FBI I f J. I I MJA T O W N IN TOWN, OUT OF TOWN— ALL THE WORLD OVER.'' Ho. 42. IUIDAT, OCTOBER 14, 183S Price 7d. J^ LORAMA, REGENTS- PARK — 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 dusk. ARMY CONTRACTS. Commissariat Department, Treasury Chambers, Oct. 1,1832. NOT1C TI is hereby given to all persons desirous of Con- trading to supply BEEF and MUTTON—' To his Majesty's Land Forces in canton- ments, quarters, and barracks, in the undermentioned counties and island:— Gloucester, Hants, Isle of Wight, Rutland, Warwick, and in the several Counties in North Britain. That the deliveries are to commence on and for the lst day of De- cember next; that Proposals in writing, sealed up and marked " Tender for Army Supplies," will be received at this ofhce on or before Wednesday, the 7th day of November; hut none will be received after eleven o'clock on that day. . . . for HE FOREIGN QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. 20, Will be published in a few days. T Proposals must be made separately for each county and island, except br the several counties in North Britain, which must be included m one tender; and each Proposal must have the letter which is annexed to the Tender properly filled up by two persons of known property en- gaging to become bound with the party tendering in the amount stated in the printed particulars, for the due performance of the. contract; and no Proposal will be noticed unless made on a printed Tender, and the prices expressed in words at length. And should it so happen, that during the continuance of the contract no Troops should be supplied by virtue of the same, the amount of the stamps on the contract and bond, paid in the first instance by the Contractor, will be refunded to him. , N. B. It is particularly desired that persons wishing to tender will not make use of any forms but those recently printed, which may be had upon application at this office, between the hours of ten and four. BRITISH COLLEGE 01' HEALTH, NEW- ROAD, KING'S- CROSS, LONDON. MR. MORISON. the President, and Mr. MOAT, the Vice- President, in conjunction witli all the Honorary Members, and Country Agents of the British College of Health, being now fully borne out with the conviction, approbation, and indubitable proofs, of upwards of 200,000 individuals ( who had been thrown aside by the Fa- culty, and out of the Hospitals, as incurable) having been restored to sound health by the " Universal Medicines;" with all this incontro- vertible mass of evidence in support of the Hygeian Theory and Prac- tice, which challenges the controversy of the whole body of Medicists, under the old system to subvert, they, the heads of the College, hesitate not to declare, in the face of the Faculty, that this new light must com- pletely change the whole course of the Materia Medica, and introduce a new era in the science of physic; that, in fact, mankind will be taught, in future, a new and certain mode of investigating the nature and cause of Diseases in general, and of possessing a certain and harmless mode of cure, making every individual his own efficient doctor. In confirmation of what is here asserted, the heads of the College mean to insert, in this Paper, a continued series of new cases, from individuals giving their names, residences, and dates of time of cure, all of which have been voluntarily given, and ascertainable as to the facts by inquiry. TO THE RBLIGIOUS PUBLIC. Yesterday was published, HE EVANGELICAL PENNY MAGAZINE, and Bible Illustrator. MOTIVE AND OBJECTS OF THIS WORK. It has been too justly observed that, of all the present cheap publica- tions, no one is suited for Sunday reading, nor devoted exclusively to the religious public ; no one confining itself to the Lives, Diaries, Re- ligious Experience, and Daily Practice of those who regulate their lives according to the divine will. This is the object and design of " The Evangelical Penny Magazine;" namely- First— To diffuse religious knowledge by the diaries, journals, and biographies of those who are justly distinguished for their Christian principles. Secondly— To illustrate passages of scripture, and to explain their connexion with the usages of the times in which they were written, and their figurative allusion to such usages. And Thirdly— To become a vehicle for the intercourse and communication of the religious world of the present day, and to strive in union for any common object. The first Number will be embellished with a Portrait of the Rev. John Wesley, and every succeeding Number will contain a Portrait of some eminent Evangelical Divine. This work will be published by Mr. Howden, at " The Evangelical Penny Magazine" Office, 19+, Strand, and will be supplied by all the Agents of the Penny Magazines, on the same terms. All letters and orders to be addressed ( post paid) to the Publisher, 194, Strand. Orders received by all Booksellers in town and country. CORN EXCHANGE, OCT. 12. There has been but few fresh arrivals of wheat to- day. We have several samples of barley from Suffolk, hut the quality is generally so bad, that to obtain sales, lower prices must be taken. The oat trade remains firm, at last quotations, with a moderate demand. Other arti- cles as before. @ 58s @ 36s Wheat, generally . Ry' « Buck Wheat Barley 44s 32s 29s 28s @ 32s 35s Malt, generally 41s @ Beans 31s @ Peas 34s @ Oats 15s @ AVERAGE PRICE FOR THE WEEK ENDED OCT. 5. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Imperial weekly average 54s 7d.... 32s Od.... 18s lid Six weeks'ditto, which regulates duty. 57s 5d.... 33s 5d.... 19s Od Duty on Foreign Corn 29s 8d.... 12s 4d.... 16s 9d PRICES OF FLOUR. Town made .. y sack. 48s @ 50s Essex and Kent — s @ — s Norfolk aRd Suffolk.. 40s @ 44s Stockton and Yorksh. 38s @ 43s West Country — s @ — s Irish 38s @ 43s AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. ( Computed from the returns in the week ended Oct. 3.) Brown or Muscovado Sugar & cwt Exclusive of the import duties thereon. 26s lid PRICES OF BUTTER. Dorset ^ firkin. 45s @ 48s I Holland sp cwt. 93s @ 95s Cambridge 43s @ 46s j Cork and Limerick .. 82s @ — s T TO C. W. MOAT, ESQ. SIR,— I feel it impossible to express my grateful feelings for the com- plete recovery of my little friend in Norfolk- Court, when I remember his distressed state. When I called upon you, I was under the impression of the impossibility of a cure; allow me, therefore, as a small attestation of my gratitude, to relate this case as plainly as I can, in hopes that you will think proper to make it public, that others may receive the like benefit. About five months since, this boy, six years old, was very unwell; a surgeon, in the neighbourhood, was called, who bled him; the next morning he was covered with the measles, which disappeared in a few hours; the natural strength of his constitution got over this evidently bad treatment; he was since that time subject to nervous agitations and violent pains in his head, breast, and bowels, for which he was lately bled by another surgeon in the neighbourhood. The boy's strength was so much reduced that he was obliged to keep his bed, suffering at the same time excruciating pains in his head anu breast: his mother called • upon a third doctor, who visited the boy, but said he had Water in his head, and he could do no good. Next day the doctor was in a few yards of the house, and was informed that the boy was decidedly worse, but never came to see him. The day after, I called upon you; I saw that you felt for the pain the poor boy was suffering, hut could hardly credit your assertion that he would speedily recover; his recovery, however, exceeded your promises, for in less than sixteen hours he was quite re- lieved from pain : and on the third day of your treatment, you may re- member calling him from among his playmates, where he was happy and as free from pain as any one of them. He is recovering strength better than could have been expected. This is now the sixth day since his recovery, and he has no appearance whatever of his for- mer bad symptoms. I sincerely hope that this will be the cause of your doing more good among the suffering people in this quarter. 1 remain. Sir, your most obedient servant, Norfolk court, Laurieston, Glasgow. PETER M'NAB. SIR,— I should be wanting in gratitude, as well as good- will to my fel- low- creatures, were I not ready to assert before the world the miracu- lous way in which my life was saved bv the Universal Medicines of the British College of Health, administered by you. When applying to you I was in the last stage of existence, and was ex- pected to die momentarily by my friends. I was a complete skeleton, and in such a state of corruption, that the whole of my family were fre- quently obliged to leave the house, while my cough was so severe, that persons used to wait outside the house to hear the last host of a dying man. 1 am now in perfect health, working at my employment, stronger than I have been these ten years,— my strength rapidly increasing. The history of my diseases seems to be as follows :— Ten years since, through a severe fall, I was attacked with a nervous affection, hy which I lost, at times, all power over any part of my body,— my head swinging about against my will. I was, during that time, under the treatment of three medical men, and, for the last six years of my trouble, attended by one of great fame and considerable practice; nevertheless, my disease continually increased, which was a great source of uneasiness, as I was sometimes, without expecting it, thrown into convulsions, which always took away all sense,— I having only an indistinct idea of being under the influence of fear. Ten weeks before applying to you, I was attacked by what was considered by myself and friends as the in- fluenza. I applied for medical aid: and, after bleeding, blistering, suf- fering a deal of pain, and being attended by three surgeons, I was re- duced to a mere skeleton. My cough having been observed for some time to have settled on my lungs, not the least hope was entertained by my family, and at length the surgeons gave me up, asserting the cure to be impossible, and recommending plenty of wine for the short time I had to live. Three days after, while in the state above described, and net having heen able to lay in my bed for six weeks, as I could not breathe while laying down, I was told of a cure you had performed ; and as drowning men catch at reeds, I wished you to be applied to. In three days I was able to enjoy my bed: on the ninth week I was able to work, having completely overcome my nervous affection, had it not been for which 1 should have been able to work four weeks sooner. I have now worked ten weeks ; my strength is greatly improved by exercise; I enjoy good appetite, sound rest, and in every respect perfect health. While using the medicines myself, I have never failed to recommend them to all who were suffering around me, and have witnessed their happy effects in a great many different diseases. I think it worthy of remark, that the famed medical man above alluded to called on me about three weeks be- fore my resuming my laborious employment, and after examining me minutely, declared that my lungs were ulcerated, and that it was impos- sible I could be cured. Healthy as I have been since, I must own that such a declaration made me have some doubts as to the perfect stability of my cure, otherwise I should have requested you to publish this before; but having been told that Dr. Smeal has been asserting that I am still dying of consumption, I think it full time to check such false assertions. I am as healthy a man as I) r. Smeal or any body else; and I request him or any body else to call and see whether I have any appearance of con- sumption. , , „ I will continue to the utmost of my power, to spread the fame of your's, and the uselessness of all other modes of treatment. I am Sir, greatly your debtor, ARCHIBALD GRAY. 4, Broomward, corner of Park- lane, and M'Kechnie- st., Calton, Jan. l. Mr. Gray has since called upon me, and stated his regret at not having given praise to the Power from whom all blessings flow, and to whom so much is evidently due. The " Vegetable Universal Medicines" are to he had at the College, New- road, King's- cross, London; at the Surrey Branch, 96, Great Sur- rey- street, Blackfriars; Mr. Field's, 16, Air- street, Quadrant; Mr. Chappell's Royal Exchange; Mr. Walker's, Lamb's Conduit- passage, lied Lion- square; Mr. J. Loft's, 10, Mile End- road; Mr. Bennett's, Co- vent- garden- market ; Mr. Haydon's, Fleur- de- lis- court, Norton- folgate; Mr. Haslett's, 147, Ratcliffe- highway; Messrs. Norbury's, Brentford; Mrs. Stepping, Clare- market; Messrs. Salmon, Little Bell- alley; Miss Varral's, 24, Lucas- street, Commercial- road; Mrs. Beech's, 7, Sloane- square, Chelsea; Mr. Chappel, Royal Library, Pall- mall; Mrs. Clements, 12, Bridge- street, Soutliwark; Mr. Kirtlam, 4, Bolingbroke- row, Wal- worth ; of Mr. Pain, 64, Jermyn- street; Mr. Wood, hair- dresser, Rich- mond; Mr. Meyer, 3, May's- buildings, Blackheath; Mr. Griffiths, Wood- wharf, Greenwich; Mr. B. Pitt, 1, Cornwall- road, Lambeth; and at one Agent's in every principal town in Great Britain, the Islands of Guernsey and Malta, and throughout the whole of the United States of America, the Canadas, and New Brunswick. On Friday was published, by Edward Bull, 26, Holies- street, Caven- dish- square, London, HE BIBLICAL ANNUAL, 1833, ( Uniform with the " Geegraphical Annual,") Containing finely executed and beautifully- coloured Engravings from steel, by Starling, of all the Tribes and Countries mentioned in Sacred History; with Hans of the City of Jerusalem and the Temple ; and a General Index, upon an original and most comprehensive plan, exhibit- ing, at one view, all that is geographically and historically interesting in the Holy Scriptures. Price, elegantly bound in morodco, 21s. THE GEOGRAPHICAL ANNUAL, 1833, Containing 100 beautifully- coloured steel Engravings, by Starting, of all the States, Kingdoms, and Empires throughout the World; including the new discoveries and changes that have taken place to the present time, and an original Map of Great Britain, according to the Constitu- tion of 1832. Price, elegantly bound in morocco, 21s. THE HISTORICAL ANNUAL PRESENTS. These Works illustrate the romantic annals of every age between the periods mentioned, and comprise also a short History of each Country. 1, ENGLAND. By Henry Neele. From the Norman Conquest to the Restoration. 3 vols. 18s. By Leitch Ritchie. From the time of Charlemagne to the Reign of Louis XIV. 3 vols. 13s. By Charles Macfarlane. From the Lombard Epoch to the Seventeenth Century. 3 vols. 18s. By M. Trueba. From the time of Roderic to the Seven- teenth Century. 3 vols. 18s. PRICES OF CHEESE. DoubleGloster.^ cwt. 52s @ 60s I Cheshire » cwt. 50s Single ditto 44s @ 50s | Derby Plain 56s 78s 62s THE ARMY. The number of King's Aides de Camp is at present 54 ; higher, it is said, than they have ever been in number before. Iu the reign of George the Third the number was limited to 12. The officers of his late regiment, the Scots Greys, have pre- sented Colonel Grey with a superb candelabra, bearing an ap. propriate complimentary inscription, in token of their esteem and admiration of his conduct while in command of that distinguished corps. There are four Lieutenant- Colonels borne on the strength of the 16th Lancers, which regiment is now serving iu India. The King has intimated to the Authorities, at the Horse- Guards, his will, that some means shall be found for promoting Subaltern Officers who have served at least seventeen years on full- pay ( in the respective ranks of Ensign and Lieutenant), and of this ten must have been service abroad. Thursday afternoon, General Lord Hill, as Commander- in- Chief, held a levee at the Horse Guards, at which were present Sir James Hawley, Lord George Beresford, Sir Thomas Hay, Colonel Sir Octavius O'Carrey, Colonel Teesdale, and about 30 other distinguished officers. SALMAGUNDI. SMITHFIELD, OCT. 12. There were a few more cattle in the market than on this day se'nnight, hut very few of them were of good quality. Mutton and veal had an ad- vance of 2d per stone. Pork was also 4d higher than on Monday. The haymarket was dull, without alteration of prices. ( Per stone of 81b., sinking the offal.) Beef 3s 4d to 3s lOd I Veal 4s Od to 4s 8d Mutton 4s Od to 4s 8d | Pork 4s 4d to 5s 4d HEAD OF CATTLE AT THIS DAY'S MARKET. Beasts 508 [ Calves 204 | Sheep.... 5,940 | Pigs 110 HAY AND STRAW PER LOAD. Hay 50s to 80s | Clover . .. 70s to 105s | Straw 27s to 36s 2, FRANCE. 3, ITALY. 4, SPAIN. PRICES OF HAMS AND BACON. HAMS. Yorkshire ... . cwt. 66s Westmoreland 70s Cumberland 62s Irish 55s BACON. Middles ^ cwt. 45s @ 46s Waterford singed.... 50s @ 52s Limerick ditto 47s @ 50s Scalded 45s @ 48s Town Tallow ^ cwt. 48s Od Russian Candle 44s Od Melted Stuff. 36s Od PRICES OF TALLOW. Rough Stuff ^ cwt. 23s Od Wliitechapel market. ^ St. 2s 74d St. James's 2s 8d COAL- EXCHANGE, OCT. 12. Newcastle, best y ton. 10 6 @ 1 1 Ditto seconds 0 17 6 @ 0 19 Sunderland 0 16 9 ® 1 2 Scotch, Welsh, and Yorkshire 0 18 6 @ 1 6 Ships arrived.... 82 BIOGRAPHICAL WORKS IN THE PRESS. I. THE LIVES AND EXPLOITS OF CELE- BRATED BANDITTI AND ROBBERS In all parts of the World. By Charles Macfarlane, esq. Author of " Con- stantinople in 1829." In 2 vols, small 8vo. embellished with sixteen beautiful Engravings. RECORDS OF MY LIFE. By the late John Taylor, esq. Author of " Monsieur Tonson;" em- bracing original Anecdotes and Sketches of the most celebrated and singular characters that have figured in England during the last seventy years. In 2 vols. 8vo. with Portrait. III. MARSHAL NEY'S IMPORTANT WORK. Editions in French and English are preparing in 8vo. MEMOIRS OF MARSHAL NEY, From original papers and manuscripts in the possession of the Family. WORKS OF FICTION IN THE PRESS. I. OUR ISLAND: Comprising FORGERY, a Tale; and THE LUNATIC, a Tale. In 3 vols. This work is intended to illustrate some striking defects in our juris- prudence. II. THE SPINSTER'S WEB. In 2 vols, post 8vo. " A mingled yam, good and ill together."— Shakspeare. Amsterdam, 3 m. 12 6 Ditto short, 12 4 Rotterdam. .3 m. 12 61 Hamburgh . do.. 13 153 Paris short, 25 85 Ditto 3 m. 26 10 Frankfort.. .. do... 1544 COURSE OF EXCHANGE, OCT. 12. Vienna 2 m. 10 13 Trieste do. 10tol4 Madrid do.... 36 Cadiz do.... 36 Bilboa do.... 353 Leghorn do 471 Dublin Genoa do... 26 lOlCork Naples 3m.... 40 Palermo... per oz.. 120 Lisbon 30 days 47 Oporto do 474 Malta 46 14 14 PRICES OF BULLION. ty oz. New Dollars with pillars . 0 4 10 New Dollars without do.. 0 4 9 Silver iu bars, standard. .000 Oz. Portugal Gold in coin 0 0 0 Foreign Gold in bars 3 17 9 New Doubloons 0 0 0 PRICES OF THE PUBLIC FUNDS. Bank Stock Reduced Three per Cents Consols, Three per Cents Consols for Account Consols, 34 per Cents Reduced 34 per Cents New 34 per Cents New 4 per Cents Long Annuities India Bonds Exchequer Bills GAILY CHANT THE SUMMER BIRDS.— ( From the Morning Post, No. 19,281.) " No musical production of late years has surpassed in elegance and originality the cavatina of Gaily Chant the Summer Birds, a composi- tion which has been honoured with the universal admiration of the fashionable circles, and which, for its brilliancy, has been aptly termed " a gem ot sparkling radiance." Mr. De Pinna, the composer of this highly successful sample of vivid imagination, has fully maintained the distinguished popularity he had acquired in his far- famed ballad, " There lives a young Lassie," sung with such enthusiastic encores by Mr. Templeton, at the Theatre Royal, Drury- lane. In the bolder style of compositions, Mr. De Pinna has been no less felicitous, in proof of which we may adduce his splendid songs, " With a bosom that burns with a Patriot's flame," and " A Pirate's Life," two compositions which for spirit, animation, and vigorous accompaniments, have not been ex- celled. For flowing melodies, Mr. De Pinna stands unrivalled. Who ever heard his serenade, " When rosy Daylight flies;" his ballad, " The Maid of Venice ;" or his Tyrolienne, " O! ' tis sweet at merry morn," without being delighted with their graceful simplicity ?" Published by Keith, Prowse, and Co., 48, Cheapside. TO LADIES AND FAMILIES PURCHASING FOR THE WINTER. ROYAL EMPORIUM, opposite Ihe Mansion- house, — The WINTER STOCK of this extensive Establishment being completed, the Proprietors will commence offering To- morrow, with other Articles of extraordinary cheapness— A lot of Gros de Naples, 5,000 yards, real Spitamelds, little better than half price, all at, per yard 234d From 700 to 1,000 pieces of British Merinos, the narrow width, commencing at.... 54d The double- width ditto, in every shade and colour 16d Several Cases of beautiful Fo- reign Merinos ( a consign- ment), some of which will beat 3sSd A quantity of splendid Thibet Shawls, French designs, all at the reduced price of— 13s 6d Flushes, Ribbons, Foreign Velvets, and Blonds, toge- ther, with Silk and other Cloaks, in every fashion- able variety, cheap in pro- portion. N. B. The Proprietors being Agents for various Continental as well British Manufactures, are enabled to vend articles, in almost every in- stance, infinitely lower than any other House. The Stock of Muffs, Mantillos, Boas, Capes, and Furs of every sort, is one of the largest and most elegant in the Metropolis, and in cheapness unequalled. A splendid variety of good Boas from 3s. to 7s. 6d. The Show Rooms are conducted ou the same principles, and will be opened Thursday, Oct. 25, with a Splendid Display of Parisian Fashions. T. PAUL and CO., City of London Royal Emporium, opposite the Mansion- house.— October 13, 1832. B ALL Air—" Cottage in the wood." D In the wildness of a glade, Where the playful zephyrs reign, One bright lovely eve I stray'd O'er the dewy- spangled plain. Deep the twilight sunk in night; Dreary darkness ' gan to lour; But I saw a distant light, Beauteous as the noon- day's power. See ! it approaches— nearer still! See ! the radiant object come : Anxious doubts my bosom thrill,— Terror binds my soul in gloom. Satur. Mon. Tues. Wed. Thur. Frid. — — — — 1894 — — — — — m 83} 841 84} 84J 844 84} 84} 843 84f 84} 84} 84} 844 — — — — 90J 90* — — — — 903 ! M4 92 924 92 92 92 924 — — — — 1001 100S — — — — 164 163 12 pm 12 12 14 14 13 19 20 21 22 22 21 See— myself— my form— is there. Every feature's bright display'd Glorious vision!— why appear ? Why in splendour thus array'd ? Nearer yet!— a gentle tongue Calls my fluttering senses back j Then I found the vision sprung But from Warren's Jetty Black; Twas a stranger, whose bright shoes Warren's Blacking shone so bright, Beam'd those superhuman glows, Through the gloomy tint of night! From the LONDON GAZETTE of luesiay and Friday last. •—— WAR- OFFICE, OCT. 12.— lst or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards- Ensign and Lieutenant E. B. Reynardson to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice Ricketts, who retires. 10th Regiment of Foot— Lieut. W. Rawlins, from 13th Regiment, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Rannie, promoted. 13th Foot— Lieut. A. Stewart, from the half- pay 84th Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Rawlins, appointed to the 10th Regiment. 16th Foot— Lieut. A. R. Evans, from the half- pay of the 93d Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice W. Murray, who exchanges. 21st Foot— J. B. Guthrie, gent., to be Second Lieutenant, bypurcliase, viceAinslie, promoted. 27th Foot— Lieut. W. Elliott, from the 45th Regiment, to be Lieute- nant, vice J. S. Lyon, who retires on the half- pay of the 3d Garrison Battalion. 45th Foot— Lieut. B. E. Stretch, from the lialf- pay of the 3d Garrison Battalion, to be Lieutenant, vice Elliot, appointed to the 27th Foot. 60th Foot— Second Lieutenant A. Mundy to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Fitzgerald, who retires; C. W. Jebb, gent., to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Mundy. 67th Foot— Gentleman Cadet C. S. S. Evans, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase. 73d Foot— Lieut. T. F. Sandeman, from the half- pay, to be Lieutenant, vice Coane, who exchanges, receiving the difference. ORDNANCE- OFFICE, OCT. 11.— Royal Regiment of Artillery— Captain and Brevet Major C. Gilmour, to be Lieut.- Colonel, vice Wilmot, de- ceased. Second Captain H. L. Sweeting to be Captain, vice Gilmour. First Lieutenant H. Palliser to be Second Captain, vice Sweeting. Se- cond Lieutenant H. S. M'Clintoch to be First Lieutenant, vice Palliser. Quartermaster- Sergeant W. Porter to be Quartermaster, vice M'Coy, deceased. Corps of Royal Engineers— Major- Gen. Sir F. W. Mulcaster, K. C. H. to be Colonel- Commandant, vice Sir A. Bryce, deceased. WHITEHALL, SEPT. 8.— The King has been pleased to appoint Mr. T. H. Miller, Advocate, to be Sheriff Depute of the Shire or Sheriffdom of Selkirk, in the room of Sir W. Scott, Bart, deceased. The Rev. S. J. Goodenough, T. Atkinson, and W. Wilde, esqrs., have been appointed Deputy Lieutenants of the county of Cumberland. INSOLVENTS. W. Geldard, Denmark- street, Soho, currier.— J. Lancashire, Dray- cott- field, Derbyshire, miller— G. Young, Arundel, innkeimer— C. Thomas, Bristol, corn- factor— J. Watling, and R. K. Vorley, Bread- street- hill, drysalters. BANKRUPTS. W. Agar,. jun., York, currier— J. Blew, Worcester, druggist— J. Beck- ensall, Oxford- street, wine merchant— G. Gregory, Repton, Derbyshire, coalmaster— J. Handford, Sutton, Surrey, victualler— J. Owen, Little Bell- alley, city, bookseller— J. Park, sen., Croston, Lancashire, draper — J. Thomson, Liverpool, merchant— J. Ankrett, Walsall, Staffordshire, grocer— J. Bennetts, and N. Robins, Gunnislake, Cornwall, granite merchants— H. Dawes, Birmingham, curry- comb maker— J. Mossman, Maulden, Bedfordshire, sheep dealer. LORD MILTON AND THE CORN LAWS.— Dear provisions must produce one of the following effects— they must either lower the condition of the labourer, or raise the rate of wages. Nobody can wish the former result; you must, therefore, wish high wages to be the result of dear corn ; but if wages are high, the prioe of goods must be high; but if the price of goods be high, our manufacturers cannot compete with foreigners ; but if they cannot compete with foreigners, our export is diminished; if our export trade is diminished, the prosperity of our manu- facturing population is undermined; if their prosperity is under- mined they will consume fewer provisions ; the demand for agricultural produce in the manufacturing counties will be re- stricted ; the surplus produce will remain in the hands of the farmer, and the ultimate result will be a fall of rents, occasioned, be it remembered, by an attempt to raise them. Let this sink deep into your minds. OLD ENGLISH MANNERS.— The English are serious ; like the Germans, lovers of show, liking to be followed wherever they go by whole troops of servants, who wear their masters' arms in silver, fastened to the left arms, and are not undeservedly ridiculed for wearing tails hanging down their backs. They excel in dancing and music, for they are active and lively, though of a thicker make than the French: they are good sailors and better pirates; cunning, treacherous, and thievish. Above three hundred are said to be hanged annually in London : beheading with them is less infa- mous than hanging. They are powerful in the field, successful against their enemies,— impatient of anything like slavery,— vastly fond of great noises that fill the ear, such as the firing of cannon, drums, and the ringing of bells; so that it is common for a number of them, that have got a glass in their heads, to go into some belfiy, and ring the bells for hours together for the sake of exercise. If they see a foreigner very well made, or particularly handsome, they will say, " It is a pity he is not an Englishman.''''— Paul Hentzer, 1598. COBBETT ON CHURCH ABSENTEES.—" When my son James was at Rome, two years ago, he saw there Dr. Knott, a clergy- man of the church of England, who had and has three large livings, besides a prebendary in Winchester ; and he had been eight or ten years at Rome, learning the Protestant religion from the Pope I Now, are these men of any utility, and ought such a thing to be tolerated ?" MRS. INCHBALD.— When I asked Mrs. Inclibald why she had not married again, her answer was, " That for wedlock friendship was too familiar and love too precarious."— From Re- cords of my Life by the late John Taylor. WILKES.— In a dispute between Sir Watkin Lewes and Wilkes, the former said " I'll be your butt no longer." " With all my heart" said Wilkes, " I never liked an empty one." PHILOSOPHY OF GOVERNMENT.— Myself, every thing; others, nothing: this is despotism, aristocracy, and their parti- sans. Myself, is another person ; another person, myself: this is the government of the people and its partisans. Now, decide. — Mirabeau's Letters. WAR. This easy- shining and brilliant BLACKING, prepared by ROBERT WARREN, 30, Strand, London; and sold in every town in the kingdom, Liquid, in Bottles, and Paste Blacking, in Pots, at 6d., 12d., and 18d. each. Be particular to inquire for Warren's, 30, Strand. all others are counterfeit. EXCELLENT WATCHES, in gold and silver, got up with a cor- rectness that will admit of every dependence being placed on them, at J. Glover's ( the maker,) No. 9, Great May's- buildings, St. Martin's- lane, Charing- cross, London. Purchasers of a superior, and such is, with deference, recommended, article, may arrange their payments as agreeable, or have a discount allowed. Some second- hand ladies' gold, and plain silver watches, and eight- day spring dials, good and reasonable.—( Established 80years.) Watches exchanged, altered or fresh cased ; chronometers, and all sorts of delicate French work, plain watches, chime clocks, and musical boxes, repaired. Clocks attended. Orders expedited.— May's Buildings, 2d, 10 Mo. 32. Flatterers have told princes, that hunting is an image of war ; and indeed the peasantry, whose lands are ravaged by it, must agree that it is a tolerably fair representative.— Ibid. PHYSIOGNOMY.— Whatever nonsense may have been written by the physiognomists of our time, this is clear,— that a certain habit of thought may determine a particular feature in the coun- tenance. You will remark deceit in the eye of a courtier, for the same reason that most tailors are bandy- legged. SOCIETY.— Society is composed of two great classes : they who have more dinners than appetite, and they who have more ap- petite than dinners. ORIGIN OF THE SLAVE TRADE.— It will to some appear sin- gular, that the slave trade should have originated in an act of humanity ; yet such was the fact, and exhibits an instance of one of the best and most humane men being guilty of cruelty, when his mind was under the influence of prejudice. Barthe- lemi de las Casas, the Bishop of Chiapa, in Peru, witnessing the dreadful cruelty of the Spaniards to the Indians, exerted all his eloquence to prevent it. He returned to Spain, and plead- ing the cause of the Indians before the Emperor Charles the Fifth, in person, suggested that their place as labourers might be supplied by Negroes from Africa, who were then considered as beings under the proscription of their Maker, and fit only for beasts of burthen. The Emperor, overcome by his forcible re- presentations, made several regulations in favour of the Indians ; but it was not until the slavery of the African Negroes was sub- stituted, that the American Indians. were freed from the cruelty of the Spaniards—[ From the Tourist, a new penny periodical, that blends interesting literary matter with the advocacy of the cause of the Negro.] LORD TEYNHAM AND REFORM.— An address has been pub- lished to the freeholders and electors of the United Kingdom, under the title of How it must Work, with the signature of Lord Teynham. His Lordship warns the constituency of Eng- land against the election of the men of last Parliament, and ad- vises them to choose new men. He desires the freeholders to choose country gentlemen, and beseeches them " to reject, as enemies of the people, all Bank and East India directors, stock- brokers, West India slave- owners, and lawyers or barristers." With all his respect for the church, he proposes first to sacrifice the lawn sleeves on the episcopal benches. He next proposes a limitation of the peerage to 400, or thereabouts ; and in order to secure the house against noble paupers, he suggests that every peer should be required to create a majorat, or an.- entaif. connected with his title, to the amount of 4,000/. HSJinds out that there are probably 50 peers in the house who are at pre-, sent too poor to be independent. Shall they be expelled ? No, says his Lordship ; but let them be pensioned by the publio to that amount. 9IO THE TOWJV, October 28. POLICE. MANSION- HOUSE. SOLOMONS AND THE SHILLING.— On Wednesday, Soley So lo- rn ons, a fruit- seller about the streets, was brought np under the following circumstances:— Edward Smith— Please, your Lordship, I Tent up to this here gentleman ( the prisoner) for to buy some nuts, and so I hand him the only shilling as I had, and it was a good shilling, please you, my Lord ; so he claps it in his mouth, and then he threw it down on his basket, and says, " Vy, it's a bad un,"— and so it vas a bad un, but it warn't the one as I gived him. ( Laughter.) The Lord Mayor— Are you sure it was not the one you gave him ! Smith— I'll take my oath on it. A witness stated, that the shilling which the prisoner took from his mouth was one of the greasy *' consarns," which but an indif- ferent judge would at once detect. Soley Solomons— Please you, my Lord, the gentleman goved me the wery shilling as he says warn't his'n. How could I change it for a bad un when I hadn't no bad uns about me ? It's unpossible. The Lord Mayor— Why did you put it in your 111011th ? You could have discovered that it was a counterfeit without tasting it. Soley Solomons— Please you, my Lord, I just put it to my mouth for to bite it, for to see whether it wam't a stinker; so when I found that it biled soft, I knowed it warn't just the thing as I'd sell the prowision in my basket for. ( A laugh.) The Lord Mayor— That won't do, Mr. Sulomons. . Depend upon it, you shan't bite us here. If you don't give this poor man his money, I'll not let you go out of my hands. Smith— Please your Lordship, he offered for to give me a 6d., which was ihe half of the money as I giv'd him, if I'd say nothing about this here robbery, but I wouldn't do no such a thing. _ Soley Solomons— As your Lordship adwises me, I'll give the poor man a shilling, but s'help me G— d I knows nothing of that ere bad un. He corned across some out- and- outer afore he seed me. AN EXTRAORDINARY NEW COLONY.— Thursday, several young men and women, and children of both' sexes, from 10 to 20 years of age, were brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with having planted a regular " colony under some of the dry arches on the eastern side of London Bridge. From the statement of Evans, the street- keeper of the district, it appeared that crowds of vagrants of both sexes, were in the habit, after the labours of the day, of assem- bling under the arches of London Bridge, for the purpose of getting up a meal, and afterwards sleeping together. When he went to the new colony he saw about 50 poor wretches, who evidently had no other home than the melancholy one they had thus established. About 20 men, women and children, had retired to repose under one of the arches where they lay " spoonways," and quiet enough, wilh the exception of that music which bears the slongest testimony to the absence of care. A fire was burning under anoiher arch, and there was a large saucepan upon it, containing, it was staled, a ram's head and the outside parings of two jemmies ( sheep's heads) be- sides a considerable quantity of coarse beef, called by Ihe sausage- makers " bow- wow." An old bone grubber was stirring up those delicacies with a piece of an iron hoop. The smoke was so dense, that he was only seen at intervals, and then in tears, which dropped bitterly from his eyes, and formed part of " the ingredients of our cauldron." Altogether the scene was such as a man minght meet in an old book, but never could expect to find on the great metropoli- tan stage of life. Evans said that he had been obliged to send some of Ihe unfortu- nate vagrants to llie hospital, as they appeared to be actually al- most starved to death. Others he sent to the. workhouse, to prevent them from perishing. If severe weather had set in there must have been fata! work amongst the wretched population. The Lord Mayor observed that no doubt the parish officers of the various districts to which some of the vagrants belonged, were instru- mental, by the harshness and contempt with which they treated the poor, to this system of accumulating distress in tlie city of Lon- don. It was therefore his determination to indict in every instance in which the City authorities were of opinion a conviction could be obtained. His Lordship then gave directions as to the treatment of the defendants, and ordered one of the principal City officers to wait upon Mr. Jones, the chairman of the London Bridge com- mittee, and represent the state of Ihe dry arches, and the uses to which they have been applied, as bed- rooms to strange beggars of both sexes and all ages. UNION- HALL. A MONEY- LENDER.-— Tuesday, a respectable solicitor attended at this office, for the purpose of making the following application : — He stated, that a short time ago a young man named Brown arrived in town from Somersetshire, and, happening to see a money- lender's advertisement, he was induced to try and obtain an advance of 1001., being in want of cash at tlie time. He accordingly applied by letter to. the advertiser, and after a correspondence it was agreed that the borrower should have the required sum, for giving his ac- ceptances for 50/. each payable at a stipulated time. References as to respectability were to be given on both sides, and the adver- tiser, whofcalled Inmself Mr. Horton, referred to Mr. Ebers, Ihe book- seller, in Bond- street. Mr. Brown, believing he was in treaty with a monied and respectable man, enclosed his two acceptances for 501. each to the advertiser, who, by a written communication, had agreed to discount tbe bills on being allowed 12 per cent, dis- count. After toe advertiser got possession of the bills, he dropped all correspondence with Mr. Brown, who then became alarmed for the fate of his acceptances, and called at Mr. Ebers's, where upon inquiry he was informed that a person named Horton had latterly become a quarterly subscriber to their library, that he had left a few shillings there to pay the postage of letters, and that was all they knew about him. It was subsequently ascertained that Mr. Horton assumed another nairte when occasion required, and although every exertion had been made to trace the " gentleman," to get back the bills he had undertaken to discount, yet it was unattended with success; aud tbe object of his ( the solicitor's) application was, to request tbe magistrates' advice how to act in the affair. He added, that he was aware of the very foolish manner in which Mr. Brown had acted in the transaction, in giving his acceptances to a stranger with whom even he had no interview ; and for this piece of folly it was very probable the advertising money- lender had since negociated llie bills, and converted the money to his own use. Mr. Chambers said that the young man had acted with great in- cSution in the affair, and recommended an advertisement of Ihe hills in the newspapers, cautioning the public not to discount them HATTON- GARDEN. A FEMALE BURGLAR.— Wednesday Maty Jones, a young woman about 20 yeais of age, was charged with having burglariously entered the house of Mr. George Rowlett, of Brand- place, Holloway, and stealing therein a quantity of wearing apparel, I ed- linen, and jew- ellery. It appeared from the evidence that on the 16th ult. the prosecu- " tor and his family left home, having previously locked and barred the doors of his house. They remained absent until a few days ago, when on entering the house, it was discovered that some thief or thieverftad contrived to enter by means of picklock keys, and had succeeded in carrying off linen and woollen wearing apparel, bed- linen and jewellery to a considerable amount. Information was immediately given lo Mr. Bronckhurst, the irtspecter of tlie N division of police, who despatched some active men to the different pawnbrokers in the neighbourhood, and by those means a great portion of the stolen property was found, and moreover that it had been pawnpd by a female. Further inquiries were then instituted, when it was ascertained that the prisoner had been seen on the night of the 18th ult. near the prosecutor's house, with bundles in her possession, and in consequence of that information she was taken into custody by 160 N. Several pawnbrokers produced portions of the stolen property, which the prosecutor identified. The prisoner, in her defence, said, " when I pawned the property I was not aware that it had bee* stolen." She was fully committed to Newgate for trial. EQUITABLE EXCHANGE AND SNIP'S INEXPRESSIBLES— On Monday, a young man, who said his name was Monk, attended at this office to ask tlie advice of Ihe magistrate how he should pro- ceed under the following circumstances:— He stated, that having heard a great deal about the Central Equitable Labour Exchange, ' and that it was calculated to improve the condition of the working class of society, he made it his business to inquire into its prin- ciple and object. Having some leisure time, he determined on making a trial, for which purpose he purchased a quantity of su- perfine cloth, and made up a pair of trousers to his own measure, with a view of wearing them himself in case he should not come lo satisfactory terms with the institution. He completed the garment in a workman- like style and carried Ihe same to the Exchange Bank, in Red Lion- square, where he had an interview wilh the agent, who desired him to leave the article until the following day, to be valued according to the rules of the establishment. He accordingly left them, after receiving a document, as a security for their being returned to liini. Applicant called on the following day, and on inquiring about the property, he was informed that it had been valued at 1/. He conceived that the party was joking with him, but on being assured they were serious, he felt surprised, and expressed his indig- nation at being offered 11., when the lowest price of an ar- ticle of the same quality was 1(. 10s., and refused to take the money, insisting on having the trousers returned to him immediately. To his utter surprise they then told him that his deposit had been disposed of for the sum it had been valued at, which he might receive or not. Feeling convinced that such a pro- ceeding was contrary to the title which the establishment assumed to itself, he left the place, resolved to proceed further in the matter. Mr. Rogers told the applicant that he could not interfere, adding, that he had better bring his action in the Court of Conscience against the parties for Ihe full value of . the article. DEATH OF LADY BARRYMOHE.— The well known Mary Ann Pearce, so many years before the public under the cognomen of " Lady Barrymore," died at one o'clock on Tuesday morning, after suffering the horrors of poverty and disease for a considerable period. She expired at a wretched lodging in No. 8, Charles- street, Drury- lane. She was for some years the chere amie of the late Lord Barrymore, had possessed very considerable personal attractions, and from having graced a drawing room, descended to the lowest grade of prostitution. In her youth she was considered a remarkably fine woman, but of the last ten years of her existence, not less than seven were passed within the walls of different prisons in the Metropolis. She had been at Bow- street 150 times, but was never charged with theft. She was the dread of the licensed victuallers of Westminster, many of whom had cause to regret hav- ing refused to supply her wilh ardent spirits, as she invariably smashed their glasses and windows unless they gave her as much gin as she desired gratis. While she was in Tothill- fields' prison, and had no opportunily of swallowing this poison, her conduct was so exemplary that s- he was appointed matron over the female prisoners, and she kept them in a state of cleanliness, order, and obedience. Such was the extraordinary strength of this woman that she has been known to beat down three watchmen in succession, without any great effort, and set them at defiance. The last lime she was brought to Bow- street she appeared to be in a consump- tion, and she told Mr. Minshull that " it was her last appearance on that stage;" and " as her old friend and long acquaintance, Sir Richard ( Birnie), was gone, she knew she should not long survive him." TOWN CALENDAR OF ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES. * SUICIDE.— The feelings of the inhabitants of Poplar have been excited in consequetice of the suicide of Mrs. Sherwood, a widow lady, a respectable inhabitant of the parish. A short timesince the husband of the deceased died rather suddenly, and since that period she had been in a very low and desponding state. Monday morn- ing she'came down stairs as usual; but being missing for some time, search was made for her, when she was found hanging in an upper apartment of the house. She was instantly cut down and medical aid called in, but all efforts to restore animation proved fruitless. The deceased, who was not more than 28 years of age, has left three orphan children to lament her rash act. ACCIDENT BY FIRE.— A dreadful accident occurred in Pancras- street, Tottenham- court- road, on Sunday last. A poor woman, in- habiting a back parlour, was taking her pot off the fire, when her clothes unfortunately caught fire. She immediately rushed into the passage, and in consequence of the street door and the door of the yard being open, she was ilia thorough draught, and, before any assistance could be afforded, was enveloped in flame. The fright of the parties about her was so great that no material assist- ance was afforded, and ten minutes elapsed previous to the flames being extinguished. She was then placed on a shutter and taken to the Middlesex Hospital, where every assistance was afforded, but she died in dreadful agony at 5 o'clock. ACCIDENT TO A SWEEP.— On Monday morning last a poor lit- tle sweep, by name William Cakebread, between 6 and 7 years of age, was employed in sweeping an out- built flue at the back of the premises of No. 36 Oxford street, when from the rottenness of the brickwork, the whole fell with a tremendous crash into the back- yard, just as he had readied Ihe top, and buried him underneath masses of the brickwork, and a quantity of rubbish. He was extri- cated as speedily as possible, but had sustained such injuries that, on being taken to the Middlesex Hospital, he survived only a few hours, when he expired in great agony. MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.— On Tuesday evening a young gentleman, in crossing the fields between Shackleweil and Hack- ney, observed on the borders of a ditch, a little removed from the public footpath, a bundle, carefully pinned up in a blue cotton apron ; on unfolding several other cloths in which it was enveloped, he discovered to his horror, the body of a full grown male child in a state of decomposition. From the appearance of the body, and Ihe saturated state of the wrappers, it seemed to have lain there several days. SUICIDE.— On Saturday morning last, Mr. John Glyn Irvine, a spectacle- maker, residing in Kirby- street, Hatlon Garden, com- mitted suicide. He was a bachelor, upwards of 50 years of age, a man much respected by his acquaintances, of perfectly sober habits, and industrious in his business. His notions of religion were re- markable, and calculated to harass and distress a mind like the deceased's, which was greatly affected in consequence of the loss which he had lately sustained in business. He was a disciple of Mr. Owen, and a member of the council of the institution of the working classes in Gray's- inn- road. COUNTRY CALENDAR of ACCIDENTS and OFFENCES. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.— On Monday, about twelve, as Thomas Wilmington, of Deptford, was passing along the Surrey Canal, he observed a young female walking on the banks apparently very much agitated. On a sudden he saw her plunge into the canal; he immediately ran to the spot, and, after throwing off his coat and waistcoat, he plunged in after her, and with great difficulty suc- ceeded in saving her life. lie immediately got assistance, and, from some letters found in her bosom, it was discovered that her name was Mary Elizabeth Faulkerdon, the daughter of Mr. Faulker- don, of High- street, Catnberwell; and she was conveyed home in a coach to her father's, ill a state of mind scarcely to be described. The reason of her attempting the rash act was a disappointment in love. EFFECTS OF PASSION.— A melancholy instance of the deplorable effects of ungovernable passion occurred at Durham on the 1st inst., when two brothers named Douglas, sons of a rope- maker, having quarrelled, one stabbed the other in the body with a knife, and with such determination as to cause the bowels to protrude. Surgical aid being at hand, the wound was sewed up forthwith ; and hopes are entertained of the recovery of the young man, who is about 19 years of age. His brother, who committed the unnatural act, is a year or two younger.— Tyne Mercury. SHARP PRACTICE.— Last week/ two fishermen, belonging to Pall- ing, were dragging their nets for herrings, and, to warm themselves during the cold dreary night, they purchased two or three bottles of Hollands from a Dutch schuyt which was fishing near them. They were observed by the preventive station, who launched a boat, and soon captured the two poor fellows as smugglers. They have since been adjudged by a magistrate to five years' service on board a King's ship, and are now confined in the revenue cutter off this port, previous to their being despatched to the receiving lender at Sheerness. The men might readily have thrown tlie liquor over- board, and. thereby escaped detection ; but they imagined that the purchase of so small a quantity would not be regarded as an in- fringement of the revenue laws.— Norwich East Anglian. DREADFUL SUICIDE.— Ou Tuesdayi morning, between 10 and 11 o'clock, the inhabitants of St. Peter's- place and St. Peter's- terrace, between Hammersmith and Turnham- green, were greatly alarmed by the commission of an act of suicide of a desperate kind. A very well- known liquor- shop, No. 45 in tlie Strand, had been kept for many years by a respectable licensed victualler, named Winfield, who died about 11 months ago, and his widow after- wards disposed of tlie business. Mr. Joseph Fowler, who, during the latter years of Mr. Winfield's life, had the sole management of the business accompanied the widow in her retirement, and report states tiiat they were privately married about two months ago. On Sunday evening last Mrs. Winfield went to bed at an early hour, apparently in good health, and Ihe next morning was found a corpse. During Monday and Tuesday Mr. Fowler was in a distressing slate of mind, and in and out of the house at least 20 times a day, each time drinking spirits or wine, at the Cross Keys, a tavern close by. On Wednesday morning he went into the Cross Keys, and had a glass of wine, and said to Mr. Bray, the landlord, " this dreadful business lias destroyed me— I shall not live three hours longer." About half an hour afterwards, as Mr. Bray was passing the door of No. 3, St. Peter's- terrace, where the deceased lived, he heard the report of a pistol in that house, and run. immediately to the door. He was admitted, and went up to Mr. Fowler's room the door of which was fastened. He burst it open, and found the unfortunate man on the bed a corpse, with a large pistol in his hand. A surgeon was sent for, when it appeared that the deceased had committed the act in a most determined manner. Hi had placed the muzzle of the pistol under the left breast, and the bullet from it passed through the heart, out of the back, and through the head- board of the bedstead, lodging about an inch deep in the wall 1 INQUESTS. An inquest was held on Thursday at the Gun Tavern, Woolwich, on view of the body of John Findlay, a private in the Royal Artillery. The deceased got up on Tuesday morning about four o'clock, and went to woik as usual in the cowhouse of the barracks. He returned about five o'clock, and seemed very low spirited. He went to work again in about an hour afterwards, and John Scott, a servant to Colonel Jones, having occasion to go into the cowhouse, saw the deceased lying on the straw. Witness spoke to him, and the deceased replied, " I have cut my throat." Every assistance was rendered, but all proved unavailing, the windpipe being com- pletely cut through. lie had been in the regiment upwards of 20 years. Verdict, " Temporary Insanity." An inquest was held at the Black Horse, Deptford, before Mr. Carttar, on view of the body of Abraham Halls, a seaman. John Theobalds being sworn said, on Tuesday morning last, as he was passing over the bridge, he saw ihe deceased going down the steps to- wards the water, and almost immediately after the deceased jumped into the canal, at the same time exclaiming " I'll never go home any more." Every assistance was rendered, but without effect,' although the deceased had not been in the water ten minutes. Verdict, " Insanity." INQUESTS. ADULTERY AND SUICIDE.— On Tuesday, an inquest was held at Bermondsey, on the body of Thomas Grainger, who had recently quitted the new police, at the request of a cousin, named Land, who is a baker, in Long- lane, Bermondsey. Land prevailed on the deceased and his wife to . take apartments at his house, in order that the former might assist'him in his business, and the latter act as housekeeper. Grainger, in a short time, began to suspect his wife's fidelity, and oil Thursday evening he left home, saying he should not be back for some time. He then went to the rear of the premises and after watching for some time, observed Land and his wife in a back room. He now had proof of his wife's infidelity, and he immediately ran into the house and upbraided the guilty pair. Words ensued, aud the wife hardily7 boasted of her conduct. The deceased appeared bewildered, and the next morning, after taking breakfast, he went up stairs, and hung himself in the bed- room. The wife, finding him in this situation, quietly walked down stairs, and informed her paramour, who, instead of cutting down his injured relative, set off in quest of a surgeon, and did not return for twenty minutes. Dr. Castle cut down the deceased with his own hands. He was quite dead. Verdict—" The de- ceased had destroyed himself in a fit of insanity, produced by the misconduct of his wife and Land, the baker." On Wednesday, an inquisition was taken at St. George's Hos- pital, on the body of Mrs. Catherine Hogan, of the advanced age of 80 years, who accidentally set- fire to her clothes, and burned her- self in so dreadful a manner as to occasion her death within a few hours afterwards. Catherine Hutchinson, grand- daughter of the deceased, stated that she went, by the particular desire of the deceased, to procure some lamb's feet for supper. On her return, the accident had taken place, and her grandmother been removed to tlie hospital, where she saw her, and was told by her the acci dent arose from the sleeve of her gown catching fire in her attempt to lift off the kettle. She had been with her grandmother two years, who was quite helpless, and had promised her not to at- tempt to move from her arm chair, in which she was sitting.— Ver- dict, Accidental death." Oil Wednesday another inquest was held at the King's Arms opposite Westminster Hospital, on the body of Elizabeth Shell, aged 40, whose death also was occasioned by her clothes acci- dentally catching fire. Mary Efferidge deposed that the deceased lodged with her. On Saturday night witness, heard a violent scream- ing in the house, and on opening her bed- room saw the remains of a gown in flames on the stairs, and heard the screams of the de- ceased, who was then in the yard. Witness went to her assist- ance, and found a young man with her, who had extinguished the flames of the part of her dress which remained upon her by wrap- ping an old mat round her. A surgeon was sent for who dressed her wounds, and she was afterwards removed to the Hospital. She told witness she was cooking some potatoes for supper, when her apron drew towards the fire and caught in a blaze. Nearly the whole of her clothes were consumed. Mary Saunders, nurse at tlie Hospital, stated that ihe deceased was severely burnt on the neck, face, and arms. She died of the injuries early on Monday morn- ing.— Verdict, " Accidental death. An inquest was holden oil Wednesday, at the London Hos- pital, on view of the body of James Johnson, who died in that institution from the effects of laudanum. The first witness called was the wife of the deceased. She stated that her husband was a journeyman carpenter, and was latterly much addicted to drink. Between 7 and 8 o'clock [ in the evening she went from their resi- dence in Norton- folgate into Bishopsgate- street for a candle, and on her return, in a few minutes she found llie deceased in bed and apparently ill. Suspecting that he had taken something im- proper she went immediately to his brother, and on their return they found him in a state of stupor. His breath smelt strong of laudanum, and on examining the room she found a small phial and a teacup on the ground behind Ihe door, both of which smelt of the same drug. Witness went to three or four medical men in the neighbourhood, all of whom refused to attend him. She then purchased an emetic, which she was recommended to give him in some warm water, but in consequence of his keeping his teeth clinched she was unable to administer much of it. His brother subsequently went for a doctor, who recommended his removal to the hospital which was done.— Verdict " Insanity." ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.— Thursday morning, between 8 and 9 o'clock, a young gentleman, named Joseph Low, residing at No. 1, Rolls- buildings, threw himself out of a two- pairof stairs back- window, and fell on the iron- railings below with such violence as to break two of the bars in pieces. He was taken up a most dreadful spectacle, having fallen upon his head and stomach in such a manner as to in- flict the most frightful injuries on those parts. He was immediately conveyed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and, though no hopes are entertained of his ultimate recovery, he was collected enough iu the evening to recognise his friends, and to state that he was quite un- conscious of the motive foi the rash act. He was a remarkably fine young man, and had only been a few days from the Isle of Wight where he had gone for the benefit of his health. LITERATURE. LARDNER'S CABINET CYCLOPEDIA.— SPAIN AND PORTUGAL ! Vol. IV. This is a very interesting and elaborate volume. Its contents embrace a comprehensive view of. the internal relations of Spain in the early ages, under Mohammedan and Christian sway. Ample details are given of the state of her arts, science, manu- factures, literature, with her legal and political institutions at the period of the transit from Arabian dominion, which seems to have been more auspicious than that of the professors of the purer faith, to the advancement of social improvement. " THE ARABS IN SPAIN.— The mechanical arts and manufactures were carried to considerable perfection. Ornaments of gold— a metal which continued to abound in several parts of the country both for men and women ; magnificent habits of silk and furs, the abundance of plate in the houses of the rich, the extent to which wool, cotton, and flax were wrought in the loom, prove beyond dis- pute the industry, no less than the ingenuity, of the Spanish Arabs. By them the use of writing paper was introduced into Europe. Disputed as this question has been, there can be no doubt that tbe Arabian historians are right in assigning the original invention to Ihe Chinese, from whom the use passed to the Persians, and from the latter to the Arabians. In A. H. 80 ( A. D. 651) it was known at Samarcand ; in A. II. 88 at Mecca; and we are authorised in in- ferring that it was introduced in Spain in A. D. 711. The Arabian geographer praises the unrivalled quality of the paper of Xativa, which, as being made of linen, would doubtless be much superior to the cotton manufacture he had seen in the east. In the Escurial there are MSS. of linen paper as old as the commencement of the eleventh century ; yet Tiraboschi, who is absolutely ignorant of every thing that did not happen in his own country, affirms that it was invented in Italy during the fourteenth century." RECORDS OF MY LIFE. By the late J. TAYLOR, ESQ. : 2 vols. London.— Bull. This entertaining work reached us at too late* an hour to enable us to pronounce an ex cathedra opinion on its merits. From the glance we have directed to its pages, we feel justified in saying, that it abounds in pleasant aud diversified anecdote. We have picked out some of the plums, with the intention of return- ing to it next week :— " SPENCER AND THE HACKSEY- C » ACIUIAN.- One of Spencer's whimsical freaks was to take an hackney- coach with three friends in a dark evening, and order the man to set them down in a gloomy part of the Strand at the side of the New Church. He had pre- viously opened the door opposite to that where the coachman waited, and as Spencer and his friends quitted the coach on one side, they went round and entered at the other. The coachman was at first surprised that more issued from the carriage than he had taken in. As they continued to go round and come out, he be- came dreadfully alarmed, and at length his terror was so great that he run from the coach, and rushed into the first public- house, telling the people there that he must have taken in a legion of devils, for, he added wilh every sign of horror, I had taken but four in', but have counted eighteen oul, and more were coming when I left my coach." " MRS. CI. IVE AND GARRICK.— Mrs, Clive was an eminent actress on the London stage before Garrick appeared, and as his blaze of excellence threw all others into comparative insignificance, she never forgave him, aud took every opportunity of venting her spleen. She was coarse, rude, and violent in her temper, and spared nobody. One night as Garrick was performing ' King Lear' she stood behind the scenes to observe him, and in spite of the roughness of her nature, was so affected, that she sobbed one minute, abused him the next, and at length, overcome by his pathe- tic touches, she hurried from the place, with the following extraor- dinary tribute to the universality of his powers :—' D n him I believe lie could act a gridiron.'' " MRS. MACAULAY.— While Mrs. Macaulay was employed on her ' History of England,' she visited the British Museum, and de- sired to see the letters between King James Ihe First and his fa- vourite the Duke of Buckingham, whom his Majesty used to address under tlie name of Slennie. Dr. Birch, whose duty was to take care of the papers, attended her for that purpose. The doctor, who was well acquainted with Ihe contents of these papers, and knowing many of them to be very obscene, requested she would permit him to select some of them for her perusal, observing that many of them were wholly unfit for the inspection of one of her sex. ' Pooh ' said she, ' an historian is of no sex ;' and deliberately read through all." " QUIN THE ACTOR.— When one of a company at dinner had helped himself to a very large piece of bread, Quin stretched his hand to take hold of it. The person to whom it belonged pre- vented him, saying, ' Sir, that is my bread.' ' I beg your pardon,' said Quin, ' I took it for the loaf.' " " MEASUP. E OP OBLIGATION— Bibb met Morten the Dramatist one day after the successful performance of one of the latter's plays, and concluding that a prosperous author must have plenty of cash' raised his solicitation accordingly, and ventured to ask him for the loan of a whole crown. Morton assured him that lie had no more silver than three shillings aud sixpence. Bibb readily accepted them, of course ; but said, on parting, " Remember, I intended lo borrow a crown; so you owe me eighteen- pence.' " " A BIRTU- DAY SUIT.— A relation of her grace the Duchess of Marlborough, of an eccentric charactor, and who was commonly called Jack Spencer, used always to pay his respects to her on her birth- day. On one occasion he went in a chairman's coat, which he threw off in her presence, and appeared naked. Her grace re- monstrated with him on such a shameless appearance. ' Thunder ' said he, ' why I am in my Birtu- day Suit.' " " COLLEY CIBBER.— Mr. Murphy told me that he was once present at Tom's Coffee- house, in Russell- street, Covent- garden, which was only open to subscribers, when Colley Cibber was en- gaged at whist, and an old General was his partner. As the cards were dealt to him, he took up every one in turn, and expressed his disappointment at every indifferent one. In the progress of the game he did not follow suit, and his partner said, ' What 1 have you not a spade, Mr. Cibber?' The latter, looking at his cards, answered, ' Oh yes, a thousand,' which drew a very pee- vish comment from the General. On which Cibber, who was shockingly addicted to swearing, replied, ' Don't be angry, for I can play ten times worse if I like.'" " MOODY AND MR. BRERETON— Moody once lent money to Mr. Brereton the actor. Brereton did nut return it immediately ; and Moody met him, he looked earnestly at him and vented a kind of noise between a sigh and a groan. He repeated this in- terjection whenever he met Brereton, who at length was so annoyed that he put his hand in his pocket and paid him. Moody took the money, and with a gentler aspect said, ' Did I ask vou for it Billy >"' THE COMIC OFFERING FOR 1833.— Smith, Elder, and Co. This' merry companion for the winter evenings is not only as- substantial and elegant in appearance as any of its sober com- petitors, but is, as far as we recollect, superior in fun, variety, and whimsical embellishments to its predecessor of last year. Some of the illustrations are most humorously fancied, particu- larly the new edition of Quarks' Emblems, which is as laughably pugnacious as could be wishted ; the " Nag's Head Inn," where the head of a prying steed pops in with droll effect; and the " Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties," which, in the shape of a chimney- sweep pursuing his studies on the top of a chim- ney- pot, gives a hit at the cant of the day. The letter- press teems with puns of all degrees of excellence, these making the staple of the wit, which is often more elaborate than successful, yet, upon the whole, clever and amusing, though, to our taste, less so than the cuts. Of the poetical pieces, the " Younger Brother's Alphabet," by the. Earl of M , is full of truth and point, but not at all comic ; and the " Quack Doctor," by Lady October 14. TH .1 mfi TOWI. 331 Charlotte B , is, without being peculiarly mirth- provoking, an ingenious play upon words. The contributions of T. Haynes Bayley, Mr. A'Becket, of the " Comic Magazine," and some others, are very good ; but perhaps those of the fair editor her- self are, after all, the best. Of these we have only room for the following SPECIMENS OF AN INTENDED IRISH NEWSPAPER. " A few davs ago, as a poor woman at Ballyshannon was looking outofatwo- pair- of- stairs window, her opposite neighbour offered her a glass ofwhirkey, and leaning too far across to reach it, she unhap- pily fell into the street. A gentleman passing by ( on whom she fortunately fell) after picking up his hat, most humanely asked if she were dead : and on answering that she believed that she was not dead, but merely speechlesi, lie bad her conveyed to the hospi- tal, where she is fast recovering. As a singular instance uf female presence of mind, we may mention that she never relinquished her hold ofthe glass, nor spilled one drop of its contents during her fall." The next specimen is a good application of the Baron Mun- chausen vein :— " A most extraordinary circumstance occurred at the last Curragh races. The beautiful and well known horse Blarney, belonging to Mr. Donoghue, was so much in front of his competitors on the course that some malicious person threw a scythe blade at the noble ani- mal, and completely severed his head from his body. Regardless of the pain, he stilljcontinued the race, which, we are most happy to say, he won by a neck ; and his rider, who had caught the head in his arms as it flew in the air, fixed it on again so effectually that the gallant fellow's statement ofthe whole story was doubted, as he had no witness ofthe fact, having been out of sight ftt the time, of all the spectators. As we have ascertained that he is a protestunt, we pledge ourselves for the truth of all his assertions." MUSIC. CATHEDRAL CHORISTERS. In consequence of a casual remark made some few weeks since upon the slovenly manner in which the choral service is at pre- sent performed in our cathedrals, compared with the same ser- vice as performed from the period of the Reformation to the end of the seventeenth century, a subscriber has obligingly forwarded us a volume, comprising two separate works; the former en- titled, " A brief Account of Cathedral and Collegiate Schools: with au Abstract of their Statutes and Endowments. Respect- fully addressed to the Dignitaries of the Established Church. 1827." Pp. 60. And the latter entitled, " Correspondence, Legal Proceedings, and Evidences respecting the Ancient School attached to Saint Paul's Cathedral. A new edition ; consider. Bbly enlarged. 1816." Pp. 80 ; with an appendix, comprising the evidences, and which occupy more than double the bulk of the correspondence itself. As neither work has at any time been brought before the public, but was originally designed for private circulation, it is probably new to the great majority of our readers; notwithstanding the distance of time, therefore, that has elapsed since the completion of both, we have been tempted to give some extracts from them, for the purpose of drawing attention to the laxity and indifference manifested to- wards this delightful accompaniment to the Protestant service; also to the disgraceful, and, to all appearance, wilful neglect that has in various instances attended the appropriation of the en- dowed funds for the support of the lay clerks and infant cho- risters. Upon all occasions of this nature, where the conduct of the clergy, as a body, becomes a matter of inquiry and in- vestigation, the bitter reflection is ever forced upon us, that we never hear of similar instances of mal- administration as regards the endowments appropriated to the service of themselves ex- clusively. Their lands are never leased out at a nominal or pepper- corn rent; but all their investments are regulated by the current and most advantageous return of interest. All the ma- chinery devoted to their use has been kept compact, well oiled, and doubly nutted and screwed. This eager self- seeking and famished watchfulness of the establishment upon all occasions where their worldly views are concerned, has been the main cause of estranging the hearts of their flocks. The " low- thoughted cares" of " what they shall eat, and what they shall drink, and wherewithal they shall be clothed," with their con- sistent interpretation of the lovely parable of their divine Law- giver concerning the passive endurance of the lilies of the field, into a graceful orientalism, inapt for application to temporali- ties, have made them neglect " the weightier matters of the law" — the feeding, not the shearing of their flocks. The hungry sheep look up, aud are not fed. A second time, therefore- " that two- handed engine at the door, Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. 1' We are not personally opposed to the ecclesiastical establish- ment, still less have we any affection for sectarian dogmas. The Protestant service performed iu the fullness of its spirit, is an impressive and affecting ceremony, and the musical portion, peculiarly appropriated to the cathedral worship, is to our feel- ings, inexpressibly solemn and appealing. It harmonizes with the severe and stately beauty and grandeur of the temples in which it is performed ; it is singularly adapted to the instrument for which it was expressly written— the imperial organ. It is the only link remaining that connects the present generation with the nervous and manly simplicity of those of the olden time. If the rank growth of sectarianism be eventually doomed to overtop and smother this noble plant, with it will perish some of the grandest thoughts to which the mind of man has given birth— thoughts coeval with the beautiful translation of the Bible, and conceived in the same poetical spirit. The event will not pause there, but it will leave a worm at the root of that fine contemporaneous poetry ; and the intellectual productions of the richest period in history will rapidly fade from view, and settle into the torpid state of a cold legendary immortality. Alas, for that age when utilitarian supremacy shall question the cut bono of our primteval ministers, and convert them into engine fac- tories, or spinning- jenny shops— a doom not the most problem- atical when the conceit of these people is considered, with their quaker- like contempt of all that is exclusively graceful and imaginative, and their narrow envy and hatred of every thing meritorious that does not emanate from their own little circle. To the works, however, of which we proposed giving some account. The object that has led to their production is confined to the existing state of the collegiate schools, the brief summaries of which from the accounts of the principal establishments, we shall put upon record, in order that the question may be agitated, and if any of the statements be found incorrect, that they may be rectified. In the preface to the former work, the writer well observes that " The history and antiquities of our cathedral churches are at present the most favourite subjects for the pencil of the artist and for the pen of the historian ; but while the minutest regard and the warmest eUlogiums are la- vished upon the fabric, the author seems almost to forget the sacred purpose for which this holy magnificence was designed, as if the praise of the architect alone were intended to resound within the hallowed walls. The numerical Strength of the choir is usually dismissed iu a short sentence, as an object of far less importance than the columns or the stalls ; and the celebration of Divine Service is passed over iu silence, as a matter of per- fect indifference." " It is scarcely necessary ( says our author) to premise that a school is maintained by every cathedral in South Britain, with the exception, I believe, of Llandaff, for the boys who form a part of the establishment. These schools are coeval with the several choirs; and, though iu some few in- stances it may be found that they have degenerated in public estimation, they cannot be annihilated so long as the present establishment shall subsist; because the ministration of children is indispensable for the performance of choral service. The pupils are admitted on these foundations at seven or eight years of age j they assist in the celebration of Divine offices twice every day iu surplices, and usually continue their attendance as choristers for eight or ten years. They are of necessity in- structed in the science of harmony, to qualify them for their duties iu the choir ; and most of our celebrated musical pro- fessors, and many eminent characters, who reflect honour upon dignified situations in the church, have been indebted to these foundations for their early education." Having thus premised the intention of these institutions, we take the first establish- ment in order— that of ST. ASAPH.— By an act of Dr. Barrow, who was advanced to the see in 1669, " the Rectory of Llanrhaidr in Mochnant, ' and all the glebe, tithes, issues, and profits thereof,' were vested in the Dean and Chapter of St. Asaph and their successors for ever, ' to the only intent and purpose that the rents, issues, and pro- fits of the^ ame should be by them from time to time for ever bestowed and employed to and for the satisfying and defraying > he charge of the repairs of the said cathedral church of St. Asaph in the first place ; and the residue of the said profits for the augmentation qf the revenue of the choir thereof." " This appropriation increased to a very considerable amount, and in the year 1814, the Dean and Chapter obtained an act of Parlia- ment, authorising a new distribution of the funds." In what manner the honour and interests of the choir have been tendered will be seen from the following brief statement:— " The choir at present consists of the organist, four singing men, four singing boys, and two supernumeraries, who receive a small annual stipend. The classical instruction of the cho- risters has been very recently abandoned, and the boys have no other education than what the organist and parish school afford them. I cannot learn that any of the pupils brought up iu the music- school of St. Asaph's cathedral, have risen to eminence, either as professional men or otherwise." Here, then, is one instance of a " collegiate school" which should, by ecclesiastical law, form part of the church establishment, being " annihilated." Has any other appropriation, instituted for the benefit of the re- sident clergy of St. Asaph been " annihilated" also i The report of the Bangor choir is favourable ; and that of Bristol still more so. " By the judicious arrangement of the present Dean ( 1827), and with due regard to the founder's de- sign ( Henry VIII.) a course of greater liberality has been adopted, and the school has now resumed a more respectable character. The number of choristers has lately been augmented from six to eight, as in the original foundation ; they receive daily lessons in music at such hours as least interfere with their general edu- cation ; they are all taught reading, writing, and arithmetic, and their classical instruction is entirely optional. Their general conduct and proficiency are represented as meriting warm ap- probation." CAMBRIDGE.— KING'S COLLEGE.— There are 16 choristers appointed by the Provost; schoolmaster appointed by the King. " A preference is given to them at all elections for scholarships at Eton, in the same manner as the Etonians are to be favoured in the elections to fellowships at King's College. The boys are instructed in singing by the organist, and in reading, writing, and arithmetic, by a master appointed by the college. By the private regulations of the college, and a small legacy bequeathed for that purpose by a late fellow, each boy receives a sum of money when he quits the choir. TRINITY has ten choristers ; and a grammar and music- master ( the latter the organist) are appointed to instruct them. " The choir is now full, indeed more than full. A respectable person is engaged with a good salary as schoolmaster of the boys, and it is considered that the requisitions of the statute on the subject of the choir are in all respects, iu spirit, if not to the very letter, liberally fulfilled by the college." ST. JOHN'S.—" From St. John's College ( says our author) I have not been honoured with an answer to my inquiries, and the accounts which have been transmitted to me respecting the pre- sent state of the school, under the superintendence of this society, are such as I forbear to publish!" So much for the rich foundation of St. John's! We shall feel obliged to any cor- respondent who is able and willing to send us an accurate ac- count of the number of choristers that should be appointed to this establishment; of the existing number ; of the funds appro- priated to their maintenance ; and of the manner in which their education, both musical, classical, & c. is conducted. ( To be continued.) performers td do tlieta justice. The wh< He arrangement is highly creditable to Mr. Sedlatzek. No. 2 consists of four prayers, appropriate to the several stages of life : Infancy, Youth, Manhood, and Old Age. The first is set as a larghetto, in the key of F major, common time. The style is unpretendingly simple, the words are correctly accentuated aud judiciously expressed. Some errors on the part of the en,- graver have been overlooked, one of which occurs in the first bar of the vocal part, page 3, where a minim rest is required to complete the bar. The Prayer of Youth is in triple time, in the key of C major- It is written iu a smooth, flowing style, and accompanied with appropriate harmonies. There is one defect, however, at the 20th bar of page 8, where the chord of the suspended 4 on C, in the bass, is accompanied with a 3d; probably the composer in- serted the E in order to resolve the F from the imperfect 5th on B in the preceding bar j this, however, would be rendered unne- cessary by making the F just alluded to, descend to the D in the last quaver of the- bar, and then rise to the G omitting the E. The Parent's Prayer is iu the key of F major, common time, marked maestoso ; this movement smacks somewhat more of the secular than of the sacred style. The following errors require correction on the part of both composer and engraver. The latter has omitted a crotchet rest at the end of the second bar in the vocal part, page 12, and an entire bar rest at the 5th bar of the same page. The composer has failed to insert D the 3d, as a chord of B flat in the 7th bar of the treble accompaniment in the same page, thereby leaving a naked 5th on the B flat in the bass. In the succeeding bar too, he has given a wrong resolu- tion to the chord of the 6- 5 on B natural. The Prayer of Age is a larghetto movement in the key of B flat major, triple time, 3- 4. Here again the engraver has omitted two crotchet rests, that are wanting in the vocal part, 12th bar, page 17, and in the 16th bar, page 18, the half bar minim should have been two crotchets rest. The air itself is well adapted to the words ; there is a grave earnestness iu its style, and the harmonies with which it is accompanied are judi- ciously chosen, and impressive in their effect. To our taste, this last piece is the best in the collection. It is the first time we have met with this gentleman's name as a composer, and we beg to compliment him upon his evident promise of talent. The melody of No. 3 is deficient in originality, and, more- over, is disfigured by that odious Scotch jerk, which we noticed last week, in a ballad by the same composer. The whole com- position being genuine, unadulterated common- place, we can " the most enthusiastic applause," 1. LE CHARME DE PADUA. Divertimento de Nicolo Paganini. Arrange pour Flute et Piano, et dedi( 5 a H. C. Coape, Esq. par JEAN SEDLATZEK— Wessel and Co. 2. FOUR SACRED MELODIES. The words by Charles V. Incle- don. The music by RAFAELLE A. WALLIS— T. Z. Purday. 3. Do You EVER THINK OF ME ? Ballad sung by Mr. Bur- nett with the most enthusiastic applause, at the London Concerts. Written by Charles Jefferys, Esq. Composed by N. J. SPORLE— E. Dale. 4. THOU ART MINE I Ballad. Written by Charles Jefferys, Esq. Composed, and most respectfully dedicated to Miss Ellen Tree, by Louis LEO— E. Dale. The Divertimento ( No. 1) comprises two movements— a larghetto in the key of C., 6- 8, and a presto in the same key, 6- 4 time. The latter would have been more legible had it been marked 6- 8, nor can we discover why that time should not have been adopted. There is considerable elegance in the style of the former movement, and the presto is a brilliant one. The part for the Piano is not a mere accompaniment, but is equally concertante with the flute, and both parts will require good be at no loss to account for with which it has been received. The melody of No. 4 is written in considerably better taste than the above. It is by no means deficient in elegance, and the harmonies by which it is accompanied are of a more musi- cian- like class. One or two errors occur in the notation, which it would occupy too much space to point out and explain ; in the accentuation of the words also, an awkwardness occurs in the line, " Watered by tears of sadness," where the accent is thrown upon the second word—" Watered by tears." With the exception of these slight defects, the ballad is a very tasteful composition. M, DE TALLEYRAND. • BY BENJAMIN CONSTANT. The character of M. de Talleyrand was decided by— his feet. His parents fiuding him lame, decided that he should enter the church, aud that his younger brother should be the head of the family. M. de Talleyrand donned his priest's habit as if it were armour, and embarked in his profession with a determination to reap from it what harvest he might. Up to the revolution his reputation was merely that of a wit, and a man of gallantry. On his becoming a member of the Constituent Assembly, he at once attached himself to the minority of the nobles, and took his place between Sifeyes and Mirabeau. Perhaps he was then sincere ; every man has been sincere at some epoch or other of his existence. Besides, at that particular pe- riod a man might be sincere, and yet succeed, because opinion and interest were then in accordance. It was necessary to labour hard in order to lead in the Assem- bly, but M. de Talleyrand is essentially indolent: to make amends he possessed a— I know not what to call it— imperatorial talent to make others work for him. I saw him on his return from America, when he was without fortune, and in bad odour with the authorities, and limped about in the streets iu going to make his court at this and that salon. Notwithstanding all that, 40 persons awaited him every morning in his ante- chamber, and his levee was that of a prince. He was not engaged in the revolution but by his interest. Great was his astonishment when he saw that the result to him of that revolution was his proscription, and his being compelled to fly from France. Embarked for England, he fixed his eyes upon the shore he was just quitting, and exclaimed—" You will not again catch me engaged in a revolution for others !" He has kept his word. Very unjustly compelled to leave England, M. de Talleyrand sought for refuge in America, where he pined away three years. The companion of his exile aud misfortune was also a member of the Assembly, the Marquis de Blacous, a wit and a desperate gamester, who, on his return to Paris, ended his days by blowing out his brains, weary of his life and his creditors. M. de Tal- leyrand passed with him through all the towns of America, lean- ing on his arm, for he could not walk alone. When Talleyrand became Minister, M. de Blacous, having returned to France, in- vited by him, petitioned for a place of some 600 livres' value. No answer from M. de Talleyrand ; he is not received by him, and Blacous kills himself. A common friend, moved hy his desperate end, accosted Talleyrand—" You are the cause of the death of Blacous," and vehemently reproached him for his con- duct. Talleyrand, leaning against the chimney, listened to, him unmoved, and his only reply was, yawning, " Poor Blacous." Having learned, while he was in America, that Madame de Stael had returned to France, he charged his friends to fill her head with the projects of his return. This was by no means a difficult matter: of all women Madame de Stael is she who most loves rendering services. She seems to believe that they are things not to be refused, g-- as if there was anything which could not be refused in the wo ® . She exerted herself with admirable zeal in favour of M. de Talleyrand. Thanks to her efforts, Chevier painted him to the Chamber as the purest of republicans, the sworn foe of monarchy in all times, & c. & c. The Conven- tion, which at that epoch voted with equal enthusiasm for the proscription of its friends and the recall of its enemies, voted the recall of M. de Talleyrand. Once restored, he soon wanted to become Miniters, and Ma- dams de Stael was once more his instrument. PORTUGUESE CONTEST.— Sir John Milley Doyle left London by the mail on Thursday night for Falmouth, on his way to Oporto, where he expects to arrive on Tuesday or Wednesday. Sir John was accompanied only by his nephew Mr. Bentinck Doyle, as his Aide- de- camp, but he was preceded by several officers of experience, and some hundred brave soldiers, and he will be speedily followed by others. On his arrival in Oporto, the contract under which he has acted will probably be extended, and in that case 3,000 men will sail from Ireland to serve under his command. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. ——• FRANCE. Pan's » t this moment abounds with professional men. There are 1,52? painters, draftsmen, and lithographers; 151 sculptors; 310 engraven ( copperplate, aqua- tinta, wood, & c.) ; 80 architects ; 315 distinguished composers and professors of music; 1,525 instru- mental musicians ; 1,500 ditto, of inferior rank— Total, 5,804. An account from Dijon states that a manufacturer has discovered a cold dye for blue which will save one quarter the expence of the present process. It is well known that many fruitless experiments were made for substituting woad for indigo at a time when, in con- sequence of the continental blockade, the French manufacturers were deprived of the latter article. We regret to announce the death, at Lorient, on the 2d rust, in the 73d year of his age, of an attack of cholera, of General Dalrymple, late of the 3d Regiment of Guards, and son of the late Sir William Dalrymple, of Cousland, Edinburghshire, Bart. The funeral was escorted by a battalion of the 43d Regiment of the Line, led by the Colonel and Lieutenant- Colonel, and attended by their band. It was, indeed, no unmoving sight to behold French soldiers assembled as mourners round the grave of a British veteran who had frequently borne arms against them. SPAIN. The change in the Spanish Ministry is confirmed. A courier from Madrid has proceeded to London with the nomination of M. Zea Bermudez to be Minister for Foreign Affairs. The Countd'Alcudia is appointed Ambassador at London in his room. The Minister Calomarde is banished from Madrid. The other Ministers, Ballas- teros, Salazar, and Zambrano, remain at Madrid as Councillors of State. It is also said that a great many of the persons employed in the several offices of the Ministers have been discharged. GERMANY. The accounts from Frankfort and Hamburgh reach to the 7th. The King of Prussia passed through Dresden on his way to Toplitz on the 29th ult. He is to meet the Emperor of Austria at Prague, an interview which some of the German papers pretend is merely of a friendly nature, and has no political object. Charles X. and his family, after a fortnight's residence at Al- tona, have left that city and proceeded to Berlin. At the silver mine of Konigsberg, a wonderful gallery has been pierced through the side of the mountain, at the depth of 600 feet, through which the ore is now transported, instead of being hoisted to the top. Its length is 6,000 feet, and it occupied 23 years in its completion. The process was most tedious, being entirely by calcination and hammering, which brought the rock off in flakes. Only two men could work at a time; it was commenced both in- ternally and externally, and it is much to their credit that, upon meeting, there were only two or three feet difference in the level, and none in the direction. It is from six to seven feet wide, and from 10 to 15 high. TURKEY. The last Turkey mail brings intelligence that the army of the Pacha of Egypt was within a few days' march of the Turkish capi- tal, and no troops to oppose their victorious career. A letter from Smyrna, dated September the 5th, states that they daily expected to learn of important events having occurred at Constantinople, towards which city the Egyptians were rapidly advancing. The. Government at Constantinople was in a most critical state. The cholera had made its appearance at Constantinople; the plague was on the decline. By accounts from Alexandria of the 22d of August, it appears that the fleets of the Sultan and ofthe Pacha of Egypt were near to each other, and it was expected that a general engagement would come on. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. THE ARMY.— The peace establishment of the United States is composed of four regiments of artillery, and seven regiments of infantry, and, with staff officers, amounts to about 6,000 men. Each regiment of artillery consists of nine companies, one of which is equipped as light artillery. A company is officered by a captain, four subalterns, and eight non- commissioned, with three artificers, two musicians, and 42 privates. A company of infantry consists of a captain, two subalterns, and seven non- commissioned, two musicians, and 42 privates. And to each r » giment of artillery and infantry there are one colonel, one lieutenant- colonel, one major, an adjutant, sergeant- major, and quarter- master- sergeant. The corps of military and topographical engineers are not attached to the Ordnance department, which is merged in the artillery. The Ordnance service in the States consists merely of 30 officers of ar- tillery, selected to command the different depots of arms and ar- senals of the Union, with 10 superintendents of armouries and store keepers. Major- General Alexander Macomb commands the army at present, and he is allowed two aides- de- camp. Besides him, there are two brigadier- generals, each with one aide- de- camp ; and these aids, taken from the subalterns of the line, besides their other duties, perform those of assistant- adjutant- general. Two inspectors- general annually visit the posts of the army; their duty is very severe, when one considers the extent of territory they have to traverse. There are also an adjutant and quarter- master- general, two quarter- masters, and 10 assistant quarter- masters. The Subsistence department consists of one commissary- general and 50 assistant commissaries, taken from the subalterns of the line, with extra pay. There are also one paymaster- general and 14 _ paymasters, and one surgeon- general, eight surgeons, and 45 assistant- surgeons. JAMAICA. The Jamaica packet has brought a file of papers to the 1st ult. Lord Mulgrave was proceeding in his government of the colony in such a manner as to provoke no violent attacks from either party, and generally, by his courteous demeanour and easiness of access, so as to acquire popularity. The great struggle on the part of the journals in the interest of the planters appears to be to prevent his Lordship from exercising any acts of favour towards the sectarian missionaries, or receiving from them his impressions respecting the conduct of the colonists and their management of the slave population. INDIA. We have received a file of the Bombay Courier to the 24th of June. Accounts from Bushire of the 20th of May had reached the Presidency, describing a most extraordinary mortality iu that' place from the plague. It originally broke out there early iu February, when most of the European residents removed to the island of Corgo, in the Persian Gulf; and all communication with the infected district was carefully guarded against. Towards the end of April, however, two of them were dispatched to Bushire to ascertain the state of the place, as no information had been received from the natives who were left in charge of it. On arrival, all these were found to have fallen victims to the disease. The mor- tality in the town itself had been frightful; an immense number of small families had been entirely destroyed, while in the larger ones, composed of front 20 to 30 individuals, there were rarely more than two or three who had escaped. The bodies ofthe dejyj, being piled up in heaps, for the survivors were unable otherwise to dis- pose of them, had further infected the atmosphere in a frightful degree. Of 100 men, who were induced by the high wages offered by the Shaik to attempt removing them, four only survived, and it was found impossible to continue tbe work. In the town itself famine was adding to the horrors of the scene. Children who had lost their parents were to be seen wandering about in a state of starvation, and the price of articles of subsistence had risen in some instances a hundred fold. Those who had fled into the interior had spread the contagion in every direction, and the mor- tality in the districts round the town is stated to have been as great as in the town itself. All possible precautions had been taken in Bombay to prevent the introduction of the infection there. A Court- martial was held at Vellore, Jan. 9, on Ensign J. A. Crawford, 4th Native Infantry, for having " submitted to be called a liar by Ensign W. Lawless Seppings, of the same regi- ment, without taking any measures to remedy the insult." The Court found him guilty, and sentenced him to be discharged from the Company's service, which was confirmed. The Meath Conservative Club have got 150/. from the Conser- vative Society of Ireland, to forward the Protestant Registry in that county. /" VOL 9IO THE TOWJV, October 28. 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 ay 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 Taper, 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 beg to disavow the intention attributed to us by our sparkling contemporary, the " Comet." We had not the slightest idea of com- paring Mr. O'Connell to any member of the Administration. " Crito" is wrong. " Independence" is a conceited prig. We neither give thanks nor pence for slander— but truth is always wel- come, and shall be fearlessly published. The rubbish forwarded by '' G" has been consigned to the flames. ' A Squire" rnr" Thanks to ' for his hint. HEBDOMADARY. Do7 Mo. Day of We. High Water. I— Mom. Attern. 45 6 84 7 53 9 33 10 46 11 59 H. 11. 5 8 8 43 10 10 11 23 Remarkable Events, etc. Sun rises 29 after 6 Battle of Jena, 1806 Virgil born B. C. 70 Q. of France be. 1793 Watt ex. at Edin. 1794 Spanish war 1796 Fr. retr. from M. 1812 French Fl. def. 1798 principles in so short a time as to give you a mean and scanty measure of reform in the church. [ Loud cheers.] I trust that this measure, like the one recently given, will be temperate and moderate, but amply efficient." [ Continued cheering.] The introduction of a wholesome measure of eccle- siastical reform has now become as necessary to the safety of ( he Church, as the rectification of Parliamentary abuses was to the stability of our lay institutions. It is the act of prudent statesmen to introduce such a measure spon- taneously and in time. Another Irish tithe slaughter has occurred near the city of Waterford. A party of police proceeded to post notices of tithe arrears for 1831, and were fol- lowed by a crowd who menaced and insulted them- It is said that no absolute violence was resorted to by the multitude, but this we suspect to be a partial statement. However, Ihe crowd refusing to disperse at the summons of the officer in command of the police, the latter fired, and several persons were killed and wounded.— Are these horrors never to have an end ? TAXES ON KNOWLEDGE: No. III. Sunday Lessons. I7th Sunday after Trinity. Morning : Ezek. 14, Lu. lto39 Evening : Ezek. 18, 2 Cor. 13 %* A Saturday edition of this Paper, published in time for the Country, may le obtained of all Newsmen on Sunday morn- ing, within 100 miles of London. THE TOW IX. LONDON: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, SS3- 2. Ministers are very properly averse to the re- assembling for any period, however brief, a Parliament tainted, in so many of its members, with the borougli- mongering leprosy. It shows a just deference for public feeling, to leave the consideration of the national affairs to representatives whose judgments may be expected to emanate from the uncorrtipted sources of opinion. The dissolution of Parliament will take place on the ear- liest possible day, probably on the 25th of November, as by that time— and not sooner— Ihe registering barristers will have completed their lists. The lists will be arranged for publication by the Clerks of the Peace in the interval be- tween the 26th of November and the 1st of December. The Gazette announces, pro forma, the prorogation of Parliament to the 11th of December. The French Ministerial arrangements have been com- pleted, and an official announcement lias been made in the columns of the Moniteur. The following is a list of Ihe remodelled Ministry :— Marshal SOULT— President of the Council of Ministers, and Minister of the War Department. Duke de BROGI. IE— Foreign Affairs. M. THIERS— Interior. * M. HUMANS— Finance. M. GUIZOT— Public Instruction. Admiral de RIGNY— Marine. M. BARTHE— Seals, and Justice. Count d'ARGOUT— Commerce, and Public Works. Messrs. SEBASTIANI, MONTALIVET, LOOIS, and GIROD de 1' AIN, have been succeeded by Messrs. de BROGLIE, THIERS, HUMANN, and GUIZOT. Messrs. Louis and GIROD de 1' AIN, are raised to the Peerage, and the Chambers are convoked for the 19th of November. The new Administration does not wear the appearance of strength ; and we may venture to predict that it will not long hold together. A compact and violent opposition, with the perilous subject of 1he siege of Paris as a basis for rhetorical operations, will give its members hot work in flic Chamber of Deputies. It is exceedingly unfortunate, in the present posture of European affairs, that France is no! blessed wilh a government in the full possession of popular confidence, and at the same time teinpcralc and disin- terested in its demonstrations for freedom- The financial accounts for tho quarter, ended October 10th, are of a highly gratifying character, presenting, as they do, an excess of nearly 700,000/. above the returns for the corresponding three months of last year. This iin provemcnt is the more cheering, as it is equally diffused over those leading sources of revenue which are the re- ceived indications of national prosperity. The increase on the Customs is 3.06,388/.; on the Excise, 207,591/.; and on the Assessed Taxes, 116,383/. On Stamps lliere is a deficiency of 23,986/.; and on the Post Office, of 33,000/. Our island abounds in all the elements of wealth; its population energetic, ingenious, persevering; its climate healthful; its soil pregnant wilh mineral treasures:— out- trade embraces the circle of the globe— the Canadian hunter, the Caliie herdsman, the Gentoo husbandman, bend in acknowledgment of the supremacy of Ihe British flag. What want we then to banish penury, and the crimes of which penury is the parent, from our shores? A Government Ihat will economize ( lie fruits of general industry— that will afford every Englishman an open field for his activity— that will lay bare our immense external resources to the approaches of independent enter- prise. Labour has hitherto been crushed under the all- monopolizing influence of capital. Our Rulers would do well to weigh the following admirable observations con- tained in the American President JACKSON'S Message to Congress, on the renewal of the Charier of the Bank of the United States— " It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes. Distinctions in society will always exist under every just government. Equality of, talents, of education, or of wealth, cannot be produced by hu- man institutions. In the full enjoyment of the gifts of Heaven, and the fruits of superior industry, economy, and virtue, every man is equally entitled to protection by law. But when the laws undertake to add to these natural and just advantages artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer, and the potent more powerful, the hum- ble members of society, the farmers, mechanics, and labourers, who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government." The success which has attended the Pacha of EGYPT, in his opposition to his Suzerain at Constanlinople, is likely to produce a revolution in the affairs of the countries subject to the Ottoman yoke, of the highest importance to Europe and civilization. According to accounts received through the German papers, the Egyptian army is ad- vancing upon the Turkish capital, and Sultan MAHMOUD is destitute of a force sufficient to repel it. It is stated that MAHMOUD has applied to the different leading powers of Europe for assistance against his rebel- lious Satrap, and Russia is said to have lent a friendly ear to his entreaties; a circumstance that will not surprize those who are accustomed to note the wily movements of Northern policy. It is not merely Ihat the Czar would be disinclined to admit Ihe neighbourhood of the victorious MOHAMMED ALI, as the active regenerator of a shattered Sovereignty ; he would also gladly bear down even his provincial greatness, and reduce Egypt to the condilion from which she has been elevated by the daring genius of the Albanian soldier. Russian ambition never ceases to turn a wistful glance to the Hellespont and the Ganges. No Asiatic power yet exists that could make head against her invading legions. But were the standard of the Egyptian ruler triumphant in Stamboul, such an obstacle to the accomplishment of her grasping desires would soon be created;— besides, while MOHAMMED ALI maintains those relations lo England which it is his interest to preserve, our easfern possessions will be secure on that point where BONAPARTE held them to be most assailable, and from which, by the adoption of steam communication, we trust will, ere long, arise their greatest safeguard. It is the interest of England to suslaiu the PACHA on political, commercial, aud philanthropic grounds. Were Egypt to resume her ancient rank among the nations, the arts and refinements of Christendom would pour their be- nignant influence over the sands of Africa, and the in- habitants of that degraded continent would shako off their bondage. The Arabian peninsula, Syria, Palestine, would all participate in the advantages of a change, which would substitute knowledge, toleration, and industry, for indo Ience, ignorance, bigotry, and misrule. There was a Reform Festival at Horncastle on Tuesday last, where Mr. TENNYSON presided, and where there was a very gratifying display of liberal opinions. An an- nouncement made by the Hon. C. A. PELHAM, M. P., lent, however, a character of parantount interest to the occa- sion. Mr. PELHAM is reported to have stated, from his personal cognizance of the fact, that Ministers had pre- pared their Bill for Church Reform. Wc subjoin the Hon. Gentleman's words, as given in Drakard's Statnford News— " I have had the satisfaction of informing you, upon excellent authority, what are the measures which it is the intention of his Majesty's ministers to introduce in the next session of parliament. The Bill for Reform of Ihe Church I know is already prepared. [ Tremendous cheers.] It is therefore not for me, if I am again re- turned as your representative, to say, before I go into the house, whether I shall support that bill or not: all I can state at present is, that I will give it my best attention; and I will anxiously and deliberately form my judgment upon it. [ Loud cheers.] At the same time I believe— at least I have great hopes— I shall be able to support it, because I do not conceive that the same ministers who would give you so full and efficient and beneficial a measure gf reform for the representation of the people, will so change their Prince Talleyrand left Paris for London in the night of Wed- nesday, after having ascertained that the Ministerial list had been definitively arranged. GRANTHAM AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION. — The annual meeting of the members of this association was held on Friday. The stewards were W. Shield and T. C. Beasley, Esqrs.; the judges of the ploughing, Mr. Joseph Roberts, Mr. Robt. Hand and Mr. George Sills; and the judges of the stock, Mr. W. Robinson, Mr. W. Sills, and Mr. W. Musson. After the pre- miums were adjudged, between three and four in the afternoon near one hundred and thirty gentlemen, yeomen, farmers, gra ziers, and traders, sat down to a sumptuous dinner at the Town hall, provided by Mr. Burbidge, of the George Inn, Sir Robert Heron, M. P. in the chair; Mr. Hand in the second chair; Mr. Duffield and the Rev. T. Plaskett, vice- presidents. The meeting was most cheering, and after many local and general toasts, the evening was wound up with one peculiarly appro- priate to the occasion—" Liberal landlords and industrious tenants." AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS.— Evidence has been received from most respectable persons in various parts of England, that an industrious man may derive a profit of from 10/. to 151., per acre, and, in some instances even more, ( varying, of course, with the seasons, and with the quality of the soil,) from the spade cul- tivation of one acre of land. Mr. Bulwer, in the speech with which he introduced his long- delayed motion on the Newspaper Tax, offered to Govern- ment a substitute for the stamp similar to ours; but by his plan the Id. per copy was to be levied on such copies only as were conveyed by post. Let us see how we should set about the conveyance of as many papers as, in their aggregate, would suffice to replace the loss to be incurred by taking off the pre- sent duty. The number to be conveyed must bear to the present entire circulation, a ratio of at least 3j to 1 ; or, sup- posing one out of six newspapers to be conveyed by post, the number to be transmitted by post, according to Mr. Bulwer's plan, would bear to the number now transmitted a ratio of 21 to 1. It is matter of notoriety, that whenever, from any question of extraordinary interest, the number of newspapers sent to the Post- office is considerably augmented, the clerks are obliged to delay the transmission of a portion of them. If when the number of copies to be sent by post is doubled, or, at the ut- most, trebled, the present vehicles are insufficient for their con- veyance, these vehicles must be greatly augmented when the number to be sent is increased twenty fold. How is this diffi- culty to be overcome ? Mr. Bulwer says that at the rate of Id. each, newspapers might be conveyed by coach, and leave a large residue of profit to the Government which conveyed them. There is, however, an- other point which he did not advert to. Granting that one penny each is amply sufficient to pay for the conveyance of 10,000 news- papers, it does not follow that it would be sufficient to pay for the conveyance of 10. We must have numbers as well as pence, in order to defray coach- hire, and give profit to the Government, Where are these numbers to come from ? If the duty were re- moved entirely, the present effect would be a fall in the price of newspapers from 7d. to 3£ d., but the fall of price would not there. A paper of the magnitude of the Herald, or of the ex- tended information of the Times, would still require, for its pro- duction, a large capital, and no sale could enable such to reduce their price by a much larger sum than the amount of the duty, yet even they woidd, in all probability, fall to 3d. Supposing the large newspapers to sell for 3d., Mr. Bulwer's post- office duty would make a difference between their price in the town and in the country of 33 per cent. According to his calculation the circulation of ne jvspapers all over the kingdom, will increase at least twenty fold, but granting that it would do so, it by no means follows that the Times would increase in so extravagant a ratio. The circulation of the large paper might increase two- fold, perhaps three- fold, certainly not more. The great increase would take place in the small papers, in those that, from their size and quality, would be sold from Id. to 2d. per copy. In these, from the post- office duty, the difference between the town and country price would amount to between 50 and 100 per cent. How many copies, under such circumstances, would go by the post ? We verily believe instead of 20 for 1, there would not be 1 for 20, of those that go at present. This is, we think, quite sufficient for Mr. Bulwer's plan. He offers a substitute that, in practice, will prove no substitute at all for the amount of revenue to be sacrificed. We have not the slightest objection to the complete abolition of the tax, if it could be abolished without imposing another more obnoxious; but we decidedly object to its abolition by a trick. Mr. Bulwer, we have every reason to believe, was deceived by mis- informa- tion, and hence the errors of his system. The parties who per- suaded him to advocate a post- office tax, as a substitute for all others, were, we rather fancy, connected with Journals whose chief circulation was in town, and upon that hint they spake. If a post- office tax were adopted, besides the falling- off in the revenue, that would necessarily ensue, very great injustice would be inflicted on the morning daily press, and, in many cases, on the weekly press. At present to towns within 100, and, in some instances, 200 miles of the metropolis, the morning papers are transmitted by coach. If they were not so transmissible, they would not be transmitted at all; the evening papers, which are made up at their expense, would go in their stead. It would be impossible to have a morning mail for their conveyance ; the tax would not pay the tenth part of the expense of such an establishment. It would be equally impossible to allow them to be transmitted by coach, for if one journal were so transmitted another must; and then what was to become of the revenue ? There is another insuperable objection to Mr. Bulwer's com mutation scheme. His substitute for the present tax is two- fold ; one part we have already considered, but, failing that, he has another. " If the post- office duty do not answer the expecta- tions entertained of it, still there is no doubt that there must be an amazing increase of local circulation ; the result will be a large increase of the paper duty." This is no more than saying that if Government give up a tax that is bad, they may count on a great increase on a tax that is worse. The newspaper tax is decidedly bad ; but it is cheaply and easily levied. As it adds to the price it of necessity diminishes the demand, but it does, in no respect, interfere with the production of the article. The tax levied on paper, on the contrary, like all taxes on manufac- tures, interferes materially with production ; it forbids the pro- cesses by which paper might be more cheaply and readily pro- duced ; it makes the consumer pay a price greater, not by the amount of the tax merely, but, by the amount of all the draw- backs on the useful employment of capital that attend the levy- ing of the tax. Nothing can he more opposed to sound princi- ple than a proposal by which a premium is held out to the per- petuation of $ uch a tax. We don't propose its immediate removal, because we don't wish the finance minister to risk so much at a time ; and because we make large allowance for that " evil heart of unbelief" touch- ing the advantage of reducing taxation, which finance ministers always possess ; but we pave the way for it. If by the substitu- tion, which we propose, the newspaper duty were increased three- fold, as we honestly believe it would be, theu ministers could afford to dispense with the paper tax altogether, and thus materially to assist the book trade, which stands in quite as much need of assistance as the newspaper trade.* The news- paper tax is morally obnoxious, as well as objectionable in a mer- cantile point of view. The mercantile argument alone applies to the advertisement duty, which we shall consider in our next and concluding paper on this subject. ERRATUM.— In the article, " Taxes on Knowledge," in our last, line 19 from bottom, col. 1, for " restriction," read " revenue." OUR CHURCH ESTABLISHMENTS. The Christian Advocate informed us some days ago, that there were no less than 350 petitions drawn up, and ready to be presented to a Reformed Parliament, " for the abolition of the Church of Scotland." From the Edinburgh Evening Post we learn that a society has been formed " for the purpose of de- claring open war" on the same unfortunate Church. That journal denounces the address of this society as " savouring as strongly of Satanic origin as any decree of Caligula or Julian ever did." The society, it says, is a " vile" one, composed of Burghers and anti- Burghers, " with a few pitiable Independents, Baptists, and Relief- men." Their union, we are moreover told, is similar to that of Herod and Pilate, and the members, of course, are like these well- known worthies, " fellow- workers with the Prince of Darkness." The inference we draw from this extravagance of abuse is— that the society which calls itself the " Voluntary Church Association," is a numerous and powerful one ; and that the timid and bigoted of the Church of Scotland are very much afraid of it, and very angry with it. A combination to effect the abolition of the Church of Scot- land is even a more formidable indication of the march of opinion, than a combination to effect the abolition of tithes, which has also been recommended, and may be formed. The Bucks Gazette contains, on this head, an address— an anonymous one— to the Dissenters, calling on them to imitate the conduct of the Quakers, to suffer the seizure of their property, rather than continue " a compromising support of the established hierarchy." The following blazing passage seems decisive— " Let one day throughout the land bear testimony to our decision, — a day in which history shall record that an oppressed majority of the nation opened their doors to spiritual tyrants, and permitted ( with a quiet sullen submission) tlieir property to be seized, their rights of freemen to be trampled upon, for the purpose of vindi- cating the cause of religion, obtaining liberty of conscience, and ascertaining their strength, previous to a conflict, which should end in a complete and splendid victory of truth over error, of freedom over despotism, of religion over hypocrisy and iniquity." Here then are the north and south uniting with the west in a simultaneous attack on the aged, and somewhat time- worn, esta- blishment. What is to be done ? Will the Lords and Commons of the convocation go down to these Philistines, or will they sit quiet in their high places, in the trust, that the Lord will deliver them into their hands ? It is evident, that buckle them for the war they must, however they may resolve on waging it. We say, that the " Voluntary Church Association,", of our Scotch neighbours, is a more formidable indication of the times than the proposed combination in Buckinghamshire. The Scotch Church has little to provoke or justify enmity. It is poor, and pains- taking. Pluralities it has none ; sinecures none. Its con- nexion with the state is purely political. No King in Council in- terferes to regulate its forms, or to modify its creed. Earthly head, it acknowledges none. The mode of its payment is open to no serious objection ; it is a tax on rent, in a country where nine- tenths of the landlords are members of the Established Church.— An opposition to the Church of Scotland can only be seriously entered into by men who, from principle, condemn union of any kind whatever between the Church and the State. The Church of England is by no means so little open to ob- jection as the Church of Scotland. It is wealthy, and some- what idle ; its pluralities are many ; its sinecures not a few ; it lays its grasping hand on all men, of whatever creed or condi- tion ; and the tax it levies is as exceptionable in form, as it is burdensome in amount. Still the question may be fairly put, ought tithes— all injurious as they are acknowledged to be, ought church rates, or any rates, to be resisted, as the Bucks address would counsel resistance ? The law, doubtless, does not compel any man to pay tithes in money— it does not compel him to pay hisbutcher'sbillinmoney; but honest men, who have the means, pay their debts though no compulsion urges them. Why ? Because, upon the whole the evil consequence of obedience to a bad law is less than that which follows the contempt of all law, which the resistance of one engenders. The Catholic peasantry of Ireland were grievously afflicted by tithe ; they determined to do as the Bucks Dissenters are counselled to do— to pay the penalty of the law.. What followed ? Combination to compel all men, whatever might be their opinions or wishes, to do the same, active opposi- tion to the attempts of authority to enforce the penalty, blood- shed, murder— and the end is not yet. The Irish Catholics could combine with effect; in the south they form the great majority of the people. Are the Dissenters of Scotland and England so formidable in point of numbers that they can reasonably hope for success by similar means ? The address asks " Who will buy their property if seized ?" we answer thousands, and sell it, and make gain of it, and laugh at its sim- ple owners. There is no such touch of enthusiasm in the Saxon character, as in the Milesian ; and the grand bond of union is wanting here— the Dissenters differ from the church, it is truer but they differ more from each other. Present and certain in- terest is but a weak bond and hardly ever holds ; future and contingent interest is no bond at all. But granting the Dissenters are strong enough and numerous enough to awe the rest of the community, or persuade them to join in the proposed combination, why use their strength , and numbers in so questionable a shape ? If they can prevail with the nation, cannot they prevail with its legislators ? Can they controul the whole and not controul a part ? And if they may have their wishes by the law, why seek them contrary to the law? * The tax on newspapers amounts to about 400,000/.; the duty on paper to about 700,000/. If the former, by reducing the stamp, were only trebled, we could, it is evident, afford to give up the latter also without loss. The value of the latter reduction to the publishing trade, and more especially the export trade, does not admit of an easy calcula- tion ; it would be very great. SLAVERY.— It is rumoured that nine vessels, under the sole command of Lieutenants, are immediately to be commissioned, for the coast of Africa, for the prevention of slavery.— Plymouth Journal. HONEST RUNNING.— A provincial journal, giving an account of the Carlisle races, says. " The horses ran with an honesty of purpose that excited the utmost interest." We believe nobody ever suspected the honesty of the horses in any race ; though it is said that the " honesty" of certain trainers and others con- nected with the stables of the owners is not in good odour at this time ; and that a certain Marquis, who has lately lost every thing run for at Newmarket and elsewhere, has determined to give up his racing establishment, after ascertaining that he has been " middled" to a frightful extent. September 23. THE TOWS. 333 THE ELECTIONS. BATH— Palmer's return is considered safe, and Mr. Hob- house has obtained 1,300 promises. BEDFORDSHIRE— In Bedfordshire, as in every other shire, the Tories " are at their dirty work again." The hacknied decree of alarming the farmer is continually had recourse to. Amongst other stratagems, he is told that the reforming candi- dates intend abolishiug the corn laws, and that the average price of wheat is to be 4s. per bushel. Lord Charles Russell has, on his personal canvass, had hard work to undeceive them. CAMBRIDGE.— We recommend the following statement to the attention of Mr. Goulburn's clerical admirers at Cambridge :— The same wretched system which prevails, with slight variations throughout the West Indies, I found to be, on Mr. Goulburn's estate, as elsewhere, in fall operation. His slaves, during the period of his possession of them, had been destitute of religious instruction. Not a single marriage had taken place among them. They had continued to live in the same state of promiscuous concubinage, which pollutes society, and checks population, in all our slave colonies. The men and women had continued to toil alike, under the lash, from morning to night ; and in crop time for half the night ;— the women, equally with the men, being subject to have their bodies shamelessly exposed and lacerated with the cart- whip. Their labour had not been relieved, as it might have been, by the plough, though Mr. Goulburn's estate is pecu- liarly adapted for the use of that instrument. And in con- sequence of the continuance of these evils of the slave system, evils unredressed to this hour, the population of his estate had continued to decrease.— Correspondent of the Penny Evangelical Magazine. CARLOW— Sir J. M. Doyle has resigned the representation of this county, in consequence of his departure for the army of Don Pedro. COVENTRY.— The Coventry Herald says that the result of the canvass of 10/. voters, on behalf of Messrs. Ellice and Bulwer, is highly satisfactory ; and that, of the whole number of electors, three- fourths are supporters of those gentlemen. Upwards of 300 voters have been objected to, of which number 191 are by Messrs. Fyler and Thomas, the opposing candidates, and 107 by Messrs. Ellice and Bulwer. CHESTER, OCT. 6.— There are symptoms of a contest here, both for the county and city. For the latter, Lord Robert Grosvenor will certainly be re- elected ; his colleague, Mr. Fin- chett Maddocks, will be opposed by Mr. John Jervis, a barrister, who has already made, as he says, a very successful canvass. The candidates for this ( the southern) division of the county are the present Members, Earl Grosvenor and Mr. Wilbraham. The latter, however, will be opposed by Sir Phillip Grey Egerton, on the " conservative" interest. Mr. Wilbraham addressed the county electors resident in Chester in the large room at the Royal Hotel. The tone of his address is curious, as a specimen of the altered state of the public mind, when an hon. gentleman would venture to give utterance to such opinions as he did on the subject of church- rates and tithes, almost within the cathe- dral precincts. In answer to a question, Mr. Wilbraham said, " As to tithes, I look upon them as a partial and unfair tax, operating most injuriously upon improvement in agricul- ture, and directly tending to produce a state of feeling that ought never to exist between a pastor and his parishioners, ( Cheers); and if any plan can he devised to obviate these evils, and at the same time protect the interests of the church, it shall have my warmest support." HERTS,— The reformers of Watford, Herts, have entered into resolutions to oppose Lord Grimston, and bring in R. Alston, Esq. as the third member for Herts, with Sir J. Sebright, and N. Calvert, Esq. free of expense. LICHFIELD ( From a Correspondent).—" At Lichfield there is no prospect of an opposition. The present members, Sir G. Anson and Sir Edward Scott, will, in all probability, take their seats in the reformed parliament." NORTHUMBERLAND ( From a Correspondent).— NORTHERN DIVISION OF NORTHUMBERLAND.— Lords Howick and Ossul- ston have completed their canvass, and will be returned without opposition— a Whig and a Tory, to neutralize each other's votes. With moderately skilful management, the liberal party might easily have returned two members; for notwithstanding the great influence of the house of Percy, there were votes enough for the purpose. SURREY.— Alexander Raphael, Esq. a gentleman of consider- able influence in the neighbourhood of Kingston, has recently an- nounced his intention to come forward as a caudidate for the re- presentation of the east Division of Surrey. Mr. Raphael was, and it is stated is, at the present time, connected with the house of Rothschild, andinpossession of property exceeding 50,000/. a- year. Mr. Leech, of Godalming, has canvassed the western part of the county with Mr, D jnison ; but he is to be opposed by Mr, Holme Sumner, who^ it is well- known, is a decided Tory. WICKLOW.— Lord Milton has written a letter, which has ap- peared in several Irish papers, addressed to certain tenants on his father's estates in Ireland, who had written to him to beg they might not be required to vote for Mr. Grattan, one of the sitting members of Wicklow county, Lord Milton disclaims all idea of dictation or interference of an improper nature, but says, that although he did not concur in all Mr. Grattan's votes in the last Session, he did in his general course, and, looking to that, should certainly ask them to vote for him, in opposition to Mr. Acton, who is put forth by Lord Wicklow, who avowedly wishes to turn out the present Administration. ELECTIONEERING CONUNDRUMS. By E. Simpkins of St. Mary- AXE. Why is Captain Back, R. N., like a man about to give his vote ?— Because he's going to the Pole ( poll). Why is a sail- maker more certain than any one else to be re- turned for Parliament ?— Because he's sure of his canvass. Why is an honest reformer like a lump of barley sugar ?— Because he's candid ( candied). When is a candidate for a county like a person come back from the Continent ?— When he's returned ( Oh 1) When is he like a man upset from his gig?— When he's thrown out. THE VISION OF A VIRTUOSO. TORY CAMPAIGNERS.— The Coryphoeus of Blackwood holds forth the following terrible programme in a supposed colloquy with the Lord Advocate. Poor Sugden surely deserved better than to be made camp- executioner to these " men in buck- ram" :— " NORTH— If the Tories Ultra, and the Tories Mode rate, bring their now pending negotiations to a really satisfactory conclusion, and Peel raises the banner blue next spring at the head of a firmly- compacted band, whose line has been distinctly traced beforehand, as to every important question likely to be started— if Field- Marshal Peel, I say, opens the campaign in this style, with such a second in command as Croker, such generals of division as Chandos, Hardinge, Vyvyan, and Mur- ray— such quarter- masters as Inglis (!) and Saddler (!) and such a provost- marshal as Sugden— and such an army as, even the Ministerial prints now admit, we are likely to take the field with— and such a confounded enemy in your rear as the Radi- cals proper will then assuredly be— it is to be confessed that you may have some call to pick your marches." GRANTHAM, OCT. 12. [ From a Correspondent.]— At the Grantham Sessions, this day, John Dewey and Robert Sibson were convicted of stealing silver spoons, the property of Mr. Nevitt, White Hart Inn. Sibson was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, and Dewey to transportation for seven years.— John Bacon and Edward Sunderland were convicted of stealing masons' tools, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment.— Edward Clark was convicted of stealing victuals from his lodgings, and was sentenced to three months' imprisonment.-* A man named Robinson was convicted of stealing a trap, the property of Turner, Esq., and sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment. PUFFING AMONG THE ROMANS.— Among the Romans, per- sons were instructed to give applauses with skill, and there were even masters who professed to teach the art. The proficients in this accomplishment let themselves out for hire to the poets aod actors. BASINGSTOKE, OCT. 12. ( From a Correspondent.) The market on Wednesday was very crowded, and wheat fully maintained last week's prices, with a brisk demand. It is said that there was a rise of Is. per quarter in all other kinds of grain. The attendance at our Statute Fair on Thursday was better than has been known for many years s but there was very little hiring of farm- servants. A practice prevails now among the farmers of not hiring until a few days after Michaelmas, to avoid parochial claims. This morning a man named Hobbs, keeping a beer- shop at South Wanbro, was found in a state of complete nudity, under a hay- rick, near the road, a mile from Basingstoke, by some labourers going to their work ; how he came there, or who stripped him, he could not explain; all he could tell was, that he had been to Basingstoke Fair. Tbe attempt of the parsons, assisted by a most persevering agent at Basingstoke, to force the Marquis of Douro on us as our future Representative, must prove abortive ; still we would advise our much- respected and worthy friend, Lefevre, not to be quite idle, but to astound his opponents by a most overwhelming majority, which he can obtain for the asking. On Wednesday the whole of the officers, non- commissioned officers, and four select privates of each troop of the North Hants Yeomanry, mustered at Hukfield, for the purpose of an officer's drill. After going through their evolutions they were hand- somely entertained by their Colonel, Lefevre. MARKS OF PARENTAGE. The Dublin Evening Post gives a dialogue between its editor and Mr. H. Robinson, the barrister, adverted to by Mr. O'Connell in his late Chesterfieldian letter to Mr. Stanley. It thus plea- santly terminates :— Mr. Robinson.— I will not enter into a critical disquisition with you, Sir ; but I know that Mr. O'Connell could not write such a letter. Editor.— May I beg to ask how ? Mr. Robinson.— Sir, it is vulgar. Editor.— Is that all ? Mr. Robinson.— It is ungentlemanlike. Editor.— A mere trifle. Mr. Robinson.— It is unscholarly. Editor.— Some other reason, Mr. Robinson, if you please. Mr. Robinson.— It is false. Editor.— And is this your conclusive reason ? Unhappy man, how little you know of the great Original! Go to your studies, Sir, and you will learn, after painful inquiry, that your last is a conclusive reason for the authenticity of the letter. Mr. Robinson.— But, Sir, Sir,— though I have the honour and pleasure of being a registering barrister on the present im- portant occasion, I don't go to Kerry at all: and I am glad of it. Editor.— Not to Kerry ! Mr. Robinson.— No, Sir ; to Tyrone. Editor.— But you are appointed to Kerry ? Mr. Robinson.— Never, so help me God ! Editor.— Then you are not, after all, the real Simon Pure ? Mr. Robinson,— No, Sir, nor any other Simon. My name is Hartstrong Robinson, Esq., barrister- at- law. Editor.— Fortunate Mr. Robinson I You have been the inno- cent cause of the best joke on record. Exeunt severally. STYLE OF THE HERALD.— This Morning luminary is an ex- haustless source of amusement. The following gem sparkles among its editorial ornaments of Thursday :—" We are glad to see that the Bow- street magistrates have at length determined to take in hand those dens of infamy with which that neighbourhood abounds : and if any thing in this way is likely at length to be done, we trust it will be with an impartial, an unflinching, and unsparing hand. It certaiidy has been hitherto no great credit to our police that crime should have had its most prolific hot- beds and prosperous nurseries existing, and it may be said cherished, under the nose of those functionaries who have been appointed to suppress it. We hail, therefore, the commence- ment of this much- called- for reform with satisfaction— shall carefully watch its progress— and, if necessary, rattle a sessararo in the ears of our police authorities, if we see them relax one iota from the task they have at length undertaken."—[ It is to be hoped, for the credit of our country, that this journal never falls under the observation of foreigners.] THE HERALD AT A SIMILE.—" Trade," says the City scribe of the Morning Herald, " is like a river— its course should be free ; a partial attempt to stem its current may cause it to overflow its banks anil carry nan to thousands in a quarter which the foresight of unskilled interference never contem- plated."— Genius of Jargon ! can this be surpassed ! INTELLIGENCE FROM THE PROVINCES.— The Maidstone Gazette informs us, that Parliament did not meeton Saturday— and the Devonport Telegraph, that " General Murat, brother to the King of Naples of that name, passed through Exeter last week, on his way from Oporto to London." A CONDESCENDING RELATIVE.— Mr. Doyle, of Newcastle, in this county, was robbed lately by a relative, who descended through the chimney.— Dublin Times. Died, at Grantham, on Wednesday last, much respected, F. Sharpe, Esq., many years organist of that place. The situation that has become vacant by the above event, we understand, the Trustees of the organ have determined, shall be given to the best player who shall apply -. a competition, therefore, is expected. PECKHAM.—( From a Correspondent.)— At this place, on Sunday last, a labouring man was seen running about the streets insane, barking like a dog, and biting at every one. Two per- sons were severely bitten by him, and it was with great difficulty that he was finally secured, and carried to a lunatic asylum. PETERBOROUGH, OCT. 9.—( From a Correspondent.)— Two beautiful heifers, one weighing upwards of 132 stone, 14lbs. to the stone, passed through Peterborough on Monday last, bred by Mr. Thomas Fullard, of Thorney Fenn, on their way to town for the purpose of adding to his majesty's herd. DUEL EXTRAORDINARY.— An angry dispute having arisen be- tween two gentlemen pensioners in this town as to the value of their respective merits in the service of their King and Country, like others of their cloth, determined on deciding the question by shoot- ing at each other at tbe distance of ten paces, and for that purpose actually retired to the back yard of a tavern on Lancashire- hill, where they had before been sitting. Their design, however, was discovered in time, and thus luckily the heroes are saved to their families and friends. One of the pot- valiants is a tailor, the other ; s a weaver aud trumpeter.— Stockport Advertiser. Which of our dramatic writers was most conversant with French literature ?— Mrs. Cent- livre. FOR THE TOWN. It was a snowy night, in the middle of December, when the huge Dutch clock in Dr. Crumbledust's study, the work of three generations of Low Country artists, gave ten desperate thumps on its great bee- hive bell, and began to play the fag- end of a con- certo, composed by Mynheer Von Somebody, an old Kapellmeis- ter of Rotterdam. The Doctor himself, who had been turning over an enormous folio, with covers as thick as the table, and clasps of at least a pound weight, rolled his great easy arm- chair to the middle of the fire- place, and fixing his feet, made glorious by a pair of antique red slippers, on each side of the grate, ( where they looked like a couple of salamanders mounting guard over their favourite clement,) he began to ruminate on the events of his past life. The apartment in which the Doctor was seated might have been mistaken for one of the " Stanze" of the Italian galleries or a room in the British Museum. Books, shells, pictures, statues, helmets, and massive pieces of plate armour; fossils, larger than a man could lift; stuffed birds and beasts, skeletons of ditto; reptiles and fishes, some dried and some in spirits ; weapons of divers fashions, models, busts, and bas- reliefs ; to gether with prints, maps, manuscripts, and drawings, and an infinity of other matters, the mere catalogue of which fills four quires of closely- written foolscap, were hung, piled, tied, nailed, and reared against the roof, the walls, the windows, and the floor, till hardly a square inch of the original edifice could be anywhere discovered. One end of this wonderful room was occupied by a monstrous Indian cabinet, on the top of which Messrs Homer and Aristotle looked extremely learned, with mammoth's skull between them. The space betwixt the windows ( which were of the most curious painted glass) was filled up by the great piece of clockery above- mentioned; and the chairs and tables, themselves the most ancient of their race, were loaded with tracts, coins, cameos, and divers et ceteras of antiquity, which had been recently added to the collection, or lately un- dergone a scrutiny from their guardian genius. A total silence reigned throughout, which, among such an assemblage of mon- sters and monstrosities, seemed somewhat extraordinary : the birds, though they appeared in the very act of pouring forth their loudest canticles, preserved a melancholy quietude; the quadruped creatures, gleaming fiery glances from their glass eye- balls, subscribed to the general serenity; and not a sound was heard to disturb the lucubrations of our venerable doctor, save the occasional falling of a cinder, and the solemn tick- tack of the Dutch horologe, which served rather to measure than to interrupt the silence that prevailed. Throwing back his head into the hollow that it had worn for itself in the easy chair, thrusting both hands into the warm depths of his waistcoat pockets, and at the same time fixing his eyes upon a chubby Chinese idol, that sat tailorwise on the man- tel- shelf before him, did the learned Doctor Northumhrius Crum- bledust pursue his sublime meditations till ccrtain low and fitful murmurings, accompanied by sudden twitchings of the arms and legs, indicated his departure for the realms of somnolency. We are not going to write the life of our antiquary, neither do we design to enter into a minute calculation concerning the exact degree of scrupulosity that is generally allowed to the composi- tion of a collector. We have only to say, that Doctor Northum- brius Crumbledust had always borne the character of au inde- fatigable virtuoso, and one that would leave no stone unturned which might lie in the path between him and the object of his pursuit. Scarcely had the great Dutch clock ( which our readers will begin, by this time, to regard as an old acquaintance,) finished the last stave of the Rotterdam concerto, when, to the inexpres sible surprise and horror of our gaping doctor, Ching Chong Chee, the Chinese idol aforementioned, rose majestically from his seat, and advancing to the edge of the chimney- piece, de- livered himself as follows :—" Crumbledust 1 Crumbledust 1 Crumbledust! Four thousamd four hundred and forty moons have burnt out since I was first torn from my native temple in the province of Pekeen; and from that time, when the inhabit- ants of the celestial empire bowed before me in my own pagoda— when the Sun of the World, the Polar Star of Princes, whose sceptre is a comet, and whose footstool. the heads of kings, came with his train of white elephants to kiss the dust under my feet— never have I witnessed such premeditated knavery, such auda- cious duplicity as have been practised in this little chamber. To look no farther than myself for an example : think by what means, by what treachery, I was inveigled into this dreary abode A poor sailor, to whom I had been sold by one of my rascally priests, fell ill of a fever, called in your assistance, and died. His aged widow was obliged to sell almost every thing she pos- sessed to satisfy your demands : she retained but one memorial of her deceased husband ; that one memorial was myself; that one, that last, memorial you seized I" When John Chinaman had pronounced this rhapsody, accom- panied by some half- dozen oaths, which are totally untranslat- able, up started an old Roman demigod, ( or, rather— for it was very much broken— a semi- demi- god,) who had hitherto been reposing very quietly on his couch of bronze at the farther end of the mantel- shelf. " Crumbledust 1 Crumbledust 1 Crumble- dust 1" so began the worthy ex- deicy; " nearly two thousand years, ago, did Marcus Aurelius Quintilius Curtius, a tinker in the old forum of Rome, present me to the high priest of Apollo, in the saerarium of his temple ; and from that day to this have I never seen so much covetousness aud fraud in any one indi- vidual as thou, Oh, most griping of antiquaries, art possessed of! Reflect, wicked old man, reflect, if thou canst, how wrong- fully you became master of me 1 A friend, who, in times gone by, had rendered you the most important services, wrote to re- quest that I might be purchased, and sent to him immediately. This you assured him you would do 1 rather as a duty than as a favour;' but instead of it, you seized on me yourself, aud, adding duplicity to ingratitude, sent him word that I had been ' sold some time since ;' thus cheating that worthy gentleman of his relic, and your other friend, the devil, of a lie 1" If our connoisseur were startled at the proceedings of these impertinent divinities, how much more had he occasion to stare and shudder when he beheld a kit- cat portrait of a Dutch bur- gomaster, which hung over the fire- place, draw back its green silk curtain, and with as great an expression of anger as a Ne- derlander could assume, thus take up the strain of accusation against him:—" When the worthy Hendrick von Smokemfest von Slomberdronk"— your Dutchman always dashes at once into his subject —" sat to be painted by his friend, David Teniers, little- did I think to find an old man who, instead of smoking his pipe amiably and quietly, and meditating on another world, as he ought to do, was continually seeking after the toys and bau- bles of this ; much less did I ever imagine that it would be my lot to call that man master, and be an unwilling witness of his iniquities 1 Think, Mynheer Crumbledust— and tremble as you think 1— on the arts that were used to incarcerate me in thi6 dungeon of deceit! A poor Fleming, whose whole fortune was vested in a few pictures, sought your opinion of me ; and in the honesty of his heart, entrusted me to your care and inspection. Instead of returning or purchasing me, however, you caused a copy of me to be painted, and gave it to the poor deluded fo- reigner, kindly observing, that ' I was not an original, and you should not charge him any thing for having me varnished.' Here the good burgomaster made a dead pause, evidently out of breath with so long an harangue ; and a snore of more than ordinary force and duration from the Doctor, gave token of what was passing in his infernal ( beg pardon 1— internal) regions. But the cup of his sorrows was not yet filled. A sudden crash was heard from behind, and, lo I the doors of the great Indian cabinet flew open, and out rushed such a tribe of missals, manu- scripts, books of black letter, and folios of prints, as might have scared Mephistopheles himself. " Look at me, bully Doctor," cried a fat Breviary, illuminated on vellum; " me, whom you purloined from a poor bookseller's parcel, and then declared had been lost on the road !" " And me," continued a rare old Portrait of Chaucer, " whom thou hadst the audacity to ravish, with thine unholy hands, from a volume of my own poems I" " Wretch of a collector 1" exclaimed a mutilated Saxon Manu- script, " having borrowed me from a near neighbour and intimate friend, for the purpose of reading and collating, you kept me so long a time, that my master forgot where I was deposited. . Then, when he made you acquainted with his loss, thou hadst the impudence to join him in his lamentation, and rail at the conduct of those who could so unblushingly impose upon his kindness 1" " Dog of an antiquary," shouted one of Crispin Pass's earliest Tracts, " villain of a virtuoso! who fairly carried me away in thine unhallowed pocket from a church library 1" The uproar now became so general, and the accusations so numerous, that it was no longer possible to distinguish the tenour of each. Nothing less than chaos, the tower of Babel, or the house of Peers on a late celebrated occasion, could furnish a parallel to it. Shells, sounding as if blown by Tritons ; fossils, dancing like the stones of Deucalion ; medallions, rolling and clattering from their drawers, added their horrid intonations to the general din. The deep groans of the ponderous folios, and the shriller cries of the 12 and 18mos. conspired to fill a chorus, at which Discord herself might have presided ; and, as if to give the finishing touch to this " concert of ancient music," the old Dutch clock, after a preliminary growl, began to ring her noisy chimes, and strike up the Rotterdam concerto. Humanity could endure no more. The antiquary started— he rubbed his eyes— he gazed wildly around him : an awful silence prevailed; he sprang from, his seat, and grasped the handle of the bell— a footstep was heard upon the stair— the door of the apartment flew open I— with an evident expression of agitation upon his countenance, he fixed his eyes upon the spot— and— " Betty," said he, " bring the warming- pan directly 1" THE PLAY- GOER. » • . DRURY LANE. Criticism on new pieces at this theatre is really a very pain- ful work. With all the assistance of Stanfield's pencil, very admirably employed, the Factory Girl has proved a complete failure. We regret this, for Mr. Jerrold has great dramatic tact, and a faculty for the delineation of truth in homely mat- ters, which ought to have been more successfully put forth. But we are bound to say that, in the present instance, he merited his ill- success, having given us nothing even worthy of the notice of criticism. It is all made up of the old materiel— old characters— old sentiments— old claptraps— much mystery, with a strange infusion of tulips— considerable curiosity, villany, and household sorrow. This is all, without a touch of originality, or even a shadow of it. Its pathetics are stilted, and copiously maudlin— its wit and humour as dry as a " remainder biscuit after a voyage." What remains to be said then ? We cannot trouble our readers with anything of the plot of such stuff as this ; and have only to express our regret that Mr. Serle, for whom we entertain great respect, should have been so unfortunate as to be mixed up with its failure. He did all that could be done for Skelton, who whines and whimpers throughout, very lament- ably, and only affords opportunity for the slightest force or spirit, in the scene of the last act with the Overseer. There, M} T. Serle was very effective, aud varied his energetic tones withia tremulousness not unpleasing. * As somewhat of a set- off to the above, we have to mention the production of, what report calls, a highly successful farce ; and, we doubt not, it deserves the name, though We can only speak of it as the production of a gentleman of taste, and literary repute. We have not ourselves seen it. The other theatre has' brought out a provincial actor of some promise, and continues to play the Hunchback to well- filled houses, and audiences which seem as fully sensible of the beauties and interest of that fine comedy as ever, and delighted with it equally as at the first; so fresh and never- tiring are the really true productions of the stage. HAYMARKET. This pleasant little theatre closed on Monday, after an unpros- perous season, with the divinest performance on the modern stage, Mr. Kean's Othello.— It is full of passages of the purest pathos, perfect and beyond all praise. What it may have been in the high and palmy state of Mr. Kean's renown we know not, but we despair of seeing genius on the stage go further than did this wonderful actor, on Monday night last. His speech to the Senate was exquisitely mild and quiet, full of the fine tones and inflections of a perfect declamation, and beautifully varied at the conclusion, by his outbreaking confidence of tone, in " Here comes the lady, let her witness it 1" which bore the full assurance of his truth, and her passion. His struggles in ( he third act between love and jealousy, hatred, rage, and tenderness, were" heart- rending indeed, and gave warrant for the sublimity of 334 THE TO WIT. October 14. thought which arises out of the agony to which Iago had lashed up his noble nature ; out of such frightful suffering alone, would such sublime words have come. They form part of the wisdom and redemption of sorrow. We never heard the " Oh now, for ever, farewell the tranquil mind 1"— given with such full emotion such swelling accents of beauty and despair. It was only equalled by the awful quietness of the last scene, where his passion flows on to its purpose deep and sustained, and, indeed, " knows no ebb." It sent forth a dead, chill calm through the whole theatre, aad was a fit conclusion to the impetuous, majestic troubles of the wronged Othello. Shakspeare himself might have stretched his hand out to the actor, and thanked him ; and he would have dolie so, nor have thought it unworthy of the hand that raised up the wonderful creation, which the actor has enabled us more worthily to admire. Mr. Elton, whom we had the pleasure of noticing in this paper some time ago, has been engaged at this theatre to play second to Mr. Kean, and acquitted himself very creditably, and to the great satisfaction of the audiences. He has since, we observe, been engaged at the Strand Theatre, where we may have an oppor tunity of noticing him further. SADLER'S- WELLS. On Thursday we visited this little Thespian retreat, where Mrs. Fitzwilliam and Mr. W. H. Williams unite their efforts for the recreation of that portion of his Majesty's subjects to whom Islington and its modestprecincts are dearer than St. James's, with its aggregate of aristocratic edifices, and gambler- haunted " hells." It may be marvelled why we— THE TOWN,— sported our equi- page in this secluded region. One reason is that it gratifies our humanities to seek out merit wherever it may fix its residence, and another, that though we are confessedly " the rose of fashion, and the mould of form," still our considerate regard,— like the genial warmth of the luminary of day— is a blessing equally bestowed, and neglects not the citizen while it vivifies the court. The Management at Sadler's- Wells received us with the most flattering attentions, and the captivating smiles of Mrs. Fitz- william greeted our entrance into a box set apart for our especial use, and decorated in a style of the most poetic elegance. Amidst a profusion of choice devices, a scroll classically unfolded above our head, displayed in golden emblazonment the tribute which our friend Knowles has thought proper to pay us, in the second , cene of The Hunchback. " The Town's the sun, and they have dwelt in night E'er since their birth, who have not seen the Town ?" The first of the entertainments was a drama, entitled the Forged Bill. It is of the French school, and by the skilful arrangement of its scenes, keeps the attention in lively suspense to the close. The performers to whom the leading characters were allotted, acquitted themselves well, especially Mrs. Fitz- william as Victorine, and Mr. Williams as Jacob Roulette, her lover, whom the chapter of accidents has turned from a hero into a hackney- coachman. John of Paris and the Little Red Man were the concluding pieces. The scenery of the latter was entitled to the approbation it extracted from an audience which, we need hardly observe, on the occasion of a visit from THE TOWN, was in number and brilliancy all that the most ardent friends to the Sadler's Wells' administration could desire. ROYAL AND FASHIONABLE MOVEMENTS. His Majesty, attended by Sir Herbert Taylor, arrived in town on Wednesday afternoon, from the Palace at Windsor. His Majesty gave audiences to Earl Grey, Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Palmerston, Viscount Goderich, Viscount Althorp, the Duke of Richmond, Lord Hill, Sir James Graham, Sir James Kempt, and Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm. The King left the Palace at St. James's, in his travelling chariot and four, escorted by a detachment of Light Dragoons, soon after six o'clock, on his return to Windsor. His Majesty will again come to town on Wednesday next, and it is expected, every succeeding Wednesday, till the removal of the Court to Brighton. Friday his Majesty arrived in town from his Palace at Wind- sor, for the purpose of holding a Council; after the proceed- ings, at which the Recorder was introduced, and laid before his Majesty and Council his report of the prisoners lying under sen- tence of death in Newgate. The King returned iu the after- noon to Windsor to dinner. We hear, from authority on which we can rely, that it is the intention of their Majesties to return to their favorite residence on the 10th of next month.— Brighton Guardian. THE DUCHESS OF KENT.— Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria and suite will honour the Marquis of Westminster by passing a few days at his princely mansion at Eaton Hall, on their route to the south. They will arrive at Eaton on Monday next to dinner. On Tuesday the Corporation of Chester will wait upon their Royal Highnessesjat Eaton, to present an address of congratulation. On Wednesday the Royal party will visit Chester, entering, it is expected, over that magnificent structure, the New Bridge, whiGh is in a suffi- cient state of forwardness for tint purpose. On Thursday the greatBow Meeting will take place at Eaton; where all the beauty and fashion of the surrounding country will be assembled on the verdant lawn, engaged in this truly English sport. On Friday morning the Royal visitors will set out for Chatsworth, the seat of the Duke of Devonshire. tfiThe Marquis de Montmorency left town on Wednesday, on a visit to their Majesties at Windsor Castle. The Princess Augusta has engaged stables at Maibens', from the 10th November Until the beginning of March.— Brighton Gazette. Earl Grey came to town on Wednesday, from his residence at East Sheen. Lord J. Russell arrived at his residence, at Whitehall, on Monday evening. Lord Durham arrived in town on Thursday, from his mission to Russia. A Cabinet Council was held in the afternoon, at the Foreign Office, which was attended by the Lord Chancellor, Earl Grey, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord Durham, Viscount Mel- bourne, Viscount Palmerston, Viscount Goderich, Viscount Althorp, Sir James Graham, Lord John Russell, and Mr. Stanley. Lord Holland was prevented from attending the meeting by in- disposition. The Ministers remained in deliberation about three hours and a half. Sir W. W. Wynn, Bart, left London on Wednesday for his seat in North Wales, for the purpose of attending the funeral of the Dowager Lady Wynn. Lady Emily Berkeley, mother of the Countess of Euston, of Sir George Berkeley, and Lady Hardy, has been seriously indis- posed for some weeks. Part of the domestic establishment of Prince Talleyrand ar- rived in town on Thursday. His Excellency is daily expected. The venerable Earl of Chatham, who is fast approaching his eightieth year, has quitted his residence in Charles- street, Berkeley- square, for Brighton, where a house has been taken " for his Lordship on the Marine Parade. We understand that the settlements are in a forward state of preparation for the marriage of Miss Sophia, eldest daughter of Sir F. Burdett, to R. Otway Cave, Esq. According to a cove u& nt in the settlement of the Baronet and his wife, 30,000?. were agreed to be equally divided amongst their children on their coming of age. They have one son only, who is ! in the army ( R. Burdett, Esq.), and five daughters. The son inherits the family estate, and the money has been agreed to be divided amongst the daughters only, consequently Miss Burdett will receive 6,000/. as her share of the above. Lord and Lady Clinton have taken their departure from their seat, Trefusis Castle, on a tour to the Continent, for the im- provement of his Lordship's health, which, we regret to state, is in a very precarious condition. Lord and Lady Clinton are especial favourites with their Majesties, who appointed them to distinguished offices in their respective households on their ac- cession to the throne. Lady Augusta Erskine Kennedy has returned to her villa at Isleworth, from a visit to her Noble relations the Marquis and Marchioness of Ailsa, at Culzean Castle, in Ayrshire. Her Ladyship is in mourning for her brother- in- law the late Earl of Cassilis. Lady Augusta was accon. panied to the North by Cap- tain and Lady Caroline Barrington. It is understood that that long- protracted question on the claims of John Lindsay Crawfurd, Esq. to the Crawfurd and Lindsay Peerage, and the immense estates annexed to it, is now before the Committee of Privileges, and in progress to decision. THOUGHTS ON HUSBAND- HUNTING: No. IV. BY AN OLD FOX- HUNTER. — • ADDRESSED TO THE MATRON3 OF ENGLAND. Mr DEAR OLD GIRLS.— I think you will allow that I did right in sending you to London. In the first place you have rubbed off a little of your rural rust, got some of the newest Pa- risian costumes, and bustles for the girls; and, secondly, you have given them an opportunity of laying in an abundant stock of small talk for winter consumption. There ia nothing in life so dull as the old common place, ball- room conversations between a green couple on a first introduction. " Very nice room this," says the young gentleman, as he carries his partner off from her mamma.—" Very nice room, indeed," says the young lady. " Rather hot," says the young gentleman."—" Yes, I think it is rather hot," replies the young lady. " Very well lighted," says the young gentleman, casting his eyes up to the chandeliers.—" Yes, very well lighted," says the young lady. " The floor is in very good order for dancing," observes the young gentleman.—" Yes, very nice order for dancing," responds the young lady. " Rather cold, I think," says the young gentleman.—" Yes, I do think it is rather cold," savsthe agreeable young lady. Now, instead of talking of the dimensions of the ball- room, they will discuss the size of old Chuney, the Elephant, in the Zoological- garden, and in lieu of remarks on the state of the floor, will indulge in critiques on the Performers on the boards of the Italian Opera ; the late ma- nagement of Mr. Monck Mason and prospects of Monsieur La- porte. Delays are dangerous, and it is better for a girl to rush " in medias res" at once than approach to a confab towards the close of a Quadrille, which may never be repeated. Besides making these acquisitions, you have taken the very cream, the very " Leicestershire" of fashionable life— you have been to Devonshire- house, seen rooms beaming with light from hundreds of glitteiing candelabras and myriads of variegated lamps, breathed an air redolent with the richest fragrance from the choicest exotics— mingled in a company radiant with diamonds, stars, orders, and decorations— and seen dancing to the enlivening music of Collinet and Weippert; in short you have been to that festival described by Lord Byron in Lara, " where knights and dames, And all that wealth and lofty lineage claims, Appear " And your daughters can now enter any assembly in the world and feel conscious that they have nothing to be flustered at— nothing new to see in fact, and their self- possession henceforth will be established— moreover; and I don't mean to flatter yon, as Sterne's beggar used to do the ladies, but I did hear Lord B. enquiring the name of those pretty girls as you entered the Qua- drille room— but of this more anon. Now to business— In my last letter, if you remember, I established the fact that London is not a good place for husband- hunting ; to make use of a hunting metaphor the cover is too large and you never know where you have your game; it, therefore, behoves us to look out for another. The principal ones in England are, Brighton, Leamington, Chel- tenham, and Bath ; added to which there are, Matlock, Malvern, Buxton, Harrogate, Tonbridge- Wells, Hastings, Southampton, Ramsgate, Broadstairs, and a few others, but the first four are what we must look to I think. What says the Post ? " CHELTENHAM, OCT. 9.— The Duke and Duchess of St. Albans left Lansdown place yesterday morning, to proceed to Tonbridge- Wells. They were followed by Lord and Lady Beau- clerk and daughters," and the Lord go with them say I. " The four Bohemian brothers had their last concert at the Rotunda, on Saturday, which was numerously attended."— We want nothing with Bohemian brothers. " The Clarence Hotel and Imperial Hotel are full of company,"— Yes, such as it is, I sup- pose.— In fact, Cheltenham is too near the Emerald Isle and, " by Jasus," Paddy comes by water, and swears his equipage is on the road, and you never know what you are after. LEAMINGTON.— Notwithstanding the protracted period of the season, we have experienced no diminution in the number of our visitors," and so on with the innkeeper's old story. " Arrivals at the Royal Hotel:— Le Due et la Duchesse de Guiche, Mdlle. Ada, andMdlle. C. deGrammontand suite fromChilhnghamCastle, Northumberland." That long way of spinning out an arrival, contradicts the former statement. See how they crowd in the departures:—" Lord and Lady Rancliffe, Lord Clifford, Le Due de Massa, Le Marquis de Massa." What! old Massa converted into a Marquis. The Leamington season, however, is pretty well over, and it is but a poor place for our sport after all. That cursed trudge on the Warwick road, or up and down the flags from one end of the town to the other, affords little facility to flirtation. " GREAT MALVERN.— This fashionable watering- place has not since the Duchess of Kent's visit, been honoured with so many distinguished visitors as at present." You don't say so, Mr. Editor. Great Malvern, however, is too little for us. " BRIGHTON." What are they doing at Brighton?—" We are anxiously awaiting the arrival of the court— Lady Farnham, on a visit to Lady Grace Gore, is arrived at 20, Brunswick- square. The Earl of Chatham arrived on Friday : his Lordship is as well as usual." Which means to say, he is only middling. " The Baron and Baroness Dimsdale, who are staying at the Albion, are seeking a house to remain in during the winter. Mr. Dimsdale and family have arrived at the Norfolk, and purpose engaging a house for the winter."— The Baron and he should take one between them. " Lord John Townshend seems to prefer his marine residence. We understand his Lordship's seat is let."— Then it is Hobson's choice with him. After all is said or done, I do not think you can do better than go to Brighton. It possesses all the capabilities of London without its disadvantages, in the shape of distance, engagements, amusements, debauchery, and so on. Moreover, it affords every facility for pursuing the sport. There is the slow and stately drive from one end of the town to the other for the old; the cheerful, invigorating canter over the open Downs for the young; the showy promenade by the sea for the lovers of ad- miration ; and the quiet, hand- squeezing walks for the sighing, shade- seeking lover. Then there are dinners, and balls, and concerts, and bands, and libraries ; added to which, y6u are all in a " nut shell," as it were; for though it is very true, since Kemp- town exposed its broad front to the . sea, that you do not know precisely what is going on in all quarters at the time, yet the papers soon ferret things out, and you easily ascertain the truth of " prior engagements," " prevent pleasure." Sec. ; and there are few men that you cannot command at a few days' notice. Moreover, the men are not so gregarious there as they are in London ; and all parties, in fact, having little or nothing to do, there is abundance of time for ascertaining " who's who," as the old women say, and making up parties. As I suppose you td be provincials— species of Arcadian shepherdesses— it may not be amiss to inform you, that at every watering- place there are co- teries of gossips, all old women, though some in the disguise of male attire, who make it their business to know and ferret out every thing that does not concern them. They are generally poor relatives of, or dependents upon some of the rich nobility or aristocracy, and have cousins innumerable. In fact you can- not name any body that " any body" has ever heard of, that they will not claim kindred with, and whose " pedigree and per formances" they can give off hand. They are a species of " General- stud- book." They have " Burke," " Debrett," " Boyle," and the " Red Book" at their fingers' ends, can trace nobility through an eighth remove, and remember intermarriage even unto a ninth generation. They reside at the same place all the year round, and in the season act as a sort of matrimonial pilots, and can steer in your craft much better than you can yourselves. Now, I need scarcely tell you, that as, on the one hand, these old girls can be very useful to you if you manage your cards well, so, on the'other, they can thwart you at all points if you slight them; and though, as Lord Byron said of the critics— " They stand hated, yet caressed," yet it will be your policy to favour them. Of course, people at their time of life are not to be bought with balls and routs ; they must have the substantial, and you must invite them to dinner, get up a rubber for them after, and let them pigeon you out of a few pounds— it will all come back with interest in the long run. I am going now to tell you something worth knowing; and if when you hear it you don't agree with me that it is, why go to the TOWN office, and ask for the money back that you have paid for this paper. It is a secret worth knowing, I assure you, and was entrusted to me by a horse- dealer. " Sir," said he, " there is no one man can sell a horse— he must have some one to help him— some disinterested- looking person to say a good word for him." There's for you, and now what do you make of it ? I'll be bound to say, nothing. But I'll explain the analogy. If you can get some disinterested person to whisper accidentally to some young nibbler the charms, the virtues, the accomplishments, the mental acquirements ; the— the I don't know what else— of your daughter, it will have a wonderful effect iu forwarding your views. Nor is this all: Love, like the cholera, is often engendered by apprehension; and I firmly be- lieve there are more men talked and piqued into marrying, than enter the state willingly, and of their own accord. If they have heen once smitten, there are moments when the slightest trifle will recall the object of their admiration— a tune, a flower, a song, a picture, and the bare mention of the " Well known name awakens all their woes." From this you may judge of the inestimable value of a good, discreet trumpeter— of a man whose age entitles him to be re- garded as an authority, and who can time his praise, and temper it according to the degree of eagerness evinced by the party he has to deal with, and who, above all things, knows when he has said enough, and where to stop. A man of this sort has an amazing deal in his power. He it is that can conjure up hor- rible phantoms of six feet, whiskerandoed rivals, or drop the gentle hints of " large estates and great expectations," and such a man as this ought to be nourished, cherished, and treated with every care and attention. Let not the old women have any thing to do in this line ; they set about the thing with such ex- treme and determined earnestness, and so terribly bespatter the object of their praise, that nothing can equal it, except indeed their abuse, and none but a downright ass of a fellow ( which we don't want) would be gulled by it. In these little observances it is that the niceties of husband- hunting consist. Any noodle can find the game ; but the thing is to run it down scientifically — a point that your over- anxiety will seldom permit you to think of. Husband- hunting, when followed with judgment and discretion, is a fine, noble, exhilarating sport, cheering to both young and old, and interesting, whether the parties are the rich and noble of the land, " Or the thrice happy humble pair, Beneath the level of all care." It admits of the display of every possible degree of shrewdness and cunning, requires an accurate knowledge of human naiure, and the person who carries it on successfully is fully fit for the office of prime minister. We have now advanced in the theory of the science as far as we can go, and it is about time that we should be taking the field and trying these rules by the test of experience. In my last, I left you in the middle of a London season, and by a sort of poetical licence we will suppose the intervening months to have slipped away, and that you are just following my advice and going to Brighton for the winter, where, as you are a stranger, you had better not take a house without seeing it, but drive to the Albion Hotel and tell Mr. Stuckey that " I sent you there,"— and next week we will arrange about commencing the hunting season There is now growing in the open air, in Mr. Hand's yard, ta Grantham, a vine, having on it upwards of one hundred weight and a half of fruit. THE TOWN. BUCKINGHAM PALACE.— Workmen hare been some time em- ployed in making considerable alterations in the centre of this building. The dome over the garden front has been removed, and one of less dimensions substituted ; and, as an increased eleva- tion has been given to the park front, the new dome is not visible from that view. Compartments, filled with figures richly executed in relievo, have been introduced on either side of the grand portico in a line with the pediment. TRAFALGAR- SQUARE.— His Majesty has signified his desire that the new square at Charing- cross shall be designated after this great naval victory, which has hitherto been passed over in the choice of names for public places. The area is about six acres, and it will add greatly to the salubrity and appearance of that part of the me- tropolis. On the north side will extend the new National Gallery, the facade of St. Martin's Church appearing in the angle. The west side is occupied by the College of Physicians and the Union Club. The east side is laid out in private houses and suites of apartments of a superior class, in the Parisian style, suited to members of parliament, & c. The south side is an irregular figure, formed by Northumberland House aud the houses of Charing- cross. The removal of the last of the old buildings on the site of the square is proceeding rapidly, preparatory to the formation of the inclosure. THE NEW WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL— The Commissioners of Woods and Forests have granted the unoccupied plot of ground between the Royal Westminster Mews and the Sessions' House, and the north- west side of Westminster Abbey, for a site for the new hospital. It has been surrounded by a hoard, and workmen have for some time been employed in making the necessary exca- vation for the foundation. IMPORTATION OF CoiNj- Three ships from India have arrived with large quantities of goft and silver coin of native coinage. ENTHUSIASM FOR FREEDOM.—- So enthusiastic are the young men of this country in the cause of Don Pedro, that recruits can be obtained in any number, whilst the East India Company's re- cruiting officers arc baldly able to obtain a man. . Upwards of 3,000 men are now ready for embarkation in the Sister Kingdom. STAGNATION OF CAPITAL.— In the money- market tlie greatest torpor and want of enterprise prevail. There has probably never existed a period in which so little employment for capital, at once safe and profitable, has presented itself. HEALTH OF LONDON.— The whole population of London, by the last returns, is 1,474,069, The mortality amounts to about 4j in every thousand, or somewhat less than one- half per cent., a rate which is believed to be nearly the lowest which has prevailed in any large town that has been really visited by the cholera— Medical Gazette. CHOLERA IN PARIS According to the official bulletin, the num- ber of deaths caused by the cholera at Paris amounted on tbe 1st of Sept. to 17,978 ; deaths iu the month of September, 395 ; total of deaths by cholera at Paris, 18,378. TRADE ON SUNDAY.— The master butchers of the metropolis have formed themselves into a society, for the purpose of procuring a law for the suspension of ait trade and labour on Sunday. INSOLVENTDEBTORS.— In the Whitecross- strcet prison there are no less than 395 prisoners at this moment detained for debt. In the King's Bench about the same number; and in the Fleet about 200 ; making about 900, exclusive of those in the Marshalsea, Horse- monger- lane, and other gaols of the metropolis. Most of these prisoners contemplate seeking their discharge under tlie act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors; and are only waiting the pleasure of one of the four commissioners of the court, who, it is said, is at pre- sent engaged in pheasant shooting 1 PETTY TYRANNY.— A commercial traveller, named William Henry Donald, passing from the fair of Leipsic through a place called Bresegard, iu the Duchy of Mecklenburg, was lately taken from his bed at five o'clock in the morning, by a police officer, upon a charge of being a Baptist,— the opinions of that sect of religionists being proscribed by the law— hurried off to Grabow, a distance of 10 miles, in a heavy shower of rain— there questioned in the most inquisitorial manner as to his leligious belief— kept prisoner in a room at an inn, with a guard at his door, for three days, and ban- died from one magistrate lo another, upon frivolous charges, during a period of no less than 19 days. All this was done, though the traveller was regularly furnished with a passport. Some remon- strances have been addressed to the Mecklsnburg Government by the English Cotisul at Hamburgh, but hitherto without any satis- faction. THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, REGENT'S PARK.— The Commis- sioners of Woods and Forests have, in consequence of an applica- tion made to them by the Zoological Society, granted an extensive piece of land, on the south side of the Regent's Park, to be added to the Zoological Gaidens. It has already been railed in, and it will be speedily laid out in walks and shrubberies, and in habita- tions for the numerous animals for which the Society have at present little room. It is also in contemplation to erect a very superb museum on part of it, and to remove their present one from Bruton- street, Grosvenor- square. For the accommodation of the visiters to these new gardens on the north side a magnificent swing bridge will be made over the Regent's Canal. THE COUNTRY. • STATE OF TRADE.— The staple manufacture of this part of Eng- land continues in a prosperous condition. The cotton markets of Liverpool and Manchester, during the last week, have been well attended, and large transactions have taken place. The imports of cotton wool at Liverpool have lately been unusually large, and had there not been a brisk demand, a dullness would have been the consequence. The woollen trade is likewise improving, and, were it not for the instances of dissatisfaction which still prevail between the manufacturers and their workmen, about Leeds and Hudders- field, we might safely state, that all hands are fully employed, and that there is, at present, no just cause of complaint. The stuff trade at Bradford is very brisk— Halifax Express. OPPOSITION TO CHURCH RATE.— A meeting took place the other day at Birmingham, where church- rates, not amounting to more than 9001., were positively refused by the parochial repre- sentatives of 100,000 people, and in the teeth of an undisputed statement, that there were not funds in hand to meet the expenses of more than a single week. AN EARLY BIRD— On the 1st inst. the gamekeeper to Lord Stafford killed a woodcock at Felthorpe, in a cover belonging to his Lordship. From the fine condition and the very early date, it is probable the bird had remained in this country during the whole summer. THE PREMIER AT HOME.— Earl Grey, a few evenings ago, we are informed, gave a ball and entertainment to his domestics at Howick. Some seivints who had spent their lives in the family, and had reached the ages of from 70 to 80 years, joined in the dance. Lord and Lady Howick kindly took part in their festivi- ties, and Earl Grey was himself a spectator of the happiness which his kindness of heart produced. This is a trait in his Lordship's character which points to the manners of our ancient English gentry, and which we should be glad to see more generally exhibited by the nobility and great land- owners of the present day.— Tyne Mercury, RATHER SUSPICIOUS.— On Friday, a person named Lund, from Owlerton, was committed to the House of Correction for one month, for having been found concealed under a bed in the house of Mr. Simon Wilson, publican, Shaiesmoor.— Sheffield Iris. A CASE OF UNPRECEDENTED GENEROSITY.— A poor man, in the employment of Mr. Butler of this town, heir at law to William Edwards, Esq., of Needwood Forest, Staffordshire, received the purchase money of the estate, 3,0001. and upwards, and divided 1,2001. freely amongst his relatives, next of kin to his uncle de- ceased, in equal proportions. Twenty- five males and females, some in destitute and distressed situations, after receiving his bounty, partook of an excellent dinner at the White Hart, Burton.— Birmingham Journal. AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS' EMPLOYMENT.— The provisions of the Act for the better employment of the agricultural labourers, are already beginning to be taken into consideration in one part of Ithe Weald of Sussex, and a string of resolutions adopted at a Vestry Meeting holdcn at a parish in the vicinity of Horsham, are forthwith October 7. THE TOWaf. 335 to, be presented to the magistrates, at their Petty Sessions, for their approval and sanction. We have reason to believe that other parishes are also about to bring the provisions of the Act into operation. . , BEAUTIES o » BRIDEWELL The Hampshire C'hronicle conlams an announcement of the sale of the furniture and ether effects of the late Keeper of the County Bridewell, including " plate, linen, rich china and glass, 30 valuable paintings in splendid double- gilt rich carved frames, 250 volumes of books," & c. The paintings are described as " productions of the most eminent ancient and modern artists, and have at all times been oonsidered by the first connois- seurs to be worthy of having a place in the museum of any Noble- man in the kingdom ;" and " the attendance of the Nobility and Gentry is earnestly entreated" on the occasion. THE AGE OF ROMANCE REVIVED.— Last week, at a town not a hundred miles from Abergavenny, a young man and woman agreed to take each other for better or worse. The happy swain, according to appointment, went to church alone ; the reluctant bride was to follow him. After keeping tbe clergyman waiting in church for up- wards of an hour, the sexton was sent for her; at last she made her appearance, and the ceremony was p oceeded with. Upon tbe awful question being asked, " Are you content," & c., she would not answer, until the enamoured lover fell on his knees, bathing the fair one's feet with his tears; protesting by his Maker, that unless she would marry him that instant, before night he would put an end to his existence. Her obdurate heart was not proof against this ap- peal, and the ceremony accordingly concluded, at least to his sa- tisfaction.— Hereford Times. KING'S LETTER.— The clergy of the diocese of York have received through the Archbishop, the King's Letter, authorising them to make collections in their churches in support of the " Na- tional Society for the education of the poor in the principles of tbe Established Church throughout England and Wales."— Leeds Intel- ligencer. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.— There is every reason to suppose that the William Neilson, for New Orleans, is unfortunately lost; a great deal of wreck, & c., has been washed on shore, part of which, a cabin partition, & c., has been identified by the captain that was in the William Neilson, last voyage, as belonging to that vessel. The crew consisted of 16 hands ; the passengers were Mr. Sullivan and his two sisters, and a young gentleman named Sherlock, part owner of the vessel, making in the whole 20 persons, who have met wilh a watery grave ; none of tbe bodies have yet been found. SCOTLAND. + SIR WALTER SCOTT— A meeting was held, on Friday week in Edinburgh, al the great Assembly Room, of Ihe admirers pf Sir Walter Scott, for the purpose of doing honour to his memory, and to consider of erecting to it some lasting monument. Noblemen and gentlemen of all parties and politics assembled to do honour to the illustrious dead. Amongst those most prominent were the Duke of Buccleuch, Ihe Marquis of Lothian, Earls Rosehery and Dalhousie, Lords Balmeny and Meadowbank, Ihe Lord Advocate, Sir G. Clerk, J. G. Craig, W. Rae, J. Dick Lardner, J. Forbes, G. Ballingail, Professor Wilson, & c. The Lord Provost was in the chair. The resolutions were brought forward by the Duke of Buccleuch, the Earl ofRosebery, the Lord Advocate, Professor Wilson, Lord Meadowbank, Sir George Clerk, and Sir John Forbes. It was determined to erect a monument of appropriate form, & c., in Edinburgh ; and a committee lo conduct the sub- scriptions was appointed on the spot. Sir John Forbes, on be- half of the banks of Edinburgh, creditors of Sir Walter, subscribed 5001. towards tbe object of the meeting; and before the close of the meeting 1,100/. was subscribed from 24 subscribers alone. Committees were then nominated for Edinburgh, Glasgow, and London. EDINBURGH R* CES.— It is understood that the Edinburgh races, which were to commence on the 24th,' curt,, will be post- poned, in consequence of the prevalence of the cholera, until next year. DUNKELD.— A most atrocious murder has been committed in this neighbourhood, by John Stewart, woodranger at Cally. All his children having been at out- of- door duties, be seized that op- portunity to get hold of an axe, with which he deliberately mur- dered his wife, having apparently inflicted at least three tremendous blows on her face and head. On one of his daughters coming to the house, she met him rushing from it in an infuriated state, and with some difficulty escaped with her life, lie having threatened to stab her with a knife which he carried. The family immediately alarmed the neighbourhood, and on proceeding to the house tne poor creature was found lying on the kitchen floor lifeless, and a bloody axe in the lobby. By this time the monster had lied to the woods of Craigybarns, and the authorities having requested the inhabitants to assist in searching, they, to ibeir credit, notwith- standing the day was exceedingly wet and stormy, immediately went in search of him. After a pursuit of five hours they succeeded in apprehending him, and dispatched him to Perth gaol. When apprehending the ruffian, he threatened to stab^ his pursuers wilh the knife before referred to, but he was fortunately overpowered. SPORTING. • IRELAND. • GENERAL ELECTION.— We see that the Register speculates • upon fortv repealers being returned at the next election. We, who know a little of the state of the Irish constituency, and also of the characters of those who will be candidates, take upon our- selves to state, that there will not be forty, nor even twenty re- pealers returned.—• Dublin Times. Ennis will be hort de combat at the approaching general election, all the registry notices having been served by error on the Clerk of the Peace, and not oil the Town Clerk of tbe borough. THE MARQUIS OF ANGLESEY.— The Lord Lieutenant drove through this town iri his curricle on Saturday. We were happy to observe that his Excellency seemed perfectly restored to health after his attack of cold, which was not at all so serious as stated in some of the papers.— Dublin Times. Mr. Stanley sailed for England on Saturday evening to attend a meeting of the Cabinet. His absence from Dublin is expected to be of short duration. His family remains at his residence in the Park. Even Mr. Stanley's private Secretary does not accompany ' him. ARSON.— On Sunday night an alaiming fi e broke out in the printing concern of Mr. Tully, printer aiid proprietor of ihe Roscommon Journal, in the town of Roscommon, and before as- sistance could be afforded upwards of 500/. worth of property was totally consumed. This outrageous act has been committed by some incendiary, for the adjoining offices and a rick of hay were also set 011 fire at the same time—( he hay was not much injured, but seven houses have been burned ; the entire of the printing ma- terials, presses, & c. were totally consumed. TITHES.— We understand that the son of a clergyman of a neighbouring county, has been arrested, and is to stand his trial at Clonmel assizes, for haranguing a numerous meeting in a town in Tipperary, against tithes. A tithe sale took place at Croom on Wednesday which was at- tended by a large military force, under the command of Henry Lyons, Esq., Magistrate— The cattle were all branded wilh the word " Tithes," and though every offer of accommodation wa5 made by the Rev. Edward Croker, to have the claim adjusted ami- cably, they were rejected with indignation, and tbe sale, after much fruitless opposition went on, the owners becoming the ulti- mate buyeis. One hundred and sixty of the 32d Reserve are cantoned at Cahersaveen, county Kerry, to aid the Rev. Mr. Hickson in the recovery of his tithes. Colonel Tovey, and the 5th Reserve companies, on Thursday, marched from Doone to Kilmallock and Bruff, after having ren- dered an effectual assistance to the Rev. Mr. Coote, in the collec tion ofhis tithes for several weeks past. MURDER NEAR MOATE.— One of the sons of tbe Rev. Mr. Goold, whose tithe concerns have lately occupied so much of public attention, was on his way to Moate, with cattle seized for tithe, when lie was waylaid and murdered. The Duke of Devonshire and the Earl of Shrewsbury have given 100/. each to the Trappists of New Mount Melleray, Waterford GAME. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TOWN. SIR,— Although it is as yet rather too early to form any ex- clusive judgment upon the operation of our new game laws, about which we have heard so much, still they may have taught us something already. Who does not remember the many and loud declamations lhat were levelled against the Legislature for the continuance of the old system ? This was represented to be the work of our country gentlemen, for their own exclusive benefit, and to the great injury of the public at large. In fact, the great and increasing number of committals that took place under our game laws were chiefly ascribed to this prohibition against the sale of game. " Let the honest trader into the market," cried the political economist, " and he will soon beat the poachers out of it." The first desideratum, has now been obtained:— hares, pheasants, grouse, and partridges, are hanging up in almost every poulterer's window, and sometimes even hawked about our streets ; but has the latter happy prediction been ful- filled ? I fear not; but, from the best information which I have received upon fhe subject, I suspect that the crime of poaching cannot be pronounced to be upon the decline. My anticipations respecting this new act were never great, and yet, for more reasons than one, I was very glad to see it carried. When delusion is expelled, truth has- a good chance of taking its place; and thus, when our legislators discover that little good has been effected by the present scheme, tliey will look to other remedies, and may, perchance, hit upon the right ones. The extent to which poaching has of late years been carried, is, indeed, deplorable; but its causes lie far too deep to be eradicated by a mere legalization of the sale of game. The first and paramount cause is to be found in the impoverished condition of a large portion of our agricultural population ; and to strike at this, would be to strike at the root of the evil. Next to this, I consider our immense game preserves, kept up for the sake of battu- shooting, as the strongest incitement to poach ing. The first renders our agricultural labourers idle and dis- contented, and the latter holds up temptation to their view. Napoleon, who had read human nature deeply, thus addressed his soldiers ere leading them on to the invasion of Italy " Soldiers," said he, " you are naked and hungry ;" and then, having reminded them of their necessities, he proceeded to say that all of them might be obtained in the fertile plains that lay before them. Thus is it, alas 1 too frequently with the English peasant: he beholds himself destitute of all the comforts of life, and knows that one successful night in a neighbouring game preserve may give him a temporary relief. He then weighs the chances in his own mind, and, like Gloucester in the play, re- solves to " stand the hazard of the die." But, to reverse this gloomy picture, let the poor man find well- paid labour during the day, and meet comfort at his cot- tage- door in the evening, and his sentiments will soon become changed. Instead of indifference, he will then think upon the county gaol with dread, and will hesitate ere he breaks through the park- paling of his richer neighbour. It is impossible that, in a country jrith such resources as England, there can be no remedies to remove that distress which at present, to use the words of the late Mr. Huskisson, " presses so heavily upon the springs of productive industry." Those shallow politicians who pretend that the act for legal- ising the sale of game would give a death- blow to poaching, should peruse the speech of Mr. Coke, the venerable member for Norfolk, at the late reform festival at North Walsham. I have not for some time read anything so awfully impressive as these concluding expressions:—" When I first offered myself for Norfolk there was no poor- rate, and the labourer was most reluctant to apply for relief, except in extreme and destitute old age, and in most cases they were supported by their children, who received fair wages, and were constantly employed. At that period, also, there was no malt tax. The poor breiced their own beer." Such is the language of no theoretical pamphleteer or young and heedless orator, but of one who speaks from ex- perience,— of one who has served his country in an important station for about fifty years, and against whom calumny is silent. Can we wonder, then, that such changes as these should be followed by discontent and demoralisation among our pea- santry ? Whilst such things remain unremedied, legislating about the sale of game is little better than fighting with the shadow, whilst the substance of the, evil remains untouched. When sitting down to write this letter, it was my intention to allude to other points upon this question— such as, the im portant fact, that committals under the game laws have of late years been tenfold more numerous in some parts of England than in others— hut I must, at all events, now postpone them to another time. One thing only let me add— viz. that in the year 1830 the oommittals in England and Scotland were at the comparative ratio of about 140 to 1. Let our great men mark this, and look to the other side of the Tweed ere they legislate farther. Game is plentiful in the north— as plentiful as it need be— and yet we see that depredators are rare. October 10, 1832. A COUNTRYMAN. CRICKETERS OF MY TIME. ( Continued.) The tenth Knight of our round table, ( of which old Richard Nyren was the King Arthur*) was a man we always called " The Little Farmer ;"— and at this distance of time, for the heart of me, I cannot remember his name. He was a bowler— right handed, and lie had the most extraordinary delivery I ever saw. The ball was delivered quite low, and with a twist; not like that of the generality of right- handed bowlers, but just the reverse way: that is, if bowling to a right- handed hitter, his ball would twist from the off stump into the leg. He was the first I re- member who introduced this deceitful and teazing style of deli- vering the ball. When all England played the Hambledon club, the Little Farmer was appointed one of our bowlers; and, egad I this new trick of his so bothered the Kent and Surrey men that they tumbled out one after another, as if they had been picked off by a rifle corps. For a long time they could not tell what to make of that cursed twist of his. This, however, was the only virtue he possessed, as a cricketer. He was no batter, and had no judgment of the game. The perfection he had attained in this one department, and his otherwise general deficiency, are at once accounted for by the circumstance, that when he was tend- ing his father's sheep, he would set up a hurdle or two, and bowl away for hours together. Our General, old Nyren, after a great deal of trouble ( for the Farmer's comprehension did not equal the speed of lightning) got him to pitch the ball a little to the off- side of the wicket, when it would twist full in upon the stumps. Before he had got into this knack, he was once bowling against the Duke of Dorset, and, delivering his ball strait to the wicket, it curled in and missed the Duke's leg- stump by a hair's breadth. The plain- spoken little bumpkin, in his eagerness and delight, and forgetting the style in which we were always accustomed to im- press our aristocratical play- mates with our acknowledgment of their rank and station, bawled out—" Ah! it was tedious near you, Sir I"— The familiarity of his tone, and the genuine Hamp- shire dialect in which it was spoken, set the whole ground laugh- ing. I have never seen but one bowler who delivered his balls in the same way as our Little Farmer; with the Jerkers the practice is not uncommop. He was a very civil and inoffensive young fellow, and remained in the club perhaps two or three seasons. With Tom Taylor the old eleven was completed. There were of course several changes of other players, but these were the established, picked set— the ilite. Tom was an admirable field— certainly one of the very finest I ever saw. His station was between the point of the bat and the middle wicket, to save the two runs; but Tomhad a lucky knack of gathering in to the wicket; so that, if the ball was hit to him he had so quick a way of meet- ing it, and with such a rapid return ( for no sooner was it in his hand, than with the quickness of thought it was returned to the top of the wicket) that I have seen many put out by this ma- noeuvre in a single run, and when the hit might be safely calcu- lated upon for a prosperous one. He had an excellent general knowledge of the game, but of fielding in particular he was per- fect both in judgment and practice. Tom was also a most bril- liant hitter, but his great fault lay in not sufficiently guarding his wicket: he was too fond of cutting, at the point of the bat, balls that were delivered strait; although, therefore, he would fre- quently earn many runs, yet, from this habit, he could not be securely depended on, and indeed it was commonly the cause of his being out. I have known Lord Frederick Beauclerc ( cer- tainly the finest batter of his day) throw away the chance of a capital innings by the same incaution— that of cutting at strait balls, and he has been howled out in consequence. Taylor was a short, well made man, strong, and as watchful and active as a cat; but in no other instance will the comparison hold good, for he was without guile, and was an attached friend. Having now described the best of my native players, I pro- ceed to their opponents ; and the foremost man of all must stand the well- known bowler, Lumpy, whose real name was Stevens. He was a Surrey man, and lived with Lord Tankerville. Beyond all the men within my recollection, Lumpy would bowl the greatest number of length balls in succession. His pace was much faster than Lord Beauclerc's, but he wanted his Lordship's general knowledge of the game. In those days it was the custom for the party going from home to pitch their own wickets ; and here it was that Lumpy, whose duty it was to at- tend to this, always committed an error. He would invariably choose the ground where his balls would shoot, instead of select- ing a rising spot to bowl against; which would have materially increased the difficulty to the hitter, seeing that so many more would be caught out by the mounting of the ball. As nothing, however, delighted the old man like bowling a wicket down with a shooting hall, so he would sacrifice the other chances to the glory of that achievement. Many a time have I seen our general twig this prejudice in the old man when matched against us, and chuckle at it. But I believe it was almost the only mistake he ever made professional, or even moral, for he was a most sim- ple and amiable creature. Yes— one other he committed, and many a day after was the joke remembered against him. One of our matches having been concluded early. in the day, along, raw- boned devil of a countryman came up and offered to play any one of the 22 at single wicket for five pounds. Old Nyren told Lumpy it would be five pounds easily earned, and persuaded him to accept the challenge. Lumpy, however, would not stake the whole sum himself, but offered a pound of the money, and the rest was subscribed. The confident old bowler made the coun- tryman go in first, for he thought to settle his business in a twink: but the fellow having an arm as long as a hop- pole reached out at Lumpy's balls, bowl What length he might; so he slashed and thrashed away in the most ludicrous style, hitting his balls all over the field, and always up in the air, and he made au uncom- mon number of runs from this prince of bowlers before he could get him out;— and, egad I he beat him 1— for when Lumpy went in, not being a good batter, while the other was a very fast howler, all along the ground, and strait to the wicket, he knocked him out presently ; the whole ring roaring with laughter, and the as-, founded old bowler swearing he would never play another single match as long as he lived— an oath, I am sure, he religiously observed, for he was confounded crest- fallen. Lumpy was a short man, round shouldered and stout. He had no trick about him, but was as plain as a pike- staff in all his dealings. Frame was the other principal with Lumpy ; a fast bowler, and an unusually stout man for a cricketer. I recollect very little ot him, and nothing worthy of a formal record. Besides him there was Shock White, another bowler on the England side ;— a good change, and a very decent hitter ; but take him altogether, I never thought very highly of his playing. He was a short, and rather stoutly made man. John Wood made the fourth, and the other change bowler. He was tall, stout, and bony, and a very good general player; not, however, an extraordinary one, when compared with those that have been heretofore mentioned.—( To be continued). ON ACCIDENTS FROM THE INCAUTIOUS USE OF FIRE ARMS. FPR THE TOWN. Notwithstanding the improvements that have been made for these last twenty years ia the locks of fowling pieces, so far as regards simplicity of action, lightness of construction, and cer tainty of firing, but little has been yet done to guard against accidental discharge, which, since the introduction of the per- cussion principle, so frequently and fatally occurs. That locks have been invented which will not go off, even at full cock, from an accidental touch of the trigger, I am well aware, hut as their discharge requires a double action on the part of the shooter, from his having to touch both the trigger and another spring, they can scarcely be admitted to be an improvement. That they are safe, is granted ; but something else is requisite to consti- tute excellence in a fowling piece; and, where the possibility of accident is prevented by mechanism, which is apt to confuse the sportsman at the moment of taking aim, the possible gain, viewing the question as it concerns lovers of field sports, is not an equivalent to the probable loss. The probability of acci- dent is, indeed, diminished, but the chances of escape to the game, very considerably increased, and an improvement on this principle is readily suggested, which may be applied either to the old flint and steel or the modern percussion. " Never prime nor put a cap on till your dog points, and if you do not get a shot remove the cap or the priming directly;" and by observing this rule, I may venture to affirm, that the sportsman will sel- dom receive any damage from a stump or a twig causing the discharge of his gun, while the fowls of the air and the beasts of the field will have almost as little to apprehend from his delibe- rate intentions. A lock, the hammer * of which can only be raised at the will of the sportsman, and be discharged in the same manner, by one slight motion, is still a desideratum. As one means of guarding against an accidental discharge, gentlemen ought to be particular in the caps they use, endea- vouring to obtain such as will only ignite from the full power of the lock. In the price as well as the quality of the caps there is a great difference, some being sold so low as five shillings a thousand, while the best are so high as twenty- seven shillings ; and where sportsmen, having neglected to provide themselves with a stock from a maker of acknowledged reputation, are under the necessity of obtaining a supply at a village or country town, they are very liable to pay the highest price and obtain the worst article. In fact, the sale of percussion caps affords an excellent commission, and several commercial tra- vellers thus glean a few pounds extra by selling the vilest rub- bish to their country customers— grocers, hardwaremen, and saddlers in small towns— who are careless about the character of the maker, provided the price at which they purchase the article allows them a handsome profit. The principal gunsmiths now regulate the spring of the lock to a force of about seven pounds, and the writer has frequently seen thin caps, usually called French, that would ignite, when the hammer was discharged with a force not exceeding three, or less than half- cock; thus multiplying the chances of accident to those who, unaware of the danger, are in the habit of carrying their guns with the hammer down and the cap on. Now, when partridge and grouse shooting in the fields, and on the moors, begins to give way to pheasant and woodcock shooting in woods and young plantations— where accidental discharge, from twigs and branches becoming entangled with the lock, are more frequent it behoves gentlemen never to carry their guns with the cap on the nipple and the hammer down, nor to use caps which ignite with half the power of the lock. Until mechanical ingenuity shall have discovered a remedy for the accidental discharge of guns, in the improvement of the lock, combining simplicity of action with safety, the want must be supplied by habitual cau- tion. Haying thus noticed the manner in which accidents occur from inadvertence or carelessness with respect to the lock, I shall briefly allude to two or three which arise from inattention to the barrel. It is almost superfluous to recommend that the purchaser should be particular that the barrel of the gun which he is about to huy should be without crack, flaw, or chink ; the best guarantee which he can have that it is free from such de fects, is to purchase of a maker whose character is pledged to the excellence of the article which he sells. In buying a second- hand gun the purchaser must be guided by his own judgment, and where this is insufficient, let him ask the assistance of an experienced friend. In such a case it is indispensable to care- fully examine its breeching, and to insist on having the nipple unscrewed ; as, in some old guns, though apparently sound, that part of tl- e barrel into which the nipple fits is so thin from fre- quent filing and refitting, that the nipple is liable to be blown out on the first discharge, to the serious injury of the sportsman. Guns oUght never, under any circumstances, to b< S- carried loaded in a gig, cart, or in any carriage whatever; not S merely on account of risk at the time, but from the danger of tithe shot becoming loosened, and removed to a considerable space froiS1"- the powder, under which circumstances a discharge is almost certain to be attended with the bursting of the barrel. The gun ought at all times to be carried as steady as possible, with the muzzle sufficiently elevated, that, in the event of an accidental discharge, those who are in company may receive no injury. He who habitually carries his gun levelled point- blank at his friend's seat of honour, should have the toe of every sports- man in company applied to his own. When the sportsman has had occasion to take two or three leaps in following his game, it will be prudent to ram his charge home again before he fires and should he happen to fall either in fallow, ditch, bog, or snow let him be particular in examining, the barrel, that no earth other extraneous substance should have got into it, which, hov ever small, always endangers its bursting. This is not the plat- to enter into an examination of the particular cause of the ba rel bursting when the shot is placed at a distance from t powder, or when the muzzle is obstructed with earth or snow repeated experiments, which but too many accidents have con- firmed, have proved such to be the fact. The expansive force of the powder appears to receive some sudden check, and to exert its whole energy immediately behind the opposing object; for in such cases the rupture takes place within an inch or two of the place where the obstacle lies. Where such an accident has happened with a strong and well- tempered barrel, it has been observed to be distended to twice the diameter of the bore before it burst. It is also to be observed that a gun which has been repeatedly fired without being cleaned, is also extremely liable to burst, and more particularly when bad powder has been used, which, after a few discharges, leaves a moist, smutty foul- ness within the barrel, and no person should fire a gun which has been long disused, and is probably rusty, unless he has made up his mind to the loss of an arm or a splinter of the barre being driven some six or eight inches into his brainless skull. w ic i iV H. ON THE BREEDING OF RACE HORSES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TOWN. SIR— Permit me, through the medium of your paper, which I hear is much sought for by sportsmen, to address a few wordi * I have here ventured to name that which is commonly called til* cock or the dog, the " hammer," from its use. That which is at presen called the hammer in old locks, I would call from its use, the steel oi pan- cover. It is hi^ h time the absurdity of calling that the which is the thing struck, should be corrected, 01' hammer'-. 9IO THE TOWJV, October 28. to the sporting world on the subject of breeding race horses. I am induced to this by the account presented to the public of the sales of the studs of the Hon. Edward Petre, Mr. Nowell of Underley, and Mr. Cooke, in the late Doncaster race week. I do not repeat the individual prices, because they must be fresh in the recollection of your sporting readers, but the sum total was immense. Think of a yearling filly fetching 440 guineas, and a yearling colt 500 guineas!! and, what is still more extra- ordinary, of eight yearling colts producing 2,487 guineas, or more than 300 guineas a piece, which was the case in Mr. Nowell's lot 11 Lord Cleveland, it seems, gave a thousand for three, all in one Derby ( 1834), which, it appears, his Lordship means to win, and I am sure he has my best wishes, for he is a rare old sportsman as ever hallooed to a hound. I also per- eeive some of my German and Prussian friends amongst the bidders, Baron Hertfeldt among the rest, who is a new comer into the English market. The Baron resides at Lielenberg, near Berlin, where he has a large stud, and has been a great promoter of the Berlin races. I sent him out a stud groom last year, and hope lie will do him justice, for I understand the Baron wishes to do the thing with spirit, and there is no lack of But I am running off the course. My present object is to show the importance of breeding from the best and most fashion- able blood, and no other, if the turf and profit be kept in view. It is true, Margrave winning the Leger, gave a great lift to the Muley stock, but what can be better than Muley ? He was got by Orville, out of Eleanor, winner of the Derby and Oaks, and bred by that excellent judge of race horses, the late Sir Charles Bunbury. Then Longwaist, got by that perfect little animal Whalebone, out " of a Dick Andrews mare.— See what prices his stock produced 1 We then look into the studs of the other gentlemen, and seeing Emilius, Comus, Velocipede, and Woful, cease to wonder at the prices they fetched. It has been a source of great regret to me, that I have never been able to avail myself of Mr. Nowell's kind invitation to see his stud at Underley, which, our readers know, is situated near Kirkby Lonsdale, in Westmoreland. It was first formed under the inspection and with the assistance of Mr. Tattersall, and the success that has attended it is the best proof of the judgment of his selection. Much credit, however, is due to Mr. Nowell for the very spirited manner in which he has con ducted it, and his late annual sales have shown that, in a breeding stud, such conduct will alone reap its reward. I am induced to make these remarks in consequence of the awful instances of an opposite line of conduct that have presented themselves within the last twenty years, by which immense loss has been sustained; and it is to be lamented that any person should suffer by his attempts to support the British turf— one of the wonders of the age. Look at the present Lord Grosvenor. ' Tis true nothing of this sort could shake such a mine as his; but, what thousands— what tens of thousands, must he have lost by persevering in putting almost all his mares to Thunderbolt ? Again, look at the late Duke of York and Giles 1 What infatua- tion to go on with him, after his stock proved worse than nothing 1 A short time since, a friend wrote to me, and told me, he had twelve brood mares I My observation to him, in re- turn, was, " I am sorry to hear it, unless you satisfy me that you have selected them well, and crossed them with the most fashion- able blood. Remember what your father did before you, and the thousands he lost by an unwise selection of blood, aud I much fear your twelve mares will be the ruin of you." I sincerely hope I am no prophet; but I know the expenses of a breeding stud, aud both my friend and myself also know well, and to our cost, what it is to sell blood stock, at which the public turn up their noses, although, perhaps, one or two may, by accident, have turned up trumps. I was very sorry to see Margrave beat for the St. Leger Stakes at Newmarket, for, after the extraordinary work he performed, on the race course and on the road, his laurels should have remained untarnished on his brow. It would be presumptuous in me to dis- pute the judgment of such a jockey as Robinson, but, unless he howerd symptoms of swerjing, should such a horse as Margrave nave been struck ? I should, with deference, say, no. After the work he had done, assistance from the hands must have been what he most required; and that two hands, like two heads, are better than one, no horse would deny, if he could speak to the jockey on his back. Margrave must be a noble animal, and I expect to see the day when his stock will add many a feather to the British turf. NIMROD. P. S. By the way, Mr. Editor, knowing that your paper cir- culates in the higher spheres, how is it that you do not include in your obituary the death of a very distinguished personage— the late Lady Williams Wynn, mother to the present Sir Wat- kin Williams Wynn, who departed this life last week, at the great age of seventy- nine years ? It is not because this venerable lady m01 Was my godmother that I thus abruptly introduce her name, but the because when my judgment in such matters was young, I looked tfiT Up0n her as a splendid specimen of the high- bred English gen- visit • - Tb hewoman, adorned with all the accomplishments of her sex, and with fashion stamped upon her mien. Nor was this all. In the relative duties of life, her conduct was not only irreproachably correct, but her example, and its influence, were felt and ac- knowledged whithersoever she went; and, like Margrave, the race- horse, she did honour to her kind. THE TURF. TATTERSALL'S, MONDAY. The betting yesterday was confined to the Garden Stakes ( at Newmarket on Monday next) and the principal favourites for the Derby. The prices averaged as follows :— GARDEN STAKES.— 2 to 1 agst Col. Peel's Archibald, pp ( taken) ; 3 to 1 agst Mr. Stonehewer's Variation, pp ( offered); and 4 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Sluggard, pp ( taken.) DERBY.— 12 to 1 agst Lord Cleveland's Muley colt; 13 to 1 agst Mr. Rawlinson's Revenge ( taken); 13 to 1 agst Mr. Hun- ter's Forester; 16 to 1 agst General Grosvenor's Glaucus ; 20 to 1 agst Sir M. Wood's brother to Margrave ( taken); 25 to 1 agst Mr. Robert's brother to Cloudesley ; 1,400 to 500 agst Muley colt, Revenge, Forester, and Glaucus ( taken.) All Lord Exeter's horses in training will be put up for sale in the Newmarket Houghton Meeting. THURSDAY. GARDEN STAKES.— pp— 20 to 11 agst Archibald; 7 to 2 agst Variation ; 4 to 1 agst Sluggard. DERBY.— 12 to 1 agst Lord Cleveland's colt; 13 to 1 agst Revenge ; 13 to 1 agst Forester ; 10 to 1 agst Glaucus ; 16 to 1 agst Johmael; 25 to 1 agst Dervise's dam; 20 to 1 agst brother to Margrave ; 25 to 1 agst brother to Cloudesley; 20 to 1 agst Lucius; 8 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's lot. EPSOM, OCTOBER 10. Since the commencement of the October Meetings at this place, such fine weather and such excellent sport have not been known as to- day, nor have there on any occasion been so many horses collected together. Great pains have been taken by Baron de Tessier ( the resident Steward) to provide attraction to the public, and he has been eminently successful. In the general details there was nothing fresh, except that, as a matter of economy, the services of the Newmarket Judge were dis- pensed with, and the duties undertaken by the Baron, to the entire satisfaction of all concerned. The racing came off as follows :— The Epsom Plate, of 50/. for 3- yr- olds, 7st; 4 yrs, 83t 31b ; 5 yrs, 8st 101b ; 6 yrs and aged, Dst. Mares and geldings allowed 31b. Heats, two miles. The winner to be sold for 150 sovs, & c.— Mr. Theobald's Gretna Green, 3 yrs, beat Lord Lowther's Timekeeper, 4 yrs ( received 10 sov) ; and Mr. Kent's f by Sultan, out of Antiope, 3 yrs.— The following also started, but were not placed :— Mr. Forth's c by Partisan, out of Straight- waist, 3 yrs ( lad) ; Mr. Roberts's Zarina, 4 yrs ( Wakefield) ; Mr. Shackell's Hindoo, 6 yrs ( S. Mann); Mr. Gardner's Ida, 4 yrs ( Pavis) ; and Sir G. Heathcote's Ferdonsi, 4 yrs ( F. Buckle). The last two were drawn after the first heat. First Heat— 5 to 2 agst Hindoo, and 4 to 1 agst Timekeeper. Zarina made play to the Rubbing House, where Gretna Green took it up, Hindoo lying second to the turn, at which point he gave way to the Antiope filly; a close race between Gretna Green and Antiope was won by the former by half a neck only. Timekeeper third. Second Heat— 2 to 1 agst Gretna Green, and 2 to I agst Zarina. The running was pretty much the same as in the first heat till near the mile- post, where Gretna Green went in front ; was never after headed, and won easy. Very cleverly ridden by N. Farrall; Timekeeper by Macdonald ; and Antiope by a lad. Two- year- old Stakes of ' 20 sovs each, h ft; colts, 8st 71b ; fillies, 8st 31b. Half Mile. Winners 31b extra. Three Subs.— Mr. Ley's Partiality beat Sir G. Heathcote's ch c by Blacklock— Jane. 3 to 1 on PartiaUty. A very fine race, and won by not more than a neck. Pavis rode the winner, and Buckle the loser. Sweepstakes of 3 sovs each, and 35 added; weights as for the first race. Mile Heats. The winner to be sold for 100 sovs, & c.; and the second horse to save his stakes. 15 subs.— Mr. Wilt- shire's Wassailer, 5 yrs, beat the Duke of Richmond's Cassador, 3 yrs, Mr. Thomas's Blinker, 6 yrs, Sir G. Heathcote's Ferdonsi, 4 yrs, Mr. Roberts's Zerina, 4 yrs, Mr. Watson's Miss Fidget, aged, Mr. Pocock's Chance, aged ( 71b overweight), Mr. Hay- wood's Metheglin, 4 yrs, Mr. Balchin's f Pamela, 3 yrs ( 61b overweight), and Mr. Shackell's Hindoo, 6 yrs. First Heat— 5 to 2 agst Cassador ; 5 to 1 agst Zariua ; 4 to 1 agst Wassailer; and 6 to 1 agst Blinker. Hindoo made running to the turn where Blinker and Wassailer came up, beat him off at the dis- tance, and finished with a dead heat. Second Heat— 2 to 1 agst Cassador; 3 to 1 agst Wassailer; and 7 to 1 agst Blinker. Fer- donsi made play to the distance, whence the race rested between Wassailer and Blinker. Wassailer happened to have the best jockey, and won cleverly. Third Heat— Even on Wassailer, and 5 to 2 agst Cassador, who, having waited cn the others, made an effort to win this; but was beaten easy by Wassailer. Cowley rode the winner. No race for the Oatlands. OCT. 11.— The sport and the weather to- day were equally good ; there was a fair sprinkling of company, and every thing went off satisfactorily. The different races terminated as fol- lows :— Produce Stakes of 30 sovs each, h ft, for 2 yr old colts, 8st 71b ; fillies, 8st 41b. Three quarters of a mile. Three subs.— Sir G. Heathcote's ch c by Blacklock, Jane, beat Mr. Laurence's f by Phantom, out of Miss Skim : 3 to 1 on Jane colt, who, according to the good old custom, took the lead, kept it, and won easy— rode by Buckle, the ldser by Pavis. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, 25 added ; 3 yrs, " st 41b; 4 yrs, 8st 51b ; 5 yrs, 8st 111b; 6 yrs and aged, 9st; mares and geld- ings allowed 31b. Derby Course. Four subs.— Mr. Theobald's b f Gretna Green, 3 yrs, beat Mr. Smith's b f The Witch, 4 yrs, Sir G. Heathcote's ch f Stately, 3 yrs, and Mr. Watson's b m Miss Fidget, aged : 2 to 1 agst Gretna Green, 2 to 1 agst Stately, and 3 to 1 agst The Witch. Gretna Green was first from be- ginning to end, and won easy. She was ridden remarkably well by N. Farrall, who evinces promise of first- rate excellence in his profession. Stately rode by Mann, the Witch by Wakefield, and Miss Fidget by Boast. Sweepstakes of 3 sovs each, and 35 added ; 3 yrs, 7st; 4 yrs, 8st 31b ; 5 yrs, 8st 101b ; 6 yrs and aged, 9st; mares and geld- ings allowed 31b. Mile heats. The winner to be sold for 60 sovs, & c. Fifteen subs.— Mr. Forth's gr f by Middleton, out of Jest, 3 yrs, beat Mr. Wiltshire's Wassailer, 5 yrs, Mr. Jones's bl h by Ru'oens, out of Zulicka, 4 yrs, Mr. Heywood's Methegtiu, 4 yrs, and Mr. Gardner's King William, 5 yrs. The following also started:— Mr. Rush's Oatlands, 6 yrs; Mr. Messer's f Ringdove, 4 yrs ; Mr. Crosby's Giantess, 3 yrs ; Mr. Pocock's Chance, aged; Mr. Shackell's Pumpkin, 3 yrs; Mr. Kent's f by Sultan, out of Antiope, 3 yrs ; Mr. Pearce's Grass- hopper, 4 yrs ; Mr. Brown's Fawn, 4 yrs; Mr. White's Matilda, 5 yrs ; and Mr. Back's Ipsala. In all 15 horses. FirsJjfHeat— 7 to 4 agst Wassailer; 5 to 1 agst King William ; 6 to 1 agst Matilda; and 10 to agst Jest. The lot kept together till within half a distance from home, when King William, Was- sailer, and Jest, singled themselves out from the crowd. Jest, however, was shut out by the other two, who made a beautiful finish, the King winning by a head only, and breaking down immediately he pulled up. Second Heat— 5 to 4 on Wassailer and 4 to 1 agst Ringdove. All started except King William, Chance, and Fawn, who were drawn. From some boggling amongst the riders at going off, Metheglin, the Rubens horse, and Matilda, had a start of 50 or 60 yards, aud all but these three were beaten at the commence- ment. Metheglin made strong play till round the corner, when the Rubens horse went by him and won easy. There was terrible tailing. Third Heat— 6 to 5 on Wassailer and 5 to 1 agst Zulicka. Jest made all the running, and won cleverly. Oatlands did not run in this heat. Fourth Heat— 4 to 1 on Jest. There is a law of the Jockey Club, that where three horses have each won a heat, they only can start for the fourth ; according to this, King William, the Rubens horse, and Jest filly alone had a right to start. The owner of Wassailer, however, insisted that as King William had been drawn after the first heat, he must be looked upon as " dis- tanced or disqualified ;" and that therefore there were only two winners of heats ; in fact, that the first heat went for nothing. Upon this ground, and also because ( as he objected) the Rubens horse was improperly described, he started his horse for the fourth heat. The case is a curious one, and will admit of some special pleading. The J est filly maintained her superiority in this heat, was never headed and won easy. She was jockeyed in the two last by young Farral, who was wisely put up in the place of an inexperienced lad, who rode in the two first heats. There was no race for the Free Handicap. ch g Charlie, 5 yrs, 9st 111b, beat Mr. T. Denison's br g Captain Brook, 4 yrs, 9st 111b, Mr. Hasell's b g Jack Spiggot, 7st lllb, Mr. Edger's c f Mary Demain, 3 yrs, 7st lllb, and Mr. Sibson's b m Serina, 5 yrs, 9st lllb. A Sweepstakes for hacks not thorough bred, under 14 J hands high ; 3 yrs, 7st; 4 yrs, 8st 21b ; 5 yrs, 8st 101b ; six and aged, 9st 51b; mares and geldings allowed 31b.— Mr. Ramsey's b g, 6 yrs, 7st, beat Mr. Graham's b m, Mr. Parkins's, and Mr. Bousfield's. NOTTINGHAM MEETING, OCT. 10. A Sweepstakes of 50 sovs each for the produce of mares covered in 1828 ; colts 8st 31b, fillies 8st; one mile and three quarters. Mr. Lacey's br c Wolverhamptou, 8st 31b ( Darling), walked over— four paid. The Sherwood- Stakes of 30 sovs each, li. ft. Mr. Houldswortb's clt c Trident 8st 71b ( Darling), walked over— Jwo paid. A Gold Cup or piece of Plate, value 100 sovs, by subscribers of 10 sovs each ( the surplus to be paid to the winner), two miles and a- half. Mr. Beardsworth's b g Independence, 6 yrs, 8st 121b, beat Mr. F. Hall ns b c Contest, 4 yrs, 8st 31b Thirteen paid. A Maiden Plate of 60(. for horses, Stc. of all ages, mile heats, the owner of th « second horse to receive 101.— Mr. Houldsworth's ch f Lady Barbara, 3 yrs, 6st 121b, beat Mr. Platel's ch m by Smyrna, 5 yrs, 8st 61b. The Macaroni Stakes of 20gs each, h ft, to be ridden by gentle- men, two miles and a- half, 6 subs. Mr. Sadler's br g Jocko, aged, 12st 51b— Mr. Hick's walked over. SPORTS TO COME. NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING, 1832. MONDAY.— Mr. Thornhill's Farce, 8st 101b, agst Mr. Gully's Carlton, 7st. First half of Ah. M. 100, h ft. THURSDAY.— Lord Mountcharles's Minster, 3 yrs, 8st 71b, agst Mr. Henry's Tam O'Shanter, 4 yrs, 8st. T. Y. C. 100, hft. Sir M. Wood's Camarine, 4 yrs, 9st 31b, agst Mr. Gully's Margrave, 3 yrs, 7st 121b. A. F. 300, h ft. FIRST OCTOBER MEETING, 1834. No day mentioned. Lord Orford's f by Lamplighter, out of Spavina, agst the Duke of Rutland's f by Lamplighter, out of a mare, d by Orville, g d Zodiac, out of Jerboa, 8st 31b each. T. Y. C. 100. ASCOT HEATH, 1834. FIRST DAY.— Sweepstakes of 100 sovs each, h ft, for colts, 8st 71b ; and fillies, 8st 31b, then 3 yrs old ; the winner of the Derby or Oaks to carry 61b extra, the second for either 31b. New mile.— Lord Lichfield's brother to Terry Alt; Lord Bur- lington's br c by Bizarre, out of Mouse ; General Grosvenor's Dick, by Lamplighter, out of Blue Stockings ; Mr. Greatrex's br c by Lottery, out of Lady Neville, by Orville ; Mr. Nevill's ch f Amado, by Sultan ; Mr. Rawlinson's b f Resolute, sister to Revenge, by Fungus, out of Ruby's dam ; Mr. Gardnor's br c by Whalebone, out of Luna, by Wanderer ; Lord Jersey's f by Godolphin, out of sister to Cobweb ; Lord Warwick's f by Filho da Puta, out of Double Entendre ; Duke of Grafton's c by Reveller, out of Whizgig. All Lord Exeter's horses in training will be put up for sale in the Newmarket Houghton meeting. PRODIGIOUS! LATEST NEWS.— During the extent of past ages gold and silver have been the natural or real money !— Morning Herald! ALL IN HIS EYE.— The monument erected by Count Schim- melmaa, near Copenhagen, is called the weeping eye. That nobleman's grief for the death of his wife was so excessive, that he caused a monument to be erected over a spring, and made the water spout from the eye, as a continual flood of tears— a symbol of his excessive grief.— Morning Herald !! MUSICAL SENSATION.— The Fourth Rhenish Musical Festival has created a great sensation. There were 562 persons engaged in the the performance; of these 357 were vocalists— namely, 76 soprani, 62 mezzo soprani, 109 tenori, and 110 bassi. The or- chestra consisted of 87 violins, 33 tenors, 26violoncellos, 14double bases, 6 flutes, 4 obeos, 7 clarionets, 4 bassoons, 8 horns, 8 trumpets, 3 trombones, 1 bass horn, and kettle- drums, great drum, triangle, and cymbals.— Morning Herald!! ! ORPHAN PARTRIDGES.— During the last harvest a reaper employed in a field at West Monkton by accident severed the head from a hen partridge that was then found to be closely sitting upon 19 eggs. These the owner of the field carried home, and placed them under a brooding hen ; the next day the whole ofthe 19 eggs were hatched, and 17 of the number obtained their full feather.— Taunton Courier. GREAT CURIOSITY.— Great curiosity is excited in Portsea, by the exhibition of the entire body of a Peruvian woman, which is described as actually buried alive at the remote period of 500 years since. It has been viewed by various antiquarians, who express surprise at its excellent state of preservation.— Hamp- shire Chronicle. SURROUNDING THE ENEMY.— It is reported that Colonel Hodges had, under his single guard, 40 Miguelite prisoners— not a small lot for one man, but he is an Englishman and a soldier.— Plymouth Herald.—[ Had the Colonel been an Irish- man, Joe Miller would, afford a parallel of his exploit.] TIGHT WORK.— A fellow about 23 years of age, named Charles Lancaster, confined under a charge of felony in the old gaol at Oswestry, contrived to escape from thence orf Thursday night the 27th ult., by forcing a square stone out of a very thick wall of his cell, leaving a hole 14 inches high and only 8 broad < He was compelled to strip, it appears, for the astonishing en- terprise, for he left his jacket behind him as a fee for the gaoler, to whom no blame is attached.— Cheltenham Chronicle. HARD TO SWALLOW.— Last week, at the house of Mr. Wells, at Ferry Hinksey, near this city, William Masters, of Ensham] devoured, at one meal, a barbel of 71bs. weight, 2jlbs. of pickled salmon, 16 black snails, 12 frogs, one candle, and a quartern loaf, and washed all down with a quart of beer.— Oxford Herald. FREAK OF NATURE.— At Salmbach, in the Bas- Rhin, the wife of a shoemaker was delivered lately of a girl enjoying good health, on whose breast is an excrescence in the form of another little girl of a smaller size, with hands, feet, and a body, but without a head.— French Paper. ARTS AND SCIENCES. HUNTING. WINDSOR.— The King's Hounds will meet, for the first time this season, on Monday at King's Bench- hill; and on Friday at Tower- hill— each day at half- past ten o'clock. The Brookside Harriers will begin their season on Monday the 15th iust., at Newmarket- hill; on Wednesday they will meet at Plumpton- plain ; and on Friday at the Hoddern. The East Sussex foxhounds will begin regularly hunting on Monday the 22d, and will meet at Excette- bridge at 11 o'clock on that day. Lord Yarborough's hounds will meet at Hundon, on Monday, the 15th; at Kingsforth House, on Wednesday, the 17th; at Hainton House, on Friday, the 19th ; at Somerby House, on Saturday, the 20th; on each day at eleven o'clock. Lord Yarborough's hounds will meet on Monday, the 15th of October, at Hundon ; on Wednesday, the 17th, at Kings- forth House ; on Friday, the 19th, at Hainton House; on Sa- turday, the 20th, at Sonieby House— each day at eleven o'clock. The South Wold Subscription Hounds will meet on Tuesday, the 16th of October, at Mavis Enderby Cross- roads; on Satur- day, the 20th, at Ulceby Cross— each day at ten o'clock. The Mathon and Colwall hounds Thursday at Leigh Sintou. Lord Harewood's hounds Monday at Paper Mill Bar, Wednesday at Peckfield Bar, Thursday at Deighton Bar. Mr. Holland's harriers Wednesday at Dumbleton. Upton harriers Wednesday at Kennel, Friday at Forty Green, Hanley. Herefordshire hounds Tuesday at the eighth mile stone on the Froome's Hill Road, Friday at Ruckhall Wood. Lord Yarborough's hounds Monday at Hemdon, Wednesday at Kingsforth House, Friday at Hainton House, Saturday at Sowerby House. The V. H. Monday at Sydlinch Bridge, Friday at Buckland Newton. Royston harriers Tuesday at Thrift. Cadbury harriers Monday at North Barrow, Thursday at East Hill, Saturday at Kennel. Mr. Farquharson's hounds Monday at the third mile stone from Blandford, on the Dorchester road, Wednesday at Dales Ash. Burton harriers Monday at Powerstock Common. AQUATICS. SUBSCRIPTION MATCH.— Thursday six watermen belonging to NEW PATENTS GRANTED BY HIS MAJESTY FOR INVENTIONS, SEALED, 1832. William Joyce, of Bow, for certain improvements iu the makiog or constructing of collars for horses and other animals. Daniel Horton and George Horton, of the Leys Iron- works, Kingswinford, Stafford for an improved puddling furnace for the better production of manufactured iron in the process of obtaining it from the pig. George Jones, John Barker, John Jones, of Wolverhampton, aud James Foster, of Stourbridge, for their invention and improve- ment on the process now in use for producing or making malleable iron. Caroline Eliza Anne Burgess, of Beanport, Sussex, for an im- provement or apparatus for sketching, drawing, or delineating. John Osborne Mosley and George Bell, of Primrose Hill, Salisbury- square, for their invention or improvement in the making or manufacturing of pill or other boxes from paste- board, paper, or' other materials, which improvements are applicable to other pur- poses. Nicholas Troughton, of Swansea, for an improvement or im- provements in preparing the materials for, and in producing a ce- ment applicable to building and other purposes, which he deno- minates metallic cement. Pierre Frederic Fischer, of Chester- place, Regent's Park, for an invention, communicated to him by a certain foreigner residing abroad, of certain improvements in piano- fortes. John Brown and Thomas Heys, of Heaton Norris, Lancaster, for an improvement in the machiuery used for spinning cotton, silk, flax, and other fibrous substances, commonly called throstles. Richard Budnall, of Douglas, Isle of Man. for his improvement in the construction or formation of the frames or rails, or lines of rail, or frame- roads, upon which locomotive engines shall or may work. Richard Whvtock, of Edinburgh, for his invention of an im- proved method or manufacture, which facilitates the production of regular figures or patterns on different fabrics, particularly velvet, velvet pile, and Brussels, Wilton, and Turkey carpets. Richard Trevithick, of Camborne, Cornwall, for an improvement or improvements in the steam- engine, and in the application of steam- power to navigation and to locomotion. John Howard Kyan, of Gillingbam- street, Pimlico, for an im- proved mode of preserving paper, canvass, cloth, and cordage, for ships and other uses, and the raw materials of betup, flax, or cotton, from which tbe same may wholly or in part be made. NEWTON and BERRY. NEWMARKET, OCT. 11. The Town Plate was run for this day by Mr. Prince's h Whisky, 4 yrs old, 12st 21b, rode by Mr. Weatherby, juu. and Mr. F. C. Bloss's m Elizabeth, 5 yrs old, 12st 21b, rode by Mr. J. Leach. This race was the most interesting we have had for many years, owing to the abilies of the jockeys. The mare waited on the horse till they got on the hill near the ending post, when Wea- tlierby made a rush, a la Robinson, and won by a neck only. The race was rode admirably on both sides ; 7 to 2 on the horse. The mare walked over after the first heat. The company was unusally great on the occasion. HASLEWOOD HUNT AND PENRITH RACES, OCT. 10. A Sweepstakes of 5 gs each, pp, with 20 added; 3 yrs, 8st; 4 yrs, 9st 41b; 5 yrs, lOst; six and aged, lOst 51b ; mares and geldings allowed 31b. Two mile heats.— Captain W. Graham's Waterloo- bridge stairs rowed a match for a subscription purse of sovereigns It was the second annual contest, and the match in the previous season being well and interestingly contested, a num- ber of persons assembled on that day in the expectation of witnessing a similarly spirited struggle. Tfiey were not disappointed, for be- tween two of the boats tbe competition was as severe as it was inte- resting. The following watermen took their stations at Waterloo- bridge to row through the centre arch of Blackfriars, up the Mid- dlesex shore to Hungerford, and back to Waterloo- bridge, viz.:— Francis Godfrey and Wm. Parker, Wm. Creed aud Rich. Braugh- ton, and James Parish and Wm. Fish. Another pair were to have started, but one of tbe men could not attend, we believe in conse- quence of indisposition. About half past four the starting pistol was fired from the manager's cutter, and the men went away from the bridge, rowing a pair of sculls each, in as pretty a style as could be desired. Godfrey and Parker had the most favourable station at starting, and it was in consequence anticipated they would have doubled the pier of Blackfriars in advance of their opponents ; but in this their friends and backers were deceived, for Parish and Fish headed the others off the Temple, and took the lead up the Middle- sex shore. The station allotted to Creed and Braughton compelled them to make a circuitous route before they could gain the centre arch of Blackfriars; and, as might be expected, they were the last itt rounding the pier. Most spiritedly, however, did they go to work in coming up against wind and tide, and they shortly came upon the quarter of Godfrey and Parker. Hard work now ensued between the second and last boats the remaining distance. Thev had tbe advantage alternately, and it was evident tbat Creed and Braughton could have outrowed their opponents, but they were de- feated in their attempt to obtain the lead by the generalship of Godfrey. By the severe struggle which took place between these boats, Parish and Fish came in first easily. Creed and Braughton were close upon the second boat at Ihe conclusion. CHOLERA IN BRITAIN. REPORT OF THE WEEK. October 8.. New Cases. 9.. 10.. 11.. .... 314 12.. . 140 13.. 1059 Total cases from the commencement. 62,756. Deaths, 23,061. BIRTHS. In Great Stanhope- street, the Countess of Clanwilliam, of a son and heir.— At Eaton Hall, Lady Robert Grosvenor, of a daughter.— The wife of Mr. Edwards, of Tregare, of Monmouthshire, of three daughters— OR the 8th instant, at Reinpstone, the Lady Caroline Calcraft, of a daughter.— At Sutton Court, the Lady of Admiral Sir Richard Kinir, of a daughter. ' MARRIAGES. At Bath, W, Leaf, F. sq., of Manchester, to Miss Rose, sister to Sir G. Rose.— At Richmond, the Rev. P. Jacob, to Anna, eldest, and the Rev. J. Money to Charlotte, third daughter of the Hon. and Rev. G. Noel — Captain R. Wetherell, Sussex Militia, son of the Rev. R. Wetherell, and nephew of Sir C. Wetherell, to Editha Lee Tebitt, of Hawkhurst, Kent. DEATHS. ~ ~~~ At Green Park- buildings, Bath, Owen Ellis, Esq., aged 70— At Relugas, M oray, Lucy Ann Drew, daughter of the late J. Drew, Esq , and the late Lady Susan Douglas, and niece to Earl Dunmore — At ' " ire " All the Marquis of Exeter's horses in training are advertised in the Racing Calendar to be put up for sale, at the Newmarket Houghton meeting. RUSSIAN STUD.— The studofCountMatuschewitzcoming from Russia, was landed on Saturdaymorning from the Dutch steamer, and consisted of SLX beautiful saddle horses. One of them, a fine gray Arabian charger, kicked the top of a box in, got his foot en- tangled, lost his shoe, and became subject to temporary lameness. All the rest were disembarked without the slightest accident. ris, G. Condorcet O'Connor, son of Lieut. General Arthur O'Connor — At Tunbridge Wells, the Hon. and Rev. H. Duncombe, Rector of Kirkby Misperton, near Pickering, son of Lord Feversham.— On his passage from the Mauritius, Lieut. H. Lang, R. N., son ofthe late R. Laiv, Esq. of Moor Park.— At Pimlico, on the 11th instant, in his 82d year, Mr Thomas Hardy. Mr. Hardy was the founder of the London Corre- sponding Society, and was, with Mr. Home Tooke, Mr. Thelwall, Mr Holcroft, and eight others, indicted for high treason, of which, after a trial which lasted nine days, he was acquitted.— On the 12th inst., on Woolwich Common, Mary, widow of Lieut.- Colonel George Scott, ofthe Royal Artillery, daughter of Captain John Reeves of the same corps, who was killed at the attack on Gibraltar, Sept. 13, 1782; and grand- niece and co- heiress of the late Lieut.- Gen. Godwin, Royal Artillery of Abbott's Bromley, Staffordshire. LONDON t Printed by W. A. DEACON, Savoy Precinct, and Published by him at the Office, No. 2, WELLINGTON- STREET, STRAND; where ( only) Advertisements, and alt Communications addressed to the Editor, are received.