np JJI IN TOWN, OUT OF TOWN - ALL THE WORLD- OVER." V Pf l o 40 SUIIIAY, IOTEMBGR 11, Price Q' Unp | U'EEN'S THEATRE, Tottenham- street, near Fitz- roy- square.— Sole proprietor, Mr. WILD. tJnprecedented Success '.— The Public is respectfully informed that, during the recess, the interior of this Theatre has been entirely re- decorated. The new Melo- drama of the Wood Devil, produced on Mon- day last, having been received with enthusiastic bursts of approbation by a crowded and brilliant audience, and acknowledged by the entire of the Press to be one of the ablest productions ( as regards situation, scenery, dresses, machinery, and intense interest) ever produced at a Minor Theatre, the Proprietor has the honour of announcing it every evening till further notice. To- morrow, and during the Week, the performances will commence with an Historical Anecdote, called THE FOREST OF BLOIS, or The Robber Soldier. Napoleon, Mr. Mortimer: Pendalam, Mr. Mathews; Reigniere, Mr. Crofton; Mary, Miss Malcolm: Estetle, Mrs. Selby.— Soldiers, Villagers, & c. Song—" The Green Hills of Tyrol," en costume, by Miss Paget. After which will be performed, tor the seventh time, an entirely new and original Romance, in Two Acts, with new scenery, music, dresses, and decorations ( by E. FitibalL esq., author of the Flying Dutchman, Pilot, Devil's Elixir, & c.) called THE WOOD DEVIL, or the Vampire's Wife. The Overture and Music composed by Mr. C. Glover— Scenery bv Mr. Turner and Assistants— Machinery by Mr. Taylor and Assist- ants— Dresses by Mr. Nathan; the whole got up under the direction of Mr. Elliott. The Devil Vampire ( under the assumed forms of Genano the Pirate, and Count Vontelli), Mr. Elliott; Tom Walker, Mr. Mathews; Gabbo ( an Italian Image Boy), Mr. Wild; Urilda ( 108 years old, after- wards the Baroness D'Ostea), Mrs. Selby; Clara ( her Grand- daughter), with a Song, Miss Emma Absolon. The celebrated Castanet Song, in character, by Miss Malcolm. To conclude with a comic Burletta, entitled A DAY'S ADVENTURE, 01- Fairly taken In. Charles Wyndham ( an Englishman amusing him- self in Paris) Mr. Crofton; Sam ( his Servant), Mr. Mathews; Emily Grenville ( betrothed to Wyndham), Mrs. Selby ! Madame Janette, St. George, Frederick Victor, Napoleon, Dela, Barbe, a French Artist, Mrs. Selby!! La Fleur ( a Tiger), Mrs. Selby!!! Miss Susanna Soplionisba Sophia Snowdrop ( a susceptible young lady, fond of sentiment and waltzing), Mrs. Selby !!!! Captain Pirouette ( a young Officer, an ad- mirer of the beauties of Paris), Mrs. Selby !!! 11 Jane ( 3ervant to Miss Grenville), Miss Paget. On Monday next, an entirely new Farce, from the pen of the Author of Rip Van Winkle, entitled " Lively Subjects," in which Mr. Wild will appear. Stage Manager, Mr. Elliott.— The Box Office open from 11 till 4.— Doors to be opened at Half- past Six o'clock, and the performances to commence at Seven.— Boxes 4s. Pit 2s. Gallery Is. Half- price a quarter before Nine o'Clock. LADIES . who are doubting where they would host con- sult their own interest in the purchase of the under mentioned Articles, would, in their perambulations at the West- end, do well, and achieve their object, at WILLIAMS', No. til, Oxford- street, corner of Regent- circus, where the essentials of novelty, choice, quality, and cheapness, are so conspicuously combined, that the most fastidious would immediately perceive the uselessness of going elsewhere: viz. Ladies' Carriage, Promenade, and Evening Cloaks, in the first style of fashion. Furs, of the most valuable description, and of every denomina- tion. A curious and superior assortment of Silks, as manufactured for this establishment, with a boundless variety of the most magnificent Shawls, the whole of which are peculiarly suited to the first order of society.— Ill, Oxford- street, corner of Regent- circus. BRITISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH, NEW- ROAD, KING'S- CROSS, LONDON. MR. MOKISON, the President, and Mr. MOAT, the Vice- President, in conjunction with all the Honorary Members, and Country Agents of the British College of Health, being now fully borne out with the conviction, approbation, and indubitable proofs, of upwards of 200,000 individuals ( who had been thrown aside by the Fa- culty, and out of the Hospitals, as incurable) having been restored to sound health by the " Universal Medicines;" with all this incontro- vertible mass of evidence in support of the Hygeian Theory and Prac- - tics, which Challenges the controversy of the whole body of Medicists, under the old system to subvert, they, tne neads of tho c° HoSo, 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 anil 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. ARMY CONTRACTS. Commissariat Department, Treasury Chambers, Nov. 1, 1832. " YY" ELSH MALI'. A Cargo just arrived.— The Corn NnTr„.. Li' ' iii' i > s< * » Exchange Company respectfully informs Families they can be O 1 ICE is hereby given to all persons desirous of Con- supplied with genuine WELSH MALT, and a Man to brew it in the trading to supply the following Articles for the use of the Welsh method if required. Those that are curious in their malt bever- age, and wish it unadulterated, may now have the finest Wefsh Ale brewed at their own homes. Utensils for Brewing provided free of ex- pense.— Storehouse, No. 17, Market- row, Oxford Market. Army, viz.- BREAD.— To his Majesty's Land Forces in cantonments, quarters, and barracks, in the undermentioned counties:— Gloucester ( including Bristol), Lancaster, Northampton, Northumberland ( including Berwiclc- on- Tweed), Nottingham. BEEF and MUTTON.— To his Majesty's Land Forces in Canton- ments, Quarter.-!, and Barracks, in tne undermentioned Counties :— Bedford, Cambridge, Chester, Essex, Hunts, Kent, Lancaster, Middle- sex, Monmouth, Northampton, Oxford, Somerset, Wilts. That the deliveries are to commerce on and for the 1st day o'f January, 1833 ; that Proposals in writing, sealed up and marked " Tender for Army Supplies," will be received at this office on or before Wednesday, the 5th day of December; but none will be received after eleven o'clock on that day. proposals must be made separately for each county, and each Proposal must have the letter which is annexed to the Tender properly filled up by two persons of known property engaging 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 tlie hours of ten and four. NEW MUSIC for the P1ANO- FOK T E. Published by PAINE and HOPKINS, 69, Cornliill, London. s. d. Adam Adolphe.— Variations on the French March, La Parisienne 3 0 Calkin, J.— Divertimentos, 1 and 2, each .....—.—..— 2 6 Waltz, introducing God save the King and Rule Bri- tannia - — 3 0 Chalieu.— Introduction and Rondo on Paer's Romance, " Une Veuve Grecque," Op. 90 —. 3 6 Dos Santos.— Les Deux Soeurs. Popular Set of Quadrilles 3 0 • Brilliant March in E Herz, H.— Variations Brilliantes sur la demiere Valse de C. M. Weber... —. Les Elegantes, ou Cotitre Danses, Variees, nouvelle edition, Revue et Augmentee —— — Brilliant Variations on the March in " Mosee in Egitto" Herz and Tulou.— Ditto, Piano and Flute — ... Huminel, J. N.— L'Etoile du Matin, Rondo Villageoise, Op. 122— Herold.— Air de Ballet, Op. 50 — Variations and Rondo alia Polacca— Me Voila .„..„...„„,,.„,—— Kuhlan.— Rondo de la Nieze, Auber « « — Ditto Theme du Barbiere Ditto Theme de la Pie Volense ....—.... Meves, A.— Claudio ? Claudio ? Ed. E. fia ver, in Mercadante's F. lisa e Claudio, .. — M uneke.— Six Waltzes, three Ecossoises, and a Mazurka « ~— March and Polonoise .... ——..— Paganini.— Twelve Rondos, selected from the admired Works of this celebrated Violinist, by J. T. Craven - each Potter Cip.— Ricordanza on Favourite Airs, from Anna Bolena — Ries, F.— New Rondo, Op. 161, with an Introduction —. Spileker, Le Baron.— Four German Waltzes — .. Rodolplie de Flor.— Three brilliant Waltzes .. PIANO- FOltTE DUETS. Do^ Santos.— Les Deux Soeurs. Set of original Quadrilles —. • Les Fleurs. A Third Set of Ditto— fi 0 Herz, H.— Premier Divertissement Brilliant Variations on Weber's Last Waltz — Les Elegantes, ou Contre- Danses, Variees, arranged by A. C. Whitcombe —..........— ™ — Six Waltzes, arranged by ditto —^——..———.. Himmel.— Ecossoise, on which is founded " Tliose Evening Bells" Hummel, J. N.— A Noturno. Dedicated to Miss and Mr. J. Thai, - Andante and Rondo a la Chasse. Arranged by A. C. Whitcombe . ,— Favourite Waltzes by ditto.— —.. each Lemoine.— Quadrilles from La Somnambule — . each Moscheles.— Six Waltzes and Trios, in two Books—— .. each Itimbault.— Coronation Grand March, with Variations Air a from the Creation, Nos. 1 to 5 ...—~ Sor Ford.—' Three Waltzes, Sets 1 and 2 DUETS, HARP AND PIANO- FORTE. Boclisa.— Brilliant Variations on Weber's last Waltz • Le Petit Tambour, with Variations— Rodolphe de Flor and A. Alvers.— Prince Zabalkansky's Defile Ops. • each March FLUTE AND PIANO- FORTE. Berbiguier.— Nouvelles Melodies de Salon ( Second Series). 118,119, and 120 . Souvenir de la Vallee de Somme, Op. 114 .. Souvenir du Tyrol, Op. 103 Les Regrets Melodie Concertante, Op. 104 - Tulon.— Tu Vedrai, from " II Pirata" „„„„„„ Swiss Airs, Nos. 1 to 3 .—. each Rossini's Air, " Cara Adorata' " Alma invitta" Sento un interna".. TO c. W. MOAT, ESQ. SIR,— My two daughters having been completely cured of the Cholera Morbus by the use of the Vegetable Medicines introduced by you into Challoner.— Crude Sorte. Trio from Ricciardo Scotland, I wish to state the particulars of the cases, in hopes than iCr. aven.— Aurora Che Sorgerai and Rondo, others may be induced to receive the same benefit. T. p Variatir I first had complete faith in your medicines on account of their won- derful effects upon myself, which I think unnecessary to state farther at § resent, t reflected you professed to cure all diseases by the same me- icines, and immediately administered them to my daughters, although their disease was of a very different discription to my own, mine having been brought on by ten years' bad medical treatment, which had been much aggravated the two months before applying to you. My daughters, Susan and Agnes, aged 19 and 27, were each attacked with a purging of blood, and all symptoms of Cholera Morbus; and both completely recovered in three days, by the use of 18 of your pills, niglit and morning, administered by myself, with no other guide than a convic- tion that tlie more violent the disease the stronger should be the remedy. I have besides made several little cures of various diseases in my neigh- bours' families with the use of your medicines, which I have found, al- though powerful, perfectly harmless. I am, Sir, your much obliged Servant, ARCH. GRAY. No. 4, Broomward, Corner of Park- lane and M'Kechnie- strcet, Calton. A person who had lately lost two children by Croup, requested me to call immediately, as his son ( 6 years old) had been seized, during Uw night, with the Croup. I went to see the little sufferer, who was suffering under as evident a case of Croup as it is possible to imagine. I administered 10 pills, night and morning; the disease was stopped in its progress by the first dose, but did not in the least recede until the operation of the fourth. On the third day, only a little hoarseness re- mained, which was quite gone on the fiftli, tbe child being as healthy as it is possible for a child to be, and stronger than ever before. If any thing can convince people of the innocency of this powerful medicine, a child of 6 years old, taking 20 pills a day, for 4 days, without losing strength, ought to have the effect. The parents made many voluntary assurances that the case should be published, but have since been de- terred by considerations best known to themselves. I can refer any person to them. C. W. MOAT. TO MR. C. W. MOAT, HYGEIST. SIR,— A most extraordinary proof of the power of the Universal Medi- cines having occurred under my immediate direction, I think proper to state the circumstances, fully convinced that by making them public, much fame must be gained for this invaluable blessing, for the whole medical world may be defied to produce proof of four cures of three different diseases being completed at the total expense of thirteen- pence halfpenny. They are as follows :— Mrs. Laid, of Smith's Land, Woodside, had been struggling with a nausea at food, want of appetite, and pains in the stomach, accompanied with palpitations of tlie heart, for more than a year. Her husband, James Laid, was troubled with great feelings of sickness, occasioned by pains in or about the heart, causing a want of appetite, and making it very difficult for him to follow his employment for upwards of four months. They applied to the Faculty, and could get no relief. .. each „ eacli 6 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 EXCELLENT WATCHES, in Gold and Silver, got up with a correctness 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 de- sirous o:' a superior article ( and such is with deference recommended), may arrange their payments as agreeable, or have a discount allowed. Some second- hand Ladies' Gold and plain Silver Watches, Musical Boxes, and Eight- day Spring Dials, good and reasonable. ( Established 80 years.) Watches exchanged, altered, or fresh cased; Clock, Watch, and Time- piece Cases supplied with Works of best quality; Chrono- meters, and all sorts of delicate French work, Plain Watches, Cliime Clocks, and Musical Boxes repaired. Clocks attended; orders expe- dited.— May's- buildings, 20,10 Mo. 32. SIR WALTER SCOTT. THE. LADY'S MAGAZINE and MUSEUM for NOVEMBER, price 2s. 6d., contains a highly- finished Portrait of Sir WALTER SCOTT, with a Poetical Effusion to his memory by F. W. N. BAYLEY, Esq. r Also, a Memoir of his Life. Amongst the contributors to this periodical are John Gait, esq., An- drew Picken, esq., the Author of the " Village Poor- house," Don Telesforo de Trueba, Miss Agnes Strickland, and Mrs. Holland. The number also contains the beautiful Fashions of " Le Follet Courrier des Salons," and an original Ballad, " My pretty Rose," by Mr. Hodson, Author of " My Arab Steed." Published I. Page, No. 112, Fetter- lane, and sold by all Book- sellers. From Fraser's Magazine, June, 1832. We v-.. sh to recommend to our readers the Lady's Magazine. It was formerly published by Robinson, but in the year 1830 it changed proprietors, and was continued under the appropriate title of " Im- proved Series ;" whicli, indeed, without requiring any particular talent, it might easily sustain. But the work before us assumed a tone and character which called down upon itself the venom and hatred of its then luckless contemporaries. Devoted as it is more immediately to the service of the Ladies, its MONTHLY DISPLAY OF FASHIONS no longer exhibited a merely dressed- out figure in a new costume, but an elegant company of Females, beautiful in appearance, and engraved with such exqtusite art, that our English engravers ( for the plates are all executed in Paris, and present the newest mode) candidly avow that they are deserving to be ranked amongst works of far greater preten- sions. There is also published in each number an embellishment of a different description, A PORTRAIT OF SOME EMINENT CHARACTER, Or a Picture Representation of some other interesting subject. " As a picture- work it is decidedly superior to any published— Sliarpe's Magazine is the only just comparison with it; that really failed by reason of its excellence, for it could not command a sale sufficient to compensate the spirited proprietor; nor could it be expected, when thousands of subscribers were necessary for a return, when, under or- dinary circumstances, hundreds only would have been sufficient to have left a profit. " We have spoken of the embellishments, which can best be judged of by an inspection of the Volumes. These can be seen, or ought to be, in every respectable circulating library; or if not, the public should re- quire them to become subscribers to it. " We will now turn to the pages of this periodical. A part of the work, it is true, contains matter interesting alone to the fair sex; but the general reading matter is highly amusing, and oftentimes very in- structive. The reviews are marked by sound discrimination and un- biassed judgment, so that to be praised in the improved series of the Lady's Magazine, argues no little merit; and the manner in which it is got up reflects no small praise upon Mr. Page, the publisher, by whose Permission we see the beautiful Fashions are exclusively used for the ollet. f furrier des Salons, and the Lady's Magazine; thereby possess- ing the. do". devalue of originality that they are such as no other work can imitate, and really fashions to be worn by the elite of Paris and London. " " We should not have BO l. i which, No. tl_, the half- year, eyes are abroad to find out the best periodical to sub- scribe to; and that we felt confident our recommendation would Tie looked upon as just, and esteemed as a favour by those who set a value upon and delight in encouraging merit." ST. GILES AND SULTAN, from Paintings hy J. FERNELEY, of Melton Mowbray.— R. ACKERMANN, jun., begs leave most respectfully to acquaint the Nobility, Gentry,' and Sporting World, he has just published TWO PRINTS of the above celebrated Horses— ST. GILES, winner of the last Derby Stakes at Epsom, the property of Mr. R. Ridsdale; and SULTAN, the property of the Most Noble the Marquis of Exeter. Price 15s. each, beautifully coloured. 3 London: published by R. Ackermann, jun., at his Eclipse Sporting Gallery, 191, Regent- street. To be peremptorily SOLD by AUCTION, by Mr. BIGGS, by order of Assignees, at the King's Arms Inn, Cross, in the county of Somerset, on Friday, the 16th day of November instant, at Two o'clock in the Afternoon, in One Lot, unless disposed of in the meantime by Private Contract, ' ALarge and Commodious TAN- YARD, erected upon the most improved principle, with an excellent counting- house, and suitable back houses, storehouses, bark- mill, and every other con- venience for the exercise of the tanning business, to a considerable ex- tent ; together with a large walled garden and two orchards, containing, together, about one acre and a half. Also, a CLOSE of MEADOW or PASTURE GROUND, adjoining the said Tan- yard, on the southward part thereof, called Higher Moor, con- taining, by estimation, Five Acres or thereabouts. The above Premises are most picturesquely situated at Stringston, in the county of Somerset, near the town of Bridgewater, and are sur rounded by a country abundantly supplied with bark. The Tan- yard and Appurtenances are considered most complete of their kind, havin » - been erected at an expenditure of several thousand pounds, and are only about two nnles from the sea- port town of Combwick, upon the Bridge- water over. For a sight of the property apply on the premises, and further parti- culars may be obtained bv application to Messrs Horton and Son, or to Messrs Bayntun, Son, and Thomas, Solicitors, Bristol. CORN EXCHANGE, Nov. 9. There has been scarcely any English Wheat in the Market to- day, and what there was sold readily at Monday's quotations. There being but little good Malting Barley, that article also fully maintained its price. T he immense supply of Oats has had the effect of somewhat lowering the terms, with a dull sale. Other articles remain as before quoted. AVERAGE PRICE FOR THE WEEK ENDED NOV. 2. „ , ,, Wheat. Barley. Oats. General weekly average 53s 3d.... 30s 2d.... 18s 6d Six weeks'ditto, which regulates duty. 53s 5d 30s tod 18s 9d AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. ( Computed from the returns in the week ended Oct. 30 ) Brown or Muscovado Sugar cwt 2Ss 4 Jd Exclusive of the import duties thereon. 2 0 Carafa's Air, " O cara memoria" VIOLIN AND PIANO- FORTE. Czerny, J.— Musical Entertainments, from Favourite Operas, as Duets, Nos. I to 4 — each No. 5. Nel Silenzio ; Soave Immagine.— II Crociato. No. 6. Oh! chase away the ling'ring tear; M arket Cho- rus ; Gentle Maid, oh! hear our Prayer.— La Muette di Portici.—( To be continued.) NEW SONGS. 2 6 A Father's Legacy We look for Her — Tile Lay of the Indian Girl ..... 0 ! How can I his Power deny ? The blush of Eve ( Fairy Song) Pride of the Village „.— Castle Thierry, a Lay of Romance The Song of joy and the Song of Woe. See, Dear Louise ———.— Fair One, take this Rose and wreathe it He comes no more — ——.. Young Love, a Sly Urchin To the Spirit of My Mother Think, think of me Mary . She's on my Heart — At Twilight's Shade . 1 have sought the Forest's Glen I know who - Thomas Haynes Bayly 2 0 ...— George Linley 2 0 — R. Guylott 2 0 .— Geo. Linley 2 0 — R. Guylott 2 0 .. William Ball 2 0 .. Ditto 2 0 . T. H. Bayly 3 0 - Mrs. Huxley— S. Nelson 2 0 Wegener 2 0 G. Linley 2 0 . Mrs. Huxley— S. Nelson 2 0 M. Harris 2 0 ... G. Linley 2 0 T. H. Severn 2 0 M. Harris 2 0 G. Linley 2 0 S. Nelson 2 0 .... Ditto.... 2 0 Three children were, at tlic time, afflicted with the hooping- cough, The father, mother, aud eldest child, each took five piUs at night, and all were in excellent health and spirits on the following morning. This is now a month ago, and they have never been ailing since. Tlie second child would not lake so many; but was completely cured in a few days. The youngest child could not be induced to take any. The grateful parents wish to make this public, and to return their sin- cere thanks ; which, together with my own, for inducing me to adminis- ter such blessings to my fellow creatures, be pleased to accept from, dear Sir, yours truly, DAVtD AGNEW. Brewer's Cl03e, Bishop- street, Anderston. The " Vegetable Universal Medicines" are to be had at the College, New- road, King's- cross, London; at the Surrey Branch, 96, Great Sur- rey- street, Blackfriars; Mr. Fieid's, 16, Air- street, Quadrant; Mr. Chappell's Royal Exchange; Mr. Walker's, Lamb's Conduit- passage, Red Lion- square; Mr. J. Loft's, 10, Mile End- road; Mr. Bennett's, Co- vent- garden- market; Mr. Haydon's, Fleur- de- lis- court, Norton- folgate; Mr. Haslett's, 147, Ratcliffe- higliway; 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. Cliappel, Royal Library, Pall- mall; Mrs. Clements, 12, Bridge- street, Southwark; Mr. Kirtlam, 4, Bolingbroke- row, Wal- worth ; of Mr. Pain, 64, Jermyn- street; Mr. Wood, hair- dresser, Rich- mond; Mr. Meyer, 3, May's- buildings, Blackheath; Mr. Griffiths. Wood- wharf, Greenwich; Mr. B. Pitt, 1, Cornwall- road, Lambeth; and at one Agent's in every principal town in Great Britain, the Islands of Guernsey and Malta, and throughout the whole of the United States of America, the Canadas, and New Brunswick. Oh ! when in Life's fair Morning. Sung by Miss Inverarity, in tbe " Haunted Tower" ' Oh ! this old World of ours. Written by Viscount Brome. Music by Mrs. R. Groom 2 0 The Crusader's Farewell. Written by Miss Fanny Kemble. Music by Mrs. R. Groom 2 0 Pretty Rose ( Comic Song), by the Author of Mr. and Mrs. Smith 2 0 SONOS OF THE GIPSIES ( embellished with an elegant Lithogra- phic Illustration by Haghe), to whicii is preixed an Historical. Introduction on the origin and custf ms of tltis interesting peo- ple, by W. T. Moncrieff, esq. The music by S. Nelson. In bds. 10 6 GUITAR. Derwort's Guitar Tutor, 2d edition, with considerable additions.. 10 G Iloretzky's Instructive Lessons, Op. 33 3 G Lately published, price 5s. 6d. THE ART OF PREVENTING THE LOSS OF TEETH, with simple instructions, intended and calculated to enable medical practitioners, and persons residing at a distance, to adopt the author's practice of treating diseases of the teeth and gums, including his infallible Cure for Toothache, Fastening Loose Teeth, and the Stopping Decayed Teeth with Cement, & c. & c. Also, stating the Improvements in fixing Artificial Teeth, and a description of the Sili- ceous Pearl Teetli, an< l Teeth Renovater, invented for restoring without pain decayed, discoloured, or broken Front Teeth, to a perfect and beau- tiful app : arance; with testimonials from their Majesties' Physicians and Surgeons. By JOSEPH SCOTT, Dentist. " Mr. Scott has here laid down a set of rules for the management of the teeth whilst perfect, and for supplying the defects which may un- avoidably occur, that will enable an individual who may, from circum- stances, be deprived of professional assistance, to become his own den- tist. It also contains several remedies for tooth- ache, accompanied by testimonials from Sir Ii. Halford, bart., Sir A. Cooper, bart., and seve- ral other professional gentlemen of the first reputation for skill and science. On the whole, we recommend this treatise as well worthy the attention of those who estimate either the intrinsic value or the external charms of a beautiful set of teeth."— Weekly Times. " Avery excellent treatise, from a clever and experienced dentist, which those readers who value a good set of teeth will do well to peruse." — Lady's Museum. " Next to the preservation of the natural teeth, the acquisition of a good an licial set is desirable, and it is on this snbject we would par- ticularly recommend the treatise of Mr. Scott."— Albion. " We have read this treatise, and find it to contain much useful in- formation. The author appears to have combined in it the result of many years' experience, both surgical and mechanical. We strongly recommend a perusal of this work to all persons who set a value upon their teeth."— Weekly Dispatch. " A brief and intelligible work, containing very useful information."— Athenieum. " This little treatise conveys much useful advice on the subject which it discus. ses, and ought to be in the hands of every one who values the preservation of what is so essential both to comfort and appearance." Satirist. " The author is unfavourable to extraction, and defends his views on tills subject with great ingenuity. The work, besides being extremely entertaining, must be highly useful as a book of family reference." Liverpool Chronicle. To be had of the publishers, Simpkin and Marshall, Stationers'- hall. court, Ludgate- liill; and all booksellers in town and country; and like- wise of the Author, 15, Lower Grosvenor- street, London. COAL- MARKET, FRIDAY, NOV. 9. Price of Coals, per ton, at the close of the market. Beaumont, 17s.— Chester Main, 17s.— Charlotte, 18s. 91.— East Percy, 17s. 6d.— Garesfield; 16s.— Hebburn, 19s. 6d.— Holywell, 12s.— Kenton West, 19s. 6d.— Orde's Redheugh, 17s. 6d.— Pontop Windsor, 17s.— St. Lawrence Main, 19s.— Tanfiefd, 19s. 6d.— Townley, 17s. 6d.— Wylam, 19s. 3d.— Wall's- end, Bewicke and Co., 21s. 9d.— Ditto, Callerton, 17s. 6d.— Ditto, Chirton, 17s. 9d.— Ditto, Clark and Co., ISs. 9d.— Ditto Heaton, 21s. 3d. to 21s, 6d.— Ditto, Hotspur 20s.— Ditto, Hilda, 19s. 9d. — Ditto, Killingworth, 20s. 6d. to 20s. 9d.— Ditto, Newbiggen, 16s. 61.— Ditto, Newmarch, 20s.. 6d.— Ditto, Perkins, 20s. 3d.— Ditto, Riddles, 21s. 6d.— Bell's Primrose, 16s. 3d.— Wall's- end, Hetton, 22s. 6d. to 23s. Ditto, Lambton, 22s. 6d.— Ditto, Russell's Hetton, 22s. 6d.— Ditto, Stew- art's, 22s. 9d.— Ditto, Stobart's 17s. 3d.— Ditto, Tees, 22s. 9d.— Wali's- end, Preston Grange, 17s.— West Hartley, 17s. 9d.— Wall's end, Selbv. 16s. 6d.— Ditto, Hotspur, I4s. 6d. Ships arrived, 6. SMITHFIELD, Nov. 9. The number of beasts was very limited, and scarcely any of prime quality in the market. The sheep market was but thinly stocked, and the trade generally dull. We found no alteration in the price of meat except- ing in Veal, which was 2d. lower than onMonday's quotations. We have no alteration whatever in the Haymarket. ( Per stone of 81b., sinking the offal.) ''' 1° 12' J I 3s 8d to 4s 6d as \ 0d to 4s 6d | Pork sa to ia id HEAD OF CATTLE AT THIS DAY'S MARKET. Beasts 447 | Calves 2( H | Sheep .... 3,920 [ Pigs 180 Beef ... Mutton Hay; HAY AND STRAW PER LOAD. . 50s to 75s | Clover ... 75s to 100s | Straw.. 30s to 36s Amsterdam, 3 m. 12 6J Ditto short, 12 4i Rotterdam.. 3 m. 12 6J Hamburgh . do.. 13 15 Paris short, 25 85 Ditto 3 m. 26 10 Frankfort do... 1544 COURSE OF EXCHANGE, Nov. 9. Vienna 2 m. 10 11 Trieste do. 10tol2 Madrid do 36 Cadiz do.... 36 Bilboa do.... 36 Leghorn do.... 47i Genoa do... 26 10 Naples 3 m 40 Palermo... per oz.. 120 Lisbon 30 days 47£ Oporto do 49 Malta 46 Dublin l* Cork PRICES OF BULLION. Portugal Gold in coin.. Foreign Gold in bars .. New Doubloons ^ oz. 0 0 0 3 17 9 3 15 3 OZ. New Dollars with pillars. 0 4 9i New Dollars without do.. 0 4 9 Silver in bars, standard.. 0 4 103 F S O F T F Soft fell the dew, And mild was the morn, That lovelily opened, That wakened the dawn; Soft fell the dew In its exquisite sheen, Real love might be pictur'd, True bliss might be seen. I have seen that dew fall, I have seen that morn break, And the sun all resplendent In glory awake; ELL THE D E W.' A PARODY. That sun cast a shadow, But the shade when I irtet I found was enrivalled By Warren's Black Jet. That Blacking has beauty I thought not to view, Tiff in my bright boots I my face could review: A splendour unrivall'd My boots now assume, Since polished by Warren's, By Warren's Jet Bloom. 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 I8d. each. Be particular to inquire for Warren's, 30, Strand: all others are counterfeit OR the CUKE of COUGHS, COLDS, ASTHMAS, _ SHORTNESS of BREATH, & c. & c.— WALTER'S ANISEED PILLS.— The numerous and respectable testimonials daily received of the extraordinary efficacy of the above pills, in curing the most dis- tress! n- and long- established diseases of the pulmonary and respiratory org « n- induces the Proprietor to recommend them to the notice of those- iiiicted with the above complaints, conceiving that a medicine, which has now stood the test of experience for several years, cannot be too generally known. They are composed entirely of balsamic veget. able ing .( dients, and are so speedy in their beneficial effects, that in ordiii. tr1 cases a few doses have been found sufficient; and, unlike most cough medicines, they neither affect the head, confine the bowels, nor prouv. ee. any of the unpleasant sensations so frequently complained of. Tl » e fi wing cases are submitted to the public from many in the Pro- prietor- possession:— K. Boke, of Globe- lane, Mile- end, was perfectly cured of a violent cough, attended with hoarseness, which rendered his speech inaudible, by taking three or four doses.— E. Booley, of Queen- street, Spitalfields, after taking a few doses, was entirely cured of a most inveterate cough, which he had had for many months, and tried almost every thing without success. Prepared by W. Walter, and sold by I. A. Sliarwood, No. 55, Bishops- gate Witiiont, in boxes, at Is. tjd., and three in one for 2s. 9d.; and by appointment by Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford- street; Green, 42, White chapel- road; P'rout, 226, Strand ; Sharp, Cross- street, Islington; Pink, 65, High- street, Borough; Allison, 130, Brick- lane, Bethnal- green; Farrar. Upton- place, Commercial road; Hendebourck, 326, Holborn; Emeu n, Bath- place, New- road; and by all the wholesale and retail Med^ ie Venders in the United Kingdom. N, >. In consequence of the increased demand for this excellent me- dicin • the public are cautioned against counterfeits. None can be genuine unless signed by I. A. Sharwood on the Government stamp, and W. Walter on the outside wrapper.— Be sure to ask for •' Walter's Aniseed Pills." From the LONDON GAZETTE of Tuesday and Friday last. « [ The Gazette of Friday notifies that his Majesty has been pleased to conter the honour of knighthood upon Major Francis- Geary- Gardner- Lee, of the Royal Marines, Knight of the royal and distinguished Order of Charles the Third of Spain, and late a Lieutenant- Colonel in the Spa- nish service; upon Lieutenant- General Thomas Browne, Military Kni" ht Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order; also upon Co'm- missary- General Jolm Bisset, Civil Knight Commander of the Roya' Hanoverian Guelphic Order.] AVAR- OFFICE, Nov. 6.— MEMORANDUM— The half- pay of the under- mentioned officers has been cancelled from the 6th instant, inclusive they having accepted a commuted allowance for their commissions — Captain Lieut. R. Lascelles, half- pay 20th Light Dragoons: Hospital- Assistant J. Clarke, half- pay; Lieut. R. Welwyn, half- pay 61st Foot • Paymaster H. Pollock, half- pay 26th Foot; Assist.- surgeon E. Cutler' lialf- pay 1st Foot Guards ; Assist.- surgeon C. Foote, lialf- pay 26th Foot' Ensign T. Holder, retired full- pay 5tli Royal Veteran Battalion • Lieut' T. Dunkin, half- pay 1st Foot Guards ; Ensign J. Gough, half- pay 57th Foot; Lieut. G. Pope, retired full- pay 1st Royal Veteran Battalion; CaD- tain A. E. d'Orfeuille, half- pay 23d Foot; Ensign J. Home, haif- nav 100th Foot; Lieut. J. Burke, half- pay 16th Light Dragoons; Lieut H Young, half- pay 3d Foot. Quartermaster J. Murcliison, of the 96th Foot, has also been permitted to retire from the service, receiving a commuted allowance for his com mission; and Ensign G. P. Bliss, fate of the New Brunswick Fencible's has also been permitted to receive a commuted allowance, instead of being replaced on half- pay. INSOLVENTS. J. and C. Pitt, Worcester, goldsmiths. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. J. C. Reiffenstein, Langport- place, Camberwell, and Quebec Lower Canada, North America, merchant. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. R. Dennis, West Ham, Essex, victualler. BANKRUPTS. T. andT. H. Ingram, Lower Thames- street, fish- factors— D Pullen Duke- street, Westminster, bill- broker— V. Russell, Brighton and Re' pent- street, dealer — C. Bluck, Clapham- road- place, boarding- house- keeper— C. Bull, Bath, tavern- keeper— J. Pratt, King- street, St. j - ironmonger— T. Butt, Hedge- row, Isliugton, boot- maker- J. Haines' Waterloo- road, shoe- manufacturer— J. Coates and G. Havvorth Ina- le ton, Yorkshire, cotton- spinners— J. Korff, Kirtley, Suffolk, shiD- buifder — C. Attenburrow, Costock, Nottinghamshire, surgeon— C Lee Aslibv de- la- Zouch, Leicestershire, mercer— J. Stanton, Northampton' mercer — E. Pierson, Lomerfield- court, Kent, hop- dryer— J. Emett, StaDleton Gloucestershire, corn- factor— J. Brunton, Southwick, Durham si ™ ' builder— E. Foster, Huddersfield, carver— A. Field, Canterbury inn- keeper— S. D. Norton, Watney- street, Commercial- road, victualler— M U. Sears, Charter- house- square, engraver— J. Callow, Birmingham" silk- mercer— J. Paul, Exeter- street, Sloane- street, furniture- broker— j" Udall, IsUngton, carpet- warehouseman- J. Begley, Liverpool, haberl dasher— W. and S. Dane, Manchester, ironmongers— H. Pike Avlsham Norfolk, money- scrivener— W. Florance, Corfe- castle, Dorset, surgeon and apothecary— J. Boucant, Afbanv- road, Camberwell, mercliant- R and M. Jackson, Minories, wine- merchants— T. Taylor, E< riiam tallow- chandler— C. Lockington, John- street, Oxford- street, oilman— W andT Simpson, Leather- lane, Holborn, builders— J. M^ ss, Great <". ariottcl street, Btackfnars- road, shoe- maker. 3 6 2 THE TOWJI. LAW. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Nov. 7. Mr. Edwaid Parkinson, a clerk in the Accountant- General's Office, in which his father holds a high official situation, was op- posed on behalf of Messrs. Plowright and Bond, linen drapers, with whom he had contracted a debt to the amount of 27/. for a boa and other articles supplied to his wife. The insolvent's salary for the last four years was 180/. a year. After his marriage his ex- penditure greatly exceeded his income, and his debts soon amounted to 400/. Wanting a sum of 20/. he sold his furniture lo a broker, for little more than that sum. Mr. Co « ke prayed the mercy of the Court, on the ground that the conduct of the insolvent in getting in debt was attributable to thoughtlessness, and not to any intention to take advantage of his creditors. Mr. Commissioner Bowen said the insolvent's conduct was dishonest, as he had contracted debts after he was fully aware of his insolvency. He then sentenced him to six months' imprisonment. CLAPHAM PETTY SESSIONS. BYERS AT FAULT.— A Petty Sessions was held on Thursday at Ciapham, to hear and determine upon 27 informations laid by Byers against coach proprietors, for an infringementof the new law. The first case called on was an information against Charles Pigeon, the driver of one of Mr. Lancefield's two horse Ciapham coaches, for carrying one more passenger than the law allowed under the existing construction of his coach, which was at variance with the provisions of the new Acl. Byers having proved his case, Mr. Lewis, the solicitor for the defendant, stated that he had an objection to make, which he submitted would prove fatal to Mr. Byers's case. In informations of this description, he ( Sir. Lewis) deemed it decidedly necessary it should be set forth that the coach of the defendant was drawn on four wheels, inasmuch as vehi cles drawn on a less number did not come within the meaning of the section ot the act under which the information was laid. Now the informer had omitted to state this fact in his information, and he ( Mr. L.) was of opinion the case could not be proceeded with. Byers replied at great length, and after a long argument between the parties, The Magistrates observed that they were of opinion the objec- tion was fatal, and dismissed the case with costs. The remaining twenty- six informations being precisely similar to the previous one; were consequently all dismissed. Mr. Lewis applied on behalf of the defendants for their costs which, under the new Act, the Magistrates have the power to grant The Magistrates observed, that as the merits ofthe respective cases had not been gone into, it would not be justice to order the infor- mer to pay the costs of the opposite party. Each would, therefore pay his own costs. This signal defeat of Byers was the cause of no inconsiderable delight to the persons assembled. The expence that Byers had been put to in getting up the informations, and attending with his witnesses at Claphani, is computed at upwards of 12/. POLICE. if the How MANSION- HOUSE. REWARD TO FIHEMES.— Monday the assistant overseer of the parish of All- hallows, London- wall, applied to the Lord Mayor to sign an order to compel a resident of Bishopsgale parish to pay the usual rew& rd to the firemen who appeared foremost with the en- gines at a fire in Broad- street buildings. The Lord Mayor, upon looking at the order presented for his signature, perceived that it was not signed by either the Alderman, Deputy, Or Common Coun- cil of the Ward, and said that he could not, in accordance with the Act of Parliament, compel the payment of the reward without such authority. The assistant overseer said, that the firemen who had attended were present, and ready to swear that they had gone in with their engines— and the owner of the premises had no objection to pay, provided the Alderman, Deputy, or two of the Common Council, as the Act required, would, by their signature, prove that he was responsible. He ( the assistant overseer) had called at the houses of Sir William Rawlings, the Deputy, and others of the Common Council, but he found Sir William was out, and the Common Councilmen refused to sign the order as they had not themselves seen the fire. The Lord Mayor— 1 can't help it, and I am sorry for it. The assistant overseer-— What are we to do then, my Lord Common Coimc'dmen all . l.„„, c to reject upon jucUsiounds ' can we expect that competition amongst the firemen which leads to tbe preservation of much property! The Lord Mayor— Why, you must knock at the doors of all the Common Counvilmen of the ward in which the fires may happen, whatever the hour of the night may be, and call upon them to wit- ness the fires, if they won't credit any thing but their own eyes ( a laugh.) I don't know of any other way of getting justice done. The assistant— 1 certainly shall do as you advise, my Lord. We have witnesses in abundance, and I wish your Lordship would grant me a summons to each of the gentlemen who refused to sign. The Lord Mayor— I can't do any thing of the kind. The Act directs that no reward be paid without the application of the Alder- man, or the Deputy, or two of the Common Council of the ward. But do you rattle them up w henever there is a fire in tbe ward, and I'll engage that, rather than turn out at two or three o'clock in the morning, they will find means of signing. The assistant overseer said, that in this case the parish must bs at the whole expense. A KEEPER OF THE TOWER.— Mr. Quin, one of the officers em- ployed ill taking care of and exhibiting some of the curiosities in the Tower of London, was charged with having deserted his wife, aud left her destitute. The defendant, who is a tall Irishman, with a head covered with a great quantity of grey hair, presented a cu- rious appearance at Ihe bar. The beadle stated, that Mr. Quin had prevailed by his blarney upon a lady of considerable property to marry him ; and that, after having run out all the property so obtained, he thought fit to render her as little assistance as possible. He had agreed to allow his wife 10s. a week out of his salary at the Tower; but he forgot the obligation, and now owed the parish 8/. 10s, for money advanced to the lady. Mr. Quin said, that if his lady wanted money, she could easily get it by applying to her brother, or other relations, who were at ail times ready to give her 50/. or 100/. As for the charge against him, of having wheedled her into the matrimonial state, that was, upon his honour, destitute of foundation'. The fact was, there had been a mistake on bolh sides. Ilis wife fancied that he was a man of fortune, and he fancied that she was quite able to supply his de- fects in tlvat particular.—( Laughter.) Although the British Am- bassador in Spain joined their hands, he regretted to say that there was very little in them at the time.—( Laughter.) Mrs. Quin said that her husband had wasted a great deal of pro- perty foolishly, and was now so eccentric in his habits that he could not be depended upon; and that, were it not for the parish officers, her condition would be desperate. She hoped the Lord Mayor would protect her by compelling the regular payment of her allowance. Mr. Quin— Upon my honour it is not convenient for me to pay. I am sorry for it; but it is easier for the whole parish to pay than for me.—( Laughter.) The Lord Mayor— If you don't support your wife, Mr. Quin, I must send you to prison. Upon my honour I must, Mr. Quin—( a laugh)— and then you will stand a chance of losing your situation. Don't you think so ! Mr. Quin— Why, yes, my Lord ; I think my place would be rather doubtful if 1 was prevented from attending lo its duties. The fact is, my Lord, that I am now in arrears, and not able to pay my wife on account of a little absence upon one occasion, for which 1 got suspended for a mouth. The beadle— It is true, my Lord, that he was suspended for ac- cepting an invitation to take a little gin, when he ought to have been waiting upon their Majesties in the Tower. Mr. Quin— No, there was no gin in the question; not a drop. The truth is, my Lord, her Majesty came to the Tower, and I was suddenly taken very ill. It happened that when the Queen went to the apartment of which I had the care, I was not exactly in the way, and as I had the key in my pocket, no admission could be obtained, and I wis put out of the way for a month for rtot be- ing in the way.—( Laughter.) The Lord Mayor advised the defendant to satisfy the parish offi- cers of his inclination to support his wife, and the parties withdrew for the purpose of arranging the matter. BOW- STREET. AFFILIATION.— On Wednesday, John Ayles, a young man abou 19 years of age, was charged with being the father of a male child of which Sarah Evans, a young Welshwoman, was the mother. Sarah Evans having been sworn, proved that she was delivered of the infant which she then had in her arms on the 23d of Sep- tember last, and that John Ayles, now present, was the true and only father. The defendant positively declared that he had never had any in- tercourse with the young woman further than his having lived in the same house with her, when she was in the service of Mr. Davis the hatter of York- street, Covent- garden, with whom he lived as shopman up to January last. Sir F. Roe told him that unless lie cou'd produce evidence to prove that he w- as not the father of the child, his bare assertion was of no avail, as opposed to the solemn oath of the young woman The defendant then said that one evening in January last, while his master, Mr. Davis, was engaged with company in the parlour, the door happening to be a- jar, he saw a livery servant, whose name was William Bale, go down the kitchen stairs. He taxed Sarah with the circumstance, and she confessed that the mail was her sweetheart, and that she was then with child by him Sarah positively denied that she had ever said so, and again declared that no other person but the defendant was the father of her child. She admitted that she knew William Bale, and that he used to visit her occasionally w hen she lived in the service of Mr. Davis. Defendant— Had you not a child by him before this was born? Sarah— That has nothing to do with the business; you are the father of this child, and no one else. Mr. Davis, the defendant's late master, said that lie had fre- quently seen a servant in livery call to see Sarah. He used to go down to the kitchen and remain some time. Sir F. Roe— How long is it since you have seen this William Bale ? Sarah— I have not seen him for these 18 months. The defendant declared that this could not be true, for lie was positive he saw the man go down the kitchen stairs in January last, a short time before he left the service of Mr. Davis, Sarah again repeated that she had not seen Bale for the last 18 months, and that she dictated a letter which the defendant wrote for her, forbidding him the house. The defendant admitted this fact, but could not say whether it was before or after he left the service of Mr. Davis. Mr. Davis said that he recollected the evening in January last when he had company in his parlour, but he did not himself see Bale go down stairs. He was positive, however, that Bale had called several times to see Sarah within the last 18 months. Indeed, he saw him at the house two or three times during the summer. Sir F. Roe asked Sarah where she became acquainted with Wif- liame Bale. She replied, that they lived together in the same family, at Clapham- rise, for nine months. Sir F. Roe— What was the name of the gentleman in whose ser- vice you lived? The young woman, after a long pause, declared that she did not recollect the name. Sir F. Roe— And yet you lived for nine months ill the family. Iter. She resisted, and in the straggle with them was struck upon the head, by, she believed, the younger prisoner, Lovel, after which she became unconscious of what took place. The whole transaction, it appeared, occupied but a short time, and some of the neighbours, who were alarmed by the outcry, found the poor woman covered with blood, from an extensive wound at the back of the head. A constable produced a window sash which had been dashed from the prisoners' room into the court, and also a woman's cap, drenched with blood, which he had found upon their bed. The prisoners declared that they never struck or ill- used the pro- secutrix, and said that she cut her head herself by dashing it through the window. They were required to find bail for their appearance at the ses- sions, and being uuable to do so, were committed. QUEEN- SQUARE. OUTRAGE IN DOWNING- STREET.— A young man, named Robin- son May, dressed rather shabby genteelly, was charged with com- mitting the following daring outrage at the Council- office, in Down ing- street:— It appeared from the evideuce, that in the afternoon the prisoner was in Downing- street, when, without any provoca- tion whatever, he took up a large stone, and, in the most delibe- rate manner, threw it with great violence against the windows of one of the rooms ; the stone nearly hit one of the messengers, who had a very narrow escape of receiving a serious injury. A police constable saw the transaction, and secured him by the collar to pre- vent him doing further mischief. The prisoner, it appeared, had just before broken the windows at the Board of Trade- office. Mr. White asked the prisoner what motive he could have for committing such an outrage ? He replied that he was seeking re- dress for his wrongs. He was the expected Saviour, come on earth to put his Majesty and Lord Brougham to rights ; they owed him two millions of money, and he was confident that lie should have it. It appeared from further questions, that he had lived clcrk some time ago with Mr. Ramsden, a capillaire- maker, in Brooke- street, Holborn. The damage done to the windows was estimated at 15s., which the prisoner was unable to pay, and was committed for one month to the House of Correction. Some time after, a brother and sister of the prisoner, who had heard of his being apprehended, came to the office. Tiie brother said that the prisoner was insane. He had lived with Mr. Rams- den about 15 months ago, and he had been compelled to support him ever since. He had a delusion on his mind that Government owed him money, and some time ago he wrote to Sir. Ramsden to lend him 300/., telling him that he need not be frightened of his money, as he must be aware that Government owed him a large sum. A short time since he was taken to Worship- street for a similar of- fence. Mr. White recommended him to go to Coldbath- fields prison, and represent the case to the visiting magistrates, and he was certain that they would see that he was properly taken care of for the future. The applicant thanked the magistrate and withdrew. November 11. of Correction, for robbing an elderly gentleman's pocket of his pocket handkerchief, as they were both coming out of the chapel in Newman- street. The. chapel has become a regular resort of pickpockets every Sunday evening. UNION HALL. PEPPERED PUDDING.— Tuesday, Tom Pepper, a well known dog fancier was charged with stealing a valuable animal, of the bull- dog breed, the property of a substantial country yeoman. The farmer came up to town to attend the Borough- market, and brought his favourite dog with him. Tom Pepper, who happened to be in the market at the time, perceiving that ihe animal was a valuable one, instantly pulled out a piece of " pudding," consist- ing of some substance which the canine species are exceedinly fond of, and rubbing a piece to the dog's nose, walked off. The farmer's dog no sooner smelt the savoury pudding than he quitted his master and stuck close to th* heels of Tom Pepper, who was hastening home to his " crib" in the Mint, but unluckily for hira he was watched, and the dog was found in his possession. Tom tried to get rid of the proof of the pudding by throwing it away, but the fact having been sworn to, he was convicted, and sentenced to pay the value of the dog, besides a penalty of 51. for stealing it. Tom Pepper, being uuable to pay, was committed for two months to Ihe treadmill. THAMES OFFICE. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.— On Monday E/ I: A Wild, a woinani very distressed circumstances, aged 35, was brought before Mr. Broderip, the sitting Magistrate, charged with attempting to drown herself in the London- dock. The Inspector had questioned the prisoner, and she said that ex- treme distress compelled her to make the attempt on her life. He had since ascertained that her husband was a sawyer, who some time past had not been able to obtain much employment. About two years ago the prisoner had three children at one birth. They all lived for several months. She had now three young children living, and they appeared to be much in want of the foramen ne- cessaries of life. The prisoner, who appeared overwhelmed with grief, and was in a very weak and pitiable state, said that she was truly sorry for what she had done, and implored forgiveness. The sight of her three children crying around her for food, and the distress of her- self and her husband, who was unable to obtain much employment, grieved her so much, that in a moment of despair she left home and threw herself into the dock. Mr. Broderip said it was her duty to have applied to the over- seers ; and in case of failure there, to that office. He should allow her to depart, for lie believed her penitence was sincere ; and he directed Wheeler, the policeman, to represent her case to the over- seers, and keep his eye on her and her family. The magistrate then observed that the evidence in support elf the charge was of that description, that he did not feel himself called upou to make an order on the defendant, without further inquiry. Charges of this description were easily made, but unless they were supported by something like satisfactory evidence, no man would be secure from the liabilities of having a child fathered upon him. The Vestry Clerk suggested that the case should stand over for a week, with a view loathe production of further evidence both on the part of the defendant and the parish. This suggestion was adopted, and the case was ordered to stand over accordingly, ami that Bale the servant should be summoned to attend the re- hearing. ROBBING A TEMPLAR— On Thursday, Anne Whitehead, :> middle- aged woman, was charged with having stolen several silver spoons, and other articles of domestic use, the property of E. Boodle, Ksq., u barrister, who resides in chambers, at Paper- build- ings, in the T « N> ple. The prisoner, w) io served the prosecutor in the character of a laundress, was left in charge of the chambers during his absence in the country, and on his return to town be missed the articles in question together with part of his law library. The prisoner, who ccclared that she had no intention of com- mitting a felony, and meant to have replaced the property as soon as she could, was fully committed to Newgate for trial. MARLBOROUGH STREET. Too CIVIL BY HALF.— Tuesday, a tall well- dressed young man, who gave his name Thomas Green, was brought before Mr Conant, upon the following charge- Captain Cotgrave, R. N., stated that as he was passing the Navy Club- house, St. James's, on Monday evening, the prisoner, whom he had never seen before, came suddenly up lo him, and asked why lie passed him without speaking to him ? He, ( Captain Cotgrave; replied that he had no knowledge whatever of him before, but the prisoner declared they were acquainted, and he did not approve of being " cut" in such a manner. The prisoner still continued to follow witness, and persisted in claimingacquaintance, upon which Captain Cotgrave, meeting a policeman iu Oxford street, gave him into custody. Captain Cotgrave said he was convinced he had never seen the prisoner before, and he could only consider his conduct as an attempt at extortion. The prisoner admitted he had been mistaken, and alleged that he thought Captain Cotgrave was a gentleman, who had, finder pretence of treating him to some liquor, left him a score of 2s. 3d at a public house to pay. Mr. Conant.— I suspect you are one of those scoundrels who infest the streets, particularly in this quarter of the town ; and I have not the least doubt your object was extortioa. The prisoner denied that such was the fact. Webb, the beadle of St. James's here stepped forward, and said that the prisoner had recently been discharged from the Life Guards with a tainted character, and made such other communica- tions to Mr. Conant as induced the worthy magistrate to order the prisoner to be detained until further inquiries were made. LAMBETH- STREET. BREACH or TRUST. — On Wednesday Susan Cambourn, a pretty modest looking young female, andT/ iomas Brown, hersweetheart, and to whom it appears she was to have been married in a short time, were placed within the felon's bar, the former charged with robbing her master, a gentleman residing in Poplar, of wine glasses, table linen, tea, and various other articles of properly ; aud the latter receiving the same, well knowing it to have been stolen. It appeared that the female prisoner, who bad not been quite a week in her situation, commenced an extensive system of plunder; and on the preceding evening a box of her's, in which she had packed half a dozen of wine, wine glasses, and other property, was stopped just as she was about to have it taken to the lodgings of her lover. She vvfcs re- manded, and her sweetheart, on his receiving an excellent character, discharged. WORSHIP- STREET. ASSAULT ON A FEMALE.— On Wednesday two fellows, named John Adams and Thomus Lovel, were brought up for final examina- tion, charged with savagely assaulting and attempting to violite the person of Alice Payne, a married woman, about 45 years of age. The assault was committed on Friday week, and the poor woman had since been in the hospital in consequence of the very serious injury she had sustained. She was brought to the office in a coach to give tier evidence. It appeared that the complainant was standing in Ihe court in which she resides, and the prisoners, who occupy a room on the first floor of the next house, having ascertained by inquiry that her hus- band was not at home, invited her into their place to take some- lliing to drink. She accordingly went to their room and had a glass of gin, and they immediately afterwards began to take liberties with HATTON- GARDEN. COMMITTAL FOR ROBBERY.— EleanorGoderieh, a beautiful look- ing girl, aged 16, and Esther Reeves, aged 15, were brought up for final examination, charged by Mr. James Bennett, a mining agent, of St. Austle, Cornwall, with having robbed him of property, con- sisting of gold, silver, bills of exchange, securities, and other do- cumenls of the value of 600/. Edward Hutton, a fellow of forbid- ding aspect, aged 19, and William Heme, alias Honest Bill, were also charged on suspicion of having been concerned in the robbery, or receiving the property knowing it to be stolen. Mr. Bennett, being sworn, deposed to the circumstances of his having been rob- bed at a notorious house, called " Rats Castle," by two girls of ill- fame, as detailed in the TOWN of last week. Mr. Rogers inquired whether he saw anybody else but the pri- soners Goderich and Reeves while he was in the house ? Mr. Bennett said he did not. He was a stranger in London, or he should not have gone to the place. He was happy to say that the prisoners could not avail themselves of the property, and he had stopped payment of other bills at the Bank, & c. He had since the robbery traced his coat to the possession of the prisoner Hutton, but had not heard ofthe remainder of his property. George Palmer, police sergeant, described the situation in which he found Mr. Bennett. He apprehended Goderich the same even- ing. On charging her with the robbery she was silent, and in hci progress to the station- house he met Reeves, whom he also took into custody. A crowd assembled, and a voice exclaimed " Honest Bill has got the money." Having n knowledge of the prisoner Heme, who is generally known in St, Giles's by that appellation, he proceeded to a flash - house and apprehended him. Esther Reeves was the first to speak, and she stated that she would tell the truth at the office. She then said, " After the prosecutor drank out of the mug and went to sleep, we ( Goderich and herself) rob bed him of his coat, boots, and Sfd. On leaving the house we met with William Heme, aud returned w ith him into the room, and while in the dark searched the prisoner's pockets, when Heme took the pocket- book, and put it into his breast- pocket. On arriving a short distance from the house he demanded something to drink, on which Goderich took out the handkerchief containing tlie property, and he snatched it from her and ran off." Robert Hewson, a police constable, apprehended Hutton, and found in his possession the duplicate of a coat, which proved lo be Mr. Bennett's.. William Randall, a police- constable, stated that Hutton had said lo him, " You are too fast, you'll get nothing from me by that; if you had not been so fast tbe whole of the papers, and other pro- perty, would have been given up, but now I would rather be lagged ( transported) for seven years, or 84 months, than I would say an- other word about it." Goderich did not deny having been concerned in stealing the coat and other property from the prosecutor while he was asleep, but said that " Honest Bill" snatched it from her, and ran off. Reeves told the same sort of story. Heme denied all knowledge of the transaction. Mr. Rogers asked Hutton w hat he had to say for himself. Hutton— I have only to say that what the officer has stated is all false. I did not say 1 would produce the papers ; and as to the duplicate of the coat, I found that in the street. The prisoners were fully committed for trial, and the witnesses were bound over to prosecute. MARYLEBONE. THE SWELL MOB AT THE REV. EDWARD IRVING'S.— George Jones and William Threudwtll, two of the members of the swell mob, were charged with excercising their profession at the Rev, Edward Irving's chapel in Newman street. A police constable stated that in consequence of its being com- municated to the police that a number of the swell mob were ex- pected to meet at the Rev. E. Irving's chapel on Sunday evening, for the purpose of committing their depredations, he went there in company with several oilier policemen, in plain clothes, to watch their operations. Witness found about thirty of the swell mob near the door, pushing against the people so as to occasion a con- siderable degree of confusion. He particularly remarked the pri- soners several times attemptipg to pick the pockets of those who were near him ; and having followed one of them out of the chapel before the service was over, he look Jones into custody, and brought him to A public house in Newman- street, and on his entrance he ran up stairs, and was followed by witness, and when he got to the top of the stu: rs he threw away a pocket- book which witness picked up. ( Here the witness produced a black pocket- book, which contained some addresses and memorandums, which he was in hopes would lead lo tbe discovery of the owner.) Wit- ness likewise saw the prisoner Threadwell attempting to pick pockets; he was apprehended by a policeman who accompanied hira to the chapel at the time, and on his being searched in his presence there was found a sovereign in gold and 15s. 6d. in silver on his person, hesides the duplicate of a watch which had been pawned. Another policeman stated that he saw the two prisoners actively engaged in attempting to pick the pockets of several per- sons in the crowd, and he secured the prisoner Threadwell. The prisoners denied all knowledge of each other, and stated that they went to the chapel for no other earthly reason than mere curiosity. They were remanded, to give an opportunity to the owner of the pocket- book to appear against them. Another pri- soner, whose hair, in colour and luxuriance of growth, rivals that of Mr. Irving himself, was committed for three months to the House TOWN CALENDAR OF ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES. DRESSING A WIG.— On Sunday night a fashionably- dressed young man, intoxicated, reeled into a barber's shop in Kent- street, Boroueh, and throwing himself into the customer's chair, desired to be shaved. While this was going oil he fell asleep, and the barber, on finishing, considered he might cut tbe gentleman's hair, the luxuriant curls of which he reduced to a Kent- street crop. He then endeavoured to awaken the young man and obtain payment; but lie was labouring under the effects of good liquor. He was there- fore hauled off to the station- house, and the next morning, when restored to his sober senses, he was informed of the charge made for shaving and cutting hair. He roared out, " cutting hair!" and then clasped his head in agony, and pulled off a wig, which pre- sented a woful appearance, being denuded of its fair proportions. He now broke into the most ludicrous lamentations, and it shortly appeared that he was a journeyman hair dresser at the west end of the town, that he had made the wig himself, and given 6s. an ounce for the hair, in order to cut a dash in the shop. The Kent- street barber was sent for, and a truly laughable scene took place between them. The journeyman hair- dresser's abuse was unmea- sured, while the master barber declared that neither he nor any one else could have discovered the gentleman's hair to be false." Tbe affair ended in Ihe journsvman's discharge, and the Kent- street barber giving up his claim for cutting and shaving, which amounted to fourpence. ACCIDENT FROM FIRE- WORKS IN THE STREETS.— On Wednes- day evening a dreadful accident occurred in the Westminster- road, in consequence of a parcel of idle buys letting off fire works in the public road. About six o'clock in the evening a man named Valen- tine, in the service of an extensive seedsman in Thames- street, was sent to Morris's, the coach builder, at the West- end of the town, to bring home a four- wheel fly chariot which - had been under repair. Valentine was returning with the vehicle, when just as he got oppo- site Phoenix- street, in the Westminster- road, Ihe horse look fright at some squibs which a boy had let off, and sprang with great vio- fcnee across the road. Before Valentine could check the animal the vehicle came in contact w ith a post, and the shock was so vio lent that he was thrown off Hie box, and pitched headforemost on some steps. A police constable ran to the man's assistance ; he was bleeding profusely at the head, and was quite senseless. He took him to the shop of a chemist, in Stangate- street, where he expired in about two minutes. INQUESTS. On Monday an inquest was held at the Belgrave Hotel, Upper Ebury- street, Pimlico, ort tbe body of Mr. G. Clougfi, aged 44, a gentleman of independent property, residing in the above street. Mr. F. Jackson, brother- in- law lo the deceased, on Wednesday eve- ning was driving hhn in his gig, when, in endeavouring to pass through the turnpike. ga'e at Vauxhall, opposite the Willow- walk, which is extremely narrow and ill lighted, the vehicle came in collision witfv. the gate- post, and was upset. The deceased was thrown under the gig, and he received such injuries that he died on Friday. Veidict, " Accidental death." Monday afternoon a coroner's inquest was held at the Edinburgh Castle, Welbeck- streel, Cavendish- square, on view of the body of Lidy Caroline Barham, aged 62, who died at her residence, 26, Queen Anne- street, on Saturday last, in consequence of an acci- dent from a cab, which took place the preceding Wednesday, near Sir Claude Scott's, the banker, in Cavendish- square. It appears that Ihe cab was driven by a boy, named Henry Bartholomew-, whose father lives iu Keppel- tncws North, Russell- square, and that the age of the lad is only 15. William Robins, servant to Mr. Briggs, fishmonger, 54, Wigmore- street, slated that he called to the boy, who did not slop. The body of her ladyship was opened. Upon the post mortem examination, five ribs appeared to have been broken, and the lungs to have been dreadfully lacerated ; there being also a great extravasation of blood, which injuries were the cause of deatl^ An arm was also broken. The jury, after a consultation of some duration, returned a verdict of " Manslaughter agninst Henry Bar- tholomew, and a deodand of fifty pounds on the cab and horse, and the jury have levied this fine to mark their sense of the great impro- priety of inexperienced boys being entrusted with the management of a horse, and endangering the lives of the public." The youth was then committed on the Coroner's warrant, and the witnesses were bound over to prosecute. Saturday week an inquest was held at the Middlesex Hospital, on the body of Frederick Stanley, a boy about 11, son of a helper at a liveiy- stables, Sheppard- street, Hanover- square. Thursday week he was riding a horse, when it took flight and threw him off. He came with tremendous force against the iron rails of the Marquis of Winchester's area, in Caveudish- square, whereby four of them were broken. He received a concussion of the brain. Verdict— " Accidental death." On Saturday week an inquest was held at the Allsop Arms, Allsop's- place, New- road, on the body of an elderly lady, aged nearly 60. The deceased was walking along the New- road, at a quarter to nine on Thursday night, when she complained of illness to a female who was passing, ai d begged her to assist her into the Allsop Arms. On getting in she said—" Pray send for a doctor; I am very ill; I am a respectable person; 1 can pay him." Those were the last words she uttered, and medical assistance was imme- diately called in, but she died in ten minutes. There was nothing on her from which any clue to her residence or connexions could be gathered. Verdict—" Died by the visitation of God." November 11. THE T0WH. 363 FINE ARTS. • PORTRAITS OF THE PRINCIPAL FEMALE CHARACTERS IN THE WAVERLEY NOVELS. Part II.— London : Chapman and Hall. We have here the products of the fancy of four artists, who have had the courage to give the public their conceptions of the lineaments of a like number of Scott's romantic heroines. To afford full satisfaction in an attempt of this kind we hold to be impossible, unless the artist could depict the creatures of the imagination in all the varied forms in which they delighted the mind. Of the portraits before us, we like the sweet English countenance of Amy Robsart, with its feminine delicacy and weakness, best. This is by Mrs. Carpenter. Boxall's Diana Vernon is a clever gipsey head, but it has no particular rela- tionship to the " flower of the Cheviot." Isabel De Croye is a fair specimen of aristocratic beauty, rather vague, however, and voluptuous, in expression. Stone's Rowena is by no means com- plimentary to the charms of the Saxon damsels. EXHIBITION OF DECEASED AND LIVING ARISTS, SUFFOLK- STREET, PALL- MALL EAST. It was an excellent thought in the directors of the Society of British Artists to have an exhibition of works by deceased and living painters. In justice, too, to ' the living, they acted wisely in" hanging the pictures indiscriminately: for as in many in- stances the living exhibitor need not feel in despair upon com- paring notes between his own production and the one that may chance to be by its side, and which has received the sign manual of posthumous applause, so, in others, the emulous aspirant will, upon the like conjunction, derive benefit from feeling his own inferiority— a result not calculated to prove disadvantageous to youug men of talent in the present day, who, among other con- tagious virtues, stand little chance of giving an epidemic cha- racter to those of modesty and diffidence. To our taste, the collection is extremely interesting, not merely for the reasons just assigned, but from our having in many instances renewed agreeable associations with old and esteemed friends, and been introduced to new ones of no ordi- nary quality. One conclusion we have come to with regard to Sir Joshua Reynolds, and which, that it did not strike us before, may argue no great perspicacity; it is, that with whatever faults he may be chargeable, that of being a mannerist cannot be included in the list. Among the various portraits here brought together, painted by him, the attentive~ observer will not fail to remark the diversity which exists both as to his general style and subor- dinate treatment. In the farther roonj to the left, these cha- racteristics will be very apparent in the three portraits, 178, 190, and 195 ; few persons who have not sedulously studied the works of Reynolds, would guess that they all came from his easel. Why any pictures of the late Mr. Dawe should have been hung here, unless it were that they may serve as warning bea- cons or repellant poles to the student, we are at a loss to devise. Dawe was a shining example of the success which almost inva- riably attends the veriest common- place talent, joined with im- perturbable self- estimation and unwearied assiduity. He died enormously rich, and in an equal degree poor in reputation, ex- cept among the Russian nobility and officers, a class of persons not the most refined in Europe. Fuseli, who used to sneer at the paintings of his brother Academician, Nortlicote, makes but a poor figure in the present collection. He was to pure nature what the" contortions of the maniac are to the healthy strength of the Greek athlete. North- cote's well- known picture of the burying the young Princes in the Tower, here shows to advantage j for design and general arrangement, with accurate drawing ( a difficult task when the different positions of the figures are considered) and bold colour- ing, this may, perhaps, rank among the best of that artist's works. Gainsborough is here in his glory— portraits, landscapes, and sketches. The study for his celebrated picture of the Market Cart will interest the lover of art. Girtin, the father of our water- colour painters, has two pieces in thc collection— et Land- scape, and " A View on the Thames," 354, 444. Of Harlowe's portraits, the one over the fireplace in the great room is, we think, the most exquisite : it is No. 54, a portrait of Miss Tom- kison— a lovely specimen of female beauty ; and the picture itself one of the most perfect pieces of flesh painting in the collection. Of seven pictures by the illustrious Hogarth, we were inte- rested in his portrait of Thomson the poet— the most favourable impression we have received ( as regards " the outward man") of that amiable, cheerful, benevolent, and indolent genius. The painting in all respects answers to these characteristics. If this be a correct portrait of the original, there has never yet been published an engraved head of Thomson ; at least we have ni seen it. Another admirable composition by the same artist an unfinished one, called " The Happy Marriage," 248. Inde- pendently of the design and arrangement, it will form a useful study to the young artist, who will see how methodically he went to work. Hogarth never omitted to seize an opportunity for satirising the worldly priest. While the company are con- gratulating the happy pair, in the distance, through an open door, is seen the kitchen, and the parson, in full canonicals, superintending the labours of the cook. Jackson's powerful piece of colour and effect, " The Captive," hangs near the fire- place ; the next in point of merit, perhaps, to his fine portrait of Flaxman. The young artist will not fail to reap advantage from examin- ing the several portraits by Lawrence : from some he may de- rive consolation from hope ( for one or two of them are evidently early productions, and not remarkable for their merit); from others, painted when his genius was vigorous and uncorrupted, unfinicking, he will, if he have the good taste, see what to avoid: he will, for instance, rather imitate the style of 193, a portrait of a young lady, which, for power of colouring, with exquisite delicacy in the flesh tints, may rank with the Titianesque school in art, than that of the late Queen Caroline, and her daughter, the Princess Charlotte. Loutherbourg's Slate Quarry, 163, Richard the First in Pa • lestine, 272, and the Angel Gabriel confining Sin and Death,, are all marked with his energy and vigorous conception. The admirer of low- life in the brute creation, and of boldness in colouring and pencilling, will do well to inspect some of Mor- land's hogs. West, who was never a high favourite with us, does not here show to advantage. His colours have faded, leaving the out- lines of his coldly classical and mannered figures in hard brown outline. Of Wilson, notwithstanding his undoubted talent, we cannot avoid feeling that his landscapes, particularly of Italian scenes, are too cold. His bright colours ( they may, indeed, have fled), and, above all, his greens, are chilly and sickly. His Falls of Niagara is the grandest in conception and treatment that we have seen of that stupendous natural object; and his Landscape for the Niobe, a first study, almost i » clines one to regret that he changed his mind. To give a detailed notice of about 70 artists can scarcely be expected in the limits of a weekly newspaper. The most promi- nent have, we believe, been noticed. Among the living, the visitor will scarcely overlook the names of Edwin Landseer, Lance, Linton, Ince, Nash, and that of the rising, and deservedly rising young man of talent— Holland, who bids fair to make the most popular in water- colour landscape look about them, and " gird up their loins" to keep their start. He is one of the most promising of our young aspirants. Hancock would be thought better of by the discerning part of the public if he were not so bald an imitator ( and far removed from his model too) of E. Landseer. His " Ballad," 158, is a little too bad. So, also, of B. E. Duppa. Does he mean to say that his " Sketch- book," 256, possesses one iota of originality— nay, rather, is it not a poor copy of Sir Joshua Reynolds? LITERATURE. • LARDNER'S CABINET CYCLOPEDIA : EMINENT BRITISH MILITARY COMMANDERS. By the Rev. G. R. GLEIG. Vol. III.— London : Longman. This volume contains the professional lives of Lord Clive— the Marquis Cornwallis— Sir Ralph Abercromby— and Sir John Moore,— soldiers whose skill and valour added to the reputation of the British arms in so many and such remote sections of the globe. The author, generally judicious and impartial in his estimate of the merit on which he expatiates, is, we think, rather overstrained in his criticism of Moore's unfortunate, yet glo- rious, campaign in Spain. It is an easy matter for a biogra- pher now to speak of what might have been, and what ought to have been done; but it is difficult to conceive that any other commander would have shown greater foresight than was ex- hibited by that accomplished General, whose life was spent among his troops— who was a perfect master of discipline— whose presence was held among all ranks as worth an additional brigade— and who united the very opposite qualities of unflinch- eng bravery and calculating prudence. Moore was the victim of a series of delusions, to provide for the ruinous consequences of which could hardly be expected of any genius, however in- stant or fertile in resources. SHAKSPEARE WITH ILLUSTRATIONS. In 15 Vols. Vol. I.— London : Valpy. A new edition of the works of the national bard, the text taken from Malone, and the illustrations engraved in outline from Boydell's well- known publication. The first volume in- cludes the " Tempest" and the " Two Gentlemen of Verona," with a Life of Shakspeare, and Dr. Johnson's Preface. It is a very pretty book. THE BIRD OF THE BEECHES. In Four Cantos.— London : Smith, Elder, and Co. Much do we regret that we are but a weekly bantling of the press, instead of a quarterly Patagonian, as our puny grasp is utterly inadequate to embrace the amplitude of genius revealed in this inimitable poem. Our bulkier brethren will do well to attend to the minstrelsy of the " Bird of the Beeches," which, in the profundity of its canticles, befools the solemn favourite of Minerva, and, in melodiousness, makes the death- ditty of the swan tuneless as the cackle of the goose. What think ye of these warblings, Parnassian reader ?— NIGHT. " Twas darkness* noun, or it should be, But Cynthia ruled ; the spangled lea Reflected diamonds'! over all Walked stars the solemn march of Saul!" THE LADY AND HER BIRD. " You might have deemed some angel thing, By love betrayed, had lost her wing, And wandering from the lucid sphere, Had new idolatries taught here— And near this glorious mistress, low A bird couch'd, pure as driven snow— A cock- a- too by mortals hight, Dropp'd from the regions of the light, And its proud crest of golden shine Flamed tike Apollo in his prime." This is all in sober earnestness, and the bard bewaileth his lot that he is unacquainted with the pedigree of this celestial cock- a- too, which we are told— " Could bear the tropic heats, and snow, Burn black, or freeze with Esquimaux, Run like an ostrich, balms to fetch ye, Or dive as well as Nicolo Pesce." this is a common practise, whence they frequently come back again, in the capacity of minor canons, of which many very re- spectable instances may be adduced. The sons of clergymen are thus very often put in training for the church, and become in time useful members of it. HEREFORD.— The account of the manner in which the duties towards the choristers to this cathedral are fulfilled, reflects no less credit on the guardians of the establishment than the foregoing. The boys are seven in number, and they claim the right of musical with that of classical instruction at the Royal Grammar- school, a handsome building adjoining the cathedral. The statutes of Here- ford cathedral were compiled by Archbishop Laud, and confirmed by the reigning monarch. They are amongst the latest promulgated by Royal authority, and afford an excellent commentary on those of other cathedrals. The clause respecting the choiisters has been drawn up with great care. The utmost latitude is given to the dean and chapter in the choice of boys qualified by their musical talents for the service of the church ; but having made their election, they are adjured in the most solemn terms to watch over the interests of the children whom they have taken under their charge, and to regulate to the best advantage the employment of their time. They are to furnish them with books and musical instruments at the expense of the church, and to be careful that the hours not occupied by their duties in the choir, and their requisite musical studies, may be devoted to their general education, or to the acquirement of some liberal faculty, by whieh they may be qualified to obtain a respectable livelihood, that they may not in after life reflect disgrace upon their eccle- siastical nurture. The manner iu which the choral school of Hereford has been kept up, is most honourable to the members of the cathedral. The choristers receive their classical education free of expense, and a small charge is made for writing and arithmetic. The school is rich in exhibitions, and the choristers are often suc- cessful candidates for the appointments. A great proportion have taken holy orders, and have obtained good preferment in the church. We now turn to a picture lamentably in contrast with the foregoing:— LLANDAFF.— This ancient British cathedral having been suf- fered to fall into decay by the non- resident dignitaries of the seventeenth century, the reverend guardians of the venerable fabric at length resolved upon a complete restoration ; but sparing their own revenues for the necessary work, they sup- presed the choral service, sequestered the whole of the endow- ment appropriated to the maintenance of the choir, and con- verted it into a fund for their tardy reparation. The liberality of the gentlemen composing the chapter in 169% was equalled by the architectural taste displayed in 1452, when; the accumulation so ungenerously acquired, was employed in the erection of a temple in a light Italian style among the ivy- covered ruins of an Anglo- Norman cathedral. The struc- ture has thus been prepared for the celebration of divine service, but the choral establishment has not hitherto been restored. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. eu t isl A WOLF. " A monster foe to joy and sleep, The Khouli- Klian of trembling sheep." This Shah of the fold approaching the heroine of the tale with carnivorous intent, is saluted with the following indignant apos- trophe :— " But, villain, dost thou estimate The price of this unvalued meat ? The fairest morsel of the world Down thy profanest gullet hurl'd ? Or art thou, by the tempter driven, To gulp the epitome of heaven?" The wolf is baffled of his meal, and— " howling, foaming, maddening, fell AU head, a Cerberus of helll" PHILANTHROPY. " His was that virtue, self his ban, Scape- goat of universal man ; Victim for all that's gieat he stood, The Codrus of the general good." EXPERIENCE. '' Prone to obey as to command, He life's unequal yards had mann'd ; Play, farce, high, low, in every bill He worlds' theatricals could Jill ; Mosque, synagogue, church, chapel in, Had pray'd his God and wept his sin, Had Omnipresence found at home— At Berne, Constantinople, Rome." But we must reluctantly lay down a volume which is a very Potosi of poetic wealth. We shall wind Ufji our quotations with a couplet that closes the final canto, and marks the spirit of philosophy which moved the minstrel to his high emprize :— " O world ! if at my feet thou lay— Thee, fortune's ball, I'd kick uway." MUSIC. CATHEDRAL CHORISTERS. ( CONTINUED.) GLOUCESTER was first made a Bishop's see by Henry VIII. on the dissolution of an ancient Benedictine monastery. The new establishment was formed on a very limited scale, for the maintenance of a dean, six canons, six minor canons, six lay clerks, a master of the choristers, two grammar- masters, and four almsmen. The account of the punctuality with which the duties of this catliedral are performed, reflects high credit upon the dignitaries of the establishment. " The choristers ( says our authority) have a right of admission and instruction in the King's Grammar- school, and very frequently are of the num- bers which are included in it * * * * *. They are chosen by the dean and prebendaries in chapter assembled, aud are generally removed when they cease to be useful in the choir by their voices becoming too manly, or by their want of proficiency iu the science of music, wherein they are regularly taught by the or- ganist and his deputy. Their music lessons are never fewer than three mornings in each week. The parents of the boys often find it suit their purposes best to request leave to have their children confined more to the learning of writing and arithmetic in other schools of the city, which permission is granted them, provided their attendance at the cathedral is regularly observed, which it is, much to the credit of the church, where the duty is performed equally well with that of any cathe dral, which stands the foremost in this praise. The choristers, while they are with us, are always looked after by the dean and prebendaries, with all due care and kindness, making allowance for their youth ; and, aware of the unavoidable effect of that incessant attendance in such cases to relax their devotional re gard by continual practise, which we know will affect persons older than themselves, so that on the whole we may do them all the good we can, and by proper advice and admonition may prepare their minds to make good citizens when they leave us. After their departure from the choir, having had the benefit, if their parents please, of an education, or much assistance towards it, in Latin, Greek, writing, arithmetic, and music, nothing hinders their going to the university ; and in many cathedrals FRANCE. It, appears from the Journal des Debats, a French Ministerial Paper, that the chief opponents of the recent convention between France and England, for executimg the treaty of separation between Holland and Belgium, are among the Jacobins and Republicans, as on this side the water its adversaries are among the Tories and Anti- Reformers. The Moniteur contains a Royal Ordonnance, constituting a Com- mittee for the purpose of forming a patriotic Society for employing the poor, and all the able- bodied mendicants, by establishing an institution for cultivating the waste lands of the kingdom, and form- ing manufactories, upon a plan similar lo the colony of Frederiksoord iu Belgium. A general statement of the foreign commerce of France, for he year 1831, just published, shows that it was less than in 1830. PORTUGAL. Extract of a Circular Dispatch sent by order of his Imperial Majesty the Duke of Braganza to his Diplomatic Agents abroad. ''-••*• I will avail myself of the opportunity of the sailing of an English ship of war, to write to you in haste some news The day before yesterday, at eight o'clock at night, the enemy, having received reinforcements from Lisbon, made an attempt to surprise the Serra Convent. He was received with a vigorous fire by the brave garrison of that fortress, its vigilant governor having, through his spies, learned the intention of the rebels. After a combat which lasted an hour and a half, and during which the grape shot from our batteries was fired with great effect, the enemy re- tired iu dismay to his positions. Some deserters who have come over to us say, that the 17th regiment alone lost 100 men in this action. " The arrival of the Infante has been announced with great pomp, and also a general attack to be made this day on our lines ; but to the lime at which I am writing, which is two o'clock iu the afternoon, we are not certain whether the former boast has been re- alised, but the latter certainly has not yet taken place. " A great number of shots and shells have been directed against the city, and also some rockets. The enemy, however, has gained nothing by this barbarous conduct. He has only succeeded in kill- ing or woiteding a few of the inhabitants, chiefly women and children, in some of the houses ; for the shot does not reach our entrenchments. " There have successively arrived some vessels, bringing 220 English soldiers and 30 odd of the Belgic legion. " Oporto, Oct. 26." " Marquis de PALMELLA. TURKEY. Accounts received from Smyrna, of the 11th ult. state, that some dreadful weather had been experienced on thai coast, and in the Gulf of Volo; and that a number of vessels had been wrecked in the latter place. The weather in the Black Sea had been most tempestuous, and Ihe shores were covered with wreck. The Ame- rican frigate Constitution had been totally wrecked near Rhodes, and the whole of the crew, with the exception of the Captain and six seamen, had perished. A Greek steam- boat, full of passengers, had gone down in the Gulf of Volo, and all onboard were lost. AMERICA. Under the title of " The Statistics of the Benevolent Societies of America," is enumerated a list of associations formed for pro- moting education, and diffusing moral or religious instruction or improvement, nearly as numerous as those of England, and sup- ported like them by voluntary contributions. The chief of them will be found in the following enumeration :— The American Bible Society, Missionary Societies, the Tract Society, the Sunday School Society, the Seaman's Friend Society, various Education Societies, tire Temperance Society, the Prison Discipline Society, and the Colonization Society. The annual income of the Bible Society for the year 1828 is" stated at 170,067 dollars. It has is- sued in one year nearly 300,000 bibles. The Foreign Missionary Society is flourishing. Its income in 1828 was 149,363 dollars. The Home Missionary Society is less extensive, and would appear to be less necessary. The income is only 45,861 dollars. Of Tract Societies there are two, the American and the Baptist; the income of the former is 71,312 dollars, of the latter only 5,5S6. At the Sunday School Societies it is stated that 570,000 children receive instruction, at the expense of about 100,000 dollars. The Seamen's Friend Society is of no great importance ; its revenue from voluntary subscriptions is only 4,159 dollars. The Education Societies, of which there are several, are instituted principally to promote theological studies, and to assist young men in their pro- gress towards the ministry. BUENOS AYRES. Private advices from Buenos Ayres to the beginning of Septem- ber state, that the treaty of peace between the republics of Bolivia aud Peru had been finally ratified, after modifying one of the arti- cles, by which the numbers of the standing army to be maintained by botU republics was regulated, and cancelling some of the articles of the commercial treaty. Peru and Bolivia ate at liberty to im- pose such duties on wines, sugars, vinegar, and European liquors, on their entry, and in transit, as they may consider expedient. The exhibit of the affairs of the bank of Buenos Ayres show it to be in a melancholy situation ; the Directors could declare no dividend. The publication of the Monte Video Papers, which had been sus- pended ill consequence of the late insurrection, had not been resumed. MAURITIUS. " The Severn free trader touched at the island of Mauritius in her homeward bound voyage, and found all the inhabitants of that co- lony in mourning, armed, and calling themselves National Guards. In fact, the settlement seemed to be in a complete state of rebellion. CONVENTION BETWEEN FRANCE AND ENGLAND RELATIVE TO THE SETTLEMENT OF BELGIUM. The following are the principal Articles of the Convention agreed upon and signed at London, on the 22d of Octol er, by the repre- sentatives of France and England : — " Art. 1. His Majesty the King of the French and his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland will notify to his Majesty the King of the Netherlands and his Majesty the King of Ihe Belgians, respectively, that their intention is to proceed immediately to the execution of the treaty of the 15th of November, 1831, conformably to engagements which they have contracted; and as a first step towards the accomplishment of this end, their Majesties will require his Majesty the King of the Ne- therlands to enter into an engagement by the 2d of November, at the latest, to withdraw on the 12th of the said month all his troops from the territories which, by the first and second article of the said treaty, ought to form the kingdom of Belgium, of which the con- tracting parties to that treaty have guaranteed the independence and neutrality. " And their said Majesties will also require his Majesty the King of the Belgians to enter into an engagement on the 2d of November of the present year, at the latest, to withdraw oil or before the 12th of the said month of November, his troops from the territories of his Majesty the King of the Netherlands, so that after the 12th instant there shall be no Netherlands troops within the limits of the king- dom of Belgium, nor any Belgian troops in the territory of the King of the Netherlands. And their Majesties the King of the French and the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland declare at the same time to his Majesty the King of the Nether, lands, and to Iris Majesty the King of the Belgians, respectively that if tins requisition to their Majesties is not complied with they shall proceed without any further notice or delay to the measures which shall appear to them necessary to compel the execution of if " Art. 2. If the King of the Netherlands refuses to agree to the engagement mentioned in the preceding article, their Majesties the King of the French, and the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain jand Ireland, will order an embargo to be put on all the Netherland vessels iu tire pcrts of their respective dominions • and they will also order their respective cruisers to stop and brill* into their ports all the Netherland vessels which they may meet a't sea ; and a French and English squadron combined w'ill be sta- tioned on the coasts of Holland for the more efficacious execu- tion of this measure. " Art. 3. If on the 15th November, the Netherland troops shall be still in the Belgian territory, a French corps shall enter Belgium for the purpose of compelling the Netherland troops to evacuate the said territory, it being well understood that the King of ti e Belgians shall have previously expressed his wish for the entrance of the French troops upon his territory for the purpose above stated. " Art. 4. If the measure pointed out in the preceding article be- comes necessary, its object shall be limited to the expulsion of the Netherland troops from the citadel of Antwerp, and the forts and places dependent upon it, and his Majesty the King of the French m his lively solicitude for the independence of Belgium as for that of all established Governments, expressly undertakes not to occupy any of the fortified places of Belgium by the French Iroops which shall be employed in the above service, and when the citadel of Antwerp the ports and places dependent upon it, shall have been evacuated by the Netherland troops, they will be immediately delivered up to the military authorities of the King of the Belgians, and the French troops will immediately retire upon the French territory.'" THE DUKE OF BEDFORD'S TENANTS.— The Huntingdon In- dependent Press contains a report of the speeches made at the last annual dinner of the Bedfordshire Agricultural Society. The Marquis of Tavistock, in returning thanks on his health being drunk, made the following observations, which, after the calumny respecting the conduct of the Duke of Bedford to his tenants, deserve to be quoted. The Marquis said—" To ' live and let live' was the principle on which his lather had always desired to act, and therefore in compliance with that principle, ne to see every one connected with him in the full enjoyment of the same power that he desired to claim for himself— namely, the power of acting freely on all political matters, according to the dictates of his own conscience. With respect to his tenants, he felt that he was entitled to the punctual payment of their rents, to the due fulfilment of their covenants, and to the good culti- vation of their farms ; but having made no stipulation for their votes, that he was not entitled to their consciences. If, there- fore, there were any of the Duke of Bedford's tenants present who had reluctantly promised to vote for his son at the ensuing election, not approving of his political principles, but thinking, erroneously, that their landlord would, nevertheless, require their votes,— if there were any present who had unwillingly pro- mised under such a persuasion, he declared to them on the part of the Duke of Bedford ( although he thought it right to say that he had no authority from his father to do so), but knowing the liberality of his sentiments and the generosity of his heart in all these matters, he felt assured he was not going one step too far when he declared, that he released all such tenants from promises so given, and desired them to give their votes honestly and fear- lessly, according to their opinions, assuring them that those votes would never be brought in question by their landlord, who, however he might lament over their politics, would still respect and honour their independence. ( Great applause.) He per- ceived that they did him the honour to mark their approbation of this declaration, but he felt that he could claim no merit for it, because he thought that it was not only wrong but foolish to attempt to coerce tenants in the exercise of the elective franchise; for he had lived long enongh in the world to know the value of a good tenant to his landlord, and the folly of quarrelling with him on account of an honest difference in political sentiment. And he was, moreover, persuaded that if the Duke of Bedford could ever so far forget the duty he owed to his tenants and himself, as to attempt to force them to vote according to his will and pleasure, at the expense of their own consciences, that there were few of them who would not have the courage, and the manliness, and the public spirit to resist so daring an outrage upon the rights and feelings of men, who, although renting under him, must yet know that like himself they were born in a free country— that like himself they were under a free constitu- tion— and therefore, that like himself, as they are responsible to their Creator alone for their religious opinions, so for their po- litical conduct they are answerable, not to their landlord, but to their King and country." LORD ALTHORP'SVOTE.— On Tuesday Messrs PalkandSandys sat at the Court- house, Marylebone, to inspect the lists of voters for that borough. It was a curious fact that Lord Althorp would have been disfranchised had not the overseers of St. George's, Hanover- square, corrected the defects which his Lordship had created, by the mode in which his claim was set forth. His Lordship claimed in right of a freehold set of chambers in the Albany, of which claim he sent in a written notice signed " Althorp." The Act requires the christian and surname to be stated in the lists ; therefore his Lordship must have been struck; out, had not the overseers of themselves inserted " John Charlc* Spencer," and thus saved his Lordship's vote. " PERGE FELICITER."— The following announcement appears in a country paper.:—" The order to discontinue the Chelten- ham Salts advertisement did not reach our office until the first page was worked off." P 3 6 4 THB TOW3f. November 11. 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 .. ave 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 Paper, are requested to forward information on the subject to the Publisher. The Second Part of the Map is now in preparation, and will be ready for delivery to Subscribers in the beginning of January. HEBDOMADARY. Day of Mo. Day of We. High Wfter. Aftern. H. M. 3 53 4 35 5 24 6 22 7 32 9 3 10 2G Remarkable Events, etc. Sun rises 30 after 7 Rd Baxter b 1615 George Fox d 1620 Leibnitz d 1716 Lord Chatham b 1776 J. Fergusson d 1776 Cath. III. of Russ. d Sunday Lessons. 21st Sunday after Trinity. Morning: Hab. 2, John 3 Evening : Prov. l, 2Thes. 2 * » * A Saturday edition of this Paper, published in time for the Country, may be obtained of all Newsmen on Sunday morn ing, within 100 miles of London. T HE TO LONDON: SUM) A Y, NOVEMBER 11, 1 S. 3' 2. " The intelligence furnished to our readers last week, as 1o, the measures intended to be pursued by England and France, concurrently with Prussia, in the event of the Kitig- of Holland's refusal to accede fo the treaty of the 15th November, lias anticipated the principal events that have since occurred. The determination of the French and English Governments having been communicated to the Dutch Cabinet by the French Charge d'Affaires at the Hague, the Foreign Minister of Holland, on the par of his master, declined the evacuation of the Belgian • territories until after the ratification of the Treaty with Belgium, a step which lie contended was in accord ance with flic intentions of the Conference. He fur- ther stated that King WILLIAM was deferred from eon senfing to an evacuation of the citadel of Antwerp and it dependencies, because his sense of what was due to the interests of Holland bound him not to part with the se ourity he held for obtaining equitable terms of separation The reply of his Dutch Majesty, which is mere special pleading, in keeping with the usual tenor of his diploma 1ic responses, lias been met by an Order in Council of the ( ifh inst., placing an embargo on the ships of the King of the Netherlands, and prohibiting British vessels from entering or clearing out for Dutch ports. Every tenderness lias been shown for the interests of Holland, consistent with the determination to bring ils quirking and hard- headed Sovereign to reason. from the pressure of temporary political causes, more numerous, while our dock yards, our arsenals, and our offices, are, from stricter vigilance, more fully replenished, and more efficiently served than they have ever yet been. Add to all this, the consideration of a loyal and recon- ciled people ; an increasing revenue, reviving trade, manufac- tures and commerce daily becoming more busy and extensive ; and the most prejudiced person will be compelled to confess that, under such an Administration, much good has been done, and much more may be expected." It is in the field of foreign policy that Ministers have least satisfied our expectations. Our regrets jet hover over the tomb of Polish patriotism, and we cannot forego the impression that England's interposition, properly di- rected, might have averted the fate of a noble people. Still it is lo be borne in mind, both with regard to Poland and to Belgium, that if our Government have been slow to hazard a Continental war— the state of our domestic relations, the position of the paramount question of Reform, and the burning desires of Toryism for hostilities which might divert the people from the prosecution of their rights— offer a plea for the exercise of cautious statesmanship, which persons unacquainted with diplomatic intricacies would not be justified in rejecting. It cannot be denied that the Whigs in office have acted up lo the professions of their previous career. If tliev persevere in the course on which tliey have so auspiciously entered, they will deserve, and they will receive the aid and support of the independent and intelligent community. Other reforms in Church and State must follow the first great harbinger of salutary change. Such reforms have been promised, and it is the duty of the people lo grant a reasonable term of trial to men who, having outstripped public hope, have never abused public credulity. Without enrolling ourselves as partisans under the ban- ner of the Whigs, we feel hound to say, that among the politicians of that school can we alone look at present for an administration of the national affairs suited to flic exi- gencies of the times. By a powerful and unexpected im- pulse, Earl GREY and his colleagues stimulated the country from feverishness aud debility into a state of healthful transition. This state is still in progress, and the patient will require, for a season, assiduous, skilful, and honest ministering. Away then with the nostrums of Tory empiricism, which can only be productive of collapse and convulsion— and away, too, with the no less baleful po- tions of those Ultra- Radical pretenders who, like the re- morseless wretches that prey upon the helplessness of the ship- wrecked mariner, exult in the gloom, and make merry in the tempest. jurisprudence, he is perfectly acquainted ; and, under his controul, we trust lo see the necessity for them every day becoming less and less, until those great doctrines, which make up his own learning,— in the spirit of which all laws originated, and by which alone can they be conducted to a perfect end,— have laid their foundations deeper in the minds of lawyers. In a mere personal sense, every one rejoices in this ap- pointment. Offices of this kind have been too long confined to servile submissiveuess, crouching acquiescence, and want of independence of mind. The new lesson our Mi- nisters have begun, will not have been read in vain for after times. Singleness of purpose, and honesty of inten- tion, will mean something now at the Bar, as elsewhere, even in the sense of worldly advancement,— virtue will not be held so inconvenient as of old,— and Ihe example of Sir THOMAS DENMAN will warn many a rising barrister from the temptation of obedience to power, or of a contemptible leaning to authority. We are glad to observe, from the daily papers, that this result from the appointment has been already noticed, in a quarter not less distinguished for independence than for learning. Professor AMOS has held it out to his class of law students, at the University of London, as a " great moral example." So it is, and so it ought to prove to them. It ought to encourage them in a generous deter mination to rescue their chosen profession from the odium which has lain upon it so long— of a desire to hold up to contempt every species of attainment, that is not subser- vient to a miserable technicality. The highest Common Law authority in the land will hereafter be to them a liv- ing example, that in their studies they need not narrow or subdue their intellects— that there is room there for other accomplishments besides those of precedents and reports,— that, " dolphin like," tliey may, " show their backs above The element they live in" and still hope to preserve the esteem of their clients, and to obtain at last the best reward they labour for— public patronage, warranted by public confidence and affection. " Faith without works," according to the highest of all authorities, " is dead." Tbe maxim is alike susceptible of application in the political as in the spiritual world. It little profits a nation that its counsels are directed by men who have lauded retrenchment to the skies— who have penned the most flamilig eulogies on abstract liberty— who have wearied the very echoes with the constant re- plication of " great, glorious, and free,"— if the essay and the oration are not illustrated and enforced by a cor responding practice. The Whigs have now been two years in office, and what have they effected ? Little good— say the ultra Radicals; much mischief— cry the bigotted Tories. How then are unbiassed parties to decide ? By appealing to the acts of the Whigs, since their accession to power ; a course that has been adopted by the author of a short pamphlet now before us, who refers to the benefits already derived from Earl GREY'S administration, as constituting on its behalf a substantial claim to the continued support and confidence of the country. The writer of the pamphlet, which is entitled " Whig Government," takes a retrospective view of the Ministerial policy at home and abroad to November, 1830,— that epoch of peril, and suffering, and alarm. Our limits will not permit us to do more than quote the results of liis examination, an examination which, if distinguished by a spirit of decided friendliness to Ministers, is likewise marked by general moderation, fairness, and good temper He makes out a clcar and triumphant statement for his party, as the following abstract will show :— " The first part of their official life has been the most popu- lar measure that has ever appeared before a British public the Parliamentary Reform Bill. " A second has been the maintenance of peace with the sup- port of liberty both at home and abroad. " A third has been divers acts for the relief of the lower orders, for the promotion of education, for the extension of commerce, for the merciful softening of the severity and simpli fying of the process of our laws. " A fourth has extinguished the feudal spirit of our Game Laws. " A fifth has been the getting through all the arrears of Chan' eery, together with the reformation of the Bankruptcy Court, and the abolition of its sinecures. " A sixth has been the relief of two millions and a quarter of taxes. " A seventh, Ihe abolition of 500 sinecures, or useless offices. " And though last, not least, another fruit has been a retrench ment in the expenditure of the country to the amount of 2,868,000/. " And the result of all is, that though the late Reforming Ministry declared it to be utterly impossible to reduce any one of these offices or expenses, without impairing the strength of the eountry, that at this moment our fleets and our armies are; The country has every reason to rejoice in the appoint- ment of Sir THOMAS DENMAN. It is one of the most as- suring proofs the Ministers have yet given of their con- tinuing attachment to the great principles which bore them into office. It is an earnest that those principles will be sustained by them everywhere— that due efficacy will be given to them— and that the King's Bench ^ Court will no longer be the refuge for abuses in Corporations, for political leanings in Magistrates, or used as an effectual strangling- place for the liberty of free discussion. Wc would not be understood to depreciate the charac- ter of the late Chief Justice. In one sense of the word lie was perhaps the greatest lawyer that ever presided over the common law courts of this country. His research in the matters of form and precedent, and all the laborious accuracies that belong to them, was unbounded ; his knowledge of the first principles of justice, so long as their application was limited to the private relations of man to man, was more deep and uniformly dispassionate than perhaps that of any of his predecessors ; but his notions on what may be called political justice, were, to Ihe last de- gree, partial aud overbearing. He omitted no opportunity of trampling on the Press— ot lifting up the crouching and submissive Corporations— of throwing his protection around the political Magistrate. These things had be- come, among the profession, a bye- word— the reports will tell how justly. Nor were these their only cause of com- plaint. Courtesy ( except to the very highest members of the bar, and even then to those only of his own political likings) was, to Lord TENTERDEN, a tiling unknown. He never listened with becoming patience or forbearance to younger Counsel; many of whom we have often seen drop on their seats in shame and anger, at the hasty se- verity with which they had been interrupted and repelled. In connection with this it may be stated, as a curious fact, that almost the very last thing he uttered in Court was a needlessly rude remark, addressed ( in the shape of a satiri- cal question to the witness) at the cross- examining Counsel against the Bristol Magistrates. But is all this, interrupts the hastier reader, an excusc for Sir THOMAS DENMAN'S incompetency ? By no means— for we do not think him incompetent; and, further, we will state why. Sir THOMAS DENMAN is not, we admit, a technical lawyer,— hut he has a far greater faculty, and the greater includes the less. We can say, from the best sources of knowledge, that no one has studied the origin and founda- tions of law, its first principles and their subsequent ex- tension and application, more profoundly than he lias done. This, we contend, is the first and great requisite for the office lie now holds. He sits now, to dispense justice in its most comprehensive form,— not to shovel out cartloads of precedents into the jury box, or to deal in that sort of knowledge merely which makes counsel rich and clients poor. With his intimate knowledge of these first principles and foundations of justice, lie will be able to administer law quite as truly and faithfully, and much more effectually, than if his perceptions were smothered up in laborious and absurd technicalities. With what is ne. cessary of the latter, in the present imperfect state of our The anti- tithe trials in Ireland have terminated. In the w hole of them convictions have been obtained where they have been pressed for. The greater number of the defendants have wisely pleaded guilty. A few examples have been made, but in most instances the Crown lawyers have been content with trifling fines ; and in some they have merely required Ihe acknowledgment of the party prosecuted of the justice of the prosecution. The trials have been fair and open ; there has been no ambiguity of evidence— no packing of juries— no browbeating of judges. The guilty have had all duo assistance— Mr. O'CONNELL lias been of counsel to most of thcni. It was by his ad- vice, and by his advice alone, that such of them as pleaded guilty were guided; there is, and there can be, not the • lightest complaint of the matter nor the manner of the folly of the latter is surpassing, the knavery yet more ap- parent. What is O'CONNELL'S chief, his only argument, for a separate legislature ? The neglect of the last parliament to the wants and wishes of Ireland! The neglect is a monstrous assumption, like almost all that O'CONNELL asserts, especially when he is very positive. But were it as true as it is false, what would it prove? That an unre- formed Parliament was negligent of Irish interests. Would not common sense, and common decency, counsel the fairness of waiting to see how a reformed Parliament would treat Ireland? Whether for ihe better or for the worse, no one can doubt that a great change has now been effected in the constitution of Parliament. May not the change be favourable to O'CONNELL'S views of Ireland's good ; and may not the necessity of adopting what is confessedly the ultimum remedium be removed in conse- sequence? Any other man than he would- argue thus; any honest man would argue thus. We are happy to find that his vagaries are exciting the opposition they deserve anion,; the more sane of his coun- trymen. A most respectably signed declaration has been issued by the nobility and gentry of Cork county, in which they declare their firm intention of combating on the one hand the bigotry of the Orangemen, and on the other the absurdities of the Repealers. This also is an effect of the tithe trials, and not the least important. They have opened the eyes of the common- sense part of the com- munity to theweakness of what has hitherto been reckoned O'CONNELL'S least vulnerable part— his knowledge of law — the subject of blind adoration to his friends, and of re- spect mingled with fear lo his enemies. Both have been equally undeceived. O'CONNELL has been signally de- feated in law as in every thing else. The prestige of his name is dispelled. It will be vain for him again to counsel his countrymen to do this or that according to law. The answer will be—" Look to the Cork Assizes. The per- sons who acted according to law by your advice, were there induced to plead guilty of acting against the law ; and to throw themselves on the mercy of those Authori- ties which you had incited them to oppose, by telling them they might oppose them with impunity. If your first ad- vice was sincere, yon know nothing of law— if your last w as sincere, you know stiil less of honesty." prosecutions. What will be the result ?— the re- establishment of tithes? Heaven forbid! Marry, and amen! We are as much enemies to that most oppressive and vexatious tax as the wildest Kerryman that ever fought for its down- fall. What will be the result then? There- establishment of the law. It is just and proper to petition against a bad law— it is not forbidden to evade it, if that may be legally done; but men ought nof, in their zeal to get rid of a statute of which they disapprove, to refuse it obe- dience ; much less ought they by threats and intimidation to prevail on others, who see not with their eyes, to re- fuse it obedience. It is a moral wrong, as we once lie- lore observed, in any individual to resolve on letting the law take its course instead of attending to its behests. The penalties of the law were never intended for general ap- plication. A law which could in no instance be enforced but by Ihe infliction of penalties would soon cease to he a law. If every law were so enforced, and only then valid, the end of all law would have come. A community uni- versally agreed in paying penalties instead of obedience would be in a state of entire and niter dissolution. It Prince Talleyrand has had a very hard week, owing to the constant aarival and departure of despatches. His Excellency's application to business, since his return from Paris, has been almost incessant. Instead of rising, as he used to do, at twelve o'clock in the day, he is up at nine in the morning, and begins business immediately. He is assisted by several secretaries, who have been selected from different bureaux, in which they bad made themselves remarkable by their zeal and diligence.... In most embassies the Secretaries are the proteges, and are often chosen without regard to talent; but it is stated that Prince Talleyrand would not accept such persons, and his embassy is, therefore, most effective. Considerable anxiety has been felt at the French Embassy, as to the portion of the French squadron which has been separated from ours in the gale. In consequence of the state of the weather, no telegraphic communication respecting it has this day been received. A notice was given by the Dutch Government to the Rotter- dam merchants, on the evening of the 6th instant, not to send any of their vessels to sea, and English and French ships were immediately expected off the mouths of the Scheldt, the Meuse and the Texel, to warn off the vessels of their respective nations! Generally speaking, however, the tone of all the mercantile let ters is still sceptical as to matters terminating in actual hos- tilities. In the mean time, business had, in a great measure been brought to a stand, in which state it must remain, until the final decision is known. , We learn by the advices from Antwerp, that 116 vessels had ' ered ' tlrafr port during the month of October, of which 37 ' e Hanoverian, 22 Danish, 15 English, 14 Belgian, 9 Nor- jiari, 4 Prussian, 4 American, 3 French, 3 Oldenburghers, 3 Hamburg, 1 Bremen, and, 1-' Buenos Ayrean. During the same period ? 2 vessels bad sailed. We understand that the Marquis of Palmella is daily expected to arrive in town from Oporto, on another special mission from Don Pedro, the object of which is generally believed to be the same which brought over the Marquis in the summer i. e. to apply formally to Viscount Palmerston to recognise the Govern- ment of Donna Maria, but in which it is understood he did not succeed. The Marquis, from his long residence here, is said to be quite English in his manners and feelings. The agents of the Government of Oporto are proceeding with activity in raising troops, and sending out warlike stores would not he a socicty, it would be a mere mechanical ag- and accoutrements. Several army tailors at the West end have gregate of individuals. If a community were, indeed, to resolve on such a pro- cedure, we know not what preventive could he applied. But uo two things can be more essentially different than for a man to resolve, at all hazards, oti a certain line of conduct, and to resolve on compelling his neighbours to imitate his example. He who allowed his cow to be seized and sold rather than pay five shillings to a clergyman, might act foolishly, but he might also act honestly. But he who would prevent his neighbour from parting with his crown instead of his cow, or who would hinder his cow, when seized, from being sold, was a cunning rogue under the guise of an honest fool. His object was to secure the wages of a knave while he got the applause of an honour- able man. The result of the tithe trials will put down this species of opposition to the law. Men who merely sought to cheat the Parson of his dues will not continue an attempt, the cost of which so greatly exceeds the profits. Of such men nine- tenths of the tithe opposers are made up. The enthusiasm of patriotism that induces a man to suffer the loss of a pound, in order to effect for himself, and all the rest of the parish, the saving of a shilling, is, in all countries, and iu Ireland as much as any, a very rare and curious article; much too rare and curious for common use. Getting rid of the knavish and make- believe part of the opposers of the law, we may therefore calculate that the opposition which is honest and real will die out of its own accord. We are not without hopes, that with the tithes' question will sink the question which has studiously been at- tempted to be founded upon it— the repeal question. The received instructions to make up a large number of cavalry and infantry uniforms ; and the foreman of a firm in Vere- street, Oxford- street, returned from Portsmouth on Thursday morning, where he had proceeded to deliver a quantity of uniforms into the hands of the agents. The jacket of the English infantry officers is red, with light blue facing « , and gilt buttons, with the letters D. M. ( Donna Maria) surmounted by a Crown ; the trousers light blue, with a white stripe. The cavalry uniform is also red, with blue facings andgold embroidery. The officers equip themselves at their own expense, and their pay does not com- mence until they arrive at Oporto. Sir John Milley Doyle, previously to his departure, had the uniform of a Portuguese General Officer made for him, being Major- General in the Por- tuguese army. We are assured that the partisans of Don Mi- guel in this country have not been inactive. A civil engineer of some eminence has just been engaged to proceed to Lisbon ; and it is also affirmed that Major- General Ouseley, brother to Sir George Ouseley, has departed for Portugal, to offer his services to Don Miguel. General Ouseley, we believe, holds no rank in our service, but obtained his advancement whilst serving in the Portuguese service. A vessel, having on board 160 men and 20 officers, is expected to drop down the river to- morrow, on her passage to Portugal; and two others, we are informed, will follow in the course of the ensuing week. Intelligence was on the 3d brought to Berlin of the joyful in- telligence that her Majesty the Empress of Russia was safely de- livered of a Prince on the 25th October. Both the Empress and young Prince, who is to be called Michael, are well. Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands was expected at Berlin on Monday last. According to intelligence of September 28, from Alexandria, the Viceroy of Egypt has been negotiating with the Capitan Pacha a definitive arrangement. It is stated that every thing is agreed upon, and that the Porte cedes to that Prince Syria and the island of Cyprus. STATE OF TRADE.— We have no material alteration to note in the state of the woollen and stuff markets. The sales in the Leeds Cloth Halls during the past week have been about the same as for several weeks previous, and the finer qualities of stuffs, merinos, & c., still continue in demand.— Leeds Intelligencer. November 11 T H E T O W I S . METROPOLITAN MEMBERS.— No. III. MARYLEBONE. We are not sure that we can enumerate the entire ol the candidates for each of the new districts. One would need a nomenclator in order to be certain of their names. For Marylebone we have first Mr. Portman and Sir Wm. Home, ministerialists; Colonel Jones, the radical of the Times, though not a radical according to the times; Mr. Richard Murphy, citizen and greengrocer; Mr. Savage, a watchmaker, we believe; Sir Samuel Whalley, knight, and Mr. Gahagan, a conservative. There may be three or four more, but these are the pick of them. Mr. Gahagan has just started ; he makes no profession ol principles, because, we suppose, he has no principles to profess. He will give his serious consideration to the various questions . that agitate the public mind when they come before him in parliament; and the electors of Marylebone may trust him till then, if they are so inclined. Mr. Gahagan is a mo- dest man. There was a gentleman, whose name— we do not pro- fess to spell it— sounded somewhat similar to the name of this Conservative candidate ( his father's name, we ought to say, for he himself bore the sonorous appellative of— Au- gustus O'Ncil, Esq.); he represented Hull in the last parliament but one. He was noted for his furious anti- eatholicism, anil for omitting to discharge his electioneering debts. For which of these qualities, whether for his bad politics or bad payments, he was thrown out in 1830, we profess not to know. We only allude to him at all for tbe purpose of enquiring if Mr. Gahagan the Conservative bf 1832, and Mr. Augustus O'Neil, alias Gahagan, or some- thing tbat way, tbe Conservative of 182$, be the same gentleman. We are by no means equally puzzled with the identity of Sir Samuel Whalley as w ith that of Mr. Gahagan ; for since the days of the general from whom he claims descent down to the Knight himself, we cannot recollect to have once heard the name ; nor, indeed, up to the period of the Mary lebone meeting did we ever hear that of the latter. We have endeavoured to trace him beyond that point, but always without success, and we have now made up our mind to the conclusion, that he came into the world a full- grown candidate on that remarkable occasion, for the ex- press purpose of fighting the causo bf the people against the terrible Lord of Apsley- house, and his unscrupulous adherents. Mr. Savage, we have said, is a watchmaker; the transi tion from the regulation of little to the regulation of great machines is natural and easy. Mr. S. is about five feet nine inches high in his slippers, of slender make, dark complexion, has great freedom of action, especially in his right arm ; from continued practice his words flow easily, and he can speak you for an hour or two hours with as much energy and as little meaning as any member of the lower- house of convocation in Leicester- square. Mr. Murphy, whom the Cocknies, by a vile pun, have baptised Dick- tater, bccause of his extensive dealings in the wholesome root w hose Hibernian cognomen he bears, is of smaller stature than Mr. Savage; but what he lacks in height he makes up in breadth. He, like his friend, is a great speaker, and any one who listens to his powerful tones, and marks his protuberance of chest, would at once perceive that Mr. Murphy has something in him. Colonel Jones is not, as we have observed, a radical ac- cording to the times ; in fact, by his sturdy refusal of the plpdges which his fellow electors would impose on him, the bluff old soldier has contrived to bring, with the more zealous, his title to the name of Radical of any kind into considerable doubt. Col. Jones is a sorry orator, nor do we dtem so highly of his powers of composition as he himself does ; his manners are of the roughest kind, and though he has the reputation of being a good- natured man, we never, in our experience, accosted one who has less the ap- pearance of it. He is, however, soundly honest; clear- headed as far as his lights go ; perfectly independent.; and, if he be not capable of taking a commander's part in the battle of Reform, be will prove, at least, an admirable aid- de- camp. Of the Attorney General it is not ncccssary to say much; nor is there much to say. He is a supporter of ministers virtute officii. Those who think that ministers, because of the mighty past, are worthy of all support, will Imrdly quarrel with Sir William, who, besides that he is a » und lawyer, has the universal reputation of an honourable man. Those who deem it right that ministers should be stimulated by an opposition more reforming, or controlled by an opposition less reforming than themselves, will not find Sir William a man to their heart. He is as far in the rear of the Radicals as he is in advance of the Con- servatives. Than Mr. Berkeley Portman wo don't know one who better deserves a place in the great assembly of the legis- lature. He has every thing that, in the eyes of the super- ficial or the penetrating, is required to give dignity to the office of a member of parliament. He is a man of sound judgment,-' well informed, a good plain English speaker, his principles are tried, his character unimpeachable, his fortune large. Such a man renders as much honour as he receives from the largest constituency. To rational voters there is not much difficulty in coming to a decision, touching the merits of the respective candi- dates for Marylebone. That Mr. Portman should be one of the members for the district admits, we think, of not a moment's doubt. Whether the second shall be Sir William Home or Colonel Jones, may be fairly questioned. Look- ing to utility in a legislator, on the first, second, and third requisite, we would prefer Sir William. He is a man of much greater capabilities than his gallant rival. At the same time, the Colonel would represent a large and valuable class in the community, and we rather believe would represent them well; we are sure he would serve them zealously. We should like to see him in the House, but we would prefer seeing him sit for Southwark, where he would have only to stand to be elected. With respect to the Conservative gentleman, his coining forward is another specimen of that sublime of assurance, uf which his party possess so large a share. That the Tories should struggle fur power is all right aud good, but that they should attempt to gain it through the metropoli- tan districts, those districts whose emancipation their champions, from Sir Robert down to Ihe Marquis of Chandos, so perseveringly and bitterly contended against, might well excite astonishment, if in that bright band any thing could do so. For tho others, conjointly aud severally, we do not deem theni worthy a serious thought; if the people of Maryle- bone do, tant pis. There is a general argument connected with the attempt at fostering the pretensions of such as- pirants, which will require a few words for its elucidation; but the mere individuals— Savages or Murphies, or Whal- leys or Wakleys, they are infinitely too insignificant to trouble our readers with their merits or their defects. MISAPPLICATION OF CHARITY FUNDS. TO TBE EDITOR OF THE TOWN. SIR,— 1 read with surprise the charges brought by your corres- pondent, against the partieswho havethe management of thefunds of our charities, and with intense interest have been looking for an answer from some one connected with the management of these funds, but having been disappointed in this most reason- able expectation, I have been led to make enquiries as to the truth of your correspondent's statements, and have found them substantially correct. I, therefore, with many others of the in- habitants of Richmond, will feel much obliged to any correspond- ent of your valuable paper, who will point out what legal proceedings can be instituted to enforce the rendering of a true account of the application of the funds of our charities, since the report of the Charity Commissioners.— At the same time I submit to my brother inhabitants, the propriety of forming themselves into a union, for the purpose of taking such measures as may secure the due administration of the affairs of our chari- ties for the future, in which I consider every inhabitant is deeply interested, and as one of the means ( amongst others), of check- ing the improper disposal of these funds, to use every endeavour to procure the printing and circulating of an annual account of the receipts and expenditure of each charity, to be verified upon oath. 1 am Sir, your obedient Servant, Richmond, Nov. 8. ALPHA. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TOWN. SIR,— As anold rate payer of this parish, I feel great interest in the communication made through the medium of your re- spectable Journal, as to the abuses in our charities,— I say abuses, for the paymaster and receiver, William Smith, has ad- mitted them to be so, from declining to answer the accusations made against him. Our population now amounts to 7,243, and our poor's rates are increasing, and will, under the present sys- tem, continue to increase, notwithstanding all the precaution ot " The Lover of Truth and Justice." It therefore becomes the duty of every inhabitant paying rates, to combine for the purpose of compelling William Smi h to answer the charges brought against him. Why should they be intimidated by this man of many titles from performing that duty ? Is it because he is Vestry Clerk, Magistrate's Clerk, Treasurer of the Parish, Se- cretary and Treasurer to all the Charities, Treasurer to the Bridge Estate, Treasurer of the Savings' Bank, Deputy Steward of the Manor, Charities' Coal- merchant ? Is it for the high offices he fills, and the wealth he possesses, that this dignified personage is permitted to deprive the poor old infirm men in Mitchell's Alms- houses of their coats, and hoard their funds for enfranchisement, contrary to his own representation to the Go- vernment Commissioners ? No ; never let it be said by " The Inhabitants of Richmond." I am, Sir, your obedient Servant, Richmond, Nov. 9, 1832. AN OLD RATE PAYER. %* We have received a communication from another Rich- mond Correspondent, the object of which he will see has been anticipated. ——— TO THE EDITOR OF TH£ TOWN. Sin— 1 have received considerable pleasure from reading the remarks of your " Richmond" correspondent, concerning the abuses of those charities, and I beg to tender you my thanks for opening your columns to so important a subject. I shall, with your permission, next week, draw the attention of your nu merous readers, and the inhabitants of Harrow, to the abuses that exist here, with respect to property left for public charity. I allude to " Lyons' Will"— but more of this hereafter. I am, Sir, your's, & c., Harrow, Nov. 8. AN OLD HARROVIAN. P. S.— Allow me to add, that by devoting a portion of your Paper to the exposure of the abuses of public charities in general, you will merit not only the esteem, but the support of every liberal and thinking man. THE PL AY- GOER. • DRURY- LANE. This Theatre has wisely changed its tactics. Kean will do more for the treasury than the compounds of blue and red fire, by which our mechanical wits have contrived to bring German genius into disrepute. The Shylock of Monday evening was a revival of young delight to the veteran play- goer. It contained a world of instruction for the rising actor,— so bold, and yet so mellow, in its lights and shades. To Kean one is willing to confide the intentions of Shakspeare ; there is earnest given that he will not misinterpret them. COVENT- GARDEN. Another black business of bandits, blood, beauty, and bugles, has made its appearance, to the joint annoyance of actors and audience. The actors have the greater claims to compassion, as they must, perforce, speak the rubbish that is " set down for them," while the public may, if they choose, retire, or keep aloof. It grieves us to think of the hard fate of those who are doomed to perform in all " the novelties," on which misguided managers throw away loads of " dresses, decorations, and scenery." Their memories, poor souls 1 must be saturated with nonsense. But considerate nature will, doubtless, have provided some mode of relief from the absorption of the oozings of dis- ordered fancies. During sleep, or, haply, in the hour of genial indulgence, the Thespian's brain may purify itself by exhalation, and melo- dramatic vapours, curling over the night- cap or the bowl, may pass away, leaving the intellectual tene- ment to more rational occupancy. We hope Ellen Tree, H. Cause, and Warde, and Keeley, have exhaled their respective portions of the Dark Diamond,— a piece which, by the way, has borrowed its title from the soubriquet of a pugilistic hero. ADELPHI, Henriette, the Forsaken, is marked by the merits and defects of the French melodramatic school, and the defects are of a kind inju- rious to the success of the British actor. The sentiment— the feel- belongtoour neighbours, not tons— and though t'neperformer BRIGHTON.— The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester have ar- rived at Brunswick- terrace. THE CHASE OF ROYALTY. Seeing the accounts of Sir Robert Peel's entertainments at Drayton Manor, puts us in mind of an anecdote that we once heard in Staffordshire, which has never yet " gone the round of the public press." One of the Peels ( Edmund, we think) was captain of a troop of yeomanry ; and hearing that the Prince Regent— our late lamentable monarch— was expected to pass through the neigh- bourhood on his way to Lord Anglesey's house at Beaudesert, determined to make an exhibition of his loyalty at the head of his merry men, whom he called out accordingly. Well, the time arrived; the soldiers were drawn up on each side of the road where his Royal Highness was to pass ; " the carriage is com- ing I" was the cry, and the gallant troop presented arms without any serious accident. It so, happened, however, that the Prince either didn't— or wouldn't see them. He was taking a snoose at the back of his carriage, and passed without so much as a— nod, or a wink, we were going to say ; but that won't do, for he was both nodding and winking. What was to be done now ? Was all this loyalty to be thrown away ? wasted on the speech- less winds ? Genius of Peel, forbid I " Quick march," was the Captain's cry, and away they all went, sword in hand, like the Prussians after the fugitive Napoleon. Everybody knows what sort of a stud is generally exhibited by a troop of yeo- manry. Fat, carthorse- looking tits that seem to be all flesh, lean cocktails that seem all bone, kickers and roarers from lfi hands to 14 inclusive, form the incongruous locomotives of a regiment of rural cavalry. Away went the Captain on his " bit of blood," first and foremost. Away went the rest, as fast as legs could carry them, till the nags conspicuous for their obesity began to lag behind. This broke the ranks, set the kickers a- kicking, and gave the runaways an opportuniy of leading the field— or rather, road,— and when the gallant, Edmund, looking behind, saw the sad disorder of his troop, great was his amaze- ment, terrible was his dismay 1 What was to be done now ? There was the Prince scamper- ing away like a high- pressure steam- engine, here was the gal- lant, loyal troop in most admired ( and iemired) disorder, and here, too, was the gallant and loyal Captain, all his plans frus- trated, not knowing what he did, aud— we hope— not knowing what he said. " Haiti" was the knight's exclamation, " halt! halt 1 D— n his eyes, we'll follow him no further I" PUZZLING ANNOUNCEMENT.— A handbill has been put forth at Exeter, headed—" Wanted, a few healthy members to complete a sick society.'" mg- expresses the one and embodies the other with truth and power, still he gains but half a triumph, for the string of native associa- tions is left untouched. Even the extreme skilfulness of repre- sentation is against him— he is at best but an adventurer in foreign service, and the hearts of his countrymen go not with him to the battle. Mr. Yates has brought out this piece with very laudable atten- tion to effect. The characters are well cast— the scenery good— and the acting of Mr. and Mrs. Yates admirable. Mrs. Fitz- william was rather too buxom and dimpled for a French pay- sanne ; no disparagement to the lady, in our estimation. Much as we idolize John Reeve, we think his pirouetting misplaced in a drama of so grave an order. Yates was very fine in his assump- tion of the conscience- seared man of the world ; but the cha- racter is so odious— so mean— so far removed even from the rank of a lofty criminality, that our interest in the scene was subordinate to our anxiety to arrive at the sealing of his doom. It was an act of dramatic injustice to connect a female capable of awakening admiration and love with such an incarnation of selfishness. QUEEN'S THEATRE. Cleaned and decorated, the Queen's Theatre opened on Mon- day evening, under the sole proprietorship and direction of Mr. Wild. Three new pieces were brought forward, the best of which is a tale of horrors and devildom, called the Vampire's Wife. The lovers of this description of dramatic entertain- ment will find it a rich cordial. Mr. Fitzball subscribes to its authorship. The first, called The Secrets of the Prison- house, a poor affair of theatrico- managerial perplexity, was unworthy of Mr. Mcncrieff. The vivacity of the author of Tom and Jerry appears to be oozing out and evaporating. The company behind the curtain is respectable ; Mr. Wild, Mr. Elliott, Mrs. Selby, and Miss Paget are the stars. Those before the curtain testified their unequivocal approbation of the manager's efforts to afford them amusement. The general appearance of the house is greatly improved. GREEN ROOM GOSSIP. The Comedy of The Man of Pleasure, by Don T. De Trueba, which was promised last season at Covent- garden, is about to be produced at Drury- lane, where it is in active preparation. The Comedy comes out with unusual advantages as regards the cast, which is one of the strongest that has been presented by a modern play for many years. It includes the names of Macready, Farren, Dowton, Power, Cooper, Harley, & c. Mrs. Glover, Mrs. Nesbitt, Miss Phillips, & c. Mrs. Waylett has concluded a lucrative engagement in Dublin, carrying away a matter of two hundred and fifty sovereigns for about three weeks' work. She is now performing at Cor^. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, Nov. 7.— This day the following Degrees were conferred:— Bachelors of Arts.— The Earl of Lincoln, Christ Church, Grand Compounder ; William Hamilton Howley, New College ; Henry Blackall, Scholar of Christ - Church ; Charles Blakely Brown, Trinity. The long- projected christening of the young Marquis of Dum- friesshire, infant son of the Duke of Buccleugh, on which occa- sion the King and Queen are to stands sponsors, will un- doubtedly be performed at Montague House, in Privy- gardens, early in the spring, on the return of the Duke from Dalkeith. The entertainment was intended to take place in August, and we understand that the Queen has expressed much regret that the sudden departure of the Duke and Duchess for the North prevented the ceremony taking place this year. The infant marquis is now fourteen months old. THE GOOD OLD TIMES.— Entry in the parish register of Glammis, Scotland, June 16 :—" Nae preaching here this Lord's day, the minister being at Gortachy burning a witch 1" A PLACE OF ENTERTAINMENT.— It is remarked of the Glas- gow Theatre that it is divided into three parts ; in one you cannot hear, in another you cannot see, and in the third you can neither see nor hear. LORD MAYOR'S DAY.— Friday, being the 9th of November, celebrated in city annals, the procession of the new Lord Mayor, Sir Peter Laurie, took place with the usual formalities and splendour. It proceeded, according to custom, to Blackfriars- bridge, and then embarked for Westminister Hall, where his Lordship was presented to the Judges. The evening was devot- ed to the accustomed prandial festivities, which were graced by the presence of Earl Grey, Lord Althorp, Lord John Russell, and other distinguished personages. THE TOWN. TRIBUTE TO MINISTERS.— Tuesday a deputation, headed by Sir John Key, Lord Mayor of London, and consisting of 40 gen- tlemen, waited upon Lords Grey, Althorp, and Russell, to present their lordships with gold Cups, the produce of a penny subscrip- tion amongst the people. Lord Brougham in consequence of ill- ness could not receive the deputation, and sent to theLordMayor an intimation of his regret at being obliged to postpone his inter- view upon so interesting an occasion with the committee. The cups weigh 85 ounces, and will contain five pints of wine each. They were made by Messrs. Gass and Son, 42, Oxford- street. The ministers expressed respectfully their gratification of receiv- ing this mark of popular confidence and esteem, and the deputa- tion departed, gratified beyond measure at the reception which they had met. SIR WALTER SCOTT.— A meeting was held onFriday at Bridge- water House, the residence of Lord F. L. Gower, to consider what would be the most fitting mark of respect to Sir Walter Scott's memory, and admiration of his genius. His Lordslup was called to the chair Mr. by Croker, and briefly stated the object of the meeting. Lord Mahon, moved a series of resolutions, which were seconded by Sir Francis Burdett. Some discussion en- sued, of which the result was the appointment of a general and a sub- committee to carry the resolutions into effect. " To se- cure the hou e and estate of Abbotsford," as they now exist, as an heir- loom to his posterity, is the purpose in view ; aad a ge • neral subscription the means. About fifty noblemen and gentle- men distinguished in the literary circles attended. THE LATE LORD TENTERDEN.— Lord Tenterden died at twenty minutes before nine o'clock on last Sunday morning at his house, 28, Russell- square. His Lordship, when he attended the trial of Mr. Pinney, the Mayor of Bristol, on Friday week, appeared to be in the most infirm state of health, and was fre- quently observed to lean back in his seat apparently in an ex- hausted state. He was unable to leave his house after he re- turned home on that day, and the symptoms of his complaint became more alarming since that time. On Saturday morning, about five o'clock, a most unfavourable change took place, and his Lordship continued to get worse until he expired. He con- tinued in possession of his faculties till the last moment, and died apparently without the slightest pain. His Lordship was in his 72d year, and has left a family of two sons and three daugh- ters, who were with him at his death. It was his Lordship's wish that he- should be buried as a private gentleman, and in the burial- place of the Foundling Hospital, an Institution of which he was Vice- President. The foilowing simple inscription marks the plate on his Lordship's coffin:—" Charles Abbott, Lord Tenterden, Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, and Vice- President of the Foundling Hospital, died Sunday, Nov. 4, 1832, aged 71 years." LAW APPOINTMENTS.— Sir William Horne yet remains Soli- citor General, but it is pretty certain that he will be appointed Attorney General. The Solicitorship, it is said, remains between. Messrs. Wilde and Campbell. It is understood that at the end of the present Term his ' Honour the Master of the Rolls will retire from the duties of that Court, to which, it is said, he will be succeeded by the present Solicitor- General, Sir William Horne. It is also ru- moured that, on his retirement, Sir John Leach will be elevated to the Peerage. Sir Thomas Denman has appointed his son, Mr. Thomas Denman, Marshal and Associate of the Court of King's Bench. The situation of Associate was formerly filled by the Hon. Mr. Abbott, son of the late Lord Tenterden. Sir Thomas Denman, following the example of his Noble Colleague in the Court of Chancery, has intimated his intention to effect a reform in the' proceedings of his Court, the first step towards which will be a great reduction, and in many cases a complete abolition, of fees. The fees received on remanet causes have long been a source of great complaint, but they will in future be very con- siderably reduced, and not, as was formerly the case, be de- manded as many times as the cause was set down for trial. Alterations like these cannot fail to give universal satisfaction. CHIEF JUSTICES.— It is a circumstance worthy of notice, that during a period of near 76 years there have been only four Chief Justices of the Court of King's Bench, viz : Mansfield, who was appointed in 1756, Kenyon, Ellenborough, and Tenterden. During that period the Chief Justices of the Common Pleas have been very numerous— Willes, Camden, De Grey, Loughborough, Eldon, Alvanley, Eyre, Mansfield, ( Sir James), Dallas, Gibbs, Gifford, Wynford, and Tindal. The Chief Barons of the Exche- quer have been nearly as numerous. SALE OF THE LIBRARY OF SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH.— The first day's sale of the library of Sir James Mackintosh took place on Tuesday at Evans's great room, in Pall Mall. The com • pany was numerous, including many persons of rank, and others eminently distinguished in literature :— Prince Cimitelli, Sir R. Inglis, M. P., Mr. Hallam, Mr. Samuel Rogers, & c. Many of the books sold extremely well. The Antijacobin, 2 vols, with the names annexed to some of the poems, from Mr. Canning's copy in MS., produced 3/. 8s.; and Alfieri Tragedie, scelte da Mon- tucc- i, 3 vols., printed in Edinburgh 1812, a present from Lord Byron to Sir J. Mackintosh, with an interesting autograph in- scription by Lord Byron, was bought by the same gentleman, ( Mr. Wilks, M. P.) for four guineas and a half. The library, upon the whole, is not a very interesting or important collection. Sir James seems to have considered his hooks as the faithful depositories of his most sacred opinions. In " Adolphus's History of George the Third" is this critique of the work :—" AWre apo- logy for the reign, a Treasury pamphlet in three vols, but more decent and specious than Gifford ;" and on the margin in nume- rous places the eye is arrested by the words " stuff 1" " What does he mean ?" & c. Burke's character is summed up, " elegant, acute, verbose, vague ;" and in " Brodie's British Empire" are numerous calculations on the decrease of crime in the present century, as compared with earlier ages of our history. THE CARLTON CLUB.— The Carlton, or the Conservative Club, still retains possession of Lord Kensington's House on Carlton - terrace, and are likely to continue the occupancy of the premises during the winter. Wednesday Oct. 31, was the day mentioned by the commissioners of Woods and Forests on which Lord Kensington was to eject the club, on the ground that the Crown reserved to itself the right of excluding any tenancy but a strictly private one. In consequence of a copy of the notice served upon Lord Kensington to eject the club, several meetings of the com- mittee have been held to take the matter into consideration, but we have reason to believe that it remains unsettled. It is affirmed that they took Lord Kensington's residence with the full cogni- zance of Lord Duncannon. The edifice, we understand, was taken in the name of Lord Lowther, who is responsible to Lord Kensington for the rent of 1,500/. per annum. The Secretary and many of the distinguished members of the olub are out of town, and it is supposed nothing definite will be arranged until the general election is over. Lcrd K. has let the house to the Conservatives for seven years, reserving the right of ejecting the Club at six months' notice, on payment of a fine of 1,000/. THE DUKE OF YORK'S DEBTS.— At a meeting of the credi- tors of the late Duke of York, held on Wednesday, a memorial to his Majesty was resolved upon, setting forth the nature of their respective claims, and the gross mismanagement of the deceased Prince's property by his executors. It was further stated, as highly honourable to the Duchess of Kent, that a portion of Her Royal Highness's income had, from the moment of her husband's death, been set apart for the gradual liquidation of his debts, and that the Princess Victoria had also applied a part of her pocket- money to the same object. SUPPRESSION OF JUVENILE VAGRANCY.— The Society for the Relief of Juvenile Vagrants continue their labours with una- bated ardour. Theymeet every Wednesday, at32, Sackville- street. On the last day of meeting four new claimants were admitted. The following is an extract from a letter from Captain Brenton : —" The lists of our benevolent subscribers are now preparing for the new year ; and we trust that we shall be enabled to add - 366 THE TOWS, November 11. mstny names of those already enrolled. Think only what good may be done by giving 5s. We do not ask it of those who can- not afford it j but we put it to the breast of any one, whether they can afford br not ? We do not ask the Clergy to preach charity sermons for us, but merely to state to their flocks the ob- ject and existence of' the Society for the Suppression of Juvenile Vagrancy.'" LONDON CORPORATION SCHOOL.— The Corporation of Lon- don has given a donation of 2,000/. in aid of that valuable insti- tution the City of London Corporation School, and nearly 1,000/. has been subscribed, in addition, by members of the Corporation, who have qualified as Life Governors. METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS.— In addition to the im- provements now carrying into execution in Soutliwark, the com- missioners of pavements have determined on forming a new street parallel with the High- street and Bermondsey- street, to connect itself with the site of ground about to be occupied by the new Leather Warehouse Company ; so that the leather market and the disgusting nuisances occasioned by the sale of raw hides at Leadenhall will be speedily removed, not withstanding the late vote of 4250/. by the Common Council for the improvement of Leadenhall Market. NOBLEMEN'S MANSIONS.— Although in Chester there are many houses of great value, yet Eaton Hall is the only mansion which is rated at 300/. per annum. The real value is probably not less than 10,000/. In Westmoreland, which contains Low- ther Castle, the highest assessment is 200/. per annum. In Dur- ham, where will be found Raby Castle, Lambton Castle,' Wyn- yard, Ravensworth, aud Brancepeth Castles, the highest amount is 100/. per annum ; and there are only two others above 70/. Eastnor Castle, in the county of Hereford, is not assessed at more than 90/. Belvoir Castle, in Rutlandshire, is only assessed at 200/. per annum. In Northamptonshire, containing Althorp, and many other noble places, the highest assessment is 140/. per annum. In Northumberland there are only two residences as- sessed at 200/. per annum. NEW MANUFACTURE.— A hearth- rug of novel invention was presented to his most gracious Majesty on Thursday last, by the . . inventors, Messrs. George and William Clayton, of Cheapside. The rug contains upwards of 40 square feet, and in the centre, upon a moroon ground, are depicted the Royal Arms of England, surrounded by a rich mantle, with the ornamental addition at - the base of the roses of York and Lancaster, the thistle and the shamrock. The whole is encircled by a decorative scroll border, beautifully designed and executed. • DEMI- OMNIBUSES.— Public carriages, of a new species, but on the same footing as hackney- coaches, have just been started in Paris. They are upon two wheels, and are drawn by one horse ; the entrance is behind and the seats on the side like the omnibus, and they will carry six persons. There is a covered seat in front for the driver, and each course is only 25 sous. ROYAL AND FASHIONABLE MOVEMENTS. His Majesty, attended by Sir Herbeit Taylor, arrived in town on Tuesday afternoon from tlie Palace at Windsor. The King field a Court at two o'clock, which was attended by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home, Foreign, and Colonial De partments, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Paymaster of the Forces, the Commander of the Forces, the Postmaster- General, the Lord Steward, the Master of the Horse, Hon. William Temple, Sii Thomas Denman, Coinmis- sary- General Bisset, Major- General Pilkington, Lieutenant General Thomas Browne, and Admiral Cunningham. Sir Thomas Denman was presented to his Majesty by Viscount Melbourne, as Secretary of State for the Home Department, and kissed hands on being ap- pointed Lord Chief Justice of England, in the room of the late Lord Tenterden. His Majesty held a Privy Council, at which an Order in Council was agreed upon, laying an embargo on Dutch vessels. Sir Thomas Denman was introduced, sworn in a Privy Councillor, and took his seat at the Board accordingly. Soon after the close of the Court, his Majesty left town on his return to the Palace at Windsor. WINDSOR Preparations have been in progress during the week for their Majesties' departure for Brighton. Servants, horses, and carriages are leaving daily, and several caravans of the King's plate have been despatched for the Pavilion. Her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta, attended by Lady Mary Taylor, her resident Lady in Waiting, quitted her chateau at Frogmore, oil Monday morning, for the Pavilion, where she will remain on a visit to their Majesties during their sojourn at Brighton. The Earl and Countess of Errol, Viscount and Viscountess Falk- land, Lords Frederick and Adolphus Fitzclarence, will reside within the precincts of the Palace, and the Duke of Sussex will also, pro- bably, be the guest of his illustrious relatives at Christmas. The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria arrived on Fri- THE COUNTRY. • BERKSHIRE ELECTION.— A London paper day at Kensington Palace, from Oxford Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cumberland are expected to sojourn for a few weeks at Hastings, and afterwards pay a visit to their Majesties, at Brighton. PARIS. - On Monday the Duke and] Duchess of Dalmatia, the Duke and Duchess de Broglie, Lord and Lady Granville, and the Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne, had the honour of dining with the King and Royal Family. Lord Hill's Levee at the Horse Guards on Thursday was attended by Major- General Pilkington, Major- General Sir J. Nichols, Major- General O'Connell, Lieut.- General Sir Thomas Brown, Colonel Wetheral, Col. Considine, Major- General Brooke, Col. Lightfoot, and upwards of twenty oilier distinguished officers. We understand that on the 30th of this month the King will re- view the 3d Dragoon Guards, now stationed here, and present them with new colours. A house is engaged for Prince Talleyrand for a lengthened period; the Prince will be accompanied by the Duchess de Dino. The Duke of Devonshire is expected at Kemp Town OH Saturday evening, where his Grace will remain for the season. Apartments are engaged at the Albion Hotel for Prince and Princess Lieven, the Earl and Countess of Besborough, and Lady Barbara Pon- sonby. The Duke of Devonshire is expected at Devonshire House next week from Chatsworth. His Grace has been entertaining a large party of friends, who are resolute sportsmen, at his ancient and most venerable residence, Bolton Abbey, in Yorkshire, which is situated in the centre of the Duke's large preserve of game. Earl Spencer continues to reside at Althorp in comparative se- clusion. His Lordship is in much better health than he was, but having pursued a very active life for a large portion of 75 years, his Lordship stands in need of quiet and repose, and unless it be deemed expedient that he should personally attend the House of Peers to support the measures of the Government, the Earl will continue at Althorp, with occasional visits in the summer at his de- lightful marine retreat at Ryde, in the Ise of Wight. The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry are entertaining a. large party of fashionables, at their residence, Mount Stewart, in the County of Down. Major General Nicolay left town on Tuesday night for Ply- mouth, to embark for the Mauritius, of which colony he has been appointed Governor. The rumour is revived that the Marquis of Tavistock, Lord Stanley, Mi Coke, of Norfolk, Mr. Byng, and two or three other immediate friends of the Ministry, will be called to the House of Peers previously to the dissolution of Parliament. The Duke of* Buckingham has repaired from bis noble palace at Stowe to his seat at Avington, near Winchester, where, in the society of very select friends, he intends to remain during the shooting season. Game is this year unusually abundant in the pre- serves at Avington, which are, however, in general, very plenti- fully stocked. - Lord Charles Pelham Clinton and Lord Thomas Charles Pelham Clinton, sons of the Duke of Newcastle, have retired from the 1st Life Guards, in which their Lordships held the commission of Cor- nets, after little more than one year's service. It may be remem- bered that the appointment of these young Noblemen ( who are de- signated " university soldiers ") to the Guards, while at Oxford, excited much interest in the military circles, states that certain claims to voting have been inserted by some of the " travelling Political Union Agents" of Mr. Walter. It would have been un- necessary, we trust, in the county of Berks, to expose the false- hood of any " Political Union Agents" being employed by Mr. Walter or his friends; but for the information of our countrymen in general, we now state that it is an atrocious falsehood to say that any such person or persons have been employed, or have rendered their services, at this election. With respect to the expenses, also, incurred by the above candidate, the most exaggerated and ab- surd reports are in circulation ; he, in truth, spends n » more than the exigencies of the case require in a severe conflict in which prin- ciple is engaged against undue influence.— Reading Mercuiy. TRUE CONSTITUTIONAL CONDUCT.— Henry Gaily Knight, Esq M. P., of Firbeck Hall, has made known to his numerous tenantry in this county, and in Nottinghamshire, that they are to consider themselves at perfect liberty to vote for such candidates in the en- suing election for Members of Parliament, as they in their con- sciences believe to be the most desirable for their country's good. A few days ago, Lord Galway was asked the question, for whom he wished his tenants to vote, at the ensuing election ? His Lord- ship replied, that they were perfectly at liberty to vote for whom they pleased.— Tyne Mercury. A NOBLE EXAMPLE.— On Thursday week upwards of two hundred persons employed by hisGrace the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth, after spending the day in playing cricket and other amusement, sat down to a most excellent dinner of roast beef and plum pudding iu the new banquetting loom, which was beautifully decorated with evergreens, flowers, and variegated lamps. Several appropriate toaits were given by the Presidents, and some excellent songs and glees were sung. At eight o'clock in the evening the wives and daughters of the guests were admitted, when the dancing began, and was kept up with great spirit till two o'clock in the morning. The Noble Host with his usual kind consideration came amongst them, to see that every one was comfortable, and desired that the men might not be required to attend strictly7 to their time the next morning. Sir Augustus and Lady Clifford, Mr. Curry, Mr. Churtz, and the Rev. R. Smith, also visited the company. On Friday evening a ball was given to the attendants of his Grace and their Friends. HOSIERY TRADE.— We are glad to learn that the hosiery and other businesses connected with it are in a greater state of activity at the present time than has been known during the same season for several years past. In one worsted factory the workpeople have been employed extra hours, sometimes all night, to complete the orders in hand.— Leicester Chronicle. A dinner was given at Manchester, on Monday evening, to Joseph Hume, Esq., M. P., by the projectors and proprietors of a new Mechanics' Hall of Science, intended to be erected, of which Mr. Hume has consented to become the patron. About three hun- dred inhabitants of Manchester and its neighbourhood sat down to dinner; Mr. R. Potter, a candidate for Wigan, in the chair. Mr. Hume, on his health being drunk, spoke for upwards of an hour and a half. Iu the course of his speech he stated, that should lie have the honour to be returned to the ensuing Parliament, he stood pledged to bring forward a system of national education. SUBSTITUTE FL, R PAPER HANGINGS.— A substitute for paper hangings has been invented in Manchester, and bids fair, as an ar- ticle of upholstery, to command an extensive sale. In the spinning aud manufacture of cotton it is well known that there are great quantities of fine waste, commonly called flyings. These have been collected, and, by means of hydraulic presses, converted into a kind of thin cloth, which takes the stain equally well with paper, and is found to be a good and cheap substitute for that article on the walls of dwelling- houses. AN HONOUR TO THE SOIL.— There is now grazing on his Grace the Duke of Devonshire's farm at Chatsworth, an ox of extraordi- nary size, weighing 165 stone of 14lbs.; he is five years old, and is allowed by the first judges of cattle to be equal in fatness and sym- metry of shape to the well- known ox grazed by his Grace last year. The animal has been fed on hay and grass only. NEW VESSELS.— The St. George, 120, now constructing in Ply- month dock- yard, on the principle of the altered Caledonia, will be launched in July next. The Nile, 92, which is building after the model of the Britannia, but with one deck less, will be ready for launching in April. A new brig, to be called the Ringdove, is or- dered to be constructed at that yard, on Captain Symonds's princi- ple, on the model of the Snake. The Monarch, a fine ship of 84 guns, will be launched from Chatham yard on Saturday, the 24t^ inst., about noon. THE ANATOMY BILL.— The Leeds Workhouse have come to the decision, " that in all cases of persons dying in the workhouse, who have no relations, or whose bodies after death may not be claimed by their relatives, and who have not requested not to be subject lo post mortem examination, shall be at the disposal of a com- mittee to be appointed for the purposes of dissection, conformably to the provisions of the late Act of Parliament passed upon that subject. ACTORS AND CLERGYMEN.— In the night between Saturday and Sunday some persons entered the Hale Leys Chapel, Aylesbury, and pasted play- hills on the Bibles, the pulpit, and various parts of the chapel. We are given to understand that this has been done in retaliation for some severe strictures on the characters of certain performeis that have appeared at Aylesbury. FLOGGING AGAIN.— On Tuesday morning a private in the Scotch Fusileer Guards received 300 lashes, in the Sheet- street barrack- yard, Windsor, pursuant to the sentence of a court- mar- tial, for striking, while intoxicated, one of the sergeants of the re- giment. MUTINY.— A Court- martial has been sitting for some days past at Norwich, on several privates of the 7th Hussars, on a charge of mutiny. On the 26th of September the men refused to obey the orders of Colonel Keane, the Commanding Officer. They were on parade, and when be gave the word " attention," they stood stuck still. He seized hold of the right hand man of the troop, and having pulled him from the rauks, caused him to be immediately tried by Captain Bathurst, who was ill in bed, Lieutenant Russell, and Comet Shelley. The prisoner, whose name is Pitman, was sentenced to 200 lashes, which he received at the time. This re- stored discipline in the troop. It appeared that the men com- plained of too strict a drill, but this Colonel Keane and the other Officers state is unfounded. Five privates have already been tried for mutiny, but their sentence has not been passed. tressing disease began to manifest themselves. She gradually be- came worse until Thursday night, when death put a period to her sufferings.— Hereford Times. HORRIBLE ACCIDENT.— On Wednesday morning Mr. Capps, a butcher, at Woolwich, was driving a bullock to his slaughter house, when the animal suddenly started off. After being chased for an hour in the streets of Woolwich, he made a run at a little boy, who, however, escaped by getting into a hollow tree. He then directed his course to Plumstead and Bostal hill, which a farmer named Evans was descending, when the bullock darted at him, and took the unfortunate man up between his horns. After running twenty yards with him, he dashed him to the ground, by which three of his ribs were broken and other serious injuries inflicted. The beast was secured at Beden Well after running nearly seven miles. BURNED TO DEATH.— The lady of a clergyman residing near Doncaster, was preparing to receive a party of guests on Saturday week, and having gone into the kitchen, was showing one of the girls how to singe a fowl, when her dress look fire, and from the lightness of its material she was almost instantly surrounded by flames. The unfortunate lady was so dreadfully burnt that she ex- pired next day. SUICIDE BY DROWNING.— Aperson named Cuerton, in easy cir cumstances, drowned himself in a water butt, at Dodbrook, about a fortnight since. He had seated himself on a low stool in the cask, which contained only three feet of water, and must have taken some pains to suffocate himself. A coroner's inquest was held on the body, and the jury returned a verdict of ' 1 Temporary Insanity." It is said that 200/. were found deposited in the coal- pit after his death. MURDEROUS OUTRAOE.— On Friday last, the house of Mr. John Hancock, at Tunley, in the parish of Bisley, Gloucestershire, was entered by two men, who made a demand of money, and in- stantly afterwards one of them shot Mr. Henry Hancock, whose death, when the account came away, was hourly expected. They then proceeded to rifle the house, and took nine silver tea- spoons, a silver punch- ladle, ciphered " M. A. H.," and upwards of 45/. in cash and notes. One of the villians is described as about five feet nine inches in height, with full face, high cheek bones, and was dressed in a brown frock coat; the other about five feet six inches, with oval face and sallow complexion, and wore a short coat. Both had ( heir faces partly blackened. A reward of 50/. has been offered for their apprehension. SUDDEN DEATH;— An awful instance of sudden death has oc- curred in the family of Mr. Joseph Mason, belonging to the dock- yard, Portsea. On Monday, at noon, his wife was delivered of a child, and expired half- an- hour after. The infant also died at the same time. Her mother- in- law, who was in attendance, became ill, and died ( it is supposed through fright) ; thus causing a visita- tion of death of three members of one family at almost the same moment. DEATH FROM EXCESS.— On the 7th of October a labouring mail, named Haliam, of Bottesford, whilst at the Belvoir Inn, in the village of Belvoir, undertook for a wager to swallow two quarts of ale at a draught. This he accomplished, and shortly afterwards added nearly a pint of neat gin to it. He was soon in a state of intoxication, and put into a stable for the night. On the following morning he with difficulty reached home ; cold and inflammation came on, and after languishing in a distressing condition till the Monday, he expired, leaving a wife and large family destitute.— Derby Reporter. INCENDIARISM.— On Sunday last two ricks of hay were set on fire at South Cerney, and about 17 tons destroyed. They belonged to the overseer .— Cheltenham Chronicle. SCOTLAND. • EDINBURGH.— A meeting of the creditors of the late Sir Walter Scott was held here on Monday the 29th of October, when an offtr was made by the family of our illustrious countryman, to pay to the claimants, on the 2d of February next, a sum which, in add- tion to the funds in the hands of the trustees, and the amount to arise from life insurances, will give nine shillings per pound to all, and this for a discharge. The whole amount to be thus distributed will be about 53,000/., which, with former payments to neaily the same extent, and dividends received from other quarters, is equal to the capital sum of the whole rankings against Sir Walter Scott in 1826. The meeting was very numerously attended, and the pro- posal was adopted without a dissentient voice. The Duchess of Buccleuch has given 100/. to the subscription for erecting a monument to Sir Walter Scott, in addition to the 100/. formerly subscribed by the Duke. A spirited subscription is now in progress in the neighbourhood of Melrose and Abbotsford, for the purpose of erecting a monu- ment to the memory of Sir Walter Scott. It is proposed to build the monument on the top of the Eildon hills. AID TO DON PEDRO.— About six hundred young men of this city have enrolled themselves into a regiment under the title of the " Glasgow Constitutional Volunteers," to assist in forwarding the Constitutional cause in Portagal. They sail for Oporto in a day or two.— Glasgow Chronicle. IRELAND. • ANTI- TITHE CONVICTIONS. At the Clonmet Assizes, on Friday, the 2d November, Lord Galmoy, Rev. E. Brennan, Messrs. John Mulcahy, John Hackett, Mat. Laffan, John Butler, Daniel O'Brien, Denis Larkin, and Michael Daubeney, were put to the bar for a combination against tithes. Lord Galmoy, Mr. Hackett, Mr. Butler, Mr. O'Brien, and Mr. Larkin, pleaded guilty ; the Rev. Mr. Brennan, Michael Daubeney, Mr. Laffan, and Mr. Mulcahy, were put to^ he bar to take their trials. The Priest was acquitted, and the other parties found guilty. On the 3d instant sentence was pronounced upon the persons convicted of anti- tithe combinations :— J. L. Pennefather, to be imprisoned four months and fined one hundred pounds. J. K.. O'Dwyer, to be imprisoned five months and fined one hundred pounds. Dorney, Laffan, and Mulcahy, to be each imprisoned three months and fined fifty pounds each. Lord Galmoy and those who pleaded guilty were not brought up for judgment, as the Soli- citor- General considered that the majesty of the law was vindicated by the withdrawal of their plea of not guilty. At the close of the Cork Assizes, on the 3d instant, Mr. Wm. Godfrey Twiss, who had pleaded guilty lo the charge of conspiracy against llie payment of tithes, and publishing an inflammatory notice exciting others to do likewise, was after a short address from the Court, ordered to be imprisoned four months; Mr. Dominick P, Ronayne, three months; Mr. Michael Dennehy, one month; Mr. Jeremiah O'Lomasny, six weeks. COUNTRY CALENDAR of ACCIDENTS and OFFENCES-•• » TIIE LATE WRECKS.— Some of the wreck, and part of the cargo of the William Keilson, have been found on the banks near Liver- pool, at low water. Several dead bodies have also been found, those, doubtless, of the crew. The Grecian has not yet been raised. A dozen flats and several steamers have been employed, as well as a diving- bell t » expedite the process, which has so far been successful that the hull has been moved nearly half a mile in shore.— Chester Chronicle. INCENDIARISM.— On Saturday night last, a large hay stack, worth 100/., the property of Charles Attwood, Esq., at Dunston, in the County of Durham, which stood in a field close to the village, was discovered ( o be oil fire. An engine was obtained from Newcastle, about three o'clock iu the morning, and by four the fire was extinguished. Some part of the hay was saved, and the com stackinear it were fortunately preserved. Ma. CA RMICH A EL SM ITH .— At the Middlesexadjourned sessions on Saturday, Win. Carinichae! Smith, Esq. the attorney, appealed against the conviction of a magistrate, who had sentenced him to be imprisoned one calendar month in the House of Correction, and to be kept to hard labour, for refusing to maintain his wife ; when the court, after a most patient hearing of the appellant for two hours and a half, affirmed the conviction. HYDROPHOBIA.— On the 31st ult., a little girl, about seven years of age, and labouring under hydrophobia, was brought from Kenchurch to our infirmary. It appeared that about eleven months since, ske was bitten in the face by a dog, which, from its being supposed to have been in a rabid state, was killed. The wound healed kindly, and the girl suffered no inconvenience until the Sunday previous to her admission, when the symptoms of that dis- DREADFUL ACCIDENT.— At Mr. Orbell's water- mill, Brundon, near Sudbury, as the cook was stopping to fill a pitcher with water, she lot her balance and fell between the water- wheel and the gate, Oue horried shriek from the poor girl, followed by the immediate stopping of the mill, alarmed the household, who, rushing out found her mutilated body crushed literally to pieces by the ponder- ous wheel. AWFUL VISITATION.— We hare seldom heard of a more awful visitation than the following narrative records to have befallen a family named Ewen, at Haydon, in this county. Mrs. Ewen left home oil a visit to her daughter, who was unwell in Wales, but on her arrival she found her daughter dead and buried. This cala- mity had so serious an effect on herhealth that she never after- wards recovered her spirits, and on the 22d she died, aged 57 years. And the same day, Richard Ewen her son, who had been married only six weeks, died at Cawston, in the 22d year of his age. They were both buried the following Sunday, on which night Catherine Cable, the last of Mrs. Ewen's children, and twin sister to Richard, also died. The Monday morning, Mr. Ewen, her father. The father and daughter were buried on Friday, a week only having elapsed since the deaths of the mother and son.— Norfolk East Anglian. FATAL ACCIDENT.— As some bullocks were being landed oil Sunday afternoon, from a vessel in Dover harbour, for the use of the fleet in the Downs, one of the animals plunged and kicked vio lently, which caused the crane to turn suddenly round, and it un- fortunately caught a man named Moss, and crushed his head to a complete mummy, causing instantaneous death. The poor man was the master of a fishing smack, and has Left a wife aud large family to lament his loss. ROBBERY.— The residence of Sir Francis Sykes, at St. Leonard's Hastings, has been robbed of plate, jewels, and valuables to the amount of neaily 1,000/. The work of plunder has been going on for some time, and suspicion has fallen on some of the domestics. INQUESTS. INQUEST EXTRAORDINARY.— A few days ago an inquest was held upon the body of a gentleman somewhat advanced in life, the cause of whose death seems to have been peculiar. It appeared from the evidence of a medical gentleman that, for a considerable time his reading had been almost wholly confined to newspapers, and that his health had been good or otherwise in proportion to the degree of amusement afforded by these vehicles of intelligence. From the close of the Session of Parliament his medical friend had observed his health visibly declining. The old gentleman fre- quently complained in a querulous tone, " Sir, the papers contain no news." His friend would suggest that the editors could not in- vent news, and that they endeavoured to supply the place of that article by clever comments upon the Church— Tithes— Corn Laws, & c. The uniform reply was, " Pshaw ! Sir, I donft want their long- winded and never- ending essays; I hav'nt known such a dearth of news these thirty years ; why, Sir, there has not been a murder worth reading for I know not how long." The dreamy war between the two Portuguese Dons did him no good. As for the Belgian question, and its three score protocols, the very men- tion of it created a nausea. He continued gradually to decline, and at length was killed outright by receiving a paper which con- tained a frank confession that " they had nothing of interest to communicate." After the evidence had been gone through, the jury were for a time sorely puzzled what decision they should ceine to, but at length returned a verdict of— Died for uant of intelligence, — Deodani 6d. on the Paper above referred to.— Worcester Journal. THE BEAR AT HIS BOOKS.— The Correspondent of a Morn- ing Paper states, that during the last six weeks the Russian Go- vernment has been purchasing all the Sanscrit manuscripts they could find in this country. They have already possessed them- selves of more than 100 manuscripts, which are sent to St. Petersburg. " What does this mean ?" he adds. Why, doubt- less, that the Bear is about to play the Brahmin. The Pundit of the Morning Oracle, of course, is aware that Sanscrit is the spoken language of India. What a dismal prospect for our Eastern supremacy, when the Russian boors come to pour from their rusty throats the divine phraseology of the Vedas 1 SENTENCE TIEMITTED.— Mr. Carmichael Smyth, who was convicted and sentenced to imprisonment and hard labour for not supporting his wife, and his conviction confirmed on appeal, has been discharged from prison under an order from the Secre- tary of State ; Mr. Smyth having satisfied the parish, and the convicting magistrates having strongly recommended him for a pardon. It is the fixed and firm determination of Government to proceed with the utmost vigour to enforce Ihe law for the recovery of tithes. The convictions in the tithe cases prove that the business is take$ up in right earnest. Resistance to legal authority can be no longer tolerated, and its only effect will be to entail punishment and cos^ i on the infatuated peasantry, who are ever made the victims of in- terested agitators and heartless politicians. The Commissariat wi! i attend, where necessary, to render the tithe sales effectual, aud measures are in progress by which the corn, butter, pork, and cat- tle, as they are brought into market, by the defaulters, will be seized for the payment of a demand, which, if successfully resisted, would endanger the existence of every species of property. Limerick Chronicle. TERMINATION OF THE CARRIGEEN INQUEST.— After an inves- tigation of the Carrigeen affair, which took up 11 days, the in- quest was on Friday week brought to a close. The Jury brought in the following verdict" We find a verdict of wilful murd « r against Captain Butke, and a party of police under his command, for killing Catherine Foley and Joseph Sinnott, on the 8th of Oc- tober, about ihe flour of 12 o'clock, on the lands of Liquidstow n in the parish of Portnascullv, barony of Iverk, and couuty cf Kilkenny." " , JACK KETCH IN DURANCE.— The finisher of tlie law for the city of Limerick, has been sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment for stealing an old woman's blanket. BARBAROUS MURDER.— Friday night, Daniel M'Aloon, renl- bailiffof M. Babington, Esq., of Boney. glen, near Donegal, left Mr. Babington's, in company with three men who had been pay- ing rent that day ; the three men had horses, but M'Aloon had not; they kept together until they came withiu a mile of Glenties, when M'Aloon being tired, remained a short distance in the rear; the night was very dark, aud M'Aloon being suddenly attacked, called out to the horsemen to " stop, that he was a murdering.'' The men w ent to his assistance, and saw about eight or ten persons, who attacked them with stones, so that they had to make their escape to a neighbouring house, where they were reinforced, and went in search of M'Aloon, but could not find him. They then rode into Glenties, where they informed the chief constable of the circumstances; he ordered out the police, and, after searching for some time, found the body of M'Aloon lying on the road dread- fully mangled ; his skull was laid open, supposed with a hatchet ; wounds were inflicted with hay forks, and one by a sabre ; a rope was fastened round his neck. The Dublin Gazette of Saturday contains a proclamation, offering a reward of 50/. for the appre- hension of the murderers of Daniel M'Aloon. The same Gazette contains a warrant for nominating 36 additional constables for the county of Meatli. MELANCHOLY DEATH OP CAPTAIN SKINNER, R. N.— Captain Skinner, commanding the Escape, post- office steam- packet, sailed from Ilowth, on Tuesday morning, at nine o'clock, with a fair wind, for Holyhead. Between two and three that day, about five miles from the Head, the packet was struck by two very heavy- waves, following each other ; the second dashed Captain Skinner, and his mate, William Morris ( a stout and able seaman), through the bulwarks overboard, carrying away binnacle and compass, and knocked down the man at the helm, who fortunately got entangled in'the chain of the wheel, which was broken, and by thW means he was saved. It is supposed Captain Skinner and the male were killed on the instant, as they were seen 20 minutes floating with their faces downwards and no appearance of life. Every exertion was made, and several times they were caught with the boat- hook by their clothes, which gave way. On the arrival of the packet at Holyhead, the pier was crowded by persons of all ranks, anxious to know what misfortune had happened, having previously learned, by signals made at the station- house, on the top of the head mountain, that an accident had occurred. It is totally impossible to describe the effect the melancholy tidings had on the multitude; the screeches and lamentations were truly awful. The loss of Captain Skinner wilt be severely felt at Holyhead, particularly by the poor.— Dublin Register. CORK ADDRESS.— The gentry of the county of Cork have come forward to sign an address declaratory of their regret at he present excess of parly feeling on both sides in Ireland. Their motive, in their own language, is " to uphold the credit of the county— to aid Ihe due execution of the laws— to support the Go- vernment in the administration of them, and to maintain the con- stitutional right of the people." And the chief and leading ob- jects of their association they state to be—" To uphold the 1 egis- lative union between this country and England, believing, as we do implicitly, adopting loo the language of the venerable, honest, and efficient Member for Waterford, ' That the dissolution of that union would at no distant period ensure the downfall of both islands.' " ) i , ,— r— A NISI PRIUS JUDGE.— A well- known Magistrate in New- York, of Dutch extraction, could never bear to hear both sides of the question in cases brought before him ; and generally de- cided in favour of the first person heard. His mode- of deciding was this :—" I am partly satisfied. Vat is de use of pothering my prains about it. ' Tis all very clear. Co your vays." November 18. THE TOWS, 445 i t STfie ^ jiortsmatt. By moorland and mountain, wood, river, and lake, With the fox in the cover, the deer in the brake— Where bowls kiss the green- sward and bow- strings rebound, • There, blithe as May morning, the Sportsman is found. „ LAY OF OUR LAUREATE. However dull and miserable London may appear, en- veloped as it is about every other day, upon the average, in one of those abominable November fogs, the country presents a very different aspect. If the weather be but open, foxhunters do not much heed a little rain, and therefore we see that they are upon the alert in all parts of the country. THE TOWN itself ( our paper we mean, not foggy London,) affords a pretty good proof of this, as above half a column every week is occupied with the hunting appointments of England alone. In our sister island also the sportsman is not idle, and the Connaught horsemen, of whom in another column we give our readers a graphic description, is again prepared to charge the six- feet six walls, or any thing else that may come in his way. The racing season may now be said lo have ended ; and, as far as the closing scene is regarded, to have ended well. The Newmarket Houghton Meeting has been one of the best order ; and we are happy in being able to contradict those alarming reporfs that have got abroad concerning the intended retirement from the Turf of many of its lead- ing characters. However disgusted they may have been at the Doncaster business, still they do not intend to resign in order that a set of vagabonds may take their place. 1 n tlie language of our great poet, they seem to think " One sudden foil should never breed distrust," ai d therefore have they determined not to he jostled out of the course so easily. The Ludlow men will be removed to Coventry ; though, in the words of old Jack Falstaff, no oie would like to walk through it with them; and the Jtckey Club will not he idle in performing its duties to the sporting world. Racing men are never without something interesting to look forward to, and speculate upon ; and the great betters are at all times active— now and then too much so— in making up their books. Thus the Derby for the ensuing year was an object of interest long before this season cbsed, and at the late Houghton Meeting, in particular, ra » ny thousands were betted upon it. There are several very promising colts in it, and, taking all things as we find ttem, we will look forward, without despair, to the next racing season. ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. EXPORTATION OF ENGLISH HORSES. SIR,— The extent to which our thorough- bred horses continue • tCT> e exported from this country, is looked upon in two different wtys by different men. In the first instance, in a commercial pint of view, it is a decided gain ; and therefore the mere cal cilators, who can see no national benefit that is not made clear fcthem in pounds, shillings, and pence, must be forced to allow tilt we do gain something by the superiority of our horses Then five or six hundred guineas are given by the foreigner for i gcgle English racer, even Joseph Hume himself is likely to jtcome an advocate for horse- racing, if he does not absolutely gar upon the turf himself. Jthe other side of the question, some men, especially en, cannot bring themselves to weigh twenty or thirty d pounds against the chance of other nations competing with us in their breed of horses. Upon this subject they are jealous as the eagle Of bis high aerie ; ami therefore they hear of some of our best racing blood being expatriated with any thing but satisfaction. 1 confess that I have frequently felt in this manner myself; and even now, had I i" fine horse to dispose of, I should he inclined to take a hun- dred less to see him in one of our own breeding studs, instead ofbeing carried away to France or Germany. • Still, however, I look upon these exportations of horses with lets apprehension than I used to do. I feel convinced, that so loiig as we do not relax in our exertions at home— so long as the sports of the Turf and the hunting, field be cherished as they have been— we shall still maintain our proud distinction of having the best horses upon the face of the globe. But if we do relax in those exertions, let it be remembered, that there are others ready enough to take our place. In the language of the race- course, if we do not keep the lead at a good pace, there are others that will speedily run up to us, aye, and head us too. The celebrated German poet, Klopstock, wrote a fanciful ode, in which he described the muse of Germany as about to enter upon a race with the muse of Britain. Some of his spirited and sporting countrymen seem striving hard to effect a similar rivalry between the horses of the two countries. November 7. PHILO- EQUUS. SPORTING LITERATURE. WILD SPORTS OF THE WEST :— R. Bentley. According to our promise, we return to these volumes. There is less of sporting matter as we get farther on with the work than there was in the commencement. It is continually inter- spersed with long stories, which, from its title, we should not haw expected to meet with. Some of them, moreover, are merely old tales, hashed up anew, and with too much of the appearance of mere book- making. That one, for instance, about the old gentleman killing the robbers with the case- knife from behind the door, is nearly as old as the hills of the county of Mayo. We remember well being amused by it in the nur- sery and we have seen it also in print long before its present appearance in the Wild Sports of tho West. Unless we are greatly mistaken, it may be all found in the Annual Register. One of the most novel parts of the work is, where its author speaks of the woodcock shooting that he found among the covers of that part of Ireland which he visited. It was with no little surprise that we read the following sentences :— " From a copse of not more than thirty acres extent, I have seen fifty couple of woodcocks flushed ; and as several excellent covers lay in the immediate vicinity, it was no unusual thing for two or three guns to bring home twenty, nay, thirty couple. I have known a party fire a number of shots that appeared incredible; and I have tnote than once expended my last charge of powder, and left, for want of ammunition, one or more copses untried " We have witnessed some pretty good woodcock shooting in our time; but still this is quite beyond anything that has come within the range of our experience. Fifty couple in a copse of thirty acres 1 We fear our author must have made some slight mistake in his computation, which is very likely to happen in cover shooting, in consequence of the same bird being flushed many times. Thus he might have seen woodcocks rise a hun dred times or more, and yet the wood might not actually have contained above twelve or fifteen couple. We shall conclude our notice of these volumes by laying . be- fore our readers a few pages upon the state of fox- hunting in the west of Ireland. They are spiritedly written, and may be interesting at this time of the year, when fox- hunting is the reigning amusement of most sportsmen :— As a hunting country, the plains ( of Mayo) have been justly chronicled ; and the adjacent counties of Galway and Roscommon yield to none iu the empire. The extensive sheep- farms afford superior galloping ground, and the fences, though few and far be- tween, from their size and character, require a powerful horse and dashing rider. Hence, in the annals of fox- hunting, the bipeds and quadrupeds of Connaught are held in due estimation ; and it has been stated, without contradiction, that in their own country, no men or horses can compete with them. During the last centuty, the w est of Ireland was celebrated for its breed of horses. They were of that class denominated " the old Irish hunter;"— a strong, well- boned, and enduring animal, that without any pretension to extraordinary speed, was sufficiently fast for fox- hounds, an excellent weight carrier, and, better still, able to live with any dogs and in any country. As fencers this breed was unequalled ; and for a crack hunter to carry ten or eleven stone over sir feet six of solid masonry, was no extraordinary event; seven feet have been achieved repeatedly, and there are still, I have no doubt, many horses in the province capable of performing the latter feat. But, alas! this noted class of hunters are now com- paratively rare— a high- blooded, and, as all admit, an inferior caste las been substituted ; the racing hunter fills the stables that formerly were occupied by the old Roscommon weight carrier, aud in a few years this celebrated and valuable animal will be seldom seen. The number of English thorough bed horses introduced within the last thirty years into the Connaught racing studs, gradually intro- duced a slight and unserviceable hybrid, and, too late, gentlemen discerned the error of endeavouring to procure a cross which should combine increased speed with those durable qualities that can alone enable a horse, under reasonable weight, to live with fast hounds in a country where they can go for miles without a check, and where the leaps are always severe, and occasionally tremendous. " Of the riders it may be observed, that much as Connaught has been celebrated for desperate horsemanship, no charge of degene- racy will lie against the present race. To the curious in break- neck fencing, I would recommend a sojourn with a Connaught club ; or, if that should be inconvenient, a visit to the steeple chases on the plaitis, or at Knockcrogery would be sufficient. He will there see sixfeet walls, especially built " for the nonce," under the inspection of conscientious stewards, who would give nothing but honest mea- sure, taken at racing speed, and that, too, in tbe middle of a bunch of gentlemen who will ride over an adopted child ; or let him join a drag, after a champaigne lunch at Lord B.' s; let him do this, and then form his estimate of Connaught horsemanship. " A mistake prevails in England as to the supposed inferiority in value of the horses commonly employed by the western sportsmen. I have seen a field out, when, of twelve horses, ten would probably average at one hundred guineas each; and the remaining two ( brothers Jerry and Lancet!) were reported to have cost the noble owner five hundred guineas apiece. When the dangers of a stone- wall country, and the desperate riding of the men are considered, those are indeed sporting prices. And yet accidents of a serious character arc not frequent; every horse that has been ridden to hounds is generally blemished more or less; but it is astonishing, in such a country, and with such riders, how long some noted hunters have lasted. " The hounds, with few exceptions, are inferior. They are sel- dom properly k nnelled or regularly hunted. Masters of hounds in the west seem careless to all considerations beyond having a pack that can go high and keep tolerably well together. In sizing and draughting dogs they are by no means particular, and hence the ensemble of many a kennel is materially injured. In home manage- ment and field turn- out they are infinitely behind their English brethren ; the packs are carelessly bunted, the kennel servants badly appointed, and I never met men upon the plains able to lake a horse over any thing that hand and heart could carry lnni, who to a stranger could appear, from ' the wildness of their attire,' to be desperate apprentices levanting with their master's property. " And yet, after this eulogy upon the splendid horsemanship of the Western gentlemen, it may appear singular that I add, few of them ride well to hounds. An impatience in the field, and an an- xiety to be foremost when all are forward, interfere constantly with tbe dogs, and cause a pressure upon the pack, very unfavourable to good hunting. Riding rather at the field than to the hounds is the prevailing error. Fences are crossed which would be better evaded— horses unnecessarily distressed ; and I have seen a man actually go out of his way to take a regular rasper, when he bad a gap within thirty yards." THE AMERICAN SPORTING MAGAZINE. Very many of our readers, we have no doubt, will now learn for the first time that there is such a periodical in existence as the American Sporting Magazine. This work is edited and pub- lished by Mr. J. S. Skinner, of Baltimore, and has already completed a third volume. A glance at the last number we have received ( for August, 1832) will give a pretty just idea of the whole. Ex pede, Jonathan ! The leading article, " On the Grouse of the Western and North- western Prairies," illustrated with a vile lithographic drawing after P. Rindisbacker, occupies a couple of pages, and is respectably done. " They differ in plumage," says the writer of this paper, " from some of the English grouse, perhaps from all, though they approach very near to the moor fowl of York- shire. The French Creoles call them des phisants, or poule de prairie. ' Prairie hen,' and ' prairie chicken,' are the names given them by all the people of Illinois and Missouri; and so little do they suppose that there is another name for them, that a person would not be understood once in a hundred times, if he spoke of them under the name of grouse." The four succeeding articles are touching certain race- horses named " Walk- in- the- water," " Post- boy," " Reality," and the Winter Arabian ; and here we may observe, that two- thirds of Jonathan's magazine is usually occupied by dry details of pedi- gree and performance, with a plentiful scarcity of fox- hunting intelligence, and no great prodigality of other matter generally interesting to the sporting reader. The following " Hint to Travellers" is too good to be omitted:—" Take with you plasters of strong glue, and when your horse's back gets galded, which ought not to happen to a prudent horseman, make the plaster running hot and apply it. It will remain on till it is well." Let the Commercial Room gentry look to it I Then come " Further Remarks on the Racehorse Region of America,"— " Pedigrees of Selima, Gracchus, & c., wanted" ( this should have been an advertisement 1)— a " Caution," by " the owner of the mare, Sally Taliaferra, who purchased her at a public auction, as a worky, for 60 dollars, which is, in his opinion, her full value." A letter on the " Tax on Stallions in Virginia" succeeds ; and another on the " Weights carried by English and American Horses," in which the writer, whom we sus- pect to be from the Old Country, sticks up for the English race- horse, saying, " I remember reading an anecdote of a celebrated philosopher. It was asked what could be the reason that, a fish, if thrown into a tub of water, would add nothing to its weight. Some assigned one reason, and some another for it. At last the old philosopher, with his usual shrewdness, said, before he ar- gued on the subject, he should be glad to test the truth of the matter by scales and weights. In like manner, before we hunt for reasons for the degeneracy of the English racehorse, we should be sure of the existence of the fact. For one I do not believe it I" Then follow " Thoughts on Blood Horses," with copious extracts from our Allen's work on horsemanship,— a list of the Derby, Oaks, and St. Leger winners from their com- mencement,—" English and American Racehorses,"—" English and American Horses,"—" Sweating of Jockeys,"— and " What is a thorough- bred Horse.'" The next article, " Extracts from the old Brandon MS." is an amusing one. On the prolific tendencies of " Bear Diet" the author tells some strange tales : among the rest the follow- ing :— " And thus much I am able to say besides, for the reputation of the bear diet, that all the married men of our company ( they had been absent among the woods for a considerable time, on a hunting excursion) were joyful fathers within forty weeks after they got home ; and most of tbe single men had children sworn to them within the same time— our chaplain aiw- ays excepted, who, with much ado, made a shift to cast out that importunate kind of devil by dint of fasting and prayer." The religious creed of the Indian, " Bearskin," is drolly told :— " He believed that there was one supreme God, who had several subaltern deities under him ; and that tins master- god made the world a long time ago. That he told the sun, tbe moon, and the stars their business in the beginning, which they, with good looking after, have faithfully performed ever since." " He believed that, after death, both good and bad people are conducted by a strong guard into a great road, in which departed souls travel together for some time, till, at a certain distance, this road forks into two paths, the one extremely level, the other strong and mountainous. Here the good are parted from the bad by a flash of lightning, the first being hurried away to the right, the other to the left. The right- hand road leads to a charming country, where the spring is ever- lasting, and every month is May ; and, as the year is always in its youth, so are the people, and particularly the women, who are bright as stars— and never scold ! That, in this happy climate, there are deer, turkeys, elks, and buffaloes innumerable, perpetu- ally fat and gentle, while the trees are loaded with delicious fruit quite throughout the four seasons.'' Friend Bearskin seems to be troubled with a short memory— he told us, a moment ago, that it was all May. But we mustn't be too severe, for this is a common error among creed- makers— " The left- hand path is , very rugged and uneven, leading to a dark and barren country, where it is always winter. The ground is the whole year round covered with snow, and nothing is to be seen upon the tiees but icicles. ' • « Here the wicked, after being tormented a certain number of years, according to their several degrees of guilt, are again driven back into this world, to try if they will mend their manners, and merit a place, the next time, in the regions of bliss." But enough of Indian mythology. We pass over, half- a- dozen pages of dull matter till we come to an editorial article, highly characteristic of Jonathan. " This number," says Mr. J. S. Skinner, of Baltimore, " closes the third volume of the Turf Register, and the Editor takes the occasion to make an appeal to its patrons. From confidence in their justice and goodwill, the woik has been continued to many without demanding a strict compliance with the terms that unequivocally require payment in advance.'" He hopes gentlemen " will not appropriate to themselves the time and money expended in its publication, without paying for it the stipulated equivalent!" ( these are Jonathan's own italics and note of exclamation) and quaintly enough asks " How can that be done with less trouble than by simply inclosing the amount by mail, addressed to J. S. Skinner, Baltimore ?" Another half- dozen pages of miscellaneous matter, with a reasonable sprinkling of balaam, brings us to the Racing Ca- lendar. Washington City Races, we are told by " an eye- wit- ness eminently competent to render an account," were " fash- ionably and well attended, both by ladies and many of our most distinguished statesmen, of the Cabinet, Senate, and House." On the first race, a sweepstakes, which took place May 16,1832, we have this memorandum :—" Time— owing to the state of the course, excessively heavy, none was kept!" This, to a reader unacquainted withjonathan's mode of reporting these things would be a pretty considerable pozer. It is customary, in the Union " return lists" not only to give the names of the horses, and their places in each heat, but to put down the time occupied in running them. Thus, in the report of another race, we find : " Time— the second the best heat, in 4m. 12s." " The races over the Valley Course, near Harper's Ferry, will commence on Wednesday, the 19 th of September. First day, a Poststake, one mile heats, for 3 yr old colts that have never turned a pole for money." At Louisville Fall Races, we are told, there will be " a sweep- stakes, one mile heats, 60 dollars entrance ; free for anything." We have some notion of entering a donkey for this thing, if we can get anybody to join us in the risk. All persons so inclined will have the goodness to make application at THE TOWN office; if by letter, of course, post paid ! THE TURF. NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING—( Concluded.) Friday Night. All the races were won so easy that further particulars of the running are unnecessary. Camarine won the race by three lengths. Sir M. Wood wins a very heavy stake. DERBY BETTING.— 10 to 1 agst Revenge, 12 to 1 agst Glau- cus, 14 to 1 agst Lord Cleveland's colt ( taken), 14 to 1 agst Fo- rester, 15 to 1 agst Prince Llewellyn, 16 to 1 agst Moses' dam, 20 to 1 agst Ishmael, 30 to 1 agst Divan ( taken). DINNER PARTIES.— Duke of Richmond's— Lord G. Ben- tinck, Mr. Greville, Mr. Irby, and Col. Udney. Duke of Rut- land's— Marquis and Marchioness of Tavistock, Duke of Port- land, Col. and Lady Alice Peel, Lord Villiers, Lord C. Manners, Mr. S. Stanley, Mr. Thornhill, and Mr. Bouverie. Lord Ches- terfield's— Lord Exeter, Lord and Lady Wilton, Count Matus- zevic, Lord Jersey, Mr. and Mrs. Anson. Saturday, Sweepstakes of 25 sovs each, Sst 71b each, B. C., 3 subs.— Mr. Henry's Protocol beat Mr. Osbaldeston's Apuntador and Mr. Smith's Zarine. 5 and 6 to 4 on Protocol. A burlesque on racing— Protocol ( a definitive one in this case), cantered in nearly 50 yards before the others. Apuntador fell lame. Match, 500 each, h ft, Ab. M.— Hon. General Grosvenor's Glaucus, 8st 51b, beat Lord Orford's c by Jerry, out of Lisette, 8st 51b. 6 to 4 on Glaucus, who won in a canter by three lengths. Match, 25 sovs, 7st 101b, T. Y. C.— Mr. J. Day's Temperance beat Mr. Smith's f by Partisan, out of Fawn. 2 to 1 on Tem- perance. The distance from the winning chair in Glancus's match to the T. Y. C. chair is considerable, and the Judge ( who has to carry some 15 stone of solid flesh) did not contrive to walk it in time to decide this match, the jockeys, in their impa- tience, having started before the appointed hour ; the conse- quence was that, although Temperance came in first, they were both ordered back to the starting- post; the Fawn filly, how- ever, did not start the second time, and Mr. Day's was of course declared the winner, she having also won the first heat easy. Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each. T. Y. C.— Mr. Forth's Marvel, 4 yrs, 7st 71b, beat Mr. Hunter's Rouncioa, 3 yrs, fist 121b, and Lord Tavistock's Taurus, 6 yrs, lOst. The following were not placed :— Mr. Yates's Gab, 4 yrs, 8st; Lord Chesterfield's Non Compos, 3 yrs, 7st 61b ; Mr. Beards- worth's Ludlow, 3 yrs, 7st 101b ; and Mr. Richardson's Fang, 3 yrs, 7st 61b. Betting, 5 to 4 on Taurus, and 3 to 1 agst Mar- vel, who won very easy by two lengths. Match, 50, h ft. T. Y. C.— Mr. Ley's Partiality, 8st 51b, beat Mr. Thornhill's Silly Billy, 8st 21b. 5 to 4 on Partiality. Won by a length. Match, 50, h ft. A. F.— Lord Jersey's Fingal, 8st 91b, beat Mr. Hunter's c by Gustavus, 8st 21b. 6 to 4 on Fingal. Won by a length and a half. Match, 25 sovs. T. Y. C.— Mr. Ley's Partiality, 7st 71b, beat Mr. R. Pettit's Little Fanny, 8st 71b. 7 to 4 on the loser. Won by half a length. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each for 2 yr olds, 6st 101b; three, 8st 81b ; four, 9st 21b. T. Y. C. The winner to be sold for 150 sovs, & c. 7 subs.— Mr. Yates's Gab, 4 yrs, beat Mr. Greville's Dryad, 3 yrs ; Mr. Thornhill's Enchantment, 2 yrs ; Mr. Hun- ter's c by Gustavus, 3 yrs; and the Duke of Portland's Will Scarlett, 3 yrs. Won by a length ; and the winner claimed by Mr. Greville. Match, 50. Ab. M.— Mr. Payne's c by Wrangler, out of Wliiteboy's dam, Sst 71b, beat Mr. Spalding's Lady Charlotte by Catton, 8st 51b. A fine race, and won by a head only. Match 50. T. Y. C.— Mr. Payne's Corset, 8st 31b, received 30 sovs from Mr. Greville's Dryad, 8st 61b. Match, 50.— Lady Charlotte, 8st 71b, agst c out of Whiteboy's dam, 8st51b. Ab. M. Off by consent. THE DERBY, 1833. General Grosvenor has sold Glaucus to Mr. Ridsdale for 3,000 guineas ; he is now at 8 to 1 for the above stakes, and first favourite. THE I. ATE DERBY. It will be recollected that the last Derby was won by Mr. Rids- dale's St. Giles, and that Mr. Yaneittart's Perion ran second that Mr. Vansittart claimed the stakes, on the ground that St. Giles was disqualified, although it had been decided by tho stewards of the Jockey Club and the stewards of the Races that he was qualified. Law proceedings were talked of, but, subse- quently, a more satisfactory and sportsman- like course was agreed on ; viz. by referring it to his Grace the Duke of Rich- mond, Earl Stradbroke, and Mr. C. Greville, than whom more honourable or competent arbitrators could not possibly have been selected. The " cause" was heard at Newmarket on Saturday, and a " verdict" given in favour of Mr. Ridsdale—" damages" 2,675?. There cannot be two opinions as to the propriety of settling turf disputes by reference to persons conversant with the laws and usages of racing. The case just noticed, clear enough to sporting men, involved a question of pedigree that would have puzzled all the " twelve Judges." It has been concluded in a manner highly creditable to both parties. WORCESTER AUTUMN MEETING, Nov. 8. A Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, with 10 added, for horses not thorough bred ; one mile and a quarter heats, four subs. Mr. Collier ns ch m Dandina, by Young Pavilion, 5 yrs, lOst 21b, beat Mr. Hampson's b g Citizen, by Alderman Wood, 4 vrs. 9st 81b. A Handicap Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, with 20 added, for horses of all descriptions; nine subs, heats one mile and a quarter.— Mr. Hicks's b f by Teniers, 3 yrs, Sst, beat Mr. Thome's b g Harry, 5 yrs, lOst. The big- wigs at Cambridge, in their profound wisdom, have determined that none of the unfortunate Cantabs shall in future sport a red coat at the cover side. Sage legislators 1 it was dis- graceful, indeed, in the unlearned multitude not to follow your advice, aud reject the Ministerial Reform Bill; and not even to believe you when you affirmed that, in a moderate way, you were Reformers yourselves. They must now both see and own that you are Reformers ; for if a change' from red to black, or even to green, be not a reform— a radical reform— we know not what is. But if the ignorant scoundrels ought to admire you for the mere cause of being Reformers at all, how much more should they do so when informed of the fine logical principles upon which you acted ? What bounds ought there to be to their admiration when they hear that, having first discovered that all your own " wisdom was in the wig," you thereby con- eluded that the folly of the fox- hunter was attached to his red cpat. BIRCH PLANTING—" I may relate an odd incident in the life of Dr. Birch. He was very fond of angling, and devoted much time to that amusement. In order to deceive the fish, he had a dress constructed, which, when he put it on, made him appear like an old tree. His arms, he conceived, would appear like branches, and the line like a long spray. In this sylvan attire, he used to take root by the side of a favourite stream, and imagined that his motions might seem to the fish to be the effect of the wind. He pursued this amusement for some years in the same habit, till he was ridi- culed out of it by his friends. He was author of the work, well kno'A- n by the name of'Birch's Lives :' to which Houbraken engraved the portraits."— Records of my Life, by John Taylor, vol. i. p. 211. BETTING AT TATTERSALL'S. Monday, The settling for the late Newmarket races attracted a full at- tendance in the early part of the afternoon, and a good deal of money changed pockets ; many accounts, however, stand over to the " next Newmarket" ( nearly six months I) A few engage- ments were made, at the following prices, on the DERBY.— 8 to 1 agst Mr. Ridsdale's Glaucus, 10 to 1 agst Mr. Rawlinson's Revenge, 13 to 1 agst Lord Cleveland's colt ( taken), 14 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Prince Llewellyn ( taken), 14 to 1 agst Captain Hunter's Forester, 18 to 1 agst Duke of Rutland's Moses colt, 25 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Marinella colt ( taken), 25 to 1 agst Sir M. Wood's Brother to Margrave, 25 to 1 agst Duke of Grafton's Divan ; 110 to 100 on Glaucus, Revenge, Lord Cleveland's colt, Prince Llewellyn, Forester, Moses' dam^ and Marinella, agst the field. Subsequent to this bet 550 to 500' was betted on the field against the same seven. The match run at Newmarket between Temperance and the Fawn filly, before the judge got to the chair, is in dispute. Thursday. Iwo or three trifling changes took place ; Lord Cleveland's colt went back, and the Moses colt got up five points ; Boscobo also sprung, but was not backed. The odds averaged as under DERBY.— 8 to 1 agst Mr. Ridsdale's Glaucus; 10 to 1 ags Mr. Rawlinson's Revenge ; 14 to 1 agst Lord Cleveland's c ou of Longwaist's dam ; 14 to 1 agst Mr. Hunter's Forester; 14 ( « 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Prince Llewellyn ; 20 to 1 agst Duke o Rutland's c out of Moses's dam ; 25 to 1 against the Duke o Grafton's Divan ; 25 to 1 agst Sir Mark Wood's Brother to Margrave; 25 to 1 agst Mr. Walker's Boscobel; 25 to 1 ag » Lord Exeter's Marinella colt; 11 to 1 agst Cooper's stable, con- sisting of Nonsense, Zone, Pilkington, Twatty colt, and c out Whiteboy's dam. 5000 to 500 was taken about this lot at New market. OAKS.— Weeper first favourite, and 10 to 1 offered on the field ; offers to take 20 to 1 about Sister to Oxygen. ST. LEGER.— Offers to back Belshazzar agst anything. DIFFERENCE OF OPINIONS ABOUT SPORTING AFFAIRS There has been a little « parring of late between the Conrt Jottrrm' - 446 THE TOWS, November 11. and the Morning Het aid about a sporting subject. The former, in the first instance, positively declared that the Turf was about to be deserted immediately by some of its best supporters. This the Herald in a short paragraph denied— alleging that it had no foundation in truth whatever. The Court Journal, which boasts so loudly of its exclusive intelligence, of course felt rather nettled at this, and in its last number we find the following paragraph :—" The Sporting World.— In confirmation of the statement in our last number relative to the turf, and in refuta- tion of the contradiction to it in another Journal, we have only to state that it is a fact well known to the sporting world that the Marquis of Cleveland has openly expressed his dissatisfaction at the proceedings at Doncaster, and his intention of retiring from that Newmarket of the north, and that the Marquis of Exeter has sent the list of his stud to Tattersall's preparatory to its sale. The intended retirement of two such influential members of the turf, and the dissatisfaction and disgust we have heard expressed by various others, justly authorised the statement in our last, which we prophecy will be proved to have not been exag- gerated, when a few months shall have elapsed, and that other members have withdrawn."— This paragraph the Herald of Monday copies into its columns, and on the following day gives the following reply to it from a correspondent:—" It is not true that Lord Cleveland has expressed any intention of resigning the turf; on the contrary, his lordship has, since the Ludlow affair at Doncaster ( of which he certainly expressed his disapprobation) added to his stud, by the purchase of three yearling colts from Mr. Nowell, of Underley, for 985 guineas ! This does not look like giving up racing. Neither has Lord Exeter declared nor entertained any such intention ; the sale al luded to was for the purpose of getting rid of a portion of liis stud, to make room for the young stock ; this his Lordship does every season, and this every gentleman who breeds to any extent is compelled to do, to keep his racing establishment within mo- derate bounds. The Correspondent of the Court Journal is out of his element, and is more at home at routs and balls. We would recommend him to ' decline' the Turf." Thus the mat- ter stands between them at present, and time alone can settle the dispute ; but, for our own part, we have good reason for be- lieving that the Herald" holds the right." Its general informa- tion upon sporting matter, though unostentatiously put forth, is mostly correct, whilst its adversary appears ready to catch at any idle gossip that comes in its way, and work it up as exclusive and important news. SPORTING VARIETIES. It is curious to observe at what a low price game is at present selling in the metropolis. A fine brace of pheasants may fre- quently be purchased for six shillings, and at all times for seven ; and the average price of a fine hare does not exceed three shil- lings. Partridges and grouse, especially the latter, are, of course, becoming more scarce; but then the woodcock, the snipe, and wild fowl of all kinds are coming in to supply their place. We cannot say that we look upon tkis great cheapness of game very favorably. We mch fear that it is caused by the large supply brought into the m! ket by the poacher. In fact when we consider that the retail dealer must have a good profit of his own upon the sale, and when the expense of carriage is also taken into account, there are few men beyond the grade of a game- keeper who would like to sell their game upon such terms. It is surely hardly worth the while of any man, who can be supposed to have the right to kill a brace of pheasants, to sell them to the Londo » dealer for four shillings, which is about the utmost that, at the present price, he can hope to obtain for them ; and as for selling good sized hare for eighteen pence or two shillings, why economy itself would advise its being roasted at home. Thus we have strong suspicions that by far the greater part of this supply comes from the midnight depredator, and that, when the judicial accounts of the year are laid before us, we shall find a great in- crease, instead of the anticipated decrease, in the committals under the game laws. This will undeceive a good many of our legislators and economists, both of whom called out so loudly for this bill. They would listen to no theories in opposition to their own, but to " stubborn facts" they cannot refuse attention. To suppress poaching effectually, they must look to other and very different measures— the first and most important of which is, to find honest employment for a great portion of our labouring popula tion, who have it not at present. HUNTING. MEETS OF THE WEEK. His Majesty's stag hounds— To- morrow at Walkend, near Chobham and Fri at Mile- house, at eleven. The Surrey fox hounds— To- morrow at Pickhurst- green Thursday at Wormsheath, and Saturday at Limpsfield, at half- past ten. The Craven hounds— To- morrow at the Three Horse Shoes, Hampstead, Wed at Froxfield- gate, Fri at Woolley Park, and Sa at Brimslade. The Brighton Harriers— To- morrow at Patcham, Wed near the Race Course, and Fri at the Dyke. The Brookside Harriers— To- morrow at Newmarket, Wed at Ashcombe and the Kennel alternately, and Fri at Telscombe Tye, at half- past ten. The East Sussex Fox- hounds— To- morrow at Marcomb- cross. Thursday at Sayer's- common, and Saturday at Horsted Alms- house. The East Kent Fox- hounds— Fri at Evington Leeze, at half- past ten. The Tickham Fox- hounds— To- morrow at Key- street, Thu at White- hill. Mr. Mure's Fox- hounds— Tu at Hinderclay Wood. The Suffolk and Essex Subscription Hounds ( late Mr. Mule' — Tu at Wiston, at half- past ten. The Cambridgeshire Hounds— Mon at White Hall, and Fri at Potton Wood, at half- past ten. Earl Fitzwilliam's Hounds— Monday at Barnwell Wold, Wednesday at Buckworth Wood, and Thursdayat Long Orton at ten. The Royston Harriers— Tu at Melbourn Hyde, and Thu at Slip End, at half- past ten. The Norfolk Fox- hounds— Mon at Billingford Bridge, and Fri at Middleton, at half- past ten. The Albrighton Hounds— Tu at Hough Moor, Thu at Ran Dans, and Sat at Bunker's- hill, at half past ten. Mr. Wickstead's Fox- hounds— Tu at Aqualate, and Sat at Willowbridge, at half- past ten. The Cottesmore Hounds— To- morrow at Uffington Wood, Tu at Tilton Wood, and Thu at Grimsthorpe Castle, at a quarter before eleven. Burton Hunt— Sir Richard Sutton's hounds, Mon at the Green Man, Tu at Hainton House, Thu at Snarford Bridge, and Sat at Harpswell, at eleven. Lord Yarborough's Hounds— Mon at Bradley, Wed at Wotton House, Fri at Utterby, and Sat at Clixby, at eleven. The South Wold Subscription Hounds— Tu at Horsington Wood, and Sat at Hundleby Wood, at half- past ten. The Shropshire Fox hounds— Mon at Acton Reynald, Tu at Acton Burnell, Wed at Rowton Castle, Fri at Sundorne Castle, and Sat at Ercal Mill, at half- past ten. Mr. Clutton Brock's Fox- hounds— Tu at Brockeridge Com- mon, and Fri at Grafton Mill, at half- past ten. The Herefordshire Fox- hounds— Tu at Stockton Cross at ten. Mr. Holland's Harriers— Wed at Hasler, and Fri at Grafton Pike, at ten. The Upton Harriers— Tu at Pickersley, Great Malvern, and Fri at Newland Green, at half- past ten. Mr. Portman's hounds— To- morrow, at Yarlington ; Wed at Annis Hill; and Sat at Stourton Inn. The Cadbury Hariers— To- morrow, at North Barrow, Th at the Wlieatsheaf, and Sat at the Kennel. The Somerset Vale hounds— On Tu at Kingsdon Turnpike, Fri at Postlebury Wood, and Tu at Maiden Beech Tree, at half- past ten. Mr. Assheton Smith's hounds— To- morrow, at Tedworth House, Tu at Everleigh House, Th at Tangley Clumps, and Fri at New Mill Bridge, near Pewsey, at eleven. Mr. Bulteel's Fox- hounds— On Tu at Radford, at half- past ten. The Earl of Harewood's Fox- hounds— To- morrow at Riffa, Wed at Towton, and Fri at Bickerto » Bar. The Badsworth Fox- hounds— Tu at Hut Green, Th at Kirby Guide Post, and Sat at Norton Village. Mr. Codrington's Hounds— To- morrow at Knoyle Wind- mill. The Cheshire Hounds— To- morrow at Bartington Heath Wednesday at Arley, Thursday at Abbefield, at Saturday at Norton Priory. Mr. Osbaldeston's hounds— To- morrow at Sibbertoft, Tuesday at Cold Ashby, Thursday at Maidwell, Friday at Great Har- rowden, at half- past ten. The Duke of Grafton's hounds— To- morrow at Whistlry Wood, Friday at Horton House, at half- past ten. -. Mr. Drake's hounds— Tuesday at Barton Common, Thursday at Shuckbro' Park, Saturday at Arncott Bridge, at half- past ten. Mr. Berkeley's hounds— To- morrow at Harrold Hall, Tues- day at Clifton Spinies, Thursday Cranfield Windmill, Saturday Ravensden Grange, at half- past ten. - Sir Harry Goodericke's hounds— To- morrow at Bunney, Tu at Staunton Harrold, Wed at Alexton, Thurs at Oadby Toll- gate, Sat Melton Mowbray, at eleven. The Atherstone hounds— To- morrow at Shuttington Bridge, Tues Cesters Over, Thurs at Nailstone Wiggs, Sat at Kennel, at eleven. « Mr. Meynell's hounds— To- morrow at Loxley, Thurs at Snels- ton, Sat at Blithbury, at half- past ten. ARCHERY.— The St. Ronan's Bowmen of the Border met on the banks of the Tweed, in the neighbourhood of Innerkeithen, on Friday, to compete for a prize bow given by the club. The competitors were rather numerous, and, after a very keen and anxious contest, the honour of the day was declared in favour of the Ettrick Shepherd, who beat Mr. Stewart of Glenmoriston by a single shot. A sweepstakes was afterwards shot for, which was also gained in a beautiful style by the Old Shepherd. At five the bowmen with their friends sat down to an excellent din- ner in Cameron's Inn. After the cloth was removed, and the usual toasts of the day were disposed of, the health of the Earl ofTraquair, the patron of the club, was neatly and feelingly pro- posed by Mr. Hogg, the President of the meeting, which was drunk with the greatest enthusiasm. During the evening many of Mr. Hogg's beautiful songs were sung in an excellent style, both by himself and his friend Mr. M'Crone, from London.— Scotch Paper. PITCHFORD CHASE.— Wednesday the Duchess of Kent and party were regaled with a spectacle which highly delighted them. The Shropshire Fox Hounds, under the direction of Sir Edward Smythe, Bart., assembled at Pitchford Hall, and such a field of sportsmen accompanied them as hag rarely been seen in Shrop- shire. The Noble Host at Pitchford threw open his house to every person who chose to partake of his hospitality, and, wdth his accomplished daughters, superintended all the arrangements ; every part of the house, gardens, and pleasure grounds, was open to the public, who were kindly invited to banquets of the most splendid description. The Royal Ladies mixed among the crowd from an early hour, and their condescension and affability, and delight they seemed to experience in the animated scene before them, excited the enthusiastic attachment of the spectators. Towards 12 o'clock the hounds and sportsmen set off in pur- suit of the fox. The Royal Ladies accompanied the party in a carriage, and, after searching one or two covers, the hounds found in the Golding cover, the fox starting from the wood into the very field in which the royal party and chief part of the horse- men were. This he traversed, with the dogs close upon him, re- entered the wood, again burst forth into the first field, ran round it but could see no prospect of escape ; entered another and another field all in view of the immense crowd. and finally was killed in an attempt to revisit the cover, amidst the shouts and exclamations of the spectators. Sir Edward Smythe, Bart., presented the brush to the Princess. Her Royal Highness thanked the gallant Baronet, and desired the huntsman ( Will Staples) to approach, when she praised his dexterity, and the sport he had afforded them ; and Sir John Conroy presented him with a 10/. note. The Royal party then departed. The field of sportsmen set off in pursuit of another fox, which after leading them at a tremendous pace over a difficult country, escaped as did a third, which they found. Such a day's sport has as seldom been witnessed, as have been Royal and Noble spectators to join in it, in Shropshire. Oh ! say not Chivalry is o'er, The spirit fled that dwelt of yore, And burned all selfish thought above. To venture all for " ladye love." No 1 English bosoms beat as warm As when the tournament had charm ; As when the knightly warrior met To win the Golden Violet! Go I see the youthful Princess stand ; Around her Nobles of the land : Yet not to them alone she bends, The very humblest seem Her Friends I And she who gave her birth is seen, Fit mother for a future Queen. The sportsman sweeping o'er ( he grass. With head uncover'd as they pass The joyous shout and cannon's sound All echo'd by the woods around. And almost envied is the lot Of him who owns that lordly spot. That mansion worthy of all praise, A relic of the olden days. Rosebud of England ! on thy brow Sit grace and nobleness, as now, With heart as gentle as the dove, And smiles lhat win a nation's love. October 31. , C. H. II. A splendid party of the Nobility and Gentry of the county met the Royal visitors at Pitchford Hall. A detachment of the Shrewsbury Yeomanry escorted them from thence to Church Stretton, where another detachment of the same corps had the honour of accompanying them to Oakley- park, the seat of the Hon. R. H. Clive ; a visit to Earl Powis is intended. On Sun- day their Royal Highnesses will attend Divine Service at Ludlow — after which they will visit the ruins of Ludlow Castle, within the walls of which an address will be presented by the Corporation of Ludlow. LEAPING EXTRAORDINARY.— The long- expected match be- tween Mr. Beatty's b. h. Colonel, rode by Mr. Irwin, and Mr. Phibb's ch. h. Sir William, rode by owner, 50 sovs. aside, car- rying 13 stone each, came off on Monday last, over Bomore course; two mile heats, leaping four five- and- a- half feet walls in each heat. They went off at' a dashing pace, Sir William leading to the first wall, when both horses baulked ; on Colonel's being turned round a second time, he cleared the first aud each of the other walls in superior style. From Sir William taking sulk, his rider was not able to get him over the first wall, and he was of course distanced. On Monday last Mr. Berkeley's hounds found a fox in Hanger Wood, from which they went as if from Kempston, but turning away to the left, they took oyer a beautiful and novel line of country, going over the flat all the way, and passing the stand on Bedford Race- course, they went at a great pace up to Hawnes Park, going over the middle of the park by the house, and con- tinuing their pace up to Clophill- church, and thencc to the vil- lage, where, by some chance or other the fox saved himself, after a run of 14 miles of open country, with but one check at the above- mentioned Church; done in an hour and twenty- five minutes, not having gone through one wood from the time of finding. During the run scarcely any one escaped a fall. HASSOP HARRIERS.— On Saturday week, as the Hassop har- riers were running a hare over Langstone Edge, a magnificent stag suddenly crossed them, and they immediately pursued him over that fine country to Cressbrook, Litton, Wardlow, and Tideswell- lane Head, when he again doubled to Wardlow Myers, and from thence in a direct line to Peak Forest, when, being hard pressed by the hounds, he turned to Bradwell and Pindar, where a check gave him time to recover himself, and he again ascended the hills and passed the castle into the town of Castle- ton, and was running straight for the Woodlands, which he would probably have reached ere he was taken, if a gentleman, unaware of his being hunted, owing to his having just passed the brow of the hill leading into Edale, had not unfortunately shot him. 1 le could not have run less than twenty- five miles, and belonged to that beautiful herd which form so noble an ap- pendage to the wild and romantic scenery of Chatsworth. [ We cannot congratulate this gentleman upon his shot. Thus to kill one of these rare and beautiful animals at any time is a poor exploit.— ED.] The Highclere coursing meeting for a tea- pot and currant- jelly vase, took place on Tuesday and Wednesday. Tuesday— Mr. Goodlake's yel. b. Gong beat Mr. Kingsmill's red b. Ada ; Mr. Slocock's fawn d. Skyscraper beat Mr. Long's yel. b. Ade- laide ; Mr. Meyrick's bl. b. Modesty beat Mr. Moreton's brin. d. Encore; Mr. Bull's ( alias Mr. Goodlake's Gridiron) w. b. Blossom beat Mr. Lovell's bk. d. Augustus ; Lord Carnarvon's yel. and w. b. Amelia beat Mr. Sivcwright's bl. d. Sinbad ; Mr. Etwall's bk. d. Erinnys beat Mr. Astley's bl. d. Albion. Gong beat Skyscraper, Blossom beat Modesty, Erinnys beat Amelia. Wednesday— Gong beat Erinnys, Blossom beat Gong. RUSSIAN STUD.— The most celebrated Stud iu Russia is that of Bobrow in the government of Woronege, belonging to Countess Orloff Tchesmenskoy. It was established in 1778 by the Countess's father, and at present contains 1,320 Arabian and thorough bred English horses. Attached to this establish- ment are 40,087 dessetins of arable land, 149 workmen, and 4,205 serfs. The sales of horses annually amount to 75,000 roubles upon an average. They take place at the Stud, and the two capitals of the empire. DEATH OF A VETERAN HUNTSMAN.— On the 22d ult., aged 72, Mr. Samuel Lawley, of Sudbury, in Derbyshire. He entered into the service of one of the ancestors of the present Lord Vernon when he was twelve years of age, and continued in the family upwards of sixty years. In the different gradations of his servitude he conducted himself with zeal and activity, and was ultimately appointed Huntsman to the Sudbury Fox- hounds. By his peculiar management and care, it became one of the best packs in the kingdom. He hunted them many years with sin- gular ability, and as a proof of his skill, he has at two different times killed forty- nine foxes in succession. He was unquestion- ably one of the best riders, as well as the best huntsman of his day. From the estimation in which Lord Vernon was held, all the covers in the country were open to his hounds, and " Sam Lawley," as he was familiarly designated by his friends and acquaintance, seldom failed to witness a large field and afford good runs. The last time he put on his scarlet coat ( a few years since), he met Mr. Meynell's hounds at Shirley Park, his favourite covert, from whence they had a severe burst to Matlock, when Lawley kept a good place the whole of the distance. He latterly held a farm under the Vernon family, was respected by all ranks, and has left a widow and several children to lament his loss. A FISH CHASE.— Mr. Walter Thorburn was angling in the Tweed last week, and hooked a salmon at a place called the New Water, below Innerleithen. The fish proved remarkably camstary from the beginning, refusing and despising all manner of controul. In short, he would neither turn nor wind, but just run where he pleased, so that Mr. Thornburn began to think " the de'il was i' the fish if ever he leevit amang water." At length the fish took it into his head, or rather into his tail, to run straight down the river. Off he went, and Walter after him, full speed, with the line generally at or very near its full length. There was no stop nor stay— down he went for the first mile like a fiery dragon," about which time our breathless angler perceived with horror a huge tree lying in the midst of the river in deep water, and its branches extending half way from side to side. He dashed into the water, to conduct his line past this unman- nerly interference; but unluckily, in the eddy caused by the tree, the flood had formed a quicksand, in which Mr. Thorburn instantly sunk and stuck fast. The line was run out, and he had no shift but to fling the rod from him, and let the unac- countable fish take it all to himself. Away went the fish, and away went the rod, and there was Walter standing struggling, sunk to the waist in the quicksand. It was twenty minutes before he got himself extricated, and by that time he was quite forespent, and the fish and the rod, and the grand reel, and all, straight on their course to Berwick- upon- Tweed. He, however, ran as fast as he could, " and sent his voice before him as he flew," never letting one cry of despair await the end of another. The whole district was astonished, not knowing what in the world was the matter with the young man. The shepherd left his flock on the hill, and ran towards Tweed- side ; the ploughman left his plough in the middle furrow ; and even girls and old dames left the potato- field, and hasted towards the river, saying to one another, " Gudeness preserve us I what ails Wattie Thorburn the day? he's surely gane dementit." At length his brother of Juniper Bank heard the unearthly cries, and mounting his horse, gallopped to his afflicted brother's assistance. He then recovered the hold of his rod, and finally landed the salmon, after a chace of little short of four miles. He was a small fish and hooked by the tail!— Edinburgh Evening Post. A most singular and fatal accident occurred in Lord Onslow's Park, near Clandon- house, in Surrey, on Monday, the 29th ult. His Lordship's whipper- in, Richard Buckland, with an inhabitant of Merrow, of the name of Pinnion, were engaged on horseback to ride down some of the park deer, and while they were in active pursuit of their sport, with their horses at full speed, Buckland, in the endeavour to detach a buck from the herd, upon which they had gained ground, on a sudden crossed in the line of his companion, the effect of which was to bring them in contact with so much force that both men and horses were all thrown on the ground together. The men were taken up appa- rently lifeless. Pinnion shortly after recovered, with some slight bruises ; but Buckland was so severely injured as to survive only till the following Wednesday, during the whole of which time he was in a speechless state. PRODIGIOUS! MATRIMONIAL ANTI< IUES.— In the village of Evam, High Peak, Derbyshire, are now living, and in good health, a coup e who were born within a fortnight of each other, are 88 years of age, have been married 64 years, and have had 15 chiicben Derby Mercury. YEARS OF DISCRETION.— In the Great Hospital of this city into which inmates are not admitted before they have attained the age of sixty years, there are now a mother and two daughters — Norwich Paper. MARVELLOUS DRAUGHT.— Mr. George Shanks, Twisel boat- house, on drawing his nets lately, was surprised to find, besides an excellent salmon and a grilse, a hive of bees, and, what is still more remarkable, it was found, on examining the hive, t'. at the industrious community had sustained no material in from their immersion.— Kelso Mail. COLOSSAL CARROT.— Last week Mr. John Cundey, cooper, of Holymoorside, dug up in his garden a carrot, which n. en- sured twelve inches in circumference and twenty inches in len » tu, perfectly straight, and without the least flaw.— Sheffield Iris? THE HOUSE- WIFF,.— An apple has been brought to our office which had grown in Peacod's Garden, behind the west walls of this city, weighing eighteen ounces, and it measured fifttjn inches in circumference. The apple was of the kind called He housewife.— Carlisle Patriot. FLEETING DELICACY.— There is a species of apple in Nor- way, called the transparent apple ; it is so delicate that you are obliged to watch its daily progress towards ripeness, and to pluck it as soon as it arrives at the point, for it will not remain in pe-- fection more than twelve hours.— Tyne Mercury. A BIG BUZZARD.— Tuesday, 23d ult. was shot at Turwestoa, Bucks, a fine specimen of the Falcon tribe ( Falco peregrinis, Or haggard buzzard). It measured three feet six inches from wing to wing, and nineteen inches from beak to tail, and weighed tJo pounds.— Globe. \ " TRUE, I ASSURE YOU."— A few days ago at a restauia- teur's in Paris, a gentleman was undergoing the ceremony of br- ing admitted a freemason, which was on the point of being con- cluded by his taking an oath upon a poniard to keep faithfully all the secrets of the Order, but on the weapon being presented to him for that purpose he seized it, plunged it into his heart, and in an instant fell dead in the lodge.— French Paper. A PIG WITH A WOODEN LEG.— A few weeks ago a pi;, about six months old, the property of Mr. John Nicholson, if Watton Grange, near Driffield, had the misfortune to break oiii of its hinder legs in such a manner as to preclude any chance of its being set effectually; Mr. Nicholson, therefore, resolved , D have piggy's limb amputated, which was immediately done. As soon as the part was sufficiently healed an ingenious carpenter was employed to make a wooden leg for it, which he fitted kt such a manner, that the animal is now able to walk about wi ii little inconvenience.— Leeds Mercury. EXTRAORDINARY FLIGHT OF STARLINGS.— Not long since a most extraordinary flight of starlings was seen at Lydiard Park, near Wotton Basset, the seat of Lord Bolingbroke : they rode like a thick impervious cloud, and with a noise resembling the turbulent roaring of the sea ; in their ascent they came in cm-^ tact with a pheasant which had just risen, and with the sh killed the bird„• when in the air it is supposed they extend J over nearly fifty acres of land. They were fired at by Mr. Mii. lings, solicitor, of Wotton Basset, who at one shot killed 150 tf them. A circumstance of a similar nature is not, we belief, within the memory of man. [ This extraordinary flight is takih from a Lancaster Gazette of 1823, sent us by a correspondent,. It merits the honour of a reprint.] PRO BONO PUBLICO.— Six months ago there existed in PFA£. sia a club of suicides, every member of which had taken an oat' to destroy himself within a given period. Twelve persons haftf been mad enough to join this most singular association, which, though the statutes enjoin them to endeavour to make prose! to supply the place of those who took themselves into world, has become extinct ; the last member, faithful oath, having blown out his brains.— Morning Herald. AMERICAN DOG LAW.— The operation of the dog law is now at an end for the present season. Between the lst of April and the 15th of September one thousand eight hundred and fourtets dogs were taken, killed, and buried.— Philadelphia Paper. TAKING IN " Tow."— On Monday a woman without artiu, who has been exhibited at our fair, was married at St. James's Church, in this town, to one of the showmen. The ring wts placed by the bridegroom upon one of the bride's toes ! Tlle number of spectators assembled to view this ceremony was im- mense.— Bury Post. A DELICATE STOMACH.— A Philadelphia Paper says, " Tie lion lately imported would eat nothing but chickens during tlle voyage, and always turned up his nose at beef." CHOLERA IN BRITAIN. REPORT OF THE WEEK. New Cases. November 5.... Monday 211.... 6 Tuesday 77 7.... Wednesday 112..,. 8 Thursday 96 9 Friday 53 10 Saturday 112 Deaths. ,. 93 .. 32 .. 36 ,. 37 .. 23 .. 43 Total 615 Total cases from the commencement, 66,831. 249 Deaths, 25,076 BIRTHS. At Ardgowan, Lady Shaw Stewart, of a daughter— At Whitehall- place, Lady Henley, of a son— At Sackville- street, \ iscountess Valletort, of a son and heir— At Mereworth, the Hon. Lady Stapleton, of twin daughters — At Munich, the Hon. Mrs. Yeats Brown, of a daughter— At Windsor, the lady of Colonel Milman, Coldstream- Guards, of a son— At Sidney, New South Wales, of a son, the lady of Capt. Westmacott, Aide- de- Camp to his excellency General Bourke— At Patterdale, Westmoreland, fie lady of W. Marshall, Esq., M. P. of a son. MARRIAGES. Monday, at St. George's Hanover- square, J. H. Holley, Esq., of Burgh, Norfolk, to Horatia, third daughter or Vice- Admiral Windham, of Fel- brigg- hall, in that county— At Taunton, J, Hole, esq., Thorverton, Dev- u, to Mary Ann, daughter of the late Lieut.- Col. Kingsbury, 2d Royals— At St. George's Hanover- square, the Hon. F. L. Brown, son of the late and brother of the present Lord Kilmaine, to Lucy, daughter of Sir J. and Lady F. Vfedderbume, of May Fair— At Itclien, Hants, Hugh, son of Archdeacon Berners, to Alice, daughter of the late J. Ashton, Esq., pf the Grange, Cheshire. PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENTS.— A most respectable and nume- rous meeting was held on Wednesday at White Conduit Tavern, Pentonville, Major Revell in the chair, when, after the expression of surprise at the causeless refusal by the Magistrates of the music licence to Mr. Bowles, of the White Conduit Tavern, it was resolved that in " order to protect so ancient a place of public amusement, and to save the property invested, amounting to nearly 30,000?. and paying near 200?. annually for rates and taxes, a petition be] presented to his Majesty, through the medium of the Lord Chamberlain, for his Royal authority to continue en- tertainments which have been the right of the public for' half a century." A committee was appointed to prepare the petition, and to carry the resolutions of the evening into full effect. DEATHS. At Wigan, the Hon. and Rev. G. Bridgemen, rector of Wigan, uncie to the present Earl Bradford— At Brompton, Susannah, relict of the late J. Curtis, E sq. M. P— At Dalhousie Castle, George Lord Ramsay— At Portobello, the widow of Lieut.- Colonel Donald Robinson— At Ramsgate, Sir James Lake, bart.— At Iladley, Middlesex, Elizabeth, the wife of J. Darby, Esq., formerly Captain of the Horse Guards— At Coates, Fifc- shire, on the 3d inst., Sir J. Leslie, Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh— Near Mambangoin, at Malacca, on the 3d. of May, in the 19th year of his age, Ensign George Holford Walker, third son of Joshua Walker, Esq., of Ivy Lodge, St. John's Wood— In Cheltenham, Colonel Jolm Hemes, late of the 96th Regiment.— At Eliot Vale, Blackheath, aged 82, Frederica Augusta, relict of William Lock, late of Norbury Park, Esq. 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 Exchequer Bills India Bonds Satur. Mon. Tues. Wed. Thur. 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