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MORISON, the President, and Mr. MOAT, the Vice- President, in conjunction with 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 Fa- culty, and out of the Hospitals, as incurable) having. beenjestored to sdund health by the " Universal Medicines;" with all this incontro- vertible mass of evidence in support of the Hygeian Theory and Prac- tice which challenges the controversy of the whole body of Medicists, under the old system to subvert, they, the heada- isf the College, hesitate not to declare, in the face of the Faculty, that this new light must com- pletely change the whole course of the Materia Medica, and introduce a new era in the science of physic: that,' in fact, mankind will be taught, 111 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 own 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 individuals giving their names, residences, and dates of time of cure, all of which nave been voluntarily given, and ascertainable as to the facts by inquiry. TO MR. PROBETT, P. H. S. Sir — With heartfelt gratitude to the Supreme Disposer of all things, and to you as an instrument in dispensing the Vegetable Universal Me- dicine, I request you to publish my case and cure for the benefit of the afflicted. From experience, I am convinced of the truth of Mr. Mori- son's theory, as set forth in the " Origin of Life," and of the efficacy of your medicine in all curable disease, let it appear in any form whatever, though those forms of disease may be deemed incurable by the Faculty. For several years I have been afflicted with most tormenting pains, which commenced in a violent bilious attack, succeeded by a compli- cated form of disease, viz. accumulation of bile, worms at the chest, Sains of the liver, with very little appetite, bleeding piles, and bearing own of the body, at times to that degree that I have not been able to rest night or day. When I applied to your agent for Leicester, I never expected a cure, yet hope led me to make trial of that medicine I heard so highly and repeatedly recommended. Having tried the Faculty to very little purpose, I began to take the Universal Medicine in doses of four pills of No. 1, anil six of No. 2, every night, with the Aperient Powders two or three times a day. In a short time I found great benefit from the bile and chest worms passing from me in great abundance. After taking the pills eight weeks, I found but little benefit from the ind why ?— because I William Grant, Esq. John Knowles, Esq. F. R. S. 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This day is published, in post 8vo. price 8s. 6d. in boards, dedicated, by permission, to her Majesty, THE MESSIAH: A Poem, in Six Books. By the Author of " The Omnipresence of the Deity." " The Messiah is, in our opinion, equal to any of Mr. Montgomery's productions, and a lasting monument to his fame."— Literary Gazette. John Turrill, British Magazine Office, 250, Regent- street, London. bleeding . nig tn piles, f did not abide by the directions re- fative to ' strong doses', taking more of No. 2 than No. 1; but by the advice of your indefatigable agent, Mr. Breedon, I rose up to fifteen and twenty of Nos. 1 and 2 alternately, daily, though tempted to give it up as a hopeless case. Having commenced strong doses, I soon was relieved from every distressing form of disease which my afflicted body was exposed to, and after perseverance for several months, do affirm that I am perfectly cured by Morison's pills alone. In sincerity, I pub- licly acknowledge the benefit derived, that my suffering fellow- creatures may be encouraged to use the same means, which are administered not for any particular complaint, but for the blood, that by the removal of impure humours the pure blood again flows to every part of the body, and consequently restores the patient to perfect health. In gratitude, I remain yours truly, MARY BREEDON. Wood- street, Leicester, May 2,1831. TO MR. MORISON. Sir,— I beg leave to add to the number of astonishing cures that have been performed by your " Universal Medicine," the following statement of my case and cure, by it only:— I was, about eight years ago, most severely afflicted with the bleeding piles, which brought on what is termed a running fistula, which incapacitated mefrom following any kind of employment for weeks and months, at different periods. I have been operated upon, but the complaint returned again with great violence. I applied to be operated upon again, but was refused on account of my age ( 54). 1 had then no hope of relief from my complaint; but a gentle- man hearing of my case, requested me to try the " Universal Medicine" ( he having proved its efficacy on himself, and particularly on its having completely removed a cataract on the eye of a female relative, which he is reaa'y to attest on any inquiry), and kindly gave me a supply, direct- ing me to take fifteen pills of No. 2 every night, and five more every morning, which, in so adhering to without intermission, I most posi- tively affirm, and am ready to testify to any one who may inquire, that by taking the above medicine, I was perfectly cured in six weeks, and have been able to follow my business ( that of a printer) ever since, now three months ago, and have enjoyed better health than I have expe- rienced for the last fifteen years. I should also mention that, about a month after I commenced taking the pills, I voided two pieces of dead flesh, or apparent decayed liver, without any pain whatever; and that, after that discharge, the cure was very rapid indeed. Should you think proper to add the above cure to your certificates, I shall, in duty bound, be glad to give any information in my power. With every grateful feel- ing, I am, Sir, your humble servant, Skinners' Alms House, London, Aug. 1, 1831. BENJ. BEVERIDOE. The " Vegetable Universal Medicines" are to be had at the College, New- road, King's- cross, London; at the Surrey Branch, 96, Great Sur- rey- street, Blackfriars; Mr. Field's, 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, Co- vent- garden market; Mr. Haydon's, Fleur- de- lis- court, Norton- folgate; Mr. Haslett's, 147, Ratcliffe- 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, 7, Sloane- squarc, Chelsea; Mr. Chappel, Royal Library, Pall- mall; Mrs. Clements, 12, Bridge- street, Southwark; Mr. Kirtlam, 4, Bolingbroke- row, Wal- worth ; of Mr. Pain, 64, Jermyn- street; Mr. Wood, hair- dresser, Rich- mond; 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, the Canadas, and New Brunswick. NEW PUBLICATIONS. FINDEN'S ILLUSTRATIONS OF LORD BYRON. The fourth part of these illustrations of Byron, in landscape and portraiture, has recently appeared. It does not merely sustaip, but advances the reputation of the work. There are six illustrations of scenery, and a portrait of the infant daughter of the poet. The views are, Cintra, where the unfortunate con- vention was signed— St. Sophia, seen from the Bosphorus, a classic sketch of great spirit and variety, finely engraved— Mafra, a grand mass of architecture— The Castle of Chillon, somewhat deficient in romance as a view, perhaps, because too faithfully drawn— The Wengen Alps, which require only a few moments concentrated observation to be admired and enjoyed — and the Coliseo, seen from the Farnese gardens, a view which cannot fail to charm by its beauty and fidelity. CABINET CYCLOPEDIA : HISTORY OF SPAIN AND PORTUGAL. VOL. 3. The third volume of this valuable work forms the thirty- second number of the Cabinet Cyclopedia. It is amongst the best com- pendious histories in the English, and, perhaps, in any lan- guage. There is not the eloquence of Bossuet, or Voltaire1 flashes of philosophy and wit, but there are a studious know- ledge of the books and manners of the Peninsula— vast and care ful examination of authorities— and vigour, perspicuity, and simplicity of style. The author's faults are too strong, leaning to every power opposed to the people— a disposition to undervalue all that is called popular— and a harsh morality. He is an honest historian; but his Toryism pervades and tinges his whole work. As to his severity as a moralist, it " necessary only to refer to his notice of Ines de Castro in this volume. After narrating that tragic episode in an affecting manner, lie speaks of " the crimes" of Ines as if she had poisoned an enemy, or betrayed a friend, when her only offence was having borne children to Don Pedro in the lifetime of his wife, and having secretly married him after her death. THE PERIODICALS. Westminster Review.— The July Number of this Review is one of great talent, interest, and variety. It opens with a dirge of half a page in ranting prose, on the philosopher Bentham. This we think had better have been omitted. Take, as an ex- ample, the following, with which it begins :—" Bentham is dead! As the Arabs say of their great men [ we omit the original Arabic character], inhadhara— he is sent for to the presence. The se- cond teacher of the greatest happiness, as he a few years ago was called, [ by whom ?] is gone to join the first." We will say only, that this is bad taste : others would apply harsher terms to it. Bentham, however, was assuredly both a great and good man— a benevolent philosopher, who devoted himself during sixty years with a generous humanity, and a sagacity the most searching and fearless, to the interests of truth, or, in other words, of his fellow- creatures— and indulgence is due to a form of ex pression, probably suggested by the enthusiasm of a disciple. Fraser's Magazine.— The most striking and valuable contribu- tion to the Fraser of this month, is the continuation of an article which appeared in the preceding number, entitled " The Schoolmaster's Experience in Newgate." The subject is of the deepest importance, as it not only involves the fate of thousands of the community, but also most seriously affects the character of a certain portion of the criminal jurisprudence of the country. The writer seems to be perfectly au fait with the matter he has t aken in hand, and throws such a broad and searching light upon : he abominations practised under the name of justice, as must lead, in this age of inquiry and reform, to an immediate exa- mination, with a view to a complete removal of the evils of the system which he upholds to public indignation. The first fact stated by the writer is sufficiently startling, and will give some idea of the extraordinary disclosures which await those who .. hall peruse ( and every one should do so) the article. The pi) « sage is as follows:—" The rapid and indecent manner in which the trials are conducted at the Old Bailey Sessions- house, is a constant theme of censure by those who have ever entered that court. For several sessions I made calculations of the average time which each trial occupied. I never found it exceed eight and a half minutes, notwithstanding many eases engage the Court occasionally a whole day; and in the old court, where most of the capitals are tried, they usually, on the first, second, and third days of the session, severally take many hours. The average of eight minutes and a half is made on both the courts, and taking in all the prisoners tried for eight successive sessions." The exposure of a system, under which such a mockery of justice as the above account exhibits, is carried on as an act of patriotism and philanthropy. The next article that is most deserving of attention, is a notice of " Statistical Sketches of Upper Canada, by a Backwoodsman" in which a very amusing and spirited sketch is given of the cha- racter and career of the author, Dunlop, whose multiplied ad- ventures, and many- coloured life, though summed up in a brief space, would, in the hands of a practised bookmaker, furnish materials for three goodly volumes. To these are added some lighter articles of not very considerable merit, but still suffi- ciently lively to keep up the character of the magazine. The Monthly Magazine— This periodical presents a varied tr| l of fare this month, and shews a commendable judgment in tl- je brevity of all, and the apropos of several of its articles,— t-$ o qualities which should never be lost sight of in the getting a I of a Magazine, in whose light and ephemeral pages, long- winded and erudite discussions, or elaborate essays, are out of season. No one sits down to study a magazine: it is rather taken up to relieve and recreate the mind, dulled and exhausted by severer application. Regarding the periodicals in this light, tlMonthly Magazine is one of the .. pleasantest of the tribe. T. ie articles in the present number, which seem. the most likely to amuse its readers, are, " Opposite Neighbours," a clever si. tch, given with no little truth and humour. " Sample of Si. oae Gentleman's Autibiograpliy," is a somewhat outre, but still 1..- ghable extravaganza. " The Spanish Herdsman," is a well- to;.!, hut too improbably direful story. These, and other light arficles, interspered with a few of graver import, render this r i . nber of the Monthly a very readable one. New Monthly Magazine.— The last Number of this Magazine is relieved and redeemed by Lady Blessington's Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron, with which it begins. She touches off the character of the poet— whom, by the way, Mr. Moore calls so studiously " the noble poet," and " my noble friend,"— the fair author, we say, touches off the character of Byron with great vivacity, rather severely, and we believe more truly, than it has hitherto appeared. That these Conversations are faithfully recorded we believe— the internal evidence is decisive ; but if Lady Blessington, with her talent and opportunities as an ob- server, drew upon her wit and fancy, she would, we verily be- lieve, dramatize conversations for Byron more faithfully— that is, so as to give a more faithful image of the man— than all the literal blockheads or shallow pretenders who have gone before her. But she has given only a few pages of the beginning of her Journal. Appearing thus, in periodical scraps, the interest will evaporate, and the effect be lost. Lady Blessington committed a great error when she cut up her valuable Journal into lifeless, formless, fragments, and committed herself with the ephemeral idleness or dulness of a magazine. The Court Magazine and Belle Assemblee, edited by the Hon. Mrs. Norton.— This is the first number of a new series of this fashionable miscellany brought out, and to be continued, under the tasteful direction of Mrs. Norton. Besides the usual elegantly designed, and accurately coloured plates of the fashions, the number contains two portraits, one of Lady Wigram, and the other of the Princess Esterhazy, the latter very beautifully engraved. Amongst the literary contents, the most remarkable arc a charming historiette, intitled, " The Coquette," sketched with grace and feeling, by the gifted pen of the authoress of the " Undying One"—" Kascamho," a tale of the Caucasus, from thc Russian, or rather from the French of M. Le Maistre, full of picturesque and interesting incidents, that are admirably adapted for, and might, with great facility, be arranged as a melodrame—" An extraordinary combat with a tiger," and escape from his embrace, which, if true, is perfectly mira- culous—" A Dramatic Sketch," by Miss F. Kemble, which is remarkable for its easy flow of versification and graeeful tender- ness. It is evident this young lady has read with deep attention, anil a most retentive memory, our earlier dramatists, for of them we have reminiscences in almost every line. But the most original and striking contribution to this number, is the copy of vers- s, " entitled, " Lament of the poet Savage." These lines a leeply pathetic, and express with force, and beautiful sim- ply of language, the crushed affections, and forlorn love of tl » _ aother deserted poet. The Nautical Magazine, a very interesting miscellany to those who go down to the great deep in ships ; or who take an interest in r.- sval affairs— and who is the Englishman who does not ? or, at l ast, who ought not— is embellished, this month, with an accurate and well engraved sketch of the Blackrock Fort and Lighthouse, Liverpool; and contains a variety of useful infor- mation, and well chosen extracts from voyages, & c. The Comic Magazine.— All those who want to " laugh, sans intermission, an hour by the dial," will read the Comic Maga- zine, which, comic from its commencement, has become still mo. e comical, since its editing has been entrusted to the pun- ning plume of the witty editor of Figaro in London. The en- gravings by Seymour, nineteen in number, are irresistibly ludicrous, and must break into smiles, if not broad grins, the most rigidly- visaged puritan. British Magazine.— To those who take an interest in eccle- siastical affairs, this publication will be found a useful guide, though its statements must, in many instances, be taken cum grano, as it is understood to be the organ of the High Church party ; and, consequently, looks at objects through the small or large end of the clerical telescope, as it may suit the interest j of that party. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. - — , HOUSE OF LORDS, MONDAY, JULY 2. A message from the Commons brought up the bill for the distil- lation of spirit from mangel wurzel; and the Union of Parishes' ( Irelaid) bill, which was read a first time. The bill for abolishing the Punishment of Death, in certain cases, was, after some verbal amendments, read and passed. Lord SUFFIELD presented several petitions, praying for the immediate Abolition of Slavery; one of which was seventy- two yards in length, and signed by 14,600 persons. On the presentation of some petitions in favour of the Govern- ment System of Education in Ireland, & c., ii Lord PLUNKET said he was happy to be able to inform the House that the opposition to the new system had entirely failed; that within a short period upwards of 600 applications had been received, praying that the advantages of the new system might be extended to the applicants; and that no fewer than 185,000 chil- dren were now receiving education under that system. STATE OF IRELAND.— The Earl of llODEN observed that he had now to bring before their lordships a most important subject connected with the unhappy state of Ireland, which was at present almost overwhelmed with misery and crime— a subject involving so many important considerations, which all came crowding on his mind, that he was somewhat at a loss liow to proceed, so as to make the deepest impression on their lordships' minds, and procure their sanction to the motion with which he intended to conclude. It might be convenient at the commencement to state, that he proposed to take the sense of the House on that motion. His lord- ship here entered at great length into the present state of Ireland, desciibing, from the public papers and other sources, the anti- tithes' meetings, the Political Unions, the persecutions of the Protestants, the organized associations of the Peasantry, their turf- tower building, holy- turf scattering, & c.; after which his lordship proceeded to say, lie really began to think that his Majesty's Mi- nisters were dupes to the conspiracy which existed in Ireland against the Protestants; for a spirit of Jesuitism ran through all the mea- sures which they adopted with reference to Ireland. Whether it was the Irish reform bill, or the Irish education bill, or the Irish procession bill, it mattered not; for the whole aim of those three bills seemed to be to strangle the Protestant interest and the Pro- testant people in Ireland. He would venture to say, that if their lordships agreed to the unprotestantising and unprincipled mea- sures proposed by his Majesty's Government, they would destroy the germ in which so many blessings had been preserved, and would establish oppression the most odious, and slavery the most - hateful. He implored his Majesty's Government therefore to pause their course. He implored them to consider who it was they were pushing away from them when they upbraided and denounced those Protestants who had supported England, and that almost single- handed, throughout the mighty struggles in which she had been engaged. The noble lord concluded by moving—" That an humble address be presented to his Majesty, praying lhat he would take into his most gracious consideration the afflicted state of his Protestant subjects in Ireland, and adopt such measures as, under the distressing circumstances of the case, might appear expedient to uphold the Profestant religion, and to protect the lives and pro- perty of his Majesty's subjects."—( Hear, hear.) Lord Viscount MELBOURNE said the noble Earl had talked of Ihe disordered state of the country, of the seizure of arms, of the administering of illegal oaths, of the attack upon houses and per- sons, as if they were recent events. Why, they were all at least seventy years old. They all knew that from that period to the present such disorders bad been of frequent recurrence. The noble Earl, after enumerating in chronological order the various disturb- ances which occurred in Ireland since the period above mentioned proceeded to say, that the existing evils had been met by the or- dinary course of the law, and more particularly they had been met by an increased police. The effect had been to restore the disturbed counties to comparative tranquillity. The noble Viscount pro- ceeded to read extracts from a variety of reports from Westmeatb the Queen's County, & c. arguing that the number of outrages in those counties had greatly diminished of late, principally in con- sequence of the increased strength of the police. After some further observations on the statements of the noble Earl ( Roden), his Lord- ship concluded by saying what he bad said before, and injustice to his colleagues and himself he must repeat the assertion, that there was no disposition on the part of his Majesty's government to deal otherwise than justly and impartially towards the Protestants of Ireland. Neither in education nor in any thing else, and least of all in the matter of the party processions' bill, was there any in- tention of doing injury to the Protestants of Ireland, and with that general disclaimer he should content himself, confident that the House could never be induced to consent to such a motion as the present. The Duke of WELLINGTON ( after some general observations) proceeded to say, there was 110 man who looked at the state of Ire- land who could for a moment deny that the occurrences now going on in that country were the result of a conspiracy. This he asserted and could prove. The object of that conspiracy was to deprive a large class of that security to their lives and property which they had enjoyed under all former governments, and, if not arrested in its progress, the effect of the conspiracy would be, not only to destroy all property, but to overturn all government. He trusted the House would not give ground for having it said that there existed no power in Parliament to protect the lives and properties of his Majesty's subjects. He now came to a part of the subject which was particularly painful to him; for it involved a high degree of blame to the present Government, as respected both policy and justice. Their conduct towards the members of the established church— and there was no one who wished well to the connexion subsisting between England and Ireland— there was no one who desired to see the basis of union widened between the two countries — who would ever wish to see the Piotestants of Ireland estranged from the Government, or ever wished to see them look elsewhere for countenance and support. He entreated the attention of his Ma- jesty's Government to the present temper of lhat portion of the Irish people. He begged to remind them that it was not yet too late, and that it probably never would be too late, to regain the Protestant mind of Ireland. He begged of them to do all that yet remained for them to do, in order to regain for England the firm friendship of the Protestant people of Ireland. With these remarks he should content himself, and if the question solely depended upon him, he should not press it to a division. Lord PLUNKET said, the noble lord directed his complaints against two classes of crime, which lie said prevailed in Ireland. The first was a conspiracy, which interfered with the enjoyment of all property— which assailed the dominion over lana. Now he would appeal to any one who heard the noble lord, to say whether the effect of his observations was not to impress the minds of all who heard liim with the belief that those offences were, in every instance, committed by Catholics against Protestants. On the part of the people of Ireland, and especially on the part of the Catho- lics, many of whom he knew, he begged to deny the existence of any such conspiracy. It was really absurd to talk of a conspiracy of nearly a whole nation against a very small portion of its inhabi- lants; and with all his experience of public life, it did surprise him that any assertion so gross and monstrous should have passed the hps of any one. He would put the thing on this footing •— Was the present resistance to tithes a Protestant or a Catholic re- sistance?— How many of the Protestants joined in the resistance > THE TOWH, July 8. Had they not all joined it whenever it appeared in their neighbour- hood'— That was a matter of public notoriety, and there could not be a grosser perversion of terras than to ascribe the present state of Ireland solely to the Catholics. His lordship, after replying to tbe principal topics in the noble Earl's ( Roden') statement, defend- ing the Irish Administration, and justifying tbe dismissal from tlie magistracy of Colonel Vernor and Captain Graham, concluded by saytng, he apologized for trespassing so much on the attention of the house on matters personal to himself ; but connected as they were with tbe administration of justice in Ireland, and with the complaints of the noble earl, he hoped that he had not too far in- truded on their patience, and that his explanations would be satis- factory, ( Cheers.) Lord CALEDON said1, he would support the motion. The Earl of ELDON, after some observations which were only, from time to time, audible, concluded by repeating his assertion tbat the. anti- tithe combination might have been put duwti in the commencement by the power of common law, which would have been found much more effectual than the noble and learned lord's appeal to the common sense of the people. The Earl of WICKLOW, after going over several of the topics dilated upon by the Earl of Roden, concluded by saying he would support the motion, and by calling on the House to read the Go- . vernment a lesson on the subject. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, after alluding at some length to some of the principal matters put forth in the noble earl's ( Roden) statement, said, it was now, however, a charge made against the Government, that they had omitted to enforce their own act for the collection of tithes. Why, the noble lord who made the charge must see by the act that the time had not yet come to enforcc it; but, every preparation had been made to enforce the law, and when the time arrived at which it could be enforced he would see it en- forced. He conjured the House to pause before they recommended ' the Government either to violate the law by a slreteh of power, or to seek from Parliament new powers unknown to the constitu- tion. After a few words from the Earl of Westmeatb, and a brief reply from the Earl of Roden, their lordships divided— For the motion, — Present, 60; Proxies, 19— 79. Against the motion, Present, 70 ; Proxies, 50— 120 .... 41 Majority ..... Adjourned at two o'clock in the morning. TUESDAY, JULY 3. The General Cemetery Bill was read a third time and passed. Tbe Marquis of LONDONDERRY resumed bis inquiries on tire subject of the foreign policy of the Government. He expressed his surprise at the extraordinary mission of Lord Durham, his re- gret at the lmrsh expressions that had been applied in another House to a foreign Potentate, and his hope that the Lord Privy Seal had been sent out to soften down those expressions. His Lordship then said that he particularly wished to know whether the Belgian treaty had been ratified by all the five powers;— and whether it was tiie non- acquiescence of the King of Holland that prevented the full development of the facts relative to the treaty? Earl GREY replied that, with respect to the language used in another place, he disapproved of it; he apprehended tbat there • was a respect due to foreign sovereigns, which ought on no account to- be violated in Parliament. As to the treaties, & c., he regretted to'say that the negotiations were not terminated, and that he could not now give answers to the inquiries that had been made. With respect to the mission of the Lord Privy Seal, he would only say, that circumstances so important had occurred as to make it appear ad/ visabte to his Majesty's ministers to send that mission. The Duke of WELLINGTON said, for his own part he must :- ejSgress his entire conviction that his Imperial Majesty of Russia had performed every article of the treaties to which he was bound, SCI far as he ( the Duke of Wellington) had any acquaintance with them. ( Hear.) The Earl of BELHAVEN presented a petition from the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland, praying tbat in any system of education to be established for Ireland, the Protestant children should have tbe liberty and privilege of reading the Scriptures without note or comment in tlie school, and that in every school there should be a class for reading the Scriptures. A lengthened discussion ensued upon this petition, in the course of which allusion was again made to tile- letter of a certain noble Duke ( Buckingham) which it had been said was communi- cated to tiie Times newspaper upon this subject. Earl GREY, alluding to the Bishop of Exeter, said that the right rev. prelate had at the. same time given as a proof of the connexion • which be said existed between a certain paper and the Govern- ment, that it had published what it could only have obtained from persons in the Government. The right reverend prelate dis- liked insinuations, but he stated what he believed, and all the venom • went forth with the thin veil which the right reverend prelate cau- tiously spread over it. He felt only disgust at the time, and now he felt nothing but contempt. ( Hear, hear.) The Marquis of SALISBURY called upon the House to mark the language of the Prime Minister. The noble Earl bad, for the first time be believed, said be felt contempt for a member of the right reverend bench. He called upon the House to protect the right, reverend bench. The Bishop of EXETER entreated their lordships not to pursue this discussion. He was sorry to have been the cause of raising this excitement. He would say nothing further, than that he trusted to liis character to protect him against such a remark. The petition was then laid on the table. BOUNDARIES BILL.— The House went into committee on this bill. Several clauses were agreed to, and the Chairman reported pro- gress, and obtained leave to sit again to- morrow. Their lordships adjourned at twelvfe o'clock. WEDNESDAY, JULY 4. The Earl of HADDINGTON presented a petition, complain- ing of the encroachment of the Scotch Reform Bill on the " Su- periorities"—( or " Parchment voles," as they have been termed)— declaring that they bad been recognized by the law of Scotland, and praying for " compensation." After a few words from the Earls of Roseberry, Aberdeen, and ' Minto, the petition was laid on die table. ' H SCOTCH REFORM BILL.— The LORD CHANCELLOR, " after a lengthened and luminous explanation of the measure, moved that the bill be now read a second time. After a few remarks from the Earls of Haddington and Rose- " - berry, and Lords Belbaven and Napier, in approbation of the measure, the bill was read p. second time, and ordered to be com- mitted on Monday next. BOUNDARIES BILL This bill went through a Committee. Adjourned at ten o'clock. THURSDAY, JULY 5. The LORD CHANCELLOR brought in a bill to amend the Appellate Jurisdiction in the Ecclesiastical Courts; and in doing so- his lordship explained, at considerable length, the nature and constitution of those Courts. He also detailed the objects of the bill. One object was to prevent parties appearing at the bar as- practitioners on one day, and, on the next day, taking their seats on the bench, and deciding as judges. Another was to abolish the High Court of Delegates, and to transfer the right of hearing appeals to the Privy Council. The bill was read a first time, and ordered to he printed. The Bishop of EXETER presented a petition from Exeter - against the Government plan of education in Ireland, and en- tered into some explanation of his statements of Tuesday night, regarding the publication of the Duke of Buckingham's letter to the King, so often alluded to in the House. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY then stated that a letter he had addressed to his Majesty in the name of the ' Prentice Boys of Derry, and the answer thereto, had been immediately afterwards published. As he had not corresponded with any body, such publication must have originated with the Govern ment. Lord MELBOURNE observed that he was not aware of any such communication. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY asked whether the noble lord had taken any steps to find out how the letter and answer had become public ? Lord MELBOURNE replied that he had not. The report on the " Boundaries" bill ( England) was presented and agreed to, and the bill ordered to be read a third time on Monday.— Adjourned to next day. FRIDAY, JULY 6. Lord WHARNOLIFFE moved- the third reading of the Zemindar of Nozeed bill. The LORD CIIANCELLON, after taking an elaborate view of the whole of the case, opposed the bill. CONFERENCE WITH THE COMMONS.— Mr. WYNN, at the head of a deputation from the House of Commons, requested a conference with their lordships, which was granted. After the return of tbe lords who were nominated to attend the conference, The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said that the Commons stated, by their managers, that they disagreed from the amendments made by their lordships in a bill entitled " A bill for the abolition of the punishment of death, in certain cases," for the following reasons,— ; because they thought the amendments to be of so much importance as ti) demand a separate bill, and because they required more de- tailed consideration than had been given to them. On the motion jof the noble marquis the communication from the Commons was lordered to betaken into consideration on Monday next. The discussion was then resumed on the ZEMINDAR OF NOZEED BILL Lord WYNFORD sup- ported the bill. After a few observations, Lord ELLENBOROUGH moved, as an amendment, tbat the bill be read a third time that day six months. On this the House divided— Content, 14-; Non- ccntent, 23 ;— majority against the amendment, 9. On our re- admission below, the bar, we found The LORD CHANCELLOR addressing the House, and en- treating their lordships not to comc to an immediate decision on a matter of such high importance. He again begged to express his earnest hope that they would postpone the third reading to future day. After a few words from Lords Ellenborough, Wharncliffe, Napier., and Goderich, and the Earl of Ilarewood, Lord HOLLAND moved that the debate be adjourned. Tbe House again divided— Content, 15; Non Content, 24;— majority against. the adjournment, 9. The bill was then read a third time and passed. CONTEMPTS IN ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS' BILL- This bill, after some discussion, was rend a second time, and ordered to be. committed on Monday next. The anatomy bill went through tbe committee.. The report to he received on Tuesday., Adjourned HOUSE OF COMMONS, MONDAY, JUL- B 2. Colonel Grey took the oaths and his seat for High Wycombe. A few petitions were presented, some of which were from. Bir- mingham and. other towns in England, for an extension of the Irish reform bill. To a question by Lord G. Somerset, the Chancellor of the Ex- chequer replied, that it was the intention of government to renew tbe act for tbe composition of the assessed taxes without any alteration. Mr., Herries asked whether there would be any objection to lay before the House the secret article which was referred to in the convention between England and Russia, recently presented! The Chancellor of the Exchequer did not apprehend that there would be any objection to its production; but be could not then pledge himself to produce it. In reply to Mr. Herries' inquiry, the Chancellor of the Exchequer said, that he thought it would be most satisfactory to tbe House to delay his " financial statement" ( budget) till after the termination of the present quarter; he could not at present name the day. The Chancellor of the Exchequer stated, in reply to Mr. Dawsoa, that the lord privy seal and postmaster- general had been induced to receive the salaries attached to their offices, contrary to their ex- pressed intention. SLAVE TRADE— Mr. K. DOUGLAS moved for " Returns, showing how dependent the maintenance'of the manufactures and commerce of this county are on the supply of tropical productions raised by compulsory labour," and read several documents, for the purpose of showing that, without compulsory labour, a sufficient supply of cotton could never be produced to keep our manufacturers employed. Tbe CHANCELLOR of tbe EXCHEQUER did not see the practical object of the linn, gentleman's motion, but he would not resist it.— Returns ordered. On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, the House resolved itself into a committee of supply. Mr. Kennedy moved resolutions on the ordnance estimates. In the sum total, which is 1,247,000/., the estimates present a saving of 100,000/. as compared with last year;- and of 250,0001. as com- pared with the year before. The only amendment proposed was one by Mr. WASON, who moved that the sum of 27,398/., proposed to be granted for defray- ing the superintendence of the building and repair of barracks in Great Britain, Ireland, and the colonies, be reduced by the sum of 10,000/. After a few words from Mr. Hume, the committee divided— For the amendment, 22; against it, 48. Majority, 26. The House then resumed, and the report was ordered to be brought up on Wednesday. REFORM BILL ( IRELAND)— The House went into com. mittee upon this bill. The 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th clauses, after the rejection of some amendments which were proposed, were agreed to, and the House resumed. The chairman reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned. TUESDAY, JULY 3. Mr. Alderman WA1THMAN brought forward bis annual series of resolutions on the subject of trade. Mr. P. THOMSON did not think it necessary to follow the worthy alderman through the multifarious details of a motion on which he had been, so frequently confuted. He would, with all respect for the worthy alderman, declare that, in his opinion, the resolutions were such as ought not to be agreed to by that house ; and he would move the previous question. After a discussion in which Colonel Torrens, Mr. ITume, Mr. Attwood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and other hon. mem- bers joined, Mr. Alderman WAITHMAN replied ; after which the question was put upon his resolutions, and they were severally negatived without a division. Lord ALTHORP, in reply to a question put by Mr. Gisborne, said that the proceedings of the committee on the bank charter will not be brought to a close " without/ nil and fair investigation." SCOTCH GREYS.— Mr. HUME rose in order to submit to the House a motion of much importance, involving this great ques- tion— whether an Englishman, by becoming a soldier, forfeited his right as a citizen 1 It related to the severe and unjustifiable pu- nishment of a private in the Scotch Greys, of tbe name of Sonier- vilie, who had been treated with the utmost severity, merely he- cause he had written a letter to a newspaper called the Weekly Dispatch, of the sentiments of which letter every man in the coun- try might be proud. After detailing at some length the circum- stances of the case, the hon. member concluded by moving for the return of papers relating to the trial and punishment of private Somerville, of the 2d Dragoons. Mr. HUNT seconded the motion. Sir J. C. HOBHOUSE after stating his disbelief of the motive for the punishment of Somerville assigned by the hon. member ( Mr. Hume), said he could not accede to the motion, as he had not had notice of his hon. friend's intention to make it. After a lengthened discussion, in which Sir C. Wretherall, Mr. Tennyson, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. O'Connell, Mr. R. Grant, Sir F. Burdett, and other lion, members took a part, tbe motion was withdrawn. On the motion of Sir A. Agnew a committee was appointed fo in- quire into the laws and practice relating to the observance of tbe Lord's Dav. TREATY WITH RUSSIA.— The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER gave notice that on the 12th of July he would call tbe attention of the House to the treaty with Russia. The King's Printers' Committee was re- appointed, on the motion of Mr. Hume. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at a quarter to three. WEDNESDAY, JULY 4. The Sheriffs of London apjieared at the bar of the House,. and presented the petition of the- Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of London, praying that the measure of Reform about to be granted to Ireland should be as full and satisfactory to those in terested, as that already granted to England. The petition was I read, and ordered- to he printed. In answer to inquiries on the subject of'the cholera, Mr. Lamb stated that it had never entirely ceased— that it did not exist, how- ever, to so serious an extent as some imagined— that it was not true that it had fatally attacked the " Fatherof the House,"— and that there had been no- ease of cholera ih< the Coldbath- fields' Prison within the last 14days. In answer to a question put by Lord Sandon, Mr. E. Dennison tated that it was not intended to proceed this Session with the Scotch- and Irish Pauper Removal, Bill. On the motion for the House going into committee on the Liver- pool Franchise Bill:,. Mr. Hunt moved that the House be counted, and there being only 37 members present, the House adjourned at half- past seven. THURSDAY, JULY 5. Several petitions, chiefly from places in Ireland, against tithes were presented. GENERAL DARLING.— Mr. HUNT rose to bring forward his motion for tbe production of papers relative to the case of Joseph Sudds, \ vho had died in New South Wales; the papers relating to the charges made by Mr. Wentw- orth against General Darling; and the opinion of the law officers of the Crown on the statement made ; and also for papers relating to the case of Patrick Thompson. Lord IIOWICK said, that lie would grant all the papers sought for by the hon. gentleman, except tbe opinions of the law officers of the Crown, which being confidential communications, werenever given. The motion was agree. d to, and copies of the papers, ordered. IRISH EDUCATION.— Mr; J. E. GORDON presented a peti- tion w hich had been agreed to at a numerous and respectable meet- ing held at Exeter Hail, against the ministerial plan of education in Ireland. After speaking at some length in support of the petition, the hon. member concluded with moving for copies of the corres- pondence between the several schools in Ireland and the National Board, relati ve to the adoption uf the system of that board in those schools. After a conversation, in which Mr. Stanley, and other hon. members joined, the motion was acceded to. Mr. STANLEY then rose, and in a very long and elaborate speech, introduced bis new system, relative to the Irish tithes. In the course of this speech, he said, whatever difference of opinion he might have with those with whom he acted upon other questions, it was not his intention to do. away with the controul which the Legislature might assume over the properly of the Church. ( Hear, hear.) Whatever opinions he might have expressed at any time upon that subject, to such opinions he alone was pledged. But there was nothing in the arrangement whieh he was about to pro- pose tbat could in any way affect the power which the House could have over the property of the Church. His proposition would only go to substitute one kind of property for another. But that would be no less under tlie controul of the Legislature than the property which the Church held at present, and it. would be less subject to the influence of any outbreak of popular violence. ( Hear, hear.) Be tithes objectionable or not, no mail could wish to see them, or any other kind of property, got rid of by a popular combination. ( Hear, hear.) It would be dangerous to the peace of the country, and to the security of all its institutions, if the pro- perty of the Church were allowed to be done away wftli by a com- bination, which might easily be rendered applicable to the county rates, or to the rent of land, or to. any impost sanctioned by the Legislature. ( Hear, hear.) Whether or not the property of the Ciiurch was to be wholly at the disposal of tb « * Legislature, it was at least under the protection of the Legislature, ( Hear) and it was not to be left to the undisputed controul of popular violence and combination. The right lion, member then stated that he intended to propose three measures,— His first bill is to render tbe tithe- composition compulsory and permanent, varying only according to the variations in the price of agricultural produce, and failing on the landlord. His second bill is to constitute a corporation in each diocese, consisting of the bishop and beneficed clergy, who are to collect the whole incomes of Ihe clergy in die diocese, and to divide them agreeably lo the shares to which the clergy are re- spectively entitled. The object of this is to remove individual clergymen from collision with their parishioners. His third bill is to allow landlords to redeem their tithes, and the cor- poration to invest the price in land. Upon the latter point the right honourable gentleman entered into tile following details :— In making an arrangement of tbat nature, it was thought expedient that the incomes of the Clergy should be calculated at 15 percent, below their actual value, and it was also intended that Ihe land- lords should be. enabled to purchase up the tithes of their respec- tive estates at the price of 16 years' purchase, which would, ir effect, operate as a deduction of 15 per cent, upon the income of the Clergy. He would take the annual income of the Clergy of the Established Church at about 600,000/. per annum, for the pur- pose of his argument— it was not important that he was minutely correct; whether accurately stated or otherwise, the numbers he used would equally well explain bis argument. This 600,000/. a year, taken at sixteen years' purchase, gave a total of 9,600,000/.: taking 15 per cent, from that would reduce it to 9,300,000/. With that sum land could be purchased at eighteen years' purchase for the use of the Clergy, and then they would have a safe and com- plete rental of 510,000/.; and in lieu of the 15 per cent, they would have increased security and diminished trouble. He went on to say— To such landlords as should be willing to avail themselves of those. advantages of the bill, he proposed to bold out the addi- tional inducement to rid themselves of tbe burden of tithes, by sup- plying them with funds for Ihat purpose at a lower rate of interest than 5 per cent.. Not only was it. intended, then, to leave it open to landlords to purchase up the tithes affecting their property, and to give every practicable facility and convenience for doing so, but it was likewise intended to pu t it in the power of the State to pur- chase any amount of tithes in any part of tbe country where it might be found expedient, of course leaving the Ecclesiastical Cor- poration formed in the Diocese to dispose of the sums so invested, as in every other case, for the benefit of the parochial clergy. He was aware that in effecting the changes which under these bills it was intended to bring about, the promoters of such measures should proceed with boldness, though at the same time not without cau- tion ; but respecting this there could not be a second opinion, namely— that whatever changes might be required in Church go- vernment, must be brought about by the instrumentality of the Church. itself; but he should, nevertheless, be the foremost to affirm that it was the right and duty of the Legislature, and in the high- est degree incumbent upon- it, to take the lead, if the Church itself did not, in rectifying abuses— in correcting the distribution of pro perty— in confining it to ecclesiastical purposes— in removing a well known cause of discontent, arising out of the payment of church cess and rates by Catholics. ( Hear, hear 1) The right hon. gentleman, after inlreating the House, in the discussion that might ensue, to proceed with all calmness and temperance, concluded by moving for leave to bring in the bills abovementioned. Mr. J. GRATTAN, after some introductory remarks, moved as an amendment to the motion of the right hon. gentleman, resolu tions lo the following effect:— " That it is essential to the peace of Ireland that the prcseut system of tithes in that country should cease, and determine, " That in coming to this resolution, the House recognises the right of persons holding vested interests, and the duty of the legis- lature to provide compensation. " That it also recognises the liability of landed property in Ireland to contribute to a fund for religion and charity ; but that fund ought to be differently collected from what it is at present, aud should be lighter iu amount. " That ihe mode of levying and distributing the said und ought to be left to the decision of a reformed Parliament." Mr. BEAUMONT seconded the amendment. He was himself a lay impropriator,; but he was ready to make any sacrifices that might be calculated to remove the existing evils. Mr. SHEIL said that the Secretary for Ireland had recently ob- jected to a motion relative to pour laws, because Parliament was on the eve of dissolution. He then felt that a reforming Parliament was in a great measure divested of its legislative functions, and that when it had only a few weeks to live, it should not in articulo mortis engage in any great enactment. ( Hear,, hear-) Wherefore does he | not apply that sentiment to his present proceedings'! Wherefore, at the close of this self- condemned House of Commons, did he Bring forward a measure by which the permanent interests of Ireland might be affected, and which, according to the evidence of the Archbishop of Dublin, was to be ultimately extended to this country! Nothing but absolute necessity could justify this course. But would this measure give food, to the clergy, or arrest that spirit of insub- ordination which was traversing Ireland with such gigantic strides? When the clergyman stretches out his- hands for bread, would they give him this hard, this barren, this petrified piece of legislation? ( Hear, hear.) According to the statement of the right hon. gentle- iinan, it would take a year to bring the bill into operation. In tbe interval, tbe clergy were to perish, and tbe hundreds of thousands were to continue to assemble. Did the right hon. gentleman think that gathering the people in churches to appoint commissioners would tend to produce a very conciliatory disposition T Would the sight of the altar at which tliey do not worship— of Hie pulpit from which they derive no consolatory intimation— of the rich pews on whose crimson cushions they do not bend their knees— would all the pride, and pomp, and glorious circumstances of legal religion tend to inspire them with affection for its ministry .* Oil the con- trary, by collecting the people In enormous masses of inflammable emotion, the right hon. gentleman would but exasperate them, and increase the dangers of the country. But who were the witnesses that recommended the extension of the tithe composition? Tbe Secre- tary for Ireland has not appealed to the evidence of one. He begged the House to examine the testimony given before the committee. ( Here the hon. and learned gentleman cited extracts from the Arch- bishop of Dublin's evidence before the Lords, and from tbat of other persons before the Committee, and proceeded to point out the dangerous consequences likely to result from the measures pro- posed by the right lion, secretary for Ireland, and the almost cer- tain impossibility of enforcing them.) The hon. and learned gen- tleman concluded by saying with this evidence before him, the Irish secretary told the House that the Church property, was to remain untouched. Vain and preposterous hope I The Irish mil- lions— Catholic, Presbyterian, and Protestant— would disabuse him of his error, when that error may be lamented, but cannot be re- paired. And what did lie a few days ago utter in that House? Ia speaking of the evils of delaying Reform, he asked whether, if the Tories, when in power, had adopted measures, to correct the abuses of the Church, Ireland would be in such a condition. Sur- prise was produced by this observation. The right hon. member for Tamworth, in a Parliamentary whisper, said across the table, " Do you remember your speech in 1823?" Who was there that did not remember it? But with what consistency did the right hon. gentleman talk of Reform in the Churcb one day, and produce such, a mockery of Reform, as this: ort the other ? These measures were mere imposture. They would but aggravate the evil. You will but ( a new word might be fabricated for such original proceedings) — you will but " East Retfordize'* the Church. ( Cheer9.) Mr. G. KNIGHT said he was ready to support the first bill of the right lion, gentleman, but would not pledge himself to go fuD- thcr. Mr. RUTIIVEN observed, that in the present state of Ireland, it was impossible to apply this measure to that country. Mr. GOULBURN said he would give his support to the mea- sure. Mr. D. BROWNE was not averse to tlie- bill of the right hon. gentleman, though he could not agree ia the arguments by which it was supported. ( Alaugh.) He would not, however, vole for ths- keeping up such a monstrous establishment as that which now ex.- isted in the church of Ireland. Sir. I. HORT concurred in every word of the resolutions. On the motion of Mr. O'CONNELL, the debate was, adjourned! to Monday. The other orders of the day having been disposed of, tbe House adjourned at. half- past two o'clock. FRIDAY, JULY 6. Mr. W. PONSONBY took the oaths and bis seat for Knares- borough, in the room of Sir James Mackintosh deceased. Mr. HUNT inquired whether it was true that. Somerville, of the Scotch Greys had been discharged ? Sir J. C. HOBHOUSE replied, that be understood from the Horse Guards that his dismissal was in progress of being made out.. Alderman WOOD asked; whether any steps bad been taken respecting the court- martial by whose sentence Somerville bad been punished ! The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated that the whole of the proceedings had been submitted to a Court of Inquiry,, and that it would be conducted in a manner that would give satis- faction to the public. Sir J. C. HOBHOUSE then moved that the petition respecting Somerville be printed, that the whole case might be laid before the public, which was agreed to. Mr. DIXON asked, whether the Government had received any late ad" ices from St. Lucia ; or if they knew whether the sugar- works there were in operation ? Lord HOWICK replied, that the Government were without late advices; and that, when the last accounts came away, the sugar- works were not in operation. In a Committee of Supply,, the CHANCELLOR of the EX- CHEQUER brought forward the charge for a survey to secure, if possible, a good supply of water to the metropolis, undertaken at the instigation of Sir F. Burdett, he undertaking lo pay for it if tho Government would not. He considered that all ought not to be borne by. an individual; be, therefore, moved a grant of 1, Q00/. oft account of such survey. Sir. R. PEEL considered that Government ought not to interfere in such matters ; that the supply of water ought to be left to the competition of private individuals ; and that, if the survey were made at the suggestion of Sir F. Burdett, he ought to be allowed to bear the expense. Sir F. BURDETT replied, that he was willing to pay the ex- pense ; and, if a good supply of water were secured, so important did he deem It, that he should consider his money well laid out. The vote was then agreed to. Sir J. HOBHOUSE, in moving that 202,482/. be granted to defray the expense of tbe disembodied militia, stated that this vote- was a. diminution upon tbe sum proposed last year.— Agreed to. The house then resumed, and the report was ordered to be re- ceived on Mondav next. IRISH REFORM BILL.— On the motion ofLord ALTHORP; the house resolved itself into a committee on this bill. The clause?, from the 10th to the 42nd, both included, were, with the exception of 19, agreed to. Ori clause 19 being read, Mr. Wallace, Mr. O'Connell, BIr. D. Browne, and others, urged: that greater facilities should not be afforded to 40s. freeholders, especially ill counties and towns, than they possessed at present J and that they should be subjected to a personal examination, if any doubts were entertained as to their being bona Jiile freeholders. After a short discussion, in which Lord Allhorp, Mr. Stanley, and Mr. Crainpton, as well as the lion, members just mentioned, took part, the force of tbe representation was allowed, and we un- derstood Mr. Stanley to state that words to that effect would be introduced into the bill. The remainining clauses, with the exception, of 54- and 55, which were postponed, wereagreed to without amendment. The house resumed: report on Monday. Adjourned at 3 o'clock till Monday. The Russian Navy consists of 54 sail of the line, 35 fH-> gates, 10 bomb vessels, 25 fire ships, 50 galleys; 45 smaller ves- sels, and 500 gun boats. To these must be added 50 ® tow boats, making altogether, 1,139 vessels, carrying 9,617 guns. July 8. mwm TO war. COMMISSION OF LUNACY. IN THE MATTER OF MISS toAXTER, OTHERWISE MRS. NEWTON. Tuesday the inquiry into the state of mind of this unfortu- nate lady was commenced in the Court of King's Bench, before Mr. Commissioners Coltman, Whitmarsh, Wmslow, and a highly respectable jury. Mr < F. Pollock and Mr. Pliillimore appeared m support at the commission, and Mr. E. Law and Mr. Follett for Mr. Newton. The first witness called was— Miss Mary Ann Frith, examined by Mr. Phillimore— Wit- ness kept a board'ng- scliool at Hammersmith. Knows Miss Baxter, and has done so from her infancy. She was 21 years old in November last. She several times, at different periods, was placed at witness's- school. She was there in the years 1S23 and 1824. Witness instructed Miss Baxter herself. She always considered her very simple. Did not think her so when she was first placed at her school.; but she was very untractable, and of a violent temper, and would not submit to any control. One act witness particularly recollected— it was an attempt, on the part of Miss Baxter, to stab a little boy. This was about eight or nine years ago. She was instructed in reading, spelling, and grammar by witness, but she made no progress whatever. She did not appear to understand what she did, and never made any observations respeoting her lessons. Witness has had frequent opportunities of seeing Miss B. up to Christmas last; the state of her mind was not in the least improved; on the contrary, it • fas worse. She was a great talker, and her principal topic was matrimony. She has no sense of moral or religious obligation. She is entirely incapable of managing herself or her affairs, and had been so during the whole period witness has known her. Miss Mary Price— I am a schoolmistress, and have been ac- quainted with the family of Mr. Alderman Crowder ever since • the year 1821. In that year, Miss Baxter came to me as a day- boarder. She remained with me from March to December. She had a very great deficiency of understanding. She made no proficiency in any of the departments of education. I con- sidered her to be very defective in her mind, and incapable of receiving fit instruction. Miss Grinded, another schoolmistress, residing at Hammer- smith, gave a similar evidence to the two last witnesses. Mrs. Eliza Damnsque, wha lived in the family of Alderman Crowder from 1825 to 1828, gave tile same opinion, and de- scribed various acts of violence on the part of her charge. Cross- examined by the Common Sergeant.— I endeavoured to make her understand that two sixpences made a shilling, and two half crowns a crown, but she could not understand the com- bination. By Mr. Polleck.— Whenever she went out, I or some other person accompanied her ; she was never trusted out by herself, nor did she ever have money in her possession ; the cause was, neither her mother nor grandfather thought she knew the use of it, indeed she was totally ignorant of the value of it; she could not tell how many weeks made a year ; she was treated as a child, but with great kindness. By a juror.— I also attended to her religious instruction, but she was totally ignorant of every thing connected with its dpc- trines, and she did not know whether she had a soul. Miss H. Sowerby, in addition to the above- formed opinion of the previous witnesses, stated that upon one occasion, when Mrs. Bagster had company, her daughter came in, and slapped her mother's face, and upon her interfering, she kicked and spit at her. On another occasion, when she had several shillings in her possession which the Alderman gave lies-, she asked whether she had sufficient to purchase a sixpenny doll with ? Subse. quently, after admiring a collar which she wore, on < s sudden Miss Bagster sprung on her, and tore it to pieces; and c- nce, after returning from Astley's, she told her servant she was going to throw her dressing- case at her head, on which she flung her hair- brush. At the time the Alderman was Sheriff, she said, " My grandfather keeps a chaplain, and he is a cheesemonger in Newgate- street," and none of them could persuade her to the contrary. Doctor Macniioliael, who was appointed by the Court of King's Bench to visit Miss Bagster, said that in the course of the visits which he made, he asked Miss Bagster about her elopement, when 6he stated it in a very clear manner; she said " she had joined a party to visit the Zoological Gardens ; while walking there Mr. Newton asked her to walk with him— this she did, and he then got her to enter his cabriolet; and this she did; he told her that he would drive her very fast, and take her to see a lady. Mr. Newton afterwards told her he would not take her there, and they went to Camden- town, and she was persuaded to enter a coach and four ; on being half way to Gretna, she repented what she had done, and wished to return ; this they did for a short distance, hut then she thought it would be very foolish not to get married. She certainly did not appear to be aware of the marriage contract, as she f. aid she would wish to marry a Mr. Perfect, for she preferred him to Mr. Newton; nei- ther did she consider herself to be that gentleman's wife, as there could be no marriage unless performed in a church and by books; he endeavoured to explain the nature of Scotch mar- riages, but she could not comprehend him ; she also said she did not know whether to consider it to be a marriage or a farce. Upon being asked whether the marriage had been consummated, she said she had slept in the same bed two nights with Mr. Newton. To other questions she did not appear to be the least embarrassed, and answered them without a blush. He is quite confident she does not possess any reasoning faculties; for upon being asked how many weeks a year contained, she said six. Her other answers were similar. According to his judgment she was of unsound mind. The Common Sergeant and Mr. Follett cross- examiaed the witnesses at great length on the part of Mr. Newton. The Chief Commissioner here adjourned the- inquiry. WEDNESDAY. Jemima Clayton deposed, that she had been governess to Miss Bagster from 1829, up to the affair in tlie Zoological Gardens ; Miss Bagster was 19 years of age at the time witness went to live in the family ; she attempted to give Miss Bagster instruc- tions, but that young lady was so violent, that she very fre- quently refused to have any instruction, she would throw things at witness, tear her dresses, and upon one occasion Miss Bagster had nearly stabbed her; Miss Bagster's acquirements were more like a child of five years of age than those of a young woman; Miss Bagster had no knowledge of the nature of money, and upon one occasion gave a sovereign to a beggar for a sixpence ; she always exhibited great partiality for gentlemen; during the period Alderman Crowder was Lord Mayor, witness Was writing a note to a Miss Healey, hut Miss Bagster believing it to be for a Miss Slade, who had offended her, she took up a penknife to stab witness, but her foot slipping the knife stuck in the table and broke. The witness repeated other acts of violence on the part of Miss Bagster. She also deposed to similar conduct on her part while on a tour through the West of England— she threw a watch and other matters from the coach. While on a • tour in the West of England, she wished a gentleman of the name of Howell to sleep in & bed in the room with her. The witness recounted various acts of violence committed by Miss Bagster while on a tour from Dover to Brighton, particularly her having struck her mother with a fork, which lodged in her hand; her only regret was that the circumstance would offend Mr. liowell. Witness remembered going to the Zoological Gardens; it was on a Saturday, in April last; the next place Fhe saw Miss Bagster was at Keswick, iu Cumberland; Mr. Newton and Miss Bagster were out talking ; upon their return to the inn, where witness and Mrs. Bsgster were waiting, Mrs. Bagster took her daughter and put her into a carriage which she had ready; Miss Bagster was at first very loving, but then be- came very violent; she asked why they would not allow her to go to her husband ? upon her return home, she said she would like to go to Gretna Green with other gentlemen, for a similar purpose, and She mentioned Mr. Alderman Kelly, and a Mr. Perfect; she also spoke of being with two or three gentlemen ; she appeared to lvtaow nothing of the obligation of marriage, and said she would marry, and could then dress herself up and Walk in the ' Saloons, " wliere ladies of a certain description walked. - Cross- exanfined by Mr. Follett.— During her grandfather's mayoralty Miss Bagster was brought out, and was - introduced, as witness believed, like the other ladies, to his Grace the Duke of Wellington, and the other noble guests ; Miss Bagster dances very well, better than she cyphers ; Miss Bagster - was not afraid of her motherher mother was not cruel to her ; Miss Bagster shewed a great dislike to her mother ; she was not over fond of her grandfather, but was more attached to him than she was to her'mother, Who has Struck her occasionally ; witness had also struck Miss Bagster when her conduct merited it. 1 have spoken to her about the marriage, when I have been obliged to check the unpleasant remarks she made ; they were so improper that I cannot repeat tliem ; I have not told her that the marriage was illegal and not binding, nor any thing. to that effeet; she has constantly spoken of being married to other persons, and parti- - cularly to Alderman Kelly. A letter was here produced, and the witness was asked if she had not written it to Mr. Newton when on the Western tour. She admitted she had. She was then desired to refer to a pas- sage in the letter, in which the words " little animal" were used, and she was asked to whom those words referred. She replied, they alluded to Miss Bagster. Mr. Newton was an intimate ac quaintance of the family. He was not a favourite of Mrs. Bag- ster, and the grandfather ( old Crowder) greatly disliked him. Mrs. Bagster is allowed 700/. a year for the support of her daughter, including carriage, dress, & c. When Miss Bagster became of age, it was to be increased to 1000/. a year. The greater part of old Crowder's fortune was left to Miss Bagster. In answer to a question put by a juror, the witness said Miss Bagster stated that she liked Raymond Newton because he dress- ed so fashionably, hut she loved Mr. Howell better. Mr. Pollock.— Have you reason to believe, from any thing Miss Bagster had said, that she was aware what was going to happen at the Gardens ?— Witness: Certainly not. The witness was iinder examination four hours aiid three . quar- ters, and answered the numerous questions put to her in a man- ner deserving of the highest credit. Dr. Sutherland said, he attended Miss Bagster ; I said to her that having understood she had been a journey, I asked her where she had been, and she said to Gretna- green for a bit of fun, and she wished to have gone on to Edinburgh, fearing she might be caught; I asked her if she had entered into any ar> rangement or promise at Gretna ? She said she laughed immo- derately the whole time, and thoiight it a < good bit of fun; she mentioned that she had gone with Mr. Newton, and I asked what object she had in view, and she said she wished to change her name, but in changing her name she would like the name of Perfect best; I made a remark relative to having more fa- yourites than one, end she remarked she was indifferent as to the person she should marry, and she mentioned the names ef six persons, but I did not observe that the name of Newton was among them. I tusked her if she had been with Mr. TMewton ; she said she had been with him two lights; she added, that her going to Springfield was a mere bit cf fun ; she wrote down the following six names:— Hand, Snow; Howell, Perfect, Beechey, and Croft, as 4he persons she wished to marry. I asked her when she was at Springfield what they required her to say or do ? She said she was required to say " I will;" but she did not know what it meant. On asking the reason of having such a dislike to her mother, she said they never could agree- At this interview she stated t. er age to be 21. On these fourinterviews, Dr. Sp. therknd said he came to the conclusion that she was of unsound mind, and. not by ajiy means fit to take care of her person and property. Dr. Gordon had visited Mie3 Bagster - six times. After re- peating in substance what the preceding witness had detailed, Dr. Gordon gave it as his opinion that she had not - the capacity of a child seven years of age ; thfit she was of untound mind, and wholly unfit to manage her person or fortune ; she had no idea of moral or religious obligation, her only dread being that she should offend her guardians. Dr. G. then 6tated the con- versation he had with Miss B. relative to the proceedings at Gretna Green, and said he had no doubt, from the answers he had received, thet the marrkge had been consummated. Dr. Gordon was now questioned as to the remarks which Miss Bag- ster had made on the marriage state ; as they were of a delicate nature, the female auditors were ordered to withdraw. Dr. Gordon then related tlie conversation on tlie subject-: he said Miss Bagster gate her answers without any reluctance or ablush. At the concUirion of Dr.. Gordon's testimony, the inquiry was adjourned. THURSDAY. Tho Court rs- assembled at 10 this morning. Catherine Hett said her father was a Prebendary end Vicar ® f Lincoln Cathedral, and was a distant relative of Miss Bagster's family. After this lady had deposed to various acts of violenoe and other matters tending to establish .- the insanity of Miss Bagster, Mr. Law asked the witness if she. was interested in the will of Mr. Alderman Crowder ?— She replied she wa « . Mr. Law— And if Miss Bagster dies unmarried and without issue, will you not be entitled to some property ?— Witness said yes. Mr. Law— Then I hope the evidence of this witness will not he admitted, for she is swearing so many hundreds of pounds into her own pocket. He contended, therefore, that her evidence should not be received, as she was interested in the result of the commission. The objection caused considerable discussion; ultimately the Commissioners decided that the evidence was inadmissible. Rev. Samuel Smith said he was officiating Chaplain to the Lord Mayor of London, and was so during the mayoralty of Mr. Alderman Crowder, during which time he resided in the Alder- man's family. The Alderman said, he thought it necessary to describe the deficiencies of his grand- daughter, in order that if I discovered any frailties or irregularities I might overlook them. Her conversation was extremely childish, and lier language not so sensible as a child eight or nine years of age. Her manners were not those of a young lady brought up in a respectable family. Her conduct towards a gentleman named Windus caused general observation. Mr. Windus was then . called— Being a member of the corpora- tion, I dined at the Mansion- house with Alderman Crowder. I sat next to Miss Bagster, and did not at that time know who she was. At dinner I asked her to take wine, when she turned round and looked me very earnestly in the face. She trembled excessively, and said she was very unused to company. A few minutes after, she told me she was in love, and asked me if I knew who she was. I then asked her who she was ; and she said Alderman Crowder was her grandfather and the Lady Mayoress her mother. Mr. Smith recalled— Miss Bagster's conduct excited the ob- servation of every one around her; she did not seem to have a proper sense of modesty and delicacy before gentlemen; his opinion was that she had not sound mind and judgment. Cross- examined— He noticed that Miss Bagster had a great aversion to her mother, who was rather hasty and vehement in her temper. Mr. Law— And you felt for the young lady ?— Witness : yes. Mr. Law— And did your feelings extend so far as to take her round the waist ?— Witness : You will allow me to explain, that in consequence of her indecorous behaviour I desired never to be left alone with her. Mr. Law— Have you not put your arm round her waist ?— Witness: No, Sir. Mr. Law— Has she not complained you did so ?— Witness • No, Sir. Mr. Lav/— Have you not apologised for putting your arm round her waist ?— Witness : No, Sir, never. Mr. Law— In pressing upon her those truths of religion have you not at the same time pressed her waist .'— Witness : No, Sir, X never did, I was never left alone in the room with her. Mr. Law said that the nature of his questions was not to impute to him any thing of an immoral tendency. Samuel Wigging examined— The witness deposed to various acts of violence on tlie part of Miss Bagster, similar to those already mentioned, and conoluded by saying, from what he saw on these occasions he could not say she was altogether of unsound mind, but that she was extremely childish, almost approaching to an idiot. She is not a fit person to be left to herself, or to manage herself or her property. Frances Holland examined by Mr. Pollock— Said she lived in the family of Alderman Crowder as a nurse ' to Miss Bagster. Entered the family 21 years ago. After detailing similar acts of violence to those already mentioned, tbe witness continued : has been in attendance on her since her return from Gretna- green. She has not improved. She is just the same. She has been in a violent state since Tier return ; and attempted to strike witness with a dessert- knife. She attempted to strike her with a poker, above a fortnight ago. Since her return she said she thought she had been very foolish. She has mentioned several persons besides Mr. Newton, whom she would prefer to him. She spoke of what might be the consequence of her journey to Gretna- green, but witness checked her in doing so. She does not appear to have a consciousness of the propriety which belongs to her sex. She has spoken since her return about living with gentle- men. She said she thought there would be no harm in living with different gentlemen. Witness endeavoured to point out the impropriety. She said " I was so foolish and old maidenish in my ways, and that there was no harm in it." She did not ap pear to have any moral sense or feeling on that subject. She is not fit to discharge any of the duties of life as a wife, or a mother. Was present when Dr. Haslam examined her. He asked her if she knew the nature of her visitor.'— She said " No. He said he was " a mad doctor, and all tlie doctors who came to see her were mad fioetors." He came from the Lord Chancellor to inquire into the state of her mind. He told her she would have to go before a Jury, and unless she spoke the truth she might be put in a madhouse for life or a prison. Miss Bagster became very mncli alarmed, and begged him not to put her in a madhouse. Cross- examined, by Mr. Law— It was on the Sunday after Dr. Haslam was there that she spoke of madness. She was ex- ceedingly agitated with what Dr. Haslam said to her. She was agitated to such a violent extent as to produce an effeet on her constitution. Her ( witness') wages have been raised from 12?. to 30/. This was an act of Miss Bagster's kindness. She did it on her coming of age. It was obtained from the executors by Miss Bagster, in consideration of her being so long in the family. Mr. Law— Did not Miss Bagster take hold of Dr. Haslam's hand, and looking up in his face, say to him, " As a friend of my grandfather, I hope you will not put me in a madhouse ?"— She certainly took hold of his hand. Woman 1 on your oath did she not take hold of his hand, and say, " As a friend of eiy grandfather, I hope yon will not send me to a mad- house ?"— After some hesitation— Yes. [ A burst of applause, and some clapping of hands followed this answer ; the cheering was not immediately silenced.] Now again I ask you, did she not say to Dr. Haslam, " I know I am not so clever as many others, but I am not a fool ?" • I did not hear her say so ; she did not say so in my presence. Witness went on— Dr. ITaslam told her the other Doctors wanted to make her a fool or mad, neither of which, he said, the was. She shed tears. She took his hand with earnest- ness, and said, " You knew my dear grandfather ; I hope, Sir, you will be my friend." Heard Mrs. Bagster say, that if any respectable young man had asked her consent, he should have her daughter; but she disliked Mr. Raymond Newton. Did not hear her say, that whatever was the result of the legal inquiry, Raymond Newton should have her heart's blood before he should have her child or her money. Sir George Tuthill, examined by Dr. PhilliiKore— Said lie had great practice in cases « f this sort. He visited Miss Bagster three times— on the 4th and 6th of May, and Thursday last. The first thing that struck him was her childish appearance. She said she had ao idea, on leaving home, of going off to Gretna Green. One of the Misses Newton said it would be a capital jolce if Miss Bagster would get into Mr. Newton's cabriolet and take a drive with him. She said she thought it a good joke, and she consented. She said she had no thought whatever of being married, and after slie got a considerable way she was desirous of returning back ; but that she was persuaded to go on by be- ing told that if she did not she would be laughed at by every one ; that they arrived at Gretna Green at ten o'clock, and the person was called up who performed the ceremony .; that she objected then, out the person who performed the ceremony told her that she must go. through it then, as he had been called up ( a laugh). She expressed not the least diffidence in telling this, and she said, that if her Mends had invited her kindly to return home, instead of violently seizing her at Keswick, she would have quitted Mr. Newton, as . she preferred Mr. Berfect. He asked her how many months there were in the year, and she answered rightly. He tried her in addition, but she could not perform the sum he • set her. He asked her how many sixpences there were in half- a- crown ? she said, six. On the whole, he thought she had very little understanding— that she is of . unsound mind and incapable of taking care of herself © r property.. Cross- examined by Mr. Follett—: Her want of sensibility to her situation, and her want of knowledge of figures, were the two great mark's by which he formed his judgment. She an swered more rationally and intelligibly at the third visit than at either of the others. He thought this was after Miss Clayton had left the room. Mr. John Bowling being called, it was intimated to the ladies that tliey should withdraw. He said he was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, and has been in practice for 28 years. He was intimate with the family of Alderman Crowder. Miss Bagster was always considered by the family, and every one who knew her, to be of an imbecile mind. She never ap peared sensible of any impropriety she had committed. He had had frequent opportunities of judging of her state of mind, and he was of opinion that she was of unsound mind. The wit- ness here related a conversation he had with Miss Bagster, from which it appeared that familiarities similar to those that took place after the marriage had taken place between her and Mr. Newton in the carriage, on their way to Gretna Green. FRIDAY. Tlie inquiry in this case was resumed this morning. Two ladies, a Mrs. Pierre, and Mrs. Laforest, the former a governess to Miss Bagster, the latter a friend to the family of Alderman Crowder, deposed generally to various acts of violence on the part of Miss Bagster. The evidence generally of these witnesses was similar in its tendency to that already given in sup- port of the commission. Sir P. Laurie was examined, and deposed ta knowing Miss Bagster, whom he looked upon as being totally unfit to manage herself or her affairs, for she was unable to reason upon any subject; the only matter about which she could talk was love of Mr. Smith, to whom she expressed herself as being very much attached. Two chambermaids belonging to inns at which Miss Bagster put up on her return from Gretna Green, were examined, but their evidence was of little importance. George Woodfall, Esq., deposed to being one of the executors of Alderman Crowder, whom he knew 50 years— the family between 15 and 20 years. He has had a great deal of opportu- nity of ascertaining the stale of Miss B.' s mind ; he considered Miss Bagster to be weak and imbecile; there is no doubt that Miss Bagster is not fit either to take care of herself or her pro- perty ; she was always treated as a child of eight or nine years of age. Captain Kelly was then called, but before he gave his evidence the ladies were requested to leave the Court. He stated that on Thursday last he dined with Alderman Kelly; after dinner the Alderman went into his counting- house, leaving Miss Bagster, Miss Clayton, and himself in the room. Miss Clayton withdrew fOr a few minutes, and Mis? Bagster then drew towards him, and without any hesitation or embarrasment, related to him the par- ticulars of the familiarities that had passed between her and Mr. Newton, but in such gross terms that it is impossible we can. publish them. She added, that she was determined not to die an old maid. He asked her if she preferred any other person, and she said, yes, and pointed to a portrait of Alderman Kelly; he knew very little of Miss Bagster before that time ; he con- sidered she had little or no intellectual faculties whatever, and was, therefore, unable to take care of herself. Mr. Thomas Richards gave several instances of the violence of conduct, and, as he thought, imbecility of mind of Miss Bagster. Several other witnesses deposed . to the same effect. Mr. T. N. C. Perfect, a surgeon at Hammersmith, and father of the gentleman whose name has been so often recounted, said, he had known Miss Bagster since 1812, and considered her to be in a state of insanity founded npon idiotcy. Mr. Guizeppi, a surgeon, gave evidence of a similar nature. Proceedings adjourned to Saturday. THE REVENUE. ABSTRACT OF THE NET PRODUCE OF THE REVENUE OF GREAT BRITAIN, IN THE YEARS AND QUARTERS ENDED OTH JULY, 1831, AND 5TH JULY, 1832, SHOWING THE INCREASE OS DECREASE ON EACH HEAD THEF. EOF. Customs - - Excise - - - Stamps - - Post Office Taxes - - - Miscellaneous Years ended July 5, 1831 £ 16,307,295 15,644,559 6,504,213 1,397,017 4,935,709 585,020 45,373,813 1832 £ 14,844,911 14,658,716 6,552,829 1,346,000 4,905,941 403,568 42,711,965 Deduct Increase Decrease on the Year Increase Decrease 48,616 48,616 £ 1,462,384 ,935,843 51,017 29,768 181,452 2,710,464 48,616 Customs Excise ..--•- Stamps Post Office - Taxes Miscellaneous Quarters ended July 5, 1831 1832 — i £ 3,754,865 3,332,097 1,630,109 358,006 2,016,981 105,500 11,197,558 £ 3,515,569 3,388,325 1,615,243 304,000 1,934,510 95,346 10,852,993 Deduct Increase Decrease on the Qr. - Increase £ 56,228 2,661,848 Decrease £ 239,296 14,866 54,006 82,471 10,154 56,228 400,793 56,228 344,565 FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. The Momteur contains a royal ordinance, dated June 29, de- claring that Paris is no longer under martial law, founded upon a report to the King from the Minister of the Interior. The Court of Cassation has annulled the decisions of the Courts Martial. The ordinance which was expected to appear in the Momteur relative to the meeting of the Chambers has not been published, and it seems to have been determined not to convoke them before the end of July. Several other appeals by individuals condemned by the courts- martial have been made to the Cour de Cassation. The court lias pronounced on each case the same decision as on that of Geoffroy. Messrs. de Chateaubriand, Fite- james, and Hyde de Neuville, had been liberated. The three deputies whose arrest had been ordered during the sitting of the courts- martial surrendered to a civil court immmediately after the cessation of martial- law. A letter of the 19th inst. had been received at Paris from Rome, stating that the Inhabitants of Ancona had thrown off the allegiance of the Pope, and had declared the place a free port. This news, however, requires confirmation. ( From the Messager des Chambres of Sunday.) The following we have heard from an individual who was a witness of the scene at St. Cloud:— After dinner, the King, on re- entering the saloon, retired with M. Dupin to a recess, where they remained in conversation for more than three quarters of an hour. They both appeared very warm, and excited the curiosity of all present. At this time the King was seen suddenly to seize M. Dupin by the arm, and con- duct him towards the door, which he opened, and putting M. Dupin outside, closed it after him. It is stated that the King, on seizing the arm of M. Dupin, said, " Walk out, Sir," and on returning, said aloud, " I will never suffer any one to be wanting in proper respect in my presence." The Paris morning and evening papers of Wednesday have reached us. The Journal du Commerce states that the Austrian troops had made some movements which threatened the neutra- lity of the Helvetian territory. A letter from Ancona of the • 22d ult., copied from the Augsburg fi Gazette, says nothing about the declaration of independence mentioned a few days ago ; but, on the contrary, states that the most perfect tranquil- lity prevailed, and that the Papal troops continued in their posi- tions round the town, which they had taken in pursuance of an agreement. The Temps assures its readers that Marshal Soult has been at length appointed President of the Council, but none of. the Ministerial' papers make any allusion to such an appoint- ment. No news had yet been received of Don Pedro's expedi- tion since its departure. The cholera was still on the increase ia the capital, but not to an alarming extent. According to one of the papers, that disease had again made its appearance in Vienna. ' The loan at Paris was concluded on Wednesday. It is for 7,000,000 of francs, interest at 5 per cent,: payments in 15 and 18 months. The German Papers state, that the illness of young Napoleon, has taken an unfavourable turn ; and that all hope of his reco- very is at an end. Extreme unction has been administered to him publicly in the chapel of the palace of Schoenbrunn, in the presence of the whole court. CONQUEST OF NAVARRE BY FERNANDO.— The conquest of Navarre by this great prince, however necessary, to the tran- quillity of Spain, can be characterized in no other terms than as an act of unblushing rapacity; yet attempts have been made to justify it, and by writers who would not willingly be considered the advocates of a criminal abuse of power. According to one authority, the king of Navarre was excommunicated by the Pope as a schismatic,— as one of the league formed by the Emperor of France against the papal pretensions to the duchy of Ferrara,— and that bulls, absolving the Navarrese fiom their: oath of allegiance, deposing Jean, and conferring the kingdom on the first that took possession of it, were sent to Fernando : in other words, that the enterprise was sanctioned by the head of the church, in gratitude for the aid which, in conjunction with, the Venetians, he afforded the successor of St. Peter. In tha estimation of such writers as Geribay, Antonio de Nebrija, and Mariana, who allow the Pope an indirect authority over kings, who subject the temporal to the spiritual power, the title of Fernando to the kingdom is every way sufficient. As such a title, however, will not be admitted at this day even beyond the Pyrenees, the conquest must be designated as one of the most flagitious transactions of a lawless ngc.— Lardner's Cyclopaedia.— .,•. History of Spain and Portugal, Vol. III. 320 THE TO WM. July g, PARIS, July 5. ( FROM OUR PRIVATE CORRESPONDENT.) I suppose you are lost in admiration of the French Judges of the Court of Cassation, having abrogated the pretensions of go- vernment to try the Parisians by court- martial. It strikes one, indeed,^ as a noble act of independence ; and, how much it was needed, one circumstance may be sufficient to show:— The editor of a respectable opposition paper was summoned before the mili- tary judges, and charged with a crime, of which the penalty was death; this for an article published eight days before Paris was declared in a state of siege. Surely, never censorship reached this in severity 1 However, the judges are said to have been ac- tuated by Carlism, and they hastened their decree, in order to trip up Dupin. The King hoped to make him the mediator with the Court of Cassation, and to obtain from it an acknowledgment of his right to establish martial law on any future occasion, whilst, for the present, the proclamation to that effect was to be withdrawn. The Court of Cassation, however, having at once denied the King's right to take men from their natural judges by royal proclamation, Dupin came too late, and, instead of finding the place of prime minister open, merely got and gave insult; for he is a very rude man. Louis Philippe is so enchanted with his own abilities, that he is determined to try again to be his own prime minister. He proposed the seals to Dupin, whilst the King himself was to pre- side at the council. This was refused ;— the post of prime minister or nothing. It was urged that Soult would not submit to this. " Is he the obstacle— a known peculator?" " True, but he is too useful to be at present dispensed with." " Moreover, Mar- shal Soult has connections with the Republican party, and with every party. His secretary is notoriously enrolled in the mouve- ment; andPellet, his chief administrator inthewar- office, promotes none but rank Republicans and Napoleonists." " It is partly to neutralize them, and Soult is too useful a man to be affronted." Dupin here gave way to his humour, and high words followed. I give this account of the interview merely as it is reported in certain societies. What was then to be done ?— Call the Chambers together, and ask of them, as ought at first to have been done, to sanction martial law. This was resolved upon ; when it was discovered that the Deputies had actually no place to assemble in, their late hall of sitting having been pulled down, and the new one not yet completed; so that the convocation of the Chambers has been abandoned, and the Ministry is to go on as before. It has, in deed, already re- entered upon its course of active absurdity, Barthe having dispatched a circular letter to all authorities to commence processes and seizures against the press. He has himself seized the National for an article purely abstract. So that, what with La Vendee, the 1,700 prisoners implicated in the insurrection of June, and actions against the press, judges and juries will have no vacation these hot months. The poor Saint Simonians, too, have come in for their share of ministerial anger. Since the triple schism in their body, in which the double Pope Bazard- Enfantin went asunder, and their underling Rodriguez seceded from both, the new sect has been in disgrace with the public. Certain principles of Pere- Enfantin, touching the community of women, which shocked Bazard and half the sacred college, shocked the public no less, and reduced, in consequence, the Saint Simonian loan, revenue, and doctrine, very low indeed. However, they amassed enough to purchase a large house and garden on the top of Menil- Montant, overlook- ing Paris; and here they established a kind of convent, each of the brotherhood acting menial and master by turns. The son of a rich proprietor of Martinique has become renowned for his cuisine. Enfantin himself is a famous delver, and has already a flourishing auditory of cabbage- plants. The love of society and attention, united in the French, has, however, ren- dered the Saint Simonian establishment not altogether a convent. There are fetes and open days, on which visitors are admitted, females being by no means excluded ; and, as there is no vow of celibacy made by these monks— quite the contrary indeed— their social meetings are said to be anything but monkish. They were getting very pleasant with their garden and assemblies, when, lo ! the police two days ago thought proper to intrude, on the score that the Saint Simonians were nothing better than a set of Re- publicans. Nothing more true. They avow the crime ; it is their creed even. And, as Mr. Keeper of the Seals Barth£, in his late circular, has declared that no one ought or shall profess said principles, the Saint Simonians are therein in flagrant rebellion. Unfortunately, the courts- martial were quashed by the judges on the day preceding, and thus, Pere Enfantin has escaped a trial and summary judgment before a drum- head. The Parisians are much obliged to their sapient Garde de Sceaux. For the last month their tragic feelings have been excited ; and anything in the shape of a farce cannot but be welcome and refreshing at the present moment. La Vendue is becoming more tranquil. The Duchess of Berri is said to be in Guernsey. Except the tenants of the four or five great proprietors of that region, M. De Lusignan, Maulevrier, La Rochejacquelin, & c. it appears that few of the peasantry joined the bands of revolt. They were mostly filled with deserters or refractory conscripts, and with the poor weavers of Chollet, on whom the suspension of trade for the last two years had brought utter misery and starvation. Hence, they were more Chouans than Vendeans, or, in other words, more robbers than rebels. And even these could scarcely have been organised, but for the priest party, which, headed by the bishop of that region, himself once a leader of Chouans, employed all their influence to support the insurrection. The appointments of this man, Loyez, to the bishopric of Lu^ on, by Charles X., looks almost as if he ex- pected, at no distant time, that he would require a Vendean rebellion in his favour, and provided accordingly. For theatrical news:— You have got Mademoiselle Mars in London. Poor veteran ! she had retired from the stage ; but, iu endeavouring to multiply the sum of her savings at the Bourse, she lost, and was obliged to tread the boards again. The diabolical taste, of which I spoke in my last, is progressing. The Bourreau is one of the new plays of the week, and Jack Ketch, of course, the hero. The mania of the terrible has gained even the French Opera, or Academic Royale, where a new opera- ballet has just fcome out, with all the preliminaries of great expense and pre- paration. The name of the piece is the Temptations of St. Anthony, and the dramatis personse are no less characters than Lucifer, Ashtaroth, and Belial. The first scene is in Heaven, and the second in Hell, with rival chorusses of angels and devils, disputing possession of St. Anthony, at the very top of their lungs The infernal scene is the chief one, and, indeed, gives full scope to the imagination both of scenist and composer. Milton is the chief guide, although Gloire a Venfer, as a chorus scarcely harmonizes with his piety. Then there are dance, ad infinitum, and all kinds of voluptuosities, to chase St. Anthony frTproposg to" theatricals, Madame Vestris's leg has made the round of France, that is, the account of its sale at Lord r. s auction has made the round of all the journals, provincial and metropolitan. Never was so fertile a theme- exciting here the pathetic, there the jocose; never sure was calf so famed, since the golden one was set up. 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To commemorate this glorious event, to mark the date of this brilliant epoch of its history, they ima- gine nothing can he more acceptable than a Map of their Country, show- ing the alterations such Bill has made, together with the data on which the present Government proceeded. The Proprietors also feel that they are now offering to their Sub- scribers a work which will be unique, and surpassing alt others yet published, for it is well known that at present there is no Map of Eng- land that can be depended upon. To the Nobility and Gentry it will be acceptable, forming a handsome appendage to the library or drawing- room; to the merchant and profes- sional man, a work of general reference, both for roads and parishes, which will be here clearly and accurately laid down; and to all classes, a source of amusement and instruction. The Proprietors intend bringing the Map out in parts, each part to be perfect in itself, and they will thus enable the Subscribers to judge of its completeness and general utility, before calling upon them" for" far- ther subscriptions, in case they should not be fully satisfied that the Proprietors have in every respect redeemed their pledge of giving a Map at once the most splendid and useful of its kind. To entitle Subscribers to the first part, which will embrace the Home Counties, and Southern and Eastern Coasts of England, with Sand Banks and Soundings, they will be required to subscribe for 12 num- bers and to insure them against the disappointments experienced by similar attempts that have been made, they are determined that the first part shall come out early in September, and a specimen immediately. They also intend adopting a similar course for the other parts, which are duly to appear in succession. The parts, when all out, will form either one complete Map, of five feet long by three feet seven inches wide, or may be bound up in an octavo or folio volume. The Proprietors, to secure for their patrons proof specimens, have gone to the heavy expense of engraving their Maps on steel. N. B. Agents are requested to inform us precisely of the number of subscribers they obtain, that we may be prepared to supply them with the earliest copies. * » * A Saturday Edition of this Paper is published in time for the Country, which may be obtained of all Newsmen on Sunday morning, within 100 miles of London. THE TOWHT. LONDON: SUNDAY, JULY 8, 1832. The case of Private SOMERVILLE, of the Scots Greys, has been Ihe subject of much discussion. It is difficult to imagine a case of more delicacy. Implicit and abso- lute subordination is the first element of an army; with- out this, a military force would be a slill greater curse to the people than to the government. But, again, lias the soldier no protection— no appeal? He lias, assuredly; and that is neither through the courts of law, nor even the public press, but through the House ofCommons, which pays the army with the money of the people, and can virtually dictate, whilst it only votes an address for a military inquiry. Lord ALTHORP has announced, with frank manliness and simplicity, that such an inquiry had been ordered from the Horse Guards; and the feeling with which this com- munication was received by the House of Commons, leaves no doubt, that, pending tbe investigation, the case will not, as it should not, be referred to. But, another question has been started, and a most serious one, in the coursc of the conversations on this subject. It is, whether soldiers, sen- tenced to reccive a given number of lashes, do not some- times receivc a portion one day, and the remainder on a future day, when sufficiently recovered to endure it. The practice is alleged to be abandoned, but not the right. This matter should be cleared up. We know it to have been the opinion of one of the most eminent English lawyers, that the practice was against law. schools the Bible, entire and uncontrolled is in tbe hands of Protestant children, that it is merely not forced down, entire and indiscriminate, the throats of Catholic children against the wishes of their parents, and the doctrines of their church— tbey call it a system of unscriptural educa- tion. We will not say of Lord RODEN that lie ; s insincere in his denunciations against the plan, but we will say, that when lie charges the Government with taking tbe Bible out of the hands of Protestants, he is blinded to truth beyond the ordinary blindness of religious and political party spirit When Lord PLUNKET stated that 600 Catholic children of the poor bad sought admission to the schools, on the new plan, there was a cry of triumph from the Opposition. What was this but an indiscreet avowal, an escape of truth, through unguarded passion ?— a proof, in short, that their object was to with- hold education from the Irish Catholic poor. The cries of " Hear!" from the party are invaluable, as indications of tbeir real motives. But who are tbey that thus cry out against a plan which gives education to Catholics? Why, tbe very men who have the words " Irish ignorance" and " popish superstition" ever in their mouths. Again— and this is more flagrant— who are they that clamour about the exclusion of the Bible ? Were we so disposed, we could interrogate certain of these Lords and gentlemen, very awkwardly to them, from the decalogue; we could ques- tion them upon the morality of tbeir pursuits, the purity of their private lives, the decency of their conversation and manners, and their acquaintance wilh this very sacred volume, respecting which they are so jealously alive to tbe religious interests of Protestant childhood. We will not apply tbe decalogue to them ; but we strongly recommend on or about a certain day of January last past, literally, or in substance, in the Timet newspaper? Inst. ad of arguing we will bear testimony.— It was the lot of the writer of this paragraph to be present on the evening in question in the gallery of the House of Lords— to hear Bishop PHILPOTTS assert that such letter had so appeared, and appeal to the writer of it, viz. the Duke of BUCKINGHAM, how far it was or was not a faithful version— to hear the Duke of BUCKINGHAM declare that it was a faithful copy of his letter, with only some verbal inaccuracies; and last, though not least, wonder to hear Lord GREY declare that no one was more astonished by tho publication of the letter than he was! Being ourselves pretty constant and attentive readers of the Times, we were astonished that so curious a publication should have escaped us. But wo had for it the word of a Bishop, the confirmation of the writer and a Duke, and the ad- mission of the Prime Minister: and so assured were we of the publication in question, that we wasted a whole morning over the file of the Times journal, in a fruitless search for it. Still, so confident were we in the assertion of the Bishop and the Duke, that instead of doubting the accuracy of their statement, we doubted o » ly that of our own examination. After this, where is truth to be sought and found? I will send, in my next, an account of " Stello," the new work . •, » i_ it- „„ n.„„ r. e " r. inr, Mars." Our poor by Count Alfred de Vigny, author of " Cinq Mars, Chatterton is one of the heroes of it. P S — It is said, that the King excused himself to the friends of Dupin, for disappointing him, by observing that he did not wish to have his arrangements respecting the marriage of his daughter with King Leopold interfered with, and that he, con- sequently, would not appoint a new President of the Council, tdl that event took place. Dupin has been elected member of the Institute, in place of Cuvier ; he had departed from lus comtry- ijeat in the Nievrs. Tbe time of Parliament has been chiefly occupied dur- ing the week, wilh that part of the United Kingdom called Ireland. This unequal partition of the public business of tbe empire can hardly be called disproportionate. The state of Ireland is a phenomenon unprecedented in tbe annals of government or society. Law has lost its autho- rity ; legal rights, too clcar to be disputed, cannot be en- forced ; physical force is openly displayed, and brought directly into action ; the people are arrayed and organized in a state of open disobedience and resistance :— and in a country where jurisprudence is despotic, and tribunals ( juries) are passionate and unscrupulous, not a hair of the head of any one unit of this vast rebellion can be touched. This is the retribution of a malignant system of govern mcnt, pardonable only during times of religious intole- ance and imperfect civilization ; but unpardonable when continued for purposes of party and personal ambition and grovelling lucre. Had tbe Catholics been emancipated 30 years ago, Ireland would now be an integral part of the United Kingdom, and in possession of religious and poli- tical peace. But there was in Ireland a dominant mino- rity, naturally anxious to retain its ascendant; and tbe political jobbers of Ireland, corporate and individual, with that voraciousleviathan of Irish jobbing in church and state, the Bcresford family, at tbeir head, inflamed sect against scct, and found sympathy and support in the councils of the two last Kings. At length the great measure, so long delayed, was carried by a soldier who cut through difficulties, and trampled down obstacles. This was, perhaps, tbe most effec tual course for attaining the immediate object, but not for conciliating or amalgamating the passions of adverse sccts and parties; and there are still a Protestant minority which cannot brook an equal, and a Catholic majority which will not brook a superior. These rancorous antipathies would by this time be at least mitigated, if tbey were not perpetuated and inflamed by individuals, who, with a fla grant want of truth and decency, use pretences the most hollow and the most alien to the whole tenor of their lives, against every attempt to reconcile religious factions, and bestow upon the Irish poor the great corrector of vice and the passions, and the great source of peace and virtue- knowledge. We will not go over tbe government plan of education in Ireland— it is known to every body- and especially to those who misrepresent and defame it. In the teeth of the undented and undeniable fact, that in those The Conference met again on Thursday, to deliberate « m the answer of the King of tire NETHERLANDS to the last Protocol of the Conference: but we have reason to believe that no positive decision was come to, as to the steps ren- dered necessary by bis refusal to comply with the condi- tions laid down in the Protocol, The Austrian, Russian, the reader to do so in his own mind, in all future instances and Prussian Ministers, declare that they have not power f » ' where the Irish education system is decried, under the plea sanction any coercive measures ; and Lord PALMERSTON of conscience and the Bible. is anxious to try the effect of further negotiation. Long Lord RODEN brought what he called the case of the Irish before tlle official answer of the King of the NETHERLANDS Protestants before the House of Lords in the beginning of arrived> LORD PALMERSTON knew,, from our Minister at the the week, and in the course of his speech denounced a HaSue> w, iat the purport of the answer would be, and Lord vast conspiracy of the Catholics against the lives and Durham's instructions were framed accordingly. His properties of the Protestants. The state' of Ireland is se- Lor(, sIliP is to urge upon the Emperor of Russl'A the pro- rious enough, but it is far from this; and, with every dis- 1> riety and ius, ice of enforcing the treaty; and,, whether position to make allowances for thezealof a nobleman, who successful or not with the Emperor NICHOLAS, he is sub stands in the same relation to the Catholics in which MON- se( lnently to v'sit Vienna and Berlin, and'try whaS hie can TESQUIE said he stood to an Abbe of his acquaintance, do with 11ie Ausllian atld Prussian Cabinets, viz.— that, since they quarrelled, neither should be believed During this delay as to the great question- of European in what he said of the other;— making allowance, we say, Peace or war'what is to be done with reference to the din for the zeal of Lord RODEN, it is impossible not to be mands OF BELSIUM ? LEOPOLD has formally applied to the. struck by his artifices of rhetoric, as affecting the question Conference for the raeans of enforcing the Treaty which of his good faith. He deals only in general declamation | heyliad prepared, and which he, notwithstanding its being and the information of private letters, leaving out of view in many ofits con( fttions harsh towards Belgium, accepted: altogether the evidence of the state of Ireland^ taken by the and lle stalcs> tllat, whether the Conference maintain faith Tithe Committee. Ho calls that a Catholic conspiracy or not towards bim> he is determined to have recourse to against Protestants which appears, from this evidence, to arms for lhe aC( l « ' rement of tbe rights reserved By that be a moral organization, tacitly formed and acted upon Treaty'tlle fillallcial resources of the country being ihiade- against tithes— and this by both Protestants and Catholics. (' uate to the exPense of a standing army. " Already," It is not directed even against the Irish Protestant church, says tlle Km=' " , las tllis army cost thirty- six millions of unless church and tithe be synonymous, and it is of the es- n° rins> which is three times as much as Belgium, by the sence of Christianity that there should be four Archbishops Treaty> was bound lo PaJ'> as i( s portion of the interest on in Ireland, whilst there are only two in England. Lord tlie Be, Sic debt dur'ng the same period ; and the monthly ELDON, by the way, said this confederacy against tithes expenditure now is three millions of florins." was illegal, and could be put down easily by tbe com- Wi" il ^ fair , owards Belgium, under such circum- mon law. This venerable person talks much of his stances, to admit of further delay ? We think not. The conscience, and is at bis advanced age at no great Conference interposed against the wish of the Belgians distance, in the ordinary course of nature, from" the Tt inferP° sed too at a moment, when popular excitement grave. Does he really believe that this combina- amonS llie was so great, that not only was it ia tion, anomalous and powerful as it is, could be put their power to work out and establish their own indepen- down by any existing taw- statute or common- or by I llc » ce, but also to have subdued a large portion ofHolfend. anything short of extermination with the sword?. Does| The Be, Sians accepted the treaty and they now demand Lord ELDO- N forget that every suspension of the Habeas Corpus— every enactment, however arbitrary or sangui- nary— every Dungeon Bill, Gagging Bill, and Transporta- tion Bill— every creation by Statute of a new treason or political felony— no matter how little formidable tbe emer- gency— no matter bow sufficient the common law— found its execution. It may be questioned whether the Confer- ence have acted well towards Holland, but there can; be no question as to the obligations of the Conference towards Belgium. If there were right and propriety, on their own view, in their interposition, they are bound, after havin°- sent their ultimatum to the King of the NETHERLANDS in him an eager champion- the worthy colleague of the to fulfil its eonditions at the requisition of tbe King of SIDMOUTHS and CASTLEREAGHS— for more than 40 years? We come to Mr. STANLEY'S three Bills for the seltle- i ment of tithes in Ireland. A settlement this assuredly wil not prove. There is a general outcry against it among the Irish Members. It is still pending by adjournment, and if pushed by Government will pass both Houses— but will not— cannot be carried into effect in Iteland. Mr. STANLEY, in. brief, makes the compositions under the ex- isting Aet compulsory— he charges the landowner with the tithe, giving him the right to purchase up or. redeem it- and be creates in each diocese an Ecclesiastical Corpora- | tion, with the Bishop at its bead, in which shall be vested the proceeds of the composition and redemption, for the use and benefit of those entitled, according to the extent and proporiion of their interests. This plan, it has been observed, maintains the charge of tithe in its integrity and in its exclusive application to clerical objects and. pur- poses, as before. BELGIUM. We understand that, notwithstanding the firm and de- cisive tone of the Dutch. reply, the Conference are still in hopes of a satisfactory arrangement, but on w- bat are their hopes founded ? Do they think the King of the NETHER^ LANDS will give way, or have they made up their minds to concede in- favour of Holland? The former is improbable the latter would be disgraceful. They have gone too far to recede wilh honour; but, if Russia, Austria, and Prus- sia,. who only became members of the Conference in the expectation of being able to e3tect the re- annexation of Belgium to Holland, choose to violate their faith, as they did towards the Poles after the Treaty of Vienna, we are sure that Great Britain and France, however anxious to avoid war, will take a different view of their moral obligations. The Accounts of Revenue for the quarter, ending Thursday, He further proposes terms of purchase I have been made up. A deficiency, as compared with, the cor- atan enormously over- rated KesPondinS .1 » arter, was from various causes anticipated, and or redemption by landlords, « va-..— j , has occurredj but without exceeding the amount of loss appre- valuation of Irish tithe property. It cannot come into bended. The gross deficit on the quarter is about .' 144,000/. - operation before a year or more— it is morally eertain of on the year,, 2,660,000/. The Customs have exhibited the failing even tben- and in the mean time the Irish Clergy g, e, atef fal^ nS off> from thc obstruction of intercourse LULLING . J. . I and stagnation of trade, in consequence of the approach o£ are in a situation of deplorable hardship and distress. ch0lera to, various parts of Europe. The Excise is the only Would it not then have been more discreet, under those branch of duty which presents an increase ou the quarter circumstances, to pass a temporary measure for the relief ( 56,000/.), and the Stamps the only one upon the entire twelve- .... e ii . i month,—( viz. 48,000/.) The sudden start of the Excise during of the Clergy, and restoration of peace, anil leave the the tast three months, affords a satisfactory presumption that the filial settlement to a reformed Parliament? means of comfort are now reviving amongst the great body of - the people. A part of the decrease perceptible in the Customs How utterly and hopelessly uncertain must be the history may be ascribed to the non- importation of corn during the last of the past, when one of the most public incidents of the ^ C^ mZ^ Yl^ U second son of the Earl day— of the hour, it may be called— has become matter of 0f Eldon,, died on Friday night, at his house in Park- street, flat contradiction and fierce dispute— Did Dr. PHILPOTTS, A bath for making ice at all seasons is thus composed ;— Pul- Bishop of Exeter, on a certain evening, memorable for the ™ lphate ° f soda ( not flower) four pounds solut 1 > ., „ I sulphuric acid three pounds j mix them, and place the mixture in application to him of the phrase pamphleteering slang, vases containing the water intended to be frozen, With this in the House of Lords, assert that a certain letter appeared I more than 3000 pounds of ice may be wade, July 8. T1I12 l^ OWJJf. 231 TOWN TALK. POLITICAL PASTIMES. It is not true that the wax- lights stolen from Holdernesse House had been recently purchased by the noble owner for the purpose of the reform illumination. His Lordship means to burn dead lights on the occasion. The Tories anticipate that the withdrawing of Coke and Wood from St. Stephen's will considerably diminish the heat of the house. They may, nevertheless, find it " too hot to hold them." It is considered rather remarkable that an Illustrious Person- age, who has been somewhat conspicuous in political movements of late, took no part whatever in the discussion of the Gravesend question, though it is said that no one understands its merits * nd bearings better. Mr. Croker says it is poor spite of Sir James Graham, in his anxiety to remove every article of the Ex- Secretary's lumber from his old quarters, that he will not suffer even his favourite wheel- Barrow to stay on the premises, though it is yet quite fit for service. The new song, which is now all the vogue at White's, is a version of that antient ballad, " Johnny Prinyle had a little pig." The words and music are by Joseph Hume, Esq. M P., and the composition is suitably dedicated to the Hon. Member for Lis- Iceard. The Duke of Wellington declared on Tuesday night, that that mild " miscreant" Young Nick of All the Russias, " had ful- filled the treaty by which he was bound to govern Poland, as far, at least, as he ( the Duke) could understand it." That is very likely. Some think his Grace has a happy knack of un derstanding just as much of every political question as suits his purpose. So, at least, young Ney says. The Duke of Gloucester says it is high time for him to be terious, and so he closes his series of grand dinners this week, and starts for Cheltenham, to get rid of his bill- ious symptoms The attempt of the Bristol Corporation to enclose Brandon Hill, where reform meetings have been hitherto held, may fix a brand on that enlightened body, such as not all the water in the float could wash away. It was not for nothing they were located so near the Hot Wells— for they seem resolved to be eternally in hot water. Sir Edward Sugden's repugnance to the creation of new Peers after the failure of his Weymouth negotiation for a coronet, is almost as good a joke as Cobbett's petitioning against the Ana- tomy Bill, after his profitless speculation in exhuming the bones of the poor old negro, and foisting them on John Bull as the remains of Tom Paine. The wags of Cheshunt, in commemoration of Sir Aby Hume's artillery armament, have christened him Sir Pop- gun Hume. The Master of the Horse gives a splendid entertainment to the Ministerial phalanx on the 14th inst.: and as " opposition" is " the order of the day," the Master of the Asses, it is said, means to feast his congenial crew at Hyde Park- corner on the self- same day. TORY TRUISM.— Sir George Murray is the honestest Tory breathing. In his address to the Perthshire electors, the gallant officer tells one truth for which the Oligarchists will little thank him, but which it behoves the people to treasure up. These are his words :—" I believe that the best securities for liberty are to be found in a judicious distribution of power in the state ; for wherever power has been wholly concentrated, under whatever plausible form, or under whatever promising demonstration, there power has invariably perished." This is most delectable doc- trine, issuing from one of the quondam oracles of Oligarchy. It contains, at all events, the great secret of the Tory downfall and the assurance that liberty can only be secured by their utter and eternal exclusion from power. LACONICS BY THE LORDS.— No. II. Tlie obligations of benefits are more strict than of duties; wherefore lie that is unthankful, is unjust, and— any thing.— Lord Lyndhurst. Open dealing is nothing else but a weakness of mind.— Ibid. He that apprehends not the meaning of the people, neither by congruous application, nor yet by observation, is of all men most senseless.— Duke of Wellington. Charity to a Commonwealth begins at a private family.— Earl Batliurst. " Honour and shame from no condition rise, Act well your part— there all the honour lies." Earl of Munster. A man is never ruined by dullness.— Earl of Westmorland. It is ridiculous for a Lord to print verses ; it is well enough to make them to please himself, but to make them public is foolish.— Lord Strangford. Constancy gives reputation even to vice.— Duke of Marlbo- rough. Zeal not rightly directed is pernicious, for, as it makes a good cause better, so it makes a bad cause worse.— Lord Roden. Amongst the disturbers of our quiet are some animals of great bulk, whom their power of roaring persuades us to think for- midable, but we now perceive that sound and force do not always go together. " Parturiunt montes nascetur ridiculus mus.— Duke of Buckingham. Dissimulation is a compendious wisdom ; it is like a grace and a guard.— Lord Tankerville. To honour the people is to be honoured.— Duke of Newcastle. No men are so often iu the wrong as those who pretend to be always in the right.— Lord Wicklow. We talk much of fine sense, refined sense, and exalted sense, but give me common sense, and Manners.— Duke of Rutland. A man in throwing dirt at his adversary, doth often bespatter himself.— Dr. Phillpotts. Pride wants the best condition of vice, its concealment.- Lord Tenterden. Titles of honour conferred upon such as have no personal merit to deserve them, are at best but the royal stamp set upon base metal.— Lord Bexley. Avoid gaming, for among other evils that attend it, are these— loss of time, loss of reputation, loss of health, loss of fortune, loss of temper, the ruin of families, defrauding of creditors, and, what is often the effect of both, the loss of life, temporal and spiritual.— Lord Alvanley.. If to inconstancy of fortune, we also add inconstancy of mind, in what mazes of darkness do we live !— Lord Lauderdale. DISTINCTION WITH A DIFFERENCE. " You're a Waverer, Bob 1" cried the Duke in a rag6; " You're a Waverer, Bobl and an arrant deceiver." " Please your Grace," replied Bob, looking candid and sage, " I'm no Waverer, Sir, for I'm only a weaver." CAUSE AND EFFECT. *' A great many ' stand of arms' have been delivered to the clergymen in the barony of Ballyadams, Queen's County."— Dublin Evening Post. From this mere cause effects may spring To tranquillize the land ; Each stand of arms must surely bring Some White - feet to a stand. CURE FOR THE FIDGETS. A correspondent wishes to know what remedy there is for curing the fidgets in the legs ?"— Morning Herald. The Herald's correspondent begs " A cure for fidgets in the legs."' And Mrs. Deacle begs that we Will recommend the recipe Administered by Doctor Baring, Which instant makes— beyond comparing— Fidgety feet as firm as rocks :— ' Tis simple, and ' tis called— the stocks. LUCUS A NON LUCENDO. [ On the robbery of wax- lights from Holdernessc House.] When men steal lights from Noble Vane, ( What wicked things will men do I) They prove the proverb's truth, ' tis plain : Lucus— a non lucendo. PARLIAMENTARY DRAWINGS. We have seen a very capital engraving by Raddon, from a pic ture by Cozens, entitled " The Sportsman at Home." The principal figures are the dogs, ( for the Sportsman himself is only dimly seen in the chimney- nook, enjoying his pipe,) which are most truly and forcibly grouped and characterized. The sharp, but honest- faced Scotch terrier, the sagacious look of the pointer, and the silky coat, and soft- eyed, good- natured countenance of the spaniel, are admirably hit off, and perfectly true to canine nature. HERALDIC ILLUSTRATIONS. XXXV. " En grace affie."— By L— d C— RD— g— jc. En grace affie, must mean, d'ye see, Who hopes for patronage or place, ( Whene'er the Whigs have run their rigs,) Should trust entirely to His GRACE. XXXVI. " Sapere aude."— By L— d M— CLE— F— LD. Dare to be wise !— at least I'd try, Would daring do it, I declare : But those who know me, say that I Couldn't be wise— even if I dare. XXXVII. " Judicium parium, aut leges terrse."— By tlie M s of C— md— N. Since the Whigs all our Tory manoeuvres withstand, Frustrating our pure patriotic intentions, I think that ' twerejiow, by the law of the land, Judicious to pare down their places and pensions. XXXVIII. " Jour de ma vie!"— By L— d D— L— w— RR. Day of my life! wretched jour de ma vie ! That e'er I should witness the fall of the Tories : Day of my life! what a day that would be, When in office I welcomed them back to their glories ! XXXIX. " Quod potui perfeci."— By L— d M— LV— LLE. Though the Whigs all their rancorous envy displayed Of our places and pensions— the niggardly elves 1 Still we M— lv— lies our motto have strictly obeyed, And done what we could— to take care of ourselves I ANTI- REFORM ALPHABET.— No II. A's Alexander, adjuring Old Sarum ; B's Baring, bewailing the peerage can't bear him. C's Croker, concocting flash fancies for " Bull," D's Dawson, dejected, and dismal, and dull. E's Encombe, extolling old Eldon's example ; F's Freemantle— fain on our rights would he trample. G's Goulburn— some call him " a goose," some " a bore H Hardinge, hot headed, but honest at core. I's Inglis, intolerant, raving, and ranty ; J's Jermyn, the jessamy, jejune, and jaunty. K's Kearsley, eternally braying and boring; L's Lowther, " the Woods and the Forests" deploring. M's Murray— the senate shows no shrewder Scot; N's Nield, who would fain exchange wives with old Lot. O Oafs, for this chasm we in plenty may find j P's Peel, puzzled how he shall next change his mind. R's Ryder, whose rambles in Richmond few think on ; S. Sibthorpe, lamenting the loss of his Lincoln. T's Townsend, as tedious as any old Tory ; V's Vyvyan, whom Peel " left alone in his glory." W's Wetherell, who blusterings and blazes can weather all; X, Y, Z Are zealots, we thus class together all. SIR EDWARD SUGDEN'S LAST SCRAPE. The opponents of constitutional reform are about to have a reform of their own. We all along suspected that your con- servatives were your only " levellers." They go straight to their work. No necessity for legal preamble— prosing acts of par- liament— or schedules for every letter of the alphabet to sanction their proceedings. Cromwell was a rank Tory at heart; he, without ceremony, removed the Speaker's " bauble" from the House of Commons. Sir Edward Sugden is a man after OLD NOLL'S own heart; he would toss the Lord Chancellor's mace out of court, as another " bauble." In the course of a term or two we may expect to see " the first law officer of the crown" subservient to the counsel at the Chancery bar. To be sure- even in that dilemma— he has every indulgence to hope for from the courteous and conciliatory spirit of Sir Edward Sugden, who has already been good enough to promise " to allow" his Lord- ship to exercise his high functions under his protection and patronage. On the hearing of that ridiculous, mischievous, and disgusting case, " In the matter of Newton, otherwise Bag- ster, a supposed lunatic," on Monday last, when Mr. Follett applied for an order of the court " authorising counsel opposed to the commission to visit Mrs. Newton during the proceedings," Sir E. Sugden opposed the application; but on its being pressed, he was graciously pleased to " make a proposition," or, in other words, to dictate most arrogantly and arbitrarily to the court in which he is merely employed as a professional advocate. Hear him ! " I will allow your Lordship [ meaning thereby the Lord High Chancellor of England] to make an order for them to see her once! I I" Was there ever in this world such insolence, nay, such barefaced impudence, heard before 1 Were the blood of all the barbers in England in his veins, this petulant puppet of a powerless party could not have given himself more airs. He allow the Lord Chancellor to make an order I He, forsooth ! Had he not better " allow his Lordship to make an order" calling upon his Weymouth patron to complete the terms of his bargain for the peerage ? or, while he is about it, " allow his Lordship" to resign the seals in his favour ? Such a proposition would be almost as modest as that which Lord Brougham so provokingly turned into ridicule. " I will allow your Lordship to make an order 1" How kind— how considerate! " Hear you this Triton of the minnows ! Mark you his absolute shall."' His proposition was just as decent as if , but we know no case or circumstance that can be drawn into comparison with the impertinent proposition of Sir Edward Sugden. But these are your " conservatives 1" Why did O'Dillon Barrot produce a great sensation in the Chamber of Deputies a short time since ?— Because he brought tears ( Thiers) into the eyes of the assembly. THE RIGHT HON. T. SPRING RICE. Why is it that certain people are always designated hy the entirety of their names ? WThy is it, that in speaking of Mr. Duncombe, every one says " Tom Duncombe"— in talking of Mr. Holmes, every one says, " Billy Holmes ?" and how does it come to pass, that in whispering the name of Mr. Rice, there is scarcely any body who does not say " Spring Rice ?" If you go to the Treasury to inquire if Mr. Rice is within, you will ask the master of the ceremonies at the door is Spring but im- mediately correcting yourself, you will inquire is " Mr. Rice at home ?" We shall not pretend to explain this problem in nomenclature. It were not amiss to propose it for solution in the next almanac, published under the auspices of the Lord Chancellor and of the Secretary of the Treasury, by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Spring Rice is an Irishman by birth ; but is, from education, accent, and demeanour, Anglis ipsis Anglicior. He belongs to an ancient Catholic family— which of his progenitors first abandoned the religion of Ireland, we have not ascertained; but believe that generations need not be traversed in order to discover the connexion of the Right Honourable Gentleman with the an- cient creed of Ireland. He was not sent to the university of Dublin to complete his studies. He was deeply steeped in the river Cam, and to this day exhibits in parliament evidence of the profundity of his immersion in that celebrated stream. lie is familiar with all the young patricians of the day, with whom school- fellowship produces a species of aristocratic connexion. In virtue of his early intimacy, he calls men by their Christian- names, by way of retaliating on the public for the freedom which they use with his own :— and if he is called " Spring Rice," he makes up for the liberty taken with him, by extending it to the Lords John, and Lords William, of whom he speaks with an almost domestic right, to the substitution of their college for their titular designations. Spring Rice returned to Ireland with English manners, En- glish habits, and with the English determination to correct Irish abuse. He found the corporation of Limerick in possession of the representation of that city:— with the acuteness for which he is remarkable, he perceived at once the vulnerable points on which they might be successfully touched. With equal energy and perseverance he prosecuted an investigation into their title; he broke through their monopoly; compelled them to admit Roman Catholics to the freedom of the city; and having thus conferred a signal benefit on the people of Limerick, reaped the best and most honourable reward by being returned to Parlia- ment as their representative. When in opposition, Mr. Rice was conspicuous for that happy combination of declamatory faculty, with talents for business, which ensure success. There are no great speeches of his to be found in Hansard. No one would seek in any thing which he has ever said for models of senatorial eloquence; but he displayed qualities far more valuable for the purposes of practical effect, than mere rhetorical endowment; and by his perfect knowledge of facts— by his minute acquaintance with all the smallest, as well as the more important, circumstances of every case with which he had to deal— by his readiness and prompti- tude, he proved himself to be a most useful, if not a most pro- minent member of the party to which he had attached himself. Even before he came to power, he rendered essential service to the country. His report on the state of the Poor of Ireland, as Chairman of the Committee appointed to inquire into the subject, is executed with the greatest ability ; and is a most va- luable document to all those who desire to acquire information with regard to the real condition of Ireland. Many years elapsed before the party to which Mr. Rice be- longs came into office. He never, for an instant, deserted them : at last power dawned in all its golden brilliancy upon them. They, at length, received some better reward than the approbation of their own consciences for their public virtue :— the Whigs came into power— and, in the allocation of office, the Secretaryship of the Treasury was assigned to Mr. Rice.— No happier or more useful appointment could have been made. He had acquired the habits of business out of office— it was ob- viously easy to transfer those tendencies to the discharge of the new functions assigned to him. He who had laboured in the barren ground of opposition with such assiduity, would naturally prove a most prosperous cultivator of the new and fertile soil on which his toil was to be bestowed. Mr. Rice is an excellent Secretary of the Treasury. He is active, diligent, minute, circumspect, vigilant, clear, perspica cious, and perspicuous— he is always at his post— no letter re mains for three days unanswered— he is master of every detail connected with his high trust. Out of the House he is polite, in the House he is perfectly informed. It is, indeed, confessed by those who differ from him, as well as it is made matter of boast by those with whom he is politically associated, that there never was a more useful or efficient Secretary of the Treasury. In Parliament, since he has been promoted to this important office, he has seldom spoken. He has, however, on every occasion in • which he took any part in the debate, proved himself a most use- ful auxiliary to his party. He at once proceeds to the subject. He expends no sentences in preliminary expatiation— he does not weary the House with a preamble— he applies himself immediately to the facts— he avoids all discursiveness and episode— and, having presented with great clearness the lead ing features of the subject to the House, and pronounced upon them the most appropriate commentary, he sits down, satisfied by that appeal to the sound sense of Parliament, which is so far preferable to any invocation of feelings, which it is only upon very rare and remarkable occasions possible to bring into play. Take Mr. Rice for all in all, he must be admitted to be a use- ful, practical, skilful, man, versed in the details of public trans- action, and master of the leading principles on which great and political concerns ought to be conducted,— a good debater, a most clear expositor, and, upon occasion, a very eloquent and impressive speaker in the House of Commons. The exterior man of Mr. Rice is not unhappy. His figure is somewhat diminutive; but he erects himself into a certain official altitude, which makes up for any want of cubits in his stature. He has a strongly- marked face, composed of regular and sym- metrical features, so disposed as to give him a rather Italian aspect. He has not the least shade of his Irish origin in his physiognomy. It were, perhaps, to be desired, that his er « pression of complaisance were not so elaborate ; but, amidst • Whig Ministry, an excessive civility is a defect so rare, as almost to aiiiemnt to a virtue. It was said of somebody, that he had tha manners of a Whig and the principles of a Tory ;— Spring Ric « has the manners of a Tory and the principles of a Whig. THE THEATRES. THE KING'S THEATRE. The dftnon of perversity seems to take a singular pleasure ill meddling with and marring the affairs of Mr. Monck Mason, in his capacity of manager of the King's Theatre. Without di* lating at present on the series of mistakes that followed so thick on each other's heeft, in his administration of the Italian opera, what more striking instance of the interposition of the perversa spirit above alluded to can we have, than the production on Wed- nesday night of the opera" of Macbeth ? The only capital and universally approved hit that Mr. Mason has made since enter- ing on his functions as manager, has been the introduction of tha German opera, and yet when the full tide of public fuvonr is flow- ing in this direction, and that every lover of good music is- yearn- ing for some of the master works of this noble school, the ma- nager deliberately disappoints the high- wrought expectation, anct instead of the " Don Giovanni," or some other opera of Moz& rt, of Weber, of Voghel, or of Spohr, gives us Macbeth, the words of which alone are German, but the music French, notwithstand- ing the author's title of Kappelmeister to the king of Bavaria; a foreign title or function cannot change a man's country or genius. As well might Mr. Mason get the libretto of his own opera, which, we understand is in preparation, put into the Deutsche idiom, and. give it to us as a production of the German school. But enough on this point. Let us now judge of the merits of the opera o£ Macbeth, as the composition of M. Chelartf, and not as a specimen of the German school: and first of the plot; but upon this, we presume, it is not necessary to be diffuse, the subject being so well known; the present version is the translation of a translation, being done into German by Her Csesar Max Heigel, from a French adaptation of the English original, by Rouget de Lille, the author of the Marseillaise. hymn. The scene of the Weird Sisters, the murder of Duncan, and the sleep- walking of Lady Macbeth are the only portions of the original that have escaped this double mutilation. The new characters introduced are— Moina, the daughter of Duncan, ami Douglas, her husband, who replaces in the business of the play the Macduff of Shakspeare, and three old gentlemen in white robes and grey beards, called Bards. The music, though not deeply imbued with dramatic colouring or originality of concep- tion, contains some agreeable melodies, and displays several striking proofs of the composer's science and skill in instrumen- tation. The passages which chiefly attracted attention were a, bacchanalian chorus at the commencement of the second act, which was sung with spirit and most admired precision of tone and expression, and deservedly elicited an encore— a trio o£ Bards, which is likely to be the favourite moreeau of the opera, and a chorus of peasants in the third act. Madame Schroeder Devrient played Lady Macbeth in a highly im- passioned and effective manner, but we cannot go the length The Times has gone, and say, " that in many parts of the per- formance she equalled the finest efforts of Siddons 1" Pellegrini as Macbeth was, if not below, certainly not above the mediocre. Madame Meric as Moina, and Haitzinger as Douglas, sung witlt grace and feeling the music allotted to them. The denouement of the opera, in which Macbeth descends through a trap to the infernal abyss with the usual accompaniments of resin flames and begrimed demons, whilst the spirit of Duncan is seen ascend- ing to the regions above, is a phantasmagorie of the most pue- rile and preposterous nature. How a manager of taste and educa- tion could allow the noblest and mostperfect tragedy of Shakspeara to be thus melo- dramatised and vulgarised, is to us inconceivable. This ought to be reformed altogether. After the fall ofthe cur- tain M. Chelard was called for, and came forward to make hi& obeisance. COVENT GARDEN. On Friday night the first of a series of concerts was given at this house, of which Paganini was the principal and all- sufficing attraction. His first performance was an Allegro Maestoso of his own composition, in which were exhibited all the difficulties and magical effects of harmonics and enharmonics which his wizard bow is alone able to execute. His second morceau was an air from tbe opera of La Noce di Benevento, descriptive of the dance of the witches under the walnut tree. This, though pro- bably not the most wonderful of Paganini's wondrous efforts, is, if we mistake not, the most charming. The effect is, as if at the same time that you hear the broken and wailing voices of the witches, the distant and airy tones of sylphs or spirits, fall, through the agency of the harmonics, upon the delighted ear. This performance perfectly enraptured the audience, who sent forth an universal shout of encore. The overtures to Freychuts and the Zauberflotte, eked out by some common- place music, filled up the remainder of the evening. ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE. The opening of this establishment has afforded no novelty t< J descant upon. The performances consisted of resuscitations of some of the pieces of last year, which we thought had been con- signed to eternal repose. The melodrama of The Evil Eye, the' farce of Is He Jealous ? and The Haunted Inn formed the first night's entertainment, a rather meagre and rechauffi one it must be allowed. With an Italian and German opera, the French, performances at Covent Garden about to commence, and the at—' tractions of several of the minors, to rival this establishment io. public favour, the manager must bestir himself, and produce something more novel and excellent than the contents of hi* opening bill of fare. STRAND THEATRE. A new and spirited little comedy has been produced " at this' theatre, under the title of " The Golden Calf." It is from the- pen of Mr. Jerrold, the successful author ofthe Rent Day. Th © chief object of the plot is to exhibit the unhappiness, and dis-' graceful embarrassments consequent upon that mania, so widely spread in English society,— of what, in fashionable slang, is called tuft hunting, or seeking the acquaintance of those above us ia rank or fortune ; and in the indulgence of which, so much of real comfort and respectability is sacrificed. This folly, tha great bane of social life in England, required a wider range than that afforded by a petite comedy to have justice done on it; and, indeed, it would be a subject for a master hand to treat. We wish Mr. Knowles would look to it. However this may be, thar rapid sketch of the subject by Mr. Jerrold is satisfactory, as far as it goes. It contains one or two comic situations, and several smart hits. Mr. Abbot, as the hero, the heir of a rich mer- chant, who squanders his fortune in obtaining the acquaintance, and imitating the extravagant follies of people of title, played with his usual spirit, and was well received on this, his first appearance at a minor theatre. Mrs. Waylett personified the wife of this would- be fashionable, and, though debarred of her great power of charming, her ballad singing made a very favourable impression in the part. Keeley, as the servant of a roguish money- lender, was most laughter- moving. On tha whole, the Golden Calf met with decided success and deserved it. The manager of one of the theatres at Vienna yielded f solicitation and importunity of court friend's, and permitted young la3y to make her debut as a singer, who had tlxe. morfifi- cation to be hissed off. Not a little annoyed, the manager' rushed hastily before the curtain, and addressed the aiidiencejii* - a stentorian voice with this brief question—" Gentlemen iand ' Ladies, don't you like her? "—" No ! " was the reply from all parts ofthe house.—" Neither do I," added the manage/, aa4 disappeared anwfct roars of laughter. II 222 wmm TOWIS. July a. ROYAL AND FASHIONABLE MOVEMENTS, &; c. ' " Wednesday, his Royal Highness Prince Adalbert, of Prussia, and suite, left Mivart's hotel on a tour to Scotland. His Royal jBighness is expected to be absent some weeks. • The Marchioness of Lansdowne gave. a roost splendid ball and supper, on Tuesday evening, at Lansdowne House, Berkeley- Square, which was attended by nearly 500 of the liaut ton. Wednesday, ' Lord Durham, accompanied by Lady Durham, his two daughters, the Hon. J. Ponsonby, Mr. Edward Ellice, junior, and Mr. Ward, enlbarked on board a steamer, at Wool- wich, to join the Talavera at Slieerness. Countess Grey has issued cards for parties on the 13th and 20th instant. The Duchess of Bedford gave a dejeuni, on Wednesday, at Camden Hill, to a select party of the nobility. THE DUCHESS OF ST. ALBANS' FETE.— The fete champetre at Holly Lodge took ( dace on Tuesday. His Royal Highness the Duke ot Sussex and his daughter, Mademoiselle D'Este, were amongst the early arrivals ; but the company was less numerous than on any former occasion, aud did not exceed three hundred persons. A pavilion was erected on the lawn, decorated with white and pink draperies, and appropriated to dancing. There were several Maypoles, adorned with garlands and many- coloured Streamers. The band of the Coldstream Guards was stationed in the shrubbery, and continued throughout the day to perform martial airs. Madame Stockhausen, with one or two other pro fessionals, performed a petit concert, under the direction of Sir George Smart, in the conservatory, in which several pretty Swiss ballads were introduced. There were also the four German bro thers, the Koellas, who performed Beethoven's Quartettes. The Morrice Dancers perambulated the grounds, but did not present the most mirthful appearance. The whole of the rooms of the vjlla, even to her Grace's bedchamber, were thrown open to the visiters, and most of them appropriated to refreshments Quadrille dances were the order of the evening, and Litolf's band was in attendance. As dusk approached the shrubs and trees were illuminated. The fC- te intended to be given on Thursday, to their Majesties, by the Governor of Greenwich Hospital, was, we understand, put off, in consequence of an express announcing the death of the Princess Louise. The Duchess of Kent entertained a large and distinguished party at dinner on Wednesday. The Duchess of Ke it, the Duchess of Cumberland, the Prin- cess Augusta, and the principal nobility, patronise the Ladies' Bazaar and fete champetre, to be held in Vauxhall Gardens, in aid of the Royal Dispensary for curing Diseases of the Ear aud the Deaf and Dumb. The King conferred the honour of Knighthood upon the fol- lowing officers at the levee on Wednesday:— Major- General John M'Leod, Military Knight, Guelp. Order; Colonel John Tremen- heere, ditto, ditto; Colonel Burges Camac, Knight of Charles the Third of Spain ; Captain John Marshall, R. N, Ivaiglit Guelp. Order; Lieutenant- Colonel Henry Madox, ditto, ditto. MARQUIS CAMDEN'S FETE.— On Friday the Marquis Camden gave a public dinner to the Yeomen Cavalry of West Kent, at his seat, the Wilderness, near Seven Oaks. The weather being very fine, the extended plain in the Park was filled with the splendid equipages of the nobility and gentry of the surround- ing neighbourhood. At one, the Duke of Wellington, accom- panied by the Marquis Camden, entered the groups of people assembled to witness the review. He was dressed in the Windsor uniform, with a star and a plain round hat. No expression of feeling was manifested on his appearance ; and the Yeomen Ca- valry, between three- and four hundred in number, went through their several evolutions before him, and gave him three cheers. When the review was over, the Duke, accompanied by the Mar- quis, rode round the front of the assembled multitude, and was received with some— though not with any thing like general- shouting. There was not, however, any expression of contrary feeling. On the lawn in front of the house an extensive booth was erected, in which the Duke of Wellington and the troops and their friends, to the number of 500, wer'e entertained. THE GRAND CALEDONIAN BALL.— A most splendid scene was witnessed on Friday night, at Almack's Rooms, when 600 of the nobility and gentry gave a ball in aid of the funds of the Caledonian School and Highland Society. The company com- prised nearly all the nobility and principal families of North Britain, together with most of the distinguished leaders of fashion in town. The Marquis of Abercorn, habited as a Greek Prince, wore a superb dress of crimson velvet and gold; the Marchioness of Londonderry, in a Persian Princess's dress, displayed a profusion of diamonds ; the Duke of Buccleugh in an ancient Highland chieftain's garb ( the head of the clan of Scott), with the buckle of the sword- belt, dirk, and pliilibeg, richly studded with brilliants, & c. The objects of the charity, consisting of upwards of 50 boys, promenaded the rooms, headed by Clark, the celebrated piper. Dancing commenced at half- past ten, to a quadrille and Scotch reel bauds, and did not terminate until five on Saturday morning. FANCY FAIR.— The Fancy Fair got up by a committee of ladies in aid of the funds already collected for the restoration of the Ladye Chapel, commenced on Wednesday at the Surrey Zoolo- gical Gardens under very favourable auspices. The gardens were thrown open for the admission of visitors at eleven, and at the hour of four there could not have been present less than three thousand persons, of whom the great majority were of the fair sex- The grounds are admirably adapted for the purpose to - — which they were appropriated. A line of handsome marquees was erected opposite to the lake that adorns the gardens, in which was sat out the fancy articles retailed by the fair amateur stpll- keepers. The band of the Coldstream Guards played se- lections from . the operas of Robert le Diable and Fidelio during the day, A miniature frigate was propelled on the surface of the lake, and attracted much attention ; the piece of water also cqntamed an Indian canoe and a punt; the latter was appro- priated for the accommodation of the young gentlemen who were disposed to form aquatic parties. In short the melange was so agteeal} le that the visitants regr& tted when the firing of a salute frpm some pieces of small cannon at seven o'clock announced that the first day of the Fancy Fair was brought to a conclusion. The fajr' was repeated on Thursday, and we should think that the number of persons present could not he less than that of the pre- ceding day, which was nt> less thaa 11,000. DEATH OF THE EARL OFDOSOU& HMORE.— This gallant and venerable nobleman died on. Friday evening, at his residence, Knocklafty- house, county Tipperary, after a few days' illnesB. He had attained his 78th year. He is succeeded in his title and estates by his nephew, Captain Hutchinson, one of the Repre- sentatives for the county of Tipperary, who aided Sir Robert Wilson and Mr. Bruce in effecting the escape of Lavalette. The death of Lord Donoughmore causes a vacancy in the Lord- Lieu- tenancy of Tipperary, and will also render a new election for that county necessary.— Globe. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.— Henry Moreton Dyer, Esq. one of the Vice- Presidents, took the Chair at the Periodical Meet- ing pf this Society, on Tuesday. This Meeting was appointed for the Exhibition of Roses ; snd a more brilliant and varied display of that delightful flower on no occasion in our memory, has been seen. Thomas Curry Palmer, Esq., Charles Brown, a nurseryman, and Mr. Donald Munro, gardener to the Society, Were appointed umpires. The large silver medal was awarded to Mr. James Lee, the nurseryman, of Hammersmith, for his col- lefction Of roses ; and the Banksian medals were given to Lord Grwyille, and to Mr. Young, the nurseryman at Epsom, for tlieir pollection of roses. The Judges likewise recommended a Banfesian medal to be given to Mr. Smith, gardener to the Earl of Liverpool, for his yellow moisette rose. One hundred and njuety specimens of roses were sent from the garden of the Society. The Hybrid Gladiolusses, a kind of Cape lily, from the garden of Mr. Wells, of Red Leaf, were particularly ad- mired fur thy richness, delicacy, and variety of their colours. Lord GrenviEe sent sixty- five sorts of roses. Mr. Donald, of Woking, ninety- five sorts. Mr. Henry Burn,' gardener to thej Marquess of Aylesbury, 171 sorts. The Countess of Amherst exhibited flowers of a rare Brazilian Epiphyte, Temarkable for the singular form of its flowers and their brilliant yellow colour. The visitors were very numerous,; arid . in addition to the roses and other flowers, there was a. fine show of grapes and straw- berries. The pine- apple strawberries Seat'by " Mr. Myatt, the market gardener, were, far superior to. all the reat, both in apgpar- ance and flavour. Professor Lindiey, the Assistant Secretary, ex- plained and dilated on the various articles which - were shown. COS. TLY TRIFLE.— It is known that one of the Lords Fitz- - clarence went out lately in charge of a curious and costly minia- ture frigate, as a present to the King of Prussia. The gift h( ts reached its destination, and appears to have excited all the ad- miration which so neat, and at the same time so gorgeous a trifle might. be expected to produce,. The Prussian Court appears to be in ecstacies in its admiration, and the Court Journals speak in the highest terms of praise of the elaborate details of this vessel. It is calculated as having cost, at the least, 20,000/. It is understood that Mr. Coke, the venerable representative for Norfolk, and father of the House of Csmmoias, withdraws from public life at the close of the present Session. Mr. Coke lias been elected for Norfolk in thirteen successive Parliaihents. He is now in his 80th year. By his marriage with Lady Mary Keppel, a daughter of the Earl of Albemarle, he has an infant family of four or five children. How ARE THE MIGHTY FALLEN !— To such a wretched state of poverty have the Venetian Noblesse been reduced, that it has been lately found necessary to enact a law ( by the Austrians) to prohibit them from selling the lead which covers the roofs of their palaces. The population of this once Queen of the Adri- atic now barely numbers 70,000 souls. ' PAPYRO- MUSEUM.— One of the prettiest and most curiou' exhibitions we have seen is that called the Papyro- Museum, in Old Bond- street. There are eighty groups of figures and objects modelled from nature, in what may be called miniature, with exquisite art, and with a boundless variety of character and situ- ation— and the sole material is paper. Independent of its merit and interest, this exhibition has the further recommendation of being devoted to a charitable endowment. The object is best explained by the following introductory notice in the catalogue: —" This beautiful Collection was made within the last four years, by a lady, for the gratification of her own taste, but she has since presented it to a Charity, which she is most anxious to see endowed before her death. It is now exhibited at 28, Old Bond- street, in the earnest hope that, if not bought on specu- lation or for some of the public Institutions, some person of large fortune will become a purchaser, partly for the pleasure of perpetuating a most merciful charity, and partly for the sake of possessing what no one else can have. The young artists who have produced this little living world, not being able to copy their own works, there is no danger of their being copied by others, or a possibility of the same collection being re- produced. Tliey never exercise their talent except as some object strikes upon their fancy, and never dispose of their work to any one but the lady who has made the collection." It appears, by an official paper laid before Parliament, that the expense of the establishments at New South Wales, in the year 1830, was 242,989?. 7s. 7| d. ; Van Dieroen's Land, 144,746/. Is. ofd. The Americans have revived a claim on Naples to the amount of 500,000/. for the illegal seizure of American ships in the time of Murat. We may judge with what intentions the claim is brought forward at present, when we find that they propose to accept of Syracuse in lieu of the money. The Neapolitan Go- vernment have offered them the island of Lampedosa, which, we hear, they have rejected with disdain. The Americans have been long desirous of a harbour in the Mediterranean, and are taking advantage of the disturbed state of Europe, to extort from the weakness of the Neapolitan Government this long- coveted pos- session.— Globe. During the ascendancy of Toryism, the law was enlisted in its cause, and above fifty persons, at sundry times, were prosecuted and imprisoned for their zealous advocacy of Parliamentary Re- form. Of these, many have been removed from the eares of life, but the following have survived to enjoy the triumph of their principles :— Sir F. Burdett, two imprisonments of three and six months ; Sir R. Phillips, eighteen months in 1792- 3 ; Mr. Jas. Ridgway, four years, 1793 to 1797 ; Mr. Hunt ( Examiner), two years ; Mr. Henry Hunt, M. P. two and a half years ; Messrs, Edmonds and Lewis, of Birmingham, one year ; Mr. Wooler, pne year ; Mr. Cobbett, two years; Mr. Drakard, Stamford, twelve months ; Mr. Montgomery, Sheffield, two imprisonments of six months ; Messrs. Hardy and Thelwall, eight months, under charge of constructive treason in 1793- 4 ; and Mr, John Gale Jones, eighteen months in two imprisonments. Extract of a letter from the Sheik Reran, who was a pupil'of the Egyptian School at Paris, and after his return to his own country was appointed to teach the French language to such of his fellow- countrymen as became medical students in the hospital of Atouzabel, and who has Ulemas amongst the auditors of his lectures. The letter is dated from El Khanlca, January, 1832 :— I have just undertaken a translation of the dictionary of M. Laveaux. The hour I devote to my lessons at Abouzabel is passed in explaining the Encyclopidie de la Jeunesse, and Lord Chesterfield's Letters. My fifteen pupils make rapid progress, some more, some less. Sheik Mohammed Mansoiu- has already translated into Arabic a volume of 12mo. of 400 pages. I will in my next letter give you more ample details as to the progress of our civilization. It is a singular fact that Clot Bey has ob- tained permission to open a course of lectures on midwifery, which is to be attended by women. His first pupils will be ten Abyssinian slaves, sent by the Government."— Galignani's Mes- senger. The Jews in Morocco preserve their beef in the following man- ner :— They cut it first qlean of the bone and sinews, and then rub it well with salt for about an hour, it being afterwards soaked jo oil mixed with garlic ; it is then placed out in the sun to dry for a few hours, and subsequently boiled in oil. When it gets cold the meat becomes extremely hard, and it is put into a jar and covered over with the oil in which it has been boiled: in this state it will keep good for years, provided the oil is of good quality.— Brooke's Travels. The works for a monument to be erected in honour of Frede- rick the Great are about to be commenced at Berlin. It is to be placed near the statues of Generals Blucher, Bulow, and Scharnliost, and will have the form of an obelisk surmounted by a figure of Victory, holding a crown of laurels over the head of the equestrian statue of Frederick. Pierre Prosper Balli& e, a youth, aged 19, condemned to death by the Court of Assizes at Rouen, for an act of parricide committed upon his grandmother, Mme. Balli(? re, at Yvetot, was executed on the 25th inst. in the Vieux Marchft at Rouen. He was conducted to the place of execution in his shirt, bare- foot, and with a black veil over his head.— Paris Paper. The St. Petersburg Academical Gazette contains the following account of an extraordinary phenomenon, from a letter, dated Moscow, May 2 :—" In March last there fell, in the fields of the village of Kourianof, thirteen versts from Volokolamsk, a com- bustible substance of a yellowish colour, at least two inches thick, and covering a superfices of between 600 and 700 square feet. The inhabitants at first thought it w- as snow, but on ex- amination it appeared to have the properties of cotton, having, on being torn, the same tenacity; but, on beisig put into a vessel tilled with water, it assumed the consistence of rosin. On being put to the fire in its primitive state, it burnt and sent forth a flame like spirits of wine ; but in its resinous state it boiled on the fire without becoming inflamed, probably because it was mixed with some portion of the snow from which it had been taken. After a more minute examination, the rosin had the colour of amber, was- elastic Uke Indian robber, and smelt like prepared oil,, mixed with wax." CNWERS1TY AND CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, JULY 5.— At a convocation . holden in the Theatre yesterday, the honorary degree of Doctor in Civil Law was con- ferred onttiefollowing gentlemen:— The Earl ofBandon; Lieut.- Gen. Sir Thos. Brisbane, K. C. B., F.' R. S., & c.; Nicholas Aylward Vigors, F. R. and L. S., " Secretary to the Zoological Society, & c. ; J.. D'lsraeli, Esq., F. SJL, fhe historian of Charles the First. They were all presented, in appropriate terms of eulogy, by the Rev. Dr. Bliss, the Deputy Professor of Law, and received with every demonstration of respect and approbation. The Crewian oration, in commemoration of the Founders and Benefactors of the University, was delivered by the Rev. Dr. Cramer, the Public Orator ; after which the prizes were recited in the following order :— Latin verse— Attila— John Thomas, Scholar of Trinity. English essay— The study of different Languages, as it relates to the Philosophy of the Human Mind— Benjamin Harrison, M. A., Student of Christ Church. Latin essay— De Stoicum Disciplina— Thos. Leigh Claughton, B. A., Fellow of Trinity. English verse— Staffa— Roundell Palmer, Scholar of Trinity. This day the following Degrees were conferred :— MASTERS OF ARTS— John Henry Philips, Oriel, Grand Com- pounder ; Rev. Thomas Henry Maitland, Todd Thomas Jones, Oriel; Rev. John E. S. Hutchinson, Henry Bostoek, Wadham; Rev: HJeorge Cuddipgton Bethune, Trinity ; Rev. Bennett Vere Townshend, Brazenosse ; Thomas Streatfeild Lightfoot, Exeter; Rev. John Dinning, Queen's ; Hugh Seymour Tremenheere, Fellow of New College ; Rev. Henry Sam. Jayce, Pembroke ; Rev. Thomas Edward Burrow, M. A. of Queen's College, Cam- bridge, admitted ad eundem. BACHELOR OF ARTS— The Rev. John Trencliard Craven Ashfordby Trenchard, Trinity, incorporated from St. John's Col- lege, Cambridge. CAMBRIDGE^ JULY 6.— At a Congregation, yesterday, the following Degrees were conferred :—• MASTERS OF ARTS— Rev. W. Morell Lawson, St. John's Col- lege ; Rev. Wm.. Langstaff Weddall, Catherine Hall; Rev. Wm. D. Tyson, Catherine Hall; Rev. John Ilurnall, Emmanuel Col- lege ; Rev. George Johnston, Sidney College. LICENTIATES IN PHYSIC— John Harris, Trinity College; Frederick John Farre, St. John's College. BACHELORS IN CIVIL LAW— Thomas Webb Greene, Trinity Hall. At the same Congregation Henry Parsons, M. A. of Balliol College, Oxford, was incorporated M. A. of Trinity Hall, in this University. On Saturday last, Riohard Paul Amplilett, B. A., and Charles Shorting, B. A., of St. Peter's College, were elected Foundation Fellows of that Society ; and Thomas Fell, B. A., and William Tillotson, B. A., Fellows on the Gisborne Foundation. CAMBRIDGE COMMENCEMENT.— The following Degrees were conferred on Saturday :— B. D.— Rev. A. Iluddlestone, Trinity College. M. D.— Nicholas F. Davison, Caius College ( compounder*. B. C. L.— A. A. Doria, Trinity Hall. M. B.— Robert Nairne, Trinity College. M. A.— Edmund Beynon, E. F. Beynon, Joshua Ryl'atid Marsliman, James Hassall, W. P. Wigram, Geo. M. Valentine, Wm. Ogilby, W. H. Ross, II. J. Greene, T. K. E. Chatfield, J. Braine, Trinity College : Solomon Smith, C. Sparkes, W. Fison, T. Poole, A. Cassells, W. Clarke, J. Bostock, J. Simpson, T. G. M. Luekock, - St. John's ; A. T. Carr, Thomas Scott, Queen's; W. M. II. Clarke, J. Robinson, Catherine Hall; William Tillotson, Thomas Fell, E. Phillips, L. B. Dykes, St. Peter's College. B. D.— T. F. Beckwith, Catherine Hall ( compounder). On Monday the following Degress were conferred :— M. A.— John Locke, T. J. Blofield, W. Attree, M. Gibson, J. Twells, E. C. Jenkins, J. Keswick, J. R. Inge, F. C. Rascli, G. H. Barlow, A. Martineau,, S. Hoare, M. Hawtrey, R. K. Long, S. H. Powell, W. Walker, G. J. P. White, Rev. G. C. Hale, Henry Malthus, T. Pate, C. Eustace, J. E. Middleton, J. P. Babington, W. B. A. Raven, W. O'Brien, T. Barber, T. Phillips, Trinity College ; Wm. Boyle, Richard Baldock, T. Butler, Rev. C. E. Band, A. Sadler, Jon. Peel, G. A. Cock- burn, E. L. Sayer, J. Paley, C. Mackie, C. H. Lutwidge, R. Smith, St. John's College ; William Leeke, H. C. Micliell, T. Cupiss, T. Hooper, J. A. Morris, W. N. Nicholson, Queen's Col- lege ; T. E. Williams, B. Lodge, J. Netherwood, H. Pearse, R. Cox, Corpus Cliristi College ; E. Bates, J. F. Francklin ( com- pounder), G. Cooke, C. C. Beaty, F. Jackson, Clare Hall; E. Vinall, W. H. Barker, J. Lakeland, W. Purvis, Catherine Hall; P. Hanham, T. Smith, S. Barker, Horatio Hildyard, St. Peter's College; R. W. Ellis, J. Hodgson, J. J. West, Jesus College; J. Mainwariug, W. Plunkett, C. Beavan, J. Macdonald, J. Dickerson, Caius College ; A. H. Barker, J. Crossley, B. Chap- man, Christ's College ; S. E. Bernard, Magdalen College; E. P. Nottidge, Pembroke College ; Rev. J. Askew, Rev. W. Roby, W. H. Chapman, R. Pulleine, Emmanuel College ; A. Beatson, C. Goring, Sidney College ; E. Whitbread, Trinity Hall. B. C. L.— Mr. Johnson, Trinity Hall. TOWN MISCELLANEA. . HURST AND ROBINSON'S BANKRUPTCY.— On Monday the assignees of this estate attended the commissioners for the pur- pose of being examined upon several points touching their ac- counts. In the course of the examination, Mr. Hopkinson, solicitor to the commission, said - that there would be a dividend of sixpence in the pound upon 380,000/. A MAIDEN LONDON SESSIONS-.— On Wednesday the London Sessions were held ' before the Lord Mayor, Recorder, and a full bench of aldermen. There were a few appeals to be heard, of no public importance, but not a single prisoner or case of assault for trial. Addresses from all fhe public bodies in Scotland, congratulating his Majesty on his escape from the attempt at his life at ' Ascot, are being agreed to. Miss Anna Maria Porter, the celebrated novelist, died ion, Thursday, at the residence of Mrs. Colonel Booth, Montpelier, near Bristol, where she was on a visit. THE NEW ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE.— The biddings for the building of this theatre took place on Tuesday. The offers for the contract were— Mr. Munday Mr. Cubitt £ 22,682 2^, 420 Mr. Baker £ 22,210 Peto and Grissell's . ^ 20,875 There were six other candidates, who declined the proposed terms of the contract. Messrs Peto and Grissell were accordingly de- clared the builders. The " Beef Steak Club Room" is to be finished by the 1st of October next. Mr. Barrow, Secretary of the Admiralty, is about to retire. It is said that Mr. Edye, late secretary to Sir Pulteney Malcolm, will succeed him. The Rev. James S. Boone, M. A., of Christ Church, Oxford, late one of the Masters of the Charterhouse, has been presented by the Bishop of London to the new' church at Paddington, va- cant by the resignation of the Rev. W. Blackstone Rennell. The'Rev. William Okes, M. A., Senior Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, has been presented by the Master and Fel- lows of that Society to the consolidated Livings of Wheatacre, the county of Norfolk, and Nutfordwith Barnaby, in the county of Suffolk, vacant by the death of the Rev. W. Bond, M. A. The Rev. John Stevens Henslow, M. A., Regius Professor of Botany in this University, has been presented to the Vicarage of Cholsey- cum- Mountsford, Berks. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The Rev. Samuel Smith, M. A., Fellow of Kings's College, has been instituted to the Vicarage of Lois Weedon, Northampton- shire, vacant by the death of the Rev. James Price, on the pre- sentation of the Master and Fellows of that Society. On Saturday last, the Lord Bishop of Lincoln instituted the Rev. J. Birkett, M. A., late Fellow of St. John's College, to the Rectory of Laceby, Lincolnshire, on the presentation of J. Fardell, Esq. On the 28th ult., the Rev. Charles Joseph Orman, M. A., for- merly of Sidney College, was licensed to the Perpetual Curacies of Shouldham and Shouldham Thorpe respectively, in Norfolk, on the nomination of Sir Thomas Hare, Bart. The Rev. William Nixon Hooper, M. A., late of Corpus Christi College, in this University, has been elected a Minor Canon of Winchester Cathedral, void by the resignation of the Rev. John Woodburn. The prizes for proficiency under the various professors of King's College, were on Friday distributed to the successful candidates by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The ceremony took place in one of the theatres of the institution, which was too small for the number of ladies and gentlemen who assembled to witness it. His grace, in presenting the premiums, which consisted of elegantly bound books, addressed some encomiums to each division of candidates, which were calculated to make the best impression on their minds, and were generally warmly ap- plauded by the meeting. The council of the institution, and all the professors, were present on the occasion, each of the latter introducing the youths. who distinguished themselves in his par- ticular department. The whole academic festival passed off with much eclat. QUERY.— THE GREAT ANTIQUITY OF THE CUSTOM OF JUDGES GOING CIRCUIT.— It is not perhaps generally known that this practice prevailed at a very remote period : but by con- sulting 1st Sam. chap. 7, verse 16. th, we find this extraordinary confirmation-—-" And he ( Samuel) went from year to year in circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpah, and judged Israel in all those places.' r COUNTRY MISCELLANEA. LOVE AND SUICIDE.— A melancholy tragedy was enacted here last week. A young man, named Hntchings, drowned himself some weeks ago. He was at the time engaged to a girl named Chilcott, who took his fate so much to heart, that she desired to follow his example. She'was narrowly watched by her friends, until Wednesday se'nnight, being haymaking, she contrived to slip from them, and hastening to the very spot where her lover met his death, precipitated herself iuto the water. The act was witnessed by a little boy, who gave an alarm, but before assist- tance could be obtained, life was extinct. She was buried in the same grave with him for whom she had lived, and with whom she was determined to die.— Taunton Paper. HORRIBLE CIRCUMSTANCE.— An altercation took place on. Friday, at Shinagh, between two men; named Moynihan and Neil, and the former received a stab in the abdomen with a pen- knife. The circumstance is as follows :— Moynilian's son was at the school of Neil, and having received rather a severe beat- ing, his father expostulated with Neil on his cruelty, and asked him to look at the state his child was in ; this Neil refused, upon which words arose, and a scuffle ensued. Every thing possible was done for the poor man, but from the length of time that elapsed before aid was called in, and the bowels having pro- truded, and being divided,. there is no doubt the wound is mor- tal.— Tralee Mercury. The man has since died. The government have been induced to consent to the discharge of Somerville, and he is at this moment no longer a member of the Scots Greys. We are sorry, however, to add, that the day previous to the announcement of his discharge in Coventry, fo- merville. was obliged to go into the hospital in consequence of unfavourable appearances arising from his punishment. Yet we are told that he was not hurt— that in tying him up to the hal- berts, and lacerating his naked back with the cat- o'nine- tails, his humane officers took care not to injure him— that, in fact, his punishment was nothing.— Birmingham Journal. IMITATING ONE'S BETTERS.— Peter Dickinson, Esq. of West Retford, an anti- reformer, and a deputy- lieutenant for this county, has, within the last two or three weeks, been barricading his house, in anticipation of a revolution <"< la Wellington, which he, in the plenitude of his wisdom, supposes will be brought on by the passing of the reform bills. He has already blocked up be- tween twenty and thirty of his windows with bricks ; and in order to be well armed, he has caused a large quantity of stones and brickbats to be carried to the top of his house, in order to pelt the shadows of the revolutionists.— Nottingham Review. RESTORATION OF ARMS.— We feel great pleasure in being enabled to state that a great many stand of arms have been de- livered to the Catholic clergymen in the barony of Ballyadams, in the Queen's County. The county is now entirely restored to tranquillity.— Dublin Evening Post. There is now living at Hollins, near Tintwistle, an old woman, who has fetched milk every day for the last twenty- eight years from the Quiet Shepherd public- house, being a distance of three miles to and fro— thus having travelled 30,660 miles for milk. — Macclesfield Courier. A FRIENDLY PROMISE.—" Good morning, Mr. W., I call upon you to solicit your vote, trusting that you have not pro- mised it to any one.";—" No, neighbour E., I have not promised it to any one yet; but I will promise thee—( Thank you, Sir)— that I will not vote for thee."— Brighton Herald. We understand that it is in contemplation to reduce the second major and two companies in every regiment of infantry in the service.— Dublin Register. The passage by the steam packet from Southampton to the Isle of Wight is now only sixpence each person ! An attempt is making to enclose Brandon- hill, Bristol, where the great reform meetings have been held. It is exciting great opposition. A PROLIFIC PAIR.— Within the period of two years and seven months, the wife of John Lander, brakesman, at Ouston, near Chester- le- street, has presented her husband with no less than seven children, viz. twice two at a birth, and once three ; in 15 years she has given birth to 15 children, nine of them at four births.— Tyne Mercury. All the bridges and roads leading to Tullamore are cut up and broken. Those men who remain in the town to bury the dead get 9s. a day. There have been 214 cases of cholera, 165 deaths, and only 11 recoveries. Latterly the diseaseis uot so malignant, and a few shops have been re- opened.— Limerick Chronicle. Lusus NATURAE.— During last week, an aged cow belonging to Mr. Gaskartli, of Bridge End, near Keswick, calved a fine heifer calf, which is now alive and doing well, and about half an hour afterwards brought forth a Lusus Naturae, its body hav- ing every appearance of a calf, but destitute of either back or breast bone ; the ribs are perfectly formed, without any thing to be joined, and about two inches below the usual joints on the fore and hind legs, were a circular or universal point on each ; below these the legs and feet were perfect,, yet the head, ears, and neck of this strange production of nature, were those of a per- fect pug mastiff.— Correspondent of Whitehaven Herald. ANCIENT VESSEL.— The old ship lately discovered in the bed of the river Rother, has now been completely dug out and put in motion for London, there to be exhibited. It is'supposed to be a Dutch or Danish vessel wrecked in the great tempest of 1286, which diverted the river from its ancient to its present channel. The utensils found in it, and its own build, certainly do not sanction a more remote antiquity.— North Devon Ad- vertiser. ELOPEMENT.— On the lltli ultimo, John Edward Kerwan, Esq., of Hillsbrooke, a ward of Chancery, and Miss Mary Isabel Burke, both of the county of Galway, in Ireland, travelled 250 miles in less than two days, for the purpose of putting in requi- sition the Hymeneal functions of the high priest at Gretna Green ; but being informed it could be as legally performed be- fore a justice of the peace, they applied to James Kirkpatrick, Esq., and acknowledged themselves husband and wife to him, in presence of witnesses, including the young lady's brother and a female companion who had accompanied them. They intended, on their return to Newton- Stewart, on Wednesday week, to have the marriage confirmed by the Roman Catholic priest there.— Dumfries Courier. - July 8. THE TOW It. LA W INTELLIGENCE. f j f COURT OE CHANCERY. IN: THE MATTER or MISS BAXTER, OTHERWISE MRS. NEWTON, A SUPPOSED LUNATIC.— Tuesday, Mr. Follett, who, with Mr, C, Law, is of counsel, for Mr. Newton, in opposing the commission of lunacy, applied to the Lord'Chancellor for permission for himself and Mr. Law to have access to the young lady. Sir E. Sugden opposed the application. After mentioning some particulars, Sir E. observed, that he should not object to allow his . Lordship to grant permission to liis Learned. Friends on the other side to have one interview with the young lady. The Lord Chancellor.— Oh! you will' Mow me, Sir Edward! ( Loud Laughter.) Sir E. Sngden, with great animation.— I am sure I have said nothing disrespectful to the Court; and I have to complain of your Lordship taking that wrong which I intended right, and that. for. the sole purpose of raising a laugh at my- expense. I repeat, I said nothing disrespectful of the. Court;, indeed, I am not in the habit of doing so. The Lord Chancellor, in a peculiar tone of voice.— Oh, dear, no, certainly not, Sir Edward.. ( Renewed laughter.) Sir E. Sugden again complained of the treatment he experienced, and sat down. The Lord Chancellor then granted the order for Messrs. Law and Follett to have access to the supposed lunatic, • COURT OF EXCHEQUER. HATTER V.. MORGAN.— Monday, Mr. Jorvis stated, that this was at* action to recover compensation from the defendant for criminal conversation with the plaintiff's wife. The plaintiff was a poor man, who made his livelihood by doing work with a horse and cart, and resided in Hornsey.. The defendant was a stock- broker, who kept his carriage, and a large establishment, at Colney hatch. The plaintiff, having seen more money wilh his wife than he thought she could' have honestly come by, began to suspect that there was some illicit intercourse between her and the defendant, who, he learned, used to call often at his house in his absence. In consequence of this suspicion, he resolved to watch him, and, on the 18th of May last, he told- his wife that he was going to London, and left her apparently for that purpose; but, instead' of going there, he hid hiaiself'bebind some lumber in the house, and desired his daughter, a little girl, to inform him when Mr, Morgan should call. In about am hour after Mr. Morgan did call, who went with the plaintiff's wife to the bed- rotim. The little girl informed her father, who burst in the door, and found the pair in such a. situation as left no doubt of their criminality. The defendant left the bouse, happily for him- self, without receiving much injury,' The plaintiff turned his wife out of doors, but,, to prevent his young family from being sent to the workhouse, lie felt obliged to take her back at the end of a week. The defendant ivas a rich man, about sixty years of age. The plaintiff's wife was about forty- five years of age. She bore him eleven children, of whom four were living. Juljn Harper, of Hornsey- road, knew the plaintiff and his. wife tliese ten years. They lived happily together. The wife was a laundress. She is a stout, fat, comely looking woman. Mary Ann Hatter, daughter of tbe plaintiff, thirteen years of age.— I often saw tbe defendant coming to our house within the last three years. He always came when my father was from home. He and: my mother used always go into the bed- room, where they remained about half an hour. He came about five times a month. The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff— Damages £ 50. OLD BAILEY. 4- -- CHARGE OF FORGERY. Thursday Wm. Banbury Lavers, aged 16', and described as a clerk in the calendar, and of respectable appearance, was indicted foi forging an order for the payment of 1171/. with intent to de- fraud our Sovereign Lord tiie King. The case excited unusual interest. The prisoner pleaded not guilty to the indictment when it was first read; but when the Judges took tlieir seats on the bench a conference took place between, the Attorney General and Mr. Woollar, the latter the prisoner's legal adviser, who had an earnest conversation with. him. " After a short pause, the prisoner said he wished to retract his first plea of not guilty, and plead guilty to the indictment. A verdict of Guilty was then recorded. . The Attorney General said he trusted that it would be understoon in Court, that the Government had entered into no compromise. Hte was prepared to support the charge, TRIAL OF SMIT'HERS FOR MURDER. At nine o'clock on Friday, Jonathan Smitliers, was placed at tlie bar. There were two indictments against him: charging him with the murder of Eliza Tawnley Twamley and Charles Ricltard Napoleon Flango, by suffocating them with smoke, oc- casioned by his having set fire to his house. He pleaded not guilty. The facts of this case having been so often stated, that it is only necessary to detail that part of the evidence which directly bore upon the charge against the prisoner. It will be recollected that lie kept a tobacconist's shop in'Oxford- street, and was als'o a cabinet- maker. About six o'clock on Monday morning, the 28tn of May, the fire- broke out. An apprentice named Cadell, opening his master's shop in the morning, heard the cry of " fire." Cadell said in his evidence:— On looking across the street I saw a hand raised through the grating of the eastern area of the prisoner's house, under the printer's shop; I went over, and saw the prisoner in the area ; he asked me ' for God's sake to open the grating and let bim up, for tbe house was on fire ;" I called a policeman named Bolton, to my assistance, and we broke the shop door open ; there was no fire in the shop, but when I got. to the door leading to the kitchen stairs I perceived flames, issuing up like wildfire ; when I first went across the road I. saw a sort of a flame in the area where the prisoner was; the Haines issuing from the kitchen at first appeared white,, but they suddenly changed colour, and became more lived ;, they proceeded up the stairs with amazing rapidity, and in less than ten minutes were issuing from the garret windows. Cross- examined by Mr. Barry— I saw the prisoner's face when I went over to the area; he did not then appear to be burnt; when prisoner came out of the house, by the kitchen stairs, his neckcloth was burning. Sarah Smith, the servant, said, that when she went to bed the night preceding the fire, there was not a panicle of fire either in the kitchen or parlour grates ; she was ill the kitchen for the last time at eleven o'clock on Sunday night, and there was then no sack of shav- ings lying between the copper and the water- closet; there were a bottle of turpentine and a tin dredging box, containing gunpowder, which. had been used to blow the copper flue in tbe kitchen ; as she went to beil, she was surprised to smell turpentine on the stairs; tfiere were two sacks of sliavings in the vault near the kitchen; she used them to light the fire. It was admitted that Mr. Suiitlfers was always very careful about fire. Samuel Davis, alodger in the bouse, said he came home at half- past eleven on the Sunday night; prisoner let him in, and at wit- ness's request gave hiin a light to go to the water- closet. Mr. Davis said, " The prisoner bid me be careful of * the light, as there were shavings, about, he having cleared out the vault for holding veneers and other descriptions of wood, his workshop being too hot for them- ; w I remarked that that was very odd, as the drier cabinet- makers' wood was the better. " Wm. Monk, a fireman, deposed to examining the premises. He found a turpentine bottle lying on the. kitchen floor; in the back vault be saw a piece of board about two fleet long, which appeared as if there bad' beeu a fire laid upon it; part, of the wood had been burned,, some of. tlie boards of the bulk heads of the wood had been burned. The witness then said—" IN the back vault I found a catd ; there was » ome green powder on it, and some more scattered about among the shavings: a man named Saunders dug up some . shavings near the water- closet, j beyond the closet I felt a sack, about two feet from the copper; I did not- touch the card, but some of the sliavings appeared not to have been oil fire, but merely scorched, as if there had been a blast and a flash upon them." Mr. Abrahiyn, surveyor to the County Fire Office, described the state in which he found the vaults and kitchen. A fire had evi- dently been lighted on tile blbck of wood found hear'the coal binn, and the'end of some slicks, extending into the coals appeared as if they had been on . fire'. On a bench I found some paper,, on which gunpowder had been exploded, and near it, were about a handful of shavings, a card, and some particles of gunpowder ; I observed that the kitchen- shelf over the chimney was burned ori the upper end, but not on the under,; the fire must have originated' beyond the copper. . Thomas Prosier said; the prisoner told him at Middlesex Hospi- tal, that he had placed* some veneers by the side of the fire- place to dry, and lie supposed they had caught fire; prisoner told'him he was insured for 600/ 1 Miss, Catherine Twamley : I ain sister to tile late Eliza Twam- ley ; my sister and I lived with my mother in the prisoner's house ; the furniture was my mother's, and she had it insured in. the Pliots- nix Office at Charing- cross for many years ;, my mother, never au- thorised the prisoner to insure lier property. The witness, as soon as her examination had concluded, became dreadfully agitated ; and as she passed the dock, she- regarded, the prisoner for. a moment as if wilh horror, and then raised her hands as if she were about to seize him. She,, however, made no, such attempt; but the occurrence produced 3 visible sensation through- out the Court for the moment. Henry Field said: I am clerk to tile solicitor of the prisoner's landlord, and in March last applied to the prisoner for 401. due for rent;, 1 subsequently put. ill a distress, and received 20/: ; Irtold the prisoner,, on the Saturday before- the fire, that I could give hiin no longer, time. Mr. Hugh Oxeiiham said : I am a broker;. tile prisoner's pro- perty, in March last, when seized for rent, was not worth 100/.,; the fittings- up might have cost 200/. Mr. Burroughs, clerk in the British Fire Office, proved that an insurance had been effected on the furniture in prisoner's house. The deaths, of Miss Twamley and the boy Flango, iu conse- quence of injuries by fire, having, been proved, The prisoner was called on for hisdefence. He said, that on the night preceding the morning on which Ihe fire occurred, hc. liad beeu very ill with a bowel complaint, and bad frequent occasion to go to the water- closet. In the course- of the night ( he continued) he came down stairs and lighted the- fire, for the purpose of making some gruel, and went into the vault while it ( the gruel)' was in the pro- cess of making, for the purpose of clearing it out;, and on his return tu tie kitchen lie found it charged . with smoke, and, completely on fire. He rushed thrrough the flames for the purpose of effecting his escape, and sustained great injury in consequence. With respect to the turpentine which was- on his premises, and on which so much stress had. been laid, he could only say that any body conversant with his trade could satisfy the Court that it was necessary to him, in connexion with it; and as regarded the shavings, it was clear that had he an intention of setting tbe house on fire, that iie would not have put them into a sack, in which it was evident they would be confined, and would not so easily ignite as if they had been loosely scattered over the floor, On having passed through tile flames and gained the kithen window, he gave the alarm, on which several per- sons came up to his assistance; aud on having been released from his dangerous situation, he instantly inquired after the safety of the deceased, Mrs. and Miss Twamley, and tbe other lodgers who occu- pied apartments in his house, and was assured that they had all escaped safe. He could have no motive in setting fire to his house, the business of which was very good, and having a prospect at tbe time of disposing of it to advantage. He concluded by . stating, that he had concealed no property, and thpt he would have been unable to employ Counsel to conduct his defence, had he not been assisted to do so by some charitable individuals. He should not say more, hut leave- his case to, the humanity of their Lordships and'the Gentlemen of the Jury, who would have found his wife a very im- portant witness in his favour had the law permitted liim to caliber. The prisoner then called witnesses, who proved that he had' been in negotiation for the letting of his shop and parlour, that his fur- niture was pretty good, and that the bums in his face had not been caused by any explosion of gunpowder. Several respectable wit- nesses were also called, who gave him a most excellent character for general good conduct, sobriety, humanity, & e. At eleven o'clock at night, Mr. Justice Gazelee commenced sum- ming up the'evidence, and o'bserved, that the question for the con- sideration of the Jury was, whether the prisoner had set his house on fire with intent to defraud the Insurance Office, or not. If so, he bad been guilty of murder, and must'he held answerable for the act. The Learned Judge concluded1 his summing up at half- past two o'clock, making the period of his charge full three hours and a half; during which he was frequently interrupted by the prisoner, whose object was to explain particular circumstances connected, with the case, as his Lordship went over them in evidence. The Jury retired, and after an absence of half an hour, returned into Court with a verdict of Guilty— Death. The Learned Judge and the Recorder remained to receive the verdict," md on its being delivered, the Recorder immediately pro- nounced the usual sentence, that the prisoner be hanged on Mon- day next, and his body delivered tq the surgeons for dissection. The prisoner heard the sentence with much apparent composure, and gathered up his papers with the air of a man of business who had been engaged in an affair of ordinary importance. During the progress of the trial, however, he frequently shed tears, and, as he was about to be removed fron^ tlie dock, attempted lo address the Court. The officers took him by the arm, aud prevented all ex- pressions of feeling by huirying him to liis cell. The Court was crowded to excess up to the termination of the trial, at three o'cluck on Saturday morning. POLICE. IMFOHTANT CONVICTION.— On Monday, at the fflerkenwell Sessions, Farnham Flowers, contractor to the St. Katharine Dock Company, for dredging and removing the mud from the dock entrance, and Thomas Smith, clerk of the works in the engineer department of the company, were convicted' after a trial of seven hours, of a conspiracy to defraud the dock com- pany of 883/., by charging them with a greater quantity of mud than was actually removed. Smith was sentenced to be im- prisoned in the House of Correction twelve calendar months, and Flowers to be immured in the same prison for six calendar months, and pay a fine of 200/. to the King. THE NEWSMEN'S ANNUAL DINNER.— Thursday, according to annual and long- established custom, the Proprietors of the different Newspaper Establishments throughout the metropolis, entertained ( by means of contributions) the very numerous and useful class of individuals who come under the denomination . of Newsvenders, with an excellent and substantial dinner, at White- conduit House. Six hundred persons, at least, partook of it; and, having dined in three successive classes, the arrangement was wittily compared by some of them, to a " First, Second, and Third Edition." The boys mustering at least three hundred, and all respectably clad, sat down first, and conducted them- selves with much propriety. The adults, and many of the mas- ters, with their wives and daughters, followed next; and, after them, a third party sat down, who, through necessary attention to business, were unable to attend at an early hour. In the evening, dancing- commenced in the large ball- room, and was kept up to an advanced hour in the morning, when the. company separated.— It is due to the class ofNewsmen to say, that they are a most useful portion of the machinery of tfie Public Press ; and that, as public servants, ministering daily to the gratification of all parties, they are deserving of public esteem, and of uni- versal support. ROYAI. NAVAL SCHOOL.— On Saturday a public meeting of the friends and supporters of this institution was held at the Horticultural Society's Rooms, Waterloo- place, Admiral Lam- bert in the chair. The Chairman said, that the present meet- ing was called at the desire, of the CounciL. At present, the power of the Council was quite undefined, and it would be highly conducive to the welfare of the institution thaj; the meeting should clearly point out and determine the extent and nature of the power delegated to them. After somer discussion a Resolution was put and carried, that the Council be authorised to build or take by lease a house, or adopt any other measures they may think expedient, in order to establish and carry on the objects ef this institution. MANSION- HOUSE.— The Lord Mayor was in the course of last week informed' that a gentleman, w ith whom he was on terms of'intimacy, had for sonic time been obliged to confine himself to his room, in consequence of a singularly distressing event, the par- ticulars of which we shall relate as they were told to his Lordship The invalid, a retired merchant, and an old bachelor, was in the habit yf walking in the Zoological Gardens, to which be. is a sub- scriber, and frequently met a lady there, to whom, at length, a shower of rain introduced him. The offer of bis umbrella was ac- cepted, anil a friendly acquaintance was the result. The old gen - tleman at length found that the presence of his new friend was actually indispensable to him ;. and although he was old enough to be her father; be determined to try to prevail on her to view him in the light of a nearer cotcinporary, and share . his fortune. Upon the part of the lady there was very little hesitation. She discreetly represented the disparity of their ages, and declared she was far from being affluent, and that probably both might improve their choice. She., however, intimated that if care was taken to secure her from necessity in the. event of the death of her husband, she would not object to accept of his proposals, hinting at the same time that her connections were allied to nobility.. " Oh !" replied the enamoured, " I have neither chick nor child, therefore your interest will be my first consideration, for I have no one to think about but yourself." " Why," said tbe Lord Mayor, " Tie has his brother's poor family, whom he ought to think about; here are six or seven of them, without a shilling amongst them. He never llioughtof them at the time." Informant— His heart was touched with tbe softer passion. After the lapse of some days he fell sick, and the lady was never from bis elbow till lie recovered. ' The old gentleman, although cured of the disorder with which he had been attacked, was exceedingly . languid. He had previously spoken of fixing a day, but was met by some delicate little scruples on the part of the lady. At length, upon seeing that his. distress increased, she told him that sbe would be ready to become his for ever. " Thanks, dearest," said he, " the sooner the better."—" Why, say- to- morrow, if youchoose," said the lady ; " we can easily procure a lie nee at Doctors' Com- mons, through Mr.' Slade or Mr. Pritchard.'' The. old gentleman rejoiced at the thought, and, after meditating a few moments, said, " It is. very odd, my dear Emma— lam noways superstitious— but it is very odd, and I look on it as; a queer kind of omen, that I have never known, and never asked y. ournanie."—" T can tell you, my dear," said the lady smiling, " that it does not begin with the first letter in the alphabet."' " Oh, Lord !" cried. the old gentle- man, staring at her with eyes like saucers, "• it a'nt the last is it— you are not Miss. ——-" ( A lady well known to the ' Charitable and Humane'of the metropolis.) f—" Alas ! the last, is it? Iam that celebrated, but unhappy young person." ( Loud laughter.) The Lord Mayor— And did they marry !— No, said the inform- ant, when- lie found he had a person to deal with upon whose pro- mise other gentlemen might have previous claims, and to whom he might be responsible, be cut as soon and as genteely as possible.— As for his friend, that worthy gentieman might meet with some object in the Zoological Gardens calculated to answer his purpose as well. RUSSIAN, HORN BLOWERS.—. On Thursday the Russian horn blowers presented the following note :—" My Lord,— With feel- ings of the deepest gratitude we, the Russian horn blowers, humbly and respectfully beg your Lordship to accept our most sincere thanks for the kind and humane reception we have experienced in the Mansion- house, when labouring under a great many difficul- ties, which are, thanks to Heaven and your Lordship, likely to cease in a few days. We shall never forget that, through your Lordships' exertion in our behalf, we are certain to remain free, and to be able to get an houest livelihood in this free country, where the hand, of a despot could never yet reach his prey." This was signed by the whole band, who begged to be allowed to play at the Guildhall dinner, to be given in honour of the refuim bill, as a token of their gratitude. ROBBERY OF TRADESMEN.— A hew mode of robbing tradesmen has been just discovered. Several heavy losses have been sustained by tire practice, which very little caution would have been sufficient to check. It is usual for persons employed at wharfs, or other places from w hich goods are sent into the country by vessels or waggons, to call at warehouses to know whether there are any pack- ages for such and such a destination. If the warehouseman an- swers. in the affirmative, the messenger leaves word that the goods will be sent for at a certain hour. In the meantime a communi- cation is made to the thieves, of whom it is believed there is a large gang employed in this species of plunder. A cart is sent to the warehouse, and the driver, saying that he has come for the package, receives i(, without being suspected of a fraudulent intention. The owner, however, is surprised at never hearing a> word more upon the subj- ect; and, upon inquiry at the wharf or inn, hears that it lias never been received tliere. Mr. Hobler stated that information had been received, that goods so stolen had been sent off at once to Liverpool on othet sea- ports, from whence they were slopped by the industrious gang, who had agents regularly planted, and ready to appropriate the plunder. Mr. Williamson, of Bow- lane, charged a young man named Pedley, who works at one of ths City wharfs, with having conspired with others to rob him of two cases, containing shawls to the value of between 200/. and 300/. The prosecutor stated, that at eight o'clock on Saturday morning' the prisoner called at the warehouse, and asked whether there was any thing lo go by the Carnon to Glasgow, and was told that two cases and three empty packages would he ready to go any time between twelve and five qr six in the evening. The prisoner said that if he should not be able to come for them, other men would come from the wharf. At twelve two strange men called and asked if the tilings were ready ? Witness put . some questions to them to see whether they were authorised, and one of them prevented all sus- picion by saying that he had worked at the wharf for the last seven years. The goods were delivered, but nobody ever heard anything of them since. Daniel Forrester stated, that the prisoner accounted for the em- ployment of his time on the Saturday in a very contradictory manner. Sir CHAPMAN MARSHALL.— Was'the prisoner known to tbe bouse? Mr. Williamson— Oh, yes, he was frequently in the habit of calling, and we took it for granted that he had sent the two men because he was not able to come himself. The prisoner said, he had been obliged to work at the docks all Saturday, and could not call for the goods. He knew nothing of the two men, and never said a word about the cases to anybody.— He was remanded for further examination. BOW- STRJJET.— Tuesday a. tall and very portly good- looking man, of gentlemanly appearance, about sixty years of age, accom- panied by a very pretty young girl, and a policeman, appeared before tbe magistrates, and the former asked " If there was any charge against Mr. B. V' The magistrates were somewhat surprised, upon which the policeman said the gentleman's name was Brown, and. that lie lived at Prospect- place.,. Walworth. Mr. Minshull— I have heard no charge against Mr. Brown. Mr. Brown said he would explain. The young lady now before their worships was the daughter of the late Rev. Dr. Milner, rector of Middleton, in Sussex, one of ten child ren. An application was made in her behalf to the corporation establishes for the relief of the children of the clergy who may liave fallen into distress, and tliat body consented to advance their usual sum. of 35!. towards her maintenance and education at school. She was then placed at school in the establishment of a Mrs. Field, Buckinghamshire, who agreed to take her for three years for 60/,, in the character of an apprentice, the difference of 25i- to be made up by her friends. The balance, however,. was not paid, and she becamt distressed for want of tbe necessaries becoming her situation ; and three months ago she ran away from the school, and came to London. He ( Mr. Brown) having been informed of this circumstance, employed Ruthven and othet police officers to endeavour to trace her, and he at length succeeded in finding her at a house in the Rorough, from whence he took her to his own residence, where she had remained ever since. She was found by the officers wandering about in the Borough, and since that period he had been exerting himself to raise a subscription for Her, in order to procure her respectable employ- ment and provide for her future comfort and happiness. In this object lie had been assisted by the Bishop of Chichester, the Dukat> of Portland, the Earl of Stamford and Warrington, the Duchess of Kent, Mr. Penn,& c., who had subscribed money, amounting, in the whole to 57/. Miss. Milner was then called forward, and stated, that she was between 17 and 18 years of age; and that when- she fled from Marlow, she was taken notice of by a gentleman, who took her. to a house in'' the Borough, where she remained five days, when she was found by Mr. Brown and the police. Mr. Minshull: what sort of a house was it? Miss' Milner: It was an improper house.— Mr. Minshull: whom did you see there? Miss Milner : I saw the gentleman whir- took, me there several times, and the woman of tlie house, but no one else— MT. Minshull: you may answer the questions or notj as you please; but. did any thing. particular take place between you and tbe gentleman you allude to 1 Miss Milner: Nothing what- ever, Sir.— Mr. Minshull: do you mean to say that be never at- tempted to take liberties, of any kind with you? Miss Milner- never, Sir, the slightest, I will take my oath of it.— Mr. Minshull;' upon, my word this a very odd case. Have you seen the gentleman since? Miss Milner : never.— Mr. Mihsbull: on what lerms have you lived with M'r. Brown ? M'iss Milner: as his guest merely, and be. has been very kind to me.— Mr. Minslnill : still I cannot under- stand why this case coines before me. The policeman said Mr- Brown had been informed that Mrs. Milner had been waiting about, this office all day on Monday, to make a charge, and that was the reason he . came here., Mr. Minshull : are you a married man, Mr. Brown? Mr, B- rown : no, Sir, I have a housekeeper,- a highly re- spectable woman.— Mr. Minshull ( to Miss Milner) : where do you sleep in Mr. Brown's house? Miss Milner: with his housekeeper, Sir. The policeman : the housekeeper herself told me the fact, Sir.. The policeman further said, he had reason to believe. Mr. Brown's regard and anxiety for the welfare of the lady was of the strongest kind, for that in his presence Mr. Brown had that very morninj* said he would marry her sooner than she should go baqk to her. mother. Mr. Brown: so I would. ( A laugh.) Mr. Minshull: but would the young lady consent! Miss Milner : 1 should not object, Sir. ( Loud laughter.) Mr. Brown : upon my soul, Sir, I am serious ; aud I will many her too, if she does not speedily alter her mind ; and, to tell you the truth, I don't think slle will prove a fickle jnde. ( Increased merriment.) Mr. Minshull: then this part of the business seems, to have been previously discussed between you ? Miss Milner : O yes, Sir ( laughing heartily).— Mr. Min- shull : but you can't marry without the consent of your mother, can you ? Miss Milner : yes, Sir, by being asked in church : and. Sir ( added the. young lady, dangling her reticule before her face, " and casting a laughing glance towards Mr. Brown, that must have been perfectly irresistible), to speak the plain truth, that has been: done, and we— we— we are to married next Sunday, Sir. ( Roars of laughter.) Mr. Brown, joining with great apparent glee in the intern- ment, said this was quite true, and there was no use in denying it. Sir. Minshull: Mr. Brown is at liberty to depart. Mr. Brown then left the office, Miss Milner. leaning very affec- tionately upon his arm, and the fond couple looking " unutterable things'* at eV'h other. THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE.— Wednesday a fellow named Bau. w ring was charged before the Magistrate with abusing the " Duke o£ Newcastle, at Apsley House, on the evening of the grand ball given by the Duke of Wellington. Higgius, one of the F division oft police, who was on duty, observed the defendant, who is a hackney coachman, very active amongst a crowd of fellows in. offering insult to- several Noblemen upon their leaving Apsley House, particularly: to the Duke of Newcastle, whom he pointed out to the others as a boroughnionger and robber. He ( Higgins) did not arrest hiin at, the time,* but knowing he'was'not attending to his coach, he took his number and summoned him for his conduct. • The Magistrate ordered him to pay a fine of 25s. CHEAP PUBLICATIONS.— Messrs. Roe and Minshull on Friday., gave judgment in the cases which had been heard against Mir. Cowie, the bookseller, of the Strand, for selling three numbers of The Church Examiner and Ecclesiastical Recordand also, against Mr. Pilgrim, for selling two numbers of " The Cosmopolite." Mr. Roe said that he and. his brother magistiates had deteimined to convict in one case'in the full penalty of 20/.— Mr. Cowie gave' notice of appeal.— Mr. Pilgrim was fined in the like penalty, upon one information only. WORSHIP- STREET Tuesday a fashionably- dressed young. man was remanded on a charge of having pawned a'valuable gold' watch in Old- street, St. Luke's, the property'of a gentleman reside ing at the Burlington hotel. Having attempted to pawn a second; watch the following day, and a handbill in the meantime having. been left at the pawnbroker's shop, he was taken into custody. An immense quantity of jewels qf every description was found at'his lodgings, at a small coffee- house ill the same street. He appears, to be one of an organized gang of thieves. HATTON- GARDEN— Tuesday Martin Shannon and Winifred, his wife, were charged on suspicion of having attempted to nturder: Thomas Brogan, who is now in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and whose tecovery is very doubt( pl. It appears Ihat the police officers: had found the female prisoner in a house in King- street, Islington, in bed, drunk, or affecting to be so. In one pait. of tile room they: found the whole of a woman's apparel ( which turned out to belong to the female prisoner) soaking in cold water. They were qoveredl with blood, and the water had the appearance of blood itself. Otl) examining her dress, as ; she lay on the bed, it appeared to have been fresh put on, and her* person recently washed. On further- search, they found a poker, covered with blood. They conveyed! her to the station- house, still apparently drunk. The male prisoner, was directly afterwards apprehended in the neighbourhood— his. hands were covered with blood. On questioning him,, he did not! deny that the injury had been inflicted upon Brogan inhis: apart^ ment. He said that himself and wife bad some words, and OHr Brogan interfering, his wife seized the poker, and beat hiin on his head until she thought he was dead.— The prisoners were remanded.. , ASSAULT BY A MONKEY.— Wednesday Angela Leonard/, an: Italian minstrel, was brought. lo this office, charged by Wm. Day,; a lad about 14 years of age, under the following circumstances:— The prosecutor stated, that on Tuesday the prisoner was pipy ing an organ and leading a. dog, upon tbe back of which was a monkey,, dressed in military uniform, and performing various evolutions a In Ducrow. Witness was passing by, wheeling a barrow of linen,, when the monkey, without the least provocation, flew at him, and, seized, hold of the fingers of his left hand with bis teeth. He en-, deavoured to push the animal awaj' with his right. hand, on which it bit liis fingers, and hugged and scratched him in a dreadful man? ner; and it was with great difficulty that several persons extricated him from its grasp. The prosecutor exhibited his hands, which were severely bitten, and it was observed that lie bad two thumbs on each band; which excited considerable curiosity; arid, the monkey, during flu* exami- nation, was inspecting bis own paws, an, d occasionally glanced'at the prosecutor, as if he owed him some grudge. Mr. Rogers inquired of the lad whetheT be offered any provoca- tion to the animal. The prosecutor swore positively that he did not, but he supposed its attention was attracted by his " thumbs," _ - Several witnesses came forward to prore that it was a voluntary attack by the monkey. The prisoner said ihat the boy teazed the monkey, and be fteiy at him, and bit him. Mr. Rogers said the public should be protected, and he ordered the prisoner to find bail, for which he was locked up. Waddington said that the monkey would starve if he was sent to the House of Correction, for they would not allow him food or protection there, Ad he was delivered over lo a friend of the prl- i soner. . The movements of the animal caused much laughter. On en- tering the Court he doffed his cap respectfully, and seemed to. pay more attention to the proceedings than his master; and tbe moment the prisoner was ordered to find bail he put his cap on again, ajid kept his eyes fixed on the boy who made the charge. LARGE PIKE.— On Monday last, as Mr. William Hall, hair- dresser, of East Retford, was fishing in the river Idle, near that place, he caught a pike, measuring three feet three inches ia length, and round the body one foot six inches. 3S4 THE TOWS. July 8. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL MEETING, TUESDAY. The Croxteth Stakes of IS sovs each, 10 ft, with 30 added; threeW'olds, « st 81b; four, 8st 21b ; six and aged, 9st; mares, & c. allowed « » . One jliile and a quarter. Mr. Miles ns b f Her Highness, 4 yrs I Mr. Webster ns br g Independence, 6 yrs 2 Hon. R. B. Wilbraham ns br h Rex, B yrs 3 Four others started. Two paid. A Produce Sweepstakes of 60 sovs each, h ft, for the produce of mares Covered in 1828; colts, 8st 41b ; fillies, 8st lib. Two miles. M. of Westminster's br f Maid of Honour, allowed 31b.. 1 Lord Derby's br c Warlock, allowed 3lb 2 Marquis of Westminster's b f Master Henry 3 Five paid. • Tradesman's Cup or Piece of Plate, value- 200 sovs, with 100 added to a Handicap Sweepstakes of 25 sovs each, 15 ft. Two miles. The winner to pay 30 to the judge ; the second horse to save his stake. Mr. Walker's br c Consol, 4 yrs, 7st 9lb 1 Mr. F. Richardson's b f Lady Elizabeth, 4 yrs, 8st 21b... 2 Mr. Chapman's br h Perseverance, 6 yrs, 8st 91b 3 Sir R. W. Bulkeley's b c Pickpocket, 4 yrs, 8st 21b 4 Seven others started, 24 paid, 12 paid ft of 5 sovs each. A Maiden Plate of 100 sovs; for three yr olds, 6st 121b; four, 8st; five and upwards, 8st 91b. Mares, & c. allowed 31b. The second horse to receive 20 out of the plate. Heats, from the distance and round. Mr. Houldsworth's b c David, 3 yrs 1 2 1 Mr. Ogden's b f Olive, 4 yrs 6 13 Mr. Hebden's bl c Tourist, 3 yrs 5 3 2 Testilence, Wagtail, Sir T. Stanley's b c by Master Henry, Mr. W. Turner's b m Nab, and Catherine were drawn. WEDNESDAY. The St. Leger Stakes of 25 sovs each, pp, with 100 added; for three yr old colts, 8st 61b ; fillies, 8st 31b. One mile and three quarters. Sir R. W. Bulkeley's b c Birdcatcher 1 Mr. Skipsey's b c Physician 2 Mr. T. O. Powlett's b f by Whisker 3 Mr. T. Edmunson's ch c Richmond 4 Pour others started, 11 paid. Won by three quarters of a length. A Sweepstakes of 25 sovs each, pp, with 50 added; for two yr old colts, 8st 51b ; fillies, 8st 31b. T. Y. C. Colonel Crawford's bl c by Whalebone 1 Marquis of Westminster's f by Filho 2 Two others started, five paid. Won by half a head. A Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, with 30 added, for all ages ; three yrs, Tst 51b ; four, 8st 71b ; five, 9st; six and aged, 9st 31b. Once round and a Mr. Houldsworth's b h Beagle, 5 yrs 0 1 Mr. Beardswortli's br g Independence, 6 yrs 0 2 ^ Two others started, three paid. Won by Beagle after a dead heat. The Sefton Stakes of 30 each, h ft, 20 added; for three yr old fillies, 8st 51b. One mile. Mr. A. Bower's b f Lady Stafford 1 Mr. Mostyn's b f by Teniers 2 Sir R. W. Bulkeley's bl f Jamima 3 Mr. T. Legh's br f by Saladin 4 Two paid. A beautiful race; won by half a head. BATH RACES, WEDNESDAY. Produce Sweepstakes of 50 sovs each, h ft, colts 8st 71b, and fillies 8st 41b, one mile, six subs, was won by Mr. Day's f by Middleton, out of Zulicka, beating Mr. Rawlinson's f by Rubens out of Pet's dam. The first class of the Somersetshire Stakes of 25 sovs each, 15 ft, and 50 added, two miles and a distance, was won by Lawn Sleeves beating JExile by Emilius. Four others were not placed. 13 paid. The Forfeit Class of 5 sovs each, 54 subs, and 50 added, two miles and a distance, was won by Little Boy Blue beating Gab. Three others not placed.— No race for the County Members' Plate. THURSDAY. The Original Stakes of 5 sovs each, and 50 added, two miles and a dis- tance, 16 subs, was won by Mr. Hayward's b c Metheglin beating Mr. Bay's f by Middleton, out of Zuleika. The City Members' Plate of 50L, heats two miles and a distance, was TV on by Liston beating Caleb. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, and 20 added, two miles and a distance, five subs, was won by Little Boy Blue beating Artist and another. IPSWICH RACES, TUESDAY. His Majesty's Plate of lOOgs, four mile heats— Lord Berner's ch h Ringleader, 5 yrs, walked over. The Town and County Members' Purse of 50 sovs, for horses of all ages, heats about two miles and a quarter, was won by Tam o'Shanter, heating two others. WEDNESDAY. The Gentlemen's Purse of 50(., heats two miles and a quarter, was tvon by Tam o'Shanter beating Musician and Verdure. A Silver Cup, added to a Sweepstakes of 3 sovs each, for horses not thorough bred, lOst 71b each, heats as last, was won by Atlas, beating Ultima, Tristam, and Trial. THURSDAY. A Handicap of 5 sovs each, and 25 added, heats two miles and a quar- ter, was won by Mr. Baker's c by Lapdog, beating Tam o'Shanter and Mr. Monro's eh m by Gustavus. Sweepstakes of 3 sovs each, and 20 added, for horses not thorough bred, was won in two heats by Atlas beating Ultima and Tristram. TATTERSALL'S, THURSDAY. JULY STAKES.— 2 to 1 agst Dulcinea ( taken); 9 to 2 agst Mr. Newton's colt; 6 to 1 agst Zinc; 6 to 1 agst Advance; 10 to 1 agst Emery; 6 to 4 Bgst Lord Exeter. ST. LEGER.— 8 to 1 agst Fang ; 9 to 1 agst Ludlow; 9 to 1 agst Re- tainer; 93 to 1 agst Margrave ( taken); 13 to 1 agst Trustee; 14 to 1 agst Perion; 15 to 1 agst Julius ( taken); 20 to 1 agst Tomboy ( taken); 30 to 1 agst Francesca. EXTRAORDINARY TROTTING MATCH.' The great match between the two American horses, Ratler, the property of Mr. Osbaldestone, and Rochester, the property of Mr. Payne, came off on Wednesday, according to appointment, on the ground between Wittlesford Bridge and ltoyston. Mr. Osbaldes- tone backed his horse at one thousand pounds to Mr. Payne's five hundred; and the distance was five miles, and was performed in harness. Ratler was brought over to this country from America some time back, in company with the celebrated Tom Thumb, by Mr. Jackson, and both horses were purchased by Mr. Osbaldestone. At the time appointed, the respective parties met at Wittlesford Bridge; and at this period considerable throngs of spectators were collected all along the road. The articles specified that both were to start at a given signal, and that each should keep his own side till he was a clear length tefore his antagonist, when he might take the course of the road tut if called to, with a view of affording a facility of passing, he • was again to keep his own side. It was also provided, that if either horse broke into a gallop, he was to be pulled up, and the wheels cf the match cart moved back, at the command of the umpire. It • was of course understood, that there was to be neither crossing nor jostling, and that the match was to be conducted in the fairest and most honourable manner. These matters being all satisfactorily arranged, the horses, which were in the immediate vicinity of the starting post, were brought to the post. Mr. Osbaldestone, whose weight is eleven stone, undertook to flrive his own horse; and Macdonald, the jockey, was chosen to drive Rochester ; his weight is about nine stone. Each was seated 5n a match cart of the lightest possible construction— that of Ro Chester, we understood, being fifteen pounds less in weight than that of Ratler, and the harness of both horses was as slender in character as safety would permit. Mr. Osbaldestone drove in a common snaffle bit, but Macdonald had a bit of a severer description. Mr. Osbaldestone was attired in a short flannel jacket, and wore his ordinary round hat; while Macdonald wore his jockey- cap and jacket, with Mr. Payne's colours— broad black and white stripe There were several persons on horseback to attend on each match cart, and clear the way, while a crowd of spectators, mounted on hacks, were prepared to accompany them. About half- past twelve, all being in readiness, and both horses eager for the start, the appointed signal was given, and the struggle commenced. Both horses started at speed, but Ratler took the lead at a tremendous pace, close followed by Rochester. The shouting and cheers were now deafening, and Ratler being some lengths in advance, took the crown or centre of the road. Ratler appeared to be gaining ground, and Macdotiald, who at starting had placed his whip in a case at the back of his match cart, put his hand round to reach it, thinking it necessary to apply the persuader to his horse; to his mortification, however, he found it had been either thrown or taken out. At the end of two miles Ratler was nearly sixty yards a- liead, and at this point he was the favourite at 10 to 1. Macdonald was then supplied with a small stick, which he used, and the stallion mended his pace, and lessened the dis- tance between himself and Ratler, who continuecAiis almost incon ceivable pace, Mr. Osbaldestone pulling, apparently with ail his Strength, at his reins. After this the stallion, in increasing his speed, - broke twice, and, as Macdonald says, waB pulled up and hacked; but this, as will hereafter appear, was disputed. When we first caught sight from the winning point of Mr. Osbaldestone, he was about twelve yards in advance. Here Ratler obviously broke into a gallop for a few yards, but quickly resumed his trot, and came on in thc most gallant style— Mr. Osbaldestone holding him In, and looking round with a smile of triumph. At this moment Mr, Osbaldestone, who was on the centre of the road cither from being called to by Macdonald or of his own accord, drew a little to his own side at the moment Macdonald was trying to pass in the same direction. Both were at this crisis so close at home that it was impossible for Macdonald to change the fate of the race j for in the next moment Ratler had passed the winning- post, the nose of Rochester touching thc wheel of his match- cart as the shouts of his friends proclaimed him the winner. Mr. Law- ton, the umpire for Mr. Payne, who was behind the two horses, now exclaimed that Rochester had won, for lhat Ratler had broken, and had not been pulled up when he called to the ' Squire. Mr. Osbaldestone denied that he had heard any call, which, from the noise that prevailed, was more than probable; and retorted by saving ( in which he was confirmed by Mr. England) that Rochester had broken twice, and that Macdonald, although called to the last time, had not pulled up and backed according to the articles. Both horses were of course excessively warm, but neither showed any extraordinary symptoms of distress. Both Mr. Payne and Mr, Osbaldestone arrived ill town the same night; and, in all probability, the course to be pursued will be settled at Tattersall's. In the interim, the bets on the match remain undecided ; but not so the bets on time, which are considered as concluded. Immediately after the match was over, the parties holding the watches repaired farm- house close at home, where they were produced and pared, and from them il appeared lhat the five, miles had been completed by Ratler in precisely thirteen minutes and fifty- eight seconds ! that is lo say, two seconds under the fourteen minutes ! 1 degree of trotting speed, as we have before said, unequalled in the records of trotting in this country. A second and more laborious match, in which Ratler is engaged, to come off on Thursday next, beyond Newmarket, on the Tliet- ford road. He is matched to trot in saddle against Driver, the property of Mr. Lawton, for 500/., thirty- four miles; that is to say, seventeen miles out and in. Driver is the pony which recently lerformed seventeen miles within the hour, at Smitham Bottom, is iroken- kneed, and altogether " a screw to look at;" and yet his admirers are confident of success. GRAND SUBSCRIPTION SCULLERS' MATCH. Tuesday a purse of sovereigns, given by gentlemen amateurs, was rowed for from Westminster to Putney, with the tide, by the undermentioned watermen, viz. :— 5. Gcorgre Maynard « 6. Joseph Royal., . Orange. White. Stripe. 1. John Harris ™ .. ™ Scarlett. 2. Francis Godfrey— Pink. 3. Henry Norris Blue. 7. Thomas Loader „ 4. Henry Barrow — Green. The match excited considerable interest. The river was crowded ith boats of every description, and all the cutter clubs assembled on the occasion. The day was particularly fine, and an unusual number of ladies proceeded up the river to witness the termination of the struggle. At five o'clock the men took their stations above. Five of them appeared in boats built expressly for the match. At half past five the signal was given for starting. The dense mass of boats " making all way" up the river rendered the scene at this period exceedingly picturesque and interesting. Norris shortly showed the others the way up to Putney, and went under auxhall- bridge first, followed by Loader, Royal, Harris, God- frey, Maynard, and Barrow. Off Chelsea Norris was at least fifteen boats in advance of Loader; Royal fast overhauled Loader, and came close on his quarter, but could not go by him. Harris pressed Royal severely; and Godfrey was outside of Harris, and nearly scull and scull with him. Barrow and Maynard were " all aback." It was a beautiful wager between the second, third, fourth, and fifth boats. In passing under Battersea- bridge, Harris came right up to the scull of Loader, who picked him up several times, much to the chagrin of Harris and his friends. Godfrey here became second, and appeared to strain every nerve to over- haul Norris, but without success. Royal had dropped into the fifth station. It was fully expected that Harris would in the Reach have exchanged places with Loader. No alteration, however, took dace, and the men passed under the centre arch of Putney as fol- ows :— Norris, first; Godfrey, second ; Loader, third ; Harris, fourth ; Royal, fifth ; Barrow, sixth ; and Maynard last. The first man rowed Ihe distance in thirty- five minutes, which is less time than we ever recollect it to have been done in. There were not two minutes' difference between the first and last boats. Norris received fifteen sovereigns, aud 51., 41., St., 2/., and 11., were the other prizes. CRICKET. The match between Marylebone and Cambridgeshire was played at Lord's Ground on Monday and Tuesday. It ended in favour of the latter by two runs with six wickets to go down. Maryle- bone : first innings 125, second 67— 492. Cambridge: first 103, second 91— 194. It was one of the best matches played in the ground for many years. On Tuesday last a match was played at the Eagle Tavern Cricket- ground, Camden Town, between eleven gentlemen of the Kings- land, and the same number of the Camden Town Club, for 25 sove- reigns aside. The Camden Town went in first and got 114 runs, which the Kingsland beat, with nine wickets up. The united clubs then retired to the Eagle Tavern, where, through the exertions of the worthy host ( Mr. Cumberland), the evening passed with the greatest hilarity and harmony; and it was there finally settled that the return match should come off next Tuesday week, the 16th inst. We regret to state that during the match a boy that was standing on the ground was so severely struck in the eye by the cricket- ball, that it is feared loss of sight will be the consequence. On Saturday the match between the officers of the garrison and the Dublin Club came off in the Phoenix Park. After a spirited contest of six hours, the former proved victorious by 61 runs. The innings were as follows:— Garrison, first innings 77, second 125; Dublin Club, first innings 93, second 48. GREAT PEDESTRIAN FEAT.— Mr. , belonging to Mr. Ingles' establishment in D'Olier- street, undertook for a wager to walk 60 miles within the space of 12 hours. He commenced at one o'clock in the morning, and accomplished the task, to the surprise of nu- merous spectators, in eleven hours— terminating the journey, which was round Stephen's- green, inside the chains, at twelve o'clock, being one hour less than the given time.— Dublin Plain Dealer. LA TEST INTELLIGENCE. We are still without news from Don Pedro. It would appear, however, that the expedition did not get completely away from the Azores until the 18th ult., and that it met with bad weather on the way. It would, consequently, require eight or ten days to reach the Portuguese coast, so that it would be the end of June before the disembarkation could be effected. No account could be sent away until the 1st or 2d of July ; and, therefore, the earliest period at which information can be had here will be to- morrow or Tuesday. We are to have another trial of strength, it seems, between the Ministers and their Tory opponents, on the subject of the Russian loan, which is fixed for discussion on Thursday next. This is most disgraceful on the part of the Tories ; for it is well known, and is even admitted by them, that if they had been in office they would have acted as Ministers have done. It is, ex- pected, however, that if they should push their opposition to the vote, they will be in a signal minority. New Ministerial arrangements are still talked of; but we be- lieve there is no foundation for any of the rumours which are in circulation, except that which states that Mr. Edward Ellice, the brother- in- law of Earl Grey, and who is Principal Secretary of the Treasury, is about to retire from that office. We are enabled to state, from a positive source, that although the strongest reason existed several days ago for believing that the answer of the King of the Netherlands to the proposal of the Conference would be as unfavourable as it proves to be, no posi- tive arrangement has been come to between the British and French governments asto the course which they ought to take. It is stated, and we believe correctly, that the Tories have per- suaded the King to use his influence with Ministers to prevent coercive measures against Holland. What is certain is, that Lord Palmerston has recommended the Belgians to try the effect of further negociations. On this point, however, the King of Bel- gium begins to be as firm as the King of Holland is obstinate. The latest arrivals from Holland, with papers to the 4th inst. and the French papers of Thursday, contain no intelligence of any importance. CORN EXCHANGE, JULY 6. The trade is exceedingly heavy for all grain, and only the first sam- pies of fresh wheat support Monday's prices. Oats are from 6d to Is cheaper, and scarcely any business doing at that abatement. The sup- ply is 615 sacks of flour, 14,774 quarters of wheat, 538 of barley, 2.41S of oats; 24 of Irish wheat, 2,198 of oats; 5,255 of foreign wheat, 1 830 OI OALS. AVERAGE TRICE FOR THE WEEK ENDED JUNE 29. Wheat. Barley. Imperial weekly average 63s Id.... 33s 3d.. Six weeks' ditto, which regulates duty. 62s 3d.... 33s 4d Duty on Foreign Corn 24s 8d.... 12s 4d"" Oats. 21s 3d 21s id 15s 3d SMITHFIELD, JULY 6. • Hie finest Scots fetch 3s. lOd. to 4s. per stone, and prime Lincolns and Durhams are worth 3s. 8d. to 3s. lOd. Good steers sell at 3s. 2d to 3s. 6d., and second- rate oxen at 2s. 8d. to 3s. Old steers, coarse oxen, & c. are 2s. 2d. to 2s. 6d. per stone. In mutton, prime Downs are wortlj 4s. 6d. to 4s. 8d. per stone, and the finest Kentish and Leicester wethers are 4s. 4( 1. to 4s. 6d. Good meadow ewes, and other good quality meat, IctClI ^ S* tO t: S » 2( 1. ( Per stone of 81b., sinking the offal.) Is 2d to 4s Od I Veal 3s Od to 4s 6d 3s « d to 4s 8d | Pork 3s 6d to 5s Od Lamb 4s Od to 5s 6d • R, . HEAD OF CATTLE AT THIS DAY'S MARKET. Beasts 388 | Calves 407 | Sheep.... 10,550 | Pigs .. 130 HAY AND STRAW PER LOAD. Hay 70s to 100s | Clover .... 90s to 100s | Straw... Beef .. Mutton i to 45s AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. ( Computed from the returns in the week ended July 3 ) Brown or Muscovado Sugar per cwt 29s Exclusive of the import duties thereon. 0| d COAL- EXCHANGE, JULY 6. At the close of the market the following were the prices per ton Adairs, 18s— Holywell, 17s 6d— Orde's Redheugh, 16s 6d— Ponton Wind- sor, 15s6d— Tanfield, 17s— Townley, 17s— Wylam, 17s 3d— Walls End Bewickeand Co. 20s to 20s 6d— Walls End, Callerton, 17— Walls End Gosforth, 20s— Walls End, Hotspur, 18s 6d— Walls End, Hilda 19s 3d— Walls End, Killingworta, 18s 3d to 18s 9d— Walls End, Newbiggen I5s 9d— Walls End, f^ ewmarch, 19s— Walls End, Northumberland, 18s— Walls End, Riddell's, 19s 6d— Walls End, Hetton, 21s— Walls End Lambton, 21s 3d— Walls End, Stewart's, 21s— Walls End, Cleveland, 16s 9d— Walls End, Gordon, 19s— Musgrave, 16s— Walls End, Tees, 20s 6d to 20s 9d— Cowpen, 18s— Walls End, Elgin, 16s— New Flockton, Milne and Co., 17s— Scremerstone Engine, 16s— Walls End, Henderson, 16s— Warde's Llanelly, 19s 6d— Primrose ( small) 13s. PRICES OF THE PUBLIC FUNDS. THE FAIR GAMBLER AT EPSOM.— We have heard it stated that a Countess, celebrated for her beauty and unblemished name, lost 300/. in a gambling booth at Epsom, and that several other ladies, of the highest rank and fashion, were amongst the fore- most and most eager players at the Roulette table, and with the pea and thimble ruffians, who annually disgrace the race courses. • Sunday Times. AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR JUNE.— The wheats, our most important concern, have experienced a most sudden improve- ment in colour and healthful vigour, and are now universally promising. On cold and poor soils, of course they are not bulky, but their promise for a crop at present far exceeds our late expectations : on strong and rich grounds a risk is to be appre- hended from over luxuriance, the corn being so lofty as to be beat down and to be laid by storms or heavy rains. The ears burst forth immediately on the favourable change of weather, and the critical season of blooming is now in course. The spring corn, oats, barley, pulse, together with the grasses, natu- ral and artificial, have received their full share of benefit from the late fortunate change, and are all in a most flourishing and improving state; the exceptions, in comparison, however hard upon individuals, being of small consequence in a general view. In the irregular crops the backward portion is shooting up with great vigour, affording promise, should the weather continue favourable, of nearly an equality of ripeness at harvest. A shocking accident occurred in the parish of Coulsdon, Surrey, on Friday last. A labouring man, Thomas Harbour, while in the act of drawing water from a well, suddenly let go the winch, which caused the bucket to descend wirh too great a rapidity, to prevent which he seized the rope, and being overbalanced, fell head- fore- most into the well. The well is 180 feet deep. A boy rushed forward to his assistance, and succeeded in catching hold of his boot, by which the lad actually held him suspended for some mi- nutes, but his strength at length failing him, he was obliged to let go his hold, and the poor fellow fell to the bottom. When found he was quite dead, his head having been terribly bruised in his descent against the brickwork. The latest letters received yesterday from Ireland announce, that the accounts from the north of Ireland represent the Orangemen of various districts as determined to celebrate the approaching anniversary of the 12th of July by large armed pro- cessions ; and it is apprehended that the most disastrous results are likely to follow. During the last week extensive orders for Orange sashes and ribbons were executed in Dublin and for- warded to the north. SIR WALTER SCOTT.— The answer to inquiries yesterday was, that Sir Walter had passed a tranquil night. The worthy Baronet had lately become very anxious to be conveyed to Abbotsford. His physicians have deemed it necessary that his wishes should be complied with, and arrangements are now being made for his conveyance thither immediately. A steam boat will be engaged for the purpose. From the LONDON GAZETTE of Tuesday and Friday last. [ The Gazette of Tuesday announced that his Majesty's next levee would be held on Monday, the 9th, instead of Wednesday; but in the Gazette of Friday, the order is withdrawn, and the levee will be held as usual.] Friday's Gazette announces that the King has been pleased to confer the honour of knighthood upon Maior- General John Macleod. WAR- OFFICE, JULY 6, 1832.— Royal Regiment of Horse Guards- Lieut. Hon. G. C. W. Forester, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Dash- wood, who retires; Cornet Hon. H. Pitt, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Forester; Lord A. Paget, to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Pitt. 6tli Regiment of Dragoon Guards.— Cornet Hon. A. G. F. Jocelvn, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Campbell, who retires ; J. H. Dickson, Gent, to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Jocelyn. 6th Regiment of Foot— Ensign J. E. Wetherall, from half- pay Unat- tached, to be Ensign, vice Barry, who exchanges. 9th Foot— Captain E. L. Godfrey, from half- pay Unattached, to be Captain,^ vice J. Scaigill, who exchanges, receiving the difference. 13th Foot— Major W. H. Dennie, to be Lieutenant- colonel, by purchase, vice Elton, who retires. 15th Foot— Captain J. Macpherson, to be Major, by purchase, vice Dennie ; Lieut. J. G. D. Taylor, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Mac- pherson ; Ensign R. G. Hughes, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Taylor; T. G. Gisborne, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Hughes. 28th Foot— Lieut. H. Elton, from half- pay 22d Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice S. Greene, who exchanges. 56th Foot— Captain J. Birch, from half- pay 90th Foot, to be Captain, vice Hogg, who exchanges. 60th Foot— Captain R. Rumley, from the 66th Foot, to be Captain, vice Marlton, who exchanges. 66th Foot— Captain F. Marlton. from the 60th Foot, to be Captain, vice Rumley, who exchanges. 96th Foot— Captain J. Stewart ( 2d), from half- pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice Sherer, who exchanges, receiving the difference. 1st West India Regiment— Lieut. J. R. Grant, from the 2d West India Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Pattison, who exchanges. 2d West India Regiment— Lieut. A. H. Pattison, from the 1st West India Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Grant, who exchanges. UNATTACHED— Lieut. J. Ward, from the 1st Foot, to be Captain of Infantry, by purchase. MEMORANDA— Brevet Major N. Fuchs, half- pay Meuron's Regiment, has been allowed to retire from the service by the sale of an Unattached company." OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, JULY 3, 1832— Royal Regiment of Artillery- First Lieut. E. Trevor to be Second Captain, vice Baker, retired on half- pay ; Second Lieut. J. H. Francklyn, to be First Lieutenant, vice Tre- vor ; Gentleman Cadet S. B. Hornby, to be Second Lieutenant, vice Hinchliffe, promoted ; Gent. Cadet St. J. T. Browne, to be Second Lieu- tenant, vice Tapp, promoted; Gent. Cadet C. Bingham, to be ditto, vice Poulden, promoted; Gent. Cadet H. S. Rowan, to be ditto, vice M'Coy, promoted; Gent. Cadet J. N. A. Freese, to be ditto, vice Ommaney, pro- moted: Gent. Cadet F. D. Cleaveland, to be ditto, vice Grant, promoted; Gent. Cadet H. Murray, to be ditto, vice Sinclair, deceased; Gent. Cadet C. Smith, to be ditto, vice Caffin, promoted; Gent. Cadet H. A. Turner, to be ditto, vice Mitchell, promoted. BANKRUPTS. J. Dalton, White Bear, Upper Thames street, victualler— J. Locker, Hanley, Staffordshire, grocer— T. Wakelam, Willenhall, Staffordshire, curry- comb- maker— H. Pickup, Yeddingham, Yorkshire, innkeeper— J. Dove, Cadogan- place, Chelsea, coal- merchant— Thomas Scarnell, Sea House, Hotel, Brighton, tavern- keeper— S. Teuton, Nelson- street, Green- wich, upholsterer— W. Summers, Wilson- street, Finsbury- square, brick- layer— J. B. Bostock and T. H. Musgrave, Wenlock- basin, City- road, screw- manufacturers— J. Boxall, Brighton, hotel- keeper— E. Cobb, Man- chester, commission- agent— J. Clark, Godalming, Surrey, linen- draper — T. Saunders, jun., Austinfriars, merchant— C. Saxe, Conduit- street, tailor— W. Ogden, Heywood, Lancashire, cotton- spinner— J. Allcock and W. Wilson, Jermyn- street, St. James's, tailors— S. Coleman and M. Chapman, Liverpool, silversmiths— A. Hood, Darlington- place, South- wark- bridge- road, spirit- dealer— W. Sell, St. Martin's- lane, bookseller. Bank Stock Reduced Three per Cents. Consols, Three per Cents.. Consols for Account Consols, 34 per Cents Reduced 34 per Cents New 34 per Cents New 4 per Cents Long Annuities India Bonds Exchequer Bills Mon. Tues. Wed. Thur. — 200 200 200 834 831 84 84 85 854 85* 85 — — — 91 91* 91* 911 912 100} 1001 1001 1005 164 — 16| 164 1 dis — 1 dis par 10 10 11 11 Frid. 199 83J 931 ed 85 91i 911 90£ ed 100J 1 pm II Satur. 1994 841 83# 851 911 91* 903 looi 164 1 pm 11 Amsterdam, 3 m. 12 5 Ditto short, 12 24 Rotterdam. .3 m. 12 54 Hamburgh . do... 14 0 Paris short, 25 90 Ditto 3 m. 26 15 Frankfort.... do... 155 COURSE OF EXCHANGE, JUNE 29. Vienna 3 m. 10 13 Trieste do. 10tol4 Madrid do 35J Cadiz do 35} Bilboa do.... 35J Leghorn do 474 Genoa do... 26 10 Naples 3 m 40* Palermo do 120 Lisbon 30 days 47* Oporto do 47£ F. Gold, bars, 3117s 9d New Doubl... 31 I4s 3d New Dollars 4s 8| d BIRTHS. On Tuesday, at his house in Cumberland- terrace, Regent's Park, the lady of the Right Hon; Thomas Erskine, of a daughter, which died the same day.— On the 2d inst. at Walthamstow, the lady of R. Wigram, Esq. of a daughter.— At Antigua, on the 13tll of May, the lady of L. L. Hodge, Esq. of a son.— On the 3d inst. in Argyll- street, the lady of L. Walker, Esq. of a daughter.— On the 3d inst. the lady of James Weston, Esq. of Finsbury- circus, of a daughter.— On the 5th inst. in Grosvenor- square, Lady Charlotte Calthorpe, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. On the 4th inst. at St. Mary's, Leighton, the Rev. Robert Meyricke, of Dinham Lodge, Ludlow, Salop, to Mary, eldest daughter of the late E. Andrews, Esq.— On the 3d inst, at St. I'ancras New Church, H. James, Esq. of the Chatham division of Marines, to Charlotte, daughter of the late Aubone Surtees, of Newcastle- upon- Tyne.— On the 5th inst. at St. Dionis Backchurch, M. Saward, Esq. of Chatham- place, to Harriette, eldest daughter of the late Rev. John Sumner, of Rochford, Essex.— On the 4th inst. at Harlington, Mr. John Corney, of Feltham, to Isabel 4th daughter of Atlee Hunt, Esq. of Heath- row, Middlesex.— On the 3d inst. at St. Mary's, Bryanstone- square, George Damer, third son of the Right Hon. Sir Henry Parnell, Bart. M. P. to Catherine, daughter of Sir John St. Aubyn, Bart.— At St. James's Church, on the 5th inst. Capt. Henry Vyner, to the Hon. Mary Gertrude, second daughter of Lord Grantham. DEATHS. " On the 28th ult. at Boston- place, Ealing, Major John Fortnam, late of his Majesty's 19th Light Dragoons.— Suddenly, on the 28th ult. at the residence of his brother, Pell- wall- house, Market Drayton, W. Sandey, Esq., Commander, R. N.— On the 24th ult. at his house, Springfield, Liverpool, William Nicholson, Esq., late Lieutenant- Colonel, and one of the senior Deputy Lieutenants of the county of Lancaster, in the 58th year of his age.— On the 1st inst. at Lower Connaught- place, Mrs. F. Scott, aged 76.— At Tooting, on the 4th inst. Walter Lord, Esq. in the 73d year of his age.— Suddenly, on the 29th ult. at Taunton, G. Noble, Esq. of Grove- terrace, Kentish Town.— Jan. 20, at Candy, in the island of Ceylon, the Rev. Thomas Ireland, aged 49, successively Chaplain to his Majesty's Forces at the Cape of Good Hope and in Ceylon.— On the 30tli ult. in Stamford- street, Eliza, second daughter of D. R. Roper, Esq. — On the 28th ult. at Petworth, Sussex, the Rev. John Crosthwaite, rector of Barlavington and Egdean, in that county.— On the Ist inst. at Twickenham, Louisa, the wife of the Rev. James Wilkie.— On the 28th ult. in London, Charles F. J. Durell, Esq. of Belmont- house, Chelten- ham, in the 70th year of his age.— On Thursday, after a lingering ill- ness, which he bore with great fortitude, Mr. Edward Thomas, printer, Exeter- street, Strand, in his 54th year— At Leghorn, on the 13th of June, Mary Augusta Stephenson, youngest daughter of Edward Stephenson, Esq. of Farley- hill. COUNTRY AGENTS FOR THIS PAPER: Abergavenny, Watkins Exeter, Sprect Acton, Birch "' Alnwick, Davison Arundel, Mitchell Ashford, Tunbridge Barnet, Cowing Barnsley, Ray Basingstoke, Lowman Bath, Williams Battersea, Smith Bedford, Mayle Beverley, Gardham Birmingham, Mansell Ditto, Cooper Blackburn, Rogerson Blandford, Ship Bolton, ( Lan.) Ogle Boston, Noble Bradford, Inkersley Bridgewater, Dean Brighton, Jones Bristol, Westley Ditto, Bingham Brixton, Harpur Broadstairs, Barns Tuesday an inquest was held, by adjournment, at the Ordnance Arms, Greenwich, on the body of Thomas Suaine, a rat- catcher, aged 40 years, who came by his death, as was alleged, by being thrown down by a man, while in a state of intoxication, and killed upon the spot.— It appeared in evidence that the disceased on Monday morning last had been rat- catching at a gentleman's house, and afterwards he got drunk. He was returning home, when he met with a travelling pedlar, whom he began to pull about and grossly abuse. The pedlar begged him to desist; bnt the deceased continuing his annoyance, the former gave him a slight push, aud the deceased staggered a few paces, fell down, and never spoke more. On picking him up, his tongue was hanging out of his mouth, he bled profusely from the eyes and nose, and appeared quile dead. A crowd collected, and the pedlar was given in charge. Mr. Brown and other medical gentlemen, said they had opened the body, and were of opinion the deceased died from apo- plexy, brought on by excessive drinking. The Jury returned a verdict of " death from apoplexy;" and the pedlar was discharged out of custody. FATAL AFFRAY.— On Thursday, 28th ult., as Lieut. Knight of the Lulworth Preventive Station, was going, accompanied with one of his men, named Duke, to meet his men on duty, he fell in with a party of smugglers, who, the moment they discovered him, threa- tened, being all armed with swingels, if lie advanced lo kill him. Lieut. Knight advanced, when the party surrounded him, and fell on them. Lieut. Knight fired a shot over their heads, and afterwards in his own defence amongst them ; his man Duke also fired amongst them. Lieut. Knight and Duke placed themselves back to back, continued to contend with them, but at length were overpowered and beaten most unmercifully, after which they dragged Lieutenant Knight a short distance and threw him over the cliff, leaving Duke for dead. Lieut. Knight died the same evening. Bury, ( Lan.) 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