111! 10' - iated for the WRI'DJNG r , during the WINTER on Monday, lst of October, and from 3 to 4. o be SOLD, by public roup, within the Red Lion Inn, Falkirk, on Thursday the 25th day of October, 1852, at two o'clock afternoon, ' « > " P N A T DWELLING HOUSE,- GARDEN, BOARD j of DIRECTORS of thi Lojfnox, C'abin, L. 4, 4s.; Steerage, L 2,10s., SCARRRO , Cabin, L. 2, ltts. I Steerage, L. L 5s. NUMBER 1 8 , 8 5 8 .] MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1832. [ PRICK I tOYAL CALEDONIAN HUNT, UNIVERS ITY OF ST ANDREWS . AND * F I F E HUNT. 1832. Th, Earl / LAUDERDALE, Pre... of t h . Cafe- ^ V E D ' C O L I ^ O E U follows._ The very reverend FRANCIS NICOLL, D. D. THE CLASSES for the different Briinrhcs of LITERATURE and PHILOSOPHY will Session* of the donia i Hunt. ROBERT FERGUSON Esq. of Raith, Treasurer. COUNCILLOR S. GEORGE BAIL LIE, Junior, lisq. HENRY FLETCHER CAMPBELL, Esq. WILLIAM FORBES, E WILLIAM S Esq., Secretary. Principal. fbeginnin Claim. Pub ic L a t i n - Public Greek.... Natural Philosophy j 1 Sir ALEXr. HOPE, Bart. Pretea of the Fife Hunt. STEWARDS. JOHN DALYELL, Esq, Private Latin.. JOHN WHYTE MELVILLE, Esq. O. TINDAL BRUCE, Esq. JOHN THOMAS HOPE. Esq. JOHN A IT KEN, Esq., Secretary. ( Over Cupar Course. J TIM'SDAY lbTH OCTOBER. The CALEDONIAN ST LEG E f t of TM'ENTY- FIVE SOVEREIGNS each, p p., with ONE HUNDRED SOVEREIGNS added by the Caledo- ; niau Hunt for three. year old colts, 8st. 21b. Fillies] 8st. One mile and a half. I Sir Jas. Boswell's b. c. Vyvyan by Canteen. ! Mr Ramsay's br. g. XXX by Jack Spigot, out of Brown Stout's dam. Mi W. M. Alexander's b. f. Ebony, by Jerry. Mr Johnstone's br. c. by Fitiorville ( Dons) out of Eucharis. Mr Mroolmer's b. f. Lady Louisa, Sister to Russell by Corinthian. SAMFI - DAT. The CALEDONIAN CUP, value ONE HUNDRED and FIVE SOVEREIGNS, for Scotch- bred Horses. Three- year olds, fist. 161b. Four, IWv Eis;*, fin. 71b. Six and aged, list. 101b. Jlamran « t gildings allowed 21b. Three miles. - SAME DAT. A PLATE of FIFTY SOVEREIGNS, given by the Fife Hunt. Three- year olds, 7st. Sib. Four, 8st. 51b. Five, 8st. 121b. Six and aged, 9st. 21b. Mares and geldings allowed 21b. Heats, two miles. WEDNESDAY, 17TII OCTOBfR. A PURSE of F I F TY SOVEREIGNS, given by the Caledonian Hunt, added to a Sweepstakes of 10 Sovereigns each. Three. year olds, 7 » t. 101b. Four, 8st. 81b. Five, Sst. Six and aged, 9st. 31b. Two Wiles. Mares and Geldings allowed 31b. SAME DAY. A MAIDEN PLATE of FIFTY SOVEREIGNS, given by the Caledonian Hunt, foi horses, & c. which never won before the day of entry. Threeyear olds, 7 » t. 51b. Four, 8st. 21b. Five, 8st. 71b. Six and aged, 8st. IHlb. Mares and Geldings aUowed 31b. lleats, one mile and a half. SAME DAY. A PLATE of FIFTY SOVEREIGNS, given by the Fife Hunt. Three- year olds, 7st. 31b. - Four, 8st. 31b. Five, 8st. 1 lib. Six and aged, » st. Mares and Geldings allowed 21b. Heats, two miles. THURSDAY, 18TH OCTOBER. A GOLD CUP, value ONE HUNDRED SOVEREIGNS, bv subscription of ten Sovereigns each. Three- year olds, 7st. Four; 8st. Five, 8st. 71b. Six and aged, 8st. Ullb. Mares and Geldings allowed 31b. Two miles. The declared winner of a Cup or King's Hundred in the year 1832 tocany 3ib. extra; of two or more, 51b. extra. To close on lst Octobcr, and name to the Secretary of the Fife Hunt at Cupar on the day of entry for the Plates. If under 10 Subscribers but amounting. to six, to be run as a Stake. SAME DAY. A PURSE of F I F TY SOVEREIGNS, given by the Caledonian Hunt. Three- year olds, 7st. 41b; Four, list. 91b. Five, 9st. Six and aged, 9st. 3! b. Jlares and Geldings allowed 31b. Heats, Two miles. SAME DAY. A SWEEPSTAKES of FIVE SOVEREIGNS each, with TWENTY added by the Fife Hunt, for Hmses, & c. carrying 12 « t. each. Heats, one mile and. a distance. Gentlemen riders. Members of a Racing or Fox- hunting Establishment, to close and name on the day of entry for the Plates. FIUDAY, 19TH OCTOBER. HISMAJKS'lY's PURSE of ONE HUNDRED and. FIVE SOVEREIGNS, granted to the Caledonian Hunt for any Horse, & c. Three- year olds, 8st. 41b. Four, 9st. 41b. Five, 8st. 101b. Six and aged, lOst. Fourt miles. . v SAME DAY. A Pi! ATE of FIFTY SOVEREIGNS, given by the Fife H Wt, Three- y ear ofcl. s, fist. 81b. % ur, 7st. gig. • Five; tint. lib. Six add afferf, Bst. .51b. Heats, one mile and » half. Winners during the week, once, to carry 31b., twice, 5lb. extra, and horses having started and not won during the week to be allowed 31b. Males and geldings allowed 21b. SAME DAY. A FREE HANDICAP of SEVEN SOVEREIGNS each. lleats, one mile. The horses to be named to the Secretary of the Fife Hunt, by six o'clock on Thursday evening. The weights to be declared by eight and acceptances to be signified by nine. Eight to accept, or no race. The Hotses, & c. to be entered at the Tontine Inn, Cupar, on Monday the 15th of October, between the bours of One snd Three Afternoon. Each horse to Days qf beginning, and flours uf Teaching. Prq/ tutSri. " { J ^ f U e^ { ° 8 C ' ^ 29- J Mr Alexander. November 8. j D r G a i - p i e - L 1 Private Greek { t N o .1T. e rpa. b me r . 4 } j Ml Alexander. .. - - - First Mathematics... j ' Second Mathematics j ' E D I N B U R G H A C A D E M Y , , Incorporated by Royal Charier, bth Geo. I F. RECTOR, T h e R e v e r e n d JOHN WILLIAMS, A . M . ; ; of B a l i ol CoUege, Oxford, ahd Vicar of* Lampeter, ''* Cardiganshire. THE DIRECTORS h reby give notice, that . the* ACADEMY will be RE- OPENED at the; conclusion of tbe Holidays, on Monday, lat Oc- >, Wilier next, on which day Mr Carmichael nyill open the first or'Jiiriior Class. The names of the Boys who have not hitherto attended any of the Classes of the Academy, must fie entered with Mr Milne, at the Academy, before the lst October, that the application of new entrants may be decided on, without the risk of any Boys belng* Stlmitted beyond the number limited for each Class. November 8. 12. ' November 8. 10. Third Mathematics. / Novembers. I o. a. m. November 8. 11. Mr Duncan. Logic and Rhetoric.. | Moral Philosophy... | November 8 1 Dr James Hunter. Dr Cook. j Dr Jackson. 11. Political Economy j November 8. 10 & 12. Civil History | November 8. j R e y D r F ( : r r i e. November 8. 2. p. m 1 By Moits. Me*. J tieux. in ST MARY'S COLThe Academical Annual for Session endmg* rju'iy 1832, containing the Prize Essays and Prize Poems, the Plan of the Academy and the Rector's Report to the Directors, iStc, jirice One Shilling. ' At a period when so m'rny empirical books are pitt j forth, simply because aruciety may drive the public MMi the trap, baited t. y some reference to the general theme! of apprehension, we cannot do better than recommrrrtS. a treatise of a contrary hind."— Norwich Mercury, f Review of Macaulay's Dictionary. PROTECTOR FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, 3' 5, OLD JKWRT; AND M ; « s . \ T STREET, CORNER OF JKKMYN s T R W i r, LONDON? A! » D 4 0 , m w STRKKT, * SOUTHWARK. MR FORBES HUNTEI COMMITTED B L A I R ' S Insured, without the S o l d b y ADAM Janitor's Lodge. LACK, North Bridge, and at the ADAM FERGUSSON, Secretary. Dr Haldane. Dr Mitchell. DrBulst. Chemistry, with its AppUcation Arts.... Clares for theFrencji f Language. I The PRELECTIONS LEGE will commence November 80th, T h e V e r y R e v . ROBERT HALDAKE, D . D . Principal. Systematic The- f Monday, ology I December 3. Biblical Criticism J Tuesday, and Theology .... \ December 4. Ecclesiastical His- ( T l , . „ ]„ Hebrew, Chaldaic, f Monday, T, and Syriac... I Da- ember 3. On the first Tuesday of November the FOUNDATION BURSARIES in the United College will be disposed of, as usual, by a comparative trial. And Public Notice is hereby given, that, by the will of the late Mr STEWART, a preference ou his Mortification is directed to be given to Students of the names of Stewart or Simpson. All applications for this preference must be lodged, in writing, with the Principal of the United College, on or before the second Tuesday of November yearly, together with certificates as to the circumstances of the applicants, from tbe Ministers of their respective parishes, and extracts from the session records of the entries made therein of their births and baptisms, under the hands of the session clerks. And all applications from students in Divinity, together with certificates in similar terms, must be lodged in writing with the Principal of ' St Mary's College, on or before the first of December, yearly. One of the Bursaries, founded and endowed by Dr GRAY, to be held during the ordinary course in the United College, is also to be decided by competition of the Candidates entering the College as students; but no person can be admitted a candidate or competitor for either of Dr Gray's Bursaries, who cannot translate, to the satisfaction of the Principal and Masters, some part of the Greek Testament, or of Xenophon's Memorabilia Socralis JO. HUNTER, ! Clerk to the United College. ; St Andrews, 18th Sept. 1832. __' BV ORDER OF THE HONOURABLE COMMISSIONERS OF CUSTOMS. For SALE by auction, at the Custom House, Leith, on Tuesday the 25th September inst. at noon, THE Following GOODS, viz.— 88 E f RU M K A N D Y ' ) — P1 " fi ™ 9 Do! RED'WINE, \ » ' are- . 13 Do. W H I T E W I N E , ) h0U8e8' The Goods to be viewed on the day of sale. MO N S I E U R B EL A U D , FRENCH MASTER in t h e EDINBURGH ACADEMY, begs to announce- that his CLASSES for FRENCH will Reopen on MONDAY the lst October next, at his House, No. 121, George Street. HIGH SCHOOL. r f M I E Hours appropriated 1 DEPARTMENT SESSION, commencing are from 11 to 12, 2 to 3, At the last Examination, which took place in the Hall, in tbe presence of the Right Honourable tbe Lord Provost and Magistrates, a splendid Medal, the gift of George Aitchison, Esq. College Bailie, was, after considerable difficulty, arising from the close approximation of the competitors, adjudged to Master Alexander Edward Macknight, son of the Rev. Dr Macknight, and a Silver Medal, the gift of Mr M'Kean, was presented to Master John Hill, son ofjames Hill, Esq. Windsor Street. Mr M'KEAN will resume his Classes for WRITING, ARITHMETIC, and BOOK- KEEPING, at his Rooms, No. 2, York Place, on Monday, lst . October. Hours of attendance from 8 to 9, 10 to 11, and from 12 to 2. The hour from 10 to 11 is exclusively appropriated for Young Ladies. Boarding Schools attended as formerly. In one thi- k Volume 8vo. double columns, price 14s. cloth boards, Tiie Third Edition, enlarged, corrected, and Capital, £ 5,000,000. improved, of DICTIONARY of MEDICINE, designed for j ' T H U S Company is founded . upon the principle L popular Use. | of a Division of ijt& yrofits:— Two. third » to the By Ai> L EXi ANDER. . ccM ACAULAI.- Y. 1,;. , ' rirM7, as inch, any per- FyibVofthe Royal College of SurgeonsofEdinburgh,! * » » « / liability for tones $ and One- third to the and Physician Accoucheur to the New Town Dis- i Shareholders, besides, annual Interest on tbair Depensary. I posits. " The best- work of the kind that has ever issued from the press."— Scots Times. ' f If sterling merit be the. passport to success, this work will attain the most extensive celebrity."— Rath , Herald. • j *„* Most, unqualified testimonials, in favour of i the woik, have been received from the periodical literal ture in all parts of the kingdom. It is, moreover, I tile only work of its class which has obtained the apj probation of the profession, The Medical and Surgical j Journal ( No. 9! i) characterising it as " a work calculated to accomplish all that could be wished in a popu- | lar system of medicine." | ADAM BLACK, E d i n b u r g h , a n d LONGMAN a n d C o. I London. JYotiaifXf hereby given. That Insurances which should be renewed within they will become void. • vc re. expire at Michaelmas next: ; een days thereafter, of HOUSE AND GARDEN AT SKINFLATS, TO BE SOLDwithin and PERTINENTS, at SKINFLATS, in the Parish of Bothkennar, and county of Stirling, belonging to Mr Lewis Towers, and presently occupied by his tenants. Farther particulars will be learned on application to Messrs Russel antl Aitken,' writers, Falkirk. Falkirk, 14th September 1832. R EWING Resumes his CLASSES of ELOCUTION, GRAMMAR & COMPOSITION, GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY, and ASTliONOM V, for Ladies and Gentlemen, on Monday the lst of October. Edinburgh, 59, South Bridge, opposite the College. E N G L I S H , G E O G R A P H Y , A N D H I S T O R Y, 39, D U B L I N S T R E T , ( DRUMMOND PLACE.) MR W. B A L L A N T \ N E bees respectfully to intimate, that he Resumed his CLASSES for the above branches on Tuesday, the 4th inst., and will open a Class for Beginners on Monday the lst October. Public Hours, from 9 till 11, and from 12 till two. Private Classes for Young Ladies, for History and Geography, from two till four. Boarding Schools and Private Families attended as usual. SUBJECTS IN ST ANDREWS FOR SALE. To be Soi. n, by public roup, ( in virtue of powers contained in a Bond of Disposition in Security,) withiu the Black Bull Inn, St Andrews, upon Monday^ the 5th day of November 1832, at two o'clock afternoon, ALL and WHOLE that D W E L L I NG HOUSE, lying on the north side of tho South Street of St Andrews, near the east end thereof, as presently possessed by James Swintou, wright. Apply to Andrew Bousie, wiiter, St Andrews, in whose hands are the title- deeds and articles of roup. St Andrews, 31st August 1832. : ey Receipts for such Renewals are now ready at the above Offices, and with the respective Agents to th » Company throughout the United Kingdom. WILMER HARRIS, Secretary, A G E N T S , f J A M E S T A v r . o n S M I T H , newsi paper agent. AWDREW M u m , m e r c h a n t. f A . SOMERVELL, T r u e Sun \ Office. F J A J I E S M'DOWALL, wine M « rl chant. Alex. Allan, advocate, Middlemas and Sons, merchant*., John M. Lindsay, merchant. Jas. Steven, writer. Archd. Lawson, merchant. Robt. Chipchase, d<>. '! Andrew Oliver. ( Walter Davidson. | John Miller, merchant. Peter Anderson, writer. David Kyd, writer. A. Macalistcr, jun. manufacturer. Jas. Anderson, banker. Wm. Iluttpn, writer. Edinburgh, Do. Do. Leith, Aberdeen, Dunbar, , 0 « ndee, Glasgow, Do. Do. Hawick, Huntly, Greenock and Port- Glasgow, , Inverness, Montrose, Paisley, Peterhead, . „ Stirling, TO GROCERS, & c. ASHOP, in a central situation in the west end of the town, which has been occupied by s> Grocer for some time past, will be LET, along with the GOODWILL of the BUSINESS. To an active person with a small capital the opening is excellent, and will be made advantageous, as the present proprietor is leaving town on account of bad health. Also, tb LET, A SMALL HOUSE in MONTGOMERY STREET, neatly furnished, at a moderate rent. Apply to Mr Lindores, No. 1, Prince's Street. PHCENIX FIRE OFFICE, KSTAULISUKD 1783. T MR SMITH'S ACADEMY. MR SMITH'S G R E E K and LATIN ACADEMY, 17, George Street, will be Re- opene d on M o n d a y t h e l s t of O c t o b e r , b y M r LANDERS, who has so successfully taught it for the last six months. Mr Smith confidently recommends Mr Landers to the support of his friends, as a gentleman possessing in every respect the highest qualifications for succeeding him in the superintendence of the Academy. Edinburgh, 22dSept. 1832. pay two sovereigns entry money, & s. to tbe Clerk, and Ss. ( id. for weights. No post entry. ' To start eacli day at One o'clock precisely, and half an hour aBowed betwixt each race and heat. A bugle will sound for saddling, and again for the horses coming to the post, and such as are ready five minutes after the second bugle, shall be started without waiting tor others. On sounding for saddling, the course shall be cleared, and any person attempting to cross after the second bugle shall be taken into custody. These, and the Newmarket rules and laws of racing, • hall be strictly enforced by the Stewards, by Whom all disputes shall be settled, and their decision finaL AH Dogs found on the Course shall be destroyed. ORDINARIES and BALLS as usual. P E R T H HUNT. 1 8 3 2 . Hon. JOHN GRAY, Prescs. Sir NEIL MENZ1ES, 1 <,,„„ . DAVID DUNDAS, Esq. j M e w a n U ' R. H. MONCRIEFF, Secretary and Treasurer. TH E R E will be liUN for over the NORTH INCH of P E R T H , on TiuU EtSaDiiAAYi,, 9ilTl Hn UOLC Ti OonB Er, R i. t , A PLATE of FIFTY SOVEREIGNS, given by he Perth Hunt, added to a Subscription of Ten Soereigns each. Threc- years- old, 7* t. 101b.; four, 8st. 81b.; five, 9st.; six and aged, 9st. 41b. Heats. HUNTERS, HACKS, AND GIG- HORSES, & c. To be SOLD by auction, at Mr Inglis'a Livery and Commission Sale Stables, Rose Street, on Wednesday the 2fith cult, at Half- past One o'clock p. M., ACHESNUT HORSE, five years old, nearly sixteen hands high, by Kutusoff, out of an Anthony mare ; regularly hunted last season. MISS PRY, by Fitzorville, out of a Competitor mare v equal to 12 stones, and a capital hunter. .''{. A BAY MARE, by Ranter, five years old J hunt- i ed regularly last vear, and carries a lady. ' A BLACK PONY, seven years old, by Ranter; a good lady's horse, and a capital fencer. A BAY GELDING, seven yearsold, 15. 2. high, by Don Juan; a good hunter, a capital back, and up to any weight. A I} AY GELDING, thorough bred, by Prime Minister, out of a Hambletonian mare; up to any hcunds, and a first- rate fencer. A CHESNUT ' iELDING, six years old, 15 hands 2J in. high, by Epperstone, dam by Wheateaf; a first- rate hunter, a steady fencer, and up to any hounds. A BROWN GELDING, by President, 7 years old, 15 hands 3 in. high ; a first- rate hunter, and up to great weight. A BAY GELDING, by Caleb, seven years old, 15 hands 3 in. high, with fine figure and action; a capital hunter, and up to any hounds. A CHESNUT GELDING, seven years old, 15. 2. high, by Accident, out of the Maiden's dam; an excellent roadster, a first rate hunter, and up to any hounds. All the above horses are in excellent condition, and may be seen at Mr Inglis's stables two days previous to the day of sale. The other Hunters, Hacks, and Gig- Horses, & c. will be particularised in the bills during the day of sale. Edinburgh, 20th Sept. 1832. 1 — i. FRENCH LANGUAGE. MONSIEUR CORNILLON WIN RESUME HIS CLASSES, on Monday the lst of October. 30, Castle Street. GERMAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. DR CANTOR will Reaume his CLASSES and PRIVATE INSTRUCTIONS on Monday the lst of October. The LADIES CLASSES will meet, as usual, on the 15th of October. 52, North Hanover Street. MATHEMATICS. MR ANDREW JOHNSTON begs respectfully to announce, that he opens CLASSES for M A T H E M A T I C S , THEORETICAL and PRACTICAL, on MONDAY, lst October, AT 54, SOUTH BRIOGE STREET, Opposite the College. The hours for the following Session will be—• lst Geometry Fiist Six Books of Euclid, with Plane Trigonometry. From 10 to 11, and from 1 to 2. 2d Geometry.— Of Planes, Solids, and Curve Lines, with Spherical Trigonometry, and its applications to Astronomy and Navigation. From 12 to 1. Arithmetic, Algebra, Fluxions, Differential and Integral Calculus, Landsurveying, Navigation, and the other branches of Practical Mathematics. From 8 to 9 A. M. and from 2 to 3. Principles of various Departments in Natural Philosophy.— Statics, Dynamics, Hydrostatics, Ilvdronamics, and Astronomy— demonstrated Mathematically. From 8 to 9 p. M. This Class, it is to be hoped, may be of very considerable importance to those studying Natural Philosophy as a Science. N. B.— The last, as well as the two Geometry Classes, will not be formed until Tuesday, 6th November. ROMANTIC RESIDENCE AND PROPERTY IN LANARKSHIRE. To be SOLD by Public Auction, upon Wednesday the 7th day of November next, between the hours of Two and Three o'Clock Afternoon, within the Royal Exchange Coffeehouse, ' j p H E ESTATE of HALCRAIG, in the Pa- J - rish of Carluke, and Upper Ward of the county of Lanark. Halcraig consists of 144 acres Scots, laid out in well inclosed fields of convenient size for occupation, which have been for many years in pasture, and are usefully and tastefully divided by, and interspersed with, belts, clumps, and standard wood, comprising about 30 acres. The House and Offices are very romantically placed at the top of the precipitous well wooded banks of one of those deep ravines not unfiequent on the northern bank of the Clyde, from which river Halcraig House is distant about a mile ; and as lands of considerable extent, forming one of the boundaries with Halcraig, are at present for sale, on which there is no residence, it is a favourable opportunity for a purchaser acquiring either a small or a more extensive property, without the expense of building a house and offices, as the interior arrangements of the house will be found to render it equal to the accommodation of a large establishment, and at the same time so well combined as not to be beyond the occupation of a modeiate one. The Gardens and Orchards are remarkably- well sheltered; antl being of a soil and in a county prover bial for the value of its fruit, the orchard system may be most profitably and considerably extended. Halcraig is distant from Glasgow seventeen miles, from Hamilton eight, from Lanark five, and from Carluke one, where all articles necessary for a family can be had, and through which a coach to and from Glasgow and Lanark passes daily. Coals are within a mile, and of excellent quality ; and lime also veiy near. The public burdens are moderate, and the manse and church, & c. are in good order, and the turnpike roads in all directions are admirable. In order to insure a sale, the Upset Price will be moderate; and a great proportion of it may be retained for years, on the security of the property, at a reduced rate of interest. So that, on the whole, a more desira. ble property for the residence of a family is seldom offered to the public. The house and grounds will be shown on applying to Archd. Dickson, hedger, at Scoularhall; and any farther particulars wished for may be known on appli cation to Messrs Lockbart, Hunter, and Whitehead, W. S.; or to Mr Stephen Gray, writer in Lanark, with the former of whom are the plan and measurement, articles of roup, and title- deeds of the estate. Once round and a distance. To close and name ou the day of entry. SAME DAY. A PLATE of FIFTY SOVEREIGNS. Three years, 6st. 41b.; four, 7st. 111b.; five, 8st. 31b.,;. six • nd aged, Cst. 81b. Heats, twice round. WEDNESDAY THE 10TH. 1. A PLATE of FIFTY SOVEREIGNS, given by the Perth Hunt, added to a Subscription of Five Sovereigns cacb. Three- yeats- old, fist. 121b.; four, £ s,..^< ive, list. 71b.; six, and aged, Sat. 121b. Heats, two t iles. 2. A SWEEPSTAKESof FIVE SOVEREIGNS iach, p. p., with Thirty added from the Racing Fund, for horses which have been regularly hunted last seaion with any hunting club in Scotland gentlemen riders. Heats, once round, and a distanced SAME DAY. A HANDICAP STAKES of FIVE SOVEREIGNS each, with Twenty added from the Racing Fund; heats, once round and a distance. Six Subscribers or no race. Horses to be named to the Secretary on the first day before five o'clock, P. M., and the • weights to be declared by nine o'clock that evening. Mares and Geldings allowed 31bs. for all the plates, PROPERTY IN FALKIRK FOR SALE. There will be exposed to public roup, within the Red Lion Inn, Falkirk, ou Thursday the 29th day of November next, at two o'clock afternoon, r p H E following P R O P E R T I E S in th* TOWN 1 . of F A L K I R K : - * 1. The PROPERTY on the south side qf the HIGH STREET, occupied by Mr John Boyd, and others, consisting of Dwelling- house, brew- house, 2. The KILN, MALT BARN, and GRANARY, at the WESTBURN BRIDGE, occupiifl by 31r John M'Kechnie. 3. A HOUSE, GARDEN, and STABLE, In VICAR'S LOAN, Falkirk. For farther particulars as to the titles and upset prices, application may be made to . Mr Robt. M'Kechnie, writer, Falkirk; or Mr John Arehd. Campbell, C. S., Edinburgh. FEU- DUTIES TO BE SOLD, By Public Roup, within the Old Signet Hall, Royal Exchange, upon Wednesday the 24th day of October next, at one o'clock, . TO'S COMMITTEE meet daily to « iee to the Electors in regarf t « thte icet in support of their claims, who hava neglected to produce ev>- their . claim*, are requested to lodge luments at the Committee Rooms al* « n4 those claimants whose claims i, art requested to bring their no- ' the Committee Rooms, where every Ike given to them Committee Rooms, 42, George Street, 12th September 1832. _ "" tlfff"' * 1 production Any el dence alt the necea have been tree* ofobji assistanco DISTILLERY AND MILLS OF MAINS TO BE SOLD LET. To be S o l a or LET, for such number of years as roajr be agreed upon, with immediate entry, E DISTILLERY and MILLS of MAINS, adjoining Linlithgow and the Union Canal. Tho Distillery ia fitted up in the most complete ami substantial manner, with' F f t e Stills; the machinery of tha works is propelled by a steam engine of fourtcta horse power: the mills? which consist of Meal, Flour, and Barley Mills, are in excellent order. The tenant may also get possession of extensiva Feeding Byres, Malt Barns, Granaries, See. with tha field of 7 acres, adjoining the Distillery. If not Sold or Let in one lot, they nay be I? et » . parately. Apply for particulars to Messrs Lachlan and Jamea Aitken, Falkirk. - -; ' - ~ ' " OFFICE do hereby give notice, that Renewal Receipts for Policies falling due at Michaelmas are now iii the bands of the several Agents. The HERTS and " CAMBRIDGESHIRE FIRE OFFICE haying declined Business in favour of the PIIGINf- X. COMPANY, their Agents will hencefct th act on behalf of this Office, and will exchange PHCENIX Policies for those of the former Office, as they respectively become due, without extra charge of any kind— rand in most instances at a reduced Preinium. The Agents for this Company for Scotland are— Mr Sanil. Clerk, Braebouse, Lothian Road, Edin burgh and Leith, Oi Mr John Young has ceased to be agent '' Messrs Henry and Clements Lumaden, Aberdeen Mr Chas. Graham, Annan. Davd. Louson, Arbroath. Jas. Brown, Ayr. Jas. Mitchell, Cupar Fife. Geo. Reid, Dumfries. Wm. Grierson, Dumfries and Galloway. Jno. Gabriel Russel, Dundee. Henry Gibb, Dui/ fermline. Jno. Lawson, jr. Elgin. Peter Booth, Falkirk. Jno. Olipliant Denny, Glasgow. ' ' Jno. Loudoun, do. Geo. Ogilvie, do. Jno. Buchanan, Greenock. Jas. Wilson, Inverness. Jno. Grant, Keith. Wm. Scott, Kelso. Chas. 51' Arthur, Paisley. Jas. Ker, Peebles. Thos. Robt. Sandeman, Ptrth. Jno. Niven, St. Andrew's. Jno. Telford, Stirling. • Jno. Simson, Wigtown. ARTICLES FOR THE TOILET,* ® . ATKINSON'S CURLING FLUID j T1 T DANCING. THE MISSES M. ami J. EYRE respectfully intimate to their Friends and the Public, that their TEACHING commences on Monday the lst of October. 17, Dundas Street, September 22. * T> HE following FEU- DUTIES, payable from S t . - T o . dered as two Fifties. , , fVit mTTTF « T h e Homes J r tn ho ^ n t s r . r l .1 „ FLS„„ „ r « !.- *. r j V " 1 " M J . X 1 h 3 ' WESSELS' JESUITS DROPS. IN the Navy these Drops have for near 100 years past maintained their character as a specific for the Scurvjr, Gravel, Dropsy, Strangury, Weakness, and Obstructions in the Urinary Passage, and General Debility ; but particularly for their absolute and speedy cure of a certain disease ; WESSEI. S' JESUITS DBOFS a n d S P E C I F I C REMEDY, are the only safe and expeditious Cure, and are so innocent in their nature as to require little or no restraint. The great object to be attended to is, that Patients and Purchasers should be careful in having the true and genuine Preparation, as the unsafe, unsanctioned, and dangerous counterfeits attempted to be foisted on tbe public by absolute falsehoods, are so numerous, that the proprietors request every purchaser to ask for W E S S E L S ' J E S U I T S DROPS, a n d t o be c a r e f u l t h at preparation under the name of " Dr Walker's Drops," is not imposed on them in the place of the genuine, which is distinguished fiom all others, by having on the Government Stamp, " JOSEPH WESSEI. S, St P a u l ' s ." The Drops are in bottles of 2s. 9d lis. and 22s The Specific is 2s. 9d. per pot. Sold .- by Baxter, Duncan and Ogilvie, Scott and Orr, Butler and Co., Cheyne, Edinburgh; and by all respeciable dealers in medicine. amounting to £ 105 per annum, s . ™ i , ™ n f i i . p„, fk „„ J ' , o', -^! payable from the Houses in RomiUy Place, built on October J betwixt ^ " ^ Z ^ ^ L ^ J l ^ ^ '> 2> When proper certificates will be required. Each horse to pay L. 2, 2s. of entrance money ; 5s. to the clerk ; and 2s. fid. for weights Not less than three reputed horses to start for any of the Plates, without permission of the Stewards. Gardner Hall. 2. FEU- DUTIES, amounting to £ 35 per annum, payable from the Houses in Gardner Crescent, built on the Area marked No. 9 on said plan. 3. The FEU- DUTY of £ 40 per annum, payable by To start caeh day at one o'clock precisely ; and half: trhhe » „ eTlr u; snt eGesa rdfnore r th( Ve esWeeenstt Kirk Session, from the for s a T u ^ r l t t n ' T t f T * A T ^ ^ ^ S i n t m g to £ 30 per annum, Z Z IV. orb h ^ " V horSe, 8 T I i 1 ^ u p ? n t h e payable » ' r<> ™ the Houses in Romilly Placeand Gard! without^ airii^ g » « » * rea 4 « » for others. B t Pla."' All disputes to be settled by the Stewards, and their decision final. ORDINARIES and BALLS, as usual. Entry to the Race Course by Rose Terrace. 5 num HOUSES AT RUMFORD FOR- SALE! To be SOLD by Public Roup, within the # e d Lion Inn, Falkirk, on Thursday the 25th day of October 1832, at Two o'clock afternoon, r p H E PROPERTY at RUMFORD, near J - Brightons Quarries, in the parish of Polmont and co jnty- of Stirling, belonging to James Robert, carter, consisting of D W E L L I N G - H O U S E S, OFFICes,. GARDEN, and Pertinents. Farther particulars will be learned on application to Messrs Rime) and Aitken, Writers. Falkirk i f a l k i r ^ IHhstj*. J9 » . • } . FEU- DUTIES, amounting to £ 31, 4s. pet ann, payable from the Houses in Gardner Crescent Duilt on the Area marked No. 7 on said plan. 6. FEU- DUTIES, amounting to £ 31, 4s. per annum, payable from the Houses in Gardner Crescent, built on the Area marked No. 8 on said plan. T. FEU- DUTIES, amounting to £ 35 per annum, payable from tbe Houses in Gardner Crescent, built on the Area marked No. 11 on said plan. These Feu- duties are well secured,' bver new ahd substantial property; and the entry of heirs and singular successors jsi taxed to a duplication, over and above the Feu- duty of the- j ear. For particulars apply to Francis Burke, aeconntiftfl,' 47, York Place; George Sandy, Bank of Scotland; te John Forrester, W- S. No Auction Duly. ' jvf . A VALUABLE SUPPLY IS JUST RECEIVED BY THE AGENTS, AS UNDER. TO LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, RIDING, DRIVING, PROMENADING, VISITING CLOSE ASSEMBLIES, OR ENJOYING AQUATIC EXCURSIONS. •^ HE following genuine ARTICLES are indispensible for Personal Comfort and Attraction :— ROWLAND'S KALYDOR, FOR THE SKIN AND COMPLEXION, Warranted innocent, yet powerfully efficacious, in thoroughly exterminating ERUPTIONS, TAN, PIMPLES, FRECKLES, REDNESS, and all Cutaneous Imperfections— producing adelicate W H I TE NECK, HAND, and ARM, and imparting JUVENILE BLOOM to the COMPLEXION; and affords SOOTHING RELIEF in cases of SUN BURNS, STINGS OF INSECTS, or any Inflammations. It immediately allays the smarting irritability of the Skin— diffusing a PLEASING COOLNESS truly comfortable and refreshing ; affords soothing relief to Ladies nursing their Offspring; warranted perfectly innoxious to the most delicate Lady or Infant. GENTLEMEN after SHAVING, and Travelling in Sun and Dust, will find it allay the irritating and I smarting pain, and render the Skin smooth and pleasant. Price 4s. 6d. and 8s. 6d. per bottle, duty included. *„* To prevent Imposition, the Name and Address of the Proprietors is Engraved on the Government Stamp affixed over the Cork of each Bottle— All others are spurious. ESTATES IN PERTHSHIRE. THE LANDS and ESTATES of GARTH and DRUMCHARY, in the parish of Fortingall and county of Perth, as particularly described in former advertisements, are now to be Sold by private bargain, ' Apply to'fhe Rev. Mr Irvine at Foss, by Pitlochry; or Robt. Rattray, W. S. 4, Bellevue Crescent. LANDS IN AYRSHIRE TO BE SOLD. ROWLAND'S MACASSAR OIL Is the first production of the age, and The Original and Genuine. This celebrated Oil generates ample growth ofbeautiful hair, and will sustain it in perfection through all stages of existence. Subduing all relaxing tendencies, it firmly keeps the hair in curl and other decorative formation, during many hours, unimpaired, by damp weather, crowded assemblies, the dance, or even equestrian exercise. In exposure to marine atmosphere, and in seabathing, the hair is subject to change ; a glossy appearance and silky feeling of the hair, being frequently superseded by palpable coarseness and harsh texture ; these subversive results are all averted, or removed, by this incomparable Oil— the friend of both sexes; for, while it facilitates the progress of female beauty, it enhances, by producing Whiskers, Mustachios, the graces of manhood. NOTICE— Each Genuine Bottle of the Original Macassar Oil is enclosed in a Wrapper, which has the Name and Address, in Red on Lace- work, " A. Rowland and Son, 20, Hatton Garden." Counter- signed ALEX. ROWLAND. The Bottle is enlarged, and the Prices are 3s. 6tl.— 7s — 10s. 6d. and 21s. per bottle— all other Prices, or any without the Book and Label, are Counterfeits. PARTICULAR ATTENTION to this CAUTION, on purchasing, is respectfully solicited, as the [ Proprietors cannot be responsible for the serious injury resulting from the use of base imitations now I ottered to the Public. The Genuine is Sold as above and by Mr J . Urquhart, perfumer and hair cutter, 40. i Gemble: 73, Prince's Street; Connal & Son, 25, Prince's posed at the reduced upset price of £ 3800, being less | t r e e t ; John Connal, jun., 77, Prince's Street; J. than 26 years purchase of the offered free rent. , Spence, Souh Bridge; J Robertson 142, High If the lands do not sell, they are stiU to be let from 1 ^ t r e e ; " ., A , l d e ™ "> ' "!' Martinmas next. ' ' A' , Ge£- I e ' . A ' M ^ r y d e ' J « r H2" t l < ? ' t ' Richardson, Gianetti, perfumers, W. Sturrock, George Thomson, Leith; VEGErATlVd HAIR OIL. HIS Article has long been known and very generally adopted at the toilet of most Ladies of fashion. It is generally preferred to Oils, Extracts, & c. for dressing the Hair, making it, however harsh, soft and glossy. It also eradicates the dandriff from the head, and gives such strength and elasticity to the Hair, tbat it retains its curl in exercise or in the dampest atmosphere. J CAUTION. A variety of imitations of this article Is sold in the country ; some mispelling the name, others the streets, & c.; the genuine may always be known by observing the Proprietor's Signature, and also a small Address Stamp, printed in colours, similar to a Patent Medi cine Stamp. TO THE LADIES. Tbat great disfigurement to female beauty, superfluous hair on the face, neck, or armi, removed In a few minutes by ATKINSON'S DEPILIATORY, leaving tbe skin softer and whiter than before the application. ATKINSON'S MILK OF ALMONDS. This is a highly condensed emulsion of the finest Almonds, and combines all the well known qualities of that fruit; ' it imparts a fragrant perfume, and is very refreshing in use; and, in a short time, it removes freckles, sun- burn, wrinkles, & c. from the skin, and where the skin has lost its youthful bloom, either from hard labour, inclement atmosphere, care, or sickness, It gradually, but infallibly removes every imperfection, and makes it soft, white, and even. It also allays all smarting pain, whether arising from bleak winds, or the use of strong alkaline soaps, and also to Gentlemen who experience pain in shaving, it gives immediate relief. Prepared and sold by J . & E. ATKINSON, Per. funiers, 24, Old Bond Street; and by appointment by M'f Richardson, 42, Dundas Street; Uiqubart, 38, George Street; MacBryd, Hanover Street; and Robertson, 147, Prince's Street, Edinburgh ; and most' Perfumers. FARMS IN EAST LOTHIAN ~ TO LET. THE following FARMS of the ESTATE of RL'CH LAW, are to be LET for nineteen years:— lst, The Farms of RUCI1LAW MAINS and CROOK, as presently possessed by William, Helen, and Andrew ' fait, containing nearly 180 Scotch acres, all' arable, inclosed and subdivided, with good sitt house, farm steading and offices. These farms produce as fine a quality of wheat and other grains as any farms in the county. Entry as to the houses and offices at Whitsunday 18J3, and at the separation of that year's crop from the ground as to the arable lands. 2d, The Farms of DEUCHRIE and RAMMER. SIDE, as presently possessed by James Lyle, which are understood to contain upwards of 700 Scotch acres. ' These farms have an extensive right of pasturage upon Dtrtibar Common; and as t!$ t Common is about to be divided, the'share'thereof to'be allotted to them will beheld to belohg to them in' lieu of their right of pasturage. These form one of the best store farms in the county. Entry as to the houses and grass at Whit- DWELLING- HOUSE - AND GARDEN, AT BURNTISLAND, FOR SALE. To be exposed' to SALE by public roup, within tbe Old Signet, Hall, Royal Exchange, Edinburgh, on Wednesday the 10th day of October next, at two o'clock afternoon, ' I ^ H A T large DWELLING- HOUSE, lying A on tho north side of the LINKS of BURNTISLAND, consisting of ten apartments, with Garden and Offices behind, and Plot of Ground in front, measuring in all about 15 falls. The house, which was eieCted within these few years, possesses every accommodation nedess'ary for a genteel family, and commands a most beautiful view of the Frith of Forth and adjoining country. The property holds of tha town of Burntisland for payment of a ground annual of only £ 1, 2s. 2d. and tlie entry of heirs and singular successors is taxed at the same sum. The upset piica will be moderate. No auction duty. FftHarther particulars application may be made to Mr Hutchison, town- clerk, Burntisland; Mr James Macdowall, accountant, Edinburgh ; or to William Sanderson, W. S. in whose hands are tha title- deed* and articles of roup. Edinburgh, 32, St Andrew's Square. 22d Sept. 1832. LONDON AND EDINBURGH STEAM SHIPS. To call ojf Scarbri), weather permitting, THE SO HO, Captain BAI » 4 AND The JAMES WATT, C a p t a i n JAMIESON, will sail from NEWHAVEN f< m LONDON, as follows i— SO HO, - on Saturday, 29tli September, JAM ES W A T T , on Saturday, 6th October. JAMES WATT, on Saturday, 20tli October. At five o'Clock Afternoon. The JAMES W A I T will tea re LONDON far NEWHAVEN on th « 99th September, and SOHO an the 6th October. FARES, including Provisions. Cabin, £ 4, 4s.— Steerage, £ 4, 10s. Passengers are conveyed on board, free of alt em. pence, from the Stone- Pier, Newhaven, haft an htm* before tailing, and are disembarked at the ! P> » I India Docks, London, WBEBK T H S VESSELS SO ALONGSIDE T H E QUAY. Every possible care It taken of HonaES, Carriages, and Goods shipped by these Steam- ships, whose wellknown character supersedes the necessity of any con* ment as to their speed, safety, obd comfort. Apply to Alex. Mitchell, 35, Lendctihall Street, and at the Spread Eagle Office, Regent Circus, London ; to Wm. Lyon, Dunlop Street, Glasgow; <* here, and at 13, Waterloo Place, EduiUuigb, to R. W, HAMIUTON. Newhaven, September 1832. The Second Cabin accommodation is excellent, — that appropriated for Females is immediately adjoin* ing the Ladies' Cabin. F O R L O N D O N , T h e U N I T E D K I N G D O M, Steam Ship, C a p t a i n T U R N E R, Will sail from EDINBURGH, for LONDON,- callingoffScarbro', ( weather permit, ting), on the following days s—. Friday, 5th Octobcr. | Tuesday,... 18th October, Af ' Five o'clock Afternoon. Fares, including provisions Upset Pries Reduced to £ 3800. To be SOLD by public auction, within the Crown Inn, Irvine, on Thursday the 27th day of September current, at one o'clock afternoon, if not previously disposed of by private bargain, ' j ^ H E LANDS of NEWTON and YONDER. J L TON, consisting of about 113 acres, 3 roods imperial measure, lying near the village of West Kilbride, and four miles from Ardrossan; as more par- ! i j r KM' "" S . f ' T ' n " ' ticularly mentioned in former advertisements. P ; % e o rSe . ' S t r , e e t ' M r f G e , m b l e I \ , e s " s B « t ' e r „&. Co;> T J, ... ' > 3- PNNEE S Street. I . nnnal Xr Son 9. V Prmep S In order to insure competition, the lands will be ex- \ Spence. ' by private Ayr, 21st September 1832. Sunday 1834, and at the separation of that year's crop from the ground as to the remainder of the farms. 3d, The Farm of R U C f t l ' AW WEST MAINS, as presently possessed by Messrs Amos and Taylor, containing about 110 Scotch acres, all inclosed and subdivided, with sitt house and offices. Entry at Martinmas 1833. 4th, The M1LN and MILN HAUGHS of RUCHL. VW, as presently possessed by John Wilson. Entry at Martinmas 1833. 5th, The Farm of FRIARDYKES and. WINTERSHEALDYKES, as presently possessed by William Trotter, with an extensive right of pasturage oil Dunbar Common. Entry at Whitsunday 1833 as tp the houses, grass, and pasturage, and at the separatioil of that year's crop from tlie ground as to the arable lands. 6th, The Farm of LEEHOUSE, as presently possessed by Alexander Whitehead, with an extensive right of pasturage on Dunbar Common. Entry at Whitsunday 1834 as to the houses and grass, and at the separation of that year's crop from the ground as. to the arable land. These farms lie in the parishes of Stenton and Whittingham, and are all very conveniently situated for markets, being only about seven miles from Hadding. ton, and six from Dunbar, . The Overseer at Ruchlaw House will show tbe F arms, arid offers be given in to the proprietor, This vessel leaves LONDON for EDINBURGH on the 30th September and 10th Octobcr. There is no doubt that this vessel is still the most superior en the passage, and in point of splendour and comfort is unrivalled. Her saloon is the largest apartment afloat, and is lighted with Sixteen windows, which render it most delightfully airy and cool, tending in no small degree to keep away sea- sickness. The * taprooms, which contain only two beds each, and tha Ladies' Cabins, which ate amidship, are lighted by windows to the sea. Horses are carried between decks, safe from th* weather, an advantage which no other vessel in the trade has. For freight, & c. apply at the offices. Passengers are put on board free of all expenee, from the Stone Pier, Newhaven, half an hour before sailing, and disembarked at Greenwich, where coaches are always ready to convey them up to the West End, or the City. Apply to C, Guthrie, ( f, Waterloo Place, Edia, burgh; George Bell, 157, Fenehurch Street, and Spread Eagle - Office, Regent Circus, London; or at Newhaven, to , - „ „ GEOROE MILLS. - N^ whaTen, September 1832. 04- Superior Steerage Accommodation, with Leediet* Cabins. N- B— No Swine, Sheep, or Oxen carried by thi » vessel. ' AT LEITH FOR VAN OILMEN'S LAND AND NEW SOUTH WALES, with Liberty to Call at the CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, if sufficient encouragement offer, The fine first class armed Barqiis BETSEY, 292 tons register, P. PETBIE, R. N. ( late of the Drum., more), Commander, This vessel is now on the betth at Leith for Ilobart Town and Sydney; has elegant and commodious accommodation for cabin and steerage passengers; aa< t carries an experienced aurgeon. Mechanics and others desirous of obtaining assist., ance from liovemment, to enable them to proceed hji this Ship, will receive every information on that subject from die undersigned, with copies of the forcm re., quired to make the application. For freight or passage apply to Messrs George Aitchison aud Co, Bernard Street; or jlOHN BROAD FOOT, Broker, ; HI, Quality Street, Leith. Leith July 3Q, 1832 . S C H O O N E R . ' ' For SALE, by private bargain, THL ISABELLA, , OF L E I T H, ~>.-','• 137 Tons Register, andalarge cairying vessel, newly coppns ed, anil in excellent Older in every resect;, six years old, and built, under particular inspection at Anstruther, by Mr Alexander Paton, there. Is daily expected to arrive at Montrose, wbere ia-. tending purchasers may see her, and far tart her paru. culars application may ue made to i* i_ i - o n i i i i L ' t For farther particulars apply to Mr P. Blair, writer « " ™ aruson, J . wianetti, per turners, vy. j- armS, and otters may . In Irvine; Mr James Harper, writer in Ayr'; or to • P " 1" ™ "' ^ f n h h e " ° h ' P p wl',, 1! » <= ha » ^ s c r f r , Esq": Ruchlaw House; John or David Cowan, writer, Ayr, fo whom offers f o r a sale , C T r a f ' pd m , b l U ¥ h ; P - . ^ a t t stationer, L e t h ; -- - bv Private bargain may be addressed. i faylor Ferth^ JamesMiUs, Dundeo; Hay, Mon- Richordson, writer, Haddington ; or John Kermack trose; M'Leod, Greenock; Tait, Invemosi;" and T. W 3 , K d ? n b - U r « h ' ' i Giant, pwfumer, Elgin. ; * hws will inform i at to farther particulars. Mr GEORGE MALCOLM, or> , . . . . Mr DAVID CLKPHANfc, S » OR JOHN DRY DSN and CO. L « « k. Timber Bush, Irtrith, ' . Iftpt. WI. • i O M T H E LONDON GAZETTE. FRIDAY, SEPT. 2 1. WAR OFFICE, SEPT. 21. d or Scots Fusileet F'oot Guards— Lieutenant and Captain the Hon.. H. Montagu to be Captain and Lieutenant- Colonel, by purchase, vice Fane, who retires. Ensign and Lieutenant the Honourable R. T. Rowley to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice Montagu ; Second Lieutenant R. Moorsom, from the rifle brigade, to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Rowley. 3d Foot — Lieutenant J . B. Kingsbury to be Captain, without purchase, vice Hughes, deceased. Ensign G. Bridge to be Lieutenant, vice Kingsbury. Cadet .1. C. Handfield, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, vice Bridge. 8th Ditto— J. Hilton to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Orme, who retires. 17th Ditto^ Iiieutenant R. Graham to be Captain, . by purchase, vice Jull, who retires. Ensign E. B. • Owen to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Graham. C. Edwards to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Owen. 2lst Ditto— Assistant- Surgeon H. N. Holden, from t# e Staff, to be Assistant- Surgeon, vice Bulteel, whose appointment has not taken place, 37th Ditto— Lieutenant F. Skelly to be Captain, by purchase, vice Burrell, who retires. Ensign W. Clay to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Skelly. P. F. Durham to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Clay. 3!) th Ditto— Cadet. H. A. Strachan, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Bowles, appointed to the 83d foot. : t fi. ith Ditto— Captain J . Patience, from half pay unattached, to be Captain, vice Edwards, who retires. 70th Ditto— Ensign T. Moody to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Craik, who retires. J. P. Costobadie to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Moody. 83d Ditto— Ensign the Hon. R. Clifford to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Bowles, deceased. Ensign F. W . Bowles, from the 39th foot, to be Ensign, vicc Clifford. Rifle Brigade— A. Pcrcy to be Second Lieutenant., by purchase, vice Moorsom, appointed to the 3d regiment of Foot Guards. UNATTACHED - Lieutenant Gervas Parker Busbe,: from the 15th light dragoons, to be Captain, by pur- ' chase. MEMORANDUM The appointment of Assistant- Surgeou Edward Cutler, from the half- pay of the lst Foot Guards, to be assistant- surgeon in t- he 57th foot, as stated in the Gazette of the 15th June last, has not ' taken place. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, l f f r t l SEPTEMBER. Royal Regiment of Artillery Quartermaster- Ser- ' jeant James Fife to bo Quartermaster, vice Bett, retired. BANKRUPTS. Henry Young, Southampton, builder. • John Henry Woolbert, Middlesex, jeweller. George Scott and Joseph Tomkinson, Birmingham, stationers and printers. AVilliam Sadler, Newgate Street, London, provision merchant, cheesemonger. Edward Osborne Smith, Bucklersbury, London, merchant and commission agent. Robert Dennis, Westham, victualler. Frederick Jaques, Lambeth Walk, Surrey, grocer and cheesemonger. John Sloper, Abbey Church Yard, Bath, shoemaker. Jonathan Lane the youuger, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, tailor and draper. John Walton, Kingsthorps, Northampton, maltster. John Holmes, Liverpool, Lancaster, wine and spirit merchant. Thomas Cobb, Calthorpe House, Oxford, paper maker. Jeremy Fry, Bath, carrier. William Mascord, Oxford, grocer, i John Witherby and Alexander Euler, South Shields, ship- builder. CORN AVERAGES— 3EPT. 14. Imperial Weeklv Average— Wheat, 58s. Odv f - l t a r - ley, 34s. 2< L ; Oats, I l k SKI. 5 Rye, 33s. U d .; Beans, 36s. 5d.; Pease, 38s. l d. Aggregate Average of the Six Weeks, which regulates'Duty Wheat, 60 s. 8d. ; Barley, 33s. 3d.; Oats, 20s. 5d.; Rye, 35s. 6d.; Beans, 36s. 6d. ; Pease, 37s. 9< 1. Duty on Foreign Corn— Wheat, 26s. 8d.; Barley, V2s. 4d.; Oats," 16s. 9d.; Rye, ICs. 9d.; Beans, 5 l 5 s . Cd.; Pease, 14s. Od. SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the returns made in the week ending the 18th day of September 1832, is Twenty- seven Shillings and Sixpence Farthing per hundred weight, o- Kt- iinivu of the duties of customs paid or payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain. inn; papor cauje with the publication of the day,' who knocked and the porter opened the gate, when the commissary and his men entered and went up to the Duke's apartment. His servant admitted them into the ante- room, but the Duke, who was still in bed, refused to open his chamber door. A blacksmith, who was in attendance, was then called in ; Rnd, after a few strokes with his hammer anil chisel, the commissary found himself in the presence of the Duke. The order for his removal was read ; and, making no further resistance, he was in half an hour dressed und in the post- chaise, and was driven off, escorted by a strong party of guards. It is said he is gone t o Berne in Switzerland. The Messager des Chambrcs says : — " Among the peers of France who are not openly hostile to the Cabinet, there is a certain number we are told who have formed a resolution not to attend the next session. To make up for their absence, and obtain a majority, a ricw creation of peers will, it is said, take place." This journal also says—" The government is said to have received despatches which will lead to an early movement of troops towards the north." Marseilles papers of the 1- Uh inst. state that that town was, on the 12tb, again disturbed by a violent contest which arose at the fair of St Lazare, between the Constitutionalists and the Carlists, who ore respectively distinguished by their cravats, the first wearing them of a red colour, and the others of green and white. After a short but severe battle, the red cravals remained masters of the field, hut all the shops and booths were shut, and the peaceable part of the community retired to their homes. A quarter of an hour afterwards, louil shouts were heard to issue from the Cafe' Mazan, in the Rue ties Recollets, where a large crowd immediately assembled, and where also a shot was fired. It appeared that the green and white cravats had taken shelter in the coffee- hou^ e, which became surrounded by their ndversaties, and a young man conceiving himself insulted, fired a pistol at tho master of the house. Tbe crowd was, however, soon dispersed bv. the arrival of a commissary of police, with detachments of the line und of gendarmerie. On the 13th the - disturbances were renewed, but quickly quelled by the interference of the armed force, and the Cafe Maztin was ordered tobe'closed. The Semaphore adds—" At the moment of going to press, the scenes which took place the day before yesterday seem on the point of being acted over again with greater violence. Numerous groups ore forming, and parties of gendarmerie parading the streets." ( From the Messager des Chambres.) Paris, Sept. 20. There is a report of a courier arriving to Government, which will lead to an approaching movement of troops towards the northern frontier. There has been a question as to M. Decazes taking the Presidency of the Council; but it may be doubted whether, in the present state of affairs, the Duke would wish to have the responsibility of their direction. subjects, then it is clear that the monarchical principle in Europe will be vanquished, and that the time cannot be far distant when those who now permit attacks on thrones will find their own fall from beneath them." We may couple with these remarks the following extract of a letter from the Hague, dated the 12th inst. which appears in Galignani's Messenger : — "' Last night dispatches were received, by express, from General Chasse, by the Minister for Foreign Affairs. In consequence of this unexpected arrival, and of a Council of Ministers held this morning, at which the King presided in person, reports have been spread that hostilities with Belgium are on the point of being renewed. Nothing positive, however, has yet transpired as to the purport of General Chasse's dispatches. Orders have been sent off to- day to the head- quarters, and also to the advanced posts; and the Prince of Orange will leave this city to- morrow to review the whole line. Three extraordinary couriers were sent off in the course of the day ; one for Berlin, another for Vienna, and the third for St Petersburgh." DUTCH PAPERS. FRANCE. ( From Galignani's Messenger of Monday.) Yesterday the Secietary General of the Prefect u r e o'f Pollcp, accompanied by two officers, went to the residence of the Duke of Brunswick, to dc- • liver him an order to leave Paris in 24< hours, and France within five days. These gentlemen were not admitted into the Duke's presence, who still maintains that he is not a refugee, and therefore the laws relating to refugees are not applicable to him. He persists in declaring that ha will Hot take his departure until compelled by force. It is reported that a clerk of tho War- office has just been arrested, on the charge of having com- ' mutiicateif important orders to tho insurgents in La Vendee. Tha Duchess de Coigny, mother- in- law of General Sebastiani, died ii-: fe\ v days ago. It is saitl that goltl to the amount of 500,000f. was found in her apartment. • •-.•' ( From Galignani's Messenger of Tuesday.) • A courier from Madrid arrived at tha Spanish Embassy on Sunday, with letters from t h , t capital to the 1 Ith, anil from Oporto to the 6th insl, The army of Don Miguel was very much discouraged, and dared not act on the offensive; the Commandant Lopez ( la Rigna, having little confidence in the fidelity of the soldiers, had applied to his Sovereign for new reinforcements. In a dispatch addressed by the General- in- Chief of Don Miguel's army to the Minister of tho Marine, he states, that unless the mouth of the Douro be blocked up, it will be impossible for him to attack the rebels, whose forces tire continually increasing. Don Miguel, afraid of sending out his fleet, as Admiral Sartorius is still cruising off the Tagus, has sent the dispatch of the General- in- Chief to Madrid. This dispatch, it is said, was accompanied by a letter from Don Miguel to his uncle Ferdinand, by which ( he former proposes the sending of some Spanish vessels to the Douro, under the pretext of ill- treatment said to have been offered to the Spanish Consul. The affairs of Don Pedro are taking a favourable turn. If the enemy Venture an attack, he will be defeated. A retreat without attacking would be fatal to him, and a state of inaction would not be much better. The accounts from Spain are not very satisfactory. It is asserted by letters from Madrid, that in Andalusia Jose Maria's hand of Guerillas is increasing, and that two other chiefs have raised the standard of liberty. I t appears that the courier abovementioned brought instructions for Count d'Ofalia to urge the conclu- Hon of tho Portuguese affair, as a prolongation of the struggle might be of serious consequences to Spain. Tuesday, One o'clock P. M. About six o'clock ihis morning a detachment of tha Garde Municipale, accompanied by the necessary authorities, repaired to the residence of the Duke of Brunswick, on the Boulevard Italien. Two travelling carriages were in waiting-. Two of the guards proceeded to the door of the apartment, and having gained admittance without violence, desired the Duke, who was still in bed, to dress himself and accompany them. No violence w « 9 used; and the Prince, accompanied by an officer of the Municipal Guards, preceded and followed by a detachment of the same force, drove along the Boulevards and Rue Lafayette at a rapid rate, towards St,] Denis, in one of the carriages, which was followed' hy the other. ( From Galignani's Messenger of Wednesday.) His Excellency Lord Granville had on Monday1 an audience of tho King, accompanicd by the Minister for Foreign Affairs. The following are correct particulars of the arrest of Duke Charles of Brunswick, which took place yesterday morning:— He resided, in an hotel which l a s tivo entrances, one at No. 15, Boulevard des Capucines, and the other ill the Rue Nettve St Au- JT- istin. By six o'clock a party of the Municipal Guards and a post- ehaise were in the street ; a emmissnry of police, with some officers, were on h e boule vard. Tlio gates of the hotel befog still ' i l u t , the party waited till the distributor of a tnirn- ( From the Private Correspondence of tlie Standard.) Paris, Sept. 16. The Quotidienne of this morning states, that it is reported that the Government has given the most severe orders relative lo i h e Duchess of Berry, and thai if she shall be arrested these orders will be carried into effect. The Quotitlienne then adds, that it trusts the Government will contAidict the t r u th of these reports, since no one more than its party desires that there should not be an insurmountable barrier between the present and the future. What the Quotidienne means to say by this is evident: that it relies with confidence on the return of Henry the F i f t h ; that what has been liit h e t to done bv the Orleans family may be pardon- 1 ed ; and that it only hopes that such measures will not be taken against the Duchess ' of Berry as to render at some future day a pardon impossible. I t is very possible that this article may subject the Quotidienne to a prosecution; but 1 have cited it because it expresses the views of a very large party. The Journal de3 Debats ( the court journal, as well as the ministerial organ) states in so many words to- day that some changes will be made in the Cabinet. It says that in the present Cabinet some hesitation and timidity still exist, but that these evils will disappear both in the Cabinet aud the Chamber when a ministry shall be chosenfrom among < lail the capacities of t h e majority." It willnothear of M. Odiilon Bnrrot beingcalledin to aid the present Cabinet, for it says, that would be to introducea principle inimical to those of the majority. The Debats appears to me lo forget t h e character of t h e tr. en and o f t h e nation of whom it speaks. It is very true that there was a majority last session for the foreign policy of M. Casimir Perier— but he ( lied, and after his death no votes were come to which could decide the- question of whether the majority remained after Perier was dead. The cholera arrived al Paris— the majority ran away— and the opposition members were more numerous than those called ministerial. The mere fuel by itself, that the French Chamber of Deputies was ministerial last year would, lo. those who know and study the French, be an argument againsl a majority in the approaching session. From the whole o f t h e article in the Debuts, it would appear evident that tho new cabinet is to be less instead of more democratical; and that an attempt is to be made to secure a " T. ouis Philip royalty" majority in the Chambers. Whether this plan will succeed we shall see hereafter. The Debals states that ihe moment for convoking the Chambers approaches, and that before that period the cabinet must he re- organized. It is said that M. Dupin will not consent to M. Monlalivet, M. Sebastiani, or M. ( le Gerard l'Ain, remaining in office; and thai their dismissal must, therefore, be considered as sure. All parties now admit that the schism in the ministerial camp is real,— and all equally admit that there is a coolness between the French and English Governments, in consequence of the refusal of tlje latter to take coercive measures against the King of Holland, for fear of being beaten at the approaching English elections should it have involved Great Britain in war. The Hague, Sept. 17- General Chasse received, on the 13th, an answer from the Governor of Antwerp to his letter of the 10th, which we gav » in a former number of our journal, which answer we hasten to communicate to our readers : — " Antwerp, Sept. 12. " Sin,— Since the suspension of hostilities you have been constantly engaged in strengthening the works of the citadel. - This has not been confined to the erection of defensive works within the circuit o f t h e place, but the outer works hive also been considerably strengthened. The same is the case with the points which you occupy on the left bank, especially the Tete de Flandres, where workmen are at this moment employed, and which is being armed with mortars that are brought on the Scheldt from Holland. A considerable number of cannon have been brought the same way to the Citadel. You have thus changed the status quo, and made use of an opportunity which was never granted under such circumstances. I have made no opposition to this because my Government seems to avoid irritating disputes. I require on my side the same line of conduct with respect to the fortress of Antwerp, which is no less threatened by the Citadel, by the forts on the left bank, and by your naval force, than the Citadel is by the garrison of the fortress. Besides, as this fortress, on the sides where it is the most threatened, has no point, I , long charged with its defence, am justified, and absolutely bound to provide against this defect. Depending on my rights, 1 shall not yield to unjust threats, from whatever quarter they may come, and shall continue to fulfil the duties that my post imposes on me. I reject the responsibility you would lay on me, and let it fall on you. ( Signed) " BAZEN. " To General Baron Chasse, Governor of the Citadel." We hold iL necessary to contest the assertion that thpre is any similarity between tbe strengthening of the Citadel and the Tete de Flandres and the works erected to attack the Citadel; but it deserves to be mentioned, that the new works and the mortars, which the Governor of Antwerp thinks he perceives at ihe T e t e de Flandres, consisl of a si age erected for the exercise of a company of ropsdancers, who have come to amuse the garrison. I l appears, from this correspondence between General Chasse and the Governor of Antwerp, that hostilities between the Citadel and the town depend on the enemy's Continuing or not continuing the works for the attack of Ihe Citadel. The General's reports of the 14th and 15lh state on this subject that no farther prosecution whatever o f t he works had been observed. E N T E R T A I N M E N T T O T I I E I R M A J E S - T I E S . The Master of the Horse gave a splendid banquet to the King and Queen, the Royal Family, and a select Court circle on Monday last, at Hampton Court. The'r Majesties, accompanied by the Duke of Gloucester and the Princess Augusta, attended by Sir Andrew Barnard, Sir Benjamin Stephenson, Lady Mary Taylor, and Miss Hope Johnstone ( Maid of Honour in Waiting), arrived at four o'clock from Windsor, and were met under the portico of the Stud- bouse by Lord and Lady Albemarle, who conducted them to the grand drawing- room. At five the royal party went in three pony phaetons to view the paddocks, and drive round the beautifully diversified walks in the park. The first contained " the King and the Earl of Albemarle; in the second were the Queen, the Princess Augusta, the Duke of Gloucester, the Duke of Norfolk, and the Countess of Albemarle; and in the third were Sir Andrew Barnard, Lady Caroline Keppel, Miss Hope Johnstone, and Lady Mary Taylor. On their return the royal party were greeted with the loudest acclamations by the populace assembled in the park. Covers were laid for 24 in the library, where dinner was served at seven o'clock. Just as the distinguished guests had finished their ramble the Duke and Duchess of Cumberland arrived from Kew. Prince and Princess Lieven, the Duke of Norfolk, the Earl and Countess of Errol, Viscount Palmerston, Viscount Melbourne, Lady Mary Fox, and Captain Woolmer, were invited to meet their Majesties. In the evening there was an accession of guests, including the Duke of Somerset, and the Ladies St Maur ( from Wimbledon), Lady Emily Montague, Mrs Woolmer, and Mr Motteaux. At half- past ten the King and Queen, accompanied by the Princess Augusta, took their departure for Windsor. The Duchess of Gloucester was absent in conseqnence of indisposition, and the Duke of Sussex is on a tour. A match at cricket, between 11 of Teddington and the same number of Hampton Wick, was played in the Park, and won by the former. This amusement was got up in hononr of their Majesties' visit to the Stud- house, which the King has recently inspected, with a view to several improvements. HOLLAND AND BELGIUM. ( From the Times.) The chief point of difference between the project of the King of Holland and the treaty o f t h e Conference, relates to" the [ navigation of the Scheldt. Holland claims a peaqe, or'toll, for her right of sovereignty over the mouth of the river. Belgium objected to this peage at first, when claimed as a right, and still objects to it, on the ground of its proposed amount, and its mode of levy. Upon reconsidering, however, the 9; li article of the treaty of the 15th of November, to which Belgium has agreed, it is found that it is not inconsistent with the alleged right of Dutch sovereignty, and all the members of the Conference are prepared, it is said, to give an interpretation of their own words favourable to the pretensions of Holland— It is farther alleged that Hanover levies a similar duty at the mouth ofthe Elbe, and that all states similarly T I I E ARMY. A court- martial is ordered to assemble al Chatham Barracks to try Captain Burchell, o f t h e 3il foot, on charges preferred by Assistant. Surgeon Whitmaish, of Chatham Yard, for ungentlcmanly and unoflicer- like conduct towards the latter, whilst Captain Burchell was on duty, as Captain of the military guard, in the Dock Yard. The late venerable Field- Marshal Sir Alured Clarke, whose dissolution took place at Langollen on Sunday last, at the advanced age of eighty- seven, entered the army as an ensign seventy- three years ago, in 1759, and after passing through the subordinate ranks, he was appointed to the Lieutenant- Colonelcy of the 7th foot, 1777. lie was advanced to the rank of Major- General 1790, Lieutenant- General 1797, Colonel o f t h e 7th fusileers 1801, General 29th April 1802, The death of the right honourable Richard Rf'tler, who expired on Tuesday last, at his seat, WSstbrook Park, Herts, has occasioned a vacancy in the valuable sinecure of Registrar of the Consistory Court. The right lion, genllernan started ill life as the participator o f t h e political opinions of his elder brother, the Earl of Harrowby, and, under the Administration of Mr Perceval, was ap pointed to t h e high office of Secretary of State for the Home Department, which he resigned in 1809, when he was replaced by Viscount Sidmouth. Mr ltyder, on the nomination of the Liverpool Mini slry, was re- appointed a Lord of Ihe Treasury, having first accepted that office in 1807, on the accession of the Duke of Portland lo the Premiership. He was succeeded tit the Treasury, in 1814, by Earl Bathurst, but did not finally retire from public life until the election of 1831, when he withdrew from the representation of Tiverton, for which borough he was returned to nine Parliaments, as the nominee of Lord Harrowby. In the last return of the civil and military offices, there was no detailed account of the Ecclesiastical Courts, con sequently the emoluments of the Registrarahip of the Consistory Court do not appear in that docu ment, bill it is supposed to be worth many thousands per annum. The right honourable gentleman has left an only daughter by his marriage with a daughter of Sir John Skynner. Mrs Ryder died in 1821. orders of General Craig, the Cape of Good Hope. Sir Alureil arrived only during the unexpected struggle with the Dutch. The Colonelcy of the 7th fusileers and the insignia of a G. C. B. have fallen vacant by his death. . , Field- Marshal 21st August 1830. The services of Sir situated demand such a recognition of their right ot | Alured were not remarkable for their brilliancy. He sovereignty from foreigners entering their internal s e r v e d in the East Indies, where he was invested with waters. The stipulations of the Congress of Vienna, t], e command of the army that captured, under the which declared the freedom of navigable rivers, lievfcr - • » • meant, it is argued, to interfere with such rights— Though this point does not appear to us to be made out, and though the Scheldt ( being, so far as it touches Dutch territory, an arm ofthe sea) would appear to be an exception, the Belgic Government would not have acted with prudence, had it resisted such a high authority as the Conference in the interpretation of their own act, and is understood to have consented to the peagc, upon condition— lst, that it shall be moderate, as fuaranteed by the treaty of Vienna; 2d, thar it shall e levied as an annual contribution to the Dutch Government, according to the number of vessels which enter the port of Antwerp, or separately on every vessel, by the Dutch Consul in that port; and 3d, that there shall be no right of visit or any of the vexations of delay, to add to the inconvenience of the peat/ e— These conditions have been transmitted to the Dutch Government, as terms which might be agreed to by Belgium for the sake of peace. In offering them, or allowing them to be offered, the new King of Belgium sacrifices no acknowledged right, and abandons no material interest of his Crown, or of his people. His late Cabinet ( if they are already changed) are universally known to entertain the same sentiments, but they, having given a pledge to the Chambers that they would not treat, directly or indirectly, with Holland, till the Belgie territory was evacuated, find themselves bound in honour to withdraw, in order to permit others to treat. If the King of Holland is not satisfied with this further concession, he will show to all the world that it is not Dutch rights and Dutch interests which he consults, but the gratification of his own obstinate temper, or the cravings of his own ill- omened ambition. MANIFESTO OF THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT AGAINST TIIE KING OF HOLLAND. ( From the Standard.) We have received the following communication from Paris, from a quarter which is generally well informed:— " The French Government has at length decided on having recourse. to coercive measures against the King of Holland. This you may consider as a fact. Yesterday, however, this decision is said to have been embodied in the shape of a manifesto, and some persons state that such manifesto has been signed by Lord Granville on the part of the Government of Great Britain. The measures of coercion to be taken are therefore no longer those which the Conference of London would authorise, but only those which the French, or the French and English Governments, may conjointly adopt. 1 confess I am anxious not to believe, even to the last moment, that the Whigs have involved Great Britain in a war on the Belgian question. At the same time I am bound to add, that I fear they have resolved on this proceeding. You will remember that I stated to you some days since, that the British Government, having refused to make war against tho King of Holland, and having subsequently proposed to . the French Government to recognise the Government of Donna Maria of Portugal, had received for reply, that as the British Government was not anxious to bring the Belgian question to a speedy settlement, the French Government was on its part not prepared to hasten the settlement of the Portuguese question. It is stated that the result of that determination on the part, of France has been to induce the Government of Lord Grey to give directions to Lord Granville to concur with France in taking coercive measures to force the King of Holland to evacuate Antwerp and to sign a treaty. I repeat that I still hope that the Whigs'may prove that they have not joined in this measure, but I am hoping against hops when 1 say so. Thus the principle of legitimacy is to be attacked by Great Britain and France in Portugal and Belgium, and a war with Russia, Prussia, Spain, and Holland, not to say Austria, is to be risked, in order to secure a majority in the French Chamber of Deputies. The part which Russia and Prussia will now take must of course decide the question of European peace or war. " If the Governments of Berlin and of St Peters, burgh, as well as of Madrid and Vienna, shall unite with Holland and Portugal against France and England, tha war must be long and bloody, and the triumph of legitimacy must be ultimately certain. If, on the - other hand, the Governments of Prussia and Russia shall look oil as spectators, and shall see the • King of Holland compelled to sign a treaty, which, . when signed} must greatly injure the trade, commerce, and credit, as well as prosperity and happiness of his AFRICA. A letter from Tripoli of August 3d states—" Affairs here present a singularly complicated appearance. The country is in open revolt; the town is a prey to, anarchy, is besieged by tha rebels, who have seized tbe neighbouring forts. The Bey is shut up in tbe Casouba, and we do not know what will be tbe result. " You are aware that on fhe 25th of July an English frigate and two cutters came here to demand the payment of 200,000 piastres, due to the English Government. The Bey, whose treasury is empty, finding it out of his power to satisfy the demands of the English, has endeavoured to lay a tax on the inhabitants of the country of Tripoli, which has given rise to the revolt. The population ofthe territory of Tripoli is about 55,000 inhabitants, all living in happy ease on the fruits of their agricultural labours. They are much more attached- to the soil than the Arabs of the inland tribes, anil seem anxious to live in peace and quietness; they are, in consequence, chiefly intrusted with the defence of their Governor anil their territories, against the attacks of the inland tribes, and those coming from the mountains. They are also intrusted with the levying of taxes on the distant tribes; and in return for this service, the inhabitants themselves have been up to the present exempt from paying them. " Tormented hy tbe demands of the English, the Bey, without paying any regard to these immunities— instead of taxing the distant tribes, thought it would be easier to place a tax on ihe population of the outskirts of Tripoli. But immediately a general discontent was manifested ; and the English consul had hardly quitted the town, when the inhabitants o f t h e country marched in open rebellion on the town, to demand the suppression of a tax contrary to their privileges. The Bey having refused, they have proclaimed him dethroned, and havo chosen in his stead his son in law, a young man much beloved in the country, and who lias succeeded in gaining the confidencc of the Arabs. The gates of the town have been closed, but the besiegers have taken possession of the neighbouring forts, and from thc- nce fire on the walls of ihe Casauba. This" war lias already lasted some days, and it seems that it will not end favourably to the Bey. " It is to he feared that the distant tribes, drawn hither with the hope of pillage, will unite with the rebels, and succeed in forcing their way into the town. We are in the greatest alarm. There is a party in the town favourable to the besiegers, and it is feared that this party will succeed in opening the gates to the enemy; to prevent treason, the gats facing the country has been walled up, but stili we aro hy no means safe." The private letters by Ihe Flanders mail, which arrived this morning, and those by a Dutch mail, which were delivered late in the afternoon, tend in both instances to confirm the notions prevalent these two or three days past in the cit v, of an approaching crisis in regard to the much- agitated question of Holland and Belginfn. Indeed, we find it positively stated in Ihe private correspondence from the Hague, that ths King of Holland has dispatched an official communication to the British Government, in which he announces his determination to decline all farther negotiations on the subject. He is willing, as it is farther stated, to adhere to the propositions made in J u l y last for a modification of the conditions put forth hy the London Conference, but he will neither permit any deviation from them, nor listen to any new propositions. Iti the Brussels letters, though the intelligence is less specific, there is a general impression that the resignation of M. rle Meulenaere, antl the appointment of General Goblet to succeed him in the Ministry, are the prelude to some equally decided . step on the part of the Belgian Government COLONEL GEORGE LI. OYD H O D G E S — C o l o n el Hodges entered tha British army at an early age, as an Ensign in the 01st foot, and soon after exchanged into the 3d dragoons, ill which regiment he served in all the Peninsular campaigns ; but for a considerable part of thai interesting period he served on the personal staff' of the late Major- General Sontag, and also on the staff of Major- General Cox, then Governor of the fortress of Almeida ; he still held an unattached rank in the British army, and it was during his sojourn in Portugal, during the late war, that he made that collection of Portuguese music so much admired, and lately published under the head of *' Portuguese Melodies ; " and until he lately went to Portugal, at tbe head of the British volunteers, he was Ihe editor and principal conductor of the Court Journal, published in London. Colonel Hodges is t h e intimate and personal friend of Mr O'Cave, the member for the County Tipperary Dublin Paper. The German Universal Gazette, published at Stultgard, and the Friend of the People, published at Hildburghausen, antl edited by the ingenious Meyer, tire to be suppressed. It seems, therefore, that the censorship is not a sufficient guarantee, since papers subjected to it, ( the two in question showed frequent marks of its ravages,) are suppressed. In the Duc'ny of Nassau an invitation not to. pay taxes is propagated. The government of Nassau has caused very strict investigation to be made, and we hear that it has found a clue to discover the persons who spread this invitation, and several arrests have taken place Nuremburg Correspondent, Sept. 10. The following communication, relating to the arrangements for the conveyance of the Hamburgh mails, has been received from Sir Francis Freeling bv the Committee :— " General Post Office, Sept. 19, 1832. " SIR,— I am commanded by my Lord, the Post Master General, to acquaint you, for the information of the Committee of the Society of Merchants trading to the Continent, that his Grace has completed an arrangement according to which the Mails for Hamburgh will be sent, by steam vessels, twice each week during nine months of the year, and once during the remaining three months, which arrangements will commence with the Mail of Tuesday next. " I am, Sir, your obedient servant, " THOMAS F R E E L I N G , Sec. " To John Hall, Esq." CHOLERA MORBUS The following Is t h e official return of the cholera for the country, issued this day by the Board of Health .-— Remaining at last report 1452, new cases 349, deaths 124, recoveries 266, remaining 1402. Total from the commencement of the disease ; Cases, 55,398; deaths, 20,058. At Groningen the disease is severe; from the 10th to the 12th there were 159 cases, G5 deaths 31 recoveries ; remaining 63. I t is theintention of the Central Board of Health, at the termination of the present week, to state in their daily publication of cholera cases the totals only, without specifying t h e names of places or districts in which they occur. Bv this arrangement it is to be hoped that the different communities which have, for various reasons, omitted to forward to the Board the necessary returns of cases will do so without delay ; a measure absolutely necessary for obtaining an accurate statistic account of the calamity fromits commencement THE WINE TRADE.— In consequence of the delay- which has occurred in the abolition of the prisage and butlerage of wine- duties ( long a subject of complaint at this port), Mr Ewart addressed a letter to Mr Spring Rice, earnestly calling the attention of the Treasury to the subject. Mr Rice bas returned the following answer to Mr Ewart's l e t t e r : — " Limerick, Sept. 14, 1832. " MY DEAR SIR,— Your letter of the 7th has followed me here, and I have written to the Treasury, giving directions that immediate steps should be taken to give to your town and district the benefit of the arrangements respecting the purchase of the prisage and , butlerage of the Duchy of Lancaster. Indeed i am 3. To defend ' at a loss to conceive why this was not done already. ' Believe me, my dear Sir. Yours, faithfully, ( From the Standard.) Our suspicions that the French Government has an intention of interfering in a hostile manner in Belgian affairs, and, if possible, of dragging England with her as an ally into the contest, are not abated by the moderate tone which is adopted by some of the leading Government organs in this country. We perceive in them an attempt to wheedle the King of the Netherlands into a compliance with the hard terms imposed upon him by the London Conference, on the ground that they have gradually narrowed into com parative unimportance ; and if he does not consent to yield such trifling matters, he is threatened with being accused of obstinacy and stupidity, not by a regard for Dutch rights. His Majesty's motives are differently appreciated in Holland, where these trifling affairs are considered nothing more nor less than the sacrifice of Amsterdam and Rotterdam to Antwerp. The King of Holland well knows that but for " his obstinacy" he would not have obtained a single point, but, on the contrary, have been treated with flagrant injustice antl contempt; and will, no doubt, persevere in'the course which he lias found already so. successful. We well know that there is a party in France anxious for nothing so much as a war, which would enable them to gratify their favourite project of extending the frontier of France to the Rhine ; but we hope that even a Whig Ministry would not be found willing to aid them in such a project. In case, however, such madness were permitted to prevail in our councils, the consequences predicted by our corrcs. pondent would infallibly occur, and the Prince of Orange would not appeal in vain to the Courts of Berlin, Vienna, antl St Petcrsburgh for support. A bloody and universal war would indeed be the immediate result of such insanity. We hope, however, especially as the season is so far advanced, that peace will be preserved after all, and that no warfare more sanguinary than that of probability will take place. In the end we are confident that, if the King of Holland persists in his present attitude, he will obtain all that he demands. Since the above was written, we are informed thtt our fleet off Ireland bas been ordered to Portsmouth, to take in water, < 5cc. aud to proceed to tile Scheldt ; anil a letter has been received from Portsmouth, stating that they are more busy iu the dock- yard than for some time past. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. FALMOUTH, September 18—- Wind W. to N. fresh breezes ami squally. Sailed his Majesty's steamer Echo, for Oporto, having on board the Marquis Palmella. SIIEERNESS, Sept. 19 The barque Camden has embarked 180 convicts for New South Wales. The guard consists of 29 men of the 21st regiment ( the Royal North British Fusileers), Blajor Fairweather, Lieut. Duff, and Assistant- Surgeon Davidson ; the Superintendant, Dr Sterrit. GIBRALTAR, Sept. 3.— The Two Sisters, and' Express, both from London, sailed from hence Saturday, for Malta. It appears that the SpantArils had threatened to close the communication if Ihewff vessels were allowed to remain. Of course vesseisffrom London, bringing clean bills of health and srfscfeptible cargoes, are admissible. NAVY CONTRACRSII- The Commissioners of the Navy yesterday took contracts for supplying beef antl pork for the use of the navy. The quantity required was 8000 tierces of beef, and 5500 tierces of pork. . V good- deal of competition took place for the contract, and many tenders were sent in. The house of Callaghaii, of Cork, were, however, declared to be successful bidders, and they have obtained the contract at £ 6, 4s. per navy package, fyr beef and pork. This is a much higher price than tSiat given at the last September contract, when 4900 tierces of beef, and 19,000 of pork, were taken at £ 6, 2s. 9d. for the latter, anil £ 5, 6s. 9d. per tierce for the former. The squadron under the command of Sir Pulteney Malcolm sailed from Cork on Saturday morning, after receiving on bciard for a few minutes a number of tho respectable inhabitants in order to gratify their curiosity. F'our . or five vessels, however, are to be on the Cork station during the winter. The Lord Wellington East Indiaman, a large ship of upwards of 1400 tons burden, has been lately purchased by the agents of Don Pedro, after having made several voyages to the East Indies, and is now being enlarged, altered, and repaired, at the ship building yard of Messrs Cox and Curling, at Limehouse. This fine vessel will be pierced for sixty gunsj and will in fact be transformed into a line- of- battle ship, sufficient to cope with tile largest man of war in Don Miguel's service, and will prove, when completed, a powerful reinforcement to the fleet of Admiral Sartorius. A great number of shipwrights are employed in getting her ready, and from the activity of the artificers, it is expected she will be ready to sail for Portugal, with sails, stores, and rigging complete, by the end of the present month. A smaller vessel, destined for the same service, has also been purchased for Don Pedro's navy. A quantity, of ammunition and stores is daily leaving the river for Oporto, in aid of the Constitutional forces. LONDON, S E P T E M B E R 21. We hear that those Ministers who are now ah sent from town will return early in the next month, when a Cabinet Council will be held, at which the time for tile dissolution of Parliament will be fixed. It will most likely take place very early in December.— Globe. Considerable satisfaction is felt at the Tre'asnry at the financial returns for the present and the last month— they are said to excecd the most sanguine expectations. In the course of two or three day9 they will be made up for the information of the Premier and the Chancellor of tha Exchequer.— Morning Herald. " On Sunday last, the Duchess of Angoulemc and Mademoiselle, tho daughter of the Duchess of Berry, landed at Rotterdam, and proceeded to the Loo.- In consequence of orders from the Court, they were received with marked distinction by the civil and military authorities. The papers are particular in giving the Duchess the title of Dauohiness. No account has been received by the agents of Don Pedro in London of the appearance of consti tutional guerilla parties in Andalusia; but the news of such a demonstration in favour of Don Pedro is considered highly probable, as it is the necessary consequence of the footing which the Emperor has obtained in Portugal. Msjor Lawson, who came home from Oporto on leave, in consequence of differences, as we are in formed, with Colonel Hodges, is about to return to Portugal, accompanied hy a general officer of considerable experience, under whose command Count Villa Flor served during the war. Several hundred effective men, who have enrolled themselves under Don Pedro, will go out with these gallant officers. A political association is forming at Paris to defend the press. Its objects are said to be— 1. To endeavour to obtain the repeal of all'taxes which are paid by newspapers. 2. To repeal laws which } butTerage of the Duchy of Lancaster, impede the appearance of journals, the newspapers attacked. - J. To pay their fines, I vyben fined unjustly. Anndil 5£>.. Ti oo ssuuppppoorr t t l ie1 members of the press who may become poor, by " Wm. Ewart, Esq." pensions and other allowances. — Liverpool Courier. T. SPRING RICE." From Sjsain we have reports, on good authority ( brought by the courier who arrived at the Spanish Embassy here on Monday, with dispatches from Madrid), that King Ferdinand had, either from paralysis or a new attack of gout, lost the entire use of ont) side. If he ( lie, a civil war will instantly ensue; antl, indeed, as it is, the guerilla raised by Jose Maria is more serious than perhaps jou are informed.— Morning Herald. W I L L OF NAPOLEON'S M O T H E R — M a d a m e Lretitia, mother of the Emperor Napoleon, is dangerously ill at Rome ; she is constantly occupied with thoughts relative to her will lately made, the following particulars of which have transpired :— She has left a legacy of 50.000 piastres or Roman crowns to her daughter- in- law, Maria Louisa ; 100,000 piastres to each of her sons and daughters ; a considerable sum for the foundation of a religious institution, according to the discretion of the executors. The Mont de Piete al Rome will receive at the time of her death all the diamonds and other aluabie effects, which amount to several millions. A legacy of money antl 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 eldesUmale branch of the Bonaparte family. If it should happen that there are two male heirs of the same age, they must enjoy the property conjointly. In case of extinction in the male line of the family ( Hie 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 FeBch, brother of the testator, t h e Cardinal Vicar of Rome, and Torlonia the banker. Her body is to be taken from Rome to Ajaccio, at which place her sons are to raise a mo. numant lo her memory, bearing Ihe inscription,— A la mere de Napoleon." A legacy of 30,000 piastres is left to the Nalional 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 and Madame Lietitia. On the day'the funeral leaves Rome there will be a distribution amongst the poor, and each of the twenly- six curates will receive 100 piastres for their duties on the occasion. She recommends to her sons and Cardinal Fesch, who possess ( in 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 t h e family, and preserve the remembrance of their former grandeur. General Gerard had a serious attack of cholera a few days since at Beauvais, after reviewing a re. giment of cavalry in garrison there. At first his life was considered in danger, at the latest accounts he was, however, recovering. STAGE COACHES.— The number of miles run by stage- coaches in England is annually about 4- 0,510,000. The expense of drawing coaches by horses is about two shillings a mile; so that the annual expenditure for horse keep is about four millions! The harvest is completed fortius year throughout Somerset. The quality of wheat and that of barley has been in some districts very slightly injured by adverse weather; but on the whole, tiie season has been highly favourable, and the samples brought to our market have been excellent. In many parts of this county the orchards present a full crop, while ill ofber districts the bearing is very partial, some places having hut half a crop, anil many none whatever. The price of rough farmer's cyder is 40s., superior 60s., antl best, fit for bottling, from the last named sum to L. 7 a hogshead. At Union Hall, on Wednesday, a thin pale- looking girl was charged with eating five dozen of oysters, with a proportion of bread and butter and porter, without the means of paying for the same. Mr Chambers said thut the owner of the ovster- stall had not used common caution in this instance, for llie appearance of the girl was enough to warn him that she could not pay for the quantity she had taken. " Therefore," " added the Magistrate, " as you cannot have Mood from a stone, she must be discharged," DONCASTER M E E T I N G. THURSDAY, SEPT. 20. The tiascoigne Stakes of 100 sov. each, 30 f t . fof three year olds. StfLeger Course. ( 11 Subs.) Mr Gully's ch. c. Margrave, by Muley, out of Fair Helen, by Election ( J . Robinson) . . 1 Mr S. L. Fox'a br. c. Julius, by Jerry— Lady of the Tees . . 2 5 to 1 on Margrave— Julius took the lead about a length a head. This' position he maintained until the horses reached the distance post, where Margrave gave him the go- by, and won easy, carrying 41b. extra as the winner of the Great St Leger. Two- year old Stakes of 20 sov. each, T. Y. C. ( 31 Subscribers.) Mr Walt's ch. c. Belshazzar, by Blacklock, out of Manuells, ( T . Nicholson) . 1 Mr Petro's b. c. by Young Phantom, out of?. ly Lady .2 The following also started :—- Mr Vansittart's b. c. Rockingham, by Humphrey Clinker; Duke of Leeds's br. c. by Lottery; Mr S. L. Fox's b. c. Larkspur, by Lottery; Lord Kelburne's br. f. by J e r r y ; Mr Peirse'sb. C.: Lottery; Mr Attwood's b. c. by his Grey " Arabian ; Mr if. Iiall's b. f. Thcrisc, by Brutanclorf; Sir E. DodswofthVbr. c. by J e r r y ; Mr T. O. Pow- warfare I l e t t ' 8 b r ' f ' k - 0 " " ) ' ; L~ ord SligO's b. F'lame, by Blaster Robert. 7 to 4 agst Belsliazzar, 3 to I* agst Sir E. Dodsworth's colt, 7 to 1 agst the Duke of Leeds' colt, 7 to 1 agst Larkspur, 7 to 1 agst Mr Petre's colt, and 10 to 1 agst Flame. The hoises having assembled at the post, got, off the first tim ; ; Belshazzar, Mr Powlett's filly, and Flame appearing in front. The Duke of Leeds' colt and Larkspur were well laid up. On approaching the white rails, Mr Petre' colt gradually advanced to the leading horses. A little beyond the distance, Belshazzar, the Duke of Leeds's colt, and Mr Petre's colt contested the vace : a severe. struggle ensued, Belshazzar winning the race cleverly bv a head. Sir E. Dodsworth's colt got a bad start, and came in the very last. Rockingham was third, and the Duke of Leeds' tolt fourth. The Gold Cup, value 150 guineas, added to a Sweepstakes of 10 sov. each. About two miles and five furlongs. ( 13 subscribers.) Mr Riddell's bl. c. Gallopadc, by Doctor Syntax, 4 y r s o l i l ( R . Johnson) . . . 1 Mr Beardsivorth's br. c. Colwick, by Filho da Puta, 4 yrs , . . . . . 2 Mr Walker's br. c. Consol, by Lottery, 4 yrs old 3 Lord Kelburne's b. c. Retainer, by Jerry, 3 yrs old 4 Lord Cleveland's b. c. Liverpool, 4 yrs old, Mr Wagstaff's b. f. Lady Elizabeth, 4 yrs old, and Mr Beardsworth's br. h. Birmingham, 5 yrs, also started but were not placed. mingham. Won easy. Colwick and Gallopade made the running for upwards of half a mile, Lady Elizas beth, Consol, and Liverpool being closeat band. Birmingham appeared the last in the race. Consol changed places with Colwick, and made strong running until within the white rails, Gallopatle anil Retainer still maintaining their respective positions. Liverpool was beaten off before they reached the four- mile post; and Birmingham made an ineffectual attempt to advance to the front. Gallopade then appeared as the decided winner, beating his competitor very' easily by a length. Three- year- old Stakes, of 200 sov. each, li. ft. for colts and fillies. St Leger Course. ( 13 subs.) Mr Beardsworth's br. c. Wolverhampton, by Abjer, ( S. Darling) . . . . 1 Mr Ridsdale's b. c. Brother to Maria . 2 Lord Cleveland's b. c. Brother to Chorister bolt 7 to 4 on Brother to Maria, 3 to I agst Brotlua to Chorister, and 4 to 1 . agst Wolverhampton. wlFverhampton took the lead, was never headed, and'won easily. Match for 100 sov. each, p. p. Gentlemen riders. St Leger Course. Mr Hopkinson's br. c. Napoleon le Grand, 3 yrs. old, ( Mr Kent) . . . 1 Mr Osbaldeston's b. g. Bilberry, 6 yrs. ( Owner) 2 The betting on this match was very brisk, commencing at 6 and 7 to 4 on Bilberry, and left off at 5 to 4 on Napoleon. Bilberry took the lead, which was maintained until they reached the distance, when Napoleon advanced in front, and won the race very cleverly by about a length, proving himself thereby the best cock- tail in the kingdom. FRIDAY, SEPT. 21. The Scarbrough's Stakes of 30 sov. each, 10 ft. for three- year- olds. The last mile. ( 19 Subs.) Mr Skit isey's b. c. Physician, by Brutandorf, ( I I . Edwards) . . . 1 Sir R. Bulkeley's b. c. Ilirdcatcher . 2 Mr F. Richardson's b. c. Fang . . 3 Mr Walker's ch. c. Conrad, liy Whisker, Mr Boad's br. c. Ludlow, by Philho da Puta, Lord Cleveland's b. c. Brother to Chorister, by Lottery, and Mr T. O. Powlett's gr. f. by Figaro, also started, but were not placed. 6 to 4 on Birdcatcher, 3 to 1 agst Brother to Chorister, 4 to 1 agst Physician, and 6 to 1 agst Ludlow. A fine race, and won by half a length. Match for 100 sov. p. p. both two- years old. Red- House In. Mr F. Richardson's b. c. Tutor, by Lottery ( Connolly) . . 1 Mr W. Crohipton's br. c. Satan, by Lottery . 2 7 to 4 on Tutor. Won easy. Filly Stakes of 20 sov. each, with 25 sov. added by the Corporation of Doncaster, for three- year olds. St Leger Course. ( 8 subscribers.) Mr Chifney's chesnut, Emiliana, by Emilius. ( J. Robinson) . . . . 1 Mr Gascoigne's brown- Jsabel, by Catton . 2 Mr T. O. Powlett's b r » % Wrhisker . 3 The Duke of . Leeds's brown, Lady Maud, by Jerry, and Mr S, L. Fox's ches. Wallflower, by Whisker, started, but were not placed. 5 to 2 agst Mr Powleft's, 3 to 1 agst Emiliana," and 3 to 1 agst Isabel. A beautiful race, and won by a head. Sweepstakes of 10 sov. each, with 50 guineas added by the Corporation of Doncaster, for beaten horses during the week. Red House In. ( 3 subscribers.) Mr Skipsey's b. c. Physician, by Brutandorf, 3 yrs old ( lleseltine) . . . . 1 Mr Kirby's b. f. Diana, by Catton, 4 yrs old . 2 Lord Kelburne's ch. f. by Jock, 2 yrs old . 8 3 to 1 on Physician. Won easy. Sweepstakes ( first year) of 25 sov. each. Four miles. ( 4 subscribers.) Mr Houldsworth's b. c. Contest, by Catton, 4 yrs walked over. One Hundred Pound Plate, for three and four- year olds. Two mile heats. The second received 27 guineas. Mr Houldsworth's b. c. David 3 yrs ( T. Lye) . . . 2 3 1 1 Mr Edmundson's ch. c. Richmond, 3 yrs 3 1 2 2 Mr Skipsey's b. c. Physician, 3 yrs 1 2 dr 2 to 1 on Physician; after the first heat, 4 to 1 on him. Each heat won easy. Lord Kelburne and Sir Richard Bulkeley, Bart, are appointed stewards for Doncaster races, for the ensuing year. LONDON MARKETS, SETT. 21. SUGAR ( British Plantation.)— The arrivals since this day week have been unusually heavy, amounting to 17,000 hhds., which have damped any disposition for business at the moment beyond absolute wants. F'oreign sugars without any alteration in price, and few transactions have taken place. Mauritius sugar, by public sale this week, went from ( id. to Is. under previous transactions, from 503. 6d. to 56s. The arrivals 6749 bags since this day week. EAST INDIA SUGAR The t r a n s a c t i o n s have been confined to limited business by private contract; price , therefore, remain nominally the same. 3178 bags are reported since the 13th instant. Refined sugar continues to decline in value, 62s. 6d, being now the current price of ordinary brown lumps, which is 6d. lower than last week; better sorts arc also at a similar reduction. The market is very scantily supplied with low packing lumps. COFFEE A continuance of large arrivals of all sorts tends much to produce a stagnation of business, particularly in foreign descriptions, which remain neglected, while the prices in the continental- Wf. fJoets - ( although now slightly improving), continue, betow those of London. By private contract scarcely any thing has been done besides 100 bags of colonry II •.- • vanna, at 05s. 6d. and a small parcel of good Ceylon at 54s. TEA Since the sale the delivery of teas has been grtiat; the appearance of the market is in favour . of the buyers. RUM. The same prices have been paid both for \ Jamaica and Leewards, but the business has been very limited, chiefly owing to so Teduced a quantity offering. The imports of the week, viz. 3800 puncheons, will, therefore, be an acceptable supply for the buyer. • It is now more difficult to buy proof Leewards at Is. 7d., and the fine marks of Jamaica are fiimly supported. The Brandy market continues firm at the late ad- • vance, with considerable business doing. Geneva in demand, pale 2s. 9d. to 3s. TALLOW Market heavy at a small decline, 43s. to 43s. 3d. RICF. Business doing at firm prices. HOPS The a c c o u n t s are n o t so f a v o u r a b l e as was expected, the duty estimated at .£ 130,000 to £ 135,000. INDIGO No a l t e r a t i o n t o n o t i c e. COTTON Market steady, at a shade higher in prices. CORN EXCHANGE, S e p t . 21 The a r r i v a l s of wheat and oats, though moderate, are quite equal to the demand, and the weather continuing fine has caused great dulness to pervade. The trade prices are nominally the same as on Monday, though to effect sales a trifling decline must have been submitted to. Barley maintains its value. In other articles thete is nothing . doing. SMITHFIELD, Sept. 21 The number of beasts at market this morning was much larger than usual on a . Friday, and trade very heavy, at a decline of 2d. per stone on Monday's prices. In mutton and lamb there is no alteration, and each is selling at much the same prices as on last market day. The trade in veal is not quite so good, and there is a decrease of 2d. per stone on the prices which were quoted on Monday last. In pork there is a bustling trade at the same prices we quoted on last market day. Beef. 3s Od to 3s 8d Veal 3s 8d to 4s Od Mutton 4s Od to 4s 8d Pork 4s 4d to 5s 4d Lamb, 4s to 5s per stone of 81b. In the hay- market wc have no alteration to quote in the prices. Hay, £ 3 to £ 4 ; Clover, £ 4, 10s. to £ 5, 15s.; Straw, £ 1, 10s. to £ 1, IBs. per load of 36 trusses. WAKEFIELD, Sept. 21 There is a fair arrival of wheat here to- day, and the Liverpool market being well supplied with Irish new wheat, much of it of good quality, and selling at low prices, the sale here to- day lias been exceedingly dull for new wheat* at a decline of 4s. par quarter upon the best samples, and more upon the damp and sprouted descriptions, which are nearly unsaleable. Good fresh old wheat . nearly supporrs the rates of last week, but there is very little demand for the middling sorts. Oats are rather lower. A few small parcels of good bright barky have been sold at 4ls. to 43s. per quarter. Beans ale dull sale, at last Friday's prices. Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Suffolk, 03s. to 56s. Fine, 58s. Lin. and Cam. 50s. to 54s Fin?, 5Ss. Yorkshire, 48s. to 53s.— Fine, fi( is. White, 53s. to 58s Fine, 60s. Old Red, 52s. to 58s Fine, 60s. Old White, 58s. 60s— Fine, 62, s. Foreign Red, 48s. 57s White, to 80s. Oats, Mealing, 9d. to 10£ d Fine, to lid. per stone. Potatoe, 20s. to 22s.; Fine, 23s. per quarter imperial. Poland, 19s. to 21s. ; Fine, 23s. F'riesland and Small, 17s. to 21s.; Fine, 22s. Beans, Small, 34s. to 30s Fine, 37s. 0d Tick, 33s. to 35s.— Fine, 36s. per quarter of 031bs. per bushel. . Malt per load of 6 bushels, 34s. to 43s Fine, 46s. Shelling per load of 2611bs. 23?. to 26s. . Rapeseed, £ 22 to £ 24— Fine, £ 26, per last. LEEDS FORTNIGHT FAIR, S e p t . 19 There was a good show of both sheep and beasts to this day's market. The sale was rather dull, and prices a little lower. Mutton, 5Jd. to Od. per lb. Beef, 6s. to 7s. . per stone of 161b. Sheep, 4900. Beasts, 450. STOCK EXCHANGE. B i n k S t o c k — India Stock — 3 per Cent, r e d — India Bonds 6 ! t pm. .3 per Ct. Cons ( 14i J Ex. Hills L. W00 17 4 per Ct. 182S — Cons, for ucet 81J j PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. Royal Exchange, London, Friday Night. There has been a further arrival from Holland today, but the advices by it do not tend to contradict the reports in such general circulation of the probability of a war between Holland and Belgium. At the Hague it was stated on Wednesday that the French Government had threatened Iving William, that if he attempted to disturb tho arrangements made by the Conference, at least 20,000 French troops would be ordered to march for the protection of the Belgian territories. It is perhaps the fear of this interference on the part of Louis Philip, if not also by the British Government by a naval force to the Scheldt from the latter, which may deter the Dutch Monarch fbr some short time longer from opening the campaign against his neighbours. The Dutch Cabinet holds its deliberations not only day and night, but the arrival o' dispatches to the Hague from St Petersburgh, as well as their departure, has been more frequent within the last week or two than at any former period since the Belgians declared their independence. The Dutch army, too, is in a very line condition as to equipments and tactics, and superior to that of King Leopold. The transactions in the Dutch funds continued to be very heavy, but it was believed that the Minister of Finance, whether the- government be engaged in war or not, would be enabled to get through the present year without any further application to the monicd interest for a new loan. As to Leopold, he seems to have been quite conscious of an unfavourable issuo to the negociations, by entering upon a fresh contract prior to the changes in his cabinet, and the prospect of another brush with the Dutch. His government, we are assured also, is conducted on a scale of great economy, as if he would require every farthing for the maintenance of his rights. There have been several arrivals from the Westward to- day. A vessel has reached the out- port from Halifax, whence. she sailed on the 1st ingt,. » No papere have yet reached town, but we understand1 that flic pti'i vale letters mention that Nova Scotia ' continued free" from cholera up to the date first stated. News has been received at Lloyd's, by a vessel arrived at Liverpool, that the Skylark packet, with the mail from Mexico, reached Ilavannah on the 14th ult., and was to sail for England on the following day. Although the Skylark is not made due at the Post Office until Monday, the letters and papers may possibly reach town to- morrow. The Stock market is still under a good deal of excitement on the score of foreign politics. Consols for account opened as they left off yesterday at 84^, touched 84J, and looked well, until a report was circulated, that hostilities between the Dutch and Belgians would commence early in the next month, and that such was the tenor of the latest Government dispatches received here. The account price then dropped to 84J. This was the lowest point to which the depreciation was carried, and in the afternoon in a more tranquil market, prices rallied to what they were in the morning. The last price- of Consols for account was 84J buyers, and for to- morrow, sellers on the same terms. In the Foreign Market there has been no farther re ducticn on the priccs of yesterday. Dutch Stock is rather higher. Closing prices— Consols, 1000, 84J.. Do. 600,1$. New 3J per cents. 1000, 92|. Do. 600, 921. India Stock," 204. Do. Bonds, 8s. prcm. Exchequer Bills, 17s. piem. Consols for account 84$. Foreign— Belgian, 75J. Brazilian, 51?. Mexican, 27: 1. Portuguese, 49. Do. Scrip, 4 dis. Spanish, 13J. Dutch 2i per cents. 43. At 12, Windsor Street, on the 22d inst., Mrs MOUI. E, of a daughter. Married, at South Stoneham Church, by the reverend S. Kent, near Southampton, on the 20th instant, Captain LEWIS SHEDDEN, late of the 15th hussars, eldest son of Colonel Shedden of the Elms, Lymington, to ACNES, only child of the late James Eastmont, Esq. of India Street, Edinburgh. Died, at Cromarty House, on the 19th inst., Sir MICHAEL B. CLARE, Knight, aged fifty- five, Physician- General and Member of his Majesty's Privy Council, Jamaica. Died, at 24, Hill Street, on the 21st inst., HELEN, fourth daughter of the late William Drover, Edinburgh. Died, at Edinburgh, on the 16th instant, Mr DAVID STF. EL. Died, at 6, Iluntly Street, Edinburgh, on the 15th instant, HELEN SCOTT, wife of Mr David Burn, merchant in Leith, and sister ofthc late William Scott, Esq. banker in Edinburgh. Died, at Gellymill, on the 19th instant, ELIZABETH, youngest daughter of the late George Robinson, Esq. Banff. jri Died, at St David's, Jamaica, on the 6th ultimo, in h i s n i n e t e e n t h y e a r , ALEXANDER HAMILTON, second surviving son ofthe reverend J . M. Robertson, Livingstone. DEATH OF s in WALTER SCOTT. Amsterdam CF-- . D i t t o at sight R o t t e r d am '• A n t w e r p , Hani b u r g h , mcs. beo* • A l t o na P a r i s , 3 d a y s e i g h t — D i t to I l o u r d e a ux F r a n k f o r t on Maine P e t e r s b u r g , per rlile.. Merlin Cur. Dol... V i e n na T r i e s te Madrid ........ Cadiz COURSEOF EXCHANGE. 12 12 12 0 12 8 14 14 } 2:> 8a 211 II) 2< i 15 154J Bllboa- B a u e l o n a Seville G i b r a l t a r L e g h o rn Genoa Venice '• • Malta Maples P a l e r m o , per 10 3Uj L i s b on O p o r t o * * . . . In la I n t o J a n e i ro Ill 14 iliahia SfiJ | D u b l i n - . 2 1 d . s i g ht 353 ' Cork •• 3? S . . . 35J ... SflJ ••• 474 •• 471 36 5 • 47 • • 4' i . . . 40 .. 120 •• 471 •• 473 . . . : IIJ .... u E D I N B U R G H E V E N I N G C O U R A N T. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24. The affairs, of Belgium still continue to occupy the attention of the public. Official advices have been received from Brussels of a complete change ol the Belgian Ministry; and General Goblet, who has been appointed to the situation of Minister fur • Foreign Affairs, has received full powers to treat with the Dutch Minister respecting the existing differences between Belgium and Holland. It is supposed that this change of Ministry, which lias been effected at the instance of King Leopold, will have the effect of bringing the Belgian question to a settlement. Indeed, it is evident, that as the great Powers have determined that there shall lie no war, this question must be brought, by some means or other, to an amicable compromise. There are reports in London that hostilities bad actually commenced between the two Powers, and that the fleet under Sir Pulteney Malcolm had received orders to proceed to the Scheldt. We give no credit, however, to these reports, because we believe that the great Powers have already determined that no war shall take place; and it will also be observed that the funds have not been materially affected by these sinister rumours, which is a proof that no credit is attached to them. Oil Friday afternoon, tivo carters having quarrelled in tho yard at the Old Black Bull, in the Pleusiince, one them, who had the worst of the fight, lifted a large stone, anil threw it at his antatronist. The stone missed tho man, but hit a fine girl, of eleven years of aie on the chest; and SET severe was tlie blow, that she only survived twentyfour hours. The carter is in custody. We observe the shopmen of this city intent! to follow the example of their brethren in Glasgow, liy requesting their masters to close the various places of business earlier. As their memorial is, couched in respectful terms, nnd their request is likewise very moderate, we have little doubt of its being universally agreed to. The health both of the masters and the young men must undoubtedly suffer from the long confinement to which they are I at present subject, and they are likewise deprived of all opportunities of profiting from those mediums of useful instruction and relaxation, which are held out by our School of Arts and other seminaries instituted f'or similar purposes. We have just seen in the shop of Mr William Marshall, jeweller, North Bridge. Street, a very beautiful silver cup, which is intended to be presented to George Gray, Esq. Dalkeith, at a public dinner to be given to that gentleman, by a number of his fellow townsmen, in testimony of their esteem for his character, and admiration of his zealous and enlightened exertions, as chairman of their committee, to promote tiie cause of Parliamentary Reform. , * " iiju'i HOUSEBREAKING.— For some weeks past quantities of cash have been from time to time amissing from the till of Messrs Scott and Orr's shop, on the South Bridge. There were of course various conjectures as to how the money disappeared, and at length it was suspected that there was some one in the habit of entering the premises by some stealtliy means or other, and a ivutch was accordingly set for the purpose of detecting the thief, which they did on Wednesday morning about six o'clock. Thev found a young man entering by a back window, and took him into custody. He has since been remitted to the Sheriff for trial. Recovered. 4 8 Letters have been received at Paris from Alexandria, dated the 18th July, whieh state, that a telegraphic dispatch had been received at that place, announcing the capture of the Turkish camp of Hama by the Egyptians. THE CHOLERA. New Cases. Died. EDINBURGH, S e p t . 22. 10 2 23. 8 2 Remaining, 76. Total cases, 1235. Deaths, 689. Recovered, 470. The new cases on Saturday were in Allan Street, Stockbridge, Plainstone Close, Canongate, South Richmond Street, West Richmond Street, Goulan's Close, Oanongate, Quarantine, Drummond Street, High School Yards, Blackfriar's Wynd, and Burnett's Close. The cases yesterday were in Jamaica Street, Gibb's Entry, South Richmond Street, Aird's Close, Grassmarket. Blackfriar's Wynd, Toddrick's Wynd, Kinloch's Close, Canongate, and Pleasancs. W A T E R OF L E I T H , S e p t . 2 2 . — N e w cases, 1. Remaining, 1. Total cases, 104. Deaths, 54. Recoveries, 49. New cases. Died. Recovered. L E I T H , S e p t . 22. 8 1 1 23. 1 2 1 Total cases, 322; deaths, 189; recoveries, 111. Remaining, 22. The cases occurred in the Citadel, Smeaton's Close, Lawrie's Close, Fox Lane, Tolbooth Wynd, Salamander Street, Cow Close, anil Hay's Close. GLASGOW, Sept. 21— New cases, 10. Died, 4. Recovered, 6. Remaining, 25. Total cases, 5339 ; Deaths, - 2557 ; Recoveries, 2757, It is with deep regret that we announce in our pub. lication of to- day the decease of tho great Author of Waverley. H e expired at Abbotsford on the afternoon of Friday last, at half- past one o'clock, without pain. Thus has passed away this great light and ornament of the age in which he lived. His death has been long anticipated ; tiie paralytjcattack with which he was visited, left from, thil'- ffi^ t tio hope of recovery ; and to those who were about him, it was visible that his mental and vital powers were rapidly declining. Yet there are events for which, though neither sudden nor unexpected, the mind cannot be fully prepared; and the intelligence, that Sir Walter Scott is no more, produces asingular and melancholy impression on themind, as if some great moral change had occuTrcd in the world of literature. No individual, perhaps, in any age or country ever attained, merely by his literary efforts, a higher degree of celebrity than the Author of Waverley. His name was blazoned over the whole civilized world. It was synonymous with genius as with moral worth. His works were translated into most of the European languages; his character, his habits, his opinions, even his lightest humours or fancies, were a perpetual subject of inquiry, and were all duly retailed to the public through the various channels of the periodical press; and the crowds of strangers who of late years have resorted to this city, have always made it one especial part of their business to obtain a sight of the great prodigy, of modern literature. But the reputation of Sir Walter Scott was not the mere triumph of genius; he was an object of esteem, and even of affection, for his private virtues. We would not allude indelicately to private matters; but it is well known that when the Author of Wavc- rley was unhappily involved in embarrassments which he could not anticipate, his anxiety was for others, and not for himself; that his sole objec4 was, to discharge every just engagement; and that to this honourable task he cheerfully devoted the brief remainder of his laborious life. We mention the simple fact, as a memorial cf private worth, which renders all eulogtum superfluous. Thus it happens, that, while, in the case of other great men, the fair fame of genius is marred byfolliesand vices— while we bavethe one to set off against the other,— in the case of Sir Walter Scott, every tiling preponderates in the same scale. He had no vices to cause his admirers to blush for him. II is pen was never prostituted to the purposes of evil. On ihe contrary, the spirit of purity presides over his classic page; and he may proudly boast with the poet, that he never wrote a line which he wished to blot. How greatly does this purity and delicacy of taste heighten the charm of his delineations, whether of character or of manners, and how pleasing to behold this beautiful alliance of genius with morality; as, on the other hand, how revolting the prostitution of the noblest faculties of the mind to licentiousness and vice ! In private society Sir Walter Scott was acceptable to all classes; for though naturally a determined clia. ractcr, who, if such had been his lot, would have figured to great advantage in active life, he had a benevolence of disposition, an amenity of temper, that was seldom ruffled, and very pleasing manners, with, al times, a certain cast of homeliness, that marked his dislike of every tiling pedantic or finical. No man, perhaps, of such cekbrity, ever bore his faculties more meekly. He was the reverse of every thing haughty, austere, or forbidding— was frank in his address— easy of access, and entered readily and familiarly into casual conversation with all whom he met. lie1 never seemed to carry about with him the idea that lie was a distinguished person— that all eyes were upon him, or that he was to do or say any thing different from ordinary men. This unaffected simplicity gave a peculiar charm to his manners; and he was beloved among all classes, from his courtesy and frankness, as well as from more substantial acts of kindness, liberally conferred in many cases where they were wanted. He was, strictly speaking, a gentleman— not merely with the outward polish, but with all those qualities of high honour, sincerity, and truth, which the term implies in its comprehensive sense. Of the social circle he was at once the ornament and the delight. His conversation was rich, various, and instructive. His natural good temper and buoyancy ; of spirits was excited by the presence of hist friend;. | ri and he overflowed with gaiety, humour, and merriment— with sallies of wit— with felicitous anecdotcs— r. r with sentiment, when his ideas were led into that train ; and in the recital of any great deed, his eye and his whole countenance would kindle with a congenial expression. He had, like most distinguished characters, a very retentive memory— not, of course, that sort of mechanical memory often found in weak minds, which remembers every thing alike, pr which, like Shakespeare's clown, is a " snapper up of unconsidered trifles;" but that discriminating memory, which is the handmaid to the judgment, and which only lays up in store what is valuable, namely, these precious facts which throw light on principles, or on character and manners. No fact of this nature, however trifling, was ever forgotten by him, end hcnce he had an accumulated treasure of various knowledge, historical, literary, or antiquarian, which he found in books, and of facts and anecdotes gathered from an observation of life. It was in the full flow of conversation that he unlocked the stores of his mind that he delighted his auditors by the fluency of liis wit, and by the force of his conceptions, whether grave or gay, and that he displayed all that inexhaustible fund of fancy and humour with which he delighted the public. He always disliked the accrimony of disputation; and he never, like Dr Johnsbn, entered the lists as a champion for the palm of conversational honour; he never talked for victory, but rather as a relaxation from severer studies, and in order to amuse and promote kindly feelings; and he was always remarkably attentive to those who were diffident, gently encouraging them and drawing them on to take a share in the conversation, with a kindness and consideration that was truly admirable. As a public speaker, he was graceful, easy, and fluent; every . one, who was present at the theatrical dinner in Edinburgh, at which he made the first public avowal of his being the author of Waverley, will remember with what grace and dignity he presided, and what life and spirit he gave to the proceedings of that day. He was eminently qualified to have taken a more prominent part in the public transactions of his day, but he followed a higher destiny, and happily did not, like another great man, expose himself to the reproach that lie " Gave up to party what was meant for mankind." He was in the habit of composing with singular ease and fluency, and he seldom altered his first ideas or language. He generally finished about a sheet, or sixteen pages of the novels per day, and the original manuscript is in a fair and legible hand, with scarcely any alterations. The most brilliant scenes and dialogues in Guy Mannering, the Antiquary, Tales of My Landlord, & c. are written out in this manner with scarcely any interlineations, and apparently without any hesitation. The full flood of his ideas seems to have been poured forth from his excited mind with wonderful freedom and facility; and on one occasion, it is related of him that when he was dictating to a friend ( beingTunable to write from recent indisposition) one of the dialogues in Ivanhoe in which Front de Bceuf is the hero, he rose up from his chair, in the animation of his fancy, and acted the scene which he was describing, giving that part of the dialogue which belonged to Front de Boeuf with extraordinary force and vivacity, and with every suitable accompaniment of tone, gesture, and manner. He evinced the same facility in the composition of his poetry. In the MS. of Marmion, the ^ Lady of the Lake, & c. which are still pieserved, there are extremely few corrections, the most brilliant passages being scarcely ever re- touched. Like many other • great men he was distrustful of his own talents, and not at all conscious of their wonderful extent; or rather he tried his performances by the severe test of his own exquisite taste, and was more humbled by the deficiencies which he discovered than exalted by what he had actually performed. As a proof of this, we may mention that a portion of the Wavcrley MS. which lie had written, was allowed to lie past for many years, 4' rom the unfavourable judgment which he had formed of i t ; and it was only when he was one day looking for fishing tackle to amuse some of his friends, that his eye happened to light on the condemned MS. j and thinking better of it as lie peruse 1 it than before, he finished ths work ; and, still distrustful of its merits, gave it to the public without a name. No man was ever perhaps less beset by vanity, the weakness of eminent men ; and when he has occasion to speak of himself, as in the short introduction which he published to his poetry, there is a peculiar tone of modesty and propriety, which forms a singular contrast to the egotism, of others less eminent, and, from necessity, the heralds of their own praise. Sir Walter Scott was born on the 15th Aug. 177L His father practised as a Writerto the Signet in George Square. He was cut off by the same malady, andI about the same age as his son, who, it is singular, had always a dread, which the event has unhappily realized, that this disease would overtake him in the decline of life. Yet he was of a remarkably strong constitution, enjoyed In general robust health, was of moderate habits, and took regular exercise. It was hi8 practice to rise in the morning about seven or earlier, and, with the interval of breakfast, to apply to his literary studies until one or two o'clock, when he went out to walk with his dogs for his companions, with whose gambols he was much amused, nor was he in the habit of allowing his valuable time to be much interrupted by visitors, who, though they were treated with extreme cauriesy, were allowed after the first day to find their own amusement. He took great interest in adorning the grounds around Abbotsford, by planting, & c., arid in the course of his walks he always carefully surveyed the progress of these improvements. lie entered the Faculty of Advocates in 1792, after having served an apprenticeship as a writer to the signet; but, after practising as an advocate some years, he determined to pursue hia higher destiny ; and, being appointed to the office of Clerk of Session in 1806, he gave himself entirely up to literary pursuits. The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, which was published in 1802, was the first production to which he put his name. The " Lay of the Last Minstrel," which appsared in 1805, greatly raised his reputation, and was soon followed by Marmion, the Lady of the Lake, See. He acquired great fame by his poetry, which abounds in animated description, and in effusions of sentiment and passion, and which would, without any other aid, have given him a place among the great men of his day. But his novels are unquestionably his greatest works, by which he has been raised to the very pinnacle of fame. It is now 18 years since he made his first great essay in the tale of Waverley ; and having thus tried his strength, lie took a second and loftier flight, ar. d produced that wonder of wonders, the ttile of Guy Mannering, in which, disdaining the aid to be derived from the tawdry glitter of rank and fortune, he chose a gipsey beggar for his heroine, and, by the matchless force of hia genius, < ind, without the least violation of probability or truth, a3 those who are acquainted with Scottish manners will readily admit, he invests this splcj*^ creation of his fancy with a true moral dig^^^ rot to be surpassed, and which gives an engrossing interest to every scene in which she appears. But the mg^ pf these works, great aa they may be, are not t recommendation to Scotsmen They no t^^ Bfcontain j'uSf^ tnd deep views of human nature; t i i ^ n ? ^ lively exhibition of manners and character; the most striking and discriminated portraits of individuals; descriptions of scenery glowing and poetical; and the author, also, passing over past ages, has with a boundles^ power of invention brought up to our view the living image of ancient manners, faintly shadowed out in the broken traditions of the times. He has conjured up from the grave the great spirits of the feudal ages, the " Saxon, the Norman, and the Dane;" the heroes of chivalry, in all the blazonry and show of their tournaments and their coats of mail, and all their heroic devotion to love and war: and they move about and speak with an air of reality that is i truly wonderful. But, independent of those merits, the Waverley Novels will be prized by Scotsmen as permanent depositories of their language and manners, and of the genuine Scots character, which is fading away before the fast encroaching tide of southern refinement. The classical language of Scotland, though it be discarded by the polite and the wealthy, has still Tits own simple graces; it is quite different fromthe coarse and rorr- apted dla'ect s p - j l . t y the lover ast. es in the large manufacturing towns; and is peculiarly adapted to the expression of pathos or humour, or even of loftier sentiment. Still, being the language of the vulgar, it has to contend with unfavourable associations, so that it is only a fine instrument in a skilful hand. How delicately was this instrument touched by the great Minstrel of the land, now r. o more ! If . rv forcibly, how boldly did he sketch ths ludicrous points, as well aa the loftier features of the Scots character and manners, with all the vigour and the truth of nature, yet without any trace of vulgarity, and without the slightest approach to caricature, even in his broadest and most rustic characters ; while his dramatic scenes comprise the whole treasures of the language— the pure ore of expression, without the alloy. Nor is it ths scattered fragments, the mere skeleton of the language, which lis has exhibited ; it is the animated body— the habits, the modes of thinking, the peculiar character of tile people, as it is reflected in the genuine idiom of their native speech. He has given psrhianence in his immortal works to the fading images of the olden time, and has completed a gallery of portraits essentially Scottish, on which we daily gaze with still increasing admiration and pleasure. When we consider all those precious contributions which have been made by the Author of Waverley to the stock of public amusement; how he has extended the . cslebrity of his native land, many parts of which he has converted into classic ground; and how he has enriched the literature of bis eountry,— how can we reflect without emotion that his glory is terminated in the grave, and that, " like an hireling, he has accomplished his day ?" His death is a public loss; it is a national grief; and we cannot doubt that a general meeting of the inhabitants will be speedily called to express the deep sense entertained of his merits, and to devise the means of erecting to his genius some of those public memorials by which men in all ages have agreed to honour the illustrious dead. As there could be no difficulty respecting the funds for such a purpose, which would flow iu spontaneously from every quarter, no expence should be spared to erect a monument on the most splendid scale, of which the great and appropriate ornament would naturally he a statue of the deceased, with such other devices and decorations as the fancy of the most accomplished attists might, suggest; and they certainly could not desire a more favourable subject for the display of their taste. O B J E C T I O N T O E L E C T I O N C L A I M S. On Saturday the Assistant- Sheriff' proceeded with' tlie hearing of objections to the claims of voters. To a gentleman who claimed as occupying chambers in the city, it was objected that he did not reside within seven miles of the burgh by the post road. The Sheriff decided thit the disiance was to be calculated from the nearest point of the boundary line; and in a direct line as the crow flies. A gentleman claimed as occupying a house for which lie paid no rent, but the annual value of which was about £ 59, and was given him in lieu of part of his emoluments. Evidence of these facts having been given, Mr HUNTER objected that this was no claim in terms of the statute, first, because the gentleman was liable to removal from liis house at a day's notice ; and, secondly, because he paid no rent. That he did not occupy the property either as a tenant, ( paying rent) or as a proprietor or liferenter. Mere occupancy of a house did not give the franchise. In law language the claimant was a mere precarious possessor, and, therefore, did not come under the character of a tenant under any contract either verbal or written. He occupied a house under an arrangement by which the rent was calculated as part of liis emoluments, but that could never be considered rent in the law of Scotland. Mr ANDERSON replied, that the statute did not require the payment of r. ent. Ic merely said the claimant should be an occupant, & c.; and the same argument which supported the claim of lodgers, applied to this case. Mr Hunter had said the claimant was an occupant at pleasure, and so was every lodger. The claimant was not in tbe situation of a person left to take charge of a house during a few months— neither had the house any connection with the establishment in which be held office, beyond being part of the same building, and having a separate entrance. It had been proved that the annual- value of the house was £ 50, and that it was given as a part of the emoluments for which services were rendered in return under a regular agreement, and therefore he was entitled to have his claim enrolled. Mr DUFF considered this a very nice point; but as he did not think the claim was that of a tenant, liferenter, or proprietor, he must reject it. A son of Mr Brown, weaver, claimed as a joint proprietor with his father of certain tenements, Sec. used as a manufactory at the Water of Leith ; and Mr Brown, sen. was called on to give evidence. Mr Hunter— Of what do your premises consist ? Mr Brown— Of a house and manufactory. Mr Hunter— A weaver's shop, I suppose ? Mr Brown— Aye, a shop that holds twelve looms. Mr Hunter— At how much do you estimate the annual value of your houss and 3hop. nr manufactory ? Mr Brown— I could have got £ 18 for them some time ago. Mr Hunter— What are they worth now, if you were to let them 1 Mr Brown— I do not intend to let them, though. Mr Hunter— What do you think you would get for fhem ? . Mr Brown— That would depend on circumstances. Mr Hunter— But you must have more property to make up your claim ? Mr Brown Ye3; I have a ware- room, a boiling house, and a garden. Mr Hunter.— Yon do not require your garden in your manufactory ? Mr Brown.— But I do, man. Mr Hunter What use is your garden for in your manufactory ? Mr Brown.— Man, how ignorant you are. ( Great laughter.) Bo you no ken that I use the green in my garden for bleaching my yarn ; and I need it for drying it too. ( Continued laughter.) Mr Hunter What is your son's interest in the business ? Mr Brown— It's just the same as my own. If their is any profit or any loss, he has just the on3 half, and I have the other. ( Laughter.) After some farther evidence as to the value ofthe property, the claiim was admtted. BERWICKSHIRE William Boswell, Esq., Sheriff of Berwickshire, held his first court for the registration of voters for the western district of this county, within the County Hall at Greenlaw, on Wednesday. The court commenced with classss I. and I I . for the royal burgh of Lauder, and went through both these classes. The only remark we have to make oil this part ofthe proceedings relates to the claim of Viscount Maitland, wjho,- without stating any qualification from land or houses, claimed to be enrolled as a burgh voter from being the eldest son of a Scotch Peer. The Sheriff held that, as Lord Mait'and's status was a matter of notoriety, his Lordship was entitled, under section 37 of the Scotch Reform Act, to be enrolled as a voter. The decision, therefore, if well founded ( and no objection was stated to it), forms a most important precedent; for, under this construction of the act, the eldest son of any Scotch Peer may legally claim to be enrolled as a voter in every burgh and county of Scotland.— Kelso Mail. , i : ( v e s x s ! i " 9 COUNTY V O T E « — V / R tmtferstartii thai the Sheriff" has beta prevented from holding the diet of registration for the Long Island and Harris district of the county, which was to take place on ths 13th instant, by the stnrminess of the weather. The dist was fixed the first for ths county, in order to take advantage of the earlier season, for a difficult and often dangerous navigation, and to give greater security the Sheriff obtained the services of his Majesty's cutter the Swift. F'or three hours, every effort was made to gain the entrance of Lochmadtly, but after encountering a tremendous gale, in which the vessel lost two of her jibs, and every wave buried the bowsprit and guns, Captain Bsatson was forced to run for Locii Snizort, in Skye; she succeeded in crossing the Minch, and made Snizort Head in three hours, under a furious gale, accompanied with rain, hail, and the most awful- storm of thunder and lightning. We trust, the Lord Advocate will suggest some remedy for the disfranchisement of this part of the county for tiie first election, and also take into view the still greatst risk that may arise, if the northern appeal Sheriffs shall, at a more advanced period of the season, proceed to Orkney Inverness Courier. A great many sheep and lambs have lately been stolen from the hiils of Logiealmond, Strathbrann, Tullihelton, and Glenshee, but no clue has as yet been found to discover the thieves, although suspi cions are entertained of some. One graz: er offered L. 10 and another L. 5 reward for any information which could lead to the conviction of the offenders. The glaziers have been informed that their sheep arc sent regularly to Dundep, consequently steps have been taken to examine every butcher's stall in that place. On Thursday there was a tremendous storm in the neighbourhood of Kilmarnock, accompanied with hail, thunder a: id lightning. Some of the squalls were so sudden and powerful, as to overthrow several shearers in the fields, and thev had no resource but to throw themselves flat on the ground, In the parish of Fenwick several stacks were carried away, ( one of them containing 1600 stones of hay,) and considerable damage sustained. On the farm of Ridden, in the parish of Stewarton, large branches were torn from the trees. A farmer near Kilmaurs, while walking in the fields, observed the approach of the tempest; and he describes it as a whirlwind which rushed rapidly 011 in a south- easterly direction, tossing the sheaves of corn from one side, of the field to the other, and bending tall trees like wands. It lifted off the roofs from two houses in Kilujaurs— threw down a whole baud of reapers at F. euw- ick, and did considerable injury to all the standing crops 111 its course. The Kilmarnock water suddenly rose and fell during the evening; the cause of which is said to have been tiie bursting Stasicrafes, an engineer in the service of Alexander, proposed to convert the whole mountain cf Athos, in height between 3000 and 4000 feet, into a statue of that Prince. The enormous figure which must have been in a sitting posture, was to hold a city in its left hand, containing 10,000 inhabitants, and in rile right an immense basin, whence the collrcted torrent's of the mountain should issue in a mighty rirer. But the project was thought tOitie too extravagant even liy Alexander. ANNUAL COST CF A FRIVAT V. SOLDIER The d a i ly pay of a foot soldier i3 one shilling, with a penny fbr beer; the daily pay of a life- guardsman is Is. II. 1, d., and the annual cost is £ 74, 4s. l i d . per man, besides horse and allowances, or £ 1, 8s. ( id. per week; dragoons, £ 06, lis. 5d. per annum, or £ 1, Is. Oil. per week; foot guards, £ 34, 6s. per annum, or 13s. 2d. psr week; infantry, £ 31 per annum, or l i s . lOd. per week. A regiment of horse soldiers, of about three hundred and sixty, officers and men, cost abort £ 26,090 per annum. The wages of seamen in the royal navy are £ 2, 12s. per month, or 13s. per week, and £ 1, 12s., or 83. per week more, are allowed for their provisions. An. improved Thrashing Machine has been lately erectcd at Planting Mill, parish of Dunipace. It is driven by a now: r from the water- wheel of said mill. Being placed on the second floor, the thrashed straw is thrown by the shaker through an opening in the mill wall into a shed below, where it is brittled. The thrashed grain is received from the lower part of tlie machine into a hopper, by. which it is conducted through the floor into a riddle, made in the form of scree, about 2 feet wide and 5 feet long, shaken bycranlcs. By this riddle the short straws, called riddlings, are thrown off into a sack, and the grain poured into the mill- fanners, whence it is immediately conveyed by a tackle, as it is called, to the drying kiln. By means of this machine, combined with i s local situation, grain may be taken from the fields, or barn yard, and converted into human food in a very few hours. We understand that Mr John Hay, tacksman of said mill, is the inventor of the above- namednious riddle.— Siirling Advertiser. Tiie're has not emanated from 3cientifio research, au article of more universally acknowledged excellence than ROWLAND'S MACASSAR OIL. This faithful assistant cf nature, lias, from intrinsic worth alone, acquired the high and distinguished patronage throughout Europe ; and with rank, fashion, and discernment, supersedes all preparations of professed similar import. ROWLAND'S solely genuine MACASSAR OIL elicits a luxuriant growth on the head of fine silky liair, and insures ths continuance of its plenitude and beauty to the remotest periods ot' human life. 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" Gentlemen,— In consequence of the good effects of your Macassar Oil, I have it in command from his Imperial Majesty, the EMPEROR of all the RUSSIAS, that you will, without delay, send the sum of ten guineas worth to the Eimp: ror of Russia, St Petcrsburgb, and receive the amount of tiie same from his Highness the Prince de Lcivcn, his Majesty's Ambassador at the Court of Great Britain. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, " JAMES WYLIE." MARKETS. KIRKALDY, September 22— We hal again good supplies of both wheat and barley at to- day's market, though not so large as last week. Wheat sold ver,' slowly, at rather less money than last week. Barley net a brisk demand, at about fid. per quarter advance over the prices of this day st'ennight. Of oats, we had only three parcels. Top price. Current. Inferior. 48s Od 27s fid 22s 3d - on 115 Qrs. Wheat... 67s Od 56s 0J I 170 Barley... 33s Od 30s 01 39 Oats, ... 23s Od 22s fid | Oatmeal, per hag of 280 lbs. imperial, 32s. to 33s. 6d. r » >| fo1ihJMtTT f V r < i » . lield ta . W* 35 » e » 5 » y last, ana tiie niimbsr of cattle shown waa very 1 - ge ; they were chiefly Galloway bullocks and. Highland heifer, s on their way to Brongh- hill. Some lots of Irish heifers were also shown. Prices were much on the decline. Milch cor; s were very scarce, and prices good. There was a great number of horses shown— some fine spirited animals for the saddle, three and four year olds, brought good prices ; they were principally bought up for Brough- bill fair. Wilh this exception, the horses shown were generally very indifferent ones. LANGHOLM ANNUAL S H E E P FAIR - T h i s fair took place on Tuesday last. The day was favour, bl-?, and the show of stock fully as large as in former years' but there was a deficiency of purchases, and ot course the sale was dull and slow ; the greater part, however, were sold. Draft ewes brought from 13s. to 17s. There were several lots of lambs; those of ths Cheviot breed sold at from 4s. 6d. to 9s. Few of the blackfaced were disposed of. The great Wilton sheep fair was held on Wednesday, when there were about 90,000 sheep penned, 10,000 more than war, exhibited last year. The trade, on the whole was dull at 2s. per bead under the late Britford fair. Ewes from 24s. to 38s.; wethers, 26s. to 32s.; lambs, 16s. to 22s. The shew of rams was unusually large. At Dundee Latter Fair, on Wednesday, there was an ordinary supply both of fat and lean cattle : prices a shade lower. The show of horses was very indifferent. Those for agricultural purposes exchanged owners, at an advance in price. ADELPHI~ THEATRE. M R M U R R AY RESPECTFULLY announces to the Patrons of the Adelphi Theatre, and the Public in general, that HIS BENEFIT is appointed for SATURDAY EVENING next, Sept. 29, 1832, being the last night of the season, and on which occasion MR SAPIO AND I MISS PATON have most kindly granted their powerful aid. The amusements will consist of A FAVOURITE OPERA, AND OTHER POPULAR ENTERTAINMENTS, as will be announced in future advertisements. - DINNER TO MR K N O W L E S . — F r i d a y a b o u t 170 gentlemen sat down to a sumptuous dinner in tbe Tontine Hotel, Glasgow, in honour of James Sheridan Knowles, Esq., at present 011 a professional visit to this city. The chair was occupied by Sir Daniel Sandford, and Mr Samuel Hunter acted as croupier. The chairman, in proposing the health of Mr Knowles, pronounced an eloquent panegyric on that gentleman as a man and as a dramatist, in the course of which he alluded to the progress of the drama, and to the very few, even of the greatest poets, who had been successful as dramatists ; and contrasted their want of success with the triumph of Mr Knowles' muse. RUTHERFORD CASTLTS I N N . — W E S T LINTON, Sept. 21 This highly finished and commodious house was opened yesterday for the reception of the public, when a numerous and respectable party of gentlemen from Peebles dined together on the occasion. The cloth being removed, the chairman proposed the health of Mr Ker, the proprietor, in a neat and appropriate speech, which was received with great applause. This was succeeded by a bumper to the health of Sir John l l a y and the other gentlemen who ha; l opaned the new line of road 011 which this inn is situated, certainly one of the finest drives in tlie neighbourhood of Edinburgh. Tho dinner and the wines iverj excellent. FATAL A C C I D E N T . — O n F r i d a y l a s t , a s M r J a m es M'Nee, farmer, Luibchurran, Glenlochay, was crossing a burn in the neighbourhood of his dwelling, he stumbled and fell headlong into a narrow ravine which lay immediately below the path he had taken. The fall was severe, for it appears the unfortunate man eoultl not extricate himself, and no one being near to rentier kim assistance, lie was drowned. — Stirling Paper. T H E CEREMONY OF KISSING THE CHAINS OF ST PETER— R. Edmoustone. There is scarcely any picture in the Exhibition which we admire more than this. It may be examined again and again, with increasing pieasure. The scene i# in a church at Rome, and a great number of persons, amongst whom are men, women, and children, as well mendicants, Clippies, and pilgrims, as the young, the healthy, and the beautiful, arc assembled to kiss the chains in which St Peter is said to have been bound whilst in prison. Around the priest who exhibits them to the awe- struck and admiring multitude are grouped a number of females, principally of the peasantry, several of whom are pressing forward to kiss the sacred relics. 1110 expression of devotion and confidence in their countenances is admirably given. Close to the group, a mother is represented suckling her infant child. She is bending over it with an expression of intense affection, and with a smile of perfect love, apparently quite unconscious of all that is passing around her. It is one of the most beautiful representations of maternal love that we hay, e, ever witnessed. AU the figures in this picture are ffooil, and nil the countenances full of expression. Wo have seen it nearly a ( lcz. ii times, and always return to it wilh increased pleasure.— Liverpool Times. ONIONS.— The crop of onions this season appears in some places to be uncommonly great. At Coates, the property of Sir John Leslie, there were upon four falls of ground six bushels of very fine sized onions, besides 200 which measured from 12 to 15' inches in circumference each, and weighed from 12 ( 0 1- i ounces; also 500 from 10 to 12 ounces each. ' Ttiev are mostly of the Spanish nnd j Strasburgh sorts,. The- crop is allowed to be the ! best ever grown in the county of Fife. TO BANKERS, TRADERS, AND OTHERS. CA UTION. WHEREAS, on the Kith September, 1830, FIVE BANK of ENGLAND NOTES, of the value of Fife Hundred and Eighty Pounds, were STOLEN, three amounting to £ 180, having been changed by Country Bankers, and for which they have been made answerable, this notice is to Warn all persons from taking the remaining two, two Hundreds still in circulation, being No. 091, dated 18th August 1831), and No. 230, dated 14th August 1830. Should they be stopped by any person, application to be immediately made to Mr John Ward, Stock 13xchange, London, who will reward them for their I trouble. I ' NOTICE. I H p HE CREDITORS of the late ABRAM J L MIDDLETON, plumber in Dundee, tire requested, by his Trustees, to meet within the Writing Chambers of M'Ewen and Miller, writers in Dundee, on Saturday the29tli current, at two o'clock afternoon, to consider the state of the trust affairs, and advise as to the best course to be pursued for the interest of all concerned. All persons who were owing Debts to the lute Mr Middleton, are requested to make payment thereof to Mr Robert Adanisori, ironmonger, Dundee, one of and as Factor for the other Trustees. Those failingto do so, within three weeks from this date, will be prosecuted. It is requested that all those who have Claims upon the estate may transmit the same to Mr Adamson, accompanied with affidavits. Dundee, September 19, 1832. TO BE SOLD BY PUBLIC ROUP, Within the Old Siguet Hall, Royal Exchange, Edin- ' burgh, upon Wednesday the third of October 1832, at two- o? clock afternoon, in virtue of powers contained in a Bond and Disposition in security, THAT Elegant and Commodious Self- contained D W E L L I N G - H O U S E , N o . 10, ABERCROMIIY PLACE, consisting of Dining- room, Drawing- room, and two Bed- r » om floors, two sunk floors, with Back Green, Coach- house, and Stable, containing ample ac-, commodation for a large family. The annual feu- duty is only £ 4,13s. 4d., and the entry of heirs and singular successors is taxed at £ 6, 9s. l j d. Apply to John Murray, W. S., No. 4, Bank Street; or to Messrs Tait and Young, W. & j, 2, Parle Place, Edinburgh, 25th July 1832. •••' 1' iiigHujjiij L O N D O N , Jeremy Bentham was a great economist of time. He knew the value of minutes. The disposal of his lmuis, bath of labour and repose, was a matter of systematic arrangement ; and the arrangement was determined on the principle, that it is a calamity to lose the smallest portion of time. He did not deem it ( sufficient M provida against the loss of a < lsy Or an hour ; he took effectual means to prevent the occurrence of any such calamity to him ; but he did more— he was careful to provide against the loss even of a single minute ; and there is on record no example of a human being who lived more habitually tinder the practical consciousness that his days are numbered, and that the " night cometh in which no inan can work."— Athena- urn. STATUE op JAMES WATT The public statue cf James Watt, elected in Westminster- Abbey, has just been opened by the Committee. The Chairman, C. H. Turner, Esq., and other gentlemen of science, complimented the sculptor, Mr Chantrey, on the perfeet truth and beauty of his work. The Statue is placed in Paul's Chapel; around it are monuments of distinguished men, such as Lord Cnttington, the friend of Clarendon, and Lord Bourchier, who, bore the English standard at Agincourt. The statue is, on a pedestal of a design in harmony with the architecture of the place ; the likeness, taken during Watt's lifetime, is considered perfect; and the look is intellectual and serene. In the left hand is a paper on • which 4s traced the parallel motion of the steamengine ; there is a visible connection between the thought impressed on the brow and the drawing ; and we may, without any exercise of fancy, imagine that the subject in contemplation is the new- invented power. The drapery is simple and flowing, and on the whole the work may well take a place among the best portrait statues of ancient or modern times. The funds for the execution ot this noble work were suppled by the personal friends and the admirers of the g enius of Watt, aided by the munificent donation of £ 500 from his late Majesty George the Fourth. I n the list of contributors may be found the chief names of the land distinguished for rank or science.— jitheruBum. i -."-•-•'.-' EMBEZZLEMENT— A Considerable sensation has teen excited in Newcastle by a case of embezzlement, which has just become known. As the matter will undergo judicial Inquiry, we abstain from making any observations which might produce improper prejudices. The person implicated is Mr James Smith, who has been for many years a confidential clerk in the banking house of Sir M. W. Hidley, Bart., Biggej Gibson, and Co. He is charged with having embezzled from his employers bills of exchange to a large amount. The sum has been variously stated, but the parties who know what it is seem anxious to conceal it. From the best information we can obtain, we believe it is somewhere between eight and nine thousand pounds. IL is perhaps right to add, that the affair was first divulged by Mr Smith himself, who had unfortunately become a partner in a concern in Liverpool, which has just appeared in the Gazette, to relieve which from its difficulties he is understood to have acted as he has done. Mr Smith underwent an examination on Monday the 10th instant, in the Mayor's Chamber, and another on Friday last, ill gaol, before the Mayor. He lias not yet been committed for trial— Tyne Mercury. T H E KING AND THE DANISH FISHERMEN.— The fishermen of Heligoland had lately some grievances to complain of, and commissioned one of their fellow islanders, M. Siemens, to bring [ heir affair before the English Government. Hereupon he addressed a letter to the King direct, and sent it by the steam- boat, just as he would have done to a private individual. He was gratified • by receiving on the return of the steam- boat, a perfectly satisi factory answer. The Heligolanders were so de.; lighted with the condescension of his Majesty ( upon what easy terms may Princes acquire popularity !) that, on the evening of the day on which the answer reached them, as it happened to be the King's birth- day, they got up a handsome illumination. This, we have been assured, is the first time that the birth- day of a King of England has been celebrated on the island in so brilliant S manner.— Hamburgh pap^ tr: The following particulars of a recent attack ot the Bedouins upon Oran are - related by a person who has just arrived at Marseilles on » tsoard the Dili^ ente?, doming from that place:-—" Q. tr . the 31st ofAU'gnst, about two o'ct6' ck P. M.) being at dinner on Hoard our Vessel at Uran, we suddenly heard the: nignal nfiin attack by the Bedottins, We immediitteiy jiri » ce'! eii to the upper part of the town, from whence we perceived the plain, on which about 300 Bedouins were scattered, acting as sharpshooters, und endeavouring to carry oft some bullocks guarded by ' l urks. Whilst these faithful keepers, who are always armed with muskets, were returning the fire o f t h e Bedouins, about 250 men of the African Chasseurs were ordered to march into the plain. They soon charged the enemy, but unexpectedly 1200 or 1500 Bedouins sallied out of the bushes. Their number, so far from disheartening cur men, increased their courage. The charge recommenced, and ended by the flight of 1800 Bedouins before 250 French troops, who brought back in triumph the bullocks, together with five heads cf Bedouins, which were exhibited for a short time in the market place. One of our horses was wounded. The Bedouins had five men killed and several wounded. Of their horses three wire killed, and six wounded.'' T H E F A M I L Y OF P R I N C E VON M E T T E R N I CH The house of Melternich descends from an ancient Ithenish house of chieftains, who gave three Electors to Germany, and were already in the baronage, previous to their being elevated to the dignity of Counts of the German Empire, entitled to sit and vote in the General Diet. Formerly there were six branches- of this family, five of which are now cxtinct,— only one, the younger, now remaining, viz. the branch oT Winnettourg and Beitstein, nominated in 1J06 Sovereign Counts of the Empire, but Who, like many other German Princes, lost their sovereign power on the Ithenish Confederation being formed in 1800. The Austrian Premier, Clemens Wenzeslaus Nepomuk Lotharius, Prince von Metternich, was . born'May 17, 1773, and from early years traitied in the diplomatic career. Ancient and modern languages, history, statistics, public law, the antiquities of Austria, and diplomacy, were the studies to which he devoted his youth. In the negotiations of Rnstadt for establishing a general peace, he was envoy of the Westphalian bench of Counts, and signalized himself by his luminous and bold speeches. He was next ajipointed Envoy at the Court of Dresden in 1801, and at the Court of Berlin in 1804. The Prussian capital was at that time the centre of European politics, and Count Metterjiich availed himself " cf the facilities offered, to lay the foundation of the influence- he lias ever since SOUTH CAROLINA— TUB AMERICAN U N I O N .— Our politicians, our patriots, the lovers of the union in this quarter o f t h e country, do not appear properly to appreciate the progress of affairs ip South Carolina, and we may add Georgia. The cholera lias naturally monopolized the attention of all classes of the community, but while we attend to the preservation of life, the preservation of our liberties, through the integrity of the union, should not be disregarded. The true state of the case with retritrd to South Carolina and the union is simply this:— There is at present existing a party in South Carolina— the dominant party ( if the slate, marshalled by such men as Cnlhoun, Havne, and, M'Duffie— who declare their determination to nullify a law of the United States— that is, to disregard the enactments of the new tarifF, and thus to defy and set at naught the d e c i s i o n s of Congress, even after they have received the sanction of the President, and been declared constitutional by the Supreme Court. ' For some time past it has been a queslion of great interest among them, whether the legiglatuie or a state convention, whose members were elected by the people, could pass the nullifying law. After a great deal of discussion, it has been determined by the leaders thit a convention only possesses the" power to enact the nullifying law. To accomplish their purpose, therefore, it is necessary to call a convention of the state ; but to do this, the preliminary sttfp of a law providing for. the election of delegates to a convention by twothirds of the ordinary legislature is required. The. next election for the'state legislature takes place in October ; the nullifiers are therefore preparing for the contest, and are determined, if possible, to elect two- thirds or more of that body favourable lo their vievjs. They must succeed in this point before they can succeed in any of their ultimate projects. When that legislatuie meets, it will then take up the question of the tariff; and should they possess the requisite majority, a law will be passed calling a convention of the people. A new election will take place to elect delegates to that convention ; and when that body meets. I t may pans the final nullifying law. Then, but not till then, commences the first disruption of the sacred union. The state of South Carolina will then be in conflict with the general government; the Btate law in direct opposition lo the LTnited States law ; the part against the whole. We believe that the nullifiers possess sufficient strength to compass all they aim at, and that hence, in the course of a few months, the pction of nullification will take place in that state. The question will then occur to the American people and to Congress, what is to be done ? Is it proper, prudent, and wise, that the Federal Government endeavour to coerce South Carolina into obedience, or is it belter to strike her off from the union, and to suffer her to do the best she can for herself? If the former course is adopted, in the language of the Richmond Whig, " every discontented state may attempt the same successful expedient of redressing their own wrongs, real or imaginary ; the right of nullification will lie consecrated ; the union be dissolved in its own weakness." If the latter course is adopted, that of coercing her into duty, who can tell the results of the civil war that must ensue; who can tell what will he the conduct of Georgia, Virginia, and other southern States ? The crisis is indeed an imminent one, and the attention of our patriots and statesmen should be calmly directed to it. General Jackson has said ir. his veto- message, that any state has a right to construe the constitution for itself; and by this doctrine he has added fuel to the fire of nullification.— Pennsylvania Enquiret. There has just been opened at Berlin a novel exhibition, called the Pleorama, which procures for the spectator all ihe scenic pleasure of an aquatic excursion from Piocida to Torre del Greco, passing by Naples, Fuzzuoli, Castel- a- Mer, & c. The whole trip, which, upon the spot, requires about four or five hours, is performed in less than an hour, and that in a spacious barge, in which thirty people are accommodated. The illusion is quiie complete; and the rolling of ihe barge has, in several cases, caused some feeling of sea- sickness. The departure takes place in full daylight; soon after having reached Naples, the sunsets; and before the arrival at Torre del Greco the moon rises. The exhibition is the production of M. C. Gropius, one of the best decorative painters pf Berlin.— Alhenoeum. THE MISSIONARIES IN THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. It- is extremely painful to be obliged to say so much agaihst the American missionary system, as I found it existing in these highly favoured islands. Whilst IRON STKAM- VISS « L Wednesday TLIE Lord W i l - liam Bcntinck iron steam- vessel, lately launched at Messrs Maudsley's yard, in the Belvidere Road, which has been lying off Westminster Bridge, unmoored for the first time, her steam- engine of 60 horse power, and travelling in Europe, the writer had always been all her apparatus being completed. Captain Johnson, friendly to the cause, and had been no mean contribu- ofthe East India Company's service, under whose su- | tor to missionaries generally to the South Seas, and perir. tendence she was built, arid all the partners of therefore visited the various groups of islands quite the firm of Messrs Maudsley, were on boatd, with prepossessed in favour of tliem; but truth compels some of their friends, and the vessel proceeded up the him to say, that the personal observation upon the river, for the purpose of trying her speed, and the spot, of the effect produced by the conduct of the working of her engine. The vessel sailed admirably, American missionaries in the Sandwich Islands, 1 and every thing succeeded beyond expectation. With wrought on him a sad and m e l a n c h o l y disappoint- the engine on board, and a supply of coals, she does ment. No doubt, among so numerous a body as the i not draw more than 17 inches water. This vessel was American missionaries there are many valuable men ' intended to be sent out to India to ply on the Ganges, who would do honour to any employment they might but the East India Company, for whose services she be engaged in, and among these I have great pleasure | was built, have determined not to send her out, but in recollecting Mr in Owyhee ; but " exceptio ; to keep her on the Thames, for the purpose of towing probat regulam;" and it is to be regretted such in- j their own ships up and down the river, and also for stances are not more numerous. The system of ex-; conveying cargoes from London to their outwardacting a Spanish silver dollar from every black man bound ships, when lying at Notthfieet Hope and and woman before the missionary will marry them, Gravesend. Another iron vessel, flat- bottomed, has is certainly not one of their instructions, and i been laid down at Messrs Maudsley's yard, which is is highly oppressive amcng a population that can j in a state of great progress, and will be completed in hardly obtain a dollar by any » vprtinns. coutiled I about a month. This vessel will not have a steam- T I IE COTTON MANUFACTURE. It is supposed, that, in Europe, cotton cloth was first manufactured in the commercial states of Italy; by others, it is said, that the first attempts to manufacture cotton goods were made by the people of the Low Countries. But the latter is doubted by several writers, who suppose, that from Italy it made its way into the Netherlands, and that it was brought from thence to this country, by Protestant refugees, about the end of the sixteenth or beginning of the seventeenth century. The spindle and distaff are said to have been introduced into this country only in the reign of Henry the Eighth, but were soon laid aside, upon tbe invention of the well- known machine called the spinningwheel, which, in a commercial point of view, was 110 great improvement, but, for many years, it continued the only machine used for the spinning of cotton- yarn, " until about the middle of the last century, when the increase of the manufacture of cotton goods increased the demand for yarn, insomuch that a pause would naturally have ensued, and beyond which there could have been no advance, but with the slow and gradual increase of population. But, as the demandfor goods increased, various contrivances were attempted for expediting the process of spinning, and several men of genius directed their attention to it, but all with equal want of success, until the invention ofthe spinning- jenny, in 1767, by James Hargreaves." The form of this machine and the incident that suggested the first idea of it to his mind have already been mentioned. Its invention gave a new impulse to the cotton manufacture, by increasing the produce of yarn, and with it the demand for cotton goods. Cylinder cards were invented some time previous to the invention of the jenny, and prepared the cotton for it, by which the progress of the manufacture was greatly facilitated. It seems uncertain who was the inventor of the cylinder cards; but it is known that the father of the lale Sir Robert Peel'etected one at Blackburn, with fhe assistance of Hargreaves, as early as the year 176,2. Hargreaves is also said to have been the first who.. employed the stock card, used in the woollen trade, in the carding of cotton. But this ingenious mail was not allowed to reap the fruits of his own inventions in peace; for the popular prejudice being raised against him, as the people who had hitherto earned their subsistence by liand spinning conceived that the spinning machine invented by him would cause their ruin; they, therefore, mobbed Hargreaves' house, broke into it, and destroyed his machine; and when experience had shown to others the value and importance of his new mode of spinning, the people again rose, scoured the country, and destroyed every spinning machine they could find. But by this time he exertions, coupled as this priestly regulation is by a summary denouncement against all those who cohabit together without the form of marriage. No wonder the population is gradually falling off, when, added to this system of frightening the people, and charging them a dollar for getting married, they are compelled to attend to church and school four days out of the seven, and the fifth day is spent in compulsory labour for the chiefs; thus leaving only two whole days for the purpose of tillage and growing their ne- 1 cessary food. The missionaries have prohibited fishing, bathing, Jews' harps, and the surfboard, and every other description of amusement among the native population ; besides which they have introduced an old law of the Connecticut Puritans, and will not allow an Flnglish or American gentleman to ride on horseback on Sundays, or drink spirituous liquors, ot play at bowls or billiards on any day in the week, whilst they themselves are driven about the town and about the country, four- in- hand, with their, wives and families, Sundays and working days, not by horses, which are plentiful and cheap enough in those islands, but by human beings, by four naked black fellows, their own hearers, and probably fellow, communicants 1 The missionaries wanted to proclaim the ten commandments of Moses, as the supreme law of the land, throughout the islands, but some difficulties were started and the plan was abandoned. In short, civilisation, as it is unfortunately going on at present in the Sandwich Islands, under the mismanagement of the American missionaries, is only another word for " extinction." The bulk ofthe people are in a state bordering on starvation, because the adults are taken away from their enclosures of taro and potatoes to learn to read and spell, thus beginning at the wrong end, and the time, that should be devoted to the agricultural and mechanical arts, is now fruitlessly wasted in teaching old men of seventy to spell a b, ab, and, where one naturally looks for the outward signs of industry, the spade, the hoe, the fishingnet, & c. there is nothing but a vain and idle exhibir tion of " The Palapala," or Spelling Book, bought of the missionaries at a high price. In fact, the whole system, with an honourable exception or two, is nothing but a money- making fraud, and, instead of tending to the benefit ofthe wretched people, may be considered almost as a visitation of wrath, and a diiect cause of the depopulation before spoken of. First, by a tax on marriage, much above the means of ninetenths of the people, which tax is not received by the King or Government, such as it is, to be disbursed and circulated again, but goes directly into the pockets of the missionaries, to be hoarded by them, and taken out ofthe country when they have sufficiently feathered their nests ; and by denouncing eternal torments on those who marry according to the ancient usages, that is, without paying a dollar to the reverend fathers. Second, by starvation; employing the natives four days out of the seven in useless school learning, or otherwise taking them from the cultivation of the soil. Third, by disease; prohibiting bathing, which in that, climate is almost as essential as fresh air ; the natives, from being the fine healthy people they were in Cook's time, are now covered with vermin and scorbutic eruptions. Fourth, by prohibiting their innocent sports, and by fruitlessly attempting to bind human beings to a mode of life which is contrary to their nature, their spirit is broken, and they have now become listless and enervated ; and should the present system continue,, there will ere long be none but the white population for the missionaries to preach to."— Letter on Importance of Settling the Sandwich Islands. By T. Horton Jantes.— Literary Gazette. THE IxauisiTioN IN PORTUGAL— We became acquainted in this city with a young officer ofthe Portuguese navy, whose name, for obvious reasons, I sup- ? ress, and who had been confined for two years in the nquisition. He spoke English like a native; he hat}, been educated at Oxford, and was at heart a Protestant; although, as he told us, he dared not hint anj thing of this sort to his countrymen, or even allow it to be suspected. The cause of his imprisonment he detailed to us. On his return to Portugal, on the completion of his studies, he brought with him a number of English books— among others, a Prayer- book preserved. During the presence of the Emperor had found i » prudent to remove to Nottingham, where Alexander in Berlin, he brought about an alliance between Austria, Prussia, and Russia, these three powers uniting for the purpose of combating Napoleon's system of enslaving the continental nations of Europe. The battle of Austei litz and the treatysigned at Vienna by the Prussian Minister, Von Haugwitz; foiled, indeed, the success of liis endeavours, and Count Metternich went himself, in 1300, as Envoy to Paris, where he was highly honoured by the French Government. Still, however, when Napoleon continued iu his course of eovetousness, rapacity, and domineering, Count IMelternich resumed, in 1809, his former labours to expel him from Germany, assisted bv Count Station, who had succeeded Count Cobetizel as Minister of Foreign Affairs. Though he did not then obtain the object of his endeavours, yet the exertions of Austria and the campaign of the Duke of Brunswick roused the spirit of the Germans, and prepared the success of 1813. On the evening of the battle of Leipsic, the Emperor of Austria nominated him Prince, and soon after conferred 011 him the Austrian escutcheon to be put in the centre of his own ; for the success of thai war against Napoleon's despotism was in a great Jfcrt due to him, who since 1810 had succeeded Count Stadion, and conducted the department ot Foreign Affairs. We have no ruonj to specify all the titles, honours, and distinctions conferred by different Sovereigns on this celebrated Minister.' We shall ijnly mention that in his great title is merged that of Dukcuf PoHello, bestowed on him by Ferdinand IV. of Naples in 1815. His first wife, Countess Eleanor JiaunitJ!, was a grand- daughter of the celebrated Minister of the same name in the time of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, from her ( lie principality of 4i » sterlit0, which she possessed, devolved on him by inheritance. Among hi* other very numerous estates is also the Johatinisberg, near Frankfort on the Maine, known hy its excellent wine, as well as by several diplomatic meetings which were jjeld there— Awh- Gcrmnic Advertmr, he assisted various persons in the construction of machinery, and where a serious affray took place, in opposition to the new machines, in which he and others are said to have been severely wounded. Some time after this he died in poverty, neglectcd, and little known to the country that has since reaped the fruits of his important inventions. Ilargreaves' spinning jenny was at first but rudely constructed, but in a short time was greatly improved, and notwithstanding the determined opposition it met with at first, it soon spread rapidly over the country, and may be considered as a first step in that series of inventions which has made so great an alteration in the state of manufactures in this country, substituting the power of machinery for the labour of man, and tending so much to increase the production of capital; and it is worthy of observation,- that those who were most strenuous in opposing these inventions, were the first to avail themselves of their advantages. Shortly after tile invention of the spinning jenny, Mr Arkwrigbt, afterwards Sir Richard Arkwright, brought forward that wonderful piece of mechanism, the spinning frame, in the construction of which he had long been laboriously engaged ; but, from his want of mechanical knowledge, he had great difficulty in getting combination of machinery to answer the idea he had formed in his mind; and, indeed, after his plans had been sufficiently matured, and the construction of his machine so far advanced as to demonstrate its value, other difficulties, of a still more formidable nature, presented themselves, and would have disheartened any but the most ardent genius. His finances not being sufficient to enable him to commence business on his own account, few seemed willing to hazard capital Sufficient to enable him to secure his invention by patents, and commence operations with them in the spinning of cotton yarn. At length, however, he was so fortunate as to secure the co- operatipn of some persons who had sufficient discernment to see the merit of the invention, and he, consequently, obtained his first patent for spinning with rollers in 17K9- ' The first mill lie erected was at Nottingham, which was worked with horses, but this mode of working being found expensive, another larger mill was erected in 1771, at Cromfotd, in Derbyshire, which was moved by water; at this placc h » generally resided during the remainder of his life, • '-•'-',' and Testament, an English translation of Marmonfl's Tales, and Paine's Age of Reason. The latter, directly after his arrival at Coimbra, he lent to a student, who was his intimate friend, on his promising solemnly not to suffer it to be seen by any one. He had scarcely taken possession of his lodgings, when two familiars of the Inquisition entered his apartments, which they ransacked, and whence they carried away every book and morsel of written paper on which they could lay their hands. He was summoned before the Inquisitor within a couple of hours, narrowly interrogated, and his books burnt in his presence ; he was congratulating himself on his good fortune, in escaping so easily from the grasp of the " holy office," when his friend the student, hearing of his arrest, was seized with a panic, and in the excitation of the moment, rushed in, and delivered up the Age of Reason. The result may be anticipated ; the wretched young man was thrown into a dungeon, and suffered all the horrors of confinement and fear for two long years. His brow and lips actually became blanched when he told us the tale. " And see 1" he concluded, as he rose from his seat, and took two or three hurried steps across the floor, " I will show you what il is to live in a Christian country ; twice a- week 1 was brought up to ' the question,' my breast bared, and foiced against a grating heated until it became red hot, to compel ine to confess sins of which I had never been guilty. I shall carry those bitter and degrading scars to my grave." In the emotion of the moment, he tore open his shirt, and showed to us the deeply indented marks ofthe grating, which had seamed his flesh in a fearful manner. I never remember his look of indignant anguish without a shudder ! Had the unfortunate young man present, ed the Age of Reason to the library of the University, it is probable that it would never have been even looked at, and might have slept on the same shelf side by side with Voltaire's Exposition of the Bible— Royal Lady's Magazine. PELICANUS AQUILA, o n SEA H A W K — T h e m a n - of- war birds, or sea- hawks ( Pelicanus Aquila) are seldom or ever seen far distant from land ; the male birds are black, and have a red pouch ; the females have a white breast, and are destitute of the pouch. In procuring fish for their food, these birds prefer seizing it from the boobies and gannets instead ot catching it themselves. To attain this object, the sea- hawk hovers above the gannet ( which is the bird most usually selected for attack) and darting rapidly down, strikes him on the hack o f t h e head, which causes him to disgorge his prey, which is seized' by the hawk with an inconceivable rapidity before it reaches the water, and he afterwards soars aloft to look out for another object of attack. It is not an uncommon circumstance to observe a single gannet selected from a flock, and come out to be the subject qf attack, as if he had been called by the hawk in preference to the others. The gannet, however, manoeuvres to avoid the blow by darting about, lowering himself from his elevation in the air at every dart, and raising his beak in a perpendicular direction, eludes the bloiv of the hawk from behind, and frequently both fall into the water; the hawk only having the advantage over the gannet when hovering in the air, the latter escapes *— The London Medical Gazette. CHIMNEY SOOT, AS A MANURE This article is said to be an excellent manure, if properly applied. It is generally mixed up with earth and dung, as a compost; in this state it is worth little or nothing, but, when properly applied, by being kept dry, and sown on young wheat, clover, or vetches, in March or April, its effects are most extraordinary; in a few days, the yellow sickly plants will assume a dark green, which is as much ft test of health in plants as the rosy cheeks of a dairy- maid. The fact is, plants receive nearly as much nourishment from the air as the roots, and, as the soot is throwing off abundance of gases, which are imbibed through the pores of the leaves, it gives a healthful vigour to the plant, and enables it to throw forth its roots to supply nourishment, during fhe stages of blossoming and perfecting the seed, Aprr. E TREES.— A horticulturist in Boliemie has a beautiful plantation of the best sort of apple- trees, which have neilher sprung from seeds nor grafting. His plan is to take shoots from fhe choicest sorts, insert them in a potato, and plunge both into the ground, leaving but an inch or two of the shoot above the surface. The potato nourishes the shoot whilst it pushes out roots, and the shoot gradually springs up and becomes 0 beautiful tree, hearing the best of fruit, without requiting to be grafted.— Canada Record^ about a month. This vessel will not have a steamengine on board, but will be used entirely for cargo, to be towed by the iron steamer. Several of these iron steamers are to be built for the East India Company, and it is now determined merely to fit them together in this country, and then pack them in pieces, and send them out to Calcutta in the Company's ships, where they will be built under the superintendence of competent persons sent out from England. On Friday, the Baron de Statge- Borde was tried before the Court of Assizes, Paris, under the following remarkable circumstances :—" In the beginning of the year the Baron addressed a letter to the King, stating that he had met by chance with a person named Beanpre, formerly aide- de- camp of General Dumouriez, who was in a high state of excitement against his Majesty, adding, ' I will not repeat his words, but every thing leads me to dread a catastrophe. Let it be avoided ere it is too late. Hasten then to comply with my application that he may become more calm. His safety, mine, and yours, are at stake. Sire, let prudence be your guide, it is commanded by the danger which threatens us. An obstinate refusal may be your destruction. If I am not deceived, the moment IS at hand.' In order to explain this mystery, it is necessary to add, that Baron Statge pretended that Beaupre was master of some important secrets, which, if divulged, would be most injurious to the King, and which could only be kept from publication by the sacrifice of a sum of money. Baton Statge pretended that he was creditor to Louis Eighteen, to the amount of 300,000 francs, and called upon Louis Philippe to discharge the debt. Finding that his letters to the King produced no effect, he on the 7th of May last wrote to the Queen, concluding wiih the following sentence:—' You will perceive by my letters that the safety of the King, of yourself, Madam, and of your precious family, is involved.' The King, however, instead of sending the Baron money, sent the police in pursuit of him ; and he, irritated by this, ventured to publish the letters said to have been written to him by Beaupre, which are of such a nature that we cannot repeat them. Being at length taken and indicted for having written letters to the King, endeavouring to obtain money from him by means of threats, and for having written, printed, and distributed a pamphlet in sixteen pages, entitled " Letter to the Baron Statge, by M. Beaupre, formerly a friend of General Dumouriez," he was thereby guilty of an offence against the person of the King." Al. Vutout, the king's secretary, proved the delivery of the letters end of the pamphlet for the King, which were produced in court, and which theprisoner admitted tohavebeen written and sent by him. M. Legarrec, the advocate- general, supported the accusation, and the court adjourned until the next day, to hear M. Moulin's defence of the Baron. On Saturday, after M. Moulin and the President had summed up the evidence, the jury retired, and after an hour's deliberation returned and delivered a verdict, finding the prisoner guilty of having written letters to the King, threatening his Majesty's person in order to obtain money from him, upon which the Court sentenced him to hard labour for five years. STATISTICS OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS In the vear 1830 there arrived in the harbour of Honoruru, island of Woahoo, 130 ships, burden 40,128 tons; of these 14 came from London nnil 23 English altogether; American 85 ; 17 native belonging to ihe port, 1 French, and 1 Spanish; 74 were engaged in the whale fisheiv, and 2 came from the Columbia river. The number of ships belonging to this port is 17 large and 10 small, tonnage 2890; three of which belong to the native chiefs, and one is engaged in the packet service. The price of piovisions at Woahoo in October last was : beef, per lb., Od.; goat mutton, 2, i.; pork, 3( 1.; goats, 5s. eacn ; butter, per lb., 2s.; eggs, per doz. Is. 6d.; house rent, 1G dollars a month ; yams, 3s. per bushel; taros, 3s.; cabbages, Is. Od.' a dozen; sweet potatoes, 2s. a bushel; bananas, 6d. per bunch of 351bs.; pine apples, 3d. each. The produce includes sugar, rum, molasses, tobacco, ginger, turmeric, coffee, cotton, indigo, tortoiseshefi, beche de mer, sandal wood, cocoa- nut oil, sea otter skins, martin, heaver, seal, and olher skins, cocoa and chocolate ( which require 10 years' growth), maize, rice, pepper, sperm oil, black oil from sea elephants, beef, pork, vegetables, fruits, & c. L I A B I L I T Y OF CARRIERS BY WATER At the York Assizes, on the 5th instant, a case of great importance to the mercantile world? and to all persons concerned in the carriage of goods by sea or in tide rivers, was decided. Messrs Grant and Cochran, the plaintiffs, are extensive merchants and commission agents at Glasgow. The defendants, Messrs Whittenbury and Stead, are carriers at Manchester, trading under the firm of John Thomson and Co. The action was brought to recover the value of 14,700 lbs. of cotton yarn, which were delivered to the defendants in September, 1831, to be conveyed to London by way of Hull, and which were lost in the Humber, by the striking of tlie vessel upon a sand- bank. The yarn was sent by Messrs Fielding and Tubbutt, on account ofthe plaintiff's, to Mr George Pickup, of Manchester, packer, who delivered it to the defendants. The goods were sent by way of Goole, at which place they w ere shipped on board a brig called The Goole, which sailed from that port on tlie 9th September, and on the following day, between the hours of eleven and twelve o'clock in the forenoon, it ran upon a sandbank, called Barrow Kanch. The ship and all the cargo were lost, it being found impossible to save them, although great efforts were made for that purpose Mr Pollock contended that the plaintiffs were entitled to recover on two grounds; first, that the goods had not been sent by way of Hull, as was required by the contract; arid secondly, that the vessel was not lost by any of the inevitable perils of the sea, but by the negligence or ignorance of the person in charge of the vessel, as the bank on. which she struck was well known to persons conversant with the navigation of the Humber. Mr Alexander, on the part of the defendants, contended that as it was well known that they were, not carriers by sea, their liabality ceased when they had delivered the goods at Goole, which was the most expeditious as well as the safest mode of sending them to their ultimate destination. The learned counsel said the defendants had no connection with or control over the goods after they were delivered at Goole to be shipped, and it would be most unreasonable to make them responsible for them from that time. Mr Justice Park said, the defendants, by their contract, had engaged to convey the goods to London. The plaintiffs, his lordship observed, were clearly entitled to recover. It was quite obvious that fhe loss of the goods had been occasioned either by the negligence or ignorance of the captain in charge of the brig, who in calm weather, and in open day, ran his ship upon a bank, which was a permanent one, and ought to have been well known to all persons navigating the Humber.' The jury, without hesitation, found a verdict for the plaintiffs.— Damages £ 861, 16s. The consequenoe of a sudden stroke upon flowing water is curiously exemplified in the labyrinth of cylindrical pipes with which that fluid is supplied to the " modem Babylon," If a cock be suddenly turned, it occasions a re- action throughout the w hole range of communication; and if ihe stream be rapid, and the stoppage made very suddenly, a distant pipe may even be broken, as we have seen performed on a laige model. Taking advantage of this quality, there is a guage fixed in the cilice of one of our water companies, by which a clerk at the desk can observe when the cocks, however distant, are running, and, consequently, how much water is drawn. It merely consists of a glass tube over a pipe connected with the level, in which water is seen in the lower part. On the slopping ofthe cock the water flies suddenly up and splashes the top.— United Service Journal. INDIAN FOREST- TREES.— No country in the world produces so large a number of forest- trees as India ; many of them of the highest value for timber, and unlike our European trees, often distinguished for ample leaves and large and fragrant flowers. Nothing can be more glorious than the appearance of an Indian scene during the period, or soon after the rainy season, when the whole country is replete with fragrance and verdure ; when many of the more delicate herbaceous plants which had vanished, or languished under the intolerable heat, put forth their blossoms of every hue with astonishing rapidity, and seem by their wild luxuriance to express their joy and gratitude to HORSE RACES IN PARIS. Thursday the two races in the Champ de Mars took place. The Duke of Orleans came 011 horseback, passed into the weighing place, and there remained during the first two races. The first race was a match between Mr Rieussec's Felix, 4 yis,, and Lord H. Seymour's Deucalion, 4 yrs., each carrying 1051b., three times round in one heat, for 1200fr. aside, which was won easy by the for. mer. The second race was a sweepstakes of 500fr. each, once round, which was won by Lord II. Seymour's Fovius, 4 yrs., 1051b., beating M. Delarroque's Arlequin, 3 yrs., 901b., and Mr Cheri Salvador s Grampion, 7 yrs., 1261b. A match between a pony belonging to Lord H. Sey. mour, feather wt., and a mare belonging to M. de Royere, 1201b., one heat, three times round, 500fr. aside, was won by the former by at least a quarter of a mile. In this race, a circumstance unparalleled in the annals of racing occurred; I11 the third round, while passing the Pont d'lena, I . ord Seymour's pony ran completely out of the'course, over the ropes; the rider ( a boy of 14) succeeded in turning him back, but in crossing to enter the course again he was caught by the ropes, and both horse and rider fell; the boy, however, jumped up immediately, mounted just as his adversary arrived at the spot, galloped off, leaving him behind, and came in without further accident. Neither the pony nor his master sustained any injury from their tall. The fourth race was a match between Lord H. Seymour's Fovius and Mr Salvador's Grampion, each 1151b., once round, 500fr, aside, which was won by the fornicr by half a length. Lord Seymour was loudly cheered by the public on quitting the ground. the great Author of Nature. An endless variety of shrubs adorn the hedges, which are often formed of some kind of Euphorbia, or the odoriferous Pandanus, while cucurbitaceous plants, and a vast number of bindweeds and other climbers, interlace their flexible blanches, overtop the hedges, and decorate even lofty trees with festoons of living drapery. A species of Trichozanthes ascends to the tops of the highest trees, and produces a beautiful white flower with a fringed border, but which, expanding only in the night, is rarely seen ; while the abundant fruit, nearly as large as a small orange, and of a vivid scarlet colour, is very ornamental. So numerous are climbers of this description, that trees and shrubs are lashed as it were together, and the Indian forests or jungles often tendered impenetrable except to birds and wild animals. Where the silk cotton tree ( Bornbax Ceiba) and the Decannee bean ( Butea superba) abound, the effect which is produced, by the crimson blossoms of the one and the scarlet blossoms of the other, has been described as inconceivably splendid. These, contrasted by their black stalks, observes Fofties in one of his poetic descriptions, give a brilliant effect tp tije western woods, which appear at sunset like immense forests in a glow of fire. The cocoa palm has been already mentioned as forming a remarkable spectacle on the coasts of some parts of the country ; other palms' must not, however, be omitted in this picture, particularly the palmyra tree ( Borassusflabellitormis), one of the largest of the Indian palms, growing to fifty or even a hundred feet high, and surmounted by a circle of enormous fan- shaped leaves. The Caryota urens, nearly as lofty as the cdcoa tree, has a tiunk sometimes nearly three feet in diameter, and a twicefeathered crown of leaves. All these, however, yield in grace to the betel- nut- tree ( Areca catechu,) the poka- tshittoo of the Hindoos,— a palm cultivated all over India for the sake of the fruit, the celebrated betel, nut. The trunk of this beautiful palm is pertectly straight, forty or fifty feet high, and about twenty inches in circumference, smooth and of nearly equal thickness throughout its whole length. " There is a peculiar delicacy in the proportion and foliage of this tree," says Forbes, " which makes it generally admired ; the Indians compare it to an elegantly- formed and beautiful woman." It will be at once felt llow strikingly these princes of the vegetable kingdom niust characterise the aspect of those districts where they most abound. Nor must we forget to paticularly admire in the scenery of this country the several kinds of Bambusa, all passing under the popular name of bamboo. The bamboo is a native of tropical regions, and, though a gramineous plant, attains almost an arborescent character ; it is from thirty to a hundred feet in height ; and, when bending gracefully before the wind, is affimed by Humboldt to be one of the most remarkable objects in a tropical landscape. AFRICAN RIVERS— The only rivers of any consequence hitherto navigated on the West Coast of Africa, afe, the Senegal, the Gambia, and the Zaire. The latter is only known from the unfortunate expedit on of Captain Tuckey, who, in sailing into it a very short distance, found it broken by rapids, and utterly unnavigable. The most of his officers end crew died of fatigue ill carrying their boats over land, in order to pass the falls. As well might it be said that the Africans have no taste for commerce, because there is none on the Orange River, which ripples over a bed of rocks to the north of Caff're Land. The river Senegal has also singular disadvantages. The country along its noith side is the sandy desert, in which it somewhat resembles the Indus, a noble river also unoccupied by trade. Its navigation is so dangerous, from the shifting bar at its mouth, that the French were obliged to keep a vessel continually watching its changes; and the coast at that place is one of the most insalubrious, and even deadly, of all Africa. The latter cause operates also to the extinction of European enterprise on the Gambia, which is not navigable to a great distance; and both these rivers are, moreover, but recently delivered from the scourge of the slave trade, which turned the whole of their governors into a set of savage man- hunters, and prevented them from appreciating the advantages of regular industry. The nature of that part of the land which stretches from Sierra Leone eastward to Cape Coast, may be conjectured from the fact, that Major Laing found the sources of the Niger among the mountains lying behind it,— a circumstance which, considering the great length of that river's course, proves the immense elevation and Alpine nature of the countries in the neighbourhood. Such districts are rather fitted to support races pf fierce mountaineers, than to afford channels for the extension of commerce; and, when the habits of the people have been farther vitiated by the slave trade, there can be no wonder that civilization has not taken root among them. From the generally unfavourable character of the sea- coast, by which it is surrounded to the south and west, and from the great barrier of sand which guards it on the north, it has been long acknowledged that the central and most fertile district of Africa has been hitherto shut out from intercourse with Europe; yet this populous land, the basin of the Niger and the Quon- a, has for ages been pointed out as the seat of African commerce and civilization, exactly as Bengal, Bahar, Orissa, & c. which form the basin of the Ganges and Burrampooter, have been always known as the seat of the wealth and the commerce of India. What would be the value of East India commerce were it limited to Madras and Bombay only, without the trade of the Ganges ? There are many streams in Hindostan which lead a considerable way up into the country, and might be expected to afford a channel for trade ; but would it be fair to conclude that there is no trade on the Ganges because there is little on them ? The interior district of Africa, which has been now laid open, is mentioned, by all geographers wl 0 have treated of that country, both among the Ancients, the Arabians, » nd those of modern times, as the seat of many large towns, and a flourishing commerce; while there is not one of these writers, either ancient or modern, who alludes to a single place of note along the disjoined districts of the sea- coast; a circumstance sufficiently proving the fertility of the one, and the disadvantageous situation ofthe other.— Correspondent of Dundee Advertiser. TTIFI RSVEREND EDWARD IRVING.— The Ann » lY - Presbytery had transmitted to the Reverend Edward Irving a list of queries regarding certain doctrinal points of Scripture, and as testing the alleged peculiarities of that gentleman's religious faith and views, requiring within a certain specified time distinct and categorical answers to these calachetical queries. We understand that Mr Irving has, within the last few days, written to the Presbytery, praying far a delay of his case for two months longer, mid promising at the end of lhat lime a respectful and minute answer to the questions of the Presbytery. From the tone and style of the reverend gentleman's letter, the Presbytery have considered him entitled to the indulgence, and granted it accordingly. It is sttongly believed by those best acquainted with Mr Irving in his nalive burgh and district, that he will reply to the queries of tile Presbytery in propria persona. THE SCOTTISH THISTLE.— This ancient emblem of Scots pugnacity, with its motto, " Nemo me impune lacessit," is represented of various species in royal bearings, coins, and coats of armour, so that there is some difficulty in saying which is the genuine original thistle. The origin of the national badge itself is thus handed down by tradition :— When the Danes invaded Scotland, it was deemed Unwarlike to attack an enemy in the pitch darkness of night, instead of a pitched battle by day ; but on one occasion the invaders resolved ip avail themselves of this stratagem ; and in order to prevent their tramp from being heard, they marched barefooted. They had thus neargd the Scottish force unobserved, when R Dane unluckily stepped with his naked foot upon a superbly prickled thistle, and instinctively uttered a cry of pain, which discovered the assault to the Scots, who ran to their arms, and defeated the foe with a terrible slaughter. The thistle was immediately adopted as the insignia of Sevtland,— Literary Gazette, ExTBAOTtDlVARYI> F* CT 0* A WmJUtriKB.— A most singular occurrence look place at the farmsteading of Whitehill, in the parish of Kirkmahoe, on the afternoon of Thursday last, during the prevalence of the appalling . thunder storm which passed over this district. A sow with eight pigs, tbe latter five weeks old, werp burrowing and feeding in the farm- yard, when suddenly, to tbe unspeakable astonishment of the servants who witnessed the phenomenon* two o f t h e pigs were whirled into the air and deposited 011 Ihe roof of the neighbouring barn 1 The building being slated, and slippery from the rain, the affrighted grumphies, who assuredly never contemplated rising so high in the world, slid a considerable way down the roof, and the labourers ran to catch them in their descent, and Bave them fiom injury— the servant lasses holding out their aprons for this purpose ; but the little animals recovered their feet before reaching the ledge, diddered along to the end of the barn— from thence descended to the roof of a shed somewhat lower, and finally diopt into the soft garden behind, without sustaining the slighest injury 1 L^ st this narrative may be thought to smack somewhat of tbe hatchet, we can only say that we had the particulars from an individual in town, to whom Mr. Robertson, the tenant of Whitehill, personally communicated the circumstance Dumfriei Journal. S T I R L I N G HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY The a n - nual general meeting of this Society was held on Thursday last, and the competition for, and exhibition of the flowers, fruits, and vegetables, took place under the extensive sheds of the Com Market; the entrance to which, as well as the pillars within, were previously decorated with evergreens and wreaths of flowers. The great profusion, variety, and excellence of the articles produced, as well as the more than usual number of competitors, and highly respectable visitors, gave ample proof of the still increasing interest felt by all classes in the success of this laudable institution, arid never on any former occasion here, was there so much zeal and spirit manifested on the pait of the practical members, who, along with their journeymen and » pprentices— who formed a considerable proportion of the assemblage— met to witness the proceedings of the day. The judges, after going carefully over the lets, adjudged the prues to the successful competitors. Ift the afternoon, about forty of the members, including strangeis friendly to the Society, sat down to » n excellent dinner in the Saracen's Head Inn Captain Galbraith in the chair, anil Robett Young, Esq. croupier. The dessert, comprising a great part of the fruit brought forward for competition, was of the most sumptuous kind Stirling Advertiser. AGRICULTURE. ENGLAND— The commencement of this year's com harvest dates generally in different parts ofthe island according to their situation from the last week in July to the first week and middle of August, few being later. Merionethshire, in Wales, probably has the honour of precedence, the earliest sample ( a very fine one) of barley being there shown fot sale. In Ireland they are perhaps full as forward. The continental accounts agree very generally and in numerous particu. larswith our own, and in the Mediterranean countries, the ctop of maize or Indian corn is said to be the most beautiful and productive hitherto witnessed. But in the northern countries, and in the vicinity of Copen. hagen, the weather being unsettled, with heavy tains and cold, the growing crops of coin were quite green towards the end of July, the lye and rapeseed particularly suffering. Their stocks of old corn are said to be very limited. There have been as yet no arrivals of new corn " or seeds from the Continent, all the late imports consisting of old, part of which has been reexported. The arrivals of both, new, have been dropping into the ports of London and Liverpool, from Ireland, and into those of Scotland, throughout the month. Essex and Kent, the two neighbouring counties of thefmetropolis, sent up an early supply of new wheat and seeds, with some parcels of hcans. Most of the early samples of wheat, though fair to the eye, proved in the bulk too soft and moist for grinding unmixed with old; and some of the seed were in a very damp slate, having been obviously harvested before they were ripe. The finest and ripest samples of new English wheat have reached a very considerable and. satisfactory weight, from 621bs. to 651bs. tbe imperial bushel. Barley in the proper soils is a large and heavy crop; on too strong and poor lands the reverse; on all, part of the ciop has been effected by blight; that, however great the aggregate quantity may prove, we must not expect a superabundance of fine malting or grinding barley from the present harvest. The crop of oats is piobably one of the best of the year, prolific both in corn and straw. The beans which have survived the attacks of blight and vermin are deemed nearly an average, crop, but are generally in a soft state. A considerable breadth of wheat was levelled with the ground by the several storms, the weeds springing up through it. The eastern counties, Suffolk particularly, sefem to have been most subjected to this calamity, little compl » ined of elsewhere. In tha early districts preparations were making for wheat sowing on the commencement ot the present month. It is said that much of the wheat land will fall short of its usual quantity of manure during the present seed season, and that a considerable number of acres must be sown entitely without that aid, the weather of the late winter and spring having been most unfavourable for the collection and preservation of manure. During the past week, the weather has been favour, able for rendering secure the greatest portion of the wheat crop throughout England. From most of the country reports, however, we regret to observe, that the injurious effects of the late rains are being exem. plified in the samples appearing at market, which are cold and damp, and unht in very many instances for immediate use; a depreciation in new qualities has consequently ensued, and old descriptions bave either advanced in an equal ratio, or are held firm at former rates. From all our northern counties the accounts concur in stating an abundant produce, but complain of the new material damage the quality has received, and that thete must be a great deal of low- priced wheats pressed upon the market this season. Fine old wheats, both foreign and English, and new qualities in good condition, will no doubt sustain for some time a more than relative value.— Mark Lane Express. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. Superb, Anderson, from London, at Leith 22d inst L E I T H . Arrived, September 22. Royal Adelaide ( steam- ship), Mill, from London, goods. Ann, Fowler, Peterhead, herrings. Neptune, Watson, Arbroath, stones. Cleared out, September 21. Mary, Ritchie, for St Petersburgh, goods. Trusty, Anderson, and Royal William ( steam- ship), Chaplin, London, do. St Giles, Spark, Aibroatb, do. GLASGOW TONTINE LIST. Iris, Welsh, in the Clyde from Quebec, in twenty- four days Clyde, Robertson, at Cove of Cork from Halifax Clansman, ——, at Baltimore from Belfast PACKET LIST— SEPTEMBER 20; D e s t i n a t i o n . C u x h a v e n , H o l l a n d , . . . . S w e d e n , - - . Lisbon,—-- G i b r a l t a r, Malta, a n d . MaeUe a aftd \ B u t n o s I a l t a r , " 1 a, Pa< r as 1 C o r f u , ) Ayres, America, — • Jamaica, Lee-" w a r d Istdg. 1 Carthng. est, La Gu y r a ,) J a m a i c a , St"| Domingo, 1 M xlco, & ! Chba, J L e w d . 1 s'. ds.) Demerar--. .) Mails m a de u p i n Lond o n . T u e s d a y s & F r i d a y s •• D i t t o F r i d a y E v e r y a l t e r - n a t e T u e s. I s t T u e s d ay e a c h » , o u t h - D i t t o . . . . . . . . 3d T u e s d ay e a c h m o n th 1st IVednes e a c h m o n t h . D i t t o Last P a c k e ts s a i l e d . Next Packets due. HMSt African, Sep. 7- HMStColumbia S p. 7. Lady III P e ' h am Scp. J. Dukt- of Vork, Aug. 24. HMB I l - n i i r d, . -. - S. p. 8. HMBOptfJSOm SVj). 12, 3d Weine « . e a c h m o n t h. D i t t o . . . . HMD M t t t i n r, Aug. 111. HMtl n ' n a l d u, Aujr. 18. S u n . andWed. M o n . & F r M . n i n d a y . HMStAfrlenn, 8* 1>. 10. HMSt Fireb r a n d , S p. 30. HMB Cjj- Tiet, OM t / Vj- rlan, Oct. 6. S t a n m e r , Oct. f . HMB Frolic, Oct. 4. HMB Skylark, S e p . M 1MB Calypso, Oct. 13. luk r e t u r n 01 t o e packets is c a l c u l a t e d t h u s To ulld f r o m J a m a i c a . 16 weeks— America, 13— Leeward I s l a n d s , 12 — Malta, 7— Brazils, 211— Huenos A y r e s , 24— Mexico, 18. F r om J u l y t o D e c e m b e r , i r . c l u s l v - e , t h e P a c k e t t o u c h e s nt F e r n a n i b u c o a n d Bahia o n h e r o u t w a r d passage t o Rio J a n e i r o , and t h e o t h e r s i x m o n t h s 011 h e r h o m e w a r d . Lifbon— HMS Cohnurtce, w i t h the mail of 18tli i n s t . will sail o n t h e a r r i v a l of l a s t n i g h t ' s post at F a l m o u t h. A m a i l will be m a d e u p lor Oporto and . Lisbon, every TuesCny, u n t i l f u r t h e r n o Ibe. Buenos A y r , — H M SelKioper Cockatric* 4. for t h e mall of I 8 t h i n s t . w ill sail e n t h e a r r i v a l of last n i g h t ' s post a Falmouih-. ' - - - Amerloa a n d West JndleF— HMB R e i n d e e r , for t h e Leewaxd I s l a n d m a i l of 19th i n s t . d< t a i n c d — t e e t e r s In t i m e on ih'e 2iid. HMB Sheldrake, f o r t b e J a m a l c a a i i d Mexican mall of 10th i n s t . detained— Letters i n t i m e on t h e 22i HMB Swallow, HMD Briseis, a n d HMB Eclipse, prep a r i n g for- servk- ei v 1 Holland a n d Hamburgh— MaUs will he m a d e u p f o r Ham. b u r g h every Tue » day a n d F r i d a y up- il f u r t h e r no- ' Ifif? .• ; ', v ^. t* ; . - '. . Swed- I1- T1V0 p a c k e t s I n p o r t. F r a n c e a n d o s t e n d — F i r e f l y , w l t h j t h e F r e n c h maillof 18 h i n s t , sailed 19th a t 1 p . m . S a l a m a n d e r , w i t h thfe O s t t n d , do. do. HIGH WATER AT LEITH. Tuesday, ... 44m. past 2 Morn., 3m. past 3 Even. Wednesday, 20m. past 3 Morn,, 37a. past 3 Even. Thuisday,... 54m. past 3 Mom., 11m, past 4 Even. 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