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Volumes to be published successively:— NAVAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND, by R. SOUTHEY, VOL I. TREATISE ON ANATOMY", by Sir JOHN HERSCHEL. TREATISE ON HEAT, and its Applications, by DR. LARDNER. HISTORY OF IRELAND, by THOMAS MOORE, VOL. I. London : Longman and Co.; and John Taylor. AN AN ITALIAN IN ENGLAND. This day is published, in one vol. price 10s. 6d. SE. VII- SEKIOUS OBSERVATIONS OF EXILE DURING HIS RESIDENCE IN ENGLAND. By Count PECCHIO. " We scarcely know how to extract, where almost every sentenee contains observations and remarks conceived and expressed in a man- ner most creditable to the moral feebngs of the author."— Quarterly Review. THE GERMAN IN ENGLAND. In four vols, post 8vo. with a Portrait, price 30s. TOUR IN GERMANY, HOLLAND, ENGLAND, WALES, IRE- LAND, and FRANCE. " The ' Tour of a German Prince' is now universally allowed to be the most amusing and delightful book of travels that has issued from the press of any nation. 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" The public are much indebted to the spirited publisher for the pos- session of these interesting letters, which, on the whole, set the cha- racter of Mirabeau in an advantageous light, and will be one of the literary pleasures of retrospective posteritv."— Bell's New Weekly Messenger. MRS. AUSTIN'S BIBLE SELECTIONS. In 1 vol. 12mo. neatly hound, with a frontispiece from Flaxman, en- graved by Moses, price 5s. SELECTIONS from the OLD TESTAMENT ; or, The Religion, Mo- rality, and Poetry, of the Hebrew Scriptures, arranged under Heads, By SARAH AUSTIN. London : Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange. Just published, price 5s. cloth, FAMILY MANUAL AND SERVANTS' GUIDE. " A very useful little work, which will at once serve as a cookery- book, a guide for every description of servants, and a valuable assistant to the head of every family. We shall recommend this book every- where, if it were only for the sake of the excellent suggestions on the < self- improvement of House Servants."— Gardeners' Magazine. THE ARCANA OF SCIENCE for 1832, price 5s. cloth. Printed for John Limbird, 143, Strand. 1R~ WALTER SCOTT'S PORTRAIT, by SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE.— His Majesty has been gra- ciously pleased to grant to MOON, BOYS, and GRAVES, the loan of the above celebrated Picture, from which a splendid Line Engraving, by J H Robinson, is now far advanced, and will be speedily finished in a style worthy of the subject. An unfinished Proof, recently taken, may be seen at their House,' No. 6, Pall- mall, or at Mr. Moon's, 20, Thread- needle- street, by whom, as well as by all Printsellers in the United Kingdom, Subscribers' Names are received. As the Engraving is on copper, it is necessary for Names to be entered to insure Proofs. Price to Subscribers £\ 1 0 Proofs 2 0... India 3 3 0 Before letters 4 4 0 The paragraph beneath is from the Times of Nov. 16, 1832 :— " Yesterday evening the members of the City of London Artists' So- ciety held their first meeting for the season at tlie London Coffee- house. The intention of this society is merely to afford artists and amateurs an opportunity of assembling together for the purpose of conversation, and of exhibiting their works before they are brought more unequivo- cally under public notice. Many specimens of the talents of the mem- bers were last niglit observable in the room; but as any thing like detailed criticism on such an occasion would be out of place, we will merely announce that a proof of an engraved portrait of Sir Walter Scott, from a painting by Lawrence, excited general attention and no less admiration. The portrait, we understand, was executed about 13 years since, though it was not generally known that our great portrait painter had ever had the Author of Waverley for a sitter, and much regret has frequently been repressed at the supposed omission. In comparing this portrait of Sir Walter with those with which the public are already familiar, one is struck with the immense superiority of Lawrence over all his competitors in the power which he possessed of seizing upon and conveying to his canvass the most intellectual expres- sion of lus subjects. The admirers of the novelist will be pleased to find that the look of slyness, nay, almost of low cunning, which his less skilful limners have attributed to him, and which they wondered how such a man could ever possess, was not the real character of his head, but that its true expression was that of calm reflection, but with an eye which would evidently brighten up at the first merry thought that might occur to his mind. The engraving, which when finished will be one of the best that has been produced for a long time, is executed by Mr. Robinson, the engraver of the ' Wolf and the Lamb.'" On the First of January will be published, to be continued monthly, THE BRITISH LIBRARY. Comprising the Classic Authors of Great Britain. Elegantly printed in f. cap 8vo. price 3s. THE PLAN OF THE WORK IS— 1. To publish the works of the principal authors of Great Britain in monthly volumes, each containing from 320 to 400 pages, with illustra- tions on wood, where necessary, at the lowest possible price. 2. A leading object will be to free tlie British Library from the nume- rous errors which abound in even the best editions of our popular writers. 3. Where various readings occur, they will be introduced, and in cases where the lapse of time may have produced obscurity, or the progress of discovery has extended our knowledge, notes will be added, the text being always preserved pure, and without abridgement. 4. The whole will constitute a series connected and arranged by in- dices, or the writings of each author may be purchased separately, per- fect in themselves, accompanied with a biographical memoir of the author, either selected, or written expressly for the British Library. 5. The series will embrace all our great classic writers in Divinity, History, Philosophy, Natural History, Polite Literature, and Fiction.— Lists of the forthcoming works will be appended to each volume. It hardly admits of a doubt that this undertaking, embracing moderate price, beautiful Typography, careful collation, and convenient shape, must obtain extensive patronage. Those who regard money less than time, will be led insensibly to renew profitable study; the young will commence their reading with the best examples of scholarship, while the humble and poor may become possessed of those genuine sources of moral and intellectual eminence. The first volume will contain WHITE'S NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE, and Observations on Nature, with Illustrations by Bonner, and Notes by Captain Thomas Brown, F. L. S. President of the Royal Physical Society. London: Published for the Proprietors, by William Orr, Paternoster- row ; James Chambers, Edinburgh; and sold by all Booksellers in Town and Country. On December 31st, will be published, price One Shilling, to be continued Monthly, with Illustrations, THE FIELD NATURALIST'S MAGAZINE, and REVIEW of Animals, Plants, Minerals, the Structure of the Earth, and Appearances of the Sky. Edited by Professor RENNIE, King's College, London, Author of " Insect Architecture," " Alphabet of Insects," & c. This publication has been projected for the purpose of communicating simple facts in natural history, unclogged by the too often fanciful theories of systematists, and unsullied by that spirit of controversy and abuse which has of late years been too frequently introduced into similar works. 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" We have not f « r a long time perused any work from which we have derived more amusement and interest."— Metropolitan. III. In 8vo. price 16s. bound. MR. LODGE'S PEERAGE for 1833. The New Edition, considerably augmented, and corrected to the pre- sent date. " A work which corrects all errors of former works."— Times. IV. In 2 vols. 8vo. with 52 Vignettes, CHARACTERISTICS OF WOMEN. By Mrs. JAMESON. " Two truly delightful volumes— the most charming of all the works of a charming writer."— Blackwood. NEW NOVELS. V. THE ADOPTED INDIAN BOY, B E L L E G A R D E. A Canadian Tale. With Prefatory Remarks on Mrs. Trollope. 3 vols, post 8vo. Just ready, VI. GOLDEN LEGENDS; containing the BRACELET, the LOCKET, and the SIGNET RINQ. VII. THE PURITAN'S GRAVE. By the Author of " The Usurer's Daughter." Saunders and Otley, Public Library, Conduit- street. At this extensive Establishment the perusal of all New Publications, English and Foreign, may be obtained in Town or Country. 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LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF GERMAN LIFE, Including Stories of Napoleon's Wars in Germany. 2 vols. VI. THE LIVES OF BANDITTI, And Robbers in all parts of the World. By CHALES MACFARLANE, Esq. Author of " Constantinople in 1828." 2d edition, in two vols, em- bellished with 16 beautiful Engravings. OUR ISLAND. Comprising FORGERY, a Tale; and THE LUNATIC, a Tale. In 3 vols. RECORDS OF MY LIFE. By the late JOHN TAYLOR, Esq. Author of " Monsieur Tonson. | In 2 vols. 8vo. with Portrait. BRITISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH, NEW- ROAD, KING'S- CROSS LONDON. MR. MOIUSON, the President, and Mr. MOAT, the Vice- President, in conjunction with all the Honorary Members, and Country Agents of the British College of Health, being now fully borne out with the conviction, approbation, and indubitable proof's, of upwards of 200,000 individuals ( who had been thrown aside by the Fa- culty, and out of the Hospitals, as incurable) having been restored to sound health by the " Universal Medicines;" with all this incontro- vertible mass of evidence in support of the Hygeian Theory and Prac- tice, which challenges the controversy of the whole body of Medicists, under the old system to subvert, they, the heads of the College, hesitate not to declare, in the face of the Faculty, that this new light must com- pletely change the whole course of the Materia Medica, and introduce a new era in the science of physic: that, in fact, mankind will be taught, in future, a new and certain mode of investigating the nature and cause of Diseases in general, and of possessing a certain and harmless mode of cure, making every individual his own efficient doctor. In confirmation of what is here asserted, the heads of the College mean to insert, in this Paper, a continued series of new cases, from individuals giving their names, residences, and dates of time of cure, all of which nave been voluntarily given, and ascertainable as to the facts by inquiry. Besides the national government of Great Britain, which is now sub- jected to severe investigation, there is another institution, namely Physic, which, like every thing human, being subject to corruption and decay, requires careful watching, and frequent renovation. That it is and has been, for a long period, in a condition to require the most ex- tensive pruning and repair, is evident to everv right thinking person • and although we happen to be among the simplest and most innocent of God's creatures, we are filled with amazement at the patient and ass- like stupidity of that huge animal, the public, in submitting to the un- measurable abuse, insults, and immorality, flowing from such empoi- soned source. Our attention at this time has been more particularly attracted to- wards the school for medicine, from the prevalence of a new and terrific disease among us— the vexations and conflicting opinions of medical professors as to its cause— and the complicated, contradictory, and violent remedies they propose and apply, together with the manifold preparations we are advised to make in meeting, grappling with or eluding the death dealing giant; and we have, in this study, been led to reflect on the slow or rather retrograde march of physic, for those 2 000 • years past, while all other human pursuits have advanced, and are ' ad- vancing to perfection. In proportion as civilization progresses, it would appear that disease is multiplied; and notwithstanding the splendid establishments, laboratories, halls, hospitals, schools of anatomy— the grubbing up of dead carcases— the guttling and guddling among the posthumous filth and putrefaction of rotting humanity— Burking of the t living subject— torturing the afflicted with frightful operations— blister- ing, bleeding, scarifying, and cauterising;— notwithstanding the innu- merable works which perpetually issue from the groaning press, treat- ing of every fraction of the human body— burdened with a nomenclature that to pronouncSwould rive the jaws of an iron- lunged Russian, and with sounds that Would furnish a vocabulary for the Hhu- hymns • almost every year adds some new and unknown disease to the catalogue of our physical miseries, while the professed sons of Esculapius become more and more bewildered in a labyrinth of lvmpheducts, or lose them- selves in a volume of medicated vapour. The progress of physic is in- deed, more like a " dance of death," than what tt ought to be— a pleasant walk among the fragrant bowers of health, happiness, and repose. No wonder, therefore, that mankind, groping amid sucli bewilder- ment, should be ready to welcome every glimmering of light, though tliey may prove but will- o'- the- whisps to lead them farther into the fastnesses of delusion : no wonder that quacks, with their balms of gilead and uni- versal specifies, meet a ready reception, and fatten and flourish on man's fears and credulity, when the learned, the well- paid, and esta- blished conservators of the public health confess their ignorance of the cause, and their doubts as to the cure of any disease whatever.— Under such circumstances, it becomes the duty of every public instructor to investigate the pretentions of all who set themselves forth as the ad- ministrators of sovereign remedies; and, as truth may be mixed with error, endeavour to separate what is good and useful in each system and expose what is dangerous. In pursuing this object, and studying the various pathological schemes which, like bad physic, have been thrust down the throat and kept the vitals of the public body in perpetual agitation, we have been led to examine the doctrines of a new school, denominated the British College of Health, which has been of two or three years' standing- spread itself over a great part of England uninterrupted, and as" at length fixed one of its feelers in this neighbourhood. Aware that many of our readers are favourably disposed towards this new system attracted perhaps by its bold denunciation ofthe orthodox establishment of physic, and the simplicity of its own structure ; and having learned that our contemporaries of the broad sheet had refused a place to the advertisement which appeared in our columns, we felt it our duty to make further inquiry: and having examined Mr. Moat, the agent for this quarter, and read his rule of faith— the " Morisoniana," we are prepared to explain the question at issue between the Faculty and the Hygeist without at present venturing on a decision.— Trades'Advocate, Glasgow'. The " Vegetable Universal Medicines" are to be had at the College New- road, King's- cross, London; at the Surrey Branch, 96, Great Sur- rey- street, Blackfriars; Mr. Field's, 16, Air- street, Quadrant- Mr Chappell's Royal Exchange; Mr. Walker's, Lamb's Conduit- passage" Red Lion- square; Mr. J. Loft's, 10, Mile End- road; Mr. Bennett's Go vent- garden- market; Mr. Haydon's, Fleur- de- lis court, Norton- fol » ate • Mr. Haslett's, 147, Ratcliffe- highway; Messrs. Norbury's, Brentford '• Mrs. Stepping, Clare- market; Messrs. Salmon, Little Bell- alley - Miss Varral's, 24, Lucas- street, Commercial- road; Mrs. Beech's, 7, Sloane- square, Chelsea; Mr. Chappel, Royal Library, Pall- mall; Mrs. Clements 12, Bridge- street, Southwark; Mr. Kirtlam, 4, Bolingbroke- row, Wal- worth ; of Mr. Pain, 64, Jermyn- street; Mr. Wood, hair- dresser_ Ricli mond; Mr. Meyer, 3, May's- buildings, Blackheath; Mr^ tsSSie Wood- wharf, Greenwich; Mr. B. Pitt, 1, Cornw all- road, L at one Agent's in every principal town in Greit Britain of Guernsey and Malta, and throughout the whole of thp- Untfed of America, the Canadas, and New Brunswick. 37S THE TOW*. NOT ember 25. THE ELECTIONS. CITY OF LONDON. The election commenced at twelve o'clock on Saturday. The candidates were as follow :— Mr. Alderman Wood, nominated by John Smith, Esq., of Norwich, seconded by John Easthop'e, Esq., late member for St. Alban's. Mr. Alderman Waithman, nominated by Mr. Weston, seconded by Mr. Prendergast. Sir John Key, nominated by Mr. Stevens, seconded by Mr. Williams. Mr. Grote, nominated by Mr. Solly, seconded by Dr. Birkbeck. Mr. Lyall, nominated by Mr. Ward, and seconded by Mr. Blancbard. The candidates having successively addressed the electors, the Sheriffs directed a show of hands, which they declared to be in favour of Mr. Grote, Sir John Key, and Aldermen Waithman and Wood. A poll having been demanded, the election was adjourned to Monday, at nine o'clock, at which hour the business of polling commenced and continued until four o'clock, when the can- didates came forward to address tbe assembled electors. The fa- vourites were well received— Mr. Lyall was tolerated, and Mr. Scales listened to with amusement, if not with satisfaction— he gave them some scraps from the History of England, and some, two or three bits of poetry— and congratulated himself on the few. ness of his voters, by the consideration tbat, " tbe smaller their number, the greater their value."— Tbe numbers announced were- Grote 5,885 Key 4,245 Wood ... - - 5,268 Lyall .... 3,652 Waithman - - - 5,225 Scales - - - - 421 The polling recommenced with great spirit on Tuesday. At four o'clock, the numbers were found to be as follow : Giote 8,966 Key 6,583 Waihtman - - - 7,987 Lyall - - - . - 5,383 Wood 7,968 Scales 626 The various candidates expiessed their sentiments of triumph and defeat, both tbe winning, and losing parlies, ( with the ex- ception of Mr. Scales,) expressing their entire satisfaction at the issue. WESTMINSTER. The time appointed for the commencement of business on Saturday was twelve o'clock precisely, but it was one before the different candidates and their friends arrived. Sir Francis Burdett and Sir J. Hobhouse, accompanied by the High Bailiff, appeared first on the hustings. The yells, hisses, and ap- plause at this mo- ment beggar description. The most abusive epithets were applied to the Right Hon. Secretary at War, who bore them with the greatest good humour. Colonel Evans, and his friends, shortly afterwards made their appearance, and were received with mill gled groans and applause. Some pieces of rope were flung at Sir John C. Hobhouse, but no missile calculated to do any serious harm, was made use of. Mr. George Lyndon proposed Sir F. Burdett Mr. Marciiarit seconded the nomination. Sir John Hobhouse was proposed by Mr. De Vear, and se- conded by Mr. Pouncey. The mover and seconder dwelt on the services of Sir John for fourteen years, but not a single word could be heard, even by those ti. xt the speakers. Colonel Evans was proposed by Mr. Baintridge, and seconded by Mr. Simpson. The High Bailiff then put Sir Francis Burdett in nomination, and called for a show of hands. Very few hands were held up, and the uproar and confusion was of the most violent nature. A show of hands was then called for Sir John Hobhouse; a still less number were held up, and if possible the uproar increased. Colonel Evans's name was then read, and the whole of the assembled multitude seemed to move as one man ; every band was outstretched, and the applause and cheering w- ere of the most deafening nature. The High Bailiff then sai- d— It appears to me that tbe show of hands is in favour of Sir Francis Burdett and Colonel Evans.— ( Great cbeeiing.) Sir Francis Burdett aud Colonel Evans having addressed the meeting, Sir John Hobhouse presented himself, but the uproar, hisses, and cries of " Flogging Jack," were so deafening tbat it was some minutes before the Hon. Baronet could be heard. Tbe High Bailiff then adjourned the meeting until nine o'clock on Monday morning at which time the polling commenced. It was agreed that there should be no speaking until the final close of the poll— The only thing remarkable in the proceed- ings, was the unqualified contradiction by Sii John Hobhouse, in his committee room, of a report— indeed an assertion— that he had been appointed Secretary for Ireland. The numbers at the close were :— Burdett - - - - 1,951 I Evans 720 Hobhouse - - - 1,914 | On the second day the business proceeded wilh spirit, and tbe numbers declared at the final close of tbe election on Wednesday, were : — At tbe close of tbe poll a protest was delivered in by Mr. Wake- field in tbe following terms: — To the returning officer of the Borough of Lambeth, Dec. 12. I protest against the return of Benjamin Hawes, Esq., to serve in Parliament for this Borough, on account of bribery and corruption, practised by hurt and his agents in procuring votes." Messrs. Tennyson and Wakefield then addressed the meeting, which shortly after terminated. BOROUGH OF FINSBURY. The election for this borough commenced on Saturday, at lialf- jast twelve o'clock. Mr. R. Grant, Mr. Sergeant Spankie, Mr. Babbage, Mr. Temple, and Mr. Wakley, were put in nomination. A show of hands was then taken, and the Returning Officer, Mr. Satchell, declared the election to have fallen upon Thomas Wakley, Esq. and Robert Grant, Esq. A poll being demanded on tKe part of Mr. Babbage and Mr. Temple, the election was adjourned to Monday, at nine o'clock, when the polling commenced. There was the usual variety of placards exhibited by the different parties, from which, for its antithetical allusion, we select the following : —" Electors of Finsbury, take your choice— Wakley and liberty.; Temple and Chancery; Babbnge and machinery; Spankis and twankay." At the close of tbe poll on Monday the numbers were— by two or three inches, making a deep impression on the wall. Tbe event has excited extreme interest here, and a number of the people offered to escort Dr. Bowring as a body- guard wherever he should go. NORWICH. The members nominated were Messrs. Gurnev and Ker, Lord Stor- mont and Sir James Scarlett. The show of hands was decidedly in favour of Messrs. Gurney and Ker. It appears tbat bribery has been active here. Oil the first day a complete riot took place, ( arising, it is said, from a blow struck by one of Sir James Scarlett's stavemen), which ended in tbe destruction of the booths of Lord Stormont and Sir James. The numbers announced at the close of the second day's poll were— Grant Spankie !, 464 1,555 1,174 Wakley Temple 1,162 541 Stormont 2,034 I Scarlett, .... 1,967 ) The two former were elected. Gurney 1,791 Ker, 1,749 The numbers at the close of the poll on Tuesday were— Grant 4,260 Wakley .... 2,145 Spankie .... 2,822 Temple .... 795 Babbage .... 2,368 After Messrs. Grant and Spankie had been declared duly elected, those Gentlemen came forward to express their acknowledg- ments of the honour done them. It rarely happens however, that successful candidates say any tiling particularly notable.— Tbe amusement is always looked for from the losing party— so, in the present case, Mr. Wakley, " tbe pledged man of the people,' thought that his not being placed high on the poll was a " convincing proof that the cause of reform was triumphant"—" it must [ have been supposed that all tbe harpies of corruption would combine against him"—" the government would now ride rough- shod over the community." He then declaimed at length against the qualification checks of Ihe reform bill, against free trade, tbe corn laws, the conduct of the Whigs, standing army, and the slate of Ireland he concluded by expressing his resolution to get into Parliament for some other place. Proclamation was then made and the meeting dispersed. TOWER HAMLETS. On Saturday the election for this borough commenced, when the following candidates were put in nomination:— Dr. Lushington, Colonel Stanhope, Captain Marryatt, and Mr. Clay. Tbe several candidates addressed the electors present, and on a show of hands being taken, the Returning Officer declared the election to have fallen « n Dr. Lushington and Colonel Stanhope. A poll having been demanded on the part of the other candidates, it was fixed to commence on Monday morning. The different candidate arrived a little before eleven, accom- panied by music and the huzzas of the multitude. Banners and flags, with various inscriptions, arrived. One belonging to Colonel Stanhope, upon which was the " Suppliant Negro antl Slave Emancipation," appeared to excite attention. Before tbe candidates were put in nomination, a curious scene presented itself— viz., an attack upon each other's show boards by tbe Marryattites and the Stanhopeites, whereby many were broken to atoms, and the standard having been lost, the parties fought with their staves. Some hats were crushed, and heads broken, but nothing more serious occurred. The following were the exact numbers at four o'clock: — Lushington . . . 2,212 I Stanhope .... 1,646 Clay 1,974 j Marryatt .... 1,090 On Tuesday, at the final close, the numbers were, Lushington . . . 3,874 I Stanhope .... 2,867 Clay 3,644 | Marryatt . . . . 1,871 MARYLEBONE. Tbe election commenced on Monday, when the following gen- tlemen appeared as candidates:-— Mr. Portman, Sir William Home, Sir Samuel Whalley, Colonel Jones, and Mr. Murphy. Upon a show of hands being taken, the election was declared to have fallen upon Mr. Murphy and Mr. Portman. The numbers at the close of Monday's pull were found to stand thus:— ROCHESTER. The candidates were Messrs. Berital and Mills, the old Members, and Mr. Collingwood, whom the electors brought forward in conse quence of Mr. Mills's irreconcileable conduct in voting against the second reading of the Reform Bill, aud walking out of the House on Lord Ebrington's motion. The show of hands was nearly even on behalf of the candidates, and was declared in favour of Messrs. Bernal and Mills. A poll was demanded on behalf of Mr. Collingwood, who subsequently resigned, and con- sequently Messrs Bernal and Mills were declared duly elected. COVENTRY. Saturday the 8th was the day fixed for the nomination of the candidates. Messrs. Ellice and Bulwer were enthusiastically re- ceived, but Messrs. Fyler and Thomas, their opponents, coAld not obtain a hearing. The result of the election was evident on this occasion ; but the Tories determined that the Reformers should not obtain a victory so peaceably. On Sunday their emissaries engaged a great number of navigators, colliers, & c., for the purpose of annoy- ing the voters, but these schemes were discovered, and a general feeling of indignation pervaded the city. The polling immediately commenced, and at its close Messrs. Ellice and Bulwer bad an immense majority. The contest was then hopeless, and just before the close of the poll Messrs. Fyler and Thomas declined. There were about 2,000 votes polled. NOTTINGHAM. The Reform candidates, General Fergusson and Lord Duncan- non were most favourably received at tbe nomination— Capt. Gor- don, the third candidate, tried in vain for an hour and three- quar- ters to get a hearing. The two former vvere returned. BRIGHTON. Tbe candidates, Messrs. Wigney, Captain Pechell, Crawford, Faithful, and Sir Adolphus Daliymple, were nominated amidst much uproar. Messrs. Wigney and Faithful were returned. They are both decidedly liberals ; tbe latter, indeed, ultra- liberal. NEWPORT, ISLE OF WIGHT. Sir Willoughby Gordon and Messrs. Hawkins and Ord were no- minated. The polling was continued till two in the afternoon on Wednesday, when Sir W. Gordon seeing a considerable majority in favour of bis opponents very handsomely declined keeping open tbe poll. The following were tbe numbers polled :— Hawkins Ord Gordon 161 Murphy i Jones 575 199 Burdett Hobhou- se Evans - - - 1,093 - - 3,448 - - 3,214 | BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK. The writ having been read on Saturday by the High Bailiff, and the usual preliminaries having been gone through, Mr. Davis proposed W Brougham, Esq. Mr. Solomon Davies then presented himself, with the intention of nominating L. B. Allen, Esq.; but the deafening shouts and hooting of the crowd prevented bis being beard. The High Bailiff asked him if he was an elector, and, replying in the negative, Mr. Davies retired amidst loud hisses. Mr. Longmorc proposed L. B. Allen, Esq. Mr. Cbadvvick se- conded the the nomination. M. J. Ellis nominated Mr. Sheriff Humphery. Mr. White se- conded it. Mr, Gremaire nominated J. L. Murray, Esq. He was seconded by Mr. Blackford. The High Bailiff having taken a show of bands, declared tbe election to have fallen upon W. Brougham, Esq., and J. Hum- phery, Esq. Mr. Murray addressed the electors, and was received with cheers and hooting. At the conclusion of his speech a poll was demanded for Mr. Allen, and the High Bailiff adjourned the elec- tion to Monday. Mr. Murray declined going to the poll, and his name was erased from tbe list of candidates. The poll commenced rather languidly on Monday. At tbe close the numbers were— 572 At Uur o'cluck the Brougham .... 1241 I Allen . . Huiuphery .... 908 ] Nothing particular occurred on Tuesday, numbers were— For Mr. Brougham . 2,264 I Mr. Allen .... 1,040 Mr. Humphery . 1,708 | LAMBETH. The election for Members for this borough commenced on Saturday, at Kennington Common. Afler the usual preliminaries Messrs. Tennyson, Hawes, Moore, and Wakefield, were severally proposed, when the show of hands was declared to be in favour of Messrs. Tennyson and Wakefield, amid applause and disapproba tion. A poll having been demanded for Messrs. Hawes and Moore, the meeting adjourned till Monday, on which day the polling commenced. Mr. Tennyson was proposed and seconded by Mr. Palmer and Mr. Weston ; Mr. Hawes, by Mr. Hardy and Mr. Redhead ; Mr. Moore, by Mr. D. Richardson and Mr. Stamford ; and Mr. Wake- field, by Captain Holmes. Mr. Blake was to have seconded the nomination, but was not present. At the close of the day the numbers were- Tennyson Hawes 1,652 1,301 Wakefield I Moore At the final close the numbers were as follow :— Tennyson Hawes 2,683 2,138 Wakefield Moore 490 106 804 156 The successful candidates returned thanks. Portman .... 2,577 Home .... 1,989 Whalley .... 1,081 | Great activity prevailed throughout the borough on Tuesday. Sir Samuel Whalley was particularly on the alert, and made great exertions to recover his lost ground. Tfie following was the stale of the poll at its final close, at four o'clock:— Portman .... 4,317 Murphy .... 913 Home 3,320 Jones 316 Whalley .... 2,165 The successful and unsuccessful candidates, then addressed the meeting in terms proper to the occasion. Sir S. Whalley congra tulated himself on gaining not certainly a seat in Parliament, but " a load of untarnished glory"—- be was satisfied that nothing but corruption and intimidation had prevented bis election, and be hoped the welkin would ring with " vote by ballot" until that ne- cessary measure was achieved. Mr. Murphy seemed to think the electors had lost a chance in not electing him— he did not like the Times, he did not like the Chronicle, nor Mr. Portman, nor Lord Brougham, nor the Penny Magazine, nor supplying electors with " a cab- ride" to the polling booth, nor any thing in short but Sir Peter Laurie's impartial conduct, and the trifling amount of his own electioneering expenses, compared with those ofthe " winning side.' Colonel Jones attempted to get a quiet hearing, but with little success— The worthy " Radical," must we fancy have been somewhat disconcerted by the uproar which surrounded him, on his avowal that he himself had voted for Mr. Portman and Sir Wm. Home— the successful candidates. LEEDS. Messrs. Sadler, Marshall, and Macauley. were the candidates for nomination. A very disorderly scene took place on the first day, from the collision of some offensive banners on both sides. There were, it appears, nearly one hundred flags, most of which had in- scriptions indicative of tbe party to which they were attached ; one represented the mills of Messrs. Marshall, in Water- lane, lighted up, the ground being covered with snow, and a number of children were represented as wading through tbe snow, half starved. Un- derneath was inscribed, " Five o'clock in the morning," and the whole was headed in large letters, " A scene in Water- lane." Sub- sequently considerable attempts were made by the opposite party to pull down this flag. The attempt was met by a counter move- ment to bring down the Political Union flag of the Whig party ; bludgeons and stones were unceremoniously used. Mr. Sadler was clearly the favourite of the day, and Messrs. Marshall and Macauley had great difficulty in obtaining a hearing. The poll closed at four on the 12th, and according to the returns of Mr. Sadler's clerks, it stands as follows:— Marshall .... 1,787 I Sadler 1,369 Macauley • . . . 1,772 j There is a variation between this and that issued by Marshall and Macauley : we subjoin it— Marshall .... 1,804 | Sadler 1,353 Macauley . . . . 1,792 | When the polling bad terminated, the several bauds of music marched round the town, and the different candidates afterwards addressed tbeir friends. BLACKBURN. On a show of hands at the nomination, Dr. Bowring was raptu- rously received. A cordial greeting was given, too, to Messrs. Fielder and Turner. Mr. Hindle, the Tory candidate, was by no means flattered. On Tuesday morning an attempt w- as made by some brutal assas- sin to attack Dr. Bowring while asleep in bed. At three o'clock a large stone, sharp at both edges, was flung into his bed- room ( an other having been previously thrown), and it missed his head only 214 . 204 | MANCHESTER. Mr. Cobbett's friends surrounded the platform on the day of no- mination so that all the names but his were drowned in tumult. The candidates nominated were Messrs. Baxter, Cobbett, Loyd, Hope, and Poulett Thomson. Messrs. Phillips and Thomson were the successful candidates. BRISTOL. Messrs. Protheroe, Baillie, Williams, and Sir R. Vyvyan were nominated. The show of hands was in favour of Messrs. Pro- theroe and Williams. A poll was demanded, and at tbe close of the poll on Thursday, the numbers were— Vyvyan .... 3718 | Protheroe . . . 3046 Baillie .... 3160 | Williams . . . 2614 Sir R. Vyvyan and Mr. Baillie were therefore elected. It is understood that a scrutiny will be demanded, and indeed it is very probable tbat many will be found to have voted in the " bucket" interest who were paupers, and consequently disqualified. WINCHESTER. Liberal principles have achieved a triumph here in the return of Messrs. Mildmay and Baring in opposition to Mr. East, the Duke of Buckingham's nominee. At the close of the first day's poll Mr. East resigned. The numbers polled were of the Reformers. All was conducted with order and decorum, notwithstanding the recollection of the proceedings of the Irving- ites, oil the 31st of July, the presence of tbat gentleman himself and of the Magistrates, who made the military on tbat occasion assault the people. GRANTHAM. Monday was the nomination day for the borough of Grantham. At half- past nine o'clock the candidates entered tbe Guild Hall Sessions- room and took their seats. After the usual ceremonial was performed, Thomas Harvey, Esq,, was immediately sworn in as Returning Officer. Dr. Coward rose and proposed Glynne Earl Welby. He was seconded by Dr. Catlett.— G. F. Holt, Esq., after a very able speech, proposed Sir Montague Cholmeley, who was seconded by Mr. Duffield, in an admirable speech.— Mr. Neal, after a few words, proposed Mr. Algernon Talmash, who was seconded l> y Mr. Barnes. The show of hands was not in favour of Glynne Welby ; be in- stantly demanded a poll. On Tuesday morning the poll commenced at nine o'clock, and closed at four o'clock in the afternoon. Welby 158 | Cliolmeley ..... 101 Talmash .... 226 | On Wednesday morning tbe poll commenced at " eight o'clock, and closed at two, when Algernon Talmash, and Glynne Earl Welhy were declared the successful candidates. The final statement of the poll was as follows: — Welby 303 | Cholmeley 241 Talmash .... 388 | CITY OF DURHAM. This election terminated on Wednesday, after two days severe polling, in the return of Mr. Chaytor and Mr. Harland, two steady Reformers, and the defeat of Mr. Trevor, the nominee of Lord Londonderry, who was supported on the Church and Tory interest, and in whose- behalf every species of blandishment and intimidation was employed. The numbers at the conclusion were— Harland, 439 | Trevor, . . . » . . 383 Chaytor 403 | CHATHAM. The state of the poll, according to the checks at the close, stood Colonel Maberly, . . 363 | Perry 242 Colonel Mabetly was therefore elected. CARLISLE. The election has terminated. The poll at the close was, James 478 J Sir J. Malcolm, ... 117 P. H. Howard ... 472 | DEVONPORT. The election commenced on Monday. The Candidates were Sir George Grey, Sir Edward Codrington, and Mr. Leach, At the close of the poll the numbers were, Grey 1,164 | Leach, 573 Codrington, . . . 855 j GREENWICH. . The members proposed were Captain Dundas, Mr. Barnard, and Mr. Angersteiu-. Mr. Fisher, the Returning Officer, on Friday came on the hustings and declared Captain Dundas and Mr. Barnard to be duly elected. The candidates severally returned thanks for the support extended to them. Mr. Angerstein was very unfavourably received. Mildmay .... 351 I East 263 Baring .... 363 j OXFORD. The candidates were Messrs. Langston, Hughes, Stonor, and Sir Charles Wetherell. After the nomination lliey came forward and addressed the assembly. The first three were listened to with attention, but Sir Charles was not allowed to speak, the noise and tumult were so great that it was impossible for even those persons standing close to him to hear what lie said. He made several attempts to obtain a hearing, but all bis efforts were unavailing. He continued to stand in a position which indi- cated that he would wait till his opponents were tired. This inter- val occupied nearly half an hour, when Sir Charles deliberately put on bis hat, and in about a quarter of an hour after called for liis great coat, and having put it on he resumed his former attitude. This was about one o'clock ; from that time until three the time passed in uproar and confusion, Sir Charles endeavouring to ob- tain a hearing, and the crowd positively refusing to hear a word be said. At three o'clock the show of bands being called for, was found to be in favour of the first three candidates, very few ap pearing for Sir Charles. At the close of the poll Messrs. Langston and Stoner were declared duly elected. EXETER. The candidates nominated were Messrs. Buller, Divett, and Fol- lett. The show of hands was in fivour of the two former. The latter demanded a poll. Messrs. Bnller and Divett were elected. SUDBURY. Mr. Taylor, the Reform candidate, and Sir John Walsh, Bart., are returned for the borough of Sudbury. The numbers at the final close of the poll were— Tavlor, Walsh, 263 253 W rangham, Bagshaw, 234 46 STROUD. Three candidates, each professing Whig principles, were nomi- nated here. Messrs. Scrope, ( a brother of the Vicv- President of the Board of Trade), Hyett, and Ricardo. Messrs. Hyett and Ricardo were elected. CHELTENHAM. The Hon. Craven Berkeley, no other candidate appearing, was declared duly elected. KING'S LYNN, NORFOLK. Lords G. Bentinck and W. Lennox, have been re- elected. Lord G. Bentinck's conduct on the Reform Bill has made him many enemies, and he was severely called to account for deserting Minis- ters on Lord Ebtington's motion, and for his vote against negro emancipation. Lord W. Lennox, on the contrary, met the most enthusiastic reception; bis popularity is immense. SOUTHAMPTON. The candidates were Arthur Atherley and John Storey Penleaze, Esqrs., the late Members, James Barlow Hoy, Esq., and James Mackillop, Esq., the latter of the firm of Palmer and Mackillop, of the city of London. Tinere was much talk of bribery in the proceedings of this elec- tion. The result was in favour of the Tory interest for one member. The numbers finally declared were— Atherley ( Reformer) . 646 | Penleaze ( Reformer) . 593 Hoy ( Anti) .... 606 j Mackillop ( Anti) . . 249 CLITHEROE. Fort . . . 157 | Irving .... 123. First elected. Toryism has ceased for ever here; and all the aristocracy, sup- ported by bayonets, cannot overcome the determination and spirit ELECTIONS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. MONDAY.— Middlesex, Denbigh, Dublin, Glamorgan, Corn-' wall, ( Eastern Division), Herts, Paisley, Stafford ( North), Edin- burgh, Warwickshire ( South), Devon ( South), Yorkshire ( North Riding). TUESDAY.— Berks, Northumberland ( North), Cheshire ( South), Cornwall ( West), Devon ( North), Leith, Durham ( North), Greenock, Monmouth, Northampton ( North), Yorkshire ( East Riding). WEDNESDAY.— Bedford, Dorset, Surrey ( East), Devon ( West), Edinburgh ( County). THURSDAY.— Cheshire ( North), Durham ( South), Renfrew- shire, Northumberland ( South), Yorkshire ( West Riding), Isle of Wight. MEMBERS ELECTED. London— George Grote, Esq., Alderman Wood, Alderman Waith- man, and Alderman Sir John Key. Westminster— Sir F. Burdett and Sir J. C. Hobhouse. Sonthwark— W. Brougham, Esq, and J. Humphery, Esq. Marylebone— B. Portman, Esq., and Sir Wm. Home. Tower Hamlets— Dr. Lushington and W. Clav, Esq. Lambeth— Right Hon. C. Tennyson and B. Hawes, Esq. Finsbury— Right Hon. R. Grant and Mr. Sergeant Spaukie. Abingdon— V. T. Duffield, Esq. Andover— II. A. Fellowes, Esq., and Ralph Etwall, Esq. Asbburton— W. S. Poyntz. Bedford— Whitbread and Crawley, Buckingham— Sir H. Vcrney and Sir F. Freemantle. Banbury— H. W. Tancrcd, Esq. Beaumaris—. Frederick Paget, Esq. Beverley— Hon. Charles Langdale and II. P. Burton, Esq. Bridgewater-— C. K. K. Tynte and W. Tayleure, Esqrs. Bridport— M. Warburton and Mr. Romilly. Bewdley— Sir T. Wilmington, Bart. Birmingham— T. Attwood and Joshua Scholefield, Esqrs. Bodmin— Peter and S. Spry. Brecon— Wa- tkins. Bridgenorth— Robert Pigot and J. C. WMtmore, Esqrs. Brighton— Wigney and Faithful. Bristol— Vyvyan and Protbcroe. Bury ( Lancashire)— Mr. Walker. Barnstaple— Messrs. Chichester and Fanconrt. Bath— General Palmer and Roebuck. Clitheroe— Fort. Cheltenham— Hon. C. F. Berkeley. Cricklade— Calley and Gordon. Carlisle— P. H. Howard, Esq. and Wm. James, Esq. Coventry— Edward Ellice and Henry Bulwer, Esqrs. Cambridge ( University)— H. Goulburn and M. Sutton- Cambridge ( Town)— Prynie and Rice. Canterbury— Watson and Lord Fordwich. Cardiff, & c.— J. Nicholl, Esq. Chatham— Colonel Maberley. Chichester— Lord A. Lennox and J. A. Smith, Esq. Colchester— Sanderson and Harvey. Calne— Earl of Kerry. Christchurch— George W. Tapps, Esq. Chippenham— Joseph Neeld and H. F. Talbot. Cockermoutli— T. L. Dykes and H. Aglionby, Esqrs. Chester— Lord Grosvenor and J. Jervis. Dartmouth— Lieutenant Colonel Seale. Denbigh ( Boroughs)— Madocks. Derby— Strutt and Cavendish. Dudley— Sir John Campb'. dl. Devizes— Wadham Locke and Montague Gore. Dorchester— R. Williams, Esq. and Hon. H. Ashley. Droitwich— J. II. Foley, Esq. Dover— Thompson and Reid. Dutham— H. Harland and Chaytor. Evesham— Sir C. Cockered and Mr. Hudson. Exeter— Buller and Divett. Eye— Sir E. Kerrison. Flint— Sir S. Glynne, Bart. Frome— Shepherd and Champneys. Gloucester— Captain Berkley and John Philpotts, Esq. Grantham— Talniash and Welby. Greenwich— Dundas and Barnard. Guilford— Mangles and C. B. Wall. Gateshead—- Rippon. Hastings— Frederick North and J. A. Warre, Esqrs. Helston— S. L. Fox, Esq. Hereford— Clive and Biddulph. Honiton— Lord Villiers and Todd. November 18. THE TOWS, 4 0 3 Harwich — Mr. Herries and Mr. Tower. Haverfordwest— Sir R. B. P. Philippe. Hertford— Lord Ingestrie and Lord Mahon. Horsham— Robert H. Hurst. Huntingdon— Colonel Peel and F. Pollock, Esq. Hythe— S. Majoribanks, Esq. Ipswich— Morrison and Wasoti. Ives, St.— Halse. Kingston- on- Hull — Hill and Hutt. Kendal— J. Brougham, Esq. Kidderminster— R. Godson, Esq. King's Lynn— Lord G. Bentinck and Lord W. Lennox. Ludlow— Lord Clive and E. Romilly. Lancaster— Green and Stewart. Lichfield— Scott and Anson. Liskeard— C. Buller, jun., Esq. Liverpool— Ewart and Lord Sandon. Lymington— Neale and Stewart. Leominster— Lord Hothamaud Mr. Bish. Lincoln— Heneage and E. L. Bulwer, Esq. Lewes— T. R. Kemp and Sir C. R. Blunt. Leicester— Evans and Ellis. Launceston— H. Hardinge. Marlborough— Lord E. Bruce and Mr. Baring. Midhurst— The Hon. F. Spencer. Maidstone— Robarts and Harnett. Maldon— Leonard and Dick. MerthyrTydvil, & c.— J. T. Guest, Esq. Montgomery— Pugh. Morpeth— Howard. Maliuesbury— Lord Andover. Marlow— I. P. Williams, Esq. and Colonel W. R. Clayton. Million— Pepys and Wentworth. Nottingham— Fargusson and Duncannon. Neath— J. H. Vivian, Esq. Newcastle ( Staffordshire)— Sir H. Willoughby, Bart, and W. H. Miller, Esq. Newport ( Isle of Wight)— Hawkins and Ord. Norti. allerton— J. G. Boss. Northampton— Smith and Ross. Norwich— Lord Stormont and Sir James Scarlett. Oxford— H. Langton, Esq. and T. Stonor, Esq. Pembroke— H. O. Owen. Penryn and Falmouth— Rolfe and Lord Tullamore. Plymouth— John Collier, Esq. and Thomas Bowes, Esq. Poole— B. L. Lester and Sir John Byng. Portsmouth— Carter and Baring. Pontefract— Hon. H. V. S. Jetningham and John Gully, Esq. Peterborough— Sir R. Heron and J. N. Fazakerley, Esq. Petersfield — Lefevre, Esq. Radnor— Richard Price, Esq. without opposition. Rochester— Bemall and Mills. Richmond ( Yorkshire)— Hon. Sir R. Dundas and Hon. J. C. Dundas. Ripon— J. K. Staveley and J. Crompton, Esqrs. Reigate— Lord Viscount Eastnor. Stafford— Captain W. Chetwynd and Captain Groixw St. Albans— Sir F. Vincent and H. G. Ward, Esq. Southampton— Atherley and Hoy. Sudbury— Sir John Walsh and the Right Hon. M. A. Taylor. Sandwich— Troubridge and Marryat. Shaftesbury— Poulter. Stamford— Chaplin and Finch. Stroud— Hyett and Ricardo. Stoke- upon- Tre; it— Davenport and Wedgwood. South Shields— Ingram and Palmer. Salisbury— Brodie and Wyndham. Tamworth— Lord C. V. F. Townshend and Sir R. Peel, Bart. Taunton— H. Labouchere and E. T. Bainbridge, Esqrs. Tavistock— Lord Russell and Colonel Fox. Tewkesbury— C. H. Tracy and J. Martin, Esqrs. Thirsk— Sir Robert Franklano. Totness— Jasper Parrolt and James Cornish, Esqrs. Thetford— Lord J. Fitzroy and T. Baring, Esq. Tiverton— Heathcote and Kennedy. Wakefield— D. Gaskell, Esq. Wareham— Calcraft. Walsall— Forster. Wallingford— W. S. Blackstone. Wigan— Thicknesse and Potter. Winchester— Mildmay and Baring. Warwick— Greville and King. Wenlock— Hon. C. Forrester and John Gaskill, Esq. Westbury— Sir Ralph Lopez. Wells ( Somersetshire)— Lament and Colbum. Windsor— J. Ramsbottom and Sir J. Pechell. Wycombe— Smith and Grey. Wilton— J. H. Penruddocke, Esq. Worcester— Colonel Davies and G. R. Robinson, Esq. Woodstock— Marquis of Blandford. Yarmouth— Anson and Rumbold. York— Petre and Bayntun. LATEST ACCOUNT OF THE STATE OF THF POLLS. HUDDERSFIELD, Dec. 12.— Fenton, 223; Wood, 97 ; mob very riotous. BOLTON, Dec. 13.— Torrens, 607 ; Yates, 480 ; Boiling, 478; Eagle, 104. WELLS, SOMERSET, Dec. 13.— Lamont, 162 ; Colborne, 157 ; Lee, 150; Mr. Vaughan resigned, CARMARTHEN, Dec. 12.— Poll having been closed in conse- quence of disturbance, will be resumed again to- morrow.— Jones, 283; Yelverton, 281. DEVONPORT, Dec. 12.— Grey, 1,164; Codrington, 855 ; Leach, 572. WHITBY. Dec. 12.— Mr Chapman stated to be above 90 votes - ahead of Mr. Moorsom. AYLESBURY, Dec. 13.— Rickford, 919 ; Colonel Hanmer, 565; T. B. Hobhouse, 492. MONTGOMERY ( BorougR), Dec. 12.— Pugh, 337 ; Edwards, 324. CHATHAM, Dec. 13— Maberly, 263; Perry, 142. ROCHDALE, Dec. 12.— Fenlon, 238; F. ntwisle, 220; Taylor, 107. WEYMOUTH, Dec. 13.— Buxton, 228; Johnstone, 209; Bur- don, 207 ; Bankes, 173. BERWICK, Dec. 12.— Donkiti, 339; Blake, 315; Beres- ford, 313. SUNDERLAND, Dec. 12.— Col. Chaytor, 509; Capt. Barring- ton, 335 ; Alderman Thompson, 279; Mr. Barclay, 253. BOSTON, Dec. 13.— Wilks, 381); Haudley, 331 ; Brown- rigg, S00. NEWARK, Dec. 12.— W. E. Gladstone, 864; Handley, 780; Wilde, 703. BURY ST. EDMUND'S, Dec. 13.— Lord C. Fitzroy, 247 ; Earl Jermvn, 214; Mr. Eagle, 193. RYE, DEC. 13.— Mr. Curteis, 162; Colonel Evans, 128. MACCLESFIELD, Dec. 12.— Ryle, 60 ; Brocklehurst, 40 : Grims- ditch, 30. ASHTON- UNDER- LINE, Dec. 13.— Colonel Williams, 170 ; Hind- ley, 152; Helps, 20. MANCHESTER, Dec. 13.— Philips, 2,328; Thomson, 1,521; Lovd, 1388; Hope, 959; Cobbett, 949. SALFORD, Dec. 13.— Brolherton, 6 » 3; Gamett, 457. TYNEMOUTII.— Two candidates proposed. Polling commenced on the 13th. SOUTH SHIELDS, Dec. 12-— Inghain, 205; Palmer, 108; Gowan, 104; Bowlby, 2. BOSTON, Dec. 12, three o'clock— Wilks, 374; Handley, 323; Brownrigg, 294. OLDHAM, Dec. 13, two o'clock— Cobbett, 156 ; Fielden, 132; Bright, 27 ; Burge, 16 ; Stephens, 1. BLACKBURN, Dec. 13, half past one o'clock— Fielden, 371; Turner, 343; Bowring, 329. BOLTON, Dec. 13— Colonel Torrens, 607; Yates, 482; Boiling, 478 ; Eagle, 104. HALIFAX, Dec. 13, eleven o'clock— Wood, 231; Briggs, 229; Stocks, 182 ; Wortley, 173. The results of the Irish Elections will be before us next week. LITERATURE. SEMI- SERI. OUS OBSERVATIONS OF AN ITALIAN EXILE DURING HIS RESIDENCE IN ENGLAND, BY COUNT PECCHIO.— EFFING- HAM WILSON. This volume, without exhibiting the aeuteness and pro- fundity of Mirabeau's Letters, or the caustic severity of the German Prince, is nevertheless lively, original, and amusing. The author is an Italian refugee, who. for the part he took in the Piedmontcse revolution, was obliged to fly his country. His first asylum was England, hut finding it too lugubrious and dautesque for his sunny soul, he sought the more genial Climate of Spain, where, however, he was not permitted to find a home, and driven thence, again repaired to our shores for sanctuary and protection. Though an exile in a strange land, and without friends or fortune, he did not, he informs us, pour forth useless lamen- tations. or hang down his head like a weeping willow, but amused himself by throwing upon paper the observations that, from time to time, new objects awakened in him. The fruit of these observations is the present volume. We have not space for lengthened extracts, but the fol- lowing will afford : l fair specimen of the author's style. It is a sketch of a clergyman and his lady, to whose daugh- ters he gave lessons in Italian: — " After a few minutes' pause, behold the Reverend en- tering the room with an affable smile. I had no difficulty in dis- covering that the master of the house stood before me, having seen a portrait of him hanging from one of the walls extremely like. ' Beautiful weather, very fine day,' ( although it had rained two or three times in the morning) this eternal daily ceremony was the ex- ordium. The Rev. was a man of about 45 years of age, in florid health. The felicity of his condition was painted on his cheerful and vivacious countenance : his forehead was not darkened by any of those wrinkles or clouds which are imprinted there either by misfortune or assiduous study. His white teeth and his good humour showed that his digestion was also good. » * * * » A few moments afterwards entered the wife of the Reverend who, without stirring from the fire, where he was standing, with his back towards it in the continental mode, intimated to me that I saw the lady of the house. While I, with my riding- whip in my hand, twisting myself like a French dancing master, bending my head a little on one side, and drawing my lips together, muttered a compliment in French, flavoured with tbe usual charme and enchant^. Mrs. , with a cold repelling mien, and an in- different air, took her way towards the fireplace, turning her head meanwhile towards me. She was tall, well- made, and, without being haughty, showed an esteem for herself which was certainly merited." Like Mirabeau and other foreigners, Count Pecchio is fond of speculating upon the causes of our national charac- ter, as well as our manners and customs. " I could al- most venture to believe," he observes, " that if the Eng- lish are active in business, profound thinkers, and good fathers of families, it is owing to their having so little sun." On the whole this will be found au amusing volume for a winter's evening, being really what it professes to be, a light, lively melange. OTTERBOURNE, 3 VOLS. R. BENTLEY. The author of this historical romance possesses talents of a high order. His production, but for certain affectations of style, and a perpetual resort to obsolete and unintel- ligible words, might be ranked among the best modern works of fiction. The story is well devised, and, in spite of the errors to which we allude, the interest sustained throughout with considerable skill. It refers to the most chivalrous epoch in English history— when the Percy and the Douglas fought for the monarchy of the Border, brave men were as rife as blackberries in autumn, and deeds of daring came not as marvels to " move our special wonder." The time has been fortunately selected, and the several characters by which the drama is sustained— the real per- sonages, as well as those he has invented, are well imagined— designed with much vigour, and coloured with reat spirit and effect. The writer has done well, but he has that within him which leads us to expect he will yet do better. LITERARY NOVELTIES. RUSSIAN ANNUAL-— The first publication of an annual has just taken place at St. Petersburg!). It is in German, and is orna- mented with several attractive plates, amongst which are a repre- sentation of the gigantic Alexandrine column, lately erected iu the Russian metropolis, a view of Kuero, in Finland, a Finland wo- man, in her national costume, and views of Adrianople and the Mosque of the Sultan Selim, in that city. Colonel Mackinnon's " History of the Coldstream Guards," just ready for publication, is to be embellished with plates of the medals presented to that gallant regiment for its services in various parts of the world. The work, which is to be dedicated to his Ma- jesty, < Vill treat of the successive brilliant achievements in which the Coldstream was engaged, the most remarkable of which oc- curred, of course, during the late war in the Peninsula. Lady Dacre's " Recollections of a Chaperon," will appear in the course of next week. Lady Harriet Hoste, has nearly completed the life of her late gallant husband, which will include a series of letters from distin guished naval commanders from tbe earliest period of His service till his death, among which are many from tiie immortal Nelson. Ladv Harriet is, we believe, the daughter of the late Lord Orford. The " Life of a Sailor," attributed to the pen of Captain Chamier. is also nearly ready lor publication. It is said to comprise his auto biography. We learn that Mrs. Gore has just completed a work illustrative of the history and domestic manners of Poland. The first specimen of an Anglo Chinese Kalendar and Regis- ter has been published in China for the year 1832. According to this authority, the population returns of the celestial empire, in 1813, amounted to 362 millions ; of which number the capital, Pekin, alone is said to contain five millions. BITS FROM BOOKS. God win, in the preface to " Fleetwood," the 22( 1 vol. of the Standard Novels, thus speaks of au incident with re- gard to his greatest and most successful w ork, " Caleb Williams"— " When I had written about seven- tenths of the first volume, I was prevailed upon by the extreme importunity of an old and intimate friend to allow him the perusal of my manuscript. On the second day he returned it, with a note lo this purpose : ' I return you your manuscript, because I promised to do so. If I had obeyed the impulse of my own mind, I should have thrust it in the fire. If you persist, tile book will infallibly prove the grave of your literary fame.' " Mr. Atkinson, in his " Customs and Manners of the Women of Persia," describes a number of charms and spells to procure loves, prevent the influence of the evil eye, cure disorders, Stc propitious. If the palm of the hand itches, rub it on the head of a boy whose father and mother are still living, and a present of money will be the consequence. If a dog catches a fly, take and wrap it up in the corner of a handkerchief, and undoubtedly some good will ensue." The following passage is from " Lady Blessington's Journal of Conversations with Lord Byron," in the New Monthly Magazine. These papers are of high interest and value. Her ladyship understood the true character o' the poet better than the whole of his biographers put to- gether. Byron, though he could humbug men, was no match for the penetration of a woman. " When Metternich ( said Byron) was deprecating the genius of Napoleon, iu a circle at Vienna, where his word was a. law, and his nod a decree, he appealed to John William Ward, if Bouna- parte had not bten greatly over- rated. Ward's answer was as courageous as admirable. He replied that' Napoleon had rendered past glory doubtful, and future fame impossible.' This was ex- pressed in French, and such pure French, that all present were struck with admiration, no less with the thought than with the mode of expressing it." I told Byron that this reminded me of a reply made bv Mr. Ward to a lady at Vienna, who somewhat rudely re- marked lo him, that it was strange that all the best society at Vienna spoke French as well as German while the English scarcely spoke French at all, or spoke it ill. Ward answered that " the English must be excused for ( heir want of practice, as the French army had not been twice to Loudon to teach them, as they had at Vienna." We copy a passage from a small unpretending volume oj Poems, the composition of Cornelius Wcbbe. The book abounds in gems of great beauty and value:— NATURE 1 " Shall her flowers bloom and die Shall her seasons come and go Undelighting human eye ? I. ike an unattractive show ? Shall her music, ever- quiring, Never!— there are some are wiser; On the senseless air expiring, There are poets still who prize her, Be, like toning of the spheres, And immortal minds that yearn Only heard of heavenly ears ? Wisdom from her lips to learn; Shallheryouthandageofgreenness, There are eyes which still can read And her comeliness and cleanness, Truth and worth in vilest weed- Serious glee and holy gladness, l'orm in things which to the eye That are ever without sadness, Half- read is but deformity- Be, like beauty to the blind, Grandeur in mean things andsmall, Unbeheld butofthemind? AndGod'sgreat handiwork in all V" Wc extract the following from " Humboldt's Travels,' forming No. 10 of Oliver and Boyd's Cabinet Library— a work of exceeding interest and value, and " got up" with much taste. The story is told by the traveller in com- paratively few words. Mrs. Jameson, the accomplished author of the " Diary of an Eminyee," has made it the groundwork of a beautifully- written story, in which the wrongs aud soirows of " the Indian mother" are depicted at greater length, yet scarcely with more harrowing effect than the simple record of the fact— " In 1797, the missionary of San Fernando had led his people to the banks of the Rio Guaviare ou a hostile excursion. In an Indian hut they found a Guahibo woman, with three children, occu- pied in preparing cassava- flour. She and her little ones attempted to escape, but were seized and carried away. The unhappy female repeatedly fled with her children from the village, but was always traced by her Christian countrymen. At length the friar, after causing her to be severely beaten, resolved to separate her from her family, and sent her up the Atabipo toward the missions of the Rio Negro. Ignorant of the fate intended for her, but judging by the direction of the sun Ihat her persecutors were carrying her far from her native country, she burst her fetters, leaped from the boat, and swam to the left bank of the river. She landed on a rock; but the President of the establishment ordered the Indians to row to the shore and lay hands on her. She was brought back in the evening, stretched upon the bare stone ( the Piedra de la Madre), scourged with straps of manatee leather, which are the ordinary whips of the country, and then dragged to the mission of Javita, lier hands bound behind her back. It was the rainy season, the night was excessively dark, forests believed to be impenetrable stretched from Ihat station to San Fernando over an extent of 66 miles, and the only communication between these places was by the river; yet the Guahibo mother, breaking her bonds, and elud- ing the vigilance of her guards, escaped over night, and on the fourth morning was seen at the village, hovering around the hut which contained her children. On this journey she must have undergone hardships from which the most robust mail would have shrunk ; was forced to live upon ants, to swim numerous streams, and to make her way through thickets and thorny lianas. And the reward of all this courage ami devotion was— her removal to one of the missions of the Upper Orinoco, where, despairing of ever seeing her beloved children, and refusing all kind of nourishment she died, a victim to the bigotry and barbarity of wretches blasphe- mously calling themselves the ministers of a religion which incul cates universal benevolence." A writer in " Eraser's Magazine" has contributed •< paper, which he entitles " Aphorisms." It is a curious mixture; a perfect Olla Podrida; and contains all the necessaries for making a good dish, with some matters that render it not altogether palatcable. They might have been advantageously omitted ; there was quite enough of sound sense, observation, and humour, to have justified the author in laying aside affectations and personalities. Ou the whole, however, it would be difficult to find a more able, amusing, or— we may add— valuable paper,— among all the periodicals of a dozen gone- by years. The following is an extract; we select it not as being the one most likely to bear out our opinion, but because it is best calculated to meet our present want:— " An absurd opinion prevails among many people, that men of genius and learning are ex necessitate weak in body. Let us pick out a few at random, and see how the case stands. The Admirable Crichton was one of the strongest fellows in Europe.— Bums had the strength of two ordinary men, aud would have proved an ugly customer to come to close quarters with. Cunningham and Gait are as big and as strong as Anak. Smollett was an athletic wiry chap, who, we have reason to believe, could use his daddies with as much dexterity as his pen. As for Wilson, nothing but the un- fortunate circumstance of his being a man of first- rate genius pre- vented liini from sporting the champion's belt, and rivalling the fame of the Game Chicken. Hogg is a strong well- built carle, whom we will back for a fall against any man of his age and inches in the kingdom. The lato formidable Andrew Thompson, the Scottish parson, was a powerful man, as well as a sturdy pillar of the church. Johnson was as strong as Hercules ; Bruce of Kinuaird, a second Antaeus; Belzoni the traveller, a revivification of Samson. Two of Ihe most athletic tnen in the kingdom are Sir Morgan © ' Doherty and Edward Irving ; of the latter, the only faults are those of a man of geu- ius." FINE ARTS. WILKIU'S NEXT PICTURE.— Wilkie is occupied in paint- ing a picture of two monks in an old Spanish monastery— a novice confessing to his superior. The artist witnessed the scene he has described while in company with Washington Irving. They accidentally opened a door, and were instantly struck by the expressive countenance of the younger monk as he poured out his whole soul at the confessional. We have not seen the work, but understand it is one of the most powerful and effective the great artist has ever produced. LESLIE'S NEXT PICTURE.— Mr. Leslie is painting, with a view to the Exhibition of the Royal Academy, a picture of " Christ with Mary and Martha." The subject has already been treated by his pencil; it formed one of the illustrations to an Annual some years ago, and was universally admired. His present work is upon a large scale, and the composition, we understand, different from that in the print to which we refer. TRANSPARENT RECORD PAPERS.— This important inven- tion, by Mr. Harrison, of King's- road, Chelsea, combines eco- nomy with utilily, and must prove invaluable to engineers, architects, and draftsmen, for estimates, alterations, or speedy copies of their works, as also for instruction, particularly in en- graving, where reverses are required. Its substance varies from thick drawing paper to fine tissue, as transparent as glass, and ink, pencil, oil, or water colours may be freely drawn over its surface ; so that the fac simile of an elaborate engraving, painting, or chart, in various colours, may be made by any per- son. A sponge moistened in hot water, and passed over the back, restores it to its original opaqueness, and the drawing thereon assumes the appearance of having been made upon ordi- nary paper, and may be framed or bound. For Ladies' amuse- ment there is one substance precisely resembling ground glass, for which it would be a cheap substitute, without the danger of breaking, and as a drawing in water colours is indelible, it can be varnished. ILLUSTRATIONS OF MODERN SCULPTURE, WITH ILLUSTRATIVE POEMS. BY T. K. HARVEY. NO. II. The second number of this fine and valuable work con- tains the " Resignation," of Chantrey ; the " Maternal Love," of Bailey ; and the " Hebe," of Tltorwaldsen. They are among the noblest examples of modem art, and the selection of them is creditable to the taste and judgment of Mr. Harvey. Tne engraving of each has been well executed ; those by a Mr. Dyer, who we understand is deaf and dumb, are especially good. The poetical illus- trations of Mr. T. K. Harvey are worthy of his pen— this is saying much for a writer we hold in high esteem. The subject of modern sculpture is, however, one that requires more space and time than we can at present afford. We shall treat it at greater length hereafter. they do not separate she will soon be married. Take some bridal millet seed, called ursen arusi, and when die bride is entering the bridal chamber, throw them backwards after her, pronouncing her name, and by counting the seeds that fall, her future fortune may be ascertained. Upon first'seeing the new moon, a girl should look at a crow, that her destiny may be known ; if the girl's eyes and the crow's eyes meet each other at the same moment, the omen is NEW MUSIC. . 1. The Pale Rose, a Cavatina ; by C. E. Horn.— Welsh. 2. The Crusader's Bride, a Cavatina; by G. A. Hodson.— Welsh. 3. Far o'er the dark blue sea, by W. Ball.— Welsh. 4. Georgiana, March and Waltz; by G. F. Harris.— Welsh. Mr. Horn's song, " The Pale Rose," is a very elegant ballad, requiring but moderate compass of voice, and will soon be found in the Canterbury of evOTy singing young lady in England. No. 2 is in the bravura style, but easy of executton, and chance put her fair little finger on the erroneous note, there is no answering for the effect on ears refined, 3 and 4 is a pretty ballado— no more. The March and Waltz are pleasing, and within the com- pass of moderate performers ; but neither display any great originality. ROYAL ACADEMY. On Monday, the 10th instant, being the sixty- fourth Anni- versary of the foundation of the Royal Academy of Arts, a General Assembly of the Academicians was held at their apart- ments in Somerset House, when the following distribution of premiums took place, viz. :— To Mr. William Edward Frost, for the best copy made iu the Painting School, the silver medal, and the Lectures of the Pro- fessors Barry, Opie, and Fuseli, handsomely bound and inscribed. — To Mr. Nathaniel Hartnell, for the next best copy made in the Painting School, the silver medal.— To Mr. Edward Petre Novello, for the best drawing from the life, the silver medal. To Mr. David Brandon, for the best drawing of the principal front of the Bank, the silver medal.— To Mr. John Calcott Horsley, for the best drawing from the antique, the silver medal. — To Mr. William Crellin Pickersgill, for the best model from the antique, the silver medal. The General Assembly afterwards proceeded to appoint officers for the ensuing year, when Sir Martin Archer Shee was unani- mously re- elected President. OLD COUNCIL.— E. Lamdseer, R. Cook, W. Daniell, and T. Stotliard, Esqrs. NEW COUNCIL.— H. P. Briggs, R. Westall, R. R. Reinagle, Esqrs., and Sir W. Beechey. VISITORS IN THE LIFE ACADEMY.— Old List— W. Etty, H. Howard, E. Landseer, and T. Phillips. New List— W. Mul- ready, C. R. Leslie, H. P. Briggs, E. H. Baily, ' and C. Rossi, Esqrs. VISITORS IN THE PAINTING SCHOOL.— Old List— W. Etty, W. Hilton, E. Landseer, and R. Cook, Esqrs. New List— H. P. Briggs, C. R. Leslie, D. Wilkie, and W. Collins, Esqrs. AUDITORS RE- ELECTED.— W. Mulready, J. M. W. Turner, and R. Westmacott, Esqrs. SCIENCE AND THE USEFUL ARTS. MEDICAL SCIENCE. INFLUENCE OF TEMPERATURE ON THE HUMAN FRAME. The following highly interesting queries upon this inter- esting subject are made by Dr. Epps, of the Franklin In- stitute : — " When the air is extremely dry, which it must be when it ij extremely cold, may it not be important to our health to guard against its drying influence on our bodies, by evaporating water in our parlours ? " May not the pernicious influence of those winds which blow over the dry sands of Arabia, be caused as much by their dryness, as by their heat ? " Why does the camel, when he feels the withering influence of those winds, thrust his nose down in the sand 1 May it not be, in part, to obtain a moister air to breathe, as well as to avoid the fine sand carried in the wind 1 If so, the traveller might obtain secu- rity by breathing through a moistened sponge. " How is the economy of nature to be explained in causing us to evaporate more moisture from the lungs in winter than in summer? Or is it intended that we should raise the dew point in our parlours as we do the temperature, by artificial means? " These questions can only be answered by a long course of ex- periments, but the solution will amply reward the most patient in- vestigation." VACCINATION. The early difficulties with which medical science lias had to contend, arc sufficiently known. In no case, per- haps, were they so great or so remarkable as with refer- ence to vaccination. A writer in the Medical Gazette says:— _ " When I was a boy I heard people say that it was an irreli- gious practice ; that it was taking the power out of God's hand, for- getting tiiat it was merely using that power which God has given to us. Sermons were preached for it and against it, and hand- bills were stuck about the street. I recollect seeing it stated in a hand- bill that a person who was inoculated for the cow- pock, had horns growing in consequence of it. One of the Surgeons of St. Bar- tholomew's Hospital used to lecture against it— at his death he was interred iu the City, and by his direction a tablet was erected to his memory, on which was inscribed, that lie was all his life averse to cow pocking." THE HYDRAULIC PEN.— Among the ingenious and convenient inventions which, in this age of useful improvements, are ever and anon being brought forward, we have to notice with particu- lar satisfaction, as contributing greatly to our own purposes, a new pen which has just been produced under the above mechan- ical title. It is certainly an excellent device. A silver tube, of the size of an ordinary pencil case, is so constructed that it is readily filled with ink instead of a piston. The same piston, by being turned in an opposite direction by a ring, permits the fluid to descend to a pen inserted in the case. We have thus, in the smallest possible compass, and the neatest form, a reservoir of ink, which may be carried about your person for a week, and supply the memorandum- book with its lasting records. \ 404 THE TOWH. December 16. TO THE PUBLIC. A total change having taken place in the Editorship of THE TOWN Newspaper, the following observations are respectfully submitted to the Subscribers and the Public generally. It is now placed under the direction of a gentleman of long experience in all that relates to public affairs, of intimate acquaintance with the several branches of the Periodical Press, and ioho has the means of procuring the assistance of the most distinguished writers— in Politics, Literature, Art, and Science— throughout the kingdom. It will thus receive all that talent and knowledge can fur- nish on topics of universal interest to the popular mind. 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The Second Part of the Map is now in preparation, and will be ready for delivery to Subscribers early next month. of the modern history of Brazil— they would have known what to expect, and, therefore, would not have been dis- appointed. Let this Don and the other Don settle their quarrels as they list. What, we ask, have we to do with the matlcr? We shall gain nothing— and, we assert, the cause of Freedom will gain nothing in whatever way it ter- minates. The only meed of those who interfere will be in accordance with the old fable— " Those who in quarrels interpose, Will often wipe a bloody nose." But we shall return to Ihe subject; and devote some time and space, in order to bring our countrymcn round to our own way of thinking. The City of London, it will be seen, has sent to Parlia- ment four members whose political views had either been declared so as to satisfy, or were previously known, to ac- cord with-, the supporters of the present Government. Here, as generally elsewhere, the Tory and the Radical have alike failed. TO CORRESPONDENTS. [ Our Correspondents will not, we hope, complain, if we desire to remain in their debt for another week. It is unnecessary for us to say that their communications wilt obtain the attention they deserve.] HEBDOMADARY. Day Day High Water. Remarkable Events, ot ot etc. Mo. We. Mom. Aftern. H. > 1. Sun rises 7 after 8 16 Su. 9 31 10 4 Cromwell died 1653 17 M. 10 37 11 3 Bo. arr. at Paris 1812 18 Tu. 11 28 11 52 19 • W. — — — 15 SO Th, — 39 1 2 The Shortest Day. 21 F, 1 22 1 41 22 Sa. 1 59 2 17 Sunday Lessons. Morning: Isaiah 25 Acts 6 Evening: Isaiah 26 lst Peter 4 THE TO WW. LONDON: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1832. The latest news from Ihe seat of war is brought down to Ihe mid- day of Thursday, the 13th. But it is of a cha- racter by no means important. The siege is " progress- ing ;" but, iis to the probability of its speedy termination or its long continuance, we are at a loss to judge. Indeed the point is one upon which even the employes of the Times and Herald can apparently form no opinion of any value. All they can say is, " there was much firing last night," and so forth. We extract, however, the following sentence from the Herald:—' 1 I trust I am mistaken, but I feci morally convinced that GERARD w ill be compelled to enter Antwerp and make use of the Belgian works. He, no doubt, would wish to throw the odium on CHASSE ; but, sooner than protract to an indefinite period the taking of the citadel, lie will dash into Antwerp coute qui coute." The Westminster election lias terminated in the re- elec- tion of Sir FRANCIS EURDETT and Sir JOHN CAM HOB- HOUSE. It is as we expected, and we congratulate the Secretary at War on the result— albeit we may not take to ourselves the credit of having assisted to return him to Parliament as our representative. It was from the begin- ning perfectly clear that his opponent had not " the shadow of a chance;" that, in fact, it was a handful of obstinate, or, perhaps, sanguine men who drove him to the hustings, to sustain a defeat, so signal as to move our special wonder that an experienced soldier should have " gone a warfare without counting the cost." Colonel EVANS is, we understand, a brave and distinguished officer, who wears only the laurels he has won; but as a statesman he is below mediocrity. He has been bred in a school by no means favourable to Ihe course he has recently pursued. It would have been as strange as sad to have seen him put aside the Secretary at War, who has studied and strug- gled, and at length conquered, in an arena far different from that in which the gallant Colonel has hitherto fought. But he was ready with the " pledges," and his rival was not. This constitutes the great difference, in the estima- tion of a certain party of the electors, who sought to rob the men of Rye of their commanding officer, and give him a preferment lo which neither his talents nor his services have yet entitled him. It is not so with Sir JOHN HOB- HOUSE. He is an old and long tried, and, we aver it, faithful and honest servant of the public— a Reformer before Reform was the fashion, and a Reformer now that it has become so. He holds office under the Crown; but will his worst enemies deny that he is the most efficient Secretary at War who has for irany years filled that important station? Will they assert that his busi- ness habits, his long experience, his natural and matured talents, did not justify the choice of Lord GREY in selecting him from the ranks of his supporters? Let the handful of Westminster grumblers say what they will, a better or an abler man they could not have found, or one more worthy to represent a large mass of wealthy aud enlightened men. If he has not performed al! he promised— if his expecta tions of performance have exceeded his power of per- forming— he has only afforded another proof that men form erroneous opinions of those who are placed in other situations and in oilier circumstances than their own. It is, after all, but children who argue thus:— " If I were a Queen I would do so and so"— a very pleasant aud frequent, but childish amusement. W'e become changed as matters change around us— we must yield to circumstances we cannot controul. Because Sir JOHN HOBHOUSE cannot do all good, is he therefore prevented from doing much good? But, after all, we rejoice that a contest has taken place, and that Sir JOHN CAM HOISHOUSE will have learned that his seat for Westminster is not more certain than his office as Secretary at War. If the one can bo taken at the word of his Sovereign, the other he holds at Ilia will of the people. They have again placed in his hands a most im- portant trust : it is their undoubted right to call for its sur- render, if it should appear lo be either neglected or be- trayed. The Hon. Baronet will be narrowly watched. A threat to this effect has been already held out to him. From us it comes not as a threat but as a warning. priety, to the rational Reformers alone— are triumphant throughout the country, while the Destructives, the two Ultras, the Tories and the Radicals, are turned to the right about. They have striven hard to get up a riot, but it is all in vain. " Blackguardism" has died a natural death. It had no corruption to feed upon, no bribery to nourish its vitals ; and the poor skeleton, after shaking its grim visage for a few moments at Covent Garden, vanished into thin air. Its ghost was seen, we understand, at Norwich, and one of its foul offspring attempted some little damage at Hull— but this also was au expiring effort. Thanks to the Reform Bill ! — thanks to its Conservative authors — and thanks to the good sense, right feeling, and manly independence of Englishmen ! Lord HENLEY, it seems, has retired from the contest of Middlesex. We are glad of it. Lord HEN- LEY is, in fact, no Reformer— he makes no pretensions to the character in civil and political affairs— he is of the Tory branch of Destructives. His Lordship, we believe, is an excellent man in private life : he goes to church, perhaps, oftcner than JOSEPH HUME, and speaks more respectfully of religion, its ministers, and its institutes, than his coarse and unceremonious rival, and he is about as good a husband and father— but what has all this to do with his Parliamentary qualifications ? He has, indeed, one recom- mendation which HUME wants, and thus exhibits the strangest inconsistency. While HUME, to his shame be it spoken, is the apologist of West India slavery, Lord HENLEY is its avowed and determined opponent; and, on this account alone, we have little doubt that if he had stood the contest he would have carried his election. The Morning Post and the Standard are both wrathful at his resignation— assert that his return was sure,— and call upon some other Candidate to come forward— pro- mising him a cheap certainty of taking his seat in Parlia- ment, as one of the Representatives for the county of Mid- dlesex, in ihe room of JOSEPH HUME, Esq. We advise such a person— if such there be— to look before he leaps, and think before he acts. We cannot say that we arc gratified at the return of Mr. HUME for Middlesex, and we think our old and tried friend BYNG should have retired to give place to some more efficient, because more vigorous and capable, Candi- date. Middlesex is. surely entitled to send to Parliament men of the highest consideration in the country for their talents and station. But who and what is JOSEPH HUME? He has done the State some service, and some disservice too. We never wish to see him out of Parliament whilst abuses and jobs and extravagances can screen themselves under the usages of Government, and the sanction of pre- scription. A good ferret is useful among rats, and the despoilers of the public granary— we would always have JOSEPH at his post. But as the Representative of a county, and that the most influential in the kingdom, he is surely placrfS immeasurably beyond the grade to which he is entitled, either by his talents or services. If, however, Middlesex had no choice between Mr. HUME and Lord HENLEY, we prefer the former, and, so far, are gratified with his success. not rally ; but, at the same time, there is not one of those institutions ill which opinion and the people do not demand Reform. One of the first objects in any commnnity is the administration of justice. If there be any nation impli- citly obedient and respectful to the authority and opera- tion of the laws, it is the English nation. No people are more sensible of the value of their jurisprudence, civil and criminal, and the constituent forms of their judicature. But the same enlightened sense— the same observation and experience which make the English people sensible of the value of their laws, and the machinery by which those laws operate— also make them sensible of the glaring abuses and incongruities and hardships which demand an un- sparing and intrepid revision— in short, an unflinching measuie of Law Reform. The English people, again, are among the most religious on earth. It may be safely asserted that religion has a stronger hold in England than in any other country ( America, perhaps, excepted) ; be- cause its hold is upon the rational conviclion, not upon tbe imagination or the ignorance of the people. If there be one institution which the nation reveres more than an- other, it is tbe National Church; and we are firmly con- vinced that any attempt against it would be resisted with more energy and force than were opposed to JAMES II. But it is one tiling to attack, endanger, or abolish the Na- tional Church; another to reform, purify, and strengthen it— aud that a sweeping measure of Church Reform is expccted, and justly expected, at the hands of tlje Minis- ters, we are firmly convinced. We will instance but these two leading objects; many others might be sug- gested, and will, doubtless, occupy the early attention of the Government. That the Ministers will be able to carry their measures of Reform with perfect facility, there appears not the slightest doubt. They have an overwhelming majority in the borough elections, and though the coun- ties may return a few uncompromising Tories, the general result will not be affected. The Tories themselves seem to have given in their adhesion, if it may be so expressed, to Reform. In fact, they must feel — at least, the more capable among them must feel— that they exist poli- tically only by going with public opinio?, the wants of the people, and the spirit of the times. Matters at home are this week so much more interesting and important than matters abroad, that we have little space to devote either to the war in Holland or the war in Portugal. The more reccnt accounts describe the cause of Don PF. DRO as gloomy enough— the star of his Bro- ther- rival is again iu the ascendant. To us, however— to England, generally— it is of small consequence who prospers and who fails. If we are to choose between one scoundrel and another scoundrel, in the name of all that is evil, let the ex- Emperor be the man ; but, it is a point on which we would not risk a maravedi. Don PEDRO, it is true, promises and vows to patronise freedom and fair play; and if we must make our election, again we say let us try him— let us try one we more than suspect to be a rogue rather than one with reference to whom there cannot be the slightest doubt. Upon this ground and upon this only— let Don PEDRO take our compliment at its full value— we wish him success. But, we repeat, upon the issue we would not stake the smallest coin that ever issued from the Mint. We have had ample proof of the estimate in which he holds British blood and British courage. He has given the treatment of dogs tothebiavc but mistaken men who fought his battles. " No clothes, no food, no pay," has been their common and continutl cry since they left their transports or steam- boats to " do him service." Had they read the records of lis past life— had they consulted the pages Our readers will perceive that the notorious, trouble- some, arrogant, and useless HUNT is no longer Member for Preston. Tho electors of that ancient and honourable bo- rough tried an experiment and it failed. They have, at all events, learnt wisdom by experience. The electors of Oldham are about to try another. They mean to send, or by this time have sent, to Parliament, WILLIAM COBBETT, Esq., Editor of the Register, & c, & c. Let him take his seat. He will soon find his level. The House of Com mons is the best place in the world to humble a bully and expose a liar. Sir RICHARD VYVYAN has been returned for the city of Bristol. He is a Tory, it is true : but a man of more in- dependent principles, upright tniiid, and unimpeachable character in public or private life, will not sit with him under the roof of| St. Stephen's. It is lamentable that Freedom and Prudence do not rank him among those by whom a great victory has been obtained. But we have hopes— founded upon a more solid basis than the wish— that he is not likely to stand in the way of certain mea- sures, without which Reform would be as souading brass and a tinkling cymbal. The friends of Freedom have just cause for . mutual congratulation at the close of almost every contest. The Conservatives— for this name belongs, ot light and pto- T'lie question of Reform involved, or was reducible to, the problem, whether the middle and industrious classes of the people could be safely trusted with their due share in the return of the Commons' House of Parliament. This great problem is solved in the affirmative up to, if not beyond, the anticipations of the most sanguine Reformer. If de- mocratic power and passion were dangerous anywhere, it must have been in the Metropolitan and other boroughs ; but, so far as the borough elections have proceeded, the de- mocraticconstituencycreated by the Reform Bill has shown a sense of moral and legal order, a regard for established in- stitutions, and a discerning estimate of character in the Candidates, which must put to flight the fears of the timid, auu the alarming predictions of persons interested in perpe- tuating the ascendancy ol faction and corruption. Reform appears, indeed, to have been the death warrant of the apostles of anarchy and disorganization. The elections arc proving a test of their powerless insignificance, by which even they themselves, with all their presumption and effrontery, must be convinced. Under the old system a popular brawler, with no qualification but a brazen front, strong lungs, and a certain vulgar adroitness, might find his way into the House of Commons as the nominee of a scot and lot populace. It will be difficult, if not impos- sible, under the new. We have little doubt that a reformed will prove iu every sense a purified House of Commons. There is a second and very material problem, also solved by the progress of the elections. The Ministers will have a triumphant majority. No Ministry ever stood upon a foundation more solid. Nothing but some strange and un- imaginable mismanagement on their part can shake them. The elections will emancipate them from the dictation of an oligarchy, and from the artifices of Court intriguers. If they have but a right perception of the source and secret of their strength, they arc immovable. Their strength is in the good sense, the enlightened reason, and the resolute character ofthe English people. In a word, public opinion must be their guide. They are, or will be, placed between two extremes, and if they capitulate with either they will lose themselves. On one side are those who would dis- organize or destroy the institutions of the country ; on the ather, those who would cherish and preserve every obli- quity, every abuse, every principle of decay, every super- annuated incongruity by which individuals or a faction would profit for their hour, at the cost and danger of the nation and of posterily. It is incumbent on the Ministers to steer firmly and fearlessly between both. There is no one of the institutions of the country to which tbe people are not attached— in support of which public opinion would Some surprise has been created on this side of the Chan- nel by the facility with which Irish candidates swallow the Repeal- of- the- Union pledge. We will let our readers into the secrct. It is because they know the repeal of the Union to be impossible. The fact is undeniable that, among the electors, the delusion of the repeal is prevalent; but, among the candidates, there is not one who thinks, or even wishes it possible, down even to Mr. O'CONNELL. The way to put an end to the repeal pledges would be, to give the pledge- givers au idea of their own success. They would then start back from the image of repeal,, as from that of civil war, with all its horrors. As it is, they regard the pledge only as so much idle breath oil the hustings, to be followed by an equally idle vote or speech in the House of Commons. We have said that even Mr. O'CONNELL is not a sincere repealer. It requires but a slight insight into his po- sition and character to be convinced of it. He knows well that the repeal of the Union would be but the prelude to au attempt at separation ; and big as Mr O'CONNELL talks, neither his ambition nor his courage are capable of being screwed up to that hazardous and des- perate point. Whilst the strife of factions is confined to mere talk he is in his element; but let it proceed to action, and his heart would sink within him. The man who was never threatened with a State prosecution without growing pale, and subduing his blustering roar to a squeaking treble would fly from a bayonet or a gun to conceal himself in the rear or in the baggage train. We verily believe Mr. O'CONNELL would be as much afraid of the Repeal of the Union as he was the other day of the cholera— and every body has heard of the ridiculous panic in which he lied before the cholera from Dublin to London, and from London to Bath. TOWN TALK. A GREAT VOCALIST ON THE WRONG SIDE OE TEMPLE BAR.— We have heard a curious story of a great vocalist. Some months ago he condescended, " for a valuable consideration," as the lawyers say, to perform at a theatre some miles east of Tem- ple bar. " Love in a Village" was, we understand, the play chosen to astonish and delight the wise and foolish of the East. Twenty pounds was the tempting bait ; but with an express sti- pulation that the sum was to be paid down in lawful money be- fore the piece commenced. The actor was true to his engage- ment, but the manager was not equally ready with the ready. After various hems and haws, the truth was told; but it was , added, that as a large number of tickets had been disposed of in the neighbouring shops, the sum might be easily got together, and that, in fact, persons had been despatched to gather it in. The great actor was thus tempted to " dress," but when his cue came, he held out his hand for the retaining fee. Apology and entreaty induced him to tread the boards. Act the first had con- cluded, and act the second commenced, and then the actor not only paused, but roundly asserted that appear he would not until the money had made its appearance. The audience roared— the manager prayed, and at last scraped together twenty shillings, in shillings and sixpences, delivered with a positive pledge that on the termination of act the second the twenty shillings should be twenty pounds. We must shorten our story : Act the fifth was over, and two pounds ten had been tendered and taken— but no more. The manager then assured the actor, that while he dressed, or rather undressed, it should be collected. This ne- cessary change being at an end, the creditor demanded to see the debtor, but the only audience he could obtain was from a miserable scene- shifter, who gave but one answer to the various questions. " The manager ?" " Lord, Sir, he's gone 1" " Stage manager ?" " Lord, Sir, he's gone too I All gone, Sir, but I." THE " HERALD" AT ANTWERP.— The gentleman who communicates with the Morning Herald from Antwerp is, we understand, an Irishman. He writes as if he participated in the quality so pre- eminent in his countrymen— a love of fighting. We are reminded of a story told of another Irish reporter. During the revolutionary war, he was employed to follow the army, and send to the Times, we believe, despatches of its pro- ceedings. He was accordingly actively occupied in taking notes, f December 16. THE TOWUf. 4 « > * in the rear, while the troops were e » gaged in a very different manner. He watched them for some time quietly enough ; at length his Milesian hlood grew warm, and he grumbled audibly at being kept out of the fun ; a minute or two passed, and his impatience became absolute wrath that he was to be only a looker on, while bayonets were clashing upon sabres, and the loud " hurra" came in British voices across the field. After a few more struggles between duty and pleasure, the former gave way. He threw down his note book, exclaiming, " J s, I can stand it no longer," and in a second was in the midst of the melte. A NEW CITY.— A curious prospcctus has just been put into our hands, for building a city on 1 ( or near) the Falls of Niagara. It is proposed to call it The City of the Falls. It is, however, impossible it can be ever seen to advantage ; for every person who looks at it will have a cataract in his eye. This at- tempt of eccentri- city to encroach upon rusti- city is a scandalous atro- city, and if neither a mena- city or a menda- city, rouses our animo- city. AN AMERICAN " No PUFF."— The following paragraph, headed " No Puff," is from an American paper :—" Ye dis- believing, come, and believe your own ears and eyes ! Music and penmanship each taught in only one lesson of six hours !" The cunning Isaac adds—" Old system half price." ANOTHER DISCIPLE OF SR. JOHN LONG.— The verdict against the woman Spiller, whose trial for the manslaughter of a female infant by the application of improper remedies to its head for the cure of scald, affords another lamentable proof of the quackery of trial by jury. Mrs. Spiller produced a host of wit- nesses who swore she had cured them. One of these, by way of a knock down argument in her favour, struck the witness- box with vehemence, and assured the jury that the hand that struck the blow were the one Mrs. Spiller cured. Other wit- nesses contented themselves with carrying their children into court, and exhibiting them to the astonished jury as living proofs of Mrs. SpiUer's skill, but said nothing in her favour. The thumping orator in the witness box, and the long array of Mrs. Spiller's juvenile patients, completely turned the scale in her favour, and the sapient jury, without troubling the Judge to sum up, or retiring from the witness- box to deliberate on the evidence before them, unanimously returned a verdict of " Not Guilty." A trial at the Old Bailey is an advertisement for which the Stamp- offices require no duty : St. John Long made his fortune by being tried for manslaughter, so will Mrs. Spiller ; she will gather gold and laurels. The man who struck the wit- ness box so vehemently deserves to have a hand- full as well as a full hand. STRANGELY " DISTINCT."— The proprietor of a Sunday Paper, with a view to increase its present circulation, advertises a new and amusing title- page distinct from the paper. We know not exactly what to make of this, but perhaps the editor will be kind enough to inform us in his next number. THE PLAY AT ANTWERP.— At Antwerp, the theatre, which commands an excellent view of the seat of war, has been partly unroofed by the proprietors, and the public are admitted to view the operations of the contending parties from the top of the building ; the price of admission from six in the morning till ten is one franc, the same from half- past ten till four, and in the evening, one franc and a half. The scene in the night is awfully beautiful, the continual roaring of cannon, with the appearance of the shells and rockets in the air, rendering it most striking.— [ This is a play of a novel character, one in which the spectators are much better off than the actors. It is likely to continue during the season, although its repetition is so decidedly against the taste and wishes of the auditors. They have at all events the benefit of real fire and real water, with perhaps an occasional hall between the acts. Miss BAGSTER AT PRESENT.— MissBagster, whose name was so often and so painfully before the public a few months ago, is residing with her mother at Stockwell, but not under the slightest restraint. On the contrary, she is permitted to receive and return the visits of a large circle of friends, and occasionally goes to the theatre. We understand that she has of late become, like Michael Cassio, " a good arithmetician," a master having been provided for the express purpose of removing from her the reproach of not knowing that two and three make five. COURT AND FASHION. THEIR MAJESTIES.— Yesterday news from Brighton describe their Majesties to be in excellent health. The health of his Royal Highness Prince George of Cumberland is improving. The Lord Chamberlain of his Majesty's Household has ap- pointed Thomas James Barclay de Mountenay, of Cheshunt, in the county of Hereford, Esq., one of the Gentlemen of his Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Chamber in Ordinary. Letters from the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were re- ceived on Monday, from Hanover, which state that their Royal Highnesses and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge were in good health. The King has been pleased to order a writ to be issued under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for summoning Francis Russell, Esq. ( commonly called Marquis of Tavistock) to the House cf Peers, by the stile and title of Baron Howland, of Streatham, in the county of Surrey. The King has also been pleased to order a writ to be issued un- der the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for summoning Henry Paget, Esq. ( commonly called Earl of Uxbridge) to the House of Peers, by the style and title of Baron Paget, of Beaudesert, in the county of Stafford. The King has also been pleased to order a writ to be issued under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for summoning George Harry Grey, Esq. ( com- monly called Lord Grey) to the House of Peers, by the stile aud title of Baron Grey, of Groby, in the county of Leicester. The King has also been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, granting the dignity of a Baron of the said United Kingdom to Edward Smith Stanley, Esq. ( commonly called Lord Stanley), and the heirs male of his body lawfully be- gotten, by the name, style, and title of Baron Stanley, of Bicker- staff, in the county palatine of Lancaster. The King has been pleased to confer the honour of Knight- hood upon Rear- Admiral the Honourable Courteney Boyle, Military Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guel- phic Order. The distinguished relatives of the Duke and Duchess de Guiche in this country have received intelligence of their safe arrival at the Chateau of Prague, where Charles X. and his family have decided on passing the winter. The venerable Duke de Gram- mont, ex- Captain of the Garde du Corps, father of the Duke de G'uiche and of the Countess of Tankerville, has rendered him- self stationary in France. The Duchess de Dino is by birth Duchess of Biron Pagan, of the Courland line, and is married to the Duke de Dino Peri- gord, nephew and heir- presumptive to Prince Talleyrand. The Duke de Dino was in England in the summer of 1829, since which period we believe he has not visited this country. The new Turkish Minister, when presented on Monday to the King at St. James's, appeared in a new costume, which the Sul- tan has introduced. The uniform resembles the European Hus- sar dress ; a conical red cap is substituted for the turban. This uniform was sent to Vienna by the Sultan, for the purpose of his minister appearing in it at our court. We understand that a marriage is on the tapis between Richard Sanderson, Esq., the newly elected member for Colchester, and Miss Manners Sutton, eldest daughter of the Right Honourable Charles Manners Sutton, M. P. for the University of Cambridge. During the last reign only one heir apparent was called to the Upper House during the lifetime of his father, viz. Earl Gower, who was summoned to the House of Lords in 1826. Lord Grey of Groby, who is included in the new batch, is the eldest son of the Earl of Stamford and Warrington. SIMPSON'S PORTRAIT OF THE KING.— We hear much of [ Mr. Simpson's picture of the King. It is said to be an ad- mirable likeness. His Majesty, on one occasion, gave the artist a sitting of four hours. We understand a subscription will be entered into to present a superb piece of silver plate to Sir John Montague Cholmeley, of Easton Hall, near Grantham. RUMOURS. The Dublin Correspondent of an evening paper states that an account had reached that city of the re- election of General Jack- son to the presidency of the United States by a great majority, on the 15th of November. His majority in New York alone was 30,000. No confirmation of this report has yet reached London, we may, therefore, consider it unfounded, although there can be little doubt of the result being favourable to Jackson. A government messenger is said to have been despatched in the Spike to Lisbon, to stop, in the name of the three courts, the further prosecution of hostilities between the partisans of Dons Pedro and Miguel. We understand that Mr. C. W. Wynn will be proposed as speaker of the new Parliament; it is an office for which his ex - perie, nce and knowledge of Parliamentary business amply qualify him.—[ Although we differ in politics from Mr. Wynn, we readily admit the accuracy of the statement of his friends of the Morning Post and Standard, as to his fitness for the office. He has al- ways been considered on " authority" on matters concerning the Privileges of the House, & c.] It is rumoured, however, that his Majesty, with the kind con- sideration of saving to the country, for the present, the late Speaker's retiring pension of 4,000?. per annum has made it his personal request to Mr. Manners Sutton that he would resume the high office in the new Parliament; and that such is conse- quently to be the case. There are reports in circulation of certain kite- flyings be- tween the Secretary of a Club and a Noble Lord not now in England. They repel the imputation. Mr. Stratford Canning has left town for Paris, on his way to Madrid, to complete, as it is understood, the treaty between England, Spain, and France, relating to Portugal. The Marquis of Palmella has left England for Paris, chiefly it is said to attend the conferences that will be held there on Por- tuguese affairs. King Otho was to set out for Greece on the 4th inst. It is said that he is to repair first to Corfu, and there embark for Greece. It is intended in future that Field Officers of Marines shall be attached to each of the principal Foreign Commands. One will proceed in the Vernon to the American station. Major Wool- rige is to join the Melville in the East Indies ; another will be sent to the Mediterranean, and a fourth will join the Spartiate, for the South American station. It is rumoured that the Duke of Richmond goes to Ireland as Viceroy, and that Sir John Cam Hobhouse accompanies him, as Secretary. We think this probable. Indeed, when the ques- tion was put to the Hon. Baronet, on the Hustings, a few days ago, although h? denied that he was appointed to the office, he did not intimate that such an appointment was not in con- templation. It is expected that his Majesty may visit Hanover during the next year, accompanied by the Queen and a select Court circle. It is stated that M. de Chateaubriand is about to favour the world with a pamphlet on the subject of the arrest of the Duchess de Berri. He seems to be of opinion that her deten- tion at Blaye is illegal, and the course adopted by the Govern- ment respecting her in the extreme degree oppressive. The noble Viscount and the fanatic Royalists of the emigrant school are unwilling to persuade themselves that the cause of the elder dynasty is entirely lost. They really imagine that a great ma- jority of the population of France is ready to favour its preten- sions to the throne. DEFEAT OF MR. SCALES IN THE CITY. Poor Michael, it is said, bewails His very pitiable fate ; But, oh 1 how valueless are Scales That cannot boast of any weight! Miss ZOUCH AT THE ELECTIONS.— Amongst an army of the unwashed who were employed during the city election by the candidates, for the purpose of thrusting into the hands of the electors the cards and pretensions of the City candidates, no less a personage than Miss Zouch, the alleged cousin to the Earl of Lonsdale, and all the Lowtliers to boot, was to be seen in the yard of Guildhall, actively engaged in handing to each elector a card, on which was printed, " Vote for Aid. Wood," while in a soft, silvery tone of voice, Miss Zouch said, " Please, Sir, to oblige." Alas 1 what would Burke have said had he lived to wit- ness one with all the blood of the Lowthers in her veins soliciting for a City alderman the votes of the electors, and yet suffered to be by the ungallant citizens third on the poll ? A BIT OF RALE IRISH ELOQUENCE.— Mr. Steele, in his address to the " worthy and indepindents" of county Clare, ex- claims—" Catholic electors of Clare!— May the anathema of your long- persecuted, and still persecuted holy church ; and may the malison of the Lord God Almighty scorch the soul of any recreant Judas Iscariot traitor among you, who, for the vile lucre of a base bribe shall betray his country and his religion." [ Cer. tainly no man can accuse Mr. Steele of indulging in the Clare obscure.'] ESSEX AND HOLLAND.— The Essex address against the Dutch war, the signatures to which extend to a length of thirty feet, and comprehend the larger portion of the property and respectability of the county, is now awaiting the Secretary of State's instructions as to the mode in which his Majesty will be pleased to receive it.— [ Doubtless the way in which his Majesty will receive this long bow will be by a low bow.] THE " SNAKE."— The reported loss of the Snalie is hap- pily without foundation. Among the families thrown into deep, but fortunately temporary distress by the rumour, was that of Lord Chief Justice Denman, who has a son serving on board her. HAMLETS, OLD AND NEW. Hamlet felt all his members quake, Because to dust flesh fades away ; But lo 1 the Tower Hamlets make A living member, out of Clay! CHURCH REVENUES.— The commissioners for inquiring into the revenues of the church have, for thc accommodation of the clergy, enlarged the period for the returns to be made to their inquiries to the 20th instant; and it is expected that the whole, or nearly the whole, of the intelligence they are anxious to obtain will by that time have been communicated to them. MAD DOCTORS— These unworthies of a liberal profes- sion, ( Drs. Turner and James Johnson; the latter, by the bye, quite a noviciate in this new branch of his art,) have pronounced Charles Wright to be insane, and incapable of managing his own affairs. In Miss Bagster's case the physicians rested mainly upon her ignorance of the intricacies of fundholders and stock- jobbers for the proofs of her insanity; but in that of Charles Wright the tables are turned, and tlie certainty of his insanity is made to rest on the shoulders of the Duke of York and the of Madame Vestris. Poor Charles Wright is not, alas 1 the only one who is insane upon the subject of Madame's legs. Our readers may recollect, that a few months ago a fellow was " had up" for running away with them. WESTMINSTER SCHOOL— Terence's comedy of The Adel- phi was repeated on Wednesday by the Westminster Scholars with increased effect. A prologue and epilogue were also given for the first time. The prologue was spoken by Randolph, the captain of the school, and was extremely well received. In the epilogue, which contained a number of pleasant allusions to Mrs. Trollope and American manners, several of the characters of the play appeared, and the jokes excited much mirth and appro- bation. THE WEEK. GULLY AT PONTEFRACT.— Gnlly; whose reputation on the Turf is " too well known to need comment," and who has always managed to make a good fight, is returned for Pontefract. He boasts that his influence has brought in, as his colleague, the Hon. H. V. S. Jerningham. The reason he assigns for select- ing this sprig of the Aristocracy is, that he was always fond of a bit of blood. EPITAPH ON GRIMALDI, JUN. Here lies young Joey— let him rest— He kept his sire's good rule ; And thought old Joe's example best— Through life to play the Fool. That Death should make him early go, Is not a wondrous thing ; For life, to poor but merry Joe, Was always on the spring. Nature that took the Clown away, To try a farther flight— Although she made him Grim- all- day, She made liim gay all night. AN AMBASSADOR'S CHARGE.— Sir Stratford Canning left town on Thursday for Madrid, charged with a most im- portant mission. Thus say the newspapers; but the fact is, Sir Stratford Canning is entrusted with the mission, while it is only the public pocket that is charged. BOARD OF CONTROL.— Air. Mncaulay has received ano- ther mark of the high confidence reposed in him by his Majesty's Government. In consequence of the death of Mr. Hyde Vil- liers, Secretary of the Board of Controul, Earl Grey has offered that important post to Mr. Macaulay, by whom it has been accepted. MORTALITY IN THE TOWER HAMLETS. The gallant Colonel Stanhope not returned ! Stanhope, whose heart with patriot ardour burned. And why ? Because, in two short days, they say, Hundreds of stout electors turned to Clay. FRANKING LETTERS.— This privilege, of which the Mem- bers of Parliament avail themselves to a very great extent, will not take place until the 20th instant. On all former elections, those gentlemen who were elected were allowed to frank on the hustings. The reason for the alteration in the present elections arises from the short period which has elapsed from the dis solution of the late and the election for the new parliament; had the privilege been allowed, the members of the House of Commons would have taken precedence of the Peers, who can- not frank any letter until the above day. By this alteration in the time, Government will find an increase of some thousands in the revenue of the Post- office. THE REAL MEMBER FOR MARY- BONE. Scales is thrown out. Oh yes, says Hood, And very^ ustly too I own ; For Scales, the butcher, surely should Have been returned for Marrow- bone. REJECTED PEERS.— In the rejected list of voters for the parish of Marylebone, no less than thirty Peers were objected to by the revising barristers as being incompetent to vote, besides four foreign ambassadors. We are not able to inform our readers whether these hereditary legislative disqualifications arose from their not paying up their taxes in time, or from their not properly setting forth themselves. In addition to this list, several Generals and Colonels figure in this Schedule A of the revising barristers' list. THE DRAMA. DRURY- LANE. F. The first night of a new play is always an amusing scene to' us : the spectacled- gentlemen in the pit, looking out for matter f to cavil at— the hired worthies in the upper regions, mistaking their cue, and applauding in the wrong place— the critical ladies 1 in turbans and French curls in the boxes, smiling their commen- dation of all gallant sentiments :— these things before the stage, added to the entertainment of the characters upon it, have , always a charm for us which neither the dulness of the play' nor the worthlessness of the performers can weaken or destroy. t In spite of the elections, then, we were in our place at Drury- lane on Tuesday evening last, to witness the first representation , of Don Trueba's comedy, called Men of Pleasure. The cast was so strong as almost to ensure success to mediocrity :— Ma- cready, Farren, Cooper, Harley, Power, Dowton, Miss Phil- . j. lips, Mrs. Nesbitt, Miss Cawse, Mrs. Humby, were amongst the dramatis personse ; but, in the present case, it availed no- thing. The plot ( if plot it can be called), was something after this fashion :— Lord Bellenden ( Macready) returns from Italy, . after a separation from his wife, ruined in fortune and constitu- ^ tion. Having no other resource, he determines to apply for 4i assistance to his injured lady ; and, in doing so, meets with an- .. other " man of pleasure," Count Delmar by name ( personated by . Mr. Brindal), who boasts of certain favours enjoyed by him from Lady B.— of course not knowing that the man he was making his confidant was her husband. The result is a duel be- tween my Lord and the Count; and this leads to a reconciliation between the married parties. A second plot, not very dexte- rously interwoven with the former, is an intrigue between Lord Villiers ( Cooper), and Lady Gayton ( Mrs. Nesbitt), in which* Sir F. Gayton ( Farren), unconsciously assists in the elopement \ of his wife and friend. A third plot is managed by Mr. Casar Tibbs ( or rather Ciesar Tibbs, Esqw're), a runaway attorney's clerk, and " man of pleasure ( would we could say, " and wit") ^ about town :" a Mr. Jackson ( Dowton), and Mrs. and the Miss 4 Jackson ( Mrs. C. Jones and Miss Cawse). Some rather broad ^ jokes were introduced into this family party, which we were y most happy to see drew down the unequivocal indignation of the'.., house. We have hope for the drama yet I Miss Jackson, , like a good girl, defeats her Pa and Ma, whose wish it is to j, unite her with a title, and runs away with her darling Ctesar Tibbs. In the course of the piece, Power comes on and talks a little brogue ; and there is also a French cook, who is mistaken for a great plenipo ; but what connection they had with any of the. 4 three plots, we were unable to discover. The dialogue was very feeble, and the situations neither new * nor striking. " What was true was not new, and what was new t was not true." For instance, we had a scene where a kit- cat - 4 portrait of some person unknown was fixed against a chair— evi- dently for some one to hide behind— in humble imitation of the screen scene in the School for Scandal. A married lady has a tender tete- a- tete with her gallant, which is interrupted by the entrance of a servant to announce the approach of the husband. " The lady, of course, gets behind the picture ( where, by the * bye, she is kept a long time in a very uncomfortable position), the husband enters, Sir Maurice O'Driscoll ( Power) follows,'' blunders on the lady, and matures the scene.' This puts one so greatly in mind of Joseph Surface and Lady Teazle, Sir Peter 1 and Charles, that we wonder how any one could venture on such * a broad plagiarism. In another scene, our friend, Ccesar Tibbs, Esq., after being bowed out of Mr. Jackson's house, where he ' had been discovered by the general marplot, O'Driscoll, re-'.' turns for a lost spur. This is Liston's umbrella trick, but with- * out its humour. We could pardon, however, the Don's sins of mission, but' those of commission it is our duty to condemn. We pretend j not to any extraordinary " straightlacedness" of opinions; really, when we hear language fit only for the saloons J but DEATH'S DOINGS. PROFESSOR SCARPA.— Scarpa was a Member of the Italian Institute, a foreign Associate of the Academy of Sciences of Paris, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. When the Professors of the University of Pavia threw themselves at the feet of the conqueror of Marengo, Scarpa alone was absent, but it was observed that Buonaparte did not overlook this open neglect of homage. By the house of Austria his talents and his loyalty were duly valued. When one of the first wives of the present Emperor of Austria was dangerously attacked, flag of truce ( for it was war time) was sent to demand the the services of Scarpa. The surgeon of Italy crossed the Tyrol occupied as it was by the two hostile armies,— the French out- posts put him into the hands of the Austrians, and a similar formality was observed on his return. Scarpa had an exquisite taste for the fine arts, and possessed a noble collection of paint- ings, by the Italian masters. The Museum of Pavia also owes to him much of its valuable contents. In person he was tall his figure graceful, and, to the last, ( notwithstanding his great age), perfectly erect. In his manners he was gentlemanly and amiable. He spoke several languages, but the Latin he de- cidedly preferred : simple in his mode of living, he had only few wants to gratify, and he is understood to have died in the possession of a large fortune. MR. L. T. REDE.— In his 34th year, Mr. Lemari Thomas Tertius Rede. He was bred to the law, but afterwards embraced the stage ; he was also the author of " Memoirs of Canning," " Road to the Stage," " Oxberry's Dramatic Biography," & c. His last appearance on the stage was on this day fortnight at Sadler's Wells, for the benefit of Miss Forde. He married, in 1824, Mrs. Oxberry, widow of the late comedian, who survives him. He possessed considerable literary talent, and very varied conversational powers. His father, who was also an author, died some years since on the 10th of December, and what may now appear extraordinary from its near fulfilment, is, that he ever after entertained a strong presentiment that he should die in that month if not on that day. LORD RIBBI. ESDALE.— We have to announce the unexpected death of Lord Ribblesdale, on Monday last, at Leamington, in his 43d year. His Lordship wos a Nobleman of retired habits, generally residing on his highly- cultivated estate, at Gisborne Park, in Yorkshire, which had been the principal residence of his family for 500 years. The possessions of the noble house of Lister upon the borders of the river which gives origin to the title, are, by descent, of some antiquity, having been acquired about the 6th of Edward the Second, 1312, by the marriage of John, son of Sir Thomas Lister, with Isabel, daughter and heiress of John de Bolton, from whom the present possessor is 19th in lineal descent. The late Lord succeeded to the Barony ( of the creation of 1797), in September 22, 1826, and formed a matrimonial connection in the same year with Adelaide, daughter of the late Thomas Lister Esq., by whom he has left an infant family of one son and two daughters. The present Lord Ribblesdale is only in his fifth year, and he is, therefore, the youngest Peer of the realm, as Lady Ribblesdale, his mother, is, in respect of age, the junior of the widowed Peeresses. Lord Ribblesdale was a supporter of Conservative principles, and voted in the House of Lords against the Reform Bill. J. S. GRIMALDI.— On Tuesday died, after a sudden illness, at his lodgings in Pitt- street, Tottenham- court- road, Mr. J. S. Grimaldi, the son aud, as it was once thought, the successful follower of his talented father. The deceased performed last week at the Tottenham- street theatre the parts of Scaramouch in Don Juan, and Black Ccesar in the Slave's Revenge, and then appeared in his usual health. On Monday, however, he became delirious, but dressed himself and assumed one of his principal characters ; he was then mildly restrained and medical aid called in, but all proved ineffectual. The deceased was in his thirtieth year. uttered unblushingly on the stage, we must raise our voice in ^ determined condemnation. We hope the demonstration of feel- ing in the audience of Drury- lane on Tuesday evening, will teach the managers ( not the managers of Drury- lane alone, but, all the managers in the United Kingdom— for, of course, we " mean nothing personal")— that the taste of the British public '< is not quite so depraved as they seem to imagine. It is mon - * strous in them to attribute to this cause, and the other cause, '' J the absence of a genteel audience at the representation of the " " legitimate drama," when the reason is so evident— that their jokes are too gross to be relished, and their allusions too obvious 1 to be not understood. Power, in an attempt to announce the'. 1 Don's play for repetition, was unable to obtain a hearing; a circumstance which sorely puzzled the Morning Journals, some of which declared the piece to have been withdrawn— others, to have proved eminently successful. The fact is, the play was ' kept back awhile to receive certain emendations and alterations, and has now resumed its course in an improved form. An old farce, called The Election, was revived on Thursday, and justly condemned to Schedule A. COVENT- GARDEN. A splendid ballet, from the opera of Masaniello, has been' brought forward at this theatre, with the original instrumental and choral music of Auber. It is beautifully got up, and the dancing excellent. Monsieur Guerinot seems to be the very incarnation of a tee- totum. For our own part, however, we are no great admirers of the ballet, and not very accurate in- terpreters. of its figures of speech. Those hurry- skurry move- ments from the O. P. to the P. S. sides— those panics at tire foot- lights— the looks of indignation cast into the pit, and of* supplication to the one- shilling gallery— are as puzzling to us as ' Egyptian hieroglyphics, or Irving's tongues. OLYMPIC. Liston, the sun of the Olympic heaven, has been behind a* cloud this last week, but will make his appearance again on Monday in " All's Right." A new piece lias been brought out at this theatre called P. Q., i or Bachelors' Wives. P. Q., ( Mr. Webster) is the advertising,, name of Sir Carraway Comfit, a rich bachelor, desirous of t entering into the happy state of matrimony. His niece, Miss Kitty Cameleon ( Mrs. Orger) has notions of the same kind; but her lover , being a half- pay officer, and their expectations entirely centred in the rich uncle, a stratagem is concocted to frighten Mr. P. Q. out of his connubial intentions. To this end Miss Kitty 4 visits him in various disguises: First, as a Miss Margaret Xe- nophon, a Scotch blue- stocking, very fond of metafeesics and * latin quotations: next as an Irish belle, in which character, * after some very tender conversation in her veil, the lady discloses * a nose of hideous dimensions : then as a young Bucking- hamshire boy, applying in behalf of his sister Rose. This' 1 part was exceedingly well played, as was the following—' that of a lively demoiselle Francois. Lastly, Miss Kitty Cameleon" appears as a red- hot Irish Captain, come to vindicate the in- * suited honour of her sister. Poor Sir Carraway, driven to dis- ' traction by the complication of annoyances and dangers, heartily repents his matrimonial speculations, and is ready to avail him-" self of any scheme that may rid him of his numerous persecutors. The niece and lover, of course, appear just in the nick of time, *. and obtain a happy consummation of all their wishes. Collier,; as Biffin, a pastry- cook's apprentice, added much to the humour of the scene. This is not only a one- act, but we may almost say,; a o'. e- actor piece; the five characters of Mrs. Orger being its' chief attraction. We think we may predict a long run to this bagatelle. .. ADELPHI. A new piece has been produced at the Adelphi, called The* Howlet's Haunt, or the Story of the Skull" a domestic bur- * letta," as it is called, of the Stabberini school; full of robbers'' and daggers, guns and pistols, and a great smell of gunpowder.' [ A press of matter of more immediate importance has com-' pelled us to omit the insertion of several other critical notices/ together with an abundance of green- room gossip. We shall in' future direct our best attention to this pleasant, and not unpro-"' fitable, portion of a newspaper.] * THE TOWSS December 16. T FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. flie Paris papers are almost filled with despatches and corres- pondence from Belgium, and reports of the proceedings in the Frepch Chambers. There is nothing worthy of notice in the fo- reign news excepting the extract of a letter, dated Antwerp, 8th of December, which appears in the " National," and has produced some sensation in Paris. According to this statement, the Prince of Saxe- Weimar is about to effect a diversion in favour of Antwerp, by* manoeuvres on the left bank of the Scheldt, towards which he* is marching with 50,000 men. We need hardly remark that therO is no truth in the rumour. The proceedings in the Chambers are of no great interest, if we except the presentation of a Bill to thi Chambers of Peers on Monday, for the regulation of " the state of siege"— a measure rendered necessary by the events of July, aiitf the proceedings consequent upon litem. The bill consists of eijjht articles, which provide for the trial by courts- martial of all offences committed in placee in a state of siege, but declare that no-' place except fortresses and military posts can be declared in ' a state of siege, except when they are actually invested by foreign troops or rebels, in such a manner as to impede free communications between the interior and exterior. In all* other cases the power of government is 10 be confined to setting arms and ammunition, making domiciliary visits and arrests, ami ordering any persons whose presence is likely to be hostile to public order to leave the town. HOLLAND. The lafest accounts from Antwerp, which are to Wednesday mofnirig, bring little additional information ; but it appears that injconsequence of the mining and assault of Fort Laurent not having succeeded, General Haxo is now going to push the sap round the angle of the Gorge, and take the Lunette in reverse. General Sebastiani had fortified St. Philippe on the right bank of the. Scheldt, as also Fort St. Marie. A battery of guns aud three of mortars had been advanced during ihe night, and were to open im- mediately. It is now obvious that it must be prosecuted according to* system, and that some days at least must elapse before any thing decisive can be effected. That there were discussions as to the bdst means of preserving the city of Antwerp some time ago there afn be no doubt, but there is no truth in the statement circu- lated of dissensions on this or any other subject between Marshal Gt- rard and the King of Belgium. There is the best reason to brieve lhat unless Chasse should soon give way, preparations will hifve been completed as to enable Ihe French General to attack the cifedel from all points, so that the Baron will be too much occupied to^ be able to direct any great force against the city, even if he feel disposed to do so. It is scarcely probable that Marshal Gerard wWl protract the siege, since that would prove eventually more destructive to the lives of his soldiers than a prompt, simultaneous, aifd irresistible attack from all quarters. SPAIN. , The news from Spain is satisfactory. It is stated in letters fryiu Madrid, that M. Zea Bermudez, immediately after his arrival iu the capital, had a long audience of the King, who left the di yectiou of the government entirely in his hands. It is added, lhat this Minister has despatched a circular to the governors of the pro- siljces, confirming ail the provisions of the amnesty, which afford Jhfe most ample guarantee to the persons compromised. The cir- cular concludes by staling, that time will make known the progres- sive development of the new system adopted by the government. J The Director General of Spain lias published the following decree, passed by the government of the United States, relative to' Spanish commerco, in consequence of the Royal Order of the SSth of April last, admitting American vessels into the ports of Sf> ain, upon reciprocal terms :—" Spanish vessels arriving in the ports of the United States, are to pay the same tonnage duty as is tlfarged on American vessels in Spanish ports. Vessels, the pro- perty of Spanish lubjects, arriving from Spanish colonies to the ports of the United Stales, shall pay the same rate of tonnage as is pilid by American vessels in Spanish colonial ports. This act to be in'Torce from the 1st January next. all fines and other penalties prescribed for non- performance, would be rigorously enforced. CANADA. Quebec and Montreal Papers to the 18th alt. have been received. They bring an account of the opening of. the Provincial Parliament of Upper Canad'o, by his Excellency Lieutenant- General Lord Aylmer, Governor- in- Chief. The Canadian Colonial Advocate stales that strong attempts were to be made during the Session of tile Legislature to place the Clergy Revenues in the hands of clergymen of the Church of England. EAST INDIES. A Bombay Paper of the 15th of August has been received. It contains an account of a very alarming fire which broke out in the arsenal of Fort William, on the 8th of August, and which, had not the wind veered, would have caused the total destruction of the armoury and building in general. A Committee was sitting to en- deavour to ascertain the cause of the fire, but, although numerous reports were in circulation, no positive cause had been discovered. Recourse was had to battering dow n wi heigeteen pounders, two of the angles of a square in the building, and which succeeded in stopping Ihe devastation. The supply of water was very bad, being principally from the tranches, and the steam- engine, handed by the European troops in buckets. NEW SOUTH WALES. The Sidney Herald of July 2d. contains a dreadful account of the massacre of a ship's crew— the crew of the ship Oldham of Lon- don at Wallis Island. The particulars of the case were but imper feclly known. It would appear that the greater part of Wallis Island had been brought to subjection by George Minini, a native of Wahou, and a particular friend of the American traders. Being of an enterprising disposition, he had become owner of a fourth part of an American schooner, the Chinchilla, which was employed in gathering beche- lemer amougsl the Islands of the Pacific. His exactions and oppressive conduct, however, had excited the hostile feelings of the natives, and having found a favourable opportunity, they attacked him to put him to dealh. This event had fallen place a short time before the arrival of the Caledonia with Captain Browning, when carried away by the pirates from Moreton Bay. The natives being aware of the feelings the Americans would enter- tain when they learned the death of their friend, were at that period making strenuous preparations for defending themselves against their attacks, should the Americans visit the Island to revenge the death of their confederates. It is supposed that the Oldham had made her appearance during the time that the natives were in this state of excitement, aijd as they could make no distinction between the natives of cotmtnes so widely separated iu distance, but whose ap- pearance was the same, they had fallen upon them by stratagem, aud had cut them off to a man. What means were employed to ull suspicion to sleep, and lo effect the murderous purpose, or what has become of the ship, has nut yet been ascertained. THE TOWN. • Egyptian army under Ibrahim Pacha, after nearly pi^ se, has resumed offensive operations, taken possession of the djfiles in Cilicia, and after dispersing a corps of tioops assembled - jt Lreckli, entered Koniah 1st November. ( This place is about h^ jf way between the frontiers of Syria and Constantinople.) , Redschid Pacha is appointed by the Sultan to be Viceroy of Ejjypt, Djeddo, and Car. dia, which governments, after the ana- thema issued against Mehemet Ali and his son, were given lo Hussein Pacha. TUNIS. Accounts from Tunis to the 17th ult. slate that the Dey had de- cided to execute the treaty concluded with the French, relative to the sale of the produce of his Regency, and had resolved not to interfere personally, or by agent, as heretofore was the custom, between the purchasers and the proprietors of the agricultural dis tricts. He had made public that the market was perfectly free for the sale of oils, and the proprietors at liberty to make such con- tracts as they thought fit. All persons indebted to the Government in" oils were allowed to pay the amount in money. The olive crop was very abundant. COLONIES. TURKEY. Accounts from Constantinople, to Nov. 10, state that the two months' re- THE WEST INDIES. JAMAICA.— The speech of Lord Mulgrave to the House of As- sembly in Jamaica, on the 30th of October, has been received. It enters iiv. o minute details of the state of the island, political and commercial, and the cause and effects of the late rebellion, and is a highly interesting document. With regard to the question of slavery, liis Loidship states that the Orders in Council will not be enforced, and trusts that the House of Assembly will entertain the subject at an early day, that the measures for Ihe amelioration of the slaves may emanate from the planters and the authorities of the Wand. The Governor states he has made the tour of Jamaica ; that he has strictly investigated into the causes of the late rebellion, and from all the evidence he has collected, such a great calamity is nit likely again to occur. His speech has given the highest satis- faction to all parties in the island. MAURITIUS.— The advices from the Mauritius mention lhat affairs there were iu a most distressed state, and the Governor had in vain required of the inhabitants to return to a sense of civil duty and to fulfil their private engagements to each other. It was under- stood a general cessation of the payment of all private debts was about to be put in execution. BARBADOES.— The Barbadoes Mercury states that the prosecu- tions against the holders of slaves imported from Trinidad into Barbadoes since 1825, had been suspended, owing, it was conjec- tured, to a deficiency of evidence. It was expected that Commis- sioners were about to be sent out from England in search of further evidence. ' TRINIDAD.— Ageneral meeting of Ihe inhabitants ofTrinidad has bf en held to take into consideration the conduct of the agent for lhat Island, Mr. Marryat, in his place in Parliament, on the 3d of August last, when he declared that the operation of Ihe Orders in Council was beneficial, aud that most of the objections to them were groundless, ijhe meeting concluded by a declaration that Mr. Marryat could no longer with safety represent their inlerests, and lhat they therefore accept the resignation he had tendered. * ST. LUCIA.— Advices fioni St. Lucia contain a proclamation of Governor Farquharson, in which he states that the regulations of the Ordinance of 1826 had not been strictly complied with by ^ ien fpreigners, and that in consequence of their " having pre- sumed" to attach their signatures and allow their names to be ap- Hfi. nded to various petitions and declarations, with an avowed de- termination to impede the execution of the Order in Council, and a ' resolution not to pay voluntarily ihe taxes towards the maintenance ot| the eolonial establishments, the Governor ordered that all alien Sereigners resident in the colony should, within one month from the uate of the promulgation of die proclamation, produce their per- mits of residence, and that the payuent of all arrears of taxes, and THE LATE DUEL IN GREENWICH PARK.— The following is from a correspondent, who derives his information from an un- equivocal source:— Morning Advertiser.— On Thursday morning a meeting occurred in Greenwich Park between William John O'Connell, Esq. ( a relativej} f Daniel O'Connell's) and R. Kear- ney, Esq. It appears that all the parties had been dining to- gether at the Piazza Hotel, and after taking their wine repaired to some place of public amusement ( where we are not able to learn), in which the affray took place. The insult being of an aggravated nature, the parties, although the affair took place at three in the moaning, met the same evening at Chalk Farm, but the darkness closing in suddenly obliged them to defer the meet- ing till the following morning, when Mr. O'Connell and his friend left Morley's Hotel in a post- chaise, and repaired to Greenwich Park. Here the opposite party arrived, and a shot was mutually fired at the same time ; that of Mr. Kearney missed its aim, but Mr. O'Connell's took effect, passing above the hip of his adversary, and grazing the fore finger of the left hand. . Mr. O'Connell, immediately after firing, exclaimed, " Have I hit that man ? I think I have." The friend of Mr. Kearney then declared that gentleman to be wounded, when Mr. O'Connell went up and rejoined, " I sincerely hope not seriously," at the same time offering his hand. Mr. Kearney was then carried to the house of Dr. White, in Parliament- street, where his wound ( which we are happy to say is not dangerous, although half an inch on either side would have made it fatal) was dressed, and there is no doubt of his speedy recovery. In the mean time, the second of Mr. O'Connell was taken prisoner ( the rest of the party having escaped) and brought before the bench of magis- trates at Greenwich, when, after very courteous treatment, he was bound to keep the peace to all his Majesty's subjects for six mouths, himself in 200/. and two sureties in 100/. each. Con- siderable gallantry appears to have been exhibited by both parties, but it is well that the affair has terminated as it has, since, from the marked determination of Mr. O'Connell, it was very likely in any other case to have originated more fatal consequences. The seconds on the occasion were, for Mr. O'Connell, Robert Gardiner, Esq. of the county of Sligo ; and R. Arnott, Esq. for Mr. Kearney. [ Several accounts of this affair have been pub- lished : we have endeavoured to select the most accurate.— A letter has been addressed by Mr. Gardener, Mr. O'Connell's second, to a Morning Paper, and another by Mr. Kearney him- self. The communication of the former confirms the above in all important particulars.] ANTI- SLAVERY " Row" AT CAMBERWELL.— On Friday Evening, the 7th instant, a lecture on the slavery system was delivered at the Grove House, Camberwell, by the Rev. J. Scoble. Invitations had been previously sent to the candidates for the borough and county, requesting them to take this oppor. tunity of expressing their opinions on the subject of the aboli- tion, and accordingly three of them, Messrs. Wakefield, Moore, and Beauclerc, attended. Letters of apology were sent by the rest, whose absence, indeed, if any criterion may be formed from the manner in which the announcement of their names was received, was quite as agreeable to the assembly as their presence would have been. The business of the evening com- menced by the lecture which Mr. Scoble delivered, replete with interesting facts and backed with solid arguments. Many of these facts and arguments proved particularly unpalatable to an elderly gentleman who occupied a prominent situation on the platform. He frequently interrupted the lecturer in a most disorderly manner, by denying his assertions in toto, and not seldom charging him with diiect falsehood. The lecturer him- self bore these ungentlemanly attacks with admirable temper, merely replying by adducing ample evidence iu support of his propositions ; but the company seemed to view the matter some- what less complacently, and many individuals vociferously de- manded the forcible expulsion of the offender. He, however, very resolutely dared them to the attempt, continuing every now and then to interrupt the meeting as before. He was told that if he would desist he should have ample opportunity of replying to the " infamous falsehoods" in question. Every interruption renewed the unambiguous expression of the feeling of the assem- bly towards him, and he was by name ( as Mr. Tanner or Turner) threatened with expulsion . from the room, unless he prudently took the hint and remained silent. He at last descended from his elevation and mingled with the crowd, still continuing his disorderly conduct. When the lecturer had concluded his address, Mr. Wakefield, one of the candidates for the borough, was invited to express his opinion on the question of abolition. He accordingly began to speak, but was soon interrupted by the aforesaid Mr. Tanner, who, it would seem, con- ceiving the cause which he had at heart as iu a very precarious state, endeavoured to show that he, at least, was no flincher. Mr. Wakefield, at last, paused and addressed the gentleman, and begged him to remember that the present assembly was not an assembly of slaves but of free Britons, who would not be dictated to by any man, much less one who treated them as if they were not merely slaves, but his slaves. While this sort of parley was going on, a gentleman named Willie was seen to come from the back to the front of the plat- form and strike Mr. Tanner, who at that moment was leaning on it, several blows on the head and breast. A general uproar now took place; the ladies left their chairs in the body of the room, and mounted the platform for safety, while some dozens of persons in different parts of the room undertook, all at once, the laudable office of restoring order, by vociferating, each in his proper place, as loud as the strength of his lungs would permit; while the Chairman— a noodle at his business though a worthy man— stood attitudinizing most interestingly before the company. In the midst of the tumult both the striker and the struck left the room. In a few minutes order was partially re- stored, and Mr. Willie came forward to explain the unaccount- able assault which had taken place. He at once allowed that his conduct was indefensible, but that he hoped the circumstances which had occasioned it might plead in extenuation. Mr. Tan- ner, irritated by the attempts made by Mr. W. to prevent him from continuing to disturb the meeting, had, it appears, sent his card to Mr. W. on the platform with a challenge. He ( Mr. W.) did not think proper to accept it; accordingly he at once re- turned the card. Mr. T. then called out, in a loud tone, that he ( Mr. W.) was a " d— d blackguard." This so irritated that gentleman that he could keep his temper no longer, and in a moment of warmth committed the assault. After some little time the business proceeded. Messrs. Wakefield, Moore, and Beauclerc, addressed the meeting, which was closed with a most able and eloquent speech by the Rev. John Burnett, a Dissenting Minister of Camberwell, who was unanimously invited to address the meeting.— [ We have received this account from a corres- pondent on whose correctness we can rely.] A meeting at Lloyd's took place on Wednesday, for the purpose of electing three members of the Committee, in the room of three who go out by rotation. The four proposed as candidates were Messrs. Buck, Harford, Pratt, and Alderman Thompson; and the ballot commenced at one o'clock; It was proposed that a vote of 50/. should be given from the funds of the house to the widows and children of the sufferers in the Shetland Islands j to which an amendment was moved and car- ried unanimously, that one hundred guineas be given in lieu of the 50/. A sum of 50/. was also voted for the Arctic expedi- tion. A Court of Directors has been held at the East India House, when the following ships were thus timed, viz.:— Inglis, for Bengal and China, to be afloat 13th instant, sail to Gravesend the 24th instant, stay there 21 days, and be in the Downs 14th January; Scaleby Castle, for China direct, be afloat the 4th of March, sail to Gravesend 25th ditto, stay there 21 days, and be in the Downs 15th April. Captain Joseph Dudman was sworn into the command of the ship Inglis. BIRTHS.— On the 12th inst., in Hans- place, Sloaue- street, the lady of Signor T. Rovedino, of a son.— On the 10th inst., iu Cornwall- terrace, Regent's- park, the lady of William Paynter, Esq. of a daughter.— The lady of E. Wigan, Esq. of Highbury- terrace, of a son.— The lady of H. J. Phillips, Esq., of Strand- on- the- Green, of a daughter. MARRIAGES.— By special licei ce, at the house of Lord Decies, in Curzon- street, Viscount Beresford, to the Hon. Mrs. Hope, of Deepdene, widow of the late T. Hope, Esq.— At Ha- milton Palace, the Earl of Lincoln, eldest son of the Duke of Newcastle, to the Lady Susan Hamilton, daughter of the Duke of Hamilton.— At St. George's Bloomsbury, by the Rev. John Macaulay, Vicar of Loppington, in Shropshire, Edward Cropper, Esq. of Liverpool, to Margaret, daughter of Z. Macaulay, Esq. —- At Ditton Park, Lord Dunglas, son to the Earl of Home, to the Hon. Lucy Elizabeth Montagu, eldest daughter of Lord Montagu.— At All Souls, Marylebone, W. M. Penfold, Esq., of Woodlawn, eldest son of E. Penfold, Esq., of Loose Court, Kent, to Anna Maria, youngest daughter of the late Alderman Barker, of the firm of Sir J. Mortlock, of Cambridge.— At St. James's Church, Piccadilly, the Rev. Gilbert Chesnutt, B. A. of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, to Elizabeth, second daughter of Jos. Toussaint, Esq. of Manor House, Feltham, Middlesex. DEATHS.— In his 78th year, at his residence in Bloomsbury Place, London, John Matthew Grimwood, Esq., of Boxted House, near Colchester.— At his house in Gloucester- place, Port- in the northern division of Devon, being the proprietor of above 12,000 acres, it has been his custom, as also that of his prede- cessor, Sir Charles Throckmorton, Bart., to allow the labourers and mechanics of the parish to enclose from one to two acres of land from Molland Moor, for which they pay a merely nominal rent only, and which, by proper cultivation, produces alternate crops of potatoes and corn, enabling the respective occupiers to feed one, or two, and, in many instances, three pigs ; they are also allowed to take heath and turf at the expense only of pro- curing it. Were such examples generally adopted, not only the original comforts of that useful class of society would be restored, but their religious and moral conduct also ; our prisons would consequently be much less crowded, and great reductions in the county rates would ensue. MARRIED.— At Sidraouth, the Rev. Robert Swann, Rector of Brandsby, in the North Riding, to Jane Cornelia Ann Per- cival, daughter of the late Rev. Charles Percival, of Acomb, near York. DIED.— At Heavitree, aged 39, Juliana, wife of the Rev. G. C. Rashleigh, Fellow of Winchester College, and daughter of the Rev. P. Rashleigh, of Southfleet, Kent.— Edmund Roberts, Esq., aged 49, of Turlake, near Exeter.— At her residence, Topsham, Mary, widow and relict of the late Thomas Hayman, Esq., of the Paragon, New Kent- road, London.— At Torquay, Adam Paterson, Esq., advocate.— At Torquay, in the 36th year of her age, Mary Ann, the wife of the Rev. Thomas Gronow, of Court Herbert, near Neath, Glamorganshire. KENT. INCENDIARIES.— A few days ago a very numerous and respecta- ble meeting of the inhabitants of this county, took place at Seven- oaks, for the purpose of adopting resolutions to protect their pro- perty from the attacks of incendiaries. Lord Amherst was una- nimously elected chairman. His Lordship stated that they had assembled in consequence of the many conflagrations which had so lately occurred through the county, and done such serious mischief to the property of the freeholders and farmers. Alder- man Atkins said he never for a moment supposed tl « j, t there ex- isted any compact amongst persons for setting fire to the pro- perty of others, and he had been borne out in his opinion by the several cases which had occurred. Mr. Ward, and the other magistrates and landholders present, acquiesced iu the proposi- tion, and a large sum of money was immediately subscribed. Re- solutions were at once proposed and adopted, and the plan of prevention was immediately commenced. We understand that the neighbouring counties will follow the example set so spiritedly by the county of Kent. It is said that Lord Amherst put down as his subscription the sum of 100 guineas. The Coast Guard Force on the coasts of Kent and Sussex has been augmented for the winter months by drafting men from Ire- land, and the northern part of the kingdom ; and we are happy in being able to observe that fewer attempts at smuggling have been made during the past autumn than were ever known on this part of the coast.— Brighton Herald. An Horticultural Society is about to be formed at Tunbridge Wells under the patronage of the resident gentry and inhabitants. It is said that a large piece of ground upon an eligible part of the Common will be enclosed for a garden— the freehold tenants of the Manor of Rustall having most handsomely consented to the wishes of the committee in that particular. DIED.— At Dover, aged 70, Captain John Hatley, R. N., the last survivor of the companions of our illustrious circumnaviga- tor Captain Cook. LANCASHIRE. SILK WEAVING.— The silk weaving in the small villages around Manchester is at present moderately brisk. Fancy weav- ers are very much inquired for, and the weavers of plain fabrics have also a tolerable supply of work. Wages, however, are very low j the fancy weaver earns about twelve shillings a- week, and the plain weaver eight shillings.— Manchester Advertiser. TITHE CATTLE.— Some cattle seized for tithes in Ireland were offered for sale at the New Market, Old Swan, Liverpool, but the " brand" being on them, no purchaser could be found.— Wake- field Journal. NORFOLK. . We were visited on Sunday last, says the Norwich Mercury man square, George Neville Adams, Esq., of Abesford- hall, about lialf- past seven in the evening, by the most tre nendon' Essex, in the 56th year of his age.— At Leamington, suddenly, in ; hurricane we almost ever remember. It was acconmanied hv consequence of the rupture of a blood- vessel, the Right Hon. pelting hail, and lasted about an hour. Tlie shins at the n„/ v Lord Ribblesdale — At Chelsea Park, Sir Henry Wright Wilson, I heaved convulsively, and we were informed by a gentleman who of Crofton Hall, Yorkshire.— At the age of 89, Francis Burton 1 --- - - ' gentleman wtio Esq. formerly Recorder of Oxford, and Member of Parliament for that city in several sessions. He was senior King' Counsel, Father of the Benchers of Lincoln's Inn, and one of the Judges on the Welsh circuit.— At Castletown, Isle of Man, Colonel Smith, Lieutenant Governor of that Isle, aged 86.— At Florence, the Hon. Mrs. Ffrench, relict of R. J. Ffrench, Esq. of Ralia- sane, Galway, and sister of Lord Clanmorris.— At Bermuda, Admiral Sir Edward G. Colpoys, Commander- in Chief on the North American Station, aged 66.— In Old Quebec- street, the Dowager Lady Palmer, relict of the late Sir John Roger Palmer, Bart, of Castle Lacken, county of Mayo.— On board his Ma jesty's packet Emulous, on his return to England from the Mining Provinces of Brazil, for the recovery of his health, Capt. George Francis Lyon, R. N. aged 37. THE COUNTRY. BERKSHIRE. A meeting has recently been held at Reading to consider the best means of protecting agricultural property against the outrages of the incendiary. Resolutions were adopted for the formation of a Society to be called the " Berks and Oxfordshire Agricultural Association." William Stone, Esq., presided on the occasion. A committee of fifteen gentlemen was formed, of whom the Chairman was one. Some of the timbers in the north front of Windsor Castle have been found to be in an extreme state of decay, which is appre- hended to be extensive. A thorough examination is now going forward, preliminary to a general repair of the floors in that part of the building.— Windsor Paper. DIED.— At Woodley Lodge, Berks, Mary Juliana, sixth daughter of J. Wheble, Esq. CORNWALL. In order to mark that point of land called Gribben Head, to the westward of the entrance of the port of Fowey ( which has been sometimes mistaken for St. Anthony's Head), at the en- trance of Falmouth harbour, the Trinity Board have caused a beacon tower to be erected, 85 feet in height, and which stands upon an elevation of 257 feet above the level of the sea. The quantity of fish exported from St. Ives this year exceeds 10,000 hogsheads. A meeting of the Mining Interest has been held at Truro, to receive the report of the committee appointed to prepare a me- morial to Government, on the subject of a protecting duty upon foreign copper ore smelted in this country, and on the Duchy tax levied upon tin. MARRIED.— John Ferguson Hulbert, Esq., of Redbrook House, near Monmouth, to Mary, relict of Francis Johns, Esq., late of Woodbine Cottage, Illogan, Cornwall, and eldest daughter of James Clogg, sen., Esq., of Liskeard. DEVON. It is in contemplation to form a rail- road between Newton Abbott and Torquay, for the purpose of facilitating the inter- course between the former town and that port. At the General Sessions for the county of Devon, there were 32 cases of felony, aud five misdemeanours, for trial. The Chair- man called the attention of the jury to the present system of poor laws, which, he said, had been perverted from the original Lobject— the maintenance of the aged and infirm ; and it was his desire that they should be brought back to their original inten- tion by expunging from the parochial pay- book the name of every able- bodied man. In the parish of Molland, the property of R. G. Throck- morton, Esq., who is a large landowner in several other parishes j a — was on the bridge at the time, that that structure appeared every moment as if falling, and that the appearance of the river was most awful, seeming at intervals as if the whole sheet of water was covering the quay. DEATHS.— Aged 83, at his parsonage, Lamas, the Rev. Philip Candler, Rector of that parish, with Hauthois- Parva annexed, and of Letherinsett, and vicar of Burnham Overy, in Norfolk. — At Ipswich, Eliza Mary, widow of the late Dedny Branigan, Esq., of Kingston, Jamaica. NORTHUMBERLAND. The Yorkshire Gazette states, that of all places, the ports of the Tyne and Wear have the greatest reason to deprecate a quarrel with Holland. From the ports on these rivers alone, during the present year, not less than 500 vessels have been employed in carrying coals to the Dutch ports, to say nothing of the valuable cargoes of other articles of our produce and manufactures which are constantly being shipped. The vessels thus employed, be it remembered, are nearly all English, the Dutch not forming a fortieth part of the whole tonnage, while the capital employed is all British, and the wages of the seamen and profits of the merchant are alike expended in our country. SOMERSET. A bill will be submitted to Parliament next session for the formation of a new road from Warminster and Frome, by the villages of Freshford and Limpley Stoke, under Claverton- hill, through Bathampton aud Pulteney- street, into Bath ; affording an easy and eligible line of road, instead of the present fatiguing and dangerous line through Norton, Hinton, and Midford. An Address from the Clergy of the Diocese has been pre- sented to the Bishop of Bristol, on the existing agitated state of society, as affecting the welfare of the National Church ; in which they declare that no chauges which may take place in its temporal arrangements will, in any degree, weaken their attach- ment to it: believing, as they do, that it is the best calculated to promote the interests of the nation in general, and to secure the present and eternal happiness of its own members in particular. MARRIAGES.— At Abbots' Leigh, the Rev. Henry S. Lloyd, youngest son of the late Francis Lloyd, Esq., of Domgay, in the county of Montgomery, and of Leaton Knolls, in the county of Salop, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Philip John Miles, Esq., M. P., of Leigh Court, in the county of Somerset.— At St. Augustine's church, Bristol, Hugh Tweedy, Esq., nephew of Colonel Tweedy, to Emma D'Oyly Aplin, third daughter of the Rev. C. D. Aplin, of Walton Grove, Surrey.— At St. Michael's church, Bath, Capt. G. W. Osborne, of the Hon. East India Company's service, to Maria, youngest daughter of John Thuil- lier Esq., of Cadiz, and of Paragon- buildings, Bath.— At Bath, Lieutenant- Colonel Thorn, formerly Assistant Quarter- Master- General, to Amelia Eleanor, youngest daughter of the late C. Worthington, Esq., of Lansdown- cresent Bath. DEATHS.— At Clifton, Charles Gaston Gabriel Agesilans De Blanchy, Esq., the descendant of a noble and ancient family in • he South of France.— At Taunton, aged 30, Captain Charles Barrow, of his Majesty's 30th Regiment of Foot, and eldest son of Colonel Barrow, of Taunton. SUFFOLK. A SINGULAR TAX COLLECTOR.— At the late tithe feast the rector of Wortham, one of the poorest parishes in Suffolk, when the health of the constable of the parish, who is also collector of the rates and taxes, was proposed, several of the farmers repre- ss ed to the Reverend Gentleman that the individual whose health was then about to be drunk was in great distress. The Chairman immediately drank his health, and in wishin- him December 16. TME TOW*. greater prosperity presented him with a five pound note. The hint was taken by the farmers ; the man was sent upon some errand into the parish, and during his absence every farmer sub- scribed, according to his means, something towards his relief. Upon his return a plate containing a handsome present of gold and silver was handed to him, in approbation of his industry in private life, and of his integrity as a public servant of the parish. DEATHS.— At Brent Eleigh Hall, the seat of his son in law Sir Felix Agar, Edward George Lind, Esq., of Strat- ford Place, in his 79th year.— At Dedham, aged ten years, Rowland James, sou of the late Rev. James Dickens, and Grand- son of General Dickens, of Copdock Hall, near Ipswich ; and on the 29th ult. at the same place, Helen Elizabeth, mother of the above R. J. Dickens, and second daughter of Colonel West, Lieutenant Governor of Languard Fort. SUSSEX. Should the project, said to be practicable, of shortening the distance between London and St. Leonard's ( 10 miles) succeed, the latter place will, it is said, become the nearest and most con- venient point of intercourse between the French and English capitals. DIED.— At Hastings, Major Du Cane, late of the 28th Dragoons. WARWICKSHIRE. At a public meeting held at Beardsworth's Repository, Bir- mingham, it was determined to establish an Equitable Labour Exchange in that town, so soon as the sum of 2,000/., to be raised in shares of twenty pounds each, is subscribed. Mr. Muntz presided, and Mr. Robert Owen detailed the system to be adopted. The Town- hall now building at Birmingham will be of the most ample dimensions. The length will be 140 feet— width 65 — height 65. In this noble apartment the musical festivals will be held j with one or two exceptions, it will be the finest music- room in Europe. One end will be occupied by an organ of immense power ; in height this instrument will be about 40 feet, and in breadth about 30. YORKSHIRE. THE WEAVERS' TURN- OUT.— This event, we are glad to say, has at length been accommodated : it would, however, be more gratifying if it had taken place on conditions that were likely to be permanent. Some of the manufacturers were impelled by circumstances to cede the point at issue with their hands ; their example was of necessity followed by the employers ge- nerally, and the weavers have returned to their occupation. DEATH.— Last week at Crathorne, Yorkshire, Ralph Chap- man, aged 107. He was horn and lived all his life in the same parish. WALES. CARMARTHEN SAVINGS BANK.— Our readers are aware, says the Cambrian, of thedefalcation of the late clerk to this bank.— The Right Hon. Lord Dynevor, with a munificence worthy of record, has kindly stepped forward, and directed that all persons, being depositors in the said bank of their hard earnings under 10/. should be paid in full all deficiencies from his Lordship's private purse. Although depositors under 10/. only are entitled to the above benefit, yet so numerous are they, that it will require several hundred pounds to carry it into effect. MARRIED.— At St. Peter's Church, Carmarthen, by the Rev. D. A. Williams, Charles Basil Mansfield, Esq. solicitor of Swansea, to Frances Elizabeth, eldest daughter of John Wil- liams, Esq. surgeon, of the former place. DIED.— At Glynllifon, Carnarvonshire, in the 31st year of his age, after a protracted and painful illness, the Right Hon. Thos. John Wynn, Baron Newhorough.— At Carclew House, near Penryn, the seat of Sir C. Lemon, Bart. M. P. on Monday, M. Hyde Villiers, Secretary of the Board of Controul, and ne- phew of Lord Morley.— At Clifton, in his 80th year, Henry Lee, Esq. of Dynas Powis, a Deputy Lieutenant and in the Com mission of the Peace for the county of Glamorgan. LAW. COURT OF KING'S BENCH. THURSDAY. Voss t). LITTON.— This was an action to recover damages for in- jury the plaintiff bad tustained by tbe defendant having driven over him. It appeared that the plaintiff, a Dutchman, was walking along ihc Islihgtbn- road, and that the defendant, who was driving a butcher's cart, carelessly conducted his horse so as to knock down the plaintiff, and occasion him tbe injury for which the present ac- tion was brought. For the defence, several witnesses deposed to the negligence of the plaintiff in walking in the middle of the road instead of the footway. They also denied that the defendant was driving care- lessly or furiously. The Lord Chief Justice summed up, and told the Jury to consi- der whether or not the defendant's negligence occasioned the ac- cident. The Jury immediately returned a verdict for the plaintiff— Da- mages 20 (. GOODWIN V. TAYLOR — This aclion was brought lo recover da- mages for the loss of ahorse, occasioned by the defendant's pony running away with a cart, the wheel of which struck tbe horse, and caused its death. It appeared that the plaintiff was the proprietor of a cabriolet and horse, which were in the Westminster road in October, 1831, when circumstances occurred which gave rise to this piesent action. For the defence, it was attempted to be proved, that the pony was frightened by the noise of a Punch's show, and that the ani- mal, not having any one at its head, ran away. The Jury deliberated for a few minutes, and then returned a ver- dict for the plaintiff— Damages 19/. 5s., which, together with Ihe sum of l!. 15s. the plaintiff obtained for the carcase of the dead horse, made the sum of 20 guineas, which was the price originally given for the horse by him. BEAUMONT v. WARWICK.— This action was brought by the plain- tiff, a tailor, to recover the value of clothes supplied to the defend- ant whilst a minor. It appeared that the defendant held a situa- tion, for which he received tbe sum of 201, per annum ; that his father, who had been in good circumstances, was now a traveller for a manufacturer, at a small salary ; and that the clothes had been supplied to the defendant in tbe course of a few months. The Jury found for the defendant as not considering the clothes necessaries for the sphere in which he moved. IRELAND. — There are two or three painfully interesting circumstances which appeared in evidence at the inquest of the unfortunate Maddox family, lately murdered in the county Wexford, which, as they have not hitherto been noticed by the provincial or Dublin Papers, may be of value. A son and daughter of Maddox escaped the fury of the mis- creants at first, by pretending to be servants of ' the family, but when at some distance from the house, the daughter, on hearing the cries of her father, rushed back, exclaiming, " Oh, my God, are you going to murder my father?" Poor thing, she fell a victim to her filial affection— she was imme- diately shot by One of the savages who surrounded the house. The policemen came out of the house, under promise of pro- tection ; but as soon as they appeared outside they were fired at. One escaped, in the confusion, uninjured ; the other, who was mortally wounded, ran some distance, leaped over a fence, which few athletic men would have attempted, but, after running a short distance further, he fell through weakness and loss of blood. His comrade, perceiving the state he was in, ran to his as- sistance. The unfortunate man, on seeing him, cried out, " are you shot?" and on receiving an answer in the negative, exclaimed, " fly, then, for your life— don't stay— its all over with me." Ti. e survivor having secured the poor fellow's watch, money, and ammunition, made good his retreat. The Irish Government has offered a reward of 100/. for infor- mation leading to the apprehension and conviction of any con- cerned in the attack ou Baron Smith's house. The county of Kilkenny has at length been placed under the " Peace Preservation Act." The accounts we have every day from Ireland are such, that we anticipate this proceeding must soon be a general one. Its present state is a national scandal. MARRIAGES.— In Cork, Walter Williams Harris, Esq., M. D., to Jane, daughter of William Jackson, Esq.— At Brownville, county Galway, James Browne, jun., Esq., of Arrandale, to Mary Jane, second daughter of Anthony Blake, Esq.— Mr. John O'Dwyer, jun., of Miltown Malbay, to Margaret, daughter of the late William O'Dwyer, Esq., of Donogan, county Clare.— At Golden, the Rev. Molesworth Pearson, Chap- lain to the Lord Bishop of Derry, and Vicar of Dunmore, diocese of Ossory, to Hanna, daughter of the late John Molloy, of Derrigboy, King's county. DEATHS.— The Hon. and Rev. Arthur Vesey, brother of Viscount De Vesci.— At his residence in Waterford, Mr. George Penrose Ridgway, merchant, of that city ; a highly esteemed member of the Society of Friends. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. THURSDAY. HALLER v. ROBERTS.— This was an action brought to recover damages from the defendant, for criminal conversation with his wife. Mr. Sergeant Jones and Mr. Curwood conducted the plaintiffs case, and Mr. Sergeant Taddy and another Counsel were retained by the defendant. From tbe statement, it appeared that the plaintiff, Mr. Bernard Haller, a working jeweller, aged 38, was married to plaintiff's wife, who was nearly of bis own age, in November, 1830, Some months after their marriage, thev moved to a bouse in Copenhagen- street, tbe landlord of which was Mr. Roberts, the defendant, an old gentle- man of between 60 and 70 years, of independent pioperty, resid- ing in Yardley- street, Wilmington- square. The fruit of the mar- riage was one child. The trade of Mr. Haller caused him to be much from home during the day time, and the landlord took ad- vantage of tbe husband's absence, and proffered his love to the plaintiff s wife. She, struck, certainly not with his appearance, but perhaps with his presents, listened to his tale. Several letters from the old man were, from time to time, sent to the object of bis desires. Mr. Haller, however, a. yet unsuspicious, was delighted with bis new landlord, and requested him to stand godfather to his child, who was christened Samuel after him. Mr. Roberts showed great fondness fur the boy, and displayed a little of it to the mother of bis adopted child. This, of course, the father thought natural, until circumstances arose that induced a suspicion of his landlord's treachery, and his wife's dishonour. In consequence, Mr. Haller determined to watch her conduct; and on one oecasion, the 5th of April, ibis year, when Mr.' Roberts was there, and with ihe assist- ance of a friend, obtained full proof of bis wife's infidelity. The statement was corroborated by several letters from the defendant to tbe plaintiff's wife, which were read ; Ihe following is a passage from one of them :— Don't forget the writer, I pi ay, dearest Clara. Destroy this when you have read it. " My dearest love and turtle dove, You are the friend I dearly iove. Excuse me for what I write, And, my dearest love, make me welcome in your sight. The world is round, and has no end, So is ray love true to you, my dear friend. " S. R" Mr. Sergeant Taddy addressed the Jury on the part of the de- fendant. The Chief Justice summed up, and told the Jury lhat however bad Ihe letters were, it still remained for them to decide as to the fact of the plaintiff's dishonour. Tbe Jury almost immediately returned a veidict for the plain- tiff— Damages 100/. scribed as one of much consideration for the Jury. With tbe charge of assault, which they alone had to decide upon, was mixed up that of " Crirn. Con." The parties, he would only add, were in humble circumstances. Frederick Forde stated, that lie was tbe husband of tbe female defendant. On the 25th of September last be and both the de- fendants at the bar, were on a party of pleasure to White Conduit- house, and were returning home together, when be stopped - for about a minute behind them, aud something then arose which ex- cited his jealousy. It then appeared, from the witness's evidence, that he left them in a passion, and on arriving at home found his wife and Hall together asleep. Witness awakened them, when Hall ran out of the room, and returning with a slick, struck wit- ness on tbe back of the head ; his ( witness's) wife at the same time endeavouring to stab him with a clasp knife, and threatening to do for him with two razors which she seized. Here Mrs. Forde ( plaintiffs wife) conducted herself with such effrontery and immodesty, that tbe Chairman was obliged to ad- monish her. Hall, with the permission of the Court, cross examined Forde, and endeavoured by irrelevant questions to shake his testimony, but was stopped by the Chairman. Mr. Robert Hill, landlord of the bouse in which the patties re- sided, gave evidence of tbe affray on the night in question. The defendant ( Flail) in a written defence, declared his ignor- ance of being in the room with the plaintiff's wife until he was awakened by him, and denied the assault. Mrs. Forde made no defence. The Jury, without hesitation, found the defendants Guilty. The Chairman told Hall that he had greatly aggravated the case by deliberately going for a weapon and assaulting the plaintiff. The Court sentenced each of the prisoners to four months in the House of Correction. SLATER » . EAGLE.— This was an ation of assault. Mr. Slater is a tailor, and lodged in the house of the defendant, Mrs. Eagle, a laundress, Jn- Cninden-' town. The temper of Mrs. Eagle, it a p- peared, was none of the best, and being a powerful, as well as an irritable woman, she showed great prowess in the fistic art. One of tbe stipulations that Mr. Slater made was to be allowed to heat his irons at the kitchen fire ; and on the day on which the as- sault took place, he went down itairs for that purpose. Mrs. Eagle was there, and being, from some cause or other, provoked with Mr. Slater, she vented all ber indignation at the poor tailor. He being, as is allowed, but the ninth part of a man, and having the ninth part of a nervous man's nerves, contented himself with pushing Mrs. Eagle. She ' immediately waxed wroth, and knocked him down, whereby he dislocated his shoulder. He exclaimed, " The Lord have mercy upon me, iny arm is broken— Mary— Mary"— calling his wife, who, hearing tbe noise, had come down stairs. She, with the assistance of another person, led him up stairs, Mrs. Eagle at the same time vociferating, " If it had been the right joint, it would have been his neck." She was, on a future day, taken to tbe Police- office; but jus", as Mr. Slater was about to detail his griev- ances to the Magistrates, an officer, w ho was iu waiting, arrested him for debt, and carried him off to Whirecross- street prison. This action was now brought to recover justice by damages, which that unlucky detainer had prevented his obtaining at the bands of a Magistrate. A witness was called to prove tbe affray ; and a surgeon stated that the tailor had been put to upwards of 21, expense from tbe wounds he had received. The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff— Damages 10/. POLICE. SCOTl. A ND. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. THURSDAY. GOBLE v. KING AND ANOTHER.— This was an action to recover from ihe defendants the amount of certain Colombian and Peruvian Bonds, under the following circumstances :— The plaintiff was a naval officer ; the defendants were navy agents residing at Portsea. Tbe plaintiff at different times directed Mr. Barnett, one of the defendants, to purchase Colombian and Peruvian Bonds for him. Barnett having purchased the Bonds, gave the plaintiff the Co- lombian Bonds, and kept the Peruvian in bis possession. The plaintiff subsequently deposited the Colombian Bonds with Barnett as a security for a loan of money. In 1831 the partnership be- tween King and Barnett was dissolved, and Barnelt subsequently became a bankrupt. The defence set up was, that this was a private transaction be- tween Goble and Barnett, in which King had no participation ; that it was not within the scope of their business ; and that the re- ceipt produced by the plaintiff' for those Bonds, given by Barnett in tbe name of King and Bartiett, was given by a collusion be- tween the plaintiff and Barnett, after the partnership had been dis- solved, and not at tbe time it bore date. Lord Lyndhurst left it to the Jury to say, whether the transac- tion relating to the Bonds was iu the ordinary course of the de- fendants' business, and whether it was conducted collusively be- tween the plaintiff and Barnett. The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff— Damages 810/. GLASGOW SHAWL TRADE.— The manufacturing of tartan shawls has been on the increase these several years past, and has been a source of profit to those engaged in it. The weavers employed at these fabrics are better paid than those connected with the cotton and silk manufacture. Last year the manufac- turers of these durable and comfortable shawls found great diffi- culty in supplying the market, and this year, although the de- mand has scarcely commenced, yet the orders already received cannot be executed. The tartan shawl Weavers are earning at present from twenty to thirty shillings per week.— Glasgow Chronicle. DEATHS.— At Linlithgow, George Cunningham, Esq. writer, in the 81st year of his age.— Charlotte, eldest daughter of Major Alexander Fraser, of the 20th regiment of foot.— At Edinburgh, Lady Fairfax, in her 85th year, relict of the late Admiral Sir Wm. George Fairfax, who commanded his Majesty's ship Vene- rable, the flag ship of Admiral Lord Duncan, in the memorable battle of Camperdown. Lady Fairfax was the mother of Mrs. Somerville, authoress of the scientific work called " The Me- chanism of the Heavens."— At Edinburgh, the Countess of Casillis. CONSISTORY COURT. On Tuesday a proceeding was commenced in behalf of Miss Bagsler, falsely called Newton, on the ground of the insanity of the young lady. The suit has been commenced to obtain a decree declaring the marriage solemnized between tbe parties null and void. The parties in the cause are those who were, sometime back, frequently before Ihe public, during the commission of lunacy which w- as opened to try the soundness of Miss Bagsler's mind aud in which, it will be remembered, the Jury returned a verdict that the young lady was of unsound mind. Tbe Proctor, on be- half of the Committee of the young lady in the present case, ap plied to tbe Court to order the Proctor for Mr. Newton to deliver iu his answers to the libel in the cause by next Court day, on pain of dismissal. Dr. Lushington said be could not make such an order, as Mr Newton might refuse to give his answers. He thought the case had better stand over. This was agreed to. ——— MIDDLESEX ADJOURNED SESSIONS. THURSDAY. EXTRAORDINARY CASE OP ASSAULT AND Cam. CON.— Henry Hall, a young man, and Muria Forde, a young woman, possessing considerable personal attractions, were indicted for as- saulling Frederick Forde, the husband ot the last- named defendant. Mr. Phillips stated the case for the prosecution, which he de- GUILDHALL. Mr. Barrett, the keeper of Whitecross- street prison, who attended to give notice to tbe coroner of a death in that gaol, related the following circumstances respecting it to the magistrate at Guild- ball :— The deceased, Jacob Sears, was a carpenter, who had been sentenced to twenty days' imprisonment, iu default of paying a a deht of 13s. 8d. due to a baker, which, from being in ill health, and out of employ, he was unable to pay. On the 19th day the d- ceased complained of severe indisposition, and Mr. Barrett or- dered him to be brought into the lodge, w'rth the view of sending him home in a coach, if his situation would admit of it. Some wine was given to him, and a surgeon was immediately called in, but his services were unavailing, as the poor man sank, and expired a few moments after bis arrival. For a debt exceeding 31. a person may be imprisoned 100 days ! If he were to commit wilful damage to Ihe amount of 5i. be could be detained only 62 days. [ Who is the murderer of this murdered man 1 If he bad stabbed the unfortunate being, and put him at once " out of pain," tbe Old Bailey Sessions would have recorded bis name ; yet he would have been a more merciful murderer, and have called more loudly for the sympathies of society. As it is, the ruffian escapes— loses, to be sure, his 13s. 8d., but has the life of his creditor in lieu of the debt. Again we ask for his name. Xt- is" high time that " Reform" should enter Whitecross- street.— He could do more good there, we suspect, than even in St. Stephen's.] THAMES OFFICE. Wednesday seven wretched females of loose character, named Jane Green, Martha Higgs, Sarah Gardner alias Jane Harvey, Mary While, Ellen Martin, Elisabeth Mellington, and Ann Friends, were charged with riotous and disorderly conduct, The prisoners are all of the lowest grade, and their appearance was the most wretched and filthy that could be imagined. The woman Gardner, who is better known by the name of Harvey, has beeiLcomluitied from this and the Lambeth- street office more than fifty times during the last eight years ; though not more than 25 years of age she lias tbe appearance of being more than 60. Be- sides the geneial charge of disorderly conduct, Wheeler, a policeman, No. 160, K, stated that he was informed that Mellington, who lived in New Gravel- lane, intended to commit suicide, and had attempted to throw herself out of a window ; he went to the house and saw her struggling wilh another female at the window of tbe second story, but she'succceded in throwing herself out. He fortunately caught ber in his arms; but his whole- frame had received such a shock that he thought he should never get the better of it. The prisoner was also much hurt. Mr. Ballaniine having committed some of the prisoners, ques- tioned Mellington as to tbe cause of ber attempting the dreadful crime of suicide. The prisoner made no answer ; in fact she was too ill to speak. Mr. Ballantine stated his reasons at great length for adopting a particular line of conduct in such cases, although he was opposed to the opinions of others for whom be entertained great respect. He did not wish to do anything harsh, but he was satisfied in bis conscience that he was doing right, and that a person who attempted suicide ought to be punished. He should endeavour first to find out whether the prisoner was in a sound state of mind, for insanity could alone palliate her offence. If she was a lunatic, she should be sent to a proper asylum : but if shew- as not, she should be com pelled to find bail to answer the charge at tbe sessions. In the mean time she should have every attendance her situation required. [ The magislrates have upon several occasions of late punished as an offence against Ihe statute, tbe attempt to commit suicide. It is ciear according to the adage, and according to common law and common sense, " the intent is as good as the deed." The subject, however, is one which requires more thought and attention than we can at present give it. We shall take an early opportunity of dis- cussing the matter.] HATTON- GARDEN. Ellen Montague, an unfortunate woman, who some years ago was well known as a nightly visitor of the saloons of the winter thea- tres, was charged by a young n an of the name of Stevens, with having stolen his coat. The foolish young man had been drinking in company with the prisoner, at a house in the neighbourhood of Holborn, where lie became intoxicated, and, missing his coat, applied to a policeman, by whom the woman was arrested ; and who ascertained that the coat in question bad been pawned by her. The prisoner, in her defence, said that the prosecutor gave her leave to pledge the coat when he entered tbe house. The prosecutor positively denied this. Montague ( with great violence)— It's false; it's false, your wor- ship ; he was drunk at the time, and he is a young thief— one of the swell mob. I am no fool; and— do listen to reason. Prosecutor— I am respectable ; and my character can be soon known, your worship. * There being no direct evidence that the prisoner stole the ccift, she was prosecuted for unlawfully pawning. While the clerk was taking the evidence, she raved like a mad- woman, and was ultimately removed from the office, and com- mitted. * [ The prisoner was formerly a beautiful- looking woman, and usad to dress in the most extravagant style of fashion ; but gin- drinking and appalling dissipation have reduced her to the most deplorable wretchedness, scarcely having any apparel, and lier face covered with blotches. The officers all recognized her as being a regufar " flame" in better days, but as being repeatedly charged with rob- beries, and drunken disorderly conduct, at the above office.— recommend the prosecutor to get a new habit in a double sensei If the dissipation of the woman has produced misery, that of the man has led to shame.] j IRELAND. ^ OWEN NOWLAN V. WILLIAM TALLANT.— Owen, an anatoniy, attenuated almost to invisibility, whose lank carcase was enveloped ill a drapery of frieze, which, once on a time, might have pasSed for a good fit, appeared, making bis way through the crowd, and at length reached the bar. Magislrate— Wbat is the nature of your complaint? Nowian— Oh, you thief of the world, Bill Tallant, I have you at last! Your honour and glory this villain pilferated me in the most scandalous manner out of house and home. Your worship knows I keeps entertainment for man and baste ; and he comesto me, and says he, Owny darlint, says he, our ship's come i ® to port, says he, ( for he's a villain of a sailor, your honour,) slid we'll be ped off to- morrow morning, says he, and for the raattlier of what a body eats, sure you know it's as good as the bank, says be; so just put clean blankets on the bed, and I'll behereinfss than no time. ^ Tallant— He's a lubber of a land shark, your worship, and coijld spin you a yarn of d— d lies Ihe length of a main stay. D— n ijiy eyes and limbs, your worship, if I am not ashamed to look lum straight in tbe ugly face. NoA'lan— Keep never minding him, your worship; but, as I was tellin you, down the villain comes and takes tay and supper, and share of half a pint, that I stood, out of pure civilitude; fiut when I went for to go for to waken him in the morning, by lioky, your worship, there be was gone for good and all, without as much as bidding me good day; and, more betoken, the divil as much of the sheets or blankets he left behind him as would Ocwer a rat. * Magistrate— This case does not come within the jurisdictionJof this court; it is plainly a police- office affair, and I would recAu- mend you to bring him there without delay. Mrs. Donn, a duplicate Hottentot Venus, appeared for her Wet- ter half, John, who summoned Pat Wade for 1/. 5s. i Magislrate— State the nature of this case. •> Mrs. Dunn— Please your honour's worship, my man, John, U a chap wot drives a jarvey on the Rock road, and he got Pa'ldv Whelan to make a new pair of wheels for the bone- setter, and Jat Wade ordered another pair, your worship ; well, when the wheels was made and paid for, what does Pat Whelan do, your worship* but be makes love to our wheels, and the sorow one of them^ ve could ever get out of him. Wade— She'd sware a bole through an iron pot, your worship; but sure here's the man that made them, and he'll settle the njattet in two two's. Whelan then swore that he made the two pairs of wheels, ibid that each party had received their own— and the complaint ^ as dismissed. SCOTLAND. BIGAMY.— Jolm Boyd, a native of tbe Emerald Isle, and rejdv to pursue the calling of strolling ragman, tinker, ballad- singer, jnd various others of equally low degree, according as either appeared propitious— was apprehended at Dunblane, charged with the crnne of bigamy. It so happened, some time ago, that Boyd, in the course of his wanderings, had dropped into a Iodging- houstf1 in Dunblane, kept by a thrifty bard; working woman for the accomrtic- dation of such travellers as himself. It was Soon evident that Paddy was over head and ears in love. Cupid being in a frolic- some mood, had no sooner permitted Paddy to take a glance atfhe " comfortable but- and- ben and well- stored awmory," of" the flo* er o' Dunblane," than he directed a shaft at the empty stomach of< tlie poor son of Erin, which laid him prostrate at the feci of his fair one, where he began to pour forth a love- tale as long and soft as the Bog of Allen. Poor Jenny's tender heart could not withstand suqfc a flood of rhetoric. Her eyes declared what modest lips forebof ® to tell— that Paddy was " the boy for bewitching her." He was tre^ ed to a slice of the fattest, and a cup of the strongest. He lived tjius for a few days like a prince, coaxed and ogled, and poured so m^ ny sweet things into Jenny's all wilting ear, that she soon surrendered at discretion— agreed to become a smiling bride, and was forthwith chained in the indissoluble bands of matrimony. But " the best laid schemes of mice and men gang aft ajee." The indissoluble bands proved but a slender thread— Jenny's seeming picttire ofjjlo- mestic life but the baseless fabric of a vision— and Paddy's new possession a precursor lo a more ignoble habitation. He bad - bleu but a few days the honourable lord and master of a domicile in the ancient city, when his evil genius directed tbe footsteps of bis first wife, seeking charity, to the very roof which now sheltered hiin. The poor woman was surrounded by a number of little helpless cmil- dren, and earnestly implored charity before she noticed her husband, who sat carousing in a corner. His voice, however, as he indulged in bis noisy mirth, soon struck her ear, and she burst into tears Sod lamentations. They struck the faithless Irishman to the heart. The uplifted cup, with which he was about " to drink to the geueraljoy of the w hole table," was laid down untasted, and he was ready to exclaim wilh Macbeth, at the sight of the shade of the muldercd Banquo— & " Avaunt! and quit my sight ': let the earth hide thee." 4 i The story of the treacherous husband got speedily abroadj and having been very properly brought under the cognizance of the oivil authorities, the examination of tbe case terminated in sending lite fellow to Perth, to be committed to jail for farther trial.— Stirling Advertiser. SCRAPS FROM ABROAD. 4 CANAL FROM THE RHONE TO THE RHINE.— This canal is com- pletely finished as far as Strasburg, and navigable to the dis- tance of 85 leagues; the short distance from Strasburg to . the Rhine is the only part of the canal now to be completed.— Joiifyud du Commerce. , MOMIFICATION.— This is the name given by the inventory, Messrs. Capron and Boniface Abbot of Paris, to the process wll- ick they have discovered of preserving bodies after the manner oniia Egyptian mummies. At a recent meeting of the French Academy they exhibited a human body thus preserved, which it was impos- sible to delect from the real Egyptian mummy. The deceased, clothed in a robe de chambre, which left visible only the extfemUfies of tbe body, appeared to weigh no more than thirty or forty pourkh- The violet- coloured skin, Ihe leaden hue, and the fleshless boitci,, presented an object not very flattering to poor humanity. .4 RIVF. R of VINEGAR.— In South America, near Popayan, ft a river, called in the language of the country Rio Vinagre. It tain its source in a very elevated chain of mountains, and, aftef t subterraneous progress of many miles, it re- appears, and forms a. magnificent cascade upwards of 300 feet in height. When \ pei- son stands beneath tills point, he is speedily driven away bv . i. very fine shower of acid water, which irritates the eyes. M. Bous- singalt wishing to ascertain the cause of this phenomenon, ana, lylef. tbe water of tbe river, and found among other substances sulphiyii and hydrochloric acids, The following is the result of tho in| f- sts:— Sulphuric acid, 0,00110; hydrochloric acid, 0,00091 ; aV- mine, 0,00040; chalk, 0,00013; soda, 0,00012 ; " oxyde of iron and magnesia, traces. silex, 0,000^ 3j THE TOWHT, December 16. ,, OPINIONS OF THE DAILY PRESS. a [ From the TIMES.] POLICE FORCE.—" But the especial distinction of the police . force is, that the mob are every where in fear of it. Is that the motive of the " mob- led" candidate ( Col. Evans) for evincing 4ijuch hatred of the police ? Does he really wish that the rabble " should huve carte blanche— that every candidate who resisted " mob law should, with his voters, be at the mercy of the mob ; and that by outrage and brutality of every sort all elector's should be driven from the polling booths, save only those in the interest of the " Destructive" candidate ;— is that, we ask, the scheme " of Colonel Evans? If so, it is worthy of some at least of his " supporters. But, it is an additional ground, we submit, for the " determined opposition of all honest men, to send such candidates ;* s Colonel Evans about their business as speedily as possible." ft [ The objections to the Metropolitan police force are two- fold. „ — lst, that it is inordinately expensive j 2d, that it is unconsti- tutional in its character, and may be made subsidiary to the pur- poses of a despotic government. A few days ago, the Morning Chronicle placed the latter consideration in the fairest point of view by observing that if the whole of this great Metropolis were ^ ' placed under one municipality, then, but not otherwise, could the .. command of the police force be taken from the Home Secretary. . As for the expense, Parliamentary inquiry produced by petition- ing, appears to be the only remedy. That the expense is inordi- nate, there cannot be a second opinion ; and to talk of a return ., to the old watch system is mere drivelling. We shall soon take w up this topic at length.] if FLOGGING JN THE ARMY.—" It is difficult to imagine a perver- * sion of truth and justice more disgraceful than is implied in the • charge against the present Secretary- at- war— that he is averse i" to the abolition of all such unmanly and revolting punishments." [ It is difficult to imagine a cooler insult to the understanding of the public, proceeding even from the Times itself, than is con- " veyed in the foregoing lines, with which an article begins where the writer disserts on a position concerning public men which the merest tyro in politics takes for granted, namely, that no * one should connect himself with an Administration from which " he differs on any important question— Sir John Hobhouse has said so times out of number. This remark, however, is not in- T tended as an advocacy of the parties who set up Col. Evans ; our only object being to direct attention to one of the innumerable '' instances in which the Times, with an extravagant, but often suc- ^ cessful temerity, bullies the British nation.] PROPERTY IN PARLIAMENT.—" We have by means of the Reform Bill got rid of a most formidable description of mendi- cants, the nominees of the Oligarchy, who were the great ob- stacles to economy on the part of the government. Property has not been adequately protected. Some persons were afraid that in lieu of noble beggars, we should have plebeian beggars. But property possesses a strong instinct of self- preservation. The Reform Bill makes the franchise co- extensive with property ; and it is not likely that property will commit a felo- de se." [ There is not an intelligent man in the country who has at- tended to the preparations for, and the progress of the elections, but must admit that the Reformed Parliament willbe composed of men possessed of vastly more wealth than any of its predecessors.] OPTIMISM.— Concurrence of Times and Chronicle. " For the first general results of this election we have no sha- dow of alarm ; generally speaking, we are confident that the bulk of the House of Commons will be worthy of the intelligent and high principled constituency from which it will spring.— Times.—-" We are, therefore, upon the whole, optimists with regard to the result of the elections."— Morning Chronicle. The Morning Chronicle winds up a long article on the elections with the following :— " Upon the whole, we may confidently say a new era has com- menced. The gentlemen of England will now see that, to be honoured by the people, they must sympathise with the people. The aristocracy, which, of all others, is the most offensively ex- clusive, must change their character, or reconcile themselves to insignificance and contempt." THE ELECTIONS.—'• Our conviction has been abundantly veri- •>. fied, that nothing more would be necessary for the utter defeat and mortification of Ultra- Radicalism, as well as Toryism, in „ this right- minded country, than to grapple stifflly with them , v both. Now look at the progress of the metropolitan elections which commenced yesterday, and will happily close to day ! See ,< what sort of battle has been made by the faction of the Destruc- tives ! Compare its deeds with its boisterous and mighty boastings, — see how it " rides the poll I" Never will a more decisive blow * have been struck for the cause of lawful Government,— of en- •-• lightened legislation,— of constitutional liberty,— social peace, intelligence, and morals, than that which will, we trust, within > • the next twelve hours, have driven away the revolution fiend by which this great capital and its adjacent districts have for so many months past been haunted." [ No doubt there are abundant grounds for the above expression ' of triumph; but, gentle reader, pray admire the grandiloquence.] THE BILL AND THE GOVERNMENT.—" Upon the whole, the h, country must feel satisfied with the first fruits of the Reform Bill, ,, as it has acted upon the metropolitan representation ; and an impetus as well as direction will thence, we trust, be so imparted to the political mind throughout every quarter of Great Britain, that liberal men, independent men, determined but intelligent , and safe men, may be preferred to both extremes of faction, and may impress their character upon the first Reform Parliament, ;" whose acts for the application of Reform principles must be of such inappreciable value to all future times." [ Since the days ofthe great Lord Chatham there has not been an Administration with the prospect of meeting a Parliament so ... favourable to its measures, for, as Lord Grey has shewn that he , , understands how to manage their Lordships, the Commons make . « •• the whole parliament. Some are full of apprehension lest the t, • government prove too strong, but this is a mere chimera. When , a ministry are supported on account of measures, not men, the „ • strength of the executive is the public good.] THE DUTCH WAR.—" It would appear absurd iu us to make any remarks of our own on the military operations, either of the 1 attack or the defence. ' We merely record facts as we receive ' them from our correspondents, or find them recorded in Foreign Journals. The expression of opinions, or prognostica- » tions, or hope, or alarms, we leave to others, who are perhaps I as little informed in re militari as ourselves, but in whose minds " the consciousness of comparative ignorance acts as no restraint, ' on the display of a confident pretension to superior knowledge." [ The above is a very fair specimen of the spirit in which the Fo- reign leading articles ofthe Times are written. It is to be hoped that the advice and example deducible from this will not be al- together thrown away on the great body of our public journalists.] [ From the MORNING POST.] THE DUTCH WAR.—" We trust the maritime inhabitants of Hampshire and of Cumberland will on the hustings, where they will soon meet Lord Palmerston and Sir James Graham, demand of those Ministers a severe reckoning for the lives of the gallant crew of the Snake, thrown away as they have been in an anti- na- tional cause, and in an experiment so dangerous that nothing coiild have justified it, short of national interests of the highest and most urgent importance." ,. [ This is all very fine, but unhappily for the Morning Post, and fortunately for the Right Ho 1. members, as they have been and are to be, " the Snake" is s. Je in harbour, and consequently they must be called to a " severe reckoning," on some other account.] UNPOPULARITY OF MINISTERS.—" The deplorable unpopu- '" larity of his Majesty's Ministers is placed in the strongest light *' by the proceedings of Sa. urday in the Metropolis." [ What an extraordinary kind of unpopularity it must be which causes the return in a reformed state of the Representation of sixteen members for the Metropolis in one week, every one of whom is a supporter of Ministers, including amongst the number * the Attorney- General, the judge- Advocate General, the brother " of the Lord Chancellor and the Secretary at War. Well may ?' the head ofthe Government chuckle and say if that be unpopu- ** larity, heaven save us from the reverse.] " From the borough of Southwark Ministers get one Member in the person of Mr. W. Brougham, who will be ready of course, as often as it may be necessary, to vote that black is white, or any thing else that their service may require; for is not his "" brother Lord Chancellor, and is not he Master Brougham ?" [ Nothing could have been more opportune than the illness *, which kept away from the election that very fluent but most in- .., discreet talker, W. Brougham Esq. The men of Southwark were rather mystified at finding that he got well time enough to thank them by the silent eloquence of bows when the election was over, but that while it was pending the Doctor or the Chan- cellor kept him at home, wherein the health of his body and the integrity of his political character were alike consulted.] [ From the MORNING CHRONICLE.] " Whatever illusions may be entertained by our countrymen, . an excessive respect for men not possessed of a tolerable share f of property is not one of them." [ Never did a writer generalize the results of his experience a more philosophic spirit than does the Editor of the Morning ^.. Chronicle. There cannot be a more indisputable truth than that .*'- idolatry of wealth, and its consequence, pride of purse, form ' the " besetting sin" of Englishmen.] [ From the MORNING HERALD.] WESTMINSTER.—" As to the Westminster election it may not be superfluous to say that the return of the two worthy Baronets, who treated the constituency of that populous city as if they were the Lords of a nomination borough, does not make us think better of their principles or conduct thr. n we did. We can have no respect for those men as political characters who took their early stand in public life on the ground of the extreme and im- practicable doctrines of Annual Parliaments and universal suf- frage— who took pledges of the most extravagant sort by whole- sale, and now fling contempt on all who propose that candidates should bind themselves to the sentiments of their constituents by the most moderate and reasonable obligations." [ A certain portion of the Whig aristocracy when combined with the government for the time being, must exercise prodigi- ous influence in Westminster. If the conduct of Sir John Hobhouse did really invite opposition, it is to be regretted that a man of longer standing than Col. Evans in public life, did not take the field with such a committee as Mr. Place might have organised, had he been ten years younger.] [ From the STANDARD.] CONSERVATIVE SUCCESS.—" As far as we can learn of the several polls in the country, the Conservative candidates have had the advantage every where, except at Coventry, where the freedom of election was controlled by a riotous mob." [ So said the Standard on the 11th of Dec. What will the Standard say now ? A few days have made a marvellous difference in the state of things— the Conservatives have not exactly had the " advantage everywhere."] [ From the TRUE SUN.] THE CMRONICLE.—" To- day, all is high principle— to- mor- row, all low debasement. At one moment, we are charmed with its generous enthusiasm and seemingly firm- rooted inde pendence of thought and character ; the next, are shocked by a display of qualities which the basest time- server among our contemporaries might envy. It casts its skin one morning, and the next creeps back again into its old one. It is for ever walk- ing backwards and forwards from pillar to post, and, of course, never gets on ; it blows hot and cold alternately, till it seems getting fairly out of breath. It is the grand political monster with a double voice. Its identity is here to- day and gone to- morrow. It is a shuffler upon system." [ The flattering picture we have copied above is drawn by the Editor of " the True Sun." We cannot say that it bears a very striking resemblance to the original. But the sketch is a lively one, although too much of a caricature, taken by a strong coarse hand, that prefers to perpetuate the deformities of a rival, and slurs over whatever may be good about him. TheCKro> iicfeis, upon the whole, perhaps the most consistent of all the daily Journals.] THE SPORTSMAN. " Burdett for ever I"— Vote for Hume 1"—" Support the Ballot!"—" No Corn Laws !"—" Down with monopolies !"— " Attwood and Independence I"— These are the words that have assailed our ears and eyes for the last week, to the almost total exclusion of Derby, Oaks, and Leger. In the country hunting meets have been thinly attended, and the chase pursued with less than wonted vigour. The fox- hunter, however, returns gladly to the green fields, which he enjoys with a greater zest after the noise and sawdust of the crowded hustings. His votes and interest are now all given in plumpers to Reynard, and the elective franchise is gladly resigned for the freedom of wandering through the forest— of flying over the plain. In the Emerald Isle a singular occurrence has taken place— the gentlemen of the Kilkenny Hunt having been attacked by a mob, and put to the rout. The Mayo Constitution, which gives us the account, has not entered into particulars, and we regret the circumstance, as we consider it somewhat of a stigma for a field of fox- hunters to be sent to the right- about by a pack of riotous bumpkins. Our brother Nimrods, perhaps, had good reason for their conduct— he that runs away shall live to hunt another day. Captain Rock, with his phalanxes of bludgeons and legions of shillelalis is no mean enemy, and doubtless our gallant comrades had a just apprehension of the injury a " tho- rough bred un" might sustain by having an Irish pitchfork poked into his delicate haunches. The weather during the past week lias been open, but rather too cold for a good scent. There has not been a day, however, on which hounds might not take the field, and the sport has proved at least as good as " at last quotation." Newark- road, Tuesday at Bardney, Wednesday at Cainby, Thursday at Willmson, and Saturday at Lea House— at eleven Cambridgeshire hounds- Tuesday at Stow Fox, and Saturday at white- wood— at half- past ten. ' Royston hounds- To- morrow at Wendy Lodge, and Friday at the Ship Inn, Ashurst— at half- past ten. r East Kent hounds- Tuesday at Eltham- park, and Saturday at Sele- street— at half- past ten. West Kent hounds- To- morrow at Jordan's, Wednesday at Lock's Bottom, and Friday at the Kennel— at ten. The Brighton harriers— To- morrow at Patcham, Wednesday at the Race Course, and Friday at the Dyke— at half- past ten. The Brookside harriers— To- morrow at Newmarket, Wednesday at Ashcombe and the Kennel alternately, and Friday at Telscombe Tve— at half- past ten. ' The Doddington harriers— Tuesday at Manor Farm, and Friday at Cavalry Barn— at half- past ten. Canterbury harriers- street. - To- morrow at Barliam, Thursday at Walsham- HINTS TO THE COUNTRY. DAHLIAS.— An intelligent writer in the Horticultural Regis- ter states that he has adopted the following plan for preserving Dahlia roots with such success as not to have lost a single root during five seasons. " I choose" saye he, " a fine dry day to take up the roots, and expose them for a few hours to the sun, to dry the mould on them. I then clear away all the dirt I pos- sibly can, wiping each root with a cloth, if necessary. When quite clean, I put them into a boarded closet on shelves, there being but a very thin partition between this closet and a kitchen. In a few days, I scatter thinly all over them some very dry sand ; they are then left, and only examined from time to time, to see that they do not get mouldy, which, by the bye, I never found to happen." BARLEY.— A new machine has just been invented by Mr. J. Sellar a millwright, of Longhill, in Morayshire, for beating bar- ley. It is said to possess many advantages over any machine previously used for that purpose ; it is capable of beating from ten to twelve bolls an hour, and never injures the grain as was before often the case. It does not take up much room, and is not so large as a fanner. It is impelled by the thrashing mill. The process of beating is performed by " means of strong steel knives fixed on a cylindrical block of wood, coming in contact with other knives which are stationary. The first mentioned class of knives make five hundred- revolutions in a minute, which leaves some idea of the power of the machine. The following decision is of some importance to agricultur- ists.— A gentleman engaged in business in Glasgow occupies a farm, with house and offices, in the county of Renfrew ; the surveyor rated the house as liable to the house- tax, on the whim- sical ground that as the tenant did business in town, the house could not be said to be wholly appropriated to the use of the farm. The tenant appealed to the commissioners, founded on the ex- emption in the act of all farm houses. The commissioners sus- tained the appeal. The surveyor being dissatisfied, demanded a case for the opinion of the barons of the Exchequer. Their Lordships have affirmed the decision. At a late meeting of the Medico- Botanical society, Mr. Bur- nett, in a lecture on the algce stated that an immense income was derived by Noblemen and landed proprietors from that once useless sea weed ; that 20,000 tons of kelp, at 20?. a ton, were prepared in Scotland and in England. A very large trade is also carried on in it on the western coast of Ireland, particularly in the coun ties of Mayo, Clare, and Galway. BRUTAL OUTRAGE AND MURDER.— On Thursday evening, as Miss Mary Ann Brookes, residing in the Vauxhall- road, was passing down St. Martin's- lane, she was attacked by some vil- lains, who endeavoured to rob her. The police came up, but the thieves had made their escape. The unfortunate lady, who is 72 years of age, was much hurt. The constables finding that she was extremely ill, conveyed her to the Westminster Hospi- tal in a state of insensibility. She was promptly attended to by the medical gentlemen of the establishment, but without effect: she expired in about twenty minutes. There were several bruises on the body, and one of the eyes was quite black. The un- fortunate lady bore an exemplary character, and for upwards of thirty years kept a respectable boarding school at Pimlico, which she was compelled to relinquish on account of age and infirmi- mities. Information was immediately forwarded to Mr. Gell, the Coroner for Westminster, aud an inquest will be held on the body without delay. SPORTING LITERATURE. THE AMERICAN SPORTING MAGAZINE : OCTOBER, 1832. This is a slack number; embellished ( so to say) by a print of " Indians shooting wild fowl," after our old friend Rindisbacher. Jonathan, who is notorious for " going the whole hog," seems to have almost as vivid an attachment to the whole cow. " Take," says he, " a fine round of beef, four ounces of saltpetre, three- quarters of an ounce of allspice, rub it well on the beef, and let it stand 24 hours, then rub in as much common salt as will salt it." Then " lay it by twelve days"—" put it into a pan"— " baste it with suet"— aud so on ; when it becomes " most ex- cellent," and is called " sportsman's beef."—" P. S. A slice of it in a fox- hunter's pocket stands but a slim chance when he comes to a bad loss, or his game is killed, or goes to earth at nine or ten o'clock." Only fancy, gentle reader, a field of Meltonians sitting under a hedge, during a cast, cutting away at huge beef sandwiches 1 or at ten o'clock at night, huddling to- gether at a rabbit hole, handing round the mustard- pot, without which the sandwiches, it is evident, would be unmasticable. But Jonathan's crack writer this month is a gentleman who holds forth upon " taming and tickling fish." " Mr. Editor," says he, " the following communication, I fear, will severely test your credulity ; but the facts are so well sustained by the un- dersigned gentlemen of character and veracity, that scepticism itself would be metamorphosed into full credence. " A gentleman, Mr. , of Cumberland County, Va. ( Vir- ginia) has a pond well replenished with what are denominated here James River, or North Carolina chub ; they are a voracious fish in disposition, like the pike or jack; they feed on almost every kind of fish, which they devour greedily, and exterminate like pirates every fish that dares to cut the liquid waters in their sovereign and aquatic jurisdiction." Jonathan then describes how Mr. Thingamy whistles up his chub to the top of the liquid waters, and feeds them " with min- nows, frogs, worms, & c.;" after which, he adds, " when they are disposed to ruminate he can titillate their sides, while they are suspended, apparently dozing, on the surface of the pond. This singular phenomenon approaches near the fulfilment of the prediction contained in Holy Writ:— " That the steer and lion at one crib shall meet, And harmless serpents lick the pilgrim's feet; The smiling infant in its hands shall take The crested basilisk and speckled snake," & c. '' They are a very delicious pan fish, and are much esteemed in Virginia by epicures and amateurs of all good things. " WILLIAM D. POPE. " The facts set forth in the above communication contain the whole truth. " BENJAMIN FRANCISCO, M. D. " SAMUEL WALKER, all of Va," What an incredulous boy Jonathan must be ! ANATOMY OF THE HORSE. The first part of Dr. Gurlt's excellent work on the anatomy of the horse, has appeared in our language through a translation by Mr. Willimott, member of the University of Berlin. It is illus- trated by thirty- five folio plates, neatly lithographed, and exhi- biting various branches of equestrian anatomy. To the vete- rinary student this work will be of incalculable value, and to the lover of horses in general it offers much information and amuse- ment. The publisher is Mr. Schloss, well known for his various ana- tomical publications, as well of the human as of the animal frame. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE ELECTIONS. The Standard of last evening has the following paragraph :— " We feel great satisfaction in stating, that a Conservative of high respectability, and well known in the county of Middlesex, will be put in nomination next Monday at Brentford, to repre- sent the county in Parliament. No doubt can be entertained of his success." Mr. Alderman Venables has withdrawn himself as a candidate for the representation of the eastern division of the county of Surrey. Mr. John Lainson has offered himself to the electors in his room. Mr. Sadler has consented to be put in nomination for the hundred of Bassetlaw. It is certain that Mr. Ewart and Lord Sandon will be returned for Liverpool. MEMBERS RETURNED. Northamptonshire ( Sou.)— Al- thorp, Cartwright Oldham— Fielden, Cobbett Rochdale— Fenton Rutland— Noel, Heathcote Rye— C. B. Curties Sunderland— Chaytor, Bar- rington Warrington— Hornby Weymouth— Buxton, Johnston Whitby— Chapman Aylesbury— Rickford, Hanmer Berwick— Donkin, Blake Blackburn— Fielden, Turner Bury St. Edmund's— Fitzroy, Jerrnyn Carmarthen— Yelverton, Jones Devonport— Grey, Codrington Halifax— Wood, Briggs Leeds— Marshall, Macaulay Macclesfield— Ryle, Brockle- hurst Newark— Gladstone, Handley NOMINATIONS FOR SCOTCH ELECTIONS.— Aberdeen City and County, Dec. 20 ; Ayr ( Fife) district of boroughs, 26 ; Ayr County, 24 ; County of Stirling, 21 ; Cupar ( Fife) district of bo- roughs, 19; Edinburgh and Glasgow Cities, 17 ; Edinburgh County, 19 ; Fife County, 26 ; Haddington County, 19 ; Kirkaldy district of boroughs, 27; Lanark County, 20 ; Leith district of boroughs, 18 ; Montrose district of boroughs, 19 ; Perth County, 25 ; Stirling district of boroughs, 17. IRELAND. According to the latest accounts from Dublin, Mr. O'Connell and Mr. Ruthven are at the head of the poll. Their opponents, Sir George Rich and Mr. West, are losing ground every hour ; and the return of the two repealers is considered certain. The candidates for the representation of Trinity College are Mr. Shaw, Mr. Ponsonby, Mr. Ciampton ( Solicitor General), and Mr. Lefroy. It is rumoured that Colonel Evans, who has failed at Rye, is to be re- introduced to Parliament by Mr. O'Connell, and that Mr. Morgan O'Connell is to retire from the county of Meath in order to make room for him. Colonel Evans is, we believe, an Irishman. LAW NOTICES, TO- MORROW. LORD CHANCELLOR— Takes motions on Monday. No list out. VICE CHANCELLOR— Free v. Green— Ashton v. Anderton— Judd v. Hobbs— Palmer v. Palmer— Leventhorpe v. Smith, petitions.— Taylor v. Hibbert— Eagle v. Eagle— Golding v. Ray— Bennett v. Brettell— Haynes v. Ditto— Attorney- General v. Skinners' Company— Luard v. Herrington— Hodgkinson v. Barron— Pollard v. Ethrington— Carrington v. Corneck— Emanuel v. Emanuel— Bulmer v. Jay— Blake v. Smith. , MASTER OF THE ROLLS— Stephenson v. Dawson— Bedford v. Milli- gan— Harris v. Greenwood, to be mentioned. Wilson v. Moore— Attor- ney- General v. Lloyd— Read v. Ray— Bates v. Bonnor— Scarman v. Scarman— Comber v. Tulley— Birkett v. Birkett— Thompson v. Lawrence — Kennard v. Maxfield— Abbott v. Spicer— Allen v. Stone— Rogers v. Arthur. THE TURF. BETTING AT TATTERSALL'S. The following is as near as possible a correct quotation of the average odds against all the horses now in the betting ; owing to the elections, however, and the consequent absence of many influential subscribers, business at present is extremely dull and uninteresting;— DERBY. 27 to 1 agst Ishmael 84 to 1 agst Glaucus 9 to 1 agst Revenge 11 to I agst Forester 12 to 1 agst Prince Llewellyn 16 to 1 agst Muley colt 17 to 1 agst c out of Moses' dam 20 to 1 agst Bravo 25 to 1 agst Divan to 1 agst Y Petuaria colt 28 to I agst Marinella 28 to 1 agst Emmeline 33 to 1 agst Boscobel 33 to 1 agst Margrave 40 to 1 agst Anglesea THE LONDON GAZETTE. [ From Tuesday's Gazette.] BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. R. Anderson, Salford, Lancashire, merchant— J. Lancashire, Draycott Field, Derbyshire, miller. BANKRUPTS. J. Baby, Darlington, Durham, grocer— T. Baines, Piccadilly, seeds- man— J. Crooke, Burnley-, Lancashire, ironmonger— J. F. ld, Walsall, Staffordshire, innholder— J. Garratt, Muggerhanger, Bedfordshire, vic- tualler— W. and W. Harris, Liverpool, linen- drapers— W. Peters, Old- ham, wine- merchant— G. F. Stratton, Fulham, pipe- manufacturer— HUNTING MEETS. The Herefordshire hounds— Tuesday at Lugwardine Village, and Fri- day at Dinedor Mill— at ten. The East Sussex hounds— To- morrow Exceat- bridge— quarter to 11. Mr. Meynell's hounds— Tuesday at Hoarcross, Thursday at Sudbury Coppice, and Saturday at Blythbury— at half- past ten. The Shropshire hounds— To- morrow at the Five mile stone, Bass- cliurch- road, Wednesday at High Hatton, Friday at Eaton Mascott, and Saturday at the Citadel— at half- past ten. Mr. Wickstead's hounds— Tuesday at Wistaston, and Friday at Harte- low— at half- past ten. The Albrigliton hounds— Tuesday at Clent Kennel, Thursday at Rans Dans, and Saturday at Bunker's- hill— at half- past ten. The Cheshire hounds— To- morrow at Marbury, near Northwick, Wed- nesday at Wilksley Village, Thursday at Wrenbury Village, and Satur- day at Highway Side— at half- past ten. Somerset. Subscription hounds— Tuesday at Buncombe Bottom, and Friday at Cockle Coombe. Mr. A. Smith's hounds— To- morrow at Biddesdon, Tuesday at Col- lingbourn Shears, and Friday at Oare- hill. Mr. Horlock's hounds— Tuesday at Freshford, and Friday at Rowde- ford- house— at half- past ten. Mr. C. Brock's fox- hounds— Tuesday at Frieze- wood, and Friday at Croombe Perry- wood. Mr. Codrington's hounds— To- morrow at Great Ridge, Pest- wood Corner— at ten. Mr. l'ortman's hounds— To- morrow at Cricklington. The Somerset Vale hounds— Tues. at Dillington- house— at half- past 10. Lord Harewood's hounds— To- morrow at Clap Gate, Wednesday at Hook Moor, and Friday at Wighill- viUage— at ten. Badsworth hounds— Tuesday at Barnsdale Bar, Thursday at Brods- worth- hall, and Saturday at Badsworth- hall— at half- past ten. Lord Peters' hounds— Tuesday at Seacombe Pound, " Wednesday at Skales Park, and Saturday at Furneaux Pelham. Essex Union hounds— Tuesday at Norsey Wood, Thursday at Galley- wood Common, and Saturday at Laindon Hills— at half- past ten. The Cottesmore hounds— To- morrow at Stocken Hall, Tuesday at Wing, and Thursday at Market Overton— at a quarter before eleven. Lord Fitzwilliam's hounds— To- morrow at Elton Toll- bar, Wednesday at Abbotts Repton, and Thursday at Castor Harglands— at ten. Lord Yarborough's hounds— To- morrow at Aylesby Mill, Wednesday at Melton High Wood, and Thursday at Clasby Wood— at eleven. Tickham hounds— Tuesday at Lenham, and Saturday at Kingsdown Church— at eleven. Mr. Mure's hounds— Tuesday at Alpheton Lion— at half- past ten. Sir R. Sutton's hounds— To- morrow at the Half- way house on the [ From Friday's Gazette.] INSOLVENTS. J. Yorke, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, miller— G. Yorke, Cheshunt, miller. BANKRUPTCIES ENLARGED. T. F. Lucas, Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, stage- coach- proprietor — J. Lupton and J. Hudson, Wakefield, Yorkshire, commission- wool- agents. BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. A. Christie, Sheffield, engineer— R. Hamilton, Fountain- court, Bishops- gate- street, wine- merchant. BANKRUPTS. G. Ball, Wood- street, Cheapside, artificial- flower- manufacturer— J. Hook, Great Alie- street, Goodman's- fields, flour- dealer— H. Savage, Oxford- street, cheesemonger— M. Newland, Parliament- street, West- minster, broker— F. Whitmore, Lambeth, brewer— A. Townley, Stock- port, Cheshire, bookseller— J. Lingford, Nottingham, ironmonger— H. Sheen, Leicester, grocer— J. Frost and J. Nelson, HuddersfiehL York- shire, manufacturer of fancy goods— J. Fallows, jun., Oldham, grocer— A. Emmett, Holden Wood, Lancashire, cotton- spinner— S. Carter, Farn- ham, Surrey, surgeon— T. Surflen, Abchurch- lane, wine- merchant— J. Blake, Norton Folgate, chemist— J. Sharman, Birmingham, grocer. CORN EXCHANGE, DEC. 14. There is but little business doing in the Wheat trade this mornimr, and the market may be quoted as on Wednesday. In Barley and Oats the trade is heavy, but Wednesday's quotations are nominally those of this day. In Beans, Pease, and other articles of grain there is nothin<* to notice. AVERAGE PRICE FOR THE WEEK ENDED DEC. 7. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Imperial weekly average 54s 7d 31s 7d 18s 10J Six weeks'ditto, which regulates duty. 53s 4d 30s 10d.... 18s lOd Duty on Foreign Corn 33s 8d 16s lOd 19s 9d SMITHFIELD, DEC. 14. There was s very fair show of fat cattle at this day's market. The qualities are extremely fine, but the number not so great BS might have been expected. Some very curious Scots average 4s. 6d. per stone. For the coarser descriptions of Beef there is not a very good demand. ( Per stone of 81b., sinking the offal.) Beef 3s 4d to 4s 6d I Veal 4s 4d to 5s 4d Mutton 4s Od to 4s lOd | Pork 4s Od to 4s lOd AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. ( Computed from the returns in the week ended Dec. 11.) Brown or Muscovado Sugar ^ cwt 30s OJd Exclusive of the import duties thereon. PRICES OF THE PUBLIC FUNDS. Bank Stock Reduced Three per Cents Consols, Three per Cents Consols for Account Consols, 34 per Cents Reduced 34 per Cents New 34 per Cents New 4 per Cents Long Annuities India Bonds Exchequer Bills Mon. Tues. Wed. Thur. Frid. Satur. 187 186i — 187 186 1871 82, j 823 82£ 825 834 83} 83J 83| 835 83? 84i 84} — 90J — . — 90} 90} 901 901 90J 903 91i 1001 100} 1003 1001 1014 161 161 161 161 163 16} 17 18 18 18 20 21 26 27 27 28 31 31 LONDON : Printed by A. W. GRAHAM, Savoy Precinct, and Published by him at the Office, No. 2, WELLINGTON- STREKT, STRAND; where ( only) Advertisements, and all Communications addressed to the Editor, are received.