TOW " IN TOWN, OUT OF TOWN— ALL THE WORLD OYER." lo 13 IUIBAY, MARCH lBrice m. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY- LANE.— T0- morrow overling, THE DJ2M0N ! or, THE MYSTIC BRANCH. After which, THE RENT DAY. Tuesday, The New Crand OperaofDer Alchymist. Founded on the popular novel, by Washington Irving, Esq. The whole of the Music composed by Louis Spohr. Arranged and adapted for Ihe English Stage by Mr. H. R. Bishop. With entirely new scenery, machinery, dresses and decorations. The principal characters by Messrs. E. Seguin, Templeton, Wood, Phillips, Harley, Bedford, and Yarnold. Mrs. C. Jones, Miss Pearson, and Mrs. Wood. Wednesday. A Grand Selection of Ancient and Modern Music. Thursday, Tbe New Grand Opera cf Der Alchymist. The New Grand Opera, entitled Der Alchymist, will be repeated every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday until further notice. In One Volume, 8vo. price 16s. SULLO SPIRITO ANTI- PA PALE CHE PRO- DUSSE LA RIFORMA, E Sulla Segreta influenza ch' esercito nella Letteratura d'Europa, e specialmente d'ltalia, come Risulta da Molti suoi Classici, massime da Dante, Petrarca, Boc- caccio, disquisizioni DI GABRIELE ROSSETTI, Professore di Lingua e Letteratura Italiana nel Collegio del Re in Londra. Published by Treuttel and Co., 30, Soho- square, and to be had of all the Foreign Booksellers. MADAME VESTRIS- ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE, MONDAY, 26th March, 1832. WOMAN'S REVENGE. Fag, Mr. James Vining. Miss Flashington, Mrs. Glover. MY ELEVENTH DAY. Mr. Long Singleton, Mr. Liston. Mrs. Long Singleton, Madame Vestris. HE'S NOT A- MISS. Price Prettyman, Mr. Liston. Mrs. Prettyman, Mrs. Glover. ' The whole to conclude with OLYMPIC DEVILS; or, ORPHEUS and IiURYDICE. Orpheus, Madame Vestris. Eurydice, Miss Forde. Box Office open from Ten to Four. Private Boxes to be taken of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167, New Bond- street. Early in the Spring will be published, HE FLITCH. A Design, by TIIOS. STOTHARD, Esq., R. A. Illustrative of an old English custom. Engraved by WATT. Size of tbe Engraving, 30 inches by 12^ inches. T T O FAMILIES FURNISHING.— The whole of 24- 4, Regent- street, Furniture Printers, and Damask and Carpet Manufacturers, is selling without reserve, at a GREAT SACRI- FICE, in consequence of their relinquishing the Business, and being desirous of clearing the premises as speedily as possible. N. B.— The Premises to be disposed of. LOTHBURY BATHING ROOMS, court, back of the Bank. This establishment A NEW STRAND THEATRE.— The following Requisition, very numerously signed by the Inhabitants of tlie liberty of the Savoy, having been forwarded to Mr. Rayner, he deems it his duty to submit it to the Public. " To Mr. Rayner. Sir,— We, the undersigned, having learned, with much regret, that legal proceedings have been instituted against you, for opening the New Strand Theatre, from the amusements of which the Families in the neighbourhood have derived so much pleasure; a Theatre so well conducted, and combining all tbe advantages of comfort, convenience, and early hours; where seeing and bearing, two essen- tials to the full enjoyment of dramatic entertainment, are so con- spicuously evident; beg to assure you of our firm determination to support and uphold your establishment, by every means in our power, and to use our best endeavours in influencing others to the same end : And we beg to request that you will revive some of those sterling productions of the true English character, bequeathed to us by the geniuses of our own soil, and which are the rightful inherit- ance of every Theatre and every Englishman." In compliance with the above requisition, it is most respectfully announced, that on Monday Evening, 26th March ( being for ihe benefit of Mrs. Waylett) and on Tuesday, 27 th, will be presented a comedietta, founded upon, and to be called, THE SCHOOL OF REFORM. Tyke, Mr. Rayner. Mrs. Ferment ( with Songs) Mrs. Waylett. After which, THE FOUR SISTERS. The Four Sisters, by Mrs. Waylett. The whole to conclude with the Burletta of THE PRINCE AND THE CHIMNEY- SWEEPER. The Sweep, by Mr. Webster ( his first appearance here). In the course of Monday Evening, Signor De Begnis will sing his celebrated scena, II Fanatico per la Musica. Places and private Boxes, at the Box- office, every day, from 11 till 5 ; and of Sams, Ebers, and Charles Wright. THE SPORTING MAGAZINE for April will be published on SATURDAY NEXT, embellished with a beautiful Vignette and Title- page by Smith, " Young Fox- hunters," by Marshall, Jun., and Curricle, a favourite Hunter of bis late Majesty, by Marshall, Sen., both engraved by Romney. Among the Contents of the Number will be found— Letters on Angling, No. I.— A good Day with the East Sussex, by Scarlet— Migration of the Snipe and Woodcock, Norway Teal, and the Golden- eyed Diver, by a Quartogenarian— Cock Shooting in Wales, the Spaniel and its varieties, tbe Cocker, & c.— By- gone Scenes, or Days of Hog Hunting, No. VI.— Fragments " concam- ing a raal ould Irish Squire"— Hoitt, Somerville's Huntsman— " Instinct," from the " Percy Anecdotes"— Retribution; the Boy and the Dog; Friendship in Animals— BriefSketch of the Writings, with a Memoir of the late Strickland Freeman, Esq. of Fawley Court, Berks, Author of " Observations on the Mechanism and Natural Spring of the Horse's Foot," and " The Art of Hoiseman- ship," by Mr. Hart, with a correct and striking Likeness of Mr. Freeman— Visit to Northamptonshire, the Squire of Pytcliley, and a day at Melton, by Miles—- Leicestershire and Neighbouring Counties, by Will Careless— Another Peep at the Suffolk Hounds, the Huntsman, and first Whip, by Ringwood— St. Alban's Steeple Chase, and great Match consequent thereon, by Slashing Harry— A Lady of Leicestershire— Stallions for 1832— Turf Intelligence Extra— Stud Sales— Fine Arts— Pedestrianism— Racing Calendar — Notices to Correspondents, & c. & c. London : Printed and published for the Proprietors by M. A. Pittman, No. 18, Warwick- square, Newgate- street; and sold by all Booksellers in the United Kingdom. A few Proof Impressions of the Plates, and a few perfect Sets of the Magazine from its commencement to the present period, may be bad by application to the Publisher. Also, just published, in one volume 8vo. price 15s. NIMROD'S LETTERS on the Condition of Hunters, & c. Founders'- ilways ready for immediate use the following Baths:— SULPHUR, FU- MIGATING, HARROGATE, and IODINE, ( of such power- ful efficacy in the removal of Cutaneous Affections, such as Pimples and breakings out of the Head and Face, scorbutic and scrofulous Eruptions, Rashes, Irritations, and their more inveterate varieties— Leprosy, Psoriasis, & c.) SHAMPOOING MEDICATED VA- POUR and DOUCHE ( alike eminently serviceable in Gouty and Rheumatic complaints, Nervous and other painful and chronic dis- orders), and an extensive range of WARM, FRESH and SALT WATER, and SHOWER BATHS ( the luxury and salutariness of which are indisputable). Respectable Male and Female attendants, & c. Mr. Culverwcll, the proprietor, is a surgeon ; and having devoted bis attention exclusively, formally years past, to the above distressing maladies and their treatment, for which his establishment affords such extensive facilities, begs to announce that he attends daily from 10 till 5, for the purpose of advising with those desiring ^ miller information, or otherwise requiring his professional assistance. MPORTANT DISCOVERY.— THE PATENT METALLIC SHARPENER for Razors, Surgical Instruments, Penknives, & c. Invented by T. A. Knight, Esq., President of the Horticultural Society, and by his permission, manufactured by R. Huntley, Optician, to be had only at liis house, 259, Regent- circus, Oxford- street; and at W. Harris's, Optician, Cornhill, opposite the Royal Exchange. Price 2s. 6d. This instrument, for portability, durability, and simplicity in its use, is far superior to any thing here tofore offered to the Public. To Gentlemen travelling, Officers in the Army and Navy, it will be found invaluable, as it will super- sede the necessity of carrying a multiplicity of Razors, one only being necessary, which will last a hundred years, and never require either grinding, setting, or stropping, but will maintain a beautiful keen edge not to be equalled by any other Sharpener. When Mr. Knight mentioned his invention at the Society, lie declared he had used his Razor two years and a half, without the least diminution of the Razor, and never took more than a few seconds to sharpen it. Merchants and captains supplied. CHOICE PICTURES To be SOLD by AUCTION, by Mr. SOTHEBY and SON, at their House, Wellington- street, Strand, on Thursday, March 29, at Twelve o'Clock, Very Select and Valuable COLLECTION of PICTURES, the entire property of Charles Richson, Esq., among which will be found a fine specimen of J. Both ; a Grand Landscape, G. Wynants; '' The Bard," by T. Martin, one of bis finest productions; a Series of Four Early Pictures, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, representing Music, Sculpture, Drawing, and Architec- ture ; also choice specimens by the following esteemed Masters : — W. Vandevelde Lindleback John YViison Ferg Moucheron Ostade Gainsborough J. Stenwyck Both Polemberg Morland Molinaer Eglon Vanderneer A. Fraser Wynants Garofulo Vanderneer G. Dow V. D. Capella Wouvermans Ilondious D. Tenicrs Berghem Cuyp De Heusch Le Brun Camphuysen E. Childe R. Wilson Towne Loutlierbourg P. Nasmyth B. West Veronese Ecardt Procaccini Rippingale Wheatley Martin Bristow,& c.& c: T' May be viewed on Monday the 26th, and two following days,, and Catalogues had, price Is., at the place of Sale. MAGNIFICENT EXHIBITION OF CABINET FURNITURE.— GRAHAM and Co. are now exhibiting the most Splendid STOCK of superior made CABINET FUR- NITURE in the United Kingdom, which affords the Nobility and Families of taste an opportunity of selection no where else to be found. Ladies and Gentlemen who are about to form new esta- blishments on a splendid and costly style, are invited to inspect a variety of articles now " finishing to order,'' amongst which will be found many choice specimenssPf superior workmanship, in articles adapted to the Drawing^ Kmi, Dining- room, Boudoir, Library, and Bed- room. The following articles may also be selected, with- out a moment's delay, on such a scale of economy as no other house in the country has ever pretended to accomplish :-— T From the Norman Conquest From the Time of Charle- 3 vols. 18s. MR « IHE ABSOLUTE FACT why the Nobility and Gentry have submitted to pay the very high charges of a few eminent Tailors, who have monopolized their patronage for so long a period, is, that until now no one had succeeded in producing Clothes which a gentleman could wear. But this monopoly can be how but of short duration, as FLETCHER, of 33, NEW BOND STREET, has produced Coats, & c., & c., which cannot possibly be distinguished by the critical eye, even of a Bruuimell, either in make or materials, from those of any eminent Tailor in the neigh- bourhood of Clifford- street or St. James's, and at a very little more than half their charges, yet obtaining a fair Tradesman's Profit. H. FLETCHER begs leave, in returning his grateful thanks to the many Noblemen and Gentlemen who have honoured him with their support since his commencement in business, to assure them that the same assiduity and exertion, which have gained him so many Patrons ( whilst under an engagement to a very eminent West- end House) will be persevered in, thereby maintaining his esta- blished reputation as the only first- rate Tailor who has boldly stepped forward to destroy the monopoly by which Gentlemen who do pay have for so long a period been taxed for those who do not. The following Scale of Priccs is respectfully submittt payment :— Dress Coat, Blue or Black . . Ditto — any other colour . , . , Frock, do. Blue or Black, Skirts lined with silk Trowsers, Blue or Black .... Ditto — any other colour Ditto — White Drill .... Waistcoats Regimentals, & c. upon equally reasonable terms. VERY BEST LIVERIES. A Footman's Suit, complete, wilh sleeves to waist- coat, and velveteen breeches . . . 4 A Suit, with kerseymere breeches . . . 4 A Ditto, with hair plush ditto . . . 4 A Stable or Working Dress . 1 A Footman's extra double- milled Drab Great Coat, with large Cape ...... Gold or Silver Lace, and Crested Buttons, charged the whole- sale price. Officers' Coatees, & c. & c. lower than any other House in > 30 Guineas. £ s. d. . 3 16 6 . 3 6 0 . 4 18 0 . 1 14 0 . 1 10 6 . 0 18 0 15 6 5 10 15 4 3 13 6 London. DEPUTY LORD LIEUTENANT'S COAT • • Ditto ditto ditto Pantaloons Ditto ditto ditto Epaulettes Ditto ditto ditto Sword • • • Ditto ditto ditto SwordKnot Ditto ditto ditto Sash Ditto ditto ditto Sword Belt Ditto ditto ditto Cock'd Hat-' Tb his Majesty' last New Regulation. H. FLETCHER, Military Tailor, & c., 33, New Bond- street. Copy of a letter from Sir Gerard Noel, Bart., Deputy Lord Lieu- tenant of the county of Rutland. " Chandos- street, Cavendish- square. " 12th July, 1831. " Sir— I am very well pleased indeed with the good fitting of the Deputy Lord Lieutenant's Dress, and your expedition in preparing that and the other outfit belonging to it, and otherwise, when bring- ing it home, to the adjustment of it: with high approbation in all these matters, am gratified in sending the cheque ( enclosed) in pay- ment of the account. " Yours, & c. ( Signed) " GERARD NOEL. " To Mr. II. Fletcher, 33, New Bond- street." UNIFORM WITH THE WAVERLEY NOVELS. Just published, at only 6s. per Volume neatly bound, a complete and uniform Edition of THE FOUR SERIES OF HE ROMANCE OF HISTORY. I. ENGLAND. By Henry Neele. to the Reformation. 3 vols. 18s. II. FRANCE. By Leitch Ritchie, niagne to tbe Reign of Louis XIV. III. ITALY. By Charles Macfarlane. From the Lombard Epoch to the Seventeenth Century. 3 vols. 18s. IV. SPAIN. By M. Trueba. From the Time of Roderick to the Seventeenth Century. 3 vols. 18s. These Works illustrate the romantic annals of every age between the periods above mentioned, and comprise also a short history of each country. The plan of this work is novel, and of a very interesting descrip- tion. It is the realization of that which has been often said, and often felt— that the annals wilh which the history of every country ate thickly strewn, are in themselves far more romantic than the hap- piest inventions of the most ingenious novelists and poets. They are valuable illustrations of manners, and striking commentaries on the history of the country.— Times. The plan of this work is excellent.— LiteraryGazette. Also, the GEOGRAPHICAL ANNUAL, 1832. Containing 100 Steel Engravings by Starling. Of all the Annuals, this is unquestionably the most useful.— New Monthly Magazine. This beautiful and most useful little volume is a perfect picture o elegance.— Literary Gazette. The utility of this valuable volume almost eclipses its beauty, in our estimation. It is an ornament for the boudoir, or the drawing- room, while it is absolutely necessary for the study.— Atlas. It far surpasses any tiling of the kind.— Monthly Review. An excellent little work, engraved with a clearness and correct- ness which are quite surprising. Travellers have a system of Geo- graphy and a complete Atlas, which they may carry in their pocket.— Spectator. It is the most perfect gem which has ever been published.— Bristol Journal. Price, plain, 18s. bound ; finely coloured, 21s.; in morocco, 3s. extra. Also, New Novels by Distinguished Writers. CHANT1LLY. 3 vols. Dedicated to the Princess Louise D'Orleans. THE JEW. 3 vols. This is unquestionably a very extraordinary production.— Athe- naeum. A work of high and rare merit.— Court Journal. CAMERON. 3 vols. Its Dialogues and scenes very strongly remind lis of ' Self- Con- troul,' and of ' Marriage,' and ' Inheritance.' There are pictures of life in Scotland scarcely lo be surpassed.— Spectator. THE AFFIANCED ONE. By theAuthor of « Gertrude.' 3 vols. Evidently the production of a woman of taste and refinement. It abounds with lively sketches of society and sparkling anecdote.— Belle Assemble. THE ROBBER. By the Author of • Chartley the Fatalist.'— 3 vols. ' Chartley' is a valuable novel.— Spectator. ' The Robber' is a very great improvement on its predecessor.— Literary Gazette. THE FALSE STEP. 3. vols. A tale of deep interest, inculcating a useful lesson.— Metropolitan. A very interesting story.-— Literary Gazette. An interesting, well- told story, not overdrawn.-— Athenamm. Edward Bull, Holies- street, London. Sold also by every Book- seller in the United Kingdom. A CARD. WARREN, Surgeon Dentist, REMOVED to 27, BRUTON- STREET, Bond- street. Mr. W. invites the attention of the nobility and gentry to his peculiar and successful TREATMENT of DECAYED and TENDER TEETH; also to his invaluable mode of affixing artificial substitutes in mineral or gold ; infallibly answering all ihe purposes of the original teeth, BARKER, Dentist, 21, Fleet- street, most respectfully acquaints his Friends and ( he Public, that if consequence of the uninterrupted success attending his practice on RESTORING DECAYED TEETH, with the ANODYNE CEMENT, and his improved method of supplying their loss, a competitor has commenced within a few doors, and most unhand- somely ( as a lure to Mr. Barker's patients) assumed his name and address, with a slight deviation, and iu other respects brought the externa] appearance of his establishment so closely to approximate, that Ihe slightest inadvertence may lead to error.— 21, Fleet- street, Temple- bar. PURE PALE BRANDY, 23 years old, 72s. per dozen, in French bottles, or single bottles, 6s. each, bottles included, may be had at the Sample Room of the NEW GRAY'S- INN WINE and SPIRIT ESTABLISHMENT, 23, High Holborn. The connoisseur of brandies of the highest class, and those particularly who require pure brandy for medical purposes, are respectfully invited to make trial of this article, which ( except it be in private stocks) may be presumed to be unrivalled in London. Forwarded to any part of England on a remittance, the full amount of which, with every expense of carriage, & c., will be returned, should it not prove one of the finest articles ever produced in this country. G. HENNEKEY. Solid rosewood chairs Ditto ditto couches Ditto ditto sofas Handsome rosewood loo tables Ditto ditto card tables Ditto ditto cheffionieres Ditto ditto occasional tables Splendid solid Spanish mahogany dining tables Ditto ditto chairs Ditto ditto sofas and couches Magnificent winged wardrobes Ditto smaller sizes Mahogany four- post bedsteads Splendid rosewood cabinets, with marble slabs Music stands and Canterbury's Rosewood and mahogony fire screens Grained rosewood chairs, an ex- traordinary bargain 70 handsome chimney glasses, the cheapest in Europe, and the prices marked in plain figures 200 excellent bed- room chairs, from 2s. to 3s. 6d. each 12 well- made side- boards, for small rooms, at five, six, and seven guineas each An immense choice of very beautiful fancy tables, flower stands, & c., & c. TONGUES of SUPERIOR QUALITY.— SMALL Tongues for side dishes, or breakfast, 3s. 6d. each ; large smoked, or pickled tongues, 5s. to 6s. 6d. ; Russia ox tongues, 2s. each ; prime Yorkshire hung beef, 16d. per lb. German sau- sages, honeycomb parmesan and ripe Stilton cheese ; anchovy paste ; very fine anchovy fish for sandwiches, 2s. 6d. per lb. jar ; and every other article of the first quality, connected with the Italian and Grocery Trade, at HOW and ' CHEVERTON'S, the London Western Mart, No. 21, corner of Charlotte and Goodge streets, Fitzroy square. M R. NO. 20, BERNERS- STREET, Oxford- street.— Mr. E. BYRNE, SURGEON- DENTIST, respectfully announces that he has been induced to dedicate two days in each week ( Tuesday and Thursday) to visiting at their residences Families requiring his Professional Services. He devotes an hour to each visit, for which his charge is a guinea, whatever may be the number of patients relieved. Executing himself the artificial pieces he sup- plies, he has been enahled to fix his charges in the mechanical de- partment at one half the amount of those usually made. The following Tariff is submitted to the Public :—> A Set of Teeth made of the best materials, and finished in the highest degree, usually charged double the price, oidy 18(. Ditto, less perfect, 151. A single Tooth, 11. A Piece, composed of several Teeth, is only charged ( per Tooth,) 15s. Each Operation performed at Mr. Byrne's house, 10s. If on a child, half- price will be received. No additional charge is made for the Terro- Metallic Teeth, so much approved of, which Mr. Byrne particularly recommends, for their exact imitation of nature, wholly uudistinguishabie from the original, and for their great durability, resisting the effects of the strongest acids, and even of fire. Their imperishable nature, toge- ther with their peculiar freshness in the mouth, not imparling the slightest odour to the breath, render them decidedly preferable to any other description adopted by the Profession. Any Nobleman or Gentleman may see three of the most splendid articles of furniture in England, viz. : a sideboard twelve feet long, a set of dining- tables fifteen feet long, and a wardrobe eight feet long. Adjoining the cabinet exhibition, will be found the largest and most splendid stock of Carpets in Europe. Graham and Co., Manufacturers, High Holborn, Nos. 293, 294, aud 295. VALUABLE AND USEFUL BEVERAGES. TO the NOBILITY and PUBLIC.— STRICK- LAND'S GENUINE BROMA, a fine and beautiful Preparation of Chocolate Nuts, has been for many years highly re- commended by the most eminent physicians, as a very nutritive, light, and agreeable diet, particularly beneficial to persons subject to Nervous Weakness, or those having a tendency to Consumption or Decline-— its delicious flavour and easiness of digestion enable the most delicate stomachs to retain it, when other food is rejected. And when made for use, forms a most invaluable beverage, gives warmth and nourishment to the whole system, and, under present circumstances, should be in constant use by all families ; is equally good for the infant as the aged, used for breakfasts, morning repasts, and at bed- time. C. S. is also the sole inventor of the READY- PREPARED CHOCOLATE, in Tin Canisters ; an article iu great repute, and much used, possessing all the qualities of the finest Chocolate, with- out the trouble of scraping or boiling. The facility with which this rich and wholesome beverage is got ready for the breakfast table, renders it a most convenient family article, particularly to gentlemen in the army or navy, or to persons taking long sea voyages. Manufactured only and sold Wholesale by Charles Strickland, Chocolate and Cocoa Paste Manufacturer, Sole Inventor of the above Articles, Lambeth, London. Sold by all respectable Tea Dealers and Grocers in Town and Country.— Orders by post punctually attended to. To prevent impositions, each Packet has the Maker's Name and Address printed. w FOR COUGHS, ASTHMAS, SHORTNESS OF BREATH, & c. ALTER'S ANISEED PILLS. It is gene- rally ackuowledged that these Pills are the most efficacious for the cure of the above distressing complaints, as they neither affect the head nor confine the bowels— an objection to most cough medicines. The following is one of the numerous testimonials :— " Sir— Justice demands me to send you a few lines, to inform you that ' Walter's Aniseed Pills' is the best medicine I ever had. My cough, which was so bad that I had not power to speak plain, after taking a few doses I found relief, and I am now perfectly re- covered. Should any person be desirous to know, 1 will give every satisfaction, " I remain, Sir, yours, " Globe lane, Mile- end, March 2, 1821. " R. BOKE. Sold by J. A. Sharwood, 55, Bishopsgate- street- without, in boxes at Is. ljd., and three in one for 2s. 9d.; and by appointment by- Barclay and Sons, Farringdon- street; C. Butler and Co., 4, Cheap- side ; Chandler and Co., 76, Oxford- street; Hendebourck, 326, Holborn; Pink, 65, High- street, Borough; Nix, Royal Exchange ; Prout, 226, Strand ; and by most Medicine Venders in town and country. Be sure to ask for " Walter's Aniseed Pills," GRAY'S PERSPIRATION PROMOTER AND INSTAN- TANEOUS BED WARMER. HE above Invention having elicited the appro- bation of some of the most scientific characters in Europe, S. GRAY feels himself warranted in asserting that in any case of Cholera, Rheumatism, Violent Colds, & c., where profuse perspira- tion is beneficial, the above apparatus is invaluable. Placed in bed, by the side of the patient, by heating the confined air within the bed, it produces the same effects as Hut Air Vapour Baths, & c. As a bed wanner, or a safety lamp, it cannot be surpassed. For a description, see Mechanics' Magazine, No. 441, Jan. 22. Price 1/. 5s. to 2/. 2s. GRAY'S New Invented LAVEMENT SYRINGE ought also to be in the possession of every family. Constructed without Valves or Stop- cocks, it is so simple that a child would find out the method of using it: it is the best mode of producing a healthy and regular action of the bowels, as the free use of purgatives destroys the tone of the Stomach, and enfeebles the system.— See London Journal of Aits and Sciences, for February. Samuel Gray's Surgical Instrument and Cutlery Manufactory,. 17, Princes- street, Leicester- square, two doors from Gerrard- street. B CHOLERA MORBUS— A SURE PREVENTIVE AGAINST OULLY'S TONIC, or COMPOUND QUI- NINE PILLS, prepared from U at celebrated medicine, the SULPHATE of QUININE, are strongly recommended to those who have weak stomachs ; they are a sure cure for the following disorders :— Bowel complaints, attended with vomiting and purging, spasms, cramp, loss of appetite, nervous and hysterical complaints, rheumatism, gout, ague, palpitation, flatu- lency, heartburn, waterbrash, tic- douloureux, indigestion, and all diseases for which bark has been recommended, or which proceed from weakness of the stomach. Prepared only by P. BOULLY, Pharmaceutical Chemist, 4, Star corner, Bermondsey ; and sold by Sutton and Co., Bow church- yard ; Butler, Herbalist, Covent- garden ; Sanger, 150, Oxford- street; Butler, corner of St. Paul's ; Belcher, Hackney, & c., & c., in boxes, 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and lis. ; of whom may be had Boully's Concentrated Essence of Liquorice, extracted from the Liquorice root ; the most innocent, yet effectual, medicine ever discovered for coughs, colds, asthmas, hooping, croup, & c. Sold in bottles at Is. ljd. each. TIIK T O W S. March 11. THE SAINT SIMON I AN MISSIONARIES. Some late proceedings of the French Government have probably rendered tbe name of tbe Saint Simonians familiar to our readers. They constitute a society which, according to their own statement, is " at once religious, political, and philosophical, and is now so widely spread, and so influential in France, that it may legitimately claim the first rank among political parties, by its power of rallying round it the most earnest and active members of every party." Their objects, as they put them forth, are to found an Univer- sal Association, with regulations on the subject of property entirely new ; to raise the poor in comfort and knowledge to the level of the higher classes; not to attempt an exact equality among all man- kind, but to rank men according to their talents, and reward them according to their works ; to " emancipate" women by considering them, and acting towards them, as in no respect inferior to the other sex, giving them the same privileges, and allowing them the same power; and to superinduce a system of mystical religion upon the principles of Owenism, as now attempted to be developed and reduced to practise in this country. Their present chiefs are M. Enfantin, their " Supretne Father;" M. Olinde Rodrigues, " Chief of their Finances," or, as be is styled elsewhere, " Chief of the Saint Simonian Religious Worship ;" and M. Bazard. Tbe Saint Simonians, foolishly prosecuted into importance in Trance, have lately, flushed with their success, sent Missionaries into England, as well as other parts of Europe. The gentlemen who have condescended to come over with the special purpose of enlightening ourselves, belong ( we quote then- own words) " to that class of society, the members of which, by their social position, have every career open to them which can gratify ambition or the thirst for riches : one of us being tbe son of one of tbe most honour- able bankers of Paris ( house of D'Eichtal and Co.) and the other, of one ofthe first magistrates of France ( I. e Varan Duveyrier, Pre- mier President de la Cour Royule tie Montpellier.) Their first labour in England has been the production and publi- cation of a pamphlet, the language of which is slovenly in the ex- treme : as they talk, for instance, of the " very curious examination underwent by Messrs. Enfantin and Rodrigues," with many similar blunders. In these things, however, there may be some excuse, as they are probably tbe fault of some wretched translator ; and as the Missionaries themselves say— " Since our arrival some very important events have taken place in our Society, which oblige us to leave England for a few weeks, in order lo be able to give a more extensive relation of our present moral and political position, and of our future proceedings." And again— " In consequence of tbe sudden departure of M. Dureyrier, tbe proofs were hastily looked over, and many errors have escaped correction." We subjoin the Saint Siniouian account of the Founder of the Association, and originator of the name. We have seen, by tbe way, a very different one :— " Tbe error most generally entertained with respect to the Saint Simonian Society is relative to its name. Those who are unac- quainted with the members of that society, and with their publica- tions, and other labours, are naturally led to believe, that some new Christian sect has sprung up, with tenets founded upon the theo- logical opinions of a saint in the early periods of Christianity. The fact is quite different. The founder of the Saint Simonian Society, and of tbe social doctrines professed by that body, is a man of our own times— he was born in 1760, and died in 1826. He belonged, by birth, to tbe highest nobility, being descended from the family ofthe Dukes of Saint Simon. His unbounded love for all mankind, and the great genius which enabled him to discover tbe means of pacifically ameliorating their condition, made Saint Simon worthy of being tbe heir of the greatest men who have ever existed. The present Marquis of Saint Simon, one of Buonaparte's bravest gene- mon advantage to all, and which, being founded with the capital and workmen of the Saint Simonians, will be a visible testimony of the power which we possess of carrying our theory into practice." The length of these extracts precludes us from all comment. Nor should we now think it worthwhile, even if we had space, to give a more elaborate detail, or enter upon any serious refutation, of the Saint Simonian doctrines. Like all other such schemes, and like the principles of the co- operative societies, which are now, we un- derstand, taking root and extending themselves in many parts of England, they have for their basis some grounds of truth and rea son— for mere unmixed, unadulterated error, can seduce nobody ;— but the superstructure is infinitely too large for the foundations on which it is built ; and hence the whole fabric becomes a mass of in- congruity and weakness. Still, the existence and spread of Saint Siinonianism is a phenomenon in the political and religious world, which may well give rise to deep and earnest meditation. In a sound, healthy, and contented state of society, such tilings would be only matters of ridicule or passing wonder. They derive their impor- tance and success from the distress and dissatisfaction which are but too prevalent throughout Europe ; there are fermenting and rising up from the lowest abysses of society, tbe elements of a strange and dangerous power, of which, at present, we only discern the smoke and bear the rumbling ; but of which we may, ere long, both see the flames and feel the earthquake. Assaults way be made, ere long, not against party, but against property. What are Saint Sinionians and Owenite themes to- day, may. in a few years, be reduced into practice by sterner and more ambitious demagogues, with a violent and fearful operation. The superfluities of population must find some vent ; the evils, which are too real, will make for themselves some remedy. Therefore, we repeat, in the spirit of an article to be found in our paper elsewhere, that, if they would pre- vent fanaticism and convulsion, moral and political, legislators and nations must soon take a deliberate and methodized survey of their existing condition, and form some comprehensive aud systematic scheme of HUMAN IMRROVEMENT. REVIEWS. rals, and now one of tbe most liberal members of the Chamber of Peers, is his nephew. The following statement of the rise, progress, and present state ofthe sect, must be interesting, on many accounts, to every man of philosophical and reflecting mind ; and every man also who mingles with the world, and takes a more practical view of tbe ex- isting aspect of society i' Xwo years ago, we were but a few friends, around our leaders, Enfantin, Rodrigues, and Bazard, having 110 mutual bond, but a lecture delivered every fortnight, to a small audience, having no other organ of publicity than a weekly journal in which these lectures were published; and having no other resources than tbe small sums we were enabled lo economise from the fruit of our labours, which had no connexion with the doctrines of our master. We were un known not only in the departments, but even in the capital, and bad no relation either with the press or with the working classes. " Two short years have sufficed to enable us to slide, without effort, into the practice of that distributive justice which, till then, was only a simple germ in our hearts. And we have been enabled to associate under tbe dominion of this moral law, some of tbe most distinguished pupils of the schools of science, physicians, lawyers, merchants, professors, military men, functionaries of government; those who had laboured, and those who were in circumstances to be idle ; men and women ; young and old. We have spoken a lan- guage which was understood and felt by them all. We have been enabled, without imprudence, to devote to the purposes of our in- stitution, not only our incomes but our capital; and such confidence have we inspired in our prospects, tbat we have been able to add to our capital by loans. We have no need of sinking fund or pro- mise of reimbursement; and notwithstanding the low rate at which we were forced, by reason and prudence, to offer it, it has been de- manded and subscribed for, with a rapidity which lias permitted us te raise the rate of each successive series of emissions. Wre have been able to lake part in the discussions of the day, by publishing, during fifteen months, a daily paper, called Le Glohe, circulated gratuitously alone, to persons of our choice, and of which 4,000 copies are daily printed. We give lectures and preachings in the principal quarters of Paris, and in the most important cities of the Departments. Our missionaries have penetrated into every part of France ; we have established in Belgium a cenlre of propagation, and a weekly journal; we have founded establishments for asso- ciating and living in common, at Paris and Toulouse. All the prin- cipal cities ill France have Saint Simonian Societies, under the di- rection of chiefs, who propagate our faith both by the press and preaching. More than thirty journals of Paris, of the provinces, and of Belgium, have abandoned their factious and envenomed po- litics, to follow us iu the direct road of positive amelioration, by im- proving the condition of the multitude, and by conciliating all in- terests! 5 Many more, including all the chief organs of public opi- nion in France, though they do not agree with us, are adopting, in a greater or lesser degree, many of our views, and admit tbat our doctrines, whether true or not, contain much truth, as a whole, and are gradually acquiring immense influence. Tbe tribune of the Chamber of Deputies daily resounds with our doctrines, in their ap- plication to legislative measures under discussion in the Chamber. For ihe last five months we have established a central office of cor- respondence, for the purpose of opening communications with the most enlightened men all over France, and we have received more than four thousand letters. We are surrounded by a great many of the most intelligent and moral of the working classes, with their wives and children, who, by associating with us, gradually acquire habils of order and self- controul, which they propagate to those around them, both in their labours and their recreations. These have hitherto sought employment in the general market, as they had done before) but we are now able to think of undertaking some great industrial enterprise upon a grand scale ; no longer upon the principle of competition, but upon tbat of association and com- My Old Portfolio ; or, Tales and Sketches. By Henry Glass^ ford Bell. 1 vol.— London : Smith, Elder, and Co. 1832. Mr. Henry Glassford Bell appears to have a sufficiently good opinion of his own merits, and seems to entertain a magnifi- cent disdain of all those who coincide not in that opinion. He also feels, or affects, a reckless scorn for all criticism, be it monthly, hebdomodal, or daily ; declines the competency of these ephemeral judgment seats of literary merit or demerit ; and aspires to win his award of praise or blame from minds of a higher ealibre than those which appertain to the Aristarchuses of magazines and newspapers. Such, at least, are the sentiments put forth in the preface— a bold display of scornful defiance alto- gether uncalled for, on introducing to public notice a book of so trifling ( we mean not to say merit- lacking— for merit it has) a nature as the Old Portfolio. In spite, however, of this escapade of petulant egotism and over- complacent self- sufficiency, on the part of the author, we do not hesitate to say, that we have been pleased, and even much pleased, with his book— that is, taking it for what it is, a light, varying, and rapidly told and briefly traced series of stories and sketches— a book admirably adapted to take with you in a stage- coach, or find in an inn window ; for almost the longest of the tales may be glanced through while you are waiting for the horses to be put to ; or, if begun on the coach, may be finished before the continued motion has rendered the type indistinct, and reading irksome. Mr. Bell's two most suc- cessful efforts are the marvellous history of " Mynheer Von Wo- denblock," and " Dicky Cross, the Idiot of Exeter"— the former an amusing extravaganza, told with no little humour and spirit; and the latter a tale of terror, evincing very respectable powers of description, and a capability of calling up images of awe and dread in a very effective manner. If the author be a very young man, this tale holds out goodly promise for the fu- ture ; but, if alas'. he have neared or passed the meridian of life, and that the hey- day of his imagination be over, then must we set down his muse as short- breathed and incapable of keeping long on the wing.; for what is most remarkable and most teasing in these . tales is, that when you are just becoming interested in the events of the narration, or sentiments of the writer, and hope to continue so pleasantly for, at least, a reasonable space of time, all of a sudden Mr. Henry Glassford Bell, like a flying fish, cuts short liis flight, and plumps down into the deep. On the whole, the book is amusing and worth reading in an idle hour.— We think it might be considerably improved by having the pre- face, and the poetry at the end, cut out ; which might be sent for private circulation amongst those possessors of minds of a " higher calibre," to whom Mr. Henry Glassford Bell looks for his literary guerdon. NEW MUSIC. When my Soul wings her flight. By Edwin J. Nielson.— London : Aldridge. The composer has made of Lord Byron's poetry a very sweet ballad. As a composition, it is talented. The Banished Pole. By Mrs. William Marshall.— George and Manby : London. This song is founded on the interesting story of the banishment of the young Polish patriot, Prince Roman Saugusko, by the Emperor of Russia. The fair poetess and composer has nobly and pathetically sung the unmerited fate of the young hero. LITERARY UNION.— A meeting of the members was held on Thursday in consequence ofthefailure of Duckett, Moreland, and Co. It appeared from a statement of the committee, that the sum in the bankers' hands at the time of stoppage was about 2,300/. To questions from Lord Dunboyne, it was answered that the balance in their hands was, unfortunately, always large- est at this time of the year, and that in Dec. it was only 150/. A series of conditional resolutions were adopted, the principal of which was, that each member should contribute four guineas, to be paid as the dividends were received from the bankers' estate. About 800/. was subscribed on the spot. THE POET CRABBE.— A book has been opened at the Bank at Trowbridge, to receive subscriptions for erecting a Monu- ment, in the church of that place, to the memory of the late Mr. Crabbe. THE HOUSE or LORDS ROUTED.— On Saturday last, the Town- green pond at Dunfermline teemed with toads, all in mo- tion, and apparently under extraordinary excitation. A number of boys stood looking intensely on for some time, when one of them exclaimed—" It's the House o' Lords debatin' the reform bill." In an instant, " Demolish I" was the universal and si- multaneous cry. Caps and bonnets were filled with stones, " Now for Wellington I" " Here's at you, Londonderry 1" " Take that, Buckingham I" " The Bishops I the Bishops 1 shouted a little urchin. The " hurra" became universal, and terrible was the work of death. The above incident " points a moral," if it does not " adorn a tale."— Scotsman. TALENT.— Canova was the son of a working mason; Barry, the painter, the same; Humphrey Davy, the son of a wood- carver ; Sir Richard Arkwright was brought up a barber; Bel- zoni, the traveller, was the same; Allan Ramsay was the son of a lead miner, and Herschell the son of an itinerant musician. Bewick's father was a cottager, and Kirke White was educated as a butcher, and afterwards a weaver. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE.- A procession, intended to illustrate by living delineators, a popular caricature published some time ago at Paris, was formed at Grenoble on Monday, ill which, as outriders to a carriage and four, figured a couple of Marshals of France, one holding a wax- light, the other an enormous syringe. On the seat was a person dressed as the President of the Council, driving with rose- coloured ribands, but with an English postilion in reality di- recting the horses; in the coach were four pot- bellied Deputies. In another coach were some allegorical personages, one represent- ing the budget, and others as supplementary credits, & c. This passed off quietly enough, and the diversion was to have been con- tinued at a masked ball ill tbe evening; but this Ihe Prefect, a gentleman newly appointed to office, forbade. The dissatisfaction felt at the latter interruption to the popular amusement led to a tumult in the streets, to quell which the 35th regiment was called in and in so doing some lives of the townspeople were sacrificed. The next morning the house ofthe Prefect was attacked, and he and the Commandant, with the troops, were so pressed, either by force or intrigue, that they consented to withdraw from the place. For this conduct these functionaries have been all visited with the se- vere censure of Government, and dismissed from their offices. The National Guard of the city has also been dissolved, and, by the movement of Uoops from all sides upon Grenoble, it would seem that the Ministry are determined to investigate tbe matter rigo- rously, and punish tbe principal actors in it with severity. The conflicts between the troops and the people had already led to the shedding of blood, and the wounded are estimated at from 25 to 30 persons. By the Paris papers of Tuesday we learn that the troubles of Grenoble had entirely ceased before tbe 18th instant, and that new troops had entered the town without any attempt at resistance on tbe part of the inhabitants. Some arrests have taken place, and a rigid inquiry had been ordered into the conduct of all tbe parties concerned. All the papers of Tuesday publish the observations of the Duke of Wellington on M. Perrier's speech, with remarks irritating or explanatory according to their side of politics. POLAND.— The news from Warsaw ( extracted from the Ger- man journals) leave no room to doubt that the Russian Govern- ment is determined to annihilate the nationality and national in- stitutions of Poland. The two envoys sent to St. Petersburg!! to explain the cause of the Polish insurrection have been obliged to divest themselves of the titles of Polish senators, arid lo become Russian. The Royal Castle at Warsaw is called the Palace of Ihe Government. The Catholic religion is suppressed in certain places where the Greek church predominates, aunt Russian changes are introduced into tbe order of nobility. ITALY.— The Pope lias repeated bis protest against the French occupation of Ancona, and the other Powers, it is said, to require satisfaction to his Holiness for the indignity. The tri- coloured flag increases in favour with the Italians, and nothing can exceed the popularity of its bearers, as well from the general frankness of their manners as the liberality with which they dispense the French money. They are erecting- strong works outside of the place, which, though they give the most serious uneasiness to the Aus- trians, afford satisfaction and employment to tbe Anconese la- bourers. Nothing has yet transpired to point to a speedy arrange- ment of this knotty affair, and the Cabinet of Vienna remain as mysterious as ever. ' BELGIUM.— The post of Minister of War, which bad been abandoned by M. de Brouckere, had not as yet been supplied. M. Felix de Merode bad been offered the War portfolio ad interim, but had declined the honour, from an aversion to subject his consti- tuents lo the trouble of a fresh election. " The Mmiteur Beige persists in denying that the modifications in the treaty have been communicated in any maimer whatever to tlie Ministry, and adds—' We repeat tbat tire Ministry has no notion whatever of giving up the right of navigation, with or with- out compensation. This is a mere fiction, and the journals which accuse Belgian diplomacy should avoid giving arms to our ad- versaries." AUSTRIA.— The Austrian ratification of the Belgian treaty may be expected in London in the course of a very few days. It might have been supposed that the affair of Ancona would have produced some ill humour at Vienna, which would have delayed the ratifica- tion of the treaty ; and it is highly to the credit of Prince Metter nich tbat he lias not allowed tbat unlucky incident to divert him from his course, but has afforded, by the decision which he has taken, tbe most indisputable proof of the good faith and sound policy of the Austrian Cabinet, and of its sincere desire to preserve the peace of Europe. EGYPT.— The Grand Vizier is going to take tbe command of the. army acting against the Pacha of Eygpt. Abdallah Pacha, the Governor of St. Jean D'Acre, is resolved to bury himself under the ruins rather than surrender. The garrison is numerous, and 400 cannon are mounted ou the ramparts. AMERICA.— New York papers bring tbe following intelligence of one of the most destructive and extensive floods which has oc- curred in the history of this country. The Ohio river commenced rising at this place on Thursday last. On Friday it began to over- flow its banks. The water rose at the rate of twelve inches an hour till Saturday morning, when it began to rise less and less rapidly till eight at night, w hen it came to a stand, and soon after began to fall. It is not known to have risen higher 111 the memory of the oldest person now living; it being from five to six feet higher than it was at the memorable floods of 1784 and 1813. The destruction of property occasioned by this calamity is beyond calculation. The whole valley of the Ohio, front its source to its mouth, within tbe reach of this tremendous freshet, must present one uninterrupted scene of waste, desolation, and distress. The farms of tbe rich bot- toms have been swept of the fences ; and dwellings, bams, corn and meat- bouses, with tiieir contents, and the stock. All the towns and villages along the river have been wholly, or in part, inundated ; and many of the buildiiigs, with all their contents, have been car- ried away. All the low part of our town has suffered severely. Forty- two houses, mostly small frames, have been swept away from South Wheeling. The bridge over Wheeling creek is gone ; thirty- five houses were counted passing by on tbe river from Saturday morning till twelve o'clock. A large warehouse, filled with flour, lodged on the upper point of the island. The river is now even with the banks. A gentleman who came up tbe Ohio from Louis- ville to Wheeling, and reached Baltimore city on Saturday night, confirms, says the Baltimore American, the statement made above, that almost every town anc' village on the river was more or less injured by tbe overflow of the waters. He states that he counted two hundred houses which had been carried off, and were floating down with the current. AFRICA.-— It would appear, by the following extract from the St. John's ( New Brunswick) City Gazette, of a late date, that the British on the coast of Africa have bad a desperate engagement with tbe Mandingoes, in which they sustained a severe loss in killed and wounded:— " OPEN WAR IN AFRICA.— Captain Lawrence, who arrived here yesterday from Africa, states, that when he left Gambia, on the 21st of December, the British troops and militia were engaged in open war with the Mandingoes; a severe engagement had taken place on the 17th of November, which lasted for about six hours. The British had upwards of a hundred wounded and twenty killed. When Captain Lawrence sailed, reinforcements were hourly ex- pected from Sierra Leone. The British force was in no way ade- quate to encounter the Mandingoes, who had fortified themselves, in a most masterly manner, by entrenchment. Captain Benjamin Lee, commanding the Sierra Leone militia, lias been killed in the engagement." BIRMINGHAM AND LONDON RAILWAY'.-— The bill for exe- cuting this railway has passed the second reading in the House of Commons. The line which has been surveyed is 112} miles long, and it has been altered since last year so as to keep clear of all parks and private grounds. In the embankments a base of two feet is allowed for a height of one. The levels are so ar- ranged that the inclination never exceeds 16 feet in a mile, or one foot in 360. It will have ten tunnels, one of which is a mile and a quarter long, one a mile long, one a half mile, the others less than a quarter each, and are all to be 25 feet high, and well lighted. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. • HOUSE OF LORDS, MONDAY, MARCH 19. PLAN OF IRISH NATIONAL EDUCATION.— The Bi- shop of Exeter presented a petition from certain Protestants at Exeter, against the Irish plan of national education.— Lord LOR- TON presented similar petitions from Kildare, Granard, and other places.- The Earl of RODEN presented nine or ten petitions from places in Ireland, to the same effect.— The Marquis of LON- DONDERRY, in presenting a petition from Bangor, county- Down, to the same effect, took occasion to deprecate the change which had been made in the system of education. When the country was agitated from one end to the other, relative to the fatal measure of Reform, such an alteration was both inexpedient and unwise. The Noble Lord said that he had received a letter that morning from that loyal body, the Apprentice Boys of Derry, in which it was asserted that the new plan was incompatible with tbe safety of tbe Protestant religion Lord KING denied this, and quoted letters which he had received on the subject of the pe- tition. The Noble Lord said his communications described the meeting as not having been unanimous respecting the petition, and that it therefore deserved no attention from their Lordships. After a few words in reply from the Marquis of Londonderry, the petitions were laid upon tbe table. A Select Committee was appointed to inquire into the mode of electing Representative Peers foT Scotland. TUESDAY, MARCH 20. TRADE BETWEEN FRANCE AND ENGLAND.— In reply to a question put by Lord Strangford, Lord AUCKLAND said tbat 110 official information had been received of the tonnage duties having ^ et been lowered. Official information had how- ever been received that it was the intention of tbe French Govern- ment to reduce those duties one- third their present amount, and to assimilate them as nearly as possible to tbe duties paid in the seve- ral ports of Great Britain. For this purpose, minute calculations were to be made, and the chartered rights of parties considered, before the arrangements could be completed. Their Lordships would therefore perceive that the subject was one of difficulty, and thai it would require several months before any definitive step could be taken on it. Originally the tonnage duty extended to both sides of ihe water. They were equalised in England by taking off the tonnage dues and leaving the harbour duties. The French raised their tonnage duties, but 011 the matter being represented to that Government, they at once acceded to the proposal of reducing tbe duties in their ports to the average paid in our ports. The bill relative to tbe grant to the Zemindar of Nozeed, was read a second time THURSDAY, MARCH 22. IRISH EDUCATION.— Tbe Earl of WICKLOW rose to call the attention of the bouse to the subject of the new plan of educa- tion proposed to be established in Ireland. His Lordship con- tended that the proposed measure of Ministers was adopted in obedience to the will of a faction, and that by it they had laid the axe to tbe root of all the best institutions of the country. He there- fore expected'to be joined in his opposition lo the crude and undi- gested plan of ministers, by those who thought it to be the duty of Christians to promote the circulation of the Scriptures, and by all the true orthodox friends of the church of England, who never would permit one of tbe fundamental principles of their church to be violated by any concession to any other set of Christians what- ever. The noble earl concluded by moving tbe following resolu- tion .—" That, inasmuch as by the plan of national education established in Ireland, the Bible is practically excluded from the schools formed under the sanction of his Majesty's Government, this bouse cannot view the plan with approbation."— The Duke of NORFOLK rose to correct a mistake into which the noble earl had fallen— he alluded 10 that part of his speech, in which he stated that it was contrary to the tenets of the Roman Catholics to allow tbe reading of the Scriptures. Tbe fact was quite the contrary. Tbe Roman Catholic religion particularly enjoined the reading of tbe Scriptures, but reserved to the clergy the right of interpreting all the difficult passages ; while the reformed church, he believed, allowed the right of private judgment to every individual. With respect to the question which bad been brought under the notice of tbe bouse, be begged leave to say, that he gave his most hearty concurrence to the plan proposed to be carried into effect by his Majesty's Government. It was calculated, by removing a source of religious discord, to make both good Protestants and good Ca- tholics, and consequently, good and moral subjects.— The Bishop of CHESTER denounced the plan of education proposed by Ministers.— Lord SI FFIELD considered the opposition to the measure as tbe miserable shift of party.— The Bishop of LONDON regarded the plan as ail innovation on a great Protestant principle. -— The Bishop of EXETER strongly condemned the plan, and said that Dr. Whatcley was unfit for the office he held in the board of education, by reason of his heterodox sentiments on the sacred- ness of the sabbath.— The Bishop of CHICHESTER de- fended the plan with great energy, After several noble lords bad expressed their sentiments, Lord PLUNKET rose to address tbe house in suppoit of the plan of education. He was sure that tbe mode in which the board was consti- tuted would meet with general approbation, notwithstanding the attack which bad been made upon one of its members— the Archbishop of Dublin. The charge made against that most reve- rend prelate was neither more nor less than this— that he, when called upon to exercise his sound judgment in discbarge of his duties as a member of the new board, could not enforce the 4th com- mandment. He regretted that the ardour of debate, or the since- rity of devotion, or whatever else it might be, should have induced a member of a Christian church to make so uncharitable an observa- tion. Tbe question, after all, amply resolved itself into this: were they to have a national system of education, orone for a por- tion of the nation. If it was to be a national, and, if he might so express himself, not a fractional system, it followed that as the large, very large majority of the people of Ireland were Catholic, that system must not jar with the religious feelings, or, if they would, prejudices of the Catholics. Now the Catholics did not, as it had been too often falsely asserted, object to tbe perusal of tbe Scriptures, but to their indiscriminate perusal; and in this, let him remark, they were joined by some of the most distinguished names in the Protestant Church; and the Government accordingly adopted a kind of middle term— that is, a seltction of such por- tions of the sacred writings as would promote morality and reli- gion, and to which neilher Protestant nor Catholic could object.— The Duke of WELLINGTON repeated his decided objections to the measure ; and was followed by Earl GREY, in an able and elaborate reply. In the course of his animated speech the noble earl asked, was it not his duty, if he saw the adoption of a mea- sure was likely to promote the peace and internal improvement of Ireland, to do all in his power to carry tbat measure into, effect, without being intimidated by those obstructions which ill- directed zeal, party spirit, intolerance, or religious rancour might place in his way ? Hud not this been the conduct of the noble duke himself 011 another important question ? Indeed, when he recollected that conduct of the noble duke, he was astonished to bear tbe noble duke use as arguments against the present plan of education- assertions, the absurdity of which the noble duke himself had so often and so efficiently exposed. When the measure of Catholic emancipation was in its progress through that house, tbe noble duke was nightly assailed by assertions and appeals, 111 spirit and in letter, as senseless as those which tbe noble duke now condescended to advance against tbe plan of national education which ministers thought it their duty to introduce into Ireland. The very persons who were now dem uncing that system as destructive of the Pro- testant interests in Ireland, were loud in their denunciations of the noble duke's policy, as fraught with ruin to tbe Protestant esta- blishment of that country. On those occasions, more than once, he had defended the noble duke. He particularly referred to the first day of the session of 1830, when Lord Farnham attacked the noble duke as tbe author of a measure which must subvert Pro- testant interests in Ireland, on which occasion the noble duke pro- perly observed that he had a right to expect more beneficial effects from Catholic emancipation than had followed from it, and was convinced that those effects would have followed but for the oppo- sition which party and religious feelings had raised against it. He would repeat the noble duke's language on that occasion, in answer to the noble duke's observations 011 the present occasion, and March 2- 5. THE Townr. 99 would tell the noble duke lie was convinced that all that the present plan of education in Ireland wanted was fair play aud a just spirit of tolerance. The house then divided, when the numbers were— Content .... 60', proxies . . • . 27— 87 Not Content . . 59; proxies .... 66— 125 Majority against the motion ... 38 Adjourned at One o'clock. FRIDAY, MARCH 23. PLURALITIES BILL.— The Archbishop of CANTERBURY in moving that this bill be committed, took occasion of particularly objecting to Lord Sulfield's proposed amendments, as calculated to alter the" whole character of the bill. He moved that it be con- sidered in a committee of the » hole house. Several noble lords spoke on ihe general principles of the bill. Lords WYNFORD and TENTERDEN were against the bill.— Lord KING consi- dered it to be delusive ; and Lord SUFFIELD said he bad no desire to press bis amendment, if the Archbishop would undertake to make the bill more efficient. Their Lordships eventually di- vided on Ihe question of going into committee ; the number for it were 31, against it 7. The house having resolved itself into a com- mittee, made some few verbal amendments in the bill, and ad- journed the further consideration of the bill to Tuesday. HOUSE OF COMMONS, MONDAY, MARCH 19. DORSETSHIRE ELECTION.— Mr. CLIVE, Chairman of tbe Dorsetshire Election Committee, brought up a report, staling that Ihe committee had determined that the lion. Henry Ashley Cooper, commonly called Lord Ashley, had been duly elected as a Member in Parliament for that county, and that the several petitions presented by John Fisher and olher inhabitants of the said county, Were neither frivolous nor vexatious.— Lord Ashley soon after took his seat, and was cheered by the members of the opposition benches. REFORM BILL.— Lord J. RUSSELL moved the third read- ing of this bill.— Lord MAHON moved as an amendment, that it be read that day six months.— Sir J. MALCOLM seconded the amendment.— Mr. WILBRAIUM and Sir R. INGLIS spoke against the bill.— Mr. SLANEY supported it.— Mr. PEMBER- TON considered that this measure would sweep the peerage away, and shake the crown on his Majesty's bead ; and be trusted that the House of Lords would stand by the constitution, the foundation of which bad been dug by the swords of their ancestors on the field of Runneymede.— Mr. MACAULEY energetically reproached the opposition for their inconsistency in pretending to be reformers, and yet not proposing any measure instead of that which they were SO anxious to deslroy.— He was replied to by Mr. CROKER, who was briefly answered by Lord ALTHORP.— Debate adjourned. TUESDAY, MARCH 20. REFORM BILL.— The debate was resumed this evening, when several members spoke on either side of the question. Their argu- ments and observations, respectively, were, for the most part, merely repetitious of those used several times before. Towards the close of the debate, and after the Attorney- General had replied to Sir Charles Wetherell, Mr. PERCEVAL rose, and with a pecular tone and gesture spoke as follows :— In whose name do you sit here ? In whose name do you sit here ? In His name, at the mention of whom, with bitter taunts—( cries of " question ") ; and think ye, for one mo- ment, that sitting here, in that forgetfulness of Him from whom alone all counsel, wisdom, and might proceed— think ye— think ye— (" question, question")— think ye— think ye— think ye—( great noise; cries of " question," " go on," " divide.") Lord ALTHORP— I apprehend it is the intention of the lion, member to move an adjournment.—( Cries of " adjourn,*' and " go on.") Mr. PERCEVAL— Do you expect His blessing on this nation; do you expect His blessing on your counsels, whilst you are em- ployed in the greatest of all works, establishing tbe basis of a con- stitution— the greatest work of human counsel and human wisdom which man is called on to perform 1— do you believe for one instant that you will experience that blessing, whilst in utler forgetfulness of Him who ought to be most borne in mind ? Think ye, if that thing be true which is written, " except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain Uiat build it; except the Lord keep the city, the watchman walketh but in vain,"— think ye, if that Scripture be true, that this your work can be blessed, or that the fruits which ye expect from it can come to good ? How standeth the account of the house with its God at this time 1 ( Loud cries of" Adjourn.") Twice have ye, the Commons of England, been called upon, but twice have ye been called upon in vain, to humble yourselves before your God, and to seek his blessing in contrition and repentance. ( Loud cries of " Question," amidst considerable confusion, occa- sioned by a number of members leaving the house.) Ye depart, do ye, when the name of your God is mentioned ? Ye would have sat till five o'clock, and till six o'clock in the morning, had not his name been mentioned, listening to the tongues of men tink- ling like idle cymbals. Mr. HUNT here rose to order. As they were now approaching the fast- day, he would suggest to the hon. member that his object would be better obtained by the adjournment of the bouse. He would therefore move that the house do now adjourn. ( Hear, hear.) Mr. PERCEVAL.— Sir, it is not my intention to move an ad- journment. Ye would sit here till five in the morning in idle dis- sertations on this bill. Will ye not listen for a few moments to one who speaketh in the name of the Lord ? I stand here to warn you of the righteous judgment of God, which is coming on you, and which is now near at band. Do ye think that I stand here relying on my own strength to keep you attentive, or that I have power of myself to force 500 of ye to listen to my trembling accents ?— Would I stand here alone, as it seeineth to me, among men, if I stood not in the reliance of that God by whose despised love I en- treat you to listen to my appeal? Ye may cast off that appeal ye may despise me for making it—- but, strong in the cause of my God, make it I will. I stand here in tlie strength of one who puts his whole hope ill Jehovah. Twice have ye, the Commons of England, refused to humble yourselves before your God. ( Ques- tion, question.) Mark, mark, mark, how your God hath caused ye to show your contempt of him. Ye have in the midst of you a scourge of pestilence, which lias crossed the world to reach ye. Ye brought a bill into the house to retard its approaches, and ye refused in that bill to insert a recognition of your God— ye would not make an acknowledgment of his providence, and yet ye cast his name out of your book. I told ministers it was not God they worshipped. The people is the God before whom they bow down in absurd and degraded worship. Here severalmemberssurrounded Mr. PERCEVAL, and profess- ing the great respect which they felt for him, requested him to de- sist from his extraordinary mode of proceeding ; but Mr. Perceval turned a deaf ear to their solicitations, and was not to be per- suaded. He then proceeded nearly as follows :—" What 1 am now saying is most fitting to be considered on this yonr question, lam endeavouring to point out to ye the reasons why ye can ex- pect no blessing from God on this your work. In the English bill the name of God was omitted ; and why ? Because the people of England called for its omission. In the Scotch bill the name of God was inserted ; and why ? Because the people of Scotland— alas! that they should be more religious than my countrymen!— called for its insertion: and therefore is it proved that it was not for the recognition of the power of God, but for the recognition of the power of the people, that die insertion was made in the Scotch bill. I have shown God to this house— I have shown the house how its account standeth before the God whom it ought to serve— I have shown how it bath twice offended against God, and twice deserved exemplary punishment. Ye have appointed a fast; but I tell ye that that fast is, in the eye of God, a solemn mockery, which be will not away with. I tell ye that it was not in the heart of the King's Council to humble themselves before God; and I tell them that he is not a God to be mocked at. He searcheth the heart of man— and this house knows full well that it was not in the council of the King to humble themselves before God. They were not approaching him in the spirit of contrition, repentance, and hu- miliation. They had not sought him either by day or by night; and it has not been for a voluntary humiliation before God— it has not been because they feel ashamed of their iniquities—( a laugh)—• it has not been because they tremble at their offences— it has not been because they see in the cholera a scourge which is hang- ing over the land, or in the disturbances of the country signs of God's approaching judgments, that they reluctantly deter- mine to appoint a fast; and therefore it is that I tell them that this mockery of religion God will not away with— he will bring on them fasting and humiliation, wo and sorrow, weep- ing and lamentation, flame and confusion, which, if they had turned in right earnest from the wickedness of their path, he would have averted from tliein. But, Commons of England, ye have cast God of your own accord from you, and I tell you that in consequence this work which ye have now in hand cannot be blest— the curse of God is upon it. It hath been banging over the country as a curse from the first day on which the bill was in- troduced, aud a curse it hath been upon the country from that time to this. ( Cries of " Adjourn.'') 1 told the house that I rose to address it not in strength of my own. I have committed myself to this task with much prayer and after much meditation, and I will not be turned from it by the solicitations of men. I tell ye that this land wilt soon be desolate ; a little time and ye shall howl one and all in your streets. I tell ye that the pestilence, which God is now holding in, will be let loose among ye, and that the sword will follow it. I tell ye tliese things ; they are the words of your God. I tell the house more than this : the church of the land shall be laid low, for she hath corrupted her way before God. ( A solitary voice called " Hear.'') She bath played the harlot with the stranger—( A laugh and a cry of " Hear")— and she hath leant on the arm of flesh for her support. Wherefore, when the hour of re- tribution arriveth, she shall be punished by the arm of God.— These things of which I have spoken to ye, your eyes will see. Therefore, trouble yourselves not with this bill; for this which I have told ye is your doom. You may think me mad, and ridicule me as a man beside himself; but an hour is coming, and that shortly, when ye shall see whether what I speak cometh from my- self or from God. I tell ye, who are rulers of Ibis land, more. Ye have sworn to be faithful servants of your King. God looketh into your hearts, and seeth that ye care not for him. He seetli that ye think that ye have got your Sovereign into a net, but— Mr. SHAW attempted to soothe down the excitement under which Mr. Perceval laboured, but ill vain. ( The cry of " Ques- tion" and " Adjourn" then became frequent from all parts of the house.) Mr. PERCEVAL th. n proceeded. I tell ye that the rulers of the land think that their sovereign is in the net. But they de- ceive themselves. He is the Lord's anointed, and they shall not, though they now encircle him. There are men who on this fast day will fast ill earnest, and humble themselves in contrition and repentance ; and I tell ye that as scorn and mockery will fall on the mockers, so the blessings of Heaven will come down in abun- dant shower upon those who present to the throne of grace humble supplications ; and I now cail upon ye to flee from your present system of forgetting your God ; and from that storm which will soon rage around ye, I call upon ye to take shelter in the arms of that God who yearns to save ye. Where is bis honour 1 Where is the respect due to his name I Does bis son Jesus, who let his blood fall upon the ground for ye like water, in order that ye might have eternal life and glory, receive from ye that respect which ye ought in gratitude to pay him ? I pray ye turn to his love before it is too late; for be ye assured that the storm is coming, and that he is nigh, who is at once your God, your Saviour, and your Judge. Here the speech of the hon. gentleman was cut short by the exclamation of a member that strangers were in the gallery.— The SPEAKER immediately ordered strangers to withdraw. Whilst this order was in course of execution, Mr. Perceval suddenly sat down, and before the noise occasioned by the rush of strangers had subsided, the adjournment of the debate to Thursday next was carried. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the house adjourned at one o'clock. THURSDAY, MARCH 22. REFORM BILL.— The adjourned debate on the third reading of the reform bill was resumed. Mr. C. PELHAM spoke against the bill.— Mr. STANLEY in favour of it.— Mr. C. STEWART said that he looked upon this bill as involving tbe destruction of all our best institutions.— O'CONOR DON in speaking of the course that would be pursued by those Irish members who thought that the number for Ireland ought to be increased, said that they had resolved to support the English reform bill; that they would not seek benefit to Ireland at the expense of English representation, that they were anxious to urge forward the principle of reform; and that they felt assured that England could not gain reformed, improved representation, without Ireland being thereby eventually benefitted Sir E. SUGDEN opposed the bill at great length, contrasting the different changes that had taken place in the Go- vernment plans— condemning the introduction of the King's name as approving of the bill, and deprecated the deluging of the House of Lords with new Peers. The hon. gentleman proceeded to com- ment at some length upon the changes and modifications which had been made in the 10/. franchise clause, and upon the causes which had induced ministers to adopt them. Was it, he would ask, to the discreet, the industrious, the middle classes of the country, that tbe noble lord had given way on that subject! Or rather was it not to the members of the political unions he had yielded, who would hurl this country, if they could, from the high pinnacle of glory on which it at present stood? ( Hear, hear.)— Lord J. RUS- SELL observed, across the table, that the change in the 10/. clause, to which the hon. and learned gentleman was alluding, had been adopted by ministers at the instance of the hon. member for Ipswich ( Mr. Wason.)— Sir E. SUGDEN. Is that the way in which we are to be governed ? Is that the way in which a great measure like the present is lo be framed ? Was it to the represen- tation of the hon. member for Ipswich, as to a particular and leading clause, that the Government of tbe country gave way ?— Lord J. RUSSELL ( across the table.)— Yes— Sir E. SUGDEN. The noble lord cannot say so.— Lord J. RUSSELL. Yes.— Sir E. SUGDEN. Then, if the noble lord has done so, I say that he is not fit for the post he fills. ( Opposition cheers.) Is this the way that our rights are to be trifled with, and the constitution of our country cut up by tbe awkward hands of inexperienced though ven- turous quacks ?— Mr. R. GRANT maintained that it was requisite to legislate so as to consult the improved mind and the content of the people ; and that if they did not, Ihe separation between the higher and lower orders would be still more distinct and dange- rous, and hazard a conflict of opinion between the population and the property.— Lord PORCHESTER resisted the bill as ruinous, and condemned the Ministers as having placed themselves at the head of the extreme opinions of the day.— Sir J. C. HOBHOUSE spoke at considerable length in support of the bill; and was fol- lowed by Sir ROBERT PEEL, who concluded a long speech in the following terms. He could not avoid fancying that when, in after times, some liberal and enlightened individual, sighing after the blessings which we now enjoyed, would breathe forth a bitter reproach against those who bad forfeited foa hiin his bright and pre- cious inheritance ( loud cheers)— admitting the principle, so highly varnished, of democratic influence— admitting the contemplated reductions in the public expenditure, and the relief from the bur- then of taxation— admitting all the tangible benefits which were held forth to the public; would not that man say," Was it for this— for those— for all— for all that could possibly come to pass— that you put rancour into the breasts of man where it bad before no resting place ? ( cheers.) Was it for this yoti disturbed the harmonious action of that mixed Government which has solved the great prob- lem of a Government in which security is blended with liberty and power? ( Great cheering.) Was it for this that you disorganized that ancient Monarchy which united all that was estimable in the character of the present age with all that was useful in the days of Feudalism ? ( Loud and long- continued cheering.)— Was it for this that, by a reckless innovation, you have subverted all our ancient— all our cherished institutions ? Was it for this that you disturbed that admirable system of man- ners which admitted of all distinctions, and whieh was acces- sible in all its ranks, deprived of all invidiousness, free from all reproach, because it opened an honourable paili of ambi- tion to all men, and the most honourable that could be in a State, because less sordid than the accumulation of wealth, which consti- tuted the only and the fleeting elevation which could be secured in other countries ? ( Cheers.) Was it for this you dissipated all those pleasing delusions that made power gentle and obedience light 1 Was it for this that you destroyed that time- honoured sys- tem of society, which harmonized all the gradations of life, which blended the security and stability of the monarchy with all the ad- vantages of a popular Government? ( Cheers.) Was it for this that you subverted the domination of that religion which was pure in its doctrine and tolerant in its principle—( Cheers)— and sub- stituted for it all those conflicting sects which have well nigh ba- nished Christianity from amongst us, and left little save her foul ashes— superstition?" He did not overcharge the picture. And, continued the right hon. gentleman, that I may not be called to the bar of posterity— that I may not be visited with that censure which will naturally arise from the evils, public and private, which I foresee this bill must create— that I may carry with me to the last the satisfaction of having struggled in this conflict with persever- ance, but without effect, and the consolation of having surrendered without dishonour, my last vote shall be given as my first, in oppo- sition to the bill. ( Loud and long continued cheering.)— Mr. STANLEY ( the Irish Secretary) ably replied.— Colonel SIB- THORP moved an adjournment of the debate. It was understood that the amendment was not seconded, and the house divided on the original motion for the third reading of the bill— Ayes 355— Noes 239— Majority 116. The other orders of the day being disposed of, the house ad- journed at five o'clock on Friday morning. FRIDAY, MARCH 23. BANK OF ENGLAND.— Lord ALTHORP In reply to a question from Mr. Gisborne, stated that it was his determination to move for a select committee to inquire into the affairs of the Bank ofEngiand. SUGAR DUTIES - WEST INDIES.— The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER in moving that the Speaker do leave the chair, used the following wordson thesubject of the West Indies— On a former occasion I stated that I did not think that it would be advisable for me to make a statement of the plan of amelioration contemplated by Government before I was able distinctly to pro- pose its adoption. In consequence, however, of the suggestions that have been thrown out, I have since given my best considera- tion to the subject; and I am now bound to state, that the more ] have considered it, the more clear does it appear to me that it would not be consistent with my duty to state now what is the spe- cific object of my mode of relief. I am, however, prepared to re- peat what I before stated, that it will be a relief proffered to such of the West India Colonies as shall have shown themselves disposed to accede to the wishes of the Government; and, indeed, it must be evident to all, that, by only moving for the renewal of the sugar duties for the short period of six months, I am quite willing still to leave the door open to discussion. But, besides these measures, the house is of course perfectly aware, that in different parts of the West India Colonies, severe recent calamities have taken place, which have given rise to great destruction of property. I allude, of course, to the hurricane in Barbadoes, and the insurrection in Ja- maica, which calamities have necessarily greatly aggravated the local suffering in those Colonies where they have occurred. Mr. BURG E condemned Lord Goderich's circular to the different colonies, and declared it to he a main cause of the disturbances and agitations that had taken place in Jamaica and other islands.- Lord HOWICK said he had beard these remarks with great pain, After the resolutions of Parliament in 1823, for the adoption of measures for the gradual amelioration and final extinciion of slavery, what could the Government do but adopt measures to carry them into effect ? The discussions, it will be seen, became ge- neral, embracing the interests of the islands— the state of slavery— the propriety of affording relief by means of reducing the duties on sugar— the recent dreadful disturbances in Jamaica— the causes thereof. Many members took part in those discussions, which, in fact, occupied a considerable part of the night.— The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in the course of the debate, stated that, if members connected with the Colonies could make the Orders in Council less injurious, without affecting the ob- jects they had in view, he should be happy to listen to suggestions Mr. K. DOUGLAS proposed an amendment, to arrange that the duty should be chargeable on taking sugars out, instead of being charged on carrying them into warehouse. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER observed that this would be a loss to the revenue of 90,000/. without benefitting the consumer. It was ne gatived, and the bill carried through the committee. REFORM BILL.— On the question that this Bill do pass, Col S1BTHORP rose to propose an amendment. He said, that next Thursday was his rent day, and he hoped his tenants would not call upon him to make a further reduction of 15 per cent. ( Here an lion, member imitated tbe cry of an owl with good effect,) The right hon. Secretary for Ireland, who was the magnus Apollo of the administration, had favoured the house last night with a most ex- traordinary invocation. He would attempt one. The detestable bill was now about to go to another place. He would bid it fare- well, but not an affectionate one; and lie hoped that the House of Lords would fearlessly give it a final rejection. ( Imitation of a cat, aud roars of laughter.) He would not be laughed down, nor coughed down. He would return good for evil, by wishing that those hoti. members who interrupted him might get rid of their re- form cough. The gallant colonel's voice, which he exerted to the utmost, was now for some time completely overpowered by the variety of noises which burst from all parts of the house. Mr. KEARSLEY started up, and cried Order, order," with peculiar energy. Colonel SIBTHORP entreated his hon. friend not to agi- tate himself on his account. He would let gentlemen have their full swing. ( An hon. member here took advantage of an interval of comparative silence, to imitate the gallant colonel's well known cry of " hear, hear," so often repeated during the discussion on the re- form bill. The success of tiie effort was testified by the roar of laughter which rewarded it.) After some further remarks, the gallant member expressed his detestation of the detestable bill. He concluded by a motion fur extending the franchise of Lincoln. Mr. KEARSLEY said, he rose to second the motion, and to con- dole with his gallant friend on the abbreviation of his speech. The noble Paymaster of the Forces had said, on a former evening, that the law officers of the crown had been at a discount for a long time ; but the noble lord must allow him to say, that if ministers were to go to tbe Exchange, they would find that they stood at a much heavier discount. ( A laugh.) He perceived that the noble lords opposite, and their disciples at their backs, were resolved not to listen to the voice of a charmer. ( Great laughter) They had arrived at the last stage of this damnable bill. ( Roars of laughter.) The SPEAKER, when he ceased laughing, said " The hon. member will pardon me, for reminding him that he rose to second the amendment, and ought not to speak so— vaguely." Mr. KEARSLEY resumed amidst cheering. He said that lie had carefully examined the bill, and found that its complexion varied in an extraordinary degree ; the colours were dingy blown, black, and grey, but lie looked in vain for the fair. It was a nauseous pill, composed of two ingredients in themselves most venomous. Would to God he had one in his right hand and one in his left, how he would crush them 1 ( Shouts of laughter.) One of these ingredients was the Russell brown. The other was produced on a tree having a a dark stem and a black top- knot, and was called Durham- mustard. ( Continued laughter.) Having done with the bill, he now turned to the more pleasing duty of gracefully ack- nowledging the indulgence which he had experienced from the house. ( A laugh.) Come what might of the vile pick- pocketing bill nobody could deny that their respected Speaker liad filled the chair with advantage to the country and satisfaction to himself. ( Great laughter.). To him be would say, on behalf of himself and his friends, " Farewell, God bless you!" and to minis- ters he would say, " Farewell, may you meet your deserts 1" ( Con- tinued laughter.) The gallery was then cleared, and the house di- vided, when there appeared for the amendment, 27 ; against it, 169; majority against the amendment, 112. After a few amendments by Lord ALTHORP, the bill passed without a division. DUBLIN.— MARCH 22. ( From our own Correspondent.) I send you a full and accurate report of the brilliant address which his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant made on Tuesday last to the 28th Regiment, on occasion of presenting them with new standards.* The standards were placed at the altar of the Castle Chapel, in the morning, where service was read by Dr. Vignoles, who also consecrated the colours according to the usual form. His Excellency, mounted on his favourite chesnut charger, afterwards delivered the colours to the ensigns of the regiment ; upon which he uttered the above mentioned address with singular energy. INGENIOUS PARSIMONY.— Old L. the printer, never went to the play except on a Saturday : as he was very careful of his health, he always provided himself with a large great- coat, but as this would be an inconvenience to him in the theatre, and he dreaded coffee- house expenses, he used to pawn it previously to going in, and redeem it when he came out. This proceeding cost him only a halfpenny, and he would remark, " I could not leave it in a public- house without taking a glass of porter, and that's three halfpence." PARIS.- VMarch 21. ( From our own Correspondent.') You have politics enough in the papers to satisfy any reasona- ble editor. Be it mine to give you the " Town Talk," the chit- chat, the newest and most interesting topic which agitates the salons of Paris. You must know that there are three principal places of public amusement at present frequented in this metropolis : to wit, the theatres, the Courts of Justice, and the Chamber of Deputies 1- We are often at a loss to ascertain exactly which of the three affords the greatest share of entertainment. As for the Chamber, I suppose you are quite convinced, from the little you see of their proceedings, that it is a dignified and sensible body of men, who never think of aught but the grave interests of their country. If this be your impression, you do the Representatives of the French people much more honour than they deserve ; for in my life I never beheld an assemblage of human beings, old or young, so disorderly, so unmannerly, so- rude and barbarous, as that of the existing Chamber of Deputies. How often, when contemplating the scene before me, as I sat amongst the strangers in the Chamber, have I felt it impossible; to doubt that all was a mockery, a trick, a masquerade, a ludi- crous burlesque of the glorious principle of popular represen- tation. But it is upon a petition day that the Chamber presents that full development of its fantastic character, which alone can ena- ble us to appreciate it thoroughly. These petition days are a species of legislative Saturnalia, during which a perfect equality between superiors and inferiors is permitted, so that all sorts of ridiculous pranks are played by strangers as well as Members, in the form of petitions. To go no further back than last Saturday, I may mention that a great deal of the time of the Chamber was occupied about three somewhat whimsical petitions. An old' gentleman, of the name of Revol sends to the HonourableHouse a petition, in which he is pleased to find fault with the discord which appears to exist amongst them, and as a sovereign remedy against such a calamity, he gravely proposes, that at the com- mencement of every session, each Deputy should draw lots for his seat, and that such seat should be retained by him during the existence of the Parliament 1 To do the Chamber justice they laughed at the petitioner, and scarcely had their mirth subsided^ when it was again called forth by the modesty of a magistrate in. Prussia, who, in his petition, which was presented to the Cham- ber, seriously requested that the estates of the Duke of Nor- mandy, a pretended son of Louis XVI., and now residing in Prussia, should be restored to him 1 " Send the petition to Holyrood," exclaimed one ; " No, no, send it to his Majesty « { Prussia," cried out another. A third petition was presentedfrom a M. Villiers, who besought the Chamber to revive the law for transporting felons. Paris, he said, was crowded with discharged convicts, who were at the bottom of every seditious plot. This was certainly the least ir- rational of the petitions presented on the above day. You are aware that most of the subordinate Courts are con- stantly employed in investigating the various plots which have lately been undertaken for some purpose hostile to the Govern- ment. Indeed not a day passes that some individual or another is not brought up to answer the charge of doing or saying or meaning to do or say something tending to bring the Govern- ment or the King into contempt. The inquiry into the affair of Notre Dame still continues. Witnesses and prisoners are every day brought upfor examination, for it cannot beunknown to you, that persons who are accused in this country are always closely inter- rogated. It so happens that the parties summoned to appearin this matter belong to the very lowest order of the populace ; and in respect of manners, habits, feelings, particularly political feel- ings, they may be considered as being fair specimens of a Paris mob. You will therefore feel some interest in reading the fol- lowing examination at which I was present:— A lad of the name of Weidner, just turned of eighteen, ap- prenticed to a cooper, was brought up on the 13th. He seemed to be a lively careless young fellow, and was charged with having endeavoured to stir up his Majesty's subjects to rebellion by divers expressions, but especially by the following words, spoken by him on the 2d September last, in the public street:—" A republic is far better for us than a monarchy— a consul, my lads, does not want your coach and eight to ride in : Polignac, let me tell you, was worth ten of such men as Perier; for the latter pays poor workmen to stand up against the people, while the other only spirited on the soldiers to make an uproar amongst the citizens. We have got nothing to do then but just to take up one of these policemen and fling him into the river." The President of the Court, whose name is Godart, commenced the proceedings by putting a question to the prisoner :— How is it, Sir, that at your age you are induced to mix your- self up with politics ? WEIDNER— I don't see any reason why I should not take a part in the affairs of my country just at this moment as well as if I was older. PRESIDENT— But you made every body about you believe that you thought a republic was preferable to a monarchy. WEIDNER— True, Sir, I did, I love a republic dearly. PRESIDENT— Indeed 1 well, but you know that such a notion as that does not make you the better subject of a monarchy ; however, it is no crime— only do not create disorder if you please. WEIDNER— But the King is an avowed republican— surely a poor devil like myself may be one. PRESIDENT— You addressed a mob, my friend, on the Quai de Gevres, and you did your best to stir up tbe people, WEIDNER— I stir up ? I never did such a thing in my life. PRESIDENT— But then you made a speech to those aboutyou. WEIDNER— Nay, but they were all of the same mind as myself, even these spy fellows who arrested me. A long paper, purporting to be directions to a set of conspirators was then read, and Weidtier was charged with being the author of it. This he denied point blank. Some witnesses were called to prove the paper to be his, but the Jury did not believe them, and Weidner was acquitted. Theatrical intelligence I reserve for my next. I am sorry to in- form you that the Taglioni met with a severe accident whilst per- forming in her own splendid ballet of La Sylphide. * This speech will be found in another part of this day's paper. too THE TO war. March 25, TO CORRESPONDENTS. We have left ourselves no room to insert the contributions of many Correspondents, or even to give them at present a more particular reply. THE TOW^ LONDON: SUNDAY, MARCH 25, 1832. His MAJESTY, after holding a Levee, on Thursday, at St. James's, returned to Windsor. We are happy to say that their MAJESTIES arc in tho enjoyment of excellent health. A report was current during the early part of the week, that Sir JAMES GRAHAM was going out to Madras; and that Lord ALTHORP would take the Admiralty. We may state, on the contrary, that the Governor destined for Madras is Sir FREDERIC ADAM, who is now at Corfu: although we believe it not improbable, that when the Reform Bill has past, some changes will take place in the members, but not in the principles, of the Admi- nistration at home. pacific professions of the Emperor NICHOLAS are at vari- ance with his known policy, and they must be viewed with distrust. LORD GREY AND THE TIMES. Our readers will be somewhat amused by the following solution of the public- spirited attack lately made by the " leading journal'' upon the ministerial tactics of the Premier. The Editor of the Times sent a dictatorial letter to Earl GREY, requesting to be informed of the intentions of Ministers as to the creation of Peers, SEC. Lord GREY wrote a laconic answer to the following effect:— Lord GREY presents his compliments to tbe Editor of the Times, and, in reply to his letter, begs to observe, that, although he has a high opinion of that journal, and duly appreciates its influence, the Editor must have forgotten that he ( Lord GREY) had taken a Privy Counsellor's oath. We beg our readers' attention to the straightforward de- claration of Mr. STANLEY, in the House of Commons, on the subject of " the Peers," in answer to Sir CHARLES WETHERELL'S grotesque threats of impeachment. The Right Hon. Gentleman affirmed the undoubted duly of the Minister to advise a creation of Peers " in the emer- gency of the two houses of Parliament being in complete and total variance;" and he added, that " should the ad- visers of the Crown consider it their duty to take such a step, they would not flinch from the responsibility of giving that advice; and that the Ministers would not suffer any of the principles of the Reform Bill to be impaired." In ac- cordance with that declaration, we have good reason for stating, that the following will be the policy of the govern- ment;— The Bill will be allowed a second reading; and if upon a calculation of forces, founded upon a requisition of direct pledges, the Ministers are enabled, in the absence of proxies, to get the measure, unscathed, through committee, during the interval between that and the third reading the Peers will be created, should such a step appear necessary on an examination of the strength of government, and upon the wise principle, that those who are not with us are against us. The Bill will not be committed till after Easter; and should it even then be deemed necessary, the Peers will be created. What becomes, then, of the charges of weakness and indecision against Lord GREY;— we think we have given a clue to some of them. In the meantime, negotiation is not abandoned, and the Premier may be often seen apart, in earnest conversation with Lords WHARN- CLIFFE and HARROWBY in the House of Lords. A very important piece of information has reached us through a channel of great respectability, and upon which we think we can rely. It will be recollected that, about a month ago, we announced that the British and French Governments had declared to the King of Spain, that they would not permit any interference by him in favour of Don MIGUEL. In consequence of this declaration, the Spanish Cabinet met, and a reply of rather a satisfactory nature was made to our Court; so that, although there was no direct pledge of non- interference on the part of Spain, no reason existed for believing that she would interfere. It appears, however, that a few days after this reply was made, there was a meeting of the Apostolic Junta, under the presidency of the King, at which it was resolved to give private instructions to the Generals com- manding the Army of Observation on the frontiers, to assist Don MIGUEL in the event of an invasion by the forces of Don PEDRO ; and an intimation was made to them, that although it might be necessary for the Ministry to disavow the act, and to cashier the officers in question, they would be amply compensated by being appointed governors of provinces, or to other posts. Now, if this statement be true, and we repeat that its source is above suspicion, it will be tho duly of Lord PALMERSTON to insist on the immediate withdrawal of the Spanish Army of Observation to such a distance as to be unable to give any aid to Don MIGUEL. Of what use otherwise will remonstrance be. The Spanish Ministry will readily disavow an act which was purposely executed upon orders derived through a different source, and a nominal punishment may have been inflicted upon the offenders; but the mischief may then have been done. Don PEDRO may have been defeated in his object through Spanish interference, and an empty show of deference to Great Britain will be the only result of her complaint. Lord PALMERSTON should immediately insist upon some step which will render the King of Spain incapable of assisting his brother despot, and it would be well to send to tho Tagus such a forcc for the protection of the persons and property of British subjects, as would convince both FERDINAND and MIGUEL that our Government is serious in its desire to promote a just and legitimate cause. Count ORLOFF is hourly expected from the Hague, and hopes are entertained that be will feel himself authorised to ratify the treaty of the Conference by the 31st. Austria and Prussia have intimated that they will probably be prepared to exchango ratifications by that time, and it would not be decent for Russia to hold out. But Russia has a game of her own to play, and she will protract to the latest possible period the recognition of national in- dependence in Belgium, which would be an admission of the right of a people to exchange despotism for liberty, and the reign of tyranny for the rule of the law. The The POPE has become a furious prolestant. On the Gib inst. Cardinal BERNETTI, in the name of his Holiness, delivered a new Protest to the French ambassador, in which he complains, 1st, That the French officers at An- cona had required the liberation of two persons who had been imprisoned for political offences. 2dly, That at the request of the French, a patriotic air was played at the opera, which excited great enthusiasm in the audience; and 3dly, That persons banished by the Pontifical govern- ment, and excluded from the amnesty of the last year, were freely moving about with the French officers. There are other complaints, but these are the chief, and dreadful indeed they are. The liberation of men from the fangs of the Pontifical government— the execution of an air in favour of liberty at the Opera— and the protection of honourable patriots, who had been banished by a despotic and unjust decree— such charges as these will do more credit to the French nation than the same number of victories in the field. The French have befriended humanity in Greece, and they are now doing the same in Italy. May they always be open to such a charge. THE TORY PROFESSION OF FAITH. I believe that the poor should be slaves of the rich ; I believe that the Irish should die in a ditch ; I believe that the East should he ruled by the sword ; I believe it was made but to profit the Board ; I believe that the peasant should never be taught ; I believe that the patriot but seeks to be bought ; I believe that the system of credit is good ; I believe discontent should he silenced by blood ; I believe that all government Lords and M. P.' s May demand from the country whatever they please That a Bishop, who sits as a temporal Peer, Should have nothing to do for twelve thousand a- year ; And that sailors who sigh for promotion should show Collateral blood— not the blood of the foe ; I believe in the good of the National Debt; I believe that it is not half large enough yet, And I mean to increase it by what I can get 1 " Ex nihilo, nihil fit." For this excellent reason we cannot descant upon the proceedings in the House of Lords. Their Lordships met on Monday and Tuesday night merely to do some little business of routine. On Thursday a spirited debate took place on the eternal subject of education in Ireland, in which the Bishop of EXETER took almost too conspicuous a share. Lord GREY was very happy in his reply to the Duke of WELLINGTON. Upon a division, there was a majority of 38 in favour of Ministers. Having already said so much ourselves upon the subject, we shall let it stand over for the present; but we think it right to subjoin part of Mr. STANLEY'S letter in answer to some inquiries upon the point, in order that the arraigners of Government may, at least, understand the nature of their plan— may know what it really is which they criticize and condemn, and be right in their premises before they rush to their conclusions:— " From your letter, I am led to believe that you are not aware " that one of the first objects of the Government is to establish " schools for the combined moral and literary, and separate re- " ligious education of Roman Catholic and Protestant children. " With this view, therefore, it is intended that the joint educa- " tion of children of different persuasions attending the same " school, shall attend only to literary instruction, and to such " extracts from the Sacred Writings as shall be approved by the " whole Board of Commissioners; but that the separate religious " tuition shall be such as will be sanctioned by the respective " members of the Board of the three persuasions. The free use of " the whole Bible, at all but the hours for combined instruction, " will be afforded to all Protestants, subject to the direction of " the Protestant clergy; and we, of course, cannot have the " smallest pretension to interfere with any parent of any per- " suasion, as to the choice of a school to which he should send " his child." At the general tameness of the Lords we do not wonder. They may well reserve their energies for the encounter which is to come. They have never played for so vital a stake. The good of the entire nation, and their own exist- ence as a body are involved in the issue. The future des- tinies of Great Britain, and if of Great Britain, then of Europe, and of the whole civilized world, may take their colour from the decision to which the Peers shall arrive upon the Reform Bill, which is about to be brought before them. We began these remarks in a tone of levity but we cannot continue it. Deeper, and more serious feelings steal upon us involuntarily as we proceed. We are almost shaken between conflicting hopes and apprehensions, and we shall be forgiven if, on so important, and really solemn an occasion, we speak in a strain for which the columns of a newspaper are not, in common cases, the fittest vehicle. We trust that the Peers of England will not again disap- point the wishes, and place themselves in collision with the expressed sentiments of millions upon millions of their fellow- countrymen. For the rest, we would leave the event in the hands of Providence, and we pray to Heaven, that the determination of the Lords, be it what it may , may be the one which shall be most conducive to their own honour and safely, to the welfare of this magnificent and mighty Empire, and to the common happiness of all its population. verging in point of intellect, and receding from each other in respcct to their political position." It is precisely upon these premises, which we suspect will not be questioned, that we approve of the reform now in progress. We un equivocally state our conviction, that much of the present distressed condition of the working classes may be relieved by the honest and laborious efforts of a Parliament, in which their wishes and rights ( the rights of humanity) will be fairly represented, and will obtain, in spite of the opposi- tion of those to whose short- sighted selfishness they have been too often systematically sacrificed. But even were it impossible ( which we deny) to afford material relief to present pressure, is there no wisdom in providing against a repetition of that misguided and wretched system of policy to which much of this misery is consequent? Mr. HUME stated, in 1822, and demonstrated the statement, that " in the previous 29 years a debt of six hundred mil- lions had been contracted, whilst the total Government ex- penditure during that period might have been defrayed by raising additional taxes ( query, by saving?) to the amount of only five or six millions above those annually contributed by the nation : the whole expense of tho state for those 2!) years might thus have been covered, by 138 millions ad- ditional, raised by laxes within these years, iusfead of sad- dling ourselves with a permanent charge on loans to the amount of 609 millions." By the system proposed for the House of Commons in the Reform Bill, the real balance of the Constitution— not that described by the schoolboy's oracle, DF. LOLME, but that which does actually exist between the aristocratic and democratic interests— will be more justly poised, and suited to the condition of both classes. Those who de- scribe it as an absolute transfer of power to the popular scale, will not see that the 149 county members, and the 110 returned by the smaller boroughs, will be powerful supporters of their order, against the minority of less than 169, who will be returned by the large constituencies. Yet we plainly state, that considerable modifications in the taxation of the country, and a more careful direction of its energies for the benefit of the people at large, must inevitably ensue— a result which, so far from tending to endanger property, will increase its security. In reference to the above important considerations, we beg to refer our readers lo the account of Lord BROUGHAM'S Commission for an inquiry into the slate of the Poor Laws, in a subsequent column. Considerable discussion arose on the proposal for the House going into Committee on the sugar duties, on Fri- day, when Lord AI- THORP proposed the granting a loan to the sufferers by the Jamaica insurrection, and the hurricane in Barbadoes. After this the bill for the conti- nuation of the sugar duties for six months, passed through committee. Lord ALTHORP persisted in not disclosing the specific measure of fiscal relief that is contemplated by Government, but we can have no doubt that the doing away all restrictions between the trade of the Islands with the United States is the measure intended. This would give relief to tho suffering colonists, to an annual amount of nearly a million and a half!— in plain terms, they can no longer go on without it. Government are quite justified in making the relief conditional upon the adoption of the order in council ; at the same time it was intimated last night that any part of that order will be mo- dified which can be shown to be ill adapted to existing re- lations between the planter and his slave. We have before spoke of the reduction of the duty on coffee ; that upon cocoa might also be reduced more than 50 per cent. The use of this excellent and naturally abund- ant article is nearly abandoned, the consumption in this country, being only 200 tons; and the revenue derived from it, 10,000/. Great encouragement to the cultivation ol coffee and cocoa might be given, by removing a duty which would not decrease the revenue. The duly upon sugar, too, would certainly bear a reduction of one- third without a diminution of revenue to a greater amount than half a million. The report of the West India Committee is anxiously looked for. We entertain little doubt the above measures will be advised and adopted in the next session of Parliament. The motion of Mr. BUXTON on negro emancipation comes on early in April, when we shall evert to this important topic. LOOSE RHYMES, AFTER THE MANNER OF JOHN GILPIN. The third reading of the Reform Bill, in the House of Commons, took place at half- past four on Friday morning, after three nights'debate; tbe majority was 116, a greater number, in a fuller house, than that which passed the bill in September. Wc have distinctly stated our opinions above as to the fate of this new charter in the House of Lords. We will not tax our readers' patience by any lengthened remarks upon the speeches during the pro- tracted discussion of this eventful week. The absence of any new arguments on the opposition side, will be sufficient excuse for our applying ourselves to the most important consideration included in this subject, namely, the proba- ble working of the bill when it shall become law. A mark of the late lamented Mr. HUSKISSON was quoted with considerable effect during the debate on Friday. He said, " That one of the inconveniences of legislating for the country at that moment was, that the two orders of society, the high and low, were more and more disparting from each other— the higher became more and more re- fined, and the lower more indigent, though better informed, exhibiting the singular phenomenon of a population con- Newcastle's Duke a book indites, For he cannot make a speech ; Yet, like John Walsh the mute, he feels An itch to teach and preach 1 But Croker does a better thing : He writes a pamphlet too ; And bitter bad his pamphlet is— Betwixt myself and you. But Croker knows that printing's dear For dullness wide astray— So puts it on the Commons' House, And makes the nation pay. For boldly to himself he says, " If have Reform they will, Another bill I'll tack to their's, And that's— my printer's bill 1" God prosper long our noble King, With Croker on the shelf; And when he next a pamphlet writes, May he pay the costs himself 1 If we have any one aim sincerely, warmly, and con slantly at heart, it is to grapple boldly and systematically with the vital and all- comprehensive subject of Human Improvement. Wherever it can in any way be promoted, there we trust that we shall be found lighting in the van. But we would do something more, if it be practicable, than exert merely partial and desultory efforts. As far as the form and arrangements of a newspaper can possibly admit, we are anxious to contemplate the whole topic upon an enlarged scale, under various points of view, and with some attention to regularity and method. We would first collect and compare facts, and then propose plans founded upon their acknowledged truth. With this end before us, we would look to knowledge and education— to moral and religious habits— to social manners and diversions; we would examine what has been, what is, what may be, and what ought to be; we would survey mankind collectively and individually; we would consider what is to be done by governments and legislation— what by associations and unions of various kinds— what by private and particular exertions ; yet in taking so vast a field, and laying the foundations of our edifice so extensively, we are well aware of the magnitude and difficulty of our task, Heppe, while wc arrange our own materials, and gather more from our own sources, we would also announce to our readers with what cheerfulness and satisfaction we would receive from them any information or any suggestions, any data not usually known, and more especially any statistic intelli- gence, compressed into a tabular and digested shape We have already to be grateful for much of kindness and en- couragement, and we place no small trust in that confi- dence between ourselves and the public, which is becoming weekly established more and more. The day appointed for the National Fast has happily passed off without any serious accident or confusion. The proper authorities issued a proclamation, warning the peo- ple against riotous assemblages and processions ; and we were glad to observe the daily Papers taking up the same line of argument and advice of which we gave an example in our paper of last week. A few skirmishes between the populace and the police— a few wounds given and received — were naturally to be expected from the foolish parade which the Political Unions had set on foot. Indeed what better results can ever be anticipated from idle meetings and processions?— Idle, because without use or object which must render men already distressed and poorly fed only more harassed in mind and body— hungry, from ex- ercise— thirsty, from excitement and heat— discontented and ill- humoured, from fatigue; and therefore ripe for drunkenness, insubordination, and disorder. All such affairs must prove, in the event, at once wearisome to the individuals, troublesome to the government, and mis- chievous to fhe cause of Reform ; inasmuch as' they alarm the fears of the timid and the neutral, and put arguments into the hands of the obstinate abettors of inveterate abuses— the violent enemies of every, the most beneficial change. ' By the middle classes, the fast was decently and care- fully observed. Many excellent discourses were delivered from the various pulpits of the metropolis, and the col- lections at the church doors were generally successful. How is it that so few Peers attended the sermon preached by Dr. MALTBY, the Bishop of Chichester?— Are the Peers too indifferent?— Or is the divine too liberal for their taste7 At the west- end indeed Ihe fast- day was almost merged iii the holiday. The only symptoms of national mortification discernible in Hyde- park, were an almost unusual number of handsome equipages, and a crowd of pedestrians, who seemed to think much more of the fineness of the day than of its solemnity. GALLERY OF " ILLUSTRIOUS" LIVING CHARACTERS. No. X. ( A SKETCH FROM WHITE'S BAY WINDOW.) With vacant glance, and brush- despising hair, Wasting its sweetness on St. James's air, ' Tis Ellenbro' stalks, with measur'd tread, And all Macassar reeks upon his head ; A lonely instance of the centaur tribe Of statesmen changed— half dandy and half scribe* ; The head which Truefitt had been proud to set ' Bove all his blocks, once graced the Cabinet I Though short its sway; for England scarce could bear, With all her burdens, such a power of hair I * Vide his celebrated Elephant letter. For the progress of the Cholera we refer our readers to the official report. Here we would only add a brief re- mark, and it is this:— The truth must be ascertained, aud must be told. Is it so at present?— Is sufficient care taken to collect and authenticate the cases?— Are not some in- serted which are not eases of malignant Cholera ?— Are not others ( and, we fear, tho larger number) suppressed and concealed. We repeat, that if reports ere made at all, they ought to be, and must be, accurate. One word more. We read and bear of cases neglected well as suppressed. We have seen accounts of more than one person carried about from place to place, without finding a receptacle in his miserable state, and absolutely dying for want of proper attention. Is this endurable, after all the time which has elapsed for preparation, and all the parade which has been made? Soon, perhaps, if these abuses are not corrected, the poor may utterly distrust the medical men and the authorities of the district, and prefer like the peasants of Hungary, to perish by hundreds in their own way. We extract the following morceau from the Times; and must say, that the language is somewhat awkward, con- sidering the manner in which the editor of that paper trumpets forth its style. " A Correspondent informs us, that the cholera morbus is prevalent at Paris, and has been so for the last three months. We stated as much some days ago, on the authority of private letters from thence, which has not since been contradicted." When we recollect what has appeared in this paper, on more than one occasion, we can give a shrew d guess as to the quarter from which the correspondent of" the Times has derived bis information. The Alfred, in copying some of our intelligence, has done us the favour of calling our paper a " revolutionary print." Now the Alfred ought to thank us for this no- tice, because it is one of those productions with respect to which the public verdict has been hitherto according to the words of Mr. BAYLEY'S song, " Oh no, we never mention it, Its name is never heard." We, however, stafe the circumstance, chiefly because we have a very few words to say about the term " revo- lutionary," as applicable to ourselves, and likewise about one or two more private matters, concerning which we shall trouble our readers as briefly as is possible. If there be any paper more devoted than another to the cause of genuine, unadulterated, and comprehensive Re- form, we confidently affirm that paper to be the TOWN; but if there be any paper more adverse than another to " revolution," in its offensive sense, we also affirm that paper to be the TOWN. And these two principles are so far from being incompatible with each other, that they have a necessary connexion and dependence between themselves. The case is so plain, that we will not add another syllable. But, farther: There are parties going about London, jealous of our rapid and growing popularity ; on that ac- count, we presume, speaking false reports as to the origin of this paper— the parties who are concerned in it— and tho objects which it has in view. Upon tbe former of these points the public can have little direct interest, and there- fore we forbear to enlarge ; yet we may say, without ego- tism or offence, that the rumours and conjectures to which we allude are wide of the truth. As to the third point, we appeal to what the paper 151, Let any man read it, and March 25. TIIE TOwnr. l « t then say that our object is to acquire a meretricious suc- cess by personal scurrility if he can. We should disdain such success:— " Grant us an honest fame, or grant us none. But, alas! our humour is lively, and our satire is some- times keen: and the obvious trick of some political cor- ruptionist is to make an outcry about personal scurrility when we touch him in a sore place. Once for all then- what is the TOWN, and what its aims? In order to prevent any future misconception, we will briefly answer these questions, even at the risk of re- peating our own words:— To combine the liberal and the conservative principles;— to prevent revolution, by advo- cating necessarv reforms ;— to promote every object of true philanthropy;— and to advance the great cause of human knowledge and human happiness: such is our design : to bccome the recognized organs of that vast, most respect- able, and most inlluential class of our fellow- countrymen who have the same sentiments at heart— such is our am- bition ; to collect every species of information, and di- versify our columns with every variety of style;— to be firm, without intemperance— rigorous, without scurrility— and playful, without offence to decency and virtue:— such is our study, and such our hope. LATENT SIGNS. In the Morning Papers, among the Parliamentary debates, appeared the following paragraph, purporting to belong to the speech of Lord Mahon :— " He ( Lord Mahon) was reminded that there was a third and " a living proof of the commencement of re- action, in the Right " Hon. Member for Stamford, whose speech of that evening " showed the latent signs ( a laugh) of division among the friends " of Reform, which would inevitably break forth as soon as this " measure was carried." In this comprehensive and marvellous faculty of vision, we perceive a strong reason why Lord Mahon should be toasted as the representative of the Historians of England. Milton says— " ' Till old experience doth attain To something like prophetic strain." But Lord Mahon's youthful prescience is more than like." Common foresight or " second sight," or any other sight, is nothing to it. Croker, on hearing the sentence, passed the following epigram along the benches of the House of Commons " Unfair, oh Mah'n ! the odds ' twixt us and thee ;— Poor dogs, but seeing what there is to see. While ills on ills thy mighty mind divines— Great Seer 1 whose eye discerns the " latent signs." The Duke of NEWCASTLE has lately written and cir- culated a pamphlet, containing his own opinions on the present aspect of affairs, and his advice to the several classes of the community. It is in many places eloquent as a composition, not because it possesses the rhetorical artifices of a practised style, but because it is evidently written from the heart. We had prepared some severe strictures upon some of the political principles which it con- tains; but upon farther consideration, the gall drops from our pen. The Duke of NEWCASTLE has been frequently exposed to attacks, which, as far as his personal character and conduct are concerned, have been, we are free to say, unmerited and unfair. From many of the opinions enter- tained by bis Grace we altogether dissent; and we dcploro his opposition to Reform in the same proportion as we re- spect it. We believe it to be entirely conscientious and sincere; and it has never been expressed with intemper- ance and rancour. The DUKE was honest in his resistance to the Catholic claims— l< e is honest at the present moment in his resistance to the Ministerial bill; and therefore he is sacred, on our part, from any cutting invective or serious vituperation. To lighter raillery— the flying artillery of political warfare— he must, of course, be subject in his political capacity. And, iu a graver mood, we would en treat him to re- consider, ere it be too late, the line of policy which he so strenuously adopts. We entreat him to pause in an opposition which no longer so much arrays party against party, as it places one class of society in di- rect hostility against the rest, and the success of which might be ultimately ruinous to all. We know that his Grace can neither be bribed nor threatened into com- pliance; but we trust that he is still open to reasoning and conviction. He lias made one or two very unfortunate de- clarations; but these wc will not recall. His very name is wormwood to the people: but, after all, they have little reason to vilify him, as lie pursues and seeks what he be- lieves, however mistaken, to be their true and permanent interest. On the w hole, a liberal and beneficent landlord, in spjte of some unhappy differences between himself and his tenants— a well- meaning and warm- hearted patriot, in spite of some apparent sacrifices to the cause of corruption and abuse— a kind- hearted, virtuous, and religious man— the Duke of NEWCASTLE is one of those Tories whom we yet hope to see abjuring his creed, before they arc taught by the stern lessons of necessity and painful experience ; and whom, on a hundred accounts, we would rather have with us than against us. STATE OF THE UNIVERSITIES. • We are turning our attention lo the state of the English, and, in fact, of all other Universities. We make no pro- fessions about superior accuracy of intelligence. AVe trust that by this time tliey must be superfluous. There is not a number of The Town published that does not contain some original and exclusiveinformatiou, which, whether borrowed from us or not, at least does not appear in other papers until considerably later. At present, we have only room to remark, that we be- lieve the system, both at Oxford and Cambridge, to be progressively improving, although assuredly much remains to he done, Still our Colleges may, at any rale, write upon their walls, the famous inscription of the Russian University, " PAULATIM;" and we cannot expect that every thing should be effected at once. We now publish the classical verses subjoined, both as a specimen of the playful attacks which might be fairly levelled against Oxford a few years ago; and, again, of that elegant spirit in literary taste and composition which, after all, a regular English education is best calculated to produce:— CHORUS PERFORMED BY THE FELLOWS OF A COLLEGE AT OXFORD. SIR JOHN SOANE AND THE ROYAL ACADEMY. At the Royal Academy of Arts, at Somerset- house, on Thurs- day evening last, at the conclusion of Sir John Soane's course of scientific and entertaining lectures on architecture, a commu- nication was made by him to the members, through Henry Howard, Esq., their secretary, which cannot but be highly in- teresting to any lover of the fine arts. As near as we could col- lect, the honourable secretary concluded, by stating, that some of the drawings exhibited in these lectures formed part of a large work on architecture then in progress ( not intended to be pub- lished) a copy of which when completed, would be presented by Sir John to the president and council of this institution, for the use of the students ; that, with this communication, he had in- tended to have closed his lecture, but from the hope that what he was then about to add would in some degree tend, in the words of the immortal bard, " to whet the almost blunted purpose" of erecting a National Gallery for the reception of the works of the old masters, and those of our highly- talented artists of the British school, that he then proceeded to state, that the house in which he resided, with the museum and library, would be open two days in the week, during several months in the year, for the in- [ The piece opens with a slow Anapcestic movement; after which spection of amateurs and students in painting, sculpture, and the actors separate, the Strophe moving to the right hand, the Anti- Strophe to the left. The Principal, in his wig, in the middle;— this point was much disputed, but the precedents were found, finally, in favour of the wig.} ANAPIESTS. Hence with the grape of France; ' tis poison, Sent to intoxicate orthodox sinners: Or if wine we must set eyes on, Send us, O Morpheus, port to our dinners. Port shall lull our lucubrations, Bottle and seal our wholesome knowledge; I feel its hazy inspirations; Bring me the bishop, ye sons of our college ; Sons of Oxford, bring me the bishop. O there's nought in the world like port. STROPHE. Do I err ? The fragrant bowl With its amber stream dispenses Clouds which steep our high- church senses In a gentle dream profound; Shadowy forms of moods and tenses, Syllogisms and enthymemes Mix and mingle with our dreams, And on light wings of logic hover round. Hence, hence, ye Nine, whose desultory song Has all too long bewilder'd mortal men, And led their willing souls too long ; Descend, descend, ye Ten ; Ye ten Predicaments, I feel Your mystic influence round me steal; Anon, through all the moods I stray, Led on by gentle Barbara; She, universal maiden, leads My steps along the flowery meads, WTliere Aldrich guides our feet, and dimly points the way. ANTI- STROPHE. Nature in vain, or early habit, gave To some the metaphysic mind, To others magic song, or souls refin'd: We scorn her galling chains. Shall Oxford he her slave? No ; though the hill of science rise, Accessible on all sides round, Pointing with steep top upwards to the skies,— The path is one to mortal pow'rs, A turnpike- trust, whose toll is ours; For Heav'n to Oxford's guardian care assign'd, ( Tho' far beyond each Scotch reviewer's ken,) Prescriptive right the soul to save, And letters- patent to her gave To manufacture men. Then hence, avaunt, ye wits profanely bold, Who dare to quaff forbidden lore, Who disbelieve what we have told, Or read what was not read before ; Fill, fill your cups— we drink to Isis' shore. To wit and genius banishment, Prosperity to Precedent, And may she flourish long; Thank Heav'n no soul accuseth us Of wit, or taste, or genius, Or eloquence or song! rochial labourer; the use of spade husbandry would become more general; and, in case the farmer found difficulty in giving work to his additional hands, he would naturally re- sort to the expedient of permitting his men to find employ- ment for themselves, by letting to them such small portions of land as would occupy their spare time ; thus indirectly extending another grand mode of ameliorating the condi- tion of the poor, and of re- establishing that harmony and good feeling between the higher and lower classes, which arc now well nigh extinguished. architecture during his life. At his death, the property would descend to his grandson, the son of the late Mr. John Soane, with sufficient funds to enable him to maintain and use the house, the museum, and library in the same manner as during his, Sir John's, lifetime. At the decease of his grandson, without male issue, the house, museum, and library, with sufficient funds for the support thereof, including a salary for a professor of archi- tecture, who should deliver periodically a series of lectures, would be vested in trustees, to be chosen and appointed by his exe- cutors, until there should be a national establishment for the im- provement of the students in the theory and practise of that use- ful and noble art. When that great and noble object should be obtained, the trust then should cease, and the house, museum, and library, with the funds appropriated thereto, should revert to whomsoever might then be legally entitled thereto, in the hope and expectation that he would devote himself to the study and practise of architecture, and to the discharge of the arduous and important duties of that profession with equal justice towards the employer and employed; always remembering, that the integrity of the architect, like the chastity of Csesar's wife, must be not only pure, but unsuspected. We need hardly add a comment upon this testamentary de- claration. It breathes that mild, benevolent, and liberal tone which pervades all Sir John's actions. We, however, fervently trust, that this will act as a stimulus to the government to form that which has been so long called for, and which is to be met with in every other great country except our own— a national gallery, into which they may gather together this and other trea- sures of a similar nature, which are now thrown by, as it were, in corners, and lost altogether, if not to its inspection, at least to its pride and honour. The President, and a very full assembly of members and amateurs, were present. CAPTAIN SARTORIUS. We perceive that Captain Sartorius, who commands the naval expedition of Don Pedro, has been struck off the list of the Navy. The Member of Opposition who called the attention of Government to the circumstance of his holding this command, was his brother- officer Captain Yorke. What strange things men will do in politics! Now we are upon the subject, we will make an observation upon that act of Parliament, under the operation of which this gallant officer and good man ( Sartorius) may be said to have suffered. The Foreign Enlistment bill was passed in the Castlereagh times of subservience to the Holy Alliance. We do not know of any evil the nation ever sustained by the prac- tice ( in common with other countries) of permitting the " fiery spirits of the age" to seek service in other lands, during a long peace ; and we could mention many who have done so, and afterwards returned to increase the renown of their father land : a Sydney Smith and a Knowles are among these. We are glad to hear that it is not the intention of the Irish Independents to offer any opposition to Government in the con- duct of the Reform bill for that country. The statement in The Morning Herald, about the Lord Chan- cellor's health and state of mind, is incorrect: he is quite him- self again, as the Tories will discover when " the Bill" comes on. It was stated at the meeting of Proprietors of the Bank of England, that the charter will not be renewed without a Parlia- mentary inquiry into the whole banking system of the country. This is well: that the Bank of England should have its charter again, few will be found to gainsay ; but surely this charter should not preclude the public from the benefit of competition which is the secret of the success of the Scotch system, and its absence the cause of those evils which, both wittingly and un- wittingly, have been perpetrated on the commerce and comforts of the people of this country by the Bank of England. It is said that if the restriction of the number of partners were done away, still joint stock companies for banking would not he formed in London : if so, we should be no worse off than we are at present. Whatever may be done, however, we trust that secu- rity may be required from all private banks to the amount of their issues* LO RD BROUGHAM AND THE POOR LA IPS'. We have great satisfaction in informing our readers of | the appointment of a Commission, under the direction of Lord BROUGHAM— the objects of which command our I heartfelt approbation. The individuals* of the committee— towards many of whom our praise would be superfluous — have been appointed for the purpose of enquiring fully into | the working and practice of the Poor Laws throughout England. They have extensive powers to examine wit- I nesses, 8tc. ; and their report will be the foundation [ of a general measure of legislation, to be submitted to Parliament. We need not waste words to prove the vital necessity of I taking into immediate and deep consideration the state of the agricultural poor, together with the progressively in- creasing burden upon the land, in the shape of parochial taxation. We do enterlain hopes of the practicability of adapting a measure, even to the actual condition of this class, which, if it does not remove, at least, will mitigate many of the evils of the present system. Want of employ- ment is frequently accompanied by a negligent and insuffi- cient cultivation. It is feared, that every attempt to pro- cure employment for the labourers upon the land, and con- sequently to improve its cultivation, will prove abortive, without ihe interference of the legislature, from the diffi- culty— amounting almost to impossibility— of gaining the unanimous concurrence of all the individuals of a parish. We propose, therefore, that a bill should he brought into Parliament for the purpose of authorising the enactment, of a labour rate in those parishes where two- thirds in value of the rate- payers shall deem ifs adoption requisite. To carry this plan into effectual operation, it would be advisable that each parish, which places itself under the provisions of the proposed bill, should first ascertain the number of labourers belonging to the said parish ; then the number which have been supported by the parish, upon an average, during the last three years ; which latter deducted from the ROYAL SOCIETY. A meeting of the members of the Royal Society, at Somerset- house, was held on Thursday evening last, at which the Duke of Sussex being unable to preside, in consequence of his having to attend in the House of Lords on Lord Wicklow's motion on Scriptural education in Ireland, Dr. Buckland, the professor of I former, will give the number which ought to be regularly geology, took the chair. After the reading of the minutes of the employed amongst the occupiers of the land. To deter- former meeting, and proposing the names of several new mem- 1 j11 what manner this number shall be justly appor- bers, amongst which we noticed that of Michael S. Sadler, Esq., M. P., the secretary proceeded to read a communication from the brother of the late Sir Humphrey Davy, on the powers of the elec- tricity of the torpedo. The introductory part was extremely interesting, stating, that even on his death- bed, Sir Humphrey was occupied in the ad- vancement of science, leaving ( amongst others) directions to his brother as to the course he was to pursue in prosecuting the in- vestigation of this singular phenomenon. The communication mine in what manner this number shall tioned to each individual, it would be necessary that a vestry should appoint a committee, who are, in the first place, to fix upon a scale by which to regulate the relative proportion of labourers, according as the land may be diffe- rently cultivated— as, for instance, pasture, woodland, arable, hop- ground, & c. ; for, it is evident, that the num- ber of labourers that should be employed must vary accord- ing to these circumstances. Having fixed upon the above- mentioned scale, the committee should proceed to adjudge the number of labourers each farmer ought to employ. To maintain the portion of the unemployed labourers, an ade then entered into a very elaborate and scientific explanation of quate rate should bo made, which would be charged upon the different experiments that had been made on the torpedo, the rate- payers at large ; but from this rate those indivi- which certainly appeared to have its due effect on the majority I duals would be exempt, who having the number oflabour- „ „ , „ „ , ,, . ... , . , . , ers apportioned to them in constant employ, should give of the hearers. On dit, that the scientific chairman himself was ^^ emp, oy t() Moh a number> as their proportion of observed to be suffering under its influence, and that three or 1 proportion rate would maintain ; or, every person, though he may not four of the members were only aroused from their slumbers by I have occasion for so many men as would work out his the noise of the servants putting out the lights and bolting the whole rate, might yet be exonerated from the payment of doors. There was a conversazione held afterwards in the society's so much of his rate as the additional labourers he employed noble library. Amongst the company present we observed Mr. | would entitle him to. Assessed servants should not be Hudson Gurney, M. P., Sir John Rennie, Mr. Perkins, the emi- nent American engineer and mechanist, Mr. J. W. Lubbock, the Rev. Professor Ritchie, Dr. Bree, Wm. Tooke, Esq., and many other distinguished members of the corps litteraire et scientifique. Admirable portraits, by Lawrence, of Dr. Wollaston and Sir Humphrey Davy, constitute an interesting and valuable addition to the already rich collection of original portraits in the apart- ments of the society of their more illustrious deceased associates, taken into account. By the adoption of the above plan, every landholder would be enabled to receive an equivalent for his money, which is now worse than uselessly expended upon the pa- * Among whom are the Bishops of London and Chester, and J. N. Senior, Esq., late Professor of Political Economy at Mag- dalen College, TOWN TALK. It is said that the Duke of G determined on Wednes- day last to take no nourishment until late in the afternoon.—. Becoming rather faint and hungry about one o'clock, his Royal Highness amused himself by saying, that " other people might call it a fast day, but that, for his part, he thought it the slowest day he had ever known." CROKER'S FIGURES.—" Croker," said Horace Twiss, " deals both in figures of speech and figures of arithmetic—" " Without making much figure in either," said Luttrell, interrupting him. The fact is, that his figures of speech are as dull as his figures of arithmetic ; and his figures of arithmetic as fanciful as his figures of speech. Why do the Tories perpetually quote the great author who de- nounced the first revolution in France ? " Oh," said H, Smith, " it is very natural that they should wish to BURKE tha Reform Bill." Some one asked Trevor where the King was : he replied, " I don't exactly know ; but Perceval says he is in a net. A conversation lately took place in the presence of the sama gentleman, respecting some of the newspapers. It was said, that one journal was the organ of one party, another of another, and so on ; and it was then added ( a mere libel on the clergy, by tha way) that " the John Bull was the ' organ of the Church' "—- " Bless me I" ejaculated Mr. T. " have they removed the old one ? I heard it play very well two or three Sundays ago." Not altogether dissimilar is a mistake made by Sir C. Hunter, when he was told of some new jeu d' esprit which had appeared in the TOWN. " Another Jew d'esprit— oh, I dare say," was his remark, " but why do they make their witty people all Jews ?— surely we Christians say good things sometimes." We fear that his pronunciation of French cannot be excellent. A SEASONABLE PUN.— On Monday last a tavern- keeper at the west end of the town demanded back some money which had been borrowed of him by one of the temporary inmates of his hotel. " Nonsense I" replied the young roue—" I shall not pay you yet, you know it is lent for some weeks longer." The following parody upon the celebrated panegyric upon Milton has just been forwarded from the House. Every man is born for some particular object; Mr. K y seems especially designed to make the cause of Toryism ridiculous :— Three wond'rous sages at one period born, Thy House of Commons, England, now adorn. S— b— p in stuff, in coarseness H— t surpasses; K— y in both, transcends his brother asses. The force of folly could no further go, To make a third, she join'd the former two. LATEST PECULIARITIES OF LORD D.— A noble author, by mistake, repeatedly lent to Lord D the first volume of one of his fashionable novels. His Lordship, with unwearied good faith, always read it without discovering the mistake. On being asked his opinion of the work, he replied, " There was muchacute observation in it, on fashionable nature, but he thought tha author repeated his ideas a little, for the purpose of spinning out his three or four volumes."— In a select dinner party, his Lordship, in spite of the sallies of a professed diner out, whose lively gossip is taken in payment for his dinner, actually perpe- trated the serious offence of napping in the midst of one of the best stories. On being reminded by the irritated wit of this breach of good listening, his Lordship innocently excused him- self, by remarking, that " he could ahvays sleep when he pleased.' 1 Like the Ode to Posterity, which failed to reach its address, we fear that Miss Fanny's first frank ( or first Francis) directed to public approbation, will ultimately be returned to its writer, marked Forgery. At least, it is but fair to inform Miss Kemble of the report, that Milman and Horace Twiss almost concocted her tragedy between them. A wealthy livery stable- keeper, on his first visit to Paris, being asked how he liked Pere le Chaise, said he much preferred a chaise and pair. A gentleman speaking of the Doyle family to the late King, said, " There are so many of them, I do not know how to dis- tinguish them." " It is not necessary," replied his Majesty ; " they have distinguished themselves." When Lord Harrowhy was in the Cabinet during the Perceval Administration, he made a speech overladen with erudition. God bless me, my Lord," said the Duke of Wellington, witli a look of naif wonder, indicating his total unconsciousness of the epigram he was about to perpetrate, " your education has been too much for your understanding .'" This anecdote reminds us of a partisan of Emmett, who, being asked his opinion of that gentleman, said, " He would have been a very clever fellow if he had had brains to his idication." A noble and beautiful lady gave a dinner to Moore, Luttrell, Jekyll, Lord Holland, and two or three others of similar cali- bre. All being talkers, the party failed for want of listeners. As Moore took his leave, he whispered this advice in the ear of his distinguished hostess—" There is too much quince in your apple pie." " Of what can bow- wow pudding be made ?" inquired a tyro. " Why of hark," replied Charles Gore. Lord , presuming too far on his amateur gastronomic science, ventured on several occasions, in France, to give par- ticular directions for his dinner, but in fruition invariably de- tected something wrong. Irritated by repeated failures, and bursting with spleen, but with necessary urbanity of manner, he desired on the next occasion to leave the invention of his dinner to the good taste and discretion of " le chif," who, receiving this extorted acknowledgment of his superior science with aa ejaculatory " un Anglais sage," rewarded his Lordshig with, a faultless dinner. By ever after conveying his orders in thfe ingratiating form, he not only dined unobjectionallyevery day, but was celebrated among " les chefs de Frame'? as the wise Englishman. : We understand that Sir George Warrender his: obtained tha - amitU of { he beautiful Madame Q ; aot by the charms of O Jrfa'vv THE TOWS. March 25. big person, or the beauties of his mind, but by the charms of his cook, and the beauties of his kitchen. He approached with potage a la financiere— wooed with rognons au vin de Champagne — and won with a Charlotte Russe ! Happy Sir George 1 How scrupulously correct, and how felicitously worded was the eulo- gium of Captain Hall, when he said, " That while other men's merits played about our heads, or hearts, your's, Sir George, come home at once direct to our stomachs !" Jekyll, as one of the Benchers of the Temple, having to intimate lo some young Barristers that they were called to the Bar, thus concluded his harangue—" And may God Almighty have mercy on all your souls /" Lady js remarkable for the quantity and quality of MR. SNUG ASD FAMILY. of her jewels. We met her ladyship one night, some years ago, at the Prince Borghese's, at Florence, on the occasion of a Bal Costumi, where, bending beneath the weight of finery, she could scarcely move ; she was seated on an elevated bench, with her gallant husband nearly concealed under a gorgeous Hussar uni- form, and placed in front, as if to protect her, leaning on his Sword. The French, with that naivete, and quickness of obser- vation that characterize them, paused in groups before this sin- gular tableau vivant, exclaiming— 1" Void Notre Dame de Loretto garde par son Suisse." And when some few months after, we Tisited the Shrine of Loretto, we were forcibly reminded of the felicity of the comparison. A swindling dandy strutted into a certain bookseller's shop, and elevating his glass, turned over some newspapers and pam- phlets, and inquired—" Pray, do you take in THE TOWN ?"• « No," answered the shopkeeper ; " but, perhaps, you do ?"—- Of course, the shopkeeper has since taken it, and says it is the only paper in London. An Hibernian student, who was told that an empirical aspirant lad got his degree, vehemently ejaculated " Och, murder !" TO THE EDITOR OF THE TOWN. [ We have a sincere pleasure in inserting the following letter, and leave it for the present to make its own impres- sion. On some future occasion we may have a few re marks ) o make, partly in exculpation of ourselves, partly in reply to some of the arguments which the letter con- tains, but chiefly in explanation of views and feelings • which appear to lie misunderstood. Our respected cor- respondent may be assured, that they shall be written in tbe same temper and spirit, of which lie sets so excellent an example; and that " personal hostility" is a motive which w e entirely disclaim, and by which we are proudly conscious of not being actuated:—] SIR,— I have observed with considerable satisfaction the esta- blishment of your paper, conducted, as it appears to be, in a tone of liberal independence, which, without any compromise of Its principles, or of its avowed political predilections, abstains from the present prevailing sin, and vulgar fashion, of the press, of personally maligning the motives, and libelling the characters, of all opponents. To its own sure reward of support from a discerning public, I should, therefore, have left your paper, and you would have been spared this address, had your treatment of matters con nected with the more solemn subject of religion been equally liberal, and equally free from the imputation of personal hos- tility. This condemnation applies, in my opinion, to the matter and manner of your animadversions, in prose and verse, on the conduct and proceedings of that large section of the English Church commonly called Evangelical. Their strict adherence to the articles, discipline, and ordinances, of our Church, which many of them are ministers, and some dignitaries, en titles them to all respect as such. They are, in fact, the repre, sentatives of Hooper and our early reformers, abiding by the Calvinistic tenour of the articles, while the greater part of the Church, for upwards of a century past, has gradually been dis posed to adopt an Arminian construction of them. The schism if such it may be called, has not been unuseful, in either a reli gious or moral point of view. The Church of England, towards the middle and latter end of the last century, had fallen into state of dull security, which degenerated into great laxity of con duct on the part of many of its members; and some of us ari old enough to remember advertisements for advowsons and cura- cies in sporting counties, and reading the achievements, in hunt- ing and drinking, of country parsons; and of the still more discreditable irregularities of the town ones. From this de- graded state the Church was first roused by the rude incursions of Wesley and Whitfield; their zeal, earnestness, and success, with the humbler classes, reached upwards, and, attracting the attention of all, made converts of some in the higher grades of society. The importance of the subject was felt, and a corres ponding effort made, to promote a revival of religious zeal, and, at the same time, to repress its eccentricities, by the legitimate weapons of sound theological learning tempered by discretion The stimulus being thus applied, a beneficial competition ensued, and the clergy of the establishment, encouraged by the sanction of Bishop Porteus, and the popularity of Dean Andrews, gradu ally acquired that higher character for which a considerable number of them are now distinguished. The vigilance of competition, thus originally excited by Me thodism, continues to exercise its influence as between two great classes, both within the pale of the same establishment. These classes comprise too many estimable individuals in each to allow of either being made the subject of ridicule, or affected con- tempt. A rivalry certainly exists, but it is in most, and should be in all, one of piety and benevolence. Abundant opportunity is afforded in this great metropolis for exercising the learned and pious ministrations, in the judicious and benevolent conduct of local schools and charities, of aBenson and a Tyler, no less than of a Wilson and a Noel. To assail either, is to impair the usefulness of all, by throwing discredit on their common, and, as I believe, sincerely influencing mo- tives. The cause of pure religion is too sacred in its character, and too lofty in its sanctions, to suffer by any exaggerations on the part of its professors. Secure in the native soundness of their religious faith, its most extravagant adherents defy, or rather court, ridicule, glory in abuse as persecution, and call in- sult and obloquy martyrdom; but are vulnerable only, and would shrink intuitively, from the sure test of the Ithuriel spear of Christian truth, expressed in all its sober dignity. This weapon, well applied, would effect more in reducing the wild exuberances of zeal to the sober standard of practical piety, than the appli- cation of the common- place, and now vulgar, epithets of saints, puritans, & c. It would become yon, in your new career, to disdain this beaten track of low abuse— to evince, on religious subjects, the same temperate and gentlemanly feeling which pervades your political articles; and thus to conciliate, while you contribute to create, an increased and increasing number of the good and mo- derate, for such there are, and in number more than you are aware, of all sects and of all parties. Your insertion of this friendly remonstrance will afford some evidence of that liberal tone for which I have given you credit; and though you may not be convinced by the arguments on which it is founded, I feel assured you will do justice to the motive by which it has been dictated. I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, London, March 19, 1832. MODERATOR. MY DEAR KATE,— Never again will I trust either Mr. Pro- mise or Blackwood's Magazine. Still am I waiting in London, as it seems, for nothing: still are these detestable Whigs in power; nay, they have even carried their abominable reform bill through the House of Commons by a vast majority. Indeed, between ourselves— but this is a thing which you must not broach to a soul— I doubt these eternal reports about a re- action in favour of the Tories; and yet, if there be no re- action, what horrible : but we must not abuse our own friends. An honest man will stick to his party through thick and thin. Yet, why should I ? What have we gained by putting Mr. Promise into Parliament? He has not even asked me to dinner a second time. Oh, I am sick of politics 1 Who would not be sick of politics after the failure of all his prognostications, and all his hopes? What am I to do? Mr. P. tells me that I must remain on the spot, or that my chance will be entirely thrown away. Sometimes I think of desiring you and Phoebe to come up and join me ; more especially as this plan will procure for our daughter the benefit of masters in town. But, then, London is such a wicked place. As for Jack, he is already a dandy, and almost a Radical. He is excessively fond of London; and de- clares that it is the only spot fit for a man to live in. As for myself, I find it excessively dull. I am quite sure it is not what it has been. Things are in a sad state : public amusements un- fashionable, and all going to decay; private parties few, for there is no money to spend;— every one full of complaints from morn- ing till night. The tradesmen grumble; for they say that nobody buys : the lawyers grumble; and declare, that between the po verty of the people, and the simplification of legal proceedings, law has been improved into starvation for its professors. Im- proved, indeed ? I hate these improvements! The very mob presume to grumble, and cry out about the necessity of statutes being made for the general good, and not the exclusive advan- tage of the higher orders. The people never grumbled— they never could grumble— before they were taught to read and write! I suppose, however, ( although I have not quite made up my mind,) that you must come from Cornwall, and that we must take a furnished house for the season. At least, as I said before, it will be well for Phoebe. She must rub up her French and Italian; and there are a great many things to learn: among others, Kate, this new language which they speak instead of English I The march of intellect with a vengeance 1 Why, it has marched away with our mother tongue 1 The other day I went to a shop for some shaving soap, and they asked me whe- ther I should not prefer the " Parisian cream," or the " Eu- keirogeneion!" If a man lies on a sofa, he says, after some absurd farce, that he is " taking horizontal refreshment." To move round is to be " peristrephic"— a place to keep furniture or carriages is a " pantechnicon"— a cook is an " artiste"— a butcher is a " purveyor"— and a fiddler is Heaven knows what. To thumb the primer and the horn- book is to " imbibe the first elements of intellectual cultivation;" and, then, there is no such thing as a teacher left in London— he is a professor of some " alogy" or " ology," at the very least 1 Instead of candles, one must have some tall brazen things—" eulamphous," or " dio- lamphous;" and transparent barley- sugar is turned into diapha- nous drops. And, my dear Kate, it would drive you out of all patience to see that great booby Jack dividing his time between what he calls phrenology and gymnastics; and when I tell him of the danger, he only laughs, and says that if he makes bumps in his head with the one, he shall go and puzzle the professors of the other. Certainly he is a witty boy! though I hate to see him climbing up a pole, or spinning round a bar, and twisting himself about like a huge monkey. How shocked, too, you will be to hear that Phoebe will have to do almost the same; as Jack insists that she must be taught " Calisthenics:" as if girls could not manage very well with a back- board, and a skipping- rope, and the dumb- bells— even to say nothing of the assistance of the dancing- master and the drill- sergeant. To be sure, our dancing- masters in Cornwall do not teach such outlandish follies as the gallopades and the mazurka. However, Kate, we must " give the d— 1 his due." There are some good things in London yet. It must be owned that the Metropolis boasts at this present time some noble professors of the art of medicine. In my last letter I told you that I had been attacked with sudden indisposition. Since then, from fretting, and the want of fresh air, I have been a good deal worse. So, several gentlemen of self- taught genius have been recommended to me; but my own opinion is decidedly in favour of the celebrated Mr. St. John Long. What do you recom- mend ? or do you wish that I should describe the several merits of my medical friends, before you can decide for me to which of them I should apply ? Jack, hearing of my wish to consult some of them, wrote the following lines, which are really excel- lent, and ought to be in print:— Of infallible remedies daily assured, We are obstinate fools not at once to be cur'd : And with nostrums that age and all sickness defy, What nonsense it is of us ever to die 1 Do you think that Jack is in jest or earnest ? Write soon; and with best love to Phoebe, believe me, my dear Kate, Your affectionate husband, JOSEPH SNUG. ' THE DII AM A. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TOWN. SIR— From the judgment and impartiality you have hitherto shown, I consider you well calculated for the office you have im- posed on yourself, and shall gladly avail myself of your censor- ship in exposing to the public a system of the most daring ef- frontery, which is now being practised in London. I assure you it has subjected myself and several of my friends to very serious annoyance. Being obliged to run down to my country- seat for a few days, I requested my wife to open my letters, and to for- ward to me only such as were of importance ; amongst others, to her surprise and dismay, was the following to , Esq. :— " Stockdale has printed a shilling book entitled 1 Mad- houses,' its contents being such as cannot possibly escape. The sooner you notice it the better, especially as your name is so conspicu- ous in the new volumes of Harriette Wilson. " When you have read the libels, apply in aggravation to J. North, Upper Berkeley- street, and F. Jeyes, Chancery- lane, Esq., and " L. CORNWALLIS." On shewing this letter to a friend he informed me that he had himself that morning received a fac- simile of it, and on farther enquiry we found that almost every one in the Court Guide had been favoured in the same way. Now, Sir, as the fraud is of the grossest description, and the object is merely to effect the sale of a pamphlet by a most flagitious puff, I trust you will shew little mercy to the offender. I am, Sir, your very obedient servant, March 22, 1832. MILES. [ The trick is detestable ; hut what else was to be expected ? We are sorry to say that if few men hold a more honourable or useful station in society than the higher professors of literature, few or none, on the other hand, are more sunk in baseness and infamy than the lower hangers- on of the press, who, as they can never hope to swim upon the surface of the stream, find a filthy delightin wallowing amidst the mud at the bottom.— ED. TOWN.] The following, we understand, are among the contributions to the Library of the new Conservative Club. We subjoin the names of the donors and of the works.— Names of those Con- servatives who have transmitted their handsome present of books to the Club :— Sir H. Hardinge, " Passion and Principle ;" Sir C. Wetherell, " Brace-( breech)- bridge Hall;" Sir R. Inglis, " Fox's Book of Martyrs;" Marquis of Londonderry, " The Fool of Quality ;" Earl of Eldon, " Moore's Prophetic Alma- nack, for 1832 ;" Mr. Kearsley, " Tom Thumb ;" Col. Sib- thorpe, " Hone's Complete Shaver ;" Mr. Perceval, " The Spi ritual Quixote;" Sir James Scarlett, " The Weathercock ;' Right Hon. J. Croker, " A new version of the History of Eng- land." KING'S THEATRE.— Of the conduct of the managers of this theatre we know not how to speak in terms of sufficient reprehen- sion. Since the last season of Waters' superintendence, when the tradesmen of the theatre wrote orders for their customers, and we used to receive a ticket for a box, in a hamper of wine, such a tissue of blunders, incompetence, and miscalculation has not been known. More detailed criticism we must defer till next week : for La Vestale was a second time postponed on Tuesday last, and Elisa e Claudio substituted. The house was moderately full ; yet Mr. Monck Mason gives no orders. Very true : we believe he does not ; but we will tell what he does instead. It is bitimated to an individual, that if he state his name to the door- keeper, he will be allowed to pass without payment, together with one or two, or three companions, as may be specified. If this be not the fact, will Mr. Monck Mason be so obliging as to explain how his pit chances to be always more than half full, when not a bookseller in London can sell a single ticket ? DRURY- LANE.— An evil and inexorable destiny seems to be pending over the Great Houses. Their career is no longer from triumph to triumph, but from failure to failure. The gorgeous and costly spectacle of Robert of Normandy, from which such golden results was expected, must have grievously disappointed the Manager's expectation, and superinduced a heavy loss on the treasury of the establishment. The succeeding novelty— that which now demands our notice— under the foreign title of Der Alchymist, has also lacked the desired success, and is doomed speedily to join its ill- fated predecessors in the " tomb of the Capulets." The plot upon which this opera is founded, is taken from a tale in one of Washington Irving's publications. The scene is in Spain ; and the chief characters are an old Alchymist, his fair daughter, and her two suitors— one, a reckless, profligate, Don Juan- like sort of personage— the other, a gallant, high- minded, honourable youth, who in the end wins the lady, after baffling the machinations of his naughty rival, and saving the poor old Alchymist from performing a principal part in an auto da fe, into which fiery dilemma he had been brought through the instrumentality of the wicked suitor of his daughter. These meagre materials have been dressed up for the stage, it is said, by the joint labours of Mr. H. Bailey and Mr. Fitzball. When the modicum of fame resulting from this combined effort shall come to be divided amongst the partners, the share of each will, we fear, be what the French call infinement petit. The dialogue is deplorably spiritless ; and the songs are only remarkable for the sublime silliness of exaggerated sentiment, or the maud- lin effusions of morbid tenderness. But it may be remarked, notwithstanding these drawbacks, you have the music of Spohr. True, there is the music of that eminent German composer, hut not as he made it, that is to say, as he meant it to be employed. It would appear as if Mr. Bishop had been fresh from the read- ing of Frankenstein when he set about adapting the music of this opera, for he has followed very accurately the example set him by the hero of that bizarre but clever tale, in building up his man- monster. Having seized upon six or seven of poor Spohr's musical progeny, he takes from one a head, from ano- ther an arm, from a third a leg, and a trunk from a fourth, and with these incongruous, misplaced, and ill- fitting members, he makes up a whole, which if not exactly monstrous or hideous, is devoid of harmony of feature and fair proportion of limbs, out of keeping and singularly unattractive. Besides the serious injury such a proceeding as this is calculated to inflict upon the repu- tation of the foreign composer, it betrays on the part of the adapter either an egregious want of taste or tact for dramatic music, or an exceedingly low opinion of the musical judgment and feeling of English audiences. This pasticcio, made up of such heterogeneous materials, so awkardly dovetailed and taste- lessly tessalated, did not deserve and could not command sue cess. In spite of the very spirited exertions of Mrs. Wood and Mr. H. Phillips the piece terminated amidst the general disap probation of the audience, aud the attempt to announce it for repetition met with a similar hostile reception. COVENT GARDEN.— On Tuesday the Marriage of Figaro was again performed at this theatre. As a vehicle for music, there is not, perhaps, a more appropriate piece on the stage. The plot is neither sufficiently complicated to render the introduction of a song an incumbrance on its interest— nor is it sufficiently simple to allow one to be regardless of its progress. It just attains that happy medium which ought to be the object of every writer of operas— we view its stoppage without pain, and we resume its development with pleasure. Were it not for a sad want of vrai- semblance in the last scene of the last act, the construction of this piece would be almost faultless. Considering the present state of histrionic talent, this opera is uncommonly well cast :— Miss Inverarity in the Countess; Miss Shirreff in the soubrette,- Miss Taylor in Cherubino ,- and Miss Cawse in Barbarina, make an ensemble not to be despised. Nor should we omit the men ; for Bartley in the gardener, was extremely entertaining ; and Wrench more " good than bad" in the Count; though he daily grows more and more like Liston, whose countenance, most as- suredly, would not be selected as the most accurate representa- tion of that of the gallant Almaviva ; Pearson acted Figaro very creditably, and would deserve more applause from the pit and and boxes, would he seek it less of the galleries. Nothing dis- plays worse taste in an actor, or is more reprehensible, than the habit— which too many of these gentlemen possess— of conti- nuously addressing himself to the gods ; to labour exclusively for their approbation, because it is the most tumultuous, indiscri- minating, and impolitic. This hint is offered with a good intent, and we hope that it will meet the eye of Mr. Pearson, or of any other actor afflicted with this malady. Miss Taylor's was an ad- mirable performance of Cherubino ; were we to speak a word in censure, where there is so much worthy of approbation, we should characterise it as rather artificial, which is a dangerous fault; for the perfection of art is to assume the appearance of nature.— Miss Taylor may attempt to plead in her justification that the character itself is essentially false. It is a character, we admit, gilded, and varnished by a French hand, and with a French brush; but it, yet, is not so false that a skilful actress might not attach to it the semblance of truth. We shall not, therefore, allow the validity of Miss Taylor's plea; but request that, generally, and in the cap scene particularly, she will endea- vour to be more womanly, and less histrionically, coquettish. Her dress was beautiful, and she looked extremely pretty in it. This young lady is a good, and promises to be a much better, actress. We cannot speak so favourably of the performance of Miss Shirreff; it possessed none of the buoyancy, archness, and natural elegance, of the interesting Susanna, but a flimsy affect- ation of them. When she smiled, it was the smile of a practised opera- dancer, not of a girl of Spanish feeling and Spanish pas- sion. All was evident assumption; she could not even box Figaro's ears heartily. The lines written on the present Lord M when Lord N , would well apply to this lady— " Lord N y's acting, a critic dissecting, " Said ' twas always affected, but never affecting." Miss Shirreff, however, evidently exerts herself, and in time may improve. She sung her part in " Sul'aria" uncommonly pleas- ingly; as well as " Bel raggio," which she introduced from the opera of Semiramide, and executed, in spite of some barbarous English words, most brilliantly. We must, however, again re- probate this habit of interpolating operas with airs most unsuited to their character and style, in obedience to the despotic caprice of a selfish singer, who would introduce, " We met, ' twas in a crowd," into Macbeth, if he or she thought it would ensure the applause of a few of the iron- handed rabble. It is absurd enough to sing the airs of Rossini in an opera of Mozart; but what will be thought by the real admirers of music when'they Moni- e's wnndon nil* of A Taw„-, 1 ^ " D„: i_• i< are told that Moore's wooden air of " A Temple to Friendship," was ground in the Nozze di Figaro! This practice is disgrace- ful, and ought to, and we trust will, be discontinued. THE SURREY.— At a rehearsal at the Surrey Theatre on Friday last, Miss Elphinstone undertook the part of Bianca in the tragedy of Fazio; or, The Italian Wife, in which character she will make her debut on Thursday next. This young lady is apparently under twenty years of age, and reminds us strongly of what Miss Foote was at the same age. To a sweet and clear- toned voice she joins many of Ihe qualifications necessary to make an excellent actress. ANOTHER GARRICK CLUB. The stock companies of Drury- lane, Covent- garden, and the Haymarket, supported by several literary characters, and all the leading dramatists, are about to establish an association, to be called " THE ANTI- STAR CLUB." The object is— that as the enormous salaries paid to stars who have no gazers have proved the vital cause of the decline of the drama, and of the ruin, not only of managers, but of all connected with theatres— to form a company, and manage on the principle laid down by Garrick, Sheridan, and Harris, viz. to allow no salary to exceed twenty pounds a week. It is supposed the " Anti- Star Club" will be- patronised by the Duchess of St. Albans, whose salary was fivfr pounds a week, by the Countess of Craven, whose salary was eight pounds a week ( both very clever actresses), and by that real star, Lady Becher, who received twenty pounds a week. The preparations, which had been long since commenced, for erecting a statue of Mr. Canning in one of the enclosures ad- joining Palace- yard, have been suddenly, and in an unaccountable manner, suspended. The lovers of fine dancing will regret to learn that Mademoi- selle Taglioni met, on Monday last, with a serious accident at a rehearsal, when she fell, while flying like a sylph, on the stage from a considerable height. She has been bled twice, and is considered in great danger. It is positively denied hy the Liverpool papers that any indivi- dual belonging to the Reform Union of that city voted for or in any manner supported Lord Sandon. Mr. Spalding of Holm, son- in- law of Lord Brougham, intends offering himself, under Ministerial influence, as a candidate for the representation of the stewartry of Kirkcudbright, at the next general election. The Earl of Aberdeen has lately sent, for distribution among the poor on his Cromer estate, a large and seasonable supply of meal, blankets, and warm clothing ; and has also intimated to the ministers of the parishes, in which his estate is situated, his rea. diness to contribute to any fund that may be required, for carry- ing into effect whatever measures may be advisable, with refer- ence to the malady which has spread so general an alarm. The following pensions and allowances have been granted on the naval establishment— 100?. per annum to Mrs. Bingham, - wife of Captain Bingham, drowned on duty in the Thetis,- 91/. per annum to Commander Paul Bagwell, for wounds; 50/. per annum to the widow of Lieutenant E. Dillon, R. N. ; 30/. per annum to the widow of Mr. Browne, boatswain of the Prince Regent, mortally hurt while on duty ; 3001. per annum each to the widows of Commissioners Hartwell and Bentham. The London and Birmingham Railway Bill will, we learn, go before a committee of the House of Commons on Tuesday next. One effect of this great measure— in conveying to the metropolis in regular and rapid succession supplies of fresh meat, country bread, poultry, and the rich, pure produce of the dairy will render its success a matter of no small interest to every inhabit- ant of London. One incidental advantage will be, to obviate the cruel, dangerous, and disgusting process of driving live cattle through the streets, and slaughtering them in every quarter of the town. Mr. De Tastet, of Alderman's- walk, Bishopsgate- street, the Spanish and South American merchant, died a few days ago. Immediately after his death his executor went to the banker of the deceased, to inquire if there were any securities or deposits belonging to Mr. De Tastet, when one of the clerks brought from the strong room a large box, which the executor opened, and in which, to his great surprise and astonishment, were found 400,000/. in notes of the Bank of England.— Evening Paper. The race of street- keepers, with their gold- laced coats and hats, are about to be extinguished in their last strong hold the City. They are to be superseded by a new police force, which is to patrol the streets by day only, and which is to be paid and regulated on the model of the county police. A hundred men have been chosen, and measured for their suits of blue. The Superb steamer with some Portuguese Emigrants on soard going to join the expedition of Don Pedro at Terceira, sailed from Falmouth, at noon on Friday. Previous to leaving the harbour a tri- coloured balloon ascended from her with the following in- scription : The Portuguese Emigrants at Falmouth leave the shores of sweet England with true sentiments of gratitude. Several rockets were also let off amidst the vivas of the Portuguese to William the Fourth, Donna Maria, Don Pedro, and Admiral Sar- torius. A female personage, who, some years since, carried great con- fusion in this country about York, has been, for many months resident at Brighton, under an assumed name. She lives retired' though from the situation of her apartments, she is enabled to spy into the pleasure- grounds of the Pavilion. Report says that she is preparing certain morceaux, of a curious description, for the public. We live in a " scurrilous AGE ; " but, we trust not at a time when the highest personages in the land are to be ridi- culed by people of a certain class with impunity. We could say much more, but refrain from speaking more plainly at present In no part of England has the progressive increase of popu- lation been greater than in Sussex. In 1700 the population of this county was 91,400; in 1750, 107,400; in 1801, 159 311- in 1811, 190,083; in 1821, 233,019; and in 1831, at the last census, it was no less than 272,300, having thus tripled itself in the space of 130 years.— Brighton Gazette. The cost of each prisoner in the Millbank Penitentiary is 561, per annum ; that of prisoners in most other gaols about 38/. per annum ; while in the county of Surrey, according to Mr, H. Drummond, an agricultural labourer on 10s. a week ( or 26/. per annum) is expected to maintain himself, his wife, and three children. A QUAKER'S DESCRIPTION OF PAGANINI.— He has a cu- rious skill in drawing the tail of a horse over the bowels of a cat and making a sound which people call music. NEW DIVING APPARATUS.— The Board of Admiralty lately sent down to Sheerness the invention of a very ingenious appa- ratus, for the purpose of making trial of it, under the inspection of Sir John Beresford. The diver descends into the water by a ladder, where he can remain for a length of time, and can walk about the " ocean's oozy bed" with perfect safety, and even without feeling any suffocating sensation. The apparatus is ex- tremely simple in its construction ; it consists of a metal cap, or covering for the head, with two tubes or hoses affixed to it; these lead to an air pump, which is kept constantly at work during the descent. Two glasses are fitted in the cap, by which he is enabled to see anything; and to pick up the smallest article. His dress, including the gloves, is a preparation of Indian rubber J so that he is not exposed to wet or cold ; for upon removing the dress and cap, the diver appears perfectly dry and com. fortably warm. March 25. THE TOWI. 103 UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE. , OXFORD, MARCH 21.— Philip Pusey, Esq., the Rev. Edward Ellerton, D. D., Fellow of Magdalen College, and the Rev. Ed- ward Bouverie Pusey, M. A., Canon of Ch. Ch., and Regius Professor of Hebrew, have conjointly offered to convey to the Chancellor, masters, and scholars of the University, a freehold estate, situate at Willoughby and Woolscot, in the county of Warwick, of which the present annual rent amounts to 100/., for the endowment of three Hebrew Scholarships. The Vice- Chancellor has also given notice of a Convocation on Thursday, the 29th inst. for the election of a Vinerian scholar, in the room of Mr. Winterbottom, of Magdalen, whose scholar- ship has expired by lapse of time. THE MARQUIS OF ANGLESEY'S ADDRESS TO THE TWENTY- EIGHTH REGIMENT. THE FAST DAY IN THE METROPOLIS. HOUSE OF LORDS.— At a few minutes to twelve o'clock this House met. Among those present were the Lord Chancellor, the Archbishops of York and Canterbury, ten Bishops, about twenty Peers. Their Lordships shortly after left the House in procession, and proceeded to the Abbey, which was crowded by a number of well- dressed persons, and was not entered without considerable difficulty. The sermon was preached by the Right Rev. Dr. Maltby, Bishop of Chichester, who took his text from the 26th chapter of Isaiah, and the 9th verse. HOUSE OF COMMONS.— At eleven o'clock the Speaker entered the House of Commons, and took his seat at the table. In a few minutes afterwards he rose, and, attended by the Sergeant- at- Arms, the clerks, and other officers of the House, and the Members present, to the number of about 60, went in proces- sion to St. Margaret's church, preceded by Mr. Lee and the beadles of the parish. Having taken their seats, the Reve- rend Dean of Rippon read the morning service ; after which the Rev. Dr. Allen, Vicar of Battersea, preached a sermon.— The Rev. Gentleman selected for his text the 1st chapter of the 1st book of Peter, and the 1st verse :—" Go to, now, ye rich men ; weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you; and, after a most impressive sermon, a collection was made at the doors for the relief of the poor, which amounted to 1001. 2s. ljd. The seats of the galleries of the church were re- served for the families of the Members of Parliament, and were crowded almost to suffocation. In the morning, a mob attracted by the announcements which had been made for the last two or three days, began to assemble i » Finsbury- square, and by eleven o'clock some thousands had congregated. About 500 policemen were stationed in a com- pact body in Finsbury- square, under the command of Mr. Mayne, the Commissioner of Police ; but the crowds hanging about seemed to have no definite purpose, and sought to amuse themselves by hallooing, tossing up hats and handkerchiefs, and other expedients usually resorted to in such assemblages. An occasional rush was made for the benefit of pickpockets, who, however, must have found them complete failures ; for, judging from appearances, there was no property abroad. A procession of operatives, linked arm- in- arm, passed through the neigh- bourhood, and their numbers augmented as they proceeded.— They walked through the city with the intention of proceeding to Palace- yard, but at Temple- bar they were stopped and dis- persed by a body of Police stationed there under the orders of Colonel Rowan, the Chief Commissioner. The officers on this occasion were armed with swords in addition to their staves.- The Fast Day was observed with more solemnity in the Eastern I part of the metropolis than perhaps in any other part of Lon- don— a circumstance which reflects great credit on our maritime population. The various places of worship were crowded, and the Episcopal Floating Church off Rotherhithe, and the Chapel Ship off Wapping, were filled with sailors belonging to the ship- ping in the river. In fact, there was a much larger attendance than usually takes place on the sabbath. At thesmall chapel of St. Margaret, St. . Margaret- street, Caven- dish- square, after an excellent discourse by the Rev. William Dodsworth, from the 60th Psalm, verse 11, " Deliver me, O Lord, for vain is the help of man,"— a subscription of upwards of 112'. was raised for the benefit of the neighbouring poor. After Divine Service at the church of St. George's in the East, which parish contains 40,000 persons, the sum of 171. only was collected at the doors. This sum, if distributed amongst the numerous poor families suffering under great distress in St. George's, would not amount to more than three- pence for each family. At the church of St. John, Wapping, ( the adjoining parish,) which contains under 3,000 inhabitants, 141. 17s. 6d. was gathered from the congregation at the same time. There are but few poor in Wapping, where a degree of comfort and prosperity not generally believed prevails. It was expected on the Fast Day that Mr. Irving would deliver a discourse on national transgressions and the judgments that would follow— but the Rev. Mr. Brown officiated, Mr. Irving having in the first instance expounded a portion of the 24th chapter of Isaiah : and in concluding his remarks, he said ( in allusion to the passage he had been reading)—" Cry aloud for the King— for the Princes— the senators— the nobles— the mer- chants and traders— yea, for the people of the land, and espe- cially the poor, a class who should never be forgotten. It is pro- bable that this will be the last national fast which will be known in England ; hence, my brethren, admit of its importance, and gpend it as you ought, namely, in prayer and supplication." A CHECK ON PAWNBROKERS.— Persons who have had pro- perty stolen from them, and who can trace it to a pawnbroker's, but cannot discover the thief, may now recover their property Upon making an oath before a magistrate. LOVE AND DUTY.— During the Bristol riots, the Wincanton troop of North Somerset Yeomanry Cavalry were ordered out to Bristol. A private named English, had engaged to marry on the morning on which his troop was suddenly announced to march. He contrived to keep both appointments. He married in the morning, conducted his wife home, and then set off at a killing pace. He managed to get up with his troop before it entered Bristol, and he continued eight days on active duty. On Sa- turday last the troop had a field- day, and a dinner was after- wards given. In the evening a handsome silver tea- pot was pre- sented to Mrs. English, bearing the following inscription :— " To the Wife of a British Yeoman.— Presented by the Officers and Privates of the Wincanton Troop of North Somerset Yeo- manry Cavalry, to Mrs. English, of Mapperton, in testimony of the high approbation of her conduct, who, with a proper feeling of her husband's honour, allowed him, on their bridal morning, to march with the troop called to assist in quelling the unfortu- nate riots at Bristol, Monday, October 31, 1831." WELSH BIBLE.— The Society for promoting Christian Know- ledge has entered into an engagement with the Delegates of the Clarendon Press, Oxford, for a large edition of the Welsh Bible, with marginal references, in that description of type called Long Primer. In preparing this publication for the Prin- cipality, the Delegates are pledged to the strict observance of the Received Orthography. A BACHELOR'S FAMILY.— The only transaction of magni- tude in the Funds on Saturday week, was the sale of fifty thou- sand pound Consols, on account of a gentleman who died in Scotland, and left fifty- seven natural children. Having died without a will, all his property goes to an old sister. The duty paid to Government on his wealth exceeds 12,000/. MUSICAL SOIREE.— On Monday Lord and Lady Burghersli had a select dinner party, consisting of Lord and Lady Mul- grave, Sir Gore Ouseley, the Hon. Robert Dundas, Mr. and Mrs. Braham, Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Bishop, & c. After which a concert was performed, the first part of which consisted of a selection from Lord Burghersh's opera buffa, Scompiglio Teat- rale ( the Squabbles of a Theatre,) by Mrs. H. R. Bishop, Miss Childe, Miss Turner, Messrs. Braham, Brizzi, Stretton, Seguin, iic. The splendid apartments were crowded with persons of dis- tinction, amateurs, and dilettanti. His Excellency addressed the troops at considerable length, and to the following effect:— " TWENTY- EIGHTH 1 A more pleasing office, a more gratifying duty, or a greater pleasure, has never fallen to my lot since I first found myself at your head, than this of presenting yon with these colours. The interesting office which has devolved upon me on this peculiar occasion is the more welcome, as I have always been much attached to your distinguished regiment. The first battalion, in which I was first brigaded, was commanded by my excellent brother, now your Colonel, in the brigade under the orders of General Lord Cathcart, and the command of that battalion soon devolved upon me. It is not necessary for me now to detail the various gallant affairs in which the 28th had been engaged ; what little I shall say will serve to keep up the good old custom of the old soldiers relating to the young the valiant deeds their corps had achieved in former days. But I must touch on a few of the remarkable engagements in which the 28th has served so bravely. I do not know who the first person was who first raised this regiment, but we find it early spoken of in the wars of Marlborough, in Flanders, in the year 1704 and 1709. It was frequently mentioned in the orders, and thanked for its gallantry.— We next hear of it in the year 1759, in Canada, when its high character caused it to be selected for active service there, and it was at its head that the immortal Woulfe fell at the moment of victory. It was at the instant that the 28th was advancing to the walls of Quebec that victory was declared to be certain. The next service, I believe, in which this regiment was engaged, was in the Netherlands, under the command of the lamented Duke of York, in 1794. It formed part of the corps of my friend Lord Moira, the late Marquis of Hastings. There was at that crisis an urgent neces- sity for sending reinforcements with speed to the Duke of York, and Lord Moira, who was at Southampton with the 28th, in- stantly set sail for Ostend, and from thence, though opposed by the greatest difficulties, made a skilful, rapid, and successful march to the Duke's head- quarters. I need not follow the 28th through that campaign in which it fairly earned such honour and glory. But there are one or two affairs that I must take notice of. The sortie at Nimeguen will long be remembered to its credit. But circumstances rendered it necessary for the British army to retreat, during which the 28th was constantly in the rear, protecting the main body from daily harrassing attacks, and always came off successful. Though fighting at disadvantage, and perhaps not successful by day, still our brave fellows were not discouraged, and night always found them masters of the field, I repeat it, there was scarcely a single instance in which the 28th were not victors at the close of the day. On one occa- sion the 27th was in advance in defence of an outpost, at Gilbert- maism. It was so hard pressed by the enemy, that it required tbe best support to enable it to maintain its ground ; the 28th, of course, were ordered to advance and cover the 27th. It pressed forward on the instant, coolly took its position in front, and maintained such a heavy, steady, rolling tremendous fire, that in twenty- five minutes the enemy abandoned the post completely, and left the 28th in peaceable possession of its honourable position. Soon after this Lord Catchart made a separate movement, in which about four bat- talions were necessarily detached, from the main army, and among those were the 27 and 28th. In the order of the day, | issued on that occasion, Lord Catchart used these remark- able words, " Wherever difficulties and dangers abound, the 27tli and 28th are present, and sure to be victorious." You all know how justly the eulogium was bestowed. The next affair entrusted to the 28th was the descent on the Island of Minorca, under the command of Sir Charles Stewart. They carried this Island of course. From thence they were summoned to Egypt, destined to afford scenes of the greatest glory for the 28th. On the 8th of March the regiment made a descent on the shore in conjunc- tion with the 42d, affording one of the most imposing military sights ever beheld. They effected their landing after considerable opposition. On the 13th of March the 28th was closely engaged. The French made a desperate attack on the Britssh line. The 28th were posted in a kind of old fort, open both at flanks and rear. Here the French cavalry entered with their usual bravery, and charged on the unprotected flank and rear of the infantry, with the greatest fury. The command was given, " 28th, reai- rank right about fire 1" and on the word a volley was poured into the ranks of the enemy that completely dissipated them. The effect was magical 1 On the next day the battle was fought, on which it was our sorrow to record the death of my excellent friend, the brave Sir Ralph Abercrombie, one of the most amia- ble men and best soldiers that ever lived. He died in the presence of his regiment. Soon after, the 28th took possession of Cairo, surrendered by a garrison of 1,000 French soldiers which had been left to defend it. Altogether Egypt was the scene of the finest exploits of the brave 28th. The next destination of the regiment after its return to Europe was Copenhagen, where its arms, of course, were successful. The regiment had now become a favourite in the service, and was particularly admired by my brave friend, General Sir John Moore, who, in his expedition to Sweden, took it along with him ; but no operations were car- ried on there, and the 28th returned to Portsmouth, and from thence were drafted to Portugal. There again I met my friends. We were detained for a while by the affair of Vimiera, but im mediately afterwards the 28th again advanced on Lisbon. The Convention of Cintra however relieved it, and it returned with the rest of the troops to England. On the next movement of war the 28th again returned to Lisbon, under the command of Gen Sir John Moore. It was soon decided that it was imperative to relieve Spain of the presence of the French troops. Sir John Moore was weak in Portugal, and a junction was planned be- tween his infantry, and the cavalry under Sir James Baird, under whom I had then a command. The movement and the junc- tion were effected simultaneously ; we met in Zamora, and it was in many respects, a highly interesting meeting— especially to me. My brother led the advance of Sir John Moore's force, and I of Sir Jas. Baird's. It was at this period that Gen. Moore placed the 28tli under the command of my brother, but nothing of im- portance occurred till the concentrated French force under Gen. Romagna obliged the British troops, unsupported as they were, to retreat towards Corunna. On that unpleasant march the rear guard was in my hands, and I can say, that the infantry was never obliged to quit its quarters. Afterwards, the com- mand of the rear guard devolved on Sir Edward Paget, and the 28th, in the retreat in Lugo, where battle was offered to the enemy, but they would not accept it. Prom thence we were obliged to fall back on Corunna, where a battle was inevitable, and where the British army lost one of the first and best of its officers that ever led its troops to action, and I a valued friend. Sir John Moore died in the presence of the 28th, after achieving the greatest possible success. Throughout the engagement the British troops had to contend with every difficulty, but they fought the battle bravely all day long, and conquered in the even ing. It was my brother, at the head of the 28th, that succeeded in turning the enemy's flank, and decided the fate of the battle. That night the army reposed in tranquillity, and next day left Corunna, in good order. From the Peninsula the 28th went to the siege of Walcheren, but nothing material occurred there to enable the Regiment to increase its fame. It acted on all occa- sions with its usual energy and vigour; but there is another characteristic trait which its conduct there reminds me of, and which I lay as much stress on as I do on its gallantry in the field— under no circumstances of privation or suffering did it ever reduce its ranks. The hospitals and the commissariat de partment were not then in their present high state of order and comfort. It was a saying then amongst the troops that a soldier might as well be buried as sent to the general hospital, yet the 28th, sick or wounded, never lost their spirits— they were always glad to be rolling up to their battalion ; they were always glad to be at home. Though they were almost naked, for they lost tlieir new clothing— they always tried to preserve their arms, and whenever they could, were found crawling back to their ranks in twos and threes from the general hospital, anxious to resume their place amongst their comrades. However ragged and miserable as they might be themselves, their gun locks were always found clean, and ready for the enemy. It would be long, indeed, ( continued his Excellency,} to go over all the scenes where you have so gallantly dis- tinguished yourselves. I cannot even trust my memory with the names of the several places rendered famous by your bravery, but here is a list ( the gallant speaker drawing forth a paper.)— Here is one thing I ought not to forget— the passage of the Douro. There I was parted from my brother who was busily engaged that day at the head of the 28th. It was there he lost his arm. The Lord Lieutenant then proceeded to read from the paper a list Jof the actions which the 28th had been concerned in during the late war— Aboukir, Alexandria, Vimiera, Busaco, Ciudad Rodriyo, Badajos, Talavera, Albuera, Barossa, Corunna, Douro, Almeira, Vittoria, the Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse, and Waterloo. The whole story of the latter campaign was too well known, and too recent to require to be repeated. One tiling ( observed his Lordship) I shall revert to, which made a deep personal impression on me at Waterloo. There is little doubt that we were severely pressed. Some battalions were at times obliged to relieve others in the squares that suffered the most. At one crisis there was an im- portant position to be relieved and maintained, and about which I felt particularly anxious. I perceived a battalion at a distance marching forward to take up a position, I gallopped up to it and demanded what battalion it was. Never was I more rejoiced than when some of my old friends exclaimed, " the 28th my Lord." " The very fellows I want," cried I. They followed me to the spot, took up their position, deployed, and all was restored. I need not pursue the detail. The result of that glorious battle is too widely known to need repetition. It has been the honourable fortune of this battalion to have formed at various periods of the British history, a guard of honour to the most illustrious slain, the last of whom was the gallant Picton, who fell at Waterloo, surrounded by the 28th. It has run a race of glory under noble commanders, from the incomparable Marlborough to the invincible Wellington. Brave " 28th," I consign these colours to your hands with the utmost confidence ; these colours, that whatever may be your destination, you will bear them to honour and glory 1 28tli, may success ever attend your colours ; I know they will not be wanting in the day of trial." The gallant 28th evidently heard this address with alternate emotions of pride at the lustre of glory shed upon their body— and melancholy for the loss of the heroic leaders who had fallen connected with their regiment. On the conclusion of the address, a general salute was given by the troops to the gallant Marquis. The right subdivision of the grenadiers advanced, and the colours were trooped to their respective stations. The ranks then closed, and immediately after broke into open columns of subdivisions, then marched past in slow time, passing into the Lower Castle- yard. CHOLERA MORB US. CASES IN* LONDON. Council Office, Whitehall, March 24. Dead. Recover'd. Rem." .. 0 Date— March IS. New Cases. Tower 1 1 0 Afloat in the River ........ 6 2 1 Liraehouse 2 Shadwell 0 Ratcliffe 1 Bermondsey 2 Southwark 9 Newington Butts 2 Camberwell 0 Lambeth 6 Christchurch 0 Westminster 1 Chelsea 0 St. George's, Hanover- Sq. .. 2 1 Marylebone 2 ., Paddington 0 .. St. Pancras 1 .. St. Giles's 5 .. Whitechapel 1 .. St. George's, in the East.... 1 St. Luke's 0 .. Bethnal- green 1 Brentford 0.. Wandsworth 2 1 Poplar 1 0 Woolwich 1 0 Total from commencement:— Cases, 1258- - Deaths, 680. .19 . 3 . I, . 3 .22 .46 .11 . I .11 . I . 9 . 4 • I . 6 . 0 . a . 5 . 9 . 4 . 4 . 2 . 3 . 4 . I 1 IN THE COUNTRY. New cases.. 56 | Dead.. 21 | Recovered.. 17 | Remaining.. 124 Total from commencement:— Cases, 6,784— Deaths, 2,169. THE LONDON GAZETTE. [ From the Gazette of Tuesday, March 20.} [ The King has been pleased to appoint the Earl of Mulgrave to be Captain- General and Governor- in- Chief of the Island of Jamaica and its dependencies.] INSOLVENT. Charles Leach, New Manor- street, St. Luke, Chelsea, baker. BANKRUPTS. Stephen Keyte, Minories, oilman— William Evans, Carmarthen, draper— Joseph Bishop, Whiltlebury- street, Euston- square, car- penter— James Abbott, Elliot's- row, St. George's road, bookseller — James Johnson, Norwich, glass- merchant— Henry Harrison, Li- verpool, commission- agent— Onesiphorus Purnell, Gloucester,, cur- rier— Edward Tuckey, Birmingham, victualler— George Bradley, Stockport, Cheshire, innkeeper— Thomas Curuin, Birmingham, vic- tualler— Thomas Drakeley, jun., Thornton, Leicestershire, farmer—• Samuel Wyndham Jones, Usk, Monmouthshire, draper— Francis Fisher, jun., and William Jepson Fisher, Bristol, sailmakers—> Samuel Wilson, Cliich Saint Osyth, Essex, grocer. THE GLOVE TRADE.— A petition from the Ladies of distinc- tion in the town and neighbourhood of Yeovil has been pre- sented to her Majesty, on behalf of the females engaged in the sewing department, with some specimens of gloves of local manufacture, which were most graciously received. Her Ma jesty received the information of the distress existing in the Glove Trade with deep regret, and desired that it might be made known to the petitioners, that no exertion on her Majesty's part shall be wanting to produce a more favourable result; and ever will it be her Majesty's most anxious wish to encourage every branch of the manufactures of the United Kingdom. She always, in her own person, carried this principle into effect, by wearing, exclu- sively, articles of British manufacture, and patronising British artizans. BEER SHOPS.— The Grand Jury of Dorset last week in an ad- dress to Mr. Justice Gazelee stated it as their unanimous opinion that the increase of crime in the County may be attributed to the numerous beer- shops established in almost every parish within the county, by which encouragement is afforded to idleness and drunkenness, and the lower classes are daily corrupted and de- moralized. MARCH OF INTELLECT.— The corporation of Stamford ( and we trust that of Northampton will profit by the example) have agreed, with an unanimity quite wonderful, when their recent pertinacity is considered— to " suspend" the collection of their fair and market tolls I A JUST RETORT.— A Scotch clergyman in the country having a tea- party lately, sharply reproved the house- maid for not hav- ing covered the table, when she mildly replied, " Sir, you know we have no table- cloth." When the party broke up he called the maid, and told her that she should have said that the table- cloth was at the burn bleaching. Sohje time afterward a party lunched at the manse, when he ordered the maid to bring some cheese. She calmly replied, " O, Sir, its at the burn bleaching." STONE HEWING ENGINE.— Mr. Milne, an architect of Edinburgh, lately exhibited a machine for hewing stone which is able to perform the work of 30 men per day. The machine consists of a rotatory drum, with cutters set in a spiral form, which, by an ingenious contrivance, can be placed by a nice ad- justment, to suit the thickness of the stone to be cut. It is driven by a steam- engine. SHIP LAUNCHES.— On Saturday week a fine schooner, of about 163 tons burthen, was launched from Mr. Bailey's yard, Shoreham, and the keel of another schooner, intended as a yacht for the corporation of Dublin, has since been laid down. This place has been famed for centuries for ship- building, and still sustains its character, as it is admitted that the vessels built at this port are the fastest class of vessels in the kingdom, more particularly those employed in the Smyrna trade. Same day was launched at Leith, that large and splendid steam- ship Royal Adelaide, built by Messrs. Menzies and Son, Leith, for the Lon- don, Leith, Edinburgh, and Glasgow Shipping Company. To MARINERS.— Since the Volcanic Island on the coast of Sicily has gradually decreased, and is now some feet beneath the surface of the sea, it has become a dangerous shoal, which seamen cannot be too well acquainted with. This island is in latitude 37 deg. 11 min. north, and longitude 12 deg. 44 min. east, and in the following position with respect to the land :— It bears from point Cape St. Marco, NE. | N. 22 ; Cape Grani- tola, N. by W. i W. 24 ; Cape Bianco, N. E. by E. | E. 22. TEMPERANCE SOCIETIES.— The following colloquy took place between a Scotch countryman and his shoemaker, when the former called to pay for his shoes for the current year :— Coun- tryman— Weel, lets go an' get our dram after giving ye so much siller. Shoemaker— No, no, I drink no spirits now. Coun- tryman— Ou ayo, ye'll be in ane o thae things they ca' Tem- perance are ye ? Shoemaker— Yes I am, and you should also join them. Countryman— I dinna ken, may be I may, how muckle d'ye get for't.' Shoemaker— How get ? Countryman— Aye, fu' muckle money d'ye get in the year for absteenin ? Shoemaker— O, we get nothing of the sort. Countryman— With great surprise, and emphasis, and scorn— And d'ye think that I wid tie mysel down to wint whisky for nathing ; na faigs a'. REASONS FOR CONTAGION ; OR, THE CHOLERA EX- PLAINED.— The following is the amount of the monthly ex- penses of the Central Board of Health, as stated in a Parliamen- tary document just published :— Lieut. Marshall has 33/. a month ; Sir W. Russell, M. D. 60/. ; Sir D. Barry, 42/. ; Messrs. Macdonald, 33/.; and W. Maclean, Secretary, 20/.; two clerks, a messenger, and porter to the Board, 28/.; four Deputy In- spectors of Hospitals, 89/. per month ; four Staff and Regimental Surgeons, 87/. ; two Assistant Surgeons, 36/. ; three Naval Sur- geons, 63/. ; one Assistant Surgeon, in charge of a district, 18/. ; three Assistant Surgeons, 41/.; Deputy Inspector of Hospitals at Glasgow, 31/.; two Assistant Surgeons there, 271. ; As- sistant Surgeon at Newcastle, 13/. ; Assistant Surgeon at Het. ton, 27/. ; total, monthly, 644/. [ From the Gazette of Friday, March 23.] WAR- OFFICS, MARCH 23.— 1st Regiment of Life Guards—• Cornet and Sub- Lieut. T. II. Viscount Ranelagh to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Bayntun, who retires ; P. B. Tumor, Gent, to be Cornet and Sub- Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lord Ranelagh. 2d Regiment of Dragoons— Lieut.- Col. Lord Arthur W. M. Hill, from half- pay Unattached, to be Lieutenant- Colonel, vice John Grey, who exchanges, receiving the difference. 2d Regiment of Foot— J. Lighten, Gent, to be Ensign, by pur- chase, vice Hill. 14th Foot— Lieut. T. Shore, from the 84th Foot, to be Lieute- nant, vice Dormer, appointed to the 24th Foot; Lieut. II. K. Storks, from half- pay Unattached, to be Lieutenant, vice William Maxwell, who exchanges, receiving the difference ; Lieut. T. Shore to be Adjutant, vice Ormsby, who resigns the Adjutancy only. 15th Foot— Staff- Assistant- Surgeon W, Wallaceto be Assistant- Surgeon, vice Caldwell, who has accepted a commutation. 20th Foot— F. F. Janvrin, Gent, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Wyndham, whose appointment has not taken place. 24th Foot— Lieut. C. Dormer, from the 14th Foot, to be Lieu- tenant, vice Langford Heyland, rwho retires upon half pay 101st Foot.. 26th Foot— Capt. R. Price, from half- pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice William Hurt Sitwell, who exchanges, receiving the difference. 27th Foot— Capt. R. Fulton, from half- pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice Francis Shea, who exchanges, receiving the dif- ference. 28th Foot— Lieut. C. B. Carrothers to be Captain, without pur- chase, vice Trant, deceased ; Ensign F. Adams to be Lieutenant, vice Carrothers ; G. T. C. Napier, Gent, to be Ensign, vice Adams. 38th Foot— Lieut. J. J. Lowtli to be Captain, by purchase, vice Mackay, who retires ; Ensign W. C. Synionds to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lowth ; Gentleman Cadet W, Ironside, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Symonds. 41st Foot— F. O. Dar^ all, Gent, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice E. Darvall, who retires. 79th Foot— Major R. Ferguson, from half- pay Unattached, to be Major, vice J. Barwick, who exchanges, receiving the differ- ence. 84th Foot— Lieut. R. J. Ilanley, from half- pay 101st Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Shore, appointed to the 14th Foot; Ensigti W. Lacy, Gent, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice J. Lacy, who resigns. 96th Foot— Lieut. R. Bush to be Captain, by purchase, vice Waller, promoted ; Ensign J. Clyde to be Lieutenant, by pur- chase, vice Bush. 97th Foot— Ensign O. Keating to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Barton, who retires ; T. Greene, Gent, to be Ensign, by pur- chase, vice Keating. 99th Foot— Lieut. C. F. Kerr, from half- pay Unattached, to be Lieutenant, vice J. H. Greetham, who exchanges, receiving the difference. 2d West India Regiment— W. R. Penny, Gent, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Brittlebane, promoted. UNATTACHED.— Captain J. W. S. Waller, from the 96th Foot, to be Major of Infantry, by purchase. HftspriAL STAFF.— Assistant- Surgeon J. T. Hurst, M. D. from half- pay 37th Foot, to be Staff- Assistant- Surgeon, vice Edward Hollier, who exchanges. MEMORANDA.— The name of the Cornet appointed to the Royal Horse Guards, on 22d March 1831, is " Nethercote," and not Netliercoat; Major W. Logie, half- pay Unattached, has been allowed to retire from the service, by the sale uf an Unattached commission. His Majesty has been graciously pleased to permit the 25th Re- giment of Foot, or " the King's Own Borderers," which, oil its for- mation in the year 1689, was called " the Edinburgh Regiment" ( it having been raised in the short space of a few hours, for the purpose of guarding the City of Edinburgh,), to bear on Us colours and appointments, the arms of Edinburgh, with the motto, " Nisi Dominus frustra;" also to retain the motto, " In veritate religionis confido," which was authorized by his late Majesty King George the Third, in reference to the badge and motto above specified. This motto lo be placed under the crown, surmounted by a lion, irx two corners of the regknental colour. INSOLVENT. Joseph Gladwel% Barking, Essex, shipwright. BANKRUPTS. Thomas Morgan, St. Peter's- alley, Cornhill, wholesale iron- mon- ger.— John Lazarus, Duke- Street, Manchester- square, jeweller.— John Head and II. Marshall, Laurence Pountney- place, colour- mer- chants..— Sir George Duckett, Bart., Sir Francis Bernard Morland, Bart., and Thomas Tyringham Bernard, Pall Mall, bankers.— G. Lewis, Vere- street, Oxford street, broker.-— Thomas Smith, Coleman- street, wine- merchant.— Joseph Jenkins, Lostwithiel, cabinet- maker The Prince of Hohenzollern has just married his cook,-~ French paper. 1 « 4 THE T o w sr. March 25 LATEST INTELLIGENCE. SUNDAY MORNING. Both houses of Parliament met yesterday evening, but sat only a short time, during which no important business • was transacted. The Reform Bill, which, it was expected, would have been carried up to the Lords, was not en- grossed, and its presentation to the Upper House was con- sequently postponed until tomorrow. Nothing certain seems to have transpired as to the course which Ministers intend to pursue in the House of Lords. In consequence of Ihe exertions of the Duke of Welling- ton, the majority for the second reading will not be so high as expected. According to appearances now, it will be under fifteen, and the number of Peers of tbe Opposi- tion, who have signified their intention of confining them- selves to such modifications in the Committee as the Com mons would be likely to receive, is by 110 means sufficient to make the Bill secure. The King, however, remains firm ; and he has, within the last few days, personally declared to two of the Opposition Peers, that even allowing that the Bill is far from perfect, they would act wisely tochoosc the least of two evils, and pass it wilh such alterations only as the Commons would concur in. His Majesty has also • written to other Peers, expressing his conviction that it " would be folly to reject the Bill, or lo propose very exten- sive modifications. We regret to state, that the meetings between the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer and the gentlemen connected with the West India interest, have not been productive ofany material result. Lord Althorp has declared, that the go- vernment is very anxious to extend relief to the colonics, But that the revenue of the country is just now in so bad a condition, that he would find it difficult to spare any thing which would materially assist the planters. He has pro- posed a small reduction of the duty on rum, and two or three other necessaries, but they amount, in the opinion of the West India interest, to very little. They still demand bounties, which Lord Althorp very properly, wc think, re- fuses to propose to Parliament for adoption, as they are at " variance with any fixed principles of trade. We understand from an authentic source, that M. Casi mir Perier stated last week in Paris, that he had received from Austria and Prussia a positive promise to ratify the treaty of the Conference; and that if the ratification should not be given in, as expected, by the 31st inst. the delay will only be in the hope of being able to give the ad- hesion of the King of the Netherlands at the same time. There is not the slightest truth in the report of the in tended retirement of M. Casimir Perier. Threats of re tiremcnt are his game ; for he knows that the Conservative party place all their hopes in him, and that even the Liberals, who have property to lose, would be sorry to see him withdraw from his post. By these threats he is able io obtain support, which would otherwise be withheld. Never, we believe, was his Ministry more secure than it now is, and never had M. Perier less serious thoughts of retiring. Even his health, which has been for some years in a very shattered state, seems to improve rather than fall off by the excitement of office. Equally unfounded is the rumour that General Sebastiani was about to resign hi post as Minister lor Foreign Affairs. Up to a late hour last night there was 110 arrival at any of the embassies to throw light on the reported insurrection at Naples. It appears, however, from private letters, that there was an affair between some Sicilians and Neapoli- tans, but that it was not a revolt of the character stated in the accounts from Paris, published by au evening contcm porary on Friday. If the affair had been of the extent there described, Prince Talleyrand would certainly have bad a despatch from his government, and we are able to state positively, that no news of the kind has reached him Another vessel, laden with stores and ammunition, for Don Pedro, anil having 011 board several hundred excellent soldiers, has sailed for Terccira. Further reinforcements will follow speedily. We do not hear that Lord Palmer- ston has taken any step to prevent the sailing of a vessel laden with arms and ammunition for Don Miguel. DIARY OF LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC NOTICES, FOR THE WEEK. To- morrow.— Collegeof Physicians at 9 p. m. Tuesday.— Institution of Civil Engineers... at 8 p. m. " Wednesday— Royal Society of Literature .. at 3 p. m. „ Society of Arts.., at 8 p. m. Thursday— Royal Society at 9 p. m. ,, Society of Antiquarians at 8 p. m. Friday— Royal Institution at 8 p. m. Saturday— Royal Asiatic Society at 2 p. m. CAMBRIDGE.— The election for the Registrary of Cambridge las terminated in favour of the Rev. J. Romilly. The Univer- sity could not have made a better choice. The numbers at the close of the poll were, for The Rev. J. Romilly 233 The Rev. T. Chevallier 193 Majority 40 The Court Journal has a peragraph about the creation of Peers, which is only a round- a- bout way of saying, that the writers know nothing about it. How should they1 BANKRUPTCY or MESSRS. DUCKF. TT, MOULANO, AND Co A sensation, that has not been exceeded for some time in the com mercial world, was felt last week throughout the metropolis, at the announcement that the eminent house of Duckctt and Morland had stopped payment. A meeting of the creditors was held Friday, at Willis's Rooms, when it appeared that there was a sur plus in favour of tbe partnership of upwards of 94,000/., in addition to two of the partners having to the credit of their accounts upwards of 35,000/. A resolution was carried " That the conduct of the late Partners of the Firm of Messrs. Duckett, Morland, and Co. appears to be highly honourable, and that tbe statement of their accounts is candid, open, and satisfactory." To those who may feel surprise at the circumstance that a firm which possesses, not merely the means of paying its debts, but considerable surplus, should yet be compelled to pass Ihe ordeal of a bankrupt commission, we have to say, that in numerous cases, such as the present one, the parties are unwilling, or unable, lo recover their just debts, and that the very repugnant process of a bankruptcy is indispensable, very often, in order to enable them to do justice to themselves. DEMI- BURKING.— An Ormskirk bailiff having to serve a law process upon a fair lady of the tap, Liverpool, was set upon by a number of ruffians, put into a sack, kept tied up, tumbled about, and beat for several hours, until his life was despaired of. He was at last, after being threatened to be really burked, tumbled out into the street, and left to find his way home in a most pitia- ble state. DELICATE APPETITE.— At Chitterne All Saints, on Wednes- day last, a man of Imber undertook, for the trifling wager of one • shilling, to eat eleven large candles in fifteen minutes, which he accomplished three minutes within the given time. Some time previous he undertook to devour fifteen living mice, which dis- gusting task he greedily accomplished. This fellow is a rigid professor of religion, and for the last three years has been in the habit of " holding forth" at a dissenting place of worship. A good flogging at the cart's tail would not be too much for such acts of beastiality.— Hampshire Advertiser, LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE- CHANCELLOR* COURT, MARCH 20. MANNING V. LORD AUDLEY.— Mr. Knight: This suit had been instituted by the plaintiff to compel the specific performance of a contract by the defendant, under the following circumstances :— The defendant, Lord Audley, was in the enjoyment of a pension which lmd been granted to him by his late Majesty. Some time since Lord Audley made an assignment of this pension to the plain- iff— who was a considerable creditor— for the sum of 8,500/., and also entered into a bond with the plaintiff, whereby he covenanted to assign any fresh pension which, upon the demise of the Crown, might be granted to him by the present King. Lord Audley's pen- sion ceased upon the death of the late King, and his present Ma- jesty granted him a pension in lieu of it. The plaintiff, therefore, under the bond he had received from the defendant, claimed the present pension received by him, aud prayed a specific perform- ance. The Learned Counsel said the demurrer rested on these two grounds— first, that the present pension was entirely a new one, and could not be considered as a continuation of the old. He con- tended that the pension was granted by his Majesty in order to sup- port the dignity and station of a peer of the realm, and that the Crown and the public were alike interested in the maintenance of the peerage, and therefore the pension could not be made the sub- ject of alienation or assignment. And, secondly, that there was 10 evidence of the contract arising nut of the bond, and that the defendant had his remedy at common law upon the instrument itself. The Vice- Chancellor inquired if it appeared upon the face of the grant for what specific purpose it had been inade by his Majesty Mr. Pepys said it did not appear. His Honour was clearly of opinion that the pension might be as- signed, and overruled the demurrer, with costs. ASSIZE GLEANINGS. Sir J. Vaughan, at the Suffolk Assizes, stated, that to draw the trigger of a loaded gun against an individual was a very se- rious crime, but the proof that it was the intention of the per- son merely to hurt, was not sufficient for the purposes of Lord Ellenborough's act; it must be a grievous bodily hurt. Game keepers, he wished it to be well understood, were responsible for the use of their fire- arms; they were not warranted to use them upon every occasion, only when there was any determined re sistance. At Chelmsford, Thomas Tufnell, found guilty of larceny, was sentenced to be transported for fourteen years—" Thank you, my Lord," said the prisoner, " I hope you will never want a pinch of snuff." At Lincoln, Jane Harrison was indicted for falsely swearing a bastard child to a farmer in Lincoln, named Ullett. She had a child in May, 1830, and being servant to Mr. Ullett, he forced her to go before the magistrates to swear to the father of the child. She was so enraged with him for compelling her to do this, that she swore the'child to him, although he was 76 years of age, and the grandfather of many children, the youngest of whom was 20. She afterwards admitted that a man, named Francis, was the father. She was found guilty, and sentenced to transportation for seven years. Big Brown, of Bridgenorth, the great pugilist of the west, brought an action, at Stafford, against Beardsworth, the Bir- mingham horse- dealer, for 200/., deposited in his hands as Brown's share of the prize- money to be fought for by himself and Sampson, the pugilist of Birmingham. The fight took place about four miles from Doncaster, on the 19th September last. Sampson after the 14th round did not come up to time : it was alleged that this was because Brown's friends broke in the ring. Beardsworth, the stakeholder, paid the money to his protege— Sampson. The action was brought for the mere deposit moiJey, as the law does not recognise a prize fight. The jury, after a short time, gave a verdict for the plaintiff, damages 200/. At the Worcester Assizes an action was tried (" Southall v. Lynes") brought by a respectable farmer of the parish of Elmley Lovett, against the Rector, to recover a penalty of 270/., one- third of the income of the rectory, for non- residence for three months, in the year 1830. A great number of witnesses were examined for the plaintiff, consisting of clergymen who had offi- ciated for the defendant during his absence, of the defendant's servants, and of parishioners, who proved that he had been absent nine weeks in succession, and occasionally at other times, though seldom more than a few days, and not including a Sun- day. It appeared that the defendant had taken his wife to Malvern, for the benefit of her health, and that he had visited his father, who was ill, and that there was always a clergyman to perform the duty in his absence. Mr. Justice Taunton charged the jury, and said that they were to judge whether the occa- sional short absences constituted the wilful absence contemplated by the statute. The jury instantly returned a verdict for the defendant. John Ellison, Thomas Stanley, and Peter Vines, were tried and acquitted, charged with having, on the 5th of November, set fire to a " stubble" rick, belonging to Ambrose Goddard, Esq. at Swindon. In the report of this trial in other papers, it has been stated that the acquittal of the prisoners was owing to a defect in the indictment; but this was not the fact; it was owing to a defect in the act of Parliament, or to the Judges' decision upon it. The Judges, it appears, have determined that the term straw, used in the act, does not extend to stubble. In the case of a man named Day, convicted of stealing some barley, his counsel asked the prosecutor, why he growed barley in a particular field? The judge with some asperity remarked, " Why do you carry a five pound note in your pocket ? I never heard such a question put. I will not allow such nonsense before me. The jury, myself, and the auditory, deserve better treat- ment." At Lincoln, Priscilla Woodford, aged 15, was convicted of setting fire to a stack of hay, the property of her master, Isaac Teesdale, at Harconley, with intent to get discharged from ser- vice in consequence of having quarrelled with her mistress 1 The prosecutor, in a case in which a man was convicted " of robbing him of his handkerchief while he was attending a fune- ral- service at a Baptist meeting- house, being asked by the judge why he did not take care of his property when he was in a crowd, replied, " My Lord, I was attending to what the minister was saying."— Judge: " Oh, good ; very good; I wish every hearer was so attentive." A man named Chappell was convicted of stealing a bay mare, and the witnesses represented him to be very respectable and possessed of considerable property. " This really puzzles me ( said the judge) for I can see no earthly cause to induce the commission of the crime : there is, however, no accounting for a departure from the path of righteousness when human nature labours under a propensity to go astray. I will see to this case." At Montgomery, John Humphreys had five indictments found against him for stealing sheep, the whole number of which amounted to 200. He was convicted on the first indictment of stealing 35 sheep, the property of John Thomas, of Carno, and the Judge passed sentence of death upon him, but said, that pro- bably his life would be spard— on no other condition, however, than transportation for life. The prisoner, it is said, was in some repute among his neighbours for superior sanctity, and for preaching. The High Sheriff of Sussex, A. Donovan, Esq., during one of the trials in the Crown Court, last week, to which he had lis- tened with much apparent attention, actuated by the impulse of the moment, with great energy put a epiestion to one of the wit- nesses, as if acting in his magisterial capacity, and that, too, while the judge himself was in the act of questioning the wit- ness. The abruptness of this interruption caused the learned judge to smile, and he gently put his hand towards the Sheriff, who seemed much confused. The counsel laughed heartily. At Maidstone, Elizabeth Jones was charged with stealing four sovereigns from John Dutton, at Deptford. On the 4th of De- cember last, the prisoner accosted Dutton, and asked him to take a walk with her. While he was hesitating, she thrust her hand into his pocket and pulled out four sovereigns, which she swal- lowed. She was taken into custody and searched, but without success. A dose of medicine was then administered, which had the desired effect, and the four sovereigns in a few hours after- wards, came forth from their hiding- place. Guilty— Imprison- ment and hard labour for six calendar months. At Maidstone, Richard Kelsey was indicted for feloniously shooting a gelding, the property of Joseph Champion. Kelsey and Champion were both farmers, residing in the same neigh- bourhood. In 1831, Champion was overseer of the parish, and was involved in a quarrel with Kelsey, who had neglected to pay his poor- rates. In consequence a distress warrant was issued, and Kelsey threatened to make him remember taking out a dis- tress warrant. The Jury, after a trial of ten hours, returned a verdict of guilty, and the prisoner was sentenced to fourteen years' transportation. The counsel for a man of the name of Gilbert, convicted of sheep- stealing, endeavoured to get rid of the case by showing that the leg bones of the sheep did not fit in the way described in the indictment. But as it was occasioned by the sinews having become dry and consequently contracted, the objection was overruled. MURDER OF A WOMAN BY HER OWN SON.— Tuesday night, between ten and eleven o'clock, the utmost alarm prevailed among the inhabitants of Francis- Street, New Cut, Lambeth, by a report that a woman, named Connell, had been murdered by her own son, who had beat her brains out with a pair of bellows. It appears that a man and his wife, named Connell, with their fa- mily, occupy the first floor at No. 20, in Francis- street. About ten o'clock, the son, a man 25 years of age, in the employ of Mr. Cox, broker, Waterloo Road, came home and requested to have some bacon for supper, but his mother, who, it appears, was rather the worst for liquor, made use of some bad language to- wards him, and refused to allow him to cook his supper by the fire. A quarrel ensued, and the young man, who was blowing the fire at the time, threw the bellows at his mother in a pa- roxysm of passion, in so violent a manner, that the nozzle en- tered the temple close to the left eye, and penetrated to the brain. The son, observing the horrible act he had committed, ran to his unfortunate parent's assistance, and pulled out the in- strument of death ; but it had penetrated so deep, that his father, who was sitting near him at the time, was obliged to assist in the withdrawal of it. The woman died almost immediately, and the man was taken into custody, when he attempted to terminate his own existence by stabbing himself with a dessert knife. The knife, however, was prevented entering deeply, by coming in contact with a rib ; and before he could make a second attempt, a policeman wrenched the knife from his grasp. He was con- veyed to the Waterloo Station. The prisoner is a stout- made man, and had returned from sea about six months. INCENDIARISM.— On Saturday the two incendiaries, Berriman and Hunt, were executed on the drop behind the county gaol, Winchester, for setting fire to the property of Mr. Smith, of Barton Stacey. Berriman addressed a few words to the crowd, confessing the justice of his sentence. CORN EXCHANGE, MARCH 23. The arrival of wheat, barley, and oats, since Monday, has been very considerable. Prices are nominally the same, with but little business doing. Average Price of Corn, for the week ended March. 9. Imperial Weekly Average Six Weeks' Average, which regu- ) latcs duty ^ Duty on Foreign Corn Wheat. Barley. Oats. 08s 8d 34s Id 21s 5d 59s Id 34s 7d 21s 2d 27s 8d 9s 4d 15s 3d PRICE OF SUGAR] ~ The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the returns made in the week ending March 20, is— 24s. 5* d. per cwt. exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the Importation thereof into Great Britain. SMITHF1ELD, MARCH 23. The quantity of beasts was large for a Friday's market, which consists principally of what was turned out from Monday's. The trade w s in a complete stagnant state ; at the commencement a de- presssion of from 2d. to 4d. per stone was readily submitted to, and before the close a further reduction was expected to effect any- thing like a clearance of the market. Mutton sold much the same as on Monday, the supply continuing short. Veal was a heavy trade, and 5s. 4d. is only realised for very fine small calves. Per stone of 81b. ( sinking the offal.) 3s 4d to 3s lOd I Veal 4s 4d to 5s 4d 4s Od lo 4s lOd | Pork 4s Od to 5s Od Head of Cattle at Market. Beasts - 616 ] Calves - 146 | Sheep - 2,650 | Pigs - 110 Beef.. Mutton brisk trade. NEWGAIE Ai\ 1) LLADENHALL, MARCH 24. 1 herewas a good supply at these markets this morning, with a- ( By the carcase, per stone of 81bs.) 6d. to 3s. 6d. I Mutton - 3s. 4d. to 4s. Od 2d. to 4s. 8d. I Pork - 3s. 6d. to 5S. Beef - Veal - 2s. BRITISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH, NEW- ROAD, KING'S- CROSS, LONDON. R. MORISON, the President, and Mr. MOAT, The Vice- President, in conjunction wilh all the Honorary Members, and Country Agents of the British College of Health, being now fully borne out with the conviction, approbation, and indubitable proofs, of upwards of 200,000 individuals ( who had been thrown aside by the Faculty, and out of the Hospitals, as in- curable) having been restored to sound health by the " Universal Medicines ;"— with all this incontrovertible mass of exidence in sup- port of the Hygeian Theory and Practice, which challenges the con- troversy of the whole body of Medicists, under the old system to subvert, they, the heads of the College, hesitate not to declare, in Ihe face of the Faculty, that this new light must completely change the whole course of the Materia Medica, and introduce a new era in tiie science of physic: that, in fact, mankind will be taught, in future, a new and certain mode of investigating the nature and cause of Diseases in general, and of possessing a certain and harmless mode of cure, making every individual his ow n efficient doctor. In confirmation of what is here asserted, the heads of the College mean to insert, in this Paper, a continued series of new cases, from indi- viduals giving their names, residences, and dates of time of cure, all of w hich have been voluntarily given, and ascertainable as to the facts by inquiry. CURE OF A VIOLENT BILIOUS COMPLAINT. To W. C. POOLE. P. H. S. LIVERPOOL- ROAD, MANCHESTER. SIR,— With heartfelt gratitude to the Supreme disposer of all things, and to you as an instrument in dispensing this great na- tional blessing, the Vegetable Universal Medicines, 1 request you to publish my case and cure, for the benefit of the afflicted. For several mouths I experienced a violent bilious attack, attended with sick head- achs, pains of the loins and arms, pains in my right side, dimness of sight, palpitation of the heart, indigestion, and a con- stant vomiting after taking any kind of food, In this state I con- tinued for a long time, till advised by persons who well knew of the many cures performed under your direction, ( not only in Man- chester but in different parts of the kingdom,) by the use of Mo- rison's Vegetable Universal Medicines, I had no sooner applied to you, than you gave me the cheering hope of a speedy cure ; and in the short space of three days, I was perfectly cured, and have never felt the least symptoms or relapse since ( now fou* weeks,) for which, kind sir, I return you my grateful thanks, and assurance of never taking any other medicines; and remain your most obedient servant MARIA KINO, with full reference to Mrs. Law, 17, Kennedy- street, Manchester, June 3, 1831, ANOTHER UNDOUBTED CURE OF THE CHOLERA IN ENGLAND. To MR. MORRISON, THE HYGEIST. Sir,— Feeling assured that my life has been saved by a prompt use of the Universal Medicines, under a most violent attack of the Cholera Morbus, I deem it a duty I owe to you and to the public, to lay my case before you in the hope that, by your giving this, my testimony, ( which 1 am rearly to verify on oath, if required), full publicity, I may be the means of emboldening many to embrace the same certain remedy to that dreadful calamity. On Sunday evening last I was suddenly attacked with a most vio- lent lax and retelling, and at the same time seized with most dis- tressing cramps in all my limbs, and all over my body, with spasms in the chest and back, which filled me with all the horrors of a cer- tain aud agonising death before the morning. Struggling, however, through the night, my wife at an early hour on Monday morning, waited on Mr. Moat, the Vice President of the College, who promptly ordered an immediate dose of twenty pills, twice or thrice in the course of the day, during which time a thorough cleansing, up aud down, removed all danger, and hy the Wednesday follow- ing, I was enabled to follow my business in full health. From the powerful and beneficent effect produced on me in so short a time, I can have no hesitation in recommending your inesti mable Medicine as a certain and speedy Cure of the Cholera Morbus. I am, Sir, your grateful debtor and humble servant, W. II. BARNES. No. 7, Deer's- place, Somers Town, London, Aug 18, 1831. The " Vegetable Universal Medicines" are to be had at the College, New- road, King's- cross, London; at the Surrey Branch, 96, Great Surrey- street, Blackfriars; Mr. Field's, No. 16, Air- street, Quadrant; Mr. Chappell's, Royal Exchange ; Mr. Walker's Lamb's Conduit- passage, Red Lion- square; Mr. J. Loft's, 10, Mile- end road ; Mr. Bennett's, Covent- garden- market; Mr. Hay don's, Fleur- de- lis- court, Norton Falgate ; Mr. Haslett's 147, Rat- eliffe- highway; Messrs. Norbury's, Brentford ; Mrs. Stepping, Clare- market; Messrs. Salmon, Little Bell- alley ; Miss Varral's, 24, Lucas- street, Commercial- road ; Mrs. Beech's, 148, Sloane- street, Chelsea ; Mr. Chappel, Royal Library, Pail- Mall; Mrs. Clements, 12, Bridge- street, Southwark ; Mr. Wallas, 3, Borough- road, near the Obelisk ; Mr. Kirtlam, 4, Bolingbroke- row, Walworth ; of Mr. Pain, 64, Jermyn- street; Mr. Wood, hair- dresser, Richmond; Mr. Meyer, 3, May's- buildings, Blackheath; Mr. Griffiths, Wood- wliarf, Greenwich ; Mr. B. Pitt, 1, Cornwall- road, Lambeth ; and at one Agent's in every principal town in Great Britain, the Islands of Guernsey and Malta ; and throughout the whole of the United States of America. Od. HAY MARKETS, MARCH 24. SMITHFIELD.— Meadow Hay, 31.3s. to 41. 4s.; inferior ditto, 21. 10s. to 2(. 15s. ; Old Clover Hay, 3/. 15s. tu 5(. 15s.; second crop ditto, 3/. 10s. to 5/. 0s.; Rye Grass Hay, 31.10s. to 4l. 6s.; Oat Strnw, 11. 5s. to 1/. 10s. ; Wheat Straw, 11. 10s. to 1/. 16s. per load of 36 trusses.— A fair supply at market, and a fair demand. CUMBERLAND.— Meadow- Hay, 41. Os. to 41. 15s. ; inferior ditto, 3/. 0s. to 31. 15s. ; Clover, 4/. 4s. to 51. 5s. ; second crop, 3i. 3s. to 41. 0s. ; Rye Grass Hay, 01. Os. ; Oat Slraw, 28s. ; Wheat Straw, 33s. to 39s.-— There was a good supply at market to- day, with a brisk trade. Best meadow hay again at an advance. Straw is also higher. In clovcr there is no variation. COAL EXCHANGE, MARCH 2ST ~ Prices of Coal, per ton, at the close of the market. Killingworth, 20s 6d— St. Lawrence Main, 19s 6d— West Hartley, 19s Od- Wall's End, Bell, Robson, and Co., 19s 0d- Northumberland, 19s 9d to 20s- Perkins, 20s tu 20s 3d— Rus sel, s, 19s— Lambton Primrose, 22s— Stewart's, 22s Od to 21s— Hartley, 20s— New Flocton, Milne, and Co., 17s 6d- nved, 60. - Ships PRICE OF CANDLES. Ihe price of Store Candles, in the retail shops, is as follows .- Candles, per dnz. 7s. to 8s. | Mould, per doz 9s 6d PRICES OF THE PUBLIC FUNDS. Bank Stock Reduced 3 per Cents.. • • • Consols, 3 per Cents — for Account — 3* per Cents. • • • Reduced S* per Cents.. • • New 3* per Cents New 4 per Cents Long Annuities India Bonds Exchequer Bills M011. Tues. Wed shut. shut. shut. shut. 83* 83* 83* 83* « shut. - hut. shut. shut. — 91 90J 0> shut shut. < u shut. shut. 0 1 dis 4 dis 9 8 Tl. ur. Frid. Satu. shut. - hut. shut. shut. shut. shut. 83* 83* 83* 83J 83* 93* shut. shut. shut. shut. shut. shut. 90* 90* 90f shut. shut. shut. shut. shut. shut. 2 dis 2 dis 2 dis 9 10 10 COURSE OF EXCHANGE, M Amsterdam, 3 months, 12 1* Ditto, short, 11 18* Rotterdam, 3 months, 12 If Hamburgh, do. 13 lofto* Paris, short, 25 80 to 15 Ditto, 3 months, 25 80 to 85 Frankfort, ditto, 154 Vienna, ditto, 10 7* to 8 Trieste, ditto, 10 8^ to 9 Madrid, ditto, 36* to * Cadiz, ditto, 36* to * ARCH 23. Bilboa, 3 months, 36* to Leghorn, ditto, 47 § to * Genoa, ditto, 25 75 to 77* Naples, ditto, 40* to § Palermo, ditto, 119* to * Lisbon, 30 days' sight, 4 Oporto, ditto, 4 For. Gold, in bars, 3/. 17s. 9d. New Doubloons, 3/. 15s. 6d. New Dollars, 4s. 9* d. BIRTHS. The lady of William Spence, Esq. of Dorset place, Dorset- square, of a son— Of a son, the wife of James Morrah Esq of Sloane- street.— At Burton- crescent, the lady of Francis M. Dawson Esq. of a daughter— At Wells, the lady of John R. Allen Esq' of a son— In James's- slreet, Buckingham Palace, the lady of William Roihery, Esq. jun. of a son. MARRIAGES. C. Hewetson Barnes, Esq. of Orchard street, Portman- square, to Elizabeth, second daughter of the late Charles Hanbury, Esq. of Sloe farm, Halsted, Essex.— At St. Margaret's, Westminster, Lieutenant W. R Cooley, R. N., to Margaret, youngest daughter of the late Joseph Tilstone, Esq. of Newcastle, Staffordshire Jonah Smith Wells, Esq. of Sion College- garden, Aldermanbury, to Sarah, second daughter of the late William Chance, of Birming- ham, Esq.— At St. John's, Paddington, Robert Stamford, Esq. 39th Regiment, to Eloisa Matilda Anne, only daughter of Colonel G. Board man, of Connaught- square.— At Croydon, CharlesCoombe, Esq. late of the Coldstream Guards, to Miss Overend.— At Saint Pancras church, John Duncan, Esq. Member of the Medical Board, Madras, to Catherine, only daughter of the late Captain D. 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Rector of Pitchcott, and the former place.— Thomas- Fair, Esq. of Lincoln's- inn- fields, of Ihe firm of Pritchard and Fair. — At Stanton- park, Suffolk, Richard Wright, Esq. formerly of the Four Swans, Bishopsgate- strcet.— At her house, Stockwell- common, Mrs. Margaret Frances Green, in her 77th year.— At Strand- on- the- Green, Mrs- Sykes, widow of the late Edward Sykes, Esq. of New Inn, solicitor. LONDON: Printed by WILLIAM ARCHER DEACON, Savoy Precinct, and Published by him at the Office, 2, WEL- LINGTON- STREET, STRAND; where, ONLY, all conimu. nications addressed to the Editor are received. The following persons have been appointed Agents to this Paper : Adams, Loughboro'; Aked, Keighley ; J. Bainesand Co. 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