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Date of Article: 23/12/1832
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THE TOWN IT © . iUHDAY, DECEMBER 23, Price Id. JJIORAMA, REGENT'S iicaouij vuuutuvt • NOTICE is hereby given to all pers* tracting to supply the following Artie! Cambridge ( including Hants, the town of New- Isle of Man, market), Chester, Cornwall ( including Scilly), Derby, Esaex ( exclusive of Tilbury Fort), York, North & South Wales, As also Bread to the Household Troops in London and its Vi- cinity. - PARK.— The attention of the Public is respectfully invited to the Two new and attractive Pictures now exhibiting at the above establishment, viz. PARIS, taken from Montmartre, by M. Daguerre ; and The celebrated CAMPO SANTO of Pisa, by M. Bouton. Open daily, from Ten till dusk. ARMY CONTRACTS. COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT, Treasury Chambers, 1st December, 1832, t desirous of Con• _ Articles for the use of the Army, viz.— BREAD, To his Majesty's Land Forces in cantonments, quarters, and barracks, in the undermentioned counties and island :— Rutland, Worcester, Kent ( includimg Til- bury Fort, m the county of Essex), Leicester, Middlesex, Monmouth, Norfolk, MEAT. To his Majesty's Land Forces in cantonments, quarters, and barracks, in the undermentioned counties and island :— Cornwall, Lincoln, North & South Wales, Cumberland, Nottingham, And in the several Derby, Stafford, Counties m North Devon, Worcester, Britain. Isle of Man, York, OATS, To his Majesty's Cavalry and Artillery Horses in cantonments and quarters, in the undermentioned counties :— Cambridge ( including Essex, Norfolk, Newmarket), Hants, and Isle of Northumberland, Chester, Wight, Suffolk, Derby, Lancaster, York. FORAGE, viz.— OATS, HAY, and STRAW, to his Majesty's Cavalry and Artillery Horses in barracks, in the undermentioned counties in South Britain Cornwall, Nottingham, York, Lancaster, Suffolk, And in the several Middlesex, ' Sussex, ' Counties in North Norfolk, Warwick, Britain. That the- deliveries are- to commerce on and for the 1st day of February, next; that Proposals in writing, sealed . up and marked " Tender for Army Supplies," will be received at this office on or before Wednesday, the 9th' day of January; but none will be received after " eleven o'clock on that day. . Proposals must be made separately for each county and island, ex- cept for the counties comprising North and South Wales, all of which must be ii c'uded in one Tender, as also the several counties in North Britain; and each Proposal must have the letter which is annexed to the Tender properly filled up by two persons of known property engaging to become bound with the party tendering in the amount stated in the printed particulars, for the due performance of the contract; and no Proposal will be noticed unless made on a printed Tender, and the prices expressed in words at length. And should it so happen, that during the continuance of the contract no Troops should be supplied by virtue- of the same, the amount of the stamps on the- contract and bond, paid in the first instance by the Contractor, will be refunded to him. . . . • . N. B. It is particularly desired that persons wishing to tender will not make use of any forms but those recently printed, which may be had upon application at this office. MENTAL DISEASE.— COYVPER- HOUSE, OLD BROMPTON.— The Friends of Persons whose aberration of mind requires watchful care and kind attention, are invited to in- spect this Establishment, which is conducted on a liberal and indulgent system. Moral management, united with domestic comfort, affording occupation and amusement, supersedes all coercive treatment.— Spa- cious grounds of unequalled beauty and extent at such an easy distance from town. SYMMONS and DOBLES, Surgeons. UNINTELLIGIBLE WRITING— How very frequently it occurs in Newspapers, & c., that the only answer to correspondents is, their letters are " unintelligible." In Six Lessons, on J. GREIG'S mode of instruction, any person may be ena- bled to write, not only plain and intelligibly, but in a manner truly elegant, and with the greatest facility and despatch. Even those who write what may be termed a good hand, derive much benefit from J. G.' s peculiar method. Specimens to be seen at his residence, 75, St. Paul's Church- yard. Second Edition, published and sold by J. Greig, price 5s. A NEW SYSTEM OF WRITING, containing 33 peculiar ex- amples, with instruction, on so plain and easy a method as may be learned in a week, by practising an hour or two each day. Just published, in royal 8vo. price 11. 2s. in morocco; with India proofs, before letters ( only 100 copies), it. 4s. URNER'S ANNUAL TOUR; containing 21 beautifully- finished Plates— Views on the River Loire— from Drawings by J. M. W. TURNER, Esq. R. A.; with Descrip- tive Letterpress by LEITCH RITCHIE, Esq. London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman. G L A S G O W L O T T E R Y.— By Authority of Parliament. By virtue and in pursuance of the Act 1st and 2d William IV. cap. 8. the Shares of the Glasgow Improvement Company become Tickets or Chances in a Lottery, for the distribution of the property, funds, and assets of the said Company. The Commissioners under the Act hereby give notice, that they will, ON THE 17TH APRIL NEXT, Draw and distribute, in the manner of a State Lottery, a portion of the property, funds, and assets of the said Company, in 2,069 lots or prizes, of various amounts of value, among the holders of the 10,000 Shares, Letter B, numbered from 1 to 10,000. The Lots comprise THREE PRIZES OF .€ 10,000 EACH, Besides other Prizes of the value of 4? 2,000, .£ 1,200, ^ 1,000, ^' 800, j£" 500, j£ 400, ; 6* 250, .£ 150, ^ lOO, ^ 50, £ 20, .£ 10, and £ 5, As set forth in the Schemes at large, which may be had gratis at all the Lottery Offices in London, and of their Agents m the Country, In order that the public may be assured of the intrinsic value of every Prize Lot in the Scheme, the Lottery Office- keepers are guaranteed in giving to every fortunate holder of a Prize Share, the option of taking the pro- perty or receiving THE VALUE IN MONEY, As stated in the Scheme, subject only to a commission of five per cent, on Prizes above 100/., to cover the risk and expense of sale, and the usual small discount, if the money be received immediately after the drawing. By this option every inconvenience is obviated, that might have been anticipated from the acquisition of distant property. The Shares divided agreeably to the provisions of the Act, are now on sale at the different Lottery Offices in London. ALB ION. INSURAN CE. OFFICE, 21st December, 1832, Notice is hereby given, that, pursuant to a Resolution of the general Court of Proprietors of the 25th of October last, a DIVIDEND of Seven per Cent, on the Instalment made will be payable on the Shares held by each Proprietor on the 25th inst., and that such Dividend may be re ceived at the Company's House in New Bridge- street, Blackfnars, on Tuesday, the 1st of January next, or on any subsequent day ( Sundays excepted), between the hours of eleven and three. • EDWIN CHARLTON, Secretary. LB ION INSURA N C E O F F I C E, NEW BRIDOE- STREET, Blackfriars. Instituted in 1805.— Capital, ONE MILLION. The Directors being of opinion that the certain and immediate advan- tage afforded by a low Rate of Premium is more beneficial to persons effecting Life Insurances than the remote and contingent prospect of a Bonus dependant upon Profits, Insurances are undertaken by the Albion Company on reduced terms, giving to the parties insuring an annual saving in the Premium, or an equivalent increase in the sum insured. The annual payment usually required, at the age of 25, for an Insurance of l, 000i. by Companies holding out the prospect of a Bonus derivable from profits, would insure 1200J. with the Albion Company, free from all contingency, and payable whenever the death might happen. The Bates will be found very advantageous for securing tem- porary Loans; prospective Bonusses from other Companies; and all objects to which Insurances for limited periods are applicable. Losses are paid . in thirty days after sufficient proof of death; and every facility is afforded, by which the interest and - convenience of the public may be promoted. EDWIN CHARLTON, Secretary. BELGRAVE RIDING- SCHOOL, ( adjoining the Fantechnicon), MOTCOMB- STREET, Belgrave- square.— Mr. DAVIS begs to offer his respectful acknowledgments to the Nobility an d Gentry for the liberal patronage he has received, and has the honour to inform them, that his RIDING- SCHOOL IS OPEN FOR THE WINTER SEASON, where Ladies . and Gentlemen are instructed scientifically to manage their Horses. Mr. Davis also informs his Friends and tlie Public that, in conse- quence of a number of Gentlemen having expressedit wish to receive EVENING INSTRUCTION, he proposes lighting up the Riding- School twice a week for that purpose, the subscription for which will be Three Guineas per Quarter. Mr. Davis has well trained Ponies for the use of Juvenile Pupils during the Vacation. Horses broken for every purpose, and bought or sold by commission. Cards of the terms to be had at the Riding- School. TO NOBLEMEN AND GENTLEMEN.- Tlie absolute fact of Gentlemen submitting to pay the high charges of their Tailors, because there has been but few who could make a Gentlemanly Coat, and those few thus monopolising the patron- age of most of the Nobility and Gentry, is a matter beyond any dispute. But this monopoly has considerably decreased, since H. and G. FLETCHER have, for some years past, produced Coats, & c. & c., which cannot possibly be distinguished by the most critical eye; even of a Brummel, either in style or materials, from those of any eminent Tailor in the neighbourhood of Clifford- street or St. James's, at very little more than half their charges, yet obtain a fair Tradesman's profit. The extent of patronage bestowed upon G. and H. F. is sufficie* t proof of this fact; and anxious that Gentlemen may calculate the very considerable reduction which can be made in their annual expenditure, they have the honour to submit for inspection the following list of suffi- ciently compensating prices. For Cash only. H To- morrow will be published, OOD'S COMIC ANNUAL FOR 1833. Charles Tilt, 86, Fleet- street. T Just published, price 21s. in morocco; large paper, with India proofs' 2.1.12s. 6d. HEATH'S BOOK OF BEAUTY for 1833; with 19 beautifully- finished Engravings ( 18 Female fancy Por- traits and a Vignette Title), from Drawings by the first Artists. The Literary Department by L. E. L. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman. Of whom may be had, HEATH'S PICTURESQUE ANNUAL for 1833 ; from Drawings by Stanfield. Small, 21s.; large, 21. 10s. The KEEPSAKF. for 1833. Small, 21s.; large, 11. 12s. 6d. A few of the early Volumes of these Works can still be had. rpHE QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. XCVI. will be published TO- MORROW. CONTENTS': I. On the Philosophy of Apparitions— Demonology— Witchcraft- Natural Magic. II. The Poor Laws and Surplus Labour, and their Mutual Reaction. III. Public Carriages— The Road. IV. On the Phenomena of Life, and the Mysteries of the Human Frame. By Dr. Stevens. V. Zohrab the Hostage. VI. The History of Charlemagne, By G. P. R. James, Esq. VII. Memoires de Louis XVIII. VIII. Sir Edward Seward's Shipwreck, and extraordinary and highly interesting events in his Life. IX.— 1. On the Statistics and Political Institutions of the United States, with Observations on the Ecclesiastical System of America, her Sources of Revenue, & c. X. La Fayette et la Revolution de 1830. Par B. Sarrans. XI.— 1. How It Must Work. By LordTeynham. 2. Church Reform. By Lord Henley. John Murray, Albemarle- street. 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. In prosecution of this plan, we earnestly call upon those of our countrymen who are favourable to the spread of plain knowledge in this most interesting branch of science, to assist us by the communication of such facts as fall within their observation. Communications for the Editor, and Books for Review, to be left with the Publisher, William Orr, 14, Paternoster- row ; Mr. Chambers, Han- over- street, Edinburgh; or Messrs Curry and Co. Dublin.— Of wh » n may be had, In One Volume, 18mo. with upwards of 100 Illustrations, price 2s 6d. THE ALPHABET OF BOTANY, for the use of Beginners, being Vol. II. of Professor Rennie's " Scientific Alphabets." c £ s. d. Dress Coats, blue or black .3166 Ditto, do., any other colour. .3 6 0 Frock ditto, blue or black, skirts lined with silk 4 18 0 Ditto, do., any other colour. .4 5 0 Trowsers, blue or black 1 14 0 Ditto, any other colour 1 10 6 Waistcoats 0 15 6 Great Coats 4 5 0 1 s. d. 5 0 VERY BEST LIVERY. £ A Footman's Suit complete, with sleeves to Waistcoat and Velveteen Breeches... 4 A Suit, with Kerseymere Breeches 4 10 6 A ditto, with hair plush do.. 4 15 6 A Stable or Working Dress.. 1 4 6 A Footman's extra double- milled Great Coat, with large Cape 3 13 6 * » * Gold or Silver Lace, and Crested Buttons, charged the wholesale price. Combermere Great Coats and Frocks, Cloaks, Shooting Jackets, Ladies' Riding Habits, & c. of the best qualities, upon a similar scale of prices. COPY OF A LETTER FROM SIR GERARD NOEL, BART, Deputy Lord Lieutenant of the County of Rutland. " Chandos- street, Cavendish- square, July 12,1831. " SIR,— I am very well pleased indeed with the good fitting of tbe Deputy Lord Lieutenant's Dress, and your expedition in preparing that and the other Outfit belonging to it, and otherwise, when bringing it home, to the adjustment of it: with high approbation in all these mat- ters, am gratified in sending the cheque ( enclosed) in payment of the account. - Yours, & c. ( Signed) ' To Mr. Fletcher, 33, New Bond- street." " GERARD NOEL; J Thirty Guineas. H E R DEPUTY LORD LIEUTENANT Coat and Epaulettes Pantaloons, with Lace Cocked Hat and Feather Sword, Knot, and Belt Sash and Stock Under the sanction of many General Officers, they continue to supply Regimental Coatees, Epaulettes, Chaco Caps, Swords, and every neces- sary appointment, upon much lower terms than any other house. To Officers joining or exchanging Regiments this will ensure a very considerable reduction in the expenses, besides the great convenience of obtaining the Outfit at one Establishment. GENTLEMEN'S CONTRACTS. Three Suits per annum 15 Guineas. Four Suits, do. do £ 20 The Old Suits to be returned. G. & H. FLETCHER, Army Clothiers, & c. No. 33, New Bond- street. NEW AND INTERESTING WORKS, Just Published by RICHARD BENTLEY, New Burlington- street, ( successor to Henry Colburn.) MEMOIRS AND LETTERS OF APT. SIR WILLIAM HOSTE, Bart., R. A. K. C. B. K. M. T. By Lady HARRIET HOSTE. 2 vols. 8vo. with fine Portrait. II. MRS. HALL'S NEW ROMANCE. In three vols, post 8vo. THE BUCCANEER, A Story of the Protectorate. By the Author of " Sketches of Irish Character," & c. " A work of very high merit, and must rank with the best fictions in our language."— Atlas. III. THE LIFE OF A SAILOR, By a Captain in the Royal Navy. 3 vols. IV. THE AMERICAN STAGE. By WILLIAM DUNLAP, Esq. Author of " Memoirs of George Frederick Cooke." '• It deserves to be popular, and treats of an amusement and recrea- tion in which nine- tenths of civilised mankind take pleasure."— Literary Gazette. V. SECOND EDITION OF ZOHRAB. By the Author of " Hajji Baba." 3 vols. " Novels of this stamp and character are valuable additions to litera- ture."— Eraser's Magazine. VI. SIR DAVID BAIRD'S LIFE. By THEODORE HOOK, Esq. Including liis Private Papers, Correspondence, & c. 2 vols. 8vo. with Embellishments. " This work must rank with the best biographies extant."— United Service Journal, December. VII. VISIT TO HOLLAND, BELGIUM, AND GERMANY. By Sir A. B. FAULKNER. 2 vols. " The production of a gentleman who is able to appreciate justly and describe cleverly the objects presented to his attention, during a tour of considerable interest."— Literary Gazette. VIII. Complete in one vol. beautifully printed, and illustrated similarly to the Waverley Novels, price 6s. FLEETWOO 1). By GODWIN. With a new Introduction by the Author, containing Anecdotes of his Literary Life, written expressly for this edition, forming the current volume of " The Standard Novels." IX. The Fourth Volume of the English Translation of the MEMOIRS OF MADAME JUNOT. ( Duchess of ABRANTES.) Written by Herself. " No where do we get a nearer or more intelligible view of Napoleon as a man,"— Spectator. And, in a few days, in three vols. RECOLLECTIONS OF A CHAPERON. Edited by Lady DACRE. 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 the 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 bein » 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 ot 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. E WAG X Lord B—, who in cock- fighting took great delight, Once offered this wager to lay :— That when put down together the cocks should not . fight, But run from each other away ; For that he a greater attraction would bring . Than they to each other would prove, A charm so alluring, that round the wide ring They should follow where'er he should move. The wager accepted, the cocks trimm'd and grae'd, ( What a concourse encircled the ground!) And they were no sooner upon the turf placed, Than each cock turn'd suddenly round. They viewed not each other, but made a short stand, Then swift at his Lordship they flew: ( His boots were by Warren's jet Blacking japann'd And surprisingly shone to the view). . The secret was out; but the wager was won, l'or the image of each was display'd, In the high polish'd boots that so brilliantly shone, And each cock attack'd his own shade. Then shouts of applause eclio'd loud from the throng, To his Lordship's sagacity due; But if praise to lus Lordship's invention belong, Warren ! what must be given to you ? For without your jet Blacking his boots had not shone, Nor have had such a lustre to boast, The humour had failed, he the bet had not won, And the sport of the day had been lost. Each Nobleman present then quickly declared Warren's Blacking alone he would use, And each one to Warren as quickly repaired, To buy his japan for their shoes. This easy- shining and brilliant BLACKING, prepared by ROBERT WARKEN, 30, Strand, London; and sold in every town in the kingdom, Liquid, in Bottles, and Paste Blacking, in Pots, at 6d., 12cl., and 18d. each. Be particular to inquire for Warren's, 30, Strand: all others are counterfeit. THE COURT MAGAZINE AND BURKE'S PORTRAIT GALLERY OF DISTINGUISHED FF. MALES. On the 1st of January, 1833, uniform with Lodge's and the Society's " Galleries of Portraits," Part I., to be continued every fortnight, until completed in 24 Parts, each containing three fine Portraits, price only 2s. 6d. THE P O II T RAIT GALL E R Y OF DISTINGUISHED FEMALES. Including Beauties of the Courts of George IV. and William IV., with Memoirs of John Burke, Esq. Author of " The Peerage and Baronet- age." These engraved portraits will be produced under the immediate care- and superintendence of Mr. Cochran, tlie eminent engraver, from pictures by Lawrence, Jackson, Shee, Pickersgill, Chalon, & c. They will represent various members of almost every Noble Family in the kingdom, and the Royal Families of England and France. Orders for the above are received by every Bookseller and Printseller in the iT- * t" d Kingdom. And also for Vol. I. jt. . published, price One Guinea, profusely embellished with finely engraved Portraits, Landscapes, and Costumes, of T H E C O U R T M A G A Z I N 15. Edited by the Hon. Mrs. NORTON. In concluding the first volume of the " Court Magazine" the proprie- tors take leave to express a hope that they have satisfactorily redeemed the pledge they gave on commencing this publication. The encourage- ment which they liave received by an immense increase of sale; the spirit of competition which their successful efforts has aroused, and the favourable testimonies of the public press, are evidences; strong and palpable, of the general improvement of the " Court Magazine." They have no little pride in referring to its literature when it can be truly said that many among the brightest talents of this country have contributed to enrich the pages of the present volume. The embel- lished portion of the work they believe to be now brought to a higher degree of perfection than ever; and in addition to the Portrait Gallery of the Female Nobility, and the coloured Engravings of the Month, they have completed . their arrangements with Mr. Darnell, the Royal Acade- mician and many eminent engravers for supplying a splendid series of Landscape Views of the Seats of the Nobility and Royal Residences, to be continued every alternate month. As a work of literature and art, the proprietors can with confidence rank the " Court Magazine" as one of the most attractive and cheap publications of modern times, and they take this opportunity of reminding the public of the approaching New Year as a favourable time for becoming subscribers.— Orders re- ceived by every Bookseller and Newsman throughout the kingdom, by whom it is supplied monthly. Published by Edward liull, 36, Holies- street, Cavendish- square. NEW SPLENDIDLY ILLUSTRATED WORKS OF INTEREST, Just completed, and now ready for delivery. BATTY'S VIEWS' OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES of EUROPE, embracing Oporto, Lisbon, Brussels, Ant- werp, Edinburgh, & c. from original paintings by Lieut.- Colonel BATTY. With Kdy Plates, detailing the name of each object depicted, and the points of view presented. Imperial octavo 4/., extra cloth boards and lettered. Royal quarto, four guineas; proofs 61. 10s.; proofs, India, 91. imperial quarto proofs, 91.; proofs, India, 10 guineas : with Etch- ings, 131. 10s. The plates are all engraved by the most eminent engravers— Pye, Cooke, Goodall, Millar, Le Keux, & c., and the work ranges in size with every book of scenery published. Entirely complete in one volume. t„. • t, • • y II- .• '.. CONEY'S ANCIENT CATHEDRALS. ENGRAVINGS of the most superb SPECIMENS of the CATHE DRALS, HOTELS DE VILLE, and other PUBLIC BUILDINGS of Celebrity, in France, Holland, Gennany, and Italy. The drawings and engravings executed by Mr. John Coney, with descriptions in English and French. This beautiful work is designed to present the most admired specimens of Gothic Architecture on the Continent, upon a scale in which their peculiar beauty may be fully seen. It is printed in Imperial'folio, the size of each Engraving being 20 inches by 16. By express permission, dedicated to liis Majesty. The work complete in one volume, extra cloth boards and lettered JO 0 A few copies worked on India paper ditto 14 14 0 III. LANDSEER'S ANIMALS, FROM THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. A SERIES OF CHARACTERISTIC SKETCHES OF ANIMALS principally from the Zoological Gardens, drawn from the life and en. graved by THOMAS LANDSEKR. Containing sixty- four Engravings, and a beautiful Vignette View of the Zoological Gardens. The engravings are accompanied by pleasing and valuable descriptive Notices of the various Animals portrayed, by JOHN HENRY BARROW, Esq. And the work is dedicated, by express permission, to the Zoological Society. Royal quarto, complete, extra cloth boards is 6 . Proofs on India paper, imperial quarto 5 00 IV. TURNER'S VIEWS IN ENGLAND AND WALES. PicTUREsauE VIEWS IN ENGLAND AND WALES, from drawings by J. M. W. TURNER, Esq. It. A., with descriptive and his- toric Illustrations, by H. E. LLOYD, Esq. This very splendid and beau- tiful work, which lias engrossed much of the highest talent in art this country has produced, will be comprised in the limit of two volumes, the first of which is now ready for delivery. Royal quarto, extra cloth boards and lettered, 10 guineas. Imperial quarto, proofs, 15 guineas ; proofs, India, 24/. Colombier folio, before the letters, 401.; with Etchings, 48J. Part XVI., the First Part of the Second Volume, is nearly ready. London : Published by Moon, Boys, and Graves, i'rintsellers to his Majesty, 6, Pall- mall. NEW AND USEFUL BOOKS FOR CHILDREN. STORIES FROM NATURAL HISTORY; for Young Children. 2s. 6d. 2. MARY AND HER MOTHER. Scriptural Stories for very Young Children. Third edition. 3s. 3. EASY STORIES, for the amusement and information of Children of four and five years old.- Is. 6d. 4. AUNT ELLEN AND HER PUPILS ; or, a Week at Elm Grove. 5. THE HIVE t a Selection of Poems from Living Au- thors. 3s. 6. ENTERTAINMENT FOR THE NURSERY : a Collection of favourite Tales. With numerous Wood Engravings. 4s. 7. HYMNS FOR CHILDREN. By the Rev. W. Fletcher", of St. John's College, Cambridge. 2s. 6d. 8. SHORT STORIES, in Words of One Syllable. 2s. 6d. 9. SUMMER RAMBLES, in Words of Two and more Syllables. Third edition. 5s. 10. LETTER TO A YOUNG PIANO- FORTE PLAYER, Second edition. 2s. 6d. 11. FIRST LESSONS IN GEOGRAPHY. To be committed to memory at an early age. Fifth edition. Is. 12. FIRST LESSONS IN THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND.— is. 6d. 13. LU PETIT PRECEPTEUR ; or, First Step to French Con- versation. For the use of Young Beginners. By F. Grandineau, French Master to her Royal Highness the Princess Victoria, & c. 3s. 14. LE90NS pour les ENFANS, de 3 a 5 ans. 2s. 6d. 15. CONTFIS pour les ENFANS, de 5 it 6 ans. 2s. 6d. 16. L'ESOPE des Enfans. 2s. fid. 17. Les JEUNES ENFANS, Contes. 3s. 18. BARBAULD'S HYMNS, in Italian. Second edit. 2s. 6d. London : N. Hailes, 168, Piccadilly, opposite Bond- street. 1 H E LADY'S MAGAZINE. From Fraser's Magazine, June, 1832. We wish to recommend to our readers the Lady's Magazine. It was formerly published by Robinson, but in the year 1830 it changed proprietors, and was continued under the appropriate title of " Im- proved Series ;" which, indeed, without requiring any particular taient* it might easily sustain. But the work before us assumed atone" ai character which called down upon itself the venom and hatreil of i then luckless contemporaries. Devoted as it is more immediately! the service of the Ladies, its MONTHLY DISPLAY OF FASHIONS F no longer exhibited a merely dressed- out figure in a new costume, but an elegant company of Females, beautiful 111 appearance, and engraved with such exquisite art, that our English engravers ( for the plates all executed in Paris, and present the newest mode) candidly avow t they are deserving to be ranked amongst works of far greater prete. sions. There is also published in each number an embellishment TTf different description, A PORTRAIT OF SOME -- MINENT CHARACTER, _ Or a Picture Representation of some other interesting subject. " As a picture- work it is decidedly superior to any published— Sharpe's Magazine is the only just comparison with it; that really failed by reason of its excellence, for it could not command a sale sufficient to compensate the spirited proprietor; nor could it be expected, when thousands of subscribers were necessary for a return, when, under or- dinary circumstances, hundreds only would have been sufficient to have left a profit. " We have spoken of the embellishments, which can best be judged of by an inspection of the Volumes. These can be seen, or ought to be in every respectable circulating library; or if not, the public should re- quire them to become subscribers to it. " We will now turn to the pages of this periodical. 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" To the veterinary surgeon these folio , plates must be inestimably serviceable.'?— Literary Gazette, Dec. 15; 1832. " To the veterinary student this work will be of incalculable value, and to the lover of horses in- general it offers much information and amusement."— The Town; Dec., 16, 1832., Just ready, A NEW CATALOGUE of the extensive and interesting Col- lection of ANATOMICAL MODELS IN WAX, and may be had gratis. Also a large Assortment of ARTICULATED SKELETONS AND SKULLS, & c. & c. at very reasonable prices- Just published, price 6sj plain, and ,12s. coloured, foHo, THE NEW FRIENDSHIP'S OFFERING ; containing three most beautiful and exquisitely coloured lithographic compositions of'Birdp. and Flowers, designed and drawn by L. Stoll, equal in every respect tp the most highly finished water- coloured drawings, enclosed in an orna- mental wrapper § BRITISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH, NEW- ROAD, KING'S- CROSS, LONDON. MR. MO BISON, tiie President, and Mr. MOAT, the Vice- President, in conjunction with all the Honorary Members, ittntry Agents of the British College of Health, being now fully borne out with the conviction, approbation, and indubitable proofs, of, upwards of 200,000 individuals ( who had been thrown aside by the Fa- culty, and out of the Hospitals, as incurable) having been restored to sotfntl 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, fhey, the heads of the College, hesitate not to declare, in tlie 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, iii this Paper, a continued series of hew cases, from individuals giving their names, residances, ajid dates of time of cure, all of whicb Stye been voluntarily given, and ascertainable as to the facts by inquiry Mr- Morison, the father of this new school, after labouring under a. disease of the most excruciating kind, and for thirty- five years under- oing every experiment which a perplexed faculty could devise, gave hem up, and commenced his own ( jure, which he brought to a success- ful! issue; and far advanced in lifeibeg& n for the first time to enjoy a healthy state of existence. Proceeding from praetice to theory, and again applying his theory to all diseases, from slight cold to devastating cholera, lie has persuaded himself, and would also convince others, that lie lias discovered tlie universal remedy; and under this impression, he has dared to attack the whole system of physic and surgery, and all the learned and illiterate practitioners of these dubious sciences, from that starched piebe of solemn profundity, Sir Samuel Sulkisumph, with his coach and six, gloves, and golded- headed cane, down to Jack Hashaway, that droll composition of leech, barber, and sow- bleeder ! and in anti- cipation he beholds their splendid establishment vanish before the Hy- feian lamp, like the " baseless fabric of a vision"— an establishment owever, which lias been anything, but a vision hitherto, and rather a gigantic vampire, which has sucked the life- blood, and drained t( ie purs- a of a suffering and bubbled community, or some dreadful incubus resting on the bosom of society, while underneath Wots, in tumultuary spasms, hideous agony, and despair. The theory of this bold innovator is so simple, that a few words will suffice to convey an idea of it to the dullest comprehension. The source and support of life is blood ; and while it is kept pure, and in constant circulation throughout all parts of the body, and while respiration is un- impeded by outward causes, the health of the , body, and the full play of all its faculties will be sound, active, and entire; but should the veins, glands, and finer passages through yrtiich the blood cirdulates, beCotae choked by corrupt humours, settling, festering, and spreading inflammation to the surrounding parts, disease commences, and until these humours be carried off, it must continue till it terminates in death. Thus the Hygeist insists that all diseases whatever originate in bad hu- mours, secreted in channels through which the, blood ought to flow, and lience all that is required in curing disease is to drain off these hu- mours. The vegetable medicine which he manufactures and prescribes, is a sufficient agent to effect this purpose, no matter in what part of the human constitution tlie obstructions settle. By this simple and harm- less process, he undertakes to cure every disease, and challenges the faculty to a trial of skill, by taking promiscuously a hundred patients from an hospital, and while the, one half of them is put under tliv care of his opponents, he will cure the other half thoroughly in a shorter pe- riod, at considerably less expense than they possibly call: Say for 10/. sterling worth of vegetable pills. It is evident that the above theory is a revival of the ancient doctrine of humourat pathology, with improvement, perhaps, but which our mo dern Esculapians affect to hold in utter contempt. In our next Paper we shall endeavour to explain in contradistinction the organic and sym. pethetic pathology, which now obtains and which involves such com- plicated' tliedries, that men ofsim'pie understandings shrink from them with pain and confusion ; and are tempted, with Morison, to snap their fingers in the face of fate and the faculty, and resolve, like him, to be- come their own physician. Befoie concluding, there are two circumstances attending the new school which we cannot help remarking upon as rather suspicious— namely, the high price of the medicine. The prime cost of a box sold at one shilling exclusive of duty, cannot exceed one penny : now 90 per cent, is too much to charge as profit, if the Hygeists are sincere in their professions, and smells rankly of the school extortion. The other cir- cumstance is, endeavonring to recommend their system to public notice, by, tacking to their publications a number of whining, canting letters, descriptive of extraordinary cures under the favour of pills and Divine Prcrvide, nce, which must produce nausea and disgust in students of " ~* e. and discrimination. A mere reference1 to the persons and cases . J in all conscience sufficient. The body of the work, however, indc- " endent of these adjunctive bad humours, is worthy of a perusal, and, M'likeSmost books on medicines and surgery, our sensitive frames are not kept twitching and writhing, and assuming all the symptoms of every disease we read of; but we are ratller, in reading " Morisoniana" apt to fall in love with physic; and although the pills have not purged our body of its infirmities, our minds have certainly been cleared of the horrors with which it formerly regarded the healing art.— Trades Ad- vocate, Glasgow. TSe'- iLyegetable Universal Medicines" are' to be had at the College, New- road, King's- cross, Iynidon: at the Surrey Branch, 96, Great Sur- rey- street, Blackfriars; Mr. Field's, 16, Air- street, Quadrant; Mr. Chappell's Royal Exchange; wr. Walker's, Lamb's Conduit- passage, Red Lion- square; Mr. J. Loft's, 10, Mile End- road; Mr. Bennett's, Co- vent- garden- market ; Mr. Haydon's, Fleur- de- lis- court, Norton- folgate; Mr. Haslett's, 147, Ratcliffe- liighway; Messrs. Norbury's, Brentferd; Mrs. Stepping, Clare- market; Messrs. Salmsn, 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, Rich- mond; Mr. Meyer, 3, May's- buildings, Blackheatli; Mr. Griffiths, Wood- wliarf, Greenwich; Mr. B. Pitt, 1, Cornwall- road, Lambeth; and at one Agent's in every principal town in Great Britain, the Islands of Guernsey and Malta, and throughout the whole of the United States of America, the Canadas, and New Brunswick. THE LONDON GAZETTE. [ From Tuesday's Gazette.] BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. J. Beckensall, Oxford- street, wine merchant— G. Coles, High- street, Marylebone, cheesemonger. BANKRUPTS. L. Abraham, St. Jamcs's- place, Aldgate; wine merchant— T. Bye, Rathbone- place, Oxford- street, victualler— J. Joy, Ashford, Kent, brick- layer— W. Todd, Ayleaford, Gloucestershire, colour manufacturer— T. Willcocks, Bath, cabinet maker— E. Whitboum, Percival- street, Clerk- enwell, coach proprietor. [ From Friday's Gazette.] DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. J. Irvine, Brunswick- street, Russell- square, master mariner— T Weaver, Soutli- street, Spitalfields, cheesemonger. BANKRUPTCY ENLAROED. J. Peachey, Regent- street, ironmonger. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. J. Wilkinson, Eamont- bridge, Westmorland, watchmaker. BANKRUPTS. F. Armson, Melcombe- place, Dorset- square, builder— B. Barnard, Leeds, flax spinner— G. Aynsley, North Shields, grocer— W. B. Rey- nolds, Birmingham, draper— H. Phillips, Thame, Oxfordshire, inn- keeper— J. Beckensall, Oxford- street, wine merchant— J. Gilbert, Re- gent- street, and Paternoster- row, bookseller— J. Clarke, Birmingham, coal dealer— J. Surr Jun., Belfast, merchant— J. Edney, jun., Merton, Surrey, victualler— T. and G. Courtney, Old Jewry, clothiers— H. Back, Margate, grocer— E. Howell, Bread- street, Cheapside, wine merchant. THE ELECTIONS. MI DDLESLX.— Mr. Hume has been returned by a majority, ex- ceeding even the most sanguine expectations of his friends. The numbers were— For Mr. Hume, 3,254 ; Byng, 3,025; Forbes, 1,500; Lillie, 1,008. WEST SURREY.— Mr. H. Sumner has been thrown out, and Messrs. D'ehlsbn and " Leech ( staunch Reformers) returned. The merits of, the former have been long tried, and are. we( l known. Those of the latter, have not been much known beyond the bounds of his own county, but they are of the highest order. WEST KENT— MAIDSTONE,— At the final close of the poll on Wednesday, the numbers stood about thus, viz.:— Hodges, 3,380 ; Rider, 3,107;. Geary, 2,483. This has been a struggle purely upon principle. The Reformers have liad to combat with all the advantages that money, influence, aristocracy, and clerical inter- ference could give to their opponents, and the result clearly proves that the independence and energy • which ousted Sir E. Kpalclibuli last year, havenot abated a; jot= in this division of the Cotirity. i The attack was levelled at Mr. Rider only, but the people felt that the battle was their own, and they fought it well. The Conservatives must now be considered as thoroughly and finally defeated. EAST KENT.— On Monday a meeting for the nominatiop qf Jjjd candidates for the Eastern Division of the county of'Kent, iwa^ held atBarham Downs. The High Sheriff, J. Douglas, Esq. pre- sided, and hiving passed through the usual preliminary formalities, the- following Candidates were nominated:— Sir E. Knatchbull, Sir W. Cosway, J. P. Piumptre, Esq., and Sir W. Courtney} Knight of Malta. - The candidates having addressed the meeting at length, the High Sheriff demanded the show of hands, when, contrary to the expectation of even the most partial observer,, lie declared it to be in favour of Sir E. Knatchbull and Mr. Piumptre, though it was evident to all that the latter gentleman and Sir W. Cosway had the preponderance. A vote of censure was passed oii the High Sheriff for iiis partial conduct. Sir John . Tylrfen likewise proposed, and E. Hughes, Esq., seconded, the following resolution: " This meeting cannot separate without being under the necessity of passing a vote of censure upon the High Sheriff, for, having conj- travelled the Act of Parliament, in fixing the place of nomination on these open and bleak downs, and that not for iny public goddj bujt for a party purpose. 1" BERKSHIRE.— Messrs. Throckmorton,, Walter, Palmer, and Pusey, were on the l' 5th inst. put in nomination for. Berkshire Francis Burdett proposed Mr. Walter. Tbe three first named elected. Mr. Walter must, we- imagine, disclaim all connection with Printing House- square, or Master Cobbett will call him to. ac- count for every thing that appears in the journal, which that gen- tlemanly personage calls " the bloody old Times.'' AYLESBURY.— In our last we- gave the result of the first day'j polling ; since then the election terminated in the very unexpected, but easily explained, defeat of Mr. Hobhouse ; it resulting from the coalition between Mr. Rickford's party and that of the Tory candidate, . Colonel Hanmer. A few years working of the Refornl Act will put an end to this trickery of coalitions; the country sickens at them. NORTH ESSEX.— for this division of the great county of Essex Messrs. Western, Baring, Brand, and Sir John Tyrrell have beeii put in nomination. Mr. Brand is a decided liberal. The decla- rations of the others are in perfect accordance with their known sentiments. Sir'John Tyrrell was most amusingly lugubrious upon • the exclusion from. Parliament of Sir E. Sugden, Mr. Croker, ajtid SirC. Wethere. il. Mr. Baring, as usual, spoke on both sides'of every question that he touched. HASTINGS.— At this place there has been another of those dis- graceful coalitions of which we have already expressed a strong opinion ; the radical candidate thrown out, and Messrs. North and Warre have been returned. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE—( SOUTHERN DIVISION.)— Lord. Althorp and Mr. Cartwrlght have been returned for this district, without going to the poll. The poiuts in the Noble Lord's speech are— that he will resist any extension of the prinRiple of the Reform Act ; that he thinks, though the corn laws work ill for the farmer; their revision must be postponed. In this opinion his colleague declares the fullest Concurrence. SOUTH DEVON.— Lord John Russell, Mr. Bulteel, and Mr. Buller have been here put in nomination, but nothing remarkable was said upon the occasion.— Lord John Russell defended' the Bill and the Ministers, and professed most liberal sentiments. The fol4 lowing is an extract from, his Lordship's speech :—" We wish not, as was falsely imputed to the Reform. Bill, to take off the Crown from the King's head.—( Cheers.) We, on the contrary, think that the Ciown will shine in brighter lustre when it is reposing on- the affec. tions of the people. We wish to preserve all the other valuable in- stitutions of the country. It has always been my Opinion that tliose institutions, if they ' were in danger— a. nd they certainly were in danger— it was because they were perverted and abused.—( Cheers.) I think that when restored to their proper and primitive use, that they are institutions which are as worthy of the people who would now defend them, as of tlie ancestors who gloriously founded thein, —( Cheers.) But I am of opinion that the- Ministers of religtotj should devote themselves to the purposes of religion.—-( Reiterated cheers.) Thai public servants of the Crown should devote them- selves to the public service,—( Cheers.) That those who in what- ever station of life are called to bear the great burden of public affairs, should carry on those affairs honestly, for the benefit of the whole country, and not pervert those sacred and venerable institu- tions to tbe benefit and property of individuals. 1' NORTH DEVON,— Lord Ebrington and the Hon. Newston Fellowes are the Representatives for this district; the election having here passed over without opposition. The Noble Lord after announcing his adherence to the present Ministers, is reported further to have said, that " No circumstances that could ever occur would induce him to give any portion of support to that party, or form anj alliance or connection with those who, having denounced the Re- form Bill as every thing that was flagitious, were ready to turn their backs upon themselves, and take power and place upon the condi- tion of passing that Reform Bill."— We had thought that the prac- tice of people " turning their backs upon themselves" had fallen into disuse since the days of Lord Castlereagh. SOUTH HANTS.— The two Reformers are returned ( Lord Pal- merston and Sir George Staunton) by a large majority. The cus- tomary scenes of drunken riot and open bribery for which, time im- memorial, the Tories have been famous— an ill- natured person would say infamous— were here enacted with all imaginable aggravations. When will the enemies of good government learn the ineflieacy of these practices 1 NORTH HANTS,— At the close of the first day's polling Sir Thomas Baring, though formerly an opponent of the Ballot, de- clared himself a convert. Messrs. Lcfevre and Sqott have been re- lumed, and the Marquis of Douro ( eldest son to the Duke of Wellington) rejected; this, too, in the county of which the Great Captain is Lord Lieutenant. How are the mighty fallen '. NORTH LANCASHIRE.— Mr. Stanley, the Secretary for Ireland, and Mr. Wilson Patten, have been returned without opposition. The following is the only passage in Mr. Stanley's speech worth ex- tracting :—" And having now thus extended the franchise, he and the Government would be deceiving the people, and contradicting all the professions that they had made, and with which they had come forward, if they should not be strenuous in their resistance < f any attempt to carry the extension further." BIRMINGHAM.'— The members for the new borough of Birming- ham were chaired on Monday with much ceremony. The assemblage collected on the occasion was very numerous and most enthusiastic, and went home in a state of perfcct satisfaction with the day's pro- ceedings, though in one of high political excitement, after having been severally addressed by Messrs. Attwood and Scholefield. BLACKBURN.— We have had a terrible scene in this town. The poll closed on the 13th— Fielding, 376 ; Turner, 346; Bowring, 334. The disappointment of the labouring population at Doctor Bow- ring's defeat broke out in immediate violenceon the declaration of the poll. The drunken people whom Mr. Turner's beer had se- duced were gathered round the Bull Inn, and they insulted Doctor Bowring's flag as it passed by them, on which the people rose, dis- armed the constables, broke every window, and menaced the build- ing with immediate demolition. In fact, the work of ravage had commenced, when a deputation came to Dr. Bowring, saying that his presence alone could save the town from destruction. Hecatue to the market- place immediately, fling himself between the people and the constables, and sutjeeeded in pacifying the multitude. ' NORTH RIDING OF YORKSHIRE.— Tfiis portion of the great county of York will be strongly contested. Thi election com- menced on Monday. The four candidates are Mirtin Stapylton, Esq., of Mytoa Hall, who contested the county unsuccessfully in 1830— a staunch Reformer; J. C. Ramsden, Esq., of Newby Hall, who has been in the House for twenty years, and has always given his vote in the cause of liberty.; E. StiUingflset- Cayley, Esq. son- in- law of Sir George Cayley, who was returned for Scarborough last week, and whose family have ever beeu renowned for liberality of sentiment; and the Hon. W. Dttncombe, eldest son of Lord Feversbam, renowned for his opposition to the Refornl Bill, which he called revolutionary in'its principle, and which lost him his elec- tiirirfbr the county of- York in 1830. SHEFFIELD.— No doubt it will afford infinite cause of rejoicing to all good Conservatives, when they learn that, in a new borough, there has been rioting; but " let tliem not lay the flattering unction to their Tory souls," that any . portion of the enlightened people of England will attribute this to. the great measure of Reform. If scenes of such, a sort occasionally occur,, it is not because Reform has passed, but because ft has been delayed too long. In a few years these things will be " better ordered"; and we have the pride and pleasure of knowing that there has been much more dis- turbance in the old than in the new, boroughs. We cannot, how: ever, advert to what has occurred in' Sheffield, without feelings- of great pain, though with no sentiment of humiliation on a political account. John Parker and J. S. Buckingham, Esqrs., have been returned. Mr. Ward, the unsuccessful candidate, appears to have been vastly popular amongst a large proportion of the people of Sheffield ; and the expression of violent dislike to those who sup ported Mr. Parker in opposition to Mr. Ward, appears to have been the origin of the rioting. Windows were broken, stones thrpwn, wounds given and received, and then an increased number of spe- cial Constables employed— the riot act read— the military called in from the outposts near the borough, as well as yeomanry corps from the neighbourhood. Lecd Wharncliffe and several magistrates as- sembled, amidst a scene of great confusion and violence. A: m6re military demonstration: did not suffice : the soldiers fired— and it appears that several were surrounded and some killed, A coroner": inquest has returned a verdict— Justifiable Homicide. - VVH ITBY.— The following is a brief account of the result of the first election of Whitby, so contrary to what the Reformers antici- pated. Mr. Chapman, the Tory candidate, has been returned by a majority of 78— swollen to that amount by the votes of . those who, in a written requisition, had pledged themselves to support Mr. Moorsom. and at the last moment forfeited their pledges, under the dread of the powerful influence and wealth that had been for two years arrayed against thetn. However, tbe Reformers of Whitby are in high spirits, as a protest has been made officially to the Returning Officer against Mr. Chapman, as a Government con- tractor, and legally incapacitated : and both fylr. Moorsom and his Committee are fully confident that they shall, be able to procure his ejection from the House of Commons. The Tories, for two or three days, have had open bouses, and women, and even children of five or six years of age, have been lying in the streets in a state of beastly intoxication. LAUNCESTON.— The contest for Launceston was very severe; the candidates were— Mr. Howell, on the independent interest; and Sir Henry Hardinge, the nominee of the Duke of Northumberland. The polling commenced on Tuesday, and oil Wednesday the Duke's nominee was declared duly elected, he having a majority of seveii votes. . • , . :. g j WHITEHAVEN.— As might have been expected, the Lonsdale candidate comes in for Whitehaven, where there has been, as a matter of course, all sorts of bribery andiuti| mdation. SCOTLAND. CITY OF EDINBURGH.— The novel and interesting spectacle of a popitla- election, which was commenced on Monday at the Cross, excited a deep and universal interest throughout the city, and long before the hour of nomination, every window, house- top, or other situation from which a view of the hustings could be obtained, was thickly planted with anxious ciowds. Before the election com- menced an immense assemblage had accumulated in front of the hustings, and at 12 o'clock the'High- street presented a greater body of people than w e ever witnessed, the crowd forming one continued mass from above the entry to the Parliament- square to the Com- mercial . Bank, a space of not less than several hundred yards; The Lord Advocate, Mr. Abererombie, and Mr. Blair were put in nomination. The two former, returned. GLASCOW.— F. ive candidates ha. ve been put in nomination— Messrs. Dixon, Ewtog, Douglaii, Crawfurd, and Sir D. Sandford. PAISLEY.— The nomination of a Member for the burgh of Pais- ley, took place in front of the county buildings, on Monday. The Sheriff and magistrates had, by proclamation, recommended Ihat no banners, music, nor devices should be resorted to. Accordingly not a single badge was to be seen but one, aud that one was worn by William Barr, Esq., of Drums ! ( who prided himself on, the distinction.) After the writ had been read by the Sheriff, Sir John Maxwell was proposed by Robert Orr, Esq., of Ralston, and seconded by Mr. Barr, Mr." M'Kerrell was proposed by Mr. Alexander Borland, and seconded by Mr. John Roxburgh. In addition to the address from Sir John Maxwell, and Mr. M'Kerrell, Mr. John King, advocate, a third candidate, attempted to_ get a hearing, but the multitude soon showed so much unwillingness to listen, that he was Constrained to desist. Lyme— William Pinney, Esq. Lincolnshire— H. Handley and G. T. Heathcote, Esqrs. Lancashire ( Nortli)— Rt. Hon. E. G. Stanley, and J. W. Patten. Lisburn— H. Meynell, Esq. Leith, District, & c.— John Archibald Murray, Esq. Mallow— Mr. Dant. Merioneth— Sir R. W. Vaughan. Middlesex— Messrs. Hume and Byng. Monmouthshire— Lord G. Somerset and W. A. Williams, Esq. Monmouth— B. Hall, Esq. Norfolk ( Western Div.)— Sir W. B. Folkes and Sir J. Astley. Northumberland ( Northern)— Vis. Howick and Lord Ossulston. Newcastle- on- Tyne— Messrs. Ridley and Hodgson. New Ross— John Talbot, Esq, Nottingham ( Southern)— Earl of Lincoln ahd J. E. Denison, Esq. Oxfordshire— G. V. Harcourt, Esq., Lord Norreys, and R. Weyland. Oxford ( City)— Messrs. Langston and Stoiior. Oxford University— Sir H. Inglis ahdlT. iG. B. Estcourt. Preston ( Bordugh)— Hon. H. T. Stanley and H. Fleetwood, Esq. Peebles— Sir J. Hay. Portarlington—- T</ Gladstone, Esq. Roscommon— O'Connor Don and F. French, Esq. Retford ( East)— Messrs. Vernon and Newark. Sheffield— Messrs. Parker and Buckingham. Scarborough— Sir W. B. Johnstone and Sir G. Cayley. Shrewsbury—- Messrs. Hanmer and Slaney. Staffordshire ( South)— Sir J. Wrottesley and E. J. Littleton, flSs^. Salford— Mr. Brotherton. Somerset ( East)— Messrs. Langton and B| gs. tock. Stockport— Messrs. T. Marsland and Lloyd. Shoreham— Sir C. M. Burrell and H. D. Goring. Sussex ( West)— Lord J. G. Lennox and Eari of Surrey. Surrey ( East)— Messrs. Briscoe and Beauclerk. Surrey ( West)— Messrs. Denison and Leach. Truro— Sir H. Vivian and Mr. Tooke. /' Tyncmouth— Mr. G. F. Young. , , Tipperary— Hon. C. O'Callaghau and R. L. Shiel, Esq. Trinity College ( Dublin)— Messis. Lefroy and Shaw. Tyrone—- Hon, H. Corry and Sir H. Stewart, Bar. Westmorland— Mr. Barbara and Lord Low'ther. Wexford— C, A. Walker, Esq. Wilts ( South)— J. Bennett, Esq, and Hon. S. Herbert. Warwick ( South).'— Messrs. Phillips and Skipwith Waterford— Messrs. Barron and Hayes Wigton ( County)— Sir A. Agnew Worcester ( West)— Col. Lygon and Hon. T. H. Foley Wolverhampton— Messrs. Whitmore and Fryer Whitehaven— Mr. M. Attwood . Youghall— John O'Coiinell, Esq. York ( East Riding)— Messrs. Bethel! and. Thompson. STATE OF THE POLLS. WESTMORLAND. Dec. 19. Ld. Lowther. Col. Lowther. . 184 . , . 169 . • 334 ,, , 310 . . 277 . . 276 . . 425 . . 386 . . 206 . . 195 . 1426 1336 MEMBERS RETURNED. The following is aijist of the Members returned since our last: — Ashton- under- Lyne— Colonel Williams. Armagh— Leonard Dobbin, Esq. Anglesea— Sir R. B. Bulkeley, Bart. Aberdeen ( City)— Alexander" Bannerman. Boston ( Borough)— John Wilks and Benjamin Handley. Bradford— Messrs. Lister and' Hardy, Bandon—^ Hon, W. S. Bernard. Berkshire— Messrs. Palmer, Throckmorton, and Walter. Bolton— Messrs. Torrens and Yates. Carlisle— Messrs. James and Howard. Cheshire ( South)— Mr. Wilbrahani and Lord Grosveuor. Colerain— Sir T. P. Beresford. Catlow— N. A. Vigors, Esq. Cumberland ( Eastern)— Sir J. Graham and W. Blamire, Esq. Carnarvon— Sir Charles Paget. Clonmel— D, Ronayne, Esq. Cavan— Messrs. Maxwell and Young. Cornwall— E. W. W. Pendarvis, Esq., and Sir C. Lemon. Cardigan ( County)— W. E. Powell, Esq. Cardigan— Pryse Pryse, Esq. Devonshire ( Northern)— Hon. N. Fellowes and Viscount Ebrington. Dublin ( City)— Messrs. O'Connell and Rulhven. Drogheda— Mr. O'Dwyer. Dumfries— Mr. Hope Johnstone. Dungarvon— Hon. George Lamb. Durham ( Northern)— Messrs. Lambton and Williamson. Derby ( Southern)— Lord Waterpark and Hon. G. Vernon. Dorset ( Co.)- Lord Ashley, Hon. W. F. S. Ponsonby, W. J. Banks. Dumfries ( County)— John J. Hope Johnstone. Derry ( City)— Sir R. A. Ferguson. Edinburgh— The Lord Advocate aud Mr. Abercrombie. Enniskillen— Hon, A. Hi Cole. Essex ( Southern)— Messrs. Dare and Lennard. Flint—( County^— Hon. E. M. L. Mostyn. Great Grimsby— Mr. Maxfield. Glamorgan— Messrs. Talbot and Diltwyn. Herefordshire— Sir R. Price, . Mr. Hoskins, and E. Foley, Esq. Huddersfield— Captain Fenton. Hants ( Northern)— Messrs. Lefevre and Scott. Huntingdonshire— Lord Vis. Mandeville and J. B, Rooper, Esq. Haddington, Jedburgh, & c.— R, Stewart, Esq. Isle of Wight— Sir R, Simeon. Kircaldy, Dysart, See.— R, Ferguson, Esq. Kircudbright— R. Ferguson. Kilkenny ( City)— Richard Sullivan, Esq. Knaresborough— John Richards and B. Rotch, Esqrs. Leicester ( South)— E, Dawson and H. Halford, Esqrs. Ambleside . Kitby Lonsdale Appleby Kendal . . Kirby Stephen 1516 The poll is closed, but the return from the Sliap district is not in eluded in the above. 0 [ We understand that when the Shap district is included the re- sult will be tile return of the Lowthers for Wesmorland. J Middlesex, Dec. 21. Hume . . . 3254 Byng .... 3025 Sir C. Forbes . . 1500 Sir J. Lillie, . . 1008 Essex, North Division, Dec. 21. Tyrell . . . 1863 Baring . . . 1783 Western , . . . 1687 Brand . . . 1449 Hertfordshire, Dec. 20. Calvert . . . 1827 Sebright , . . 1824 Grimston . . . 1749 Alston . . . 1676 Nottinghamshire, North Divi- sion.— Mansfield, Dec. 19.-— Polling suspended in this town | n consequence of. tumultuous pro- ceedings. Somersetshire, East Division, Dec. 20.— The polling having been suspended at Axbridge, in consequence of rioting, the exact total of second day's poll cannot be given. The following is one return at or near the clqse :— Langton . . . 4232 Brigstock . . . 3993 Miles . . . 3582 Norfolk, East Division, Dec. 23. Wyndham. . . 3016 Keppell . . . 2987 Peach . . . 2653 Cholmondeley • • 2601 Bedfordshire, Dec. 20. Stuart . . . 1275 Russell . . . 1244 Payne . . . 1077 69 69 .65 49 48 .96 75 Glocestershire, WesternDivision, Dec. 20. Returns from Wotton- under- Edge, Newent, and Newtiham:— Hon. G. Berkeley. . 1166 Hon. A. Moreton . . 1141 Lord E. Somerset . 643 Buckinghamshire, Dec. 20. Cliandos ... 2169 Smith ... 17.50 Dashwood . . 1139 Murray . . . 1104 Leicestershire, North Division, Dec. 20. Lord Robert Manners . 1924 Charles M. Phillipps, Esq. 1507 General Jqhnson . 679 Kent, East Division, Dec. 2( Knatohbull . . 2798 Piumptre . ., . 258t Cosway . . . 1957 City of Edinburgh, Dec. 18. Lord Advocate . 3437 Abercromby . . 32^ 8 Blair . . . 1282 Glasgow, Dec, 18. Ewing . . . 2748 Oswald . . . 2237 Sandford . . . 1617 Crawford . . ... 1512 Douglas . • . 1147 Dixon . . . 908 Galway, Dec. 17. ° Lynch . . . 724- Lochlen . . . 536 Blak ... 522 County of Westmeath, Dec. 18. Nagle . Chapman . . Rochfort Lambert Dundalk, Dec. 18. Jocelyn O'Reily . Kinsale, Dec. 17. Howell Cuthbert . Longford County, Dec. 18. A. Lefroy . . 99 Lord Forbes .' . 98 Roche ... 95 S. White . . 94 Cariickfergus, Dec. 17. Dobbs . . 355 Chichester . . 344 Waterford,. City, Dec. 18. Baron . . . ^ 33 Hayes . . . i!? 9 Christmas . . 191 Wysc . . . Cork, Dec. 17". Callaghan ,. . 690 Baldwin .. . 681 Boyle . . . 309 Newenliara . . 309 Dublin, County, Dec. 18. Hamilton . . 396 Fitzsiraon , . 359 Evans ... $ 09 Lord Brabazon . 214 County of Wexford, Dec. 18. Catew "... 429 Lambert . . . 379 Rowe . . , 327 Colonel Waddy has resigned. Belfast, Dec. 18. J. E. Tennant . . 139 U. J. Tennant . . 135 Lord A. Chichester . 135 W. S. Crawford . 131 County of Wicklow, Dec. 18. Acton . . , 254 Grattan . . . 200 Howard . . 197 Humphreys . . 35 About 50 of the Fitzwilliam. tenar. try gave plumpers for Acton We shall next week publish a more regular statement of the re- sults of the elections. They will then have finally closed, and we shall be enabled to point out the probable course that each Member is expected to lake in Pailiament. SHOWER OF FIRE.;— A singular phenomenon presented itself lately in some parts of France, particularly in the department of Orne. Several times, and during two whole hours, the atmos- phere, which was calm, became filled with an innumerablequantity of vivid sparks, forming a sort of shower of fire. It is said that in some place the sparks were seen to alight upon the ground ; but no traces of them have anywhere been found, and it is pro- bable that the phenomenon really took place in the upper regions, the appearance of having descended being most likely an optfeal illusion. I December 23. T H E T O W I . PUBLIC LOSSES. DR. SPL'RZMEIM. Dr. Spurzheim was born on the 31st of December, 1776, at To » ijueit « , a village oear Treves, on the Moselle. His parents ftlltivated a ifarm ofthe rich Abbey of St. Maximin de Treves, tod he received his college education at the University of that city. He was destined for the Church, but in 179!), when the Trench invaded that part of Germany, he went td study medi- ae at Vienna, where he became acquainted with Dr. Gall. He entered with great zeal into the consideration of the new doc- trine; antl, to use- his own words, " he wiis simply a hearer of Dr. Gall till 1804, at which period he associated With him in his Iaborirs, and his character of hearer Ceased." • Having completed ' hfSimedical studies, he and Dr. Gall quitted vi'inna in 1805; to travel together^ aid to1 ptestte iri common ter researches into the anatomy and physiology of the whole iervoris' system. During the period which elapsed ' between the Introduction of Dr. Gall's Lectures, at Vienna, in 1802, and the time when hfe and Dr. Gall lift Vienna, the doctrine had made a rapid progress, not only in general diffusion, but in solid and im- portant additiohs, by- their joint labours. * " From 1804 to 1813 they1 Were constantly together, aid their researches were conducted in common. Thfejr left Vienna in March, 1805, to go direct to Berlin, and from that time until November, 1807, visited the following- places, jointly lecturing and pursuing dissections of the brain : Leipzic, Dresden, Halle, Jena, Weimar, Goettingea, Brauersehweig, Copenhagen, Keil, Hamburgh, Bremen, Munster, Amsterdam, Leyden, Dusselddrf, Fffcrikfort, Wurtzbourg, Maubourg, Stuttgard, Carlshrue, Tustall, Friezbourghen, Brisgtm, Doneschingue, Heidelberg, Manheim, Munich, Augsbourg, Ulm, Zurich, Bern, and Bale." From this time uritii 1810 he was engaged with Dr. Gall in compiling and bringing out in Paris their great work, entitled S'- Anatemie et Physiologie du Systeme Nerveu. t en G^ ral, et du cerveau en particulier.— Avec des observations sur la possl- hilite de reconnoitre plusieurs dispositions inteltectuelles at mo- files de l'homme et des animaux, par la configuration de leurs t£ tes; par P. F. Gall et G. Spurzheim, in four volumes folio, and 100 Atlas plates, price 1000. francs 0< W. sterling.) After its completion their joint labours ceased, when Dr. Spurzheim published his " Observations sur Phrenologie," his Works on education, and some other small works in French. In 1613 he paid another visit to Vienna, where he took his degree of M. D. In 1814 he arrived in this country. During his stay here he published two editions of his Physiognomical System, in • 8vo.; his Qtttlines, 12mo.; and his octavo work on Insanity. He delivered Lectures in London; Bath, Bristol, Dublin, Cork, Liverpool, and Edinburgh. Dr. Spurzheim Continued his labours in Paris until 1825, con- tributing " largely to the advancement of Phrenology, by enrich- ing it with important discoveries ; by introducing into it philo- sophical arrangement, and pointing out its application to many Interesting purposes connected with the human mind." In 1825, at the solicitation of a great number of his friends he again Visited London, and gave a course of Leotures at the Crown and Anchor, to a numerous class ; another short course at Willis' Rooms, and several courses of Dissection of the Brain at St. Thomas's and St. Bartholomew'sHospitals, and some in the Me- dical Schools. During his residence among us he published his u Phrenology, or the Doctrinefof the Mind, and: of its relations between ^ manifestations and the body," with fifteen engravings; also " A View of the Philosophical Principles of Phrenology." Having made a considerable impression, he was again invited to visit England, when after lecturing in London, he went to Bath, Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Derby, and Cambridge University ; and during this and the following years he sojourned at most of the principal places in England, Ireland,- and Scotland, lecturing to very large classes, and ob- taining the esteem and regard of all who had the pleasure of en- jbying his society -, hy such he was invariably spoken of in the highest terms as a scholar and a gentleman, and a true philoso- pher- During this latter period he published " The Anatomy of ithe Brain, with a General View of the Nervous System," With eleven plates. " Phrenology in Connection with the Study of Physiognomy,", with thirty- four plates. " A Sketch of the Na- tural Laws of Man ;." " Outlines ofthe Science ;" and several partiphlets, letters, and answers to objections made to the science. During the lattet part of the year 1829 he lost Madame Spurz- heim ( who had made all his drawings for his late works, and all the lithographic engravings of his works in connection with Phy- siognomy). In consequence of this loss, and it may be added, of not receiving from a certain quarter such treatment as he was - entitled to expect; and having moreover received pressing invi- tations from America, he embarked for that country in June last. His success there, and the. respect shown him, will be seen by tie annexed letter received from a gentleman in Boston, ( United States, by Mr. George Combe, of Edinburgh. " Boston, Nov. 15, 1832. <• DEAR SIR— Though I have not the holloar of a personal ac- quaintance with you, I trust the occasion of this letter is ample apology for the liberty I assume. Perhaps the sad and melancholy news may reach you before this letter; but it is with the deepest feelings of grief that 1 state Dr. Spurzheim is no more. " He died in this city oil ihe 10th inst. at 11 o'clock r. » i., after tin Illness of about three Weeks. On the 17th- of September he commenced a course of Lectures on Phrenology in this city, and goon after aiiothercourse at Harvard University, Cambridge. These Lectures ocGUpied'six evenings ih the week. He delivered besides a - oiutse of fi « e Lectures before the Medical Faculty, on the Anatomy of the Brain, in the day time. The subject having met with the mostifavourable reception, he laboufed with great earnestness and pains'to elucidate bis principles. He'heitig pe'rsonally admired by our citizens, liis time and presence w'ere in constant demand. Added to these continued engagements, our peculiarly changeable cliiiiate had an unfavourable influence on his constitution. Sudden change exposed him to cold,: aud an incautious transition frOpi a Warm lec- J- ure- room to tiie . evening air was attended with debilitating effects. This varipty of causes brouglit on at first slight indisposition, which, if it liad been attended to, might have been easily checked. Re- garding his illness of less consequence than the delivery of his Lec- tures, he exerted himself for several days, when prudence required an entire cessation from labour. This was the fatal step ; cold produced fever, and this imprudence seemed to settle the fever in his system. ... . , » . ., 3 rv mA- a/ i " He was confined to his room about 15 days, in which time his disease gradually assumed a more alarrtiingaspect, until his death. He was averse to all active medical treatment from the beginning, and resorted to simple drinks and frequent injections. The most skilful of the Medical Faculty in this city were constant in their attendance upon him, and we had two or three Physicians with him constantly, both day and might. Tbe interest, tbe exertion, and the; strong desire to save the life of so valuable a niau, were deep and sincere in the'heart j of his friends. Ail within the power and reach of feeble man was extended for his relief; but, alas 1 it was the will of Divine Providence that he should quit for ever tile scene « f his labour, love, and glory. " His death lias cast a gloom over our city. It is not lamented arith the cold formality of the world ; it produces grief of the most poignant character, and it is expressed in the deepest tones of afflicted humanity. Although he had been with us but a few weeks, lis virtues and worth were known and acknowledged. His amiable manners, his practical knowledge, liis benevolent disposition and purposes, ' his active and discriminating mind, all engaged the good opinions « s£ the prejudiced, and won the affections of the candid. Alas, how inexplicable are the decrees of Divine Providence! " IlisJbody has been examined by the Medical Faculty, and em- balmed. This was thought advisable in case his relations should have a desire to remove it. Casts of his head and brain have been • taken, and hit heart and lungs have been preserved. 1 " Saturday ( the day after to- niortcrw) the last solemn offices are • to be paid to this distinguished man in a public manner. An tulogy by Dr. Trollers, Gorman Professor of Harvard University, wiihbe delivered, and . other services to correspond and suitable to the occasion, an accodrit of which I will transihit as ' soon as pub- MgiA/' al^ adl > ehiabti! pb oifl Jul) obeca saw noil Phrenology is essentially fhe Jseienpe of morale aqad Spurz7 heim practised, the doctrines which he taught. He was eminently vlf- tiidusj ' Shi • nnifoftrity1 dettoWfed' Vice ffl the faMt of misery. He hid'profound BtJDtilrierits Of religion, in i harmony'With rea- son. He- was similes; in,- his; tastes; jemineptly kipireheerfulrapd. liberal in his disposition, capable of warm and enduring attach- ment's, and in'his habits teirip'erate, icthe, and'laborious. [ We have received the above account of Dr. Spurzheim from his friend and fellow- labourer, Mr, De Ville, to whose. industj- y, perseverance, and intelligence, the science of Phrenology is so much indebted.] Mr. CARROLL.— New York Papers to the 25th ult. bring an account of the death of Mi. Carroll, the last of the members of Congress who Sighed'the declaration- of American1 independence. Mr. Carroll was, we believe, the Grandfather df the Marchioness Wellesley. , He had arrived at the age of 86. In- consequence of this event, the following notice lias been issued by the Pre- rident of; the; United States :—( From the Washington Globe)— " The last Burvivor of the . signers of the . Declaration of Inde- pendence— he who for many years has bfen the precious, relic of the band of July 4tb, 1776— is no more ! The death of Charles Carf- oB, of Carrolltcm, is announced to- us. Asa mark ofthe respect due to the occasion, the offices of the United States Government in. this 9jty will be closed tovmorrow, the 16th inst. " Washington, Nov. 15. ANDREW JACKSON." SIR E. G.. COLPOYS, K. C. B.— Vice- Admiral Sir Bdward Griffith Colpoys, K. C. B., Commandei-- in- Chief on the North American station, died at Bermuda on the 9th ult., of general debility and a broken constitution. He selected a particular spot in one of the islands, called Ireland Isle, in which he wished Ms remains to: be interred. His son, Commander Henry G. Colpoys, late of the Spariiowhawk, iwas on shore with him when he died. He was a native, pf Ireland, and in the 66th year of his age., ,, TBE- BELL- ROCK' PILOT:— James Spink died at Arbrriath On the 9th current, aged 85. He is prominently noticed in the Account , of: the Bellj- Rpck Lighthouse, connected ; with the operations on the 2d September, 1807, when he providentially arrived at the Rock with letters from the shore, and was the meanfe 6t giving the IWcS of the engineer and thirty- One artifi- cers; at atime when the tendef had drifted, and the. tide was fast rising upon them 1. FJor ? efvice he was allowed a. small pen- sion from the Lighthouse Board. Spink was a very trusty pilot, and a fine example of a tall robust fisherman, whose figure, in his pilot's dress and large: honhet, has been well preserved by Howe - in a full- length portrait, leaning upon his boat, with the Bell- Rock Lighthouse in the distance. VISCOUNTESS DUNCAN.— It is with regret we announce the death of Henrietta, Viscountess Duncan, at her house in George- square,: Edinburgh. Her Ladyship, who., was in her 84th year, was daughter of Lord President Dundas, and widow of Admiral Lord Viscount Duncan, who gained the glorious victory off Camperdotvn, on the 11th of October, 171) 7. Her Lady- ship, notwithstanding her advanced age, continued to the. last in possession, of all her faculties,, and was distinguished, hy her numerous and unostentatious a'cfcs of kindness and benevolence i to all around her. Her Ladyship's eldest Sonis Robert, Earl of CamipeTdown,,;;/ od nttt eolqiuflhg aiiidliw oeiinoiqtrioo PROFESSOR RASK.— Literature has lost one of its greatest or- ttarhents by the death of Professor ' Rask, of which' accounts have reached us from Cbptnhagen. He Was not'inferior to the first philologists of the age, a& d his entire life was dtevoted to the most useful inquiries connected wit)} human knowledge. CAPTAIN LYON,— It'is with'great regret we have to notice the death of this intelligent and meritorious offider, who died in the Emulous, on his voyage home to England. [ We hope in . the course of next week, to obtain a rpore detail, ed account of the life and death of this, excellent man.] ADMIRAL BLACKWOOD, K. C. B.— We regret to have to an- nounce the death, by scarlet fever, of this highly distihgmshed officer on Friday last, at Ballyhedy House, the seat of his brother, Lord Dufferin and Clanboy. e, in the cqiinty of Down. He was in his 62d year,, and' was the fifth son of Sir John Blackwood. Bart. Sir Henry e# ly distinguished himself in his profession, and at the victory of Trafalgar commanded theEury « dus frigate, and was tlie bearer of the dispatches frpm Lord Cpllingwood an- j nouncing that glorious event. He also rendered himself emi. nen'tljr conspicuous by, his gallant ccruluct when romroaiuling the) Pendope in the Mediterranean, by his capture of the Guillaume Tell, a French 80 gun ship, which struck ' her. flag; to Sir Henry after a smart engagement. He subsequently, commanded the Warspite, 74, on the Mediterranean station, and was created a Baronet of the United Kingdom by his late' Majesty # iien Prince Regent, on the occasion of his steering the Royal, btyrge on t) je visit of the Allied Sovereigns to Portsmouth in July 1814. Sir Henry's- commission of Vice- Admiral bears date July 19, 1821. Sir Henry was Groom Of the Bedchamber to - his present Ma- jesty when Duke of Clarance, and he retained hU place in the Royal Household to the period of his demise. On the 9th inst. in his 85th year, Richard Ryland, Esq. the oldest member Of the Mark Lane Corn Exchange. He was a gentleman of considerable literary attainments, and in early life constituted- one pf the 24 magnates of the " Essex- head- Club," of which Dr. Jphnson was the head, the only surviving member of which is now, We believe, the venerable Lord Stowell. On the ; 19th: inst. at hishduse in Great RuSsell- street, Blooms- bury, in the 64th year of his age, Augustus Pugin, Esq., author of the " Examples o'f Gothic Architecture," and several other works ' on Gothic architecture. LITERATURE. bos abiioiit dfi'w tllod , nf> if- t » ithi- IciiaTimi lo jmb jiH odi VISIT TO GI RMANY AXD THE LOW COUNTRIES, BY SIR ARTHUR BROOKE FAJJLI5NER, 2 V. OLS.— R. BENTLEY. A couple of pleasant, lively, and, in many respccts, use- ful volumes, tbe production of a writer who lias seen much and describes what helhns seen with a degree of ease which few who- travel to make a book know how to assume. His characteristic anecdotes are full of interest and humour, and his description? of the several classes among whom ho sojourned, at once interesting and entertaining, We have, however, to object to many passages iu bad taste, that more matured thought, or the hint of some experienced friend, might have induced Sir Arthur to omit. His work would thus have been of greater value. Indelicacy in a book may be likened to a blot upon a sheet of paper— it not only injures the part on which it has fallen, but spoils the beauty and effect of tbe whole-. TRAITS AND STORIES OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY, 3 YOLS.— WAKEMAN, DUBLIN. This is a second series of " Ti^ its and Stories of the Irish Peasantry ;" the first of which were so decidedly and de- servedly popular. When we received tbe first volume ( which, by the w ay, after the usual manner of conducting affairs on the other side of the Channel, was delivered ten days before the other two), we wore tempted, from the size and appearance of the book, to cry " Hold, enough!" — but now, after having honestly and carefully perused every page, we cordially recommend our readers to follow our example, and assure them they will he amply re- paid for their trouble. The author, we believe a Mr. Charlton, is a powerful writer. His sketches are drawn with an eagle's feather, and every page teems with true and vigorous delineation of national character. The su- perstitious prejudices— the midnight associations— the keen subterfuge— the ready wit— arid the miserable condition of the poor Irish, are painted with vigour and fidelity. " The Donagh,;' and its mysterious influence over the horse- stealers— The Legend of " Tbe Lianhan Shee," now almost forgotten in the wildest parts of the country, yet so full of poetic terror and stern morality—" Phelim O'Toole's Court- ship"— The too true, but most appalling tale of " Wild- gooSe Lodge "— and the " Adventures of tbe Poof Scholar," are all calculated not only to arrest the attention, but to give sound and actual information as to the real state of the country. The casual English reader may complain that in one or two instances the dialogues are protracted, without any visible object being attained thereby, but those who have ever listened to the long winded aud ' round about and about' conversation of genuine Emeralders will at once recognise Mr. Chariton's accuracy in small, as well as in great tilings. When an Irishman has an object to attain, it never enters iiito bis lread ito say, without more ado, " I want such a thing;" for example, wefe a pieoe of wood necessary to make a, door to a: pig- stye, an- Eng- lishman says, " Will yon give me a piece of wood?" but this plain sailing would ill accord wilh Paddy's poetic tem- perament, he would commence as follows:— " Why thin God bless ye— and God encrease your store, though a body need hardly jv- ish that to you, that have sich lashins' of every thing under the sun, and sich a power of beautiful bourdeens. While many an honest man, and what's worse, many an honest man's pig, hasn't a hit as big as a tester to keep the raw, could Wind out of the morsel of a house betwixt him and the illiments." " The Lord keep hard fortune from ivery one's door! May be, Acousbla, ye could tell me tlie cure for sore eyes ; — for sure I am the crayther that we're depiriding on to pay the rint, will go blind as a Protestant, barring some ' kind Christian like yourself^ Aviek, gives us the lingth aud bridthof a door for the sthy," This is but a poor specimen of Paddy's eloquence, al- though it is our own, and not Mr. Charlton's. Those who wish to see it in true power must turn to the first volume of " Traits and Stories," and read " The Pig- driver"— taking this into consideration, that Mr. Charlton's Pig- driver was a " Connaqghtinan," and, according to the accepted belief of the Sister Provinces, born with a lie in his mouth. We have but one objection to make to the reality of those admirable volumes, but we should be equally wanting in gallantry and honesty did we nut enter our protest against Mr. Charlton's delineation of female Irish charactef. FINE ARTS. ——+ r lirobing boy is represented with his sweeping clau » in his pocket i the act pf giving a good- humoured denial to a brother NitfVoa, liO is soliciting " the honour of his support." Iri « caricature one THE FPXIJUNTING SWEFP,.— We hrtyc seen a humourist print, after Aiken, of the'- swiep who declliied to vote for the indepen- dent Capdidate, because lie hunted with ". my Lord." The old in who the- support has no right to be fastidious;' bitt we think our ffienil might have washed his face and brushed his clothes before, he came out. No doubt the artist would say his appearance' is soo'lcd to his profession. The publisher', is Mr. A. cker « itiiiti, of Regent- street, TU'E/ SCOTT: ol- LAWR^ CE.— Mr- Roliinson's dngravjog fijoro Lawrence's portrait of Walter Scottr- ia i'A « /<(' asjiq' « pfl') e great artist, and worthy of the great author— is approaching towards completion. It is likely to be'— if we'may j'. idge from- an unfinished proof— one of the most ' perfect wprks o£ the English school. It will sdoti take the place of all the various prints, of the aMhoy yf Wape^ ley— scarcely qn^ of which bears a resemblance to the original. The picture was paimted fur George; the Fourth, and is'- in the Royrflcollection. CITV of LONDO^ AATRST'S' AND ASVATEUR'S CO& VERS'A? . ziosr.—' f lip members of this Society held the, ir second meeting for this season on Thursday evening. The spegiineijs pf art w ere very brilliant; AiMo'ng tlierii w'e ' noticed a portrait by Vaildyke of the: Prince of Carignin; in: the possession! of ( M » 3 Tofnkiiison ; a ifin? historical picture pf " Wicl(| i, ffe cited before; the'Bishop of .,^. 0,( 1- don," by Juries ; a characteristic portrait of Paganmi, by Patten ; sume beaut'ful laiidicapestby Turner and De Whit-; ' and a portrait of a'Lady, byiJ » lin Wood—: oiae. of the most siicdeissful specimens of this artist's pencil.. Moi} s>, Rocliajd:' s' drawings were, n^ ch admired, and some chalk draw ings of Forest Trees, by Mr. Maisev, attracted much notice1. A bust of the laie Sir JaiiieS Miieklhto'sh, by Mr. Behnes- Biiilowe, was also, exhibited. • ItTs; of fare!. excellence, and a most striking likeness— the best w ork of an artist who is ra- j pidly gaining a very high reputation, and who promises to obtain a disiihgtrished rank aiuong the p'rifeAcrrs'of an art', too much ne- glected in England. Xlfc City <& f- L « rrdHB Cdnversazibne is exceed- ingly, creditable to lliosB jW| Ulii whom it oilgjnated, an, d , by whoro i^ has been supported throughout,' the foremost of them, is, we under- stand, Mr. F. Westley, the publisher ef diii'irf the fctnmi'ais. Our advertising columns announce the publication of a little work, by Mr. J. Greig, containing specimens Of, and instructions for, an improved - style of writing. He has sent 11s his publication, and we have examined it. We have rarely or never seen information at once so swiftly con- veyed, or so easy to be acted upon. His examples of a stiff arid ungainly hand converted into one of clearness and elegance, are so many convincing proofs or the advantage of Mr. Greig's system. LITERARY NOVELTll'. S. Among the more important works announced as forthcoming early in. the ensuing year, are- the several treatises written iiv conformity with Ihe will of the late Earl of Bridgewater, by Dr. Chalmers, Dr. Kidd, ( he Rev. William Whewell, Sir Charles Bell, Dr. Raget, the Rev. William Biickland, the Rev. William Kirlty. oiid Dr. Prout. They will be published, separately, and the first, by Dr. Chalmers,. will be " On the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral aiid lntellectual'Oonditioii of Man." Cohjnel JMaekinnon's " Histo- ry of the Coldstream Guards" will include. an account of, all, the officers ivho have ever served in the Coldstream from its formation to the present time. The illustrative documents, consisting of private letters and papers, are of an extra- ordinary iiature, and are of High impoftanee to tiie British army. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE'. THE NETHERLANDS. ANTWERP.— We resume our account of the siege, the particu- lars of which a press of matter last week compelled as to omit. We therefore carry our readers back a few days, but shall detain them as briefly as possible from the' events that are now more imme- diately before us. SATURDAY, Die. 8.— On this day Chass^, galled by the flr'e from Fort Montebello, intimated his intention, unless that post We'te abandoned, that he would fire on the city. To this Gerard . an- swered that it would be no less lo Chassis interest than to -' the honour of humanity to abstain from such a course— at the same time waving the advantage' which arose frptli the occupation of Montebello. Both this and the preceding day, the Dutch made sorties, which, for skill and bravery, excited the admiration of- the French. The most desperate attempts were made by the latWr ' fo gain the Lunette St. Laurent, but without success, The Dutch, de- fended it with amazing spirit. SUNDAY.— To- day tlie attack on St. Laurent continued, but wto defeated. Leopold, in person, visited the works. MONDAY.— It wai thought to- day that Ger » rd was impatient; of the trifling success of his seven days' exertions; he was resolved, to attack the citadel from the city of Antwerp, in which case its bom- bardment was certain. , v TUESDAY.— Matters went on to- day- as usual. The French were much vexed at being baffled in their attempts 011 Sti Laurent. They succeeded in opening one of the sluices leading to the river,, and thereby supplying the ditch round the city, which was dry. WEDNESDAY.— To- day the French lost 30 men is an ineffectual attempt to push forward a miner, and the Dutch made a sortie, which, though it was disastrous to the several gabions and defences of the sappers, ended infailure. THURSDAY.— A brisk cannonade, accompanied by a sharp fusil- lade, went 011 to- day. Au pbserver mentions 508 as being wounded in the citadel, and that there is great difficulty in taking care of them. The interior of the citadel is in a most wretched condition. FRIDAY, ( fifteenth day of the siege.)— At Bye this morning- the Lihiette St. Laurent was in possession of the French. General Haxo had two or three days before resolved, as the mo$ t speedy means of accomplishing the object, to place a mine in the flank of the lunette. This was completed by a quarter lo four this morning, and about half an hour after the mine was sprung. The commo- tion was considerable. The waters of the fosse were driven , bagk into the approaches of the coveted way, parallel to t| ie left face. Of the lunette, arid inundated them. The workmen were immediately set to work, and a great number of fascines and sacks of e^ rtli having been transported to tlie spot, in less than three quarters" of an hour a solid bridge of the width of four metres, was established between tlie counterscarp and the broken part of tlie scarp. Tiie firing still continuing from the lunette, a company of light troops was ordered to the assault; two detachments of grenadiers, eich 25 men, went immediately down the trench to turn the lunette right and left. Both met at the breastwork, and entered al the open space, while the voltigeurs ascended by the breach ; these nibve- ments were strictly executed. However, the voltigeurs got ih ad- vance of the grenadiers, who had - a long and dangerous passable to go through; not a shot was fired. Some Dutchmen were killed at the point of the bayonet, and l) ie remainder, about 64, wefe made prisoners. The following are the results of the works of this morning against the lunette.:— A practicable breach ill the lunette, a solid bridge which it was unnecessary to put under oover, the oc- cupation of the lunette, and a lodgment six metres in advances of the blindage. F roui the .4th, to.; the 12th^ inclusive, therev!. iraefe fired on the citadel 7,854 shot of 241b., 3,190 of 161b., howitzer shells, and 6,220 bombs, making a total of 26,503 pro- jectiles of all kinds, or 3,312 per day. SATURDAY.— The firing was somewhat lighter to- day. The num- ber of killed and wounded, up to yesterday morning, is stated to be on the French side, 226 wounded, 49 killed in-' the citadel ; 170 in all. A person who had an opportunity of observing to- day, de- scribes a Dutch centinel. Workmen were very busily employed to- day cutting sluices to allow the water to pass from the ditch into the Polders, near the road leading to Holland, SUNDAY— The French, during the night, prepared their broach- ing batteries, and completed their lodgment in the Lunette Sf. Laurent, into which a very heavy fire was poured by the ' Dutch. MONDAY.— The weather was very wet during the night, and the lain fell in torrents. The French do- not appearas well pleased with their artillery as with their engineer corps. The great Lieg& mortar was tried to- day, but not upon the citadel. Much uncertainty prevails as to future operations, and rumours of the Prince, . of . Orange's movements somewhat disturbed the order of things. ' The engineers have the greatest difficulties to surmount in bringing the artillery to the new batteries. The mud is ill several . places o. vfer the axle of the waggons, and the men are up. to their knees in water. The Dutch have succeeded in repairing a great: de'al of damage done in the bastion Toledo. It is said 850 ladders aTe already made for storming the citadel. During this night the French it was asserted, intended to take by storiil or otherivisq, the deigi- lune which is situated at the rear of the lipiette St. Laurent. TUESDAY.— The trenches prepared by the French engineers were allowed to be visited by. those officers who produce propercertificates of their rank to tbe head of the French staff. Siome attempts were made, but prevented immediately, to take sketclies and draughts of the plans of the trenches. Little firing pf coursfe topic place to- day. The French engineers werie engaged this evening in destroying the sluices, and attacking the rBveline between the baa- tions Toledo and Pacietto. - '• ' _ WEDNESDAY.-— The French, during last night, niade an at tempt to throw a bridge of fascine across the ditch of the> denii- lune, between the bastions Toledo ami Pacifctto-, in which-: tliey ' dj not succeed, from having taken a wrong direction in ( lie da- They lost so many men in placing the bridge, that General llano, tire chief of the French engineers, ordered them to desist. The number lost is estimated at 46 killed and wounded. . Nqne of the breaching batteries are yet armed. There was a brisk cannonade at three o'clock yesterday, between the Dutch frigates arid st> i> French batteries on the banks of the river. The a'tack nia'dedfSt night on the demi- lune which covers ( lie front of the bastionToTedo, was completely unsuccessful. The French retreated Under a dreatl- ful fire of musketry from the Dutch. Forty- six roen'of tile be- siegers were killed. Towards this afternoon the firing became'If'ss brisk, and. about. four o'cldck it was almost a- dead calm. THURSDAY. MEDICAL SCIENCE. ANATOMY.— A deputation connectedwith the meeting bf jmpils', waited on MJR> Phillips, at the Home- office, a few days ago, having in contemplation to present. a. memorial to Lord Melbourne. We again repeat our warning : let public attention be directed to the subject of their complaint, and the evil in question will be multi- plied tenfdld. The bill has worked with astonishing facility, considering the , very short period it has been in operation ; and if thrive who have . been most fortunate would assist those who have been less'so, and all parties would keep quiet, we are convinced that in a very short time there Would nowhere exist any cause of complaint.— Medical Gazette. .' CURE FO& HYDROPHOBIA,— At the meeting of the Medioo- BotanicaJ Society, Sir Anthony Carlisle addressed the members on the subject, of a remedy for hydrophobia, new to this country. The learned Baronet stftte> d that he had received from South America three bottles ( containing about a quart each) of the ex- tracted' jiiic^ Of the plant of' the cactus family, whicli are well-: knoWn to'be harmless in- their affects ; some of them being used as a salad, and cattlei being fed On others When there is a dearth of grass. The mp( Je of application in South America is to put the patient up to, his neck in sand or earth, and pour two ounces arid a half of the extract down his throat by force, as soon after ; the bite as ppssihle : it has,, however,- been cured effectually, even, when giv, en after confirmed symptoms of the disease have set in. Sir Anthony stated, on the authority of his informant, that the ' strait Waistcoat of sand or earth was not absolutely necessary td the cure, igir Arithsjnyi stated that he would be ready to accom- , pany,,^ py medical practitioner, particularly one of a. pydjlic in- i stitution, to witness its exhibition in any case occurring in their • JFTICTTIW ovovi OJ ei; 08 bom ," n> pt « j DnuvniHj To ITO- T] The French kept up to- day a continual firing frOb) a battery of eleven mortar's, and succeeded in destrriylrig sevejaj gUn's-. op the ramparts of the citadel. It is said this, mgining . that Cliasse, having been told that it- was reported at Antwerp tliat- he was seldom seen by his garrison, answered, " Tell Marshal Gerard that I will give him a rendezvous in the breach." ' Additional French troops arrived lliis morning from Valenciennes. GREECE. baiio- i- King Otho left Munich on the 6th instant, to take possession',- of the sovereignty of Greece. He was accompanied by. the. ititig and Queen about two- leagues ; his brother ( the PritiCB:< U< o^ al) and one of his maternal uncles were to accompany Irim toNa] jles. Ft& m thence he was to proceed by Otranto and Brindisi to Corfu,^ he place of rendezvous for the little army which was ( 0 . iccompany him. It has calculated tbat he would not be able to reach Nauplia before the end of January. AMERICA. The accounts from New Orleani are very disastrous. The city is in a state of the utmost alarm. Some idea of'jli^ tyirulence of the pestilence may be formed, from the following record of inter- ments:— On the 26thOctober, 105 ;, 27th, 145 ; 28th, lf- 7 ; - SStb, 138; 30th, 160; 31st, 155; Noveinber 1st, 230 ;' 2d, 170; ' 3d, 177 ; 4th, 2JS— total in 10 days, 1,630. ' f. l it > 1 [ It should be recullected, however, tl. at ' the preseBt js-- al^ ayfl ". sickly season" at New Orleans, during whiph- i thousands We have heard that four out of every five of the immense nuhib'er's of Irish who visit the City Of the Swamps perish evJrv vearvT' 5" " CHINA. ; Letters from Canton mention that ihe revolt in the interior still continued, with new successes on the part of the rebels, jfli ( he disposableiforce of Canton had been sentinto the revolted'distHot. The Governor of Canton was on the eve of setiii » g>'< M#.'. Ahflett of large travelling boats had passed up the river with troops V 412 THE TOWU, December 23. 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 xperience in all that relates to public affairs, of intimate acquaintance with the several branches of the Periodical Press, and who 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. While, on the one hand, it will support whatever is essential to good government, in accordance with the prin- ciples of the Constitution, as reformed and established on the basis that all power emanates from the nation,— it will, on the other, fearlessly oppose whatever has a tendency to sacrifice the general good to mere experiment or rash innovation. 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We thank the writer for his kind intention. We beg to decline the verses of G. I. T." They are too long for a weekly newspaper. " A Lawyer" will perceive that we had been aware of the importance of the course he advises " without a fee." Our best attention will be directed to a matterjif such " paramount importance." For the flattering letters we have received from " A Reader of No. 51," " T. B. S." and " A Supporter," our best thanks are due. We cannot at once do all that we desire, but we trust to pursue a course that will secure the success they anticipate for our efforts. " A Sportsman" will perceive that we have acted upon his suggestion. Our desire is, to give more information in less space than heretofore, and we have little doubt of attaining our object. Our Newmarket Correspondent will accept our best thanks for his let- ter. We hardly need say that, we shall at all times be most happy to hear from him. The elections continue to proceed most favourably for the Government ; and, by a rare coincidence, for the coun- try. There is the best possible evidence of the fact in the despair and wailings of those who advocate the expiring cause of Toryism, Oligarchy," and jobbing. An illustrious name, and the most splendid public services, could not shield the Duke of WELLINGTON from the defeat of his son, in his own county of Hanls. What the Duke will do in the new Parliament would be a curious subject of speculation. We have heard rumours of his abandoning the Tories: it may have arisen from his known character. An old soldier, no one knows better how to mask his movements, or change his plan of operations with more promptitude when it suits his purpose. He is in such a position that he must abandon Toryism or public life : and the man who, with so much energy, compelled the Tory camp, with a few exceptions, to desert with him from the standard of intolerance to that of emancipation, is not likely to be either slow or scrupulous in wheeling round again with the same rapidity and recklessness. But whe- ther he changes or not is essentially his individual con- cern. The country and the public councils cannot be affected. He either becomes tho ally of the Government, or he is powerless. The day is gone by for governing the country by patronage, party, or the magic of a name. We have heard it suggested lhat the Reformed Com- mons will be found unmanageable in the hands of an Ad- ministration from which the resources of patronage is cut away. The new House of Commons will, we judge, on the contrary be much more easily wielded or satisfied by a Minister of independent purposes and good intentions. Hitherto the Government was obliged to truckle to the noble and ignoble jobbers who filled the House of Com- mons with their puppet nominees. It is well known that even tho Tory Administration of the late reign was fre- quently compelled to forego its intentions of public good, and its obligations of public duty, at tire dictation of bo- rough- owners. The late Lord LIVERPOOL, a weak man, brought up in a bad school, but personally incorrupt, and not without public spirit, complained grievously of the yoke of the borough oligarchy, while he was obliged to bow his neck beneath it. Lord GREY, it is true, must adopt a searching and unsparing system of economy and retrench- ment. This is the common cry of ( lie new constituency, with whatever shade of difference in opinion from thc Ra- dical to the ( so- called) Conservatives. The strength of the Minister will be in the efficiency of his retrenchments and reforms, and the very cutting away of patronage but con- firms his power. That is really tho most gratifying of all stations to a proud and independent Minister, which ena- bles him to defy those landed oligarchs of whatever party, who have made the people a cypher in the government of the country, from the Revolution to Ihe Reform Bill. HEBDOMADARY. Day of Mo. Day of We. High\ , Mom. Vater. — , Aftern. Remarkable Events, etc. Sunday Lessons. H. M. H. M. Sun rises 8 after 8 TO Su. 2 36 2 54 Jam. II. fl. Roch 1688 Morning: 24 M. 3 12 3 29 Dr. Beddoes d 1808 Isaiah so ?<> Tu 3 48 4 7 Sir I. Newton b 1642 76 W, 4 24 4 41 Fr. land in Bantry b. 27 AS Til 5 1 5 21 Dr. Blair d 1808 Evening: F. 5 38 5 55 St. Lucia- t. from Fr. Isaiah an 29 Sa. 6 18 6 41 Lord Stafford ex. 1680 1st John 3 TO THE ELECTORS OF WESTMINSTER. GENTLEMEN, i^ ALLED upon by a considerable number of yourselves vl-' to become a Candidate for your City and Liberty 011 grounds which appeared, and still appear, amply sufficient to justify me m acceding to the request; and believing, as I still believe, that had there been time to have perfected the necessary arrangements I should have been re- turned to Parliament, I have, personally, nothing to regret, but much with which to be satisfied, much for which to be grateful. . That with scarcely any previous organization, without which in the s .. sent state of things success can hardly be expected, I should have pollkd, out of the comparatively small number that took part in the contest,' nearly 1100 votes, of which ONE THOUSAND were plumpers, is to me matter for exultation; a- d an assurance that, unless the con- duct of Sir John Hobhouse should differ very materially fromwhat it has Iatelybeen, my return for yc. r city at the next election is certain. Should the conduct of thht Right Honourable Secretary be worthy of the Representative of your great City, I shall be as willing as any one of bis present friends to advocate his continuance as your Representative. My wish, as well as that of the^ electors who invited me, to come for- ward, was, and is, that your Representative should openly, manfully, fearlessly, and effectually advocate the further reforms which circum- stances have made necessary, and which in themselves are essential to the peace, the comfort, and the prosperity of the Empire. The late contest has brought numbers of tbe electors into closer con- tact than for some years past existed amongst them, and the result must be good to Westminster— good to the Empire, and I shall always feel thel conscious pride of having to some extent been an instrument in your hands to this end. With the most cordial and heartfelt thanks for the zeal and good will exhibited towards me, as well personally as politically, I remain, Gentlemen, respectfully and faithfully, yours, Waterloo- place, Dec. 19, 1832. D. L. EVANS. THE TOWM. LONDON: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1832. The latest accounts from Antwerp give us little reason to hope for a speedy termination of the unhappy— if not unwise— contest. The taking of the Lunette St. Laurent Las proved of little advantage to the besiegers; and the attack on the bastion Toledo was a cornplelo failure. Ano- ther effort to secure it has, we imagine, by this time been made. Official information of the 19th gave notice that the breaching and counter batteries were in order; and that the celebrated bomb ( of l, 0001bs. shell) was to be im- We have reason to think that Ireland, at this moment, is an object not only of deep attention but of serious alarm to the King's Ministers. The progress of the Irish elec- tions is well calculated to startle any Minister endued with ordinary prudence and sagacity. The matter presents itself under two points of view:— the state of Ireland pre- sent and impending, as an integral part of the United Kingdom; and the actual position of the local Irish Go- vernment. The latter is a secondary, but more immediate and pressing subject of consideration. Looking to the course of the elections, both in towns and counties, we find the constituency partitioned between the Repealers and Conservatives, with here and there the rare apparition of a Government candidate returned, or likely to be re- turned. The Irish Government seems placed upon a nar- row isthmus, with the tide of party dashing against it on either side, and threatening to sever it from all connection with the nation. This is substantially the result of a long existing system of vicious policy; but at the same time the Irish Government of the day is not blameless. The two most conspicuous defeats of the Administration are those of the City and University of Dublin; and, in both instances, discomfiture has been aggravated by extreme short- sightedness, and by the want of decision and energy. Mr. 0' CONNEI. L has been able to return himself and his nominee tor Dublin : his power of doing so is tho result of the indecision and weakness and inconsistency of the Go- vernment. He committed himself, if any man did, by writing and speaking in the tithe business. He is the most deficient of men in political and moral courage. The Go- vernment threatened to proceed against him; and, after a pompous note of preparation had been at least semi- officially put forth, he was allowed to revel not only in impunity but in triumph. He said, and to all ap- pearance with truth, that the Government did not dare to grapple with him. But this pusillanimous, incon- sistent, anomalous Government was at the very time em- ploying, not only the whole machinery of the law, but the whole armed force, both police and military, against indi- viduals who had compromised themselves on the faith, if not at the instigation, of Mr. O'CONNELL, and against the whole Irish Catholic people. Those who know the stale of Ireland well know that the employ- ment of a military force lo protect tithe sales was infi- nitely more calculated to provoke the people to lawless out- rage than the prosecution of Mr. O'CONNELL. In fact, it would seem as if the Irish Government for some months was studious only of giving him new influence and eclat in the [ elections. Having enabled Mr. O'CONNELL to com mand the representation of Dublin, the Government, in a sort of purblind pique, acted so as to proye its own im poterice. Under pretence of non- interference, proclama- tion was made that the dependents of the Castle might vote as they pleased. This was throwing the whole in- fluence of the Government into the scale of the Conserva- tives; but, instead of inclining the balance in their favour, it only proved that Mr. O'CONNELL was able to wield the constituency of Dublin against the Conservatives and the Castle united. One advantage, indeed, the Lord Lieutenant may diaw from the eager haste with which the satellites of his Government rushed to the hustings to support the Tory opponents of his Government— it is the discovery how few Whigs or Reformers he has about him. There are some Liberals in the political confidence and intimate society of Lord ANGLESEY, hut it is known and felt by all but Lord ANGLESEY himself, how little they in- fluence his counsels. An opinion, we have good ground to assert, prevails in Dublin and throughout Ireland, that there is at the Castle a sort of interior and irresponsible Ca- binet, governed aud animated by the spirit of Toryism. The Lord Lieutenant is too frank and right- minded to ad- mit the supposition of his being consciously the accomplice or instrument of such a cabal; but even he himself must now be sensible that the great majority of the suite of his Government is composed, notof Whigs and Reformers, but of trimmers, who disguise their Toryism under the cloak of what was called at the period of the revolution— a period remarkable like the present for hypocrisy and trimming— occasional conformity. It was natural for the Lord Lieu- tenant toshrink from intercourse with the presumption and vulgarity of some Dublin Liberals, and he may be excused for retaining or adopting a few dangling fribbles, whose greater familiarity with the Castle rendered them more convenient or agreeable appendages of a Court. But how are the most influential offices of his Government filled ? With the exception of the Chancellor of Ireland, they are all occasional conformists. In Ireland, where the chief business of Government is unhappily the preservation of the public peace by the execution of criminal enactments, the Attorney- General, as public prosecutor, is the most in- lidential officer of the Crown. Now, the Irish Attorney- General hardly condescends to disguise his antipathy to Whiggism and Reform. It is known that he took office on the condition of not going into the House of Commons, where he must have frankly, or at least implicitly, com- mitted himself with the measures of Government. This compromise with his principles may be variously judged for or against his political honesty and reputation, but it clearly proves him unfit to advise and administer the mea- sures of a liberal Government in Irelaud. The Solicitor- General, Mr. CRAMPTON, look the station declined by, if it may be so expressed, his superior officer. He went into the House of Commons as the legal organ and implicit supporter of the Reform Government. Was he more of a Whig or less unscrupulous than his colleague? A glance at his character and career will soon decide the question, and we venture to anticipate, show that his ap- pointment as law officer has been equally detrimental to the country, the Government, and himself. Mr. CRAMPTON was a Lay- Fellow of the University of Dublin, and a prac- tising Barrister. His acquirements in law and science were of that common order which may be attained by me- diocre capacity and diligent application. To politics he never gave a thought until the Solicitor- Generalship pre- sented itself to his ambition. As little, or, if possible, still less had he thought of being a Whig or a Reformer. The brother of a Tory Parson, a member of a tuft- hunting, in triguing Tory family, he became at once, to the surprise of all who knew him, a Whig, a Reformer, and Solicitor- General. A sudden and lucrative conversion is no earnest of sincerity or zeal. But, admitting that he was sincere, and zealous, still his want of enlarged views and political ex- perience, his ignorance of the political state of Ireland, made him a most incompetent adviser of an Englishman acting as Irish Secretary. Yet it is to him that Mr. STANLEY is said to have resorted as his oracle on all mea- sures connected with tithes. The Irish Tithe Bill is reported to have been both advised and drawn up by him. Never was a measure of legislation more mistaken and unfortunate. Mr. CRAMPTON affirmed that the bill would secure and satisfy the Clergy, and be easily enforced upon the people. After a vain effort, a lamentable expenditure of human blood, thc execution of the law is substantially abandoned ; and to judge of the feelings of the Clergy towards the measure and its author, we need only look at the ignominious de- feat of the Irish Government at the College election in the person of Mr. CRAMP TON. It is not surprising that Mr. CRAMPTON, with his stunted capacity and limited acquirements, should have wholly miscalculated Ihe effects of a legislative or political mea- sure upon a people ; but it is extraordinary and unaccount- able that he should have so grievously miscalculated his chances of success with the new constituency of the Uni- versity of Dublin, in the creation of which he had a princi- pal share. His whole course has been one of ano- maly and error. Instead of extending the franchise in the University to the actual and ex- fellows aud scholars, who would have formed a numerous and liberal constituency, he let in a shoal of masters of arts, consisting of starved curates and pampered dignitaries, who now render the University of Dublin as complete a clerical borough as was that of Armagh ; and he had the blindness to expect that their suffrages would bo gained by the merit of his Tithe Bill. That the Government of Ireland cannot go on as at present constituted and conducted, is, we think, clear. The mailer must be taken up immediately and earnestly, by Lord GREY and his Colleagues. They may arrest the course of mischief, buHhey cannot repair that which has been done. TOWN TALK. A DIPLOMATIC ON DIT.— There is a curious on dit afloat in the diplomatic circles. Such matters will get abroad, one scarcely knows how. We have heard the whisper, and, as in duty bound, whisper it into the ears of our readers ; but to none other than our readers shall it be communicated through us. On dit, then, that when first the obstinate Hollander re- fused to listen to reason, and all Downing street was puzzled to know what to do, the Right Hon. the Foreign Secretary said to his colleagues thus— or, rather, to this effect:—" I am as averse to war as you can be ; hut there - js no fear of war. Leave the matter to me ; I will write a private note to the King of Hol- land, who knows me very well, and the matter will be at once arranged." The thing was agreed upon, and the thing was done. William of Holland, however, condescended not to reply to this " private" note ; day after day elapsed and no answer 1 No allusion was made to it until after some time, in a formal document addressed to the British Government, the King sneer- ingly observed that a letter had been addressed to him by a person signing himself " Palmerston." On dit, further, that his Lordship was terribly piqued, and that M. Talleyrand found it no difficult matter to procure his assistance in humbling the supercilious Dutchman. BYERS,' THE INFORMER. " The spirit of' information' is abroad."— LORD BROUGHAM. Who say that all trade's at a stand must be liars, When sellers, of all sorts, have visits from Byers. COMBUSTIBILITY OF CHASSF.' S CITADEL.— Since the bombardment by the French, the citadel has been on fire four or five times, proving that Chassis bomb- proof has turned out io) » bast. IRISH APOLOGIES.— It is rarely that an Irish paper is published without some such paragraph as this:—" In con- sequence of the enormous length of Mr. O'Connell's speech, we are obliged to postpose the insertion of," & c. A PEER IN PATTENS.— A few mornings since a young and noble Conservative, on leaving a well- known club- house in St. James- street, met with a lady dressed in a fashionable style. His gallantry being increased by the juice of the Tuscan grape, induced the Noble Lord to enter into conversation, and he forth- with began trifling with the frail daughter of Eve. Finding his feet cold in their pumps, he complained of the dampness of the ground, and asked the lady to lend him her pattens, a proposal to which she very goodnaturedly consented. His Lordship, however, not being aware of the precise mode of putting them on, begged of the lady to do so, which she also did, taking care to tye them ex- tremely close over the shoe ; having disabled the Noble Lord from using his feet, she very speedily eased him of his purse, con- taining between 20 and 30 sovereigns. As soon as it was fairly in her possession the lady ran off, exclaiming, " here is the police coming." " But stop," exclaimed the Noble Lothario, " and take your pattens, for I cannot walk." His request was unheeded ; the youth stood as immovable as a statue, wondering at the kindness of the dame, but soon discovered the disadvantageous exchange he had made. He was unable to keep his own secret; and has since been greeted by his Club as the " Pattened Peer." The Law Students of the London University have con- gratulated Sir Thomas Denman upon his late elevation, in a neat address, to which Sir Thomas returned an appropriate answer. PERIODICAL ALDERMEN.— A desire prevails in the Cily that the Court of Aldermen should be thrown open, and that the office of one should, instead of being conferred for life, be- come periodical. Some of the worthy members are at present sufficiently weekly. The sticklers for the old order of things start at the idea of change, and affirm, that a proposition to have Aldermen annually, is equal to a threat to take those officers by the ( y) ear. THEMISSTURTONS.— Although statements have appeared in various Papers that these ladies are in France, such is not the case ; they have been living in London incog, ever since the affair at the St. James'sBazaar. The eldest, who committed the offence, and who has been stated by her family to be of an imbecile mind; is about to proceed to India on a visit to her relations, some of whom, on the father's side, hold important situations in the civil department in the Presidency of Madras. Similar cases are by no means rare. We could mention the nai. e of a Peer of the realm, who not long ago paid a sum of 481, for jewellery " taken without leave." Many of our readers are, doubtless, aware that au eminent harpist rarely enters a house without re- moving to his own some matter not his own property. His in- firmity is known; the article is sent back the next day to the proper master. SUFFICIENTLY HUMBLE.— The Standard says, " the ob- jects of a sober Conservative must be sufficiently humble, viz. to save the Monarchy and the Aristocracy if possible." How will the King and the Peerage relish this compliment to their importance > Verily the loyalty of the Standard appears to be flagging. A BROWBEATER ANSWERED.— A certain lawyer, of Old Bailey celebrity, met with a rebuff a few weeks ago that must have produced some effect even upon the browbeater's head of brass and heart of iron. He was endeavouring to shake the evidence of a clergyman by endeavouring to show that his oath must be lightly regarded, inasmuch as he was at the time a prisoner for debt. After more than once questioning the re- verend witness as to where he last came from before he entered the court, this answer was at length obtained :—" I came, Sir, from the King's Bench prison ; I was confined there by the ras- cality of one lawyer, and am compelled now to expose myself by the brutality of another." THE COKES AND THE OAKS.— Mr. Coke, of Holkham, and his family, lately passed a pleasant hour or two on board a vessel built of oak produced from acorns planted by the vene- rable farmer and reformer upon his own estate. The circum- stance would form a fine subject for poetry, and we recommend it to " TheTribe" now that Corydons and Delias are dead • Luna has long since gone out, and " love" and " dove" are no' more to be found among the stock in trade of a modern bard. " FOR SHORTNESS."— The Irish papers, it is well known, used to keep ready set, according to the printer's phrase the' lines— Hereditary bondsmen 1 know ye not, Who would be free themselves must strike the blow to be inserted in all speeches of all " liberators." They now adopt a more simple plan, and whenever the quotation occurs insert it thus, Who would be free, & c. the " & c." serving just as well for the first line and the con- elusion of the second. MR. BABRAGE AND THE BOOKSELLERS.— An angry feel- ing between these parties, derived from certain remarks in The Economy of Manufactures, which exhibited the booksellers as forming a combination against the interests of authors and the public, is at present a topic of some conversation. In aggrava- tion of the offence he had thus already given to " the trade " Mr. Babbage, in the second edition of his work, has taxed them with the further and most particular combination of agreeing to impede the sale of that work. Against this second attack the wary bibliopoles have adopted an ingenious mode of defence. They have drawn up a numerical statement of the copies taken by some of them both on the first and second publication, and this they have carefully stuck, as a " piece illustrative" into'each copy of the offending book remaining for circulation. Mr. Babbage, we will venture to say, has not polled such a biped as a single bookseller in his late election contest. As to the main ground of the dispute, we cannot but think that this gentleman's attack on " the trade" has involved considerable injustice, by creating wrong impressions among the public as to thedeahngs and emoluments of the class in question. He has made out an extreme, a one- sided case, by stating profits at their gross no- minal amount, without due explanation of those risks and con- tingencies which in reality detract largely from the net surplus. December 23. THU TOW^. 413 The best proof of this error, is the plain fact that the bookselling fraternity are notoriously in no better condition than any other class of dealers, although, according to Mr. B.' s showing, they ought to be a most pecuniary people. We are not disposed to argue that their system affords no room for reform ; but we could state many reasons why the blame sought to be cast on them should be shared in no slender proportion by another class, who are among the most determined constituents of high prices — namely, authors. If the very aristocratical rates of payment insisted on by some of these latter gentlemen were made known, the costly rate at which books are sold would cease to be im- puted so pertinaciously to the booksellers alone. According to the statement to which we have referred, of the first edition of Mr. Babbage's Economy of Manufactures, fifteen of the trade purchased no less a number than 1977; and of the second edition of the same work, twelve of the trade purchased 1375. If this be " impeding instead of aiding the sale," we hope the sale of all books will be impeded after the same fashion. Mr. Babbage should make further inquiries, obtain greater ex- perience, and offer the amende honorable to the publishers, against whom he had advanced a charge equally unwise and unjust. THE ARTIST AND " LITTLE VIC."— A short lime since an artist was occupied in painting a portrait of the Duchess of Kent. Her Royal Highness had expressed herself relative to the work in very gratifying and flattering terms. The Princess Victoria was by. " And now," said the painter, forgetting, in the joy of his heart and the enthusiasm of the moment, in whose presence he stood; " and now let me show it to Little Vic." The young Princess, astonished at the rudeness of his speech, looked at him with exceeding wrath, but it was gone in an in- stant when she perceived the terrified countenance and manner of the now conscious speaker. Her anger was at once changed to a merry girlish laugh, as she immediately quitted the room. Her mother appeared as if she had not heard the remark, and the artist, after the lapse of a minute, was able to proceed with his pencil. MRS. TROLLOPE— The North American Review says," the pious thankfulness which Mrs. Trollope expresses at being de- livered from Republicanism is like that of a soldier in our late war, who, when shot through his military cap, remarked that he was devoutly grateful that he had not a low- crowned hat on, as in that case the ball would have gone directly through his head." The Americans are making merry at the " old woman's" expense. We have heard some curious stories on the subject, and shall re- late them ere long. SERIOUS ANNOUNCEMENT.— We regret to inform our readers, that Mr. St. John Long ( of whom they will learn more by referring to the inquests upon Miss Cashin and Mrs. Lloyd) is at Brighton, suffering under a severe form of pulmonary con- sumption ; knowing the remedies he had at his disposal against such a disease, Mr. Long did not take them in until it was too late ; when he found, to his great surprise, that they fairly took him in. In this dilemma he was advised to apply to Sir Matthew Tierney, who recommended to him auscultation. Mr. Long, not being well acquainted with medical phraseology, mis- took auscultation for horse- cultivation, from which latter branch of science we grieve to say he has hitherto derived no benefit. But, as a per contra to all this, our readers will learn with satis- faction, that during Mr. Long's absence from town, the most Noble the Marchioness of Ormond and Mrs. Hill ( the latter lady from St. Patrick's Isle, and an intimate friend of Long's) have, in the most humane and kind manner taken upon them- selves to superintend the " rubbing in" and " inhaling" depart- ments of Mr. Long's branch of art at his mausoleum in Harley . street. We should also add, that instead of ( as in Lord Inges- trie's case) quicksilver flowing from Mr. Long's head, brass only has come forth, a fact from which Mr. L. is lead to infer the most serious and fatal results to himself. AFTER- DINNER CHIT- CHAT.—" This would be an ex- cellent cheese, if toasted," said the matronly Mrs. D., at a recent city dinner.—" Then suppose we toast it," said our fat and facetious friend, Sir C. F., filling a bumper,—" the cheese— three times three 1" VERY AMBIGUOUS.—" Have you a wife, poor man ?" - asked the charitable Mr. H. of a beggar, the other day.—" I have a- lass! Sir I" was the mendicant's reply. THE HARVEST THAT GENIUS REAPS.— Poor Bonning- ton perhaps before he had ever dreamed of his future fame had to endure the misery that too frequently awaits upon genius, and to abide the usual straggles of poverty against hope. " Golden opinions" he had gained before his death, but the golden harvest was to be reaped by those who had purchased his works, and who found the shillings they had thus expended be- come guineas, when the unhappy artist had sunk under the dis- ease that early difficulties and disappointments had either cre- ated or confirmed. While residing somewhere in the neighbour- hood of Tottenham- court- road, he was compelled to pawn, doubtless for a few shillings, three of his paintings. A few months ago they were discovered and purchased by a picture- dealer, who immediately disposed of one for forty- five pounds, and who values the other two at about one huudred and fifty. It is known there are four other of his works in some nook or corner under similar circumstances, and probably at no very dis- tant period they will also be brought to light, to reward the person who is fortunate enough to find them. RUMOURS. THE KINO.— It is the intention of his Majesty to remain at Brighton until the latter end of February. The palace will be the scene of the most splendid festivities during Christmas; and the only temporary absence on the part of his Majesty from Brighton will be on his coming to town to open the first session of the new Parliament. SPORTING WITH PARLIAMENT.— Amongst the on dits in circulation upon the return of John Gully, Esq. as member for Pontefract, in Yorkshire, to the Reform Parliament, is one which states that it arose from a bet that was made between a noble Lord and the Hon. Member ; the former laying a wager of several thousands that Mr. Gully could not get into Parliament. The wager was accepted, and of course won. It is also said, that Mr. Gully will only go into the House take his oaths and seat, and immediately afterwards accept the Stewardship of the • Chiltern Hundreds. THE MISSION TO SPAIN.— We have been informed that Sir Stratford Canning's diplomatic mission to Spain will termi- nate by January; and upon his return to England he will im- mediately go out to Russia as Ambassador Extraordinary, to accomplish those objects with the Autocrat in which Lord Durham so signally failed. A NEW BANK.— It is rumoured that Mr. Alexander Baring is about to establish a bank in Dublin, upon a plan altogether new ; the principle of which is, to lend money upon deposit and transfer of bonds, judgments, and other securities. Money in Ireland is, as usual, in great request; but where are the securities? Pledges enough have been given and taken of late, but they are not exactly such as Mr. Alexander Baring will require. THE ADMIRALTY SESSIONS.— It is said to be in contem- plation to hold the Sessions for the trial of offences committed on the high seas at certain stated periods, instead of appointing them to be held at uncertain times fixed by the Admiralty. - Sometimes twelve or fifteen months have elapsed between each Session, and this has often operated as a denial of justice to all parties. CONSERVATIVE GIFTS 1— It is said that the Conservative Club advanced 2,000/. towards the late contest at Hull.—[ We should like to know in what proportions this sum was divided how much a head ? We trust the agents will be called upon to render a true and faithful account of the expenditure.] CHRISTMAS BOXES.— The practice which has been so long in vogue and so severely felt by many tradesmen, of giving presents at Christmas is about to be put an end to this time by the licensed victuallers of the metropolis ; several district meet- ings having already taken place on the subject, and others being on the point of following the example.—[ We suppose that plum- puddings will be next execrated as reUcs of barbarism. The practice of eating roast beef will, however, be encouraged at least by the above- named class of disinterested Reformers.] A n. nrriage is on the tapis between Sir William Somer- ville, Bart., and the Lady Harriet Conyngham, daughter of the Marquis of Conyngham. Sir William will by his alliance receive a marriage portion of 100,000/.— Limerick Chronicle.—[ One hundred thousand pounds is a large sum for an Irish peer to bestow in dowry with his daughter ; and although " hay" was doubtless made while the " sun shone," we are at a loss to guess where the money comes from.] It is generally understood that the Earl Grey, soon after his acceptance of office, proposed to Lord Milton to elevate his venerable and excellent father, Earl Fitzwilliam, to the Mar- quisate of Rockingham ; but the infirm state of health in which the Noble Earl has been for a length of time, has for the present occasioned the honour to be deferred. Early in the week a rumour was circulated of the safety of Captain Ross and his fellow voyagers. We regret to state that it was without foundation. A rumour prevails in the diplomatic circles of a note having been presented by the Russian Ambassador to the Cabinet of Madrid upon the spirit of liberalism which appears in the acts of the Queen Regent.— Gazette de France. COURT AND FASHION. THEIR MAJESTIES.— Their Majesties continue at Brighton. The Brighton Herald of yesterday states, that they are in the enjoyment of good health. The King has been pleased to appoint Colonel Sir E. J. Murray Macgregor, Bart, to be Governor and Commander- in- Chief of the Islands of Antigua, Montserrat and Barbuda, St. Christo- pher, Nevis, Anguilla and the Virgin Islands, and Dominica. Mr. Wilkie, R. A., has been honoured by her Majesty with a sitting for her portrait. The Duke of Sussex has been confined to his bed for some days past in Kensington Palace, with a very severe attack of cold and inflammation in the eyes. We are glad to learn, how- ever, that " his Royal Highness is better,"— that his eyeness is recovering. The Marquis of Palmella is yet in town. Don Pedro has appointed Filippe Ferriera and Albuquerque to assist him in his negotiations. The marriage of the Hon. Mr. Talbot ( nephew of the Mar- chioness of Lansdowne, and son of Lady Elizabeth Fielding by her first husband) with the youngest daughter of F. Mundy, Esq. M. P. is about to take place. The Right Hon. Charles Richard Vaughan, our Minister to the United States, has left town for Paris. His Excellency re- turned from Washington for the improvement of his health, leaving Mr. Charles Bankliead British Charge d'Affaires during his absence. Among the new creation of Peers, it gives us much pleasure to hear that an old promise to Lord Sherborne is to be realised by his Lordship being created Earl of Cheltenham, of Chelten- ham, of which place he is lord of the manor. His Excellency Namik Pacha and suite have arrived in town, on a special mission from the Ottoman Porte to the British Court. His Highness and the four gentlemen composing his suite are sojourning at Grillon's Hotel, in Albemarle- street. The object of his mission is supposed to specially relate to the state of affairs in Egypt, and the final arrangement respecting Greece. We learn that there is no foundation for the report of the recal of the Prussian Minister, Baron Bulow. THE WEEK. KNIGHTS OF THE BATH.— Mr. Roebuck, M. P. for Bath, and a Mr. Foster, have had a row. The former, it appears, struck the latter a blow on the face, in consequence of his having flung away, in a contemptuous manner, an offered " satisfaction card." The parties have put forth their state- ments. The Bath Chronicle in commenting upon them says:— " If the first of these two statements be correct, we certainly think that Mr. Roebuck acted just as any man of spirit and quick temper could be expected to act in a similar case. If, on the other hand, Mr. Foster's account be the accurate one, we have only a fresh proof of the ungovernable nature of Mr. Roebuck's disposition.'' The travelling expenses heretofore allowed to convicts to take them home, at the expiration of their periods of trans- portation, are henceforward to be discontinued. They will, in future, have to pay these expenses out of the savings of their labour allowances.— [ How these savings are to be made is not explained. We expect, as the Americans say, the decree is equivalent to a sentence of transportation for life.] ON THE DEMISE OF TWO CELEBRATED CHARACTERS. Alas I alas I what grief is now the Town's I By death we've lost, within two little moons, Grimaldi— him who cut out all our clowns,— And Stultz, who cut out all our pantaloons ! Our readers are, we presume, by this lime aware that the city of Glasgow has obtained an Act of Parliament, by which they are authorised, by means of a lottery, to raise a large sum to carry forward certain improvements in the place. The mag- nitude of the measure may be estimated from the simple fact that there are two prizes in the scheme of the lottery of 10,000/. each, that the lottery- house- keepers are all in motion through- out the country, and agencies opening for the sale of tickets from one end of the united kingdom to the other. Many people have been puzzled to know the meaning of the re- issue of those time- honoured, but now forgotten puffs, in blue, red, and yellow ink, by which several well- known windows in the metropolis are at present garnished. There is to he an " Italian Opera Association" incor- porated at New York. Though it is presumed the shareholders will not be called on to sing in regular Operas, they will of course be expected to act in concert. THE TURKEY SEASON.— A wag remarked, a few days ago, that the new Turkish Ambassador was a knowing fellow, for he had just come in the Turkey season. MR. HUME. In Middlesex ( mind, I hate quibbles and quarrels), ' Tis said by each Radical prig, Mr. Hume is return'd for the county with laui els— I say, he's return'd with a Whig ! Mr. GULLY, M. P.— The newspapers have ali been merry at Mr. Gully's expense. A few particulars relative to his life may be as interesting to our readers as they are creditable to the Honourable Member for Pontefract. Mr. Gully was originally a butcher, and in the course of his career in the prize ring was amongst the most scientific and successful of all our pugilistic champions. His first battle took place at Hailsham in Sussex, on the 8th of October, 1805, his adversary being Henry Pearce, commonly called the Game Chicken, and upon this oc- casion Gully would appear to have suffered a defeat. He next fought Gregson at Six Mile Bottom on the 14th of October, 1807, and Gully upon this occasion was the victor, after one of the most determined contests ever known in the annals of the prize ring. On the 10th of May, 1808, he again defeated Gregson in Sir John Sebriglit's Park, in Hertfordshire. This was his last exhibition, and he subsequently kept the Plough public house in Carey- street, Lincoln's- Inn- Fields. Of late years, Mr. Gully has been a most successful speculator upon the turf, and has realized a very considerable fortune, principally by betting upon commission for noblemen and gentlemen connected with Newmarket. He is the proprietor of Acworth Park, in Yorkshire; Hare Park, inCambridgeshire ; and a valuable inn and otherpropertyinthe town of Newmarket. He has been the owner of some of the first race horses of the day ; and the extreme readiness and good humour with which, at Doncaster, in 1829, he paid losses to the amount of 40,000/. upon his celebrated horse Mameluke, raised him to a character amongst honourable mem- bers of the turf. WILDE AND SCARLETT. Newark and Norwich are alike defiled— For both to Tories are let; But soon Inquiry shall turn Scarlett Wild, While Wilde, with joy, turns Scarlett. Within the last few days the utmost activity has been noticed at the Russian, Austrian, and Prussian Embassies; such has been the pressure of diplomatic business, that some of the Secretaries have been employed the whole of two nights in com- pleting their despatches. The arrival and departure of couriers has also been noticed as unusually frequent. TRADE AT GRANTHAM.— The wife of a clergyman who lives not more than ten miles from Grantham, a few days ago ordered in her account— which, by the way, rarely exceeded a few shillings in the year— from a respectable tradesman of that borough, because he voted for Sir Montague Cholmely, Bart., at the late election. Such unjust and illiberal acts cannot be too much exposed. They show the effects of a still rotten system. Those who pursue it are like— to use a very inelegant simile— pigs that are said to cut their throats by swimming against a stream. THE CANDIDATE FOR THE SPEAKER'S CHAIR. Wynn, Wynn, cannot lose The office of which he's a seeker ; If he minds his jt).' s and q.' s, The " squeaker" will soon be the " Speaker." The workmen have finished the stone pillar on Carlton- terrace, on which the statue of the late Duke of York is to be placed. It is 140 feet high, with a flight of steps in the inte- rior, and a gallery at the top, similar to the Monument near London- bridge. The statue of his Royal Highness will be of bronze, 15 feet high.—[ A correspondent suggests, that it would be better to send the statue to the Mint and coin it into penny, pieces to pay his debts— and adds, in reference to the pillar, that his creditors " asked for bread and have received stones."] MR. VIGORS AND URSA MAJOR. How shocking of Vigors, zoology's son, Great Bruen ( the bear) out of Carlow to roll; He ought to have known, from the Regent's Park fun, That Bruin looks best at the top of the pole. The Duke of Sussex has, we regret to say, been con- fined with cold and inflammation in his eyes. The answer to in- quiries has been, however, as gratifying as comical.—" His Royal Eyeness is better." CIGAR DIVANS.— A number of informations have been laid by Byers and his assistants, which are likely to affect the cigar divans, as they are at present conducted. These esta- blishments, it appears, furnish to their visitors that pleasant be- verage, coffee ; and Byers, taking advantage of that circum- stance, proceeded against them uuder the same Act by which coffee shops are regulated, alleging that, in particular instances, their customers were supplied after eleven o'clock. The parties summoned were convicted in small penalties not exceeding 20s. THE EXHIBITIONS Christmas is almost here, young folks are coming home from school by dozens and dozens of dozens, holly and ivy bushes are rifled, and, above all, plumpudding and mincepies are manufac- tured to insure " happy months" all the world over. But we cannot be always eating mincepies and plumpudding ; and, as our young friends in town have not those resources which a country home provides, we must see if we cannot find something amusing and instructive within our oton smoky walls. And are there not the various Exhibitions— the Colosseum— the Diorama — the Suffolk- street Gallery— the Panorama in Leicester- square — the Clarence Vase— the Copper Mine in the Strand— and we don't know how many more ? Come, let us take a tour among them— enjoy their beauties, and discuss their merits 1 First of all, there's the Colosseum:— away we go, on foot,— hang your coaches, cabs, and omnibuses I — and by the time we have reached the Regent's Park, are as warm and comfortable as if it were spring or summer. What a noble building it is—- what a spacious dome, and what a beauti- ful portico I The first portion of the exhibition is the Saloon, a gallery of sculpture, containing statues from the chisels of some of our best artists and casts from the antique. Among the for- mer the Musidora ( by Sievier) will rivet the attention of the gazer : it is a lovely figure. The nymph is represented as pre- paring for the bath ; we only wish poor Thompson could see the chaste manner in which his lines have been embodied. It is like a poet's commentary on a brother poet. Our next favourite is Mr. Hopper's Salmacis. The fountain nymph is shown as entering her bagnio, and the delicacy of the figure and situation cannot be too much extolled. A little figure of Psyche near the Salmacis must not be passed over without due commendation. Among the, casts, Canova's Graces, (' Canova's Three Graces,' as they are called on the ticket) will call forth the admiration of all who have a feeling for the great and beautiful. The Venus and Apollo are good copies of the antique, and many of the other statues after Phidias and the best Grecian sculptors will be viewed with interest by the young artist and classical student. From the saloon you pass into a little round room, that, like the Casa Santa of Loretto, carries you up into the air, as if by magic. At the end of a few minutes you are landed on the gal- lery of St. Paul's Cathedral, ( you can hardly persuade yourself that it is not so) and the whole of the Modern Babylon is laid open to your gaze. We shall not attempt to describe this ex- traordinary work, for we could not give the remotest idea of its general effect. Of the accuracy of its detail we had ample proof iu the exclamations of several parties from the city—' Look ! there's our house !'' See, there's Joolia's bedroom window I'— " Where, Tom; where?" exclaims Miss Julia. " Vy, there, Joolia; jest there, hopposite the man adrivin' the cow ;" replies Mr. Thomas Smith Brown, with the voice of a Stentor. Another gallery lies above this one, which is approached by a flight of steps of easy ascent. From this point a second view of the great picture is obtained, differing from the former only on account of the spectator's change of position. Above this is " the original ball and cross from St. Paul's Cathedral," and by another wind- ing staircase, we are conducted to the outside of the Colosseum itself, whence an excellent view is obtained of the Regent's Park, Hampstead, Highgate, & c. After descending from this eminence, we pass through the South lodge into a conservatory filled with tropical shrubs and plants of the most interesting description. Beyond this is a second conservatory, containing vegetable productions requiring a lower temperature. A fountain tastefully adorned with shell- work, ap- pears at the end of this garden, on one side of which is a grotto, and on the other the Swiss Cottage : but we shall not attempt a description of these, as we know full well that half the delight experienced from such scenes is the unexpectedness of their ap- pearance. We must not neglect, however, to express the great pleasure we felt in contemplating that magnificent production of the New World, the American Aloe, ( now in flower,) which, though it cuts so poor a figure in a newspaper advertisement, makes a proud appearance in the labyrinth of the Colosseum. On our road from the Colosseum we pass the Diorama,— but not without paying it a visit. The two pictures now exhibiting are the Campo Santo, by Bouton, and view of Paris, by Daguerre. The former of these is a moonlight view, an interior representing one of the galleries, with its monuments, sarcophagi, and storied walls : the effect is admirable. The other is a prospect of Paris from Montmartre, embracing all the objects of greatest architec- tural interest in ' la belle ville.' The colouring of the mill- bank in the fore- ground is too vivid ; it kills the other parts of the picture. Otherwise, the painting is a good one, and the clouding particularly beautiful. A Buddha Temple from the Island of Ceylon is exhibit- ing at Exeter Hall in the Strand— and, as we believe, the first of the kind ever placed before a British public. It was con- structed for the private devotion of a family of high rank ia Ceylon, and is exhibited in the exact state in which it was used for the performance of the religious rites of Buddha. The Idol, about eight feet in length, is in a reclining posture in the midst of the Temple, and at the four corners are grotesque figures of his disciples in the posture of attention. On the inside and outside are displayed various Cingalese paintings, represent- ing the various adventures in the life, trials, and deification of Buddha ; which have been rendered familiar to the English rea- der by Southey's poem'' The Curse of Kehama." Apart from the Temple are various models of Cingalese rites, ceremonies, proces- sions, & c., which are described by the attendant, a very intelli- gent native of Colombo. The exhibition is well worth seeing, and will afford gratification to all who are curious in Indian antiquities. Burford's Panorama in Liecester- square is well worth visiting. The pictures at present offered to the public eye are a view of Milan, and a view of Stirling from the castle hill. The latter of these is particularly pleasing ; and, for its accuracy, ( a point, by- the- bye in little estimation nowadays,) we have the testimony of a friend whose home is amongst those heathery hills. We shall return to this subject next week. THE DRAMA. DRURY LANE THEATRE. Mrs. Centlivre's comedy of A Bold Stroke for a Wife has been brought forward in an operatic form at this theatre, under, the title of Win Her and Wear Her. The plot is well known. Colonel Feignwell ( Braham) falls in love with Anne Lovely ( Miss Betts) who is under the care of four guardians, as opposite in their characters as the east, west, north, and south of a weather- cock. Without the consent of these, however, Miss Lovely cannot marry, and it is to obtain their suffrages that Feignwell assumes the various disguises of a French fop, a " travelled man of taste," a Dutch merchant, and a quaker. Braham played these characters so well, that we expect shortly to see him at- tempting Othello and Richard the Third. Perriwinkle and Obadiah Prim were excellently sustained by Farren and Dowton, and Mrs. C. Jones was no less at home in the quaker's wife. Of the music, by Mr. Barnett, little can be said ; it was neither very good nor very bad— of that un-" happy state of mediocrity" that is neither to be admired nor condemned. A medley in the second act, " Yes, round the world I've travelled," introducing the motives of several national airs, was well sung by Mr. Bra- ham, and deservedly encored. A quartette, in the beginning of the third act, was also very pleasing, and exhibited Miss Betti* fine voice to considerable advantage. On the whole, we should say, that the piece, from the bustle of the plot, is likely to become a favourite, but the pruning- knife is wanted in several places. We had hoped that the " sense of the house," given a few evenings ago, would have opened the managerial eyes to the impolicy, not to say imper- tinence, of nauseating the ears of an audience by the coarse ribaldry of a by- gone age. If there were a doubt still remaining, we think the decision on Tuesday evening must have removed it completely. The whole of the quaker scene might be cur- tailed with advantage; it hangs like a mill- stone round the neck of the performance. The new pantomime preparing at this theatre, to be called Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, or Harlequin Mercury, is said to be of unprecedented excellence, and truly an ample field has been provided for the talents of author, painter, ma- chinist and performers. Soon after Christmas it is in contemplation to get up Mozart's Don Giovanni here, for which Madame Meric, Mrs. Wood, and her husband, are engaged. COVENT GARDEN. Nothing new has been produced during the week at this theatre : Mr. Sheridan Knowles is still lord of the ascendant, and the ballet ( Masaniello) is performed nightly. All hands are at work upon Puss in Boots, or Harlejuin and the Miller's Son, the new pantomime, which is said to be the best ever seen at this - house. OLYMPIC. Liston is still in nubibus, but the house fills well without him. P. Q., Ihe Water Party, and The Conquering Game, still keep their ground. ADELPHI. Henriette the Forsaken, The Howlet's Haunt, and Crimson Crimes, are the standing dishes of this theatre; and palatable enough they seem to be, if we may judge from the bumpers they draw. THE SURREY, COBURG, AND QUEEN'S. The Surrey Theatre closed on Thursday evening last, but will re- open on Wednesday next, with a new pantomime, called Val- kyrce, or Harlequin the Patriot Pole. We have heard that this pantomime is from the pen of our friend Campbell, but do not vouch for the fact. Another new piece, called The Charcoal Burner, is to be produced on the same night. The Coburg Theatre will re- open on Wednesday next, with a new drama, by the author of " High- ways and Bye- ways," called The Golden Farmer, which is said to possess great ( agricultural) interest. A " Domestic Drama" and pantomime will be added to the entertainments of the evening. Mr. Wild, at the Queen's Theatre, has been busy in preparing" his friends a Christmas treat. We wish him good luck with his Christmas Boxes. GREEN ROOM GOSSIP. Mr. Sheridan Knowles has, we understand, made considerable progress in the composition of his new play, intended for Covent- garden, the hero of which Mr. Knowles intends to personate himself. The lovely Miss Ellen Tree, at present the most popu- lar actress in her peculiar line, at either of the metropolita theatres, has a character assigned to her of great delicacy a beauty. Mr. Sheridan Knowles and Miss Taylor appeared in the drama of the Hunchback, at the Brighton theatre, on the 18th ; the house was not so well attended as might be expected. DIAMOND EYES AND EMERALD ISLANDERS.— A week ago we flattered ourselves that we could pay a compliment with any gallant under the sun ; but we have just seen a flourish of our brother Paddy which has converted us into one blush. " Sig- nora D'Alberti," says the Dublin Comet, " appeared on Wed- nesday, for the first time, on our boards. She is a grand con- cert ; her voice is full, rich, and flexible, fully capable of filling the theatre ; and her person, though petite, graceful. She has an eye dark as death, and brilliant as a diamond spark /" Mr. and Mrs. Wood have left Dublin for Armagh, where they mean to give a concert or two. The African Roscius has taken their place on the Dublin boards. Vandenhoff'' divides the crown'' with the " nigger." Mr. Calcraft, the manager of the Dublin theatre, has entered into an arrangement for opening the Belfast theatre. ITALIAN OPERA- TIONS IN AMERICA.— Jonathan's increasing love of music and the drama is well known. He has purchased ground for a " rigler" and permanent Italian opera house, ( not a. King's Theatre), and an application will be made to the autho- rities next session for an incorporation act. The capital pro- posed to conduct the scheme is 100,000 dollars, 60,000 of which have already been subscribed. Trustees have also been ap- pointed, and every means taken to ensure the success of the " Italian Opera Association." Charles and Miss Fanny Kemble continue to receive substan- tial evidences of their unrivalled popularity in the United States- The theatres, whenever these favourites perform, overflow before the commencement of the performances. Miss Kemble is highly esteemed by all the people of wealth and consideration in every town they have thus far visited. We hope and trustMr. Kemble and his daughter, when they revisit their native land, will retura laden with golden opinions. 414 TIIE TOWl THE TOWN. CITY ELECTIONS.— On Friday according to annual custom on St, Thomas's day, Wardmotes were held in the different City precincts, for the election of Common C. ouncilmen, and other Ward; Officers, for the ensuing year. The following Wards re- turned the old members without opposition, yiz.:— Cripplegate without; Coleman- street; Bishopsgate; Lime- street; Candle- wick ; Billingsgate ; Tower ; Farringdon within ; Farringdon without; Cheap ; Queenhithe ; Bassishaw and BRIDE- WARD.— Returned Mr. Poynder, in the room of Mr. Thornhiil deceased. * ' • . . , T DOWGATE- WARD.— Mr. James Powell resigned; and Mr. James Sam. Bennett returned without oppositon. CoRDWAiNERsrwARD.— rMr. Croucher was elected in the room of Mr. Deputy Hammonil, deceased. WALBROOK- WARD.—^ MR. D. Wire was elected in the room of Mr. Williams resigned. CORKH ILL,— Mr. Israel Thomas was elected in the room of Mr. Birch who has resigned. A spirited meeting took place at Farringdo. n- without, in the course of which Mr. Wood charged some of the city magistracy with receiving a guinea a day for sitting in each other's stead. The elections for the remaining Wards are in progress EAST INDIA HOUSE.— A Quarterly Geperal Court of Pro- prietors of East India Stock has been held. On the motion of the Chairman, a dividend pf 5 3 per cent, for the half year, commencing on the 5th of July last and ending on the 5th of January next, was declared, Mr. Goldschmidt wished to know whether anything had as yet been done with respect to the re- newal of the ' Company's charter ? At present they scarcely re- ceived a fair interest for the property thby had embarked iii the Concern, and he, believed that the public would feel little re- gret if the East India possessions were'wholly wrested from them. Under these circumstances, he was sure that the Hon: Chairman would feel what was due to the proprietors, and would lay before them ady information which he possessed. The Chairman had no information to give the Hon. Proprietor, but he might test assured that whenever the question to which he had alluded dime to be discussed, the executive body would be most anxious tb direct the attention of the proprietors towards it. A deputation from thevestry of the parish of St. Marylebonehas had ail ihterview with Lord Melbourne at the Home- office, re- specting theheavy eipehse of the new police. It appeared that tile . cost of . the old watch was under 10,000/. per annum ; the sum assessed atidpajd to the commissioners, of the new police Upwards of 24,0001., a difference of 14,000/. The cost of, the actualforee kept up in thik parish is 13,3887., thereby Showing that the pa- rishioners are taxed and contribute'the enbrmous annual sum of 10,612/. towards the expense of the head establishment, or to make up deficiencies of other parishes. It was also urged that the amount annually assessed by the vestry for the new police- rate exceeds the amount annually recovered by them upwards of 2,000*., this sum being uncbllectable in Consequence of. the poverty of the householders. Thirdly, the deputation claimed an allowance of 5,775/., which sum had been paid by the pre- ceding vestry above what had been recovered from the pa rishionirs. SALE OF KING'S CROSS.—' The newly- erected King's Cross, at the junction of the Hampstead, PenfonVille,. Gray's Inn- lane, and New- roads, has been bona fide sold at the Mart. This build- ing, which is of Bath- stone, was projected soon after the death of the late King, and it was then intended to'placC an equestrian statue of George IV. on the summit. The sale took place hy order of the assignees of Messrs. Guyennette, under a fiat of bankruptcy ; it cost nearly 1,000/., now let at 25/. a year to'the commissioners of police, and was knocked down and sold for 1( 5fi guineas only. The materials alone, allowing the expense of pull- ing down, are worth double the money. The subscribers and creditors were miich disappointed that the new Police authorities, who now possess it as yearly tenants, Were not the purchasers'. SMITHFIELD PRIZE CATTLE CLUB ANNIVERSARY.— The 38th anniversary of the establishment of the Smithfield'prize Cattle Club was held last week at the Freemason's Tavern, Lord Althorp in the chair, supported by the Duke of Richmond and lord Huntingfield. Various toasts were drunk, as well as the health of Lord Althorp, the Duke of Richmond, Lord Huntibg- jield, the Earl of Spencer, Mr. Coke of Holkham, and other agri- culturalists. Among the competitors for prizes at the present show were the MarquiS of Exeter, Lord Althorp, the Duke of Rutland, Lord Viscount Gage, Eafrl Harborough, Earl Kintore, the Duke of Richmond, & c. The extensive collection of natural grasses, seeds, & c. exhibited by the seedsmen to the Board of Ordnancej Messrs. Gibhs and CO., together with the new winter food for caittle ( thousand headed cabbage), was the subject of much conversation. A plan Of an extensive building now in prtigreSs, to form a London cattle mart, to afford shelter for 4,000 beasts, sheep, & c. was handed up to the noble chairman, and elicited much praise. The buildups, it is stated, were ^ pro- gress, in the Lower- road, Islington, and it was expected would afford facilities to the_ grazier and farmer to house his ( battle until required for the London'market. A meeting has taken plUcfe on Penge Common between L. B. Allen, Esq., the unsuccessful candidate for Southward, and J. Ellis, Esq. proposer of Mr. Sheriff ilurnphery, in consequence of the former gentleman denying the truth of the latter's state ment that he ( Mr. Allen) Was a placeman and a sinecuriit. On arriving on the ground, the seconds being of opinion that the of- fensive expressionsonboth sides resulted from temporary wartrith. and Mr. Alien disclaiming all intention of personal insult, this explanation was deemed sufficient, and the parties quitted the ground in amicable feeling.' The frost set in. rather sharply in London on Wednesday, and the ice- men Were busily at work to supply the confectioners. DREADFUL MURDER IN CLERKKNWELL,— On Sunday morn- ing last Mr. Henry Camp Shepherd, many years a confidential clerk in the employ of Mr. Williams, an extensive soap- boiler of .. Great Compton- street, Clerkenwell, was found barbarously mur- dered in the counting- house. He was first discovered by an errand boy in the employ of Mr. Williams, who found the door ajar about a quarter past eight on Sunday morning, and the de. ceased weltering in blood. The celling: and wulls of the room were found sprinkled with blood, and a poker nearly bent double, and a quantity, of blood and human hair attached thereto, was lying near the deceased. The unfortunate individual himself was ( by thereport of Mr, W. Smith, a . surgeon, - who Was in- stantly called in). quite dead and cold. A very extensive frac- ture was found on the right side of the skull, the membranes of the brain were ruptured, and a portion of the brain protruded ; small particles of the brain were scattered about the room in va- rious directions. The first impression of Mr. Smith was, that the deceased had fallen off a chair, and, in falling, that the hinder partof his head- had come in Contact with the edge of. a lock, and that the injury was the more, easily to be accounted for by the remarkably thin cranium lieliad. He did not at first notice thepoker before mentioned; this and other circumstances changed his opinion. The right arm of the deceased was fractured, and the left wrist dislocated, evidently, by his adversary, while hei ( de- ceased) was attempting . to delend himself. The attacks of his assailant must have been most determined, there having been up- wards of two dozen desperate blows inflicted ujion him, fourteen of which were traceable on the skull. Five minutes at y least- must'have been occupied in th « '. attack. The deceased was seen on Saturday'night about riiiie o'clock, by a labourer in the; employ of Mr. Williams, and again at i past 10 on the same evening, but not after that.- It, appears difficult to account: for the concealment of the perpetratot of the murder. It was the; . deceased's custom to leave the counting: house at!) at night, and it therefore appears most singular that he should have been re- maining there so long after the usual time, for; the doOr of the; . counting house was seen open and a candle burning at 11 on! Saturday evening. It'was observed that a terrier bittli, usually • let looSe in the yard at nigiit, was not heard to bark on Saturda; night. Tlje deceased was about 68 years of age and was unmar- ried. The Coroner's inquest which was held, the next day elicited! most of the - facts already stated, though it failed in fixing the deed upon any individual in particular. Among the facts stated it appeared that about a month ago, at eleven at night, a young man named Samuel Newland, who had been discharged from, the manu- factory for forging beer tickets, came to the premises, and asked for Mr. Shepherd, stating that the latter had arranged with him to see him at that hour. He went into the couhting house, and sat down with Mr. Shepherd for about 20 minutes. When he came out he was heard to mutter something ina grumbling tone. The deceased had said that he, never desired, to see this young man, as he was continually begging assistance from him. One of the witneses had heard that a person answeriug the description of this young man was seen lurking about the gateway on Satur- day night. The terrier was very much attached to Newland when he worked on the premises. These circumstances seemed to, attach suspicion to liewland, who was in consequence apprehended. It appeared on his examination at Hatton- garden that he had not slept at hpme as usual on that night, and that he. had a seal wliich some thought resembled one worn by the deceased. He suc- ceeded, however, ib . proving an alibi, and was discharged without a single charge being established against him. The purpose of themurderer, whoever he is, does not appear quite evident. It is thought it must have been plunder, yet nothing was stolen, though ho interruption occurred to prevent the accomplishment of such an object. The friends of the deceased and the government have offered a reward for the apprehension of the murderer. At pre sent the affair is enveloped in mystery.-— [ Up to yesterday noon no further particulars had been obtained respecting the murderer.] James Sutton, the convict who was ordered for execution when the Recorder made hisl^ s't report to the King in Council, has had his sentence commuted to one of transportation for life. The policeman Davis, who'was the subject of Sutton's attack, is still suffering under its effects; MURDER OF MISS BROOKS.— The Totvn of last week con- tained an account'of the brutal attack upon this lady, in con- sequence of which she died. An inquest has been held and a verdict returned of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown. 1 ! '' \ ' tations were Set at; n& tight. The overseer desired his servantto yoke a horse to a cart, and, take the poor woman and her husband asquicklyas possible. towards Penrith, which was done. The woman suffered severely from'the jolting of the cart, and was, set down in a most deplorable condition. They were met by Slee, the police Officer, who, on learning the woman's condition, ljpmanely took- her to a lodging house, sent for a doctor, and in about two hours she was delivered of a dead child, The poor womau has since partially recovered.— Carlisle Patriot. WARWICKSHIRE".— There was slaughtered,- last week, at War- wick, a pig, weighing forty stone five pounds. The animal was only fifteen months old. YORK.— On Sunday last, Mr. Ogden, a farmer, who lives in the Cpwbit- road, near Spalding, observed two well- known ruf- fians, named Preston and Sewell, reconnoitring his farm yard. He visited the yard that evening about nine o'clock, accom- panied by a friend, and armed with a loaded gun. On going thither he found the same two fellows busily employed in a house wringing the necks of his, fowls, and putting them into a sack. Mr. Ogden called upon them to desist, when Preston came out oi the house armed with a pitchfork, with a handle 7 j feet long. Mr. Ogden warned him td be off, but the fellow advanced against him. Mr. Ogden then called out " Murder!" but being still pressed upon, Mr. Ogden continued to recede, till at length, find- ing his life in danger, he was compelled to fire in his own defence ; the sbot entered Preston's body. Sewell, his fellow delinquent, then came to his assistance, and endeavoured to effect an escape with him, hut they had scarcely gone forty yards when his wounded companion fell down and died. Sewell succeeded in his escape, and has not been found. The body of Preston was taken to the Bull public house, Spalding ; and on Monday an inquest was held by Mr. Edwards, when a verdict was returned of " Justifiable homicide." THE COUNTRY. DEVON.— On Monday last, in Exeter, the officers of St. Ed- mond's applied tp remove a woman and three children to Chaw leigh, under the following circumstances ;— A soldier in the East Kent militia, twenty years since, married a woman belonging to Silverton, at the parish church of St. Sidwells; he subsequently volunteered into the line, and afterwards married a second wife, by whom lie had four children; about three years since the Soldier became a pauper, and was removed with his second wife and family to Chawleigh, where they have since, remained, and thus confirmed the settlement. The first wife being deserted by her husband shortly after her marriage, and not hearing from him for several years, took to herself another husband, by whom she had three children ; and this paan dying of the cholera during the late prevalence of the disorder in this city, she now applies for relief, when it is discovered that she is the lawful wife of the soldier, and that her children, in the eye of the law, are also his. The Magistrates postponed to a future sitting the decision of the case. — We learn that the bobbin- net manufacturers of Barnstaple have reduced their working hours to nearly one- half, which they intend to oontinue lyhile the present depression continues. They reduce their supply by this restriction about 10,000 racks per Mirimw asiaeonJm saibiinqmirtq If* svqds . ban , bsfth GLOUCESTERSHIRE.— A gentleman, named Francillon, of Gloucester, has accepted the offer of Mr. Borthwick, to make a voyage out to the West Indies', for the purpose of personally in- quiring and observing the condition of the slave population, and ascertaining their present adaptation for their immediate freedom. HERTFORDSHIRE.— At Bishop's Stortford there, are two dogs that belong to nqbody, and live upon tbe quay or canal there. They delight in rat- hunting; and when the maltsters go about at night, invariably follow at their heels. As soon, as a door is un- locked one rushes in, and courses round the warehouse, not chafing any rat which may start, but pursuing his way among the malt. The other stands at the door, and snaps at the rats as they endeavonr to escape. The next room they come to, they have been known to change posts ; the one which hunted before, standing at the door and seizing the prey. By this means these two dogs have killed, in the malting- houses of one maltster, up- wards of 2,000 rats in the course of a year. They seem to pursue the sport simply for, their own amusement. KENT.— Stewart Marjoribanks, Esq., M. P. for Hythe, has most generously placed at the disposal of his committee 100/. for the present relief of the poor of Folkstone, and 50/. for those of the parish of Cheriton.— Kentish Gazette. LINCOLNSHIRE.— On Monday last the fair at Grantham was but thinly attended, in consequence of the day being appointed for the nomination of members for South Lincoln.— Some ruf- fian. mangled a sheep on Sunday morning in a field at the back of the Grange, Grantham, the property of Mr. Warner, gardener. The fellow cut off the two hind legs and left the poor animal to die in torture. , NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.— In the evening of the 30th ult. the Rev. William Kent, of Houghton Park, parish of Bothamsall, Northamptonshire, was returning home from Elksley, and when near the Houghton Park- house gate was waylaid and shot at, with a pistol it was supposed. The ball passed through his left hand, which is dreadfully shattered. He was instantly knocked down and stunned, and robbed of two 5/. notes, three or four sovereigns, and some silver, with which the robbers made off, leaving him for dead in the road. A reward of 50/. has been . offered for the discovery of the perpetrators. NORTHUMBERLAND.— A Water Company has just been formed in Newcastle, capital 20,000/. of which 15,000/. has been already subscribed. This concern promises well, and appears, to have been placed under such regulations as experience of similar un- dertakings fully warrants. — A meeting has been held in Newcastle to celebrate the an- niversary of t, he Polish insurrection. A petition to the House of Commons was agreed to, praying that the Honourable House address fyis Majesty on the subject of unhappy Poland, and counsel him to demand, and if needful, tp enforce the liberation and restoration of Poland in her ancient limits from the Dnieper to the Oder, and from the Dwina to the Carpathian mountains ; - and finally, the petitioners beg to assure the Honourable House that no Avar was ever entered into with greater ardour and en- thusiasm, or was ever supported on the part of the people with greater energy and fortitude, than would be any war into which England might be forced by considerations of justice, policy, and honour in such a cause, and that none in their opinion was ever more certain to prove triumphantly successful. . SUSSEX.— On Tuesday the 4th inst. the neighbourhood of Worthing was visited by one of those fearful and extraordinary modes of vengeance and ci'ime with which we have of late been unhappily so familiar. About half- past five o'clock, an oat rick belonging to Mr. Barker, at Tarring, was discovered to be on fire, and before it, could be got under, the same, with a wheat and hay rick, a stack of beans, barn, stable, hovel, & c. were completely consjumed. The dwelling house adjoining, licensed for selling beer, also took fire, and the interior was nearly de- stroyed- The greater part of the furniture was partially saved. There were abqiit ten loatfs, of wheat on the rick, and twenty quarters of barley in the barn. — The petition of the merchants of Brighton, to be allowed to import, land, and boi < 1 West India, Mediterranean, and other produce, at Gorringe's Wharf, Shorebam, has been complied with by the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury. CUMBERLAND.— A sailorand his wife, on tramp towards Liver- pool, were passing through the village of Plumpton, about five miles on the side of Penrith, when the poor woman wag suddenly taken in labour. Her husband seeing, two persons passing by, implored them tb direct him in his sad extremity to the over- seer. The overseers house was nearly opposite, and the poor man conveyed his wife thither, and craved relief, but his solici- rfoioimoa ' baa ebrndel EXTRAORDI- NARY ESCAPE.— On Tuesday week, as the two Misses Evans, daughters of the Rev. Wm. Evans, of Towy Cas- tle, and a young child and a servant, were returning homewards from Carmarthen in a double- bodied vehicle, in coming down Castle- hill, the reins broke, and the horse becoming unmanage- able, run down the slip, and rushed into the water. Miss Anne Evans jumped out, but Miss Susan Evans Could not before the horse and carriage were afloat. There was at the critical mo- ment several fishermen in their cbra'Cles, and they gave their as- sistance. Miss Evans jumped, with the child in her arms, into the water, but in attempting to lay hold of one of the coracles she capsized it. There were, however, So many persons present that eventually all parties were saved. A FEMALE HORSE STEALER.— A Welsh lady has been as sisting her husband in making off with a horse belonging to a gentleman of Witheringtori. She was, however, apprehended and lodged in Montgomery county gaol. She had offered the hbrse at Welshpool fair on the l- 6th ult., but could not get higher bidding than 12/. which she refused, the horse being worth 201. The Welsh Iron Trade is improving, but prices are as low as ever. One of the Glamorganshire iron masters has received an order for eight thousand tons of rail- road plates. IRELAND. DESTRUCTION OF LOUGHREA CHURCH EY LIGHTNING.— During the violent thunderstorm with which the above town was visited on Sunday morning, we regret to learn that the entire of tlie new and handsome church" was entirely demolished about the hour of ten o'clock, A. M. The Bank of Ireland has declared a dividend of four and a half per cent, for the last half year. The Gazette of Saturday week contained a proclamation de- claring the West Riding of the ' county Cork to be in a state of disturbance, and requiring an extraordinary establishment of ppliCf. . r. , J? ' „ We lament to state that accounts have been received an- nouncing the murder of the Rev. Charles Ferguson, of Timo- league. This gentleman, while proceeding in a gig, accompa- nied by Mr. ' Swte, at ' ah early . hbur this morning, on his way to Bandon, perceived a number of persons in a field, running as if towards the rbad ; he quitted the gig with the intention of seek- ing shelter in a neighbouring house, when he was pursued, over- taken, and iiiufefered on the spot.— Cork Southern. Reporter of TMnb^" 9 "'"' Af\ iDsrasqxs ecr bluoo iit'rtvnty DREADFUL MURDER.— On Tuesday night a man named Cowen, Who acted as bailiff on an estate in the neighbourhood of Stragowna, in the county of Erne, was fired at in his own house, and shot dead. Some persons, we learn, were lately ejected from tbe holding he occupied, and it is said he received a threatening notice not long Since to leave the premises or mark the conse- quence, and, we understand, a part of his property had been con- sumed by incendiaries. Mr. Trant, a magistrate residing near Templemofe, county Tipperary, was, whilst walking through his lawn on Thursday evening, fired at. twice, and fortunately missed. SCOTLAND. We regret to learn that the spirit of incendiarism is astir in this country. The Stirling Advertiser gives the following :— On Friday last the corn - yard belonging to Mr. John Baird Finlayson, farmer at Townhead, in the parish of Dunblane, was entered, and one of the corn- stacks set oh fire. The flames quickly spread to an adjoining hay- Stack, and both wbre completely consumed ; had it not been for the prompt and active exertions of Mr. Baird's neighbours, the whole of the other valuable corn and hay- stacks in the yard must have been destroyed. On the night of Monday following, a hay- stack belonging to Mr. Thomas Menzies; farmer at Blackford, was also maliciously set on fire. It was nearly consumed, but fortunately the fire was not allowed to spread, and thus the adjaceilt stack- yards and houses, which were in great danger, were saved. Large rewards for the discovery of the offenders have been offered. On the morning of Saturday last, a hay- stack belonging to Mr. William Drysdale, of Alva, manufac- turer, was burnt to the ground, and other deeds of violence com- mitted during the previous night. HINTS TO THE COUNTRY. To RAISE PEAS IN AUTUMNN— The purple- flowered peas are found to answer best for late crops in autumn, as they are not so liable to be mildewed as many of the other sorts, and will continue flowering till the first frost stojis them. These peas may. be sown in July, August, or so late as the first week in September, if sown in a warm sheltered situation, and in a soil inclining to sand. Soak the peas in warm milk, and after you have drawn the drills, water them before you sow the peas ; it is best to sow them towards the evening. If the autumn should prove very dry, they will require frequent watering. When peas are sown before, winter, or early in spring, they are very apt to be eaten by mice. To prevent this, soak the peas for a day or two in train- oil before you sow them, which will encourage their ve- getation, and render them so obnoxious to mice that they will hue nsiInh'O oiunh aitlJisL'ra vlronaju: > a " ! THE ANEMONE.— We are acquainted with an intelligent florist who sows his anemone seed in the month of December. It may be interesting to the juvenile gardener to know that unless he prepares this seed by mixing and rubbing it with sand, so as to divest it of its downy covering, it will be apt to rot; and he must also be particular in making the bed of fresh garden ground or loam, at least fifteen inches deep. And to prevent the de- structive slugs or worms from arriving . at his treasured seed, it will be expedient to put a layer of quick lime beneath the loam, and form a magic circle round the bed, of the same preservative j, n0 narneldoii iol noiaSimmoa aw a snilisd A sow was slaughtered at Ropsley, near Grantham, on Mon- day.' last, and it was ascertained that ihe would have produced the astonishing number of thirty- One pigs, A correspondent on whom we can rely has given us this statement. LAW. REMANETS. The sittings'for Michaelmas Term are over, and we naturally ask, are all the causes tried? No; but they ought tp be, and Would be, if proper exertiofis were made tb effect that de'si'& i ratum. The Chief Justice of the King's Bench began with spirit, and has industriously kept to his post, we believe, with the exception of hut one day, since the term ended. iWfflfa becoming fortitude, too, he resisted the attempts made to delay the trial of certain causCs. The absence of Sir John or" Stt James was treated as it should be— as a matter not concerning the business of the court. The court could ( wonderful to re- late) get on without them. True, many records were withdraWD, and, in some instances within our knowledge, by the ' advice of the honourable gentlemen who had pocketted enormous fee? upon the implied undertaking to exCrt their best efforts for the same. Further havoc also was made iu many of the causes by the absence of electioneering counsel, of attorneys, and of the witnesses in the causes so unexpectedly accelerated.! But what of all this? Hundreds of Causes still1 remain, and must remain, in heayy and awful arrear while the presetit sys- tem is permitted to exist. » Lord LyndhnrSt— the lazy giant— left his post for no mat- ter where, he was not where we like to see him. One of the puisne Judges is substituted— hundreds of persons are kbpt dancing in close attendance from morn till night in toil and, trouble, upon the extreme verge of their hopes or fears, and when they think, good easy fools, their cause is ripening, thei^ bud of expectation is nipped. Away goes the Court into the city, to play off the same game, which yields sport to those only who gain by the trick. This is the common course; but last week there was a something—" there is always a ' something"— to waste two days of the regular sittings. The Chief Barofci Upon resuming his seat at Guildhall, on Monday last, as it struck Us, acted somewhat whimsically; with a smile that was half a frown, his Lordship requested to know why there had not been sittings at Westminster during the time of the city'elections. The example, it was true, had been set by the two other Chiefs; We do not think so lightly of his Lordship's perception as to an- swer his query. Who knows better than his Lordship all ouf old proverbs, among which there is one something like this';. " When the cat is away the mice will play;" and it is useless; nay, worse than useless, to turn sulky and precipitate in the endeavour to cure results occasioned by our own supineness. Want of industry cannot be charged upon Chief Justice Tin- dal ; he is not merely industrious, but constant too ii his at- tendance, which, in a good Chief Justice, is no slight advantage to the suitors of his court. But why should his Lordship ad- journ the court for a whole day because the parties chose not to be ready ? this we feel to be goodness misapplied, and not only had, as a precedent, but as working an injury to the public. But the most indefatigable industry of the Chief Justices of the three common law courts, efficient as we admit they are, cannot possibly work any material improvement. This asser- tion is not new, nor are these complaints new, at least the spirit of them ; they were repeated till it Was thought expedient to ap- point three additional Judges no long time since. What has become of them ? What are they doing ? Has the public re- ceived from their labours the benefits they have a right to expect We think not. The additional puisne Judges of the courts of Exchequer and Common Pleas during the term are rarely, if ever, on duty; there is little or no chamber practice for them— certainly very insufficient to occupy them ; nay, the • whole court of Judges are often up at one o'clock; why therefore Should not one, or as many as necessary of the puisne Judges, sit during the term, and dispose of all the undefended causes, or those of minor importance. Merely this would work infinite advantage to all parties; except indeed those who enjoy the. feeS of office, which, though already intolerably large, increase hy delay. Some such proceeding we most sanguinely anticipate': it is a contract entered upon, and, our part duly performed, we have a right to claim it therefore. A delay of justice works in- justice ; and in a great commercial country like this, where thfe means are not only in our power but lie open before us, it is idiocy not to claim to enjoy so vast and general a benefit, ft is the height of wickedness to deny or delay it, and a violation of the oath which every one swears to fulfil ere he pass ' the threShhold of the justice seat. COURT OF CHANCERY. • JLL; JJHJ | MONDAY. - I GREENWOOD v. TAYLOR.— Sir Edward Sugden moved that Mr- James Farquharson should be committed to the Fleet for a contempt of this Court, by the publication in the Times newspaper of certain reports of meetings of the creditors of the late Duke of York. Th? ground upon which the motion was made was, that the reports in question contained statements which were untrue representations of what had taken place in the Master's office in this suit, and they were an interference witli the proceedings of the Court. After three day's argumem, upon the 20th Sir E. Sugden was beard in reply upon the motion in this case, at considerable length. The Lord Chancellor, when the argument was concluded, said he supposed that Mr. Farquharson, or some one who represented him, was in Court, and he would therefore be aware of the disi- cUssion which had been going on. His Lordship had no doubt whatever that a case Of clear contempt had been made out " against him. He thought it, however, right, under the circumstances of the case, to give him a certain time to consider what course, hivjng heard the opinion which the Court had now Expressed, lie would take— whetlief he;" wbuld continue lo stand between the justice of the Court, and the real offender in the case, that is to say, the per- son by whom the information was given to him. The giving upthe name of lhat person would not exculpate Mri Farquharson, but it would greatly extenuate his offence. It would be for him to consi- der whether he would persist in the course he had hitherto pursued ; and to consider also in either event, whether he did or did not give up lhat person, if he chose to make an affidavit respecting certain other matters which had been suggested in: the course of this dis- cussion. It was now on Ihe eve of the holydays, and although ih such cases it was usual to carry the orders of the Court into prompt execution, yet, as it was possible his Lordship might be out of town, ' which would prevent any application being made for Mr. Farquhaison's discharge, be would give him from this time to the first day of Hilary Term to decide as to the proceeding he might be advised to take. In the mean time, however, it must be under- stood, that if any such publications as those which had been com- plained of should appear, the parties would be guilty of a con- tempt of the Court. Sir E. Sugden submitted that the order for commitment mioht now be made and its execution suspended till Ihe first day of Term H is Lore ship had doubti as to. the propriety of such a course He would take this opportunity of saying, tha't the executors had refitted in the most satisfactory manner alt the imputations which had been cast upon them ; and that the charge as lo the jewels in Mr. Rothschild's possession, and lhat against Sir Herbert Taylor, as to the bond which he had purchased, quite stood out anions thfc refutations, and were the mosl complete that he Had ever mefWith. iii the whole of his experience. Sir E. Sugden read some passages from letters of Mr. Amory to Mr. Farrer, in which'he altogether disclaimed any participation ire the publication. ! ROLLS COURT, FRIDAY. NESBITT v. HALL AND OTHERS— This was a petition on the part of Mrs, Nesbitt ( fate Miss Mordaunt):, of the Theatre Royal,. Drury- lane, praying that all proceedings in the suit of •• Mortara' v. Hall" ( to which she was in no way a party) might be stayed,, and that the sum paid into Court under that suit should be t& ns- ferred to a suit which she had recently instituted. The petition concluded with a prayer for costs. His Honour thought that the bill in the cause of " Mortara T. Hall" hakl been filed colluslvely by Messrs. Foide and Buriey, for the purpose of continuing in the management of this busiriess, contrary to the wish of Mrs. Nesbitf. There was no evidence that the suit instituted by Mrs. Nesbitt had been abandoned, or that it could not have been rendered effective for all the purposes to whick ecember 23. TIIE TO war. the bill filed in the name of " Mortara v. Hall" had been applied. The decree obtained- in the latter cause was a proper one, and could not be set aside, but he should direct that it should be con- ducted by Mrs. Nesbitt; thus substantially, though not formally, granting the prayer of her petition, which might be amended in Court to that effect. If the petition , had been formed in such a shape as that the* Court conld have granted its prayer, he would have directed die defendants to pay tbe costs; bat, under the cir-. cumstances, he should leave all parties to pay their own costs. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, WESTMINSTER. MONDAY. MARKS v. NOEL, G? NT.— Mr. Thomas opened the pleadings. This was an action to recover 281. 128i for the hire of a carriage. The defendant is tbe well- known Lewis Joseph John Noel, The defence was, that the carriage was taken without the defendant's permission before the time had expired for which he had hired it. Mr. Price in a cross- examination of plaintiff's witness, elicited, to his discomfiture, the reason why the plaintiff took this pre- mature step. Mr. Comyn— I am surprised there should be. any defence set op. The Lord Chief Justice— Why I thiiik there really is none. Verdict for the plaintiff,' 281. 12s. [ Reflection upon the above case somewhat reconciles us to the , arduous and ill- paid duties of Common Jurymen ; a few days at- tendance in ' a court of justice suffice to'impress mOre deeply the ' useful ' maxim, " be cautious whom you trust."' Had the plaintiff ^ attended any London or Middlesex Sittings at any time during the last ten years, the above cause of action would not have accrued.] TUESDAY. • LASARUS v. DEWDNEY.— This was an action on a bill of ex- change for 22/. 9si 6d,, accepted by the defendant, a law- student, and endorsed to tire plainliff. The drawer of the bill was Row bot- tom, who keeps " The Finish." The bill was given for a score run up- at that house by the defendant. Watkins,- the landlord of the Xing'sHead, James- street, Covent- '• garden, stated that he saw the defendant- accept the bill at the bar of his house. . • Cross- examined.— Rowbottom became bankrupt,- and witness was his assignee. . The defendant accepted the bill on the morning of the 29th of April, 1831, between seven and eight o'clock. Isaac Nicholson, formerly a waiter at ". The Finish,'' stated that ; lie was present when tlie defendant accepted the bill. Mr. Boyd, a barrister, was with the defendant at" The Finish,'! whence they went to the King's Head. The writing on the bill was all from the \ same iokstand. Cross- examined,—" The Finish" was shut up at nine o'clock at night, . and opened at two in the mornjng, and w. as frequently visited by gentlemen. ... The Solicitor- General, for the defendant,: said he was instructed that the defendant^ acceptance to the bill was a forgery ; besides which,. the name on the bill was spelt Deudney, wi| h a " u" in- stead of a " w," which was the manner, in which jhe defendant always wrote his name. ... Mr. Wheatcroft, clerk to Mr. Wingfield, the Master in Chan- icery, and Mr. Warren, a special pleader, both stated that they did not believe the acceptance to be in the defendant's handwriting. Sir J. Scarlett confessed be bad never been to " The Finish," but be presumed now- a- day such a place was conducive to polish the education of young gentlemen going to the bar. The" Jury," without hearing a recapitulation of the evidence, found for the'plainti. tf. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. fi ... THURSDA. Y, GARTH, jr. HOWARD, GENT., A, ND ANOTHER.— This was an action of detinue brought by Captain . Garth., to recover back a quantity of plate pledged by the defendant, Howard, with the other defendant, Fleming, who is a pawnbroker, for. 200/. This cause was tried in llie sittings after last. Hilary Term, when the Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff. A rule was afterwards obtained for setting aside the verdict, on the. ground that the ad mission of a shopman of Fleming, as to his master having the plate, had been illegally received in evidence, the shopman not being the defendant's agent as to this transaction, and therefore his admission was not'binding upon him. The defendant^ Howard, had been the attorney of Captain Garth', who in fhe years 1829 and 1830 was under considerable • pecuniary embarrassments. Towards the close of the former year lie received a letter from Mr. Howar( h informing him that some of his creditors'had mentioned to him where he ( Captain Garth) was, and therefore advising him to set off for Scotland within five minutes after tbe receipt of that letter, otherwise be would be caught and imprisoned,' and ' bis ruin would be the consequence. Captain Garth' accordingly set out for the north'; and in a few days after- wards Mr. Howard went to Dorsetshire, and there received into his possession two chests of plate, which had beeh deposited by the late General Garth at bis banker's at Dorchester,' and which had become the plaintiff's property under the Geheral'S will. On his return1 to London- Mr. Howard received possession of more plate, • which- had been at Ihe General's house in Grosvenor- place, from his • solicitor, Mr. Wordsworth; and both these quantities of plate he pledged for 200/. Captain Garth caused a demand to be made upon Mr. F- leming to deliver up the plate, which demand was re- sistedi To- negative the presumption of'such authority, tbe plain- tiff's Counsel relied on the letter above Teferred to. The Counsel for the defendants, on the other band, contended that such autho- rity might be inferred from tbe fact of tbe plaintiff having employed Mr. Howard to - assist him in his difficulties by- procuring him money, and particularly from Mr. Howard, who was on the most intimate terms with the plaintiff, having, prior to this trans- action, been employed to pledge some of Lady Astley's jewellery with Mr. Fleming for a sum of 40/., which he remitted to her, she being then living witli Captain Garth. The Jury, wilh very little hesitation, returned a verdict for the - defendants. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, WESTMINSTER. WEDNESDAY. CHERRINOTON AND WITE v. BROWNE.— This was an action for assault upon the plaintiff's wife, who was the daughter of the de- fendant, a clerk in the Bank. At his Lordship's repeated recom- mendation, an endeavour was made to compromise this and another action depending between the father and son- in- law, but it failed. Mr. Piatt stated the case, and called Mi$ s Eleanor Browne, the defendant's daughter, who proved ber sister's marriage with the plainliff; " but upon her cross- exami- nation stated that it was a secret marriage, kept concealed for many months; and that tbe plaintiff used to do errands for her father, and had his meals sometimes in tbe parlour and sometimes in the kitchen. She spoke to her sister about the assault, and said she thought her conduct to her father had been very improper. Both her sister and Cherrington said, Mr. Dyer, the attorney, ad- vised ( hem to go to law, and Cherrington said," I wish he had struck me, I would have knocked his head off. We will make him pay for his impudence— revenge is sweet." Mrs. Cherrington had called her father a liar, because be had accused Cherrington of beating bis sons. Mrs. Reynolds, of 54, John- slreet- road, the landlady of the plaintiffs, proved that the defendant called and saw bis daughter ; that there were high words, and the defendant whirled his stick over her head. She believed it struck her, but whether accidentally or not she could not say. Mr. Erie, for tbe defendant, said that this was a most shameful action; there had been no bodily injury. no pain inflicted— nothing but, an accidental touch ; that it was the attorney's action, for Ihe sake of the costs; but be trusted the Jury would disappoint him and mark their sense of it by giving damages under 40s,— one far- ithiijg would be ( tipply ( sufficient. Verdict for the plaintiff— Damages, One Farthing. Attorneys— Dyer for the plaintiff, Abrahams and Robson for the defendant. [ This prosecution of a parent by a child, and that child a female, is unprecedented in our experience. The sin of ingratitude is only exceeded by the folly of submitting to act upon advice so contrary to the dictates of humanity and common prudence. Upon tbe conduct of Mr. Dyer, the legal adviser of this poor creature, in- dividually we make no comment; the case, as reported, speaks sufficiently of him ; but we think there should be a discretionary power lodged with the Master as a check to actions of' a frivolous or revengeful nature, and that lie'should say upon taxation of bills, not only whether any costs at all should be allowed, but whether or riot some penalty should be imposed upon their offieei* ih cases evidently brought for costs, and when the result ' ciju'td not ' bring anything but liarrass and vexation to the client.] *• •'' rt "' iwanqorq -"" ft Aft-, w """^' J- 11 ; xn^ d STEVENS V. LAWSON.— This was an action for a libel against the printer of Ihe Times newspaper. Plea, the general issue, and jus- tification as to. part. Mr. Sergeant Merewether stated that the plaintiff waj a school- master at Loughton, in Essex; where his father had conducted simi-; iar business for many years previously. The present action was1 instituted to recover compensation in damages for a serious injury' inflicted on him by a libel which appeared- in the Times newspaper. The libel for which this action was brought appeared ill the Times of the 21st of June, under the head of " Police, Union- hall," where a Miss Chambers was represented to have appeared to ask an advice from the; Magistrates respecting tlie treatment which she experienced from tlie defendant. Now it was clear that such a subject was not within tile jurisdiction of the Magistrates; conse quently the Times was not justified in publishing it. Lord Lyndhnrst told the Jury that this was an action for a libel, to which there was a justification as to part. He was of opinion that the justification was not proved, and consequently the plain- tiff was entitled to a verdict. They should take into consideration that this exaggerated statement was not the act of the reporter, or of the defendant, but of Miss; Chambers, and that the defendant was not bound to justjfy it. In estimatingthedamages, they should • be temperate, iu order to be just. The Jury, which consisted pf five Special and Sewh Common Jurymen, returned a verdict tor the platutiff— Damages, 50/. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT. WEDNESDAY. . • William Nejson Blackman Hanuan, horse- dealer, late of Can- terbury, was opposed for Messrs. Cook and. Hutchinson. An application was made to the Court on the part of the op- posing creditors to remove the insolvent to Maidstone, to be heard on the circuit of the Commissioners, the majority of his creditors residing in that neighbourhood. The debts of the insolvent amounted to 2,000/., for nearly 900/. of which a Mrs. King had become answerable. The insoiveutsub- sequently married Mrs. King, on which occasion a settlement was made of considerable property. for her benefit. Mr. Cooke, on the part of his client, objected to the removal of the case to Canterbury, on the ground that the distance from Lon- don to that city was not so great as to occasion inconvenience ana loss of. time to the creditors by causing them to come to London, and to prove this fact lie called Mr. Hutchinson himself, who deposed that he had ridden from ' Canterbury to London, on bis own horse, in two hoyrj and twenty- five minutes ( the distance is . sixty- five miles,) and obtained the freedom pf the City of Canterbury as a reward for bis e^ traodiuary ' exploit. •','' J » X , f. V The Learned Counsel inferred froni this statement that no incon- venience would arise to the Canterbury creditors by requiring their attendance in Portugal- street instead of Maidstone. And the Court, after an expression of astonishment at the mira- culous velocity of tbe witness, ordered Ihe hearing to take place ill London on the 30th inst. [ In this instance it seems to us the Commissioners were carried - away with the miraculous velocity of the witness With deference we should, say this was a most proper case, to have been taken on the circuit. We intend to avail ourselves of the earliest . opportunity to observe upoh removals of insolvents, a subject we think well worthy of attention in the present state of insolvent law.] The business on tire insolvent circuits terminated at Aylesbury on the 17th instant. The circuit lists have been, we are glad to state, uncommonly scant. Yet, two months have been consumed by three of tbe Commissioners, Reynolds, Bowen, and Law, in hear- ings. One month, we consider, would have been amply sufficient, and a very considerable expense would have been thereby saved in the mere travelling expense of the Commissioners and their clerks, but another and far more important benefit might have been afforded thereby , viz., tbe hearing and determining town cases by the whole of the Commissioners. We do not mean that fhe full Court should preside. We think more time is often consumed this way than in taking cases before a single Commissioner, and often, " we have a right to presume this from the talent of the Judges," not more satis- factorily determined ; but we think it reasonable now, when our prisons are literally crammed with insolvent debtors, that each Com- missioner should Sit apart, and hear and determine cases : by such a practice much good would be done, and a great saving effected to tbe country. Imprisonment for debt) by the Statute- Law of Eng. land, is not awarded as a punishment, but it becomes a heavy one by the present inefficient mode of administering the law in the Insolvent Court. • WINTER HOME CIRCUIT. LF. WES, DEC. 19.— George Wren was indicted for feloniously setting fire to a haystack, tbe property of Eleanor Fuller, on the 8th of November, at Uckfield. The facls proved in. evidence were these :— rThe prisoner was a pauper in tbe poor- house at Uckfield, and the stack in question was situate about two minutes' walk from the poor- house, and within sight of it. It was in the cenlre of a grass, field. Onthenigbtin question the prisoner was at a beer- house with a lad named Soper, about six o'clock. He asked him for some touch- paper, which hav- ing received, lie threw into the fire : it' did not burn very well. He asked Soper for some more, as he wanted to light his pipe with it. Soper gave him eight or ten pieces more, and the prisoner went away. At seven o'clock the prisoner was in a privy belonging to the workhouse with a man named Divall. He left the privy a few minutes before Divall, and was a few minutes after seen at the cot- tage of a person named Moon. There he lighted an unusually long pipe, called a churchwarden's pipe, which be was about to smoke, and which he said he had brought from tbe beer- shop. In- stead of lighting the pipe with the touch- paper, he lighted it at the candle. He only remained two or three minutes at Moon's house. He was afterwards met coming thence smoking his pipe, and going in a direction which would lead to the slack in ques- tion. He did not make his appearance at the workhouse until 20 minutes after 7. He had been in the bouse about ten minutes when the alarm of the haystack being on fire was given. The pri- soner heard it, and with an oath declared it was impossible. He then rail out, and assisted in extinguishing the flames. It was re- marked that after his entering the poor- house, and before the alarm was given, he was extremely dull, although lie was generally in very high spirits. When he first came in, he asked for some broth, but several minutes elapsed before he took it, although seve- ral times requested so to do. After the fire had been put oul, the field and Ihe surrounding localities were examined, and it was dis- covered, that although from the field which surrounded the stack being covered with grass no footsteps could be discovered, yet a few rods below the stack footsteps were discovered leading over a gap across a lane into some waste ground, which led into the workhouse yard. On comparing the prisoner's boots with the footmarks, they were found exactly to correspond. The prisoner did not attempt lo account for the ten minutes which bad passed between his leaving Moon's cottage and arriving at the workhouse. The jury found the prisoner Guilty. Mr. Baron GURNEY has not yet determined whether tiie pu- nishment of death is to be inflicted upon him. Timothy Harrington was indicted for the wilful murder of James Rogers, at Nipfield, on tbe 22d of October last. James Willoughby.— I am a seaman, in the Coast Guard Ser- vice. The Commander is Lieutenant Ashby, and in the month of October last we were stationed at Bexhill. I was chief boatman. The deceased ( Rogers) and the prisoner were both seamen under my command. On the 22d of October, in the forenoon, we all three went to . Eastbourne ; I directed the prisoner to go to Hooe with a message to Lieutenant Ashby ; he refused to go, and I then ordered Rogers to go; he came out of the beer- shop where he was, for the purpose of going, when some conversation, but I don't know what, passed between the prisoner and the deceased, I heard be prisoner say to Rogers, that he would shoot him. He imme- diately pulled out his pistol and fired. The ball struck Rogers on the left breast, apd lie reeled and fell into the hedge. A' ' he time of firing they were not above two yards from each other. At the time of the threat the prisoner had nothing in his hand. I said to the prisoner, " You villain, you have murdered the man." The prisoner said, " How Could I iielp it? it was an accident." He then said, I will shoot you, meaning me. He then drew out a cartridge, and began to re- load his pistol. I rushed upon him. wrenched the pistol out of Lis hand, and gave liim into custody. I did not perceive that he was in liquor. I know of no quarrel er difference between tlie prisoner and the deceased. The deceased was taken to a public- house, and died almost immediately. Other witnesses were called, who confirmed this statement, and one of them said that the prisoner appeared to be in a state of in- toxication at the time of shooting the deceased. Mr. Baron GURXEY summed up, and told the jury, that although there was no evidence in this case of direct malice, on the part of the prisoner against the deceased, yet w ben a man, without any provocation, . used a deadly weapon against another, tbe law implied malice. If, therefore, they were of opinion that the prisoner, without any, provocation, shot the deceased, they piust find him guilty. As to the fact of his being intoxicated at the time, that formed no excuse for the offence. The jury found the prisoner Guilty, but recommended him to mercy, on the ground of his having been intoxicated at the time of committing the offence. Mr. Baron GURNEY informed them, that he would state their recommendation in a higher quarter, but that very little hope ought to be entertained on the part of the prisoner. His Lordship then proceeded to pass tbe sentence of the law on the prisoner, and directed his body to be buried within the pre- cincts of the prison in which he had been confined, according to: the provisions of tbe 16th jection of the. new anatomi? bill, Martha Turner was indicted under the 9th Geo. I\ ., c, 3. s, 11, for attempting to murder her infant child. It appeared in evidence that the prisoner, who had been a widow upwards of two years, was, on tbe 22d October, delivered of a child in tbe private place belonging to the house in which she re- sided in Derby- place, Brighton. She, had thrown the child into the soil, but, while a woman went for ' assistance, had taken it opt] again ; the child subsequently recovered. When asked bow it was she had not mentioned the circumstance of her pregnancy, so that proper means might have been taken to procure the necessary con- veniences for her on such an occasion, she said she was not award of the fact, for she had been confined for the dropsy !— The pri- soner was acquitted. POLICE. —• : ' MANSION- HOUSE. A gentleman named Goidard was brought before tlie Lord Mayor, charged with having beaten a watchman. The " Guardian" stated that as he was going his rounds at 1? o'clock on Saturday night he called out the hour, and the defendant mimicked him so that the people laughed as he did his duty. Hei told the defendant not to cry the hour, as " it warn't fit for none bnt watchmen to do so," but the gentleman continued the offence, nd moreover struck the witnesses's comrade, who endeavoured ' to prevail upon him not lo disturb the neighbourhood. In the scuffle the witnesses's wig tumbled off, and was sopped in the mud. The defendant said the watchman bad treated him most unmer- cifully. One of them cried the hour so unintelligibly that defendant cried it out afterwards, to show him the way be ought to exercise his lungs. Suddenly the two attacked him most violently, kicked him on the shins, and pummelled him in the puddle, so that he got as wet as the wig which fell off accidentally. They then dragged him to the station- house, from which he was removed to the Compter, where he was detained until Monday morning, and ail for nothing but crying tbe hour better than the watchman. He was a rei spectable citizen of London, and felt that he had been most grossly abused. It was rather too much to inflict such punishment upon him for so harmlessly employing himself. The Lord Mayor admitted that fact; but said the defendant had acted very foolishly in crying the hour, and that what ho had suf- fered would probably make an alteration in him for the better. He was discharged. [ This was being rather too hard upon tbe imitator of the nightly Guardian. The circumstance, however, makes us aware that the last of the Charlies is not yet gone. We thought the race extinct. But if they are permitted to cry surely " respectable citizens" may laugh.] BOW- STREET. Oil Thursday, a fruit salesman of Covent- garden, named Michael Grady, was charged capitally with ar, assault, & c. on Elizabeth Green.— The prisoner was remanded. MARLBOROUGH- STREET. Mr. Broonihead, the overseer of St. George's, Hanover- square, accompanied by a lady elegantly dressed, possessing great claims to personal beauty, on Wednesday waited upon tbe presiding Ma- gistrate, H. M. C. Dyer, Esq., in order to obtain a warrant for the apprehension of a gentleman of fortune and family, the reputed father of a child of which the lady was evidently enceinte. Mr. Dyer, surprised at the circumstances detailed in the written statement and the appearance of the lady before liim, inquired who. she was ? Tile lady replied that she was a married woman, that ber husband was living) and was in India, but that the father of the child was a gentleman named M—. She was married to a gentleman named H— r. ( nearly related to a Colonel in the Guards) about two years since. After she had resided with him five weeks be left her, having discovered the nature of her former connexion. Tbe gentleman with whom she lived had allowed her 150/. a year, but had with- drawn the allowance, in consequence of which she was driven to her present course. He was the father of the child she now expected. The warrant was granted ; but we understand Mr. Dyer cave directions that it should uot be executed, as the question involves a great point of law. [ This is a remarkable but by no means a singular case. It is one, however, with which Mr. Dyer found it hard to deal, and it will doubtless be the subject of further canvass. The overseer, it appears, stated the " gentleman'' in question desired that the strange course should be adopted— why, we suppose we shall here- after know.] WORSHIP- STREET. Last week Mr. Brougbton, the sitting Magistrate, was engaged for several hours in the investigation of a case of burglary, com- mitted under very extraordinary circumstances, in the dwelling of Mr. Thomas, of tbe firm of Thomas and Blathwaile, surgeons, in High- street, Shoreditch. Edward Miller, the prosecutor's groom, Thomas Cranwell, his surgical assistant, and two young men named Samuel Snooks and Henry Hutchinson, weie placed at the bar for examination. It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Thomas, that about four o'clock on Sunday morning he and Mrs. Thomas were disturbed by a noise in the house. He then went down stairs and to the back dining- room, where he found tbe window open, and discovered that the plate and other property had been carried off; and proceeding thence to the surgery behind the shop and parlour, be saw that the window sash was thrown up, but tbe shutters closed although un- fastened, Tbe prosecutor then went through the yard to tbe stable, where he found Miller, his grooin, with a candle in bis band. He did not live upon the premises, and being accused of the robbery, lie confessed that he had admitted Snooks, Hutchinson, and another to perpetrate it, having himself got in previously at the surgery window, the shutters of which had been left unfastened the night before. The prisoner Cranwell slept in the sargery, and was in bed when tbe prosecutor descended upon the alarm being given: and as it was considered improbable that tbe thieves could carry on their operations so close to him without his connivance, be was taken into custody. The greater part of the property was found in Plough- yard, at the rear of the premises, by police constables of II and G division, who were called in upon the alarm being given, the thieves having evidently thrown it down and made their escape when they heard the prosecutor coming down stairs. The charges against the prisoners, with the exception of Cran- well, against whom nothing appeared, were substantiated, and they were remanded. OUE EN- SQUARE. A wretched woman was charged with - robbing a young man of several sovereigns.. The prisoner is well. known at the office, and lias been charged upwards of forty times with similar robberies, but, by some means has generally contrived to evade justice. She belongs to that class of females who make a prey of young men going home in an even- ing fresh from a party at the tavern, by inveigling them home to hee lodgings for no other purpose than to rob them. The prisoner is quite a proficient in her infamous calling, and has practised her arts upon the unwary with most unprecedented success ; for, if de- tected, It is twenty to one in her favour that the injured party wilt sooner put np with hfs loss than come forward to prosequte, for feat of exposure at the Sessions of his name and family connections. The numerous robberies of this description which nightly take place will scarcely be believed, yet still these well- known plunderers of the public are allowed to prowl about the streets, ready to dart on their prey at all hours of tbe night. " [ In this instance also, the prisoner was acquitted for want Of suf- ficient evidence. The prosecutor said it should be a. warning to. him in future. l? ut, inasmuch as prevention is better than cure, it may act as a less expensive warning to others.] HATTON- GARDEN. On Wednesday Charles Wyman was charged with coining. The evidence clearly proved the guilt of tbe prisoner. It is said that an investigation of the case will lead to a gang of conspirators who, being aware tbat the Mint rewards those persons muriificently who are instrumental to the apprehension and con- viction of smashers, or utterers of base coin-, concocted plans to inveigle individuals into crime. It appears that a coiner would form a slight acquaintance with some poor perjpn, and propose making bad money in his room, which being consented to, under the im- pression that they were both in each other's confidence; the room- keeper would otter some of the money. The coinfet would leave some of his implements in the apartment,: and immediately give information fo a police officer, who would use proper means to ap- prehend the man with tbe base coin and implements in his posses- sion, and when brought before; the Magistrates,, his defence would be attributed to invention. [ Our readers will recollect the ease of Brock and Pelham, who some years ago were inveigled into crime Under similar circum- stances, tried and convicted, and literally on the eve of being hanged. The matter was sifted and exposed by Mr. Alderman Wood, to whose exertions the men were indebted for their lives.] MARY- L. K- BONK, A man was on Wednesday brought before the Magistrate, for attempting a fraud by offering a note of the Gainsborough Bank, of no value and not filled up. Some time ago, in consequence of a similar case having arisen, it was discovered that the solicitor for the creditors of the Gainsbo- rough Bank had sold the books and papers belonging to tbe firm, and, among others, about ten thousand of their blank notes, to a cheesemonger in Blenbeira- st « ps Oxford- street, whp rapidly circu- lated them as waste paper. The cheesemonger was then sent for, when he promised, to prevent their further circulation. [ We have inserted so much of the case, for the purpose of cau- tioning the public against these GAINSBOROUGH Bank notes. The negligence or cupidity of the solicitor has already produced some evil, and may be the Cause of much more. It should be generally known that tbe Bank has failed, and that there are- many of these useless notes still floating about.] . THAMES- OFFICE. Ou . Wednesday a ferocious attack was made by a ruffian named Keeley, upon several policemen. The men, after having been se- verely beaten, succeeded in conveying the man. to the station- house, where lie broke down the door of the cell, and smashed a pewter quart pot which they produced. The witnesses appeared to have suffered. much in the conflict. The fellow was committed. UNION- HALL. J An application was made on behalf of the sister, for, the property ofthe wretched man calling himself Captain Beau- clerk, who recently committed suicide in Horsemonger- lane gaol. It appears that his real name was Clirke, and that be changed it into Beauclerk previously to his obtaining a commission in the 60th regiment, [ The sister of this man was, and is, it appears, receiving pato- cliial relief at Bedivorth, in Warwickshire.] Three hackney- coach: proprietors attended to , apply for sum- monses against an agent of Mr. Wakefield, one of tlie late unsuc- cessful candidates for the borough of Lambeth, for refusing to pay the expenses of coach- hire incurred in conveying voters to the poll during tbe late election.. One of the coach proprietors stated that he was applied to by Captain Holmes, the agent of Mr. Wakefield, and agreed with that gentleman to furnish a hackney- coach to convey . voters to the poll on Kennington- common, during the two days occupied in the election, at the rate of 1/. 3s. per dieip. When the, poll closed, to the discomfiture of Mr. Wakefield, neither Captain Holmes nor any of tile other responsible agents belonging to tbe unsuccessful candidate were to be found. Applicant had an interview with Captain Holmes on the Thursday subsequent to the election, when that gentleman informed him; that he had received a check from Mr. Wakefield to pay the expenses of coach- hire, adding, that if tbe applicant and tbe other coach proprietors called at the central Committee- room, at the King's Head, in the Walwortii- road, on the Saturday, all their bills should be liquidated. Applicant at- tended at the appointed time, and on that occasion Captain Holtties told them all that at present there were no funds at bis disposal pay the hackney-, coach expenses, and that probably they """ settled in the course of the ensuing year. The; applicant did not think this quite satisfactory', and theref'". made tbe application, which Mr. Murray, after some em^ ry, granted- '' ' IRELAND. BOYLE PETTY SESSIONS.— Magistrates present, Mr. Crofton aud O. Lloyd, Esqrs. A well- tempered blacksmith sought redress at the " bands oft bench for grievances of a heart- breaking natur "— namely making of a pot- hooks. Blacksmith— I'm Tommy Rogers a* your sarvice— I'm a dacent hard- working boy, and in troth it is'nt that I say it; and this man here, Tommy M'Kew, your Honour, won't pay me my hard earning. Magistrate— You had better put us in possession of the nature of your complaint; you put us in mind of the fable of the mountain iu labour. M'Kew— D— I a word o' lie your Honour says, for he's as good a rogue as any mouse; see how he looks now— smigh a bouchal, Jemmy. Magistrate— Hold your tongue, Sir, or you must go off the table. Blacksmith— You see as how it is: I made a pot- hooks for this robber, and several other articles of furniture, besides a gridiron, and ne ra bit o' me knows what he wanted with that, at all at all— and now I'm come here to shoe him for it, and hope your Honours will clinch the business before you let him go from fills spot; be- sides, my life's at stake every day in the week with him. Magistrate— Why don't you pay the man ? M'Kew ( laughing)— Ah, that's only little of the joker's tricks— wait untal you know him as long as I do. The parties now began to scold oil tbe table to sucb a degree, that the Magistrates were obliged to dismiss the crooked case, as- suring them that their stories had the two ways in them. INGENIOUS MECHANISM.— The Exeter Gazette mentions that Mr. Bradford, a country watch- maker, residing at Newton Abbott, has produced several pieces of very curious mechanism. First, a machine representing a lamp, suspended by a small brass rod, hung to the ceiling, which constantly turns round, carrying a quantity of watches and two lights, and is made to work in two different parts. The second is a brass ball, which runs 28 feet 64 times in an hour— being upwards of 21,000 feet in' 12 hours— without any individual knowing the cause of its going, except the mechanist and his family. The last is a time piece, going without weights or springs, showing the hours, minutes, days of the week, and days of the month. 416 THE TOWX. December 23. THE SPORTSMAN. Electioneering affairs prevented our devoting so much space as we could have wished to our sporting friends last week. We know they will readily excuse us when they consider the urgency of the occasion. The past week, with the exception of two days, has been a favourable one for hunting. The frost on Thursday morning really made us quake ; but so fine a scenting day succeeded, that our spirits mounted up like mercury on a hill top. Two very interesting letters from Melton and Newmarket make it neces- sary for us to be as brief as possible in our proem. Betting has been slack this week at " the corner," on account of the absence of most of the leading men on election business. The " state of the poll" on Monday we give below, since which time nothing has been done. TOX- HUNTING IN LEICESTERSHIRE. FROM THE JOURNAL OF A MELTONIAN. ( The following letter is from a thorough- going Meltonian of our acquaintance, whose communications we hope frequently to see in the columns of THE TOWN.) " DEAR TOWN,— In accordance with my promise, I send you a rough sketch of three days with Sir Harry, which, I think worth recording. In medias res was always my motto, as you very well know, so take my journal without further preface :— " Nov. 30.— Our fixture this day was at Rolleston ; a large ield was out, and amongst them a few of the gentler sex. The ladies kept a very good place, and Lady Wilton, in particular, rode with nerve and judgment. We found at Green's Gorse ; three foxes were pushed up at once, one of which went away in gallant style for Goadby, and another for Noseley. Unfor- tunately the better of the twain was headed back near Goadby Brook, and we were obliged to take up with the other, which we also lost, owing to too much holloing in the field. Wishing to get rid of the foot people, Sir Harry now moved off to Ram's Head, a favourite new cover, where a leash or two brace of foxes were soon on foot. After some off- and- on work, owing to , the over- eagerness of the field, ( every one of which, as usual, was anxious that his own fox should be hunted,) we got away in the direction of Tugby Wood. The pace was good, and the country tremendously stiff. Falls were frequent: young Tat- tersall was nearly killed by his horse rolling upon him, and Lyne Stevens got a terrible thump on the turnpike- road. Pug dis- dained to enter the wood, but ran down by its side, and along near the brook towards Tilton Wood. Instead of entering the wood, however, he made ' right slick away' for Tilton village, the scent breast- high, and pace tremendous. Leaving Tilton to the right, he proceeded in the direction of the Newton hills but, being up wind, and the scent so good, he was obliged to alter his plan, and make the best of his way for Billesdon Cop- low. Here the effect of the pace upon the horses was too plainly visible. I saw in one field seven gallant nags beat to a dead stand- still, and it became necessary to dismount and lead up the hill, or many more must have been absent at the finish. As you may guess, the field now was very select. Sir Harry Good- ricke, Lord Wilton, Lord Gardiner, and Lord Kinnaird being among the ilite. The fox was killed in the cover, after a run of thirtyrfive minutes, best pace. I forgot to say that the bitch pack was out this day, but I shall never forget the capital man- ner in which they worked their fox from beginning to end of the chase. We had another find at Botany Bay, but no run. " DEC. 8.— We met to- day at Allexton Hall, the seat of H. Wilson, Esq., a good sportsman, but whose health does not allow him to enter so vigorously into the pleasures of the field as he and his friends could wish. The dog pack was out this morning, in excellent condition for work. We drew the Pond Head blank, and thence proceeded to the wood, at the bottom of which we found a fox. After running the whole length of the cover, pug broke away at the upper end, and made off in the direction of Allexton village. Here, being interrupted in his course, he bore away to the left, and took a fine open grass country towards the Norton hills, but was unfortunately headed Jia. ft'fc, and went away to Stockerston Great Wood, where we lost him. " The hounds were immediately called off, and thrown into Holt Wood, where we soon found a fresh fox. A view hollo from the top corner soon brought us all into our places, and away we went for Blaston Pasture, by Drayton Wood, and right through Medbourne Pasture into Holt Park ; thence through the fir plantations into Medbourne open, field, which we crossed, and over the river Welland. We had now got into the finest tract of land imaginable, and one of the best parts of Osbal- destone's country; but the river, bank- full, appeared most un- fortunately in our path. Kinnaird, Gardiner, and John White, attempted to pass it, but in vain, and we were obliged to make the best of our way for Holt Bridge. The hounds took across Ashley meadows at a good pace, but without a single rider near them. Now came the ' tug of war ;' the bridge past, we all put our best legs foremost, but without reaching or even nearing the pack. They, meanwhile, had taken the direction of Carlton, thence for the turnpike road in Billesdon field, by Pipwell Wood to Wilberston Plains. Here there was a short check, which gave some of the field an opportunity of getting up, and a few of the second horses were luckily in attendance. The hounds then took the scent through Pipwell Small Wood, where it greatly improved ; and they were going well away for Desborough, across -. capital country, when some of the second horse gentry over- ode them, and caused a check of about twenty minutes' dura- tion. George Mumford, who is a determined enemy to a run fox'; made a good cast, and hit him off in good style. Reynard had turned back through Pipwell Wood to Carlton Park, thence for Middleton, and across the meadows for Holt Bridge, where we lost him. The extreme points of this run could not be less than eleven miles as the crow flies, and hard running most of he time. ' DEC. 13.— Our rendezvous was at Stanton Wyvil— the field goocf* We found a brace of foxes at Langton Cawdwell, one of which dodged us about from cover to cover, but would not take the champagne. At last a gallaht old fox dashed off over Lang- - ton Brook, towards Church Langton, passing near Tur Langton Mill, and away to the right in the direction of Staunton AVood. This is a particularly fine grass country, with stiff ox- fences, which some of our worthies found rather difficult to get over. Staunton Brook, too, caused a good deal of craning, but no broken necks. We kept along the brook side till almost op- posite to Noseley, when we turned to the left; over the stream to the 1- Iardwickes; thence to Noseley High Fields, where we turned short back for Shankton Holts. Here the scent, which had been very bad all day, totally failed, and we lost our fox. " At this point we were much amused by an altercation be- tween a worthy parson of this neighbourhood and a young grazier. The joke, which turns on the gallantry of the reverend divine evinced towards a certain lady of notoriety at Slawston, is a very popular one here at this moment, though perhaps,' not knowing the parties, it may not appear very interesting to you. The worthy gentleman, it seems, has sent over an easy chair to the house of the damsel in question, which he often frequents, no doubt with the purest intentions, though a rascally set of devil- may- care fox- hunters cannot view the affair in its proper light. " To conclude: Mumford now took the hounds off to the Fallow Closes, but did not find. Keythorpe Wood proved more fortunate, and we got away with a hard- going fox, which, though not a straightforward runner, kept us in pretty good exercise till dark. " On the whole, sporting affairs look as well in Leicestershire as they ever were known to do. Sir Harry's hounds are in capital condition, and his men well mounted. Gilmore is per- haps the best mounted and hardest- riding man of the season. The elections have made Melton thinner than usual hitherto, ' but after Christmas there is every reason to expect an overflow. ' " Dear TOWN; I am very truly yours, " Dec. 18." " ^ MELTONIAN." 1. ETTER FROM ITEWMARKET. DEAR TOWN,— The long continuance of mild and open weather has been most favourable to our operations here, and such horses as are doing work have every thing at present in their favour. We are also very free from all sorts of diseases ; but still we hope for frost, as conducive to a continuance of health, a succession of sloppy winters not being considered de- sirable. The first and second favourites for the next Derby, Glaucus and Forester, the former of which cost the round little sum of three thousand guineas, are the lions of our heath— Glaucus standing at Webb's stables, in the care of Mr. Ridsdale's groom : the latter at his owner's, Mr. Hunter's, of Six- mile Bot- tom, on the London- road, where his sire, Gustavus, also stands, enjoying the otium cum dignitate he so well deserves, and in the proud recollection of having himself performed the feat his son will soon be called upon to attempt. Forester is a dark grey colt, rather undersized, but very well proportioned, and a true goer on his legs ; and the way in which he beat a large field, in his last race at Newmarket, makes him a dangerous horse in the market. Glaucus, a chesnut colt, shows superior form, and his action is likewise, to the eye, superior, and more com- manding ; but there does not seem to be a wider difference be- tween these two high flyers than what is exhibited in the bet- ting. Of one thing our readers may rest satisfied : they are both healthy and sound, and have every prospect of continuing so. Our stables are almost all full; some indeed to an overflow. The report of Lord Exeter retiring from the turf appears to be premature, as his Lordship has a large stud at Newmarket; they are under the care of Mr. Marston, who still continues his trainer, notwithstanding the rather awkward eclaircissement before the Jockey Club on the evidence of the blacksmith Richardson, one of our betters in the ring, and a member of the Fang family, who attempted the cross at Doncaster. It is, how- ever, generally believed, that a sharp look- out will be kept by our gentlemen- sportsmen when our next meetings commence, as there is too much reason to believe that something wrong has been going on in more quarters than one. If so it is high time it should be stopped, lest disgust should drive honourable men from the turf, and racing, like prize- fighting, fall into disrepute. Speaking of prize- fighting, nothing is talked of here but the new sporting M. P., once an ornament to the ring. Some say, that having borne his good fortune so meekly, he will accept the Chiltern Hundreds, and vacate his seat when parliament meets; others, that he will appear in his place and give a conscientious vote on matters that interest the people. Be it so ! But I must conclude my letter, with a promise of occasionally sending you another for your very sporting paper, which affords me much entertainment. In the meantime, yours, & e. Newmarket, Dec. 16. C. B. ELECTION SQUIBS AND CRACKERS. HUNTING MEETS. His Majesty's stag hounds— To- morrow at George Green, and Friday at Maidenhead Thicket— at eleven o'clock. Mr. H. Goodricke's hounds— To- morrow at Melton Marhay, Wed- nesday at the Twelfth mile stone, Welford- rOad, Thursday at Horhing- hold, and Saturday at Gumley— at eleven. The Atherstone hounds— To- morrow at Wharton Village, Wednesday at Bosworth, Thursday at Middleton Woods, and Saturday at Willesley — at eleven. Mr. Dansey's hounds— To- morrow at Wiverton Hall, Wednesday at Epperstone, and Friday at Burton Guide Post— at half- past ten. The Norfolk hounds— To- morrow at Yarrow, Thursday at Stiffkey Church, and Saturday at Dunham Lodge— at half- past ten. Mr. Parker's hounds— Thursday at Kingston Inn. The Old Berkshire harriers— To- morrow at Chilton down, Wednesday at the Cross roads, and Thursday at the Kennel. Mr. Osbaldeston's hounds— 1To- morrow at Brigworth Kennel, Wednes- day at Harrington, Friday at Misterton, and Saturday at Pytchley— at haif- past ten. The Duke of Grafton's hounds— To- morrow at Twickett's Mill, Wed- nesday at Shenley, and Friday at Whistley Wood— at half- past ten. The Duke of Rutland's hounds— To- morrow at Cold Harbour, Wed- nesday at Newton toll bar, and Thursday at Stonesby Village— at half- past ten. T. Smith, Esq.' s ( the Craven) hounds— To- morrow at East Woodhay, Wednesday at Fronfield, Friday at Chuddleworth Gate, and Saturday at Gravel Hill. Mr. C. Brock's fox- hounds— To- morrow at Bishop's Wood, Wednes- day at Broughton Market, and Friday at Himbleton Village. The Warwickshire fox- liounds— To- morrow at Alveston Pasture. The Brighton harriers— To- morrow at Patcham, Wednesday near the Race Course, and Friday at the Dyke. The Brookside harriers— To- morrow at Newmarket, Wednesday at Ashcombe and the Kennel alternately, and Friday at Telscombe Tye. The East Sussex fox- hounds— To- morrow at Chailey North Common, Thursday at Sayers Common, and Saturday at Vfindore Hill. The Cadbury harriers— To- morrow at Wincanton Common, Thursday at Milborne Wyke, and Saturday at Babcary Copse. Mr. Codrington's hounds— To- morrow at Horse- shoe Bridge. Lord Harewood's fox- hounds— To- morrow at Riffa, Wednesday at Cross Roads, Bramham Moor, and Friday at Deighton Bar. The Badsworth fox- hounds— To- morrow at Womersley Hall, Thursday at Cudworth, and Saturday at Skelbrooke Hall. Herefordshire fox hounds— To- morrow at the fifth mile stone on the Fromesliill- road, and Friday at Credenhill. Mathon and Colwall fox- hounds— To- morrow at Frith Wood, Thurs- day at Collen Park. Easton hounds— Friday at Kyrewood House. Mr. Ilorlock's hounds— To- morrow at Neston Park Lodge, and Friday at Compton Basset. Mr. Assheton Smith's hounds— To- morrow at Crawlboy's Farm, Fri- day at Oare Hill. Lord Petre's Puckeridge fox- hounds— To- morrow at Culver, Wednes- day at Quendon- street, and Saturday at St. John's. The Shropshire hounds—' To- morrow at Nescliff, Wednesday at Acton BurnelL Friday at Twimlows, and Saturday at Sundorne Castle. The Cottesmore hounds— To- morrow at Witchley Wan- en, Wednesday at Leesthorpe, and Thursday at Tollthorpe Oaks. Lord Fitzwilliam's hounds— To- morrow at Milton Ferry Bridge, Wed- nesday at Gidding Windmill, and Thursday at Norwood. Lord Yarborough's hounds— To- morrow at Irby A'illage, Wednesday at Horkstow Village, Friday at Tlionock House, and Saturday at Thorn- ton College. Mr. Wickstead's hounds— To- morrow at Woore, Wednesday at He- leigh Castle, and Saturday at Johnson Hill. The Allbrighton hounds— To- morrow at Moseley Court, Wednesday at Orslow, and Saturday at Chillington. Sir R. Puleston's hounds— To- morrow at Shocklack Hall, Thursday at Emral, and Saturday at Halton Hall. Mr. MeyneH's hounds— To- morrow at Egginton, Thursday at Cuble. y Toll Bar, and Saturday at Wichnor Park. The Sa'ndbeck hounds— To- morrow at Grove. The Cheshire hounds— To- morrow at Sandiway Head, Wednesday at Sutton Penfold, Thursday at Norton Priory, and Saturday at Peover. Sir R. Sutton's hounds— To- morrow at Glentworth, Wednesday at Wickenby, Thursday at Carlton le Moorland, Friday at Fiskerton Long Wood, and Saturday at Gate Burton. Soutli Wold hounds—' Tuesday at Turnby Wood, Thursday at Spilsby, and Saturday at Welton High Wood. The West Kent hounds—' Fo- morrow at Horton, Wednesday at Leaves Greaves, and Friday at Otfol- d. The East Kent hounds— Wednesday at Black Mill, Barhsm Downs, and Saturday at Ashley. THE TURF. BETriNG AT TATTERSALL'S. STATE OF THE ODDS FOR THE DERBY ON MONDAY. 9 to 1 agst Glaucus 9 to 1 agst Revenge 11 to 1 agst Forester 13 to 1 agst Prince Llewellyn A SKETCH UPON CANVASS.— During the recent canvass of a certain City Don, a puzzling question was proposed :—" Pray, Sir, do you mean to support the orthodox party ?"— to which the worthy Alderman replied, " Really, Sir, I should be most happy; but as my cousin W. is a great proprietor in the London Doc/ cs, and I myself hold a few shares in the St. Katherine's, it would hardly be consistent in me to pass my word for the sup- port of any new Dock Company, however wealthy and however respectable." TORY LYRICS.— The following most edifying stanza is ex- tracted from a poem of homogeneous texture, on the occasion of chairing Mr. Entwistle of Rochdale, whose standard was a " nini gallon bowl of brandy- punch:— Huzzah for Entwistle, Huzzah for his brandy, His lemons and rum, And his best sugar candy ; Gin toddy be hang'd— ale and porter go whistle Here's the nine- gallon punch- bowl of Mister Entwistle, & c. & c. We imagine the author of this production must have taken a " good pull at the punch" before he e. rspired such verses as the above. A good number of the elections have indeed justified the epi- thet " contested." The broken heads have served strikingly to show the state of the poll. At Norwich the whites were made to run down purple, and a blazing bonfire attested the joviality of the occasion, and men, says a Tory journal, " danced round the burning embers with savage glee." Poor creatures 1 they were only touched with Scarlett fever, and were determined to have a Storm- on'' t. Bribery has been employed at the late elections by the Tory candidates. This is one way of rendering the new enfranchise- ment a- bought- ive. It was impossible for Sir Charles Forbes to come in for Mid- dlesex, as he is, and doubtless always will be, an out- and- out Con servative. There is to be an inquiry into the circumstances of the Norwich election, where it is asserted the most flagrant corrup- tion has been exercised. Surely the electors have good cause to blush for their conduct, and indeed their act carries with it its own shame, since in the commission of it, they turned to Scarlett. On hearing two of Cobbett's voters at Manchester questioned as to whether they were registered.-— That Cobbett's friends are registered there is no sort of fear— He has dosed them with his Register through many a tedious year. Poor Devils, as for Register, to them pray say no more of it, Tbe very notice sickens them— they've had so much before of it. WHOLESALE PLEDGES.— At a meeting at Cork, Dr. Baldwin promised to vote— 1. For repeal of the Union— 2. Abolition of Tithes and all Church rates and cesses— 3. Triennial Parlia ments, further extension of the elective franchise and vote by ballot— 4. Introduction of Jury Bills for Ireland, similar to those in England, as well as that Grand Juries, Municipal Officers, and all Magistrates be elected by rate- payers— 5. Total Abolition of Slavery— 6. Repeal of Taxes on Knowledge— the facility with which the gentleman and his colleague, Mr. Cal- laghan answered yes to every question, rather amused some of the knowing ones. One gentleman observed— that as the Hon. Candidates " had said their catechism— they were therefore ready for confirmation." The following inscription was painted on a flag carried by four stone- breakers at Birmingham, at the head of a numerous body employed in that occupation. " We toil at breaking stones for bread, With cold and hunger shaking ; ' Twould pleasure be if we, instead, The Tories' hearts were breaking. But they are hard— to pity dead ; Our life- blood they'd exact: Their heads though, doubtless, soon would break, For they're already crack'd ! AFFECTING ELOQUENCE.— One of the candidates for Green- wich, on being elected, favoured the electors with the fol- lowing specimen of the mock pathetic :—" To express his feel- ings he had no book but the language of the heart. His support was the enthusiastic shouts of the young, the smiles of the fair, the congratulations of the aged, and, what he did not value least, the interest exhibited for him by the people in the work- house of his own town, Deptford. It was most endearing to hear their congratulations and see their outstretched arms; that was almost too much for Mm."— Perhaps Mr. Barnard's dear friends, " the people in the workhouse," shewed fists at the end of " their outstretched arms ;" if so, we can fully sympathize with him in his fears of their being " too much for him." We sha'nt have Judy for Dublin, nor Juggy for Cashel, nor Thady for Meath, and Darby for Youghal; but we shall send at least fifteen or twenty fellows into Parliament, the like of whom never sat any where else, except among the Trades, where tliey were Tritons of theMinnoss, or rather the pipes and drones through which the Piper General blew his music.— [ Thus says the Dublin Evening Post— and we doubt not there is a good deal of wit in the paragraph, though Judy, and Juggy, and Thady, are not of our acquaintance.] MEMBERS RETURNED. The following is a list of the Members returned, and the state of the several Polls, up to twelve o'clock last night :— Leicestershire ( North)— Lord R. Manners and C. Phillips, Esq. Montgomery— HOB. C. W. Wynn. Nottingham ( County)— M. A. Lumley and W. Houldsworth. York ( West Riding)— Viscount Morpeth and G. Strickland. Bedford— Lord F. Russell and Stuart. Buckinghamshire— Chandos and Smith. Derby ( North)— Cavendish and Gisborne. Hertford— Sebright and Calvert. Kent ( West)— Knatchbull and Plumptre. Westmoreland— Lord Lowther and Colonel Lowther. Glasgow— Mr. Ewing and Mr. Oswald. Paisley— Sir John Maxwell. Armagh ( County)— Lord Aicheson and Colonel W. Verner. Dundalk ( Borough)— W. O'Reilly, Esq. Down ( County)— Lord A. Hill and Lord Castlereagh. Fermanagh ( County)— Viscount Cole and General Archdall. Kinsale— Colonel Stawell. Meath ( County)— II. Grattan and M. O'Connell, Esq. STATE OF POLLS. Carmarthen, Dec. 20. Trevor . . . 1556 Adams . . . 1433 Williams . . . 1247 Cheshire, North, Dec. 20. Egerton . . . 2074 Stanley . . . 196I Tollemache . . 1091 Denbigh, Dec. 20. Wynn . . . 2518 Biddulph . . . 1476 Kenyon . . ,1285 Devon, Dec. 20. Lord J. Russell . . 3355 Bulteel . . . 3293 Buller . . . 2803 Essex, Dec. 21. Tyrell . . . .1863 Baring . . .1783 Western . . .1687 Brand . . . 1449 Gloucester, West, Dec. 21. Berkeley . . . 2686 Moreton . . . 2554 Somerset . . . 2479 Lincolnshire, Dec. 21.— Spald- ing, one o'clock. Pelham . . .398 Ingilby . . .365 Sheffield . . ,182 Northumberland, So., Dec. 20. Beaumont . . . 2286 Bell .... 2142 Ord . . . . 2121 Norfolk, East, Dec. 20. Windham . . . 3020 Keppel . . . 2989 Peach . . . 2655 Cholmondeley . . 2575 Suffolk, West, Dec. 21. Tyrell . . . 1514 Parker . . . 1388 Wadlington . . 977 Somerset, East, Dec. 21. Langton . . . 4249 Brigstocke . . . 4003 Miles .... 3603 Somerset, West, Dec. 20. Sanford . . . 3977 Tynte . . . 3586 Escott . . .1151 Sussex, East, Dec. 21. Cavendish . . .2160 Curteis . . .1762 Darby . . .629 Warwick, North, Dec. 21. Heming . . . 715 Willmott . . . 805 Dugdale . . . 448 Yorkshire, N. R., Dec. 20. Duncombe . . . 2353 Ealey . . . 1519 Ramsden . . . 1852 Stapylton . . .291 Banffshire, Dec. 18. Ferguson . . . 186 Gordon . . . 105 Dundee, Dec. 19. Kinloch . . . 762 Guthrie . . .503 Linlithgowshire, Dec. 19. Hope .... 244 Vere .... 224 Stirling, Burghs, Dec. 19. Dalmeney . . . 232 Johnston ... 85 Wigton, Burghs, Dec. 19. Stewart M'Taggart . Belfast, Town. Chichester . Crawford . . . R. I. Tennant . E. Tennant Cork, Dec. 18. Callaghan . Baldwin Newenham . Boyle Carrickfergus, Dec. 19. Dobbs . . . 482: Chichester . . . 448 Clare, County, Dec. 19. Macnamara . . 355 O'Brien . . .337 M'Donnell . . .292 Butler . . . 140 Carlow, County, Dec. 19. Bruen . . . 290 Cavanagh . , . 286 Blackney . . . 263 Wallace . . .262 Dublin, County, Dec. 19. 74 2 210 210 210 204 1350 1328 842 835 550 541 470 316 18- 17 LATEST INTELLIGENCE. Hamilton Fitzsimon . Evans Brabazon Ennis, Dec. 18. Macnamara Bridgeman . 19th, 1 o'c.— A majority of 15. Limerick, City, Dec. 18. Roche . . . 310 Rooke . . . 257 Vereker . . . 215 Longford, County, Dec. 19. Lefroy . . .364 Forbes . . . 36S Rooke . . . 363 White . . .361 Monaghan, County, Dec. 19. Perrin . . . 374 Blaney . . .265 Westenra . . . 257 Queen's County, Dec. 19. Lalor . . .184 Gale .... 75 Coote . . .165 Dunne . . . 15 Westmeath, County, Dec. 19. Chapman . . . 385 Nagle . . .381 Rochfort . . . 238 Lambert . . . 159 Waterford, City, Dec. 18. Barron . . . 501 Hayes . . . 415 Christmas . .. . 483 Wyse . . . 320 Wexford, County, Dec. 19. Carew . . . 570 Lambert . . . 495 Rowe . . .431 Wicklow, County, Dec. 19. Acton . . . 254 Grattan . . . 200 Howard . . .197 17 to 1 agst Muiey colt 16 to 1 agst- c out of Moses' dam 20 to 1 agst Bravo 30 to 1 agst Emmeline NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING— 1833. The entry for the Oatlands is one of the best we have known for many years. The " names and weights" are as follow:— Lord Cleveland's Emancipation, 5 yrs, 9st 91b ; Mr. Stonehewer's Variation, 5 yrs, 9st 61b ; Mr. Biggs' Little Red Rover, 5 yrs, 9st; Mr. Oliver's Cock Robin, 6 yrs, 8st 121b ; Mr. Walker's Consol, 4 yrs, 8st 101b; Mr. Osbaldeston's Lady Elizabeth, 4 yrs, 8st 101b ; Mr. Robinson's Manchester, 4 yrs, 8st 71b; Mr. Forth's Marvel, 4 yrs, 8st 101b ; Lord Jersey's Alea, 4 yrs, 8st51b; General Grosvenor's Sarpedon, 4 yrs, 8st 3lb ; Duke of Grafton's Oxygen, 4 yrs, 8st 71b ; Lord Exeter's Marmora, 4 yrs, 8st 61b ; Lord Exeter's Beiram, 3 yrs, 8st lib ; Mr. Kirby's Diana, A yrs, 8st; Lord Jersey's Blunderer, 4 yrs, 8st; Mr. Kirby's Dinah, 4 yrs, 7st 121b; Mr.. Smith's The Witch, 4 yrs, 7st 101b ; Lord Cleveland's Trustee, 3 yrs, 7st 91b ; Lord Burlington's c, by Bizarre out of Mouse, 3 yrs, 7st 61b; Mr. Ridsdale's Burgomaster, 3 yrs, 7st 41b. ; Colonel Peel's Slug- gard, 3 yrs, 7st 41b; Mr. Gully's Lady Fly, 3 yrs, 7st 31b ; Mr. Walker's Tourist, 3 yrs, 7st 2lb; Mr. Wilson's Argent, 3 yrs, 7st 21b ; Mr. Gully's Hokee Pokee, 3 yrs, 7st 21b ; Lord Exeter's Spencer, 3 yrs, 7st lib; Mr. O'Brian's Revealer, 3 yrs, 7st; and Mr. Hunter's Rounceval, 3 yrs, 6at 121b. The Globe of last evening states, that Don Pedro has effected a partial change in his present rather large Ministry. M. Silva Carvalho, one of the leaders of the first revolution in the year 1820, has been placed at the head of the Finances ; his col- leagues are the Marquis of Palmella, for the Home and Foreign Departments; M. Magalhaens, a lawyer, for the Ministry of - Justice; Major Freire, for the War Department. Another Secretary of State, M. Xavier Mosinho, has been sent to Madrid. General Solignac has been engaged for the service of Don Pedro ; he will act as Chef de I'itat Major, and will, it is hoped, be able to repair the blunders made, five months since, by the imperial staff. [ If this information he correct, the Don has done now what he ought to have done several months ago. He very foolishly passed over those who had really struggled and suffered to pro- mote his cause, and took to his council those who were utterly unfit to tender such advice as the nature of his case demanded. They led him to suppose that his name would be as a host of men in Portugal, and he was taught the truth only by a dearly- bought experience.] By news received late last evening from Ancona, we learn that the list of proscriptions is not yet complete ; orders for arrest or banishment continue to emanate from the government. Garibaldi, a merchant, and Leiti, an advocate, have lately received such orders, but as, in their opinion, they had nothing to reproach themselves for, they will not comply with the order for going into exile, but will rather submit to a legal prosecution. A great number of persons of all ranks have interceded for them, both with the delegate and General Cubieres. BIRTHS. At the house of her mother,- the Countess of Sandwich, the Countess of Walewska, of a daughter— At his house in Charles- street, Berkeley- square, the lady of Dr. Seymour, of a son— At Edinburgh, the Lady Eli- zabeth Thackeray, of a son. MARRIED. At St. George's Hanover- square, by the Rev. and Right Hon. Lord Wriothesley Russell, Cluny Macpherson, of Cluny Macpherson, chief of THE ELECTIONS. The Standard of last night circulates a rumour that Mr. Aber- cromby, the late Chief Baron of Scotland, will succeed Mr. Manners Sutton to the Speaker's Chair. Cobbett has published in his " Register" a letter in reference to his election to represent Oldham in Parliament. His readers will do well to compare the blustering insolence of his tone on former occasions with the " modest stillness and humility" by which his present writing is characterised. He seems altogether to have forgotten the " 1 will do this" and " I will do that" of gone- by " Registers," and now " the blast of war" bloweth in our ears no longer. Mark his mildness of yesterday:—" It is not for me to say how much I shall be able to do there ; and more especially, it is not for me to specify any particular things that I shall attempt. It will be soon enough to talk of these things J when the parliament has met." Lacock- abbey, in the County of Wilts, to Constance, youngest daughter of Francis Mundy, Esq., of Markeaton, in the county of Derby— At Tri- nity- church, St. Mary's Newington, Snrrey, Gustavus Haviland, Esq., eldest son of Captain Haviland, ofthe Franchis, Burwash, Sussex, to Maria, youngest daughter of Mr. Haviland, late of Cirencester— At St. Martin's, Birmingham, by the Rev. A. Hopkins, M. A., vicar of Clint, Lieut. Charles Hopkins, R. N., to Sarah, only daughter of Daniel Led- sam, Esq., of Summer- liill. DEATHS. At Woodstock, John Joberns, Esq. Inspector General of Hospitals, and Senior Surgeon of Middlesex Hospital— At Trichinopoly, Captain R. Burton, 5th Regiment, son of Sir R. Burton, Sackett's- hill, Isle of Thanet— At Crathorne, Yorkshire, R. Chapman, Esq., aged 107. He was born and lived all his time in the same parish. The same may be said of his ancestors for several generations ; they all farmed under the Crathorne family— At his house in Piccadilly, of apoplexy, Henry Beard, Esq., late Governor of the Colony of Berbice, in the 52d year of his age — On Thursday last, in Russell- square, of effusion on the brain, the ef- fect of long previous illness, but accelerated by the recent loss of her lamented husband, the Right Hon. Lady Tenterden. CORN EXCHANGE, DEC. 21. There has been but few fresh arrivals since the beginning of the week. Tlie wheat trade is excessively dull, and has no variation ofterms. There is some good barley in the market; the demand, however, is small, and the prices the same as last quoted. Oats and other things remain as before, with nothing transacting. 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 3^ per Cents New 4 per Cents Long Annuities India Bonds Exchequer Bills Mon. Tues. Wed. Thur. Frid. Satur,. '— 1874 1884 188 — 1894 8G| 834 834 834 83| 83J sa 844 844 841 84} 84| — 914 914 911 914 914 911 91* 101- 1 1013 loii 1015 101J 1024 16jj 16| 164 16j 164 164 20 21 21 22 22 23 31 31 31 31 31 31 LONDON : Printed by A. W. GRAHAM, Savoy Precinct, and Published by him at the Office, No. 2, WELLINGTON STREET, STRAND : where ( only) Advertisements, and all Communications addressed to the Editor, are received. i
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