No. 616. SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1837. PEICE 4£ d. ELECTION OF GUARDIANS, MEN OF ASTON BEWARE! THE TORIES ARE AT WORK! riMIE Church wardens^— the Returning Officers— are JL exerting UNDUE and ILLEGAL Influence to se- cure the Election. They say NOT ONE Guardian of Re- form Principles shall be returned. RESERVE YOUR VOTES. Do not allow yourselves to be tricked into promising them before you know who are to be proposed. A RATE- PAYER. ELECTION OF GUARDIANS. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that, pursuant to an Act of Parliament made and passed in the second year of the reign of His present Majesty, entitled " An Act for the better Regulating the Poor within the Parish of Bir- mingham, ill the County of Warwick, and for empowering the Guardians of the Poor to grant Building Leases of certain Lands vested in them, or otherwise to sell and dispose of the same, and to apply the moneys to . arise therefrom in the enlargement or rebuilding of the present Workhouse, and for other purposes," a Meeting of Rate- payers of the Parish of Birmingham, will be h « ' d at the PUBLIC OFFICE, in Moor- street, in Birmingham, on SATURDAY, the 25th day March instant, at Ten o'clock in the Forenoon, for the purpose of electing and appointing one hundred and eight fit persons, being Ilate- payers of the said parish, assessed in the rates made for the relief of the poor at not less than TWENTY POUNDS per annum, and paying the full amount of the sum charged upon them, and qualified as directed by- the said Act, to he Guardians of the Poor of the said Parish for the period of three years the next ensuing. Every person attending sucli Meeting will he required to deliver to the Chairman a certificate of having paid up his rates, which certificate may be obtained on application to the Assistant Overseer. By the 13th section of the said Act it is enacted, " That no person shall be entitled to be present or vote at any Meeting of Hate- payers for the election of Guardians, or at any other Meeting of Rate- payers held under the powers of this Act, who shall not have been assessed for the space of six months prior to such Meeting in the Rates made for the relief of the poor, in respect of property of the annua! value of twelve pounds at the least, and who shall not have paid one day previous to such meeting the whole of the sum charged upon him by all the Rates which shall have been duly made, and published Onk calendar month before tile said meeting.'' By the ltith section of the same Act it is enacted, " That everv Rate payer of the said parish ? o qualified as aforesaid who shall vote at the election of the Guardians of the Poor of the said Perish shall and may, having first delivered to the Chairman appointed at shell Meeting such certificate of having paid his Hates as aforesaid, deliver in to the said Chairman the Christian and Surname, residence an I occu- pation of any number of persons being Rate- payers of the said parish, and qualified as is by this Act required, not ex- ceeding one hundred and eight in the whole, fairly written or printed upon separate pieces of paper or tickets, provided always that the said lists shall be delivered to tire said Chairman between the hours of Ten o'clock in the Fore- noon, and Three o'clock in the Afternoon of the same day." The Chair to he taken at Ten o'clock precisely. Birmingham Workhouse Vestry, March 10th, 1S37. RITHE BIRMINGHAM GAS- LIGHT and COKE - I. COMPANY respectfully in orm their friends and the public at large, that they have opened new offices in Cherry- street, on the premises lately occupied by William Wills, Esq., where all applications and enquiries will be promptly attended to. The Company's extensive works, recently erected in Fazeley street, are in fi| n operation. CHARLES WEST, Clerk to the Company. Cherry- street, March 4, 1837. TO CONSUMERS OF COKES. I^ HE BIRMINGHAM GAS- LIGHT and COKE COMPANY has on sale at their works, Fazeley- street, a supply of HARECASTLE COKES, of capital quality. These Cokes are particularly adapted for melting metals, being a very strong and large Coke. For price, be., apply at their offices, Cherry- street. GENERAL HOSPITAL BIRMINGHAM, Committee- room, 10th March, 1837. AQUARTERLY BOARD of GOVERNORS of this Institution will beholden on Friday next, the 17th instant, at twelve o'clock, when the Company of the Governors generally is requested. By order of the Weekly Board, WILLIAM MILLER, Secretary. BIRMINGHAM FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL. ASTON' UNION. PERSONS jvtflingUo.. Contract for the supply of one or any of the undermentioned Articles, from the 25th day of March inst., to the 24th day of June next, are re- quested to send Tenders and Samples addressed—" To the Clerk to the Guardians of Aston Union," free of expense, on or before the 20th day of March inst: — Meat— Beef— Bosoms Stickings, Shoulder- pieces, & c. 4 Cheese, Salt Butter, Rice. Potato! s Milk. T Men's llats, and Hoys' Strong Caps. Men's strong, dark culoiijed Coats and Waistcoats. Men's strong, dark fustian Trousers. Boys' and Youths' ditto and Jackets. Worsted Hose, for Men, Women, and Children. Strong Shoes, for ditto, ditto, ditto. Strong Hurden, per yard. Strong Brown and Red Striped Linsey. Strong Grey Grogram. Strong Welsh and Lancashire Flannels. Strong Brown and White Calico. Good White Linen Sheeting. • Strong Scotch ditto. Strong Mingled Linsey. Blankets. Collins, agreeable to specifications sent with proposal. Flour, best seconds, Bread, ditto, 41b. loaves. Bacon, Peas, Oatmeal. Salt. Tea, Sugar, Candles, Soap. Coal, large and lumps. The Bread to be delivered, once a week, at Ashted, Er- dington, Sutton, and such other places as tire Guardians may appoint. Ail ' Other articles to be delivered at the Er- dington Workhouse. Each Contractor must appear before the Board, at the Erdington Workhouse, on jthe 21st day'of March inst, at eleven o'clock. Security will be required lor the due performance of the contracts. By order of the Board, ENOCH PEARSON, Clerk to the Guardians. Aston, March LOJ 1837. ASHLEY COOPER'S BOTANICAL PURIFY- ING PILLS are established by thirty years'experi- ence, are prescribed by most of the eminent Physicians and Surgeons in London, and are always administered at several public hospitals, as- the only certain remedy for Gonorrhoea, Gle. ets, Strictures, and ail of her forms of Ve- nereal diseases, in ' either sex, curing in a few days, by one small pill for a dose, with ease, secrecy, and safety. Their operation is imperceptible, they do not require the slightest confinement, or any alteration of diet, beverage or exercise. They do not disagree with the stomach, nor cause any offensive smell to the breath, as is the case with all other medicines in use for these complaints, aiid after a cure ef- fected by the use of these pills, the party willnotexperieenc any return of the complaint, as generally occurs after taking Balsam of Copaiba, and other drugs of the like nature, which only possessing a local action, merely suppressed the complaint for a titjrie, without eradicating it from the con- stitution, and the patient on undergoing a little more fa. tigue than ordinary, finds all the. symptoms return, and that they are suffering under the complaint as much as at first, and are at last constrained to have recourse to these pills, as the only certain cure. They are likewise a mostefficient remedy for Pimpled Faces, Scurf, Scorbutic Affections, and all Eruptions pf tine Skin. Captainsof vessels should make a point of always taking them to sea, their unrivalled effi- cacy in curing Scurvy being known throughout the world. The following letter selected from numerous other pro- fessional recommendations forwarded to the proprietor when lie first offered these pills to the public, may be considered interesting. From that emmem surgeon, the late Joshua Brookes, Esq., F. R. S., Professor of Anatomy, & c. & c. Theatre of Anatomy, Blenheim, street. Dear Cooper,— I have tried your pills in numerous instances, and my candid opinion i;. that they are a must improved system of treat, meat for those peculiar complaints for which you recommend them, curing with rapidity, and with a certainty that I had never before witnessed ; hut what I consider their most invaluable property is, that they entirely eradicate the complaint, and never leavetnose dis. tressin^ secondary symptoms : tll » ( t harass the patient forlife) which usually arise after the use of those uncertain remedies, Mercury and Copaiba. I think you cannot fail to have a very targe sale for them. Believe me, yours, very truly, JOSHUA BROOKES. Ashley Cooper's Botanical Purifying Pills are sold in boxes at 2s. 9d. and 4s. Gd. each, wholesale and retail, at HASSSY and Co.' s General Patent Medicine Warehouse, 63, Oxford- street, the corner of Wells- street, London, where the public can be supplied with every Patent Medi- cine of repute, ( with an allowance on taking six at one time) warranted genuine and fresh from the various makers. Orders by post, containing a remittance, punctually attended to, and the change, if any, can be returned with the Older. Ashley Cooper's Botanical Pills are sold by one or more respectable venders in every town in the kingdom, and any shop that has not got them will obtain them from London without any extra charge. Country shops can obtain them through any of the London booksellers. Sold by appointment by M. Maliei , 34, Ann- street, and Wood, Bookseller, High- street, Birmingham; Parker, Wolverhampton ; Rogers, Stafford; Mort, Newcastle; Merridew, Coventry. IN pursuance of an act of Parliament, passed in tlie first year of the reign of his present Majesty, entituled " An act to enable the Governors of the Possessions, Re venues, and Goods of the Free Grammar School of King Edward the Sixth, in Birmingham, in the county of War- wick, to erect a School House, Masters' Houses, and other suitable accommodations for the said School, and to extend the objects of tile said charity, and for other purposes.'' Notice is hereby given, that from and after the expiration of one month from the ' date hereof, the Governors intend to present a petition to the High Court of Chancery for an order to authorise them to apply to Parliament for an act to repeal so much of the said above mentioned act, as . requires the said Governors to build a separate School ,! or teaching Modern Languages, the Arts and Sciences, and also to au- thorise instruction in the Modern Languages, the Arts and Sciences, in the Grammar Sthool, in addition to the present system of instruction pursued there, according to a scheme to be approved of by the High Court of Chancery, and also to authorise the said Governors to sell or exchange certain parts of the Charity Estates, for other Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, or otherwise to purchase the same. And notice is hereby also given, that if an order of the High Court of Chancery shall be obtained, an application will be made to Parliament in the present session, for an act to carry the above purposes into effect. Dated the twenty- seventh day of February, 1837. J. W. WHATELEY, Secretary to the Governors. TO THE HOLDERS OF EQUITABLE POLICIES, Comprehended in the favoured five Thousand IN the year 1829, I called attention to the necessity of your securing the advantages presented by your pe- culiar situation. Numbers availed themselves of the sug- gestion, and had good reason to he satisfied with the result. The frightful epidemic of 1837 has induced many to look with anxiety to the realisation of the prospective bonus of 1840. I shall be happy to give personal attention anil ex- planations to any of the present holders who may favour me with a call; or to transmit written elucidations by post to those who may furnish me with the date and amount of Policy and the age of the life assured. Asylum Life- office, GEO. FARREN. 70, Cornhill. _ Resident Direc - ASYLUM FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC LIFE OFFICE, 70, Cornhill, and 5, Waterloo- place, London. Established in 1824. DIRECTORS. The Honorable William Fraser, Chairman. Major- General Lushington, C. B. Deputy Chairman. Foster Reynolds, Esq. William Pratt, Esq. Geo. Palmer, jun., Esq. Francis Kemble, Esq. C. W. Hallett, Esq. William Edmund Ferrers, Esq. Thomas Fenn, Esq. G. Farren, Esq., Resident Director. PHYSICIAN. Dr. Feiguson. SURGEONS. H. Mayo, Esq , F. R. S., and T. Callaway, Esq. Extracts from the EVEN RATES for select lives in England. AGE. I 20 | 30 | 40 1 50 I 60 I 70 80 Prem. | 1 11 9 | 2 2 0 I 2 17 1 I 4 2 0 I ( i 10 9 | 10 18 6 I 1! U8 0 ALTERNATIVE. Two- thirds, only, of the above rates maybe paid down, and the balance, with interest at 4 per cent, deducted from the sum assured. ASCENDING SCALE OF PREMIUM. Beginning at very low rates, and progressing. DESCENDING SCALE OF PREMIUM. Commencing at a price, and descending at will of parties, FOREIGN, AND MILITARY AND NAVAL INSURANCE. Distinct classifications of places, according to salubrity of climate ; a specific price for any particular place, or a voyage or voyages. Officers, whose destinations are not known, covered to all parts of the world at a small but fixed extra rate of pre- mium. BIRMINGHAM: Directors Correspondent . Messrs. R. W. Gem and Son. Medical Referee Air. Hodgson. ROBINSON'S PECTORAL OR COUGH PILLS For Coughs, Colds, Asthmas, and Shortness of Breath, ARE with confidence recommended as an excellent " Medicine, and in most cases a certain specific. A single box will be a sufficient trial to prove their good effects. Also, ROBINSON'S ANTIBILIOUSand FAMILY PILLS, an invaluable Medicine for all who sutler from In- digestion, Heartburn, deranged state of the Liver and of the Biliary and Digestive Organs. Persons of sedentary, habits, and who suffer from Head- aches and Constipation, will do well to have these Pills constantly in the house. Prepared and sold wholesale and retail at 35, Colmore- row, Birmingham, in boxes at Is. 1 Ml. and 2s. 9d. each, or a family box, containing four small boxes, at 3s. 6d. Sold wholesale by Messrs. Barclay and Sous, London ; and re- tail by all respectable Medicine Venders in town and country. N. B None are genuine unless the Proprietor's signature is attached to the Government stamp. BILIOUS AND LIVER COM PLAINTS. AS a mild and effectual Remedy for those Disorders which originate in a Morbid action of the Liver and Biliary Organs, namely Indigestion, Loss of Appetite, Head- ache, Heartburn, Flatulencies, Spasms, Costiveness, Af- fections of the Liver, & c., & e., DIXON'S ANTIBI- LIOUS PILLS ( which do not contain Mercury in any shape) have met with more genera! approval than any other Medicine whatsoever. They unite every recommendation of mild operation with successful effect; and require no re- straint or confinement during their use. In tropical cli- mates, where the consequences of redundant and vitiated bile are so prevalent and alarming, they are an invaluable and efficient protection. They are likewise peculiarly cal- culated to correct disorders arising from excesses of the table, to restore the tone of the stomach, and to remove most complaints occasioned by irregularity of the bowels. Sold in boxes, at 2s. 9d., 4s. fill., lis., and 22s.; each box being sealed with the arms of the Proprietor; and none are genuine which have not " George Dixon" engraved on the Government Stamp; by Messrs. Barclays, Farringdon- street; Butler, Chemist, Cheapside, ( corner of St. Paul's) London, Sackville- street, Dublin, and Prince's- street, Edinburgh; Sutton, Bow Church- yard; Newberry, 45, Edwards, 67, St. Paul's; and the principal Dealers in Pa- tent Medicine. To the Editor of the BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. SIR, YOU will oblige me by inserting; the following few lines, occasioned by a slanderous misrepresenta- tion of my conduct by your contemporary of Spiceal- street, relative to an accidental visit I paid an alehouse, where ( quite unkno i n to me) a number ofloyal and friendly Con- servatives were assembled. The writer states that I in- tentionally, wantonly, & c., disturbed the harmony of their proceedings, and that I asserted my right to be present at all meetings held within my jurisdiction. I am ma le to ap- pear as belonging to a radical association mysell, yet, at the same time, interfering to disturb thfir meeting, which I totally deny. Indeed their whole version of tie affair is falsely coloured, for obvious reasons. The simple statement of the fact is as follows: — On Tuesday night last, nume- rous groups of disorderly persons had stationed themselves in High- street, Deritend, waiting for news of the fights that took place at some distance from town in that direction. As the night advanced and unfavourable news arrived, some of these parties became quarielfome ; and at about half past eleven a row eusued, nearly opposite the Old Crown. I was called out to quell it, which being accomplished I heard a considerable noi- e in the room next the street, on the ground floor of the said house. Supposing, of course, that it proceeded from parties similar to those I had been en- gaged with, I exercised my authority of entering all houses licensed for the sale by retail of beer and spirituous liquors a: all times and at all hours. When I entered the room I assured the noisy inmates I had not the slightest expecta- tion of seeing them there, as I had not had the least hint of tiieir meeting, neither did I know there was such an asso- ciation in being, nor had I the least desire to disturb them. But I did object to their ungentleman- like treatment, and the summary manner in which it was proposed to turn me out. Certainly, such conduct from such gentlemen I did not expect; such as one taking me by the collar, and another seizing me in the most brutal manner, and exclaiming,— " D n your eyes, come out .'" dragging me down the room at the same time. I add no more at present, but just to deny one or two of the falsehoods of the Advertiser! I am not a member of any Political Association, neither does any political motive bias me in the execution of my official duties. As to the weakness of my mind, 1 trust it will always he found strong enough to eschew such politics as I saw exemplified on the above oc- casion; and enable me to execute the unpleasant duties of my office, as I trust I always have done, without being actuated by any party motive. I am, Sir, yours, See. JOSEPH RAWLINGS, Constable of Deritend. ST. PHILIP'S CHURCH YARD. TO THERA TE- PA YERSAND INHABITANTS OF BIRMINGHAM. FELLOW TOWNSMEN,— HAVING, with a few others, in vain endeavoured, within the closed doors of the Commissioners' Par- lour, to resist the meditated attack upon your rights— in the stopping up the public walks in St. Philip's Church yard, and to prevent the actual consummation of this outrage upon public feeling— and finding that the determination to in- justice has, upon re- consideration, become only the more firm and unyielding, I think it right, in this the eleventh hour, ere the mischief is complete, to place the matter in your hands, and to lay the facts fairly before you, in order that you may be enabled to take such measures as a regard for your own interests and privileges may dictate. Some time ago, the ruinous state of the fences and the unprotected condition of this Church- yard having justly ex cited a very prevailing desire for the adoption of some re- medy, many publir spirited gentlenrten ( after a meeting held on the subject) solicited subscriptions " for the fencing and • iig" it. And the Churchwardens, in a long address, 1 in Aris's Gazette, of the 29th of June, 1835. . lie same object; in which, after stating " that all the were public thoroughfaresand enlarging upon the " many purposes of great and unexceptionable public utility with which the Church- yaid was connected," they appealed for assistance to the friends aud kindred of those buried there whose remains, by tlie bye, they are now going, by wholesale, to disturb and trample upon) to enable them to provide " a complete railing fpr. the several plots and walks therein ;" the said Churchwardens stating that they intended to proceed according to plans which had been laid before the public, and which have, for upwards of twelve months, left that public in total ignorance that they were to be deprived of upwards of one quarter of a mile of these walks and tho- roughfares. The subscription produced about £ 1900.. which, with £ 500. promised by the Commissioners, amounted to £ 2400. With this ( after obtaining tenders) they commenced the work. Upon what scale, think you? Upon a plan ( ad- visedly) to cost upwards of £ 4503. Mark ! nearly double their expected receipts. These gentlemen must excuse me, should I attribute it to their menial delusion that they have now found that tlieii money is all gone, when but half the work is complete! for I am obliged to limit my respect for their judgment, in order to save all my admiration for their candour andfairness, not being willing to believe that with a statement upon their lips that they had no intention of stopping up these outside walks, they had it in their minds to effect that verj thing ; and yet, how can I charge them with less than folly, to adopt a plan which blindness herself must have loll them would wholly disable them from fencing ( hose vei") walks which they then pledged themselves to keep open. However, be the fact as it may, the plea, and tie only- plea, now offered for taking these walks, is, that tlere are not sufficient funds to rail them out in the same styh as the others already completed : and, therefore, it is argued, that because the fencing cannot be done just aecording'o the taste ( which many call bad) of these gentlemen, tiat no other mode ought to baadopted » ; and that no walksshal! any longer exist, to retjiifle railing. Be it fully understood, that no doubt exists in the miids of many persons competent to judge, that all the walks sowht to be closed, may, with the funds now available, be railed inper - feet good taste, in a most complete and sufficient manner] Preposterous as are the proceedings of these gentlemen ( and much allowance, we know, must be made for tlietoo sanguine views of the undertakers of public works) yet, more outrageous still has been the conduct of the Comris- sioiiers: for this immaculate body not only at first, as vjsare told, " winked" at, and then deliberately conceded to thb- fia- gitious act of robbing the public of that which they, as Commissioners, were appointed to guard, but have acttully granted £ 1000. of your money to help out this insensate pu- ceeding I Bad as the stopping- up affair is, why, I say, give aw; y the public money in this way, though it be to help respec- oWe gentlemen out of their difficulties? Why, with pubic money administer to any one's fancy? and because Ftls Church- yaid wall ( which is a very good wall) offends thei- vision, must the rate- payers find palisading to replace it, ani thus lay the grave yard open unto the very street? True it is, that some equivalent is pretended to be given by throwing part of the Church- yard into the street, w hich at the narrowest part, is as wide as Bull- street. Talk o desecration! But I say> away with such flimsy pretences If public money is given, let it be to secure and not to alie- nate the public rights ;— let it not be lavished for an object by which the public are greatly the losers. Let the £ 1000., if it must go, be applied for the fencing these walks, and then there can be no excuse lor closing them. This was the duty of the Commissioners, and this duty they have wholly forgotten. But, oh ! say some, such shocking scenes occur in these walks that they won't hear mentioning. And is this sicken- ing cant to justify this public spoliation ? Thus stupidity is made one justification ; and, I suppose, the want of vigi- lence in the Commissioners' police, and their neglect in not properly lighting these walks and the adjoining streets, is to be started as another. Now, then, I say that the only ground at present appear- ing lor closing these walks is, in order to cover the bungling of certain gentlemen who have egregiously miscalculated in setting about this work, and to gratify the crotchet in theii minds, that no plan can possibly be better than their own. And is it for this that the public is called upon to surrender its rights? and will the public so stultify itself by conceding thereto ? And, above all, fellow townsmen, is it your wish that your money should be applied to confiscate, instead of maintaining, the public rights ? I am your very humble servant, CHARLES LLOYD. March 6, 1837. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that application is intended to be made to Parliament, in tne Session of the year 1838, for an Act or Acts to alter, amend, explain, enlarge, repeal, and render moie effectual some of the pow- ers and provisions of the several Acts relating to the Grand Junction Railway ; and also to make and maintain a Rail- way or Railways ( with proper works and conveniences connected therewith), cemmencing by a junction with the Grand Junction Railway in the Parish of Runcorn, in the County of Chester, and terminating by a junction with the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in the Parish of Huy- ton, in the County of Lancaster, and passing from through or into the several Parishes, Parochial Chapelries, Town- ships, Hamlets, arid Places of Runcorn, Aston, Daresbury, Kekewick, Moore, Norton, Acton- Grange, Higher Walton, Lower Walton, Fidler's Ferry, Marshgate, Warford, Stock- ham, Astmore, and Great Budworth, or some of them, all in the County of Chester; West Bank, Cuerdley, Widnes, Upton within Widnes, Upton, Widnes within Appleton, Appleton, Speke, Childwall, Widnes, Penketh, Great San. key, Farnworth, Farnworth within Widnes, Ditton, Little Tarbock, Tarbock, Hale, Haiew. ood, Little Woolton, Much Woolton, Garston, Allerton, Walton on the Hill, Halsnead, Crouton, Rftinhill, Bold, Whiston, Huyton, Roby, Prescot, Warrington, and Winwick, or some of them, all in the County of Lancaster. And further Notice is hereby given, that power will be applied for in the said intended Act or Acts, to deviate ( to the extent of one hundred yards on each side) from the line or lines of the said intended Railways respectively, as the same will be defined in the plans thereof to be deposited pursuant to the standing orders of Parliament. CLAY and SWIFT, Solicitors. Liverpool, 1st February, 1837. NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY. CONTRACTS FOL! WORKS. r| MIE DIRECTORS of the North Midland Rail- 3L way Company will meet at the Railway Office, No. 13, George- street, Mansion House, London, on Monday, the 20th day of March, 1837, at one o'clock precisely, to re- ceive Tenders for the undermentioned Contracts:—* CONTRACT No. 1— To make the Raihvaj, with all the Excavations, Embankments, Bridges, Culverts, Drains, and Fences complete, including the laying and ballasting of the permanent way; and furnishing the necessary Blocks and Sleepers, ( but exclusive of the Rails, Chairs, Pins, and Oak Trenails,) from a point five chains and a half north of the Turnpike- road from Oakerthorpe to South Wingfield, in the • parish of South Wingfield, and terminating at a point eight chains. and a half south of the road from Handley to North Wingfield ( called Clay fane',) in the parish of North Wing- field, and township of Clay Lane, all in the county of Derby, being a distance of four miles and thirty- five chains. And to keep the same in repair for one year after completion. CONTRACT NO. 2— To make and maintain the Railway, in like manner, from a point fifty- five chains and a half on the north- east side of the Turnpike- road from Chesterfield to Derby, in the parish of North Wingfield aud township of Woodthorpe, and terminating at a road leading to Hasland, from the Chesterfield and Derby Turnpike- road, in the parish of Chesterfield, and township of Hasland, all in the county of Derby, being a distance of three miles and thirty- two chains and a half. Drafts of the Contracts, with Plans and Specifications of the'Works, will be ready for inspection, at the Engineer's Office in Chesterfield, on and after Monday, the 27th February instant. Printed Forms of Tender may he had, after the above date, at the Railway. offices in London, Leeds, arid Chester- field, and no others will be attended to. The Tenders must be delivered at the Railway- office in Londoil, on or before one o'clock oil the said 20th day of March, uuder a sealed cover, addressed to the Secretary, and indorsed, " Tender for Works," and the parties tender- ing, or persons duly authorised by them, must be in attend- ance at the time of meeting. The parties wlloSe Tenders are accepted, will bere- quired to enter into a Bond, with two- sureties, for the due performance of their Contract, in a penalty of not less than 10 per cent, on tile gross sum contracted for, and the names of the proposed sureties are to be specified in the Tender. The Directors will not bind themselves to accept the lowest offer. The Contractor ( if he require it) will be furnished by the Company with a counterpart of the Contract, at his own expense. By order, H. PATTESON, Secretary. London, 18th February, 1837. LOSS OF TEETH SUPPLIED. From one to a complete set, and Decayed Teeth made com- pletely sound, without Pain, Heat, or Pressure. HONS.' DE BERRI AND CO., SURGEON- DENTISTS, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons. Edinburgh; Li- centiate of the Apothecaries' Hall, London ; and Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, 17, EASY ROW, BIRMINGHAM, CCONTINUE to restore Decayed Teeth with their J celebrated Mineral Siliceum, ' applied without pain heat, or pressure, which in a few seconds hardens into en- amel, preventing and curing the Tooth- ache, allaying in one minute the most excruciating pain, and rendering the opera- tion of extraction unnecessary. They also fasten loose Teeth, whether arising from neg- lect, the use of calomel, or disease of the gums. Incorrodible, Artificial, or Natural Teeth of surpassing beauty, fixed, from one toacomplete set, without extracting the roots or giving any pain, at the following Paris charges: £. s. d. A single Artificial Tooth 0 10 0 A completeset 5 5 0 A complete set of Siliceous Teeth on fine gold plate 15 15 0 An entire set of Natural Teeth, highly finished, in the first style, with fine gold sockets, usually charged 40 guineas 20 0 0 Arranged on the most improved and scientific principles, and in every case restoring perfect Articulation and Masti- cation, 17, Easy row, Birmingham. THE ONLY CURE FOR CORNS AND BUNIONS. 7TJ AMSBOTTOM'S CORN and BUNION SOL- Jltt' VENT. By the use of this valuable remedy imme- diate relief from pain is obtained, and by its successive application for ashort period, the most obstinate Corns are entirely removed without recourse to the dangerous opera- tions of cutting or filing. The proprietor pledges himself that it does not contain caustic or any other article that will inflame the skin; being white it will not stain the stocking; and the advantage it has over plaister is mani- fest, and fully appreciated, as the very high recommenda- tion bestowed upon it by every individual that has used it testifies. Price Is. I| d. and 2s. The various counterfeits that are attempted to be im- losed upon the public in lieu of this invaluable remedy, ender it imperatively necessary for purchasers to ask for S. lamsbottom's Corn and Bunion Solvent, and to see that it hs the signature of'* S. Ramsbottom" written upon the U'nel that is pasted on the outside of the wrapper of every gmiine bottle, in addition to the name of the article, and wrds sold by Hannayand Co. 63, Oxford- street, being til name and address of the proprietor's wholesale agnts. " he following letter from Mi. 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CHURCH- RATES— The House having gone into Committee, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rose to move his resolution on this subject. The right honourable gentleman spoke for very nearly - tljree hours. After a somewhat lengthened introduction, Mr. Rice pro- ceeded to cite the cases of opposition to Church- rates at Sheffield, where it was exhibited so far back as ] 818, and where, in consequence of the opposition, no rate had been levied since that period; and at Man- chester, where no rate has been levied since 1832, although, in point of fact, on a scrutiny that year into the state of the vote, it was declared that _ there was a large majority for the rate; he also noticed a case from the parish of Applethorp, in Yorkshire, where a gentleman suffered a loss, in the shape of expenses, of 250Z., for opposing a rate of 2s. 9d., and where in con- sequence of the open and apparent hardship of the case, and the sympathy it excited, no farther rate had since been called for. ' He quoted the opinion of Lord Stanley on the subject of Church- rates, delivered when Lord Althorp produced his plan— " Suppose," said Lord Stanley, " that year after year tlie Church should be successful in maintaining the payment of Church- rates, even to the uttermost farthing, and in main- taining every al> u? e connected with the making and collect- ing these rate?, does the honourable member think that such proceedings are useful to the Church, of that they tend in any degree to promote the interests of true religion ?" My noble friend ( Mr. Rice continued) knew on what grounds to appeal to the honourable member for Oxford. ( Hear, hear.) He appealed to him on the grounds of the interest of the Church itself—( hear, hear,)— and the ad- vancement of true religion. ( Cheers.) 1 say, sir, how can the interests of the Church itself and the advancement of true religion be promoted or maintained by the present system of making and enforcing Church- rates? My noble friend a~ ked, " Did the honourable member for Oxford think that the heartburnings, the acrimonious rcvilings, the recriminations, the paity and personal violence, which took place in the church itself, and by which the cause of true leligion was profaned, and the name of God desecrated, and ill- feeling generated amongst the people at large, could pro- mote the interests of the Church?" ( Cheers.) My noble friend added : " I say that such a state of things impatiently calls for an immediate remedy." ( Hear.) The right honourable gentleman adverted to various remedies for the grievance of Church- rates. He con- sidered first the voluntary principle- Various remedies have been proposed, to which I shall refer in the course of my observations, and the first of which is the total abolition of Church- rates, leaving the fabric of the Church to be provided for by the voluntary con- tribution of its supporters—( hear)— that is, in point cf fact, leaving the maintenance of the fabric of the Church to what we understand and refer to in our debates as the voluntary principle. ( Hear.) Now, sir, I for one say that to that principle I must ever, and under all circumstances, express my decided opposition—( cheers from the Tory benches)— whether with regard to tile maintenance of the fabric of the Church, or to the support of the Church Establishment at large. I shall not attempt to argue the question at present, hut I must enter my protest against any affirmance of the voluntary principle in any shape or modification whatever. ( Cheers from the Tory'benches.) My noble friend has stated that upon various occasions before; and I the more boldly state it now, because the affirmance of the point does not preclude me from taking iliat course which I consider just and expedient; and I say, that the plan I am about to propose, so far from any connection with the voluntary principle leaves it altogether untouched. The maintenance of the fabric of the Church of England, however, does not necessarily depend upon the question of the duty of the state to provide means for religious worship throughout Great Britain and Ireland, and I shall not argue that ques- tion. I shall simply enter my protest against the voluntary principle. I shall say that when gentlemen can show me that the country at large can be defended— that the army and navy can be supported— that public education can be carried on— and that the administration of justice can lie maintained—( hear, hear)— upon tlie voluntary principle, and that religious instruction is of a nature less important and binding upon the community— that then the voluntary principle can alone be established. But inasmuch as I know that it is impossible to establish the voluntary system in governing the country, and when I know that the religious establishment of the state is as necessary to be maintained as the army, the navy, or the administration of justice, then I cannot say I am prepared to leave the Establishment to the voluntary principle. ( Cheers from the Opposition.) The second plan was to tax Churchmen only, which he declared to be absurd ; tlie third to tax the clergy, which, as the livings amounted, on an average, to no more than £ 285, he thought inadmissible. _ Even if tlie entire of the Bishops and other diguatories were abolished, he did not think that the incomes of the clergy, with the sums so set free, added, would bear a rate. Even then their incomes would not be sucli as to render any deduction advisable. To the proposal of raising the money required by a pew rent he was also averse ; although a pew rent might be a useful sup- plement. Then came Archdeacon Bathurst's plan, which was to let things remain as they were, which Mr. Rice considered to be as objectionable as any of the rest. In the course of his argument, Mr. Rice was - next led to Lord Althorp's plan, which, lie ob- served, was opposed equally by Dissenters and Church- men, and by both on the ground that it in reality yielded the Dissenter no real relief at all. The right honourable gentleman then proceeded, at length, to detail the particulars of his own plan, to which we ' have elsewhere adverted, and ended by laying on ( he . table the following resolution, which appeared in a second edition of our last week's number:—" That it is the opinion of this Committee, that for the repair and maintenance of parochial Churches and Chapels in England and Wales, and the due celebra- tion ef divine worship therein, a permanent and ade- quate provision be made out of an increased value given to Church lands, by the introduction of a new system of management, and by the application of the proceeds of pew- rents, the collection of Church- rates ceasing altogether from a day to be determined by law ; and in order to facilitate and give early effect to this resolution, the Lords Commissioners of His Ma- jesty's Treasury be authorised to make advances on the security, and re- payable out of the produce, of such '• Church lands." Mr. HUME asked what Ministers meant to do with parishes that were in debt. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the debt would he paid out of a parish- rate levied with a poor- rate The ATTORNEY- GENERAL remarked that when a parish was in debt the rate ceased to be voluntary ; a mandamus would issue to compel its imposition if the vestry refused. Sir ROBERT INGLIS considered the gist of the argu- ment against Church- rates to be that the law ought to yield to clamour. He ( Sir Robert) asked if one parish in a hundred had refused the rate, and did that make out a case for its abolition ? The objection of the Dissenters was, as they stated, one of principle, and that principle of theirs went to abolish not only Church- rates, lut Church- establishments altogether. Even the present proposition placed it in the position of a church supported not by the nation but by it- self. Mr. Galley Knight looked upon the proposal of. Government with ' astonishment and dismay. Mr. Leonard expressed his unqualified approbation of it. Mr. - Goring said, though generally voting' with minis- . ters, he murk on ibis question oppose them. Mr. PJumptrc denied tiiat the measure would be a healing - one. • - _ Iiir. AGLTONBV asked whether in computing the - difference of value between the present leasehold and the proline;] copyhold tenures, Dean and Chapter U(! U' •>:'(! b. feeii cfe'. ssed alo: ig with Bishops' lauds, be cause in the case of the former tliA'C was a much higher assurance of continued renewal than in the case of the latter. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said in th. e calculations, no distinctions had been taken between Dean and Chapter lands and Bishops' lands. He proposed, in order to give the public ample time for judging, to take the debate in committee on Friday, and to introduce his bill as speedily after the decision of the House was pronounced as possible, Mr. GOULBURN wished to know if funds left by in- dividuals in support of particular churches were to be affected by the Government plan. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER— Certainly not. Col. SIBTHORP asked, as the proposition was to be carried into effect by a commission, how many Com- missioners there were to be. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the num- ber would be as limited as possible, and the salaries small. Mr. HUME spoke strongly in favour of the proposi- tion. He alluded to the argument of Sir Robert In- glis and others, derived from the supposed ulterior views of the Dissenters— He had lately been present at a very large meeting, at which were four hundred delegates from 600 or 700 bodies of Dissenters, and there no mention was made of the further changes spoken of. The single subject at that time insisted on by the meeting as representing the Dissenters was the repeal of the Church- rates. Nothing was said as to what should hereafter be sought. ( Hear, hear, from the opposi- tion benches.) Did honourable members opposite mean to say that at any given time what should be done at a future time could be fixed? He could only say that be had seen a great many changes take place from time to time on the op- posite benches, and he should be in no degree surprised, if by any chance the right honourable baronet come forward with measures going a lon- g way ahead of the present mea- sure. ( Hear, hear, and laughter.) At the meeting he spoke of nothing was more carefully avoided than the pro- position of any interference with the question of the Esta- blished Church and the voluntary question. ( Hear, hear.) Honourable members talked of the property of the Church being here infringed on; but this measure, if carried, would put an end for ever to the general discontent which prevailed on the subject, and thereby give the best sort o! security to the Church Establishment. The honourable member for Kent seemed : o look upon the Dissenters as a small body, and the Churchmen had therefore a right to deal with their property. No such thinjj: the Dissenters were very nearly equal in numbers to the Churchmen, if, in- deed, they were not greater in numbers. ( Oh, oh ! and bear, hear.) But even if they were not one- tenth the num- ber of the Churchmen, the latter party bad quite as little right to continue an unjust exaction. There was only one point with which he was not quite satisfied. He thought it was hardly just to allow the debt which had been raised on the credit of those Church- rates to remain payable by the Dissenter for the next thirty or forty years. The Church- men, whose fabrics the debt was incurred to support, ought to liquidate it. Even in the bill of Lord Spencer this principle, he believed, was acknowledged, and he hoped that His Majesty's present Government would give it due attention. After some farther conversation Lord SANDON asked for whose gratification the proposal was made P The Dissenters by their own calculation, did not amount to more than one million ( loud cries of Oh ! anil a laugh); yet the object of the measure was to relieve this number of persons from scruples which His Majesty's Government themselves considered unreasonable ( cries of No, no!) and to shift a burden from the land whith it had been sub- ject to from time immemorial. Lord HOWICK deprecated any attempt to enter into details on the present occasion. The tax of Church- rate he concluded was purely voluntary on the part of the vestry ; and he added that it was in very many in- stances as much deprecated by Churchmen as by Dis- senters. In answer to a question the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that a pew rent would only be levied iu cases where the diocesan, the clergy, and the vestry concurred. Mr. HAWES was strongly opposed to levying the sums now due on mortgage debts on the rates, in the way of parochial assessment. Mr. G. PALMER said the only object of Ministers was to degrade the Church. SIR ROBERT PEEL said he was gratified to hear the opinions of Mr. Spring Rice on the subject of the vo- luntary question. The right honourable gentleman said that he would not leave it to the voluntary principle to find means of defence; and be added, that it ought not to be entrusted to the volun- tary principle to find means of religious instruction. The tight honourable gentleman had said that it was at least as incumbent on them to provide a religious establishment as to provide an army or a navy for the purposes of defence. The moment the right honourable gentleman laid down that position he excluded altogether the question of religion, or conscientious scruplss ; because when the State considers it necessary to maintain an army, it does not inquire whether all persons approve of war, or whether they think it neces- sary that an army should be maintained ; but oti an enlarged and comprehensive view they state that the army must be maintained by general taxation, and they never inquire of anv individuals their opinions as to peace or war. All that was necessary was, to take up a delensive position, and to call upon all to contribute equally. If, then, the right honourable gentleman said that it was equally incumbent on them to maintain a religious establishment, surely it was equally incumbent on them all to contribute towards the support of that establishment, without inquiry into the pe- culiar opinions of each. The right honourable gentleman had even said that it was the duty of the State to provide free sittings for the poor of the country. ( Cheers.) Of the State, mirid. ( Renewed cheers.) But did the right honourable gentleman propose that the State should pro- vide free sittings? Not at all. ( Loud cheers from the op- position.) The right honourable gentleman abandoned all means whereby the State could provide free sittings; and notwithstanding all big professions, and the resolution that it was necessary to maintain an established religion, the right honourable gentleman meant that this measure should have this effect— that the State should not provide free sittings, but that the Church should. ( Cheers.) Sir Robert doubted if the plan would be so accept- able as was supposed to tlie Dissenters. He admitted with the Chancellor of the Exchequer that unfortunately differences had arisen on this question. ( Cheers from the ministerial benches.-) As one of those who was anxious to suppoit the Church lie would willingly come to a settlement of this question ; hut he must at the same time say, that a great difference of opinion prevailed on the subject of Church- rates, that the opposition to them was mainly confined to the large towns. But lie had also no doubt that in rural parishes— unless dissent prevailed to considerable extent, arid the majority of the inhabitants were Dissenters— he thought that with respect to the great mass of the ruial parishes he might venture to say that they were almost universally of opinion that they would be- better if left alone. ( Cheers.) Not only did they not wish to be relieved, but he believed that they felt a piide whew they looked on the venerable fabric which was their chief archi- tectural ornament ; and, apart from religious associations, he believed that, so far from relieving their tender consciences; they would offend them by relieving them from the obliga- tion of supporting their Church. ( Cheers.) He spoke of th= rural parishes. But waiving the consideration whether or not this charge was fairly laid on the lessees of the Church, if he came to the conclusion that the lessees were « o circumstanced that you could extract from them, in some way or other, a revenue of £ 250,( 300 a year— if he came tc that conclusion, then he should feel bound to contend tlui there was a prior claim upon that annual revenue than air that could rise from the obligation of supporting the lab if of the Church. IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT BILL.— The Attorne'- General brought up his resolution for compensation/ o llie Marshal of the King's Bench and others in a si( i- lar predicament, who might suffer from the alteratins contemplated by the bill. MONDAY. TAMWORTH AND RUGBY- RAILWAY.— Sir EAREIFY WILMOT withdrew his motion for referring thisi. il! back to file Standing Orders' Committee, so tha the hill may now be considered as finally thrown on for thii session. PLAY- GROUND.— Mr. HUME, on the bringing-( p of the Cranbourne Enclosure bill, gave notice of Reso- lution, that in this and al! similar bills, reserptii n should be made of a certain number of acresfor a place of public recreation. POOR LAW COMMITTEE.— ON the order, of iedfi forgoing into committee on the stale of Lowir Ca- nada, Mr. Walton moved, by way of amendmet, thftt certain names, amongst which was that of Mr. Thomas Attwood, should be added to the Poor- laws Committee. After a short discussion the amendment was nega- tived by 152 to 124. CANADA.— The House having gone into committee, Lord JOHN RUSSELL proceeded to give a history of the disputes in Canada, between the House of Assembly on tlie one hand, and the governor and council on the other, with the demands of the former, and his ( Lord John's) reasons for refusing to accede to them— The first demand of the Assembly is, that the Legislative Council, having hitherto been nominated by the Crown, shall, for the future be an elective assembly. The next is, that the Executive Council shall be a responsible council, similar to the cabinet in this country. Another is, that the law of tenures shall be changed without respecting the rights acquired under an act passed by the British Parlia- ment; and the fourth is, that the Land Company shall be abolished, with a similar regard of the rights acquired under the same act. With respect to the proposition of making the Legislative Council elective, the effect of it in the pre- sent state of the colony must be to make a second assembly exactly resembling that which at present existed. There could he no doubt, from the report of the commissioners— and every one who has spoken on the subject seems to have come to the same conclusion— that the second Assembly would be but an echo of the first Assembly, and would try to enforce all their demands. It is proposed, iri the next p ace, that the Executive Council should be made to re- semble the Ministry in this country. I hold this proposition to he entirely incompatible with the relations between the mother country and the colony. The relations between the mother country and the colony requiie that His Majesty should be represented not by a person removable by the House of Assembly, but by a governor sent out by the King, responsible to the King, and responsible to the Par- liament of Great Britain. This was the necessary constitu- tion of a colony ; and if you have not these relations ex- isting between the mother country and the colony, you will soon have an end to the relations altogether. ( Hear. hear.) Then, again, if the Executive Council were made tespon- sible as the Ministers of this country, of course the governor must act according to their advice. If ihe Assembly do not trust those Ministers, if they do not think them lit, they must be removed, and others put in their places. The person sent out by the King as governor, and those Minis- ters in whom the Assembly confided, might differ in opinion, and there at once would he a collision between the measures of the King and the conduct of the representatives of the colony. But this proposition would tend, not merely to produce disputes, not merely to try the King's authority, but it tended to introduce authorities totally incompatible with the authority which the King seems to hold over every colony. There is an obligation, for instance, on tile government of this country, by which no British subject should be injured with impunity. If appointed through the influence of the House of Assembly, the consequence would be that the ministers thus appointed must cairy into effect the acts of the assembly, anil must deprive persons of land or other possessions, though holding them under the laws of this country and by virtue of ari act of Parliament. Let it be considered that these measures must be carried into effect not merely by the forces of the colony, not merely by the assembly, but in the King's name and by means of the King's forces in that colony. Let me suppose this case, that the King sends out certain orders to the governor in conformity with the existing laws. The law in the mean time is changed by the assembly, and the consequence might be that the King's troops would be obliged, in obedience to the orders of the ministers of the assembly, 1 to carry into effect those orders in defiance of an act ef Parliament, and tending, perhaps, to the injury and destiuction of the King's subjects holding property according to law. It may be maintained that there is justice in the attempt to give an executive to the colony which should be responsible to the Assembly in the same manner that the Ministers in this country are responsible to this House. That part of the constitution which requires that the Ministers of the Crown shall be responsible to Parliament, and shall be removable if they do not obtain the confidence of Parliament, is a condition which exists in an imperial legislature, and in an imperial legislature only. It is a condition which cannot be carried into effect in a colony— it is a condition which can only exist, in one place, namely, the seat of empire. Other- wise we should have separate independent powers existing not only in Great Britain, but in every separate colony. In such a case the government would lie uuable to carry its measures or wishes into effect, and in effect each colony would be ari independent state, with this singula! anomaly, that the executive chief nominated by the King of England, and the troops and forces of the King of England, might be employed to carry the orders of the House of Assembly into effect. This is, therefore a condition which it is im- possible to have consistently with the relations between the mother country and the colony. With respect to the other points of the tenures and the Land Company, in looking through the measures of the House of Assembly I do not find that they triade any laws upon the subject, on the con- trary, they seem to infer that these acts of the British Par- liament were acts of usurpation altogether, and thut they would be fully justified in repealing those acts, and in act- ing according to their own discretion with respect to any persons who may have acquired property and rights under these acts. It is neither possible for the Crown or the Parliament of Great Britain to yield the rights of those persons, and after the passing of a solemn act of the Legis- lature to say that those rights shall be disregarded and set at naught, because the] do not agree with the views of the House of Assembly. ( Hear, hear.) And as far as I can conceive, the only remedy that is left, according to the views of the House of Assembly, is for the British Parliament to vote compensation to such persons, and to provide for them out of the funds of this country. This is the resource left to us— a resource worse than that which we were compelled to accept from another ofour American colonies after a most disastrous war Lord John concluded a rather long speech by stating the remedies he proposed, and which he submitted to the house embodied in certain resolutions, the most important of which is that by an act of the British legislature, the executive government in Canada shall be empowered to appropriate the proceeds of the taxes in that colony, without the consent of the elective por- tion . if the legislative body. Mr. LEADER moved, by way of amendment, that it is advisable to make the council elective. He stated the case as between England and the colony. Tlie Canadians, in a constitutional manner, ask for the introduction of the principle of election into the legislative council, both as a great measure of reform, and as a measure of uigency, without which pence cannot be restored to Cu- muli. What is the answer of the commissioners? " We caniot agree to your request, for it is contrary to the unity of pvernment in the British empire. But we have a remedy of air own; which is to deprive you of ( be control over your finances, and to take away your constitution. We cannot consent to the introduction of the elective principle; forthen the legislative council will not be like the House of Lcrds." Sir, let it be remembered that in the first instance th; legislative council was but an experiment. Mr. Pitt sad that it was only an experiment. What were the words ofanother groat statesman on the occasion of its establish- ment? The noble lord told us the oilier night that when he- wished to seek for large and liberal principles of govern- ir^ nt. he did not refer to ihe logic of Locke or the techni- cilities of Blnekstotie. I perfe t y agree with the noble brd that a more powerful advocate of liberal principles than I! r. Fox never lived. But what did Mr. Fox say on the occasion to which I have just allude ! ? In the debate on i he Quebec government bill in 1791 Mr. Fox said, " He did not advise giving Canada a servile inrtation of our aristo- cracy, because we could not give them a House of I. ords like our own. The Chancellor of the Exchequer appeared to be aware of this, and, therefore, be Inn! recourse to a substitute for hereditary nobility. It was, however, he must contend, a very inadequate substitute; it was a semblance but not a substance. Lords, indeed, we might give them, but there was no such thing as creating that reverence and respect for them on which their dignity and weight in the view both of the popular and monarchical part of the con- stitution depended, and which alone could give the n that power of control and support that was the object of their institution." The experiment has now been tried for above forty years; and the result has shown thai Mr. Fox was right. It has been a ooinp'ete failure. In a subsequent part of the same speech Mi. F" X said, " Instead, therefore, o' the King naming tlie ouocil at that dis. auce— in which rase thev bad no seeuriiy that persons of property, and per- sons fit to be named, would he chosen — wishing, as he did, to put the freedom and stability bl the consti ution of Ca. nada on the strongest basis, he proposed that the council should i- e elective " So that I now mere!) propose what the noble lord's chiff authority in political nm'ters proposed in 1791. Ml. F" X added, « • l" n order to show that his idea of an elective comic I \ not a new one, before the revolu- tion more < the people on tin- su'ij • s si ice io years o en nor Onh ( In • conned. rt the K 1791. I Is th perie that if) sible fo by Ion . M . Mini i He si. l ( r G( poke ition. loies were elected by were Mr. Fox's views time. predicted what vi now the - p rience of f u ty • nob! lo. i . rep ired to oppose • It. Pox but f e osult of the ex- • do in » ? I eg 1 ave to te 11 him • iio. in H very short fime, impos- ot MI rule Canada < xcept Siu- ih. it strongly in Mr. O'CON favour of the ELL opposed it. The eases of Canada and Ireland were identical. The only difference was this— that in the one country the small domineering party was known as the Orange party, in the other it was called the British party. The nature of both, the aim of both, was exactly the same. ( Hear, hear.) It was true that the question of religion had not excited so much party feeling in Canada as in Ireland; but the misera- ble monopolising body in both countries was the same. Of the high situations in Canada 314 were filled by the British party ; and only about forty by Canadians. In all the Ca- nadian offices the proportion of persons born iu Great Britain was exceedingly great as compared with those born in the Canadas. In tact, the English party in Canada was what ( lie court party was in England ; and he was sorry to see liovv evidently, throughout the whole of the report, the commissioners were disposed to lean to that party. ( Hear.) There was hardly a word said of the British party in Ca- nada that might not be put into the mouth of an Orangeman in Ireland. And from that spot he ( Mr. O'Comiell) hurled upon some of his countrymen who had gone out to Canada and formed the British party [ the remainder of the sentence was lost amidst the cheers and counter cheers with which the first part of it was received.] Yes, yes,— some of them had consulted him upon the subject, and he invariably told them that if they joined the British party they would, in fact, be- come Orangemen in Canada, and assist in inflicting upon the country the same evils and the same grievances as had so long afflicted Ireland. ( Hear, hear.) Why should not the Canadian people have a representative council? What reason was stated against it? It was not a novelty; it had been adopted, and for many years successfully and happily acted upon, in the United States. Was it not right that they should have a representative council? What could be a more miserable mockery than the left- handed House of Louis with which they were at present oppressed ? ( Hear, bear, hear.) Why should they be subject in any way to an irresponsible body elected by the Crown. ( Hear, hear, hear.) Was it necessary for the protection of the Crown ? Certainly not— because the Crown had the veto on every law proposed by the Legislature. It was an idle vapour to say that the Canadian people would submit to be outraged with impunity; it was idle to hope, after so many strong in dications of their determination, that they would remain satisfied with anything short of the additional national guarantee which they demanded, and which was essential to secure to them the degree of freedom they ought to enjoy. The Canadas ought not to be considered on grounds of British policy or British interest. ( Hear, hear.) Great Britain did not want the paltry surplus that could arise from the revenues of the Canadas. ( Hear, hear, hear.) There was not a man in the House who would not scorn the idea of Great Britain being maintained on the surplus ol a colony. In the Government of the Canadas, then, the in- terests of the Canadas were the only interests we should have in view--( hear, hear);— and if there were any thing in our mixed form of Government which was found inapplica- ble to the different state of society in those provinces, let the British Government generously and candidly free them from restraint, and say, " As we cannot govern you for good, we will not govern you for evil." ( Hear, hear.) After some remarks from Mr. P. M. STEWART and Col. THOMPSON, Mr. ROEBUCK rose. He lamented while he condemned the gross inconsistency of Mi- nisters. A few nights since, in the very place I now stand, I found myself advocating, in conjunction with his Majesty's Minis- ters, justice to Ireland. I did so, and I would fain have hoped that they did so, not in obedience to any pressing exigency, not for the sake of present expediency, but in ac- cordance with great, lasting, and universal principles of legis- lation—( hear, hear,)— with those principles which teach us that if we desire the people to be well governed we must allow them to govern themselves. This hope, however, has been raised only to be disappointed ; a week has not passed before my illusion has been destroyed, and I am compelled to see thut we in vain desire such conduct from men in office amongst us, for they have neither the capacity nor the courage to be consistent. ( Cheers.) We have now before us a case in all its leading, all its important particulars parallel to that of Ireland. We have, as I shall immediately prove, the same difficulties to overcome, thesame prejudices to face, and yet I now find new and very different principles invoked, a very different conduct pursued. " England," said the noble lord a few nights since, " has justice because she is inhabited by Englishmen. Scotland, because inha- bited by Scotchmen." Let me finish his sentence. " Ca- nada has justice denied her, because inhabited by Cana dians." ( Hear, hear.) The same necessity does not press upon the Government, in the case of Canada, as now bears them down with regard to Ireland. They render justice upon compulsion ; and, not dreading any pressure from without to force them to be just to a distant colony, they follow their usual habit, the natural bent of their inclina- tions, and refuse justice to Canada. He appealed from their tribunal— I appeal, however, from the decision of the Government to the people of England. I appeal to the people of Ire- land— to the honourable member for Kilkenny and his friends in this House I also appeal. We have lought their battle, the battle of Ireland, manfully, and without flinching. That fight still rages ! If we are to hope for success, we must prove, by our steady love and pursuit of justice, that we deserve it. If we desire justice for Ireland, we must show ourselves ready to grant it to a suffering colony. We must prove ourselves above the paltry prejudices of national hostility. If we seek justice for Irishmen, who are our sub- jects, we must not deny it to Canadians, who are our subj- jects also. The cause of Canada and Ireland are the same — it is the cause of self- government and religious liberty— it is the cause of the suffering many who resist the over- bearing insolence of a " miserable monopolizing minority." I call then upon all those who have fought the good light for our suffering fellow- citizens across the Irish Channel, to extend the range of their benevolence, and prove that if onr dominion readies beyond the broad Atlantic, so also does our justice, and that our desire for good government is co- extensive with our empire. ( Hear, hear, hear.) I have said that the cause of Canada and Ireland are the same. I will prove that assertion, and show that the enemies of the majority in both countries proceed upon the same principles, have the same ends in view, while tiie people whom they seek to oppress are in all particulars labouring under similar difficulties. Canada and Ireland have both been conquered by England; the majority of the people in both countries are of the Roman Catholic persuasion : and in both coun tries a small minority, who call themselves English, have hitherto domineered over and insulted the people at larste, whom they always stigmatize as foreigners and aliens. By the power of England this monopolizing minority has been supported in both countries. The English Established Church has been excited, and an attempt has been made to create religious as well as national discord. When at length the reform has been loudly called for, the interests of the minority have been set up in opposition to the cry tor jus- tice; the minority has been called English, and its interests falsely identified with those of England— the majority has been branded as foreigners and aliens, and their interests have been held up to public prejudice and bate, as hostile to those of England. ( Hear, hear, hear.) In the one case the Ministry seek to support the cry for justice— in the other they oppose it. The only reason that 1 can find for this discrepancy is. that they love not justice for her own sake, but are her friends and supporters by necessity. ( Hear, hear.) Mr. ROEBUCK concluded an eloquent and forcible speech, by a description of the consequences which must infallibly result from such injustice as Ministers counselled— You seek to punish and insult the faithful guardians of the people; you protect and sympathise only with the unworthy, recusant, and peculating servant ; you set aside with con- tumely the grievances of the people ; you have compassion only lor the suffering ofpublie servants. I hear eternal talk of the evil consequences of stopping the supplies to these official peooie. I hear nothing in reproof of the Legislative Council, who shut up last year all the public primary schools in the country, and left 60,000 children without instruction. ( Hear, hear, hear.) All your regards are turned the wrong way— all your inquiries have a wrong end iu view. You sought to make out a case of hardship to the servants of the people, but you turned a deaf ear to all complaints of evil to the people themselves. The House ol Assembly seeks to make ihe servants responsible— the servants seek to avoid responsibility; you thrust yourselves into the dispute, and instead of doing what your duty dictates, you take the part with the profligate servant, and ill- treat the already injured master. Such, sir, is the course His Majesty's Ministers uo\ V seek to pursue. ( Loud cheers.) At tlie commence- ment of this session I stated, in reviewing the colonial pol'C) of the piesent Government, that in no way were they beter than their predecessors, and they now affirm my assertion. 1 said that abroad they did not fear the anger ol the people of England, they knew that the people pad little attention ( i the colonies— in the colonies, therefore, Ministerial feel- ings havelull sway, and revel in undisturbed security. Wine is the result? Behold it now on your fable— behold it ii the propositions of the noble lord, in the division of tlii- evening; you will at once learn the apathy of the people i f England, and tile innate spirit of jobbing, and unworthy leaning to unworthy servants, which rules uticnntiolled io the hearts of the servants of the Crown. But I would a. k His Majesry's Ministers if they have well weighed the pol'ey ol this measure, and do tliey know its inevitable re- sult-,? Lest they should Rave been negligent on this head, and in order to prevent the possibility ol their saying at any future time, " We did not anticina e sueii re- u ts, and no one pointed them out," I will, loi their information, and for that of the House, state what my knowledge ol the country leads me to expect as the result of this measure. The first immediate consequence will he, intense anger in the minds of the great majority of the population, who will see in this proceeding insult and injury. ( Cheers.) This anger will produce a determination as soon as possible to get rid of a dominion which entails on them results so mischievous and degrading. Every year will hereafter strengthen this feel- ing, and lasting enmity and discord will thus be created be- tween the mother country and the colony; discord that will cease only when the colony shall become, like the United Slates, a great, powerful, and independent commu- nity. The immediate effects of this anger will not be seen in open and violent revolt, but iu a silent but effective war- fare again t your trade. Non- intercourse will become the religion of the people. ( Hear, hear.) They will refuse your manufactures, and they will smuggle from the States. The long line of frontier will render all your attempts to prevent this smuggling unavailing. The people will refuse your West India produce, and they will \ iew with hatred your shoals of unprotected emigrants. They will withdraw themselves from your communion, they will teach their children to hate you, and they will look with longing eyes to the happy States adjoining their frontier. Impatiently will they wait for the moment in which they shall ohtain'their freedom and become part of that happy, and, for our inter- ests, already too powerful republic. A war will be waged through an unrestricted press upon your Government and your people. In America you will he held up as the op- pressors of mankind, and'millions will daily pray for your signal and immediate defeat. To restrain this press will be impossible—( cheers);— printing- presses will he established along the line, and inflammatory placards will be imported into your colony, spite of an army of custom- house officers and lawyers. The fatal moment will at length arrive. The standard of independence will be raised; thousands of A mericans will recross the frontier, and the history of Texas will tell the tale of Canadian revolt. The instant you have passed the resolutions of the noble lord, a wide and im- passable gulf will be opened between you and your colony, the time for reconciliation will be gone for ever, and tlie hitter lesson taught us by the mighty empire we have already lost will be repeated. We may then, indeed, repent our folly, but repentance will be in vain— our loss will be irre- parable— shame, defeat, and ignominy will be our portion, and we shall leave for ever the shores of America, amidst the hootings ami reviling, and exultation of the many mil- lions of her people whom we have successively injured anil insulted. The further debate was adjourned, after some con- versation, to Wednesday. IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT BILL.— The resolution for tbe compensation clause was, after a few remarks from Mr. Wynn, Sir Robert Peel, and others, agreed to and reported, and on a re- committal the clause was added. The House, after some conversation resumed, and the amendment was reported. TUESDAY. PORTSMOUTH JUNCTION RAILWAY.— Mr. M'KINNON having moved the second reading of this bill, Captain PECHELL opposed it on various grounds, but chiefly that no convenience could arise from it, as there was a communication between Southampton and Portsmouth four times a day by water. Mr. F. BARING said the people of Portsmouth were opposed to the line; and it was in every way objec- tionable. Sir JAMES GRAHAM spoke against the bill, which was lost by 77 to 44. BIRMINGHAM AND GLOUCESTER RAILWAY.— This bill was read a second time and committed. BALLOT.— A great number of petitions were pre- sented in favour of Ballot. Mr. GROTE then rose to ask leave to introduce liis bill. After some preliminary observations, in which he adverted to the advice of Blackwood's Magazine, in favour of exclusive dealing, and of a pamphlet pub- lished at Cambridge, recommendatory of the same system, he proceeded— The objections to the ballot did not affect the principle of that measure ; they were almost entirely confined to its several collateral consequences, which were foreign to the main points of the question. They should first prove that they had a right to know how a man voted before they claimed a right to look over the poll- book to discover the vote which any might have given. But he contended that they bad no such right to inquire how any man might have voted— they had not the shadow or pretence of a right. The voter might disclose, if he thought proper, the maimer in which he voted, but then they must take the chance of his giving false information in a matter with respect to which it was competent to the voter to withhold all in- formation altogether. Those who profited by the practice of bribery, corruption, and intimidation, and other evils of the same kind, would, no doubt, be angry with the ballot, and exclaim against it, because, in the first place, it would put an end to all those mischievous practices. ( Hear, hear, hear.) It would enable the voter faithfully to serve his country, without the risk of those sufferings to which they were now subjected. It would afford the means of protection against wrongful oppression. Now, with respect to the objection made to the ballot on the ground that it would give rise to much falsehood, he would state at once that he did not stand there as the de- fender of falsehood, hut if he were compelled to choose between the success of tyranny on the one hand, and of falsehood as a defence against tyranny on the other, he felt bound to say that in his opinion the last was the least evil of the two. ( Hear, hear.) He noticed the hypocrisy argument— They would be told that the practice of voting by Bal- lot would tend to make men hypocrites; he would tell the House that open voting made men hypocrites quite as many in number, and far worse in kind. ( Hear, hear,) It was a well- known fact, that under the present system men voted against their consciences by hundreds and thousands. The difference which the Ballot would make was only this, that now men spoke truly and voted dis- honestly, hut under Ihe Ballot men would speak falsely and vote honestly. Now men were hypocrites to their country; in future, if the Ballot were adopted they would be only hypocrites to those intimidators wdio tried to suborn them. The Ballot would introduce no new false- hoods. In enforcing his proposition hitherto be had curried the attention of the House chiefly to the evils of intimi- dation, but there were many other great and extensive evils which affected the present system of voting, and of these the most mischievous was the practice of bribery. After observing that the Ballot offered the most entire safeguard against bribery, he took notice of the public opinion argument— It might be contended that under the Ballot bribery would be still kept alive in narrow constituencies. But this argument did not make against the Ballot; , it made a case, and, in his opinion, a conclusive case, against the narrowness of the present constituencies. There was another argument, that the voter held the elective fran- chise as a trust, for which he was responsible to the nation, and that publicity was, therefore, necessary, in order that the public might know how each man voted. He presumed that the meaning of this was, that every voter was responsible for giving an honest vote. But ought they not to provide security that in the case of a man giving an honest vote he should not thereby incur penalties which should be consequent only in the event of iiis giving a dishonest vote? But, in point of fact, there was no responsibility, and there could be none. A man had a right by bis vote to express his opinion, coupled with the obligation of expressing it sincerely, and without restraint. He ridiculed the assumption that the non- elector was worthy of controlling the vote of the elector, and at the same time unworthy of the franchise. He much feared that in too many cases the cry for popu- lar lights and integrity was never intended to mean any- thing real or sincere. "( 11 ear. hear. ) Whilst'by the old constitutional principle of the country an elector was sup- posed to deliver his suffrage Ireelv and indifferently ( hear, hear), such a system had been introduced of contioul ami persecution as to render the franchise a perfect curse to hose who possessed it. ( Hear, bear.) The intelligent con- si itueney now demanded in loud and intelligible accents to he placed in a posiiiou to enjoy the political influence to which by law tliey were entitled. The measure which he now advocated tor this purpose was one which had grown da'ly in the favour and approbation of Ihe great bulk of the community; and he was convinced thai it was the only -( heme by which the real feelings^ of tiie people could be aseeriained, and the wholesale defilement of the elective Iranchis which was now practised interrupted. Mr. L. HODGES seconded the motion Mr. POULTER thought the fact that Ballot was used at clubs was no argument in favour of political Ballot. The Ballot at clubs was to preserve the delicacy of social society. Mr. B. Hall, Mr. Jephson, and Mr. Elpbin- o ie spo're in favour, and Mr. Vernon Smith against the introduction of the bill. The argument of fir. Smith was that as the opinions of the entire of the voters were known before they " ere registered the Ballot could give no security. Mr. BERNAL thought tlie wishes of the people ought THE . BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. to be regarded, and they were decidedly in favour of the Ballot. He did not intend to enter into or to discuss any of those theoretical or Utopian views in which most ot the honour- able gentlemen who had addressed the House seemed dis- posed to legard the subject; he wished simply to treat of it in a practical point of view. ( Hear, hear.) As one of the representatives of the English people, he felt himself hound to attend to the opinions, the wishes, and the fears that had been expressed by a majority of the lower orders upon the subject of voting at elections; he felt bound to give weight to the anxiety they had expressed lor the Ballot as a means of protection against the dictation and the tyranny of their richer and more powerful neighbours. ( Hear, hear.) Mr. PETER BORTHWICK spoke in support of the Ministerial opposition to the bill. _ fj& R Dr. LUSHINSTON adverted to a singular opinion of Mr. Smith, that a member elected by Ballot could not have any communication with his constituents, because he did not know how they voted, and asked how a mem- ber who was elected without a contest, contrived to communicate with his constituents. Lord HOWICK said there was one objection, entirely slurred by Mr. Grote, namely, the power which Ballot would give to a returning officer by rendering- a scru- tiny impossible. Lord Howick thought the Reform bill ought to be farther tested before Ballot was had recourse to. It was a strong argument against intimi- dation, that every one denied having had recourse to it; for if extensively employed, its proof would have been easy, and it would not have been so boldly denied. Mr. CHARLES BULLER said— He did not mean to depreciate the general effect of the Reform bill. No doubt it had given great power to the people of England, whom it had enabled to send into this House more supporters than they ever had in it before; but he must also do the opponents of the measure the justice of admitting that they were light when, during the discussions on the bill, they contended that in extinguishing the nomi- nation boroughs they would increase corruption and intimi- dation. He believed there had been move scandalous cor- ruption since the Reform bill came into operation than there had ever been before. ( Opposition cheers.) Then intimi- dation was almost the child of the Reform act. Before that schedule A disfranchised so many boroughs, there was little occasion for intimidation, inasmuch as the electors were the mere tools of the borough proprietors. Now not only many of the boroughs, but the counties, were as close as possible; and those gentlemen who had beer) deprived of the power of nomination by the Reform bill had, in a great measure, succeeded in re- establishing the system under that bill. When Ministers said they would destroy certain no- mination boroughs, the people little thought they meant to say that the. would effect a mere transfer from one seat to another. The noble lord, seeming to think the Reform bill had made a great improvement with respect to intimi- dati- n, asked, did any one now openly avow that he exer cised an undue influence with his dependents? Men were not proud of such avowals ; it was felt pretty generally that tenants ought not to be driven by their landlords up to the poll. To be sure there were exceptions, and he might in- stance that of an illustrious individual whose name had cause to be considered a family mctto ; he alluded to him who inquired " might he not not do as he liked with his own ?" Mr. Spring Rice opposed the introduction of the bill, and Mr. Grote having briefly replied, the House divided, when there appeared For Ballot 153 Against it ... ... ... ... 265 Majority in favour of Ministers 112 BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION.— Leave was given to Mr. Hardy to introduce a bill to consolidate and amend the laws relating to bribery and corruption. WEDNESDAY. CHURCH RATES.— A great many petitions were pre- sented for and against, this tax. Numerous other petitions on various other questions were presented by different members. CANADA.— On tiie order of the day being- read for the adjourned debate, Mr. ROEBUCK asked whether titie evidence taken in committee in 1834 would be produced before they proceeded with the Canada bill. Sir GEORGE GREY imagined the bill would have passed before the evidence could be printed. The House having gone into Committee, Mr. HUME rose to oppose the resolutions. He said, Believing that their proceeding was a violation of every thing that ought to b'i sacred to citizens he rose to address that house. The question then before them was one that appeared to him to involve civil war. It behoved, then, every person who entertained such an opinion to speak out fairly upj. i tiie question, and if possible to avert the im- pending danger. ( Hear.) That the danger was. great must be manifest from all they had heard, from all they knew, and li'o.'. i the documents upon the table. He con- sidered that before tiiey called for a coercive measure against any class of society, and particularly against the British sub- jects in Lower Canada, they should satisfy tiie house that those persons had been justly governed, or that they had not given them cause for complaint, or having given them such cause, that it ceased to exist— that they had adopted the necessary measures to remove the grounds for discon- tent, and bring about conciliation and a proper understand- ing between the colony and the mother country. ( Hear.) What, he asked, was the value of her colonies to England, if she treated them as conquered provinces? What would be their value if they were to require continually the appli- cation of physical force to reduce them to obedience ?— of what use would such colonies be to England ? It would be much better that she was without colonies, if they were to be a source of weakness to her, and not a supply of strength. What would be the benefit they could confer on this country, if they were to be fettered with the chains of slavery, and only to be restrained by coercive measures such as were now proposed. ( Hear, hear.) Let them look to the condition of Lower Canada with regard to this country. They were now about to take up measures of coercion," to compel the Canadians, if they could, to adopt measures inconsistent with their liberty, hostile to the charters to which that people had a right, and contrary to the act of the Legislature by which their independence was guaranteed. ( Hear, hear.) If, instead ot affording to the Canadians beneficial protection, they had worked unjustly, the house ought still to pause before they consented to pass the resolutions which were on the table of the house. ( Hear.) Lord John Russell, Mr. Hume went on to observe, had told the House of the strife subsisting between the people of Canada and England, but not of its causes— their despair of that relief which year after year they had sought from the. Crown. He severely blamed the Colonial- office as the greatest nuisance iii the Government. He noticed the petition from Canada in 1828, signed by 87,000 persons, and the report of the committee it led to. That committee, on the 18th of July, 1829, reported to the House that the embarrassments, and discontent which had long prevailed in Canada had arisen from various defects in the system of the Legislature and the Constitution, esta- blished in that culony; that those embarrassments and dis- contents, were in a great measure attributable to the manner in which the executive system was administered; thus lay- ing the whole lilajjie against the Colonial- office of that day. But at that time vve had a Tory Colonial- office, and he was not surprised at this; but now, though the Council of His Majesty was changed from a Tory to be a Whig one, it was by no means clear to him that greater justice had not been done by the Tories to the colonies, than by the Whigs since they came into office. This must be the opinion that any candid person would form, if he judged of the complaints so loudly and generally made from every colony of Great Britain. There was not one of tlism that was satisfied. This was not the state of tilings when the Whigs succeeded to office. The Legislative council of Canada was not merely politically obnoxious; there were men in it whom Lord John Russell admitted to be guilty of high crimes. Sir G. GREY: The honourable member was mistaken in stating that the noble lord ( Lord John Russell) had used those words. Mr. HUME took the words down at the time. Sir G. GREY: What his noble friend said was, that wheteas the present act of 1791 did not give the power of dismissal except in the case of offences against the Govern- ment, lie would introduce a bill to alter that enactment by giving the Crown the power of dismissal in the case of per- sons who should he convicted of a misdemeanor. Mr. HUJIK said that the Crown had this power without the interference of Parliament. They had used the power over ami over. The bill Sir George talked of was merely a tub to the whale. ( A laugh.) Mr. Hume, after some further remarks proceeded— For ten long years had the people of Lower Canada called upon this country for justice, hoping at length by fair means to obtain what they required ; for ten years were those ap- peals neglected, those grievances and complaints utterly disregarded. Was there no limit to human patience? Was there not a stage of oppression and insult which might drive the patient to madness ? When this period arrived— when all hope of obtaining justice from the good feelings of others was wasted in neglect— were the people of Lower Canada to blame because they, in the mildest and gentlest manner, refused to vote away their money unless their abuses were remedied? Were the people of this country so blind to their own rights and interests as to allow the noble lord to over- ride the people of Lower Canada, and deprive them of their constitutional rights ? All the people of Lower Canada required of England was this—" Do unto us as you would be done by." With this reflection on their minds— with the abuses unredressed which lie had enumerated— would the people of this country stand by and consent to the passing of this coercion bill for the people of Canada ? But even if it were passed, there was another question— would they be able to enforce it ? ( Hear, hear.) The House of Assem- bly in 1836 voted the supplies they had been accustomed to do, with the exception of the items they objected to, for the reasons they had stated. What would be said if the House of Commons were to- morrow lo vote that a judge of the land should receive his salary provided he did not also hold office and receive pay as Speaker of the '. louse of Com mons? Would that be deemed an unwarrantable and un- constitutional condition ? And suppose the bill of supply so framed were to be sent up to the Upper House, and they were to refuse to pass it, or to put it into a committee, from which it was doomed never to come out ? If the House of Lords in this country would have a right so to interfere with the authority of the House of Commons in matters of sup- ply, then, and not otherwise, were the Legislative Assem- bly justified in what they had done with respect to the votes of the Representative Assembly. But if they would not be justified in such a course, what right had the Ministry ol this country to come down and call upon the House ol Commons to enforce the payment of money without the express conditions imposed by the House of Assembly ; grants to which, under circumstances, they would not assent to ? Sir G. GREY interrupted the honourable member to ob- serve that the Government did not wish to enforce payments contrary to any of the conditions with which they were ac- companied when last they were voted in 1833. The resolu- tion did not propose to pay any items which had not been sanctioned by the Assembly in 1833. Mr. HUME : But I am speaking of the vote of 1836, when the conditions in question were introduced. ( Hear, hear.) Would the House of Commons, would the Government of this country, pretend to deprive the House of Assem- bly of their right and power to impo. se conditions in these matters? If they did, shame woukl light upon their heads. The honourable member concluded a speech of nearly three hours' duration; in the course of which he successfully vindicated himself from the charge of advising the separation of the mother country and the colonies, in his letter to Mr. Mackenzie, a correct copy of which lie read. He concluded— If that House were to pass resolutions which affected Canada, they must be so framed as to meet the wishes and wants of the great majority of the people of Canada, who for ten yeais had been suffering under admitted grievances. He bad shown the House that they had petitioned in the years 18- 27, 1829, and 1834; they had appealed to the King in council; and they had come to certain resolutions also in the year 1834. In all these instances they sought for nothing but to manage their affairs themselves, arid to promote good government; but the present government stepped in to pre- vent this by insisting on a Legislative Council. If they annulled the just rights of the Canadians they would commit a direct robbery upon them. What, then, was to be done? Ii the House of Assembly did not vote the supplies of money, were they ( the House of Commons) to carry on the legisla- tion of Canada by votes of that House? If that were in- tended, it would be better to repeal their constitution, and with it the act of 1831. Mr. William Gladstone supported the resolutions at considerable length, as did Mr. Labouchere. Lord STANLEY followed Mr. Labouchere. The first part of the noble lord's address consisted of a sarcastic criticism on the leng- th and the substance of Mr. Hume's speech. Having finished this, the noble lord went on— Two of these ( the demands of the Canadians) were for rights and privileges which the mother country did not possess herself; and the third was one which, if conceded, would render impossible any further connexion with the mother country. Let the House examine them, not merely scanning tliem in all their bearings, but taking a general view of them. But what were their demands? He would take them seriatim, and he would ask the House ot Com- mons whether the House of Assembly of Lower Canada diil not demand privileges and powers which that House bad never arrogated to themselves. The first of these demands to which he wished to call the attention of the House was, that the two branches of the Legislature should be elective. Was this a power which was demanded or desired by this country? ( Hear, hear.) Was this demand for Canada meant as a precedent to lead to the same result in this country? ( Hear, hear.) So far from a right of this kind being in union with the British constitution, it was a right directly at variance with it, and not possessed by any portion of the people. ( Hear, hear.) Certainly it was demanded by a small and contemptible fraction of the British popula- tion, but which lie trusted in God they would never see conceded in this country ; but if it were, he knew that it would lead to the subversion of the constitution of the coun- try. ( Hear, hear.) What was the second demand ? Itwas for a power which I lie House of Commons did not possess ; it was a demand which no House of Commons or govern- ment would allow, and which, if allowed, no government could sit on those benches for three weeks. The demand was that the House of Assembly should vote every item ol expendi'uue from first to last. ( Hear, hear.) Hon. gentle- men said " hear, hear," but he asked, was the Crown in no respect independent of that House? ( Hear, hear.)— Hid the honourable member for Middlesex mean loteil him that the Crown had no hereditary revenue. ( Hear, hear, and No.) Tile honourable member for Middlesex had sat long in that House, but be had sat to very little purpose indeed if lie was ignorant of the fact, that at the commence- ment of every reign the sovereign waives the possession of a right which passes iudefeasibly to iiis successor— namely, those independent possessions which the Sovereign holds independent of Parliament giving him a fixed civil list for the time ot cession; and when the civil list ceases, the hereditary possessions of the Crown revert to the Sovereign, ( Hear, hear.) Was not this the law of Parliament as well as the uniform practice? ( Hear, hear.) Was it not also Par- liament law, that certain salaries were paid, by a perma- nent arrangement, out of the consolidated fund, instead of their being called upon year after year to squabble on ques- tions of a halfpenny about their salaries with the honourable member for Middesex. ( Hear, hear.) Was not this the case with respect to the payments made for the adminis- tration ofjustice and the salaries of the civil officers of state ? This was absolutely necessary for the maintenance of Government ; for they could not gc on if they had in every case to depend on the votes ot a fluctuating body, if, therefore it was found absolutely necessary that a perma- nent provision should be made for the judges in this coun- try, the necessity was not less in a colonial assembly, which was divided into small parties, and above ail in one like Canada, where all the violence and virulence of religious animosity was added to the local subjects of dissension. It was absolutely necessary, in conformity with the British constitution, that there should be some permanent source of revenue for the objects he had mentioned independent of the vote of the House of Assembly. ( Hear, hear.) Surely they were not prepared to allow that in Canada which had never been demanded and had never been conceded in this country. After a detailed statement of the revenue of the colony, his lordship stated his objections to the resolu- tions— If the colony was tQ he retained, let not the idea be for a moment entertained of permitting that to he done which would at once render all controul on our pait over the pro- vince utterly nugatory, and even the imagination of it per- fectly ludicrous— which would plunge us into difficulties which could only he met by violence. A middle course, so far from disarming enmity, and softening down the claims of the Lower Canadians, would but the more provoke them. The House must declare itself prepared either to resist the demands of the House of Assembly, or to accede to them. What said the honourable and learned member for Bath as to the propositions before the committee? That honour- able anu learned member declared with great frankness and manliness, and the honourable and learned member's opinion was entitled to very great weight in the committee, appear- ing as he specifically did as the retained, the salaried advo- cate— and he ( Lord Stanley) used the term with no offen- sive intention— the salaried advocate of the dominant ma- jority of Lower Canada, whose duty as such was fully to. ascertain what were the passions and prejudices of that ma jority— what did that honourable anil learned member say ? He declared the step proposed to he taken to be unjust, impolitic, and inadequate. He ( Lord Stanly) also consi- dered the resolutions— he would not say unjust, hut impo- litic— impolitic because inadequate ( hear, hear); for while they amounted to as great a violation as their powers could be guilty of, of those constitutional rights which they so . loudly invoked and expressed so great a reluctance to tam- per with, all they proposed to do for those w ho had been suffering for four or five yeais in penury and indigence, the result of Ministerial indecision ( hear, hear), was to give these injured parties tiie paltiy arrears of their saiary, leav- ing them exposed for the future to the certainty— as the honourable member for Bath candidly admitted— of pre- cisely the same or more bitter sufferings and privations, and to the increased hostility of their present persecutors— and all this because Ministers couid not make up their minds to say yes or no. ( Loud opposition cheers.) Lord Stanley concluded—• They had the resolutions of the House of Assembly. They told them that their efforts would be unceasing for an elec- tive council; that the way in which the Government of this country could ever hope to enjoy the confidence of the people must be by giving them an elective council— a coun- cil submitted to and in accordance with their feelings and the feelings of the country. Why were they to be asked to vote for these vague resolutions, attempting to do some- thing of which they knew not what would he the effect, or vvhat was the object? He would say, let them not do what they had been doing from the commencement of this com- mission to the end of it; let them not raise expectations which they never intended to fulfil—( hear, hear)— iet them not go on littering vague words and doing nothing, for the effect of such a course would he this, and only this — it would weaken the force of a declaration of principle and give to no human being the power of stating what indeed was the principle they took their stand upon. ( Hear, hear, hear.) If they desired to surrender Lower Canada, let them do it at once; but if they surrendered Lower Canada, they must recollect they surrendered with it Nova Scotia anil New Brunswick, and they cast off 150,000 in Lower Canada alone of their British fellow- subjects, who clung to them for protection against a tyrannical majority—( cheers) — who confided in the faith of the British Parliament, that it would not allow its engagements to them to be violated— who entreated it to allow them to continue in the undis- turbed enjoyment of the law and liberties conferred on their ancestors, who themselves did not claim the power of tyran- nising over their neighbours, but who did claim the privilege of exercising under the British crown the privileges of British subjects, and who, if they flung them off— if they abandoned them to their own resources, were doomed to sink in the wide- spreading democracy of the time. ( Oppo- sition cheering.) Let them not sacrifice their engagements to the prejudice rather than to the sound opinions of a party — he meant the French Canadian population— who had had granted to them a constitution as free as any nation could give to them— whose freedom was limited oniy_ by that ab- solute control which was necessary to secure the connection between them and the mother country, but who called those whose interests were identical with the interests of the mother country by the name of etrangers, after sixty years' habitation with them. The French Canadians lived under the lightest taxation of any people on earth; their only se- curity for the absolute laws and feudal customs to which they clung was in the protecting power of this empire. If that protection were removed, in a short time would follow the utter destruction of their nationality, which would be merged in the one great, absolute, native- American re- public. ( Cheers.) He felt that in stating his views he had detained the house for a considerable time ; but he a'so felt that this was an occasion on which nothing should be re- served. His only difficulty in regard to his vote was, not in supporting His . Majesty's Government, but in entreating them to support themselves; and if honourable gentlemen on his side of the house saw any difficulty in the way of their compliance with the resolutions propose!!, the inadequacy and weakness of which he felt strongly himself, he would beg them to remember that it was a question now whether they would throw the whole of the weight of their influence into the British scale, whether they would assist or compel the Government to maintain entire the British possessions, and whether they would give that assistance to His Ma- jesty's Ministers for which they must have felt themselves so deeply indebted last night. Lord HOWICK spoke in deprecation of Lord Stanley's tone, which formed, he however thought, an excellent offset to the florid harangue of Mr. Roebuck. The amendment was lost by 318 to 56. A long conversation arose chiefly on the point whether the evidence of the committee should be pro- duced, which, being refused by Government, Mr. Roebuck moved an adjournment. On this question, in the course of the continued discussion, four divisions took place. At leng- th about two o'clock the minority gave way, and the original motion was agreed to by 144 to 16. HOUSE OF LORDS. FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1837. CHURCH- RATES.— A great many petitions for and against Church- rates were presented. The Scotcli Seditious Libel Amendment bill was read a second time. The House only sat for a very short time. MONDAY. Several petitions were presented, chief!}- concerning Church- rates, the Municipal Act Amendment bill was read a second time without remark, and the Wills bill was passed through committee. TUESDAY. Several petitions for and against Church- rates were presented. Some conversation ensued on the subject of the cal- culations on which the Ministerial measure proceeds. Lord MELBOURNE said the calculations were matter of detail. Lord BROUGHAM differed from this opinion ; not that he was not opposed to the measure, but the calculations, he thought, formed the essence of it. Lord ELI. ENBOROUGH pressed for these papers. Lord MELBOURNE doubted if they were in a state to be laid on the table. Lord ASHBURTON thought the calculations a mystery. He did not see how, by any calculation, it could be made out that two persons should sit down at a game and both rise winners. Lord LANSDOWNE thought asr. no judgment could at the present . stage be formed of the shape in which the bill would reach their lordships, tiie production of the calculations would be altogether premature. The conversation having dropped, it was renewed on the presentation of a petition by Lord BROUGHAM, who contended that one portion of it would be unjust and injurious to the lessees. The BISHOP of EXETER observed that the other part of it would be unjust and injurious to the lessors. He hoped that both parties would receive the benefit of Lord Brougham's advocacy. Lord BROUGHAM was prepared to seejustice done to both, but certainly not by opposing the measure, Their lordships adjourned to Thursday. MEADS OF THE BILL FOR THE ABOLITION OF CHURCH- RATES. The land revenues of the archbishops, bishops, deans and chapters, and separate estates of canons and prebendaries, are to be managed by a board of eleven commissioners, con- sisting of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Chancellor, Archbishop of York, Bishop of London, Secretary of State, First Commissioner of Woods and Forests, Dean of St. Paul's, Dean of Westminster, two nominees of the Crown, one nominee of the Archbishop of Canterbury; of whom any three may act, except in " special cases. The three last- named commissioners are to be salaried, and are removable by the . King's council. The commissioners may grant leases for thirty- one years at rack- rent, or building leases for ninety- nine years, Church tenants entitled to surrender their leases and take a new lease for thirty- one years, at fire per cent, below the rack- rent, having the value of their lease allowed to them at four per cent. Church tenants entitled to purchase the reversion and fee- simple of their lands, valuing the fee- simple at twenty- five year* purchase, and the subsisting lease at the same late of four percent, interest; the value of kives being com- puted from the Government tables. If any Church tenant lias sublet bis lands on fine or re- newable lease, or if any person shall have a derivative in- terest in the lands other than that of a farmer at rack- rent, claim may he made, and the commissioners shall apportion the lessee's benefit among the parties according as they shall think them beneficially interested in the leases. Five com- missioners to meet for this purpose, of whom one to he the First Commissioner of Woods and ^ Forests, and to observe the principles followed in the execution of 34 Geo. 111., c. 75, for improving the Crown lands. All claims to be advertised, and no notice taken of per- sons neglecting. to claim beyond a given day. Tenant who. has allowed three years to elapse without re- newal not entitled to any preference Commissioners may exchange lands. And redeem land- tax. Lands to be surveyed before lease, exchange, or sale. Lessees not bound to see to compliance with act, or appli- cation of moneys paid by them. Receivers to be appointed with power to distrain, to give security and account to the commissioners. Lessees in arrear to pay interest. Commissioners empowered to authorise entries on lands for enforcing covenants, and to compound for rent. Commissioners to pay all moneys received into the Bank. Moneys not immediately wanted may be invested in Government securities. Rents now reserved to be paid to each dignitary as before ; surplus carried to common fund. Advances to be made from a common fund, instead of the lines which such dignitary would have received; for which purpose he may have a life of any age inserted in a nominal lease, and receive the corresponding fine, and so toties guolies. After existing interests nominal leases to be discontinued, and an average of the fines advanced instead, or any dignitary may elect to take the average forthwith. This act not to affect the payments to and from the eccle- siastical commissioners under the act of last session 5 and 6 Wm. IV. c. 77, or any order in council made thereon. Commissioners empowered to sell ground rents charged on the church lands, in case a sufficient sum should not be raised by the sale of reversions. Advances may he made from the consolidated fund to cover temporary deficiencies, to be repaid with interest. Annual income of the common fund to be applied— 1. To make the necessary payments to the dignitaries; 2. To pay the ground rents created and sold; 3. To pay an annual sum not exceeding 250,000.'. to the ecclesiastical commis- sioners for repairing churches and chapels; 4. To repay advances from consolidated fund ; 5. To be invested in stocks to form a reserved fund, which may be sold again to meet deficiencies. When the reserved fund amounts to 50,000?., the interest of it to be paid to the ecclesiastical commissioners for in- crease of small livings. Commissioners to certify to the Crown and both Houses of Parliament their proceedings under this act. Church- rates abolished ; debts charged on poor- rates. Ecclesiastical commissioners to procure annual estimates of repairs of churches and chapels, and apply the sum paid to them by the commissioners of church- lands. Surveyors to be appointed in each archdeaconry for that purpose. Certain fixtures and articles needed for Divine worship charged on the building fund, if not provided by pew- rents. Archdeacon to apportion among his churches the sum granted to the archdeaconry for repairs, & c. Parish estates in aid of Church- rates applied as before. Liability to repair chancels not affected, tint repairs to be executed by diiection of surveyors, and costs thereof repaid by parties liable. Owners of faculty and prescriptive pews to repair or for- feit them. Pews may he let by minister and churchwardens with consent of bishop leaving one- fifth free seats, if the same have been usually let heretofore, or one- third if the church be built under church building acts, or one- half if pews not usually let before. Pew- rents to be applied for the service of the church in which they are raised, under the direction of the pew- renters, but subject to any charges on them by act of Par- liament. Vestries not to appoint any clerk, sexton, beadle, & e., but pew- renters, or minister if pews are not let. Churchwardens to be elected by pew- renters, when pews are let. Dissenters exempted from acting as churchwardens ; ex- emption of prosecutors of felons repealed. Tables of fees to be agreed on for burials and monuments to be settled, in case ol disagieement, by the Dean of the Arches. Burials prohibited in churches, except in iron or leaden coffins, or vaults opening from the outside. Visitation- fees abolished : chuiciiwardens need not attend visitations. INCORPORATIONS. The discussion that took place on Wednesday on the sub- ject of an application to the King in Council, or to Parlia- liament, or to both, for the purpose of having the borough of Birmingham incorporated, has induced us to submit to our readers a very brief analysis of the Municipal Reform Act, which is the ground work on which any charter must proceed, and will, in all probability, form the model accord- ing to which any further hill will be framed. We have given two of the clauses at length, the 84th, and the 141st, the latter being the clause which gives authority to the King to grant charters of Incorporations to such towns as Birmingham, the former, because according to our non- legal reading, it conveys important powers to Councils elected under any such charter, in respect to matters of police now administered under local acts. Clauses 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, refer to the repeal of former char- ters and to provisions respecting freemen in existing boroughs. 7. Defines the boundaries of boroughs described in the act, with six exceptions, to be. those of the Parliamentary Reform act. 8. Defines what parts in certain boroughs shall be ac- counted of the borough, and what of the county. 9. Lays down the qualification of electors, namely, that they shall be householders, three years rated to relief of poor, and resident within seven miles, at inOst, of the borough. 10. 11, 12, 13. Contain further definitions and limitations of electors in existing boroughs. 14. Abrogates all exclusive rights of trading in boroughs. 15— 23. Regulate the framing and revision of the burgess or voter's roll. 24. Provides that the expense of framing the roll be paid by the borough treasurer. 25,26,27. Desscribe the constituent parts of the coun- cil; namely, a mayor, aldermen, and councillors; their duration in office, and the mode of supplying vacancies. 23. Enacts the qualification of mayor, aldermen, and councillors— personal property of the value of 1,000/. in large and 500/. in small, or rated premises of value of 30/. and 15/. respectively, in addition to being on the roll of voters. 29, 32. Appoint the times and modes of voting. 33, 34. Appoint the manner of polling, and questions to be put to the voters when polling. 35. Provides for the declaration of election by the mayor and assessors. 36. Contains provision for the dealh or sickness of a mayor. 37. Directs the election • auditors and assessors who shall not be councillors or aldermen. 38. Relates to existing boroughs solely. 39. The ward's division clause. 40. 41. Provide for the appointment of councillors in each ward. 42— 56. Contain provisions arid regulations for enforcing acceptance of office, for filling vacancies, and various other matters of detail. 57. Constitutes the mayor a justice of peace, within borough, and returning officer of members of Parliament. 58. Allows the council to elect a cleik, and such other officers as are necessary for carrying into execution the powers of the act; and to fix and pay salaries to such officers. 59. 60. Lay down the regulations for the officers so ap- pointed and paid. 61. Relates to boroughs being counties in themselves. 62. Provides that where there is a Court of Quarter Sessions the council may elect a Coroner. 63. 64. Define the duties of the Coioner. 65— 68. Relate to existing boroughs exclusively. 69, 70. Describe the manner of voting in and convening of councils. 71— 7a. Relate to existing boroughs exclusively. 76- Directs the appointment of a watch committee, and of ordinary constables, by council. 77— 81. Lay down regulations for such ordinary con- stables. 82. Provides for the payment of constables. 83. Provides for the appointment and payment of special constables by council. 84. And be it enacted, that as soon as constables shall have been appointed by the watch committee for any borough, a notice, signed by the Mayor of such borough, specifying the day on which such constables shall begin to act, shall be fixed on the door of the Town- hall and every Church within such borough ; affid on the day so specified in such notice so much of all acts named in conjunction with such borough in the schedule ( E.) to this act annexed, and of all acts made before the passing of this act, as relates to the appointment, regulation, powers, and duties, or to the assessment or collection of any rate to provide for the ex- penses of any watchmen, constables, patrol, or police for any place situated within such borough, shall cease and de- termine; and all watch- houses and watch- boxes in any such place, and all arms, accoutrements, and other necessaries provided at the public expense for any watchmen, con- stables, patrol, or police therein, shall he given up to such persons as shall be named by the said Mayor in such notice, for the use and accommodation of the constables to be ap- pointed under this act, and all the property so to be given up shall be deemed to belong to the Body Corporate of such borough ; and in case any person having the charge, control, or possession of any watch- house, watch- box, arms, accoutrements, or necessaries as aforesaid shall neglect or refuse to give up the same as herein- before required, every such offender, being convicted thereof before any two Justices of the Peace, shall for every such offence forfrit and pay, over and above the value of tie property not given up, such sum not exceeding five pounds as the said Justices shall think meet; and where there shall be any building in any such place as aforesaid a part only of which building shall have been heretofore used as a watch- house, such part shall be given up every day, from the hour of four in the afternoon until the hour of nine in the forenoon, for the use and accommodation of the constables to be appointed under this act; and if any person having the charge, control, or possession of any |. uch building shall neglect or refuse to give up such part thereof for the purposes aforesaid, or to permit free access thereto or egress therefrom during any portion of the time above prescribed, eveiy such offender, being convicted thereof before any two Justices of the Peace, shall tor every such offence forfeit and pay such sum not ex- ceeding five pounds as the said Justices'sha'l think meet: Provided nevertheless, that in every case in which before the passing of Ibis act a rate might be levied in any borough for the purpose of watching, conjointly with any other pur- pose, nothing in this act contained shall be construed to prevent the levying and collecting of such rale for such other purpose solely, or to repeal the powers given in any act so far as the same relate to such other purpose: Pro- vided always, that where the amount of such rate before the passing of this act might not exceed a given rate in the pound 0! 1 the value of property rateable thereunto, the rate so to he levied for such oilier purpose solely shall not exceed such proportion of the said given rate in the pound as shall appear to have been expended for such purpose other than watching, by an account of the average yearly expenditure • during the last seven years, or where such rate shall not , have been levied during seven years, then during such less ; number of years as such rate shall have been levied. I 85. Provides for the cases of rates in arrear, and of debts | incurred previous to such transfer. 86. Directs watch committee to report periodically the j state of borough to the Secretary of State. \ 87. Allows the council to extend the provisions of local i lighting acts to the entire borough. j 88- Provides for the appointment of inspectors for quar- j ters to which such local lighting acts may be extended. 89. A provision saving . dock- yards and arsenals from the j operation of these clauses. J 90, 91. Bye laws for the suppression or prevention of | nuisances not already punishable by summary conviction, to be made by the council, and the breaches thereof to be punished. 92. The deficiency of the borough funds may be made good by a rate; the council, for such purpose, to possess within borough the powers of justices in Quarter Sessions in reference to the imposition of a county rate. 93. Directs accounts to be published half- yearly, being first examined and audited by the auditors. 94— 98. Relate to existing boroughs in schedules A and B. 99. Provides that on application by the council a paid police magistrate may be appointed by the Crown. 100— J02. Relates to existing borough in schedules A and B. 103. Provides that a petition of council the King may grant a Quarter Sessions and also appoint a recorder. 104— 106. Lay down regulations respecting the recorder so to be appointed. 107— 110. Relate to existing boroughs exclusively. 111. Provides that county justices have jurisdiction in bo- roughs where no Quarter Sessions shall have been ap- pointed. 112. Provides that no county- rate shall be demandable after such Quarter Sessions are granted. 113. Directs boroughs which possess a court of Quarter Sessions, to pay expense of felonies and misdemeanours under act 7 Geo. IV., c. 64. 114— 117. Provides for the claims of county for trial, & c., of prisoners. 118— 126. Relate to courts of record in civil cases in bo- roughs, when such courts exist or that have a right by charter to such couits. 127 — 133. Relate to courts of summary conviction, and the forms to he observed by them, and remedies against illegality committed by them. 134— 139. Lay down certain exceptions to the provisions of act. 140. Contains provisions for the first election under the act. 141. And whereas sundry towns and boroughs of Eng'and and Wales are not towns corporate, and it is expedient that several of them should be incorporated ; be it enacted, that if the inhabitant householders of any town or borough in England and Wales shall petition His Majesty to grant to them a charter of incorporation, it shall be lawful for His Majesty, by any such charter, if he shall think fit, bv advice of his Privy Council, to giant the same, to extend to the inhabitants of any such town or borough within the district to be set forth in such charter the powers and provisions in this act contained: Provided nevertheless, that notice of every such petition, and of the time when it shall please His Majesty to order that the same be taken into consider- ation by his Privy Council, shall be ' published by Royal proclamation in the London Gazette one month at least be- fore such petition be so considered. 142— 150. The interprets! ion and amendment clauses. TABLE I. Non. Incorporated towns in England mid Wales, now sending two members each to Parliament, with the amount of their population, respectively, according to the census of 1831. Name. Population. Members Birmingham 142,251 o Blackburn 27,091 2 Bolton _ 41,195 .— 2 Brad field 23,233 2 Brighthelmstone 40,634 .—. 2 Davenport 44.454 2 Halifax 15,382 — 2 Manchester 187,022 2 Oldham 50,513 —. o Sheffield 90,657 — 2 Stoke- upon- Trent 52: 947 2 Stroud 13,721 „ ™ 2 Sunderland 43,721 — 2 Wolverhampton 18,380 — TABLE 11. ^ 2 Non- incorporated towns in England and Wales, now sending one member each to Parliament, with the amount Name. Bury ( Lancashire) Chatham Cheltenham Population. — 15,086 .— 14,754 23.942 Members 1 1 Dudley , 23,042 1 Frome . _ 12,2- 10 „„ 1 Gateshead 15,177 . 1 Huddersfield 31,041 I Methyr Tydvil 17,404 1 Rochdale . 35,764 1 Salford 50,810 — I South Shields 18,756 ™ 1 Tynemouth „_ 16,926 — 1 Wakefield 12.232 — 1 Warrington 16,018 — 1 Whitby „„. 10,399 — . I Whitehaven ,— 17,808 —. 1 N. B The metropolitan non- incorporated Parliamen- tary boroughs, namely, Mary- le- bonne, Finsbury, Tower Hamlets, Lambeth, Southwark, Greenwich, and the City of Westminster, are not included in either of these tables. FASHIONS FOR MARCH. [" From the London and Faris Ladies* Magazine J CARRIAGE DRESS Robe of gros d'Afrique en redingote. The corsage is low, and meets in front with a baud of black velvet, which continues down the skirt, increasing in width to the bottom. Bonnet of citron velours epingle, mixed with black velvet, and plume of ostrich feathers. Mantelet faille of violet satin, trimmed with black lace. DINNER DRESS Ilohe of emerald green satin ; the cor- sage is plain, with revers of ( he paysanne form, the ends reaching the ceinture, and trimmed with swans'- down, the sleeves of two small bouffants, and plain at the shoulder. Cap composed of riband and marabout*. EVENING DRESS - Robe of gros d'Afrique ; the corsage a point, with drapery folds laid ori, and standing up ruche of dentelle- de- soie ; the sleeves of one small bouffant, and three falls of dentelle- de- soie, and flounce on the skirt, headed by a gold band. Coiffure of hair and feathers, and ornaments in pearls. BALL DRESS Robe of broche jonquil satin. The cor- sage is plain, without ceinture, and trimmed round the neck with black blond lace. The sleeves reach to the elbow with manchettes of black blond, and are composed of three small bouffants. Head- dies- of hair and feathers. AMERICAN MECHANICS— On entering the house of a re- spectable mechanic, in any of the large cities of the United States, one cannot but be astonished at tile apparent neat- ness and comfort of the apartments, the large airy parlours, the nice carpets, and mahogany furniture, and the tolerable good library, showing the inmates' acquaintance with the standard works of English literature. These are advantages which but few individuals of the same class, by way of dis- tinction, in Europe enjoy; but which, in America, are within the reasonable hopes and expectations of almost all the inferior classes. What powerful stimulus is not this to industry? What a premium on sobriety and unexception- able conduct ? A certain degree of respectability is, in all countries, attached to property^ and is, perhaps, one of the principal reasons why riches are coveted. A poor man has certainly more temptations, and requires more virtue to withstand them, than one who is in tolerable circumstances. The motives of the rich are hardly ever questioned, while the poor are but too often objects of distrust and suspicion. Pauper ubique jacet. The labouring classes in America are really less removed from the wealthy merchants and pro- fessional men than they are in any part of Europe; and the term " mob," with which the lower classes in England are honoured, does not apply to any portion of the American community. With greater ease and comfort in bis domestic arrangements, the labouring American acquires also the necessary leisure and disposition for reading; his circle of ideas becomes enlarged, and he is rendered more capable of ippreciating the advantages of tl\ e political institutions of his country. — Grund. THE . BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. TO THE GUARDIANS OF THE POOR OF THE PARISH OF- BIRMINGHAM. GENTLEMEN, IN returning you thanks for the honour conferred upon me at the General Meeting of your body on the 1st inst., by your election of me as Chaplain to the Work- house and Asylum, permit me, in expressing my gratitude, to assure you that the due and conscientious performance of the sacred and important duties of that office will ever be my most anxious study so long as God shall spare me to exert myself in it. My thanks are especially due to those friends who, from motives of the purest disinterestedness gave me encourage- ment to become a candidate, and afforded me their support for obtaining the appointment; and I trust I shall be en- abled to maintain that conduct which will eventually en- sure the approbation of all. I have the honour to remain, Gentlemen, Your most obedient and faithful humble servant, CHRISTOPHER IIAYDEN. T STEIN SHERRY AND MASDEU PORT. 1^ 0 those to whom economy in tfie purchase of their WINES is an object, the Stein Sherry and Masdeu Port are strongly recommended; their qualities are excellent. Stein Sherry ( first quality) 20 Shillings per Doz. Masdeu Port ( first quality) 24 Shillings per Doz. At PETEIIS'S WINE & SPIRIT WAREHOUSE, 77, BULL- STREET, CORNER OF TEMPLE- ROW, BIRMINGHAM. WINE AND SPIRIT VAULTS, ( Under the Society of Arts) 68, NEW- STREET, BIRMINGHAM. ROBERT TITLEY AND GEORGE BRAGG having commenced Business as Wine and Spirit Mer- chants, respectfully inform their Friends and the Public, that all Wines and Spirits sold by them may be depended upon as being of the most genuine quality, and those who may favour them with their commands, may rely upon being supplied with Wines and Spirits of the very first- rate character, and • upon the most reasonable terms. The selection of the different Wines and Spirits will be entirely left to the management of George Bragg, who for the last fourteen years, has been solely engaged in the bu- siness, and has had the most ample means of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the trade. N, B— GEORGE BRAGG, being desirous to correct any erroneous inference which may have been drawn from the circulars issued arid the advertisements inserted by " Mr. GEORGE BRAGG," of the Shakespear Wine Vaults, in the Journal of the 4th, and the Gazette of the 6th of Febru- ary last, begs to inform his Friends and the Public, that he was ill the employ of" Mr. GEORGE BRAGG" twenty years, and he confidently appeals even to " Mr. GEORGE BRAGG" himself, whether he did not serve him faithfully, and leave him honourably, and only left him to commence business himself. H. A. DONALDSON, DECORATOR, UPHOLSTERY MANUFACTURER, AND IM- PORTER OF FOREIGN FURNITURE, No. 19, UPPER TEMPLE- STREET, WITHIN TWO DOORS OF NEW- STREET, BIRMINCHAJI. formerly from Simpson's, St. Paul's Church- yard, London and for the last Jive years Foreman to Messrs. Meyer and Bekenn, Birmingham. HA. D., having- had twenty years' extensive • practice, ( during which time he lias been engaged in decorating Windsor Palace, and many of the most splen- did mansions in the kingdom,) combined with the closest application to the study of everything of importance in House Furnishing, in which chast'ty, elegance of style, and economy can be united, is enabled with confidence most respectfully to solicit a share of public patronage, and to add, that one trial is all he requires to prove the justice of his claims. Window Curtains and Bed Furniture of every description, made up and hung in the most tasteful, fashionable, and modern style, his own labour being especially devoted to the ^ execution of orders in this line; and being supplied with Damasks, Moreens, Rumsys, Chintz, & c., from the best manufacturers in the kingdom, at first- cost cash prices, his charges will be found so low as to defy all competition. Original Designs, Drawings, and Estimates, furnished gratis. Ladies and gentlemen wishing to supply their own ma- terials shall meet with every attention. Patent Spring Beds, so highly recommended by the faculty, manufactured to any dimensions, at little more than half the usual charge Spring Pillows, Carriage Cushions, & c., at equally low prices. Orders in Foreign Furniture executed according to draw- ings, and warranted of superior manufacture. Paper Hanging and Gilding, in all its branches. FUNERALS SUPPLIED. IggT Auctions and Valuations attended to The trade supplied with Springs, & c. N. B — All kinds of Furniture repaired and French polished. AN APPRENTICE WANTED. TO CORRESPONDENTS. ** It would lie highly injudicious now to revert to the document criticised bv Hampden. BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. SATURDAY, MARCH 4. The ^ Ministerial plan for the abolition of Church- rates is now before the public. It is the same that was announced some three weeks ago by the Standard. It would be worth while to inquire how it happens, - that the Ministerial plans are almost without exception first published by the Tory journals. Is it Sir HERBERT TAYLOR, or Sir ANDREW BARNARD, that is their Court correspondent? Or does the Standard go higher for its information ? The plan, as was stated by the Standard, is by a different mode of managing Bishops' lands, to raise the sum— 250,000/. per annum, •— which, according to the calculations of Lord ALTHOKP, is required to uphold and repair the various Established Churches. The amount necessary for the more immediate religious services of the Church is to be raised by a pew rent. The Bishops' lands are at present let, partly on leases for twenty- one years, partly on leases for lives. These leases are renewed yearly, and the fines for re- newal, together with the quit rents, constitute the in- come of the Bishop. The tenants of a Bishop are seldom, or ever, ejected ; for even where a Bishop retains his mitre for twenty- one years, it very seldom happens that lie remains for so long a period in one see. On payment of his quit- rent and his renewal fine, there- fore, the tenant deems himself morally assured of un- disturbed possession. Still the holding is not so certain as a copyhold, and it is assumed that, were it converted into a copyhold, the additional security to the tenant would be willingly purchased by an addi- tional sum in the shape of quit- rent or fine. By a miniue calculation, the difference of value between the two holdings, has been found— so the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated— to be somewhat above the sum required to replace the present Church- rate. He puiY ses, accordingly, to bring in a bill authorising the change of the present leases of Bishops' lands into copyhold tenures, for the purpose of realising that difference; and, until the conversion is completed, to fliake good the deficiency, in the way of loan, from' the'consolidated fund. We are not aware that the most exigent of Dis- senters can fairly object to this arrangement. It is to be observed, that the substitute will be furnished, not from any fniid belonging to the nation at large, as Lord ALTHORP proposed, but from a fund which belongs exclusively to the party for whose behoof the com- muted rate is assigned. We would say further, that, were Churchmen content to listen for once to the counsels of common sense, the plan of Ministers ought to he as acceptable to Churchmen as to Dissenters. For while it takes from the Church a most unjust tax, the levy of which is becoming daily more difficult, as well as obnoxious, it supplies its place in a way which leaves no one ground of just complaint, which injures nobody, and which is calculated to please very many. We have, however, no hope that the Church will view the question in this light. Oil the contrary, we be- lieve she will make as tough fight for what she con- siders to be her right, barren as that right soon threatens to be, as if she were contending for some real and substantial advantage. There is but one part of the CHANCELLOR of the EX CHEQUER'S plan that promises to be productive of mixed satisfaction. In some few parishes the Church has contrived to mortgage the Church- rates. This was a most gross abuse ; for a Church- rate is, and always has been, an impost that cannot be imposed without the concurrence of the rate- payers, nor for a longer period than one year. But the lawyers hold the abuse to be legal; and, as a consequence of its legality, they also hold, that the concurrence of the rate- payers, so far as a rate for the interest of any such mortgage is concerned, is no longer necessary, and that such a rate may be imposed and levied whether the rate- payers consent or not, until the principal, with interest, of the mortgage be paid up. For this peculiar description of rate the Government plan makes no provision ; and this omission will, we fear, be equally disagreeable to Churchmen and Dissenters. It is true, the sum total of these mortgage debts is not great, it does not exceed £ 800,000. But the burden will be severely felt in the parishes subject to it; and not the less severely that their neighbours are exempted from its pressure. It is proposed that the surplus, which, it is calcu- lated, w ill remain after payment of the commuted rate shall be applied to the augmentation of small livings; and it has been argued that a more legitimate destina- tion ofthis surpluswouldbetoapply it, in the firstplace, to liquidate these mortgage debts. We think it would, but, according to the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'S estimate, it would not be sufficient for the purpose, even if so destined. Ministers arc plainly in a strait in re- spect to the mortgage debts ; and, looking to the wis- dom and justice of the rest of the proposed arrange- ment, we think they ought not to be judged over hastily. They are pressed, on the one side, by those who complain of the burden; on the other, by those who complain of the principle of the tax. Had they proposed to charge the payment of the mortgage debts on the consolidated fund, they might naturally expect that they would be met by the objections of the latter class. And yet, we think, that such a mode of getting rid of the difficulty would, after all, be the easiest and best, though, in one sense, it did violate strict prin- ciple. At the present price of 3 per cents., £' 800,000, is equal to an annuity of £ 27,000 very nearly. We would say, let such a trifle be conceded, rather than that any remains of so hateful an impost should be suffered to remain; and that the bitterness and dis- satisfaction which the perpetuation of its smallest frag- ment would not fail to produce, may be at once and for ever removed. We don't think any moderate, sound thinking Dissenter could object to so small a deviation from the rigidity of his rule of right, looking to the nature of the case which led to the deviation, and to the abundant peace and satisfaction that would certainly flow from it. As to Ministers themselves— we cannot imagine that they would hesitate to adopt such a method of putting an end to strife, were they fully assured that it would not be objected to by those for whose more especial satisfaction it was meant to provide. Since the above was written we have received the report of Thursday's debate, which appears in our ' latest news." It will be seen that the ARCHBISHOP of CANTERBURY has declared war to the knife with the Ministerial project, and that he is supported in bis declaration by no less than fourteen of his brethren. The chances of the bill in the Lords were from the beginning exceedingly slender, but this declaration si'als its fate. The Ministers will take nothing by this bombardment. Lord MELBOURNE puts on a stout front. Indeed, as we have elsewhere remarked, it is impossible not to admire the sturdiness of the stand which Ministers make for measures which the opposi- tion are sure to reject. Their courage, unlike that of other men, in variably rises with the prospect of failure, and is at its maximum when defeat is no longer doubtful. It is only when there appears a chance of victory that they wax faint hearted— unless by any chance a division of their friends should happen to get in their way, and then they do charge to be sure w ith a vengeance. The Lords seem to have been extremely impatient to get at the Church- rates' bill. They were at it, principle and detail, on Tuesday, though the debate on its introduction in the Commons was not in any case to take place till Friday, and has been kindly postponed to Monday, in order that instead of one field day, it may furnish occasion for two or three. We were especially amused with a remark of Lord ASHBURTON, who could not comprehend how two men could play at the same game and both win. The imagination of the ci- devant dealer in three per cents, was evidently reverting- to the scene of his triumphs, Bartholomew- lane, before unhappy ambition tempted him to set up for a statesman. And, indeed, the game played there would hardly admit of the result an- ticipated by Ministers. It would be a singular account which, on settling ( lay, allowed both bull and bear to pocket the differences. Above will be found some remarks upon the con- templated Church- rates measure of Ministers, to which we have yielded, as we thought it deserved, our un- qualified praise. Whether the calculations of Mr. FINLAYSON should, on a more rigid investigation than Mr. SPRING RICE or his coadjutors have yet been able or inclined to give them, prove correct, or the contrary, we should still have to say of Mi- nisters, in this matter, that the principles they laid down were excellent. Si sic omnia ! The late Mr. WYNDHAM, we believe it was, said that the most cautious of men would knock their heads against a wall now and then, but the Whigs were the only persons he knew that thought it worth while to build up a wall for that express purpose. It seems, indeed, a fixed resolution in the Whigs never to give to their friends an opportunity of honestly applauding their measures, without at the same time furnishing tbeir enemies a similar opportunity, thus balancing fair between the two parties. The principle of the Irish Municipal Bill is, that every locality has a right to look after its own local affairs; the principle of the Church- rates' resolution is, that no man ought to be made to pay for looking after affairs in which he has no concern, and from which he derives no benefit. What say the resolutions respect- ing Canada? That the people of Canada have no right to look after their own affairs, and that they shall be compelled to pay for that which does not only not belong to them, but which, tested bv long and bitter experience, is positively injurious. The province of Lower Canada— for it is lower Canada only that is in discussion— is governed by two Chambers, one popular and elective and responsible, the other aristocratic non- elective irresponsible. The latter is not like our Peers, composed of men of hereditary dignity and large estates, thousand years and thousand emblazon_ ments men; it does not possess, as our Upper House was described by Sir ROBERT PEEL at the festival dinner to possess, the virtues of the worn- out oak even. It is a mere knot of funguses without name, note, interest, or importance in the province, the creature of the Go- vernor for the time being, unless when occasionally it happens to encounter a Governor of some pretensions to liberality, when it has been known, like the House at home, to pout and grow sulky until a threat of con- stitutional reform reduced it to a constrained obedience In a word, this bastard House of Lords— this legis « t tive Council possesses not a shadow of respect or of authority with the people of Canada, nott has done since the people of Canada first began to examine into and appreciate their rights as a free people. The Assembly, on the other hand, enjoys their most un- limited confidence; and as truly expresses their wishes as, perhaps, any body can express the wishes of its constituency. To bring these two bodies into har- mony with each other, and both into harmony with the great body of the people, the Assembly demands that the Council like itself shall be elective. As we have said, the Council has no claim under heaven to the respect or obedience of the province, save only the power which by law vests in it of stopping the bills of the Assembly. Those who have watched the progress of the Peerage Reform question in this country will be able to estimate the ^ alue of such a claim to the humble imitators, in Quebec of Lord LYNDHURST and his coadjutors. The Assembly of Canada is the House of Commons. It grants the supplies, it appropriates them. Thwarted at every step by the Council, brow- beaten by the Go- vernor, abused by the Colonial Office, slighted by the Government— after every means had been exhausted that an insulted but still moderate people could invent to obtain their object— the House of Assembly came to a resolution to stop the supplies, or what was the same thing to withhold the appropriation of them. They did what, as Commons, they were entitled, on every prin- ciple as well as precedent, to do,— they demanded a redress of grievances before they granted a subsidy. No one pretends to doubt their right to act as they have acted. No one says that the same right is not inherent in them which is inherent in our own House of Commons in such a case. Tliey are convened to impose and appropriate the taxes of the province. That is their essential function. Deprived of it they are virtually annihilated Take from them, and of course from the people, the power which they are entitled to exercise over the raising and distribution of the public money, and you take ( rom them in fact everything. You remove the sole barrier against the most wanton despotism,! barrier, which, in some cases erected by custom, in others by law, exists more or less in all but the most barbarous communities. Well what do Ministers propose ? To comply with the wishes of the Assembly, to make' the Council elective and responsible? To refuse compliance with the and to suffer the penalty a continued denial of the supplies? Tbey intend to do neither. In the year 1837, the fifth year of the Reform act, a Ministry, calling themselves liberal, propose to maintain in their integrity all those grievances of which the people of Canada complain, and without the consent of the re- presentatives of the people of Canada, to appropriate the supplies which those representatives have by repeated and deliberate votes declared shall not be appropriated ! In a word, they propose to reduce the people of Canada to a state of vassalage and slavery, in- finitely inferior to the subjects of the Grand Turk, for it would be at the risk of his head were be to impose a tax or appropriate a tax otherwise than as the custom of his ancestors had sanctioned. Nothing of t'lis kind was ever attempted against the. United States. Let us give it its true name— It is a gross at- tempt at open robberij of the Canadian people. The Government that carries such an attempt info act, provokes and justifies rebellion. They have dissolved the only chain that bound obedience to authority. Had Ministers proposed henceforth to rule Canada by an order in Council,. the violation of constitutional principle would have been smaller. The very act of spoliation which tbey contemplate recognises the right of the Canadian . Assembly on which it purposes to trample. To their tyrannous law they add the ag- g- ravation of its being ex post facto. Will Ministers be allowed to work tbeir evil work in this respect ? Who is to prevent them ? The Tories might but won't— the Reformers would but cannot. What is to be the upshot in America ? Were we in Canada as we are in England, sooner than submit to such an act, as Ministers advise— we would sling our shot poueh over our shoulder, and, with our rifle in our hand, take the wood at once against our oppressors. Perhaps the Canadians may not have immediate re course to that ultimum remedium. But they will bide their time. What is to ensue in England ? Ministers, it was said, meant to resign on the Irish bill and the Church- rates bill, and they got credit for policy as well as patriotism in such a resolution. They will now resign on the Canada bill also. What kind of credit do they think will accrue to them from that bill ? They may imagine it to be a small matter. It is so. It concerns the freedom of a province only It is by small matters that men's honesty is tested. The Ca- nada bill will be to them as the fly in the apothecary's ointment— it will render unsavoury all the rest of their doing's. Mr. SCHOLEFIELD desires us to contradict the state- ment in Monday's Gazette, that, on the motion for the second reading of the Equitable Gas Bill, he ( Mr. S.) said he took no part in the proceedings because he was a proprietor in one of the existing- Gas Companies; what Mr. S. did say, was—" That if he had consulted bis own private advantage he might have opposed the new Company, as he had been a proprietor from its commencement, of the Staffordshire Gas Company, but there was a third party, whose interest was paramount to all others, namely, the public, Which it was the duty of Parliament to protect, and as the petition presented that evening, praying for the Equitable Gas Com- pany's bill to be permitted to pass the house, ( a petition signed by 7,000 to 8,000 persons,) he conceived Par- liament could not refuse to grant a committee to allow the Company to endeavour to prove their case, should they be able to do so.'' Mr. Duncomlie has succeeded, it will be seen, in obtaining leave to introduce bis bill to abolish the rate- paying clauses, sorely against the will of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. Grote has not been indulged so far. Ministers had a glorious majority there, and also on the Canada resolutions. We intend next week to say a few words on the approaching election of Guardians; and also on the Grammar School question, and St. Philip's Church- yard. Touching this last we can this week merely refer to Mr. Lloyd's letter. We have three several quarrels fastened on us this week, which, to meek spirited men like ourselves, is a matter of abundant grieving. We have been abused by the Guardians of Birmingham ; sneered at bv the Churchwardens of Aston; and clapper clawed by the reverend clergyman of Ashted, without measure or mercy. We cannot stand up against all these at one time; we are almost afraid to engage with one of them. Shall we venture a reply to Mr. Allport ? He accuses us of misrepresenting bis words. Would he bad interpreted them for us! We know nothing of the unknown tongue We merely spoke as Johnson had spoken befo.- e us. Could we dream that Mr. Allport would demur to such a sound bishop- loving authority? What says the Doctor? CONTAMINATE; V.— To defile, to pollute. " A ba^ e pander holds the door Whilst by a slave, no gentler than a dog, llis faire- t daughter is contaminated." SHAK. H. 5. LOOSE — Wanton, not chaste. ' the daughter of a king, Now a loose leman to vile service bound." FAERY QUEEN. With such authorities before us, how were we other- wise to understand Mr. Allport's language than we did ? However, we confess our error; and when we are again called on to notice the lucubrations of the reverend gentleman, should any startling phrase pre- sent itself to our notice, we will attribute it to no worse cause than the " loose character" of its reverend author'^ English. CHURCH RATES.— The Gazette of Monday speaks of 700 petitions in favour of Church- rates having been presented to the House of Commons on Friday night. If the Editor had consulted the votes he would have seen that the number was 530 only. The number against the tax presented on Friday was 224. The total numbers for and against, Friday inclusive, were for 695, against 766. Even in this insignificant par- ticular the liberal party have a decided majority. When we come to compare the importance of the places from which the several petitions have proceeded, the differ- ence is more striking. What do our readers think of such known and noted places as Toller- porcorum, Purse Caundle, Affpuddle, and Tolpuddle ? Even to muster up a petition it is in many cases requisite to associate three, four, or more of these pre- eminent respectables. Thus, in the case of the " puddles," vwc have " Moreton, Affpuddle, Tomorspuddle, and To- 1 puddle," one petition; in another case, we have— '• Great- Yeldham, Little- Yeldham, Stanbourne, and Overton cum Kilbury;" in a third—" Charmonth, Wotton, Fetypaine, and Chatherston Lcvvston," and so on. In the entire 530 petitions presented on Fri- day, there are not above ten or a dozen places that ever were heard of before, save in the Parliamentary population return. We don't think we should at all overrate the case when we say that the Manchester and Glasgow petitions contained more names and more value than 500 out of the 530. MR. WOOD.— This gentleman, it will be seen, gives a concert of great attraction on Monday. SUDDEN DEATH.— On Tuesday evening an inquest was held before ,1. W. Whateley," Esq., on the body of a woman named Catherine Shaw, who lived at Ash- ted, and died suddenly on the previous Friday. Mrs. Lucy Deckers stated that she lived at No. 22, Duke- street, and the deceased resided at Ashted. O. i the previous Friday the deceased brought home to her house, betwei n eight and nine o'clock in the evening, a dress, which she had made at home. When she came in she complained of wind in her stomach, and at down. The family sat down to supper about nine o'clock, and the deceased along with them. She had not been many minutes sitting, when she got up and walked about the room with a knife and some bread and meat in her hand. She looked very w hite, and very much agitated. She seemed to be choked, and she ( Mrs. Deckers) said to her |" you have swallowed too large a piece." The deceased replied " perhaps I have," and she then sat down. She again got up and exclaimed " I am a dying woman." She then breathed very hard, and made a great noise. Mr. Hadley, sur- geon, was sent for and was soon in attendance, and rendered every assistance in his power, but without effect, and she died next morning. Mr. Hadley stated, that he was called in to the deceased about ten o'clock, and he then understood that she had been choked. He sent for a probe and passed it down, but he could not say whether he removed any food. She was quit • senseless and in a state of apoplexy He applied the necessary remedies, but she gradually sunk and died. On a post mortem examination lie found a large quantity of extravasated blood upon the ventricles of the brain. This was the causc of her decease. He examined the throat and found no abstraction in the passage. The stomach was quite healthy. He found nine large gall- stones in the gall- bladder, and they no doubt caused the pain of which the deceased complained. He had no doubt a fit of coughing came on the deceased, and that she burst a blood- vessel on the brain. The jury returned a verdict that the de- ceased died of the Visitation of God. She w as a woman respectably connected, and formerly pos- sessed of a good property. FATAL ACCIDENT.— Oil Saturday last a young man, named Thomas Wilden, the eldest son of a respectable widow residing at Nortlifield, met with an accident on the Pershore- road, which unfortunately terminated his existence. He was driving home his mother's horse and cart from Birmingham, and when on the above road, he stepped out of the cart upon the shaft, when the horse suddenly started off, and lie fell to the ground and one of the wheels passed over his neck. He was immediately taken to the house of Mr. Porter, surgeon, but that gentleman being from home, he was conveyed to the Black Swan, where he died in half an hour. RAILROAD ACCIDENT.— A poor man, named Dibden, employed in excavating on the Liverpool and Birmin- gham Railway, near the Sailor's Return, on Monday last, was so dreadfully injured from the falling in . of a sand- bank upon him, that he died almost immediately after the accident. CHILD FOUND.— An inquest was held on Tuesday on the body of an infant found in the canal near the Crescent- wharf, on the previous Friday. From the evidence of Mr. Bellamy, surgeon, it w as impossible from the state of decomposition in which the body was to ascertain its age or the cause of death. The Jury returned a verdict of found drowned. LATEST NEWS. HOUSE OF COMMONS. THURSDAY. PUBLIC'EXERCISING GROUNDS Mr. Hume's resolution for a clause in all enclosure acts to provide public exetcising grounds, after some observations in support of the principle from Sir Robert Peel, was agreed to. MERCANTILE MARINE Mr. Buckingham, after some rather lengthened conversation, obtained leave to introduce his bill, founded on the report of the committee that sat last year to improve the mercantile marine of the Empire. TEXAS A motion of Mr. Hoy, for the production of papers connected with the occupation of this territory by the United States, was negatived by 41 to 25. RATES AND TAXES Mr. T. DUNCOMBE asked leave to introduce a bill to abolish the rate- paying clauses of the Reform bill. Mr. Duncombe, the House being a thin one, wished to introduce the bill without provoking any discus- sion. This mode being opposed by Mr. Spring Rice, Mr. Duncombe said— " He would shortly state the reasons upon which he founded the proposition that he had submitted to the House. When the Registration act of last session was in progress, lie had moved that it be an instruction to the committee to provide for the repeal of that portion of the Reform act which required the payment of rates and taxes in cities and boroughs as the condition of registration, on the ground that ii was unconstitutional in principle, and vexatious in practice. The Attorney- General, however, told him that the matter did not come within the scope of the Registration bill; but that if he ( Mr. Duncombe) would make it the subject of a distinct bill, he ( the At- torney- General) would give that bill his serious considera- tion. He had now adopted that recommendation ; he had asked for leave to bring in the bill; and it was rather hard, after having thus adopted the recommendation of the At- torney- General, to be told by the Chancellor of1 the Ex- chequer that lie was pursuing an unusual course. His great reason for the measure was his belief and conviction, a belief and conviction which universally prevailed, that the clause in the Reform Act to the repeal of which this bill ap- plied itself operated materially to diminish the number of voters throughout the country. The noble lord by whom the Reform Act was introduced, and to whom he ( Mr. Duncombe) would ever feel grateful for the benefit, had anticipated that the effect would be to add half a million of voters to those previously existing. The fact was, how- ever, that it had not increased the previously existing num- ber by more than three hundred thousand. Mr. SPRING RICE opposed the measure, on the ground that it was a violation ot a most important act, and the only argument for it was, the carelessness of those for whose benefit that act was intended. The House divided, when there apppeared, for the mo- tion, 49; against it, 38 ; majority against Ministers, II. HOUSE OF LORDS. THURSDAY. CHURCH RATES The ARCHBISHOP of CANTERBURY in the strongest terms protested against the entire scheme of Ministers for the abolition of Church- rates, against which he presented several petitions. His Grace after some pre- liminary observations, observed— " When he considered the principle of the bill, he con- ceived it to be so unjust to the Church in itself, so pregnant with the most mischievous consequences, that he was pre- pared to say that he never could give it his consent. ( Hear, hear.; What did the measure propose to do? To take the payment of Church- rates from property which had borne it Irom time immemorial, and to transfer it to the property of the Church. ( Hear, hear.) He would ask who was it that complained ofthe burden of Church- rates? Was it the possessors of large property, those by whom the great pro- portion of the rates was paid? No, they would he ashamed to complain of an impost which was laid upon them for the support of religion, for the diffusion of morality, ( Hear, hear.) No. the bill was brought foiward lor the sole satis- faction ofthe Dissenters; and on what grounds did the Dissenters say they objected to it ? Expressly not on ac- count of its amount, but because they professed their prin- ciples would not suffer them to contribute to the support of a Church which they dill not frequent; although it was a tax to which their property was subjected by law, and which was always taken into the account in every sale or other transfer of property. ( Hear, hear.) It was stated that these rates were in future to be paid principally out of surplus funds arising from Church property. If there were such a surplus, what could be more consistent with every principle ofjusti ' e and right, than that it should be applied to relieve the pressing wants of those members of the Church who were now, to such an awful extent, de- prived of the benefits of religious worship and pastoral care throughout the country." He concluded by stating that in expressing these senti- ments lie did not stand alone; he was but the organ of llis right reverend brethren: — " Objections without end could be urged against the mea- sure : but as many of them were mat era of detail, although involving principles of importance, he would not now fur- ther remark on them, but he hail felt obliged to come for- ward not only to express his own feelings on the subject, but authorised to express the sentiments of others. A meet- ing of Bi- hops had been held that morning, at which they assembled to the number of fifteen, being nearly all tile pre- ' lates who were in town, and he had been authorised by them tu express their unanimous concurrence in the sentiments lie lind expressed, and their determination to resist the pro- po- e 1 measure by a'. l. proper and just means." ( Cries of hear, hear. ) LORD MEI. BOURNE commented on the premature display of zeal against an inchoate measure which such meetings and speeches exhibited : — " 1 would put it closely to the most reverend preliite whether he could consci ntiously deny that there is some- what ol haste and precipitancy in the present proceeding— ( hear, hear)— whether he had not brought forward ibis sub- ject improperly and invidiously, did I not feel confident that he had been driven on by those who have more guile and deeper designs than himself—( loud cheers)— in order that an effect may be produced both here and elsewhere of a nature ' o influence the decision whiclnis impending in the other House on this all important question. ( Cheers.) My louls, I consider thiit this measure is a measure of pence, of enncord—( loud laughter on the part of the Bishop of Exeter)— the right revereijfl preljite laughs, but he will find, if he is not already aware ol it, that the subject is a most se- rious one. ( Heat, lienr ) I repent my lords, this is a measure of pence and concord ; a measure for the relief from an unjust tax of » large portion of His Majesty's subjects; n measure to put an end lo a state of things which the most learned prelate hinpself has practically ad- mitted to he unfitting and inconvenient, and to require to be put mi end to; lor the most reverend prelate himself gave his consent to the in reduction of a measure for the purpose of doing awny with the present mode ol assess THE . BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. ing and administering Church- rates. ( Hear, hear.) Considering, then, ray lords, that such is the nature and character of this measure, I must beg to say that I think it would have heen more fitting, more becoming, more decent, on the part of tlie most reverend prelate to have waited until the regular time had arrived for the discussion of this ques- tion, and not to have pronounced with precipitate haste so decided a sentence of condemnation of the measure. ( Loud cheers.)" He described according to lus views the real object of the ministerial measure. " The most reverend prelate has laid it down, that what- ever surplus there may be ought to be applied to remedy the wants he states to exist of church accommodation, and that any other application of it will be inconsistent with every just principle. On the latter point I altogether differ from the most reverend pielate. I admit, that having found a surplus to exist, it became a fair question in what mode it should be applied, whether to the object now pro- posed, or to the object stated by the most reverend prelate. Having fairly considered that question, the decided opinion I have come to is this:— that to restore tranquillity to the country, to remove the causes of that discord, of these dis- turbances and dissensions, which have so long agilated this Christian kingdom, is the first duty of a Christian Legisla- ture, and ought to be the first duty of a Christian hierarchy. ( Cheers.) With this feeling, however anxious I have ever felt that the objects now stated by the most reverend pre- late should be amply provided for, I have made up my mind that the preference should be given to the objects contem- plated by the measure now in question. ( Hear, hear. )" He stated his determination to proceed with it, to be in no respect abated by the declaration of the Archbishop and the threatened hostility of the reverend bench. " My lords, I repeat it was with great sorrow, with great concern, I listened to the speech of the most reverend pre- late ; and it is necessarily deeply painful to me to find, that in the further prosecution of this measure we are to look for the decided opposition of the most reverend prelate and his brethren. But, my lords, however great my regret, I take leave to assure him and them— I take leave to assure the Louse and the country— that the opposition of the most reverend and right reverend prelates shall in no degree in- fluence me to alter the course I have marked out for myself on this question. ( Loud cheers.) Convinced as 1 am that it is a measure most important, most beneficial, and most essential, no opposition, whencesoever it comes, shall deter me from persevering in it to the last. ( Great cheering.)" The French Ministers have just suffered a defeat of con- siderable importance in the present abject state of public spirit in France. They had proposed what was called a law of disjunction, according to which when an offence was com- mitted by civil and military persons in company, the former only should be tried by the civil tribunals, while the latter were handed over to the military authorities. After some lengthy discussions, the Chamber on Tuesday finally re- jected this law by a majority of two, the numbers being for Ministers 209, against them 211. The Chronicle correctly remarks : —" Whatever may have been the intrinsic import- ance of the law, its rejection is certainly the most important act of the French Legislature since the settlement of 1830. From that epoch until the 7th of February, it never hesi- tated to pass each repressive law that successive Govern- ments thought fit to demand; and though from time to time it gave symptoms of a wish to stop short in the career of severe and conservative law- making— for instance, the amendment to the first address voted by the present Chamber— nevertheless some plot or assassination always occurred to re- awaken those fears entertained by the middle classes of the lower ones, and thus enabled the Government to obtain further extensions of the administrative and judi- cial power, in order to keep down faction. The political events of the year 1836, however, clearly proved to every acute observer, that the re- action against the revolutionary principle of July had been carried far enough. The fears above stated entertained by the middle classes of their infe- riors bad died away; and it was evidently the moment for those who, though friends of the revolution, had felt the necessity of curbing it, to stop'short and enter upon a more liheral and moderate path." Whether the Chamber, having entered on that path, will continue to walk therein time will show. The Ministers don't intend to resign. The Money Market, as it is significantly called, remains? high. Consols closed Thursday 90%, and Exchequer Bills 28s. to 30s. premium. Shares are also rather more n request. THE NEW BISHOP Ministers got credit for infinitely more liberality and courage than they possessed when report described them as about to bestow the vacant mitre on Dr. Hampden. They now and then put on a bold face when attempting measures the success of which lies with others, but no set of men ever acted with more cautious prudence when called on to perform any action the issues of which rest with themselves. Their episcopal proteg£ in the pre- sent case is an Edward Denison, an Oxonian, and in the enjoyment of a vicarage, the gift of Merton College. He will be in the House, we suppose, in time to vote against the Church- rate bill. MEKTING RESPECTING THE INCORPORA- TION OF THE BOROUGH OF BIRMINGHAM. On Wednesday last a highly respectable meeting, con- vened by circular, was held at the Public- office to make the necessary arrangements for obtaining an incorporation of the borough. At twelve o'clock, Mr. Thomas Bolton, the late Low Bailiff, was called to the chair, and in a brief but appropriate speech, opened the business of the meeting. He fully concurred in the necessity of obtaining a municipal government for the town, and he had no doubt a large majority of his fellow townsmen would be found desirous of placing their municipal regulations upon a more extensive basis than that upon which they now rested. Mr. WM. WILLS proposed a resolution to the effect that it was expedient that steps should be taken to obtain a charter of incorporation, and in a very able speech pointed out the great advantages that would result from such a measure. Previously to his going minutely into the subject of the resolution, he observed that his task would be comparatively easy, because he had only to address persons friendly to the principle of corporation. He made this observation in consequence of seeing Mr. Hebbert, the secretary of the Loyal and Constitutional Association in the room, and because the meeting was called expressly for the purpose of considering what steps should be taken to obtain an incorporation, and not to discuss the propriety of apply- ing for a charter. Mr. HEBBKUT said he was under the impression that it was an open meeting, or he would not have attended. He had not read the circular particularly, for most certainly if he had considered that his attendance at the meeting would have been held as on acquiescence in the proceedings, or as pledging him to the principle of corporations, he would not have been present. Mr. Wills again referred to the circular, and Mr. Hebbert said as the meeting had been so convened, he would with- draw, and he accordingly left the meeting. Mr. WILLS resumed his speech, and, as we have above stated, in a very able manner enumerated the benefits that would result from an incorporation of the town. They would have the benefit of a publicly recognised officer, whose duty it would be to call public meetings of the in- habitants. and this officer would be elected by the constitu- ency of the town. At present the only person who could call a public meeting was the High Bailiff, and he was elected by the Court Leet— a self- elected and irresponsible body. Tliey would also have the management of the affairs of the Commissioners, a very respectable, but like the Court Leet, a self- elected body. The appointment of the magistrates would also be placed in the bands of the people, and this he considered, perhaps, one of the greatest advantages that would result from a corporation. At present, the magis- terial business of the town was conducted by gentlemen who, no d mbt, made great sacrifices, but their attendance was not efficient, and the consequence was, a great loss of time to the inhabitants. They would, also, have courts of civil judicature in the town, and in place of sending their prisoners to lie tried at Warwick, they could have them tried at Birmingham at a much less expense. But the greatest effect ot all would lie the great ease and facility with which public opinion could be expressed, and the great effect which the decisions of a corporation would have upon the repieseiitatives of the. people in Parliament, for, from time immemorial, the corporations of England had been the nursing fathers of the rights and liberties of the nation. Mr. DOUGLAS seconded the resolution. Mr. WILLIAM REDFEIIN supported the resolution, from a conviction of the great importance of obtaining a good mu- nicipal government, . since the passing of the Corporation bill, he anil the inhabitants hasl desired the introduction ot a local government, and if the measure hail not been sooner brought lorwanl or more eagerly pursued, it WHS wing to the fact that tlte people had been given to understand that it was the intention of ilis Majesty's Ministers to introduce a bill for the incniporation ot Birmingham and the other unincorporated places. Mr. Uedfeni, as did the ptevious speakei-, adverted to the local interests that would be pro motel l> v the introduction of a . corporation, and expressed his rearer Hint there were some few of his own friends who consideied the affairs of the town were so well managed that reform was unnecessary. One advantage, however, wouhl arise from a corporation, anil that was that the people would have the appointment of the men who were toail- minister their affairs. They would have the levying of their own taxes, and those who expended the money would be re- sponsible to those who Da d it. Mr. Redferti next adverted to the present state of the Town- hall, and contended that if the inhabiiHtits of the town had had a proper municipal govern- ment when the act for the erection of that building was ob- tained, they never would have allowed such a power and authority over that building to be given to a musical com- mittee as was now enjoyed by those gentlemen. It was im possible the people would consent to have that building, Which cost so many thousands of pounds, under the entire controul of a few gentlemen for such a length of time before and after the festival as the act specified. For months past the people bad been deprived of the use of that Hall, and that too without even the courtesy of an official notice from the persons in authority. Mr. R. in a very eloquent speech contrasted the liberties enjoyed by England with those of other countries, and attributed the success of the people of of this country in retaining their rights to the existence of corporations and the facility they afforded for concentrating and giving effect to public opinion. It was impossible, in his opinion, that national freedom could exist in any country where the people were indifferent to local legislation. Mr. P. H. MUNTZ regretted what had taken place in the early part ot the meeting relative to Mr. Hebbert, because it was his most anxious desire that gentlemen of all parties should have been present. When he signed the circulars and sent them out he directed them to Whig, Tory, and Radical indiscriminately, because he did not consider the question one of party. It was one involving the interests of all classes, and he considered it right and fair that all par- ties should have a full opportunity of considering the merits of the subject. It was evident, however, that Mr. Hebbert misunderstood the terms of the circular, as the object was stated to be to consider the best means of procuring a cor- poration. Respecting the introduction of a corporation into the town he would say there was no existing abuse arising from the present defective system, which would induce him more strongly to wish for a corporation, than the abuses practised by the Governors of the Free Grammar Sehool. Six years ago an act of Parliament was obtained by that body, empowering them to build two schools, one classical and the other commercial; and what was the fact, why they had expended thirty thousand pounds in the classical school, and had neglected the commercial, by far the most im- portant to the community. They, however, knew they could not apply again to Pailiament without doing some- thing respecting the commercial school, and they had pro- posed to set apart one room to be devoted to commercial education, the master to be subject to Dr. Jeune. Mr. Muntz moved the appointment of a committee to make the necessary arrangements for carrying the object of the meet- ing into effect. Mr. RYLAND seconded the motion. Mr. EDMONDS proposed the members of committee. He deprecated the system of irresponsible powerwhicb character- ised the whole of the ruling bodies in the town. As indivi- duals he considered the commissioners highly respectable and honourable gentlemen, but irt their corporate capacity they had from time to time practised acts of tyranny, which, if generally adopted throughout the country by the other self- elected and irresponsible legislators, would have justified the nation in rising up and finally deposing them from their seats of power. Mr. BENJAMIN HADLEY seconded the nomination of the committee ; and after some unimportant observations from other gentlemen, the meeting broke up. It was altogether a preliminary meeting, and the above is not even an outline of the arguments used by the speakers in favour of the pro- posed'measure. REFORM ASSOCIATION. » Thursday evening the Couucil met at the Public- office, when the conduct of the Churchwardens of St. Philip's and the Commissioners in stopping up the walks of the Church- yard was brought before the meeting by P. H. Muntz, Esq. Mr. MUNTZ said he had not yet heard any thing like a sufficient reason assigned for stopping up the walks, not indeed, any reason that would not be as applicable to the stopping up any public street or thoroughfare in the town. It was disgraceful to the town, that the only public walk which the inhabitants had for recreation should be arbitrarily taken from them ; and that too at a time when the Parlia- ment, under a conviction of the necessity of providing such walks for the inhabitants of large towns, were endeavouring to pass a bill for that express purpose. This infringement upon the rights of the public was, however, entirely owing to the supineness and indifference of the people themselves. The encroachment on the walks was not made all at once. They first began by putting one slight obstruction, and then another, trying how far the people would endure it, ami finding no resistance, they were emboldened to proceed ; atid now the inhabitants were legally paled out. A more unjust proceeding was never carried on by any body of men holding the reins of local government, and if no other in- dividual in the town appealed against them at the ensuing Sessions, he would do so at his own expense. His object in introducing the subject now, was to induce the Council to take the necessary steps for appealing against the order of the magistrates at the ensuing Quarter Sessions. Mr. AARON said he had been informed by a gentleman o f the legal profession, that the act of the Churchwardens of St. Philip's was altogether illegal. It was, as had been described by Mr. Muntz, most disgraceful that the only walk which the people could enjoy without danger of being run over by Omnibuses, or being spattered witii mud by riders and drivers, should be taken from them ; and for no other reason than tu make accommodation for the Tory gentlemen of the town to attend musical and dancing parties at Dee's Hotel. Had he been a parishioner of Bir- mingham instead of Aston, he should have no hesitation in joining any of his fellow townsmen in pulling down the obstruction. Mr. DOUGLAS could attribute the conduct of the persons who first contemplated and carried the annoyance now complained of into effect, to no other motive than that of a pure desire of doing mischief, and of harassing the in- habitants. They envied the people the enjoyment which the walk afforded them, and they resolved on taking it from them. It wtis very well for gentlemen who lived in fine airy houses in Edgbaston, and who had the advantage of good gardens and such luxuries, to talk about the riotous conduct of children when rambling about the Church- yard; but if these gentlemen were confined as closely as the in- habitants of this town, and subject to the same close and pent- up atmosphere, they would think very differently; and in place of doing away with such walks, they would devise means by which they ' . .. a be enlarged and rendered more comfortable. Mr. Cutter then moved, and Mr. Aaron seconded a reso- lution in terms of Mr. Muntz's suggestion— that the officers of the Association be authorised to take such steps as may be deemed necessary, in order to prosecuting the appeal alluded to,— which was carried unanimously. MEETING OF GUARDIANS. Wednesday evening, an adjourned Meeting of Guardians was held at the Workhouse vestry for the purpose of receiv- ing a deputation from the Cemetery Company, and recon- sidering the late election of Chaplain. Mr. Cornelius Ro- bins was called to the chair. Messrs. Rock, Edge, and Robertson, the deputation from the Cemetery Company, were called into the room, and along, and to the public a perfectly uninteresting, discussion relative to the sand upon the Key Mill estate took place. The facts of the case ap- peared to be that two years ago the Company purchased the estate for 5,750/. and the Guardians according to the agree- ment then entered into, reserved to themselves the right of drawing sand from a portion of the land for the ensuing five years. On the part of the Committee it was contended that the Guardians had oidy a rigiit to remove the satid by means of the paupers, but in place of doing so they had em- ployed carts and waggons, and thereby consequently re- moved a far greater quantity than at the period of the agree- ment was anticipated. On tile other hand the Guardians contended that the agreement did not bind them to any spe- cific mode by which they were to remove the sand, and as they were now deriving 500/. per annum from the sale of the sand, it would be injustice on their part towards the pa- rish to give up the right. At the close of the discussion JAMES JAMES, Esq., pro- posed, that as the matter was purely a question of pounds, shillings, and pence between the Guardians and the Com- pany. the subject be referred to two disinterested persons. The motion was put and lost, and the question remains in the state in which it was prior to the conference. LATE ELECTION OF CHAPLAIN This subject was intro- duced by Mr. HEDGE who said, as one of the persons who had signed the requisition calling that meeting, he felt it his duty to make a few observations, particularly having heard various motives attributed to him and those gentlemen who had called the meeting. He had heard it said that theiR ob- ject was to carry the election of one candidate at the expense of another; now this was not the fact; he had no unfair bias towards either of the. candidates, for he could assure them that during the discussion at the last meeting respect- ing the two candidates, he changed his mind more than once, and until fie had heard all the arguments for arid against, he had not determined for whom he should vote. E1 is only object in wishing the subjeet to. be brought forward again was, in order that they might Correct whatever error or irregularity they had fallen into. It might be said, and no doubt veiy properly, that the objection against the elec- tion ought to have been made at the time, but it did not follow because the objection had not been made tfiat they ought not now to correct their error if they had fallen into one. He was free to confess lie had committed an error in sanctioning the proceedings, but he was determined not to continue in the eiror ; if he had not taken any objection to the proceedings at the time, it was owing in a great degree to the confidence be flail placed in Mr. James, thir ahair- mnii. He believed then, and did still, that gentleman was utterly incapable of doing any act which he knew or believed to be in the least wrong, and it was this confidence in his integrity and sound judgment which led him to overlook the irregularity of his voting. He believed, however, that gentleman had been misled, and he wished the subject to be reconsidered. Mr. KNIGHT said, although not one of the requisitionists, he should take part in the discussion of the subject, and before doing so, he wished to have the minutes of the last meeting read over. He believed they did not cdntain a full and particular detail of the proceedings, and whatever the decision of that night's meeting might be, he considered it of importance that a full report of the proceedings at the last meeting should be entered. The CHAIRMAN then read the minutes, after which Mr. KNIGHT said, it was obvious to every person who knew what bad taken place, that all the facts were not stated in the report just read. It was not that faithful record which ought to have been made. To remedy this defect, and enable them to proceed upon a proper foundation, he had endeavoured to draw up a correct report of what had taken place. He should read it, and move its insertion upon the minutes of the board. He then read as follows— " That the following are correct details of the proceedings at a general meeting of guardians, held oil Wednesday last, as convened for the election of a chaplain : — " The Rev. Mr. Saunders and the Rev. Mr. Hayden having been proposed as candidates, balloting papers were delivered to the guardians present, and the chairman having ascertained by enquiry that each guardian was duly supplied, the votes were collected by Mr. Welch, the treasurer. The chairman next proceeded to ascertain the result of the ballot, by calling over the votes as given for the respective candidates, the vestry- clerk taking, as usual, an account thereof, anil at the close, Mr. Bynner stated the numbers to be— for Mr. Saunders, 41; for Mr. Hayden, 40. Some doubt was expressed, by one of the reporters present, as to the correctness of Mr. Bynner's return, whereupon the chairman decided on having the votes called over and counted again. During the process of counting the votes a second time, the chairman, who had previously declined voting, was urged to vote, and he did so. The votes having been counted a second time, and, including the vote added by the chairman subsequent to the first counting, the num- bers for each candidate were then found and declared to be equal, the chairman observing that the vestry clerk's first return was thereby proved to have been correct." Mr. JAMES : 1 demur to part of that statement. I did not vote during the time the votes were being counted a second time. I voted whilst the papers were being sorted. Mr. KNIGHT : Then the distinction is this— After the papers were counted the first time, a doubt was suggested respecting the accuracy of the numbers. The whole of the papers were again put into a hat, and then they were sorted out into two separate hats, those for Mr. Hayden being put into one hat, and those for Mr. Saunders into another, and it was when the chairman was in the act of thus sorting them that he voted. There is a distinction, but it is only in the terms sorting and counting. The ground of objection is that the chairman voted after tfie papers had been once counted. I will alter my report, and take out the words—" during the process of counting the votes a second time," and I will substitute the word afterwards, and then it. will be literally correct, and my position will not be affected by it. Mr. ARMFIELD begged leave to say he could bear testi- mony to what had been said by the Low Bailiff. He voted at the time he had stated. Mr. KNIGHT: I now move that this corrected report of the facts of the late meeting be inserted in the minutes. Mr. WESTALL we believe seconded the motion. Mr. EDMONDS then rose and proposed the following amendment. " That this meeting is of opinion that the late election of the Rev. C. Hayden, as chaplain to the Workhouse, was conducted with perfect fairness and regularity ; that the conduct of the chairman was in every respect honourable and impartial; that as the election bad been confirmed by a subsequent vote unanimously passed, ' that the Kev. C. Hayden be appointed with a salary of 150/. per annum ;' also, that the motion was proposed by one of the requisi- tionists of this special meeting and unanimously passed, ' that the necessary arrangements consequent upon such an appointment be referred to the Religious and Education Committee;' and besides this a vote of thanks was unani- mously given by the same meeting to the chairman for his impartial conduct in the chair. That it is the opinion of the Guardians now assembled, that as no objection was made at the time of election, this special meeting was unnecessary and uncalled for, and that, therefore, it would be illegal anil ungenerous to disturb the appointment then made and duly confirmed and declared." Mr. EDMONDS in support of tiie amendment said, it was not legitimate tor the meeting to order any report of the last meeting than that taken at the time; any other would only be from recollection. He would not occupy much of their time in arguing the propriety of passing tiie amend- ment, but he would call upon the Guardians to recollect that their official existence was about to terminate, and it would be exceedingly disagreeable to him if they were to stultify themselves at the close of their time of office by agreeing to the resolution before the meeting. The chair- man on the occasion undei consideration did not obtrude his vote upon the meeting, he was requested to vote by the friends of both candidates, and he did so legally; fie in- sisted upon it the chairman was called upon to vote at the proper time, and he gave his vote at the proper time. He did not consider the course then pursued ought to be made a precedent for the future conduct of the Guardians, and that any of the Guardians ought to vote after the rest, but there was no time specified in the act when they were to vote, and the time of voting did not affect the validity of the chairman's vote on the late occasion; then gentlemen would recollect that after the voting had been gone through, it was unanimously resolved that the Rev. ?> Ir. Hayden should be appointed, they would see that it was exceedingly unge- nerous and unkind to place that gentleman's interest in sus- pense; there was a degree of cruelty in harassing him, and nothing but an absolute necessity which did not exist could have justified the six gentlemen who had called the meeting Mr. ltenaud seconded the amendment. Mr. JAMES JAMES then rose, he said he was sure however gentlemen might differ with him as to the legality of the vote fie bad given at the last meeting, they would give him credit for having acted conscientiously, and from a motive of delicacy. ( Hear, hear.) It was his wish not to interfere in the election, if possible, from a desire to avoid any partici- pation in a transaction which appeared to him somewhat like Church patronage, and that was the reason why he deferred his voting so long; but his voting was unavoidable. He would now come to his right of voting as he had done, and he must say he believed he had voted legally. Since the meeting he had been favoured with the opinion of a gentle- man of the legal profession in Birmingham, a gentleman of high standing and sense ofhonour, and the mention of whose name he was sure would induce them to attach importance to his opinion. That gentleman bad told him, Mr. James, in the most unhesitating manner, that he had voted perfectly legally; with respect to the facts of the case he admitted they were strictly stated by Mr. Knight in his corrected re- port, but it ought to be recollected that lie had voted at the request of both parties, and he did not declare the result until after the numbers were counted the second time. But after all was he to believe that forty one gentlemen, friends of Mr. Saunders, could not see the error until the next mora- ing. The fact was, the error was not thought of, and when some gentlemen called on him next morning and told him they intended bringing the matter forward, he could hardly believe they intended doing so. If the meeting decided against his conduct he should certainly demur to their ver- dict, because he claimed, upon the opinion of a gentleman of great legal attainments, to have acted legally ; he was not therefore interested so much for himself as he was for the gentleman who had been kept in suspense. His. Mr. James's, character he trusted stood too high to suffer from the misrepresentations of one part of the local press. ( Hear, hear.) He was always happy to see the gentlemen connected with the press present on such occasions, but he would tell them that while they could not injure the cha- racter of a gentleman by giving false reports, they could in- jure their own character by such false statements. ( Loud cries of hear, hear and applause from Mr. Hayden's friends.) He thanked them for the patient hearing they had given him. Mr. MALINS said he had not signed the requisition, but he felt that the Guardians had fallen into an irregularity at the last meeting, arid be was willing to correct the error. He considered it right that they should insert upon the mi- nutes a correct report of the late proceedings; and wiiy Mr. Edmonds was opposed to Mr. Knight's motion he could not conceive. He, Mr. Malins, did not ask to dis. turb the election, but fie could not consent to smother any one act which he deemed illegal; lie was of opinion the elec- tion was irregular, and he thought the Guardians would stultify themselves much more by refusing to acknowledge or correct an error than by defending it. It was a fact which could not he denied, that the chairman had voted after the ballot had closed ; the votes bad been once summed up by the proper officer, and in his opinion it was illegal for the chairman as a Guardian to vote after that period. Mr. WESTALI. said, the statement presented by Mr. Knight was admitted by all present to be correct, and why object to have a fair statement in the books. Mr. EDMONDS said Mr. Knight's report was incorrect. Mr. ALLFOKT considered the election had been fairly con- ducted ; the ballot could not be considered closed until the j numbers were finally declared. Mr. KNIGHT rose amidst cries of question, Mr. 11EELF. Y considered the resolution was only trifling with the meeting; the Circular calling the meeting stated that they were to consider the validity of the appointment of the Rev. Mr. Hayden, and yet not one word had been said upon that point. There was not a gentleman present who could deny the statements contained in Mr. Emonds's amendment. Mr. WESTALL considered that an unwarrantable stress had been laid upon the fact of the resolution appointing Mr. Hayden having been put from the chair and carried after the balloting ; he thought if the balloting was wrong, the reso- lution after it must also be wrong, and in his opinion both were irregular. Mr. KNIGHT said, there never was a more extraordinary opposition than that raised againsthismotion ; no man dared assert that it contained an untruth, and no man dared saythe report then on the books was correct, yet they were called upon to oppose the insertion ofacorrect report. However, whether they agreed to it or not it must be inserted in the books. It must go before Mr. Edmonds's amendment although it should be lost. Mr. EDMONDS said, that was a question ; they could carry his amendment and also agree that Mr. Knight's mo- tion should not be inserted. Mr. EMES and others here rose, but could not obtain a hearing, and loud cries of question being raised, the chair- man put the amendment, and on ashow of hands being taken, it was declared carried by a large majority. Mr. WESTALL then moved the insertion of Mr. Knight's resolution in the minutes. Mr. EOMONOS moved that it be not inseited ; it did not contain all the facts of the case, and was nothing more than surplusage. Mr. WESTALL was sure unless the chairman was led by the excitement in the meeting he never would consent to suppress Mr. Knight's motion. Mr. JAMES was of opinion Mr. Knight's motion ought to be put on record. Mr. MALINS never heard such a proposition as that of Mr. Edmonds's ; how could they put the amendment on record without the ojiginal motion. Mr. EDMONDS instanced the motion of the late Mr. Cob- bett in the House of Commons respecting Sir Robert Peel; it was then carried that it should be expunged altogether. Mr. MALINS considered that only piovetl the motion had been recorded ; if it had not been on the minutes of the House it could not have been expunged. Mr. FULFORD seconded Mr. Edmonds's motion, upon which a great deal of irielevant conversation and altercation took place, and Mr. Edmonds's motion was withdrawn. [ We have been given to understand that deadly offence Wis taken by the friends of the low- bailiff from that gentle- man's being noticed in our last week's report without any expletive of honour to his name; and that was privately de- liberated amongst them whether, fur such an act of lese ma- jesty, our reporter should not be expelled from the meeting. We take this opportunity of appeasing these liberal gentlemen by stating, that in the reporter's M. S. the words stood " James James, Esq." and that the omission of the " Esq." was the error of the compositor. We trust they will accept of this apology. They must expect every body to be as re- gular as themselves. E. B. J.] PUBLIC OFFICE. MONDAY, MARCH 6th. ( Before E. L. Williams and J. T. Lawrence, Esgrs.) A SWINDLER— This morninga fellow named Collingwood, who for weeks past has been swindling in the town and neighbourhood, was brought up. He is about five feet nine inches in height, and a full habit of body, and altogether of respectable appearance. The first person who appeared against him was Miss Shenton, of Broad- street; who stated that she kept a draper's shop, and on the 10th day of February the prisoner came into her shop about half- past three o'clock in the afternoon, and asked her it the esta- blishment opposite ( meaning a school which was then closed) ' was closed, and if she could tell him whether it had not answered. She told him she did not know, there had been a sale, but she was a stranger and could not tell whether the lady had sold up from choice. She ( Miss Shenton) had some pencils in her hand, and she asked the prisoner if he could tell her whether they were good ones. Me said he did not know, but he would ask his brother, Squire Crompton, who lived above the Five- ways gate. His brother had been in London more than he ( the prisoner) and he had had a better opportunity of knowing the value of such things. The prisoner then remarked, she had a pretty shop, and he supposed it was highly rented. She replied, sadly too high, but she hoped it would answer as she had some idea of letting two apartments. He said he was glad to hear it, as he was then on his way to Great Charles- street to look at some apartments he had spoken about be- fore he went to London, from whence he had returned the day before. He also said he had been in the habit of residing with his brother, but as there was a large family it did not answer him, as he was a person of retired habits. He then went on to say his father had died immensely rich, but that he ( the prisoner) being a bachelor, had not had his share, and he was going to begin business in Birmingham, and he should like the walk into town ; that he would speak to the persons in Great Charles- street to get off those lodgings, and would return again and try to take hers. He then left, but returned before he could have had time to go to Great Charles- street; and he then said he had given them up, and the parties were highly displeased. She asked him to walk round the counter and look at the apartments, which he did, and expressed himself highly pleased with them. The terms were then talked about, and he offered one guinea per week for his board and lodging. She told him there must be an end to the matter if he could not give more, for she could not accept any such terms. The prisoner he- sitated for some minutes, and at last said he would be ex- ceedingly sorry to give up the lodgings, as they appeared just the thing to suit him; lie then said he would go as far as thirty- shillings a week, but no farther. To this she agreed, and he said lie hoped it would be for their mutual advantage. He would be in a circle of rich and influential friends, who would no doubt extend, on his account, their patronage to her shop. The prisoner then asked her to give him pen, ink, and paper, and she did so. He sat down in the parlour and wrote a letter, which he put in his pocket. She then told him she could not have the rooms ready for him that evening, and he said it would not matter, provided she could allow him to put in his luggage, which was at an inn. She of course agreed to that, and the pri- soner said lie would call a car, and go immediately to the irin arid see about his goods. He left, and returned imme- diately, and said he had a bird at the inn, for which he en- tertained a great regard, and he wished the servant of the house to follow him down and fetch up the bird. To this also she ( Miss S.) agreed, and everything appeared to be most comfortably settled. The prisoner then went to and from the door several times as if watching for the car to drive up, and his manner was such as to preclude all suspi- cion of his intention. The car at last came to the door, and the prisoner suddenly turned round to her and said he wished she could give him five sovereigns or change him a five pound note. He said it was past Bank hours, or some- thing to that effect, but she had still no suspicion whatever of him, and she ran up stairs and came down immediately with five sovereigns, and threw them down on the counter. He took them up, stepped into the car, and drove off, and she never saw him after. Her servant went to the inn, but could not get any account of either him or the bird. Mr. Smith, solicitor, attended for the prisoner, and asked Miss Shenton a few questions, the object of which was to show that the prisoner borrowed the money. Mr. ' Gem said there were other charges against the pri- soner, but they were not yet made out. The prisoner was committed. Thomas Webb was committed for stealing a piece of bacon from the kitchen belonging to the Swan at Yardley. John Mann and William Morris were committed for stealing a quantity of iron bolts and bars, the property of Mr. Townsend. The prisoners weie employed on the rail- road. They stole the iron at different times, and in consequence of information given to the overseer of the works, the prisoners' houses were searched, and the pro- perty found in them. Mr. Joseph Taylor, retail brewer, appeared to answer an information laid against him by Mackie, the informer. Mr. Wm. Redfern, solicitor, attended for Mr. Taylor. A man who gave his name as Edward Harwood was called and examined by the informer. He stated that he was a warehouseman out of place. He knew the defendant's house in Broad- street. On Saturday night week he went to his house between ten and eleven o'clock, and called for two glasses of ale ; he was served with them, and he handed the woman six- pence. He forgot to ask for his change until he left the house; when fie had got a few yaids lrom the house he returned and got his change. Cross- examined by Mr. Redfern: He was not a native of Birmingham; but lie had worked in it many years. His last employer was Mr. Jones, of Worcester- street; he was not discharged for any misconduct. Mackie paid liitn 25s. per week. There was not any agreement between him and Mackie that his wages were to vary in proportion to the number of convictions. Mr. Redfern put some questions to the witness, the ob- ject of which was to ascertain whether his wages ha I at any time been higher than they then were. Harwood replied that he had never received higher wages than he now did. Mr. Williams said he considered these questions to be unnecessary ; they did no. t bear upon the case. Mr. Redfern considered they were necessary questions; his purpose was to show that the witness ha! a sinister motive, and that such being the fact, bis evidence ought to be received with caution. Mr. Williams said it was perfectly immaterial what wages he formerly had; he had sworn that his wnges were 25s. per week and no more Mr. Redfern still thought he had a right to pursue the examination. Mr. Williams : I do not think it is necessary. Mr. Redterri : I do think it necessary. My intention is to show that the witness has an interest in the conviction, which would vitiate his evidence ; but as you think other- wise, I shall throw up the case. Mr. Williams: I think it unnecessary. Mr. Redfern: Then I throw up the case; and I must observe it is not the first time I have received incivility from you, sir. Mr. Williams: This case lias been taken out of its turn expressly to accommodate you, and I think the observation uncalled for; you have made it in haste. Mr. Redfern : I have not made it in haste. I have said nothing I feel disposed either to retract or qualify. Mr. Williams said he had obtained from the witness suf- ficient to enable him to judge of his interest in the case. The examination of the witness was then resumed, and in answer to questions by Mr. Redfern and the magistrates, he admitted he had been drinking before he went to the defendant's house. Ellen Baker, servant to Mr. Taylor, proved that she closed the door at ten o'clock on the night in question, and, before she did so, two men called at the bar, and she gave them two glasses of ale. One of them handed her six- pence, and they went away without their change. They returned, and she gave one of them two- pence. Mr. Williams recalled Harwood, and examined him to the fact of there being another ' man with ^ him at the de- fendant's house. He admitted there was another person with him, upon which the magistiates dismissed the complaint, observing that Mackie ought to have produced the man who was with Harwood. FRIDAY, MARCH 10. { Before Francis Lloyd and J. Towers Lawrence, Esqrs.) A man named Fleet was summoned for driving a cart through Aston Park turnpike- gate, without paying the toll. The offence was proved, and the defendant was ordered to pay a penalty of 20s., including the costs, or to be com- mitted. James Cain was summoned for refusing to pay toll at the same gate, on the 27th of February. The gate- keeper stated that the prisoner drove through the gate, and as he was passing, threw down sixpence for the toll. He was told he must pay one shilling, but he refused, and drove on. On his return he was again asked for the money, when he became abusive and refused to pay. Cain, in his defence, said he had paid all he considered he ought to pay. The fact was, he had a very heavy load, and when he got near the gate, he hooked a horse belonging to another man to help to pull up the hill, and he passed through the gate with the two horses thoughtlessly. The magistrate fined him 40s. and costs, or to be com- mift d for one month. Samuel Smith was brought up charged with buying, know- ing them to have been stolen, eighty- four bolts, some straps, and other articles, the property of Mr. Townsend, Rail- road contractor. Mr. Wood, superintendent to Mr. Townsend, stated that a large quantity of manufactured iron having been stolen from his employer, he made enquiries, and found it had been taken by a man named Morris, who was employed on the works. He made further inquiries, and having had reason to suspect the prisoner had received it, he went to his house with a constable, and there found tiie iron now produced. The prisoner was a smith, and worked for Mr. Townsend, and on being questioned about the iron, he ad- mitted he had manufactured some of it, and sold it to Mr. Townsend at 3141!. per 11)., and that he had afterwards pur- chased it from Morris for one halfpenny per lb. The above being corroborated by Beck and Chimley, the officers, the prisoner was ordered to be committed for re- ceiving. Mr. Edmonds said the prisoner, up to the present time, had supported a very excellent character, and he hoped the magistrate would admit him to bail— Mr. Lawrence con- sented, and three persons, named Wilkins, Woodward, and Woodroffe, entered into sureties, one in 50/. two in 25/. each, and the prisoner himself in 100/. for bis appearance at the sessions. John Butler and Thomas McNally were charged with stealing a pair of trowsers belonging to Mr. Samuel. Mr. Samuel slated that 011 Wednesday he saw the prisoners walking to and fro about his shop : he watched them, and in a few minutes saw them pull down the trowsers from the front of his shop and make off with them. They were pur- sued by a person who was passing and taken into custody. The prisoners were committed to the Sessions. Thomas Bakeioell was charged with stealing some brass metal belonging to Mr. Vickcrs Fellows. Hall, the constable, stated that, 011 the evening before, he was going through Lancaster- street, when he met the pri- soner carrying something in his apron. He stopped him and asked him what he had, upon which the prisoner told him he was employed by Mr. Fellows, and that he had stolen the metal; it was the first he had stolen. The brass was produced and identified. The prisoner said he stole the metal to buy a loaf of bread. He was committed to the Sessions. John Claridge was committed for stealing a pair of trowsers, the property of Mr. Nicholls, tailor, of Stafford- street. Joseph Perks was charged with stealing in the shop of Mr. Thornley, Snow- hill. Mr. Forster, assistant to Mr. Thornley stated, that on Wednesday evening be was in the counting house, and on coming out he saw the prisoner in the shop leaning over the counter and taking the money out of the till. He gave him in charge to a street keeper, who searched him, and found two shillings and sixpence concealed in his neckerchief. The young rogue being unable to deny the charge was com- mitted as a rogue and vagabond to the House of Correction for three months. Mary Gascomb and Charles Meeson were charged with robbing a person, whose name did not transpire. Hall, the officer, stated that at six o'clock on Sunday morning a man came to the Police Office and stated, that he bad been robbed by three girls of eighteen sovereigns; he went in search of them and apprehended the prisoners, when he found nine sovereigns upon the female prisoner, and some more money on Meeson. The person who had been robbed lived at Bristol, and was obliged to leave the town, but he would return in a few days and would no doubt be able to identify them. The prisoners were remanded until Monday. Joseph AUcoch and Thomas Overs were brought up on suspicion of robbery. Mr. Jones, shoemaker, Steelhouse- lane, stated [ that on Wednesday evening fie had occasion to go out, and on his return he fouud the shop closed and all right; he then went out again, and 011 his return he found the shop open and that it had been robbed ot twenty- three pair of shoes. The pri- soner Overs was his apprentice, and from all he could learn he had 110 doubt the shop had been opened by him and the prisoner Allcock admitted, and the place robbed. He had not found any of the property, nor had he any positive eve- dence against them. The magistrates said, under such circumstances they must discharge the prisoners. A hopeful youth, named Taylor, was charged with beat- ing his father. The poor old man detailed the assault, and the young vagabond was ordered to enter into sureties to keep the peace, and in default to be committed. Henry Ashley was committed for stealing potatoes from a field belonging to Thomas Thiekbroom, of Harborne. Mr. Jacob Cohen and Jacob Phillips, pawnbrokers, Snow- hill, were summoned to answer informations laid against them by Chatwin, the informer, for receiving goods in pledge without inserting all the articles so received in the duplicate. It appeared that a basket and two blankets had been pledged for 8s. but the duplicate only stated a basket. Mr. Edmonds, in behalf of Mr. Cohen and Mr. Phillips, pleaded guilty, and the the lowest penalty of 40s. was in- flicted. William Chambers, of New Church- street, was summoned for cruelty to his ass. Mr. Alfred Walterstated, that on Tuesday he was going through Summer. lane, when he saw Chambers strike the ass about forty times on the back in the most cruel manner ; the poor animal sunk under every blow it received, and it was with difficulty that it was kept " up by another man who was with the cart. Chambers in his defence denied the charge, and produced a stick with which he said he had beaten the ass, and he was sure it would not injure it. Mr. Walter denied that the stick produced was the one which had been used ; it was much thicker. The magistrates fined Chambers in the highest penalty, 40s. and costs, and in default of payment to be committed for one month. . Me paid the penalty, and Mr. Walters di- rected his portion of it, 20s. to be paid over to the Dis pensary. SIR,— It is due to myself to rectify a mistake into which the Editor of the Birmingham Advertiser has fallen, in his report of an alteration that took place between myself and Mr. Williams, at the Public office, on Monday last. He lepresents that gentleman to have wound up the conversa- tion between us, by the following remark addressed to me " You are very hot ; every body who knows you— the whole profession know you to be hot." Ha'ving a clear recollec- tion of every thing which happened on that occasion, I affirm, with the greatest confidence, that no such observa- tion was made,— nor any thing tantamount to it,— nor any thing which, I should have thought, could well have' been mistaken for it. In making this assertion, I am borne out by the tecollection of several parties, who were then pies- lit, and had peculiar facilities for observing what took place. If it were not superfluous to defend myself against a charge, which had not been preferred, I might say, with perfect truth and justice, that I have. never, up to the pre- sent moment, been engaged in a single quarrel witli any of my legal brethren, on grounds of a personal or professional nature.— I am, sir,— your obedient servant, W. REDFERN. March 10th, 1837. THE . BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. NEWS OF THE WEEK. FOREIGN. OMINOUS ACCIDENT IN CHINA — A company of actors which performed at Honansome time ago, and whose dresses were much admired for their richness, were a few days since engaged by the people of a village of the name of Kowkong. Alter the temporary theatre had been erected, and everything was ready lorAhe play to begin, when striking up the music the great drumlbuist, which accident being considered an unlucky omen, ihe actors refused to perform ; hut the people would not be thus deprived of their amusement, and with threats and clamour compelled the actors to proceed. During theperformancesomefire works were let off, and the bamboo shed in which the " sing- song" wastook- fire. The spectators, too eager to save themselves, rushed out over a narrow bridge constructed for the occasion to lead to the theatre, built over a ri* er, which gave way under the too great pres- sure, and all those at the time upon it were precipitated into the water, and upwards of 120 women, and thirty men drowned. Of the actors none lost their lives, but three chests of their wardrobe were either destroyed by the fire or stolen during the confusion— Canton Press, Octvbcr 22. EFFECTS OF SLAVERY.— A more daring act of villainy is not recorded in the annals of crime than was attempted about six miles from Columbus, on the evening of Thursday, the 4th of January, by a negro belonging to Sir. John Matthews, planter. Mr. Matthews was from home on business, leaving his family, consisting of his wife, three small children, and the negro. Dunns; the night the fiend endeavoured to deprive his mistress of l ie, and probably to steal a large sum ot money, which Mr. Matthews was said to have in his bouse. Iri the evening, the negro made a large fire, and soon after a whistle was heard outside of the window. The negro pretended to be alarmed, and said he would go out and get the axe for defence ; he did so, and placed it against the wall. A few minutes after, while Mrs. Matthews was stooping down, the black seized her by the neck, and attempted to kill her with the axe; but with a bold effort she broke from his ferocious grasp, gained pos- session of the deadly weapon, and threw it from her. The demon then tried to force her into the fire; and, in the struggle, threw her on the hearth,; but again she overcame him, rose from the ground, and succeeded in throwing him on the floor. A scuffle again ensued, and, the negro getting the advantage, dragged her out of the house by the hair, intending, as be afterwards confessed, to diovvn her in the pond. Before they reached it, however, she once more made a desperate struggle, when he drew a knife, and tried to stab her ; she grasped it, and after a violent effort pos- sessed herself of that also, and gave him a gash in the throat. He fell, and the woman with her children escaped in a most exhausted state to the house of a neighbour. A search was soon after tnatle for the baffled murderer, and he was found in some under- brush not quite dead. Me admitted that lie had made a large fire for tlte purpose of burning his mistress and her three children. At the time the letter was written lie was still alive.— American Paper. VULGAR FRACTIONS AT A DISCOUNT— A master tailor of Amsterdam, named Weiland, a German by birth, has in- vented a machine which performs the task of sewing a gar- ment as well as it can be done by the hand. THE LOVER ANDTHE MADMAN.— A M. tie Lara, a Spanish author, lately committed suicide at Madrid, conceiving the mad idea that Queen Christina was in love with him. He frequently addressed letters to her Majesty, hut received no answer. He then threw himselt in her way, whenever she appeared abroad, but could never obtain a single look from her. lie next imagined that the only obstacle to the grati- fication of his passion was the presence of Munoz, and he accordingly sent him a challenge. This was contemptuously sent back without an answer. Suicide at last became his only resource, and placing himself before a portrait of the Queen, which he kept in his room, he shot himse. f with a pistol, the ball of which afterwards passed through the pic- ture.— Madrid Paper. An extraordinary fact, which is of a nature to give rise to serious reflections, took place at the Hotel Dieu of our city. A young man, about twenty- six years of age, a journeyman confectioner, had been brought there to he treated for an attack of acute iheumatism. This young man having learnt, either by the attendants or from a journal, of the arrest and suicide of Champion, immedia'ely became vio- lently agitated, and his complaint flying to his brain, he was rendered delirious. While in this state, he said, that as Champion was dead, it was his next turn to attempt to as- sassinate the King. He went on giving circumstantial details of some regicidal association, of which, from his remarks, it would appear, that he was a member. Heat length expiretl, but without giving any further particulars. " Whether the news operated on his mind, which was pre- disposed to become deranged, and caused the above remarks, or whether the disease was actually brought on by his agita- tion at finding himself placed in such a situation, must now remain undecided. The first idea appears the most pro- bable; the only circumstance which would induce a belief of the latter is, that the young man had lately visited Paris, during'whieh time he might have enrolled himself in some society of the kind above alluded to. The polTce have taken all the particulars of the affair, and the depositions of those parties who were present at the time. — Toulon Paper. DOMESTIC. THE METKOPOLIS. Earl Grey, it is expected, will arrive in town in Ihe course of the week from his seat, Howick- hall, Northumberland. Lttisii COMPLAINT Saturday night, just after the doors of Madame Vestris' theatre bad been opened, and the peo- ple comfortably seated in the pit, an Irish fruitseUer ran after a gentleman who had purchased a shilling's worth of oranges, and begged of him to change a had shilling which he ( the gentleman) had paid him. The Irishman having become abusive, the stranger handed the, man a shilling?, of the goodness of which there could be no doubt, at the same time receiving back the spurious piece of money, which proved to be an Indian gold coin of the value , of 1/. 15s.! PLAYHOUSE SQUABBLES.— Mr. W. Farren, Mr. II. Wal- lack, Mr. Collins, and Miss Turpin, have seceded from Covent Garden Theatre, in consequence of a disagreement having arisen between the lessee and them relative to the former ( Sir. F.) having performed at Brighton on the " off nights," and the three latter at the Victoria Theatre. SUICIDE.— On Friday mot ning, about half- past ten o'clock, a female, apparently not more than twenty years of age, threw herself off the wooden bridge into the Grand Surrey Canal. Every exertion was made to save her, but without success. RFFRESENTATION OF WESTMINSTER— A meeting was held on Friday at the British Coffee- house, Cockspur- street, to consider of the measures necessary to be taken in the pre- sent state of the representation of this city. Sir. G. Pouncey was in the chair. After a good deal of discussion it was finally agreed that Sir Francis Buidett should be called on to declare his sentiments, and General Evans to state explicitly when be could resume his duties. It was stated in the course of the meeting, that Sir Francis had offered to pair off with Mi.. iiaubury Tracey against Mi- nisters. EXECUTION OF PEGSWORTH. — A little after seven on Slon- day the sheriffs and under- sheriffs arrived at the gaol. Pegsworth approached the sheriff's officers and underwent the dreadful preliminary of pinioning with great nerve, but one or two deep sighs escaped him ; upon the whole he evinced a cheerful but, solemn resignation. At eight o'clock the death- knell sounded, and the procession moved to the place of suffering. As soon as'the executioners made their appearance on the scaffold, there was a clamour in the dense and curious crowd, and the cry of 1 Hats off" became general ; but we beard no expression of disapprobation in respect of the criminal. When he arrived on the scaffold, the rev. oidinary continued to read a portion of the funeral service, after which he bade them a final adieu. In a few minutes the man ceased to live. The crowd around the scaffold has never been exceeded in point of number since the execution of Bishop and Williams, the " burkers," and the windows ot the houses opposite to the scaffold were oc cupied by persons of both sexes, some of whom spent the whole night in the vicinity of the prison- house - London Journals. PROVINCIAL. BOAT ACCIDENT On Thursday, the 2nd inst., as about thirty gentlemen belonging to the various colleges in this university, were crossing the river in the ferry- boat, for the purpose of gaining their own wherries, it being one of the boat racing days, the chain of the ferry boat broke, the vessel upset, and all the gentlemen were struggling together in the water. So large a number of petsons being in the river at one time, and the fearful efforts of those who could not swim to save themselves by clinging to those who were escaping, produced a most agitating spectacle. We are happy to state that all were saved, although some o: the party were so much exhausted that re- animation was for some time doubtful— Cambridge Chronicle. STRIKE. — On Wednesday, the juiy in the Sheriff's Court, York, had a " turnout." After trying three cases, Ihe go- vernor of York Castle handed to each juror one shilling, being fourpence each per trial. The foreman said it was usual to give sixpence each trial; this the governor denied. A feud arose which the sheriffs. deputy could not quell, and the " turn outs" left the jury- box in high dudgeon. The governor sent the money demanded of him after them into the castle yard, but they indignantly refused to receive it, saying, that they would take proceedings to recover eighi- pence each per case, the sum they were legally entitled to. — West Ridiny Herald. GUN ACCIDENT - A distressing accident happened to Sirs. Lumbard, of Buddlewall, near Chard, on Monday last. Her eldest son brought home a loaded gun antl laid it on a a chair j two younger brothers were playing together, when by some means one of the little fellows fell on the gun; it went off, and the whole of the contents entered the breast of the mother. A surgeon was sert for, but there are no hopes of her recovery Somerset Gazette. THEATRICALS The Sheffield papers announce the benefit of Sir. Skerrett, of the Sheffield theatre. It appears that on this occasion the visitors to the gallery and pit will re- ceive a number on entering, and afterwards the tickets will be drawn on the stage, and the holders of the fortunate numbers will receive as prizes two pigs, on application at the stage door! Sickness prevails to a greater extent among cattle and horses in this part of Cumberland than has been ever before remembered. Slany extensive farmers are at a stand - still where horse labour is required, in consequence of all their horses being off work. We have not heard tiiat the malady lias been very fatal. — Cumbeiland Packet. FORGERY.— Four individuals, closely connected with each other, who have hitherto been residing in this town, have recently absconded, having previously procured discounts on several Bills of Exchange, with forged indorsements, and, of course, spurious. One of the party has since been seen in Glasgow— Sheffield Iris. • MELANCHOLY SUICIDE On Monday evening last, a young gentleman named Watson, a pupil in " the establishment of Sir. Fallon, Bay's Hill House, put a period to his exist- ence by taking a considerable quantity of laudanum. This melancholy occurrence seems to have been prompted by the low and desponding state of mind under which Slaster Watson appears for some time past to have suffered.— Cheltenham Paper. SIAII, ACCIDENT.— On Friday morning, about eight o'clock, as the Birmingham mail was coming down Lime- street, on its way to the post- office, the hind axle- tree gave way, and the coach came to the ground, but without being upset. The guard called a hackney- coach, and proceeded to the post- office with the bags. Fortunately no one was injured. The mail had previously come in collision with another coach at Stone, and, in consequence of these acci- dents, the delivery of the letters and papers was delayed about half an hour beyond the usual time.— Liverpool Telegraph. MISCELLANEOUS ASSORTMENT.— Two boys, Patrick llaf- ferty, aged about fourteen, and John Hutchinson, aged about ten, were, on Saturday, placed before Sir. Hall. Lytbgoe, a constable, stated, that, on the preceding day, he was pas- sing along Dethy lane, when he saw the two prisoners in a car. He followed the car till it stopped at the gate of the Zoological Gardens; and at length, from their suspicious conduct, he conceived himself justified in taking the pri- soners into custody. On the person of the prisoner Rafferty he found two silver watches, a small tooth- comb, a pocket- pistol loaded to the muzzle with powder and ball, a cap being on the nipple, two volumes of a work entitled the Children of the Abbey, a spyglass, a box of percussion caps, a copy of Odell's System of Stenography, a purse full of bullets, a pocket- book, two gold seals and a key, a box of lucifer matches, a bullet mould, a pencil, a penknife, a broken silver spoon, and Is. 2d. in money!— Liverpool Telegraph. The Board of Guardians of the Lichfield Union have de- cided upon building a new workhouse, in or near the city of Lichfield, to contain 200 paupers if necessary. Until the new one is built, those at Itugeley, and St. Slary, Lichfield, will be used as temporary workhouses, and Sir. W. Pen- ned, of Rugeley, has been appointed governor of the two establishments. LUNAR ECMPSE.— A correspondent of the Liverpool Mer- cury pays,—" The next lunar eclipse, on the SOih of April, is likely to he attended by a very rare circumstance, ' the eclipse will begin at about half- past six in the evening, and the moon will rise eclipsed at seven. As the earth must he between the sun and the moon in order to occasion an eclipse, the sun ought then to be below the horizon ; but, owing to the refraction of the earth's atmosphere, I conceive that we shall see the singular phenomenon of the sun re- maining above the western horizon, while the moon appears eclipsed in the eastern. Such a phenomenon was seen at Paris in 1750." Sir. J. KUSSEI. L.— This very clever actor and vocalist has taken the Liverpool Theatre for a short period, at the close of the present dramatic season. " There are " says the Telegraph, " no doubt, many supporters of the drama who will gladly listen to his entertaining recollections in a theatre, who would not be induced to visit a room. The various novelties w hich will be presented to the public in succession, will, we are confident, ensure Sir. Russell a large share of public patronage." SOUTH DURHAM The Conservatives are actively can vassing the Southern Division of the county of Durham, in favour of Lord William Powlett, who has started in opposi- tion to Sir. Joseph Pease, the quaker. LIVERPOOL REPRESENTATION The resignation of Sir. Blanker to the claim of representing Liverpool, has caused considerable sensation in the town. Since the article upon this subject, which appears in another column, was in type, we have received several suggestions and letters, regarding individuals most likely to carry Liverpool on the Liberal in- terest. The names'of Sir. Hume, Sir William Moles- worth, and Sir Henry Parnell have been mentioned; hut we believe these gentlemen either are secure in their pre- sent seats, or, as in the case of Sir William Moleswortb, certain of success in another quarter. We have heard that • Mr. Dennison has placed- his seat for the county of Notting- ham in jeopardy, in consequence of his votes, and the Re- form principles to which he is attached. We hope, for th e credit of the electors of Nottingham, that this is untrue ; but if it is otherwise, then there are few men who could start for Liverpool with a fairer prospect of success. Ano- ther gentleman lias been alluded to, Sir. Crawford, so well known for his commercial knowledge; and we are confi- dent no man could be produced better qualified to reprsent a liberal and mercantile constituency, or whose votes would he oftener given on the same side with those of our present excellent representative, Sir. Ewart.— Liverpool Telegraph. SCOTLAND. GLORIOUS UNCERTAINTY OF THE LAW.— Last week we reported the result of the great shaving case from Dundee : — The magistrates of that town had found that a barber's apprentice was hound to shave his master's customers on Sunday. The Lord Ordinary, however, altered this judg, ment, and found that the apprentice was not obliged to shave on the Lord's Day. The inner house of the Court of session, in its turn, altered the Lord Ordinary's interlo- cutor, and ordained the unfortunate apprentice to shave ; and now the House of Lords has reversed this judgment, and for ever settled the important point, that barbers' ap- prentices in Scotland are not bound to shave on sabbath days ! What a glorious uncertainty in our law does this case present! We do not know who has paid the enormous expenses of these costly proceedings— but we may rest as- sured that somebody has been shaved pretty closely by the lawyers— but whether they have shaved the barber or his apprentice remains to be seen Glasgow Chronicle. MISCELLANEOUS. SIR It. PEEL AND THE PEERS We have taken the trouble of examining Sharpe's Peerage, published in 1833, to ascertain the comparative number of creations since 1760, the date of George the Third's accession, and we now state the whole number of the House of Lords in 1833, and those who have received their patent of nobility since 1760, and that all may be able to ascertain the exact degree of credit due to Sir Robert Peel's statement respecting the antiquity of the Peers: Whole number. Dukes Slarquisses Earls ~ —. 19 108 Viscounts — 17 Barons ,— 185 350 Scottish Peers — 16 Irish Peers — 28 394 Created since 1760. ZZZZZZZZZ. 153 247 272 Thus, no fewer than two hundred and seventy- two peers, out of three hundred and ninety- four, have been created within seventy- three years; where, then, is the one thou- sand years' antiquity of Sir Robert Peel's promulgation?— Scots Times. The following facetious occurrence took place at Stanton, - bout ten days since. Under the regulations of the New Poor- law Amendment Act, it is customary for the names of all parties receiving relief, at certain seasons, to be ex- hibited upon the doors of the parish church. This regu- lation was, of course, duly complied with in that village. Some wag, however, hung by its side, as a fit companion to the list of working paupers, not a fellow document from some neighbouring Union, but a list of State Paupers and Pensioners, as recently published, in a cheap form. The appearance of the double list, andthe ! ar.:, re sums attached to the names, excited the greatest wonder and astonishment in the minds of the simple congregation on the following Sunday. Slany could not he persuaded but that the list in ' high relief," was, with that in " low relief," equally a Union document. Things remained in this state until the clergyman arrived, wlm, seeing the trick, ordered the ob- noxious list to be pulled down. Inquiries were made how the list got upon the Church- door, hut no one could tell, and the sly rogue who perpetrated the joke is yet unknown. The remark of a lady pauper in " low relief," who was pre- sent, deserves notice. On being asked by a companion what had caused the hubbub, she replied, " Oh, I hear somebody has set up a hopposition against us— but it won't do."— Suffolk Chronicle. POETRY. SONG. It is my last, last song; no more False strains shall veil my heart, My bright, my fevered dream is o'er, Why should I not depart ? There are gay hearts around me, Rich gems adorn my brow, But a deeper spell hath bound me, 44 My heart is lonely now." Oil! why should memory turn To joys that long have fled ? Why should the cold heart yearn For feelings that are dead ? Sweet smiles that once brought gladness, Fond tears that will not flow, I have no home buj; sadness, " My heart is lonely now." My childhood's early feelings, Return to me again, But the springs of their revealings I seek for but in vain. The worldly ice that hides The once bright stream below, Hath chilled its glowing tides, " My heart is lonely now." LITERATURE. S A SI WELLEll'S VALENTINE. " But wot's that, you're a doin' of— pursuit of knowledge under difficulties— eh, Sammy?'' " I've done now," said Sam, with slight embarrassment, I've been a writin'." " So I see," replied Sir. Weller. " Not to any young ' ooman, I hope, Sammy." " Why it's no use a sayin' it ain't," replied Sam, " It's a walentine." " A what!" exclaimed Sir. Weller, apparently horror- stricken by the word. " A walentine," replied Sam. " Samivel, Samivel," said Sir. Weller, in reproachful ac- cents, " I didn't think you'd ha' done it. Arter the warnin' you're had o' your lather's wicious perpensities, arter all I've said to you upon this here wery subject; arter actwally seein' and bein' in the company o' your own mother- in- law, which I should ha' thought wos a moral lesson as no man could ever ha' forgotten to his dyin'day! I didn't think you'd ha' done it, Sammy, I didn't think you'd ha' done it." These reflections were too much for the good old man. He raised Sam's tumbler to his lips and drank off its contents. " Wot's the matter now 1" said Sam. " Nev'r mind, Sammy," replied Sir. Weller, " it'll be a wery agonizin' trial to me at my time of life, but I'm pretty tough, that's vun consolation, as the old turkey remarked ven the farmer said he wos afeerd he should be obliged to kill him, for the London market." " Wot'll be a trial?" inquired Sam. " To see you married, Sammy— to see you a dilluded wietim, and thinkin' in your innocence that it's all wery capital," replied Sir. Weller. " It's a dreadful trial to a father's feelin's, that ' e: e Sammy." " Nonsense," said Sam. " I ain't a coin' to get married, don't you fret yourself about that; I know you are a judge o' these things Order in your pipe, and I'll read the letter." We cannot distinctly say whether it was the prospect of the pipe, or the consolatory reflection that a fatal disposi- t on to get married ran in tlie family and eould'nt be helped, which calmc- d Mr. Weller's feelings, and caused his grief to subside. We should be rather disposed to say that the re- sult was attained by combining the two sources of consola- tion, for he repeated the second iu a low tone, verv fre- quently; ringing the bell meanwhile, to order in the first. He then divested himself of his upper coat; and lighting the pipe and placing himself in front of the fire with his back towards it, so that he could feel its lull heat, and recline against the mantel- piece at the same time, turned toward Sum, and, with a countenance greatly mollified by the softening influence of tobacco,, requested him to " fire away." Sam dipped his pen into the ink to lie ready for any cor- rections, and began with a very theatrical air " Lovely '" " Stop," said Sir. Weller, ringing the bell. " A double glass o' the iuwariable, my dear.'' " Very well, sir," replied the girl; who, with great quick- ness, appeared, vanished, returned, and disappeared. " They seem to know your ways here," observed Sam. " Yes" replied his father, " I've been here before, in my time. Go on, Sammy." "' Lovely creetur,'" repeated Sam. "' Tain't in poetr;, is it?" interposed the father. " No, no," replied Sam. " Werry glad - to hear it,"' said Sir. Weller. " Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked in poetry ' cept a beadle on boxin' day, or Warren's blackin' or Rowland's oil, or some o' them low fellow's, never you let yourself down to talk poetry, my hoy. Begin again, Sammy." Sir. Weller resumed his pipe with critical solemnity, and Sam once more commenced, and read as follows. " Lovely creetur, I feel myself a dammed'—" " That ain't proper," said Sir. Weller, taking his pipe from his mouth. " No ; it ain't dammed," observed Sam, holding the letter up to the light, " it's ' shamed,' there's a blot there—' I feel myself ashamed.' " " Wery good," said Sir. Weller, " Go on." Feel myself ashamed, and completely eir—' I forget wot this here word is," said Sam, seiatching his head with the pen, in vain attempts to remember. " Why don't you look at it, then?" inquired Sir. Weller. " So I am a lookin'," replied Sam, " but there's another blot; here's a ' c,' and a ' i,' and a ' d.' " " Circumwented, p'raps," suggested Sir. Weller. " No it ain't that," said Sam, '' circumscribed, that's it." " That ain't as good a word as circumwented, Sammy," said Sir. Weller gravely. " Think not ?" said Sam. " Nothin' like it," replied his father. " But don't you think it means more?" inquired Sam. " Veil p'raps it is a more tenderer wool," said Mr. Weller, after a few moments' reflection. " Go on, Sammy." " ' Feel myself ashamed and completely circumscribed in adressin' of you, for you are a nice gal and nothin' but it.' " " That's a wery pretty sentiment," said the elder Sir. Weller, removing his pipe to make way lor the remark'. " Yes, I thinji it is rayther good," observed Sam, highly flattered. " Wot I like in that ' ere style of writin'," said the eider Sir. Weller, " is, that there ain't no callin' names in it,— no Wenuses, nor nothin'o' that kind: wot's the good of callin' a young ' ooman a Wenus or a angel, Sammy?" " Ah ! what, indeed ?" replied Sam. " You might jist as veil call her a griffin, or a unicorn, or a King's arms at once, which is werry veil known to be a col- lection o' fabulous animals," added Sir. Weller. " Just as well," replied Sam. " Drive on Sammy," said Sir. Weller. Sam complied with the request, and proceeded as follows; his father continuing to smoke, with a mixed expression of wisdom and complacency, which was particularly edifying. " ' Afore 1 see you, I thought all women was alike.'" " So they are," observed the elder Sir. Weller paren- thetically. " ' But now,' continued Sam, ' now I find what a reg'lar soft- headed, ink- red'lous turnip I must ha' been, for there ain't nobody like you though 1 like you better than nothin' at all.' I thought it best to make that rayther strong," said Sam looking up. Sir. Weller nodded approvingly, and Sam resumed. " ' So I take the privilidge of the day, Mary, my dear— as the gen'lem'n in difficulties did, ven he valked out of a Sun- day— to tell you that the first and only time' I see you your likeness was took on my hart in much quicker time and brighter colours than ever a likeness was took by the profeel macheen ( which p'r'aps you may have heard on Slary my tlear) although it does finish a portrait and put the frame and glass on complete with a hook at the end to hang it up by and all in two minutes and a quarter.' " " I am afeerd that werges on the poetical, Sammy," said Sir. Weller, dubiously. " No it don't," replied Sam, reading on very quickly, to avoid contesting the point. "' Except of me Mary my dear as your walentine and think over what I've said"— My dear Mary I will now con- clude.' That's all," said Sam. " That's rayther a sudden pull up, ai'nt it, Sammy?" in- quired Sir. Weller. " Not a hit on it," said Sam; she'll vish there wos more, and that's the great art o' letter writin'." " Well," said Mr. Weller, " there's somethin' in that; and I wish your mother- in- law ' ud only conduct her conwersa- tion on the same gen- teel principle. Ain't you a goin' to sign it ?" " That's the difficulty," said Sam; " I don't know what to sign it." " Sign it— Veller," said the oldest surviving proprietor of that name. " Won't do," said Sara. " Never sign a walentine with your own name." " Sign it' 1' ickvick,' then," said Sir. Weller; " it's a wery good name, and a easy one to spell." " The wery thing," said Sam. " I could end with a werse; what do you think ?" " I don't like it Sam," rejoined Mr. Weller. " I never know'd a lespectahle coachman as wrote poetry, ' cept one, as ninfrle an affectin' copy o' werses the night afore lie wos hung lor a highway robbery; and he was only a Carnbervell man, so even that's no rule." But Sam was not to be dissuaded from the poetical idea that had occurred to him, so he signed the letter " Your love sick Pickwick." And having folded it, in a very intricate manner, squeezed a down- hill direction in one corner—" To Slary, House- maid, at Sir. Nupkin's Mayor's, Ipswich, Suffolk ;" and put it into his pocket, wafered, and ready for the General Post. — Pickwick papers. THE LITTLE BIT OF TAPE. " Slow and sure" has been the motto of my family from generation to generation, and wonderfully has it prospered by acting on this maxim ; the misfortunes of the house of Slowby having apparently been reserved for the only active and enterprising individual ever born unto that name. Reader, I am that unhappy man! Waiters upon Fortune, plentifully have all my [ progenitors fared from the dainties of the good lady's table", while I, in my anxiety to share in the feast, have generally upset the board, and lost everything in the scramble. Sir James Slowby, my worthy father, was a younger son, and his portion had been little more than the blessing of a parent, conveyed in the form of words always used in our family—" Bless thee, mv son; be slow and sure, and you will be sure to get on." He did get on ; for he was not one of the feelers of that huge polypus in society, the Slowbys? Ways of making money, which other men had diligently sought in vain, discovered themselves to him ; places were conferred on him, and legacies left him, for no one reason that could he discovered, except that he seemed indifferent to such matters, and latterly became so wealthy that he did not require them. He was slow in marrying; not entering the holy slate till he was forty. He did not wed. a fortune; no, he rather preferred a woman of good expectations; and these were, of course, realised,— the money came " slow and sure." He lived to a good old age; but death, though slow, was sure also; and he at length died, leaving two sons, on one he bestowed all his wealth, the other, my luckless self, he left a beggarly dependant on an elder brother's bounty. The fact of the matter was, I had too much vi- vacity to please so true a Slowby as my father; while James was a man after his own heart ; and, perhaps, I had circu- lated a little too much of the old gentleman's money, in what he strangely termed my " loose kind of life;" but which I only denominated " living fast." He might have confessed that I was not altogether selfish in my pleasures. I often made my father most magnificent presents; and though, perhaps, he had ultimately to pay the bills, the generosity of the intention was the same. The following letters were written just before our worthy parent's death, by his two sons. James was at the paternal mansion in Square, 1 at a little road- side public- house about four and twenty miles from Newmarket. I must premise that I was thus far on my way to London, in answer to my brother's summons; hut at " Ugley", over the post- chaise went— a wheel was broken, and so was my left arm. The post- hoys swore it was my fault, because I had noc patience to have the wheels " properly greased ; and I, because it was my misfortune to be obliged to delay my journey till the mischief was repaired— I mean as regards the WEAL of my arm, not the wheel of the chaise,— for, had I been able, I would rather have ridden one of the post- horses to the next stage, than not have pursued my route. '' Square. " My dear Brother,— Your father requests that you will take an early opportunity of coining to town, as he is supposed to be on his death- bed. His will only waits your arrival to receive signature. Should you solemnly promise not todissi- pate money as you have hitherto done, lie will leave you a gentlemanly competence. Dr. Drugget is of opinion that our father may live till Sunday next; so, if you are here at any period before that date, you will fie in sufficient time for the above mentioned purpose. " Your affectionate brother, JAMES SLOWBV." " Dear Jim,— You might think it wise to delay my seeing our dear father, but / did not;— so started at once,— double- fee'd the post- boys,— double teed for the horses, — away 1 bowled, till off came the wheel at Ugley. Here I am with a broken arm. Tell my father I am cut to the quick that we may never meet again. I'll promise any thing be likes. I now really see the folly of being always iu such a devil of a hurry; particularly in spending money, paying bills, and that sort of thing: say that I will for ever stick by the larnily motto, ' slow and sure.' " Your's in haste, RICHARD SLOWBT. " I'. S. I send my own servant to ride whip and spur till he puts this in your hands; he will beat the post by an hour and a half, which is of consequence." This latter epistle never reached its destination,— my poor fellow broke his neck at Epping; and, as the letter was dispatched iu too great haste to be fully directed, it was opened and returned to me by the corner in due course of post. 1 did not get to town till long after the death of my father. The will signed at last, my absence being unaccounted for, gave my brother the whole property; nor did lie seem in- clined to part with a shilling. A place in the T , which the head of our ancient house, Lord Snail, had bestowed ori my father, and still promised to keep in the family, might yet be mine, — I was his lordship's godson, and had a fair chance lor it; but now the Sir James Slowby, second of the title, and worthy of the name, would not withdraw his claim as eldest born. " I won't move in the matter, Richard," said my slow and sure brother, '' but if my lord gives me the offer, I will ac- cept it. I am not greedy after riches, Heaven knows ; but it woulil be tempting Providence not to hold what was put into my possession, nor freely take what is freely given. 11 is lordship has requested, by letter, that we both wait upon him in Curzon- street, no doubt about the appointment; lie makes mention of wishing to introduce us to the ladies, after the ' dispatch of business.' Our cousin Slaria used to be lovely as a child, and, though not a fortune, ma)- come in for something considerable, ultimately." Such was my brother's harangue. Sick of his prosing I left his house, comforting myself that 1 had, at least, as much chance of the appointment as he had; nor was 1 altogether without my hopes of supplanting him with Slaria, though he might be thought worthy of wed- ding her at Marylebone; and I, even with her own special licence, would have to journey on the same errand as far as Gretna. I dined that day at Norwood with an old schoolfellow. At his house I was io pass the night, and on the morrow, at two o'clock, my fate was to be decided. On this event- ful morning I was set down in Camberwell by my friend's phaeton. I had seen the Norwood four- horse coach start for town long before we left home, and had given myself great credit for not allowing it to convey me that I might have from thence been enabled to intrude on Lord Snail's privacy an hour or two before I was expected. But I re- collected I had annoyed his lordship on more than one oc- casion in a similar manner, and I seriously resolved that I would no longer mar my fortunes by my precipitation. It was now, however, within two hours of the time of ap- pointment ; my friend's vehicle was not going any farther, and I might, at least, indulge myself by reaching Oxford- street by the quickest possible conveyance. Omnibusses had just been introduced on that road ; and the Retl Rover, looking like a huge trap for catching passengers, was drawn up at the end of Camberwell- green. " Chairing- cross, sir!" —'• Oxford street, sit!"—" Going directly, sir!' was music to my ears, even from the cracked voice of a cad, and in I unfortunately got; and there ditl 1 sit for ten minutes, while coaches innumerable, passed me for London. Still I pre- served mv patience, firm in iny good resolves. At length another Westminster omnibus drove up. " Are you going now; or are you not;" said I, very pro- perly restraining an oath just on the tip of my ton / tie. " Goingdireetly sir— be in town long before him, sir," said the cad, pointing to the other ' hus, for he saw my eye was turned towards it. At that moment a simple- locking servant girl with a baud- box came across the green, and a fight commenced between the conducteurs of the rival vehicles for the unfortunate wo- man, in wliieh. she got not a little pulled about. The Led Rover, however, won the day; anil glad enough was I when we started at a rattling pace. But my pleasure was of short duration. " Where are going?" asked an old woman opposite me who knew the road, which I did not. " Going to take up, ma'am,' said the cad. " We shall be back to the Green Slan in ten minutes if you have left any- thing behind." " Where is my bkudbox ?" said the girl. " I knows nothing about it, not I ; I suppose it went by the other ' bus if you ain't a got it. Why did you lei it out of your own hands young'oman? That ' ere cad is the greatest thief on the road.' The girl began to cry, and declared she should lose her place; and I to swear, for I thought it very likely I should lose mine. But we at length once more passed the Green, and tore along at the rate often miles an hour, till we set down at the Elephant and Castle. Reader, do you happen to know the biscuit shop occupying the corner of the road to Westminster opposite the aforesaid Elephant and Castle? There it was, the Red Rover drew up, and the cad de- scended to run after a man and woman, who seemed unde- termined whether they should like six- pennyworth or not. My patience was now quite exhausted. A four- horse West- minster coach was just starting across the way, and deter- mined to get a place in a more expeditious conveyance, 1 dashed open the door of the omnibus just as the conduc- tern's " all right" again set the carriage in motion; he, hav- ing failetl in his canvassing, at the same instant jumped on the step behind the'bus. The consequences were direful. The cad was transferred to the pavement by a swingeing blow on the temple from the opening pannel, while I lost my equilibrium, and made a full- length prostration into mud four inches thick, which formed the bed of the road. I had fallen face downward, and the infuriated official of the ' bus quickly bestrode me, grasping me by the nape of the neck. I gasped for breath. Never shall I'forget what I then in- haled. ro bite the dust is always disagreeable, but, I can as- sure you, it is nothing to a mouthful of mud. Rescued at last by the intervention of the police, I was permitted to rise. I had no time to dispute the question of right or wrong • glad enough was I to he allowed to medicate the cad's pro- missory black eye with a sovereign; for which I was de- clared by all present, and particularly by the man what rides behind the " homnibus," to be " a per'fect gemman, only a little hasty." Never was a gentleman in a worse pickle. The road had been creamed by the reign of wet weather that marks an English summer. Had I been driving in a mud cart, or " far into the bowels of the land," through the medium of a ditch in the neighbourhood of St. George's Fields, I could not have presented a more extraordinary ap- pearance. I might have been rated as a forty- shilling land- holder, and rich soil into the bargain. As soon as 1 could clear my eyes sufficiently to permit of the exercise of vision, I espied an old clothes'shop in the distance ; and in this welcome retreat I speedily bestowed myself amid cries of " How are you off for soap ?"—" There you go, stick- in- the- mud!"— 1" Wheie did lie last?" and other specimens of sub- urban wit. Having left the admiring gaze of about two hundred spectators, I obtained a washing tub and a private room from my newly- formed acquaintance, Isaacs; an J, my ablutions being complete, I equipped myself in a full suit of black, which, though the habiliments were rather the worse for wear, fitted me pretty well, and had been withal, de- cently made. I was also supplied with shirt and drawers, <" goot ash new," and a hat which Isaacs swore was only marie the week before, and " cheap ash dirt." I appreciated the simile, but the hat I could scarcely get on my head; time was, however, wearing away, and I was obliged to have it, as well as a pair of Blucher boots, not a Wellington fitting me in the Jew's whole stoek of such articles. I again started. There happened to be a hackney- coach passing just as I emerged from the shop. This was fortunate ; for, to hide my low hoots, Isaacs had strapped my trowsers down so tightly, that, not trusting much to the materia], I thought it may be advisable to avoid walking. I had yet sufficient time before me to keep my appoint- ment, and I was now fairly on my way for Curron- street; nothing interrupting my meditation for the next half hour but the paying of a turnpike. I had certainly met with many vexatious annoyances during the morning ; but I felt pleased with myself for so far conquering my impetuous spiiit as to have exhibited, on the whole, but little irritation under my suffering. For this, I thought I deserved to suc- ceed in my present visit to that high- priest of Fortune, a patron. Then I bethought me of Maria, and took a glance nt my suit of black. I fancied that 1 must look very like an undertaker— I knew not why. I had imagined myself ( per- fectly gentlemanly in appearance when 1 left my toilet at Norwood, and I had only changed one suit of black for another,— but then these were not made for me. Perhaps some poor fellosv had been hanged in them. I got nervous and miserable. Sly hat galled my head ; I removed it, and held it in my hand. It certainly did not look like a new one. I was in- geniously tormenting myself with calling to memory every disease of the scalp I had ever heard of, when I reached the corner of Curzon- street; and, not wishing to desecrate the portals of the fastidious peer by di iving up in a " jarvey," I got out and made my approach or) foot. I had knocked— there was a delay iu opening the door. The poller is out of the way, thought I; and I took an opportunity of looking at my heels, to see if I had walked off with any straws from the coach. I heard ( he door opening;— I say beard, for I tlid not look up, my eyes just then resting on a small piece of tape that I had been dragging in the dirt— oh! luckless appurtenance of the drawers of the Jew Yes! the door was opening to admit me to the presence of my rioble relation— my patron— who I trusted was waiting with an appointment of 1,500/. a year, anxious to bestow it on his godson— the morning that was to witness my introduction to her whom I had already wedded in my imagination I saw a little piece of tape dangling at my heels ! Before ihe portals of the mansion had quite gaped to receive me, my finger was twisted round this cruel instrument of destiny, in the hope ol breaking it. I pulled. Acting like a knife on the trowsers, fast strapped to my boots, and too powerful a strain on the drawers, though " gootash new," both were rent to the waistband; my coat ripped at the shoulder by the action of the arm ;— my hat fell off, and was taken by the wind down the street; — and the servant, to whom, having finished this ingenious operation, 1 stood fully dis- closed, unfortunately saw but the effects, without knowing the cause of my disaster. The man was too well bred to remaik my appearance, but he had every reason for thinking me either mad or drunk ; as to crown all, my face must have been flushed and dis- torted from rage and mortification. " My lord expects you in the library, sir, " said the astounded servant. An abrupt " Tell my lord I'll call again," was my only reply, delivered over my shoulder as I dashed from the door, perfectly unconscious of what I was about, till I found myself in a tavern, the first friendly door that was open to receive me. I here composed my bewildered senses, dis- patched a messenger for a tailor, and set myself down to concoct a note to Lord Snail. But how narrate to the most particular, matter- of- fact, and yet fastidious man in the world with the events of that morning? I threw the pen and paper from me in despair. Nothing now remained but to wait patiently, if possible, till I could make my ex- cuses in person. The tailor came, and in about an hour and a half I was again on my way to his lordship's residence, but, alas ! ere I reached it, I met my steady brother, who with much for- mality thus addressed me. " Richard Slowby, your conduct this morning is the climax of your excesses. His lordship requests that lie may not. in future be favoured with your visits in Cuizon- street ; and I consider it my dutv to inform you, that these will be equally disagreeable in Square. I felt at that moment loj proud to ask for, or offer, expla- nations. 1 saw by the twinkle of bis cold grey eye that he had received the appointment, and of course it would have been against his principles to resign it in my lavour: sol merely told him that I should have great pleasure in attend ing to the wishes of two men I so equally respected as Lord Snail and Sir Jatnes Slowby ; and, bidding him a very good morning, I left him to his self- gratulation. About a twelvemonth afterwards, I elicited from the ser- vant who had opened the door to me, and delivered my un- fortunate message to his lordly master, the following par- ticulars. It appears that on the man entering the library he found the peer and the baronet seated together, the eyes of the former fixed on a time- piece, which told the startling fact that the hour of appointment was passed, by five minutes. " Is Sir. Slowby come ?" said my lord, turning suddenly to wards Ihe servant. " Yes, my lord ; but " " Show him in directly, sir. Did I not tell you I expected Sir. Slowby, and ordered him to be admitted?" •' 1 told the gentleman so, my lord, and that you were waiting tor hi in, and he said he would call again. I am alraid the gentleman is unwell, my lord." " Unwell!" ciied his lordship, " and you allowed him to quit the house? ' " He ran away, my lord ;" and here, not knowing how far it would he safe to give the conclusion lie had drawn from my extraordinary manner and appearance, the man hesitated. " Tell me why, this instant, sir," exclaimed his master; there is some mystery, and I will know it." " I beg pardon, my lord, but Sir. Slowby seemed much excited— was without his hat, had torn clothes— scarcely de- cent, my lord. 1 hope your lordship will excuse me, but the gentleman seemed flushed with after- dinner indulgence in the morning, my lord." , On this well- bred announcement of my being drunk, the peer and his companion exchanged significant looks. " You may go," said the lord, bowing his head to the ser- vant; but ere my informant got further than the neutral ground between the double doors, he heard my kind brother say, " Just like him;— dined yesterday at Norwood." " A disgrace to the family !" sorrowfully remarked his lordship. " I had hoped to benefit, him, but"— a pause— " the appointment is yours, Sir John. I could not trust it with a man of his character." It is satisfactory to know the particulars of one's misfor- tunes, and these were given me at the " Bear" in Piccadilly. After being cut by all, as a graceless vagabond, when it was discovered that 1 had few meals to say grace over, I am now considered dead to society; but I am, iu fact, " living for revenge." To spite the omnibuses, and abuse the cads at my leisure, I drive a short stage cut of town ; and if any gentleman knows one Dick Hastings, and will " please to remember the coachman," he who will drink to his honour's good health will be the luckless Richard Slowby.— Bent- leu's Miscellany. The French army comprises' 51,276 horses. Out. of that number 15,399 are to be deducted— viz., 10 617 belonging to the Gendarmerie, 4,602 to the officers of the other corps, and 180 to the riding- school of Saumur ; so that there are 35,^ 77 which the government is under the necessity of sup- plying and maintaining. The number of horses necessary to make up for the daily losses is calculated at 1 8th, or 4.484, the purchase of which cost 2,462,601f, in 1836. The horses of the Carabiniers and Cuirassiers stand each in 750f. ; those of the Dragoons and Lancers. 550f.; the choice horses for the school of Saumur, 533f. ; riding horses for the artillery, 500f. ; for the Chasseurs, Hussars, and for drawing the artillery, 4801'. ; draught horses for the train equipages, engineering department, and waggons, 470f.— Le Siecle. THE . BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. THE TEA TRADE. [ From the SpectatorJ After a struggle of eight years duration, with monopolists of all sorts, Tory statesmen, East Iniiia Directors, tea- dealers, and tea- brokers, the monopoly is, at length, com- pletely shattered to pieces; and the public, in so far as concerns price, exclusive of duty, is enjoying the full benefit of a free trade. We stated that under the monopoly the importations were small, and would increase in a free trade ; that the consumption was limited by an excess of monopoly price, and would increase under the reduced prices of a free competition. We stated that the prices charged for tea, under the monopoly, were double what they should be, and consequently that the people were paying, tor a limned consumption, double what they should pay,— a process by which they were robbed of about two millions a- year. We stated that the revenue had declined under the monopoly, and would increase in a free trade. Finally, we stated that there neither was nor could he any real export trade in tea under the monopoly, but that such exports would certainly exist in a free trade. Experience has ratified ail our predictions; and this, indeed, to an extent beyond our own most sanguine hopes. The average importation of the Company during the last years of their trading ex- istence was about thirty- four millions of pounds. In 1835, there was imported above forty- three millions of pounds— ( 43,242,000)— and in 1836, above fifty millions of pounds— ( 50 066,000). Here was, in three years time, an increase approaching to 50 per cent. ; and that Irom a country which, it was declared, could yield no increase, hut the produce of which must inevitably decrease in the hands of free traders. The consumption and revenue are given below in a tabular form, for the last year of the monopoly, and the last two years of free trade. Consumption. Duly. J 833 lbs. 31,829,620 ,£ 3,444 101 1835 „_. 36 606,930 3,837,520 1836 49,841,667 4,728,617 The difference between the last year of monopoly and the last year of free trade shows an increase in the revenue— in that revenue which, according to the monopolists, would inevitably fall off to nothing— amounting to more than a million and a quaiter sterling. The increase in the tea duty, consequent upon the destruction of the monopoly, constitutes, in reality, the great bulk of the surplus revenue which is now at the disposal of Government. We predicted, in fact, that the duty on tea would soon constitute the greatest branch of the public revenue derived from any single article. This is in rapid progress ; it already exceeds, considerably, the duty on sugar and molasses; is nearly equal to the malt duty; and is within less than half a million of the excise on home spirits. Under the monopoly, the duty had been falling off, not only proportionally to population, but even absolutely. In 1822, the tea revenue touched on four millions sterling; and we have seen, that in the last year of the monopoly, or about ten years later, it was half a million sterling below this. The present prices of tea, after a three years' struggle to keep them up, are prettv much the same as they have long been in other coun- tries, where the trade in tea is free, and which possess the same means of getting a cheap supply. The average price of all bohea teas last year was under 10( 1. per pound ; which is a good deal less than half what it was under tiie monopoly. The decline in the class of congous is not so great, hut amounts to at least forty per cent. One of the remarkable circumstances connected with this fall of prices is. that the present consumDtion, of nearly fifty millions of pounds, costs the country a great deal less than a consumption under thirty- two millions cost while the monopoly existed. The smaller amount, in reality, cost about three millions and a half sterling, or with duty about seven millions ; while the larger one costs, without duty, not more than two millions seven hundred thousand pounds ; which is a saving in prime cost of 800,000/. a year. Even including duty, while the consumption has increased by more than one half, the actual cost to the consumer of the larger supply is but four hundred thousand pounds more than of the smaller. A word, however, about the duties. Tliey are exorbitant, and intolerably unequal ; and this we owe to the tea- dealers, who are now loudest in their complaints on the subject.— Upon the lowest- priced boheas, of which the average, last year, was sixpence per pound, the duty on the value is sp- wards of 400 per cent. Upon the lowest- priced congou it is about 200 per cent.; and on the lowest- piiced hyson about 100 per cent. On the highest- priced bohea it is 170 per cent.; on the highest- priced congou seventy- five per cent.; and on the highest- priced hyson about forty per cent. This is indecent, and almost fraudulent. It is virtu- ally saying and doing this, " The poorer orders of society shall pay an average duty ol 285 percent, the middle classes one of 137 per cent., and the rich one of only seventy per cent." In other words, the present tax says, " The middle classes shall pay double the duty, which flie rich pay; and the poorer classes shall pay twice as much as the middle orders, and four times as much as tbe rich." No Chancellor of the Exchequer would dare to put down such a schedule of ad valorem duties in a tariff; and, in our humble opinion, he is even less justifiable in doing so in the clandestine man- ner in which the impost is now levied. However incon- venient, we must revert to the ad valorem duty. The exports of tea in 1833 were about a quarter of a million of pounds ; in 1835 they exceeded two millions ; and in 1836 were four millions two hundred thousand pounds,— an increase of sixteenfold in three years time. No country, in fact, can import so cheaply as we can. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. I am not a Churchman who struggles to uphold a power to maintain an unscriptural ascendancy for my religious tenets, by the outrage and violation of my neighbour's conscience. I am not a Churchman who applauds the black horrors which, in the name of reli- gion, have been perpetrated in Ireland upon my Catholic brethren during the last century and a half; nor do I clap my hands when from that country I hear that the bayonet and the dungeon vault alone bear wit- ness to the labours of its Protestant pastors. I am not a Churchman who, by the names of " atheist" and " in- fidel," assail the men whose religious ardour is attested by tbe holy temples, which, for its exercise, they vo- luntarily support. Neither am I a Churchman who, in grossed by the party animosities of a " miserable monopolising minority," forgets that the basis of Christianity is charity, and that its Heavenly attribute is the love of all mankind. Now the reverend gentle- man may seek me or not within the circle of his own acquaintance. Mr. Allport may reply to my letters or hold his peace— that is his business. Let me however caution him, if he should favour the world with an answer to that so termed " calumnious" but certainly not wrath- fid epistle, to indulge in no more opprobrious term than lie finds therein, and I will not shield myself ( as he now causelessly does,) under the pretence that my private character is attacked ! Let him be content with the acrimony in which he has already indulged, and meet my criticism with the frankness of a follower of St. Paul." If, when the reverend gentleman published his ad- dress for the purpose of discrediting these statutes, he had abstained from aspersing the motives of their au- thors, and the characters of the vast and enlightened body for whose benefit they became law, it might charitably have been inferred that he was zealous only for the happiness and well being of his fellow christ- ians. No one would have interfered with the jaun- diced prejudices with which he viewed those enact- ments. Not by me would his pastoral exhortation have been assailed ! But when, while indulging in this this work, he gratuitously charges the great function- aries of the constitution as exercising their supreme power in this vast empire only in the character of pan- ders to the intriguing Infidel, Sociuian, and Popish Jesuit— and labours, indirectly, to throw a stigma on the fair fame of tens of thousands of that sex whose unsullied reputation is the great jewel of their lives— then, indeed, I should feel shame unutterable, if the license of the state religion protected its sacred minis- ters from the holiest censure of even the humblest citizen. I am, sir, See. Birmingham, March 7, 1837. KESHAW. * Iu his very letter Mr. Allport recognizes an anony- mous writer's claim to attention, for he directs notice to, and eulogises a doctrine of " Falkland," the correspondent, lie says, of a contemporary journal, and absolutely appro- priates the lauded sentiment to his oSrn use.— K. THE MARRIAGE ANI) REGISTRATION ACTS. Mr. Editor,— 1,11 reference to my letter, which ap- peared in the Birmingham Journal on the 25th Feb- ruary, the Rev. Josiah Allport has, I perceive, ad- dressed to you a short and fiery epistle, in which lie charges me with making " a most wanton and out- rageous attack" upon his character, and demands ( with apparent anxiety,) the substitution of my name for the signature with which I concluded my communication. His salutation courroucee requires but a brief rejoinder. You have so ably demonstrated that the reverend gentleman is in error, when he alleges that I have made an attack upon his'character, that it would be an act of supererogation in me to rebut that charge. I feel morally certain that there are not two individuals of sane mind who will join him in his assertion. I say, fearlessly, that not one sentence in my letter can, by divine or legal art, be shown to verge on the rules of unfair discussion ; and I tell Mr. Allport, that my remarks would have been precisely similar though his address had borne the name of the meekest penman, or the most rancourous prelate— of the gentle minister of St. James's, or the rabid Bishop of Exeter. Not for myself individually did I address you, but as one of that public to whom lie made appeal; - as to him, personally, I had no feeling in this matter, I regarded him only as the promulgator of a missive, fraught with a pernicious doctrine. If, however, the reverend gen- tleman can verify his accusation, let him do so. But in place of refuting what he is pleased to term my " groundless and base imputations," he requires me to disclose my " real"(!) name*— or, to use his very apt expression, " to unveil myself" before him. This, sir, I shall not do. Is the measure of his faults to be estimated by the station of the individual who points the public attention towards them ? Whether I be of an obscure or conspicuous rank, what can it concern that gentleman. Is the offence pronounced venial when the complainant is obscure ? Is the aggressor licensed when the aggrieved pleads without pomp and apanage ? Shall the offender enjoy immunity, be- cause the handwriting on the wall is iu ail unknown character? No! In this country Mr. Allport will find that the man who, indulging in fierce denuncia- tion against the organs of the state, and casting odium upon his neighbours, yet shrinks from a public cxpos- tulator because he knows not his name and avocations, is little honoured amongst us ; 1 tell liini that some of the greatest public characters in tiiis and the last age ( always excepting the reverend gentleman) have not ventured upon the poor subterfuge to which he has re- sorted. Can he instance a single paragraph in my letter which, if true, would be less so if my signature accompanied it,— if ialse, would change its tenor by the magic of my sign manual? I tell him that my accusation is a public one against the language of a public writer, and that the discerning " parishioners" of this neighbourhood will deal wi. h it accordingly. Mr. Allport informs you that if I disclQse my name lie shall " see what sort of a Churchman I am." He might do so. To assist him in iiis disappointment, however, he may now learn from me " what sort of Churchman I am NOT." I am not a Churchman who, under the cry of " Church anil King," brought riot and destruction into our town— kindling with party fury tl. • brand which, with its flames, levelled the learned and pioiis Priestley's habitation, and stamped with an indelible stigma the Church of which I am a member. Slit,— Your withholding in your last paper the real name of the writer sig'ning himself KESHAW, of whose attack upon me, admitted into your paper of the 25th of February, I had occasion to complain, whilst you yourself attempt to heap more odium upon me in an apparent apology for liim, without affording me an opportunity to answer for myself, I suppose I must accept as a practical illustration of the way in which you hold opinions that " differ very widely" from mine. I utterly disclaim having thought of the construction you put upon my phrase " loose characters," and the abominable insinuation you represent as intended to be disseminated by me respecting all who should here- after be married in their own place of worship. If such insinuations and charges arc not an attack upon a mau's character, and especially if he rank as a minis- ter of religion, I know not what can he considered in that light. But it is thus that you and such assailants as KESHAW would sink every thing of a sacred cha- racter connected with the Established Church, in the estimation of the populace, and care not, if thereby, you destroy all respect for religion itself. I scattered no accusations regardlessly ; but if I want to find where the " firebrands, arrows, and death," of which Solomon speaks, are scattered, I know where to look. Whether I may expect more " lenity at your hands," having stated thus much, is a matter of no great con- cern to me. I was prepared to defend myself at large, but feel 110 particular anxiety to enter into the subject unnecessarily, after the more than satisfactory defence of my Address, which I perceive in the Advertiser of yesterdaj', from some friends wholly unknown to me. The satisfaction which I have otherwise received of the good effects of my Address, and the calling forth of that defence by the attack so rancorously made upon me, is more than a compensation for all the spleen and base insinuations of KESHAW'S letter; and I feel thank- ful to find how men of sober minds, chaster imagina- tions, and of opinions worth holding, view my humble endeavours to uphold sound principles of religion and virtue, and the ancient institutions of my country; and I shall be more than thankful if I find such fruits to grow out of an attendance of my ministry as appear iu the letter of my defender " Amicus Ecclesise," in the Advertiser of yesterday. lam, sir, yours, & c., Ashted, March 10, 1837. J. ALLPORT. THE NEW POOR LAW. No 6. I proceed to consider the chief points in which the new and the old law differ, or rather, in which the practice of the new and the old law differs. The first of these is the refusal to give relief unless within the house. This is a difference in point of practicc, not of law. Under the old law, it was, at all times, competent to refuse relief unless within the house. One of the evils most complained of under the old law, was tiie interference of the magistrate in the relief of the poor; not only as to the quantum of the relief, but as to the class to whom it was to be ad- ministered. Now this evil might, and frequently was, neutralised by the offer of the overseer to receive into the house parties complaining to the magistrates. That offer took the case at once out of the magistrates' jurisdiction. If the parties refused to comply with the overseer's offer, or if they complied with it, in either case, tiie interference of the magistrate was at an er, d. How happened it, then, that so powerful an instru- ment as relief within the house has been found, under the new law, was so sparingly used under the old ? There were various reasons, but the chief one certainly was the expense of workhouses. The number of parishes in England exceeds ten thousand; which would give an average of about twelve hundred souls' for each. Even on the supposition that the popula- tion and the poor had been equally distributed over tiie country, it is plain that the expense of the machi- nery requisite for the workhouse relief of so small a population as 1,200, would have been out of all pro- portion to the cost of the paupers, for whose regula- tion it was meant. But toe case is very much strengthened when we consider, that, from various causes, the population of parishes is so exceedingly unequal, ranging, in various cases, from 8 or 10 souls, to 100,000. On the score of economy, therefore, so long as the poor of each parish were to be maintained, not only by the parish, but in the parish, it was expe- dient, in a very great number of instances, that they should not be maintained in the house. Thus the law, which enabled overseers to refuse sup- port unless in the house, fell into almost com plete disuse in most cases, and was hardly enforced with strictness in any. In a word what under the new law has been made the rule, was under the old the exception, and vice versa. The provision for con- stituting' one union out of a number of contiguous parishes, not any change of the principle of the law, has led to this change. It is now more economical to give relief in the house than out of it, because the number of permanenjt claimants for relief is great com- pared with the machinery necessary for the regulation of the house— the smallest unions consisting, for the most part, of ten or twelve thousand, and many of them of twenty or thirty thousand; while the work- houses, instead of being' fitted up for 10, 20, or 30 inmates, arc capable of receiving 200, 300, 400, and some of them 500. If a question were raised as to the propriety of such unions, I think it might receive an easy and satisfactory answer in another— what principle of propriety or common sense can be urged in support of the system of parochial division? Can any system be more absurd and indefensible, whether we regard it in reference to the maintenance of the poor, or any other purpose, civil or ecclesiastical, than a scheme of divi- sion, which distributes the population in some places by scores, and in others by scores of thousands ? which forms one parish of Birmingham, with its hun- dred thousand inhabitants, and one ofKinwalsey, with its nineteen, and of Westrell and Stromore with its seven? So far, then, as the principle of the unions is concerned, there seems nothing to object. They are merely an attempt, for certain purposes, which would be wisely made for all purposes, to remedy the ridicu- lously irregular ecclesiastical divisions of the kingdom. In practice, I am not so entirely disposed to defend them. It seems to me that in framing them no very definite rule or proportion has been followed. I ob- serve in the list of unions postponed to the report of 1836, that of the first hundred in the list there are thirteen which range from 20,000 to 25,000 ; two from 25,000 to 30,000; five from 30,000 to 40,000 ; three from 10,000 to 50,000; and one above 50,000.^ 0: i the other hand, there are a considerable number below 10,000, and one below 5,000. The number of parishes united range from six to sixty. I am at a loss to dis- cover any rule but the pleasure of the Assistant Com- missioner for such a variety of arrangement. It strikes me that the unions ought to have been framed on the two principles of surface and population— with this modification always, that the workhouses should not be at too great a distance from each other. And this brings me to the consideration of a question, touching which a sufficient discrimination has not been exer- cised, either by the opponents or the advocates of the new law. The poor relieved by the new law, as by the old, are of two classes, first, those who, by reason of old ag'e or childhood, or from any physical impediment, whe- ther chronic or temporary, are incapable of maintain- ing' themselves ; and, second, those who, though able to maintain themselves, have not, from some stagnation or cessation inthedemand for labour, the meausof doing- so. The plea for supporting the latter in the House, and only iu the House, that is, unless some amount of dis- agreeability accompany parochial relief to the able- bodied pauper, he willlaekthe stimulus necessary to im- pel him to seek for employment and an independent sup- port. I admit fully that the measures employed to produce this disagreeability arc a fair subject of discussion— these include confinement within the house, more or less strict— separation of the sexes— diet; but I think the principle admits of no discussion whatever. Cer- tainly it can admit of none with those who are truly the friends of the labourer. For what does opposition to the principle involve? Simply this, that the la- bourer who earns his honest livelihood by the sweat of his brow, and whose meal, however humble, is the fruit of his own independent purchase, should be placed on the same level with respect to enjoyments, as the la- bourer whose support is dependent on the contribu- tions of his neighbours, wiio sits down to a table that another has spread, and to a dinner that another has paid for— in short, to draw no line of distinction be- tween the rate- payer who works hard to maintain himself and the rate- receiver who sits idle and is main- tained by his neighbour. It is for want of viewing the case in this light that any friend of the labouring classes could for a moment hesitate to approve of the rule which places the latter in an inferior position to the former. Putting' aside the plain fact, that if the non- worker is placed in all respects on a level with the worker, that the temptation to live iu idleness, and upon charity, would, to baser natures, be altogether irresistible, putting aside the interest of those who have to maintain the non- worker, it would still be desirable, on moral grounds, and for the sake of marking, in an honourable way, the conduct of the worker, that the case of the non- worker should be attended with some circumstances of humiliation and uneasiness. It is true that circumstances do now and then throw out of employment large numbers of the most frugal and de- serving working men, and in such cases it seems hard that such distinctions should be kept up. But the law- is made for cases of ordinary and even- day occurrence. Those who ask, how would the law work in a manu- facturing crisis, forget that a law ought to be framed for the rule, not for the exception, and that if the system of administering' relief to the able bodied in the House be impracticable in a manufacturing crisis, that is no reason why it may not be wisely enforced when no such crisis exists. Granting that a distinction should subsist between the non- worker who is supported by the parish, and the worker who is supported by his own industry, the question of the means employed with that view becomes a question of degree. With regard to separation of the sexes in the workhouse a great deal has been said and written, and to very little purpose. Once admit that relief there is just, and the entire matter in dispute seems conceded. A man and his wife are separated, and parents and their children are separated, simply be- cause no workhouse, built on any ordinary scale, could accommodate them together. If every married couple - who g'o into the workhouse is to have separate lodging's, what must be the dimensions of the House, and what the number of attendants ? I am speaking, be it remembered, of the able- bodied poor, not of the im- potent poor. Then again of the dietary. First, it is hardly correct to say that it is fixed, for there is in the dietary table a considerable latitude allowed. I will not say that this latitude might not be even farther extended, and perhaps one of the results of the com- mittee now sitting will be so to extend it. Second the amount of food is not so small as the opponents of the new law would persuade us. They ask how a man is to live on sixteen- pence a- week. I should say not over luxuriantly, but he may live notwithstanding, and many a man is compelled to do so. But this is an unfair way of stating the case. Let it be assumed that the cost of provisions for a man is only sixteen- pence. Take the case of a man, his wife, and four children— as for the latter, there is, if below nine years of age, no stint— the cost of keeping such a family will not come to less than 7s. Gd. Now let it be remembered, that the provisions, the purchase of which is 7M. 6d , are cooked gratis, that the materials for cooking are furnished by the House, that the plates on which they are served, the knives and forks with which they are divided, the room in which they are eaten, with all its appurtenances, are furnished in like manner by the House; that besides food, cooked and served without expense, the House gives lodgings, beds, clothes if required. Take all these items into consideration, and the 7s. Gd. will not be overestimated at twice that sum. I don't say that this is a great sum ; but it is by no means contemptible, even in pros- perous times. I shall notice the ease of the impotent poor in another paper. S. officer, who will visit the case, and if he find it one of urg- ent necessity, will afford temporary relief until the board meet, when he will report the particulars, and the applicant, if able, or some one on his behalf, must attend. In this instance, the applicant applied to the Relieving- officer, who visited the case, but did not consider that it stood in immediate relief, therefore, requested the man to appear before the Guardians, which lie did on the 21st ult., and not, as Mr. Arrow- smith was erroneously informed, on the 15th, and again on the 22nd, when, instead " of its being proved that the statement of distress was correct, it was stated that he occupied a house and garden at 4s. per week, and that lie said that if he could obtain re- lief from the parish, he should be excused the payment of his poor- rates. To the best of my recollection, the man did not even represent to the board that his wife was in a dangerous state of illness. From the infor- mation that was before the Guardians, it appeared that his principal object in applying for relief, was to atoid the payment of poor- rates, and upon this ground, coupled with the amount of rent he was paying, lie was not allowed out- relief, but offered the' house, which he refused to accept, but certainly did not as- sign as a reason for such refusal, that his wife was unable to be removed. Yesterday he made a second application to the Guardians, and very reluctantly said, he had been told, that if he could get relief he would be excused his poor- rates; lie also unwillingly acknowledged that he might have told the Relieving- officer so. Mr. Arrow- smith was present on this occasion, and was convinced, from the applicant's evasive answers, and his not re- presenting the real state of his wife's health, that the Guardians were justified in the course they adopted. I am, sir, your obedient servant, ENOCH PEAKSON, Clerk tc the Guardians. March 8, 1837. But, quoth " T.," " My lad is o'er ASTON GUARDIANS. SI R,— In the animadversions you have chosen to make on our being parties at a meeting at Vauxhall, for the purpose of promoting the election of those we deem to be fit persons as Guardians of the Poor for the parish of Aston, you have assigned to us an official character we did not assume at that meeting. That we are Churchwardens, jiro tempore, is true, but that we have, therefore, no right to concern ourselves in the appointment of those we approve for disposal of funds partly to arise from property we may occupy or possess in the parish, we have yet to learn. If, as Church- wardens, in the discharge of duties the law has im- posed upon us, we should so far forget integrity of character as to be influenced by partialities, we should then be open to your severest strictures. That we are, with the Overseers, the " returning officers in respect of the election;" that to us is addressed the " claim to vote" ( of the owners) with their " appointment of proxy;"' that the registry of owners and proxies re- quires the certification of the Wardens and Overseers; that they " receive the nomination lists" for publication to the parish, and that such lists are distributed to the occupiers authorised to vote, and are re- collected by the Assistant Overseers under the orders of the Wardens and Overseers;— ail these allegations are perfectly correct, but in them we saw no circumstance op- posed to our right as inhabitants of the parish, and owners of property therein, proving that we were exercising " undue influence" in promoting the election of such persons as Guardians of the Poor as we think will truly respect the " interests and opinions of the majority of tiie owners and occupiers within the parish;" being, however, the Guardians of our own consciences, we shall venture to persevere in the line of conduct already adopted, and continue to use our utmost endeavours to promote the appointment of Guardians of the Poor who do really represent the interests and opinions of the owners and occupiers of property within the parish, even although you, Mr. Editor, may consider them as ineligible as you seem to do the ex- officio Guardians under the Poor- law Amendment Act. That we may be acquitted of the exercise of a very corrupt influence in the approaching election, will, per- haps, be admitted, when we state that the original voting papers of every individual will remain, and that the registry of owners' claims will likewise re- main, as by law required, for the inspection of any payer of rates within the. parish, who may likewise, if he choose, wade through the whole paraphernalia of the election. Mr. Editor, we are your very humble servants, JOHN BREARLY PAYNE, JOHN SMALLWOOD. Birmingham, March 10, 1837. THE TOWN'S MEETING. be its own reward, the main." Thy lad, forsooth I He's any maiden's lad, Just wheresoe'er that prow of his may gad. And when thy " William" spreads his sails again, Like thee they'll cry, " . My love is o'er the main." His roving ark in vain those doves will seek, A leaf of promise fluttering in each beak. Sin deluged earth 1 the hand should take them in, ****** More imagination. While it is working let us fol- low the sailor lad who is now " ploughing the waves with his taffrail." O'er the charmed waves the Sirens pour their lay, To lure thy sea boy from his bark away. O'er unwaxed* ears the Jluxinof sounds prevail, And in he jumps to clasp a mermaid's tail. Oh far less sage than the great Sage, Ulysses, For fish- and flesh, to barter " T.' s" true kisses. Just " half- and- half," and " cold," I ween, " without," I have plenty more to say, hut let us see how these Mats ( Is that the right plural?) will be filled up. FUZ. * See Odyssey. Book— page— line— f Melting. More imagination, to say nothing of the judg- ment. BIRMINGHAM MARKET. Corn Market, March 9. A good supply Of nil kinds of Grain to this day's market. Wheat of good dry quality fully maintained the rates oflast week, while soft inferior sorts might be bought at less money Harley, both malting and grinding, was again offering on lower terms, with very- few buyers.— Oats were full Is, per quarter lower, with a very dull sale at that reduction.— Beans and Pens supported the rates of this day se'nnight. TOWN INFIRMARY, MARCH 10.— Surgeon of the week, Mr. Cox. Patients admitted, 12; discharged, 14 ; in the house] 134; Out- patients visited and in attendance, 674. Midwifery cases, 0. GENEUAI. HOSPITAL, MARCH 10.— Physician and Surgeon of the Patients of the week, Dr. J. Johnstone and Mr. Hodgson. Visitors, Mr. James James and Mr. Piercey. In- patients admitted, 3C{ out, 83. In- patients discharged, £ 6; out, 67. Remaining in the house, ISO. BIRMINGHAM DISPENSARY, MARCH 10— Sick patients relieved, 347; midwiferyenses, 16. Barometer at noon. Ex- treme during night. Ther- niome- • ter 8 morn. Extreme heat during day. Ther- mome- ter at noon. State of Wind at noon. { Remarks at noon. Mar. 4 30 5 34 0 42 0 48 0 42 0 N ! Fair 5 30 0 35 0 44 0 50 0 46 ( 1 NE 1 Rain ( i K) 90 35 II 42 0 46 0 40 0 E Fair 7 29 80 35 0 41 U 50 0 44 0 N Rain - 9 60 32 0 38 II 46 0 40 0 W Fair 9 29 45 34 0 42 0 46- 0 40 0 W Fair 10 29 50 36 0 44 0 50 0 42 0 w 1 Rain ASTON UNION. A letter having appeared in your columns of last wee):, from Mr. Arrowsmith, stating a case, which ap- peared one of extreme hardship on the part of the Guardians of the Aston Union, I hope you will allow me, through the same medium, to lay the particulars before the public, and then they will have an opportu- nity of forming an opinion upon its merit. I will first remark, that it is the duty of every person re- quirihg parochial assistance, to apply to the Kelieving- SIR,— Having been an attentive reader of all that has been stated in the public papers relative to the late Town's Meeting, as well as of the letters of Mr. J. M. Knott, and which I consider as intending to convey an impression as to the facts which he dare not plainly assert. I beg to ask him, whether, at the Public- office, as reported in the Birmingham Journal of the 18th of February last, after his reply to the ex- clamation of the High Bailiff, " What do you sa y ?" the following conversation did not occur, and if" so, to what observation of his ( Mr. Knott's) it applied. " High Bailiff: I was not aware of that mental reservation. " Mr. Thomas Knott: Not mental reservation. " High Bailiff: I do not mean it offensively, hut that that qualification did not occur to my mind, at the time Mr. J. M. Knott acquiesced personally in the arrangement." Now, sir, I call on Mr. J. M. Knott to say, in the plain language of truth, whether or not such conver- sation did take place; and if not, what other; and why in the report given by his party of the proceed- ings, that was wholly omitted. Mr. J. M. Knott's letters are extremely obscure, and his charge that certain sentences introduced by you into the report of the Advertiser are interpolations is truly ridiculous, you having stated that you had adopted the report of the Advertiser with certain cor rections. I beg to inform Mr. Knott that interpola- tions may be either true or false, and I doubt not those put in by you are the former. Mr. J. M. Knott states that he has a letter from the High Bailiff, in which he was to furnish him ( Mr. Knott) with the points which were to be submitted to a meeting of his friends, and that sucli letter does not allude to the preliminary meeting being held at the front of the Public- office. Now it appears to me, from all that has been stated, that it is very material it should not, because the High Bailiff must have con- sidered that point has already settled. By inserting in your valuable paper the above letter, you will, sir, greatly oblige A CONSTANT READER. MY SAILOR LAD IS O'ER THE MAIN.— T. ; There let him sink anil be the main o'er him !" * flickering beam, * * * " dowse the glim !" A humble votary of Apollo to his most indulgent High Priest, greeting. I think this will more than satisfy thy gentle exigences. Thou lookest not for '' much imagination," and this tri— tri— tri—( what?) is full of it. There is hardly any thing in it but imagination. It is not active, gross, palpable; it is incipient, embrvotic, " latent," like Irish Protestantism. Not only is it imaginative itself, hut it will be the c- ause of imagination in every one who reads it. Let thy readers, fair and foul, fill up the lines, and let them be stuck one under another in the Poet's corner as a prize exhibition. Imagination, like virtue, will WHEAT— joer G' 2lbs. '*• <'• '• d- Old 7 (> _ 7 9 New 7 „ _ 7 e Irish e 0 — 6 6 8 A It LEY— per Imp. Quarter. For Malting 34 0 — 37 0 For Grinding, perialbs 3 6 — 3 9 - VL ALT— per Imperial Bushel. Old and new 8 0 9 0 OATS- per 3ms. Old 3 6 — 3 9 New 3 6 — 3 10 Irish li 9 — 3 3 BEAN S— per bag, 10 score gross. s. ( I. x. tl. Old 17 6 — 19 0 New 16 0— 18 0 PEAS— perbag of 3 Bush. Imp. FOR HOI 1.1 NU. White 18 0 — 19 0 Grey 16 6— 18 0 Foil GRINDING. per bag of 10 score 16 0 — 16 6 New 17 6— 18 0 FLOUll— per sack oJHSOIbs. net. Fine 45 0 — 46 0 Seconds 40 0 — 42 0 STATE OF THE WORKHOUSE UP TO MARCH 7. In the House Admitted since .... Born in the House Dischgd, absconded, and dead* Total of each Men. Wo- INFANTS. men. Boys. Girls. Male. Fem. Total, 165 169 10 15 4 10 373 9 15 2 2 4 3 35 1 I 174 lei 12 17 9 13 409 14 7 1 I 1 1 25 160 177 11 16 8 12 384 Number of Cases relieved last week . Number of Children in the Asylum * Of whom 1 man and 1 woman died. . 2,540 . 187 METEOROLOGICAL DIARY. FUHNISHE11HV MR. WOLLBR, IS DOB A STON- 8TH E ET. BIRTH. On the 2nd inst., at Bonehill, Staffordshire, Lady Jane Peel, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. On the 25th ult., at St. Martin's, Mr. Joseph Williams, of Copenhagen- street, Islington, London, to Miss Sarah Clemson, of Moor- street, in this town. On the 4th inst., at Edgbsston, by the Rev. H. C. Pixell, William, youngest son of Mr. W. Billinge, of this town, to Fanny, only daughter of Mr. John W'lieeldon, of Vicarage- road, Edgbaston. On the 7' h inst., at St. Martin's, Mr. William Henry Ashmore, metal- button manufacturer, to Miss Thompson, both of this town. On the 28th ult., at Worcester, Mr. J. Ilerdman, of Bittell, to Miss Jane Stihbs, niece of Mr. J. Sliblis, of Hoopwood, near Alvechurcb, Worcestershire. On the 4th inst., at St. John's, Wolverhampton, by the Rev. H. Pountney, Mr. William Sheldon, to Miss Maria Brown, both of Wolverhampton. On the 7th inst., at Aston, by the Rev. Edward Hall, Mr. John Banfield, of Newhall- street, to Mary, daughter of Mr. Joseph Creed, of Handsworth. On Monday week, at Wolverhampton, John Hanter, Esq., of Fazeley, to Miss Caroline Hughes, of IJill. On the 2nd Inst., at Norwich, Air. Edward Wilmot, of this town, to Sarah, eldest daughter of Mr. William Free- man, of Norwich. Lately, at Wordsley, Kingswinford, by the Rev. Wm. Hughes', of Aston Botterell, Mr. Thomas Oakes, of Dud- ley, ironmaster, to Martha, eldest daughter of Mr. Wm. Hughes, of Kingswinford. DEATHS. On Tuesday last, at Edgbaston, in the 68th year of her age, after a short but severe affliction, Susanna, wife of Mr. Charles Buckton, late of High- street, bookseller. On the28th ult., at his residence near Halesowen, William Farmer, lute of Roinsley Hill, aged 36. On Monday last, suddenly, at Knowle, in the 38th year of his age, William Henry Jackson, only son of Mr. Wiliiam Jackson, solicitor, High- street, Bordesley. On the 5th inst., aged 63, Mr. James Archer, of Lower Tower- street, in this town. On the 9th inst., at Newington Green, Middlesex, Mrs. B. Lee, in the 81st year of her age- On the 7th inst., in his 83rd year, Mr. Thomas Owen, of Spark Brook. On the 1st inst., aged 72, Sir. John Lenforth, of Gilson, near Coleshill. On the 8th inst., in the 65th year of his age, Mr. Edward Wiseman, of Thorp- street, in this town. On the 3rd inst., after a short hut severe illness, in his 21st year, William, only son of Mr. Phillips, grocer, St. John's, near Worcester. On the 5th inst., at an advanced age, Mrs. Smith, relict of the late Mr. Smith, butcher, of Wolverhampton. On the 6th instant, John, son of Mr. John Lloyd, builder, of Wolverhampton, in the 25th year of his age. On the 4th instant, aged 55, Mr. Eyre, of Bilston. On the 4th inst., Eliza, wife of Henry Goodricke Willett, Esq., of the Lightwoods, Staffordshire, and of Wigstone Parva Hull, Leicestershire, and only daughter of the late Thomas Grundy, Esq. On Thursday week, in her 3rd year, Emma Bushy, eldest daughter of . Mr. Thomas Waddell, of . Moseley- street. On the 7th inst., Mr. William Cotidrey, of Edgbaston, aged 7d. On Sunday last, aged 52, Miss Maria Tongue, daughter of the lute Mr. William Tongue, silversmith, of High- street. On Saturday, in the 54th year of his age, Mr. William Babbingtcn. On the oth inst., at Market Draylon, Shropshire, Adam Fiiz Adam, Esq., buirister- at- law. 1 . nit daughter of Mr. sq. On the 25ili ult., Ellen Caroline, inf, Tiilmarsh, draper, of this town. _ On the 3rd inst., aged 75, Charlotte, wife of Thomas Bel- cher, E- iq , of the Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury, and sister of the Rev. Henry Pye, of Cirencester, and Prebendary of Worcester. ' Oo the 4th in » t., aged 73, W. Jellicoe, Esq., of Beighter- ton, Staffordshire. On Saturnay lust, aged 22, Mr. B. Siiepheard, grocer, of Leamington. On the 3rd i » st., at Kensington, Miss Narcs, sister of the la e Archdeacon Nares. On the 9th inst., at Prestbury, Gloucestershire, Mr. H. Brown, who was well known on the Warwick race- course as jockey to Mr. Jones and oilier gentlemen of the turf. THE . BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. LONDON GAZETTES. FRIDAY, MARCH 3. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. MARCH 2.- JOHN MACDOUGALL, Liverpool, and late of Beunos Ayres, merchant. MARCH3.— BENJAMIN PURBRICK, Goat public- house, Golden- Jane, Barbican, licensed victualler. BANKRUPTS. I The Bankrupts to surrender at the Court of Commissioners, Basing- hull- street, when not otherwise expressed.'] JOHN ABSOLON, 12, Old Bond- street, Piccadilly, but now of Jer. inynstreet, St. James's, tailor, March 13 and April 14. Sol. Mr. William Bevan, 21, Old Jewry. JOHN HALLETT, Orange. street, Bloomsbury, hatter, March 10 and April U. Sol. Mr. Parker, St. Paul's Church- yard. Pet. Cr. CATHERINE ALEXANDRINA IIALLIN, Sussex Villa, and 15, Paik- road, Regent\ s- park, schoolmistress, March 21 and April 14, Sol. Mr. George Smith, 48, Chancery- lane. GEORGE MARTIN, Burnjiam, Bujcks, shopkeeper, March 10 and April 14. Sols. Messrs. Smith and Dry, 11, Serle- street, Lincoln's, inn. GEORGE BEDFORD, Keppel- street, Chelsea, grocer, March 10 and April 14. Sol. Mr. Lott, Bow- lane, Cheapside. THOMAS JAMES BREEDS and CHARLES BURFIELD the younger, Fenning's- vvharf* Tooley. street, merchants, March 21 and April 14. Sols. Messrs. Hindmarsh and Son, 7, Crescent, Jewin- street, Cripplegate. FRANCIS HUITSON, Newgate- street, woollen- draper, March 9 and April 14. Sol. Mr. Van Sandau, Old Jewry. GDORGE POCOCk, 37, Booth- street, Spitalflelds, manufacturing chemist, March 10 and April 14. Sol. Mr. Howard, 78, Norton- street, Portland- road. WILLIAM BROTHERTON, Liverpool- street, City, saddler, March 14 and April 14. Sols. Messrs. Clarke and Tauqueray, Bishopsgate Church- yard. JOHN ALDRED, Manchester, baker, March 17 and April 14, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester. Sols. Messrs. Milne, Parry, Milne, and Morris, Temple, London; and Mr, Edward Bent, St. Ann's- square, Manchester. JOSEPH POPPLE WELL, Silkstone, Yorkshire, butcher, March 23 and April 14, at the Town- haJl, Sheffield. Sols. Mr. Shepherd, attorney- at- law, Barnsley; and M ssrs. Perkins and Frampton, Gray's- inn. square, London. JOHN HOUSMAN, Haltoo, near Leeds, iudigo extract manufac- turer, March 25 and April 14. at the Court- house, Leeds. Sols. Messrs, Makinson and Sanders, Elm- court, Middlde Temple, Lon- don ; and Mr. T. F. Foden, Leeds. SETH RICHARDS, Chepstow, Monmouthshire, miller, March fi and April 14, at the Sloop Inn, Landogs, Monmouthshire. Sols. Mr. Charles Houlden Walker, Chepstow; and Messrs, Clowes and Wedlake, Temple, London. JOHN EVANS, EDMUND COUPE, JOHN BROWN, ARTHUR SOUTHWARD, CHRISTOPHER HARDY, FRANCIS DON- NELLEY, JOHN LINNEY, DAVID STOTT, ROBERT BERRY, and JAMES ROBINSON, Holme, Manchester, dyers, March 16' and April 14, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester, Sols. Messrs. Johnson, Son, and Weatherall, Temple, London; and Mr. Hitchcock, Manchester. WILLIAM WOODHEAD, RICHARD WOODHEAD, and JOHN WOODHEAD, Bridge Mill, Almonibury, Yorkshire, scribbling millers, March 21 and April 14, at the Packhorse Inn, Huddersfield. Sols. Messrs. W. and S. Stephenson, Holmfirth, near Huddersfield; and Messrs, Battye, Fisher, and Sudlow, Chancery- lane, London. JOSEPH PICKERING, Bedford, upholsterer, March 13 and April 14, at the King's Arms Inn, Bedford. Sols. Messrs. Cardales and Iliffe, Bedford- row, London; and Messrs. Iliffe and Garrard, Olney, Buckinghamshire. JAMES MERCER, Birkenhead, Cheshire, brewer, Maxell IS and April 14, at the Clarendon- rooms, Liverpool. Sols. Messrs. Perkins and Frampton, 1, Gray's- inn square, London; and Mr. Thomas Hilliar, 2, Exchange- chambers, Liverpool, and Church- street, Woodside, Cheshire. EDWARD PASSE, Y the younger, Worcester, dealer in china, March 13 and April 14, at the Hop- market Inn, Worcester. Sols. Messrs. White and Whitmore, 11, Bedford. row, London; and Mr. John Fletcher Corhett, 3, Sansome. street, Worcester. WILLIAM UNSWORTH, Derby, silk lace. manufacturer, March 11 and April 14, at the New Inn, Derby. Sols. Mr. George Capes, 5, Raymond's- buildings, Gray's- inn, London; and Mr. William- son, Corn- market, Derby. STEPHEN MORGAN, Birmingham, Dame- street, Dublin, and Limerick, toy- merchant, March 18 and April 14, at the Union Inn, • Union- street, Birmingham. Sols. Messrs. Holme and Loftns^ New Inn, London; and Mr. Bartleet, Birmingham. DIVIDENDS. William Kingsford, Buckland, near Dover, paper- manufacturer March 29, at the Bell Inn, Sandwich— John Kingsford, Barton, Can- terbury, miller, March 23, at the Guildhall, Canterbury— Sampson Kingsford, Sherry, Kent, miller, Marcji 2S, tit the Guildhall, Can- terbury— John Mainprise, Sohana, Cambridgeshire, victualler, April 1, at the Bull Inn, Cambridge— Richard Furness, Preston, Lan- cashire, slater and plasterer, April 7, at the Town- hall, Preston- Henry Lemon Taylor, Highworth, Wilts, saddler and harness- maker, March 25, at the White Hayfc Inn, Cricklade— William Poulton, Broadleaze, Wilts, cattle- salesman, March 25, at the White Hart Inn, Cricklade— William Hanks, late of Moretou- in- the- Marsfc, Gloucestershire, corn- dealer, March 28, at the Fleece Inn, Chelten- ham— Charles Seaman, late of Norwich, goldsmith, April 1, at the office' of Messrs. Sewell, Blake, and Co., Norwich— Humphrey Bro-. vn, John Henry Bradley, and Benjamin Harris, Gloucester and and Birmingham, merchants, March 27, at the office of Messrs. Win terbotham and Thomas, Tewkesbury— William Morley, Manchester, commisgion- agertt, March 25, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Man- chester. CERTIFICATES, MARCH 24. Thomas Thatcher, Fleet- street, florist and seedsman— Henry John West, Bath , music, seller— limn Hind ley, Or ay's- inn. ( Sine, cheese- monger— John Piatt, Manchester, publican— Henry Blain, Liine- street, merchant— Hippolite Jarvis Doubleday, Minories, oil and colour man— Rees J6n s, Pontvane, Carmarthenshire, farmer, PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. John Stone and William Fiunimore, Saint George's, Gloucester, bllirer school masters— Mark Nightingale, Henry Richardson, James Moss, and Thomas Myers, Manchester, common carriers— William Bradbury auti William Wells, Bond. streot, tailors- Richard Derivas and Maurice Jones, Shrewsbury, grocers— James Clift and William Fisher, Ely. place, Holborn, attorneys- Samuel Bcddoes and Fre- derick Green, Kidderminster, bakers— George ChurohLI and Samuel Eleoek Molyneux, 147, Fenchureh. street, genera1 _ — James Feather, John Feather, and George Feather, Ilawoitli, Yorkshire, worsted spinners— Richard Morrison and Barnabas Brough, Ponty- pool, Monmouthshire, coal and wine merchants— George Row and John Andrew, Cotton, Hackney- road, boot. makers— J. J. Grape], E. V. Dadelszen, William Preller, and G. M. V. Dadelszen, Banff,' Scotland, merchants— Richard Henry Dawson and John Bull, Bos- ton, Lincolnshire, grocers— Henry Munn, William Elston, and Charles Wearg Clark, Red Lion. place, West Sraithfleld, surveyors — Thomas Ryland and William Rytand, Birmingham, platers- Charles Culshaw and Thomas Pemberton, Preston, Lancashire builders— Philip Tipping and Philip Smith, Openshaw, Lancashire,' bleachers— George William Lee, Ezra Jenks Coates, and Co. { as far as regards ( i. W. Lee)— Robert Cooper and William Williams, Bold- street, Liverpool, silk. mercers- James Jones and William Armstrong, Manchester, tailors— William Beetham Fothergill and Henry Timms, Liverpool, brewers— John Bowles and James Pax. mail, Greenstead, Essex, millwrights— James Hunt and Edward Hunt, 53, Edgware. road, cnm. d- Thomas Brown and George Priestley Heap, Leadenhall street, woollen. drapers— John Matthews and William Gore— Edwin Priestley Mather and Samuel Parnell, Bolton, le. Moons, Lancashire, druggists— James Morrison, Crumlin, Monmouthshire, and John Cargill, Gloucester, coal masters— James Morrison, Crumlin, Monmouthshire,' Richard Perkins, the younger, Swansea, and John Cargill, Gloucester, eoal. masters— John Knill, Pudding- lane, City, merchant, Samuel Potter, Ratcliff- highway, mariner, and James Blasbfield, late of Para, South America, but uow of Tedstone- de- la- Mere, Herefordshire, merchants. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. Thomas Drysdale, Buchanan- street, Glasgow, grocer. TUESDAY, MARCH 7, DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. MAIUMIB THOMAS LUCAS, Red Lion- wharf, Upper Thames- street, factor. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. WILLIAM ROBERTS, formerly of Churwell, Yorkshire, and late of Quebec, merchant, March 31, at the Court- house, Leeds. BANKRUPTS. EDMUND BICK BR ADLEY, Nine Elms, Surrey, maltster, March 20 and April IS. Sots. Messrs. Parnther and Fisher, London- street, Fenchurch- street. THOMAS BAYLISS, 282, Strand, smith, March 17 and April 18. Sols. Messrs. Robinson, Hine, and Robinson, Charter House- square. SAltAH BARLOW and ROBERT SALMON MULLEY, Little Bartholomew- close, West Smithfield, stone- masons, March 14 and- April 18. Sols. Messrs. Watson and Sons, Bouverie. strect, Fleet, street. SAMUEL SYMONDS, Basinghall. street, factor, March 14 and April 18. Sols. Messrs. Bowden, Walters, and Reeve, Alderman- bury. THOMAS JAMES BREEDS and CHARLES BURFIELD, tile elder ( and not Charles Burfield the younger, as advertised in last Friday's Gazette), Fenning's- wharf, Tooley. street, and Hastings, merchants, March 21 and April 18. Sols. Messrs. Hindmarsh and Son, 7, Crescent, Jewin- street, Cripplegate. ANDREW PATTERSON, Greenwich, music- vender, March 14 and April 18, Sol. Mr. King, 13, TokenhouBe- yard. JAMES ltUDGE, Corn Exchange, Mark. lane, and Harder's- road, Peckham, merchant, March 18 and April 18. Sol. Mr. Richard Thomas, Fen- court, Fenchurch. street, JOSEPH JACKSON, Liverpool, brewer, March 21 and April 18, at the Clarendon. rooms, Liverpool. Sols. Mr. Henry Forshaw, 24, Chapel. street, Liverpool, and Messrs. Baxendale, Tathani, Upton, and Johnson, 7, Great Winchester- street, London. THOMAS BISHOP, Ashton. uuder. Lj- ne, Lancashire, builder, March21 and April 18, at the Commissioners'. rooms, Manchester. So's. Messrs. Richards and Walker, 29, Lincoln's- inn- fields, Lon. don ; and Messrs. Higginbottom and Buckley, Ashton. under. Lyne, Lancashire. JAMES GREEN, Exeter, civil engineer, March 20 and April 18, at the Half. Moon Inn, Exeter. Sols. Messrs. Gidley and Kingdon, Exeter; and Messrs. Burfoot, 2, King's Bench- walk, Inner Temple, London. WILLIAM BUSH PARKER, Downend, Gloucestershire, scri. vener, April 7 and April 18, at the Commercial- rooms, Bristol. Sol. Mr. Henry Seymour Westmacott, 7, South- scjuare, Gray's. inn, London. JOSHUA GIBSON and JOSEPH M'GLASSON, Liverpool, silk- mercers, March 22 and April 18, at the Clarendon- rooms, Liver, pool, Sols. Messrs. Blackstock, Bunco, Vincent, and Sherwood, Paper. buildings, Temple, Loudon ; and Messrs. Littledale and Baidswell, Water- street, Liverpool. GEORGE STEWART HALLORAN, Belfast, Ireland, merchant, March 23 and April 18, at the Clarendon. rooms, Liverpool. Sols. Messrs. Taylor, Turner, Sharpe, and Field, Bedford. row, London ; and Messrs. Lowndes and Robinson, Brunswick- street, Liverpool. THOMAS COLE and WILLIAM MOUNTCASTLE, Manchester, silk. manufacturers, March21 and April 18, at the Commissioners', rooms, Manchester. Sols. Messrs. Crowder and Maynard, Man. sion- house- place, London ; and Messrs. Bagshaw and Stevenson, Brown- street, Manchester. JOHN HAWORTH and SAMUEL DAVIS, Manchester, iron, mongers, March 23 and April 18, nt the Town- hall, Sheffield. Sols. Mr. Thompson, 19, Newington- bridge, Liverpool ; and Messrs. Norris and Allen, 10, Bartlett's- buildings, Holborn, London. JOHN OGDEN, Oldham, Lancashire, hat manufacturer, March 20 and April 18, at the. Commissionefs'- rooms, Manchester. Sols. Messrs. Johnson, Son, and Weatherall, Temple, Loudon; ana Messrs. Seddon and Mawson, Manchester. JOSEPH WOOD, Manchester, merchant, March 20 and April 18, at the'Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester. Sols. Mr. Charles Cooper, Manchester; and Messrs. Adlington, Gregory, Faulkner, and Follett, Redford row, London. JOHN FOX, Bromyard, Herefordshire, saddler, March 11 and April 18, at the Crown Inn, Broad- street, Worcester. Sols. Mr. Hastings, 3, Harpur- street, Red Lioil. square, London; and Messrs. William and Thomas Deveroux, Bromyard. THOMAS BROOKE, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, tanner, April 1 and 18, nt the Lion Inn, Wolverhampton. Sols. Messrs. White and Whitmore, Bedford- row, London; and Mr. Wood, Wolver- hampton, DIVIDENDS. William Townsend and William Brown, Cheapside, City, ware- housemen, and Jonas Wilks, Watkin- street, City, Irish linen ware- houseman, March 30— William Bailey the elder and William Bailey the younger, 184, Wliitecross- street, curriers, March 30— Benjamin Booth, Union- street, Southwark, tea- dealer, April 1 — William Stewart, Mitre. court, Cheapside, City, merchant, April 11— Edward Howard and James Gibbs, late of Cork- street, Burlington. gardens, Westminster, inoney. scrivencrs, April 15— Iame3 Blake, 11, Norton Folgate, chemist, March 29— Richard Child, Berners'- street, Ox. ford- street, upholsterer, March 29- James Cooke, 13, Regent- street, tailor, March 29— George Farr, High Holborn, fringe. manufaeturer, March 29— Robert Birch, Great Longstone, and New Mills, near Ashborne, Derbyshire, cotton- spinner, April 14, at the Angel Inn, ChestertSeld- Andrew Plank and John Plank, Canterbury, wool- staplers, March 28, at the Guildhall, Canterbury— John Pool Horton, Westbromwich, Staffordshire, engine boiler- maker, April 1, at the Stork Hotel, Birmingham— Robert Miller, Norwich, tobacconist, March 30, nt the Angel Inn, Norwich— Joseph Batehclor, Newport, Isle of Wight, mfcrcer, March 31, at Self's Hotel, Iiyde, Isle of Wight— George Perkins, Booth. town, Northowram, Halifax, silk- spinner, March 31, at the White Lion Inn, Halifax. . CERTIFICATES, MARCH28. John Smith, Chesterfield, innkeeper— Henry Stevens and Thomas Stevens, Nevyingtou. causeway, drapers— Robert Cole, late of 6, Jef- frey's. square, St. Mary Axe, City, but uow of 3, Basinghall- street, City, scrivener— Henry Newton, 234, Regent- street, silk. mercer- James Simpson Procter, Blue Anchor- road, Bermondsey, glue- manufacturer— Clay Hall, Salford, malt. dealer— John Warren Bu- chanan, Liverpool, stave- merchant— John Laing, Groat Tower- street, City, cork- cutter— John Anderson, Winchester- house, old Broad street, City, merchant— Henry Jones, High- street, Islington, furnishing undertaker— George Suggett, Barbican, City, merchant. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Elizabeth Howe and Anne Delano, Grosvenor- place, milliners— Richard and John Kemp, Half- Moon- street, Bishopsgate, grocers- Joel Gardiner and Charles James Cooke, Bristol— John Tilleard and Samuel Frederick Miller, 34, Old Jewry, attorneys— Joseph Roth- well and Edward Redford, Man sell, near Manchester, silk and worsted dyers— William Blackmore Vye and George Harris, Ilfra- combe, Devonshire, bankers— W. E. Kali, jun., and James Tompson, Liverpool, merchants— C. Davison and Robert Davison, Lower Shadwell, ship- buiscuit bakers— George Handcock, juri , and Mat- thew Handcock, High Frierside, Durham, woodmongers— Joseph Scouler and Henry Richardson, Penny- fields, Poplar, tailors— Ed- ward Cumings and Leonard Pauling, Alnwick, Northumberland, coach- proprietors- George Senior and Edwin Broadstock, Man- chester, linen- drapers — William Fulton Robinson and William Fulton, Boroughbridge, Yorkshire, saddlers— John Campbell and James. Crawford, Liverpool, ship- brokers— John Howarth, James Procter, and James Bailey, Liverpool, drysalters— Alexander Blake and Alexander Thomas Blake, Piccadilly, chemists and druggists— T. Kelly and William Mosley, Liverpool, brewers— William Green, James Stokoe, and Ridley Rewcastle, Dilsond, Northumberland, sawyers— Charles Belcher, Ephraim Brain, and I. Prosser, 17, Old Jewry, woollen warehousemen— James William Francis Knight and Thomas Henry Kuight, West Park- house, Gloucestershire, school- masters— Thomas Hood and John Hood, Ashhy- de- la- Zouch, Bir- mingham and Derby, curriers— William May, Burneston, and Wil- liam Beverley, Leeds, nursery and Seedsmen— Thomas Hepton and Henrjr Barker, LeeJs, plumbers and glaziers— George Wright and Edward Wright, Oldham, Lancashire, stationers— William Dakin, Thomas Ridgway, Arthur Dakin, and Robinson By water, Coventry, tea- dealers and grocers— William Dakin, Mhomas Ridgway, and Arthur Dakin, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and King William- street, London, tea- dealers and grocers— Mary Watts and Thomas Watts, Upper Thames- street, butchers— John Atkinson and Thomas Ibbotton, King William- street, marquee, tent, & c., manufacturers — Thomas Thwaites, sen., and Thomas Thwaites, jun., Great Rus- sell- street, Bloomsbury, tailors— William Deakins, Middleton Steney, and Edward Deakins, Bicester Market- end, Oxfordshire, farmers and innkeepers— James Cluhb and Robert Abbotson, Tottenham- court- road, licensed victuallers— George, Abraham, Fanny, Mary, Catherine Wilkinson, and Elizabeth Chamberlain, Embsay with Eastby, Yorkshire, cotton- spinners— Thomas Edwards Dyson and Charles Norris, Sowerby- bridge, Yorkshire, brewers— John Gerrard, Thomas Gerrard, William Gerrard, and James Ge. rrard, Lane- end, Staffordshire, china manufacturers ( so far as regards James Gerrard). 20s to 22s.— Caraway, English, new, 43s to 47s ; Foreign, 50s to 52s— Coriander, 14s 0d to 16s Od. Per Quarter.— St. Foin, 36s to38s ; fine, 40s to 42s; Rye Grass, 23s to 35s; new, 35s to 45s ; Pacey Grass, 40s to45s; Linseed for feeding, 52s to 56s ; fine, 60s to 64s ; ditto for crushing, 48s to 50s.— Canary, 44s to 48s.— Hemp, 46s to 50s. Per Bushel.— White Mustard Seed, 7s 0d to 9s Od j brown ditto, 9s Od to 12s ; Tares, 5s 0d to 5s* Gd ; fine new Spring, 6s Od to 6s 6d. Per Last.— Rape Seed, English, 32/ to 34/; Foreign. OO/ to 32/. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICE OF BRITISH CORN FOR THE WEEK ENDING MARCH 2, 1336,— Wheat, 57s 3d j Barley, 34s 7d ; Oats, 23s lOd ; Rye, 40b 2d ; Beans, 39s 6' d ; Peas, 38s 5d. DUTY ON FOREIGN CORN FOR THE PRESENT WEEK.— Wheat, 29s 8d; Barley, 10s lOd ; Oats, 12s 3d ; Rye, 9s 6d ; Beans, lis Od ; Peas, 12s 6d. HAY AND STRAW.— Smithjield.— Hay, 80s 0d to 95$ Od ; Inferior, — s to — s; Clover, 90s to 115s; Inferior — s to — a; Straw, 45s to 50s. Whitechapel.— Clover, 110s to 126s ; new ditto, — s to — s ; second cut, 100s to 115s; Hay, 90 to 95s ; new ditto, — s to — s j Wheat Straw, 44s to 50s. Cwnberland.— Fine Upland Meadow and Rye- grass Hay, 95s to 100s; inferior ditto, 78s to 88s; superior Clover, 112s to 118s; Straw, 40s to 52s per load of 36 trusses. Portman Market.— QoarSe heavy Lowland Hay,— s to — s ; new Meadow Hay, — sto— s ; old ditto, 84s to 98s ; useful ditto, — sto — s ; New Clover ditto,— s to— s; old ditto, 110s to 118s; Wheat Straw, 47s to 53s per load of 36 trusses. OILS.— Rape Oil, brown, £ 44 10s per ton ; Refined, £ 46 10s; Linseed Oil, £ 33 0s ; and Rape Cake, £ 6 6s.— Linseed Oil Cake, £ 13 0s per thousand. SMITHFIELO, MARCH 6 — TO sink the offal— per 81b.— Beef, 3s 6d to 4s 4d ; Best Down and Polled Mutton, 4s lOd to 5s 4d; Veal, 4s 6d to 5s Od ; Pork, 4s 6d to 5s Od ; Lamb, 7s 4d to 0s 0d. NEWGATE AND I. KADENUALL.— By the Carcase — Beef, 2s 6d to 3s 8d ; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 4d ; Veal, 3s 8d to 5s Od ; Pork, 3s 8d to 5s Od ; Lamb, 0s Od to 0s Od. COUNTRY MARKETS, & c. ^ AawiCK, SATUUDAV, MARCH 4. — Wheat, per bag, old - 21s Od to 22s Od ; new, 20s Od to 21s 6d ; Barley per quarter, 0s Od to 0s Od; new, 29s Od to 3Ss Od ; Oats, 30< Od to 34s Od; New, 26s Od to 32s Od; Peas, per hag, 17s Od to 19s Od ; Beans, ISsfid to IPs 6d; new, 14s Od to 16s Od; Vetches, Os Oil to Os Od; Malt, 56s Od to 62s Od per quarter. WORCESTER, MARCH 4.— Wheat, old, per bushel, Imperial Measure, 6s 8d to 7s 2d. New ditto, 6s 8d to 7s 2d. Foreign ditto, OsOdtoOsOd. Barley, malting, 4s 6d to 5s Od, Grinding ditto, 3s 4d to 4s Od. Beans, old, 5s 8d to 8s 4d. New ditto, 5s 4d to 5s Sd. Oats, English new, Os Od to 0s Od, Old ditto, 3s 6d to Osfld. Irish, ditto new, 391b. a bushel, 0s Od to 0s Od. Old ditto, 391b. a bushel, Os Od to 0s Od. Peas, white, boiling, 5s 8d to 6s Od. Grey ditto, 5s Od to os 4d. Grey Hog ditto, 0s Od to 0s Od. Vetches, winter, 6s 4cl to 0s Od. Spring ditto, 0s Od to 0s Od. GLOUCESTER, MARCH- 4. — Wheat, per bushel, 7s 3d to 7s lOd. Barley, per Imperial quarter, 36s Od to 41s 0d. Beans, per Im- perial bushel, 6s 4d to 6s 6d. Oats, per Imperial quarter, 22s Od to 32s Od. Peas, per Imperial quarter, 46s Od to 54s 4d. Malt, per Imperial quarter, 0s Od to OsOd. Fine Flour, 49s Od to 51s Od. HEREFORD, MARCH 4. — Wheat, per bushel Imperial measure, 6s lOd to 7s 64. Ditto, S'Jlbs. per bushel, 0s Od toOs < W. Barley, 3s 8d to 4s Od. Beans, 5s 8d to 6s 6d. Peas, 4s 9d to 5s 9d. Vetches, 0s Od to Os Od. Oats, 3s 6d to 3s 9d. CllBLTENUAM, MARCH 2.— New Wheat-, 16s9d to 7s Od per bushel, Old Wheat, 7s Od to 7s 6d. Barley, 3s 6d to 4s Od. Oats, 3s Od to 4s 3d. Beans, 5s 6d to 6s 9d. l'" RAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH. Price Is. 1 per Box. rynilS is a Medicine of long tried efficacy for cor- JL reeling all Disorders of the Stomach and Bowels, the most common symptoms of which are Costiveness, Flatu- lency, Spasms, Loss of Appetite, Sick Headache, Giddiness, Sense of fulness alter meals, Dizziness of the eyes, Drowsi- ness, und Pains in the Stomach and Bowels. Indigestion producing a torpid state of the Liver, and a constant inac- tivity of the Bowels, causing a disorganisation of every function of the fiame, will, in this most excellent prepara- tion, by a little perseverance, be effectually removed. Two or three doses will convince the afflicted of its salutary ef- fects. The Stomach will speedily regain its strength ; a healthy action of the Liver, Bowels and Kidneys will rapidly take place; and instead of listlessness, hea', pain, and jaundiced appearance, strength, activity, and renewed health, will be the quick result of taking this medicine, ac- cording to the directions accompanying each box. For Females these Pills are most truly excellent, remov- ing all ohstiuctions; the distressing Head- ache so very prevalent with the sex; Depression of Spirits, Dulness ot Sight, Nervous Affections, Blotches, Pimples, and Sallow- ness of the Skin, and give a healthy and juvenile bloom to the complexion. Persons of a full habit, who are subject to Head- ache, Giddiness, Drowsiness, and Singing in the Eilrs, arising from too great a flow of blood to the head, should never be without tliem, as many dangerous symptoms will be entirely carried off by their immediate use. The following case from Mr. Carstairs, the celebrated writing master, is a positive proof of the superior efficacy of this valuable medicine. To Mr. Thomas Trout No. 1, John- street, Curtain- road, Shoreditch, London. SIR,— Havingbeeu afflicted with a spasmodic affection of my stomach and chest for about sixteen years, which at different times has at- tached me so severely that I have often been considered at the very point of death, and for three whole years, 1 was unable to lay down in bed, being obliged to be propped with pillows, & c., and have also been compelled to stand for hours in the greatest agony, with doors and windows all open to get air, even in very severe weather, expecting to be suffocated at every respiration of iny breath. While suffering under such heavy affliction, you may easily imagine that I would, be willing and even anxious to fly to any remedy which promised relief, and I may say with great truth, that no one with equal means had scarcely expended more money for medicine, or tried more professed remedies than I have. You will have a better idea of what I It.-. ve stated above, when 1 declare that it has cost me from £ 500 to £ 10( 10 for medicine and advice." I have only tried two small boxes of Framptoll's Pill of Health, and I have received more benefit from them than from any previous medicine that I had taken ; indeed I felt sreat benefit from the first three or four doses, and I am now de. termiced never to be without them if lean possibly obtain them— Their benign influence on my complaint has been really wonderful ; they iire excellent for improving digestion and increasing appetite, and they have acted so beneficially on me, that several of ray friends have expressed their surprise to see the rapid improvement which your pills have made on mv bodily health, Evei y one who values ii: alth, and who has felt the want of it, must have, after a l. rief trial of this most excellent restorative, equally as high an opinion as I have at present of it, and I recommend it to be kept by every tamily lor every emergency. For the sake of those who may unfortunately be suffering from indigestion, or any derangement of their health, I strongly advise a trial of this most efficacious remedy.— I am, sir, your most obedient humble servant, May 2, 183( 5. J. CARSTAIRS, Sen. Original Teacher and Inventor of the New System of Writing. Sold by T. Front, 229, Strand, London, price Is. and 2s. 9d. per box; and by MSher, Wood, Sliillitoe, Sumner and Postal, Collins and Co., Humphries, Smith, Suffield, Flewitt, Edwards, Gazelle and Advertiser offices; Sliillitoe, ( late Cowell,) Westbronpwich ; Turner arid Hollier, and Morris, Dudley; Valentine and Thorsby, Walsall; Wander and Co., and Simpson, Wolverhampton; Davis, Atherstone; Morgan, Lichfield; Harding, Shiffnalt; Pennell and S ewart, Kid- derminster; Moitis, Bewdley; Mauiid, Bromsgrove ; Har- per, Hodgkinson, Bayley and Roberts, Warwick; and most of the agents for- the celebrated " Blair's Gout and Kheu- matic Pills," one of whom is to be found in every town in the kingdom. FAIRS TO BE HOLDEN. — Warwickshire— March 13, Sutton, War. wick; 21, Alcester.— Northamptonshire— March 23, Kettering. THE CHASE The Warwickshire Hounds will meet on Saturday ( this day) at Sivaycliffe, at a quarter before eleven.— Sir Thomas Boughey's Hounds will meet on Monday ( March 13) at Seighford ; Wednesday, at Knowlvvailgate, Tronttiam ; Friday, at Enville, at half- pa^ t ten The Ludlow Hounds will meet on Tues- day ( March 14) at Bitterley Court, at ten.— The Atherstone Fox Hounds will meet on Saturday ( this day; at Coton House, at a quarter before eleven.— Mr. Meynell's Hounds will meet on Saturday ( this day) at Radbourne, at half- past ten.— Mr. Clian'dler's Hounds will meet on Tuesday ( March 14) at Bromsgrove Lickey; Friday, at Croome Perry Wood, at half. past ten.— The Teiiliury Hounds will meet on Saturday (" this day) at Stanford Park; Wednesday, at BrooUhouse Wood, at ten. LONDON MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE, MONDAY, MARCH 6— Wheat, Essex Red, new 40s to 52s ; fine, 5ts to 57s ; old, 53s to 60s j white, new, 50s to 55s, fine, 56s to 5Ss ; superfine, 58s to 61s; old, 62s to 65s.— Rye, 30s to 36s.— Barley, 28s to 32s; fine, — s to — s ; superfine, 36s to 37s — Malt, 54s to 53s ; fine, 58s to ( iOs Peas, Hog, 33s to 35s ; Maple, 34s to 36s; white, 34s to 36s ; Boilers, 37s to 40s Beans, small, 38s to 40s; old, 44s to 48s; Ticks, 32s to 36s; old, 40s to 43s; Harrow,— s to— s.— Oats, feed, 19s to22s; filie, 24ato 2Ss ; Poland, 24s to 24-; fine, 27s to 28s; Potatoe, 28s to 29s ; line, 30s to 31s Bran, per quarter, 9s Od to 10s 0d,— Pollard, fine, per ditto, 14s. 20s. PRICE OF SEEDS, MARCHO. — ferCwt.— Red Clover, English, 60s to 85s ; line, 90 « to 100* ; Foreign, 63s to 70s; fine, 75s to 85s— White Clover, 60s to 70s ; fine, 75s to 80s.— Trefoil, new, 14s to 18s; fine, IDs to 22s; old, 12s to 16s Trefolium, 16s to 18s; fine, tance for medicine, will be immediately answered. ASUBSTITUTE for SARSAPARILLA and COL- CHICUM, in the cure of Gout, Rheumatism, Pains in the Head and Limbs, Mercurial Pains, Scrofula, Scorbutic Eruptions, Indigestion, and the various complaints for which SarsapariHa is so extensively employed. Dr. CHANDLEII'S APONIAN PILLS, are likewise proved to be the most effica- cious remedy known for Tic- douloureux, Paralysis, Hys- teria, Epilepsy, & c.; and as a general restorative they stand unrivalled, correcting the morbid secretions, and imparting tone and vigour to the whole system. The following letter has been selucted from a variety of others received by the proprietor, illustrative of the effects of this remedy August 4th, 1836. SIR,— I am now upwards of seventy- seven years of age, and have been so great a martyr to Rheumatism for seven months, that I could with difficulty walk across the room with the aid of mv stick. In this state I was recommended your APONIAN PIILS, and having used theiu for a fortnight, am now perfectly recovered. My wife has also been cured of the Gout, and both of us are so improved in our general health, that we feel it our duty to return you our grate- ful thanks for the benefit we have derived, under Divine Providence, from your invaluable Pills, To Dr. Chandler, See. ( Signed) JAMES and MARY SPRING, No. 16, Grafton- street East, Tottenham Court Road. Sold in boxes, at 2s. 9d., 4s. ( id., and lis., by his Agents, Chandler, 76, Oxford- street, Barclay and Sons, Farringdon- street, Edwards, 66, Si\ Paul's Churchyard, ami Butler, 4, Cheapside, London; Evans, Son, and Co., Femvick- street, Liverpool; S. and tt. Uaimes, Leith- walk, Edinburgh; \ V. Wood, High street, Birmingham ; and by all respectable patent medicine venders in the United Kingdom. Dr. Chandler may be consulted every day, Sundays excepted, from ten till two o'clock, at his residence, 14, Maddox street, Regent- street. A TREATISE IS PUBLISHED B, j Messrs. PERRY and Co., SURGEONS, ON VENEREAL AND SYPHILITIC DISEASES, AND GIVEN WITH EACH BOX OF PERRY'S VEGETABLE PILLS, CONTAINING plain and practical directions for the effectual cure ot all degrees of the above complaints; with observations on Seminal weakness, arising from early abuses, and the deplorable consequences resulting from the use of Mercury; the whole intended for the instruc- tion of general readers, so that all persons can obtain an im- mediate cure with secrecy and safety. PERRY'S VEGETABLE PILLS, price 2s. 9d. and lis., per Box, a never- failing cure for every symptom of a certain disease, without confinement, loss of time, or hin- drance from business, are prepared and sold only by Messrs. PERRY and Co., Surgeons, at No. 4, GREAT CIIARLES- STUEET, four doors from Easy- row, Birmingham, and 48, Faulkner- street, Manchester; who continue to di- rect their studies to those dreadful debilities arising from the too free and indiscriminate indulgence of the passions, which not only occasion a numerous train of nervous affec- tions, and entail on its votaries ail the enervating imbecili- ties of old age, but weaken and destroy all the bodily senses, occasioning loss of imagination, judgment, and memory, in- difference and aversion for all pleasures, the idea of their own uuhappiness and despair, which arises from considering themselves us the authors of their own misery, and the ne- cessity of renouncing the felicities of marriage, are the fluc- tuating ideas of those who have given way to this delusive and destructive habit. In that depressing state of debility or deficiency, whether the consequence of such baneful practices, excessive drinking, or any other cause, by which the powers of the constitution become enfeebled, they offer a firm, safe, and speedy restoration to sound and vigorous health. It is a melancholy fact, that thousands fall victims to the venereal disease, owing to the nnskillulness of illite- rate men, who, by the use of that deadly poison, mer- cury, ruin the constitution, and cause ulcerations, blotches oil the head, face, and body, dimness ol sight, noies in the ears, deafness, obstinate gleets, nodes on the shin bones, ulcerated sore throat, diseased nose, with nocturnal pains in the head and limbs, till at length a general debi- lity and decay of the constitution ensues, and a melan- choly death puts a period to their dreadful sufferings. Perry's Vegetable Pills are universally resorted to for their efficacy in all impurities of the blood, and are parti- cularly recommended as an infallible cure for the vene- real disease, however complicated the disorder, or dread- ful the system. They have effected many surprising cures, not only in recent gonorrheas find simple cases, but when salivation, antimonials, and the decoction of the woods, have been tried to little or no purpose. Messrs. Perry may be personally consulted from nine in the morning till ten at night, and will give advice to persons taking the above, or any other of their prepara- tions, without a fee. Attendance on Sundays from nine till two, at No. 4, Great Charles- street, four doors from Easy- row, Birming- ham ; and at 48, Faulkner- street, Manchester, where their Vegetable Pills can only be obtained, as no Book- seller, Druggist, or any other Medicine Vendor is sup- plied with them. Letters from the country, post- paid, containing aremit- Dr. DE SANCIIS'S RHEUMATIC AND GOUT PILLS. Prepared by Bartholomew de Sanctis, M. D., lAcentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, London. FTpiIE unfailing- efficacy of Dr. De Sanctis's Pills - B_ for the cure of Gout and Rheumatism, has been tried in an extensive practice, and their uniform success fully warrants Dr. De Sanctis in offering them for general use, as a specific, and the only one for the cure of GOUT, RHEUMATISM, RHEUMATIC GOUT, LUMBAGO, PAINS IN THE FACE, & c. Dr. I) e Sanctis is determined not to confine the use of these invaluable pills any longer to the sphere of his ac- quaintance, but has caused it to be laid before the public in the form of a Patent Medicine, but he trusts that his long tried, and he hopes, well merited medical reputation, will secure him from any charge of empiricism, and not allow this most invaluable remedy ( in the discovery ofwhich he has devoted the greater part of his life and a large for- tune) to be classed among quack medicines. Suffice it to say, that these pills do not contain Colehi- cum or any other deleterious drug, they are perfectly inno- cent, and may be administered to the most delicate indi- viduals. The dose is one pill every eight hours until cured, the first dose will begin to mitigate the most violent attack with in tour ol its udmiiiistrcition ; find u patient writhing under the most rmiHgiiant attack of Gout or Rheumatism, may rely on its removal within forty- eight hours. Dr. De Sanctis lays before the public the following letters from some of his patients, which speak a higher eu- logium on the efficacy of the medecine than any represen- tation he could make'himself. r Brighton. Sir,— The wonderful efficacy of your wonder working medicine is almost incredible j fifteen years ago I was- attacked with acute Rheumatism, from having slept in a damp bed while travelling in Flanders", the torture arising from which has been of the most ago- nizing description, for although at intervals I have beenfree from pain ( had it been incessant I must have put an end to my existence) I have been more or less subject to it ever since, and when the at- tacks came on I felt as though I was being torn asunder. In fifteen hours from the tirstdose of your Pills ( but mind I took two of them)' I was materially relieved, and at the expiration of a week I had not the slightest trace ofmy enemy left; as you decline to let me have the prescription in consequence of your intention of introducing it as a Patent Medicine, you are free to publish this communication if you think proper, for the Pills deserve to be generally known. I an1,. sir, your obedient servant W. WEST. To Dr. De Sanctis. Miss Wilkins has been entirely cured of a Rheumatic affection in the hip, which Miss W. has long been a sufferer from, by the use of Dr. De Sanctis's Pills, after several other remedies she tried had failed. Sir,— I think that without a single exception I have suffered more from Gout than any other individual ever endured, the pain has been so intense ( without the slightestdiminution) for three and four weeks at a time, that I have frequently been obliged to have a nurse by me day and night, striking my foot with a stick, to mode- rate the pain by inflicting another, until I have sometimes had my ! foot so black that it has not recovered its colour for months ; at the commencement of the last attack I procured some of your Pills, and to my very great satisfaction they immediately relieved me and pre. vented its further inroad, and I have now been free from it for eighteen months. I am, yours very truly, To Dr. De Sanctis. FRANCIS HEATH. Mr. Smith's compliments to Dr. De Sanctis, and begs to communi- cate to him that he found the most speedy relief from the use of his Pills, and was entirely cured in three days. Dublin. Sir,— Your Rheumatic and Gout Pills are certainly a most effica- cious Medicine; I have been a severe sufferer from' Cold Rheuma- tism^ which the Faculty have told me was always difficult of cure, it certainly has been difficult with me, for. for fifteen years I have fluctuated from bad toworseam! worse to better, I have placed my- self in the hands of twenty. five Medical Men who pursued as many different modes fo treatment without any permanent effect, a fortu- nate circuuistance introduced some of your Pills to me, a few months since, which entirely cured me, and thank. God have not had a re- lapse since, I th" reCore think it but justice to you', to offer you my testimony of their efficacy, and 1 recommend all Gouty and" Rheu- matic subjects never to be without them.— Your's & e. To Dr. De Sanctis. JACOB JOHNSON. Cheltenham. Dear Sir,— When your name was mentioned to me by a friend, I certainly was sceptical of your being able tfl afford me any more relief than such as I had before obtained ; but your roost invaluable Pills have certainly cured me, and had I not obtained them, I as certainly should have been before this a corpse. I have been for five and forty years a martyr to the horrid complaint of Gout, which in sufferings must be equal to the torments of hell, and during this long period I have tried every Hemedy that money could procure or the most eminent Medical talent could suggest. I have taken Colchicum in every form, and in very large doses, both with and without Opium, but unfortunately found the more Medicine 1 took, the more fre- quently the attacksreturned, increasing in violence every time, and each attack becoming of longer duration, frequently of late from six weeks to two months, the most powerful remedies having at last failed to exert any influence on the complaint, the delay that occurred in consequence of my having to write to you ere I could ob- tain the Pills, allowed the complaint to increase more than it had ever done before, for both my legs, which of late years have been attackedsimultaneously, and swelled to the size of my head, on the last occasion swelled up my thighs, and but for the timely arrival of your Pills rto doubt would have got into my stomach and then as our immortal poet says, " In a coffin I'd pop'd off" instead of beinghere to return you my most grateful, sincere, and heartfelt thanks; the effect produced by your most inestimable Pills was wonderful; in a short time after taking the first dose I fancied my- self easier, but made up my nfind to refer it only to a false confi. dence; but my astonishment was excessive when at the end of six hours I found the swelling begin to diminish, and in five days 1 found myself completely cured, and without any of those symptom? of lassitude and debility beingleft behind, which have always lasted for many days after every previous attack for the last ten years. I enclose you a draft for fifty pounds, and feel it the most useful fee I ever paid for Medical assistance ; I tru t that if you ever visit this neighbourhood yen will not fail to spend a few- days with roe, and neither means or disposition will be absent from every en- deavour to minister to your enjoyment. Let me hope that many, years will elapse ere the Grim Tyrant shall seize you with his icy hand, when if your Patients render that justice thatis due to your invaluable discovery, your remains must be laid among the most eminent of British Worthies. — I am, dear sir, your most sincere well- wisher, and resuscitated patient, WM. LAMBERT. To Dr. De Sanctis. Mr. > Weutworth presents his compliments to Dr. De Sanctis, and writes to say that he considers his Pills a harmless but most effica- cious remedy, and shall have great pleasure in recommendingthem to the notice of his friends; the particular complaint Mr. Went- worth took them for was Rheumatic Gout in the right hand, which he is very subject to, but which he finds Dr. De Sanctis's Pills im- mediately remove. Dr. De Sanctis's Pills are sold by appointment, in boxes at 2s. 9d. each, at HANNAY and Co.' s General Patent Medicine Warehouse, 63, Oxford- street, the corner ol Wells- street, London; by whom dealers in the country are supplied on liberal terms ; where may also be had U ANN AY AND CO.' s INVALUABLE HOUSE BLISTER. This most important improvement in the method of blis- tering cattle is prepared by Messrs. Hannay and Co., for and under the immediate inspection of the principal Vetera nary Surgeon of one of His Maje.- ty's cavalry regiments, who has used it during a period of many years with the most favourable results. Messrs. Hannay and Co beg to recom- mend it to the use of their sporting friends and the owners of horses generally, as far superior to any other blister in present use. It has the peculiar properties of not destroy- ing the hair, and never blemishes the part to which it is applied, however frequently it may be used to the youngest foal; and no horse, however high his courage, will ever gnaw it; and the horse on which it has been applied may be immediately turned out to grass without a cradle. It has the invaluable property ( not possessed by any other article) of removing the blemish of a broken knee by re- storing the hair. It has received' the most unqualified approbation ofsome of the most extensive owners of cattle, and only requires to be tried to convince the observer of its invaluable properties. Sold iii pots at Is. 6d., containing one dressing; pots, 2s. 9d. two dressings ; os. four dressings. The great celebrity of this blister lias caused un- principled dealers to counterfeit it. Purchasers must there- fore be particular in seeing that it bears the name and address of 4< HANNAY and Co., 63, Oxford- street," on the label on each pot. The above articles are sold by one or more respectable medicine venders in every town in the kingdom, and any shop that has not got either of them will procure it from London if ordered without any additional charge. Sold by special appointment by M. Maher, 34, Ann- street, Birmingham; Meridew, Coventry; Parke, Wolverhamp- ton; Welchman, Northampton ; Price and Co., Journal- office, Leicester; Rogers, Stafford; Mort, Newcastle; Stratford, Worcester. FRANKS'SSPECIFIC SOLUTION OF COPAIBA ACERTAIN and - roost- speedy cure for all Urethra, Discharges, Gleets, Spasmodic Strictures, Irritation of the Kidneys, Bladder, Urethra and Prostate Gland. TESTIMONIALS. From Joseph Henry Green, Esq., F. R. S., one of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons, Surgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital, and Professor of Surgery in King's College, London, " I have made trial of Mr. FrankS's Solution of Copaiba, at St.' Thomas's Hospital, in a variety of cases of discharges in the male and female, and the results warrant my stating, that it is an effica- cious remedy, and one which does not produce the usual unpleasant effects of Copaiba. „ T . ( Signed,) JOSEPH HENRY GREEN. 46, Lincoln's. inn. fields, April 25,1835. From Bransby Cooper, Esq., F. R. S, Surgeon to Guy's Hospital, and Lecturer on Anatomy, & c., & c, Mr. Bransby Cooper presents his compliments to Mr. George Franks, and has great pleasure in beaiing testimony of the efficacy of his Solution of Copaiba, in Gonorrhasa, for which disease xWr. Cooper has prescribed the Solution in ten or twelve cases with per- fect success. New- street, Spring Gardens, April 13, 1835. Prom William Hentsch, Esq., House Surgeon to the Free Hospital, Greville- street, Hatton street. My dear Sir,— I have given your medicine in many cases of Go- norrhea and Gleets, some of which had been many months under other treatment, and can bear testimony to its great efficacy. I have found it to cure in a much shorter time, and with more t enefit to the general health, than any other mode of treatment I know of; the generality of cases have been cured within a week from the commencement of taking the Medicine, and some of them in less time than that. Have the goodness to send me another supply. I am, dear sir, your's, very truly, ( Signed) WILLIAM HENTSCH. Greville- street, Hatton- garden, April 15, 1835. Prepared only by George Franks, surgeon, 90, Black- friars- road, and may be had ofhis Agents, Barclayand Sons, Farringdon- street, London; Evans, Son and Co., Fen wick- street, Liverpool; Mander, Weaver, and Co., Wolverhamp- ton; at the Medical Hall, 54, Lower Sackville- street, Dub- lin ; of J. and R. RaimeK, Leith- walk, Edinburgh ; and of all Wholesale and Retail Patent Medicine Venders in the United Kingdom. Sold in bottles at 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and lis. each, duty included. Caution— To prevent imposition, the Honourable Com- missioners of Stamps have directed the name of George Franks, Blackfriars road," to- be engraven on the Govern- ment Stamp. N. B. Hospitals, and other Medical Charities, supplied as usual from the Proprietor. Mr. Franks may be consulted every day, as usual, until Two o'clock. Sold by appointment, by Mr. Maher, 34, Ann- street, Birmingham; Merridew, Coventry; Owen and Gerdes, Liverpool; Bowman and Law, Manchester; and Deighton and po., Betterby, York. MULREADDY'S COUGH ELIXIR. ONE dose is sufficient to convince the most scrupu- lous of the invaluable and unfailing efficacy of Mul- readdy's Cough Elixir, for the cure of coughs, colds, hoarseness, shortness of breath, asthma, difficulty of breathing, huskiness, and unpleasant tickling in the throat, night cough, with pain on the chest, & c. The paramount supei iority'of this medicine above every other now in use, for the cure of the above complaints, only requires to be known to prove the passport lo its being, ere long, universally made use of for the cure of every description of Pulmonary Affection. To those who are unacquainted with the invaluable pro- perties of Mulreaddy's Cough Elixir, the following letters will exhibit its efficacy : — Manchester, Jan. 2nd, 1835. Dear Sir,— The cough medicine you sent me is certainly a most surprising remedy; six days ago I was unable to breathe, unless with great difficulty, attended with much coughing, which always kept my soft palate relaxed, and in a state of irritation, and the more I coughed the worseit was, and it, i? its own turn, produced a constant excitement of coughing. I am now about, to the wonder of my friends and neighbours, entirely free from cough. One small phial of your inestimable medicine, ten years back, would have saved me not less than £ 3,000 in medical fees, but it would have done more— it would have saved my " having had to swallow, from time to time, upwards of a hogshead of their nauseous, and, as they all proved, useless drugs. The. agreeable flavour of the medicine is a great recommendation : 1 think you ought to put it up and sell it to the public, and if any one should doubt its efficacy, refer them fo me. I shall have the pleasure of being with you in a few days, when I shall press on your consideration the propriety of making it up for sale; it would prove an enormous fortune to your grand- children. If you make up your mind to do so, as I am what the ' worldstyles an idle man, you may enlist me in your service in any way that you think would he useful. But I should advise you to place the management in the hands of one of the great medicine houses in Loudon. Hann^ v's, in Oxford. street, are beingadvertiped in all the papers here, as Wholesale agents for Ramsbottom's Corn Solvent, which, by the bye, mv girls all say is really a cure, and many other medicines. I should say this would be a very good house, Oxford street being one of the most public situations in Lon- don. All join me in kind remembrance to yourself and Mrs. M. Believe me, yours, very truly, T « Mulreaddy, Esq. " ROBERT GRANT. Golden Lion Hotel, Liverpool. Sir— To my astonishment, the other day, I had a visit from my old and esteemed friend, Mr. Hughes, whom 1 had not seen for many years, and still more so was £ when, finding that I had a spvere cough, he drew forth from his pocket a phial, a portion of the cou- tents of which he insisted upon- my swallowing instanter, and left me the remainder, which I also took, and in the course of twenty- four hours I found myself quite freefrom even any tendency towards coughing; he now tells me that you are bis oracle of health; I, therefore, beg leave to present my report at head- quarters, with many thanks, and trust that I may be able to prevail on you to let me have half, or a whole pint of the rnedirine to stow in my sea. chest, as I sail again for America in about ten days, and if 1 can, in return, afford you any service on the other side of the Atlantic, I am at your command. T. W. BUCHANAN. Master of the Brig Nancy, of Orleans. T. Mulreaddy, Esq. Birkenhead, Jan., 1835. Dear Sii',— The bottle of Medicine you left for me the other day has greatly relieved the wheezing I have been so long subject to; and I do not now find the cold produce the sensation it used previous to taking your medicine ; it used formerly to nip roe on going out, and I seemed as though 1 had a stringrun through my body, and ' he breast and back bones were drawn together. If you will be so good as to give me another bottle, I am sure it will work a perfect cure. I am, sir, your most obedient servant, T. Mulreaddv, E- q. NICHOLAS BROWN. Dear Sir,— The effect of your medicine, in curing our children of the Hooping" Cough, has b « ' en like magic, for which I, and Mrs. Wilson in particular, return our grateful acknowledgments, and the little W's shall not fail, ere long, to thank you in person. Rely on it, in our family you will be styled doctor in future. Believe me, yours very sincerely, J. WILSON. Liverpool, Dec., 1834. My dear Sir,— You most assuredly ' thanks of society for presenting it with such an invaluable cure for Coughs. For years past, during the winter mouths, and aiways on foggy days, have I heretofore been compelled to confine myself a close and soli- tary prisoner in my library, to prevent the possibility of being tempted to join in conversation, the excitement of which always produced such violent paroxysms of coughing, that I have been in constant dread of sudden dissolution, by bursting of a blood- vessel. At the commencement of the present season, by your kind liberality, I com- menced taking the medicine you sent, ;. nd have taken twelve bottles. After I had taken three, I could respire a$ vigonrously as in the early partof my life, and I now believe that 1 was then perfectly cuied— a cure not to have been expected at my advanced age, SO years— but I persevered in taking it until I had consumed the whole twelve bottles. Your situation in life, I know, places you beyond the necessity of preparing an article of the kind foi .- ale," but it must and shall be done, and if you neglect to do it, my sincere wish is that you may be lugged out of your retirement, and compelled to provide it in quantities equal to the boundless waters; and you may rely upon it, that I, a locomotive proof of its wonderful power, will spare neither time nor trouble to promulgate its efficacy, until you will find your cottage attacked by myriads of my former fellow- sufferers, for a share of your bounty, and I myself now apply for the first, trusting that your goodness will not Suffer you to refuse mo a pretty considerable quantity, and I promise to distribute it most usefully. Whenever you have made up for sale, send me one thou- sand bottles. * Ever your sincere well- wisher, T. Muireaddy, Esq. W. HUGHES. Chester, 12mo., 1834. Esteemed Friend,— Thou hast my sincere thanks for thy Samaritan present. Thy medicine has had the promised effect, and com- pletely cured my trying cough. If thou wilt let me have a quantity in a large bottle, I will, in return, enter thy name te any charitable institution thou wilt fix on. Thine, T. Mulreaddy, Eeq. JACOB ROBERTS. Mr. Mulreaddy b^ gs to observe, that to publish copies of he whole of the letters he- has rece ived of the above tenor, would require several volumes. The selection here pre- sented he considers quite sufficient, but begs to say, that upon trial of his Cough Elixir, it will give itself the best recommendation. 11 will be sold by his appointment, whole- sale and retail, by his agents, Messrs. HANNAY and Co., 63, Oxford- street, London ; and retail by every other respecta- ble vender of medicines in bottles at Is. l^ d. each. t § 5| r Purchasers should observe that it is wrapped up in white paper, on which, in a blue label with white letters, are printed the words,— Mulreaddy's Cough Elixir, pre- pared by Thomas Mulreaddy, Liverpool, and sold byhisap- pointmentat Hannay and Co.' s, Patent Medicine Ware- house, 63, Oxford- street, London. Price Is. l*£ d. and 4s. 6d. Sold wholesale and retail by HANNAY and Co., 63, Oxford street, London, wholesale Patent Medicine Ven- ders and Perfumers to the Royal Family, where the public can be supplied with every patent and public medicine of repute; and also with the perfumes of all the respectable London perfumers, with an allowance on taking six or more of any other article at the same time. Orders, by post, enclosing a- remittance, punctually at- tended to, and the change returned in* the parcel, or sent to any par tot London without extra charge. Sold by appointment by Maher, 34, Ann- street, and Wood, bookseller, High- street, Birmingham ; Parke, Wolverhampton ; Rogers, Stafford; Mort, Newcustle; and Merridew* Coventry. Printed and published by FRANCIS BASSET SHENSTONE FLINDEI. L, of 128, Bromsgrove- street, at 38, New- street, Birmingham, where letters for the Editor may be ad- dressed, and where Advertisements and Orders will be re- ceived. ( All descriptions of Jobbingcarefully and expedi- tiously executed.) Agents in London: Messrs. NEWTON and Co., 5, Warwick square; Mr. BARKER, 33, Fleet- street; Mr. REYNET. L, Chancery- lane; Mr. DEACON, 3, Waibrook ; and Mr. HAMMOND, 27, Lombard- street— Saturday, March 11, 181) 7.