THE TOWN " IN TOWN, OUT OF TOWN— ALL THE WORLD OYER." 1To. 30. 8UIBAY, IEPXEMBE1I £ 3, PRICE ^ D. C CONTRACT FOR OATS. Commissariat Department, Treasury Chambers, Sept. 10, 1832. SUCH Persons as are desirous of Contracting loilh the Agent for Commissariat Supplies, to deliver 1,211,500 Pounds of OATS, at the Ordnance Depot, Tooley- street, may receive particulars of the Contracts at this Office between the hours of Ten and Four, and deliver their Tenders, sealed up and directed to the Agent for Commis- sariat Supplies, marking thereon " Tender for Oats • » on or before " Wednesday, 3d October next, but none will be received after Twelve o'clock on that day ; nor will any proposal be noticed unless made on or annexed to a printed particular, and the prices inserted in words at length ; nor unless a letter be subjoined to such proposal, signed by two persons of known property engaging to become bound with the party tendering, in the sum expressed in the particulars, for the due perform- ance of the Contract. __ OLONIAL SLAVERY.— Great misconception hav- ing been found to prevail as to the object of the ANTI- SLAVERY PARTY, the AGENCY SOCIETY consider it right, at the preseirt crisis, again to declare, for the information of the Candidates and Electors throughout the kingdom, that their SOLE OBJECT is immediately to substitute judicial for the private and irresponsible authority now exer- cised over eight hundred and thirty thousand of their fellow- creatures, and to obtain for them an equal enjoyment of civil rights with free- born subjects of Great Britain. The first of the following Schedules contains the names of those Gen- tlemen who are either Members of the existing Parliament, or reported to be Candidates for the next, and whose past conduct or present pro- fessions, or admitted personal interest in the question, leaves the Agency Anti- Slavery Committee without hope that tliey will support the reason- able object above described. This Schedule contains, as a matter of course, all who are known to be Slave Proprietors. The third Schedule contains the names of those Gentlemen whom the Committee recommend with perfect confidence to the support of all Electors who concur in desiringnn^ nechate aboiition. containing the names of those of whom the Agency Anti- Slavery Com- mittee are without hope that they will support immediate abolition as above defined. culate this notice in the provincial papers of their respective districts, and to forward to the society, at their earliest convenience, the result of their applications to candidates, that no time may be lost in publish- ing the extent to which the pledges or assurances given are satisfactory to this committee. DIORAMA, REGENT'S- PAKK.— The attention of the Public is respectfufly invited to the Two new and attractive Pictures now exhibiting at the above establishment, viz.— PARIS, taken from Montniartre, by M. Daguerre ; and the celebratedCAMPO SANTO of Pisa, by M. Bouton.— Open daily, from Ten till Six. Abingdon, Thomas Duffield. Boston, J. S. Brownrigg. Chatham, Colonel Maberley. Clitlieroe, J. Irving. Cricklade, R. Gordon. Dover, Sir Jolin Rae Reid. Dumfries, Keith Douglas. Eye, " Wm. Burge. Frome, Sir Thomas Champneys. Glasgow, J. Dixon. Gloucester, W. T. Hope. , Gloucestershire, Eastern Divi- sion, C. W. Codrington. Hereford, R. Blakemore. Jedburgh, Sir Adolplius Dal- rymple. Liverpool, Lord Sandon. Lymington, Stewart. Middlesex, Joseph Hume. Newark, W. E. Gladstone. Orford, Spencer Kilderbee. Penryn, J. W. Freshfleld. Rochester, Ralph Bernal. Salisbury, Wadham Wyndham. Suffolk, East Div. R. N. Shaw. Ditto, ditto, Archdeckne. Ditto, Western Div. J. Fitzgerald Somersetshire, Eastern Division, William Miles. Sunderland, Aid. Thompson. Ditto, David Barclay. St. Alban's, H. G. Ward. Tewkesbury, W. Dowdeswell. Tower Hamlets, A. K. Hutchison Ditto, Hon. Sir Robert Stopford. Tyncmouth, Fred. Young. Whitby, Aaron Chapman. Wisbeach, Capt. Yorke, R. N. Yorkshire, North Riding, J. C. Ramsden. The Committee see no reason at present to remove any of the above names from this Schedule, and particularfy caution their friends not to be misled by any general Anti- Slavery professions SCHEDULE B is intended to contain the names of those Gentlemen who offer doubtful or indefinite promises ; but, as it is probable that some of thein have not yet fully made up their minds on the subject, this Schedule will not be advertised for a few days. SCHEDULE C, containing the names of those whom the Committee recommend with perfect confidence to the support of all Electors who concur in desiring immediate abolition. Abingdon, Thomas Bowles. Anstruther, Andrew Johnston. Ashton- under- line, C. Hindley. Aylesbury, T. B. Hobhouse. Bath, J. A. Roebuck. Bedford, Sir Peter Payne. Ditto, H. J. Pye. Berkshire, R. Throckmorton. Birmingham, Thomas Attwood. Ditto Joshua Scholefield. Bolton, Colonel Torrens. Ditto, Mark Phillips. Ditto, John Ashton Yates. Boston, John Wilks. Ditto, Major Handley. Bradford, T. Lister. Ditto, Hardy. Bridgenorth, W. W. Whitmore. Bridport, Henry Warburton. Ditto, John Romilly. Brighton, Isaac Newton Wigney. Ditto, George Faithful. Bristol, Ed. Protheroe. Bury, Lancashire, R. Walker. Ditto, E. Grundy. Cambridgeshire, J. W. Childers. Ditto, H. J. Adeane. Carmarthen, W. H. Yelverton. Carmarthen, E. H. Adams. Chatham, Erskine Perry. Clare, Maurice O'Connell. Colchester, R. Sanderson. Ditto, D. W. Harvey. Ditto, William Mayhew. Denbighshire Boroughs, John Madocks. Denbighshire, Robert Myddle- ton Biddulph. Devonshire, Hon. G. T. Vernon. Dover, Capt. R. H. Stanhope. Durham, South Division, Jos. Pease, Jun. Essex, South Div. T. B. Lennard Glamorgan, J. H. Vivian. Ditto, L. W. Dillwyn. Gloucester, Captain Berkeley. Ditto, John Philpotts. Gloucester, Eastern Division, Henry Moreton. Ditto, ditto, D. W. Guise. Gloucester, West Division, G. F. Berkeley. Hastings, H. Elphinstone. Herefordshire, K. Hoskins. A CERTAIN PREVENTIVE TO CHOLERA, AND ALL CONTA- GIOUS DISEASES. THE SWEDISH DROPS of LIFE are the discovery of Dr. Yemest, an eminent Swedish Physician, the recipe for which was kept a secret in the family for many centuries, the last sur- viving relative who retained this recipe was unfortunately killed by a fall from his horse at the age of 104 years; his mother attained the age of 130; and his brother 112, by the daily use of these Drops. After his death, the recipe fell into the liands of an old French lady, who presented it to Mr. Boully, in order that the public at large might benefit from so valuabte a discovery. These drops are adapted for the cure of all dis- seases incident to the human frame ; but more especially those which ] iroceed from the stomach and bad digestion. They form the most power- : ' ill tonic ever discovered, at the same time act as a safe aperient for both sexes, without griping, or causing those sinkings, or unpleasant sensations usually felt on taking opening medicine. It will effectually and speedily cure indigestion, with all its concomitant symptoms, such as nervous or sick head- ache, giddiness, heartburn, nausea, loss of appetite, pains between the shoulders, in the chest, stomach, side and head, palpita- tions, spasms and cramp. It is the only Medicine yet discovered for pre- venting the formation of wind on the stomach; bilious or liver com- plaints will become extinct, when this medicine is generally known and taken. It is a preventive to sea sickness, jaundice, and all diseases, whether infectious, endemic or epidemic, for eruptions or pimples on the face or body, scurvy, rheumatism, gout, dropsy, fits, piles, intoxica- tion, nervous complaints attended with fear or depression of spirits, it is a sure cure; persons who have been subject to worms or ague for 20 years will be cured after three doses ; in short this medicine will super- sede the use of most others, for by fortifying the stomach, it will render it unsusceptible of disease; it removes all poisonous viscous and slimy matter from the stomach, which cause indigestion, gripes, Cholera Mor- bus, & c. & c. It purifies the blood, and promotes its circulation, making you feel gay, young, and active. We would strongly recommend to the public the use of the SWEDISH DROPS OF LIFE, many of our friends having given them a trial have found them eminently beneficial in weakness of the stomach, indiges- tion, and nervous affections: and we believe them to be ( by strengthen- ing the stomach, bracing the nervous system, by purifying the'blood and promoting its circulation) a sure preventive to Cholera or any con- tagious disease.— From Bell's New Weekly Messenger, August 12. Prepared only by P. Boully, pharmaceutical chemist, 4, Star corner, Bermondsey; and Sold by Sutton and Co., Bow Churcli- yarcl; Butler, Cheapside; Edwards, St. Paul's; Sanger, Oxford- street; Barclay, Far- ringdon- street; Prout. 226, Strand; Stradling, Royal Exchange; Bel- cher, Hackney ; and by most medicine venders thougfiout the United Kingdom, in bottles 4s. 6d. each. DO YOU EVER THINK OF ME? Written by Charles Jelfervs, composed by N. J. SPORLE. London: Published by E. Dale, 19, Poultry. This song has already attained an extraordinary degree of popularity, and bids fair to rival nearly every other song of the day. Its simplicity and elegance entitle it to the notice of all lovers of genuine melody. The author, N. J. Sporle, is the gentleman of whom his late most gracious Majesty entertained so high an opinion, and who has frequently had the honour of singing before him ami our beloved sovereign William IV., by command, at the Royal Palace. Mr. Jefferys is well known to the public as the author of " Do you think I can forget?" " Oh sing again the melpdy;" " The Rose of Allandale;" " Thou art mine;" and many other popular ballads. DR. LARDNER'S CABINET CYCLOPAEDIA, In monthly volumes, small 8vo. 6s. in cloth. On Oct. 1, forming Volume 35 of the above, Vol. IV. of HISTORY OF SPAIN AND PORTUGAL. in five vols. On Nov. l, HIS'roRYof ENGLAND, by the late Sir J. Mackintosh, Vol. III. Published Sept. 1, DONOVAN'S TREATISE on CHEMISTRY, in One vol. London: Longman and Co., and John Taylor. Now ready, THE FALLACIES OF HOPE! " Price 5s. bound, cloth extra. Also, dedicated to the Ladies of Great Britain, POETIC FRAGMENTS. " The author of this little work is a man of considerable genius ; he has an ear for melody, and a correct taste. There is some good poetry. in his book, and we think that he is capable of accomplishing greater things."— Dispatch. " For 4 feeling;' and ' fancy' our readers may look in the following frag- ments, His verses on love are full of harmony."— Athenaeum. London : C. Chappie, Royal Library, 59, Pall- mall. THE NEW SPORTING MAGAZINE for OCTO- BER ( being No. XVIII. from the commencement) to be published on Saturday next, will be embellished with a Picture of " Pheasant Shooting," engraved by W. R. Smith; the " Wounded Mallard," en- graved hy Raddon ; and a Vignette Title Page to the title, containing a Stag, engraved by Englehart— all from paintings by A. Cooper, R. A. Among the contents will be found the following:— Nimrod's Subscrip- tion List— On Pheasant Shooting—" Piscatoribus Sacrum"— Chap. 4— The Trout— On Wild Ducks— On Training at Home— Grouse Shooting in Norway, by Albert Engelhorn—'" October," by Sylvanus Swanquill, describing the Pursuits and Sports of the Month— Paris Races, and Paris in 1832— The Wounded Mallard—" The Pheasant," by Bogtrotter — Doncaster Races— The Map— Few Lines from Nimrod— A Letter on the result of the Race between Consol and Contest— With the usual Monthly Intelligence; further particulars of which will be given in a future Advertisement. Published by Baldwin aud Cradock, Paternoster- row, and to be had ( by previous order) with vols. 1 and 2. neatly bound in cloth and lettered, of all Booksellers in the United Kingdom. Price 2s. 6d. a Number, or 15s. a Volume. N. B. No Double Numbers. CORN EXCHANGE, SEPT. 21. There are a few fresh arrivals of wheat from Suffolk this morning, and a few samples of barley, which is generally stained. There are very few persons in the market, and the trade for every kind of grain is ex- tremely dull. Wheat, generally .... 52s < § > 65s Rye 33s @ 35s Buck Wheat 29s @ 32s Barley 28s @ 40s Oats 18s @ AVERAGE PRICE FOR THE WEEK ENDED SEPT. 14. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Imperial weekly average 58s 0d.... 34s 2d.... 19s 9d Six weeks' ditto, which regulates duty. 60s 8d.... 33s 3d.... 20s 5cl Duty on Foreign Corn 26s 8d.... 12s 4d.... 16s 9d Malt, generally 42s Beans 30s Peas 34s Oats 18s 64s 41s 42s 25s Town made .. qp. sack. 50s @ 55s Essex and Kent — s @ — s Norfolk and Suffolk.. 44s @ 47s PRICES OF FLOUR. Stockton and Yorksh. 44s @ 46s West Country — s @ — s Irish 43s @ 45s AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. ( Coniputed from the returns in the week ended Sept. 11.) Brown or Muscovado Sugar cwt 27s 6id Exclusive of the import duties thereon. Dorset ^ firkin. Cambridge PRICES OF BUTTER. 43s @ 48s I Holland ^ x cwt. 84s 43s @ 46s I Cork and Limerick .. 82s 92s 84c PRICES OF CHEESE. Double Gloster,^ cwt. 52s @ 60s I Cheshire ^ cwt. 52s @ 78s Single ditto 40s @ 48s | Derby Plain 59s @ 63s SMITHFIELD, SEPT. 21. We have had a much greater number of beasts in the market to- day than we usually find on a Friday, and those chiefly what were left unsold on Monday. The trade was very dull, and beef had a reduction of 2d per stone. Of sheep and lambs the numbers were about equal to those of this day se'nnight. Mutton, lamb, and pork have no alteration in prices since Monday's terms. Veal has a decline of 2d. No alteration whatever in the hay- market. ( Per stone of 81b., sinking the offal.) Beef 3s Od to 3s Sd I Veal 3s 8d to 4s 6d Mutton 4s Od to 4s 8d | Pork 4s 4d to 5s 4d Lamb— 4s 4d to 5s Od HEAD OF CATTLE AT THIS DAY'S MARKET. Beasts 489 | Calves 272 | Sheep.... 7,050 | I HAY AND STRAW PER LOAD. Hay 55s to 85s | Clover .. .. 85s to 115s | Straw 120 30s to 31s PRICES OF HAMS AND BACON. HAMS. Yorkshire... .^ cwt. 80s @ 90s Westmoreland 70s @ 78s Cumberland 62s @ 74s Irish 55s @ 80s BACON. Middles ^ cwt. 45s @ 46s Waterford singed 50s @ 52s Limerick ditto 47s @ 50s Scalded 45s @ 48s Hertford, J. E. Spalding. Ditto, T. S. Duncombe. Hertfordshire, Rowland Alston. Hythe, W. Fraser. Ipswich, J. Morrison. Kent, West Div. T. L. Hodges. Kerry, Daniel O'Connell. Leeds, T. B. Macaulay. Leicester, South Division, E. Dawson. Leicester, William Evans. Ditto, Wynn Ellis. Lincoln, South Div. H. Handley. Louth, R. L. Sheil. Newark, Serjeant Wilde. Ditto, W. F. Handley. Newcastle- under- Line, E. Peel. Oxford, W. H. Hughes. Penryn, C. Stewart. Poole, Sir John Byng. Ditto, Mr. Lester. Preston, John Wood. Ripon, T. K. Stavely. Ditto, J. S. Crompton. Rochdale, John Fenton. Rochester, John Mills. Ditto, T. Rider. Rye, Col. De Lacy Evans. Salford, J. Brotherton. Sheffield, J. S. Buckingham. Somerset, Eastern Division, Gore Langton. Ditto, West Div. A. Sanford. South Shields, Durham, W. Gowan. Stafford, T. Gisborne. St. Alban's, Sir F. Vincent. Sudbury, M. A. Taylor. Surrey, J. I. Briscoe. Sussex, East Div. H. Curteis. Tewkesbury, John Martin. Ditto, C. Hanbury Tracey. Tliirsk, R. Gibson. Tower Hamlets, Dr. Lushington. Truro, William Tooke. Warwick, John Tomes. Ditto, E. B. King. Weymouth, T. F. Buxton. Whitby, Richard Moorsom. Worcester, Eastern Division, W. C. Russel. Ditto, ditto, T. F. Cookes. Yorkshire, North Riding, Cayley. TO PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATES. The Agency Anti- Slavery Committee are ready to receive the opinion of Parliamentary Candidates on the Abolition of Colonial Slavery, before the 22d inst. when the schedules will be made up for the second number of the " Tourist" and the provincial papers. By order of the Committee of the Agency Anti- Slavery Society, 18, Aldermanbury, Sept. 14. JOHN CRISP, Secretary. Where may be had the following short papers, at 4s. per 1000. 1. " A Few Plain Questions to 5. " Taxation in Aid of Slavery the Worst of all Tyranny," ; Why and Because applied to Negro Slavery." 7. " ^ 1,000,000!! '.— Electors of the United Kingdom." 8. " A Scene in real Life.'. 6. Plain Men." 2. " Common Sense against Co- lonial Logic." 3. " Citizens and Fellow- Coun- trymen." " On Pledges from Parlia- mentary Candidates." Subscriptions since tlie last Advertisement. £ s d Battersea and Clapham Ladies'Society 10 0 0 Don. from Manchester. .100 0 4. 1 Mr. Stone A Friend at Poole, J. F. Page, esq. 1 A Friend, per Rev. R. Turnbull 0 S. Thorowgood 1 Collection at Hungerford ( balance after payment of local expenses) 4 Miss Riland, S. Coldfield. 5 Joseph Tatum, esq 5 S. Saddington, esq 1 Congregational collec- tion, by Rev. S. Elling- ton, at Maiden 1 Ditto, Rev. S. Brooks, Bewdley 2 Rev. Edward Vale 5 Collection by Rev. W. F. Burchell 0 10 0 10 0 1 9 7 Tenby Ladies' Association St. Ives Ladies' Associa- tion Collection at Derby Ditto by Rev. J. Clarke. at Guildsborough Henry Sparkes of Exeter Joseph Sparkes, ditto... Thomas Sparkes, ditto.. Collection at Wrexham ( balance after payment of local expenses) Collection at Quainton, by Rev. D. Walker Donation from Lancaster Second donation from the North London and Is- lington Female Anti- Slavery Association... Donation from Beverley Ladies Collection at Hertford .. Donationfrom Worcester 13 12 1 11 0 0 14 10 0 0 The correspondents of the Committee are earnestly requested to cir- 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 by 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 giving their names, residences, and dates of time of cure, all of which have been voluntarily given, and ascertainable as to the facts by inquiry. TO C. W. MOAT, ESQ. SIR,— I consider it a duty incumbent on me to return you my most sincere thanks for the attention and cure of my wife, by restoring her to health, and finally curing from inability, which was considered impossi- ble. I am, Sir, with the utmost respect, your obedient servant, Glasgow, Sept. 5,1831, No. 36, New Wynd. JOHN M'CALLUM. SIR,— I am aware that the people of Glasgow, as well as those of many other places, have just reason to be afraid of quackery in the science of medicine, from the number of individuals who have, from time to time, appeared among them for a short period, dispensing their drugs, and have then eloped, leaving many of their patients worse than they found them. I know that this will be a great barrier against you in your truly philanthropic undertaking, in attempting to overthrow a system reared on ignorance of the human constitution, and taught by burking. Such a system is alike opposed to the laws of God as it is repugnant to human feelings. I sincerely hope, Sir, that you will not be overcome by the taunts of a ridiculing population, but that, by perseverance, you will yet have to rejoice in the midst of a community who will have occasion to bless the day that an overruling Providence placed you among them. The fact cannot long remain concealed; that all the cures made by Mr. Morison's medicine have been in cases given up by the old school, or cases in which the patient was rendered quite hopeless, by his daily sinking under the treatment of his medical attendant. Such facts must soon find their way to the public ear, and scatter the clouds of prejudice in which the minds of men are at present enveloped. But, Sir, I con- ceive quackery is a term which not only applies to men making preten- sions to any art, but is also ^ plicable to such as vend medicine without a knowledge of what it will effect; hence it may be well applied to many ( will I say all) of the surgeons of the present day. At all events, men ought not to allow their minds to be any longer trammelled by preju- dice, when experience proves a radical deficiency in the system of medicine too long pursued; renouncing their prepossessions, they should give their attention to one which stands critical investigation, and commends itself to common sense. However, though I thus speak, I do confess that I was as unfond of trying Mr. Morison's medicine as any one could be, until I had the pleasure of seeing Mrs. Ewing's letter in your small publication of Cures in Glasgow ( that female being known to me as a person of unquestionable veracity). Having read it, I was induced to make trial of the medicine, for the removal of a disease which was called by several surgeons an affection of the liver and indigestion, but which you said was a partial dropsy. I may mention that I was under the care, for a considerable time, of each of six medical doctors in Glassow, and four in Ireland; and I have in my possession fourteen receipts, by attending! to which my pocket was drained, but I never found the root of my trouble at all removed. For four years did I attend to drugs which only enervated my whole system, without giving me the shadow of a hope that I would ever be better. I have taken from six to 14 pills each night of No. 1 and No. 2, alternately, for four weeks, and now I declare myself to be as free of pain as any man could wish to be. I feel it to be my duty to you, and to society, thus to make my case known ; hoping that others may be induced to avail themselves of the same easy, safe, and, under the blessing of Gocl, efficacious remedy, as was realized by me in the use of Mr. Morison's Vegetable Universal Medicine. You may make whatever use you choose of this letter, but I hope you will not publish my name, but keeping the original for reference, should any one be so curious. I shall always be happy, in person, to give such satisfaction as relates to my cure as I may be able. I have advised many to take the medicine for diseases of a much more malignant nature than my own, and feel glad in stating that its salutary effects are daily experienced. Hoping that the blessing of a ruling Providence will attend Mr. Mori- son's medicine to the inhabitants of Glasgow, I remain, dear Sir, Your most obedient servant, & c. P. S. As I feel confident that the promotion of health is the great ob- ject of the Hygeian system, I will add that I have found much benefit from friction, or rubbing my body with a brush ; by doing so, I find a pleasant flow of perspiration, and as it were a bracing of the nerves. I experience more benefit from ten minutes' friction, than if I were to tvalk two or three hours in the open air. The " Vegetable Universal Medicines" are to be had at the College, New- road, King's- cross, London; at the Surrey Branch, 96, Great Sur- rey- street, Blackfriars; Mr. Field's, 16, Air- street, Quadrant; Mr. Chappell's Royal Exchange; Mr. Walker's, Lamb's Conduit- passage, Red Lion- square ; Mr. J. Loft's, 10, Mile End- road; Mr. Bennett's, Co- vent- garden- market ; Mr. Haydon's, Fleur- de- lis- court, Norton- folgate; Mr. Haslett's, 147, Ratcliffe- highway; Messrs. Norbury's, Brentford; Mrs. Stepping, Clare- market; Messrs. Salmon, Little Bell- alley; Miss Varral's, 24, Lucas- street, Commercial- road; Mrs. Beech's, 7, Sloane- square, Chelsea; Mr. Chappel, Royal Library, Pall- mall; Mrs. Clements, 12, Bridge- street, Southwark; Mr. Kirtlam, 4, Bolingbroke- row, Wal- worth ; of Mr. Pain, 64, Jermyn- street; Mr. Wood, hair- dresser, Rich- mond ; Mr. Meyer, 3, May's- buildings, Blackheath; Mr. Griffiths, Wood- wharf, Greenwich ; Mr. B. Pitt, 1, Cornwall- road, Lambeth; and at one Agent's in every principal town in Great Britain, the Islands of Guernsey and Malta, and throughout the whole of the United States of America, the Canadas, and New Brunswick. T TO THE CLERGY, LANDOWNERS, MAGISTRATES, & c. Published on the 1st of every month, price 2s. H E B R 1 T I S H M A G A Z I N and Monthly Register of Religious and Ecclesiastical Information, Parochial History, Emigration, Documents respecting the State of the Poor, Progress of Education, & c. Volume I. price 12s. 6d. cloth boards, is now ready. The British Magazine forms a Monthly Register of useful information for the Parochial Clergy, and a complete Biblical, Ecclesiastical, and Literary Miscellany of Religion and Morals for Churchmen, combining the several previnces of a Magazine, a Review, and an Historical Re- gister. 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. No. VIII. will be published on tlie 1st of October. London: John Turrill, 250, Regent- street, where communications for the Editor ( post paid), Books for Review, and Advertisements, are to be directed ; Parker, Oxford ; Grant, Cambridge. Town Tallow ! f> cwt. 48s Od Russian Candle 45s Od Melted Stuff 36s Od PRICES OF TALLOW. Rough Stuff. ^ cwt. 23s Whitechapel market. ^ st. 2s St. James's 2s COAL- EXCHANGE, SEPT. 21. Newcastle, best ^ ton. 10 0 @ 1 1 6 Ditto seconds 0 17 0 @ 0 19 0 Sunderland 017 0 @ 1 2 3 Scotch, Welsh, and Yorkshire 017 6 @ 1 0 0 Ships arrived — COURSE OF EXCHANGE, SEPT. 21. T H R Amsterdam, 3 m. 12 6 Ditto short, 12 4 Rotterdam.. 3 m. 12 6 Hamburgh . do.. 14- Paris short, 25 85 Ditto 3 m. 26 10 Frankfort do... 1544 Vienna 2 m. 10 13 Trieste do. 10tol4 Madrid do.... 352 Cadiz do.... Bilboa do Leghorn .. .. do.... Genoa do 35S 474 . 26 Naples 3 m 40 Palermo... per oz.. 120 Lisbon 30 days 474 Oporto do. 47S Malta 46 Dublin 14 Cork PRICES OF THE PUBLIC FUNDS. E WAGE Lord B , who in cock- fighting took great delight, Once offered this wager to lay :— That when put down together the cocks should not figlit, 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 the view). The secret was out; but the wager was won, For the image 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 slione, Nor have bad such a lustre to boast, The humour had failed, he the bet had not won, And tlie sport of the day bad 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 18d. each. Be particular to inquire for Warren's, 30, Strand: all others are counterfeit. 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 VALUABLE MEDICINES ( adapted for the present period). TOWERS' CHEMICAL SOLUTION OF CAMPHOR.— This elegant Preparation of Pure Camphor unites instantly with water, thus afford- ing the means of making use of it as a draught of any required strength, or as a wash or lotion. If then Camphor is considered as essential, if not specific, in certain cases of infectious or epidemic disease, what must be the value of a preparation which will enable the practitioner or private individual to administer it internally or externally, in a form wherin it will exert the greatest energy, and without a moment's loss of time? In bottles at 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and lis. BUTLER'S FLUID EXTRACT OF SARSAPARILLA.— For making the decoction as it may be required, in a superior manner, instantly and economically. It is used as an alterative in Scrofula, Scurvy, Se- condary Symptoms, and other cutaneous diseases, and as a remedy to correct tlie improper use of Mercury. In bottles at 4s. 6d., 7s. 6d., and 20s. HENDERSON^ STOMACHIC VEGETABLE ELIXIR.— The unpre- cedented demand for this Medicine, and the flattering accounts daily re- ceived from all quarters of the Empire, as to the beneficial effects expe- rienced from its use in all cases of derangement of tlic Digestive Organs, are the strongest proofs which could be given of its efficacy in every variety of Stomach complaint. In Half- pint bottles at 2s. 9d., and Pints 4s. 6d. BUTLER'S STOMACHIC AND DIGESTIVE CANDY.— Of which the principal ingredients are Turkey Rhubarb, Ginger, an Antacid and Car- minatives, in sucli proportions as render it a pleasant Aromatic and Sto- machic and Powerful Digestive. It will be found most serviceable in those affections originating in an impaired Digestion; and also an agree- able gentle Aperient for Children. In boxes, at 2s. and 4s. 6d. JAMES'S ANALEPTIC PILLS.— Are an excellent alterative in Chro- nic diseases of the Stomach and Bowels, and are applicable to Bilious and Dyspeptic affections, Gout, & c.; they may be taken by females under every circumstance with perfect safety. In bottles, at 2s. 9d. 4s. 6d. and 24s. Observe R. G. G. James on the Label. BUTLER'S COMPOUND TINCTURE OF POMEGRANATE is use- ful in Dysentery, Looseness in the Bowels, and the colliquative Diarrhoea which attends Consumption; it is also serviceable to such as have habitually weak bowels. In bottles, at 2s. 9d. and 4s. 6d. r DALBY'S CARMINATIVE.— For preventing and removing those disorders of the Stomach and Bowels such as griping pains, Convulsions, Flatulency, Acidity, looseness of the bowels, and the distressing symp- toms which attend the period of Teething. In bottles at Is. 9d. Observe " BUTLER " on the Government Stamp. BUTLER'S CARMINATIVE PEPPERMINT LOZENGES AND ESSENCE OF PEPPERMINT.— For Relieving Flatulence, Spasms in the Stomacli, sudden acute pains in the Bowels, & c..— 111 boxes and bottles, at Is. 14d. N. B. Four times the strength of those usually sold. Sold by Messrs. Butler, Chemists, Cheapside, Corner of St. Paul's ; and their Agents in the Country. Mon. Tues. Wed. Thur. Frid. — „ 85 84ii- 84J- 844 844 85 84J 84f 84J 844 93 923 92f 924 924 8 pm 8 pir. 8 pm 8 pm 8 pm ) 0 18 18 19 17 Satur. 84i 84j 92i ipm 17 Portugal Gold in coin 0 0 0 Foreign Gold in bars 3 17 9 New Doubloons 0 0 0 PRICES OF BULLION. ^ oz. ? oz. New Dollars with pillars. O t si New Dollars without do.. 0 4 8| Silver in bars, standard.. 0 4 10J From the LONDON GAZETTE of Tuesday and Friday last. WAR- OFEICE, SEPT. 21.— 3d or Scots Fusileer Regiment of Foot Guards - Lieut, and Captain the Hon. H. Montagu to be Captain and Lieu- tenant- Colonel, by purchase, vice F'ane, who retires ; Ensign and Lieut, the Hon. R. T. Rowley to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice Montagu; Second Lieut. R. Moorsom, from the Rifle Brigade, to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Rowley. 3d Regiment of Foot— Lieut. J. B. Kingsbury to be Captain, without purchase, vice Hughes, deceased; Ensign G. Bridge to be Lieutenant, vice Kingsbury; Gentleman Cadet J. C. Handtield, from the Royal Mi- litary College, to be Ensign, vice Bridge. 8th Foot— J. Hilton, gent, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Orme, who retires. 17th Foot— Lieut. R. Graham to be Captain, by purchase, vice Jull, who retires ; Ensign E. B. Owen to he Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Graham ; C. Edwards, gent, to be EnjRcn, by purchase, vice Owen. 21st Foot— Assist. Surgeon H. N. • gden, from the Staff, to be As- sistant- Surgeon, vice Bulteel, whose iRtointment has not taken place. 37th Foot— Lieut. F. Skelly to be Captain, by purchase, vice Burrell, who retires; Ensign W. Clay to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Skelly: P. F. Durham, gent, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Clay. 39tli Foot— Gent. Cadet H. A. Strachan, from the Royal Military Col- lege, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Bowles, appointed to the 83d Foot. 65tli Foot— Capt. J. Patience, from half- pay Unattached, to be Cap- tain, vice Edwards, who retires. 70th Foot— Ensign T. Moody to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Craik, who retires; J. P. Costobadie, gent, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Moody. 83d Foot— Ensign the Hon. R. Clifford to be Lieutenant, without pur- chase, vice Bowles, deceased: Ensign F. W. Bowles, from the 39th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Clifford. Rifle Brigade— A. Percy gent, to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Moorsom, appointed to the 3d Regiment of Foot Guards. UNATTACHED— Lieut. G. P. Bushe, from the 15th Light Dragoons, to be Captain, by purchase. MEMORANDA— The date of the commission of Ensign F. W. B. M'Leod, in the 91st Foot, has been altered to the 28th August, 1829, in order to his being placed in his original position in that corps; the ap pointment of Assistant- Surgeon E. Cutler, from the half- pay of the 1st Foot Guards, to be Assistant- surgeon in the 57th Foot, as stated in the Gazette of the 15th of June last, has not taken place. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE^ SEPT. 19.— Royal Regiment of Artillery— Quar- termaster- Sergeant J. Fife to be Quarter- master, vice Bett, retired. Commissions signed by LordLieutenants— For the county of Hereford: — W. Clifford, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant. For the county of Hert- ford :— F. P. D. Radcliffe, T. Brand, and T. Miffs, Esqrs. to be Deputy Lieutenants. INSOLVENTS. G. Macfarren, Howland- street, St. Pancras, bookseller— B. Flight and J. llobson, St. Martin's. lane, organ- builders— J. Widdowson, Fleet- st. goldsmith— W. Jones and W. Baucutt, Soho- square, and Tottenham- court- road, drapers— J. Blackstone, jun. Gainsford- street, Horslydown — T. Tardrew, Carmarthen, chymist. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. J. Locker, Stoke- upon- Trent, grocer. BANKRUPTS. J. Clarke, Margaret- street, Spafields, ginger- beer- dealer— J. B. Stan- ley, King- street, Tower- hill, ship- chandler— W. Rowley, Great Queen- street, Lincoln's- inn- fields, saddlers'- ironmonger— J. Stonehill, Witney, Oxfordshire, slater— E. Leigh, Asliton- under- Line, Lancashire, cotton- spinner— A. Black, Huddersfield, corn- dealer— J. Hasiam, New Basford, Nottinghamshire, lace- manufacturer— W. Dunstan, Penryn, Cornwall, flour- factor— G. Wouds, Portsea, saddfer— H. Young, Southampton, builder— J. II. Woolbert, Southampton- row, Russell- square, jeweller— G. Scott and J. Tomkinson, Birmingham, stationers— W. Sadler, St. John- street, Clerkenwell, provision- merchant— E. O. Smith, Bucklers- bury, merchant— R. Dennis, Westham, Essex, victualler— F. Jaques,' Kent- street, Lambeth, grocer— T. Cobb, Banbury, Oxfordshire, paper- maker— J. Fry, Bath, carrier— J. Holmes, Liverpool, wine- merchant— W. Mascord, Oxford, grocer— J. Witherby and A. Fhler, South Shields, sliip- builders— J. Sloper, Abbey Cliurch- yard, Bath, shoe- maker— J. Lane, jun. Great Yarmouth, tailor— J. Walton, Kingsthorp, Northamp- tonshire, maltster. L 306 THE TOWJI. September 23. POLICE. GUILDHALL. FLAYING- ALIVE.— Monday ayoung woman, named Mary Evans, was charged under the following circumstances A constable of Cripplegate took her into custody on Sunday night with thirteen cat- skins in her possession. On going to a private place, the con- stable found the bodies of several cats. One was quite warm, and writhing in agony. It appeared that she coaxed the cats within iier reach by means of a piece of liver, and then she stunned them witha violent blow, and whipped off their skins in a very short time. The poor animals, on recovering from stupefaction, struggled in agony for a long time. The prisoner, who said she gets 3d. each skin, was discharged, Sir Peter Laurie saying he had no power. [ The barbarous wretch should have been handed over to a Jury of old maids.] BOW- STREET. MEIM AND Tew On Monday Mrs. Emma Tew, a ma- tronly- looking woman, respectably attired, was brought before Mr. Halls, on a warrant, charged with threatening to inflict personal injury upon a young, fashionably- dressed, and pretty- looking damsel, calling herself Anne Tew. The complainant stepped trip- pingly up to the Bench, and stated that she had the misfoitune to be married to the lawful husband of the defendant, who had courted her under the pretence that he was a single man, and moreover a man of some rank and property. She, little dreaming that lie was a married man, consented to become his wife, but soon after discovered that he had another living. She immediately, by the advice of her friends, took out a warrant against him for bigamy, but in the meantime he had flown. On Saturday even- ing, in consequence of her exertions to find him, the defendant, who she had no doubt had hid her husband, followed her ( complainant) through tire streets to her own home, abusing her and threatening her life. On Sunday morning these threats were renewed, ar. d witness really felt herself in danger. The defendant, who appeared at least double the complainant's age, accused the latter of having consented to marry her husband, knowing at the same time that he bad already a wife living, and added, that it was all done for the " lust of gain." It was a regu- lar piece of " unlawful seduction ;" for the complainant was never easy until she had got Mr. Tew away from his home, and per- suaded him to marry her. Mrs. Tew, jun., denied this, and asked if it was likely that she would endeavour to draw a man twice her own age into a matri monial engagement, if she knew he was already another woman's husband. Mrs. Tew, sen., said that Mrs. Tew, jun., was nothing more nor less than a young faggot who had seduced an elderly gentle- man from his lawful home, in order to get what she could of him. He had wasted pounds and pounds upon her. Mrs. Tew the younger declared this to be untrue, and said, that on the contrary, she had pawned goods to the amount of 161. or 18(. to support Mr. Tew when he was short of cash. After a great deal of angry recrimination, Mr. Halls said he thought the justice of the case would be best answered by causing the warrant to be suspended until the Lothario, whose misdoings had been the cause of all this hubbub, could be apprehended upon the process already out against him. Iu the meantime, however, Mrs. Tew the elder must keep the peace. • MARLBOROUGH STREET. A DESTITUTE CHAPLAIN.— An individual, respectably attired, of clerical appearance, was on Monday brought into the office under the following circumstances :— The policeman, who had him in custody, said, for the last week or ten days he had seen the defendant walking about his beat, par- ticularly late at night, and o » finding him strolling about as usual between two and three o'clock that morning, he questioned him ; and finding his answers unsatisfactory, took him to the station- house. The defendant, when questioned by the magistrate, said he was the Rev. Thomas Allan, a native of Ireland, and late chaplain to the Owfcn Glendower frigate. He had lately come from France, and, for about eight weeks, had resided at No. 31, Bury- street, St. James's. His motive for wandering about the streets, was because he was destitute of the pecuniary means of procuring a lodging. He further stated that he had no half- pay, as chaplain, as he had been dismissed from the service oil account of some charges that were brought against him. Mr. Conant directed that he should be de- tained until the truth of his statement could be ascertained. " HELLS" FOR THE LACKEYS— The neighbourhood of the Re- gent's- Quadrant was kept in a continual state of alarm, on Tuesday last, in consequence of the desperate attempts of a number of fo- reigners to possess themselvesof the " banks" of two gaming- houses, Nos. 60 and 64, lately established in the Quadrant, in revenge, as is reported, for losses they had sustained at play there. Ilypolite Sabatier, a young Spaniard, was charged with having assaulted inspector Clements on the preceding evening. Clements stated, that about 12 o'clock at night he was informed there was a most dreadful riot in the Quadrant; and he immediately proceeded to the spot, where he found 40 or 50 individuals in > personal con- flict. He rushed in among them, and endeavoured to get them to desist and disperse : while thus engaged, the defendant came up to him and struck him a violent blow under the ear, following up the attack by seizing him by the collar, and endeavouring to throw him to the ground. Clements, however, who is a very powerful man, and has had much practice amongst rough customers, gave his as sailant a " chuck under the chin," which brought him down in i moment. He then caused him to be secured, and succeeded in re Storing something like tranquillity in the place. It was further stated, lhat in the early part of the afternoon a systematic plan for robbing the bank at No. 60 was put into execution, and the greater portion of its contents was carried off. The defendant stated, in reply, that a fight took place ' at the gaming table, and he was struck. When he got into the street, he mistook Clements for the person who had assaulted him, and this mistake was the cause of his attack upon the officer. In answer to other questions, he stated that he was steward to a Mr. Hart, who lived in St. James's- place. Mr. Conant expressed some surprise at learning lhat the gaming- house was frequented by servants ; be was, however, informed they were the usual description of visitors at these houses. Mr. Conant then observed, the defendant must be taught that the system his companions and himself had been adopting towards the gaming- houses must not be practised in London. He should, therefore, re- quire him to find good bail for the assault on the inspector. When this was intimated to the defendant, who is a tall strapping young man, he began to blubber aloud, and in doleful accents, while the tears ran down his face, he said, " Misericorde, Monsieur. Ayez piti£ de moi, misericorde." While making these ejaculations he was removed from the bar, and his friends left the office to pro- cure two good bail in 201. each. QUEEN- SQUARE. UNFASHIONABLE HAIR- CURLING.— On Saturday an elderly fe- male applied for a warrant against an inspector of the B division named Grossmith. She said her " darter lived sarvant with him but Mr. Grossmith had no kind of fashion about him, and her darter had got into such a horrid habit of curling that she was quite a fright. It was the unfashionablest way in the world.' When she went to take her darter to task, Mr. G. turned her out of the house. Mr. Gregorie— You wear your own hair curled? Applicant— Yes, something like fashion, I guess. I must have my darter away from her place; for when neither the master nor missus will look and see how the sarvant curls her hair, it's time for a mother to interfere. The Magistrate refused to grant the warrant, and the punctilious mother walked out of the office, exclaiming, " If she don't curl her hair in a properer way I'll tear the airs of her head." TOWN- HALL, SOUTHWARK. NEW PLEA TOR BIGAMY.— Tuesday, Michael Spence, a young man of fashionable appearance, was charged with intermarrying with Anne March, his first wife, Mary Slater, being alive. Anne March, an interesting young woman, witha child in her arms, said that she met the prisoner in the month of July, 1831, nhieh sub- sequently led to their marriage at St. Andrew's, Holboin, 0 i the 19th of November, in the same year ; the child in her arms was ihe issue of that marriage. She had lately received information that the prisoner had been married to another woman, by whom he had a family, and he frequently absented himself. She eventually ascertained that the prisoner had been married in the year 1827 to his first wife, Mary Slater. Elizabeth Anne Marsh, the sister of the last witness, stated lhat the prisoner and her sister were married at the time stated by the prosecutrix. The witness recognized the prisoner as the party w ho intermarried with her sister. Mary Anne Slater, the first wife, stated she was married to the prisoner on the 13th of March, in the year 1827, at St. Bride's Church, Fleet- street. The prisoner represented himself as a clerk to a merchant in the city. Three children were the issue of that marriage. Mr. Alderman Ansley.— Well, what have you to say to this Prisoner.— I have nothing to say beyond this— that my first wife was with child when I married her, and so was my second. They were with child by me before I married either of them, and from threats I married them. Alderman.— I shall remand you until Thursday to prove the marriages. Prisoner— Why not commit me at once ? Alderman.— I must act upon the law as laid down, which requires the production of the certificates, as also evidence of identity. You must therefore be remanded until Thursday next. The prisoner was then removed. and wished to have evidence that this carousel was a marriage feast. Ray— Yes, Sir, we have evidence, but he cannot attend to- day. Count— Paddy, Paddy Carroll, and where is he? ( With energy) Sir, didn't I order him to attend ? The Magistrates finally decided there should be no fine in this case, provided the defendant's brother proved the statement offered by the Count next Monday. Count— Advocate of truth and justice, I will ever prove their vindicator, even were it against the Lord Lieutenant I And having established both in this instance, I take my leave. He bowed to all around and strode out of the room with the firmness of a Marl- borough, and the martial mien of a Claverhouse. What added to tlie singular interest of this uncommon scena was, that as the Count declared ab initio, that he was somewhat deaf, the dialogue became necessarily pitched in alt, sufficiently shrill to excite the morbid sensibilities of the nervous, and abounding in dis cords shrill enough to horrify musical ears. TOWN CALENDAR OF ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES. DUBLIN POLICE. HEAD OFFICE.— MAJOR COUNT MONTGOMERY !— Saturday a publican and grocer of the name of Ray, who lives at No. 85 Exchequer- street, was charged by peace officer Thos. Jones with allowing persons to tipple in his house on last Sunday mornin , A military gentleman, who rejoices in the style and title of Major Count Montgomery, most profusely decorated with rings, medals, & c., and of most imposing mien, though rather stunted in his pro- portions, appeared on behalf of the defendant, who, he stated, was extremely unwell, and utterly unable to attend. Jones being sworn, proceeded to state the circumstances under which he made the complaint as follows:— Jones— Your worships, I was passing by the house of Ray be- tween three and four in the morning of Sunday last, and hearing a noise within at that unseasonable hour, I determined to discover the cause; so, having reconnoitred the premises, I perceived it was necessary I should make use of stratagem, or, as the Count would say ( bowing to that personage), I practised a rue de gur. Count— A rue de gur I— oh, aye, a ruse de guerre— a ruse de guerre ) ou mean, Sir. Mais Monsieur, la ruse de guerre n'est pas toujours la meillure— n'est pas la meillure— non, non. Jones— Well, your worship, being determined to use urusede guerre, and perceiving an aperture, or, as the Count would say, an embrasure in the door— I suppose you know what that is, Major ? Count— Oh, oui, oui, an embrasure— une aumbraushure. Every one who understands any thing of fortification knows what l'aum- brashure is. ( Laughter.) Jones— I tapped at the aum- braushure, your worships, and ap- plying my organ of vision to the aperture commonly denominated the key- hole, a female came and opened the door, and by the ob- servations which I made through the aum- braushure I saw several females, also two or more males, inside, who were distinguishable by their outward and visible garments or habiliments, who then and there Count— Aha, gentlemen— aha— see how well he knows the terms of the law. Mr. Graves— Sir, he is an officer of the law. Count— Then, Heaven protect Major Count Montgomery from such officers ! Jones— Well, well— Mr. Montgomery. Count— Mister Montgomery !— I am Major Count Montgomery, Sir; I have won the title with my blood and bravery, and I have as good a right to it as to my coat, Sir. Mister Montgomery indeed I aha. Jones ( submissively)— Oh, Major Count Montgomery, by all means Jones further stated, that the parties inside appealed to be tippling and drinking, but he did not see them do so. He announced he was an officer, but would not be admitted, although he waited for some time. This was the whole of the complaint; d Major Count Montgomery was proceeding to state the case for the defendant, when Mr. Graves regretted lhat they could not hear him as an advo- cate. If he had any interest in the premises, he might come for- ward in the capacity of landlord, and offer any tiling he pleased in extenuation. Count—( in a voice of thunder)— Not hear me— not hear me— I would have you know, Sir, I was called to the Fiench bar, edu- cated for the law, Sir— practised the profession, Sir— practised it with honour to myself, and credit and satisfaction to my clients Sir. Yes, Sir, the Chief Baron O'Grady, in an appeal case which came before him, decided I had a right to plead. Mark that, Sir; a right to plead in any court, and if that was denied to me, he promised to enforce my right. Mr. Graves— We by no means doubt your proficiency ; and as we understand you are landlord of the house, we shall of course, hear you. Count ( impressively)— Then, gentlemen, if ever there was case which had claims on your best and most unadulterated sympa- thies— if ever there was a case supported by humanity, by justice, by fellow feeling, in fact, by every benignant emotion that ani- mates the human soul with glorious kindness, ( he present is that case. The poor man! oh, merciful Heaven! I would sacrifice honour, life, glory, property, aye, even my half pay! every thing, in fact, to protect that man— a man I have an opportunity of observing, and know him to be honest. Mr. Graves— But what has all this to do with the complaint? Count— Well, to the point, then. Your worships, the whole thing is this. There was a marriage in the family lhat night, and the banquet was prolonged in consequence to a late hour. But. then, an officer to tuake such a statement 1 Heaven guard Mont goiuery from such a person ! Is it not enough to make one shed tears of blood, wrung from the innermost core of a bleeding heart? Oh, tempora— oh, mores! There is his wife enciente, and about to offer a little stranger to his paternal caresses. Here Ray entered the board- room, and was about to say some- thing, when the Court gagged him with— Be silent, Sir, you have an advocate in Court. Mr. Graves here observed, if the people were inmates, as the Major stated, the complaint would be dismissed. Count ( swelling his chest, flinging back his head, and speaking like a senator)— They are— they are— if it was not so I would sooner lose my life than come here. What I sully the house of Montgomery by suspicion ? Never would I soil my hands with the man if he was not honourable. What! doubt the word of a Montgomery!—' ods, guns and blunderbusses! a name which has been transmitted through the noblest families that have shed lustre o'er the page of history. A family ennobled alike by their chivalry and their virtues, and I, a descendant and possessor of the noble house of Eglintoun, to be supposed capable of dishonour I aba— As soon as the magistrates recovered from the stunning effects of this tornado of eloquence, they assured the Count that they by no means wished to impute the slightest blemish on his fair fame; but said they considered lhat Jones had only done his duty. Count—" I could a tale unfold" about tlie conduct of your peace officers. But I shall be generous as well as brave. I could tell you, if I wished, how a peace officer went into this man's house and drank there, and then refused to pay ; but no ; I scorn to become an informer. A Montgomery never was a traitor. Mr. Graves said, it was extremely wrong to make such an asser- tion if he was not able to prove it. He demanded the name of the man who had acted so. Jones— I beg pardon, Count; but I think it incumbent on me, not only in respect to Ihe situation I hold, but also lo my own cha- racter, to demand an eclaircissement. ( Laughter.) The Count, however, refused to make any eclaircissement, such being incompatible with his strict ideas pf honour 1 but, at the same time, assured Jones he did not allude to him. Mr. Tudor observed, marriages are not generally dry in Ireland, SUDDEN DEATH.— On Wednesday morning, a lady of inde- pendent fortune in Devonshire, named Louisa Parker, was found dead in her bed. It appears that the deceased, who was of a re- markably strong constitution, was on a visit to her brother and sister in Great Mary- le- bone- street, whose residence she leached in perfect health and good spirits on Tuesday. In this state she retired to rest with her sister at night, and in the morning she was found dead by her sister's side. A medical gentleman who was called in was of opinion that the deceased died of apoplexy. She was in the 40th year of her age. FALL FROM A WINDOW.— On Wednesday afternoon, as a waiter belonging to the York Hotel, New Bridge- street, Blackfriars, was employed cleaning the windows, the unfortunate man, while stand- ing on the sill of the second floor window, fell backwards and came down with great'violence upon the foot pavement, and the whole of his body was dreadfully shattered. He was instantly taken up senseless, and carried to St. Bartholomew's, where he lies with little or no hopes of recovery. EFFECTS OF DERANGEMENT.— On Monday last, Mr. S. We- therall, was charged at Hatton- garden with refusing to pay a cab- man his fare ; and it appeared the unfortunate man had been lately- subject to fits uf insanity, On quitting the Police- office he went to the Tavistock Arms, Great Russell- street, Bloomsbury- square, and took a lodging for the night. The next morning a smashing of in preserving her life. On being able to speak, the unhappy woman said that her name was Harriet Simpson, that her husband had left her quite destitute on Saturday at her lodgings, in James's- court, New- cut, and that she had since learned be was living with his own sister in adulte y. Her feelings could not bear up under the affliction, and she had made up her mind to put au end to her troubles by drowning herself, for which purpose she had gone to the bridge, but on reaching there she had altered her mind, and resolved on swallowing laudanum. The poor creature said that her father lived in Lambeth- walk, and he would give her shelter. Mr. Salter humanely placed her in a coach, and conveyed her there, where the unfortunate woman was received with every kindness. SUICIDE— A distressing event took place on Monday night, in the fan% of Mr. Waiglit, of No. 29, College- hill, Walbrook, by the suicide of an only daughter, a fine young woman, about 22 years of age. Mr. Waiglit holds a situation in the London Docks, and has a son a clergyman. On Monday afternoon, the Rev. Mr. Waight had called upon his mother, and during his stay some slight misunderstanding had taken place between him and his sister, whom he accused of being fond of liquor. Shortly after his departure the unfortunate girl cried bitterly, and declared she could not bear the reproach of her brother, and told her mother she would drown her- self sooner than meet him again. At six o'clock she went out with her mother on some domestic business, but had not gone far be- fore she made an excuse to return home, leaving her parent in the street, waiting her return. The unfortunate creature took the op- portunity, and purchased sixpenny- worth of laudanum, ar. d re- turned to her mother, who was anxiously waiting her arrival. In proceeding along Bow- lane, she suddenly drew the phial from her bosom, and placing it to her lips, swallowed the contents in the presence of her afflicted parent, and instantly ran away, leaving her mother completely paralysed, and totally incapable of pursuing her, or of giving the least alarm. Several persons soon came to her as- sistance, and the old lady, on being removed to the Cock public- house, ultimately recovered, and was conveyed home, and the sad intelligence communicated to the family. Mr. Waight, the father, and several persons, went in all directions in quest of his unhappy daughter, but no trace could be had of her till near 12 o'clock at night, when they discovered her at St. Bartholomew's- hospital, in he agonies of death, and in less than ten minutes after she expired. glass was heard in his bed- room, situate on the second floor. The landlord immediately went up stairs, and no answer being made to his inquiries, he burst open the door. Wetherall was not in the apartment, but the window was open, and, oil the landlord look- ing out, he found him hanging by a sheet. It appeared he had tied each end of the sheet to the handles of a trunk ; and having twisted the middle round his neck, he had tumbled himself out of the window, in doing which his feet had struck against the glass. He was cut down in a state of insensibility, but restored by medical attention. BODY FOUND.— On Tuesday evening the body of a female, in a very decomposed state, apparently between 70 and 80, was found floating in the Regent's Canal, between Camden- town and Maiden- lane, Battle- bridge. The deceased was dressed respectably, and had a trifle of money, besides other articles, in her pocket. FATAL ACCIDENT.— On Wednesday afternoon, as William Hay- thorn, Esq., who resides ill the Walworth- road, was proceeding in his cabriolet at a moderate pace in Blackman- streef, Borough, the horse suddenly took fright, and darting forward, in a manner that deprived Mr. Haythorn of all power over him, he came in con- tact with a poor labourer named Daniel Fitzhenry, who happened to be crossing the road at the time, and injured him so severely by a violent kick on the head that he expired instantly. Mr. Hay- thorn was thrown out of the cabriolet, and was conveyed, much in- jured, to his lodgings. On Wednesday morning, a carman named William Mascall, was walking by the side of a waggon drawn by three horses along Pen- den- street, City- road, when he was observed to stagger forward, and catch hold of the shafts to support himself; lie seemed to be suddenly seized with a swimming in the head, and two or three persons were ill the act of running to his assistance when he let go his hold, and sunk in an insensible state to the ground, and, be- fore the horses could be slopped, one of the forewheels passed over the upper part of his chest, crushing his shoulder and breast bones ill a most horrible manner. He was immediately conveyed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, but his death was momentarily expected. EFFECTS OF BRUTAL SPORTS.— On Sunday a serious accident occurred in the New Road lo Thomas Kennett, Esq., a gentleman between 50 and 60 years of age, residing at Kilburn, and who was proceeding into the city on horseback, when some mischievous fel- lows having tied a till kettle to the tail of a dog, started the animal, which proceeded furiously along the road, the kettle making a great noise. On passing, it struck the hind leg of Mr. Kennett's horse, which became unmanageable, and set off at full speed. Mr. K. lost all command over it, and was thrown with dreadful violence, his head and body coming in contact with a lamp- post. On raising him it was discovered that he had received a severe cut on the forehead, and a compound fracture of the left arm above the elbow, the bones protruding through the skin. STARVATION AND DESPAIR.— On Sunday evening a woman, very shabbily dressed, was observed standing in a dejected state, hiding her face with her hands, on the causeway leading to the river opposite the Penitentiary at Milbank. The poor creature clasped her hands together apparently in much despair, and then plunged into the water, and instantly disappeared beneath its sur- face. Some watermen, who were at a distance at the time ill their wherries, pulled towards the spot, and pulled her into the boat, in a stale of considerable exhaustion. She was instanlly conveyed to St. Margaret's poor- house, where she was put to bed, and every at- tention paid to her. After she had somewhat recovered, she stated that the most abject distress had driven her to make the dreadful attempt; that she had not tasted food for several days, and that parochial relief had been refused her; that her mind became dis- tracted as night approached, not having a place to sleep in ; and that w hilst in lhat disordered state she had come to the resolution of putting an end to her distress. The poor creature still remains in the workhouse, till an opportunity occurs of removing her to her parish settlement. SUICIDE OF AN ARTIST.— On Monday, an inquest was held at the Chalk Farm tavern, on the body of Mr. C. Horme, aged 49, of 33, Herries- street, Regent's- park. He was well known as an artist, and many of his pictures were admitted into the Exhibition at So- merset House. He, however, had been lately unfortunate in his circumstances; and on Friday afternoon went to the above tavern, and had, though not given to drinking, three glasses of gin- and- water. The waiter did not visit his box for some time, and his at- tention was at length attracted by hearing a gurgling in the throat of some person. On going to the box he found the deceased sit- ting with his eyes fixed, and an empty phial by him. A surgeon was called in, but be did not long survive, having swallowed a quantity of laudanum. The deceased has left a wife and family. DEATH FRWM EXCESSIVE DRINKING.-— On Monday an inquest was held at the Exeter Arms, Lisson- grove, on the body of Henry Pearson, aged 50. The deceasud was once an attorney, but his frequent habits of intoxication lost him the whole of his practice, and he was so reduced that he became a strolling player. Two years ago he was bequeathed 1,900/., and since that period he had been continually intoxicated, so much so, indeed, that the neigh- bours had a saying, that they could never get up early enough to find him sober. On Wednesday night he was suddenly taken ill, and a surgeon was called in. lie, however, died in a few minutes. The surgeon's opinion was, that his death arose from an effusion of serum in the brain, produced by excessive drinking. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.— On Tuesday morning, a bout four o'clock, a female of respectable appearance, apparently about the middle age, was observed by two men sitting in a state of despondency in one of the alcoves of Westminster bridge. They questioned her, but could get no reply from her, and she seemed to be almost in- sensible. They raised her up, when a small phial fell from her dfess upon the seat, with a portion of laudanum ill it. The men lost no time in conveying her to the house of Mr. Salter, the sur- geon, who introduced the stomach pump, and ultimately succeeded COUNTRY CALENDAR of ACCIDENTS and OFFENCES. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—- The following melancholy occur- rence took place at Barley Dean Colliery, parish of Carrington, the property of the Earl of Roseberry. Among the workmen em- ployed at that place is a man of the name of Penman, and his five sons. The father and two of the sons had ascended from the pit, and the three others were in the act of ascending, and had nearly reached the mouth of the pit, when, awful to relate, the ring by which the bucket was suspended broke, and the unfortunate men were precipitated to the bottom of the pit, a depth of 33 fathoms. One of the brothers immediately descended, and the bodies were shortly after got Up, in a shockingly mutilated state, and conveyed in a cart to the residence of their father.— Edinb. Paper. Mr. Meyers, the riding- master to the King, who resides at the Castle Inn, Windsor, sustained a serious loss about the middle of last week from being robbed of 150/. which be had locked up in a drawer in his apartment. A Bow. street officer has been there since the robbery, but has not been able to trace any clue to the robbery. DEATH BY LAUDANUM.— About a fortnight ago a person, ap- parently between 30 and 40 years of age, rather poorly clothed, but of genteel address, arrived at the Cross Keys Hotel, Kelso. He described himself as a Polish refugee, and gave his name Major Stanislaus Jaunson : and his funds being low, expressed his readi- ness to employ his talents in acquiring means of support. He sub- sequently undertook to paint window blinds for the house, and finished several in a very beautiful manner, his style being such as would have secured him ample employment elsewhere at very high prices. He was in the habit of taking with impunity such large doses of laudanum as would have destroyed most persons, and used even to boast of the quantity he consumed. On Friday night last he took a large dose, and after he had retired to bed the waiter felt so alarmed at his situation as to send for medical aid. The at- tendance of several professional gentlemen was shortly procured, in whose presence, before they could possibly prevent him, he swal- lowed the remains of a phial, without seeming to diead the conse- quences ; but he soon fell into a stupor, and in spite of the use of the stomach- pump, and every other means, expired at an early hour on Saturday morning.— Kelso Mail. ACCIDENT.— An alarming accident happened to a boy in the em- ploy of Mr. Pigou, of Little Strawberry- hill, on Thursday week. A brewer's dray was standing in the yard, and at the moment Mr. Pigou's carriage-, containing himself and family, was starting for town, the horse look fright at the noise, and set off at a tremendous rale. The boy, in endeavouring to stop the animal, was thrown to the ground, and his head jammed between the wheel of the dray and a post, by which means bis right cheek was nearly torn off, the jaw- bone being laid bare ; a most frightful wound was'also made on his head, laying a part of the skull quite bare of the size of the palm of the hand. In addition, thc poor lad narrowly escaped drowning ; for by the post giving way against which he was driven, he was precipitated into a deep ditch of water, in a senseless state, his head fortunately lodging on the bank, in which condition he continued until his moanings attracted the attention of the gardener, who conveyed him into the house, ill an apparently dying state. A surgeon was sent for, who afforded such aid as his condition de- manded. He continued for two days in an apparently hopeless state; but a change has since taken place, and the boy is likely to recover. ROBHERY.— Last week a most daring robbery was committed by some villains at the residence of the Bishop of Hereford, near Colney Hatch, in Hertfordshire. It appears lhat the thieves effected an entrance through one of the back kitchen windows, which had been carelessly left open ; they then packed up every thing portable they could laj their hands on in two sacks, and, after having broken open the cellar and larder, and regaled themselves with the best the house afforded, they departed. As soon as the servants came down stairs in the morning, they were astonished to find the table laid out with several plates covered with clean- picked bones and a number of empty bottles; that the house had been rob- bed during the night was soon observed, and that the thieves had regaled themselves plentifully was evident. Fortunately, as some labouring men were going to work in the morning, they discovered two sacks, filled with property, concealed in a deep ditch near the Bishop's house, and which proved to contain the whole of the pro- perty which had been stolen, no doubt placed in the ditch by the thieves, to be carried off at a more convenient opportunity. " The property was immediately restored. POLISHED POLES.— A man entered an inn at Nogent, and, taking his dinner at the landlord's table, stated he was a Pole who had fought under the walls of Warsaw, and spoke with great feeling of the sequestration of his estates, and the other hardships he had un- dergone ; letting fall, as if by accident, during the conversation, a large purse apparently filled with gold. While they were taking the dessert another mail came in, who announced himself lo be also a Polish refugee. The two sot disant fellow countrymen soon re- cognized each other as having been in the same army, though it is more likely their acquaintance had been formed on board the hulks at Rochefort or Toulon. They embraced each other with great af- fection, and after some time the latter informed his comrade that he had spent all his money, but had some jewels of value as a re- source. He thereupon took out of his pockets a fine cross, which he stated to be brilliants set in silver, aud worth l, 200f., but that he would, in consequence of his present necessities, part with it for two- thirds of its value. The bargain was soon concluded; but the mail of the purse expressed an unwillingness to part with his gold, as it was so convenient for travelling, and proposed to the landlord to advance the 800f., promising to redeem it the next day, and make him a present of 500f., as the cross was worth, at least, 5,000f. The landlord fell into the snare, advanced the money, and received the pledge. But, the following morning, it was found that the li- beral stranger had decamped in the night, and the brilliant jewel was not worth more than 8f. September 23. THE TOWS. 307 JOSEPH BONAPARTE. r The ex- King of Spain having become a resident in the British metropolis, a summary of the public career of one who, after witnessing so many singular vicissitudes, and having been a participator in such momentous events, now quietly mingles in the gaieties of our fashionable circles, may prove acceptable to our readers. This summary, derived from an authentic source, gives a very favourable repre- sentation of Joseph's character and services, which, owing to the blaze of Napoleon's fame, have not been so gene- rally understood in this country as they otherwise might have been :— • " Joseph Napoleon Bonaparte, the eldest brother of Napoleon, of all the members of his family the one in whom the Emperor placed the greatest confidence, was born January 7, 1768, at Corte, in the Island of Corsica. His father being sent to Paris, as the deputy of the estates of that province, carried him to the continent, and placed him at the College of Autun, in Bur- gundy, where he completed his course of studies with great di- ligence. Joseph was desirous of entering the military service, but, in compliance with the last wishes of his father, who died at Montpellier, in the prime of life, he returned to his native coun- try in 1785, and, in 1792, became a member of the departmental administration, under the precedency of the celebrated Paoli. When the English took possession of Corsica, Joseph retired to the continent. In 1794 he married the daughter of M. Clary, a rich citizen of Marseilles*. Joseph was sent by his brother Napoleon, after the victory of Mondovi, to Paris, to convince the directory of the necessity of concluding peace with the King of Sardinia. Peace was concluded, and Joseph appointed minister of the republic at Parma, and, a few months afterwards, minister, and then Ambassador, at Rome. He had obtained from Pius VII. the promise of a brief, exhorting the Vendeans to lay down their arms, and to submit to the republic, when the catastrophe occurred which obliged him to leave Rome. The Pope not giving satisfaction for the murder of general Duphot, committed in the presence of Joseph, the latter returned to Paris, where the direc- tory expressed their entire satisfaction with his conduct. He was now offered the embassy to Prussia, but preferred the council of five hundred, which soon chose him their secretary. When Napoleon was in Egypt, the French experienced impor- tant reverses in Europe. Joseph despatched a Greek of Cephalo- nia, to Egypt, to induce his brother to hasten back ; and he as- sisted him in the revolution of the 18th Brumaire, year VIII. which placed general Bonaparte at the head of the consular go- vernment. Under the consulate, Joseph was a member of the council of state, and, as such, was appointed, with Rcederer and De Fleurieu, to terminate the differences then existing between France and the United States. The treaty of Sept. 30, 1800, was signed at Joseph's estate of Mortfontaine. Soon after ( Feb. 9, 1801), he signed, with Count Cobentzel the treaty of Luncville, between France and Austria. March 25, 1802, the treaty of Amiens was signed, which on the part of France, had been like- wise conducted under his direction. Whilst engaged in diplo- matic pursuits, Joseph suggested a plan to unite France, Eng- land, Spain and Holland, for the suppression of that system of rapine and piracy, whereby smaller states were annoyed by the corsairs of Barbary, to the disgrace of the great powers of Christendom. His brother, then first consul, adopted the plan. In 1803, Joseph was created a senator and grand officer of the legion of honour, and presided, in the same year, in the electoral college of the department of the Oise. Joseph Bonaparte was one of the signers of the concordat with the Pope, by which the immunities of the Gallican church were secured, and the torch of fanaticism, which burned in the West of France, was extin- guished. Nearly at the same time, the treaty of gauranty was signed with Austria, Russia, Prussia, and Bavaria, which recog- nised the various political changes which had taken place in the German Empire. In this negociation, also, Joseph was invested with full powers on the part of France. When in 1804, the camp at Boulogne was formed, the consul made his brother colonel to the fourth regiment. When Napoleon ascended the throne of France, the same senatus- consulte which ( supported by 3,700,000 votes) created Napoleon Emperor,, declared Joseph and his family heirs to the throne, in case ofthe death of Napo- leon without issue. In the same year, the crown of Lombardy was offered to him, but Joseph firmly resisted the entreaties of the emperor and of his friends. During the campaign of Auster- litz, in 1805, prince Joseph presided in the senate, and adminis- tered the government. " A few days after the battle of Austerlitz, Joseph received an order from the emperor to place himself at the head of the army destined to invade the kingdom of Naples. On February 8,1806, the French entered the Neapolitan territory. Joseph com- manded the centre, whjlst Massfena and Gouvion de Saint- Cyr commanded the two wings, took Capua, which surrendered with, out much resistance, and entered the capital, Feb. 15. All the fortresses were to be delivered up to the French ; and Gaeta only resisted. No sooner had he organized a provisional government in the capital, than he set out with a corps d'ilite, to inform himself of the actual state of the country, and of the feasibility of an attempt upon Sicily. He soon convinced himself of the abject situation of the inhabitants, and of the impracticability of a landing iu Sicily. It was during this journey, that Joseph first received intelligence that the emperor had recognised him king of Naples. Napoleon, fearing that Joseph would refuse the throne of Naples, as he had refused that of Lombardy, consented that his relations with France should remain the same. " Joseph's reign in Naples forms the period of his life on which the biographer dwells with the greatest satisfaction. It was his fortune to be twice called to rule over nations guided by priests, and left in ignorance ; yet the critical nature of his situation did not deter him from trying every means in his power to amelio- rate the condition of his subjects. Convents were abolished, and their inmates provided for ; their rich possessions were in part used to contribute to the solidity of the public credit; feudalism was overthrown, leaving only the honorary titles; provincial in- tendants were appointed instead of the former presidi, a kind of proconsuls ; public instruction greatly improved ; the finances regulated, the interior custom- lines, so injurious to the welfare of nations, removed to the frontiers ; the system of justice greatly improved by substituting the French code for the confused prag- matiche, and by organizing the judiciary ; national guards were formed— an institution which, in that as well all the other Italian countries, would have had the best effects. A new army was created; the public debt was put on a systematic footing ; all banks were united into one; excavations at Pompeii and in Mag- na Grsecia begun, and a learned society founded, under the name of the royal academy, divided into four classes ; the roads were improved ; the system of the mesta t abolished ; the stiff and pompous Spanish court etiquette was much curtailed, so that the king became accessible to his subjects ; and the half- barbarous lazzaroni were civilized. Villages were established, and the laz- zaroni were made to labour in excavations or workshops. Their pay was partly given in beds, and in domestic utensils, so that their improvement was begun in the only way in which it could be successful— by accustoming them to a home. The bands of robbers were vanished. When Joseph arrived in Naples, the revenue ofthe state did not exceed 7,000,000 ducati. It was augmented by him to 14,000,000, without increasing the public burdens. Naples then had no constitution, but Joseph, presiding in person at the meetings of the council of state, heard every measure discussed, and no instance is on record of a measure being adopted against the opinion of the majority. Success was * The sister of Joseph's wife was married to Bernadotte, and is the present Queen of Sweden. t The system consisted in withholding from culture a large district under the name of the " Tavoliere di Puglia," belonging to the crown. TTiis was dedicated to the pasturage of innumerable flocks, which re- sorted thither every year from all parts of the kingdom. The " mesta" being abolished, this territory was sold, and brought into luxuriant cul- tivation. crowning his laudable endeavours, when he was called by his bro- ther to receive a prouder diadem. " In an interview some months previous, with the emperor Napoleon at Venice, he received an intimation of the feuds which distracted the reigning house of Spain, and of the political em- barrassments to which they must lead. He now received from Bayonne, where the Spanish princes had joined Napoleon, a pressing invitation to proceed without delay to that city. In uncertainty, Joseph set out, cherishing the hope of again return- ing to his family at Naples. At a short distance from Bayonne, he was met by the emperor, who informed him that the passions of the Spanish princes had produced a crisis, which had arrived but too soon, and that he had nominated his brother, the king of Naples, to the throne of Spain, and that he was acceptable to the junta, and would be so to the nation at large. " When Joseph arrived at Bayonne, the members of the junta were all assembled at the ch& teauof Marrac, and he was obliged to receive their addresses, to which he returned indefinite answers, postponing a decision until he could, in the course of a few days, see the different members in private. The Spanish princes were gone. The Duke del Infantado and Cevallos passed for the warmest partisans of Ferdinand : both were presented the next day to take leave. Joseph had a long conversation with the duke, which terminated in a full offer of his services. Cevallos made almost the same tender to Joseph, who afterwards received in succession, all the members of the junta, consisting of nearly 100 persons. They painted, in strong colours, the evils which afflicted their country, and the facility of suppressing them. The as- surances given, finally induced him to accept the throne, and he prepared himself to set out for Spain ; but he would not leave the throne of Naples without obtaining a pledge that his institu- tions should be preserved. He obtained the guaranty of the emperor Napoleon, and a constitution, founded nearly on the same principles, was adopted by the junta of Bayonne for Spain, and also guarantied by the emperor. Joseph, and the members of the junta, swore fidelity to it. The accession of Joseph to the throne of Spain was notified by the secretary of State ( Cevallos) to the foreign powers, by all of whom, with the exception of Eng- land, he was formally recognised. " Upon his entry into Madrid Joseph found the people greatly exasperated at the events of the second of May, 1808. A stranger to all that had passed, lie convened on the morrow, at the palace, all. those persons who might naturally be regarded as represen- tatives of the different classes of society— grandees of Spain, chiefs of the religious orders, members of the tribunals, priests, officers, generals, the principal capitalists, the syndics of the various handicrafts. All the saloons were crowded, for the first time, with a concourse of men who were astonished to find themselves together. The new king entered into free conversa- tion with his guests, and expressed himself with candour on the events which had brought him into Spain, on the motives of his conduct, on his views and intentions. He ventured alone into the different rooms, filled with crowds of persons inimical to him, and inspired much confidence by this fearless reliance on their honour; but the gleams of popular favour were overcast by the disastrous intelligence from Baylen, which arrived six days after this entertainment. The retreat on Burgos was effected, and the king found himself in the midst of marshal Bessieres' army. The Spaniards flocked in from all quarters against the French army, which was unable to resume offensive operations until the month of November. The emperor arrived, and put himself at the head of his army, but was summoned, first by the English to the frontiers of Galicia, and th » n by the Austrians to Germany. On his departure, he left his brother in command of the forces that remained in Spain. " King Joseph returned to his capital January 22, 1809. The inhabitants came individually to take the oath of allegiance to him, each in his respective parish. Joseph exerted himself to foster and extend these favourable symptoms. On a solemn occasion, he renewed the assurances of his determination to maintain the independence of Spain; to preserve her territory entire ; to sup- port her religion, and to protect and uphold the liberty of her citizens—" conditions," he said, " of the oath which I took on accepting the crown : it shall never be dishonoured whilst on my head." He pledged himself for the convocation of the cortes, and for the evacuation of Spain by the French troops, as soon as the country should be pacified. The choice of his minis- try was made with entire deference to public opinion. The no- mination of the members of his council of state was governed by the same spirit. Five regiments were already organized, from which all persons stained by criminal convictions were carefully excluded. Infamous punishments were discontinued, and the stimulus of honour and love of country, as in the French army, was substituted for corporal inflictions, which are fit only to make slaves, not soldiers. Pursuing the same course which his own sense of justice and views of policy had dictated in his former government at Naples, he recognised the existing public debt, and provided means for its extinction; gave facilities for the secularization of monks, without, at that moment, compelling it; inspected, in person, the works then unfinished and necessary to the completion of the Gaudarama canal; promoted that useful enterprise ; and generally gave aid and countenance to national industry in its various departments. He resolved to suppress entirely the religious orders, being convinced that the restoration of the finances and the claims of public tranquillity alike de- manded this measure. All ecclesiastical jurisdictions were an- nulled, and their duties assigned to the civil tribunals, and the privilege of sanctuary heretofore allowed to the churches was abo lished. The councils of the Indies, of the orders, of finance, of the marine, and of war, whose functions were almost identical with those of the new council of state, were dissolved; the points for the collection of the duties fixed on the frontiers ; the muni- cipal system was settled ; laws regulating public education were digested in the council of state ; the debt, which had been for- merly recognised, was guarantied j the ashes and monuments of the illustrious dead, scattered through the suppressed convents, were assembled in several churches, and particularly in the metro politan at Burgos. The buildings of the Escurial were assigned for the reception of fifteen hundred priests, members of the dif- ferent religious orders, who were desirous of continuing to live in common, either from family reasons, considerations of health, or a strong bias to consecrate themselves to study in those vast deposits wherein lay buried large collections of manuscripts and other literary treasures, so richly meriting examination and perusal. The buildings of St. Francis were chosen for the sit- tings of the cortes, and the alterations to be made in them put under contract. One hundred millions of reals were appointed as an indemnity to owners of property who had suffered by the ravages of war. Joseph proscribed no individual because he had been a member of any particular corporation. In his council of state were to be found superiors of religious orders who voted for the suppression of those orders; * general officers of the insur gents who voted against the insurgents ; + inquisitors voting against the inquisition and his family and his household, gran dees of Spain, openly advocating the most popular laws. " A few months after his return to Madrid, Joseph received in telligence that 50,000 Spaniards had made a descent from the Sierra Morena into La Mancha. He marched against them, and at Ocana, they were entirely discomfited. The junta of Seville having summoned the cortes for the month of March, he deter mined to anticipate them. Leaving Madrid on the 8th of Janu ary, 1810, a very few days after the battle of Ocana, he found himself, on the 11th, at the foot of Sierra Morena, with a force of 60,000 men. The positions of the enemy were carried in a few hours, and 8000 or 10,000 prisoners taken. Cordova sur rendered to him without firing a gun. Marshal Victor advanced upon Cadiz, and the king made his entry into Seville. Ten thousand men, under the duke of Albuquerque, had anticipated marshal Victor at Cadiz ; the English also hastened thither, and strongly reinforced the garrison, whilst their squadrons block * Father Rey, general of the Augustins. t Lieutenant- General Maria, who long held the command at Cadiz and Madrid. J The Abbe Llorente. aded the harbour. The chiefs of the insurrection had assembled at Port St. Mary's, in front of Cadiz. They surrounded the king, from whom they received the assurance of his positive determination to assemble the representatives ofthe nation at Grenada immediately. All the members of the central junta were to form part of this cortes ; all the bishops— all the grandees— all the wealthy capi- talists. This assembly would have a Single question to discuss— Do we, or do we not, accept the constitution and the king offered to us by the junta of Bayonne ?" If the negative were pro- nounced, Joseph would leave Spain, fully determined to reign, if at all, by the consent of the people, as he wished to reign for their benefit. But the deputies who undertook to go themselves and treat with their fellow citizens, embarked in small boats, and were detained by the English squadron, and not allowed to land in Cadiz. On the other hand, the French government was be- coming weary of the enormous sacrifices which the obstinate re- sistance of Spain required. They thought that the war there, as in other countries, ought to support itself. The king's system, on the contrary, forbade exactions, and tended to calm the exas- peration ofthe Spaniards by kind treatment. He consequently required that France should continue her sacrifices and her ex- penditure. About this time, a measure was adopted by Napoleon, which gave the king the most lively concern. An imperial de- cree instituted military governments in the provinces of Spain, under which the French general of division became presi- dent of the administrative junta, and the Spanish intendant was reduced to the statiou of a simple secretary of the body in which he had formerly presided. This state of things could not fail to destroy all the good which had been effected by the campaign of Andalusia. Abandoning, now, all hopes of bringing about the surrender of Cadiz by the conciliatory measures which he had employed, Joseph left Port St. Mary's to visit the eastern part of Andalusia, and directed his route through Ronda. In the course of his journey, he expressed to the deputations from Grenada, Jaiiu, and Malaga, his firm resolution never to consent to any d smemberment of the monarchy, or to any sacrifice whatever of national independence. " On his return to Seville, the king issued decrees prescribing territorial divisions, organising the civil administration within these districts, and directing the formation of national guards. He then intrusted the command of the army of Andalusia to Marshal Soult, and returned to Madrid, after an absence of five months. The duke of Santa F£ and the Marquis of Almenara, two of his minister.-, were dispatched to Paris. The latter was the bearer of a letter from Joseph, announcing his determination to leave a country where he could neither do good nor prevent evil, if the system of military governments were not abandoned. The situation of the emperor was then so complicated and criti- cal, that he could not yield to the wishes of the king. King Joseph proceeded in person to Paris, where he had an interview with his brother. The emperor induced him to return to Spain, by the positive assurance which he gave him, that the military go- vernments should soon cease. The different military districts were to be put under the command of king Joseph, the cortes convened, and the French armies to evacuate Spain as soon as the king was satisfiedjhat their presence was no longer necessary. The subsequent events of this war must be rapidly touched. Marshal Massena, who had entered Portugal at the head of an army of 75,000 men, was compelled in March, 1811, to withdraw his troops, then reduced by sickness, forced marches, and want of provisions, to 35,000 men. Marshal Soult laid siege to Badajoz on March 19. Marshal Victor had been attacked in his lines at Chiclana. It was at that moment, that the first rumours were circulated of the approaching rupture between France and Rus- sia. The English had occupied Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz. Marshal Victor, the remainder of the imperial guard, and seve- ral regiments of the line, were recalled to France. All hopes of a negociation with England had vanished ; partial insurrections multiplied; new guerillas were formed; the communications became more difficult than at any previous time. Navarre was ravaged by the band of Mina, now swelled to an army; famine was laying waste the capital and the provinces. Such was the face of affairs when the Emperor Napoleon, setting out on his Russian campaign, invested king Joseph with the command of the armies. Under such circumstances, honour no longer per mitted him to retire from a post of difficulty and danger. Mar- shal Jourdan returned to him. In the early part of May, 1812, the English, having taken the fortifications erected for the de- fence of the Tagus, threatened at the same time the army of the south and the army of Portugal. Early in July, Joseph marched from Madrid with the guards and the troops of the neighbour- ing garrisons, directed his march on Penaranda, and joined mar- shal Marmont, who had passed the Tormes on the 20th ; and been defeated at Arapiles. November 3, he returned to Madrid Having remained a single day at Madrid, Joseph passed the Tormes, and found himself on the battle field of Arapiles, at the head of more than 100,0Q0 men. The king entered Salamanca with the army of Portugal. The army soon found itself weak- ened by the loss of more than 30,000 men, who received orders to repass the Pyrenees. He soon alter received a positive order from the emperor to leave Madrid and take up the line of the Duero. The state of affairs in Russia made obedience to this order a matter of positive duty, and he instantly depared for Valladolid. As soon as Madrid was abandoned, the fires of in- surrection were kindled, and raged with greater violencethan ever. After the battle of Vittoria, Joseph returned to Paris, where his brother, the Emperor, again left him, with the title of his lieutenant, when he departed to put himself at the head of the army, which was at last reduced to defend itself on its own soil. The Empress Maria Louisa was left regent of the empire. Joseph had the honour of the military command, and was left as coun- sellor of the Empress, together with the Prince Arch- Chan- cellor of the empire, Cambaceres. If the events of the war should intercept all communication between the Imperial head- quarters and the capital, and the enemy make his way to Paris, Joseph had verbal instructions from the Emperor, and, after his departure, a written order, to remove the King of Rome and the Empress, to proceed with them to the Loire, and to cause them to be accompanied by the grand dignitaries, the Minister, the officers of the Senate, the legislative body, and the Council of State. Joseph soon after had ample reason to acknowledge the judgment and foresight which had dictated these precautions. Reserve was thrown aside, and many Senators no longer dis- sembled their opinions in favour of proclaiming Napoleon the Second, or the regency of the Empress and the lieutenancy of Joseph, under an infant Emperor. Joseph then made known to his brother the necessity of concluding peace upon any terms ; and when the slender corps of Marshals Marmont and Mortier were brought under the walls of Paris, pursued by an enemy vastly superior, and all communications between the Emperor aud his capital was cut off, Joseph communicated to the Empress and the Arch- Chancellor the last letter from his brother, which recognised and confirmed his former directions. The Ministers, the grand dignitaries, and Presidents of the sections of the Council, were assembled, to the number of 22 members. They all had admitted that the case provided for had occurred ; and that it was better to leave Paris to its own authorities and to its own particular forces, than to hazard the fate of the Emperor, and thereby endanger that of the entire empire. But Joseph remarked, they were yet uninformed as to what enemy they had to do with ; that the advancing forces might be reconnoitred, and measures adopted on the result of that reconnoisance. He offered not to set out with the Empress. The Ministers of war, of the Administration of War, and of Marine, concurred with him, and promised not to return to the Empress except in the last extremity, when they should be convinced that they were retiring before the entire mass of the allied armies. If, on the contrary, upon reconnoitring, it should appear that they had only a detached corps to resist, which they could destroy without exposing the capital, they would support the two marshals with all the means under their control. It was in the hope that the last hypothesis might prove correct, that the proclamation of King Joseph was drawn up and published that evening. The Empress, her son, the Court, the members of the Government the Ministers, M. de la Bouillerie, Treasurer of the Crown with the funds entrusted to him, took their departure. During the night, the Marshals were informed of the enemy's approach. The next morning they were in conflict with the outposts. Joseph, accompanied by the Ministers of War, of the Adminis- tration of War, and of the Marine, agreeably to the resolution of the council, left Paris to investigate the actual state of affairs more closely. Marshal Marmont declared that he could not hold out longer than four o'clock, nor prevent Paris from being in- undated with irregular troops during the night. He demanded authority to treat for the preservation of the capital and the security of its population. The decision of the Council under the presidency of the Empress Regent was literally carried into execution under these trying circumstances, when the Ministers, who were with the King, admitted that the greatest part of the allied forces was under the walls of Paris. Joseph, passing through Versailles, ordered the cavalry at the depots in that city to follow him, and proceeded to Chartres, where he found the Empress, and thence to Blois. The idea of resistance was aban- doned, and the abdication of Fontainbleau left Joseph no choice but a retirement to Switzerland, where he remained until March 19, 1815, the day on which he learned the arrival of his brother Napoleon at Grenoble. He set out alone with his children, and traversed all France, from Switzerland to Paris. Joseph, during the hundred days, introduced to Napoleon Benjamin Constant, who drew up the additional articles. Lafayette discussed several times with them the subject of the hereditary peerage, which Napoleon retained because he found it at his return from Elba, and because he had enemies enough without making new ones in the Chamber of Peers. After the battle of Waterloo, Joseph, when consulted by Napoleon, gave the same advice which Car- not and Merlin de Douai, had already given : " Return to the army, and let us contend with the Chamber." He followed his brother to Rochefort; both were to go to the United States, but in different vessels, when there ceased to be a hope of passing the English squadron, with the frigates. On the Isle of Aix, he offered to remain in his place in the room which he occupied, whilst Napoleon should go on board of the vessel which he ( Joseph) had chartered for himself, and which was at Royan with the four individuals who accompanied him. It was otherwise decided. Joseph did not leave France until General Bertrand had informed him of the fatal resolution which Napoleon had taken. He arrived at New York without being known, the captain and crew of the American vessel thinking him to be General Carnot desirous of remaining incognito. By an Act of the Legislature of New Jersey, expressly enacted for this case, he was enabled to hold real property without becoming a citizen of the United States. He erected a seat at a spot called Point Breeze, on the bank of the Delaware, near Bordentown, not far from Philadelphia. At this place he has resided under the name of Count Survilliers, spending his time in study, in acts of bene- volence, and embellishing his estate as far as his moderate means allow. There is in the United States the same opinion respecting him as in Naples, where his loss is regretted by people of the most different classes. A like opinion respecting him is said to exist in Spain j- this land, as well as Naples, having been plunged by the Bourbons into a state of misery, from which, probably, they can be delivered only by long revolutions. It was once reported that he was collec ing materials for p work on Napoleon and his time ; and no one could make more important, disclosures. In 1820, a fire consumed his mansion at Point Breeze, upon which occasion the inhabitants of the neighbouring country gave him proof of their heartfelt interest in him. Not long after the French revolution in July, 1830, a letter signed Joseph Napoleon > Bonaparte, count Survill- iers, and dated Point Breeze, September 14, 1830, to a French general, who had offered to return with him to their eommon country, appeared in the public papers, in which he says, " J'ai pris comme mon frere Napoleon la devise tout pour le peuple Franfais; je ne connais done dans moi vis- a- vis de la nation que des devoirs ci remplir et aucun droit a exercer, ni en mon nom, ni en celui de mon neveu. Les gou- vernemens sont un besoin des peuples, e'est h eux ti les crier ou a les dMruire, selon leur utilite, je suis done resigni a me con- former au voeu national legitimement exprime." He further says, that he considers that no Bourbon, of any branch, should be placed on the throne of France ; that Napoleon was called to the throne by the voice of three millions and a half of French- men, uninfluenced by foreign arms, and that Napoleon abdicated in favour of his son; so that Napoleon II. was the legitimate heir of the Throne, until the nation should declare otherwise, which it had not done. The letter professes republican principles throughout, and declares the country happy in which a republi- can government is suitable. Joseph also addresses a protest to the Chamber of Deputies at Paris, in favour of his nephew, dated New York, Sept. 18,1830, and founded on the free choice of the French people, by which Napoleon was elevated to the throne, with his descendants, stating that Napoleon abdicated in favour of his son ; and the Chambers declared Napoleon II in 1815, and that he is the only legitimate heir to the throne of France, until the nation has decided otherwise, but that no other power or body can decide it. He also insists on the impossibility of a re- union between a nation and a reigning house, which founds its claim on the divine right, after they have been once separated. He appeals to the expression ofthe national will, and announces his willingness to submit to it, whatever may be the result. Joseph has two daughters— the elder, Zenaide, is married to her cousin Charles Bonaparte, son ofLucien ; the younger, Char- lotte, was married to her cousin Napoleon Louis, son of Louis Bonaparte, former King of Holland ( Count St. Leu). Napoleon Louis Bonaparte died March 17, 1831, at Forli in Italy, by over exertion during the early part of the then existing commotions. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. WILL or NAPOLEON'S MOTHER.— Madame Laetitia, mother of the Emperor Napoleon, is dangerously ill, at Rome. Of her will, lately made, the following particulars have transpired :— She has left a legacy of 50,000 Roman crowns to her daughter- in- law, Maria- Louisa; 100,000 to each of her sons and daughters; a con- siderable sum for the foundation of a religious institution, according to the discretion of the executors. A legacy of money and jewels, to be selected at their own choice, equal in value to 1000 sequins, to each of the executors. All the rest of her property, moveable or immoveable, annuities, money, diamonds, jewellery, pictures, & c., will form a residuary property, and go to the eldest male branch of Ihe lionaparte family. In case of extinction in the male line of the family ( the children of the female branches being excluded), the property, which, exclusive of legacies, & c., is valued at 15,000,000 piastres, will go to the capital of Corsica, on condition that that city pays a legacy of 50,000 piastres to any males lineally descended from female branches of the family. The executors mentioned are Cardinal Fesch, brother of the testator, the Cardinal Vicar of Rome, and Totlonia the banker. Her body is to be taken from Rome to Ajaccio, at which place her sons are to raise a monument to her memory, bearing the inscription, " A la mere de Napoleon." A legacy of 30,000 piastres is left to the National Church of St. Louis des Francais, for the perpetual celebration of a daily mass, and a grand anniversary solemnity of the deaths of the Emperor Napoleon aud Madame Laetitia. On the day the funeral leaves Rome, there will be a distribution amongst the poor, and each of the twenty- six curates will receive 100 piastres for their duties on the occasion. She recommends to her sons and Cardinal Fesch, who possess an immense fortune in the will and the rare collection of pictures, lo make their wills in favour of the residuary legatee, that the name of Napoleon may shine in one of the family, and preserve the remem- brance of their former grandeur. BELGIUM. MINISTERIAL CHANGES.— We learn through letters from Brus- sels that his Belgian Majesty has received the resignations of his present Cabinet, and that General Goblet will receive the seals of the department of Foreign Affairs, and be generally intrusted with the selection of the new Cabinet. ! I 394 T H E T O W J I. September 23. TO SUBSCRIBERS. Part I. of the POLITICAL MAP OF ENGLAND, engraved on steel, and brilliantly coloured, is now ready for delivery, gratis, to those who have paid their quarter's subscription to The Town, the only way in which this important and useful work can be obtained. The Map shows all the alterations caused by the Reform and Boun- dary Bills, from the Ordnance Surveys, assisted by the Reports of the Commissioners for the Division of Counties. Subscribers, in case of any disappointment with respect to the delivery of the Map or the Paper, are requested to forward information on the subject to the Publisher. TO CORRESPONDENTS. C. A.' s" attentions merit our best thanks. Our success, we are happy to say, keeps pace with his wishes. We can do no more than sympathize with our rhyming friend, who begins his batch of couplets with,— " I almost, Sir, gave TO the ghost, When reading in the Morning Post"— " A Correspondent" inquires why acertain Tory Evening Paper is at all times so anxious to stigmatize the Newspaper Press, and vilify its members? The " why" belongs to the physchology of the con- ductors of the Paper in question, whose tasteful displays bring them within the scope of the pithy but somewhat unsavoury proverb, " ' Tis an ill bird that," & c. We can assure " Dramaticus" that there is no truth in the report that Keeley has joined Don Pedro at Oporto. Robert admits, however, that he has no objection to ' liberal engagements,' or a ' winter cam- paign.' To Correspondents whose favours are deferred, we say— patience. Literary Essays, if merely Literary, do not, however meritorious, suit the " Town." We desire to deal with the actors and events ot the hour fearlessly and fairly. An Advertisement, of a class systematically excluded from our columns, was inserted last week through an inadvertence of the Publisher. for the Lady of Loretto, is laid up with an attack of paralysis, brought on by sluggish living. The CZAR NICHOLAS is employed on the " settlement" ofPoland, and his worthy coadjutors of Austria and Prussia anxious for the " settlement" of Europe, are occupied in gagging the Press, and in marching and counfer- march- ing their blue and white police. England, desirous of peace for the consolidation of her social rights, relies on the wisdom of a government, whose most influential members have at all times been distin- guished by a just appreciation of that blessing. CONTRACTS FOR STRAW. Commissariat Department, Treasury Chambers, Sept. 21, 1832. SUCH Persons as are desirous of Contracting with the Agent for Commissariat Supplies, to furnish for Twelve Months, from the 1st of November next, such quantities of Straw for filling Pail- lasses, as may from time to time be required at Barracks and Ordnance Stations in the undermentioned Counties and Islands, may receive par- ticulars of the Contracts, on applying at this office between the hours of Ten and Four; and to the respective Barrack Masters in the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Alderney, and deliver theirTenders at this Office, ( marking thereon " Tender for Straw,") until Twelve o'clock on Tuesday the 9th of October next. Proposals are to be made separately for each County in South Britain, for the whole of the barracks in North Britain, and also for the whole of those in the Three Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Alderney; but no Proposals will be noticed unless made on, or annexed to, a printed Particular, and the prices inserted in words at length; nor unless a subjo' " ' ' ' ' " ; toDi formanc'e of the contract. COUNTIES :— Berks, Brecknock, Chester, Cornwall, Cumberland. Devon, Dorset, Durham, Essex, Hants, Isle of Man, Isle of Wight. Kent, Lancaster, Middlesex, Norfolk, Northumberland, Northampton, Nottingham, Pembroke, Somerset, Suffolk, Surrey, Stafford, Sussex, Worcester, Warwick. Wales— County of Glamorgan, York, North Britain. Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney. HEBDOMADARY. letter be subjoined to such Proposals from a person of known property engaging to become bound with the party tendering for the due per- THE RATIONALE OF HELLS. Day of Mo. Day of We. High Water. Morn. Aftern. Remarkable Events, etc. Sun rises 57 after 5 H. Boerhaave d. 1738 S. Butler died 1680 Dr. Porson d. 1808 St. Cyprian Sheriffs of L. sworn Michaelmas day Sunday Lessons. Hth Sunday after Trinity. Morning: Jerem. 5, Matt. 24 Evening : Jer. 22, I Cor. 8 * tf* A Saturday edition of this Paper, published in time for the Country, may be obtained of all Newsmen on Sunday morn- ing, within 100 miles of London. TH ® T © WW. LONDON: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1832. CHARLES the X., and his household, Embarked al Leith for Hamburgh, on Tuesday, followed by the regrets of the various classes of persons among whom they had resided. Charity, and an unostentatious demeanour, had secured to the Holyrood exiles the esteem of a people who, how- ever sagacious in threading the ways of the world, have, at all times, evinced a generous attention to tbe feelings of fallen greatness. It is melancholy to observe an old man forsaking the retirement suited to physical debility, and mental decrepitude, for the high seas of ambition. They are ill- advisers who have wiled him away from the calm enjoyment of " Monk and missal in the cloister dim." The Duchess of ANGOULEME arrived at Rotterdam on Sunday, the 16th, ami, under the style and title of " Dau- phiness of France," was received with emphatic tokens of respect by the civil and military authorities. The Globe remarks, with admirable simplicity, that " this from the House of ORANGE to that of BOURBON, is at least a curiosity." Curious, it certainly is, but perfectly explica- ble, by means of the exposition of the ANGOULEME intrigue, which we gave last week. Other " curiosities," of a simi- lar character, are in course of preparation. Without troubling our readers with a fatiguing chapter of specious common- places, we shall concisely describe the present position of the leading members of the com- munity of European States. France, under the government of the Citizen Kin: who dispenses with a Ministry, has insurrection in the west, and discontent every where. The friends of the Duke of ANGOULEME, of the Duke of BORDEAUX, of the ex- King pf Spain, and of young Louis BONAPARTE— besides, the pure Republicans— all speculate upon the Throne of Louis PHILIP as on a certain and speedy vacancy. Belgium and Holland remain in their old position, drill- ing recruits, exchanging pasquinades, and deriding protocols. King LEOPOLD'S cabinet is in nearly the same destitute condition as his father- in- law's. His Dutch Ma- jesty has declined proceeding on the modifications of the Treaty of November 15th, lately transmitted to the Hague, by the President of the Conference. Don MIGUEL is still sovereign, de facto, of Portugal, with the exception of Oporto, which Don PEDRO is en- deavouring to render impregnable. The agents of the latter are employed in forwarding to his aid men aud the munitions of war. FERDINAND of Spain, renowned for quilting petticoats On Saturday se'nnight there was a grand dinner at Tor- quay, the report of which only contrived to travel up to town on Thursday ; they manage these tilings consider- ately in the west. The dinner, whose speeches thus crept to Loudon at the rate of fourteen miles in fifteen hours, was distinguished by a circumstance, which wc should not stand excused were we not to put it down among the me- morabilia ot the week— a declaration in favour of the ballot by Lord JOHN RUSSELL. Lord JOHN is a member of the Cabinet, be it remembered, and an influential one ; he stands high, very high, with a most numerous and power- ful division of the community, the Dissenters, for his labours in the Test Act repeal; he has a strong interest with all classes and denominations of Reformers for his labours in the Reform Bill; and here he is declaring for a measure which a few years ago was accounted one of the wildest of the dreams of radicalism. True, Lord JOHN utters the declaration in his habi- tual exceptive style, and with that appearance of dubitation, which make him seem lo superficial ob- servers somewhat wavering and uncertain. This was to be expectcd. Men who govern the State must make it a rule never to speak decidedly on anything. A Cabinet Minister should not affirm that he has a nose on his face without due qualification. True, also, Lord JOHN prefixes his declaration with that great peace- maker, an " if." If the landlords force their tenants to vote against their conscience— if the power given to them by the Marquis of CHANDOS'S clause be abused. But though " two ifs scarce make one possibility," under ordinary circumstances, we rather opine that Lord JOHN'S two are a deviation from the poet's rule. We rather opine, that it is matter of notoriety that the Marquis of CHANDOS'S clause was foisted into the bill with the sole purpose of enabling landlords to force the consciences of their te- nants, provided they had any consciences; and that the clause has been used, is being used, and will continue to be used, for that and for no other purpose. There is another qualification in Lord JOHN'S declara- tion, which may be quite as readily disposed of— he is of opinion that the ballot question has never been fairly ar- gued, which may serve as an excuse for his somewhat late conversion to it. Now, we admit that the ballot question has never been fairly argued, if by fair argument be meant argument on both sides. We are not, indeed, aware that anything approaching to argument, even in form, has ever been adduced by its opponents. Some most incredible nonsense was once put into the mouth of Lord BROUGHAM by the reporters, about a man's life being one entire fib ( ice use the genteel word) if he did that once in seven years, for the highest of moral purposes— to serve his country and save his soul alive— which gentlemen jockeys and jockey gentlemen do without fibbing, or the suspicion of it, every week in the year, in order to admit or exclude a fellow from WHITE'S or BROOKES'S. But we cannot so violate our respcct for common sense as lo call the im- puted objection of Lord BROUGHAM argument. Again, wc perceived the reporters performing a similar disservice by Lord Advocate JEFFREY, in one of his cir- cumforaneous speeches. That Learned Lord, also, was described as declaring that he must oppose ballot, becausc of its tendency to degrade an elector, and because it would not ensure secrecy if we bad it. And his Lordship's worn- out objection, we recollect, was set down as conclu- sive, by " twa Scots ells" of editorial humanity in the great city of Modern Athens, with most ludicrous complaccncy. Conclusive it certainly was of his Lordship's ignorance of the question, or rather, we hope, of the ignorance of his Lordship's reporter. Barring these two objections, we are not aware that any aristocratic attempt has been made to impugn ballot. Of the democratic argument, namely, that ballot will protect the elector from the non- elector, we presume Lord JOHN is not greatly afraid. Confidently, therefore, do we look forward at an early day of the next session for a bill com- mencing with a '• Whereas, for the purpose of preserving entire the freedom of election, it is necessary that tho voting should be secret." And heartily do w e congratu- late the country and Lord JOHN on the light which is breaking upon the latter, and which, by the time the elec- tions are over, we venture to prophecy without an if, will have shone more and more unto a perfect day. In the dailies of Thursday we noticed this strange announce- ment—" Robbery of a Hell 1" A profane companion— for how can the head of THE TOWN, any more than the members, avoid all such— on hearing the mysterious heading, more wittily than wisely remarked, that the thieves who effected such a rob- bery must have been devilish clever. On looking more minutely into the details of the awful announcement, we discovered, much to our re- assurance, that the mansion, the goods and chattels of which had suffered violence, was not that place of terror whose very name must not be whispered to ears polite, but only a humble imitation of it, established by one of the underlings of Mammon, who, having, during those wars which Milton so elo- quently describes, been convicted of making rather free with the military chest, was, as is well known, banished to the earth, where he has since acted as the presiding spirit of stock- brokers, Jew clothesmen, army commissaries, and, last not least, the owners of those abodes of evil name, the plundering of which we are considering. We shall not here enter into the particulars of the police re- port, nor of the riot in the Quadrant, that called for the Magis- terial intervention. It must have been a terrible one. Men are accustomed, when they would describe the maximum of con- fusion and violence, to denominate it a hell broke loose ; but in the Quadrant row, No. 60 was conjoined with No. 64 ; there were two of them. We turn, however, from the contemplation of the robbery to one moment's contemplation of the law which seems amply to justify the despoiling of a gaming house, when it sets it down as a nuisance which requires abating, for, truly, if robbing'the bank abate it not, we know no process that will. We neither defend nor impugn gaming as a moral question. We cannot see, we confess, any more sin in spending time play- ing with bits of painted paper, than playing with bits of painted ivory, with a rubber than a rondo. Of the idlesse that speaketh, and the idlesse that speaketh not, we should rather incline mo- rally to prefer the latter— the example is not so striking. If we are hard pressed, however, we are not prepared for an ob- stinate defence of any thing save truth and wisdom. But what we would fain learn is, the ground of that distinction between the gaming of him that rides in a coach, and the gaming of him that walks a foot; of him that sets his rouleau, and him that sets his crown; which renders the first permitted, if not praised, and the second a nuisance. " Blessed are the poor, for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven," says an authority which we feel, on such an occasion, we ought almost to apologise for quoting, and truly, if a reverend care of the conduct of the poor while here is to have any practical effect on their condition hereafter, that holy place bids fair to be their inheritance, and only theirs. Let my Lord lose his thousand, no one dreams of caging him, or denouncing his haunts ; let Tom, the man, squander his so- vereign, and all tongues are lifted up and all hands are stretched forth to pluck the brand from the burning, and, for the further saving of the poor sinner, Police and Magistrates, fines and tread- mill, are all too little. Why should tlie rich have their Hell— we speak of things earthly, though with reverence, for the word is an ominous one— more than the poor ? Why should not every man be free to do as he likes with his own ? If men will be persuaded to read the Penny Magazine well; if they will be persuaded to read THE TOWN better ; but, if their heavy spirits require to be excited by something that speaks to the grosser senses, surely cribbage is as moral as gin, and all- fours is not inferior in intellectuality to half- and- half. Men game because their time hangs heavy on their hands, because their minds are unoccupied, ' tis an expedient for getting rid of that " whoreson tingling" to which we are all, now and then, subject. The remedy lies with the schoolmaster, rather than with the Justice of the Peace. Our well- meant, but bungling, laws, only convert gaming- houses into flash- houses, lead to loading of dice and packing of cards, and, while they strive to put down an imaginary grievance, create a real evil. TORY ADDRESSES; OR, AN AMOROUS CONSERVATIVE AND JOHN BULL. What, I, Johnny 1 11— though the Treasury granted My aunts and fair cousins some thousands or so— No doubt to resign them, should e'er they be wanted— I— Anti- reformer 1— O no, my John 1 No 1 What, I, Johnny 1 I !— though I clamoured in chorus The " damnable bill" with Peel, Suggy, and Co., And bothered the Whigs for their marching before us— I— Anti- reformer 1— O no, my John 1 No 1 What, I, Johnny, 11— who, averse to deception, And sick of the sorry state- botchers below, Sent off to the moon for a bill sans exception— I— Anti- reformer I— O no, my John 1 No 1 Round his neck, in conservative innocence smiling, I'll cUng, lest poor John to the devil should go ; One hug, my old darling !— away with beguiling— I— Anti- reformer 1— O no, my John ! No 1 [ John blubbers— and exit the Conservative, having picked the old gentleman's pocket.] NATIONAL PROPERTY. It is thought by some to be a great point gained, and a mighty concession towards church reform and the extinction of tithes, to have it acknowledged that tithes are the property of the nation. But really, after all, this concession does not amount to much ; for, if we come to that, what property is there in the nation, which is not the property of the nation ? All property that is held, is by law and its protection. There is no property antecedent to law. Destroy the law, and you destroy the pro- perty which the law creates. It is by law that the nobleman holds the large estates which have been handed down to him by his progenitors;— take away that law, and you take away his right to the estates. The nation has power to do what it pleases ; there can be no question of its power. Whatever rights exist, exist by law:— we cannot regulate everything by an abstract and metaphysical right, but all things in a state of society must be ordered according to a legal right. Antecedent to law, might is right; but by law rights are made and defined. Before the reform bill was passed, Old Sarum had a right to send two representatives to Parliament, and Manchester had no right to send any ; but now Old Sarum has no right to send any, and Manchester has a right to send two. While the law of tithes exists, the clergyman has a right to tithes ; take away the law, and you take away his right. To say that the nation can- not do this or cannot do that, is mere moonshine ;— let it try. The question of expediency is everything. It is a very difficult matter to determine what are inalienable rights. A man may have a right to enjoy the fruit of his own labours,— but he would find it a hard task to avail himself even of that right without the assistance of law. The nobility have a right to their titles and estates ; but if the law which gave them that right should cease- to exist, what would become of their rights ? The question, therefore, about tithes and church property is not for- warded by the bare concession that they are national property; expediency is the question, and that alone. EDINBURGH, SEPT. 18.— DEPARTURE OF CHARLES X.— ( From a Correspondent.)— Charles X. and the Duke of Bor- deaux quitted our shores this forenoon in a vessel, which carries them directly to the Continent. The poor old King was seen to shed tears as he left the palace. A great crowd had collected both there and at the chain pier, where he embarked : the Newhaven fishermen, dressed in their best, with white breast- knots, and many respectable people attending with their car- riages. He was loudly and affectionately cheered as he went on board. It was, altogether, an affair of some stir and sensation. ATTWOOD ON COBBETT.—" I find," says Mr. Attwood, in a letter to the Editor of the Morning Chronicle, " I find in Mr. Cobbett's Register a long account of our late debate in Bir- mingham, which account contains scarcely one single line of truth from the beginning to the end I 1" FORGET AND FORGIVE.— The Carlisle Journal acquaints its readers, that " the Lord Chancellor has honoured the Earl of Lonsdale with his company to dinner, and that the utmost cor- diality now prevails between the two peers." Why should not English gentlemen relieve the discord of politics by the concord of good- fellowship? He must be a sad representative of the character who is perpetually masticating the dry Parliamentary biscuit. ABDUCTION OF AN EX- SOVEREIGN.— The ex- Duke of Bruns- wick, who chose our friend Tattersall as his second when he invited Count Munster to the field, ( intending, we suppose, to do battle in the fashion of the Knights of yore), has been recently carried off in the arms of the poUce, nolens volens, from his hotel in Paris, towards the English coast. Fallen greatness has dis- charged its resentment publicly in a protest, and privately in an outpouring of Teutonic blasphemies. In these irreverent day: people think nothing of playing at chuck- farthing with Princes. THE FRENCH PRESS.— The apprehensions of Louis Philippe' Government, shown in continual prosecutions of the Press, have led to the formation of a political association in Paris, the objects of which are— 1. To endeavour to obtain the repeal of all taxes which are paid by newspapers. 2. To repeal laws which impede the appearance of journals. 3. To defend the news- papers attacked. 4. To pay their fines when fined unjustly. And 5. To support, by pensions and other allowances, the mem- bers of the press who may become poor.-— The last is a beggarly idea, disgusting to any man of independent spirit. The press is a precarious employment, and its members ought to institute a fund for the common benefit; but they have no more valid pre- tensions to eleemosynary allowances than the least necessitous among the titled ornaments of the Pension List. RAIL- ROADS IN FRANCE.— The rail- roads appear calculated to exercise a great influence over the progress of civilization and in- dustry. So great an agent in the prosperity of the country ought not to he neglected by the Government; at the same time that caution should be used with regard to these vast operations; and the Administration should not enter upon such a career without having before- liand considered its probable consequences. Prudence would here suggest two impoitant considerations— one as to the maximum of the expense, and the other as to the minimum of pro- ductions which might be reckoned upon. Having duly weighed these two points, they should give encouragement to'companies and the spirit of association generally, which alone can accomplish these great enterprises. The State need not take tbe works upon itself; the weight of the undertakings may be left to private interests. A committee of engineers have already received orders to prepare a general plan of rail- road, which, branching from the capital, should form lines of communication with Kouen and Havre— Lille, with a branch to Calais, Dunkirk, and Valenciennes— Strasburg, with a branch to Metz— Lyons and Marseilles, with a branch to Grenoble, Bordeaux, Tours, and Nantes. When the plan shall be finished, the different parts of which it will be composed will be distributed among the engineers of the departments through which the lines are to pass. WINCHESTER, SEPT. 21. ( From a Correspondent.) The following Inquests have been taken by Mr. Todd during the present week.— At Troxfield, on the body of William White, a respectable farmer, who hung himself in an out- house, near his residence, having for some time laboured under evident derange- ment of mind. Vcrdict— Insanity. At Veruham's Dean, near Andover, on the body of William Hicks, a poor boy, aged about fourteen years, who was found dead in his bed, after a very short illness ; during which he re- ceived no medical assistance. He had for several months been afflicted with a humour on his right shoulder, which recently as- sumed tbe appearance of an abscess, and burst a few days before his death. The friends of the deceased expressed no desire for any inquiry, but the parish officers thought it prudent to com- municate the circumstances to the Coroner; who considered them so peculiar, that he immediately summoned a Jury for their investigation, and directed a Surgeon to open and examine the body. By his testimony it appeared that the deceased was in every respect healthy, except the abscess on his shoulder, which was the sole cause of his death: and there being strong reason to suspect, from the boy's own declarations, that the hu- mour originally formed there was caused by a thrashing he re ceived from a carter by tbe name of George Lavey, at Oxenham farm, in the parish of Shalbourne, about twenty- two weeks ago, the Inquest was adjourned for the purpose of collecting further evidence. The Jury met again on Wednesday last, and ascer- tained, from tbe admissions of Lavey himself made to several persons, and by other proof, that he did severely beat the deceased with the broken handle of a cart- whip, about a fortnight before Lady- day ; leaving deep traces of his violence on the poor boy's shoulder, which soon after began to swell, forming, by slow de- grees, the abscess which terminated in his death. After an in- vestigation of eleven hours, the Jury returned a verdict of Man- slaughter against George Lavey, who was immediately committed to Winchester gaol for trial at the next assizes. On Monday last, Dr. Chard was elected Mayor of this city, and Mr. Garbett and Mr. W. Shenton, Bailiffs. On Thursday last this city was lit with gas for the first time ; and at West Gate, the entrance of this city, the proprietor of the works exhibited a crown and two stars, which had a very grand effect, and presented a very gay appearance to the gazing throng. PROVISION FOR THE UNEMPLOYED POOR.— Lord Dunglas, son of the Earl of Home, is Keeper of Ettrick Forest, with a salary of 300?. per annum. As the revenue produced by the forest, however, amounts only to 260/. his commission bears that the additional 40/., to make up 300/., shall be charged on the lordship of Dunbar. His Lordship therefore receives 300/. per annum for being steward of an estate which yields 260/. Scots- man.—[ Lord Dunglas was an Under- Secretary during the late Administration. The rent- roll of the Earldom of Home may probably amount to 150/. a- year, so that the case of the Ex- Sub- Secretary was really a hard one.] OLD WOMANISH FEARS.— The imbecile miniature despot the Duke of Modena, refuses to admit into his presence any ladies, having dreamed that he was assassinated by a woman. THREE AT A FEAST.— Venison dinners at this season of the year have long prevailed in Wiltshire, and it was usual for the most influential gentlemen of the county to honour the haunch by their presence. It appears that this savoury custom is about to become obsolete, for at the feast held at the Bear Inn, De- vizes, on Wednesday week, though a most sumptuous dinner was provided, only three persons, viz. Sir J. D. Astley, Bart. M. P. Paul Methuen, Esq., and Wadliam Locke, Esq. gave it hospi- table countenance. While we are happy to record the names of these " ultimi Romanorum" we grieve that we have not the fervour of Friar Tuck, and the wit of Falstaff, that we might salt the tasteless gentry of Wilts to the satisfaction of all ortho- dox gotirmands. September 23. THE TOW*, 309 THE MUSIC OF THE STREETS. The antients used to talk about the music of the spheres, which nobody ever heard, because it was everlastingly heard by everybody. We hear it now, but are as insensible to the sound as we are to the motion of the earth: if the earth were suddenly to stand still, we should feel its motion with a vengeance, and away we should fly off in a tangent, like drops of water from a trundled mop :— so, should the music of the spheres suddenly cease, we should be stunned by the horrid silence. In like man- ner, in so great a city as London, there is a perpetual sounding, formed by multitudinous voices, squallings, roarings, mutterings, moanings, groanings, gigglings, clatterings, rattlings, mumblings, grumblings, whizzings, thumpings, bumpings, grindings, cum multis aliis, which compose what may be called the music of the streets. Street music is a part of it, though a very inconsider- able part. All the carts, coaches, cabriolets, drays, omnibuses, barrel- organs, fish- women, knife- grinders, boys and girls, dust- men, and other manufacturers of out- door noises, form a perpe- tual din, which is distracting to the auricular organs of one un- accustomed to it, but which pours into the ears of a settled in- habitant of cities, a gentle current of habitual harmony, by which his general apprehension of music is modulated and ruled. He who lives in London lives iu a perpetual oratorio ; vocal and instrumental music are keeping his auricular faculties iu constant exercise. As all nature is full of poetry and full of painting, so all nature is full of music, especially London nature, which abounds, peradventure, more in music than in poetry, though by no means lacking poetry. The music of the streets differs from the music of the spheres, inas- much as it is different at different parts of the day, at different times of the year, and in different ages of the world. Night itself is not silent— there is the occasional squealing of a noctur- nal row, the solitary rumblings of a hackney- coach or two, and not unfrequently the more elaborate melody of the many rattling carriages of the frequenters of routs and such like midnight work. Wordsworth was not quite correct when he said in his sonnet, composed on Westminster- bridge at five o'clock in the morning, " And all this mighty heart is lying still." For " all this mighty heart" never does lie still. More or less its pulsations are continually heard, the music of its life is always sounding. If the poet had pricked up his ears, even at that comparatively still hour, he might have heard some gentle music of the mighty heart. But as day proceeds, the music rises, and swells to a mighty chorus of multitudinous sounds, finer far than all that Nebuchadnezzar could muster by the in- strumentality of harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all sorts of instruments. A well- disciplined London ear can tell what time of day it is by means of the music of the streets, as well as a shepherd knows the time of the day by the place of the sun in the heavens. And as the time of day may be known by the music of the streets, so may the time of year. Every month lias a music of its own. The sound of London is not the same in August as it is in April; and there is a mighty difference be- tween the melody of Christmas- day and Midsummer- day. What a marvellous difference also there is between the music of the streets on Sunday and on other days of the week. The abstrac- tion of cart- wheels, the absence of all cries but milk or mackerel, the numberless gigs and other holiday vehicles, make the music of the streets on Sundays far different from their sound on other days. But if there be diversities of sound from day to day, and from one part of the year to another, great also must be the change from one age to another. If our metropolitan ancestors, who have been buried for two or three hundred years, should rise now from their graves in possession of their faculties of seeing and hearing, astonished as they might be by the altered appearance of the great city, they would be still more astonished at the alteration that has taken place in the music of the streets. The different construction of carriages, the more rapid move- ment of them, the improved pavement of the streets, the multi- plication of vehicles of all descriptions, have produced a change in this music which is more easily conceived than expressed. Even of late days, any one who has given the slightest attention to the topic, must have discerned how great an alteration has been produced by the introduction of omnibuses. And when steam carriages shall have become all the rage, how much greater will be the change produced in the music of the streets ! HAWKS ABROAD.— It has been announced by a letter from Cheltenham, that the Duke and Duchess of St. Alban's left that town very suddenly, on Sunday, in consequence of his Grace having " received a dispatch fr om the King commanding his at- tendance at Windsor, where Cumberland Lodge is to be fitted up for his Grace and suite, as Grand Falconer of England. His Grace was commanded to bring his hawks with him to Windsor, to be exhibited at an entertainment. It turned out, however, that the Grand Falconer was not in possession of any hawks. Inquiries were made for some in Cheltenham, but without suc- cess, and the metropolis was considered the most likely place to procure them."—[ We do not know whether the Ducal lands are held ou the principle of the German Habichtslehnen ( hawk tenures) ; but if they be, his Grace should be shorn of his acres for this gross neglect of the duties he bound himself to perform at the Coronation. Anxious, however, to promote the amuse- ments of our Sovereign, we would suggest to the Hereditary Grand Falconer, that as, contrary to expectation, there are no hawks to be had at the fashionable watering- place he has recently quitted, he could not do better than plant his lures on the North Road for " the tassels- gentle" on wing from Doncaster. If he wish to procure a few casts without much trouble, lie can- not fail to find some choice birds, ready trained, and hooded, within the purliens of St. James's.] MOVEMENT IN THE CHURCH.— A memorial has been trans- mitted to the Bishop of Durham, signed by thirty- seven North umbrian Clergy, protesting against pluralities, and recommend- ing a more equitable distribution of the ecclesiastical revenues. Another memorial, subscribed by forty- seven of the Clergy of the same diocese, has been presented to the King, praying his Majesty to " restore to the Church of England its convocation in an active and efficient form, so as to afford a full and fair re- presentation of the sentiments of the Clergy." QUERY FOB THE BAR.— The Irish insurgents are levying money by force, for the purpose of procuring legal assistance for their incarcerated brethren at the Assizes. A Galway paper suggests that a favourite Lawyer of the Terry Alts should be searched by the police for notes thus plundered ; and asks " If a Counsellor, on whom stolen notes of this kind were found, could be prosecuted for the offence ?" ( From a Correspondent.)— On Thursday last, a respectable Commercial traveller, making his usual visit to Grantham, and going round his customers, the " Town" was popped into his hands on all sides. He also visited several of the Inns where the same compliment was paid him, " D— m the " Town," said the man of samples, " instead of orders from the Town, I see nothing but its paper go where I will." ECONOMICAL PROPOSAL. The present law of copyright imposes a severe, cruel, and un- equal tax on authors and publishers, but as the world is marvel- lously tenacious of vested rights, it may be also as tenacious of vested wrongs, and so not be willing to give up the old system altogether unless some other be found nearly, if not quite as bad. Now, we have a proposal to submit to the legislature and the public, whereby the public libraries will be more abundantly filled than they are at present, and whereby, also, authors and publishers will not only suffer less inconvenience, but will abso- lutely be greatly benefitted. Herein is the perfection of legis_ lative sagacity, to make an alteration that shall be a benefit to both parties. Our plan is simply this— instead of making it im- perative that eleven copies shall be given to the libraries in the first instance, they shall wait, and have, after a certain period) all the unsold copies. Remainders are terrible nuisances to pub- lishers— they would be glad to get rid of them— they are afraid tc burn them— and modest authors do not wish to have their works ostentatiously pasted on trunks and band - boxes. If all the copies, therefore, which are not sold in a given time were to be declared forfeit to the public libraries, these libraries would be much more amply filled than they now are, publishers would get rid of remainders, and authors would be spared the mortifi- cation of seeing nine- tenths of their works converted into waste paper. Moreover, this plan would be very beneficial to archi- tects, inasmuch as there would be a frequent necessity of en- larging the buildings in which the books are deposited. SL1P- SLOP- IANA. The other day I witnessed a fight in Islington- fields, in which one of the combatants was so often knocked down that at length he wa3 knocked up. Quere :— Must not this have been an Irish whack ? My aunt, who was with me at the time, and no- ticed the fight, observed, that she was very sanguinary in her expectations that it would end without bloodshed. In the course of our walk she described to me having called upon an old acquaintance who had settled in the outskirts of the town, and that she found her seated in a charming room near a win- dow, indolent with the perfume of jessamine and clematis, which stole in with agreeable confusion ; that it was the sweetest apart- ment I so richly furdished! and the mantel- piece loaded with Derbyshire putrefactions. The good soul is enviably excursive and desultory in her topics for conversation: so darting off at a tangent, she desired to know why there were those continual collusions in the daily papers to our " foreign relations." " I am at a loss," said she, " to know whether I have any; but supposing I have, what are they to me ? My relations in this country are quite sufficient to engross my care, and I imagine every person would think with me— especially in the distressed state of the country." The oath of a donkey- man now changed again the current of her speculations. She observed, that it was of no use punishing those poor alliterate creatures, taking their money from them for swearing, when it was thought nothing of in the great peo- ple. " Now it was but the other day," said she, " that there was a regular denouncement in the papers of ' swearing' in the sheriffs; and of the Lord Mayor too, who perhaps a few hours afterwards would fine a common man five shillings for the same offence. But I am shocked to say that I have read even of ' swearing' in the Judges of the land. I am not so much sur- prised, however, to hear of ' swearing' in constables and such disingenuous people, for nothing better could be expected of them." Speaking of my grandfather, who, she said, though a remark- ably fat man, was an excellent runner, yet that he once fell down not- with- standing, and immediately got up never- the- fes « . Upon this occasion I nearly forfeited her esteem and partiality; when she spoke of his having lived in " great style," by in- quiring whether it was in Great- Turn- Style. While I was waiting for her in a cliymist's shop, where she wanted to purchase some inestimable nostrum or other, I heard a girl ask for some " aromatic pustules," for burning after din- ner to sweeten the room. And, in a breath, the same type of the " winged messenger," ( in speed and eloquence both) desired to have a " diagonal plaster, and that it was to be cut round." This last word, by the way, reminds me of an Irish servant girl who was told to bring up some coals, and to " let them be all round." She was thought to be an unconscionable time fulfil- ling so simple an errand; and to every summons the answer being uniformly that she was coming as soon as she could, one of the family set forth to discover the cause of the delay, when squat he found her upon the cellar stairs, chipping away at the corners of some uncouth cubes, fulfilling with obtuse fidelity the command she had received, to " let them be all round." On Friday, John Pemberton, Esq., was returned unanimously as Mayor of Hertford for the ensuing year. EDITORIAL MANIFESTO.— The Editor of the Glasgow Free Press pelts his correspondents with this " pitiless storm" of metaphor:—" It is fortunate for Newspaper Editors, that at present nothing is stirring to demand from them much public dissertation ; for such is the press of matter arising from Jubi- lee Processions and Electioneering, that, even though masters and pilots of our own vessel, we can scarcely obtain sufficient room merely to stand at the helm, and silently overlook the movements. While the political world remains calm, we have no objections to be thus hustled about, and kept, as it were, out of sight; but we warn those to whom we are just now so ac- commodating, that, whenever the winds rise and the waves begin to dash we shall insist on again stepping forward in all proper importance, and making our editorial voice be heard above all the noise that may surround us /"—[ We recommend the passen- gers to take to night- caps and brandy, and leave the skipper- steersman to assume " all proper importance," and pitch his pipes against Boreas, as long as he likes.] BRIGHTON AND LITERATURE.— There exists in Brighton no institution or association whatever of a literary nature— a proof that the frequenters of watering places are ' not thirsting after knowledge. WIT OF THE HERALD.— The Duchess of Coigny, mother- in- law of General Sebastiani, died a few days ago. It is said that gold to the amount of 500,000f. was found in her apartment.— Who ( inquires the Morning Herald) will say, after the coin left by Madame Coiny, that there's nothing in a name ? WE WISH HIM LUCK.— An Irish paper states that the shop of Mr. Douglas, of Killenaule, apothecary, and Member of the Board of Health, has been entered and robbed of physic, pestle and mortar 1— The fame of this eccentric son of Hermes must remain sub nube, as he may have either pillaged the poison- shop to protect his fellow- creatures from the apothecary, or to " do the trick" himself. Had he purloined the gallows his motives would have been less equivocal. LETTER WRITING. There are some persons in this great round world of ours who declare letter- writing to be one of the most unendurable evils of the social system— they are glad enough to see you, say they, and happy to hear from you at " the earliest opportunity ;" but as for their writing to you, you really must excuse them— pen and ink work has always been their utter abhorrence— they are the worst correspondents in the world. Some, on the other hand, are never content but when they are scribbling. Notes of all sizes and shapes— square, rhomboidal, three- cornered, and cock- and- pinched, are constantly issuing from their escrutoir; and to be on terms of intimacy with such, costs one a quire of Bath- post weekly. There is yet another class— God bless ' em ! — who declare that " they have no antipathy to writing, but really they never know how to begin." The worst of it is that these geniuses, when once set a- going, know as little how to end, and harass yon to the death with interminable nothingness. Such gentry have a mortal aversion to the initiatory I. But, of all letter- writers, aud of all letter- writers that ever came within the scope of our observation, there is nothing in this world to come up to the women. They have as great a volubility on paper as in a tSte- a- t£ te ; they write, write, write— first horizontally, then perpendicularly, then diagonally, then under the folds, then a little bit, very, very small, wherever a gap of an inch may appear— they don't even leave room for the seal! and then the neatness of their pretty pothooks, if, indeed, those may be called hooks, which rival the needle in sharpness; and the ease with which one makes out the seemingly- impossible- to- be unravelled labyrinth of letters I Without this neatness, indeed, the whole concern would be a failure ; for we once tried the experiment ourselves— we only attempted a double letter, but had not got half across the first page before we found the words run so terribly into one another, that we were obliged to write all over again. A whole page of excuses, with which our epistle commenced, was rendered completely nugatory. But only think of the pen- mending the pretty little dears must undergo ! if, indeed, they are able to perform this operation for themselves ; and if not, what cross looks and impertinent remarks they must have to encounter from their grumpy papas or grumpier bro- thers ! " They can't think," say these gentlemen, " whatthey want so many pens for ; for their part, they never use more than one a letter, and positively these seem so good already, that, ' pon their souls, they don't know how to make them better 1" Another extraordinary feature of feminine epistolating is, that the last postscript— and there are generally many of these " more last words"— is as neatly delineated as the first line of the letter. This is not the case with gentlemen's communications : be their attachment ever so great, be their wit ever so sprightly, there will always be found a falling off towards the end of the sheet. Not a falling off in kindness— for they are equally your affec- tionate friends at the bottom of the third page as at the begin- ning of the first— but a defalcation in the penmanship. How- ever exquisitely they may have written the first three or four paragraphs, as soon as you turn over a new leaf, there is a manifest hurry- skurry look about the words, the running- hand breaks into a hand gallop, and towards the end it is just as much as you can do to make out what your correspondent would be at. However anxious a man may be to make his friend believe that writing to him is one of the pleasantest occupations of his life, his letter will never fail to let out the secret, that he is deuced anxious to get to the end. Of course we except all love matters, with which, being old bachelors, we have no concern. Our schoolday letters ! What a charm is ever about them ! I do not mean to say that schooldays themselves ire re altogether so charming as some people would make them appear; but schoolday letters deeply so 1 How, indeed, could they be other- wise, when the topic was such a delightful one— the vacation. I do not know what the custom may be in other schools, but in ours we never wrote letters but once a year, and that was about three weeks before the Christmas holydays, to our dear fathers and mothers, on which occasion we took up our pens with plea- sure, to inform them that the Christmas vacation would com- mence on the 18th inst. when we hoped to find them in good health, as it left us at present; add to which, we promised our- selves much amusement from the healthful recreation of skating ( which we generally used to spell wrong), and hoped our dear papa and mamma would find us considerably improved in our Latin, Greek, arithmetic, and use of the globes. Then, our out- of- school letters to one another when we began to get a smattering of philosophy, so to say, and deemed learning to be polysyllabic ! Every body, I helieve, has read the Pugsley Papers, in Mr. Hood's last " Comic Annual;" everybody must recollect the admirable letter from Miss Anastasia Pugsley to her dearest friend, Miss Jemima Moggridge. That is the very beau ideal of this class— substituting, of course, sentiment for philo- sophy— and one of the most amusing satires that the pen of humour ever produced. But it is only a beau ideal; mind, we do not wish to disparage it— the gods forbid! but we again say, it is only a beau ideal, not the genuine, bona fide production of a real hobbledehoy: it has never been popped into a real post- office j it has never been locked up in a real mail- bag, and guarded by a genuine blunderbuss. But we have got one that was, written by a dear friend of our own, to our own dear self, and the original manuscript preserved to the present day ( good- ness knows how 1) lying, at this very moment, on the desk at which we are writing. This friend was about our own age ; we had been school- fellows, and he was now studying medicine in that bustling sea- port, Liverpool. We were both astronomers, bless the mark ! I was numismatical; and eternal friendship had been sworn be- tween lis. The letter will explain the rest. Liverpool, Jan. 14,18— " MY DEAR . As one day has only intervened between the reception of your letter and transmission of mine, it has not permitted me a sufficient interval to execute your demands ; however, having gained a more satisfactory account of the medals, coins, & c. that you wish me to procure for you, you may rely upon my fidelity in transmitting them in a short period ; yet you must be well aware of the uncertainty of procuring those coins which you so much particularize ; however, as I consider it a duty incumbent on a friend to interest himself, be assured I will endeavour to prove myself worthy of being thought one, and my efforts, shall be indefatigable in transnitting you coins worthy of your inspection. " I shall not most assuredly visit my native and beloved city this Christmas; many impediments will be ready to arise, obstruct, and prohibit any futile endeavours which I might be inclined to ! make, consequently I am obliged to sustain this great disappoint- ment with becoming fortitude, and console those pleasing sen- sations of seeing you last July ( and which sensations, whenever they have arisen in my breast, have accelerated the fluids, strung my nerves, and imparted to my whole system preternatural strength) with the certitude of visiting you the subsequent summer. " I am of opinion that the predicted comet will be an invisible one; there are as yet no signs of its approximation towards our system, with exception to the verdant vernal appearance of the country; yet I am dubitable as to whether any dependence, as far as my impotent abilities will allow me to judge, is to be placed upon such a sign, although I know some astronomers are of a different opinion. " No skating will be allowed you this year, for Hyems ap- parently has usurped the place of the fair goddess Spring, and excluded from us his potent influence in the congelation of fluids, & c. and rejected from about his shoulders his snowy mantle. Terra must have strayed out of his orbit into tjhat of Venus, for it has been confidently asserted that he has approached nearer to some stars than ever was known anterior to this period. « * * * # *. * " We had last Sunday about one hundred and twenty ships relinquished the docks to go to different parts of the globe, and a very imposing effect they had, the wind not being in a favour- able point for some time before." ** » » **# The writer of this letter turned out to be a very clever man ; and to this day, I flatter myself, we are as good friends as ever. If he should chance to see and recognize his letter ( which is not very probable, considering the distance of time at which it was written), he will know how to appreciate the motive which has given it publicity. At all events, after reading this postscript, he will not be inclined, we think, to exhibit any very great degree of hostility towards us ; but if he should— if he should take it into his head to send us a threatening letter in consequence of the disclosure, we can tell him one thing— we will expose him " in town, out of town, and all the world over." THE PLAY- GOER. STRAND THEATRE. We looked into this theatre the other evening to see what ver- sion it would give us of the Hunchback, and are glad to say, that what we saw was really creditable to the taste and ability of the company, and likely to reward it, so far as a reputation for cor- rectness goes. We found it beginning, however, at an hour so preposterously late, that to sit out more than its first two acts was, in our " critical state," a thing impossible. We regretted this, for we wished to see more of Mr. Elton. Except for a very short time, on two several occasions, and both under cir- cumstances of great disadvantage, we had never seen this gentle- man, and are free to confess, that we did not then think very highly of his powers. What we saw of his acting the other night in Master Walter has greatly altered our opinion. It was very natural and powerful, and far beyond Mr. Farren, both in conception and execution. He has some vicious peculiarities of manner, which we would gladly see away— such as a mincing action of the hand, and an inordinate twisting of the mouth, somewhat after the fashion of the late Mr. Young— with a ten- dency at times to abrupt misgivings iu his delivery. Then he dresses badly ; but for his hunch, and a very bad bald wig, he might have passed the other night for Hamlet. But these are easily- removed objections, and would vanish, we dare be sworn, with better treatment at the hands of London managers. His beauties are really fine, and masterly, and bespeak him a man of imagination. He has a relish for poetry, as every one felt who heard him describe the beauties and accomplishments of Julia in the speech beginning, " I say a wife, Sir ! can I help you to" —, which comes out of Farren's mouth torn to rags by the sordid harshness of his delivery. The peculiar forte of Mr. Elton lies, however, we should imagine, in the expression of an indignant scorn, with the flashes and outbreaks of passion. His retorts, in the second act, on Clifford, drew down immense ap- plause, and were rendered very complete by the quickly changing familiarity of his tones. It reminded us of the two greatest tragic actcrs of our time, and did not disagreeably remind us of them, for it was not imitation. We promise to keep an eye on Mr. Elton, and return to him again. Mrs. W. West made a very pert, self- willed person of Julia— and her passion is really gross ; it would disgrace one of the porters at Wapping. Mr. Knowles's lines, however, have the soul of beauty in them, which even bad delivery cannot altogether destroy— they cannot be made " huffing, braggart, puff" lines, even by Mrs. West. Their natural grace and heart- felt passion come forcibly on us all, and we give our own sense of truth to them, for they are of the stuff we all " are made of." Mr. Knowles writes with lis impulses and feelings— it is as though his heart held the pen. It is not the head or brain, which alters with different men, and is esteemed differently in different ages, but it is the heart, which changes never. Ir. this he holds a- portion of the divine faculty of Shakspeare, " born only heir to all humanity." In this he lays claim to something of his master's own humane wisdom, and out of it he has given to the world his last noble and elegant play. We trust, that in the toil and excitement of the pro- fession into which lie has now entered, Mr. Knowles will not forget the claim liis age has upon him for the best exercise of his genius. To be both actor and author, he knows well is an honourable thing in the history of letters, which would have contained many blank pages but for the illustrious men who- have united both professions— who have suffered and toiled in the thick of the world, whilst in their closets they treasured up the good that results from suffering, and sent it down to pos- terity in their immortal writings. In how many instances may they not thus have changed their personal wants, and suffering, and privation, into sweet lines of passionate poetry— and by that, their sustaining sense of moral beauty and goodness, converted the mistakes and misfortunes of their time into something wise and good for us, and to live for ever. It is this which reconciles us to the existence of pain, and makes it consistent with our belief in pleasure and all things pleasurable. This it is which must have supported Mr. Knowles through whatever misfortune he may have undergone, and prompted him to use his faculty of writing, not that he might vent spleen or harsh views of humanity, but to the promotion of the sweet wisdom aud philosophy of Shakspeare. He has that within him which must exalt every thing iu which he chances to engage, and will keep him free from the pollution of worldliness. We have no fear of any ill consequence resulting from his engage- ment at Covent- garden, so far as it might have been supposed to interfere with his fame as a dramatic writer. Indeed we rejoice at it— for we think him a genuine actor in a certain style, and that 396 THE TOWJI. September 23. far from an unpleasing one ; and there is spirit, and earnest- ness, and originality in all his conceptions. This, too, we are delighted to observe, has been noticed by the first theatrical critie of Scotland, whose praise appears to be unbounded. We tell Mr. Knowles, therefore, that he must not dream of resting contented with his new fame and his new profession— that the world has a right to demand much of l. im— and that he must bring back our recollections of the immortal " Globe Theatre," and of the humanities of the Mermaid, with its great visitants, actors and authors, its " young- eyed wit,-' and its canary. SADLER'S WELLS. A correspondent invites our attention to the marked improve- ment in the entertainments at this little theatre, under the ma- nagement of Mrs. Fitzwilliam and Mr. W. H. Williams.— Buckstone, who is on the establishment, has brought out a drama called the Little Red Man, which, as the name indicates, abounds in wonderment and diablerie. The management will do well to maintain strict discipline in their ranks, as THE TOWN purposes a sudden visit of observation to the ancient capital of Dibdin. ROYAL AND FASHIONABLE MOVEMENTS. Wednesday his Majesty, attended by Sit A. Barnard, arrived at St. James's from Windsor. The King gave audiences to the Right Hon. Sir S. Canning, recently returned from Constantinople, Baron d'Ompteda, Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Albermarle, and Sir John Cameron. About six his Majesty left town, on his return to Windsor. It is yet uncertain, we understand, whethei their Majesties will arrive here in the last week of October or the first week of Novem- ber. This will depend upon the determination of the King, with respect to the celebration of the Princess Augusta's birth- day, which occurs towards the end of next month. His Majesty has not yet fixed whether tbe birth- day shall be kept at Windsor or Brigh- ton.— Brighton Gazette. The Earl of Plymouth is fo be honoured with a visit by the Duchess of Kent and Princess Victoria, at bis seat, Hewell Grange, • upon the return of their Royal Highnesses from Wales. Sunday tbe. Duchess of Angouleme and Mademoiselle, the daughter of the Duchess of Berry, landed at Rotterdam, and pro- ceeded to the Loo. In consequence of orders from the Court, they were received with marked distinction by the civil and military thorities. The papers are particular in giving the Duchess the title of Dauphiness. On Wednesday the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester left Wind sor, on their return to their residence at Bagshot Park. Her Royal Highness's health, we are happy to state, is considerably improved. CUATWORTH.— Since the Duke of Devonshire's return from Yorkshire to this seal, Lord and Lady Cavendish, Mrs. and Miss Cavendish, Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Beaumont, Capt. Fullerton, Mr. and Mrs. Baring, Mrs. It Arkwright, the Rev. Mr. Sneyd, and other visitors, have arrived there. The Duciiess of Kent, Princess Victoria and suite, are shortly expected at Chatsworth, on a visit to the Duke of Devonshire. The Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells attained his 72d year on Wednesday 12th inst. on which occasion his Lordship entertained a select family party at his palace at Wells. The venerable Earl of Derby completed his 80th year on Tues- day. A grand treat was given at Knowsley. A grand fete and review of the East Kent Yeomanry will take place at Eastwell Park, the seat of the Earl of Winchilsea, in the beginning of next month. The Duke of Wellington will be pre- sent and review tbe troops, of which the Earl of Winchilsea is com- mander. The Noble Duke has been sojourning for some days at Walmer Castle. Sir Charles Wetherell is now the guest of Major General Sir Edward Kerrison, tbe Conservative Member for- Eye ( schedule B), who is also entertaining Lady Bolingbroke, and the Hon. Misses St. John, Sir William and Lady Middleton, and a large party of fashionables, at bis seat, Brome Hall, in Suffolk. Sir Charles Marshall left town on Thursday to embark for Cey- lon, in order to resume his functions as Chief Justice uf that island' THE ELECTIONS. * DEVONSHIRE.— In this county tbe Tories are bitter as worm- wood against Lord John Russell. The Bill " sticks in their throars." His lordship's progress, however, has been like a tri- umphal march; and he has only to cement his union with the people, to set at nought all the " petty enginery'' of exasperated faction. YORKSHIRE.— In the West Riding Lord Morpeth and Mr, Strickland are secure. Mr. B. Thompson a liberal, and Mr. Bethell a moderate Tory, have declared for the East. The North is wooed by Mr. Cayley, Mr. Ramsden, and Mr. Duncomb. The last a Tory, bigotted beyond hope of reformation has little chance. OXFORDSHIRE.— The Marquis of Bute has been tempting the ten- pounders of Banbury by a festival; but the sturdy electors have shown no relish for bis Lordship or his Pye. SCOTLAND. " We stated some time ago," says the Scotsman, " that the conservatives would not be able to return more than eight or ten members out of fifty- three, and our estimate is borne out by the most recent information." EDINBURGH.— The return of the Lord Advocate and Mr, Abercrombie appears certain. Mr. Aytoun, an ultra- radical candidate, like Mr. Hume's Antelope at Bath, gratifies the Tories with hopes of a break in the reforming ranks, through which they may introduce their conservative stick. GLASGOW.— No less than six in the field, of whom the most eligible are Mr. Oswald and Mr. Crawfurd— men of steady prin- ciples and sound business knowledge. Among the absurdities which the unwonted sfir of electioneering has occasioned in this city, is a controversy between an actual candidate, Sir D. K. Sandford, and a probable one, Mr. A. J. Hamilton, as to whe ther the Oxford gownsmen are addicted to stealing hens and ducks I PAISLEY.— The good people of Paisley are so perplexed by political theories, that they feel it difficult to decide about their practise. They are threatened with no less than five aspirants to their choice ; and Cobbett, who is on his way to visit them, will doubtless make a modest addition to the list. PERTHSHIRE.— A vital objection is raised to Sir George Murray, namely, that he is an anti- Reformer— and this objec tion Sir George and his party are extremely solicitous to remove. Hence may be explained the friendly vituperation of the Stand- ard on the assumed heterodoxy of the gallant Baronet, during the last week. How cunning we conservatives are I IRELAND. The Dublin Evening Post states, that " at no period what- ever, in the whole course of our history, will the real electorsbe more numerous, more independent, more completely free agents than they are at present." LOUTH.— Mr. Sheil withdraws from the county to oppose canting Gordon at Dundalk. It is said that the Irish conserva- tives have subscribed 5001, to return Lord Roden's buffalo.— What prodigals they must be I PRODIGIOUS! " AUTOLYCUS.— Here's how a usurer's wife was brought to lied of twenty money- bags at a burden; and how she longed to eat adders' heads and toads carbonadoed. •' MOPSA.— Is it true, think you ? " AUTOLYCUS.— Very true. Here's the midwife's name to't— one Mistress Taleporter— and five or six honest wives that were present. ' Why should I carry lies abroad? Here's another of a fish that ap- peared upon the coast on Wednesday, the fourscore of April, forty thou- sand fathoms above water, and sung a ballad against the hard hearts of maids." WINTER'S TALE. MULTUM IN PARVO.— In a pew in Allington church, Dorset, on the 9th inst., were a great grandfather, great grandmother, grandfather, two grandmothers, three mothers, a father, husband, two wives, two daughters, a grand- daughter, great grandson, grandson, and a son ; the whole comprised in five persons.— Morning Herald. A BEE TRAP.— As the gamekeeper of Lord Selsey, at West Dean, was going his morning rounds to examine his traps for taking vermin, he came to one that had struck. With great caution he made the necessary inspection, and to his astonishment disco- vered, not a solitary captive, but thousands. A swarm of bees had alighted on the trap plate, of sufficient weight to cause their cap- ture.— Portsmouth Herald. A CAKE TRAP.— On Saturday evening a man, named John Wright, of Upham, undertook to eat 7J dozen of halfpenny sweet cakes, and drink three pints of beer, within an hour, for a tri- fling bet, which he accomplished nine minutes within the time, and afterwards drank a gallon more beer, at the Brushmaker's Arms.— Hampshire Chronicle. REQUIRING CONFIRMATION.— The number of persons who presented themselves for Confirmation, during the late tour of the Bishop of Winchester in Hampshire, was far greater than on any former similar occasion, the total amounting to nearly 13,000.— Ibid IMPORTANT TO SNAIL- EATERS.— Snails are considered good and eatable only at two periods of the year, viz., in the autumn, and very early in the spring, just before the frost goes, at which time they are found about the roots of trees. As soon as they begin to crawl they become slimy and are no longer palatable.— Globe. DRAWING THE LONG- BOW.— Mr. Watson, professor of mu- sic from Edinburgh, and who is totally blind, exhibits his skill in playing on four different instruments at once, namely, two violins, a violincello, and the pandean pipes.— Paisley Advertiser. CABBAGE HEADS.— A cabbage stock has been sent to our office to- day, which consists of upwards of sixty distinct heads attached to the parent stem, each forming by itself a pretty size- able cabbage, and supported by a stalk growing out from the ancestral trunk.— Scotsman. DECLARATIONS FOR THE BALLOT. LORD JOHN RUSSELL AT THE TORQUAY DINNER.—" If the landlords or this country should presume upon their power to com pel men to dispose of their votes as mere servants of those landlords, I must tell them, and fairly tell them, that we shall resent it, and that other measures must follow. ( Long and continued cheering.) I myself, gentlemen, am one of those who had always the greatest doubt and hesitation ; and I may state that I have expressed the greatest opposition to adopt the vote by ballot. I am of opinion that that question never has been sufficiently discussed— that its in- conveniences and evils have never been brought sufficiently before the eyes of the people of this country : but great as I apprehend those inconveniences may be ; convinced as I am in my own mind that it is no light matter, and that no slight danger would be en tered on by adopting the vote by ballot; yet, if it come to this, that I must either adopt such a measure, or that I must see the tenantry of England ranged at elections contrary to the wishes and feelings of themselves ( hear, hear)— I should have no hesitation— I should have no doubt— I should renounce my previous opinions, and 1 should at once adopt the vote by ballot. ( Cheers.)" The following gentlemen declared themselves, at the Reform Fes- tival, at Grimsby, on Friday, tbe 14th inst.:—- HON. C. A. PELHAM, M. P.—" If such influence is used— such an influence as is attempted to be exercised in this county— if in this and other counties the honest freeholder is intimidated, and prevented from giving his suffrage agreeably to the dictates of his conscience— if there are those who will be so blind as to endeavour, once more, to bring this country on the eve of a revolution— who will again recur to those practices which we have so recently en- deavoured to repudiate— who will still endeavour to deprive the people of the right of sending their own representatives to the Com- mons House of Parliament— we must have recourse to those means which will protect the honest voter in the exercise of that right with which he is invested by the constitution. ( Loud cheers.) If the ballot be ultimately resorted to, it will be forced upon us, not by the reformers, but by those who are adveirse to the rights and liber- ties of the people. ( Loud cheers.)" SIR W. A. INGILBY, M. P.—" I say at once I do from good ex- perience see the necessity of the ballot. ( Loud and rapturous cheers.) Though none of my friends on the right admire the ballot, and though I may have entertained the same opinion in former times, y'etths longer I live, and the more experience I have of the nature and frailty of the human mind, I cannot shut my eyes to the fact, that if you intend the people to be free, they cannot be so without the ballot. ( Continued cheers.) The experience of the last two or three months has convinced me of the necessity, of the absolute necessity of some such a measure. I will ask you, when aman tenders me all he can give me,— his good will and his best wishes,— and with the same breath informs me that he is tied down by a tyrannical landlord,— I ask you with the greatest possible con- fidence, how that man can vote according to the dictates of bis conscience unless he is protected by the ballot ? ( Lond cheering.)' RIGHT HON. C. TENNYSON, M. P.—" With all deference to those gentlemen who have expressed a contrary opinion,— and I was one of tnose who formerly deprecated the vote by ballot,— my mind has at length opened to the conviction that the only protection for the honest but poor or dependent voter, is the ballot. ( Immense cheering.) When I see the manner in which a system of intimida tion operates throughout this county and elsewhere, I have come, definitively, to this conclusion,— that nothing but the ballot can ef- ficiently protect us. ( Continued cheers.)" MUSIC. In the account of the Gloucester Music Meeting, in the Spectator, ( a paper, by the way, which, besides advocating the cause of good music, is always on the qui vive to give the earliest as well as most satisfactory reports of public performances) a reason is assigned for the non- success of Signor Tamburini, at the Evening Concerts, which we conceive to be illogical. " The Signor's fine singing ( says our Contemporary) was heard with indifference; the applause was complimentary merely, and evi- dently not an involuntary burst of approbation ; while all the coarser or more vulgar features of the concert were hailed with corresponding noise on the part of the audience. The sweetness and purity of Mrs. Knyvett's style were understood and ad mired ; the brilliant execution of Miss Shirreff also met with its due and deserved applause ; and we will do the audience the justice to say, that they appreciated the glees, which were well selected and finely sung ; but of Tamburini they could make nothing. De Begnis has lived long enough in Eng- land to measure the musical capacity, and estimate the musical taste, of most country auditors, and his avowed object is to make them laugh : to this end he sacrifices taste, and sometimes out- rages decorum. Tamburini sang as an accomplished artist, exhibiting the best specimens of his school, and never dreaming that, in order to ensure success, it was necessary to degrade himself into a mere buffoon ; therefore has he failed." In the first place, if " the sweetness and purity of Mrs. Kny- vett's style were understood and admired,'''' and " the coarser and more vulgar features of the concert hailed with correspond- ing noise on the part of the audience ;" this is no compliment either to Mrs. Knyvett or to good music ; moreover, they could scarcely " admire" both, if they " understood" them. We suspect that they did not relish the style of Signor Tamburini's singing. La Blache would have carried them by storm, without being a " buffoon" either. The constant flutter, restlessness, and eternal ornament, in Tambnrini's singing, is excessively wearing. He has an admirable organ, but we cannot feel with the Spectator that he is " an accomplished artist," because he possesses so little variety of style. If Tamburini sang buffo compositions, and did not make a buffoon of himself, there is another ground for his failure : he who expresses the best what he sings, is, we conceive, the best singer. Whether this class of music is calculated for a concert room, is another question : in- deed it appears to us that there would have been quite as much consistency in engaging John Reeve at a musical meeting, to sing one of his mock bravuras, as Mr. De Begnis with his Jack puddingism. We compliment our contemporary on the " round dozen" he has bestowed upon the shoulders of De Begnis for his disgraceful behaviour at Cheltenham, in giving a series of concerts during the previous week of the festival ( which is solely for a charitable purpose) out of pure spite, because the stewards engaged Tam- burini instead of himself, as being both a greater novelty and a finer singer. Now De Begnis has frequently been engaged here at similar musical meetings. Such ungrateful conduct ought to be posted through the country. forms a striking contrast to the preceding, and is managed in a very masterly manner : indeed, the whole of this production, which will require no ordinary skill in the singer and accompa- nyist, is an honour to the musical abilities of the fair composer, who evinces an intellectual energy of a much higher standard than has been supposed to be allotted to her sex. She is an ad- mirable musician, and the piece now before us is worthy of a dis- tinguished professor. The last composition on the list, like the one marked No. 5, is another instance of injudicious adaptation; either the com- poser is ignorant of English, or the adapter of musical accentua- tion. Thus, at page 3, on the phrase, " All the world besides ' ve slighted," the final word can only be pronounced Sli- i- ted." THE THE TOWN. • DUKE YORK'S DEBTS.— The INDECOROUS PLACARD.— The placards of the Strand Theatre exhibit the following strange inscription :—" WHAT are THEY AT, with the A N- GELS, at half- price." Where sleeps the Licenser ? LORD PONSONOY'S SPECIFIC.— Au important article relative to Lord Ponsonby's specific for cure of cholera, shall appear in our next.— Limerick Chronicle. TIGHT LACING.— The female figure, assisted by the present fashion of stays, sleeves, . and petticoats, is assuming a very insect- like form. A bevy of yotMj.' ladies gaily dressed, resembles a clus- ter of dragon- flies. The daughter of a respectable London trades- man died last week of the effect.-* of " tight lacing." On the inquest, the surgeon and jury agreed as io the cause, yet the latter brought in a verdict of " Died by the visitation of God." Ought it not rather to have been died by the " Visitation of Vanity V' NEGLECT OF PARISH OFFICERS.—( From a correspondent).— An old parishioner of St. Mary's Islington lately waited upon the vestry clerk to ascertain whether his name were included in the re gistration, and finding that it was omitted, inquired the cause, when he was answered that his " Christian name had only been written down in pencil."— So that owing to the carelessness, or something worse, of the parochial officials, he stood a chance of losing his franchise, or of undergoing the annoyance, of dancing attendance upon a barrister. SARUM, SEPT. 19.—( From a Correspondent.)— The inhabi- tants of this city were greatly alarmed on Monday last by the death of Mrs. Hunt, occasioned, most of the medical gentlemen said, by cholera, though others expressed a doubt as to the nature of the complaint. A requisition was sent to the Mayor, signed by about half a dozen interested individuals, calling on him to con- vene a meeting for the purpose of establishing a Board of Health. Two meetings were accordingly held, and the result was, a de- cided objection to the measure in question, on the part of all the inhabitants who attended. WHO SHOULD PLAY.— The Marquisof Hertford, who has had a trifle of gambling experience in his day, once admonishing a ven- turous juvenile, said, that only two classes of persons could play with safety; they who possessed an over- whelming capital, and thej who were not worth a sous. 1. RUSCELLETTO. Arietta, Parole del Signor Conte PAGANI- CESSA. Musica del Signor M. VACCAJ— Willis and Co. 2. THE SIGHING WILLOW. Song, the words by Mrs. HEMANS. The music by J. C. CLIFTON— Willis and Co. 3. THE ALPINE QUADRILLES, as danced at Almacks, in Lon- don and Dublin, & c. By J. C. MONTAGUE— Willis and Co. 4. OH WHO RIDES BY NIGHT THRO' THE WOODLANDS so WILB ? Gothe's Ballad, The Earl King— Der Erl Konig ; the poetry translated by Sir WALTER SCOTT ; sung with great applause at Mr. Mori's Concert by Madame Schroder Dev- rient, composed by FRANZ SCHUBERT, of Vienna— Wessel and Co. WHEN WE TWO PARTED. Written by Lord Byron. The music composed, and with permission dedicated to the Right Hon. Lady Cowley, by C. RUDOLPHUS— Wessel and Co. 6. RESTLESS LOYE. Translated by Mr. W. A. SIGMONT. Rastlose Liebe, Gedicht Von Gbthe, in music gesetzt fur Gesang und Piano forte und Herrn Haitzinger, & c. Gewi- donet Von LEOPOLDINE BLAHETKA— Wessel and Co. 7. THE DEAREST SPOT OF EARTH TO ME, from Ackerman's " Forget me not." Written by E. KNIGHT, Esq. The music composed by A. ROECKEL— Wessel and Co. The style of Signor Vaccaj's arietta is much of the same character as the once popular Venetian canzonets. The melody is pleasing (" further this deponent saith not.") It is written in the key of D 6- 8 time. No. 2 in the keyof E 3 flats, consists of 2 movements, the first, an Andante con espressione in common time, and the second, moderato 2- 4. The melody is appropriate to the words ; the harmonies and modulations are musician- like ; and the whole song is creditable to Mr. Clifton's talent and taste. The most attractive quality in the " Alpine Quadrilles" is the title page, which is highly ornamental and graceful. The qua- drilles themselves fulfil their object in creation, as the red- her- ring did to the labourer,—" something to make him drink,"— they are something to set people dancing. The Earl King, we heard Mad. Schroder sing at one of the Societa Armonica concerts last season, and the impression it then produced on us was not favourable. Upon examining the com- position at leisure, our opinion is confirmed. It is written in the ultra German school— very laboured, with a constant strain- ing after effect, and little or no satisfactory result accomplished. One of the effects for instance, among many, occurs at page 11, and, to our years, it is an absolute outrage. The one we mean is, where the G flat, in the vocal part, tomes against the F in the treble of the accompaniment, and the E flat in the bass. The instrumental accompaniment also is excessively tiresome and monotonous, consisting of 11 pages of triplets, without a single bar's relief, saving the last line, which is a recitative. The melody of No. 5, is far more intelligible, natural, and pleasing, than the one just noticed ; yet we suspect that it could not have been written to the words, since the accentuations are frequently wrong, as at page 2 for instance,—" Pale grew thy cheek and colder thy kiss." Again, in the following, at the line " Who knew thee too well," the last word is so adapted that it cannot be sung, unless pronounced " We- he- hell." Remove these objections and the song will be found a charming one. The piece entitled " Restless Love," ( No. 6), although printed in the treble clef, is evidently written for a tenor voice. It commences in the key of C minor, half common time, and alle- gro agitato. There is considerable boldness and energy in the style of the air, as well as vigour in the accompaniment. The change to the key of A four flats at the dolce passage, page 2 LATE uUKE or YORK'S DEETS.— The committee ap- pointed to act on behalf of the creditors of his late Royal High- ness the Duke of York held its usual weekly meeting at the Thatched House Tavern. The solicitors expressed their satisfac- tion at the progress of the investigation, and with the concurrence of the meeting, postponed their final report to a future day. Of the Dujhess of York's jewels they had been unable to discover any traces beyond those included in a general item, embracing sales by Christie to the amount of 7,0001. PRIVILEGES TO YACHTS— The Royal Sailing Society has re- ceived a dispatch from Baron Verstolk Van Soelen, Foreign Mi- nister at the Hague, granting permission to the yachts of its mem- bers to enter the Dutch ports without fees. A " similar favour has been granted by the French Government. ELECTION OF LORD MAYOR.— It is said that the election to the civic chair will be strongly contested, and that Sir Peter Laurie will not take possession of it as a matter of course. Some of the most active of the livery men, in the cause of civic liberty, are about to bring forward one of their body, who is not a member of the Court of Aldermen; they have come to a conclusion, after a minute examination of the ancient charter of the city, that the citizens have vested in them the right of choosing one from among themselves, without reference to the Court of Aldermen. IRON STEAMER— Wednesday, the Lord William Bendnck iron steam vessel, which has been lying off Westminster bridge, un- moored for the first time. Her steam engine, of sixty horse power, and all her apparatus, being completed, the vessel proceeded up the river, for the purpose of trying her speed and the working of her engine. She sailed admirably, and every thing succeeded be- yond expectation. With the engine on board, and a supply of coals, she does not draw more than 17 inches of water. This ves- sel was intended to be sent out to India, lo ply on the Ganges, but the East India Company have determined not to send her out! but to keep her on the Thames, for the purpose of towing their o, vrt ships up and down the river, and also for conveying cargoes from London to their outward bound ships. TOWER HAMLETS REFORM DINNER.— The triumph of Reform was celebrated on Monday, by a public dinner given by a large body of the electors and inhabitants of this new borough, at the Mermaid Tavern, Hackney. The tables were laid in an extensive booth, erected and tastefully fitted up for the occasion in the gar- den of the tavern. It was expected that 700 persons would be pre- sent, but we understood that about 800 sat down to dinner. Mr. Hume filled the chair, and among those present were Mr Byng" M. P., Mr. Warburton, M. P., Alderman Scales, Major RevelLMrt T. Campbell, M. Tliur, ex- director of the Chancery of Poland* and the candidates for the borough ; Dr. Lushington, Colonel L Stanhope, Mr. Clay, Mr. B. Beaumont, Mr. Offer, and Mr. Hutch- inson. The meeting, over which good humour and good order pre- sided, was animated by patriotic toasts and speeches. The dinner, we grieve to say, was dispatched in hungry haste, owing to the fact that there were about a hundred more mouths to supply than had been expected, and that the edibles were not increased in the same proportion. Wc think it may be adopted as a sound rule never to attend a public dinner without a reserve of provender in case of need. CITY MEETING.— At a public meeting in the City, on Thursday at which the Lord Mayor presided, it was resolved to open a sub- scription for the erection of almshouses for the reception of decayed tradesmen of the City of London, in commemoration of the Reform Bill. Such a mode of testifying the general satisfaction, speaks much more for public illumination than a transient jubilee for the benefit of glaziers and tallow- chandlers. BANK OF ENGLAND.— Oil Thursday, a General Quarterly Court of the Proprietors of Bank Stock was held, for the puspose of de- claring a dividend for the half year ending ihe 10th of October next, and also for general purposes. The half- yearly dividend was declared, and a vote of confidence in the Directors, and approba- tion of their conduct before the Committee of the House of Com- mons— agreed to. The death of the Right Hon. Sir Richard Ryder, who expired on Tuesday last, at his seat, Westbrook Park, Herts, has occasioned a vacancy in the valuable sinecure of Registrar of the Consistory Court. J Mr. Wilson, who has been appointed Consul General to Peru is the son of Sir Robert Wilson. He served several years in the Colombian army, and in consequence of his bravery was noticed by the Liberator Bolivar, who made him one of his Aides- de- Camp_ A Court- martial is ordered to assemble at Chatham, to try Captain. Burchell, of the 3d Foot, on charges preferred by Assistant- Sur- geon Whitmarsh, of Chatham Dock - yard, for ungentlemanly and un- officer- like conduct towards the latter, whilst Captain Burchell was on duly as Captain of the military guard in the dock- yard. The navy oontracts were taken oil Thursday ( 8,000 tierces of beef and 5,500 of pork was the amount required) by Messrs. Cal- laghan, of Cork, at 6/. 4s. per Navy package of both all round- Last year the contract was for 4,000 tierces of beef at 51 6s yd and 10,000 of pork at 6f. 2s. 9d. ' '' Major Lawson, who came home from Oporto on leave, is about to return to Portugal, accompanied by a general officer of consider- able experience, under whose command Count Villa Flor served during the war. Several hundred effective men, who have enrolls d themselves under Don Pedro, > will go out with these officers. THE COUNTRY. -•- IMPORTANT DECISION— The Commissioners of the Board of Taxes having been petitioned by the postmaster of Warwick, and several others, in opposition to a surcharge made by the Surveyor of Taxes for apprentices, on the ground that they were chargeable wilh duty as shopmen, have lately returned an answer to Ihe effect, " that the Board are of opinion that the petitioners are not liaUle to charge for their apprentices, and the surveyor has been desired to withdraw the charges accordingly." CAUTION TO CORN- DEALERS.— By the corn act passed in his late Majesty's reign, dealers refusing or neglecting to make returns to the Inspector of the prices and quantities of corn bought by them within the week, are liable to the penalty of 20/., and purchasing corn without having first made the declaration as therein directed a penalty of 20/., and that for each and every calendar month, during which such neglect or delay to make such declaration shall continue. BRISTOL.— The restoration of the Chapter- house belonging to- our cathedral is in a state of considerable forwardness, and will when completed, be as honourable to the taste and liberality of the- Dean and Chapter, as it will be gratifying to tie lover of ecclesi- astical architecture. The modernized windows, which long dis- graced the noble room, are removed, and it will be lighted bv three circular windows in the east end, corresponding with the ornamental arches round the walls.— These will, we understand, be filled with stained glass. Adjoining the Chapter- hOuse, rooms are building for the library and other purposes. The old erections over the cloisters are also being removed, and a carriage way is to be formed nearly adjoining Ihe church, from College- green to the Palace- yard. GLOUCESTER MUSIC MEETING commenced on Tuesday, and I September 23. THE TOWS, 311 L the, aggregate of the collections for the charity ( 8041. lis. 8d.) amounted to within 4/. of the contributions in 1829. Of this sum 1001. was given by Lord Redesdale, and 501. by the Bishop of the Diocese. The following gentlemen were nominated stewards for the next meeting: Hon. Grantly C. G. F. Berkeley; Robert Blagden Hale, Esq.; Barwick Lloyd Baker, Esq.; Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Gloucester; Rev. Reginald Wynniatt; and Rev. Wadham fiuntly. CALAMITOUS VISITATION— The following extraordinary be- reavement has occurred in the family of Captain Michael Barbery, of Tresbeiby, Gwennap. Two sons and four daughters, whose ages were respectively 13, 11, 8, 7, 4, and 1 years, have within the last fortnight fallen victims to a most malignant fever; and the afflicted parents have now only remaining one daughter, aged 15, out of a family of seven children, who but a few weeks since were in the enjoyment of perfect health.— Cornubian. GAME LAWS.— It may not be generally known, that by tbe late alteration in the game laws, sportsmen must either shoot over their own oroperty, or on such as they may have leave given them by their friends. If on the contrary they enter upon lands not their own, or wherever they have no leave, they will come under the term of poachers or trespassers, and are liable to be dealt with ac- eording to the provisions and clauses mentioned in the act for such offenders. Persons taking out Game Certificates should be cau- tious to obtain them at their place of residence, otherwise they are void, and subject the party to a penalty. A HORSE- STEALER OUTWITTED.— On Saturday night last, Mr. Thomas Brown, of Tansor Lodge, near Oundle, seeing a stranger on horseback without a saddle, enquired of him where he was going. He replied, to Peterborough. On asking him if the horse was for sale, and ascertaining that it was, Mr. Brown told him to go to the Crown at Oundle, and he would come to him and try to bargain for it. The man returned as desired. Mr. Brown then went to a magistrate, procured a warrant, and bad him apprehended, when he confessed to having stolen the horse near Daventry. He was committed to Northampton gaol to take his trial at the next assizes. — Stamford Neu- s. A LONG SUBJECT.— The ci- devant Mameluke of Napoleon's Guard, M. Lambier, being 6 feet 10J in height, ( or lying down seven feet,) has, at length, taken up his domicile in Boston, though a native of the Boston of the New World. He walks about our streets, peeping in at our chamber windows ; lighting his cigar at our lamps; regulating, at times, the town clock with his finger, and observing what's trumps among the card parties in the drawing- rooms over our shops. Some persons have suggested that he should be appointed perpetual over- seer ; but here he would lose sight of the lower classes in toto ; or otherwise he would be " a tower of strength" to the parish,— effecting, as he might, the removal of paupers with bis finger and thumb. He is rather awkwardly situ- ated at present among us as to taking a residence ; since bis cir- cumstances will not allow him to rent a large bouse, and he cannot get into a small one. Some have thought we might return him for the borough as the representative of an enlarged constituency, but here a doubt would arise whether we could maintain the right to return two, under such circumstances. When he vacated his post in the Imperial Guard, we never heard how many men tookhisplace. The children in Boston cry out " Mammy- look 1" as he passes in our streets.— Boston Herald.—[ la place of a Mameluke we should have taken him to be one of the Terry .4/ fs.] SCOTLAND. CALEDONIAN CANAL.— According to the annual account just published, the tonnage rates for the year ending May, 1832, were 2,030/.; rents of p operty, & c. 289/.; total receipts, 2,3191. The expenditure upon the canal was 3,495/.; add interest upon ad- vances, 247/.; total expenditure, 3,742/- The number of passages on the canal has been 1,246, of which 143 have been by steam- ves- sels.— Scotsman. GLASGOW SCAVENGERS.— A petition, of which the following is a literal copy, was lately presented to the Glasgow Commissioners of Police. " 4 Suptr. 18 " To the Honrabel the Commisbanrs of tbe Anshent and Ex- tended Royallety of the Sitie for Ligton, Clinen, and Watcbean. " The Humbeal Pitishon of the Scaffengers of tbe Abuve Beges that your Honars would tek into your Considreshon the Dierness of the Markets and the Loness of their Wadges, and Grant such Ad- ishion to their Wadges as your Honaurs shall Think fitt. " and your Pettishonrs shall Ever Pray. " Pies your Honors to Remember that wie Work all Sond Mornen."—( jlusgow Courier. A new religious sect has lately sprung up in Paisley, the leading tenets of which are said to be, universal atonement, adult baptism, and the speedy advent and personal reign of Christ. IRELAND. Lord Fitzgerald and Vesci has been appointed Colonel of the Clare Militia, in place of the late Sir Francis Burton, Bart. The Conservatives of Cork have contributed 8,500/. to the Con- servative Fund.— Waleiford Chronicle. NEW PLEDOE FOR IRISH CANDIDATES.— The Carlow Morning Post proposes that each Candidate for a seat in Parliament should pledge himself to become a subscriber to all the newspapers in Ireland. KINDNESS TO A COUNTRYWOMAN.— A few days ago as a coun- trywoman was standing in the street of Birr, where she had been for the purpose of attending ths market, a fellow came behind her, and gave her a blow of a two handed wattle on the back of the head, and killed her on the spot. The assassin was immediately • seized by the police and committed to Philipstown gaol to abide his trial at the next assizes.— Sligo Journal. TITHE DOINGS.— WATERFORD, SEPT. 14.— Tithe valuers pro- ceeded hence, to value the crops on lands in the liberties of this town, when they were met by an immense concourse of people, who threatened" tl( ern with death if they did not desist; they de- parted without completing the valuation, as they considered it the most prudent way under the circumstances, from the ferocious bearing of the country people. In consequence of this opposition to the laws the Magistrates of this town and district, have applied • to government for a strong military force, to aid the constabulary ill preserving the peace of this neighbourhood, as at present, and for the last two months, there was not a single soldier in the town. MEATII.— The people of Meath seem to have no objection to paying the Rectors, but are determined on resisting the lay tithes, denominated " Earl's Tithes," and, therefore, have 1 een regularly hunting the valuators, in " full cry," off their lands. The lay- proprietors have applied, by affidavit, for the aid of the military. DUBLIN.— A Correspondeut states that " A seizure of hay was made by tbe Rev. Mr. Preston for tithes amounting to 4/. To guard the seizure there was an encampment of police, and four keepers appointed. On the day of sale there were upwards of 500 military and police, commanded by Captain Richardson and Major Tandy. A police captain also attended, who was served, the mo- ment he appeared, with a summons, charging him with an assault - upon a gentleman residing in his neighbourhood. When the hay was set up for sale, Is., and next Is. 6d., was bid for it, when a per- • son present bid 101., and then said he would bury it in a bng hole, a testimonial of the tithe- system, in the wood of Allen. The purchaser of the hay actually carried his threat into effect, by im- mersing it in a bog- hole, in the presence of nearly 3,000 persons, including the magistrates, military, and police." SPORTING. i ROBBERY EXTRAORDINARY.— Early onSunday morning a rob- ibery of a novel description was committed in Harvest Lane. A house, in the course of erection for Mr. Graves, was on Saturday- fitted up with window sashes and glazed ; during the succeeding night the whole of the glass of three windows was stolen away, • being apparently cut out with a glazier's diamond.— Sheffield Iris. £ These panes- taking depredators doubtless had a brotherly eye to the welfare of the glazing fraternity.] THE CRICKETERS OF MY TIME. BY AN OLD LORD'S- MAN.—( FOR THE TOWN.) The game of cricket is essentially English. Its derivation is from the Saxon " cpyce, astick." Strutt, however, in his " Sports and Pastimes," states that he can find no record of the game, under its present appellation, " beyond the commencement of the last century, where it occurs in one of the songs published by D'Urfey *. The first four lines " Of a noble race was Shen- kin," ran thus:— *' Her was the prettiest fellow At foot- ball or at cricket, At hunting chase, or nimble race, How featly her could prick it." The same historian of our games doubts not that cricket derived its origin from the ancient game of club- ball, the patronymics of which being compounded of Welch and Danish, ( clwppa and bol) do not warrant his conclusion, the Saxon being an elder inheritor of our island. The circumstance, however, of there being no illustration extant— no missal, illuminated with a group engaged in this king of athletic games, as is the case with its plebeian brother, the club- ball; also, from its constitution being of a more civil and complicated character, we may rationally infer that it is the offspring of a more polite, at all events, maturer age than its fellow. The game of club- ball appears to have been no other than the present well- known hat and ball, which, with similar laws and customs in the playing at it, was doubtless anterior to trap- ball. The trap, indeed, carries with it an air of refinement in the " march of mechanism." They who are acquainted with some of the remote and un- frequented villages of England, where the primitive manners, customs, and games of our ancestors survive in the perfection of rude and unadulterated simplicity, must have remarked the lads playing at a game which is the same in its outline and principal features as the consummate piece of perfection that at this day is the glory of Lord's and the pride of English ath- letse— I mean the one in which a single stick is appointed for a wicket, ditto for a bat, and the same repeated, of about three inches in length, for a ball. If this be not the original of the game of cricket, it is a plebeian imitation of it. My purpose, however, is not to search into the antiquities of cricketing, but, if it meet the approbation of the reade. rs of the TOWN, to record my recollections of some of the most eminent professors of my favourite pastime who have figured on the public arena since the year 1754, when I might be about twelve years of age. From that period till within a few seasons past, I have constantly been " at the receipt of custom" when any rousing match has been toward ; and being now a veteran, and laid up in ordinary, I may be allowed the vanity of the quotation, " Quorum magna pars fuif." I was born at Hambleton, in Hampshire— the Attica of the scientific art I am celebrating. No club in England could com- pare with the Hambleton, which met on the first Tuesday in May on Broad- halfpenny. So renowned a set were the men of Hambleton, that the whole country round would flock to see one of their trial matches. " Great men," indeed, " have been among us— better, none ;" and in the course of my recollections I shall have occasion to instance so many within the knowledge of persons now living, as will, I doubt not, warrant me in giving the palm to my native place. The two principal bowlers in my early days were Thomas Brett and Richard Nyren, of Hambleton ; the corps de reserve, or change- bowlers, were Barber and Hogsflesh. Brett was, beyond all comparison, the fastest as well as straitest bowler that was ever known : he was neither a thrower nor a jerker, but a legitimate downright bowler, delivering his ball fairly, high, and very quickly, quite as strongly as the jerkers, and with the force of a point blank shot. He was a well- grown, dark- looking man, remarkably strong, and with rather a short arm. As a batter, he was comparatively an inferior player— a slashing hitter, but he had little guard of his wicket, and his judgment of the game was held in no great estimation. Brett, whose occupation was that of a farmer, bore the universal cha- racter of a strictly honourable man in all his transactions, whe- ther in business or in amusement. Richard Nyren was left- handed. He had a high delivery, always to the length, and his balls were provokingly deceitful. He was the chosen general of all the matches, ordering and directing the whole. In such esteem did the brotherhood hold his experience and judgment, that he was uniformly consulted on all questions of law or pre- cedent ; and I never knew au exception to be taken against his opinion, or his decision to be reversed. I never saw a finer specimen of the thorough- bred old English yeoman than Richard Nyren. He was a good face- to- face, unflinching, uncompro- mising, independent man. He placed a full and just value upon the station he held in society, and he maintained it without in- solence or assumption. He could differ with a superior, with- out trenching upon his dignity, or losing his own. I have known him maintain an opinion with great firmness against the Duke of Dorset and Sir Horace Mann ; and when, in consequence, some chaffing has arisen, the latter has afterwards crossed the ground and shaken him heartily by the hand. Nyren had im- mense advantage over Brett; for, independently of his general knowledge of the game, he was practically a better cricketer, being a safe batsman and an excellent hitter. Although a very stout man ( standing about five feet nine) he was uncommonly active. He owed all the skill and judgment he possessed to an old uncle, Richard Newland, of Slindon, in Sussex, under whom he was brought up— a man so famous in his time, that when a song was written in honour of the Sussex cricketers, Richard Newland was especially and honourably signalized. When Richard Nyren left Hambleton the club broke up, and never resumed from that day. The head and right arm were gone. Barber and Hogsflesh were both good hands ; they had a high delivery, and a generally good length ; not very strong however, at least for those days of playing, when the bowling was all fast. These four were our tip- top men, and I think such another stud was not to be matched in the whole kingdom, either before or since. They were choice fellows, staunch and thorough- going. No thought of treachery ever seemed to have entered their heads. The modern politics of trickery and " crossing" were ( so far as my own experience and judgment of their actions extended) as yet " a sealed book" to the Hambletonians ; what they did, they did for the love of honour and victory; and when one ( who shall be nameless) sold the birthright of bis good name for a mess of pottage, he paid dearly for his bargain. It cost him the trouble of being a knave—( no trifle 1) ; the esteem of his old friends ; and, what was worst of all, the respect of him who could have been his best friend— himself. Upon coming to the old batters of our club, the name of John Small, the elder, shines among them in all the lustre of a star of the first magnitude. His merits have already been recorded in a separate publication, which every zealous brother of the pas- time has probably read. I need, therefore, only subscribe my testimony to his uncommon talent, shortly summing up his chief excellencies. He was the best short runner of his day, and indeed I believe him to have been the first who turned the short hits to account. His decision was as prompt as his eye was accurate in calculating a short run. Add to the value of his accomplishment as a batter, he was an admirable field's- man, always playing middle wicket; and so correct was his judgment of the game, that old Nyren would appeal to him when a point of law was being debated. Small was a remarkably well- made and well- knit man, of a handsome countenance and honest ex- pression, and as active as a hare. He was a good fiddler, and taught himself the double bass. The Duke of Dorset having been informed of his musical talent, sent him as a present a handsome violin, and paid the carriage. Small, like a true and simple- hearted Englishman, returned the compliment by sending his Grace two bats and balls, also paying the carriage. We may be sure that on both hands the presents were choice of their kind. Upon one occasion he turned his Orphean accomplishment to good account. Having to cross two or three fields on his way to a musical party, a vicious bull made at him, when our hero, with the characteristic coolness and presence of mind of a good cricketer, began playing upon his bass, to the admiration and perfect satisfaction of the mis- chievous beast.—( To be continued.) paragraph, just like " Dando the oyster eater," or the last hail storm. Let me congratulate you upon the course you have taken, and advise you to continue in it. Virgil considered it not beneath his dignity to give a minute description of a regatta in olden times, and if such a subject were interesting to the Roman, it must be still more so to the Briton. Sept. 19. A WELL- WISHER TO OUR YACHT CLUBS. * " Pills to purge Melancholy," 4th edit. 1719, vol. ii. p. 172. t I learned a little Latin when I was a boy of a worthy old Jesuit, but I was a better hand at the fiddle; and many a time have X taught the gipseys during their annual visits to our village, thereby purchasing the security of. our own poultry- yard; when the hand of the destroyer was stretched forth over the neighbouring roosts, our little Goshen was always passed by. AQUATIC SPORTS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TOWN. SIR,— The amusements of Englishmen are, from the nature of their climate, naturally varied ; but as variety is generally pleasing to us mortals, this ought to be looked upon as rather an advantage than otherwise. Thus many, whose chief delight for some preceding months hath been to wander " in pleasure's bark"— " O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea"— have now either departed for other scenes, or are thinking of doing so. Some have left the deck for Doncaster Races, others to prepare for the coming Election or join in the sports of the field ; and, accordingly, those gay little fleets that were so lately saiUng around our shores in all directions, are now much thinned by desertions. In these circumstances, a few remarks upon the past, or rather passing, season may not be out of date. It can be compared with none that has preceded it, because it has far surpassed them all; and the desire for nautical amusements seems to be one of the growing passions of the day. From the little Vestris of 8 tons, to the Falcon of 351, pleasure- yachts of all descriptions have been roving about our " sea- girt isle," and sailing matches and regattas have been the order of the day. That such recreations are delightful, and beyond the power of the most fastidious to censure or to ridicule, none can deny ; but this is not all. Every one who has mingled at all in naval society, must be aware how little inclined the Royal Navy gen- tlemen are to look beyond their own ranks for improvements in nautical affairs ; and this is not to be wondered at, as men who have " braved the battle and the breeze" in every quarter of the globe, have some right to hold themselves high. But, neverthe- less, during the past summer, some trials that have taken place between vessels in Sir Pulteney Malcolm's squadron and others belonging to the yacht clubs, have taught a lesson to many of our ablest seamen ; and, as frankness is one of their leading characteristics, they have at once acknowledged it. This cannot fail to lead to improvements in our royal dock- yards, and who can duly estimate the importance of all such improvements? The Emerald cutter was considered one of the fastest sailers in the Royal Navy, and yet the Paddy from Cork beat her easily, in a trial that took place in tbe presence of Sir Thomas Foley, who had been sent by the Admiralty to superintend it. The Water Witch, again, beat the whole squadron of Sir Pulteney Malcolm at all points of the wind, and was highly approved of by that distinguished officer. Being 331 tons, carrying her guns well out of the water, and having plenty of room for her crew and provisions, she was considered as well adapted for a vessel of war. Then, the Duke of Portland's Pantaloon was actually purchased by the Government. But, besides these advantages, the eligible employment that is afforded to many hundreds of our seamen during the season, is not to be thought lightly of: neither is the spur that is given to activity in many of our dock- yards, where,— be it from free trade, or be it not,— industry hath languished much of late years. It would puzzle Mr. Hume himself to obtain the exact number of sailors who are thus employed ; but, during the height of the season, I think it may be safely estimated at about 1,500. In this calculation all kinds of pleasure vessels belonging to Great Britain and Ireland are, of course, included. Then, what with building, altering, rigging, repairing, & c. it can hardly be too much to say that they are the cause of one hundred thousand pounds being annually circulated among our shipwrights, sail- makers, & c. Upon the subject of the original cost of our pleasure vessels there was rather a laughable blunder in the last number of the old Sporting Magazine, where a writer estimates it at no less a sum than three millions and a half— at least seven times greater than it ought to be. It appears as if, in his arithmetical calcu- lation, he had put down a cipher too much ; but, be this as it may, it is as well to set things right, as otherwise this bouncing assertion might pass current with certain landsmen, or land- lubbers, as sailors are apt to term them. The Editor must, of course, have been asleep. I forward these few remarks to you, Sir, because I perceive that you do not consider our aquatic amusements as things of j such little interest, that they need only be mentioned in a short A GLANCE AT DONCASTER DURING THE RACES. FOR THE " TOWN." Doncaster Races undoubtedly excite more interest throughout England than any other ; and the King's Speech, at the opening of the Session, is not more eagerly expected by newspaper readers— that is, by all classes, gentle, simple, purse- proud, or pennyless,— than the account of the running for the St. Leger, at Doncaster. Epsom and Ascot are in general both numerously, and, as the phrase is, fashionably attended; but by far the greater number of the visitors care little about the races. Epsom is a convenient distance from town, and the pleasure of a drive once a year is as great an inducement with many as the races themselves ; and a numerous attendance of coster- mongers, ring- goers, and others of this class, is always secured by the proba- biUty of a fight. The Derby, which is run at Epsom, is indeed in the sporting world, second only in point of interest to the St. Leger ; but for its exciting the attention of the people it is as little to be compared to the latter as a speech of Sir Edward's with a speech of his castigator, Lord Brougham. With respect to Ascot, people go there merely to see the King ; and the Court newsman's list of fashionables, who honoured the stand with their presence, is more attended to than the account of the races, which, indeed, are scarcely thought of a week before they com- mence, or remembered a week after. The week before the races, the lodging- house and inn keepers of Matlock, Harrogate, Scarbro', and other watering places within a hundred miles of Doncaster, begin to feel symptoms of " rooms to let," for the greater number of their visitors have given " notice to quit," all impelled by the attraction of the St. Leger towards Doncaster, where " three in a bed" becomes the " order of the night.'" Almost every house at this period " takes in" lodgers— this is natural in Yorkshire— and every place that will but hold a horse becomes for the time a stable. Coachmen and guards, whose line is within a hundred miles of Doncaster, now assume a more important air, and discuss, like regular knowing ones, the merits of the different horses; while the post- Soys, happy race 1 " Ever blooming, ever young 1" provided with new boots and small- clothes, in anticipation of increased wear and tear, name the winner with about as much confidence, and with about as much correctness, as the sporting Peer whom they drive. The company assembled at Doncaster races presents such a sample of the people of England as is to be met with no where else. Merchants and manufacturers, farmers and shop- keepers, ploughmen and artisans, the nobleman who owns half a county and the gentleman living on his means, who has not half- a- crown; aristocracy and gentry, clergy and laity, cockney and clown, flat and sharp, tag, rag, and bob- tail, all meet here ; and if we are to believe the saints, who are as busy here as the sinners, will only meet again in one other place. Gentlemen, who at other times are chiefly engaged in distributing bills which inform the afflicted where their bodily health may be re- estab- lished, and who are heralds of the fame of Dr. Eady—" clarum et venerabile nomen"— are now occupied for the spiritual welfare of the public, and are active in circulating pious tracts, which urge the wicked attenders of horse- races " to have commenseration on their precious sowls," in the genuine style of Mawworm. Here ladies of easy virtue spread their allurements to carry men off by the broad- patli at a mail- coach pace, while on the other hand, ladies of virtue the most un- easy endeavour, tooth and nail, to drive them into the narrow one, and thus the proverb, that " extremes meet," is verified. Whatever occasions a con- siderable assemblage of the ungodly is also sure to cause a strong muster of the outrageously righteous. If a notorious criminal is to be hung, a pious amateur of executions is sure to obtain for himself a snug place on the scaffold, on pretence of admi- nistering spiritual comfort to the wretch who has outraged every divine and human law, and ranters always find an excuse for attending Doncaster races, on the plea of converting the profane. Whether this be their real motive or not, it is impos- sible to decide, but it is certain that their labours are fruitless, and that they always manage to be present on the St. Leger day. During the race- week the blind goddess is wooed in every form by followers as blind. Bag- men, from every part of the kingdom, now muster strong at the Wool- pack and Rein- deer; and some of the most dashing, with pocket- books well filled with their employers' money, strut in the betting- room, or take their place on the stand next to a Peer, with whom, in conse- quence of having thus rubbed elbows, they boast to their cus- tomers of being acquainted. Should any of these " commercial men" have got hold of the wrong horse, and laid it on pretty thick, in the hope of making a fortune at a slight risk, his books are easily squared. As soon as he has discovered his mistake, he hastens to his inn, pays his bill, orders his gig; and two hours before Mr. Bags is declared a levanter at the rooms, he is baiting his horse at Retford or Ferrybridge, or taking his wine at the Tontine at Sheffield. About two years ago one of these gentry, a traveller to a lace- manufacturer, slipped off after hav- ing lost bets to the amount of fifteen hundred pounds, and which his honesty would not allow him to pay with his master's money. For these last three or four years the Magistrates of Doncaster have been most earnest in their endeavours to discourage the number of professors of the lower species of gambling, who used actually to swarm at these races ; sometimes to the great annoyance of the general company, and always to the great risk of Stephen Clod's pocket. Prick- in- the- belt, cups and balls, and box and dice, are consequently now prohibited games at Don- caster races, at least in the open air; and the professors of these mysteries are no longer allowed the free exercise of their calling. In 1830 they showed a determination to resist this en- croachment on their ancient rights, but they were gallantly charged and routed by a body of constables and sturdyj headed by Lords Wharncliffe and Milton, iu a style have done credit to Townsend and Sayers in their Indeed the writer, until he saw it, had no idea fijat^ JJjpd ' I grave members of the aristocracy could cut so^ jej- pcctabl'e- a j figure in a row. Q J fv^ jj In most of the large towns in Yorkshire, , ia 398 THE TOWJI. September 23. Manchester, and even so far north as Newcastle- on- Tyne, a sort of lottery, chiefly on the St. Leger and the Cnp, is formed in the following manner. A certain number of persons subscribe, according to their means, from a shilling to five pounds each, or even more, towards a common stock. The names of the horses entered are written on slips of paper, and put into a bag or box, and the members cast lots for the order in which they are to draw; and the person who draws the winning horse is entitled to the whole of the money subscribed, with the exception of a small sum, frequently his stake, awarded to him who holds the second. As this drawing mostly takes place a month or six weeks previous to the races, and as the members have the privilege of exchanging their horses with each other, transfers take place from time to time, according to the state of the odds ; and the decision of the race is as eagerly looked for by the members of these clubs, as the Chancellor of the Exchequer's budget in the Stock Exchange. During the race week, and the week preceding, the grand subject of conver- sation throughout Yorkshire, is Doncaster races. It is talked of at weddings, christenings, and lyke- wakes. It is talked of in house and shop, at fair and market; and is, I am afraid, some- times whispered in going to, and coming from Church. Even at the port of Hull, where we might suppose the people to be as little interested in the Doncaster races, as those of Portsmouth with Epsom, there are at this moment only two interesting subjects— the Greenland fishery, and the St. Leger. So long as horse- racing tends to gallop off the but too- frequent cares of life, and withdraws not men from their more important duties' so long may it flourish j and may that be as long as England's fields are green. York, Sept. 18. FRANK HARTLEY. THE TURF. DONCASTER RACES. Doncaster, Sunday Niglit. The town is rapidly assuming the bustle and animation conse- quent upon a great racing meeting. No exertions have been spared to promote the comfort and convenience of the visiters, and no means neglected of affording accommodation and pro- tection on the race course, which, by Mr. Lockwood's efforts, is brought into beautiful order. The new betting- rooms are opened with still greater splendour than usual, and have already received a long list of subscriptions. It is allowed by those conversant with racing matters, that the ensuing St. Leger has seldom, if ever, been surpassed in the character of the horses engaged. It has been a remarkably good betting race; nor can we call to mind any St. Leger wherein horses have met upon such equal terms, for nearly all have pr9ved themselves good public run- ners, the north country ones especially. The sums given, and reported to have been given, for some of the favourites, are quite unprecedented, and will serve to show the estimation In which they are held, at the same time that the prices quoted are out- rageously extravagant. At two years old, Fang was purchased for 3,300 guineas, with conditions which made the price equal to 4,000. At the same age Conrad was bought for 2,000 guineas, and Francesca for 1,200 guineas, half the Champagne Stakes, and other provisos favourable to the seller. Margrave cost 2,500 guineas ; Trustee 2,000 guineas, and Gratis 1,000 guineas. The on dits are, that Lord Exeter refused 5,000 guineas for Beiram before it was decided not to send him to the north ; that 4,000 were offered for Nitocris, 4,000 for Ludlow, and 6,000 for Re- tainer. The unauthenticated report of Ludlow being privately sold to the Fang party, has occasioned a very unpleasant sensa- tion ; the motives of the purchasers are unfavourably inter- preted, and betting is at a stand still. Monday Night. The reported sale of Ludlow to the Fang party, and a conse- quent suspicion of the motives of the purchasers, during the whole of the evening was the engrossing topic, betting being en- tirely out of the question. It was commonly understood that some of the reputed buyers stood very heavy against this horse, ner did many hesitate to assert that the purchase was effected to ensure safety. Things went on this way till 10 o'clock last night, at which hour Mr. Beardsworth ( Ludlow's proprietor) entered the room, which was then very full, and formally declared that he had not sold his horse, but that he was open to a cus- tomer for him, at the price he had all along asked, 5,000 gui- neas. To give weight to his statement, Mr. Beardsworth made two or three bets that he ran, also that he won, and offered to take 30 to 1 outright. Neither the explanation nor the bets, however, had the effect of restoring confidence, for the oue came full seven hours after the sale was rumoured, and the bets were not to an amount sufficient to satisfy all parties. Early this morning it was publicly announced that Mr. Beardsworth had sold Ludlow to a Mr. Bond for the sum quoted above; this Mr. Bond is reported to have backed him to a considerable amount. There are few who doubt that some kind of sale had taken place originally, and that something was intended not exactly consist- ent with the strict rules of racing ; and at this moment the ma- ority of the sporting people here look upon Ludlow as quite safe. In the meantime some little business has been done on he St. Leger. Nitocris has all at once dropped off to 15 to 1, higher odds having been betted against her in the course of the afternoon. Fang is in great force, and plenty of money has been laid out upon Brother to Maria and Margrave. The following is a return of this day's running :— The Fitzwilliam Stakes of 10 sovs each, with 20 sovs added for the first, and 10 for the second horse. Two yrs, 5st 101b ; 3 yrs, 8st; 4 yrs, 9st; 5 yrs, 9st 61b ; and aged, 9st 101b.— Mile and a half. 8 subscribers. Mr. Beardsworth's br li Birmingham, 5 yrs ™ 1 Mr. Walker's b c Consol, 4 yrs .—— ™ 2 Mr. Hunter's br m Volage, 5 yrs ™ ™ ,—... — 3 Lord Exeter's ch f Scuffle, 3 yrs, and Mr. Powlett's br f by Whisker, out of Miss Fanny, also started, but were not placed. Betting— 7 to 4 on Birmingham, and 3 to 1 agst Consol. The latter made running at a very moderate pace, Scuffle lying in his wake, and Birmingham last. There was no change either in pace or place till near the rails, where Birmingham began to creep up, Scuffle at the same time passing Consol. They kept together to the distance post, at which point Scuffle and Miss Fanny had evidently done their best. Birmingham, Volage, and Consol made a beautiful race home, the former winning by barely a neck, and Volage being not more than that behind Consol. Except at the finish the pace was miserable. The Champagne Stakes of 50 sovs each, h ft, for 2- yr old; colts, 8st 51b ; and fillies, 8st 31b. The winner to give six dozen of Champagne to the Club. From the Red House in. 22 subs. Lord Cleveland's br c by Muley. ™ ™ ™ 1 Mr. " Watt's ch c Belshazzar, by Blacklock . 2 The following also started:— Lord Sligo's b c Flame, Mr. Whitelock's b c All Max, Sir J. Gerard's b f by Partisan, Mr. Walker's ch f Energy, Mr. E. Peel's br c Tuft, Mr. Powlett's b f by Lottery. Betting— 2 to 1 agst Belshazzar, and 3 to 1 . agst All Max ; the winner not mentioned, even by his own party, who thought him not quite up to the mark. Tlie horses set off at their best pace in a tolerably compact body, Flame a trifle in front as far as the rails, where the winner and Belshazzar came right away from the rest. A very severe race between the two was woo by Lord Cleveland's by a head ; Powlett's a bad third; and the rest beaten a long way. His Majesty's Plate of 100 Guineas. Four miles. Mr. Houldsworth's Contest walked over. A Match is made for the first day of the York Spring Meet- ng, 1833, for 1,000 :' Ovs each, h ft, between Lord Kilburn's Retainer, 8st 61b, and Mr. Ridsdale's brother to Maria, 8st 21b. One j » ile and three quarters. The . same parties have a match for 1,000 sovs. eaeh, between Retainer and St. Giles, to run at even weights, next Doncaster Meeting. Tuesday Night. At nine o'clock on Monday night the Ludlow panic had to all appearance subsided, but at 11 o'clock it recommenced, and con- tinued with greater violence than ever to a late hour. Divers accusations and assertions were made, which sufficiently ex- pressed the general feeling. The confusion at length became so annoying to several noblemen present, that a noble Marquis sug- gested to the disputants the propriety of adjourning their differ- ences, or settling them elsewhere. His Lordship added, that if such discreditable proceedings were persisted in, it would be quite impossible for any nobleman or gentleman to give his sup- port to the races, and that he for one should withdraw his name from them if an entirely different and more straightforward sys- tem were not adopted. The noble lord's speech had the effect of silencing the noise. Subsequently to this, one of the stewards called upon Mr. Bond, the new purchaser of Ludlow, to declare what his intentions were respecting him, the noble lord giving as his reason for putting the question, that the extraordinary price given had naturally excited their attention. The party applied to declared it was his intention to run the horse to win ; but, without entering into the question as to whether such was the case or not, we will venture to say that there was not a person in the room who did not believe that the horse was, bona fide, the property of the parties reported to have purchased him originally ; and, in corroboration of this opinion, he at once disappeared from the betting, although well known to be in the best racing condition. No one can for a moment doubt that the Doncaster races have received a blow from this business ( whether fair or otherwise) that they can never recover. Throughout the morning the streets were thronged with people of the middle class, chiefly farmers and tradesmen from Leeds, York, Sheffield, and other places contiguous to Doncaster; of fashionables the muster was more select than numerous, nor was there any dis- play of equipages as formerly— in every respect there was a marked falling off, owing as much to the general depression of the times as to the mischievous trickery of the saints of this town, who, not content with their ridiculous custom of sticking scriptural quotations all over the place, have been very iudus- trious for some time past in circulating a report that the cholera was in the town, and this in the teeth of official documents to the contrary. Notwithstanding all this, the assemblage on the course was very large, and the appearance of the Grand Stand exceedingly brilliant. Tke exciting circumstances that have sig- nalized the St. Leger must be our apology for the following list of the company being so short :— Duke of Richmond, Duke of Leeds, Marquis and Marchioness of Cleveland, Marquis Graham, Marquis of Exeter, Count Matuchewitz, Count Tzechynzi, Baron Biel, M. Brunenburg Wein, Baron Hartzafeldt, Earl Wilton,' Earl and Countess of Scarborough, Earl of Uxbridge, Lord G. H. Bentinck, Lord James Eitzroy, Earl of Chesterfield, Lord Villiers, Lord R. Grosvenor, Lord Kilburn, Lord Langford, Lord A. Fitzclarence, Lord W. Lennox, Lord Althorp, Hon. Captain Rous, Hon. B. Craven, Hon. W. Lascelles, Hon. J. S. Wortley, Hon. Colonel Russell, Hon. Mr. Brown, Hon. Mr. Vernon, Sir L. Glyn, Sir M. Wood, Sir J. L. L. Kaye, i » - A I'liffnn eiv K n, l ( v. Iliill/ i. lcv fiii* lairii^ f lrrthntn Sir T \ T;, I. SirA. Clifton, Sir R. and Lady Bulkeley, Sir James Graham, Sir J. Mal- colm, Sirs R. Bromley, R. Gill, andT. Haggerston, Colonels Peel, Ud- ney, Hancox, Cradock, Crawford, Shubrick, and Hawkins, Majors Ellis and Blois, Captains Hunter, Bymj, Grant, Carr, Coupland, Henderson, Harvey, Buller, Paget, Owen, Gaskill, White, Lamb, Dickenson, and Whittaker, Messrs C. Wilson, G. Baker, Irby, A. Hunter, Willan, T. Houldswortli, M. P., W. Houldsworth, S. L. Fox, M. P., Worrall, Willan, Watt, J. Mills, Wrangham, Payne, Holyoake, G. Walker, Ellison, Gas. coyne, Yates, E. Peel, Wyvill, Armitage, Spalding, F. Scott, Wentworth_ The following are particulars of the running :— Two- year old Produce Stakes of 100 sovs. each, h ft, colts, 8st - 51b; and fillies, 8st 31b. Red- House- in. 14 subs. Duke of Leeds's, b c, bv Lottery, out of Rhodacantha Mr. Houldsworth's ch f Fidelity, by Whisker ™ ™ . Hon. E. Petre's b fby Whisker, out of Matilda Lord Kilburn's ch f by Jock, out of Purity ™ . 1 a 3 - 4 7 to 4 against Rhodacantha, who made all the running, and won by a good length ; a severe race for the second place. The winner was very cleverly ridden by Templeman, Fidelity by Dar- ling, Matilda by Scott, and Purity by Nelson. The Great St. Leger Stakes of 50 sovs each, h ft for 3- yr old colts, 8st 61b ; and fillies, 8st 31b. St. Leger Course. 72 subs. Mr. Gully's ch c Margrave, by Muley ™ — ™ 1 Sir R. Bulkeley's b c Birdcatcher, by St. Patrick- ™ 2 The following also started, but were not placed :•— Mr. Pow- lett's gr f by Figaro, Mr. Skipsey's b c Physician, Mr. Edmund- son's ch c Richmond, Lord Kilburn's b c Retainer, Lord Sligo's ch c Daxon, Mr. Houldsworth's b c David, Lord Cleveland's ch c Trustee, Mr. Ridsdale's b c brother to Maria, Mr. Richardson's b c Fang, Mr. S. Fox's br c Julius, Lord Exeter's b c Byzan- tium, Mr. W. Scott's b c Carlton, Mr. Watts's b f Nitocris. Lord Langford's b c Roue, Mr. Bond's br c Ludlow. Betting.— 5 to 2 agst Retainer ; 9 to 2 agst Fang; 8 to 1 ugly head, but has all the looks of one that can stand wear and tear, and is likely to prove an awkward customer at Newmarket. In point of appearance Fang and Birdcatcher eclipsed all the field. The Fang party are stated to be heavy losers, and there is a report that Mr. Osbaldeston is in treaty for the whole of their horses. We should add that Fang completely disappointed the general expectation— he was a long way behind Retainer, and two- thirds of a distance from the winning horse at the finish. Mr. Gully, who had supported his horse throughout in a spirited and sportsmanlike manner, is a great winner. Previous to the races the annual sale of Mr. Nowell's Underley stock took place. This day's sale was composed only of fillies, and realised the following prices :— YEARLINGS.— Bay filly by Muley, out of Young Caprice by Waxy, out of Caprice by Walton, in the Oaks 1834— sold for 120 guineas. Brown filly by Muley, out of Longwaist's dam, in the Oaks 1834. The biddings were very spirited for this filly, she being own sister to the winner of the Champagne Stakes on Monday. Brown filly by Muley, dam by Dick Andrews, Mufti's dam; in the Oaks 1834— 440 guineas. Bay filly by Longwaist, out of Johanna Southcote, the dam of Variation ( an Oaks win- ner), in the Oaks 1834— 105 guineas. Bay filly by Longwaist, out of Miss Witch, by Sorcerer, in the Oaks 1834— 40 guineas. The racing to- day was so entirely destitute of interest that a short account will suffice. Four- year- old Stakes of 50 sovs each, 20 ft, and 25 sovs added. St. Leger Course. Three subs. Lord Cleveland's Liverpool walked over. The Foal Stakes of 100 sovs each ; for 3 yr old colts, 8st 71b ; fillies 8st 41b, Mile and half. Five subs. Mr. Houldsworth's Trident walked over. Four- year- old Stakes of 50 sovs each, 20 ft, and 25 added. St. Leger course. Three subs. Lord Cleveland's Liverpool walked over. The Selling Stakes of 10 sovs each, 20 sovs added for the first, and 10 for the second horse. The winner to be sold for 250 sovs, & c. St. Leger Course. Lord Sligo's b c Westport, 5 yrs, 6st 121b l Mr. Kirby's br f Dinah, 4 yrs ™ ™ ™ ™ ™ . ™ ™ w*. 2 Even betting. Westport made at the running, and won cle- verly ; ridden by Gray. The Corporation Plate of 70/. Three yrs 6st 71b ; four yrs 7st 91b ; five yrs 8st 31b ; six yrs and aged, 8st 101b. Mares al- lowed 31b. Two mile heats. Mr. Hunter's hr m Volage, 5 yrs 3 11 Mr. Ridsdale's b c Burgomaster, 3 yrs - 4 2 2 Mr. Kirby's b f Diana, 4 yrs ™ ™ ™ 14 3 Mr. Houldsworth's b h Beagle, 5 yrs ~ 2 3 dr First heat— 5 to 4 agst Beagle, and 6 to 4 agst Volage. Won rather cleverly. Second heat— 2 to 1 agst Diana, and 2 to 1 agst Burgomaster. A fine race. Third heat— 2 to 1 on Volage, who won easy. Rode by J. Day. A meeting of the Noblemen and Gentlemen was held this morning at the Club- house on matters connected with the races, when it was resolved that in future the Gold Cup should be free for any horse, as formerly, and that it should be of the value of 100 guineas, with 50 guineas in specie. Thursday Night. The racing came off as follows :— The Gascoigne Stakes, of 100 sovs each, 30ft; for 3 yrs- old colts, 8st 61b ; fillies 8st 31b. The winner of the St. Leger to carry 41b extra. St. Leger course. 11 Subs. Mr. Gully's ch c Margrave, by Muley ™ ™ . l Mr. Fox's br c Julius, by Jerry ,— 2 5 to 1 on Margrave. Julius made play till near the stand, where Margrave went up and won cleverly. Ridden by Robin- son. Two year- old Stakes, of 20 sovs each, colts 8st 51b; and fillies 8st 21b. T. Y. C. 31 Subs. favour of the former by 28. Warwick, first, 57, second 15— 72; Birmingham, first, 22, second 22— 44. Although the Birming- ham Club were backed at 6 to 4, they found it impossible to gain runs against the fine bowling of Jones and Smith. The return match, between the 11 gentlemen of the Oakham and 11 of the Uppingham sckool- clubs, came off last Monday, which, owing to an accident on the Uppingham side, and a re- fusal on the part of Oakham to allow a substitute, was easily won by the former. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. agst brother to Maria; 8 to 1 agst Margrave ; 10 to 1 agst Bird catcher; 10 to 1 agst Byzantium ; 16 to 1 agst Physician; 16 to 1 agst Trustee; 15 to 1 agst Nitocris ; 20 to 1 agst Julius ; 20 to 1 agst Ludlow. When the jockies were assembled in the weighing- room, to receive the customary instructions from Mr. Lockwood, it was discovered that two had weighed for that mischief- making horse Ludlow, viz. G. Boast by order of Mr. Bond, and E. Wright on account of Flintoff, Mr. Beardsworth's trainer, who had retained the horse in his stable, was reported to have backed him, and was determined to have a jockey he could rely upon. An at- tempt by the other party to shift the jockey was promptly re- pulsed. After the horses had taken the usual gallop before the stand, they met at the starting post, and at the word " Go," all went off except Ludlow, Physician, and Fang ; the second at- tempt was successful, and was admirably managed. Rou< j made first running, Mr. Powlett's filly being second, Carlton third, and Birdcatcher fourth ; Trustee, Fang, Retainer, Margrave, and Ju liusj lying in a cluster behind. Going a very poor pace, they ob served this order of running to the Red House, where some shift- ing of places, and an increase of speed, were perceptible. Rouii dropped off, and Mr. Powlett's filly went " to the fore ;" Bird catcher became second, Julius showed in front for a moment, Margrave, from about the eighth, advanced to the fourth position, and Physician got among the leading horses. In a fast run race, the tailing generally begins at the Red House, but the pace was so bad, that none were beaten off till near the rails, where Lud- low was the first to cry " Peccavi;" the crack Newmarket nag, Byzantium, was the next to give up, and then Carlton. To re- turn to the Red House :— Mr. Powlett's filly kept the lead to the rails, when Birdcatcher went up, ran a few strides with her, and beat her at the distance ; in the mean time, Margrave, who was ridden with extraordinary talent by J. Robinson, had been stealing upon them, and no sooner had Birdcatcher shaken off the mare than he discovered a new and more dangerous opponent at his side. Calloway was shaking his horse, while Robinson was gently moving his, till he got up with Birdcatcher; this took place near the grand stand, and now the superiority of the jockeyship was decisive. Margrave continued to improve his advantage, and won cleverly by about three- quarters of a length. Mr. Powlett's filly and Physician came in close together, tbe filly being 3d by not more than a head, Richmond was fifth, Retainer sixth, and Julius seventh. As we before observed, the pace was wretched till after the Red House, when it increased, and at the rails was very strong. Value of the Stakes, 2,205/. The Doncaster stakes of 10 sovereigns each, and 20 sovereigns added, 3 yrs, 6st 101b ; 4 yrs 8st ; 5 yrs 8st 91b; 6 yrs and aged, 9St. 2 Miles. 10 Subs. Lord Cleveland's b h Emancipation, 5 yrs ( Lye) 1 Mr. Beardsworth's b c Colwick, 4 yrs 2 Mr. Houldsworth's br c Contest, 4 yrs ™ . ™ — ™ - 3 BETTING.— 2 to 1 on Emancipation, who made nearly all the running, and won cleverly by half a length. Wednesday Night. The betting- rooms were crowded this morning for some hours, for the purpose of settling the bets on the Great St. Leger, and a more quiet settling has not been known. There are few heavy losers, and a still smaller number of winners, for Mar- grave's reported lameness last week induced those who had backed him to hedge. He is a remarkably plain horse, with an Mr. Watt's ch c Bclshazzar, by Blacklock ™ ™ ™ 1 Hon. E. Petre's b c, by Phantom, out of my Lady ™ 2 The following also started:— Lord Sligo's b c Flame. Sir E. Dodsworth's br c by Jerry, out of Lady of the Vale. Mr. Powlett's br f, by Lottery, out of Miss Fanny. Mr Pierse's b c, by Lottery, out of Swiss's dam. Lord Kilburn's br f, Sister to Retainer. Mr. Allen's b c Rock- ingham, by Humphry Clinker. Mr. Fox's b c Larkspur, by Lottery. Duke of Leeds's c by Lottery, out of Rhodacantha. Mr. Attwood's b c by his gray Arabian. And Mr. Hall's b f, Therese, by Brutandorf. 5 to 2 agst Belshazzar ( taken), 3 to 1 agst Sir E. Dodsworth's, 6 to 1 agst Rockingham, 7 to 1 agst My Lady, and 7 to 1 agst Rhodacantha. Without a false start, they came off at a good pace, sister to Retainer leading, with Rockingham and Sir E. Dodsworth's well laid up. My Lady and the winner close behind. At the Red House the filly dropped back. Rockingham and Sir E. Dodsworth's carried on the running to the rails, where Bel- shazzar went by them, and made strong running up the distance near the stand, where My Lady and Rhodacantha made an at- tempt to catch him, but could never get beyond his shoulder. Belshazzar won by about a neck: ridden by Nicholson, My Lady by Scott. The Gold Cup, value 150guineas, added to a Sweepstakes of 10 sovs eaeh ; 3 yrs 7st; 4 yrs 8st 31b ; 5 yrs 8st 101b ; 6 yrs and aged, 9st. About 2 mile and 5 furlongs : 13 subs. Mr. Riddell's hi c Gallopade, 4 yrs ™ 1 Mr Beardsworth's be Colwick, 4 yrs- ™ ™ ™ ™ ™ 2 The following also started:— Consol 4 yrs ; Retainer, 3 yrs; Birmingham, 5 yrs ; Liverpool, 4 yrs ; Lady Elizabeth, 4 yrs. Betting— 5 to 2 agst Gallopade, 5 to 1 agst Consol, 5 to 1 agst Colwick, 8 to 1 agst Retainer, 10 to I agst Birmingham, and 10 to 1 agst Liverpool. Colwick made the run for the first half mile, followed by Gal- lopade. Conelly then drew back with Colwick behind the other, and Consol at once went to the front. He carried on the run- ning at a better pace to the distance, where Gallopade went up and beat him off at the stand. Colwick, without any chance of winning, persevered, and came in second. The race was won by nearly two lengths. Johnson rode the winner. Sweepstakes of 200 sovs each, h ft; for 3 yr- old colts, 8st 61b, and fillies, 8st 31b. St. Leger Course. 13 subs. Mr. Beardsworth's br c Wolverhampton won, beating Mr. Ridsdale's brother to Maria. Wolverhampton won easy by nearly two lengths, Match, 100 sovereigns each, pp Gentlemen riders. St. Leger course. Mr. Hopkinson's b c Napoleon- le- Grand, 3 yrs lOst 111b 1 Mr. Osbaldeston's b g Bilberry, 6 yrs 12st 6st - . - - 2 7 to 4 on Napoleon, who won in a canter : ridden by Mr. Kent; the loser by the owner. Mr. Osbaldeston has purchased the Saddler, Tutor, 2 yrs and Lady Elizabeth, for 3,500 guineas. The Saddler was backed heavily for the Cup, and was to have started ; but on going into the stable this morning, one of his legs was found very much swollen, from an injury, of which the cause is as yet undiscovered. FOREIGN. DEATH OF THE KING OF SPAIN. Accounts have been received from Paris, announcing the im- portant fact of the death of Ferdinand VII. King of Spain. The fact alone is stated, but the news is deemed probable. It is scarcely necessary to say that this event if it has occurred may lead to consequences very important to Portugal, and to the issue ofthe struggle which is taking place there.— Globe of Sa- turday. We have just received, by special express, some very import- ant intelligence from Paris. The French government has re- ceived, by telegraph, news of the death of the King of Spain. In addition to this event, which may cause a great alteration in the state of affairs in the Peninsula, the French Government has advised King Leopold to attack without delay the citadel of Antwerp, and has promised him that the French army should assist him in case of his defeat by the Dutch. Marshal Gerard left Paris yesterday morning, to take the command of the French troops on the frontiers of Belgium.— Standard of Sa- turday. That the answer of the King of Holland to the Conference was evasive and unsatisfactory is now known to be the case. It is, in fact, a mere artificial address to the exchanges of Amster- dam and Rotterdam, in the form of a diplomatic communication, and concocted with no other view than to amuse and delay, by returning to the beginning of the business and the causes of the Belgian revolution. Another Conference will take place on Monday, and there can be little doubt that something definitive will be adopted.— Globe of Saturday. It was stated in the City yesterday that a private express had been received from Paris, bringing the important news that an order had been issued by Marshal Soult, the Minister of War, after a Cabinet Council held on Thursday, at which the King presided, for the immediate marching of sixty thousand men to the extreme frontier of France, in consequence of a telegraphic dispatch, announcing that the King of Holland was marching his troops upon Antwerp. The departure of the Duke of Orleans for Brussels is said to be of a political nature. Nothing has yet been settled as to the new Ministry, but M. Dupin in expected to be President. DOMESTIC. The houses of parliament are undergoing extensive cleansing and renovations, and, in the House of Lords, some alterations. The workmen have orders to get all done by the 20th of October ;. so that, should a short session be requisite, the houses will be ready : but the re- assemblirxg of the present parliament will not take place, except it should be found that the registration of votes has been so imperfect as not to afford fair opportunities for the due exercise of the franchise contemplated by the reform acts. SPORTING. DONCASTER RACES— FRIDAY. Sweepstakes of 30 sovs each, for 3 yr olds, 1 mile. 19 subs.— Mr. Skipsey's Physician beat Sir R. Bulkeley's Birdcatcher,. and five others. Match 100 sovs.— Mr. Richardson's Tutor beat Mr. Cromp- ton's Satan. Filly Stakes of 20 sovs each, and 35 added, 8 subs. St. Leger Course.— Mr. Chiffney's Emiliana heat Mr. Gascoyne's Isabel and three others. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, and 50 added. Red House in.— Mr. Skipsey's Physician beat Mr. Kirby's Diana and Lord Kel- burne's f by Jock. Sweepstakes of 25 sovs each, 4 subs.— Contest walked over. Monday, Mr. Arthur Davenport, of Eastwood, surgeon, en- gaged for a wager of 10/. to 5/. to walk to Doncaster, to see the St. Leger race ( a distance of forty miles), and return to East- wood, within twenty- four hours, which he performed in good style half an hour within the given time.— Nottingham Review. Fox HUNTING.— The followers of this manly sport, and all those to whom it brings profit as well as sport, will be glad to learn that the Duke of Buccleuch's hounds are once more in this neighbourhood, preparatory to " taking the field" in high order, as soon as the country is sufficiently clear of the crops.— Ketso Mail. September 17. 18. 21. 22. CHOLERA IN BRITAIN. REPORT OF THE WEEK. New Casps. .. Monday 645.... .. Tuesday 314 1 9 Wednesday 340 20 Thursday 295 . Friday 340 . Saturday 313 Deaths. .. 217 .. 127 .. 100 .. 94 .. 124 .. 119 Total 2247 Cases remaining this day 1312 Total cases from the commencement. 55,711. 781 Deaths, 20,177 We beg to call the attention of our readers to the marked im- provement in our British Wines, particularly that made from Jamaica Ginger. Its Stomachic qualities will, at all times, re- commend it to the use of families. Mr. Taylor, Manufacturer,. 17, High Holborn, opposite Furnival's Inn. BIRTHS. In Dublin, the lady of the O'Connor Don, M. P. of a daughter— At Mersham- hatcli, the ladv of Sir E. lvnatchbull, bart. of a son— At Tagh- mon, county of Wexford, the wife of Mr. N. White, innkeeper, of two sons and a daughter. The children are all alive, and are, together with the mother, doing well. MARRIAGES. At the island of Trinidad, his Excellency Governor of Trinidad, to Isabella Elizabetr Grant, esq. ot Tollochgritain, North Britain- Major- Gen. Sir J. Grant, , daughter of the late A. • At Bromley, Kent, Lieut. HUNTING. The harriers belonging to Major Handley, of Calverthorpe Hall, near Grantham, are in fine sporting order, and will, we understand, hunt regularly three days a week. CRICKETING. GRANTHAM.—( From a correspondent.)— On Monday last the annual match at cricket took place at Grantham between eleven sawyers and the like number of tailors, which terminated in favour of the latter by a majority of 27 runs : the match was, as usual, laughable to the spectators. The day being remarkably fine, and a great holiday, the ground wss numerously attended. The following is a statement of the game : — Sawyers first innings ... 25 Tailors first innings .... 24 Sawyers second innings . 11 Tailors second innings . . 39 A match was played last Monday, on Saltisford Common, be- tween the Warwick and Birmingham Clubs, which terminated in Colonel Tweedy, Bombay Army, to Miss Veitch, of Bromley— At the- Chapel of the British Ambassador, Paris, J. Brogden, esq. to Ernestine Matilda Sophia, daughter of the late Lieut.- Col. W. Perks— On the 16th inst. at St. George the Martyr, Queen- square, John Middleton Meggi- son, to Emilia, eldest daughter of Sharon Turner, esq.— At Chepstow, Robert Gun Cunningham, esq. Mount Kennedy, Wicklow, Ireland, to the Hon. Arabella Eliza Pery, eldest daughter of Viscount Glentworth, and grand daughter of the Earl of Limerick— At St. James's, F. Sey- mour, esq. to the Lady Augusta I- Iervey, daughter of the Marquis of Bristol— At Twickenham, K. K. Ashford, esq. son of W. Ashford, esq.,, nephew to the Duchess Dowager of Roxburghe, to Maria Cordelia, daughter of Lieut.- Colonel and the Hon. Mrs. Espinasse, of Twicken- ham— At Luffness, East Lothian, Lord Henry Francis Charles Kerr, son of the late Marquis of Lothian, to Louisa, daughter of Sir Alex. Hope. DEATHS. At Paisley, on the 13th inst. William Gilmour, esq. Provost and eldest bailie of Paisley, aged 66— In Taunton, Mary Trewren, widow of the late T. Trewren, esq. Cornwall, and sister of Sir T. Hare, bart. Norfolk— On the 17th inst. at Leamington, Warwickshire, Lady Georgiana Buckley, in the 66th year of her age— On the 16th inst. at the Vicarage, Llangol- len, where he was on a visit to his niece, Mrs. Eyton, Field Marsha] Sir Alured Clarke, aged 87— The Right Hon. Richard Ryder, at his seat, Westbrook Hay, Herts, aged 67— On the 12th inst. at Evington, Kent,, Sir John Courtenay Honywood, bart.— On the 12th inst. after a few hours' illness, George Bettesworth, esq. Lieutenant R. N. third son of J. B. Trevanion, esq. of Carhays Castle, Cornwall. LONDON : Printed by W. A. DEACON, Savoy Precinct, and Published by him at the Office, No. 2, WELLINGTON- STREET, STRAND ; where ( only) Advertisements, and all Communications addressed to the Editor, are received.