T IIE TOWN " IN TOWN, OUT OF TOWN— ALL THE WORLD OVER.' ]* O 40 iUIDAY, iEPTEMBER PRICE JYORAMA, Abingdon, Thomas Duffield. Boston, J. S. Brownrigg. Chatham, Colonel Maberley. Clitheroe, J. Irving. Cricklade, R. Gordon. Dover, Sir John Rae Reid. Dumfries, Keith Douglas. Eye, Wm. Burge. Frome, Sir Thomas Champneys. Glasgow, J. Dixon. Gloucester, W. T. Hope. Gloucestershire, Eastern Divi- sion, C. W. Codrington. Hereford, R. Blakemore. Jedburgh, Sir Adolphus Dal- rymple. Liverpool, Lord Sandon. Lymington, Stewart. Middlesex, Joseph Hume. Newark, W. E. Gladstone. The Committee see no reason at present to remove any of the above lames from this Schedule, and— "— .„ be misled by any general Anti- REGENT'S- PAHK.— The attention of the Public is respectfully invited to the Two new and attractive Pictures now exhibiting at the above establishment, viz.— PARIS, taken from Montmartre, by M. Daguerre; and the celebratedCAMPO SANTO of Pisa, by M. Bouton.— Open daily, from Ten till Six. COLONIAL SLAVERY.— Great misconception hav- ing been found to prevail as to the object of the ANTI- SLAVERY PARTY, the AGENCY SOCIETY consider it right, at the present crisis, again to declare, for the information of the Candidates and Electors throughout the kingdom, that their SOLE OBJECT is immediately to substitute judicial for the private and irresponsible authority now exer- cised over eight hundred and thirty thousand of their fellow- creatures, and to obtain for them an equal enjoyment of civil rights with free- born subjects of Great Britain. The first of the following Schedules contains the names of those Gen- tlemen who are either Members of the existing Parliament, or reported to be Candidates for the next; and whose past conduct or present pro- fessions, or admitted personal interest in thc question, leaves the Agency Anti- Slavery Committee without hope that they will support the reason- able object above described. This Schedule contains, as a matter of course, all who are known to be Slave Proprietors. The third Schedule contains the names of those Gentlemen whom the Committee recommend with perfect confidence to the support of all Electors who concur in desiring immediate abolition. SCHEDULE A, containing the names of those of whom the Agency Anti- Slavery Com- mittee are without hope that they will support immediate abolition as above defined. Orford, Spencer Kilderbee. Penryn, J. W. Freshfield. Rochester, Ralph Bernal. Salisbury, Wadham Wyndham. Suffolk, East Div. R. N. Shaw. Ditto, ditto, —— Archdeckne. Ditto, Western Div. J. Fitzgerald Somersetshire, Eastern Division, William Miles. Sunderland, Aid. Thompson. Ditto, David Barclay. St. Alban's, H. G. Ward. Tewkesbury, W. Dowdeswell. Tower Hamlets, A. K. Hutchison Ditto, Hon. Sir Robert Stopford. Tynemouth, Fred. Young. Whitby, Aaron Chapman. Wisbeach, Capt. Yorke, R. N. Yorkshire, North Riding, J. C. Ramsden tto rem_ . names and particularly caution their friends not to iti- Slavery professions. SCHEDULE B is intended to contain the names of those Gentlemen who offer doubtful or indefinite promises ; but, as it is probable that some of them have not yet fully made up their minds on the subject, this Schedule will not be advertised for a few days. SCHEDULE C, containing the names of those whom the Committee recommend with perfect confidence to the support of all Electors who concur in desiring immediate abolition. Hertford, J. E. Spalding. Ditto, T. S. Duncombe. Hertfordshire, Rowland Alston. Hythe, W. Fraser. Ipswich, J. Morrison. Kent, West Div. T. L. Hodges. Kerry, Daniel O'Connell. Leeds, T. B. Macaulay. Leicester, South Division, E. Dawson. Leicester, William Evans. Ditto, Wynn Ellis. Lincoln, South Div. H. Handley. Louth, R. L. Sheil. Newark, Serjeant Wilde. Ditto, W. F. Handley. Newcastle- under- Line, E. Peel. Oxford, W. 11. Hughes. Penryn, C. Stewart. Poole, Sir John Byng. Ditto, Mr. Lester. Preston, John Wood. Ripon, T. K. Stavely. Ditto, J. S. Crompton. Rochdale, John Fenton. Rochester, John Mills. Ditto, T. Rider. Rye, Col. De Lacy Evans. Salford, J. Brotherton. Sheffield, J. S. Buckingham. Somerset, Eastern Division, Gore I. angton. Ditto, West Div. A. Sanford. South Shields, Durham, W. Gowan. Stafford, T. Gisborne. St. Alban's, Sir F. Vincent. Sudbury, M. A. Taylor. Surrey, J. I. Briscoe. Sussex, East Div. H. Curteis. Tewkesbury, John Martin. Ditto, C. Hanbury Tracey. Thirsk, R. Gibson. Tower Hamlets, Dr. Lushington. Truro, William Tooke. Warwick, John Tomes. Ditto, E. B. King. Weymouth, T. F. Buxton. Whitby, Richard Moorsom. Worcester, Eastern Division W. C. Russel. Ditto, ditto, T. F. Cookes. Yorkshire, North Riding, Cayley. CONTRACTS FOR STRAW. Commissariat Department, Treasury Chambers, Sept. 21, 1832. SUCH Persons as are desirous of Contracting with the Agent for Commissariat Supplies, to furnish for Twelve Months, from the 1st of November next, such quantities of Straw for filling Pail- lasses, as may from time to time be required at Barracks and Ordnance Stations in the undermentioned Counties and Islands, may receive par- ticulars of the Contracts, on applying at this office between the hours of Ten and Four; and to the respective Barrack Masters in the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, andAlderney, and deliver their Tenders at this Office, ( marking thereon " Tender for Straw,") until Twelve o'clock on Tuesday the 9th of October next. Proposals are to be made separately for each County in South Britain, for the whole of the barracks in North Britain, and also for the whole of those in the Three Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, andAlderney; but no Proposals will be noticed unless made on, or annexed to, a printed Particular, and the prices inserted in words at length; nor unless a letter be subjoined to such Proposals from a person of known property engaging to " become bound with the party tendering for the due per- formance of the contract. COUNTIES :— Berks, Brecknock, Chester, Cornwall, Cumberland, Devon, Dorset, Durham, Essex, Hants, Isle of Man, Isle of Wight, Kent, Lancaster, Middlesex, Norfolk, Northumberland, Northampton, Nottingham, Pembroke, Somerset, Suffolk, Surrey, Stafford, Sussex, Worcester, Warwick. Wales— County of Glamorgan, York, North Britain. Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney. T1 COFFEE.— Adulteration is carried to an extent little anticipated. 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" If this very excellent work has the success it so fully deserves, it will have many readers, who cannot fail to find in its pages something more valuable than mere amusement."— Imperial Magazine. Published by Smith, Elder, and Co., Cornhill. CAUTION. ROBERT WISS respectfully calls tho attention of the Public to his PATENT PORTABLE SELF- ACTING WATER- CLOSETS, which many years' experience have proved to answer the purpose in every respect, and from the simplicity of their construction to be incapable of improvement. Also Water Closets for fixing on the above principle, which can be put up at about half the usual expense, and are not liable to freeze, the cistern being enclosed under the seat. R. 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Ditto, Major Handley. Bradford, T. Lister. Ditto, Hardy. Bridgenorth, W. W. Wliitmore. Bridport, Henry Warburton. Ditto, John Romilly. Brighton, Isaac Newton Wigney. Ditto, George Faithful. Bristol, Ed. Protheroe. Bury, Lancashire, R. Walker. Ditto, E. Grundy. Cambridgeshire, J. W. Childers. Ditto, H. J. Adeane. Carmarthen, W. H. Yelverton. Carmarthen, E. H. Adams. Chatham, Erskine Perry. Clare, Maurice O'Connell. Colchester, R. Sanderson. Ditto, D. W. Harvey. Ditto, William Mayhew. Denbighshire Boroughs, John Madocks. Denbighshire, Robert Myddle- ton Biddulph. Devonshire, Hon. G. T. Vernon. Dover, Cap. t. R. H. Stanhope. Durham, South Division, Jos, Pease, Jun. Essex, South Div. T. B. Lennard Glamorgan, J. H. Vivian. Ditto, L. W. Dillwyn. Gloucester, Captain Berkeley. Ditto, John Philpotts. Gloucester, Eastern Division, Henry Moreton. Ditto, ditto, D. W. Guise. Gloucester, West Division, G. F. Berkeley. Hastings, H. Elphinstone. Herefordshire, K. Hoskins. TO PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATES. The Agency Anti- Slavery Committee are ready to receive the opinion of Parliamentary Candidates on the Abolition of Colonial Slavery, before the 5th Oct., when the schedules will be made up for the fourth number of the " Tourist" and the provincial papers. By order of the Committee of the Agency Anti- Slavery Society, 18, Aldermanbury, Sept. 14. JOHN CRISP, Secretary. Where may be had the following short papers, at 4s. per 1000. YOU EVER THINK OF ME? Written by Charles Jefferys, composed by N. J. SPORLE. London: Published by E. Dale, 19, Poultry. This song has already attained an extraordinary degree of popularity, and bids fair to rival nearly every other song of the day. Its simplicity and elegance entitle it to the notice of all lovers of genuine melody. The author, N. J. 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" Oh sing again the melody;" " The Rose of Allandale ;" " Thou art mine;" and many other popular ballads. , THE MONTHLY MAGAZINE for OCTOBER, contains— Counsel for the Clergy— Specimens of the Pathetic in Croydon Churchyard— The Wreckers of St. Agnes— Introductory Stan- zas of a Poem to Mrs. Hemans— The French and the King of the French Actual value of English Nobility— Confessions of a Music- hater— Lives of the Polish Heroes— The Currency Duel—" To be Continued."— Eu- rope and Her Despots, No. II.— The Chateau, a Paper of My Uncle's— Murat on America— Solitude—£ 3* To Richmond— The Spanish Succes- sion— A Visit to the Illinois— A Lost Art, or the Potter of Pompeia— Military Topography of Oporto— The Speculations of a Hungry Man, & c. Price 2s. 6d. W. Lewer, Monthly Magazine Office, 4, Wellington- street, Strand. THE PARENT'S CABINET. Yesterday was published, price 6d. the First Monthly Number of ^ HE PARENT'S CABINET of AMUSEMENT and INSTRUCTION. The object of the Conductors of this work is to provide a periodical supply of instructive reading for young people, in so attractive a form as to be at the same time a source of amusement, and at so moderate a charge as to come within the reach of all classes of the community. Published by Smith, Elder, and Co. Cornhill, London. BEST AND CHEAPEST TRANSLATION. In two vols, post 8vo. with a Portrait of the General, 18s. LAFAYIiTTE, LOUIS PHILIPPE, and the RE- VOLUTION of 1830; or, History of the Events and the Men of July. By B. SARRANS, jun., Aide- de- Camp to Lafayette until the 26th December, 1830, the day of the General's dismissal. London : Effingham Wilson, 88, Royal Exchange. A Few Plain Questions to Plain Men." 2. " Common Sense against Co- lonial Logic." 3. " Citizens and Fellow- Coun trymen." On Pledges from Parlia- mentary Candidates." 1. 4. Taxation in Aid of Slavery the Worst of all Tyranny." 6. " Why and Because applied to Negro Slavery." 7. " .£ 1,000,000 !!!— Electors of the United Kingdom." 8. " A Scene in real Life.'. Battersea and Clapham Subscriptions since the last Advertisement, d Mr. Stone A Friend at Poole J. F. Page, esq A Friend, per Rev. R. S. Thorowgood ....'. — Collection at Hungerford ( balance after payment of local expenses) MissRiland, S. Coldfield. Joseph Tatura, esq . 5 S. Saddington, esq Congregational collec- tion, by Rev. S. Elling- ton, at Maiden. Ditto, Rev. S. Brooks, Bewdley Rev. Edward Vale Collection by Rev. W. F. Burchell 10 0 0 100 0 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 1 0 0 0 10 0 1 0 0 4 5 0 5 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 14 0 2 1 0 5 0 0 1 9 7 £ 5 Tenby Ladies'Association St. Ives Ladies' Associa- tion .: 5 Collection at Derby 13 Ditto by Rev. J. Clarke. at Guildsborough 3 Henry Sparkes of Exeter 10 Joseph Sparkes, ditto... 20 Thomas Sparkes, ditto.. 20 Collection at Wrexham ( balance after payment of local expenses) 1 Collection at Quainton, by Rev. D. Walker.... 0 Donation from Lancaster 15 Second donation from the North London and Is- lington Female Anti- Slavery Association... 1000 Donation from Beverley Ladies 1 0 Collection at Hertford .. 16 Donationfrom Worcester 20 0 The correspondents of the Committee are earnestly requested to cir- culate this notice in the provincial papers of their respective districts;, and to forward to the society, at their earliest convenience, the result of their applications to candidates, that no time may be lost in publish- ing the extent to which the pledges or assurances given are satisfactory to this committee. To be had of every Bookseller in the United Kingdom in Weekly Num- bers, at One Penny each, THE TOURIST; or, SKTITCH BOOK of the TIMES. " I pencilled things I saw, and profited by things I read." Letter of a Walking Gentleman. The attention of the public is called to the above work, which con- tains, amongst a variety of original articles, the following unique papers from the pens of celebrated writers of the day, viz.— Review of Literature Mems of a Slave Laconics Oracle of Origins The Housewife Brevities Original Poetry Temperance Societies History of Public Buildings of National Gallery Philanthropists, with a Memoir of each Individual Maxims Interesting Narra- tives u Chronological Events Travels . Anecdotes Those booksellers resident in the provinces^ who wish to become Agents, are requested to forward their communications per post as soon as convenient. Each Number will contain matter of peculiar interest to the friends of Negro Emancipation.— Advertisements inserted. John Crisp, publisher: Office of Publication, 13, Wellington- street, Strand. Retail dealers may be supplied by Berger, Holywell- street, Strand; Cowie, Strand; Strange, Paternoster- row; Arch and Co. 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The following are among the contents of the Number:— On Pheasant Shooting, and Hints to Young Sportsmen— Nimrod's Subscription List — The First of September, by E. Simpkins—" Piscatoribus Sacrum," Chap. 4— The Trout— On Wild Ducks— On Training at Home— Grouse Shooting in Norway and Sweden, by Albert Engelhorn—" October," by Sylvanus Swanquill, describing the Pursuits and Sports of the Month— Paris Races, and Paris in 1832— Versailles and the English Fox Hounds— The Wounded Mallard—" The Pheasant," by Bogtrotter— Doncaster Races, and Remarks on the Ludlow Affair— Our splendid Map— Ode to Madame Vestris, by " Jemmy Green"— On the Judge's decision of the Race between Consol and Contest— Stud Sales— Cricket Matches— Racing Calender, down to Doncaster, & c. & c. Published by Baldwin and Cradock, Paternoster- row, and to be had ( by previous order) with vols. 1 and 2. neatly bound in cloth and lettered, of all Booksellers in the United Kingdom. Price 2s. 6d. a Number, or 15s. a Volume. N. 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It was formerly published by Robinson, but in the year 1830 it changed proprietors, and was continued under the appropriate title of " Im- proved Series ;" which, indeed, without requiring any particular talent, it might easily sustain. But the work before us assumed atone and character which called down upon itself the venom and hatred of its then luckless contemporaries. Devoted as it is more immediately to the service of the Ladies, its MONTHLY DISPLAY OF FASHIONS no longer exhibited a merely dressed- out figure in a new costume, but an elegant company of Females, beautiful, in appearance, and engraved with such exquisite art, that our English engravers ( for the plates are all executed in Paris, and present the newest mode) candidly avow that they are deserving to be ranked amongst works of far greater preten- sions. There is also published in each number an embellishment of a different description, A PORTRAIT OF SOME EMINENT CHARACTER, Or a Picture Representation of some other interesting subject. " As a picture- work it is decidedly superior to any published— Sharpe's Magazine is the only just comparison with it; that really failed by reason of its excellence, for it could not command a sale sufficient to compensate the spirited proprietor; nor could it be expected, when thousands of subscribers were necessary for a return, when, under or- dinary circumstances, hundreds only would have been sufficient to have left a profit. " We have spoken of the embellishments, which can best be judged of by an inspection of the Volumes. These can be seen, or ought to be, in every respectable circulating library; or if not, the public should re- quire them to become subscribers to it. " We will now turn to the pages of this periodical. A part of the work, it is true, contains matter interesting alone to the fair sex; but the general reading matter is highly amusing, and oftentimes very in- structive. Thc reviews are marked by sound discrimination and un- biassed judgment, so that to be praised in the improved series of the Lady's Magazine, argues no little merit; and the manner in which it is got up reflects no small praise upon Mr. Page, thc publisher, by whose permission we see the beautiful Fashions are exclusively used for the Follet, Courrier des Salons, and the Lady's Magazine ; thereby possess- ing the double value of originality that tliey are such as no other work can imitate, and really fashions to be worn by the elite of Paris and London. 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Be particular to inquire for Warren's, 30, Strand : all others are counterfeit. BERNETIIY'S COMPOUND AROMATIC ANTI- BILIOUS PILLS are the mildest, yet most efficacious remedy in medicine for the cure of all disorders of the stomach and bowels, whether originating in costiveness, indigestion, or a vitiated action of the liver and biliary system, immediately relieving those un- pleasant symptoms of pains in'the stomach and limbs, yellowness of the skin, nausea, flatulence, indigestion, sick head- ache, etc. They are as innocent as efficacious, and may be safely taken by the most delicate individual at any season, without the slightest danger by taking cold, as they do not contain any mineral preparation whatever. Sold in boxes price Is. 9d. and 2s. 9d. each, by Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford- street corner of Wells- street, London ; Mawhood, Liverpool; Moxon and Co. 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THE SWEDISH DROPS of LIFE are Ihe discovery of Dr. Yernest, an eminent Swedish Physician, the recipe for which was kept a secret in the family for many centuries, the last sur- viving relative who retained this recipe was unfortunately killed by a fall from his horse at the age of 104 years; his mother attained the age of 130; and his brother 112, by the daily use of these Drops. After his death, the recipe fell into the hands of an old French lady, who presented it to Mr. Boully, in order that the public at large might benefit from so valuable a discovery. These drops are adapted for the cure of all dis- seases incident to the human frame ; but more especially those which proceed from the stomach and bad digestion. They form the most power- ful tonic ever discovered, at the same time act as a safe aperient for both sexes, withoutgriping, orcausingthose sinkings, orunpleasant sensations usually felt on taking opening medicine. It will effectually and speedily cure indigestion, with all its concomitant symptoms, such as nervous or sick heacl- ache, giddiness, heartburn, nausea, loss of appetite, pains between the shoulders, in the chest, stomach, side and head, palpita- tions, spasms and cramp. It is the only Medicine yet discovered for pre- venting the formation of wind on the stomach; bilious or liver com- plaints will become extinct, when this medicine is generally known and taken. It is a preventive to sea sickness, jaundice, and all diseases, whether infectious, endemic or epidemic, for eruptions or pimples on the face or body, scurvy, rheumatism, gout, dropsy, fits, piles, intoxica- tion, nervous complaints attended with fear or depression of spirits, it is a sure cure; persons who have been subject to worms or ague for 20 years will be cured after three doses ; in short this medicine will super- sede the use of most others, for by fortifying the stomach, it will render it unsusceptible of disease; it removes all poisonous viscous and slimy matter from the stomach, which cause indigestion, gripes, Cholera Mor- bus, & c. & c. It purifies the blood, and promotes its circulation, making you feel gay, young, and active. We would strongly recommend to the public the use of the SWEDISJS DROPS OF LIFE, many of our friends having given them a trial hart found them eminently beneficial in weakness of the stomach, indiges- tion, and nervous affections; and we believe them to be ( by strengthen- ing the stomach, bracing the nervous system, by purifying the blood and promoting its circulation) a sure preventive to Cholera or any con- tagious disease.— From Bell's New Weekly Messenger, August 12. Prepared only by P. Boully, pharmaceutical chemist, 4, Star- corner, Bermondsey ; and Sold by Sutton and Co., Bow Church- yard; Butler, Cheapside ; Edwards, St. Paul's; Sanger, Oxford- street; Barclay, Far- ringdon- street; Prout. 226, Strand; Stradling, Royal Exchange; Bel- cher, Hackney; and by most medicine venders tlioughout the United Kingdom, in bottles 4s. 6d. each. VALUABLE MEDICINES ( adapted for thc present period). JAMES'S FEVER POWDER.— Is universally approved by the Pro- fession and the Public, and is administered with equal success in Fever, Inflammatory Diseases, Measles, Pleurisy, Sore Throats, Rheumatism, & c. When given in Colds, Catarrhs, & c. it is generally found to check their progress, or shorten their duration. In Packets at 2s. 9d. and 24s. Observe R. G. G. James on the Label. BUTLER'S CARDIAC TINCTURE TURKEY RHUBARB.— A warm and pleasant Laxative, adapted to Gouty Constitutions, and recom- mended to all delicate persons in preference to Saline Aperients ; it is also a most valuable Medicine for those complaints of the Bowels so prevalent during the Summer and Autumn. In Bottles at 2s. 9d. and 4s. 6d. CHING'S WORM LOZENGES.—' The extraordinary efficacy of these Lozenges in cases of Worms, as well as in the Obstructions of the Bowels, and every disorder where cleansing physic is required, is so universally known, and has been publicly acknowledged by so many persons of distinction in society, that it is unnecessary here to enlarge on their peculiar virtues. In Boxes at 2s. 9d., 5s. 6d., lis., and 22s BUTLER'S ESSENCE OF GINGER AND CAMOMILE.— The two principal ingredients in this formula are well known to every one; the aromatic properties of the Ginger assist in relieving Flatulence, whilst . the bitter qualities of the Camomile act as a mild tonic on the Stomach, assisting digestion and restoring the appetite. In Bottles at 2s. 9d. and 4s. 6d. GREGORY'S STOMACHIC POWDER.- This Composition was a favourite remedy of the late Professor Gregory, of Edinburgh, far af- fections of the Stomach ( such as Indigestion, Acidity, Flatulence, & c.) and torpidity of the Bowels, consequent upon an impaired state of the secretions necessary for the process of Digestion. Its effects are ant- acid, carminative, and gently aperient. It is particularly serviceable to Gouty and Dyspeptic Invalids, and may be taken without any restraint. In bottles at 2s. & 3s. 6d. Observe " Butler" on the Government stamp BUTLER'S IMPROVED DAFFY'S ELIXIR.— This Preparation ( made with the finest brandy) will be found much superior to any other In Half- pint Bottles at 2s. 9d. and Pints 4s. 6d. TOWERS' STOMACHIC ESSENCE.— As the Essential Oil of Pep- permint and Sal Volatile are recommended, by Official Authority, as remedies which should be immediately resorted to in the first stages of attack of Cholera Morbus— this preparation is earnestly recommended as one of vital importance to families. It contains the essential ingre- dients alluded to, and in a form so comprehensive and efficient, as to enable any one to take or administer a dose of any required strength, without loss of time, which may at once arrest the progress of the ma- lady. The Essence does not contain any opiate, but it will readily com- bine with Laudanum, and when that is deemed needful, can be taken it. conjunction with great advantage. In Bottles at 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and lis. BUTLER'S CARMINATIVE GINGER LOZENGES AND ESSENCt OF GINGER.— For relieving Flatulence, Spasms in the Stomach, sud- den acute pains in the Bowels, & c. In Boxes and Bottles at Is. lid. N. B. Four times the strength of those usually solii. 314 T H E T O war. September 30. POLICE. WORSHIP- STREET. VIOLENT ASSAULT.— Monday, three men, named Sutton, Jones, and Kemp, were charged with the following dreadful assault on a police constable.— On Sunday morning the prosecutor was about to take into custody a disreputable female, who was creating a dis- turbance, when Sutton and the other prisoners came up and knocked him down. On rising he again attempted to take into custody the woman, but the prisoners rescued her, and Sutton having pushed ifSPprosecutor's hat off, struck him a dreadful blow on his bare head with an iron crow- bar. This blow was followed by two others, whereby his head was laid open, and he fell to the ground. Having recovered a little, he seized hold of Sutton, who kept still ham- mering him on his head, until he a third time fell bleeding to the ground, and Sutton upon him. He then with all the strength he had left, beat him over the legs with his staff. Jones and Kemp, wljO had during the time beaten him with their fists, ran off. Some policemen now came to his assistance, and took Sutton into custody ; as2he was attempting to rise from the ground. The others were after wards secured. The prisoners were committed for trial on the . capital offence of cutting and maiming. The constable received eleven cuts on his head, but it is expected he will recover. [ He " ihust have a cast- iron skull if he survive the treatment described jin ihe report.] -- h.. MARLBOROUGII- STREET. THE LAST or THE CHARLEYS.— Thursday a little decrepit old man, with the lower part of his face bristling with the stubbles of a thick grey beard, came creeping into the office, to complain of " Jonas Ridge, a well- dressed young man, for liavingdared to " lark" with his lantern. " I'm Dinnis Rearden, plaze your Wertchip,' said the com- plainant, " well known as the private watchman in Piccadilly. I'm watching, wid two lanterns, last night, near a heap of stones, to ' iiep the horses, poor divils, from breaking their necks, whin up conies two jontlemen, and one of ' em blows out me candle ' Och, by , Pat,' said he, ' you're a nice man, I don't think, to be after walking about widout a light.' ' And maybe I didn't see you blow if out, yon buggabo,' says I. ' By ,' says he,' if you say that, I'll blow you out, too.' Wid that, your Wertchip, he makes a kick at the bottom of me lantern, and then laid a hoult of me, to brake my neck over the stones." Mr. Jonas Ridge admitted the truth of the old watchman's state- ment, aud added that, being a little " elevated," he was tempted to have a " lark" with Pat, from the mirth- provoking appearance he presented. ' Mr. Conant said the defendant must pay five slnlhrgs, and make his/ peace with the watchman, which Mr. Ridge did, in the shape of haff- a- crown. QUEEN- SQUARE. AUGUSTUS C/ ESAR.— Friday a thin cadaverous- looking man, with the'astounding name of Augustus Julius Ccesar, was charged with violently assaulting a police constable. - I . On the preceding evening the constable heard a great noise near Lambeth- walk; and on approaching the placc lie found Augustus CSiBsar surrounded by a number of persons, whom he was haranguing, and creating a great disturbance. He spoke to him mildly, and re- quested him to go away ; when he up with his fist and knocked him down, exclaiming at the same time, " take that." The constable got up, and was about to lay hold of Augustus, when he received another, " take that," and down he went again. More cautious ; ( he third time, he succeeded in taking him into custody, and con- veying him to the station- house; but not before he had made a ' most violent resistance, and threatened an impeachment before the 1 House of Lords. — Augustus Caesar.— I consider myself King of England ; at least J feel as if I was King of England, and that is the same thing ; and Tconsider that I have a right to knock down any man I please, ljvhen and where I think proper. Mr. Gregorie asked him how he got his living. Augustus replied that he had his own resources ; and hroke out ittto a long incoherent harangue, from which it was evident that lie Was labouring under some delusion of mind. 1 '; lMr. Gregorie ordered him to be delivered over to tiie parish officers to be taken care of. n- fni', MARYLEBONE. • A BEGGING BRICKLAYER.— Wednesday, a respectable- looking '. mat! was brought before Mr. Rawlinson, charged with begging in tie neighbourhood of Dorset- square, Lisson- grove. The policeman stated that he watched the prisoner down Milton- street, where lie saw him begging, to Dorset- square, where he went up to him. The ; mendicant told witness that he was a bricklayer out of work, and that a penny was really all that he had in the world ; but witness found copper in one pocket, a shilling and sixpence in the fingers of an old glove, and a silver watch in his fob. ' Mendicant— The watch is mine. iiiV'. Mr. Rawlinson— Who'said it was not? But what is your . naine ? . Jfendicant— My name, Sir ? Why, your Worship, my name is James Harman, and I am a bricklayer by trade. . Mr. Rawlinson— Well, with watch and money you turn beggar, atid ' that's what you have to answer for. Everything stamps you, in my judgment, as a base impostor and sturdy vagrant. You have " also a ticket for the Mendicity Society, which certifies what you Are. ' I must therefore commit you for a month to the House of Correction. . Harman— Pray don't, my dear Sir. Mr. Rawlinson— Don't dear me. I find also that property found bh pretenders like yourself is liable to Le sold for your support, and I shall order the selling of your watch. THAMES- OFFICE REDRESS NO REMEDY.— Wm. Thompson, a sailor, was charged with breaking a plaster of paris figure of Napoleon Bonaparte, be- longing to Guiseppe Nicholi, an Italian vender of images. The " Italian said he was hawking the figure about Wapping, when the prisoner asked him who the devil that was; he said it was the em- Mperor Napoleon, and the sailor told him he was Old England's ene- . my, and gave him a punch, which broke Napoleon to little bits. The beadle of Wapping heard the smashing of the figure, and on going into the street, he saw the prisoner running away with part of Napoleon's arm as a trophy of victory. The prisoner said he did not think that Napoleon would break so easily, and he offered the Italian 3s., but he demanded 10s., which was too much and he wouldn't pay it. Mr. Ballantine said the prisoner must pay the vjilue of the figure, and he could not have expected Napoleon to withstand his heavy fist. He accordingly paid 10s. and the Italian applied for the money ; but Mr. Symons, the Chief Clerk, said, ihat. under the wilful damage act it must go to the King. Mr. Ballantine said it had better be paid to the Italian, who could ill bear the loss ; but Mr. Symons said the act did not allow it, and the foreigner departed without being recompensed, expressing great surprise at " de English law, and de English justice, which was great injustice, as he was made to lose his time as well as his figure." UNION- HALL NEW " RULES or A CHRISTIAN LIFE."— Monday two men, napied Moor and Richardson, were brought before Mr. Chambers, under the following circumstances:— Shepherd, a policeman, while on duty on the Camberwell- road, saw the prisoners lurking about 4 gentleman's house, evidently with the intention of watching an opportunity to entet it. Upon seeing him they both walked away towards town, and he followed them and took them into custody. On searching Richardson, the iron work of a centre- bit was found uiider'the collar of his coat, and fitted that part of his person as if it had been made on purpose, while in his pocket was found the handle of the instrument, together with a bundle of composition matches, which were wrapped up carefully in the title page of a re- ligious work, called " Rules of a Christian Life, to be observed by all who desire to secure to themselves a happy eternity." On the other prisoner, gimlets, a phosphorus box, and other implements for housebreaking, were discovered, and also several leaves belong- ing to the book, the title of which is given above. A remarkable circumstance, with regard to the volume, as identifying the pri- soners with an attempt to commit a capital offence, was given in evidence. Inspector Saunders, of the P divison, stated that a few nights ago, an attempt was made to break into a houie in the Kent- road, but the thieves were disturbed, and hastily retired by the rear of the premises, leaving behind them a piecc of candle and several matches, wrapped up ill five leaves belonging to the iden- tical book, a portion of which was found in the prisoner's possession. The inspector added that Richardson had been tried and convicted ; the other prisoner was well known as a reputed thief, although he had escaped the hands ofjustice. Mr. Chambers committed them for three months to Guildford. TOWN- HALL, SOUTHWARK. A BIT or EXPERIENCE.— Tuesday, Elizabeth Smith was charged with having robbed George Lea, a simple looking countryman, of one sovereign, three half- sovereigns, and four crowns, in a purse The case was rendered more curious from the circumstance of ; similar robbery having been committed on the prosecutor by tbe prisoner on a former occasion. George Lea, the prosecutor, staled that he was passing by the Rose and Crown, Union- street, Borough when he met the prisoner coming out. And I thou't I know'd her, said he, when she cum'd up at once; thats the fellow, says she, as I robbed of 13 sovereigns, ben't ye, ould chap? so says I, ees, I be surely ; then said she, if you'll only stand a quartern for ould ac- quaintance, I'd take and show you how I did it. I thou't it was all roight, all went into the house wi' her, and when she had drunk the gin, and I a pint o* beer, I went home wi' her. Alderman Thorp— Why did you accompany her home, when she had robbed you before ? 1 doant know how that war, but you see I wanted to be put up to London rigs, and get experience like— soa, when we got hoame she tould me to put ma purse on teable, and I did soa, when she cum'd up and said, now doant you think you wur a fule, says she. and I said I war— soa, says she, I'll be as gude as nia word in a moment. I thou't it a safe bargain— now look that way— I did soa when by gum she wur off in a twinkling. Mr. Walker, solicitor— Where was your purse ail this time ? Oh she tuk thot wi' her— if she had left that behind, it wud been all roight enow. When I got the door open, she wur no where to be found, and I did not see her till this morning, when I gave her in charge. Mr. Walker contended that as the prosecutor had willingly lent himself to a second robbery, he hoped the Alderman would not commit her. Mr. Alderman Thorp said, that notwithstanding the simplicity of the countryman, in thus suffering himself to be robbed a second time, the evidence was fully sufficient to commit her for trial at the ensuing sessions. happened, tbe driver, a boy about 16 years of age, being in the act of pulling out some hay from the waggon, the load fell on him, and crushed him to death. A man, who was sitting on the top of the timber, was precipitated to the ground, much bruised by the fall, but fortunately net mortally injured. DEATHS BY BURNING.— An inquisition was taken, at the sign of the Duke of Cumberland, Queen- street, Chelsea, on the body of George Edwards, a fine boy, aged five years, the son of Mr. Ed- wards, of 26, Queen- street, who was burnt to death iu the following dreadful manner:— It appeared from the evidence, that about eight o'clock in the morning the deceased and his sister, a little girl, about ten years of age, were in the kitchen alone, when they got some matches to play with at the fire. The ftock of the deceased caught fire while they were lighting thematches, and he was in- stantly enveloped in flames. The screams of the poor child were dreadful. The cries were heard by one of Mr. Edwards' tenants, who instantly threw a great coat over the poor child, and succeeded in extinguishing the fire. Every thing possible was done; but the unfortunate child lingered a few hours in great agony, and expired. Verdict, " Accidental Death."— An inquest was held at the King's Head, Worcester- street, Southwark- bridge- road, on the body of Emily Boeg, aged 19, a servant in the employ of Mr. Mitchell, a corn- dealer, who was burnt to death. It appeared from the evi- dence, that the deceased retired to bed about ten o'clock, and about two o'clock in the morning a police constable on duty observed that the room was in a blaze. He gave the alarm ; and on getting into the room the bed clothes were discovered to] be all on fire, and the unfortunate girl was enveloped in flames, which were soon extin- guished, but she was quite dead. The lower part of her body was burnt to a cinder. The deceased was in the constant habit of read- ing in bed ; and it is supposed that she dropped to sleep, and that the curtains caught fire. SHOCKING ACCIDENT.— Thursday morning a woman, named Usherwood, living in Exmouth- street, Paddington, was leaning out of the second floor window, with her infant child, only ten months old, in her arms, when she let it fall, and it was caught on the spikes of the area railing, two of them passing through its body, one just under the back of the ribs, and the other between tha shoulders. It was removed from its dreadful situation with much difficulty, and carried to the hospital, of course not being expected to live long. The mother is said to have been intoxicated. TOWN CALENDAR OF ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES. ACCIDENT TO A CHILD.— Tuesday afternoon, about two o'clock, a most distressing accident occurred to an interesting little girl, five years old, the daughter of Mr. Rivers, a grocer, in North- street, Bishopsgate. The child, who was being conducted by the servant to a preparatory school in the neighbourhood, suddenly withdrew her hand, and attempted to run across the road. A cab was pas- sing at the instant, the driver of which, from the nearness of the vehicle to the jiavement, could not possibly get out of the way. The child was instantly knocked down, and one of the wheels passed over both its legs. Being near home, it was immediately conveyed thither, when the agonized feelings of the parents may be easier conceived than described, they having lost a fine boy by a similar accident only twelve months since. A surgeon was in immediate attendance, who discovered that one of the legs was broken, and the other so dreadfully lacerated, that it is feared am- putation will be necessary. FALL FROM A HORSE.— Monday, during an inspection of a bat- talion of the Coldstream Guards, on the parade at St. James's Park, a spirited horse, rode by Albert Ude, Esq., of Portland- place, took fright at the music, and started off through the Park with alarming speed. Mr. Ude kept his seat till near the Palace gates, when the girth of the saddle broke, and he was thrown to the ground with such violence that he lay for some time quite mo- tionless. He was carried to the hospital, when it was ascertained that he had received a concussion of the brain, and two of his ribs on the right side were fractured. DEATH OF A DRUNKARD.— Tuesday an inquest was held on the body of Mr. J. Hall, aged 10. The deceased had travelled for some of the first houses in the City as a jeweller, and he belonged to a respectable family. Latterly he had been out of a situation, and subjected to much distress, which was aggravated by his freely indulging his propensity for drink. On Monday morning he was found lying in his dressing- gown on his bed, at his lodgings in Dudley- court. When opened, the body had a strong smell of prussic acid. Mrs. Houghton, the landlady, said the deceased who was a hard drinker, had often told her that he should no doubt drink himself to death. The Jury returned a verdict—'* Found dead." SOMNOLENCY.— Wednesday an inquest was held at the Dundee Arms, Wapping, on the body of a seaman named Barry, aged - 10. The deceased, who was in bad health from irregular habits, had l » tely been in the habit of walking in his sleep. On Saturday night at ten he went to bed at his lodgings at Ihe Dundee Arms. About twelve the landlord found him lying dead at the foot of the stairs. He wss wrapped in the bed- clothes, and it appeared that lie had got up in his sleep, wrapped the clothes found him, opened the door, and in attempting to descend the stairs, fallen to the bot- tom. ACCIDENTAL DEATH,— Wednesday an inquisition was taken before Mr. Stirling, at tlie sign of the Woodman, on ihe Archway- road, Highgate, on the body of Mr. Thomas Kentish, aged 40, a broker and appraiser of Highgate, who was killed in Ihe following dreadful manner. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased had been to an auction, and had purchased a quantity of different articles of furniture. He had loaded his cart and horse with Ihe goods, and was returning home, riding on the shafts ; in Ihe Arch- way- road the wheel of the cart struck against a large slone, and from the sudden jerk the deceased slipped off the shaft, and the wheel passed over his body and right leg, and killed him on the spot. DEATH BY APOPLEXY.— For the last three or four days the neighbourhood of Pownall- ttirace, Walcot- place, Lambeth, has been kept in suspense by the sudden disappearance of an old gen- tleman named Kirby, who occupied the house No. 4, on the Ter- race. The last time he was seen alive w as on Sunday morning, about 11 o'clock, when lie appeared in excellent health and spirits, and was amusing himself by w atering some flowers in the garden.— In Ihe course of that day and the following several persons called, and found the house shut up. On Tuesday directions were given to the Police to force an entrance into the house, and to make strict search after the missing gentleman. The officers soon effected an entrance, and in the bed- room they discovered the object of their search, lying near the door dead, and in an advanced state of decomposition. The deceased had been seized with apoplexy, under which attack iie had died, there being no persou in the house to render him assistance. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.— On Wednesday afternoon James Lomax, Esq., a surgeon residing in Dorset- street, Portman- square, observing some rubbish near the mouth of the water- spout, which would have caused an obstruction had it entered, got a stick, for llie purpose of removing il, when lie overbalanced himself, and was precipitated into Ihe area — a height of more than 30 feet. He was discovered, the blood flowing copiously from his mouth. He was immediately conveyed to his bed- room in a senseless state, and sur- gical assistance procured. It was then discovered that his right thigh, arm, and several ribs, were fractured ; he had received a se- vere concussion of the brain, and his head was otherwise greatly injured. The unfortunate gentleman is still living, but in a state of insensibility. ACCIDENTS ON THE ROAD.— The following unfoitunate accidents occurred, on Thursday, at Holloway :— A cabriolet was proceeding in the direction of Highgate at the same time that a number of oxen were being driven towards London. One of them ran against the cabriolet, and his horns coming in contact wilh Ihe wheel, the shock had the effect of throwing the driver out, one of whose arras was broken. He was otherwise severely injured. About an hour after, a timber carriage, loaded with deals, going in the direction of High gate, broke down opposite to the Crown, at Holloway, in conse- quence of one of the hind wheels coming off. At the moment this COUNTRY CALENDAR of ACCIDENTS and OFFENCES. MINE ACCIDENTS.— AtTingtang mine, in the parish of Gwen- nap, on Saturday, as Francis Moyle and John Cornish were raising timber in the levels, a quantity of rubbish fell upon them from tile top. Moyle was thrown from the platform and killed, leaving a widow and eight child en. Corn'sh escaped. In the Consolidated Mines, on Tuesday, William Bray, a lad, and James Williams, were both killed : the former by the falling in of a part of Ihe shaft; the latter, a kibble- filler, by falling a depth of twelve fa- thoms from the place on which he was at work. Monday afternoon an explosion of fire damp took place in one of the Werneth coal pits. A boy about ten years of age, who was drawing a waggon through the mine at the time, was dreadfully scorched, and his clothes were nearly consumed. Two persons who were working at a short distance from him narrowly escaped being killed.—• Manchester Guardian. CHILDREN DROWNED.— Tuesday an inquest was held at the Ship and Last, Greenwich, on the bodies of R. Mee, aged four, and J. Mee, aged three, the children of Joseph Mee, a Greenwich fisherman. On Sunday afternoon Ihe father and mother of the de- ceased, with an infant at the breast, the two children, and a farrier named Summers, were returning in Mee's fishing smack from an excursion to Gravesend, when, near Hamham's Reach, Woolwich, they were rut; down by the Ranger, of Hull, which was going up the River in the same direction. The stern was knocked in, and the smack almost instantly went down. The two children were unfortunately in the cabin at the time, and consequently could not be saved. A boat went lo the assistance of the others, who were in tbe water. The father of the children had seized hold of the in- fant from the mother's arms just as she was sinking; when one of the men in the boat caught hold of her, and pulled her out of the water. The father held the infant up by one arm for some time, until assistance could be rendered ; and he w as just on Ihe point of sinking, when the child was snatched from him by a person in the boat. Summers, who was an excellent swimmer, was saved without any difficulty. The next day the smack was raised, and both the children found. It appears that at the time of the accident the parties in the smack were employed in baling the water out of her. and were not keeping a proper look out. Verdict—" Acci- dental Death.'' ESCAPE FROM A MAD DOG.— The game- keeper of Hundridge and the Grove Manors, Chesham, had a very narrow escape of being torn to pieces by a mad dog on Sunday. The keeper being informed that a bull- dog, the properly of a Mr. Sear, of Chesham, was mad, went to the premises where it was fastened up to ascertain the fact; on seeing the dog, he was satisfied such was the case. The animal was fastened by a chain lo a tree. The keeper was armed with a small pickaxe, with which he made a blow at the dog, but unfortu- nately missed his aim, and broke the chain. The infuriated animal flew at his throat three times, but the keeper succeeded in keeping him off. The fourth attack brought the keeper down, but he again threw the dog off to a little distance. A man, standing by, took up the axe and struck the dog, which stunned him ; by this time the keeper w as on his feet, and dispatched the animal with an iron bar. SUDDEN DEATH.— Ou Monday a coroner's inquisition was taken at New Brentford, on view of the body of Nathaniel Priest, Esq., aged 81, who died under the following circumstances :— Mr. Thomas Dew ell deposed that he was a tenant of the deceased, who was a gentleman of great properly. Ou Thursday night he was called to see the decaased, who, he was told, seemed in a dying slate. It appeared that he went to bed, as usual, about half- past nine, having taken supper. Soon after his retirement he called for assistance ; and Mrs. Priest went up stairs, accompanied by their grand- daughter, when they found him standing up, holding by the bed- post. He complained of a deep- seated internal pain, and observed, " This is death!" lie asked for some gin and water, which was instantly supplied. The deceased sipped the liquid, when, wishing them both good- bye, he fell down, and expired without a groan. Mrs. Priest supported his head with a pillow, thinking life not extinct. A surgeon came and opened a vein, from which no blood flowed. The deceased, a few days previous, observed that his end was not far off. DISGRACEFUL OUTRAGE.— An outrage was perpelrated on Mon day night, on a poor foreigner, that reflects disgrace on the name of Englishman. The man was at Wiggenhall St. Germain's, in dis- tress : some humane persons had given him some money ; this pro- bably got to the knowledge of two ruffians, for they followed Ihe poor fellow till he was a short distance from the village, when they attacked him, and having beaten him to a slate of insensibility, they stripped him of his clothes and money, and he was found the following morning in a stale of nudity, lying helpless on the ground. DEATH OF A VETERAN.— On Tuesday evening last, an inquest was taken at the College Inn, in Rotherham, before T. Badger Esq. on view of llie body of Mr. Richard Lodge, of tuat place, sad- dler, who a few days ago accidentally fell down stairs, and received such injuries about the head and back as to cause his death. The deceased was 82 years of age, and one of the few remaining veterans who so gallantly served under the command of Genera] Elliott, at the memorable siege of Gibraltar. PRECAUTION NO SECURITY.— During the race- week a gentle- man from Barnsley gave into the hands of the landlady at Ihe Old George Inn, at Doncaster, the sum of 6001. to take care of, think- ing that in her custody it would be safe from the grasp of Ihe light fingered gentry. The landlady safely deposited her charge, along with £ 00/. of her own, iu a drawer, which she carefully locked; but on Friday morning the unfortunate discovery was made that the drawer had been forced open, and the enclosed riches " had made to themselves wings and flown away." INTEMPERANCE AND SUICIDE.— Last week a woman, residing in Calton, Glasgow, hanged herself, after a fit of intoxication, which had lasted for more than a week. She accomplished the deed by means of a rope that hung from the roof of the house, and was found hanging by some [ of the inmates on entering the house for breakfast. THE COUNTRY. « DECAY OF SOUTHCOTTIANISM IN ASHTON.— The Southcottian infatuation is rapidly on the decline in Ashton, the very sanctuary of the sect, having received its deathblow at the discovery of the abominations of the " prophet" Wroe ; and the four splendid tem- ples, representing the four gates to the holy city, are being appro- priated to most ignoble purposes. One of the temples has been converted into a chulera hospital; the second is a " whistling shop" ( a public- house of the lowest description) ; the third, where dwelt Wroe, is kept by an old man, and shown to visitors; and the fourth was put up for public sale the other day.— Liverpool Mercury. EMIGRATION.— Since the beginning of the present year not less than 14,500 persons have emigrated from Liverpool to the United States, Canada, and Tan Dieman's Land. Tha greater bulk have emigrated to the States. LONDON AND GREENWICH RAIL- ROAD.— Application will be made immediately on the meeting of parliament, for leave to bring in the bill for this national work. PLURALIST.— The Earl of Guildford is one of the wealthiest of non- resident pluralists. His lordship, who resides at Waldershare, in this county, is rector of St. Mary's, Southampton, of Old and New Alresford, and Medstead, Hants, and Master of St. Cross— altogether netting above 5,0001, per annum.— Maidstmie Gazette. INCORRIGIBLE POACHER.— James Clare, for the 29th time, is committed to the county prison of Huntingdon, for poaching. He is now in the 81st year of his age, and for the last 25 years he has made the prison his " town- house" as he calls it. Though age and infirmity liave caused him to stoop much, he is said to have still the same ardour for his favourite pursuit as ever, and makes no secret of his intention to continue it, so long as he is able to lay a snare. A prison house to him has lost all its horrors, and if left to himself he would take his commitment as ready as a needy patient would seek relief by admission to a charity infirmary. PRESENTATION OF A PIECE OF PLATE TO LORD EBP. INC- TON.— The inhabitants of Southmolton being desirous of showing some particular mark of esteem for Lord Ebrington, entered into a subscription, and purchased an elegant and richly ornamented Sil- ver Claret Jug, which was last week presented to the noble Lord by Mr. Nicholas Gould, the chairman of the Southmolton Com- mittee, who delivered an appropriate address to his Lordship on the occasion. RIVAL DIVINES.— Considerable excitement was produced at Gosport, on Sunday, by the proceedings at the Presbyterian Church. It appears that the place had been closed for some time by the proprietors, in consequence of a misunderstanding between them and the minister, the Rev. Joshua Bryan ; and being re- opened that day by the Rev. Mr. Macauley, who was invited to preach on the occasion, Mr. Bryan, attended by a large party of his friends, entered; and Mr. Macauley having concluded the prayer, Mr. Bryan protested against the occupation of the pulpit as an usurpa- tion of his right, and appealed to the people whether he had not been unanimously elected by them as their minister. Being replied to in the affirmative, Mr. Bryan proceeded to take possession of the pulpit, notwithstanding several constables were placed at the foot of the stairs, and afterwards preached to the people. The Rev. Mr. Macauley left after he began his address. Three of the proprietors proceeded before Dr. Quarrier, and swore a breach of the peace against Mr. Bryan, who was instantly apprehended, and bound over to keep the same. Several addresses have since been published, calling on the religious public to support Mr. Bryan against the proprietors, and the place has been again closed. AMERICAN SHIP- BUILDING.— The most recent specimen ofthe skill of the American shipwrights is the packet- ship Virginian, now in the Liverpool docks, and destined for New York. This fine vessel is upwards of 600 tons burden. Her model is beau- tiful, and gives her, though so large a ship, a light and elegant appearance. She admeasures 133J feet front stem lo stern, an$ i across the beam 33 ; her deck, which is flush, is, therefore, roomy, affording ample space for the hen- coops, the cow aud the ice- house, and all the other accommodations usual on board these floating hotels, as packet- ships may be properly denominated. Strength is not, however, in any instance, sacrificed to mere beauty of appearance. The beams, knees, & c. of the Virginian are so strong as, we simple landsmen should imagine, almost lo defy the violence of the elements to w hose fury she will be exposed. The cabins combine, in a high degree, utility with elegance. The main cabin is splendid, all the rich American cabinet woods being finely combined and veneered so as to render the tout ensemble beautiful in the extreme ; while the exquisite polish on the furniture makes it as brilliant as the furniture of a cabinet in a gentleman's mansion. The ladies' cabin is remarkably pretty, and their state rooms, in consequence of the great breadth of the vessel, more roomy than in most of the old packet- ships. GAME.— The venders of game in'Derby have been abundantly supplied during the present week. Price of Hares, from 2s. 6d. to 3s. 6d.— Leverets, from 2s. to 2s. 6d.— Rabbits 2s. to 2s. 3d and Partridges 2s. 6d. a brace. SMUGGLING.— On Friday last 83 tubs of foreign spirits were de- posited in the Custom- house, Faversham, having been seized by Lieutenant Laston of the Coast Guard, Herne- bay. Iu the night of Saturday last, a boat with 41 tubs of foreign spirits and two men, was taken off" Whitstable, by the Coast Guard belonging to Tankerton.— Kentish Chronicle. rankerton.- MECHANICS' INSTITUTES.—" We are glad," says the Sheffield Iris, " to observe that a prospectus has been issued, as the first firm step towards establishing a Mechanics' Institute in Sheffield. The cant . which formerly beset these institutions has, in most part, gone down to the ' tomb of all the Capulets.' For ourselves, we could never be brought to think that, because a man is born to poverty, it should follow that poverty should be deeply aggravated by ig- norance, and that he should be entirely shut out from all hopes of ascending a step higher in the great scale of society." Too YOUNG TO MARRY.— At St. James's Church, Burv St. Edmunds, on Sunday morning last, the bans of marriage between " William Gurney and Maria Peacock" having been published in the usual form, the Clergyman was slopped by Gurney's father, who, standing up, exclaimed aloud, " I forbid the bans here, and in every church in the kingdom! my son is only 16." HORTICULTURAL CURIOSITY.— There is now fast coming into flower, in Ihe garden of the Marquis of Westminster, at Eaton Hall, a beautiful specimen ofthe Agave Americana, ot Great American Aloe, a plant commonly, but erroneously, supposed to flower only once in a hundred years. The stem of this specimen rises to an elevation of 25 feet from the ground, terminating in an immense clutter of from 80 to 100 flowers, of a greenish yellow colour, on stalks of different lengths. From its stem spring 32 great curved branches, very much resembling those of a chandelier, and the extremity of each is crowned with a cluster of flowers, similar to the above, making a total of about 3,000 flowers. ENGLISH HOSPITALITY.— At a recent friendly dinner party in Essex, Ihe conversation turned oil the decline of hospitality in England. A gentleman who was present, and who regretted the fact, took the following method of proving it. " I have spent," said he, " many a pleasant day in tliis house, having been very intimate with the three gentlemen who, in succession, have occu- pied the estate for more than half a century. From the first gen- tleman I never had an invitation to dine; wilh the second, I never dined; with the third, the present occupier, I dined only once— viz. the 11th of September, 1832. Notwithstanding these facts, I absolutely dined in this house, in the 18th century, 8,452 times, and in the present century only 649 times." in Barnstable fair, the team of oxen of Sir A. Chichester, Bart., of Youlston, excited the admiration of all who saw thein ; they were sold for 1501.— North Devon Journal. There is more activity in the woollen districts than has been known for some time ; but great complaints are made respecting the short supplies of wool from Germany, for the finer fabrics of woollen cloths. FEVERSIIAM— A Coroner's inquest was held here on Friday week on the body of a man named Vard, who was killed by the wheels of his own waggon passing over his body. The deceased was a small farmer, and came to Feversham for a load of coals; he was in the act of gluing out of the front pait of the waggon, when his frock caught some part of the harness, which threw him down, and the horses starting at the same moment, occasioned tha sad catastrophe. w September 30. T H E T O W X. IRELAND. * ALL FOB LOVE.— A young seaman, named David M'Kenzie, • was this week to have been married to a " Limerick lass," who bad for a long time received bis overtures of love; the fair one, sud- denly, to use a phrase of our contemporary, changed her mind. Poor M'Kenzie, shocked at her inconstancy, and frenzied by his disappointment, determined not to live; so on Tuesday last he rushed from a house on the quay, where he lodged, and flung him- self into tbe river, determined to perish. Fortunately some small boats were at hand, and succeeded in rescuing him ( not without some difficulty, so strong was his desire to perish) from his dan- gerous situation. The poor fellow, now that he has become sen- sible of liis folly, is extremely grateful for the frustration of his mad resolve.— Limerick Paper. As EVE TO POSSIBILITIES.— Major- General Pilklngton, the commanding royal engineer in Ireland, attended by a staff officer, arrived in this city on Friday, engaged, it is said, on an inspection of all the military stations in the south of Ireland. Much of his time was devoted whilst here, to Spike Island and the forts at the entrance of the harbour.— Cork Exporter. The Duke of Richmond, as Postmaster- General, has granted to the Scripture Readers' Society, as well as to the other religious and charitable institutions in Ireland, the privilege of sending and re- ceiving letters at the reduced rate of postage of two pence per letter, provided each letter or packet does not weigh more than one ounce. MORE TITHE MURDERS.— Tbe Gazette of Saturday contains a proclamation from the Lord Lieutenant, offering a reward of 3001. for the discovery of the persons who on Wednesday, the 19tb inst., cruelly murdered Francis Canning and Thomas Cumming, on the lands of the parish of Doueraile and Ross, in the county of Cork, as they were employed in viewing tithes.— Dublin Times. MURDER AND OUTRAGE.— AtNewbrook, Mayo, a man named M'Donnell and his two sons were employed in watching an orchard, when a number of persons broke in, and attacked and overpowered them, and one of the sons, named Michael M'Donnell, was killed on the spot, and his father stabbed in several places. ASSASSINATION.— As Mr. Jolm Andeison, of Fisherstown ( about thiee miles from Monastereven), was passing over a stile into his own avenue, three men rushed from under ahedge and fired at him. The ball entered his breast and passed out at his shoulder; but, as he did not immediately fall, tbe assassins attacked him wilh a sword, indicting several severe wounds about his head and shoulders, and in the body. In putting up his hand to ward off the blows, he had one of his thumbs nearly cut off. The murderers left him for dead, and but faint hopes are entertained of his recovery. TRINITY COLLEGE.— His Royal Highness ( Cumberland), the Chancellor of the University, has appointed the 24th of November for a special commencement " for conferring Degrees of Master of Aits and higher Degrees,'' with a view to the elections. Sir John Newport has formally resigned the City of AVaterford, in an address deprecating Repeal of the Union. Mr. Henry Win- ston Barron, and Mr. Thomas Wyse, are invited to stand. FAT » I. AFFRAV WITH THE MILITARY.— Tuesday, Major Thorpe, a company of the 27th, and a party of Lancers, in consequence of a requisition from the Magistrates of Kenry, repaired to the fair of Stonehall, in this county, to prevent a collision between two hostile parties, who have been making the greatest exertions for a conflict for some dayspast. Atfive o'clock in theevening an account reached Limerick, that the conflicting parties bad joined and commenced an attack upon the Military. Report states that several have been killed and wounded ; and when the express had been dispatched, the entire body of Lancers were in close pursuit of the assailants. LITERATURE. • BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. A very curious document has been recently published, by order of the House of Commons. It is a statement, drawn up by Mr. Rickmau, Clerk of the House, containing a detail of Ihe number of Acts of Parliament passed during the last 25 years ( 28 sessions) with the days and hours of sitting in each session, and the subject on which the largest division took place :— In 1806 the session lasted 126 sitting days, and sat 645 hours, durin" which 158 public Acts were passed and 226 private ones. The greatest number of Members present during the session was on the 30th of May, when 381 voted on one of the clauses in the Mutiny Bill. In 1807 there were two sessions of 131 sitting days and 706 hours of actual sitting ; the number of public Acts was 134, of private 286 : on tbe 3d of April 489 Members divided on the motion for the dismissal of the Administration, and on the 26th of June, four days after the opening of the session, 510 divided on the Address. From 1806 to 1826 the average number of public Acts passed is about 120, and in no year are less than 100 : since that period, however, the average has not been 70 : and in 1831 the number was only 60. The number of private Acts, however, does not suffer a similar diminution, the average being about 180 each year. The greatest number of public Acts passed in any session was in 1815, when the number was 196 ; and in 1814 it was nearly as many, being 190. The smallest number in any session was in the short one of William IV., when only 27 public and 80 private Acts passed the legislature: that session consisted of 90 sitting days and of 640 hours of actual sitting. The greatest number of days on which any session continued to sit was in 1812, when the number was 137; in 1813 it was 136; and in 1811, 135. The shortest session in sitting days, exclusive of the short ones at the commencement of the last and present reigns, was that of 1807, • which consisted of only 45. The average number of sitting days for the whole period was 96 and a fraction. The session which sat the greatest number of hours, next to that of 1831 ( that of the se- cond Reform Bill), when it was 918, was that of 1821, when the house sat 861| hours : it was during this session, it will be remem- bered, that the discussions relative to the Queen occupied so much attention; the largest number of members present at a division during that session was on the motion respecting the introduction of the Queen's name in the Liturgy, when there were present 524 members. The divisions at which the largest number of members wee pre- sent during each session were the following :— May 30, 1806, clause in the Mutiny Bill, 381. April 3, 1807, dismissal of the Administration, 489. June, 26, same year, Address to the Crown, 510. March 29, 1808, at a ballot, 355. March 15, 1809, on the motion relating to the Duke of York's conduct, 497. March 19, 1810, on the Scheldt expedition, 509. December 31, 1811, on the creation of peers by the Regent, 449. April 24, 1812, Roman Catholic question, 519. May 24, 1813, Roman Catholic bill, 501. April 22, 1814, Lord Morpeth versus the Speaker, 385. May 25, 1815, the war against Buonaparte, 428. March 18, 1816, the property lax, 443. June 2,1817, election of a Speaker ( the Right Hon. Manners Sutton ), 470. March 11, 1818, indem- nity bill and suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, 308. May 18, 1819, a motion for a committee on the state of the nation, 540. November 14, same year, Address to the Crown, 536. June 22, 1820, resolution regarding the trial of Queen Caroline, 520. Ja- nuary 26, 1821, resolution in reference to the introduction of tbe Queen's name in the Liturgy, 524. April 30, 1822, Roman Ca- tholic peers in Parliament, 498. April 24, 1823, Reform of Par- liament, 454. June 11, 1824, condemnation of Missionary Smith, 344. March 1, 1825, Roman Catholic claims, 485. April 27,1826, Reform of Parliament. March 6, 1827, Roman Catho- lie claims, 553. February 26, 1828, Corporation and Test Acts repeal, 435. March 18, 1829, Roman Catholic relief bill, second reading, 531. May 17, 1830, Jews' relief bill, 398. March 22, 1831, motion on the second reading of Lord John Russell's first Tefoini bill, 608; the greatest number that ever divided in the house on any question ; and July 6, tbe same year, on the motion Jor the second reading of the second reform bill, 603. It will thus be seen that the questions which excited the greatest attention, judging from the number of members voting, were the reform bill, the Catholic relief bill, and the affairs of Queen Caroline. SHORT PARLIAMENTS.— The Hon. D. G. Hallyburton, in the course of his late canvass at Broughty- ferry, stated, that " he bad heard, and believed, that a measure would be brought forward limiting ihe duration of Parliament to four, certainly not more than five years." LAFAYETTE, LOUIS PHILIPPE, AND THE REVOLUTION OF 1830 ; or, History of the Events, and the Men of July.— By B. SARRANS, jun.— In two volumes. Effingham Wilson. This is a very admirable and interesting book— the original of which has already attained both here and in France, a very high celebrity. It would certainly be difficult to conceive any thing of greater interest than a faithful account of the career of one of our own cotemporaries, who has acted an exalted part in the three great revolutions that have changed the aspect of the mo dern world,— that have indeed accomplished the regeneration of one hemisphere, and prepared for that of the other. Such we believe to be the present work of Monsieur Sarrans, who seems to be a very conscientious person, not at all the worse for a little extra enthusiasm. He has had evident opportunities too, of no common kind, for his purposes of true relation in matters of secret history— in laying open the intrigues and plots of affected cabinets,— and in accomplishing what a later posterity generally attempts in vain, the discovery of those dark clouds of private interests, old prejudices, and mental reservations, through which great deeds are so often condemned to struggle into the light. He was the friend and aid- de- camp of Lafayette, from the days of the Hotel de Ville down to that of his resignation,— has had means of access to the Buonaparte family, and their views of policy— and, as he himself tells us, procured from different members of the cabinet of the 3d of November several private scenes of deep interest. Nor has he certainly shown any scruple in availing himself of the tenderest of the communications made to him— he has printed private letters,— thoughts ex- pressed in secret,— reports made with closed doors,— and glories in what he cheerfully calls his indiscretions and breaches of con- fidence, as acts done in a great cause, and worthy of a good citizen. It is not our business, of course, to determine how- far the right of publishing such communications ought to extend. We will say, however, that it never could have been exerted in a case of greater interest than the present, and that it never could have been the means of unfolding scenes of more contemptible vanity and self- seeking patriotism. Let our readers glance through the part of the first volume, in- cluded between pages 171 and 212, and we may venture to say that they never saw recorded, in so short a compass, so many despicable acts of time- serving cowardice, of moral fear unequal to a great emergency— of base acquiescence only when victory was sure, and of unjust appropriation of the results of that victory, won by humbler and lionester hands. The men who did these things passed for patriots too I We should be glad to know at how much Paris now values their patrotism. We of this country had indeed an opportunity, some time ago, of estimating their real worth, but it came from a quarter covered with suspicion, and was, we believe, generally discredited. We allude to the work entitled " England and France, or a Cure for Ministerial Gallo- mania." Now we are bound to state, that the facts stated in that hook with reference to the immediate subject we speak of namely, the dishonesty of the juste milieu and the doctrinaires precisely and to the letter agree with the statements of Monsieur Sarrans. The accounts of the private meetings of the Deputies in either work, might have been written hy the same hand, but that the conclusions and reasonings of the respective authors, are so widely different. In one thing they agree— that the arti- sans of Paris won the French Revolution, and that, by the cre- dulous simplicity of their really honest statesmen, its benefits were greedily snatched by stock- jobbers, tuft- hunters, ambitious bankers, and would- be presidents of the council. It is vain to deny it: in the events of one glorious week were summed up all the results and benefits of half a century of change and auffering; and these, so dearly earned, fell before vanity and vulgar conceit of knowledge, and, above all, the mistakes of the true reformers. The latter, we fear, have always been the most dangerous instru- ments in such cases ; and certainly France had good reason to fear it. Her history is one large comment upon them. They have carried her through every species of government— have rendered vain her league, her Fronde, her first revolution, her empire— and now, bitterest deceit of all, have made to vanish in thin air, her programme of the Hotel de Ville. We shall return to this book, and tbe subject of it, so soon as we receive the second volume, which embraces the most in- teresting part of the period, and that which is least known. A great portion of the present volume is occupied with a very com- plete sketch of Ihe early life of Lafayette. It is a story not often read of— a record of fifty- six active years served in the cause of liberty, by one who was the friend of Franklin and Washington, who perilled his life for Louis the Sixteenth that so fair a cause as that of freedom might not be stained with blood,— who cheerfully endured proscription and exile and a dungeon,— who defied and wearied out the energy and persuasions of Napoleon ;— and who, in his seventy- fifth year, came forward lo vindicate and assert the first impulses of bis youth, as the best wisdom of his age and ex- perience. Lafayette has had only one fault, and Toulangeon has stated it,— be would have been sufficient for every thing, if every thing had been done in open day. are applied to every subject within the range of the social economy. Amidst a mass of what we consider chimerical speculation, there are many instructive and interesting facts. To attempt an analysis of so excursive a work is out of the question ; but to those who are believers iu parallelogram per- fectibility, and the miracles of the Labour Exchange, we can recommend it as a copious fountain of orthodoxy. THE FALLACIES or HOPE. A Poem.— C. Chappie, pp. 92. There is considerable promise in this little volume ; and as regards his future fame, we take it that our " HOPE" in the poet will not prove a " fallacy." He describes with earnest- ness and truth scenes of opposite character; he possesses an ear for harmony in versification; and frequently steps from the common- place track in picturing external objects. He evidently prefers a homely epithet, if it impart vivacity and strength to his colouring— an indication of that independence and reliance on self, without which there can he no originality— even in shoe- making. MUSIC. THE NEW VOCAL SOCIETY. Agreeable intelligence salutes our ears of the prospects and good spirit of this society:— One circumstance, that the number of members will be very select; and another, that so resolved are they to perform worthy, classical music, that should there not be spirit enough in London to countenance their views, they are prepared as well as resolved to maintain the concerts from their own funds. They may rest perfectly satisfied that the leaven of good taste is mingling very fast with the musical part of English society; and that there is virtue enough extant to second their endeavours. All depends upon their selections, correctness of performance, and esprit de corps. Their capa- bilities are unquestionable. WHISTLE- BINKIE. A Collection of Comic and Sentimental Songs, chiefly original.— Glasgow : Robertson. The name of Whistle- Binkie was, according to the most pro- found Scots etymologists, conferred upon him who by his skill in the ore rotundo art of whistling, gained permission to sit at the convivial board shot- free. The art has fallen into desuetude in the north, and the very term is beginning to awaken antiquarian controversy. In the present instance it has been bestowed upon a tiny volume of songs, meet for King Oberon to finger, one tenth of the contents of which, chaunted with musical taste and Caledonian fervour, ought to form a sufficient passport to the compotations of Jove himself. For the sake of harmony, we should have preferred a disunion between the humorous and the sentimental songs. We are not of the old play- going school, who after tragedy, long for farce, and fret the pillow unless they sup on an olla podrida of tears and broad grins. We love to enjoy our sorrows; besides the Whistle- Binkie, in his sentimental vein, proves himself best entitled to his convivial franchise. Motherwell's beautiful bursts of tender and delicate poesy, aud some touching verses subscribed thus, ***, consort ill with the guffaw- exciting strains on a Scottish Tea Party" and " Mister Peter Paterson." There are a few pieces in the volume more properly coming under the name of poems than songs ; for example, " I know thou wilt never be mine," appears to us out of place. The garland, however, has been choicely culled, and showeth well both for the judgment and the social bent of the gentleman by whom it has been wreathed, who is, we believe, a pillar of one of the ablest of the Scottish liberal journals. While on the subject, we are glad to learn, that our friend the Public and our friend Motherwell are about to become more closely acquainted than they heretofore, for their mutual benefit; have been. A volume of poems and songs by this minstrel is announced for publication in December. To borrow the lan- guage of the Glasgow Herald ( whose phrases in general are not so germane to our views as they once were), we are persuaded that " it will not be found unworthy of the genius of one who is justly considered as the first of the living lyrists of Scotland." " Why does he not give us a book ?" said Christopher North to us in his transit lately through London to join his Majesty's Experimental Squadron. Now that " a book" is promised, we shall look with anxiety to its advent. three sharps, and the second a trio in D maj or. The formerTs written in a bold spirited manner, to which the placidity of the trio forms a good contrast; and the whole piece, without beipj » difficult, produces a brilliant effect. . \ The Dances ( No 3) are in triple time ; the first is in the key... of G major, and the second in D. They are mere trifles, whirfS Mr. Moscheles probably arranged for some of his less advait& i'! ., •• • uztzoO Ful'ils- The Arietta, No 4, ( True Love) is in the key of F, in the p © K> o lacca style, and consequently is in 3- 4 time. Its character fe somewhat common- place, relieved, nevertheless, by some effec- tive modulations, especially the one to F minor and its relative' major, page 3. There is an error in the 7tli bar of page 5, where the last note is a B instead of C. Mr. Barnett expe- rienced no serious mental exhaustion in composing this song. : S No. 5. (" Oh I many have sworn") is a much superior effort to the last piece. The style partakes of the recitative, or, rather, of the ariaparlanle. It is in the key of C major, common timj^ . i and the direction given is allegro con gran passione. The hafr monies and modulations are of a musician- like and tasteful de- scription. ' In the 6th bar, page 2, there is an oversight, as the last note should be an E in the bass, instead of an F. The rehfnr~ to the subject by the chromatic scale in contrary motion, in i he 10th bar of page 2, is very skilfully managed. There is cOrsi| f derable originality and invention in this production, and alto- gether it is highly creditable to Mr. Barnett's taste and accom^ plishments. " A Pirate's Life" ( No. 6) begins with a symphony in C minor, in 6- 8 time, marked " allegro con fuoco." It is in a pfllij, spirited, and dramatic style, calculated for theatrioal effect; as this, however, may be thought too long for a drawing- room. per- formance, the composer has given directions that the introduction may be omitted at pleasure, when performed in private. The second symphony and the song itself are in the key of C major. The melody is of an appropriate energy, and the harmonies with which it is accompanied are judicious, and they are grammatically constructed. The only effect which is unsatisfactory to us is the one resulting from the naked 5th in the chord of G, the last part of the 13th bar, page 3, especially as there does not appear the least occasion for the omission of the third B, which is now wanting to make the triad complete. The song is a good one of its class. Oil odt The three Waltzes— the last on the list— are written in thekeySM of A four flats, and B five sharps— a setting very injudicious for music of this class, as it adds considerably to the difficulty of performance, and thereby of course diminishes the number :; ef, players. Herz, we believe, was the first who introduced the, using of these remote keys upon similar unimportant Occ^ iflnj^. which smack strongly of affectation. The compositions elves are written in an agreeable style. FINE ARTS. ZOHRAB THE HOSTAGE. By the Author of Hajji Baba. vols.— London : Bentley. Zohrab is an Eastern romance, " ower gude for banning, and ower bad for blessing, like Rob- Roy." The author, Mr. Morier, in his previous work, set up an unfortunate standard for himself, by which his readers cannot fail to test the production before us, which will, assuredly, ill sustain the comparison. The story is Persian, and the incidents in a slight degree historical. Truth is picturesquely exhibited in the sketching of Oriental manners ; and the description of the horrors inflicted with impunity by military tyrants on a people long used to the grinding of the despot's heel, merits the perusal of young and generous minds, that they may learn to what black extremities the possession of unbridled power leads ; and, thus instructed, arm themselves against the first encroachments of abused authority. The heaps of human eyes torn from the living by the Eastern savage, when he captured a city, should warn mankind not to invest one of their species with the privileges of a god if they would not have him perpetrate the acts of a devil. OPINIONS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS. Dedicated to the " Indus- trious Producers." By WM. MACLURE. 1 vol. pp. 592.— New Harmony, Indiana, United States; and Rich, London. This work— a massive octavo, formed of two consolidated tomes— has been recently imported from America, It contains a collection of essays, in which the doctrines of the Owenite 1. " You TOLD ME ONCE." The poetry by the author of " Granby." Composed by J. M. HERRIES.— Wessel and Co. 2. SOUVENIR A SCHONBRUN, Seconde Grande Marche pour le Piano- forte. Compos^ e pour S. M. Maria, Anna, Carolina, par CHARLES CZERNY.— Wessel and Co. 3. DEUX DANSES FAVORITES AUTRICHIENNES, mises pour le Piano- forte, par IGN. MOSCHELES. NOS. 1 and 2.— Wessel and Co. 4. TRUE LOVE, " Oh I thou my heart must still adore." A celebrated arietta, sung by Miss Atkinson, adapted by JOHN BARNETT.— Wessel and Co. 5. " OH I MANY HAVE SWORN TO ADORE ME." A Canzonet, written by W. M'Gregor Logan. Composed by JOHN BAR- NETT.— Wessell and Co. 6. " A PIRATE'S LIFE— WHAT JOY FOR ME 1" Sung by Mr. Templeton and Mr. Seguin. The poetry by Francis St. John Northcote, the music by JOSEPH DE PINNA.— Keith, Prowse, and Co. 7. THREE WALTZES for the Piano- forte. Composed and dedi- cated to Miss Mary Elliott, by G. MANWELL.— Cramer and Co. No 1 in the above list exhibits so curious a display of gross ignorance, that, for the amusement of the musical reader, we will as succinctly as possible enumerate them. The song is in the key of F. In the chord of the B flat ( second bar, page 1), the D, the third of the chord, is wanting. In the following bar there is a consecution of octaves between the extreme parts A and B in the treble and A and B in the bass. In the 5th bar there are only two instead of four crotchets. ( The piece is in common time.) The same defect occurs in the 6th bar, where there are four crotchets in the bass and only two in the treble 1 In the ac- companiment of the 4th bar, page 2, there are but three crotchets in the bar in the treble. In the lst bar of page 3 there are two naked fifths, in consequence of D, the third, having been omitted in the common chord of B flat. Another consecution of oc- taves occurs between the B flat ending the first bar, and the C commencing the second bar, with the corresponding notes in the bass of page 3. This is blithe work for a composition com- prising nine staves. No. 2, " The Souvenir a Schonbrun," consists of two move- ments ; the first, an allegro moderate vivace, in the key of A, , B , aoil . dJ s ol _ FINDEN'S LANDSCAPE ILLUSTRATIONS OF BYRON.— Part7* > G The contents of this part are the " Temple of Jupiter 0} ym « pus," Stanfield; " Cape Colonna," Purser; " Cagliari,'*' Wes- tall; " Patras," Cattermole; " Margarita Cogni," Haslo^ e; Gate of Theseus, Athens," Turner ; and the " Plains of Troy," Turner. Each succeeding section of the work seems more exquisite than its predecessor. The classic scenes are translucent in their beauty; and the lustrous Margarita, with her love- wooing J^ ps, peering through a cloud of snowy drapery, were enough to thaw the frozen breast of a St. Anthony. ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE FRIENDSHIP'S OFFERING for 1S' 3' 3.— Smith and Elder This is just as it should be :— The Friendship's Offering: is the foremost this year of the pretty tokens that remind us of <$ lrlsti mas and New- year's gifts, and merry- makings, and good' ft ® lowship, and loving kindness, and all gentle interchanges of pleasant thoughts. It is the primrose of the Annuals ; aadpjHk « that sweet blossom, gives good earnest of the bright train that is to succeed it. The Friendship's Offering has ever been a favourita with us. It is an excellently conducted work, and the illustra- tions have always been choicely selected, and the plates superbly engraved. Of tho engravings before us, those in subject and ex- ecution most to our taste, are—" Female Pirates," by John Wood, engraved by Dean ; a Group ( and a lovely one) of Sea- Lymphs bearing off upon their pearly wrists a littlewanton Cupid, who mani- fests no resentment at the divine abduction. The " Bridge of jJUya," by Purser, engraved by Brandard, a charmingly romantic scenel " Corfu," also by Purser, engraved by Richardson; the " Vin- tager" by Boaden, engraved by Marr. The sky forming the. back ground of this plate is, however, not in character with the sub- ject— it is as black as Erebus. Mr. Martin has one'io? iius favourite architectural designs, the " Entry of Christ . into Jferu- salem." And the Frontispiece to the volume by Richter^ l " Lady Unveiling," is beautifully engraved by Goodyear: indeed, is the most finished specimen of art in the series. : .. ul. l: lol A HINT TO ' SCOTLAND. J CHURCH.— The Rev. Mr. Wylie, of Catlap, has given so much offence to the people in the parish by his yio- t lence against reform, that they have fixed on building a relief fcfitirbft as soon as possible. The Rev. Mr. Harvie, from Glasgow;, Wgari the service by preaching there last Sunday to a numerous apd, re- spectable audience.—( jlasgow Chronicle. EMIGRATION' EXTRAORDINARY.— Mr. Allan Maclean, a fill spectable tacksman from the Island of Coll, sailed from Greenocfa on Saturday last, for Van Dieman's Land, with wife and . family. He fell in with a large schooner, the John Dunscombe from London, which he purchased, and paid in clear cash, and set sail with her taking none but his own family, a mate, and three sailors. ? ONIONS—- At Coates, the property of Sir John Leslie,-, tberq were, upon four falls of ground six bushels of very fine sized onions, besides 200 which measured from 12 to 15 incheViri Ctfi cumference each, and weighed from 12 to 14 ounces, also SOO frortl 10 to 12 ounces each. They are mostly of the Spanish an^ StfgS} burg sorts. The crop is allowed to be the best ever grown intife. STEAM NAVIGATION— The Dundee, Perth, and LoiidcUi'Sliipi: ping Company, at a meeting on Wednesday, unanimously resolved to employ steam- vessels in their carrying " trade between Dundee and London. Earl Camperdown, Lord Kinnaird, Mr. Guttine of Guthrie, Mr. Chalmers of Auldbar, and Olher landed propr& tor*', from a conviction of tbe importance of the undertaking to the tural part of the community, and many extensive merchants and manufacturers interested in the trade with London, not previously connected with the company, have, by way of giving ericiJCirfigSi ment to the proposal, become partneis.— Dundee Adiiertiseivs This year seems to be a good one for the. farmer with regard to the potato crops. Several acres were sold last week in Logicalmond as high as 161. to 161. per acre.— Perth Courier. - 402 T H E T O war. September 30. TO SUBSCRIBERS. Part I. of the POLITICAL MAP OF ENGLAND, engraved on steel, and brilliantly coloured, is now ready for delivery, gratis, to those who have paid their quarter's subscription to The Town, the only way in which this important and useful work can be obtained. The Map shows all the alterations caused by the Reform and Boun- dary Bills, from the Ordnance Surveys, assisted by the Reports of the Commissioners for the Division of Counties. Subscribers, in case of any disappointment with respect to the delivery of the Map or the Paper, are requested to forward information on the subject to the Publisher. The Second Part of the Map is now in preparation, and will be ready for delivery to Subscribers in the beginning of January. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We concur in the estimate of the " Birmingham Union Address ;" but our limited space will not permit the insertion of a document so ex- tended, and of so remote a date. We have complied with a " Subscriber's" suggestion, because the matter being immaterial to us, appears objectionable to him. We would just take leave to hint that even anonymous observations admit of being couched in gentlemanly language. The Noble Lord alluded to by " Ranger," is, we believe, a swindler without disguise ; but as the " adventures" involve others who have some reputation to lose, we decline having any thing to do with them. The continuation of " The Cricketers of My Time" next week. HEBDOMADARY. Day of Mo. Dav of' We. High Water. Morn. Aftern. H. M. 5 51 8 50 10 6 11 8 12 — H. M. 8 14 7 10 8 18 9 33 10 39 11 37 Remarkable Events, etc. Sun rises 6 after 11 Pheasant Sh. begins R. Barclay died 1690 Bish. Horsley d. 1806 P. with America 1783 Sunday Lessons. 15tli Sunday after Trinity. Morning: Jerem. 35, Mark 3 Evening : Jer. 36,1 Cor. 13 %* A Saturday edition of this Paper, published in time for the Country, may be obtained of all Newsmen on Sunday morn- ing, within 100 miles of London. T11 E T 1> T¥ tt. LONDON: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, IS3' 2. a moment, that lie will step forward to incur the slightest portion of responsibility. Nay, on the contrary, if such a step could shield him from an approaching storm, we are persuaded that the recollection of having penned a single word of the offending document would at once vanish from his memory— aud let who might prove the scape- goat, his circumspection, in whatever regards self, would be the guarantee of his impunity. it has been said that O'CONNELL'S endeavours have won great good for Ireland. While we admit that his labours have benefitted his country lo a considerable extent, we must add, in qualification of the eulogy, that rarely has so much good been attained adulterated with so large an alloy of ill. His self- styled patriotism, originating in the narrow circle of his sordid desires, is totally wanting in singleness of purpose— in loftiness of feeling— in generous devotion to the cause of a whole people— in all those nobler qualities which distinguish the friend of mankind from the mercenary and intriguing partisan. Except in the notorious obliquities of COBBETT, there are no samples of modern political immorality to equal those unblushingly exhibited by the Agitator. Nature moulded the two men strikingly alike, not merely in the coarseness of their animal organization, or in the fertility of their un- derstandings, but above all, in that rampant and brazen selfishness, which pursues its own gratification and ag- grandizement, alike indifferent to the instruments it em- ploys, or the consequences it produces. THE PORTUGUESE CONTEST. The shifts and subterfuges of the King of HOLLAND are not likely to retard much longer the settlement of affairs in the Low Countries. The British government, in con- nexion with that of France, is prepared to compel submis- sion to the decision of the Conference. A combined naval force will, if required, enter the Scheldt, while a French army is in readiness to cross the Belgian frontier. There is thus every reason to hope that negotiations, which his Dutch Majesty has protracted much in the same spirit that actuates a shuffling debtor in baffling, by vexatious litiga- tion, a demand obviously just, will at length be brought to a close. Notwithstanding the determined attitude which our government has thought proper to assume, we entertain no apprehension of war. Without the aid of potent allies, King WILLIAM can achieve nothing by resistance. Where such allies are to come from, we are at a loss to perceive ; for the counsels of Austria, Prussia, and Russia are re- gulated by heads far too sagacious to dream of risking the stability of every absolute throne in Europe to gratify the pertinacity of an obstinate old man. The Standard, Morning Post, et id genus omne, have been, by turns, lachrymose and vituperative on the assumed de- claration of hostilities against Holland, by England and France. Our co- operation with the latter power finds, with these honest explorers of history, an exact parallel in the disgraceful and corrupt confederacy of the days of CHARLES II. The mode in which the Tory organs attempt to solve state questions by comparison, reminds us of the wisdom once displayed by certain enlightened authorities in Germany, who, on the occasion of a vehement dispute between two rival schools of Medicine, respecting the seat of the heart in man, arbitrated the point at issue by refer- ring the learned disputants to the inspection of a pig ! FERDINAND of SPAIN, although his demise lias been gazetted lo the world, was, by the latest accounts from Madrid, still in existence. It appears that he had fallen into a lethargy, so closely allied to a cessation of the bodily functions, that the French Secretary of Legation deemed himself justified in telegraphing his decease. Should he survive to peruse the various memoirs published, in con- sequence of the report of his death, he may draw from them more salutary mortification of the spirit, than he can ever obtain through the penitential observances prescribed by a father confessor. Some half dozen lines, which we had prepared as the register of his greatness, may lie over for a future use. During the whole of the week the fighting in Portugal has been carried on, but with no decisive success, and apparently with no great object on either side. Miguel's troops ou the 8th of September took possession of Villa Nova, which is com- manded by the Convent of the Serra. That convent has been converted into a fortress, and occupied by about 600 of Pedro's troops. An attack was made by the Miguelites on this little fortress, in order to dislodge its occupants, and convert it into the means of an attack on their opponents. If it could have been occupied by the Miguelites, the town of Oporto would have suffered dreadfully from any battery that might have been erected there. The attack was made with some spirit, but failed ; and the Miguelites were likewise repulsed along the other parts of the line. This attack was made on Saturday, September the 8th. On Sunday, Tuesday, twice on Wednesday, and again slightly on Saturday, it was renewed, but in every case without the smallest success. The loss among the garrison of the Serra is represented as very small, and if it be rightly stated, would indicate either very bad firing on the part of the Miguelites, or shew that they discharged their guns at a respectful distance from their enemies. They seem, indeed, to have no taste for fighting at close quarters ; and the Times correspondent describ- ing them as running away ou one occasion from an unexpected charge of some of Pedro's volunteers, says, that the whole thing was the prettiest sight he ever saw, and that it quite overcame for the moment his feeling of neutrality, and he cheered the volunteers as loudly as he could. On Sunday, the 16th, in- formation was received that a general attack on the lines of Pedro was meditated. A battery had been almost completed by the Miguelites in the centre of their own lines, at Agua Ardente, and a sortie was made from Oporto to destroy it. The Miguel- ites were taken completely by surprise, and the sortie was suc- cessful. This provoked a retort, and a skirmish along the whole of the line took place. The British, under Major Shaw, at the right of Pedro's line, advanced too far, and were for a moment driven in by a superior force : but they rallied ; and on being supported by about fifty others, under Major Staunton, they charged, and drove back the enemy, although many times more numerous than themselves. Major Staunton was mortally wound ed in this affair, and the amount of the loss is stated at eighteen killed, sixty wounded, and forty- seven prisoners. The result of the whole shows that with the imperfect means now at his disposal, Pedro can hold good his possession of Oporto, but that he has not force enough to compass more. His hopes of safety and success rest on the rains, which must drive the besieging army from before the city, and on the efforts of Sartorius, from whom the capture of Don Miguel's squadron is expected. But the resources of Sartorius are as little adequate to any great effort as those of Pedro himself, and the utmost that he can pru- dently undertake is to harrass and baffle his opponent. In the meantime, what between the loss of commerce, and the shots of the combatants, Oporto is falling into ruins ; and should Pedro be able to adopt more decisive measures in the Spring, he will have secured his advantages, at the cost of the destruction of the second city in Portugal. THE DUKE OF CUMBERLAND AND THE HAMMER. SMITH CONTROVERSY. Four, ladies, one moiety bearing the absolute name of Perfect, and the other the potent name of. Forty, while walking between Hammersmith- bridge and Barnes, on the 15th inst. were alarmed by a " gentleman" on horseback, who nearly rode over two of them. The apron of one of the ladies was wafted round the knee of the horse while passing, and, having performed this feat, the offender, as the party supposed, looked back, and laughed at his exploit. A letter, signed a " Friend to the Ladies," which appeared in the Globe a day or two after, described the " gen- tleman" as the Duke of , that is, Cumberland. Besides a host of comments in the Times, the Standard, the Post, and three or four Sunday papers, three other letters have appeared in the course of the week, two from Mr. Perfect ( the father of the Misses Perfect); the first denying the authorship of the open- ing letter ; the second, on the authority of two persons that had called on him for the purpose of apologizing, rescuing the Duke from the imputation of voluntary insult to his daughters ; and lastly, one from Sir George Quentin, denying that the inculpated Caballero was the Duke at all, and declaring that it was himself. Mr. Perfect's first letter, or at any rate that which appeared first, is dated the 21st; the second is dated the 20th ; Sir G Quentin's is dated the 22d. There has been a great deal more controversy on the subject than we care to encumber our co- lumns with, and as much bitter language on both side3 as the keenest controvertist could well desire. We have no wish to sit as umpire where the evidence is so nicely balanced, nor to determine which of the alleged parties threw up the mole hill of which the dailies would fain make a mountain ; but we may, without dogmatism, affirm, that it was the Duke of Cumberland or Sir George Quentin, for ou this alternative proposition all parties are agreed. As to the Duke offering such a wanton and brutish insult to respectable Englishwomen as has been by im- plication attributed to him, we certainly—( much as we dislike the political intermeddling of that very unpopular personage)— cannot bring ourselves to credit it. His Royal Highness must be quite aware that in this country no man, be his rank or con- dition what it may, can imitate the license of an eastern Shah without risking the discomfort annexed to exemplary horse- whipping, and the contempt and execration of society. But now for the wordy war of the papers and their correspondents on the momentous question of— DUKE, OR NO DUKE ? Who frightened the Misses Forty ?— Who rode over Miss Perfect's silk apron ?— " ' Twas his Royal Highness the Duke of " says a " Friend to the Ladies." " The Duke of Cumberland was the man, but he meant no harm,"— Mr. Perfect. " It was the Duke, but he is very sorry for it,"— Mr. Jelf. " Ditto, ditto,"— Capt. Jelf Sharp. " It was not the Duke, it was I myself,"— Sir George Quentin. " It was Sir George Quentin certainly," — Mr. Jelf aforesaid. " It was Sir George, without doubt or Under the plea that the Irish papers would shrink from giving it publicity, Mr. O'CONNELL lately inserted in the True Sun a letter to the Reformers of Great Britain, which, taking as its basis the Tithe affray at Wallstown, de- nounced in the exaggerated terms of a Coburg m eodrama, the general policy of the Irish government, and especially the assistance and protection granted under its sanction to the Clergy of the Established Church. This letter has been republished in the Dublin Evening Mail, which has followed up the act by calling on the law- officers of the Crown to adopt one of two alternatives,— namely, to give Mr. O'CONNELL the opportunity of ad- mitting or denying the authenticity of the letter in ques- tion, or, in the event of his declining to aeknowledge it, to institute against the responsible parties of the Evening Mail proceedings for the circulation of a most foul and seditious libel. Upon the challenge of the Conservative organ, Lord ANGLESEY, it is understood, has resolved to bring the matter to legal arbitrament. As to O'CONNELL'S avowal of the authorship, un- less after the coolest calculation of profit and loss, he feel satisfied that it will tend most to his personal ad- vantage to play the frank aud unhesitating part— unless, in liis own mind, he feel perfectly assured of this, with him, essential point, we know the man too well to suppose, for CORPORATIVE SERVILITY.— The Provost of Edinburgh, by name John Learmouth, signed and presented an address to Charles X., in the name of the inhabitants of the city, expressing a trust that " a brighter day would dawn on the hopes of that youthful prince who has already given promise of virtues and ac- complishments worthy of a descendant of St. Louis, and of a line of royal ancestry stretching throughout fourteen centuries."— Can it be possible that the people of Edinburgh will tamely permit themselves to be thus impudently represented as the sy- cophants of priest- ridden legitimacy ? LORD DURHAM.— The St. Petersburg Paper of the 10th Sep- tember states that, on Friday, the 7th inst., Lord Durham had his audience of leave of the Emperor and Empress, at Czarsko- jeselo. Lady Durham, and the Misses Lambton, his Lordship's daughters, afterwards had the honour to take leave of their Imperial Majesties, to whom the persons of Lord Durham's suite were also presented. Lord and Lady Durham and the Misses Lambton, and the persons attached to their suite, had the honour to dine with the Emperor. Lord Durham has arrived at Berlin, on his return to England. THE FRUITS OF GRACE.— Don Miguel, by a Decree dated at Lisbon the 30th of August, has re- established the Jesuits in Portugal. On Thursday the Neptune, 120 guns, and one of the finest ships ever built in this kingdom, was launched from the Ports- mouth dock- yard. The concourse of people was immense, and the ship went off the slips in gallant style amid the cheers and acclamations of thousands. CAPTAIN Ross.— It is at length determined to send out an expedition for the purpose of ascertaining the fate of Captain Ross and his enterprising crew, who left this country somewhat more than three- years ago, on a voyage of discovery to the Arctic regions. dispute ; you may positively rely on it,"— Mr. Holmes, a friend of Mr. Jelf. " The Duke has not the slightest recollection of being on horseback that day,"— A Friend to Common Justice. " Many witnesses can prove he did not leave Kew,"— The same " Sir George Quentiu was the person mistaken for the Duke,"—- The same, for Miss Perfect and the two Fortys. " No affront was offered by the Duke of Cumberland to the ladies,"— The Age, for self and one Forty. " The Duke never offered any affront to the ladies,"— The Standard. " The Times has lashed out in a frantic tirade,"— The Alfred. " The butcher jour- nalists'— Ditto. " The blood- stained journal,"— Ditto. " Un- principled calumniators,"— Ditto. " The dirty Times,"— Age. " A false, inveterate, and blood- thirsty attack,"— Ditto. " A beastly attack,"— The Standard. " Fifty witnesses can prove the Duke never passed his own door on the 15th,"— Ditto. " The Duke should sue the Times for 50,000/., and make Print- ing- house- square an abode of doleful creatures,"— Standard. [ The deuce thank him if he got the blunt, and Kew a joyful place, we warrant.] " The Standard is a nightly cur,"— Times. " The Times is a thief,"— Standard. " A pimp and a pryer," — Ditto. " A proved liar,"—' A Friend to the Ladies.' " A tliunderer," " an obscure private gentleman," " an appalling monosyllable,"— Ditto. " An arrogant, low- bred blockhead," — Ditto. " The Standard is a virulent reptile,"— Times. " The Times is a brazen blockhead,"— Standard. " Mr. Perfect's letter was written on the 21st,"— Times. " Mr. Perfect's letter was written on the 20tli,"— Standard. " It did not reach us till the 22d,"— Times. " It reached you on the 20th or the 21st,"— Standard. The Standard concludes:—" Who is ' the Friend to the Ladies ?"— Heaven only knows who he is, or who any body else is 1 We shall only observe, that this " much ado about nothing," shows what a bundle of problems history must consist of, while the style of replication resorted to by the high contending powers, proves how far the progress of courtesy has lagged be- hind the march of intellect. GRANTHAM.—( From a Correspondent.)— The Great Doncas- ter St. Leger supper was attended in the long room of the Angel Inn- yard, on Monday last, by an immense number of respecta- ble tradesmen, old and young, who sat down to a most excellent repast, provided by Mrs. Daubney. After the cloth was re- moved, the chairman rose, and proposed the health of " The King," which was drank with thunders of applause— Song," Our King is a true British Sailor." " The Queen, aud the other branches of the Royal Family"—" The Land we live in." " The Town and Trade of Grantham"—" Will, the Weaver." " Lord Huntingtower ( this toast was drank with enthusiastic cheering)— " Chester Ferry." " F. Talmasli," given with loud applause. " Earl Brownlow:" this nobleman's health was drank with every mark of respect. " The Aldermen and Corporation of Grantham" —-" May we ne'er want a friend, or a bottle to give him." " The Duke of Rutland and Fox- hunting"—" The Anglers." " Let us forgive our enemies"—" The heart that can feel for another," & c. & c. The glee- singers belonging to the Grantham band at- tended on the occasion, and added very much to the conviviality of the evening. A similar celebration took place on Wednesday, in the long room of the George and Blue Boar- yard, where a cold collation was introduced, and the entertainment afforded much gratification to a numerous assemblage. A FEATHERED MERCURY-.— Calloway the jockey, after riding Birdcatcher, which ran second for the Great St. Leger Stakes at Doncaster on Tuesday week, set off post for Shrewsbury, and rode Clarion, which ran third for the gentlemen's Subscription Plate, on Wednesday. The moment he dismounted and passed muster at the scales, he set off again on his return to Doncaster, where he was engaged to ride on Thursday 1 The distance from Doncaster to Shrewsbury is 160 miles 1 TAXES ON KNOWLEDGE. On Wednesday, we are informed by the Times, John Ander- son was brought up in custody by Currie, the Queen- square officer, charged with selling the publication called the Poor Man's Guardian, the same not being duly stamped. The Magis- trate having asked the chargee what he had to say in reply to the charge, Mister Anderson said that he was doing good, and he considered that he had a right to do so, and would do it again. The officer said that he had been convicted before at Marl- borough- street office.— Committed for one month. Anderson forms the one hundred and fiftieth, or thereabouts, who has been committed for a similar offence ; and, if the system go on, not one hundred and fifty, nor twice nor ten times one hundred and fifty, will suffice. \ Vill it go on? Should it go on? At present, the revenue and the public, in respect of poUtical intelligence, stand thus :— The newsman, who acts as middleman between the newspaper proprietor and the public, charges Id. for his trouble. This penny makes no part of the value of the paper ; it is the charge for its transmission to the reader. The real value of the paper is 6d., and of that sum 2Jd. goes for the paper itself, and 3| d. for the red mark at the corner of it. The only news which it imports the public to learn well, and rapidly, and regularly, is that which respects the working of the tax machine, its takings and its givings, its gathering and its strew- ing, the cost of its upholding the value of its produce ; and not only must the public pay for the tax machine, not only must they keep it clean aud bright, and well oiled in all its wheels and pinions, but its superintendents will have a further sum for per- mission even to peep at their twirling. The Government is an emanation of the nation's power, the creature of its will, and yet this creation, so far have the real relations of the two suf- fered in version, tells the creator, " if you would know what I am about, if you would know whether I am obeying your be- hests or neglecting them, using my deputed powers as an honest creature should do, or abusing them, you must submit to a tax of one hundred and fifty per cent, for the gratification." The schoolmaster, we have been told, until we were sick of the information, is abroad; and how do the rulers of the state facili- tate his march ? He may wander at will through the parks of the wealthy ; he may visit the student in his college, or the lady in her boudoir ; but if he attempt to direct his steps along the high road of every day utility, he will find at every turn a toll- gate obstructing his progress. Wherever liis services are most required, there are they most zealously prohibited. The newspaper press,— to drop our metaphors, lest they should, in the long run, drop us where we would rather not light— is the only schoolmaster to which the great mass of the nation will ever be brought to listen on this side of the Millennium. It is justly and properly so. It is far more important for the people to know what is doing in their own immediate neighbourhood, and to know it from day to day, than to be told what happened eighteen hundred years ago, and in a distant clime ; even al- though the recent occurrence were the most common- place, and the ancient the most singular. It is most especially important further to know the political events that are passing around them, because of the bearing of such events upon their imme- diate personal comforts. How, in a free state, are men to exer- cise the functions of citizens, if they be debarred from the in- formation that is requisite to their exercise ? A tax upon the discoveries of the man of science, on the collections of the his- torian, on the flowers of poetry and rhetoric, would fall upon the rich and the great, for whose pleasure they are principally designed, and with whom they must always have their chiefest currency ; a tax on the news of the day or the week falls upon the poor and the low, who, if they have not these sources of instruction and amusement, have nothing. To let the former go free and to burden the latter, is no better than burdening bread with an impost and letting cates go free. In a financial view, the only view in which a Chancellor of the Exchequer can be brought to look upon it, the tax upon newspapers is as little defensible as in its moral aspect. The population within eight miles of St. Paul's, according to the census of 1831, amounts very nearly to 1,800,000; the reading portion of this population cannot fall much short of 500,000. The number of copies of political journals of all kinds whatever printed in London, in the year 1831, very little exceeded 22,000,000. Of these, one half, if not more, go to the country, so that, in the most liberal assumption, there will not remain much above one copy per fortnight for each metro- politan reader. But this allowance must be further narrowed. Of the 22,000,000 copies that issue from the London newspaper press, not less than one half issue daily, and in these the mass of the community have neither part nor parcel. The readers of daily newspapers do not constitute the tenth part of the reading community ; but assuming their numbers to be to that of the readers of the weekly newspapers as 1 to 6, that is, in the in- verse ratio of the cost of the two descriptions of journals, this will leave for 430,000 readers of weekly newspapers, no more than 5,500,000 newspapers per annum, or about one copy in eight weeks. The London press furnishes nearly one half of the entire newspaper supply of the island; and thus, deducting, as before, one sixth part for the readers of the daily journals, there remain for 3,300,000 readers no more than 33,000,000 of copies, being at the rate of only 10 copies a year for each. Now, what is the immense sum for which Government is con- tent thus to dry up the sources of really useful knowledge to the great mass of that people, which it yet holds worthy of exer- cising the highest functions of freemen ? One hundred and twenty thousand pounds! It is said that Government must have money ; and we mean not to deny so plain a proposition ; but we utterly deny the right of Government to levy money by means of a tax which, as far as it goes, is destructive of the knowledge, and, with the knowledge, of all that is really valuable in the people over which it rules. The end and aim of govern- ment ought to be the happiness of the governed, and can that be said to be honestly pursued by a Government which is con- tent, for so paltry a sum as is yielded by the newspaper tax, or for ten times the amount, to perpetuate ignorance, and, witli ignorance, anarchy and misrule, and all the evils which govern- ments are especially created to remove ? The advertisement tax is as indefensible in a commercial, as the newspaper tax is in a free state ; the consideration of that tax, however, and of the substitutions which have been proposed for the newspaper tax, we must defer until another number. September 30. TII ® TO war. 317 SIR WALTER SCOTT. This illustrious writer breathed his last, at his seat of Abbots- ford, on Friday, the 21st of September, after a painful and lin- gering illness. His health had been shattered ere his departure for the Continent; and the shock of a paralytic attack, at Nime- guen, on his return from Italy, left him, both as to vigour of body and mind, but the shadow of what he had been. Sir Walter Scott was born on the 15th of August 1771, and consequently died in his sixty- second year. He was the eldest son of Walter Scott, Esq., Writer for the Signet in Edinburgh ; his mother was the daughter of David Rutherford, Esq., an able and popular practitioner of the same ( the legal) profession. Sir Walter early discovered a love of poetry and legendary lore j and feeing horn lame he had the greater leisure for indulging in his poetic fancies. Educated in the High School, Edinburgh, he afterwards served his time to the profession of the law. He was in July, 1792, called to the Scottish bar, and, through the in- fluence of the head of the Scott family, the Duke of Buccleuch, he was nominated Sheriff Depute of Selkirkshire ; and in March, 1806, he obtained from the Whig administration the place of one of the principal clerks of Session in Scotland. In 1798, he married Miss Carpenter, or rather Charpentier, of French extrac- tion, by whom he has left two sons and two daughters. The first productions of Scott were two ballads from the German, ' The Chase,' and ' William and Mary,' published anonymously. * Goetz of Berleehingen,' a tragedy, also from the German, ap- peared in 1799 ; and about the same time he contributed two ballads, ' The Eve of St. John,' and ' Glenfinless,' to Lewis's ' Tales of Wonder.' His next work was ' The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border,' in 1802. ' Sir Tristrem' was published in 1804 ; this was followed next year by ' The Lay of the Last Minstrelafterwards succeeded by ' Marmion,' in 1808 ; , The Lady' of the Lake,' in 1810, the most popular of his poetical productions ; ' The Vision of Don Roderick,' in 1811 ; ' Roke- by,' in 1812; ' The Lord of the Isles,' in 1814 ; and ' Waterloo' soon after. These are his principal poetical works. In ad- dition to these Sir Walter published ' The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland ;' and also edited the Works of Dryden, Somers's Tracts, Sadler's State Papers, Miss Seward's Works, and those of Swift; he besides conducted the ' Edinburgh An- nual Register.' His poetical career may be said to have closed in 1814. The appearance of " Waverley" heralded his second triumphal entry into the temple of Fame. Of the series of splendid creations to which this, the first in order, afforded a name, it were super- flous to speak, familiar as they are as " household words," wherever European literature finds readers and admirers. Sir Walter Scott was the first person who received the honour of knighthood from his late Majesty, on his ascending the throne. The ceremony took place on the 20th of April, 1820, since which time Sir Walter has published ten novels and other works, in- cluding his laborious compilation of the Life of Napoleon Bona- parte, in 9 vols. 8vo., published in 1827. The failure of Constable's publishing house revealed the au- thorship of the " Scotch Novels," by involving him, who wrote them, in the embarrassments of unsuccessful trade. From those embarrassments he never recovered, although he, by his subse- quent labours, liquidated a large amount of debt, and continued toiling for independence, till the frame of his great spirit sank under the pressure of exertion, self- imposed. Prudent and for- tunate, still the common destiny of genius has been his, and pecuniary claims to the extent of 60,000?., or 80,000/., intervene between the Poet's children and their hopes of an inheritance 1 He was' buried on Wednesday last, in his family aisle, within the ruins of Dryburgh Abbey, about eight miles down the Tweed, and among some of the loveliest scenery of that river. Sir Walter's grandmother was the last of the ancient race of Hal- liburtons, Barons of Dryburgh, in whose right he quartered the arms of that house, and possessed one fragment of their scattered estates,— this, the place of their sepulture, where, six years ago, Lady Scott was interred. A TOUR, FROM HYDE- PARK- CORNER TO WHITECHAPEL. THE ELECTIONS. MORE CAUSE FOR THE BALLOT.— When Mr. John Smith ^ canvassed Aylesbury, he and his friends called on the Duke's tenants, at the George Inn. He did not get there the promise of a single vote : but it is a fact, that many, in excusing themselves from promising to vote for him, observed significantly—" You know how we are circumstanced: we, however, heartily wish you all possible success I" BERKSHIRE.— Philip the Cat has resorted to the paltry trick of starting nugatory and vexatious objections to the votes of the Reformers— thinking thereby to weary out the spirit of English- men. The men of Berkshire are not such " small deer" as to succumb to Pussey's arts. CAMBRIDGESHIRE.— The friends of Captain Yorke, a gentle- man distinguished by the soubriquet of Lackland, support their candidate's pretensions with the four following reasons : Primo, the Captain can crack a good joke.— Sebundo, he can chaunt a jolly stave.— Tertio, he can swear like a member of My Uncle Toby's regiment, which blasphemed so " terribly in Flan- kers."— Quarto, the Captain can get drunk. Now if these • qualities do not entitle this " brave and bold man" to a seat in the legislature, we are at a loss to know what should. HULL.— The return of Mr. Hill, who is true to the core to the cause of the people, is certain. A scribbler in a two- penny paper— one of those crazy anarchists wdio speculate on public confusion— has attempted to divide the Reforming interest, but the good sense of the people here, as elsewhere, has scouted the miserable endeavours of sordid self- conceit. HUNTINGDONSHIRE.— The Reform Bill has nearly doubled the constituency of this county— but though the popular interest • outweighs the family one, no contest is expected. NORTHUMBERLAND.— In this county, Bell, the Tory candi- date, is practising the same disgraceful tactics as feline Phil, in Berkshire— a proof that the plan has been concerted, doubtless on the strength of the Conservative treasury. Allfreeholderslikelyto vote for Beaumont and Ord, or either of them, have been served with notices that they would be compelled to prove their qualifi- cations before they were allowed to vote. The electors, however, are of " sterner stuff" than to yield to the dread of Tory in- quisitors. At South- Shields one elector was lately served with a notice, being informed at the same time that it would be with- • drawn and no trouble given, if he would vote for Mr. Bell. Like . an honest man, he replied to the insulting proposal—" If you • would give me 100/. I would not vote for Mr. Bell."—" Then we will make you prove your qualification," was the rejoinder. WELSH PURITANS.— A petition, praying for the prevention < of the Brecknock Races, signed by the Dissenting Minis- ters aud some others, has been presented to the Secretary of State for the Home Department. His Lordship drily replied, that " the Government did not think it necessary to interfere." CRUEL DUEL.— It is reported that Mr. Gully's hat has been seriously injured in a duel with Squire Osbaldiston. The head has, we believe, sustained no detriment. BRIGHTON.— Lillywhite, whose superiority as a bowler is generally acknowledged, has, this week, rather over- rated his powers, in matching himself against seven members of the Royal Sovereign Trap Club. The game was played, on Wednesday, iu - a field on the Church- hill, when he was beaten in a single innings. PICHOT AND PAGANINI.— Mr. Peter Pichot, of Biggin Grange, in Derbyshire, has added to his name that of Fiddler, in com- pliance with a will of his late uncle.— Paganini has done the very same thing, in compliance with his own will. , The Poles and the Pyramids have lost their novelty, the in- terior of Africa is turned inside out like a stocking, the moon is inaccessible, and where in the name of wonder can an honest man now betake himself to turn a penny by making a quarto vo- lume ? When travellers have travelled all the world over and wish to travel still, what can they do but begin again ? And where shall we more appropriately begin than at home ? Thus thinking, I resolved upon making a tour from Hyde Park Corner to Whitechapel. It is no great distance, I must own, but it is enough, when properly managed, to fill a quarto volume. It is an exceedingly common- place practice with travellers when preparing for a journey, to pack their clothes in a trunk, but as I hate every thing that is common- place, I packed my trunk in my clothes. I have often thought that it is very absurd for those who make journeys and voyages to the remotest parts of the world to take up the time of their readers with the trifling parti- culars of their departure from their immediate homes, whether in hackney coach or post- chaise, together with all the minute and wearisome details of the preparation and provision for their ex- cursion. Avoiding, therefore, this wearisomeness, I begin my tour at once. Entering Piccadilly at Hyde- Park- Corner, one's at- tention is caught by a mighty contrast— a palace and an apple- stall. Would the occupants respectively change places ? Per- haps they sometimes think that they would if they could. But if they were to do so they would soon wish themselves back again. If I know myself, which I do not expect I do, I have no such feeling as envy, yet I must acknowledge that I do sometimes feel half inclined to regard, with some little degree of that sentiment, those very sleek, plump, fat, rosy- gilled, all he- powdered, gaily dressed gentlemen, who in coats of many colours and much lace stand at the doors of these great houses in Piccadilly, looking down with calm contempt upon the busy world, seeming to say in the pride of their souls " Hodi profanum wulgus." At first sight of one of them I thought he was king, prime minister, or archbishop of Canterbury, or perhaps all three, for he looked quite grand enough. One does not like to feel one's self little, so I hastened onwards till I came to a more levelling scene, where the equality of humanity is decidedly apprehended. Com- mend me for that to the White Horse Cellar, about which is congregated such a mass of human beings that one can hardly distinguish gentle from simple. The distinction of caste seems utterly cast down ; but if you look more minutely you will discern a difference, ay, a very great difference. There is evidently a greater apprehended difference of rank between the coachman and the cad than there is between a member of the House of Lords and a member of the House of Commons. And while the Hammersmith coachman looks down on the cad, the Exeter coachman carries himself much higher than the Hammersmith coachman ; and well he may ; for the one driver has all his pas- sengers booked and provided for him, the other must pick them up in the streets as well as he can. You may discern a difference also between the passengers in the respective coaches. They who are going a long journey seem conscious to themselves of a greater degree of importance than the people in the short stages. What isTurnham- Green compared to Salisbury- plain ? Or thedis- tance of Kew compared to the distance of Plymouth orDevonport. The human heart loving the gratification of its pride, without which its life is as nothing, finds means of thatgratification in every possible circumstance, even as the bee sucks honey from every flower. Talk about levelling 1— Nonsense 1 We never can be level till we are levelled with the earth. But what is all this bustle of carriages ? There are coronets on the carriages— ay, Lords and Dukes :— see with what pomp and pride they loll atease, looking down upon us plebeians with as much contempt as if we were not of the same flesh and blood. Perhaps the fellow that blacked my shoes this morning thinks that I also am as proud as a lord. I want to get out of the way of all this pomp and pride of rank. Now we are coming more among the busy sons and daughters of commerce-. shops multiply at every step. But here we have still the same spirit of high and low. How courteously these people how behind their counters. They are the most obsequious people on the face of the earth. Now we have arrived in Leicester- square, where once people of fashion did dwell, but the world is gone westward ! It were a speculation worthy of a Philosopher of the Porch to inquire why civilization travels westward; but it is a fact. Aineas carried civilization from Troy into Italy ; the Romans brought it into England ; and the English sent it into America; whereas the barbarous natives pf the New World in all probabilityare those whomigratedfrom Asia into America eastward. Leicester- square was once the west- end of the town, but now the town seems to have no end, and perhaps it will not till it comes to an end, and then there will be an end to it. I wonder why they call that long street Long Acre. There never was an acre of land laid out in such a shape as that. Here dwell the coachmakers ; it is truly astonishing that people can afford to keep carriages in such times as these. If things go on as they do now, it will be absolutely impossible for any body to keep a carriage long, or for any carriage to keep a body in short. Turning out of Long Acre you get into Covent- garden, and if you don't like the smell of superannuated cabbage- leaves you had better go out again. Of the theatres which are in this vicinity, the less said the better. One cannot help asking why they are called places of amusement ? They afford little amuse- ment to the public, for the public does not support them, and but little amusement to the managers and actors, for the ma- nagers scarcely know how to act in present circumstances, and the actors do not know how to manage to derive much benefit from their performances, even when they perform for their own be- nefit. What a noisy place the Strand is 1 Here we are in the centre of the news' market. Standing at the corner of Catherine- street we are within stone's- throw of almost all the knowledge, gossip, information of the civilized world. Whatever is done in any of the four quarters of the world is known here. Here are we surrounded by newspaper offices of every description, and we are within call of multitudes of those who on the tip of their pens seem to suspend the fate of nations. But we shall not get to Whitechapel this week, so if the Editor of the " TOWN" will give us leave we will rest at his office and take breath. ASTRONOMIC RHYMES. " Happify, the comet will be in advance of the earth, so that unless our globe augments its pace, or the expected visitant retards its journey, there will be no risk of any dangerous proximity, much less of a hostile collision."— LITERARY GAZETTE. FRENCH IMPOSITIONS. POOR PARSONS !— A person in a mixed company, lately, ad- vocating the cause of the pluralist clergy, among other new ob- servations, styled them the " pillars of the church."—" Cater- pillars you mean,— yes, certainly!" said a lady at his elbow. The Comet of Biela We shortly shall see, la 1— Ere October is done, ' Twixt Dame Earth and Squire Sun ' Twill friskily run— Making old sinners quail At each whisk of its tail. Now, cunning folks tell us We need not be jealous, But wait quite serene For this strange go- between— Who, without so. me disaster, As Earth, trotting faster, Or Sir Com resting pin At a satellite inn, Will Jiass, like a well- behaved gentleman, by, And leave us poor mortals our own fish to fry. STAR- GAZER. CHRONOLOGICAL BULLS. The reason why the English laugh so heartily at the Irish bulls is, that the English themselves are conscious of their own blunders, and would fain divert attention from them. In the matter of chronology, for instance, we have made one almost as incomprehensible as eternity. What part of the day is the afternoon ? Unsophisticated people would say, that afternoon is after noon. But it is no such thing ; for in a correspondence between a brace of duellists, not many years ago, published in the newspapers, one of the parties, no less than a noble lord, says, " I called on you yesterday morning at three o'clock, p. M." Now who would dare contradict a noble duellist, or insinuate that a lord could possibly be such a goose as to say, " I called on you yesterday morning at three o'clock in the afternoon?" Clearly, therefore, afternoon is not after noon, for after noon is morning. Our modern day is all morning ; we have no after- noon, and we have only half a night to one day; for at twelve o'clock at night we are given to understand that it is midnight, which is, of course, supposed to be the middle of the night, and by then we have come to the . middle we may naturally suppose ourselves half through the night, but, hey, presto, begone ! the chronological conjurors tell you that you have got quite through— the night is gone— broken off in the middle, like the story of the hear and the fiddle. As nobody knows when the morning ends, nobody knows when the night begins, but every body knows that the night ends in the middle. Equally saga- cious are we in our chronology of the seasons ; as, for instance, in the matter of summer ; for summer is quite the reverse of night, it does not end in the middle, but it begins in the middle, seeing that Midsummer- day is the beginning of summer. In our chronology, therefore, we are all over blunders ; for the mid- dle is any thing but the middle, it is sometimes the beginning and sometimes the end. We are not vastly accurate in the use of the word middle in the computation of human life ; for " mid- dle" there is neither beginning nor end, but rather nearer the end than the beginning. Verily we are a philosophical people 1 FROM " OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT." A rather amusing trick has just been played off against the terrorists of a certain little town- village in Staffordshire, Rugeley by name. It seems that divers worthies of this place, among whom were the parson and churchwarden, anxious to make every preparation for the arrival of that terrible guest, Cholera— which, thank God 1 has never yet reached them— among other things laid in a store of COFFINS ! 1 Some wags of the place, a night or two ago, took the liberty of burglariously entering the building where these were stored, and, picking out a few of the finest, carried them off, and fixed them up against the houses of the aforesaid parson, churchwarden, & c. Well, next morning, these prominent members of the Board of Health were not a little surprised and annoyed to find each a " long Tom Coffin" at his door, on the lid of which was painted his name, age, and so forth, at which his fellow- townsmen were laughing with all their might. The warden, like a wise fellow, made the best of the joke by taking in his " wooden surtout," and exhibiting it good- humouredly to his friends : but not so the parson ; his dignity was hurt, and he left no stone unturned to discover and punish the offender. We have not heard whether the reverend gentle man's inquiries have been successful, but, for his own sake, we hope not. The best thing he can do will be to bury the thing in obliyion. " PITY THE SORROWS OF A POOR OLD MAN 1"—" I am now," says Cobbett, " at the end of thirty years of calumnies poured out incessantly upon me from the poisonous mouths and pens of three hundred mercenary villains, called newspaper edi- tors and reporters 1" POLITICAL CONTAGION.— A Taunton gentleman lately pro tected his household from the intrusion of a pestilent Tory paper under the plea that it might communicate the cholera. RELICS OF SARDANAPALUS.— The gold embroidery of the chair of state in Carlton Palace is stated to have cost 500/. THE RETORT TIMELY.— The officiating clergyman of Wisbeach sent this week word to the sexton that he should not be able to attend to a couple going to be married, " for he was taken ill. As soon as another clergyman was procured, the bridegroom sent his message that he could not be married, as " he was taken ill.' SCRUPLES OF CONSCIENCE.— The Cambridge Independent Press states that the Rev. Charles Simeon, the respected pastor of the parish of the Holy Trinity, has refused to accept a piece of plate from his parishioners, because it was fabricated by a Jew 1 MORE WIT OF THE HERALD.— The spirit of Joe Miller ever frolics through the lively columns of the Morning Herald. After stating the fact that " the Faroese draw a wick through the fat body of the petrel, and use it as a candle," the oracle facetiously protests against such a wick- ed practice. Mirror of wisdom, what a wicked wag thou art 1 CHOLERA IN A NEW CHARACTER.— The following announce- ment is, with the exception of the italics, printed precisely as it appears in the Limerick Chronicle:— In Killarney, much re- gretted of Cholera, Mrs. Martin, relict of Mr. David Martin, late of the Hibernian Mining Company, who died of consecu- tive fever on the 28th of last month. AN EYE TO STATISTICS.— An honest Sussex farmer went as an intended settler to New York last season, being at the time of his landing, about to enter on his 47th anniversary. Strolling through some of the city burial- grounds, he remarked that of the persons whose ages were calendared upon the tomb- stones, few, if any, had survived beyond the 48th year. This lesson of mor- tality seemed to apply so directly to himself, that he forthwith re- embarked for his native country, and now narrates the story with infinite satisfaction. to the rustics of the Weald, TO THE EDITOR OF THE TOWN. I am a cockney, Mr. Editor, and, I assure you, am rather proud of the name than otherwise, and last Saturday being at Ramsgate, I made one of a party of pleasure to the " land of politeness" in the Brocklebank steam- boat, which ran opposition to the Royal George, and took us to France and back for five shillings. But what I want to tell you about, if I can only get my pen to steer that way, is the manner in which these high- bred people treated me. When I landed I was nearly torn to pieces by the sharks who were all desirous of the honour of my patronage, and on coming away I nearly experienced a similar fate from their desire to be remunerated for doing nothing. I had only a small portmanteau with me, but their attention was so great, that sooner than allow me to have the least trouble- about it, a fine gentlemen ( who I thought at first might be tha King's eldest son) begged the favour of the key that he might see it cleared at the custom- house, while a second ( almost as fine as the first) showed me the way to a wooden house, wherer some soldiers, in green, rifled my person in the most scientific manner, and finding that I had no passport, took down my name in a book, as though they wished to pay me some mark of at- tention on arriving on their shores. They then turned me loose, to see whatever I could in the town of Calais, which, I assure you, was little enough. Well, we had to start the next day at two o'clock ; and a little before, the same very fine gentleman who took the trouble of looking after my luggage on landing, came to me with a paper and a book in his hand, and making me a low bow, said, " Sare, here be your permit to embark, for vich I pay one franc, ( though. gratis was printed on the face of it), and what you please for the commissionaire; and I pay one franc ten sous for your port- manteau, and vot you please for the commissionaire." I was shocked to see so fine a gentleman so mercenary ; nevertheless I gave him a five franc piece, and set off with a porter, with my portmanteau on his shoulder, who, instead of going to the boat, walked off to the wooden house, where I had to unlock it and exhibit the contents to a soldier in green, which being done we again set off, but half way down the pier another soldier stopped us, and insisted upon sending it back to be searched again ; how- ever, upon confronting the two we again got off, and I saw it safely deposited in the Brocklebank. I gave the porter a franc for his trouble, who, looking at it, said, " Sare, there is von franc ten for the commissionaire, and von franc for the permit to ship your luggage, vich I pay at the custom- house, and vot you please for the porter." " What," said I, " a franc for a permit for myself to embark, and a franc for a permit for my luggage! this is a fine land of liberty and freedom. This, I suppose, is what is called free trade. Well, here are three francs more, and the one I have given already will leave a franc and a half for the porter." " Tank you, Sare," said he, " now vill you please to remembare de porter for cleaning your shoes." Sept. 27. Yours, T. SMITH, Strand. THE PLAY- GOER. DRURY- LANE. This theatre has opened, without the addition of many ele- gancies of adornment since last season, but with a very fair com- pany, and with promises of greater accessions. We attended on Saturday evening, and saw Cherry's very . stupid and vulgar comedy of the Soldier's Daughter, acted much better than it deserved, in fact, very pleasantly, and to a good- natured audience. ' The late Miss Mordaunt," as the bills persist in calling her, has lost nothing of the brilliancy of her eyes, nor, we should say, of her cheerfulness of manner, except so far as she seemed at times to have a misgiving of the propriety of having appeared in such a character as the Widow Cheerly, so soon after the recent death of her husband. This was creditable to her, we thought, though it interfered with her natural representation of the off- hand, enjoying, and gay assumption of the Widow. After all, it is an unpleasant character, in spite of its generosity and much talk of it, and Miss Mordaunt made her more than she coidd have been— very lady- like, as well as handsome. Farren was very great as the Governor— his vehement transitions, and cordial transports of rage, and good nature, were exceedingly de- lightful. Cooper took possession of old Drury, as usual, with all the air of a gallant self- satisfaction, and a victory over the hoards. He is always welcome, and we can tolerate even his mistakes— Mercutio, for instance— as those of an injudicious friend. We do not like to disturb him at any time from his wish to satisfy and be satisfied, he accomplishes both so often. HAYMARKET. We have had several novelties here this last week, and some of a delightful kind. The new comic actor, Mr. Burton, has esta- blished a very good- natured footing with the audiences, and cer- tainly deserves his success. He is far from being vulgar, or a caricaturist, though at times he assumes certain mechanical ex- pressions of face and voice that have very little to do with the particular part he is playing. In fact, we think him a clever actor, without much richness of humour. We should not sup- posehim to be " a character" off the stage, as we are sure our friend John Reeve must be, who revels in all his varieties of assumption, from Sir Hippington Miff to Cupid, with the same natural and genuine sense of enjoyment. His body, large as it is, never out- weighs his humour. Mr. Burton, however, we have little doubt, will become a great favourite ; his voice can ascend from a mo- derate depth of gravity to a childish treble; and the comic thrust of his face is highly amusing. Mr. Dowton is also engaged at this theatre, and has been play- ing in the very highest style of genuine comedy. He is as mas- terly as ever, and produces passages of far greater depth and powerful effect, than any comedian we ever saw. His Doctor Cantwell of Thursday evening was most repulsively fine. He made it too obvious and probable that such wretches have ex- isted, and still exist, in the world. How he can possibly pre- serve such a canting earnestness, and affected humility, and mo- notonous repose of power, and complete habit of hypocrisy, is truly amazing. We confess we shuddered at the " cunning of the scene." His awfully quiet malignity, on being wholly dis- covered, was tremendous, and in the finest spirit of a true ex- pression, as contrasted with the customary stage notions of ttTi The triumph of the week, however, for all lovers Of fine acting, has been the return of Mr. Kean to this theatre, in high condition of health and vigour. We can truly siy, that his Richard, of Monday night, was as triumphant in its sareasm,: in 318 THE TO war. September 30. its dignity, in its withering passion, in its hate, in its relentless • will, in its gay versatility, in its expression of conscious intellect, in its graceful levity, in its wily fawning, in its soldier- like intentness of purpose, and savage despair, and hravery, and death, as we can conceive it to have ever been. We entreat all our readers who have it in their power, to go and see this wonderful actor. To those who are unable to do so, we shall have something to say next week, though in utter hopelessness of being able to convey anything but the feeblest impression of acting, which, if they never saw or felt, we might almost say, they had never seen or felt anything that is true and irresistible. KING'S THEATRE.— It is aeported that Mr. Mason will not be the lessee of the Italian Opera next season, and that Mr. La- porte will. The Adelphi promises much variety, having not only a new piece, founded on the capital tale of " Rip Van Winkle," but the popular Pel of the Petticoats, imported with Mrs. Fitzwilliam from Sadler's Wells, and Reeve's inimitable Cupid from the En- glish Opera, with the pretty Mrs. Honey as his Psyche. The Olympic announcement displays a strong company for petit com& lis and burletta. Vestris, Orger, and Liston, head the entertaining list. LEGITIMATE DRAMA.— Mr. Winston, in his examination be- fore the Dramatic Committee, characterized Operas, pantomimes, horsemanship, elephants,— all as " the legitimate drama, with the exception of " lions 1" ROOM FOR THE INTELLECT.— Kean, on being asked whether he could act as effectively at the Haymarket as at Drury- lane, Teplied in the negative, on the ground that " the intellect be- comes confined by the size of the theatre." CONFESSIONS OF A PENNY- A- LINER. ROYAL AND FASHIONABLE MOVEMENTS. Their Majesties, we are happy to say, continue to enjoy excel- lent health. The King, attended by Sir H. Taylor, arrived at the palace at St. James's about half- past one on Wednesday afternoon, in a travelling chariot and four, from the palace at AVindsor. His Majesty gave audiences, in the course of the afternoon, to Vis- count Melbourne, Viscount Palmerston, Sir James Graham, Lord Hill, the Earl of Albemarle, and Sir T. Hardy. His Majesty, attended by Sir H. Taylor, left town at twenty minutes past five, escorted by a party of Light Dragoons, on his return to Windsor. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria are still resident at Plas Newydd, where, it is said, they intend to remain some weeks longer ; and we are happy in being able to state that they enjoy excellent health and spirits. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex is now sojourning at Ximmell, the seat of Lord Dinorben. His Royal Highness vi- sited Plas Newydd, where he dined with his royal relatives, the Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria. The Duchess of Gloucester is sojourning at Bagshot, and con- tinues to improve in health. His Excellency the Marquis of Anglesey, the Marchioness of Anglesey, and Lady Mary Paget, proceeded on Tuesday to Ma- retimo, the seat of Lord Cloncurry, near Dublin. Lord Minto has arrived at Berlin. The Earl and Countess of Munster, the infant Viscount Fitz- clarence, and Lady Adelaide Fitzclarence, have quitted the mag- nificent seat of his venerable father - in- law, Lord Egremont, at Petworth, for Brighton. Earl Grey and the other Cabinet Ministers are expected in town about the middle of next week, to attend a Cabinet Council which is summoned by direction of Lord Palmerston. The Se- cretary of State for the Foreign Department has been engaged in his official duties till between three and four o'clock every morn- ing this week. THE ARMY.-— Thursday morning, General Lord Hill, Com- mander- in- Chief, held a levee at the Horse Guards. There were present General Moor, Lord Montfort, Major General Rooke, Major General Warren, Admiral Poyntz, Colonel Henshaw, Colonel Leslie, Colonel Darley, Colonel Freeman, Lieutenant- General Sir James Lyon, Colonel Story, and about 30 other officers. The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne continue at Bowood, and are not expected to return to Lansdowne- house for several weeks, unless it should be deemed necessary to assemble a cabinet council earlier, to decide on the course which ministers will pursue relative to the dissolution of parliament. LORD AND LADY HOWICK.— On Monday Lord and Lady Howick received an enthusiastic welcome by the inhabitants of Alnwick. His Lordship's Election Committee walked in pro- cession from the Committee- room to the southern toll- bar pre- ceded by a band of music, and 26 elegant flags, with inscriptions in commemoration of the triumph of reform. A profusion of banners also waved from the windows of the principal houses and inns. His Lordship alighted at the White Swan Inn, where he addressed the numerous assembly, thanking them for their cor- dial and cheering reception, which he considered not so much in token of their esteem for him as a countryman and neighbour, as in approbation of his political principles and public services in support of the great measure of Parliamentary Reform, which had now happily triumphed. Lord and Lady Howick soon after departed for Howick, where their arrival produced the utmost demonstrations of joy throughout the whole neighbourhood. The Marquis Camden is at present sojourning at Bath, for the benefit of the waters. The Earl of Lincoln, who is reported to have selected Lady Susan Hamilton Douglas, daughter of the Duke of Hamilton, as his bride, lately came of age ; he is the eldest of eleven chil- dren of his Grace the Duke of Newcastle. Sir John Honywood, Bart., who has just succeeded to the title of his father, arrived at Evington, from the Continent, on Fri- day.— Kentish Chronicle. EISTEDDFOD.— It is said to be in contemplation to hold an Eisteddfod, on the grand scale of the late Royal Beaumaris Eisteddfod, in Carmarthen, next year, under the patronage of their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent and Princess Vic- toria, who have expressed to John Parry, Esq. their readiness at all times to patronize Eistcddfodau. CHESTERFIELD RACES.— We understand that the Duke of Devonshire, with a large party of friends from Chatsworth, will attend these races ; and also that Lord Cavendish, Sir George Sitwell, of Renishaw, Bart., G. Y. Wilkinson, Esq. of Tapton House, ( with a party), the Hon. G. J. Vernon, M. P., and O. Shore, Esq. ( the stewards) will be present. DOVER, SEPT. 26.— This watering place is filled with fashion- able company, among whom are the Marchioness of Hastings, DLady Noel Byron, Lady Morris, Lady Palmer, Sir R. Wilson, Sir F. Freeling, Sir C. Watson, Lady Combermere, Lord Harley, the Hon. C. Bradshaw, Mr. Townly, Rev. Dr. Shepherd, Mrs. Vernon, Mrs. Smith, Dr. Robinson, Gen. Buller, Mr. Bedwell, Captain Rose, Col. Baldwin, Col. White, Mr. Waller, Captain Stopford, Mr. Towgood, Col. Davies, Col. Payne, Mr. Barnett, Rev. Mr. Repton, Mr. Wilbean, Mr. R. Wilson, Mr. Dor- lington, M. P. & c. Earl Spencer passed through Northampton on Thursday af- ternoon, for Althorp House, from his seat in the Isle of Wight. The venerahle nobleman looked uncommonly well.— Lord Althorp is still at Wiseton. A few days ago, his Lordship vi- sited Howick, to meet Earl Grey and a distinguished party. His Grace the Duke of Norfolk left Arundel Castle on Friday lor his seat at Farnham. » • BRIGHTON, SEPT. 29.— Within the last few days there have been several arehery f£ tes in this town. On Saturday Dann's Archery Grounds, near Kemp- town, was the resort of nume- rous fashionables, and some excellent shooting took place. And, on Wednesday, an archery fete took place at the Chalybeate, which afforded amusement to a, large party throughout the after- soon. It has always struck me as the height of injustice and the depth of ingratitude that we, the labouring classes of literature, should not only be the worst paid of all the Muses' servants, but actually ridiculed on account of our poverty,— branded with the ignominious appellation of " penny- a- liners." Our very name is a lucus a non lucendo, for we don't get a penny a line ; and while, to pursue our metaphor, we are turning up the clods of learning, and training the trees of knowledge,— while we are cultivating the fields of poesy, politics, philosophy, and the fine arts, our proud task- masters seize the produce of our labour, and enjoy the fruits of our zeal. Then, the enlightened and discerning public seem to imagine that our education costs us nothing ; that we are born penny- a- liners ; and tbat a quill and a sheet of foolscap are all the requirement of our profession. To shew them how greatly they are in error on this head, I shall trouble them with a slight sketch of my own proceedings since I entered into the arduous engagements of my calling. Like most of our great men, I am sprung from humble pa- rents ; and, like most of them, I have an exquisite contempt for the pride of ancestry. My abilities, however, ( and I believe I may say it without compromising my modesty,) are of the aristocratic order. Early in life I was fired with a noble emu- lation to figure in the varied columns of a valuable and widely- circulated journal, to which end I applied to a friend of my father's, the editor of a country paper, for permission to attend a public meeting as his reporter. After giving ample proofs of my stenographical knowledge, ( which it had cost me two years hard fagging to attain,) I was engaged to make my debut as re- porter to the & Herald, at a meeting on the subject of Catholic emancipation. My attempt, however, was most unfor- tunate, my liberality not being in accordance with the taste of the day; and though my article was printed, ( owing to the editor's being from home at the time of publication,) I was soon given to understand that my style was not relished, and an in- sinuation even thrown out that the counter of commerce was better suited to my capabilities than the cloud- roofed and moun tain paved temple of Apollo. For my gentle reader's satisfaction, I shall here insert a copy of one of the speeches delivered at that meeting, as reported by myself, ( and for whose correctness I pledge my honour,) side by side with the same speech as exhibited in the pages of a rival newspaper :— While round thee lies that lovely thing, A halo— heaven's fairy ring— Oh 1 how I wish for wings to fly Up to thy round- house in the sky, Handfuls of moonshine gaily flinging O'er dew- fed clouds around us winging. Then, on each new month's primal night, I'd blow thy horn of silver bright, And ring through heaven thy clarion clear, To wake the sweet symphonious sphere. Or sail upon yon azure sea, Thou golden gondola, in thee, And steer through many a gulf profound With stars like glitt'ring fishes round. And still, as thou dost larger grow, I'll revel in thy noontide glow ; And when I feel with sleep opprest, Thy shady side shall find me rest; Yes, there I'll live, and there I'll die, Lord of that happy, flying Isle of Sky 1" MY REPORT. Mr. STAPLE then rose to se- cond the motion. " Gentlemen, ( said he,) unaccustomed as I am to public speaking, which, gentlemen, it is altogether out of my power— ahem 1— though my will is good, gentlemen, to express my sentiments on this urgent occasion— yet, gentle- men— hem, hem 1— yet, I say, gentlemen, surrounded as I am by all the nobility, gentry, and public at large,— which it gives me great pleasure and— and— great happiness to see myself so surrounded,— I am sure you will never submit to have your rights— and not only your rights— but, alas 1 perhaps even yourselves, your wives, your babes, your— infant children, gentlemen,— overturned by these idolatrous— these design- ing, ( and what their designs are, God only knows,)— these— these—( A voice in the crowd, ' Go it, old un.'')— these,— I don't know what to call them. ( Cheers and laughter.) " But I am sure, my worthy friends and fellow- countrymen, you will agree unanimously— unanimously and— vigorously with me, that our church and king— our beloved monarch, my worthy fellow- countrymen,— ought to be supported before the pope. ( Cheers, and cries of ' Yes, yes !) " Gentlemen, I wish I had the gifts of eloquence and the flower of speech—(' Oh, you're a rare un !)— I don't like these impertinent interruptions !— (' Turn him out, turn him out.')— but if I had the elo- quence of a Shakspeare himself in this cause— the cause of every Englishman— of every Scotchman— of every Irishman — and pardon me if I say, of every Welshman— then, gentle- men, I am sure, nay I— I— ahem 1— I am certain you will give me credit when I say that I love my king— and my be- loved country— from the ut- most depths of my heart.— ( Hear, hear!) SOMEBODY ELSE'S REPORT. T. P. STAPLE, Esq., whose zeal on this and former occa- sions we cannot too warmly commend, then addressed the meeting. Though he could not but regret, he said, that he had little skill in the refinements of oratory, he would suffer no man to assume a higher degree of mental fervour than that which animated his bosom. Excited as he was by a subject of intense interest, and surrounded by an assembly as numerous as it was distinguished, he felt it incum- bent upon him to express his belief that if concessions were granted to the Catholics, the rights of England, the safety of the people, and the morality of the rising generation, would be overturned; and idolatry, disloyalty, and bigotry, esta- blished in their stead. { Cheers.) He believed there was no individual in that assembly who had not bravely determined to support their beloved monarch and the holy ordinances of the church, against the vile machi- nations and absurd sophistry of the jesuitical Papists. ( Cheers.) If he coveted the tongue of eloquence or the pen of the bard, it was only that he might exert them in this glorious cause, the cause of every En glishman, the cause of every Briton, the cause of - liberty 1 ( Cheers.) Attachment to his sovereign and devotedness to his country had always been his boast, Loyalty and patriotism had their roots in the inmost depths of his heart. ( Cheers.) It would he irrelevant in him to detain the meeting longer on this subject, as be was sure that his opinion was that of a very large majority of his hearers ; and he should therefore, only beg leave to add, that he heartily seconded the motion of his worthy friend, Mr. Rasp, whose elo quence had so lately ravished the ears of the assembly. ( The gentleman then sat down amid loud acclamations, and the compliments of a numerous circle of friends.) it all mean ?')" Failing to hit the public taste in the reporting line, I deter- mined to try my fortune in original composition : and soon afterwards sent the following morceau to one of the minor magazines :— " TO THE MOON. ( For the .) " Sweet moon, refulgent lamp of light 1 Cas'd in a robe of virgin white, " Gentlemen, I shall not de- tain you any longer, convinced as I am that you are— almost all of you— unanimous with me in this great cause— and of the same opinion with the humble individual before you—(' What is it?')— and, therefore, I hear- tily second the motion of my worthy ( bowing) and eloquent friend, Mr. Rasp, which he has just had the honour of reading it over to you. ( Cheers and hisses, mingled with cries of ' Sit down, wooden !'—' Well done, nosey !'— and ' What does It was with no little satisfaction that, in three weeks after- wards, I read the following notice on the wrapper of the new magazine :—" Our correspondent, Heliconicus, will accept our best thanks for his lines. The simile of the ' fairy ring' is really beautiful; but a too great redundancy of metaphor renders the composition on the whole unavailable for our purposes. We advise our young correspondent ( for such we feel certain he is) to rectify this error, and shall be glad to hear from him again on some other subject." This " redundancy of metaphor" I easily persuaded myself was nothing more than an excess of genius ; and the passage in italics seemed to point out that it was rather the hackniedness of the subject than my manner of treating it which had led to my failure. A quarrel with my father, arising from my neglect of the ledger for the " general subject," and a coolness among many of my friends, whom I had lampooned in manuscript, determined me soon afterwards to run away from the Baeotia of my birth, and seek my fortunes in the classic regions of the metropolis. Here, however, my success was by no means so signal as I had anticipated: the magazine was full in all its appointments, and country con- tributors were too common to be engaged by hire. In short, my difficulties were far greater than I should like to confess, and I had already made up my mind to return home, when received an epistle from a country friend, ( one of those whom I had satirized most severely,) to tell me that my father had bid adieu to this sublunary world, and cut me off without a shilling. He begged leave, he said, to condole with me on this irreparable loss, and the more, because some unfeeling people had given it out that my undutiful behaviour had been the chief cause of his premature decease. It was now that I felt the utter desolateness of my situation and, overcome by a variety of harrowing feelings, I determined to make an end of my life by submersion. Accordingly I has tened to St. James's- park, and watching my opportunity, jumped resolutely into the pond. At the moment of springing from the bank I espied a person lurking among the bushes at its side, and as no man could submit to suffer suicide without solitude— add to which the water was exceedingly cold— I struggled lustily to regain the shore, and, after some time, succeeded in my endea- vours. My surprise, however, was excessive at finding that the man in the bushes not only rendered me no assistance in my peril, but even now stood gazing upon me with lack- lustre eyes, and an air of apathy about his countenance that was quite ap- palling. Determined to inquire into the cause of this extra- ordinary conduct— which I felt I had a right to do from the distinguished part I had taken in the scene— I walked imme- diately up to the man, and desired him to explain his motives I shall not tire my reader with detailing at length the conversa- tion that ensued : suffice it to say that this was a gentleman con- nected with the public press, in other words, a penny- a- liner looking out for materiel to fill half a column on the interesting subject of suicide. Such a plan of proceeding, he assured me, was usual among the members of his profession, and that there ware at that moment persons lying in ambuscade on all the bridges, in all the parks, at all the docks, and by many of the canals. Ha had a son, he added, established in lodgings at Chalk- farm, which he found a very lucrative speculation ; and asked me if I had never observed intelligent- looking gentlemen loitering about the various fire- offices ? In short, we became quite friends in a very little time, and after an agreement advan tageous to both sides, I entered into an engagement to work under him for a certain term of years. My naturally humane disposition for some time stood in the way of my professional duties, and it was long before I could witness the last bubbles of a sinking suicide with any degree of fortitude. My master's exhortation, however, and my own ex- perience, soon gave me a manly presence of mind; and I even went so far, in many cases, when I perceived the cowardice or hesitation of a victim, to steal softly behind him and give him a shove into the water. An event occurred, soon after my com- mencing business, which, if it had happened to any but myself, I should have considered as a mere romance, and which my reader by a parity of reasoning ( as we say) may be inclined to treat with the like incredulity. I was sitting one moonlight night in the neighbourhood of a certain pond, which I shall not particularize, when suddenly I espied a female figure approach- ing, with those peculiarities of look and gesture which I soon recognized as belonging to a felo- de- se. She advanced to within a few yards of where I was concealed, and stood sobbing upon the brink of the water. I stepped forward to render the last offices of my profession, when suddenly she lifted up her hands, and exclaimed, " Oh 1 Robin, Robin 1 how long have I searched for you in this wide, cruel world— vainly, vainly— now I seek you in another 1" In an instant I grasped her by the skirts of her gown— that name, that voice 1— and at the next moment was at her feet, begging forgiveness for a poor run- away, who had never loved but only herself and the Muses, and was ready to prove by a life of contrition, his high sense of the flatteringness of her attachment. We were married in a month afterwards at St. Bride's, and have lived together ever since, without one word either on her part or mine— more than is usual to all, I believe, in the magic circle of matrimony. To return : my gentle reader must not imagine, from what I have said, that the whole day is occupied in these watery watchings. The mornings and evenings only are available for such purposes; and even these not entirely, for many of the more affluent among us omit the morning watch altogether, and I myself, during the winter months, have frequently had time, after a very interesting suicide, to attend the pantomime at Drury- lane or Covent- garden. From the nature of our pursuits it will readily be seen that we not unfrequently meet with a nice case of crim. con., which, when done np with the necessary quantum of dashes, asterisks, and notes of exclamation, is as good as a guinea in one's pocket any time. During the day we go rambling all over the town, and poke our noses into every crowd we see in the streets, or mix with the groups of gazers at the print- shop windows. We have an extensive acquaintance among the porters of the nobility and gentry, through whose means we obtain correct catalogues of their masters' visitors. The various hospitals have always one or two of us in attendance, waiting for the horrible accidents ; and the police- offices are notorious as furnishing us with subjects for our graphic pens. It has been urged against us that we make too frequent use of the paste and scissors, whieh is quite incorrect, as those implements are in the exclusive possession of the editors themselves : and as to the vulgar assertion that we are influenced by a party, it is an unfounded calumny altogether, for we are open to all sides. Formerly we had a tolerable trade in the way of reviewing, ( and those were the halcyon days of criticism,) but now authors review their own books, and deny in a laudatory essay all that they have asserted in an apologetical preface. Many persons have been surprised at the extraordinary versatility of a reviewer's pen ; this will explain the marvel. As regards our style, it is decidedly Johnsonian ; that is, when- ever we have a choice of synonyms, we invariably adopt the more- polysyllabic, for reasons too apparent to need particularization ; and we have a rational predilection for those much- but- unjustly- abused parts of speech, yclept compound words. In poetry our imagination is so completely under the jurisdiction of our judg- ments, that we are seldom or never to be convicted of an out- of- the - way thoughtthough the present age is so depraved in its- taste as to prefer the wild ravings of the old poets to our well- subdued delineations. Nay, they go so far as to admire thoughts tricked out in the wild attire of an ancient bard, which they positively contemn when sobered down into the coat and breeches of modern phraseology: they die in raptures at an ill- spelt stanza of Chauoer or Spenser, but reject with disdain the new version of Blackwood or the Morning Herald. In a word, they make themselves knowing through our labours;, and then " stab us with our own swords." They extract the acerbity without the sweets of our wisdom; and theD, mistaking, that for wit, and despising this for dulness, pour upon our heads the sulphuric acid of their wrath. They pluck the sting, while they neglect the honey of the bee ; they grasp with the talons, but not with the heart of the eagle. THOUGHTS ON HUSBAND- HUNTING: No. II. BY A FOX- HUNTER. ADDRESSED TO THE MATRONS OF ENGLAND. MY DEAR OLD GIRLS,— In pursuing my subject, I shall pass at once to the " out of door department," for to lay down any rules for domestic management is beyond the reach of my ability. You have each your own peculiar system, upon the merits or demerits of which not unfrequently depend the hap- piness, as well of the present as of future generations. Before you think of taking your daughters into public, some previous " training at home," of course, will be requisite, and a little cub hunting, alias " juvenile hops," will prepare the young ladies for the blaze of a modern ball- room. Let me cau- tion you, horrever, against their becoming intimate with their cousins at this period, for if they do, you will find they are very different things to brothers; and Lord Byron says, that marry- ing one's cousins, " aunts, and nieces, Always spoils the breed if it increases." Do not, however, " snub" the young gentleman if you see any inclination of this sort, but just keep him at a sufficient arm's length, to be used or rejected as occasion may require, and as I shall afterwards explain to you. Whether the finishing rub to your daughter's education is- given at home, under the direction of an accomplished hun- tress, or the young dears are sent out to " walks," alias " semi- naries," as they call the places where for 300/. a year or up- wards they are taught how to get into carriages without show- ing too much of their ankles, it is absolutely indispensable that they should be thoroughly instructed as to the real game of life, and that they should issue from their studies with as great a contempt for younger sons as a high- bred fox- hound ought to evince for the scent of a pole- cat. Indeed without this, my dear old ladies, all your money, and all your labour and anxiety will be thrown away; and therefore, in selecting your seminary, instead of inquiring whether the yonng ladies are taught " music, Italian, geography, and the use of the globes," ask how soon after leaving school other young ladies have " got off," and the nature of their alliances ; and if you make any other inquiry, let it be as to the name of the dancing- master that attends the school. Of course a governess must bring her " pedigree and performances" in her hand, but schoolmistresses are apt to give themselves airs when too closely questioned. Dancing, however, is the very " riding to hounds" of husband- hunting, and requires the greatest care and attention. It should be done, as Lord Byron says— " without theatrical pretence, Not like a ballet- master in the van Of his drilled nymphs"— but like a gentlewoman. Indeed, a perfect dancer, like a perfect hunter, is a sine qua non in the sport, and each ought to be " bitted and bridled" up to the very point of perfection. As to dress, another poet— I forget who— and I are exactly of the same opinion. When a girl is young ( which I suppose all those to be for whose inestimable benefit I am now writing this), let her " Slight every borrow'd charm tbat dress supplies. Nor share with art the triumph of her eyes;" for she is " Secure to please while youth confirms her reign." But remember, if there is one thing that captivates the eyes hearts we have none— of men sooner than another, it is the- elegant simplicity of a plainly- dressed beauty. As to gewgaws— necklaces, armlets, waistlets, and such like things, there is no man with a soul above that of a journeyman jeweller, or some great big- calved Irish fortune- hunter, who regards a lady and September 30. THE TO WM, 819 " her appurtenances," ( as the lawyers say) just as he would a pound of cheese, that can appreciate, or ever thinks of looking at them. Added to the simplicity of dress, if you could also allow your daughters the simplicity of mind, and suffer them to " play their own characters without affectation," you may rely upon it ( as Sir Thomas Monro said to his son on entering life) " it would soon procure them friends," which, of course, in your case is synonimous with " husbands:" but the deuce is in you all; like Mrs. Oberflachlich, in Matthews's " Comic An- nual," you appear to do nothing but study how to make your daughters look natural. However, I won't he angry with you, for you have some good qualities about you notwithstanding, and we have all our " little foibles," as the Frenchman said when he boiled his grandmother's head in a pipkin. We will now, my dear girls, suppose that you have a daughter, or a couple perhaps, ready " to enter," or make their " debut," as it is elegantly termed, and that you consider them sufficiently steady and broke from " riot" to warrant you in taking the field with them. In fox- hunting a hound is said to run riot when he chases hares, rabbits, curs, sheep, any thing, in fact, but what he ought— and in fortune- hunting, a girl who would be smitten by a good- looking curate, a dapper government- office man, or, above all, by an ineligible " captain," cannot be said to be " well broke" to the sport. And here let me say a few words about *' captains," for we will " strike an average" ( as the corn mer- chants say), and consider all military men as such ; they are a terrible set, and believe me, until your daughters get over the •" scarlet fever," you will have sad times with them. It is a u distemper" that all women are subject to more or less, but the younger they are, the more violent is the attack. However, we shall see more of captains anon. And now for the start; but first a few words as to your finances. The landed interest, it grieves me to say, is not in so flourishing a condition as it was in your day, and there has been a depreciation in the value of money. We will therefore suppose a common case, viz, that you are not over rich, but " devilish genteel," most anxious to marry your daughters; and there being none of your neigh bours that you think quite good enough, or at whose sons it would be prudent to make " a set," you resolye upon hunting another country, or, in other words, trying London, or some of . the watering places. Among the changes that modern refinement has introduced in fox- hunting, is that of hunting the sexes separately, an example that you will do well to follow, for you had much better stay at home than start with an overgrown English family at your heels. Whatever you do, however, let no sons appear, for, in addition to their generally being sad, sulky, unaccommodating dogs, they always act the part of scare- crows. Your husband, of course, will go, and you must give the good easy man to understand that he is to make himself very amiable among all the young men— a regu- lar Jolly old cock in fact, but by no manner of means allow him to interfere in the hunting field. As the old " bone- grubber " says, you are much more quick- sighted than men, you are more suspicious as to motives, and watch words with a more scrutiniz- ing ear, and looks with a keener eye, and, making due allow- ance for your prejudice in particular cases, I have a great opinion of your opinion, and I am quite sure it will be for the benefit of all parties, for your husbands, will find the money, and let you find the discretion. As you will have had many years' previous notice of the approach of the event to which we are now draw- ing, of course you will have provided suitable equipages, and made such little arrangements as are consistent with your for- tune or the rank of the game at which you mean to fly. And here let me give you a word of advice. Do not fly at too high quarry, nor think all the world asleep except yourself. This is a time when you should live up to your income, but beware how you outsep it, and remember that the Mails travel at the rate of ten miles an hour including stoppages, and that there is always some d d good- natured friend in every county who will be happy to send your history, with notes and annotations, to any enquiring parent by return of post. And now for the present adieu. " Too much of a good thing is good for nothing"— I shall, therefore, conclude with subscribing myself ( as well I may— for I have had lots of your jellies and good things in my time) " your very affectionate friend "— and in my next letter will touch upon the most favourable places in England for the pursuit of the noble and manly sport of Husband- Hunting. Childs' Place, near Church Court, Sept. 28. PRODIGIOUS! PHYSIC FOR THF. HINDOOS.— No less than 10,000/. worth of one particular quack medicine has lately been shipped as a specu- lation to India,— Morning Herald. EXPARTE EVIDENCE.— A remarkable proof of the harmless- ness of medicine was afforded the other day, by a gentleman of the faculty, who assured us that a woman in a neighbouring village had swallowed no fewer than 42,900 pills and had lived to the age of between eighty and ninety years.— Bury Post. WONDERFUL TREES.— MR. WAKEFIELD'S VINE.— There is now growing in the open air, at Sedgwick- house, Kendal, and the residence of John Wakefield, Esq., a vine, having on it the ^ amazing number of 2070 bunches.— Lancaster Gazette. MR. GREGORY'S GOOSEBERRY.— There is now growing in the garden of Mr. Gregory, of Wigley, near Chesterfield, a re- markably fine gooseberry tree, which has produced a second crop sof fruit this season.— Derbyshire Courier. MR. THOMAS'S APPLE TREE.— There is now in the garden of Mr. William Thomas, carpenter and builder, in Quaker's- lane, a small apple- tree, which presents the pleasing view of a beautiful fruit and luxuriant blossom. The tree was nothing more than a slip, given to Mr. T. in January last; when he set it in his garden, without hope of its ever bearing any fruit.— Hereford Times. LORD D'ERESBY'S ALOE.— There is at present in flower, in the gardens at Drummond Castle, the seat of the Right Hon. Lord Willougliby D'Eresby, an American aloe ( Agave Ameri- cana), the stem'of which, being 23 feet in length, is studded with 1380 beautiful flowers.— Ibid. LIVE AND LOVE.— At Goosnargh, Mr. T. Smith, of Ingle- white, to Mrs. Parkinson. The bride is in her 64th year, and has given birth to twenty- seven children: the bridegroom is the same age, and is the father of twenty- three. This is the seventh time of his appearance at the hymeneal altar— four times at • church, and three at the Roman Catholic Chapel.— Leeds Intel. BIRD TRAP.— A bird was caught, a short time ago, upon a beech tree at Wester Plean, suspended by the foot from the underside of a leaf. On bending the branch to ascertain the cause of this novel trap, it was found that the foot had got en- tangled in the cocoon of a moth.— Ibid. NAUTICAL SPARROW.— Some weeks since a sparrow built its nest, and brought forth its young in the shrouds of a vessel belonging to Newcastle, and went a voyage from this part of the • country to the Tyne, exhibiting the most edifying attention to its offspring all the way.— Elgin Courier. THE TOWN. JOSEPH BONAPARTE.— On Tuesday Joseph Bonaparte visited the Bank of England, and was conducted through the different departments of that establishment by some of the principal clerks. The trustees of the King's College, in fulfilment of their agree- ment, are proceeding with vigour in the completion of their plan, by adding to Somerset- house that corresponding wing, the ab- sence of which has so long offended the eye of the admirers of our metropolitan buildings. The occupiers of the houses required for the opening of the new street from the Strand to Long- acre have received notice to quit— some at Michaelmas, and the remainder at Christmas— preparatory to the commencement of the preparations for the completion of the plan, and the erection of the new English Opera House. FERNANDO Po.— We are informed that government has or- dered the breaking up of the colony at Fernando Po, owing to the expense, and the unhealthiness of the establishment. AID FOR DON PEDRO.— The Duke of Wellington East India- man, a large ship lately purchased for Don Pedro, after being altered, enlarged, and pierced for 60 guns, has dropped down the river belcw Woolwich, where she will take in her guns and stores. The brig Yarrow has been taking in stores and ammu- nition for the service of Don Pedro. A schooner sailed with provisions, and 200 recruits, to reinforce the army of Don Pedro, on Monday. The greatest activity prevails amongst Don Pedro's agents in sending out men, horses, provisions, shot, and stores to Portugal. SOCIETY FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF JUVENILE VAGRANCY.— The members of this useful society held a meeting during the past week to consider the most efficient means of promoting its success. After some discussion, the business of the day termi- nated in a resolution being agreed to, to this effect—" That the co- operation of the ladies be requested, to obtain weekly or quar- terly subscriptions from their friends and neighbours, to aid the objects of the Society." TRIBUTE TO PATRIOTISM.— On Thursday last, at a dinner given at Cheltenham in honour of the occasion, Thomas Gray, Esq., of that place, was presented by his friends and fellow- townsmen with a superb service of plate, in testimony of respect for his character, as the " enlightened protector of every local improvement, and the intrepid, unwearied advocate of Parlia- mentary Reform and Civil and Religious Liberty." Lord Segrave presided, and among the committee were the Right Hon. Lord Sherborne, Sir B. W. Guise, Bart., M. P., C. H. Tracy, Esq., M. P., the Hon. Craven Berkeley, R. Canning, Esq., High Sheriff of the county, together with many neighbouring and re- sident gentlemen. RAIL ROAD TO DOVER.— A company is about to be formed for the purpose of carrying this long talked- of project into effect. According to the prospectus, the distance from London to Dover will be so much shortened by this line of communication as to render it capable of being performed in three hours. SIR J. M. DOYI. E.-— An Irish paper asserts, that Sir J. M. Doyle has gone out as commander- in- chief to Don Pedro. Sir John is a gallant soldier, but we fear he is not sufficiently " cun- ning of fence" to prosper as a leader. TRADE AT OPORTO.— A letter from an English merchant at Oporto represents every species of trading there, except in war- like implements, as being in a most disastrous state. PRESENT TO LORD ALTHORP.— A number of public- spirited inhabitants of Peterborough have presented an elegant snuff- box to Lord Althorp, in testimony of their approval of his Lordship's political conduct during the long and arduous struggle for reform. The Glasgow dinner to Mr. Sheridan Knowles took place on Friday week, when about one hundred and forty gentlemen sat down to table. Joint stock banking companies are about to be formed in Leeds and Wakefield. By the French papers of Wednesday we learn that the cholera had almost entirely disappeared at Paris. Accounts from Bologna state, that the Austrian troops had received orders to commence the evacuation of the Roman Le- gations on the 15th of October. It was believed that the French troops at Ancona would embark on the same day. EXCLUSIVE.— A vessel arrived a few days ago at Dunkirk from Lapland with nine rein deer, all alive and in good con- dition.— Morning Herald. BRISTOL MAGISTRATES.— The long- pending trial of the Bris- tol magistrates comes on, we understand, next week. Launcelot BaUgh Allen, Esq., late magistrate of Union- hall po- lice- office, has announced himself a candidate for the representa- tion of the borough of Southwark, occasioned by the death of the late Mr. Calvert. New York papers to the 2d instant have been received, tut they do not bring any foreign or domestic news of public interest. The cholera was on tbe decline at New York, the cases averaging under thirty per day. His Royal Highness. the Duke of Gloucester has sent a very liberal donation to the Agricultural Employment Institution, which is beginning to receive very general support from the aristocracy. Montreal papers to the 26th of August, and Quebcc to the 23d, congratulate their readers on the continued improvement of the pub- lic health, very few new cases of cholera having occurred in those places. From tbe accounts from Scotland,, we learn that the ob- jections so captiously made to the qualifications of voters have been iu most instances overruled. The reform festival of the ward of Bishopsgate took place on Thursday, at the City of London Tavern. Three hundred freemen inhabitants sat down to dinner, and there were many professional singers, and a full band of instrumental music. Mr. W. Stevens presided. The Marquis of Clanricarde performed a great equestrian feat a few days ago. He rode from Boulogne to Paris in eighteen bours, resting two hours in the course of the journey, purposely to par- ticipate in a grand dinner given by Lord Granville, the British Am- bassador. Rothschild's estafette, with all the appointed change of horses, is never less than sixteen hours in going over the same ground. POLISH ASSOCIATIONS.— These institutions are extending through the country. Besides the parent society in the metropolis, and its eldest offspring in Hull, we hear that one has been formed at Shef- field, and another iu Glasgow. In Warwick also a similar society is in contemplation. SPORTING. * PUBLIC THANKSGIVING.—( From a Correspondent.)— At Farn- ham on Wednesday last a solemn thanksgiving was observed at the church, in gratitude for a most abundant harvest, and also for the escape from the pestilence ( now raging with such vio- lence), at a time when it might have been expected to break out, owing to the increase of population during the hop- picking season. A grateful feeling prevailed throughout the town; all the shops were closed, and the church was crowded both morning and evening. The sermon in the morning, by the Rev. C. Hume, was taken from the 9th chap, of Ezra, 13, 14, and 15th verses j that in the evening, by the Rev. John Menzies, from the 124th Psalm. Mr. Merriott presided at the organ. THE PLAIN TRUTH.— Sir John Trevor, cousin to Lord Chan- cellor Jefferies, was an able man, but as corrupt as he was able. He was twice Speaker of the House of Commons, and officially had the mortification to put the question to the house, " whether himself ought to be expelled for bribery." The answer was " Yes." A SWAMPY SINECURE.— In the reign of Charles II. at the east end of St. James's Park, there was a swampy retreat for the ducks, thence denominated Duck Island, which by Charles was erected into a government, and a salary annexed to the office, in favour of the celebrated French writer, M. de St. Evremond, who was the first and last governor. Old ginger wine is at this time particularly recommended. In the virtues of the above root all medical men are agreed, and in the manufacture no one can excell Taylor, opposite Furnival's Inn, Holborn, of whom sample bottles may be had, A FEW WORDS ON GROUSE AND PARTRIDGE SHOOTING, AND ACCIDENTS FROM FIRE ARMS. FOR THE TOWN. Not only have birds been unusually plentiful this season, but the weather has also been extremely favorable to the sportsman. Indeed, since the commencement of partridge shooting, there have not been two wet days in succession, at least not so con- tinuously wet as to prevent the shooter taking the field, and en- joying his usual sport. Reports from the moOrs this season— echoes are always loudest among the hills— have been perfectly astounding. Ten, fifteen, and twenty brace of grouse, are stated as only an average day's success of ordinary shots; while forty, and even fifty, brace are said to have been frequently bagged by better and more persevering marksmen. As these feats are said to have been performed by some of the members of the romantic, love- making parties of Braemar and Kinrard, we may be pardoned for suspecting that there is a little romance in the account* and that some of the younger visitors upon whom Cupid has been exercising his bow have been practising themselves with the long one. Upon the best preserved moors in the North of England, even in plentiful seasons, twenty brace in a day are considered a good return for an excellent shot. Thirty brace fully entitle the successful sportsman to speak of his performance for three seasons at least. There are odds against his killing forty brace in a day more than twice in his life, allowing him to assume the gun at sixteen, and to finally abandon it at eighty— the age at which the honest sportsman should begin to think of changing his strong shoes for a pair of easyslippers ;— and the man who has once fairly killed fifty brace of red grouse In one day may consider himself as great as the victor of Waterloo. Such achievements only occur once in an age, and are referred to as a sort of land- mark which designates the limit of human fortune. The returns of grouse killed by sportsmen in the Highlands are generally greater than similar returns from the moors in the North of England ; and this difference I conceive to be not en- tirely owing to the greater number of grouse in Scotland, but in a considerable degree to the greater abundance of one species, the black- cock, which is seldom found on the English moors, and is killed with much less difficulty than the other. Indeed the young of the black grouse at the commencement of the sea- son are so stupid that their capture scarcely requires more skill than suffices for rook- shooting. Partridge- shooting in the plains and cultivated lands has not been less successful this season than grouse- shooting on the moors, as the returns of the killed— to town per coach— suffi- ciently prove ; and in several parts of the country birds have been sold from eight- pence to a shilling a brace. As the season advances, both grouse and partridges become more wild, and call into action all the skill and perseverance of the sportsman; and as their plumagebecomes thickened as the nights grow chill, it is now necessary to use a larger description of shot instead of such as might be certain death at an earlier period of the season, when the birds lay better and their feathers were less compact and strong. The accidents that occur every season from carelessness, or from ignorance, in the management of fire- arms, must be a sub- ject of regret to every one, whether interested in field sports or not, except to those humane few who regard the mutilation, or the loss of life thus occasioned, as a just punishment for man's presumption, in daring to kill with a gun those animals which Providence has given for his use ; but whose destruction in this manner, it seems good to a parcel of demure hypocrites, and sni- velling old women in small- clothes, to condemn. This canting crew, who exclaim against man's cruelty in killing animals, by a mode which in general speedily destroys sensation, would rather eat a hare that has been slowly strangled in the wires of a poacher, than a partridge that has " Died, and left its little life in air," within a minute of its first alarm, and almost ere it was con- scious of pain. Such persons I have no hesitation in declaring to be in general thoroughly cruel, and really insensible to • ani- mal suffering; for they are mostly such as are insensible to the miseries of their own species, and who endeavour to make up by their pretended commiseration for the sufferings of brutes their want of sympathy for the sufferings of men. WThen we consider the number of persons who every year pro- ceed on shooting excursions, utterly jgnorant of the construction and action of a gun, and unaccustomed to its use, it is almost surprising that accidents should not be of more frequent occur- rence. Nor is it merely to those unaccustomed to shooting that accidents exclusively happen, for, perhaps, the major part occur to those persons who have been for years familiar with the use of fire- arms, and whose very familiarity may have induced care- lessness and insensibility of the danger to which they were ex- posed. It also not unfrequently happens, that many who are expert in the practice of shooting, are totally unacquainted with the theory of explosion, and treat with indifference warnings of the danger that attends certain circumstances in the use of fire- arms, because it has not been explained to them, and they are unable of themselves to conceive a sufficient cause; and thus they continue for years unsuspicious of, or disbelieving the possibility of, harm, until they are taught a painful lesson by experience. To explain the circumstances under which accidents from fire- arms are most likely to occur, and to point out the dangers of ignorance and carelessness, will form the subject of a future communication to THE TOWN. II. in consequence of the 7th Regiment of the Line being marched off for Belgium, at a few hours' notice, to the great delight of the soldiers, who, as they passed my house, appeared overjoyed at the thoughts of so soon smelling powder. The firing of can- non has been heard almost the whole forenoon, but whence the report comes, no one seems to know. The Waterloo guns wera audible here, hut Antwerp, supposing that to be the scene of action, is much further distant. The air, however, has beea extremely favourable to the expansion of sound. I am happy to say, that this part of France has concluded an. excellent harvest, and bread has fallen in price. This is as it should be ; for, ever since I have been in the country, it has beeu at an unreasonable price, considering all payments on land, beyond rent, amount to but half- a- crown of our money on a French acre, nearly five- fourths of an English one. By the way, Mr. Editor, have any of your sporting friends told yott of a Company about to be formed for the purpose o£ purchasing Eastern blood mares, as well as stallions, with tha hopes of finding a second Godolphin, or the dam of the two True Blues, to improve our brood of racers ? It appears to ba the opinion of many of our sportsmen that our race- horses ara dwindling for want of a fresh cross ; that they are only fit foe short races, and trials of speed ; and that their want of stoutness is shown at every race- meeting by the slow pace at which the first part of most races are run. It is said to be the intention of the Company to form shares of 100/. each; and that proper persons are to be sent to Arabia, to purchase, without regard to price, provided the object can be attained. I am truly sorry to find that there has been another attempt at roguery at Doncaster, and only hope that if the fourth party be detected, he will be found to be of the same vile caste with those already shown up. One of the curses denounced against the earth, " is thorns and thistles;" against racing,— such scoun- drels as Mr. emerging from the stews of London, with their ill- gotten pelf, bent on committing any act of villainy with- in their reach. But as their persons and characters are known to most sporting men, why are they not at once proclaimed on their arrival at such a place as Doncaster—" wanting to buy a horse"— Anglice, wanting to commit a robbery? Gentlemen connected with the turf have brought some of this mischief on their own heads. More than one villain has beea detected, and though banished for a time, suffered to return to the betting ring, and mix with persons of character, to the great injury of the turf, and to the great joy of the condemners of it. I repeat— such characters should be branded, and, when branded, avoided, for, " as well might honey be extracted from the scarabeeus, or milk from the einips, as goc- 1 obtained from such scorpions as you." NIMROD. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TOWN. Three miles from Calais, Sept. 27. SIR,— I shall pester you no more on the dismal subject of my last letters than to inform you, that a great change has taken place for the better, at Calais, and in the neighbourhood. One awful case of cholera, however, occurred within a mile of my residence this week, which I only mention because it is much in confirmation of the opinion I ventured to give respecting the good and bad effects of diet. A very respectable timber- mer- chant— a remarkably strong man— returned to his house in the evening, after transacting the business of the day, in apparently good health and spirits. He supped on cold fish and salad, and was a corpse in six hours I His wife also died the next day; and a child is since dead I Calais and its vicinity presented a lively scene this morning, THE LUDLOW AFFAIR. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TOWN. SIR,— The people " in Town, out of Town, and all the World over," as your motto has it, must have experienced considerable amusement from the marvellous stories that have been told relative to the purchase of the horse Ludlow at the Doncaster Races the other day ; and perhaps you may not think a few lines, in your admirably- conducted paper, thrown away upon some observations on the subject.— John Bull's gullibility has long been proverbial, but I do think that the ball he is now required to swallow will prove loo large for his throat, and will not be got down even with the aid of a balling iron. The case appears to be simply this :— Either there has been a deep attempt at roguery about the St. Leger, or that celebrated character of whom we have all heard so much— viz. " the biggest fool in the world," has made his appearance among us. By way of a short cut to the subject, allow me to introduce the following letter, addressed to the Editor of a Morning Paper, by a gentleman who calls himself Ephraim Bond, and who, as a member of that highly respectable club, the Athenceum, of course we must suppose to be a gentleman. TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING HERALD. Sir,— I feel confident that common justice will induce you to insert the following :— I bought Ludlow : I gave 5,000 guineas for him— public opinion saying he was the best horse. I backed him to win 2,925/. of Mr. Thomas, 2,400/. of Mr. Halliday 1,600/. of Mr. Crockford, 1,000/. of Mr. Botsul, besides smaller bets on the St. Leger Stakes, making in the whole 15,000/. I challenge the whole betting world to prove I laid one guinea against him. Respecting the " fourth party," I still say that the public has nothing to do with it. I have shown, as far as I had controul over the horse, that the running, riding, and my intentions, were perfectly honest. Why am I called on for more? I am, Sir, your obedient humble servant, Athenaeum Club, 26, St. James's- street, Sept. 25. E. BOND. Well done, Mr. Ephraim Bond, you are a spirited fellow, at all events, and must be a wonderful acquisition to that slow- going club from whence you date.— But, Mr. Editor, there are one or two points connected with this letter, that I cannot reconcile to my narrow mind.— In the first place, I do not remember ever to have heard Mr. Bond's name, either as the owner of a race- horse or a sporting character : and the last time I saw the Athenseum Club, it was standing opposite the United Service one, at the bottom of Waterloo- place, instead of at 26, St. James's- street.— I remember a Jew duffer, of the name of Cohen, who, as I was afterwards told, assumed the name of " Bond," and set up a gaming- house somewhere at the west end of London : but surely this cannot be the Ephraim Bond, the member of the Atheneeum Club, who gives 5,000 guineas for a horse, and backs him for 10,000 more 1 Surely not:— nor is it a likely thing for any man of the name of Ephraim to do.—" Bond for ever I and afourth man yet I" as the Electioneerers say. Your obedient Servant, Sept. 30th. A SPORTSMAN, BUT NO GAMBLER. THE TURF. BETTING AT TATTERSALL' 3. MONDAY.— The town settling for Doncaster took place this day, and went off without anything to call for particular notice. The Derby for 1833 is now in the market, and a few engagements have been made on it. The following is as near the present state of the betting as we could collect:— 10 to 1 agst Mr. Rawlinsou's Revenge; 12 to 1 agst" Lord Cleveland's c by Muley; 13 to 1 agst Mr. Hunter's Forester, by Gustavus; 20 to 1 agst Sir M. Wood's brother to Margrave ; 20 to 1 agst Duke of Rutland's c, out of Moses's dam. 800 to 100 agst Lord Exeter's lot ( consisting of brother to Beiram, e out of Emeline, c out of Marinella, and c out of Dahlia's dam, ail by Sultan); 8 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's three— Ismael, Glenmore^ and Lucius ; 1200 to 100 agst the Duke of Grafton's lot ( viz. c;. by Centaur out of Tontine, and c by Sultan, out of Dervise's dam) -, 900 to 200 agst Revenge, Muley colt, and Forester. The first" favourite, Revenge, woa the two year old stakes at Ascot, 320 THE TO war. September 30. Forrester the July Stakes, and the Muley colt, the Champagne Stakes. THURSDAY.— A thin attendance and very little business done ; 1,200 to 100 was taken in one bet about each of three— viz., Mr. Hawlinson's Revenge, Lord Cleveland's Muley colt, and Mr. Hunter's Forester; 8 to 1 was offered agst Lord Exeter's lot, and offers made to back the field agst ten. The rest as on Monday. Newmarket First October Meeting commences on Monday. OSWESTRY RACES, SEPT. 25. A Produce Stakes of 50 sovs each, for three yrs old, one mile— Won by Mr. Gore's b c Agitator beating Lord Westminster's br f Maid of Honour. One drawn. Won by half a length. The Gentlemen's Subscription Purse of 50/. for three and four yr olds, two mile heats.— Won by Mr. E. Yates's g f Sylph beating Ticket, Wedlock, and Miss Lytham. SEPT. 26— The Shropshire Stakes of 20 sovs. each, h. ft. with 50/. added by the innkeepers of Oswestry, mile and half heats— won by Mr. Jones's Pluralist, beating Sir T. Stanley's Lawrie Todd. One drawn— three paid forfeit of 5 sovs. each. Won very easy. A Gold Cup, value 100 sovs ( in specie) two miles and a quarter, starting at the Turnpike- road— Mr. Mostyn's Her High- ness walked over. Ten paid. The Town Subscription Plate of 50/. free for any horse, & c. mile and a half heats— won by Mr. Wheeldon's Georgiovanni, • beating Sylph and Jasper. Match for 50/. h ft one mile— Mr. Gore's b c Agitator re- ceived forfeit from Mr. Tomes's f. by Sir Grap. A Cup, value 30 sovs ( in specie) given by Sir W. W. Wynn, Bart, added to a handicap stake of 5 sovs each, a mile and a half heat— won by S. Hanner's Pluralist, beating Lawrie Todd and Belmont. LINCOLN RACES, SEPT. 26. His Majesty's Purse of 100 gs, by four and five yrs old mares; four yrs 8st 41b, five 9st, two mile heats.— Won by Mr. Hunter's br m Volage, 5 yrs, beating Col. King's bay f Frantic, 4 yrs. Produce Stakes for three yrs old of 30 sovs each, 20 ft; colts 8st 31b, fillies 8st, 31bs allowed, & c., one mile and three quarters race.— Won by Mr. Houldsworth's br f by Filho da Puta, beating Mr. Uppleby's b c by Catton and Mr. Rayner's b or br c by Filho da Puta. HEATON PARK MEETING, SEPT. 26. The Stanley Stakes of 10 sovs each, A. F. ; 3 yrs 9st 51b ; four lOst 51b, five lOst 121b, six and aged list 21b.— Won by Phy- sician, 3 yrs; beating Circassian, 4 yrs ; and Westport, 3 yrs, 4 paid. Match 150 sovs, h ft, two miles, Mr. Osbaldeston's Bilberry, 6 yrs, list lib, beat Lord Lichfield's brother to Dunton, 4 yrs, lOst 101b. A Gold Cup, value 100 sovs, given by Mr. King, added to a subscription of 10 sovs each ; three yrs 9st 31b, four lOst 51b, five list, six and aged list 71b; m and g allowed 31b. St. Leger Course.— Won by Vanish, aged, beating Lady Elizabeth. 4 yrs ; Jocko, aged ; and Lawn Sleeves, 6 yrs.— Six paid. The Grand Junction Stakes of 20 sovs each, one mile, was won by Lord Wilton's ns gr c by Falcon, beating Mr. Houlds- worth's ns g g Protogenes. Heaton Park Stakes of 15 sovs each, 5 ft, one mile and a half ^ Handicap) for 4 yrs old and upwards.— Won by Mr. Houlds- worth's ch m Fortitude, beating Manchester and Revolution.— Eleven paid. A Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, 5 ft, with 20 added by the Club, for horses not th. br. Once round the course.— Won by Mr. Griffiths's. br g Tommy Tickle, beating Hippona and Bilberry. Two others started. Two paid. SEPT. 27.— The Forester Stakes of 10 sovs each, for any horse or mare carrying 12st 71b, A. F., 5 subs— Won by Mr. W. M. Stanley ns br g Tommy Tickle, beating Lord Forester ns b g Liston, aged, and Lord Uxbridge's ch h Revolution, 5 yrs. Sweepstakes of 15 sovs each, 5 ft, 25 added, three yrs 9st 121b, four lOst 121b, five list 81b, six and aged 12st; mares and geld- ings allowed 31b; one mile, 5 subs— Won by Mr. Houldsworth's b f Circassian, 4 yrs. Three others started, only one placed. The 50/. Plate for maiden horses of all ages, three yrs 9st 31b, four lOst 51b, five list, six and aged list 71b; mares and geld- ings allowed 31b, once round— Won by Mr. Cooke's b m Sally Mags, 4 yrs, beating Mr. G. O. Smith's b f Sally Barlow, 3 yrs. Three others started. The Manchester Stakes of 15 sovs each, 5 ft, one mile and a half, five subs— Won by Mr. Nevill's ch m Fortitude, 6 yrs, beating Mr. W. M. Stanley ns b h Donegani, 5 yrs. A Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 sovs each, 5 ft, with 10 added by the Club, for horses not thorough bred, one mile, five subs— Won by Mr. W. C. Hobson's gr g Protegene, 3 yrs, 9st 91b, beating Mr. Milward's Hippona, 5 yrs, list 61b. A Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, h ft, A. F., the win- ner to be sold for 70 sovs, if, & c.; 9 subs— Won by Sir J. Ge- rard's br f Catherine, 3 yrs, 9st 41b, beating Mr. H. Brooke ns b m Sally Mags, 4 yrs, 10st71b. Four others started. by subscription of 5 sovs each, King's Plate weights.— Won by Mr. Hodges's b g the Rebellious Radical, beating Mr. Thwaite's b g Madagascar, Captain Curteis's c g Arthur, Sir F. Sykes's b g Election, and Mr. H. Elphinstone's b g Ashton. Drawn. Owing to the dense fog, the rider of Radical ran on the wrong side of the post, which carried the stakes to Arthur. The St. Leonard's Cup of 50 sovs. followed, won by Mr. G. Roberts's c f Zarina, Mr. Smith's b f Witch, Mr. Hodges's b h Fawn, Lord Lowther's b g Timekeeper, and Sir F. Sykes's b c Pumpkin. Drawn. St. Mary's Cup, won by Mr. Clark's b g Borodino, beating Mr. White's c m Matilda, Sir F. Sykes's b c Pumpkin, Mr. Rush's b h Oatlands. and Mr. Hodges's b g Rebellious Radical. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. CARLISLE MEETING, Sept. 25. The Two- yr- old Stakes of 20 sovs each, pp, with 20 added ; colls 8st 51b, fillies 8st 21b; about three- quarters of a mile, seven subs— Won by Sir R. K. Dick's gr c Allegro, beating Mr. Ser- gentson's b f Venus and Mr. Smith's br c by Muley. The Gold Cup, value lOOgs, by 10 subs of lOgs each, pp, for horses, & c. of all ages, three miles— Won by the Earl of Car- lisle's ch h the Barber, 5 yrs, 8st 91b. Four others started, only one placed. A Maiden Plate of 50/. given by the Members of the City, heats two miles— Won by Mr. Gardinor's b c by Blacklock, 3 yrs, 6st 101b, beating Mr. Harrison's b f Maid of Oaks, 3 yrs, and Mr. Teasdale's roan mare Village Maid, 4 yrs. SEPT. 26.— His Majesty's Plate of lOOgs for horses, & c. of all ages, 4 miles— Won by Mr. J. Jacques's b c Ossian, 4 yrs, lOst 71b, beating Mr. Williamson's b h the Earl, aged, 12st. Stot- forth third, and b g Charley fourth. A Plate, value 50/., heats two miles Snd a distance— Won by Mr. Gardinor's b c by Blacklock; 3 yrs, 6st 121b, beating Mr. Attwood's b m Penthesilea, 5 yrs, 8st 101b, and Capt. Healey's b h Flambeau, 6 yrs, 9st lib. SEPT. 27.— A Plate, value 50/. given by the Members for the County; three yrs, 6st 71b ; four, 7stl01b; five, 8st 61b; six and aged, 8st 121b. Heats three miles.— Won by Mr. J. Jacques's b c Ossian, beating Mr. Williamson's b h The Earl and Mr. Wil- kins's b g Bullochmyle. A Plate, value 50/. the winner to be sold for 150 gs. Heats two miles.— Won by General Sliarpe's b g Perlet, beating Mr. Skipsey's b f Bounce, Mr. Williamson's c c Dr. Fraser, and Mr. Francis's b g Storm. BRECONSHIRE RACES, SEPT. 26. The Ladies' Plate of 50 sovs, two mile heats.— Won by Mr. Thome's b g Harry, beating Mr. Peel's br g Lely, and three others. The Usk Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 50 added, for horses not thoroughbred. Two mile heats.— Won by Mr. Bailey's ns ch m Dandina by Pavilion, beating Mr. Meyrick's b m Off- she- goes and three others. SECOND DAY.— Members' Plate of 50 sovs, for any horse, & c. Two mile heats.— Won by Mr. Merrick's b c Spaniel, beating Mr. Price's b m Miller's Maid, and two others. A Free Handicap of 5 sovs each, with 25 added. Heats one mile and a half.— Won by Mr. Merrick's b c Spaniel, beating Mr. Peel's br g Lely, Mr. Lewis's br c Brussell, and three others. SPORTS TO COME. NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING, 1832. MONDAY, OCT. 1.— The Trial Stakes of 10 sovs each, for three yrs old 7st 71b, four 8st 91b, five 9st 21b, six and aged 9st 61b, A. F. The Tenth Renewal of the Grand Duke Michael Stakes of 50 sovs each, for colts 8st. 71b, fillies 8st 31b, A. F.— Sir M. Wood's Count Robinson, Lord Exeter's Spencer, Lord Exeter's Byzan- tium, Lord Exeter's f by Sultan, Lord Lowther's Messenger, Mr. Dilly's Margrave, Mr. Dilly's Salute, Lord Worcester's Copper Captain, Duke of Portland's f byTiresias, Duke of Port- land's c by Truffle, Captain Rous's Pouch- box, Duke of Graf- ton's b c by Emelius, Duke of Grafton's Ruth. Lord Exeter's Aspasia filly, 8st 51b, agst Lord Chesterfield's Weeper, 7st 131b, T. Y. C. 100, h ft. Mr. M. Stanley's Crutch, 8st 71b, agst Col. Peel's Lochinvar, 7st 61b, T. Y. C. 100, h ft. TUESDAY.— Fifty Pounds, free for any horse, & c., four yrs old, carrying 7st 41b, five 8st 51b, six 8st 111b, and aged 9st, B. C. Lord Jersey's Alea, 8st 21b, agst Lord Exeter's Bohemian, 7st 91b, T. M. M. 100, h ft. Lord Mountcharles's c by Buzzard, 8st 71b, agst Lord Ches- terfield's Dirc£, 8st 41b, T. Y. C. 200, h ft. Lord Chesterfield's Priam, 5 yrs, 8st 81b, agst Sir M. Wood's Camarine, 4 yrs, 7st 111b, for the Cup, and 200 sovs each, B. C. WEDNESDAY.— The St. Leger Stakes of 25 sovs each, for 3 yr old colts 8st 71b, fillies 8st 41b, D. I.— Mr. Richardson's Fang, Captain Byng's Dryad, Lord Chesterfield's bro to Bene- dict, Lord Chesterfield's Non Compos, Lord Chesterfield's Olga, Duke of Grafton's b c by Emelius, Duke of Grafton's Falconer, Lord Ezeter's Beiram, Lord Exeter's Spencer, Lord Exeter's Byzantium, Mr. Lumley's Nannette, Cap. Forbes's Rainbow, Sir M. Wood's Reaction, Mr. S. Day's Margrave, Col. Peel's Archibald, Lord Mountcharles'sMinster, Mr. Chifney'sEmiliana. Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 sovs each, 10 ft, for two yrs old, T. Y. C. Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, for three yrs old and upwards, D. M. THURSDAY.— The King's Plate of lOOgs for four yrs old, carrying lOst 71b, five list 71b, six list 121b, and aged 12st. R. C. The Town Plate of 50/. for three yr old colts 8st 71b, and fillies 8st 31b. D. I. Lord Chesterfield's Whiskey, 4 yrs, 8st 101b agst Lord Wor- cester's Haymaker, 3 yrs, 8st lib, T. M. M., 50, h ft. EPSOM OCTOBER MEETING, 1832. This meeting is fixed for the 10th and 11th of October ; the following Stakes have closed :— The Epsom Plate of 50/., three yrs old 7st, four 8st 31b, five 8st 101b, six and aged 9st. Two mile heats. The winner to be sold for 150 sovs, if demanded, & c. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, for three yrs old 7st, and four 8st 21b. Last mile. Winners in 1832 before this meeting to carry 31b, twice 51b extra. Sweepstakes of 3 sovs each, with 35/. added, one mile heats weights as in the Epsom Plate ; the winner to be sold for 100 sovs. Produce Sweepstakes of 30 sovs each, h ft; for two years old colts 8st 71b; fillies, 8st 41b. Three quarters of a mile. Sir G. Heathcote's by Blacklock ; Mr. Lawrence's by Phantom. Sweepstakes of 3 sovs each, with 35 added; one mile heats ; weights as in the Epsom Plate; the winner to be sold for 80 sovs. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, for two and three yrs old ; two yrs old 7st, and three 9st 21b. Last half mile. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each ; weights as in the Epsom Plate ; horses that have won once in 1832, before this meeting, to carry 31b, twice 51b extra ; and horses that have started three times in 1832, including this meeting. The Epsom October Oatlands of 20 sovs each, and 40 added, Derby Course— Mr. Watson's Conscript, 4 yrs, 8st 31b ; Mr. Sadler's Euryone, 4 yrs, 7st 101b. Black Will has paid. Sweepstakes of 20 sovs each, for two year olds— Sir G. Heath- cote's ch c by Blacklock, out of Jane ; Mr. Gardnor's Cinde- rella ; Mr. Ley's Partiality. YORK SPRING MEETING, 1833. FIRST DAY.— Lord Kelburne's Retainer, by Jerry, 8st 61b, agst Mr. Ridsdale's brother to Maria, by Whisker, 8st 21b, both 4 yr6 old. One mile and three quarters, 1,000, ft. NEWMARKET CRAVEN, 1836. FRIDAY.— Produce match : Col. Peel's Garcia, covered by Emilius, agst Mr. Spalding's Lady Easby, covered by Langar ( allowed 31b), colts 8st 71b, fillies 8st 41b, R. M., 200, h ft. No produce, no forfeit, FOREIGN. The accounts from Mauritius reach to the 15th of July. Mr. Jeremy, sent out by Government as Attorney- General of the Island, was obliged to be sent home by the Governor on account of the agitation his presence had occasioned. All the shops had been shut, and the inhabitants armed themselves to resist the authorities of the Island. The Governor yielded to the wishes of the inhabitants ; Mr. Jeremy was to sail for England on the 17th of July; the shops were again opened, and business resumed. Some doubts are entertained for the safety of his Majesty's sloop Recruit, which left Halifax for Bermuda with the Mail on the 29th of May, and was seen just before the gale of the 6th of June last, which was encountered by the Ariadne. By the Gannet, which arrived from Bermuda last week, we learn that nothing had been heard of the Recruit when the former left, though a subsequent packet has arrived at her destination there. The Recruit did not belong to the regular line of Packets, but was employed as a tender to the Flag- ship on the station.— Ja- maica Despatch, July 31. AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. ( Computed from the returns in the week ended Sept. 19.) Brown or Muscovado Sufar cwt 27s 3d Excfusire of the import duties thereon. PRICES OF BUTTER. Dorset firkin. 43s @ 48s | Holland if, cwt. 86s Cambridge 43s ( ffi 46s | Cork and Limerick .. 82s 96s 84s PRICES OF CHEESE. Double Gloster,^ cwt. 52s @ 60s I Cheshire cwt. 52s @ 78s Single ditto 40s @ 48s | Derby Plain 59s @ 63s SMITHFIELD, SEPT. 28. The trade this morning was extremely dull; the supplies consisted chiefly of the remains of Monday's market, very little of which was of prime quality. Beef had a decline of 2d. per stone. Other articles were nominally at that day's quotations. In the Hay- market there was no variation in prices. ( Per stone of 81b., sinking the offal.) DOMESTIC. We are happy to inform our readers that the next Quarterly account of the Revenue will present a far greater improvement than could have been anticipated. ELECTION OF LORD MAYOR.— At a Common- Hall held yes- terday Sir Peter Laurie was nominated to fill the office of Lord Mayor for the ensuing year. THE NEW SHERIFFS.— Friday morning the new Sheriffs, R. Peck and J. Humphrey, Esqrs., were sworn into offica for the ensuing year. FUNERAL OF SIR WALTER SCOTT.— Yesterday the remains of Sir Walter Scott were interred in the burying- ground of the Abbey of Dryburgh. The melancholy procession moved from Abbotsford between one and two o'clock. It was a day of sin- cere and heartfelt mourning on the banks of the Tweed ; but circumstances compel us to defer an account of the sad ceremony till our next.— Caledonian Mercury of Thursday. CHOLERA IN BRITAIN. RETORT OF THE WEEK. New Cases. Deaths. September 24 Monday 508 177 25 Tuesday... 321 97 2 6 Wednesday 237 86 2 7 Thursday 333 147 28 Friday 244 84 29 Saturday 278 116 Total 1921 707 Total cases from the commencement, 57,632." Deaths, 20,884. 6d I Veal.. 3s 6d | Pork 4s 4s Od to 4s 8d Od to 4s Od to 5s Od Od Beef 2s 8d to 3s Mutton 3s lOd to 4s Lamb... HEAD OF CATTLE AT THIS DAY'S MARKET. Beasts 473 | Calves 253 | Sheep.... 8,280 | Pigs 110 HAY AND STRAW PER LOAD. Hay 60s to 80s | Clover . .. 80s to 115s | Straw 30s to 36s PRICES OF HAMS AND BACON. HAMS. Yorkshire ... cwt. 66s @ 90s Westmoreland 70s @ 78s Cumberland 62s @ 74s Irish 55s @ 80s BACON. Middles ^ cwt. 45s Waterford singed.... 50s Limerick ditto 47s Scalded @ 45s @ 46s 52s 50s 48s Town Tallow ^ cwt. 48s Russian Candle 45s Melted Stuff. 36s PRICES OF TALLOW. Rough Stuff ^ cwt. Whitechapel market. st. 23s 2s Od I St. James's 2s COAL- EXCHANGE, SEPT. 28. Newcastle, best ton. 0 19 0 @ 1 t 3 Ditto seconds 0 17 0 @ 0 18 » Sunderland l o 0 @ 1 2 3 Scotch, Welsh, and Yorkshire 0 18 6 @ 1 1 1> Ships arrived.... 13 Amsterdam, 3 m. 12 6 Ditto short, 12 4 Rotterdam.. 3 m. 12 6 Hamburgh . do.. 14 — Paris short, 25 85 Ditto 3 m. 26 10 Frankfort do... 1544 COURSE OF EXCHANGE, SEPT. 28. Vienna 2 m. 10 13 Trieste do. 10tol4 Madrid do.... 35j Cadiz do.... 353 Bilboa do.... 353 Leghorn .... do 474 Genoa do... 26 5 Naples 3m.... 40 Palermo... per oz.. 120' Lisbon 30 days 47| Oporto do 47f Malta 46 Dublin 14 Cork.... lj Portugal Gold in coin.... 0 0 0 Foreign Gold in bars 3 17 9 New Doubloons 0 0 0 PRICES OF BULLION. * ox. New Dollars with pillars. 0 New Dollars without do.. 0 Silver in bars, standard.. 0 oz. 4 10 4 9> 0 0 PRICES OF THE PUBLIC FUNDS. From the LONDON GAZETTE of Tuesday and Friday last. • WAR- OFFICE, SEPT. 24.— 7th Foot— Major- General Sir E. Blakeney, K. C. B. to be Colonel, vice Field- Marshal Sir A. Clarke, G. C. B. deceased. WAR- OFFICE, SEPT. 28.— 15th Regiment of Light Dragoons— Cornet E. Felloweg to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Bushe, promoted; C, Sparling, gent, to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Fellowes. 6th Regiment of Foot— Ensign A. Imlacli, from lialf- pay 72d Foot, to be Ensign, vice Wetherall, whose appointment has been cancelled. 14th Foot— C. Leventhorpe, gent, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Parker, who retires. 16tli Foot— Ensign C. Hawker to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Carter, whose promotion has not taken place. 17th Foot— Hospital- Assist. T. Pearson, from the half- pay, to be As, sistant- Surgeon, vice Newton, promoted. 22d Foot— Captain E. Hawkins, from the 49th Foot, to be Captain, vice Wilson, who exchanges. 26th Foot— Lieut. R. C. Hamond, from half- pay 31st Foot, to be Lieu- tenant, vice Thompson, promoted. 27tli Foot— Captain L. R. J. Versturme, from half- pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice M. Hi,——' —— -- 28th ~ "' ' Irving. Gent. Cadet R. J. M'Donell, from the Royal Military College, to be En- sign, vice Beckham. 41st Foot— Assist.- Surgton G. Glaeser, from half- pay Cape Regiment, to be Assistant- Surgeon, vice W. I). Fry, who exchanges. 49tli Foot— Brevet Major W. Wilkinson, from the — Foot, to be Cap- tain, vice Hawkins, who exchanges. 60th Foot— Second Lieut. H. Bingham to be First Lieutenant, by pur- chase, vice Lord Fincastle, promoted; W. G. Rose, gent, to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Bingham. 93d Foot— Assist.- Surgeon J. Edmondson, from the Hospital Staff, to be Assistant- Surgeon, vice Ekins, deceased. 97th Foot— Ensign G. R. Cummin to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Readc, who retires; C. J. F. Denshire, gent, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Cummin. HOSPITAL STAFF— F. M'Rae, M. D. to be Assistant- Surgeon to the Forces, vice Edmondson, appointed to the 93d Foot . MEMORANDA— The date of the commission of Lieut. J. Edwards, has been altered from 14th November, 1827, to 31st October, 1827, in order to his being placed in his proper situation in that corps ; trie promotion of Brevet Lieut.- Col. H. Williams, on half- pay 2d Garrison Battalion, to be Colonel in the Army, from 22d July, 1830, has not taken place. INSOLVENTS. T. and G. Ashby, Derby, linen- drapers. BANKRUPTS. G. W. Atkinson, Feacliurch- street, grocer— J. Britvin, Ripon, York- shirt1, grocer— H. M. Freestun, Monkton Coombe, Somersetshire, dealer — T. Hollins, Salford, Lancashire, saddler— W. Lees, Greenacres- moor, near Oldham, Lancashire, cotton- spinner— C. Shearn, Widcombe and Lyncombe, Somersetshire, soap and English barilla manufacturer— G. Watson, Liverpool, victualler— S. Aston, the elder, Nottingham, iron- founder— H. Primer, Southampton, dealer in china— J. C. Reiffenstein, Langport- place, Camberwell, merchant— J. Widdowson, Fleet- street, goldsmith— R. Cripps, Aldersgate- street, wine- merchant— J. Dempsey, King- street, Whitehall, porter- merchant— H. Schuelle and W. Prehn, St. Dunstan's- hill, Tower- street, merchants— B. Flight and J. Robson, St. Martin's- lane, organ- builders. Bank Stock Reduced Three per Cents. Consols, Three per Cents.. Consols for Account Consols, 34 per Cents Reduced 34 per Cents New 34 per Cents New 4 per Cents Long Annuities India Bonds Exchequer Bills Mon. Tues. Wed. Thur. Frid. 833 84 838 833 83| 84i 83J 83 § 83 i 92 924 91J 914 913 8 pm 9 pm 7 pm 8 pm 8 pm 17 17 15 16 16 Satur.. 84 84 92 I pm. 17 HASTINGS, SEPT. 26. Ladies' Plate of 50 sovs.— Won by Lord Lowther's b h Time- keeper, beating Mr. Hodges's b c Fawn, Mr. Clark's b g by Bo- rodino, out of Miss Gift, Mr. Rush's b h Oatlands, and Mr. G. Roberts's ch f. Zarina. Drawn. SEPT, 27.— Hunters' Stakes, for horses not thorough bred, CRICKETING. KILBURN, SEPTEMBER 27th.—( From a Correspondent.)— On Wednesday last a single wicket match was played for 51. a- side at the Hyde, Hendon, between Mr. Pope, sen., of the Red Lion, Kilburn, and Mr. Harding, of the Red Lion, Hyde, which was won by Mr. Pope in one innings and six runs to spare. The return match to be played at Mr. Pope's, Red Lion, Kilburn, on Wednesday next, October 3d. GRANTHAM, SEPT. 28.— The return match at cricket was played at Melton Mowbray, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednes- day last, between the Melton and Bingham clubs. Melton, first innings, 120 ; second, 78. Bingham, first innings, 60 ; second, 49. Majority in favour of Melton, 89. Monday, on the Heights of Dover, a match was played be- tween the Garrison Club, with C. J. Barnett, Esq. M. P. allowed, and the Shorncliffe Club. Garrison, first 87 ; second 95. Shorn- cliffe, first 46. Night put an end to the match, betting 5 to 1 in favour of the Garrison. Mr. Barnett's play was much praised. AQUATICS. ROWING MATCH.— A rowing match for a wherry and other prizes, given by the Ladies and Gentlemen inhabitants of Vaux- hall, took place on Monday by twelve pairs of sculls in six boats, a double scullers' wager. The distance was from Westminster- bridge up to the Red House, down to the Bishop's Palace, and return to Vauxlial - bridge. It was decided after a tolerable con- test in favour of Butler and Croker ; Brumwell and his partner being second. Lord Fitzwilliam's hounds will be fed to- morrow ( Monday) on their road to the north, this being the first time, when visiting that quarter. WAGER.— A labouring man, named Lawton, who lives in Sale- street, Paddington, was backed, to the amount of 50/. to perform the following extraordinary feat— viz., to run three times round the outer circle of the Regent's Park in the space of 50 minutes. He started at six from the entrance to the Park at the end of Upper Baker- street, and returned to the same spot, after completing his task, having nearly half a minute to spare. The distance exceeds eight miles and three- quarters, and was accom- plished without the man exhibiting but trifling indications of being distressed. His backers presented him with 20/., so that the man made a good morning's work. BIRTHS. At Goodwood, on the 24th of September, the Countess of Mount- charles, of a son.— At York, the lady of J. Wood, esq. M. P., of a daughter.— On the 18th inst. the lady of Lieut.- Colonel H. Smith, of Baltibays, county Wicklow, of a daughter.— At the Palace, Hereford, the Hon. Mrs. Grey, of a daughter.— At Tunbridge Wells, the Lady Ca- therine Boileau, of a daughter.— In Montague- square, the lady of St. G, Caulfield, esq. of a daughter. MARRIAGES. On the 25th inst. at St. George's, Hanover- square, the Hon. Russell Harrington, to Maria, only daughter of the late John Lyon, esq. of Het- ton House, in the county of Durham.— At Bidworth, Notts, E. L. Crewe, esq. of Repton Park, Derby, brother of Sir G. Crewe, bart. to Caroline, daughter of Lieut.- General Need, of Fountain Dale, Notts.— At Middle- ton, Cork, M. C. Forster, R. N. son of Colonel Forster, Gatcombe, Hants, to Mary, daughter of Sir J. Wallis and Lady Harriet Hoare, and niece of the Marquis of Thomond.— At St. Alban's, J. A. Gordon, esq. M. P., to Emma, daughter of the late Vice- Admiral Wolley, of Clifton.— At Kensington Church, W. T. Hamilton, esq,, barrister- at- law, to Ann, daughter of the late Major- Gen. the Hon. Sir W. Ponsonby, K. C. B.— At Herriard, Hants, T. Fitzgerald, esq. of Dover- street, to Sarah, only child of the late Major R. P. Jervoise, of the Royal Dragoons. DEATHS. Lieut.- Colonel Tucker, late of his Majesty's 29th Regiment.— At Bal- lintemple, near Newry, on the 18th inst., at a very advanced age, the Rev. II. Boyd, well known to the literary world as " the first translator of Dante into English verse.— Tuesday se'nnight, in the prime of life, R. Hicks, esq. of Afton House, Isle of Wight. His death was occasioned by accidentally running a rose thorn between his fingers, which pro- duced violent inflammation in the arm, and mortification ensued with such rapidity as to bafHe all medical aid.— At Woolwich, on the 23d inst. the Right Hon. Lady Emily Macleod, in the 76tli year of her age.— At Portsmouth, on the 26th inst. in the 19th year of her age, and after 12 years of extreme suffering, Henrietta Elizabeth, second daughter of Capt. Rainier, C. B., of his Majesty's ship Britannia, 120 guns.— At his residence, Trent Park, John Cumming, esq., aged 76. CORN EXCHANGE, SEPT. J8. We have this morning considerable supplies from Suffolk, both of wheat and barley, the latter much stained, and may be quoted, for middling and inferior qualities, from Is. to 2s. lower than on Monday. The wheat trade is extremely dull, and but little doing, at a reduction of 2s. per quarter. The supply of oats is full, the demand but small, with prices rather looking down. Other articles remain unaltered Wheat, generally — 50s @ 62s Rye 33s @ 35s Buckwheat 29s @ 32s Barley 28s @ 38s Malt, generally Beans ... Peas Oats 42s 30s 35s 17s AVERAGE PRICE FOR THE WEEK ENDED SEPT. 21. Wheat. Barley. Imperial weekly average 57s 9d.... 34s 2d Six weeks'ditto, which regulates duty. 59s 9d 33s 6d Duty on Foreign Corn 27s 8d 12s 4d.... 64s 40s 44s @ 25s Oats. 19s 9d 20s 2d 16s 9d PRICES OF FLOUR. Town made .. ^ sack. 50s @ 55s Essex and Kent — s @ — s Norfolk and Suffolk.. 44s @ 47s Stockton and Yorksh. 44s < ® 46s West Country — s @ — s Irish 43s @ 45s BRITISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH, NEW- ROAD, KING'S- CROSS, LONDON. MR. MO BISON, the President, and ]\ Ir. MOAT, the Vice- President, in conjunction with all the Honorary Members,, and Country Agents of the British College of Health, being now fully borne out with the conviction, approbation, and indubitable proofs, of upwards of 200,000 individuals ( who had been thrown aside by the Fa- culty, and out of the Hospitals, as incurable) having been restored to sound health by the " Universal Medicines;" with all this incontro- vertible mass of evidence in support of the Hygeian Theory and Prac- tice, which challenges the controversy of the whole body of Medicists, under the old system to subvert, they, the heads of the College, hesitate not to declare, in the face of the Faculty, that this new light must com- pletely change the whole course of the Materia Medica, and introduce a new era in the science of physic: that, in fact, mankind will be taught, in future, a new and certain mode of investigating the nature and cause of Diseases in general, and of possessing a certain and harmless mode of cure, making every individual his own efficient doctor. In confirmation of what is here asserted, the heads of the College mean to insert, in this Paper, a continued series of new cases, from individuals giving their names, residences, and dates of time of cure, all of which nave been voluntarily given, and ascertainable as to the facts by inquiry.. TO C. W. MOAT, ESQ. SIR,— I consider it a duty incumbent on me to return you my most sincere thanks for the attention and cure of my wife, by restoring her to health, and finally curing from inability, which was considered impossi- ble. I am, Sir, with the utmost respect, your obedient servant, Glasgow, Sept. 5,1831, No. 36, New Wynd. JOHN M'CALLUM. SIR,— I am aware that the people of Glasgow, as well as those of many other places, have just reason to be afraid of quackery in the science of medicine, from the number of individuals who have, from time to time, appeared among them for a short period, dispensing their drugs, and have then eloped, leaving many of their patients worse than they found them. I know that this will be a great barrier against you in your truly philanthropic undertaking, in attempting* to overthrow a system reared on ignorance of the human constitution, and taught by burking-. Such a system is alike opposed to the laws of God as it is repugnant to human feelings. I sincerely hope, Sir, that you will not be overcome by the taunts of a ridiculing population, but that, by perseverance, you will yet have to rejoice in the midst of a community who will have occasion to bless the day that an overriding Providence placed you among them. The fact cannot long remain concealed, that all the cures made by Mr. Morison's medicine have been in cases given up by the old school, or cases in which the patient was rendered quite hopeless, by his daily sinking under the treatment of his medical attendant. Such facts must soon find their way to the public ear, and scatter the clouds of prejudice in which the minds of men are at present enveloped. But, Sir, I con- ceive quackery is a term which not only applies to men making preten- sions to any art, but is also applicable to such as vend medicine without a knowledge of what it will effect; hence it may be well applied to many ( will I say all) of the surgeons of the present day. At all events, men ought not to allow their minds to be any longer trammelled by preju- dice, when experience proves a radical deficiency in the system of medicine too long pursued; renouncing their prepossessions, they should give their attention to one which stands critical investigation,, and commends itself to common sense. However, though I thus speak, I do confess that I was as unfond of trying Mr. Morison's medicine as any one could be, until I had the pleasure of seeing Mrs. Ewing's letter in your small publication of Cures in Glasgow ( that female being known to me as a person of unquestionable veracity). Having read it, I was induced to make trial of the medicine, for the removal of a disease which was called by several surgeons an affection of the liver and indigestion, but which you said was a partial dropsy. I may mention that I was under the care, for a considerable time, of each of six medical doctors in Glassow, and four in Ireland; and I have in my possession fourteen receipts, by attending to which my pocket was drained, but I never found the root of my trouble at . all removed. For four years did I attend to drags which only enervated my whole system, without giving me the shadow of a hope that I would ever be better. I have taken from six to 14 pills each night of No. 1 and No. 2, alternately, for four weeks, and now I declare myself to be as free of pain as any man could wish to be.. I feel it to be my duty to you, and to society, thus to make my case known ; hoping that others may be induced to avail themselves of the same easy, safe, and, under the blessing; of God, efficacious remedy, as was realized by me in the use of Mr. Morison's Vegetable Universal Medicine. You may make whatever use you choose of this letter, but I hope ycu will not publish my name, but keeping the original for reference, should any one be so curious. I shall always be happy, in person, to give such satisfaction as relates to my cure as I may be able. I have advised many to take the medicine for diseases of a much more malignant nature than my own, and feel glad in stating that its salutary effects are daily experienced. Hoping that the blessing of a ruling Providence will attend Mr. Mori- son's medicine to the inhabitants of Glasgow, I remain, dear Sir, Your most obedient servant, & c. P. S. As I feel confident that the promotion of health is the great ob- ject of the Hygeian system, I will add that I have found much benefit from friction, or rubbing my body with a brush ; by doing so, I find a pleasant flow of perspiration, and as it were a bracing of the nerves. 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