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The object of this undertaking is to lay before the British public and Foreigners, extracts from the literary press of the Continent, and to make known as much as possible, that which is amusing and instructive 111 Fenwick df Pormiet and Cooper, 11, Tavistock- street, Covent- garden, to whom communications for the Editor, and Works for review and Ad- vertisements, are to be addressed. - economy, elegance, in the British Plate.- fable Forks - - - Table Spoons Every article manufactured in silver is now made - Of the comparative prices the following small list Fiddle pattern. per dozen 48s 48s Dessert" ditto Dessert Forks 36s 20s 16s 5s 7s 2s 2s Tea Spoons Soup Ladle ------- each Sauce ditto - - Gravy Spoons - -- -- -- - Salt Spoons - -- -- -- -- Mustard ditto - -- -- -- - Butter Knives 5s Fish Knives 16s Sugar Tongs - _ . 4s Table Knives, steel blades - per doz. 42s Dessert ditto 34s Dessert Knives and Forks, from four to five guineas per dozen pair. 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Just published, SOURCES of HEALTH and DIS EASE in COMMU- NITIES ; or, Elementary Views, destined to show the importance I of the study of Hygiene, to Legislators, Heads of Families, & c. By ! HENRY BELINAYE, Surgeon Extraordinary to her Royal Highness I the Duchess of Kent, & c. Printed for Treuttel and Wurtz and Richter, 30, Soho- square. SECOND EDITION OF MONTGOMERY'S NEW POEM. Post 8vo. price 8s. 6d. boards, dedicated, by permission, to her Majesty, Til E M E S S I A H. 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. " It cannot be denied that he has retained the sentiments, " and caught on many occasions the spirit, of the olden days."— Athenjeum. John Turrill, British Magazine Office, 250, Regent- street, London. BRITISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH, NEW- ROAD, KING'S- CROSS, LONDON. MR. 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 hy the Fa- culty, and out of the Hospitals, as incurable) having been restored to sound 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 heads of 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, in future, a new and certain mode of investigating the nature and cause of Diseases in general, and of possessing a certain and harmless mode of cure, making every individual his 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 fiving their names, residences, and dates of time of cure, all of which ave been voluntarily given, and ascertainable as to the facts by inquiry. CURE OF CHOLERA MORHUS. TO MB. MORISON AND TIIE MEMBERS OF THE COLLEGE OF HEALTH. Gentlemen,— I have the pleasure to inform you that the Halcyon ar- rived at Cromarty, from Riga, on the 26th ult. all well. She is bound to Glasgow ; hut, according to the restrictions on the Baltic ships, has to perform quarantine at Cromarty. The mate's wife received a letter from her husband, who states that " when at Riga he caught the infection, then raging at its highest; ships laying on all sides, losing daily part of their crew;" but observes that, " by my ( the writer, Mr. Gardner, who is part owner of the Halcyon,) plentifully supplping the vessel at Sun- derland, before sailing, with the Universal Medicines of the British College of Health, he resorted to the means, in strong doses, which had the desired effect of removing the complaint, and bringing him to a per- fect state of health, and also kept them all clear of the infection atter- wards." Surely this ought to induce all commanders of vessels to take them to sea every voyage, not only as a certain preventive to all diseases, hut a sure investment to trade, the medicine being now in high request in all parts of the Baltic.— 1 am, Gentlemen, your humble servant, Bishop Wearmouth, July 6,1831, MICHAEL GARDNER. TO MR. MORISON. Sir,— I return you my most grateful thanks for the wonderful cure performed on me in tha't dreadful complaint, the cholera morbus, with which I have been attacked in a very serious manner, and which must have proved fatal to me had it not been for the prompt use of' Morison's Vegetable Universal Medicines,' under the direction of your agent, Mr. Poole, in the Liverpool- road, which gave me immediate relief, and, in the short space of five days, a perfect cure. When attacked, my strength appeared to wholly leave me ; my sijrht was nearly gone, and my body was in a convulsed state all over, with the usual concomitants attending this dire disease; sick liead- ache and violent purging, with a frightful discharge of blood; all of which gave way to a perfect cure in live days, and 1 am now in the enjoyment of full health and strength. With thanks to God for my recovery, and for the benefit of other sufferers, and those that may be attacked with this too frequent ( if not stopped in time) fatal disease," you are at liberty to give my name whatever publicity you please, in order that others may know where to apply for a safe and cer- tain remedy. Anxious that all the world, at this time of excitement, may reap the benefits of my happy experience, I am, Sir, your humble servant, JOHN CARR. 49, Thomas- street, Manchester, July 21,1831. CURE OF FILES, RHEUMATISM, AND COMPLICATION OF COMPLAINTS. TO JAMES MORISON, ESQ. Sir,— Gratitude to God, as the giver of all good, and to you as an in- strument in his hand, has induced me to give this public " testimony of the good effects of your ' Universal Vegetable Medicines,' in a compli- cation of complaints under which 1 had long suffered. I have been sub- ject to that painful disorder the piles for between twenty and thirty years, the rheumatism in my limbs for nearly the same period ; I was also troubled with a bilious complaint and inclination to asthma; sub- ject to bleedings at the nose from my childhood. To remove these com- plicated and painful disorders, 1 tried various remedies, but found no lasting benefit from any of them. At the time I providentially met with your medicines life was almost a burden to me. I commenced with the medicines, taking from three to five of No. 1 pills for a fortnight; I then increased the dose to twelve of No. 1 at night, from six to eight of No. 2 in the morning. The first effect was to produce sound sleep, without pain, to which I had been a stranger for the last ten years. After the first fortnight my appetite returned, so that I could enjoy my food in a manner I had not done for years before; I also found my strength re- turn while under the operation of tiie medicine, fully proving the truth of your assertion, that the Universal Medicine takes weakness out of the frame, contrary to the effects of any other medicine that 1 ever heard of. I have enjoyed a good state of health for some months. I niwavs intended to publish my case if I obtained a cure, but I was not BRANDY lor MEDICAL PURPOSES, 23 years old, 72s. per dozen, bottles included; single bottles16s. each; may be had at the Sample Room of the GRAY'S INN WINE- and SPIRIT ESTABLISHMENT, 23, High Holborn. 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No. VI. for August, price 2s. completes the first volume, price 12s. 6d. purple cloth; and presents a good opportunity for all intending to be- come subscribers to commence the work. It contains, among many curious and valuable original Theological papers by able hands, contri- butions from Dr. Ed. Burton, Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford; Sir. Soames, Author of the " History of the Reformation ;" and nume- rous other eminent and learned writers, both Divines and Laymen. Bio- graphical Notices; Sketches of the Parochial Histories ( embellished with engravings, hy superior artists) of Preston Church, Sussex; Alde- rington Church, near Brighton; St. Alban's Abbey, Herts; Hodnet Church, near Shrewsbury ( late Bishop Heber's); Poynings Church, Sussex ; St. Budeaux Church, Devon; and ( accompanied* with a descrip- tive account) an Engraving of the Van Diemen's Land Company's Esta- blishment at Circular Head, New South Wales. Notices of the Olden Time, in extracts from Original Papers, Parish Registers, and scarce books— Sacred Poetry— Correspondence on subjects niglily interesting, valuable, and useful to the Clergy, Landholder, Magistrate, Country Gentleman, Parochial Officers, and Religious and Benevolent World— Reviews and Notices of New Books— Reports of Religious and Benevo- lent Meetings and Societies— Ecclesiastical Trials— Important Docu- ments respecting Church Revenues, Parish Accounts, Poor's Rates, Statistics, Emigration, Population, Savings Banks, the Allotment Sys- tem, Commissioners' Reports, Plans for the Amelioration of the Condi- tion of the Poor, Abstracts of Bills and Acts of Parliament— University News: Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, King's College, Scotland, Dublin, Wales, Prussia, & c.— Ecclesiastical Intelligence: Ordinations, Clerical Appointments, Preferments, Clergy deceased, & c. arranged in tables— Marriages and Births— Events of each Month, arranged under counties — List of New Books and Announcements— Miscellaneous Intelligence — State of the Funds, London Markets, & c. The Volume contains 640 octavo pages ; and either that, or the Num- bers ( which are published on the first of every month) may be had of all Booksellers, Stationers, and Newsmen, London: John Turrill, 250, Regent- street,; Parker, Oxford; Grant, Cambridge, NEW PUBLICATION. THE DOUBLE TRIAL ; OR, THE CONSEFTUENCES OF AN IRISH CLEARING. A TALE OF THE PRESENT DAY. 3 VOLS.* This tale of the present day is one of the most disappointing, as far as the interest of the story goes, that we ever met with. From its title we expected a spirit stirring narrative, fraught with pathetic or ludicrous developments of the Irish character, but instead of which, there is no connected story, at least none have we been able to discover, in a diligent search through the three volumes; and as to Irish character, there is not even an at- tempt made to pourtray it. The object of the writer seems to be of the same nature as that ascribed to the builders of the round towers of Ireland, namely, to puzzle posterity, if ever his work, should reach that importantandmysterious personage, for his story has neither head nor tail, beginning, end, or middle. The scene opens in Ireland, where Mr. Ebrington, an English barrister, who has been appointed agent to. an Irish nobleman, is so dis- gusted at the system of injustice and racking exercised towards the unfortunate peasantry of that country, that he resigns his lucrative situation, and determines to return to England sooner than become accessory to an act of such inhuman cruelty as that called a clearing— that is, the turning of the potato gardens of the poor cotters into large farms, and clearing away the ill- fated possessors, and driving them forth houseless and pennyless, to die of disease and starvation. Shortly after this the reader finds himself in Switzerland, witnessing the very extraordinary feat of a mountaineer named Jacques Roustane, who shoots with, a single ball a lammergeyer just as he is dropping into his nest, with the infant son of Roustane, in his talons. These events ma r almost be said to be the only ones in the tale, at least they are the only interesting ones. The remainder of the volumes con- sists, for the most part, of conversations and discussions upon all manner of subjects— medicine, metaphysics, the Malthusian theory, politics, religion, and many others, too numerous, as the advertisements say, to mention. These conversations are carried on in a rambling, gossiping manner, sometimes strongly tinc- tured with dogmatism, and not unfrequently distinguished by shrewdness and point. The book is not destined to become a favourite with even the most voracious reader of novels, though classed by its title as one, but it is deserving of attention from a graver class of the reading public, from the variety of topics it passes in review, and the freedom and force of some of the opi- Good Thibet square shawls, 15s.; superior quality, 20s. worth 51. 765 real Indian brocaded crape shawls, large sizes, 14s. 6d. worth 4gs. WILLIAMS, 111, Oxford- street, corner of Regent- circus. India Shawls bought and exchanged. T E II T[ HE WAG Lord B , who in cock- figliting- took great delight, Once offered this wager to lay:— That when put down together the cocks should not fight, But run from each other away ; For that he a greater attraction would bring Than they to each other would prove, A charm so alluring, that round the wide ring They should follow where'er he should move. The wager accepted, the cocks trimm'd and grae'd, ( What a concourse encircled the ground!) And they were no sooner upon the turf placed, Than each cock turn'd suddenly round. They viewed not each other, but made a short stand, Then swift at his Lordship they flew: ( His boots were by Warren's jet Blacking japann'd, And surprisingly shone to tbe view). The secret was out; but the wager was won, For the imaw of each was display'd, In the high polish'd boots that so brilliantly shone," And each cock attack'd his own shade. Then shouts of applause echo'd loud from the throng, To his Lordship's sagacity due ; But if praise to his Lordship's invention belong, Warren ! what must be given to you ? For without your jet Blacking his boots had not shone, Nor have had such a lustre to boast, The humour had failed, he the bet had not won, And the sport of the day had been lost. Each Nobleman present then quickly declared Warren's Blacking alone he would use, And each one to Warren as quickly repaired, To buy his japan for their shoes. This easy- shining and brilliant BLACKING, prepared by ROBERT WARREN, 30, Strand, London; and sold in every town in the kingdom, Liquid, in Bottles, and Paste Blacking, in Pots, at 6d., 12d., and 18( 1. each. Be particular to inquire for Warren's, 30, Strand: all others are counterfeit. THE NAUTICAL MAGAZINE. On the 1st of August will be published, the sixth number of HE NAUTICAL MAGAZINE: a Work replete with interesting and important information. CONTENTS :— Hydrography— Lighthouses on the Coast of France ; Downing Bay, Coast of Ireland; Navigation of the Bristol Channel; Geographical collections. Voyages and Maritime— H. M. S. Vernon, of 50 guns, with a Sketch; Notes on the invention of Massey's Log and Sounding Machine; Saugor Island and its condition subsequent to the inundation of November last; On the Advantages possessed by Naval men in contributing to general Science; Hints for collecting Specimens illustrative of Zoology; The Port of Grimsby; Turkish Officers' ad- vancement in the Arts and Sciences ; Mouths of the River Pernaibao; British India. Works of Nautical and Geographical Science and Art- Report of the Council of the Royal Astronomical Society on the Nautical Almanac. Nautical Miscellany— Royal Naval School; Diving Appara- tus ; Distribution of his Majesty's Ships in commission; Wrecks, & c. of Shipping, and Ships newly built. Promotions' and Appointments in the Navy. Births, Deaths, & c.; and a variety of other useful intel- ligence. Published monthly by Fisher, Son, and Co., 28, Newgate- street; and by II. B. Bate, 21, Poultry, agent for the sale of the Charts, & c., published by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. nions it contains. * London: 1832. Smith, Elder, and Co. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. always intended to publish my in a hurry to do it. I have hacl no return of my complaints, and am now in the full enjoyment of health. At the request of Mr. Charlwood, your agent for the county, I have commenced to sell the medicine to my fellow- sufferers, which I do now with pleasure. I have also witnessed its good effects in my own family and many others, from children to persons upwards of eighty years of age. Of the truth . of the above particulars, I can give satisfactory proof to any person that may please to call on me, as well as other interesting information of the effects of the Universal Medicine. With gratitude, I subscribe myself your devoted advocate, Oct. 16,1831. \ WILLIAM FARROW, vrtraw- hat- manufacturer, Magdalen- street, Norwich. 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Just published, in three vols. The DOUBLE TRIAL ; or, the Consequences of an Irish Clearing. A Tale of tlle present day. Just published, demy Svo. price 10s. 6d. with a Map and Plates, A THREE MONTHS' TOUR in SWITZERLAND and FRANCE; giving a geiieral description of the country, an accurate account of the different routes, and affording every necessary information for the guidance of future Travellers. By the Rev. William Liddiard, Author of " A Metrical Tale of Switzerland," & c. " We find enough in this work to justify an anticipation of its proving a welcome tompanion to those who may be inclined to follow the same track, as wtll as a fund of entertainment to readers at home."— New Monthly. " This gentleman sketches with effect; his descriptions are those of an ardent ad nirer of nature in her grandest array, and his hook is the work of a ir m of highly cultivated mind and gentlemanly feeling."— Metropolitar. " We must say that the descriptions of Mr. Liddiard are at once lively, accurate and well chosen; and that those persons who are about to afford themselves the delight of a similar ' Three Months' Tour in Switzerland and France,' cannot do a wiser thing than make this book their carriage companion."— Court Journal. •• < The Those Months' Tour' is written in a lively and amusing strain, evidently by 1 person possessed of a taste for the sublime and beautiful of nature, aid besides this, is embellished with several lithographic views of picttresque scenery from drawings by the author."— National Omnibus.. " The chiejcharm of this volume is its constant indication of amiable feeling, highprinciple, and sound judgment on the part of the author. He is withal, modest and intelligent too."— The Scots Times. Smith, Elder, and Co., Cornhill. On the night of the 20th inst. there was at St. Cloud a great movement of troops. The carbineers were sent for from Ver- sailles, and at Sevres the red lancers were put into requisition. M. Montalivet passed the night at the Chateau ; and a report was in circulation that there was a fear of some attempt on the part of the Carlists. Last night the troops of the garrison of Paris were under particular orders. At the barracks in the Rue Verte cartridges were distributed. For a long time a Car- list movement had been announced for the 24th, but it was no doubt to be in connexion with that at St, Cloud for the 21st; and as one did not take place, the other was abandoned. All these plots agitate the public mind, disturb the authorities, and fatigue the troops, and are by no means calculated to inspire confidence in the commercial world. They are the result of the infernal tact of the enemies of the Revolution of July. They could not prevent it, and they desire to overthrow it. But the people and the army wish for the maintenance of our institu- tions and the throne— and the people and the army will be too strong for the conspirators. Marshal Soult lately wrote from Mont d'Or, that it was urgent to mobilize three hundred battalions of National Guards. The Council of Ministers, however, after a long deliberation, adjourned the measure. It is generally thought that, upon his return to Paris, the Marshal will again present his proposition to the Council.— Le Nouvelliste of Wednesday. Accounts from Nismes state, that on the 15th instant, during a violent gale of wind from the North, the thermometer rose to 37 degrees of Reaumur, or 115J of Fahrenheit. According to a regular series of observations kept for ninety years, no such extraordinary occurrence had before been recorded.— GatignanVs Messenger. Two gendarmes were a few days since conducting nine pri- soners from Sainte to Rochefort, when on arriving at the village of Cura two of them made their escape into the woods. Three others of the party, who were soldiers condemned for military offences, declared that if allowed to go in pursuit of the fugi- tives they would bring them back. The gendarmes consented, and the three men set out, and overtook the two convicts, with whom a desperate struggle ensued ; but the soldiers proved the victors, and brought the two runaways back to their chains. This honourable conduct of the soldiers induced the authorities to petition for their pardon. On the 17th instant, a destructive fire broke out at Laforte, near Arbois, Department of the Jura, which in the course of six hours consumed fifty houses. The disaster was occasioned by two children having set on fire some straw in a barn.— Ibid. MUNICH, JULY 16.— We hear that the Protocol of the Lon- don Conference respecting Greece has been received here : 25,000 men, half English and half Prussian troops, to which 3,000 Bavarians may be added, are to be placed at the disposal of the Greek Government. Count Armansperg is again spoken of as the only statesman to whom the management of the Greek Government can for the present be confided, to the satisfaction of the Conference. Colonel Heideger, and Counsellors Abel and Maucer, are spoken of as the probable attendants of Prince Otho when he goes to Greece. THE SPANISH ARMY.— The following is the actual strength of the Spanish army : viz. the artillery amounts to 8,000 men; the infantry to 33,000 ; the cavalry to 5,000 : and the militia to 30,000 bayonets. THE PORTUGUESE ARMY.— The Portuguese army, consisting of all arms, under Don Miguel, amounts to 35,000 men. The invading army, under Don Pedro, does not exceed 11,000 men. This army is destitute of cavalry. It is, however, understood, that the defection of Don Miguel's troops will make up for this deficiency, and that the ranks of Don Pedro will be increased to a considerable amount by volunteers and militia. GRAND REVIEW.— Monday, Wormwood Scrubbs presented a scene of much gaiety, by the numbers of fashionables who had assembled at the review of those two fine regiments, the First and Second Life Guards. Shortly after ten o'clock a detach - ment of the Fourteenth Light Dragoons arrived from the bar- racks at Hounslow, and kept the ground, and at about eleven o'clock the two regiments formed into a line before Lord Hill, the Commander- in- Chief, and a numerous staff of general officers. The fine, healthy, and warlike appearance of the men. excited the admiration of the vast crowds that had assembled, 24: 2 THE TOWI. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. July 29. HOUSE OF LORDS, MONDAY, JULY 23. A few petitions were presented. IRISH REFORM BILL.— The order of the day forthe second leading of the Irish reform bill being read, Lord MELBOURNE said, in moving the second reading of this bill, he thought himself entirely relieved from entering upon any discussion of the general principles of parliamentary reform. He apprehended that it was unnecessary to do so on the present occa- sion; since, in all the discussions in the other House on this subject, it was never said that the reform ought not to be extended lo Ire- land. If the nomination boroughs were done away here, they ought to be done away in Ireland ; and if tbe elective franchise was ex- tended in England, it could hardly be contended that it ought not also to be extended in Ireland in a manner suited to the circum- stances of that country.— His lordship then briefly described the principal features of the measure, and moved that the bill be now lead a second time. The Duke of WELLINGTON said, that this bill gave too much power to the Roman Catholic voters— that it did not adopt the principle of the great measure of 1829, that of diminishing the undue influence of tbe Irish priesthood. He also found fault wiih the manner in which freemen were treated by the bill. As the pre- sent bill stood, the freemen, after tbe expiration of the present lives, • were abolished, the 10(. household qualification was introduced ; these and the freeholders must be chiefly under the influence of tbe priests, and their influence would be superior to that of tbe landed and moneyed interest. That was not a sound principle of legisla- tion which went to take away a power and influence from property, and to lodge it in the hands of the priests. These were his objec- tions to the bill. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE said, the noble duke ad- mitted that it was proper to abolish the rotten boroughs in Ireland, as well as in England ; but he objected to giving an extensive franchise to the people, because they were Catholics. But why should the people be deprived of the elective franchise merely " because they were Catholics? A country to be well governed, must be governed with impartial justice, and with a due regard to public opinion, and to the sympathies of the people. The Catholics ought not to be disfranchised on account of their religion, and if they ought not, there was no weight in the noble duke's argument. The Earl of LIMERICK, after stating his objections to the bill, concluded by saying, that be knew that it was vain, after the pass- ing of the Scotch and English bills, to struggle against the measure. He hoped, however, that the evils which he apprehended from it • would not be realized ; and no man would be more rejoiced, should his expectations prove unfounded. Lord PLUNKET said, it was with great grief that he heard the noble duke ( Wellington) declare that he would give his vote against going into committee on the bill under consideration. For this was in effect to declare that he would deny to Ireland that reform which had been conceded to England and Scotland. It was saying that in England and Scotland, by the mass of the people, and by large majorities of the House of Commons, and by the decree of parlia- ment, rotten boroughs were rooted out as a disgrace to the consti- tution— were excised as sores and ulcers, yet, nevertheless, they ought and should be continued in Ireland, as part of the constitu- tion of that country. Now he contended, that if there was one course of conduct more than another whicb was calculated to fill the ranks of those anxious for a repeal of the union, it was this. Noble lords opposite said this bill would let in Roman Catholics, who would form the great majority of the constituency. Now he did not believe it would. But if the Roman Catholics were in possession of that station and wealth which entitled them to a ma- jority in the constituent body, why should they not have it? His lordship after entering at some length into a defence of the mea- sure, concluded by saying, he had no doubt that deciding that this bill should not go into committee would be regarded by the great body of the people as a refusal to remove their grievances ; and he did believe that this bill would, if passed in its essential principles and details, be received with gratitude by the people, and would be eminently calculated to allay the disturbances which prevailed. After a few remarks from the Marquis of Westmeatb, and Lord Templemore, the bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Thursday next; and their lordships adjourned at ten minutes to seven o'clock. TUESDAY, JULY 24. Lord KENYON presented a petition from the parish of Mary- lebone, complaining of the expenses of the new police. Mr. Bernal, and other members of the House of Commons, brought up the disembodied militia bill, and the removal of soldiers families'bill, and the arms and gunpowder ( Ireland) bill. The linen ( Ireland) manufacture bill was committed. The Newfoundland fishery bill was read a second time. Tbe other bills on the table were advanced a stage. On the motion of the Duke of RICHMOND, their lordships adjourned till Tliursdav. THURSDAY, JULY 26. The linen manufacture bill was read a third time and passed. The Irish boundary bill was brought from the Commons andread a first time. To be read a second time on Monday. Several petitions for and against the new system of Ir ua- tion were presented. LORD CHANCELLOR'S PATRONAGE— The LORD CHANCELLOR 011 presenting a petition from the bankers and merchants of Glasgow, for an amendment of the law between debtor and creditor, took occasion to say that he owed it to himself to take advantage of the earliest opportunity to offer a few words in reply to some observations that were repotted to have been made in re- ference to the appointment to certain offices in his official patronage. He had on various occasions emphatitally expressed his opinion that the office of Chancellor was paid on the worst principles that could have been adopted for the remuneration of so high an office; tbe payment being partly salary, partly fees, and partly patronage ; all— one as much as the olher— being intended for the sustentation of the dignity of the Lord Chancellor and his family. The noble and learned lord, after going into some detail upon the subject, then proceeded to say, that the bill which he meant next week to lay before the house, and which, as he said, was but an enlargement of that of last session, would embrace provisions for abolishing the two identical offices, the appointment to which had given rise to the present explanation. One word in reference to that appointment. While the bill to which he referred was in course of preparation, the melancholy event occurred which occasioned a vacancy in the two offices filled by the late Mr. Scott. He need not say that under the present system, he was as fully entitled to the patronage thus thrown into his hands, as he was to his salary, or any other portion of the emoluments of his office. He need not repeat, that he conceived this to be a bad mode of official remuneration, and one which he was determined to use every means in his power to abo- lish. But surely it did not follow, that because he had pledged himself to the abolition of those sinecures, that he should, when the appointments thus unexpectedly fell into his hands, refrain from taking possession of some of the emoluments of his office, be- fore any regulation bad been adopted for placing them on a better footing. ( Hear.) The proposition was absurd, and surely never entered into the head of any man possessing brains; so that he was convinced that the question put by a learned gentleman another place, which seemed to insinuate that he was violating his pledge by filling up the appointment, had no such mean- ing, and wholly originated fiom a laudable anxiety to " elicit information on a matter affecting the character of the highest law authority." ( A laugh.) " Yes," continued the learned lord, " I am bound to believe— nay, cannot for a moment doubt, that the learned gentleman was wholly influenced by this most praiseworthy desire of information. How could I think otherwise, knowing as 1 do, in common with that eminent * high law authority,' that philosophers have long since eulogized this laudable thirst of knowledge as the most distinguished attri bute of humanity, and as the most distinguished feature of an in- genuous and lofty intellect? ( Cheers and laughter.) Yes, my lords, we have all read, that it is this Heaven- born thirst of infor- mation, and its condition,— at least invariable concomitant, a self- disregarding and candid mind, that most distinguishes man from the crawling reptile— that most distinguishes man from the wasp that stings, and from the wasp that fain would, but cannot, sting. ( Loud, cheers.) Ay, distinguishes us from not only tbe insect that crawls and stings, but from that more powerful, because more of- fensive, creature, the bug, who, powerful and offensive as it is, is, after all, but so much loathsome vermin. ( Continued cheers and laughter.) Yes, I say, it is this laudable propensity, upon which humanity justly prides itself, which 1 have no doubt solely influ- enced tbe learned gentleman to whom I allude, to seek for informa- tion which- it would be cruel stingily to gratify." ( Hear, hear, and a laugh.)— Fortunately, so far as the cavil of little minds was concerned, he had living witnesses in that House and elsewhere to testify, that before the melancholy occasion of the vacancies, and 48 hours after they had occurred, lie bad expressed bis firm deter- mination to go on with the self- same sinecure- abolishing bill, pre- cisely as if these vacancies were not likely to occur, or never had occurred. (" Hear, hear," froin the Treasury bench.) He would not limit his exertions to the abolishing of the two sineenros more immediately under consideration, but should proposes measure for abolishing all the sinecures connected with his office, the majority of which, as they knew, were filled by noble rclalives of his pre- decessors in office. The learned lord proceeded next lo say, that it was necessary to the public business that ihe office of Registrar of Affidavits should be promptly filled up, a case having occurred within 48 hours after tbe vacancy, which compelled him to make himself responsible for tbe necessary registering of a very import- ant affidavit. It was found, oil inquiry, that Ibis could only be legally performed by tbe deputy registrar; and as there coold be no deputy where there was no principal, it became necessary to ap point a principal, for him to invest tbe deputy with the proper functional authority. Then the point was, who should he appoint 1 In the first place, he had a bill in progress for doing away with the office altogether; in other words, the appointment should be merely temporary, to be valid only till the bill had passed into a law. He, therefore, took especial care to appoint a gentleman upon whom lie could exercise great influence, and in whom he bad implicit confi- dence, that when he gave the word he would at once vacate the office, without the remotest whisper, or insinuation of a complaint, of violation of vested rights, or any other slang set up by the defenders of sinecures and obsolete institutions. ( Hear.) He, therefore, appointed his own brother, who, in accepting the ap- pointment, was put to more inconvenience than, perhaps, his cavillers would be ready to expose themselves to, anxious as tliey were to preserve immaculate the character of the dispensers of jus- tice in high places. The learned lord having repeated at some length his determination to proceed at all hazards with his intended sinecure abolition bill, said in conclusion, that if ever there was an individual whom it would cost nothing to abide by its provisions, no matter at what expense of personal emolument, he was that in- dividual. ( Cheers.) The Earl of ELDON could take it upon himself positively to declare from long professional experience, that the learned lord could not, without violating his duty to tbe public, have acted otherwise than he did, in filling up tbe two appointments to which he had just referred. ( Hear, hear.) The Duke of WELLINGTON was a willing witness to the rea- diness with which the learned lord sacrificed the emolument of his office to promote the public service. After a few words from Lords Grey and Wynford, tbe discussion here dropped, and the order of the day was moved for the house resolving itself into a committee on the IRISH REFORM BILL After Lords Oriel and Ellenbo rough and the Earl of Roden had expressed their disapprobation of tbe measure, the house then went into committee on the bill. The preamble of the bill was, after a few words from tbe Marquis of Westmeath against it, postponed, as a matter of course. The va- rious clauses were then gone into, and, after some proposed amend ments had been either withdrawn or negatived without a division, agreed to; also the schedules with some verbal amendments were agreed to. The house resumed, and the report was ordered to be received to- morrow. Adjourned at 12 o'clock. FRIDAY, JULY 27. The Russian loan bill was brought up from tbe Commons, read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Monday. IRISH REFORM BILL.— The report of the committee on this bill was received, and tbe bill was ordered to be read a third time on Monday next. Adjourned at half past 6 o'elock. HOUSE OF COMMONS, MONDAY, JULY 23. Mr. STEPHEN AND GENERAL DARLING— Mr. M. O'CONNELL presented a petition from Mr. John Stephen, the younger, late of New South Wales, complaining of his dismissal from office without just cause, by General Darling, and praying for inquiry. Lord I10WICK said, that tbe petitioner had neither been de- clared " guilty" nor " not guilty" of any act whatever. He had been dismissed as unfit longer to serve the Crown in that colony with advantage to the public. After some observations by Mr. Hume, Mr. Bulwer, Mr. Dixon, and Sir C. Forbes, the petition was laid on the table ; and Mr. O'CONNELL gave notice that be would to- morrow move an Address to the Crown for an inquiry into the facts of the peti- tion. Mr. IIUME gave notice that, on tbe 2d August, he would move for an Address to tbe Crown for an inquiry into the conduct of General Darling. To a question by Sir Ft. PEEL, relative to the Greek Loan Lord ALTHORP was understood to say that the guarantee ex- tended only to one- third of tbe Loan. COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY— Mr. S. RICE moved that a sum of 15,000/. be granted towards defraying the expense of erect ing a national picture- gallery and record- office. Sir R. PEEL expressed his cordial acquiescence in this vote, which had been brought forward in accordance with the sentiments expressed by the House when the subject was formerly before them. Several other hon. members expressed their approbation of the grant. In replying to a question of Sir M. RIDLEY, Lord ALTHORP said, that Cleopatra's Needle was certainly an object of great curiosity, but from inquiries put to persons who had lately seen it, he believed that it was not in a state sufficiently perfect to justify any considerable expenditure on its removal.— Inquiry on the subject was however going on. ' i'he vote was agreed to. Vote proposed— 4,973/. 4s. to defray the expenses of the Civil Establishment of tbe Bahama Islands, for the five quarters, ending the 31st March, 1833. Mr. HUME objected to the large salaries given to governors of some of the small colonies, at a time when the colonists themselves were complaining of great distress. Mr. HUNT thought tbe salary of the Governor of the Bahamas too high ; and he moved, as an amendment, that the whole vole be reduced by the sum of 635/. Sir C. WETHERELL— Does the honourable Member for Mid dlesex think that his objection to- night is either fair or candid, after bis speech on the Russian- Dutch Loan. ( Hear, hear.) Can be imagine, after that display, that his miserable wretched cavils about economy can be heard without utter scorn and contempt " ( Cheers.) Those who heard the manner in which be then argued and voted, that black was white, for the purpose of keeping Mi nisters in office, when the sum in question was three millions, must hear with ineffable contempt his dirty squabbling on the question whether a man, who exposes his life for the service of his country is to lose a few hundreds a- year of his income ? ( Cheer).) I say that it is clear that this vote is not one penny more than it ought to be ; and I trust that the hon. Member for Middlesex will in future abstain from insulting the Hous? with his petty fartbingeconomy, and from daring to indulge in his contemptuous attempt to per- suade us to adopt so paltry and miserable a policy. ( Hear, hear.) Mr. HUME— If any thing like what has just fallen from the hon. and learned gentleman had fallen from any other person, I cer- tainly should have been surprised at it; but I am so accustomed to hear from him language which no other member would us, that all surprise has long ago ceased. ( Cheers.) I will, however, take the liberty of telling him this— that before he finds fault, he should learn to speak the truth ; for the vote lo which he has alluded had nothing to do with economy whatever, but was made up entirely of parly feeling, to serve party purposes. ( Loud cheers.) The fact, however, is, that the honourable and learned gentfiman and bis friends feel that their scheme has completely failed ; and they were so sore under it—( Cheers and laughter)— that now they are smarting, they are ready to take this or any other mode of exhibit- ing their sensations. ( Hear, hear.) I beg to tell the honourable and learned gentleman that I shall dare to state to the House what- ever I may think proper and right, and in so doing not be guided by his opinion as to whether I am insulting Parliament. If any one has insulted the House of Commons it is the lion, and learned gentleman himself. ( Loud cheers.) Nay, further, if any one has made himself absurd, inconsistent, and ridiculous in Ibis House, it is tlie honourable and learned gentleman—( Laughter and cheers) — and as to treating the House in a contemptuous manner, I hope no one feels that any thing of that sort has ever proceeded from me. With respect to this being a miserable reduction, 1 do not believe that the hon. and learned gentleman knows any thing about it; he has come in the middle of the discussion, and talked on a subject concerning which he knows nothing. My observations went to the Colonies in general; and my argument was, that it was a bad ex- ample to be paying the officers high salaries, while tbe colonists themselves were suffering from distress. I therefore say that the honourable and learned gentleman's observations were unworthy of Ihe House of Commons, and that he is continually attempting to state what is not tiie fact. After some further discussion the vote was agreed to. The following votes, after a few observations from Mr. Hume and other honourable members, were agreed to :— 4,970/. to defray the charge on the civil establishments of the Bahamas. 800/. for tbe civil establishments of Nova Scotia. 5,624/. for tbe civil establishment of Bermuda. 4,0251. for Prince Edward's Island. 16,576/. for the civil establishment of Newfoundland. 43,043/. for tbe civil establishments on the western coast of Africa. 27,438/. to defray the charge of the ecclesiastical establishment ill the North American Colonies. Mr. RICE then proposed that a sum of 37,5001, be granted to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in aid of the funds to be appro- priated to the new system of spiritual education iu that country. Mr. J. E. Gordon, Mr. Goulburn, Sir R, Inglis, Sir H. Hayes, Colonel Sibtborp, and Mr. Lefroy, opposed the granting of this vote. • The Committee then divided— For the grant, 68 ; Against it 17— Majority 51. 11,160/. was voted for Maynooth College, on an understanding that a discussion respecting its propriety should take place when the report was brought up. Tbe Hous£ then resumed. The Chairman reported progress, and the report was ordered to be taken into consideration to- morrow. The Russian- Dutch Loan bill was read a second time, and or dered to be committed to- morrow. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at a quarter past three o'clock. TUESDAY, JULY 24. Mr. HUME presented a petition from Marylebone complaining of the expense of the new police. Mr. LAMB admitted that there was a large increase of ex pense, but there was a great addition to the police force, and to its efficiency. The petition was ordered to lie upon tbe table and to be printed Mr. S. RICE moved that the House do resolve itself into a com mittee on tbe Dublin coal meters' compensation bill. The compen- sation would be small, and was to be afforded by a local duty of 4d a ton on coals ( not Irish) imported into Dublin, and from that duty all coals used in manufactures were to be exempt. The House resolved itself into the committee, the resolution therein proposed was agreed to, the House resumed, and the re- port was ordered to be received to- morrow. On the motion of Mr. John Abel Smith, a bill to amend the law relating to the protesting of certain bills of exchange was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Friday, Mr. SHEIL postponed until the 2d of August his motion re- garding tho established church of Ireland. Mr. RUTIIVEN withdrew his motion for a committee on the state of Ireland. Mr. HUME moved for leave to bring in a bill to disqualify the Recorder of Dublin from holding a seat in that House. It led to a good deal of discussion, the Chancellor of the Exche- quer, Sir R. Peel, & c., maintaining that if its principle were good, tbe bill ought to be general, and not levelled at one office in particular. Mr. HUME said be had no objection to make the bill general. The House divided— For the motion, 33— Against it, 16— Majority, 17. Mr. HUME moved for an address for copies of those acts of the Canadian legislature which had received the sanction of his Ma- jesty, and which imposed a tax on emigrants arriving from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Motion agreed to. Mr. HUME, after making some observations on tbe unstamped penny publications, moved for " a return of the number of persons convicted for the sale of unstamped publications, from the 31st of December, 1831, to tbe present lime— tbe number sentenced to confinement, the period of their imprisonment for each offence, and the names of the magistrates before whom they were convicted." Lord ALTHORP said, be was far from denying that many of the cheap publications were most useful, and he never for a moment desired to see them altogether suppressed ; but he did not at that time see any mode of reconciling their existence . vith justice towards the proprietors of stamped publications, otherwise than by dimi- nishing the duties now payable; to that, however, be could not just now make up his mind, and until such reduction was effected the proprietors of stamped publications ought to be protected. After some remarks from other boil, members, Lord ALTHORP proposed, as an amendment," That the names of the magistrates do not form any part of the return." Mr. HUME agreed to dispense with the names of the individual magistrates, provided the offices were stated. The gallery was then cleared for a division, but none took place; and the motion was, we understand, agreed to. Mr. HUNT moved for " a return of the annual number of per sons flogged in each regiment, & c., during the last seven years." Sir J. HOBHOUSE said, he wished to add to the motion of the hon. member the number of men in tbe army at the different pe riods, so that the extent of punishment might be compared with the men employed. Tbe right hon. gentleman concluded by moving for various returns agreeably to the motion of Mr. Hunt, omitting the names of regiments and officers. And an additional return of the number of men in the army, and of other punishments inflicted than those of corporal punishments, during tbe last seven years. After some discussion, in which Sir J. Brydges, Sir G. Murray, Mr. Hume, and Lord Ingestrie took part, Mr. Hunt withdrew his motion, and that of Sir J. Hobbouse was agreed to. TITHES' COMPOSITION ( IRELAND) BILL). — Mr. STANLEY moved the order of the day for going into committee on the Irish tithe bill. The order of the day - was then read. On the question that the Speaker do leave tbe chair, Mr. SHEIL said he rose to move an instruction to the committee to recite in the preamble of the bill, that the tithe composition should be extended wilh a view to the levying of the first fruits according to their real value, and to such future appropriation to the purposes of religion, education, and charity, as, after making a due provi- sion for the maintenance of the church, should to Parliament seem proper. The lion, and learned gentleman, after going into a detail on the object of his motion, and stating his objections to the bill, thus expressed himself with regard to the tithe meetings in Ireland, and the means resorted to by Government to suppress them. He said, what was the state of Ireland? If it was formidable when the King's speech was pronounced, it had become terrific ; and to what expedient did Government resort? They gorged their gaols with the leaders of public assemblies. But would these proceedings allay or mitigate the feeling which pervaded those assemblies, and by which millions of men were swayed, and taught to feel with the unity of a single man1. If the processions at Birmingham had been dispersed, and its banners levelled with the earth, and its leaders flung into gaol, would the call fur reform have been suppressed ? ( Cheers.) As idle it was to hope that strong measures of the exe- cutive would in Ireland supersede tbe necessity of wise and sala- tary legislation. They had refused the reform ; and in refusing the reform, the Whigs had charged the Tories with their fatal delays. " Had you," they said, " availed yourselves of the opportunity given by East Retford— bad you availed yourselves of Huskisson'a ad monition— how much evil might have been averted— what a cloud charged with peril might have passed away ?" and now we address to them the very same admonition— we call on them— we entreat them— we implore— we supplicate them— to apply measures of prompt, of immediate reform to the Irish church. ( Cheers.) The abuses of your boroughs were not worse. The cry from Ireland for the reform of that church is as strong as that which appalled you into concession of Parliamentary reform. Wait till the new Par- liament— wait for eight months. If you wait for Parliament, will events wait for you? What will befal it at the next election? What shall those who are disposed to be the friends of Govern- ment tell the people? What will they be able to say in their de- fence when the bill is brought forward, and we are asked whether an Irish Parliament would ever have passed a bill like this 1 For God's sake 1 awake to a sense of your and our condition, and of the perils that environ you, and threaten such calamity to the entire empire! There is yet time— the precious opportunity has not passed— seize it— it is irrevocable— and if permitted to go by, it will be for ever lost. Mr. Slieil concluded by moving the instruc- tion to the committee to recite in the preamble that the composition was to be extended with a view lo levying the first fruits according to their real value, and the appropriation of tithes to such purposes of religion, education, and charity, as to Parliament, after making a due provision for tbe established church, should seem proper. Mr. WALLACE seconded his hon. and learned friend's propo- sition. He should not act as an honest man if he did not express the opinion, deeply impressed on his mind by the speech of the right hon. the Chief Secretary for Ireland. That opinion was, that the measure was a perfect fallacy, aud a fraud on the hopes and wishes of the people of Ireland. It must in its progress produce the greatest mischiefs. It was not the measure which had been pro- mised to Ireland. It was unjust in all its principles; and he was convinced it would turn out to be unproductive of any benefit, either to the clergy, the landowners, or the people of Ireland. Mr. STANLEY said, that the hon. and learned gentleman op- posite seemed to have but one object throughout his speech, and that was to charge the government with having promised relief which they never intended to give. He ( Mr. Stanley) asserted that an examination of all that had taken place would show that this charge was utterly unfounded. The hon. and learned member had asserted, that neither by this nor by the other measures would the government be able to extinguish tithes. He did not know what meaning the hon. and learned gpnt/ eman attached to the ex- pression " extinction of tiiiies," unless he thought it was descriptive of a plan which substituted an entirely different mode of payment for the clergy. After some further observations, the right hon. gen- tleman proceeded to say he would not consent, nor would a ma- jority of that house consent to any resolution by which the legisla- ture would be pledged to permit the application of church property to any other than ecclesiastical purposes ( heat). That there were grievances connected with the church which called for redress, and that there were abuses in it which required reform, he was ready to admit—( hear)— but, as it was not the object of the reform bill to destroy the constitution, neither was it the object of the changes now proposed to destroy the property of the church ( hear). He would oppose tbe extension of the preamble of the bill by tlie in- troduction of those pledges by which the object of the hill would be declared to be that which was not its object. The house then divided— against the amendment, 79; for it, 18; majority, 61. The house then went into committee upon the bill pro forma, and the chairman obtained leave to sit again next day. The other orders of the day having been disposed of, the house adjourned at half- past two o'clock. WEDNESDAY, JULY 25. After some petitions had been presented, Colonel LINDSEY asked whether it was the intention of the government to bring in a bill for ( lie establishment of the police in the various municipalities of the kingdom^? Lord ALTHORP said, the government had no such intention m the present session of parliament. He hoped the anticipations of what the government meant to do on tbe subject would not pre- vent the municipal authorities in the kingdom from introducing local acts. Sir R. INGLIS moved that the house should resolve itself into s committee on the state of their library. After a brief conversation on the subject, Sir R. INGLIS proposed to postpone the motion for a week, which was done accordingly. Sir E. SUGDEN called the attention of the noble lord oppo- site to the filling up of the sinecure offices of the Court of Chan- cery, which he understood were to have been abolished. The greatest complaints were made when one of these offices was held by a son of Lord Eldon, and the various offices and the various fees of the Court of Chancery were then attacked freely enough ; but not one word of objection was uttered now that the money was to be received by different persons. He complained, besides, of the delay that had taken place in settling the salary and the retired allowances of the Chancellor. He wished to know in what way the noble lord opposite explained the recent appointment of Registrar of the Court of Chancery ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that those offices, which were in the gift of tbe Lord Chancellor, must be filled up as they became vacant, until they were legally abolished. He was desirous that the question of the Lord Chancellor's salary should be decided as soon as possible; but he had hitherto been unable to bring it forward on account of the important business already before the house. Sir R. Peel, Mr. Hume, Alderman Venables, Sir F. Burdett, & c. declared that, after what Lord Brougham had said about abolishing sinecure offices in the Court of Chancery, the appointment of his brother to be Clerk of the Patents and Registrar of Affidavits in the Court of Chancery could only be " provisional." CHOLERA.— In answer to a question from Col. EVANS, Mr. P. THOMSON said that, in the city, arrangements had been made to bury out of town all persons who should die of cho- lera. He trusted that the example would be followed by the other parts of the metropolis. CUSTOMS' DUTIES' BILL— The house then went into a committee on the customs' duties' bill. A division took place on the amendment of Mr. Burge, that the duty on coffee be reduced to 4d. per pound, which was lost by a majority of 31. Several other amendments for reducing the duties on customed goods were negatived. All the clauses of the bill were gone through, the house resumed, and the report was ordered lo be received next day. THE LORD CHANCELLOR— Mr. SPRING RICE hav- ing moved the order of the day for the house to resolve itself into a committee of supply, The ATTORNEY- GENERAL rose and said he understood that in an early part of the evening some observations had fallen from an honourable member on an appointment which had reeently been made by his noble and learned friend the Lord Chancellor. It had been supposed that the Lord Chancellor had, in his state- ment of last year, intimated an intention that was entirely incon- sistent with the step which he had just taken. His lordship, in the discussion alluded to, did certainly declare his opinion, that the payment of judicial salaries, especially that of the Great Seal, by fees and sinecure offices, was unsatisfactory and inconsistent with tlie dignity which onght to belong to those offices ; and therefore that it was most desirable that such a mode of remuneration should be got rid of. But his noble and learned friend had actually pre- pared a bill on the subject, which was perfectly ready to be laid © n the table of the House of Lords; and which the Lord Chancellor would have introduced into the House of Lords some time ago, but for circumstances over which he had no controul. Tbe death of Mr. Scott, and the subsequent appointment, would make no alteration whatever in the Lord Chancellor's determination to proceed with the bill, one provision ol which was the abolition of the very office in question. But while the office did continue in existence, bis noble and learned friend felt it to be his duty to his family to con-. July 43. THE TOWM, 239 fer it on an individual who had so strong a claim upon him as his brother. But, he repeated, there was nothing whatever in that act which was inconsistent with tbe former declarations of his Noble nd learned friend. . COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY The House then resolved itself into a Committe of Supply. Grants to the following amount were then agreed to :— 13,4507. for defrayiug the expence of settlements in Western Australia. 25,0001. for works in Upper and Lower Canada. 62,500I. for a quarter of a year's expenditure in improving the Water Communication in Canada. 18,0001. for maintaining and repairing the Rideau Canal. 11,482/. for Salaries to tbe Governors and Lieutenant- Governors of the West India Colonies, & c. 78,0001. for charges in Scotland heretofore paid out of the, Here- ditary Revenue. 9,579i. for Supplementary Ordnance Estimates for Barbadoes. 2,3001. for Ordnance Repairs in St. Vincent. Several other Estimates relating to the Ordnance were then agreed to, and the. Chairman reported progress, and the Report was or- dered to be received to- morrow. IRELAND.— The Boundaries' ( Ireland) Bill was read a third time and passed. REGISTER OF DEEDS' ( IRELAND) BILL.— The House went into Committee on this Bill. On the motion of Mr. SIIEIL, that tbe Registrar be required to attend daily, the Committee divided— For the original question 35 ; against it 4; Majority 31. After two amendments moved by Mr. Hume and negatived, the other clauses of the Bill were then agreed to, the House resumed, and the report was ordered to be received to- morrow. The other orders of the day were then ( disposed of, and the House adjourned at four o'clock. THURSDAY, JULY 26. Several petitions were presented. On the motion of Mr. Spring Rice, tbe tax cart bill, tbe chari- table institutions ( Ireland) bill, and the prisoner's removal bill ( Ireland), were read a third time and passed. Ou tbe motion of Mr. S. Rice, the report of the committee of supply, exclusive of the postponed estimates, was received and agreed to. MILITARY ESTABLISHMENTS.— Colonel EVANS rose, pursuant to notice, to propose resolutions, and move for certain re- turns, concerning the military establishments of the country. It was now, he thought, time, as ministers had carried to a successful termination tbe great objects they had been engaged in, to remind them of the pledges which they, as well as almost every member of the House, had given on tbe subject of economy. After going into considerable detail upon the subject, tfce hon. and gallant colonel concluded by moving a series of resolutions, to the effect that, as the internal tranquillity of the country was secured by the passing of the reform bill, the House was of opinion that the effective land force in Great Britain and Ireland should be reduced to tbe number of men of which it consisted in 1831.; that the reductions should include the Irish yeomanry, the English militia, the regimental depot reserves, and those employed in the enlistment duty; that reductions should also be made in the ordnance and canal stores, in tbe military establishments of Ceylon and Mauritius, in the foreign half- pay list, in the expenditure of the household troops, and in the effective force at Malta and in other colonies. Sir J. HOBHOUSE, after some preliminary remarks, proceeded to advert to the resolutions in detail, contending that their adoption would be inexpedient, and maintaining that every practicable en- deavour was made at the War- office to lessen the expenditure. He would offer no objection to tbe production of the first returns moved for by his hon. and gallant friend ; and with regard lo the second, he would meet it as far as the limited means at his disposal would permit. Repeating the assurance that every practicable reduction would be made, he regretted to say that he could not altogether agree with bis gallant friend on one individual point, and con- ceived it better to meet his proposal by moving the previous question. Mr. HUME seconded the motion of his hon. and gallant friend, and urged the adoptton of the resolutions in a long speech. After Lord Althorp, Sir G. Murray, Sir H. Parnell, Sir A. Dai- rymple, Mr. Sheil, and other hon. members, had expressed them- selves on the subject, Colonel EVANS briefly replied ; and tbe previous question was then carried without a division. The returns, as amended by Sir John Hobliouse, were then ordered to be laid on the table. Mr. EASTHOPE moved for certain returns to the issues made by the Bank of England, and other transactions of that establish- ment, which motion, after a brief discussion, was negatived without a division. Mr. WYSE, after some prefatory remarks, moved that an humble address be presented to his Majesty, praying that he would be gra- ciously pleased to direct the commissioners of education in Ireland - to inquire into the number and state of the diooesan schools, the amount of their revenues, whence those revenues were derived, and - how they were applied. Motion agreed to. CHOLERA RETURNS.— Colonel SIBTHORP moved for a let urn of the daily cases of choltra for the last three months, and that instructions be sent to each parish to keep a monthly register of the number of burials; which motion was negatived without a . division. SINECURE OFFICES IN THE COURT OF CHANCERY. — On our return to the gallery we found Mr. BO- LDERO moving for a copy of the appointment of the Clerk of the Patents and Registrar of Affidavits in the Court of Chancery. The motion, which led to some conversation relative to the Lord Chancellor having appointed his brother to tlios*. offices, was agreed to. RUSSIAN DUTCH LOAN.— On the motion of Lord Althorp, the Russian Dutch loan bill was read a third time and passed. After a few words from Mr. Freshfield, the bankrupt act amend- ment bill was also read a third time and passed. FORGERY BILL.— The ATTORNEY- GENERAL moved that the further consideration of the report of the above bill be postponed till Monday next. Postponed accordingly. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and at a quarter after two o'clock the House adjourned, there being but fifteen members present, FRIDAY, JULY 27. Several petitions were presented. On the question that the House go into a committee of ways and means, to enable the Chancellor of the Exchequer to detail his financial statement, Sir E. SUGDEN adverted, in strong terms, to the Lord Chancellor's remarks on him on Thursday, and concluded by saying, that once and for ever he declared, that from the present moment he had lost all personal respect for the individual who was capable of using such language as the noble and learned lord had applied to him. ( Hear.) Mr. STANLEY called the hon. and learned gentleman to order, and said that he appeared to be going beyond the latitude usually allowed by the House on such occasions, in commenting in such strong terms, not on charges, but expressions, with regard to a subject which the hon. and learned member had already brought under the consideration of the House. Several other members took part in this conversation, which for some time delayed the bringing forward of the budget. FINANCIAL STATEMENT. Lord ALTHORP then addressed the Committee, and said that he rose to submit the statement of finance which it was his duty to bring under the consideration of the Committee. He commenced by showing a comparison of the receipt and expen diture for the years 1830 and 1831: in the former year the in- come exceeded the expenditure by 2,768,6007., leaving that amount applicable to the liquidation of debt. In 1831 the ex- penditure exceeded the income by 600,000/. to 700,0007. This seeming default, however, had not arisen from any diminution in the general consumption of taxable commodities, The re mission of duty on coals and slate coastways, the less amount received for duty on corn, and remission of certain excise du- ties, exceeded by more than a million the deficiency in the receipt; the increase of consumption, however, had not equalled expectation, and thereby accounted for the expenditure ex- ceeding the income. The present and prospective state of the finances was next submitted to the attention of the House. After giving his predecessors credit for their exertions in reducing the salaries and day pay of the subordinate employes of the Go- vernment in the years 1828, 1830, to the extent of 340,0007., the Noble Lord stated, that he had already effected a similar reduction to the extent of 234,0007., and promised to extend to another 100,0007.; and, after recapitulating other reductions, he summed up the estimated expenditure for the current year as amounting to 45,696,3007. against 47,858,4007. for the past year, being a diminution in the expenditure of 2,162,1007. To meet this expenditure, after anticipating an increase on last year of about 430,0007., by the expiring of bounties on linen exported, and increase of proceeds on wine, tobacco, & c., and a diminu- tion of 100,0007. on the articles proposed for reduction of duty in the schedule now before the House, 80,0007. for remission of the duty on sugar lost by drainage, and the absence of all duty on corn, consequent on the favourable prospect of the pending harvest, the noble lord represented the customs duty as likely to produce 15,871,0007. being 404,0007. less than in 1831. In re- ference to this diminution the noble lord adverted to cholera, the past political excitement, contraction of currency, and the exchanges having been against us, as having tended to occasion a less favourable result than wished for. The Excise, which last year the Noble Lord represented to have produced 16,516,6327., after anticipating an increase on malt hops, and spirits, to the amount of 690,000?., and a diminution by the repeal of the duty on candles, & c., he expected would produce 16,850,0007. ; the other branches of the revenue he ex- pected to produce the same as last year, making the aggregate net income to be 46,470,0007., being a surplus over and above the estimated expenditure, of 773,7007. These estimates the Noble Lord anticipated would enable him to carry on the affairs of the Government until the 5th of April next; but as, on the 5th of April last, the deficiency of income exceeded 1,200,0007., there would, on the 5th of April next, be a deficiency of about 400,0007. He should now conclude with moving, as he conceived it to be his duty to do, for the renewal, without any reduction whatever, of the duties on sugar. His lordship then proposed the following resolution,—" That it is the opinion of this com- mittee that the several duties on sugar and molasses, payable under an act of the 1st of his preseEt Majesty, be further conti- nued ti l the 5th of April, 1833." Mr. GOULBURN observed at some length on the statement of the noble lord, and concluded by saying, that as far as the statement of the noble lord, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, went, he ( Mr. Goulburn) did not believe that he had taken too sanguine a view or calculation of the ordinary resources of the country, and lie thought that if they could judge of events so as to entertain a moral certainty that the country would not be sub- jected to, or concerned in, any new calamity for a very long period, the statement would be satisfactory. Sir R. Peel, Sir H, Parnell, and a few other han. members, made some observations on the statement of the noble lord. The resolution was then agreed to. The following resolutions were agreed to without discussion:— 8,450,0007. to be granted to make good the supply for the year 1832.— 1,471,3337. to be granted from the surplus of ways and means of former years.— 13,896,6007. to be raised by exchequer bills for the service of 1832. The House resumed, and the report was ordered to be received next day. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at two o'clock. COUNTRY MISCELLANEA. AFFAIRS OF GERMANY.— A meeting, rather thinly but re- spectably attended, was held on Wednesday at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand, to express, as the requisition stated, their indignation and abhorrence at the invasion lately made by the Diet of Frankfort on the ancient liberties of the Germanic States. Colonel Evans, M. P., Mr. Wyse, M. P., Sir W. Bra- bazon, Mr. Murray, Count Czapski, M. Bach, with several other foreigners were present. Mr. T. Campbell as chairman, opened the proceedings in a feeling and energetic speech, towards the conclusion of which he said, " If England allowed Germany to be enslaved by Princes who were themselves the slaves of Rus- sia, she might, when too late, repent in sack- cloth and ashes over her departed liberties. The measures of Napoleon against English commerce would be but a jest, a mere feather, com- pared with the hostility of the present continental despots. ( Hear.) He would ask, had they expended so much blood to get rid of that overwhelming incubus, only to sink under a more hopeless and destructive dominion ? War he did not love, but if peace was to be purchased by slavery, he would say with Constantine, ' Peace to me is war.' He did not wish to repose under the yew- tree of Russian tyranny,* which, having slaugh- tered the inhabitants of Poland, was now striding over their tomb- stones to the massacre of German freemen." ( Cheers.)— The meeting was then addressed by Colonel Evans, M. P., Mr. Wyse, M. P., Mr. Bach, a native of Germany, and other gen- tlemen, and resolutions in accordance with the object of the meeting were unanimously passed, after which thanks were voted to the chairman, and the meeting separated. DESCENT TO HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP BOYNE.— PORTSMOUTH, JULY 25.— A person has obtained the sanction of the Admi- ralty to descend, by means of air- pipes, to the wreck of the Boyne, late of 98 guns, which, it may be in the recollection of many, caught fire by accident at Spithead, on the 1st of May, 1795, at eleven in the morning, drifted from her moorings, and finally blew up, about six in the evening of the same day, oppo- site Southsea Castle. At low water the wreck is approached at about two or three fathoms. A ladder of sufficient length reaches the wreck from a vessel moored over. The person de- scends, his head enveloped in a large leaden mask, with glass eyelets, protected by small brass bars, his body covered with an Indian rubber dress, leaving his hands perfectly free, as also his legs and feet. By this means he traverses the wreck, and has been enabled to suspend a few twenty- four pounders, which were hoisted into the vessel above. This afternoon he disco- vered what it is supposed was the captain's ( the late Sir George Grey, Bart.) wine- store. He first brought up one bottle, then two ; he then took down a basket, which he filled, and finally brought up twenty- one bottles— claret and port, which of course have been immerged in salt water for the last thirty- seven years. He refused on the deck of the vessel twenty shillings a bottle for it, but handsomely tapped one by way of taster for the by- standers. His agreement with Government is to have all he causes to be brought up, except the copper, which is to be de- posited in the dock- yard, for which he will be allowed the usual salvage. An immense number of boats, chiefly filled with ladies, attend every day. The bottles are covered with immense bar- nacles.— The Sun. * ALL FOR LOVE AND A LITTLE FOR THE BOTTLE.— We find the following in a Poughkeepsie Paper, under the quaint title of " Romance of Real Life :"— On Friday, April 26, 1832, D] Fulton, one of the Coroners of this county, was called to view the bodies of Elizabeth Bird and Abraham Vandyck, found drowned in Brown's Pond, town of Clinton. They were tied together round the waist; and from previous declarations, no doubt remained but that they had deliberately made away with themselves. They were seen going to the pond on the Wednes- day preceding, she quite intoxicated, and it was supposed he not much better. They had divested themselves of their upper gar- ments, which were carefully deposited near the lake, together with a bottle containing the remains of a pint of rum, which they had purchased that morning, perhaps not an hour before they took their fatal plunge. Both were habitually intemperate. — New York Paper. DANGEROUS MISTAKE.— On Thursday se'nnight a number of men who had been employed by the police in eleaning and fumigating in the neighbourhood of Stockbridge, when their work was over retired to take some refreshment. One of the individuals present limited himself to one glass of whisky, but, on being urged by the others, agreed to take a bottle of ale. A pint bottle of that beverage was accordingly brought in, a small quantity of which he drank, when, by some mistake or accident, or, not improbably, some trick on the part of his neighbours, a bottle containing a small quantity of vitriol, the remains of what had been employed in fumigation, was substituted for that con- taining the ale. A quantity of the vitriol was poured into his glass, and immediately swallowed. The torture that followed is indescribable. A surgeon was procured, who succeeded in pro- ducing vomiting, and sent the poor man to the Royal Infirmary. TEMPERANCE SOCIETY.— Last week an Auxiliary Temperance Society was formed at Brighton. The Earl of Chichester pre- sided at the first meeting, held on the 11th inst., which was very numerously and respectably attended. A donation of 1007. was announced from the Earl of Egremont, the lord- lieutenant of the county. In the evening Sir Thomas Blomefield took the chair, when the room was crowded to excess, and numbers went away who could not obtain admittance..— Christian Advocate. THE ROYAL WILLIAM AND RODNEY SHIPS.— The Messenger, Admiralty steam- boat, arrived at his Majesty's dock- yard, Pem- broke, on the 17th inst. from Portsmouth, with masts and other stores for that magnificent three- decker, The Royal William, which has been ordered to be got ready for launching in October next. She is the largest ship ever built in Wales, admeasuring about 2700 tons, and will mount 120 guns. From her stern battery she will be able, from her construction, to bring sixteen guns to bear on even a boat at a short distance. That beautiful two- decked ship, Rodney, the largest of that class ever built, pierced for ninety- two guns, is in great progress, and directed to be forthwith got ready for launching from Pembroke dock- yard. All is therefore bustle, and the keels of new ships are ordered to be immediately laid down on their slips. The fighting men say this portends war— the peaceful men fear it.— The Cambrian. RESISTANCE OF THE PAYMENT OF TITHES AT NEW MILLS.— The persons deputed by the Rev. Christopher How, Vicar of Glossop, to collect the Easter dues, or small tithes, having been twice much annoyed in their progress through the above town, by an assembled mob, deemed it prudent to relin- quish for a time the duties they had engaged to perform. The collectors again made their appearance, accompanied by two peaceofficers, and on their arrival demanded the aid of the consta- ble of the town. Thus fortified they again commenced collecting, and were again interrupted, found most of the houses made fast, and received no answer from their repeated knocking at the se- veral doors. During this the mob increased, and with their numbers their temerity increased also. As the purpose of the collectors appeared to be to convince their followers that they were acting upon a legal footing, and consequently had no right to submit to these repeated interruptions, they captured two of the persons conspicuous in the tumult, and carried them to Hayfield, where having represented the matter to J. White Esq., that gentleman dismissed the complaint, and the prisoners were set at large, and met on their return by several hundreds of men, women, and children, who, preceded by flags, with loud shouting, escorted them back to New Mills. Here the mob increased to upwards of a thousand. On Thursday, very early in the morn- ing, three persons on horseback entered the village. They were officers, bearing warrants to take into custody the persons al- ready dismissed, and some 16 others marked on the spot by the oonstable of the town. They went therefore before the magis- trates on that day at petty sessions, Hayfield, where, on the evi- dence of the constable, the whole, except one, were held to bail to appear at the next assizes at Derby to answer to a charge of riot, & c.— Chesterfield Gazette. EXTRAORDINARY DISPATCH.— In the Insolvent Debtors' Court, on Friday evening, an insolvent was ordered to file a copy of settlement, which, in order to entitle him to his discharge that circuit, was necessary should be done before the commis- sioner left Gloucester on the following day. From the length of the deed, it was impossible it could be done. Application was made to Mr. Wm. Hill, law stationer, Westgate Street, Glouces- ter, to get it ready if possible. It appears that Mr. Hill com- menced at seven o'clock, and achieved his undertaking by oae o'clock the following day, to the astonishment of the court, he having written in that time the almost ineredible number of two hundred and fifty folios, or 18,000 words fair and at length. So that supposing him to have worked 12 hours, he must have written upwards of twenty folios per hour, which for rapidity and continuance, exceeds any thing we ever heard of. Glouces- ter Journal. Isaac Cohen, a German Jew, is now living at Coventry, of the advanced age of 104 years, with health and faculties seemingly unimpaired. LORD ALTHORP.— At a meeting at Northampton of the friends and admirers of the Noble Lord, they came to the reso- lution of erecting a statue in bronze, by subscription, to testify the high sense entertained of this great man.—- Northampton Free Press. The total number of felons and other offenders at the late Durham sessions amounted to 114, seventy- four of whom were pitmen for riot, assaults, and other misdemeanours in the colliery district. Thursday a dinner was given at Hastings, in celebration of the Reform triumph. It is computed that 20,000 people sat down to dinner at the tables, 84 in number, which were arranged in the best possible manner. The town was a scene of gaiety throughout the day, as most of the houses were decorated with flowers, shrubs, & c. In the triumphal arch were placed, be- tween the flowers, five boys dressed so as to represent the four ministers— Earl Grey, LordsTJrougham, Russell, and Althorp ; a fifth sat in the centre attired as His Majesty. The whole had a most pleasing effect. The ancient Baronies of Morley and Monteagle are about to be claimed by Mr. Paver, father of Mr. William Paver, of this town.— Sheffield Courant. RENT- ROLL OF THE CITY OF EDINBURGH.— From an ab- stract of the Police Rent- roll and Assessment, from Whitsunday, 1831, to Whitsunday, 1832, we find that the number of pros- pective electors and different rates of rental are as follow :— At 107. yearly rent 1,103 ; above 107. and not 207. 3,891 ; at 207. and upwards, 6,049 : total, 11,043.— Caledonian Mercury. At the late rejoicings at Liskeard on the passing of the re- form bill, the inhabitants resolved that, in the event of a con- test for the north eastern district— for which Liskeard is a polling place— they will provide refreshment at their houses, without charge, for 1,500 or 2,000 electors, the two polling days. This offer at once shows the feeling by which the reformers of that district are actuated, and sets an example which we have no doubt will be followed at other places, should a contest take place.— Devonport Telegraph. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.— On Saturday se'nnight five little boys, the eldest not more than twelve, went to bathe a short dis- tance above Stoke- bridge, Ipswich. William Barnet, a lad aged eight, went into the water first, and in a few minutes he got out of his depth and sunk. A lad named Lane, aged ten, imme- diately after him. He caught hold of him, and the other grasped him tight by the neck ; in consequence of this they were both drowned. Their companions, who could not swim, were un- able to render any assistance.— Colchester Gazette. Sheep breeders are particularly requested, as soon as the ewe has recovered from lambing, to carefully cut away the wool from the dug, that prevents the lamb from easily finding the nipple, as there is no doubt that many thousands of lambs have been lost for want of this precaution, and that the shepherds have not at- tributed their death to the real cause— the wool being, in many instances, sucked in tlie mouth by the lamb, in its eagerness to obtain food, and swallowed with the milk, where the substance once formed, progressively accumulates, and the destruction of the animal inevitably follows. The Bristol compensation bill is now in operation, the com- missioners under it having held their first meeting on Friday last, when their clerk, Mr. Brittan, solicitor, was instructed to give notice to the parties who suffered during the riot to send in their claims. The rated inhabitants of this city are likely, for some years to come, to have the satisfaction of paying annually, in local taxes, about 60,0007.,— a sum nearly equal to one- half of the rental of the city. Government advances Exchequer Bills for the immediate liquidation of the claims, and charges three and a half per cent, interest. ALARMING ACCIDENT.— On Wednesday evening se'nnight, an accident, which might have been attended with very fatal consequences, occurred in the Catholic Sunday School, Wake- field- stroet, Manchester. It appears that for some days previous there had been frequent rows amongst the lower orders of Irish, and that the Catholic priests had called together a meeting, in. order to bring about a reconciliation. About 300 persons were accordingly assembled in the school- room, a reconciliation had been effected, and the Rev. Mr. Parsons was addressing some words of exhortation to them, when a portion of the floor ( the width of the building, and about sixty yards in length) gave way at one, and the whole of the people standing upon it, about sixty in number, were precipitated upon the floor beneath. That floor withstood the pressure for a moment or two, and then also gave way, and the people fell through another story, upon the second floor of the building, which sustained their weight. Pro- videntially no lives were lost, but upwards of fifty persons were carried to the Infirmary, all more or less injured by the fall. ILFRACOMBE.— The Dove which sailed from this port a few weeks since, with emigrants for America, was brought to by a pirate, who hoisted French colours but spoke in English. The pirate demanded medicine, coals, and other articles, which the commander ( Captain Huxtable) refused to comply with, and drew his men up on the quarter- deck to present an attitude. The robber did not much relish their appearance, but fired a gun, which was promptly returned, and he sheered off, as he appeared apprehensive.— Western Times. A few days ago a young man at Appleby undertook, for a tri- fling wager, to drink the enormous quantity of four and a half gallons of ale in sixteen hours, a pint every half hour, which he accomplished within the time.— Carlisle Patriot. On Thursday forenoon, a fire broke out in the village o£ Chudleigh Knighton, and so destructive was its progress, that; fourteen houses, a barn full of wheat, and various outbuildings, were consumed ; one calf and ten pigs were destroyed by the fire. No lives were lost.— Western Times. Some ignorant and misguided wretches set fire, on Thursday night, to the wooden building erected as a cholera hospital in. the neighbourhood of the Black Rock. So speedy was the con- flagration, that an old woman, who acted as nurse, and was ia care of the, building, escaped with the greatest difficulty from til? flames.— Dublin Morning Register. Mr. Boyton's Club have resolved to collect a Protestant Rent/ to which Mr. Saurin has subscribed. We understand that a portion of this fund is to be applied to influence the new elections; in favour of the Tory candidates. Without commenting on the unconstitutional nature of such an act, we venture to suggest that the new Bribery Bill will effectually prevent such an outlay of capital.— Dublin Times. A NOVEL POLITICAL I'BOJECT.— A public meeting was lately held in the village of Motherwell, Scotland, at which it was re- solved that all persons in possession of houses ought to have a; voice in the election of representatives, whether such houses were worth 107. or not. In order to effect this object, all the householders in the parish ( Dabzell) are to be summoned to at- tend a meeting, at which the whole of them are to have the liberty of nominating whom they please as a representative ; the 107. householders, and other qualified voters, will then, according to the resolutions before alluded to, pledge themselves to support whatever candidate may have a majority of votes. SIR WALTER SCOTT.— A letter we have received from Mel- rose, dated on Thursday, states " that Sir Walter was fully better to- day, and he appears to mend ever since he got home ; he has been twice wheeled out before the door, and into his library, and expresses himself much delighted with the idea of being at home. Edinburgh Evening Post. The Lord Mayor of Dublin has issued a proclamation against that annual scene of dissipation, Donnybrook fair, which will be limited to two days, according to the charter, instead of a week, "" — This is an adjnirable precaution against the as heretofore, cholera. On Friday evening an inquest was held, at the Red Lion Inn. Leeds, on the body of Mr. Robert Daniel, a respectable corn- factor, of North Duffield, near Selby, who, on that morning,' while in a state of temporary derangement, supposed to have been occasioned by the postponement of an insurance cause be- fore Lord Tenterden, in consequence of the absence of his soli- citor and counsel, committed suicide, by cutting his throat with a razor. Money, in notes, bills, gold, & c., to the amount o£ upwards of 6251., were found in the pockets of the deceased, be- sides a valuable gold watch and appendages. The jury found a verdict— Insanity.— Leeds Mercury. MILITARY COURT OF INQUIRY.— The Court of Inquiry in the case of Somerville commenced its sittings at Weedon bar- racks- on Thursday week. The Right Hon. Robert Grant, the Judge- Advocate, appeared in person to conduct the inquiry ; and Mr. Whately, solicitor, of this town, was present on behalf o£ Major Wyndham. Mr. Wooller, of London, and Mr. Marriott, of Coventry, attended on behalf of Somerville. In consequence, as we are informed, of some extraordinary circumstance divulged in the course of the evidence, the court suddenly adjourned on Thursday night until Monday. We understand the Court awaits some instructions from London. Mr. Symonds and Mr. Cope of Birmingham, are subpoenaed as witnesses in favour of Major Wyndham.— Birmingham Journal. CONSCIUPTOX IN FRANCE.— A French provincial newspaper contains an extraordinary case of simulated suicide, contrived for the purpose of evading the law of conscription. By the terms of that law the eldest son of a widow is not liable to serve.' In this case, the father of a young man, who had just been drawn as a conscript, concerted a scheme for the purpose of making it be believed that he had destroyed himself in order ta obtain the young man's exemption, as the son of a widow. The plan was laid with considerable ingenuity. A letter was written to announce his resolution and to assign his reasons for it, and on the same day, his clothes were found on the banks of the neighbouring river, but a diligent search having led to no traces of the body, a suspicion arose in the minds of the authorities that the man was still alive, that there was really no corpus de~ Hcti, and that the whole was a mere contrivance to protect the son from the performance of his military duties. The attempt, however, proves what sacrifices the lower classes are willing to make for the purpose of avoiding this compulsory service. In this case, a father was ready to abandon his home, and to sepa- rate himself for many years from his wife and family, in order to effect not his own, but his son's liberation. The mutilation of the first finger of the right hand has in many places been re- sorted to for a similar purpose, but the young men of Paris have latterly adopted a more ingenious contrivance, although origina- ting in the same barbarous principle. By the means of specta- cles of a high magnifying power, they are able, by constant- T& QJ to produce such an effect on the optic nerve, as to make themselves incapable of serving in the army. By the. fegulktionS of the service, very short- sighted people are not in fact admitted into the ranks. Availing themselves of this regulation, or rathec. of the principle of expediency by which it is dictiteiL- there is, I believe, in Paris, a much greater number of young men wh( J have made themselves short- sighted by thi3 artificial process', 1 than those who have become so in the ordinary cQTOS of nature. o 344 THE TOWX. TO THE PUBLIC. The Proprietors of THE TOWN respectfully inform the Public, that they intend to present to their Subscribers, GRATIS, a well executed MAP OF ENGLAND Under the Reform Bill, from the Ordnance surveys, assisted by the Reports of the Commissioners for the division of Counties. This superb Map, which will be engraved on steel, will contain the latest statistical details, population census, with a geological survey of the kingdom; also, the navigable rivers, canals, railways ( present and Contemplated), parks, and turnpike roads, etc. By Authority. The Proprietors also feel that they are now offering to their Sub- scribers a work which will be unique, and surpassing all 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. 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. The parts, when all out, will form either one complete Map, or may be bound up as an octavo or folio volume. Specimens may be seen at our Agents'. TO CORRESPONDENTS. A Country Subscriber's observations, as to the great delays in the Court of King's Bench, in giving its decision upon rules of new trials, 8fc., will be shortly attended to. We have heard of many instances where verdicts obtained, have thus been hung up for twelve months. We thank Medicus for his communication; but beg leave to suggest, that it is better suited to the pages of a medical journal than to those of The Town. Jf X. Y. will acquaint us with his name, we may enter on the subject of his letter; but, without a well known, and re- spectable authority, we should not be justified in bringing before the public the statement in question. The communication of Theopliilus is of tco somlre a cast for our columns. 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. T Iff K T O W M. LONDON: SUNDAY, JULY 29, 1832. Their MAJESTIES continue at Windsor, and arc in tho enjoyment of excellent health. The statement of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, on bringing forward his budget for the year, will be found in another column. It is unnecessary for us to do more than allude to it at present. Our readers will perceive that, taking all the circumstances together, and they have keen both numerous and adverse, which operated on the mercantile and trading interests of the country, matters look brighter and more promising, than we had reason to expect. Our financiers have dropped the tone of imposi- tion that used to distinguish their statements once. It is an improvement to get nearer to the truth, even at the ex- pense of a little short- lived exultation. Great men who have much to give away, arc never • without a train of flatterers ready to cry " euge! b< Mle!'> at the very infirmities of their nature. We are not, there- fore, surprized at tho fulsome eulogies which we hear pronounced on the recent escapade of Lord BROUGHAM against Sir Edward SUGDEN. In favour of the latter gen- tleman, wrc are assuredly without prejudice or prepos- session. Few men are less popular than Sir Edward SUGDEN: there is something of conceit and pertness about his character which neutralizes the respect due to Lis talents as a politician, and his unrivalled ability as a lawyer. This is no reason why, upon a public question, lie should be treated with injustice ; still less did it war- rant a sally of vituperation, which proved an equal want of good temper and good taste. What are the simple facts of the case? Lord BROUGHAM appoints his brother to a vacant sinecure to the extinction— but we must not use a term which has become strangely ambiguous of late — to the abolition then of which he was pledged— Prima facie this was somewhat extraordinary; and Sir Edward SUGDEN, or any other member, was perfectly warranted in seeking an explanation from the proper quarter in the House of Commons. But why did he not mako a private communication of his intention to thc LORD CHANCELLOR ? It appears that, in point of fact, he did communicate on the subject with thc SOLICITOR- GENERAL, who failed, from some unexplained cause, to forward to the CHANCELLOR the communication with which he was charged; the laches there- fore, if any, existed on thc side of the CHANCELLOR. But we will suppose for a moment that Sir Edward SUGDEN took advantage of this appointment as an exposed point, through which he might touch his adversary. We will sup- pose that he merely affected ignorance of thc views with which tho appointment was made. Such an advantage would be disingenuous ; but is it contrary to the received practice in the warfare of party! Did Mr. BROUGHAM, during the many years wluch he passed in the House of Commons, carrying on a sort of Guerilla war, unexampled not only for vigorous and harassing attacks, but for stra- tagems and surprises, never take momentary advantage in a similar way 1 How many precedents has he left behind him of this amiable candour which he now exacts? His flatterers would oblige by producing a single one.— His recent sortie is deficient, not merely intaste but in his characteristic talent. It had more of coarseness than of vivacity or vigour, and the artifice of rhetoric by which it was conveyed, is one of; the most palpable and trite.— His manner of late has been somewhat tranquil and subdued ; and he may think it light occasionally to come out with all his power to make the adversary feel, " le vieux bras de l'empcreur;" but the occasion was ill- chosen, and the blow neither dex- trously nor powerfully struck. There was none of the sarcastic wit and grace which distinguished his pleasant voyage with Lord STANHOPE to the West Indies, or his equally pleasant treaty of peace and amity with Lord LON- DONDERRY. WO look forward with some curiosity to the replication of Sir EDWARD SUGDEN, whether it take place by long shot from the lower to the upper House, or across the table in the Court of Chancery. With respect to the appointment itself, the character of the LORD CHANCELLOR is perfectly consistent and clear. He appointed his own brother, with thc view to facili- tate the fulfilment of his pledge; and we have no doubt that Lord BROUGHAM will feel that it is now incumbent upon him, not only to bring in his intended Bill of abo- lition, but to marshal the whole force of Government iu ils support. The rejection of this Bill would only create unpleasant, and, doubtless, unjust surmises. Since writing the foregoing remarks, we have seen, by the Morning Papers of Saturday, that Sir EDWARD SUGDEN retaliated, or rather attempted to retaliate, upon his dis- tinguished assailant. He spoke with a feeling of exas- peration which may, perhaps, under the circumstances, be excused. Some doubts have been raised as to the fidelity of the report of the CHANCELLOR'S speech. Our respect for his taste and his station, not only in the Govern- ment, but in opinion, makes us wish that thc report may be proved unfaithful, or overcharged. No one who knew any thing of Ireland could anticipate good from the Irish Tithe Bill. We are informed, on what we regard good authority, that the circumstances under which it was brought forward, augured ill for its success. It is the result, we hear, of a sort of compromise in the Cabinet. Mr. STANLEY would maintain Church property in Ireland, in its integrity, and enormity, and exclusive application; whilst his colleagues think lhat the time de- mands a Reform of the Irish Church establishment in the way of appropriation and retrenchment. Mr. STANLEY will do well to consider in time the barrier which his obsti- nacy or self- love would raise to his own ambition.— To sustain the enormously ilisproportioned Church establish- ment of Ireland, against the mass of opinion arrayed against it in Ireland and England, Protestant and Catholic, is not in the power of man ; and every moment of adhesion to an untenable purpose will only render his retreat more difficult. He should abandon not merely his political tenets, but, if not now too late, his Bill. If anything were wanting to prove its inefficacy hy anticipation, it is the result of the trials at Kilkenny. What is the fact? A great crime against the law had been committed. A body of policemen are attacked and slain in open day; thousands arc present at the perpetration of the crime; and no suf- ficient evidence has been brought forward. This absence of evidence is, we know, ascribed to intimidation. Ter- ror, doubtless, has its share ; but it is only the lesser share. Why is it that the Crown has not been able to procure the evidence of an accomplice, out of thousands who were present, and accessary to thc attack upon the police ? In- timidation will not prevent an accomplice from giving evi- dence against his accomplices in a moral as well as crime. He has thc protection of Government against popular or per- sonal vengeance, until he withdraws himself to some other country. Had it been an ordinary atrocity, Government would have found no difficulty in obtaining an accessary to give evidence. But the fact is, that the perpetrators of this deed were not persons of depraved and profligate cha- racter. They regarded themselves as in a state of war with the police, in defence of the fruits of their labour and of the earth. They did not see in their attack a moral offence; it does not even appear to have been premedi- tated. Hence the difficulty of procuring an accomplice as a witness. Something is doubtless also to be ascribed to the scrupulous fairness of the Irish government.— A go- vernment less scrupulous would probably have obtained verdicts. We do not think this failure will compromise the government of Lord ANGLESEY, or even render greater thc danger to thc public peace in Ireland. It manifests a spirit of fairness and moderation in authority, which can- not fail to have its due effect. But its great value should be as a lesson to the government on both sides of the Channel. It proves the utter impossibility of sustaining a system against which the law of the land is found thus ut- terly powerless; and against which a whole people is banded by the most formidable of all ties, the sense of interest and of moral right combined. Against this forcc a Tithe bill is utterly impotent. There is no process, civil or crimi- nal, by which a whole nation can be compelled. The Government of Ireland, however, has been wanting in decision and a propos. The manifestations of its vigo j is doubly unseasonable. It should have made resistance and grappled with the danger earlier; and it should not have commenced proceedings at all, without having first placed itself in a better position. Its course seems to us clear and simple. With a bill for the alleviation, not the mere transfer, of tithes, and a poor- rate bill, the Lord Lieutenaht could have enforced the laws,— at least the payment of some portion of the demands of the clergy ad interim. Tithe reform would satisfy all reasonable men ; and a provision for the poor would take the labouring people out of the hands of trafficking agitators. We know nothing more disgusting than the cant about the ill effects of the poor laws upon the working- people of England— as if the English labourers were not the most independent in Europe, and did not owe their rude, erect, self- respect ing independence, to their being shielded by the poor laws from the degradation of mendicity. completed instrument, in which the blanks and de ails arc filled up, and the legislation of tyranny completed. Poor Germany! What a blessing to have a batch of Princes to watch over her institutions, and protect her distracted states from the licentiousness of their own laws! Since the moment that the new decrees of the Diet made their ap- pearance, the Germans have ceased to be a people. They have ceased to have a national press— they have ceased to have a national purse, or any purse at their own disposal— they have even ceased to have a national will— they can neither mistake themselves nor be mistaken by others, for any thing but slaves of their task- masters. There is one charge, and only one, of which we can ac- quit the Diet in this transaction. They have abandoned the usual subterfuges by which oppression endeavours to gloss over her worst actions. No diplomatic quibble, no state paper jargon, no slang of Courts or of Cabinets has been resorted to in this instance; no, all is fair and above board; all is open avowed " honest bold faced villainy," and nothing else. Their second manifesto annihilates the Press it annihilates free discussion even under thc sanction of recognised assemblies; it places the universities under surveillance. Wre give thc following as a specimen of the new manifesto, which is nothing more than the embodying of those principles asserted in the first, aud already familiar to our readers *— " 1. No periodical writing, or other political work, having less than twenty- nine sheets, printed in the German language, and appearing in a state which does not form a part of the Ger- manic Confederation, can be introduced into one of the States of the Confederation, without the previous authorisation of the Government. Those who may violate this prohibition shall be proceeded against in the same manner as against the propagators of prohibited writings. " 2. All associations having a political object, or destined, under other names, to serve such objects, are interdicted through- out all the Confederated States." And so on through the whole series. But what is all this to lead to ? Are we to have peace or war in Europe ? The despots arc prepared for war, so far as huge arma- ments and bloody determinations go ; but how far tho German people arc disposed to crouch under the yoke, from the dread of massacre, is the question— and how far the French Government and people may be dis- posed to look on, while despotism is making giant strides towards their territory, is another contingency to be calcu- lated in the estimate of peace or war. From all appear- ances, we should conclude that the struggle must come— with what success in thc outset, time only can decide j but to despair of the result, would be to despair of human nature herself, anil of tho progressive law which carries on the species to improvement. The Germans are an intel- ligent people. They are a phlegmatic people, it is true . but if there bo such a state of things as flesh and blood cannot bear, that state of things has come upon them, ac- companied with all its insults and aggravations. We, therefore, suspect something worthy of the crisis that has arrived, not only from the intelligence, but from tho pride and bravery of the Germans. The fate of Poland may have its terrors; but her example, and her fame, are not with- out their excitement for those to whom freedom anil glory are dear. Thc eye of civilized man is fixed upon Germany at this moment. May she acquit herself before the great assembly in a manner creditable to her and to them, and beneficial to the posterity which is to succecd both! Europe is breathless in anxiety. The roar of battle may, perhaps, break the trance ; but the cause of nature, and reason, and civilization must finally and permanently succeed. July The latest accounts from the Continent bring no news but the movements of troops, and details of the progress of the cholera, whichjttre not so favourable as before. The plague, it seems, has broken out in the Persian towns of Raescht and Sinsili, and fears are apprehended for the health of the Russian provinces in this neighbourhood. " When matters are at the worst, they must mend."— If that be the case, the Germans are in a mending condi- tion ; for they stand as close as possible to some change on the bad side of improvement— that is, on the side which must mend, because it cannot deteriorate. The Diet of the Confederated Princes have been at work again. The conspiracy against the liberties of mankind has undergone a further developement. They have issued another mani- festo. The first was only a rough- draft, Tlie second is a We are enabled, from an authentic source, to state, that the Belgian Minister General GOBLET, and Baron STOCKMAR, the private friend of the King of Belgium, have declared to Lord PALMEKSTON that they are much dissatisfied with the evasive answer of the King of the Netherlands to the last note of the Conference, and that there is not the slightest probability of the Belgian Cham- bers consenting to waive their claim to the 24 articles o the treaty, on the basis laid down by the Conference itself. The question now arises whether Loril PALMERSTON and General SEBASTIAN! are to keep faith with the Belgians, or, by further truckling to tho Holy Alliance, degrade the Governments which they represent, aud increase thc arro- gance of Powers whose tone has been raised higher and higher in proportion as they have seen a want of firmness on the part of those with whom they have had to deal. If the basis of the proposals last made by the Confer- ence, and which were at the time declared final and deci- sive, be not agreed to by Holland, LEOPOLD must try the chances of war or abdicate his throne. Would one or the other course be conducive to the interests of England Certainly not! A war between Belgium and Holland would soon produce a general war in Europe; whereas, if France and England will but resolutely declare their determination lo enforce the treaty, which they have gua- ranteed, the necessity for war on their part will not arise. Russia, Austria, aud Prussia, may bully, but they are not yet prepared to fight. But if LEOPOLD, abandoned by those Powers who pro mised, and who aro bound by honour to bo his Allies, should abdicate a throne which he never would have ac- cepted if he could have foreseen the breach of faith of which he already begins to complain, what will be tho fate of Belgium, and how will England gain by a refusal to maintain the Sovereign who was assured by thc British Government, when he accepted the Crown, that ho should be in every respect an independent King? Belgium will bo divided into two portions, one appropriated to Holland, the other to France. The barrier against France, which we have expended so many millions to erect, will be re- moved, and the French, once possessed of a part of Bel- gium, will conceive so great a longing for the rest, and eventually for Holland, that both will fall into their hands. This would be the natural result of the partition which tho wily TALLEYRAND proposed, and which must be inevitable if LEOPOLD should abdicate thc throne. Surely the British Government will not allow such a solution of the Belgian question to take place. We may have no sympathy for the Belgians, and none, perhaps, do they deserve, but we must not allow a solemn treaty to be set at naught, anil compromise, at the same time, our honour and our interest by abandoning them to their enemies, after having pledged ourselves to be their friends. The despots of tbe Continent persevere in their un- righteous work. They have formally proscribed free dis- cussion in every part of Germany, denounced all who shall dare to express honest sentiments on political subjects, cither by tongue or pen, and armed a million of troops to enforce their decree. This is a painful, but not a surprising, state of things. Gradually indeed, but surely, have the encroachments of the Holy Alliance conspirators been going on. They tem- porised, but never concealed their object. Whilst they gave fair words to the Ministers of the two great constitu- tional nations— Great Britain and France— they raised levy upon levy; and when they had a force sufficient to secure their work, they boldly attacked all that was free in Ger- many, and made an unequivocal demonstration of their strength. And are the Governments of Great Britain anil France to look upon this demonstration with an indifferent eye. Because the Holy Alliance have not yet deposed Louis PHILITI'E, aud told WILLIAM THE FOURTH that he is to rule in England as he is content to rule in Hanover, are we to consider ourselves secure? Ought we not rather to regard Ihe conduct of Russia, Austria, and Prussia, as a clear indication of what they intend to attempt when the work of oppression in Germany shall be complete, and, by taking the initiative whilst there is yet time, prevent the attack on our own liberties which continued success on the part of the despots of Europe would assuredly cause? France and England, united in the bonds of a cordial alliance, would be strong enough, not merely for resistance but for attack; and even now, much as wc have lost by an imprudent reliance on false professions, or a timidity which was unworthy of both countries, it is yet time to adopt a resolute tone with effect. War is a dreadful scourge, and wc owe much to our Ministers for their anxiety to prevent its taking place ; but experience has shewn that they have mistaken the right course. The man who is most anxious to avoid a contest is generally drawn into it. Waris like an epidemic— it slrikes those who dread its approach ;— defy the enemy, aud he will generally abstain from an assault. " PRODIGIOUS I" " Wonders will never cease," so say our maiden aunts and venerable grandmothers ; and so say ourselves while perusing, spectacles on nose, the periodicals of the present day. In fact, so numerous and so extraordinary have they become, that we purpose collecting them together, and issuing a " prodigious" budget weekly. This week they are few, and not so extraordi- nary as we would have wished ; however we will begin, and have no doubt, ere the year is complete, that the next almanack will style it an Annus Mirabilis. QUICK EARS.— The quickness which some persons possess in distinguishing the smaller sounds, is very remarkable. A friend of the writer has declared that he could readily perceive the mo- tion of a flea, when on his nightcap, by the sound emitted by the machinery of his leaping powers. However extraordinary this may appear, we find a similar statement is given in the in- genious work upon insects, by Kirby and Spence, who say, " I know of no other insect, the tread of which is accompanied by sound, except, indeed, the flea, whose 3teps a lady' assured me she hears when it passes over her nightcap, and that it clacks at if it was walking in pattens I" If we can suppose the ear to be alive to such delicate vibrations, certainly there is nothing in the way of sound too difficult for it to achieve.— Gardiner's Musio of Nature. LARGE STRAWBERRY.— On Wednesday last, a strawberry ( a Wellington) was gathered in the garden of Mr. William Newsome, of Dewsbury Bank top, market gardener and seedsman, mea- suring seven inches in circumference. BIRTH EXTRAORDINARY.— On the 27th ult. the wife of John Cannan, of the town of Catia, in Fannet, was delivered of four children, one boy and three girls : the mother and chil- dren are doing well, but have no means of support except potatoes.— Belfast Chronicle. A DELICACY.— Amongst the Beloaches a young assafoetida plant stewed in rancid butter is esteemed a very great delicacy. In a garden at Inverleith Row, a tree may now be seen which, while it has a large and flourishing crop of apples very near ma- turity, is sending forth a goodly supply of fresh blossoms, which, judging from present appearances, will be excellent fruit in thfc month of October.— Edinburgh Evening Post. John Franks, cottager, of Bassingfield, near Holme, has growing in his garden a blade of wheat, which bears one hun- dred and ten heads, from one corn : it is about five feet and a • half high.— Nottingham Journal. In the parish of Lanteglos, by Fowey, the following singular notice is painted on a hoard affixed over the porch :—" Ten pounds Reward, to be paid annually, to any woman of this pa rish, who minds her own business anJ interferes with no one else."— Falmouth Packet. SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.— Last week, in the pump belong- ing to Mr. Sykes, Union Inn, Westgate Common, Wakefield, was discovered a bird's nest ( a red start— query, water- wagtail ?) with two young ones, nearly fledged. The pump has been daily worked, occasionally for three or four hours together.— Halifax Express. AN EXPENSIVE FOOT.— We know a thing that is not known.: a thing which will hardly be believed, but which is nevertheless very true. It is that one of Prince Talleyrand's shoes costs no less than 60 guineas. Yes— 60 guineas. Prince Talleyrand has a lame foot, for which lame foot he has a moulded last, upon which moulded last is shaped the most curious Bhoe that can be beheld. Sixty guineas for one shoe I Why that shoe - would pay for coat, waistcoat, and breeches, for half a doaen dandies. — The Parrot.— Oh, Polly I Polly I how thou art given to 1 Since our last, in addition to Mr. Hesketh Fleetwood and Hunt, one of the Stanleys, and Compton, a barrister, have started as candidates. Hesketh Fleetwood is considered secure. The great contest will he between the others. It seems pretty clear, however, that Hijiit will be JtaeArballedj and Preston redeem its credit and respectability. July 29. THE TOWI, PARLIAMENTARY DRAWINGS. SIR FRANCIS BURDETT, BART. The tall, thin, stately figure of Sir Francis Burdett, has an air of pride which many persons consider one of the ingredients of his character. Though he has already seen the best of his days, being now close upon sixty, he is as erect as in early youth, or as if he had but just come from the discipline of the drill sergeant. And yet there is nothing stiff or formal in his carriage— nothing of the statesman or the student in his appearance. The sports of the field, especially fox- hunting, to which he continues strongly addicted up to the present hour, have given his countenance a glow of health not usual with men possessing his powers of thought. He looks as if he had been all his life more familiar with the morning dew than the midnight oil; and the general effect of his appearance on the beholder, is to impress him with an idea of quick perceptions, and generous sympathies, and manly independence. When Sir Francis Burdett was the most popular man in Eng- land outside the walls of Parliament, he could scarcely command attention in the House of Commons. The reason of thi3 was, that Reform, the importance of which constituted the first article of his political faith, was very differently estimated by the ho- nourable House, and the assemblies of the people to whom he was more fond of appealing. At the period of which we speak the House of Commons was strongly aristocratic. They were the golden days of Tory Government— the golden days of jobs, . and contracts, and extravagance. Any man who had a little talent, provided he had no virtue, could sell that talent at a per centage, which, in a better state of things, would have been at a discount; and hence the number of official persons highly flat- tered in their day, of whose memory there will be no more trace upon the page of history, than there now is of their voices in the echoes of Heaven. Men of genius and public spirit, even men of eloquence and popular talent, were not only excluded from power, but treated, as in the case of Sir Francis Burdett, with studied indifference and contumely— the doors of Parlia- ment might be open to them, but its ears and its attention were shut. It is unnecessary that we should dwell upon the great change • which has taken place in the sentiments of the House of Com- mons, both as regards the question and its advocate, within the last few years. If Sir Francis be not now the most popular man in the House, he is certainly one of them. This arises from his character and his talents. It is the reward of consistency, and the result of fine intellectual powers, adapted in a peculiar manner to strike upon the heart of a great assembly. Pointed, forcible, or playful, as the occasion may require— felicitous, if not rich in imagery, his speeches have always told, when they were suffi- ciently considered beforehand— nay, as has been frequently the case, when they were hazarded without any preparation, they bore the random marks of a mind, the tone of which, even in in- dolence, was too startling for mediocrity. There was once a time when he was considered a mere mob orator— nothing could be fur- ther from the truth. His speeches at the Crown and Anchor were just as elegant in respect of composition, as those he delivered in Parliament. They were more so, for at the time he had more respect for the Crown and Anchor than for Parliament. We are far from insinuating, however, that his style was by any means perfect. On the contrary, broken sentences, unmusical periods, and half expressed, or ill expressed thoughts, often disturbed the uniformity of his best efforts; and sometimes constituted the whole character of an effort, when, trusting to the inspiration of the moment, he ran the risk, and paid the forfeit of a failure. One of the most extraordinary peculiarities of Sir Francis Bur- dett as an orator, is the contrast between his manner and his matter ; but that was far more striking in the former part of his career than it is at present, and was probably owing, in a great degree, to the want of sympathy, and even the display of anti- pathy which he was often doomed to experience. His manner is cold, or rather was cold, and indifferent. His matter is im- portant, and often strongly calculated to excite the feelings. But his manner has much improved of late ; this improvement is probably owing to the improved reception he has met with, and, if so, is an additional proof that the circumstances which sur- round us, affect us more sensibly than even the natural progress • of humanity from youth to age. Sir Francis has been described, by some of his Westminster friends, as too aristocratic in his principles. If such be the case, he certainly has taken great care that no aristocratic sentiment should ever escape from his lips. We know not what some people may expect from public men, but if their expressions and their actions will bear the test of examination, it appears to us rather too bad that, for some cause unconnected either with their words or their deeds, an impression should go abroad con- trary to that which the whole tenor of their lives would seem to authorize. THE THEATRES. 34$ KING'S THEATRE. On Wednesday night, instead of Weber's Euryanthe, which had teen announced some time before as being in preparation, the opera of The Swiss Family, by Weigel, was represented at this house. This change proved any thing but satisfactory to the public, and is very unlikely to become profitable to the ma- nager. The plot of this opera is one of true German simplicity, and is characterized by little variety of either incident or senti ment— one reason why the music is of rather a monotonous, not to say dull quality. The following is an outline of the plot:— Count Waldstein, while exploring the beautiful scenery of Swit- zerland, has been rescued from an accident which placed his life in peril, by the courage and generons self- devotion of a Swiss peasant. To reward his deliverer, he removes him and his fa- mily from their mountain home to a farm on his own estates. The superior comforts of their new situation render this toler- able, if not agreeable, to all the family, except Emmeline, the daughter, who " pines in thought and with a green and yellow melancholy," mopes about the farm, looks sad and sighs, and is not to be comforted. The elders of the family suppose her to be stricken with the maladie du pays, or a longing after her own country, and to beguile her grief they endeavour to trans- form her new residence into as close an imitation as possible of her former one. But this was of no avail; the cause of her grief lay deeper than they imagined : it was not after the mountains of Switzerland that Emmeline was languishing, but after a young and handsome mountaineer of that country ; which fact is proved to demonstration by her awakening at once from her melancholy dream, on hearing in a neighbouring wood the pipe of the said " Merry Swiss Boy," and by her being restored to her pristine good looks and gaiety, after seeing the regretted piper in his proper person. The usual consent of the old people and joining of hands and hearts concluded the opera. Madame Fischer, who appeared for the first time before a London audience, per- sonated Emmeline. This actress has a handsome German coun- tenance and lofty stature, a little or so inclining to what the French call puissante. Her acting of the part was marked with feeling and propriety, but exhibited no excellence of a high order. Her voice is full, and of not inconsiderable compass, bnt its in- tonation is unsteady, and not always under her controul. She, however, with the exception of a few little discordant breaks, acquitted herself satisfactorily, singing some of the airs with true expression, in one of which she was encored. The other characters were filled with mediocre ability, and call for no de- tailed remark. The chorusses, as usual, did their harmonious work with proper emphasis and precision. This opera contains some agreeable melodies, but it is wanting in variety and dra- matic colouring, besides its style is now old- fashioned and com- mon- place. In fine, its production, when other operas so su- perior in every point of view might have been selected, is an- other proof, if any were wanting, of the unfitness of Mr. Monk Mason to be the directing spirit of a musical theatre. He should profit by the advice of Boileau, who, to a would- be poet, who possessed no true vocation for the Divine art, said— " Soyez plutot mafon, si tel est ton metier." COVENT- GARDEN. The unrivalled Mademoiselle Mars, and the inimitable Tag- lioni, eontinue to fill this house, with the exception of the gal- leries, every night of their performance, whilst the magical bow of Paganini draws its crowds of admirers on the alternate even- ings. On Thursday night the ballet of La Sylphide, which has been so deservedly popular in Paris, was produced here, Tag- lioni being the beautiful personation of that serial and graceful creature of the imagination— the Sylph. The ballet itself is one of the most pleasing and elegantly fanciful that has for some time been produced. It turns upon the love of a sylph for a mortal, whom she seduces away from his betrothed bride the morning of the intended marriage day : then follows the wicked contrivances of a malicious sorceress to work the ruin of the runaway lovers. In the course of the ballet there is an incan- tation scene, which has been got up with admirable effect; and the last scene, which takes place in the region of the sylphs, exhibits a combination of the fanciful, graceful, and picturesque, that has seldom been surpassed. The dancing of Taglioni, in itself the most serial that can be effected by mortal feet, is aided in some passages by mechanical means, that give her all the appearance of floating iu the air, and balancing herself upon her wings, and produce iu the eyes of the audience a most perfect illusion. It is scarcely necessary to add, that this well designed and admirably executed ballet was eminently successful. On the fall of the curtain Mademoiselle Taglioni was called for, and re- appeared to receive the plaudits of the whole house. The Marquis of Lansdowne has a grand dinner party this day at Lansdowne- house, Berkeley- square. OXFORO, JULY 26.— This day the Rev. Henry Linton, M. A., the Rev. William James Butler, M. A., Henry Horn, M. A., and the Rev. William Robert Freemantle, M. A., Probationary Fel- lows of Magdalen, were admitted actual Fellows of that College. At the same time the Rev. James Charles Stafford, M. A., Wil- liam Walter Tireman, M. A., and William Palmer, B. A., Demies, were elected Probationary Fellows ; and Thomas Harding New- man ( of the county of Essex), Francis Ballard Wells ( of the Diocese of Chichester), Charles Daman ( of the Diocese of Win- chester), and Edward Halifax Hansell ( of the Diocese of Nor- wich), were admitted Demie3 of the same Society. DON PEDRO'S EXPEDITION.— Intelligence was received by the merchants in the city on Friday, through France, of the Portuguese expedition, which is of a very favourable nature. The junction of three of Miguel's regiments with Don Pedro was confirmed, besides which, some of the most wealthy inhabi- tants of the provinces of Minho, Douro, and Tras os- Montes, had declared their adherence to the constitutional cause, and the Archbishop of Braga, and several towns in his diocess, had sent to congratulate the Emperor on his arrival, and to tender their assistance. His troops took possession of Aveiro on the 14th, and were on the march for Coimbra. It is stated in letters from Paris, that the Post- office regula- tions between London and Paris are at length on the eve of ad- justment. It is intended that the estafette shall in future be dispatched daily, that the hour of departure from Paris shall be later, and that the postage shall be wholly paid on delivery, in stead of being divided, as at present, into two equal parts. Our merchants arc wholly indebted to the present Administration for this very useful reform, the merit of which can only be appre- ciated by those who are aware of the difficulties thrown in the way by conductors of the post- office in this country. ROYAL AND FASHIONABLE MOVEMENTS. Monday their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria, attended by the Duchess of Northumberland, Baroness Lehzen, and Sir John Conroy, and accompanied by the Duke of Somerset, the Duke of Northumberland, & c., vi- sited the exhibition of the Royal Academy, which closed to the public on Saturday week. Prince Esterhazy has left Vienna on a tour to Florence, and will afterwards return to this country. The Duchess de Berri is now said to be in Guernsey, accom- panied by some of her most faithful adherents. At the Marquis of Hertford's, on Tuesday, in the midst of the festivities, Lady Londonderry was attacked by sudden indis- position. She was carried to a sofa by the Marquis, and subse- quently conveyed to her carriage. This caused some interrup- tion to the festive scene ; but it was soon reported that nothing serious was to be apprehended, a report since happily confirmed. At the Countess Grey's soir& e, on Friday evening, the ap- proaching marriage of Viscount Howick with the lovely daughter of Sir Joseph Copley ( Sprotsborough) was announced ; and her Ladyship and the Noble Premier received the congratulations of the company on the matrimonial connection which their heir apparent is about to form. Tbe mother of Miss Copley was Lady Cecil Hamilton, eighth daughter of the Hon. and Rev. George Hamilton, fourth son of James, seventh Earl of Aber- corn. Lady Cecil was advanced to the precedence of an Earl's daughter ( a dignity not extended to her sisters) in 1789, and in 1792 was united to the late Marquis of Abercorn, from whom her Ladyship was divorced by act of Parliament, 1799, when she formed a second alliance with Colonel ( now Sir Joseph) Copley. The Marchioness of Abercorn died in 1819, leaving by the Marquis one daughter, the present Countess of Wicklow; and by Sir Joseph, two daughters and one son. The latter is married to the only daughter of Lord Yarborough. CHELTENHAM.— The Duke of Gloucester is very regular in his attendance at the Montpelier Spa, where he drinks the waters every morning, and continues on the promenade for about an hour. The Dowager Countess of Guildford has issued cards of invi- tation for a grand dinner party on the 3d of August, at her house in Piccadilly. Count Woronzow and his mother, widow of the late Count, are expected to take final leave of this country in a few days for St. Petersburg. Liberal annuities have been granted to the whole of the late Count's domestic establishment, even to those who had. been but a very short time in his service. Monday, the inhabitants of the ward of Cornhill dined at tit George and Vulture Tavern, Cornhill, to celebrate the triumph of reform, with Mr. Brainwell in the chair, supported by the other common councilmen of the ward. Several very excellent speeches were delivered by Mr. Bond and others, and they did not rise from the convivial and sumptuous entertainmeut till a late hour. PARISIAN CORRESPONDENCE. ( FROM OUR PRIVATE CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, JULY 26. Alio?? ine to postpone politics for a space, in order to enter- tain you witii ari account of a very amusing trial which has oc- cupied the courts last week. You have heard of advertising shops and offices for marriage here in Paris, on the same prin- ciple that you have offices for procuring servants in London. A certain Mr. Guillaume, or Williaume, was famous in this line. But it seems that there are far higher professional agents in this " Sir Pandarus of Troy" way than Mr. Guillaume. The story is this. Mademoiselle Clary was an orphan, with a large fortune. Bernadotte married an aunt of hers, who was allied to Napoleon ; consequently she might look high. She was left to the guardianship of M. Trubert and Madame Rouyer. But these humble folks were not in a condition to bring forth their ward, Mad. Zenaide Clary, in society, after a manner and with the eclat that became her. To keep her secluded, without looking out for a husband, or, as the French say, unepartie for her, would have been cruel j and they accordingly applied to the fashionable professional agent in these affairs. This was no less a personage than M. Le Comte De Saur, a noble moving in high society, consideration, fashion, & c., but who lives, it seems, by match- making. His instructions were produced in court, and proved an inexhaustible fund for merriment. They were as follows :— 1st, The suitor or husband was, if possible, to be a peer, or the son of one ( hereditary right to noblesse not being then, in 1829, abolished) and between twenty and, thirty years of age. 2dly, He was to have one hundred thousand francs, or four thousand pounds rental. But less would satisfy in this • respect, if the deficiency was made up in dignity or title. 3dly If the negotiator procured these requisites in a husband, he was to have one per cent, on the dowry. But if he made up an in- ferior match to the prospectus, he was to have but a compliment tantamount to our douceur. Upon these data, lo 1 M. Le Comte de Saur had been hard at work since 1829. He presented seven candidates to the young lady and her friends in the course of two years, viz. one duke, two marquisses, three counts, and a financier ; but Mademoiselle Zenaide Clary objected to them all. One was too old, another a widower with a family, and a third run out. In short, Miss Clary was diabolically difficile, and the count at his wit's end, when to his delight he learned that no less a personage than the Princesse de Wagram actually wanted a wife for her son. A prince was something above the bond ; and the Count de Saur went to work instantly to bring about the union. It was not difficult. Both parties were rich— both highly and lowly con nected. If Mad. Clary was niece to tjvo kings, the actual one of Sweden and the ci- devant one of Naples, young Berthier, the prince of Wagram, allied to Napoleon by his sire, had for his mother a German princess. Again, if Mad. Clary's grandfather sold oil at Marseilles, Prince Berthier's grandsire had been but a porter at Versailles. In fact they were born for each other. And to the heartfelt satisfaction of the modern " Sir Pandarus," Mad. Zenaide Clary became Princesse de Wagram. Having thus fulfilled his mission in furnishing a fitting suitor, the Comte de Saur became suitor in his turn for his money. He demanded his one per cent. But this had not been inserted in the bond, and the Princess Dowager of Wagram did not un- derstand that she was to have to pay for her daughter- in- law. The guardians had no funds; and the poor count could not get his fee. He wrote, coaxed, and threatened ; he appealed to the king of Sweden against his niece's behaviour, and the answer from the chancellerie of Stockholm was produced in court, very civil, regretting much, but no money. The Wagrams expected that the scandal would go no further, and that the Comte de Saur would keep the matter secret for his own character's sake. They were disappointed. The Comte de Saur brought his ac- tion for compensation, breach of promise, loss of time, & c. The whole affair was laid open before the court, which gave the following judgment, " That the social position of the Count de Saur, and the nature of the affair with which he was charged, were too much at variance to render his assertions as to the letter probable"— which, in plain syllogistic English, is as follows: The Count de Saur is so much the gentleman, that what he says cannot be true. Eryo, he lies, and is nonsuited. Politicians here admire the address of Metternich in pre- cipitating the German liberals to something like republicanism at Hambacli, in order that he might bring on the question of new repressive measures at the Diet before any arrangement took place betwixt Belgium and Holland. He well knew, that whilst this remained unsettled, England and France would sacrifice all more distinct or less important questions, an4 would be prepared to close their eyes to the oppression of Ger- many, in return for the establishment of Leopold. There is no other way of accounting for the headlong servility of the French ministerial journals iu applauding the Diet and its edict, than a previously understood arrangement made by the cabinet here to sacrifice the German to the Belgic question. However, the universally strong and indignant tone of all the English papers have shamed those of Paris into more liberality. And even the Journal des Debats has retracted its approval of the Diet. It is said that there was much mystification, as the French call diplomatic trick, practised at Frankfort. The Grand Duke of Baden was quite surprised to learn that his envoy had gone so far as to agree to a decree suttveriive of every free constitution. He had not long ago defended the free press of his duchy against the Diet. The king of Bavaria was equally taken by surprise ; for at the time of the resolution of the Diet, his officer, Prince Wrede, was vowing by his gray hairs to the people of the duchy of Deux Ponts ( Rhenish Bavaria) that both he and his master were inviolably attached to constitutional freedom, aad deter- mined to support its principles. It may be that the envoys at the Diet were tricked into giving their assent. At any rate people and press are in a flame. From Cassel to Friburg there is but one cry. There have been meetings at which the pos- sibility of uniting central and south- western Germany was dis- cussed, and King Leopold spoken of as a sovereign. The so- ciety for upholding the freedom of the German press has also met, and declared, that in case of successful resistance, it should turn to the advantage of no sovereign. The tame conduct of Louis Philippe in France, and of Leopold in Belgium, has converted most revolutionists into republicans. Should Western Germany rise in insurrection, there are hopes of success ; for the population of France would not remain neutral, nor the king of this country either, though he were King Log himself. The new decree of the Diet of Frankfort, directed against the press, will have reached you ere this. But edicts are of no avail without bayonets; and these will be wanting in force to put down the resistance of the chasseurs of Hesse in the first in- stance. We shall then see what events a Prussian invasion may produce. The health of the Due de Reichstadt is ameliorated. They have more faith in quacks in Vienna than even in London, the young duke's physicians having been dismissed to make way for a peasant, who promised to effect a cure. Human milk has been his specific. The cholera here, somewhat abating, ( the deaths being only one hundred a day) has attacked the chateau of St. Cloud. Louis Philippe's sister, Mademoiselle Adelaide, has had an attack. In the political way, every thought here lias been absorbed by the Germans and Belgians. Scarcely could Don Pedro claim, attention to his movements. The crown lawyers are doing their utmost against the press. Paulin, director of the Nationel, has been arrested, and is accused of no less than treason for certain articles. The penalty, which is death, or at least five years of the galleys, renders conviction by a jury impossible, and yet the juste milieu press the infliction of this latter punishment, if pos- sible. On the other hand, it is asserted, that the king intends pardoning all political offences, in honour of the three days. He may as well take the credit of this from the law courts, which have already acquitted Geoffrey, condemned to death by the court martial. Some discovery has been made in La Vendee of importance, whether it be produced by the successful search at Bourmont's mansion, where a secret magazine of arms and papers was found, is not known. But it is certain that there has been great fuss at the police, and a despatch of many agents to La Vendee. The Duke of Orleans starts for that county im- mediately. Perhaps the lurking place of the Duchess of Bern has been betrayed. The Baroness of Feucheres, whom the English papers repre- sented as settled near Portsmouth, is, on the contrary, here, oa her Cond6 estate. She has succeeded in her action for de- famation against the Prince de Rohan. He has been condemned to three months' imprisonment, aud one thousand francs fine. He suffered judgment to go by default, having scorned or ne- glected a defence. Another trial— this week has been rich in law suits presents as amusing an exemplification of French character as that with which my letter commences. Marshal Clausel, on his return from his triumphant expedition to Mount Atlas, where he subdued hosts of Arab tribes, thought to honour his victory a la Louis Quatorze. He set about establishing an Italian Opera in Algiers. Had it been a French theatre for the representation of Racine and Voltaire, a la bonne heure— but no— naught less than an Italian Opera would satisfy the democratic marshal. The theatre was built in consequence, and both it and the corps dramatique soon rivalled Mr. Monck Mason's himself. Tha season opened appropriately with Rossini's Italiana in Algieri. Great was the applause, but small the receipts. The sheiks would not patronize the opera, nor yet would their sultanas. The manager consequently broke, and came upon Marshal Clausel for his expenses. The marshal referred him to the government at home, who referred him back to Algiers. And hence the suit at law before the conseil d'etat, which is supreme in these matters. The Baron Portal is just dead of cholera, making the fifth dis- tinguished professor lost to the College de France by this disease. The marriage of King Leopold and the Princess Louise is fixed for the 9th, at Compiegne. We shall be for the rest of the week engaged in celebrating the Three Days. The royal family comes to Paris for the pur- pose, as well as to escape the infection at St. Cloud. PARIS, JULY 25. Louis Philippe has the fault of all weak characters— he talks one way, and acts another. Thus, when the insurrection broke out in the Italian legations, no one spoke louder of his deter- mination to enforce non- interference. In the Polish struggles, his expressions were all in favour of that brave people ; what his policy was, all know. Now occurs another flagrant instance. The liberty and independence of the lesser states of Germany are threatened. The Parisian public are indignant; nor do the Tuileries dissent. The day before yesterday, after the ap. pearance of the resolution of the Diet, many of the members of the centres, or ministerial party, indignant, went to the cha- teau, and spoke their sentiments. Viennet was the chief. The King replied, as boldly as could be wished, " As long as they, the great powers, confine themselves to menaces, we will menace — if they act, we will act too." And the Prince Royal being asked would he support this magnanimous resolve, replied, " That he would take care not to be the second, but the first iu enforcing it." Now, these valiant declarations of the French court mean, that as soon as Prussia passes the Saxon frontier, or Austria the Bavarian, that France will march her troops across the Rhine. France, you may be assured, under her present government, will do no such thing. And the proof, if the past offers not proof enough, exists in the fact, that on the very day of these magnanimous declarations, the ministerial journals got their cue from the Tuileries to laud the manifesto of German absolutism. The Moniteur indeed limits its expres- sions to observing, that the King of the French had not sent his adhesion to this manifesto beforehand, whatever he now might. La France Nouvelle, the paper of Montalivet, Minister of the Interior, argues, that France has naught to do with affairs on the other side of the Rhine. Another declares these German coups d'itat as necessitated by the licentiousness of the Parisian' press ; whilst the Journal des Debats applauds the Diet, as 3 heaven- born assembly. The Carlist and Republican journals alone speak with that just feeling of honest indignation wMch your London prints have all, no doubt ere this, unanimously echoed. The poor simple Germans 1 they who have of late been so fond of studying Shakspeare and the British constitution to find themselves told that for their house of representatives to reject a bill of supply is treason, for which they shall be punished by the interference of a foreign force— nay, worse, to be told this by a King of England and Elector of Hanover 1 ! 1 The Parisians even ask, are they awake— or is the revolution of July a dream—• that thus the Holy Alliance should start again to life at Frank- fort, within a few miles of the Rhine, not shrinking to proclaim, the doctrines of absolutism as binding upon all Germany— an- nouncing its construction of constitutional rights, with a reference to a million of bayonets in lieu of any more te lions logic. Any thing, however, is better than deception; and it must prove of great future utility to the people of Europe to have such a do 3 4 6 THE TOWH. cument, wherein is to be found truly regal opinions of con- stitutional liberty. What increases the indignation here is, the known fact of the liberal inclination of the great Duke of Baden, who previously resisted the Frankfort Diet, and could not have adhered to the present resolve unless compelled— in other words, told not to look to France for aid. It is reported here also, that the King of Bavaria himself, anti- liberal as he has turned of late, finds the resolution of the Diet as too extreme, impolitic, as subversive of all the constitutions of Germany, and more tending, as it certainly is, to provoke a revolution in that country than any firebrand that republicanism could fling upon it. The great popular ffite and assembly at Hambach was, as you re- member, at first prohibited by Bavaria, and afterwards allowed. A hint from Vienna produced this permission, Metternich want- ing plea and excuse for putting down the new spirit of liberty rather than such petty measures as might prevent its outburst. In ministerial arrangements no progress has been made. Louis Philippe himself and Sebastiani manage the Belgian con- cerns between them, calling no cabinet council, and leaving Messrs Montalivet and Barthe to indict the opposition press, to distribute the pamphlets of their partisans, and to imagine and prophesy insurrections that never break out. One was foretold for Saturday last, a day indeed proper to monter la tUe, i. e. inflame the passions of the Parisians. The thermometer Stood in the shade at twenty- nine degrees of Reaumur, or ninety- eight of Fahrenheit. The capital remained as tranquil as pos- sible, despite of the preparation ofthe police and the flocking of fresh regiments to Paris. We are destined, however, to be de- cimated here ; for as insurrection dies away, cholera revives. We have had one hundred aud seventy deaths from Monday at twelve o'clock to Tuesday at twelve, and of all classes of society. Professor Thurot, another loss to learning, is dead. Rimere. one of the first clerks of the chancery ; De Broval, counsellor of State, both died yesterday, after a few hours' illness. The disease has got into the debtor's prison at St. Pelagie, and into the Saint Simonian's convent at Menilmontant, where it has carried off one of the principal apostles. The police still torment these fanatics, or philosophers, which you will. A guard at their door forbids ladies to enter in order to attend the weekly reunions— by what right it is difficult to say. There are some thousand houses of ill fame in Paris licensed by said police ; but then they derive revenue from them. Perhaps it is this which they seek from the Saint Simonians ; who, if they be licentious, are worse than criminals in the eyes of the French authorities, by being contraband. The following placard was stuck up in several places of Paris yesterday :—" Madame ( the Duchess of Berry) has quitted the west; but she still remains in its vicinity, with facilities of leturning at need. Her Royal Highness will not leave France : she cannot forget that the blood of Henry the Fourth and Maria Theresa runs in her veins. The perils which she has encoun tered for tbe last two months reveal her courage. Whilst France is menaced, and whilst the powers of Europe, finding no gua- rantee for the peace of Europe in the government for the pre- sent occupying the throne, meditate an invasion, the mother of Henry the Fifth finds her place to be amongst those French who are ready to defend the soil of their country. It is this con- sideration that explains the present tranquillity of the west, Otherwise so unaccountable; for the Vendeans have not de- generated from their fathers, those valiant defenders of altar and throne, whom not all the forces of the republic could con- quer." Notwithstanding this document, the Temps declares that the Duchess is still concealed in La Vendee, and amusing herself with learning the patois of the country. It is generally asserted now that she was at Rosny on the 7th or 8th of June. She has certainly vindicated her title, like the Duchesse D'An- gouleme, to be considered " one of the men of the family." Whilst one rival to the dynasty of Organs is thus exerting herself, another is expiring in Austria. No hopes are entertained of the life of young Napoleon. It is now said, that notwith- standing the rigid seclusion of his youth and education, the memory of his former state and prospects still remained un- obliterated;" that they preyed upon him, and created a tendency to consumption, early remarked. The first clever physician who attended him fortified his constitution, which, it seems, the re- volution of July, and all the ideas attendant on it, again shook. Now every one even in Austria exclaims against the total want of skill in the present medical attendant of the priuce. Whether this be true or not I will not answer ; but imagination may well be permitted to employ itself as to the causes of the extinction of so illustrious a race. The French have resolved to rival us in a railway and rail- coaches. A rail- road already exists between Lyons and St. Etienne and one betwixt St. Etienne and Roanne is well nigh finished. On these two English engines, one fabricated by Mr. Stephenson, of Newcastle, the other by Fenton and Murray, of Leeds, were set in motion on the 1st of July, and bore an im- mense crowd of visitors, at the rate of twelve leagues an hour. The present rail- road unites the Rhone and Loire. To connect the latter with the Maine and Seine is now the project which the government patronize with all their might. The line, in con- tinuation of that from Lyons to Roanne will run by Moulins, Nevers, Cerne, will quit the Loire in the neighbourhood of Gren, and strike off towards the Marne, near Paris. The new line will run upwards of one hundred leagues. Three years, they reckon, will complete it, andtwenty- six millions of francs, little more than a million sterling. The rail- road from London to Manchester is calculated to cost two millions and a half, and is only two- thirds cf the distance. We are promised to be indulged with a paper war, that must be amusing, betwixt the Abbe De Pradt and Chateaubriand. The latter complains of the ci- devant archbishops following him, and giving him a rap from time to time with his broken crozier. TOW A' MISCELLANEA. October 28. NATIONAL GALLERY AND RECORD OFFICE,— The estimated expense of erecting the above building is 50,000;.; the amount proposed to be taken for the present year is 15,000;.; leaving to be granted in future years 35,000/. The proposed building will Jae 461 feet in length and 56 feet in width in its extreme dimen- sions, and will consist of a centre and two wings. The western wing will contain, on the ground floor, rooms for the reception ef records, and an entrance into the King's Mews, such as now exists. Above them will be the picture gallery, divided into four rooms ; one 50 feet by 50 feet; two 50 feet by 38 feet; and one room 50 feet by 52 feet; together with four cabinets for the re ception of small pictures, or for the use of the keeper. The floors will he made fire- proof. The eastern wing, of similar ex- tent, will contain, on the ground floor, a hall for casts, the li- brary and council- room of the Royal Academy, and a dwelling for the keeper. There will be likewise a gateway or entrance corresponding to that leading into the barrack- yard in the other wing. In Hie basement below this wing there will be offices for the use of the Royal Academy, and a separate set attached to the dwelling- house of the keeper. The centre of the building will consist of halls, vestibules, stair- cases, & c. for both esta- blishments ; they will be distinct and separated ; but so brought together as to form one grand feature of interior decoration. The building is proposed to be executed in stone. The central portico is to be constructed with the columns and other members of that which formerly decorated the Palace at Carlton House. The materials of the present building are to be used in the con- struction of the new building, so far as they can be employed with propriety. The whole cost of the building will be 50,000/,, exclusive of the old materials above mentioned, which have been valued at 4,000/. It is impossible to state with any degree of accuracy the cost of the grates, air- stoves, and fittings of the buildings, which will mainly depend upon the mode to be adopted in warming them ; but it may be confidently stated that it will Hot exceed 600/.— Parliamentary Paper, No. 611. A correspondent of the Evening Post states that there were but nine Orangemen who walked on the 12th July into Bloom- field from Rochfort- bridge. The Evening Mail, in alluding to ose nine Orangemen, counted them us three hundred 111 A certain witty theatrical lord, being asked if Mademoiselle Mars's family name was such, or whether it was assumed, re- plied, I really am not quite certain, but 1 should rather think it was " un nom de Guerre." Translated from an impromptu in French, in Bonaparte's time :— ON MADEMOISELLE MARS. The sexes blended in one form we find— Venus and Mars in unity combined. The report book of the police division A was stolen from the office of the station- house in Scotland- yard on the 15th instant, and has not since been recovered, though several examinations have taken place respecting it. The book contained a statement of all the misdeeds of the division since the establishment of the po lice, which may probably account for its disappearance. It is stated in a late number of the Westminster Review, that any person influencing five seats in tlie House of Commons could obtain a Peerage whenever he thought fit. Wednesday a new writ was moved for Winchilsea ( probably flie last it will ever be honoured with) in the place of Mr. James Brougham, Clerk of the Patents, and Registrar of Affidavits in the Court of Chancery. Camphor, in all its forms, is just now so much in request, that many druggists are selling it at an advanced profit of 200 per cent. A meeting respecting the monument to the late Sir James Mackintosh was held on Monday, at which the Marquis of Lansdowne and Viscount Altliorp attended. The whole- length statue of Queen Elizabeth, mounted on the East end of old St. Dunstan's church, in Fleet- street, will eventually be transferred to the interior of the new building. This figure has always been considered a faithful resemblance of the Virgin Queen. It appears, by a letter from Paris, that a company which was about to be formed for making telegraphic communications throughout France, for commercial purposes, has been refused permission by the Government to establish the telegraphic sta- tions necessary for their object. The affair is much canvassed ' in the commercial circles, where the prohibition is treated as an odious and tyrannical interference with measures designed with the sole view of promoting the interests of commerce.— Times. Miss WILBERFORCE.—- When Mr. Wilberforce was chosen Member for York, his daughter, in walking home from the scene of the election, was cheered by an immense crowd, who followed her to her own door, crying " Miss Wilberforce for ever!" The young lady turned as she was ascending the stair, and motioning to the populace to be quiet, said, very emphati- cally, " Nay, gentlemen, if you please, not Miss Wilberforce for ever," which sent them all home in good humour.— Cham• bers' Edinburgh Journal. EPITAPH.— On a tomb- board in the church- yard of Harrow- on- the- Hill, to the memory of Isaac Greentree, the visitors are shown the following lines, pencilled by the late Lord Byron, when a pupil in the school at that place :— Under these green trees, rising to the skies, The planter of them, Isaac Greentree, lies ; The time will come when these green trees shall fall, And Isaac Greentree rise above them all. DEAF AND DUMB MARRIAGE.— On Monday morning, at the old church, Paddington, by the Rev. Mr. Gifford, Silas Wilmerton was married to Eliza Vesey, both of whom were deaf and dumb, having been bom so. At first some hesitation was felt as to the manner in which the ceremony could be pro- ceeded with ; but this difficulty was at last obviated by each party copying in their own hand- writing the respective answers they would be required to make, and the questions were then traced out to them line by line, by the minister, to whom, after reading them, and signifying their assent by a motion of the head and hand, they delivered the appropriate written answer. The other portions of the ceremony were gone through in a similar manner. The bride and bridegroom were both appa- rently about twenty- two or twenty- tliree years of age, the for- mer possessing considerable personal attractions, and both of them Seemed to fully comprehend the nature of the solemn obli- gation they were entering into. Their writing was extremely good, and was done by them with mu& h tact and readiness. Hyde Park on Sunday furnished a convincing proof that the prolonged sitting of Parliament has not the power to keep people in town after the usual season ; a greater scarcity of all kinds of company we never saw, and the few genteel people who ventured there, finding the desert they had entered, evidently returned home to shut up their windows, lest they should be suspected of anything so vulgar as being in town after the world had left it. At" Aix- la- Chapelle, from 50,000 to 60,000 pilgrims had ar- rived on the 15th instant, to perform their devotions at the Shrine of the Reliques, exposed there once every seven years. The RSght Hon. William Noel Hill, the British Minister at the Court of the King of the Two Sicilies, is the fifth represen- tative of the present Government at foreign courts recalled by Ljrd Palmerston during the last three months. Mr. Hill, who is replaced at Naples by Lord Ponsonby, brother to the Countess Grey, will be entitled to a pension of 2,000/. per annum, as a retired diplomatist, as well as Lord Heytesbury, Sir Charles Bagot, Mr. Algernon Percy, and Mr. Chad. Mr. Morris, of the Haymarket, has presented a memorial to the Lord Chamberlain, praying an extension of his season, which is at present only from the middle of June to the middle of October. The ground for this application is the injury he is at present sustaining from the circumstance that the Italian Opera- house and Covent- garden open nearly every night against him; whereas, in former years, the latter was by compact en- tirely closed, and in the former performances took place only thrice a week. The Conservative Clique are greatly discomfited by the sud- den departure of a Noble young Duke, the " rose and expecta- tion" of this plotting monopoly, who is gone to Scotland with- out having deposited his quota towards the fund, which, in the event of a dissolution of Parliament, is the last hope of the gang. Another Noble Duke, an aged and infirm Baron, and a frightfully rich Ex- Chancellor, according to report and confi- dential whisper, still refuse, in the way of contribution, to come up to the scratch. A great number of men are employed daily in Kensington Gardens, under the superintendence of Mr. Shedden, ploughing and burning the turf, and preparing the ground for the lime and manure that it is to be dressed with, preparatory to its be- ing sown with hay- seed, and planted with shrubs similar to Buckingham Gardens. Mr. Shedden has proposed to Govern- ment to make a sewer to take off the foul water from the neigh- bourhood of Bayswater instead of emptying itself in the orna- mental water in the gardens. By this means the water would be at all times pure. In repairing the fishing temple which was built in the gardens by George II., they found an extensive vault underneath ; there was no other entrance to it but by tak- ing up a stone in the floor. They found in it two fishing- rods, three chairs, a table, and two empty bottles. Mr. Hughes Hughes, after six months' trial of the Portsoken aldermanic gown, has resigned it, on the plea that it does not fit him. - It is rumoured that in the course of next month an encamp- ment will be formed in one of the parks, for the purpose of his Majesty's presenting a standard to the Blues, and also with the view of affording the troops a little recreation. It is expected that the encampment will continue for three or four days. His Majesty has given the Stud- house, with the surrounding grounds, to the Earl of Albemarle, as a mark of his respect. This does not look as though his Majesty was unfavourable to the Whigs; for a more stauneh supporter of Mr. Fox's politics never sat among the Peers. For two and- thirty years the pre- sent Master of the Horse has never given an inconsistent vote — Globe. IRELAND. KILKENNY ASSIZES.— THE CARRICKSHOCK TRIALS. DUBLIN, SATURDAY, JULY 21.— Yesterday morning at ten o'clock, John Ryan was placed on his trial, charged with being a participator in the murder of the police at Carrickshock. The jury ( composed of nine Protestants and three Catholics) having been sworn, the examination of witnesses commenced. The prosecution was supported by the evidence of four police- men, all of whom swore that the prisoner was present at Carrick- shock— some of them that he was empty- handed amongst the crowd— others that he struck a policeman with a bill- hook. A boy not more than ten years old was produced as a witness by the Crown, but he could not define the nature of an oath and was sent off the table. For the defence, an alibi was proved by Mr. Tennyson and two other persons. Messrs. M. Belcher and George Briscoe gave the accused an excellent character. The judge delivered an elaborate charge to the jury, who retired, and after remaining in all Friday night, the foreman stated that there was no possible chance of their agreeing to a verdict. They were shortly after discharged. William Voss was placed at the bar— A jury having been first sworn, after twenty- eight challenges on the part of the Crown, and fourteen on the part of the prisoner, indicted for aiding and abetting in the murder of Edmund Butler, at Carrickshock The Attorney- General stated the case for the Crown. Andrew Shane examined— I am a policeman; I knew the prisoner; a party of policemen passed through Higginstown, on the 14th December last; Voss kept a public house in that town, and on that occasion came out and shook hands with me ; I afterwards saw Voss in the narrow lane where the affray took place; and I heard him say to Captain Gibbons, about two minutes before the fight, " all we want is the process server, Butler." William Keegan examined— I am a policeman ; I saw Voss a little before the police primed and loaded ; Cleary told Voss as he was pressing on the police in the lane, that he would shoot him if he did not go back ; I told Cleary not to do so ; I saw the man with the sash, and heard him say he could not keep back the people ; the process- server was knocked down before a shot was fired. John Cleary examined— I am a policeman ; I did not know the prisoner long; I saw him on the morning of the slaughter, as the police were passing through Higginstown ; I heard him say, in reference to the crowd, " Boys you need not fear, it is only a friendly funeral that is coming." I saw him again coming into the yard where Butler was serving the process; I raised my piece, and told him if he came into the yard I would shoot; Voss upon this retreated ; some of the crowd said to Mr. Gibbons that there was no danger, that it was the process- server they wanted, and that not a hair of the head of the police should be touched. James Dermody examined— I am a policeman ; I saw Voss encouraging the mob opposite Waterford's house ; I saw a po- liceman present his piece at him, and desire him to keep back ; I heard a cry, " We must have the process- server or blood ;" I did not see Voss while the fight was going on ; he was near those I heard speak. Robert Harvey examined— I am a policeman ; I saw Voss be- side Mr. Gibbons a minute before the latter was killed ; when my comrades desired the people to keep back, they put five or six pitchforks up to each man's breast, and said, " Dare you touch us ?" John Brown examined— I am a policeman ; and I saw the prisoner speaking to Mr. Gibbons immediately before the mur- ders were committed. Surgeon Peel's evidence was similar to that which he gave on Ryan's trial. The case for the prosecution closed here. For the defence witnesses were called to prove an alibi, and to give the prisoner a good character. The defence having closed, Baron Foster charged the Jury, who retired at hoj£ past seven o'clock, and, after remaining in all night, returned a verdict of Not Guilty, at half- past nine in the morning. Proclamation was immediately made for another Jury, and John Ryan, who was tried on Friday, was again placed at the bar. A Jury having been at length sworn, after twenty challenges by the prisoner, and 108 on the part of the crown, John Ryan was again given in charge for the murder of Edmund Butler, the process- server. The evidence, which was the same as that produced on Fri- day, was then gone into. The jury retired at a quarter past six in the evening, but remained locked up all night, and on their return to court next morning, the foreman having declared that the jury had not agreed to a verdict, the court ordered them to be discharged. ABANDONMENT OF THE PROSECUTION— ACQUITTAL OF THE PRISONERS.— The Learned Judge here called on Mr. Scott to ex- plain the course he proposed to follow respecting the prisoner at the bar, and the other . persons in custody for the same offence. Mr. Scott said—" My Lord, from what has occurred, it is my duty to state, on the part of the crown, that it would not be conducive to the ends of justice to put the prisoner, John Ryan, on his trial, a third time, for the same offence. The Attorney- General has instructed me to state that after four trials had by four successive juries of this county, on the same unfortunate transaction, and after the result of these trials, he does not wish or intend to prosecute the matter further. We, therefore, my Lord, decline all further proceedings against any of the pri- soners." Mr. Dixon ( counsel for the prisoners) said, he supposed the course to be followed was swearing a jury, and giving all the prisoners in charge to them, without entering into any prose- cution Mr. Scott had no objection to this course, hut Ryan ought also to be included. Ten prisoners were then put to the bar, and Baron Foster asked Mr. Scott was there any evidence for the prosecution. Mr. Scott— No, my Lord. Baron Foster— Gentlemen of the Jury, then you must acquit the prisoners. A verdict of Not Guilty was immediately returned. Baron Foster directed the gaoler to discharge the prisoners who had been acquitted. There are six other prisoners in cus- tody for the same transaction ; they will be discharged by pro- clamation when the assizes conclude. to give up his situation. A cow was houghed last week on the lands of Ballyquinn. On Wednesday night an armed party at- tacked the house of William Ryal, in the parish of Lisdowney, and beat him severely. The same party then went to the houses of Mr. L. Marum and Michael Walshe, in the same neighbour- hood, and ordered each of them to discharge one of their work, men. They smashed Walshe's windows. The dwelling- houses of William Casiiin, of Clomanto, and the widow Walshe's, were attacked on Friday night, by Whitefeet. They gave Cashin a severe beating, and also a boy belonging to Mrs. Walshe. When they were about to leave the house of the latter, they de- sired her not to look after them ; she, however, disobeyed the injunction, the consequence of which was, one of the ruffians turned round and fired in through the window. A slug passed through the woman's cap which slightly grazed her head.— Kil- kenny Moderator. Wednesday, Roger Hayes, Esq., was sworn into the com- mission of the peace for this city— the first Catholic magistrate in Waterford since the reign of James the Second.— Water/ ord Mirror. At the Westmeath Assizes a gentleman named D'Esterre was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for committing an as- sault upon James Count Nugent. D'Esterre was guilty of a trespass in shooting upon part of his bog. At the same assizes, a gentleman named Gannon was tried, with two others, for the abduction of a Miss Melesina Bussy. The prosecutrix admitted that she would not have been unwilling to marry Gannon, if her friends would have consented to it. Gannon was acquitted.— Dublin Register. GREAT TITHE MEETING ATKILDARE.— Last week this meet ing was held. Major Tandy, with 300 military and police attended. He attempted to have the meeting dispersed, but did not succeed. Every thing passed off in the most enthusiastic manner. From twenty- five to thirty- thousand persons were present. We have not time for further comment, as this infor- mation only reached us when we were going to press.— Carlow Morning Post. Richard Kennedy, of Stonecarty, in the barony of Kells, was found murdered at an early hour on Monday morning. The un- fortunate man was stoned to death, in consequence, we have been informed, of a dispute existing between him and some members of his wife's family. William Young was killed a few days since at Templeorum by 8 blow of a stone. Jeremiah Butler, of Ballynasloe, herdsman to Mr. Delany, ofDurrow, was visited by " Whitefeet on Tuesday last, and ordered forthwith The Rev. Gerard Doyle, P. P. of Naas, has been held to bail in a recognizance of 400/. to abide his trial at the Athy assizes, in connection with a tithe meeting on the hill of Sleeroc, near Blessington.— Dublin Evening Post. ABDUCTION AND SUICIDE. A young lady of considerable personal attractions, and now about 19 years old, and who on coming of age will be entitled to an independent fortune of her own of about 500/. a- year, living in great respectability with her father at Kensington, had been for some time persecuted with the addresses and attention of Captain M- , who had in some measure been received by her family as a suitor for her hand. He had, however, lately shown considera- ble jealousy ef her, and had displayed much violence of temper. On Saturday last Miss luid been making a morning call on a lady in the neighbourhood, whose husband returned home with her to her father's house ; and in a very short time Captain M ar- rived, and on learning she had just returned home, accompanied by a gentleman, betrayed the greatest agitation and passion, and, pro- ducing a brace of pistols from his pocket, declared to Miss — that, had he met her with the gentleman, he would have blown Ids- brains out with one pistol, and have then destroyed himself with the other. He then urged her, as a proof of her sincerity, to take a walk with him. She, however, became alarmed at his violence, and endeavoured to excuse herself; she, however, by his threats and intimidations at length consented to go, but her alarm was so great, that under an excuse of arranging some part of her dress, she had an opportunity of retiring for a few minutes, during which time she desired her man servant to follow her wherever she went, without letting Captain M observe him, and should she be obliged to get into' a coach, he was to take one also, as she was alarmed at Captain M ' s conduct. They had not walked far before she was put into a coach by Captain M ; the servant, however, could not find another coach to get into, - but, at the in- stant, an omnibus going the same way, begot into it, thinking be should be able to keep the coach in sight; in this, however, he did not succeed, and on coming into the city lost all trace of his young mistress. In the mean time Captain M took her from the coach to a Stratford stage in Leadenhall- street, by which they went to the Eagle and Child at Forest- gate, about a mile beyond Strat- ford; after they had been there some time, he again persuaded her to take another walk in the country, not before she had strong fears of his intending something dreadful. After walking down the lane nearly as far as Maryland- point, he became suddenly ill, and call- ing to her to come close to him, fell down. She, however, ran from him, imploring assistance ; lie constantly calling out to her to come to him. The only person near at the instant, was an Irish woman, who Miss —— begged would help the gentleman; he, however, refused to be assisted by her, and called the mora " Mary Ann, Mary Ann, it is you I want near uie;" at the same time feel- ing for something at his breast, under his coat. His illness in- creased, and by this time assistance arrived, and he was conveyed back to the Eagle and Child, where he acknowledged having taken laudanatn and under l4' s coat was discovered a dagger, with which he intended to make Miss M his victim. Tire laudanum taking effect sooner and stronger than he expected, was the cause of her escape from this horrid project. Mrs. Mosely, the landlady of the Eagle and Child, on his being brought back, recollected heating bill say, as he went out, to Miss , Never mind, Mary Ann, our troubles ill this life will soon be over, and we shall be happy in the next." Medical assistance Using immediately sent for from Stratford, Dr. Elliot and his assistant soon arrived, and although every means were resorted to in order to save his life, the quantity of laudanam he had taken was too powerful, although the stomach pump was used within as short a time as possible. Dr. Elliot remained with him the whole night, and at three o'clock on Sunday morning he died in the greatest agonies. The situation of Miss ——, who was ill the adjoining room, was scarcely less pitiable ; her friends, however, from what little in- formation the servant had bedft able to give, had by this time traced her, and soon afterwards a gentleman conveyed her back to her father's house. The most remarkable part of this dreadful affair is, that after his death Miss and her friends for the first time discovered that he was a married man, and has a wife living. An inquest was held on Tuesday, at the Eagle and Child. Lord Henniker, whose death took place on Thursday, was an Irish Peer. His Lordship was in his fifty- sixth year ; had suc- ceeded his uncle, John, the second Lord, in 1821. His Lord- ship married Mary, daughter of the Rev. William Chafey, by whom he had issue three sons and five daughters. His eldest son, John, a barrister, born in February, 1801, succeeds to the title and estates. The deceased Peer was liberal in his politics. ELOQUENCE IN CLARET.— In the debate about the prosecu- tion of Lord Treasurer Danby in 1679, we are told of a very peculiar speech spoken by the Earl of Carnarvon, a Peer who is said never to have spoken before in the House, who, having been heated with wine, and excited to display his abilities by the Duke of Buckingham ( who meant no favour to the Treasurer, but only ridicule), was resolved, before he went up, to speak upon any subject that should offer. Accordingly he stood up, and delivered himself thus :—" My Lords, I understand but Uttle Latin, but a good deal of English, and not a little of Eng- lish history, from which I have learned the mischiefs of such kinds of persecutions as these, and the ill fate of the persecu- tors. I shall bring many instances, and those very ancient. But, my Lords, I shall go no further back than the latter end of Queen Elizabeth's reign, at which time the Earl of Essex was run down by Sir Walter Raleigh, and your Lordships know very well what became of Sir W. Raleigh. My Lord Bacon he ran down Sir W. Raleigh, and your Lordships know what became of my Lord Bacon. The Duke of Buckingham, he ran down my Lord Bacon, and your Lordships know what happened to the Duke of Buckingham. Sir Thomas Wentworth, afterwards Earl of Strafford, he ran down the Duke of Buckingham, and you all know what became of him. Sir Harry Vane, he ran down the Earl of Strafford, and your Lordships know what became of Sir Harry Vane. Chancellor Hyde, he ran down Sir Harry Vane, and your Lordships know what became of the Chancellor. Sir Thomas Osborne, now Earl of Danby, ran down Chancellor Hyde, but what will become of the Earl of Danby your Lordships best can tell. But let me see the man that dare run down the Earl of Danby, and we 6haU soon see what will become of him." This being pronounced with a re- markable humour and tone, the Duke of Buckingham, both surprised and disappointed, after his way, cried out, " The man's inspired, and claret has done the business 1" NEWLY INVENTED FIRE- ARMS.— According to a French paper a patent has been obtained by an individual for a new in- vention with regard to fire- arms, by which from fifty to sixty discharges may be obtained in a minute. It is added that a machine may be formed, to be drawn by a horse, from which 1,800 discharges of the usual kind may be obtained in a minute, and which will also discharge 9,000 projectiles. September 23. THE TOWS. 241 SUMMER ASSIZES. HOME CIRCUIT.— CHELMSFORD, TUESDAY, JULY 24. James Murrell, aged 24, and Mary Monk, aged 24, were indicted for robbing the dwelling- house of William Weldon, of Lougliton, on the 2d of April last. The facts of this case were as follows:— Mary Monk lived servant with the prosecutor. James Murrell is » shoemaker, and suitor to Mary Monk. Murrell, about a fort- night before the robbery, hired a cottage of Mr. Weldon, near bis • own residence. The prosecutor left home on the morning of April 2d; saw his iron chest that morning all safe; put some money into at, in addition to what was there before; tbe whole amount was about 90 sovereigns and eight pounds in silver; locked the chest, and took the key with him ; left home between six and seven in the morning; Mary Monk breakfasted that morning with her mistress in the kitchen, when she related to her an extraordinary dream she had several times had, tbat her master's iron chest was broken all to pieces, adding, that Murrell says my master's house would be • robbed, if it was known what money he kept in it; she then re- quested her mistress to allow her to go and clean Murrell's house, « S he was to have something come into it that day ; this was acceded to ; at a quarter before ten tbe prosecutor's wife went to see a friend, and the female prisoner was to go as she desired, to clean Murrell's bouse, receiving at the same time particular directions to make all doors fast; the prosecutor's wife hetself having made fast the front door, instead of the female prisoner; instead of giving due dili- gence to clean her lover's house, she went up to Mrs. Grant, who Tesides in an adjoining cottage, and who was then standing in a situation where she could see Mr. Weldon's ( the prosecutor) front door; prisoner said to her " I want to look at your house;" she ( Mrs. Grant) said " I am coming presently ;" prisoner replied " come directly;" prisoner was agitated, and when in tbe house, manifested great uneasiness, and the witness Grant said " you are asfidgetty as a hen in the snow!" On Mrs. Weldon's returning at 11, • she observed the front door of her house open, and immediately went into Murrell's ( the male prisoner) cottage, where was the female prisoner, and witness Grant; Mrs. Weldon expressed her surprise at the door appearing open; when all went from the cottage to pri- soner's house nothing had been disturbed below ; but on Mrs. Wel- don going up stairs, she found the chest dashed to pieces, and the money gone; prisoner did not at first go up— after did, and used the extraordinary expression, that if nothing was found on her, she could not be hurt; the male prisoner, during this interval, was seen by other persons in great haste, and much heated, his fingers cut, and the chest likewise bloody. Mary Monk acquitted.— James Murrell guilty ; Transportation for life. WESTERN CIRCUIT— SALISBURY, JULY 25. Joseph Buxton, a respectable- looking man, was indicted for set- ting fire to his dwelling- house, the Cross Keys, Bradford, with an • intent to defraud the Salamander Fire Insurauce. Mr. Serjeant Coleridge and Mr. Erie conducted the prosecution; and Mr. Stone and Mr. Leigh appeared for the defence. From the evidence itappeared, that the prisoner, who is a middle- aged man, and who has kept the Cross Keys, Bradford, for the last twenty years, in December last insured the furniture of the house for 800/., whilst its actual worth did not amount to above 3001. On the night of the 9th of March, several persons who lodged at his house were alarmed by the prisoner by the cry of " fire." They went, down into his bed- room, where they found the bed- furniture on fire, which they extinguished, the prisoner helping them. Some time afterwards they were told that the fire had broken out in an- other room, which they also put out. An hour or two after tbat, fire was discovered in a room on another floor, which was also got under. Soon after which a fourth fire broke out in a closet adjoin- ing the room where the first fire was; and that they also extin- guished, the prisoner assisting them all the time. Several witnesses were called, who examined the house after the fire; and, from the state in which they found it, could entertain no doubt that it had been wilfully set on fire. The learned Judge summed up; and the Jury, after a short deli- beration, found the prisoner— Guilty. His Lordship, in passing sentence, told him to entertain no hope of mercy, as his life could not be spared. He will be executed on Tuesday week. WORCESTER, JULY 24. William Crawford, a nailer, was indicted for killing and slaying Eliza Smallwood. The prisoner pleaded Not Guilty. Charles Mitchell— Was working in the same shop with the pri- soner at the time the offence was committed ; heard the prisoner say to Eliza Smallwood, who was working at the same block with him, " You wretch, what do you burn me for?" and immediately Eliza Smallwood screamed out; witness went directly to the place from his block, and saw Eliza Smallwood with an iron stuck in her back; had seen prisoner with the iron half a minute before— he had taken it red hot from the furnace ; saw. Mrs. Emus pull the rod out ofElixa Smallwood's back; she ( Smallwood) ran out of the shop, and witness followed her home ; the prisoner entered soon after, and said, " Oh Lord, oh I" and began crying; Eliza Smallwood was about 14 or 15 years of age. The rod was produced in court, and it appeared to be a rod used for nails. The surgeon who examined the body stated, that there was a small wound on the right shoulder, which penetrated tbe shoulder- blade, and continued through the lungs. The wound appeared cauterised, as though done by some red- hot instrument. Other witnesses were called, who corroborated the first witness's statement. The prisoner, in his defence, said that the deceased had slipped down and fallen upon the rod, which he at the time held in his hand. Witnesses were called, who spoke to tbe previous good character of tbe prisoner, and of his kindness towards the deceased. One of them stated, as an exception, tbat he " used her very kindly, bar- ling now and then a blow in the shop." The learned Judge having summed up, the jury found the pri- soner guilty, and lie was sentenced to Eighteen Months' Confine- ment and Hard Labour. POLICE. MANSION HOUSE. A well- dressed man, named John Williams, was on Satufday brought before Mr. Alderman Wilson, charged with stealing glasses from various taverns and public- houses in the City. The prisoner, it appeared, was brought up to a lucrative trade, but not being fond of work, he had contrived to live for some length of time past by the following stratagem .— He sallied forth from bis lodgings, at the east end of the town, in the morning, and arrived in the City, the scene of action, at a time the proprietors of taverns and public- houses and their servants were busily engaged in business. It was his practice to slink into one of tbe above houses, and call for a glass of porter, which he always paid for on delivery ; and in the hurry of business on the part of those who served him, he generally succeeded in pocketing the glass, after lie had swallowed the contents. In this manner he would enter other houses, and being a fellow that could carry a to- lerable quantity of heavy wet" without much injury to himself, he has contrived to fill his pockets with the empty glasses, which he could sell to advantage, having only paid for the liquor which they bad contained. In the midst of his career on Friday he was discovered taking a large rummei from a public- house near the Man- sion- house, after he had drunk the beer which it contained. When searched on the spot, not only the glass in question, but several others, belonging to different persons at whose bouses he had given a " friendly call" that morning, were found in his possession. The charge for a glass of porter is l^ d. ; so that the prisoner only ex- pended that trifle at each bouse, and pocketted glasses in value from 2s. to 2s. 6d. each. He was committed. SHOCKINO ACCIDENT.— A meeting of the working classes took place on Tuesday in Greig's Riding- school, Nicolson- atreet, Edin- burgh, for the purpose of debating on certain pledges to be de- manded from candidates; tbe meeting broke up about ten o'clock, and it would appear that Mr. Aytouu was invited to attend. The horses were taken out of the carriage in which Mr. Aytoun was to return home, and a number of thoughtless young men commenced doing the horses' work. An immense rush of people, pushing be- hind the carriage, drove it forward at such a rate as made it impos- sible for the young men in front to keep their feet; and before they got a few hundred yards, down they fell. One lad was so much crushed by the wheels of the carriage going over bim, that he died in a few minutes; another had an arm broke, and was otherwise seriously injured. DREADFUL ACCIDENT.— Tuesday, a coroner's inquest was held at the Red Lion, Chiswick, on the body of Mr. Waterhouse. On Sunday evening the deceased, who was in his chaise with his two sons, allowed the youngest, aged seven, to take the reins. On get- ting to Gunnersbury- lane, near Brentford, the horse took fright at some dragoons, and before Mr. Waterhouse could got possession of the reins, the animal plunged against a lamp post, and threw. Mr. Waterhouse and his sons out. Mr. W. was taken up insensible, and he died on Monday. His sons were much bruised, and they are yet in a dangerous state.— Verdict, Accidental Death. DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY.— The following information has been given to the police respecting a most daring outrage and high- way robbery committed on Sunday last at Finchley :— About a . quarter before one o'clock as William Fletcher, shopman to Mr. Bevel, a linen- draper, in Blackman- street, Southwark, was cross- ing Finchley Common, he was acoosted by three men, who got out of a hackney coach, which he bad seen driving towards him, and having knocked him down with a stick and stunned him, they robbed him of between three and four pounds in cash, his watch chain, and seals. Tbe chain had broken, and the watch remained in the pocket. A gentleman afterwards found him lying near the side of the road in a helpless state, and he was taken to the Wel- lington Inn, the nearest house to the spot where the outrage was committed. BOW STREET. It may be remembered that some weeks ago an nnder- waiter at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's- street, was committed from this office for having robbed his master of a quantity of plate. At the time of the robbery the Marquis de Lavallette ( son of the celebrated Lavallette) was sojourning at Fenton's, and his bed- room was plun- dered of some valuable property, including a gold watch with a cross composed of brilliants on the case, and on the dial the names of liis father and mother. This watch, the marquis stated, was given to him by his mother on her death- bed, with an earnest ex- hortation to preserve it, " whatever perils might assail him." The marquis was so much affected when he discovered his loss tbat he shed tears. He directly offered a large reward for the recovery of tbe watch, to which was attached a curious gold seal, worth fifty guineas, and some valuable seals. Nothing was heard of it till Fri- day, when it was ascertained by a police- offieer that such a watch had been offered in pawn by a dustman in Jermyn- street. The officer went to the dustman, who immediately produced the watch, which he said he bad found in tbe dust taken from Fenton's Hotel. He had offered it for sale to a Jew in Jennyn- street, who said he would give him 3s. for tbe whole lot. He then offered it in pawn in tbe same street, and the ^ pawnbroker refused to give him more than 8/., which he refused to take. The magistrate ordered the watch to be delivered to the marquis, aud severely censured the dustman for not returning, and the pawnbroker for not detaining the watch. WAX- WORK J). MUMMY.— John Wetherby, a youth in the em- ployment of Mr. Jones, the exhibitor of a real mummy in High Holborn, was charged by Mrs. Simmonds, the wife of the exhibitor of a collection of wax figures, large as life, with committing an assault upon her person ; and a second charge was made against him of wilfully b'eaking certain panes of glass in the window of Mr. Simmond's bouse. It appears that Mr. Jones's exhibition of a real mummy did not attract public attention so much as Mr. Simmonds's wax figures of the Burkers, Corder, Thurtell, and other murderers, and Jones, for the purpose of drawing customers to his show, having heard that Simmonds bad bought the apparel in which the incendiary Smithers was lately banged, and also the rope by which he was suspended, got some artist to draw a sketch of Simmonds hanging on a gallows, underneath which was written, " No figures from the gallows stuffed with straw showed here ; but a real mummy, 4,000 years old, and once a King of Egypt." On the opposite side of the way it was declared that the mummy was the remains of an old woman, whom they called " skin and grief," who had died for want of food, and had been turned into a real mummy. The rival showmen did not stop here; but a reward was offered of 200/. for the discovery of the resurrectionist who stole the skeleton called a mummy from St. Giles's church- yard. This was not to be borne, and as Mrs. Sim- monds was standing at her door on Monday afternoon, the accused threw a piece of pitch at her, which struck her violently on the face, and afterwards threw another piece which broke some panes of glass. A policeman took him into custody, and found a quantity of pitch on his hands. The Magistrate, Mr. Roe, ordered tbe prisoner to find bail to answer an indictment at the Sessions. He called a person to be bis bail, but tbe party so grossly pre- varicated, that Mr. Roe ordered him out of the office, and told him never to show his face again there.— The prisoner was locked up, and ordered to give notice of bail. SWINDLING A FARMER.— On Thursday, a decrepid old man, who said he was a farmer, named Smith, living at Rutherwig, near Basingstoke, gave information of having been robbed of two 101. notes, twenty. five sovereigns and a half, and some silver. He came to London to receive a dividend at the Bank. After getting it, and on his way to the West- End, two respectable looking men asked him tbe way to William- street, Strand. He told them tbat he was a stranger in London. One of them then said, in a coun- tryfied accent, " Well, old gemman, o'im a stranger in Lunnun also, and if you'll loike to go with us, we'll find out this here street what we're in search on, and we'll have a point of beer or so together." The old man made no objection, and when they came to William- street, went into tbe William the Fourth public- house. He told them, in reply tq their questions, tbat he had come up to London to receive his dividend in order to assist his nephew, who kept a farm, and was straitened for money, though he had the promise of a capital crop. He came to London on foot, and it was a hard case for him to pay away the money, as it was all lie had to live on, but he did not like the poor lad to be lost for the sake of a few pounds, The stranger asked him if he had got his money safe, upon which he took his bag out to examine, when he found the money right. One of them said " Well, my friend, your conduct is very creditable ; you're tbe roight kind of a chap to assist a poor rela- tion, and here's half a crown to pay some of your expences." The old man, at first refused to take it, but the other said, " Non- sense, friend, give us bold of your bag, and I'll put it in.'' He then took the bag from him, and, as complainant thought, put the half- crown into it; after which he gave it to the old man, saying, " Now moind you don't take your bag out till you get fairly out of Lunnun, for there's lots of sharks about." The complainant then left them. On getting to Knightsbridge he went into a public- house to get some porter, and on pulling out his bag discovered that all his money was gone, the sovereigns being replaced by a few farthings. The old man, who shed tears while relating his story, said he had not the means left to get home. The Magistrate commiserated his case very much, and directed that a sharp look- out should be kept for the heartless rascals who bad robbed him. It is needless to say that the respectable landlord of the William the Fourth ( Mr. Clapham) knew nothing of the two men. MARLBOROUGH STREET. FALSE CHARACTERS.— Henry Oaks, an elderly man, was charged with endeavouring to enter the service of the Hon. Frederick Byug, of the Foreign Office, by means of a false character. Mr. Byng wanting a man- servant, and in consequence of seeing an advertisement, wrote to A. B., 29, Crawford- street. The pri- soner then called on him, and mentioned the names of several fa- milies with whom he had lived. Mr. Byng agreed to give him 40 guines a year, and the following day he waited on Mrs. Ward of Upper George- street, to whom Oaks referred him. She gave him the best of characters, and said he had lived three years with her husband, a dignified clergyman in Norfolk, then dead. Mr. Byng's suspicions were excited in consequence of seeing Oaks bobbing about the house. He accordingly employed Ballard, the officer, who ascertained that Oaks had pawned all his clothes, and given the produce, 21., to Mrs. Ward, to give him a character. She bad been concerned In sim'^ r cases, and lived in Park- row, Portland- road. The roc m in Up ier George- street bad been hired for the purpose of receiving Mr. Byng. She waff consequently taken into custody. Mr. Dyer sentenced her and Oaks lo $>& y each a fine of 20/. In default they were committed for three moAtlls'. WORSHIP- STREET'. AN IRISH Row.— Monday three Irishmen', nanied Outran, Duggan, and Byrne, were charged with having, on Sunday even- ing, in Whitecross- street, St. Luke's, cruelly arid brutally ill- treated a butcher named Gould, and1 also with having beaten four or five of the police officers of the G division. There were also in the office several respectable shopkeepers- who reside in Whitecross- street, and who stated tbat the outrage ( considering the numerical strength ofthe prisoners), was one ofthe greatest of even Irish rows tbat had occurred in the neighbourhood for some years, so mnch so, that there was for some time a total suspension of business; nor could the inhabitants quit tbeir houses to go to evening service. Tbsy were also unanimous in their approbation ofthe exemplary good conduct and forbearance of the officers while in the discharge of so trying a part of their duty. George Gould said he was a butcher, and resided in White- cross- street. On Sunday evening he walked down the street until he met with a friend, named Swaile, with whom he stopped in the middle of tbe street to speak to him. Tbe prisoner Curran was then standing in a gateway opposite to them, and in an audible voice, and directing his discourse to them, said, " I must fight some one." He or his friend took no notice of either the invitation or the threat, but continued their conversation, when the prisoner ( Curran) again exclaimed, " Oh! its nonsense— I must have a fight;" and coming across the street, he first struck Swaile, and then knocked him down ; upon his recov ry be saw a policeman, and called to him for assistance, when the prisoner ( Curran) again knocked him down, and loosened two of his front teeth ; the prisoner then tore the shirt from off his back, and would have choked him with liis cravat had it not been for the interfer- ence of the officer. Constable G, 89 ( who is an Irishman with a real Munster brogue) said, that when he came up he saw the last witness covered with blood, and in bis presence the prisoner Curran knocked tbe butcher down, when he ( the officer) took Curran into custody; but no sooner had he done so, than the prisoner Duggan rushed forward and struck him right and left, with the intent of rescuing Curran. The prisoner Byrne also came up to him, and after laying his hands upon his shoulders, whispered to him in the Irish language to let Curran go. In the struggle with Curran he lost his watch, which was afterwards found in Curran's hands much broken. He was severely ill- used and beaten by both Curran and Duggan, but he had no recollection that Byrne had struck him. Four or five police officers, with about an equal number of shop- keepers, corroborated the statement of the officer. The prisoners being called upon, Duggan said, that he and a boy from the neighbourhood of Kingsland, left the Kingsland- road ill the evening to visit a few friends in St. Luke's. On their return home they saw the row in Whitecross street, but never knew any of the parties before. They saw a boy in the custody of tbe police, who were dragging him through the streets as stark naked as when lie came to the world, and from the number of females looking on he could not for the soul of him suffer such an undeasant procession to pass, and he ran forward to throw himself over the boy's naked- ness, when he was struck over the head by two or three policemen's bludgeons, and in lifting his hand to save his head it might have come in contact with a policeman's face. The magistrates, after conferring with each other, and after ex- patiating as to the extent and nature of the outrage, fined Duggan and Curran in 3!. each, or two months to the House of Correction. Byrne was discharged. QUEEN- SQUARE. Monday Henry Smith, alias Vanderstein, was brought up for final examination before Mr. Gregorie, charged with the following rob- bery :— It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner, who has frequently been in custody, stole a horse and cart belonging to bis father, a respectable tradesman in the London- road, Lambeth, and with two of his companions proceeded into the country. They stopped at a shop at Bexley- heatb, in Kent, and went in under the pretence of purchasing a Jew's harp ; and on Mr. Oxley, the pro- prietor of the shop, going into the back parlour for something, the prisoner and his companions snatched up a watch which was on tbe counter, jumped into their cart, and drove off towards London. The prosecutor instantly ran after them ; but they galloped off' and soon got out of sight. It also appeared that on the road to Bexley- heath they picked up a man to give him a ride, and made him drunk on the road, and robbed him of35s. Information ofthe robberies were given to the police, and the prisoner was appre- hended near the Surrey Theatre, by a police constable of the L division. The prisoner, on being told by the constable tbat he was wanted for the watch at Bexley- heath, replied—" Then it is all over with me, and offered the constable two sovereigns to let him go ; he afterwards offered him ten sovereigns ; but the constable refused the bribe. He was fully committed for trial. DESPERATE CONDUCT.— Mary O'Brien, an Irishwoman, with two illegitimate children, applied for parochial relief; but Mr. White, the magistrate, refused to entertain her application. Upon this she pulled a large stone from her pocket, and threw it with great force at Mr. White, saying, " Take that, yon old vagabond." Mr. White had just time to ward off tbe stone with bis hat, or he would have received a most severe blow. The woman was seized by tbe officers, but she managed to get one of her hands loose. She then seized a large leaden inkstand, and threw the ink over two respect- able females who were in the office on business, and completely spoiled their dresses; and before the inkstand could be taken fiom her, she flung it at tbe windows and smashed two panes of glass, which appeared to give her great satisfaction.— She was committed for one month. She expressed joy at this, saying she lived very well in prison. MARY- LA- BONNE. DESERTION.— Tuesday Mr. W. Hunt, formerly secretary to the Marquis Lansdowne, was charged with deserting his wife and three children, who have become chargeable to St. Mary- la- bonne parish, whereby Mr. Hunt bad incurred a debt of 61. 15s. He became reduced in consequence of leaving tbe Marquis. When living in Manchester- street, near Portman- square, some time ago, he got credit from Mr. Davis, baker, of George- street; Mr. W. Lewis, grocer; Mr. Sealby, butterman ; Mr. W. Armstrong, writing painter; and others, who have all heavy bills against him, without any hopes of their being discharged. He left his wife through poverty. He was committed to tbe House of Correction. ROBBERY OF THE COUNTESS OF ST. GERMAIN'S.— Wednesday Thomas Eats, one of a company of thirty- eight swell thieves, who infest the eastern part of the metropolis, and are called " Ben Lewis's thirty- eight," was charged with robbing the Countess of St. Germain's of her reticule, containing twenty- eight shillings and a gold scent bottle and lozenge box. The Countess was in a car- riage, with Lady Lincoln, at the review on Wormwood Scrubs, on Monday, and was standing up looking at the troops, when the prisoner snatched her reticule from the seat and ran off. A gen- tleman, named Gunnen, saw bim and took him into custody. Committed. NARROW ESCAFE OF EARL GREY'S DAUGHTER- IN- LAW.— Thursday James Elliott and Robert Colburn, two carmen in the em ploy of Mr. Nowlan, of Stone Wharf, Paddington, were charged under the following circumstances:— Colonel Grey, son to Earl Grey, said that he and liis lady were riding on horseback, on Saturday afternoon, along the New North Road, leading from tbe Regent's Park to Barnet, when they met the two defendants driving the two carts at a most furious pace, and trying to pass each other. Lady Grey's horse took fright at the noise, and though he implored the defendants to stop they paid no attention to him. As the carts passed by, Lady Grey's horse shyed, and it was a miracle that she was not thrown under tbe wheels. Tbe defendants said their horses were frightened by the hallooing of some hay- makers, and they could not stop them. It was, however, moved that they had whipped and urged their horses on.— Mr. ifoskins T/ r/ C LATE MURDER ON THE RIVER. —• COMMITTAL OF THE MURDERERS.— On Thursday, William Brown, William Kennedy, John Flack, Daniel Lyon, and James Kitley, were brought before Captain Richbell, at the Thames Police Office, for final examination, charged with the wilful murder of Mr. William Wilkinson, on the rivtr Thames. John William Gare, a costermonger, was also charged with receiving a coat, the property of Mr. T. William Smales, the friend of the murdered gen- tleman, knowing it to have been stolen. On the prisoners being brought into the office, Kennedy and Brown were alone placed at the bar, and Kitley, Flack, Lyons, and Gare were ordered to wait in an adjoining room, the magistrates having determined to admit tbem as evidence for the Crown. The evidence given on former examinations, which has been al- ready published, was then read over. James Kitley was then called in and sworn, and deposed that he was a waternian'a apprentice, but had lately been employed about a barge called the Hiron. He then gave tiie same story as before, saying that he and Flack, after having been at the beer shop, went to sleep in the barge. Kennedy did not come on board till night. He spoke to Kennedy about throwing some papers into the fire in the morning. He then said, that after the fiist examination he had a conversation with Kennedy in tbe ( oek- up place, and witness began by saying it was a bard thing to be locked up for nothing, what he knew nothing about, besides having the scandal and losing one's place, when he said, " I know you are innocent, Jem, and you shall not suffer for me and Brown." He repeated this several times, and also said that he, Flack, and IVirt. Lyons, were all innocent, and that be knew the conscqtiences of it, and must take the will for the deed, or words to that effect. He also said if he got cast be should begin to pray, but not before. Witness then said,- " my God, Bill, are you concerned in it or done this murder." He made no reply to tills ; but said he had put one of the gentlemen's coats in a barge at tbe back of Talbot's shed, and that Brown had taken bis to Bob Gare's. Some other conversation passed to the like effect, and Kennedy said he and Brown were guilty, and must suffer for it. John Flack was next called as a witness. He behaved with great levity, and appeared desirous to conceal what he knew. He con- firmed Kitley's statement as to going to the barge with him, after Kennedy had first left the beer shop. Mr. Symons, the Chief Clerk, asked if he saw Kennedy when he went on board ?— Witness: Why, I heard him, Sir. Mr. Symons— I ask you, Sir, if you saw him there when you first went on board?— Witness: Why yes, I did, he was undressing himself. Mr. Symons said he would ask no more questions of this witness), and he was removed in custody. Robert Gare, tbe man charged with receiving the stolen coat,, was then sworn. He said, on the night of Tuesday the 17th inst,,- he was called out of bed' by Brown ; he got up and let him in, and he appeared very hot; he asked him to let him leave bis coat there, and witness said lie might - T and he put it down and went away. Next morning he heard there was a great noise about a gentleman* being murdered, and that two coats were stolen. Fearing he might get into trouble if the coat was found upon him, he took it to his mother- in- law, and left it with her. Mr. Smales identified tlie coat produced. It was one of those taken out of the boat when he and Mr. Wilkinson were attacked. Captain Richbell called on tbe prisoners for their defence. Kennedy first commenced, and said, " I have nothing more tot say than I am not guilty of the crime; I know nothing of it; I was in the boat at the time, but neither one nor the other struck the I. His own friend made a strike at me once, and instead ot striking me he struck his own friend, and that's all I've got to say, your Worship." Brown, in defence said, " All I've got to " say is this here ; I touched no coat, Sir, nor never got off my seat, Sir, what I sat on; nor never struck no blow; nor lifted nothing to strike wilh. I'll take my oatii of all that." Kennedy— Will you let me speak another word, Sir. When Mr. Wilkinson struck the man, be leaped against the boat and caught it, and went over hand until be got to the stern of the boat. He made three or four attempts to leave go at the stern of the boat; he was never inside our boat; in taking a leap into our boat, be was just as if he was coming head first, Sir; and tbe answer he made was, " Oh, I've hurt myself." He said this very low. L should suppose he came face first on the boat, Sir; that s all, Sir that's the truth, and nothing but tbe truth, if I was to go to be hanged this moment, Sir. Captain Richbell said, it was his duty to commit the prisoners for the wilful murder of Mr. Wilkinson, and for stealing the two- coats from him and his friend, Mr. Smales. The witnesses were then bound over to prosecute and give evi- dence ; and Gare, Kitley, and Flack, were , then committed to prison until the Sessions, to give, evidence on the part of the Crown_ The prisoner Lyons was discharged, there not being sufficient, evidence against him. Brown and Kennedy preserved an air of careless indifference throughout the examination, and after they were locked up began abusing each other for what they had said in defence. They ob- served to one of the officers, that tliey had made up their minds to be hanged, and it was no use to be down on tbeir luck now.— The examination lasted six hours. On Mrnday evening, a young man, respectably dressed, whose name is said lo be Robinson, walked into Mr. Cope's shop, a sta- tioner, & c., near Bow Church, Chcapside, and requested to be shown some knives, and after picking and choosing for two or three minutes, he agreed about tbe price for one which he selected ; but? instead of tendering the money, he deliberately stepped back from the counter, and drew the knife across his throat with his left hand, inflicting a dreadful wound. A medical gentleman was immediately in attendance, and after bandaging up the wound, he was conveyed to Bartholomew's Hospital, and some hopes are entertained of him. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—- A melancholy circumstance happened at Gosberton on Thursday last, at the house of Mr. A. Garratt, tailor. When the family were sitting down to dinner, Mr. Garratt asked his wife whether she would not have some dinner ; she said no, and immediately went up stairs ; she had not been there longi before a pistol was beard lo explode; the husband hastened up stairs, when his wife lay on tbe floor weltering ill her blood, with tbe discharged pistol in one hand, and another ready loaded in the other. Surgical aid was procured, but it was of no avail, as the ball is supposed to be driven three inches into the roof of her mouth, therefore it could not be extracted ; she continued very bad, but on Saturday morning she was a little better, and she then declared she would end herself. They have one child, andMrs. G, is now pregnant. The reason assigned for the perpetration of the deed is this— the unfortunate woman lias of late made too frequent use of ardent spirits, and the husband seeing the dreadful effects, locked them from her, which caused her in revenge to shoot herself in the mouth.— Boston Gazette. DIABOLICAL AFFAIR.— On Friday a serious and fatal occurrence took place with a numerous family in Storrie- street, Paisley. In the evening a young woman, who resided in the family, went to the street- well in the vicinity for water, where, after allowing the stoups to stand the turn for service, she was the first that obtained water on the opening of the well, and on taking it home, she made por- ridge from it for tbe supper of the family. On taking some of them, the young woman felt something uncommon in the taste, and complained of it. Without attending to this, however, a portion of them were set out for one of the boys, who on swallowing the first mouthful, cried that his throat and bowels were burning. The mis- tress then tasted them again and again, to ascertain what was the matter, as did the girl who made them, and shortly after the whole of them, besides a child who had taken a drink of tbe water, turned uncommonly unwell, and continued vomiting tbe whole night, scarcely expecting life, as did also a neighbour woman, and three girls who tasted the porridge fieely, to ascertain what was wrong with them-. In the morning a portion was given to two rabbits, who be/ ih died in about half an hour after. No clue has yet been how the poisou got into the water, but that it was there, « » i i j -.. flii, pi roil me t siTl^ PC fw. lid as to 1.—, — r„—.. „ , , . .. „ — —,— J tl., twas 0f a violent nature, is clear from the circumstances fined them twenty- shillings each, and regretted he could not puo',^ | * e have related, We are glad to state that the whole of the eight tnem more severely* • - ** -— j persons seizecUre ™ the way of recovery.— Glasgow Courier> £ 48 THE TOWI. July 29. THE CHOLERA. " We are glad to find by the returns from Ireland that the cho- lera is fast subsiding. The town of Drogheda, according to the amount of its population, appears to have suffered more than any ether town in Europe In consequence of a notion prevailing very extensively that the consumption of fruit and vegetables was conducive to the cholera morbus, the trade of the growers of those eatables had fallen off to such a degree, that many even of the most opulent of that class lost such an enormous sum weekly, that they found it necessary to attempt the adoption of some means to remove the delusion that existed upon the subject. A meeting was accordingly convened at the Rainbow Tavern, in King- street, Covent- garden, on Tuesday, and C. Calvert, Esq., M. P. for the borough of Southwark, was in the chair. The meet- ing was attended by a very crowded assemblage of the principal fruit and vegetable growers around London. The lion. Chairman stated the object of the meeting, which was to present a memorial to the Central Board of Health, praying a contradiction officially ( if consistent with the opinions entertained hy the members of the board) of the notion that had been so widely spread to the effect above- mentioned. Several other gentlemen addressed the meeting, and it was agreed upon to present a memorial to the Central Board of Health, which was immediately drawn up; and it was stated in this document that upwards of one thousand persons ( labourers of both sexes) were employed by about twenty individuals, grnwers near the me- tropolis, that number forming but a small proportion of those ac- tually engaged in the same pursuits, who had principally subsisted upon fruit and vegetable diet, and who were nevertheless free from the prevalent disease. A deputation, consisting of twenty of the principal growers, pro. ceeded on Wednesday to the Central Board of Health Office, and presented the memorial, and had an immediate interview with the principal members ; and in the course of the conversation, the gen- tlemen composing the board observed, that the memorial contained a most important fact, namely, that the state of health of many hundred persons in the employment of the memorialists was good, notwithstanding that they lived almost entirely upon fruit and vegetables. Subsequently the gentlemen composing the deputation received a written communication from Dr. W. Maclean, the secretary to the Central Board of Health, stating that the moderate use of fruit and vegetables was not at all to be considered as likely to be inju lious to health, nor tending to produce cholera. Thursday evening another meeting took place, to receive the re port of the deputation. Mr. Wilmot, the chairman, stated in the course of the proceed ings, that he and others had suffered recently a loss of 100/. a week hy the rumours which had gone abroad. CHOLERA IN CANADA.— Letters which we have seen from CA jiada, to tho 1st ult., contain the most distressing details of the lavages which cholera was committing among the inhabitants of Quebec and Montreal, and particularly among the unfortunate emigrants from England and Ireland. The disease was remarka- bly virulent, proving, in many cases, fatal in one or two hours.- A letter, dated Montreal, June 17, says—" Great numbers that • were walking our streets yesterday are now in eternity. We scarcely see any thing but carts with the dead." The disease did not confine its ravages to the poor, the dissolute, or the filthy; it had attacked all classes. The cases which had occurred at Quebec • were supposed to reach 2500, and the deaths, in nine days, to the frightful number of 800. The return of cases and deaths at Mon treal did not exhibit so large a number, the disease not havin^ broken out there so soon as at Quebec. The deaths, however, in seven days amounted to three hundred. In a letter handed to us, dated Montreal, June 18, the writer says—'* The proprietors of the steam- boats have been obliged to lay the vessels up, in conse quence of the men, engineers and all, having deserted, and it is with difficulty they can muster crews sufficient to keep up the com- munication by steamers with Quebec. The disease has shown itself mostly amongst the French Canadians; a good many old country people have also been carried off, but it has been most severe in the suburbs near to tbe creek or stagnant water. We may say that all of the upper country merchants who had come down to lay in their supplies had fled home, some of them not remaining more than a few hours. Should the panic take effect among the upper country boatmen, the trade with Upper Canada will lie com pletcly cut up : already have a number of our shopkeepers shut up there is little more stir in the streets than on a Sunday." Capt. Clark, of the Catherine, which arrived at Troon on Monday, from Quebec, gives a most appalling account of the progress of the disease in that city ; he says the number of deaths in proportion to the people affected, was unequalled by any thing that lias occurred in Great Britain. Among others he mentioned the case of a judge • who died on the bench, before he could be removed. Capt. Clark narrowly escaped himself, having been about six hours in the col- lapsed stage of the disease; had Capt. C. died, a most melancholy coincidence would have been the result,— three sisters would, in one day, have received the shocking intelligence of the demise of all their husbands; as the case is, Capt. Clark is the bearer of the distressing accounts to his wife's two sisters of the death of tlieir husbands.— Ayr Observer. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. CHELTENHAM RACES, JULY FE. The SaDpertOn Stakes of ¥ 0 sovs. each, h ft, with 20 added ( Veto the fund, for three yr olds 7st, four 8st 71b, five 9st 21b, six and aged 9st 71b ; maiden horses at the time of naming allowed 51b. Two miles. 6 subs. Capt. C. F. Berkeley ns Liston, aged 1 Colonel Cliaritie's b c Eneas, 4 yrs—— .. 2 Mr. J. - Browne ns b f by Middleton, Zuleika, 3 yrs— 3 Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, h ft, with 10 sovs added, for horses. tliat have been regularly hunted. Mr. E. Griffiths's Trump, 5 yrs, list walked over. The Sherborne Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 30 added from the fund, for all ages. Once round the course. 12 subs. Mr. I. Sadler's Sinbad, 4 yrs, 7st 41b ™ - ™ ™ „ 1 Mr. E. Griffiths's Thorngrove, 5 yrs, 8st 61b . 2 Gold Cup, by a subscription of 25 sovs each, 10 ft. Three miles. 8 subs. Mr. I. Day's Liston, aged, 9st lib 1 Mr. Griffiths's Thorngrove, 5 yrs, 8st 111b 2 Handicap Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, 3 ft, to which will be added the Gentlemen's Purse, for horses of all denominations. Heats. To start at the half- mile post, and go once round, about a mite and three quar- ters. The winner to be sold for 100 sovs if claimed, & c. Mr. Griffiths's Soubahdor, 3 yrs, 7st 91b 1 1 Mr. Williams's b f by Gainsborough, 4 yrs, 9st— 2 2 Mr. Matthews's g m Kill Devil, 5 yrs, 7st 71b 3 3 Colonel Charitie's Captain Rock, 3 yrs, 7st .— ™ bolted The Rubbish Stakes of 5 sovs each, free for any horse, mare, or gelding, carrying list each. Heats, once round the course. The winner to be sold for 25 sovs if demanded, & c. Mr. Turk's ch m Camilla. Mr. T. Cowley's Slander.. Several others started. KENDAL RACES, JULY 19. Sweepstakes of 20 sovs each, h ft, for two yr olds; colts 8st 31b, fillies 8st. Two year old course. Three subs. Mr. Saijeantson's b f by Lottery, dam by Walton, walked over. The Town Pla'te, value 50/. Two- mile lieats. The Duke of Leeds's ch m Jenny Mills, aged . ™ 1 1 Mr. Walker's b g Cock Robin, 6 yrs ™ ™ 2 3 Sir. Wilkin's b g Ballochmyle, 4 yrs — 4 2 Mr. Williamson's ch c Dr. Frazer, 4 yrs — . 3 4 Mr. Hodgson's b f Cathleen, 3 yrs . —. 5 5 A Handicap Stakes of 7 sovs each, with 23 added. Heats, one mile and a distance. Seven subs. Mr. Williamson's b h The Earl, aged, 9st — ™ 3 2 10 1 Mr. Nowell's b h by Walton, aged, 8st 101b 2 13 0 2 Mr. Blakelock's ch f by Ben Ledi, 3 yrs, 7st 21b. 1 3 2 3 dr STAMFORD RACES, JULY 20. Sweepstakes of 50 sovs each, h ft, for fillies then three yrs old. 8st 41b each. New mile. Three subs. Sir R. K. Dick's Miss Mary Ann . ™ . ™ . ™ ™ ™ ™ . 1 General Grosvenor's f Pinions, by Truffle —.—...... 2 Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, with 10 added. Not thorough bred; three yi- olds lost, four list, five list 111b, six and aged 12st 21b. Heats; two miles. Gentlemen riders. Five subs. Mr. Catlin's br g Man Trap, 6 yrs 1 1 Mr. Hobson's 1) g Midnight, aged ™ . ™ 3 2 Mr. Woodward's ch c Doctor Rigg, 4 yrs ™ ™ 3 4 Mr. Banks's ch m Kitty Clover, 6 yrs ™ ™ . 2 dr Handicap Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, for three yr olds and upwards, with 25 added. New mile. Six subs Mr. Flintliam's Anticatholic, 6 yrs, 9st 21b ™ Lord Exeter's b f by Catton, 4 yrs, 8st 71b ™ Sir R. K. Dick's Miss Mary Anne, 3 yrs, 8st General Grosvenor's Kitty Fisher, 3 yrs, 8st. Dr. Willis's b g by Tiresias, 6 yrs, 7st— General Grosvenor's Pinions, 3 yrs ™ ™ ™ . Fifty Pounds given by the Marquis of Exeter. The winner to be sold for 300 sovs if demanded. General Grosvenor's b li Santillane, 3 yrs — 1 1 Lord Exeter's f by Catton, 4 yrs— ™ — ™ ™ ™ 2 2 Mr. Spriggs's Gerardine, 4 yrs ™ ™ —, ™ ™ ™ 3 3 Mr. Hayward's br f Cecilia, 3 yrs, 6st 4lb ™ .— Mr. Houldsworth's b f Frederica, 4 yrs, 7st 111b . DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT SOMERSET HOUSE.— Thursday morn 5ng, the gentlemen engaged in the Navy Office, were thrown into confusion, in consequence of a man named J. Smith, having been precipitated from the roof and killed on the spot. The unfortunate man, who is one of the bookbinders, had gone upon the roof to take a view through a telescope up and down the river. He was seen to fall past the windows of the office from the parapet of the build- ing into the terrace, a height of 100 feet, and was found dashed to atoms, scarcely a bone in his skin being whole. DREADFUL ACCIDENT.— About one o'clock on Tuesday morn- ing, the rear of the large public- house, kept by Mr. Corby, callep the Ship and Shovel, ill the court leading out of Craven- street to Hungerford- market, fell in towards the market with a tremendous crash. Two wine- porters, named John Perkins and Robert Mel- som, were asleep in one bed, in a back room of the second floor, and they, as well as Edward Oaker, the pot- boy, who slept on the third floor, were buried in the ruins. After great exertions, for an hour and a half, on the part of the police constables and others, Melsom and Oaker were dug out of the ruins alive, but greatly bruised and exhausted, especially the former; but Perkins was found quite dead. WOMEN, THE SOURCE OF EVIL I— It is an article of faith • with the orthodox in the East, that no evil can take place of • which a woman is not the first cause. " Who is she ?" a Rajah • was always in the habit of asking whenever a calamity was re- lated to him, however severe, or however trivial. His atten- dants reported to him one morning that a labourer had fallen from a scaffold when working at his palace, and had broken his neck. " Who is she?" immediately demanded the Rajah. " A man, no woman, great Prince I" was the reply. " Who is she ?" repeated with increased anger, was all the Rajah deigned to utter. In vaiu did the servants assert the manhood of the labourer. " Bring me instant intelligence what woman caused this accident, or woe upon your heads 1" exclaimed the Prince. In an hour the active attendants returned; and, prostrating them- selves, cried out " O wise and powerful Prince I" " Well, who is she," interrupted he. " As the ill fated labourer was working on the scaffold he was attracted by the beauty of one of your Highness's damsels, and gazing upon her, lost his balance and fell to the ground."—-" You hear now," said the Prince, " no ac- cident can happen without a woman in some way being an in- strument."— Prom Capt. Skinner's Excursions in India. A party of Custom- House officers, accompanied by the Com- missary of Police of the Faubourg St. Antoine, having gained information that a band of smugglers were lodged in a house in the Rue Menilmontant, a few days since went to make search, and found a subterranean passage upwards of 100 yards long and more thau half a yard wide, cut 30 feet through a solid rock, and communicating with an open field beyond the walls of tie iown, hy which they introduced contraband goods into the city. - Galigmm's Messenger, TAUNTON RACES, JULY 23 The Taunton Stakes of 25 sovs each, with 30 added, if not walked over for. Two miles. Mr. E. G. Cooper ns ch h Firman, 5 yrs, 8st81b 1 ~ Mr. E. Bainbridge ns b h Lambtonian, aged, 8st 21b. 2 Mr. Houldsworth ns br f Cecilia, 3 yrs, 6st 51b ™ ™ 3 Fourteen having declared ft in time, pay only 5 sovs each. Fifty sovs given by the Members for the Borough, added to a Sweep- stakes of 10 each. Heats, one mile. Mr. Taunton's b h Cornet, aged, 9st 31b 1 1 Mr. Houldsworth's b f Frederica, 4 yrs, 8st 41b . 2 2 Subscription Plate of 50 sovs, fdr all ages. Heats, one mile and a dis- tance. 1 1 2 dr Mr. Taunton's ch h Firman, 5 yrs, 8st 71b ™ ™ 3 dr TUESDAY. The Ladies' Plate of 50 sovs, added to a Sweepstakes of five each, and the To ™ Plate of 50, were won by Mr. Hayward's Cecilia beating Mr. Taunton's Coronet. DERBY RACES, JULY 24. Sixty Guineas given by his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, for maiden horses, & c. Two- mile heats. Mr. Beardsworth's b g Cyclops, 3 yrs ™ 2 11 Capt. Handley's b h Twenty- ninth July, 5 yrs 1 2 2 Mr. Ogden's b f Priscilla, 3 yrs 3 3 3 Mr. Arnold's b c Sir Jacob, by Truffle, 3 yrs ™ 4 dr Mr. Hudson's b f by Catton, 3 yrs ™ ™ ™ ™ dis Mr. Scott's b f by Lottery, 3 yrs — dr Tlie Gold Cup, value lOOgs, a sweepstakes of lOgs each, the overplus in specie. Three miles. 12 subs. Mr. Miles's b h The Cardinal, 5 yrs ™ ™ ™ —.—. 1 G. J. Vernon, esq.' s Georgiovanni, 4 yrs.— 2 Lord Cavendish's Independence ™ ™ ™ . 3 Sir Roger Greisley's Mouche ™ . ™ ™ . ™ ™ . ™ 4 The Devonshire Stakes of 25gs each, 15 ft; for three yr old colts 8st 71b, fillies 8st 41b. One mile and half. Captain G. W. Story's Chester 1 Sir J. Hilton's b f Wastrel, by Catton ™ 2 Sweepstakes of 20gs each; for two yr old colts 8st 71b, fillies 8st 41b One heat, about half a mile. R. Allison, esq.' s b f by Tramp 1 E. Peel, esq.' s ch f Fear ™ ™ ™ ™ ™ ™ ™ ™ ™ 2 W. Lacy, esq.' s b f by Chateau Margaux— ™ ™ ™ 3 E. Price, esq.' s b f by Woful, out of Scrambler 4 John Beardsworth, esq's c by Monarch bolted Match, 50, four miles, 12 stone each.— Mr. Wootton's br h Teddy, by Aisy, beat Mr. Statham's br h Esculapius. Match, 50, h ft, three quarters of a mile.— Mr. Bigg's b g The Corsair, 12st, beat Mr. Norton's b f byWoful, 4 yrs, lost 71b, WEDNESDAY. Fifty Guineas given by the Corporation of Derby, with 10 added, for horses of ages ; three yr olds 6st, four 7st 71b, five 8st 41b, six and aged, 8st 101b; mares and geldings allowed 21b. Three mile heats, Mr. Broomhead's Butcher Boy, 4 yrs ™ ™ ™ ™ l 1 Mr. Beardsworth's Warwick 2 2 Sweepstakes of 5gs each; for three yr old colts 8st 71b, fillies 8st 41b One heat, about a mile and a half. 12 subs. Mr. Bower's Lady Stafford ™ ™ ™ ™ ™ . ™ ™ ™ 1 G. J. Vernon, esq.' s b f by Catton —, ™ ™ ™ ™ . 2 Earl of Burlington's Chester ™ . ™ ™ ~— ™ ™ — 3 The Dorrington Park Stakes of 5gs each, with a Fat Buck, the gift of the Marquis of Hastings, for horses, & c. not thorough bred; three yrs 9st, four lOst 71b, five list 61b, six and aged 12st; mares and geld- ings allowed 311). Two mile heats. 14 subs. Mr. J. Hopkinson's br c Napoleon ™ . ™ ™ ™ ™ . 1 1 Lord Lichfield's br c Dissolution, 3 yrs 2 2 Mr. Morris's the Corsair ™ ™ — ™ ™ . ™ ™ ™ 3 dr Mr. Story's ch c Sweepstakes, aged — 4 3 Sweepstakes of 5gs each, with 20 given hy the inliabitans and publicans of Derby, for ponies not exceeding 14 hands. Mr. Mason's br Bistardy — 1 1 Mr. Freemantle's b Lady Vane ™ « ™ ™ ™ ™ ™ . 2 2 Mr. White's b Pilot— 3 0 Dispute about over height. CALAMITOUS ACCIDENT ON THE DERBY RACE COURSE.- Wednesday, between three and four o'clock, the centre of one of the booths on the Derby- race- course came down with a tremen dous crash. A scene of the greatest confusion and alarm pre sented itself. The whole course was thrown into a state of the greatest agitation, and reports were spread through the town that many persons were killed, and great numbers had sustained injuries of a very serious nature. A ring was formed to keep off the crowd, and the wounded were laid upon the grass in groups, till means could be procured to carry them away, and others were carried on to the grand stand. Several gentlemen on the course were exceedingly prompt in removing them to their residences and the infirmary, to whom great praise is due for their humanity and activity. We have made inquiry this morn ing at the infirmary, and we find there were carried there a man and woman, each with a broken leg, one man with a leg and arm broken, one with a dislocated ancle, and two severely bruised, Eleven other persons we have heard of, who were carried to their own residence, or to inns, who received injuries. The catastrophe was occasioned by the rush of persons on the booth ( of whom there were 350) to the front, on the ringing of the bell for the start for the 50 guineas stakes. The centre prop was broken by the immense pressure, and the whole dropt in moment. It was a most providential occurrence that the booth underneath was nearly empty, the persons who had been sitting there having gone out to see the race. The shrieks of females anil cries of alarm and distress, were appalling to the last degree, From the LONDON GAZETTE of Tuesday and Friday last, WAR- OFFICE, JULY 24t^, 1832.— 18th Regiment of Foot— Lieut.- Gen. M. Lord Aylmer, K. C. B. from the 56th Foot, to be Colonel, vice the Earl of Donoughmore, deceased. 56th Foot— Lieut.- Gen. Sir Hudson Lowe, K. C. B., from the 93d Foot, to be Colonel, vice Lord Aylmer, appointed to the 18tli Foot. 93d Foot— M?;, or- Gen. Sir J. Cameron, K. C. B., to be Colonel, vice Sir Hudson Lowe, appointed to the 56th Foot. GARRISONS.— Gen. Sir M. Hunter, to be Governor of Stirling- castle, vice the Earl of Donoughmore, deceased; Dr. Bennie, to be Chaplain to Stirling- castle, vice Moodie, deceased; Major- Gen. P. Anderson, to be Governor of Pendennis- castle, vice Sir M. Hunter; Lieut.- Col. P. Dumas, of the 65th Foot, to be Lieutenant- Governor of Gravesend and Tilbury- fort, vice Major- Gen. P. Anderson. MEMORANDUM.— The half- pay of the undermentioned officers has been cancelled from the 24th instant, inclusive, upon their receiving a commuted allowance for their commissions:— Paymaster W. L. Otway, half- pay 1st West India Regiment; Surgeon J. Curtis, retired full- pay 5th Royal Veteran Battalion ; Assistant- Surgeon It. Gough, half- pay 1st Life Guards; Lieut. J. Robinson, half- pay Unattached ; Ensign George H. Herbert, half- pay 2d Garrison Battalion; Lieut. W. Hutton, half- pay 29th Regiment of Foot; Lieut. Sir St. Vincent Cotton, Bart., lialf- pay Unattached; Ensign J. Bradshaw, half- pay 53d Foot. The half- pay of the undermentioned officer has been cancelled from the 1st of April, 1832, inclusive, upon his receiving a commuted allow- ance for his commission:— Paymaster T. Harvey, half- pay 56th Foot. The undermentioned officer has also been allowed to receive a com- muted allowance for his commission:— Ensign G. Gordon, late on half- pay 42d Foot. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, JULY 21,1832— Royal Regiment of Artillery- First Lieutenant R. R. Drew, to be Second Captain, vice Ellison, de- ceased; Second Lieut. H. T. Fyers, to be First Lieutenant, vice Drew. WAR- OFFICE, JULY 27th.— 2d Regiment of Dragoon Guards— Lieut. T. G. Skipwith, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Paget, who retires; Cornet F. Cholmeley, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Skipwith ; G. H. Elliott, gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Cholmeley. 4th Dragoon Guards.— Captain J. A. Hope, from the 1st, or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards, to be Captain, vice Penleaze, who exchanges. 6th Regiment of Dragoons— Major E. M. W. Greswolde, to be Lieu- tenant- Colonel, by purchase, vice G. Lennox, who retires; Captain J. Radcliffe, to be Major, by purchase, vice Greswolde; Lieut. J. Wadding- ton, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Radcliffe; Cornet F. E. W. Ingram, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Waddington; H. J. C. Irvine, gent, to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Ingram. 12th Regiment of Light Dragoons— Captain I). C. C. Elwes, from the half- pay, to be Captain, vice G. Granville, who exchanges. 1st, or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards— Lieut, and Captain J. Lyster, to be Captain and Lieutenant- Colonel, by purchase, vice Fletcher, who retires ; Ensign and Lieut. G. H. F. Campbell, to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice Lyster; Captain H. Penleaze, from the 4th Dragoon Guards, to be Lieutenant and Captain, vice Hope, who ex- changes ; H. Cartwright, gent, to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by pur- chase, vice Stuart; Augustus Cox, gent, to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Campbell. 2d Regiment of Foot— Ensign F. Smith, from the 78th Regiment, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Graham. 6th Foot— Lieut. E. W. Young, from the 33d Regiment, to be Lieu- tenant, vice Maude, who exchanges. 8th Foot— J. T. Liston, gent, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Bland, who retires. 9th Foot— Captain J. H. Evelagh, from the 21st Regiment, to be Cap- tain, vice A. F. Cathcart, who retires upon the half- pay. 21st Foot— Brevet- Major C. Schaw, from the 33d Regiment, to be Cap- tain, vice Evelagh, appointed to the 9th Foot. 33d Foot— Captain J. Lord Wallscourt, from the half- pay, to be Cap- tain, vice Schaw, appointed to the 21st Regiment; Lieut. W. Maude, from the 6th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Young, who exchanges. 56th Foot— Captain J. Pickering, from the 65th Regiment, to be Cap- tain, vice Birch, who exchanges. 65th Foot— Captain J. Birch, from the 56th Regiment, to be Captain, vice Pickering, who exchanges. 78th Foot— J. W. Collins, gent, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Smith, promoted in the 2d Regiment. 79th Foot— J. Ferguson, gent, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Lord Cardross, who retires. UNATTACHED— Lieut. A. W. Mackay, from the 33d Regiment, to be Captain of Infantry, without purchase; Ensign T. F. Sandeman, from the 42d Regiment, to be Lieutenant of Infantry, by purchase. BREVET— Captain J. Birch, of the 65th Regiment, to be Major in the Army; Captain P. Delisle, of the 4th Regiment, to be Major in the Army. GARRISONS— Brevet Lieut.- Col. L. Gray, on the half- pay of the Rifle Brigade, to be Lieutenant- Governor of Pendennis- castle, vice Lieutenant Colonel Fenwick, deceased. MEMORANDUM— Lieut. E. O'Brien, half- pay 29th Foot, lias been allowed to retire from the service by the sale of an Unattached Com- mission. INSOLVENTS. Henry Watson, Crown- row, Walworth- road, tea- dealer— W. H. Par- doe, Cardiff, earthenware- dealer— W. A. Warwick, Romford, Essex, wine- dealer, BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. James Driver, Cambridge, hatter— G. Barehead, Norton, Yorkshire, corn- merchant. BANKRUPTS. T. Spring, City- road, victualler— J. Foster, Hammersmith, frame- work- knitter— G. Ellis, Market- street, Edgeware- road, Paddington, car- riage- builder— G. Wells, Quadrant, Regent- street, man- milliner— C. 1). Hays, Meriton's- wharf, Bermondsey, mariner— R. Chalener, King's- row, Pentonville, bricklayer— W. Bean, Willesden and Edgeware- road, horse- dealer— C. R. Butter, Bruton, Somersetshire, apothecary— J. Amplilett, Worcester, druggist— C. Winter, Marlborough, Wiltshire, innkeeper— T. Stephens, Manchester, publican— R. Bullen, Sherborne, Dorsetshire, innliolder— G. Birch, Cannock, Staffordshire, joiner— R. Mallitt, Here- ford, draper— R. M'Watt, Billiter- lane, oilman— R. J. Craneis and J. W. Ward, Maldon, Essex, butchers— J. Kelson, Bradford, Wilts, brewer— W. Latham, Stow- park, Lincolnshire, higler— A. Sliipman, Dudley, Wor- cestershire, innkeeper. CORN EXCHANGE, JULY 27. The market continues in a very agitated state, there being no pur- chasers present, excepting a few who only buy small quantities for pre- sent consumption. We have but few fresh arrivals since Monday, and the prices for all kinds of grain may be quoted nominally the same. AVERAGE PRICE FOR THE WEEK ENDED JULY 20. Wheat. Barley. Oats< Imperial weekly average 63s 7d.... 33s 2d.... 21s 3d Six weeks'ditto, which regulates duty. 63s 0d.... 33s Id 21s 4d Duty on Foreign Corn 23s 8d.... 12s 4d.... 15s 3d SMITHFIELD, JULY 27. ~ The supply of cattle and sheep was full for a Friday's market, and beef and mutton of prime qualities went off readily at Monday's terms V eal being very plentiful, met with dull sale at a reduction of 8d. per stone. Pork was also 4d. lower. In lamb there was but little alteration Meadow hay continues as last quoted, but the best clover was 10s higher. Straw had no variation. ( Per stone of 81b., sinking the offal.) 3s 4d to 4s Od I Veal 2s 8d to 4s Od Mutton 4s Od to 4s 8d | Pork 3s 6d to 4s 6d Lamb 4s 6d to 5s 6d HEAD OF CATTLE AT THIS DAY'S MARKET. Beasts 568 | Calves 380 \ Sheep.... 10,580 | Pigs no, HAY AND STRAW PER LOAD. Hay 50s to 90s | Clover .... 63s to 130s | Straw 36s to 45s AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. ~ —' ( Computed from the returns in the week ended July 24 ) Brown or Muscovado Sugar Per cwt..... . 28s 23d Exclusive of the import duties thereon. COAL- EXCHANGE, JULY 27. At the close of the market the following were the prices ner ton fcdair ® > l7s, 6d— Rensham, 17s 3d- Holywell, 19s 3d- South Holywell. 16s- TanfieId, 19s 6d- Townley 17s 6d- Wylam, 17s 6d- Wall's End' Bell and Brown's, 20s 6d- Wall's End, Bewicke and Co., 21s 3d- Wall'J tn?'„ Bu" at0"', 1,!!? End' Callerton, 17s 6d- Wall's End, Carr ?£ d„ CV9?"" 7Xa, 11 s End' Gosforth, 21s 6d— Walls End, Heaton's, 21s- AJalls End, Hilda, 20s 3d- Wall's End, Killingworth, 20s- Wall's End, Newbiggen, 16s 3d- WalIs End, Newmarch, 20s 6d- Walls End, Nor. thumberland, 19s 9d- Wall's End, Riddell's, 21s 9d- Lambton, Prim- rose, 20s- Walls End, Hetton, 22s- WalIs End, Lambton, 22s 3d- Walls End, Russell's Hetton, 20s— Walls End, Adelaide, 20s— Walls End, Tees ^ s- c ™ pen, Ms- Walls End, Elgin, 16s 9d- Llangennech, Pemberton! 20.— Ships arrived since last market- day. 54. PRICES OF THE PUBLIC FUNDS. 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 Satur. Mon. Tues. Wed. Thur. 199 200 1993 1991 83 83 834 834 824 824 83 83 82| 82J 83i tn < u 834 91 91i 91 i 6 • & 911 903 901 90S 901 100| 100J 101 m 1014 164 163 — 161 1 pm par 1 pm 1 pm 15 15 15 16 Amsterdam, 3 m. 12 6 Ditto short, 12 3J Rotterdam.. 3 m. 12 6 Hamburgh . do... 14 04 Paris short, 25 95 Ditto 3 m. 26 20 Frankfort.... do... 155 COURSE OF EXCHANGE, JULY 27. Frid. 200 83} 831 91£ 90J 101J 16 1 pm 151 Vienna 3 m. 10 13 Trieste do. 10 to 14 Madrid do.... 353 Cadiz do.... 353 Bilboa do.... 353 Leghorn do.... 474 Genoa do... 26 5 Naples 3 m 40 Palermo.... do 120 Lisbon 30 days 48 Oporto do 481 F. Gold, bars, 3117s 9d New Doubl... 3114s 3d New Dollars 4s 8Jd BIRTHS. The lady of M. T. Smith, Esq. M. I » . of a son— At Blackheath, the lady of J. M. Wlnte, esq. of a son— At Brighton the lady of Ambrose Goddard, esq. of a daughter— In Essex- street, Mrs. W. I). Nethersole, of a daughter — At High Wycombe, the lady of Lieut. Huffam, R. N. of a daughter.— At Foley- place, the lady of E. W. Puffin, surgeon, of a son. MARRIAGES. ~ On the 23d inst. at West Moulsey, George Barrow, esq., eldest son of John Barrow, esq. Secretary of the Admiralty, to Miss Rosamond Croker — On the 24th inst. the Rev. T. Al. Cornish, of Heathfield, Somersetshire, to Mary Ann, eldest daughter of Mr. Collins, of Regent- street— At St. Pancras Church, Lieutenant George Davies, R. N. to Julia, daughter of Joseph Hume, esq.— At St. Peter's, Walworth, the Rev. J. Wilkinson. M. A to Emily, second daughter of Dr. Dray— At St. Marylebone Church! Sir John Mansel, bart. to Maria Georgiana, only daughter of the late Hon. and Rev, the Champion Dymocke. DEATHS. On the 24th inst. in Lower Brook- street, Viscount Dillon, in his 55th year— At his residence, 7, Norfolk- street, Park- lane, Sir John Carr, in his 60th year— On the 21st inst. at Camden- street, T. G. Smith, esq. of the Six Clerks' Office— On the 23d inst. in Chesterfield- street, May- fair, Harry Scott, esq., his Majesty's Consul at Bordeaux— On the 19th inst. Arthur Lumley Davids, esq. Member of the Asiatic Society of Paris, & c — Suddenly, Edward Willington Cowley, esq., late Captain of the Royal Artillery— On the 18th inst. H. J. Coward, Esq. half- pay Royal Artillery, aged 58— On the 18tli inst. at Paris, Mrs. Croly, mother of the Rev. G Croly- On the 20th inst. Charlotte, the wife of Mr. Sergeant Sellon, aged 75.— On the 23d inst. Henry Chester, of Melina- place, Westminster- road, solicitor— On the 22d inst. Catherine, only daughter of Mr. Mott, nro- prietor of the British and Foreign Coffee- house, City. HIGH WATER AT LONDON AND GRAVESEND. TABLE FOR THE WEEK. THE MARQUIS OF LONDONDERRY'S CANDLES. A Correspondent sends us the following:— After the acquittal of the man tried for stealing the Marquis of Londonderry's can- dles, the police constable who apprehended the prisoner asked the Judge what he was to do with the candles, and he was told to keep them, as the Marquis might indict the man for stealing composi- tion candles; but this the Marquis declined— to use his own phrase, " he would not be bothered any more about the business." Tues- day last the Marquis sent a peremptory message to the constable, to bring the candles to Holdernesse- liouse, as he. was going to Scot- land, and wanted to take the candles with him. The constable called at the house, but did not take the candles, and he was or- dered into the study of the noble Marquis, when the following colloquy took place :— Marquis of Londonderry ( eyeing the constable with his glass)— Constable, why have you not brought my wax candles, as I or- dered ? Constable— It is more than I dare do, my Lord. The Judge ordered me to keep them in my possession; and if you like to indict the man for stealing composition candles, instead of wax, and if lie is found guilty, you will then get the candles back. The Marquis— What do you mean, Sir? Arc not the candles my property 1 Constable— No, my Lord, not according to law, You have not proved them to be your property. The Marquis— What do you mean, Sir, by not proving the can- dles to be my property ? Constable— Why, my Lord, the man was acquitted. The Marquis— Well, Sir, but did not my wax- chandler swear they were my property 1 Constable— Yes, my Lord, but Munroe ( the prisoner) says that your servant gave him the candles ; and he has been to me, and says that he has taken legal advice on the subject, and demands the candles as his property. The Marquis ( getting warm)— Nonsense, Sir, nonsense; they are my candles, Sir; tlie man stole them from my house, and I demand and insist that you bring me the candles immediately. Constable— My Lord, I must not; I only obej'my orders. The Marquis ( warmly)— Orders, Sir; I'll stand between you and all danger. Constable— My Lord, it is more than I dare do. The Marquis ( warmly)— Sir, I tell you, Sir, to bring me the candles, or I will make you. Sir. Constable ( bowing and retreating out of the room)— I cannot do it, Sir, indeed, Sir.—( Exit.) The Marquis ( in a loud tone)— A pretty thing, indeed, that I am to be wronged out of my property by such a parcel of fellows. The Marquis has had the case before the Commissioners of Po- lice. The constable has since left the police force. LONDON. Morning. Aftern. H. M. This day ( Sunday) .. 3 5 3 23 Monday 3 45 4 6 Tuesday 4 24 4 42 Wednesday 5 6 5 30 Thursday 5 51 6 11 Friday ™ .. 6 88 7 5 Saturday 7 39 8 13 GRAVESEND. Morning Aftern. COUNTRY AGENTS FOR THIS PAPER: Abergavenny, Watkins Epsom, Jaquet 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 Blythe, Adamson Bolton, ( Lan.) Ogle Boston, Noble Bradford, Inkersley Brentford ( Old) Wood Bridgewater, Dean Brighton, Jones Bristol, Westley Ditto, Bingham Brixton, Harpur Broadstairs, Barns Bromley, Dunkin Ditto, Beckley Bury, ( Lan.) Kay Camberwell, Purser — Grove, Jackson Cambridge, Smith Carlisle, Cockburn Carslialton, Smith Chard, Brown Chatteris, James The excessive and burdensome expense of the present police force of the metropolis has, from the first, appeared to us to be a mystery. We are convinced that it might, and must be, very considerably reduced. From a statement of Mr. Hume's last night, it appears that the charge in the parish of Mary- la- bonne, under the old system, was 9,000?.; it is now 24,000/. In the City, on the other hand, the introduction of the new police will produce a saving of 11,000/. a year. How is it that the expen- diture is diminished by 11,000/. in one district of the metropo- lis, and augmented by 15,000/. in another? Mr. G. Lamb states, that before the renewal of the Act, it is probable that the whole subject will be fully examined into. It is most fitting that it should be.— True Sun, Northampton, Freeman Norwich, Watling Nottingham, Dearden Oxford, Slatter Perth, Sidey Peterboro', Chadwell Petworth, Phillips Plymouth, Bartlett Portsea, AVoodwaril Portsmouth, Carter Preston, Wilcoxon Ramsgate, Sackett Reading, lamb Reigate, Barker Rochdale, Hartley Romford, Frost Ryde ( I. W.) 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