No 3.] LONDON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1836. [ PRICE 4d. CHEAP READING. — The following Standard Works, printed verbatim from the best editions, are published Complete at the prices affixed, or in Numbers at One Penny each :— GOLDSMITH'S NATURAL HISTORY, with Notes, comprising New Facts and Anecdotes of the Habits and Economy of the Animals. Em- bellished witli upwards of Five Hundred Engravings. Complete in Cloth, price 10s. 6d. St. Clair of the Isles, Is. 8( t. Tom Jones, 4s. Peter Wilkins, M. Nourjahad, and Solyman and Al- mena, 8d. Peregrine Pickle, 3s. 6d. Robinson Crusoe, 2s. Od. Eccentricities ot' Colonel David Crocket, 8d. Martin Faber : The Story of a Cri- minal, 4d. Goldsmith's Essays, 8d. Dr. Franklin's Life, 8d. Dr. Franklin's Life and Essays, Is. 2d. Salmagundi, by Washington Irving, Is. 8d. Bacon's Essays, 8d. The Microcosm, by the late Right Hon. G. Canning, ts. 6d. Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Embellished with 150 Engrav- ings. Price 6s. 6d. cloth. Plutarch's Lives, forminj Two Vois. with 50 Portraits. 13s. cloth. Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, lOd. The Mysteries of Udolpho, 3s. Sd. Mackenzie's Man of Feeling, 6d. The Italian, 2s. Rasselis, 8 1. Paul and Virginia, fid. The Old English Baron, 8d. The Castle of Otranto, 6d. Romance of the Forest, Is. 8d. Almoran and Hainct,. 6d. Elizabeth, or the Exiles of Si- beria, 6d. Nature and Art, 8d, A Simple Story, Is. 4d. The Castles of Athlin and Dun- bayne, 6d. Belisarius', Is. Sicilian Romance, Is. The Man of the World, Is. Zeloco, by Dr. Moore, 2s. Joseph Andrews, Is. Cd. Humphrey Clinker, Is. 8( 1. Edward, by Dr. Moore, 2s. 2d. Roderick Random, 2s. 2d. Farmer of Inglewood Forest, Is. 8d. EVELINA, by Miss Barney, is in course of publication. TheCABlNF. T op CURIOSITIES, or Wonders of the World Displayed ; forming a Miscellaneous Selection of Miraculous Events; interspersed with Papers on the most curious Phenomena of Nature and Wonders of Art. , London: J. 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Illustrated with 22 landscape engravings by G. W. Bonner. Price only Is. 6d. A new edition. W. Kidd, 14, Chandos- street, Strand ; anl J. Eames, 7, Tavistock- street, Covent- garden. On the Cure of Ulcers of the Leg.— Just published, second edition, price 2s. OBSERVATIONS on the TREATMENT and CURE of ULCERS, particulurly Ulcers of the Leg. liy Wi. ECCLES, Union court, Old Broad- street, late Surgeon to St. John's Hospital. " A useful book."— Lancet. " A little volume of considerable practical utility."— Medico- Chirur- gical Review. Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange. " BYRON AND SOUTHEYI Now publishing, price Threepence, THE VISION of JUDGMENT; with Notes, by W. SMITH, Esq., late M. P. for Norwich, the Rev. ROBT. HALL, BLACKWOOD, & C. Also, price Twopence, The NEW MARRIAGE ACT complete, with all the FORMS ; and THIRTY- NINE CARICATURE ENGRAVINGS. Designed by C. J. GRANT, SEYMOUR, and others. London: Wakelin, Shoe lane, Fleet- street, and all Booksellers. Now ready, embellished with IB Comic Engravings, by Seymour, price Twopence, FIGARO'S COMIC ALMANACK for 1837, comprising all the Information ( useful to the Tradesman and to every class) contain, d in other Almanacks. Neatly printed on a broad sheet, surrounded with Engravings, by the late Mr. Seymour, forming alike an ornament and useful guide. Also ready, Nos. 1 and 2, price Twopence each, by the late inimitable Seymour, SEYMOUR'S COMIC SCRAP- SHEET, printed on a large sheet of fine paper, hot pressed, with descriptive letter press, with Twenty- eight Caricatures to each. No. 3 will be ready in a few days. SYCOPHANT SAINTS and SABBATH SINNERS, or the March of Cant and Humbug. A Satire. By Figaro in London ; with 14 slashing cuts by Seymour. Price 6d. W. Strange, Paternoster- row; Sold by all Booksellers in the Kingdom. Of whom may be had, FIGARO IN LONDON; published weekly, price One Penny, with Comic Illustrations.— A few Sets of the first four vols, can be had, price six shillings each volume. Freemasonry.— Just published, Part II. of AMANUAL of FREEMASONRY, containing the Past Master, Royal Arch, and Knight Templar Degrees, with an Introduction to the Science of these Mysteries. By RICHARD CARLILE. Price 5s. Part I., containing the Three First Degrees, price 5s. The Introduction is on sale, separately, for Non- Masonic Readers at 6d. Also, price Is. 6d., CHURCH REFORM : carrying out the principle of Church Pro- perty, as laid down in the House of Lords by Lord Ripon, to its legiti- mate boundary, stated in a LETTER to SIR ROBERT PEEL; and prefaced by a Correspondence with the BLSHOR of LONDON. By RICHARD CARLILE. Also, price 2d., MR. CARLILE'S LETTERS to the INHABITANTS of BRIGH- TON, with a Syllabus of his Course of Seven Lectures. Alfred Carlile, Publisher and General Newspaper Agent, 183, Fleet- street, London, who respectfully informs Ihe Public, that they maybe supplied with The Champion and all oihcr Newspapers and Periodicals, & c , 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. BALLOON S.— THE MIRRROR PART FOR SEPTEMBER, containing EIGHT ENGRAVINGS of popu- lar interest, among which will be found the SPLENDID VAUXHA1. L BALLOON— a RESIDENCE in CANADA, & c.; with 128 Columns of amusing and instructive literary novelties that have appeared during the month. The Volume complete at Midsummer, price 5s. 6d. John Limbird, Publisher, 143, Strand. c OB B ETT'S LEGACY TO PARSONS— CONTENTS. Letter 1. How came there to be an Established Church J 2. How came thereto be people called Dissenters! 3. What is the foundation of the domination of the former over the latter? 4. Does the Establishment condnce to religious instruction? 5. What is the state of the Establishment ? and is it possible to reform it 1 « . What is that compound thing, called Church and State ? and what would be the etleets of a separation of them ? By WILLIAM COBiSETT, M. P. for Oldham. London: Published at It, Bolt- court, Fleet- street.— Price Is. 8d., handsomely bound in leather. 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, which have had Mr. SA- MUEL 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 Majgara, building at his Majesty's Dockyard at Sheerncss, 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 IJirkenhead, Liver- pool; the engines of 250- hor3e 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. &. 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 engines of 300- horse power, miking 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 en » ine3 are equally important. Besides the above, many collateral and important advantages are ob- tained which require a longer explanation than can be here given; but drawings of the engines, with more ample inforriiatinn and testimonials, may be had on application to the patentee, 147, Strand, London; or Basford, ne. ir Nottingham. FOR INDIGESTION, COST1VENESS, SICK HEADACHES, WEAKNESS OF THE STOMACH, & r. IOWDEN'S MILD BILIOUS AND LIVER A PILLS, mildly b, ut 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 mouth, offensive breath, drowsiness after meals, worms, 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 in the face, itching of the skin, & c., and all diseases which arise from H 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. t£ d., ' is. 9d., and 4s. 6d. each. And by all other Medicine Venders in the United Kingdom. ODTK - ACHE CURED FOR EVER BY FUMIGATION. No. 413, Oxford- street. Attendance from Ten to Five. rjp 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 the me- dicinal 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 in a small compass is contained the largest quantity of the tonic principle, of so peculiar a nature as to pervade the whole sys'em, 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 B. Godfrey Windusj, 61, 8ishop « gate- 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. ADICAL CURE of HERNIA or RUPTURE, by the new American method, in from 20 to 48 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. 81 A Under the especial Patronage of His most gracious Majesty. S the following Letter received from Major- General Sir Henry Wheatley, Keeper of the Privy Purse, testifies " Sir: I am honoured with the King's commands to express his Majesty's sense of your poliie attention in sending the two bottles of Essence of Ginger. His Majesty has been pleased to direct me to forward you ten pounds in payment for it— inclosed you we find that amount.— I am, Sir, yours obediently, H. WHEATLEY. " St. James's Palace, June 25th, 1835. ' i To Mr. Decimns Woodnouse." WOODHOUSE'S JETH EREAL 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 find Oppression after Meals, also those Pains of the Stomach and Bowels which arise from Gouty Flatu- lencies; Digestion, however much impaired, is restored to its pristiue 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 20S other Medical men, have given certificates of their unqualified approbation of the value of the Essence, aa also of its superiority over all other similar preparations. Drs. James Johnson, 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. Pilcher, F. Salmon, F. Tyrrel, J. H. Curtis, Auust to his MffistyEMe^ celais'prepared only by DECIMUS WOODHOUSE, Operative Chemist Extraordinary to his Majesty, 18, King William- street, New- London- bridge; ami sold by him, wholesale and retail, in bottles 2s. 6d., 4s. 6d., 10s. 6d., and 21s. each ; and may be had of all Medicine Venders. Al< o WOODHOUSE'S PATENT CORN PLASTER, for affording instant relief, and eradicating CORNS and BUNIONS without pain or danger. This plaster acts by softening and destroying the Corns or Bunions, and defending the affected parts from the pressure of the shoe. Thus its use is perfectly safe and certain in affording relief in ten minutes, if a cure- is not effected. In Boxes Is. IJd., 2s. 9d. and 4s. Gd. each. ' " - . ' , ' _ , THE BEST SHOOTING JACKET, 21s.— Every Article for Sportsmen in great abundance. Superfine Dress Coat, 47s. 6d.; ditto Frock Coat, Silk Facings, 50s.; the Milled Peter sham Driving Coat and Fearnought Pilot Pee Jackets, Velvet Collar, & c., 42s.; the new elegant Autumnal Vests, 12s. ; ditto ditto- Trousers, 16s. 6d.; Morning- Coats and Dressing- Gowns, 15s.; superior Liveries. 63s. the Suit. Try if the New Waterproof Cloak, at 21s., is not supe- rior to the shabby looking Inuia rubber ; call and see if any other House has so elegant and cheap a display of Cloaks of every description as DOUDNEY and SON, No. 49, Lombard- street, established 1784, the best and Cheapest House for Boys' Clothing. 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 3d. each. Part I. contains 140, Part II. has 78, Part III. 83, Part IV. 74; in the Four Sheets 375, Comic Woo; l- Cuts for Is., or separate at 3d. each. Shopkeepers or Traders going abroad are supplied at ' is. for 12. Copies unsold of either Part will be taken back at the cost price of ' 2d. each, any time before January, 183/". Placards for Shop Windows. Good for Scrap- book, Portfolio, Coffee and Hair- dresser's Shops, News- room, and all Sport irig Houses; never out of Print.— Half a Million Copies have been sold. 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, m$- Corns were entirely removed, and have never troubled me since, which is now nearly four 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. Shirwood, 55, Bishopsgate Without, in bottles, Is. l| d , Is. 9d., and' 4s. Cd., and by appointment by most Medicine Venders. Ask for Allingham's Rotterdam Corn and Bunion Solvent, and see that " J. A. Sharvvood " is written on the outside wrapper, as there is a spinions imitation. NEW FOUNTAIN INKSTAND.— The superior construction of this Inks'and 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 . or dipping the Pen, and allows a considerable depth of ink,? as well as pro- tecting it from dust and evaporation. The form of the Inkstand is also well adapted for shaking the contents. They are made of several sizes, plain, richly cut, and of various co- lours, ami are also mounted with silver caps, which effectually shut out atmosphere or dust. Observe 1 each Inkstand has a Medallion bearing the name of " S MORDAN and Co., London." Sold by all respectable Stationers in Town and Country. Manufactory, 22, City road, Finsbury, London. HpO PARENTS and GUARDIANS.— WANTED A 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, Pentonville. To save ( rouble, a liberal Premium is expected. DDRE S S TO THE PUBLI C7— DR. BRANDRETH wishes mankind to consider this truth, that health solely depends on the state of purity in which the blood is kept, every part of the body being supplied daily will) new blood from the food consumed, consequently, according to the pureness of that blood, somnstthe state of the body be more or less healthy. To obtain, therefore.- the most direct purifier, 4s a question of no little importance. It matters not what Mr. Morison or Dr. Brandreth says about their Pills of Vegetable, but what medicine is really the best. That BRAND 11 ETH'S PILLS are the most direct purifiers ofthe blood there will be no doubt, when it is considered that they have gained their present very extensive sale— not by Advertisement— but by their own intrinsic mer ts; and their universality is established by the fac- t, that their operation is more or less powerful according to the pure- ness ofthe circulating fluid— for, if taken by a person who is in a fair state < A health, they are scarcely felt— but, if taken by one suffering from disease, their operation would be powerful, and perhaps painful, until the disease is conquered, or the system entirely under their influ- ence— this accomplished, smdl doses, say two, three, or four Pills, three or four tiin . s a week, will soon effect a cure, even in the most in- veterate oases. In consequence of the mo- t unparalleled success, and the wonderfully increasing Sale, of BRAN DRUTH'S VEGETABLE PILLS, His Majesty's Honourable Commissioners of Stamps have allowed the Pro- prietor ( by express Permission) to have his Name on the Government Label; and the Public will observe, that none is Genuine unless " GEO. HODGKINSON, 38, Aldersgate . Street,"- is engraved on the Stamp,— to counterfeit which is Felony. May be procured, by order, of every respectable Medicine Vendor in England, in Boxes at Is. l£ d., 2s. 9d., 4s. Gd., and lis. each. PORTRAIT of MALIBRAN GRATIS!! The untimely and lamentable death of this unrival'ed Cantatrice, hav- ing excited an unusual desire to possess some record of her personal appearance, the Proprietor of THE CASK FT has succeeded in procuring a most accurate Likeness, which will be printed on a separate sheet of fine drawing- pap- r, and published, without any extra charge, with a double Number of THE CASKKT, on October 8, fS3t>, accompanied with a Me- moir, Biographical and Critical, and full, particulars of her last Illness and Death.— The above in addition to the usual Tales, Poetry, and Miscellanies. Country Booksellers and others are requested to give their Orders immediately, to pievent disappointment. N. B. A few India Proofs of the Portrait, on large Paper, will also be reatly at the same time., LAMB'S TALES FROM SHAKSPEARE. — THE CASKET, Part 10, for October, 4d. only, contains, besides a great variety of interesting Tales, Adventures, Poetry, & c., four of the aboye admired Dramatic Romances, the whole of which are now in course of publication in THE CASKET, each Tale illustrated by R. Cruikshank. Be ger, Holy well- street; B. Stei'l, Paternoster- row ; and all Venders of Petiodicals. TLITTLEJOHN and SON, of EDINBURGH, • CONFECTIONERS, in King William- street, Mansion House, especially appointed SOLE VENDERS, in the City of London, ofthe Chinese Hong Merchant, " HOUQUA'S TEAS," as patronised by their Majesties. These Teas may now be had of them; viz. one kind. of Black, the genuine " Honqua's Mixture." at 6s., one of Green, " Honqu t\ s Small leaf Gunpowder," at 8s. 7^ d. per lb., both in the original Chinese fotty Package, containing I lb. and one third. The only other Vender appointed in London, is C. Verrey, Swiss Confectioner, 218, Regent- street. In proof of the Superior Quality of these Teas, it will suffice to give one extract from the numerous public testimonials :—" One trial of ' Honqua's Teas' will convince the most sceptical of its superiority over all others."— Brighton Patriot, Oct. 20th, 1835. TO PERSONS 1) ESI ROUS OF SELLING TEA PROFITABLE AGENCY. — AGENTS continue to be Appointed in London and Country Towns ( where there are no Grocers dealing with the Establishment) by the EAST INDIA TEA COMPANY, for the SALE of their cele bra ted TEAS, Offices, ( No, 9, Great St. Helen's, Bishopsgate). They are packed in Leaden Canisters, from an ounce to a pound, and labelled with the trice tin each packagc. The fac simile of the Secretary is at- tached to secure their delivery free from adulteration. But little trou- ble is occasioned by the Sale Any respectable tradesman may engage in it witli advantage-; he promotes, indeed, his own business by this valuab'e appending- . The License is only lis.; the very Trade an amusement; and, from an outlay Of 201. to 501.. many, during the la t eleven years, have realized incomes of from 501. to 1001. per annum, without one shilling let or loss. Application to be made to CHARLES HANCOCK, Sec. P. S. The Permit System' is abolished a'together. CITY OK LONDON HAT MANUFACTORY, 46, Sksnner- street, Snow- hill. BRABHAM and CO. respectfully solicit attention to the • Gheap' « s(— unquestionably the Cheapest and most ex- tensive assortment. of HATS ^ nd. CAPS, combining quality and fashion with economy; Shapes in endless variety, suiting the form of every face. Gentlemen's real. Braver. Hats, the finest and best that can be made', at 16s. Gd. Brabham and Co.' s newly invented Italian Zephyr Hats, surpassing in beauty, lightness, and durability, any Hat ever yet offered to the nblic, at 12s. 6d. each. Those who may be curious in their Shapes, and not ruled by fashion, can, in a few hours, have exact fac- simile- a of their own style of hat manufactured. Observe! 40, inner- street, Snow- hill, c Just published, pri. e 6s. l oarl-, THE ENGLISH HOUSEKEEPER, or Manual of Domestic Management: containing Advice on the Conduct of Household Affairs, in a separate Treatise on each particular department, and Practical Instructions concerning the Store- room, the pantry, the Larder, the Kitchen, the Cellar, the Dairy. Together with Remarks on the best means of rendering Assistance to Poor Neisjhbours ; Hints for laying out Small Ornamental Gardens ; and Directions for cultivating Herbs. The whole being intended for the use of Young Ladies who undertake the superintendence of their own Housekeeping. By ANNE COBBETT. " This is a book which, we venture to say, will prove an acquisition to all who may take advantage of those pains which the writer has evi- dently devoted to render it a perfect work of the kind."— Observer. " We know enough, after many years housekeeping, to satisfy us. that this is a most valuable work, and one that we feel we can most conscientiously recommend to our readers."— Brighton Patriot. SELECTIONS FROM COBBETTS POLITICAL WORKS: being a Complete1 Abridgment of the 1( 10 Volumes which comprise the writings of" Porcupine" and the" Weekly Poli- tical Register;' Willi Notes, Historical and Explanatory. By JOHN M. COBBKTT an I JAMES P. COBBETT. These Selections are published in Weekly Numbers, and in Monthly Parts, price 6d. the Number, and 2s. the Part. The three first Volumes are now published; and the whole Work is to be completed in Six Volumes 8vo.— N. B. The Num- bers and Parts bear the names of the Editors on the Wrapper. Published by A. Cobbett, 10, Red Lion- courl, Fleet- street ; W. Willis, Manchester ; W. Tait, Edinburgh ; and T. O'Gorman, Dublin. HEAP and SUPERIOR PICTURE FRAMES, manufactured by H. CLEMENT, at No. 10, Surrey Row, Blackft iars Road. These Frames are warranted of the best workman- ship and materials, at 20 per cent, lower than generally sold by the Trade. H. Ci. EMENT also supplies THE CHAMPION and all other London Newspapers, and punctually delivers thein as soon as published. INVETERATE PLACE- HUNTING OF THE " GREAT VES- TRY."— At the last meeting of these grammatical, logical, eloquent, just, disinterested, self- nominating, and place- grubbing patriots, an attempt was made to carry a motion of regret that the guardians and directors of the poor should have been so impolitic" as to elect several of their own members to places of considerable profit. The motion was treated with contempt; and so largely and patriotically did the Liberals speak of the services of the elected, and in which two of the latter actually joined, that the mover was compelled to withdraw it. Sir Wm. De Barthe is said to have defended the dirty appointment of the parish represen- tatives to lucrative parochial situations ! The electors can- not have forgotten that Sir Wm. De Barthe was one. of the Whig- Radical candidates who figured at the Yorkshire Stingo immediately previous to the last election for the borough. His entry into the " Great Vestry" was his first step to conciliate the Republican interest; his present tho- roughgoing advocacy of their place- hunting prosperity cannot fail to secure to him the " disinterested" support of Messrs. Savage, Potter, Wilson, Kensett, and Co., if he still hold his desire to become a " delegate" of the Maryle- bonians. [ We copy this from the Morning Herald of Friday lasti and, as we expect to see it go the rounds of the papers, we give an explanation of it. The Marylebone Vestry is a body that govern the Borough of Marylebone s the pa- rishioners in 1830 1, resisted the old select vestry, and, by the spirited conduct of Mr. POTTER and Mr. SAVAGE, made the Whigs pass an Act by which this new body is elected by the rate- payers, and is, in short, a House " of Commons, managing the concerns of the parish. The members are more Whig than Tory; but they are more Radical than either, therefore, we constantly see vile little articles against them going through the press, whether Whig or Tory; for though the Whigs gave Marylebone its House of Commons, it was in a moment of excitement and fear, and they did it in order to compromise what they could not avert— resistance. This vestry has routed the Tories, and it keeps the Whigs at bay; it has reduced the expenses of the parish enormously, and, therefore, it is popular. But, it seems that, under the new Registration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages Aet, the parish is divided into four districts, each district having a registrar appointed by the Poor- Law Commissioners to carry the Bill into force; and, it seems that the vestry, who have been constant in resisting the entrance of the Poor- Law Commissioners within their jurisdiction, have recommended three out of their own body, as fit persons to be registrars, and that the Poor- Law Com- missioners have acceded to the recommendation,' and will only appoint one of their own choosing. This, we believe, is the true state of the case; but, as the registrars are to be paid, the Tories are in fits at the idea of the Radicals ac- cepting pay. Now, we ourselves are all on the alert to see what pay public officers receive, and what fur, whether Radicals, Tories, or Whigs; because it depends on that, whether we should tolerate the taking. Nobody has ever said that there ought to be no pay to public officers; it is flagrant over- pay that has been complained of; for in- stance, Lord ELLENBOROUGH'S sinecure of three thousand eight hundred a year, for signing writs by deputy in the Court of King's Bench ; these are the things complained of, and, if we saw an office of this kind created by the Maryle- bone Vestry, we should do everything in our power to aid Tories or anybody else, in pulling down men so unprin- cipled. We like to see the watchfulness of the Tosies, but it is lamentable to see them in fits.] NEW BASTILES.— The Kent Herald, in alluding1 to our announcement of a picture of an Union Workhouse, observes:—"- The friends of liberty used to place in their studies and parlours prints of the ' The Taking of the French Bastile-,'— now, by way of contrast, they may adorn their rooms with ' Views of the Newly Established English Bastile.' To what different reflections might each give rise "! THE NEW POOR- LAW.— There have been already in East Kent three attempts at suicide ( one fatal), in conse- quence of the horror felt by the poor at being consigned to a Union Workhouse. The first was near Margate - the second in the neighbourhood of Wye— and the third at Eastry. Certainly death itself is almost preferable to the degradation and wretchedness to be endured by the chil- dren of misfortune under the new system. We hope that thousands of petitions on this subject will load the table of the House of Commons next session— if the public feeling does not vent itself in that way we may look for worse re- sults.— Kent Herald. DUCK AND GREEN PEAS.— It is a curious fact that at the late South Essex Horticultural Show, the prize for green peas was gained by Mr. Duck. 18 THE CHAMPION, SUNTH^, OCTOBER 2. JOMT'FF- STOCK- 1SA1SK. S. THE Appendix to the Report of the Committee on Joint- stock Banks contains answers from 63 such institutions to the questions in Mr. S. Rice's circular; and as the results are in the highest degree important to the whole country, • we have reduced those answers into a brief narrative, ex- hibiting the state of each joint- stock bank. Most of the hanks allow from two to four per cent, interest on deposits and balances; they also retain a certain number of shares in their own hands, and have a lien on those of parties doing business with them; the notes are generally made payable in London, as well as at the local branches where issued. Several shares have been forfeited by individuals not able to pay upV> and the original capital increased in consequence; and the accounts seem to be balanced to the close of 1835, and some of them to Midsummer .1836. HULL HANKING COMPANY.— Commenced business December 2, 183;- t; has 15 branches, the nearest 9, and the furthest 40 miles distant; nominal capital 800,0031., in 8000 shares of 10 11 each; 4220 shares have been issued, oil which 50,7501. lias been paid; divided 0 per cent, in the second year; 245 proprietors have signed the deed of settlement. LEEDS BANKING COMPANY.— Commenced December, 1832 ; nominal capital, 1,000,0001., in 10,000 shares of 1001. each ; up to May, 1836, 7710 shares allotted; paid up capital, 116,0001.; divided 8 per cent, for 1835; 554 signatures to the deed of settlement; 461 partners at this time. YORK CITY AND COUNTY HANKING COMPANY.— Commenced March, 1830 ; has five branches, the nearest 14, the farthest 40 miles distant; nominal capital, 500,0001., in shares of 1001.; paid up capital, 75,0001.; dividends— for 1831, 6, 1832, 1833, 10, 1834, 12, and for 1835, 12 per cent.; 310 signa- tures to the deed of settlement, and 66 to a supplemental deed; 24 per cent paid on deposits for two months; if above 6001. and for 12 months, 3 per cent. COVENTRY UNION BANK.— Commenced Slav, 1856 ; has no branches; nominal capital, 200,0031.; 10,000 shares, 201. each ; 5610 shares issued; capital paid 28,0501.; deed of set- tlement not yet printed. WF. ST OF ENGLAND AND SOUTH WALES DISTRICT BANK — Commenced December, 1831; has 9 branches, the nearest 12, the furthest 99 miles distant; 8 agencies, the nearest 18, the farthest 110 miles distant; nominal capital 1,000,0001.; 50,000 shares, 201. each; 21,000 shares issued; capital paid up 209,8821.; dividend 5 per cent.; date of deed of settlemen February, 1* 35 ; number of signatures 401. STUCKEY'S BANKING COMPANY —( SOMERSETSHIRE BANK ) &. mtneuced in 1826; has 16 branches, all in Somersetshire ( Bristol included), and none exceeding 40 miles distant; ori- ginal capital, 200,0001., additional capital, 100,0001.; 2000 ori- ginal shares, and 1000 increased, 1001. ea- h ; 2800 shares issued ; capital paid up, 60,0001., exclusive of the reserve fund ; deel tied dividend 21. per share half- yearly; date of deed of settlement September, 1831 ; signatures 35." DUDLEY AND WEST BROMWICH BANK. — Commenced January, 1834; no branches; nominal capital, 400,0001., 8000 shares, 501. each ; 6005 shares issued to December, 1835; capital paid up 30,0251 ; declared dividend 6 per cent, for 1835 ; date of deed of settlement, December, 1833; signa- tures, 209. COVENTRY AND WARWICKSHIRE BANKING COMPANY.— Com luenced January, 1836 ; one branch at Nuneaton, eight miles distant; nominal capital. 400,0001.; 8000 shares, 501. each; 7000 shares issued ; capital paid up, 35,0001.; no dividend de- clared ; date of deed of settlement, December, 1835, signed by 265 proprietors. LIVERPOOL TRADESMEN'S BANK.— Commenced April, 1836 no branches; nominal capital, 250,0001., with power given to the directors to increase such capital to 400,0001.; 25,000 shares, 101. each; 18,420 shares issued, and more are issued dailv as accounts are opened with the hank ; capital paid up, 4fit0' 5! ll„ or 21. 10s. on 18,420 shares, and 45771. 10s. premium on those appropriated, making 50,6271. 10s.; date of deed of settlement, April, 1836, 174 signatures already. BRADFORD BANKING COMPANY.— Commenced June, 1827 no branches; nominal capita], 500,0001.; 5000 shares, 1001. each; 3865 shares issued ; capital paid up, 101,1461.; declared dividend, 10 per cent.; date of deed of settlement, June, 1827, signatures to it, 199. BANK OF STOCKPORT.— Commenced May, 1836; no branches; 12,710 shares issued ; capital paid up, 31,8501.; deed of settle- ment not drawn out. LIVERPOOL UNITED TRADES' BANK.— Commenced Mav, 1836; has no branches ; nominal capital, 400,0001.; 20,000 shires, 201 each; 10,000 shares already issued; date of deed of.. settlement, April, 1836, in course of signature. GLOUCESTER COUNTY AND CITY BANK.— Commenced January, 1835; has no branches; nominal capital, 100,0001.; 2U0. share's, 5001. each ; 116 shares issued; capital paid up, 19,7201.; de- clared dividend, 31. per share; date of deed of settlement, March, 1835 ; signatures to it, 23. LEITII BANK OFFICE.— NO return. PARES'S LEICESTERSHIRE BANKING COMPANY.— Commenced as a private bank in 1800; converted into a joint- stock bank in March, 1836; has no permanent branches ; nominal capital, 100,0001.; 8000 shares, 121. 10s. each; 6330 shares issued; capital paid up. 15,8251.; date of deed of settlement, March, 1836, with 39 signatures. BIRMINGHAM BANKING COMPANY. — Commenced October, 1829; has no branches; nominal capital, 500,0001.; 10,000 shares, 501. each; 10,000 shares issued ; capital paid up, 50,0001., increased by 26,111/. reserved out of profits; declared dividend 10 per cent. ; date of deed of settlement, October, 1829, signed by 321 persons. WAKEFIELD BANKING COMPANY.— Commenced November, 1832; has no branches; nominal capital, 300,0001.; 6000 shares, 501. each ; 5605 shares issued ; capital paid up, 44,8401.; 1st, 2d, and 3d dividend, 6' per cent.; 4th dividend, 8 per cent ; dividend January, 1836, 2 per cent.; date of deed of settlement, December, 1832, signed by 220 shareholders; deed printed in February, 1833. DARLINGTON DISTRICT JOINT STOCK BANKING COMPANY — Commenced January, 1832 ; has four branches, the nearest 12, the furthest 17 miles distant; nominal capital, 400,0001,; 4000 shares, 1001. each; 3695 shares issued ; capital paid up, 55,4251.; dividend in 1833, 11 per cent.; in 1834, 8 per cent.; and in 1835, 10 per cent.; date of deed of settlement, January, 1832, signed by 285. LIVF. RPOOL COMMF. RCIAL BANK.— Commenced January, 1833; has no branches; nominal capital, 500,0001.; 50,000 shares, 101. each; 24,440 shares issued; capital paid up, 244,0001., exclusive of the reserve surplus fund ; dividend on December 31, 1835 , 3i percent, for the half- year; date of deed settlement, January, 1833, signed by 292, Pays ou deposits 24 . per cent, or 3 per cent. WHITEHAVEN JOINT- STOCKBANK.— Commenced June, 1829; has one branch at Penrith, 44 miles distant; nominal capital 300,0001.; 3,000 shares of WOl. each.; 2805 shares issued- capital paid up, 28,0501.; declared dividends— 3 of 10 per cent! and 2 of 8 per cent.; date of deed of settlement, April, 1829 signatures to it 238. NORTH AND Sourii WALES BANK — Commenced May, 1836 ; head office, Liverpool; has two branches, one in Merioneth- shire, and the other in Carnarvonshire, both between 70 and 80 miles distant; nominal capital, 600,0001.; 60,000 shares 101. each ; upwards of 20,000 shares issued ; capita! paid up! nearly 25,0O » 1.; date of deed of settlement, June, 1836. UNION BANK OF MANCHESTER— Commenced May, 1836- has no branches; nominal capital 600,0001.; 24,000 shares, of 25K each; 19,630 shares issued; capital paid up, 49,0751. - deed before counsel. YORK UNION BANKING COMPANY.— Commenced May, 1833 has four branches, the nearest 18, the furthest 36 miles dis taut; nominal capital, 700,0001.; 7000 shares of 1001. each; 5745 shares issued ; capital paid up, 57,4501. ; declared' dividend, 8 per cent.; date of deed of settlement, May, 1833, signatures to it 260. WOLVERHAMPTON AND STAFFORDSHIRE JOINT- STOCK BANK- ING COMPANY.— Commenced January, 1832; has no branches • nominal capital, 500,0001.; 10,000 shares, of 501. each, al! issued; capital paid up, 50,0001.; divideud in 1832, 5 per cent.; in 1833, 1834, and 1835, 6 percent.; date of deed of settlement, December, 1831, signed by 287. LIVERFOOL UNION BANK.— Commenced May, 1835; has no branches; nominal capital, 600,0001., with power to increase to 1,000,0001.; 3 » , 0U0 shares of 201. each; 17,170 shares issued ; capital paid up, 171,7501.; date of deed of settlement, May, 1835, signatures to it, 235; has advanced 36,6201. to 46 individuals, pn 4950 shares, being an average of 81. per share 011 101. paid. CHELTENHAM AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE BANK. — Has no Swell; Luminal capital, 500,0001.; 10,000 shares, of 501. each : 3000 shares issued ; capital paid,- 48,0001.; date of deed of settlement, May, 1836, signatures to it 116. ? HALIFAX JOINT- STOCK BANKING COMPANY.— Commenced November, 1829; has no branches; nominal capital, 500,0001.; 5000 shares, of 1001. each; 3925 shares issued on the 31st of December, 1835; capital paid up, 39,2251.; dividend in 1834, Hi per cent , in 1836, 124per ceut.; date of deed of settlement, November, 1829, signed by 186. HUDDFIISFIELD BANKING COMPANY. — Commenced June, 1827; hns no branches; has two agencies, but no accounts kept at them ; nominal capital, 700,0001.; 7003 shares of 1001. each; 6500 shares issued; capital paid up, 65,0001.; dividend in 1835, 83 per cent; date of di ed of settlement, June, 1827, Signed by 360 ; supplementary, Aug. 1833, signed by 376. SADDLEWORTH BANKING COMPANY.— Commenced March, 1833; converted from a private bank established in 1806; has two branches, 4 and 7 miles distant ; nominal capital, 300,0001. ; 6000 shares, of 501. each ; 5930 shares issued ; capital paid up, 29,6501 ; first dividend made was 7£ percent., in 1835, the rate altered to 10 per cent.; date of deed of settle- ment, September, 1833, executed by 124 proprietors. LINCOLN AND LINDSEY BANKING COMPANY.— Commenced August, 1833; has two branches, 21 and 27 miles distant; four agencies, the nearest 16, the furthest 40 miles distant; nominal capital, 250,0001.; 1250 shares, 2001. each; lOOOsbares issued ; capital paid up, 20,0001. ; dividend 6 per cent.; ( late of deed of settlement, August, 1833, with 248 . signatures. STOURBRIDGE AND KIDDERMINSTER BANK — Commenced April, 1834, at Stourbridge, and June, 1834, at Kidderminster; has two branches and four agencies, the nearest 7. the furthest 21 miles distant; nominal capital, 250,0001.; 10,000 shares of 251. each ; 9000 shares issued; capital paid up, 45,0001.; di- vidend, 6 percent.; date of deed of settlement, Match, 1834, signed bv 267. GLOUCESTERSHIRE BANKING COMPANY — Commenced July, 1831; has four branches, the nearest 8, the furthest 25 miles distant; nominal capital 503,0001., 10,00;) shares of 501. each ; 10.000 shares; issued capital paid up 100,0001.; dividend in 1835, 10 percent.; date of deed of settlement, July, 1831, signed by all the original subscribers, 300 ; accounts. KAST OF ENGLAND BANK.— Commenced February, 1836; has four branches and twelve agencies, the nearest ' 21, the furthest 43 miles; nominal capital, 1,000,0( 101 ; 50,000 shares, 201 each; 15, H78 shares issued ; capital paid up 75,7521., date of deed of settlement, May, 1836, in course of signature. YORKSHIRE DISTRICT BANK.— Commenced August, 1834 ; has 18 branches ; head office, Leeds ; the nearest 15, the fur- thest 52 miles distant; nominal capital, 1,000,0001.; 50,000 shares, 201. each; 31,211 shares isstn d; capital paid up, 311,1101.; dividend, 5 per cent.; date of deed of settlement, August, 1834, signed by 665. NORTH WILTS BANKING COMPANY.— Commenced Novem- ber, 1835; lias 11 branches, the nearest 5, the furthest24 miles distant; nominal capital, 250,0001.; 10 000 shares, 251. each; 7385 shares issued; capital paid up, 36,9251.; dale of deed of settlement, October, 1835; with 157 signatures. LEEDS AND WEST RIDING BANKING COMPANY.— Commen- ced October 1835; has three branches, the nearest 7, the fur thest 15 miles distant; nominal capital, 400,0031.; 20,000 shares, 201. each ; 90!> 0 shares issued; capital paid up 45,0001.; date of deed of settlement, Jan. 1836; signed by 147 persons. THE HAMPSHIRE BANKING COMPANY.— Commenced May, 1834; has two branches; 7 and 12 miles di- tant; nominal capital, 300,0001.; 6000 shares, 501. each ; 4834 shares issued ; capital paid tip, 24,1701.; dividend 74 percent.; dale of deed of settlement, July, 1831, signed by 143 shareholders. DEVON AND CORNWALL BANKING COMPANY.— Commenced January, 1832; h is 9 branches, the nearest 2, the furthest 36 miles distant; nominal capital, 300,0091.; 3000 shares, 1001. each ; 2019 shares issued ; capital pa d up. 40,3801. ; dividend 74 percent.; date of deed of settlement, November, 1832, with 135 signatures. BARNSLEY BANKING COMPANY. — Commenced February, 1832; has no branches; nominal capital, 300,0001.; 3000 shares, 1001. each ; 2515 shares issued ; capital paid up, 25,1501. ; di- vidend, 6j per cent, to December, 1835; date of deed of settle- ment, May, 1832, signed by 129. NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BANK OF ENGLAND.— Commenced March, 1834; has 27 branches, and 6 sub- branches, the near- est 6, the furthest 110 miles distant; 100,000 shares, of 101. each; 71,186 shares issued ; capital paid up, 711,8601.; divi- dend 7 per cent.; date of deed of settlement, July, 1834, signed by 1265 persons. COMMERCIAL BANK OF ENGLAND. — Commenced August, 1834; has 18 branches, the nearest 11, the furthest 70 miles distant; capital paid up 260 0001.; 10i), 000 shares, 51. each ; 52.001 shares issued ; dividend 8 per cent., or 6 per cent, per aim.; date of deed of settlement, May, 1834 ; signatures 637. BANK OF LIVERPOOL— Commenced May, 1831; has no branches ; nominal capital, 3,000,0001.; 30,000 shares, 1O01. each; 25,810 shares issued ; capital paid up, 258,1001.; divi- dend, second half- year, 1835, 8 percent.; date of deed of set- tlement, August, 1831, signed by 580. THE STAMFORD AND SPALDING JOINT- STOCK BANKING COM- PANY.— Commenced January, 1832 ; has three main stations and three branches; nominal capital, 150,0001.; 300 shares, 5001. each ; 220 shares issued; capital paid up, 44, o001; divi- dend 74 per cent.; date of deed of settlement, January, 1832, signatures to it 106. LEAMINGTON BANK. — Commenced May, 1835; has no branches; nominal capital, 200,0301.; 10,001 shares, 201. each ; 5180 shares issued; capital paid up 25,7101.; date of deed of settlement, May, 1835, signed by 146. LEICESTERSHIRE BANKING COMPANY. — Commenced Sep- tember, 1829; has four branches, the nearest 15, the furthest 17 miles distant; nominal capital, 500,0001.; 5000 shares, 1001. each ; 3191 shares issued ; capital paid up, 47,8651.; di- vidend in 1836, 74 percent.; date of deed of settlement, Au- gust 1829 ; signatures to it, 130. NorriNGiiAM AND NOTTINGHAMSHIRE BANKING COMPANY. — Commenced April, 1831 ; has five branches, the nearest 14, the furthest 30 miles distant; nominal capital, 500,0001.; 10,000 shares, 501. each; 6261 shares issued; capital paid up, 62,6101.; dividend 6 per cent.; date of deed of settlement, April, 1834 ; signed by 285. SHEFFIELD BANKING COMPANY.— Commenced Julv, 1831; has one branch at Rotherham ; nominal capital, 3do, 0001.; 1500 shares, 2001. each ; 1381 shares issued ; capiital paid up, 75,9551.; dividend in 1835, 8 per cent.; date of deed of settle- ment, January, 1832, signed bv 200 persons. CHESTERFIELD AND NORTH DERBYSHIRE BANKING COM- PANY.— Commenced January, 1834 ; has no branches; nominal capital 250,0001.; 2500 shares, 1001. each; 2320 shares issued; capital paid up, 23,2001.; dividend 6 per cent.; date of deed of settlement, May, 1834, signed by 98; pays 2j percent, on de- posits and balances. WALSALL AND SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE BANK.— Commenced August, 1835 ; has one branch 8 miles distant; nominal capi- tal 200,0001 ; 8000 shares, 251. each ; 5000 shares issued ; capital paid up, 25,0001.; date of deed of settlement, July, 1835, signed by 109. LEAMINGTON- PRIORS AND WARWICKSHIRE BANKING COM- PANY.— Commenced September, 1835; has four branches, the nearest 2 4, the furthest 20 miles distant; nominal capital, 200,0001.; 10,000 shares, 201. each ; 3670 shares issued; capi- tal paid up, 22,0201.; date of deed of settlement, Sept. 1835. BRADFORD COMMERCIAL JOINT- STOCK BANK.— Commenced March, 1833; has, no branches; nominal capital, 500,0031 ; 5000 shares, 1001. each ; 2940 shares issued ; capital paid up, 44,1001. ; dividend in February, 1836, 7per cent.; dateof deed of settlement, February, 1833," signed by 163. NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK OF ENGLAND. — Commenced January, 1834 ; has 30 brancnes and 23 sub- agencies; nominal capital, 1,000,0001., to be increased 200,0001.; 10,000 shares, of 1001, each, 10,000 shares of 201. each ; all the 1001. shares issued, 201. shares issuing; capital paid up, 250,0001., to be called oil the 201. shares, 100,0001.; dividend 5 per cent.; date of deed of settlement, September, 1833, signed by 508. DERBY AND DERBYSHIRE BANKING COMPANY.— Commenced January, 1834; has two branches, 7 and 13 miles distant; nominal capital, 250,0001.; 5000 shares, 501. each ; 4000 shares issued; capital paid up, 20,00Jl.; dividend 6 percent.; date of deed of settlement, November, 1833, signed by 204. WARWICK AND LEAMINGTON BANKING COMPANY.— Com- menced September, 1834; has four branches, the nearest 2, the furthest JO miles distant; nominal capital, 250,0001.; 10,003 shares, 251. each; 6260 shares issued; capital paid up, 31,3101 ; dividend 6 per cent.; date of deed of settlement, September, 1834, signed by 135. NORTH OF ENGLAND JOINT STOCK BANKING COMPANY.— Commenced December, 1832; has four branches, the nearest 7, the furthest 60 miles distant; nominal capital, 2,000,0001.; 20,000 shares, 1001. each ; 16,000 shares issued; capital paid I up, 240,0001.; dividend for the year ending December, 1835, 31, 6s.; date of deed of settlement, Nor, 1832, signed by 629, ! BANK OF WESTMORELAND.— Commenced Julv, 1833; lias one brunch, at Ulver.- ton ; noiaiual capital, 250,0001.; 2500 shares, 1001. each; 2095 shade's - issued ; capital paid up, 20,9501..; dividend of 12s. per share declared in July, 1835 ; date of peed of settlement, April, 1834, signed by 164 MANCHESTER AND LIVERPOOL DISTRICT BANKING COM- PANY.— Commenced December, 1829 ; has 14 branches and 8 sub- branches, the nearest hi, the furthest 52 miles distant; nominal capital, 5,000,0001.; 5000 shares, 1001. each, all issued; capital paid up, 749,6001.; dividend in March, 1836, 7J percent.; date of deed of settlement, June, 1830, signed by 834. WILTS AND DORSET BANKING COMPANY.— Commenced De- cember, 1835 ; has £ 1 branches, the nearest 22, the furthest 54 miles distant; nominal capital, 300,0001.; 20,000 shares of 151. each ; capital paid up, 42.6721.; date of deed of settlement, December, 1835, in course of signature. LANCASTER BANKING COMPANY. — Commenced October, 1826; has nvo branches, each 22 miles distant; nominal capi- tal, 300,0001.; 30J0 shares of 1001 each; 2430 shares issued; capital paid up, 48.6031.; dividend in 1835, 10 per cent.; date of deed of settlement, September, 1826, s ened by 78. BANK OF MANCHESTER. — Commenced March, 1829; has three branches, the nearest 7, the furthest ! J0 miles distant; nominal capital, 2,000,0001 ; 20 000 shares of 1001. each, all issued ; capital paid up, 500,0001.; dividend second, third, fourth, aud fifth year, 6 per cent.; sixth year, 7 per ceut. ; date of deed of settlement, March, 1829, signed by 544. BANK OF BIRMINGHAM.— Commenced August, 1832; has no branches; nominal capital, 500,0001.; 10 000 shares, 501. each; 7642 shares issue. I; capital paid up, 73,7851.; dividend 10 per cent.; date of deed of settlement, August, 1832, signed by 290. THE ROYAL BANK OF LIVERPOOL.— Commenced May, 1836 ; has no branches; nominal capital, 2,000,0001.; 2000 shares ol 1OO01. each ; 876 shares issued ; capital paid, 91,9801. LENGTH, BREADTH, WEIGHT, AND THICKNESS OF THE NATIONAL DEBT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE CHAMPION. Non Hydra secto corpore 0IOIinr Vinci doleutem crevit in Herctdem, Mouatrum. HOE. Odeiv. v. 01. SIR, Should you think, with me, that the enormity of the debt, commonly called national,' cannot come too fre- quently before the public eye, you will oblige me by insert- ing the following calculations in the Champion. The weight of the National Debt, in gold, amounts to 14,088,475 lbs., or 6289 tons, 9cwts. 3qrs. 13 lbs.; in silver, to 266,636,666 lbs., or 119,047 tons, 12 cwts. 1 qr. 14 lbs. To transport this debt across the seas, in gold, it would require a fleet of 25 ships of 250 tons burthen each. To carry the debt by land, would require 12,580 one- horse carts, each cart being loaded with half a ton of gold. These would extend, in one unbroken line, 35 J miles. If conveyed by soldiers, and every soldier were to carry 50 lbs. weight in his knapsack, it would require an army of 281,769 men. Eight hundred millions of sovereigns, piled one upon an- other, or formed into one close column, would extend 710 miles. If this column were commenced at the Lizard, or extreme point of Cornwall, and continued northward, it would reach ten miles beyond John o'Groat's house, at the extreme point of Scotland. The same number of sovereigns laid flat, in a straight line, and touching each other, would extend 11,048 miles; or more than If times round the moon. Eight hundred millions of one- pound Bank of England notes, sewed together, would cover a turnpike- road 40 feet wide, and 1052 miles long; or from Land's- end to John o'Groat's house and nearly half- way back again. If the notes were sewed together, end to end, they would form a belt long enough to go four times round the world, or sixteen times round the moon. The whole population of the world is estimated at one thousand millions of souls. An equal distribution of the National, Debt would give sixteen shillings to every man, woman, and child; or four pounds to every family on the face of this earth. Were England to conquer all Europe, and levy a general poll- tax to pay off her present debt, she must have from every man, woman, and child, 51. 17s. 7 jd.; or from every family throughout Europe, 29/- 8s. 2} d. Supposing, for a moment, such a thing possible, as that we could procure from the Mexican mines silver in suffi- cient quantity to pay off the debt, it would require, to bring it to England, a fleet of 476 ships of 250 tons each. To carry it to the Bank of England in one- horse carts, each containing half a ton of silver, it would take 238,095. These, ranged in one unbroken line, would extend 676 miles; or from Land's- end to within 24 miles of John o'Groat's house. If carried by men, each loaded with 501bs. weight, it would require 5,333,333; or 1,391,033 men, in addition to the whole adult male population of Great Britain. There have been, at different times, many projects broached for getting rid of this national incubus- Now, I have one which I would recommend to the especial notice of Mr. Spring Rice. I am quite sure it would, if adopted, be a great relief to himself, if not to the nation. I would recommend him, then, to bring in a bill, the very next session of Parliament, to authorize him to levy a poll- tax on the population of Great Britain. In order to save him some trouble, I have made the requisite calculations for him. He need not be at all alarmed at the proposition, as the tax would amount only to 49/. 4s. for each man, woman and child ; or to the trifling sum of 246/. for every family in Great Britain. This plan must, I think, appear perfectly feasible to any one who looks at the immense facilities afforded by Banks of all sorts,— national, private, and Joint- stock; or, in other words, at the enormous extent to which the usurpation of one of the King's prerogatives, and that by far the most im- portant of them, has been carried in this country. I am, Sir, yours, & c. E. G. BANK OF ENGLAND. Quarterly Average of the Weekly Liabilities and Assets of the Bank of England, from the 28th June to the 20th September, 1836', inclusive, published pursuant to the Act 3rd and 4th William IV., cap. 98. LIABILITIES. Circulation £ 18,147,000 Deposits 14,118,000 Securities Bullion... ASSETS. £ 29,406,000 5,719,000 £ 35,125,000 £ 32,265,000 Downing- street, Sept. 22, 1836. The following are the average amounts of the circulation, the deposits, and the stock of bullion, from the 20th of October, 1835, to the 20th inst. inclusive :— Circulation £ 17,842,750 Deposits 15,462,000 Bullion 6,989,500 The subject of the paper currency of the States ( the Legislature) of Guernsey, and the animosity existing between them and the banks, is at present of all engrossing interest in that island.— Channel Islands' Gazette. ADDITIONAL CHURCHES.— The Sixteenth Report of the Commissioners appointed underthe Act of Parliamentfor promoting the building of additional churches in populous parishes, has just been printed and delivered. It appears from the Report, that the numberof additional churches com- pleted, by order of the Commissioners, since their appoint- ment, is 214 ; that seven are now building; that plans are approved for building 35 other churches or chapels; and that additional accommodation has been thus provided in churches and chapels for 286,327 individuals; including 128,804 free sitting*. STEAM NAVIGATION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE CHAMPION, SIR Having had much acquaintance with Marine Steam Engines, and being interested in the extension of Steam Navigation to the performing of long voyages, 1 have had the curiosity to inspect the n. uch- talked- of improvements on Steam- Engines, whereby boilers ( surprising as it may appear) never require cleaning; for, notwithstanding steam vessels on which they are aboard navigate the seas for months, or even years, no deposit of saline or earthy mat- ter ever takes place; and for this plain reason, that none of those substances ever enter the boilers. I was induced to take the trouble of making the above investigation, from the circumstances of the improvements- in question having been put to a pair of engines of 180- horse power, and of their having been in operation eight months; for this cannot be considered in the light of an experiment only, or of an unproved invention. I went on Saturday last as far as Gravescnd in the Hercules ( the vessel having the engines above- mentioned aboard), be- longing to the St. George Steam- Packet Company, and I was perfectly satisfied respecting the other advantages ob- tained by these improvements, besides those of preserving the boilers and keeping. them clean. In the first place, the quantity of fuel consumed is decidedly and considerably re- duced, and the power of the engines is much increased; in the next place, the management of the engines is very much simplified, for the boilers are self- supplied with water, and that very correctly; and as no injection water is re- quired, the usual care regulating its entrance regularly and judiciously is entirely done away with. It is notorious that many serious accidents arise to the boilers and engines when out at sea, from the former not being always properly supplied with water, and from the injection water ( especially in stormy weather) not being properly regulated ; it is well known, that if the boilers be materially too full of water, there is not room enough for the steam, and that if the water accidentally get too low, the boilers are sometimes burnt out and destroyed ; it is equally evident, that if too little injection water be admitted, the power of the engines will be decreased, and if too much be introduced, the engines are liable to serious ac- cidents. I have no hesitation in saying, that those parties who are directors or agents for Companies and other proprietors of steam- vessels, who require new steam- engines, do but ill fulfil their duties if they do not investigate these import- ant improvements before they order new engines for their principals; whether they adopt thetn or not is of course another matter, and subject to their respective judgments,, but I assert that they can form no just or adequate opinion without inspecting the engines themselves. I am astonished to find that a few members of a liberal profession, or rather business, strongly oppose these im- provements, from an idea that the engines, but more par- ticularly the boilers, will endure so long as to injure the trade; not taking into consideration the fact, that the im- provements will so greatly extend steam navigation, and increase the number of marine engines required, as amply to compensate the makers for their increased durability. One or two other engineers of a more liberal class, oppose the making of engines with these important improvements, because they give them ( at the first) a little more trouble than the common engines which they have been in the habit of making. That it is to the interest of the ovmers of engines to have these improvements is quite clear, what- ever it may be to that of the makers of them ; for it is un questionably highly important to the former ( whatever it may be to the latter) that the engines and boilers should last the greatest possible number of years, and require the least pos- sible repairs and renewalsof the different parts, and, of course, cause the least interruption to the regular and profitable working of the vessel. I have no hesitation in saying, that various attempts which are making to accomplish long voy- ages by steam vessels ( as to the United States, India,& c.), may fail with common engines, which would be perfectly suc- cessful with engines comprising Mr. Samuel Hall's improve- ments as applied aboard the Hercules; and . were I a party concerned, I should be sorry to incur the responsibility of sending out common engines, and rejecting the above men- tioned improvements. I believe, that the short durability of the boilers, and the difficulty of keeping them sound and in a clean state, owing to the abundant deposit in them of salt and hard scale, as also to the frequent blowing- off re- quired of salt- water, have always been considered as form- ing a part of the greatest obstacles to be overcome before long voyages by steam ships can be successfully accom- plished. Are these obstacles less important than formerly ? Are they so, bccause they are now successfully overcome, as is fully proved, not only by the engines aboard the Her- eules, but by other marine engines, which have had the im- provements in operation nearly three years ? Need I adduce another argument to prove what I have asserted ? If so, I will only add, that the St. George Steam- Packet Company, after having had the engines aboard the Hercules at work eight months, and the other engines of which I have spoken between two and three years, have now six large, new steam ships building; and pairs of engines making for them, with Mr. Hall's improvements, of from 250 to 300 horse power each. The abilities and experience of the Chairman and Directors of this powerful Company, and their shrewdness on all matters of business, need no com- ment from me, except that they form the strongest argu- ment that 1 can possibly adduce of the great intrinsic value of the improvements in question. Should you do me the favour of inserting what I have now communicated to you, which is so highly interesting, not only to the scientific world but to the public, I will shortly give you further in- formation on the subject. I remain yours, very respectfully, A PRACTICAL ENGINEEB. ANECDOTE OP ISTURIZ.— Don Tomaso Isturiz, the ex- Minister of the Queen of Spain, who, on the Constitu- tion of 1812 being proclaimed, was obliged to fly for his life to Lisbon, appears to have undergone many vicissitudes of fortune, and during the Peninsular war he was a mer- chant at Cadiz, and was elected one of the Junta during the memorable siege by Soult. Having a dash of the Republi- can in his character, he moved in the Cortes, in May, 1814, that the beloved Ferdinand should be declared unworthy to reign, should he refuse to swear to and accept the Consti- tution of 1812. On the return of Ferdinand, he was com- pelled to go into exile. He repaired to London, where many of his companions were starving on the scanty allow- ance of 15*. per month. Here the following anecdote is related of him :—" He was one day walking near the Royal Exchange during the drawing of the Lottery in 1815, and feeling an inclination to sport 20/. went into the office of Martin and Co., Cornhil], where, referring to his pocket- book, he counted the number of days that had elapsed from that of his providential escape from Madrid, and the tender mercies prepared for him by the beloved Fernando; he found them to amount to 261, and then demanded to buy that ticket; but it was nearly half an hour before it could be obtained, and only after a strict search amongst the lottery- offices in the city. At length a half ticket of No. 261 was procured at two o'clock, and at five it was drawn a prize of 40,000/.— the only bne ever exhibited to that amount in England. The lucky Don lay down that night 20,000/. richer than he had risen."— Blackwood. CHOLERA IN HUNGARY.— MORAVIA, SEPT. 7.— Travellers coming from Hungary speak of the dreadful ra- vages of the cholera in that kingdom. In Upper Hungary, it is said, there arc as many victims as in 1831; but it is said to be still worse below the Theis, where they say almost the entire population of some places has died of it. In 1831, the great mortality was ascribed to the wet inclement season- now it is dry, though cool; and yet the disease is equally fatal. THE CHAMPION, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2. 23 PENSION SOCIETIES V. POOR- RATES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE CHAMPION. SIR : Can it be possible for the public to sleep under the impression that the severity of the Poor- law Amend- ment Act creates, without their energies being awakened to a remedy, in their own hands, of rendering relief to the really deserving poor, without subjecting them to the refusal of men invested with tyrannic power? We have the power in our own hands; let us in God's name use it. Pension Societies have long been formed ; let the pub- lic but support them, and a vast deal of good will be done, and will not subject the applicant to have his feelings hurt, and his poverty tyrannized over by unfeeling men. Let every good- disposed man assist in sending his mite, however small, in aid of the London, Southwark, Lam- beth, Printers, or any other Pension Society, formed upon a similar plan. The rules and regulations are good. Let men who cannot afford to pay a yearly subscription, unite and pay one penny a- week towards getting the deserving and unfortunate placed on the Funds of these valuable Institutions: let them attend the yearly general meetings of the one to which they particularly belong, to vote for such men as Directors who stand well in the world for the benevolence of their actions. Let the clergy be par- ticularly called upon to aid, by their eloquence in the pulpit, the funds which are devoted to the poor in their respective parishes ; and, Sir, above all, let them attend the half- yearly elections, and see the number of candidates; and if they could know what some of them once were in life, and the assistance they have rendered others in early life, often, too often, towards their own downfal, I should pity that man whose heart was so callous as to refuse his assistance. Besides, interested motives might dictate to them, that, by lessening the number of applications for parish relief, we lessen the Poor- rates, and better en- courage trade. Is it not better, for a public principle, to give a man five or six shillings a- week, which would most likely be spent in the neighbourhood in which he might hap- pen to reside, than to be loading men of capital with con- tracts for the necessaries of life ? I was present at the first sermon which was preached for the Southwark Pension Society, which was by the Rev. William Curling; and so well did he pourtray the advantages of neighbour assist- ing to support neighbour, that he drew from the pockets of his congregation nearly Eighty Pounds. Now, Sir, strange to say, notwithstanding the success of that effort, there has been but one other Church occupied, although the Society has had its existence for some years. Not so the Lambeth; for, I believe, every Church in Lambeth has had its congregation called to the excellence of this plan of supporting its own poor. To the credit of the Secretary of the Lambeth be it spoken, he has not received one shilling for his services since the commencement, now about ten or twelve years. Long may Mr. Watmore live to give so much time and attention to alleviate the wants of his fellow- creatures! Allow me to say, were a Pension So- ciety instituted in every parish, it would leave but few for the Guardians to deal with, beyond those impostors who alone can deserve their unfeeling treatment. J. W. Stamford- street, September 26, 1836. THE NEW POOR- LAW ACT.— EMIGRATION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE CHAMPION. « III fares the land to hastening ills a prey,. Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ; Princes and Lords may flourish or may fade ; A breath caw make them as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied." GOLDSMITH. SIR : On looking over that atrocious piece of legislation, the Poor- law Amendment Act, you cannot but be forcibly struck with the immense powers therein given to the mer- ciless hireling Commissioners, upon the money advanced by the owners and rate- payers for the purpose of emigration. It is therein enacted, " That it may be lawful for the rate- payers to raise such sums of money, not exceeding half the average yearly rate for the three preceding years. But to ie applied only under and according to such rules, orders, and regulations, as the Commissioners may or shall direct, and that no directions for raising the money shall have any force or effect, until confirmed by the said Commissioners." Was there ever exhibited anything so monstrously anoma- lous? The owners and rate- payers to have the power to raise money, get themselves into a heavy debt, and the money so raised to be applied only according to such " rules, orders, and regulations," as these Central Bashaws may direct; and, observe, not to have force or effect until con- firmed by the said centralizing Bashaws! Is there anything extant equal to this ? Can there be anything beyond this to which the owners and rate- payers will not submit ? If they submit to this, and that they have succumbed, is noto rious, to have the power over the money raised by them- selves taken wholly away from them would appear ludicrous, if it did not involve a principle of submission wholly incom- patible with all their former proud boastings, that they ,1.1 An no tlioi, UVorl thoii- nwn ' ' TVlfi mal settlements of Canada, or even to the United States; for there are above twenty- five millions of acres unoccupied at home, and of as good a quality as much of the land found in the back settlements of the British possessions. To this land Englishmen are certainly entitled: they could rapidly convert it into a source of sufficient production and employment, and add to the strength and happiness of the kingdom. Why should they be forced abroad, either by the starvation- dietary of the rules- orders- and- regulation- Commissioners, or the frown of a besotted relieving- officer ? What a gross violation of natural rights, first to starve a man to submissiveness, and then, by way of conferring an obligation, propose to expatriate him for his poverty ! There is, in this scheme of emigration, one matter which ought not to be passed over in silence, and that is, sending from the country the able- bodied labourers. Why should the working- bees of society be driven away, and the drones suffered to remain and devour what they have had no hand in producing. Is it necessary or even judicious to send away the labourers who produce all the wealth, and who have been the just pride of every civilized country, to till some foreign soil, while the rich are left battening at ease and splendour? Those who would advise the industrious millions to leave their native homes, ought to be the first themselves to go. They ought not to advise others to that which they themselves would not submit to: the lazy drones of society could be well spared. The state- pensioned paupers and the spurious political economists, who have propounded theories flatter- ing to the prejudices of the rich, and would consign the poor to starvation and banishment, these deserve no bet- ter than to go forthwith, and inhabit those dreary regions which are most congenial to their own nature. These remarks are called forth by the iniquitous enact- ments in the miscalled Poor- law " Amendment " Act, and by the painful remembrance of seeing hundreds of men, women, and children transported under these " rules- orders- and- regulation" schemers' directions from the county of Norfolk this summer; and in the hope that this may be the means of preventing only one English family from leaving their native shore, I subscribe myself, Yours most obediently, Norwich, St. James's, Sept. 22, 1836. J. W. GREEVES. would do as they liked with their own'. The only power given them is to raise the money upon themselves, and leave its disbursements to a set of capricious law- defying hireling legislators and their assistants, who are tramping about the country, issuing their orders, as if the money they expended were wholly their own. One cannot help deplor- ing the servile state to which the " yeomanry " of this once proud and happy country,— this " envy of surrounding na- tions, and the admiration of the world "— are reduced, when the management of their parochial affairs is taken from them, with as little ceremony as a Russian despot disposes of the lives and properties of his serfs, and submitted to • with equal obedience. There was a time, Sir, that had any- thing of this sort even been hinted at, much less attempted, the very stones would have risen in mutiny, the whole country would have been in arms at such an encroachment on their rights; but the debt,— the figure of 8 with eight noughts,— has reduced the landowners and the aristocracy, with their innumerable underlings, to such a state of subjec- tion, that it will remain a lasting monument of reproach upon them. It is a question of serious moment to inquire by what cause the poor of this country are driven to that necessity and want, that, as a last resource, they feel themselves com- pelled to emigrate to avoid the horrors of a loathsome Bas- tile. There must be something wrong; there must be something " rotten in the state of Denmark;" there must be something lamentably deficient in the management of our state affairs, when the best and most useful classes of society,— the industrious millions,—- are called upon to leave their families, their relations, and everything dear to them, and to seek employment in the swamps of Canada and other British settlements; great care being always observed not to land them, if it can by any possibility be avoided, in the United States, where, by dint of great perseverance, and by undergoing many privations, they might ultimately succeed in their endeavours to obtain a subsistence. However, after having landed these poor wretched creatures, many or most of whom have been expelled from England, they are gene- rally so short of money that they have not the means to pro- ceed into the interior of the country, and a single city can- not be expected to supply work for so many extra hands the only result, then, that can follow, must be that of starva- tion, sickness, and death. The emigration scheme ought to be opposed and exploded ; and the fact, that thousands are landed in a state of destitution, ought to deter the industrious labourers from being compelled to abandon that land, in and to which Nature has given them an indisputable right, •• If evils exist at home, it is cowardly to seek safety in flight for the diseases of England there is a remedy, and the^ eo pie ought to be informed of its existence. Land cannot be tie obiect for which Englishmen are transported to the dis CH URCH- RA1' ES— THE DISS EN IE KS. The Protestant Dissenters, have embodied their religious grievances in a circular letter, which they have very gene- rally circulated ; and after adverting with much satisfaction to the successful resistance given to the payment of this ob- noxious impost at Birmingham, Louth, Bradford, Manches- ter, Sheffield, Halifax, Devonport, Northampton, Leicester, Tiverton, Berwick- upon- Tweed, and numerous other places, the " Church- rate Abolition Society " conclude by recom- mending the following plan of operations, preparatory to- the next session of Parliament, in support of which they invite the assistance of their fellow- countrymen of all de- nominations, who are opposed to the principle of compul- sory assessment for religious objects: 1. The formation of a Society in the metropolis under the above designation, in order to which a public meeting will be held on Wednesday, the 19th of October next, at the City of London Tavern. 2. The immediate institution of local associations, to com- municate with the Society formed in London. 3. The holding of public meetings in all the large towns and more populous districts, at which resolutions and me- morials may be adopted, declaratory of the determination to resist the future exaction of the rate. 4. Each association to nominate a representative, who may attend, if need be, a general meeting, to be held in London, previously to the opening of Parliament; and to raise a fund for defraying the expenses of both the local and the general opposition. 5. Immediate application by all such associations or com- mittees to all their Representatives in Parliament, to give their aid in procuring the total abolition of the Church- rate without commutation. 6. Firm, peaceable, consentaneous, passive resistance to the payment of this unjust impost. Communications to be addressed to the Secretary to the Provisional Committee, Patriot Office, Bolt- court, Fleet- street. On behalf of the Provisional Committee, R. PEEK, Chairman, T. H. BOYKETT, Secretary. Patriot Office, Sept. 20, 1836. A Correspondent furnishes the following evidence of the unpopularity of tlys system : " I have before me," says the writer, " the ' First Report of the Poor- law Com- missioners,' in which I find that one of the Assistant- com- missioners, at page 288, says, in boasting of a reduction of the expenditure, ' That it is further satisfactory to state that a great proportion of the reduction has been effected by reducing the pressure of able- bodied pauperism ;' and in a list which follows these remarks, of 47 able- bodied pau- pers he includes 13 of the following ages— viz 3 of 50 years ; 3 of 60; 4 of 65 ; 1 of 70; 1 of 74 ; and one of 80 years of age. These were the ages of agricultural labourers before the starvation system, and, according to the Commissioners' statement, were able- bodied ! I was on Twickenham Com- mon on Saturday last, and learned that in the workhouse there, the children only of theBrentford Union are confined; the poor urchins complained to me of their dreadfully al- tered condition, from the dietary of gruel, gruel, gruel! In fact the bed- linen requires constant ablution. Two wretched- looking objects were stuck up in the parish field, fit only to scare ' crows.' "— Morning Paper. On Saturday Mr. Revans, one of the Assistant Poor- law Commissioners, had an interview at Howden with the overseers of forty townships, for the purpose of forming them into a Union under the New Poor- law Act, Howden to be the centre. This will create the most serious hard- ship and inconvenience to many of the parish officers, the place of meeting being upwards of twenty miles distant from manyof the parishes of the intended Union.— Hull Observer. At the Meeting of the Guardians of the Poor of the Brighton Union on Monday evening, to hear the answer of the Law Officers of the Crown to the case lately sent up, with respect to the appointment of a Chaplain to the work- house, the Attorney- General's opinion was read, which stated that they ( the Guardians) have not any power under the New Poor- law Act to appoint a Chaplain to union or other workhouses, and that the appointment by them is consequently illegal.—- Brighton Patriot. MEDICAL RELIEF.— According to the working of this soul- and- body- destroying Act, no farther medical relief will be given to the poor of the parish of Camberwell, ex- cept in the workhouse. To avert the cruel evils which such measure must necessarily produce, a Medical Club has been formed in Camberwell, and several medical gentlemen have volunteered to attend the poorer classes for such small sums, as the annual subscriptions may afford. A very lively interest has been taken in the formation of this truly be- nevolent society, by the most influential ladies and gentle- men, who reside at Camberwell. REFUSAL TO TAKE CARE OF THE POOR.— Of twenty- four persons nominated to serve the office of Poor- law Guardians at Boston, no fewer than 14 have resigned, com- prising nearly all whom it was desirable to have elected to the office. The Rev. Matthew Robinson, lecturer, was proposed by his friend Mr. W. H. Adams, who in his turn was proposed by Mr. Robinson! It is believed that the number of resignations in Boston is wholly unprecedented. Lincoln Mercury. A FINE BUILDING.— Spalding Union workhouse, a very fine building, is in rapid progress, and should th, e weather prove favourable will in a month be coveredin.— Ib WRETCHED STATE OF THE DUBLIN POOR— POOR- LAWS FOR IRELAND. Once more the funds of the Mendicity are exhausted. On Tuesday last the committee had but 16s. 4} d. in hand, for the support of 2081 hapless victims!! Generally speak- ing the Irish papers are shamefully apathetic upon the question of the Poor- laws, but I am glad that the Register of this day ( Thursday) enables me to copy from it the fol- lowing : After denying that the majority of the Liberal Irish members are opposed to Poor- laws, the Register says, Whatever difference of opinion may exist upon the parti- cular modification of the system, the necessity of some such plan has forced itself so decidedly upon the attention of the friends of Ireland, that a measure, if not commensurate with the evil, at least co- extensive with what truly or erro- neously may be esteemed as at once humane and prudent in the first instance, will meet the most cordial support of the Liberal members. The question cannot be delayed, and, for our own part, in a case of such dire necessity— in case of which life, morals, and the dictates of inercy are so much involved— we cannot consent to palter about state expediency, or principles of political economy, falsely so called, because at variance with the intentions of the great Father of all, and in diametrical opposition to the disposi- tions He has implanted in our nature." Thus writes the Register, and one of its correspondents says, that Mr. Nichol, one of the English Poor- Law Commissioners, has been sent over here with instructions, the nature of which are not known. Heaven forfend that his mission is not the prelude to the Bastiles, the hardships, and the foul inhumanities of the " AMENDED SYSTEM UNPUBLISHED LETTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT ON THE STATE OF IRELAND. The Inverness Courier has published the following frank and cordial epistle from Sir WALTER SCOTT, wjiich exhibits that great man in his private undress, among his family and friends. Without adverting generally to the sentiments contained in it, the letter shows that on the side of a conciliatory system of government in Ireland, and in favour of the education of the Irish people, without refer- ence to religious distinctions, we may venture to number the illustrious name of Sir W. Scott:— Killarney, % th August, 1825. " My dear : I conclude you are now returned with wife and bairns to , and not the worse of your tour. I have been the better of mine ; and, Killarney being the ex- treme point, I am just about to commence my return to Dublin, where I only intend to remain two or three days at farthest. 1 should like to find a line from you, addressed — care of David M'Culloch, Esq., Cheltenham, letting me know how matters go on at Abbotsford. " I have every reason to make a good report of Ireland, having been received with distinction, which is flattering, and with warm- hearted kindness, which is much better. 1 am happy to say the country is rapidly improving every year, and argues the spirit that is afloat, and indicates that Brit- ish capital is finding its way into a country where it can be employed to much advantage. The idea of security is gaining ground even in these districts, which are, or rather were, the most unsettled; and plenty has brought its usual companion, content, in her hand. But the public peace is secured by large bodies of an armed police, called by the civil term of constables, but very unlike the Dogberries of Old England, being in fact soldiers on foot and horse, well armed and mounted, and dressed exactly like our yeomen. It is not pleasant to see thisj but it is absolutely necessary, for some time at least; and, from what I can hear, the men are under strict discipline and behave well; they are commanded by the magistracy, and are very alert. " The soil is inmost places extremely rich, but cultivation is not as yet well understood. The accursed system of making peats interferes with everything; and 1 have passed through whole counties where a very noble har- vest, ripe for the sickle, was waiting for the next shower of rain, while all the population who should cut were up to the middle in the bogs. Not a single field of turnips have I seen, owing probably to the same reason. " The political disputes are of far less consequence here than we think in Britain, but I think on the whole it would be highly desirable that the Catholic Bill should pass; it would satisfy most of the higher classes of that persuasion, who seem much inclined to favour a sort of low church, differing in ceremonies more than essential points from that of the English church; I mean they would do this tacitly and gradually. The lower class will, probably, con- tinue for a long time bigotted Papists; but, education be- coming general, it is to be supposed that Popery in its vio- lent tenets will decline even amongst them. By the way, education is already far more general than in England. I saw in the same village about 400 Catholic children attend- ing one school, and about 200 Protestants attending another. The peculiar doctrines of neither church were permitted to be taught, and there were Protestants amongst the Papist children, and Papists among the Protestants. " The general condition of the peasantry requires much improvement; their cabins are wretched, and their dress such a labyrinth of rags, that I have often feared some but- ton would give way, and shame us all. But this is mending, and the younger people are all more decently dressed, and the new huts which are arising, are greatly better than the old pigstyes. In short, all is on the move and the mend; but as I must be on the move myself, I must defer the rest of my discoveries till we meet. " We have in our party Anne, Lockhart, Walter and his wife, and two Miss Edgeworths; so we are a jolly party. Will you show this to Lady Scott ? I wrote to her two days since. Always truly yours, WALTER SCOTT. REFORM OF THE HOUSE OE LORDS. Mr. BAINES, M. P. has addressed a letter through the Leeds Mercury, to Mr. O'Connell on the subject of the Reform in the House of Lords, from which we make the following extracts. " Let us take the question at issue between us by an ex- amination of its working on Parliament. You know, as well as I can inform you, that a Bill brought into the House of Commons, for depriving the Members of the House of Lords of their hereditary privilege as legislators, would scarcely be supported by as many Members in that House as voted for your celebrated motion for the Repeal of the legis- lative Union between Great Britain and Ireland. You were so well aware of this, that though you gave notice of a motion for Reform of the House of Lords early in the last Session of Parliament, you very discreetly let the whole Session pass without venturing to bring the subject formally under consideration. But we will suppose a thing which ig next to impossible— namely, that the Bill might pass the House of Commons. What then is to be done ? It has to pas3 the Lords— and who is to introduce it ? You know that there is just as much reason to hope that the House of Lords will pass a Bill for the confiscation of all the estates of the Peerage of England, as that they will enact a law to render their hereditary legislative power elective. If you do not know this, you are the only man in Parliament that is ignorant of the fact. " Then, as to the King, of course I speak from authority on this point, but I believe that his Majesty- William IV. would as soon abdicate his throne in favour of the lion, and learned Member for Kilkenny as he would give the royal assent to such a bill for disfranchising the Peers of Parliament of their hereditary honours. " If this be a correct view of the reception that a bill for the Reform of the House of Lords would meet with from the three estates of the realm, it is impossible to effect that reform by sanction of law; and if, therefore, it is to be carried at all, it must be effected without law, that is, byre- volution. In revolution it must begin, and in revolution it must end. " I now turn, Sir, to the other branch of the subject embraced in your short and pithy sentence. You say, that without a reform in the House of Lords we must have a revolution. I deny it. Justice for Ireland, and the firm eatablishment of free institutions in England, may, I be- lieve, be effected by means perfectly safe and perfectly con- stitutional. " If you will allow me, I will call these means by the name of my plan in contradistinction to you My plan, then, is this - Let the constituencies in England, Ireland, and Scotland, at the next general election return to the House of Commons, which they are perfectly competent to do, 400 Reform Members out of the 658, and the Irish Church Bill with its appropriation clause— the Irish Municipal Cor- poration Bill— the English Registration Bill- the Muni- cipal Trustees Charities Bill— the Bill for the Abolition of Church Rates, and all the other bills that are necessary for good government, whether national or local, in England, Ireland, and Scotland, will pass in due time, without any revolution in the Government." EXPLOSION AT THE LIVERPOOL POST- OFFICE. — On Saturday night a number of Foreign letters on which the postage had not been paid, and which had remained in the Liverpool Post- office beyond the regular period, were handed over to a man named Barnard, for the purpose of being stamped previously to being forwarded to London by the mail. Amongst these was a bundle containing seven letters, all directed in the same hand, and in the Spanish language, to official personages at Havanna. The stamp is a heavy steel implement, with which the letter is struck with some violence. He had got through all the letters but this particular bundle, and they had been removed as he operated upon them. He also got safely through the but in striking the fifth the percussion first four of these, with which England is cursed! produced an explosion which shook the whole building. Welcome starvation, rather than the basest of tyranny and cruelty.— Eveniug Paper. LECTURES AT THEOBALD'S ROAD.— On Sunday night last, Mr. Macconnell delivered his fourth lecture at this place. His lecture, like the preceding, showed the bearing of the Christianity of the New Testament against all de- scriptions and impositions of priestcraft. The lecturer dis- coursed on the Pharisees of old, who took tithe of mint, anise, and cummin, but who neglected the weightier matters of the law, as justice, mercy, and faith, and showed how much the modern priesthood were like them. The autlience, as on former occasions, was numerous and respectable. IRISH NATIONAL ASSOCIATION.— MR. BEAUMONT, M. P. THE following letter has been addressed by Mr. Beaumont, M. P., to Mr. O'Connell: " Scarbro', September 7, 1835. " DEAR SIR : As I spoke very unceremoniously against the expediency of your agitation in England, when I was con vinced that, with whatever intentions, you were doing a practical injury to the cause of liberty and the security of Libera] principles, so, when I see you proceeding in a right course, I do not hesitate with equal frankness to offer you my humble assistance. Allow me to request your accept- ance of 100/. towards the Justice Fund. " I have just read in the Globe your letter to the editor of the Spectator, and must be permitted to set you right on the subject of the Newcastle election. You are ready not justified in answering " Newcastle" ( as you pithily express it) to those who assert that the people of England are fa- vourable to the Irish. I assert that opinion, and I have no doubt that the Reformers of Newcastle will not be offended by my saying, in their name, that they should be much hurt by their town being your watchword to designate En- glish illiberality and prejudice. The reason of my friend Blacket's defeat, and of Mr. Hodgson's Hindes's success ( he has since changed his name by King's patent— would that he had also changed his politics), is simply this— that the two most zealous Liberals ( one of Whig the other of Radi- cal persuasion) ventured to think they had the power of installing a member in the vacant seat for the town. The mettle of John Bull was excited— the caprices of a bull in a pet are unreasonable enough— they forgot the public liberty in rage for asserting their own— the Reformers of Newcastle were desirous to resent an attempt at domina- tion. This, I am sure, is not an incorrect representation of the true cause which lay at the bottom of the success of the Tory. The Irish were forgotten in the individual ques- tion. Should the same question be tried at a general election, when the public fermentation would absorb petty jealou- sies, no town would, I am certain, be more ready to con- vince you of its sympathy with your unjustly and insultingly treated countrymen. But, Sir, I only speak as a Northum- brian, knowing the feelings of my neighbours, and not authorised by position to relate the opinions of the indepen- dent men of Newcastle. But as a Northumbrian I protest against the injustice, proceeding from ignorance on your part ( natural and unavoidable ignorance I admit) of the meaning you have affixed to the name of our principal town, and its very high- minded and high- spirited constitu- ency. Believe me, dear Sir, yours truly, " T. W. BEAUMONT. " To DANIEL O'CONNELI., Esq." In transmitting the above letter to the Secretary of the Association in Dublin, Mr. O'Connell remarks: " This splendid donation, coming from such a man, at such a mo- ment, not only forbids us to despair, but actually directs the most desponding amongst us to hope for more sympathy from the English people. The causes of our defeat at New- castle are distinctly traced by this gentleman to private and individual pique. He certainly has better means of know- ing the facts than we can have, and it is impossible not to yield the most implicit credit to anything he asserts. He has, therefore, completely satisfied me that we do not owe the defeat of Mr. Blacket to any hostility to Ireland. But I attribute that defeat to hostility OR indifference to the rights of Irishmen. Now, although it was not hostility,! yet Mr. Beaumont establishes beyond rjiy doubt my opinion as to the indifferencefor assuredly if there were a lively sense of the importance to Ireland of a friendly Member for Newcastle— and still more, if the electors felt strongly the injury to Ireland which an unfriendly Member, however untalented, would just at that moment inflict— they never would suffer caprice or pettishness to control the contest and decide the election." A HASTY WEDDING. — The bells of Newcastle- under- Lyne rang merrily nearly the wholo of Thursday. On asking what joyful event was thus celebrated, we were informed that a young couple had been married in the morning under the following circumstances : A party were keeping the wakes on the previous evening, and the subject of matrimony being introduced, a young man said he should not mind being married in the morning, if he could meet witb. a wife, antl some one would advance money to pay the fees. A married female who was present, thinking the op- portunity of making two persons happy for life ought not to be lost, volunteered her assistance. A handsome lass in t'oe company was " nothing loth " to be a bride ; and the I next morning, a license having been procured, the cere- Every clerk in the office, even those at the greatest distance, was stunned, and one who stood within a few- yards of the spot was thrown violently to the ground. When they recovered, in some measure, from the shock, they looked round for the poor man Barnard, whom they found prostrate and severely wounded on the ground, with the loss of one eye, and the fragments of the letters strewed around. During the confusion the bag which contained the other four letters was despatched, on which the Postmaster sent forward an express to London, to prevent a similar oc currence. „ The present population of the United States of j mony was duly performed in the parish* church!— Stafford- America is 16,800,000 souls, including 400,000 Indians. . 1 shire Advertiser. 20 THE CHAMPION, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25. iarTEKESTIXC} FORBI6S HKWi, PROM THE LATEST PAPERS AND CORRESPONDENCE. VICTORY OVER THE CARLISTS. ( From the Eco del Comercio.) SPAIN, SEPT. 21.— We know that the Government has just received official notice, which is credited, of the defeat of the faction of Gomez, united with several others in the immediate vicinity of Villa Robledo, by the division of General Alaix. It appears that the rebels have been com- pletely routed, leaving the field covered with dead, and in the entire possession of our troops, with 1,360 prisoners, two guns, and a great part of their baggage. The troops were pursuing the rest of the factions, who rapidly disper- sed in all directions. " REGENCIA JUDICIAL DE LA VILLE DE PROVENCES. *' One of the outposts stationed by me in Villa Robledo to watch the operations has just reached here, bringing an ac- count of the action. He was in the field of battle, which is covered with the dead bodies of the faction, and at his leav- ing Villa Robledo 1,360 prisoners had already been depo- sited in the convent of that town. General Alaix had also sent in the greater part of the booty the faction had taken off, and which he had captured, as also the two pieces of mountain artillery which Gomez had carried with him throughout his expedition. Alaix was in full pursuit of the routed enemy. ( Signed) " GUIJARRO. " Provencio, Sept. 20." '• PROVENCIO, SEPT. 20, 12 O'CLOCK AT NOON. " This action was fought between La Venta ( le Pinar and Villa Vijedo, near to Villa Robledo. Thus is the defeat of Lopez by this same Gomez, who has now lost so great a part of his forces, completely neutralized, and more than neutralized. The intended Carlist expedition to Andalusia, which if effected would have seriously embarrassed the Go- vernment, is rendered impossible, and the factions of Aragon generally ( General Rodil having to- day marched from this to join the forces before sent out for operation in that pro- vince, placed in a situation of such difficulty, that it is scarcely possible they can escape destruction." TURKEY.— Letters from Constantinople to the 7th of Sept. state that the Turkish Envoy to the Persian Court had reached Erzeroom, on his return home, having sud- denly quitted Tehran upon discovering that the Shah me- ditated a combination of his forces with those of Dost Mohamed Khan and Runjeet Singh, for the purpose of at- tacking the Lahore frontier of our Indian empire; it was also averred that Mr. Ellis, on making the same discovery, had, after a formal protest to the Court of Persia, required all the Britfsh officers in the Persian army to withdraw from that service. The recent recruitment of the Turkish army, by levying the militia, wes, according to report, to be extended from 200,000 to 500,000. NEW PORTUGUESE MINISTRY. ( EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER.) LISBON, SEPT. 11.— I am informed that the new Administration will be composed as follows : Conde de Lumiares, President of the Council and Mi- nister of War. Visconde da Sa da Bandeira, Minister of Finance. M. Manuel Passos, Minister the Interior. M. Braancamp, Minister of Foreign A ( fairs. M. Viera de Castro, Minister of Justice. M. Vasconcellos, Minister of Marine. Visconde Sa da Bandeira was at the head of the military movement of last year, and was one of the Loureiro and Campos Ministry. The son of the Count Lumiares was at the head of the deputation of national guards which effected the revolution, by which the father becomes Prime Minister. ACCIDENT TO THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS.— Advices from Frankfort state that the Emperor Nicholas of Russia has met with an accident from the upsetting of his carriage, and that he has broken his collar bone. Notwithstanding that the injury is serious, no dangerous consequences are pprehended. The Emperor of Austria was very unwell on the 14th instant, at Prague, from a catarrhal affection. POLAND.— The confiscation of the estates of those inhabitants of Posen, who took a part in the Polish revolu- tion, had been diminished down to a mulct. ( FROM THE PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE OF THE CHRONICLE.) THE BRITISH LEGION.— I have just seen an official communication of the arrangements made for the payment of the Legion. They have been agreed to by Mendizabal, on the part of the Spanish Government; and Colonel De Lancey and Deputy Commissary- General Grindley, on the part of the Legion. £ 25,000 is to be paid down ( that is the sum for which the Lieutenant- General has already re- ceived an order to draw) ; £ 16,000 by a Treasury order, dated 1st of October; £ 16,000 more by a like order, dated 1st of November; and £ 15,000 by a like order, dated 15th of November. For the due payment of these Treasury orders Mendizabal gives his pledge. Thus the Legion will obtain in this payment £ 72,000. A very lengthened correspondence is being carried on Detween Lord J. Hay, as commodore of the squadron on the northern coast of Spain, and the marine authority of this port, on the subject of the insult lately offered by the latter to the British flag on the occasion of the Comet'. visit some weeks since. The Carlists displayed their accustomed brutality on a late occasion. A soldier of the 7th regiment was shot and fell: immediately half- a- dozen Chapelchouris ran up and battered his brains out with the butt- end of their muskets. A gratifying instance of bravery and presence of mind on the part of a Spanish Christino soldier occurred: Lieu- tenant O'Hagan, a brave young Irish officer in the regular Spanish service, but who is attached to the Quartermaster- general's department of the Legion, was retiring with a party, when they were overtaken by a strong body of Car- fists. Lieut. O'Hagan fell, and a Chapelchouri was on the point of dispatching him, when the soldier in question, who was a little in advance, turned round, saw the officer's pvil, levelled his piece instantaneously at the rebel, shot him dead, and Lieut. O'Hagan escaped. STRENGTH OF THE LEGION.— The following' is an accurate statement of the strength of the Legion from the latest returns: Brigadier- Generals, 4; Colonels, 6; Lieut.- Colonels, 13; Majors, 20; Captains, 85; Lieutenants, 88; Ensigns, 71; Paymasters, 11; Adjutants, 11; Quartermas- ters, 11; Surgeons, 12; Assistant- Surgeons, 20; Sergeant- majors, 8; Quartermaster- Sergeants, 8; Paymaster Ser- geants, 8; Sergeant Armourers, 10 ; Drum- majors, 6; Ser- geants, 358 ; Corporals, 293; Drummers, 129; Privates, £ 262; making a sum total of 7437, with 534 horses. De- ducting for the sick, absent, and prisoners, 1600, there re- mains about 5800 effective men— a not inconsiderable force if properly supported. Lord Viscount Ranelagh has accepted a commission in the service of Don Carlos!!!. He passed here yesterday on his way to head- quarters. SWITZERLAND.— A Swiss journal mentions that the Russian Ambassador at Berne has received from his sove- reign a letter expressive of his satisfaction with the support he afforded to the Duke de Montebello. The letter has been communicated to the President of the Directory. A letter of the 21st inst. from Berne states that alarming news had arrived there from Vienna, which wiil render ne- cessary an early convocation of the Diet. JAMAICA.— The Alert packet has brought papers from Jamaica to the 10th ult. The island was perfectly tranquil, but the crops are represented to fallfar below those of last year, The Marquis of Sligo, was expected to leave for England in his Majesty's ship F</ rte, Shut the day had not Jbeen announced. THE MEDITERRANEAN FLEETS. " MALTA, SEPT. 3.— Sir Josias Rowley, with his squad- ron, is cruising in the Archipelago, and has been joined by the French squadron, under Admiral Ilugon, consisting of one ship of 120 guns, two of 92, and two of 80 guns, with a barque and four brigs. The small- pox has been prevalent among the Frenchmen, but no cases have occurred in the English ships, though much friendly visiting has taken place among the officei' 3. The American frigates United States, Constitution, Potomac, and John Adams, are at Smyrna." There is no truth in the paragraph respecting the disso- lution of the Royal Yacht Club squadron. SPLENDID EXHIBITION, Adelaide- street Gallery. — Brilliant Chemical and other Expei iments; the Alicroscope, Magnets, Steam- Gun, Combustion of Steel, Cosmoramas, Rope- Hanc « r, Chinese Juggler, Silk Looms, Printing Press, Minerals, Paintings, Ta- pestry, Sculpture; Models, Nautical, Mechanical, and Architectural, daily. Hunter's Patent Stone Planing Machine, an improved Patent Ruling Machine, and a new Patent Copying Machine, & c. & c.— Open from ten till six o'clock.— Admittance Is., or Annual Subscription ll. WESTERN CITY GLEE CLUB. — DOCTOR JOHNSON TAVERN, Bolt court, Fleet slr. et. The SUBSCRIBERS are respectfully informed, that the FIRST NIGHT of MEETING for the SEASON, will be on MONDAY nest, the 3d October, at Eight o'clock precisely. DIORAMA, REGENT'S PARK.— Will shortly Close.— TWO PICTURES, painted by Lo Cheva- lier Bouton. The Subjects are, the VILLAGE of ALAGNA, in Pied- mont, and the INTElUOR of the CHURCH of SANTA CROCE, at Florence. The Village is first seen by moonlight, surrounded by its peaked mountains, with a lake in the foreground, formed by the melting of the snow ; the lights from the distant houses are reflected upon its surface ; — the avalanches sweeping from their lofty summits, overwhelm the vil- lage. The coming day reveals the scene of desolation ; and the simple spire alone remains as evidence of what hath been. The merits of the Second Picture, the Interior of the Church of Santa Croce, at Florence, are so well known as to render detail unnecessary 5— it exhibits all the effects of light and shade, from noon- day till midnight. Open from ten till five. PA N ORAM A.— Just Opened, at the Pano- rama, Leicester Square, a brilliant VIEW of the LAGO MAG- GIORE, displaying the Isola Bella, Isola Pescatori, Isola Media, Isola San Giovanni, Baveno, Treficume, Palanza, Ltveno, and the surround- ing Mountains, combining all those extraordinary beauties cf nature which have long rendered this enchanting spot the great attraction of all travellers. The View of Lima remains open. NORWICH UNION LIFE INSURANCE OFFICE.— If Gentlemen who hold Policies from this Office will transmit their names and addresses ( post paid) to Mr. John Town- ley, No. 51, Foley- str. et, Portland- place, they will have a communica- tion sent to them, free of expense, containing statements of the utmost importance relative to the affairs of the Society. The Picture of the BRIDGE UNION WORKHOUSE, which we have before announced, is • published this Weelc. The Trade will be supplied ( gratis) with one Copy of this Engraving for every Copy of our pre- sent Number; so that, if any of our Readers should be without the Picture, that will not be from any neglect on the part of our Publisher. MONDAY EDITION.— We now publish, as promised in our first Number, a Second Edition of this Paper, every Monday. It contains a full Report of the state of the London MON- DAY'S MARKETS. W. V. relates the circumstances of his case in so confused a manner, that we cannot make out what he means. LONDON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1836. A UNION WORKHOUSE. Our readers are this week presented with an En- graving, representing the new Workhouse of Bridge, near Canterbury, and the letter of our Correspondent S., ex- planatory of his drawing, will be found in another column. We recommend our readers to go through it, although it is long. IRISH PAPER- MONEY. WE received a letter from a remote corner of Ireland during this week, ordering THE CHAMPION newspaper, but containing a piece of paper which calls itself" one pound," and promises to pay the bearer one pound at Galway, Dub- lin, or Westport, and which is signed in ink with the name, " J. GORING." Now, we do not know " J. GORING," and we are not likely to be at Westport, Galway, or Dublin, to find him out; so it is of no use for him to promise to pay us " one pound" at either of those places. But, more- over, we have heard that paper- money makers are run ning their rigs in Ireland to a greater extent even than in England, and, as we know the effects here, we do not wish to be instruments in spreading Irish mischief. The vile thing has no less than 60 falsehoods written on its face; for in fen different places it calls itself one pound, and in exactly fifty places round its margin, it has the word " one " printed, in order, doubtless, to aid the other ten falsehoods. BURKE ( or some other writer) says, that if you suffer a man to tell his story once a day with- out contradicting him, he is your master at the end of a year ; so these Irish money- makers tell 60 lies on a piece of paper six inches long and four inches broad, to become your master in a minute. We have sent the thing back again ; but, hearing talk of " indorsements," we could not forbear to indorse this note with a sentiment from SWIFT, an Irish Dean, who seems to have known " J. GORING :" " I have often wished, that a law were enacted to hang up " half a dozen Bankers every year, and thereby interpose " at least some short delay to the further ruin of Ireland." — Short View of the Slate of Ireland. POPULATION.— BALLOONS. OUR readers will probably wonder how these sub- jects should be in the least connected with each other; but this curious fact does connect them ; namely, on Tues- day last there went up in a balloon from Vauxhall Gardens, four times and a half as many people as constituted the whole population of England in the year 681, for in the balloon there went up nine people ; whereas, according to our population- Scotch- economists, the people of Eng- land are sixteen millions in number, and increase at the rate of 15 per cent, every ten years ; consequently, there could have been only two people in England in the year 681 ! We recommend this to the " Statistical Society." MONEY AFFAIR. ALL sorts of rumours are afloat relative to the pickle of Mr. SPRING RICE in this matter. He would fain have priess kept up; but the B^ nlf must keep some little gold, and the two are impracticable. The Times of Tuesday thinks that Mr. RICE is resorting to the money of the Savings' Banks, to buy up his Exchequer Bills, and so keep up the credit of the Treasury. If this be so, and it should succeed, then the credit of the Treasury will have been saved by ihe housemaids, cookmaids, chambermaids and nursery- maids, and other_ of the depositors in Savings' Banks. Strong Government! " From the appearance of the Exchequer- bill market a suspicion exists that some manoeuvre is in progress between the Bank and the Government for keeping up the price, and the effect of the operation is said to be that of taking a considerable amount out of the market without its be- coming ostensibly manifest that any are purchased. The exact mode of proceeding can only be guessed at. A great power for such a purpose as this is placed at the disposal of Government, by the management of the funds belonging to the Saving- banks. They may either purchase stock or Exchequer- bills; or, having purchased Exchequer- bills to an extent that might prove inconvenient, they have the power of creating, against them, a corresponding amount of stock. Such an engine as this it is highly probable would not be lost sight of upon the present occasion, and hence it is in- ferred that a part of the plan of operations is to employ this fund in relieving the Bank quietly of some portion of their Exchequer- bills. As it is already known that the sur- plus revenue is also to be devoted to the purchase of Ex- chequer- bills, and as the business openly done does not amount to near so much as the produce of this and the Saving- banks fund united, it is almost conclusive that the remainder is appropriated in the manner above described. Under cover of this arrangement it is supposed that the Bank have agreed with the Government to take up all those bills falling due in the present quarter for which money shall be demanded in preference to an exchange of bills, though these, after the rise which has taken place in the rate of interest, cannot be to any great amount. By the aid of all this jugglery, which is taken here as a confession of weakness from both parties engaged in it, the expecta- tion undoubtedly is that the pending storm will be safely weathered. Unless the Bank can succeed, however, by the other operations in which they are engaged, in turning the exchanges in our favour, this project will inevitably be frustrated." We cannot believe this; for, if it is meant that M RICE is going to use the deposits that the servant- maius have made this year, in buying up his Bills, those deposits are too small to avail him much ; and, if it is meant that he means to use the principal money, the forty millions of their savings, that money is already spent by the Trea- sury, and is only so much debt now owing by the Treasury to the servant- maids, they having the right to receive in- terest upon it. He will hardly sell this; but there is no knowing. On the subject of the present state of money affairs, we have received a letter from Mr. FIELDEN, the Member for Oldham, which, as he has given us leave to do it, we shall insert. As Mr. FIELDEN is one of the largest manufac- turers in the Kingdom ( if not the largest), and a merchant besides, his opinion is of great consequence at this time. Mr. FIELDEN'S knowledge of the matter is not, however, merely practical; he has written, on the subject of the " Mischiefs of Paper- Money," a pamphlet that should be read by all men, excepting Bankers, Bill- brokers, and Stock- jobbers. Waterside, Sept. 21, 1836. MY DEAR SIRS, Your articles to the Public, on the Money Affair on Midnight Legislation, and on Spain, are all good. Tliey will repay the reader for his careful pe- rusal, and that is more a great deal than can be said of much of the trash put forward by " the best public in structors " of our day. It is amusing to see the contrariety of opinions dissemi- nated through the press, on the cause of the gold leaving the country. A confusion of ideas on this subject was never more apparent, notwithstanding all the experience this country has had of the juggling and swindling of the paper- money crew during the last twenty years. To talk of the balance of imports and exports, and the influx and efflux of the precious metals ; to elucidate the cause of gold leaving us; only tends to confuse, and can never tend to inform. The mention of these, in clearing up this mat- ter is altogether unnecessary, except as effects, which they are, of the cause which now creates so much excitement. The cause is to be found in the increase of paper- money at home, which is manifest, by the rise in the price of com- modities ; but, gold being a commodity which the law does not allow to rise higher than £ 3 17s. lOJd. per ounce, is an exception, and consequently has become cheaper than other things. This being the fact, what non- sense it is, to talk of stopping the gold from going out of the country without lessening the quantity of paper- money, consisting of notes, bills of exchange, & c., the increase of which has turned the exchanges in foreign countries against us, and induced those who have payments to provide for abroad, to prefer getting the gold and sending it out for that purpose, because it will go the farthest. Why do not those who talk of imports and exports, and who declare the latter to exceed, in amount, the former, and would, therefore, have us believe that cur commerce is sound and healthy, and that the thing will right itself, if let alone ; why do not these writers include the importation of Spanish, Portuguese, American and other bonds and shares of various descriptions with which the country has been inundated since the passing of the Bank Charter Act, and the consequent increase in t'. e " rag rooks " money? Were they to do this, which they cannot, for want of data, there can be no doubt that the imports wt- uld exceed the exports, and it would be shown, that a great deal more gold must and will be exported yet, to pay the balance, or else, paper- money must be imme- diately raised to the value of gold by a diminution of its amount. The Bank of England is trying to do the latter, or, in other words, trying ( not intentionally, of course,) to bring down prices, and produce a panic. Those who are wise, therefore, will try to get the gold; for their own protection requires it. I am glad to hear of the success of THE CHAMPION. It far exceeds my expectations; and I have no doubt you will have many readers more if you persevere in the course you ha> e chalked out. To guard the rights of the poor against the encroachments of wealth, and to advocate a real, and, as far as possible, an invariable standard of the measure of value is a Godlike work, and I wish you every success in yotir undertaking. I am, dear Sirs, Yours truly, JOHN FIELDEN, To the Editors ofTHE CHAMPION, AFFAIRS OF SPAIN. WE regret that a press of matter prevents our noticing at length the inextricable perplexity into which everything connected with our foreign policy is thrown. The affairs of Spain, alone, present difficulties and disgraces enough to bewilder ten such heads as the one appertaining to our present Secretary for Foreign Affairs. It appears, that up to the latest intelligence received, the greatest confusion prevailed amongst the different parties at Madrid. One writer from that place tells us, that tranquillity existed only in appearance; that the Ministry had a variety of parties to contend with, and that it was not likely to re- main long in power; that the decree of sequestration ex- cited general reprobation; that the refusal of the Govern- ment to authorize the formation of the Patriotic Society had also given great displeasure; and that, moreover, MENDIZABAL had threatened to resign, if this Society per- sisted in forming itself. Others tell us that Louis PHI- LIPPE has determined to favour the Pretender; that a temporary victory on his part is inevitable; and that everything is prepared for the escape of the two Queens. One circumstance, though not in favour of the Radical party, we cannot help referring to with some degree of pleasure, because it proves the truth of the observations made by us last week on this subject; we mean, the ad- mission that CARLOS is daily gaining supporters from amongst the working people, while all efforts so to do on the part of the " liberals " fail. Here, then, is a pretty kettle of fish for Lord Palmer- ston to fry! We know not what the noble cook is about, but his scullion ( our oracle of the Chronicle), seems to have lost his wits amidst the blaze, the smoke, and the disagreeable effluvia caused by the last upsetting of the pan. The following extract from an article of the 28th instant will serve as a specimen of his consternation : " We are aware that the moment is critical— that Don " CARLOS, had he the courage, might make a successful " excursion to the gates of Madrid. But it is evident he " could make but an excursion. Neither he nor one of his " Generals has dared to remain or wait battle in the plains. " The success of Don CARLOS, we firmly believe, depends " not upon his armies, but upon the people and Government " of Madrid. If they should show anarchical tendencies— " if turbulence should increase in proportion to weakness " why, then, Don CARLOS would enrol partisans as easily " amongst the citizens as he now does amongst the pea- " santry, whom the Constitutionalists have little laboured to " propitiate or win." So ! CARLOS might make a " successful excursion " to the gates of MADRID ; but then, it would only be an " excursion"! But pray, good innocent Oracle, what matters what you call it, so that it be " successful " i Or, do you mean, that having come to the gates of MADRID, he would content himself with stealing the knapsack of some unfortunate sentry dozing at his post, and then „ scamper back to some hiding- place, crying O be joyful 1 We are told, too, that CARLOS will not do this, because he and his Generals have no courage; but, then, again, in the next six lines, it appears that his " success depends " not upon his armies, but upon the people and Govern- " ment of Madrid." If this be the case, what need have he and his Generals of any courage at all ? PENSION SOCIETIES. OUR readers will find a letter, in anothei column, signed J. W., in which the writer calls upon the public to set aside the necessity of a poor- law, by voluntarily putting their pennies, shillings, or pounds together to relieve their destitute neighbours. We happen to know nothing of the particular Society, or of the individuals, whom he mentions. If, however, his Society, and his clergyman, and his secretary, be really so good, we are glad to hear it, and to give our correspondent room for making their merits known. It would appear, too, that J. W. wishes to give the poor substantial relief, and to insure them freedom from persecution. But, we can go no further with him; and he must excuse us if we tell him, plainly, that we look upon his scheme of relief as a pure delusion. A wide field is opened here, on the subject of Poor- laws, and we have little space for further remarks to- day. We wit , however, take this opportunity to say, that we not only cannot join in, but that we shall for ever protest against that cry, at once silly and hypocritical, about compulsory payment " closing the hand of charity." Hypocrites have said, that a legal provision lias the effect of " keeping the poor at the lowest rale of maintenance." Oh, no; not a just provision, not such a provision as the poor are entitled to. What has the " hand of charity " done in Ireland ? A great deal, some may say. Yes, a great deal; but still not enough ; and so far from enough, that, according to published accounts, the cities and the country places all swarm with beggars, the wealthy have taken to fortify their houses with high walls to keep off the famishing, and the people, having died of famine, have been left to rot above ground for want of even a coffin to bury them ! And yet, is Ireland not a land of plenty, are there not plenty of rich people in Ireland, and does she not- also contain plenty of charitable people ? Yes, these things all belong to Ireland ; and, as far as hearts are concerned, we believe she is as abundant in charity as in any thing else. But unfortunately, where the hands are full in Ireland, hearts are wanting, and something other than charity is necessary to force open the full hands ; and for this purpose, there is nothing like law. The difference between England and Ireland is only iu the degrees of their misery; the two would long ago have been in the same plight, but- for our just, though abused, old Poor- law; and, in spite of all that the hand of charity can do, England will soon be as bad as Ireland ever was, if the new Poor- law Commissioners and the no- grain- gtowing speculators be suffered to deal with us as they please. NEWS FROM NEW YORK. THOUGH the newspapers tell us that they have just re- ceived papers from this place, but containing no intelli- gence of interest to England, we, having received the papers also, think differently of them ; for we find, in one of them, a statement to this effect, that such has been the torrent of emigrants poured in from England and Ireland this summer, that the City is about to hire vessels to bring them back to the shores of England and Ireland, this ex pense being less than the expense of keeping them where they are. We shall give the detail in our next, for it contains some just reflections on the brutal Irish land- lords. By private correspondence from New York, we hear that Mr. VAN BUREN is sure to be President. THE CHAMPION, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2. 23 I'M MIL IO.\" A-\ L » TAKIETIE8 • The KING and QUEEN arrived in town on Wednes- day, and shortly after his Majesty proceeded to invest Maj.- Gen. Sir H. F. Bouverie with the riband and badge of a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. The various improvements and additions made to the Royal Pavilion at Brighton, will enable the King to ac- commodate a number of visitors, who formerly were com- pelled to lodge at the different hotels in the town. The whole of the Royal Family, except the Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria, are expected to pass the winter at Brighton. The Duchess and the Princess and suite are ex- pected to honour Ramsgate with another visit this season. Prince George of Cambridge, attended by his equerry, Lieut.- Colonel Cornwall, of the Coldstream Guards, is expected to return to England, from his tour in Germany and Italy, previously to the arrival of their Majesties at the Pavilion. The departure of the Court from Windsor for Brighton is at present fixed for the 1st of November. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex is about to honour the city of Bath with his presence at a Grand Ma- sonic Festival. The King of the Belgians has returned to his capital. Lord and Lady Stanley, since their visit to his Lordship's estates in Tipperary, have been every day en gaged in acts of beneficence, promoting habits of industry among the peasantry, and encouraging by liberal premiums a system of improved husbandry and cleanliness. LORD BROUGHAM.— We are extremely glad to learn that this excellent and patriotic nobleman has now com - pletely recovered his health, and that the reformers of Edin- burgh are using proper means to invite him to a public dinner in this city, preparatory to his return to active life. A requisition has been already numerously subscribed.— Edinburgh Chronicle. The Earl of Pembroke's evening parties at Rome are said to have cost 5001, a night. We almost doubt whether such profuseness might in the end benefit our community; but still it would be as well if a little of such enormous wealth were spent at home.— Morning Paper. Lord Chief Justice TINDAL and family were among the recent departures from Brighton to Dieppe. Lord Viscount Glentworth, grandson to the Earl of Limerick, will lead to the Hymeneal altar, next week, the beautiful and highly- accomplished daughter of H. Villebois, sq., of Gloucester- place. A marriage is talked of between the Marquis Gra- ham, eldest son of the Duke of Montrose, and a niece of Viscount Beresford. The French ambassador and the Countess Sebastiani are expected to arrive at Manchester- house, on Monday or Tuesday next from Paris. The French Envoys have . only half their salaries while en conge. The Russian Admiral Greig arrived in town on Wednesday from Cronstadt, we believe for the purpose of taking charge of the new steam- vessel recently built for the Emperor of Russia. The admiral is an Englishman, but entered into the Russian navy at an early age, and rose to command the Emperor's fleet. A letter from Blois says " that Sir Robert Peel passed through that town, on his way to Valengay, on the 24th instant."— Gazette de France. THE BONAPARTE FAMILY.— ROME, Sept. 9.— A ju- dicial edict, published in the Diario to- day, and issued at the instance of the Count of Survilliers ( Joseph Bonaparte), the Prince of Canino ( Lucien Bonaparte), and the Count of St. Leu ( Louis Bonaparte), the Prince of Montfort, the Countess Lippna ( widow of Murat), the Countess Buci- occhi Camesala, and her husband, the Marquis Ludovico Polenziani, as executors, are summoned to Rome to be pre- sent at the opening of the will of Madame Bonaparte. The Bon Sens says, " that Joseph Bonaparte, ex- King of Spain and Naples, has obtained leave from the rench Government to reside some months in Corsica." POPULATION OF ROME.— The Diario di Roma states the number of inhabitants ( exclusive of Jews), at the lose of the year ending at Easter, 1836, at 153,678. There are 41 bishops, 1468 secular clergy, 2023 monks, and 1476 nuns. The number of heretics, Turks, and infidels, was 201; in the year 1830 it was 260. The number of births in the year was 4373, and of deaths 3275. The population had, therefore, increased since Easter last year 1221. REFORM DINNER AT LIVERPOOL. — Great prepara- tions are in progress for the grand entertainment to be given by the reformers of Liverpool to Lord Melbourne and ord J. Russell. EASTERN DIVISION OF CORNWALL.— We understand there is no doubt that Sir Hussey Vivian will accept the invitation of the electors of this division of our county, to offer himself as a candidate, in the event of another elec- tion, in the place of Sir William Molesworth.— West Briton. It is intended to bring forward Sir Wm. Molesworth, art., at the next election, on liberal principles. Bath Chronicle. Requisitions have been addressed to Lord Eliot, from the electors of East Cornwall, calling on him to come for- ward as Candidate in the event of a dissolution of Parlia- ment.— Plymouth Journal. SWEARING IN OF THE SHERIFFS.— On Wednesday the new Sheriffs, Mr. Duke and Mr. Johnson, the Under- sheriffs, and several private friends, breakfasted at the re- sidence of Mr. Duke, Manchester- square, from whence they procedeed to the Mansion House, where the Lord Mayor gave a dejeuner to several of the members of the Corpora- tion. They then, preceded by his Lordship, proceeded to the Guildhall, where they were sworn into office with the customary forms. GENERAL- COURT MARTIAL.— A general court- mar- tial, which excited considerable interest, was held at the Royal Marine Mess- room, Woolwich- barracks, on the 21st of September, and continued hy adjournment until Wednes- day last, on William Oswald M'Kenzie Bellairs, of the Royal Marines, stationed at Woolwich, for unofficer- like, insub- ordinate, and ungentlemanly conduct while on duty at the Dock- yard guard, on the evening of the 7th of September, 18. V), by calling Lieutenant William Wood, his superior officer, by the opprobrious epithets " a liar, a d— d black- guard, jind a coward," and at the same time shaking his fist, and using provoking language to him, with a repetition of those expressions. The proceedings have been forwarded to head- quarters, but the result is not yet known. THE ARMY.— The United Service Gazette appears to be affronted at the article which appeared in our columns last week on the subject of Indian reliefs, and enters into a long discussion to prove the necessity of an augmentation of the army, without which we are assured nothing can be done. We are not surprised that our contemporary should encourage the Horse Guards to disregard our advice; but, when his Majesty's Ministers are obliged to give an account of their actions, the gentlemen at the Horse Guards must not expect that abuses in their department will be allowed. — Morning Chronicle. We are authorised to state that the report of its being the intention of Mr. Ferguson of Raith to retire from the representation of Enst Lothian is wholly destitute of foundation.— Courier. A duel was fought on the 13th instant, opposite Vicksburg, Mississippi, between Colonel Quvell and a Mr. Cunningham. The first- named individual was shot through t= he heart at the first fire. The latter had a narrow escape, as the ball passed through his clothes.— New York Express. A UNION WORKHOUSE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE CHAMPION. There children dwell who know no parent's care ; Parents, who know no children's love, dwell there! Heart- broken matrons on their joyless bed, Forsaken wives and mothers never wed; Dejected widows with unheeded tears, And crippled age with more than childhood fears: The lame, the blind, and, far the happiest they 1 The moping ideot and the madman gay. CRAEBE. SIR, I send you a sketch of a Union Workhouse, as I see that it is your intention to put before your readers, as occasion requires it, any novelty that admits belter of graphic than literal description; and, as this would not be complete, without some notice in writing, I beg the space of you for a few observations on this new visible change on the face of our country, if not in its habits, man- ners, and prospects. The appearance of the place struck me so forcibly, that I could not help thinking it a fitting subject for your paper, and, when I have described it, I leave it to you to make what remarks you please; for being much in the habit of rambling through the country alone and on foot, quitting main- roads as often as it suits my fancy, I have dwelt often with pride on the marks of industry, care, neatness, and good taste, of the labouring people of the southern counties, the parts in which I am most accustomed to make these excursions. The beauty of the country, in general, its productiveness in corn and cattle and wood, all put together make it a scene that any one may look on with pride, who has had opportunities of seeing the contrast to these which most neighbouring countries afford our sight. The appearance, then, of the UNION WORKHOUSE, as it is new to me, is a sight that struck and arrested me on a short journey that I lately took among the hop- plantations and gardens of Kent. The drawing that I send you, I took from the life. It is as correct a representation as I could put on paper, of the BRIDGE UNION WOHKIIOUSE, and it is situated on the right- side of the London- road, going from Canterbury to Dover, at about three miles from Canterbury itself, and, not more than five hundred yards from the road- side, and from the pretty little village of Bridge; the village itself being on the road, and in a valley well worthy of such a village. The bui'ding is what is called a quadrangle; that is to say, four- sided. It is four ranges of rooms, going round a piece of land of about a half, or three quarters, of an acre; and these ranges of rooms are the four sides of this building. Three of its sides are taken up with halls for dining, cooking, washing, & c. & c., on the ground- floor, and on the floor above, in sleeping- rooms. But about the middle of the fourth side, the building rises rather higher than any other part, and consists of Board- rooms for ihe Guardians to meet in, waiting- rooms, and lodging- rcoms for the Keeper of the House. Through this part there goes an archway, and, on the side of the archway is a little window, the only one on the outside walls of this huge and melancholy pile. This may be called the front of the building, but, only from the circumstance of the archway and the little window, for else it has no front. While I was standing in the lane which runs from the village close by these front walls, pondering on the scene, and thinking how I could take a view of i ( that would look tolerable on paper, I could not help smiling within myself, at an odd circumstance that came to my mind. I bethought me, of the man that could invent such a place as a punishment to the man in need, and knowing that FRANKLAND LEWIS is the Chairman of the " Council of Three," the Poor- law Commissioners, I recollected a College legend that had not come to my mind these thirty years, I am sure; namely, FRANKLAND LEWIS was an Oxonian, he was a bustling, pushing, vain, and notoriously dull fellow ; and was always boasting of his patrimonial house in Radnor- shire " with my eight- and twenty windows in front." He carried this so far, that FRANKLAND'S name was scarcely ever mentioned without what the lawyers would call the " addition"—" with my eight and- twenty windows in front." This long- forgotten fact reviving within me, my musings were interrupted for a moment by laughter; for I fancied the man of " eight- and- twenty- windows in front," sitting down to plan a house for the poor, in which there should be no windows at all, whether front or back, which FRANK LAND would naturally do if he wished to make it a place that none should like; but how far it accords with the divine maxim, " Do by others as you would be done by," I leave him to explain and you to remark on. The drawing which I send you is not a view of the front of the house; for, on getting up to it, I found that I should have nothing but an elevation of two bare walls and two bare roofs, even taking it angle- ways, which would scarcely give you an idea of it. I, therefore, retraced my steps to- wards Canterbury for a little more than a quarter of a mile, going up the north side of the valley in which Biidge and its Union stands. At that distance up, I found a narrow lane running off to my left, and, pursuing this a little distance, I came just opposite to the back of the House, at not much more than a quarter of a mile from it; and, being on high ground, I had now something like a bird's- eye view of it, and that is what I have endeavoured to represent in my drawing. The windows that you see in the drawing are the Board- rooms for the Guardians, and the lodging- rooms for the Keeper, and they look down into the court- yard, commanding a view of the three inner sides of the building, which have windows to the sleeping- rooms and eating- rooms, all looking into the yards also, and, as I said before, not one looking outward. Thus, the whole thing is scrupulously under eye; it is, in short, A PHISON ! As soon as I had taken my sketch, I came back to Can- terbury, and walked on towards Ileartie, a village stand- ing about a mile and a half from Hearne Bay, which is on the side of the river Thames. I had not got above three miles on, before I was overtaken by a woman, walk- ing very fast on my road. She had scarcely answered my question, " How far is it to Hearne from this ?" before she began talking to me of the Union. In short, she let me know that I had another new workhouse to see in this rich and laborious county, before I had got ten miles from the last. She began telling me her own story : she was a washer- woman and char- woman at Canlerbury; but, hav- ing lost her husband in a decline after a long illness, the parish to which she belonged in the City of Canterbury had allowed her 3s. a week; for her husband died, leaving her two boys, one too young to maintain himself by work, and the other so delipate in constitution, that hard work brings on spitting of t>} ood and disables him generally during a large part of the year She now receives nothing She walked so fast, that, as I had a mind to hear what she had to say, I was obliged to mend my own pace, and we walked about five miles at a speed by no means con- venient; but, fast as she walked, she talked faster, so that, though we were soon over the five miles, I heard much more than you would forgive me for writing. Let me, however, relate the marrow of it; for she| showed an intel- ligence, a shrewdness and a knowledge that surprised me; and, in some of her remarks on the rig/ its of labouring people, on the absolute dependence of the rich upon the sweat and sinew of the poor, on the inhumanity of pun- ishing the man for whom no work was to be found ; and especially on the unchristian method of punishment, by separating a child from its mother and a wife from her husband : on all these her own remarks were so acute and so just, and her references to Seriptureso applicable, that I could not but think that we are approaching the state that France was in, when every man in a good coit was called an aristocrat, an enemy of the nation, and slaughtered for sins that a few should have atoned for. She stopped short, and, putting out one foot, said, " Look at that "! Truly, her feet were almost bare. She was going to the Union to know if they would advance her 3s. to get a pair of shoes to go a hop- picking. She told me her work was precarious; that her washing was so hard lhat she could not earn enough for herself and boys by it; and, at char- work, she was paid, in great part, by having food in the house, which did not serve her boys; that her boys did not taste meat once in six months, though the doctor had told her that the eldest could not live unless he had meat to eat often. She pointed to her gown, and said, " This was given to me by Mrs. ," some one whom she worked for, and she said that she had not been to church for many months, as she was ashamed to show herself there in such clothes ! She said she haa been told to send her sons " home "; and she explained this to mean the Union Workhouse. " Home " ! she exclaimed, " Canterbury is " my home and their's, and, if they must die, they shall " die where they were born, please God"! But she seemed lo look on it as most likely that, in the winter, she would have to send them " home," notwithstanding her repugnance to do it. She said that many men and families now in work would have to go into the " home" in the winter, and that there was expected " fine doings " when the separation of men from their wives came to be enforced to any extent. She said that some man had proposed to her to go out of the country, whither she did not know; but that , she had told him to go himself, if he thought there was not room here for him and her, for he had money to make himself comfortab'e any where, but she had nothing but what she worked for, and was no more sure of getting work in any other country than she was of getting it here. These are nearly all the remarks that she made as to herself and her own class; but she said that she had been told by several tradesmen in Canterbury, that even the gentry were poor; that they spent nothing now, to what they used to do, and that they did not attend file races as they did formerly, having no money to bet with. By the time she got to this part of her subject, we came in sight of the Blean Union ; for, though it is in the parish of Hearne, it is called the Blean Union. It stands on a pretty little common, studded here- and- there with labour- er's eotages, and as we approached it, she said " Poor creatures ! there they be": it was thirty or forty men, mostly very old ones, in a coarse uniform, digging round under the walls of their new habitation, a garden taken in from the common. She went, by a near cut, across to the entrance; and, thanking my God that I had no business there, but as a " curious traveller," I went round the car- riageway to the same place, resolved to ask in that capa- city for a sight of the internal of this fac- simile of the Bridge- Union that I had a portrait of in my pocket. It was " Board- day," and sevetal people were standing about. I asked if I might see the inside, and was answered Yes," by a wooden- legged, weather- beaten man about 50 years old. He was ' the master of the place, and his wife ( a very decent- looking woman) the schoolmistress. He told me he had been a sailor, and he bore the appear- ance of it. Every- thing looked remarkably clean, neat, and nice The kitchen, the washing- room, the dining- rooms, the bed rooms : all were clean— but it is a prison! The total number in this place at this time is sixty- one. Having gone through the cooking, washing and dining rooms, I was shown into the school room, where about a dozen little girls were reading or winding worsted. The young women were in the yard of their side of the place, by themselves; and, after looking into one of the bed- rooms, I was shown the old women in a further corner, in a room by themselves. One or two were blind; two or three extremely old, and a few were working on soin very coarse clothing. They were sitting in perfect silence, and perfect sullenness-: the most piteous sight of all that I saw ! Some looked dejected; but some looked soured even to savageness. I wished the man with the wooden leg away, that I might ask them some- thing of their condition; for, as I came out of their room, I turned round, and caught a scowl on the countenance of one that spoke what I should like to have had explain- ed. Whether they are starved or not, I did not inquire, nor do I think I should have inquired; for, with one or two exceptions that, perhaps, might be accounted for easily, fhey did not not look ill; but the body is not all that we live for. This place is a prison ! and no mind is easy in a prison. Solitary confinement is the most cruel punishment that can be inflicted; but I doubt whether, to an aged person, confinement in the company of nothing but old age is not the next of kin to solitary confinement. Dr. JOHNSON says, that old people have an aversion to each other's company, and that they even turn from a picture of old age. The reason is natural: the sight of a wrinkled face reminds an aged man or woman of their own approaching end, and, therefore, to be never jn the company of youth; never to hear the voice of middle age or of infancy; never to be reminded of younger days; but always to be reminded of the grave; must have in it all the sling of loneliness, if it be not even loneliness aggravated. I had seen enough, and quitted the Union without going to the division where the men were kept; but I as- certained that there was but one married couple in it. I asked if ihey were separated, and was answered that they were, and, moreover, that they were a couple above sixty years of age ! My informant also told me, that the in- mates of this place were not allowed to go to the parish church, which is about half a mile off, but that a chaplain officiates in one corner of the Workhouse, where he lias a pulpit fitted up for him. On hearing this, I could not help turning my eyes back to Canterbury, a place so famed for its immense endowments to charitable pur- poses— but in times when " political economy " was not known. I turned off the road, and, getting into foot- ways, crossed the country to Whitstable. On this part of my road, I saw no creature but one old woman at a cottage- door, of whom I inquired my way, and one labouring man cutting beans. As this man must be a specimen of the " independent labourer," whose condition we » \ ere told by Lord ALTHORP, was to be bettered by the Pooit- Srwl Amendment Bill, I asked him whether his wages bag risen within these two years : he answered' " No, titer ars. lower this } ear than they were last year, and last yeariffitej " were lower than the year before." He said that his prc- sen,* earnings, at very hard work, were 12s. a week ; but IVg- saitf that what he could now earn extra, he was obliged t © pay « 3f debts with that he had contracted in the spring, from rastiA- ficiency of wages at that time. He complained bitterly « £'*!,- « - " ant of cottages for labourers, a want that I had obsmel lyself. He told me that labourers pay as high as 3s. a wsct. for house- rent, but that he, being favoured by his master;, had only Is. 6d. to pay. I remember, that, in the Agneal*-- tural Report of 1833, it was s'at. d emphatically by one- witness, lhat there was a great scarcity of cottages, xai that tradesmen had taken to build them, as they paitfgcctl interest. I beg to call your attention to the first anaua ® Report of the Poor- Law Commissioners, in which yom viiifc find, in page 225, a Memorial from the people of Siltravg*- bourne, in which they state that, among other evita of new system, " most of the houses of the annual vaAie " 10/ and under will be abandoned by the tenants, froia " their incapacity to pay rents." These rents must, tieny have been paid out of rates; but, bad as was the state of things in which the labouring people could not pay tlisw- own rents, it did keep up houses for them to live in; whereas^ if they are not kept up by some means, how long will ? fc be before we see England brought lo the state of Ireland with its two million, three hundred and eighly- five thoustaid' actual beggars, houseless and wandering about in searefe of food ? Ill short, you may truly assert, that, as to the greater part of the country, this measure is bringing the labottriagr people down ; it is making them worse oft'; and* it wilt as inevitably make tradesmen and farmers worse off tsxa. The tradesmen must, and do, feel it already; for, whea> we see the poor people at Blean, and Bridge and tte- many other Unions in Kent, fed by contractors, what is ft but making the rich richer, and the tradesmen of the nteu'i- bourhood poorer? The Whig press denounces I his efts* as a set of " parish jobbers": they jobbed with their money, and, if any parishioner chose, he could expose jfc and prevent it. And, as to the farmers, if this Law cuuM prevent every labourer in the kingdom from eating- sa ounce of bread or an ounce of meat, where would saving? It would only reduce the prices of meat bread, and put the English farmer on a level with tile Irish farmer— a man beset by tax- gatherers and Iar » d? ar « fc. on one hand; by beggars, burners, and cattle- slayers tut the oilier. Do what you can Sir, to slop this; and S cannot help thinking that if all England could read: tfie accounts sent to the Government this year by its twroi Commissioners in Ireland ; if it could read of the sinipfe- fact, that the labouring people of that country are wsado- ing about in such wretchedness that they resort to Heeding live cattle to suc/ c their blood in the fields, all wowlti he horror- struck at the thought of a system which s. h ® a* 4 have the slightest tendency to bring England to that state. I am, Sir, your obedient servant. THE CAUSE OK MADAME MALIBRAN'S DEATH S [ In the Chronicle of Friday last, we find alette? addressctf to the Editor under the above head. The newspapers of lite same day tell us, that this lady was not dead more than fee, hours, before her husband had given full directions, in ing, for having her buried at Manchester, had presented Un- people of the house where she lay dead with such takerasqg" his gratitude as he deemed proper, and had started qS out. his way to quit England. And they inform us, furtfetrs. that upon De Beriot's being sent for, at the instance '. is those who thought he ought to return to Manchester it was discovered, that he ( with the Italian Doctor .') was already actually off to some place out of England! It would be unfair to assume all this to be true: there: max- possibly be a mistake. If, however, it should really tssr ® out to be the fact, we shall be curious to hear what wfli it- said of it by the musical of Manchester. We are not tnki that the man went mad, and that the doctor carried bis ® away to the Continent in ajstraight waistcoat. No,, ti^ p could not he, if the accounts are true ; because they as& siS. that the " distracted," but decamping widower, gavc-„ hefe*- he posted off, in writing, and to a stranger, instruction ® how to proceed in the burying of his own wife in this,, te himself and to her, foreign country. The letter in fee Chronicle is as follows.] TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICF. E. SIR : As the public sympathy was never more excited A* any calamity of a like nature than it has been for the- tat few days throughout all England, and, ere this reaches y « i„ throughout many parts of France, by the melancholy dnaifc of Madame MALIBRAN, an overwhelming feeling cf iadisi- dual regret, embodying the feelings of a large body of tie admirers of that incomparable lady, 1 trust will be deetrctl hy you a sufficient apology for intreating, through yoar in- dulgence, that our united regrets, which we proclaim, nn& fe not the less of sorrow than of awe, may cry aloud thromeSLj- out all Europe that MALIBRAN has died a premature deaSap and if this cry do pierce the ears and hearts of those wtoaiojii- can give an authentic history of the malady which has, be* reaved the world of one born to gladden and delight hei sarsv some consolation, although a poor atonement for so geetsa jt. loss, may be afforded, and prove acceptable, to all fstorre- aspirants of that high public favour and esteem sojasdjr earned, and honourably held, by Malibran in this txaxitz j What complaint did Madame Malibran die of? is a qioesitia- o everywhere asked, but nowhere answered. Was it c& iiat}.. disease, or both, or neither, that hastened her to the grew* — she that was so young, so vigorous, and of vitality itpjjss- rently so iuextinguishable ? Alas! to these questions not it. single word to which her mourners can attach any as*!\ e « - ticity has escaped the sealed lips of those who alone caiasosiS should reveal the truth ; all Italy will claim it at th- ilr- hands, the only compensation for an irreparable loss - asti England now demands it, to wipe away the stain tlraS w38 most justly be imprinted on her soil, her atmosphere,, feoe- resources, both physical and mental, if silence be mamtala. « i much longer. Already the impression is abroad that her dical attendants ( English) w ere insufficiently acquaintedwitife her complaint to apply those remedies best calculated to- mr store her. Again, it is reported that Malibran was a mantyrtc. that cold speulative chronic manslaughter committed day I< y day by Hahnemann's disciples, who, with their infinjtesjjBal doses of deadly poison, steal away life so imperceptibly,.^ subtl'ely, that their poor dupes are deprived of that mstisxtsrl. dread of death, common to most mortals; so much sa, many cases after death, just at that precise juncture ^ " Before Decay's effacing fingers Hath swept the lines where beauty lingers,"" their own assassins have been unable to determine whatla- i- or not they looked upon the living or the dead. Sir, I should apologise to you, for my comtnuni(\?. li[ jjr » have been already too long. They speak the seutimeuis at many, I atn convinced; and should they, through, - jjour medium, elicit a clear narrative of the cause of Madame Rts?- LIBRAN'S death, the aching hearts of many will fee peased, though we shall remain for ever DEEP MOURNERS OF MAUEBA2C London, Sept. 29. Lord William Bentinck is expected to be in GfasgSw ' S- » before Parliament meets. It is said his friends ar « te a dinner to the Liberal Members of the west of Scoib which his Lordship is to be invited,— Glasgow CArvttkj{ jcC : VS 22 THE CHAMPION, SUNTH^, OCTOBER 2. TSE ® IMI. 4 71.4. COVENT GARDEN.— Mr. IVEMBLE'S performance of Shylock is to us a most painful exhibition; if he were not a clever man it would be a ridiculous one. But the in- firmities of talent are too respectable to provoke laughter; we associate with them, as we associate with the weak- nesses of old age, the power that is gone by, the hours of delight afforded us by the talent itself; and the sorrow Arises in us at the time, that one who can do so much, should wilfully force his ability into a feeble attempt at things it was never intended to reach. Mr. KEMBLE is an energetic actor, an actor of graceful feeling, and even still our beau ideal of the dramatic gentleman and the chival- rous lover; but he is not a man of genius, and to play Ham- let as it ought to be played, Mr. KEMBLE ought to be a man of genius,— one who could fathom and fitly pourtray the metaphysical perplexities of a mind whose natural indeci- sion was heated by the painful circumstances which actually surrounded him; whose resolution was firmer than a God's, but whose fickleness was more than an infant's ; who, with an excessive perception of truth, and an extreme con- viction of the necessity of acting, in the important duty which devolved on him, in the manner the most just, and in every way the most fit, lost him always in the dilemma of making choice of the expedients,— all of them wise and subtle,— which suggested themselves to him as the most proper to be acted upon to unravel the mighty mystery which eternally preyed upon his mind, his health and his heart. Mr. KEMBLE makes Hamlet a mere quibbler and moral coward ; a sophist, instead of the nicest and most subtle of reasoners; a man who is afraid of coming to a climax of action from constitutional infirmity, rather than because of the profound morality of his heart ( which makes him dare do nothing but what he thinks THE thing to be done), and the might of his intellect only impotent in action, because so potent in design. Hamlet, we mean Shakspeare's, comes not within the reach of Mr. KEMBLE'S philosophy,— it never dreamed of hirn. We would to heaven that Mr. KEMBLE would leave Ham- let, Shylock, Lear, and Othello to other, we will not say greater, men, and content himself with being a perfect Fa'l- conbridge, a perfect Malvolio, and, dramatically speaking, one of " the first true gentlemen that ever lived." THEATRE ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA.— We are sorry to observe the infatuation which appears to have taken possession of our English composers, one and all ( and jmrticulary of those who may be considered as young in the profession) to model everything they write upon the Ger- man school of music. We are sorry for this, because, though it is modest in them, ( since it implies a sense of their in- feriority), it implies at the same time that their ambition is not of that purely noble order which would lead them to at- tempt the formation of a style of music essentially their own. We do not desire to be regarded as having other than a very high opinion of the German composers, amongst whom may be mentioned the three greatest perhaps that ever lived, Handel, Mozart, and Beethoven. In say- ing we are sorry for our countrymen, we mean that we take it to heart that they, contented with being copyists of great men, lead us to imagine that it is no part of their ambition to be themselves original; great men themselves, and after their own fashion. This state of things, indeed, appears to us to imply the lamentable fact that we are not, after all, blessed with musical geniuses, however great may be the talent and love of music among our coun- trymen. To the extraordinary success of the operas of Weber, and to the fact that the teuchers of nearly all our composers who have lately attracted attention have been foreigners, we have hitherto attributed this national want of ambition. During the pa3t week, however, we have had occasion to see the new opera, The Pacha's Bride, at the Lyceum. Mr. FRANCIS ROMER, brother to the celebrated singer, and a musician entirely of na- tive culture, is the composer. The opera is tnore dis- tinctively in the Weber school than any that has lately appeared in this country, — while it evinces equally with them great promise and great talent. Our hope that we should at last hear something free from the over- bur - thening of learned harmonies, something unpolluted by " the adulteries of art," something more of nature- than of subtle learning and exaggerated effect, vanished before" the overture was half over. For even, during the composition of this, was he so evidently and entirely absorbed in a dream of German effect, and the supremacy of the laboured order of German scoring, that he commences it with a most Weberian absence of melody and accumulation of studied harmonies, and after making use in the course of it of a bar or two here and there from Beethoven and Hayden, concludes it with that terrific climax of noise and bewilder- ment, with which it has always been the custom of the most celebrated of German composers to " mar the murmur- ings " of melody, and court the ear of the un- nice and the vitiated, to the annihilation of all propriety, and to the over- whelming of all delicacy and tasteful expression. With regard to the chorusses and songs throughout the opera ( which, with the exception of two only, are wholly un- worthy particular mention), dreadfully deficient as they all are in variety of melody, they may be mentioned with praise, as evincing great study and practical skill. The two exceptions are a song by Mr. WILSON, " Come here, come here, my young Gazelle," and another by Mr. LEFFLER, " I've watched with thee the daylight stealing ;" the former of which is a graceful and swan- like melody, and the latter a masterpiece of pathetic solemnity. Both were admirably sung. Mr. LEFFLER is the new singer of the day, and gives promise of becoming the first also. We trust that he will take care of his voice. It is a rich and comprehensive baritone; excellent alike in its highest and lowest tones. His taste is pure, and his execution moderate. The scenery is very beautiful, and the " getting up" of the opera altogether highly creditable to the management. The new Burletta, the Gaberlunzie, founded on James the Fifth's ( of Scotland) ballad of the same name, is an old friend with a new face. A piece of the same plot, and with nearly the same characters, appeared some time back at the Surrey as a melo- drama. That beautiful air, " The Birks of Aberfeldy," was encored, and deservedly. THE OLYMPIC THEATRE.— We have a quarre to pick with Madame VESTRIS. She has turned her gallery into boxes,— she has followed the Newcastle practice of doing what she likes with her own, to the injury of the gods. This to us " is very much the reverse of correct," as Liston says. If any thing more than another could tend to lower Madame VESTRIS in our estimation, it would be this last evi- dence of love of lucre and unfeminine disregard of the com- forts of the poorer orders, who have all along been reckoned among her most zealous supporters. In the Act of Parlia- ment relating to Gin Palaces, it is enacted, that if any simi- lar house of entertainment be found without a tap- room, or accommodation for the poorest, as well as the better off, the landlord of such house shall be liable to a penalty. Now we really see no reason why the lessees of theatres should not he similarly compelled to accommodate the poorer orders. Theatres should be as much the property of the public as mu- seums and bazaars, however they may happen, in one sense, to be the property of an individual. There should be a law to restrain such lessees, as are obviously bent upon standing • upon no scruples to assist their fortunes, from indecently committing such a wilful outrage upon common sense and good feeling, as to throw the claims of a million to the dogs, for the aggrandizement of their individual incomes— already made great, and, very materially, by the very class of so- ciety they ungratefully disregard. This practice, we are afraid, so successful as it proved in the case of the Strand Theatre, and as it is likely to prove, in the present in- stance! will be very generally followed. It is of greater importance than a first glance makes it appear, and we trust higher powers than we possess will take the matter into their hands. In these times of Tory downfal such a practice should be quashed at the onset. The theatre has been otherwise tastefully improved. The two new pieces are wholly worthless, in every respect, and were unequivocally damned. Mr. W. L. Rede's ex- cellent farce of " The Old and Young Stager" has been re- vived. ADELPHI THEATRE.— Mr. JOHN REEVE'S first appearance in London, since his return from America, at- tracted an " enormous " audience to this theatre on Thurs- day night. Five minutes after the doors were opened, the house was crowded in every part. The new pieces were wholly successful, and of such a nature as likely to have a run. THE ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.— This exquisitely beautiful Theatre opened for the season on Thursday. Mr. HARLEYmade his first appearance; and Mr. JOHNPARRV, the celebrated concert singer made his debut as an actor. As a chamber- singer we have always admired hitn, but he is totally unfitted for the stage. His voice is entirely lost in a theatre; and his manner and figure are both against him. We advise him to make a wise retreat. The house was full, and the new pieces entirely successful. One of them is re- ported to be from the pen of Mr. Dickon, a reporter on the Chronicle, better known as " Boz," the Editor of the " Pick- wick Papers." It was lively certainly; but the humour throughout was not worthy the great reputation he has ac- quired. It was common- place and Joe Millerish. SURREY THEATRE.— Mr. Midshipman Easy has made his appearance at this Theatre. The dialogue is of the most insipid order possible; the merit of the piece, if merit it may be termed, consisting in clap- trap, confusion, conflagration, combatting, and common- place melo- dramatic effect. Mr. RICE, the American, played Mephistophiles Faust, alias, ATesty, a Yankee nigger, but a man of some note in his own country. Such a piece is likely to become popular on this side of the water, where non- sense is sense, and exaggeration propriety. GREEN- ROOM GOSSIP. Owing to the extensive alterations in Drury- lane Theatre, its opening will be deferred, we hear, till next Monday. Amongst other improvements, the orchestra will be in- creased to nearly one hundred performers, and will be led by Mr. T. Cooke. Now that Madame Malibran is no more, Mr. Bunn's present hopes for the coming season must mainly depend on the success of Mr. Forrest, who, from a letter recently received, bearing date the 20th ult., was then in his native city, Philadelphia, waiting letters from England. It is understood that Werner will be the tragedy chosen at Covent Garden for the introduction of Macready this year to London. Elliston's two sons are both actors on the boards of their theatre at Leamington, and we are told, by those who have seen them, that they possess very considerable talent. Victor Hugo's cele- brated novel of Notre Damede Paris has just been drama- tised in Paris, and is now in a course of rehearsal at the Grand Opera. In the opening piece at the Adelphi, John Reeve, in propria persona, is to tell some stories of his Transatlantic adventures, and sing a song descriptive of American scenes, customs, and characters. Mr. Rice, the American comedian, has, by merely singing the song " Jim Crow," in America, realised the immense sum of 1( 1,000/. Grisi is said to be " as ladies wish to be," & c.; and to have retired to a small property near Paris, to await her accouchement. A MONUMENT to the memory of Mr. Huskisson has been erected at Liverpool. It is a statute of fine white marble, seven feet nine inches in height, and conveys an admirable likeness of the deceased statesman. It cost about 1500/., and the building in which it is placed 1400/. The sum of one thousand pounds has been subscribed for the endowment of a new church at Derby. The manu- facture of beet- root sugar is making rapid strides in France. — The Wesleyan Methodists are greatly divided in England, no fewer than twenty thousand have seceded from the general body, and have designated themselves " The Wes- leyan Association." The Cheltenham paper contradicts the report that the Duke of Brunswick had presented Mrs. Graham with a draft for 100/.— In the published list of game certificates for the county of Derby, we observe 22 names with Reverend attached to them; and in the Yorkshire list there are 91! Astronomers and meteorologists attribute the premature cold of the present autumn to the departure of Halley's comet; which they allege in its advance brings heat, and cold as it recedes from the earth. At Cunovaz, in Dalmatia, there is now living a shepherd 116 years old, with a son in his 70th year. His memory is fresh, and his sight excellent: he has only lost two teeth, and still lea'ls his flocks every day to their pasture. Last week the foundation- stone of a new Roman Catholic church, at Tiver- ton, was laid with much pomp by Miss Chichester, assisted by the Roman Catholic Bishop, Dr. Baines. A shock of an earthquake was felt on the Kith instant, at a quarter before one o'clock, in the department of the Garde in France. The oscillations were from south to north, and lasted be- tween two and three seconds. It was felt most perceptibly at Nismes.—— Great exertions are making to complete the line of the London and Greenwich Railway, in order to open it next month. During the past week between 500 and GOO men have been employed night and day. A more than usual proportion of autumnal illness is said to prevail at this time. The receipts at the Manchester Musical Festival carnival amount to upwards of 17,000/.—— Lord St. Helen's, who 40 years ago was our Ambassador at St. Petersburg, now in his 83rd year, says he cannot live out of London; and, in accordance with that opinion, resides in Grafton- street during the whole of the year. Hastings is at this time much attended. The walks and rides are de- lightful. No bathing- place exhibits more beautiful or di- versified scenery. The greater part of the Park- wall ad- joining the Uxbridge- road has been levelled within these few days, preparatory to the substitution of an iron railing in its stead. The porters of the Royal Academy , are now busily employed in removing to the National Gallery, Tra falgar- square, from their ancient resting- places the valuable antiques, has reliefs, and paintings belonging to the Aca- demy, presented to the institution by the various presidents and other distinguished academicians. The tithe system is being acted on in Devonshire. Meetings of the land and tithe owners have been called for the purpose of making an agreement for the general commutation of tithes. The Act of Parliament compelling bakers and sellers of bread to sell by weight, comes into operation on the first of October. The total receipts at the Norwich Festival are 4600/ , independently of private donations which will be sent by many who do not attend the festival. At the late half- yearly meeting of the proprietors of the intended South- ampton Railway, the allowance to the Directors was in- creased from 500/. to 1000/. a year. The Tories of Stir- lingshire have raised a fund of thirteen thousand pounds to be lent out on property in that county. LONDON MECHANICS INSTITUTION. ON Wednesday evening last, a Lecture was delivered at the above Institution upon the subject of English Literature, by Mr. Robert Strong, which, as will be seen, was rather an interesting and instructive one. After a few introductory remarks, Mr. Strong proceeded to explain the progress of the English language, which at the period of the invasion of Julius Csesar, in the year 43, was rude and uncultivated, but in the course of time, under the tuition of the Anglo- Saxons became greatly improved. Literature subse- quently received great advantages from Alfred the Great, who formed schools for its cultivation, but from the wars at that period they fell into disuse. The Normans also, advanc- ing in civilization, incorporated their language in some mea- sure with that of the French. The lecturer then de- monstrated the advantage the Crusade wars conferred upon the language of that age : it is well known that of the many thousands who ventured upon that expedition, a comparatively few returned ; but those few having cul- tivated the Eastern language, were enabled to add con- siderable improvement to their own. From the time of Geoffrey Chaucer, the author of the renowned Canterbury Tales, to that most important of all eras, the Invention of Printing, literature became daily advancing, notwithstanding the clergy caused punishment to be inflicted upon all those who attempted to enlighten the minds of others; but, as Mr. S. remarked, if the age of chivalry has passed, we are content to know that the age of ignorance shares the same fate, and the freedom of the press, the principal means of checking tyranny, enjoys that high eminence which it deservedly merits. Mr. Strong then animadverted upon the authors and principal works produced from that time to the present, amongst which were those of the immortal Shakspeare, Robert Montgomery, John Bunyan, Cowley, Addison, Dean Swift, De Foe, Richardson, Fielding, Sinollet, Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, and Laurence Sterne, to all of whom literature is greatly indebted. After a few remarks upon the description of novels and ro- mances produced at the present day, many of which were the means of promoting more harm than good, and had the effect of " hurrying some persons into a decline, and from thence to a premature grave,"— an observation which certainly did not meet with the concurrence of the auditory,— Mr. Strong concluded by directing the attention of the public to the many advantages to be derived from the British Museum, an institution which, he remarked, reflects highly upon the literature of the country, and which deserves the support of the com- munity at large. WHIG COMMISSIONS.— Very early in the last ses- sion of Parliament, Colonel SIBTHORF, member for the City of Lincoln, moved for a return ( which was ordered) of all the Commissions which had been issued at the in- stance of his Majesty's Whig Government, including the sums paid and the services performed under the same respectively. No return was made to the Colonel's very proper motion until the month of July; which return proving inefficient, a further one was ordered, but not presented until a few days before the end of the session. Both those returns were ordered to be printed; yet, strange to say, upon inquiry for a copy at the office for sale of Parliamentary papers, not only are they not printed, but " some one" has walked off with the MSS., as well as the printer's proof. It is now, therefore, very uncertain when the public will reap the benefit intended by the judi- cious motion of the gallant Colonel, or be enabled to decide how far the Whigs have fulfilled their promise, so vaunt- ingly made through " honest Lord Althorp," " That a new era had arrived, in which the Government of the country would be carried on without patronage."— Nous verrons. NEW SYSTEM OP MENTAL CALCULATION.— A lec- ture was delivered at the Mechanics' Institution, on Wed- nesday evening last, by Mr. D. Harrison, of Bath, illustra- tive of a system of mental calculation which he is about publishing. The members were highly delighted at his ready manner of calculating mentally the most intricate questions that could be put to him. His second lecture, in continua- tion, will be delivered on Wednesday, the 2nd of November. — Bristol Journal. Wednesday the Hon. John Fox Strangeways was chosen, unopposed Member for Calne, in the ( place of his late nephew the Earl of Kerry. STATE OF TRADE. THE LEEDS TRADE.— A fair average business was done in the Cloth Halls on Saturday last, but on Tuesday the market was dull. The stocks on hand in the Hall continue very low, and there is no alteration in prices. There has been a great number of buyers in the market during the past week, and in consequence business has been very brisk in the warehouses. HUDDERSFIELD.— There has been rather less business in the Cloth Hall to- day. Wools are understood to be consi- derably dearer in Germany than they were at the clip, and the stock light, and not in good condition. BRADFORD.— The piece market transactions on Thursday were conducted with quite as much caution as those of last week ; this we attribute to the unsettled state of the money market. Buyers of yarn are acting with great caution; but the spinners having considerable orders to execute, and the stocks on hand being small, prices continue without much alteration. There was rather a thin attendance of buyers in the wool market, which was full of all kinds ex- cept shafty wether matchings of good quality. All kinds of hogs are a little lower, and noils are reduced in price. HALIFAX.— We have the same report of the piece- mar- ket to- day— no variation either in price or demand. Meri- nos, plain backs and damasks, continue the sorts most in request. The yarn market is much the same as usual. Little business is doing in wool, prices are stationary, with every probability of their remaining so. Middle wethers remain at 17jd. per lb. Noils are still scarce, and maintain their very high prices. WAKEFIELD.— There is no quotable difference in the value of either long or short wool this week, but the quan- tity of business done is rather below an average, and there is an absence of that briskness which characterized the wool- trade a few weeks back. Probably the feverish state of the money- market occasions consumers to act more cau- tiously, as we yet hear of no one reducing his consumption. COTTON TRADE.— Comparative View of the Imports and Exports of Cotton into and from the whole Kingdom, from the 1st of January to the 17th inst., and of the Imports and Exports for the same period last year. Imports in 1830. Iia_< s. American >.... 009,484 South American 115,300 West Indies, Demerara, & c 5,403 Bast Indies 129,068 Egypt, & c 18,224 Total of all descriptions 038,439 In 1835. Baos. American ,.... 671,059 South American 112,031 " West Indies, Demerara, & c 0,385 East Indies 7,975 Egypt,& c. 19,407— 873,357 FACETIAE. At the time Dr. Johnson visited Aberdeen, an old turreted house in Huxter Row was being newly harled. Struck with this operation, the Doctor approached the labourer, and inquired how he produced that regular irregularity. The man explained the composition, and the Doctor requested next to see how it was applied. " But, perhaps," said he, " 1 am in your way, my good friend?" " Na, na, Sir, ye're nae in my way," said the labourer, splashing a huge trowelful on the wall, and plentifully be- spattering the Doctor's person; " Na, na, ye're nae in my way, if ye're nae in your ain."— Smith's Pocket Guide to Aberdeen. Horne Tooke was the son of a poulterer, which he alluded to when called upon by the proud striplings of Eton to describe himself—" I am,'' said young Horne, " the son of an eminent Turkey merchant." A young1 clergyman having in the hearing of Dr Parr, stated that he would believe nothing that he could not understand. " Then, young man ( said the Doctor), your creed will be the shortest of any man's 1 know." A ludicrous circumstance occurred at the close of the performance of the Requiem at the Norwich Musical Festival. The bellman of the city, in full paraphernalia, rushed into the orchestra, with his regular dustman's bell in hand; and after cutting away for about a minute, he roared out with a voice of thunder—-" Lost a purse, with ten pounds in it; if any one has found it, and will bring It to the committee, or to me, the gentleman will be very much obliged to him." A POETICAL GENIUS.— Recently, in Glasgow, a man was brought up before a police magistrate for kissing a girl, when the following poetical dialogue took place: Magistrate: Is your name John Jay?— Prisoner: Yes, your honour, so the people say. Was it you that kissed the girl and raised the alarm ?— Yes, your honour, but I thought it was no harm. You rascal! did you come here to make rhymes ? — No, your honour, but it will happen so sometimes. Be off, you scamp; get out of my sight.— Thank'e, your honour, then I'll bid you good night. The Limerick Chronicle says :—" The Hon. Captain Dillon, A. D. C. to the Lord Lieutenant, broke his collar, bone on Wednesday evening, leaping a horse over a fence in the Phoenix Park. The accident is fortunately not of a serious nature "!!! ELOPEMENTS.— On Friday evening a young couple arrived from London at the Ship Hotel, Dovor, anl were accommodated with lodgings at a private house. About two hours afterwards two gentlemen arrived in pursuit, one of them was understood to be the husband, and the other the father of the party, and having ascertained that those they sought were safe, they let them quietly remain for the night. In the morning they dogged them to the pier, when the lady was seized, and conveyed away from the love- stricken swain. It is stated that the lady had only, been married a fortnight.— Kentish Gazette. An elopement has lately taken place from one of the royal palaces, which has excited intense interest. The parties are a young lady allied to a dukedom and a young man in very humble life. DINING WITH A PROFIT.— Last week a party of eight gentlemen met to dine at the tavern at the bridge foot, Westminster, at 25s. per head, when, upon a hesitation as to who should preside, a stranger in the room, but who was supposed to be the friend of one of the gentlemen present, proffered his services, which were thankfully accepted. After dinner he pushed the bottle about bravely, and said it was time to collect the reckoning, which on being put into his hands, he left the room to discharge the bill and settle with the waiters, but walked off with the whole in his pocket, bidding the tavern- keeper and his wife at the bar good- night. It is a singular fact that several small towns which, when close boroughs, had no trade or traffic whatever, have, since their insertion in schedule A, risen gradually from obscurity. At Whitchurch, in Hampshire, one of these, a large corn and cattle market has been established. Increase of imports, as compared with 1835 .. 60,082 TF. A TRADE.— AS a proof of the great increase in the consumption of teas, and the advantage which has accrued to the Government by the opening of the trade, a statement has been prepared, by which it appears that during the seven months ending the 5th of August, 1835, the amount of teas imported was 22,011,0001bs., the duty upon which was 2,189,000/. During the same period of 1836 the amount of teas imported was 36,650,0001bs., on which the duty was 3,468,000/., being an increase of 15, G3!), 0001bs. of teas, and 1,279,000/. in the duties. BUCKS AGRICULTURAL DINNER. — On Saturday last the annual dinner of the farmers of the county of BucHs took place at the George Hotel, Aylesbury. Upwards of 100 of the most wealthy and influential holders of the soil attended upon the occasion. There were also present the Marquis of Chandos, W. Praed, Esq., M. P., Sir Thomas Fremantle, M. P., & c. J. Horwood, Esq., in the chair. After the usual toasts had been drunk with enthusiasm, the " Health of the Lord- Lieutenant of the county " was pro- posed, in return for which the Marquis of Chandos made a speech on matters connected with the agricultural condi- tion of the country. In reference to the Report on Agricul- ture, which had been made public, the noble Lord said that if this report had been assented to by the Committee, in his judgment it would have been most unsatisfactory, and would have been calculated to ruin the best interests of the farmers of the country. It was objected to him ( Lord Chandos) that he did not bring forward any specific motion during the last Session in reference to the matter before the Committee; but he had submitted a specific motion to the House of Commons, to the effect that in any reductions which should be made of the taxation, a proportionate re- lief should be afforded to the farmer, in common with the rest of his Majesty's subjects. This motion, however, was met with a declaration that they must wait until the Report of the Committee on Agriculture was made, and here again he was defeated in his efforts to relieve the farmer. ENGLISH NEWSPAPERS.— With the exception of two or three newspapers, almost exclusively devoted to com- mercial matters, each of the provincial journals now sustains a political character. Of the 175 newspapers published out of London ( excluding those published in Wales), 100 are of Liberal politics, and 75 advocate the principles of the Tory party. There are 60 journals which have an average cir- culation of 1000 and upwards per week— namely, 37 Liberal journals and 23 Tory journals. The aggregate circulation of the 37 Liberal papers is 72,193 per week, which give an average weekly circulation of 1,951 to each: the aggregate circulation of the 23 Tory papers is 31,606 per week, or 1,374 per week, taking the average of each paper. INCREASED CIRCULATION OF NEWSPAPERS.— The number of newspapers sent through the General Post- office on Saturday last was 74,800; being upwards of 30,000 over the usual number. BALLOON ASCENT.— On Tuesday afternoon the pub- lic were again gratified by the ascent of Mr. Green's mag- nificent balloon from the Vauxhall Gardens. The company assembled to witness this spectacle was not so numerous as on former occasions, but still there were thousands attracted to the scene. The balloon ascended at five minutes after four o'clock. There were nine gentlemen in the car. The balloon took a north- easterly direction, and descended near Chelmsford in perfect safety, after an aerial voyage of fifty- five minutes. Mrs. Graham has arrived at her residence in Poland- street, nearly recovered from her accident. She has a full recollection of all the circumstances that occurred during her ascent with the Duke of Brunswick, which she intends laying before the public. THE ST. LEGEK STAKES.— The settling went off very smoothly, and although two or three are unable to make good their deficiencies at present, there does not seem to be any apprehension as to their meeting them in full within a short period. Lord Lichfield and two or three of his friends have won nearly all the money. Scott's party has lost a little ; the bulk of the losses coming out of the pockets of the betting men generally. The value of the stakes is 2075/. Mr. Orde has refused 1000 guineas for Beeswian. It is said that Lord George Bentinck is a winner of nearly 15,000/. on the St. Leger. QUEEN ELIZABETH'S NOTIONS OF MACHINERY.— When Lee, the inventor of the stocking- frame, came to London with the view of obtaining her Majesty's patronage, though supported by many persons of influence about the Court, the Queen refused to aid him either by a grant of money or of a patent; adding, as her reason, " I have too much love for my poor people who obtain their bread by the employment of knitting, to give my money to forward an invention which will tend to their ruin, and thus make them beggars." A garrison Court of Inquiry, Major Gascoyne, 94th, president, took placo at Tetnplemore, upon a charge of a serious nature, affecting a lieutenant of the 25th regi- ment, and a serjeant of the same. THE CHAMPION, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2. 23 C9MOSEBI' ISfSfcUBS'ffS. ( HELD WITHIN THE PRESENT WEEK.) DEATH OF SIR W. HEWITT, BART.— An inquest was held at the Merlin's Cave Tavern, Upper Rosomon- street, Pentonville, before Mr. Stirling and a respectable jury, touching the death of a person known by the name of Sir WILLIAM HEWITT, Bart. Mrs. Eliza Thompson, of 52, Margaret- street, Wilmington- square, deposed, that last Saturday fortnight the deceased called and engaged a small furnished room of her, at the weekly rent of three shillings ; he was previously a stranger to her; he only brought a small bag with him ; he appeared in a very poor state of health ; he did not give his name, but said he had just come from the country; witness did not ask any reference, as she saw the deceased was a gentleman, although his ap- parel was very indifferent. On Friday he became very much indisposed, and kept his bed; witness inquired whether he would wish medical assistance to be called in, when he replied, " My good lady, that is a subject for consideration;" on Saturday he became worse, but still refused to have medical advice, and was indifferent as to any kind of suste- nance; on Sunday morning, when witness took him some tea, the poor old gentleman shook his head, and, in a feeble voice, said, " Madam, I shall require no more in this world; I shall never more rise from this bed ;" aljout half an hour afterwards witness was shocked at discovering him apparently lifeless; she immediately sent for a surgeon, who shortly arrived, and pronounced him quite dead. From the testimony of other witnesses it appeared that the de- ceased was a baronet by hereditary right, and of a very ancient family; for a series of years the unfortunate gen- tleman had been endeavouring to recover the estates at- ' tached to his title, but had been unsuccessful, and the law expenses resulting therefrom had for some period before his death reduced him to so low a state as to render him a poor dependent upon some distant relatives. Latterly he concealed his place of residence from his relatives, and was in such a state of destitution, that only one penny was found on him when he expired. The coroner and jury said it was a most afflicting case; there could be no doubt but that the deceased's end had been hastened by the absence of proper nourishment. The surgeon gave it as his opinion that the deceased died of consumption.— Verdict, " Died by the Visi- tation of God." DEATH FROM APOPLEXY.— An inquest was held at the Three Crowns, Well- street Piccadilly, on view of the body of John Messenger, aged 45. It appeared from the evidence of Mr. John Davidson, that he had been for- merly acquainted with the deceased, who was in com- fortable circumstances as a horse- dealer, lived very well, and was a man of extremely high spirits. Latterly, how- ever, he was reduced to penury, and being turned out of his lodging, slept for the last few nights in one of the wit- ness's hay- lofts, where he was found dead on Sunday morn- ing.— Verdict, " Died of Apoplexy." SHOCKING CIRCUMSTANCE.— An inquest was held at the North- London Hospital, on view of the body of William Perry, a fine little boy three years of age, whose death was occasioned by swallowing oil of vitriol.— Verdict, " Acciden- tal Death." CAUTION'TO PARENTS.— An inquest was held at theCoal- Hole Tavern, Strand, on view of the body of Robert Dicken- son Larritt, an infant about two years of age. It appeared from the evidence of Elizabeth Vysey, that she was nursing { he deceased in the drawing- room, and had only put him down for the purpose of getting his chair to set him at the breakfast table, when he climbed up to the window and fell out before she could run to him. He fell on the spikes be- neath', which inflicted a wound three inches deep and one in breadth. The child only survived twenty minutes.— Ver- dict, " Accidental Death." A very lengthened inquiry took place at the White Hart Inn, Cranford Bridge, on the Windsor- road, before Mr. Stirling and a respectable jury, on view of the body of Mr. John Moody, aged 79, an extensive stage- coach proprietor, whose death was occasioned by inj uries received, in. con- sequence of the upsetting of a Windsor coach. The jury, after consultation, returned a verdict of " Accidental Death." An inquest was held at the Black Boy, public- house, High- street, Wapping, on the body of James Verden, aged 56, who lived in lodgings in Wapping. He was in reduced circumstances, but had contrived to get drunk every day for the last four weeks. On Thursday evening he went to bed intoxicated, and was found next mornirg suspended by a cord round his neck from the bedstead.— Verdict, " Tem- porary derangement." An inquest was held at the Compasses, Vauxhall, on the body of William Streeter, aged 29, who was scalded to death at the distillery of Mr. Burnett, of Vauxhall, by falling into a vat of boiling liquor.— Verdict, " Accidental Death." CASE OF SUPPOSED INFANTICIDE.— An inquest was held at the sign of the Black Horse, in the Kingsland- road, before Mr. Baker, the Coroner, and a respctable jury, on the remains of a male infant, of which a young woman named Churchill, at present in custody, is supposed to have been delivered. From the evidence, it appeared that the body of the deceased was picked out of a common sewer or black ditch that ran at the bottom of the house in which Ann Churchill lived as servant, and only a few days before she was observed to be far advanced in pregnancy. A medical man deposed, that Churchill had been recently de- livered ; but, the body of the deceased not having been ex- amined, the inquest was adjourned for that purpose, and the woman remanded. DEATH BY BURNING.— An inquest was held at St. Bar- tholomew's- hospital, on view of the body of Charles Pooley, aged four years. An elder child, who was with the de- ceased, said that he ( the deceased) took a match to get a light to let off some fireworks with, and that some of the brimstone dropp^ jl upon his pinafore, and set it on fire.— Verdict, " Accidental Death." MANSLAUGHTER.— An inquest was held at the London Hospital, on the body of William Gaywood, aged 35, who died in that institution on Saturday evening last. It ap- peared, from the evidence of several witnesses, that the deceased, and a man named George Watkins, who is now in custody, were, on the morning of Thursday last, in the Cranes public- house, Leadenhall- market, drinking, to- gether with several other persons, when a dispute arose between them, which led to blows, one of which was in- flicted with such violence on the temple that the deceased was felled to the ground. He was conveyed to the hos- pital, where he died of concussion of the brain, produced by the fall.— A verdict of " Manslaughter " was returned against Watkins. DREADFUL MURDER NEAR MAIDSTONE.— Last week the village of Tovil, which is about half a mile distant from Maidstone, was placed in a state of considerable excitement, in consequence of a report being circulated that a woman, of the name of Ann Covers, had been murdered by her hus- band. Cries of " murder " had been heard to proceed from the house which was occupied by Wm. Covers and his wife, and which is situated in Tovil, when, as some words which had previously passed between them had been heard, the door was forced open, and the deceased was found at the foot of the stairs stretched a lifeless corpse. A very great crowd of the inhabitants collected, who charged the husband with the death of his wife. In the course of the week a jury was impannelled before Mr. Dally, the coroner, at the Royal Paper Mills, Tovil. The inquiry lasted two dajs. Several witnesses were examined, who proved the facts, when the coroner having summed up the evidence, the jury returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder against William Co- vers." The coroner issued his warrant for the committal of Covers to Maidstone Gaol, who was apprehended the next day, after a stout resistance, and lodged in the gaol. The deceased, who was fifty three years of age, was a widow when she married Covers, to whom she has been joined seven years. SENTENCES AT THE OLD BAILEY. THE whole of the cases for trial having been disposed of on Monday evening, the RECORDER entered the Court the following morning, and proceeded to pass sentence on the prisoners, as follows:— Forty- five to be transported for seven years; thirteen to fourteen years; and six for life. Mary Jones, who was indicted with Mathew Feaks, the waggoner, for a conspiracy to induce two girls named Vale to quit the guardianship of their friends in Cambridge, and to visit London with a view of resorting to prostitution in the house of the prisoner Jones, but who was acquitted of the conspiracy and found guilty on a count charging her with keeping a brothel in Lombard court, Fleet- street, was sentenced to be imprisoned in the House of Correction for one year. Isaac Norton, a respectable- looking old man, a retired coach- and harness maker, who resided at Norwich, and Samuel Poole, a young man, a baker, who were convicted of a disgusting misdemeanor, were sentenced to be im- prisoned for two years in Newgate. It was also intimated to them, that an application would be made to the Secretary of State that they might be removed to the Penitentiary, where there was a stricter discipline maintained than could be kept up in Newgate. The prisoner Norton begged that some mercy might be extended to him. He was upwards of 70 years of age, and had 21 children and grandchildren. He entreated that some degree of lenity might be shown him for the sake of his family. The RECORDER said that he should have remembered his family before he committed the disgusting offence for which he had been found guilty. No mercy could be extended to him. Jeremiah Spillane, convicted of a disgusting assault upon the person of a female child, was also sentenced to two years imprisonment; and Henry Denham, convicted of a like offence, was sentenced to one year's imprisonment, and at the expiration of the period to enter into his own recognizance in 501., and to find two sureties in 25/. each, to keep the peace towards all his Majesty's subjects. Henry George Thomas, who had been sentenced to death at the last sessions for a grievous assault on his wife, was then placed at the bar, and after a feeling and admonitory address as to his future life, had his sentence commuted to transportation for life to a penal settlement, there to end his days in chains. The following prisoners were then brought up to receive the awful sentence of death: George Edwards Peacock, for forging a power of attorney for the transfer of stock ; Jonathan Holcombe, John Beck, Joseph Longhurst, John Mahony, James Davis, and Thomas Lucas for burglary; and Thomas George, for robbery. The RECORDER then addressed the prisoners in very im- pressive terms on the enormity of their offences. When he came to that for which Peacock had been convicted, he said:— There are cases, however— and I address myself to one unhappy individual which will require the most painful consideration; and it will have to be considered whether in justice to the commercial community, whether, for the sake of the general safety of the public, whether as regards the confidence generally reposed in professional men, whether, with respect to the enormous sum which has been impro- perly withdrawn from its destination, or whether a recent Act of Parliament by which the penalty of death is provided as the consequences of the crime of which he has been guilty be noticed, mercy can be extended. All that 1 can undertake to do is, to promise that no circumstances of mitigation which may be made known to me shall escape the notice of our Sovereign, or shall be withdrawn from the very particular attention of those who are called upon to advise his Majesty. It is melancholy to reflect that a gentleman— for such was his position— educated to the law, perfectly acquainted with the penalty attendant upon so heinous an offence as that of which he had been convicted, should have committed a crime which should have brought him to his present unhappy position at that bar. [ The prisoner at this point became audibly effected]. It is not for me, however, to aggravate those sufferings under which I perceive he is labouring; but I implore of him to reflect upon the awful predicament to which he has brought him- self ; and I beg of you all to reflect that if mercy be extended to you it will be in the exercise of the best prerogative of the Crown ; and that, should your lives be spared, it will not be by the laws, but by the merciful administration of them. It remains for me now only to pass upon you the awful sentence of the law, which is, that you be taken from hence to the prison from whence you came, and from thence to a place of public execution, and that you be there severally hanged by the neck until you be severally dead ; and may the Lord have mercy on your souls ! Seven other prisoners were sentenced to be imprisoned for one year, three for nine months, twenty- three for six months, one for four months, eighteen for three months, four for two months, one for six weeks, and six for one month.— The Court then adjourned to Monday, Oct. 24. THE WRONG SPEECH.— While the trial of a culprit was proceeding on Friday in the New Court, Old Bailey, of no public interest, much amusement was created, by the judge, jury, witnesses, and prisoner distinctly hearing Mr. Charles Phillips address the bench in a most audible and vehement manner in another case, in the Old Court. The doors and windows of the New Court being open, it was soon discovered by what means the oratory of the learned gentleman had so unceremoniously found its way to the ears of those for whom it was not intended. The Re- corder, knowing that his attention and that of the jury could be sufficiently occupied with the speeches of the counsel in his own Court, without listening to the legal harangue of the learned barrister in the other, ordered the doors and windows to be closed, good- humouredly remark- ing, that otherwise " we shall hear the wrong speech." The order of the Court being instantly complied with, Mr. Phillip's eloquent peroration was only suffered to make one- half the impression of his not less eloquent exordium. LUNATIC ASYLUMS.— The Grand Jury for Middle- sex have found a true bill for a misdemeanor against Wil- liam Moseley, otherwise Willis, for keeping a house for the reception of insane persons, at No. 9, Charlotte- street, Bloomsbury, contrary to the provisions of the 2nd and 3rd William IV., cap. 107. DREADFUL ACCIDENTS.— On the night of Tuesday last, while returning on the outside of the coach from Bir- mingham to town, Mr. Sawyer, the beadle of the Apothe- caries' Hall, lost his life. He had unhappily fallen asleep, and by a jerk of the coach was precipitated from his seat, and killed on the spot. A carpenter, named Thomas Frowd, aged 68 years, who had been employed in repairing St. James's Church recently, missed his step, and received such injuries that he died in St. George's Hospital. Last week, while the Rev. Mr. Smythes, of Lynch- court, near Leominster, was out shooting in company with his son, the gun of the latter accidentally went off, and the contents lodged between his father's shoulders. The agony caused by this lamentable accident is inconceivable. The accounts received are as favourable as can be expected. Yester- day morning an accident occurred to a young man, aged 25, a journeyman soap- boiler, in the employ of Messrs. Rivers and Son, soap- makers, Old Kent- road. The un- happy sufferer was crossing a narrow plank, which com- municated from one boiling- pan to another, when his foot suddenly slipped, and he was instantly precipitated into the boiling fat. He was immediately extricated, but his lower extremities were so shockingly scalded that large pieces of flesh came off with his trousers and stockings. He was removed to the hospital. ARSON.— A barn or shed, belonging to Mr. Blake- man, baker, at Eccleshall, Stafford, was lately totally con- sumed by fire; also a waggon and cart and some farming implements destroyed. Supposed to be the act of an in- cendiary. pamciii. MARYLEBONE OFFICE.— ATROCIOUS OUTRAGE BY Two POLICE CONSTABLES. — Yesterday, Police- constable Jolly, 161 S, was charged before Messrs. RAWLINSON and SHUTT, with having, whilst labouring under the effects of liquor, committed an outrage at the house of a respectable smith, named Gallant, No. 5, Holbrooks- court, Fitzroy- mar- ket, which he entered without any legal authority with Roderick, another constable, under pretence of searching for stolen property.— Harriett Gallant deposed to the pri- soner's breaking into her house on the previous night at twelve o'clock, and striking her repeatedly, and when her husband came to her assistance, they grossly assaulted him, and dragged him off to the station- house, where he remain- ed some time until liberated on bail. The prisoner Jolly was the most violent. They were both dressed in plain clothes. Serjeant Garman, 3 E, stated that the prisoner Jolly, was so drunk at the time of the outrage, that shortly afterwards, when the state in which he was in became known, he was locked up.— The prisoner, in his defence, said he was in search of a man named Connor, who had stolen some lead, and that he had reason to suppose he was concealed in complainant's house. Mr. RAWLINSON : Had you a search- warrant ?— Jolly : No, I had not. Mr. RAWLINSON : Then how dared you to enter the house without authority .'— Jolly : Because it's a bad neigh- bourhood, and I thought that sufficient. Mr. RAWLINSON : Then no man's house is safe. This conduct of the police in entering houses without lawful au- thority cannot be too strongly deprecated ; and some day or other, if not discontinued, they will smart for it, in having to pay heavy damages. With respect to the prisoner, Jolly, his conduct was so bad, that it was impossible he could re- main any longer in the force; and as for the other con- stable, Roderick ( 130, S), though no formal complaint had been made against him, his conduct was almost as culpable. — The worthy magistrate then fined Jolly in the utmost penalty of 5/., or two months imprisonment. Roderick, who was in attendance, was also called in, and cautioned as to his future conduct. QUEEN SQUARE.— SWINDLING.— Yesterday, informa- tion was received at the Police- offices, that a few days since a very genteel- looking man called at the Irish Poplin Es- tablishment of Miss Elliott, No. 43, Pall Mall, under the patronage of the Royal Family, and purchased two dresses valued at nearly 10/., desiring them to be sent to No. 44, Berkeley- street West, Edgware- road, with change for a 20/. note, which was done, and the bearer received in ex- change a cheque on Esdaile's Bank for 20/., signed " Parker," which, upon being presented, Miss Elliott dis- covered that she had been defrauded both of the dresses and the cash. The party is supposed to be connected with a gang of swindlers who are practising their avocations about town. THE GROSVENOR LOCAL ACT.— On Saturday this office was crowded to excess by respectable inhabitants of Chel- sea, in order to hear the decision upon a case which came before the sitting Magistrates, Messrs. LAING and BURRELL, under the following circumstances: it appears that for some time past the inhabitants of Chelsea have been engaged in a dispute with the Trustees under the Grosvenor Local Act in consequence of the latter partieshav- ing erected a toll- gate at Grosvenor- bridge, highly prejudi- cial to the trade of Chelsea and its vicinity. On Thursday last a case was heard at this office, and the erection of the bar was declared to be illegal. On Saturday a labouring man named John Fegg, who had been employed by the inhabit- ants was charged with sawing down the bar ' and attempt- ing to take it away. Mr. Boodle attended on the part of the Trustees, and Mr. Humphries appeared for the de- fendant. Police constable Edwards proved that at 12 o'clock on Friday night, he observed the defendant cut away the bar, and he took him into custody. Mr. Humphries begged to explain to the Magistrates that the question was entirely as to a right of way, and that ulterior proceedings would be taken in a Court of Common Law, and he did not, under these circumstances, consider that the prisoner could be charged with an act of wilful damage. Mr. LAING.— But why should the man be sent at 12 o'clock at night to take away the obstruction ? Mr. Humphries said that he did not at all justify that part of the proceeding, but he put it to Mr. Boodle to say whether he should wish the man to be detained. After some conversation between the solicitors, the defendant was ordered to be discharged, Mr. LAING stating that what- ever might be the legal merits of the question, the conduct of the man and of those by whom he was employed, in sending him at such an hour of night upon the errand, was highly reprehensible. THE MARCH OF INTELLECT.— A most eccentric charac- ter named William Kingsbury, who is well- known by the cognomen of the " Lord Chancellor," was charged before Mr. WHITE with being drunk and sleeping in the open air in St. Ann's- court, Westminster. It appeared, that the defendant, who was a ticket- porter at the House of Lords at the time when Lord Brougham was Chancellor, had be- come so completely infatuated with bis Lordship's doctrines upon the " march of intellect," that he had instituted aclub at the Old Star and Crown public- house in the Broadway, Westminster, for the discussion of politics, of which society Mr. Kingsbury had been installed " Lord Chancellor." The poor fellow had become so bewildered with the applause bestowed upon him at the nightly meetings at the house in question, and also from his having received what he called a " complimentary speech " from Lord Brougham, whom he had conducted one night to his carriage, that he fell into a course of habitual intoxication, and lost his situation as porter. Since that he had been wandering about West- minster, occasionally taking refuge in the workhouse, and had latterly been employed as a grave- digger in St. Mar- garet's church- yard. He has frequently been charged at this office with drunkenness. Mr. WHITE : Well, Mr. Kingsbury, I am sorry to see you here again.— Defendant: So am I to see your worship, but I can only say, that it is caused by my fondness for the " inarch of intellect." Mr. WHITE : And perhaps also for the march of drunken- ness. You are fined 5s.— Defendant: I cannot pay it. Mr. WHITE : Then you must send to your friends.— De- fendant : I am sorry to say, your worship, that from the time I became an advocate for the progress of knowledge, I have been des'erf^ d by eyery friend who_ could advance me a shilling. He was . conveyed to the lock- up cell, swearing that he would abjure the " march of intellect" for ever, and said that since he had taken a part in politics, he had become one of the most miserable men on the face of the earth. MARLBOROUGH STREET.— THE WRECK ASHORE.— A^ toothless old tar, whose sconce time had shaved as smooth as a turnip, was charged by one of the Mendicity Society constables with sailing under " false colours," namely, under pretence of selling a handful of matches, asking alms of the persons whom he accosted. The constable said the de- fendant was a well- known vagrant, and complaints against him had been frequent, in consequence of his exhibiting the stump of one of his arms- Mr. CHAMBERS : I won't have you go about the streets, thrusting that stump of yours into people's faces: you have been here before, and have been told you should be sent to [ irison if you did not give over your begging trade.— De- fendant : I don't beg, I sell my matches, though it's very true many good people, when they see such an old cripple as I am, give me a few coppers and won't take my goods- Here am 1 seventy- six years of age, with an old wife which I've had thirty- two years, and nothing to support us but what I bring in. D— me, if it don't make me swear to think how poor people are knocked about now; if" we beg we're sent to prison — if we carry a basket in the street it's taken from us— and if we try to get a few coppers by selling matches, why, we do wrong, and must be taken into custody. Mr. CHAMBERS: Why do you not go to the workhouse ? Defendant: Because, your honour, 1 know what the work- house is, it's like taking an old horse to the knackers. ( ILaughter.) The parish did allow me and my old woman a shilling a week, but they took it away when they got the new Act. Mr. CHAMBERS : I can see the reason why you will not go into the workhouse. You can't get any gin there to keep up that perpetual fire in your red nose.— Defendant: I won't deny that I take a drop of liquor, but that's not the reason. At my time of life I can't put up with being kept in a sort of cage and fed on water- gruel and meat slops, only just sufficient to weather starvation point. I've fought under Nelson, and for eleven years was in a man- of- war fighting my country's battles. I wish to God I was with my old commander now. Ah ! I wish to G— " Old Billy "- was here! He'd not let an old sailor be knocked about as I've been. Mr. CHAMBERS: Billy! Who's Old Billy?— Defendant: Bless your honour, why don't you know ? I mean his Ma- jesty King William, who I sailed under when lie was a middy. He knows Old Cross, I'll pound ! But it aint his fault; there's so many sogers and sailors that it's impos- sible he can provide for all. Mr. CHAMBERS having exacted a promise from the de- fendant that he would go to his parish, directed he should be liberated. THE EXTRAORDINARY AND ROMANTIC CASE."—- Jl gen- tleman, who was stated to be a solicitor, yesterday came to this office accompanied by Agnes Graham, the young female whose case has created so much interest, and Mrs. Duige- nan's daughter, for the purpose of complaining of the state- ment which appeared in a morning paper on Tuesday last, connected with the young female in question. The gentleman handed to Mr. Chambers the paper con- taining the statement in question, and the Magistrate, after having perused it, said that he did not know by what means it had been made public, but it tallied exactly with the con- tents of a letter which he had received upon the subject from a magistrate at Eghatn, who was also a guardian of the poor, and who was well acquainted with all the circnm- stances of the case, and there could be no doubt that the statement was correct. The, gentleman said that Agnes Graham was ready to make oath that the statement was false. Mr. CHAMBERS.— It is impossible that she can do so. I have taken a great deal of pains in this case, which came originally before me as one of destitution, but as the girl is here, I think it right to say a few words to her. Upon the last investigation five magistrates who were present gave their decided opinion that it would be much better that she should go back to her foster- father's, who was better able to support her than Mrs. Duigenan; and yet she prefers re- maining there. It is strange also that Mrs. Duigenan, who when she first applied to me stated that she was unable to keep the girl, and accepted of a shilling out of the poor- box, should now wish to keep her. I am afraid that it is in consequence of the money she receives, for I hear that since the publication of the report of the case her house is almost besieged by the carriages of charitable persons, all of whom give her money. Mrs. Duigenan's daughter denied that this was the reason. The solicitor said he thought the statement in question was calculated to injure the girl, and he was anxious that she should be allowed to make an affidavit of its falsehood. Mr. CHAMBERS said she could not do so. He then read the statement in question, commenting upon it as he went along. The statement represented that she had lived with Mrs. Murray for a long time ; and that at length, by the kindness of Mr. Guill, the rector, she was placed in the workhouse. Could that be. denied ? It then stated that she was put to service. That could not be denied, for he held in his hand a letter from the gentleman in whose ser- vice she had been. It then stated that she had left the workhouse in company with a girl of depraved habits, na- med Greek ; but the directors of the poor made a search for her, and brought her back. He had the authority of a ma- gistrate, one of the directors, for stating that this was the fact. The other facts stated also tallied exactly. He added, that he had received a sum of money for the girl; but it would depend upon her conduct whether he should hand it over to her or not. The Magistrate then handed over to the gentleman the document he had referred to, and several others connected with the case; and after he had perused them the parties left the office. AFFECTING CASE OF SEDUCTION AND SUICIDE. On Monday evening last, the body of a female, whose name it has since been ascertained was Mary Ann Symons, and who was the daughter of a respectable farmer of Lew Trenchard, Devon, was drawn out of the canal at Tavistock. An inquest was held on the following day at the Guildhall, before a very respectable jury, when the following facts were adduced in evidence: Richard Jennings deposed to having found the body in the Tavistock Canal; saw blood, but did not know what part of the body it proceeded from. There appeared to be some- thing heavy on the right side, in a bag or pocket. Mary Gill sworn: Is the wife of John Gill, of Tavistock, butcher; knew the deceased, she had lived in her house two months. Came to Tavistock to learn the dress- making, and lodged with deponent. She boarded herself, and occu- pied a bed- room by the side of deponent's room, on the same landing- place. On Sunday last, after breakfast, asked deceased if she was going to church; she replied, " I am not going out for the day," and went up stairs. Deponent shortly after followed, and found her crying, when she spoke of Mr. ' s bad conduct towards her, and that he had used her very ill. She asked deponent for a pen and ink, which she gave her, and then went down stairs. Saw her half an hour after writing, and she endeavoured to con- ceal the contents from deponent's view by placing her arm over it. Deponent went to Meeting in the evening, and on her return, found deceased in the kitchen, with her husband and servant, reading. Her husband went to bed about eight o'clock, and then deceased read a prayer from the Prayer Book, with deponent and the servant. Saw nothing remarkable in her conduct; she read it very properly. De- ponent then proposed to deceased to go to bed. She said she wished to speak to deponent. Deceased again spoke about Mr. ——' s bad conduct towards her, and in what way she had been ruined by him. She went to bed, but said nothing of her intention, and only spoke of Mr. , and that her friends would not notice her. She stated that she was four months gone with child, and appeared much distressed about it. In the morning went to deceased's room, and found the bed made up, her clothes which she wore on Sunday folded up, and every thing in order about the room. Subsequently deponent, with a relative of the deceased, opened her box, in which was found a paper, which is that now produced, and is in the handwriting of deceased. [ The paper was read. It was a letter addressed by the deceased to her brothers and sisters, and complained that she had been seduced by Mr; —— under the promise of marriage; and made some disposition of her clothes. She also requested, if her body was found, to have it interred next to her mother's grave.] Two other witnesses were examined, who deposed to the distressed state of mind of the deceased. The Coroner then summed up the evidence, and stated the law relating to felo de se; after which the Jury con- ferred for nearly half an hour, and returned the following verdict: " That the deceased drowned herself; but they had no evidence of her state of mind at the time she did it." THE CHAMPION, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2. 23 THE LATE MADAME MALIBRAN. ( Frontihe MANCHESTER GUARDIAN.) " Earr Mnouncement, in our Saturday's number, of the mu^ xacboly and unexpected death of this gifted woman, on eight of Friday last, caused a great sensation, both in SMIH and in Liverpool, during Saturday and Sunday list People of all ranks joined in an universal expression « « f - tugpet and sorrow, and a wish was pretty generally ex- ^ pressed that, as a mark of respect, the funeral should be a gnVCc one. As every circumstance connected with that 3& ortl » it fatal illness, which has snatched away this gifted • aUk^ ac ia the very prime of life, must have a deep interest tie present moment, in the midst of the various reports — « trtwe jjf them ridiculously absurd, others unjust, exag- gprated, or wholly false— which are now circulating as « it » hex illness and death, we have thought proper to lay Saefare our readers such facts as we have reason to be- iBwe come to us sufficiently authorised to merit their srjcrptioB and credence. Madame Malibran de Beriot and fcer husband arrived here, for the Festival, in the ^ afternoon of Sunday, the 11 th instant, and stopped, In Ibe first instance, at the Royal Hotel. From some cir- « n » fj. ance, with which we have nothing to do, they ex- pressed a wish to go to another hotel, and Mr. Mori ap- pJkV - at the Mosley Arms to know if they could be accotn- 7 » » « lite< l there. He was told they could, and they went Ho that hotel the same afternoon. They were shown a • foulilc- bedded room on the first floor, which Madame Mali ilwaa said would do very well, and they agreed to share a ofsxng- room with Signor Lablache and Mademoiselle Assail - who were also in the house. The bedroom was No. 9, sscnd on Mrs. Richardson, the landlady of the Mosley Arms showing them to it, Madame Malibran observed that she been in the Mosley Ai ms Hotel before, but in its former situation. Mrs. Richardson said that it was 12 years ago, ; imd Madame Malibran immediately rejoined, " My bed- room ~ » ias No. 9 there, and now I shall have No. 9 here; is it aat singular?" They were attended only by one male ^ domestic, a foreigner, who had not been long in their • strrice. No female attendant came with Madame Mali- JSCMJ but, we understand, she was desirous to engage one 2nrrc. On their arrival at the Mosley Arms she appeared lie m tolerably good health and spirits, though we un- derstand she complained to a gentleman, a member of Festival Committee, who called upon her that afternoon, • of shivering and head- ache. On Monday morning she Soolc at breakfast her usual diet, of a few oysters and some jkorter diluted with water, which she had always found, we understand, to be the best strengthening preparation fpr her great vocal exertions. She did not, we believe, stend the general rehearsal of the performers, vocal instrumental, which took place at the church on the Monday; but we have no reason to suppose that at that time she suffered much, if at all, from indisposition. Again, on Tuesday morning, previously to going to the first oratorio, ithe took some oysters and a small quantity of porter and • » atcr mixed. On Tuesday evening, before going to the « oaccrt, she complained of a sensation of sickness, and again on Wednesday morning, before she rose, she said - the did not feel well: but she nevertheless persisted in going. Oil that morning she tried again to take her usual • leal of oysters and diluted porter, but she was sick, and * 3> uld not finish her breakfast Mrs. Richardson told her itbat siie thought that the porter did not agree with her, and 3Bidame Malihran replied, " What can I do ? I must take something for my voice, and I find this the best thing I can take." However, she did not take any more, either at that lime or subsequently. At the church, that morning, many persons who had repeatedly heard her before were of pinion that she was not in good health. In the evening she was no better; indeed her weakly sensations had in- • creesed, when she went to that concert which was to prove ttbe premature and melancholy conclusion of her brilliant fcnt short career. She took a part in Beethoven's canon ( from ifodelia) for four voices—" What joy doth fill my breast'." Atter her exertion on this occasion, she became quite faint, - end Dr. Bardsley, who had been seated in the pit, was willed in, and he decided on bleeding her, which operation underwent. She attempted the following morning to proceed to church, but after several painful efforts, though the carriage was waiting for her at the door, she was iblaged to give it up. But she all through' complained of jlsins in her head, and violent retchings. Dr. Bardsley and Mr. Worthigton continued in attendance istfion her, and at half- past 12 o'clock that day they issued a Eiedical certificate to the effect, that in their opinion she > cpu\ d not with safety appear at the oratorio that morning, or at the concert that evening. On the Friday morning Dr. Hull was called in, and after i consultation, it was madeknown to the committee by him Mnd Dr. Bardsley, that Madame Malibran de Bcriot was • worse, and that she would not be able to sing that morning. On Sunday evening Dr. Bellomini arrived, as we have before staged, having been sent for by M. de Beriot, who had be- come very anxious on the score of his wife's continued ill Acal- tti. Dr. Bellomini, besides being thoroughly ac- •' jv." J. ntei! with the constitution of his patient, from having been her physician for some years, had, we believe, known HOT from her childhood, and had for some time been also en terms of friendship with her husband and herself. On Ms arrival, he found her in bed, and she appeared much de- lighted to see him. During the evening she was soine- ' wrtvaS'better, both her cough and fever having in some degree stated; and we believe M. de Beriot wrote to this effect to Signm- Lablache at Norwich. Next morning, however, she grew worse. Poor de Beriot became very much de- jo; te< l, and appeared then to dread the fatal result which snbsetjuently took place; for when exhorted to keep up his * f> rrits, and at all events to conceal his distress from his wife, as it would tend to retard her recovery, and with care she alight get better, he said, " Oh, no; she never will get JMJMOT-, it's impossible." Oil Thursday afternoon last he wished to have some surgeon called in, and Dr. Bello- nfini agreeing with him that some accoucheur should be seat for-, Mr. William Lewis, of George- street, was called in xbcrat seven o'clock in the evening. He immediately ordered Irer hair to be cut off, and this having been done by M. « it Beriot bimself, vinegar was applied to her head and tem- j » ! es, hot fomentations to her stomach, and hot water to her feit, and every means resorted to that could be thought of to induce a favourable turn in the disorder, through a reac- tion in the system. Dr. Bellomini asked Mr. Lewis whether £& his judgment Madame Malibran's state of pregnancy ma- terially affected her in relation to the disorder. Mr. Lewis • expressed a decided opinion that it did not, as she was in an < e « rr1y state of pregnancy. His impression on first seeing her, from the state of her pulse and her insensibility, was, ifartt she was fast sinking under the malady, and could not recover. In point of fact, she never rallied for an instant, - except to take a little barley- water from the hand of her ims'b& nd; and, as we stated in our Saturday's number, she expired at precisely twenty minutes before twelve •• eVSock on Friday night, after an illness, dating its com- mencement from the Wednesday night, of nine days. The painful intelligence was no sooner communicated to y. Beriot, than he fainted and fell upon the floor • with considerable force. He was in a very painful state of distraction for some time after his restoration to sensibility; ir,\ Y, whether in compliance with the entreaties of Dr. Bel- ia- Yinrn we " know not, he never entered the chamber, or saw the " body of his deceased wife, again. When his immediate * JtjiAitine was determined upon, he sent for Mr. Beale, snusie- dealer, of St. Anne's- square, to whom, though not yrjvisusly acquainted with him, he expressed his wishes witli respect to the funeral. He particularly desired that at. cast of the head or face should be taken, nor any portrait, " iiidttiat no post- mortem examination should be made; and ia short, that the body should not be touched by any one • eitcejrt in the course of the necessary preparations for inter- • T- IOTTt. • He also gave a written document to Mr, Beale, authorizing him to conduct the arrangements as to the inter- ment, and to fix the time, place, & c., of the funeral, as he should deem proper. Before M. de Beriot quitted the house, he presented to Mrs. Richardson a ring of turquoises, sgt in black enamel, which had been worn by Madame Malibran herself, and also a locket, containing some of the deceased's hair ; and both lie and Dr. Bellomini promised to write to her when able to do so. He was so reduced in strength that he could scarcely stand, and was supported by Mrs. Richardson to the carriage in which he quitted Manchester within two hours after the death of his wife. In the course of a conversation with Mrs. Richardson at an early stage of her illness, she mentioned that she had known De Beriot nine years, and had been seven years of that time married to him, but that she had not been able to make their marriage known till within the last two years; what circumstances had prevented its due publi- city she did not say. She then added emphatically, " If he had bad any faults, I should have found them out be- fore now ; but there never was such a man. I am certainly blessed with a most affectionate husband ; and that, I am afraid, few can say ill a similar situation to myself." We believe she had two children during this marriage; one, a girl, died in her infancy, and the other, a boy, now about four years old, of whom she spoke to Mrs. Richardson, is residing we believe with his paternal aunt, at an estate purchased by his father and mother, in the neighbourhood of Brussels. M. de Beriot wrote to his sister after his ar- rival here, and we have heard, we know not how truly, that it was his intention, without staying more than a few hours in London, to proceed immediately to this estate, to join her and his child. We think it right, in justice to all parties, to state, that from the time of Dr. Bellomini's arrival, Drs. Hull and Bards- ley, and Mr. Worthington, who had attended Madame Mali- bran up to that period at the request of the Festival com- mittee, ceased their visits. Dr. Bellomini, we understand, declined holding a consultation with them on the case, and consequently hearing their reasons for the mode of treat- ment they had adopted; alleging, that as be was a homaeo- pathist, and as his practice was consequently very different from theirs, a consultation could be of no use whatever. Dr. Bellomini, we understand, is not at all known to the faculty in this town, nor does it appear what his course of treatment of the deceased had been from the Sunday even- ing up to the tiine'when Mr. Lewis was called in. Mr. Beale feeling the delicacy of his situation commutii- cated - with some gentlemen, who called a general special meeting of the whole, and after taking the subject into consideration, they decided on making the funeral a public one. It being thought desirable that if possible M. de Beriot should return hither and attend the funeral as chief mourner, Mr. Beale, jun. ( of the firm of Cramer, Addi- son, and Beale, London), was written to at the request of the sub- committee, to ascertain if M. de Beriot was in Lon- don, and if so, to wait upon him and represent the wish of the committee, and the obvious propriety of his paying the last mark of respect to the remains of the deceased; and a letter was received yesterday, stating that on Mr. Beale commencing his mission he found that De Beriot had al- ready quitted London, for Antwerp or Brussels, which place was not certain. No letter, we believe, has been received in this town from M. de Beriot since his departure. We understand that the Committee meet again on Thurs- day, and it is expected that they will shortly be prepared to give to the public a report on the circumstances con- nected with Madame Malibran's illness and death. The body was placed in a leaden coffin on Sunday night, and about 10 o'clock the following morning the lid was soldered down. The requisite preparations for the funeral are being made. The Junes says, " It will be seen from the above account, that this poor lady had no medical practitioner of eminence to attend her when such attendance was most es- sential. We are assured by letters from Manchester, that this remark is generally made in that town and its vicinity, accompanied by comments which we will not repeat: and, farther, that the absence of M. de Beriot, and his leaving the remains of his wife to be consigned to the grave by strangers, is every where spoken of with disgust and bit- terness." MALIBRAN.— The Journal de Commerce d'Anvers an- nounces the arrival of M. de Beriot in Brussels, on the evening of the 27th nit. He is described as being in a state of the deepest affliction. The Journal adds that M. de Beriot's confidential agent set out on the following day for England to bring back the mortal remains of Malibran. LATEST FROM LISBON. ( From our own Correspondent.) FAI. MOUTH, Sept. 29th 1836. The Calpe steam- vessel arrived to- night from the Medi- terranean and Portugal. She left the Tagus on Sunday last, up to which time Lisbon had remained not merely tranquil but unusually dull. The supposed Ministry con- sisted of Manoel de Si'iva Passos was the Minister of the Home Department and President of the Council, the Conde de Lumiares was the Minister of War and Marine, and the Conde de Sa Da Bandeira had the department of Finance and Foreign Affairs. The Constitution had been proclaimed at Oporto, but it was unpopular. The movement appears not to have taken effect in the provinces, which were quiet. The Duke of Terceira had gone on shore from the Mababar, where he had taken refuge. This frigate had gone much nearer Belem shore, to assist in the escape of the Queen if necessary. His Majesty's packet Star, came in last night from the Brazils, and reports the Revolutionist General Porto Alegre defeated, at Rio Grande, Monte Video, in the insurrection, and the Treasury of the Capital of the Brazils robbed of 500,000 mil reas. EASTRY UNION.— A Correspondent writes us com- menting in indignant terms on the conduct of an officer connected with this Establishment, who, he says, on a re- cent occasion took upon himself to taunt in a style of offen- sive coarseness a poor old man, an applicant for relief, with a debt of 31. 15s. 5d. contracted with a tradesman of Deal. The situation of this poor man, who had known better days, though now suffering from adversity, and who had actually contributed hundreds of pounds to the parish - funds, ought surely to have secured him from insult. And undei any circumstances, the agents of the new system which, at the best, it must be acknowledged is a harsh and perilous experiment, ought to exercise their functions with decency and discretion. It is needless to say that no reliei was awarded to the unfortnnate applicant, because he con- trived at the age of 71, to earn about 3s. 6d. per week foi the support of himself and bis wife of the age of 74 years! Wo are really heart- sick at detailing the miseries constant]} arising out of this inhuman Poor- law Bill.— Kent Herald. ELKCTIOX OF LORD MAYOR.— Thursday a Com- mon Hall was held for the election of a Lord Mayor for the ensuing year. Alderman Kelly, who is the next in rotation, and Alderman Cowan, whose name immediately follows on the list, were unanimously returned to the Court of Alder- men by the Livery, as fit and proper persons to fill the office, and, according to the custom, the Court of Aldermen re- turned the senior on the rota. When the announcement was made in the Guildhall, the Lord Mayor elect was warmly congratulated, and then returned thanks. A vote of ' thanks was then passed to the late sheriffs, and the Hall was ' dissolved. THE PLAGUE.— The plague is on the increase at Constantinople. Twenty one cases were admitted last week into the Greek Hospital; whereas the week previ- ously there were only two. A few cases are also heard of at Peru, Galata, and in various other quarters. THE MONEY MARKET AND THE FUNDS. ( From our own Correspondent.) This week has not been so bad as last, on the whole, for the bondholders. They have been subject to less shocks and panics ; and prices hare not been so fluctuating, and will be found to have improved as the week advanced. Although the re- appointment of Mendizabal to the Ministry of Finance was known here at the latter end of last week, still the diffi- culties with which it was juried he had to encounter were such, that it was thought he could not overcome theni; and the threatened movement of Don Carlos in Madrid, filled the holders Jof Securities with such alarm, that Spanish Bonds were down to 20 on Monday: and some say that they were done at 19. This quotation of 20 is lower than ever they have been quoted since the time of Ferdinand. On Tuesday they recovered to 21** % • on Wednesday they were 22% % ; and on Thursday we had intelligence of the victory over the Car- list General Gomez, by which the fears of Don Carlos's ad- vance were dispersed, and Spanish got up then to 24Vs : and the Market fell very considerably relieved. Whilst they were at the very low prices quoted above, many persons who " estimated that things could not be worse in Spain than they were, bought largely; and many who held, forming the same opinion, would not sell, but kept them in hope of better things. This was the state of affairs in Spanish, the set- tling- day in which is looked forward to with great anxiety; and that settling will soou be here. Intelligence has been anxiously looked for day after day, and the very sensitive state of the Stock Exchange has made it tremblingly alive to reports and rumours. Of these, however, we are glad to say there have not been many; although there has been a fine field for them. A pigeon was reported on Tuesday to have arrived from Paris with intelligence of Spanish being 19& there, aud that the King of the French bad been assassinated. This pro- duced an effect, and sent down quotations for a time. Portuguese Bonds have been next in interest to Spanish amongst the Foreign Securities, aud they have risen and fallen with Spanish. On Monday they were at the wide ex- tremes of 48 to AO ; on Tuesday they were 50 ; on Wednesday 50; and on Thursday 50( 6 - 54 : we are speaking of the 5 per cents. They have touched a lower price this week than they did last, and there has not been much business done in them. On Tuesday we had, in a second edition of the Times, an ac- count of a counter revolution in Portugal, of which something was tried to be made, but very little was accomplished by it re- lative to the prices of Securities. Other Foreign Funds have been somewhat affected by the changes in the prices of Spanish and Portuguese ; but they have been without interest,— all of which has been absorbed in Peninsular Bonds. Money has been rather more plentiful, and discounts on Bankers' Bills have been 4( 4 to 5 per cent ; those on Merchants' Bills have been 5 per cent, and 1 commission. Consols have been better this week than last, and have very gradually recovered, in them considerable business has been done. On Monday, Consols were ' A money, aud 8BJ% account; on Tuesday 88 fc •' Js account, 88% 4 money ; 1111 Wednesday 88% monev, and 88K account, and on Thurs- day 89( fe account, aud 89 nioney. Exchequer Bills have been par to 2 prem. The mercantile business of the City has not at all improved during the week ; and the fact of the Bank of England having less than six millions of Bullion 111 its coffers, and above eighteen millions of notes out, has been the subject of very general conversation in the monetary and mercantile circles. The belief that the dividends on Spanish Bonds, amounting to 700,000/., will be paid when due in October, and the con- firmation of the defeat of Gomez the CarlKt General, caused the funds to rise. Spanish Bonds rose to 26J J ; aud Portu- guese 5 p; r cents, to 52, 53. Consols were 89 account, and , 89 money. Exchequer Bills par to 2 prem. SATURDAY'S FUNDS. Prices much as they left off last night; 110 news of the slightest importance. Spanish bonds reached 27( 4 yesterday ; now they are 25% 26; Portuguese Fives 51vs. Consols 88iS 89 money; 89 " a October account, and k9( 6 ( 4 November account. The settling- day in the Foreign Market yesterday passed off without a defaulter. COURSE OF EXCHANGE. This branch ot' monetary misiness has again been watched very vigilantly this week, and it has participated a little in the general improvement which has marked the Money- Market. Most of the principal Exchanges have been a little better than they were last week. Amsterdam has been 12.5s • Antwerp 12.2; Hatnbro' 1313; Paris 25.45; Frankfort 152( 4; Madrid 36( s : Cadiz 37( 4 ; Leghorn 4814 ; Genoa 25 75. I'll li MiKKEII. THE LONDON WHOLESALE MERCANTILE MARKETS. The continued pressure for Money renders all transactions in these Markets very circumscribed, causes prices to vary very little, and renders our report meagre. GROCERY MARKET,— Very little business, indeed, done except in B. P. Sugar.— 1800 hlids. of which have sold atthe prices of last, week: lowest, 65s.; middling, 6Hs.; highest, 71s. fc'd. One lot of very fine Barbadoes went as high as 72s. fid. to 73s. per cwt. Other kinds of Haw Sugar were sold, the prices merely nominal. Refined Sugars unaltered, from 45s. 6d. per cwt. for fine crushed. Coffee.— No sales of any description ; prices merely nominal, and as last week, but expected to come down. Nothing fresh in Tea, /{ ice, Cocoa, or Spices-, all very inanimate, and prices as quoted last week. PROVISION MARKET.— There has not been so much business done this week in provisions, owing to latge supplies. Dutch Putter has given way 2s., and the best Friesland lias been sold at 100s. to 102s. Irish Butter is at last week's prices. Cork Ist, 100s. to 102s.; Sligo do., 96' s. to 98s.; Waterford do., 98s. to 100s.; Limerick do., 98s. to 100s. Bacon has been in active request: Scalded Middles, 42s. to 50s.; Singed Sides, 46s. to 54s.; Yorkshire, 52s. Irish Hams, 48s. to 56s.; small Yorkshire, 74s.; large, 68s. Yorkshire Butter, 44s. to 49s.; Cumberland, 44s. to 48s. per firkin ; Scotch Butter, 90s. to 96s. per cwi. Cheshire Cheese, 63s. to 78s., Single Glouces- ter, 46s. to 56s.; Double, 56s. to 70s. Eggs, 5s. 6d. to 6s. per 100. English Lard is Is. lower; Waterford, the score, 72s. to 73s.; Ditto, in firkins, 58s. to 60s. FISH MARKET.— Some days of the week the supplies at Bil- lingsgate have been short, and prices dearer. Salmon 10. t. to Is. 3d. per lb. Cod 3s. to 8s., 9s , and 10s. each. Turbot 5s. to 21s. each. Lobsters very dear. Soles high, Is. 6d. to 3s. per pair, 011 some days, and others lower. GRAIN MARKET.— On Monday we bad good supplies of most kinds of Grain, especially Wheat. Trade in Wheat was heavy, and prices declined Is. per qr. 011 the prices of last Monday. Ship Flour declined 6d. to Is. per sack. The inferior kinds of Barley went Is. lower. Superior kinds of Malt advanced Is. Oats were unvaried. Beans and Peas were without variation. Wheat, new Red, 37s. to 49s. ; old, 53s.; White, 44s. to 56s. New Rye, 32s. to 31s. Malting Barley, 38s. to 40s.; Cheva- lier, 40s. to 42s.; Grinding, 30s. to 33s.; Distilling, 31s. to 34s. Brown Malt, 47s. to 55s. ; Chevalier, 64s. to 67s.; Pale were 61s. to 64s.; New Tick Beans, 35s. to 36s.; Old, 37s. to 41s.; Harrow, 35s. to 43s.; Pigeon, 43s. to 47s. White Peas, 35s. to 37s. New Boilers, 40s. to 44s.; Grey and Maple, 36s. to 38s.; Oats, English feed, 24s. 6d to 26s. 6d.; Short Small, 25s. 6d. to 27s. fid. ; Polands, 27s. to 29s. ; Irish, 22s. 6d. to 26s. Flour, 32s. 6d. to 48s. per sack. On Wednesday the supplies were fair generally, but of wheat to a great extent. Trade continued dull; and no variation occurred in prices. On Thursday the following averages were issued from the Government office :— WEEKLY AVERAGE. Wheat 48s 5d I Oats 23a 5d I Beans 40s 7d Barley 34s 10d | Rye 33s 2d | Peas 37s 4d SIX WEEKS AVERAGE. Oats 23s 5d Rye 32s 10,1 DUTY. 8d 1 Oals 12s 3d 4( 1 1 Rye 21s 3d CORN EXCHANGE, FRIDAY.— Supplies to- day liberal, but trade dull, very dull in every description ; and the little busi- ness transacted, was done at Monday prices. ARRIVALS, English. Irish. Foreign. Wheat 1) 000 1000 Barley 2SQ11 -— Oats 3200 10,800 Flour 5890 sacks. Wheat 49s od Barley 32s 2d Wheat 3Ss Bailey 12s Beans 40s 9d l'eas 35s lid | Beans 9s Od I l'eas 16 9d MEAT MARKET — At Siniibfield oil Monday the supply was large ; but, owing to the butchers having so much meat over, trade was dull and prices lower. Beef, 2s. 4d. to 4s. 6d.; Mutton, 3s. Od. to 4s. 6d.; Lamb, 4s. to 5s.; Veal, 4s. 4d. to 5s.; Pork, English, 4s. to 5s. ; Irish, 3s. 4d. to 3s. lOd. Beasts, 3300; Sheep and Lambs, 27,500 ; Calves, 210; Pigs, 572. Killed meat at Newgate and Leadenhall.— Supples good, but the weather against the trade ; prices easier. Per stone of 81bs. : Beef, 3s. to 4s. 2d.; Multon, 3s. 2d. to 4s. 4d.; Veal, 3s. 8d. to 4s. 8d. ; Lamb, 5s. to 5s. 6d.; Pork, English, 3s. 3d. to 4s. lOd.; Irish, 3s. to 3s. fid. Partridges, 2s. 6d. to 3s.; Geese, 3s. 6d. to 5s. each ; Fowls, 4s. to 5s. per couple; Butter, Is. to Is. 2d. per lb.; Grouse, 10s. to 12s. per dozen ; Eggs, 5s. 6d. to 6s. per 100. SMITIIFIELD MARKET, FRIDAY — Supply very short: Beasts, 343; Sheep and Lambs, 3876; Calves, 195 ; Pigs, 443. Mut- ton, Beef, and Lamb rose 2d. to 4d. per stone. Veal and Pork unaltered. Beef, 2s. 4d. to 4s. 4d.; Mutton, 3s. to 4s. 6d.; Lamb, 4s. fid. to 5s.; Veil, 4s. to 5s. 2d.; Pork, 4s. to 5s.; Irish, 3s. 4d. to 3s. lOtL WOOL MARKET.— Since the public sales, the details aud prices of which we gave last week, there has been nothing done, and prices remain exactly as then quoted. COAL MARKET.— There lias been an increasing business done in Coals, and prices are higher than they were last week. Lowest price of Coals, not Walls End, 19s. ; highest 22s. 6d.; lowest price of Walls End Coals, 18s.; highest 23s. per ton. HAY MARKETS.— The demand for Hay and Clover, whichwas brisk last week, has been dull this, and the supplies have been scanty. The salesmen, however, would not take less money than last week. Meadow Hay, 75s. to 90s. Clover 80s. to 100s. Stra x 30s. to 33s. per load. OIL MARKET.— The scarcity of money has affected the prices of Oil, and they may be quoted about 10s. per tun lower than last week. Cod 40/ 10s.; Seal 47/. to 47/. 10s.; Southern 39/. 10s. to 40/.; Sperm 80/. 10s. Linseed Oil 39s. to 39s. 6d. Palm 34s. 6d. to 35s. TALLOW MARKET.— Tallow has also given way a little in price, and for P. Y. C. on the spot the price has been 43s. 6d. The demand for home consumption has not been so great this week as last. Town Tallow 47s. 6d. per cwi. SATURDAY'S LONDON MARKETS. MEAT MARKETS — At Newgate an Leadenhall to- day the supplies were very large, and owing to the weather being colder the trade was good. Beef, 3s. to 4s.; Mutton, 3s. 2d to 3s. 10d.; Veal, 3s. 8d. to 4s. 8d. ; Lamb, 5s. to 5s. 6d. j Pork, English, 3s. 3d. to 4s. lOd ; Irish, 3s. to 3s. fid. Game and Poultry supply not extensive. Partridges, 3s. 6d. to 4s. 6d. per brace ; Getse, 6s. each ; Fowls, 4s. to 5s. per couple ; Grouse, 10s. to 12s. perdi z.; Hares, 3s. 6d. to 4s. 6d. each ; bresh Butter, Is. to Is. 3d per lb. j Eggs, 6s. to 6s. ( id. per 100. SUGAR MARKET.— Yesterday afternoon, B. P. Sugar rose 6d to Is. per cwt. on the price quoted in our weekly digest of the Markets. IOXJROX GAZETTES. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27. BANKRUPTS.- Charles 1' earce Chapman, late ofCornhill, and now of ' Change- alley, City, metal- broker, October II, November 8; Mr. James Clark, official assignee.— Myles Priest, of ( leading, Berkshire, nurseryman, October 4, and November 8 j Mr. George John Graham, official assignee.— Susan Shepherd, of Hiil- streel, Richmond, widow, milliner, October 4, anil November A ; Mr. George Lackington, official assignee.— George Cowell, of 20, Great Russell. street, Covent- Garden, hatter, October 4, and November 8 ; Mr. James Clark, official assignee. — John Lashmar, of Brighthelmstone, Sussex. Emercfant, October 10, and November 8.— Abraham Oxley, William Oxley, and John Oxley, of Sheffield, Yorkshire, iron- founders, October 7, and November 8.— Wil- liam Foster, of Hollinwood, Oldham, Lancashire, manufacturer, Octo- ber 18, and Novembers.— Richard Hodgkinson, of Leamington Priors. Warwickshire, builder, October 10, an- t Novembers. Dl VIDliNIlS.— At the Court of Bankruptcy— John Wilson, of Liver- pool- street, Bishopssate, upholsterer, October 12, at twelve.— In the Country: Samuel Burstall and Francis Burstall, of Kingston upon- Hull, merchants, October 21. at twelve, at the George Inn, Kinc- ston- upon- Hull— Frederick Henry Worth, of St. John's- row, Shrewsbury, coach- builder, October 18, at three, at the Temporary Shire- haft, Shrewsbury. CERTIFICATES, OCT. 18.— Samuel King, of St. Paul's Church- yard, City, woollen- draper— John Bailey, late of Horncastle, Lincoln, shire, ironmonger— Robert Fairclougb, of Liverpool, painter and glazier — Samuel Jacob, of Sheffield, clothes dealer— Robert Todd, late of Cheltenham, builder— Richard Beach, of the Box Trees, Tanworth, Warwickshire, flour- dealer— George Heywood, of St. Martin's- lane, chemist and drneeist— George Brown, of Marlborough, ironmonger. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.- Elizabeth and John Morgan Mil- ler, of Horslej down, carrying on the lighterage business— T. Main and J. G. Bird, of Liverpool - John Schollield and Ann Johnson, of Liver- pool, wine aud brandy merchants — J. Tomlin and S. Wade, of Borcham- park Farm, Elstree, Hertfordshire, farmers— Abraham Abrahams and David John llavis, of 57, St. John's- square, Clerkenwell. cabinet- makers— Henry Danby and William M'George, of St. Paitl's- churchyard, London, lace- dealers— Isaac Hadwen, jun.. and Nehem ah Moore, of Bedminster, near Bristol, tanners— John AUierton and Henry Huddle- ston, of Preston, Lancashire, machine- makers— William Theobalds and Lockinston St. Laurence Bunn, of 7, Salisbury- court, Fleet- street, silversmiths— Thomas Monk and William Greer, of Preston, Lancashire, surgeons— Joseph Miller and John P. plet Coates, of Gore- street, Saliord, Lancashire, veterinary surgeons— John and Edward Beckett, of 49 and Barbican, London, corn- ctiandlers— William Williams, John Milsom, and William Manley, of St. Leonard's, Devonshire, paper- manufac- turers— James Heaton, sen., John lleaton, and Jas. H- aton. jun., of Bolton- le- Moors, Lancashire, printers ( o far as regards James lleaton, sen )— Samuel and Josh. Swonnell. of 3, Rood- lane, Loudon, colfee- dealers— George Wilson and Frederick Lade, of Westniinster- bridge- road, linen- drapers— John Dale, jun., and Eli Alkin, of Manchester and Salford, Lancashire, drysalters— Thomas Parnham. John Newton, and Samuel Brummitt, of Nottingham, shoemakers— George and Edward Thomas and Daniel Taylor, of Birmingham, and of West Bromwich, Staffordshire, cheese- factors. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30. BANKRUPTS.— Joseph Apideton, Three Crown- jquare, Southwark, hop- merchant, to surrender Oct. 11, Nov. 11.— Thomas Wells, Mincing lane, City, sugar broker, Oct. il, Nov. 11.— Charlotte Elinor Dihsdall, Marylebone- lane, grocer, Oct. ( I, Nov. 11.— Charles Dumbrell, Brigh- ton, erocer, Oct. 20, Nov. 11.— Charles Challenger, Bristol, linen- draper, Oct. 12, Nov. 11.— Willi im Rowe, Truro, Cornwall, grocer, Oct. 7, Nov. II.— William Young, Bath, pawnbroker, Oct. 14. Nov. II. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. — Lewin Fenuer, Rawstorne- street, Goswell- street- road, fancy cabinet- ma1' er. DIVIDENDS.— Oct. 21. T Moger, H. dborn- hill, cheesemonger.— Oct. 21. W. Partridge, Birmingham, haberdasher.— Nov. 13. R. Todd, Bath, livery- stable- keeper.— Oct. 27. J. Ga- ret', Brighton, builder.— Oct. 21. J. Whitworth, Birmingham, plumber.— Oct. 22. R. Cooper, Bristol, jeweller — Oct. 25. J. Briddon, Liverpool, corn- merchant,— Oct. 10. T. Picken, Madeley. Shropshire, mercer. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. - J. Inman and W. Carrulhers, Carlisle, attorneys.— F. Lambert and R. Lambert, P. eston, cotton- spin- ners— R. Dodd and J. Stringtield. Bath, fishmongers.— J. Golding, and J. Reader, Boughton Monchelsea, Kent, plumbers.— A. Alman and L. Al- man, Bristol, tailors— W. B. Burnell and J. Burnell, Claypath, Durham, tallow- chandlers.— J. H. Hetherinjzton and T. Pearson, Corkickle, Cum- berland, brewers.— R. E. Goodridge and J. Mortimer, Little Tower- street, wholesale tea- dealers.— A. Toy and E. Cox, Birmingham, p. rcus- s; ori- cap- makers.— J Atkinson and It. Allen, Bridge- road, Lambeth, hosiers.— J. Pasco arid M. G. Hart, City of London, tavern- keepers.—• C. Newman and II. Newman, Stroud. Gloucestershire, attorneys— J. G. Kolbe and D. Fletcher, | Conduit- street, tailors— J. Toll and J. Bennett, Keswick, Norfolk, millers.— W. Yeattierd and L. West, Foster- lane, City, wine- merchants.— J. Atkinson and T. W. Smith, Heaton Norris, Lancashire, brass founders.— C. 1 ® . Sweeling and J. G. Htiller, Stroud, Gloucestershire, surgeons.— J. Rodg, rs, W. Siddal, and G. Oriorod, Old- ham, iron- founders ; so far as regards J. Rodgers.— H. C. Milford and S. Milford, jutL, Truro, whole. ale drapers. BIRTHS.— At Bletchingley, Surrey, the widow of Robert Allan, Esq., surgeon, R. N., of a son.— At Grizedale, near Hawkshead, Lancashire, the lady ot Montague Ainslie, Esq., Bengal Civil Service, of a son.— At Mill- hill, Hendon, Mrs. A. R. Rhodes, of a daughter.— At Bath, the lady of Philip Charles Sheppard, Esq., of a daughter.— At Guernsey, the 26th inst., the lady of the Rev, I'eter Carey, of a son.— In Woburn- square, Mrs. Charles Baker, of a son. - In Holies- street, Cavendish- square, Lady Douglas, of a daughter.— Of a daughter, the wife of Mr. Henry Roberts, of New Bridge - street, Blackfriars.— In Burton- street, the lady of William Hodges, Esq., barrister- at- law, of a daughter.— In Arlington str et, lhe lady of Francis Gjsling, Esq., ofason. MARRIED.- At St, Mary's, Marylebone. Captain R chard Iiaban, of the Bengal Army, to Emma, only daughtar of Mrs. Walmsley, of Hamilton- terrace.— At St. Mark's, Kennington, Mr. Henry Mason, solicitor, of Rye, Sussex, to Fanny, youngest daughter of the late Mr. Chapman, of Lewes.— At Grange hall. Major Peter Grant, of Invererne, to Mary Anne, only surviving child of the late James Peterkin, Esq., of Grange.— At St. Martin's- in- lhe- Fields, Zachary Brooke, of Featherstone- buildings, IIotborn, solicitor, to Jane, youngest daughter of George Augustus Starling, E q., of Leicester square. DIED.- At Windsor- teirace, City- road, Mr. John l'earce, late of His Majesty's Customs, aged 72.— tt his house, Newington- causeway, in the 47. h year of his age, Mr. John Cannon Stevens, having survived his wife only nine days.— At Depttord, in the 62nd year of iiis age, Wil- liam Warrington, Efq.— At l. endef, York, Mrs. Maria Morris, daughter of the late Colonel Roger Morris. — On the 2- Ih inst., in Tavistock- square, James Alexander Frampton, Esq., aged 48.— At ElTol- park, Perthshire, William Frederick Browne Allen, son of Captain aud Lady Henrietta Allen, aged iSmonths. Printed at the Printing Office of MILLS and SON, Gough Square Fleet Street, London, by RICHARD COBBEIT, Printer of No 10 lie t II ™ Court, Fleet Street;, and published by him at No"' 19.' Red Lisa Court aforesaid,— Sunday, October 2, 1836.