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The Edinburgh Evening Courant

Date of Article: 26/05/1834
Printer / Publisher: David Ramsay and Son 
Address: No 190, High Street, Edinburgh
Volume Number:     Issue Number: 19119
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H T T 1 I li e .'• i* « ! i'r fK "! i;;.- s! NUMBER 19,119.] MONDAY, MAY l • • 1 " 26, 1834. § 0 P e r C g a fc fHpftl ® V v ^ j g r D W i ' U . ) J HI EDINBURGH RACES, lf! 34. TUESDAY, 15t" H J U L Y, AHANDICAP STAKE of 12 SOVS. each, for 2 antl S yr; olds, and 6 Sova. forfeit, if declared on or before lst July. The horses to be named GAELIC EPISCOPAL SOCIETY. ON WEDNESDAY next; the 23th instant, the A N N U A L S Y N O D A L M E E T I N G of t he E P I S C O P A L C L E R G Y OF t h e DIOCESE < if E D I N - BURGH/ FIFE, and ' GtAfcQOVr, will be held in ST PAUL'S CHAPEL, YOIIK PLACE, when a S E R M O N will be Preadhed by" the Revi EDWAIIB CRAIG, AL'M. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE C I T Y OF EDINBURGH. GENTLEMEN, T O T A Y I N G been , called upon by a large and ii • O i fluential. portion of my fellow; citizens. to ofl ' M A F T ' S E D I N B U R G H M A G A Z I N E , for NOTICE. •- JL JUNE, price ONE SHILLING, will cpntain, ] l | " R J . VERDURE, of LONDON, will, bo most Uhe Scottish. Elections— The Consultation— The Old , i- TiL grateful to the writer of the anonymous letter Blank Crow—• The - Whigs-- The Hanwell Lunatic | of date " Edinburgh, 2d May." • Asylum, by Harriet Martineau — French Natior « nl i As he is now in Edinburgh In the BLACK BULL offer > Picture Gaiter*, by O. P. Q. No. 11 — Victor H « The following Plates, Sic. will be run for, ... ill 1. . J I . . — Hlo o f Mwohti c.., h- j. iu lt^ hieu inGAaS WdicjS Dr„ ihsitrr » i cwtsil tO ./ fitmhien Ealp,. iBsc opaVl - IoCAhmu..' r ch. particulars will be afterwards given, viz.— His Majesty's Plate nf 100 Guineas. . A Gold Cup. Plate of 50 Sovereigns' given by the Duke of Buccleuch, for Horses, & e. the property of members of Racing and Fox- hunting Clubs in Scotland. Plate of 60 Sovereigns given by the Honourable the Members for the Gity of Edinburgh; and a Plate also given by the Duke of Buceleuch, for Horses the property of Farmers. LIST OF DISTRICTS FOR POLLING WITHIN THE CITY OF EDINBURGH, , AND BY THE POLLING PLACES APPOINTED I N EACH. Divine Worship will commence at Eleven o'clock. 24th May,- 1884. - 1 : « I ST D 1 Old and New Greyfriars, Lady Yester's, New North, Old Church, Tion Church, and Tolbooth,— Polling Place— METHODIST CHAPEL, HERIOT BRIDGE, GRASSMARKET. your suffrages. ••' .-./.' t.- *.-. Is ' oca) Register. I am aware of the important nature of the duties! i Printed fbr WILLIAM TAIT, Edinburgh; SIMPwhicba Representative of the Metropolis of Scotland l i s & MARSHALL, London;' and JOHN GUMMING, undertakes, and of my own limited qualifications, fdr ( Dublin. filling » hat arduous situation.' But 1 " come before you on principles of perfect independence. I am resolved to support the measures of. his Majesty's Government when I consider them to be for the public good, and inn equally determined to oppose them when they shall appear to have a contrary tendency. Although anxious to remove every abuse, 1 shall always resist to the utmost Of my power such rash and unnecessary changes as are calculated to subvert good government, or to injure or impair our Constitution in Church and State.. The part which for several years I have taken in the municipal government of the City has necessarily made, file well acquainted with its, interests, and has at the Same time afforded you an opportunity of judging of my character, my habits of business, and the earnest desire which 1 have always felt to promote, the welfare and prosperity . of Edinburgh. 1 trust that I have uniformly acted with a strict, attention to niy public duties," and with proper zeal and fairness ; and 1 am conscious of never having been actuated by selfish or illi. beral considerations. I am one of yourselves; and I can honestly assure you, that in venturingflius to present mvself, the only objects I have in view aie toad. ' This day is published, in 8vo. price. 6s. , , No., I I . Containing PART of t h e l l o u r r t y of DUMFRIES, ,,.'' With a Map,. " ' - BP TUB* N E W S T A T I S T I C A L A C C O U NT : S C O T L A N D , OF THE MINISTERS OF THE RESPECTIVE 2D DISTRICT— The Parishes of High Church, College Church, and Canongate,— Polling Place,- SOCIETY HALL, FOUNTAIN WELL. SD DISTRICT.— That part of tbe Parish of St Andrew's, which lies to the East of the Centre of the Street of Greenside Plate, Catherine Street, Leith Street, and the North Bridge, and that partrof- the Parish of South Leith which lies within the New Boundaries of the City of Edinburgh,— Polling Place.— SHOP, No. 2; MONTGOMERY STREET, ELM ROW. 4TH DISTRICT— That part of St Andrew's Parish which lies to- the West of the Centre of fhe Street of Greenside Place, Catherine Street, Leith Street, and the North Bridge,— Polling Place,- SHOP, No. 13, SOUTH ST DAVID'S STREET. HOTEL, he will be glad to meet- him there on Thursday 2' Jlh current, at 8 o'clock, as he should wish. much to have an explanation touching the insinuations therein contained in the matter referred to. Edinr. ,26th May,, 1834. NEW ESTABLISHMENT. FOREIGN AND BRITISH MILLINERY WAREHOUSE, N o . a, BLENHEIM PLACE, ( Head of Lcith Walk ) R S D. S T E W A R T , ( | a t e Miss WALKER, several years Principal Assistant to a Fashionable Establishment in town), grateful for the favours she has already received, begs to inform the Ladies, that- she is weekly receiving Irom tiie first Paris and 1 London Houses, every thing New and Fashionable as it I appears, in MILLINERX', DRESSES, 6tc. & e. ; and respectfully solicits a continuance of their patronage and support; 26th May, 1834. TO FARMERS. ILLI AM YOUNGER and CO. request, that those Gentlemen, v.- ho have BARLEY still in the STRAW to dispose of, will send samples to their Brewery, mentioning the quantity, weight, and price for cash on delivery.' ° Edinburgh, May 23. lo34. ' " ' ROYAL SALOON, COFFEEHOUSE, AND TAVERN, WATERLOO PLACE. ' ' JAMES MENZIES begs respectfully to announce to his friends and the public, that he has OPENED the above extensive and splendid establishment, and frqm the alterations he has made, the accommodation cannot be surpassed by any in town. His stock of Wines, Foreign and British Spirits being selected from the first houses in the line, and from hi » experience, and determination to omit hotbing ^ hidh can " promote the comfort of his visitors, J . M. hopes to merit a share of public patronage. rf. 6TH DISTRICT.— St Mary's Parish— Polling Place— SHOP, No. 50, LONDON STREET. 6TH DISTRICT— St Stephen's Parish— Polling Place— PORTICO of ST STEPHEN'S CHURCH. 7TH DISTRICT— St George's Parish— Polling Place, PORTICO of ST GEORGE'S CHURCH, CHARLOTTE SQUARE. 8TH DISTRICT,— That part of St Cuthbert'B Parish within the New Boundaries of the City of Edinburgh, which lies to the South of the Parishes of South Leith, Canongate, College, and Lady Yester's, and to the East of the Centre of Nicolson Street, of Minto Street, and ofthe Road running through New. ington to the South, till it comes to the Boundary Line at Powburn,— Polling Place,— LANCASTRIAN SCHOOL, DAVIE STREET. 9TH DISTRICT— That part of St Cuthbert's Parish within the New Boundaries, which lies to the West, of the Centre of Nicolson Street, of Mjnto Street, and of the Road running through Newington to the South, till it comes to the Boundary Line at Powburn, and to the South of Lady Yester's Parish,, and of Old and New Greyfriars, and the Centre of the Road called Lauris. ton Place, and to the Sodth and East of ihe Centre of the Road leading from thence by Wright's. Houses Toll- Bar, through Morningside, to the South, till it comes to the Boundary Line at the Jordan Burn,— Polling Place— A BOOTH, NORTH EAST CORNER OF GEORGE'S SQUARE. GALASHIELS ACADEMY, Galashiels, May 13, 1834. THE PAROCHIAL SCHOOL of GALASHIELS was Examined to. da'y,' in presence of a Committee ofthe Presbytery of Sil/ tirk, with the Rev. Mesvs Gordon of Ehrl'stone, Rettie ' from Aberdeen, and Henderson, Galashiels, and many Gentlemen and headsof families in fhe place and neighbourhood. ' This Seminary still maintains its former reputation,' and, indeed, if we may judge from the increased numbers attending it; is sfill advancing in public- estimation. The several Classes were examined oil their knowledge in ENGLISH, WRITING; ARITHMETIC, ALGEBRA, MATHEMATICS, GEOGRAPHY, ASTRONOMY, HISTORY, ANCIENT and MODERN, GREEK, LATIN, FRENCH, & c. & c., and gave most ample proofs of the ability and diligenceot' Mr . FYSIIF^, the Teacher, as well as of tijeir own proficiency and amotion to their studies. The whole audience seemed delighted throughout the day with the happy faces, ready answers, and conscious powers of their yOun'g friends. Much praise is also due to Messrs WALTER awl JOHN GRIEVE, the Assistants, who displayed very great talents iu their respective departments. JOHN CAMPBELL, Moderator, Minister « f'Selkirk, THOMAS JOLLY, Minister Bowden. JOHN THOMSON, Minister of Maxton. DAVID WM. GORDON, Minister of Earlstone. ADAM RETTII^, Preacher, Aberdeen. JAMES HENDERSON, Secession Minister, Galashiels. ( J. CRAIG, Bailie of Galashiels. E CLALTKSON, Bailie of Selkirk. J . B. C L A R K S O N , Melrose. R O B T . H A L D A N E , Banker, Galashiels. A R C H D . G I B S O N , of Ladhope. A D A M A R R A S , Rink. , EXTENSIVE SALE ' OF OAK WOOD AT ERROL. To be SOLD by public roup, in Errol Park, on Wednesday the 28ill day of May current, 230| TfeAK TREES, 200 of which are of great age and of very large dimensions, and the wood is considered to be of the very first quality in Scotland. There will also be SOLD at sametime, Ten very large and a number of small BEECH TREES, besides several ASHES and other descriptions of wood. Errol Park is about mid- way between Dundee and Perth, and close to the shipping harbour of Port Allen, on the River Tay; . where the wood can be shipped to any sea- port. The Trees to be sold are marked off, and may be seen at any time between and the day of sale. The sale Will commence at 12 o'clock noon. Errol Park, 9ih May 1834. mice the best interests of my native place, and to'prevent - ihe Representation of the City from falling env tirely into the hands of , tbo* e* hoi. are either the d e 4 , - WAUGM & INNEB^ Booksellers' to his Majesty and This day is published, . price . Twopence, HISTORICAL skETCH, illustrative. of The LAW, CIVIL and ECCLESIASTICAL, . , . . ; . ' . relative to CHURCH PATRONAGE IN SCOTLAND. ( led partisans'of Administration, or pledged to sup . • ^ jjort measures inconsistent, in my opinion, with tiie j - welfare of. the community. 1 have the honour to be, G E N T L E M E N , Your very faithful and obedient humble . Servant, J O H N L E A R M O N TH 6, Moray Place, 10th May- 1834; , . - fhe Oliurch of Scotland. IOTII DISTRICT That part of St Cuthbert's Parish within the New Boundaries, on the South Side of the Water of Leith, which lies to the North and West of the last described District, and to the West of the Ancient and Extended Royalties of the City",—' Polling Place,— BREAD STREET CHAPEL. 11TH DISTRICT The whole other parts of St Cuthbert's Parish within the New Boundaries, not included in the foregoing Districts,— Polling Place,— PORTA It LE GAS WORKS, CANONMILLS. 26th May 1834. WANTED TO BORROW, H P HE SUM of L. 700 Sterling, upon Heritable - IL Security, at 4 per cent. Apply to John M'Craken, solicitor, 10, Rutland Street. Edinburgh, 26th May, 1834. T-. NOTICE JAMES GRANT, Spirit Dealer, in Leith, hereby intimates, that he will not hold himself liable in any debts which may be contracted by HELEN BERRY, his Spouse, from and after the 23d current, on which day letters of Inhibition were executed against her. Leith, 24th May 1834. NORWEGIAN HORSES. To be SOLD by publiO sale, at the Exchange Hotel Stables, Leith, on Tuesday first, 27th inst. at three o'clock afternoon, n n W E L V E Superior Selected NORWEGIAN JL, HORSES, amongst which are several pairs White, Cream Coloured, and Brown, being the entire cargo of the Else Maria, W. Lund, Master. The horses may be seen at any time by applying to Messrs James Mitchell and Co. 31R SAUNDERS, Broker, Leith, 23d May 1834. HORSES FOR SALE. To be SOLD, without reserve, at his Majesty's Repository for Scotland, Nottingham Place, Edinburgh, upon Wednesday liist, 28th Slay 1834, EIGHTEEN VERY SUPERIOR COACHING HORSES, the property of Mr Steele, coachproprietor, and sold on account of one of the Glasgow coaches being withdrawn from the road. They are all in the best condition, and fit for immediate work. Mr Steele Always selected the bust kind of horses, iii regard both to power and action ; and they net only w ill be found well worth the attention of Coach- proprietors and Postmasters, but several pairs might lie selected for gentlemen's carriages, also Gig atid Drosky Horses, & c. . May If), 1834. CITY ELECTION. THE COMMITTEE for forwarding Mr LEARMONTH'S ELECTION sits daily from 10 to 8 o'clock. All communications, addressed to the Committee, will meet with every possible attention, and they request, that any. Gentlemen, who feel disposed to render assistance to Mr Learmonth, will communicate with them at their Rooms, where every information, with regard to the districts, canvassing, See. will be afforded. Committee Rooms, 6, St Andrew Square, May 17, 1834. MR liECKFORD'S XNEW WORK. J O H N D U N N. OPTICIAN, 50, NORTH HANOVER S ' I I I EE RESPECTFULLY reminds his " Friends and the Public, that he has always ori hand a complete assortment of SPECTACLES and KYii GLASSES ofthe best quality, and in every variety of mounting. J . 1). continues to manufacture Oil sorts of BIODELS, PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS, & c. DUMFRIESSHIRE, TO LET, For such time as may be agreed upon, entry immediately, HE MANSION- HOUSE of C R A I G I E. BURN, handsomely furnished, and situated in a quiet pa- ioral vale, within two miles of the town of Moffat, so much,, celebrated for its bathk> mineral • springs, bracing atmosphere; atid'picturesque scenery. The house consists of dining and drawing- rooms,• b. eakfast parlour, live bed- rooms, roomy titties, anil other conveniences. Suitable offices urd attached ; - the garden is well stocked, and productive ; and the sole right of Shooting over the estate is reserved to the tenant. For farther particulars apply to Mrs Proudfoot of Ctaigieburn, Moffat; or to Baxter and M'Dougall, W. S. 32, Castle Street, Edinburgh. Preparing for publication, in two volumes, octavo,- I T A L Y. With SKETCHES of SPAIN and PORTUGAL. In a Series of Letters, written during a Residence in those Countries. By W I L L I AM BECKFOItD, Esq. Author of " Caliph Vatliek." RICHARD BENTLEY, 8, JNqw Burlington Street. Agents for Scotland— Messrs BELL and BRADFUTE, Edinburgh. For Ireland— JOHN CUMMINU, Dublin. %* Orders should be immediately transmitted to the various Booksellers throughout the United Kingdom, to secure the early delivery of this Work. SIR JOHN CAMPBELL requests the honour of the Electors of the City of Edinburgh to meet him in the Waterloo Rooms on MONDAY the 26th day of May current, at Three o'Clock afternoon, upon the business of the approaching election. . , JOHN B. GRAC1E, 1 Joint Sees. PETER CROOKS, / to Committee. Committee Rooms, Hunter Square, | • 24fh May' 1834. ' . . - , ' HOUSE TAX. ~ PLACARDS having been published that undoubted information has been received that Ministers had given orders foi Assessing the HOUSE TAX more strictly than ever, the Public may be' assured of the FALSEHOOD of this statement by the fact that Ministers are pledged wholly to aboliih. the TAX ; and this will be done as speedily as tiie fdtns Of Parliament will admit. In' fact it may he considered as ALREADY ABOLISHED. JOHN B. GRACIE. 1 Joint Secretaries to PETER CROOKS, f , Committee. Sir John Campbell's, Committee Rooms, 24th May 1834. L E I T H ELECTION. n p H E GENERAL COMMITTEE forPromot- JB. ing the ELECTION of the LORD ADVOCATE, sits daily in M'DOUGALL'S HOTEL, Exchange, from Two till Four o'Clock, where every information will be afforded to the Electors, The- Committee is an open one to any of the Members of the District Committees. ADAM WHITE, Chairman. Committee Rooms, Leith, - 20fh- May 1834. TO THE ELECTORS OK THE LEITH DISTRICT OF BURGHS. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. AMEETING of i h e C R E D I T O E S of ibe late Rev. Mr CRAIG, of the Relief Church, Dalkeith, will be held in the Cross Keys Inn, Dalkeith, on Monday the 9th June next, at four o'clock r. M. All Claims to be lodged on or before the 5th proximo, with Mr Alexander Moffat, Dalkeith ; after which date no claims will be received. Those Creditors who cannot personally attend, will please authorise, by mandatory, some one to act in their absence. Dalkeith, 24th May 1834. DESIRABLE RESIDENCE IN STIRLINGSHIRE. To be. LET, furnished, for such period as may be agreed upon, THE HOUSE of MILLFIELD, in the parish of Polmont, with Garden, Offices, & c. and wiih or without a few acres of good Pasture. The Hous; contains dining- room, drawing- room, parlour, five bed- rooms, and five light bed closets, besides kitchen, garrets, and servants' apartments, with all necessary accommodation for a large family. It is situated in a delightful country, 21 miles distant from Edinburgh, 26 from Glasgow, 16 from Stirling, three fronl Falkirk, within half a mile of the village of Polmont, with the convenience of numerous coaches passing daily. For particulars apply to Messrs Scott and Balderaton, W. S. 18, Dundas Street. Edinburgh, May 24, 1834. FOR SALE, At Mr INGLIS' Livery and- Commission Sale Stables, 100, Rose Street, 1. A BAY GELDING, seven years old, about - i j L 15^ hands high, very powerful, an excellent hunter, and a good roadster. 2. A BROWN GELDING, six years old, 15. 1. high, by King David out of the Glory by Election, a perfect hunter. 3. A CHESNUT GELDING, five years, 15.1 high, steady in harness, and a pleasant roadster. . A BAY GELDING, about 15 high, with full mane and tail, a perfect oroke lady's horse. 5. A CHESNUT MAKE, six years old by Scrivington out of Rose- bud, very fast trotter, and steady in harness. 6. A GRAY GELDING, about 15 high, with full mane and tail, a very quiet and a pleasant gig horse. 7. A BROWN MARE, about 14. 3. high, very handsome, anel a good hack. 8. A BAY MARE, about 15J hands high, a perfect fencer, and a good ro idster. 9. A BLACK PONY, four years old, about 14 high, very fast in all his paces, and steady iu harness. 10. A GRAY MARE, 14j hands high, six years old, a first- rate hackney. 11. A BAY GELDING, six years old, 16 hands high, free of white, and steady in harness. 12. A BLACK GELDING, six years old, 16 hands high, with supetior action, and such a horse for single or double harness is seldom to be met with. 13. A GRAY MARE, 15J bands high, steady in harness, and a thorough broke chaiger. Edinburgh, 26th May 1834. THE ESTATE OF GIGI1A IN ARGYLLSHIRE, FOR SALE. Upset Price Reduced to £ 36,000. To be SOLD by public roup, within the Parliament House, Edinburgh, upon Wednesday the 25th day of June next, at two o'clock afternoon, before the Lord Ordinary on the Bills, in virtue of a warrant pronounced by tbe First Division of the Court of Session in a Process of Ranking and Sale, ' " g ^ H E ESTATE of GIGHA, compiehending, J » _ with the exception of three farms, the whole lslanel of Giglia, anel extending to 2363 Scots ( or 2980 imperial) acres. This estate consists almost entirely of arable land, or rich pasture, in proportions nearly equal. The proven estimated rental was £ 1863,16s. 5d., subject to feu. duty and public burdens amounting to £ 310, 5s. 9d. 2- 12ths. A considerable part of the estate has been lately let oil leases for fifteen years, under such conditions as must insure its improvement. One of the principal farms is let for two years, and another for three, on the same conditions. The rest of the estate is possessed on annual leases. On almost every part of it there is an abundant sup ply of 6ea- ware for manure; and the cod and ling fishings may be carried to any extent. On one of the farms there j s a commodious mansion- house fit to commodate a respectable family. This estate is distant three miles from the west coast of Kintyre, twenty from Campbelltown and from East • Tarbert, and fifty from Invcrary. Between those places and Greenock and Glasgow there is an almost daily communication by steam boats. The Islay steam boat affords a direct conveyance to and from West Tarbert; and a lar^ e steam boat now building, is expected to be ready in the month of August to ply betwixt Glasgow ar. d Inverness, passing round the Mull of Kliityre, and must necessarily touch this estate. The lands will be shown, and any local information given, by Donald Galbrcath, the ground officer. The title- deeds and articles of roup will be seen in the bauds of Mr James Denham, assistant clerk of Session. " For farther particulars application may b3 made to John Beith, Lsq. banker, Campbelltown; David Connell, Esq. writer, Glasgow; Messrs Kichardson and Connell, solicitors, Fludyer Street Westminster; or . William Grierson, AV. S. Edinburgh, the common agent. Edinburgh, April 21, 1834, TO BE SOLD, By Auction, On Wednesday the 4th June next, within the Old Signet Hall, Edinburgh, at two o'clock afternoon; ^ B^ WO HOUSES, situated on the wesi side JL of BATH STREET, Portobello, belonging to the Portobello Bath Street Society. Upset price of each house £ 280. These Houses are very commodious, each consisting of dining- room, drawing- room, and six other apartments; they are, besides, substantially built, and well fitted up in every respect. To each house there is a small piece of Garden Ground attached,' with suitable offices, and a small flower plot in front. Apply to Air James Boog, 3, South St Andrew Street; or, at l'ortobello, to Mr Thomas Kirk, or to Mr Fox, Library. Edinr. 16th May, 1834. GENTLESIEN, ^ H E day to nominate Candidates for the honour i of the Representation Of the District in Parliament^ being fixed for TUESDAY next the 27th instant, 1 respectfully solicit your attendance upon that occasion at th. e Hustings in Leith, at 12 o'clock noon. The Polling will lake place upon THURSDAY and FRIDAY next the ,29th and 3 ' th instant, at the several stations in South and North Leith, Portobello, and Musselburgh.- And I earnestly request that the Electors who are to honour me with their support, will be pleased to tender their Votes at as early an hour as possible on Thursday morning. Having now nearly completed the Canvas of the Dis trict, allow me to return youhriy most grateful thanks for the very flattering reception! have everywhere met with. I shall continue my Canvas and endeavour to pay my respects personally to such of you as I have not, as yet, been fortunate enough lo meet with. Gentlemen,— The Bill which conferred the Elective Franchise upon you, was intended to give you the power to exercise it with perfect freedom in clioosiiig your own Representative, but if you will look around you and observe what is at this moment passing, under the dictation of a few persons, who have put themselves forward as tile exclusive Advocates of Liberty, I think you will se; enough to satisfy the mind Of every honest man, that if there be hot actually a tiesign to reduce the practical effects. of the present Law of Election to that of the former on2, enough has been done to show the intention upon this occasion, td relieve the Electors from the embarrassment of determining for themselves, by foicing upon them Candidates specially nominfetcd. • But, Gentlemen, it shall be my business to endeavour to put the Reform Act practically in force, and to defeat this early attempt to enthral you" by keeping open the Poll to the latest moment allowed by Law, and from the very numerous prOmises of suppor t which L been given to me from every quarter of the Dis- MR MORIER'S NEW ORIENTAL ROMANCE. On May 27, in 3 vols, post 8vo., AY E S H A , T H E M A I O OF K A R S. By JAMES MORIER, Esq. Author of Zohrah the Hostage,"—" Hsjji Baba," & c. RICHARD BENTI. EY, 8, New Burlington Street. Agents for, Scotland— Messrs BELL and BHADFUTE, Edinburgh. For Ireland— Mr JOHN GUMMING, Dublin. ,* Orders should be immediately transmitted to the Various Booksellers in the United Kingdom in older to insure the early delivery of. this Work. C H E A P LINLIRSS. PETERI TROWN, LINEN DRAPER TO IIIS MAJESTY, . S now receiving from the various Bleacblields - 14- fresh supplies pt' SHIRTING LINENS AND SHEETINGS, Of superior fabric,, whifh he: is contident, from the low profits on which all his goods are charged, will be found UNCOMMONLY CHEAP. Also many new and eiegant patterns uf i'able Linen and Table Covers. Superior Water Twist COTTON SHIii'iTNGS AND SHEETINGS, Warranted ta keep the colour and give satisfaction in the wear. Window Blind Linens and Cottons. English Blankets and Flannels. Muslins, Marseilles Quilts, Hosiery, Gloves, & c. at equally low prices. No. 30, North Bridge, Edinburgh. REMOVAL. R L A U R I E , SURGEON and DENTIST, begs to intimate his Removal from St James' Square to ROSE COURT, where he will continue to practise his superior and improved method of F I T - TING A R T I F I C I A L T E E T H by means of atmos. phcric pressure alone, without requiring the aid of clasps or springs for iheir support. It is owing to the simplicity and efficacy of this method that theopeia- . . . , , ., tion is unattended with pain, or any of the troublesome ™ ' t h l n , t w e . ' v e " » ' and one mile ot and injurious consequences which have been hitherto Oimiston, in a richly wooded and beautiful part ot ibe :..--> .. ; r- „ c„ „,- A r t i Hr- ml ! country and sporting neighbourhood. Ihe Game ou the Estates of Fountainhall, Templehall, Muttonhole, and Peastonburn, will be set along with the house and offices, or separately, as may be required; aud to a sportsman this is a most desirable situation. Rent, £ 60. Entry at Whitsunday next. Apply to . Eneas Macbean, W. S., 11, Charlotte Square, Edinburgh. THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND MAGAZINE. ' T P I I E PUBLISHER, in announcing the con- J L . tents of the forthcoming number of this popular publication, begs to call the particular attention of the friends of the Church to the important und interesting articles with which it is enriched. I. On the Duty of Repentance for Sin, in Connexion With Church Reform. I I . On the Bearing of the Voluntary Principle on the Law of the Sabbath. I I I . Comparative Numbers of Churchmen and Dissenters. IV. Regium Donum, and Parliamentary Grants to Dissenting, Ministers in England and Ireland. • V". Mr Colquhoun's Bill and Meeting In Dr Heugh's Chapel. : VI. Voluntary Church Principles both of a Revolutionary and Infidel, nature. VII. On the Present Dangers and Duties of the Church of- Scotland. V I I I . REVIEWS— The Rev; C. Colton's " Church and State in. America" Exposed and Answered, No. II. IX. Specimens from the Organ of all the Talents— the Rev. William Anderson, and the Rev. George Faithful, M. P. X. Stgn^ of Ao Times in Edinburgh— A lucid interval. XI. Earl Grey and the Glasgow Triumvirate. Glasgow: W. R. M'PHUN, publisher, 86, Trongate. Sold by J . POLLOCK, 19, Blair Street, Edinburgh, and all Booksellers. FOUNTAINHALL HOUSE AND GAME. To LET, J ^ O U N T A I N H A L L HOUSE and O F F I C E S. J L consisting of Two Coach- houses and Sixteenstalled Stable; as also the GAME on the Estate*. This is an exceedingly retired and pleasant residence, considered as inseparable from the use of Artificial Teeth. Whereas this method may be considered as | an antidote to " the miseries of Artificial Teeth.""— j Every department of Dental Surgery executed on the most improved and scientific principles. Terms moderate. N o . 3, ROSE COURT, George Street. • See Tait's Magazine for Januaiy. READY- MONEY ESTABLISHMENT. " 23, GEORGE S T R E E T , EDINBUI. OU. IF A M I L I E S and DEALERS are supplied at j the above Establishment with WINES, i SPIRITS, . MALT LIQUORS aud CORDIALS, ofthe best qualities, and at prices much below those Of the Trade who give long, credits, and who must consequently lay on heavier profits to cover the many Ipsses to which they are necessarily subjected. Dealers and Tavern. keepeis commencing business at the present Term, or who may not have accommo. daiion for bottling themselves, are respectfully, solicited to make a trial of the Advertiser's Stock of Malt Liquors, which comprises all the kinds of Ales made in Edinburgh, and of Porter made in London, both in Pint and Quart Bottles, and in condition for immediate use. Orders per post punctually attended to, and goods delivered free at any distance within four miles af Town. ALEX. CHRISTIE. OSWALD'S FRENCH WINES. i p i l E SUBSCRIBERS continue the Sales of these WINES, viz. :— Claret, Red Hermitage, Tavel, Chateauneuf, St George, Frontigpan, pints. 36s. 48s. 32s. 32s. 28s. 20s. Rivesaltes, do. Sauternc, Barsac, Vin de Grave, White Hermitage, St Petay, 22s. 38s. 38s. 33s. 43s. 42s. have LANDS IN THE COUNTY OF PERTH FOR SALE. trior; there is no room to doubt that whatever may be the fate of the metropolis,- the Electors of the Leith District will prove by their votes in my favour, that they will not yet lend themselves to any attempt to degrade it to the condition ot a Treasury Nomination Burgh. I have the honour to be, GENTLEMEN, Your most obedient and very humble servant, WM. A 1 T C H 1 S O N , J U N. Drummore, 24th May, 1834. TO BE LET, FURNISHED, q p i I E HOUSE of NEWPARK., in tbe county J L of Edinburgh, two and a half miles west from Mid- CaWer; with garden, shrubbery, stable, byre, and coach- house.; also pasture grass, if required. The House consists of parlour, dining room, small bed room, kitchen, and other conveniences, on the ground floor, and drawing room, three bed rooms, bed closet, atrd dressing room" above. For particulars apply to Hugh Watson or James Haig, W. S., 1, Charlotte Square.. Alexander Bryce, at Newpark, will show the premises. ~ TONTINE INN, CUPAR- FIFE, TO LET. r | H H I S well known INN, belonging to the Mem- J L hers of the Fife Hunt, and which adjoins to and communicates with the County Buildings, is to be LET. for such a number of years as may be agreed on. Entry immediately. The Inn is. in a complete state of repair, and is handsomely fitted up with gas. It contains every accommodation for carrying on an extensive' business, and every encouragement will be given by the proprietors to an enterprising and a respectable tenant. The Stables, which are contiguous to the inn, con. tain stalls for 38 horses. The, ion will, be let whenever an adequate offer is made, b y a respectable tenant; and . further particulars may be learned op application to Messrs Aitkcn and Shaw, writers in Cupar. Cupar, 17th May 1834. 3*. per dervm discount for cash, aud the same allowance when bottles are returned. AGENTS :— Mr JOHN CRERAR, 60, South Bridge Street. — JOHN PORTEOUS, Maitlaad Street. T H O M S O N , B R O T H E R S. Quality Street, Leiih, 24tli May 1834. COMPACT ESTATE IN FIFE FOR SALE. To be re- exposed to SALE by public auction, at a reduced upset price, within the Old Signet. Hall, Royal Exchange, Edinburgh, on Wednesday the 25th day of J une 1834, at Two o'clock afternoon, To be exposed for SALE by public roup, within Gibb's LANDS and ESTATE of EASTER Inn', Stirling, upon Tuesday the 15th day of July, 1834, at two o'clock afternoon, ALL and WHOLE ihe following P A R T S of the LANDS of BALLILISK, lying in the parish of Muckhart, an 1 county of Perth, viz — The Lands of POOL, CAPLAHEAD, OVERMOSS, WIDOWSCROFT, and WILSONSKNOWFOLDS, all lying contiguous, enclosed, and subdivided, extending ( including the feus), to 88 acres Scots, or 117 acres imperial measure, or thereby. Part of the thriving village of Pool is f'eue'd off the lands at the " rate of £ 8 per acre ; and the property, which is intersected by the turnpike rdad from Strathearn to Dunfermline and Queensferry, and is skirted 011 the north by the road from Glasgow and Stirling to Kinross and Perth, along which there is a regular daily, coach, is about half a mile distant from the roitian'. ic scenery of the Rumbling Bridge anil Cauldron Linn, 16miles from Stirling, 22 from Perth, and only four from the village of Dollar, distinguished for. its Academy, where all brandies of education are taught by eminent masters. i , , .. . . , » ,.#. * There is abundance of coal and lime in the vicinity. ! I ^ ' n t 1 S o ' 7 The lands are all in pasture, and let for the season 1 ' in, n / /, , . . . . . , n AZt^ bh pe " nJ south - i The public burdc'ns are moderate, and the teindsare 1 S¥. P founded. at cOnsitl ' ' valued and exhausted. BALLO, lying in the parish of Falkland, and county of Fife, as lately advertised in this paper. For further particulars application may be made to James Miller, S. S. C. 20, Nelson Street, or to John Young, 8, Bellevue Crescent, Edinburgh, by whom private offers will in the meantime be received. 15th May, 1834. ADJOURNED SALE. ~~~ Upset Price Reduced to £ 1300. PROPERTY IN LEITH. To be SOLD by public roup, within Mactlougal's Exchange Hotel, Leiih, upon Friday the 30th day of May current, at one o'clock afternoon, ALL and WHOLE these DWELLINGHOUSES, WOOD- YARD, and WORKSHOP, situated in DUKE STREET, Foot of Leiih Walk, built by Mr. William Wightman, wright in Leith, a few years ago, in the most substantial manner, and, of the best materials. N. B A few Cases ( 3 Dozen) of Pale and Dark BRANDY' in Bond, old and tine in quality, of Messrs Oswald and Co.' s bottling. In the mutter of JOHN ANDERSON, a Bankrupt To be SOLD by Private Contract, ' I P H E F E E and INHERITANCE of the F E R - JL MQY ESTATE, situate in the County of Cork, consisting of the Town and Manor of Ferinoy, containing lUSii a. Or. 16 p. of land, English acres, ( tithe. free), nett yearly rental, £ 5319, 4s. 5d. British. Fermoy is a thriving, populous, and handsome inland town oh the river Blackwater, ten miles distant from Water Carriage, and eighteen miles north of Cork on the high road to Dublin ; it is a constant military station, and a good market for all kind of grain. For further particulars apply to Robert L. Appleyard, Esq. Lincoln's Inn, London; Cranstoun, Anderson, and Trotter, Esqrs. W. S. Edinburgh ; William Rose Robinson, Esq. Glasgow ; Thomas Richard Needham, Esq. Dublin ; . Mat 111 as Rendley, Esq. the Receiver, Fermoy ; or to William Baily Wallace and 1S oi n, Solicitois to the Com• missio » n anid • Assiig nee, i No. uiiu . nt. uitTiii.; n1 2i , J lNl io./ riitiht wGarILe, a t Geor » g| e„ AS fttriefneut,' ii Di iVutVbvl iMnrv, s. 1w •>* h! oA nw ir\ l l, , ffu/\ r -• iK dr: ying . cl^ o thes." H O U S E , SiC. A T B L A C K N E S S, T O B E S O L D. To be SOLD by" public roup, Within Brown's Inn, Linlithgow, on Friday the 6ch day be June next, at two o'cluck afternoon, N, HHAT Self- contained DWEI. I. ING- IIOUSE J L of two Stories, situated in the village of Blackness'and shire of Linlithgow, consisting of dining and drawing room*, live bed rooins, kitchen, closets, & C. ; , together with garden,- stable, and offices, thereto attacheel. Reduced upset price £ 200. These premises were recently improved and fitted up by the late Proprietor, and being situated within one hundred yard* ot' th* sea beach, are capable of accommodating a genteel family with excellent sea- bath- , ing quarters. Further particulars may be lear. it on applying to John Henderson, S. S. C., 20, St Patrici Square, Edinburgh, or to James Watson, writer, Linlithgow. Edinburgh, 24th May, 1B34. SHOPS AND DWELLING- HOUSE IN BREAD STREET, FOR SALE. To be SOLD, within the Royal Exchange Coffeehouse, Edinburgh, on Monday 2d Jun:, 1311, at two o'clock atternoon, n n t l E TWO SHOPS, with DWELLI. NGJ L HOUSE attached, being Nos. 5, and 7, on the north side of BREAD STREET. No. 7 has been , successfully occupied for several yeur3 by the late Mr' John l) oi£. and his widow, in the tobacco trade, aiid the business will bs continued till the sale. There arts premises below the shop for manufacturing tobacco, and there is a dwelling- house or* ffires roo. ui, and a " kitchen adjoining it. I'he shop, No, 5, is now occupied by Misses Urrock, millineis, but will be vacant at Whitsunday. Apply to George Combe, W. S., 23, Charlotte Square. HOUSES IN WELLINGTON, Ti NOW - - EARL GREY STREET; EDINBURGH. There will be exposed to SALE by public roup, within Stevenson's Rooms, Royal Excuange, oil taa 231 day or" June 1834, at two o'clock afternoon, N M I E FLOWING P R O P E R T I E S IN E A RL J L GREY S T R E E T : - Lot lst. SHOP, No. 6, possessed by Mr John M'lntosh. Lot 2d. BAKER'S SHOP, No. 7, possessed by Mr John Donaldson. Lot 3d. A SHOP, No. 9, possessed by Mr J. Patterson, grocer. Lot 4th. A SHOP, No. 10, possessed by Mr W. illiam Smith, tailor. Each. of tnese Shops have bouse accommodation at. taeheel to them, wiih the privilege of a water- pipe, situated in i lie area. Lots 5, 6, 7, and 8, will consist of Four Dwelling- Houses in the second and third fiats in the common stair, No. 8, having water and soil pipesin the kitchen, and the privilege ut the area behind the property for DR BOERHAAVE'S RED PILL, ( No. i?,) ( SEALED WITH RED WAX,) Famous for the Cure of every Stage and Symptom of a Certain Complaint. IT i* a melancholy fact, that thousands fall vie tinrt to this horrid disease, owing to the uiiskilfulness of illiterate men, who, by an improper treat, ment of this direful calamity; not unfrequemly cause those foul Ulcerations and Blotches which so often appear on the head, face and body, with dimness in the sight, noise in the ears, deafness, strictures, obstinate gleets, nodes on tile shin bones, ulcerated sore throat, diseased nose, nocturnal pains in the head anil limbs ( frequently mistaken for other disorders), till at length a general debility and decay of the constitution ensues, and a melancholy death puts a period to suffering mortality. " » * With each box is given a copious Bill of Directions, by which persons are enabled speedily to cure themselves, with safety and seciecy, without confinement or hindrance of business. Its amazing sale, for many years, is a certain criterion of its great utility. Price only 4s. 6d. per box. Beware of Counterfeits The genuine Boerhaave's Red Pills, No. 2, are sold by Messrs SCOTT and ORR, 67, Prince's Street, DR ALLISON, 100, South Bridge; AND BAXTER'S I T A L I A N WAREHOUSES, 4, South Bridge, and 34, Hanover Street, Edinburgh; R. NELSON, Surgeon, and ISAAC BAXTER, . Confectioner,- Glasgow; W. BISSET, Druggist, Perth ; J . ANDERSON. Perfumer, Aberdeen; W. BISSET, Druggist, Dundee; Alnwick,— Weddell Irvine, W. Y'oung Alloa, James Johnston Kirkaldy, T. Creelie Aiistrytfier, W. Cockburn Kirkcudbright, A. M'Mil- Arbroath, Vannet, and D. Ian Croll Ayr; David Auld, and P. Whiteside Banff, Dr White Berwick, G. Marshall Cupar Angus, G. Anderson additional tenement of houses, Kirkwall, James Erskine Leith, Reid Leven, T. Blyth Montrose, P. Craigie Newt. Douglas, A. Carson Paisley, G. Browning Peterhead, Ogilvis, Will, lid'tiabi'e expense for'an j Dumfries, Dickson, and anel Co. . There is a mortgage i M'Cracken Stirling, W. Anderson , . . . . wa— Stornoway, T. M'Kenzie i Elgin, T. Grant, perfumer m. i „ j . , „ ; u U. .(,„ , , , ,„ ., . ,,.,. , . over the property for £ 401), which, to a respectable i Dunb& iJ Wilson House ^ h S be^ earrfetfon ap>! " « fo/ sever^ ! Hunfern, line, Alexander plying to Messrs Form an, W . S. Great King Street, , — Edinburgh ; or to Sawcrs and Sconce, writers in Stirling, who are in poajeteion of the tjilc- desds and jrticlcs of roup, ; ; J Farther particulars will be learned by applying to Greenock, Alex. M'Lcod lr! Messrs Blown and Shitls, W. S., Leith, who are in : Girvan, M . Crawford I possession of the title- deeds and articles of sale. i Inverness, Tait, perfumer 1 I .1.1. I I . . . •( in* J, ) \ r., 1 all Mi, Stranraer, P. Tuylor Stromness, Adam Isbester Thurso, Millar & Levach Wick, Miller, Bain, & Co. - Lrith; May 3, 1031, And Medicine venders » nish rent- rolls, and give every information as to the title and other particulars. October, 1833. CAPITAL FARM IN FIFESHIRE. To be LET, for such number of years as may be agreed on, and entered lo at Martinmas next 1834, THE FARM of KlNNLNMOUNr, C0 « si « ! ing of about 365 Scots acres, lying within three miles of Cupar, the county town, where there is a weekly corn market, distant about six miles from the shipping ports of St Andrews and Largo; at the former is a weekly corn market; and from the lalter a great deal of gram is shipped, so that very few farms are so conveniently. situated for the disposal of produce, there being good roads to all these places. The whole of the lands are inclosed, and well known to be of a most excellent soil, either for tillage or pasture ; and as about two- thirds of the Farm have been in a regular rotation of pasture for many years past, there cannot be a mare favourable entry for a tenant. Written offers either in money, or partly money, partly grain, may be lodged with Walter Cook, W. S. Drumuioud Place, Edinburgh, till ths end of next May. ESTATE IN ARGYLESHIRE FOR SALE. H T M I E E S T A T E of I N V E R L I V E R or L O C H - J L AWE, is to be exposed to public roup within the Exchange Coffeehouse, Edinburgh, on Thursday the 12th day of June next, at two o'clock in the afternoon, if not previously sold by private bargain. ' This Estate is beautifully situated on the banks of Lochawe. It is remarkable for the rich quality of the arable, and for the soundness of the pasture. ' The present rental is about £ 600. There is a considerable quantity of hard wood on the estate, in a very thriving state and well preserved, besides various clumps of ornamental plantation. The fishings on the lake and river are excellent, and the property abounds with grouse, paitriilge, and black game, besides hares and wood cock. The Criuan Canal is within six miles of this estate, which is likewise in the immediate vicinity ofthe great public road,, leading through the centre of the country. The means- ofcommunication ( by coaches and. by steam packets) with every part of the surrounding country are as expeditious and convenient as possible. The two greatest markets in Argyleshire are held at the Ford, on this Estate, twice a yeat, in the months of M ay and N ovember. The beauties and capabilities of this property are i quite remarkable, and a more desirable Hignland j Estate, either as a residence or for an investment, is i very rarely in the market. I Apply to the proprietor, at Achindale, near Fort j William; Hugh Al'Queen, VV. S., or Thomas ! M'Don aid, banker in Fort William. Edinburgh, 61, Great King Street. j$ ttt March, 183L For farther particulars application may be made to Mr Patrick Wilson, architect, 2, Queen Street; or to Mr John Aichd. Campbell, O. S. 2, Albyti Place, in the latter of whose hands ate the title- deeds ind articles of roup; and the property will be shewn by MrJiiihes Coop. r, No. 19, Downie Place. Edinburgh, 17th May, 1834. ANTISCORBUTIC DROPS. Stocks, near Kendal," Dec. 8, 182B. G E N T L E M E N , J'i is with great pleasure I communicate to vou tbe happy result of my taking your ANTISCORBUTIC DROPS. 1 was for several months afflicted with the scurvy on my neck and face; so much so, that the parts affected were nearly raw. 1 applied to several medical men for relief, but received no benefit, and 1 continued in this deplotable co » dii tion until I heard from a friend, the repeated cures your Drops had made; after purchasing two 4s. 6d. bottles from Messrs JL and R. Branthwaite, an amendment began to take place, aud I am now per. fectly recovered ; for which I return you thanks, apd wish you to make it public, for the benefit of those who may be similarly afflicted. 1 am, Gentlemen, Y'our obedient servant, L. DIXON, X his mark. W i t n e s s : GERARD WALKER. To Messrs J . Lignum and Son, Surgeons, Manchester. These Drops are sold by Mr Lignum, 28, ( late 63,) BridgeStreet Manchester; Scott and Orr, Baxter, But-, ler, Allison, Edinburgh; Nelson, Baxter, G. Macleod, Glasgow; Kerr, 103, Hamilton Street, Greenock; Barr, Apothecaries'Hall, Paisley ; Rankin and Son, Hendry Kilmarnock ; Whiteside, Edgar, Ayr ; Fraser, Dumfries; R. Carr, W. G. Carr, Berwick ; Davison, A In. wick; Exr. of E. Walker, Hodgson, Newcastle; Barnes and Co., N'ordi Shields; Bray, Reed and Son, Sunderland; Webster, Fewster, Durham; Lodge and Co., Jennett, Stockton; Pease, Darlington ; Thur. nam, ('. ockburn, Carlisle; Ramsay, Allison, i'enrith ; Branthwaite, Kenelal; Minshull, Jackson, Laticaa. ter; end the principal Medicine Venders in eveiy market town, price only 2s. 9d. each box. Of whom also may be had, Mr Lignum's Improved VEGETABLE LOTION, tor all Scorbutic eruptions, price 2s. 9d- duty included. Mr Lignum's SCUrtVY OINTMENT may now be had of the above Agents, price Is. 9d. each Pet, duty included. LONDON AND EDINBURGH STEAM- SHIP. T H E S O H O. Captain FRASF. R, Will sail from NEWHAVEN for L O N D O N , on W L D . NN D A Y the 211th May, At FIVE o'clock afternoon. O F F I C E , 8, WATERLOO PLACE, EDINBURGH. ' 1 R . W . H A M I L T ON IMPERIAL 1' A rfLlAMEXT, H O U S E OF LORDS. i THURSDAY, MAY 22. A great number of petitions from Dissenters, pray- j ing for relief; for support to the Established Church ; against admitting Dissenters to degrees in the Uni- • __ ... versifies; for the better observance ot the Sabbath ; : might derive na and in favour of a labour rate bill, were presented by j Mr EWAIIT SI different Peers, from various places. DISSENTERS' PETITIONS. , The LORD CHANCELLOR presented several peti- ___ tions from a large number of Dissenting bodies ot the j g ( ) t 0 tbe committee, highest respectability. The petitioners complained •• this country oughi more readily to pay their tnohey, On the principles of interest slid justice, than that of preserving the navy in an efficient state. ( Hear, hear.) Mr G. You No expressed his intention of supporting the second reading. Mr P. THOMPSON contended that the public funds ought to be applied to the maintenance of a great na. tional institution, rather than to 8 private establishment, from which, after all, the merchant seamen S benefit. supported the- Second reading of the bill, and defended tiie proposed transfer of the sixpenny payment to the Merchant Seamen's Hospital. Sir W. ltiDLEY hoped, the bill would be allowed to W lot lUIUUlllKH Mr P. STEWART would support the second reading of tbe civil disabilities under which they laboured, and ! 0 f , he bill, on the ground that it would not create any - - - ' ••- — : ; material loss to Greenwich Hospital, and that it would be an immense advantage to the merchant seamen. The funds of Greenwich were from £ 120, OOi) to they prayed their Lordships to lose no time in removing and redressing their grievances They strongly complained of the want of a legal registration ot births, marriages, and deaths. The bill connected with this subject, which it gave him great satisfaction to find had been introduced to the House of Commons by an hon. and learned gentleman, had, it seemed, so far as it went, conciliated the feelings of that House. With respect to the right of graduating at the Universities, the refusal of which also afforded ground of complaint to trie Dissenters, he should at present say nothing. With respect to the solemnization ot marricge, they complained that they could not go through that which many of them considered a civil process, without conforming to religious lights of which they did not approve. This he agreed with them in considering a very great grievance. The measure proposed would relieve all Dissenters of all denominations whatever from the only grievance that affected their feelings as professors of any particular religion, by enabling them to contract valid marriages without going to church or appealing to any ecclesiastical authority, or submitting to any religious ceremony of which they did not approve. They might have the ceremony performed in their own meetinghouse or place of religious worship— just as those who professed the doctrines of the Established Church chose to have the Ceremony performed in their church. But these who objected said they were unwilling to have their names published by bans. Now, he would pray those who objected to such a proceeding to consider what was the nature of the publication of bans in e'lurch, It was a secular notification, and had no more to do with religion of any kind or sort than the proclamation ofthe King in the market place had to do with the selling of meat. ( Hear, hear.) The proclamation was made in the market place to give due publicity to tbe King's lawful commands ; not simply because tiie spot was the market place, but because, being the market place, it was much frequented. The publication of bans, in like manner, was not made in tha church merely because it was the church, but because many people were in tiie habit of frequenting tbe church. It was clear that the reason of publishing the bans was not because it involved a religious ceremony, but because it gave due publicity to the fact of a marriage being contemplated between certain parties. Again, it was said, " Get the law respecting marriages'be placed on tbe same footing as in Scotland ; " and some of the petitions, coming from individuals of great respectability, approved of this suggestion. Now, he very greatly approved of many of'the institutions of Scottish law, and he hail often said that some of them might, with great propriety, be adopted here. One peculiarity of that law— namely, its conciseness— might be adopted with considerable benefit. He believed his noble friend on tbe crossbtnch, who was deeply versed in that branch of legal knowledge, might carry about him the whole statute liw of Scotland in a space not larger than bis snuff- box would occupy. But, if there were any one part ofthe Scottish law the adoption of which he never would recommend to their Lordships, and which ha thought ought to be shunned, it was the Scottish law of marriJge, which some individuals would fain introduce here. He would ask those who advocated that system to look at the state of the law. A young man in Scotland could not dispose of one- twentieth part of an ucre of land in any manner whatever till he had attained the age of twenty- one. But what was the case with respect to marriage ? A youth when he was barely fourteen years of age might, without one moment afforded for the advice of friends, contract a shameful alliance, by his saying two words, " Will you accept of me as husband ?" and the female's answering " Yes I " Such was the Scottish law of marriage— He should say no more on this subject to the rational portion, and they were by far the largest portion of his dissenting countrymen. He felt greatly obliged to his dissenting countrymen for tbe approving manner in wbich they had received his former observations, and he hoped that they would take in kind part— and in kindness most assuredly it was meant— the advice which he had now given to them. Lord KENYON presented a petition, signed by 900 individuals, against allowing Dissenters to graduate at the Universities. Earl FITZWILLIAM begged to enter bis caveat against the proposition of those petitioners that the Universities were founded for the sole purpose of propagating the doctrines ofthe Church of England. Lord KENYON said they were established for the purpose of promoting religious instruction in connection with the state at th- time they were founded. Earl FITZWII. I IAM— They were founded in Roman Catholic times. The tests which are now required ill that University were, if he might so speak, of modern introduction. The Duke of WELLIJJOTON said, it was perfectly ' true that the greater part of the Universities were founded before the Reformation ; but he maintained lhat the truth alone ought to be taught at tbe Universities— that the truth was only found out at the Reformaticn. Earl FiTZWir. t. IAM said the tests were imposed long after the Reformation. The tests of which he complained had nothing to do with Popery, and had iqt much to do wilh the Catholic : u with many of Ihe numerous classcs of Dissenters who professed tile Protestant faith. Lord KENYON said when the young men were called upon to sign the articles, they were told that they were the profession o f t h e Church of England, but that they would be explained by the tutor at a future time, when they would again be called upon to ratify what they bad once done. After some conversation, in which the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Exeter took a part, the petition was laid on the table. The SPEAKER of die House of Commons, attended by several of the members, appeared at their Lordships' bir to hear the royai assent given by commission to the Smuggling Act Amendment Bill, the Exchequer Offices' Bill, the Clerk of tbe Pipe ( Scotland) Bill, the Glasgow and Shotts Road Bill, and upwards of 20 private bills. Mr SINCLAIR and others brought up a message from the Commons, requesting that the Earl of Eldon might be allowed to attend to give evidence before the eimmittce appointed by tbe Commons to inquire how f ir the salaries received by the Judges of the Court of Session in Scotland were commensurate with the importance of their station, and the nature and extent of iheir business. The Earl of ELDON having signified his assent, permission was granted accordingly. Messengers from the Commons brought up several private bills. The Archbishop of YORK presented petitions from several places in the county of York, praying for protection to tbe Established Church. Karl FITZWILLIAM presented a petition from the hand- loom weavers of Perth, praying for the establishment of local hoaids of trade. Their Lordships then proceeded to hear the evidence on the Warwick case, and the House adjourned al nine o'clock. £ 130,000 a- year, and that, he thought, was more than ample for 2700 men. Sir J . GRAHAM said, tbat there had been considerable sums given up by Greenwich Hospital, amounting to nearly £ 20,000. These sums it used to receive as dues for certain beacon lights. Mr J . EWING gave his cordial concurrence to the motion for the second reading of the bill. Lord ALTHORP saitl, that the proposition before the House was simply this— to take £ 20,000 from Greenwich Hospital and give it to the hospital for merchant seamen, and then to supply the deficiency, thus created to Greenwich Hospital, by a charge on the consolidated fund. Now, would it not be a more simple ami easy way at once to propose a charge of that amount from the consolidated fund for the merchant seamen ? He saw no case made out for the bill, and he would, therefore, oppose it ? An honourable Member moved, as an amendment, that the bill be read a second time that day six months. The House then divided, when there appeared, For the second reading 94 For the amendment, , . • 57 Majority for the bill, . . . „ 37 The bill was then read a second time. Mr LVALL moved, that the bill be committed on Monday next.— Ordered. On the motion of Lord ALTHORP, theorderof the day for the Committee on the Poor Laws' Amendment Bill was postponed till to- morrow. JEWISH CIVIL DISABILITIES BILL. Mr R. GRANT moved the order of the day for the second reading of this bill. Mr C. BRUCE opposed the motion, on the ground that its tendency was to unchristianize the Legislature o f t h e country, and take away the recognition of that highest allegiance which, as a Christian people, we owed to Almighty God. So pregnant with danger and mischief did he consider the measure, that even if he stood alone in his opposition he was determined to divide the House against it. It was a monstrous proposition to render capable of high offices in the State persons who were not merely indifferent to Christianity ( though that would be bad enough), but the members of a sect avowedly hostile to the Christian name— a sect, whose very existence amongst us depended upon an imperfect discharge of our highest obligations. He argued that the measure was not called for, or recommended by any considerable portion of the people. He knew that tbe measure had been recommended to the Legislature by the Government; but he did not consider that circumstance, nor yet the fact of a former majority in that House having declared for the bill, as affording the least indication or proof of the popular wish. ( Hear, hear.) A few petitions had been presented in favour of the Jews, but they proceeded from a very small minority of the people. After referring to tho defeat of the bill ill the Lords Mr O'CONNELL said thai it appeared to him that the honourable member did not really understand his own bill, which, on the honourable member's own admission, contained the very Christian principle that no man need observe the Sabbath at all, though its title was a bill for the better observance of the day. ( Hear, and a laugh.) He wished the honourable member would postpone the second reading of bis bill till that which was now in progress in the other House came down to them, and then the House might decide at once on the whole batch. ( A laugh.) The details of the bill were absurd ; the provisions were so framed that a man must go unshaved unless he could shave himself; and if he shaved himself, he must warm his own water. ( Laughter.) He should therefore move that the bill be read a second time that day six months. Mr ROEIIUCK seconded the amendment, and bore testimony to the inefficacy of legislative enactments for the purposes contemplated by the bill. Mr POULTER thought some legislation should be resorted to oh the subject, but objected to the bill of the honourable member for Preston, as increasing the penalties which before existed. The House then divided— For the amendment, . 77 Against it, . . 43 Majority, . — 32 The bill was consequently lost. RELIGIOUS ASSEMBLIES' BILL. Mr HARDY brought up the report on this bill. The amendments were read a second time, and ordered to be engrossed ; and, after some conversation between Mr Hardy and Mr Wynn, the bill was ordered to be read a third time on Wednesday the l l th of June. SABRATII OBSERVANCE BILL. Mr POULTER moved tbe second reading of this bill. Sir AY. MOI. ESWORTH moved as an amendment that it be read a second time this day six months. The House divided— For the amendment, . . 12 Against it, . . . 52 Majority . . . — 40 The bill was then read a second time. The other' orders o f t h e day were then disposed of, and the House adjuurned at half past one o'clock. THURSDAY, MAY 22. Mr BAINES presented a petition fh> m the Dissenters against the proposed bill relative to tthurch rates. Petitions were presented for the appointment of a committee to inquire into the causes of drunkenness, by Sir C. Buller, from St Germain's, Cornwall; and by Mr Walker, from Newbury, Berks. TAXES ON KNOWLEDGE. Mr E. L. BULWER said th t he was at length enabled to fulfil a pledge which he gave to the country, and a duty which he owed to himself. It was from the quiet and deep heart of the people themselves, that had come forth the prayer that he now supported for the free circulation of opinion, for the enlarged and the untaxed diffusion of knowledge, not of politics alone, but of the debates of this assembly— of the proceedings of their Courts of law— of the affairs of foreign states— and of that vast miscellany of information connected with a thousand branches of utility and morals which newspapers furnished to the world. The stamp and paper duties, with the price of printing, and the news agency, amount to 5Jd. for every 7- 1. copy of a newspaper. The consequence of this heavy taxation was this— the capital required to set up a newspaper was so enormous, as to be estimated, for a morning paper, at between £ 311,000 and £ 40,100. This extravagant demand frightened away new competitors, and thus the papers already established enjoyed a monopoly. The existing papers therefore, did not suffer by the tax, but the people suffered, and that'to an extent which few men had suffito open the prison- house of the mind— to remote the! and the whole is published, what will be the consefiscal chains that now fetter and cramp opinion ;• and qu. ence?!; I .. will tftll the honourable gentleman— tiie finding knowledge the monopoly of the rich, to leave it tbe inheritance of the poor. The bon. gentleman then moved the following resolution i—" That it is expedient to repeal the Stamp Duty on Newspapers at the earliest possible period." Mr ROEBUCK seconded the motion, observing Ministers could not get out of the difficulty in which they found themselves placed after the teims of indignant eloquence in which they had denounced that tax when they sat at that side of the House from which he then spoke. The hon. member then proceeded to dwell upon the mischiefs to society which resulted from the vast mass of cheap publications that went forth to the community, and which were allowed to take their full effect, without the counteracting tendency of more sound and useful publications. Lord AI. THORP said, it must be full in the recollection of hon. members that when the proposition that evening brought before tbe House was last, year under consideration, the general opinion was adverse to its adoption. He was perfectly ready to acknowledge that the House and the country went further in opposition to that tax than he did, at the same time that he thought at present the demand for the repeal of that tax was unwisely urged. He admitted also that the removal of the tax might have the effect of increasing the number of publications, but he contended that the statements of the hon. member for Lincoln were exceedingly exaggerated, and it was his opinion, that if the tax were taken off there would be a very sensible diminution in the revenue, which, under present circumstances, could very badly be spared. A diminution had taken place in the advertisement duty, and though he admitted that the number of advertisements had increased to a small amount, he could not admit that the increase had been considerable. It did not public won't read a word of it. ( Great laughter.) II objected to the proposition, because it would go to establish a monopoly in the publication of the debates in that House, in opposition to the newspapers, which published sufficiently full reports at the present moment. The present system of reporting the proceedings in Parliament in the daily papers afforded to the public as full an account of them as they wanted, and afforded as Complete a check upon the proceedings of that House as the public could desire to possess, and he therefore objected to the establishment of an authorized monopoly in the publication of speeches, which no one would ever read when they were published.— ( Hear, hear.) Colonel DAVIES supported the proposition. Mr C-. F'ERGUSSON said that he would not support the motion, if the object of it was to establish a monopoly in opposition to the daily public press. ( Hear.) He, for one, would say that the manner in which the public press was conducted with regard to tbe debates in that House was such as honourable members had no right to complain of. ( Hear, bear.) He, however, could give several instances where- matters of great importance to the public interest had been omitted ; for instance, the discussion on the East India question, which occupied six or eight hours, was disposed of in so many lines. He might also mention the case of the Scotch reform bill, and indeed, as he was upon the subject of Scotland, he must observe that there were very general complaints of the manner in which the affairs of that country were reported by the English press. The honourable member, after some further remarks, concluded by supporting the motion. Mr Sheil and Mr Wilks supported the motion, which was opposed by Colonel Evans. Mr POLLOCK applied for leave to bring in a bill to Bank Stock S;> « r Carte.- Red.. 3 per Cr. Coils .11 p e r Ct. New •• STOCK EXCHANGE. ill! • 5112 | 921 j I lUtlJ j India Stock India Bonds . .. Ex. > MUs Cons, for acct. COURSE OF EXCHANGE. 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( Continued from our last Private Correspondence.) Sir JAMES GRAHAM said he should make one obserration, which he thought would supply a sufficient answer to all tbat had been urged by the honourable member for Lo idon ( Air Lyall.) The measure which he was introducing for tbe purpose of effecting a regisfration of all merchant seamen, would have for one of its objects to hold out inducements to persons engaged in the merchant service, to enter the service of the Crown voluntarily. It was intended that every seaman in the merchant service, who produced a certificate of registration, should be entitled to admission to Greenwich Hospital, in eveiy case of loss of limb, or of injury equivalent to the loss of limb. There WHS another cons deration which it was also important ihe House should bear in mind— namely, that £ 14,000 pwr annum had been for some years past given up by the Hospital, the full benefit of which had accrued to ihe commercial interest. On all these grounds it must be evident to the House that they would have Jioremely but to appeal to his noble friend for an equivalent from Ihe Consolidated Fund, for no consideration could induce liiin to agree to the loss of oneseventh of tbe income of the hospital unless an equiva. lent were otherwise provided. Mr Alderman THOMPSON hoped that the bill would be allowed to pass, and if it did, he was sure that the House would not separate without making up the deficiency to Greenwich Hospital out of the public funds, ( Hear, hear.) T) i Ltfsiu. vc. TON admitted tbat the Chancellor of the Exchequer was bound to reduce the general taxation of tlie coutrtry to the lowest possible amount; but he did not think that the existing mode of raising tbe sum of'£ 22, OUU for Greenwich Hospital equitable, / l i s right honourable friend ( S i r J . Graham) had opposed the bill an the ground that it would interfere with Ins plan to p t au end to the system— the diabolical system, be ( Dr Lushington) must beg leave to call it— of impressment. His answer to lhat statement lorich, was, that the nation had no right to compel any pt tiota of tbe King's subjects toperform services wnL~ it might obtain willingly by offering a fair remunera- . . . tion; and he knei? na object for which the people of . I ; 0 r u 5 11 " cumstance, the hon. member expressed his conviction that the great majority of the enlightened public approved of the resistance offered to the measure by the Peers, and those who were tbe more immediate guardians of Christianity in the Upper House of Parliament. The motion rested, if indeed it had any foundation, on the assumed propriety of separating religion from civil rights ; but they might as well talk of separating the Inoral and physical nature of humanity, or assert that the body could retain reason when separated from the intellectual soul. Religion and good government were inseparable; religion was therefore necessary to the purposes of civil privileges in a well- ordered community. He should probably be laughed at as superstitious, or taunted as a fanatic ; nevertheless, he did not hesitate to express his belief that all the evils and miseries of France flowed fiom a single source— the casting off tbe national recognition of God and religion. The present motion, if carried, would be an important step in the same perilous direction. He also opposed the measure on the ground that the Jews were aliens, strangers in the land, divested of those national feelings, and uninfluenced by those national prepossessions, which would fit them as British subjects for the enjoyment of British rights. The hon. member concluded by moving as an amendment, that the bill be read a second time that day six months. Mr PETRE Said that he should be ashamed of himself, and unworthy of a seat ill that House, if he did not lend his warmest wishes, aud give his best support, to such a measure as this. Ui supported it on the broad ground that the religious opinions of every man, or set of men, should not be used as the means for his. or their civil disqualification. Mr POULTER did not think that the opponents of the measure had made out any case to justify the House in rejecting it. The instances of France, Bel. gium, Prussia, anil, above all, America, showed that the Jews were not incapable of appreciating the advantages of being relieved from civil disabilities. He was anxious that the restrictions against the Jews should be abolished, as it would be the removal of ex- I piring intolerance in this country. Sir D. K. SANDFOHD did not feel himself called upon to go into tbe question as. to the state of the Jews in France or America, and, above all, in the latter country, where there was such a lamentable appearance of the want of an established church—(" Hear, hear," and " Oh, oh")— but considered that it was a subjeet purely connected with this country. The hon. and iearned member for Dublin had loudly cheered him when he alluded to America, and he ( Sir D. Sandford) should be very glad to give the hon. and learned member an opportunity of bringing forward a motion to prove the advantage of the separation of Church and State, and on that occasion he ( Sir D. Sandford) would undertake to show that America was a lamentable instance o f t h e want of such connection. He did not recognise the example of other countries in legislating on a subject of that nature. He opposed the motion 011 the simple ground that this was a Christian country, and that Christianity was part und parcel of the law of the land ; and that, as representatives of a Christian people, they ought not to sacrifice one of the first principles of the constitution. He acknowledged tne authority of Scripture, and in doing so he did not think that Christian charity demanded that they should sacrifice their civil liberties or privileges in such a case as the present. The measure hatl not been brought forward on tile same ground as the measure for removing Catholic disabilities had been by the noble Duke and the right honourable Baronet the member for Tamworth. There was no Jewish agitation at present; at least, if there was, be did not know who was the great Jewish agitator. ( A laugh, and " Oh.") The honourable and learned member for Dublin had said that he had seven millions of the finest peasantry on earth to support him, but a Jewish agitator in this country would be unable to find 196,000 Jewish followers. ( Oh.) He might be told that an infidel might get up in that House and avow himself, but a Jew could not. There was nothing to prevent an inlulel taking his seat, but a Jew dared not do so. But he would ask, would any man dare to stand up in that House and avow himself to be an infidel or an atheist ? Let any person who entertained such opinions go to the Old Bailey to do such a thing as to avow them ( a laugh, and cries o f " Oh, oh.") Let them go amongst felons and amongst those who came forward in criminal cases, and get up and avow their opinions, and they would be put down with execration. He was not stating an imaginary case. Such a proceeding as he had described had occurred at the Old Bailey, and the witness who dared to avow such opinions was hooted out of cpurt. ( Hear.) ln conclusion, he hoped that the House would never sanction a measure involving as this did such a sacrifice of principle. Mr BUCKINGHAM supported the bill. Mr R. GRANT briefly replied. The House then divided, when there appeared— For the second leading, - 123 Agaii. s: it, - - 34 Majority, - - 89 LORD'S DAY OBSERVANCE BILL. Mr H. FLEETWOOD then moved the second reading nf his Lord's- day Observance bill. The honourable member said, lhat the principles contained in the bill, and for which he contended, were simply three— namely, to prevent all process of manufacture on the Sabbath; the open. ng of public- houses during certain hours on that day ; and, lastly, to put a stop to all Sunday trading. The bill would, however, leave every man to observe tbe Sabbath in any manner he might think fit, and would not by any of its provisions, prevent any individual, should he so think fit, from spending it irreligiously. ( Loud laughter.)— The anxiety pervading the public mind for some legislative measure for the promotion of the observance of the Lord's day was fully evinced by the number of petitions with which the tables of both '. Houses of Parliament had been crowded— a number greater than had ever been presented on any subject excepting the question of West India shivery. Under these circum- i it n: es, coupled also with . the fact that the bill contained no provisions of compulsion as to the mode in which the Sabbath was to be observed, he trusied the House would consent to its second reading. He did not seek in any degree by this bill to interfere with travelling or innocent amusements and. recreations on of the legal papers prevented, in a great measure, their reaching the operative and mechanic. What was tbe consequence ? The result was, the circulation of all manner of contraband publications; the writers in these papers can scarcely be well affected to the law, for they break the law ; they can scarcely be reasonable advisers, for they see before them the penalty and the prison, and wrife under the angry sense of injustice. They can scarcely be safe teachers, for they are excited by their own passions, and it is to the passions of a half- educated and distressed population that they appeal. In fact, he bad seen many of these publications; nothing could be more inflammatory or dangerous. During the present Administration, some 300 or 400 persons had been imprisoned tor merely selling unstamped publications in the streets— had been punished with the utmost rigour— sent to herd with felons and the basest outcasts of society; and what has been the consequence— had they put down the publications themselves ? No ; it had only raised their authors into importance among that part of the population they addressed, and instead of silencing fanaticism, had exalted the fanatic into the martyr. If newspapers were allowed to be cheap, would they have good doctrines propagated as an answer to the bad ? He had every authority for saying that they would. In fact, they might perceive from the sale of the Penny Magazine and Chambers' excellent Edinburgh Journal, that the poor had a disposition to instruct themselves if they had the instruction within their reanh. But the advantage of cheap newspapers was hot only in giving to the poor such instiuction as the newspapers might contain, but it was even greater in habituating the minds of the poor to read and to apply themselves to information generally. This, then, was a tax operating in favour of a bail opinion, and against good opinion— operating against information, not of politics only, but of laws; not against knowledge, but virtue; i t gave perquisites to the gaoler, or fees to the hangman ; they sowed the seed in ignorance, and reaped the harvest in crime ! The noble Lord allowed it to be a bad tax ; yet he did nothing to repeal it. Shame on the Reformed Parliament, if it sanction these laws any longer! He proposed to lepeal the stamp duty 011 newspapers altogether, anil to lay a cheap postage not npoh newspapers only, but oil all tracts, periodicals, and works of every description under a certain weight. He proposed that this postage should be as cheap as possible, and that it should be equal, whatever be the distances, so that the distant parts of the country should possess the same advantage in obtaining knowledge as those more connected with the metropolis, and, therefore, perhaps requiring information less. In America, owing to the absence of this tax, newspapers were so numerous, that there was one weekly paper to every fourth person. But he would only take half that proportion for this country— he would suppose that, if they abolished this tax, there would be a weekly newspaper only to every eighth person ; the result would be, for the population of Gieat Britain ar. d Ireland, 150 million of sheets of weekly newspipers published throughout the year. Now, two- thirds of the London papers, it appears by the returns, were Rent at present through post. Suppose for one moment that this ratio continued with the increased number, what would be the annual amount of l d . postage. Why, the amount would stand thus:— Postage of weekly papers, £ 416,666. But this was for weekly papers only— If they calculated the daily papers— those published two or three times— the tracts, prospectuses, and pamphlets sent through the post, the produce would be £ 833,232— that is to say, just double the amount of the tax he now asked them to repeal. But the noble Lord made one objection to this plan. Ha argued that since the newspaper would be sold without the charge of postage in London, the effect of this plan would be to tax the provinces for the benefit ofthe metropolis. But, in the first place, a postage was not a tax upon newspapers; it was the price of carriage ; it was the necessary result of living at a distance from towns that the carriage of any tiling must be paid for — not newspapers only, but books, and parcels of all descriptions. He would suppose that the postage of newspapers did not bring in what was expected; he should be oil equally strong ground; for, by the mere removal of this tax, three other sources of revenue suddenly appeared. The first, indeed, depended also upon tlie plan of postage— he meant the profits arising from the postage of all light works under a certain weight. He did not think the noble Lord was aware of what an immense source of revenue this might become. Another Source of ra~ venue, by simply repealing this tax, would arise from the great increase of advertisements. But the principal source of profit that would arise to the Exchequer from the mere repeal of this tax, was iu the increase of the papei duty alone ; and this he was persuaded would be so . enormous, as of itself to do mbre than compensate the revenue. In the United States, to cveiy ten thousand inhabitants there was a daily paper, selling at the least two thousand copies. He supposed that in Great Britain and Ireland there was a daily paper to every twenty thousand inhabitants, selling at the same proportion. What would be the result? Why, for a population of twenty- four millions, they would have seven hundred and twenty millions of sheets of paper published yearly. The produce then would ; be £ 720,000 for the paper duty of the. seven hundred and twenty million papers; but at the present there . were only thirty millions of papers published throughout the year, and the paper duty was only . £ 3,0,000; deduct that £ 30,000 from £ 720,0i.; 0, ana there would remain for the extra paper duty for tbe new profit of the revenue, £ 690,0110; or about £ 150,000 more than the whole profit cf the tax he asked them to repeal. He should propose his resolutions in th : most moderate and general terms possible. He slnuld merely propose to repeal the stamp duty on newspapers at the earliest possible- opportunity. He should say nothing about the postage— he had thrown that out, as a suggestion. If the resolution were carried the noble Lord would not le put ta any. immediate inconvenience— it would u: iiy,; establish ti e principle, which the next session would suffice to a rry into effect. He called upon h m o fulfil the pledge which the public character and pubiij principles of nearly thirty years had given to the in fa rour of bis att ichment to the diffusion of of the stamp duty would have the same effect in this country as in the United States, of increasing the amount of the circulation of newspapers. He did not think that it was desirable at any time to pledge the House by a resolution to adopt a specified course in another session, but with respect to matters of finance such a mode of proceeding was particularly objectionable. F* or these reasons, and not wishing to answer many of the arguments which had been urged by the honourable gentlemen opposite, though at the same time doubting the soundness of som: t of the conclusions to which they had come, he was sorry to say that he' felt it his duty, In the situation in which he stood, to oppose tbe motion before the House. Mr HILL was happy to find that the noble Lord regarded. this question merely as a fiscal one. Now he was confident, that if the duty was repealed, the reve. nue derived from newspapers would be as large as before, if not larger. There had been, and be supposed that there were still, in the country, those who thought that it was not good to give increased means of knowledge to the mass of the people, and that they could be more easily governed by being kept in ignorance.— The day, however, for the assertion of such a principle, was now gone by. The people had now political power, and would any man attempt to say that the wiil o f t he people was not law in this country ? Ignorance might make them the enemies of tbe Govern ment, and why not take such steps as would make them its friends ? Let thein have the means of informati. m— of correct information and correct reasoning 011 all matters connected with their interests— that was, with the interests of the country. No more fit education in a knowledge 011 these subjects could be given than that which newspapers well conducted could afford. Let the newspaper then go to every cottage, let the discussions of every question be read on both sides. ( Hear, hear.)— The newspapers gave information for which men in every class of society were indebted, and the best way, he repeated, to reach the feelings of the people, would be through well conducted newspapers. Mr E. L. BULWER briefly replied, after which the House divided, when there appeared— For the motion, . . 58 Against it, . . 90 Majority, . . . _ 32 Sir S. WHAI. LEY put off his motion respecting the expenses of the removal of Scotch and Irish paupers back to Scotland an. I Ireland; but whether the honourable member postponed it to a future day, or put it off immediately, could not be ascertained, owing to the noise made by the return of strangers. Air POLLOCK ' obtained leave to bring in a bill " to abolish arrest for debt on mesne process." REPORTS OF T H E DEBATES. Air TOOKE rose to move that it be an instruction to the select committee on the business of the House tu consider and report on the expediency of establishing or encouraging the publication of an authentic report of the debates arising in the House relating to public and private business, and of the proceedings connected therewith. He was conscious that the matter seemed to invade the privileges o f t h e House, but he thought that objection might be obviated ; and, further, he was of opinion that we had arrived at a period when whatever passed in Parliament ought to be communicated to the public. His object was to examine into the best mode of insuring the accuracy of reports of the proceedings of the House, and of extending a full publication of them. Lord ALTHORP said, the question for the House to consider was, whether the proposed object was desirable. With respect to'public business, he did not think that the public felt any great loss in consequence Of the manner in which the reports in the newspapers weie naw given, for, certainly, to the extent to which those, reports could go, their fidelity and accuracy were such as must create suiprise rather than disappoint, ment. In fact, the debates would be so voluminous that the public would never wade through them. Under all the circumstances, he uid not think it desirable to introduce any change in the existing system. Sir S. WIIALLEY observed that he could well understand why members of an Administration might be reluctant to have their speeches reported at length, particularly if they had recently sat on the opposition side ol the House—( Oh, oh!)— lest bygone speeches should be disinterred from their graves, and quoted against their authors at a future opportunity. But it was right that their constituents should be acquainted with the speeches and acts of members. The debates in Parliament went to every nation in the world, and were commented oil in every court in Europe.— ( Laughter.) Gentlemen opposite might laugh, but it would be recollected that the noble Secretary tor Foreign Affairs had formerly observed th » t tile sentiments expressed by members in that House would reach the Autocrat of Russia, and read him a useful lesson. On that ground he was entitled to the noble Lord's support in ths present attempt to procure a full account of speeches ill Parliament, or if the nobis Lord declined to support the motion, he could never again make use o f t h e argument before referred to. Air STANLEY— With regard to what the hon. member has said respecting past speeches by any member of the House of Commons, there are ample means, and there are many persons quite ready to take full advantage of those means, to drag forward every sentence— every half- part of a sentence, not conveying the whole meaning of the speaker, which may be contained in any one of those speeches. But every public man who fills a situation either in or out of the country— every person aspiring to fill an official situation in this country— must learn to appreciate at their due weight, and to treat with the contempt which they deserve, those attacks made upon him, under circumstances brought forward as a mere clap- ttap, and not for the purpose of sound reasoning and argument. I can understand that there are a class of persons who, risen from the orators of a parish vestry, to be inferior luminaries of this House of Commons, would deem their fame and their oratorical effusions not extended so fat as they would desire Such being the case, I can very well understand why the plenipotentiary of the kingdom of Alarylebone— —( Laughter)— calls upon his brother Alinister ( the Secretary of State for the Foreign Department) to support a motion the object of which is to circulate widely his important ideas, and give currency throughout all the courts of Europe to his extensive viewts.— ( Great laughter.) I can as reatlily believe, if the Au. toctat of all the Rnssias should happen to hear that the honourable gentleman had denounced hiin in the House of Commons— I can easily believe that, in such an event, the Czar would think his empire gqjje for ever. ( Hear, laughter, and a cry oTOider, Question, question, from Sir S. Whalley.)— If the honourable in Lancaster with the Court of Common Pleas Westminster— Leave was given to bring in the bill. The other orders of tbe day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at one o'clock. L O N D O N , M A Y 23. Tbe Baron Medern, at present First Secretary and Counsellor of Legation to Count Pozzo di Borgo, al Paris, is on his way to assume the functions of Russian Charge d'Affaires, pro tern., until the arrival of the celebrated military diplomatist, Count Orldlf, the successor o f t h e Ptincu de Lieven here. THE HOUSE DUTV.— We nre now fully authorised to state, " that the notices of assessments for the house duty were necessarily made at 6th April j MONDAY, MAY 26. Accounts have been received from Portugal, confirming those previously received, o f t h e capture of Figueiras by Admiral Napier. The Duke of Tereeira has also entered Coimbra, where, i l is said, he was received with acclamation by the people. Terceira is supported by a corps of 5000 Spaniards under General Rodil. General Torres was at t he same time moving down upon Coimbra from Oporto, while the forces of Don Miguel, which had eva. cuated Figueiras and Coimbra, were retreating on Santarem, and, it is added, that Don Miguel waa making preparations to retire from this latter po. sition. We learn from the French papers, that General Lafayette expired in Paris on Thursday last, and thus at l j s t has his long and troubled life come to a close. He was boin in the year 1737, and wafeted only a few months lo complete his 77th year. He has been for more th. 111 50 years a conspicuous character in the scenes of public life, having cornlast, in consequence of the existing statute, but that j menced bis career during the American war, where 110 house duty is to be levied after the 6th April last by virtue of those notices."— Courier. A meeting of the Commanders and officers in the service of the East India Company was held yesterday, at the Jerusalem Coffee- house, Cornhill, at which resolutions were adopted, declaratory of the feeling o f t h e meeting, that the phtii of compensation of the Court of Directors, to the naval officers of the Company, was not sufficiently extensive to embrace the general claim* of the service for the loss of iheir profession, and the destruction of their prospects in life; that it was qu: te unjust ami inconsi- terit with the remuneration granted by ' h e Court to tile other servants of the Company. Colonel Caradoc's mission is similar to that which he filled at Antwerp. He is goinor to the Spanish army in Portugal under General Rodil, to follow its operations and send reports of them to his Government. He passed through Paris for Spain ou Sunday night. The parties who inveigled Mr Gee, the nttorncy, of Bishopstortford, into a house in the City Road, tied him in a temporarily constructed dungeon, and extoited from him a cheque for L. 800, have been committed from the Lambeth police office. The committal took place under the 7ih and 8th Geo. IV, cbap. 29, s. G. an 1 alleged that they ( the prisoners.) by menaces and by force, did demand of Mr W. Gee the stun of L. llOOor L. 1200, wilh intent to steal the same. The Magistrate added that Mr Gee and Irs friends might, if they thought proper, prefer bills of in iictinent against the prisoners for the higher offence of felony, or assault with intent to commit a felony, but this would be matter for fu'ure consideration. A new post communication, by mpaas of steam boats, has just been opened between Gotteriburg anil Hull. A yearly sum of L.. 1000 is to be paid to the Si George's Company at Liverpool, of which the English Government pays baif, in consideration of which that company engages itseif for seven vesrs to maintain a regular communication once a week, between tile two above- named ports for nine months in the year, namely, from the lst of March to the lst of December; and, if possible, to continue the navigation throughout the year, in which case, however, an additional sum of L. 300 per month is to be paid, the amount to be borne in equal shares by England aud Sweden. The steam- boats employed in this service, the first of which was expected at he served with the French army that was engaged in that country against the British ; and it was here that he probably first imbibed those republican ideas which he never abandoned. He mingled with ardour in the political commotions which ushered in the French Revolution, and was a distinguished actor in the stormy scenes of that momentous era. He has been blamed by the more violent royalists for treachery to the King and Q i e e n on lhat memorable occasion, wben they were driven from their Palace al Versailles by the fury of the mob, and in a manner dragged to Paris ; and also when they were afterwards forced to seek an asylum in the hall of the National Assembly. But no evidence ever appeared to substantiate those charges; anil it is now generally believed that he was, like many others, unable to stem the revolutionary torrent. Whether, if he had acted with decision in those emergencies, the National Guard, which he commanded, would have remained faithful, or whether he was endowed with the commanding energy and presence of mind to have struck the decisive blow at the critical mo. ment, or that he wanted zeal in the royal cause, are questions of which it would be difficult now to offer any solution. Certain it is, that Napoleon; who witnessed those scenes, bitterly condemned the want of energy which was then displayed; and being entrusteil himself with tbe command of troopsand a r t i l. lery in similar circumstances, he acted in an entirely different manner, and soon scattered before him h i s t u. multuary foe9. But Lafayette never possessed the same master- spirit. In all the various situations : n which he has been placed, he never seems to have displayed any remarkable t a l e n t ; he was merely a doctrinaire in politics; and his republican opinions* and his consistent adherpnee to them, furnish the chief topics of praise to his athniring friends That he should in early youth have been carried away by his enthusiastic ideas of liberty, is not wonderful. Many good and generous minda have at that age imbibed Ihe same notions* But when we consider the scenes of the French Revolution which he witnessed, the dreadful inroad of crime which succeeded the subversion of ancient Gottenburg on the oih iustanl, are to be of 120 institutions, it might have been expected that the exhorse power, and to make the passage in about 70, „—:„„„„ „ f r,- , . • | | o u r 8 ptrience ot liis mature age would have cortected the ardent impressions of his youth, and left his mind impressed with the danger of shaking established institutions, and of seeking for political improvement through t h e doubtful paths of revolution and of blood. Not lhat we believe bis intentions in any case to have been mischievous; but his ohstinate adher. ence to rash theories evinced an incapacity to profit by the lessons of experience, either proceeding from a narrow comprehension of human affairs, a rush and sanguine temperament that refused the curb of reason, or a vain pride of maintaining con. sistency even in error. A republican form of government is ill suited to the manners and institutions of Europe ; and though it has been establish- THE AR. MY. The following changes, in tile Northern District, England, are faking place.— Head- quarters, two companies 80th regiment, Blackburn; two do. Burnley; three do., Bolton- le- Moots; two do. Rochdale; one I do. Nottingham. Head- quarters 59th, two companies, Haydock, near Wauington; two do. Chester; one do. Alold; three do. Wigan ; two do. Liverpool. 28th regiment, . Manchester. 5th Dragoon Guards, Alanchester. 6th Enniskilling Dragoons— headquarters, two troops, Nottingham, 011 the 10th; three do. Shemdd; one do. Derby. 17th Lancers— headquarters, four troops will be in Leeds; two do. Burnley. 7th Husiars— head- quarters, three troops willbs at York; three do. Newcastle. . Major Cobbe's troop of Royal Horse Artillery from York to Leeds. Tuesday the grand division, flank companies, band and colours, of the 91st regiment, from Fetomy, 1 d , l h A ( n e r i c a n S i b e c a u s e t h e v h a d m ) o t h e r marched into the new barracks, l/ iinenck, under com- I . . - . . « • mand' of Colonel Anderson, tha music playing the tune of " the Campbells are coming." A large brown Highland stag, with great branching horns, was seen in Ihe midst of the music, bearing himself with true military front. The following officers accompanied the grand division:— Captains Livers, Tbornhill, and Eraser; Lieutenants C. dder, Ward, and B. Campbell; Adjutant A. Campbell; Ensigns teinative, recent experience has disclosed several dangerous fliwsin this democratieal s l r u c i u ' e that affords little encouragement to its European admirers. But, admitting all the wonderful virtues of a republic, what statesman of a calm and her judgment would proclaim his admiration of AI'Leod and Maclainc ; Quartermaster Ferguson, and , democracy, when he owed his allegiance to a mo- Assistant Surgeon Eddie. , , „ , ! iiarchv ? Is not this to lay t h e foundation of per. Alonday morning, iast, the grand division of th^ Soih 1 , ', ,. . , , ' light infantry, with Colonel Warburton and Alajor , P - t u a l discontent and nuscnief; to prevent human Alaunsell, left the new barracks, Limerick, for Gal- : a f f j i r s from ever settling into a permanent calm ; way, to the tune of " Aulcf lang syne." On passing ; a n d tl) n e g l e c t the practical good that, is in our the Castle Barracks the division was heartily cheered I . . . .. . by the 6 ) th rifle depot, and a great concoursj of per- 1 power for visions ot improvement that cannot be sons accompanied the military beyond the town. realized. Those ultra opinions uf Lnfnyette ne. The first division pf the 30th regiment, under Ma- ; c e 8 S 3 r i i y threw him into tbe ranks of the disconjor Tongue, including the companies of Captains Dixon and Baxter, left Galway on . Monday morning for Fermoy, and the grand division, inclutlia^ Captains Atkinson an I Luard's companies, followed the same route next day, under command of Lieutenant- Colonel ltobinaon. Latest distribution of the army in the East Indies i — 4 battalions of cavalry and 20 of infantry. Bengal, l l t h and 16th dragoons; 3d, 13th, 16th, 26th, 31st, 38th, 44th, and 4! ith foot. Aladras, 13th dragoons; 39th, 41st, 45th, 43. h, 54tb, 55th, 57th, and fi.' d foot. Bombay, 4th dragoons; 2d, 6ih, 20tb, and 40th foot. Cape of Good Hope anil eastward— 14 battalions'and 2 colonial corps. Cape, 72d, 75th, 98th, and mounted gentleman means to say that. I am not speaking to the j rifles. New South Wales, 4th, 17th, and 63d. Alau- T point in debate, I m— a intain, and am reatl « y- » to- ' prove I--> - « "->- — » « ••- « • Ceylon, 58; h, 61st, the contrary. I am answering the honourable gentleman's speech, and my object is to show that those mighty interests in the country, which, according to the honourable member, exercise so great an iuliuencc on the empire at large and the whole of Europe, do now receive sufficient scope and currency.— The question is, as to the advantage or disadvantage of the present method ef publishing the debates as opposed to the system which the honourable gentleman proposes. How does the present plan work ? I have very t ften occasion to trouble the House; it is true 1 have little time to read the reports that apppar in the newspapers of my speeches, or those of other members — perhaps the honourable gentleman has more time, ruins, 9th, 29th, 87th, and 99ih. 78th, U7ih, and mounted rifles. A revision of the dr^ ss of the officers of the army is about to take place. By the new regulation, there will be a considerable saving of exper. ee, without materially affecting the costly appearance of the regimentals. Lace, which has nearly the same effect as embroidery, but is by no means so expensive, will be generally subsiituted. The regulation will be issued in the course of next month Naoal and Military Gazette. AIEN'S NECESSARIES By t h e ne. v c l o t h i n g w a i - rant, we find the men are to be stopped a cer ain sum eich week for their necessaries. 1 his we conceive to be a most excellent regulation, end a complete preventive to a soldier either getting into dd> t ot drink, he | tented, under whatever government it was his lot to live. He accordingly remained in retirement | under the regime of Louis Philippe ; because the I monarchy was not, as be wUhed; accompanied wilh republican institutions. He does not appear to have discovered in the course of his eventful life great or commanding talents, though his conduct was always reputed } o be honourable arid disinter, ested, and his attainments respectable. The notoriety to which lie attained, seems rather lo have been owing to the situations in which he waa placed, than to any of those great qualities which buoy up aspiring uiinds in defiance of advtrse cir. cunistances. and devotes it to the perusal of his own speeches.— j a , s having the same sum to receive Hibernian ( Laughter. ) - [ s i r b. W h a l i e y - " I do not read > United Service Journal. yours, j— i hii honourable gentleman says, he does I " not wasie his time in reading my speeches, whatever ! CORN EXCHANGE, . May 23.— There is 110 alteration time he may devote to his own ( A laugh.)— But the ' this morning 111 the price of wheat, and little doing. Honourable' gentleman complains that there is not j A few sales of oats have been made at the price< last s iflicient space devoted to the speeches of the repre. | quoted ; and in beans, peas, and other articles there is se ita. ive 0.' Mary-\ e- bcn: in tile liew. papers, the , no. hing doing. writers of which have an awkward tricK of being guid- ] SMITIIFIEI. D, . May 23— Beef for the f n ' st meat is ed by their own judgments, or, better still, their own in- | worth 4s. to 4s. 2d. per stone, and fur the coats rr and terests—( Laug aer)— in tiie admission of matter which , inferior the quotation is 2s. 40. to 3s. per stone ; muttliey give or withhold, in proportion to their belief of j ton for the finest meat is 4s. 2d. to 4s. 4d. per stone, its importance or the revtr. se. Tire hon. gentleman says, Give us not a selection of readable and interesting matter, but the whole debate; every word that is spuketi in Parliament, eveiythirig without misrepresentation or omission, no matter how ] full of and the larger sheep and coarser meat sell at 2s. 8d. to 3s. 2d. per stone; calvs for fine young meat sell at 4s. 8 I. to 5s. 21. net stone ; and dairy- fed porkirs are 3i ( id. to 4s. Beef, 2s. 2d. to 4s. 2d.; mutton, 21. 4d. to 4s. 4d.; veal, 2*. lOd. to 5s. 2d.: po~ k, repetitions or how devoid of . interest." , Now suppose j 2s. fid. to 4s.; lamb, 4s. 3d. to 6s. 2il. Hay, i 2 , Ida. country, tile honourable gentleman gets his authorised reporter to £ 4 ; clover, £ 3, ills', to £ 4 , 15s.; straw, £ 1, 8s. to knowledge. 0 e called upon him to be alive to the w take'down efery word V? .[ ten within tlone Val'. s 1 £ 1, Us. high ambition— worthy his principles and his name— ' ' 1 ' The Madrid Gazette, of ihe 14 h, contains a roval order, addressed to the Captain- General of New Castile, announcing that the Queen R gent had decided lhat the Cortes should be assembled on J u l y 24, and directing him to prepare proper buildings for t h e sitting of the two Chambers. It also contains a roval order, from the Minister of J u s t i ce to the Bishops of Pampeiuna and Caltorna, inter, dieting them from appointing any preliendaries, or other ecclesiastics having the cure of souls, unless the candidates present ci rtificutes from the Royal Commissary, a. iesting their attachment tu tbe cause of Dontia Isabella I I. In the House of Commons on Thursday las', Air Bulwer brought ( inward a motion for the repeal of t. ie stamp duty on newspapers, which was lost by 1 mtii'iriiy of 9 9 t o . > 3 . Iii the present s t a l e of out tisatio. r, this is not a lax » hic 1 ought tu lie selected for repeal ; ai d we are sat. sfied that such repeal, so fur fro. 11 nut injuiing the r^ veuu ', mould occasion a loss nearly to . ihe full amount of ' he duty withdrawn. The other reasons urged in favour of . The Cromarty Harbour bill was read a second time and committed. The petition of Archibald. Nisbet GENERAL ASSEMBLY. the . remission of this duty, namely, that the mote free circulation of newspapers would tend to supersede many of the cheap and immoral publications that are at present sold, seems far from being well founded. Would not the newspapers be rathercbnverted into vehicles of immorality by those persons who are at present confined bv the stamp duty to their own cheap tracts. Freed from the restraint of this duty, immorality and sedition would only have a wider range. They at present constitute the staple articles of the cheap publications ; but if there were no stamp duty on newspapers, they would be circulated along with news, and would be thus far nfore widely diffused. In short, unless as a fiscal measure, there cannot possibly be any other gool ground for repealing the tax on newspapers, which is really not oppressive, and which of late years has been on the increase, producing, with the advertisement duty, about L. 500,000 per annum. P R I V A T E CORRESPONDENCE. Royal Exchange, London, Friday Night. The private as well as the public accounts received to- day from Portugal, confirm the report of the fall of Coimbra and Figueira into the hands of Napier. The news from Spain to- day does not possess any feature of importance. The commercial advices received from the Russian capital notice a sl; ght improvement in the exchange I on London, which was last quoted at 101. 31- 64. Since the season opened, 19 British ships had arrived, 4 Americans, and 28 foreigners. The Foreign Exchanges, which, during the last few posts, have been heavy, improved this afternoon. • The money market continues to evince much buoyancy, and this afternoon Consols for Account were told currently at prices ] per cent, above what they opened in the morning; the last and highest quotation of t h e day being 92}. Consols for the July Account left off at 93£. The value of the New 3} per Cents, and pf the 4 per Cents, were assimulatetl again in tbe course of the day. The premium on Exchequer Bills and India Bonds temains high. Closing prices :— Bank Stock, 218. Red. Ann. 91 jj. Consols, 925. ^ Red. 99s'. New 3 j per Cents. 100J. 4 per Cents. 1826, 100J. India Bonds, 31s. prem. Exchequer Bills, .' lis. prem. Bank Stock for Account, 210'. Consols Do. 92jJ. Di. July, 93^. India Acct. 26 Foreign Austrian, 100J. Belgian, 98}. Brazilian, 7! i.}. Columbian, 1824, 26.',. Mexican, 1825, 44J. Peruvian, 22g. Portuguese, 701- Do. New, 79J. Russian, 106. Spanish, 36|. Do, 1823, 33. French 6 per Cents. 106. Dutch, 62J. Do. 5 per Cents. 97. . , Esquire, against the Lanarkshire Roads bill, was referred to tbe committee on the bill, . and counsel ordered to attend thereon. A return relating to the Court of. Session which was presented on May 2, wa^ ordered to be printed. MAY 22. . . „ . . Petitions for an alteration in church patronage were men who were now in town from India, and, if possible, presented from the Town Council of Perth, inhabi " — - tants of New Abbey, and Kirkbean. t Mr P air, of Tullvtiessle seconded the motion of Dr Cook, and Mr THOMSON of Dundee that of Mr. Spiers. A lengthened debate took place, in which tbe valii t v of flip c o m m i s s i o n mainlslnprt hv \! - H u r M r, SATURDAY. The Assembly met this day, at twelve, and was constituted in tbe usual form, by tbe Moderator. dity o f t h e commission was maintained by . Mr Diincar. | Dr COOK rose, and adverted to the anomaly of of Rutliwell, Dr Brown of Aberdeen, and Messrs the constitution of the Church in India, and proposed Dunlop, Menteath, and Shaw Stewart, advocates; and | that a committee should be appointed to consider impugned by Mr Fergusson of Kilkerran, Mr Robert, j the subject, to communicate with the reverend gentle- ton of Ellon, Principal Macfarlan, Drs F'orbes ana House of Lords, May 23. The Earl of CAMFERDOWN presented a petition from Perth praying for an alteration in the laws of Church Patronage in Scotland. CHUliCH PLURALITIES. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY, in a speech of some length, addressed the House relative to the bills to prevent pluralities, in which he expressed his desire to investigate the measures on their merits. ' The LORD CHANCELLOR said, it gave him great satisfaction to hear the concluding speech of the right reverend Prelate. He deeply felt the importance of these great measures— and iie felt satisfied that they were not to be retarded by any petty consideration, and that the Archbishop is anxious to forward these measures on their merits. The right reverend Prelate had complained that tbe bills had been introduced without any notice being given to the Bench of Bishops. The rioble and learned Lord, in a speech'of some irony towards those who opposed him, defended his conduct in bringing in the bill, with a few observations and in the presence of two Bishops. The Duke of CUMBERLAND.— No, no, no. T h e LORD CHANCELLOR Yes, yes, yes. There were the Archbishop of Cashel and the Bishop of Berry. ' f The Duke of CUMBERLAND.— They were Irish Bishops. The LORD CHANCELLOR— They were only Irish Bishops, were they ? I thought that there v. as but one Established Church of Great Britain and Ireland —( cheers)— and I know that no body were as keen as the bench of Bishops of England to protect their rights il' they were violated. The noble and learned Lord Said, in order to increase the favour of the people for the Church, and to express his feelings against the Separation of the Church and State, it was that he had brought in these bills, lie hoped they would remove the complaints of pluralities from residence, And that the Church would thus increase in favour and utility. ( Hear.) .< Earl MALMESBURY said, he was glad to hear that the bills had been introduced in the absence of the Bishops", who were ignorant that they were to be introduced. - , After a remark from the Duke of Cumberland; The Duk{ of WELLINGTON said, notice should have been given of the bills, especially as he had stated the whole of the Ministry were agreed, and that as the noble and learned Lord had said, that he was aware that the Bishops would oppose the bills. His Majesty's prerogative was affected by the bills, and if the noble and learned Lord had obtained the royal consent, that the prerogative should be made matter of legislative enactment, then notice ought also to . have been given to the House. The LORD CHANCELLOR said the noble Duke was in error, as the period for giving the royal assent was not when a measure was brought in but at a future stage. He had consulted the forms of the House in ihe course he had adopted— so. ne insinuations might 1- e thrown out that he had failed in his duty to his Sovereign, but this he ( the Lord Chancellor) denied. The Earl of WICKLOW contended that the bills had been brought iu when a very small number of the Bishops were present, antl that tjo after he ( Lord W.) had been to d by the Lord Chancellor, that no other public business was to come on. The b 11 had been communicated to the Times, perhaps, by' the Lord Chancellor. T h e LORD CHANCELLOR No, no. L r l WICKLOW said, if it was not obtained through that source, he ( Lord W.) was at a loss to know how i t rould have been obtained. The Earl of WiNCHtLSEA observed, that the noble and learned Lord had expressed an intiuia ion, that certain noble Lords in that House were adverse to the reformation of abuses.— this he ( Lord W.) denied. Left speaking. A petition was presented from inhabitants of Saltcoats against the Sabbath Day observance ( Scotland) bill. Petitions for the repeal of taxes on knowledge were presented from inhabitants of Old Cumnock, and mem. bers of the Political Union of Y'eovil; a petition from inhabitants of Cumnock, for extending the elective franchise to all householders, and for the repeal of the septennial act; and a petition from inhabitants of Perth, for adoption of vote by ballot, and the repeal of the septennial act. A petition, complaining of distress, was presented from hand. loom weavers of Lochwinnoch. A petition was piesented from the Town Council of Perth, for the abolition of the abjuration oath ; also a petition from the Magistrates of the said city, for the dissolution of the Convention of Royal Burghs. Petitions in favour of the Leith Harbour bill were presented from merchants and shipowners of Great Yarmouth and Tynemonth. The Orkney Statute Labour Bill was read a second time and committed. A petition for the repeal of the corn laws was presented from Cumnock. The debate upon the petitions of hand- loom weavers was further adjourned till Wednesday 11th June. Mr Wallace ( of Greenock) gave notice that he should move to- morrow that . Mr R. A. Oswald and Mr Bannerman be added to tbe Select Committee on the Salaries, & c. ofthe Judges of the Supreme Court of Scotland. The Royal Assent was given to the Clerk of the Pipe ( Scotland) Bill, Bute Ship Canal do., Glasgow anil Shotts Roads do. The Committee on the Edinburgh Police Bill met this morning at 12 o'clock ; nothing was done, as further time was allowed to the promoters of the bill to await the arrival of documents from Scotland, and it was adjourned till . Monday next; veiy great opposition is expected agaiu « t j t . .. At Atholl Crescent, on the 25th May, the Lady of D. HORNE, Esq. of Langwell, of a son, still- born. On the 22d May, at Knockhill, the Lady of JOHN IIOTCIIKIS, Esq. of Lanwysk Villa, of a daughter, still- born. Married, at Frimley, the honourable LEVISON GRANVILLE KEITH MURRAY, brother to the Earl of Dunmore, to LOUISA, only daughter of T. Abraham, Esq. of Chapel House, Surrey. Died, at 4, Cassels' Place, on the 18th May, Tuo- MAS GRINDLAY, senior, Esq. in the eighty- eighth year of his age. Died, at St Helena, on the 21st March last, on his passage home ta England for the recovery of his health, ROBERT CHARLES HEPBURN, E s q . e l d e s t son of R o - bert Hepburn, Esq. of Clarkington. Mearns, and Mr Gibbon of Lonmay. to make a report to the present Assembly, or at least j The Assembly then proceeded to a vote, when Mr to report to the Commission, that, a better constitution Spiers'motion to dismiss the complaint and sustain might be prepared as speedily as possible. j the commission, was carried by a majority of 44, the numbers being 136 to 92. The Assembly then ( at a quarter before eight o'clock) adjourned till Monday ( this day) at eleven forenoon. P R E S B Y T E R Y OF EDINBURGH. At a special meeting o f t h e Presbytery on Saturday, deputations from the Town Council and Kirk Session of St George's attended, and the Lord Provost laid on the table a presentation for Mr Candlish to be assistant and successor to Mr Martin in the church and parish of St George's. Dr LEE contended that the Presbytery ought to have been first consulted in the matter; and that they ought to have evidence of the vacancy, or of its near prospect before the Presbytery could present. He thought the Presbytery ought to have an official letter from Mr Martin on tbe subject, before they could proceed. Dr Somerville, Dr Brunton, and Mr Simpson, concurred in this view of the case ; and after a few words from Lord Moncreiff and the Lord Provost in explanation, it was agreed, on the motion of Dr Lee, that the Presbytery find the circumstances of St George's parish merit their peculiar attention ; and that they delay consideration of the matter till the meeting in June, when it is understood there will be an official letter from Mr Martin on the subject. CHURCH o r SCOTLAND MAGAZINE . W e observe! announced in another column the Fourth Number of this spirited publication- The articles, as usual, contain plenty of variety— i point the Editors seem not to have lost sight of. We understand the circulation of this work is most extensive. The public will be glad to hear that their favourite writer of Eastern Tales is about to publish another storv of the land of romance— we allude to the forthcoming Oriental novel, bv the author of " ^ ohrab," and '' Hajji Baba," (. Mr Morier), to be entitled " Ayesha, the Maid of Ears." It was in the glowing East that the art of fiction arose; almost all the fairy traditions current in Europe may be traced to an Asiatic origin, where not only amusement but wisdom, and even religion, were conveyed by tales of adventure and enchantment, and by Divine parables. It is said of Oalland, the first European translator of the exquisite " Arabian Nights' Entertainments," that on his return to Paris, full of Oriental lore, his countrymen were so charmed with his splendid narrations, that they have been known to assemble under his window, and rouse him from his morning slumbers, with petitions for more romances. English readers are equally anxious for a new production by our own delightful creator of Persian and Turkish fiction, whose familiarity with the countries and manners he describes is derived from a long residence in them. Mi Morier, indeed, has tbe field entirely to himself. We are not aware that any medicine ever acquired so great a celebrity for eradicating Scrofulous and Scorbutic complaints, as Mr Lignum's Antiscorbutic Drops. The great number of very extraordinary and well authenticated cures which he annually makes known through the medium of the press, is no doubt one of the reasons of that preparation attaining its present height in the public estimation. In another column will be found a recent cure. House of Commons, May 23. Mr ABERCROMBY obtained an extension of time for the committee upon the Edinburgh Police Bill to make their report. Th? House then resolved itself into committee on the Poor Laws amendment bill. Col. TORR ENS rose for the purpose of limiting the duration of the bill to 5 years, but at the suggestion of the Chancellor of tbe Exchequer it was withdrawn, with ihe view of raising the question, by proposing it in a new clause. Left sitting. His Grace the Commissioner attended divine service in the High Church yesterday, without any state parade, which appeareJ to give much disappointment to the great crowd assembled on the High Street in the forenoon. The Lord Advocate ( Mr Murray) presented his commission in the Parliament House on Si'urday morning in due form, and was congra'ulmed by his friends ou his elevation to the distinguished office which he now holds. Ill consequence of the approaching elections, the Scots Grevs ma'ched from Piershill barracks to Dalkeith, BlackshieK and Ford. The 68th infantry are confined to the Caft'e. The body of a man, . in a state of great decomposit: on, was taltin out of the Water of Leith, near Poivderhall, yesterday. It was conveyed to the Police Office, where it was recognised by a woman residing in Scotland Street, as the hotly of her husband, who has heen a- missing since ihe New Year. On Saturday night, as some labourers w ere coming along the road between Penicuik and Edinburgh, they overtook some lead carts, when one of them, Daniel Harking got upon one of the carts.— Tbe driver was at the head of ihe first cart; and they had not proceeded far upon the roatl till the caiters who were behind found Harkins lying upon the road, having fallen from the cart where he was sitting. It was at first supposed lhat he was o n l '' stunned by the fall, and s'unified by liquor, of which he had been drinking pretty freely; but on examination it was found that the wheel had gone over him, and. [ hat he was severely injured. He was Conveyed without delay to the Royal Infirmary, blithe'ext."; pired soon after he was brought to the hospital. SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION TO THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND In these ( lavs of political agitation, we are glad to un lerstan. l that several scientific gentlemen have this morning left Edinburgh lo investigate the natural history of Sutherland, one of the least known counties of Scotland. Tiie party consists of Mr Selhy of Twiz- ll, Sir W i l l i am Jardine, Dr Greville, and Mr Janies Wilson; and from tbe united talents of these gentlemen, we hope for interesting information. One of the principal objects is tbe natural history of the salmon and other fish o f t h e numerous bikes and rivers, and for this purpose the Duchess- Countess of Sutherland, wilh her accustomed liberality, has afforded every facility to the party throughout her widely extended estates. The party have coll- truettd a light boat, which is supported on springs, and fitted lo a carriage, which will enable them to examine many of the lakes which would otherwise be inaccessible. PUBLIC M E E T I N G IN MUSSELBUIIGII.— On Saturday evening at Seven o'clock, . Mr Aitchison met tbe electors of Musselburgh in the Assembly Rooms, which were crowded to overflowing: Mr Aitchison addressed the meeting at considerable length, stating his views upon a number of subjects, both of general and local'interest. He was received throughout in the most cordial manner. Among other things he mentioned, that, after having gone- over, with the assistance of his committee, in the most careful and scrupulous manner, the votes be was entitled to count upon throughout the district, he felt confidently enabled to assure the meeting, that he looked upon his ultimate success as beyond all dou'ot. Sir Glassford Bell, advocate, and Colonel Aitchison, both of whom stated that they had tbe best means of ascertaining the fact, fully corroborated this announcement, which was received with loud cheering. Mr Aitchison. afterwards informed the meeting, that he had come there prepared to answer any questions which any inhabitant of Musselburgh might wish to put to him, and .1 A I, - 1.- J « ., ,1 .. .. : L^ Unfn • I. ni'n.^ inla A1* IlIC - Dr SINGF. R seconded the motion, and the committec vas accordingly appointed. OBSERVANCE OF T I I E LORD'S DAY. The MODERATOR intimated, to the Assembly, that lie had had an audience with his Grace the Commis- ( ioher, and had brought under his Grace's notice the objections, which the Assembly bad to his public levees and processions to church on the Sabbath, which they considered a profanation of the Lord's Day, and that his Grace had informed him, that he had laid the matter before his Majesty, who had been pleased to express his wish, that the Sunday dinners should bo discontinued, and consequently that there should be no public levees oil that ( hy. ( Hear.) He was farther instructed to inform the House, that, in consequence of the removal of tbe troops on account of the election, it would not be in bis power, even if he were inclined, to proceed to church on Sunday with a military escort, and he should, therefore, proceed in private. ( Hear.) l l i s Gr ce had further stated, that if it were his 11aj - sty's pleasure to appoint him a Commissioner to the General Assembly another year, he should endeavour to make such arrangements as would, he had no doubt, be agreeaible to the members of the next Assembly. At the same time, he felt it right to state, to prevent the possibility of being misunderstood, that it was not intended the private levees should be discontinued, that was to say, that those noblemen and gentlemen who were disposed to attend his Grace. to church on the Lord's day, were at liberty to do so ; and he ( the Moderator) was confident there was no member of the Assembly but would perceive the propriety of this arrangement—( hear, hear, hear)— and who would not feel ; t to be improper that his Grace should proceed to church unattended by those noblemen and gentlemen who might choose to do so. ( Hear.) In these communications, he need not assure the Assembly that he had experienced the- utmost kindness and condescension on the part of/ his Grace ; ami' that that exalted personage had manifested tbe most anxious wish— a wish more anxious, indeed, than he ( the Moderator) could express, to pay every respect to the sanclification of the Sabbath, and the feelings of the General Assembly. He had no doubt, therefore, that tbe Assembly would express, in the strongest terms, their gratitude to liis Majesty and llis Grace for their kindness. Dr STIRLING, the old Moderator, was sure there was but one feeling in the House respecting the obligations they lay under to their Sovereign for these marks of kindness and favour with which he had honoured the General Assembly. In the arrangements by which his Grace, in compliance with the directions of his Sovereign, had received the ministers and elders o f t h e Church of Scotland in the ancient palace of her Kings, he discerned a striking mark of respect for the Church of Scotland ; and in the discretion with which liis Sovereign had entrusted his Grace the Commiss i o n s in the arrangements for sanctifying the Lord's Day, by which all pretence for neglecting the ordinances of religion was taken away, be discerned the anxious desire of his Majesty for the prosperity of that religion of which they were all ministers, and to strengthen the hands of its ministers in tbe discharge of their high and holy duties. lie hoped the motion he was about to propose would be agreed to unanimously, that a committee should be appointed to prepare an address of thanks to his Majesty for the marks of kindness and attention which his . Majesty had shown them; and he was sure they would also concur in a vote of thanks to bis Grace the Lord High Commissioner for the cordiality and kindness he had shown in forwarding these objects, and for the kindness and urbanity which he was sure all had received at his Grace's hands. DUNFERMLINE.— The office of assistant to the was no S first minister of this parish having lately become va- SALE OF FURNITURE, N EW AND SECOND- 11A- ND. BURNS beg-> to injima'e the SALE of his remaining STOCK of C A B I N E T and UPHOLSTERY F U R N I T U R E , at No. 7, Great King Street' and that in addition, be has for Sale, in separate apartments, the Furniture of that home, No. 13, Bernard's Crescent, ( lent to a gentleman whose! lease expired at Ibis term) which maybe seen aft- i- Tuesday ; and with tbe view of bringing the Sale of his S'ock to a close, the whole will be disposed of o. i very moderate terms.-. . . .. .--. N. B— The House to L E T Famished soon after the close of the sale.' " S P L E N D I D TURKEY CARPETS? S ' i ' A lR CARPETS AND RUGS. A U C I I I E & B R O W N RE S P E C T F U L L Y intimata to the N. ibili- v, Gentry, and Public, that ou Tuesday first, the 27th curt., they will SELL by auction, in Mr GIBE'S Saloon, No. 53, Prince's Street, the remaining stock of . S P L E N D I D TURKEY CARPETS, S T A l Ii CARPETS A N D RUGS, Imported direct from . Smynu. Tile sizes of tbe earpets are noted below. The whole to be or, view on Monday. The sale to commence on Tuesday at one o'clock. Catalogues will hi ready for delivery on Monday morning. SIZES OF THE CARPETS. Feet. Inches. Feet. Inches. Feet. Inches.\ Feel. Iae'rH. Principal MACFARLANE had great pleasure in seconding the motion. After adverting to the kindness - his Majesty had shown, in acceding to their wishes 1 he poor fellow, on finding tbe rope in respecting tbe observance of the Sabbath, he said that - — '-•'-'•— —*— 11 — he was not ashamed to confess that his Scottish feelings induced him to look with deep interest on the Palace of the old Scottish Sovereigns being occupied on the present occasion by the Representative of his Majesty. But it was not only connected with national associations— he considered that respect for the Church itself was involved in these arrangements ; it was thus brought into more immediate connexion with the Throne; and in these times the Church must derive an additional strength from being thus distinctly and explicitly recognised by tiie Government of tbe country. The motions having been unanimously agreed to, The MODERATOR then, addressing the Commissioner, said— May it. please your Grace, The General Assembly has instructed me to return your Grace their hearty thanks for the kindness and'condescension yoa have shown to their wishes o. i the subject they have been considering. In regard to Che sanctification of the Lord's Day, one of the most important duties which can o; cupy the attention of a Christian cant, n committee of thirty was, at the request of the clergyman, appointed by the communicants to aid in the choice of a proper person to fill that situation; arid in consequence of the report of the committee, the Rev. John Tod Brown has now been nominated assistant, with the unanimous approba- Tron ' of lhe congregation. G* iift LAWS.— The petitions from the owners and occupied of land in Perthshire for a change in the existing. Game Laws, have been sent off for presentation to both Houses of Parliament wilh 062 signatures attached. DUNDEE.— A meeting of several thousands of the inhabitants took place in the Magdalen Yard on Wednesday week, when a series of resolutions, and a- petition to Parliament, against the Com Laws, were moved and unanimously adopted. FALKLAND.— A few days ago, a farm servant in this neighbourhood, on going to bed, hung up his watch, as usual; and, on awaking in the morning, was a good deal alarmed to find it had been removed. Tire door was found locked, and search was made in every corner, but no trace of the watch could be found. On accidentally looking in a corner for something else, the lost watch was discovered in a rat's hole, and the ribbon, to which a seal and key were attached, was afterwartis found, forming part of the animal's nest prepared for its brood. A few nights ago, while one of the rope dancers, in an. exhibition now open al the foot of Saltmarket S reer, was displaying his peculiar powers on the slack rope, he nearly fell n vic'im to his professional daring. He suspended himself in a particular way by the neck, with a view to deceive the spectators into ihe appearance of a man hinging ; but, unfortunately, iti his zeal to please, he overdid tile trick, and felt himself fairly caught in a noose. so close quarters with his windp; pe, naturally struggled with great violence, which the admiring onlookers construed into an excellent imitation of the death throes tif the hanged, anil enthusiastically applauded. The contortions of the swinging dancer were so nearly allied to nature, that to withhold universal applause was impossible; but the shouts of approbation were speedily checked by appearances on the face of the performer which could not he mistaken ; an l a suspicion having been created that his performance was not altogether a hoax, he was taken down, and discovered to be perfectly insensible, lie was laken to a shop in the neighbourhood, where, on proper attention being paid to his case, he slowly revived, fully determined, we dare say, not to adopt the same line again.— Glasgow Argus. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENTS.— A few days before tbe Stirling. Castle, from Bombay, reached Greenr t p H E Nobility, Gentry, the Pubic of Kdin- - H- burgh, are most respectfully informed, that . Mr RAMO SAMEE has engaged the splendid Saloon of the DIVAN in order to give T H R E E MORNING PERFORMANCES, Tuesday, 27th, Wednesday, 28th, Thursday, 29th inst. being his last appearance in Edinburgh. Admittance for Ladies and Gentlemen, on: shilling each— Children, half price. Doors open at two o'clock ; begins at three precisely. Turkish Divan, 8, South St David Street. „ i" or particulars, see hand- bill. THE CALEDONIAN~ MERCURY bfTh, 7^_ day first, the 29th inst. will be Published on a DOUBLE SHEET, and will contain a full Report ofthe Proceedings at the Nomination of the Candidates f i r Edinburgh and Leith, and of the Business in tile General Assembly, & e. Orders for Newspapers and Advertisements tobe left at tlie^ Office as early before publication as possible. Mercury Office, 265, High Street. LABORATORY AND GENUINE PATENT MEDICINE. 100, SOUTH BRIDGE, ( Formerly Scott's, latterly Scott and Orr's). AS Or E. I). A L L I S O N has relinquished practice as a Physician, and NOW DEVOTES THE WHOLE OF HIS ATTENTION to the duties of this Laboratory ( established for upwards of fifty years), the utmost accuracy in the preparation of all Drugs ordered either by Medical men or families in town or country, may always be depended upon. P. 8. Families supplied with genuine Schweppe's ( L o n d o n ) SODA W A T E R. 17 6 by 17 19 0 15 4 by 13 6 21 0 11 6 9 0 » 4 4 18 10 II 15 8 15 10 I- 13 3 19 10 15 10 12 4 10 ,' » 17 11 „ 12 5 16 6 n 11 H 12 10 II 10 10 14 0 n 11 O 17 19 15 2 14 9 II 11 ** 12 0 H 9 4 11 1 IF 7 O 18 7 „ 15 6 11 9 it 11 tt 12 4 „ 10 0 13 6 II 9 Id 13 10 „ 15 0 11 10 „ 10 • 18 10 a 15 0 11 3 „ 7 6 13 10 „ 12 4 11 0 I, 9 7 15 6 ,1 12 1 hlZKS OF THE STAIR OARPETS. Length. Breadth 19J yards by 2 feet 5 iu. 19 r ' by 2 » I „ 174 . by 2 „ 6 „ 13f » by 2 „ 6 rt 25, George Street, Edinburgh, May 24, 1834. I. ertglh. Breadth. 17$ yards by 2 feet 4 in. 15 1 ,, by 2 ii 5 ,, 14% ,. by 2 „ 4 » 2IJ « by 2 „ 10 „ F R I E N D S O F T H E C H U R C H, YOU lately signed a Declaration in favour of maintaining the Church Establishment, and increasing its efficiency in Edinburgh, by uncolle. giating double charge's, and at the same time keeping up the full number of ministers, thereby providing church accommodation for the poor, and lowering the rent of church seats to all. Be therefore CONSISTENT— Vote for Mr LEARMONTH, who is resolved to enforce all those measures, and not for the Stranger, who bas never given a definite or intelligible answer to any question proposed lo him on the subject of the Church. A L A Y M E M B E R O F T I IE C H U R C H O F S C O T L A N D . SCOTS PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. House of Lords, May 22. The Marquis of Breadalbane took his scat as a Peer for the first time, on the death of his father. ANNANDALE CLAIM OF P E E R A G E . — T h e p e t i t i on of T. H. G. Johnstone ( a claimant) for farther time to produce evidence in support of bis claim, was read and referred to the committee for privileges. MACAULAY V. ADAM AND A N O T H E R — P e t i t i on ofthe appellant for time to lodge cases.— Read and referied to the appeal committee. MACAU LAY v. ADAM AND ANOTHER Petition of the respondents to dismiss the appeal as incompetent. ;— Read and referred to the appeal committee. Petitions against Church Patronage were presented from Cawdor and Auldearn. Petitions were presented for the establishment of a Board of Trade for regulating wages, from hand- loom weavers of Kinross and Irvine. The Dumbartonshire Roads bill and the Aberavon Harbour bill were brought up from the Commons and lead a tirst time. This being the first . day the House sat since the Whitsuntide recess, it was generally expected that the ' Lord Ct a'icellor would give notice'as to his intentions respectingthehearingol'appeals. His Ldr. lship intimated that on Monday next iwo English appeals, Bulklcy v. Wilford, itnd Toulmin v. Copland, would be heurd; but no'notice bas yet been given when his Lordship will resume the hearing of Scotch appeals ; the opinion is that none will be heard till af. er the piesent Trinity term. House of Commons, May 21. The report of the Edinburgh and Dalkeith railway bjll was further considered; bill re- committed lo former committee ; leave to committee to sit and proiced forthwith. The Selkirkshire Roads' bill was reported and order, ed to be engrossed. The Abiravon Harbour bill was read a third time; amendments made, bill passed. The Perth Harbour and Navigation hill was reported. Petitions against tbe proposed measure of church rites were presented from the Commissioners of Supply of ihe county of Dumfries, aud the Town Council o f O u p v . . Pernio. is , for an augmentation of their stipends were presented from parocTifal schoolmasters of tn.' Presbyteiy of Langl oli » in 1 liocliniabe. v. that he had no desire to imitate the example of his honourable opponent the Lord Advocate, by limiting the right of questioning him to those only who were his friends, for that lie considered himself equally bound to answer both friend and foe. No questions being put, it was moved by Mr Brocklev, that tbe full and candid address which they bad heard from Mr Aitchison, was entirely satisfactory to the meeting, and the motion was carried unanimously. Mr 1). M. Moir then proposed three cheers for Air Aitchison; which having been given, the meeting broke up. On Mr Aitythison's leaving the Assembly Rooms, he was again loudly cheered by the crowd collected in the street. An elegant chapel, in connexion wbh the Chur'cfi of Scotland, is, we learn, contracted for, and will be built in four months by public subscription in Holme Street, Hamilton. It will contain f. om 1100 to 1200 sittings, while all the town and parish church accommodation already afforded amounts to only 800 in a population of 10,00( 1. A number of gentlemen belonging to the Chinch of Scotland hive very readily come lorward, and are tbe principal subscriber'. The Rev. Mr Bnehan, one of the ministers of the Collegiate Church, is zealous in the promotion of the sehemc. On Wednesday the 14- th inst. the foundationstone of a new church, upon a handsome plan, was laid in the pari- h of Beatli, by Mr James M'Fdrlane, of Doutie, sole contractor for the woik. The Lord Chief Commissioner, one of the principal heritors, who has always taken a warm interest in tbe affaiis of the parish, delivered a most eloquent address, which was listened lo wiih breathless attention by the people who had assembled to witness the interesting ceremony ; after which the Rev. Mr Fergusson oUeied up a fervent prayer suited IO the oecisiOn. The unavoidable absence of Philip B. Ainslie, Esq. HS representing the Earl of Moray, and who had done much to promote the erecting of the church, was greatly regretted. The church, when finished, will rrfl- ct the highest credit upon the libentliiy " f- 1lie heritors, be ornamental to the parish, and afford ample ofccommodntioti to the paliabiuners. curing tbe privileges of that day to all who are inclined and disposed by tile grace of God to enjoy them. But we are satisfied, that without the example of Christian men of all ranks and stations in the country, and es-' pecially without the example of those in stations high in command and influence, legislative enactments will prove altogether useless and inefficient. Therefore, our thanks are most especially due to his . Majesty for the kindness and condescension he has shown to us in these matters, but they are also due to your Grace, as the individual through whom our wishes were laid before his Majesty, and rendered effectual; and therefore 1 have to express, in the warmest terms, in my own name and that of the General Assembly, the gratitude ive feel for your Grace's kindness to the General Assembly. His GRACE— I cannot convey to you and the Assembly the deep and heart- felt gratitude I feel for the favour you have conferred on me. I shall only say, that if there is one object I prize more highly than another, it is that I may be able so to conduct myself as to prove worthy the good will of the Assembly over whom I' have the honour to preside. A committee was then appointed to draw up an address of thanks to his Majesty. . A long conversation then took place as to the conducting of business, Dr Cook having proposed that, in all judicial causes, the Assembly should divide into sections, and take up several at once, with a view to save the time of the House. This was strongly opposed by. several members ; and as the Doctor made no motion, the conversation was put an end to by the Moderator. Dr Cook having declined, on the ground of inability, to arrange the order of business on his own responsi. bility, it was agreed, after a discussion of some length, that Principal Macfarlane and the Procurator should be associated with him ; and that the Assembly should take up tbe case of the disputed settlements ; and on Tuesday the overtures oil calls. The Dunoon case was then resumed. The objection taken against the members was on a complaint and appeal from certain members of Presbytery, that the , summated in murder. STRAITON HOUSE, WEMYSS PLACE, EDINBURGH. TO P A T E N T E E S , INVENTORS, M E C I IA N HIS, M A N L' FA C T U R E RS, and A R T I S T S of every Profession. THE C A L E D O N I A N MUSEUM of P R A C - T I C A L SCIENCE is now open for receiving and giving publicity to works of ingenuity and merit, free from any charge. A Canal is prepared for making experiments, with inventions that require water; and a railway for models of locomotive Engines, Carriages, & c. Water power and condensed air is provided, and every facility given to render this Institution Jof National importance. - The J O H N S T O N GALLERY of PICTURES, Consisting, of above 690 Paintings, chiefly by the old Masters, and tbe Cartoons by Thornhill, are in the same premises. Admittance to the - Museum and Gallery one shilling, CONFECTIONER'S STOCK. To be SOLD by auction, on Tuesday first, the 37t! « M a y , at 25, UNION P L A C E , THE remainder of the S T O C K of C O N F E C - TIONS,' Lozenges, Preserves, Honey, Pickles, Sauces, jShew- Glasses, Jelly- Moulds, Ice Freezers and Moulds, Copper Pans, a great variety of Working Utensils; a large Cotfee- Mill with fly- wheel, large Beams, Scales, and Weights, Casks with covers and padlocks, " brown Pickling- Cans, eight" Square Bronzed Tea Cannisters, Water- Cistern, two . Mirrors, Maps, Prints, a set Table Ornaments, a Spring Clock, Mahogany Tables, Sofas, & c. J . MAXWELL, Auctioneer, High Street. Sale to begin at 10 o'clock forenoon and six o'clock evening. BY WAIM ANT OF THE MAGISTUATIIS. - E X T E N S I V E SALE OF T I N S M I T H ' S EFFECTS, TOOLS, HOUSEHOLD F U R N I T U R E , Sec. On Tuesday the 27th May current, at eleven o'clock forenoon, at the east end of Grassmarket, AN Excellent Assortment of T I N S M I T H ' S E F F E C T S ; comprising Painted and Plain Watering Pans, Pitchers, Milk Pii'ls, Fish Pana, Beams and Scales, Dutch Ovens, Lamps, Drippinn- Pans, llasks, Spirit Pomp, Tin Kettles, Coffee Poti, with a variety of other articles, and a complete assortment of Tools for the above trade. ALSO, A quantity of F U R N I T U R E ; consisting of Mahogany Chest of Drawers, Tables, Bedsteads, Feather Beds, Matresses and Bedding, Stuff Bottomed Chairs, Grates, Eight. Day Clock, & c. with Counter, GUti Cases, Shuttles, Gas Pipes, & c. & c. Ready Money— No King's Duty. City Chambers, May 24, 1834. ock, where she arrived on Tuesday, one of the sealand, and especially of importance. to the religion anil - m m , « fine voiino- man married shortlv before he tuiye . uuwuiuou- M e ? E ? d d t e W ' h C h | W e We £ om y 0Un1, lie" en" J e d fn ' p K i f c ^ ^ f ^ o t exceeding five, 3s. that much may be ( lone by legislative enactments for" , .. , , . , , * u I , j the purpose of observing that day of rest, and for se- s n m e d0ty, slipped h> s foot, and fell overboard, and "" " at a moment, no doubt, when the poor fellow's heart was swelling with delight at the almost certain prospect of soon rejoining his friends, after a long separation. Every effbit was matle by his shipmates to rescue him from his awful situation, bill all their endeavours were fruitless, as no trace of him could be discovered. His young wife, when the vessel came in, was waiting to welcome him home, and to present him with his smiling baby, . born during hts absence ; but her joyful expectations were suddenly destroyed, when she learned the sad fate of him whom she so anxiously wished • to meet.— About a fortnight since, this young man's . brother was lost in a similar manner on his homewar. I voyage. He was to have been married on his return to a young girl, having exchanged mutual pledges era he went away. CHERUBINE AND SERAPHI. N,-:. Magnificent gratis Exhibition. A S P L E N D I D ALTAR PIECE, of stained i S L Glass, and GALLERY PICTURES, by the greatest ancient Masters, oil Exhibition and Sale ; also, the I M P E R I A L GERMAN CHERUBINE, by , of the Black Forest, which performs alternately with a Grand Organ during the day. Visitors have the advantage of a concentration of every variety of fancy and many useful Articles and Goods on sale, and of enjoying a promenade in this spacious and superb Hall, unequalled in the world. Caledonian Bazaar, Straiton House, Wemyss Place. The I M P E R I A L CALEDONIAN SERA. P I I I N E (' in improvement on those wondrous Instruments the Royal, See. Seraphines, lately introduced, and become so recherche in London), constructed by Mr Hamilton, of this city, purposely for this Bazaar, is daily expected to be placed in it and performed upon.. ILLUSTRATIONS of the BIBLE, from Original Paintings.— Bull and Chartres, London. These illustrations are from paintings executed by Westall and Martin, and the well merited fame of these artists is a good guarantee for their merits. Nor do the specimens belie the well grounded expectations formed from the talents of these great masters. The subjects chosen are striking, and distinguished by the moral interest which they possess, as well as by the beauty of the scenery, and ths finishing and execution is soft and beautiful. One o f t he most touching of these pictures is that of Ilagar and Ishmael at the well. The countenance of the former is truely expressive of the despair naturally excited by her situation. The assuaging of the waters is a splendid exhibition of scenery, and finely imagined. The interview cf Cain and Abel is in a different style, and expresses strongly those fierce passions which are con- ADJOUKNED SALE OF FEU DUTIES. To be SOLD by public roup, within the Old Signet Hall, Royal Exchange, on Tuesday the 27th day of May 1834, at two o'clock afternoon, at the upset price of 20 years' purchase, r a ^ H E following F E U DUTIES, payable from - IL HOUSES at COMELY GREEN CRESCENT, on the LONDON ROAD :— lst, A FEU DUT Y of £' 25, 14s. 2d, A FEU DUTY of £ 3, 10s. 3d, A FEU DUTY of £ 2. 4th, A FEU DUTY of£ 17. 5th, A FEU DUTY of £ 6, 10s. 6tb, A FEU DUTY of £ 5. For farther particulars application may be made to Mr Patrick Wilson, architect, or to Mr John Archibald Campbell, C. S. 2, Albyn Place. Edinburgh, May 16. 1831. MANSION- HOUSE IN FIFE. S A L E - OF HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE. To be* SOLD by auction, on Thursday the ' 29; h. of May curt., at 18, Crilmore Place, N N H E HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, BOOK., & c. which belonged to the late Reverend DAVID MARR, consisting of Mahogany Dining Tables, Pedestal Sideboard, Mahogany and other Chairs; Sofa, Tables, Carpets, Hearth Rugs, Register and other Grates, Fenders, Fire- irons, Bedsteads witlt Curtains and Bedding, superior Drawers and Bookcase, China, Crystal, and Stoneware, good Kitchen Furniture, & c. and a valuable collection of Books, of which catalogues will be given on the day of sale. Sale to begin at eleven o'clock. GEO. WILSON, Auctioneer. Blackball, 24th May 1834. SALE OF ELEGANT HOUSEHOLD F U R N I T U R E, PIANO. FORTE, WITH EXTRA ADDITIONAL KEYS, . GUITAR, PAIR OF 30 INCH GLOBES. F A M I L Y MANGLE, & c, BY AUCTION, In No. 11, Melville Square, - Melville Street, upon Tuesday and Wednesday, 3d and 4rh June, A VERY superior Assortment of D. ning and l \ - Drawing Room, School- room, Bed- chamber, and Kitchen Articles, comprising Pedestal Sidehoard, set of Chairs, Dining, Pembroke, and Loo Tables, Drawing- room, Loo, Tea, and Card Tables, in rosewood ; Chairs, Sofas, and Couches, covered with chintz, French and Tent Bedsteads, with Curtains and very superior Bedding; a pair of 30 ineli Globes, by Carey, a very superior toned Horizontal . Piano- Forte, with 6} octavoes, by Broatlwood and Son, a Guitar, Window- Curtains, in scarlet, moreen, and chintz; a Family Mangle, Eight. day Clock, Register and other Grates, with an extensive assortment of China, Crystal, Stoneware, & c. Sec. Toe whole has only been tw ® years in . use. Sale to begin each d3y at 11 o'clock. D A L U L S I S H & F O R R E IT. Adam's Sq lire, 24th May. E X T E N S I V E SALE OF S P I R I T S , W'INES, UTENSILS, Sec. For Behoof of a Sequestrated Estate. . . .. These we think are thebest, Moderator of the Presbytery was assistant and succes- ! though the others are not without their peculiar merits, sor in a parish, and tnat his principal entered tbe • especially in the scenery, which is highly picturesque Presbytery and voted on the election of the members ; K nd luxuriant. of Assembly while his assistant was in the chair. Mr GRAHAM SPEIRS, in a speech of some length, j. contended that as, by the law of the Church, an assist. ^ >, jay ant and successor had an undoubted right to sit in Presbyteries, in Synods, and even in the Assembly itself, ill the absence of his principal, there con d. be no doult whatever that lie had the same right of bei ig elected to fill any office in these Courts. As to the allegation that the principal had voted while bis assistant was in the chair, he was ready to admit that s. ueh a proceeding was considered by every authority as a gross irregularity, and he had no intention to dispute the decision; but he contended that there' was no proof of the allegation beyond the evidence furnished, by the minutes of the Clerk ; and this could not be considered legal evidence, as they were not sighed by i the Moderator, and, until they were so, they could not I be taken as tbe res gesta of the meeting, but merely j what the Clerk said were so. He had no. intentioa to impugn the veracity of ( hat rev. gentleman— it was enough for him that there was no legal evidence of the fact before the House; and he should therefore conclude by moving that' the Assembly sustain the commission, and dismiss the complaint and. appeal. Dr COOK thought that the m - rits of tbe case lay in a very narrow compass. They were to look what status ill the Presbytery vras held by a minister as assistant and successor, and whether the commission was duly, attested. The office of an assistant and successor was of very recent origin in the Church, for in 1784 the first explicit act was passed regulating their standing in the Church, and by that act it is declaietl that they were members of session, and could vote in presbyteries and synods, yet in no case was the assistant to vote or take part in the proceedings when his constituent was present; they also may both be elected members of Assembly, but not in the same year. In the present case, the minister, and he thought properly, would not consent that his assistant should act as Moderator, considering that when he was present his assistant could not be there, and although elected he must vacate the chair when his principal attended. With regard to the validity of the minute they had the best evidence, as it was attested by the clerk. It was on the great constitutional principle and the established law o f t h e church that he held liis opinion, and founded brs motion, ihat the- commission be rejected, not being duly attested. SOUND INTELLIGENCE. . Rudolph Christian, Schumacher, Sheeraess, Memel, ballast Henriette Auguste, Reetzke, Dundee, do. do. Frau Christiane, Haye, do. do. do.' Amphitrite, Bartelt, do. Baltic, do. ; Braunsberg, Poyeth, do. Pillau, do. Tobina Helena, Schotike, Leith, Baltic, do. Pierre Antoine, D'hvoghe, Aberdeen, Memel, do. Unity, Betts, Newcastle, L- ubeck, coals 9. George, Primrose, Grangemouth, Petersburg, do. Marys, Christie,." Liverpool, Riga, salt Rachel, Gronbeck, Copenhagen, Perth, butter Chieftain, Blair, Bristol, Stettin, iron Acorn, Christie, Liverpool, Riga, salt Wohlfarth; Pust, Stettin, Scotland, bones 10. Ann, Robertson, Riga, Leith, timber Oak, Ritchie, Liverpool, Pernau, salt T o b e LET, Furnished,' either for Six Months from this date, or for such number of years as may be agreed on, ^ i n n i v M A N S I O N - H O U S E of I. UNDIN, in J L the Parish of Largo and County of F I F E. Apply to Messrs Dickson Se Steuart, W. S . ; or lo Janies Smith Ronaldson, writer, Dunfermline. Dunfermline, 15th May 1834. L E I T H . C A P I T A L P R O P E R T Y , NEXT T H E SIGNAL TOVVER ON T H E SHORE. I To be SOLD by auction, in the Old Signet Hall, Edinburgh, upon Wednesday, the 28th May 1834, at one o'clock, if not sooner, bv privat « bargain, TH O S E E X T E N S I V E P R E M I S E S adjoini n g t h e SIGNAL TOWER and P I E R o f L E i T i i , formerly used as tbe Britannia Hotel, now possessed \ bjr Mr Millar, as House, Oil and Colour Works, with j \ ards. The Dalkeith Railway is expected io pass at i the side, of the Properly next the sea. The Sea Wall \ was built like a Pier at the expense of £ 520, in order I to sustain any future erections. The property has access on three sides, and is well fitted for mercantile Euphemia, Simpson, Inverkeithing, Petersburgh, j coals Jessie Easson, Webster, Charlestown, do. do. Pandora, Todd, London, do. ballast Thetis, Keith, do. Rostock, do. Gltanor, Watson, Dundee, Riga, do. Albion, Brown, Liverpool, do. salt . Ant, Webster, do. Narva, do. Fehmern, Maass, Leith, Copenhagen, coals II. Maria, Pitcairn, Teneriffe, Baltic, wines Hebe, Clousten, Newcastle, Petersburg, coals Effort, Collie, Liverpoo', Riga, salt Wilhelmine, lloharst, Dundee, . Memel, ballast 11. Thames, M'Taggart, Arbroath, Baltic, ballast 12. Maigaret and Catharine, Pitkethly, Konigsberg, Dundee, flax Albert Bernhard, Heideman, Stettin, Scotland, bones Centurion, Brand, Pernau, Dundee, flax 14. Joan, Berwick, Dysart, Copenhagen, coals George, Murray, Rostock, London, wheat Der Schwan, Kraft't, Danzig, Aberdeen, timber Alexy, Leightford, Memel, Scotland, do. Lady Dundas, Scott, Riga, England, flax 15. Argo, Biuce, Londonderry, Baltic, ballast Winds May 13. S. light breeze 14. S. W. do. do.— I5v S, do. do. J . Se. V. MULLENS, KNOX, & HOWOEN. Elsinore, 15th May 1834. purposes. It is Let till 1837. The titles are clear. Apply to Charles Spence, S. S. C. 7, Elder Street, Edinburgh. E S T A T E IN BERWICKSHIRE FOR SALE. To be Sold by private bargain, r F V H E Lands anl Estate ot P t t E N D E R - - a- GU EST, situated in the parish of Aytoun and County of Berwick. - - The Estate consists of upwards of 600 acres of excellent Land, adapted to turnip husbandry, and in the highest cultivation. There is a considerable quantity of old wood, and several thriving plantations which afford shelter, and add to the beauty o f t he estate. The whole is let to a most respectable tenant at a moderate rent, on a lease which expires in 1839— The - Mansion- house is modern and suitable for the accommodation of a large family. The estate is conveniently situated for the disposal of produce, being within four miles of the seaport of Eyemouth, where there is a weekly stock market; two miles from Aytoun, seven from Berwick, and eight. from Dunse, to all which places there are ex- ; cellent turnpike roads. The teinds are valued, and i the public burdens moderate. I Apply to James C. Reddie, W. is. 8, India Street ' Edinburgh. 1 q p H E T R U S T E E on the E S T A T E of Mr A. GEO. YOUNG, Junior, Wine Merchant in Leith, hereby intimates that the WHOLE S TOCK ; of S P I R I T S and WINES, duty pxid and in bond, will be exposed by public auction within GIBB'S ROYAL SALOON, 53, Prince's Street, Edinburgh, on Friday, Oth June next, at noon. Among the S P I R I T S will be f o u n d - Old H I G H L A N D AQUA. CORDIALS and COMPOUNDS, S P I R I T S of- WINE, Sec. The Stock of W I N E S in bottle includes a chsic » variety of CLARET, L A F I T T E , and L E O V I L L E, CHAMPAGNE, Brown and Pink, B A RS AC and S AU T E11 . N B, COTE R O T I E and V I N DK GRAVE, CONSTANTIA and FRONTIGNAC, HOCK and MOSELLE. The Stock in Bond consists of 3 Cases Old PALE COGNAC BRANDY, 3 dozens in each. 2. < Hhds. Do. Do. 14 Ilhds. COLOURED Do. 2 Puncheons J A M A I C A RUM. 1 Puncheon OLD MALT WHISK. Y. 4 . Q r d C . s k s i P A L E SHERRY. 29 Hhds. } B R O W ' N SHERRY. AulnlJOCK. 6 Hhds. CLARET. 1 Quarter Cask ST PERAY. 2 Hhds. and 4 Quarter Casks BRONTE MADEIRA. 2 Hhds. CAPE PORT. 2 Hhds. S I C I L I A N RED W I N E . ' 1 Hhd. MOUNTAIN. And on Monday the 16th June, at one o'clock, within the Premises, Coalfield Lane, Leith, - The WHOLE - CELLAR UTENSILS and COUNTING- HOUSE F U R N I T U R E will also be exposed by public sale. Samples of the Wines and Spirits will be produced at the sale, and Catalogues may be had on and after the 3.1 of J u n e on application to Mr George Anderson, 142, High Street, Edinburgh ; or to the Subscriber, KBENEZER WATsON, Trustee, . 39, Charlotte Street, Leith. HOUSE IN H A R T STREET. To be LET, entry immediately, THAT HOUSE, NO. O, HART STREET, entering by a M ain Door from the Street, and consisting of the Street and Sunk flats, containing Five Rooms and Kitchen, with Water Closet, Cellars, Back Green, Sec, This House is well suited for a small family, or, from its centrical situation, for a boarding or lodging bouse. It will be put into proper order. Rent moderate. Apply to James Gentle, W. S., 29, BuccleueU Place. N. 11,— Key with Mr Dick, plumber, Albany Sttwt. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. YRIDAY, MAY 2 3. WAti- OFncr, MAY ' 23. * _ Dragoon Guards^— Quartermaster J . Johnson to fce Adjutant ( with the rank of Cornet), vice Hickman, deceased. ...•., 11th Light Dragoons— Cornet C. P. Parker to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Ahmuty, deceased. Cornet and Acting Adjutant H. J . Dennv, from the Cavalry Depot at Maidstone, to be Cornet, vice Parker. 13th Ditto— Cornet M. J . Robert, Earl of Roscommon, from the half pt. y of the Ist Dragoon Guards, to he Cornet, vice Stock, deceased. lst Foot— Lieutenant F. Hoskins to be Captain, by purchase, vice Allen, who retires. Ensign and Adjutant A. A. Macnicol to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hoskins. W. J . Kerr to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Macnicol. 2d Ditto— Ensign M. R. Pilfold to be Lieutenant, • without purchase, vice Hesse, deceased. J. G. D. Milne to be Ensign, vice Pilfold. 14th Ditto— C. Douglas to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Spottiswoode, appointed to the 9th Light Dragoons. 33d Ditto— Ensign John Stuart, from the 55th regiment, to be Ensign, vice Clarke, who exchanges. 37th Ditto— Lieutenant J, Story, from the half. pay Unattached, to be Lieutenant, vice Hatton, appointed to the 62d regiment of Foot. 44th Ditto— Robert Stuart, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Corbet,; who retires. 54th Ditto— M.. Barbauld to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Brabazon, deceased. ; 55th Ditto— Ensign T. S. Clarke, from the 33d regiment, to be Ensign, vice Stuart, who exchanges. 61st Ditto— T. W. Walker to be Ensign, by purchase, vice1 Gerard* promoted. 62d Ditto— Lieutenant G. A. Hatton, from the 37th regiment ol'Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Story, whose appointment has not taken place. 84th Ditto— T. Davison to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Reignolds, who retires. UNATTACHED. Ensign A. Gerard, from the 61st regiment of Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase. BREVET. Colonel E. G. Slannus, of the Honourable East India Company's service, and Lieut.- Governor of the Seminary at Adelisccmbe, to be Colonel in the Army whilst holding that appointment under the Court of Directors. MEMORANDUM. Lieutenant II. l'aunt, upon lialf- pay of the 23d regiment of Foot, has been allowed to retire from the service by the sale of an Unattached Lieutenancy, he heing about to settle in Upper Canada. Commission in the Ross. shire, Caithness, Sutherland, and Cromarty Regiment of Militia, signed by his Majesty. Captain Alexander Mackenzie to be Adjutant. PORTUGAL. LISBON, May 10.— The City of Edinburgh steamer arrived, here ibis morning bringing thfe news of the capture of Figueiras by Admiral Napier, who, aftera' slight resistance, took possession of that place on the morning of the 8th inst. Coimbra surrendered about the same time to tbe Duke of Terceirn, who is in close communication with the Spanish General Rodil, and a report ( not yet well authenticated) states that these two Generals are together al Coimbra ; however this may be, certain it is that they are in close communication, and no doubt can be any longer entertained of' the entry of a large Spanish force into Portugal. The accounts from the Algarves are not so favourable, but the sea- potts of that kingdom or province are still in the possession of ihe Queen's forces-; the interior of | t , as well as the whole of the Alemtejo, is in possession of the Miguelites. OPORTO, M i. v 11 The very same day on which the Duke of Terceira entered C'oimbra. Admiral Napier effected ail undisputed landing at Figueiras, and has since opened a communication with Colonel Vascbncellos, the commandant of the Queen's forces al Levria. The whole of the troops which remained in Oporto were marched out under the command of the Baron do Pico dc Celeirn, by the road through Albergaria to Coimbra, and by this time will have effected a junction wilh the division in the latter city. The Queen's Government has been proclaimed at Aveira, and at all places along the coast. Il is j u s t reported that Ihe MiguSlite General Joze Cardozo has presented himself at Coimhfa, bul this it quires confirmation. The Spanish . force under General Rodill moves on apparently in co- operation with that of the Duke ot Terceira, and, no doubt, desires to lend its active aid. BRADFORD M A R K E T The s a l e s o f m a n u f a c t u r e d GOON F E E L I N G IV THE M I D S T or TV A * — goods on Thursday were not quite so extensive as So different trbm hostility.( dUting the Peninsular On ihe previous market day, but a slight improve-', war) was the conduct ol both nations, that the ment in prices was obtained on narrow plainbacks, French and British lived upon the most amicable which were mostly in demand. plainbacks, Higher prices were ; terms. upon I f we wanted wood for the construction of asked for yarns, but the instances were few in which | huts, our men were allowed to pass without ulolesthey were realised. Warp wools, which are scarce, [ tation lo the French side of the river to cut it. were in request at old terms, bul there was not much business done in oiher descriptions of wool. Each day the soldiers of both armies used to bathe | together in the same stream, and au exchange of « rations, such as biscuit and rum, between the French and our men, was by no means uncommon, i A stop was, however, soon to be put to this friendly intercourse; and it having been known in both HUDDERSFIELD MARKET— On Tuesday considerable sales were made in coarse cloths, but in fancy goods and fine cloths very litlle business was transacted. There were a gooti many merchants in . -- , „ , . . , .. , the market, but most of them were there for the ™ that someth. ng was abou^ to be attempted C 1 !,. . , e. _ 1... .„;„ » „ , ! , „ , ( U n o. purposes ot loosing out for bargains rattier than as hJy Ma rmo n t ,' on the evening of t. h e 1. 2lh, of JulV, 1 - - - s ° I we shook hands wiih our c m « c r u neighbours, and parted the hest friends. Il is a remarkable faest BANKRUPTS. John Morgan Machin, wine- merchant, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall William Jones, wine- merchant, Francis Street, Tot. tenham Court Road Samuel Clinch Boyce, oil and colour- merchant, Wal brook Edward Hodgson, ThruHiplon, and Robert Olpherts, Retford, coach- builders, Thcma'i Ilat! tin Hurleston, linen- draper, Birmingham CORN AVEJIAG. ES— MAY 16. General Weekly Average— Wheat, 47s. l i d . ; Barley, 28s. 4d.; Oats, 19s. 9 d . ; Rye, 33s. 7d.; Beans, 34s. Sd. ; Pease, 35s. 7d. Aggregate Average of the Six Weeks, which rcgij. tales Duly Wheat, 48s. Od. ; Barley, 28s. 2d. ; Oats, 18s. lOd. ; liye, 32s. 5d. ; Beans, 33s. 6d. ; Pease 34s. 4d. Duty on Foreign Corn Wheat, ?. 8s. 8 d . ; Bar. ley, 19a. lOd.; Oats, 19s. 9 d . ; Rye, 21s. 3d.; Beans, 19s. 9d.; Pease, 18s. 3d. SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the returns made in the week ending the lOth day of May 1834, is Twenty- eight Shillings and One Halfpenny per Hundred Weight, exclusive of the duties of customs paid or payable thereon oil the importation thereof into Great Britain. FRANCE. ( From Galignani's Messenger of Tuesday.) DtATll 01 GENERAL LAFAYETTE. Wilh unfeigned regret we announce this melancholy event, which took place at a quarter to five o'clock this morning. The improvement which was perceptible in the sjmplcms of his final malady yesterday evening, and which inspired his ft lends with a hope ihat his valuable life might yet be spared t o them, continued until abcut two o'clock this morning, when a change look place' in his breathing, • which announced the appioach of dissolution. A blister was about to he applied lo ( lie chest, but he family expressed his dissent, and these were his last • words, Tlie verifiable General was born on the lst of September 1757, end consequently wanted little more than three months to compiete the age of 77. The nondious tcenes in both the New World and the Old, in which tbe name of Lafayette was j ro_ minently distinguished, are among the most remarkable in the annals of mankind; and we may safely aver ( without entering into abstract opinions on political doctrines) that history does not in all her records possess a name whi( h lias passed through ihe seatehing oidesil of public opinion, even in the dsikest and most teirpestuous times, moiepure and tijWllied than liis whose death his country is to- day called upon to deplore. M. Fersil, M. Dufliatel, and General Sehosiiani, who vacated theii seats iti the Chan. her of Deputies cn their several appointments to l'e Minister of Justice, Minister of Commeice, and Ambassador to the Court c; f ihe Two Sicilies, have just been reflected.; M. Fertil, for the Geie, hy the Electoral College of L o n b e z ; M. Ducl. aiel, for the Che- j rente- Itiferieuie, hy the College ef J o r z a r ; and General Sebasliaui, for t i e Aisue, by ihe College of Veivins. A cornier arrived j'esteiduy from Constantinople • wilh the answer of Admiral Roussin fo the dispnicb announcing his appointment a ihe Murine. The Admiial entieals h permit him to retain the embassy at Constantino- j hv the prisoners. L O N D O N . RED FLANNEL.— Rheumatism being a prevalent disease in the island of Jersey, the inhabitants, to guard against it generally wear reel flannel next the skin, anil attach quite us much virtue to its colour as to the* fabric'itself. NEW COMET,— Professor Schnmachcr, Astronomer Royal of Denmaik,. announces the discovery of a new comet on the 8ih ult, by Piofessor Gambait, of the Marseilles Observaiory Although it disappeared on the 13th, and from ( lie slate of the weather, and the temporaty imperfection of his micrometer, his observations were inttrrupied arid imperfect, Professor Gsmbart assigns its plae< e, on the IOth, at 1 Gil. 32m, 45s. of sidereal lime, to be 20h. 9m. 7s. of right ascension, and 22deg. 33min. of south declination. When first seen, it was near the horizon, having a nebulous appearance, and situated in . the constellation Sagittarius, very near the nebula 2064 of Sir John Herschel. The comet was of a pule light colour, of a very round form, and with a diameter of about four or five minutes. The King of Naples, in order to encourage f a r t h e r that rage for residence in his capital which prevails among the rich and titled of our countrymen, has granted them permission to erect a church for the public celebration of the Protestant form of worship. Fifty thousand francs have been a'ready subscribed for this purpose by the British residents in Naples. AWFUL CALAMITY— We copy from the ICittanning ( Armstrong county) G r z e t t e and Columbian, the following account of a most distressing occurrence:— On the night of Friday. April 18, the house and bain of Capt. J . C. Kissinger, of Toby township, in this county, were consumed by fire, and nine of his children perished in the flames. The parents weie absent on a visit lo Mrs Kissinger's father, a distance of about eight miles. Out of 11 children, two only aie left, one an infant, which the parents bad with them, the other a daughter of eithi years of age, who was absent from home. The way the fire originated is not known, and it was not discovered lill about nine the following morning. Nothing was left in or about ti e house or barn uiicoiisumetl.' The sufferers were from 19 years of age downwards. So far as could be observed the bones were in ihe same relative position in which they slept; which leads to the belief that they were smothered in theii beds bv the smoke btfore the flames reached them. One only bad gone to a different part of the house. The unhappy parents were ol firsl only informed of the destruction of theii property. The fattier returned on Saturday, hut the mother remained at her father's until the next morning, still ignorant of the extent of her loss. When she arrived she surveyed the smoking ruins, antl I hen asked fbr her children. I- tt the reader imagine, if he can, fhe effect of the shocking disclosure. It is a remarkable circumstance, and one calculated to heighten, if possible, t h e distress of these parents, that their oldest child was burnt lo death some years since. A l. tirse and a yoke of oxen were burnt. A dog thai lay in the barn was burnt in the place where he was accustomed to lie'. CHARGE OF MURDER— In October last, a young man, named Burns, was found dead in the river Darwent, near Cpckeimouth, under circumstances which excited the suspicion of his having been murdered. Nothing, however, could be elicited at t h e inquest, and a verdict of " Found dead" was returned. Within tl. e last fortnight, however, a woman named Margaret Thompson, of Papcastle, who has been from home since tlie death of Burns, has given it formation which led lo the apprehension and cun uiittal of five men, three of whom are brothers, namely, " 1 homos, Willicm, and Walter Nicholson, Joseph Burgtss, and Joseph Green. The woman, Thompson, staled, Ihat. on the night of Cockeimouih Michaelmas fair ( 10th October), she saw the. prisoners ill- using deceased near Dari went Bridge End ; and after repeatedly challenging him to fight, which he dee- lined,' they all went down the Woikington road into a field adjoining the river, when they beat him in a brutal manner; Thomas Nicholson slid Gfetn being llie most active in the cowardly attack. After beating him over tlie heed with the butt end of a whip for some lime, one of them said, " By G— he's Minister of j done." She was standing behind a wall, where she Majesty to | witnessed the whole o f t h e transaction unperceived She did not know whether they bona fide purchasers. We extract from a critique on the exhibifion of the Royal Academy, which appeared in a London paper, the following notices of Wilkie and Allan : — " B u t it is time to spe. k of Wilkie, perhaps the first artist of the age in delineating action and character ; but we have seen pictures of his, more to our taste than even his admirable No. 122, ' Not at Home.' A country landlord— a shrewd and knowing one, with liis dog at liis foot, his whip under his arm, his hat plucked over his brow, and a look of mingled distrust and determination in his face, pays a visit to a house in London, to demand rent or some such trifle. A servant— a smooth, cool, plausible knave, has opened the reluctant door, and placing himself, as if by accident athwart the breach, replies ' Master's not at I home.' If ever a lie was painted, it is painted on that [ man's face; but to prevent all misconception, the: ' master,' a sharper questionless, slips his hand slyly out at another window, anel claps a lighted'eigar to his landlord's wig. The scene is quiet, but iiresistabiy comic. No. 148, ' The Spanish Mother,' is another ofWi1kie* s works, and a fine one; the colouring is deep and vigorous; a child has its little arms twined round the mother's neck, and is pulling her oft'her balancc; the posture is almost extravagant, but is biouglit back to truth and nature by a happy hand ; that has never been known to fail. " To Allan we have awarded the high praise of deep feeling ; let those who doubt this look at 169, ' The HEiJCONTRE WITH THE AtttlCAN KIN6, PA5S ALL. ' ( From Ihe Hampshire Telegraph.) I t will be in remembrance that about the month of November last the Curlew sloop of war, Captain Trottet, ( employed on the western coast of Africa), detained a Schooner for pirating; the master and crew of which escaped and gained the protection of King Pass. All, of Cape Lopes; that Captain Trotter demanded o f t h e King that the pirates should be given that the part of the river of which 1 am speaking was occupied on our side by our third division; on the French side by the seventh division. The French officers said to us on parting, •" We have met, and have been for some time friends. We are about to separate, antl may meet as enemies. As fr. ends we received each other warmly— as enemies we shall do the same." In ten ( lays afterwards the British third and the French seventh division were opposed to each other at the battle of Salamanca, and the seventh F. ench were lies'roved by the British third United Service Journal. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. COURT- MARTIAL ON CAPTAIN HUGH PIGOTT, ROYAL NAVY.— Seventh Day The officers, composing the Court- Martial on Captain Hugh Pigott, royal navy, re- assembled on board his Majesty's ship Hastings, pursuant to adjournment. As soon as the Court was opened, Vice- Admiral Sir R. King, K. C. B. president, announced, that the Court had taken the directions of the Lords of the Admiralty upon certain additional questions, which Lieutenant Walker, the prosecutor, had propounded to Mr Petti, grew and some other witnesses, antl that the Admiralty had directed the attendance o f t h e Judge Advocate- General. Alexander Moreland's evidence was then ,, , „ ,. , „ ., , . , u- „ • | resumed; it related to the state of the Alban, when Orphan,' or at 309, Polish Exiles conducted by Bash- c . ' p i g 0 U inspected her, as to the condition of kirs on their way to Siberia.' In the former a beauti- h * a r m s 0* boar( 1> { h e Tesse' , a t t h a t t i m e > J a l n es ful girl is kneeling beside Ihe chair, now made empty | W i l t s h i a n o i h e r s e a m a n o f t h e A l b a n , was next by the deal hi of h. r parent; her heart is in her face, ; n d £ examined u p o n SOme of the same points; he a venerable domestic follows to o0er aid, which- he evi- examined by the Court, and cross- examined by no one so much as Miss Scott, and the chair is that left empty af Abbotsford. She is ' Mouldering now in silent dust,' as well as her illustrious father. ' The Polish Exiles' is a well- conceived and well- composed picture; we would have preferred woe more tranquil, but, perhaps, nothing less than strong action would have made any impression 011 a couple of Bashkirs, who, mounted on horses as wild as themselves, seem impatient to hurry their Wretched priioners forward. These ' lads of the desert* are no fanciful creations— thev were drawn by the adventurous artist in their own land ; they sit as easily on their high trotting horses and high saddles, as birds sit on a bough. The picturc is a line one."— Athenceum. KITES IN THE AIR.— The kite has, from the extent of its wings and tail, very great command of the atmosphere, and possession of itself in that element. It does not beat alcng in straight lines, but wheels in curves, which it is constantly opening and closing, and always in a smooth and graceful manner, without any jerks: and if it were possible to trace a day's path of a kite, it would be a very fine specimen of looped curves. The kite can hover for a long time over the. same spot, with very little exertion of the wings, and though there is a fresh breeze ; and there art times ( probably when it has lost sight of some prize on the ground, or discovered that tbe prize over which it was hoveling was no prize at ail) at which it will " give itself to the wind," and drift to leeward in a very beautiful style, apparently with complete self possession. Kites will also sometimes turn down the wind to escape the more powerful falcons, which, though they do not attack the kite, often frighten it, . and make it lose its prey ; and as going down the wind is not a habit of the falcons, the kite gets away from them by manoeuvre, though held in great contempt by the falconer, is by no means an ungraceful or an uninteresting one : the bird rides lightly 011 the wind, but retains its self- ccmmand, so that it can take a new direction whenever it pleases. The axis of its body is placed at an angle to the wind, which is smaller in proportion as that is stronger, and the windward wing is elevated, so that the wind takes the underside at an angle, and tends to raise the bird obliquely upward, while its weight presses downward and counteracts. When looked at, the bird always has in these cases the appearance of descending as it drifts : but that is an optical deception ; for all things that are higher than the eye appear to descend as they recede, even though tliey are rising, and the kite may often be observed to have gained height while thus appearing to float downward. If on these occasions an alaim is given, the bird hauls closer to the wind and makes oft'. — Mudie's British Birds. examined by Lieutenant Walker, but nothing material transpired. During the proceedings, the President announced, that the Judge Advocate- General was in attendance, by the directions of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty; II. J . Shepherd, Esq. Judge Advocate- General, was duly sworn. Lieutenant Walker, senior lieutenant of his Majesty's ship Barham, was next examined by Lieutenant Walker, ihe prosecutor. Lieutenant Walker, the prosecutor, then asked permission of tbe Court to examine Captain W. Hotham, in consequence of the imperfect recollection of this witness; be paSsed a high eulogium upon the talent and respectability of the lieutenant of the Barham, but stated, that he could not substantiate this part of Jjown the tunately, on the discharge of the first gun the vessel blew Up. The Curlew thereupon quitted the coast, but shortly teturnfed, disguised ih such a manner that King Pass- All mistook her for a trading craft, and sent'his two SOHs off to batter, ' whom Captain Trotter detetmined- to detain until the pirates were given up.— KiWg Pass- All to regain his sons, was induced to give up the pirates, but what became of them does not appear. It is sufficient to know that while the King's sons were On board the: Curlew they were so well treated that their interference on the occasion we have now to relate no doubt saved the lives of many British Officers and seamen. It appears by letters just received from the coast that or, the 19th January the CUtlew was again off'Cape Lopei, and sent a bdat into the harbour, with Lieutenant Matson, to demand of King Pass- All atiother pirate vessel, and, at the sametimej he sent a boat in charge of Lieutenant M'Neale to examine a schooner then lying in the - river. A long period having elapsed without the return of these two boats, a third was sent under the charge of Lieutenant Pyke, With Mi- Chapman, the Purser, to ascertain the cause. This boat having rather incautiously ran on shore, without inquiry, in an instant Mr Pyke and Mr Chapman were seized by front two or three hundred natives, disarmed find stripped with the seamen, of every article of clothing, and the greater part severely wounded with sticks or clubs, Mr Pyke having his head cut open in two places. It was now seen that Lieutenant M'Neale anel his boat's crew had been previously similarly treated, Lieutenant M'Neale being then confined with both legs in irons. Lieutenant Matson having now concluded his Visit to the King ( he had landed round a point, and knew not what had been going on) was proceeding off when he discovered the two boats hauled up upon the beach, and finding the crews detained, he immediately returned to the King to complain of this outrage. We now refer to the subjoined letter for the particulars of t h e subse-- quent circumstances in this unpleasant affair :— " I S L E OF ASCENSION, Match 9 We have Lad some more work with King Pass- all. Captain Trotter, o f t h e Curlew, hearing that there was still another pirate at Cape Lopez, sailed tor that place lo endeavour to make tne King deliver him up. We arrived there on the 19th of January, with the Curlew and Esperanca schooner. Captain Trotter being very ill, sent acting- Lieut. Matson as his representative to hold a " palaver," as it is called, with his Majesty. He landed at four in the aftemoon, and stated the object of his mission. The old King was half drunk, and flew into a tremendous passion,' refused to give up any person who had taken refuge with him, and said if Captain Trotter continued to make war with him he would make prisoners of every Englishman he could get bold Of. Lieut. Matson fold him that would call ANIMALS I » WINTER Thera is no subject more engaging t o the student of patur*; than that „ which relates lo t h e hybernation of various ajiimali of our latitude. The racoon and woodchuck, who lay tip food for their winter stock, hybernate ia dens among the rocks, and . in deep burrows below the frost. The former, it j s true, sometimes ia February, taking advantage of a thaw and a short, , time of'warm weal her, sallies forth from his winter or two, although never In purt h e latter is awakened from his repose only by the r e t u r n of warm weather; I am , credibly informed, t h a t the late Colonel, J e r e m i ah Wadsworlh, of Haitford, with a view pf experi. ment, procured a young woodchuck to be petted in the house. Upon Ihe approach of winter^ the animal, impelled by instinct, took up his abode for hybernation behind a row, of ca.- ks in lha cellar, not by burrowing in the ground, bul by making, f'or himself, a small,. excavation, 011 lha, surface, in which he planted himself in a circular form, a position t ' e most accommo. dating to his condition. Matty times during the winter- Colonel1 W. to gratify the curiosity of his friends, directed the woodchuck : to be brought up. The torpid animal, - after lying fifteen or twenty minutes on the carpet, before a cheering fire; in the sitting- room, would begin to yawn, then stretch out one li. nb after, anoLher, open its eyes, slowly raise itself on its leet, and walk rather awkwardly from the immediate influence of ihe fire, appearini} very weary till returned, to bed in t h e cellar, uniformly refusing nourishment of any kind during tha time of its hybernation American Journal of Sccient* the charge, without some ether testimony. The'Court stated, that Captain Hotham was subpoenaed on the part of Captain Pigott, and that ihe prosecutor would then have an opportunity to examine him. The Court, having sat the usual time, adjourned. PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS Capt. J. Tonikinson and Lieut. G. Skypwith, to the Tribune; vengeance of the King of England, who would stop his trade. This exasperated the1 old brute mote, who then said that, as the English were determined on war, he would begin with Lieut. Matson, and keep him prisoner until £ 500 was paid for his release. That prudent officer, considering it of no use to argue with a drunken man, took his leave as soon as possible. He then heard that two other boats of the Inferior. 42s Od 23s 6d 18s Od M a k d l m j ^ . G ^ . ^ ^ o ' b e ^ ommander'° and M r ' n ^ X ! V^ j.^' L—^' f captured, with the two vie ( late flag mid J . T. Talbot and to the Coast Guard Service; Lieuts. ). B. l, to be Commander; and Mr Ogil- j Ljeu. eiiants and the Purser, w n. dshipman), to be Lieu .- Commanders s t t i p p e d o f e v ar. icleofdress, a W. Lewis ( 4), ^ them most ' cruelly. Idcut ! . . and W. C. Aldbam, Caledonia ; T. Coleman, to command the Hind cutter; T. Hope, ( a), North Star; B. J. " Wilson, Hairier; T. Hope, Hyacinth; A. Forbes, Melville; W. Parker, to the ordinary at Plymouth; Lieuts. Beckett and Moore, and Mr Bowman, Purser, to the ordinary at Sheerness ; Rev. E. Winder, Chaplain, and Mr Hackness, Schoolmaster, Hastings ; Rev. J . Marshall, Chaplain, President; W. Nicholls, 1 cletk, to be acting Purser, Harrier; Mr J . Read, Assist. Surgeon, Madagascar ; Mr W. l'atison, Assist. Surgeon, Viper ; Mr R. B. JNludge, Master's Assist., Revenge. ROYAL MARINES.— Second Lieut. H. Marriott, to the President, vice Rellairs, sick at Hospital. SPORTING. THE CORN TRADE. The improvement which has taken place in the value of oats is grounded, not upon the prospects of the coming crops, but upon the shortness ot'the stocks. At Liverpool, the quantity in store is much diminished, and at the commencement of the month did not, together with oatmeal, exceed 50, OtIO quarters At Bristol, Gloucester, Birmingham, and contiguous markets, the stocks in warehouse are very limited in amount. At Leeds, Wakefield, and Hull, the article is scarce; at our eastern as well as northern ports the amount in store is very inconsiderable, and the shipments from Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire are likely to be less than usual, as the growth of the article has of late years been gradually superseded by that of 1 to i against Isabella, wheat. In Ireland, the oat granary of England, less 1 ' ' ' YORK SPRING MEETING. Tuesday, May 20. The following is a return of this day's racing:— The two yr. old Stakes of 30 sovs. each, 10ft. T. Y'. C. ( 22 subs.) was won by Mr Ridsdale's gr. c. Luck's All, beating the Duke of Leeds's ch. f, liy Malek and Mr S. Fox's b. f. by Langar. The following also started, but were not placed :— Mr Jaque's ch. f. by Actajon ; Mr Fidmundson's b. f. Rosamond by Jack Spigot; Mr Powlett's b. c. by Langar; Duke of Leeds's ch. c. by Acta; on; Mr Wilson's b. c. Winkley, by Velocipede 3 to 1 agst Comedy, 3 to 1 agst the Duke of Leeds's two, 4 to 1 agst Luck's All, and 4 to 1 agst Mr Powlett's colt. The lot made two false starts, but got off' at the third attempt tolerably well together, with Winkley, Luck's All, and the Rhodacantha filly ill front. Luck's All maintained his position, antl appeared on getting near home to have the most comfortable berth. Templeman, however, made such excellent use of the Duke's filly that she was beaten by only half a head. These Iwo were clear of all the others. Conolly rode Mr Fox's filly. The F'illy Stakes of 20 sovereigns each for three years old, mile and a half^ 6 subscribers, was won by Mr W. Crompton's b. Mayflower, beating Mr Bowes's ch. Maid of Lune, l. oid Sligo's b. Ellen, by Starch, General Sharpe's cb. Myrrha, and Mr Salvin's b. Isabella. Betting, 2 10 1 against Maid of Lune, 7 to 2 against Mayflower, 5 to 1 against Ellen, and 5 At starting Maid of Lune took the lead, but very soon resigned it to Mayflower, who land has been sown this year than heretofore. The [ carried on the running till near the distance, where receipts from the farmers are falling off' much earlier Elien failed in an attempt 10 pass Maid of Lime, who than customary, and merchants who have been in the j still waited closely upon Mayflower. A struggle then pie. In consequence, Admiral Jacob has been up- j threw him tato the river or not. She shoitly afpointrd Minister of the Marine and the Colonies, ' " —. — - snd last nitht took ( he oath in the presence of the King. The ordinance by which ihe obove appointment is made appeals in the Moniieur of this morning. U N I T E D STATES. American papers have arrived to the lst instant. They present still the same features of angry discussions between the Senate and the President, and t h e different parties on the subject of tbe hank, and t h e conduct of Ihe President towards that establishment. It would seem evident that General Jackeon has raised a storm which he cannot allay, and which may involve his friends in danger. The municipal election of New York has gone against his p a r t y , a n d il iss^ id that in other districts Ihe change has been no less striking. The people of New York have sent a deputation to Philadelphia to join Ihe citizens of that important member of the union in celebrating Iheir recent municipal triumph, and a similar deputation has arrived at New York from Boston. ' 1 lie President's disregard of the resolutions of the Legislature has loosened the foundation of political order, by exhibiting the strange specl a d e of the Executive and the Congress speaking, writing, and voting against each other. His late protest seems to have inflamed the Senate to a high pitch of resentment. The language used in the Senate against the President is very violent. The following are the- resolutions proposed hy Mr Clay on April 23: Mr Clay then moved to strike opt all the resolutions after the word " Resolved," in the first resolution, and to insert the following:— " Resolved— That the protest communicated to the Senate on the 10th instant by the President of the United States asserts powers as belonging to the President which are inconsistent with the just authority Of the two Houses of Congress, and inconsistent with the Constitution o f t h e United States. " Resolved— That while the Senate is, and ever will he, ready to receive from the President all such messages and communications as the Constitution and laws and the usual course of business authorise him to transmit to it, yet it cannot recognise any right in him to make a formal protest against votes anel proceedings of the Senate, declaring such votes and proceedings to he illegal and unconstitutional, and requesting the Senate to enter such protest on its journals. " Resolved— That the aforesaid protest is a breach of the privileges of the Senate, and that it be not entered 011 the journal." These resolutions still occupied the Senate on the 26. Ii. ' habit of storing some thousands of barrels at this season, have only obtained as many hundreds. It is, therefore, more than probable, that before another harvest arrives, the demand for oats will exceed our supplies, end the consequent increase in price is likely to affect the averages to the extent, that oats bought at low rates abroad may be hereafter entered advantageously for home consumption. The amount of took place between these two, the Mayflower being in 1 full blossom, proving the victor by half a length. The Spring St Leger, of 25 sovereigns each, mile and three quarters, six subscribers, was won by Lord | Sligo's ch. c. Bran, beating Mr Maxwell's cb. g. j Buccaneer, Mr R. flower's b. c. Mr Mcrryman, Sir ! W . Milnor's ch. c. Currency, and Mr S. Fox's ch. c. by Comus. Betting, 2 to 1 on Bran. Currency bonded oats throughout the kingdom is about 225,000 j made first running, followed by Merryman, Fox's, quarters, consisting almost entirely of Baltic and j Bran, and Buccaneer, in the order in which we have hom the natives had and- heaten andwound- Matson escaped that treatment very luckily, for the King, knowing that lie commanded the schooner, considered him as the next in rank to Captain Trotter, and therefore ordered his people to treat him with all respect, and even allowed him to keep his sword. Lieut. Matson had now the mortification and regiet to discover that all the boat's crews were completely naked, the first Lieutenant in iron's, And the . second most shockingly wounded, his head being cut open in several places, and he was hardly able to'walk, and a number of seamen had also been wounded by sticks. You can imagine how indignant that officer felt at the sight of his shipmates sutifcring- under such treatment. He immediately returned to the King with feelings wound up to the highest pitch, and finding that the King was rather more sober than when he last saw him, he tried to reason with him, reminding him, however, that he who boasted of being the most enlightened of black Kings had now- proved himself the most barbarous, and had acted, worse than if he had hung them up 10 the nearest tree. The King listened with attention, but excused himself by saying his people had done it contrary to orders. Lieutenant Mntion asked him to let ( be first Lieutenant out of irons, as" lie was senior cfliccr on shore. To this request he at last agieed, and told Lieutenant Matson he would - send for them all on the following morning, when they should he; r his determination. They were made to sleep in separate houses, ditty little hovels full of ve. mtn. Eaily on the following morning the King accordingly sent for them Tney lounil him surrounded by his Privy Councillois ( about forty old men). He informed them that lie required goods to the amount of £ 560, and a promise from Captain Trotter not to molest him in future; that if it was nbi " sent by the next day, they should all be sent into the country to be ( as he faid) " devoured by wild beasts"—( pleasant pioSpects !) They remonstrated stiongly against his treatment in snipping the men ; to which he replied, it was done now, and could not be helped. He then allowed Lieut. Pyke 10 go on board and get his wounds dressed, 011 a promise that he would return immediately, which he accordingly did. The party sent ctl to Coi- rain Trotter telling him v. hat ihe King demanded ; vho wrote to them 10 say that he was ready to make any sacrifice rather than allow his boats' crews to be a day longer in such ail unhealthy spot ; desired the party to make what teims they could, and he would send the things on shore directly. After a great deal of trouhle it was agreed to ser. d him things equal to about £ 110, and he promised that iuuiiediotely they were landed they should be set at libeity.— The stores were sent 011 shore the same evening, but as it Wits getting dark they sent them off'again, thinking the natives would plunder a great part. They came on shore, therefore, on the following morning, when the King had thein sent into his store, and lie then informed the captured party there w as not onequarter enough 1 and that they should remain until MARKETS. KIRKALDY, May 24— The supplies of barley and oats in our market to- day were short.; and sales of wheat and barley heavy. Oats in good demand, and fully 6d. per quarter of an advance was readily obtained. Quarters. Top. Current. 169 Wheat 51s Od I 48s Od I 87 Barley 28s Od 26s 6d 91 Oats 20s 6d 1 19s Od 1 Oattiieal, 27s. to 28s: per bag. GLASGOW CATTLE MARKET, May 2 2 . — T h i s - morning's market was a brisk one, both - in the sheep and cattle department, the latter selling with considerable rapidity, at an advance of at least 3d. per stone. Best stot beef sold at from 8s. 6d. to 8s. 9d. per stone. Cow and stot beef of ordinary quality, from 7s. 9d. to 8s. 3d. There was a slight advance upon the prices of sheep. Best black- faced wedders went off'at from 31s. to 34s. ; sccond elass, 28s. to 3tls,, and good ordinary, 25s. and 2( is> Lambs sold at from 14s. to 20s. a- h- eod. 1 BOGBAIN MARKET.— At this tryst, held on Friday week, there were many Highland drovers, a number of south country eltalers, and from fprty to fifty grgziers from this and the neighbouring counties ; consequently, although there was a great show of stock, high, prices weie obtained, and more than two- thjrds of tho cattle offered for sale changed owners. ' I he fed beasts ( black cattle and sheep) sold fiom 5s. 3d. to 6s. 8d. per Dutch sione, sinking offals. Veal fetched 6s. peT do. ; and lambs averaged from 3s. to 4s. 3d. per quarter;, lean cattle were; however, in greater demand than fed beasts. A lot of lliree year old stots brought £ 9, 5s. each. Cows, with their followers, sold for £ 6, £ 7, and £ 9 each. WAKEFIELD, May 23— In this day's market the fresh supply of v. heat is moderate, but the Canal westward being under repair, few buyers are here to- day. Fine frcsn wheat has been in fair demand at last week's prices, but middling sorts have met dull sale. Thers is a good arrival of oats, and they go off readily at rather more money. Barley is in little request, the malting season being over. Beans are dull but prices much rhe same. K E I G H L E Y F'ORTNIGHT FAIR The second f o r t. night fair, at Keighley, was held on . Tuesday last, and the supply of fat heavy cattle and sheep was so great, that. a considerable quantity remained unsold. Those which were disposed of, fetched last fair's prices. Such has been the determination of cattle dealers, graziers, and others to supply the fair with stock, that it only requites to be generally known by butchers who did not attend, that such an immense and valuable stock has seldom been exhibited in any of the neighbouring; fairs, in order to secure their attendance. RITON FAIR— At this fair 011 the 13th inst. Beasts of all kinds were plentiful. Beef was good to sell at 6s. 3d., and the fat was nearly all . drove out and solel in the couise of the morning. Lean stock was better to buy, except young likely things, which went off* briskly. Cows live or six years old were low, and bad to sell, but young ones w ith calf were looked after. At the sheep fair on Wednesday there was a full show.. Mutton was rather lower, and a deal of business done. Hogs sold w ell, and were much inquired for ; os high as 40s. a head was obtained in some instances. Lambs according to age and size solel from 13s. to 2' 2s. a- head. There was a large show of black- faced sheep and lambs from the moors, which met with customers. YORK WOOL MARKET, May 22.— The first market for the season commenced this day. The quan^ tily at market was very inconsiderable, not more than 30 sheets, consequently prices can scarcely be quoted : — for hog wool, 24s.; half hog and ewe, 20s. to 21s. ; locks, 15s. to 16s. per stone ot lOibs. YORK CATTLE FAIR, May 19 There was but a s, Ills former demand was complied with. Tiiey all ex- Archangel quilities; which, though in sonte instances, ! written their names. At the inile- and- quarter post originally purchased at cheap rates, have, through the i Bran went right away from them, and won in a canter by thiee lengths. He is a rattling fine colt, and likely to prove an awkward customer on the Doncaster terwards left home, and never mentioned the circumstance to any one until she gave information to Ihe magistrates. All the prisoners atltmpted to prove an alibi. QUANTITY OF F O O D . — M a n y men of w e a k c o n - stitutions ( says Renshaw's translation of Salgties 011 the " Heal. h o f t h e aged") have owed the pieservation of their lives and attainment of old age, to the good habit acquired early in life of weighing their food, so as never to exceed the proper allowance. Comoro, Sanctorius, Barfholle, never took more than twelve or fifteen ounces of solid food a day, and consequently lived very long, though I heir bad constitutions tendered this improbable. This habit once adopted should nev'er be infringed, for it would be very dangerous in its effects. Cornaro affords a very striking instance. He at first lived on twelve ounces of solid and fourteen of liquid nourishment; his health was good and regular; but, on attempting to add two ounces of solid food to his daily pitiance, he was convinced of the impropriety of the change by various indispositions. The person vvho ate heartily in the age of strength should abstain as he advances in years. CORNISH MINES It is a most remarkable fact, that not only in hills and valleys, and from the plains, have the enterprising exploration of the tinners been conducted— some of the Cornish Alines have actually been carried to a considerable distance under the sea; some of these submarine excavations, as described by Mr Hawkins, display, in astriking manner, the effects of perseverance and the defiance of danger on the part j of the miners; for instance, the noted mine of Hue! Cok, in the parish of St Just, which descends eighty | fathoms, and extends itself forward under the bed of! accumulated expences of granary rent, little chance of, being liberated with a very profitable result. The ar- ' tide in Russia'is at present held on high terms, the last contracts at Riga having been made at 12s. 6d. on delivery. At St Petersburgh, oats are noted at 14s. lOd. and at Archangel the last quotations were from 8s. to 9s. Except, therefore, from the Danish or Swedish ports, where prices are ranging from 7s. to 8s. 6el. few purchases could be effected with any probability of a very favourable return, as Archangel is almost too far distant to insure the execution of orders, now transmitted, and their arrival in time, unless cur harvest is much retarded by bad weather. The supplies of wheat throughout the week have again proved liberal, particularly from Essex and Cambridgeshire. The fresh supplies en Wednesday and Friday, added to the- surplus left ever on Monday, causcel the show of samples far to exceed the demand. On F'riday, however, wheat was rather better sale than on the previous market days, yet Monday's prices were barely supported, except for fine, selected parcels. Bonded wheat remains without inquiiy, and the prices must be considered as almost nominal. The airivals of barley have been limited. The warmth of the weather having induced the - maltsters very generally to leave off working. Malting barley was very difficult of disposal, even at Monday's decline of Is, per quarter. Distilling and grinding sorts, however, experienced a good demand, and fully supported their late improvement. The importation of- oats from England and Ireland was moderate, but from Scotland rattier large, comprising together 15,787 quarters. The trade being short of oats, and several country buyers appearing at market on Friday, caused a brisk demand tor the article at an advance of full Is: per I quarter on Monday's rates, and in some instances I even Is. lid. per quarter more money was obtained. ] Some little inquiry existed for Archangel oats in bond ; at l i s . per quarter. Beans were dull at Monday's de- | cline of Is. per quarter. Pease continued in very short supply, and white, as well as maple and grey, fully supported their previous currency. In the Upper Baltic ports the prices of wheat are r » - ging low. At St Petersburgh, tbe quotations are dull, but unaltered. At Riga, Courish qualities have given way about Is. fill, per quarter, being quoted at 26s. 6d. At Konigsberg, the rates are quite nominal, as nothing was being transacted in the article. At course. The Shorts, a Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each, h. ft. a mile, 5 subs, was won by Mr Hesseltine's b. c. Worlaby Baylock, beating Lord Siigo's b. c. Spume, by Roller, and Mr Kelburne's br. f. sister to Retainer, by Jerry. The Oak Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h. ft. mile and a half, seven subs., won by Mr S. F'ox's ch. by Black- - | lock, beating Mr Skipsey's gr. Nell, by Blacklock, s Mr Smith's b. The Window Duke of Leeds' ch. Medea, by Whisker. Betting. 6 to 4 agst The Window Shut. Nell took the lead, and made severe running, followed by tbe Window Shut, Medea lying third, and Mrs Fry last. On reaching the distance they closed, and a beautiful race ensued, Mis Fry and Nell making a dead heat of it, beating the Window Shut not more than a head. The dead heat was then run oil'.' Nell went off' with the lead, and made all the running to the rails, where she was challenged by Mrs Fry ; she instantly bolted over the rail, broke it, fell upoli a drunken man, and threw her rider; fortunately nothing was injured but the rail. Mrs Fry had all the iest cf it to herself; she wag ridden by Nelson, Nell by Hesseltine. WEDNESDAY', MAY 2 1 . Match, 100 sovs. each, h. ft. four miles— Colonel Thompson's Prosody agst Mr Thompson's Edie Ochiltree, off by consent. The Stand Plate of £ 70, for all ages, was won in three heats by Mr Hetherington's? b. c. Wyndham, beating Lord Sligo's Daxon, Mr Gascoigne's Zohrab, Potter.' pressed themselves most indignant at bis Londuct; lie, however, appeared quite callous to all that was said.— He was told that he would rue the day he had dared to insult the British flag ; but he defied such threats, and said he care. i nothing for the English nor any oilier nation. The patience of the officers being now neatly exhausted, they appeared to care very little what he did with them. That day and the next were spent in useless negotiations. He sent for them a dozen times a day, trying to make them agree to give something else; but they were determined to lun any risks, and endure any privations lather than submit . a;, ain. On the fourth day the Fair Rosamond arrived o,- --—, - , ----, | oil the Coast, which rather frightened the King, and, S h a b b y Jerry,^ and the;! finding that he could get nothing else, he liberated the party, and sent them off with the boats. Their shipmates, who had naturally been very anxious fbr their safety, received them with tluee hearty cheers from the tine's vessels which had now assembled— the Curlew, Fair Rosamond, and Esperanca. The next morning Captain Trotter sent two Ktoomen with a letter to the King demanding restitution of every thing that was sent on shore, and the clothes the officers and men | were robbed of, which demand was of course refused. Captain Tiotter then deteimined on immediately attacking the town, and as the schooner ( hsperanca) crew only 10 feet water, she was anchored close off the town, for the purpose of covering the boats. The vessels v. eie just going to open lire, when the signal was made for tile Lsperanca to proceed to Prince's Island, to look lor the Trinculo, which ship they were fortunate enough to find there. The Esparauca returned to Cape Lopez with the Trinculo, and prepared to attack the town, Captain Trotter confiding the charge of the party to Lieutenant Matson, who had behaved so . . , ,- „, „, -, , , . . . . well in ibe affair. They were to land and set the town Mr Hebden i Rifleman, and Mr Maisou s b. f. Miss- j o n nte. Captain T. was to remain on the beach with a party'of dien to insure their retreat in case of being | overpowered, and Captain Warren, of the Trinculo, BETTING ON THE DONCASTER ST LEGER.— 13 to remained in charge of the boats ( eleven in number), 2 agst Worlaby Baylock ( taken); 8 to 1 agst BU- • witliin a short distance of the shore. The party unlnidelling show cf fat beasts this morning, which sold pretty w ell at Ironi 6s. to. 7s. per stone. The show of lean beasts was large, aud sold very readily ; prices rather lower. In tlie sheep market there was not • much business transacted, there only being a few hogs, which sold pretty w ell; prices about tbe same as last fortnight fair. In the l. orSe fair there was but a middling show of good horses, which met a ready sale at good prices ; of inferior horses the show w as large, but tbe demand rather dull. ROSLEY HILL FIRST FAIR This fair, which is considered of great importance in the north of England, loth for horses and cattle, took place on Menday last; the day was, however, rather unfavourable, being both wet and cold. The show of horses was small, and the greater number of a very inferior description ; the few good anima's that were exhibited were speedily bought up, at gcod remunerating prices ; indeed, several were purchased before they reached the ground, the purchasers being pretty eager, and also numerous. The number of cattle shown was a fair average one, as compared with foimer years, but there was a considerable dullness in the sale, the holders asking higher prices than the late fairs in the south warranted purchasers giving; those that did change hands, were purchased at prices lower than was offered at seme o f t h e recent fairs in this county. EGBEMONT SPRING CATTLE F A I R This a n n u al fair w as held on the 16th i n s t . ; tbe show of cattle was unusually thin, and even these were of a very inferior description of stock. In consequence of the indifferent show, and the sellers standing out for high prices, there v. as very little business transacted. Geld cows were most in demand, and for cattle of this kind good prices were obiained. KESWICK W H I T S U N T I D E H I R I N G At K c s w i ck Whitsuntide hiring, oil Saturday week, there was a Very numerous attendance of both male and femalf servants, ar. d we are glad to record the fact, as one feature of the improved prosperity o f t h e district, that nearly all the servants met with employers, even at an advanced scale of wages. LANGHOLM HIRING, Slay 21.— This m a i k e t w as much thinner than usual, owing to its being among the last of the season. There was a ready hiring for servants, particularly females, ar. tl at wages, a's in other quarters, much higher. M omen, fit lor farmkhchtns and ewe milking, obtained from £ 5 to £ 5, 10s. and some even as high as £ 6 ; stout men, fit for any kind of farm labour, £ 7 to £ 7, 7s.; young sters met with a corresponding rise of wages. SEQUESTRA TIONS. DISCHARGE. Robert Law, vintner, potatoe- dealvr, and road- ccntractor, Newton of Mearns, has applied for a discharge. the sea,' beyond low water mark. In some places the I " O'ue of the Polish arrivals have been received, miners > h- av• e ' on- ly th- ree f- a t. h oms of- rock between . thu e„ m„ I but prices had not been farther depreciated, though no and the sea; so that they hear very distinctly the movement and the noise of the waves. ' Ph's noise is sometimes teirible, being of an extraordinary loudness, as the Atlantic Ocean is here many hundred leagues in breadth. In the mine, the rolling of the stones and rocks overhead, which the sea moves along its bed, is plainly heard; the noise of which, mixed with the roaring of the waves, sounds like reiterated claps of thunder, and causes both admiration and terror to those who have the curiosity to go down. In one place, where the vein was very rich, tliey searched it with imprudence, and left but four feet ot rock between the excavation and the bed of the sea. At high water, the howling of the waves is heard in this place in so dreadful a manner that even the millers who work near it, have often taken to flight, supposing that the sea was going to break through the weak roof, and pene- 1 , -..• u-, e3 1 trate into the mine.— Gardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia, i Manufactures ami Metals, - Mark Lan demand existed for export, but the currency was so low that the prevailing opinion was, that the prices had attained their minimum, best high- mixed being procurable at 30s.; good ditto, 28s. to 29s.; and best mixed, of 611b. to 621b., 24s. to 26s.; the weather is represented as being very favourable for vegetation. At Stettin, the satisfactory appearance of tbe crops, added to the dull accounts of the foreign trade, had rendered the prices about Is. per quarter lower. In Mecklinburgb, tbe rape plants had much improved, and, though, the yield would most probably be deficient, yet they were expected to return more than was at first anticipated ; the young wheats were vigorous and health), and needed little lain; good qualities could be purchased at from 22s. to 23s. 6d. per quarter. At Hamburgh, the want of demand and increase of supply had caused prices to recede, and 25s. 6d. was a top ibtatibh for best marks Saale or Magdebu'rgh wheat, Mark Lane Express. bastes ( taken) ; 10 to 1 agst Bran ( taken) ; 12 to 1 agst Plenipotentiary ( taken); 15 to 1 agst Cotillon ( taken); 20 to 1 agst Mr Powlett's c. out of Miss Fanny's dam ( taken.) At his Majesty's dinner to the Jockey Club several fresh stakes are expected to be niade for the Ascot Heath Races of 1835. EPSOM RACES The Derby Stakes are to be run for on the 29th inst. at Epsom, and the Oaks next day. The Delby excites more than ordinary at ten. der Lieutenant Matson were all volunteers", and the pick of the ships'company. They each had, besides iheir arms, two fire- ba. ts, ihade up of all kinds ofcom- : bustibles, which- would Have'bet the town in ablaze in five minutes. They pulled close to the town, and when within musket- shot distance opened fire with a discharge j of musketry, Congreve rockets, and a twelve- pounder : in the Trinculo's boat. The natives appeared soon to desert tbe town, and kept firing from the bushes their guns, which appeared to be loaded with stones, tion, and the bets are very considerable. A fortnight; they only made a splash in the water and hurt noago Bubastes was the favourite; he has, however, ele- body. Alter discharging a tew voliies into empty clined in estimation, and Plenipo and Shillelah are bouses, orders weife givmg to cease firing : the wind now the favourites. ' beitig off the land it was Considered the tov. n could not The Newmarket Second Spring Meeting was a very be burned, and that the natives would prove too power so- so affair. It lasted but three days, and there were but seven races ! S H I P P I N G I N T E L L I G E N C E. Earl of Wemyss, Brown, at London from Lcith, 21it instant El » e Maria, Lund, at Leith from Christiansand LEI i n . Arrived, May 24. Aidiacaple, Middlemas, from Newcastle, goods. Cleared out, May 23. Eleonora, Wennerland, for Gottenburgh, goods— Sir V, lUiaiu Wallace, Tulloch, London, do.— l. atona, Walker, Liverpool, do Margaret, Sutheiland, Perth, do.— Margaret, Sinclair, Stromiicss, do. GLASGOW TONTINE LIST. Clansman, Geale, in the Clyde from Demerara Romulus, Callender, ditto from Charleston a Harmony, Finlay, ditto from Antigua CubajWylie, oh the Isle of Wight from St Lucia Spence, Hardie, at Denierara4r. au the Clyde Unicorn, Crawford, dido from ditto ful for them. The day after the Curlew weighed 1 Arcadian, Auld, at' Halifax from'ditto anchor and went to Annabona, to wa t a snoit time- to | B e e > Allan, at St John, New Brunswick, from ditto TROTTING MATCH On Friday last a trotting j recruit the health of the ship's company ; but tl. e sick- j Oporto, Stewart, at Oporto tronr Newcastle match took place between Mr Moore's mare and a gelding belonging to a Mr Ilarvey ( both of London) over that celebrated three- mile piece of ground between the Green Man, Blackheath, and 6 h octet'shill, for a considerable sum of money ; heavy bets were also pending, the horse being the favourite at starting. The match came off at six o'clock in the evening. The horse, io'de by M'Donald, took the lead at starting, the mare being, well up with him, but she broke, anil was turned three times, notwithstanding which she won cleverly in ten minutes and twenty seconds; rode by Weston, ness increasing every day Captain' Trotter was obliged to give up the charge o f t h e station to Captain Warren and proceed to this place, Which: is considered very liealtny. The Curlew has beeivthe most sickly of any vessel these last three years, though she has only lost four men,( besides those who were blo » n up). Only six or eight on board the Curlew have escaped tiic fever." ROCHDALE F L A N N E L MARKKT - ON M o n d ay last several buyers boiylit largely. G-. ods . old the prices ol lust yivck. HiGill WAli-. ll AT L l U i t l. Tuesday, ... I Im. pasto Morn., 33m. past 5 Even. Wednesday, pabt 5 Morn., 22ill. past 6 Itven. ' 1 hursday,... 4i » m. pastfi Morn., 14m. past 7 hven. 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