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Groom g Pretty Rose ( Comic Song), by the Author of'iMr.' and ' Mrs.' Smith 2 SONGS OF THE GIPSIES ( embellished with an elegant Lithogra- phic Illustration by Haghe), to which is prefixed an Historical Introduction on the origin and customs of this interesting peo- ple, by W. T. Moncrieff, esq. The music by S. Nelson. In bds. 10 GUITAR. Derwort's Guitar Tutor, 2d edition, with considerable additions.. 10 Horetzky's Instructive Lessons, Op. 33 3 From the LONDON GAZETTE of Tuesday and Friday last. WAR- OFFICE, NOV. 13.— 2d Regiment of Dragoon Guards— Lieut H W. Charlton to be Captain, by purchase, vice Grove, who retires • Cor- net R. Dann to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Charles ; H. C. Paulet gent, to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Dann. 21st Regiment of Foot— Captain F. II. A. Forth, from the 75th Foot, to be Captain, vice Magra, who exchanges ; Cornet W. P. Jervis, from half- pay 3d Dragoons, to be Second Lieutenant, without purchase vice Wemyss, deceased. ' 26th Foot— Lieut. M. M'Innes, to be Captain, without purchase, vice Lord Ramsay, deceased; Ensign J. Slium to be Lieutenant, vice M'lnnes' A. H. Barnard, gent, to be Ensign, vice Shum. 36th Foot— Ensign G. B. Bourchier to be Lieutenant, without purchase vice Cresswell, promoted to the 48th Foot; Captain T. Thislethwavte from half- pay 62d Foot ( with temporary rank), to be Ensign, vice Bour- chier. 37th Foot— Lieut. Hon. C. S. Clements to be Captain, by purchase vice Dyer, who retires ; Ensign G. A. Hatton to be Lteutenant, by pur- chase, vice Clements; G. Green, gent, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice 40th Foot— Ensign J. I. Macbeath, from half- pay 89th Foot, to be En- sign, without purchase, vice Lord G. Thynne, deceased. 48th Foot— Lieut. G. Creswell, from the 36th Foot, to be Captain without purchase, vice King, cashiered by the sentence of a General Court Martial. 55th Foot— Lieut. E. Fairfield, from half- pay 27th Foot, to be Lieute- tenant, vice J. Vereker, who exchanges. 59th Foot— Lieut. N. Kane to be Captain, by purchase, vice Smith, who retires ; Ensign M. G. Matson to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Kane ; E. Glover, gent, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Matson. 65th Foot— Captain H. G. Baylee, from half- pay 87th Foot, to be Cap- tain, vice R. L. Dundas, who exchanges. 75th Foot— Captain C. W. P. Magra, from the 21st Foot, to be Captain, vice Forth, who exchanges. 86th Foot— Captain J. Twigs, from half- pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice P. North, who exchanges. 94th Foot— C. S. Still, gent, to be Assistant- surgeon, vice G. Woods, placed upon half- pay. HOSPITAL STAFF— J. Mitchell, M. D. to be Staff- Assistant- Surgeon, vice Fitzgerald, appointed to the 68th Foot. MEMORANDA— The under- mentioned appointments, as stated in tlfe Gazette of the 26th ult. have not taken place:— Assist.- surgeon Hum- frey, from the 95th Foot, to be Assistant- surgeon in the 94th Foot j C. S. Still, gent, to be Assistant- surgeon in the 95th Foot. It should have been stated in the Gazette of the 14th September last, that Lieutenant Watson, of the 3d Light Dragoons, received the differ- ence upon exchanging to half- pay. The half- pay of the under- mentioned officers has been cancelled from the 13th inst. inclusive, they having been permitted to receive a com- muted allowance for their commissions.— Lieut. C. J. Alfingham, half- pay 12th Light Dragoons; Ensign J. Reynolds, half- pay93dFoot; Lieut. J. Ralston, half- pay 71st Foot; Lieut. J. Hewitt, half- pay Dillon's Re- giment ; Captain Thomas de Grenier de Fonblanque, half pay 2d Gar- rison Battalion ; Lieut. T. Stevens, lialf- pay 22d Foot; Hospital- assist. P. M'Mahon, half- pay Hospital- staff; Ensign J. Carr, half- pay 10th Foot, Captain E. D'Aubreville, half- pay Canadian Voltigeurs ; Assist.- surgeon W. T. Gilder, half- pay 3d Foot Guards ; Ensign SI. Richardson, half- pay 45th Foot; Assist.- surgeon T. Stobo, half- pay Hospital- staff; Ensign E. W. Carter, half- pay Newfoundland Fencibles; Ensign G. K. Tucker, half- pay 24th Foot. Lieutenant J. Anthony, of the 22d Foot, has also been permitted to re- tire from the service, receiving a commuted allowance for his commis- sion, dated Nov. 13, 1832. WAR- OFFICE, NOV. 16.— 3d Regiment of Dragoon Guards— Lieut. C. J. Cornish, from the 16th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Man- sergh, who retires. 14th Regiment of Light Dragoons— Lieut. F. H. Stephens, from the Rifle Brigade, to be Lieutenant, vice Lockhart, who exchanges. 15th Light Dragoons— R. Bell, gent, to he Cornet, by purchase, vice Crompton, who retires. 16th Light Dragoons— Captain G. Mansel, from the 30th Foot, to be Captain, vice Luard, who exchanges; Cornet W. A. Sweetman to hi Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Cornish, appointed to the 3d Dragoon Guards; R. Pattinson, gent, to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Sweetman. 3d Regiment of Foot— Lieut. J. Whittam to be Captain, by purchase, vice Kingsbury, who retires; Ensign G. G. Lonsdale to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Whittam ; Ensign C. Peshall, from the 9th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Lonsdale. 9th Foot— W. W. Powell, gent, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Pc- shall, appointed to the 3d Foot. 21st Foot— T. B. Mortimer, gent, to be Second Lieutenant, by pur- chase, vice Jervis, who retires. " 30th Foot— Captain J. Luard, from the 16th Light Dragoons, to be Captain, vice Mansel, who exchanges. 42d Foot— Ensign T. G. Stirling, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Macfarlane, promoted. 63d Foot— Captain J. Briggs to be Major, by purchase, vice Douglas, who retires ; Lieut. A. Erskine to be Captain, by purchase, vice Briggs ; Ensign R. Dale to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Erskine; W. G. Jervis, gent, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Dale. 82d Foot— Lieut." C. F. Maxwell to be Captain, by purchase, vice Han- nay, who retires; Ensign N. E. Ollivier to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Maxwell; T. P. Firman, gent, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Ol- livier. 86th Foot— Lieut. J. Creagh to be Captain, by purchase, vice Twigg, who retires; Ensign R. N. Carlisle to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vie- Creagh ; C. W. Gore. gent, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Carlisle. 91St Foot— Captain E. R. Northey, from half- pay Portuguese Officers, to be Captain, vice Kenney, who retires. Rifle Brigade— Lieut. 11. A. Lockhart, from the 14th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Stephens, who exchanges. UNATTACHED— Lieut. W. D. Macfarlane, from the 42d Foot, to be Captain of Infantry, by purchase. MEMORANDA— The name of the Ensign, of the 92d Foot, is De Balin- hard, and not Carnegy, as formerly stated. His Majesty has been pleased to approve of the devices and distinc- tions borne on the colours and appointments of the two battalions of the lst, or Royal Regiment of Foot, being the same in each battalion, as is the case in the several battalions of the three regiments of Foot Guards, and was also the case in those regiments of the Tine which formerly con- sisted of two or more battalions. The half- pay of Deputy Assistant- Commissary- General George Stevens has been cancelled from the 31st December last, he having accepted:: commuted allowance for his commission. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Nov. 14.— Royal Regiment of Artillery— Second Captain A. 0. W. Sclialch to be Adjutant, vice Cater. * Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Perth- Adam Viscount Duncan to be Deputy Lieutenant. Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Berwick — To be Deputy Lieutenants : the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Maitlanc!, the Right Hon. Corpatrick Alexander Lord Dunglas ; the Hon. Captain Anthony Maitland ; John Hall, the younger, esq., now Sir John Ha)', bart.; Sir Martin Hunter; Samuel Swinton, esq.; Henry Scott, th" younger, esq.; John Wilkie, esq.; William Forman Home, esq.; John Hood esq.; John Forman Home, esq. ; Adam Fairholme, esq.; John 3 7 0 THE T © war. November 18. Joseph MacBraire, esq.; David Milne, the younger, esq.; Sir John Pringle, hart.; Captain Thomas Maitland, R. N.; James Roy, esq. INSOLVENTS. J. Escudier, Albemarle- street, Piccadilly, hotel- keeper— I. Heilbroun, Basinghall- street, merchant— S. Garrick Sikes, Almondbury, Yorkshire, banker— A Barrett, York- street, St. James's- square— C. Bourne, Leices- ter- square, victualler— T. Davison, Barking, Essex, oilman— H. Sheen, Leicester, grocer. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. R. Lord, Barby, Northamptonshire, maltster. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. W. Cockrill, East Butterwick, Lincolnshire, corn- factor— G. B. Bil- lows, Poole, ironmonger. BANKRUPTS. S. Burrell, St. Ives, woollen- draper— J. Peachey, Regent- street, iron- monger— G. Beeby, Soho- square, haberdasher—\ V. and H. S. Bristow, Old Brompton, Nurserymen— J. Pearce, Museum- street, licensed vic- tualler— J. Saunders, Corbet's Tay, Essex, schoolmaster— I. Laver, Clap- ham, tallow- chandler— H. Crace, Regent- street, painter— T. Jeffreys, otherwise T. Howard, Stoke- upon- Trent, perfumer— J. Ditchfiend, War- rington, victualler— W. Kilsby, Southampton, hotel- keeper— H. Palmer, Bow, Essex, timber- merchant— G. Price, Portland- place, North, Clap- ham- road, bookseller— W. Caffati, sen., Rickmansworth, Hertford, butcher— W. Jarvis, Peterborough, Northamptonshire, Victualler— W. Smith, Thames Ditton, fishmonger— T. Howard, Burnley, tailor— E. Hig- gins, Manchester, draper— J. P. Oldficld, Liverpool, merchant— G. Bower, the younger, andM: Bower, Birmingham, gilt toy- makers— S. Burrell, St. Ives, linen- draper— B. G. Sloper, Chester, chymist. LAW. HOME CIRCUIT. WINTER GAOL DELIVERY, 3D WILLIAM IV. Hertford.-*— Thursday, Nov. 29, at Hertford. Essex.— Saturday, Dec. 1, at Chelmsford. Kent.— Monday, Dec. 10, at Maidstone. Sussex.— Saturday, Dec. 15, at Lewes. Surrey.— Wednesday, 19, at Kingston- upon- Thames. The Hon. Sir Joseph Liltledale, Knight, one of the Justices of our Lord the King, assigned to hold pleas before the King himself, and the Hon. Sir John Gurney, Knight, one of the Barons of our said Lord the King, of his Court of Exchequer, Justices, & c. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT— Nov. 14. Thomas Deane, a clerk in the Admiralty office, Somerset- house, was opposed by Mr. Barry', oil the part of several creditors. The insolvent's salary amounted to 170/. per annum. His family consisted of himself, wife, and four children, and his debts amounted to nearly 400(., all contracted within the last three years. He had accommodated a brother clerk with his acceptances for upwards of Ol. He had received no remuneration for the loan of his name. Mr. Barry prayed that a considerable portion of the insolvent's salary might be set aside for the benefit of his creditors, and made some severe strictures on accommodation bills, which, he said, pre- vented bona fide creditors from being paid. Mr. Commissioner Harris said it was a most ruinous practice, and many clerks had been dismissed on account of it. Some of the public offices had established a rule against its continuance, which had produced considerable benefit. The Court discharged the in- solvent, and ordered 25/. a- year to be set aside for his creditors. POLICE. MANSION- HOUSE. EXTRAORDINARY CASE or BIGAMY.— Monday, a well look- ing woman, named Mary Ann Ellis, was brought before the Lord Mayor charged with bigamy. A great deal of laughter was excited by the anxiety of both husbands to get rid of the lady. A sergeant of marines, named Catterall, stated that after a moderate courtship he prevailed upon the prisoner to marry him, in the year 1825. Being of a roving disposition, the lady took it into her head to go to China, where the witness understood she got another husband. The Lord Mayor— Then you come here to claim her, I suppose ? Sergeant Catterall— Oh Lord no, my lord, I won't have any thing to do with her. ( A laugh.) Richard Ellis stated he had been Captain of a yacht in China, t where, in the year 1831, he met the prisoner, who made an impres- sion upon him, and consented to become his sole property. Soon after their marriage he ascertained that she had left England for Macao as a sailor's wife, and so that he actually had united him- self to Jack's leavings. ( A laugh.) The Rev. George Harvey, who had performed Ihe matrimonial service, at Macao, seemed to have a suspicion about ttie lady, and therefore put her to her oath whether she had another husband, and she declared that she was unmarried and a maid. They were not long in the " blessed state" when the bride gave some instances of an extraordinary attachment tqj the strong waters of the country, and committed such excesses ^ f another description, as greatly affected the credit of her state- ment upon the Evangelists. In fact, she completely ruined him. He had been obliged to give lip his vessel, and w as not long in Lon- don when the parish officers began to persecute him for having de- seited his wife. By the pleasure of Providence, however, he found out that Serjeant Catterall had a prior claim, and he now resigned her to that gentleman, who had a greater right to her than any body else.—( A laugh.) The Lord Mayor asked whether the woman was also married to the sailor. Mr. Ellis said that by certain regulations women were prevented from going out to China except they were declared to be wives ac- companying their husbands. The prisoner went out as the wife of one of the sailors, and performed the part in every particular. The Lord Mayor— Well, what do you wish me to do ? The evi- dence of the bigamy is excessively meagre, and it is too far to send to China to complete it. Mr. Ellis— I wish, my Lord, that the law should be allowed to take its course against the woman. No human being can live with her, she is so dreadfully violent. The moment she lakes a drop of her favourite cordial she becomes quite ungovernable, and would fling a poker or a bottle at him as soon as look at him. " The prisoner said that Mr. Ellis had married her in the name of Jones, at Macao, so that marriage was not worth a straw. When she told him that he had deceived her in that respect, he took the marriage certificate, and deliberately altered the name with a pen, without permission of the clergymanor any body else ( Laughter.) Mr. Ellis said, that Jones was the name he generally went by, and he he had committed no offence against the laws by what he had done. The Loid Mayor.— Why do you take the name of Jones'! Mr. Ellis.— Why, because it was my grandmother's.—( A laugh.) The Lord Mayor.— Upon my word the case is a very pretty one altogether. Mr. Booker, one of the parish officers of Bishopsgate, stated that Mrs. Ellis was so passionate a woman when she got a drop, that wherever she was, the word " murder" was constantly sounding in the cars of the neighbours. Mr. Ellis said, that the prisoner, who accused him of altering a marriage certificate, had herself coqnterfeited a marriage certificate altogether, between her and the sailor, with whom she went out. The Lord Mayor said, that there was a difficulty about the proofs not easy to be surmounted. As, however, a clear case of assault had been sworn to, he would make the prisoner find bail. The poor sergeant of marines spoke little, but shook his head in a very disconsolate manner, upon finding that his claim to the lady was indisputable. The prisoner said that she did not want support from any body, as she was able to turn lier hands to any thing.— She was committed in default. BURGLARY.— A young man named Stevens was brought up on the following charge :— An elderly little man, named Martyr, who is employed by the proprietor of extensive premises in Princes- street, near the Bank, to take care of the chambers occupied by several professional and mercantile gentlemen, stated that at about a quarter before six on Saturday cucning he perceived that the door of the offices of Messrs. Marsden and Co. was open. The cleiks had gone away, and witness, suspecting that something bad was going on, took a candle and walked round the rooms. He found that a bureau and some drawers and desks had been broken open. Believing that a thief was in the neighbourhood he went further in, and suddenly the prisoner rushed at him and dashed the candle from his hand, and endeavoured to escape. Witness, how- ever, griped the prisoner, and held him fast, at the same time cry- ing out " Thieves, thieves !" The prisoner made great efforts to disentangle himself, and probably might have succeeded, had not witness's wife, who heard the cry, closed the door aprih them both, and called a policeman. While they were struggling' a bun- dle of pick- lock keys fell from the prisoner's person. Before the officer arrived tbe prisoner offered the witness all the raoiey he had in the world to let him go. If his wife had not locked t'lcm in the offices the man would have got away. The prisoner most emphatically and loudly declared his innocence. He was, he said, a plasterer by trade, and could bring foiward the most respectable people iu the city to prove that he was * person of great integrity. As he was passing along Princes- street a person walked up to him and told him to go into the offices, which were open, and ask whether Mr. Bemal lived there. Immediately after he went in he stamped with his foot to bring somebody, to him, and suddedly Mr. Martyr appeared and collared him. Some papers belonging to the owners of the offices were found in the street at a considerable distance from- the place which had been broken open. The Lord Mayor said it was evident there had been an accomplice, and remanded the prisoner. BROKERS AND THE POOR.— Tuesday a broker, named Swain, was summoned before the Lord Mayor, by a poor man named Big- by, under the following circumstances:— 13igby stated that his landlord seized his goods upon a warrant of distress for rent, and employed the defendant to complete the job. Mr. Swain not only took the bed and blankets, but stripped the room of every little necessary, leaving nothing behind him but bare walls. The debt was only 21. 13s. 6d„ but the goods were sold to such dreadful dis- advantage they fetched little or nothing. The misery of his condi- tion was aggravated by the dying state of his wife, and the clamor- ous necessities of his three children. He, however, was aware that the law placed needy people at the mercy of the brokers, who woro known to abuse their power most cruelly, and he was obliged to bear the infliction. The broker had, in the list of the articles which he seized, omitted to enter 50 or 60, and he ( complainant) hoped the Lord Mayor would make him responsible. The broker said he had not exceeded his duty; the goods had been regularly sold by auction. The Lord Mayor said, that the conduct of broken to the poor was in most instances abominable. His Lordship asked the broker whether he was justified in omitting to insert all the articles seized in his list? The bioker said, that he might have left out a few small articles which wete not worth notice, but the bulk of the property had been given. The Lord Mayor.— Why did you take what was not worth notice? A man of your habits must know well that the smallest matter is worth notice to a poor man. The Broker.— I treated him as kindly as I could, and I left the children's clothes with him . The Lord Mayor.— Is it possible that you did so humane an act ? How charitable it was in you not lo strip them naked ! Bigby.— My Lord, he even seized- three little birds which be- longed to the children, and would have sold them if it had not been for a person who put down mote than they were worth. He knew well that all my clothes were in pledge, but my poverty rather in- creased the temptation to harass me than otherwise. The Lord Mayor.— 1 perceive that the broker's list has omitted a great variety of things, and amongst others, a bed and bolster and blankets. But I suppose those things were not worth notice at this season and to a dying woman. The Broker.— There was no bed that I saw. Bigby.— My lord, will you give me leave to swear to the cor- rectness of the list I have put into your hands'! I'll take my oath there is not ail atom that he has not seized and sold immedi- ately for little or nothing. The Broker.— They were sold at the regular sale, and you have an account of what they fetched. The Lord Mayor.— Unfortunately, I can do nothing in this case but advise the broker to return you those things which he has not entered in his list, and express my abhorrence of such oppression as your landlord has committed with this man's hands. The broker said thai he could give no other account than he had already made, and that the landlord would willingly forgive the complainant his debt, and make him a present of 10s., if he would take his immediate departure. Bigby.— Yes; after be has sold every stick I had in the world, he wants to tumble me and my poor family into the streets. The broker then quitted the justice room w ithout giving the poor man any hopes of the restoration of any part of his property. Even an old pair of gloves, a snuffer stand, and a small ball of worsted were amongst the articles seized. Mr. Hobler told the Lord Mayor that the complaints made to him against brokers were numerous, and the circumstances often truly heart- rending. GUILDHALL. OBSTRUCTING THOROUGHFARES.— The driver of Chancellor's Chelsea stage 1,961 attended to answer the complaint of Mr. Al- derman Wilson, for obstructing the carriage- way ill Ludgatc- street, on the 3d of November. Mr. Lewis, a solicitor, attended on the part of the defendant. Mr. Alderman Wilson said that on the 3d of November, about noon, he found the line of carriages passing down the street ob- structed by an omnibus and the defendant's stage, which, lookin] at the direction in which they were going, were upon the w rong side of the street. The defendant, who had left his horses without an attendant, asked him if he wanted to go to Chelsea? He told liim he did not, but was looking for an officer to summon him and the omnibus- driver for obstruction. He went down the street and back again in search of all officer without success, and the de- fendant was still there. He stayed five minutes at the least. Mr. Lewis contended at considerable length that the City Sewer Act, so far as related to obstructions by stage- coaches, was virtually, though not specifically, repealed by the Stage Coach Act passed in the last session, which was in the preamble stated to be an act to consolidate and amend the laws Ihen in force relating to stage- coaches. After a long discussion the magistrates declared theit opinion that although it was lawful for omnibus- drivers to ply for fares, it was not lawful for them in so doing to cause an obstruction, and upon this principle, believing that an obstruction had been created, they fined the defendant 40s. and costs, under the City Sewer Act. Sir. Lewis said that he would appeal against the conviction platnant, or, in fact, having used more force than was necessary to prevent her from obstructing the passage. He certainly did feel irritated at the insolence of a menial in choosing to insult his visitors, who were respectable, and he might at the time have conducted himself with a warmth which he now regretted. Mr. Dyer advised the parties to retire and settle the matter. The complainant ultimately took a sovereign, together with the ex- penses being paid, and the parties retired. BEGGING LETTERS.— Thursday, Lord Valletort complained of an attempt to extort money from him through the medium of a ficti- tious ease of distress, in a letter addressed to him and left at his residence by a young man whom he had given in charge to a police officer. His lordship stated that a few days ago a petition under cover was sent to him, which purported to be from Mr. John Harri- son, box- keeper at the King's Theatre, soliciting in urgent terms a small donation, on account of the dreadful destitution to which himself and his family were reduced. This petition appeared to be signed by Lords Burghersh, Palmerston, Goderich, Count d'Or- say, Countess Carlisle, Countess Gower, Mr. Greville, and a num- ber of other gentlemen, for sums varying from 11. 10s.; bk. t as he ( Lord Valletort) had some knowledge of the hand- writing of two of the signing parties, lie suspected the signatures were forgeries, and upon sending a servant to make inquiries, he found his suspi- cions to be correct. When the prisoner called for an answer, an officer was sent for, and he was given into custody. His lordship further stated, lhat the system of imposition carried on through Ihe medium of begging letters was greatly extending itself. This was the second attempt lie had detected that morni » s, . n( i not a week elapsed in which he was not five or six times subjected to sli « ; u, „,. tempts. He was, however, determined to punish all those whom lie detected future. The prisoner, who is suspected to be an old hand, having gone hy the names of John Williams, alias Archer, alias Lyon, alias Harrison, now asserted that his name was John Lyon, and that he had been sent by a person of the name of Harrison for an answer to a letter which he had written to his lordship. Mr. Dyer felt quite convinced that the prisoner had made use of Mr. Harrison's name in the petition without the sanction or know- ledge of that party, and ordered the prisoner to be committed for the usual period. QUEEN- SQUARE. DESTITUTION.— Thursday, a lad who gave his name William Thomas, about 14 years of age, was charged with wilfully breaking a pane of glass at the shop of a tradesman in Blackfriars- road. The defendant stated, that he belonged to Bristol. His father had been a butcher in that town, but lately died; his mother was also dead, and, being left destitute, without friends or relations, he had been obliged to apply to the overseers at Bristol for relief, and they had set him to break stones at 3s. per week. He continued at this work for some time, until! about two months ago, when he re- solved to come to London, and endeavour to get better employ- ment. He had, however, not been able to get toork, and was starving in the streets from cold and hunger, and he therefore broke the window purposely, that he might be committed to prison. Being unable to pay the damage he was committed for one month to Brixton gaol. HATTON- GARDEN. CHARGE OF EMIIEZZLEMENT.— Thursday, Robert Mills was charged with having embezzled various sums of money belonging to MARLBOROUGH- STREET. GUARDING THE COLONEL.— Tuesday Colonel Fiancis Needham appeared before Mr. Dyer, the sitting magistrate, to answer a charge of assault preferred against him by Rebecca Hern, house- maid, at No. 14, King- street, St. James's, where the gallant Colo- nel at present occupies lodgings. Rebecca Hern commenced her charge by stating that she was em- ployed not only to wait upon the lodgers, but to look after more confidential matters regarding the domestic arrangements. Thus authorised, she felt it to be her duty lo keep a scrutinizing eye on the female portion of Colonel Needham's visitors, especially two ladies were in the habit of spending a social evening with the gallant Colonel, of whose characters the complainant did not form the highest opinion, from finding after their departure that the Colonel's bed- room and bed were in particular disorder. She in- formed the defendant of her suspicions, and said if Colonel Need- ham chose to admit of further visits, lie must leave the apartments. Oil the evening on which thc assault complained of occuired, hackney coach drove up to the door, iu which were the two ladies who had come to take tea with the Colonel. The complainant ran into the hall and told the ladies they should not enter the house upon which Colonel Needliam came out of his apartments and ordered the complainant to stand out of the passage and not pre- sume to interrupt or obstruct his visitors. The complainant, how- ever, was determined that none but people of character, at least whom she considered to be such, should visit the lodgers, and in consequence of the violent altercation which ensued, the ladies became alarmed, and desired the coachman to drive off. The complainant stated, that the assault in question was committed by Colonel Needham pushing her violently, tearing her collar from her neck, and thrusting his knuckles in her throat, besides flinging the candlestick at her, which, however, missed her, and struck the wall instead. The police were called in, and the distuibance was for the time settled. Colonel Needham, in defence, denied having struck the com his late employers, Messrs. Fisher, Davis, and Co., solicitors, of Chancery- lane. In December last it was discovered that the pri- soner, who had been confidential clerk to the prosecutors for six years, w- as. deficient in his accounts to a considerable amount. He was required to make out a statement thereof, which he did, making himself debtor 1,300/., for which he gave a warrant- of- attorney, payable on a certain day. Default was made in payment, and consequently judgment was entered up, and execution issued against the prisoner's goods, but the amount recovered in that way being insufficient to satisfy the demand, a writ was subsequently issued against him, and he was lodged in prison. In January last a client, who resides a short distance from town, wrote to the pro- secutors, requesting to be furnished with their bill of costs against him for brsiness done, upon which five bills were made out and for- warded to him. In a few days afterwards, a gentleman ( a Mr. Fitter) called on the piosecutors, to whom he produced a receipt in the prisoner's handwriting, dated the 10th September, 1831, for tbe sum of 461. 12s. 6d., beiog the amount of one of the bills before alluded to. The statement of account drawn up by the pri- soner was then referred to, but that sum was not in any" way ac- counted for, therefore it could not have been included in the judg- ment bond. A solicitor, who attended for the prisoner, endeavoured to show, that, if a felony had been committed, the acceptance of a warrant- of- attorney had done away with it. He also stated that the 46/. 12s. 6d. was included in the 1,300/. Mr. Rogers said the case must go before a jury, and he committed the prisoner to Newgate for trial. MARYLEBONE. CHARITY APPRENTICES.— On Thursday Anthony Rawlingi, a tailor, living in Henry- street, Hampstead- road, appeared at the instance of the St. Katherine's charity, to show cause why he should not be compelled to cancel the indentures of a boy named William Fraser, who had been apprenticed to him by the charity, and to make restitution of a part of the apprentice fee. The Rev. Dr. Grant, rector of Kentish- town, stated that he ap- Deared not only on the part of Sir Herbert Taylor and the charity, iut likewise out of a friendly feeling towards the boy, who had been left an orphan, and was received into the school by a chapter of Sir Herbert Taylor, and after remaining two years, he was ap prenticed to the defendant, who then lived in Tottenham- court- road, and the charity paid him a premium of 20/. The defendant's goods were seized foi rent, the apprentice's bed removed from the house, and from that day forward he and his fellow- apprentice ( a charity boy from the parish of St. Giles, with whom the defendant had also a premium) were obliged to sleep on a mattress. There was no work for them, and lo such want was the poor fellow re- duced that he was obliged to apply to the charity, who allowed 2s. per week to prevent him from famishing with hunger; and the de- fendant had gone the length to pawn the very clothes which were given to him by the charity, and on the boy complaining of the hardship of his case, they took them out of pawn. Mr. HOSKINS regretted that charitable institutions did not inquire into the solvency as well as character of masters, before they ap- prenticed their children out, as the sums advanced held forth strong temptations to men in needy circumstances. In this case he should not only cancel the indentures, but call on the defendant to refund ihe money which he had received from the charity. Dr. Grant here interposed, and said it was not the intention of Sir Herbert Taylor or the charity to afflict the oppressed, and if the defendant wouid give the boy a decent suit of clothes, such as he bad when he became his apprentice, they would be quite satisfied. The defendant promised to comply with this condition, and the parties left the office. UNION- HALL. PAUTER MAP. RIAGE.— Tuesday John Marshall, a young man, between 18 and 19 years of age, was brought before Mr, Murray, charged with deserting his wife, a comely- looking young woman, apparently younger than himself. The wife in her examination having proved that she was deserted by the defendant, and com- pelled to apply for parochial relief, stated, that previously to their marriage, she had been a pauper on . St. George's parish, the au- thorities of which gave her a dowry of 41. 10s. upon marrying the defendant. Mr. Murray perceiving that Mrs. Marshall's accouchement was fast approaching, if her size was a criterion to judge by, asked her how long she had been a wife ? She replied that she had been married only seven weeks, but could assure his worship that her husband and no one else was the person who had the best title to her forthcoming offspring, Mr. Murray said lhat whether her husband had the best title or not, he must father it, as he had married her. The magistrate then remarked that it was a very improper mode of a parish getting rid of their female paupers, by giving a small dow ry to induce some equally poor wretch to marry them. Such marriages generally turned out unfortunate, and this case was an exemplification if one were wanting, Mr. Huish, one of the parish officers of St. George's, said that he was not aware that any money had' been given lo the parties then before the magistrate for the purpose the wife had described. He, however, said that a number of benevolent and kind- hearted gen- " tlemen belonging to the parish had formed themselves into a society, and raised subscriptions amongst themselves, the proceeds of which were converted to the benefit of such paupers as were inclined for matrimony, and who were amious that their progeny should be born legitimate instead of illegitimate children. He added, that he was convinced that the gentlemen who composed the society had the best motives in view when they established it. Mr. Murray said, that his impression of the formation of the society, which was so highly extolled, was for the purpose of getting rid of their paupers by holding out an inducement of a few pounds to the mail who married them, and after all both man and wife ge- nerally became chargeable to some other parish. The magistrate expressed a desire to know a little about this excellent society as it was termed, and inquired who was the treasurer. Mr. Huish said that the sexton of the parish acted in the double capacity of secretary and treasurer. Mr. Murray inquired of the girl how she was married to the de- fendant, and whether the parish had used any force to persuade her to consent to their union. She replied, that they were married by bans, and that when she became pregnant the gentlemen of the parish told her that the man who married her should have 4/. 10s. as her portion. Mr. Murray repeated, that it was a most improper act on the pari of , nv parish to hold out inducements of the kind to paupers. In this case tticpani. s. who were both very young, had only lived with each other for seven week* after the ceremony of their mar- riage, and when thc wife was deserted „ h « threw herself upon another parish. The defendant said he should endeavour to sup- port his wife, and upon this undertaking he was discharged. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY AT TIIE RESIDENCE OF I? ADY EAST. Mr. Dyer was occupied for some time on Wednesday in the examina- tion of a number of the. domestics of Lady East, relative to a rob- bery which had on Tuesday evening last been committed at her Ladyship's residence ill Green street. Her Ladyship, it appeared, after dressing for the theatre, left, as was her custom, a valuable gold repeater and appendages on her toilette, together with other articles of jewellery, which were safe at six o'clock. About half past eight it was discovered that some person had been into her Ladyship's room, and the room of a young lady named Rawlins, a visitor, and that a number of drawers had been forced open, and the most valuable portion of their contents selected and carried off. The property missing was of about the value of 200/., consisting chiefly of two gold repeaters, chains, and seals ( one the property of Lady East, and the other belonging to Miss Rawlins), gold opera glass, jewelled bracelets, some trinkets, and several articles of plate. Information having been immediately given at the station- house, police- serjeant Welsh went down to Green- street to make inqui- ries. It was at first suspected, from finding one of the attic windows open, and marks of dirty shoes on the floor, and on the leads of the house, that the robber had contrived to obtain an entrance from the top of the house, but upon looking more closely into the traces of the footsteps, and from general appearances, " the police- serjeant became of opinion that these marks had been placed as a blind, aud that the greater probability w- as that some person had obtained en- trance through the connivance of one of the servants, in case the robbery had not been effected by a servant. The servants were then strictly interrogated, in particular the housemaid and groom, both of whom had gone out in the evening, at first denying they had made ail appointment to meet each other, but afterwards admitting that such was the fact. These servants, on being separately questioned, gave statements which, in miliar points, varied in a slight degree, but they concuired in asserting lhat they saw the footman speaking' to a stranger at the gate, about eight o'elock, and that this strange person was well- known to the footman, he having breakfasted with him at her Ladyship's house. The housemaid also said that, when she. Went nut of tha house, by the gate of the area, she found it standing open, and no persou there. The butler of Lady- East came forward and gave a more parti- cular account of the robbery, observing that the person who bad effected it appeared to have a good knowledge of those drawers and places where the valuables were kept. A package of jewels, of the value of 2,000/., which was sealed up, and had only been re- moved from the banking- house, where it had been deposited for safety, . the day previous, had, however, fortunately escaped notice. Police- serjeaiit Welsh said the footman had repeatedly denied that any person had been to see him on Tuesday evening, and even after he had admitted that he spoke to a man at the gate, he as- serted that he neither knew his name nor had any previous acquaint- ance with liim, although several of the servants were ready to come forward and swear that the person he was seen speakin" to had breakfasted with him, and had several times called on him in Green- street. Edward Bedford, the footman, was then called in and examined by the Magistrate. He said, that being accidentally in the area, when the person alluded to was passing the house, he spoke to him. He knew the man from living in service at the next house in Hertford- street to where the other lived as under butler. His ac- quaintance began about 18 months ago, but he had never heard his name, nor did he address him when he met with him, by any particular name. Mr. Dyer— Has he ever breakfasted with you al Lady East's house ?— Yes, once. How long have you been in Lady East's service ?— Seven weeks; before that I was in the service of Major Murray. Where is this person who spoke to you on Tuesday night 1— Gone into the country with his master. How do you know?— He told me so. What is his master's name ?— I don't know his name, or where he is gone to. Schofield, an officer of this establishment, said that when lie went to Green- street, at tbe Magistrate's request, to see Lady East on the subject of the robbery, the footman opened the door to him, and on learning his business appeared greatly confused, telling him that he could not see her Ladyship, and that the butler was en- gaged. The officer added that the footman evinced by his manner a desire to prevent him from seeing any one in the house respecting the robbery. Police- serjeant Welsh applied for permission to detain the foot- man in custody at the station- house, in order to afford an opportu- nity for further inquiry. Mr. Dyer, in acceding to the request, remarked to the prisoner, that he could not help stating, from the obscurity of his replies, and other circumstances, that great suspi- cion at present attached to hirn. SEIZURE OF ADULTERATED FLOUR.— On Thursday an exten- sive seizure of a substance resembling flour in appearance, but which is suspected to be chiefly composed of pulverized bones, was made by the City Police, who brought a waggon containing up- wards of three tons weight of the stuff to the door of the office. The policeman said he seized the waggon at the . door of the flour manufactory of Messrs. Coward and Chancellor, in Princes- street, Lambeth, but he first saw five sacks delivered. It appeared that the waggon was brought from No. 33 Wharf, near the City Basin ; and a person named Barker slated that there was an extensive store attached to the premises, on which a few men only worked at night. They preserved the greatest secrecy as to what business was car- ried on, and he ( Barker) was frequently disturbed al night by the noise of grinding. He had often observed waggons containing bags of something resembling flour leave the place. The waggoner, in reply to Mr. Chambers, said Mrs. Margaret Smith was the owner of the waggon. A son of Mrs. Smith stated, that a person, whose name he did not know, hiied the waggon to take a load from the wharf to Princes- street. He knew nothing about the nature of the load. Mr. Chambers said the stuff appeared to be of a most pernicious nature, aud thc circumstance of such a substance being ssut to a flour manufactory was certainly suspicious. He should therefore cause very strict inquires to be made. There were several bakers present, who said the sacks chiefly contained powdered bones. Mr. Chambers directed that the stuff should be analysed and then destroyed. November 18. THE TOWS, 371 MUSIC. FROM THIS DEAR EDEN OF DELIGHT. A Ballad. The poetry hy J. L. Stevens ; the music by John Noblett.— Collard and Collard. This little piece is in the key of C major, and in common time. The direction " with tenderness," which the composer has marked at the commencement, merely indicates the style of the performance, but does not specify the degree of velocity with which he would wish it to be executed. An unpleasant conse- cution of octaves occurs between the vocal part of the bass in the 5th and 6th bars of page 2 ; and the same grammatical in- accuracy occurs in several parts of the accompaniment; but, notwithstanding these oversights, the treatment of the harmony, and a slight monotony from a too frequent repetition of the first two bars of the melody, the subject is a simple and pleasing one. SACRED MELODIES, ARRANGED WITH VARIATIONS FOR THE PIANO FORTE. Edwin Merriott. Nos. 1, 2, and 3. — Falkner. If it be worth while to cheat the Devil by having jig para- phrases of a psalm tune or other pious song on a Sunday, let us by all means have the best of subjects, such as Handel or Haydn would supply. This Mr. Merriott should have done. No. 1 of the present collection ( directed to be played melan- choly) is the well- known, and well- worn " Sicilian Mariners' Hymn in the short introduction to which occur two gram- matical errors. The variations to the air do not display much invention, but they are written in a pleasing familiar style, and will be found useful in school teaching. No. 2 is a Spanish chaunt, in the key of G, half common time. The air is somewhat monotonous, but the variations relieve their effect, which are brilliant, without being difficult of execution. No. 3 begins with a prelude, consisting of arpeggio passages for the right hand, with the left hand crossing alternately from a low note in the bass to one stationed above the other hand in the treble. The theme is from the " Morning Hymn," which the performer is requested to play majetic.—( Priscian and Mr. Merriott seem bent on coming to logger- heads.) The first varia- tion is little more than a repetition of the introductory prelude, and the features contained in the remaining three variations con- sist principally of skipping passages for the left hand ; it may, however, be found a useful lesson for the practice of passages requiring dexterity and certainty in placing the hand in varied and distant positions. This last number is the most difficult of the three. Va.' se infernale. No. 4. Choeur dans^. No. 5. Pas deTaglioni. CZERNI CHARLES.— Trois airs favoris de Robert- le- Diable varies pour le Piano. No 1. Ballade. No. 2. Sicilienne. No. 3. Marche du Tournoi. Op. 262. Second quatuor pour piano, violon, alto et basse, Op. 264. Introduction allegro agitato a quatre mains pour soprano. Op. 266. Variations brillantes Sur un Valse originals a quatre mains pour Piano. FINE ARTS. CATHEDRAL CHORISTERS ( CONTINUED). LICHFIELD.— The episcopal see of Lichfield is of very ancient establishment, having been founded by Oswy, king of Northum- berland, and conqueror of Mercia, in the time of the Heptarchy, about the year 656. The cathedral then erected, was the first Christian church in these parts; for the Mercians were Pagans, and their conversion took place from this date. * * * * * The constitution of this cathedral has varied but little in this long lapse of time, although two acts of Parliament have inter- fered in it. The last of these has left it in possession of two separate Chapters; a larger one consisting of the Dean, Six Canons Residentiary, and seventeen Prebendaries, which is rarely convened, and only for some special purposes ; and a smaller one, consisting only of the Dean and the six Residentia ries, by which the jurisdiction and other business of the church are generally executed. Of the six Residentiaries, three, together with the Dean, are the principal persons of this ancient esta- blishment, and have the offices and names Of precentor, chan- cellor, and treasurer. There are twelve vicars choral, who, with a sub- chanter at their head, form a corporate body, having good possessions of their own. Five of these are in holy orders, the rest are laymen. The rest are in number eight, and it is usual to have two supernumeraries on probation. They are appointed and go- verned by the precentor. The organist is master of the boys in music, and instructs them daily after morning service. Beyond this, till within a recent period, there has been no establishment in this cathedral for any other branches of education. There is an old foundation of a free grammar- school in the adjoining city, and also a modern national school; but in neither of these could the choristers be conveniently received on account of their attendance in the choir and in the music school. A school for their separate use was wanted; and in order to obtain the means of its establishment, the Dean and Chapter declined the renewil of a lease on a farm appropriated to the choristers, which has enabled them, now the lease is expired, to pay a master for teach- ing them in reading, writing, and arithmetic. But the school had its establishment a few years before the lease expired, by the liberality of some of tfie members of the Chapter. In the reign of Henry VIII. a school- house, having the words " Domus Choristis" inscribed on the gateway, was built for them within the close, where the children of the choir resided with their master till within a very recent period. In the year 1772 the estate was let on a building lease and the school in a yreat degree broken up ! * * * * It is worthy of constant remembrance, that in all cases of ecclesiastical dilapidation, these tender branches of the establishment have either been the first to suffer, or have infallibly been encroached upon to benefit the revenues of those members who are bound to be their guardians. " From such a report of the education given to the choristers of Lichfield in times past, it seems in vain to expect that many distinguished characters should have been produced from among them. One, however, we can name with honour, Elias Ash- mole, the eminent herald and antiquary, and founder of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, who was a chorister in this church." LINCOLN.— In this magnificent cathedral establishment, the most numerous in England, there are eight boys besides seven Burghersh chanters, a master and steward of the choristers, a sub- chanter, a master of the grammar- school, & c. The chil- dren of the choir were early and' liberally endowed with estates and appropriations, by letters patent and grants, both from Edward and Richard II. They are also greatly indebted to the present members of the chapter for their kind and judicious attention to their interest. There are four choristers, who are chosen by the Dean and Chapter; they are lodged and boarded with the music- master, and receive a salary, with fees, amount- ing to 3/. per annum. Their dress is a black cloth gown, faced with white, given them every second year. The six Burgherst chanters, so denominated from the founder, are chosen by the Dean and Chapter, and receive a salary amounting, with fees, to 21.10s. They wear white surplices, given them on their admission. All the boys, as well choristers as Burgherst chanters, attend daily choral service at ten and three on week- days, and at ten and four on Sundays. The dean and chapter provide for their instruction in writing, arithmetic, and grammar; and those boys whose parents wish it are allowed to attend the free grammar- school, of which the dean and Chapter appoint the head master. They attend these schools from eleven o'clock to twelve, from two to three, and from four to five. They attend the music master from seven o'clock in the morning in summer, and eight in winter, until proyertime. The master derives no emolument from the musical talents of the choristers, who are confined wholly to the church service. On leaving the choir they receive a sum not exceeding fifteen pounds from the dean and chapter as an apprentice fee. A medical attendant is allowed the choristers in case of sick ness.—( To be continued). EXHIBITIONS. DEPARTURE OF THE . ISRAELITES FROM EGYPT.— At the Queen's Bazaar, in Oxford- street, is a dioramic picture of the above remarkable event in history, painted by Mr. H. Sebron, pupil of M. Daguerre, the artist who has exhibited with such dis- tinguished success in the Regent's Park. The picture in ques- tion has been copied from an original by Mr. Roberts. The time chosen for the representation is the early part of the day; the scene, the space before the Royal Palace, retreating in pers- pective to the open country, with the mountains and pyramids in the distance. On a raised terrace in the left foreground of the picture, and in the gate of his palace, is seen King Pharaoh, seated under a superb canopy of peacock's feathers, surrounded by his court. Opposite to him, and upon a similarly conspicu- ous elevation, stands the Jewish lawgiver and his brother, with outstretched arms to heaven, invoking a blessing upon the great undertaking they were about to perform. In the centre, and stretching away as far as the eye can reach, is the emancipated people collected in busy masses. Each side of the picture is occupied with enormous piles and ranges of building, designed a la Martin, though not in that prodigality of accumulation to which the father in this schoel is thought to be too prone ;— whole cities comprising one group of palaces— and palace heaped on palace— Alp on Alp 1— cities such as the world never saw, and which, if the philosophy of Utilitarianism increase, it Dever will see. The chief merits in the picture consist in the architectural designs, the accurate distribution and vivid effects of the light,, and the just management of the perspective. In short, it is a very clever work of art, and with its companion, the Physio- rama, is well worth the morning lounger's attention. The PHYSIORAMA is an imitation, but a very humble one, of that highly entertaining and well executed series of views which used to be exhibited in Regent- street, called the Cosmorama. The only pieces in the present collection that can come under the name of painting, are a view of the celebrated cave in the island of Staffa, and one or two scenes in Venice. Several others are such mere daubs, that a house- painter would scarcely put his name to them— a grainer who converts the door- posts of a gin- shop into Sienna marble most assuredly would not. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. , 8.— TO- NEW FOREIGN MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS. HERZ. J. Trois clioeurs favoris de Robert- le- Diable, en ron- deaux brillilns pour le Piano. No. 1. Chceur des Buveurs No. 2. Choeur des Joueurs. No. 3. Final et cantilene de Madm. Cinti Damoreau. LABARRE.— Cinq airs de ballet de Robert- le- Diable arranges pour la Harpe. No. 1, Bacchante, No. 2, Pas de cinq. No. 3 FRANCE. ARREST OF THE DUCHESS DF. BERRY.— PARIS, NO day, at 1 o'clock, government received the news that Madame the Duchess of Berry was arrested on the 7th, at 10 o'clock in the morning, at Nantes. She was found concealed in a house, with M. de Menars, M. Gulbourg, and Mademoiselle de Kersabiec. She has beeu lodged in the Castle of Nantes. The council immediately assembled, and the following ordinance was drawn up and signed :— " Louis Philippe, King of the French, to all to w hom these present shall come, greeting— " On the report of our Minister the Secretary for the Depart- ment of the Inteiior, " We have ordained, and do ordain as follows :— " Art 1. A project of law shall be presented to the chambers to decide respecting Madame the Duchess of Berry. " Art 2. Our Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice, and our Minister of the Interior, are charged, each as far as he is concerned, with the execution of the present ordinance. " Palace of the Tuileries, Nov. 8. " Louis PHILIPPE. ( By the King), " The Minister of Justice, A. THIERS." The Breton of Nantes of the 8th inst. gives the following par- ticulars respecting the Duchess of Berry, and the circumstances of her arrest: The duchess, wandering in the environs of Nantes, only escaped the active search made for her person by almost daily changing her abode and her disguise. Sometimes she wore the habit of'a tender of cows or sheep, at others she appeared as a miller, then as the femme de chambre of some wealthy house, and after- wards us a peasant's wife. Not unfrequently she eluded pursuit by being carried in a large bundle of hay upon the shoulders of some sturdy driver of a team of oxen. At length the duchess was satis- fied there was no safety for her but in large towns; but at the same time was ignorant of the new and rigid vigilance of the police, which ceased neither night nor day. She consequently determined to cotne to Nantes, where she had several times before resided with- out detection, and where the house of Mademoiselle Duguigny was prepared, for her reception. The police, however, had accurate in- formation of her intentions, and posted numerous secret agents at every avenue, who discovered the duchess coming through the town with Mademoiselle Kersabiec, of Pont St. Martin, in the dresses of peasants. When the authorities entered the house of Mademoiselle Duguigny, the dining- room was the first object of their visit. The room was decorated whhfitnrs de lys, and inscrip- tions bearing the words ' Navarino,' ' Trocadero,' * Algiers,' & c. Fires were burning in several rooms, and in one of them the heat was very great. This was the chimney that concealed the entrance to the retreat of the duchess and her companions, but they became so oppressed by the closeness of their situation that they made some involuntary movements, which at length were heard, and led to their detection. In fact, after remaining twenty- four hours shut up, they were compelled to call out that they were ready to sur- render, and when they were released they were almost in a stateof suffocation. Mademoiselle Kersabiec, in the dress of a servant, came out first. She was followed by the Duchess, then by the Count de Menars, and lastly by M. Guibourg, who very nearly fainted, and afterwards declared that he was pressed so close against the chimney, that every blow of the hammer with which the officers struck, to ascertain whether it was hollow, went to his heart. The princess on coming into the room, immediately said—' It is un- necessary for you to continue your search, I am the Duchess of Berry. Where is the General ? I intrust myself to his known mi- litary honour. If there is a guilty person here, it is I alone. These gentlemen and this lady have only obeyed my commands.' The princess was completely disfigured by the dust and dirt of the hole in which she had been so long shut up, but at the same time pre- served her presence of mind ; so likewise did Mademoiselle Kersa- biec; but the Count de Menars and M. Guibourg were quite ex- hausted. Genera! Count d'Erlon, M. Maurice Duval, the Prefect, the Mayor of Nantes, the Colonel of the National Guards, and the substitutes of the Procureur du Roi, then came and officially identified the Duchess of Berry, and a proces verbal was drawn up accordingly. The examining magistrate then proceeded to inter- rogate the parties aud witnesses, and all the requisite judicial for- malities having been gone through, the duchess, accompanied by Mademoiselle Kersabiec, the Count de Menars, and M. Guibourg, was conducted to the Castle by General Dermoncourt. The most respectful attentions were'paid to the princess, and every due con- sideration to the other prisoners. BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, Nov. 13.— To day at one o'clock the Session of the Chamber was opened by his Majesty in person with the following speech:— " Gentlemen,— The four months which have passed since the close of the last session have produced events whicn must have an important effect on the. future condition of the country. " Belgium has been recognized by the powers of Europe in suc- cession, and the national flag admitted into most foreign ports. " My union with the eldest daughter of the King of the French, whilst it has brought closer the ties which connect us with a gener- ous people, has afforded a fresh occasion for my receiving from most ofthe Courts of Europe proofs of amity and wishes for the con- solidation and prosperity of the new Belgian state. " After long delays, which, however, have been less prejudicial to the interests of the country than might have been expected, the moment has at length arrived when I have the happiness of re- sponding to the w ishess of the Chamber and the nation, by inducing the powers who guarantee the treaty of the 15th of November to assure its execution. " The powers were convinced that if they longer abstained from having recourse to coercive measures they would place Belgium in the imminent necessity of doing justice to herself, and they did not wish to incur that risk of a general war. Bound by a formal convention, two of them are pledged to commence the immediate evacuation of our territory. The united fleets of France and England restrain the commerce of Holland, and, if these means of coercion be not sufficient, in two days a French army will come, without disturbing the peace of Europe, to prove that the pledges given were not vain words. " Such, gentlemen, are the results of the policy hitherto pursued by the government; it is with confidence that I will cause to be submitted to your examination the negotiations which have pro- duced these results. " The solution of the difficulties which have impeded the course of the government will permit it now, gentlemen, to apply itself more exclusively to the administrative and financial ameliorations which the interest of the country requires. " Already the organization of the judicial power has completed the political constitution of the state, and placed the independence of the magistrates on definitive bases. " At the same time that the budget of 1833 will be submitted to you, there will be placed before you the accounts of 1830 and 1831. " The second part of the loan which you authorised has been contracted for on advantageous terms, all circumstances being taken into consideration. These circumstances, common in almost all the countries of Europe, liave caused an increase of expenditure to Belgium, which must be met by a corresponding increase of bur- dens. The country will see the propriety of submitting to neces sary sacrifices, when it casts its eyes around, and observes, that notwithstanding the important events which have occurred, it has never existed under a system of taxation as moderate and light as the present. " If the execution of the treaty by the powers who have de clared themselves the guarantees for that purpose should prevent our young and gallant army from tignalising its valour, I place suffi- cient reliance on its devotion to feel assured, that in the progress of the events which are now preparing themselves, the violation of the territory by the enemy, or any other act of aggression against Bel- gium, would not take place with impunity. " The interests of the army are the object of my earnest solici- tude. It is still difficult to fix the period for disarming, though that measure has now become more probable. A project of law, relative to the organization of the army in time of peace, will, how ever, be submitted to you. Promotion, pensions, the allowances for active service and retirement, will also be the subjects of specific laws. " The provincial and communal administration has been left in a provisional state, which enfeebles the resources of the nation, and deprives the localities of many of their advantages and rights. This will he one ofthe most important subjects of your deliberations. If the duration of the session will permit of it, I will also direct your attention this year to the state of public instruction. " Some imperfections have been remarked in the laws relative lo the Civic Guard and the Militia. The ameliorations suggested by experience will be proposed to you. Some parts of our penal legis- lation will also be subjected to a revision, which will place them in harmony with the institutions and the morality ol the country. " The general situation of the country continues to be satisfac- tory. The result has proved that the fears entertained respecting the future condition of our commerce and industry were exagge- rated. 1 am happy to have it in my power to inform you, that the revenues of the state for the current year exceed all anticipations. New communications have been opened in the interior, and others are in preparation, and I am incessantly occupied with the task of opening new channels of trade, and extending our foreign commer- cial relations. " The scourge which has depopulated other countries has com- mitted much lighter ravages amongst us. Administrative foresight may in part congratulate itself upon this result. " We approximate to a great event, Gentlemen. The enfran- chisement of our territory must contribute to strengthen public con- fidence, but you must reflect with sorrow that Belgium whole and entire has not been adopted by Europe. When the day of separa- tion shall arrive, you will not be unmindful of the services rendered by populations which associated themselves with so much devotion to our cause. They have net ceased to occupy my thoughts. They deserve to engross those of the nation. " I trust, Gentlemen, that harmony will not cease to prevail among the great bodies of the state, and that the country will con- tinue to find its strength in the nnion of its children." PORTUGAL. By accounts received hy his Majesty's brig Royalist, which left Oporto on the 9th instant, no engagement had taken place subse- quent to the accounts received to the 27 th ultimo. Don Miguel, however, occasionally favours the besieged with a few shells and shots, without doing any mischief or exciting any alarm. The Mi- guelites are active in their preparations for a general and desperate attack upon Oporto, which was expected to take place on or about the 15th instant. The Pedroites were adopting vigorous measures to repel it. Don Miguel arrived atBraga on the 6th instant, where the major part of his aimy is, consisting of about 17,000 men, . whom he is going to command in person. He has Iefthis sisters at the Ursuline convent. Don Miguel was warmly received by that division of his army, who have evinced great devotedness to his cause. He has caused strong batteries to be erected on the south side of tbe Douro, where he has about 11,000 men, to command the city and bar, so that the expected bombardment may be spontaneous at the time fixed, to paralyze, and, if possible, discomfit tbe besieged. Don Pedro intends to send a reinforcement of troops to Villa Nova to attempt the destruction of the batteries, which it is supposed he will be enabled to do under the shelter of the Serra Convent. Don Miguel purposes to commence the attack on the Bon Successo side of Oporto, which has hitherto been the weakest side of the lines. Don Pedro, supposing such to be the design of his antagonist, has taken the precaution to strengthen that side, and has ordered the houses and trees which would cover the advance of the besiegers to be destroyed. Don Miguel has threatened to attack Foye ; but it is not at all probable he will do so— he has made no effort to pre- vent the communication between it and the city ; if he did he would be frustrated, and the party cut off from the centre of the line. Great reinforcements- have arrived from England and elsewhere, and it was stated at the time of the Royalist leaving, that General Excelmans, from France, had arrived at Oporto in the Liverpool steamer. Count Villa Fior has resigned his command in the army, the cause of which is unknown ; and Don Pedro has taken the com- mand himself, which not at - all disappointed his troops, and has expressed his determination either to conquer or die in the cause. He has appointed Sir John M. Doyle as his Aid- de- Camp only for the present. Two of Admiral Sartoritis's frigates are in such a dilapidated state as to be unfit for further service unless repaired, and it is said they will proceed either to Vigo or England to refit. The Don John is in such a state from tin! late naval engagement as to be alto- gether unseaworthy— she is lying at Lisbon. The Caledonia and Asia are at anchor off Lisbon, which has given great joy to the British residents in that city, as they will be protected from the insults of the Miguelites. The Briton and Leveret were cruising off Oporto. The army of Don Pedro is estimated at 15,000 strong bers of the Tribunals, or the employes in the different departments of Administration, with the Royal displeasure in case of their neglect of their duties, or their tardy execution of them. The former document is extremely satisfactory, with the exception of the limi- tations to the amnesty ; and the latter shows the difficulties with which the new Regent has to contend from tlie Caiiist faction, even in doing the few liberal acts which have signalized her power. Letters from Madrid of the 30th nit., represent the state of the King's health as still very precarious, and the situation of the Queen's party as very hazardous. The faction of the Apostolicals has evinced new audacity, and the explosion of an insurrection. or a civil war is immediately apprehended should his Majesty's demise now take place. TURKEY. It is stated that during the recent dreadful tempest, or, rather, succession of tempests, on the Turkish coast, no less than 60 vessels were wrecked in the sea of Marmora. The storm is said to have so purified the air that the plague had very much di- minished on the three or four succeeding days, but had again re- newed its violence at the date of the latest letters from Constanti- nople. The Grand Vitier is said to be actively preparing for a campaign, in the spring, against Ibrahim, who- would not, if was expected, be able to pass Mount Taurus during the winter months. An army of 40,000 men is said to have disembarked near Galipoli, for the purpose of encamping in that neighbourhood. UNITED STATES. By New York papers to the 20th ult., it appears that the con- tested election for Governor of Pennsylvania has terminated in favour of Mr. Wolf, who supports the present President of the United States, and that this result is considered favourable to the re- election of General Jackson. COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES.— Annual report of the Commerce and Navigation of the United States. The imports and exports for the year ending on the 30th of September, 1831, are as follows :— Maine New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts Rhode Island - - Csnnecticut New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Delaware Maryland District of Columbia Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Alabama Mississippi Louisiana - Ohio Florida Michigan dollars. 941,417 146.205 166.206 14,269,056 562,161 405,066 57,077,41? 12,124,083 21,656 4,826,577 193,555 488,522 196,356 1,238,164 399,940 224,435 Total - 9,766,693 617 115,710 27,299 103,191,124 Maine New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts Rhode Islacd Connecticut New York New Jersey - Pennsylvania Delaware Maryland - District of Columbia Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Alabama Mississippi Louisiana Ohio Florida Michigan Total dollars. 805,573 111,22-' 925,127 7,733,763 367,465 482,883 25,535,144 11,430 5,513,713 54,51- 1 4,308,6* 47 1,220,97-- 4,150,47.- 841,14: 6,575,203 3,959,81. 2,413,891 16,761,98'.- 14,72:-. 30,49.- 12,39! 81,310,58:) This table shows an extraordinary activity in our commerce during the year 1831. The amount of imports are greater than it has ever been before since returns showing the value of imports were first made to the Treasury, which was in 1821. Probably it is greater than it has been at any period in the history of the country. Tin- amount of exports is also greater than it has been since 1825, whei; it exceeded 99,000,000 of dollars. In 1830 the imports amounted tu 70,876,920 dollars, and exports to 73,849,508 dollars. In 1829 the imports were somewhat over74,000,000, and the exports some- what less than 72,000,000. The register tonnage for the year end- ing December 1, 1830, is stated at 576,475 ; and enrolled and licensed tonnage at 615,301— making a total of 1,191,776. T& V total amount of shipping built in the United States during the year 1830 was 58,804 tons. Of this amount 21,242 tons were re- gistered, and 36,841 enrolled. The number of seamen belonging to the United States, estimated with as much accuracy as possible, is 92,000, of whom there are in the foreign trade 50,000 ; in tin- coasting trade, in vessels of nearly or over 100 tons burden, 25,000; in coasting vessels of less than 50 tons burden, 5,000 ; in the cod fishery, 5,000; in the steam- vessels, 1,000; and in the United States' navy, 6,000. CHINA. It appears by intelligence in the Chinese Courier, published at Canton, lo the 6th of May, that a rebellion was raging in the in- terior of China, the avowed object of which was the deposition of the Emperor, which had struck so much terror that it was with great difficulty the Hoops could be brought into the field to act against the rebels. Of one detachment, consisting of 3,000 men, which engaged the rebels, only seven, it is said, escaped. They were re- ported to be well organized and supplied with provisions, and to have gained some other signal successes over the Imperial forces. SPAIN. The Queen Regent of Spain has promulgated two proclama- tions of a late date, the one explanatory of the act of am- nesty passed on the 15th ult., and the other menacing the Mem DEAL, Nov. 15.— The combined English and French squa- dron remain. The Netherlands brig Diana, Captain Wente, from Berbice to Amsterdam, has been detained by his Majesty's ship Satellite, and is proceeding to Ramsgate. Another rich Dutch ship has been taken, coming from Berbice laden with coffee, bound to Holland. CHATHAM.— The smiths in the dock- yard are employed from six in the morning until eight in the evening, preparing anchors for the fleet in the Downs. MERCANTILE PROTEST.— On Tuesday, a numerous Meeting of merchants, ship- owners, and others, anxious for the pre- servation of pacific relations between this country and Hollanc was held at the City of London Tavern, Mr. Thomas Wilson in the Chair.— The chairman stated, that the object of the meeting was to agreee to an address to the King deprecatory of the hostile measures adopted by this Country against Holland.— He looked upon those warlike proceedings, as calculated to injure English interests and aggrandize France. In support of his views, he cited the authority of O. P. Q. the Parisian corres- pondent of the Morning Chronicle— a gentleman, who as we stated some time ago, likewise corresponds with the Standard, and is known to joint- stock speculators by the name of John Wilks, ex- representative of Sudbury, and its immaculate bur- gesses. Mr. T. Baring, ( son of Sir Thomas) fleshed his orato- rical weapon on the occasion. Though a young man he delivered himself with easy confidence of wealth, and was exceeding smart upon Ministers— having been reared in Amsterdam, he rather unpatriotically devoted his sympathies to the Dutch in the anti- cipation of a contest.— Mr. Thornton adverted fo a substantial grief— the detention of certain of his ships. Though there was a considerable number in opposition, the meeting was harmonious, no talking being allowed except upon the pro- Batavian side— so that the resolutiouists had it all their own way. SAVINGS' BANKS.— The Barrister appointed to certify the rules of savings' banks and friendly societies, has just published a very curious statistical table, compiled from official returns, of the progress of savings' banks in England, Wales, and Ireland, up to November, 1831, showing the number of banks in each county, with the increase and decrease of each class of depo- sitors since November, 1830. Many persons will be surprised to learn that in England the total amount of deposits is • no less than 12,161,607/., or nearly \ l. per head for each inhabitant ; and that in Ireland the amount is 1,004,189/. The increase in the number of depositors in England, in the year, was 9,212, of which 8,698 were under 20/,; the increase in Ireland was 4,505, the largest proportion of which were under 501., aud more than half these were in Dublin. The total amount of investments of savings' banks, friendly and charitable societies, in England, Wales, and Ireland, is 14,311,647/., showing the average amount of each depositor to be, in England, 321.; in Wales, 31/. ; and in Ireland, 301. 3* 3 THE TOW nr. November 18. TO SUBSCRIBERS. Part I. of the POLITICAL MAP OF ENGLAND, engraved on steel, • md brilliantly coloured, is now ready for delivery, gratis, to those who .. ave paid their quarter's subscription to The Town, the only ffay in which this important and useful work can be obtained. The Map shows all the alterations caused by the Reform and Boun- dary Bills, from the Ordnance Surveys, assisted by the Reports of the Commissioners for the Division of Counties. Subscribers, in case of any disappointment with respect to the delivery of the Map or the Paper, are requested to forward information on the subject to the Publisher. The Second Part of the Map is now in preparation, and will be ready for delivery to Subscribers in the beginning of January. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We beg again to state that we cannot be expected to insert communica- tions from desultory Correspondents arriving later in the week than Friday evening. To ensure their publication, they should be with us on Friday morning. HEBDOMADARY. Day of Mo. Day of We. High Water. Morn. H. M. 11 29 Aftern. Remarkable Events, etc. Sun rises 41 after 7 Cape of G. II. disl495 Rich Burn d 1785 Lord Hawke's v 1759 H. Tooke acq. 1794 Peace with Amer 1814 Sunday Lessons. 22d Sunday after Trinity. Morning: Prov. 2, John 10. Evening : Prov. 3,2 Tim. 1 * » * 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. THE TO WW. LONDON: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 183' 2. The march of the French army for carrying into effect the provisions of the treaty of the 15th of November, was to take place on Thursday. By this time Marshal GERARD will have commenced operations, which, whatever be their ^ consequences, tlie course pursued by his Dutch MAJESTY has rendered inevitable. If blood he shed and property laid waste, on that MONARCH'S head must rest the re- sponsibility. The force appropriated to this service by tlie Frencli Go- vernment, has been increased to about 90,000 men, of which a part is to remain as a reserve upon the Belgian frontier. Three divisions of the combined squadrons of France and England, have sailed for the coast of Holland, bound for the Texel, the Meuse, and the Scheldt. The flag- ships remain in the Downs. A considerable number of Dutch vessels have been detained iu the French ports. Accounts of the disposition of the Northern Powers, received through the German papers, are favourable lo the continuance of peace. If strong disinclination to abandon, and earnestness of endeavour to regain place, were convertible terms with '^ capacity to fill it, the Conservatives outfit to hold office ac- cording to the old tenure— while woods grow and wafers run. There was no sacrifice that they were not prepared to make rather than quit the Treasury bench ; and, since they were compelled lo quit, there has been no opportu- nity, however insignificant, that seemed lo offer the most slender chance of getting back that they have not dis- played an eagerness to turn to advantage, which is at "" once melancholy and ridiculous. Of all the pleas for foisting upon the Ministry of Lord GREY such a charge as might lead to their resignation, or weaken their influ- ence, the last surely was the charge of interfering in the dispute between Holland and Belgium. Who was it that showed them the example? Was it not the head of the Conservatives himself? Was it not the Duke ot WEL- LINGTON who began that interference, which it is imputed lo Earl GREY, as tho greatest of faults, to be anxious to terminate ? What did the Duke, in giving his sanction lo the Con- ference, propose? Was his object to re- unite Belgium lo Holland? If so, did he expect that the reunion could be brought about unless by force? Did he imagine that Belgium would willingly submit to it? Was he not pre- pared to make it submit?— Was his object lo confirm the eparation of the two states? If so, did lie expect Ihat ie separation could be confirmed without force ? Did he imagine that Holland would willingly submit to it? Was he not prepared to make it submit? In a word, be his motives union or separation, was he determined on giving them effect ? Having taken lo himself all the responsi- bility of a self- named arbiter, did he mean to rest there? Supposing that the Duke had been still in power; that reform, Ihe accursed thing in his eyes, had never been carried ; that Sarnrn and Gatton and the Constitution of England had been as yet whole ; that the Conference had exhausted its own patience,— Ihe patience of Belgium, of Holland, and of Europe equally ; that the last Protocol had found the King of Holland as compliant as the first jid;— what would his Grace have done then? Would he have dissolved the Conference, and left LEOPOLD and WILLIAM lo fight out their quarrel as liked them ? Could behave done so? Was not the dread of a general war, in which such a conflict was certain to terminate, the cause why the Five Powers first interposed ? Could they then leave Ihe parties, at the end of a couple of years, fo pro- voke that very issue for whose prevention Ihe Conference was first instituted ? If that course were loo absurd and dangerous, what course would the Duke have adopted? If, instead of a hundred Protocols, he had issued a thou- sand, still Hie end of ncgociation must have come,— and, negotiation once ended, what was to follow ? It has been imputed to the Ministry, thai they strongly condemned the interference of the DUKE before they came into power, and as soon as they were in power they fol- owed his example. But it is wholly forgotten that, when Lord BROUGHAM so strongly expressed his opinion of the mischiefs of interference, he spoke of Ihe interfer- ence of a partisan, not of a judge. He objected, very properly, to the Duke of WELLINGTON'S describing the people of Belgium as— revolted subjects of a wise king, because this was, in fact, prejudicating the w hole question at issue. He did not condemn interference in the ab- stract, much less justifiable and necessary interference, but that sort of interference which begins by condemning one of the parties on whose behalf it is ostensibly exer- cised. To interfere in the domestic concerns of any state, unless in very rare cases which carry their own rule along with them, is wholly and absolutely to be condemned. No plea of expediency could excuse the interference of NAPOLEON in the disputes of FERDINAND and his father ; or of LOUIS between FERDINAND and the Cortes; or oj FRANCIS between the King ofNAPLES and his people. Bat though every state ought to be left lo arrange its domestic matters according to its own pleasure, it does not follow that two states may make war on each other for any or no purpose, and endanger the safety of the whole of their neighbours, without their neighbours being permitted lo interpose to compel a peaceful settlement of their differences. As long as it was in any degree doubt- ful whether Ihe dispute between Belgium and Holland would lead to a complete separation, so long interference was not called for, and, in fact, did not fake place; but when the separation had, in all men's eyes, become com- plete, then lo compel Holland, on the one side, lo respect Belgium, and Belgium, on the other, to respect Holland, was not interference in the obnoxious meaning of the term, but the prevention of interference. Why do we now demand that Holland shall give up Antwerp, but that the occupation of Antwerp is in fact an act of direct in- terference on the part of the Dutch King in the affairs of Belgium ? Ministers are ridiculcd because, lo keep away war they make war. This is a mere play upon words. England and France make war on Holland with a certain, definite purpose— the evacuation, by the former, of the Belgian territory, to prevent a war of conquest and extermination between Holland and Belgium, and, in a few months, be- tween the w hole of the great powers of Europe, England and France included. If there were any means appointed of Heaven for making either men or kings do what they do not wish to do, save actual coercion, we would cer- tainly say— use that means; but we profess we know of none. The five Powers have agreed, without a dissentient voice, that peace ought to be concluded between Holland and Belgium on certain terms ; these terms Belgium ac- cepts and Holland repudiates. There is no superior lo which the arbiters can appeal for the enforcement of their decree; they must either enforce it themselves, or the en- tire end and purpose of the Conference must fall to the ground. They must take the consequences of a partial war or of a general war— there is no tertium quid; matters cannot remain as they are : cither LEOPOLD, who has complied with the behests of the Conference, must give way, or WILLIAM, who has refused to comply, must give way; either the Powers must enforce the right which they have themselves sanctioned, or ( hey must allow the wrong, which they have themselves condemned. What Holland has already given up, it has given up, not to the arguments of the Conference, but to the power which, if driven lo use it, the Conference had of enforcing these arguments. The self- same force which is now dis- played in act to drive the Dutch troops from Ihe citadel of Antwerp, has hitherto kept them from making open war on Belgium. It is the most utter drivelling lo make dis- tinctions where there exists none. If the driving of Chasse over Ihe border be an act of unjustifiable inter ference, so equally w as the first Protocol that issued from the Five Powers— so equally were the articles of treaty- drawn up by them— so equally were all their acts, from the beginning lo the end. The only difference between the Duke of WELLINGTON and Earl GREY is this— that the former began, and the latter finished; that the DUKE'S act was an act of contingent, and the EARL'S act an act of certain good. The capture of Ihe Duchess of BERRY, while it affords the credit of superior vigilance to the present administra- tors of affairs in Fiance, is calculated to produce some embarrassment as to the mode in which she is to be dealt with. Already, the Administration have decided on re- moving her case out of the jurisdiction of the ordinary tri- bunals, and making it the subject of special consideration. The Republicans will clamour for her blood, and undoubtedly her crimes against France, as the agitator of civil war, have been very great, and such as would be considered sufficient to seal the doom of a legion of suburban artizans. But the European feeling revolts from sanguinary examples, and " reasons of slate" will not be wanting to save this weak, intriguing woman from the scaffold. It is said that the Moniteur will shortly publish the contents of the papers found upon her when arrcstqd, among which are slated to be letters from the Saxon and Bavarian sovereigns, the Prince Royal of PRUSSIA, tlie Elector of HESSE- CASSEL, the Duke of NASSAU, the Duke of MECKLENBURGH, and Don MIGUEL, It is said Ihat there is a chance of Mr. HUME not being returned for Middlesex. We are far from repeating the rumour with the desire that it may prove true. Our feeling is one of pure asfoi. ishment that there should be a doubt upon the subject. Had the statement been from ' l ory authority, it would have passed with Ihe wind that wafted it to us; but it has been advanced by persons worthy of trust— persons who wish well to Mr. HUME, and who would even endeavour to smooth a seat for him in Westminster, to the prejudice of Sir JOHN HOBHOJSE, if he failed in his election elsewhere. Aiid who is the candidate tbat may by possibility bt returned for Middlesex in place of Mr. HUME? The Master in Chancery, Lord HENLEY— a man known, when in Parliament, as a prop of the " old system," with all its abominations— a man now bolstered up by the Bishops as their Church Reformer— a man who opposed the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts— one who rejoices in the name of " Conservative"— certainly the most disgusting appellation ever bestowed by a set of priggish drivellers on the offals of a faction. ' Well, this Chancery officer, with his conserves of " old system" principles and epis- copal views of ecclesiastical reformation, may, as the story goes, have the fortune to share the representation of Mid- dlesex to the exclusion of the staunch old arithmetician ! But through what unaccountable chapter of changes could such a tiling take place? Are the independence and common sense of the Middlesex electors destroyed by the Reform Bill? or has HUME proved false to those professions, and to that character on the faith of which he received their suffrages? Has he been less assiduous in the performance of his legislatorial duties? Has he boozed in BELLAMY'S— lounged at the Clubs— lolled at the Opera, or fribled at the Soiree— when he should have been fixed by his favourite pillar in St. Stephen's amidst the unclean creatures of the Opposition ? Should the electors fail io choose Mr. HUME, it must be charged to their want of common sense and independence, and not to any dereliction of duty cn his part. He is still what helias been for twenty years, an indefatigable labourer in the public service. Early and late at his post— en- trenched among documents, Ihe very sight of which would cause an ordinary head lo ache:— at first interrogating awkwardly, then ridiculed and baffled— interrogating again, neither ridiculed nor baffled— gaining his point at last, and, in thus gaining it, obtaining all the reward he aimed at, when enduring mortifications such as few could have had the patience to encounter, and combating fa- tigues calculated to undermine the vigour of the most robust constitution. Upon what plea is it attempted to substitute the conserv- ing and time- serving corruptionist for the sturdy assailant of abuses? The latter having discharged the trust reposed in him by his constituents faithfully and ably, one would ima- gine that the question of his re- election was disposed of. But no ; it seems there is a grievous taint in him, which nul- lifies all his usefulness, and for which the Tories insist upon his being put to the ban, not only of the county— but of the country. It must surely be a very monstrous kind of blot that can at once disqualify the meritorious Member of twenty years standing for resuming his place in Parliament. Some most flagrant offence, hitherto con- cealed, must have unexpectedly blazed abroad. What can it be? Is Mr. HUME a Cannibal— or a Burker?— has he been detected in the receipt of a pension— or in pillaging the Exchequer through any less aristocratic mode ? We pause for a reply. A reply we have from a Mr. W. A. GARRATT, the chairman of a Hampstead electoral meet- ing favourable to Lord HENLEY, w ho explains the astound- ing mischief in this appeal to his auditors:—" Who," says Mr. W. A. GARRATT—" who would vote for the man who could propose, in the House of Commons, that the words ' Divine Providence' should be left out of the ( holera Bill?" Here is a novel test for Parliamentary candidates ! The Middlesex freeholders must henceforth become theological querists— and instead of examining their representatives on secular affairs, must prepare themselves with curious interrogatories on metaphysical divinity. The hustings must be enlarged for a hall of disputation, and a pre- siding bench erected for those pious doctors of Sorbonne, the editors of the Standard, who, assisted by their exem- plary fellow- labourer of the Morning Guardian, erst of the Morning Journal, doubtless possess the requisite lore for illuminating whatever polemical subtleties may arise. The process of MR. HUME'S condemnation is syllogistic. The Hon. Member, it is said, recommended the omission of the words " Divine Providence," in the preamble of a sanatory enactment— ergo, he is an infidel— or as a member of Lord HENLEY'S Committee has charitably circularized him— an atheist— a man without a God. Among all the distorted conclusions of political malignity that our expe- rience has coped with, we have noted no deduction so Anti- Christian and irrational as this. Any person pos- sessed with a sober spirit of devotional belief, must have felt that the name of the Supreme Being was most un- seasonably introduced when huddled into a routine proposi- tion, awaiting the assent of an assembly of sinful men, convened for objects exclusively temporal. The columns of a newspaper are as unfitted for discussing such a sub- ject as the benches of the House of Commons ; we there- fore refrain from dwelling upon it, but it appears to us that the introduction of the phrases objected to, was ex- ceedingly ill- timed, and their collocation highly irreverent. Let him who entertains a contrary opinion attend the House of Commons, and witness the mummery by which the legislative sanction is imparted to the preamble of a bill. Lord HENLEY goes forth as the self- constituted cham- pion of " religion and order." He displays the true genius of the Apostolical, and while he vindicates his faith keeps a saving eye to his election. Iu our mind no interpretation that can be put upon the conduct of his Lordship's opponent renders it half so repugnant to the sense of right and decency as the revival of these Parlia- mentary polemics at the moment when they may prove instrumental to a successful canvass. Offensive as such a proceeding must be considered, whoever may have autho- rised or countenanced it, it is altogether revolting in the man, or the men who affect to stand aloof from the mul- titude in special veneration of things divine. Unacquainted with Mr. HUME, except in his public cha- racter— estimating him solely by the work he has performed, he is, we think, among the last of those whose legislatorial services could be dispensed with. Of blunders and indis- cretions he has exhibited his share, but they may be ex- cused by hisconstituents and the nation, for they have neither injured the one nor impoverished tha other. W hatever is to be deducted on the score of his failings, there is still in him so much of the stuff that n akes a proper repre- sentative, that it will fce anything but honourable for Mid- dlesex if it desert him for the political abortion called a Conservative, and on a pretext which none but such an abortion could have descended to employ. From Lloyd's agent at Rotterdam, Nov. 13.—" It is the gen- eral opinion of well- informed men, as well as my own, that the Dutch Government does not intend to detain British vessels. This morning the Magnificent, from London, was reported at the Custom- house, and received permits to discharge as usual. Permits to land are also granted, and I regret that the English vessels have left our port in ballast from fear of being detained." It is gratifying to learn that the French Government has for some time past been making strong instances to the Cabinet of His Britauic Majesty, with a view to the adoption of some deci- sive measure in favour of the constitutional cause in Portugal, such as would terminate the present revolting contest by restor- ing Donna Maria, the legitimate heiress, to the throne. Preparations are making for opening the Freneh Chambers on Monday. It is supposed that the debate upon the Address will not commence befor the 26th. Letters of the 5th inst. have been received from Madrid. They state that the King's health continued to improve, and that the country was tranquil. The new Captains- General had taken peaceable possession of their respective provinces, and General Castanos, the veteran who distinguished himself in the early part of the peninsular war, had been appointed Captain- General of Madrid and New Castile ; Count Canterac second in command ; and Freire, the Constitutional General, commandant of the Royal Horse Guards. The Count d'Espagna continued, and was to retain his post as Captain- General of Catalonia. PORTUGUESE CONTEST.— Accounts received on Thursday night from Lisbon, are encouraging to the friends of Don Pedro. It appears the Usurper, apprehensive of disturbances in that capital, l. ad recalled some of the troops on their way to join the army before Oporto. From the latter place we learn that the large reinfercements received by Don Pedro by sea had » o strengthened his army, as to give the best reason to hope that the expected struggle would terminate in his favour. FALMOUTH, NOV. 14.— His Majesty's ship Pike arrived this morning from Lisbon and Oporto, and this afternoon his Ma- jesty's brig Pantaloon, Lieutenant Dacre, after an extraordinary quick passage, it being only eleven days since she left England. By these vessels we have advices from Lisbon to the 10th, and Oporto to the 11th instant, but nothing of material importance had occurred. Nearly all the troops had left Lisbon for the scene of action, so that there can be no doubt a grand attack was contemplated. Two regiments had refused to march from Lisbon for Oporto, and had in consequence been disarmed and taken pri- soners. At Oporto nothing particular had transpired ; but the forces of Don Pedro were in high spirits, and quite prepared for the threatened attack, whilst on the other side immense exertions were making by Don Miguel to render their assault effective and final. Guns had been planted on all the heights, the firing of which was daily kept up, very much to the annoyance of the inhabitants. The weather was so strong that neither the Pike nor the Pantaloon could communicate with the shore. The naval forces on both sides are not likely to be of much service for some time : but the crews will considerably strengthen the army on shore. The next arrival will doubtless bring the result of the attack, which will probably settle the question whether Don Pedro will succeed or not. We hear from Switzerland that the city of Basle still continues to defy the authority of the Diet, and shews an inclination to involve the whole canton, and even the whole Confederation, in something very like a civil war. The Diet of Hungary is to meet at Presburg on the 16th Dec. The Emperor has issued a rescript commanding the Hun- garians to choose their Deputies by that day. A requisition to the Lord Mayor has been numerously signed by the Aldermen and Common Council, to take into considera- tion the following motion at the next court:—" That this court, impressed with feelings of sincere gratification at the elevation of our late Common- Sergeant to the high office of Lord Chief Jus- tice of England, arising at once from great personal esteem, from a sense of the honour thereby reflected upon this city, and from a regard to the interests of the public, do express the same in an address of congratulation to the Right Hon. Sir Thomas Denman upon his appointment:" HOUSE AND WINDOW TAX.— A very numerous meeting of the inhabitants of St. James's parish took place on Wednesday last, to consider the best means of obtaining the repeal of the house and window tax. Many of the householders delivered their sentiments, and forcibly depicted the peculiar hardship which the industrious tradesman is subjected to by these taxes. Some strong resolutions were passed, without a dissentient voice; and a highly respectable committee was formed to carry the pro- ceedings of the meeting into effect. The committee were em- powered to invite to their sittings a limited number of the mostinfluential persons from the following parishes in West- minster, to co- operate with them:— St. Martin's in the Field's, St. George, Hanover- square, St. Anne, St. Paul, Covent- garden, St. John, St. Margaret, and St. Clement Danes. LIABILITY OF PAWNBROKERS.— Mr. Ballantine, the Magis- trate at the Thames Police office, some time back, decided that Mr. Cording, a pawnbroker, was liable to pay the value of a gun, which, having been pledged with him, had been destroyed, with other property, by fire. The pawnbroker appealed at the Sessions, but the appeal was not received, and refusing to pay, he was committed on the Magistrate's warrant. Having ob- tained a writ of habeas corpus the case came to be argued in the Court of King's Bench, on Thursday, when it was decided that there was no power of commitment given by the Act of Parlia- ment in any position of the case. Justices J. Parke, Taunton, and Patteson were of opinion, that loss of property by fire was not contemplated in the Statute on which Mr. Ballantine had acted. The Magistrate, however, certainly took the rational and equitable view of the matter, for it seems monstrous that pawnbrokers who are allowed such weighty interest, and who have the insurance offices open to them, should not be bound to compensate those whose property may fall a sacrifice to their neglect. Besides, their exemjUion is calculated to lead to the fraudulent withholding goods that may have been saved from a fire. The University of Cambridge has conferred the degree of Honorary Master of Arts on the Right Hon. Thomas Spring Rice, Esq., M. P. 6 GRANTHAM.— A short time ago a highway robbery was com- mitted at Grantham on a poor deaf and dumb man, named Za- chariah Briggs, by Matthew Drury and Joseph Pyzer. They not only robbed him of his watch and money, but most cruelly beat him. By the exertions of Rudd, one of the police- officers of this place, and William Wood, his assistant, the ruffians have been apprehended, and committed to Grantham gaol. They are both old offenders, and there are other charges of felony against the prisoner Pyzer, IWember IB. THE TOW1V. 313 METROPOLITAN MEMBERS.— NO. IV. We observed in our last, that there was a general argu- ment connected with tiie attempts now making to return some exceedingly insignificant personages for the metro- politan districts that the electors would do weli to attend to. Don't let us be mistaken w hen we apply the term insignificant to such candidales as Messrs Savage, Mur- phy, and Co. that it is to their humble condition in life, or their slender means, that we offer the slightest objection, although we might justly object to bolh. For it is not Vkely that the requisites for a legislator should be found in a station that naturally supposes an imperfect education and narrow information ; and in order that a man be a useful or desirable member of the great council of the nation, it is necessary that he possess, not merely capacity, but leisure for the fulfilment of its various duties. Still we arc ready to admit that in some instances, even in the lowest ranks, may be found men capable of the highest and most important tasks; and the constituents of a poor Member, if he be in other respects fitting, may- supply his pecuniary wants. But is there the smallest proof Ihat in any of the instances alluded to the re- quisite capabilities of a lilting and useful Member are ( o be found? Let any one of their next door neighbours, or of those that meet at the same club, of those that deal with, that employ, or are employed by any one of these candidates, ask himself— if be had a plea, on the issue of which ten pounds depended, would he entrust its advocacy to any one of them ? We do not impugn their honesty— far from it; but looking to their capacities and attainments, would any elector, we repeat, entrust to one, or to all three, a brief iu which he was personally interested to the amount of ten pounds? and if not more than one out of a thousand of their admirers would do so— we exceedingly doubt if even One in a thousand would— with what face can they ask their friends and fellow- electors to entrust to such management the interests of fourteen millions of English- men, and fifty millions a year ? Again, without pretending to know any thing about the private affairs of lliese gentlemen, we are justified in con- cluding, that if they possessed an independence, without a certain amount of which it is impossible that a man should perform the functions of a legislator, this one would not mend watches, nor that one vend potatoes, nor a third scribble fustian articles. God forbid we should lightly esteem any man because he lives by his labour— wc honour him the rather. But it is worse than folly to suppose that be who is compelled by necessity ( o give all day to his private affairs, can give all his nights to the affairs of the public. The folly could not have been perpetrated by any electors of inviting such men to become candidates for membership, bad it not been for a very common, but a very obvious fallacy. The middle and lower classes of the people, in their aggregate, are all powerful. If lliey combine to effect any purpose which physical force can accomplish or compel, of course they will not fail to effect it. They are, in their aggregate, the depositaries of the great sum, of the sound feeling, and sound sense of the nation. Whatever they generally combine to demand may, ex facie, be looked on as sound and just. But their moral power is no more capable of being transferred to a representative than is their physical power. They might as well attempt to im- part to a favourite member the vigour of ten thousand arms as the sagacity of ten thousand heads. Whenever the people then are compelled to depute their powers, Ihe deputy, by what number soever appointed, must be in- debted for his dignity to himself. It is the height of ab- surdity to suppose that because 6 or 7,000 men in Mary- lebone, or Finsbury, or Lambeth, or the Tower Hamlets, . combine lo invest a foolish, or ignorant, or insignificant person with the name of their member, that he will thence- forth be wise, well- informed, and important. They may, by placing him on an eminence, make his talents, if he have any, better known, but they could as soon add a cubit to his stature as add a grain to their weight or value. It is, then, clearly Ihe interest of all men— and the lower that Ihe individuals of a constituency descend in the scale of personal regard, it is the more imperatively their interest — to select for their representatives, not merely fitting per- sons, but persons who possess the extrinsics as well as the intriusics of dignity— men w ho have a name and standing in the world's eye— men who give consequence to their choice, not take consequence from it. If they wish to bring themselves and their causc info contempt, they can adopt no more effectual means lhan by selecting as mem- bers men who are wholly without influence, aud who have neither in their education, talents, nor condition in society, the means of acquiring il. CHARITY FUNDS. • TO THE EDITOR OF THE TOWN. SIR— I beg leave to state, that in consequence of the contumely of the Paymaster of the Richmond Charities in not answering the leasonable questions put by your various correspondents, that a Union of many respectable inhabitants is about to he formed here for the purpose of rigidly enquiring into the sub- ject, and, if necessary, ( by subscription) to enforce a reply by filing a bill in Chancery, for really it is beyond all endurance that a man who has enriched himself by the many offices he has been allowed to hold, should now refuse answering such reasonable, and at the same time, humane questions. But although he may depend that a reply will be enforced by the highest authority, yet another day of retribution will soon arrive ( I allude to Easter next), when he will come before the inhabitants wishing to be re- elected as their Vestry Clerk ; but I can tell him, that if he does not hastily retrace his steps, he may save himself the trouble, as it has been determined by many to put a gentleman of liberal principles in nomination. I beg to thank you for the publicity that you have given to the subject, and can assure _ you that it has already been productive ef much good. Richmond, Nov. 15, 1832. I am, Sir, yours, HONESTY. THE PLAY- GOER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TOWN. SIR,— The propriety of correcting all abuses in the manage- ment of the Funds of Charities nobody can deny, and if those belonging to Mitchell's Alms'- houses have been misapplied, any endeavour to prevent a recurrence would certainly entitle the individual making it to praise and gratitude. Without entering into the question— Whether there really has been any misappli- cation of the funds of our charities or not, my object in address- ing you is to do justice to the character of a gentleman entitled to the highest respect for his unquestionable integrity and inde- fatigable exertions in promoting the interests of the parish, which have been rewarded by his successive appointment to all its im- portant offices. As there are trustees to the charities in question, and as Mr. William Smith is merely the treasurer, it appears quite evident that if the old men have been deprived of their coats, and their pay has not been increased, or if the funds really have in any way whatever been misapplied, the Trustees must be the parties subject to blame and responsibility, for surely Mr. William Smith could not act without their orders or authority. Now, your Correspondents must have been fully aware of this, particularly " The Old Inhabitant of Richmond," and " The Old Rate- payer," who seem to have taken so much pains to acquire information upon this subject, not for the sake of exposing and correcting abuses in the management of the funds of the charities, but to attack the character of a gentleman whose only crime has been that of fulfilling his duties. Another foolish charge produced against him, is that of being wholesale coal- merchant to the Charities. This, upon enquiry, I understand, is a positive falsehood; and even admitting its truth for the sake of argument, unless it could be proved that the coals supplied by him are inferior in quality or charged for at a higher price than they might be purchased of a regular coal- merchant, I do not see how the interests of the charities could possibly suffer by it, nor upon what grounds a charge could be brought against this gentleman. However, the character of Mr. William Smith stands too high in the estimation of all the re- spectable inhabitants of Richmond, to be in the least injured by the attempts of your correspondents. Had their true object been the very laudable one of preventing the misapplication of the Charity Funds, avowing their names would have been more cre- ditable, and jvould have given them a claim individually to the thanks of their fellow parishioners, if such misapplication were actually found to exist, and should be by their exertions corrected. I must finish by calling your attention to the propriety of Mr. William Smith declining to answer your correspondents, both because none of their charges ( founded or unfounded) can be directly applicable to him, and because it is clear that he can- not take upon himself to produce any accounts without the au- thority of the Trustees, who are gentlemen of the highest honour aud integrity. As I am certain, Mr. Editor, that your object in giving inser- tion in your respectable columns to the several communications | you have received upon this subject, has been that of contributing to correct abuses, but not to encourage personal insult, I hope you will publish this letter in defence of the gentleman who has beeu so improperly attacked, and you will oblige Sir, your obedient servant, Richmond, Nov. 15, 1832. X. Y. Z. P. S. If an " Old Rate- payer" has any business to interfere with the funds of the charities, and finds that they are rnisap plied, why does he not complain against the proper parties ? * We have taken the liberty of erasing some passages in this letter, which appeared irrelevant to the matter at issue. As the points of public interest in the controversy seem to be ex- hausted, we would suggest to our correspondents that topics of a more general character necessarily claim prce « d « nce iu our columns. This has been a period of " revival" at the major theatres. At Covent Garden we have had Mrs. Inchbald's Every one has his Fault; at Drury Lane, Ben Johnson's Every Man in his Humwr. Both of the comedies are rather obsolete in their tone. Our exquisite Ben borrowed his comic efforts from per- sonal peculiarities and tricks of the time— evanescent materials for mirtk that seldom outlive one generation. Not so the wight of Stratford— his element was ever unperishable nature, to the developement of which individual characteristics and modes of the hour were rendered accessory, not essential. Kitely was one of Mr. Garrick's characters. It had an ex- cellent representative in Macready, who assumed it for the first time in the Metropolis. The struggle between his sense of manly dignity, and the out- breakings of his jealousy, was admirably depicted.— The rest of the characters were strongly cast, but the high names scarcely sustained their reputation.— Power as Bobadil, was a fish out of water— by the way, we should like to see John Reeve attempt this ingenious braggadocio— Harley's Master Stephen put us in painful remembrance of Punch. Blanchard re- appeared on the Covent- Garden boards in the part of Solus in " Every One has his Fault." At the same theatre Julius Ccesar has been produced, but not in such a way as to awaken a desire for its repetition. Auber's Fra Diavolo drew a crowded house. Vestris goes on merrily at the Olympic, not having any neces- sity to tax her invention for many alterations in her bill of fare. Rayner has brought a reinforcement in his own person to the New Strand establishment, which is worth a company of raw levies. Those who regret that they have never seen the Tyke of Emery, should witness Rayner's Giles. At the Queen's theatre, two new pieces have graced the week; the Forest of Blow and the Adventures of a Day. Mrs. Selby displays much cleverness in the latter. 1 BROTHERLY LOVE. It is stated in the Courrier Franpais that the Emperor o Ru ssia has lately granted to Charles X. a pension, to be paid out of funds arising from confiscated property in Poland, lately belonging to the friends of liberty.— Morning Paper. " Welcome, O fugitive Charles to me— Welcome to me, my brother ! Religion and order require that we, Whom knaves call the offspring of Tyranny, Should piously love each another :— By the shade of the sainted Constantine, Thou shalt eat of my bread— thou shalt drink of my wine. " That bread has been kneaded of corn which grew Where rebel heaps were lying Swamped in their gore ;— it was toasted, too, In a burning town, while a war halloo Pealed o'er a nation dying : Served on the point of a Cossack's red spear, Thou'lt find it, dear brother, most excellent cheer. " But the wine 1 the wine 1— here's the blood- red wine, Fit for Imperial drinking I ' Tis lachrymce populi divine :— So pledge to mine, as I pledge to thine, And keep thy heart from sinking— Can the cause of the Bourbon fail to thrive, When Poland has perish'd and I survive ?" The daily papers put forth the following mystical announce- ment :— " A foreign nobleman, aid- de- camp to the late Lord Byron, will appear as Zanga in the Revenge, at Drury- lane, on Wednes- day ; an announcement that has made great stir in the higher cir- cles." Being a " foreign nobleman," and having enjoyed the classical post of military assistant to Byron, it would be very un- accountable if this candidate for histrionic honours should not reap new laurels as the representative of the noble Moor. We quite participate in the anxieties of the " higher circles." OPERATIC INTELLIGENCE. PARIS.— The music of a new opera, entitled La Medecine sans Medecin, composed by M. Herold, is described as exhibiting con- siderable indications of science, with popular elegance and sweet- ness. The piece itself ( of course written by the eternal M. Scribe) is very mediocre.— SCRIBE again I The people of the Academie Royale de Musique are all in full activity, preparing an opera, in five acts! by this indefatigable dramatist. The music is by Auber. Another opera, in five acts, to keep pace with that prince of bore and darkness, Robert le Diable! Operas now are esti- mated grand by their duration, not by their merit; as the Dutchman appreciated his brother's book of poetry by its com- parative dimensions with the cheese which he exalted during his eulogy. Auber is not a musician of the first rank, but he is a very pleasing one, and we venture to prognosticate that his new opera will contain more rationality, and more originality, too, than the Robert displayed, unless, indeed, fantastic effects, and mere eccentricity are to pass for originality. M. Auber will appear, upon this occasion, before the public, towards the end of next month. Madame Tadolini, a new debutante, has appeared with con- siderable success at the Italian Opera of this city, in the part of La Somnambula. Her voice is of a fine quality, remarkably flexible, equal throughout, and articulate. Her chief defect lies in a want of enthusiasm and of passion. BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.— The regular and usual notices have been given that the memorable " London and Birmingham" Railway Bill will be revived in the next Session. NEW DAILY PAPER.— If I be returned a Member to the Parliament, it is my determination to have under my controul a Daily Evening Paper, to be published in London, without which I should be fighting in muffles ; I should be under the infernal hatches of the base and villanous reporthers. Rather than herd with whom, I would beg my bread from door to door, and with whom I must herd, and whom I must treat with both guttle and guzzle, or see my statements either garbled and disfigured, or • wholly suppressed. Therefore, I must have a Daily Paper under my controul; and, if I be elected, have it I will. I intended to drop the Register at the end of the present year ; but I shall not Ho that. It is so efficient 1 People have got into the habit of taking it in in clubs and societies so nicely. Like the sun, it sheds its beams so truly all over the kingdom, that I shall not cease to publish it until Sturges Bourne's Bills be repealed, and the malt- tax and hop- tax and tithes be abolished, at any rate. I mention this affair of the Daily Paper now, in order that people may be prepared for casting off the dirty Globe, and the other heaps of lies and of nonsense that now load the mail- bags throughout the country.— Cobbett. ADVICE WITHOUT A FEE. Some years ago, we in the journals read, " Rejoice ye briefless— lawyer S tt's dead 1"—• Alas 1 the lawyer lived— retained his briefs, And cursed a Press so niggard of its griefs. Again should rumour kill him, he were wise To skip the page recording his demise. IMPRISONMENT IN IRELAND.— The course of executive jus- tice, like every thing else in the " Dear Isle," is quite sui generis. Three worthies named Costello, Reynolds, and Magrane, were deposited in Kilmainham- gaol, Dublin, under convictions for being concerned in anti- tithe combinations. One would suppose that the place of their confinement would be appropriated to any other purpose than holding a ceremonial in honour of the " cause" for which they " suffered." However, Ireland is Ireland, and last Sunday, says the Dublin Express, a deputation of the Trades' Ur. ion proceeded from their forum, Abbey- street, to Kilmainham- gaol, and presented complimentary and consolatory addresses to the incarcerated patriots. The reception- room was crowded to excess— six carriage- loads of Unionists having been admitted to the hospitalities of the prison, while 300 persons remained out- side. Our old friend Ruthless, M. P. for Downpatrick, that prince of prosers, headed the deputation, and assured Mr. Marcus Costello that " the fact of his being the inmate of a gaol, so far from being a disgrace, must hold him up to the honour and es- teem of his countrymen." Ireland must be the Paradise of gaol- birds. No wonder that it carries away the palm of origi- nality, when its people possess such a happy disposition for re- ducing society to its original principles. THEATRICAL CHAT. PARIS.— At the Theatre du Vaudeville, on the 15th of la » t month, was produced a French portrait of the English Dandy. The piece has met with success, but the hero is totally unlike the original. The French can form no idea of the Pelham race of beings— happy ignoramuses I That extraordinary posture- master, Gough, alias Gouffe, alias Mynheer Von Kleishnig, has been distorting his limbs for the amusement of the visitors to the Porte St. Martin. He is a pupil in the Mazurier school, and can perhaps perform as tor- tuous evolutions as could his prototype; but in piquant hu- mour he is leagues in the rear of that amusing fellow. PRODIGIOUS I MAMMOTH STEAMER.— A vessel launched near Pittsburg, is said to be the largest on the western waters. She has 173 feet keel, and will carry 800 tons, besides engine, wood, and furni- tures, & c., which will probably swell the tonnage to 1,000. Her cabins, when thrown together by opening the folding doors, will measure 170 feet in length. She is to be propelled by an engine of 250 horse power, and is destined to run between New Or- leans and Louisville.— American Paper. NOVEMBER VIOLETS.— Violets in full bloom have been ga- thered by Mr. Millan, surgeon, at Acomb, this week. These lovely remembrances of the most cheering of the seasons are replete with vernal fragrance.— York Herald. NOVEMBER CANARIES.— A bird fancier in this city has two canaries which were hatched on the 1st of the present month; They are likely to be fine healthy birds.— Hereford Times. THE ROSE OF CASTLE- HOWARD.— There is an ox of the Durham short horned breed, now at Castle Howard, which has been fed by the Right Hon. the Earl of Carlisle, and which weighed on Saturday last 200 stone. A GLOBE TURNIP.— Mr. Thomas Monkhouse, of Durham, butcher, has in his possession a turnip of the globe kind, grown by him in a field upon Crossgate Moor, weighing 161bs., exclu- sive of the top and root, and measuring a yard and an inch in circumference.— Durham Chronicle. EXTRAORDINARY MELON.— On the 10th October there was cut, in Mrs. Chepe's garden, at Stratyrun, Fit'eshire, a most enormous melon, its circumference measured in the one direction 36 § inches, and in the other 38£ inches, and the mass weighed 27 pounds avoirdupois, and, what is singular, this gigantic melon was grown on a light sandy soil.— Edinburgh Evening Courant. RESISTING ATTRACTION.— A person having an artificial mag- net suspended from the wall of his study, with a piece of iron adhering to it, remarked, for several years, that the flies in the room, though they frequently placed themselves on other iron articles, never settled on the artificial magnet; and even that if any of these insects approached it, they in a moment again re-^ t. moved from it to some distance.— Mechanics' Magazine. JONATHAN'S PONY.— On Saturday se'nnight, Mr. Jonathan Gain, of Lumps Farm, in this island, sold a pony of the Shetland breed, which he had had in his possession about seven years, to Mr. Wm. Padwick, of Hayling Island, who immediately took* him home. On Mr. Gain going out of his house on Wednesday morning, he found the pony at his gate, having made his escape from his new master, swam across Hayling harbour, and returned without leave or licence to his old quarters. The animal whilst. j crossing the harbour was seen by the preventive men, who," mis- taking his cranium for a caik of spirits, immediately made after him, when to their astonishment the supposed cask on a sudden landed on the opposite shore, and galloped off without further molestation.— Portsmouth Paper. WORTHY OF MUNCHAUSEN.— An officer of the 30th regi- ment, who went, with his cigar in his mouth and sword in hand, to cover the retreat of the army in the descent of Mount Atlas, had his mouth completely full of tobacco smoke, which even kept the dental arches asunder, when he was struck on the right cheek by a spent ball, which entered and lodged in the oral ca- vity without any other lesion than the perforation of the soft parts which it met in its route. The officer spat out the tobacco smoke and the bullet together. There still remains a slight scar on the cheek.— Medical Gazette. FINDING THE INTELLECTUAL LEVEL. How comes it that Lord C ' s regards are set On the French, dancing gipsy, Pirouette ? His aim was still equality of mind ; Can he in her that blessing hope to find ? Her brain lies in her toes— and C hath shown How well he knows the level of his own. INSCRIPTION FOR THE EARL OF E— D— N'S TOMB. He loved not liberty who slumbers here— Yet we forgave him, for he seemed sincere ; Grant us like grace, who pass his relics by With no respect and much sincerity. CHOLERA REPORT FOR THE WEEK. JUDICAL SYNONYME.— In the course of the last Term a female appeared in the Court of King's Bench for the purpose of justifying as bail. She stated, that she was a widow— the plaintiff's counsel objected that she was described in the notice of bail as a spinster, Mr. Justice Littledale after a moment's hesitation said, " Oh, it is much the same," and she was per- mitted to justify. PAY OF SOLDIERS IN THF. REIGN OF EDWARD III.— The King's army in France, Normandy, and before Calais, besides the Lords, consisted of 31,294 combatants and attendants, and their pay for one yearandl31 days amounted to 127,20H. 2s. 9d. The following specification of particulars will furnish an idea of the military pay and service of this time :—" To Edward, Prince of Wales, being in the King's service in Normandy, France, and before Calais, with his retinue, for his wages of war 20s. a day ; eleven bannarets, every one taking 4s. a day ; 102 knights, each 2s. a day ; 264 esquires, each 12d. a day ; 384 archers on horseback, each 6d. a day ; 69 foot archers, each 3d. a day ; 513 Welshmen, whereof one chaplain at 6d. a day, 1 physician, 1 herald or cryer, 5 ensigns, 25 serjeants or officers over 20 men, each 4d. a day ; 480 footmen, each 2d. a day. To Henry Earl of Lancaster, being in the King's service before Calais, with his retinue and one other earl, each 6s. 8d. a day ; 11 ban nerets, each 4s. a day ; 193 knights, each 2s. a day ; 512 es- quires, each 12d. a day; 46 men at arms and 612 archers on horseback, each 6d. a day. To William Bohun, Earl of North- ampton, aud his retinue, at the same rate. To Thomas Hat- field, Bishop of Durham, 6s. 8d. per day ; 3 bannerets, 48 knights, 164 esquires, 81 archers on horseback, as above," November 12.. .. Monday 13.. .. Tuesday 14.... Wednesday .... 15.. .. Thursday 16 Friday 17.. .. Saturday Total Total cases from the commencement, New Cases. Deaths. ,. 140 .... 43 67 37 68 .... 37 98 .... 32 45 .... 26 40 .... 18 .. 458 192 67,289. Deaths, 25,262. KILKENNY.— The county of Kilkenny is in a very excited state. The Rev. Martin Doyle, parish of Graigue, the first priest who strenuously resisted tithes, was arrested on Monday in Johnstown, and escorted to the county gaol in Kilkenny tha evening by a troop of Dragoons, under an attachment for 31.10s. Id., alledged arrears of tithes, due for the year 1831 He remained in the gaol that night, but the day a deputation! waited upon him on the part of the citizeus, who wished him to allow them to pay the sum by halfpenny subscriptions on the spot This Mr. Doyle would not allow, as he could stop the amount au of the rent of his landlord, Mr. R. Devine, whose debts he de- clared should not be paid by the people of Kilkenny. On Ttres » day evening the priest discharged the claims, and was discharged GOOD PAY.— At the late concert in Canterbury, Signor Paga- nini received lOOf. for performing four pieces, being at the rate of 51. a minute. This beats the pound a line poets.— Kentish Observer. LONGEVITY.— A remarkable instance of long life is now prov dentially realised in the Hudson family, natives of Holme, en Spalding Moor, near Market Weighton. There are eight of them living, the eldest is 78 years of age, and the youngest 60, and Ih united ages of this generation are 552 years. Mr. Hudson,. Whiteley Wood, late collector of excise at Sheffield, is the elde here spoken of, and at present enjoys good health. Should they all live until another summer, they will then, on an average, realize the limited three score years and ten. There once were ten of tl surprising family, the youngest of whom died about SSyejusr- and the eldest of the ten died only three years ago, ageiiTT..' THE TOffy. November 18. THE TOWN. GENERAL ELECTION.— Tt is understood that the writs for the election Of Members for the reformed Parliament will most probably be in the possession of the sheriffs of counties on the 4th of next month. WILLIAM AUSTIN.— William Austin, who was humanely brought up by the late Queen Caroline, is at present in a mad- house at Milan. His mother and the rest of his family are living in Jamaica- row, Bermondsey. COUNTY RATE OF MIDDLESEX.— For the current quarter this rate is fixed at Id. in the pound, at which sum, inconsider- able as it may appear, it will produce the large amount of 22,553?. Thirty days are allowed to the different parishes, for the payment of their respective proportions. The stir made some time back by the magistrates repecting certain parishes which habitually run into long arrears, and the threat of issuing distress- warrants upon the property of the churchwardens and overseers, have not been without their good effects in facilitating the collection of the rates. The amount in arrear on the county- day of the last session, when this rate was made, was about 12,000?., of which more than one- halfhas since been paid. Even the parishes of Bethnal- green, Mile- end, and others, which used regularly to be four quarters in arrear, are now never more than two. This change is in part to be attributed to the gratifying fact that the pressure of distress arising from want of work, which so long prevailed in the silk manufacturing districts of the ' metro- polis, is now, to a very considerable degree, removed. NEW PEERS.— Lords Stanley and Uxbridge and the Marquis of Tavistock will be called to the House of Lords. CLAIM TO THE PEERAGE.— His Majesty, having the power of deciding between the claimants to the Peerage in abeyance since the death of Lord de Clifford, has determined in favour of Mrs. Russell, the lady of one of the sons of Lord William Russell. NAVAL CAPTURES.— The following Dutch vessels have been detained and sent into the under- mentioned ports by liis Ma- jesty's revenue cruizers :— The Redentore, Kavarich, from Smyrna, and the Gesina, Crook, from Villa Nova, both bound to Amsterdam, have been sent to Penzance; the Palembang, Kraanslurver, from Baltimore to Rotterdam, has been sent into Falmouth ; the Frau Anna Maria, Klemon, from Brest to Hol- land, and the Vro Paulina, Kreupper, from Memel to Rouen, have been sent into Yarmouth. MAINTENANCE OF PRISONERS.— The annual expense to the county of Middlesex for the supply of bread to the House of Correction, New Prison, and Westminster Bridewell, is about , 7000?., of which nearly 5000?. is incurred from the House of . Correction, about 1300?. for the New Prison, and the remainder for the Westminster Bridewell. The cost for meat is about 2000?. per annum, of which, with the exception of about 200?. for the Westminster Bridewell, the entire sum is on account of the House of Correction. No meat is allowed to the prisoners in the New Prison. THE DUKE OF YORK'S DEBTS.— Wednesday another meeting of the creditors of the Duke of York took place, at the Thatched House, when the select Committee, who had been directed to prepare a memorial to his Majesty from the creditors, reported they had complied with the wishes of the General Committee, and produced the memorial, but it was agreed upon, as the credi- tors had beendriven to call for a full investigationinto the conduct, of the executors, as well as all persons connected with them in the administration of the estate of the Duke of York, that, for the present, this memorial should be withheld. LAW APPOINTMENT.— Mr. Campbell has been appointed Solicitor- General. There is no truth in the report of Sir John Leach resigning the office of Master of the Rolls. FOREIGN MISSIONS.— The foreign missions that were vacant are now all filled up, with the exception of the Embassy to the Hague, where, it is understood, no successor to Sir Charles Bagot will be appointed until the settlement of the Belgic ^ question. HINDOO DOCTORS.— There are 573 native doctors attached to our Indian army. The company have provided models in papier- machi, and other improved methods of studying anatomy, for such Hindoos as object to touching the human skeletons ; but , their prejudices in this respect are fast wearing away. THE CHAIRMANSHIP OF THE MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.— This office, which has hitherto been considered as an honorary one, is now proposed to be made stipendiary and strictly laborious, and it is with this understanding that the new Chairman, W. H. " Nw*- « - Marriot, Esq., has accepted his appointment. Many eases now tried at the Old Bailey are to be disposed of at the Middlesex Sessions, and besides the additional labour thus imposed, it is to be part of the Chairman's / duty " to attend all committees ap- pointed by the Court, for the purpose of making himself ac- quainted with the exact state of all the varied business of the county, and to take notes of any points of law or difficulty which might arise, in order to investigate and inform himself thereon before the county- day, so that, if appealed to on that day, he may never be taken unawares." The salary of the office is proposed to be 1,200?. per annum, to be paid out of the county rate. Mr. Const received no salary from the county ; but the report states that a sum ( it does not name the amount) was annually paid to that gentleman from the Treasury. Mr. Const, in his evidence, says this payment was not considered in the light of a remunera- tion for his services, but as an equivalent for the expense in- curred in maintaining a certain degree of state which was thought incumbent on the Chairman of the Metropolitan county. PRAY PAY THE POST.— Accounts from Munich state that Otho, the new King of Greece, is so pestered with plans, projects, and proposals of Philhellenists, political theorists and speculators, as to have been, obliged to give public notice that he will not re- ceive any per post, but return them at the expense of the writers, to cure their cacoethes scribendi. FRANCE AND THE MAURITIUS.— By mercantile letters from Havre it appears that a lively interest is taken there in the dis- pute between our Government and our colony of Mauritius, and that the conduct of the planters, in opposing the order in Coun- cil, meets with general approval by the French merchants. They contend, as has already been done on behalf of the planters of Demerara, that such order is altogether at variance with the conditions under which the colony was ceded to the British Government, and go a step further, in maintaining that France is bound to interfere on the present occasion, and to secure to her old colonists all the- rights guaranteed to them by the capi- tulation. His Majesty has given directions that the portraits of an offi- cer, a non commissioned officer, and a private of every corps in the service, in their respective regimentals, grouped together, shall be transmitted to the Horse Guards, for the purpose of be- ing placed in one of the apartments of Windsor Castle. The size of the pictures is to be about a foot square. FRENCH NAVAL PREPARATIONS.— The Portsmouth Herald says that the activity observable in the French dock- yards far surpasses even that in our own. The number of ships of war which will be on the stocks by the end of the present year will amount to 70. Among these maybe enumerated 21 ships of the line, 27 frigates, 5 corvettes, and 5 steam- vessels. INTERESTING TO SCIENCE.— Accounts have been received from Brazils that Poppig, a German naturalist, has navigated down the Great Amazon river, and explored it from its source to its mouth, in the Atlantic Ocean. M. Sellow, a Prussian na- turalist, having undertaken an expedition for a similar purpose, was found dead last December in the cataracts of Rio Dulce. MISSION TO BELGIUM.— The Honorable Colonel Caradoc has been sent to the head- quarters of Marshal Gerard, with in- structions to accompany, as British Commissioner, the French rmy during its operations in Belgium. EXPENSE OF THE RUSSIAN NAVY.— The expense of sup. porting the Russian navy scarcely exceeds 25 millions of rubles. The pay of the officers is so extremely low that the Government make them a handsome allowance in the shape of table- money. The pay of the sailor is abovit half- a- crown a month, and their rations are on a most economical scale; when afloat, they receive daily a pound and a half of biscuit and a glass of brandy. They receive further, once a month, 14 lbs of salt beef, five pounds of ' butter, three pounds of peas, 12 pounds of oatmeal, and one jiound and a half of salt, aud their ordinary beverage is a fer mented liquor called quass. DUCHESS OF BERRY.— Blaye, or Blaie, in the vicinity of which the chateau is situated where the Duchess of Berry is At present imprisoned, is situate upon the right bank of the ulironde, about seven leagues from Bordeaux, and nine from tha famous tower or light- house of Cordovan which stands at the mouth of the river. Blaye contains 4,500 inhabitants. It is divided into two parts by a smali river, into which the tide flows, one of which is called the upper, the other the lower town. The latter is chiefly inhabited by tradesmen, and is built at the foot of a steep rock. The other part of the town is erected upon the summit, and contains four bastions. It forms a strong citadel, and encloses the chateau. INDIAN ARMY.— According to the latest Parliamentary return, the following is the number of European officers serving in India, with an account of the corps and presidency to which they re- spectively belong :— Honourable Company's Engineers on the Bengal Establishment, 44 ; Madras, 20 ; and Bombay, 21. On the Bengal Establishment— Artillery, 183 ; on the Madras, 103 ; on the Bombay, 72. Bengal— Cavalry, 245 ; Madras, 157 ; and Bombay, 71. Bengal— Infantry, 1,595 ; on the Madras, 1,079 ; and on the Bombay, 606. The total number of European offi- cers, it will be observed, is 5,531 ; and of these 752 are in the King's military service. The number of European non- com- missioned officers and rank and file in India was, on the Bengal Establishment, 18,089 ; on the Madras, 11,140; and on the Bombay, 6,635. The number of native officers was, on the Bengal Establishment, 2,257; on the Madras, 1,474 ; and on the Bombay, 719. The number of native non- commissioned officers and rank and file in India are, on the Bengal Establish- ment, 94,515 ; on the Madras, 56,295 ; and on the Bombay, 30,802. MILITARY MOVEMENTS.— On Wednesday morning the under- mentioned detachments of regiments marched from West- minster, for Bristol, on route to join their respective regiments in Ireland ;— 7th Dragoon Guards, for Dorchester ; 56th Foot, for Kinsale; 77th ditto, for Newcastle, near Limerick ; 90th ditto, for Dublin ; 94th ditto, for Portsmouth; 95th ditto, for Guernsey. ROYAL AND FASHIONABLE MOVEMENTS. THE COUNTRY. BRIGHTON.— Their Majesties are in the enjoyment of unin terrupted good health. The Duke of Gloucester has left Brighton for London, Mrs. George Dawson has become quite a leader of ton. A few evenings past her residence in Kemp Town was a scene of splendid festivity. Mr. Dawson is at present in Ireland, can- vassing the electors of Londonderry. Prince George of Cumberland has taken up his abode at Hastings, for the purpose of being under the constant superin- tendence of Sir Wathen Waller, who has a residence there. The Duke and Duchess of Cumberland have left their residence at Kew for Hastings. Earl Grey left town on Tuesday evening on a visit to Lord Dacre, at his seat the Hoo, Hertfordshire. The Countess Grey accompanied his Lordship. Lord Holland, who has much improved in health within the last ten days, gave a splendid dinner on Thursday evening, at Hol- land House. In addition to most of the Cabinet Ministers there were present Prince Talleyrand and the Duchess de Dino, Prince and Princess Lieven, Prince Paul Lieven, the Prussian and Austrian Ministers, & c. The Duke cf Wellington is entertaining a select party of the Nobility at Walmer Castle. Prince Talleyrand entertained a large party at dinner, on Wed- nesday evening, at his residence in Hanover- square. There were present the Prince and Princess Lieven, Lord Palmerston, Lord and Lady Cowley, Baron Bulow, Baron de Neuman, & c. Admiral Lord Exmouth is dangerously ill at his seat at Teign- moutli, Devon. Thursday afternoon the Spanish Minister, M. Zea de Bermu- dez, left town on his return to Madrid, to assume the high office of president of the Spanish council. The Chevalier A. Lopez de Cordoba will act as Charge d'Affaires, at the residence of the Spanish embassy in Mansfield- street, until the arrival of a new minister from Madrid. Lord Ponsonby, who is at present at Naples, will shortly pro- ceed to Constantinople, as British Minister at the Court of the Sultan. When his lordship quitted England, on his way to Italy, he believed he would remain at Naples; but he had scarcely ar- rived there when Viscount Palmerston appointed him to the dip- lomacy at the Sublime Porte. The Earl of Brecknock, whose health has been long in a delicate state, has quitted the Wilderness, the seat of the Mar- quis Camden, in Kent, to enjoy the sea air at Brighton. Lord Dnnlo, eldest son of the Earl of Clancarty, will shortly lead to the altar the Lady Butler, daughter of the Earl of Carrick. Lady Killeeu is, and has been, for some days past, lying ill of scarlet fever, at Spencer's Hotel, Holyhead. Her Ladyship and Lord Killeen were on their return to Ireland, after a protracted att .' Udance on their children in the same dangerous disease at Leamington, when their progress was arrested on the road by Lady Killeen's having been taken ill about 30 miles from the Head. The Speaker has been detained in town by the illness of his eldest daughter, Miss Charlotte Manners Sutton, who is, how- ever, now convalescent, and the Right Hon. Gentleman and his family will leave Palace- yard on Monday next, for Mistley Hall, in Essex, which he rents of Lord Rivers. The Right Hon. Gentleman and his Lady wrill entertain a large party of distin- guished visitants at Mistley. Since the demise of the late Mrs. Manners Sutton, mother of the Speaker, his unmarried sisters have given up their town residence in Gloucester- place, and re- tired to Leamington. The Earl of Oxford and the Ladies Harley are making a tour on the Continent. His Lordship's son, Lord Harley, and his Lady, have been sojourning at firussels. Lord Oxford's second daughter, Lady Charlotte, is married to Colonel Bacon, one of Don Pedro's officers. The Earl of Lichfield, since the departure of his illustrious visitants, has been enjoying the sport of pheasant shooting with a few distinguished friends at Runton Lodge, a shooting box belonging to his Lordship, distant fourteen miles from Shug- borough. The return of the Court to St. James's Palace is fixed for the 21st of February. The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn are on their way to visit his Lordship's extensive estates in the north of Ireland. His Lordship and his lovely bride left Doune, the chateau of the Duke of Bedford in the Highlands, on Monday last, to proceed to Baron Court, " his magnificent seat in the county of Tyrone, where they intend to remain a month, and arrive at the Priory, at Stanmore, before Christmas. The Duchess of Bedford and Lady Georgiana Russell accompany the Marquis and Marchioness to Ireland, and they will return with them to England. A few days ago, at the Earl of Pomfret's seat, at Easton Neston, was christened the infant son of the Noble Peer, the Hon. Thos. Hatton George Fermor. His Grace the Duke of Grafton, and the venerable Earl Spencer, were sponsors. Most of the neighbouring nobility and gentry were present on the joyous occasion, who partook of an elegant dejuene it lafour- chette, which was served in the splendid dining room. CHESTER.— The Duke of Sussex, who had been spending some time with his old friend Lord Dinorben, at Kinmel Park, has honoured our Noble neighbour, the Marquis of Westminster, with his company for a few days at Eaton, on his route to London. His Royal Highness arrived to dinner on Monday evening. REFORM FESTIVAL AT LINCOLN.— On Thursday, the 8th inst., about 203 gentlemen sat down to a sumptuous dinner in the grand banquet- room of the City; Arras Hotel, Lincoln, in celebration of the passing of the Reform Bill, The room piesented three ranges of tables with a cross row at the top ' end, on a very appropriate elevation. The Right Hon. Lord Yarborough presided, supported on the right by Sir W. A. Ingleby, Bart., M. P., the Right Hon. Charles Tennyson, M. P., and Benjamin Handley, Esq., the popu- lar candidate for Boston; and on the left by G. F. Heneage. Esq,, M. A., Henry Handley, Esq., candidate for the south division of the county ; Sir Montague Chohneley officiated as vice- president, and was supported on the right by the Hon. C. A. W. Pelham, M. P, and on the left by Edward Heneage, Esq. Among the com- pany there were also Charles Allix, Esq., James Whiting Yorke, Esq., Major Brackenbury, Russell Collett, Esq., Major Terrewest, Colonel Watson, James Young, Esq., Dr. L'Oste, and gentlemen from all parts of the county. The health of the King was given with three times three. Other loyal and constitutional toasts were drunk with much enthusiasm. Several excellent speeches were de- livered in the course of the evening, and at a late hour the com- pany departed. NORTHAMPTON.— During the last week, Lord Milton has been round the principal market towns in the county, in order to give the electors an opportunity of putting any questions to him upon his political principles t] iat they wished. His Lordship has given great satisfaction by his straightforward, open, and able manner of explaining his political principles. INCENDIARISM.— Incendiarism is spreading alarm through Kent. At Edenbridge there were two tires on Monday night. A reward of 200/. has been offered for the discovery of tbe incendiaries ; and a proposition has been submitted to have a policeman sta- tioned in the village. It is reported tiiat there were also two fires at Witham Bridge, near Sussex. HALIFAX.— The churchwardens and overseers of this town have lately been engaged in taking as accurate an account as possible of the number, ages, and earnings, of each family belonging to the town, at present receiving parochial relief. The following is the result as to the number and ages :— viz., 430 families or distinct cases, containing 929 persons; 355 males, and 574 females; 247. are under ten years of age ; 159, from 10 to 20 ; 57, from 20 to 30 ; 60, from 30 to 40; 84, from 40 to 50; 64, from 50 to 60; 258, 60 and upwards ( exclusive of paupers in the workhouse.) Amongst the females are 185 widows, of whom are 24 whose united ages amount to 2,014 years, averaging 84 each. Amongst the males are 46 widowers, of whom are 12 whose ages united amount to 989, an average of 82 and a half years each. This great difference in the proportion of widows to that of widowers may probably be accounted for by the latter marrying agaiii more frequently. The number of orphan children is 18 ( exclusive of those in the Blue- coat Hospital), and the number of blind persons is 9.— Express. POLISH COMMEMORATIOS.— The Birmingham Polish Associa- tion intend celebrating the anniversary of the glorious revolution of Poland on the 29th inst. Prince Czartoryski, late President of Poland, Count Ladislaus de Plater, Count Czapski, M. Julian Neimsewitch, Thomas Campbell, Esq., and Augustus Bach, Esq., are to be invited as guests on the occasion. ThomasAttwood, Esq. the President, will take the chair. RELIEF FOR THE POOR.— The Bishop of Gloucester is at- tempting, with every probability of success, to establish a society in that city for the relief of the poor, and thereby enabling them to keep themselves from tbe necessity of applying for parochial relief. SERVING ONE'S COUNTRY.— A gentleman who has been up- wards of twenty years on active service iu all parts of the wo lid, and who has been four years acting as First Lieutenant, came home about two months ago as a Midshipman I That gentleman is Mr. Mewinan, late of his Majesty's frigate Rose, and the port where he was paid off is Sheerness. at the Ship in James- street, Covent- garden, struck the deceased in the stomach, and he fell with his head again* ' he curb- stone. In a few days the deceased became very ffl, and he was taken to Middlesex Hospital, where he underwent the operation of trepan- ning; but he continued to get none, and he died on Thursday from the injuries which he received on his head on falling against the stone. Verdict.— Manslaughter against Reid, who was com- mitted to Newgate. An inquest was held on Wednesday evening, at Guy's Hospital, touching the death of a youth named Richard Noble, 18 years " of age, in the employ of Mr. Laurie, patent ship- hose manufacturer, Lotig- lane, Bermondsey. Samuel Tenant, a workman in the same employ, stated that in the evening of last Friday se'nnight, the deceased was engaged in cleaning out a large pot of spirit varnish, used in the business. He was working by the light of a candle, and had his coat off and Ins shirt sleeves tucked up. In the course of the operation a quantity of the varnish, which was of a very combustible nature, adhered to his bare arms and hands, and one of them unfortunately came in contact with the flame of the candle, and in an instant was in a blaze. The poor fellow endeavoured to quench the flames with the other hand, in doing which he set fire to that also, and both arms and hands burnt now with incredible fury, scorching his face in a dreadful manner. In this state he ran to witness in the greatest agony. Witness, after various attempts at putting the fire out, at length succeeded by rolling the sufferer in an adjacent ditch. He was then conveyed to the hospital. Mr. Carles, a surgeon in the hospital, deposed that the deceased was so extensively burnt that no hopes were from the first entertained of his recovery. He, however, rallied a little at first, but subse- quently relapsed into a worse state, and died on Tuesday morning. Verdict,— Accidental death. Thursday an inquest was held in Redcross- strect, oil the body of John Jones, who was drowned at the steps leading from the New London- bridge into the Thames. It appeared that the deceased young man, who was a seaman, went, accompanied by two of his shipmates, to the Methodist chapel in Goodman's- fields.' Wn Sunday afternoon. On their return from the meeting- house, they crossed over to the south side of London- bridge, and intending to proceed down Tooley- street, the deceased and his companions descended the steps. Some distance down the flight of steps there is a small door of opening, which leads into Tooley- street, but if the stranger happens to pass that opening and continues to descend, he inevita bly walks into the river. The deceased, it appeared, in his hurry, passed the small door and continued until he went head foremost Into the river. The night being dark the body could not be found until the following afternoon, and when it was picked up some in- juries were perceptible on the deceased's head, produced by its striking against a stone which lay near the spot where he was drowned. A verdict of— Accidentally drowned, was returned the jury intimating it as their determination to represent the unsafe state of the steps as they are at present constructed, to the proper authorities, in order to remedy the evil. TOWN CALENDAR OF ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES. CURIOUS AFFAIR.— The Bank sent on Monday a bill of 500/. to be presented for payment, by one of their clerks, to a house in Regent- street, according to the direction. The bill was taken up stairs, and the clerk was desired to wait a little in an apartment on the ground floor. A long time elapsed without either money, check, bill, or answer, being forthcoming. The clerk proceeded at last up stairs, and found to his great astonishment that the parties, servants and all, tntti quante, had decamped, and of course taken the bill with them. The Bank of England applied to the en dorsers fur payment, who are said to have replied, " give us the bill, give us the instrument on which we continue liable, and we will pay." The transaction is supposed to be a premeditated swindling trick. SUFFERERS AT WESTMINSTER.— On Saturday morning, be- tween 10 and 11 o'clock, death terminated the sufferings of Susan Herhert, one of the many unfortunate persons who were conveyed to the Westminster Hospital in consequence of the injuries they re- ceived from the falling down of the houses in York- street. The deceased was between 50 and 60 years of age, and " AS a laundress. Two of her children, one about eight years of age, and the other about 14, were dug out of the ruins quite dead, but their mother, although seriously injured, was conveyed to the hospital with hopes, as no limbs were broken, of her ultimate recovery. Her distress of tuind at the fate of her children, and her own grievous sufferings, however, brought on her dissolution, and thus increased the number of deaths to six. The houses which have been condemned remain in the same state as immediately after the accident. The remaining unfortunate sufferers at present in the hospital are rapidly recovering. The subscription on their behalf, we understand, has not as yet amounted to 200/., and there are upwards of a dozen families ruined by the calamity. INQUESTS. DETERMINED SUICIDE.— Tuesday afternoon an inquest was held at the Duke of Cumberland, Red Lion- street, Spitalfields, on the body of Thos. J ohns, aged 42, who hung himself in the follow- ing extraordinary manner :— From the evidence of a superintend- ent of police, it appeared that the deceased was brought to Christ Church watchhouse on Sunday morning last, under a charge of em- bezzlement, having cut from a loom of Messrs. Duff and Brooks, of Spital- square, 60 yards of silk. The police- constable said he was called upon by Mr. Moye, of 7, King- street, Spital- square, where the deceased had resided, to take him into custody, he having twice attempted to make away with himself; but, considering he was not authorised to do so on such grounds, he proceeded to the house of his employers, when the clerk of Messrs. Duff and Brooks immediately desired him to do so, he having absconded with a quantity of silk which he had cut from his loom. He was placed in a cell in the watch- house, where every precaution was taken to prevent self destruction ; his garters and braces were taken from him, nothwithstanding which he was found early on Monday hanging from the grating of the window, suspended by both his stockings, quite dead. Mr. Lewis Moye, said lie had every reason to believe tbe deceased was deranged ; on Sunday morning early he was alarmed by the son of the deceased, who said " For God's sake, Mr. Moye, come up to my father;" he ran up stairs imme- diately, and saw the deceased suspended from a quilljack, ( a part of the weaving machine); he cut him down immediately, and he recovered enough to be able to speak, and the first words he said were, that " he was determined to hang himself;" he left him comfortable with his son; about an hour elapsed and he was again alarmed, and on entering the room found that he had hung him- self a second time ; he was cut down immediately, and once more recovered. He was given into the custody of the police, when lie said " Ah 1 Mr. Moye, you might as well have let me done it at first, I am determined to do it." Verdict,— Insanity. On Monday night an inquest was held at Middlesex hospital, on the body of Charles James Manger, who worked at Mrs. Shulfz's printing- office, in Poland- street. On Sunday se'nnight the de- ceased spent the evening with some friends, and got a little " ele- vated." In passing Wych- street they were met by two men who obstructed them, evidently with the intention of picking a quarrel. A scuffle ensued, and one of the inen named Reid, lately a waiter COUNTRY CALENDAR of ACCIDENTS and OFFENCES. * SHIPWRECK.— During the gale of last Saturday night the Dart- mouth sloop, of Dartmouth, was entirely wrecked near Rye, and the crew ( with the exception of one man), with a female passenger and two boys, perished. By the gallantry and perseverance of Lieut. George Davis, R. N., and six. men of the Coast Guard ser- vice, who, having made one unavailing attempt, amidst a tremen dous surf, carried a fishing- boat a mile overland, the survivor was ultimately rescued from the fate which befel his less fortunate companions. This is the third life saved by this officer. SINGULAR APPREHENSION OF A BURGLAR.— One morning last week the servants of Mr. R. Clements, Laytonstone, found that the house had been broken open. On descending to the kitchen, they were startled by hearing loud snoring, and presently they ob- served a strange man fast asleep in an ann- choir close to the table, which was covered with refreshments and sundry empty wine bot- tles. He was without delay bound securely to the chair, and a po- liceman having arrived, he was shaken with great violence, but it was some time before he could be aroused. At length he drawled out, " I say, Jack, let's have more wine." On being brought to his senses, he was so frightened that he admitted he and another man had broken into the house, and after packing up a quantity of plunder, sat down to refresh themselves. He was so much pleased with Mr. Clements'wine, that he took too much, and his comrade had completely left him to his fate. His companion, Jack Connor, was, however, apprehended by his information, aud both the rogues were committed to Chelmsford Gaol. VICISSITUDES OF HUMAN LIFE.— About thirty years ago a mi- litary gentleman, named Thomas Vanthuysen, resided at Hunting- don. He married Miss Cole, a rich heiress resident at Somersham, and took the name of Cole. At this period he purchased of Ad- miral Montague, Castle Hill House, Huntingdon, ( how the resi- dence of Sir John Arundel), where he resided three years, and distinguished himself by his great hospitality and agreeable man- ners. An unhappy amour, which his wife contracted with a mili- tary gentleman, shortly ended in a separation, and afterwards a divorce. Mr. Cole subsequently became much involved, and was confined in the King's Bench for nearly eight months. For some years after this his agreeable manners secured him, even in adver- sity, the hospitality of many of his old friends, and about 14 years ago he married a second wife, by ivhom he has one son. Of lale his life has been one continued scene of misery, existing, with his wife and child, in a miserable garret in London at Is. 9d. a week. To complete his misery, about five weeks ago he fell down stairs and fractured his head. His bed was at this time seized for rent, and the prospect of starvation compelled hihi to apply to the parish officers of Marylebone, by whom he was passed to Huntingdon, where he had gained a settlement by being the owner of the man- sion above- mentioned, and he now lies in Huntingdon poorhouse. Huntingdon Gazette. HIGHWAY ROBBERY.— On Wednesday night, between nine and ten o'clock, Mr. Gladstone, a respectable farmer residing in the vicinity of Billericay, in Essex, was returning home from Romford Market, where he had been on business. When he had reached within a mile of Billericay he was stopped by two men, who knocked him down and robbed him of all the property which hehad about him at the thai, and which consisted of three five- pound notes; ten pounds in gold, a valuable watch, and a pair of silver- mounted spectacles, with which they got clear off. INCENDIARISM.— A fire occurred at a farm near Lingfield, on the borders of Surrey, on Tuesday se'nnight, and the circumstances leave no room to doubt that it was the work ot an incendiary. Two large barns, containing 20 loads of w heat and 50 loads of oats, with several carts, harness, & c., were consumed, so that the loss must have been very great. The fire was seen still burning on Friday. — Brighton Gazette.. FATAL ACCIDENT.— About eleven o'clock on Thursday nighty as William Pussey, the driver ot the Hastings van, which puts up at the Talbot Inn, ill High- street, Borough, was driving his van over Stump- hill, two miles beyond Uxbridge, on his way lo town, owing to the darkness of the place and Ihe foggincss of the night, he, mistaking his w- ay, drove his van up the old instead of the new road, llie former of which was an acclivity, when, at the top of ihe hill, where there was a depth of 18 feet, the road having been cut, the horses and van fell into the new road with the driver of the waggon and a boy under them. Both were killed on the spot. Their corpses were removed to the sign of the'VauxhalL public- house, where they now remain awaiting the coroners inquest. INQUEST. On Tuesday an inquest was held at Chippenham on the body of Francis Scriviner, who was killed on Sunday evening. Scriviner, who was very drunk, was beating his wife, when her father, John Coping, who lived next door, his wife, and his son James, aged 17, came and took her away into their house. Scriviner, armed with a pair of tongs, sooil followed, and endeavoured to get into Coping's house, but was prevented by young Coping, who in the scuffle re- ceived several violent blows. Old Coping then lushed out with a long house broom, and struck Scrivener, who fell down, and died from the effects of the blow next day. Verdict of " Justifiable homicide."— Suffolk Chronicle. November 18. THE TO WHf. We sportsman. By moorland and mountain, woo'! ? ver, and lake, With the fox in the cover, tlie deer in the brake- Where bowls kiss the ? ree » -' ward and bow- strings rebound, There, blithe as May morning, the Sportsman is found. LAY OF OUR LAUREATE. Though during tlie past week no event has occurred in the sporting way, which, by itself alone, is ofgreat import- ance, still, when all things are taken together, it can by no means be said to have been a dull one, In fact, those fo- reigners that, after visiting Eugland, return and pronounce us to be one of the most sombre and phlegmatic nations upon earth, are either poor judges of human nature, or have only taken a partial view of us. They may have marked us only in the crowded city, on Change, or at the mart, and then we are certainly a grave and thoughtful people; for when engaged in business the Englishman binds his mind to it in earnest; but let them observe him at other times and placcs— in the hunting field, or upon the race course— wandering over the heath- clad moor, with his favourite dogs, or swiftly sailing in pleasure's bark along the trackless ocean. It is in scenes like these that his true character becomes manifest; and the stranger may behold that manful energy, and love of enterprise, which have made his name, like that of the ancient liotnan, respeoled throughout the world. It is certainly true, that the departure of a favourite opera danccr will create much less consternation here than in some places on the continent; and that even had Paga- nini, when John Bull stoutly refused to pay double price, gone back again in disgust, as his friends gave out that he would— even had this astounding event taken place, our friend John would not have broken his heart about it. No, no, we Englishers ( as the Americans call us) have other waYs of amusing ourselves, and are therefore not so de- pendent upon the whims and caprices of a prince of fid- dlers, or any other prince. These feelings are, however, looked upon by many of the foreigners, who visit us, as indicative of a want of gaiely in Ihe English character, at which they can Only shrug their shoulders in contempt or ridicule. But let us heed such critics as little as Pindar heeded his, when he compared himself to the imperial eagle winging its way through the sky, regardless of the croakings of rooks. There is one foreigner, however, at present sojourning in England, who may, perchance, give us a different cha- racter. Wc allude to Count Matu& zewic, the Russian Ambassador Extraordinary to this country. Since this spirited Nobleman has been with us he has been a constant attendant at Newmarket, and is now fox- hunting at Mel- ton Mowbray, whenever he can get away from official bu- siness in London. In fact, he appears to have lost no op- portunity of making himself acquainted with all our most favoured national amusements. Now, we should like to know his opinion of this country— whether he considers it the dull uninteresting scene that it is so frequently de- scribed to be? We more than suspect that that opinion would be much at variance with the sentiments of some petit maitre from Paris or Milan. ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. DECEPTIONS IN THE GUN- TRADE. SIR,— Your entertaining Journal being partly devoted to sporting affairs, I shall, with your permission, occupy half a column of it upoii a question of some consequence to the public. If a man invents an improved tea- kettle, or even a new- fashioned pen, he takes good care, by having a patent for the same, to pre- vent any spurious articles being vended instead of them. Thus, in these things of little consequence, we are well guarded against imposition, hut in others of much greater importance, the case is very different. Go into any stationer's shop, and ask for a box of Perryian pens, and you will get them ; but let an inex- perienced person go to one of our second- rate gun- smiths, and ask for a second- hand gun by Moore or Manton, and it is at least even betting that he gets neither one nor the other. To he sure he gets a well- looking- fowling- piece, with one of the above- mentioned names upon the lock or barrel, and thus, if there be any virtue in a name alone, he has the full benefit of it; but that is all that he may get for the additional five or ten pounds which it will cost him. Now, not only do such nefarious practises cause disappoint- ment to the purchaser, but, what is worse, they are too frequently the cause of accidents. A little precaution, howeve r, will make all things safe as far as the London purchaser is concerned. He has nothing more to do than to say, " Well, meet me at a cer- tain hour at Mr. Moore's or Mr. Manton's, and if his foreman shall say that it is his gun, aud in good serviceable order, 1 will buy it." That information will be readily given, as it must be the interest of every tradesmen to prevent bad articles being sold under his name ; and, as there can be nothing unfair or even unreasonable in the request, if the present owner of the gun demurs to it, it has the evident appearance of a screw being loose, and therefore the best plan to pursue will be to break off the negociation at once. In a distant country town there are, of course, more dif- ficulties in the way ; but still, had I any doubts about it, I would insist upon being allowed to forward the gun to the maker whose name it bore. But it is in the distant possessions of the British empire that these impositions are carried on to the greatest extent. It is a pretty- well known fact, that hundreds of fowling- pieces, of various descriptions, have been sent out, under false names, to the East Indies alone. Few men, ( espe- cially sportsmen, who are not the most patient of mortals) would think of sending a gun to England again, and wait nine or ten months for its return, and thus the deception is undiscovered. In fact, it has now become almost a standing joke in India about Manton's guns, as his is the name which, more than any other, has been forged for these purposes. Now, as there are so many English gentlemen residing iu that part of the globe, and as our countrymen, go where they will, carry with tliem their attach- ment to field sports, A great quantity of fire- arms, both common guns and rifles, are imported from this country, and therefore any fraudulent practises are the more to he deprecated, on ac- count of the great extent to which they may be carried. The peculiar character of sporting in India also renders it most essential that the sportsman should hold in his hand weapon upon which he can place the fullest reliance. If a gun should miss fire ( the expression looks oddly upon paper, but it is the'riglit one), in an English game preserve, when levelled at a pheasant or a hare, it is a matter of little importance ; but if in an Indian jungle it should do so at the crouching tiger, or the fiercely- charging wild boar, the position of the man that bears it may be a very unenviable one. The best way to prevent such things happening is, for the young Englishman to take his fire- arms along with him when leaving his native shore, or else to commission some trust- worthy and experienced friend to send them out to him. These seem to be the only precautions that the sportsman in India can him- self take ; but it surely ought not to be considered, either by the Government or East India Company, as beneath their notice to attend to such things. The imposition of a heavy fine for sel- ling any gun that bore a false name, would have a most bene- ficial effect, and make certain rascally speculators more prudent for the future. Were some of our respectable gun- smiths also to establish houses of agency in India where their manufactured articles could be obtained without suspicion, it might have a be- neficial effect. I have now, Sir, done ; and should I have thrown out a single hint upon this subject that may be serviceable to any brother sportsman either at home or abroad, I shall not consider this letter to have been altogether penned in vain. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, November 15, 1832. AN ENEMY TO FRAUD. TROLLING. BY A MIDLANDER. Is there a man in the whole world that does not love WATER? not water in tumblers, wishy- washy stuff, recommended by Temperance Societies— and not drunk even by them— but water in seas, lakes, rivers, pools, and brooks ? No! There, is not one, the most brick- and- mortar— nor jue. f// e- and- mortar minded, that can gaze without emotion on the roof of that beautiful fish world, the ocean, that can behold without rapture the blue windings of a meadow- bound river. For our own part, we never pass over a bridge without halting on the summit to take a look right and left at our dear favourite stream, that lies along upon the landscape like a strip of sky ; and when we have the luck to be on foot, pleasant is the half hour which we give up to the excitement— dreamy as that of opium to the Paynim— of our fair Trent or Anker ; delightful are our thoughts, as we lean over the mossy parapet, the venerable delta that juts out into the waves, and gaze upon that path of light that leads away— away through grove and field, to the golden chambers of the west. All nations, all ages have loved rivers. The old romances are full of them— not an enchanted castle, not a deserted damsel, but has one of them flowing at its or her foot. The poets are river- mad— running streams, from the size of the Mississippi to that of a penny packthread, have been eulogised in hexameters, pentameters, iambics, and sappliics,— in long metre, short metre, and peculiar metre,— by songsters of all ages, from Sappho herself to our own L. E. L., who warbles so prettily :— " There was stillness— not silence ; for, dancing along, A brook went its way, like a child with a song. 1 that we have not seen the American falls, neither have they seen Comberford Weir I Well, no sooner had we made one throw— and nearly cast out all the line— than, slap, a giant of a jack seized the bait. In due time we hooked him. What a pother he made when he found himself nabbed I How he jumped up and plunged down, how he rushed this way and that! It was well for us that he didn't remain long in one mind, or else he and we must soon have parted company. As it happened, this impatience on the part of the pike was the means to us of an early triumph ; his extra vivacity was soon reduced, and we could tow him up or down now with little difficulty. But how was he to be landed ? The bank on which we stood was " as high as a house," and as steep too; and the tackle would no more hold him— dead weight— than our snuff- box would hold Waterloo Bridge. Down the river the bank became less precipitous, ' tis true, but it was a long way down; and so many obstacles lay between— stumps of trees, beds of weeds, and the like— that, in all human pro- bability, we should lose our fish long before we got there. There was no help for it, however, so off we set, handling the prisoner as civilly as we could under existing circumstances ; and this we must say for him, that he behaved as well as fish could behave in a situation so manifestly unpleasant; so that " nothing in his life became him like the leaving it." On we went, sagely and safely, by the bed of weeds— we'd like to have got fast though— and past the old oak stump, that lay so provokingly in the very line of the fish. But misfortunes never come single : a great beast of a brook now appeared at our feet, like a snake in the grass, and we were put to our wit's end how to get over it. There was no time to be lost, for the pike began to manifest signs of returning strength : so gathering ourself up for a des- perate effort, we charged the dyke— we charged it— and cleared it. ' Tis true, we tumbled all our length on the other side— but no matter for that— we didn't tear our trousers much, and only broke one of our spectacle glasses. And what's to be done now ? " Why, fool that we are 1" we exclaimed, " why didn't we haul him up into this brook!" And we did haul him up into that brook, Mister TOWN, and pretty proud we were when we laid him along upon the bright green turf, we promise you. What a sweet simile is that— a child with a song !— what a pic- ture, a written bit of Westall! We have put it in italics ; it deserves a type of gold. But to return to our rivers. The devil's in these women ; the moment they appear one forgets poetry, romance, rivers, and everything else. As we said before, all the old writers are full of them; their pages are absolutely irrigated. The theologians have used them profusely to adorn their Elysia : some of them have ventured so far into the sloughs of hyper- bole, as to talk of " rivers of milk" and " streams of honey;" as well might they tell us of meadows of cake and mountains of pudding. The very " gentlemen of the lower house," the ho- nourable members of Tartarus, have not been content to take up with a riverless land. Acheron, Phlegethon, Cocytus, and Styx, are the names most conspicuous in their maps ; and in these streams, no doubt, the Waltons and Cottons of that shadowy world love to ply their gentle trade ; by their side demoniacal Strephons breathe sweet vows into the too- credulous ears of diabolical does. Dear me 1 these ( river) gods have made us quite poetical; yet, when we began this letter, dear TOWN, nothing in the world was intended further than to give you an account of a fine fellow of a pike that we caught the other day, and whose jaw- bones we now send you, to hang up in 2, Wellington- street, Strand, and to exhibit to all whom it may concern. It was either on Monday or Tuesday fortnight last— we can- not for the life of us recollect which— that we agreed with a friend to " make one" in an excursion to Hopwas. Where Hopwas is we shall leave you to find out; enough for us to say that there is a river, a most magnificent hanging wood, a village hostel, and such a very, very pretty " daughter of the house," who may le prevailed upon to make tea for a brace of genteel- looking fishermen, ignorant about filling the pot, and " all that sort of thing." There is something uncommonly pleasant in a tea party of this kind: the room— the fine club- room put in applepie order for ydur reception ; the roaring fire to dry your feet at; the tea equipage— three cups of ancient, liandleless china, a basin brimful! of sugar, every lump of which you heard previ- ously breaking in the next apartment— snip, snip, snip,— and a spoon placed across the summit in lieu of nippers ; the cream, mouse- trotting, magnificent cream ; and the tea itself, green and black, inclosed in a scarlet caddy, on whose top is a young woman weeping over a French- white monument inscribed to " Werter." We say nothing about the toast and bread- and- butter, for we are ashamed to think of the enormous quantities we have eaten— we almost wished the young lady absent once or twice— and . But what the devil has all this to do with the pike 1 Oh ! petticoats, petticoats, you are always in the way 1 Well, as we were saying, we went to Hopwas a- fishing— troll- ing, of course. Down the river we trudged, trying alternate hundred yards of water, and now and then, perhaps, scheming and cheating a bit, so that a favourite bend or inlet might fall to our share. Having caught a brace and a half between us— we decline stating who got the odd one— and missing as many more, we came to the weir at Comberford mill. Fancy to yourself a waterfall, in the shape of a half- moon, as far across as a lady could shoot an arrow, dashing into a spacious basin, with an island in the midst and high banks around. Such was the spot we now approached: the " hell of waters" was beneath, and there, almost at the same moment, we hurled the glittering lure. Yet, we hardly expected to meet with a fish, it was so very troublous. What a noise there was I Our companion bawled a question at our ear " as loud as he could call," but we declined answering it— for obvious reasons. It was a fine sight— the shining rush of water, the dancing foam at its foot, the glitter- ing and bursting of ten millions of bubbles as they hurried for- ward to the placid flow beyond. They may talk as they will about the Niagara, it can't be finer than this; they may tell us CRICKETERS OF MY TIME. ( CONTINUED). At this great distance from the period at which my recol- lection of cricketing commenced, and having no data by which to regulate them, the reader will good- naturedly make allowance both for the desultory character of my records, their unfinished and hasty sketchiness, and also for my now and then retracing my steps, to include some circumstance which at the time of writing had escaped my memory. For instance, I should have chronicled the era when the old- fashioned wicket of two stumps was changed to three— a decided improvement, seeing that it multiplied the chances to the batter of being bowled out, con- sequently increased the difficulty of his position, and thereby exalted his maintaining it for any length of time into the greater merit; for, under the old system, if the ball passed between the stumps, the batter was not considered out; under the improved system, such an event cannot happen, for the three stumps are not pitched at so great a distance from each other as to allow of the transit of the ball without knocking off the bale. This ex planation is of course addressed only to the young and inex- perienced player. The important reform in the game here alluded to, took place, according to the best of my recollection, about tha year 1779 or 1780. Since that time other entrench- ments have been made upon the old constitution which was the pride of our ancestors and the admiration of the whole com munity; but which, so far from contributing to its stability, will, in my opinion, if not retrieved, not only essentially change, but even destroy its character ; let the patrician legislators and guardians of cricket- law look to it. Before I proceed with my catalogue of the Hainbledon Pan- theon, it may be worth while to mention a circumstance con- nected with poor Noah Mann, the last player named in my former letter. As it will tend to show the amenity in which the men of lower grade in society lived in those good old times with their superiors, it may prove no worthless example to the more aristocratic, and certainly less beloved members of the same rank in society of the present day. Poor Noah was very am- bitious that his new- born son should bear the christian name with the sanction of his namesake, Sir Horace Mann. Old Nyren, who, being the link between the patricians and plebeians in our community— the juste milieu— was always applied to in cases of similar emergency, undertook, upon the present occa sion, to bear the petition of Noah to Sir Horace, who, not merely with a winniDg condescension acceded to the worthy fellow's request, but attended at the church in character of god- father to the child, and gave it his own name ; adding, I have no doubt, a present suited to the station of his little protegee How easy a thing it is to win the esteem of our inferiors ; and how well worth the while, when the mutual pleasure only re suiting from the action is considered 1 Sir Horace, by this simple act of graceful humanity, hooked for life the heart of poor Noah Mann ; and in this world of hatred and contention the love even of a dog is worth living for. The next player I shall name is James Aylward. His father was a farmer. After he had played with the club for a few years, Sir Horace got him away from us, and made him his bailiff, I think, or some such officer; I remember, however, he was but ill qualified for his post. Aylward was a left- handed batter, and one of the , safest hitters I ever knew in the club. He once staid in two whole days, and upon that occasion got the highest number of runs that had ever been gained by any member ; I have forgotton how many. Jemmy was not a good fieldsman, neither was he remarkably active. After he had left us, to go down to live with Sir Horace, he played against us; Und Harry. Never sure came two such unadulterated rustics into a civilized community. How strongly are the figures of tile men ( of Tom's in particular) brought to my mind when they first presented themselves to the club, upon Windmill- down. Tom's hard, ungain, scrag- of- mutton frame ; wilted, apple- john face, ( he always looked twenty years older than he really was), his long spider legs, as thick at the ankles as the hips, and per- fectly strait all the way down— for the embellishment of a calf in Tom's leg, Dame Nature had considered would he but a wan- ton superfluity. They both came to play in their clumsy hob- nailed boots, laced half- way to the knee. Tom was the driest and most rigid- limbed chap I ever knew ; his skin was like the rind of an old oak, and as sapless. I have seen his knuckles handsomely knocked about from Harris's sling- like bowling, but never, saw any blood upon his hands— you might just as well attempt to phlebotomize a mummy. This rigidity of muscle ( or rather I should say of tendon, for muscle was another ingredient economised in the process of Tom's configuration)— this rigidity, I say, was carried into every motion. He moved like the rude machinery of a steam- engine in the infancy of construction, and when he ran, every member seemed ready to fly to the four winds. He toiled like a tar on horseback. The uncouth ac- tions of these men furnished us, who prided ourselves upon a certain grace in movement and finished air, with an evo* i„ sting fund of amusement, and for some time they took no great fancy to me, because I used to worry, and tell them they could not play. They were, however, good hands when they first came among us, and had evidently received most excellent instruction ; but after they had derived the advantage of first- rate practice, they became most admirable batters, and were the trustiest fellows ( particularly Tom) in cases of emergency or difficulty. They were devilish troublesome customers to get out. I have frequently known Tom go in first, stop in three days, and remain to the very last man. He was the coolest, the most impertur- bable fellow in existence : it used to be said of him that he had no nerves at all. Whether he were only practising, or whether he knew that the game was in a critical state, and that much de- pended upon his play, he was the same phlegmatic, unmoved man— he was the Washington of cricketers. Neither he nor 1fis brother was active, yet both were effective fieldsmen. Upon one occasion, on the Marylebone grounds, I remember Tom going in first, and Lord Frederick giving him the first four balls, all of an excellent length. First four or last four made no difference to Tom— he was always the same cool, collected fellow. Every ball he dropped down just before his bat. Off went his lord- ship's white hat— dash upon the ground ( his constant action when disappointed), calling him at the same time " a confounded^ old beast." " I doant care what ee zays," said Tom, when one close by asked if he had heard Lord Frederick call him " an old biast." No, no ; Tom was not the man to be flustered. About a couple of years after Walker had been with us, he began the system of throwing instead of howling, now so much the fashion. At that time it was esteemed foul play, and so it was decided by a council of the Hambledon club, which was called for the purpose. The first I recollect seeing revive the custom was Wills, a Sussex man. I am decidedly of opinion, that if it be not stopped altogether, the character of the game will become changed. I should hope that such powerful and efficient members of the Marylebone Club as Mr. Ward, & c. will determine, not only to discountenance, but wholly and finally to suppress it; and instead, to foster and give every en- couragement to genuine, bona fide, bowlers— men with a fine delivery. I never thought much of Tom's bowling ; indeed the bowling but never to my recollection with any advantage to his new associates— the Hambletonians were almost always too strong for their opponents. He was introduced to the club by Tom Taylor, and Tom's anxiety upon the occasion, that his friend should do credit to his recommendation, was curiously con spicuous. Aylward was a stout, well- made man, standing about five feet nine inches ; not very light about the limbs, indeed he was rather clumsy. He would sometimes affect a Uttle grandeur of manner, aud once got laughed at by the whole ground for calling for a lemon to be brought to him when he had been but a little while. It was thought a piece of finnikinness by those simple and homely yeomen. And now lor those anointed clod- stumpers, the Walkers, Tom as a bowler— even for a change. He afterwards, however, greatly improved; and what with his thorough knowledge of the game, his crafty manner, ( for he was one of the most fox- headed fel- lows I ever saw), and his quickness in seizing every advantage, he was of considerable service to his party, but he never was a first- rate bowler. He was a right, and Harry a left- handed batter, and both were valuable men. They came from Thursley, near Hinehead ; they and their father were farmers, and their land lay near to the Devil's punch- bowl. This article has run to such a length, that I cannot begin with a new man. The next in succession will be John Wells, the Beldams, Harris, and Freemantle.—( To be continuedj. THE TURF. BETTING AT TATTERSALL'S. Monday. The only horses backed to any amount, this day, were, Glaucus, Revenge, and the Marinella colt, each of whom was backed for about 200/. The Moses colt and Boscobel - ad vance, and Ishmael appears to be " coming" again. The closing^ prices averaged as follow :— DERBY— 8 to 1 agst Mr. Ridsdale's Glaucus ( taken) ; 10 to 1 agst Mr. Rawlinson's Revenge ( taken) ; 14 to 1 agst Lord Cleve- land's Muley colt; 14 to 1 agst Mr. Hunter's Forester; 14 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Prince Llewellyn ; 18 to 1 agst Duke of Rut- land's Moses colt ( taken) ; 20 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Ishmael; 20 to 1 agst Mr. Walker's Boscobel; 26 to I agst Lord Exeter's Marinella colt; 27 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Lucius; 10 to 1 agst Boyce's stable; 11 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's lot; 10 to 1 agit Lord Jersey's lot; 11 to 1 agst Cooper's stable; 20 to 1 agst Forth's stable. All these odds were offered. Nothing done on the Oaks or St. Leger. _ Thursday. DERBY— 8 to 1 agst Mr. Ridsdale's Glaucus ; to 1 agst Mr. Rawlinson's Revenge; 13 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Prince Llewellyn ; 14 to 1 agst Mr. Hunter's Forester ( taken); 14 to I agst Lord Cleveland's Muley colt; 17 to 1 agst the Duke of Rutland's c out of Moses' dam ; 25 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Ma- rinella colt; 25 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Ishmael; 27 to 1 agst Mr. Walker's Boscobel ( taken); 1,000 to 30 agst Mr. Ridsdale's Y. Petuaria colt ( taken) ; 1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Gratwick's Sis- ter to Frederick ; 1,500 to 100 agst Boscobel and Y. Petuaria, ( taken) ; 600 to 400 on Lord Exeter's four agst Lord Jersey's three ( taken.) The betting was confined to the outsiders, and was not to a heavy amount. NEWMARKET, NOV. 2.— At a meeting of the Jockey Club it was resolved—" That the person appointed to start the horses have authority to order the jockeys to draw up in a line as far behind the starting- post as he may think necessary; and that any jockey disobeying the orders of the starter, or taking any unfair advantage, shall be liable to be fined in such sum, not ex- ceeding five pounds, as the Stewards of the Jockey Club may think fit to inflict. A curious match is made for the next Newmarket Meeting ; it is for 200 sovs. each, between Mr. Williamson's Tam O'Shanter and Mr. A. Hunter's black pony, to run the Beacon Course ( four miles), the owners to ride. Mr. W. walks between 16 and 17 stone ; he is exceedingly corpuleut, and will let Tam O'Slian