and Torphichen, in the county of Linlithgow, and the parishes of Shotts, New Monkland, Old Monkland, and Glasgow Barony, in the county of Lanark, MEETING of the C R E D I T O R S of the late Mr ALEXANDER ALLAN, merchant in Leith, is to be held in the Exchange Hotel, Leith, on Thursday, 22d current, at two o'clock, for the purpose of teceiving the Report of the Factor, and giving instructions as lo the division of the funds collected. J . C. BEADIE. Leith, Oct. 14,1829. NO I'lCE TO THE CREDITORS OF The late Captain DANIEL MEiNZlES, Perthshire Militia. ADIVIDEND from Captain MENZIES' Estate will be paid by Mr William Allan, Accountant, Edinburgh, the Trustee, on the lst of December next. Creditors who have not yet lo iged Claims are requested to do so, on or before the 12ih ot November next, otherwise they shall be excluded from any share of the dividend. Not to be repeated. Edinburgh, 12th Oct. 18.9. 18, Kettes How. TO BE LET, FURNISHED, RO S E F I E L D C O T T A G E , near BRIGHTON PLACE, PORTOBELLO. The House is completely furnished, and is in the cottage style of two stories, has Eight Rooms, Kitchen, and Servants' accommodation, with Water- pipe, Water- closets, Washinghouse, Stable, Coach- house, & c.; there is a large Garden well stocked with winter vegetables, and a small Park, with a larger one adjoining, if- required. Rosefield Cottage being in a warm situation, well sheltered from the north and east winds, with. the immediate neighbourhood WATCHED and LIGHTED in winter, it is well adapted for a winter residence. An UNFURNISHED HOUSE of Seven Rooms, & c. in BRIGHTON CRESCENT also to be Let Rents of both moderate. Apply to Mr Baxter, 18, Low Terrace, Edinburgh. SALE OF PAPER, PAPER- MILL,& c. There will be SOLD, by public Iloup, for his Majesty's Duties and Penalties, at Rpth s Paper- villi near Markinch, in the County of Fife, on Wednesday ihe 21st day of October, 1829, at 10 o'clock forenoon, by virtue of warrants, 70 I > E A M S of P A P E R in a Finished State, A \ a large quanjty of Unfinished PAPER, RAGS, with other materials for the Manufacture of Paper. Machine, Mill, aiid a complete set of Utensils lor making paper, two Horses and Carts, a Cow, a Pig, two large Stacks of Old liay, and a quantity of Household Furniture, & c. & c. for Ready Money only. PRESTON PANS BEER. THE Subscriber can now supply tbe above much esteemed BEER in high ptrlection. His present slock of LONDON PORTER is, as usual, of the best qualiiy ; and as he admits no Scotch Porter into his cellars, his customers may rely oil being supplied with genuine London on moderate terms. Foreign Wines and Spirits of every description. MATTW. WALKER. Wine and Spirit Cellars, Register Street, St Andrew Square. BILL OF FARE FOR THIS DAY. CAFE RuYAI,, REGISTER STREET, ST ANDREW'S SQUARE. SOUPS.— Mock Turtle, Muligitauney, Gravy, Ox Tail, Vermicelli, Hare, & c. FISH Cod, Hafdocks, Flounders, & c. JOINTS Beef, boiled and Roasted; Do. Mutton; Prime ltump Steaks. CHOPS,— Roasted Pig, Boiled Rabbits, Onions. POULTRY Geese, Turkies, Fowls, Birds. Dressed Dishes, in great variety, & c. Tarts, Puddings, all kinds of Vegetables in season.— Dinner for Parties. Gentlemen frequenting the Theatres will always find a great variety of Supper Dishes ready.— Coffee a la mode de Paris— Cigars from the first importers. 15th October 1829. 2d. L I S T of PERSONS who obtained GAMEKEEPERS' CERTIFICATES < C.), at the rate of £ 3, 13s. fid. each, for the year 1829. Horsburgh, Wiiliam, for ihe lands of Riccarton. ( Made up from the lltli September ' to 10th October inclusive.) Published by direction of his Majesty's Commissioners for the affairs of Taxes, HENRY MACKENZIE, Comptroller of Taxes for Scotland. N. B— Certificates are issued at the Collector's Office, No. 18, South Frederick Street, every lawful day, from eleven, to three o'clock. V E T E R I N A R Y M E D I C I N E S. THE Public is respectfully informed, that the following VETERINARY MEDICINES are kept by BUTLER & CO., 73, Prince's Street, Edinburgh ; they are invariably formed of Genuine Drugs, and where the aloe enters into the composition, that of Barbadoes is the only kind used. The Recipes from which ihe Medicines are prepated, are the most approved of those recommended by Veterinary Practitioners of celebrity; and attention has been paid to such forms as remain unchanged by keeping, and are of easy solution in the stomach of the Horse:— Mild Physic Ball; Strong Physic Ball; Mercurial Physic Bali for Worms; Laxative Alterative Ball; Diuretic Alterative Ball; Pectoral Cough Ball; Chronic Cough Ball; Cordial Ball; Strong Blister Ointment; Mild Liquid Blister; Leeming's Essence for Splints. The Medicines of Mr Blaine may be had. at the Establishment; also every arti. le adapted to Veterinary Practice, or that is used by Graziers and Farmers in the Diseases of Cattle. HOUSE AND . SHOP FOR SALE. To be SOLD by public roup, within tbe Royal Exchange Coffeehouse^ Edinburgh, upon Wednesday the 21st day of Octobir next, at two o'clock afternoon, ALL and W H O L E that H O U S E , consisting of three rooms and a shop, presently occupied as a Laboratory, situated on the north side of the HIGH STREET of Edinburgh, in Boyd's Land, at the head of Chalmers' Close, and whole Pertinents. The upset price will be extremely moderate, in order to insure a sale. For particulars apply to Goldie and Ponton, W. S. 58, India Street, in whose hands are the title- deeds, & c. ADJOURNED SALE. THE HOUSE, NO. 17, FETTES ROW, with back green, stables, and coach- house, as particularly described in " former advertisements, will again'be exposed to public sale wiihin M'Ewen's Rooms, Royal Exchange, on Friday the lfith October current, at two, at ihe reduced upset price of £ 1180. Edinburgh, 8 h October 1829. FAMILY HOUSE, PARTLY FURNISHED, TO HE LET. MI L T O N H O P S E , in the CANONGATF. of EDINBWUGIA is now to be Let, and entered to at tile appijiaching term Martinmas. The hous; contains a great deal of accommodation, is in good order, and the principal rooms, and some of the bed- rooms, as well as the kiiclietu are partly furnished, There is a large jiieeiv behind, wit| » access from the south ; and an excellent stable, double coach- house, and oilier offices. The whole Will be. let at a moderate rent. The house may be seeo on Mondays and Thursdays, from two to four; ar. d farther particulars learned on application to Messrs Home, W. S., 1), South Charlotte Street. LANDS IN IN VERNESs- SHIRE. CPSET PRICE GREATLY REDUCED. To be SOLD by public roup, within the Royal Exchange Coffeehouse in Edinburgh, on Wednesday, lUailith of November next, at two o'clock afterroon, T H E LANDS of G O l i T H L E C K , F Q I R - X BEG, and GLENMARKIE, with a VOTE in the County, either in Whole or in Lots, as formerly ad. veitised. For particulars apply to Mr Thomas Patau, accountant, No. 48, Cumberland Street, or James Martin, writer. No. 16, London Street, Edinburgh. Edinburgh, 22d September 1829. ROMAN CEMENT, AT A REDUCED PRICE ! ! 1 TITE Subscriber begs to intimate to his numerous Friends and Customers, that he has received instructions from the Manufacturers at London to ieduce the price of this useful article, from this date, to TWENTY SHILLINGS PER BARREL, and smaller casks ill proportion. Their CEMENT has uniformly given the greatest satisfaction, and is generally allowed to be of the best quality of any manufactured in Britain. J O H N WALKER. Leith, 10th October, 1829. MASTIC and PAINTS upon the best terms, as usual. " ADVANTAGEOUS O P E N I N G I N T HE GROCERY, WINE, AND SPIRIT TRADE. To LET, now or at Whitsunday, A NEAT SMALL SHOP, in a central situation of the New Town, at present possessed by a person who has another shop, and thereby finds himself so much engaged ihat he is unable to attend to it. WANTED, TW O APPRENTICES, from 14 to 16 years oi' age. Letters, post paid, addressed O. P. at the Courant Office, will be attended to. TO BE SOLD BY PUBLIC ROUP, In the Royal Exchange Coffee- bouse, Edinburgh, upon Wednesday the 4tn day ot November next, at two o'clock afternoon, ( CERTAIN Temple SUPERIORITIES, in the J Counties of EDINBURGH, STIRLING, and DUMBARTON. These Superiorities embrace a part of the Gassmarket and West Bow of Edinburgh, and several Estates in each of the Counties above mentioned. For farther particulars apply to William Paul and Lindsay Mackersy, accountants, 17, Howe Street; or John_ B. Grade, W. S. George Square, Edinburgh. " HOUSE IN DRUMMOND " PLACE FOR SALE. NO AUCTION DUTY To be SOLD by public roup, within the Royal Exchange Coffeehouse tiere, on Wednesday, the 18th of November next, at 2 o'clock p. M. H A T EXCELLENT D W E L L I N G - H O U S E, Upset price PlCAltuY PLACE. LANDS IN FIFE FOR SALE. To be SOLD by Public Roup, within the Tontine Inn, Cupar, on Thursday, the 22d day of October, 1829. at two o'clock afternoon, if not previuusly disposed ot by private bargain, nPHE LANDS of BALDINNY, in the parish of X Ceres, consisting of the FARMS of NETHER and OVER BALDINNY, besides several PENDICLES, and measuring in whole 200 acres, 3 roods, and 3 falls Scots, or 327 acres, 3 roods, and 11 falls imperial measure, exclusive of 32 acres, 2 roods, and 31 falls Scots, or 41 acres and 16 falls imperial measure of Feus, holding of the proprietors. These lands lie within four miles of Cupar, the county town, about one from the thriving village of Ceres, and in the immediate vicinity of the coal, and lime works of Craighall. The turnpike road leading troni Cupar tc Colinsburgh, & c. runs through the lands ; aud the shipping ports of St Andrew's and Largo are only distant about six miles. Besides those local advantages, the greater part of the property is well inclosed, and already laid do » n in pasture ; and as there are stone, quarries on the lands, the remainder can be inclosed at a very small expence. ' The whole lands are arable, except about two acres of a hard wood plantation, of considerable age and value. Immediate entry can be given to about 135 Scots acres of the lands. For farther particulars apply to Patrick Cockburn, Esq. accountant, York Phice, ot Mr James L. Mitchell, W. S. 0, Circus Place, Edinburgh ; - or to James Webster, writer in Cupar, who is in possession of a plan antl measurement ot the property, and will give directions for shewing the boundaries. N. B If the lands are not sold previous to Martinmas next, that part thereof which was in the natural possession of the late Mrs Ramsay will be LET ; and for the Pendicles which are out of lease, otters will be received in the meantime for a one year's lease. 24th August, 1829. To be SOLD or to be LET, Furnished or Unfurnished, by the Morilh or the Year, or for a term of years, R NAIRNE'S HOUSE, No. 18, PICARDY PLACE. It consists of 18 Rooms, besides Kitchen, Scullery, Hot and Cold Bath, numerous Closeis, good Larders, ample Cellarage, and the largest back ground in the street. Messrs Nairne, 22, Albany Street, and Mr Trotter, 9, Prince's Street, will give every necessary information. October 1829. LANDS IN WEST LOTHIAN. UPSET PRICE GREATLY REDUCED. To be SOLD by public roup, within the Royal Exchange Coffeehouse in Edinburgh, 011 Wednesday, the 18ih of November next, at two o'clock afternoon, N P H E M I D L O T of B L A C K B U R N , with t he X Mansion- house, Garden, and Offices, as formerly advertised. For particulars apply to Mr Thomas Paton, accountant, No. 48, Cumberland Street, or James Martin, writer, No. 16, London Street, Edinburgh. Edinburgh, 22 1 September 1829. T , X No. 32, DRUM. MONO PLACE greatly reduced. Apply for particulars to Mr Thomas Paton, accountant, 48, Cumberland Street, or James Martin, writer, IS, London Street. Edinburgh, 22d September 1829. DWELLIN G-~ llOLSE IN PRlNCE'S STREET. For SALE by private bargain, THAT self- contained D W E i . L I N G - H O U S E, 122, PRINCE'S STREET, consisting of the f i r st and Grounds Floors, with lar^ e back- green, wine cellar behind, cellarage under the pavement, & c. The first floor contains dii. ing- room, drawing- room, parlour, and two bed- rooms, all in excellent condition ; and on the ground floor, are three rooms, kitchen, and various closets and conveniences. Seen Tuesdays and Fridays from one to three o'clock. Farther particulars will be communicated by Messrs Phin and Pitcairn, W. S. 37, Dublin Street; or by Mr Trotter, 9, Prince's Street. ADJOURNED SA LE. FOR SALE, ESTATE IN THE COUNTY OF EDINBURGH, WITH TWO FREEHOLD QUALIFICATIONS, AND SEVERAL SMALL PIECES OF GROUND IN AND ABOUT THE TOWN OF INVERKEITHING. To be SOLD by public roup, within the Royal Exchange Coffeehouse, Edinburgh, on Wednesday, the Itith day of December 182,9. at two o'clock afternoon, if not previously disposed of by privaie bargain, rpHE LANDS of LOGANHOUSE, KIRKX TON, EASI SIDE, and WESTSIDE, Parts of the Barony of PENTLANDS, lying in the parish of Fennycuick, and county of Edinburgh, and consisting of about 4180 acres, of which 4020 are excellent sound eaily sheep pasture, and the remainder arable. The propeity is now let at a rental of £ 785, upon which there will be a considerable rise at the expiry of the present leases. The teinds are valued, and almost exhausted. The Cess is redeemed ; and other public burdens are moderate. The lands hold blench of the Crown, and are valued in the Cess Books at £ 850. AS ALSO, Several SMALL PIECES of GROUND, in and about the Town of IN VERKEITHING, presently let to Mr Angus. For particulars apply to James Dundas, C. S. 25, St Atldrew Square, Edinburgh, FARM IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. To be LF. T by proposal, for suih a term of yeais as may be agreed on, and entered to on the 12th May, 1830, R J P H A T F A R M of L A N D , situated at TWEEDX MOUTH, in the county palatine of Durham, as now occupied by Mr Smith ; containing 125 acres, or thereabouts. The land is of ihe best quality, at an easy distance from coals ar. d lime, and in the immediate vicinity of Bcrwick- on- Tweed, which affords an excellent market tor its produce. The onstead is in good repair; and the. tenant's entry favourable. Proposals will be received until the lst of December next; to be addressed to Mr Tail, W. S., No. 4, Abercromby Place, Edinburgh ; or Mr William Lowrey, at Barmoor, Berwick, either of whom will, 011 application, furnish further particulars. Mr Charles Cuthbertson, of Twee ; mouth, will show the premises. BEAUTIFUL ESTATE IN FIFESIIIRE, WITH A FREEHOLD QUALIFICATION, FOR SALE. To be SOLD, by public roup, within the Royal Exchange Coffeehouse, Edinburgh, upon Wednesday, the 11th day of November next, at two o'clock afternoon, ( unless previously disposed of by private bar. gain,) T H E E S T A T E of B A L C H R I S T I E , lying in J L the parish of Newburn and county of Fife.—' This property is all arable, consists of about 300 Scots acres, and will be exposed to sale in one lot, or in the following divisions, as purchasers may incline:— Lot Lst will consist of the MANSION- HOUSE of BALCHRISTIE, with the Offices, Garden, Policies, and three Parks, containing upwards of 20 acres, immediately surrounding the house. Lot 2d, ' 1 he FARM of BALCHRISTIE, containing about 280 acres. Lot 3d, The SUPERIORITY of BALCHRISTIE, affording a Freehold Qualification in the county. These lands lie in an early situation, and possess a most beautiful southern exposure, commanding an extensive view of the Frith of Forth, of Edinburgh, and the opposite coast of Mid- Lo'. hian. There is a Right of Salmon Fishing attached To the estate, and white fish of every description are taken in abundance in the neighbourhood. The mansion- house is neatly finished, and sufficient to accommodaie a genteel family. ' The gardens are of considerable extent, surrounded by a stone wall covered with fruit- trees of every description, and contain an excellent hot- house in full bearing. The policies are beautifully laid out, and the offices are most complete an t extensive. Balchristie is distant from the post- town of Colinsburgh one mile, from the sea- port of Ehe three miles, and from Largo two miles, to both which ports there are regular steam- packets from Newhaven. The public burdens are very moderate ; and the property, as a resident:.', is so complete in every respect, that it riiay be entered to by the purchaser without any expense iu the way of additions or repaiis. For further particulars application may be made to the proprietor, James Carstairs Bruce, Esq. at Bal- DESIRABLE HIGHLAND ESTATE IN T H E COUNTY OF PERTH FOR SALE, UNDER JUDICIAL AUTHORITY. Upset Price Reduced. THE ESTATE of FINCASTLE, and GRAZINGS of RICHAEL ar. d GLASCHORKIE, are to be exposed to SALE, within the Parliament or New Session House of Edinburgh, in presence of the Lord Ordinary on the Bills, on Wednesday the 18th November next, between two and four o'clock p. M. FINCASTLE consists of 575 imperial acres of arable and 3148 imperial acres of pasture ground, all inclosed and subdivided. Thtre are several plantations of haid wood, and 30 acres of hill land were lately planted with larch anil spruce fir. The game is abundant, and the fishing excellent. The mansion house is commodious, and the garden and offices suitable. The roads 10 the house are good, and one of them passes through a part of tbe beautiful scenery of the Pass of Killiecranky. The GRAZINGS of RICHAUL and GLASCHORRIE contain 6305 imperial acres of hill pasture, and abound with all kinds of game. An extensive shooting lodge, with stable and dog kennel, were lately erected. The lodge is furnished. The free proven estimated rental of the estate is £ 1432 : 12 : 1 U- I2ths, and the free proven value £ 40,147 : 3 : 2 ; but, in order to insure a sale, the Court of Session have been pleased to order it to be exposed in ON E LOT at £ 38,000 Sterling, being £ 2147, 3s. 2d. below the original upset price. The annual burdens are i' 2jj, 8s. 3Jd, and the valued rent affords a vote in the county. F'or additional particulars reference is made to former advertisements inserted in the Edinburgh newspapers, Perth Courier, and Sun London newspapers. The articles of roup are 10 be seen at Mr William Pnngle's office, Register House. Copies of the memorial, aud abstract of the prepared state, and every other information, will be given by James Morison, accountant in I'ertb, or George Gardiner, writer there; Moncrieft^ Webster, and Thomson, Old Palace Yard, London ; and Duncan Stewart, 109, George Street, Edin- Upset Prices Greatly Reduced. HOUSES AND SHOPS IN MACKENZIE PLACE, ( BEHIND MORAY PLACE.) On Wednesday the 4th day of November next, at two o'clock afternoon, within tile Royal Exchange Coffeehouse, Euinburgh, in so far as not previously disposed of by private bargain, will be again exposed to public SALE, pursuant to adjournment, 1. TUAT lar « e DOUBLE TENEMENT of X HOUSES, being the eastmost in MACKENZIE l'l. ACE, facing St Bernard's Bridge, consisting of one large double shop, two single shops, and three fiats above, each divided into two dwelliug- houses of thiee rooms and kitchen, wiih closets, & c. II. That large DOUBLE TENEMENT, being the westmost yet built in MACKENZIE PLACE, consisting of four flats, each fiat divided into two dwellinghouses ; those in the street flat consisting each of five rooms and kitchen, and those in the remaining flats consisting each of three rooms and kitchen, two light and two dark closets, & c. The situation of the above property is open ar. d agreeable, having a large space in front which cannot be built upon, and looking towards the handsome houses in Dean Terrace and St Bernard's Crescent, on tile opposite side of the river. Both tenements are newly and substantially built. The property will be exposed in whole, or in such lots as may suit intending purchasers. Mr James Smith, Mackenzie Place, will show the premises; and offers will be received, and every information afforded, by Goldie and Ponton, W. S. 58, India Streei, or George Gordon, S. S. C., Northumberland Street Edinburgh. FEU- DUTIES AND DWELLING- HOUSES FOR SALE. To be SOLD by public roup, within the Royal Exchange Coffeehouse, Edinburgh, on Wednesday the 26th day of November 1829, at 2 o'clock P. M. I . T H E FEU- DUTIES, with the CASUALX TIES of SUPERIORITY of the Properly of ROXBURGH PARK, comprehending the Property situated between Roxburgh Place and Pleasa'nce, and part of North Richmond Street and Richmond Place. These Feu Duties amount to about £ 81) 6 per annum, and are well secured on substantial and well finished buildings. The whole will be exposed so as to afford a return 01 five per cent, on the price, besides the Casualties, and will be set up either in one lot or in different parcels to suit the convenience of purchasers. This pioperiy will form very advantageous investments for professional gentlemen, on account of the emoluments to be obtained from the entering of vassals. I I . The following PARTS of that TENEMENT, fronting ROXBURGH STREET, entering by No. 18:— 1. That EXCELLENT CORNER SHOP and Four APARTMENTS, entering by WEST ADAM STREET and ROXBURGH STREET, as possessed by David M'Leod, spirit- dealer. 2. FLAT, first door up stairs, lately possessed by Mr Welsh, teacher, consisting of three rooms and kitchen, with oilier conveniences. 3. ATTIC FLAT, being the fourth door up stairs, containing four apartments, as possessed by John Thomson and Young. I I I . The following PARTS of that TENEMENT, on the north side of WEST ADAM STREET, entering by No. II:— 1. The SHOP and Three APARTMENTS, on the street floor, possessed by Mr James Arnot, jeweller, No. 13. 2. Seven HALF FLATS, in the common stair, occu. pied by different tenants. IV. Five HALF FLATS or DWELLING- HOUSES, in that T EN E M E NT on the south side of WEST AD AM STREBT, eutering by No. 3. The houses will be seen by applying to Mr James Arnot, jeweller, No. 13 West Adam Street, and farther particulars, regarding the houses and feu duties, will b, learned by applying to David Cormack, accountant, No. 6. North St Andrew's Street, with whom will be seen the title deeds, plans, rentals, & c. Edinburgh, Oct. 3 1 » -" J PROPERTY FOR SALE, IN THE VILLAGE OF INVEllGORDON, ROSS- SHI RE. In virtue of a bond and disposition in security, there will be SOLD by public roup, within the Commercial Inn there, upon Wednesday the 21st day of October 1829, in one lot, 1. \ LL and whole that Piece of G R O U N D , si- X i . tuated at the east end of said village of lnvergordon, as formerly occupied by Thomas Fletcher, measuring in front, along the high road or mam street, 155 feet, and on the west 190 teet; on the south, along tbe shore or sea side, 178; on the east, 130, or thereabout, all as now or lately occupied by Mr Charles Denham, of London, now or lately hemp- manufacturer, Invergordon, together with those extensive BUILDINGS connected with his business, recently erected upon the grounds. The property holds feu from Mr Macleod of Cadboll, for an annual duty of £ 2 sterling. 2. The BUILDINGS on said feu, purposely erected and well fitted for slaughtering and curing pork. 3. The MASON WORK of an excellent double Dwelling- house, containing a number ot sunk cellais and keeping places. As a capital harbour and quay are just finished at Invergordon, the village is rapidly extending; a cheap supply of labour, from the increased population, can be always relied on; and the situation of the premises, on the Cromarty Frith, afford facilities either f « r the hemp or pork trade, which are seldom to be met with. The premises will be pointed out by Mr Munro, grocer, Invergordon, and all farther inquiries may be directed to Mr Robert ltoy, W. S. Edinburgh, or to Donald Williamson, writer in Tain, who holds the title deeds* Tain, July 25. 1829. TO BE EXPOSED TO SALE BY PUBLIC ROUP, Within Pagan's King's Arms Inn. Maxwelton, in th « stewartry of Kirkcudbright, on Wednesday the nilitti day of December next, betwixt the hours of one and two afternoon, ill virtue of a clause of sale contained in a bond and disposition in security, * ALL am! W H O L E the Western Division of the LANDS of OVER LINKINS. now called CASTLEHILL, extending to sixty acies or thereby, villi the Houses and Pertinents, and All and Haill the Laidg of GREENLANE, commonly called GRELNIANE CROFT, with the Pertinents, all ly ing in the palish of Iterrick, and stewartiy of Kirkcudbright, and which lands of Grcenlar. e include an angle or pendicle of Lochdougan, ir. the parish of Kelton, and stewartry foresaid. Apply to Robert Adamson, writer in Dumfries, who will inform as to the particulars of sale. Dumfries, Sept. 26, 1829. VALUAI1LE AND EXTENSIVE FARM IN EAST LOTHIAN, TO LET. To LF. T, upon a lease tor nineteen yerrs, after Whitsunday 13b0, as to the Houses, Grass, and Pasturage, and the separation of crop 1830 from the grouud, as to the Arable Lands, T H E FARM and LANDS of UPPERX KEITH, ill the parish of Humlier i n d county of Haddington, containing about 552 acres Scotch, or 695 acres imperial measure, 493 Scotch or 622 imperial acres of which are arable. The lands are well known as being of very superior quality, and as capable of producing excellent crops of grain, ar. d raising great crops of turnips, and that they afford abundant and early pasture. The inconiing tenant will have the advantage of entering to about 200 imperial acres of grass at least two years old. The farm is conveniently situated for markets, being about nine miles from Dalkeith, and eight miles fiom Haddington, and in the immediate vicinity of lime and coal- Any necessary additions to the iarmhouse and offices will be made. ' The lands have been lately surveyed, and a plan and measurement thereof, together with the conditions of tllo lease, may be seen in the hands of Henry Davidson, writer, Haddington, who will give every iniormation wanted respecting the farm, and directions tor showing the same to inteoding offerers. Offers in wriiing will be received by John Home, Esq. South Charlotte Street, Edinburgh ; or Mr Davidson, Haddington, betwixt and the 30th November next, when tiie farm will be let if an adequate offer is given in. Haddington, 14th Ociober 1829. Christie, by Colinsburgh ; to Messrs YOIJNGS, AYTOUN, burgh. and RUTHERFORD, W. S., Nelson Street; to Messrs I Henry Stewart, at Dundavie, will point out the botin- IIuNTERan 1 CONNING, writers in Perth ; or to DAVID daries of the low grounds; and Robert Stewart, at Hi- BI. ACKIE, W. S., NO. 7, Windsor Street; front alt, of eliael, those ot the lull grazings. frfairt vufiti 9/ « ttitMpU' » ttf'Vtt c'tMc may be kati. [ Edinburgh, August- 2IS> 1829. TO BE SOLD, A DESIRABLE SMALL PROPERTY IN THE WEST OF FIFE. To be SOLD by public roup, within the Spire Inn, ( Laidlaw,) Dunfermline, upon Tuesday the 3d day of November next, 1829, at one o'clock afternoon, T H E L A N D S of S O U T H B U R N S I D E and X L ET H 1( I E , consisting of about 68 acres Scots, or 80 imperial measure, with the Com Alill Of Balgonar, commonly called Lethrie Mill, and extensive Thirlage thereto belonging, all lying iu the parish of Saline, and shire of Fife. ' The lands are nearly all inclosed, subdivided, and ornamented with thriving hedge lows and clumps of planting, and are situated immediately adjoining to the romantic and populous village of Saline. There is a suitable farm steading on the property. The mill, which was erecud a few years ago, is large and commodious, and well adapted for carrying on an extensive business. There is an excellent situation for building on Letarie, for a residence commanding a view ot the beautiful wooded vale and village of Saline, with the surrounding hills and other scenery. ' The property is well Situated for markets, being distant from the towns of Dunfermline and Dollar six miles, and about the same instance from the sea- ports of Torryburn, Culross, Kincardine, and Alloa, to all which there are excellent roads. Coal and lime abound in the neighbourhood, and the coaches from Edinburgh to Crieff, Dy Dunfermline and the Rumbling Bridge, pass within a mile and a half of tbe property. The present rental is £ 152,8s lOd.; but it may be very considerably increased by feuing out part of the lands adjoining the village of Saline, for building, & c. The public burdens are only about £ 4 per annum. Indeed a more desirable compact small property, wiih so many local advantages, both for a residence and an investment, is sefdom 10 be met wi; h. For farther particulars apply to Arthur Strachan, writer, Dunfermline; or to MacRitchies, Bayley, and Henderson, W. S. 30, St James' Square, Edinourgh, who are in the possession of the t i t k . d « d s and plan of t., e ptopcity, LANDS IN WIGTONSH1RE. To be SOLD by public roup, within the Royal Exchange Coffeehouse of Edinburgh, upon Wednesday, 2d lieamber 1829, at 2 o'clock afternoon, if not previously sold by private bargain, > HE LANDS of MAINS of GARTHLAND, L LANDS of BLAIRS, and part of LOCHAN's MILL LANDS. They lie contiguous, and extend to about 900 English acres, of which between 50 and ( 10 are plarted; the'wood, about 12 acres, around the Castle and Garden, is of full grown timber and mar. y very fine trees; the other plantations are in belts, mostly above 30 yeais old, which completely enclose above 100 acres, and give shelter to a much wider extent. This property lies in the southmost part of Scotland, neaily in the latitude of Durham ; it is about an equal distance, of three miles only, from Stranraer on Loch, ryan, and Bay of Luce, so has ready communication for export and import. The lands are all arable, and the greatest part of very fine soil, with a southern exposure. There are several large meadows, or alluvial holms, wiih command of water, suitable for irrigation. The parks around the house and about 400 acres more have been for many years set annually in pasture, and are of very ri. h quality. The leases 01 niostol the remainder are also now expired, so the whole property is fitted and ready for the • TiOit modern system of improvement. The old Castle, bear ing a very ancient date, and adjoining dwelling, house, that of 1637, were boih newly fitted up within less than JO vears ago, and are in good condition, consisting of i dining room, drawing room, kitchen, and fivebeu rooms, besides° garrets, and the large vaulteu hall of the Castle, which might all be fitted up for farther accommodation. The whole lands are held of subjects superiors, at trivial feu- duties, with duplication only, at entry ot' heirs or singular successors. The teinds are valued and nearly exhausted. The old valuation is only £ 283 Scots, so the public burdens are moderate. A Freehold Qualification in Superiority can also be sold if required. A considerable part of the price may remain for some time with the purchaser, if wished for, on the security of tbe estate. For farther particulars application may be made to Vans Haihorn, W. S. Edinburgh ; George Hathorn, Esq. 0, Btoad Street Buildings, London; or Messrs M'Niul And ,- uLir miters in fctranracr. GOSS'S WORKS. ( EIGHTEENTH EDITION.) 11 rlomineui pagina n o s t r a sapit. " Our page relates to man." Martial. 1. T H E OF LIFE : A Non- Medical X Commentary on the indiscietions arising from Human Frailty, with Practical Observations on Debility and Mental Irritation, and soni£ interesting Observations on VegetaDfe and Animal Life; in Part I I . is a Seiie* of Cases illustrative of the preceding subjects, explaining them in a familiar manner. By GOSS & Co. Consulting Surgeons, London. Natura beatis, Omnibus esse dedit, si 4'- its cognoverit u t f ." Ctaudian. " Since Heaven to all t h e f u n d of bliss supplies, " It's frugal application marks the wise.' 2. T H E SYPHILIS'!', a Familiar Treatise on Disorders arising iVom Lues Venerea, with a variety of Remarks occurring in a most extensive practice, each Sec. tion explained by cases. S.' HYGEIANA: a Non- Medical Analysisof son o Complaints incidental to Females. Interesting and important cases illustrate the subject. 11 Quo f u g i t Venus 1 l i eu ! quove color decent* ?" Hltr. lilt• 4. Ud, II. " Whither flies Love ? Ah ! where the charming bluom ?'• The above may be had of SHERWOOD, Paternoster Row, Londoh ; and at 9. Calton Street, Edinburgh; and of all booksellers in Glasgow. Price 5s. each in boards. Messrs. GOSS aid CO. are to be consulted at usual, everyday, at their house; and Patients in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and the remotest putts of Scotland, are requested to describe minutely the case, encloiing a remittance for advice and medicine, which can be forward, od to any part of the world. GOSS and CO. M. It. C. Surgeons, No. 11. Bouvetia Street. Fleet Street, London. TO BE SOLD BY PUBLIC ROUP, Within the Writing- chambers of the Subscriber, on Thursday the 29th current, at 2 r M. 32- 64th S H A R E S of the Sloop P R O - VIDENCE of Leith, as she presently lies in that harbour, burthen per register 44 23- U4th tons. N. B.— The vessel is in good repair and well found; and the remaining 3' 2.64tu sliares can be had on reasonable terms, by private bargain. Apply to SAMUEL BhVERIDGE, Solicitor. Leith, 14th Oct. 1829. FOR LONDON, T H E U N I T E D K I N G D O M . This Splendid STEAM SHIP will sail FOR LONDON, On FRIDAY the 16th OCIOBEH, at Five o. CIock Afternoon; and from LONDON on TUESDAY the 20th OCTOBER, at Ten o'clock Evening, brine her last passage this season ; iimeous notice will be given when she commences next year. Apply to Charles Guthrie, 8. Waterloo Place, Edinburgh ; George Bell, 157, Fenchurch Street, London ; or to G E O R G E M I L L S. NEWHAVEN, " 1 and V October 1829. EDINBURGH, J Superior Steerage accommodation. - . > • .; FOR VAN DIEMAN'S* LAND. AND NEW SOUTH WALES, To land Goods and Passengers at SWAN RIVER, should a sufficient quantity offer, The Australian Company's Ship PORTLAND, To sail in February!' ' The Portland is S80 tons register, has a pbon caliln, wiih expensive accommodation lor passengers, and cm. ries a surgeon. Apply at the Company's office here. n ROBERT BROWN. Ltith, 14th Oct, 1829. R U S S I A A N D T U R K E Y . BERLIN, October 3.— An Extraordinary Supplement to the Journal of Sjt P e t e r s b u r g , of the 24th of September, announces that the Emperor, foreseeing that the passage of the Balkan by his victorious troops would make it possible to communicate directly over land with the fleet under Admiral Heyden, gave orders to the latter to assemble his fleet in the Gulf of Saros, and send some light vessels to cruise off Enos, in order to apprise the fleet by signals of the approach of the troops by land. The following journal of the operations from the 22d to the 30th of August ( 3d to 11th of Septem- • her), and the report of Count Diebitsch, shew that • these orders of his Majesty have been successfully executed. JOURNAL OF TIIE OPERATIONS FROM THE 3D TO THE 1 I TH OF SEPTEMBER ( N . S .) " The first paragraphs relate to the occupation of several villages by detachments from Adrianople, viz— CJiamanli, wh; re the inhabitants were at variance with each other; Damotico, where the inhabitants, having taken up arms, were disarmed by order of General Siewers, who reached that town on the 4th, in his way to Enos, to open a communication with Admiral Heyden ; to second this movement, Major- Genetal Schremegetyff was ordered tb occuny Trajanople,— but fhe place not being found convenient to conmunicate with Enos, he was ordered to take up a position at Ipsala. " September 0 The fith corps of infantry marched from Adrianople to Lule Bourgas. " September 7 Admiral Greigb announced the taking of Midia on the 29th of August. " September 8 Major- General Begidoff. with his Cossacks, reached Karistan, where he took a position for the night, and the sixth corps entered Lule Bourgas. " September 9.— Count Pahlen reports that he left the position occupied by the second corps near Kirk- kilissa, and entered Vera fith inst. " Reports fro n General Krassowsky, of 1st to 4th September, relate some occurrences near Schumla, and state that notwithstanding the well- supported tire from the enemy's outworks, the operations of the siege were prosecuted with success. " Report from General Diebitsch Sabalkansky to the Emperor:— " Sire— With a view to open a communication with your Majesty's fleet under Admiral Heyden, 1 sent a regimen! of Hulans, with four pieces of horse artillery, to Enos, under General Siewers; and to support him and facilitate the communication with Adrianople, I sent a regiment of Hulans to Ipsala, and another to Demotico, each with two pieces of horse artillery. General Siewtrs, on occupying Enos, was to make the concerted signals to one of our ships to approach the coast, and to take on hoard Captain Mukhanoft', one of my aides- de- camp, to carry my dispatches to Admiral Heyden. '• Major- General Siewers reports, that on his march to Enos, all the inhabitants of the village came to meet him, and expressed their sincere wish to live in peace; that they gave up their arms without resistance; and that 1500 Turks, sent by the Pacha of Salonichi, under the command of his own son. to occupy Enos, had dispersed on learning the rapid advance of the Russians to that place. Part of the detachment having gone through the village of Iteshane towards Constantinople, was pursued by General Siewers and dispersed ; fifty were made prisoners, " On reaching Er. os, the General learned that the Ayan was resolved to defend himself in the citadel to the last extremity, and had compelled the inhabitants to leave their houses and take arms, and had ordered the Greeks not to go to meet your Majesty's troops. " Major- General Siewers sent on the ( 1th ( the diyof his arrival) an officer of the staff to propose a capitulation, and, meantime, reconnoitred tbe town and citadel: Tim Duke of BtiCcleuch intends io t i k e down the old family residence once inhabited by his ancestor, the Duke of Montague, in Privy Gardens, and build in its stead a mansion worthy of his rank and the great fortune which he possesses. The situation is one of the most eligible in the metropolis. During the time this palace is in progress, the Duke and his bride will occupy the house of the late Lady Willoughby de Ereshy, adjoining Whitehall. COVF. NT- GARDEN THEATRE.— A n e w d r a m a , in two acts, was produced on Saturday, under the title of the First of May ; or, a Royal Love Match. The plot is founded on the celebrated courtship of Lady Elizabeth Grey by Edward the Fourth, and concludes with the wedding, afterwards so pregnant with mischief to the royal bridegroom. Nothing of this, however, appears in the piece, which is a mere compound of equivoque arising from the excited jealousy of the lady. The well- known anecdote of the widow's gift of twenty pounds " for the love of the handsomest face in England," was introduced with effect, but there was little else in the piece either to interest or amnse. It was, however, given out for repetition without dissent. The manager of Covent Garden has a new tragedy quite ready for representation, in which the principal female character is exactly suited to the youth and accomplishments of Miss Kemble; but Belvidera is recommended to her by several accomplished amateurs; and we have heard that when the anxiety of the public to see Romeo and Juliet has in part subsided, Venice Preserved will be produced, aided by all the strength of the establishment. Mr Denman, the gentleman who was one of the early subscribers to the fund for opening Covent Garden, and who at the same time tendered his dramatic talents to the theatre for the whole season gratuitously, is said to he a youth of great promise and accomplishments; he was educated at Westminster School, is a son of Dr Denman's, and is nearly related to the eminent Common- Sergeant of the city. T. P. Cooke has tendered his services to perform for six nights gratuitously at Covent Garden Theatre, in aid of the fund; and Elliston, with equal liberality, has permitted the representation of " Black Eyed Susan" to be produced on the first evening of Mr Cooke's appearancp. MALTSTERS.— It will be seen by the following correspondence, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is disposed to grant every facility in his power to further the interests of farmers, maltsters, and, indeed, of the public at large, as consumers of grain, in whatever shape it is used. Inconsequence of an application from Sir Charles Buriell, oil the part of some corn- merchants, who only asked the privilege of drying damp wheat that it might come at once into the market fit for conversion into wholesome flour, the right honourable gentleman has sent orders to the Excise to permit maltsters to dry any kind of grain upon their kilns, on giving previous notice to the officers of their intention. This will be found a great advantage, and will contribute not a little to soften the' severity of the existing malt regulations :—: " Knepp Castle. Oct 9, 1829. " SIR— I have'muc'. i satisfaction in sending you a copy of a letter I have this day had the honour to receive from the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in reply to a letter f recently addressed to him, on the advantage to be derived from a permission ( under regulation) for drying of T H E R E V E N U E. ABSTRACT of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain, in the Years and Quarters ended 18th October 1828, and the 10th October 1829, she'vingthe Increase or Decrease on each head thereof :— Customs ... Excjse .... Stamps... Post Office Taxes....!' Miscel. ... Years ended Oct. 10. j Increase Decrease 1828. 1829. £ 18.358,170 17.905,978 6,575,311- 1,387.0JO 4,838,484 558,171 £ 15,081.208 17.904,027 8,704,79' 1,300,000 4,!) 0">, 886 1- 100,848 £ I £ — \ 396,984 _ f 1,951 12- 1,374 — 9V900 _ 60,4221 — 44,677) — 47.019,101 47,4/ 2,859 252,473i 398.015 [ Deduct Increase - ( Decrease on the Year... — j 252,473 140,442 Quarters ended Oct. 10. < Q § J QJ tO ar> t 0 1828. 1829. C Q Customs Ex: ise Stamps Post Office... Taxes Miscellaneous £ 4.6b4. S32 5.714,390 1,705,676 366,000 460,9/ 8 101,950 £ 5.0-' 8,656 5,268,23/ 1.747,69: 358,00U 501,30'! 179.980 £ 363,724 42,022 34,328 78,030 £ 446,162 8,000 13,019,945 13,083.877 518,101 454,102 Deduct Decrease 454,162 - Increase on the Quar.. 63,912 — suffer. During the last mouth there litis also been a partial revival of activity even ill those branches of trade which have ' suffered. The silk trade, in Manchester in particular, is stated in t h e Guardian, which has j u s t reached us, as having been " for some time in a healthy and promising state." The cotton trade, too, is stated to have maintained its late improvement; and the great woollen manufacture of Yorkshire is also decidedly improving. I t is, however, pretty clear that as, notwithstanding the marked increase of the population of the country, the' produce of the revenue does not steadily increase in the same proportion, the taxes, from an alteration in the value of money, er some other cause, must press with increased weight on the most numerous classes of the community. Taxes have been reduced since the peace, and the benefit of the reduction has been felt— but almost exclusively by persons above the condition of the working classes. The abolition of the propertytax— the reduction of the wine- tax, have been " a much greater r e l i e f to t h e rich than the repeal of the salt- tax iftid the reduction of a few other imposts have afforded to the poor. This is a great national injustice, of which the community feels the effects. The difficulty which any Minister would labour under in any attempt to re- adjust the pressure of taxation, would be, that he would have to throw new burthens on the powerful classes in order to relieve the weak, and this is a change which nothing but very favourable circumstances, and a strong spirit of patriotism on the part of t h e wealthy classes, can give us any hope of seeing effected. INCOME and CIIAROE on t h e Consolidated Fund, in Ihe Quarters ended the 10th Oct. 1828 and 1829. Quarters ended Oct. 10. ( I, in, UUU, Ilie. tlK line, It. CUiinoi. l cu lllc f j - u o . m Liia II , , n u l l iniiii a | i. ii. iimiiiii ^ i it w i i g u i a n u . i , m. . i ; " ^ the latter seemed well calculated for defence ; it is on a I damp wheat, so that it might come at once into the marbigli and very steep mountain, surrounded with walls, in so- ne places 15 fathoms high, and so thick, that fieldpieces could not possibly make a breach in them. The citadel has but one gate, the only acc.- ss to which is through a narrow and crooked street of the town '• The officer returned with the answer that the Ayan would surrender the town and citadel hut on two conditions. which could not be accepted. Heevidently sought to gain time to receive reinforcements. He promised, however, to come to General Siewcrs the next day to end the negociations. The darkness of the night prevented us from attempting anything against the enemy. As the Ayan did not show himself in the morning, General Siewers resolved to go round the ei. st side of the town, and occupy an eminence, whence the enemy might be molested with grenades ; and if this should not suffice, to itorm the gate of the citadel, and dismount the hulans, whom he armed with muskets taken from the Turks on the march* • " The Ayan seeing these proceedings, and feeling convinced that a storm would be attempted, came to meet the General, and surrendered the citadel and the town, the inhabitants of which were immediately disarmed. The trophies taken at Enos are 25 large and 29 small cannon, 30 barrels of powder, and 2000 cannon balls and grenades. I have the honour to send the keys and the standard Of Enos, transmitted to me by General Siewers. " Captain Mukhanoff has sailed from Enos on baard the Telemachus brig, with the dispatches for Admiral Meyaen. ( Signed) " Count DIEBITSCH SABALKANSKY, Adjutant- General. " Adrianople, Sept. 11." L O N D O N , O C T O B E R 12. WINDSOR, SUNDAY.— Divino service was p e r - formed this morning at tho private chapel by the reverend Mr Musgrave, Canon of St George's, which was attended by his Majesty, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, the royal suite, and a portion of the household. His Majesty's departure for Brighton is now decidedly spoken of to take place in a few days. There is no time positively fixed, but from the orders issued to various departments to be in readiness at a short notice, there can be no doubt of the King's intention of honouring Brighton. We expect the change to take place about the lGth, Friday next. Customs Excise Stamps Post Office Taxes Miscellaneous Cash brought from the Civil List To Cash brought to this Account from the Ways and Meaus to replace the like Sum issued out of the growing produce of the Consolidated Fund in Ireland, for Public Services, 1828. ~~£ 2,954,730 5,714,399 1,705,676 366,000 408,978 101,950 11,309,733 1829. £ 3,311,907 5,288.237 1,747,098 358,000 501,308 179,980 11,307,128 1,025 327,784 111,775 STATE OF TRADE. 11,037.517 11,479,928 Quarters ended Oct. 10. Exchequer Annuities South Sea Company Bank on their Capital Dividends National Debt Trnstees for the Payment of Naval and Military Pensions Civil List ' Pensions Other Charges A Cabinet Council was held at three o'clock vesterdav afternoon at the Foreign Office, which was attended by the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Wellington, Earls Balhurst, Rosslyn, and Aberdeen, Lord Eller. borough, Mr Secretary Peel, Sir George Murray, the Chancellor of the F'xchequer, Mr Herries, an 1 Mr Vesey Fitzgerald. The Ministers sat in deliberation till near six o'clock. The Lord Chancellor came from Brighton to attend the Council. Lord Elleuborough also came from AVorthing to attend the Cabinet. The Duke and Duchess of Clarence, with their suite, arrived in a Government yacht, having a steamer in company, about seven o'clock on Saturday evening off Brighton, from Dieppe. A royal salute was fired on the approach of the vessel, and the tender displayed a number of fine rockets. The chain pier was crowded to excess by company waiting to see their Royal Highnesses land. The Duke and Duchess landed soon afterwards. Admiral Sir Hubert Otwav, K. C. B., and several other naval officers, received their Royal Highnesses on landing, the company assembled greeting them with loud acclamations. The Duke and Duchess entered their carriage, which was at the end of the pier, and proceeded to the York Hotel, where a large crowd was assembled, who cheered the royal guests. Among the nobility and gentry at the York Hotel were the Lord Chancellor and Lady I. yndhurst, the Marchioness of Downshire, the Master of t h e Rolls, the Countess of Jersey, Baron Sandys, Lady Mary Hill, Sir Robert and Lady Otwav, Sir Robert and Lady AVigram, Captain and Mrs George Seymour, Mrs Fitzherbert, & c. Their Royal Highnesses sat down to dinner at eight o'clock. The band of the 15th hussars attended during the evening. The Duke and Duchess woull, it was expected, leave Brighton vesterJay morning for their residence in Bushy Park. Ministers have consented to wait for the next arrival from Rio de Janeiro, before they take any steps as to the affairs of Portugal. Confident expectations are entertained by the Brazilian and Portuguese Ministers here, that Don Pedro will remit money in December or January, for the use of the Portuguese refugees, who ure now neaily destitute, as the funds raised for their support are exhausted. It is the intention, if nothing better can be done, for them, to convene a public meeting, and endeavour to raise a subscription; but many of the best friends to the cause of Donna Maria oppose this suggestion.— Court Journal. His Majesty, ever anxious to promote the arts a ntJjeienceSj has lately presented to the British Museum a most valuable collection of minerals. Some of the articles in this collection were obtained from the Hartz Mountains, with . great care tind expence, and are most rare and curious.; particularly those which compose the series of silver ores, which is quite complete. AVhat adds; much fo the interest of these specimens is, that the Museum collection was before deficient in this branch.— Literacy Gazette. ket, in a lit state for conversion into wholesome flour, to , the immediate advantage of those who have occasion to surplus sell early, and also to the benefit of the consumers. The promptness of Mr Goulburn in attending to the suggestion ( which it is just 1 should add, was first made to me by a public- spirited corn merchant of respectability, in the west of Sussex), and the liberality with which he has extended the permission lo other corn, will, I am satisfied, be duly appreciated both by the grower and the consumer, as well as by your humble servant, " CHARLES M. BURRELL. " To the Editor of the Sussex Advertiser." " MY DEAR SIR CHARLES - I only write a line in reply to your letter of the 2d, to say, that orders have been given from the Excise, permitting maltsters to dry any kind of grain upm their kilns, on giving previous nolice to the officers of their intention. Your's, ever, my dear Sir Charles, most truly, " HENRY GOULBURN. " Dawning Street, Oct. 8, 1829." EAST INDIES.— The Ganges, Jefferson, has arrived at Liverpool, bringing accounts from Bengal to the 30th of April. Nothing of an interesting nature was stirring at that Presidency, with the exception of ' a petition, which was in course of signature at the Town Hall, purporting to be from the East Indians, or Half- castes of Bengal, to Parliament, stating various grievances under which they labour, and praying to be treated as subjects of the British Crown. Many cases of sickness had occurred, we regret to learn, among the native inhabitants of Calcutta; while accounts from Berhampore state that the cholera had broken out among the men of liis Majesty's 49th regiment. The following East Indiamen had arrived ill Bengal, viz., the Bridgewater, Manderson, on the 29th ; and the Lady Melville, Clifford, on fhe 30th of April, both from London. A Calcutta paper of the 22d August has been received, which mentions the murder of some officers and men in Upper Assam, where they were occupied in erecting public buildings. The dispute which had arisen between the political ami judicial authorities of Bombay, still continues. Sir J . P. Grant, in his speech on closing the Supreme Court, had used very severe language on the subject The Mountstuart Elphinstone has arrived in the Clyde from Bombay, whence she sailed on the 9th of July, being later by some weeks than the previous arrivals. No public news has been brought by this conveyance. DOMINICA.— The advices received from Dominica state that a most extraordinary proceeding which had occurred there engrossed public attention. It would appear that the Speaker of the House of Assembly had been tried for allowing the release of a member of the House who had been arrested. The member referred to had been brought up before the House on a writ of habeas corpus, which was signed by the Chief Justice of the Island. The Speaker, the honourable J . H. Glanville, for such release, or rescue, as it is termed, had been cited before a special jury, in the Court of Common Pleas, to answer for his conduct. The plea that members of the Assembly were free from arrest was considered insufficient; and the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, the creditor of the member arrfeated, giving damages to the amount of .£ 837, 14s. 2il. This verdict had created great surprise, and was expected to lead to further proceedings. 1828. £ 21,259 80.000 179,125 4,3.17,070 510,009 292.870 212.500 95,295 183,889 5, OKSt, 293 5,888,224 1829. £ 21,255 80,701 179,125 4.321,818 531,908 232,870 212,309 97- 315 118,510 5,850,00.1 5,829,928 11,837.517 11,479,923 Exchequer Bills issued for the Consolidated l-' und, at 5th duly 182.1. and paid off out of the growing produce of the said Fund in the Quarter ended Oct. 10, 1829, Surplus at lOdi Oct. 1829, Issued out ofConsoli latedFund, on account of the Supplies granted for the service of the Year 1829, Total at the 10th Oct. 1829, to be provided for by an issue of Exchequer Bills, charged on the growing produce of the Consolidated Fund, in the quarter ending 5th January 1829, 7,258,108 5,829,928 2.021,703 3,008,225 4,247,941 ( From the Times.) The official returns of the revenue for t h e years and quarters ended on the 10th inst; have been published. On the year there is a general decrease of about L 143,000 ; on the Customs, for t h e whole year, there is a deficit of very nearly 1.- 400,000, which has been within a trifle compensated during the last quarter by ( it is said) a considerable influx of duty oil imported corn ; but no materials for an exact comparison oa that point between the two years or quarters can be held sufficient without having before us the return of what the respective corn duties have yielded. It is not . vith us any ground of satisfaction that the customs should be raised by tha receipt of duty on large importations of wheat, since it is nothing better than a direct tax oil t h e subsistence ol' t he lower classes throughout England. In tile Excise there has been a falling off upon the quarter considerably more than equivalent to that in the Customs for the entire year, being L. 446,009. But in other branches, as stamps, taxes, and miscellaneous, there appears an improvement both on the year anil quarter. It appears that the only quarter of t h e past year which exhibits an improvement in the excise over the corresponding one of the year preceding is the firstviz , that ending on the Sth of January, which yielded nearly L 800,000 above the corresponding quarter ending January 1828; in each succeeding qu. irter there lias been a failure in the taxes arising from articles of home consumption, a circumstance not very surprising when we consider the prevalence of idleness, partly forced by the failure of markets, in part voluntary, from the spirit of combination, during the whole summer. It may, of course, be at all times taken for gianted, that any cause which throws the industrious classes out of work reduces in the same ratio the productiveness of the excise revenue. We are happy to learn that in this respect the hopes for the ensuing season have begun to improve, the fine spinners at Manchester, who had been for six months in " turn- out" against the masters, having recently returned to their looms, and the above great centre of the cotton trade having again manifested its usual state of order anil activity- There is, we believe, but little doubt that there has arisen in many quarters a more lively demand for the staple manufactures of this country. KING ROTHSCHILD ! [ The following curious extract is from a private letter from Smyrna. We give it without note or comment.] The confidence of the children of Israel in the words of the Prophet lias not been in vain i the temple of Solomon will be lestored in all its splendour. Baron Rothschild, who was accused of having gone to Rome to abjure the faith of his fathers, has merely passed through that city on his way to Constantinople, where he is about to negociate a loan with the Porte. It is stated, oil good authority, that Baron Rothschild has engaged to furnish to the Sultan the enormous sum of 350,000,000 piastres, at three instalments, without interest, on condition of the Sultan's engaging, for himself and his successors, to yield to Baron Rothschild for ever, the sovereignty of Jerusalem, and the territory of ancient Palestine, which was occupied liv the twelve tribes. The Baron's intention is, to grant to the rich Israelites who are scattered about ill diffeient parts of the world, portions of that fine country, where he proposes to establish seigniorities, and to give them, as far as possible, their ancient and sacred laws. Thus the descendants of the Hebrews will at length have a country, and every friend of humanity must rejoice at the happy event. The poor Jews will cease to be t h e victims of oppression untl injustice. Glory to the great Baron Rothschild, who makes so noble a use of his ingots. A little army being judged necessary por the restored kingdom, measures have been taken tor recruiting it out of the wrecks of the Jewish battalion raised in Holland by Lewis Buonaparte. All the Israelites who were employed in the various departments of the Dutch Administration, are to obtain superior posts under the Government of Jerusalem, and the expenees of their journey are" lo • be paid them in advance.— Court Journal. I h e symptoms of ail approaching improvement in trade are now manifesting themselves, more or less,- ill all t h e great manufacturing districts of the country ; nor is there to be found in any of them, as we believe, any serious want of employment, except from causes totally distinct from a paralysed state of manufacturing industry. The rate of profit is in most cases very low, but the better suited on that account for the competition noiv to be sustained with the continental fabrics, and almost affording the assurance that t h e result will exclude foreigners from every market where thev are fairlv met by 1' . nglish- wrought goods. Could the same principle be applied to the trade in corn, the last bar to the triumph of English manufacturing skill and industry would probably be removed, as that step, bv raising the price of grain oil the Continent, would place the rival manufacturers on the same level with regard lo the wages of labour which has now been arrived at in the value of t h e raw material, through the wise policy of the l e g i s l a t u r e . These facts being fairly established, it is reasonable to expect t h a t , t h e improvement of our manufactures will have the same beneficial effects which have heretofore attended it, in gradually extending the demand for t h e staple articles of colonial proiluce, the markets for which have been so long in a state of depression, and our whole system of trade thus regain a wholesome, if not a decidedly prosperous state. A gentleman who is engaged largely in the woollen- trade, and who is j u s t returned from a visit I to Leeds, mentioned a fact on Friday o: i ' Change, which is worth volumes of argument in favour of the future ascendancy of tho English manufacturers, " iz-, that our products in articles of woollen fabric ave so essentially improved since the reduction of the duty has taken place, and the fall in value of the raw material, that the woollens of Germany and Switzerland, which obtained a decided preference over our own about the year 1825, are now surpassed by us both in quality and cheapness, and even driven out of the home- market of those countries. English cloth is now selling at the door of the German manufacturer, and obtains of course a still mote decided preference in the assortments made up here for general exportation. This is the fruit, without doubt, of that enlightened policy which dictated the reduction of the wool tax, which operated in this way— that it raised the value to the foreign manufacturer at the same time that it reduced i t in the English market, and thus brought the parties to the same level,. so far as t h e price of le raw material was concerned- AVhile the contrary course was pursued, the want of a sufficient market for foreign wool made it a mere drug on the spot where i l was produced, and gave to t h e foreign manufacturer those advantages over us, which, before t h e tax was reduced, were striking at the very root of our national prosperity Times. We are extremely glad to stale, that the improvement, which we mentioned in our last, has been fully maintained, and, we are glad to say, it has been experienced most sensibly in a description of goods, which most of all required it, namely, the inferior descriptions of hand- made calicoes. We hope, tiie improved demand for cloth of this description will enable the manufacturers to add trifle to the very low wages, which the weavers have of late received. The silk trade too has been extremely brisk this week, and the warehouses of the manufacturers have been almost entirely cleared of their stocks of sarsnets and gros de Naples ; indeed the silk trade has been, for some time, in a healthy and promising state, in this neighbourhood, and no want of employment has been experienced amongst the weavers Manchester Guardian. Letter, dated Lancaster, 1st October—" I feel extremely happy ill being able to confirm t h e reports, . which have already reached you, of t h e improvement in these manufacturing districts; in fact, during the last few weeks, business has so much increased, that all our fears are at an end, that we should, during t h e ensuing winter, suffer serious distress to any considerable extent. Cloths ( cottons) are, however, difficult of sale, at remunerating prices, unless in those instances where the manufacturer produces his own y a r n s ; this last mentioned article meets with a ready market, and is in great demand foi the markets of Germany, Russia, and other northern parts of E u r o p e ; the supply is, as you may hence infer, not over or even equal to the demand. LEEDS, October 10— During the last month, more activity has prevailed in the woollen cloth trade than has been known, in t h e month of September, fur several years past, and, at present, the demand for some kinds of woollen goods exceeds the supply; this surely is a state of things that will command remunerating prices. Ill the Bradford Stuff Market the demand is brisk, but the prices are lowering. ( From the Globe.) The revenue of the quarter j u s t ended, compared with that of the corresponding quarter of last year exhibits a trifling increase— a falling oil in the Ex eise having been more then compensated by an in creased produce of the Customs and some of the smaller branches of the revenue. The produce of the Customs has been raised, during the quarter that has expired, by the duties received on imported grain ; and it is j u s t ly observed by a morning paper, that an increase of revenue from this source is no matter for congratulation. Inr. eed, the money so received, being the consequence of the failure in quality or quantity of the crops of two successive years, is a gain of the Exchequer drawn from a calamity of the nation— vet under all the circumstances of the last quarter, the state of the revenue is on the whole remarkable. The distress of considerable masses of the people is well known ; the reduction of their means of consuming, and necessarily of their consumption, unquestionable— the sacrifice made in order to obtain bread from foreign countries ( involving, of course, a diminution of the means of purchasing less indispensable commodities) obvious on the face of the accounts : yet, on the Fixcise1, during the whole of the year, there is no diminution, and on t h e quarter a reduction of between seven and eight per cent, only, which has not been equivalent to the increase of the other branches of the revenue. AVe say this, not to diminish the importance of the distress which has really existed, but to draw attention to the fact, that even during the suffering of large classes, who depend upon the fluctuations of foreign trade or of fashions, there are large branches of industry which enjoy comparative prosperity- Of the various branches of trade which are not suffering we hear nothing; but we see the proof of their condition in the manner in which they supply the deficiency of t he con tributio.'. s of those who MANCHESTER, OCT 12 DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AND I , o s s OF LIFE— This morning, between five and six o'clock, a fire broke out in the premises in Dale Street, occupied by Messrs Barnbv, Faulkner, and Company, water- carriers to Hull, Goole, Yarmouth, and all parts of the eastern coast, which soon communicated to the Rochdale and Halifax Merchant Canal Company's premises, who convey goods to Liverpool, Rochdale, Todmorden, Soiverby Bridge, Halifax, & c. & c. These establishments are two of the largest canal conveyances, perhaps, in the kingdom, and are now in ruins, through the inattention of the workers employed in them— nt least, from every thing I can learn regarding them, this is t h e case. It appears Lhev were so busy that the men were at work on Sunday, and all night, and this morning some of them hail got drunk, and allowed a candle to come in contact with some hemp, and there being much inflammable matter inside, it was toon impossible to extinguish it. I can give you no idea of the amount of loss sustained ; it must be immense in every description of goods, especially in cotton, wool, anil grain. One of the firemen has been killed by the falling of the walls, and several are very much bruised. I understand that the buildings are insured, but none of the contents. T H E SLAVE TRADE A p e t i t i o n p r e s e n t ed to the French Chambers states, that " it is established by authentic documents, that the Slave Captains throw into the sea every year about 3000 Negroes, men, women, and children 1"— One of the monsters engaged in this appalling traffic, named'Oiseau, Captain of Le Louis, " on completing his cargo of slaves in the Old Calabar, thrust the whole of these unfortunate beings between decks ( scarcely three feet in height) and closed the hatches for the night- AVIien morning made its appearance, fifty of the poor sufferers had paid the debt of nature, owing to the confined, diseased, and putrid atmosphere they were condemned to respire ! The wretch coolly ordered the bodies of these miserable victims of his total want of human feeling to be thrown into the river, and immediately proceeded on shore to complete his execrable cargo by a fresh purchase of his fellow- ; " creatures." Lord Cochrane arrived on I lie fith curt, nt Havre, on board one of the packets ' rom Southampton. ALLEGED ABUSES IN THE COLLEGE OF SURGEONS— A meeting of medical gentlemen was held on Monday evening in Leicester Place, at the theatre formerly belonging to Dibdin, for the purpose of taking into consideration certain alleged abuses in the government of the Royal College of Surgeons, and also to ascertain the opinion of the profession as to the formation of a new college. G- AVilkins, Esq. a member of the college, was called upon to take the chair; and in doing so, the chairman declared he had hut one object in view, viz. that of furthering the best interests of the profession to which he belonged. Mr Slee observed that the wretched state of degradation to which the profession had been lowered bv the College of Surgeons was notorious.. He did not mean to attackpersons, as the individuals who now formed the council of the College of Surgeons were most respectable. Such, however, was the narcotic effect of the poison of the self- elecling system, that self- interest and blindness on the part of the council prevented the advance of science. There was not a person in the meeting, he felt confident, that could point out a single improvement in the different branches of the profession. It could not be denied that the funds of the college were misappropriated ; and thai they were ample would appear from the following statement :— There were 8000 living members of the college, whose subscriptions amounted to L. 177.408; for the museum of the college L. 15,000 had been allowed ; the sum of L. 25,000 was granted by Parliament to the college; making a total of L. 217,408. I t might safely be asserted that, what with annual fees, council fees, and other fees and interest of money, the college received L 10,000 per annum. He then alluded to the fees for examination and diplomas, and said that each examiner pocketed fifteen or sixteen guineas for about two hours' attendance in the evening. He concluded by reading extracts from letters received from medical men resident in all the principal towns, & c. in England, promising a hearty co- operation ill forming a new college upon a sound anil independent basis. The outline of a plan for a new college was then read. Dr Epps cordially concurred in the pi in for forming a new coilege, as not only the profession, but the public generally, would be benefited by it. Several medical gentlemen atul others addressed the meeting. A committee was appointed, and the plan ordered to be printed and circulated throughout the country. The committee were instructed to adopt measures, and report to another meeting, at which final steps should be taken for the establishment of a " new college, to be denominated i h e " British College of Surgeons in London." Various experiments made by M. Piorry, the inventor of the plessimetre, have led him to attribute to the liver the office of being a reservoir for the blood. Mr Gurney, the inventor of the steam- carriage> some years since resided at Wadebridge, Cornwall, where he practised as a surgeon; he was highly respected, and on his leaving that place, to follow ihe bent of his genius as an engineer in the metropolis, he was joined by his two brothers, one of whom resided at Bristol and the other in France. In conjunction with them he has since pursued his discoveries, which hid fair to be of such vast importance to the world, anil which will, in all probability, transmit his name to posterity with those of Arkwright, Watt, & c. The family residence of Mr Gurney is at Trevorgus, near Padstow.— West Briton. FATAL MISTAKF..— A n i n q u e s t was held a f ew days ago at the Prince Regent, Brixton, on the body of Mrs Lucy Jones, whose death was occasioned by a strong lotion, which was administered to her by mistake for an aperient draught. The deceased, who resided in Heme Place, Water Lane, Brixton, was confined on the 24th ultimo, and began to recovei from the effects of the confinement gradually. On the Saturday subsequent to her lying- in, a draught was sent froin Mr Evans, the surgeon, which was labelled with directions thai it was to be taken at bed- time. It appeared, however, that the nurse Fanny Davis, in mistake, gave the deceased a strong embrocation which had been prescribed for her husband, who had dislocated his arm a short time before, and which was contained in a phial resembling the one in which the draught intended for the deceased was deposited. The deceased, on discovering the mistake, exclaimed, " Oh, nurse, I am afraid you have given me the embrocation instead of the draught." She then desired the nurse to call her husband, who was sleeping up stairs ; but she refused to go, urging at the same time that no mistake had occurred, and that, even if it had, the embrocation could not do her much injury. The deceased remained in great agony till five o'clock in the morning, when her husband was informed of what had occurred, and he went for a surgeon. In the interval, however, the nurse rinsed out the phial containing tbe remains of the embrocation, and also destroyed the other phial containing the aperient draught. Mr Evans said he was called in to see the deceased some hours after she had swallowed the embrocation ; it had caused her lips and tongue to become swollen and excoriated, and from the length of time it had been in the body, the medicines he administered had no effect. She died on Wednesday. The nurse was here called before Ihe Jury. She declared most solemnly that she had administered the embrocation to the deceased entirely through mistake. The Jury severely reprehended the conduct of the nurse, in not immediately calling Mr Jones when the deceased desired her ; but as no evidence was adduced that malice existed in the mind of the nurse against the deceased, they must acquit her of that charge. A verdict was then returned, " That the death of the deceased was caused by taking the embrocation internally, which was administered to her by mistake." COACH ACCIDENT.— On Friday morning, a little before nine o'clock, the Aleit, Loudon and Brighton coach, proceeded with a pair of horses, driven by Mr Hine, jun., to a house in Russell- square, in this town ( Brighton), the residence of Mr and Mrs Stewart ( of Marlborough- street, London). Mrs Stewart took her seat in the coach, opposite the horses, and Mr S. walked to the office in Eaststreet. The vehicle was then driven to No. 4, King's- road, to take up the son and daughter of Dr Robinson, whose luggage the porter began to stow behind; when, on requiring help, Mr Hine, still holding the reins in his hand, got down to render assistance, desiring a boy, who was passing, to stand at the heads of the horses ; unfortunately; a cart passing at the moment, Mr Hine, to avoid being crushed between the fore wheel of his own coach and that of the cart, let go his hold, when the horses, turning sharp round, ran against ihe iron fence, opposite Mr Izard's houses, which broke like glass, and, in an instant, down went horses and coach lo a perpendicular depth of 15 or Ifi feet upon the road below. The horses had, in their fall, by the breaking of the pole, detached themselves from the coach, and, strange to say, escaped unhurt. The coach was shattered almost to pieces, and Mrs Stewart was taken from it, bleeding profusely from the head, and carried to the Old Ship Tavern, where the best medical assistance was promptly afforded. Her collar- bone was broken, and she received some severe cuts and contu- j sions, and remained throughout yesterday in a most precarious condition. Mr Hine, jun., received some hurt from the pressure between the cart and the coach. The porter had but just time to jump from behind before the vehicle went over the cliff. Ano her coach having been procured, Mr Hine, sen., with the same horses, proceeded to town.— Brighton Herall. THE KING'S MENAGERIU.— His M a j e s t y , d u r i ng the last ten years, has formed a very fine collection of such quadrupeds as are more capable of domestication, and of biids, in Windsor Great Park, at a lodge called Sand- pit Gate. The collection is open, on Mondays and Saturdays, to all persons making application at the lodge, which is situated about twenty- two miles from London, close by the road called the Forest Road to Reading. In this menagerie the animals are not pent up in miserable dens, but have large open sheds, with spacious paddocks to range i n ; water, in. plenty; and spreading trees to shode them from the noon- day sun. The collection is open to the public gratuitously; and h. re may be seen the giraffe, various species of antelopes and deer, kangaroos in great abundance, zebras, quaggas, ostriches, and emiies rearing their young as fearless as the b un- door fowl.— Library of Entertaining Knowledge. A letter from Lugano states that the weather Tias "" been terrible in Switzerland. From Tessin to t he Rhine the roads and houses have been destroyed by the fury of the hurricane. At Lugano the waters of the lake rose to a frightful height. Intelligence lias been received at Berlin, of Baron de Humboldt's expedition in the Ouralic mountains. This saoant has carried his researches farther than had been expected. The Ouralic mountains ate already in his rear, and he was on the road which leads to the frontiers of China. It is expected that he will return again to Berlin.— Paris paper. General Carnac has communicated to t h e Asiatic Society of Paris, a translation from the Sanscrit, of a concession of territory which took place ih 1018. The original contains a compound word, which has uo less than one hundred and fifty- two s y l l a b l e s - words of an equal, and indeed of a greater length, are frequently met with in this ancient language. GROWTH OF T I M B E R - T R E E S . — " A L e t t e r " has been recently published, addressed" to Sir Henry Steuart by Mr Withers," in which the writer examines m and contests the soundness of the Baronet's opinion," that the safety of the Navy requires that the timber in the forests should be of slow growth." Mr Withers insists " that the very reverse of this proposition is true; and that fast- growing timber, when arrived at maturity, is almost invariably found to be of better quality, and to possess greater strength, toughness, and durability, than that of slower growth." The question is an important one, and Mr Withers produces a number of striking facts and respectable authorities in support of his conclusions. He is of opinion, that with proper culture, millions of acre3 might be covered with valuable forest- trees ; " and then ( he says) let landowners and statesmen reflect whether our own country does not afford ample and profitable employment for all t h e ' surplus' agricultural labourers who now exist in such wretchedness and misery— whether it be not, at all events, one of the means by which this misery may be alleviated, and the riches of the landowners and the strength and resomces. of the country at the same timu greatly increased."— Mr Withers states that, for t h e last two or three years, Messrs Hudson and R . H. Gurney have given employment, at Holt, in Norfolk, to between 30 anil 40 labourers, during the winter months, in trenching land for planting; and have " thereby, he says, improved their estates, relieved parishes from a heavy burthen, prevented the poor from committing depredations, and acquired for themselves the attachment of the labouring c l a s s e s . I t is the fashion ( observes Mr W.) iiow- a- days, to cry down the poor, and to represent them as idle, dishonest, and ungrateful. I deny the fact, and speaking from experience, I maintain, that, if well- treated, they are as body honest, industrious, and g r a t e f u l; and that if employment with good wages were afforded them, crimes of all descriptions would in t he country speedily diminish." WORSHIP STREET EXTREME MISERY On Wednesday, W. Wilson, weaver, a miserable heart- broken looking young man, was brought up by West, an officer, to whom he ha I applied and confessed that he had committed a robbery ; for ( he told him) not having a bed to lie upon, or food to eat, and being destitute of all employment, he wished to be transported to Botany Bay, which would be the happiest event of his life I He had in fact stolen a coat, and pawned it. There was no other evidence against the prisoner ; but he refused to withdraw his coifession, as he wanted to be sent to trial. He said he had applied in vain for aid to the parish. The Magistrate remanded the prisoner, to give him time for consideration, and gave it as his opinion, that if he persisted, he would be sent to the hulks, not to New South Wales. I NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, Oct. 10— His Majesty's ship Galatea, Captain Clurles Napier, C. B. arrived at Barbadoes on the illth of August, all well. She had the misfortune t) lose a man overboard at s.- a in the night ; cast adrift the life buoy, but, unluckily, in the hurry, without lighting it, and both man and buoy were lost. The Galatea intended to remain at Barbadoes until the 10th, and then proceed to Jamaica, calling at Martinique. On the 20th of July, in lat. 15.19. N. long. 30.20. W. sue spoke the Garland, bound to Liverpool. The Henry Purcher transport, Lieutenant Binstea'l, agent, will sail on Monday for Cork, to take on board, in conjunction with the Lord Sheffi Id and Stentor trans', ports, the 53.1 regiment for Gibraltar. These vessels will then, from the latter garrison, t ike the 73d regiment to Malta : from Malta they will convey the 95th regiment to Corfu ; and lrom Corfu they will bring the 28dl regiment to England. The Joseph Green transport, Lieutenant Robinson, ~ agent, arrived on Sunday, with stores and invalids, from Halifax and Bermuda. She sailed on Wednesday far Deptford. The Wanderer transport may be daily expected, with stores and invalids, from Halifax and Bermuda. The Pearl, 18, Commander lilake, went out of h a r - bour on Wednesday, and sailed to- day to resume her station under the orders of the Commander- in- Chief at. Cork. The Harlequin yacht of Lord Arernon sailed in company, to try her relative rate of sailing with thisclass of men of war. The Winchester, 5?, and Volage, 38, have been commissioned this week - t h e first at Chatham, for the flagship of Rear- Admiral Griffith Colpoys, for the West Indies; and the latter at this port, for the Halifax station. The Catherine Stewart Forbes, with 200 convicts for Sydney, under the charge of Dr M'Ternan, will sail to- norrow for Spithead. The James Pattison, with 200 male convicts, recently sailed for the same destination, from Dublin, under the superintendence of Mr Gilchrist, surgeon, R. N. FALMOUTH, OCT. 10— Wind N Sailed yesterday, his Majesty's cutter Bramble, with a mail, for Lisbon, ( no passengers); and the Renard packet, for Cadiz and the Mediterranean. Sailed this day, the Osborne packet^ for Barbadoes, Jamaica, and Carthagena. Also sailed the Plover packet, for Halifax and Bermuda. Arrived the Stanmer packet, from Lisbon ; sailed 2/ th September. His . Majesty's ship Briton, and the . Marlborough packet,, arrived at Lisbon on the 2hth ult. Lisbon was perfectly tranquil when ihe packet left. Con Miguel frequently rode out unattended. EAST INDIA S H I P P I N G. BOMBAY ARRIVALS— May 21. Brig E l i z a b e t h, ( free trader) H. B. Brown, master, from Batavia 1st. April— Barque Fortune ( free trader) John Gilkison, master, from Port- Glasgow, and Rio de Janeiro; left Glasgow Sth January, and Rio Janeiro I3th March. 25. The Lady Feversham and tha Runnymede, ihe former having left England the 27th December, and the latter the 4th January, anchored in the harbour. 2/. Brig William Miiitland ( free trader) Richard Jainieson, master, from London, 1st December. 28. The H. C. Sloop of War Iilpliinstone, F. W. Greer, commander, from Barburra, 28th April— Ship Hero ( free trader) Joseph Fell, master. from Liverpool, Rio de Janeiro, Cape of Good Hopev ar. d Mauritius; lett Liverpool, 2lith August, 1828. 29. Brig Rifleiran ( free trader), Adam Bleasels, master* from Liverpool. 30. Ship Bombay Castle, Jas. Scott, master, from Calcutta, 16th March, 1829. June 2. The Honourable Conpany's Ship Duke of Sussex, Captain- W. H. Whitehead, Irom England. Down 1st . March. 1829. MADRAS ARRIVALS— May | 10. S h i p J o h n A d a i » „ P. Butler, from Bombay, 2Bih April. 14. Brig Lady Walker, Captain J. Macfazden, from C'olipatam, 4tti, 1' omban 8th, and I'ranquebar 13th May. ship Morning Star, C. Barker, from London 22d November, and. Madeira, 9th January— Diadem, W. S. Wilson, from the isle of France 17th April, and Covelong 14th May. 15. Reine Rose, D. Anner, from Bourdenux Ulth January. 18. Mary Ann, M. O'Brien, from London 13th January— General Palmer, W. Thomas, from . London 1st, Portsmouth Sth January, and Point de Galle 10th May.— Duke of Koxburgh, F. Brown, from ' l'avoy 2od April. 17. II. M. S. Crocodile, J . W. Montague, from a cruiic. SPORTING. EPSOM OCTOBER MEETING. These races terminated on Friday, having afforded i wo days' excellent diversion. The Wellington Stakes ( free handicap) of 25 sovs. each, and 20 sovs. added from the fund. Lord Mount harles's Gay hurst, by Whalebone Mr Dockerav's Linkboy Mr Sadler's Challenger Mr Lumley's Goshawk . . . General Grosvenor's Icarus . . Won by a length after a pretty race. Two- year- old Sweepstakes of 30 sovs. each, h. ft. Mr Sadler's ch. f. by Tramp Mr Young's ch, c. Acis, by Blacklock Won very cleverly by two lengths. The Ewell S. akcs ( Handicap) of 10 sovs each, and 20 added from the fund. Mr Clarke's Scipi > Lord Mountcharles's b. c. Benedict, by Whalebone Coronet I Mr Bulkeley's Burlesque Mr Maberly's Howard Mr Tilbury's Smuggler The Maiden Stakes of 5 sovs. ea. h, and 25 sovs. added trom the fund, Mr Taylor's b. c. by Rubens . . 1 5 1 Lord Mountcharles's Mitchel Grove . 0 2 3 Mr Berkeley's Poppy . . 2 4 4 Mr Bobart's Tancredi . . . 3 1 2 Mr Lawrence's Keepsake. . . 4 3 dr. Mr Frampuu's b. c. by Bub. ns . 5 dr CORN EXCHANGE— OCT. 12. With the bulk of Wheat left over from the supplies of last week ; and a fair fresh quantity from Essex this morning, the show was pretty considerable from this county; but rather moderate from every other; whilst of Barley from Suffolk, and Peas from Essex, there was a large arrival, and we had several vessels in with Oats from our own coast, and a few from Ireland ; however there was but a moderate addition of all Eoreigo Grain since Friday. Our Wheat trade was generally very dull, only a few fine parcels of old Foreign, and prime new English, commanded within ls. to 2s. per quarter of last Monday's ptices; whilst damp parcels of this year's growth were offered in vain full 3s. per quarter lower than the currency of this day se'ennight; a few buyers for foreign in. bond, appeared this morning for exportation to France, and such ns was not duty paid, was in consequence held rather higher. Ship Flour met a steady demand, without variation in value; and the price of Town- made iyas unaltefed. The best samples of Malting Barley were 2s. per quarter cheaper, middling 3s., and inferior and stained lots 4s. per quarter; a few select loU brought 3l! s. per quarter; and it was offered at all prices as in quality down to 28s. per quarter, for samples very much stained; old Foreign was also 2s. per quarter lower. Malt met an excessively dull sale, although offered generally 2s. to 3s. per quarter under last Monday's quotations. Good old Beans realized full as much money; but new were pressed on the market at lower rates, and coalman led no particular attention, being so soft. White Peas being more plentiful, and the quality and condition of those on sale to- day being better than any offered before this season, we must quote this article ls. to 2s. per quarter cheaper; but in Hog Peas we had no variation. Oats were taken off slowly, only by needy consumers, who with great caution purchased the small quantities they required; some select new Irish, about 421b. per bushel, obtained 2lis. per quarter, which must be considered the highest price at to- day's market; aod other samples in proportion for their weight, down to about lHs. per quarter for very light old Irish; Lincolnshire new were Is. to 2s. per quarter cheaper; and old foreign of all descriptions must be quoted ls. per quarter lower; a few sales of Archangel were made in bond, at 12s. to 12s. Rd. per quarter, for French account; but other sorts under lock were not saleable for the same destination. In Linseed and Rapeseed, we had no variation. CURRENT PRICES. t e r e s t t o p a y to the national creditors, leaving 18 or 19 millions applicable to all the purposes of the State. The sum for interest cannot, of course, be touched; and out of the 18 or 19 millions therefore must be taken the 7 millions that would be lost to the Treasury by the repeal of the watt and beer duties, thus reducing the unencumbered revenue of the country to 11 or 12 millions. Now does any one suppose, however desirable it may be to relieve the country, that Ministers will listen to such a proposition ? All that we state therefore is, that those who are engaged in this business should not go forward bluntly to the Treasury to state that a remission of the malt and beer duties would be desirable, but that they should, on the contrary, be fully masters of their case, and be prepared to answer the strong objections with which they may be assured that Ministers will meet their propositions. 75s 70s per qr. Wheat, Kent, Essex, and Suffolk, red,. .£ 6s( a), 68s New, .. TiHs 64s Ou. do. do. w h i t e , . 50s Netv, 42 s Norfolk and Lincolnshire, new-- 40s ( lis Fine, 63s 04s Northumberland a n d Scotch ...- 60s 65s Fine, 66s 68s Irish,- 52s 57s White, 56s 60s Foreign, red, 56s Wis White & Dantzig, • - 63s 78s Rye 40? Old, 35s 38s Barley, grindiii„-,— 28s 31s Malting, 35s 38s M a l t , b r o w n , 56a 60s Pale 6(> 1 Ware, Ii8s 70s Beans, large ticks,- - 36s 4os Harrow, 41s 41$ per q r. • -. TOs 45s •. 34s 35s . .3lis 37s ,-, 38s 4, is • 40s 44s Pigeon, old Peas, hog, new, • • Maple, new, White, non- boll. New boil., Oats, Liucoln3h. and Yorkshire, feed,-- 18s 22s S h o r t e i n a l l , 22s * 3s Do. do. Polands,-- 19s 25- Do. p o t a t o e 26s Scotch, Angus 29a Potatoe, 29s 33s Buckwheat, English 2iis 28s Danish, 27s 23s Dutch 32s Tares, old 27s Foreign 28s 30s Winter, new 48s 50s F l i u r , North Count r y , per sack 51s 52s Town made, 60s 65s Norfolk and Suffolk do 52s 53s E s s e x a u d K e n t — 5 3 a 54s POTATOES. SPITALFIELDS, per ton. BOROUGH, per ton. Scotch, red, •• L. o o t o o 0 Scotch red L. o 0 to 0 0 Middlings, 2 0 to 0 0 Middlings 1 15 to 2 0 Chats, 1 15 to 11 0 Chats, 1 ll) tu 0 0 SMITH FIELD— OCT. 12. We had a very large supply of all descriptions of meat this morning; still the only reduction in any article was in veal, which lowered 4d. per- stone; all other kinds continue the same price as on Friday. Beef. 3s 8d to 4s Od Veal 3s fid to 4s 4d Mutton... 3i lOd to 4s 4d Pork 4s Od to 5s Od To sink the offal; per stone of 81b. CATTLE AT MARKET. Beasts, 3631 Calves, 103 Sheep and lambs, 22,330 Pigs, 219 WE YHILL FAIR Tliis fair commenced on Saturday l a s t ; the weather being highly favourable, the show of sheep appeared to tbe best advantage. A large number were penned, supposed about 150,000, but we regret to state they experienced an unusually dull sale. Fewer dealers were present than has been observed for several years. The prices may be stated as under :— Down Ewes, from 18s. to 28s., some 30s. DoWn Lambs, 14s. to 20s., some 25s. Twir- tooth Wethers, ... 18s. to 25s., some a little higher. Four- tooth do 26s. to 33s. The horse fair exhibits a remarkably large and fine ' show, but, in consequence of the dullness of the sheep fair, few horses were sold on Saturday. APPI. ESHAW FAIR At this fair on the 8th current, there was a smaller number of Somerset sheep than was ever known, supposed not to exceed 4000, but though ihe prices were very low, from 211s. to 40s., even at that reduced price a great many were left unsold. The Dorset ewes are considered to be about the usual number, and ate now selling at ruinous prices, 25s. to 35s. per head. NORWICH, Oct. 10 The supply of fat catile at this day's market was small, prices 6s. 9J. to 7i- per stone of 14 lbs. sinking offal; of store stock it was very large.— Scots, 4s. to 4s. 6d. per stone of what they will weigh when fat. Short- boms and Devons, 3s. to 3s. 9d. Cows and calves selling well; all sorts of homebreds were a flat sale. For cart horses that were young, and the best symmetry, the sale was good. We had also a good supply of sheep penned. Shearlings, 24s. to 30s.; fat ones tu 40s.; lambs, 16s. to 22s. 6d. each ; pigs very cheap, fat ones to 6s. per stone. — Meat, beef, fid. to 8d. ; veal, 6d. to 8d ; mutton and lamb, 5,' d. to 7d. ; and Pork, SJd. to 7jiL per lb. . TOI'K EXCHANGE. Pank Stock 212J 2I1S ex. div. 3 per Cent. red. • 883 I do. 3 per Cent. Consuls- - • til Bi 4 » « r r e n t MM India Stock India Bunds Ex. Bills L. looo.• - Consols for Hccr. . 70 71 • • 110} EDINBURGH EVENING COURANT. T H U R S D A Y , O C T O B E R 15. The annual accounts of the revenue, just published, exhibit an increase on the quarter just ended, as compared with the corresponding quarter of the former year, of L. 63,942 ; and on the year the increase is L- 146,442. The difference is quite immaterial; nor can we, from such trifling fluctuations in the produce of the taxes, draw any inference as to the future. It is clear that the revenue is not falling off, and this is so far consolatory, considering the distress that has been long prevalent ill the manufacturing districts. There has been a defalcation in the excise, which has been more than compensated by a rise in the produce of the customs, and other smaller branches of the revenue. Trade, however, is beginning to exhibit visible symptoms of improvement; and in that case we may surely expect a corresponding improvement in the produce of the revenue. But, until this takes place, we can scarcely look for any increased consumption of those commodities from wbich the revenue is drawn ; and in this case it would be vain to expect any marked improvement. Dispatches have been leceived at the Foreign Office from Sir R. Gordon, dated Constantinople September 19. ' A copy of the treaty signed at Adrianople on the 14th had reached the Turkish . capital, and has been transmitted in Sir R. Gordon's dispatches. The French papers it appears give a wrong account of i t ; as it is certain that it dues not contain the condition which they mention, namely that the passage of t h e Bosphorus shall be , open to all nations at peace with Russia and the Porte. It merely stipulates that there shall be a free passage to t h e Black Sea for the vessels of all nations at peace with the Porte, without making any reference to Russia. We have received a note from a correspondent complaining that we do not support the application for a repeal of the malt and beer duties, stating that such repeal would be of great service to the country at large. We may state in answer that we would most sincerely rejoice to see the duties in question repealed, because as consumers we would share in the benefits of such a measure along with the count ry at large. We never questioned that the community would be benefitted by such an extensive remission of taxes. But what we questioned, and do still question is, whether Ministers will give any - ear to such a petition, unless we can shew them how such a defalcation in the revenue, as the repeal of the beer and malt duties, would occasion is to be made up. Our revenue, as appears from the accounts just published, is 47 millions per annum- We have about 28 01 29 millions per annum of in- PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. Royal Exchange. London, Monday night. We have the best authority for stating, that at the Foreign Office, this afternoon, not the slightest credit is given to the report that the British and French Ambassadors had protested against the treaty of peace signed at Adrianople on the 14th ult. In the dispatches from Sir R. Gordon only the general heads of the terms agreed upon between Russia and Turkey were communicated, and not the treaty itself. This informaton we derive from a most authentic quarter, and we also understand, that there is nothing in the terms to which the other powers of Europe, not engaged in the war, can reasonably object, and that it gives to Russia only, such an indemnification for her expenses as might fairly be expected. Private letters from Constantinople have been brought by the messenger who conveyed the dispatches, and from these it appears that the conclusion of the war between Russia and Turkey hail given the greatest satisfaction in the Turkish capital, where some rejoicings, though not of a general kind, had taken place. At the latest dates the English fleet, which had been off Troy up to the 6th September, had sailed to take up a position nearer to Constantinople. The important question yet undecided is whether the British and French Ambassadors have protested against the Ottoman treaty of peace, as none of the Continental arrivals to- day have brought any information on the subject. The letters from Paris echo what has been so often anticipated here, that the settlement of affairs in the east of Europe will lead to jealousies among the Allied Powers, and that a crisis is near at hand. The meetings of the French Council of Ministers had been extremely frequent in the course of the last week, and had given rise to considerable uneasiness at Paris. The state of the public securities there ought not to be taken as a fair test of public opinion, inasmuch as their prices were maintained by a certain set of capitalists in defianca of events, who are fully aware of the necessity for so doing, in order to give a tone to the transactions of tlie same nature in all the leading Courts of Iiurope. MONEY MARKET. The principal business to- day at the stock market has been the adjustment of the account for Thursday. Consols for account opened heavily, the dealers suspecting that a great deal of stock would be sold, held previous to the conclusion of peace in the East. Consols for account, which had approached within a mere shade of 8!) g, in privale bargains, on Saturday afternoon, were offered at 89i, and as there existed a great scarcity of buyers, some of the dealers were obliged to add an option of doubling the amount of this stock. The gloom, however, soon subsided, and by the middle of the day, Consols for Account again became firm at 89jg, and for November at 89J buyers. Before tbe end of the day the market became rather less firm, anil the last price of Consols for Account was 89| § , and for November 89J, sellers. In the foreign market to- day but little business was transacted, notwithstanding the near approach of the settlement fixed for Wednesday next. The last prices were :— Red Anns. 88*. Consols, 89Jg. Do. for account, 89J § . Do. for November, 89fJ. 4 per Cents. 103£. Ho. 18jlj, 104,}. 34 per Cents. 98jf. Exchequer Bills, 70s. prem." Do. small, 88s. India Bonds 70s. prem. Bank Stock, 213}. _ At Walker Street, on the 14th instant, the Lady of Major WILLIAM BERTRAM, Bengal native infantry, of a son. At No. 8. Broughton Place, on the 11th inst., Mrs M AITLAND, of a son. Married, at Westsidewood, on the 5th inst., by the reverend James Walker, Mr LOGAN, Eastshiel, 10 JANE, youngest daughter of John Wilson, Esq. Died, at Pembroke, on the 26th ultimo, in her seventysixth year, Miss CAMPBELL, sisier of the late Lord Cawdor. Died, at Hastings, on the 9th instant, JANE, fourth daughter of Robert Spear, late of Mill Bank, Cheshire, Esq. deceased. Died, at No. 32. Gavfield Square, on the 11th of October instant, the infant d a u g h t e r of THOMAS FERGUSON*, writer to the signet. Died, at No. 17, Shandwiek Place, on the 10th instant, Mrs BEATRIX PRINGLE, widow of David Hogarth of Hilton, Esq. Died, at No. 3. Albany Street, North Leith, on the 8th instant, MARGARET, daughter of the late Mr David Wishart, shipmaster, Leith. Died, on the 29th ult., at his house, Assembly Street, Leith, Mr JOHN WATT, merchant. Died, on the fith instant, at her father's house, East Salton, Mrs JANET SWINTON, wife of Mr James Dads, Edinburgh, aged twenty- seven years. Died, at Montserrat, West Indies, on the 29th of August last, ALEXANDER WILLIAMSON, Esq. surgeon, late of Edinburgh. His friends are requested to accept of this notification of his death. THE THEATRE.— Madame Vestris terminates he*- engagement here this evening, and we are very happy to learn that her exertions have been successful. After the excitement produced by Eean's visit, it was no easy matter to maintain the field he had quitted ; but this eminent vocalist has, by the powers of her voice, and her othe merits, completely succeeded in the task. In a certain range of characters, Madame Vestris is unequalled, and fully merits the popularity she has acquired. In her, the extreme neatness and finish of the French school of acting is invigorated by the bolder colouring of the English stage ; and we know no actress who produces her effects so powerfully, with so little apparent effort. We hope the success which has attended her performances will induce her, at no very distant period, to return ; though, in some instances, a tone has been assumed by some of our theatrical critics towards her, which savours more of personal hostility than legitimate criticism. But the dramatic talents, and well earned fame of Madame Vestris, cannot be injured by such light missiles ; the ought to disregard all such attacks, which are far more than outweighed by the respectable and often crowded audiences which she has attracted in Edinburgh, during, be it remembered, the dullest season of the year. EDINBURGH THEATRICAL FUND.— We understand that the members of this useful and laudable society intend giving a public dinner in the month of February. Their funds have already reached to a considerable sum, and, from the provident manner in which the affairs of the society have been conducted, there is no doubt but that its prosperity is fully established. MR WILKIE.— The Edinbur; h artists, as a mark of respect, intended to give Mr Wilkie a dinner; but owing to the state of his health, that gentleman has found it necessary to decline accepting. this tribute of respect from his brethren and other admirers of his genius here, which, in other circumstances, would have afforded him the highest pleasure. At the same time, we are happy to hear that his health is much improved. We are happy to learn that a benevolent lady, on a recent visit to this city, transmitted through Mr Wood L. 20 in aid of the funds of the Edinburgh Sessional School, and L. 15 sterling for behoof of the Society for Suppression of Begging. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES— On Tuesday delegates from different friendly societies, in and around Edinburgb, who took an active interest in obtaining certain amendments upon the lately passed statute for the benefit of those excellent institutions, dined together in Paxton's ( late Ferguson's) Tavern, Lawnmarket, on the occasion of presenting Mr William Eraser, who acted gratuitously as their secretary, with some mark of their respect— as all intelligent, zealous, and indefatigable friend of societies, as well as his patient, persevering, and meritorious exertions in bringing to a successful termination the object tor which the delegates had been appointed. Mr Robert Sclater was chairman, and Mr Robert Cockburn, croupier— In the course of the evening many remarks were made connected with friendly societies, some of which may be of importance to be generally known. It unfortunately lias happened, that a number of persons, particularly in the countr/, entertain an erroneous idea that- the statute ktely passed emanated from the Government, from interested motives. On the contrary, Government look upon friendly institutions of tiiis nature with favour, anil have every desire to see them prosper. The late bill was prepared originally by a committee in London, connected with friendly societies in England, so as to suit their own particular case; but without any communication with Scottish Societies, although the bill was so framed as to include Scotland. This draft was entrusted to Mr Portman, who had taken a deep interest in tlie measure; but who, when the statements of the Scottish societies were coin r. unicated, through Mr Home iJrummond, M. P. and Mr Hunter, advocate, conceded every point asked. In this instance, in fact, societies may be said to have been allowed to legislate for themselves. This is a brief, but, we believe, a correct history of the measure. Another point especially noticed as one upon which a false impression also existed, and which is likely to lead to serious consequences, was, the belief that the clause requiring societies to have certain tables, ap plies to old as well as to new societies. This is not the cas.'— the clause applies only to s icieties to be hereafter formed. From not rightly understanding this clause, and the mistaken impression that Government wish to get possession of societies' funds, many institutions, in a prosperous state, are inclined to break up ; while, ifthey would view the matter in the proper light, tliey ought to feel grateful to the Legislature for the boon conferred by tile statute. PENSIONERS— Last week, the pensioners here were paid in the Canongate Court House, and, during that period, 110 fewer than one hundred and ninety- two individuals, male and female, were brought to the head Police Office in a state of intoxication. Such of them as underwent the operation o f t h e stomach- pump have, however, taken care not to require a second application. On Sunday forenoon, as a hoy was in the act of climbing on the back of a carriage in Ilanover Street, one of the wheels caught his clothes and cartied him round two evolutions before he was extricated from his perilous situation, and, wonderful to relate, he was but slightly injured. ALARMING FIRE AT DUMFRIES.— Betwixt five and six o'clock on the morning of Thursday last, smoke was seen issuing from the two- stoiey tenement, situated in Lochmaben- gate, opposite Queen Street, and occupied above by Mr Dawson, auctioneer, and below, as shops, by Mr Robertson, grocer, anil Mr Bryden, ( lax- dresser. The alarm was soon given, and shortly after six, the engines were brought 11 the spot and commenced working. Very fortunately the wind was low; day- light, too, aided the firemen, and brought hundreds to the spot that would have been otherwise absent; and but for these providential circumstances, the conflagration would have extended its ravages greally, and- proved ore of the most destructive that ever occurred in this town. Attached to Mr Dawson's dilapidated dwelling are various low buildings, formerly occupied by Mr Holliday, as dye- works, and as these began to emit huge volumes of smoke and flame, Mr Badieff's back property, occupied by Mrs Burgess, and the inn kept by Mrs Ralton, were placed in the greatest possible danger. Betwixt seven and eight o'clock the flames became weaker, the effect of the TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS. engines more apparent, though the water that sup- DEAN OF GUILD'S CovtrciL— Yesterday the f o l . ( plied . them had_ to be brought from the Nith B lowing gentlemen were elected Guild Councillors, viz Messrs John Lauder, 1 , . , Alexander Wright, } C h a n t s . Gordon Brown, Wright. Peter I. orimer, Mason. John Inglis, Mason. The Council, at the same time, elected Messrs. John Christie arid John Robertson to be Resident Magistrates, and Mr John Clark to be Treasurer of the burgh of Canongate. Mr James Thomson was re- elected into the office of Resident Magistrate of Easter Portsburgli; and Mr George Lorimer was appointed to hold that office in Welter Portsburgh. On the motion of the LORD PROVOST, the Council unanimously resolved to present tile freedom of the city to David Wilkie, Esq. R. A., and painter to his Majesty for Scotland, in testimony of the high sense they entertained of his great and celebrated talents as an artist, and which have reflected so much credit on his nadve country. This being the first meeting for business since the election, the Council were detained to a late hour with a mass of matters which hail accumulated since the breaking up of the old Council. Arrivals at the Cross Keys Hotel, Kelso, during the last week — Lord Maitland, Honourable Captain Maitland, and John Warrender, Esq. for Tbirlestane Castle; Mr and Mrs Scott, for tile west; Sir John Travillion, Bart, of Wellington, Lady Travillion, Miss E. Travillion, and Miss Percival, forthe north; Sir Charles Leslie, Bart, for Kirkbank Cottage; Countess | of Hopetoun, and the Honourable Charles Hope, for the north; S. Hirst, Esq. of London, and Mrs Hirst, for the south ; Honourable Daniel Finch, and William Giant, Esq. of Litchburgh, Northamptonshire, for tlie south ; Major Wilson, for the south ; Mr and Mrs Leadbitter, for the south; the Marquis of Lothian, and Lord Henry Ker, for the south; and John D. O'Kelly, Esq. of Dublin, Mrs O'Kelly and family, for the west. COMMISSIONERS OF P O L I C E — O n M o n d a y , a s t a - tutory meeting of the Commissioners of Police was held, Thomas Allan, Esq. master o f t h e Merchant Company, in the chair. The business was mostly of a routine nature. A report from the house committee was read, which approved highly of the plan of heating the cells by steam, suggested by Mr Robison. A report from the billeting committee was next read; it recommended, that a voluntary assessment of a halfpenny in the pound be raised among the inhabitants, to save them the trouble of having soldiers billeted upon them; Oil account of the season being so far advanced, it was agreed, that this report shoul. 1 lie on the table tor six months. fore nine o'clock, when the streets were cleared, the dinger was over, though not until Mr Dawson's house, and the premises adjoining, had become a smouldering mass of ruins. How the fire occurred it is impossible to tell, hut as no one suspects the hand of an incendiary, it is clear that a spark had fallen somewhere, and continued smouldering for some time. Mrs Dawson, who was agitated beyond her strength, had a son indisposed, and rose to inquire, for him at an early hour; and thus maternal anxiety, under the direction of a kind Providence, insured the safety of the whole household. On entering his apartment she found it filled with smoke, and had scarcely dressed herself when it was time to flee.— Dumfries Courier of Tuesday. HARE'S- S I S T E R . — A few days ago, P r o v o st Fraser, of Dumfries, received 3 most unexpected visit. In the course of the forenoon, and while the Port Mail was about to. start, a woman called on him closely muffled up in a grey duffle cloak, which concealed her so completely, that little save her nose and eyes were visible. After many apologies, she requested the Provost to step aside, and on his inquiring her business, she repeatedly said " Speak lown, speak lown, Sir, for I'm Hare's sister."— " Hare's sister! and what the deuce are you seeking here; we have had enough of trouble with your family already, and if you don't get out of the way as fast as possible, the town will rise, Irish and all, and tear you to pieces." At this the woman shook her head, and signified that she was well aware of the danger she ran. She then cama to the point, and stated that while returning from the shearing in England, she had been induced to take Dumfries in her way, for the purpose of receiving a camblet cloak and the other articles which her brother had left behind when the police smuggled him out of the town at mid- night, arid then left the miscreant to his fate. The necessary inquiries were soon made, and the bundle was found iu a corner of the Taproom, where it had been shunned 11s a most polluted thing, which 110 one had the slightest curiosity to open. The woman got it, and some cold meat to boot, and departed as quietly and privately as she arrived.— Dumfries Courier. We regret to see that Mr Hamilton, the able and persevering iiuthorof the system of education, called the llarniltonian system, died a few days ago at Dublin.— Tyne Mercury. STATE OF TRADE. I11 our paper of Thursday iast, we adverted at some length to the state of trade, for the purpose of explaining the various causes of its present stagnation, and now lecur to the subject for the purpose of correcting an opinion which we have frequently heard expressed, and which, 011 account of its fallacy and dangerous tendency, ought, we think, to be withstood. We mean the opinion entertained by some, that the late war was tbe cause of the great piosperity which the country enjoyed while it continued. The only ground for this strange and not very comfortable doctrine is the known and undoubted fact, that the country actually prospered during the war. This we freely admit; but our hypothesis 011 the subject is, that the country prospered— not because— but in spite of the war. We hold that the effect of the war was just to take so much from the national prosperity ; and for the sake of clearness, and to give as much precision as possible to our ideas, we may ju. it premise, that the happiness of a community consists in being well fed, clothed, and lodged. Where subsistence is scarce anil dear, or where wages are low, great misery will necessarily ensue, among the mass of the people; and this misery will soon all'ect the other orders of the community : because the working classes, who are the great consumers of goods or of capital, being disabled by poverty from using the same quantity as before, these goods must lie in the hands of the manufacturers, who will in consequence be distressed by the want of sale, and commerce will in this manner be depressed. One of tile main ingredients in national prosperity, therefore, is plenty of subsistence, which, by affording a fund for rewarding labour, creates a demand for it, and always raises the rate of wages- I t thus increases the capacity of the great body of the people to consume, creates a demand for goods, and infuses alacrity and vigour into all the different branches of trade. Throughout the greatest part of the last century, this country was making marked advances in wealth and improvement; but it was about the year 1785 01- 1786, after the close of the American war, that we began that unparalleled course of prosperity, which came to a close about the year 1812 or 1814;—. and that prosperity arose from the continually incieasing supply of subsistence that the land was pouring forth 111 consequence of an improved system of agriculture. Of this fact we can have no doubt, if we compare the value of land about the year 1785 with its value now. We know that the valua of land has risen four and five fold since that period. An estate for example which was bought about the year 1780 for £ 30,000, is or was lately in the market at the upset price of £ 109,000 ; and il probably would not be sold under £ 140,000 now. Nor is this a solitary example It may be taken, therefore, as an illustration of the improved value of land all over the country, for many similar cases could be given- From what source then, it may be asked, did this improved value arise. It arose not nearly so much from anv rise in the price, as from an increase in the produce of the estate in consequence of more skilful cultivation, anil this is j u s t the fact on which we found our whole hypothesis ; that from the great improvements that were made iu agriculture, we were continually during the war not only extending cultivation over a greater quantity of ground ; but we were making t h e same quantity yield a larger produce, and thus from this two- fold source we were going 011 with every year, an increased supply of subsistence in the country. We were in this oase precisely hi the situation of a new colony, the great characteristic in whose condition is, that it has plenty of land to cultivate, and of course a superabundance of subsistence ; and hence there is a continual demand for labour " and high wages. This was j u s t the situation of Great Britain during the whole course of Ihe war, when agricult u r e was making such prodigious advances, and was every year pouring forth additional supplies of produce ; when high wages and a population increasing, not merely in numbers, but in weallh " and comfort, created a continual demand for manufactures, and gave boundless scope to the use of machinery. Iu Such circumstances we could scaicely manufacture too much ; the demands of an increasing population, joined to the waste of war, which was scarcely felt in the flourishing slate of the country, speedily absorbing the supply of manufactures, however fast it increased owing to the continually improving powers of production. All the different branches of our industry, agriculture, commerce, and manufactures, thus conspired, if we may so speak, for the prosperity of the country ; and though commerce experienced some severe shocks, in 1793 for example, and in 1797, when the Bank was obliged to suspend Its cash payments; and though every year we had to contend with an additional lead of taxes, yet these evils were not materially felt. They were mere eddies in the great tide of national prosperity, which flowed steadily forward, in spite of all interruptions, with a power which nothing could check. But, as we have mentioned above, this state of things came to a close about t. he year 1810 011812. Judging from t h e price of land, which became stationary at that time, and which afterwards began lo decline, it had ceased to yield an increasing supply of food, for, in this case, therfe is no reason why its price should not have continued to rise as before. But, though the annual supply of food had become stationary, the population continued to increase as fast as ever, and the- consequence was, t h a t there was a greater number of people to h e supported out of the same supply of food, and a smaller quantity necessarily fell to tftelot of each, and the mode in which the labourer was stinted to this reduced allowance was by low wages. Hence he was often in great distress, when corn was at a low price, because, low as tne price was, the article could not be reached by his still lower wages. The people, thus falling into poverty and distress, manufactures could no longer be consumed by them in the same quantity in which they were supplied ; nor could subsistence be purchased at its former high price. Commerce languished in this manner, and all classes were, distressed. Now, the war could not have averted this distress, which originated in causes with which it had 110 connection, namely, in the superabundant produce of tile land, which is totally independent either of war or'peace, and which, in all cases where it occurs, is a sure source of national prosperity. It is to this superabundance of food that we must trace the high wages of the labouring classes, and the prosperous condition of t he people generally in the United States, the Canadas, New Holland, Van Dieman's Land, & c. It was to this simple cause that we owed the prosperity which we enjoyed during the late wars; and it is owing to this fund being now exhausted, ancl to the concurrence, 110 doubt, of other circumstances, that commerce is labouring under its present difficulties. IMPROVEMENTS' COMMISSIONERS. Monday a quarterly meeting of tbe Commissioners for ihe improvements took pi , ee in the Council Chamber— the Lord Provost in the cbair. Upon the names of the new Commissioners, in consequence of tbe late alterations in the T o w n Council, beint; announced, Mr Rrownlee staled tbat Bailie Morton was the first person who set oil foot these improvements, and, as a mark of respect, moved that his name should be added to all the committees. Bailie Blackwood, in seconding the motion, said Mr Morton was the first person he ever heard speak of these improvements, and shortly after saw him in possession of a sketch of them. Tbe motion was agreed to unanimously. The Clerk reported that the Sheriff, on the part of the County, had applied to him for a copy of the resolutions of the Commissioners relitive to the removal of tbe County Hall, which he had declined to give, because those resolutions depended upon ihe Faculty of Advocates agreeing to these terms. This procedure on die part of tbe clerk, was approved of. A meeting of the Commission was fixed for ! the 2d November, to elect a Commissioner in the room of tho late Sir W. Arbuthnot. The annual teport of the income and expenditure of the Commissioners was next produced, and the abstract ordered to be published. The report of the Committee of plans and works was next read. It detailed, in the first place, the proceedings relative to George the Fourth Bridge, from which it appeared that the Faculty of Advocates refused to acceede to tbe arrangement of the Commissioners, whereby the County Hall was to be removed, and others were given to proceed with the building of the bridge as originally intended. It was, however, staled that Mr Gibson Craig, who was absent, was in conference with tbe parties, and entertained hopes that the matter would yet be adjusted. Mr BUOWNLEE said, as there were several new Commissioners present, he was desirous to give a detailed statement of the difficulties the committee had to contend with on this subject. The LOUD PROVOST remarked that there was only two or three who were not acquainted with the details; it was not necessary to take up the time of tbe whole to inform thtini; anil it might answer the purpose equally well if Mr Brownlee would give those gentlemen ihe information after the regular business of the meeting terminated. Mr BROWNLEE said, he had another object in view. This being a general meeting, 10 which persons connected with tbe newspapers were admitted, lie was anxious that the public should be made aware exactly how the fact stood. He wished it particularly to be known, that the County was satisfied ; the Commissioners for the Courts satisfied ; tile Writers 10 the Signet satisfied ', and that tile whole obstacles were thrown in the way by tbe Faculty, who, by the course adopted, had rendered it very doubtful whether or not the confessedly great improvement of taking down the County Hall couid now be gone into. That learned body had studiously and unnecessarily thrown obstacles in- tile way of tile Commissioners— at least he thought so. This matter, however, he said, had never been before t! ie Faculty generally, but was managed by a junto of five or six. Bailie BLACKWOOD— Then 1 hope Mr Brownlee will take care to have a general meeting of tile Facility. Mr BROWN LEE— MY opinion is, that it is now too late. Mr HAMILTON, architect, mentioned, that, so late Saturday, he had a conversation with a member cf the committee of the Faculty, who was not aw: ire of the sacriti. es made by tbe Commissioners, and stated, upon being made aware, that he bad no doubt but the Facility would also make sacrifices for tbe public interest. He ( Mr Hamilton) conceived, that some ot t. he Faculty were acting under erroneous impressions. Mr J. F. MACFARLAN thought, the gentlemen of the Faculty, whom he met at a conference, were well acquainted with all the bearings of the case. They seemed to have studied it well, and appeared much more thoroughly conversant with it than the committee. 1 he report of the committee of plans and works was agreed to, approving of proceeding with the building of ibis bridge according to the original plan. KING'S BRIDGE The committee reported, that the operations in this line were proceeding; that a site lor two new churchts had been given to the Magistrates, anil the committee were making the necessary purchases connected therewith. It was stated to be in contemplation to make the proposed communication from the Grassmarket to the bridge by a curve, but, as the Grassmatket proprietors had consulted Mr Jardine, civil- engineer, on the subject, its farther consideration was delayed for a month. A communication from tlie Board of Ordnance was read, acceding to an application by the Commissioners, for permission to make Certdn cuttings upon the esplanade, provided a solid retaining wall were built. On tile minion oftlie LORD PROVOST, the thanks Of the Commissioners were voted to the Bnard of Ordnance . to Colonel Thackeray, commanding engineer in Scotland' and to Mr Thomas Allan, master of tbe Merchant Com' puny, for the great trouble taken by him in this matter, when lately in London. TRIAL OF LOCOMOTIVE CARRIAGES.'-; R O Y A I . C A L E D O N I A N H U N T AJ-' D P E R T H - M E E T I N G . . Over the North Inch of Perth.. TUESDAY, OCT. 14. The Caledonian St Leger Slakes of Twenty- five Sove,. reigns each, p. p., wiih One Hundred Sovereigns add* od by the Caledonian Hunt. Lord Elcho's b. c. Gondolier, by Fitzorvilie . ) Mr Gilmour's ch. f. by Or Syntax . . 2- Mr Bogue's b. c. by Champignon . ., 3 Mr Baillie's br. c. by Champignon . . 4 Sir D. H. Blaii's b.' f. bv Prime Minister . 5, Sir .1. H Maxwell's br. f. by Smolensko . ( i; Mr Quartan's b. c. Newton Oon by Fitzorville dr Won easy. Match— Mr Baird's ch. h. Sir Malachi Malagrowther, six years old, against Mr Cruickshank's b. c. Navarino, four years old. 200 sovs, 50 ft. The former, walked over. A Purse of Fifty Sovereigns, given by the Caledonian, Hunt. Heats, two miles. Mr Armstrong's b. g, Charlie . 5 1 0 1 Mr Gilmour's b. h. Gallopade . 13 0 2 Mr Munro's b. g. Major . . 2 4 3 dr.. Mr Ramsay's ch. colt Parson Harvey . 5 2 dr. Mr T. Dawson's br h. Romeo . 3 dr. M r White Melville's br. h. Crafty . 4 dr. Sir J . H. Maxwell's b. c. by Eppeistone 7 dr. An excellent race.. WEDNESDAY. OCT. 14. His Majesty's Purse of One Hundred and Five Sovereigns, grunted 10 tbe Caledonian Hunt, for any horse,, was gained by Sir Wm. Maxwell's gr. c. Spadassin. MAGISTRATES OF JEDBURGH— George Hilson, BURGHS, sen. Esq. Provost ( From the Liverpool Times of Tuesday.) Tbe first systematic tri., 1 of the power of the engines under the inspection of the judges, took place on Thursday, when M r Stephenson's carriage, the Rocket, was brought nut to perform the task assigned. This engine has a boiler of a new construction, adapted for coke, the invention of Mr Henry Booth, tile Treasurer to the Railway Company. ' The distance appointed to be run was 70 n- iles; and it was a cordition that, when fairly started, the engine was to travel oil the road, at a speed of not less than ten miles per hour ; drawing after it a gross weight ofjhree tons, for every tori weight of itself. Bjf're starting, the machine was weighed, and the weight ascertained to be four tons five cwt. the gross weight to be drawn, therefore, was 12 tons 15 cwt. which was accordingly pla: ed behind the engine, part of the said weight consisting of tbe engine tender, wiih the needful supply of water and fuel. The prescribed distance of 70 miles, it must, be remembered, was to be accomplished by moving backwards and forwards, on a level plane uf one mile and direr- quarters in length ; of course, the engine had to pass a'ong this plane 40 times, having to make as many stops, and each time to regain the lost speed and momentum. She started on her journey about half- past ten in the morning. and performed the first 35 miles in 3 hours and 10 minutes, being upwards of eleven miles an hour. About a quarter of an hour was then consumed in filling the water tank, and pbtaining a Iresh supply of coke. The second 35 miles were accomplished in less time than the first, being performed in 2 hours and 52 minutes, which is at the rate of upwards of 12 miles an hour, including stoppages, the whole time from the first starting to the final arrival, being under six hours and a half. The speed of the carriage over the ground was frequently 18 miles per hour, and sometimes inore. and the motion is represented by the gentlemen who accompanied it as particularly easy and agreeable. On the whole, the performance gave great satisfaction, and the work done was far more than the quantum prescribed by the Directors ofthe Railway. On Friday, the fourth day, nothing important or very interesting occurred on the course; but a paragraph appeared in Friday's paper, from Messrs Braithwaite and Ericsson, stating tbat their engine, the Novelty, would be ready to perform the appointed task on Saturday morning. Accordingly, great expectations were excited to witness this day's proceedings. The preliminaries of weighing, & c. being concluded, ihe Novelty, with her appointed load, started and performed the first trip of three miles and a half in good style. On the second journey, however, owing to an accident to one of the pipes, all locomotion was suspended ; and before the injury, though unimportant, could be repaired, the day was too far advanced to recommence her allotted task. It was evident, from the frequent though slight derangements which bad occurred to this engine, that a little further time was desirable before her performance should be again brought under the special noiice of the judges. Accordingly, it was arranged by mutual consent that the London engine should run the 70 miles with her load on Wednesday ( to- morrow). On the Saturday afternoon, however the injury sustained being repaired, she appeared again on the course, with theD. reetors' carriage attached to her, in which were about forty ladies and gentlemen, and with wbich she moved along in beautiful style, at the almost incredible speed of upwards of 30 miles per hour! — In the course of the day Mr Stephenson's engine also performed an equally brilliant leat. Between the occurrence and tbe repair of the accident lo Messrs Braithwaite's carriage, that of Mr Stephenson, the Rocket, tan, without load or tender, 7 miles in 14 minutes, which is at the rate of 3t) miles an hour; and one of the trips of 34 miles was performed in 6 minutes and 37 seconds, which is at tiie rate of 32 miles an hour 1 There was no contest yesterday, but it will be resumed to- day. We understand the arrangement f'or the week is as follows:— This day ( Tuesday), Mr Hackworth's engine from Darlington; to- morrow, the Novelty ; and on Thursday, Mr Burstall's engine from Leith. We have great pleasure in stating, that not a single accident has occurred during the week, though one man, who bad fallen on the railway when Mr Hackworth's carriage was approaching, bad a very narrow escape, having been compelled to throw himself under the botly of the carriage, so that the wheels passed on both sides of' him, without doing him any mischief. Messrs George Davidson, George Hilson, jun., Jam, s, Reid, Robert Beil. Bailies; Mr William Hope, jun. Dean of Guild ; Mr James . Jackson, Treasurer. HAWICK— Hugh Goodfcllow and James Miller, Esqrs. Bailies. KUTIIERGLEN— Andrew Harvie, of Newbouse, Esq.. Provost; Messrs William Love, James Harvey, Bailies; James Pinkerton, Treasurer. SANQUHAR Thomas Crichton, Esq. Provost;. Messrs Alex. Harvey, James Hair, George Lorimer,' Bailies; John Allison, Dean of Guild ; John Lawrie. Treasurer. KIRKCUDBRIGHT— John S. Shandj M. D. Provost^ Messrs Anthony Skeoch, James Burney, b j l i e s j Vt. au M'Kinnell, Treasurer. STRANRAER.— The Earl of Stair, Provoi. t; Messrs, John Forsyth, William Black, Bailies; Thomas King,. Dean of Guild ; Robert Kirkpatrick, Treasurer. SELKIRK— Andrew Lang, Esq. Chief Magistrate t Messrs George Young, Bailie; James Cameron, Dean 0),- Guild; and Thomas Thomson, Treasurer. PREVENTION OF SMUT. As the preparation of wheat seed is beginning to engage the attention of the farmer, we publish the follow-, ing account, which has been sent to us, of •' an expeiei ced methed of guarding against smutty crops of whear, by a due preparation of ilie'seed." If we mistake not,' our correspondent's method is not a novel one; it may. nevertheless, be not the less efficacious :—" The smut in wheat is an evil greatly complained of, and not with-, out reason, among farmers. As I write from experience, what I communicate may be depended on. I have for many years past escaped having smutty crops, by. a proper care of the seed- wheat before it is put into, Ihe ground ; and the method 1 pursue, though efficacious, is in itself simple and cheap. I take four bushels of pigeon's dung, which I put into a large tub; on this I pour a sufficient quantity of boiling water, and, mixing them well together, let them stand six hours, tilt a kind of strong lye is made, which, at the end of that time, the grosser matter being subsided, I cause to be. carefully drained off. and put into a large tub for use. This quantity is sufficient for eighty bushels of seed-, whea'. My next care is to shoot into this steep a manageable quantity of my seed, which is to be immediately violently agitated with birch brooms, or the rudders th e are made use of in stirring the malt in the mash- tub, in a brewing office. As the light grains arise, they must be diligently skimmed of; and alter the seed has been agitated in this manner fur the space of half an hour, it it may be taken out of the steep, and sown out of hand, with great safety ; and 1 can vtnture to say, that, if the land is in good heart, and has been properly tilled, it. will not, when sown with these precautions, produce a, smutty crop." Pigeon's dung, it is well known, is the strongest of all dungs, tbe alkaline salts being more observable in it. Dr Home says, I have seen the surface of pigeon's • lung covered with a white salt, which smelt as strong as, the volatile salt of hartshorn. Every one is sensible of his, eyes watering when he goes into a pigeon- house, owing to the pungent volatile salts in the air. Farmers have discovered by long experience that the dung of different animals varies very much as to the quantity to be used, and the ground upon which it ought to he laid. A, much smaller quantity ot pigeon's dung should be employed than of any other; ami even tbat should be laid on oldwet soil." The shade of houses or of great trees, a soil either ill cultivated or where the cultivation is fre, h and recent, are causes which produce and multiply stnut. Experience has proved, that wheat sown in the morning in k thick fog is more subject to smut than when sown in the middle of the day when the fog is di.- sipated. illustration of this curious fact, we annex the following anecdote, which some of our readers may not be familiar with : — A fanner, on working the lands of a rich' eo nmandery at Malta, was found by M. Hardouin sitting on a sack of seed. It was a beautiful day, the sun shilling brilliantly, and not a cloud to be seen. M. Hardouin asked him why he was not sowing. " Because the land is ill," said the labourer. What is tha matter with i t ? " rejoined M. Hardouin. " It sweats," said the other; " stoop down, and you will see a cold vapour coming from it. I am sixty years old, and tlvis. was pointed out to me by my father. I shall wait, or else 1 should have black wheat." He considered this, as having an influence upon tile seed, if sown during its occurrence. The labourer added, that in the preceding year there had been only two days proper for sowing, and that tile harvest was most abundant; while tbe pure of the field which was sown in unfavourable weather produced a prodigious quantity of smutted cor. i.— Perth shire Advertiser. EDINBURGH CORN MARKET, OCTORER 14. Our supply of wheat to- day was much less than la « t week, which sold readily; top, 80;.; current, from 48s. to 77 » - A middling supply nf barley ; best, 40s. ; current, from 31s. 6.1. to 3! ls.' A middling supply of oats, which so d readily, and fid. down ; best, 28s. 2,1.; current from 2Js. to 27s. A small supply of pease anil, beans, at fro. ii 33s. fid. to 42s. Prices per imperial quarter. First Second, third, . Wheat. • 80. ( H I Hurley. | 40, lid - 77s od | 38s od • 48s 04 I 31s lid f Beans 42s nil I 40- od' lld lilts. ] Pease. 1 ? 3s 2d I 42s Od 27s Od | 4ils " i I 2.1s Od I 33s Od [ 33s I'llere were 165 q u a r t e r s or' n ew wheat in market , which' sold as under :— 8 4 0 0 12 !) < 1 101 3 < 1 0 2 3 18 0 11 ... 3 8 II 16 2 1R 1 4 17 0 15J 3 3 0 4 2 16 I) 22 3 16 0 10„ 3 2 0 9 2 11 11 4 3 12 II 8 3 I 0 li .2 U O 15 3 10 0 Average, L. 3 4 33. FALKIRK OCTOBER TRYST The last o f t h e threa Trysts commenced, on Monday. The number of sheep, shewn was far above last year ( about 83,000.) Cheviot, wedders sold from 15s. to 22s., and ewes from 9s. to 16s.; bare wedders, black- faced, 12s. to 19s.; a few fine lots brought 20s. to 22s; black- faced ewes, 5s. lid. to, 10s.- Od. tbe clad score ; a decided preference was given to. Cheviot stock. Upon the whole, it may be considered a. very dull market, and prices were from 2s. to 3s. below those obtained last year at the October ' J'ryst. A few. lots remained unsold. On Tuesday, the cattle market commenced, but tha day was so wet and stormy that very little business was done. The number shewn would he nearly 811,000, the few purchases made were at a reduction £ 1, 10s. per head below those of last year; and the greater part of the stock were diiven off the field early, as it became impossible to get access to them. Yesteiday the « - eather cleared up, and a gond deal ofbusiness was done, but purchasers were very shy. Heavy Aberdeen and Angus were from £ 11, I ls. to £ 15, 15s. Fife anil north country cattle £>, 9s. to £ 12, 12s. West Highland stots, three year olds £ » ). 6s to £ J , 9s. Two, year olds £ 4, 4s. to £ 6, 6s for prime lots, and inferior, bats in proportion. There we e more cattlefrom Sky an. I the north west coast of the Highlands than ever appeared at this tryst, the reduction in price was greater than on Tuesday, and might be about £ 2 per head less than those obtained last year for the same description of stock : but the cattle were not in such good condition as they, were last year. VILLA OF HAWTHORNBRAE FOR SALE, By viriue of the powers contained in a bond and deposition ill security. A passenger who arrived oil Monday afternoon hy the United Kingdom, says, that the vessel left London on Friday night at ten o'clock. They experienced a dreadful hurricane on Sunday evening; and as it blew from the land, the captain was prevented from taking shelter iu any of the contiguous ports. On Wednesday last the United Associate Presbytery of Edinburgh met in St Bernard's Chapel, Stockbridge, for the purpose of inducting the reverend Robert Iteuivick, lately of West Linton, . , , -, , r to the pastoral charge of that congregation, and on They braved the sloim, however, and arrived safe Sabbath forenoon that gentleman was introduced wl[ hout any damage, except the splitt rig of their - - - mainsail. The passengers give great praise to Capaud the seamen for their activity during by the reverend Andrew Lothian of Portsburgh. . Mr itenivick preached in the afternoon and evening {, o crowded audiences. tain Turner (, ie gale To be SOLD by public roup, within the Royal Exchatip Coffeehouse, upon Wednesday the 23i day of Decsn ber 1829, at 12 o'clock upon, ALL nnd WHOLE the VILLA and LANDS of WESTER DUODINGSTftN'E, now called HOWTHORNBSAE, with the Houses and Pertinent-! thereof, lying within the barony and parish of Dudilingstone, and county of Edinburgh, which subjects are par-; and portions of ihe Lands and Village of West Duddingstone, and Town Park thereof, and consist of lots 6, 7, K, 9,10, II, 13, and 14. of the feus of West DnJ. dingstone, as delineated in a plan by John Paterson, architect in Edinburgh, and lots 4, 5, 6, 7, antl 8, of ' he feus of the said Town Park of West Duddlngston. , us delineated in a plan made by John Leslie, land- mtasurer. The villa is presently in the possession of the pre, prietor, and the houses aqd grounds adjoining are lit to good tenants, For farther particulars apply by letter ( post p Ul). u Wilijftdi T. Kellie, vyriter, Danfrftti r LONDON; On Thursday night, a jury, consisting of the chnrch- wardens, overseers* and other respectable inhabitants of Christ Church, Spitalfields, assembled e t the house of Mr Low, an undertaker, in Union Street, to inquire touching the death of Sirs Marv Ann Gregory. William Downer, a servant, stated, that about ten minutes past one on Tuesday afternoon, he was alarmed by a violent screaming, and, running to the staircase, met the deceased coming down, enveloped in flames. He called for assistance, and extinguished the fire as well as he could. A surgeon waS sent for, and attended the deceased, who died at two o'clock the following morning. Esther Wilmington, Mr Gregory's servant, stated that she heard the deceased scream, and found her upon the stairs with the last witness, who was endeavouring to extinguish the flames. She was shockingly burnt, principally about the back and breasts. She died the next morning— Coroner. Did the deceased tell you her clothes, caught fire ?— " Witness. Yes ; she said that a spark set fire to a piece of paper upon the floor, and she put her foot upon it to extinguish i t ; but, being unable to do so, she caught it up with her two hands to throw it upon the grate. In doing that, she set fire to her sleeves, and the lower part of her dress had also caught fire when she put her foot upon tbe burning paper. The witness added, that the whole of the deceased's apparel was burnt from her person as st| e ran down the stairs. She was in her 25th year, and has l e t two children, one of them two years, and the other eight months old ; she was alone with them in the nursery when the accident occurred. The jury did not require any farther evidence, and instantly returned a verdict of " Accidental Death. DISGRACEFUL FAMILY QUARRELS. — A family, consisting of a widow, named Watts, aged 60, living in John Street, Lambeth, with her two children, 8 girl of 19, and a hoy of 14, were in the habit of quarrelling and fighting so repeatedly, t h a t the neighbours were at times alarmed, lest something fatal would ensue. Yesterday week, the mother and son disputed and fell to blows. The boy pushed hir into a chair; tbe mother seized the poker, and threatened to knock his brains out. The neighbours interfered, and order was restored. On Sunday, the mother took to her bed, and died on Tuesday. It being reported that her death was caused by the violence of the lad, an inquest was held on the body on Thursday, when it appeared that the deccased's death was occasioned by tiie dropsy, under which she had long laboured; there were, however, bruises on her hips and loins; and the jury, after examining the son, returned a verdict of " D i e d by the visitation of G o d ; " at the same time they expressed their indignation at the shameful conduct of the two children towards their pavent. GRAND METROPOLITAN C E M E T E R Y We h a ve Seen the plans o f t h e Pyramid which is to form the principal feature of this novel undertaking. It is intended to be a progressive work, proportionate to the annual demand for burial. When finished it will be capable of receiving no less than five millions of individuals, being somewhat larger in dimensions than the celebrated Pyramid of Egypt, simple in form, sublime in effect, and curious in its arrangement. Its area will be surrounded by a terrace walk, enclosed by a wall 13 feet high, antl the ground within this enclosure is to be tastefully laid out for private tombs and monuments, in the style o f t he famous cemetery of Pere la Chaise, near Paris. It will present an object of extraordinary grandeur to the metropolis— London University Magazine for Vctober. THE PHARISEES AND SADDUCKE8. ( From Milman's" History of the . lews. Vol. Second.") Two great religious and political factions divided tiie State— those of the Pharisees and Sadducees. No part of Jewish history is more obscure than the origin and growth of these two parties. The Maccabees had greatly owed their success to the Chasidim, or righteous. The zeal, and even the fanaticism of this party, had been admirable qualities in the hour of trial and exertion. Austerity is a good discipline for the privations and hardships of war. Undaunted courage, daring enterprise, contempt of death, fortitude in suffering, arose directly out o f t h e leading religious principles of this party— the assurance of Divine protection, and the certainty of another life. Their faith, if it led them to believe too much, and induced them t o receive the traditions of their fathers, as of equt. 1 authority with the written law and authentic history, made them to believe only with the stronger fervour and sincerity all the wonders and glories of their early annals; wonders and glories which they trusted the same power, in whose cause, and under whose sanction they fought, would renew in their persons. Even their belief in angels, celestial, unseen beings, who ever environed them, to assist their arms and discomfit their enemies, contributed to their confidence and resolution. In thiscon Jiict t h e hero and the religiousenthusiast were one and the same. But those qualities and principles, which Blade them such valiant, and active soldiers in war, when the pride of success, and conscious possession of power were added, tended to make turbulent, intractable, and domineering subjects in peace. Those who are most forward in asserting their liberty do not always know how to enjoy it, Btfll less how to concede it toothers. Their zeal turned into another channel— the maintenance and Jiropagalion of their religious opinions, and flowed as fiercely and violently as before. Themselves austere, they despised all who did not practise the same austerities; earnest in their belief, not only in the law, but every traditional Observance, they branded as free- thinkers all whose creed was of greater latitude than their own; ar. d considered it their duty to enforce the same J'igitl attention, not merely to every letter of the law, but likewise to their own peculiar observances, which they themselves regarded as necessary, and jnost set Upulously performed. In every thing, as H I S T O R Y OF T H E J A N I S S A R I E S. A rapid sketch of this celebrated military estublisnment was given, by D r . M i t c h e l l , on Monday evening, in a lectui e or discourse, delivered at the City of London Literary and Scientific Institution, on the history of Turkey. The Janissaries were instituted by A m u r e t H , who reigned from 1362 to 1380. He " selected the fifth child between fifteen and full growth, of all the Christians Of the empire ; removed the youths from tKeir relations to other provinces ; employed them for some time in agricultural labours, and caused them to be taught the use of tlie sabre and the Mahometan faith ; their minds were rendered ferocious by being employed to slaughter criminals and prisoners of war; thev were then formed into regiments, and became a regular standing army. Theii religion taught them to expect paradise as the reward of their military achievements, antl such a paradise as was adapted to their sensual tastes; and victory and the plunder of infidel towns gave them of this world an anticipation ol' the delights to come. Care was taken to keep up their numbers by young men ot vigorous bodies and courageous minds. With such troops, who had no other trade but war, the Turkish Sultans were enabled to triumph over the brave but undisciplined feudal levies of the west of Europe. But such a ferocious body of soldiery would require vigorous and warlike sovereigns to restrain them ; and when the Sultans became effeminate amidst the pleasures of their palaces at Constantinople, and ceased to lead their armies to battle, the Janissaries became insubordinate, and most of the Sultans have terminated their reign by being deposed and put to death. The Janissaries having acquired the whole power of the state, quickly broke through those regulations which had rendered them efficient as a military body. They obtained permission to marry; then of having their sons admitted into the corps ; and being established in Constantinople and other great towns for years together, in time of peace took to various trades and occupations, and neglected their military exercises; they next admitted the tradesmen of thosi towns amongst them ; and thus at last they became scarcely superior to so many volunteer regiments, and were both unwilling and unfit for carrying on long continued wars. But whilst the Janissaries were deteriorating, the Christian armies were making improvements in the military art. Their soldiers devoted themselves exclusively to their profession. The improvements ill the muskets, and the invention of the bayonet, had altered the whole military system. The use of artillery, anil t h e scientific movements of armies, rendered war no longer an exertion of bodily strength and of individual bravery, but an operation, the guidance of which called forth the highest powers o f t h e most cultivated understanding. But all knowledge of this kind the Janissaries spurned ; hence, in the war which broke out with Russia in 1769, their armies were uniformly defeated in pitched balties. In vain were they stimulated by the fetva of the mufti, and the promises of paradise, as well as by doses of opium on going into b a t t l e ; the troops, by the deadly bullets of the unbelievers, were made to drink of the " sherbet of martyrdom until they could no longer endure the draught," and peace was purchased by the loss of provinces. The same was the case in 1770, and even in 1812. At the very time when Bonaparte was urging his way forward to Moscow, so dispirited were the Turks by defeat, that at that period, so favourable for prosecuting the war, t h e present Sultan, Mahomet, consented to make peace, and to buy it at the expence of Bessarabia and part of Moldavia. The late Emperor Se'irti was convinced of the inferiority o f t h e Turkish troops to the troops o f t h e Christian powers, and attempted, in 1809, to introduce an improved discipline, which ultimately cost him his lite. The present Sultan succeeded in putting down the Janissaries, antl had begun to introduce European discipline, but the present war broke out before he had time to make any progress. The lecturer remarked, that the Turks had never enjoyed the blessings of knowledge, and it was therefore in vain to reason with men who had no materials for thinking. Printing was an art wholly unknown in Turkey. But even if the fanaticism of the people were not opposed to all imitations of the arts ol the Christians, although there might be great improvements made in the discipline of regiments, it might be doubted if it be possible for such a country as Turkey, in a hundred years, to improve the education of the people to such a degree, as to produce a number of scientific officers to conduct the operations on a large scale against European armies. S U P F T E M E C O U R T , C A L C U T T A, MARCH 3 ) , 1 8 2 9. they were the only faithful servants, so they were the delegates and interpreters of God. As God jiad conquered, by them, so he ruled by them ; and all their opponents were the enemies o f t h e national constitution, the national religion, and the national Deity- Thus the generous and self- devoted Assideans, or Chasidim, degenerated Into the haughty, tyrannical, and censorious Pharisees, the Separatists of the Jewish religion, from I'harez, the Hebrew word for to separate or stand aloof. The better order among the opponents of the Pharisees were the ltarites, strict adherents to the letter of the law, but decidedly rejecting all traditions ; the great strength of the party consisted, however, of the Sadducees. The religious doctrines of the Sadflucees, it is well known, were directly opposite to those of the Pharisees. The Pharisees were moderate predestinarians; the Sadducees asserted free will. The Pharisees believed ill the immortality of the saul, and the existence of angels, though their preed on both these subjects was strongly tinged with orientalism. The Sadducees denied both. The Pharisees received not merely the Prophets, but the traditional law likewise, as of equal authority with the book of Moses. The Sadducees, if they did not reject, considered the prophets greatly inferior to the law. Til* 1 Sadducees are said to have tleriyed their doctrine from Sadoc, the successor of Antigonus Socho in the presidency of the great Sanhedrim. Antigonus taught the lofty doctrine pf pure and disinterested loye antl obedience to God, without regard to puiiishinenl or reward. JSatloc is said to liaye denied the latter, without fciaintainipg the higher doctrine on which it was founded. Still the Sadducees were far fioni what they are sometimes represented, the teachers of a loose and indulgent Epicureanism ; they inculcated the belief in Divine Providence, and the j u s t and pertain administration of temporal rewards and punishments. The Pharisees had the multitude, ever led away by extravagant religious pretensions, ensit ely at their disposal. Sadduceism spread chiefly among the higher orders. It would be unjust to }. hs Sadducees to confound them with that unpatriotic and Hellenized party, which, during the whole p l ' t h e noble struggles of the Maccabees, sided with the Syrian oppressors, for these are denounced as pVqwed apostates from Judais. n ; yet probably, after (. he establishment of t h e independent government, the latter might make ^ common cause, and become gradually mfegled up with the Sadducean party, as p j j i j s ed alike to the severities of the Pharisaic adhi. iiistration. During the rest of the Jewish history y g shall find these parties as violently opposed to- 6ach other, and sometimes causing as fierce and [ 1 UigeroUs dissensions as those which rent the commonwealths of G reece. at| d IttJttie, or there p u b l i c an ! I W « OL' NFJL'I'U IITP'OJIJJ THE PLAGUE. M. tie I. asteyrie has received the following letter from M. d'Arcet, j u n :— " Tripoli in Syria, J u n e 14, 1829. " The concern which you take in every thing which is interesting to humanity induces me to communicate lo you the result of some experiments which we have just made here with the chlorurets of oxides, in order to determine their action upon the virus of the plague. " AVe had hardly returned to Cairo from our voyage in Upper and Middle Egypt, when we learned that the plague was raging at Tripoli, in Syria. Though it was our duty to remain in Egypt, we could not resist the desire of going t o Tripoli, in order to make some trials, the result of which was doubtful until the plague should manifest itself at Cairo or at Alexandria, which is not the case every year ; and which, indeed, sometimes only appears at long intervals. " We consequently set off for Damietta, and from thence for Berut and Tripoli. We have been at this latter place a fortnight; and our experiments relative to the disinfection of clothes are finished. " The most important point was to convince ourselves whether the pestilential virus would resist the action of chlorurets ; and in older to leave no doubt upon the matter, it was necessary to make trial o f t h e chlorurets upon clothes covered with perspiration, pus, and blood, left at their death by the persons attacked with the plague. " We requested the Vice- Consul to piocure us six coats, wnich he bought of the relations of six individuals who had died of the plague the previous evening antl the evening before that. With respect to the infection of these clothes there could be no doubt; they were spotted with blood, matter, and peispiration. After the Vice- Consul had made a proves verbal o f t h e state in which they were, I immersed them for sixteen hours in a solution of chloruret of soda at 0.5. of the chlorometer of M. Gay I. ussac; and when they were dry, each of us put on a shiit nexL to the skin, and then the rest of the clothing. The spots still remained ; but they were by no means so dark ; we went to bed in this clothing, and wore it eighteen hours. The experiment was made eight days ago, and hone of us have experienced the least attack from it. " That the mode of disinfection adopted lias completely answered the intention, is, I think, proved by these facts in a positive manner. As each of us has a different constitution, this is another proof of the efficacy of t h e solution. " We are going to make another attempt tomorrow, by administering to persons attacked wilh the plague the chloruret of soda internally, and also by friction, in lotions, & c. We dare not, however, hope for success lrom this remedy as a medicament against a disorder so terrible, and which for three years past has unceasingly ravaged the population of Tripoli. " To- morrow we shall also begin to perform dissections, which, however, will present the greatest difficulties, in consequence ot the fanaticism of the Turks ; though we have some hope that, sootier or later, the use of clilorurets of oxide will be adopted by this people, who begin to abandon fatalism, and to follow the example of Europeans, by peribiming quarantine." T h e Rev. JAMFS BB YCE, D . D , a g a i n s t t b e P R O P R I E - TOR of the Bengal Hwkaru, for a libel. T h e ADVOCATE- GENERAL stated the circumstances out of which the libel arose. It was found in ore of a ! series of letters published in tbe Bengal Chronicle and Hiirkaru, ol both of which papers ihe'defendant was proprietor, criticising a volume cf serinons. published by the plaintiff in 1818. Of these criticisms lie did not complain, but when the writer went out of bis way to charge him with neglect of his clerical duties, with being every thing the reverse ot what a Christian minister ought to be— a hypocrite and no Christian,— he was compelled to seek redrc- ss from tbe laws of his country. 1 he malice of the defendant might, he thought, be inferred troni the length of time which had elapsed between ti e publication of the sermons and the date of the libel, which was written in 1827, and he would show, from a paper of the defendant's, published only a few days before the libel appeared, that he openly declared to the world, that in criticising the plaintiff's sermon, he was actuated by different motives from those which critics at a distance could have. His motives, if good, could only be tbe same as those of other critics, and, on tbe face of the defendant's own paper, the malice would be shown. He would also prove, that so far was the plaintiff* from neglecting his stated duties, that be bad gone beyond the strict line of them to administer the consolations of his office lo the defendant's own family when in distress. The learnetl gentleman said, it might in most cases be better to overlook such libels, when character stood so high as did that of the plaintiff, and he admitted they mi^ ht do him no harm or injury heie where he was known ; but he must guard against their effects at home. No libtl against a clergyman could be more cruel and atrocious than the present ; and it certainly required no little patience to sit under it. The order of the Court in which the publication was admitted was put in. Mr Edmunds proved the defendant being proprietor o f t h e Bengal Ilurkaru; he proved that the reverend plaintiff' had betn called by the defendant to baptise one of his children that was ill, arid had dorre so; that there was a controversy going on between the John Bull newspaper and the Bengal Huikaru, before the publication Cf the libel. The Court would not allow any question to be put as to the nature ot the contioversy. Mr Pritchard proved that the plaintiff acted as a minister of tbe Church of Scotland,— that he was proprietor and editor of the Quarterly Oriental Magazine, that he was also a proprietor of the John Bull before the libel was written— that he never was the editor of that paper — that be wrote in it literary and other articles— that he published in it, untler his own name, contiovetsial letters to Mr Di. kens in 1825— that two of the editors who had conducted the Bull were relations ef the plaintiff, and lived wilh him at his house in Garden Beach— that the one was " 28 years of age, and the other 24, as he believed. Mr J . C. Wilson pioved the plaintiff to be a minister of the Chutch of Scotland— that he had seer, him in bis place in the General Assembly in 1819. He also proved the signature ofthe Moderator cf the Assembly in 1815, authenticating tlie charter, by which the Scotch Church is established in this country. Mr CROMPTON, for the defence, denied that therewas malice apparent in the words complained of, and maintained, that, if they had been merely spoken, they would not have been actionable. In the plaint, injury, is spoken of; but unless the bad effect is pointed out, nothing is done. It is alleged that the plaintiff is affected as a clergyman, but the question is, would the words injure any other pirson, they impute no offence. It may indeed be said, that as accusing the plaintiff ol neglect of duty, they impute immoral conduct to him. The words are, " yet this man pretends to be a follower of Jesus Christ," but they do not say that lie is not so. All who know Dr Bryce must have treated this insinuation with contempt, and it would have been better that he should have done so too, than to come into a court ot justice. It appears Irom tile evidence, that the plaintiff is a proprietor ol the John Bull; and it is impossible to read the paper, in wh. ch the offensive words are, ar. d not see that a controversy existed between that paper arid the Huikaru. On a former occasion the Advocate- General contended, that a proprietor could not see all that went into a paper, and it has not been proved that bis, Mr C.' s client, saw this passage before it was printed. In this country, where newspapers take such liberties, every one is liable to be attacked; anil on such occasions it is much mere magnanimous to Say nothing. A clergyman ought not to cotre into court unless his character cannot stand without his so doing. The Advocate- General bad not asked lor large damages; and to suppose that Cr Bryce came into court with the view of^ nbtaining heavy damages, would be to impute to him what bis worst enemies w on Id not allege against him, and which was- quite inconsistent with Ins high character, and that piety, charity, and Christian love for which he was so justly and eminently distinguished. The CHIEF JUSTICE, after some consultation with the other judges, read the libel tor which this action was brought. It was necessary, his Lordship, said,. in the liist place, to consider the import of the libel; and to hini ii seemed to accuse the plantiff of devoting his time to tile conducting of a public journal, in a manner that inteifered with his stated dutii s, at least so as to prevent him performing them in a zealous manner. The concluding wonts in particular seem to imply, that he was eveiy thing the opposite of a Christian, and if they stood alone they would be a very serious libel. But tbe writer himself qualifies his meanirgso far by pointing out why he accuses Dr Bryce in such a way. The main reason ass- gncd is, because be is the conductor of a public journal, and this takes away considerably from tlie sting of the libel. Bad tbe words stood alone it might have been supposed that a better reason existed for it, than that stated— but having spoken, as he docs, he qualifies his libel and renders it so far innocuous. As so qualified we are to consider what injury has been sustained by the plaintiff'in comcquence of it. And in this country, this being the sole ground of the accusation, his Lordship was inclined to say that the damage was little or nothing, as here the plaintiff's character is tco well known, and stood too high, to be affected by such libels— and few persons would be disposed lo think worse of the plaintiff on account ot it. But the consequences may be very different at home. His Lordship was not prepared to say that in Scotland the ifleet might not be very different. It might hurt him as a minister of the Scottish Church. He held his situation under the General Assembly, and if this allegation were to be set aside without compensation, they might say, let us have some other lepresentative of our Church in India of whom it cannot be even asserted that he tails short of his duty. The case may, however, be otherwise ; but it certainly requires a man to be placed in very peculiar and felt una le circumstances where his character shall be invulnerable. A Scottish clergyman's character ir. ay ceitainly be endangered by a libel going the distance of half the globe, where ii is impossible to contradict it. ' 1 here is yet another ciicunistance to be taken into consideration. It doe- s pot appear how tar Dr Bryce was engaged in writing fur file John Bull, nor do w e know what lie wrote. It appears that be was a proprietor of the newspaper along with tw o youngmen, his relations, who lived in the same house wilh him, and who edited the paper. It is in evidence, that writing* of a controversial nature appeared in the two rival papers— it was under these circumstances that the offensive words were written. They were published by tbe proprietor of a daily paper, against the proprietor of another daily paper, ol which two young men were the editors— The circumstances under which wottls are written or spoken must be Considered— a blow stiuck is not to be measured by tbe mere violence of it, the provocation must also be weighed— it is therefore proper to consider the circumstances under which the libel was published. The plaintiff', we are to infer, bad some controul over the paper of which he was a proprietor. There " was a con- ED1NBURGH NEWS CONTINUED. Iii the early part of Friday lasf, the, 9tU, current, a beautiful and uncommon atmospheric phenomenon was observed, a few miles to the northvyard of Glasgow. The morning had been cloudy,. with slight showers on the hills. About, teq o'clock A. si, the sun shone out, and the clouds dispersed, but the . atmosphere continued rather hazy. A few minutes past eleven a luminous arch appeared in the N. W. quarter of the sky, directly opposite to the sun, and where ihe haze seemed' more dense than any wheie else. As far as couid be judged hy the eye, it formed about one- third of a circle, and reached an elevation of about 15 or 20 degrees above the horizon. Its colour was of a dazzling white, except during a few seconds, when it seemed to be slightly iridescent. For more than ten minutes it exhibited a most splendid appearance, after which it gradually faded, becoming indistinct first in the western limb. From the time when it was first observed it continued vis'ble from 35 to 40 minutes, and did not disappear entirely till about ten minutes before 12 noon. ABOYNE, Oct. 3, 1829.— The destructive inundation of the 4th of August having swept away the elegant suspension bridge lately erected by the Eai'l of Aboyne over the Dee, arrangements were promptly made by his Lordship and ihe contractor, Mr Justice, ( who was bound to uphold the work,) to re- build it on a more extended plan. The length, between points of suspension, 215 feet, and, in fotir flood arches, 150 feet of additional span. To gain a firm foundation on clay, much difficulty ( 80 men required to work the pumps alone) had to be overcome; but, after six weeks' incessant and expensive labour, we had this day the pleasure to witness the interesting scene of the noble proprietor's descending into the coffer- dam, ( eleven feet under the surface of the river), and laying the foundation- stone of fhe principal pier,— the hills echoing back the hearty cheers of a numerous and gratified body of assistants and spectators. Since the commencement of the work, the Aboyne antl many of the neighbouring tenantry have evinced the most lively interest in its success, and gratuitously contributed very efficient and essential services— happy in having an opportunity to testify their grateful sense of the patriotic conduct of the noble founder, in rearing a structure which will he an ornament to the place, and prove of great and general utility. Independently of the local and more immediate advantages which may he contemplated to arise from its completion, it affords the reasonable prospect of a more direct communication being opened through the Grampians, and a coach, at no distant period, running in one day from Iluutly to Edinburgh. SHOAL OF W H A L E S — O n t h e 2 2 d of S e p t e m b e r, twenty- three whales . were driven ashore , at Quendal Bay, near Suniburgh Head, in Shetland, which yielded about seven tuns of oil. This would be a good lift to the poor fishermen, as the Sheriff of the county has lately found, that the proprietors of the soil have 110 vested right in any thing caught or found within sea mark. DEATH FROM ABSTINENCE.— A r e m a r k a b l e case of abstinence has occurred in Mr Reuben Kelsey, at Fairfield, who is since ( iead. Exhausted nature could hold out no longer than the fifty- third day of his starvation, and the unfortunate youth expired oi. the 24- th ult. We are told that he omitted going to the well for water ( as was his usual practice during this extraordinary fast) on the day preceding his decease, and that his friends induced him to take two table spoonfuls of water- gruel at that lime, which, as they all aver, and the physicians acquainted with the case believe, is the only article of sustenance which he had taken for fifty- two days 1 His body is represented to have borne the appearance of a mummy, the flesh being wasted away, the skin discoloured and diied to the bonei The deceased appears to have laboured under the delusion of an extraordinary revelation being committed lo him, telling his friends it was his lot to fast forty days. At the expiration of that time it was expected that persuasion might induce him to eat, but he persisted in saying he had no divine command to eat, but wonders would yet be wrought by him, & c. In this way he continued, till fasting rendered his speech quite inarticulate, and his remaining faculties gradually failed.— Newcastle paper. T o PRESERVE I N S E C T S . — T h e e n t o m o l o g i s t will frequently find the wings, limbs, and bodies cf the insects in his collection separated by those tiny depredators, ptinus fur, and acarus destructor. Mr Waterton's recipe for preventing this evil is very effectual, and generally an innocuous preservative ; hut as this gentleman has not given the exact proportions of his mixture, it may be of use to observe, that if one part of corrosive sublimate be dissolved in eight parts of good spirit of wine, and the under side of the insect touched with a camel's hair pencil dipped in the liquor, so as to let it lightly pervade every part of the creature, which it readily does, it will prevent any future injury from insects. A larger portion of the sublimate will leave an unsightly whiteness upon the creature when the specimen becomes dry. The under side of the board on which the insects are fixed should be warmed a little by the fire after the application, that the superfluous moisture may fly off' before finally closing the case. If this be omitted, the inner surface of the glass will sometimes become partially obscured by the fume arising from the mixture.— Monthly Magazine. BIGGAR COURSING CLUB. The Biggar or Upper Ward of Lanarkshire Cours- The salmon fishing of the T" weed and tributary streams closed, on Saturday the 10th instant, - after a season unproductive, on tbe whole, in the principal fishings at the nv> uth o f t h e river, but uncommonly productive, during the latter part of it, on the fishings above tide- mark. For several weeks past, the sport of angling, was enjoyed in- a sty le almost unknown in the annals of the river. The following is a remarkable and appropriate conclusion of the season:— Two gentlemen, who reside at a short distance from the river, fished " The Dub," a well- known pari of the Tweed, near Sprouston, on Saturday, and killed twenty- eight salmon antl grilses; six of the former weighed ninety- one pounds, and the whole lot twenty- two stone three pounds, a greater load of fish than perhaps was ever taken by any two sportsmen from the Tweed in one day Kelso Mail. AGRICULTURE. DUMFRIES—^ Scarcely A drop of rain fell last week, and very little the week before, so that the hi 1- farmer has had the " whip- hand" of his neighbour in the plains, and must have secured his crops in the finest condition. The absence of moisture, in any quantity, bas been equally favourable to the ploughing of follows, and again in the case of winter wheat, that is where the husbandman was at all aleit, seed time has trode on the heels of harvest. We may state that the harvest is concluded, and concluded under happier auspices than the most sanguine could have anticipated a few weeks ago. Summer, 1829, has put many a. farmer out of his reckoning, and it is now clear that a high degree of solar heat is not so essential to the ripening process as many persons were led to suppose. In spite of the alternate winds anil rains, the wheats on gocd land filled astonishingly, and art; both thrashing and mealing well;. the same thing may be said of the oats, while the barleys in this district are as plump antl heavy as they have been seen for a considerable number of years. The grain that was leel in a soft state, has already hardened wonderfully in the stack,. and every body seems surprised iliat so little mischief has been done on the whole, considering, the teasing nature of the weather. During the. whole of I » t week the farmers were busy raising their potatoes, arid tbe operation still goes forward in every direction. Even on dry soils the crop is reckoned deficient in bulk, though fair enough in point of size and quality ; but on many wet soils it is scarcely half a one. Altogether, there will be a considerable deficiency, ar. d potatoes, in all probability, will command a third moie than they did last year. IRELAND.— The wheat crop is much inferior to that of former years. The quantity is porportionahly less, and the quality, in every case, is found to be considerably inferior. The oats are in general a good crop, and . although the quantity of straw will be rather less than in some former years, the quantity and quality of the grain is much superior. In several instances we have witnessed more lhan a double quantity of oats from a number of stftoks, when compared with the same number of last year's produce, and the grain of a much better quality in every respect. Thioughout the country, great quantities, amounting on some exposed situations to more than a regular seed, have been shed by the violence of the late stoims. Notwithstanding the long continuance of the wet weather, the potatoes have considerably improved in quality. They are, however, from that cause, quite green, and it will be yet some weeks before they will be generally ready for taking, up. The setting in of dry weather now would improve the general quality of the crop still more, and, in the absence of early frosts, a very abundant crop mi^ ht be expected. The impression in a cumber of places seems to be, lhai tbe general goodness and the quantity of produce, did not come up to tlie expectations eritei tained. We would fondly hope, however, that although in some districts this may be the case, it is by no means general. As far as we have had an opportunity of examining, we think that, at least, an average crop may be. generally expected. Numerous and large expo, taiions of black caitle have, in ihe course of the month, taken place at a number of sea pons. The roads throughout the country leading to the sea shore have, during the last few weeks, been literally thronged, and although in ihe English and Scotch markets business is comparatively dull, anil sales are, in a number of cases, effected with difficulty, the exportation appears to go on briskly nevertheless. N e w c a s t l e HAY AYtr, STRAW M A R K E T — On Tuesday last, old land hay of last yeast's growth Sold at £ 3, 8s. to £ 3, 12a. ;• ditto Of this year's gittwth- front £ 3, 7s, Cd. to £ 4.; new land hay, ilitti>, £ 2; 18s. to £'• 1, 3s. per ton. W heatstraw sold at Is. lOd.; oat ditto, 2s. fper i brave. HALI. INASI. OE FAIII OCT. 5 Up ro t w e l v e O ' c l oc this day-, not a- sale took place. At one o'do. k, hcrtever, a few lots were sold; but the majority ef the sheep must remain over until lo- niorrovr. One lo't of ewes sold today for 34s. OCT. 6—- Thesheepfair terminated this day ; it turn* out to be the1 worst fair for sellers that has occurred for some years. Sheep - are supposed to be from Os-. to 10s. under the price paid for them last May. Sheep sold on the- oth, . . 27,352 Oth, . . 42,602 Left unsold, . - Total in the Fair, At the lair of 1828, there were sold- On the lst day, 2d day, 7n, 014 7,979 77,993 £ 2,051 3 3 , ( 9 2 85,143 Unsold, * . . 12,241 Total number on sale at the fair last year, 97,384 The average prices at the fair of 1828 were - lor ewes, 20s. to 3Js.; lor wethers, 30 » . to 40s. In this year's lair the reduction on sheep is stated to be, from last year's prices, on an average, on ewes, from 4s. to lis., anil on wethers, from 8s. to 10s. Yestttday the black cattle fair commenced, and we regret to state that the sales effected have bten upon terms fully as bad as those upon sheep. The black cattle lair closed on Friday, and the prospect for graziers was more gloomy than ei en had been anticipated. Heifers declined about £ 2, 10s. on the prices of last year, and oxen of five cwt., about £ 3. The purchases were chiefly made by graziers, and no demand existed for the English market. Total number of black cattle exhibited, 9711 li Sold, . . . . 04'.' 7 Unsold, 3359 SEQUESTRA TIONS. Oct. 9. John Tod, com ami meal dealer in Leith— Creditors meet in the New Ship 1 avero, Shore, there, lfith October and 2d Nov. ai 1. — 10. John Macfarlane, merchant, Aberdeen, now or lately residing at Bioadford— Creditors meet in the Leuion Tree Tavern, Abeideen, 20th October and 4th November, at 12. MEETINGS, & c. Anderson and Gavin, merchants, Leith, to be examined in the Sheriff- clerk's Office there, 20th October and Oth November, at 1. John Philips, writer and distiller, Crieff, to be examined in the Sheriff- court- room, Perth, 22d October and Kill November, at 1. Creditois of George Allan, merchant, Aberdeen, meet in the writing- room of Akxr. Ctiivus, advocate, there, 28th October, at 1. Creditors of John Cochran and Co. cotton- yarn- merchirnts, Glasgow, will receive a dividend from 11. Brock, merihant, there, 10th November. Creditors of David Cruden Allan, ironmonger, Aberdeen, will receive a dividei. d, at the office of J . Simpson, advocate, there, 13th November. Creditors of Thomas BLikie, grocer, High Street, Edinburgh, will receive a dividend, at the office of James Stevenson, merchant, here, 6ih November. States of the affairs of Janes Stewart; cattle- dealer at Loak, lie with tile- trustee— No dividend. THE MARKETS. EDtN. UHG. li MEAL MARKET, Oct. 13. We had a sum 1 supply of o a t m e a l at this day's m a r - k e t , w i t h r a t h e r a b e t t e r sale t h a n of late, and at last week's prices. Oatmeal F i r s t , sack of 280 I m p e r i a l lbs £ 2 0 ft S e e o n o d o d o 1 18 0 F i r s t do. per a t . 14 I m p e r . t b s ft 2 2 Second do do. . - 2 0 l s t Pot Barley, V c w t . 14a 2d, 16s 3d, 111?,— and, Pearl d i t t o . 2 2s PRICES OF BUTCHER MEAT, A c . Oct. 1.1. Peas and Rarleymeal. B a r l e y n i e a l , sack of 2811 imperial lbs 3ls I'd nd Per St. 14ibs Imp. Is led to us PcaSuiefil. v sack do .' Ills toons Per st. 14 do . . . . Is- lod toons SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. The Hannah, Kirki'dv, for Riga; the Mars, Hieks, for Memel; and the Anthony, Headhy, lor ElsifiWe, sailed Irom Leith, on the 9th instani: the Acorn, Darg, tor Dram, on the 10th : and the Traveller, Anderson for Memel, on the 12th. Robert Bruce, Anderson, from Lcith, at London 7th instant Matchless, Smith, ditto, ditto fiuke of Buccleuch, Nesbitt, ditto, ditto 8th insl. Sir William Wallace, Nesbitt, ditto, ditto 10th inst. Uoyal S- overeign, Fussey, ditto, ditto Czar, Aiming, ditto, ditto Ocean, Brown, Irom I ondon, at Leith 12th inst. Favourite, Sanderson, ditto ditto Earl of Weniyss, Crabb, ditio, ditto 13th inst. Trusty, Anderson, Uitto, ditto l- uh inst. United Kingdom ( steam- ship), Turner, from London, at Ncwhaven I2th inst. City of Edinhurgh ( steam- packct), Fraser, ditto, ditto Siino ( steam- packet), Beatson, ditto, ditto 13th Inst. Broderne, Ntilson, off i. eith from Man'dahl Prince Geoige, Morrison, at Quebec troui Grangemouth Beef, p e r lb. os 3d to us 7d M u t t o n ( is3d tolls (,' d Veal us 5d to ( Is 8d Pork ns 4d t o 0s id l . a n ib per i , r . ' s lid t o 3s lid T a l l o w , e w t . 3 . s Od to lid troversy going on, which' , we are bound to consider violent, when the libel was published, and the plaintiff' is also to be iegarded as having had a controul over his own paper. Tbe libel is severe ; but it is modified— it does not appear that the writer of it had any other n. otiye lor alleging neglect of duly than the plaintiff being the editor of » newspaper. It is not likely to do the plaintiff'damage in India; and everyone who has attended to the trial will go away with the belief of the paintiff's character standing as high as before the libel was written. The case may be differen t at home— and the plaintiff is certaii. ly entitled to damages. The injury is not one, however, that can be compensated by money. Voihing the Court could cward could compensate the plaintiff, if the libel really has injured at home, which, in the belief of tbe Court, it cannot have done here. The amount to be assigned the Couit cannot on the moment fix ; but such damages must be given as to show that the Court regards the libel in a very setious light. April 1.— The Court, on the Judges taking their place, state;', that in this case eight hundred rupees damages had been awarded. — Calcutta John Bull. Letitia Mills, of Charlton, sister to Mr Mills, of Aldborough, oil Sunday last made some dumplings, and seeing a small cup with flour in it, on the backhouse shelf, put iu its contents. The flour in the cup was mixed with arsenic for the purpose of poisoning mice. The consequences are painful to relate: — In spite of all medical aid she died the same night in the most excruciating agony, and Mr llearn, with whom she lived, partook of the deadly food, and expired on Monday last. This fatal occurrence should operate as a warning to all to keep poison in safer places.— Suffolk Chronicle. The University of Paris has lately distributed a great, number of silver aud bronze . medals, by way of encouragement to the candidates of different heads af jpubjji M Mi'Vii* The Irish Post Office have entered into a contract with Sir James AnderSon, by which he undertakes to convey the mails throughout Ireland at the rate of twelve miles an hour, in coaches impelled by steam, calculated to carry two or three passengers, in addi tion to the coachman and guard. This invention of Sir James Anderson, for u hicli he has obtained patent, has seldom been exhibited out of the yard in which it was constructed ; but it is said to bear very little resemblance to the drag- coach of Mr Guiney. The contract between the Irish Post Office und Sir James is understood to be for fourteen years, and the only pecuniary stipulation made by him is, that he shall receive half the money which the Government may save by adopting his system. Sir James will commence operations by carrying the mails between Hovvth and Dublin during the present month. The road is level anil good, and the distance not " ibre than nine or ten inilss,— A^ Wflfiii Tos(, itig Club held their autumn meeting, for the trial of puppies under twenty months, which was numerously attended. First day's running on the farm of Swaites, the property of Sir John Carniichael Anstruther, Bart. FOR THE SILVER COUPLES. First Class. 1. JTr Sim's y. b. Speed beat Mr Cunningham's b. b. Kate— Hare killed. 2. Captain Fdmonstone's br. b. Lassie beat Mr Forrester's y. ai d w. b. Miss— Hare killed. 3. Mr G. Gillespie's w. b. Kate beat Captain Peterson's br. d. Hassan— Hare killed. 4. All- Baillie's y. b. Fair Helen beat Mr Sim's br. d. Snake— Hare killed. 5. Mr Ker's b. d. Killer beat Lord Douglas's b. b. Yarico— Hare killed. li. Sir C. Macdonald Lockbart'sb. b. Swallow beat Mr Ditk'Oii's br. b. Miss Nod— Hare killed. 7- Mr Anstruther'sIr. b. Swallow beat Mr Brown's br. d. Bob— Hare killed. 8. Mr Sim's r. b. Swallow beat Sir C. Macdonald Lockliart's br. d. Sprighily— Hare killed. 9. Mr Ker's r. d. Ker. more beat Lord Douglas's br. cl. Random— Hare killed. Second Class. 1. Captain Edmonstont's Lassie beat Mr Sim's Speed • Hare killed. 2. R. r Baillie's Fair Helen beat Mr Gillespie's Kate — Hare killed. 3. Sir C. Macdonahl Lockhart's Swallow beat Mr Ker's Killer— Hare killed. 4. Mr Sim's Swallow beat Mr Anstruther's Swallow — Hare killed. 5. Mr Ker's Kenmore ran a bye with the first beaten dog of the first class— Hare killed. Second day, on the lands of Covington, the property Sir C. Macdonald Lockhart, Bart. Third Class. 1. Captain Edmonstone's Lassie beat Mr Baillie's Fair Helen— Hate killed. 2. Sir C. Macdonald Lockhart's Swallow beat Mr Sim's Swallow— Hare killed. 3. Mr Ker's Kenniore ran a bye with the first beaten dog ofthe second class— Here killed. Fourth, Class. 1. Sir C. Macdonald Lockhart's Swallow beat Captain Edmonstone's Lastte— Hare killed. 2. Mr litr's Ker. moie ran a bye with the first beaten dog of ihe third class— Kaie killed. By the rules of this club, if the dog running a bye loses bis course with the first beaten dog of the former class, he is declared a beaten dog, and Kenmore, having been beaten in this bye, the couples were adjudged to Sir C'. Macdonald Lockhart's Swallow. SWEEPSTAKES OF FOUR YOUNG DOGS. First Class. 1. Mr G. Gillespie's br. b. Gipsey beat Mr Dickson's Miss N o e l — H a r e killed. 2. Sir C. Macdonald Lockhart's Sprightly beat Mr Ker's Killer— Hare killed. Second Class. Sprightly beat Gipsey, and won the stakes— Hare killed. MATCHES. Mr Dickson's br. d. Canning beat Lord Douglas's Tinto— Hare killed. Lord Douglas's bl. b. Snake beat Mr Dickson's b. d. kalidom—- Hare killed. D 4 j a liiOiVti, jUii. W i n e h b u r g h , tryer, Quart, l o a f — o s llld t o l id P o t a t o e s per p k . of l 7 j l h Cs 4d to lis lid F. B u t t e r , lb Us 8d t o ( Is l id Salt do us 7d to us nd Do. per c w t . Ills i d t o litis ud E j j s s , d o z . ~ us llld t o 0s lid HAY AND STKAiV, Oct. III. S t r a w , 6s t o lis lid per keinple. Hay, ( id to tkt per atone t r ' o h . EDINBURGH CATTLE MARKET, OCT. 14. In the sheep market this morning there was a full market, ( 3010). Wedders, white- faced, 18s. to 27s.; black- faced, 16<. 6( 1. to 10s. 6d. Ewes, whin- faced, 12s. to lilt, i black- faced, 8s. 6d. to 10s. ( id. There were about 1230 lambs, best 8s. 6d-; inferior, 6s. to 7s. lid.; a very dull market, and a bunber unsold. In the Grafsmarket there were 148 cattle, very few prime beasts were shewn ; best, 7s.; interior, 5s. Kd. to 6s. fid. per slone, a few unsold. This has been the worst shew that has been this season, for the last four weeks prices have ceen on the decline, and nuw a decided reduction bas taken place. DALKEITH, Oct. 12. T b e q u a n t i t y of oatmeal at t h i s d a y ' s m a r k e t was small, which sold r a t t i e r readily at f u i l y ia> t week's prices. Best, Mis. i c u r r e o t , , i7s.; i n t e r i o r , 3 s. ( id. per t a g « - f id 0 lbs. imp e r i a l Retail, Is. per 71b. There were IliO caitle in Glasgow market on Monday morning. The Angus. shire dealers were again absent; and the show was, cot. sequentfv, confined to animals of a very inferior description. There was a cor siderable demand for good stock, and had there been such, prices would have risen, but as matters stood, no alteration tan be quoted. ' Ihere were 2U00 sheep and IfiO lambs shown. Ordinary ewes ( black- faced) bri ught 13s. fid.; and wethers 18.-. to 19s. Lambs varied from 4s. to 7s- KELSO, October II— At the monthly market established by the Agricultural Society, held here this day, there were few cattle, but a large show of sheep, mostly Lei cester ewes. The demand for every description of stock was extremely limited, and the business transacted very trifling. From the few sales which took place it is difficult to state prices; but the reduction might average about 15 per cent, or 3s. per head fiom St Nmian's Fair. One half bred lot sold to low as IBs., whilst good Leiceiter lots might have been hought from 20.". to 22a ; indeei. such a complete stagnation as at present prevail* i s seldom witnessed. DUMFRIES CATTLE MARKET, Oct. 7 Therewere 1835 cattle at this day's market, which may be considereet the first show of winterers for the season, and as it is ihe maiket previous to the Hemptons, we were prepared for a notable turn out. Dealing went on slowly till the evening, when there- remained tully 400 to be disposed of, and as few sales could be made alter we left the market, their owners would be necessitated to drive them home. In prices we must still adhere to the old scale, and in the case o| the best lot of tw o yc„ r old Galloways, which sold at within 5s of £ 8 per heio, then owner calculated la. tyear that they would be worth £ 9 at least at this time; the next lot of the same kind and age, did not reach £ 7, and all the other lots sold at from the last mentioned price to £ 6 per bead. The best lot of Galloivay stirks sold at £ 5, 10s.; by far the greater portion of the show went off' at ironi £ 4, 10s. to £ 4. Highlanders generally winter to the advantage of the owner in this district, and although these bad times have sadly injured their reputation, what has been made out of them is still remembered, and in this case, their sale was quick, compared with the Galloway and Irish beasts, and we are not aware of any being lelt over. Three- year olds sold at from £ 7 to £ 7, 10s.; two- year olds from £ 5 to £ 6, 6s., and Mirks at all prices from £ 4 downwards. Some of the jobbers did business in buying to day, and but for this circumstance, the s& ler, bail as they weie, might have been worse. In heavy beasts therewere many good lots of three- year olds, tew tout years olds, but nothing of a superior kind, and it was after mid- day before any sales had taken place. ' 1 here were few buyers; and they did not offer at all to the satisfaction of the sellers, and pi ices are said to be worse than they were this day fortnight. The best lot sold at about £ 10 ; two lots sold at nine guineas, and the remainder from this price to £ 7, It's, per head. T his maiket was no worse than was expected. NEWCASTLE, Oct. 10 The farmers brought forward a very large supply of new wheat this moruirig, and there was little business done for some time, but the whole was finally taken off at a reduction of 2s. lo 3s. per quarter from the prices of this day se'eni. ight. In rye there is little doing. We have had no fresh arrivals ot Norfolk barley this week. Malt is offered cheaper, and is difficult to quit. Old oats are more in request, the new pioving soft, antl inferior in quality. Arrivals during the week— 4711 quarteis wheat, 2a0 quarters barley, 50 quarters malt, 371) quatters oats, 70 quarleis pease, 50 sacks flour. CURRENT P R I C E S — W h e a t , N o r t h u m b e r l a n d , w h i t e, new, per qr. 56s. to 65s.; ditto, red, 44s. to Oils. ; Berwick, red, 52s. to 56s.; white, 58s. to 60s.; Dautzic nominal, 6lis. to 72s. ; Foreign, reel, 6ti « . to 64s.; ditto, in bond, 4fis. to 00s. ; Bye, Norfolk, 2tis. to 34%; North Country, 2fis. to 34s.; Foreign, 32s, to litis.; Barley, Norfolk, 26s. to 32s.; North Country, 32s. to 34s. ; Foreign ( free) 30s. to 32s.; Malt, Norfolk, pale, 5b's. to 62s.; Oats, potatoe, old, 28s. to 32s.; Common, old, 24s. to 29s.; Foreign, in bond, lis. to 17s.; Beans, 30s. to 38s.; Pease, boilers, 31s. to 38s.; Grey, L E I T H . Arrived, October 12. Forth, Davidson, from Aberdeen, goods— Agnes, Donaldson, Arbroath, do 13. Peace, Aiuistrong, Berwick, barley— Berwiek I'aeket, Barker, do. grain— Jane M'Ket. zie, t ongalion, Inverness, grain and goods— John and Mary, llavie, Berwick, wheat— Clyde, M'Lean, Gieenock, goods 14. Active, Lyall, Greenock, goods. Cleared out, October 10. Dolphin, Forilyce, for Lcrwiek, goods— Edn burgh Packet, liogets, Aberdeen, do. — Hose, Caithness, Arbroath, do Gipsy, Kincaid, Dundee, do— Zetland, Clleyue, Lerwick, no Camilla, Millar, Perth, do— Ceiea, Harper, Greenock, do. 12. James, Bolt, l. erwick, ditto— Lively, ltaflan, Bai. ff, diuo 13. Glasgow, Bisset, Hamburgh, goods— Pilot, Hall, and Edinburgh Castle, Ord, Lonuon, do— Kaiherine, Henry, Findhorn, do— Brothers, Oliphant, Peieiliead, do. N O R T H BERWICK, October 8 the Caroline, of Dram, Captain Carlten, with battens, fur Fisherrow, came in here, on the 3d instant, with loss ol topmast and bowsprit, ard, owing to continuance ot heavy tea, has not yet proceeded. 1 ester day, about noun, the Hope, of Leith, Stark, master, hove in sight of this port, carrying a signal lor a pilot, when one ot our pilot- boats boarded hi r, but, it being nearly low water and a stiong breeze from noith north- west at the time, the pilot brought her to an anchor under the lee of the island of Craig Leitb, a mile to northward of this port, intending to go off and bring her into the harbour at high water; the gale, however, still increasing, it was found impracti able IO reach liei; the vessel rout till seven A. M., this morning, when, from the quantity of water ahe had shipped anu leaked, and tbe pumps being choaked, the master and his two men fouud it advisable to abandon her, anu made a miraculous escape through the suif, in their own boat, ttx this bin hour; the shortly afterwards went down and will be a total wreck. or llog, 32s. to litis.; Fluui, iinej j> et suck, 48S, to aOs. GLASGOW T O N T I N E LIST. Clairmont, M'Aulay, in the Clyde Irom Bombay. Mary Anne, Wilson, ditto from Tobago Romulus, Auld, ditto from Miramlchi Chieftain, Blair, at Liverpool from Montreal Scotia, Simpson, ditto from Quebec Vestal, Taylor in the Humber from St Petirsburgh Fortune, Gilkison, at Bombay from the Clyde Laurel, Tait, at Calcutta from ditto Union, Strathic, at Quebec Irom Uitto St John, Nicol, at Miramichi from ditto Mearns, Baxter, ditto trom ditto Intrinsic, Smith, ditto from ditto Mariner, Wallace, ditto from ditto Janet, Lothian, at lit mbay liom London Spartan, ——, at Calcutta from Liverpool Larch, Siort, at Trinidad trom ditto Catherine, Carnegie, at Quebec tiom Grenada St Anne, Murdoch, at Grenada from Quebec SOUND INTELLIGENCE. Sept. 26. John Monro, Monro, from Petersburg to In* vcrncss, hemp James, Brown, Riga, Hull, seed 27 Fan. e, Sirachan, do. Montiose, flax Helen, Smith, Petersburg, Dundee, hemp Baltic, Moirison, do. Lo eton, tallow Peiseverance, shield, Uantzic, Arbroath, wheat June, Leytlen, Memel, Leith, timber Nimble, Hutchison, Petersburg, Lancaster, tallow Sir David Milne, liardie, do. Grangemouth, wheat Rlioda, George, do. Liveipool, tallow Zealous, Anderson, do. London, do. Abcoiia, I ones, Pillau, Hull, flax 28, Isabella ai. d Margaret, Heed, Dantzic, Newcastle wheat Jane, Wilson, Petersburg, London, hemp Acorn, Christie, Riga, Wyrewater, flax Minerva, Schultz, Siettin, Leith, timber ' Helens and hleonore, Milne, do. Hull, wheat Superb, Henderson, Alemel, do. seed Forsuget, Appleby, Liebau, Aberdeen, bones 29. Bell, Beattie, Petersburg, Dundee, flax Nepiiuie, Art. ot, Memel, Leith, timber Thilda, Engelbrecht, W isinar, Aberdeen, bones Trusty, Cook. Montrose, Memel, ballast Hannibal, Casswell, Petersburg, Duude- e, flax Glentanner, Walker, Me- oiel, Di. ndalk, limber Wiitord, Cariuthers, eto. Carlisle, do. The Shepherd, Fii. dlay, of Inverness, from Petersburg for Londonderry, with hemp arid tallow, got ashore on the S. E. end oi Gothland the 13th inst. ; cargo expected to be saved; the crew arrived here. Winds, September 27. S. W. S. blowing fresh 28. S. light winds.— 29. S. fresh breeze. MULLENS & KNOX. Elsinore, 29th Sept. 18211. HIGH WATER AT LEITH, FRIDAY 30wi. past 4 Morn. 4!) « i. past 4 Even, SATURDAY... 10VI. past 5 3am. past 5 ' ,' - "— i; Printed and published by DAV l u RA USA V & SON for the Trustees of George Ramsay, at No. I9J, High Street, every Monday, Thursday, and Saturday. Price per annum, £ 4, 17s. sent by Post,—£ 4, I3 » . de. livered in Town.—£ 1, lis. called for.