No. 1.] LONDON, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1836. [ PRICE 4d. GALLERY of COMICALITIES, Part IV., from " BELL'S LIFE IN LONDON," is just published, price Threepence, by W. Clement, jun., 170, Strand. Of whom may be had, Parts I., II., and III., at ' id. each. Part I. contains 140, Part II. has 78, Part III. 83, Part IV. 74; in the Four Sheets 375, Coinic Wood Cuts for Is., or separate at 3d. each. Shopkeepers or '- traders going abroad are supplied at ' 2s. for 12. Copies unsold of either Part will be taken bick at the cost price of 2d. each, any time before January, 1837. Placards for Shop Windows. Good for Scrap- book, Portfolio, Coffee and Uair- dresser's Shops, News- room, aqd all Sport- ing Houses; never out of Print.— Half a Million Copies have been sold. 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Al.< o, by the same Author, in 8vo, price 5 « . extra boards, EVOLUTION, or the POWER and OPERATION of NUMBERS, in the Statement, the Calculation, the Di< tributi » n, and the Arrange- ment of Quantities, Linear, Superficial, and Solid. And in 12mo, price 3s., cloth, LESSONS on ARITHMETIC, in Principle and in Practice, for the Instruction of Youth, & c. London : Longman, Rees, Orme, and Co.; and sold by A. Cobbett, Red Lion- court, Fleet- street; and by all BookselJ'- rs. A CURE FOR CORNS AND BUNIONS. ALLINGHAM'S ROTTERDAM CORN and BUNION SOLVENT, which gives relief upon the first appli- cation, and speedily removes the most inveterate Corns and Bunions, without pain or inconvenience, as the following proves :— " Sir : Being dreadfully troubled with Corns for some years, I was at times unable to walk without assistance, when I heard of your Corn Solvent, and, extraordinary to say, after using one half of a bottle, my Corns were entirely removed, and have never troubled me since, which is now nearly tour years. I shall be happy to inform any fellow sufferer of its wonderful efficacy. " Your obedient servant, " ANN SMITH." " 36, Upper Gun- street, Spitalfields, June 22, 1835." Sold by J. A. Sharwood, 55, Bishopsgate Without, in bottles, Is. I£ d , Is. 9d., and 4s. 6d., and by appointment by most Medicine Venders. Ask tor Allingham's Rotterdam Corn and Bunion Solvent, and see that " J. A. Sharwood" is written on the outside wrapper, as there is a spurious imitation. PREMIUMS to the amount of ONE HUNDRED GUINEAS will be awarded in the Year 1838, for Historical and Graphic Illustrations of CROSBY HALL, where th « conditions and further particulars may be obtained. NORTON'S truly valuable CAMOMILE PILLS, for Indigestion, & c. — These Pills are a pure extract from Camomile Flowers, prepared by a peculiar process, by which all theine- dicmal properties of rather more than one ounce of the flowers, are con- centrated into four moderate- sized pills. They are mild in operation, and have proved wonderfully successful in removing every symptom of indi- gestion, sick headache, loss of appetite, giddiness, heart burn, costive- ness, eruptions of the skin, and all complaints arising from a disordered state of the digestive organs ; they require no alteration of diet, and their operation will be found so beneficial in giving tone to the stomach, regulating the bowels, and in promoting a healthy habit, as fully to convince all who take them of their great utility. Persons who have suffered from indigestion for several years, have by their use, in a few weeks perfectly recovered, which is a convincing proof, that iu a small compass is contained the largest quantity of the tonic principle, of so peculiar a nature as to prevade the whole system, through which it diffuses health and strength. Sold Wholesale by Barclay and Sons; T. Butler; E. Edwards; F. Newberry and Sons; W. Sutton and Co., and A. Willoughby and Co. ( late Bi Godfrey Windus), 61, Bishopsgate- street Without, London; and retail by nearly all respectable Medicine Venders. Be particular to ask for " NORTON'S PILLS," for in consequence of their great success, some unprincipled persons have prepared a spurious imitation. CHEAP CLOTHING AT Nos. 92 AND 93, FLEET- STREET. JSWAIN and Co. beg to direct the attention of • Gentlemen to the following List of their ( Cash) Prices for CLOTHES, made from the best West of England Cloths :— £ s. d. A Suit of Superfine Clothes, made from Colours 4 18 0 Ditto Blue or Black 5 5 0 Ditto Imperial Saxon 6 6 0 A plain Suit of Livery 4 10, 0 And every other article equally cheap. N. B. A large assertment of Railroad Cassimeres ( a new article), for Gentlemen's Trousers. The late Mr. Cobbett's Recommendation of Swain and Co. *' I recommend Messrs. Swain and Co. as very good and punctnal tradesmen, whom I have long employed with great satisfaction. " WM. COBBETT." STEAM NAVIGATION.— In consequence of the perfect operation of the engines aboard the Hercules Steam Packet, of 180- horse power, and of those of the other vessels belonging to the St. George Steam- packet Company, wliich have had Mr. SAMUEL HALL'S PATENT IMPROVEMENTS applied to them the following vessels are at this time building, and the engines making for them upon his patent principles:— For the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty: A vessel to be called the Mzegara,{ building at his Majesty's Dockyard at Sheerness, for which engines of 140- horse power are making. For the St. George Steam- packet Company: 1. A vessel, to be called the Lion, building by Messrs. Gibson and Co., of Hull; the engines of 300- horse power, making by Edward Bury, of Liverpool. 2. A vessel, building by Messrs. Robert Russell and Sons, North Birkenhead, Liver- pool; the! engines of 250- horse power, making by Messrs. George For- rester and Co., Liverpool. 3. The Ocean, built by Messrs. J. and T. Wilson, of Liverpool; the engines of 250 horse power, making by Messrs. Scott, Sinclair, and Co., Greenock. 4. The Juno, built by Messrs. Duncan and Co., Greenock; the engines of 250- horse power, making by Messrs. Caird and Co., of Greenock. 5. The Sirius, built by Messrs. Menzies, of Leith; the engines of 300- horse power, making by Messrs. Wingate and Co., of Glasgow. 6. A vessel, building by Mr. Adamson, of Dundee; the engines of 250- horse power, making by Mr. Peter Borrie, of Dundee. For the Waterford Commercial Steam Packet Company : — A vessel building at Waterford ; the endues of 300- horse power, making by Mr, Robert Napier, of Glasgow. The Hercules sails from London to Cork on Saturday the 17th inst. ( touching at Plymouth), when Mr. Hall requests the inspection of the engines- Although they have been in operation at sea between seven and eight months, the boilers have never had the least deposit of salt or scale, and are as clean as the day they were set to work, which is owing to the circumstance that the entrance of salt or dirty water into the' boilers is entirely avoided in engines with Mr. Hall's improvements, although the vessels navigate the most saline sea- water or muddy rivers. For steam navigation across the Atlantic to India, and for other long voyages, these improved engines are indispensable, for the great difficul- ties with the boilers are removed, as they may be kept in uninterrupted operation for months. For the navigation of the Mediterranean and other seas which con tain a more than ordinary proportion of saline matter in solution, these engines are equally important. Besides the above, many collateral and important advantages are ob- tained which require a longer explanation than can be he* e given ; but drawings of the engines, with more ample information and testimonials, may be'had on application to the patentee, 147, Strand, London ; or Basford, near Nottingham. T tOOTH - ACHE CURED FOR EVER BY FUMIGATION. No. 413, Oxford- street. Attendance from Ten to Five. TO THE INHABITANTS OF CHELSEA, AND ITS VICINITY THE CHAMPION and all other Sunday, Daily, and Evening Newspapers, punctually and early attended to by W. WALKLEY, News Vender, 5, Grosvenor- row, near the Bun- house, Chelsea. ALFRED CARLILE, GENERAL NEWSPAPER AGENT, & c., 183, Fleet- street, London, respectfully informs the Public, that they may be supplied vttth The Champion and all other Newspapers and Periodicals, See., at their residences as soon as published, by forwarding an order ( post paid), as above. Terms " for the Country, a Quarter's payment in advance.— Country News Agents, News Rooms, & c., supplied on the most advantageous Terms. TRAVELLING CASES.— Extraordinary Reduc- tion in the prices of TRAVELLING CASES, in Morocco, Russia, and other Leathers, of the very best quality and workmanship. s. d. 10$ inch Soufflet, with patent screw inkstand ,14 0 12 inch ditto ditto ditto 15 o I0£ inch travelling desk, ditto ditto 15 0 12 inch ditto ditto ditto 16 0 A very large assortment equally low iu pri& e. W. H. SMITH, Manufacturer, 192, Strand, near Arundel- street. Important to the Afflicted.— Chilblains, Sores, Burns, Scalds, Wounds Ulcers, Whitlows, Ring- worms, & c. MARSHALL'S UNIVERSAL CERATE— This will be fonnd most efficacious in every kind of wound, sore, burn, bruise, eruption, ulcers of every denomination, especially sore and ulcerated legs ( if of 20 years' standing), which have been healed in so rapid a manner, that a new method of cure has been established by this useful preparation. Sore breasts, inflammation of the eyes, chaps, scorbutic humours, St. Anthony's fire, and particularly chilblains broken; and applied to unbroken, it immediately removes their con stant itching. Sold in Boxes at Is. l£ d. and 2s. 9d., by T. Butler, Chemist, 4, Cheapside, London, and by all the Wholesale Medicine Houses, and principal Medicine Venders and Druggists in Town and Country. Ask for MARSHALL'S CERATE. FOR INDIGESTION, COSTIVENESS, SICK HEADACHES, WEAKNESS OF THE STOMACH, & c. lOWDEN'S MILD BILIOUS AND LIVER A PILLS, mildly but effectually open the body, correct acidity, strengthen the stomach, purify blood, and, by evacuating crudities aris, ing from a vitiated or dormant state of the secretion of , the liver stomach, or bowels, thoroughly remove giddiness, impaired appetite unpleasant taste in the month, offensive breath, drowsiness after meals, woniis, unpleasant dreams, inactivity and depression of spirits, jaun- dice, pain betwixt the shoulder*, sick headache, as well as that form of headache which is attended more with confusion than pain, and in which there is a temporary dimness of sight. They speedily remove blotches, erupt- ons iu the face, itching of the skin, & c., and all diseases which ari » e from a disordered state of the stomach and bowels. Prepared and sold Wholesale and Retail by the Proprietor, Lowden, Chemist, 205, Fleet- street, near Temple- bar, London. In Boxes at Is. l£ d., 2s. 9d., and 4s. 6( 1. each. And by all other Medicine Venders in the. United Kiugdom. UNDER THE ESPECIAL PATRONAGE OF HIS MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY, AS the following- letter received from Major- General Sir Henry Wheatley, Keeper cf the Privy Purse, testifies:— " Sir: I am honoured with the King's command to express his Majesty's sense of your polite attention in sending the two bottles of • Essence of Ginger. His Majesty has been pleased to direct me to for ward you ten pounds in payment for it— inclosed you will And that amount.— I am, Sir, your's obediently, << St. James's Palace. June 25th, 1835. H. WHEATLEY. « ' To Mr. Decimus Woodhouse." WOODHOUSE'S AETHERliAL ESSENCE of GINGER is par ticularly recommended to all cold, phlegmatic, weak, and nervous con stitutions ; it is certain in affording instant relief in Cholera Morbus, Spasms, Cramps, Flatulence, Languor, Hysterics, Heartburn, Loss of Appetite, Sensation of Fulness, Pain and Oppression after Meals, also those Pains of ih" Siomach and Bowels which arise from Gouty Flatu- lencies; Digestion, however much impaired, is restored to its pristine state, by the use of this Essence for a short time, if taken in Tea, Coffee, Ale, Beer, Porter, Cider, or Wine; it corrects their flatulent tendency. The undernamed, and 208 other Medical men, have given certificates of their unqualified approbation < » f the value of the Essence', aa also of its superiority overall other simi'ar preparations. Drs James Johns > n, Physic an to his Majesty, A. T. Holroyd, S. Ashwell, R Rowley, A. Middleton, C Loudon, D. Davies, Surgeon to their Majesties, J. Pe reira, G. Pi'cher, F. Salmon, F. Tyrrel, J. H. Curtis, Artist to his MStyE^ sence ais' prepared only by DECIMUS WOODHOUSE, Operative Chemist Extraordinary to his Majesty, 18, King William street New- London- biidge; and sold by him, w holesale and retail-, in bottles 2s. fid., 4s. 6d., 10s. ( id., and - ils. each; and may be had of al MAhoWOODHOUSE'S PATENT CORN PLASTER, for affording instant relief, and eradicating CORNS KIKI BUNIONS without pain or dancer This plaster acts by softening and destroying the Corns o. 8iinion « and defending the affected parts from the pressure of the shoe. Thus its' use is perfectly sa.' e and certain in affording relief in ten minutes, if a cure is not effected. Iu Bosea Is. IJd., 2s. 9d. and 4s. 6d. each. WANTED, a SITUATION in London for a Person who understands WATCH- JOBBING in all its Branches, being Well- versed in Repairs of Repeaters, Small Flat, French* ami- English Watches of every description, and has learned Finishing. Good Reference as to Character. Letters ( post paid) to C. R. C., or to It. Croker, 14, Upper Borough Walls, Bath. 29, City- Road. CHILDREN, INVALIDS, & e.— Spinal, Self- Acting, and all other kinds of In and Out- Door Wheel- Chairs, Child's Chaises, Waggons, Airing- Carriages, best make, on Sale or Hire, at Ingram and Son's Manufactory, General Furniture Warehouse ( one of the largest in London), 29, City- road, near the Chapel. Every kind selling off Cheap. Chairs, 2s.; Japan Bedsteads, 25s.; likewise Rocking- Horses,, Coaches, Cots, Bassinets, Bason- Stands, Flower- Stands, & c., on similar Terms. N. B. Omnibusses pass every Minute. NEW FOUNTAIN INKSTAND.— The superior construction of this Inkstand will be found to obviate the ob- jections to those formerly in use, viz, the shallow dip for the pen, which was soon spoilt by striking against the glass ( the spout having been formed in an upright position) as well as the dust choking it up and rendering the Ink unfit for use. The spout of the new Inkstand is constructed at the angle proper for dipping the Pen, and allows a considerable depth of ink, as well as protecting it from dust and evaporation. The form of the Inkstand U also well adapted for shaking the contents. They are made of several sizes, plain, richly cut, and of variona colours, and arc also mounted with silver caps, which effectually shot out atmosphere or dust. Observeeach Inkstand has a Medallion bearing the name ot " S. MORDAN and Co., London." Sold by all respectable Stationers in Town and Country. Manufactory, 22, City- road, Finsbury, London. TO PARENTS and GUARDIANS.— WANTED by an Engraver, a respectable YOUTH as an APPRENTICE, who has a taste for drawing. Apply with Specimens to Mr. M. U. Sears, 24, Claremont- terrace, Peutonville. To save trouble, a liberal Pre- mium is expected. RADICAL CURE of HERNIA or RUPTURE. I. by the new American method, iu from 20 to 40 days, without operation, and unattended by pain or interruption of business. The approbation of the faculty of Philadelphia, and more than 200 cases cured, attest the efficacy of this plan. It is applicable to every variety of Rupture, to both sexes, and all ages. Just published, price Is., Remarks on the Radical Cure of Rupture, with testimonials of Faculty & c. By J. S. Carpenter, M. D. Effingham Wilson, 88, Royal Ex- change; and H. Bickers, 1, Leicester- square. Dr. Carpenter may be consulted every day, from 10 till 3, at 7, Sackville- street, Piccadilly. Just Published, One Shilling each, HOW TO ENJOY LONDON— on £ 25 to £ 500 per annnm. Showing the Means of being Happy, instead of being Miserable ; and Rich, instead of being Poor; the whole resolved into the Phil" 80pliyj0f Enjoyment. THE BOOK Of ETIQUETTE; or, the Whole Art of Politeness. HOW TO KEEP HOUSE on £ 150 to £ 200 per annum. J. Bollaert, 12, Wellington- street, Strand; and sold at 39, Curnhitl ; 51, Paternoster- row; 51, Haymarket; and 162, Piccadilly. FATAL COACH ACCIDENT. On Satuday morning last, between two and three o'clock, as the Peveril Manchester and London night coach was going from London, and had reached about five miles beyond Bedford, the chain ( it is supposed from not being properly hooked) which fastens the collars of the wheel- horses to the end of the pole, got loose at the top of a slight hill, about half a mile from the Falcon Inn, Bletsoe. This caused one of the wheel- horses to kick and plunge, and almost immediately the end of the pole attached to the body of the coach, became unfastened. The whole weight of the coach, said to be nearly three tons, thus ran oti the horses, which had no power of resistance. The coachman— one of the most temperate and skilful drivers on the road— kept the team well in it, till they reached the bottom of the hill, when the near wheels ran on the grass, which was not more than four or five inches higher than the road, and caused the coach to overturn on the off side, into the middle of the road. One unfortunate gentleman, Whose name appears to be Mr. James O'Brien, attempted to jump oft'; he fell on his face, and the coach unhappily fell both upon him and the coachman. They remained nearly a quarter of an hour in that position, and when extricated from under the tremendous weight, Mr. O'Brien was quite dead, and the coachman very severely injured, one shoulder being dislocated, and the body and head dreadfully bruised and cut. Out of the five male passengers, four of them had their shoulders dislocated, and were thus partially disabled from rendering the necessary assistance. The horses fortu- nately broke away without dragging the ceach, or the conse- quences might have been still more serious. The body of the deceased was removed to Milton church, and on Saturday afternoon an inquest was held before Mr. Eagles, coroner for Beds. From the evidence of the coachman, which wag confirmed by Mr. Pigot, one of the passengers, they were going at a moderate pace at the time of the accident, and no blame whatever appears to be attached to the coachman. MR. CHAPMAN, THE STOCK- BROKER. Mr. Chapman, who in an evil hour had betaken himself to the Stock- Exchange, has1 committed suicide. His losses there were considerable, and this led him to actions not in accordance with honesty. After the disclosure of his mis- conduct before the Lord Mayor, Mr. Chapman was missing. It appears that on Thursday evening he went to the- Spread Eagle in Gracechurch- street, and took a bed. On Friday morning he did not make his appearance at the usual hour of rising, and at 3 o'clock in the day the circumstance appeared extraordinary to the chambermaid, who thereupon reported it' to the other persons in the establishment; and, in consequence, after knocking at the door to no purpose, it was resolved to break into the room. This having been done, Mr. Chapman was found in bed nearly insensible, and apparently in a dying state. Everything that humanity could suggest was immediately attempted, but in vain. It was thought advisable to remove hitn to his home, and he was accordingly conveyed to Walworth, where shortly after he expired. On Monday evening, an Inquest was held on the body, at the Bricklayers- Arms, Camberwell, before Mr. CARTTER, when after the examination of William Hewitt, servant at the Eagle Tavern, Gracechurch- street, Messrs. Brookman and Massey, surgeoas, Mr. Edward Scott Norton ( one of the jury), and Susan Stevens ( who had been servant in the family of the deceased for twenty- seven years) and who stated that the deceased was a most affectionate husband anil father, and kind master. The Jury, after a brief con- sultation, returned a verdict That the deceased destroyed himself by taking poison while in a state of temporary derangement." s iv v. i/ 1 > W V. V. Vd 2 THE CHAMPION. IrelAnd. ( FROM THE LATEST JOURNALS ) LIMERICK, SEPT. 10.— An attempt was made last night by some villanous incendiaries to fire and destroy a farm- house at Flagmount, in the North Liberties, by putting a burning coal in the thatched roof, when the family had gone to bed, and then fastening the door outside to prevent the devoted inmates escaping from the flames. Fortunately a neighbour observed the smoke ascending from the roof, and alarmed the family, who succeeded with assistance in putting down the fire. Sub- Constable Maclean, from Ballina station, assisted by the Clonlara police, on the night of Wednesday, succeeded in arresting James Hogan, at Annabeg, who is charged with being one of an ai med party that attacked Redmond Savage's house at Ballycorrigan, on the 25th ult., took forcible possession of his premises, liroke open his box, and robbed him of three pounds. Friday night an armed party came to the lands of Curra- heen, Thurles, and served several threatening notices on Mr. Clarke's tenants, the purport of which was not to cut down the corn on that land that he ejected the Russells out • of, or if they did, that they would be quartered and consumed. They then fired two shots into the house of the Widow Xua'rragan, and desired that she should not let her man or horses work with Mr. Clarke. They shot a horse of Charles Clarke, Esq., the magistrate, which was on grass on his brother's land. The Russells are some of the same family whose father was hanged along with the Graces, for the murder of Mr. Chadwick and Mara, at Rathcannon. Phil. Ryan, Commissioner of Rebellion, Chief Constable Eagan, and a strong police force were in readiness on Monday, in Cashel, to proceed to the residence of the Rev. W. Kirwan, P. P. of Boherlahan, to arrest him under a writ of Rebellion, at the suit of the Rev. M. N. Thompson, of Templetoohy. It was, however, ascertained that the rev. gentleman surrendered at discretion on the previous Saturday, and paid Mr. Thompson the amount of his claim in full. THE POLICE.— Captain D. Duff, stipendiary magistrate, formerly Chief Constable of Police at Tulla, county Clare, ie ordered to be removed from the Ballyconnell district, killyshandra, where he had arrested the Rev. Mr. Delany, for proposing to preach in a Protestant house of worship. Tlie rev. gentfeman ever since preaches to large congrega tions of both persuasions, who eagerly attend his mission. Mr. Duff goes to Tipperary. Ofthe seventeen stipendiary magistrates appointed under the new Police Act, only three were selected from officers serving for many years on the establishment, who had qua- lified themselves by experience and knowledge of the duties incident to the situatian. There are nearly a dozen more similar vacancies to be filled before the new establishment is complete. The office of stipendiary magistrate is just now anything but a sinecure, for he must be out every day in the week by the late general order, to attend every fair and market in bis district. That well known eccentric character, Talbot Glascock, Bman of infinite jest and humour, died suddenly in Dublin on Saturday. Though an active spirit in the heyday of political excitement, we believe he never made an enemy. He followed Mr. O'Connell to the Clare and Kilkenny elec- tions, as a rival candidate with the great agitator. TEMPERANCE. — Dr. Abraham, R. C. Bishop of Water- ford, purposes to adopt a remedy for drunkenness, viz.: to make a diocesan law at the ensuing conference, prohibit- ing, under a pain of censure, the buying or selling of spirits, & c., on Sundays or holidays. Lord Rossmore, and the Hon. John and Henry Wes- tenra, subscribed 5/. each to Mr. O'Connell's justice- rent last week, and were admitted members of the Association. Mr. Luke White has been appointed Lieutenant of the county of Longford, by his Excellency the Lord- Lieutenant, in room of Lord Forbes, a lunatic. The Hon. Col. Pierce Butler, of Ballyconra, is appointed Deputy- Lieutenant of the county Kilkenny. It is not very long since this gentleman was deprived ofthe commis- sion of the peace by Government, for presiding at a tithe meeting. The Irish Fishery Company have made Galway their principal station, and where large concerns will be taken for curing and storing the fish. There was a meeting at Waterford on Tuesday to pro- mote a new speculation, the Suir and Shannon Junction Railroad, by the route of Limerick, Tipperary, Cahir, Clonmel, to Carrick and Waterford. Lord Glengall is one of the Directors, and lord Stanley also advocates the line ; conducting agent, Mr. George L. Smyth. The ave- rage cost is 12 000/. a mile, over a tract of seventy- five miles, and the shares 20/. each. The Ballyshannon Herald states that on Tuesday week the floods were so great in Donegal that several bridges were swept away, and that property to the amount of 80,000/. was supposed to have been destroyed. The Rev. Mr. Hume, of Urney, lost hay to the value of 500/. The coach from Derry to Sligo was literally filled with water : it was up to the driver's seat, the horses being obliged to tnvim. A quantity of cattle was drowned, and a mason re- turning home shared the same fate. The Chancellor of the Exchequer intends to promote by co- operation with other country gentlemen, and an advance from their private funds, the measure of Government fsr improving the navigation of the Shannon, and as part of this, a pier is to be erected at Foynes' Island, a central point in that river. TITHE CAMPAIGN IN YOUGHAL Under thi3 heading the Cork Reporter of Saturday gives a letter from a Youghal correspondent, calling himself" An Enemy to Oppression," from which the following is an ex- tract :-— " Since my last communication, the ' rebellion gentle- men,' headed by the law- agent of the Rev. Richard Rogers, rector of Killeagh, made an attempt to arrest a poor widow ef the name of Saul, residing iu the above village; but, in consequence of the strict watch now kept up by the coun- try people, tlie poor woman had timely notice of the ap- proach of those unwelcome visitors, and, as a matter of course, made her escape, to the no small annoyance of the rebellion gentlemen and their leader. She is, however, • bliged, through dread of being arrested, to sleep out of her bouse every night, as she has neither the means nor the in- clination to pay tithes. The whole district is in a state of siege; none of the farmers sleep in their own houses, and at the break of day videts are placed on each plough- land; so that the poor people, on their return to their labour in the morning, may not be surprised by the enemy. The two men n entioned in my last are still here, but they have me- morialized the Lord- Lieutenant to he removed to the county jail, and are in daily expectation of his Excellency's reply." The two prisoners here alluded to were recently arrested « nder writs of rebellion. ENGLISH IN FRANCE.— From an official return that has been made to the Prefet de Police at Paris, up to the 25th ult., by the Prefets and Sous- Prefets in the departments and leading towns, of the number of foreigners at present in France, the following is ahout the number of English over Here, viz.:— Paiis, Versailles, St. Cloud, St. Germain's, and environs, 20,000 to 25,000; Bonlogne- siir- Mer andenvirons, 10,000 to 12,000 ; Calais, the Bass Ville, and environs, 5000 to 7000; St. Omer, Cassel, and environs, 1000 to 1500; Dunkirk, Bergues, and environs, 1500 to 2000; Dieppe, Havre, Rouen, Caen, Tours, Marseilles, Bordeaux, & c., « 000 to 7000. Total, about 54,500. This does not include thenumber of continental tourists who pass annually through France to Italy, Switzerland, Germany, the Rhine, Belgium, and other parts, of which no official return is published by ths Minister of the Interior or police authorities. FOUEICX IlKXEIillGENCE. SPAIN. FOR a long time past, the affairs of Spain have formed a considerable part of what is called news; every paper, Whig or Tory, teems with expresses and articles on the affairs of Spain; reams of paper and gallons of ink have been consumed on this subject; and yet, we venture to say, that if a man were to read the whole of this mass of print from one end to the other, he would know no more of the matter than he did when he began. These " best possible public instructors" have such an utter disregard of truth, that not the slightest reliance can be placed on what they tell us. One set of them advocate the cause of Don CARLOS, and, according to them, he has conquered Spain half- a- dozen times; and yet the QUEEN reigns I Another set of these writers advocate the cause of the QUEEN, and, according to them, her armies have annihilated CARLOS and his party quite as often; and yet he continues the war with as much vigour as ever 1 From all this mass of contradiction, what are we to believe ? There is but one way of coming at the truth; namely, hy putting together those facts which we know, and drawing our own conclusion from them. In the year 1834, the Spanish nation owed, according to the accounts published at that time, a debt of4,1) 86,137,301 of Spanish reals. Nearly three- fourths of this debt was contracted by the Cortes Constitutional Government, dur- ing the four years 1820, 21, 22, 23, and the remainder by the Government of FERDINAND. In order to form a just opinion of the factions by which Spain is now being scourged, it is absolutely necessary to know their true mo- tives of action; and those motives will be most easily dis- covered, by observing the way in which the various go- vernments, " liberal" and despotic, which have by turns ruled in Spain, have managed the money affairs, the loan- ing and the jobbing, which have been going on the whole of the time. The limits of this article will not allow us to give a full exposition of the matter here; but we must not pass it over without giving our readers a specimen or two, of the manner in which the unfortunate Spanish people have been continually plundered by all parties. It appears from the accounts above mentioned, that between the years 1820 and 1823, the " liberal " and " constitutional" Cortes, bur- dened the nation with a debt of 2,098,961,875 of reals. Reasonable people, who do not understand " the disinterested principle upon which our City friends lend their money for the advancement of freedom, will think that the Cortes Government actually received that sum for the use of the nation! Not so, however. This debt of 2,098,961,875 reals, contracted by the Cortes, yielded only 507,404,084 reals. So that the whole product of the loans composing it was only twenty- four and one- sixth per cent. In other words, the loans produced less than one- fourth of the no- minal debt: or, to take another view of it, the Cortes bound the people of Spain to pay to the Jews of Paris and Lon- don, one hundred pounds for every five- and- twenty pounds paid into the Spanish treasury. And if we add eleven years interest, found to be due in 1834, Spain will be found to have owed, in that year ( on the Cortes debt), six limes more than she ever received.' Now, we ask, is it reasonable to suppose that the " libera- tors " of Spain thus sacrificed the people from purely disin- terested motives; or, is it not more reasonable to suppose, that they pocketed a share ofthe profits of this infamous system of swindling ? It is only about eighteen months ago that the QUEEN was mistress of Spain; Don CARLOS was not in the coun- try ; he had no army there; the Queen, in short, had abso- lute possession. Things, however, did not long continue so agreeable for her Majesty. CARLOS got together a small band of soldiers, and entered Spain, where, according to accounts, he was obliged, for a considerable time, to hide himself amongst the mountains. The QUEEN on the other hand, was all powerful; she had a considerable army; and, far more important than all, she was backed with money by the same powerful body, whose exertions overthrew NAPOLEON,— the Jews and other usurers of London. We soon heard of victories, and expected to bear of the final one; but no such thing. The glorious achievements of the QUEEN and her armies seemed unceasing. CARLOS was beaten, and still he fought I He was conquered, and still he fought! At last he was annihilated, and still be fought! This was somewhat strange. In short, it was quite un- accountable. Our good people in the City began to stare not a little, for things seemed in Spain to be going by the rules of contrary. It was quite clear that something must be hit upon, to put a stop to these extraordinary victories. In an evil hour, for himself and his employers, the unfor- tunate member for Westminster was fixed upon by the " Gentlemen of the City " to command an army destined to the final overthrow of the Spanish " Pretender." He and his employers set to work with great vigilance; they got together an army of 10,000 men, some of whom were veterans taken from the ranks of the English army; and at the head of these men, Colonel EVANS ( now General) landed in Spain. All now was sunshine again. It was hard, indeed, if 10,000 Britons could not put dowu a handful of " illiberal" Spaniards! For six months we had the " most gratifying intelligence from Spain." General EVANS was drilling his troops! General EVANS was parading his troops ! General EVANS was reviewing his troops ! Mr. OMNIUM quitted " ' Change" in the highest spirits; on arriving at the Mansion House, he sprung into the omnibus as if his body had been made of no heavier material than scrip ; and when he alighted at Mammon Terrace, in Newington Butts, be actuallv gave the cad a shilling by mistake, and entered his parlour, without previously changing his shoes, to impart to the gentle Mrs. OMNIUM the " gratifying intelligence." For six whole months this went down ; but, at the end of that time, some little surprise was manifested at our hearing of nothing else.' It was gently hinted that a little fighting, just a little skirmish or so, would be an agreeable variety. This was rather awkward for the friends of the General; but they found means to quiet our anxiety, by informing us that the enemy were so terrified at the very sight of our Gallant General and his army, that they " avoided " him, " decamped " when he came in sight, and, in short, ran away from him. This fresh news kept up our spirits for some time; but it could not do so for ever, and the peo- ple began to think, that if the enemy always ran away from General EVANS, General EVANS had only to run after the enemy, in which case the latter must inevitably run out of Spain. The General, at last, found it absolutely necessary to fight; he could no longer endure to be laughed at as a man obliged to go to Spain to find room for parading and reviewing. A short time since, his army ( though, according to the ac- counts sent home, in the " highest possible state of disci- pline ") having dwindled from ten thousand to three thousand men, was led into battle by its General. It appears that, upon this occasion, both the General and his men proved that they could fight: if so, let us ask why it was that this army was kept idle for nearly a twelvemonth, and suffered to dwindle down to a mere handful of men ? There can he but one answer; namely, that General Evans saw the inutility of attempting anything against the Carlists. Within the last few weeks another important circumstance has taken place in the affairs of Spain. The people of the great towns, those of Madrid amongst the rest, have declared themselves the supporters of a third party, by proclaiming the Constitution of 1812; and in so doing they have shown a degree of power, which cannot but terrify the QUEEN and her party. She, however, has adopted the Constitution, though in direct opposition to the principles which she lias hitherto professed. Notwith tanding this nominal change On the part of the QUEEN, her party, that is to say, the Jew • and stoek- jobbing party, remain perfectly distinct from the Constitutionalists. It is evident that this change on her part was merely for the purpose of preserving, if possible, some power for those, whose sole object is to plunder the immense masses of Church property, to which the people are entitled, if the Church is not. How the revolution and the proclaiming of the Constitu- tion were brought about, we do not know; but we trust we shall not be thought " illiberal," if we cannot help thinking that the whole affair bears very much the appearance of a Government plot. We have not forgotten the French revo- lution of 1830; and we cannot help thinking, that the Queen's sudden adoption of the Constitution resembles, in no small degree, the swooning of Louis PHILIPPE in the arms of General LAFAYETTE, when he had succeeded in making himself King of the French. It is quite certain that the French revolution was the result of a plot, concocted by Louis PHILIPPE and his brother " capitalists," for the pur- pose of placing the Government of France more completely in the hands of the worshippers of Mammon; and we strongly suspect that the same class of men are attempting to play the same game in Spain. The people of Madrid and the other towns, are, indeed, innocent of this : but, the peo- ple who shed their biood in Paris, were innocent also; they, however, were deceived, and we fear that the same fate awaits the people of Madrid. And if any think these sus- picions uncharitable, let them look at what is now taking place, under this very Constitution. We have seen the manner in which the Cortes and the Royal Governments have oppressed and robbed the people. Now, however, we have a set of rulers in Spain, the first object of whose ambition seems to be to outdo all the trai- tors and tyrants whose acts blacken the page of history. The " amiable" QUEEN has been pleased to issue two de- crees, one in March and the other in August : by the one she confiscates the property of the Spanish Church; by the other, she demands a large sum of money from the people by way of loan, and if they do not pay the money, her " constitutional" Majesty gently intimates, that the " exi- gencies of the State" require that she should take it from them bg means of her gallant soldiers. This mode of borrow- ing seems to be approved by all the liberal Whigs. The Morning Chronicle of the 12 th instant argues most in- geniously in its support, as the following extract will show: " One great advantage, beside the supply of present neces- " sitj', which we anticipate from the measure of the Span- " ish Government, is tlie very extensive and powerful inter- " est it creates in support of the Queen's cause. When the " security of property becomes so bound up with the existence " of a Government, we have the best guarantee for the sta- " bility of both." That is to say, the QUEEN having, in violation of all law and justice, forcibly taken a man's property from him, he will feel it his interest to support her, because he lias no chance of being repaid, unless she succeed. Now, mark ; here is a plain admission that the whole proceeding is robbery. For if the repayment de- pends on the QUEEN'S final success, then the security which she pretends to give is not worth a straw, the whole de- pending on the issue of two or three or more battles; and will any man pretend to foreknow who will be the victor? Besides, supposing the success of the QUEEN to be certain, where is she to get the money to pay her debts with ? If she is now in want of money, she will spend the proceeds of this loan as soon as she gets it; and then what has she to pay the lenders with ? No doubt that oracle on foreign affairs who writes in the Chronicle would propose a uew loan to pay the old loan. And it would, no doubt, be a great consolation to the people of Spain to be plundered a second time in order to make up to them for being plun- dered the first. PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. MADRID, SEPT. 4.— You will have learned by the ordinary post, from your own correspondent, of the defeat and capture of Brig Lopez and all his column. It appears that he had succeeded in completely repulsing Gomez's troops, when his ammunition fell short ; he took refuge in the church of Brihuega, where he was compelled, not having a single cartridge, to surrender at discretion. On the next morning, the 31st, Brigadier Alaix, who now commands Espartero's division, having received information of the unfortunate affair of Lopez, set out by forced marches to attack Gomez, and arrived at Brihuega before Gomez had quite cleared that village. He succeeded in falling on the rear guard, and committed some injury on the stragglers and others who had been left behind, receiving contributions and sacking houses, besides recovering the guns that had been taken from Lopez, and tescuing a good many of the wounded whom Gomez had not had time, or perhaps inclination to take with him. Alaix continued pursuing the rear of the faction to Cifuentes, whence he dates his dispatch. Gomez had taken an eastern ruote, in the direction of Trillo ; if he tnrns to the right he comes upon the Tagus, and may proceed either to Valencia or La Mancha, if to the left he may go by the mountains all the way to Navarre without molestation. It is a most fortunate circumstance that the junction which Gomez contemplated with Cabrera and Basilio ( lid not take place, or Madrid would have been in the greatest possible danger. There is, fortunately, as little union among the Carlists as among the Christinos. The town is perfectly tranquil; the fight produced some appearance of union among the different parties, which will last no longer than the alarm. The Captain- General of Old Castile, who has in the most mar- vellous manner avoided the faction of Gomez in all its wanderings, is about to be tried by a court- martial. Cor- dova is declared a deserter from the Queen's army, by an order of the Minister of War, for having left his command without leave. SAN SEBASTIAN, Sept. 5.— The detention of the boat by rough weather gives me the opportunity of acquainting you with the arrival of the James Watt, with the 9th Regt., from Santander. The men are in excellent order, and have conducted themselves in the mostcreditable manner during their absence. Had the detachment of the British Legion been placed in a proper position by the Spanish officer who commanded the expedition against Castor, of which it formed a part, there is little doubt but that a complete vic- tory would have been promptly obtained, and that instead of 300 men being afterwards placed hors de combat, Castor and his band would have been altogether destroyed, or taken prisoners. As far as I have been able to ascertain, the enemy's strength in this vicinity amounts to about five thousand men ; in addition to which the mass of the Carlist artillery, consisting of about twenty- six pieces of various calibre, is concentrated hereabouts, so that the grand condi- tion upon which a movement on our part can be undertaken is, that it be a combined one. Reinforcements are expected, as stated on a former occasion, and I repeat, that there is yet time for destroying the faction. Notwithstanding the circumstantial details furnished by the caterers for the thirsty news gatherers, who follow a most natural and ex- cusable propensity ( in our isolated position) towards catch- ing any report, it tolerably well got up, it appeals that so far from Ituralde having gone over to France, after his signal defeat by Irribarren, he is confined in the Castle of Guebara, near Vittoria, preparatory to being brought to a court- martial. Such, however, is the influence of his name among the Navarrese, that it i3 currently reported to day ( recollect I do not vouch for the exactitude of the report, although it is very probably correct) that 1,000 of them have abandoned the Cai list ranks, and joined the Queen s garrisons at Pamplona and other places. The weather is very unfavourable just now, and it gives us a foretaste of what may be expected, more or less, for the next six or Seven months; the equinox is at hand. Vessel* of war can- not remain at anchor in this harbour for any continued length of time during the winter months; and the rains will reduce the ground to so bad a state that attacks on the enemy's positions will become difficult and in many cases impracticable. Weather- wise people here say that we may expect a continuance of this boisterous and rainy weather until the new moon ( the 10th), after which a month or m weeks of fair weather will arrive. This, then, is the only moment to profit by, for a bold and conclusive rush upon the faction. A remarkable fact has just been related to by a person on whose information reliance may be placed: — The disorderly 8th Regiment ( or a portion of it) got into a quarrel with a Spanish picket, at Satrtander or its vicinity, and drove the latter in The 9th Regiment was called out to quell the riot, and being ordered to fire on the men of the 8th, who were persisting in their violence, they did so, and killed one man: tranquillity was immediately restored. • GENERAL EVANS AND BRIGADIER GEN. SHAW. F' ST. SEBASTIAN, SEPT. 5.— Colonel Godfrey, of the 8th regiment, is appointed by general order to- day, to assume * the command of the Light Brigade, " vice Brigadier- Gen. Shaw, resigned." That officer will, I understand, leave San Sebastian for Socoa to- morrow morning. By the same op- portunity which conveyed my last letter you were made acquainted that General Shaw had tendered his resignation, and that the same had been accepted. 1 cannot but regret that this event should have taken place; it has, in my opinion, been entirely occasioned by a very indiscreet para- graph in the Courier, prefixed to a letter of explanation, written by General Shaw, in consequence of the insertion in a former number of that paper of a letter descriptive of the affair at Fuenterrabia. In this instance the saying of " the Lord preserve me from my friends" is completely borne out. Some person, who, to all appearance, was no friend either to the Legion, its gallant commander, or to General Shaw, gave an inflated account of the proceedings on the above] occasion, wherein the gallant Brigadier was de- scribed as having proposed and done certain acts which had no foundation whatever, excepting in the imagination of the writer. When this extraordinary statement came out here, it excited the surprise of every one who knew the facts of the case; and, if I am rightly informed, General Shaw, upon having the circumstance pointed out to him, acceded at once to the suggestion of General Evans that he should write to the editor of the Courier to positively re- fute the assertions contained in the said letter. There the matter ought to have rested; but the editor of the Courier thought proper to write a neutralizing paragraph, by which General Shaw's letter was ushered in; and the result was, that a sore and uncomfortable feeling \ va3 created, which ended in the resignation of General Snaw, who, it appears, had for some little time past been under the influence of an idea th; it it was supposep he was at the bottom of some in- trigue to reduce the numerical force of the Legion, so that it becoming of too slight importance for General Evans to command, be might succeed to the post of chief officer. In giving you this summary, my object is merely to put you in possession of the current rumours on this case; I will not give an opinion one way or the other. General Shaw, I say, being under the above impression, wrote to General Evans to say so, and that, such being the case, he begged leave to tender his resignation. In answer General Evans said, he regretted he should lose the services of a superior officer, who had conducted himself so much to his own credit, and to the advantage of the Legion. The resigna- tion, however, was accepted. General Shaw, in acknow- ledging the receipt of General Evans's letter, after express- ing his satisfaction at the handsome terms in which he had expressed himself with regard to him, renewed bis resolu- tion to resign. This produced a short note from General Evans, stating that he considered his ( General Evans's) first letter as am acceptance of the resignation; and there the matter ended. DEFEAT OF THE CIIRISTINOS BY THE CARLISTS. I learn here, to my surprise, from a traveller arrived this day from Madrid, that an Extraordinary Gazette was last night issued in that capital, giving details of the action be- tween Brigadier Lopez and the Carlist chief Gomez, in which is claimed a victory by the former over the latter. 1 have already, from Alcala, informed you that Lopez and the whole of his troops and artillery, consisting of 2,000 men and two guns, had been obliged to surrender at discretion to Gomez, after fighting very gallantly. Upon the truth qf this statement you may fully relyand as I am unwilling to become an accuser of any public men, I will make no ob- servation upon the act of the Government in publishing so utterly an erroneous and mischievously delusive an account. I have not seen the Extraordinary Gazette, but I understand mention is made in it of the report cf the Alcalde of some town in the neighbourhood of the scene of action, which re- port gives the victory to the Queen's forces. I saw the re- port of an Alcalde sent to Alcala, and from Alcala to the Government, giving a very different description.— Guadala- jarra, September 1. FRANCE. FRENCH CABINET CHANGES. THE Temps of Saturday ( the organ of the tiers- partt) gives the following catalogue raisonni of the successive Cabinet changes in France since the era of July, 1830:— " The frequent change of Ministers is a bad symptom for the government of a country. It indicates either the seri- ousness of circumstances, the mediocrity of public men, or the too great facility in changing them. It has almost always been the precursor of a greater crisis: the respeet of nations abandons a power which incessantly changes hands, and men of honour no longer aspire to a situation where they have no hope of maintaining themselves long enough effectually to serve their country. " Six Ministries have succeeded each other since 1830, without reckoning the partial modifications they have ex- perienced. " The first, formed in the month of August, 1830, at the head of which figured MM. Guizot and Mol6, retreated three months afterwards from before the trial of the ex- ministers. " The Lafitte Ministry had no longer duration. It gave place, on the 13th of March, 1831, to that of Perrier. At the end of the year Perrier died, and for nearly six months a sort of interim continued, without power to replace him. " The Ministry of the 11th October, 1832, at length formed itself under the presidency of Marshal Soult. Here M. Guizot re- appears, and M. Thiers appears for the first time. Their united efforts give a longer life to the Mi- nistry, but it is carried on through many modifications and crises. MM. Barthe, D'Argout, Soult, Humann, retire in succession. Twice the Ministry suffer a momentary disso- lution— in October, 1834, by the retirement of Marshal Gerard : in February, 1835, by that of the Duke de Treviso. It is distracted by the rivalry of its two most influential' members ( Guizot and Thiers), neither of whom chooses to submit to the presidency of the other. In February, 1836, this Ministry is dissolved for a third and last time by a vote of the Chamber. A new one is formed, under the presi- dency of the younger of the two competitors ( Thiers), and, under the influence of a new opinion, is rather of a new situation. This Ministry lasts not above six months; born on the 22nd of February, it is superseded on the 6th of September. " But is it to be inferred from the fall of the Ministry of the 22nd of February, that the state of affairs which brought it into existence has disappeared along with it, and that its successors, chosen from amongst men of the previous situa- tion of things, have chances of permanence? Had the Chamber experienced no modification on the 22nd of February? Has it experienced none since? Has the country advanced still no farther than the 11th of October, 1832 ? How does it happen, if it be thus, that the most eminent man of the new Ministry— he who, in fact, per- sonifies the system— hfts not frankly taken his place in the 3 THE CHAMPION. Presidency, as his competitor had done on the 22nd of February ? How does it happen that it has not been per- mitted him to select his colleagues from amongst his most decided adherents? What is the meaning of all these menagemenst Is there not here enough to exasperate the bolder zeal of certain persons who never speak of concilia- tit*! without sovereign contempt— who affirm that no me- dium exists between the compte rendu and the resistance— » nd who advise that France should be governed as one might govern a conquered country?" WEST INDIES. JAMAICA papers to the 20th of July have arrived. A Privy Council was held on the 17th, to arrange for the de- parture of Lord Sligo, whose resignation had been accepted by Ministers, occasioned, as was already known, by Lord Glenelg having persisted in reinstating Dr. Palmer in his post of stipendiary magistrate, after he had been dismissed by Lord Sligo. Much speculation was afloat in the island as to who was to be his Lordship's successor. One paper says, " There are no less than twenty- one aspirants for the honour of coercing us. The only person we wish to see as the successor of Lord Sligo is Sir Amos Norcott, the un- flinching and inestimable advocate of colonial interests; and we hope our feelings are anticipated in Downing- street." PROGRESS OF EMANCIPATION.— In one year and ten months after the abolition of slavery, 34,000/. have been raised by the negroes for the release of one thousand of their body from the obligations of the apprenticeship. When we consider that the sum which a person so pays is the proved net value of his uncompensated services, over and above the six millions five hundred thousand pounds sterling already divided among the former slaveholders of this colony ( which six millions five hundred thousand pounds is money laid down six years in advance for the redemption of the slave), we shall find that full value has been jjaid for the emancipation of the bondsman. If at one year and ten months, the average of the money paid is 34/., it is not too much to say that on the 1 st of August, 1834, the average was 40/.— 217,000/. on the number of slaves who were recorded as apprentices by the valuators; this gives an estimate furnished by the colonists themselves, eight millions six hundred and eighty thousand pounds currency, in addition to the six millions five hundred thou- sand pounds sterling, or ten millions currency, already paid and distributed, making an aggregate of money and value in services after money paid more than eighteen millions for negro emancipation in the Island of Jamaica. — Falmouth ( Jamaica) Post. THE SLAVE TRADE.— The Hampshire Telegraph says, " Letters from the coast of Africa mention that the Lyruc, Lieut. Huntley, had captured a Spanish brig slaver, only four hours out of New Calabar River. These letters go on to complain, that, although since January last the new Spanish treaty should have been in active and honest operation, and that twenty- five empty slavers had been sent to Sierra Leone, yet from some informality or neglect in the offices at home, the Mixed Commission ceuld not proceed to condemnation; the consequence of which ne- glectis, that the slavers ( availing themselves of an article in the old law, which says that final sentence shall be given in two months after the arrival of the slaver for trial, or the slaver shall then be liberated, unless the seizing party enter into bond to carry on the cause at his own expense, in which cause the final sentence may be delayed four months longer, and which responsibility of course our officers will not take upon themselves)— are again at sea, and will speedily be on the coast with Portuguese papers and colours ; indeed, eight of them had already arrived at Whydah. The slave merchants are rejoicing in this failure of the treaty." We understand that the Count de Montalivet is about to pass two months at his country seat at Le Berry, and M. Thiers is making preparations for a journey into Belgium and Holland.— French Paper. Letters from Bohemia complain of the excessive drought in that country, which is doing great injury to the crops, particularly that of potatoes. In several districts not a drop of rain has fallen since June. - OF THE NEW ACT FOR THE REGISTRATION BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. THE following circular letter was on Saturday received by the clerks to the Boards of Guardians in the metropolis from the Secretary to the Poor- Law Commissioners, and it has, no doubt, been transmitted to the clerks of the other Boards of Guardians formed under the Poor Law Amendment Act throughout the country:— " Poor- Law Commission- office, Somerset- house, ' Sept. 9, 1830. " SIR: The Poor- Law Commissioners for England and Wales transmit to you herewith a letter addressed to yau by the registrar- general, respecting the formation of registrars' districts, which they trust will receive the same prompt attention which you pay to the communications from this office. The Commissioners request, that whether you do or do not accept the office of superintendent- registrar in your union, and whether the union officers are or are not eventually appointed registrars, the union officers and yourself will give every possible assistance in carrying into effect the directions of the registrar- general, and the object of the Act under which he is appointed. By order of- the Board, " EDWIN CHADWICK, Secretary. " To the Clerk to the Board of Guardians." "' London, Sept. 9, 1836 " ' Sir : In the recent Act of the 6th and 7th of William IV., cap. 86, for registering births, deaths, and marriages in England, it is enacted, ' That the Guardians of every union declared under the provisions of an act passed in the fifth and sixth years of his present Majesty, entitled An Act for the Amendment and better Administration of the Laws relating to the Poor in England and Wales, and also of every parish or place in which a Board of Guardians shall have been established under the provisions of the last- named act, shall on or before the 1st day of October in this year, if the said Board of Guardians shall have been es tablished before the passing of this act, or within three calendar months next after the establishment of the Board, if the said board shall not have been established before the passing of this act, divide the union or the parish or place of which they are the guardians, into such and so many districts as they, subject to the approval of the registrar- . general, shall think fit.' And it is further declared, ' that every such district shall he called by a distinct name, and shall be a registrar's district.' " ' In requesting you to call the attention of the Guardians to this first duty which devolves upon them under the pro visions of the aforesaid act, I deem it expedient, with ; view to the prevention of future delay, to point out the na ture and extent of the information respecting such proposed divisions, with which 1 must be furnished before I can feel justified in expressing either approval or dissent, and to convey to you certain principles which it is desirable should as far as possible be observed in the formation of registrars' districts. " * I. I request that the statements respecting the forma- tion of registrars' districts, which must be submitted to me for approval on or before the 1st day of October in the pre- sent year, may contain the following particulars respecting each proposed district: — " ' 1. AREA.— State tbe number of acres or of square miles contained in the proposed district, or, if no such mea- surement has been made, state the extreme length, and the extreme and mean breadth. " ' 2. POPULATION.— State the amount of the population, according to the census of 1831, adding the present number, if known, or the computed ratio of increase since 1831. "' 3- BOUNDARIES.— Describe the proposed boundaries of the registrar's district, stating whether they coincide wholly or in part with any ancient recognised boundaries, such as those of township, parish, hundred, or county;, whether they intersect any such boundaries; er whether they lie wholly within them. " ' State also whether such proposed district coincides with any medical or relieving district of the Union in which you officiate, formed under the provisions of the Act of 4 and 5 William IV., for the amendment and better adminis- stration of the laws relating to the poor in England and Wales. " ' State also whether any portion of the proposed district is detached. "' 4. NAME.— State the distinguishing name by which the Guardians propose that the registrar's district shall be called. " ' It is requested that a statement respecting all the foregoing circumstances may be made separately for each registrar's district, into which the union, or parish, or place may be divided by the guardians established therein; and that the statements respecting all such districts in the union, & c., may be sent together by the post, directed to the ' Registrar- General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages,' at his office, London. It must at the same time be stati- d, that the foregoing districts together form the whole union or parish or place, and that no part of it is excluded from such districts. " ' II. It is my wish that the guardians, in proceeding to the formation of registrars' districts, should not be unne- cessarily fettered in the exercise of their judgment, or be diverted from a due attention to local peculiarities, by the supposed necessity of adhering rigidly to a precise role; but, inasmuch as it is desirable that uniformity of system, in so far as it is practicable, should be attained, and that the chance of disapproval, and of the delay and trouble consequent thereupon, should as much as possible be di- minished, I deem it expedient to lay before you certain principles the observance of which will conduce to the de- sirable attainment of that uniformity, and to the avoidance of those inconveniences. In determining the proper extent of a registrar's dis- trict, it is desirable that the area and population should be considered conjointly, and each with reference to the other: that when the population is dense, the area should be pro- portionally contracted; that when it is thinly scattered over the country the territorial extent should be proportionally increased. The evident object of such a rule is to equalize the labours of the registrar; for it is obvious that the births and deaths in a population closely congregated within a town may be ascertained and registered by one person with more ease and certainty than those of half the same amount of population thinly scattered over an extensive tract of country. " ' With respect to the amount of population which a re- gistrar's district may comprise, 1 am not disposed to require a very strict attention to number. But I may state, that when the population is of average density, that district may be regarded as well adapted to tbe purposes of registration which contains about 5,000 persons. It is true that such a district ( in which the entries of births and deaths will not amount to 300 in a year) will not fully occupy the time and attention of a registrar ; but it must be remembered that the registrar will not be a person occupied exclusively with the business of registration, and that it is of importance not so uch to ascertain the utmost that a single registrar can perform, and to assign such a district as will fully employ him, as to take care that neither the extent of territory, nor the amount of population under his supervision, shall render it probable that any birth or death can remain unnoticed. With respect to boundaries, it is desirable, both with a view to facilitate the knowledge of the limits of the new district, and to avoid a multiplicity and intermixture of divisions, that the boundaries of registrar's districts shall ( when it is practicable consistently with the attainment of other obj ects) be identical with ancient recognized boun- daries, such as township, or parish, and shall not unneces- sarily intersect them; but it is not desired that the limits of district should be much extended, in order to make it coincident with any such ancient boundary. Facility of communication is of still greater importance than adher- ence to an ancient boundary; and compactness and con- nection of territory must not be sacrificed for the sake of such adherence. Thus, for example, a river extending far, without ford or bridge, may with propriety be made part of the boundary of a registrar's district, although the parish of which that district is a part may not terminate at that boundary It is also expedient that a registrar's district should invariably be one connected portion of territory, and not consist of two or more detached portions. Although it is advisable that the consideration of the immediate duty of division into registrars' districts, and that of the subsequent duty of selecting fit persons for the office of registrar, shall as much as possible be kept dis- tinct, yet it is right that your attention should be directed to the 16th clause of the Act for registering births, deaths, and marriages, which enjoins that every registrar shall dwell within the district for which he is registrar. This provision should not be forgotten in the formation of regis- trar's districts ; and, as it is obvious that the same registrar cannot be appointed for more than one district, it is desir- able that each district should contain persons whose cha- racters for intelligence, diligence, honesty, and regularity of conduct, and whose ability to write and keep accounts with neatness and accuracy, may render them, in the opinion of the Guardians, capable of fulfilling the duties of a registrar. Of the nature of these duties the Guardians may be suffi ciently informed by inspection of the Act for registering births, deaths, and marriages. " ' It is recommended that the name by which the regis- trar's district may be called shall be that of the parish or township, or of the largest of two or more parishes or townships contained in it; or, if two or more districts shall be contained within one parish or township, then that each shall be called by the name of some street, building, or place, within each parish or township; but that, invariably, the name given shall be that of a place, and not of a person. "' It is desirable that the letter including a statement respecting the formation of registrar's districts should refer exclusively to that subject. There will be other subjects on which it will be my duty to address you, which must be reserved for subsequent communication. " ' If, before the receipt of this letter, yon shall have transmitted to me a statement of division into registrars' districts, as proposed by the Board of Guardians, and if such statement contains all those particulars herein required, and if such proposed division has been made in conformity with the general principles herein expressed, and is one which the Guardians do not propose to alter, I do not request that the statement shall be made to me again, but only that in reply to this letter, you shall notify the fact and period of such previous transmission, and inform me that such state- ment previously transmitted is that which the Guardians adopt as their Jinal statement to be submitted for approval. If these particulars have been given only in part, it is re- quested that the remaining information may be afforded to me with as little delay as possible. " I am, Sir, your obedient servant, " ' T. H. LISTER, Register- General." CONDITION OF THE AGRICULTURAL POOR. [ THE following letter we take from the Morning Chro- nicle of last Monday. It is very important, because it explodes completely, as far at least as relales fo one dis- trict of England, the grand prediction that this law would have ihe effect of raising wages. The Morning Chronicle, in referring to the letter, says, that " to all who could reflect on this subject, it was obvious that, after the pass- ing of the Poor Law Amendment Act, the wages of labour would fall to the market rate," & c. " To the market rate I" What do they mean by market rate ? When the bill was being passed, Lord ALTHORP predicted ( hat il would cause wages to rise. But, " to the market rate!'* With what coolness do these grinding economists con- found the bones and sinews of English labourers along with all huckstering commodities.— ED.] To the EDITOR of the MORNING CHRONICLE. SIR,— I had little hopes that the sufferings of the poor in the neighbourhood of Duntnow, would have obtained publicity through your paper, or you would long since have heard from me. For years the infamous system of paying part of the wages out of poor- rates had not only been going on, but also sanctioned by the magisterial clergymen who farmed their own glebe until the Poor- law Bill came into active operation. The consequences are, that while the wages of 6s. and 7s. a week have in no instance to my knowledge been increased, the allowance from the poor- rates has been discontinued. The sufferings, the heart- rending sufferings of many psor families in that neighbour- hood, beggar description. Upon my inquiring of the inmates of two cottages, which they rent from me at 60s. a year, why they had not had some windows repaired, they most pathetically showed me their wretched condition; and when I even reduced the above trifling rent, while they gratefully acknowledged my kindness of intention, they con- fessed it was not a relief adequate to their necessities, in consequence of the action of the Poor- law Bill reducing wages a fifth. In the neighbourhood of Marlborough the same circumstance occurs. I lately visited a parish near Salisbury, where there is not a labourer who receives more than 7s. a week; and in the neighbourhood of my own estate in Dorsetshire, the wages do not average 8s. The country gentlemen first procured a reduction in the price of labour, by a portion being paid out of the poor- rates, and then obtain an Act of Parliament which destroys such arrangement without giving to the poor man compensation. My tenants are honest hard- working men, with families too young to render any assistance to their fathers,' who each receives seven shillings a week, and are better off than others. Lord Maynard, who shows a most kind feeling to- wards the labouring poor, has allowed, as lord of the manor, other labourers to bring the poor land adjoining their own cottages into cultivation. Now, Sir, I request you to in- quire whether his Lordship has by means of his steward a right or intention to claim that land so brought into culti- vation. At present these poor bondsmen, as they feel them- selves, are obliged to accept anything upon any terms, until the storm, which is silently gathering, bursts forth, unless, indeed, the good sense of the present Administration avert it, and at least fix a minimum price of labour. I am, Sir, yours, & c. London, September 10. ent, do you think, to make men " much the better for it ?* — Tbe bastardy clause is one which could have been in- vented by none but a man having the feelings of a demon ; a clause which requires, in order to make a father main- tain his own child, proof, given before the public, the most brutally insulting to the mother. The number of infanti- cides it has already caused, ought alone to be sufficient to put an end to all further practice of this awful experiment. — At the next election, the repeal of this whole savage measure ought to be the test. I am, & c. J. W. GREEVKS. St. James's, Norwich, Sept. 7, 1836. Mr. Raikes Currie, the banker, has come forward on Radical principles for the representation of Northampton, whenever a vacancy occurs there. THE NEW POOR- LAW. To the EDITOR of the CHAMPION. SIR : Of all the oppressive Acts that have passed the Legislature ( and that Legislature called a reformed one) the Poor- Law " Amendment" Act stands conspicuous, as being the most arbitrary, tyrannical, and unfeeling. No one that has at all observed its workings, can bnt be horror- stricken with the inordinate powers given to a set of merciless hirelings, who, sitting with salaries at Somerset- House, issue their edicts to the Guardians and rate- payers of the country, who stand quietly aghast and suffer themselves to be made dupes of, in the execution of the " orders, rules, and regula- tions " of this new petty, but powerful body of legislators ; as if the parish authorities had no influencer over, no voice to control the application of, the money which they them- selves raise or have to pay! It certainly never could have been expected that they would slavishly submit to it; but that they have shamefully abandoned their duty in this respect, is a fact too notorious to be doubted. After this no surprise can be excited by any thing that they may submit to. No! never was there such an apathy, such utter indifference evinced, as that which marks the con- duct of a large part of the rate- payers, when witnessing what is now being suffered under the infliction of the " rules, orders, and regulations " of our petty, but law- defying, House of Commissioners— the new legislators, ac- cording to their own will, for the poor of England. Never was treachery against the rights of the poor submitted to with such supineness. Never was there a greater want of humanity than has been displayed by those, who, having the power, have not the honesty to stand forward and advocate the claim of the poor to a share in the produce of their own labour. Never was recreancy more palpably shown than in those who, pretending to have the greatest compassion for the misery and destitution of the aged and infirm, can yet suffer such a capriciously cruel system as is now prevailing to be put into practice. The real working of this system should not be misunderstood, by a view of what is done in particular places. It is in the country dis- tricts, particularly, where it is suffered, in all its horrors, and with but few exceptions, to proceed on with its de- structive strides. Many persons have said, " We never ima- gined for a moment that it was the intention of the Act to put such enormous powers into the hands of an irrespon- sible few." And yet, now that these same persons witness its horrible operations, instead of manfully resisting them, they tamely allow them to have their way. It is a consola- tion, however, to know, that the workings of this miscalled Act of " amendment" have been taken up by some parishes, in London and elsewhere, in a manner worthy as an ex- ample to the whole kingdom; and it is to be hoped that this example may inspire others to rouse themselves from their present servility, and to determine not to see their fellow countrymen and countrywomen, and the children of these, torn - from each other, and shut up, half- starved, in the loathsome dungeons of those bastiles which are pre paring for their reception. If not, I venture to say that they will repent that want of feeling which prompted them to accede to such enormities. The just indignation of the oppressed will one day overthrow their own hopes of pro- sperity, and " The mighty multitude shall trample down " The handful that oppress them." Look at the dietary tables prepared by those who live luxuriously on the vitals of an over- taxed people: compare them with the costly dinners, the gorgeous entertainments given by such paupers as fatten upon large salaries. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said, in the House of Commons, that a friend of his had tried this dietary system for six weeks, and that he was much the better for it. Is it possible that this lord was so practically ignorant as to stand up and utter such a sentence! At a meeting held in Norwich in March last, to petition for the repeal of the infamous Act, the breakfast . allowance was exhibited, and excited horror in all who were present. It was then declared, that there were n6t six mouthfuls in the health- giving allowance'. Is that suffici- A short time since a circumstance happened in Suffolk which gives a pretty fair idea of the feeling of the people on the infamous Poor- Law Bill, and the salaried officials who are enforcing its cruel and unchristian pro- visions. A respectable farmer and inhabitant of one of the parishes lately formed inti an Union meeting, seeing the relieving- officer, a creature of the Commissioners, pointed him out to a friend, with whom he was conversing, saying, —" There is the relieving- officer of the district," on which this scion of Whiggery observed that he considered he was pointing the finger of scorn at him. This led to an alterca- tion, during which the farmer was grossly abused by the Poor- Law functionary, but no blows were struck. The minion of power immediately applied to a parson Magis- trate, who granted a warrant on the overseer's statement for the attendance of the farmer, who accordingly appeared before the clerical Justice, and contended that he had been unnecessarily called there, as he had not committed any offence against the laws. The officer acknowledged that no assault had been committed, and that he was only pointed at; but, nevertheless, such conduct was enough to bring him and his office into contempt. The farmer smiled, as well he might, at this remark, and the clerical Magis- trate and the relieving- officer actually held a consultation together, at the conclusion of which the latter swore lifa was in danger, and the Just ass held the farmer to bail. Since the occurrence, the relieving- officer has been not 8 little annoyed by the inhabitants of the Union, who, oil meeting him, invariably stop, turn their heads aside, and exclaim, " I must not look at you!" He has also been met by his adversary, the farmer, on horseback, who no sooner meets him than he stops his horse, turns the animal's head towards the salaried official, and his own in another direc- tion, exclaiming, ". You may look at him, but 1 must not." The ploughboys have also annoyed the relieving- officer by turning their backs towards hitn whenever he is seen ap- proaching; and one widow, a few days since, observing a cow looking over a hedge from a field by which the poor- starver was passing, called out in the Suffolk dialect, " You maunt look at that there man!" In the same Union, a workhouse of one of the parishes was about to be pulled down, the whole of the paupers having been previously re- moved to the Union Bastile, and the scaffold had already been erected around the building, when an inhabitant and rate- payer pointed the attention of the Poor- Law Authori- ties to a brass tablet in the church, on w hich was an in- scription, declaring that the poor- house was a bequest, and left by a pious and humane individual for the use of the aged and infirm poor for ever. The timely warning startled the Assistant Poor- Law Commissioner and his creatures, and the old parish house was allowed to remain and the scaffolding was removed. At the Brighton Police- office, on Saturday, the 3rd instant, Simes, the constable, brought before the Bench Th ® mas Tidy, a young man about twenty- six or twenty- seven years of age, who had his hair cut close to his head; on his legs he had a pair of fetters, rivetted by a chain to an iron band round his waist, and in his pocket was found a pair of handcuffs, which he appeared to have taken from off his wrists. The constable said, that hearing chains rat- tle, his attention was attracted to the prisoner, who was walking along the New- road, Brighton, where he was on duty, and he took the prisoner into custody. At the lock- up he told the officer he had broken out of Dorking Work- house. The prisoner here exhibited his chains to the ma- gistrates, and said, that he had been formerly a tallow- chandler, but having no money or means of support, he applied eight years ago to the overseers of Dorking, who gave him an order for the workhouse. On the magistrates asking him how long he had had those irons on, he said they were put on seven years ago, since which time he had continued to wear them, and had also been handcuffed. The assistant- overseer was sent for, and the magistrates ra- inarked on the illegality of keeping a man in irons of this- description. The Bench were informed that the prisoner was mad, and was occasionally very violent, but they re- marked that nothing justified the fact; if the man were insane, the parish officers committed a misdemeanor in keeping him in the workhouse. The magistrates said they would make a communication to the Poor- Law Commis- sioners on the subject.. The unfortunate man was sent to the Brigifton Workhouse to await their decision. The ma- gistrates, in reply to their letter, received an answer from, the Poor- Law Commissioners on Wednesday morning, stating that the strictest investigation should be instituted into the above case, and proceedings taken against those persons who should be found to have acted illegally, and that the man, if insane, should be sent to the County Lunatic Asylum .— Brighton Gazette. A question which has been agitating the good people of Brighton for some months is at last'in a fair way of being put at rest to their satisfaction. The matter alluded to is the appointment of a chaplain to the parish workhouse, at the annual salary of 100/. This appointment had been made by a party of the directors and guardians of the poor on the suggestion of the Vicar, in opposition to the wishes of the Vestry. The argument put forward by the supporters of the measure was the advantages to be derived from the imparting of religious instruction to the poor, a proposition fully allowed by the opposing party, but who contended that it was the province of the Vicar himself to provide such instruction. The offer of the Dissenting mi- nisters to attend alternately at the workhouse was also urged as a potent reason why the appointment should not take place. The question is now, however, in a fair way to be set at rest by the opinion given by the Vestry- Clerk, who had been referred to, that neither the Act of Elizabeth nor the Local Act authorise the payment of 100/. from the poor- rates for the payment of a chaplain. Notice has been given that the Exchequer Fund, out of which loans were to be made to Poor - Law Unions for building workhouses, is quite exhausted, and that the money for that purpose must in future be borrowed at in- terest not exceeding five per cent.— Birmingham Advertiser. The Guardians of the Stamford Poor- Law Union have given permission to the inmates of the workhouse to go out at stated intervals to see their friends, the Chairman ( the Rev. Mr. Layard) observing, that poorhouses should not be converted into prisons.— Lincoln Mercury. The Poor- Law Commissioners have issued an order to the overseers of New Sleaford, and fifty- five adjoining parishes, constituting them an Union under the New Poor- Law Bill, and desiring them to elect guardian's forthwith.— Lincoln Mercury. The Conservatives of Liverpool intend to start Mr. Canning, M. P. for Warwick, in conjunction with Lord San- don, as candidates at the next election.— Liverpool Albion. LIGHT- HOUSES.— The produce of the duties, of the Northern Lights in the year ending June 30, was 38,078/.; the expenditure, 23,244/.; but adding 6875/, super- expended in the previous expenditure, the surplus is reduced to 82' 2JL — Scotsman. # 288 THE CHAMPION. 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A POOR- LAW UNION WORKHOUSE.— A friend has wade us a present of an exact Drawing of one of those dismal habitations for the Poor which have been erected in accordance with the designs manifested in the Poor Law " Amendment" Act. We wish all our Readers to see this curiosity : and we are, therefore, now having an Engraving made from it, which shall be given to the public with as early a Number of THE CHAMPION as possible. Our Correspondent C T , of Dublin, may be as- sured that his information on Irish affairs will at all times b e acceptable ; for those are affairs which we do not mean to be lost sight of for one moment. But we beg him lo confine his observations to his own immediate district of Ireland as much as he can, as we have already formed an acquaintance with some of his southern countrymen. " A SUFFOLK FARMER" asks us to say whether the prac- tice of separation, under the New Poor- Law, be warranted by the Act. He is answered in few words: there is nothing in the Act to warrant the separation, and the common law for- bids any such thing. %* The CHAMPION will be on Sale the whole of next week. LONDON, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1836. TO THE PUBLIC. THE proper business of a newspaper appears to us To be this: First, to collect and convey such in- formation as is most interesting and most useful to Bonest people of all classes; secondly, to endeavour Jo supply such comment upon events as may best help the reader to perceive their causes and foresee their probable consequences; and lastly, and especially, to be rigid in stating all facts of public concern, and vigilant in detecting, if possible, every attempt on the part of others to misrepresent those facts. Here, we think, hre the elements of our duty to the Public. We have put them in a comprehensive form. But, though there is much said in these few words, there is nothing more than is essential to the character of every good newspaper, and we shall not be content for THE CHAMPION to have a character for any thing less. It is common with those who address the Public upon occasions of this kind, and especially in allusion to politics, to cast a very wide net, by holding- forth promises of disinterestedness, impartiality, mode- ration, and independence ; thinking, of course, that as this assemblage of public virtues cannot but be agreeable to everybody, there can be nobody fright- ened away, and, consequently, that all must needs be taken. If we profess no excellence in virtues like these, it is not because we admire selfishness, fac- tion, turbulence, or base submission; but because, if the part we shall act really deserve approbation, we know that there will be sufficient discernment among our readers to cause our merits to be discovered, and sufficient public spirit to insure us whatever encou- ragement our perseverance may require. There is something almost absurd in setting to work, with a formal address, to advertise our qualities and preten- sions. We feel disposed, rather, to invite others to draw their conclusions from what they* may happen to find in us at first sight; and we cannot help thinking, that both our wishes for our own sakes, and the respect we entertain for the opinion of the Public, will be best, though briefly expressed, when we simply ask them to look at us and to judge for themselves. Those high- sounding general terms by which poli- ticians seek to charm, have, long ago, become so stale as to be mere cant, and they are so regarded by a large part of the people. Experience has taught us, that the loudest boasters of disinterestedness mostly turn out to be persons who would sacrifice all the rest of the world to their own profit; praters on impar- tiality are almost proverbially unfair towards their opponents, and factious in their designs; moderate politicians have ever been amongst the foremost to support openly, or fraudulently to wink at, the worst excesses that we ever suffered at the hands of op- pression ; and O, willing slavery in public men, how often and often has it crawled along its way with some mask that hid its true face, and that was called " independence "! Nearly all the serious disputes, in all countries, that arise in politics, are those between the rich and the poor; or, in other words, between those who get the means of living without working for it, and those whose dependence is upon their labour. Look at the condition of our country at the present moment, and you see what we say exemplified. There is no ques- tion of any vital importance now pending that does not resolve itself into a matter of difference between these two orders: and public writers, therefore, generally do right or wrong, according as they take part in this difference. It is true, as the laborious have so long complained, that the laws which have been made and acted upon in England, for many years past, have been, in effect, laws to FAVOUR THE RICH, AT THE EXPENSE OP THE POOR ; and we regard it as belonging to that duty of which we have spoken above, thus, at the outset of our undertaking, to justify and to join in the complaint of our poorer countrymen, and here to record their assertion as one founded in truth. The labouring people of England are not in that state of well- being to which they are entitled. We deny that they enjoy as much happi- ness as belonged to their forefathers; while it is equally clear to us, that the undue pleasures of the indolent have increased in just the same proportion as the comforts of the active have been diminished. It was a saying of a Chief- Justice of England, that, Where the poor are very poor, the rich cannot long remain rich. A significant saying!; yet, only what the Word of God declares, and what the force of nature has always insisted on; although bad rulers still set at naught this declaration, and still bring their forces to oppose this force, and still run the risk of bring- ing all government to destruction, rather than give up that clutch which they obtain by unnaturally making it the interest of the rich to carry on wars of spoliation against the rights of the poor. THERE is one thing about which our readers may well expect us to say something in the first number of THE CHAMPION ; we mean that new penalty- in- flicting and penny- wise Act of Parliament, relating to newspapers, which is now just come into operation. For the present week, however, we have room only to glance at this matter, and to say, that it shall be fur- ther dealt with next week. We shall then give an abstract of the Act, together with some account of the reasons why the Bill ever came to be brought in, and of the manner in which it was brought in and passed. To do bare justice to those men who were the real cause of this " measure of relief," would, of itself, require more space than we can here afford. THE MONEY AFFAIR. " The measures in a kingdom ought to be constant: it is the justlae and honour of the King; for if they be altered, all men at that instant are deceived in their precedent contracts, eiiherfor lands or money, and the King most of all: for no man knoweth then, either what he hath, or what he oweth. This made Lord Treasurer BURLEIGH, in 1573, when some projectors had set on foot a matter of this nature, to tell them that they w< re worthy to suffer death, for attempting to put so great a dishonour on the Queen, and detriment and discontent upon the people."— Report of a Committee of the Privy Council, appointed to ex- amine into a Project for debasing the Coin in the reign of Charles I. THE Tories have begun in set form to blame the Whigs for having forced them to pass " Peel's Bill." In the last number of Blackwood's Magazine, the writer says, " Many and grievous were the evils " ( almost all the consequences of the changes Ihe " Whigs had forced upon Government) which, in " 1830, weighed upon the country. The prodigious " change of prices consequent on the Whig measure " of changing the currency," & c. & c., " all contri- " buted to produce that chaos of unanimity which *' overturned the old English Constitution." If the Whigs had never done any thing worse than force the Tories to adopt the Act of 1819, their sins against the Constitution would lie lighter upon them than they do ; and we think it a little base of the Tories to attempt to cast blame on them for this Act, at any rate. It is a little like the sot, who blames his wife for having " driven him to drink." It is ungrateful, too, for the Tories rather unfairly stole it out of the pocket of the Whigs, and claimed all the honour of the fabric. They took it, and made it their own; they gloried in it, and lauded to the skies the Tory " Young Statesman " who made it a Tory measure. It was the Tory, CANNING, who said it had set " the question at rest for ever;" it was the Tory Speaker who boasted of the feat in a speech to the Prince Regent; and the Regent, in his turn, thanked the whole blundering body ( not being able to make any distinction), who had decreed that the nation should pay in a solid gold coin, a debt of eight hundred millions that had been ( principally by Tories) contracted in paper, which had long been declared to have been worth only 15s. lOd. each scrap ! So that neither faction can blame the other : the system was invented and launched by the Whigs, its flimsy sails were set out by the Tories, and, at the suggestion certainly of the Whigs, they were a little reefed by the Tories in 1819; it is now fitly and fully in Whig hands, and is lurching with every breeze, and running its ungovernable hulk against every rock. It seems now, that in spite of all the boasting that we have heard for the last six or eight months about the amazing prosperity of manufactures; in spite of the amaz- ing increase of foreign commerce, which is to bring us to a height of prosperity without bounds, and which has already carried us so high, that, according to Mr. HUME, we can safely dispense with the " landed interest" altoge- ther : in spite of this, it seems that the foreign exchanges are against England, and that, as she is thus actually pay- ing to foreign countries more than she receives, our gold is going away from us so fast, that an " operation" of the Bank of England has been deemed necessary to stay its flight! This throws an awful light on Custom- House Re- turns, which always show that we are exporting vastly more goods than we are importing, and on which are founded all the boastings that we hear from the Ministers, whether Whigs or Tories, and which are always echoed by the political economists. But let that pass for the present. The newspapers tell us that there is an " excess of cur- rency ;" that is to say, too much money. Happy people ! too much of what the world never had enough of before 1 Well; but surely that ought to make amends for any loss ; and so we have but the money, can't we do without even the commerce ? The commerce having made us in a fit state to do without the land, and money being all we seek from commerce, here we are with oar object within our grasp. Too much money! " Oh, yes, but then the gold is going, and that must not be." Not be; why not ? If we have too much money, what do we want with gold ? In short, it comes to this, that the " currency," as they call it, is not money. It is Bank- notes, which cannot be kept out in sufficient quantity to keep us " prosperous," without driving away the gold, which is money. We are now come to the second year 1825; the second " Panic" year; and, as it is a matter of the greatest conse- quence to every man, be he landowner, fundowner, farmer, tradesman, merchant, or labourer, we shall, from week to week, give all the information we can uponit, and do all we can to forewarn our readers of the dangers that may arrive. It is, after all, the most important subject in English politics; and is one from the. want of due knowledge in which, ruin indescribable has befallen the English people at many pe- riods during the last forty years. The movements of the Government and of the Banks, so far as they can be, should be closely watched, and the press itself is not unworthy of a little watching too. One set of newspapers say, that the Bank of England has caused the mischief, and another set say that the Joint- Stock Banks have done it. Both sets have agreed that, without some caution, " a crisis" is at hand. It was evident to most people that, towards the be- ginning of the last session of Parliament, something vias done to raise prices; for, when the agriculturists began their " pressure from without," the price of corn was rising so fast, that they were in danger of being left without a griev- ance. The Agricultural Committee was granted by the Ministers, and sat so long, that " good times " had almost come during its sitting. It was a clever manoeuvre. To- wards the close of the Session, however, or rather, about its middle, a little uneasiness was exhibited at the raging of speculations, and a Secret Committee was appointed to in- quire into the conduct of Joint- Stock Banks ; and, iu dis- cussing the reasons for such a Committee, some curious talk passed on the part of Sir ROBERT PEEL and Mr. SPRIN(? RICE. They both thought something amiss, but vowed there was no cause for any apprehension— all was sound in the main. Manufactures never so prosperous, and foreign commerce the stay of the nation. How like 1825! Yet there was caution required, according to both these gentle- men ; and, though they mentioned this at rlue intervals be- * tween their boastings, and walked over it as a cat walks / over mud, yet they did recommend caution. It was plainly a false gloss over an affair that both of them considered to * be one of great danger; and the reason for not speaking openly was, that the whole thing should not go to pieces at the mere sound of words; and this, too, as we shall show presently, was precisely like 1825. The fact is now undisputed, that the paper- money- makers have issued such a quantity of it, that the solid gold will not remain in its company; that gold is, therefore, leaving the country so fast, that the Bank is in danger of being drained, and that such a state of things cannot be called the " sound and healthy state of the currency," to bring us back to which the famous Currency Bill of Mr. PEEL was passed in 1819. The question now debated by the Times and Chronicle, is, who has issued this " excess" of currency? And, though one contends for the one and the other for the other, yet it is clear that both mills have been at work grinding their promises to pay, till between them, the " healthy currency" is going too fast for the Bank of England to endure the drain with safety. In our view, the fault is in that Government which suffers any company whatever, whether Bank in Threadneedle- street, or Joint- Stock Banks in the country or in London, to set up manufactories of what they call money, and, by the drawing in or letting out of which, they exercise the power of altering the contracts of every man in the king- dom, from the yearly servant to the landed lord. If it were not for this effect, we should not think it a matter worthy of notice; because it would be talking of a subject in itself unamusing and of no practical consequence. But it is far otherwise; it is the most important subject that can be thought of, and therefore we beg our readers to think now. To go back over the space of forty years, and trace all the money revolutions that have taken place, would demand more space than we can afford to give at this time; but, it is necessary that we should, in noticing the ingratitude of the Tory Blackwood, remind our readers that the " grievous measure" which he says was forced upon the Government by the Whigs, was " Peel's Bill," the object of whose author was not grievous, but the most beneficial; for it was, to re- store us to the ancient and unvarying standard money by which every man could with certainty measure the value of everything he possessed, whether at home or abroad, whe- ther live stock or dead stock, and by which he could also know with certainty the amount of the debts he owed to others, and of those which others owed to hirn. This was the object professed by Mr. ROBERT PEEL, and, in bringing in his Bill, he made these observations: —" All this over- " trading was productive of no advantage; but as respected " the labouring classes it was attended with incalculable " mischief. The unequal and fluctuating demands for labour " deranged all the relations of humble life. At one period, " wages were too high ; at another, there was no employ- " ment. The rapidity with which these changes sometimea *' followed each other, defeated all private engagements, dis- " couraged the steady accumulation of savings, and fre- *' quently overwhelmed the labourer with want and misery. " He felt himself bound to speak out boldly and decisively " upon the subject; for it was impossible to listen to the " descriptions recently given by the hon. Members for " Coventry and Carlisle, of what the situation ofthe labour* " ing poor was in many parts of the country, and not sus- " pect that, whatever might appear by the returns from the " Custom- House, there was some unsoundness in the pre- " sent system. It was idle, while such distress existed, to " speak of national prosperity."— There was no grievousness in a measure which should put an end to the state of things thus truly described by Mr. PEEL. That was a good measure, which should reduce all dealings between man aud man to a certainty ; and the experience of forty years has shown, that, with paper- money- makers at work, this can never be done. But there was a blunder committed by Mr. PEEL in bringing in his Bill; it was a blunder, too, which the very principles on which he founded his Bill should have taught hirn to avoid. He showed very clearly that there had, in fact, been no standard of value for many years; that the thing which had passed as money, had no intrinsic value, and was not money; that this had caused speculators to rise up and delude the nation by a glare of prosperity not real; that it had defeated all private arrangements, and, above all, that it had produced want with all its evils, amongst the labouring people. These were his reasons for calling on the Parliament to bring back the ancient standard; and can any man doubt the sound- ness ofthe reasons if the facts were true ? But, Mr. PEEL never took into his view, that a debt of eight hundred mil- lions had, nearly all of it, been contracted in that thing which he proved to have been no standard; that the coun- try teemed with contracts between man and man, all con • tracted in the same thing ; and the blunder that he made was, in omitting to adjust all these debts in such a way that creditors of every description should not receive in a real and valuable gold coin what they had lent in a worthless paper rag. The Bill itself was good, so far as it went; but it wanted this to make it just. And, having drawn the^ reader's attention to this blunder, which has, in fact, con- tinued the very thing which Mr. PEEL attempted to put down, we shall show that the principle of his Bill has never yet been acted upon, without producing effects that have caused the Government to start back from it with fright, and return again, at each period, to the worthless standard; bringing on, at each of these money revolutions, the same scenes of wild speculation, the same derangement of pri- vate engagements, and the same misery amongst the labour- ing people. We beg the reader's attention to this matter; because the importance of it is truly that which Mr. PEEL stated in the words we have quoted ; words which, being true, show that paper- money makers have more power than the most grinding despotism, since they can rob without being re- sponsible; and since, while they commit their depredations THE CHAMPION. upon society, they make it look to them as benefactors. We seize on this moment for drawing the reader's attention to it, because we are now approaching one of these money- revolutions, and, therefore, hope that the public will attend to what concerns every man in the most important affairs of hil life, his property ; and we are not without hope that we shall see the country resolve that it will have a fixed standard of value, the ancient and only true English money. It has suffered long enough from the want of this resolu- tion ; but, in order that we may do our best fo bring it about, we will now begin a comparison between the state of things in 1825, and the state that we are in at present; and the reader will see, that what we have stated above as to tlie effect of " Peel's Bill" and blunder is correct. ' < In 1819 that Bill was brought into Parliament, and be- ' came a law. It enacted, that, in May 1823, the Bank of England and all other Banks should pay their notes in GOLD ; but gold to the amount of notes that they had out, they could not procure, though they had three years allowed them from the passing of the Act. They drew in their notes ( no matter by what operation, because the ex- planation would confuse the statement), and, by the year 1822, had caused so much less of their money to be about, that farmers, tradesmen, and merchants were breaking in all directions, and the labourers in manufactures and in husbandry were suffering the distress described by Mr. PEEL. This was the effect of the first attempt to pay in gold. The farmers and tradesmen became clamorous, and, as they were represented in the House of Commons by the landlords, who were suffering with them, Mr. WESTERN threatened to move for a repeal of the Malt- tax, unless " relief" were given. We have now before us the Report of the House of Commons Committee on the renewal of the Bank of England Charter in 1833, and, in the evidence given before that Committee, the Governor and Directors of the Bank of England give a description of the state of the country in the year 1822, together with some curious facts as to the manner in which " relief" was given, and the ultimate effects of that " relief." The whole of it throws so much light on what is now going on, and it shows so clearly that these money- revolutions must go on so long as these paper- money- makers are allowed to carry on their traffic; it shows so clearly how tbe thing is done, and so clearly shows the falseness of it all, that we beg our readers to go through the extract from the evidence of Mr. WARD ( Bank Director), which follows this: — " Are you aware that Lord Liverpool stated, on the 20th " February, 1822, that His Majesty's Government had re- " solved on borrowing four millions on Exchequer Bills from " the Bank, with the view of applying it in some manner for " ihe relief of the country, and that he stated, on the same " day, that the chief object which His Majesty's Govern- " ment had in view was, not so much the adoption of this or " that particular measure, as the adoption of any measure " that would have the effect of getting those four millions into " general circulation ?— I recollect it. " Do you recollect that various plans were suggested, "• such as lending on parish rates, lending on public works, " and Exchequer Bills ?— Yes. " You have stated that the increase of bank- notes, which " took place between 1822 and 1825, would have an obvious " tendency to derange the exchanges; it was stated by the " Governor of the Bank, that in fact it was the speculation " of 1823 and 1824 that had the effect of deranging the ex- " changes,- do you recollect, that when His Majesty's Go- " vernment, in 1822, decided upon the plan of putting an " additional four millions of bank- notes into circulation, it " was then stated by Mr. HUSKISSON, that one of the chief " objects His Majesty's Government had in the operation " was to revive speculation, which was then dormant, upon " which revival His Majesty's Government placed their " main hope of restoring the prosperity of the country; and " do you not consider that the increase that was occasioned " would have a natural tendency to revive and to increase " speculation ?— I recollect distinctly many of the circum- " stances referred to, though, perhaps, not in the order in " which they have been stated. Government, at that time, " had received many complaints relating to the agricultural " distress and the depression of prices and I think the " price of wheat was at one time as low as 37 » .; the aver- " age for the whole year was as low as about 43 » . My own " opinion is, that, whatever circumstances were in opera- " tion, one of the most unfavourable circumstances that " occasioned the low prices was the very low aggregate state " of the currency of the country. I stated in my former " examination, that the amount of country notes which had " been at twenty millions, had become reduced in one year " to sixteen millions, and had been then reduced to eleven " millions; and by the year 1821, it had been reduced to " seven millions,- the consequence was, that not only prices " were low, but that a disinclination to transact business, " and a great deal of positive evil existed; and I think the " agriculturists had a clear right to complain of that cir- " cumstance. I think Government had a clear right to try " to restore the prices, in some degree to relieve them from " that depression, and I do not know any other means by " which it could be done than by giving them at least as " good a currency, as full a currency, as was legitimate in " connexion with the laws relative to currency. W? hen the " season of 1822 arrived, I think it was a very wise mea- " sure to try to stimulate prices. I believe that moderate " speculation itself is a good rather than an evil,- but that " the difficulty is, in REGULATING THE DEGREE. If per- " sons, when one speculation is set a- going, carry it to a " preposterous extent, they must take the consequences of it; " but I do consider it beneficial to the country that there " should be a certain degree of enterprise, and there was a " great want of what I should call a legitimate degree of " enterprise at that period, and a depression of price in " consequence, of which I think the parties were entitled to " ask for relief. I am saj ing this always with regard to " the legitimate bounds prescribed for currency. As long " as we could administer an increase of notes, with the ex- " changes greatly in favour of the country, by a sufficient sup- " ply of gold, 1 think the country had a right to obtain that " action upon the prices that a sufficient currency would " give them, and that they had a great insufficiency pre- " viously. " You have stated, that, sometime in the year 1825, Lord " Liverpool had stated that there was at that time a sound " state of currencyon May the 2nd, 1825, it appears that " v. Mr. Huskisson stated, that, with respect to any depression " which might be produced on the foreign exchanges, as " against this country, he thought it was a subject which " ought not to excite any alarm in the minds of any, or that * any opinion unfavourable to our general prosperity should " be drawn from it, that it was quite ridiculous to entertain " such an apprehension, that the recent slight turn against us " had arisen from circumstances which must be of a temporary " nature, and which would, in a very brief period work their " own remedy ; was not that declaration, made by a minis- " ter of the crown, calculated to lay asleep any apprehen- " sions which country bankers and mercantile men might " entertain from the state of the Exchanges at that time?— " I think that was calculated to give a slight and sea- " sonable caution; I should consider that rather a precau- " tionary assertion of Mr. Huskisson's, than otherwise; he " showed that by the Exchanges being unfavourable, there " might be a degree of alarm produced and he meant to " moderate that alarm, and that people should not allow it to " exceed the occasion. " You have stated that the Bank notes which have been '* referred to, were issued to relieve the distress of the " country ? That was one object, but it was in connexion " with good currency; we were promoting a good currency " by it. •" You have stated, also, that the prices were in this man- " ner raised, and that they did advance 25 per cent., and " you are not certain that they did not advance 50 per " cent. ?— Yes. " Part of those issues of Bank- notes you found to bo in- " consistent with the safely of the currency, and they were " drawn in?— The Exchanges had become unfavourable, and " it was necessary to effect a reduction. " Therefore, having been issued to relieve the distress, and " having raised the prices, they were drawn in to protect the " standard ?— It was necessary, on the score of prudence. " Could the standard have been protected without those " notes being drawn in ?— No. " Are you aware that the King stated, upon the 3rd of " February, 1825, that there never was a period in the history " of the country in which all the great interests of the country " were in so thriving a condition ?— I am aware of that. There are many things in this extract that tempt us ; but we have already exceeded the bounds of a newspaper arti- cle, and can only refer to one or two. The reader sees, that by 1821, the country bank- notes alone had decreased from 20,000,000 to 7,000,000, and that the distress of 1822 was caused by that, and the additional decrease in the notes of the Bank of England. He sees, further, that the Prime Minister, Lord LIVERPOOL, and Mr. HUSKISSON ( another Minister), determined, in any manner, to get out Bank- notes, and so raise prices; that this was done, and that the " obvious tendency " of such an " operation" was to de- range the Exchanges, and that the only way of then " pro- tecting the standard " ( which means keeping the gold) was to pull the notes back again, and, of course, to bring back the distress. He sees also, that it was the wish of the Mi- nisters to excite speculation, and that it is a difficult thing to " regulate speculation " when excited, and that Mr. WARD'S opinion is, that those who carry it to a preposterous length " must take the consequences.'" When we read these facts, and read also that the issues of the Bank, in 1822, having caused the Exchanges to become " deranged," Mr. HUSKIS- SON lulled the bankers and speculators into confidence by stating that the " recent slight turn in the Exchanges had arisen from circumstances which must be temporary," that " in a very brief period it would work its own remedy," and that it was quite " ridiculous to entertain any apprehension that this was unfavourable to our general prosperity;" when we read these things, with a recollection of the break- ing of one hundred and twenty batiks in only six months after- wards, pulling down families to beggary who had before been opulent, or in happy circumstances, we seriously warn all those who are in the habit of confiding in the sayings of newspapers, Ministers, or even Kings, to beware, this time, how they listen to either, when they find them talking of the soundness of our currency, the prosperity of our com- merce, or the resources of our banks. MIDNIGHT LAWMAKING. THE number of laws has always been deemed a heavy weight upon a nalion, and any thing that tended to keep them down in number, and make those that are adopted good in their kind, has been thought a chief point in what is called " Legislation but the Whigs seem to imagine that, no matter what they are, the number of laws is a blessing, and any thing that " stops the business of legislation" is an evil. A Mr. ELLICE is reported to have used the very phrase above quoted ; and to have re- marked, as a proof of the necessity for reforming the Lords, that, out of about eighty bills passed by the Commons in a short time, the Lords had not suffered above fifty to be- come laws ! We could almost venture to say that, if they had cut them down to fine, the nation, the people, would have been none the worse off for it. For, when one comes to look at the manner of making laws in the as sembly where, according to Mr. ELLICE, the " business of legislation " is carried on ; when one sees on their daily votes, a bill of fare for the night ( the middle of the night.') of thirty new laws, which is frequently the case, one cannot help thinking that such a business must be badly done. And, then, when we see innumerable acts passed to explain acts, to mend acts, and to supply omis- sions in acts, then we know that the business is badly done. We attribute very much of this to the odious habit of law- making in the middle of the night. Our men of " business" begin their work seriously ( seriously .') after dinner; not the most convenient time for an Eng- lishman to set to work; not the time that any English- men ( with the exception of a few classes that we shall name) choose to begin any business of their own; and why, we want to know, why is the public business put off to an hour when no man prefers to begin his own ? Burglars, gamblers, smugglers and poachers, were al- ways considered to be the only classes of men whose works necessarily required them to take advantage of the night. Is there any reason why lawmakers should im- itate these ? The cruel manufacturers of the North, in 1786, betook themselves to night- working; that is, they made the unfortunate children, whom they had dragged out of the workhouses of Loudon, work through the night; but, though this was not from necessity, they made money by it, and, being detected in their cruelty, they were checked by law. Is there any reason why our law- makers should imitate these ? There is still another class of men, more respectable than either burglars, gamblers, smugglers, poachers, or dealers in orphans and destitute children; and these, from an amiable desire to spare the nerves of the co mmunity, have consented to carry on their business by night: these are called " nightmen." But, ! s there any reason why our law- makers should imitate even these ? VASHIOX8 AW » VARIETIES. JOINT STOCK BANKS.— The Secret Committee, appointed to inquire into the operation of the Act of 7 Geo. IV., c. 46, permitting the establishment of Joint. stock Banks under certain restrictions, and whether it would be expedient to make any alteration in the provisions of that Act, have agreed upon their report, and the Morning Chronicle has got hold of it. The Report is of considerable length ; but as many of our readers will be anxious to read it and to have it by them, we shall give the whole of it in our next. It was, indeed, high time for making some inquiry into the effect of this Act, when it is proposed that there should be weekly bulletins published to inform us of the degrees of " healthiness" enjoyed by the mother Bank! The King of France has received from the Queen of Portugal a letter congratulating him upon his recent escape from assassination. We are sorry to announce that Madame Adelaide, the King's sister, is confined to her apartments by indispo- sition.— Galignani. It is said by letters from Vienna that the Duke of Bordeaux is not quite recovered from his late indisposittion. The King1 of Naples will shortly be united to his cousin, the Princess Clementine of Orleans. THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.— It is in contemplation to erect a statue in honour of the Duke of Wellington, on the Surrey side of London- bridge. The site named for this new metropolitan ornament is the junction of Duke and Wellington streets, in the Borough. The Duke of Devonshire has had but little company at Chatsworth this week. Lord Melbourne, Hon. Mr., Mrs., and Miss Ponsonby, Rev. C. Smith, & c., have been visiting his Grace.— Derbyshire Courier. Earl Stanhope, who has retired from public life, has been entertaining the Premier and other distinguished friends, at his seat, Chevening, near Sevenoaks.— Kentish Gazette. The Duke of Sussex intends to remain the guest of his friend, Lord Dinorben, at Kcnmell Park, two months. It is the first visit of the Royal Duke since the melancholy and unexpected death of Lady Dinorben. Cambridge House is now closed up, and will not be again tenanted until the return of Prince George from Ha- nover. The Rev. John Ryle Wood did not accompany his illustrious pupil to the Continent; the rev. Gentleman has been appointed Resident Clerk of the Closet to his Majesty. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort are entertaining a family circle at Badminton Park; Lord and Lady Gran- ville Somerset, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, Lady Anne Culling Smith have been among the guests. Lady William Gordon, sister of the late Marchioness of Hertford, has presented her nephew, the gallant Sir John Woodford, of the Grenadier Guards, a beautiful estate, situ- ated on the romantic lake of Derwentwater. King Otho of Greece has sought and obtained the hand of a Princess of the House of Oldenburgh. The future Queen of Greece is related by ties oi affinity and con- sanguinity to the Emperor of Russia. Duke William of Brunswick is about to contract a marriage with the Princess Maria, daughter to the reigning King of Wirtemburg by his first wife. As this Princess is niece to the Emperor of Russia, her marriage with the Duke of Brunswick will tend to strengthen the Czar's influence in Germany. It is reported, we know not how truly, that his Excellency Count Pozzo di Borgo, on his return to Paris from Italy, will be united to a French lady of rank, the Countess B e. The Duke of Sutherland's improvements and altera- tions at Trentham Hall, in Staffordshire, which are now in progress, will cost, it is estimated, 180,000/. Sir H. F. Bouverie, K. C. B., is appointed to suc- ceed the Honourable Sir F. Ponsonby as Governor of Malta. It is understood that Lord Frederick Fitzclarence takes the command of the Dublin district, with the brevet rank of Major- General, in room of Sir Edward Blakeney, who, as Lioutenant- General, is Commander of the army in Ireland. We hear that General Sebastiani will return to his post at London on the 1st of October, and that Lord Gran- ville is expected at Paris about the same period. The sinecure place in the Post- office, given by Tory journals to Mr. Duncombe, has long since been abolished. Mr. Stanhope, recently dead, who last held it, retired some years ago on a pension. Lord and Lady F. Fitzclarence and family have left Eaton- square for his Lordship's sporting- seat on the borders; thence they will pay a visit to their relative the Earl of Glasgow, in Renfrewshire. The Duke and Duchess of St. Albans have taken a marine villa at Sidmoutb, In Devonshire, having given up their projected tour to the Continent this year. Earl Wilton intends to build immediately a splendid mansion on his noble father's estate of Belgrave- square. The Duke of Wellington has accepted an invitation to visit the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, at Badminton Park, early next month, when it is expected his Grace will review the Gloucestershire militia. Earl de Grey has proceeded to Newby Hall, near Borough- Bridge, preparatory to reviewing the Yorkshire Hussars, of which corps his Lordship is Colonel. Lord Willoughby de Broke is giving employment to numerous poor persons by the improvements making on his Lordship's estate near Stratford- upon- Avon. All the nobility and persons of any wealth or con- sideration are flying out of Spain, which unfortunate country is the scene of anarchy, plunder, violence and bloodshed. The disputed boundary of the United States and the British possessions in America, is not yet adjusted. The latest accounts from Ireland represent the health of Mrs. O'Connell, and Mr. Maurice O'Connell, M. P., to be in a most dangerous state. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is expected in town from his seat in Ireland, on Monday next. BANK OF IRELAND.— Since the notice of the in- crease of discount on English bills from 3J to 4 per cent, the Directors of the Bank of Ireland have raised the dis- count on Irish bills froth 4 to 4$ per cent. The principal merchants of Jamaica are about to establish a Local Bank, with a capital of 300,000/. currency, in opposition to the Colonial Bank started there. The Experimental Squadron, under the command of Admiral Sir Charles Paget, is hourly expected in Cork Harbour, there to remain for a few days. The KING has directed two hundred free sittings to be opened in Kew Parish Church, from his privy purse, for the accommodation of the poor. The King of Belgium arrived at Dover, accom- panied by General Goblet and M. Van Praet, having left Ostend on the 11th at two o'clock, for Calais. His Majesty proceeded to Clareinont to meet the Duchess of Kent and the Princes Victoria, and will be back at Ostend on the 19th; it is supposed that the Court will remain at that place till the 20th or 21st, to be present at the fetes of September. THE DUCIIESS OF BERRY.— The Messager an- nounces that a letter from Prague, of the 2nd inst., states that the Duchess of Berry, who has had her usual ac- coucheur from Paris, is expected to be brought to bed every day. She has collected all the capital she could, to pur- chase a considerable estate in the environs of Trieste. Ac- cording to the same letter, a negotiation has been set on foot between the Court of Charles X. and the Duchess, to allow her to go to see her children ; but this having failed, the Duchess demanded that the Duke de Bordeaux might be sent to Gratz. The old King, however, refused this re- quest also, alleging that the health of the rince was too delicate. MEETING AT THE BANK OF ENGLAND. A General Court of Proprietors was held on Thursday at the Bank of England, to consider of a dividend for the half- year ending the 10th October next. The Governor of the Bank, J. PATTISON, Esq. M. P., took the chair at twelve o'clock, and stated, that the Court of Directors, considering the state of the Bank accounts, proposed that a dividend of 41. per cent, should be declared for the half- year ending the 10th October next. In answer to several questions, the Governor replied that the Rest was now about 7,000/. less than in the last half- year, and that the cause was the severe loss occasioned by the melting of silver coin. Had it not been for this, there would have been an increase instead of a decrease in the Rest. Mr. BLACKBURN made some remarks upon the state of the Bank accounts. He thought more disclosures ought to be made respecting them ; and expressed his astonishment that the loss upon the silver coin was now mentioned for the first time. The question that a dividend of 4 per cent, should be de- clared for the half- year ending the 10th of October, was then put and unanimously agreed to. Mr. Sheriff SALOMONS then addressed the Court on the subject of the late conduct of the Bank Directors. It coidd not have escaped the notice of the proprietors, that the conduct of the Bank had been much discussed in the news- papers, and reports much to its prejudice had gone abroad, charging petty and selfish motives for a course avowedly adopted for the public security. He begged to ask whether the Bank had in this instance been actuated or not by a spirit of rivalry and hostility to other establishments ? The GOVERNOR unequivocally denied any such motives. It was left with the Bank to watch and regulate the ex- changes, and it was their duty to check the efflux of bullion, and to guard the metallic currency of the country. All their efforts had been directed to these objects; no littleness of spirit had ever actuated their conduct, and they would dis- miss such a feeling as that of rivalry with contempt. Mr. FIELDER was obliged to Mr. Salomons for his ques- tion, because it gave them an opportunity of setting the Bank right with the public. He was convinced that, if necessary, the conduct of the Bank would be the same as in 1825, when they discounted within a few days 4200 bills, amounting to 7,500,000/., and, within a week more, in- creased this amount to 16,000,000/., for the protection of the commercial interests of the kingdom. Mr. YOUNG said, that the public attention to the conduct of the Bank should cause no surprise, on account of the great influence of that establishment; but he was asto- nished at a question that imputed ill- feeling and misconduct to the Directors. The establishment of the Joint Stock Companies infinitely increased the difficulties of regulating the currency, and they should call upon the Government to compel the country banks to do as the Bank of England, viz :— produce an account of their issues, and their means of meeting them. The Directors had acted with prudence and foresight, as the present spirit of enterprise, if not properly regulated, would lead to mischief instead of pros- perity. Mr. FIELDER moved a vote of thanks to the Governor, Deputy- Governor, and Court of Directors, for their past conduct. In answer to a question, the Governor said that the Branch Banks on the aggregate were working extremely well, and that at present there was no intention to discon- tinue any of those establishments. The vote of thanks was then agreed to unanimously, and the CHAIRMAN having returned thanks, announced that the dividend would be paid on the 11th of October. The Court then adjourned. IRISH WASTE LAND IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY.— On Tuesday a general meeting of the directors and share- holders of the Irish Waste Land Improvement Society was held at their offices, 57, Old Broad- street, City, in conform- ity with the terms of their Act of incorporation, and also for the purpose of hearing the first report of the Society's pro- ceedings. — Staples, Esq., having been unanimously called to" the chair, the secretary read the report, from which it appeared that the original capital proposed was 500,000/., in 10,000 shares of 50/. each, and that 6,075 shares have al- ready been subscribed for, which are sufficient to enable the Society to carry the objects of their incorporation into ex- tensive and beneficial effect. The directors are about to send a deputation of their own body and their Secretary to Ireland, to place them in communication with the proprie- tors of the uncultivated lands who have offered, and to arrange with them negotiations now pending. The report was unanimously received, and there being no other busi- ness to transact, the meeting separated. THE DRAMA. - ITS PRESENT STATE AND PROSPECTS. ( FROM A LITERARY CORRESPONDENT.) IT has been asserted by the late Professor Schlegel, the most profound critic among the deep- thinking and philo- sophic Germans, that the world has productd but three great epic poets— HOMER, SHAKSPEARE, and MILTON; and although we should be inclined to add the name of DANTE to the list, we cannot but feel proud of the honour conferred upon our country, according to the opinion ex- pressed by this distinguished foreigner: yet it is melancholy to think, that the art which gave to the world of literature one of its most illustrious ornaments, should be at this mo- ment verging to its fall. In a report furnished by a Select Committee of the House of Commons, some four years ago, the decline in the literature of the stage was chiefly attri- buted to the prevailing fashion of late dinner- hours, the absence of royal patronage, and the supposed indisposition, of certain religious sects to countenance theatrical exhibi- tions. With the prevalence of late dinner- hours, and the absence of royal encouragement, the votaries of the drama cannot of course contend, but they are certainly bound to protest against the opposition offered by a certain class of religionists, which has recently assumed a tangible shape and form, several reverend divines having fulminated their anathemas against the stage, and published their anti- theatrical sermons throughout the country. Mr. SHERIDAN KNOWLES, we find, has entered the arena with his clerical opponents, and as we are of opinion that the reverend gen- tlemen have " caught a Tartar," we do not think it neces- sary to take part in the contest. We should wish, however, to inquire by what authority those " over- righteous" per- sons think proper to denounce a profession or calling which is protected under the King's prerogative, and recognized by the laws of the country? The principal theatres throughout the empire are established by royal letters pa- tent, in order " to encourage good literature— to the es- " tablishment of good manners and discipline in all stations " and ranks of men, and to support virtue and religion." Such are the exact terms used in these patents, and a vio- lation of these conditions is punished according to the pro- visions of an Act of Parliament, framed expressly for the purpose. The actor's calling, therefore, is quite as legal as the parson's. The former is not allowed to rail against the church, and common justice demands that the latter should not be permitted to revile the theatre. There is a law to prevent " brawling" in a house of worship, and when " brawlers" ascend the pulpit, it is fit the law should be speedily enforced. To such parties we would say, in the words of the Scriptures, " The tongue is a fire, a world of " iniquity, itdefileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the " course of nature." Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. " These things ought not to be." We are, however, impressed with the belief that there are more V" 6 THE CHAMPION. potent Ci. uses for tie - decline of tue Drama tnau those we have detailed. In our opinion, the alteration which has taken place In. the taste of the public for theatrical performances, has been produced, in a great measure, by the ignorance and cupidity of certain unprincipled and narrow- minded specu- lators, who wormed themselves into the management of the theatres, and whose objects were to make money, no mat- ter by what means, or through what channels, filthy or clean, " Cui nihil satis, huic etiam nihil turpe." The English stage, which formerly ranked above all others, has therefore fallen " from its high estate," and cannot be saved from utter ruin, unless through the interference of Parliament, or by the aid of Associations formed for its support, among the wealthy and intelligent classes of society. With respect to the for- mer, we consider the support of the Government as the most effectual method of raising the Drama to the station which it ought to occupy among a great and powerful people. We are also sure that the policy of such a measure mig; ht be advocated upon the soundest and best principles of local jurisprudence, and justified by the example of the wisest, the greatest, and most enlightened nations of the world. It must be admitted by all those who have devoted their attention to the subject, that the Drama, in all ages, and in all countries, has . exercised an extraordinary infl'ience upon the manners, habits, and character of the people -. it sup- plies the deficiency of educaiion among the humbler classes, it inspires them with ideas of high passion and noble deeds. At the theatre they catch a spark of the generous enthusaisui which animates the characters that are personified belore them, and their attention is so closely occupied by what they behold, they cannot even devote sufficient time to examine the conduct of their rulers; the wiliest statesmen, therefore, from Machiavel to Talley- rand, have uniformly evinced a desire to encourage theatri- cal entertainments. But without supposing for a moment that the present Ministry of England could be influenced by any motive of this nature, we are inclined to think that if a meeting of the friends of the Drama was convened, and a petition drawn up and submitted to the Secretary of State fcr the Home Department, the subject would receive due consideration. Lord Jonn Russell is himself a dramatic author, and would no doubt feel an anxiety to support the dignity of the British stage, which can only be accom plished through the medium of the Government. No paltry principle of economy ought to be considered on the occa- sion; p irticulai'ly at a time when even the money- loving Louis- Philip , e has revived the office of Inspector- Gene- ral of Theatres, and consents that upwards of 80,000/. a year should be drawn from the public treasury, to support three theatres alone,— the Opera, the Theatre Frangaise, and l'Opera Cotniqne. We could point out a mode by which the principal London theatres could be raised to a high slate of peifection, at a comparatively trifling ex- pense, but we must reserve our observations till a future period. COVENT GARDEN. THIS theatre opened for the season on Monday last; the performances consisted of the tragedy of Macbeth, and the pantomime of Gui Fawkes, which were equally ridiculous in the representation. Mr. C. KEMBLE enacted the Scottish tyrant, and a more somniferous performance it was never our lot to witness. We would advise Mr. RUMBLE to erase the part of Macbeth from his list of acting characters in fu ture. We are of opinion, indeed, that he never possessed physical or mental qualifications for the character; and this is no great disparagement to his talents, for, we think with H AZI. ITT, that we can never find an actor capable of embodying the character of Macbeth •> no pel former of the present day can look like a man that has encountered the weird sisters on the heath of Forres ; they all appear to have met the witches behind the scenes of Covent Garden or Drury Lane. No writer but Shakspeare could have drawn two characters like Richard the Third and Macbeth, resem- bling each other so closely in their general outlines, and yet so completely opposite iu their individual attributes: they are both usurpers, tyrants, and murderers, and yet their " vaulting ambition" hath different spurs " to prick the sides of their intent." Richard is a cool, crafty, systematic villain, whose natural delight is blood. Macbeth, on the contrary, is '• full o' the milk of human kindness," until his supeistitious feelings are worked upon by the prediction of the witches, and the taunts of his wife, and he proceeds from one act of cruelty to another, till at length he ex- claims— season, but we know that if they have not " commanded success," they certainly have " deserved it." The witty and epigrammatic comedies of JERROLD, and the quiet and effective acting of HAMMOND, have been the theme of general approbation. SURREY THEATRE. The Arabs, as the play- bills inform us, are now exhi- biting in their " proper arena," and the congenial tastes of the manager and his audiences are delighted by the intel- lectual moralities of Paul Clifford, Jonathan Bradford, Jack Shepherd, & c. & c. VICTORIA THEATRE. A bnrlesque upon the Jewess has been produced at this establishment, by desire, and under the patronage, of the nobility and gentry of Hounsditch, Rag- fair, and Petticoat- lane. The boxes are nightly graced with all the elite of fashion from the East- end of the town, in consequence of which an additional number of constables have been placed at the various avenues leading to the theatre. GREEN- ROOM GOSSIP. MADAME MALIBRAN, makes her first appearance before an Irish audience, at the Theatre Royal, Dublin, on Satur- day the 15th of October. The fair and fickle cantatrice was anxious to cancel her engagement, but the manager would not allow it, and Madame is therefore obliged to visit the Emerald Isle upon compulsion. BONN arrived in town on Wednesday last. Report states that he has ransacked all the principal theatres of the Con- tinent, and has succeeded in engaging novelty and attrac- tion of the most astounding character for his ensuing season at Drury Lane. Mrs. WAYLETT, it seems, has given up the idea of open- ing a new theatre in Dublin. In the successful comedy of the Bill- Sticker, which has been acted for a vast number of nights at the Strand Theatre, one of the characters, an errand- boy to an attor- ney, informs his fellow servant that he intends visiting the Surrey Theatre, to see " Poll and my Partner Joe," but he will not go to tbe boxes, for, as he quarrelled with Bill Brush, the sweep, he does not wish to meet him '. The reciprocity system, as it called, is now in full opera- tion between this country aud America, cargoes of actors and actresses are daily shipped off for the United States, and we have received in return several samples of their home manufacture. Messrs. HACKETT, Ric K< and HILL are at present in England, and Mr. FORREST, and several others are expected in the course of a few weeks. MADAME VESTRIS has nearly completed the improve- ments and embellishments of the Olympic Theatre. We think it a hazardous experiment, however, to dispense with the Gallery, for although MADAME may say that, she " can do what she likes with her own," yet, JOHN BULL is some- times an obstinate animal; he is apt to entertain certain stubborn ideas of rights and privileges, and he fancies that theatres ought to be places of accommodation for the pub- lic at large. Mr. FORREST will make bis appearance at Drury- Lane, in a piece written for him by an American dramatist, en- titled Metamora, founded upon some of the principal inci- dents in the life of a celebrated Indian chief. ' I am in blood *' Stepped in so t., i , tii. it > 111111111 1 wailc no more " Run- eating were as tetlioits a-, go o'er." Many actors who succeed in the performanca of Richard the Third, completely fail in their attempts to represent Macbeth. The late EDMUND KUAN, even with all his tran- scendent genius, did not give a correct portrait of the cha racter- We object, therefore, to the representation of the play at all under existing circumstances; and, ft oin the rnan- nerin which it is now mangled at Covent Garden, heaven de- liver us! The getting- up of the piec e, as it is technically called, is disgraceful to what was once entitled a national theatre. The performers, with theexeeption of Mr BENNETT, are in the happiest state of ignorance with respect to the meaning of the language which they are sent upon the stage to deliver: one of them, a Mr. PRITCHARD, is a line specimen of the " robiis ious pen iwig- pated " gentlemen, described by Hamlet; he " bellowed anil strutted " in i he pai t ot Macduff, like one of " Nature's journeymen ;" he was " bearded like the pai d,' and his vest an. I tartan were exactly similar to Macbeth's, which we opine was not quite correct. Mrs. W. WEST'S L'idy Macbeth, we are son- y to say, was a total failure; her powers are by no means equal to the represen- tation of this bold and daring woman. Mrs. SIDDONS'acting of the part was said to lie *' something above nature," and we shall only observe of Mrs. WEST'S performance, that it was something • considerably below it. The witches are of tbe greatest importance in the plav of Macbeth, and we have always reprobated the praecipe of confiding the perform- ance of these characters t) the inferior comedians of the theatre. Mr. LAMB observes, in his notes upon Dramatic Poetry, that " the weird sisters are sirious things, they are " neither of the earth nor the air, but both ; their presence " cannot co- exist with n. irth." They prepare the minds of the spectators, from their first entrance, for all the incidents that are to follow ; their pre. fictions should he delivered with all the obscure brevity, the majestic solemnity, by which orae'es have in a 1 times contrived to inspire mortals with reverential awe. It is n trdless to say that this idea of the characters was not adopte 1 by Messrs TILBURY, VALE, and M'l AN ! The parsimony of the management is evident in every de mrtinent of the tneatre; the trout of the house is filthy in the extreme, the scenes are nearly obliterated, the dresses are worn a. id fade!, an I the pr iperties appear to be in a s id state of decay. Old Simard's troops were ac- coutred in jeikins and haubeiks, their legs bare, and their shoes polishe I by Day and Martin's jet bUrking! If this is the mode iu which tbe legitimate drama is to he revived at the Theatre Royal, Ciiveut- Garden, the engagement of Messrs. C. KK. MBLE, MACREADY, and FARKIIN, will not prove of any great advantage to the concern. We strongly suspect th it Air O. SB. LUISTON has not the taste or libe- rality to become the Mwceiias of the modern stage, but nous verrons. ENGLISH OPERA. The new opera of the Pacha's Bridal is likely to be played lor the remainder of the season, which is a proof that the public are willing to patronise eveu an average share of original talent. STRAND THEATRE. This theatre closed last ni ht. We know not if the managers have made a pi of5" '' speculation of it this LORD JOIIN RUSSELL AND J. S. BUCKING- HAM, ESQ. CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN LORD JOHN RUSSELL AND J. s. BUCKINGHAM, ESQ., IN REFERENCE TO AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT SHEFFIELD BY MR. BUCKINGHAM. ( No. 1.) Tunbridge Wells, Sept• 3, 1836. SIR: I find in the Standard of yesterday a report of some parts of a speech said to have been delivered by you at Sheffield. In these extracts, after commenting upon my conduct, after observing that I had combined my influence and power with that of Sir John Hobhouse to seal your ruin, you are made to observe,— " These were his solemn and reiterated professions, and you have seen how he has redeemed them. The distance between day ami night— between truth and falsehood— be- tween the highest degree of honour and the lowest degree of baseness— between fidelity and treachery— between cou- rage and cowardice— between virtue and vice— is not, and cannot be greater, than between the words and actions of the personages who filled the chief characters in this melan- choly and degrading drama." I wish to be informed whether you used these words, and whether you mean to apply the words falsehood, baseness, treachery, and cowardice to my actions as respects your claim upon the East India Company? or to any part of my conduct with regard to yourself?— Your humble servant, ( Signed) J. RUSSELL. J. S. BUCKINGHAM, Esq., M. P. ( No. 2) Guildford, Sept. 7, 1836. MY LORD : As I have ever acted towards you with the fairness and openness becoming the nature of the inter- course that so long subsisted between us, I shall continue the same course to the end, whether observed by others or not; and in this spirit I feel it my duty to forward you a copy of the address recently delivered by me to my consti- tuents at Sheffield. 1 wish it had been in my power, both for your sake and for my own, to have spoken differently of the late proceedings in the House of Commons, on the sub- ject of my claims. But truth demanded of me the expo- sition I have given. It was not necessary to say more, but I could not consent to say less; and if it gives you pain, be assured that 1 regret the cause of this pain as much as your- self.— I am, my Lord, your most obedient servant, ( Signed) J. S. BUCKINGHAM. The Right Hon. Lord JOHN RUSSELL. ( NO. 3.) White Hart Hotel, Guildford, Sept. 8, 1836. MY LORD -. Your letter of the 3rd instant, dated from Tunbridge Wells, having been addressed to me at Sheffield, from thence redirected to London, anil from thence for- warded here, has only just reached me by this morning's post. I have partly anticipated your Lordship's wishes, by having sent you yesterday from this place a letter, and an authentic copy of the speech made by me to my constituents on the 29th ult. The extract given iu the Standard, to which your Lordship refers, will be found, I believe, to cor- respond accurately with the printed version of the whole speech already in your hands. I do not wish to shrink, therefore, from the fullest responsibility for whatever that speech may contain, as conveying my deliberate convictions, after the most mature judgment that I could give to the subjects of it. In reply to your Lordship's second question, whether I meant " to apply the terms falsehood, baseness, treachery, and cowardice," to your Lordship's actions, as respects my claim upon the East India Company, or to any part of your Lordship's conduct with regard to myself, I beg to state that I did not apply these terms to either; as a reference to the passage itself will show that I there assert- ed what I now repeat, that the contrast between those qualities and their direct opposites, was not, and could not, be greater than between the words and actions of the par- ties named; and having stated what those words and what those actions were, I left those to whom I addressed myself to judge for themselves whether the contrast was not, as 1 described it, as great as between any things the most oppo- site that could be named. The whole tenor of my address was, however, a comment on the public conduct of public men, in the various public transactions of the session; and whatever that address contained had reference to such public conduct alone. Your Lordship's public professions and publicly declared opinions on the conduct of the East India Company towards me, and your publicly declared con- viction of the justice of my claims, was therefore, in this address, contrasted with your conduct as leader of the House of Commons, when a mere repetition of the same sentiments from your place in Parliament would have ob- tained the support of the House of Commons in their favour, while your silence and your absence were fatal to my cause If your Lordship is able to jpstify this conduct in the eyes of the country, to whom my appeal is now made, I shall be happy to afford every facility for such justification, by at- tending any meeting for that purpose which your Lordship may appoint. Of your personal honour and integrity in any private transaction, as between one gentleman and another, I have never entertained nor expressed a doubt, any more than I have of tke personal honour and in- tegrity of the Governors and Directors of the East India Company, by whom I have been plundered and ruined; for such is the conventional standard of morality, that these pri- vate and personal virtues are frequently found to co- exist with the entire absence of all public principle in public men. But on public grounds, and on public grounds alone, I must still take leave to repeat, that the contrast between the public conduct of your Lordship as a member of the Whig opposition of 1821 and 1826, and the public conduct of your Lordship as a member of the Whig Government and leader of the House of Commons in 1836, on the subject of my claims on the East India Company for that compen- sation which the select committee, of which your Lordship was a member, unanimously declared to be justly due to me — appears to me to be as great as between day and night, or between any other two things the most opposite to each other that can be named.— 1 am, my Lord, your most obe- dient servant, ( Signed) J. S. BUCKINGHAM. The Right Hon. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, M P., & c. & c. & c. ( No. 4.) Tunbridge Wells, Sept. 10, 1836. SIR: I have received yesterday and to- day your letters of the 7th and 8th instant. It is satisfactory to me to find that you did not mean to cast any imputations on my per- sonal honour and integrity. I can make allowance for the irritated feelings which the losses and disappointments you have sustained may have excited; but I must add, that " truth," which you say demanded of you the exposition you have given, ought to have demanded of you not to omit other facts, which would have materially altered the case you have so elaborately endeavoured to make out against me. It is not my wish, however, to appeal to any public meeting on this subject, nor do I now think it necessary to say more than that I shall be ready to defend my conduct in Parliament whenever it may be called in question.— I am, Sir, your humble servant, ( Signed) J. RUSSELL. J. S. BUCKINGHAM, Esq., M. P. MR. BUCKINGHAM to LORD JOHN RUSSELL. ( No. 5.) Salisbury, Sept. 13, 1836. MY LORD : I have just received your letter of the 10th instant, addressed to me at Guildford, and forwarded to me here. I have been accustomed for so many years past to think and speak of your Lordship in terms of eulogy and approba- tion— because I believed you were really at heart the sin- cere friend of that liberty and justice which you advocated with your lips— that it was with the greatest possible reluc- tance I was compelled, by the force of conviction, to change the tone of eulogy for one of reproach— and I can assure you, with the utmost sincerity, that even now, after all the bitterness of disappointment in which you have caused my hopes to terminate, it would give me far more pleasure to be able to speak of you with praise than censure. It was, therefore, ' more in sorrow than in anger " that my appeal to my constituents was made; and it was in the same feel- ing that I entered upon this correspondence. As your Lordship intimates to me, in a postscript, your intention to publish the letters that have passed between us, I may state that I have not the slightest objection to this course, and am quite willing to leave the verdict on it in the hands of the British public. In closing our cor- respondence, therefore, for the present at least, with this brief reply, I may add, that when your Lordship intimates the existence of some facts which would have materially altered the view of the case, and asserts that I have kept these back from public view, you seem to wish it to be un- derstood that I am cognizant of such facts, and that I stu- diously conceal or suppress them. If this be the impres- sion which you desire the public to receive from your ex- pressions, I must declare, iu the most solemn manner, that I know of no single fact that can in the slightest degree either justify or extenuate your public conduct in the mat- ter between us. If I did, I would willingly make it known; but my own retrospective view of the case revives in my recollection many facts that, if made generally known, would aggravate rather than soften the cruelty of the treat- ment I have received. There were two public opportunities presented to your Lordship in the House of Commons, on the two separate debates on my claims, in which you might have publicly stated these facts, in justification of your desertion of a cause you had once so warmly espoused ; but you did not embrace either of these occasions for so doing. A third opportunity has been presented to you by this correspon- dence, when, instead of hinting at the facts, and intimating their suppression, it was open ts you to have matle them public yourself. And a fourth opportunity was offered to you in the public meeting proposed by me for that purpose; and this has been rejected. Upon all this public will form their own judgment, with- out waiting until the Parliament shall meet; for whatever may be said then can be as effectually said now, and pro- bably more so, as I do not know any shape in which the House could be made to entertain a question of personal difference between two of its Members, unless it were to be brought forward as a breach of privilege, charging the Noble Leader of the House of Commons with sending a letter to a Member whom he had injured, with a view to provoke him to fight a duel: for in this, of course, it must have been intended by you that the affair should terminate, if your personal honour and integrity had not, by a nice distinction, been separated from your public and parlia mentary abandonment of principle. I am glad that the ex- planation which I could conscientiously give of the mean- ing and intent of my expressions was such as to satisfy your Lordship that there was no necessity to follow up your let ter by a challenge, because I should have unhesitatingly declined to accept it; and I may now say so perhaps with greater propriety than I could have done at an earlier stage of this correspondence. I have had to peril my life too often, and in too many shapes ( duel, I am ashamed to say, among the number, though in defence of that liberty of the press in India, for my attachment to which 1 am still a suf- ferer), to permit any one to doubt my want of courage on all fit and proper occasions. But this was not one in which it was either worth your Lordship's while to ask me to at- tempt the destruction of your life, or worth my while to put it in your Lordship's power to take away my own. I am sure it would embitter my future days if I could be tempted to imbrue my hands in your blood; and I still think much better of you than to suppose for a moment that it would be otherwise than deeply painful to you to be the hostile shed- der of mine; and yet, if this were not to be risked on both sides, our going out to fight a duel, in order to determine whether your Lordship had or had not acted inconsistently — in advocating at one time what you had deserted at an- other— would be an idle ceremony, only fit for ridicule- I wish your Lordship to live for many years, that you may have an opportunity of retracing your steps and retrieving your errors, in much more important questions than my individual wrongs, great as I feel them to be; and I desire myself to live, in order that, if I cannot make my oppres- sors give back the property of which they have plundered my children as well as myself, I may devote the remainder of my days to useful and honourable labour, for the purpose of leaving them some other legacy besides an injured yet an unstained name. For these reasons I shall not lightly trifla with that precious gift which God alone can give, and which it is impious in man to attempt to destroy; and while I shall endeavour to keep my hands pure from the blood of others, I will not willingly tempt any men— and more especially those who have already injured me— to add the guilt, of murder to the other wrongs for which they will « yet, in another and a juster world, have one day to answer and to atone. As I am anxious that this should reach yjur Lordship without delay, that it mav be added to the corre- spondence you are about to publish; I close it thus abruptly; and am your Lordship's humble servant, _ t J- S. BUCKINGHAM. To the Right Hon. Lord John Russell, M. P. REFUSAL TO PAY CHURCH- RATES. THE meeting of the parishioners of St. Paul, Covent gar*-" den, was one of great importance connected with the dis- puted question of Church- rates. The meeting was called in. pursuance of a requisition signed by several Tory inhabi- tants, who, in defiance of a previous decision, thought the sense of the parish had not been fairly shown on that occa- sion. Mr. Cribb moved that the Church- rate be one penny in the pound, contending that it was not in reality a Church- rate, but a re- building- rate. Mr. Dawsou moved an amend- ment to the effect that no Church- rate was required. He was a member of the Church, but was opposed to Church- rates. Mr. Broad, as a Dissenter, seconded the motion. He said the time had arrived when no man could be ex- pected to pay for the religion of another. Several other rate- payers rose to express their opinions, but the anxiety of the meetingwas so great, that a division immediately took place, and the numbers were:— Against the rate, 83 ; for the rate, 51: majority, 32. Mr. Corder ( clerk of the Strand Union) then rose to propose a voluntary Church- rate, and to move an adjournment for that purpose to Thursday next. Mr. Yockney observed, that at the last meeting a proposi- tion for a voluntary rate was made by the Dissenters before a division took place. The offer was then rejected; and they could not expect that this meeting, after such a divi- sion, would entertain it. A vote of thanks was then moved to the Chairman, and the meeting separated. A vestry meeting was recently held at Laceby, Lincoln- shire, at which the clergyman requestsd that a meeting might be called for the purpose of making a rate for white washing and cleaning the church. Messrs. Brooks and Skipworth had made a proposal to the incumbent, the Rev. T. Birkett, to put it in a good state of repair, provided he would keep it so. Mr. Birkett said he had consulted a great many of the Dissenters of the village, aud found that they wished the church should be cleaned, and that they would not object to passing the rate; and as nobody but the churchwardens objected, he could not consent to the pro- posal. Mr. Skipwith said if such were the case, he should at once withdraw all opposition. A meeting was accord- ingly held, at which W. Brooks, Esq., took the chair, and put the question that a rate of 6d. in the pound should be granted. To this motion an amendment was proposed to the effect that the rate be postponed for six months. The rev. gentleman then saitl, if it were the wish of the inhabit- ants he would not oppose a subscription for the sum re- quired ; but Mr. Skipworth said he should wish now that the sense of the parishioners be taken to remove the impres- sion that he was the only person opposed to the rate. A division accordingly took place, when there were only three hands held up for the rate, and about forty against iif. The church party at Horncastle, not satisfied with being twice foiled in their attempts to obtain a Church- rate, made another attempt in a vestry meeting held on Friday se'nnight, when the show of hands being against a rate, a poll was demanded, and immediately opened. The contest continued until Wednesday at noon, when the church party, finding that notwithstanding the undue influence and coercion which had been used, the numbers opposed to the rate kept increasing, they declined the contest; when there appeared, against a rate, 270 ; for a rate, 242 : majority against a rate, 28. A meeting of the parishioners of Berwick- upon- Twced, called by the four churchwardens of the town, was held ill the parish- church on Thursday, to make a vote for rebuild- ing the churchyard wall, and for and towards the repairing of the said parish- church. Mr. Jerden, one of the church- wardens, stated that a rate of 2d. in the pound would bo required to carry the works contemplated into effect. Mr. W. Heron having moved, however, that the meeting do adjourn the further consideration of a Church- rate until that day twelve- months, a division took place, when there appeared in favour of Mr. Heron's amendment at least ten to one. A, poll was demanded by Mr. J. Ramsay, seconded by Mr. G. Robinson, but at the entreaty of several in favour of the rate, they withdrew their motion, and the meeting separated.— Scotsman A TITHE DISPUTE.— A considerable sensation has re- cently been excited in the agricultural district east of Wake- field by a dispute as to tithe, the termination of which has been regarded as a triumph on the part of the farmers. The disputants were Mr. C. Winn, of Nostell- hall, and Mr. i. Lindley, of Altofts. Mr. Winn claimed the tithe in kind; aud the question arose upon the mode of taking it on two fields of fallow wheat on Featherstone- common of about 23 acres. The tithe- owner insisted on his right of carrying every tenth shock, or stack; on the other hand, the tenant denied that he was bound to shock the wheat, and was desirous that the tithe should be taken on every tenth sheaf. A great many messages passed between them, but hoth parties were equally firm in maintaining their rights. The dispute was the talk of the whole country- side, and every person was anxious to render assistance. Mr. Lind- ley, however, at length out- generalled the tithe- owner, for, the wheat being cut, he went into the field at half- past four in the morning, with 17 vehicles and 41 persons, to take away the whole of the stacks, leaving the odd sheaves. At five minutes past five the word was given, and in less than twenty minutes the carts with the corn were all on the road. A thousand assistants might have been had at half an hour's notice if they had been required, so strong was the feeling on behalf of the farmer as opposed to the tithe- owner. The tithe- waggons did not arrive until after the clearance, and consequently did not carry off a single whole stack. UNIVELLSAL SUFFRAGE CLUB. ON Tuesday night, the adjourned public meeting, to dis- cuss the principles of this Club, purported to be formed in the borough of Finsbury, was held at the Northumberland Arms, Clerkenwell green. Mr. F. O'Connor and Mr. Hetherington were present. Mr. Whipple was in the Chair. m The CHAIRMAN said, several meetings had occasionally taken place to discuss the question of forming this Club. The adjournment of the last meeting was moved by Mr. Mason, who had objections to oiler, and who would be the first to address them that night. The working classes had to decide whether they would henceforth suffer oppression with impunity, or whether they would vigorously put their t shoulders to the wheel in the cause of freedom. ( Cheers.) The object of the proposed club was to improve the intel- lectual and moral character of the working classes; the club was to be maintained by subscriptions, and there was to be an institution connected with it of a superior descrip- tion, containing a library, and tall the periodicals and news- papers, and furnishing the working classes with every in- formation. Mr. MASON had objections to any club formed for esta- blishing universal suffrage. He considered universal suf- frage was a universal right; but he believed it was im 7 THE CHAMPION. practicable, anil that therefore any attempt towards it must be unreasonable. He would move a resolution which he thought contained all that was practicable and substantial in regard to the settlement of the elective franchise. He begged leave to move—" That it was the opinion of the Meeting that the Elective Franchise in Cities and Boroughs should be extended to all male Persons whose premises was abo^ e the value of 40s. per annum." Mr. ATKINS seconded the resolution. Mr. WILLIAMS said, a working man who gave his opi- nion directly and honestly, was bright in the eyes of his Maker. So many who had long pretended to advocate the cause of the working classes had, like villains, deserted them, that the spirits of the working classes were depressed. Universal suffrage was legitimate— the beggar was only a • bSggar through oppression, and he was the equal of any in' the eyes of God. He moved, as an amendment, that qne shilling should be the entrance fee to the Society. Mr. SHAREMAN seconded the amendment. Mr. HOGAN was surprised that Mr. Mason should say that universal suffrage, though a universal right, was im- practicable. If it was sanctioned by the laws of Providence it must be practicable. ( Hear, hear.) He produced a piece of bread and cheese, which he said was the allowance for twenty- four hours for a pauper under the Poor- law Bill. ( Hear, hear.) He had bought it from the pauper to show it to them ( Hear, hear.) It was a proof that universal suffrage was highly required. Mr. FERGUS O'CONNOR would say to his brother Radical, that if he had wanted a stimulus for establishing a Universal Suffrage Club, Mr. Mason would have abundantly furnished it. He had been taunted with going too far, and the people . of England had been taunted with being apathetic towards Ireland. But the people of England were Ireland's best friends. ( Cheers.) He would stand up for the people of England. ( Cheers.) When Mr. O'Connell had called for petitions from five hundred thousand of the English people, whom he had told to have peace on their lips and daggers in their hearts, he should not taunt him ( Mr. O'Connor), when he ( Mr. O'Connell) had suffered as much as his ( Mr. O'Connor's) family had suffered in the cause of Ireland, when he had refused the thousands of pounds, and the high dignities his ( Mr. O'Connor's) family had refused, when he had done such things, instead of receiving thou- sands of money, he might then stand forward and claim spplause. He ( Mr. F. O'Connor) was proud of having been the founder of the Radical Associations. He had been fourteen years before the public. Neither he nor his iamily had ever ate any thing derived from the industry of the people. No one could find two sentences of his in that course of time that were not of the same nature and con- sistent with each other. He had never contradicted him- self. He was not the person to call on " hereditary bonds- men to strike the blow," and himself shrink from the battle fiont. If he thought it necessary, he would advance to strike the first blow himself. ( Hear.) Both nations would ultimately be free. He wanted not licentiousness, but liberty temperedjby moderation. He asked, if universal siffrage took place would there be such oppression and such misery ? He denounced those who lamented the anount of the population, for it was the source of a na- tion's power. He denounced the poor- laws. Were he re- diced to want, and that piece of bread and cheese was only offered him which Mr. Hogan had shown them, he would cad on the very stones to mutiny ; he would march through England with it upon a standard. ( Cheers.) He could not agree with Lord Brougham. He ( Mr. F. O'Connor) had been basely and malignantly attacked by Mr. O'Con- ne! l. He was robed in the garb of honesty, and he stood boldly forward. ( Cheers.) He had ready prepared for the press his own defence, and then the people would see whether he or Mr. O'Connell was the real friend of liberty. He must oppose himself in the cause of the people to the strength of a great man, who for a long time had converted all public questions towards augmenting his own power and influence, and who made ministries tremble, and who had long sought to add to his own attraction. He ( Mr. O'Con- nor) would never utter a speech against the interests of the people. Mr. Randle, Mr. Cstmron, Mr. Green, two working men whose names we did not know, Mr. Sheen, Mr. Hethering- ton, and another, severally addressed the meeting. Only three hands were held up for the original motion, and the amendment was carried almost unanimously. Thanks were voted to the Chairman, after which the meeting separated. THE MURDER AT W'OODIIOUSE, LINCOLN. A most wanton murder was committed on a youth of only seventeen years of age, named THOMAS BURTON, at the above place, by a man named Johnson, the particulars of which will be found in the following evidence, delivered before Mr. John Gregory, at the Coroner's Inquest held on the body of the deceased, by a man who was present at the transaction, and who narrowly escaped himself Irom ex- periencing a similar fate:— JAMES ANURAVE examined'.— 1 am the son of Thomas Angrave, of Rushy- fields, Woodhouse, in the parish of Barrow- on- Soar. I, William Johnson, Thomas Biggs, and deceased, were mowing in a field of barley belonging to mi father on Saturday, September 2, and after we had partaken of bread- and- cheese and ale together, Johnson said he wanted more ale and would go and fetch some. I advised him not to do so, but to go on with his work; he, however, went, and, after an hour's absence, returned quite tipsy, smoking a pipe. He said, " There, you may think it well that I have come back as I have— you are such a d—( 1 fel- low for work." He then attempted to mow, and continued, though quite tipsy, during neatly two hours, during which he drank three horns more of ale. Shortly after this, on his coming near where I was mowing, finding that he was still very tipsy, and using his scythe very unskillfully, I told him to stand back. Immediately after 1 heard him say to Biggs ( a youth of 17), " Mow it up clean;" to which Biggs replied, " You don't point your's so well." In a moment, Johnson flew at Biggs, knocked him down, and throwing himself upon him, said " D— n your eyes! I'll do you now'." Deceased went up to them, and trying to pall Johnson off, was pulled down by him close to Biggs, when Johnson, who was a powerful man, beat them both most violently about the head and face. Being afraid he would have killed them I went up and struck Johnson on the head with the scythe- stick; I then pulled him off Biggs and held him down. On his promising to behave well, I let him get up, but, as soon as he was up, he sprang towards Biggs's scythe, seized it, and immediately struck deceased with it with all his might on the back of his left thigh. Burton said, " Will, you have killed rne — I shall die!" he got up and walked to the hedge side, where he fell, the blood flowing in a stream. I said to Johnson " You've killed Burton ;" he replied, " D n you ! I'll do for you alii or else I'll fetch my brother Harry and kill you all together." Jolmson then struck at me with the scythe, which would have cut both my legs had not Bigg's laid hold of his arms. Biggs let go of him and ran away ; he immediately struck at me agaii with the scythe, but I at the same moment struck him } n the head which knocked him down, and in falling he d ew the scythe across my hip, which inflicted a wound, in tie flesh. I then went to assist the deceased, Johnson folloving me, again striking at ine with the scythe, and I agaii knocked him down. On Johnson again striking ine, I seised him by the collar, and said, " Now, Will, you ought to ha'e had enough— look at poor Burton." His answer was,' D— n you altogether." I then tripped up his heels, threw him on the ground, and, leaving Biggs with Burton, 1 went " or assistance. Burton was brought home in a cart about half an hour afterwards, and, died about three quar- ters < f an hour after that time. Johnson lived with my ather some time since last Martlemas, and when sober, was a good workman, and conducted himself with propriety, but when drunk, quarrelsome and revengeful. This evidence comprised the whole of the facts, and was confirmed. Ver- dict, " Wilful murder against W. Johnson."— Lincoln Gazette. ATROCIOUS MURDER OF A RESPECTABLE FEMALE AT STAPLETON. BRISTOL, Sept. 12.— We regret to state that the imme- diate neighbourhood of our city has been made the scene of as brutal and cold- blooded a murder as any which dis- graces our criminal annals. On Saturday afternoon, in- formation was brought to the St. Philip's station- house that a woman had been murdered at Stapleton. Immediately upon the receipt of this intelligence, Mr. Inspector Garrard repaired to the spot, and was speedily followed by police- sergeants Alexander and Waltham. On arriving at the Mason's Arms, Stapleton, the officers there found the lifeless body of a respectably dressed female. Her death appeared to have been caused by her having received the contents of a pistol at the back of her head. The slugs with which the pistol had been loaded had entered just above the nape of the neck, and made their way through the brain upwards and forwards, until stopped by the frontal bone. The landlord informed the officers that between one and two on that day ( Saturday), the female in question ( who was about forty- five years of age), together with a young man attired in a white hat, plaid waistcoat and trousers, striped shirt, and dark coat, came to his house, and called for two small glasses of gin- and- water, which were sent into the parlour to them; the young man then came out of the room and borrowed a knife, for the purpose, as he said, of " cut- ting a bit of stick;" he then went for some time into the back yard, and when he returned the knife to the land- lady, she observed that he hung down his head, and ap- peared much agitated ; there was a notch in the knife when he brought it back. Determined to make him speak, she said, " It is stormy weather:" to which, after consider- able hesitation, he made an unconnected and vague reply; he then paid for the two glasses of gin- and- water, and he and his companion both went away, and turned up the road ; when a female saw them turn down Libbett's - lane, the entrance to which is about eight or ten yards from the Mason's Arms. Upon reaching the bottom of the lane, where there is a stone stile, another person saw them, and they turned back up the lane, the young man having his arm behind the woman's back. In a short time a man who was at work in a quarry, heard the report of a pistol or gun in the direction of the lane, but from its being Septem- ber, he took no notice of the circumstance; and in less than an hour from the time of her leaving the public- house, the unfortunate woman was brought back to it a murdered corpse, having been found lying dead in the lane, with her gown torn off ( the hooks and eyes of which were after- wards found in the lane), which, together with her shawl, was gone; her bonnet had also been removed, and the rib- bons torn off it ( the remains of the gown and bonnet rib- bon have since been found in a pond in the " Duchess's Park," as it is called); but there were evident marks of the shot having passed through it; her gloves were half off her hands, as if the murderer had attempted to take them off, but had been disturbed in his purpose. In her pocket was found 4s. 6d., and upon her finger was a gold ring with hair in it. She was found with one leg doubled under her, ap- parently from her struggles in the agonies of death. It appeared that the deceased was a Mrs. Lewis; who, hear- ing that her daughter and her husband were in Bristol, had coine from Monmouthshire to see them. The deceased's daughter had resided in Bath as a lady's maid; but a short time since she married a man named Robert Bartlett, who has been acting as a performer in one of the shows ( the Sans Pareil Theatre) during the late Bristol fair; in which capa- city he had very frequently, as is the practice here, fired off the pistol to draw attention to the exhibition. On the officers returning to Bristol, they immediately searched the lodgings of Bartlett in Barton- street, and learnt that Mrs. Lewis had been there with him at 12 o'clock on the day of her decease; that a few words arose between them, and she went out, followed by Bartlett, who did not return to his lodgings until between 5 and fi, whon he imme- diately changed his clothes and shirt. On searching the room, the officers found the striped shirt, white hat, dark coat, and plaid waistcoat and trousers, exactly answering the de- scription given by the landlord at Stapleton. In a pocket was discovered some powder, and a stick cut roughly for a ramrod : the stick was a hard wood of the same description as a bit left in the notch of the knife. The officers also found a double- barrelled pistol, which appeared to have been recently dischargetl. Yesterday ( Sunday) afternoon, as if by a strange fatality, Bartlett went to the house at Stapleton where the body was lying, apparently from curiosity, and upon entering the room, before he could see the face of the deceased, he ex- claimed, " Gootl God ! it is Mrs. Lewis, my mother- in law !" and threw himself upon the chair in a state of great agita- tion. He then wanted to go away, but the landlord got him to stay, and sent for the landlady and a Mrs. White, who had been in the room with Bartlett and the deceased, and they both identified him; he was consequently taken into custody, to await the result of the inquest. It is understood that the deceased was possessed of some property, which would come to him at her decease. On Monday an inquest was held at the Mason's Arms, Staplcton, before Wm. J. Ellis, Esq., Coroner, and a re- spectable jury. The body of the murdered female was ex- posed to the jury on a couple of tables, from which a great quantity of blood had run, so as nearly to cover the tables, as well as to completely saturate the floor. A surgeon who was examined stated that the pistol was discharged imme- diately behind the left ear, and that he had fountl four of the slugs lodged in the brain. Mrs. White, the landlady, identified the prisoner as the person who hatl been at her house in company with the deceased on Saturday afternoon. The prisoner accounted for having the pistol by saying it was for the purpose of making as much noise as possible at fairs, & c., stating that those who could, by such or other means, make most noise, generally ' succeeded best. He rather wished to call some witnesses, but was dissuaded from doing so by the Coroner, who advised him to remain silent, unless he should wish to ask any witnesses for the prosecution any questions. His behaviour was no other than appropriate for a person in his situation. After a lengthened investigation, a verdict of " Wilful Murder" was returned against Robert Bartlett, and he was accord- ingly committed by the Coroner to Gloucester jail for trial. — Bath Gazette. IMMENSE TRAFFIC ON THE PADDINGTON, HACKNF. Y, AND SURREY ROADS.— A few days since an inquiry was instituted, by order of the Stamp- office, for the purpose of ascertaining the real amount of duty which ought to be ren- dered, and also the value of the " time" or privilege of run- ning vehicles for the general accommodation of the public on the above roads. From the report it appears that on the road from Paddington to the Bank ( via Pentonville) there are 64 public conveyances ( omnibusses), and that they pass and repass between Paddington and the City thrte hun- dred and seventy times daily ! conveying, on the average, up- wards of 4,000 passengers. The toll received at the City- road gate upon these conveyances amounts to hi. and the duty to Government to 351. 8s. daily. On the Hackney- road ( including the long stages) there are 45 running daily 288 journeys; the toll is 6d. each journey, and Is. duty. On the Surrey- road, the immense amount of carriage traffic may at once be comprehended from the fact, that on Friday la3t the right of farming the tolls was put up for sale by auction at the Sessions House, Horsetnonger- lane, Newing- ton, when after a spirited contest, they were knocked down to a gentleman named Spencer, at the sum of 25,4jOA LOXUOH POIICE. MANSION- HOUSE. A young man, named William George Twitcham, was brought before Sir Chapman Marshall, charged with hav- ing plundered his master of a quantity of jewellery, watches, & c. The case excited a great deal of interest. Mr. HART, jeweller, of Bevis Marks, stated the prisoner was his warehouseman, and had lived in his employment fifteen or sixteen months. On Friday witness picked up in the counting- house a duplicate for a gold watch, and sus- pecting that foul play had been going on, went to the pawn- broker, and having ascertained that it was his property, requested that the pawnbroker would accompany him to his counting- house, and point out the person who had pledged the article. When the pawnbroker pointed out the prisoner as the party, witness accused another young man at the desk, who was also in his employment, saying to him, " You villain, you have been robbing me." The young man thus falsely charged began to cry bitterly, and declared that he had never done any thing of the kind, and the prisoner then addressed witness, and acknowledged that he ( the prisoner) was the thief. After some expressions of indignation witness went, accompanied by an officer, to the. prisoner's bed- room, and upon examining the trunks there, found in one of them a silver repeating watch, three parcels of duplicates, and a regular list of the pawned articles, all of which were witness's property, kept in a business- like manner, and showing that the prisoner bad commenced his work of robbery about a fortnight after he was taken into the concern. There were thirty- five duplicates, but witness could not ascertain the amount of the loss of pro- perty, as not more than a fifth or sixth part of the value had been lent. The duplicates had been issued from a great number of shops in different parts of the town. Sir C. MARSHALL.— Had you suspected him before ? Witness. — I had; I had some time ago missed an ounce and a half of wedding- rings, and nobody could find them ; and I have missed several articles, which, upon my com- plaining, found their way back next day, but whether from the pawnbroker's or not I do not know. But what excites my indignation most of all is, that nobody was at ease in the house for his religion; his pockets were stowed with religious tracts, and the Bible was a book of constant refer- ence and study to him. Sir C. MARSHALL.— I am sorry to say that that volume is often abused antl perverted to the very worst purposes. The policeman who took the prisoner into custody found several religious tracts in his pockets and trunks, and some letters from females. A copy of a letter of his own to a girl, expressive of bis strong love for her, although she refused to listen to his addresses, was found among his papers. It was evident from the whole correspondence that he had been associated with dangerous persons. Sir C. MARSHALL asked the prisoner whether he wished to say any thing ? He shook his head, which he had covered during the examination with his handkerchief, but said nothing.— Re- manded. Mr. James Honeywood, the son of the Apothecary to the City Dispensary, in Queen- street, Cheapside, appeared to answer the complaint of a young woman named Sarah Jacobs, who made a statement to the following effect:— The complainant, who appeared to be in her 19th year, went on Monday week to the Dispensary, to procure a bottle of medicine for her father, who had received medical advice there. Mr. Honeywood served her immediately, and asked her to walk into the back parlour. The moment she entered the room he locked the door, and proceeded to make very free. She squealed, but he regarded it not, and she prayed him to desist, but he was the more deter- mined to insult her. Sir CHAPMAN MARSHALL.— Did you struggle to get away ? Complainant.— 1 did all I could to get away. When I got home I told my mother, and I was so frightened that I kept iny bed from Monday till Saturday. The Defendant.— There were fifty patients in waiting at the time, and if she cried out she must have been heard. Julia Jacobs, mother of the complainant, said that her daughter was greatly terrified upon returning home, and could not speak for some time. The defendant said that the complainant's accusation was altogether false. Her conduct was marked with the greatest levity. So far from asking her to go into the parlour, which was the doctor's room, he was astonished to find her there, and as for locking the door, there was no key nor fastening at all to the door. An errand- boy of the Dispensary stated that he was in the shop while the complainant was in the parlour, and if she had cried out he must have heard her. Mr. Honeywood, sen., said that his son was a lad of habits quite different from those which had been described. The Complainant.— He says that there was no key in the lock, and he knows that he locked the door and put the key in his pocket, and that boy was not there at all. Policeman, No. 20, said that he had examined the lock and found that the key- hole was stuffed with paper, which had been evidently in it for a long time, for there were cob- webs about it. Witness swore that he saw the complainant come from the Dispensary on the day the assault was said to have been committed, and say to the defendant, who stood at the door, " Good bye, good bye, I'll come again." He also swore that she skipped about as full of life and as jolly as if somebody had made her a present. He swore too, that he saw her on Tuesday morning again, tripping along with another female and two men. Complainant assured the Alderman that there was not one word of truth in the officer's statement. Sir CHAPMAN MARSHALL— I don't see that I can go further in the matter. The policeman can have no interest in telling a falsehood. I discharge the case. The young man . bowed, and appeared to be much gratified at the decision. HATTON- GARDEN. On Monday Joseph Harris, a sweep, was brought before Mr. LAING, charged with creating a disturbance. Police constable, 52 G, stated that he saw a mob of from 100 to 200 persons about the defendant, who, refusing to go away when requested, was taken into custody by witness in order to quell the tumult. Mr. LAING asked the prisoner his reason for behaving in the manner described by the policeman ? Defendant— I didn't bring the people togither, your Ver- ship. It was a lot a chaps what called alter me " Who are you?'' " Why ( says 1), I'm a sweep, and vants a job." Then says one of the kiddys, " Hookey; d'ye think I'd em- ploy a feller that's been in Newgate, and becase he thought he'd get scragged, made his lucky up the wall and made his ' scape ?" Veil, yer Vership, I'm not Villiams that got out a Newgate, and I told ' em so, but it was no go. One says, " Who are you ?" and another cries out, " That' 3 Vil- liams, the sweep;" and that vas the vay that the folks came round me. ( Bursts of laughter.) The policeman said he had heard, since he locked the de- fendant up, that he was not the first aggressor. The prisoner was discharged. A RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCE.— Bridget Tobbin, an elderly Irishwoman, was brought up, charged by Mr. Flemming, the landlord of the Horse and Groom public- house, Turn- mill- street, Clerkenwell, with being drunk, and having created a disturbance. The complainant stated that Tuesday morning the pri- soner entered his house and called for a pennyworth of gin, which she drank off, and called for another. She then com- menced speaking in a most sublime manner to some of his customers, who, finding that her tongue was tipped with the brogue, began to joke with her about Mr. O'Connell and his acquaintances, and one of them asked Biddy whether she was a Protestant or a Catholic ? Bi- ldv took up the cudgels for O'Connell, and vowed tha'. she was born a Catholic, antl she would die one, and that Mr. O Connell was the " saviour " of her counthry; an argument of a mo , t lib tritse nature then took place, and Biddy was asked whether she had paid her " rent," which seemed to affect her honour so deeply that she called ' em a set of beasts, an I, going outside, caused a mob of about 50 persons to assemble; it was, consequently, found necessary to give her into custody. Biddy, who declaimed in a nervous manner outside the office against the party who brought her there, on being placed before Mr. Bennett made a low curtsey, and stood with affected kindness until she was a- ked what she had to say to the charge, when she saitl, « • Oh! your werchip, I was never brought before such a gintleinan as yourself before, and it's a pity 1 should be brought now.' Mr. BENNETT: What have you to say for creating a dis- turbance ? Biddy: Sure, then, it was themselves that caused it, and not I; I'm not dhriink or foolish. Mr. BENNETT : What have you to say to the charge ? Biddy: 1 paid for what 1 had, and they turned me out. Didn't I hear ' em abusing my religion, anil they inther- fared when they blew up O'Connell and myself, and I tould ' em they wi re a pack of blackguard deyists, and begged them to lave me and my religion alone, when they put me out. Complainant: It isn't the first time that she has made a noise and disturbance at my house. Biddy: Hold your tongue— isn't there justice for me as well as for you ? Mr. BENNETT: Certainly. Will you promise me never to go and make a disturbance at his house again ? Biddy: Sure, then, I'll do that thing, your honour, if you'll let me. Mr. BENNETT : Then go home immediately, and take care that you are not brought here again, or 1 " must order you to find bail. Biddy knelt down, and having ejaculated, " May heaven bless vour honour," made her exit. UNION- HALL. On Saturday, a lad, about 16 years of age, nan ed Henry Bax, was brought before Mr. Traill, charged with stealing thirteen sovereigns and four half sovereigns, the money of his masters, Messrs. Chandlers and Co., ntnserymen, Cam- berwell; and Thomas Bristow was charge I, on suspicion of receiving a portion of the money, well knowing it to have been stolen. The facts of the case were rather singular. Emerson, a policeman, V 149, stated that when he was on dijty on Friday night he saw Bax nea ly naked; he asked him where he was going, and on hearing the prisoner speak, witness instantly knew him. He said to him, " Is not your name Bax?" and upon the prisoner saying it was, the witness replied, " Well, I shall take you into custody, you know for what." The prisoner said he did— it was for stealing fifteen pounds from his masters. The prisoner then acknowledged that he had done so, and stated that on Wednesday week he went into the counting- house to speak to Mr Chandler, senior, but not seeing him there he opened the desk and took out. of a canvas bag the money in question. He afterwards laid it out in clothes, of which he purchased three suits, and other things which he gave to Bristowand another lad named Thacker. Witness went and apprehended Bristow, but had been unable to find Thacker. Mr. Chandler, jun., who had been in the office during the whole time the policeman had made his statement came to the bar, and said they hatl not missed any money, and there- fore had no charge to make against the prisoner. Mr. TRAILL: Well this is most curious: how did you come by the money prisoner?— Prisoner: It is all true that the policeman has stated : I robbed my employers of it. Mr. TRAILL ( evidently greatly surprised) : You hear what the prisoner states, Mr. Chandler, aud, from the articles produced, 1 think there can be very little doubt that you have ben robbed. Mr. Chandler: I can assure your Worship that we have not; we have taken great trouble in going through our books, and we find since Midsummer a deficiency of only 22s.; besides on the day on which the prisoner said he took the money, 1 know of my own knowledge that there was not so much money in the bag. Mr. TRAILL : Well, it's a most singular case : what motive can the boy have to accuse himself if he lias not robbed you? Prisoner: It's all true that I have told your Worship: I took the gold out of the canvas bag, and at the time 1 did so there was a check and some notes there. Mr. Chandler: It's true that there were some notes and a cheque in the bag, but there was not so much gold. I really think the prisoner must have trumped up this story for the purpose of covering some other robbery. The money in our desk is taken out every night, when the accounts are made up; it is therefore impossible we could lose 15/. with- out knowing it. The prisoner again positively declared that he had taken the money : not only had he purchased the clothes that he had stated, but a brace of pistols — one for 16s. ami the other for 14s.; antl he had also given a suit of clothes to Thacker, to whom he stated that he had robbed his masters. He had not told Bristow how he had got the money. He was totally destitute at present, and had been hiding his head in hedges and ditches since Friday week. Mr. TRAILL felt no doubt that the statement of the pri- soner was true, and under that impression he should remand him till Monday, to give time to capture Thacker. As to Bristow, according to the prisoner's ovn statement, he was not aware that the prisoner had robbeJ his masters, and therefore he should discharge him. Mr. Chandler, on leaving the office, again declared that he had no charge against the prisoner. At a subsequent examination the boy was committed for trial. MARYLEBONE- OFFICE. On Monday, Miss Frances Blunt, a young lady of very re- spectable connexions, residing at No. 36, King- street, Cam- den- town, was brought up in custody, and placed at the bar, charged with having stolen a pair of violet- coloured kid gloves, the property of Mr. C. V. Smith, silk mcrcer, haberdasher, & c., 120, Tottenhain- court- road. Edward Bull ( shopman to the prosecutor; deposed, that between 8 and 9 o'clock on Saturday evening the prisoner and another female entered the shop, when the firmer a* ketj to look at some kid gloves which were in the window. Witness accordingly took out several pairs and placed them on the counter, but none of them were approv d of; the prisoner then expressed a wi- h to look at some - ilk ones, and ultimately purchased a pair for Is. l£ d.; she was then with her companion going away, when witness missed a pair of the kid gloves first alluded to, anil taxed her with the robbery, but she firmly protested her innocence, and seemed much surprisetl at the imputation cast upon her character. Witness, however, being quite convinced that she was the thief, opened the I d cf a white wicker- basket which she carried in her ha. id, and found therein the gloves which she had purchased, together with tho- e stolen ; a constable was called in, and she was conveyed to the station- house. Mr. RAWL NSON ( to the prisoner): What can you have to say for yourself ? Prisoner ( bursting into tears): It's the first offence of the kind I ever committed. Sir, I can assure you ; and I don't know what could have impelled me in this instance to dis- honesty. There are many respectable persons who have known me for years, aud will come forward to give me the best of characters. Mr. RAWLINSON: It's a melancholy thing to see a young female like you in such a situation, and 1 have no other alternative but to commit you for trial. She was then removed from the bar in an agony of grief, and the witnesses were bound over to prosecute. 292 THE CHAMPION. 1.1XHST OTELLIGESC ® . REVOLUTION IN PORTUGAL. ( FROM SATURDAY'S PAPERS.) LISBON, Sept. 10.— The Constitution of 1820 was pro- claimed this morning, and agreed to by the Queen, subject to the modification of the Cortes. The Government were taken by surprise, and the troops of the line, upon whom they relied, were the first to side with the National Guard, particularly the 5th Cacadores, of which. his Royal Higness Prince Ferdinand is colonel. The Viscount de Sa da Ban- deira and Count de Lumiares have received her Majesty's commands to form the new ministry. Symptoms of a disturbance were manifest yesterday, about three p. m., when the Terceira steam- boat, from Oporto, bringing the opposition deputies from the northern provinces was entering the Tagus; groups of people as- sembled on the different wharfs, and as the public were prohibited from letting off rockets by an edict from the civil governor, dated the 7th instant — evidently done to prevent their friends from welcoming them on their arrival — they stationed boats on the river, and did so as the steamer approached. At four p. m. the repre- sentatives landed at the Praca de Commercio, where a large concourse was awaiting them with a band of music, playing the hymn of 1820, which they preceded in proces- sion, all wearing white hats. Vivas were frequently given, and at intervals " Viva a Constituciao de 1820," was dis- tinctly heard. They passed through to Rua Augusta, followed by the Commandant of the Municipal Guard, when all of a sudden they shouted vivas for the Constitution of 1820, and requested the Commandant to do the same, who answered, " Viva a Carta, e a Rainha!" An ill- natured fellow from a window threw a bottle at him, and the popu- lace began to pelt him with stones. During the affray his horse was stabbed, and he was at last under the necessity of taking to flight to save himself. At sunset the drums of the National Guard beat to arms, some of them assembling in their barracks, and up to ten o'clock all was still without the appearance of a tumult, and it was not until that hour that some secret clubs met that a revolution was determined upon, which they very quietly carried into effect by draw- ing up an address to the Queen, couched, I am told, in very respectful language, expressing their loyalty to her person, and pointing out to her that the critical state of the nation denianded the Constitution of 1820, and a total change of the ministry, which was presented to her Majesty by a deputation composed of an officer chosen from each corps, at the palaee of Necessidades, at four o'clock this morning ( where her Majesty arrived from Cintra last even- ing), which her Majesty assented to, subject to the modi- fication of the Cortes when they meet. Immediately after- wards Don Thomas de Mello Bryuer, one of the Lords in Waiting, was sent to the Rocio- square, where the National Guards and troops of the line are under arms waiting the result, then commanded by General George de Avillez ( Viscount de Requego), but had been during the night by an ex- deputy, Manoel Soares Caldeira, colonel of militia, to acquaint him with her Majesty's determination ( when the castle of St. George and the Portuguese ships of war in the Tagus fired a royal salute), and to request that he would order the soldiers to their respective quarters, but they resolved upon first marching to the palace, where they gave enthusiastic vivas to the Queen and Constitution of 1820, and peaceably retired. The Moniteur of Thursday, which we have received with the other Paris papers of that day, does not contain the pro- mised appointments to the vacant Ministries of War and Commerce. Up to a late period of Thursday these offices remained still vacant. A telegraphic dispatch forwarded from Paris to Toulon on the 10th inst., directed that the line- of- battle ships the Jupiter, and the Suffren, and the Dryade frigate, should proceed immediately to Port Vendres, to convey to Africa 3000 troops assembled in that town. M. de Medem, first secretary to the Russian embassy at Paris, had lelt town for Valencay, the seat of Prince Talley- rand. The Madrid papers of the 7th inst. reached Paris on Thursday, but contain nothing of importance, except that the Madrid Gazette declares the statements in the Paris journals, and particularly those of the Moniteur of the 29th of August last, which represented the Spanish capital as the prey of anarchy and disorder, and described the Queen Regent as being little else than a prisoner, are gross calum- nies. A company of merchants is at present building at Bristol a steam- vessel, of 1200 tons burden, to navigate di- rectly between that port and New York. EMIGRATION.— There are no fewer than eight emi- grant vessels at present loading in the St. Katherine Docks for Sydney, New South Wales. Lord Denman will attend chambers to transact public business, on Monday and Tuesday next, at 12 o'clock at noon. FIRES.— A Fire broke out last night at the bottom of Durham- street, Strand, and another in Martlett's- court, Bow- street, but they were attended with very little loss. At the former house, horses had narrowly escaped de- struction. The situation held by the late Sir Francis Freeling, of Secretary to the Post- office, has been, we are informed, conferred by the Treasury on Colonel Maberly. Sir Henry Freeling succeeds Colonel Maberly as one of the Commis- sioners of Customs, and one of the senior clerks of the Post- office will be appointed to succeed Sir Henry Free- ling. These appointments have been made by the Lords of the Treasury, and not by the Post- office authorities.— Courier. Alderman Kelly will, it is supposed, succeed this year in rotation to the Mayoralty without any opposition. The Hon. Randall Plunkett will, it is alleged, come forward for Dublin City, with Mr. Hamilton, as the candi- date of the Orange party. TITHE COMMUTATION BILL.— The three tithe com- missioners we find are ready for work. Circulars have been forwarded to all the parishes, inclosing forms of the requisite notices for meetings of land- owners and tithe- owners, whereat the commutation of the tithe for a fixed rent, which is the object of the Bill, may be at once and amicably arranged without the intervention of the com- pulsory process. Married at Bishop's Stoke, Hants, on the 13th inst., by the Rev. John Gamier, Fellow of Merton College, Ox- ford, the Rev. Charles Pilkington, Rector of Stockton, Warwickshire, to Maria, only daughter of the Rev. Thomas Gamier, Prebendary of Winchester Cathedral. Died at Eastling, Kent, Mr. John Drury, aged 101, leaving a widow, his second wife, aged 94. His eldest son, now living, by a former wife, is 75, and another son 73. It is said he has living kindred down to the fifth generation. The number of poor from Ireland applying for relief at the Glasgow Police- office is so great, and their cir- cumstances so distressing, that the captain and officers feel themselves greatly embarrassed. The superintendent of the vagrant department states that 501. a day would not be enough to pay the passage of those who wish to re- turn home and cannot find the means. On the 10th inst. the Prince of Capua and his lady sailed from Marseilles for Malta, on board the steamer Napoleon. LATEST POLICE. MARYLEBONE- OFFICE.—( SATURDAY.) SCOTCH DUEL EXTRAORDINARY.— Yesterday, Alexander M'Donald and John Fraser, two well- dressed young Scotch- men; fresh frae the gude town of Edinburgh, were placed at the bar, before Mr. SHUTT, charged with the following very extraordinary behaviour:— It appeared from the evidence, that, at an early hour the previous morning, an " affair of honour " came off at Chalk Farm, between the prisoner Fraser and another Scotchman equally raw. They were accompanied to the field by M'Donald, who acted in the double capacity of surgeon and second to the belligerents. The ground having been duly measured, a large horse- pistol was placed in the hands of each of the doughty champions, who became mutually alarmed at the " note of preparation," and roared loudly for quarter, each declaring that he had already received ample satis- faction, in being nearly " frightened to death." Hostilities having immediately ceased, the parties adjourned to an ad- jacent public house, where their animosities were drowned in bumbers of brandy- and- water, till they got so intoxicated, that they were frequently brought to the ground without the aid of powder and ball. The two prisoners having lost their companion, were reeling along in this state through Perry Street, Somers Town, towards their lodgings, 4, Charles Street, Hainpstead Road, when they made a halt at the house of Mr. Perry, a gentleman well known, and being pot valiant, endeavoured to force an entrance with their duelling pistols. Mr. Perry being alarmed at such very extraordinary conduct, sent for Serjeant Cooper, 19 D, who conveyed the heroes to the station- house, when they gave the above nar- ration of the " duel," and expressed regret at having cut such a ridiculous figure. On searching them, a pair of formidable pistols were found, and in their pockets, by way of ammunition, a quantity of Scotch barley, and a little loose powder, together with other curious items, which were produced, and caused much merriment. In answer to questions from the Magistrate, the constable said that though the prisoners were well primed and charged with brandy and water, the pistols were both empty. The prisoners under these circumstances were discharged, on paying 5s. each for being drunk. 8FOHT1XG. TATTERSALL'S.— Thursday was the last public betting day in London previous to the Doncaster races, which com- mence on Monday next. Owing to the number of depar- tures the attendance was less numerous than on Monday, and the betting not so brisk. The Brother to St. Giles was in increased favour, 2 to 1 having been taken in the first instance, and 200 to 110 after; the last offers against him were 7 to 4. Elis was in equal demand at half a point less than the odds quoted on Monday. Trapball also advanced, busi- ness being almost exclusively confined to these three. 20 to one was betted against Wedge, and 30 to 1 against Gla- diator, to small sums; but from the general anxiety to bet against them, it would appear that their chances are out. It is not expected that the field will exceed fifteen. Closing prices : — 7 to 4 agst Mr. W. Scott's Brother to St. Giles ( take 75 to 40) 4 to 1 agst Lord Lichfield's Elis ( take 9 to 2) 9 to 1 agst Hon. E. Mostyn's Trapball ( take 10 to 1) 9 to 1 agst Mr. Bird's Redshank ( no backers) 10 to 1 agst Mr. Allanson's Vulture. 13 to 1 agst Mr. Orde's Beeswing ( taken) 15 to I agst Hon. J. WTestenra's Wedge ( 20 to 1 taken) 25 to 1 agst Lord Wilton's Gladiator ( 30 to 1 taken) 30 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Carew 40 to 1 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's Ebberston ( taken) The field for choice against the two favourites. At the Curragh on Wednesday, Mr. Osborne's Maria won the Wellington renewal stakes of30/., beating Mr. Disney's Birdcatcher, the favourite. Colonel Westenra's Thump won the King's plate of 100/. for any horse, four mile heats, beating Mr. Knox's Barefoot and Lord Miltown's Argirio. Mr. Maher's colt, by Drone, won the 3rd class Portarling- ton stakes of 15/., for colts and fillies, beating Mr. Manst field's colt, by Blacklock. On Thursday, Mr. Davis's Lang- ford won the King's plate of 100 guineas for 3 years old, and Colonel Westenra's Windfall the 2nd class Port stakes of 50/. Mr. Barry's Waitawhile won the 1st class Corin- thian's of 10/., and 30/. added, for race horses and hunters. The celebrated American trotter, Confidence, pur- chased for the late Duke of Gordon, was sold on Tuesday, at Tattersall's, for 235 guineas, to Mr. Collins, the dealer. He is a bright bay, with black legs, stands fifteen hands and an inch, and is reported to have trotted 20 miles an hour in harness ! The sulky and harness fetched only fifteen guineas and a half. At a vestry meeting held on Thursday last in St. Margaret's parish, Mr. John Arnold, churchwarden, in the chair, it was moved by the churchwarden, and seconded by Mr. Curtis, that there be a Church- rate of 2s. in the pound. It was moved by Mr. Richard Barlow, and seconded by Mr. John Winter, that the rate be taken into consideration that day twelve months, which motion was carried by a con- siderable majority.— Norwich Mercury. THE NAPOLEON WILLOW.— Mr. Loudon's inquiry about the St. Helena willow has elicited extensive informa- tion on that important subject; and we have been in- formed that a slip from the large willow- tree which droops over the grave of the late Emperor Napoleon was brought to this country in the year 1831 from St. Helena, in the Rouge Frigate, by Corporal Thos. Hague, of the Royal Ma- rines, and presented by him to his old officer, Captain George Desbrow, 10, King- street, St. James's, in whose garden it may now be seen a vigorous and flourishing plant, affording a cooling shade to a spring of the purest water. ELOPEMENT AND DUEL.— An elopement, which, from the parties being well known, has excited no small degree of sensation in this neighbourhood, took place some days since from Southsea. The lady ( who is of English birth) is the wife of Major Masson, an officer in the Hano- verian service; and the companion of her flight Lieutenant F. Campbell, R M., a widower. The injured husband, who was led to believe that his wife was on a visit to her mother, was a stranger to the circumstance until some days had elapsed. On proceeding to London to join her he traced Madame M. to a lodging in Regent- street, where he dis- covered her in company with Lieutenant C., with whom she was there residing. The nature of the ' interview can be well imagined ; it ended with Major M. calling upon Lieut. C. to meet him in the field, an invitation which Lieut. C. declined. Major M. then struck him twice, and told him if he still persisted in his refusal he would post him as a coward. This threat having availed, it was agreed that they should meet at Dover, which they did accordingly on Saturday last. Mr. White, of Newbury, was the second of Major M.; and Lieutenant March, a brother officer, was the second of Lieutenant C. When the signal was given to fire Lieut. C. discharged his pistol in the air; upon which Major M., dropping that which he held, advanced towards Lieut. €., and told him that the respect he bore his father induced him to refrain from firing at him ; adding, that neither his ( Lieut. C.' s) death, or of fifty such, could atone for the deep injury he had sustained, or restore his lost peace of mind. Major M. then extorted a solemn pledge from Lieut. C. that he would hold no communication with Madame Masson' ( who had accompanied him, Lieut. C., to Dover!) until he had obtained a divorce, for which he said he should at once commence proceedings. Madame M. is 24, Major M. about 45 years of age.— Hampshire Tele- graph. THE MAKItFTS. THE FUNDS AND THE MONEY MARKET. The Funds this week, as for several weeks past, have been generally devoid of business ; owing to the great scarcity of money, which has been this week again the all- absorbing topic of interest and conversation, to the shutting- out almost of everything else, domestic or foreign. The scarcity is made for the purpose of ensuring the ends of the Bank of England, which has caused a great outcry against itself by raising its rate of discount to 5 per cent.; which has discountenanced the discounting of American bills; and which has brought itself as much as possible into contact with the Joint- Stock Banks. The reason assigned by the Bank for refusing to discount American bills, is, that such discounts furnish means for the transmission of gold to the United States. The consequence of these steps on the part of the Bank has been, that money has become exceedingly scarce, and terms of discount very high: as much as ( if per cent., we hear, has been paid for discounting the best American bills. Five per cent, has been currently paid as discount on banker's bills; and even merchants will not discount their own acceptances at less than 5 per cent. It has been said that some of them of great repute would do this lower; but this is not the fact. As much as 1 per cent, advance has been paid for carrying Con- sols to the next account; which, to those familiar with such transactions, will be known to be a very exorbitant payment. All these facts go to show how scarce cash has been made by those movements of the Bank which we have already detailed. The greatest complaints have prevailed in all quarters here at this made scarcity of money; and the consequence has been, the great abridgement of all monetary and com- mercial transactions. Prices generally in the wholesale mercantile markets have not given way; but it is now a contest between parties, and the result will show which is the strongest: prices are expected to give way and failures to follow. The Funds have been the subject of very little business on the whole this week. Indeed, it is not to be expected that monied men, who can get 5 to 6 per cent, off the Stock Exchange, should invest their money in the Funds, where they can get from 3 to 3j only. The non- arrivals of the French Mails, due on Tuesday and Wednesday, until Thurs- day morning, owing as it has since proved to be tempestu- ous weather, operated otherwise than favourably on public securities, by keeping people in doubt and uncertainty. Consols were 91 on Monday; on Tuesday, 90^ £; and on Wednesday, 90£ account, and 89JI money. Thursday was the settling day in the English market. Consols were then 90 account and 89£ money; but they afterwards got up late in the day to 89J, 90 money, and to 90£ ^ account. It was supposed that the Rothschilds had been in the market to support it; and that the improvement in prices was attri- butable to that circumstance. Exchequer Bills have been 1 pin.! a price which created a great sensation. Their low price is owing to the great quantity in the market. The settling in the English market went off satisfactorily; the balances were not heavy. Spanish Bonds were 29^ 30 on Monday; 28| on Tuesday ; 28i on Wednesday; and 28| 29 on Thursday. The highest price of Portuguese 5 per cent. Regency Bonds in that time was 69; the lowest, 64 ; on Thursday they were 6; i£ 64, and the Threes 39$ 40. Dutch Stock fell all at once 2 per cent, on Wednesday. One Stock went down from 55 J to 52j, and another from 103} to 101^. Columbian and Mexican Stocks have also declined. The following notice was posted on Thursday at the Bank of England:— " The Governor and Company of the Bank of England do hereby give notice that they will make advances on the security of the certificates given by the Paymasters of Ex- chequer Bills, for such bills now advertised as have been delivered into the Exchequer Bill Office, for the purpose of being exchanged for new Bills. Such advances to be re- paid on or before the 20th of October next, together with interest at the rate of 51. per ccnt. per annum. " Bank of England, Sept. 15." It is said that upwards of forty country bankers were present at the meeting of the Bank proprietors held on Thursday. Friday's quotations of the Funds were steady, and the rates of discount a little easier. Consols 90 money, and 90a account. Spanish Bonds, 29. Portuguese, 5 per cents. 64£}, and the Threes 40£ J. On Saturday we had news of a revolution in Portugal in a second edition of the Times. Portuguese 5 per cent. Regency Bonds went down to 4 per cent.; were quoted at 60 and 61, no buyers. Spanish Bonds 28J. Consols 89J, 90 money; 90| account. THE LONDON PROVISION MARKETS. GRAIN MARKET.— The supplies on Monday were good, and the unpropitious state of the weather for the harvest caused all kinds of grain almost to advance:— Wheat ad- vanced Is. to 2s. per quarter on the prices of the Monday previous; Ship Flour advanced Is. per sack; Malt rose Is. to 2s. per quarter ; Oats were 6d per quarter higher; Old Beans, Is. to 2s. per quarter higher; Peas, 2s. per quarter higher. The following were the prices at the close of Mon- day's market:— Red Wheat, 38s. to 50s. per quarter ; Old to 54s.; White, 45s. to 57s.; New Rye, 32s. to 34s.; Malt- ing Barley, 38s. to 40s.; Chevalier, 38s. to 40s.; Grinding, 30s. to 33s.; Distilling 31s. to 34s.; Malt ranged from 45s. to 63s.; New Tick Beans, 34s. to 35s.; Old, 36s. to 40s.; Harrow, 35s. to 38s.; Pigeon, 42s. to 46s.; White Peas, 34s. to 36s.; New Boilers, 39s. to 41s.; Grey and Maple, 36s. to 38s.; Oats, English feed, 23s. to 25s.; Polands, 25s. to 27s.; Scotch, 24s. 6d. to 25s. 6d.; Potatoe, ' 27s. to 28s.; Irish, 21s. to 24s. 6d.; Flour, 33s. to 48s. per sack. On Wednes- day there was a short supply, and no variation in any of these prices. The following Corn Averages were issued by Government on Thursday; but from some unaccountable cause, the duty was not stated:— WEEKLY AVERAGE. Wheat 17s Bailey 34s Oils 23s 7d I Beans 4ls 5< l Rye 32s 4( 1 | Peas 85s 9d SIX WEEKS AVERAGE. Wheat 49s Oil I Oats 23s 7( 1 I Beans 40s 8d Barley 32s 5d | Rye 33s Sd J l'eas 35s 4d GRAIN MARKET, FRIDAY.— Trade dull; the supply fair. Owing to bad weather the Wheat rose 6d. to Is. per qr. on Monday's prices; and Oats 6d. per qr. Everything else unaltered. MEAT MARKET.— Supplies of killed meat good, and prices much as last week. Beef, 3s. to 4s.; Mutton, 3s. 2d. to 4s. 2d.; Veal, 3s. 8d. to 4s. 4( 1.; Lamb, 5s. to 5s. 6( 1.; Irish Pork, 3s. to 3s, 4d.; English, 3s. 4d. to 3s. 8d. per stone of 8 lbs. SMITHFIKLD MARKET, FRIDAY.— Prices rather lower for everything:— Beef, 3s. to 4s. 4d.; Mutton, 3s. 4d. to 4s. fid.; Lamb, 4s. 4d. to 5s.; Veal, 4s. to 5s. 4d.; Pork, 4s. 4d. to 5s.; Irih, 3s. 8d. to 4s. Beasts, 390; Sheep and Lambs, 7300 ; Calves, 210 ; Pigs, 515. NEWGATE AND LEADENIIALL.— Prices to day not lower, and the supplies good: Beef, 3s. to 4s.; Mutton, 3s. to 4s. 2d.; Veal, 3s. lOd. to 4s. 8d.; Pork, 3s. lOd. to 5s. 2d ; Lamb, 3s. 4d. to 4s. 4d. per stone of 8 lbs. Fowls, 4s. to 6s. per couple; Geese, 5s. to 6s. each; Hares, 3s. 6d. to 4s.; Rabbits, lid. to Is.; Grouse, 10s. to 12s. per dozen; Partridges, 2s. 6d. to 3s. per brace. PROVISION MARKET.— Most kinds of provisions have been looking up, and a good business has been done in Butter:— Landed Cork sells at 100s., and 10? s. have been asked ; Landed Limerick, 96s. to 98s.; Landed Waterford, 98s to 100s.; Landed Sligo, 96s. to 98s.; Fine Friezland has sold readily at 102s., and 104s. is now demanded. 90s. have been obtained for fine quality of Scotch Butter. Thejfe is no variation in the price of Bacon, from last week. Water- ford Bladdered Lard is 70s. to 72s. English Cheese has been in brisk demand, and is high -. — Old Wiltshire, 57s. to 71s.; New, 56s. to 70s.; Cheshire, 63s. to 76s.; Derby Coloured, 64s. to 68s. York Hams, 68s. to 74s.; Cumberland, 54s. to 64s. Scotch Eggs, 5s. to 5s. 6( 1. per 100. Good Potatoes, 71. to 8/. per ton; Middling, 31. to 41.; Chats, 21. to 21. 10* FISH MARKET.— At Billingsgate the supplies have been' good, and prices reasonable. Cod, 2s. to 8s.; and for good Salmon, 9d. to Is. per lb. Turbot deer, 5s. to 20s. each. Soles 6d. to 2s. per pair. Milton Oysters, 5s. per barrel. COAL MARKET.— Coals are getting dearer, and more business is transacting. Lowest price of coals, not Walls- end, 18s. 6d.; best price of Walls- end, 22s. 6d. per ton. HAY MARKETS.— The great quantity of green food now out in the fields renders the demand for dry provender very slender; and prices have declined 2s. per load this week. Meadow Hay 73s. to 93s.; Clover, 78s. to 98s.; Straw, unaltered, 30s. to 33s. per load. WOOL MARKET.— The large public sales of Wool are pro- gressing; and although at first scarcely such good prices were realized on some kinds, owing to their not being in such good condition, since, they have fetched the prices of the last public sales. A great number of the trade have at- tended these sales. Better qualities of Australian fetched" 2s. 4d. to2s. 10d.; inferior, and in the grease, Is 2( 1. to2s. 2d. per lb. Fair German has fetched 2s. Id. to 2s. 8Jd. per lb. FRIDAY.— From the prices of Wool quoted above, this commodity, in consequence of the scarcity of money, hat1 declined 2d. per lb. OIL MARKET.— Fish Oils, owing to the bad success in the fisheries, keep advancing. 49/. per ton is now asked for Cod Oil. Pale Seal is 47/. to 48/.; fine Southern has sold at 41/.; Sperm is 80/. to 81/.; Linseed Oil is 41s. on the spot, and 40s. for delivery. Pale Rape is 51s., and brown 50s. TALLOW MARKET.— P. Y. C. has been 44s. to 44s. 3d, and in some instances 44s. fid, on the spot; for delivery, 43s. 9d. to 44s. per cent. Town Tallow 47s. fid. per cwt. GROCERY MARKET.— Very little done, owing to the scarcity of money; prices, however, continue firm. B. P. Sugar sells at 66s. for the lowest, 68s. for middling, and 71s. for the best price. Mauritius Sugar has declined 6d. per cwt. Other kinds of Raw Sugar are increased from the price of last week.— Coffee. In this commodity very little public business has been done; prices, however, re- main unmoved. Ordinary up to fine middling Jamaica, 86s. 6d. to 130s.; low middling and middling 104s. to 108s. 6d.; fine to fine, fine ordinary, 95s. to 102s. 6d. No public sales in any other kind but British Plantation; prices are expected to be lower. TEA.— There has been a great public sale of Free Trade Tea: not a tenth part of what has been put up has sold. Imperial and Gunpowder have gone 4d. per lb. lower, and other sorts a shade lower; but the quantity sold has nat been worth notice.— Rice, Cocoa, Nutmegs, Cloves, Ginger. Cassia, Mace, and Pepper, have undergone no variation whatever in price. LOXDOIV OAZUTTE. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13. INSOLVENTS. Scpl. 10— JOHN TEASDALE, Sheffield, timber- merchant. Sept. 13.— MYLES PRIEST, Reading, nurseryman. BANKRUPTS. JOHN HOLLEY SWAN, Ryde, Isle of Wight, hatter, Sepl, 20, Oct. 25; official assignee, Mr. Lacklngton, Basinghall- street. JOSEPH HAYES, Clapton terrace, Middlesex, surgeon, Sept. SI, Oct. 25; official assignee, Mr. Edwards, Pancras- lane. WILLIAM CROSBY, Newcastle- upou Tyne, builder, Oct. 5,2.5. JOHN CHARTERS, Manchester, joiner, Oct. I, 2.5. JOHN V1CKRY JOSE, Reeds, Cornwall, coal- merchant, Sepl. 2- 2, Oct. 25. THOMAS RAWLANDSON, Liverpool, victualler, Oct. 3,25. ROBE11T MEAD EN, Manchester, innkeeper, Sept. 24, Oct. 25. THOMAS HILL, Uppingham, Rutlandshire, woolstapler, Sept. S7, Oct. 25. JOHN THOMAS HILL, Uppingham, Rutlandshire, woolstaplei, Sept. 27, Oct. 25. THOMAS HOLMES DOBBS, Gainsburgh, Lincolnshire, innkeeper, Sept. 26, Oct. 25. JACOB BANKS, Keswick, Cumberland, black- lead- pencil- manu- facturer, Sept. 23. Oct. 25. WILLIAM l'OULTON, Broad Leaze, Wiltshire, cattle- salesman, Sept. 23, Oct. 25. DIVIDENDS. Sept. 20. E. Hlder and J. Uooilinge, High Holborn, linen- drapers.— Sept. 26. E. Cocker, Wood- str* et, City, liardwareman— Oct. 4. W. Stevens, Clare- street, Clare- market, linen- draper— Oct. 5. J. Taylor, Manchester, brush- maker— Oct. 11. T. Scott and J. Scott, Birming- ham, merchants— Oct. 5. J. Serjeant, Liverpool, window- blind manu- facturer— Oct. 6. J. Ewen, East Knoyle, Wiltshire, shopkeeper— Oct. 10. J. S. Bishop, Birmingham, Factor— Oct. 6. B. Musson, Manches- ter, grocer. CERTIFICATE to be granted, Oct. 4. H. GOODMAN, Northampton, tailor. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16. CIRCUITS OF THE COMMISSIONERS FOR THE RELIEF OF INSOLVENT DEBTORS. NORTHERN AUTUMN CIRCUIT, 1836. H. R. REYNOLDS, Esq., Chief Commissioner. Rutlandshire— at Oakham, Tuesday, October 11. Yorkshire— at Sheffield, Thursday, October 13. Yorkshire— at Wakefield, Friday, October 14. At the Town of Kingston- upon- Hiiil— Wednesday, October 19. Yorkshire— at York and City, Friday, October 21. Yorkshire— at Richmond, Tuesday, October 25. Durham— at Durham, Wednesday, October 26. Northumberland— at Newcastle npoil- Tyne and Town, Friday, Oct. 28. Cumberland— at Cat lisle, Tuesday, November 1. Westmorland— at Appleby, Thursday, November 3. Westmorland— at Kendal, Friday, November 4. Lancashire— at Lancaster, Saturday, November 5. Lancashire— at Preston, Monday, November 14. Flintshire— at Mold, Wednesday, November 16. Denbighshire— at Ruthin, Thursday, November 17. Montgomeryshire— at Welch Pool, Friday, November 18. Merionethshire— at Dolgelly, Monday, November 21. Carnarvonshire— at Carnarvon, Wednesday, November 23. Anglesey— at Beaumaris, Thursday, November 24. Cheshire— at Chester and City, Monday, November 28. Lancashire— at Liverpool, Wednesday, November 30. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. WILLIAM M'DONALD and ALFRED BlltKS, of Manchester, linen- drapers. BANKRUPTS. WILLIAM TOWESLAND WESTON, of 65, Sonth Amlley- strect, Grosvenor- square, coal- merchant, September 26, and October 28. EDWARD WHITELAW WILLIAMS, of Gerrard- street, Soh » grocer, September 28. JAMES ANTHONY MOLTENO, of Pall- mall, print- seller,' Sep- tember 28, and October 2S. FltANCIS WH1TALL JACKSON anil THOMAS WILLIAMS, of Bristol, woollen- drapers, September 28, and October 26. WILLIAM BRUORTON, jan. of Gloucester, auctioneer, Septem- ber 30, and October 28. JACOB MENHAM, of Stonehouse, Devonshire, ship- owner, Sep- tember 30, and October 28. THOMAS RYDER FURNISS, of Bolton, Lancashire, jeweller, October 7 and 28. JOHN LOOKER, Oxford, scrivener, Seplember 20, and October28, DIVIDENDS. James Brown, of Little Portland- street, St. Marylebone, brass- founder, October 7.— John Jones, of Slioreditch, linen- draper, Oct. 7. CERTIFICATES— OCT. 7." Thomas Bishton, of Kelsal, and of the Langley- field Iron Works, Dawley, Shropshire, iron- master— William Pickles, of Blackburn, Lancashire, linen- draper— John Pike, of FIsherton Anger and New Sarum, Wiltshire, cheese factor— Thomas Deem, of Bridport, Dorset- shire, grocer— Henry Hale Eve, of Bath, pastry cook. Printed at the Printing Office of MILLS and SON, Gongh Square, Fleet . Street, London, by RICHARD COBBE'IT, Printer, of No. 10, Rtd Lion Court, Fleet Street; anil published by him at No, 10, it el Lion Court aforesaid.— Saturday, September 17, 1836.