4 ftttfftt No. 617. SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1837. PRICE 4£ D. OLD UNION MILL. Committee- room, 13th March, 1837. THE Legislature, by act of 6 and 7 of William IV., chap. 37, having declared that henceforth all Bread should be sold by weight,— Notice is hereby given, that this Company will, in future, make all their Loaves of the weight of four pounds and two pounds each respectively. W. H. OSBORN, Chairman. ELECTION OF GUARDIANS OF THE POOR OF THE PARISH OF BIRMINGHAM. AS a new ELECTION af GUARDIANS will take place on the 25th of March instant, the OVER- SEERS of the POOR subjoin the the following Extract from the Guardians Act for the information of the Rate- payers : — " And be it further enacted, that no person shall be en- titled to be present or to vote at any Meeting of Rate- 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 an- nual value of Twelve Pounds at the least, and who shall not have paid one day previous to such meeting the the whole of the sum charged upon him by all the rates which shall have been duly made and published one calendar month before the said meeting. ELECTION OF GUARDIANS. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that, pursuant to an Act of Parliament made and passed in the second year ofthe reign of His present Majesty, entitled " An Act for the better Regulating the Poor within the Parish of Bir- mingham, in 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 held 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 Rate- payers of the said parish, assessed in the rates made for the relief of the poor at not less than TWENTY TOUNDS per annum, and paying the full amount of the sum charged upon them, and qualified as directed by the said Act, to be Guardians of the Poor of the said Parish for the period of three years the next ensuing. Every person attending such Meeting will be 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 he present or vote at any Meeting of Rate- 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 annual 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 one calendar month before the said meeting." By the 16th section of the same Act it is enacted, " That every Rate- payer of the said parish so 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 such Meeting such certificate of having paid his Rates as aforesaid, deliver in to the said Chairman the Christian and Surname, residence and 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 the 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 be taken at Ten o'clock precisely. Birmingham Workhouse Vestry, March 10th, 1837. PARISH OF ASTON. THE Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor request the Rate- payers to meet in the Vestry Room of Aston Church, on Friday the 24th day of March instant, precisely at Eleven o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of nominating proper persons' to serve the Office of Over- seers of the Poor for the year ensuing. Also to take into consideration a renewed application of the Guardians of Aston Union, respecting the selling of the Freehold of Erdington Workhouse to the Union, and to determine whether it shall or shall not be sold to them. And also to take into consideration the position of the Parish with regard to the Assistant Overseers of the Poor, in consequence of the Union, and if the meeting should so determine, to revoke their appointments. Aston, March 17, 1837. ASTON UNION. APPOINTMENT OF MEDICAL OFFICERS. rjpHE BOARD OF GUARDIANS of the ASTON JL UNION have determined to appoint seven Medical Officers for the Union, on Tuesday next, the 21st instant, and have divided the Union into the seven following Medi- cal Districts:— Deritend Salary £ 25 per annum. Bordesley Salary £ 35 per annum. Duddeston and Nechells, and that part of the Manor o Aston to the South of the Park Wall, to be divided into two equal districts Salary £ 30 per annum for each district. Erdington, Witton, Little Bromwich, Saltley and Wash- woods, the remaining part of Aston Manor, and the Work- house.— Salary £ 45 per annum. Sutton and Wishaw Salary £ 50 per annum. Curdworth, ( including Dunton,) Minworth, Water Orton, and Castle Bromwich Salary £ 25 per annum. The Medical Officers will be required to give all neces- sary attendance, and provide medicine and all appliances ( except trusses and leeches) in those medical and surgical cases for which they may receive a written order from the Relieving Officer, any Churchwarden, Overseer, or other competent authority. The contract is to include all in- door and out- door pau- pers resident within the'Union, whether having a legal settlement or not. The Guardians propose to make a separate agreement for midwifery cases. Candidates are desired to send in tbeir applications to the Clerk, on or before Tuesday next, the 21st instant, by eleven o'clock in the morning. By order of the Board of Guardians, ENOCH PEARSON, Clerk to the Board. Aston, March 14, 1837. CELEBRATED NORTHAMPTON MEDICINES! THE following ESTABLISHED MEDICINES may be had of Mr. JOHNSON, Druggist, Smithfield, Birmingham:— SIMCO'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS, a speedy and effectual cure for Rheumatism, Gout, Rheuma- tic Gout, Rheumatic Fever, Lumbago, Cramp, & c. Sold in boxes at Is. l^ d. and 2s. 9d. each, duty included ; a Is. l^ d. box contains doses for five days, and a 2s. 9d. box for fifteen days, warranted free from mercury. Rheumatic pains, whether seated in the head, face, shoulders, elbows, wrists, hands, hips, knees, loins, legs, or feet, will be speedily eradicated by a use of these Pills. SIMCO'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PILLS claim a twofold superiority over all other Gout medicines ever offered to the Public— certainty of cure, and a re- establishment of health, at a trifling expense. Again, no particular rules or restrictions are necessary to be observed— the principal ac- tion of the medicine is confined to the nerves, muscles, and tendons ; nevertheless, the Pills wonderfully strengthen the tone of the stomach, sharpen the appetite, and facilitate digestion. These Pills seldom produce perspiration, purging, or sickness, consequently every person may pursue his or her usual avocation, let it be what it may. The salutary effects which this medicine produces are based upon incon- trovertible facts, substantiated by numerous cures per- formed in the very town in which the Proprietor and In- ventor resides, some of which cures are somewhat more than of an ordinary kind ; and it must be strikingly obvious that no such cases of cures have heretofore been recorded of any single medicine. The fame thereof is spreading through- out the whole world. Every species of Gout and Rheu- matism is speedily and effectually cured by the use of these Pills. An approaching attack of Gout mayalways be pre- vented by a timely use of them. The demand for them which is very extensive, is rapidly increasing. No medicine in the present day can equal this; the Pro- prietor can boast that one 13Jd. box of his pills has always produced a more salutary effect upon the patient than any other person's 2s. 9d. box of Gout Medicine. This faetjhas been tested in a great variety of case. ( For cases of cures see handbill with each box.) Ask for Simco's Gout and Rheumatic Pills; none are genuine, unless " Samuel Simco" is written upon the Government stamp. Prepared only by SAMUEL SIMCO, Chemist and Druggist, Northampton. Sold Wholesale by each of the London Wholesale Medicine Houses, upon the regular, usual, and liberal terms, to every Medicine Vender in the Kingdom. Relief in a few hours— a Cure in a few days ! SIMCO'S CHEMICAL ESSENCE OF LINSEED, an infallible remedy for Consumptive and Asthmatic Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness, Incipient Coughs, and Influenza. Sold in bottles Is. l% d., 2s. 9d., and 4s. 6d. One 2s. 9d. bottle is equal to three bottles at Is. l^ d. each. Mr. Simco. Sir,— The 13^ d. bottle of your Chemical Eessence of Linseed, which I purchased from you, I am happy to say, has quite cured my little boy's violent cough, and I shall not forget to recommend it to others. Your's respectfully, Bridge- street, Northampton, Butcher, EDWARD KING. Oct. 31st, 1833. The following letter was sent for publication by a respect- able chemist and druggist : — Mr. Simco. Sir,— Having been for about three weeks past, suffering with a cold, attended with a dreadful cough, and finding it still increasing, myself and friends became alarmed for the consequences. I was per- suaded last Thursday morning to make trial of your Chemical Ess- ence of Linseed, and to my great surprise, found relief in less than ten minutes after the first dose, and having continued taking the doses, according to the directions, I feel now almost recovered. Finding such extraordinary relief Ironi it, I have recommended it to a friend of imnp, who was suffering dreadlully from a catarrhal affec- tion ; he purchased a bottle, and when I called on him this after, noon he informed me that he was considerably better, and said he believed it would also completely cure him. Such being the benefits arising by a use of your inestimable Essence of Linseed, I will thank you to send me immediately a supply for sale, by the carrier to- day, and I have no doubt but I shall have a brisk sale. I am, sir, yours respectfully, MARK CAUCUTT. ChemiBt and druggist, Stoney Stratford, Saturday, March 5, 1836. Also sold by Mr. Harper, and Mr. Baly, Chemists, Warwick; Mander and Co., Wolverhampton; and in every town in the kingdom. ASTON UNION. NOTICE OF THE ANNUAL ELECTION OF GUARDIANS FOR THE POOR. THE DAY of ELECTION of Guardians for the Aston Union has, by an order of the Poor- Law Com- missioners, dated the 10th inst., been ALTERED from the 30th day of March, to the 5th day of APRIL next, therefore the time for each step in the proceedings is ex- tended, agreeable to the annexed notice, and will not take place as advertised in the Thursday's papers. The Churchwardens and Overseers of the several parishes comprised in the above Union, and hereafter named, will, in pursuance of the order of the Poor- law Commissioners for England and Wales, proceed, oil the 5th day of April next, to the ELECTION of the number of the GUARDIANS of the POOR set opposite the names of such parishes, for the year ending March 25th, .1838. Parish of Aston 18 Guardians. Curdworth 1 Guardian. Minworth 1 Guardian. Sutton Coldfield 4 Guardians. Wishaw 1 Guardian. Any person entitled to vote in any of the said parishes may propose, as the Guardian or Guardians thereof, any number ( not exceeding the number to be there elected) of persons who are severally rated to the poor- rate of any parish in the Union in respect of property of the annual va- lue or rental of £ 25. The proposal must be written, and must state names, residences, and callings of the persons proposed, and the name of the proposer, and must be de- livered to one of the Churchwardens and Overseers of such parish, on or before the 27th day of March inst. Owners of rateable property in such parish, as well as Rate- payers, are entitled to vote, provided their names are on the register of owners, or if they send in to the Church, wardens and Overseers, before the day of election, their claims to vote, with a statement of their names and ad- dress, and a description of their property. Owners may also vote by proxy ; but proxies must make the statements above- mentioned for their principals, and transmit to the Churchwardens and Overseers the originals or attest"-' . ^ ies of their appointments. In case of a contest for the office of Guardian in any of the said parishes, the votes will be given in papers, to be left by the Churchwardens and Overseers on or before the first day of April next, at the houses of those re- residents of the parish who are then entitled to vote. All residents out of the parish, and all persons who become entitled after that day, must apply to one of the Church- wardens and Overseers for voting papers on the day of election. The forms of nomination papers, statements of owners, and appointment of proxy, may be seen and copied by voters at the Board Room, at the Workhouse, Erdington. ENOCH PEARSON, Clerk to the Board of Guardians. Aston, March 17, 1837. N. B. Forms of application of Owners may be obtained upon application to Mr. J. B. Payn, Ward End, or Mr. John Smallwood, Castle Bromwich, Churchwardens; Mr. Thomas Beilby, Camphill, Mr. James Collins, Bloomsbury, Mr. John Short, Witton, or Mr. William Asbury, Park Hall, Overseers; from the Clerk, or from Mr. Slater, No. 61, Ashted- rovv. FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE. SO many concerns of this nature have lately started up ; the professions and promises of all are so inviting, but their failures are so frequent and disastrous, that it be- hoves all prudent persons. to pause before they commit their safety to untried adventures, while offices of approved solidity and conduct are open to insure them. Such of these pijojects as escape the payment of heavy losses for some years may continue so long afloat, but such as, at an early stage, feel the effects of raising business by taking bad risks at inadequate rates are soon exhausted. Upwards of thirty new insurance projects have sprung up, and broken dowh within as many years. Tin contrast with these, the undersigned agents respect- fully recommend to public attention, those long- established offices, the Couu! y Fire Office and the Provident Life Office of London. Their capitals in hand exceed a million sterling. In the County Fire Office 170,000 persons have sought protection and have found it. Claims have been paid to 3,000 sufferers. Returns of 10, 20, and 25 percent., amounting to £ 100,000 have been invariably paid to all who hane continued insured seven years, an advantage which no other Fire Office existing has afforded. Iq the Life Office, the success has been equally remark- able. The bonuses on life policies during the last thirty yeafrs have successively increased to 40 per cent. Many other important advantages are detailed in the proposal of these offices, which may be had gratis of us. William Sumner, 97, High- street, Birmingham. John Buckerfield , . Alcester. / Will iam Flummer .... Atherstone. William Tite—.—. . Coleshill. Jqhri Laing Coventry. Samuel Hoitt ™ ™ ™ ™ Henley- in- Arden. Kineton. Leamington. Nuneaton. Southam. Stratford- on- Avon. Rugby. Warwick. BIRMINGHAM BOROUGH BANK. AT a MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS, in the Birmingham Borough Bank, held at Radenhurst's Hotel, the 17tli day of March, 1837, JAMES RUSSELL, Esq. in the Chair, the following Report was read :— REPORT. The Provisional Committee take with pleasure this oppor- tunity of declaring to the Shareholders the grounds upon which their opinions, in favour of this Company, were formed, and the steps they have taken to carry them out to a definitive and successful issue:— They request the earnest attention and candid opinvn of this Meeting, relying confi- dently on the conviction they feel of having, to the best of their power and ability, forwarded those objects and views which, it is presumed, this assembly entertain in common with them. First, then, with respect to the grounds on which their opinion in favour of this Company were formed;— It will be sufficient to state, that, from circumstances generally known, the Northern and Central ' lank of England having resolved to dispose of its Branches, a meeting took place, at which a deputation from their Head Office attended; terms for the transfer of their interest were offered, by which three most im- portantadvantages will be gained : Firststepping into a busi- ness and connection, avowedly good and profitable, already made; Secondly, securing the services of its late Manager, a gentleman who, from long experience, strict integrity, busine- s habits, and honourable conduct, has established a reputation and influence universally acknowledged; and, Thirdly, ob- taining the valuable Lease of the Premises, together with the fixtures and conveniences in Bull- street, by which busi- ness may, without any expense or delay, be commenced. These considerations are, in themselves, so powerful, that your Committee think they need not enlarge upon them ;— they believe they comprise advantages which but rarely offer, and will fully justify their adoption this day. The utility of Joint Stock Banks, their growing import- ance, the efficient assistance they render to the Commercial World, and the necessity of their formation and encourage- ment, might be abstractedly considered; and were these po- sitions not generally understood and acknowledged, it would be proper to do so; but as they have been approved and adopted, from one end of the country to the other, as they are now widely diffusing themselves, and as widely meet the support and approbation of all classes of the Public, it would be superfluous. Suffice it to say, that in the opinion of your Committee, these Establishments, when conducted with the prudence, attention, and skill, which mark the character of, your Manager, are equally a source of public benefit and just profit to the Proprietory, Your Committee now proceed to state the steps they have taken, in furtherance of these views. They have appointed Messrs. J. W. and G. Whateley, Solicitors to the Bank, and have instructed them to prepare a Draft Deed of Settle- ment, containing the most approved clauses, and especially providing and securing a power to the Shareholders to dis- solve the Company, if one fourth part of the Paid- up Capital, over and above the Guarantee Fund, ( which will be ade- quately established) shall ever be lost; thus effectually guard- ing individual liability, and placing a barrier, beyond which the possibility of loss cannot proceed. It having been suggested by several influential Share- holders, that advantages would be derived from reducing the amount of Shares from £ 20 to £ 10 each; and your Com- mittee having taken the subject into serious consideration, and anticipating that it is not improbable but that the Legis- lature may require that Shares shall be fully paid up, have resolved, on recommending its adoption, and that the num- ber of Shares shall be proportionably increased and allotted as the Directors may think lit: they fuiJier recommend, that the number of Shares neces/ J ir y to qualify a Shareholder to act as Director shall be £ 50. tThat the number of Direc- tors shall not be less than Seven, and that the Bank shall not be a Bank of Issue. It may not be improper or unr ecessary for your Commit- tee to allude to a Report which ( as they are informed) is prevalent, that the Northern and Central Bunk of England has only withdrawn itself ostensibly, and that a connection is intended to be maintained between the Borough Bank and that firm, this objection, they believe, will have been removed by the former part of this Report, they do not, however, hesitate emphatically to declare, that such report is totally without foundation. The Provisional Committee having thus placed before the Meeting their opinions and proceed- ings, retire with the hope, that, however inadequately they are expressed, their humble efforts will be regarded as hav- ing been dictated by the best motives, and that they have been actuated by a sincere desire to promote tile interest of the Company; and to establish, upon a firm basis, an Insti- tution, which they doubt not will be conducted with unde- viating rectitude and the nicest honour, principles which alone can render it worthy the support and approbation of an in- telligent Public. JAMES RUSSELL, Chairman. Resolved unanimously, 1st. That the report now read he approved and adopted, and that the same be printed and circulated among the shareholders ; that the acts of the Provisional Committee be confirmed, and that the cordial thanks of this meeting be presented to those gentlemen for their valuable and very efficient services. 2d. That a Joint Stock Bank he formed, under the name of " The Birmingham Borough Bank. 3d. That the capital be £ 150,000, consisting of £ 1500 shares of £ 10 each, and tiiat the sum of £ 2 deposit be paid immediately on the allotment of shares; that the further sum of 30s. be paid on the 20th of April, and the further sum of 30s. on the 20th of May, and that this arrangement apply to the shares already allotted. 4th. That the business be commenced on the third day of April next. 5th. That a deed of settlement: containing the usual pro- visions, be prepared. 6th. That the qualification of Directors he 50 shares, and that the first Directors of the Company be Mr. James Russell, Mr. Knowles, Mr. Sla' and Mr. Mellor, with power to add three to their nunal' r 7th. That Mr. Goode and Mr. ~ i'i; >;.:• s Gootie be regis- tered public officers of the Cou p-. v. 8th. That Mr. James Ilussei,. , i! r. Knowles, and Mr. Slater be trustees of the CompinJ;. 9th. That the thanks of this ; v ere, especially due and are hereby presented to Jan' 4 Iltissei'. Esq , not only for his able conduct in the chair on this v.. •-.• sion, uut for the unwearied zeal, energy, and {.. , . t, displayed, by hiin as Chairman of the Provisional Co; > i . tec. :, js CHARLES ROBBINS'S B AS KRUPTCY. MR. WILLIAM CHAPM AN, Accountant, 133, Moor- street, Birmingham, uas authority to receive all debts due to the estate of U" MILES BOBBINS, Currier and Leather- seller, of Birmingham, a Bankrupt; and persons indebted thereto are requested to psy their re- spective accounts immediately. THOS. R. T. HODGSON, Solicitor. Biimingham, 17th March, 183m 4r- Robert Maunton John Merridevv J. W. Buchanan John Whitehead Thomas Ashwin W. F. Wratislavv Henry filrins ROBERT CAMPBELL'S 13 NKR'JPTCY. MR. WILLIAM CHAPMAN, Accountant, 133, Moor- street, Birmingham, l as authority to receive all debts due to the estate of ROBERT CAMPBELL, Fire- iron and Fender- maker, of Pirmfagham, a Bankrupt; and persons indebted thereto are requested to pay their re- spective accounts immediately. ALEXANDER H ARRISON, Soli' tcr to tilt Assignees. Birmingham, March 9, 1837. AGRICULTURAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF IRELAND. NO TIC ft THE Directors and Consulting Committee Jiereby give notice that an Extraordinary General Meeting, or Special General Assembly, of the Proprietors, will be held at Morrison's Great Rooms, in the city of Dublin, at the hour of one o'clock, on Monday, March the 20th, for the purpose of receiving the report oi the proceedings of the Directors and Committee, since the last half- yearly Gene- ral Meeting of the Company, on l"; h October, 1836, as also a statement of the accounts and assets of this Company up to, and for, the 12th March instant, and to appoint four auditors to examine said accounts, with full poweis, pursuant to resolutions then to be submitted, preliminary to the stated half- yearly General Meeting in April next. Signed, by order of the Board, W. HUGHES, Secretary. 63, Fleet- street, March, 1837. BIRMINGHAM AND DERBY JUNCTION RAILWAY. Extension of Time, and Variation of Works to be let, with additional Deposit of Plans and Specifications at Birmingham. CONTRACT FOR WORKS. THE Directors of the Birmingham and Derby Junc- tion Railway Company will meet at the Office, in Wa- terloo- street, Birmingham, at twelve o'clock at noon, on Wednesday, the 12th day of April next, ( instead of Wed- nesday, the 29th day of March next, as previously adver- tised,) for the purpose of receiving Tenders for ex- ecuting that portion of the Railway which lies between a point fifteen chains north of the Brick- yards at Cliff, in the parish of Kingsbury, in the county of Warwick, and a point thirty chains to the south of the public highway leading from Wigginton to Harleston, in the parish of Tamvvorth, in the said county of Warwick, except the Viaduct over the river Anker, at Tamworth, and about one chain's length of embankment at each end thereof, making altogether a length of thirteen chains, the whole length being about five miles and fifty- seven chains. The Contract is to include the Earth- work, Masonry, Bridges, and all other works required to complete this part of the Railway, except the furnishing the materials for the Permanent Way, and the laying the same; and the Con- tractor is to keep the works in repair for twelve months after they are completed. Plans and Specifications of the Works, and a Draft of the Contract to be entered into, will lie for inspection at the office of the Engineer, George Stephenson, Esq., 35U, Great George- street, Westminster, and at the Company's Office, in Waterloo- street, Birmingham, till the day on which the Contract will be let. Printed forms of tender may be obtained at the Company's office in Birmingham, or at the office of the Engineer, and no others will be received. The parties tendering will be expected to be in attend- ance. The Directors do not bind themselves to accept the low- est tender. By order, THOMAS KELL, Secretary. Waterloo- street, Birmingham, 11th March, 1837. ARMY CONTRACTS. Office of Ordnance, Pall- mall, 10th March, 1837. NOTICE is hereby given to all Persons desirous of contracting to supply BREAD, OATS, and FORAGE, To His Majesty's Land Forces ( Bread for the Foot Guards generally, and for the Household Cavalry in Middlesex ex- cepted,) in Cantonments, Quarters, and Barracks, in the Counties of England severally, in Wales, in North Britain, in the Isle of Man, and in the Channel Islands, for three months, from the Ist May next, inclusive:— That Proposals in writing, addressed to the Secretary to the Board of Ordnance, sealed up and marked on the out- side Tender for Army Supplies, will be received at the Ordnance- office, Pall- mall, on or before Thursday the thirteenth day of April next; but none will be received after eleven o'clock on that day. Persons who make Tenders, are desired not to use. any Forms but those which may be had upon application at the Office of the Secretary to the Board of Ordnance, in Pall- mall ; and of the Barrack Masters in the Islands of Guern- sey, Jersey, and Man. By order of the Board, R. BYHAM, Secretary. rpO be SOLD by AUCTION, duty free, by order A of the Honourable Commissioners'of His Majesty's Customs, at the Custom- house, Hull, on Wednesday, the 22nd of March, 1837, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, for home consumption, about 2651bs. unmanufactured TO- BACCO, 496 gross LEAD PENCILS, 2 casks of PAINTERS' COLOURS, 2901bs. GLASS MANU- FACTURES for Jewellery, and 6 cases PAINTED OIL CLOTH for Table Covers. The goods may be seen at the Custom- house on Monday and Tuesday, the 20th and 21st of March, from ten to three o'clock. MR. WADE'S ANNUAL SALE OF FAT STOCK, AT THE HAWKSHUTT'S FARM, NEAR BREWOOD. rpO be SOLD by AUCTION, by R. S. WALKER, A upon the premises,, on - Monday the 20thHny o'f March 1837, at Mr. Wade's Farm- yard, near Brewood and Ivetsey- bank, twenty- four very superior summer- fed FAT COWS; and from one hundred to one hundred and thirty FAT SHEEP. The Auctioneer solicits an inspection of the above Stock, which will be found of very superior and first- rate quality. %* The sale to commence precisely at twelve o'clock. THE CROWN PUBLIC- HOUSE, MILK- STREET, Near to the Old Coal Wharf, Bordesley- street. By RODERICK. TO he SOLD by AUCTION, on the premises, on Wednesday, the 22d day of March instant, at six o'clock in the evening, ( unless previously disposed of by private contract), subject to conditions then to he produced — the Licenses, Good- will, and Possession of the above de- sirable, old- established, and compact Public- house, most eligibly situated in a densely- populated district, surrounded by large manufactories, with several clubs attached, attended by neatly 200 members, and commanding an excellent ready money trade. The premises are low rented, and well arranged for the. business. The stock would be reduced if required, and the coming- in wiil be very moderate. For further particulars and to treat by private contract, apply to Mr. WAGSTAFF, who is declining the business; or to the AUCTIONEER, Birmingham. L ^ JpERSOXS desirous ot ^^ king in the Public Business are respect' i!:;^^^ BP to inspect the list of Public- Houses, Inns, Ma . eJ^ WIses, and ' Retail Brew- eries, now on sale in and .. > Birmingham; coming- in from £ 250 to £ 1600. JOHN ROPKRICMpfent and Valuer. Offices, New- street ar.! n tt's- mll, opposite the Post- o' Birmingham. DESIRABLrt INVESTMENT. OLD BANK, WARWICK < N > T'IAMINGTON BANKING COMPANY. FIFTY SHARES in the above BANK to be SOLD at £ 2 10s. premium. For further particulars apjly to Mr. WILLIAM RUSSELL, solicitor, at his offices, G7, Church- street, Leamington Priors, if by letter, postage pa: J. CAPITAL FREEHOLD PROPERTY, CALLED '' JCKNIELD TERRACE," With a considerable quantity of BUILDING LAND, extending to the Turnpike Road at Hockley, BIRMINGHAM. TO he SOLD by AUCTION, by E. and C. JJOBINS, on Monday the 20th day of March inst., at foiiro'clock in the afternoon, at the house of Mr. Tookey, the Trees Inn, at Hockley, ( by order of the Mortgagee) in the following or such other lots as may be agreed on at the time of sale: — LOT I. All those five substantial double Messuages or Tenements, situated In the front of Icknield Road, called " Icknield Terrace," occupied respectively by Messrs. Jones, Devonshire, Howell, Mee, and Vaughton. Each house is well and conveniently fitted up, and has a private yard, offices, and garden, and the whole produces at the present low rents upwards of £ 100 per annum. LOT II. A valuable Piece of Freehold Building Land, situated at the back of the gardens belonging to lot I, ex- tending to and fronting the turnpike road. Part of this lot is now occupied as a garden by Mr. Jones. For further paiticulars apply to the Auctioneers, or to Messrs. PARKES and BRAY, Solicitors, 20, Temple- street. PATRONISED BY THEIR MAJESTIES. GRAND EVENING CONCERT AT DEE'S ROYAL HOTEL, BIRMINGHAM, ON MONDAY, MARCH the 20th, 1837, Under the immediate patronage of Ed. Lloyd Williams, Esq. W. R. Lloyd, Esq. James Taylor, Esq. E. T. Moore, Esq. J. F. Ledsam, Esq. Roger Williams Gem, Esq. William Scholefield, Esq. T. H. Messenger, Esq. Westley Richards, Esq. John Birt Davies, M. D. UPON which occasion, by the kind permission of the Officers of the Seventh Dragoon Guards, THE REGIMENTAL BAND Will attend and perform several of their admired pieces. MASTER HUGHES, The Juvenile Cambrian Harpist, nine years of age, Begs leave most respectfully to inform the Nobility and Gentry of Birmingham and its vicinity, that he will have the honour of giving his Concert, as above. MONS. DE POTHONIER, The Celebrated Pianist, from the Conservatoire, Paris; will preside at the Pianoforte. VOCAL PERFORMERS: MISS ASTON, Mr. BAKER, Mr. PURCELL, and Mr. HARE. Programmes to be had at the Hotel. Master Hughes will appear decorated with the gold and silver medals presented to him by Royalty, and as prizes at the Eisteddfods. The Doors to be opened at half- past Six and to commence at Seven. Tickets 5s. each; Family Tickets, to admit five, 20s.; Children under twelve years of age, half price; to be had at Messrs. MUNDEN and CAMERON, music- sellers, New- street; and at the Herald Office. N. B. Master Hughes will attend private parties during his stay in town. Teims may be known on application to Messrs. Munden and Cameron. FURNISHED APARTMENTS. AGENTLEMAN may be accommodated with a a comfortable Parlour and Bed- room, with or without Board, one mile and a half from the centre of the town. Apply to Messrs. BOURNE, 1, High- street. £ 50 CLUB, No. 1, ESTABLISHED Twenty Years, at the SPOTTED DOG, BORDESLEY- STREET, will re- commence in a few weeks, on approved principles. THE superior and fast BEE- HIVE NIGHT COACH to MANCHESTER, will continue to leave the NELSON HOTEL, as usual { every evening) at eight o'clock; and being a Manchester and Birmingham Night Coacli only, applications for places at the above Coach Office will be booked without a risk of any dis- appointments which often ocurred when running between London and Manchester. The REIN- DEER fast DAY COACH to Manchester, Kendall, Carlisle, and Edinburgh, every morning at half- past ' even o'clock. Performed by the Public's obliged servants, C. RADENHUItSTand Co., Birmingham, W. DEMING and Co., Manchester, Proprietors. CULY'S BOARDING HOUSE, 8, SOUTH- STREET, FLNSB UR Y SQUARE. GENTLEMEN and Families visiting London, would find at this Establishment all the advantages of an Hotel, combined with a comfortable home. The situa- tion is extremely pleasant, and very convenient for busi- ness. Charges moderate. The undesigned most cordially recommend the above Establishment:— Rev. R. Halley, D. D.; Rev. F. A. Cox, D. D.; Rev. A. Tidman; Rev. S. Tomkins, M. A. ; Rev. T. Morrell; Rev. Thos. Price; Rev. Professor Vaughan, D. D.; Rev. William Ellis, Mission House, London. UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE COM- PANY. 8, WATERLOO- PLACE, PALL- MALL, LONDON. And 2, CHARLOTTE- ROW, MANSION- HOUSE. Established by Act of Parliament, i THIS Company affords the most perfect security, from an ample, active, jlarge, and subscribed capiltal; and Jjolds out great inducements, in allowing very moderate premiums to be paid in nearly any way to suit the conveni- ence of parties in every situation of life : for instance, a married man, aged twenty- five, may, by insuring on the regular scale for the whole period of life, secure to his family £ 1,000 at the annual expense of £ 19 4s. 2d.; one- half o£ which he may allow to remain unpaid for five years at in- terest, to be deducted eventually from the Policy, or paid off at convenience: thus his outlay for the first five years would only be £ 9 12s. Id. per annum. When such facilities are afforded, it appears almost a moral duty in every parent to insure, as being the most economical and convenient way of providing for his pos- terity. Insurances from . the country may be effected by applica- tion to the Resident Director, Edward Boyd, Esq., No. 8, Waterloo- place, Pall- mall, London ; or to the Company's Agent, MR. WILSON, 36, Colmore- row. LOSS OF TEETH SUPPLIED. From one to a complete set, and Decayed Teeth made com- pletely sound, without Pain, Heat, or Pressure. MONS. DE BERRI AND CO., SURGEON- DENTISTS, Member of the Royal Colleqe of Surgeons, Edinburgh; Li- centiate of the Apothecaries' Hall, London-, and Honorary Member ofthe London Hospital Medical Society, 17, EASY ROW, BIRMINGHAM, / CONTINUE to restore Decayed Teeth with their 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- Sif extraction unnecessary. ey also fasten loose Teeth, whether arising from neg- . the use of calomel, or disease of the gums. Incorrodible, Artificial, or Natural Teeth of surpassing beauty, fixed, from one toacornplete set, without extracting the roots or giving any pain, at the following Paris charges: £. s. d. A single Artificial Tooth 0 10 0 Acompleteset 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. This day is published, in one thick volume, 12mo, price 12s. in cloth, ' THE GREEK TESTAMENT, with ENGLISH- NOTES, especially adapted to the use of Schools. By the Rev. S. T. BLOO. MFIELD, D. D. JC. S. A. The present work, undertaken at the request of some eminent masters of Schools, is intended to supply a deside- ratum, namely, a School edition of the Greek Testament, with Notes, tor the most part, grammatical and scholastic. At the same time, in order to adapt the work also to Lec- ture- rooms and Places of Worship, the Editor has ex- plained the general sense, and what is conceived to be the true interpretation in passages of obscurity and difficulty. The proofs, illustrations, & c., which fill up these general outlines of interpretation, may be found in the Editor's larger Greek Testament, with copious Notes, Critical, Phi- lological,- and Egegetical, in two vols. 8vo, to which the present work is intended to serve as an Introduction. London: LONGMAN, REUS, ORME, and Co. THE . BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. HOUSE OE COMMONS. FRIDAY, MARCH 10,1837. CHURCH- RATES.— A great many petitions for and against the tax were presented. Mr. W. HARVEY expressed a wish that Government should divide the parts of their motion, making' the abolition one resolution, and the provision another. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said he could not consent to that, the one was a condition of the other. MARINES.— Lord GEORGE LENNOX brought under the notice of the House the hardships of this gallant corps from the slowness with which promotion pro- ceeded in it. He mentioned some examples— The senior colonel commandant was seventy- seven years old— another had been fifty- five years in the service, another fifty- nine, and the age of the youngest was fifty- eight years. One Colonel Commandant had repeatedly stated, that from his advanced age and infirmities, it was impossible for him to perform the duty with satisfaction to himself, or with advantage to the service. ( Hear, hear.) The average length of service of the Lieutenant. Colonels Commandant and Majors was from forty to forty- four years. One of the majors, who had the duty of turning out the guard, was actually obliged to go either in a gig or a fly, from his inabi- lity to ride or walk. The two senior captains in the Marines had been forty years in the service— the eight next, thirty, nine years, and the other thirty- eight— and even the junior captain bad been twenty- nine years in the Marines. The ten senior lieutenants in the Marines had served twenty- nine years— the next fifteen lieutenants twenty- eight years, & c. He would ask the House whether officers who had served forty years, and wbo could not have entered the Ma- rines till they were twenty or twenty- one years— he would ask whether a fair prospect of the advantages given to other corps was held out to them? In 1825 the Senior Captain of the Artillery had served twenty- four years— had he been in the Marines he would have held the situation of twenty- fourth Captain— if the case were reversed then the twenty- fourth Captain of the Marines would have been a full Co- lonel. Lord George moved for a select committee of en- quiry; which was seconded by Capt. Boldero; and supported by Sir Edward Codrington, and others. Mr. C. WOOD said the question had been before the Admiralty, and endeavours were being used to permit the retirement of invalid marine officers, if it could be effected without expense. On this assurance, after some other conversation, the motion was withdrawn. SPAIN.— LordMAHON took advantage of the moving of certain items of the Navy Estimates, to advert at gTeat length to the Spanish question. A long but not interesting debate was the consequence; in the course of which the original motion for a supply was entirely lost sight of till nearly one o'clock, when, upon the pressing representations of the Chancellor of the Ex- chequer, a vote of two millions was agreed to, without which the right honourable gentleman declared very great embarrassment must ensue to the public service. The only part of the debate that seems to have fur nished amusement or information to the House, was the reply of Mr. O'Connell to a charge of Mr. Grove Price, that he ( Mr. O'Connell) had been in the habit of visiting the Bishop of Leon, and communicating with Don Carlos. Mr. O'CONNELL said- He had not only never visited, but he had never even seen Don Carlos in the whale course of his life. ( Hear, from the Ministerial benches.) It was true that be had seen the Bishop of Leon. The Bishop of Leon wrote to him, re- questing that he would call on him ; but this he declined to do, and then he received a communication, stating that the Bishop of Leon would call on him. The Bishop of Leon accordingly did call on him, accompanied by an interpreter, a man who had but one fault, and that was, that he did not understand either Spanish or English. ( Great laugh- ter.) The bishop himself was unacquainted with French, and therefore addressed himself in a Latin harangue, which, being pronounced with a Spanish accent, the only words he could catch were " Religionem Catholicum." ( Laughter.) The consequence was that he bundled both him and the in- terpreter out as soon as he could, and did not return the visit, but it was returned by the bishop himself—( loud laughter)— who called on him again, and treated him to another Latin harangue, of which all he understood was that he was speak- ing ot the Catholic religion. Well, he got rid of him as speedily on this as on the former occasion, and that was the entire of tire correspondence which he had had with " the Court and Camp of Don Carlos." Now, he would come to the Inquisition. It was said that the Bishop of Leon had prevented Ferdinand from establishing the Inquisition in Spain; but what was the fact? Why, that not only did Ferdinand never give up the idea of restoring the Inquisi- tion, but he actually made application to no fewer than three Popes to obtain the sanction of the Pope for that purpose. These applications were all refused ; and, as no ecclesiastic could belong to a lay tribunal without the consent of the Pope— the Inquisition was a lay tribunal— Ferdinand was unable to carry his desire into effect. ( Hear.) Nowhere was a fact which ought to excite the loud and fervent en- thusiasm of the hon. gentlemen opposite, for the Pope it was that had prevented the re- establishment of the Inquisi- tion in Spain. ( Hear, and laughter.) SATURDAY. BREVET.— Mr. HUME, on the order of the day for a Committee of Supply, rose to move for certain returns connected with the late Brevet. The returns were re- sisted chiefly on the ground of the difficulty of making them out, and partly, that, in some instances, they seemed to trench on the prerogative of the Crown. Mr. C. WOOD said, that with respect to certain re- turns connected with the Admiralty, which Mr. Hume required, they could not be made out in less than three or four years, because it would require for the task experienced clerks. Mr. HUME would engage, if Government would submit the documents to a clerk whom he would send down, to have the returns he wanted made out in fourteen days. ( A laugh.) The complaint that was made was, that officers who had served in the war had not been promoted. It was his opinion, that the reso- lution adopted in 1827 was ruining the navy. Since the peace he considered that it could be proved that the average period of service amongst the officers did not extend beyond three years, and for that officers were receiving pensions for life. It was he thought, most extraordinary, that after twenty- one years of peace, the dead weight should now be the same as it was at the end of the war. Mr. C. WOOD observed, that the total number of officers on the 3rd of January, 1811, was 6,035. The scale of reduction was made on the 1st of January, 1830, the number was then reduced between 300 aiid 400, and since the 1st of January, 1830, there had bafen a reduction of upwards of 600. Mr. LAMBTON stated, that the promotions II^ Afe navy were generally too much owing to politicajMi terest. MONDAY. POLICE MAGISTRATES.— Some discussion took place respecting the appointment of a gentleman," Mr. Codd, not a barrister, to be a police magistrate. Mr. Estcourt, member for Oxford University f complained of the departure from practice, and also from the advice of the committee that sat on the subject. Lord JOHN RUSSELL saw no great departure from practice or principle in appointing a person not . a bar- rister, to preside in a police- office; while hundreds and thousands of persons were transported on the fiat of men who were not lawyers, without challenge or remark. PRIVILEGE.— Mr. O'CONNELL complained that the Times newspaper, in one of its reports, had made him use, respecting the Queen of Spain and the King of the French, words he had never uttered or thoug'ht— The 7' imes of Saturday had this passage:—" The morality of the lady who handled the sceptre of Spain at the present moment, was of no importance at all; morality would, of course, add dignity to Statesmanlike qualities ; statesman- like qualities, unsupported by morality, might he suspicious, but it was not because a lady was voluptuous in form, and accused of being voluptuous in propensities, that, therefore, she was unequal to the exigencies of government." ( The passage excited great laughter.) He ( Mr. O'Connell) be- lieved that this was totally and purely invention. ( Loud cries of hear, hear.) He had said nothing like it. In the entire speech attributed to him, there were not thiee words ivhicli he had really spoken. That part which related to King of the French, as well as the other parts of it was abase invention. ( Hear, hear.) Yet this very paper, in the course of a fortnight, would be accusing him of having traduced the King of the French, and bringing forward their own columns to prove the charge. ( Hear, hear, and a laugh.) CHURCH RATES.— The order of the day for the ad- journed debate having been read— SIR ROBERT PEEL rose to oppose the resolution. Sir Robert's speech was chiefly confined to a criticism of the calculations of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He first stated the proposition of that right honour- able gentleman— The Chancellor of the Exchequer has told us that he has a certain amount of charge to provide for. He has to pro- vide for the sum of 261,000, which he assumes to be the amount of the fines received by the bishops and deans and chapters for a period of three years. This is the only datum which the House has with certainty to rely upon. If by taking a more extended period than three years it should be found that the amount of fines is less than 261,000/., though, of course, it applied to both sides of the question, it would be found that in proportion as you diminished the amount of fines, so you diminished the sources from which you must ultimately provide this charge. I think that the Chancellor of the Exchequer would find that, had he the means of taking a more extended period than three years, lie would have had reason to believe that the amount ot fines received by bishops, deans and chapters was less than 261,000?. But for the purpose of argument I will assume that the Chancellor of| the Exchequer is correct, and that 261,000/. represents the amount of fines, nominally the sum which he proposes to provide for the reimbursement of the deans and chapters. The next permanent charge for which the Chancellor of the Exchequer has to provide is the sum of 250,000?., which he purposes to allot for the repair of the fabrics of the Church, thus making the sum of 511,000 of permanent charge, for which, in the first instance, we must provide. He went on to notice the first remarkable omission made by Government— the charge of management of so extended an estate— The property is dispersed through England and Wales: it consists of various sources of revenue, of mines, houses, tithes and land; it is in some instances subject to mort- gages and to settlement; it varies in different parts of the country, and is subject to different customs; and it ap- pears to me that the management of that property in pro- portion to the rental will be large in the extreme. ( Cheers.) From the nature of the board to whose superintendence this property is to be committed, and from the objection to the state becoming a great landed proprietor, and undertaking to supply those motives for good management which arise out of a direct personal interest, I consider, looking at all commissions and landed speculations undertaken by the Government or by the state, that this commission will prove comparatively defective. ( Hear, hear.) The land revenue of the Crown amounts to 240,009/.; it is managed by a board of this description; it is much less com- plicated in its nature ; its surveys are less expensive; yet I believe I am not underrating or overrating the charge of management when I state that it is 25,000/. a year. The estimate made by competent authority was 28,000/.; but I prefer to underrate rather than overrate, and have fixed upon 25,000/. I wish to keep within the full amount. If I estimate the charge of the management of this property, the rental of which is supposed to be 1,323,000/., the actual rent to which the deans and chapters have a right, being 545,000/. at the present time— if I esti- mate it on " the most reasonable scale it is possible to con- ceive, I would fix upon 30,000/. a year. If this 30,000/. be added to the 511,000/., stated by the Chancellor of the Ex- chequer as the permanent charge, it will make 541,000/. as the future permanent charge to be provided for. He pointed out the consequences of this omission— The right honourable gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer assumes that he will have 1,323,000/., the pre- sent value of which is 516,000/.; but as he has 541,000/. to provide for, there was at present a deficiency of 25,000/. a year, assuming that the data and the assumptions of the Chancellor of the Exchequer were correct. Now, what is the present value of an annuity of 541,000/. at four per cent, for twenty- four years ? I have compared the value of the permanent annuity of 541,000/. with the value of the deferred annuity, and it is quite clear that the difference between the one and the other will be a permanent charge for twenty- four years. An annuity of 541,000/. at four per cent, would amount to 8,248,000/. if converted into capital at the present time. The annuity which the commission will have to cal- culate upon will amount to 7,820,000/. deferred for twenty- four years; therefore, taking the Chancellor of the Ex- chequer upon his financial plan, assuming that all his data are correct, the estimate of the Chancellor of the Exchequer will fall short by 621,000/.; that is, as I again beg to ob- serve, assuming that his own calculation and data arecorrect. ( Hear, hear.) But I doubt the correctness of those data ( hear, hear); and I hope, whatever the opinion of the House may be on the principle of the question of Church- rates— I hope the House will not come to any decision on this proposal without more accurate information, and with- out better means of giving their opinion upon it. ( Hear, hear.) Sir Robert here went into a statement of facts connected with the diocese of Gloucester, to show that the data of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, according to which twenty- four years were assigned as the average currency of ecclesiastical leaseholds, was not correct. Sir Robert stated the distinction necessary to be drawn between house property and land property, in these calculations, which, as well as the cost of management, Government had left out of sight— I admit that in cases of house property, seven and eight, and even nine per cent, is allowed. But all those cases of household property were subject to conditions which re- duced them to not more than five per cent. An interest of eight per cent, is allowed on household property, because the tenant indemnifies the Church in the first place, in all cases of insolvency, and from all attempts by legal means to recover the amount of the rent; and secondly,' the whole charge of the building and the keeping it in repair is borne by the tenant; and thirdly, the charge of the payment of insurance against fire also falls on the tenant. It is there- fore perfectly just that a distinction should be made in the case of household property, and the eight percent, allowed, and the value of other property, on which only five percent, is allowed. The result of this is, that if we grant that the present rental be 1,323,000/., and if we make allowance for the ditference between household property and landed pio- perty, then the value of this 1,323,000/., to he received twenty- four years hence, will not be anything like even 516,000/. ( Cheers.) On this point I put these questions . to an eminent calculator. Sir Robert read the following paper:— The average improved rental of Church leases is 1,323,000/. a- year. It is estimated that, on the average, in twenty- four years, all the Church leases will run out; and therefore there is a reversionary interest of 1,323,000/., as a perpetual annuity, at the end ol twenty- four years. Question the first— What annuity, to commence from the present time, is equivalent in value to the perpetual annuity of 1,323,000/., to commence at the end of twenty- four years? Answer— The equivalent perpetual annuity, to commence immediately, is five inn^ Mkiiid sixteen thousand and one hundred and ninety i^^^^ Bpomputing the fee simple at twenty- five years' pui^^^^ V Question second— lWBl^ sum of 1,323,000/. a year is derivable as to three- fourth parts thereof from the rents of land, and one fou^ Mfert from the rack- rents of houses, what annuity, to flj^ Knce from the present time, is equi- valent to the rent 0^ 323,000/. a year, having regard to the perishable nature of household property, and the permanent nature of land? Answer— The equivalent perpetual annuity should, in this case, be four hundred and sixty- eight thousand seven hundred and thirty pounds, computing the land, as before, at twenty- five years'purchase, and the househould property at 162- 5ths years' purchase. Taking the household property in fee- simple, however, to be worth fourteen and a quarter years' purchase, instead of at 16 2- 5ths, which is a very moderate reduction as compared with the reduction of land, from thirty to twenty- five years' purchase, the equivalent perpe- tual annuity will be four hundred and fifty- two thousand three hundred pounds. ( Hear, hear,) ARTHUR MORGAN. Equitable Assurance- office, March 18,1837. But the true proportion for the household property, the fee- simple of the land being reduced from thirty years to twenty- five years, is thirteen and a fraction years' purchase. N. B. Taking the land at thirty years' purchase, tile equivalent perpetual annuity on the whole property is 602,000/. He proceeded— Now, I have shown, supposing all the assumptions of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to be correct, that he will have an annual sum of 541,000/. to provide for, and that lie will only have 516,000/. to meet it. In these assumptions, however, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has been work- ing entirely upon false calculations, and especially upon the erroneous idea that all the Church property is worth twenty- five years' purchase. But it would be vain to hope to in- duce the occupier of household property to purchase at twenty- five years' purchase, when he knows that the value of what he holds is only sixteen years' purchase; and there- fore, in proportion as the Church revenues are derived from household property, must a reduction be made from the whole value, which reduction, as I have said before, taking household property to be about one- fourth of the whole, would reduce the equivalent perpetual annuity from 516,000/. to 452,000/. Convert this annuity into present capital, and it will be found that instead of a gain we have a clear loss, by means of this financial speculation, to the extent of seve- ral millions. ( Hear.) The remainder of Sir Robert's long speech was taken up in combating, on various grounds, the ge- neral principle of the Government plan. He con- cluded— We have been told that we must discriminate, and that It is the conscientious principles of the Dissenters to which we must look. Now the Dissenters contribute only one- tenth, and the members of the Church Establishment nine- tenths, to the Church- rates. The sophism is, therefore, this : if this proposition should become law, the members of the Church Establishment, the noblemen and gentlemen of the country, who at present hold their estates on the condi- tion of contributing to the Church- rates, will be altogether relieved from that burden. ( Hear, hear, hear.) I should like to know what you mean to do in the case of Scotland. ( Hear, hear.) If you say that the Dissenters, who now contribute to support a Church from the doctrines of which they differ, have a right, in a conscientious point of view to be relieved from that burden— if you say that the Dissenter of England has a right to be relieved from contributing to the maintenance of the Church Establishment of England — what answer will you give to the great landed proprietors in Scotland, who dissent from the establishment of that country, but whose property is taxed to support that esta- blishment, when they ask to be relieved from the burden? ( Hear, hear.) Are the great landed proprietors to relieve themselves and the Dissenteis from the Church of Eng- land from the burden of supporting the Church ot England; and while we are thus relieving ourselves, are the great landed proprietors of Scotland, who adhere to episcopalian doctrines, but who have purchased their property with the condition of contributing from it to the support and repair of the churches of the Scottish Establishment, to remain in their present condition ? What will you say if they tell you that they have as conscientious a scruple against contributing to the support of the Scottish churches, as the Dissenters of England have against contributing to the support of the English Churches? And why ought not their claim to be listened to as well as the claim of the English Dissenters? ( Hear, hear.) But how much stronger will be the case, if we, who assent to the doctrines of the Established Church of the country in which our property is placed, relieving our- selves from the burden of contributing to the support of that church ; and the great landed proprietors of Scotland, who dissent from the doctrines of the Established Church of the country in which their property is placed, are com- pelled to continue their contributions to the support of that church? ( Hear, hear.) Let it be also recollected, sir, that a large and most respectable class of Christians in this country, who are separated from the ( Church, have, ne- vertheless, never urged any objection to the continuance of Church- rates. The whole of the Wesleyan body, or at least a great part of that powerful and influential body— influen- tial from the strongest of all grounds of influence, that of character— although dissenting from the Church of England, and not, joining with it in communion, still feel so strongly the common interest which they have in maintaining the Church Establishment— still rejoice so much at witnessing the improvement which of late years has taken place in the character and zeal of the ministers of the Church Establishment— still are so deeply sensible that the general cause of Christianity is aided by the welfare of tile Church Establishment, that they come forward with no such proposition as that submitted to you by His Majesty's Ministers. ( Wear, hear, hear.) Is it possible that we who are the possessors of great landed estates can accept this relief at the expense of the Church whose doctrines we profess to espouse, when so large a body of individuals, who in spiritual matters differ from that Church, are not unwilling to continue their contributions to its support. ( Hear, hear?) Let us recollect, too, that the time will shortly come when these acts of ours will be sub- jected to the rigorous scrutiny of posterity. If posterity discover that thousands and tens of thousands of Christians in this country were without the means of religious worship and instruction; that the churches were exceedingly in- adequate to the population ; that many of the glebe- houses were in a state of great dilapidation ; that numerous pa- rishes were without clergymen; and if posterity discover that, under such circumstances, we consented to sell the property of the church, to alienate it for ever, to cut off all hope now and for ever of its affording the means of remedy- ing so many evils— above all, if they find that, in inflicting this irreparable calamity on the Church, we also relieved ourselves from the obligation of contributing to its support, depend upon it that a severe and a not unrighteous judg- ment will be passed upon our conduct. ( Hear, hear, hear.) If any other course were pursued-— if we were to take the sum required from the consolidated fund, that would at least be to call upon the owners of landed property to con- tribute. Whether the desired object might be best obtained by that means; by a new apportionment of the land— ( continuing, however, the existing connection between the land and the Church)— by making some distinction, for the relief of the Dissenters, between town parishes, where there were numerous Dissenters, and rural parishes, where there was no wish to put down the church, or by any other course, I will not now say. My present object is to implore you who are in communion with the Church of Engiand, not, by consenting to this proposition, to cut off for ever the hope of supporting the Ecclesiastical Establishment, of re- lieving the wants of the ministers of the Church, and of sup- plying the different parishes of the kingdom with adequate means of religious worship and instruction. But, above all, I implore you to avert the judgment which posterity will inevitably pronounce upon you, if, from this transaction, you contrive yourselves to derive any pecuniary advantage. ( Hear, hear.) Lord HOWICK replied to Sir Robert's calculations— The right honourable baronet argued that in bringing for- ward this resolution His Majesty's Government had alto- gether omitted to make an important deduction from the whole amount of available property; that whilst they reck- oned upon an income of £ 250,000, they proposed to raise it by an improved system of management, but had not allowed for the expenses of that management. Now, he ( Lord Howick) must confess he was surprised the right honour- able baronet should have fallen into this mistake, because the amount of fines of renewals on leases, and the income of the bishops from that source, as returned to the ecclesiasti- cal commissioners, were, as he believed, calculated with this necessary exception or deduction ; and, therefore, the amount returned was the net income, and not the gross. Nay, he did not speak from mere belief, for he had had the good fortune to arrive at the actual state of the case, in re • spect to the see of Durham, when returns having reference to a period of three years were given in. In those returns, which formed the basis of his calculations, it appeared that the income of the see was 17,000/. a year. But it since ap- peared that the income of the see was not 17,000/. a vear, from fines, but 23,000/., of which 2,000/. was deducted for the amount of expenses. Let the house, then, judge from these facts; and if they judged of the matter in dispute by the see of Durham, it must be admitted that the Govern- ment had underrated their case ; because the whole property of the see of Durham, instead of being 17,000/. was 21,000/., to which was to be added the amount quoted for expenses, 2,000, making the gross income 23,000. This, then, was the principle upon which the right reverend prelate the Bishop of Durham had made his return of his emoluments ( and a most exemplary prelate he was); and they had no right to suppose the other dignitaries would not make the same kind of returns. Then, he contended, they ( the Go- vernment) had a right to assume that the amount of income given in was the actual sum arising from fines from the re- newal of bishops and deans and chapters' leases. There- turns made, then, were not below the amount, because they did not give the gross, but the net income; and if it were the net amount, would any one tell him that the whole ex- pense of management divided amongst a large number would approach the present amount under the projected united and central system, when they would have a few persons of superior description and station giving up all their time in promotmg" tbc object in carrying out which they were to be employed ; and lie would say, that whether it were in the case of the union of parishes, of an individual parish, or of wholesale merchants or retail dealers, a good result generally followed from a combined movement in conducting affairs on a great scale. Then came the assertion that 24 years was too lengthened a period for ecclesiastical bases. Very extensive inquiries had been instituted into this part of the subject, and the result had been to confirm all the opinions which the Government had originally enter- tained ; and to show that the real amount of church property was undeirated. So with respect to the rate of interest, the right honourable baronet assumed the rate of interest of 7 per cent, was only applicable to property of a particular description, and not to land. He admitted that as to house property the case was somewhat different as to the value. But with reference to the question of fines upon renewals of leases, he happened to have heard of a case in point, from the best authority, and he would state it to the house. An archdeacon in the central part of England informed his lessee that he could not give him a renewal of his lease unless he paid him the sum of J, 500/. The party complained of these terras, and intended to resist the demand thus made upon him; but before doing so, he thought it proper to consult an actuary, to know what the value of his interest was. The actuary having looked at the documents which had been furnished him by the lessee, made a calculation, and said, " Renew by all means— close at once; because the real value for which you will obtain your renewal, if calcu- lated upon the strictest rule of arithmetic, would be not 1,500/. but 2,900." This case occurred in a central county of England; and he thought be might mention this as a strong fact to show that under the existing laws of church property, those who held these leases expected terms as advantageous as in the calculation which liis right honour- able friend had assumed. So much for these points. His lordship noticed the argument from immemorial usage in respect to church- rates. Here was a case accidentally made known to him only yesterday, which he thought, as bearing on the question under discussion, was well worthy of the attention of the House. It showed, in his opinion, that the doctrine of im- memorial usage and of Church- rates being a deduction to which property was always subject was sometimes pushed too far. This was a case which actually took place in the instance of an individual friend of his, on whom he placed implicit reliance, and therefore of the correctness of the facts stated he had no doubt whatever. This person built a house within the last few years, in a parish in the immediate vicinity of London. Subsequently to doing it ( it was but a small property) the parish in which it was situated chose to build two new churches. For raising the amount for build- ing these edifices, ( which did not exist when he acquired his property) he was subjected to the payment of the rate levied, which was sixpence in the pound. Was that immemorial usage ? True it was that the evil was the effect of the Churches Building Act; and he would tell the right hon. baronet, that if it were not for the impolitic and incautious manner in which the provisions of that Act were applied, they never would have been placed in the present difficulty— they would never have heard this cry for the abolition of Church- rates. Parliament, by its own deed— by coupling these charges with Church- rates, had created all the feeling which existed in the country, and caused those evils which were complained of; and now, unfortunately, they could not retrace their steps. But he would pursue the case a little further to which he had adverted. It was not the mere paying sixpence in the pound for rates for Churches built since he had acquired property that the party in question complained of. He complained that the'Church- rates which were in existence when he acquired this house were the old Church- rates; then he said a Church- rate was in- curred for a new churchyard, and yet when a person died in his ( complainant's) house, he was charged 62/. for burying him. The whole amount went to the Rector. Lord Howick described some of the consequences of the present mode of managing Church lands, to which Sir Robert had not adverted— A bishop entering upon his see found his income totally unsettled, and might at first be in the receipt of absolutely nothing; he found at the same time a natural disposition on the part of the lessee to drive the hardest possible bargain with him. Here at once was a ground of dissention, of discontent, perhaps of discord. Again, as every lease fell in there was a contest about the amount of the fine to be paid for its renewal. Here was another ground of discontent. Here there were temptations to provide for a family by taking advantage of the temporary power attached to the see. Here was the temptation to tile young bishop to run his life against that of the lessee. There was the tempta- tion to the old bishop to conclude on any terms with the lessee, and to make a renewal rather than run the chance of leaving the profit of the fine to be reaped by his successor. Would any man tell him that these details of worldly busi- ness were not great temptations in the way of men whose thoughts and energies should be wholly devoted to their pastoral duties? More than that, would any man tell him that the bishops of the English Church had never been sus- pected of going beyond an honest and decent regard to their own interests and the interests of their successors? Would any man tell him that there had ijot been accusations against the bishops of providing for their families in a manner not creditable to them either as Christians or honourable men ? He did not say that these accusations were true— he trusted and believed that if in some instances there might have been a foundation for them, in the great mass they were altogether groundless. ( Hear, hear.) But the very circumstance that such things could be said and believed even for a moment, was most deeply injurious to the whole of the Church, and, more than anything, perhaps, would tend to alienate the affections of the people from their clergy. He maintained, then, that it was not an advantage to the Church that the present state of things should continue. The right hon. baronet said, that under the existing system the bishops had an opportunity of acquiring the affection of their tenantry, by the lenity they should show towards them. The bishops, no doubt, had opportunities of evincing their lenity and liberality, but what was the result? Did they thereby gain the affections of their tenants? Were the lessees generally satisfied with the terms on which their leases were renewed ? In nine cases out of ten he would venture to say the Church lessee complained of the terms on which he held his lease. He was aware that the right honourable baronet had pointed out instances in which great improvements had taken place; and he ( Lord Howick) believed that to be the case; but he thought that if ever a system was ingeniously contrived for making parties quarrel and setting them by the ears, it was the system of leasing Church property, held by the lessees, renewable on payment of fines. But he would say more— not with reference to the bishops, indeed, because his observation would not apply so particularly to them— but in reference to Eccle- siastical corporations, he would say, that he had known cases in which the power held by them had been used in a manner which made the Church most unpopular. Was any gentleman ignorant of the fact that there was no county in England probably in which dissent was more prevalent than in the county of Durham? ( Hear, hear.) Why was dis- sent so prevalent in that countj? Not because there was any deficiency of wealth on the part of the Church. No one would tell him that the Church in Durham was deficient in wealth. No; the great prevalence of dissent, and the great unpopularity of the Church in that county, arose merely from this circumstance— that there was an immense mass of property which belonged to the Church, and that there was a perpetual collision between the lessees and the owners of that property arising from the unfortunate tenure on which the property was held— a tenure that formed a perpetual source of irritation. His lordship concluded by cautioning the House against the view of the question sought to be impressed upon them iu the peroration of Sir Robert Peel's speech— I cannot avoid calling upon hot), gentlemen not to judge of the measure proposed by His Majesty's Ministers from the character given of it by the right hon. baronet iii the very eloquent conclusion of his speech. Do not let the in- habitants of the country be tormented by the picture which he has drawn of churches falling down, of parishes left de- serted, of a total cessation of every attempt to increase the income of small livings, or supply the means of removing the want of that religious instruction which now exists in our large towns. Do not let the country judge of our mea- sure by this character. ( Hear, hear, hear.) Let them regard it rather as a plan which is proposed by way of affording efficient means for maintaining the fabrics of the church, and of completely and satisfactorily insuring all those objects to which Church- rates are now applied; at the same time, of removing the serious and continual con- tentions and disputes that now exist in all the cities and towns of this country, and which, 1 am sorry to say, are beginning to take place in not a few of our agricultural dis- tricts. ( Hear, hear.) Let them regard it as a measure, also, for advancing the national wealth, by calling into play the dormant capabilities of Church property, and increasing to an enormous extent the value of church land. ( Cheers.) Let them regard it as a measure for rendering the income ot the ecclesiastical dignitaries of this country secure to them, free from all suspicion of improper practices— free from all temptation to consult their own interests at the expense ol those of their successors, or those of the lessees: a mea- sure to enable them to devote their whole time to the dis- charge of the important duties which are entrusted to them. ( Cheers.) . Let the House, and let the country, in short, regard this measure as one which is honestly and sincerely intended for the welfare of the country, and for the welfare, and for permanently extending the utility, of the church. The debate for the night was continued by Mr. Granville Harcourt, Mr. Fowell Buxton, Mr. Goul- burn, and Dr. Lushington. When the latter sat down there were loud cries for Mr. Brotherton, and that honourable member, in consequence, moved an adjournment of the debate. Mr. F. Buxton's principal argument was " directed against the overgrown incomes of the higher clergy, and the propriety of reducing them, with a view, by the savings so to be effected, of extending the benefits of religious instruction in the large towns. Dr. Lushington, whose speech was fre- quently interrupted by noises and cries of various sorts, spoke strongly against the tax, and in favour of the Government measure. TUESDAY. SOUTH- WESTERN ( KINGSWORTHY AND WESTMONCK- TON) RAILWAY.— A debate of some length took place on the second reading of this bill, and an amendment was offered to have it read a second time that day six months. The motion for the second reading was lost by 83 to 59, when a second amendment was moved that the bill should be read a second time that day se'nnight. The second amendmcut was carried by 82 to 76. The Morning Chronicle of Wednesday say s the bill was lost. This is not the case. The Sun, of the previous evening, had stated correctly, that it was only postponed. CANADA.— Lord John Russell fixed Tuesday for the further discussion of the Canada question. CHURCH RATES.— The adjourned debate was re- sumed try Sir WILLIAM FOLLETT. The most striking part of Sir William's speech was the legal part— He might be permitted to express his unequivocal and total objection to the doctrine held by the right honourable gentleman, that Church- rates were a payment not legally binding upon the inhabitants of the land, but a matter in which they were simply privileged to tax themselves if they thought proper. ( Hear, hear.) He must own that he was somewhat surprised at hearing that assertion made by the right honourable gentleman, especially as he felt quite satis- fied that upon some hypothesis as this mainly rested the opposition of those who objected to taking the Church- rates out of the general funds of the country. Notwithstanding, however, that the noble lord the member for Liverpool had distinctly denied this doctrine, the noble Secretary at War took it up again last night, and maintained that Church- rates were nothing more than a voluntary tax, about the amount and necessity of which the payers were the legitimate and only judges. ( Hear, hear.) He ( Sir Wm. Follett) agreed that if this were the law of the country it was one very con- siderable argument in favour of the Government plan. But he denied that it was the law of the land. It was not, nor ever was, the law of this country. ( Opposition cheers.) By the common law of the land— he was speaking in the pre- sence of the law officers of the Crown, and after what had fallen from the honourable and learned member for the Tower Hamlets, and was open to conviction if what he stated were not the case— speaking under correction there- fore, he repeated, that by the common law of the land there had always been a legal and compulsory obligation on all parishioners, whether resident or not, to raise funds amongst themselves for the support of the fabric of the Church. ( Renewed cheering.) It was true that at the present moment this obligation was only enforceable in the eccle- siastical courts. ( Hear hear, from the Ministerial benches.) Honourable gentlemen might cheer at this, but were they aware also that this obligation, whatever the court in which cognizance was taken of it, was confirmed by act of parlia- ment as far back as the 13th of Edward I., in which year an act was passed authorising proceedings in the ecclesias- tical courts to enforce its fulfilment? Even at the present moment this enactment was in force, and although the pro- cess, he was free to admit, might be cumbrous and slow, still the powers of the Ecclesiastical Court might he put in force for the purpose of compelling the parishioners to make a rate, and, if they had made a rare, but an insufficient one, to oblige them to make a sufficient rate. In one instance he was aware that the Court ofKing's Bench had refused to interfere by a mandamus for the purpose of compelling the inhabitants of a parish to make a rate, but this refusal was given on the ground, not that there was no legal mode of enforcing a rate, but because that process was by law issu- able out of the Ecclesiastical Court. ( Hear, hear.) He did not deny, as lie had already said, that this process might be cumbrous, tedious, and inconvenient, but still, admitting this, the case was a very different one from that made out by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that there was no legal obligation to compel the payment of a Church- rate. Whilst he admitted all the practical inconveniences of the present state of the law, he still distinctly maintained that there was a legal obligation in favour of Church- rates, and that that obligation might at the present moment be le- gally enforced. The honourable and learned member for the Tower Hamlets, in his speech last night, argued in this view of the case— he could not deny that there was a legal obligation on the land to support the fab. ic of the Church ; but, at the same time, pointed out the fact that consider- able difficulty was sometimes made on the subject, which led to scenes of scandal, which all friends of the Church must exceedingly regret. He ( Sir W. Follett) was not there to deny that this objection was just and correct as re- garded the present system of raraing Church- rates; but, at the same time, he thought it was rather illogical for the honourable and learned member to argue that because the present system was a had one, the system proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer should forthwith be adopted in its stead. ( Hear, hear.) Sir William afterwards noticed a plan of Dr. Lush- ingtoii and Mr. Cutlar Ferguson, of levying Church- rates as Poor- rates are levied, which, supposing the present law to be sufficient, as Sir William alleged, would hardly be required. Sir JOHN CAMPBELL replied to Sir William's legal argument— His honourable and learned friend said that land was liable to Church- rates by law. He differed with him en- tirely on that point. What the right honourable baronet the member for Tamworth said with respect to Scotland was correct. The repair of churches and glebe- houses, or manses, as they were called in Scotland, was chargeable on the land. Land there was held on condition that the churches and glebe- houses should be kept in repair out of that land, exactly in the way that some lands in England were held on the condition of keeping certain bridges in re- pair. But Church- rates in England were placed on a dif- ferent footing; they were a personal tax. It would be neither instructive nor amusing to tile committee to enter into an investigation of the origin of these Church- rates. But there could be no doubt that the churches were origin- ally repaired out of the tithes. The tithes were divided into four portions, one of which was applied to the repair of the churches. When the church threw off this burden did not appear. But it was clear that the Church- rates were merely a personal obligation. They were exactly like the Poor- rates, which, by the statute of the 43d of Elizabeth, were imposed upon the personal estate; although that being found inconvenient, they were almost in all cases levied on the land. That they were so had been determined in 1834 by the highest ecclesiastical court in England. It was not just, therefore, that those should be taxed to pay them who had no interest in their application. In their origin they were equal; for then all men entertained the same religious creed. But now, when there was so great a variety of opinions in matters of religion, it was unjust to the Dis- senters to be taxed to support our places of worship, they having to support their own. There was no analogy what- ever between Church- rates and tithes. Tithes were a burden on the land; they were not a tax or an impost. The land and the tithes were put up to auction separately ; and the purchaser of the land was only a receiver of the tithes for the tithe- owner. The inequality which arose from the ex- istence of different religious opinions would render Church- rates more and more odious; and, iu some cases, absolutely intolerable. It was the principle, and not the amount, which was especially objected to. His hon. and learned friend the member for Huntingdon said he knew of cases in which the payment, of three or four pounds levied as church- rates had been resisted in a court of law at an expense of several thousand pounds. This feeling of repugnance be- came stronger every day, and if some other mode were not provided for the repair of churches, they would, ere long, see those churches in utter ruin. Such an event he strongly deprecated, and it was on that account he supported the plan of his right hon. friend. His hon. and learned friend the member for Exeter thought that the law might be made more stringent on those who declined to pay the Church- rates. The law might be made as stringent as his hon. and learned friend pleased, the impost would not be submitted to. Let the refusal be made a felony without benefit of clergy, let the punishment be transportation, the Church- rates would remain unpaid. As to compelling parishes to levy a Church- rate, he utterly denied the statement of his hon. and learned friend the member for Exeter on that point. When a rate bad been imposed application might he made to an ecclesiastical court to compel a man to pay it But there was no legal mode of compelling a parish to levy a Church- rate. The Court of King's Bench would laugh at his hon. and learned friend if he applied for a mandamus for such a purpose. A mandamus might be granted for the making of a poor- rate, or for the payment of a debt due to an individual, and secured on a Church- rate. But with reference to the repairs of churches, there was no mode of compelling the parishes to levy a Church- rate. In Catholic times it was not so ; and why ? Because the Pope had the power of excommunicating the offending parties ; of cutting them off from bell, book, and candle. They were not allowed to join in any of the sacred offices, or enjoy any of the consolations of Christianity. But now, in Protestant times, there was no remedy for the refusal of a parish to impose rates. It could not he compelled to do so, either by civil or by ecclesiastical law. That he maintained; and he challenged the honourable and learned civilian opposite to rise up and say how such an object could be accomplished. There were no means of- ac- complishing it. The house was afterwards addressed by Mr. Law at considerable length, and with great minuteness of de- tail, by Mr. Cayley, who, after having proved by figures, and Mr. Morgan— the same gentleman who had been quoted by Sir Robert Peel— that Ministers were wrong in every particular, finished by stating his resolution to vote for the resolutions. Mr. Benett and Mr. Peniberton followed Mr. Cay- ley, and were followed by Lord John Russell. Lord John remarked on the inconsistency of the ob- jectors to the Ministerial plan. This bill proposes to give a substitute for church- rates,, and we were told yesterday by a right hon. gentleman that if any fund can be obtained for this purpose, there are mil- lions in want of spiritual instruction, and that to provide this THE . BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. spiritual instruction those funds ought to be devoted. But what say the honourable and learned members tor Exeter and Ripon ? They say that we ought not to change the tenure; that it would be spoliation, not indeed ot the Church, but of the lessees, and that it would he better to allow things to remain as they are. But we have a right to ask to be enlightened on some of these points. ( Cheers.) If you sav that the present state of Church- rates is unsatisfactory, will you allow us to propose a substitute t If you like, not this plan with respect to Churcli- rates, either say that you will devote the surplus fund to the supply of instruction to the people, or that you will l « we the lessees on their pre- sent footing. Are we to ha< e no answer on these points, but merely general objection upon every possible ground, and a general negative of tie resolution, leaving the whole subject as unsettled as it h now, and with every danger of its remaining unsettled" The right honourable baronet ( Sir R. Peel) was soiie time ago, in the year 1835, so anxious on this point, t. iat when we brought in the bill for the regulation of Mun'cipal Corporations, he stated " that the subject of Churcl- rates did not yield to any other in emergency— that it vas as far as any question important in the maintenance of racial harmony- that there was not a single question exctpt that of the Irish Church that pressed for'such immediate practical settlement as the question of Church- rates." ( L. oud cheers.) But the right honourable baronet stated fu> ther, that in consideration of the interests of the Church, 6r the satisfaction of a large body of the public, for the promotion of subordination and obedience to the law, thegovernment ought not to suffer the law re- specting Church- rates to be made the theme of discussion at public meetings, and the subject of angry comment from parochial maty" for another twelvemonths." We have in- curred the ceisure of the right honourable baronet, not only for twelve nontlis, but for, as I admit, two years that we have allowei this state of things to go on, and parochial martyrs to be sacrificed. But when now, at length, we bring in a rlan, what is the result? The right honourable baronet ( iir R. Peel) does not tell the house that our scheme is injudicious, and that he has another to propose, but he th'ows out certain suggestions as to the separation of disseniers and churchmen; and he is willing to make this distinction, that dissenters in towns should not be obliged to pay, but that dissenters in the country should be obliged to pay Church- rates; in other words, that the landed interest should be still burdened with the payment of church- rates, but that the towns should be relieved. Lo* d John proceeded to defend himself from certain imputed inconsistencies iu regard to his advocacy of Lord Althorp's plan for Church- rates. Lord John afterwards addressed himself to the question of the se- curity of lessees of Bishops' lands, and of the assumed small advantage that would accrue to them by chang- ing the form of their tennres as proposed hy Govern- ment— If a man holds property which he is obliged to surrender at the expiration of any life, or at the end of seven or thirty years, and if he can change that holding into a tenure equi- valent to a freehold on which he may plant or build as he pleases, there is a new value created, which is a value to the person who possesses the property, and to the person who occupies it. If it were not so, I really know not what would be the value of so many properties that have been held on mortmain, and enfranchised. We have a familiar illustration of the argument in tbe case of a person who, not having a freehold holding, plants trees, and 011 the renewal of his term is obliged to pay for them according to their value when be cuts them down. But the right hon. gentleman put, as an especial difficulty, some cases in which a great part of the land may be church land, the rest being the les- see's own property. I am glad to be supplied by the right Jion. gentleman with that instance, because it enables me to pofnt out, to a certain extent, what will be the beneficial working of these bills. Their operation will be to enable a man who has suffered under that disagreeable tenure, part of bis house and grounds being his own, and the other part only held under the church, to make the whole his own, and thus relieve himself from the possibility of further inconve- nience. With respect to the right of obtaining some advan- tage from the lessee, I do not think that the honourable and learned gentleman or the right hon. gentleman can either of them make out that we are not entitled to ask some advan- tage from the lessee. I could state to the House many instances that have come to my own knowledge in which those leases have fallen in, and in which the bishop has re- fused to renew, or in which he has put in a concurrent lease, and the original lease has been altogether destroyed. That right was exercised by the late Bishop of Ely—( hear)— and while it exists let no man tell me the lessees have the right of renewal. I have been told, 011 the authority of a solicitor in Durham, with respect to that county, that in 1790 the value of the church land was equal almost to freehold pro- perty ; but in consequence of the difficult terms of renewal which had been enforced, of late years church land sold for fifteen or sixteen years'purchase. ( Hear, hear.) He next disposed of an argument urged in the Ox- ford petition— that by adopting the Government plan the Bishops would he rendered mere stipendiaries. It is clear that there has been a great change as regards the terms on which these leases are renewed; and are we not entitled to take advantage of the right of renewal? But passing on from the lessees, I come to the objection stated to the plan in a petition— a very fair and calm petition, I admit— from the University of Oxford. That petition ob- jects to the situation in which the measure places the bishops. We are told that the bishops at present are ill the enjoyment of property, and according to these bills they may become mere annuitants; that we are bound to provide for the great interests of religion; and that the independence of the bishops cannot be impaired without danger to those interests themselves. This is certainly a subject well worthy the consideration of the house. Those who labour for the instruction of the University of Oxford ought to have informed that learned but somewhat tardy University of the nature of the bill which passed last year. It is true, before the act I have referred to passed, the bishops had command, without restriction as to leases, of the property of the Church; and it might he argued, as has been argued, that there is no question. The Bishop of Durham possesses as clear a right to his property as any man of landed property in the kingdom, and we are no more entitled to inquire what his income is than we have to inquire what is the in- come of the lay proprietors. This might have been the state of things formerly, but the act of last year has placed them now upon a different footing. The Bishop of Dur- ham has been commanded by that act to transfer the sum of 2,000/. a year to the see of Ripon, and another 11,000/, to the hands of the Church commissioners, and then the new bishop created by this act is to receive further an an - nuity of 2,200/. from the Church commissioners. Now what is the situation of these two bishops? The one, out of a varying and precarious income, is bound to pay 2,000/. a year to the Church commissioners; the other is to all in- tents and purposes an annuitant upon those commissioners. ( Hear, hear.) The one of these bishops is clearly an an- nuitant ; whilst the other is not exactly in that situation which, as regards his own interests, could be said to be a very easy or comfortable one, because it will be observed that if the incomes of the see of Durham were to be depre- ciated, and fall, through any fortuitous circumstances, to 4,000/.. 3,000/., or even 1,000/. a year, the bishop would still be obliged to pay over 11,000/. to the Church; commissioners, and 2,000/. a year to the Bishop of Ripon. "( Hear.) This being the case, no one can tell me that this bishop is in a position to have unlimited command over the property in hand, or to exercise, under all circumstances, bis own free will and inclination in its disposal; for he may be obliged, when be would rather not do so, to renew leases which may fall in, under very disadvantageous circumstances, in order to meet this certain, this unvarying, and imperative annual call. ( Hear, hear.) Say the bishop's income amounts on an average to 19,000/. a year; out of this he has to pay 11,000/., reserving the other 8,000/. for himself. But if, instead of taking the chance of the lives which fall in, by which in one year he might get 22,900/., and in another only 16,000/., we say to him, we will take care that you shall always receive 19,000/., out of which you may with regula- rity meet the demand against you ot 11,000/. a year, and with as much certainty reserve the 8,000/. a year to yourself — I say that if we were to do this, so far from doing an in- jury to this individual, we should he conferring a great be- nefit upon him, hy attaching a greater degree of certainty to his income. ( Cheers.) Lord John afterwards vindicated himself from the charge of having acted inconsistently towards the Church on the present measure, after the support he had given to it on the Church Commission. The hon. member for East Retford assures me that after having belonged to the Church commission I have made an utensil of the Church. I, on the other hand, must rather say that the Church commission has made an utensil of me. ( Laughter.) We went into the commission upon this sub- ject, in conjunction with the prelates of the Church who formed part of it, with the full desire and intention of listen- ing to all the plans for the reform of the Church which they could suggest, with a sincere wish, whilst we directed our attention to the correction of abuses in that establishment, to do so in a way as compatible as possible with the views and sentiments of its prelates. ( Hear, hear.) I gave my consent to the propositions which were then agreed upon, but at the same time I must remark that those propositions were more theirs than mine. And I must take this oppor- tunity of remarking in answer to what fell from the lion, member for Weymouth, what the members of the Church commission know full well, that I said I should have been desirous that no prebend should receive more than £ 4,000, and that no canon should have more than £ 2,000 a year.— ( Loud cries of hear.) But whilst this was my own opinion, I was willing, nevertheless, to adopt the scheme for the re- form of certain abuses which was framed by the commission. I proposed that scheme to the House, and when the hon. member for Middlesex warned me that by acting thus I was ruining the prospects of the ministry to which I belong, I told him, that regardless of consequences, I had adopted that measure, and that I was determined to stand or fall hy it, conceiving the honour of the Administration to be in- volved in it. ( Loud cheering.) In doing this are we to be accused of having ill- treated the Church commission ? On the contrary, we showed ourselves ready to experience and to brave some obloquy if, in concurrence with the heads of the Church, we could pass some measure calculated to be of real and efficient service to the best interests of the Church. ( Renewed cheering.) When Lord John sat down there was a general rush to the door and a demand for adjournment. The Chairman reported progress accordingly; and after some routine business the House rose. WEDNESDAY. PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS.— A preliminary discussion of some length took place on a motion of Lord George Lennox, respecting Parliamentary agents ; the object of which was to condemn the conduct of Mr. Fresh- field, M. P. for Penryn, who, though a member of the House, is a partner of his son, who is a Parliamentary agent. Mr. Freshfield's excuse was that in respect of that part of the partnership business lie had given up all connection with the firm on his being chosen a member. Mr. W. HARVEY said if the case had been his in- stead of that of the Solicitor for the Bank of England, the House would have received and treated it in a very different way than that in which they were disposed to treat it. The discussion was terminated hy Mr./ John Smith's moving the order of the day. CHURCH RATES.— The adjourned debate was re- sumed by Mr. Gisborne- Mr. GISBORNE said— Church- rates now were given up; the right lionourabe baronet proposed that if it were found impossible to collect them generally, they should be paid by churchmen, or levied only in country parishes. The honourable and learnetl member for Exeter had given them up; the honourable and learned member for Ripon had also given them up, though in many of the petitions presented to the House, the peti- tioners seemed to think it almost a privilege and a franchise to be allowed to pay Church- rates. The Attorney- General had denied the legal right of vestries to levy Church- rates, and had challenged all the common and equity lawyers on the opposite side to disprove what he said. In fact, the payment of Church- rates had ceased. The calculations which had been made of the comparative numbers of Churchmen and Dissenters, must, necessarily, be defective. There was a third or central party, of which no account was rendered. The honourable gentleman here referred to his own county to show the hardships inflicted under the pre- sent system. In Derbyshire many of the parishes were di- vided into townships, each having a chapel, and some of them five and twenty miles from th* mother church. Now, the inhabitants of these townships felt it to be a great grie- vance that they had not only to repair their own chapel, but to contribute to the repair of the mother church. The cases of Bakewell and Stockport were strong instances of the evil. The House appeared to consider the matter as if they were sure of both sums. Now, of this he felt pretty certain, that the Legislature would not grant the one and the country would not pay the other. Why apply money to build new churches? It would be much better to repair and fill the old ones. However, if the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer could find the money, he ( Mr. Gisborne) felt no difficulty as to the expediency of the measure which the right honourable gentleman proposed. If the right honourable gentleman's calculations should un- fortunately fail, he ( Mr. Gisborne) was satisfied of tbe ex- pediency of raising the money 011 other church property ( for from no other property should it proceed) and applying it, as he bad already observed, to keep up the old churches ra- ther than build new. The right honourable member for Tamworth had appealed to the noblemen and gentlemen of the country against relieving their own estates from the bur- den of Church- rates. He ( Mr. Gisborne) said that he was prepared so to relieve his own estate; and when he had done that, be was prepared to enter into a bond with the right honourable baronet, and having the Church- rate on his property— whether on land, mines, or houses— calculated on the average of the three last years, he was prepared to enter into a bond with the right honourable baronet to pay thirty years' purchase of those rates to any society having for its object the increase of church accommodation, exceDt a society, the name of which lie did not remember, but which he would describe ; he meant a society, which, hav- ing got a large sum of the public money by virtue of the King's letter, quoted two acts of Parliament as their justi- fication for declaring that they would never apply any por- tion of that money to the building of any church the pa- tronage of which was not to be placed in the hands of the bishop. The light honourable baronet talked also of the judgment of posterity. What would posterity say if they could address the present generation? " Take your hands out of the pockets of the Dissenters. If you cannotrelieve them without also relieving your own estates, relieve your own estates; and then give ten times the amount for the support of your own church. Who is to restrain you ?" That is what posterity would say. There was a right ho- nourable gentleman who had given 1000/. to the Church Building Society, and other " sums to other societies of a similar description. Posterity would say to them, '• Take off this pitiful tax, and go and do likewise." ( Hear, hear, hear.) That would be the advice of posterity; and very good advice it was. ( A laugh.) Mr. GISBORNE noticed the gathering of the Bishops. He would not presume to advert to any thing that had taken place 011 the subject in the House of Loids. Indeed it was not necessary for him to do so. A meeting had been held in this town last week, composed of bishops, liberal and illiberal— " Black spirits and white, Blue spirits and grey, Mingle, mingle, mingle, You that mingle may." ( A laugh.) This meeting unanimously instructed the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London to state to the House of Lords their determined opposition to the plan of His Majesty's Government; a plan not then be- fore the House of Lords— hardly before the House of Com- mons, of which the latter had not got the calculations on which it was founded, and on the merits of which they had only heard one minister of the Crown. Under such cir- cumstances it was, in his opinion, highly indecent; but the meeting thought it highly discreet, to commission the Arch- bishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London to make the communication which they had made to the other house of Parliament. Did he complain that liberal bishops should unite with illiberal bishops if they thought that it was for the interest of the Church they should do so ? Far from it. But he complained of their entering into a vile cabal, and as contemptible as it was vile, for the purpose of upsetting a liberal ministry and a liberal system of government. ( Hear, hear, hear.) Would any one tell him that the object of those bishops was not to influence a few votes in that house? A few only he was sure they would be. ( Hear, hear, hear.) Had there ever been such a proceeding before, or any thing like it? The palpable object was to influence the decision of that house; at least until any oilier object could be pointed out to him he should believe that that was the object. He was persuaded, however, that this combination would turn out to be as contemptible as it was vile, and that it would totally fail in effecting its wishes. ( Hear, hear.) Mr. Gisborne concluded by stating that notwith- standing the bishops he would cheerfully support the resolution. A discussion took place in a proposed amendment of Mr. Andrew Johnstone, the wcll- l known misrepresen, tative of St. Andrew, which was finally withdrawn as irregular. Lord SANDON defended the Bishops against the assault of Mr. Gisborne. He opposed the plan of Mi- nisters as injurious to the lessees, and contended that if carried into effect at all, it ought not to be compul- sory on the lessees. Mr. BAINES spoke to the satisfaction of the Dis- senters iu regard to the Government scheme— Having had the honour to present a large number of petitions upon this subject, and having, at the same time, had the opportunity of communicating with the petitioners since the plan of the Chancellor'of the Exchequer had been brought under consideration, he was very happy in having it iri his power to communicate to the House what ap- peared to him to be the sentiments of a large body of the people upon the subject of that plan. He thought he should have betrayed the trust reposed in him if he had not en- deavoured to inform himself upon that point. Therefore-, he had taken, measures to obtairi that information WUh as much accuracy as be could, and from those influential persons who were likely to form a correct opinion of what the sentiments of other persons of their own denomination were; and all the information he had acquired went to this point, that with the plan of the Chancellor of the Exchequer there was perfect satisfaction. ( Hear, hear.) He ought, of course, to state that he had only communicated with those persons who had petitioned for the abolition of Church- rates; he had not had any opportunity of commu- nicating very specifically with the opponents of such a measure; but every individual with whom he had conferred was of opinion that the plan marked out by the Chancellor of the Exchequer would be extremely conducive to the public peace and to the public interest. Hi found that those persons entertained the opinion that the plan intro- duced this year was very much in accordance wth another subject which obtained a very prominent place in the discussions of last year— that, was the Tithe bill. ( Hear, hear.) They believed that the Chancellor of the Ex- chequer and the Government, with the noble lord at its head in this house, had for their object to produce in the country that which all men were aiming at, though not all in the same way, and that was religious peace and concord throughout the laud. ( Hear, hear.) They saw a bill intro- duced last year, having for its object to reconcile all those who paid tithes with the pastors of the established church who received them ; and they, therefore, conceived that this was a measure in accordance with the same principle. A great deal of stress had been laid with respect to the relative numbers of the petitions presented for and against Church- rates. He was ready to admit that the petitions were much more numerous on the parts of those who op- posed the abolition of Church- rates than on the part of those who were in favour of their abolition. But there was another ingredient to be taken into consideration, namely, the num- ber orthe signatures. According to the last return pub- lished by the house, which was made up to the 21st February, the number of petitions for the repeal of Church- rates was 458, and which were signed by 186,133 persons, while tbe number presented against their repeal was 96 at that time, ( a much greater number having 6ince been presented), which were signed by 6,606 persons ; so that the majority of the petitioners, up to the 21st of February, was 180,000, in favour of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's plan. ( Hear, hear.) Now, he admitted that since that time a consider- able number of petitions adverse to that plan— if that could be said to be adverse to the plan ( and he begged honourable gentlemen opposite to mark the distinction) which arose out of the excitation that took place in this city before the plan was promulgated : for that was a true statement of the case. ( Hear, hear.) There was a meeting held in this city where the noble lord, the member for Dorsetshire, presided, at which meeting two things were represented to the assem- bled throng— one was, that the plan of the Chancellor of the Exchequer was intended to suffer the churches throughout the country to go to decay, and the other was, that by that plan it was intended to rob the poor man of his sanctuary. Could any man deny that these were most extraordinary statements? ( Hear, hear, hear.) He did not wish to use strong language towards any person, but he must say that these were gross and flagrant misrepresentations. ( Hear.) Mr. GLADSTONE asked what, in reality, was the pro- position — To transfer the sum of 250,000/. a year from the estates of the Church to the owners of land and houses in this coun- try. This was the practical proposition. Now, lie would ask, were the majority of these landlords Dissenters? Cer- tainly not. Did tbe Dissenters altogether form a majority of those who were called upon to pay Church- rates? or a moiety? Certainly not. Yet here was the House called upon to sanction the proposition, that while two millions of persons were languishing from the total want of spiritual assistance and pastoral care, the Dissenters should be re- lieved from a payment which they themselves admitted to be in no material degree burdensome. But it was said the Dissenters resisted this payment from scruples of conscience. Without meaning any disiespect to the Dissenters, without ascribing to them motives of a factious or discreditable na- ture, he ( Mr. Gladstone) must confess that lie did not con- ceive their motives entitled to so sacred a designation as scruples of conscience. ( Hear, hear.) If they really entertained scruples of so sacred a nature, it was monstrous, it was a political crime of the deepest dye, that those scru- ples had not been attended to long before this. ( Hear hear.) But ministers themselves had throughout treated the whole question as a matter of expediency and policy, and not as one involving scruples of conscience. ( Hear hear.) H is ( Mr. Gladstone's) principle was, that when the Legislature had made a demand upon the subject to contri- bute a part of iiis property to the purposes of the state, that circumstance at once relieved the subject from any scruple of conscience as to paying it so long as that law remained in force. ( Hear, hear, hear.) The Quakers, indeed, had throughout proved by their conduct in reference to Church- rates that their refusal to pay them arose from scruples 01 conscience, but the existence of the same motive for refusal had not been substantiated by the conduct of any other Dissenting bodies. Mr. P. THOMPSON followed Mr. GLADSTONE, and was followed by Lord STANLEY. The noble lord ad- dressed the House at considerable length, and amidst not small interruptions, to the vindication of his con- sistency ill respect to the bill of Lord A1 thorp and the present bill. He afterwards [ proceeded to discuss the question, how far a Church- rate was compulsory in law. He alluded especially to a bill introduced last year, " for the consolidation and amendment of the ec- clesiastical courts," iu corroboration of his opinion that Church- rates were compulsory. This bill contains, amongst others, the following clauses namely, first, a clause declaratoty that from the passing of this act the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts in matters relating to Church- rates should cease and determine pro- vided always, that all laws, canons, and customs now in force as to liabilities to Church- rates shall continue in force in the same way as if this act had not passed, and putting the exe- cution of those laws and customs into the hands of justices of the peace, as hereinafter to be mentioned and defined ( Opposition cheers.) The next clause gives to parties who may fancy themselves aggrieved by the decision of the jus- tices of the peace an appeal to the quarter sessions. The following clause gives the justices of the peace powers to amend the Church- rate, and adopt means to levy it more effectually; and this is followed by a clause authorising jus- tices ot the peace to issue warrants of distress for the levying Church- rates. ( Loud opposition cheers.) Now he would not trouble the house with further details of this bill, but would ask when it was introduced— by whom was it intro- duced? ( Renewed cheers.) It was introduced at a time when this question of Church- rates was still pending before the house and the country— when the report of the ecclesi- astical commissioners was in the hands of His Majesty's go- vernment. ( Hear, hear.) This bill, giving an explicit sanc- tion to Church- rates, giving additional force in their collec- tion, was introduced, was discussed, was put through com- mittees in the House of Lords, and was brought up to this house last year. ( Hear, hear.) And who introduced it? ' 1 he Lord High Chancellor of His Majesty under the present government. ( Loud cheering.) There the bill is; the facts connected with its history are on the journals of the house. Look at them if you please, and you will find that this bill was brought up from the House of Lords, that it was read a first time, that its second reading was postponed seven times, and that it never went through any of its further stages, and was dropped. ( Loud cheers from the opposition.) The ATTORNEY- GENERAL took the liberty of rising to re- mind the noble lord that the bill in question did not contain one word about ^ making a Church- rate, but only as to the levying of it when made. ( Ministerial cheers.) There never had been a doubt as to the existence of a legal remedy for the levying of a Church- rate when once made, but he believed that there was no remedy to compel the making of a Church- rate. ( Hear, hear.) Lord STANLEY: Then I should like to hear from the At- torney- General whether he was carrying out the intentions of this bill, whether he was a party to the introduction of this bill, providing a more effectual mode of levying Church- rates, the legal validity of which he denies. ( Loud cheers from the opposition.) The ATTORNEY- GENERAL. The noble lord has misrepre- sented what I said. I never denied the validity of a Church- rate when made by a majority of the vestry in a legal man- ner. ( Loud Ministerial cheers.) The debate was continued by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who was succeeded by Mr. Wason, Mr. Lambton, Mr. Harvey, Lord D. C. Stuart, and several other members, who, from the increasing impatience of the House, and the repeated cries of " Question," and " Divide," were very indistinctly heard. The division took place about three o'clock. The numbers, as reported, were, for the resolution, 273 ; against it, 250; majority for Ministers, 23. Including the tellers and the Speaker, there were in the House 528 members. In addition to these, there were 39 pairs, making the entire division amount to 606. HOUSE OF LORDS. FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1837. Petitions were presented on the subject of Church- rates, and for inquiry into the Poor- law Act. Some other business of slight importance was transacted, and the house adjourned. MONDAY. A great number of petitions were presented for and against Church- rates. The Bishop of BATH and WELLS presented a peti- tion from Bath against the abolition of Church- rates, which, lie said, was signed by all the respectable in- habitants of that town. Lord WYNFORD said that he had two petitions to present to the same effect from two places, viz. ( as we understood,) Chelmsford and Farnborough, and tliev were signed by all the respectable inhabitants of those two places. Lord HOLLAND said it was an uncourteous mode of presenting petitions, to say that they were signed hy all the respectable inhabitants of the places from whence they came. It was impossible that any noble lord could truly make such a statement, uiiless" he was well acquainted with the places where the petitions came from, and the inhabitants of these places. Per- sons who had not signed the noble lord's petitions might not agree with the noble lord in his political opinions, but they were not, therefore, to be set down as not respectable. Lord WYNFORD said that he knew all the respectable persons iu both the places, and he could safely state that the petitions were signed by all the respectable inhabitants of those places. Some verbal amendments were made in a few of the clauses of the Wills Bill. The several bills on the table were forwarded a stage, and the house adjourned. TUESDAY. The Earl of RIPON gave notice that 011 Thursday next he would ask a question as to the course which the Government proposed to pursue on the affairs of the Canadas; and on the same day he meant to put a question relative to the expenses incurred by com- missions. At the suggestion of the Duke of Wellington, the Earl of Radnor consented to postpone the second reading of the Oxford and Cambridge Statutes hill till the 11th of April. The second reading of the Sunday Church Notices bill was postponed till after Easter. The LORD CHANCELLOR brought in two bills— one to amend the laws relative to trial by jury in Scotland, and the other to authorise the taking of affidavits in certain cases in England and Scotland. A considerable number of petitions for and against Church- rates were presented. Their lordships then adjourned. The Lords did not sit on Wednesday. ARISTOCRATIC PURITY. The following notice of Von Raumer's " Contributions to Modern History," appeared in the Spectator of last week. At a time when the virtues of the higher orders shone forth so conspicuously, when we have one nobleman fuisant sauter la coupe, and another taking a bribe for his vote on a private bill, and cooly prosecuting for the amount as per value received, it is amusing to take a peep at the practice in former times, and under a less restrictive system of Government. We fear if the Radical interest progress, that in a few years hence, we shall be compelled to have recourse to history for specimens of high born virtue even the Peers may become as dull and regular as their less noble brethren of the Low House. " The picture, perhaps exaggerated, which Lady Mary Montague has drawn of the Court of George the First, is bad enough ; but it is nothing to the business- like narratives of the Ambassadors from Sweden and Russia, of the ve- nality of the Ministers, and the profligacy of Queens and Princesses, or of the accounts from Paris of the formal etiquette with which vice was openly acknowledged. Is it not lamentable to see peace or war— the happiness or misery of nations— dependent upon the whim of a strumpet queen, or the caprice of a royal mistress? It would, how- ever, be still more melancholy, were it not that a people must deserve such degradation before they could submit to it? " The first extract is from a despatch of the Swedish ambassador in 1740. The Diet alluded to was a species of Parliament; and the object of England and Russia was to turn out the existing Ministry, reinstate the last, and secure a majority, in order to settle the succession to the Crown; a thing for which France was also striving. " On the 9th of May, Burnaby reports—' It is not yet fully decided whether the Diet shall meet. In the case of convocation, the sum of six thousand pounds and upwards will be necessary to be employed towards procuring a return of the dietines of the best intentioned of the burghers and the clergy; and towards making such of the head families amongst the nobility, who are known to be well disposed, and have not wherewithal to be at the expense of the journey, to appear themselves at the Diet; and not throw away their proxies upon such of their relations who may happen to be in town, and who are frequently found to act in complaisance to private interests, contrary to the inclina- tions of their constituents; as was the case in the last Diet, when several sober heads of families remained in the country, out of indigeftce or laziness, and deputed their hot- headed sons, a parcel of young officers, to act for them, only because their posts obliged them to be on the spot. ' Of this sum of six thousand pounds, Mr. Bestuclieff ( a Russian) says, he is already empowered to pay one- half, and it is calculated to be sufficient to secure the election of a proper Marshal and a number of friends in the Secret Committee; but then it is fit I should apprise your lordship that further lemittances will be necessary when these points are gained.' * * * ' On the 17tli of June, the English Government assigned four thousand pounds for the above mentioned expenses; and on the same day Burnaby writes—' The French Am- bassador offers to the King of Sweden, that the King his master would immediately give regiments to His Swedish Majesty's two sons, by Mademoiselle Taube, and settle estates upon each of them in Alsace.' Yet the King an- swered, ' That no personal interest could have any influence in fixing his determination.' " On the 1st of August, Burnaby writes—' If we are so happy as to get a plurality of voices in the election of a Marshal and of the members that compose the Select Com- mittee, I think it will then be in His Majesty's and the Czarina's power, for a trifle of expense, to appoint the person they please for successor to these dominions, as it is gene- rally allowed the French design doing, if their party prevail.' " Soon afterwards, the Diet was summoned to meet on the 4th of December, 1740; and 011 the 29th of August, Burnaby writes—' My table is not less frequented than any of the foreign ambassadors ( which become extraordinary allowances); the additional number of guests, who must be fed and caressed, to be kept firm during the Diet, will enhance my expenses far above what my allowance is able to bear. * * * " On the 9th of December, the Ambassador writes ' The speaker of the peasants has engaged himself to be our friend for the value of one hundred ducats, that lie has already touched. The majority of voices depends on giving money; the demands for money are gradually rising.' ' I11 the despatches of later years we find statements of what the clergy, nobles, citizens, and peasants ( all without exception), received; nay, the Ambassador writes, ' The nobles are to be had by the highest bidder, as we purchase cattle in Smithfield; but Sweden is not worth so much money!' * * » ' None but members are allowed to be present at a de- bate in any of the Assemblies of the States, which makes it difficult to bear what passes among them; but two of the College of the Nobles have offered, for the value of 100/., to bring me an account every other day of what passes in their house during the whole Diet. I have made each of them a present already of a suit of clothes, which they greatly wanted, by way of earnest.' " At one time, however, there was a doubt whether all this trouble and money might not be thrown away, through the body already mentioned. See, O people ! tbe dilemmas of Queens, Kings, and counsellors, 011 account of a miss. Bnrnaby is writing— ' According to the advices our friends say they receive of the elections in the provinces, we are sure of five parts in eight of the clergy, burghers, and peasants, and in hopes of balancing the power of the nobility. The city of Stockholm is so equally divided, that the election will entirely depend upon the old or new method of collecting the voices. The decision of this material point lies now before the senate, where the sentiments are also so nearly equal, that it may chance to depend on the King's double vote to determine it as he thinks fit. But what will your lordship say or think if His Swedish Majesty's determination should be in favour of our adversaries ? I own I apprehend something like it; for His Swedish Majesty, having nothing more at heart than to retain Mademoiselle Taube in town during the Diet, against the Queen's earnest entreaties and the advice of his most faithful servants, is capable, in a peevish humour, of risking his all, of throwing himself entirely into the hands of the French Ambassador and the French party, who have promised to support her. ' The Queen has already shown her husband such visible marks of coldness 011 this account, that to make her easy, His Swedish Majesty was pleased to promise that Made- moiselle Taube should be sent away, But Count Gyllen- borg, Baron Sparre, and M. St. Severin, are so perpetually with that lady, advising her not to leave tbe country, and assuring her that if she does it will be once for all, that it is doubtful whose influence will at last prevail, and w- hether the decision may not occasion an irreconcileable breach between their Swedish Majesties." " If we turn to St. Petersburg, about the same time, when the Empress Elizabeth was 011 the throne, we shall see that there were other methods of gaining an influence besides money and treating. Mr. Wicli is an English Ambassador; Lestoeq was the physician of the Empress, and a great po- litical intriguer. ' I brought Lestocq to a reconciliation with Messrs. Bes- tucheff, and prevailed on him to take a pension from His Majesty the King of England of yearly 600/. He was highly gratified, promised much, but at the same time is paid by France. The Empress hates and fears the King of Prussia. ' The Russian nobles love above all things to live at their ease and to tyrannise over their miserable boors, who are the greatest slaves in the world. ' I am informed that they intend, at Paris, to choose the handsomest young nobleman they can find in France, and send him hither as ambassador. This is not a bad scheme; and they may found great hopes thereupon. ' A younger man and a new face,' says Wich, ' will do perfectly well at this court.' The Empress frequently appears in man's clothes; and the ornament of the Garter, would, I am sure, please her above all things.' " A new Ambassador goes 011 upon a grander scale ' Mr. Olsufiow is the soul of Woronzow, who speaks but as OlsuiSow prompts. For 1,600 ducats ready money and 500 per annum pension, I can secure this person, and I imagine I can make very great use of him. Funk, the Saxon Ambassador, has similar influence: he serves his court faithfully, lint has received no salary for nine quar- ters, and, therefore, is often in great distress. He will serve the King faithfully for the same sum which I have proposed for Olsufiow. ' The third person who must be gained in Wolkow, the private secretary of Bestucheff. A present of 500 ducats and a pension of 250 will make this person my own. Hitherto, however, I have made preliminary offers only to Olsufiow.' " On the 24th of July, Holderness approves the payment of all these sums; and on the 9th of August Williams writes, that a convention had at length, been signed with Russia, the main object of which was aid against France and co- operation with Austria.' " Besides the usual diplomatic presents, Bestucheff re- ceived 10,000/., and then cunningly enough requested that an extraordinary present might be given to Woronzow. Ulsufiow accepted with thanks what was offered; whether a similar arrangement was effected with Funk does not appear. ' It is certain,' continues Williams, ' that whatever money this court is to receive by the first secret article, goes into the Empress's privy purse: and as she is at present building two or three very large palaces, she wants a sum of money to carry on these buildings; and this has greatly contributed to finish the convention so soon.' ' The Ambassador continues—' The great Chancellor Bestucheff exerted himself much to our advantage. Great joy appeared in his face when he found his avarice satisfied by private offers. Woronzow, too, did his best. Would His Majesty be pleased to give him something above his or- dinary fees to buy him a ring : 500/. bestowed in this man- ner would have a great effect in carrying on future business in this court.' ' Two days after, 11th of August, William writes:—' The great Chancellor assured me, in the strongest terms, that any augmentation of the first paymentstipulated by the first secret article, would be extremely agreeable, and a sort of personal obligation to Her Imperial Majesty. This augmen- tation shall put both this court and the Empress entirely into His; Majesty's management: 50,000/. or so, for the Em- press's private use, would have a great effect. In short, all that has been given hitherto, is to purchase the assistance of the forces of Russia, but this last sum, if given, will purchase the Empress.' * * * ' Bestucheff complains that the Empress gives liirn only 700 rubles a year, which is not enough to make him inde- pendent. If the King of England will give him a pension of 2500/. he will, in future, serve and be wholly devoted to him.' This desire was granted on the 8th of August.' " Tbe Empress Elizabeth iu her youth— ' Princess Elizabeth is sick, or has feigned herself so, for some time. Some report it is because she was not chosen instead of the present Empres « , and others say not to be at the coronation, because it is thought she is with child by a grenadier, whom she is in love with, and that she could not appear in robes withont discovering her condition. If this be the reason or not, I cannot affirm; but so far is certain, she leads a very irregular life, and the Czarina seems not to dislike, I suppose, that she should ruin her interest; for, instead of sending away the favourite grenadier, who is, it is true, a gentleman, Her Majesty has dismissed him from her service, that he may be always at the Princess's command ; he will in time probably ruin her. When I consider the wit and beauty of that young lady, I cannot forbear being sorry to see she exposes herself to such a degree, for in time it must be known. This has been told me in great confidence by the surgeon, M. Lestocq, who was born at Hanover.' # # * ' There has been a great intrigue carried on to get away the Princess Elizabeth's favourite, the great grenadier, and substitute in his place Major Biron, who she doth (? not) love ; but, nevertheless, he is continually with her, and the grenadier has been stripped of all she has given him and sent to Siberia! this had very much chagrined the Duchess of Mecklenburg, who fears, by the interest of the Biron fa- mily, the Princess Elizabeth will be more caiessed by the Czarina than herself arid her daughter. ' The Duchess of Mecklenburgh continues to be very much indisposed, and it is thought she will have a great deal of trouble to escape, considering she has drank a great deal of brandy of late years. ' Money is continually wanted here; and I believe nobody can imagine but those who have been at Petersburgli, how expensive a place it is, particularly for foreign ministers, who are obliged to have fine equipages; and 011 all iireat holidays fine new clothes, that cost qs much again as at Lon- don or Paris. But as Her Majesty loves to see every body very fine, I must submit to it, arid conform to the fashion, as all the other foreign ministers are obliged to do.' " Here is the person who afterwards became so famous as Catherine the Second"— ' She is very uneasy about the reports of this court enter- ing into measures with France, and of a French ambassa- dor's coming here. She offered to do every thing I could suggest to prevent all this. I drew her attention to the circumstance of the danger which would hence accrue to her and her husband, for without French assistance her ad- versaries, the Schuwaloffs, were not powerful enough to disturb tke succession to the throne. ' She thanked me ten times over for these hints: she said she saw the danger, and that she would animate the great Duke to do the utmost in this affair; that she could do a great deal more if she bad money, for that here nothing can be done without it; that she was forced to keep even the Empress's chambermaids in pay; that she had nobody to address herself to upon such occasion; but that, if the King would graciously and generously be pleased to lend her a sum of money, she would give His Majesty her note for it, and would repay it to him the moment she had it in her power to do so. And, at the same time, I might give her word of honour to the King, that every farthing of it should be applied to what she hoped was their common service; and she desired I would be answerable to His Majesty for her manner of thinking and acting. She asks twenty thou- sand ducats.' This sum was granted her on the 8th of August.' " This is pretty well; but there is more of it, could we spare the space for its full display. Even the confidential minister of Frederick was not, it would seem, inaccessible to a bribe; but as the veteran diplomatic peer, Lord Hyn- ford, who states the fact, admitted the receipt of a present of 10,000 dollars for himself, his evidence at best is that of an approver. But these things were nothing to the diffi- culties at Paris, where Louis the Fifteenth was in a sad dilemma. He had been smitten by a new face ; and the lady ( the sister of his old flame) required sole supremacy, claiming the house and all the etceteras attached to the office of ' King's Mistress," and demanding the rustication of her rival: so that, what with the opposite attractions of novelty and old associations, the regal debauchee was sorely ' puzzled which to choose.' Yet this regime, according to Burke, was ' the unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heoric enterprise:' this is the system under which flourished ' that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour which felt a siain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice it- self loses its evil by losing all its grossness." PETITIONS The order passed through the House towards the close of last session, restricting the time of receiving petitions private and public to half an hour per day, was an interference amounting to a denial of the right of petition. A member may have a petition, and seek in vain to present' it for days— nay, for weeks ; and when at length the oppor- tunity offers, he is not at liberty to say a syllable in support, nor— according to the dictum of the Speaker— even to men- tion the name of the place from which the petition comes ! The petition, as was said by the lion, member for Hull, is " huddled into a bag with less ceremony than attends the burial of a dead kitten." We are not indisposed to deny the advantages of an economical appropriation of the time of the House; bHt we see no reason whatever why lion, members should indulge in rhetorical exhibitions for whole hours together, and yet refuse to the people the fair and proper exercise of their undoubted right to petition Parlia- ment— Sun. A short time since, a gentleman of Kingselare, Hants was possessed of a cow, which, in her time, produced 21 calves, 300 hogsheads of milk, and four tons of butter. The fat of the cow, when killed, weighed more than the lean and bone. It lived to be 21 years old, and produced the gentleman altogether upwards of 600/. THE . BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. H. A. DONALDSON, DECORATOR, UPHOLSTERY MANUFACTURER, AND 1M' PORTER OF FOREIGN FURNITURE, No. 19, UPPER TEMPLE- STREET, WITHIN TWO DOORS OF NEW- STREET, BIRMINGHAM. formerly from Simpson's, St. Paul's Church- yard, London, and for the last five years Foreman to Messrs. Meyer and JBekenn, Birmingham. HA. D., having had twenty years' extensive • practice, ( during which time he has 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 chastity, 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 ot 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. Ifgf Auctions and Valuations attended to— The trade supplied with Springs, & c. N. B.— All kinds of Furniture repaired and French polished. BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. SATURDAY, MARCH 18. TFLETCHER most respectfully acquaints his • Friends and the Public, that he has REMOVED to No. 31, TEMPLE- ROW, where he has constantly ON SALE an assortment of MUSIC, MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, HARP and VIOLIN STRINGS, & c., & c. T. F. returns his sincere thanks to those Friends who have kindly patronised him so many years, and respectfully solicits a continuance of their favours. *„* Pianos and Harps on hire. 31, Temple- row, Birmingham. GOLDEN CROSS WINE AND SPIRIT VAULTS. 81, DALE END, BIRMINGHAM. WILLIAM CHESHIRE gratefully acknowledges the very extensive support he has received in the " WINE and SPIRIT TRADE, from his numerous friends and the public generally, for upwards of fourteen years, anil assures them it is his determination to spare no exertions to merit a continuance of their preference. In addition to a carefully selected Stock of FOREIGN WINES and SPIRITS, W. C. has recently added a choice assortment of BRITISH WINES, which he can with confidence recommend to his friends, as being equal to any in the kingdom.| EXTENSIVE FAILURES. JOSEPH COTTERELLand Co. Snow- hill House, having made a still further reduction on the remaining part of the Stock of Samuel Beeney, Bull- street, bankrupt, consisting of Shawls, Silks, Prints, & c. Also the Stock of H. H. Preston, Lace- manufacturer, Derby, insolvent, ladies in want of any of the above articles, will, on inspec- tion, find this an opportunity that seldom occurs of pur- chasing real bargains. J. C. and Co. particularly wish to call the attention of fa- milies to the newjand superior make and finish of their Irish Linens, Lawns, and Sheetings, being quite soft, free from dress, and bleached under their own immediate inspection, they can guarantee the durability of them. PIANO- FORTE. TO be SOLD, a great bargain, a beautiful toned 6i octave ROSEWOOD CABINET, with the grand touch; has only been used sixteen months; was selected from nearly two hundred of the eminent maker's, at the coss price of 80 guineas; will be sold for nearly half; it is warranted every way; and to insure the goodness of the in- strument, the whole or half the purchase- money may re- main in the purchaser's hands for three or four months. 18, Upper Temple- street. THE BIRMINGHAM GAS- LIGHT and COKE COMPANY respectfully inform 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 full operation. CHARLES WEST, Clerk to the Company. Cherry- street, March 4, 1837. THE DIRECTORS of the MIDLAND OMNI- BUS COMPANY, and the BIRMINGHAM OMNIBUS CONVEYANCE COMPANY, have much pleasure in making known to the Public, that an amicable arrangement has been effected between them, by which the present dangerous system of racing will be done away with. The times of starting the Carriages of both Companies, have been so arranged, as to suit the conveni- ence of Passengers, and it is hoped that they will receive that support from the Public, which the very great ac- commodation and convenience they afford entitle them to. For further particulars of times of starting, apply at the different Offices for cards. THOMPSON, LEONARD, AND DAWES'S DIVIDEND. THE joint Creditors of WILLIAM THOMPSON, HENRY LEONARD, and RICHARD BROOK- HOLDING DAWES, of Aston, near Birmingham, factors and manufacturers, dealers and chapmen, who have proved their debts, may receive a first dividend of five shi - lings in the pound oil their respective debts, by applying at the Office of Mr. Mc MICHAEL, Accountant. Temple- street, on or alter Friday, the 24th instant. Creditors who can- not personally attend, are requested to send written au- thorities. Mr. WILLIAM WILLS, Solicitor to the Assignees. Birmingham, March 18, 1837. THE CREDITORS who have proved their debts under a Fiat ill Bankruptcy awarded and issued forth against SAMUEL RE A DING and JOH N READING, of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick. Gilt Toy Makers, and Honk and Eye Manufacturers, and Partners in Trade, are requested to meet the Assignees of the estate and effects of the said Bankrupts, on WEDNESDAY, the 22nd day ol March instant, at Twelve o'clock at noon, at the Clarendon Hotel, in Temple street, in Birmingham aforesaid, in or- der to as- eni to or dissent from the said Assignees selling by pri. te contract, all or any part of the Stock- in- trade, Engin" Machinery, and other the Estate and Effects oftlie said B" iMupts, to any person or persons whomsoever, for the best price or prices that can be reasonably obtained for the - one; and, also, to assent to or dissent from the said A- i. nees giving such creilit, or taking such security or seen "' S for the purchase- money, or any part thereol, as the* - hall think fit; and, also, to assent to or dissent" from tli si, id Assignees paying and allowing out of the said Bankru -' estate, certain costs and charges incurred prior to the n ot the said Fiat, incident to the endeavour- ing to e. feet an arrangement with the Creditors of the said Bankri ' " " '' "" ' of tiieii attend speci. i > v payment of a composition upon the amount .' Ctive debts; and also the costs and charges ie meeting hereby advertised ; and on other THOMAS B. LEFEVRE, Solicitor to the Assignees. the We sci i' - I who don Do. TO CORRESPONDENTS, i, ward mistake occurred in our last number, in ords attributed to Mr. Wills at the meeting of iv. Instead of " nurseries" he was made to de- nations as " liursing/ nMett" of liberty. • alluded to by S. G. was staled to us by a friend, d we place every reliance upon. If we have ' gg an injustice, we shall very much regret it. deny the accuracy of our statement? The motive of the opposition of the Bishops to the removal of Church- rates, in the way proposed by Government, is very thinly veiled. Whatever causes are to be assigned for the conduct of Dr. HOWLEY, who is advanced in years, and, it may be, incapable of seeing through the designs of his more ambitious and politic brethren, no man in his senses can believe that Dr. BLOMFIELD and Dr. PHILPOTTS have for a moment deceived themselves, how earnest soever they may be to deceive others, into the belief that the plan must issue in the destruction of the Church. The notion of such a mighty consequence from so insignificant a cause is so palpably absurd, that it is only charitable to sup- pose, when Bishop PHILPOTTS ejaculated his horse laugh during Lord MELBOURNE'S speech, he was laughing, not at those who were convinced by his lordship's argument, but at the miserable dupes who had been gulled by his own. Of the sums annually extracted from the pockets of English Dissenters, the portion which goes towards the maintenance of the Church is so small, compared with the mass of the Church's revenues, that its subtraction, were it sub- tracted without any substitute, could not for a moment be seriously missed. The arrant folly of the Bishops' proposition is aggravated, if possible, by the fact that Government contemplate no subtraction whatever, but merely substitution. The Bishops are as little entitled to credit when they urge the danger of the principle of interference with Church property. The argument has more show of reason, but it is as hollow as the other. The Church- rates are a mere cheval de bataille. The struggle is for power. The Bishops are tools— the most cunning of them— in the hands of Sir ROBERT PEEL and his party. " The plot is a good plot as ever was laid, the friends true and con- stant, a good plot, good friends, and full of expec- tation." There is only a small mistake in the defini- tion of its object. It is a plot not to keep the Church from falling, but to keep the Ministry from standing; not to uphold religion, but to knock down Lord MEL- BOURNE. Ever since the 17th Nov., 1830, the Tories have been in wfiat to them is altogether a false position. Submission is foreign to their natures. They are, if not domineering, nothing. Ever since that fatal day their thoughts, and desires, and energies have been centered in one continued struggle to get back to power. In the provinces, in the capital, the same struggle is unweariedly waging. Church- rates! Is any man so simple as to suppose that the Duke of WELLINGTON, if they stood in his way, would scruple to unfrock the whole Bench of Bishops? Did he listen to their homilies when he emancipated the Catholics ? And would he be stopped by scruples about the washing of a surplice ? Were he and his lieutenant, Sir ROBERT, in office to- morrow, and were ita condition of holding office forthe next twenty years, that the wishes of the Dissenters should be complied with, he would, we have not the smallest doubt, give up both the Church and the Plates to their discretion. Let not the people be deceived, then ; above all things, let not the Reformers be deceived. The present fight is precisely the same in principle as the fight of 1831 and 1832; it is the same as was waged against the Irish Church bill, and against the Irish Municipal bill— the field only is changed. It is a contest for Tory domination. How far it may succeed we do not pretend to de- termine. We never have blinked the fact that the Tories are powerfully supported. They have the open and avowed approbation of the Court. The KING will never forgive the House of Commons for forcing Lord MELBOURNE back upon him after the unceremonious dismissal of Nov. 1834 ; nor will he ever do more than tolerate the Ministry so imposed upon him— Manet alta niente repostum. The army, as well as the Court, is with the Tories ; the parsons to a man. They have, moreover, the secret wishes of many whose opinions are avowedly opposed to them. There are few Whigs who would not prefer a Tory Ministry to a Radical. They love their own party best; but of ah parties they dislike the party of the people most. It. is not only in the Church that the Tories have friends ; they have many amongst the Dissenters also. It would be a sad mistake to confound the cry against Church- rates, in which many of our most intolerant and domineering Dissenters are now joining, with a desire to remove abuses generally. There are thousands and tens of thousands with whom the Reformers are now banded on the question of Church- rates, that, were it once put to rest, the Re- formers would find to be the bitterest enemies of poli tical amelioration. Against all this formidable array of Toryism, avowed and latent, the people have nothing but their right and their right arms. And these are ample for defence or victory over any faction however supported. There is but one way in which they can be defeated. If the people foolishly incline to the mis- representations of their arch- deceivers, by for a moment supposing that the struggle against Church- rates is anything but a struggle for party predominance ; if they allow themselves to be persuaded that religion is at stake in a question, the entire amount of which is whether a certain sum of money shall be taken of the right pocket or the left; if they can be brought to be- lieve, as their spiritual guides are anxious they should, that the service of God is not only compatible with in- justice to man, but that if the injustice were removed the service must inevitably cease to be rendered— then the Tories may gain the day, and the people may lose it— and only then. Wc hare now had eight days to consider the Minis- terial scheme of Church- rate Abolition; we have read the speeches for and against it; the calculations of Mr. FINLAYSON and Mr. D. BETHUNE, as well as those of Mr. MORGAN, quoted by Sir ROBERT PEEL, are before us; and we say, candidly and without the slight- est tincture of partiality, that we see no good grounds on which the general accuracy of Mr. SPRING RICE'S statement can be impugned. As little do we see that the principle of the Government plan can be justly found fault with. The case is this— the property of the Church is the creature of law. It is not of that kind that a man or his progenitors has obtained by the labour of his own Jiands, or in exchange for that labour. It is " corban," a gift, in the strictest sense of the word. Now, the donors had a right to impose what conditions they saw fit in respect to the enjoy- ment of that gift; and they have invariably exercised that right. Originally, a bishop was a life renter iii the most restricted sense of the term ; he could enjoy his lands during the period of his incumbency, but not for one day beyond. He could neither lease for years, nor for lives, nor in any way alienate the pos- session of his lands, so as to affect, in the smallest degree, the right of his successor to immediate and plenary possession. When money rents4 came into existence, this form of tenure was speedily found to be detrimental to all parties. It diminished the revenues of the existing, while it did not augment those of the future occupant of a be- nefice. The form of tenure was, therefore, changed. Occupiers of Church lands were permitted to alienate the possession of them for a time. This permission was altogether of favour, not of right. The Church had a right to its lands on the conditions annexed to the holding by the donors, and on no other. There the right terminated. Parliament, as a matter of favour, relaxed those conditions, not at once, but gradually, until the Bishops and other owners of Church lands were placed in the position that they now occupy. We are arguing, observe, for the principle of the Ministerial measure— that, if by a Parliamentary- enactment, the tenure of these lands be so altered as materially to augment their value, that augmented value does not belong to the Church of right. The property of the Church, we have said, was a gift, to be enjoyed subject to the will of the donors. We may admit that we have no right to diminish its value by the imposition of conditions of a more stringent cha- racter than the donors contemplated. But, who will say that if by a spontaneous act, not of the Church, but of the State, the value of the gift is doubled, that the Church, and not the State, is entitled to the admi- nistration of the increase ? We will go further, and say, in respect of private property, that if, by a legal enactment, the value were at once increased, the State would, in that case also, have a right to impose what conditions it pleased on the enjoyment of the increase. The State, in fact, does so every day. There is not an Inclosure Act passed by Parliament in which, as a set- off against the altered tenure of the property inclosed and appropriated, new conditions are not imposed. We do not mean to discuss the question of how far Mr. RICE'S data are correct. We assume that they are so. From the very feeble and ineffective man- ner in which they were assailed by Sir ROBERT PEEL, on Monday, we are impelled to believe that they are. According to this assumption Bishops' lands are worth 14 2- 7t. li years purchase. For the fines that he exacts from his tenants the Bishop pays at the rate of 7 per cent. There is nothing incredible in this, look- ing to the relative position of the parties. The Bishop dares not press his tenant too hard. If he do so, the tenant may get restive, and then what comes of the purple and fine linen, and the sumptuous fare every day ? to say nothing of sons, and daughters, and ne- phews, and nieces, with a plentiful crop of which the dignitaries of the Church are commonly blessed. But neither dares the tenant play too fine a game with the Bishop ; for the chances are not all against the latter, though the odds are. There is nothing, therefore, even in the absence of positive information, that should lead us to doubt that leaseholds under such a life- renter as a Bishop, should be currently worth no more than 14 years purchase. Well, Ministers purpose to alter the tenure by which these lands are holden; to con- vert leaseholds of 24 years into leaseholds in perpetu- ity ; to put an end to tricks and attempts at trickery on both sides; to ensure the Bishop the permanent enjoyment of his present revenue without risk from re- cusant tenants ; to secure to the tenants the permanent enjoyment of their lands, without danger from rapacious Bishops. And by this act they hope to make a lease- hold of Bishops' land worth 25 years' purchase instead of 14 years, that is, they hope to increase its value in the proportion of nearly 2 to 1. Who is to enjoy the additional value thus bestowed? The bishops ? They did not create the value, and what earthly right can they have to it ? The lessees? They had as little to do with its creation as the lessors. The State made it, and the State, on every principle' has a right to dispose of the work of its own hands' Lord ASHBURTON, as we observed last week, was mightily puzzled to find out how a measure of this kind could be advantageous to two parties, whose in- terests were apparently opposed. Others have been puzzled who have not been so much accustomed to questions of figures as his lordship is. Now, did ever these people hear of an iuclosure bill ? Did they ever hear of a common possessed by twenty or thirty owners, who could neither enclose nor sub- divide, nor pursue any approved mode of cultivation— how, that on being apportioned, the property became, out of mea- sure, more valuable than before, although the cost of the act for effecting the change of tenure was great, and the fees of the Earl of SHAFTESBURY rigidly ex- acted ? And what is the sum which Government pro- pose to set apart for the payment of Church- rates, but, in other words, the cost of the act ? The price to be paid for the change of tenure ? The wonderof Lord ASHBURTON might have ceased had lie considered that, in strictness, the proposed plan is not a plan of pecuniary advantage to the Bishops. Their gain will not consist of an advance of revenue. What the plan proposes to effect for them is, to give security and permanence to that which is, at present' comparatively speaking, uncertain and temporary. At present, a Bishop may have a large income one year, and a small one the next. This, of itself, is an evil. And such an evil is greatly aggravated, when, as frequently happens, there may be a change of Bishops in the interval. By the Government plan, what is now an average of years, will be converted into a fixed annual payment. There will be no in- crease of income, but it will be received at regular periods and in certain proportions. The objection that there cannot be a gain on both sides, is founded on a quibble, and a poor one. The election of Guardians for the poor of the parish of Birmingham, will take place on Saturday next, the 25th instant. For the rules required to be observed by the electors, we cannot do better than quote the cir- cular of the Reform Association on the subject. Observe.— To entitle you to vote forthe Guardians of the Poor— You must be rated at twelve pounds or more. You must pay all rates on or before the 24th inst. You must present your receipt for payment of the last rate to the Chairman of the meeting on the day of election. N. B. The last rate was granted 2nd of January, 1837. The name of each person, for whom you vote, must be printed or written on a separate slip of paper; you must not put two names on the same slip. On no account give in more than One Hundred and Eight names, or your whole vote will be forfeited. You must enclose these names or lists in a 6heet of paper made up as a letter, and direct the same " To the Chairman for the Election of Guardians," to whom you must deliver the said letter personally. By rate, in the Association's circular, is meant, of course, poor- rate. The act requires, in addition, that the party voting shall have been rated for at least six months previous to the day of election. It so happens, however, in the present instance, that only one rate, namely, that of the 2nd of January, has been granted during these six months, so that whoever has paid that rate, or who shall pay it on or before Friday next, is qualified to vote at the election of Guardians on Sa- turday. The circular states, that by giving in more than 108 names to the Chairman, the whole vote may be forfeited. In law it certainly is. There is, however, no law to prevent the elector from giving in a smaller number than 108 if he think proper. The election of Guardians is as popular as the practice of the parish will permit, for we believe there are almost no cases of separate rating below £\ 2. It is entirely free. The vote is strictly by ballot. The elector having selected, and written out, or had printed, the 108 names that he approves, incloses them in a blank sheet of paper, which he hands to the Chairman chosen by the meeting of rate- payers. to superintend the elec- tion, and the thing is done. The paper, so handed in, is deposited with five or six hundred others, and no one can, by any scrutiny, tell, when its contents come to be examined, who gave it in. If any elector, therefore, allows himself to be cajoled or co- erced into a vote of which he does not entirely ap- prove, it will be entirely his own fault. There is no man to make him afraid. We are the more anxious to impress this fact upon the electors because there is a consequence involved in the approaching election, which, in a public point of view, is only second to the securing of a majority of honest and impartial and at- tentive Guardians. The people of Birmingham stand high in the estimation of their neighbours for their bold assertion of Liberal opinions. That character they have obtained by the noble stand that they made in 1830- 31- 32, when, as we have before this observed, they vindicated freedom for - themselves by their courage, and for England by their example. But the enemies of the people affect to believe that the people of Bir- mingham have lost that high tone of political indepen- dence which the Union exhibited, and they point to the present state of the Guardians' list in proof of it- How is it possible, they ask, that a majority of the names on that list should be Tory, if Liberal principles were as prevalent as they once were ? The Guardians are elected by the people, for the people, and according to the most approved form, yet instead of the Guar- dians being wholly or in a great part Reforming, the really Reforming constitute but a small minority. When any one points to the list of commissioners, or of any other close body in Birmingham, we know how to meet any argument derived from the state of such close bodies respecting the feelings of the public, but when they point to the list of Guardians we are not a little puzzled. There is one excuse, a kind of one, miserable enough we confess, and only to be pled by those who have no other. The attention of the people has not been directed to the subject. And why the a sad naughty word had almost slipped from our pen un- aware— why has it not? Must it ever be that the people are to be led to their duty ? Must they never, by any chance, be capable of acting for themselves, even when their own immediate interests are at stake, and when they have an opportunity moreover of re- ducing to practice those very principles to which they profess to be so deeply attached ? But the excuse for not having their attention directed to the subject will not, in the approaching case, avail them. Their at- tention will have ample exercise. First, the Loyal and Constitutional have a list of names, picked and pure, not a Liberal nor a Dissenter in it, at the devo- tion of the public. Next, the Guardians themselves with a modest assurance becoming official men, have their list, into which there enters just so much liberal- ity as will serve to set off the mass of deep died orange- tawny with which it is associated, not combined. Lastly, there is the BLUE LIST, to which we wish to direct the attention of the people. That list, though, for obvious reasons, wc had no concern in its making, we can testify to have been made with most pains- taking carefulness. It is the production of the Re- form Association, and it has been under the revision oi the Council and Members for eight or ten weeks. We do not think there are ten qualified names ol steadier, more honest, better working Liberals in town than the one hundred and eight that it contains. 1. is, by no means, a list of men of extreme opinions. There are not a few Radicals on it, and not a few who are far from approving of Radical politics. But they are all good men. We say, therefore, without hesi- tation, to all Liberals, moderate or extreme VOTE FOR THE BLUE LIST ! And do not let us be accused of dictation in so doing. There are sound and substantial reasons for the most intimate union in this matter. We need not repeat the hackneyed words— union is strength— it is more, it is everything. Its opposite is not merely weakness, it is sneer drivelling and stupidity, where it is not treachery. Set down the mar, who would, on the pretence of maintaining their independence, counsel the electors each man to make his own list, as an arrant fool or a covert knave. The Tories will stick by their list never fear, and if the Liberals do not stick to theirs, failure is inevitable. Not only must they take the blue list, they must take " the list, the whole list, and nothing but t' « e list." Suppose an elector sees a name for which bethinks he can substi- tute a better, and he makes the substitution. What follows ? Will his better man succeed ? The chances are that he does not get a dozen of votes ! By what magic are the rest of the voters to choose the same- name for rejection and the same name for substitution ? Let a couple of thousand voters exercise so pernicious a discretion, and of the 108 names votel for, it is even betting that not one has above twenty vntes. A couple of scores of united electors would beat t thousand so dispersed and ineffective. If any elector, therefore, feels tempted to take out one name in tie list and to put in another— perhaps a better— let Urn consider this— that he is almost inevitably securing the return not of his better name, but of a Tory litme, in all respects inferior, even in his estimate, to thtt which he rejects. The duty imposed on the rate payers of Bir- mingham on Saturday next is not alight one. we trust they will discharge it in such a way as to reflect credit on themselves and on their friends. An administration of the affairs of the poor, at once prudent and kind,, neither squandering the hard earned means of the rate- payer, nor avariciously grudging the necessary requirements of the rate- receiver, is one of the most interesting questions that in our large community a man can be called on to consider. Such an adminis- tration the people may obtain, if they will but use, on Saturday next, the powers legally vested in them. Every device has been employed to render the exercise of their power as light as possible. The BLUE LIST will be sent round on Monday and Tuesday by post. There is no means of delivery so effectual. A list of the persons to whom it is sent will be preserved, so that should any detention of the letters take place, it can be easily traced. Should a letter fall into the hands of any one who cannot himself make use of it, he has only to pass it to some neighbour or friend who can. If the whole, or anything approaching to the whole of the Liberal rate- payers, come forward and vote, the victory is certain. But let no man rest secure in the exertions of his neighbour, or the power of his party, but let every one bestir him- self, as if the fortune of the day rested on his activity alone. This is the real strength of union, when all work for one common object, and every one works as if the common object were to be obtained by his unassisted labour. MEETING AT DEE'S ROYAL HOTEL.— A select meeting of Tories took place at this hotel, on Wed- nesday, to address the bishops for their stand against Ministers. The party consisted, a pen pres, of the same gentlemen who figured at the Police- office, under the leadership of Mr. Naden, the con- stable. The great room was about two- thirds full. Altogether there might be 200 present— perhaps 220. The speakers were the customary ones— Mr. Gut- teridge, Mr. D. Malins, junior, Mr. Twells, - A Mr. Hare, who came out on the occasion, we rather believe, for the first time. The debut, was a favourable one. Mr. Gutteridge, with much propriety, looking to his professional character, declared " war to the knife" with the Ministers and their project. Mr. D. Malins- made a pleasant exposition of the principles of Mr. Angel James, touching Dissent and the Church. The Tories are chuckling over what they call the incon- sistency of the reverend gentleman. We think they ought to have been somewhat more sparing of a friend. The meeting was cold and dull; there was no en- thusiasm ; almost no cheering. The truth is, the Tory steam cannot be got up at the present moment. We suspect for want of money to buy coals. The Police- office affair was contemptible; the petition a dead failure. The address to the Bishops will not be less A Grand HIGH MASS will, on EASTER SUNDAY, be celebrated at ST. PETER'S CHAPEL, by the Rev. F. CHEADLE, with assistants from St. Mary's College, Oscott. In the evening, the Rev. F. CHEADLE will also perform the ceremony of SOLEMN BENEDICTION. SERMONS will also be preached; that iu the morning- by the Rev. T. M. M'DONNELL, and that in the even- ing by the Rev. F. CHEADLE. Collections will be made m support of the Charity Schools and Orphan Asylum attached to the chapel. Selections oi Sacred Music from Haydn, Mozart, & c., by the excellent choir attached to the chapel. The Organ by Mr. Sharman. GRAMMAR SCHOOL.— On the subject of the Free- Grammar School we have been favoured with the fol- lowing copy of correspondence:—• " Dear Sir,— I have been requested by several gentle- men who take an interest in the Birmingham Grammar School, and are desirous of being put into possession of the new scheme of instruction, respectfully to in- quire whether the Governors could furnish them with a copy of the Chancery petition, and Parliamentary bill in this matter. They are also desirous of knowing for what number of pupils accommodation can bo pro- vided iu the present building, and what are the data upon which your calculations are founded. " By furnishing any information upon these points, you will oblige both them, and, dear sir, " Yours, truly, " W. REDFERN. " Messrs. J. W. and G. Whatcley. " March 14, 1837." " Norfolk Hotel, Surrey- street, Strand, 14th March, 1837. " Dear Sir,— I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of yesterday's date, which has been for- warded to me here, containi g various inquiries rela- tive to the proposed measures of the Governors of the Free Grammar School. I will lay your letter before the Governors at their next meeting, which will be on the 7th April, and take their directions upon it.. " I am, dear sir, your's truly, " J. W. WHATELEY." " Wm Redfern, Esq." THE DISTRESS IN SCOTLAND— We have elsewhere noticed the London meeting. A correspondent tells us that a subscription has been made at the Bell, Philip- street, in aid of the funds being raised in the capital. It is a small one, but a fair beginning. W e shall recur to the question in our next number. MR. STURGE — By an accident, which we regret, we omitted to state last week that news, not letters, had been received from our excellent townsman, and that lie was perfectly well on the 30th of January.. There has been some trickery, it is alleged, in the Colonial Post- office with respect to letters' both from and to Mr. Sturge, which will probably call for future investigation and correction. MASTER HUGHES.— This i gniious young person gives a Concert, it will lie seen,' at Dee's'on Monday. LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM STEAM CARRIAGE". Dr. Church has effected in thi carriage nearly every thing which his most sanguine friends have been in- duced to hope, and it is in n.- elf a monument to his credit of ingenuity and mechanical skill, which the most adverse circumstance can never deprive him of. The carriage perform, it;; work upon the road most THE . BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. admirably, and proves to demonstration the practica-' bility of propelling heavy loads at great speed upon gravel roads. The carriage has been running for the fast two or three days at intervals, witli an Omnibus attached to it, and with twelve to twenty passengers in all. It has gone at the rate of twenty miles per hour along the level road, without difficulty, and it has ascended the long hills on the Coventry- road at the rate of eight miles per hour, with ease; thereby showing, that to the use of locomotive power properly applied^ the hills found upon turnpike- roads offer no considerable impediment. The men who manage the Carriage understand it perfectly ; they put the fire in, the steam gets up, they start off five or ten miles, re- turn, take out the fire, and go to { their work, without noise or bustle ; much less than would be occasioned by the harnessing and unharnessing of a nair of horses. The Doctor deserves great credit for this ef- fort of genius, and it is to be hoped the Company will not give up the project of running Carriages, just as their expectations are realised. The men who take the Carriage out, wish to go up to London to bring Dr. Church home, and are confident of doing it without accident.— Correspondent. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.— Saturday evening last a fire which had nearly been attended with loss of life and a great destruction of property, took place in the ex- tensive iron foundry, in Broad- street, belonging to Mr. Capper. In the evening at the usual hour the men left off work, and the premises being then safe were all locked up. About ten o'clock flames were seen by a person in the street issuing from the windows, and an alarm having been given, Mr. Capper, who lives in an adjoining house, immediately ran into the bottom part of the building, and found the fire raging with great violence. The fire engines were immediately sent for, and in a few minutes the Norwich Union engine ar- rived and commenced playing with great effect. In a short time after the other engines of the town arrived, and in the course of half- an- hour the fire was got under, and in a short time after quite extinguished. A man named Wiltshire, through whose drunkenness the fire occurred, was taken into custody and lodged in Moor- street. He was brought before the magis- trate on Monday, when Mr. Capper and a gen- tleman connected with the Norwich Office attended. Mr. Capper stated that for the last six months the prisoner had been in his employment, and during that time he had had no cause of complaint aginst him. On several occasions lately, quantities of pig- iron hav- ing been stolen out of the foundry, he employed the prisoner at the beginning of the week to watch at nights ; and on Saturday evening he came as usual, got the key, and went in the premises. When the cry of fire was raised he ( Mr. Capper) immediately ran into the bottom workshop, and the first thing that he saw was the prisoner lying curled round the stove, beastly drunk and insensible. His clothes were on fire, and in a few minutes he must have been burned to death. He endeavoured to arouse him and obtain the keys of the building from him, but it was all of no use. He could not make him sensible. A number of persons collected in the yard, and the prisoner was removed. By this time one end of the building was all in flames and the fire making dreadful ravages, when the Norwich engine arrived, and the men having made most powerful and praiseworthy exertions, they kept the flames from extending until the other engines came up, and all was then finally subdued. The manner in which the fire occurred he believed to have been as follows. When the prisoner went into the shop he had occasion to get a candle, and for that pur- Eose went into the foreman's room at one end of the uilding, where a quantity of candles were hanging against the wall. In place, however, of cutting down the candles he applied a light to bum it down, when the string which held them gave way, and they fell upon some papers and dry patterns whicb were 011 the floor. These immediately took fire, and the flames com- municating with a large beam across the door- way, the joists of the room above also caught fire, and the whole of that room being filled with dry wood patterns the fire was rapid. Fortunately the fire was got under be- fore it reached the centre or utter end of the building, for there was a steam engine upon an immense con- struction being made in the top- room, and if that had fallen through the loft it must have destroyed lathes and other machinery in the bottom room to a great amount. He believed the whole damage done would not lie more than £ 300 or £ 400. Mr. Lawrence, the magistrate, said it was a very serious charge against the prisoner, as he was liable to be imprisoned eighteen months. The gentleman from the Norwich office said they had suffered so much lately by fires occa- sioned solely by the drunkenness and carelessness of servants, and in many instances of those paid expressly for the purpose of watching, that it became necessary to make an example. They did not wish to press for the whole punishment, but they considered the prisoner ought to have some confinement. Mr. Lawrence said lie feared there was 110 medium, and as they had kindly declined pressing the entire punishment, per- haps they would forego the charge altogether 011 the prisoner expressing his regret. Mr. Capper and the other gentleman consented, and the prisoner was dis- charged. « nd? They say— what will they not say? that the Bank did « ot make the advances alluded to, till it had a promise of Government protection, in case the result turned out as there was r^ son to fear it would; that is, in another drain of gold. The laver part of this statement we can with diffi- culty believe. Government protection means but one thing, a Restriction Act, md that Ministers have, we believe, no power to give, even it Jiey had the will. Consols closed on Thursday, heavy, at 90%', and Exchequer Bills at 25s. 27s; prem. Money very scarce. The Share Market is necessarily low. It always must be w< en money is in demand. Bir- mingham Shares left off at ? 4 to 26 prem. In New York there is again a heavy pressurtfor money, and discounts are again ruinously high. THE DIVISION OF WEDNESDAY. The Chronicle of Thursday givei the following ana- lysis of the division: For the resolution ... ... ... 273 Tellers 2 Pairs ... 40 LATEST NEWS. HOUSE OF LORDS. THURSDAY. CHURCH RATES Numerous petitions were presented for and against this tax. Amongst them was one from Sheffield with 4,000 signatures. The Bishop of Llandaff made some remarks on persons signing petitions against Church- rates who did not pay them. In concluding he presented several petitions, of which the petitioners, as Lord Brougham sub- sequently observed, eould hardly he very accurate judges of intricate law, as the greater part of them could not sign their own names. CANADA..— The Earl of Ripon moved for the' evidence taken before the Canada Committee, which was agreed to. HOUSE OF COMMONS. THURSDAY. COKN LAWS Mr. CI AY brought forward LIis motion for the repeal ot the Corn- laws. The honourable gentleman pressed his motion on the House in a long and elaborate speech, to which it is impossible in our present publication to do justice ; but to which we shall recur at an early op- portunity. The motion of Mr. Clay was seconded by Mr. Villiers. and supported by Mr. Ewart, Sir William Moles- worth, and Mr. Hume; and opposed by Lord Chandos, Lord Darlington, Mr. Handley, Mr. Shaw Lefevre, Mr. Galley Knight, and others. The house was exceedingly riotous anil impatient duiing the speeches in favour of the motion, as it always is on this question. On a division the mo ion was lost by223 to 89. At St. Sebastian. General Evans has resumed offensive operations, which have been, so far as the accounts come down successful. The Carlists have been driven back, though it is admitted that iliey fought well, with consider- ab e hiss. The ultimate result of the movement is ofcourse only to be guessed at. The number wounded on the Queen's side was great, 50 British and above 600 Spaniards. Lord John Hay joined in the action. Against the resolution Tellers Pairs Absent, generally acting with Government Absent Tories Doubtful Speaker 315 250 2 40 292 28 18 4 1 ~ 5I The members for Birmingham were, of course, in the majority. REFORM ASSOCIATION. Thursday evening there was a numerous meeting of the Council and members of the Association at the Public- office. The CHAIRMAN called the attention of the meeting to the proceedings connected with the stopping- up of the walks in St. Philip's Church- yard. He said they would recollect that, at the last meeting of Council, power was given to the officers of the Association to take such steps respecting the conduct of the Churchwardens and Commissioners as they deemed necessary. The first thing they had done was to apply to tlieir fellow- townsmen for subscriptions, and he was happy to say, that so indignant did the inhabitants generally feel, at the gross infringement upon their rights, that they most cheerfully came forward; and he had no doubt there would be ample means of appealing against the encroachment. The next consideration was, how and in what manner the inhabitants ought to try their right to ef- lect this. Mr. Charles Lloyd, to whom great praise was due 011 this occasion,' volunteered his legal services, and un- dertook to have the palings, which had been put up by the Churchwardens, removed. The Council of the Association issued placards, signed by the Chairman and Secretary, requesting the people not to trespass upon the graves, or do any damage after the removal of the obstruction. These placards, the object and tendency of which was, to prevent any trespass or violation of the law, were taken down by the Church party, thereby evidently showing that they were not over anxious about the preservation of the church- yard. A fresh set of placards were ordered by the council to be put up, but they were also ordered tq be washed down by the wardens or their servants. Despite, however, of all this, the obstruction was removed. A number of the inha- bitants met at seven o'clock on Tuesday morning, and quietly and peacefully took down the boards, which had been put up by order of the Churchwardens. ( Applause.) The pulling down of these boards was perfectly legal; the wardens had no more right to stop up the public walks in the church- yard, than he ( Mr. M.) had to stop up any public street in the town. The inhabitants had merely as- serted their right, and for so doing six of them had been taken into custody by Mr. Allportand lodged in prison. It appeared that that gentleman, after the removal of the boards, came into the church- yard, and seeing some half- dozen men standing by he immediately set about arres- ting them ; as the Irishman said, " he surrounded them," and marched them to prison. The men knew they had committed no offence, and they told Mr. Allport, that if he would take the responsibility of imprisoning them, they would cheerfully go with him. These men have since com- menced actions against Mr. Allport for false imprisonment. Mr. Muntz next adverted to the approaching election of Guardians, and earnestly called upon tire rate- payers to come forward and return a majority of honest, working, and im- partial Guardians. Mr. DOUGLAS said there was one point connected with the Church- yard affair, which ought to be mentioned in or. der to remove any doubt as to the legality of abating the nuisance, and that was, that so long as the Churchwardens had not expressly declared the object they had in view in putting up the paling; so long as the people were in igno- rance upon that point; so long as they did not know but that the wurUcna and rootnr were acting in accordance with some ecclesiastical law— so long were th « p » nple justi- fied in not interfering. But the moment the wardens put up the notices declaring that they had sought the sanction of two magistrates, and meant to ask the confir- mation of the quarter sessions for the purpose of shut- ting up these walks— from that moment the inhabitants were perfectly justified in removing the obstruction with a view to maintain and try their right, if required. The fact of an application by the wardens to the magis- trates, to sanction the stopping up of the walks, proved the walks were public, and that the public had an unquestion- able right to remove any obstruction erected 011 them. If they were private walks there was rio necessity for such an application. Their friend Mr. Allport, however, had thought otherwise, and as they had heard, had acted on his opinion in the most extraordinary manner. He was not in the Church- yard when the boards were taken down.* He came up after their removal, and without ceremony took the men into custody. He ( Mr. D.) was present when the cause of their detention was attempted to be inquired into. Mr. Lloyd and some other gentlemen went to the turnkey's office ; they asked for Mr. Redfern. Mr. Redfern was not to be had, nor was there any one who would acknowledge that he had been appointed to receive prisoners in his name. It was asked who was the man who had taken in the pri- soners. But all they could learn was that Mr. Allport had given the men in charge upon some " had" of Parliament. Finding that charges were received so lightly, and not knowing that Mr. Allport might not take it into his head to send the second party to keep company with the first, he ( Mr. D.) thought it most prudent to retire as speedily as possible. The case would not, of course, rest here. Actions would be commenced, and then the public would learn where the right lay. * Mr. Allport, it is proper to observe, says he was. New York Papers, of the 16th ult. announce the election of Martin Van Buren, of New York, as President of the United States of America, for four years, from the 4th March, 1837. The same papers state the election of Richard M. Johnson, of Kentucky, as Vice- President. The Money Market, to use the customary phrase, has been in an exceedingly feverish state for some time past. In the end of the week, it is asserted, that some of the first houses in London, in the Bill trade, were so pressed for mo- ney, that only the prompt and decirled assistance of the Bank could have enabled them to keep on. Nay, we have heard it affirmed, on what appeared to be good evidence, that two if not three Banking houses, whose names, sound- ed in conjunction with even the chance of insolvency, would scare our readers from their propriety for the next month, were in similar tottering condition, and only kept stedfastby similar means. In the provinces the prospect is not better, it may readily be supposed than iu the metropolis. There, also, the new policy ol the Bank, or rather the resumption of its old policy, of frank accommodation, has been as frankly invoked, and with the same result. How is this to STATE OF TRADE IN BIRMINGHAM. On Friday a deputation from Birmingham, consisting of the High Bailiff, and Messrs. Muntz, Shaw, and Van Wart, wafted upon Lord Melbourne, with a memorial re- lative to the state of trade in this town and district. The deputation was accompanied by Mr. Scholefield, M. P.; Sir Eardley Wilmot, M. P.; W. S. Dugdale, M. P.; and W. Williams, M. P. The following is a copy of the memorial:— " To the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Melbourne, First Lord of His Majesty's Treasury. x " My Lord,— We, the undersigned merchants, manufactu- rers, and others, inhabitants of the town of Birmingham, beg leave respectfully to represent to your lordship the follow- ing facts:— " During the last two or three years a very great improve- ment has taken place in the trade and commerce of the town and neighbourhood. The workmen have very generally been placed in a condition of full employment and good wages, producing a general state of satisfaction and con- tentment among them. Their employers also have enjoyed a condition of ease and security which might be called affluence, when compared with the losses, difficulties, and anxieties which they had endured for several years before. No stock of goods was accumulated— no over trading of any kind existed; the products of one man's industry were readily exchanged for those of another, and all the products of industry in every trade were carried off into the absolute consumption of the people. " Suddenly, within the last three months, with all the elements of general prosperity remaining unimpaired, this gratifying state of things has disappeared, and has been succeeded by a general state of difficulty and embarrass- ment, threatening the most alarming consequences to all classes of the community. Orders for goods are counter- manded and discontinued, both for the foreign and home trade ; the prices of goods are falling so as in many cases to occasion a loss instead of a profit on their production. The process of production is thus obstructed; the work- men are beginning to be discharged, or to be placed upon short employment; and we are confident that unless re- medial measures be immediately applied, a large proportion of our population will shortly be thrown entirely out of employment. " We earnestly solicit the serious and immediate attention of His Majesty's Government to this alarming state of things, confidently hoping that they will forthwith adopt decisive and effectual measures for its relief." THE LEAMINGTON GRAND STEEPLE CHASE. This race took place on Tuesday last. The race was for a sweepstakes of 25 sovs. each, with 200 added h. ft.; four miles; twelve stone each. Leamington was extremely full of company on the occa- sion, every hotel being filled with the elite of the sporting circles. A betting- room was opened at the Regent Hotel; and the prices closed on Tuesday morning as follows:— 3 and 2 to 1 against Vivian, 4 and 5 to 1 agamst Flacrow, 4 to 1 against Captain Bob, 8 to 1 against Valiant, 10 to 1 against Warwick and Jerry The ground selected by the umpires, ( the Hon. W. Vaughan and J. Creighton, Esq.) was in the vicinity of Oakley Wood, about four miles and a half from Leamington, and included several severe fences, and brooks of rather a formi lable description. The line of country commenced in a ploughed field, occupied by Mr. Gardner, in the parish of Ashorne. A few minutes past two the fol- lowing horses started: — Marquis of Waterford's Monarch, ( rode by owner.) Lord Macdonald's Captain Bob, ( owner.) Capt. Lamb's Vivian, ( Mr. Beecher.) Capt. Williamson's Bittern, ( Chandler.) Mr. Newman's Valiant, ( Hon. Mr. Villiers.) Mr. Angerstein's Negoeiator,( owner.) Mr. Coke's Flacrow, ( Haycock.) Mr. Mostyn's Warwick, ( owner.) Mr. Sadler's Laura, ( Mr. W. Sadler.) Mr. Lumbden's Jerry,( Mr. Mason.) Mr. Clifford's Countess, ( owner.) Mr. W. Russell's Scripton. ( Christian.) Mr. Wallis's Creeper, ( owner.) The race was beautifully contested. After one false start, all went off at a shipping pace. Monarch taking the lead closely followed by Bittern, Warwick, Vivian, and the others. The Marquis, who rode Monarch, kept the lead for nearly two miles, topping each fence in gallant style, and only yielded precedence, when compelled to do s. j l, y bi- horse refusing the leap over A- lilu, me brook. l'he lead then lay between Jerry and Vivian, alternately; hut on ai riving at the third fence from ihe finish, which wa- a -. evere one, it was evident that the oltl burse was ' done up." Jerry won easily by three lengths; Vivian ran second Fla crow third, Monarch fourth. Countess fifth, Creeper sixih and Captain Bob Seventh. Among the company were, the Karl of Ch 8t ' He'd, the Marquis of Waterford, Lord Cianricanle, Lord M • •" onaiif. Lord Rokeby, Earl of llowtli. Lord W. B<- resfu<! Hon. Mr. Villiers, Hon. Mr. Vaughan, Mr. ilassey Stanley l> George Payne, Capt. Lamb, ( apt. Fairlie, Capi B siiec. Mr. J. Creighton, & c. & e. & c. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT. Thomas Barton Bowen, Esq., one of the Commissioners for the relief of Insolvent Debtors, held his court at Lan- caster Castle, on Tuesday last. CASE OF CRIM. CON. James Augustin Ladbury was brought up on his petition. Insolvent was opposed by Mr. James on behalf of Mr. Ed- ward Peters, and defended by Mr. Venables. The details of the case, as they were unfolded in the examination of Mr. Greatwood, of Birmingham, solicitor for the detaining creditor, seemed to excite considerable interest. It ap- peared that the insolvent, a young man of rather respectable appearance, formerly held a highly confidential situation in the establishment of Mr. Peters, the detaining creditor, a wine and spirit merchant in extensive business at Birming- ham. He was well recommended to that gentleman, who reposed every confidence in him— in short, entrusted him with almost the entire management of his affairs. This confidence the insolvent repaid by alienating the affections of the wife of his patron, who consequently brought an ac- tion against the insolvent. To this action no defence was made, and the jury evidently considering the case of an aggravated nature, returned a verdict for the plaintiff in the suit, with 800/. damages, and costs. Insolvent being unable to pay this, claimed the benefit of the act, and the present opposition was the result. James Augustin Ladbury examined by Mr. James. I believe you were formerly in the employ of Mr. Edward Peters? Yes. What is he ? A wine and spirit merchant, in Bull- street, Birmingham. When were you taken in his employ? In May, 1835. In what capacity were you? As an assistant in the business. Which was that of a wholesale and retail wine and spirit merchant? It was. Did you reside in the house ? In the house, sir. During the whole of that time? Yes. You took your meals in the house ? Yes. What were the duties you performed? I assisted in the business, and behind the counter. Had you the management during that time? I had. How long did you continue to reside with him ? About a year and nine months. Mr. William Greatwood examined by Mr. James : Are you an attorney living at Birmingham. I am. I believe you received instructions from the plaintiff in this action, Mr. Peters, to commence an action against the insolvent? I did. You did so? I did. Did the insolvent appear to that action ? No, he did not, sir. He suffered judgment to go by default? Yes. Was there a writ of inquiry? Theie was. And on that writ was there an inquisition taken at Bir- mingham? There was. Will yem produce it ? The writ, inquisition, and retur>. of tlio Sheriff, were here produced by witness. Mr. Venables : In that inquiry, did nobody appear for in- solvent ? No. Counsel attended for the plaintiff ? Counsel attended for the plaintiff. May I ask who that was ? Mr. Lloyd Williams. Was it an inquiry before the sheriff, or a writ of trial ? An inquiry to assess damages. Where did you get that return from ? London. Who sends it to you ? My London agent, Mr. Richard Edgar Smith, 3, Boswell- court. What office does it come from ? I don't know. Do you know the sheriff's hand- writing? Mr. Greatwood said he knew that of the under- sheriff. Mr. Venables: I contend that the Court cannot receive this document. This is no proof of its being the Writ of Inquisition, and I further maintain that we ought to have the record. Mr. Wm. Greatwood : I beg respectfully to submit to the Court that the document I have produced bears the seal of the Sheriff of the county of Warwick, and that it is the practice of the Court always to receive such documents in evidence, without requiring any further proof than that of production; and I further submit that it is the record, and in fact, the only record to be obtained under the cir- cumstances of the case, which if the Court will permit to be read, will prove in every way satisfactory. Mr. Venables: I repeat, Mr. Commissioner, you cannot receive this document, and that the Insolvent must be dis- charged. We have not even the declaration in this sup- posed writ. Mr. Wm. Greatwood: If the learned gentleman will allow this document to be read, which is the return made by the Sheriff, be will find the declaration therein recited. The Commissioner: Mr. Greatwood, band the writ to me, I will receive it as evidence in this case, and I there- fore overrule your objection, Mr. Venables. The return was then put in and read, setting forth that on the 23rd of December, 1836, no plea having been entered, James Augustus Ladbury was assessed in 800/. damages and costs, for criminal conversation with the wife of Edward Peters. Mr. James: What were the costs ? They were notjtaxed. The Commissioner : We only inquire into the amount of costs in cases of vexatious defence. Mr. Venables submitted that the documents just put in were no evidence of the action. How did the Court know they were genuine ? . It was not proved by their coming there with the coat of arms of somebody as sheriff, or the hand- writing of somebody as under sheriff. The postea should have been produced. Mr. James: It is contained in the record. Mr. Venables: There should be the declaration. The Commissioner: The declaration is recited. That is enough. Mr. Venables : Then you decide against me. The Commissioner: I certainly do. Mr. James then addressed the Court against the insolvent. He said, " If any man ever had reason to complain of another— if any creditor ever bad reason to oppose the dis- charge of a detitor, my client has tfie gieatest right to do so. We cannot inquire here into the truth or falsehood of the charge against the insolvent; nor can I insistupon producing evidence of his criminal proceedings. The law does not allow me to do that. But it is a matter of regret with many, that the Legislature has not thought fit to mark their sense of the crime, of which the insolvent had been con- victed, by inflicting a heavier penalty on its commission— that while a pooi wietch. in the last stage of hunger, ex- piring, perhaps, with poverty, is visited with severe penalty if he steals a loaf, ihe Courts of law can, for an offence of the description which has been alluded to, only award da- manes. and only approach the offender by means of a fiction, even if 1 he ca- e be of the most infamous and grossest nature. Such a case lias ihh been. I make no complaint of the Legislature on tips account, I only say, it has been regretted '• y many persons that such is the state of the law. The Court, I am aware can take no cognisance of the crime that has been committed, nor can the circumstances be elicited from the insolvent; but I am confident it will lend its aid, and 1 implore it to render itsaid if possible, irt putting down this crime, hy marking the sense with which it entertains it" He « as confident • he Court would lend its aid to suppress a crime « Inch « as 1 • visited with criminal punishment by the Legislature, ami would show its sense of the breach of confidence commmeil by the insolvent, by remanding him for as long a period as empowered by the Act. He never knew a case where the parties were in a similar station of life, visited by a similar amount of damages. That it was no trifling case, might be judged by the amount of damages which the jury had inflicted. They were unprecedented— unprecedented he would 6ay, for parties in a similar line of life, the defendant being merely an assistant to a spirit- dealer ; and yet the jury had returned a verdict of 800/.! That showed the aggravated character of the defendant's conduct, which he would repeat was a gross violation of confidence. Under all the circumstances, therefore, he con- sidered this a case that called for the most severe punish- ment in the power of the Court to inflict. Mr. Venables then atldressed the Court in behalf of the insolvent. He said," it has been laid down by you, sir, and those who have sat there before you, that any judgment given by you or your predecessors was not intended to pu- nish the insolvent. That has been laid down. The Court merely withholds the discharge of the debtor, to which he is entitled on some, perhaps, distant day. No punishment is considered to be inflicted as such, but the Court withholds the discharge." Mr. Venables, who addressed the Court at length, concluded with the following observations :—" You have, ( said Mr. V.) and those who sat here before you have always taken these circumstances in mitigation, and I have never known a case of this sort where the party has been remanded, as my learned friend has requested, for so long a space as two years. I have a vague recollection of a most aggravated case of this nature, where a defence was made, and verdict given against the insolvent,— I think it was be- fore Mr. Commissioner Law, and the attorney was Mr. Foulkes, of Manchester,— but in that, which was a most ag- gravated case, the term for which the insolvent was re- manded was only ten months. I hope the Court will not consider I am advising or dictating what term shall be awarded in this case, but I mention this to show the prac- tice of the Court in cases of this description. The Court will take into consideration that the imprisonment which the insolvent has already suffered— his prospects in life blasted by his imprisonment, and the stigma that has been cast on his character; and I hope that you, sir, with that hu- manity that has marked your conduct, and those who have occupied that seat, will content yourself with inflicting as lenient a punishment in this case as possible." The Commission : Let him be sworn. The learned Commissioner then passed judgment. He said the learned counsel for the insolvent has very properly taken an objection to the writ of inquisition being received in evidence. That objection, however, I over- ruled. The declaration was recited in the return, and the practice of the courts in London has always been to receive them. There being nothing else in your favour, your counsel very properly took that objection which I so over- ruled. There is no occasion to say much on the nature of the offence of which you have been convicted. The only thing to be taken into mitigation is your years, and that lias been taken into the consideration of the Court, and I hope you will remember these proceedings for the remainder of your life. I shall " pass a mild award,— for mild and merciful it is, taking into account the magnitude of the damages given against you— that you be entitled to your discharge as to all your creditors except Edward Peters, and that you be entitled to your discharge as respects him in the space of twelve months after the date of filing your petition, for da- mages given against you for criminal conversation. The Commissioner ( unsolicited)— to Mr. James—" I'll give you costs irt this case." Mr. Peters was appointed assignee. PUBLIC OFFICE. MONDAY, MARCH 18th. (" Before E. L. Williams, Esqr.) This day about40 shopkeepers were summoned by Adam Mackie, the informer, under the 6th and 7th William IV., c. 37, for selling bread without weighing it. Mr. Suckling, solicitor, accompanied by Mr. W. Osborne, attended on the part of the Old Union Mill Company to defend their cus- tomers. The first case called on was that of Sarah Pemberton, shopkeeper, Cheapside. Mr. Green read the information ; before pleading to which Mr. Suckling stated, that although his clients appeared to the summons from courtesy to the magistrates, yet) that he bad no occasion to do so, for that by the 18th section of the act it was enacted " that every sum- mons to be served on any offender against any of the provi- sions of the act, shall be in the form or to the effect follow- ing," that is to say, that it should set out the name and the description of the informer. Now in the summonses which he ( Mr. S.) held in his hand, there was neither the name or description of the informer in the place directed by the sta- tute. Mr. Williams examined the summons and the statute, and found that such was the fact. Mr. Suckling, however, would waive this objection, be- cause as the information was laid the party could be sum- moned again, which would only waste time, and would go to the next objection, which was, that under the 31st clause it was enacted " that no person should be convicted unless the complaint was made within forty- eight hours after the committal of the offence, or within such reasonable time as to the justice should seem fit;" now the offence was by the summons said to have been committed on the " 9th of March," but whether it was this instant March or March last, the party summoned cannot tell, as the summons was silent on that point, which ought not to be the case, as the alleged offender was not in consequence put in a situation to defend himself. Mr. Griffiths, on examining the information, found that it was there described as March instant, therefore, as the party had appeared, that objection was got over. Mr. Suckling then objected that the information laid the offence to have been committed under the 7th Wm. IV., now there was 110 statute of that title, there was some one certainly passed in the 6th and 7th of Wm. IV. Mr. Williams 6aid that that point had been elsewhere decided; the description of the statute was sufficient. Mr. Suckling then said, that independent of the merits of the case, that he had another objection to take to the in- formation on the hearing of the case, which, in his opinion, would be fatal to th « whole of those where the parties lived in the parish of Aston. Mr. Green then read over the information which charged that" Sarah Pemberton, of Cheapside, being a seller of bread, did out of the city of London, and the liberties thereof, and beyond the weekly bills of mortality, and ten miles of the Royal Exchange, to wit, in the parish of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, sell bread ( not being f& ncy or French bread or rolls) other than by weight, whereby she, the said Sarah Pemberton, had for such offence forfeited a sum of money not exceeding 40s." Edward Harwood was called by the informer, and on being asked where he had purchased the bread, he said that it was in Cheapside, which was in Aston parish. Mr. Suckling then submitted that as the venue was wrongly laid in the information, it could not be sustained. Mr. Williams, Mr. Gem, and Mr. Griffiths, said the ob- jection was good, upon which all the informations in Aston, amounting to twenty- five, were dismissed. The next case was against Mr. Hunt, Rea street. Mr. Gem read over the information, which was similar to the last, to which the defendant pleaded not guilty. Harwood was then examined by Mr. Gem in support of the information, and proved that on the 9th instant he went into the defendant's shop and asked for half- a- quartem loaf, which was given to him, for which he paid threepence- halfpenny ; it was a plain loaf, it was not French or fancy bread, nor was it a roll. Cross- examined : He saw scales and weights in the shop; he did not ask to have the bread weighed, he might have had it weighed if he had asked; he was sure it was lialf- a- quartern loaf; he did not mean half a loaf, but a loaf called half- a- quartern ; it weighed about 21b. he should think, but did not weigh it himself; he was quite sure that it was not French or fancy bread or a roll, it was plain bread. Mr. Suckling said he would not examine the witness any further, but submitted that his client had done all that the statute required, and, therefore, this information could not be sustained. By the fourth section of the act it was enacted, " that from and after the commencement of this act, all bread sold beyond the limits aforesaid, shall be sold by the several bakers or sellers of bread lespectively beyond the said limits by weight." Now he could show and prove that bis client did sell the loaf in question by weight. He should show that it weighed 41bs. 2oz., and that every loaf sold by the defendant was weighed before it was exposed. It was not imperative on the defendant that he should weigh it himself, or that it should be weighed in his shop ; it matters not whether it was weighed at the bakehouse ( which was the Old Union Mill) or elsewhere, so that it was weighed, and thatacertain weight of bread was sold for the price asked; and that appeared the more clear from the wording of the sixth clause of the act, which enacted, " that every baker or seller of bread shall cause to be fixed in some conspicuous part of iiis, her, or their shop, or near the counter, a beam and scales with proper weights or other sufficient balance, in order that all bread there sold may from time to time be weighed in the presence of the purchaser thereof." What was the object here? Why thfct the purchaser may, if he thinks proper, weigh the bread himself. There are the scales and weights, and he may, if he chooses, weigh it; the seller is not compelled to weigh it. There is no penalty for his refusing to weigh it even if he should be required. The seller is sure, for bis own protection, to weigh the bread, to see that he does not sell a greater weight than he can afford, and that the purchaser may see that he has his pennyworth for his penny; the seller is by the act obliged to provide weights and scales, and the necessary apparatus for weigh- ing; the defendant had done this, and, therefore, he sub- mitted that the information must be dismissed. Mr. Williams could not go the length that Mr. Suckling had done; what did the 11th clause say ? Why that sellers of bread should sell it by weight, evidently intending that the bread should be weighed in the presence of the purchaser. As to the 6th clause, compelling the seller to provide scales and weights, that was necessary. The purchasers would not carry scales and weights with them, and unless the statute had imposed that duty upon the seller, the latter might say " there the bread is, and it is such a weight, and you may take it and have it weighed if you like." He should be very happy to have the opinions of others upon this point, and would, therefore, advise that a case should be se- lected on which an appeal should be had, and it was a very important point to the public, and one in which the public, and more particularly the poor, were very much interested. At present he thought the case made out, but as there was no fraud imputed he should fine the defendant in the miti- gated penalty of 5s. only. Several other cases were then gone into, and the parties fined in a similar amount. We believe that it is the inten- tion of the Old and New Union Mill Companies, Mr. Lucy and others, to appeal against one of the cases, with a view to try the question whether a seller of bread is bound to weigh bread in the presence of a customer, and sell it by weight. FRIDAY, MARCH 17. ( Before J. Webster and Towers Lawrence, Esqs.) ST. PHILIP'S CHURCH- YARD This morning the office was crowded by a great number of the most respectable in habitants of the town, anxious to hear the decision of the magistrates in the case of six men, named Samuel Cham- bers, William Dalton, Thomas Wall, James Forty, Stephen Forty, and Thomas Wollaston, who were charged with pulling down fences which had been erected in St. Philip's Church- yard. Mr. Allport said that the complaint was for trespass and wilful damage. He was then directed to be sworn, after which be stated that on Wednesday morning, one of the beadles of the Church came to him, and informed him that some men were in the church- yard, trespassing there, and doing wilful damage. In consequence of this, he sent down to the Public- office for assistance, but no officer was to be bad, they being absent at the sessions, so he went into the Church- yard, where he saw the men now before the bench, pulhng- down the fences. They told him they had been employed to do so by Mr. Lloyd, and that he had promised to pay the charges, and had already given them a sovereign for acting as they were doing. He told them they were injuring property, which, as Churchwarden, he had controul over, and that he would take them into custody for the wilful damage and trespass. He then, with the as- sistance of the grave- digger and beadle, brought them down to the Public- office, where he gave them into custody. He concluded by stating that he was not prepared to go into the charge, particularly, as from all he had heard, the case would not be gone into that day. Mr. Lawrence asked Mr. Allport where were the wit- nesses whose appearance he considered necessary? Mr. Allport: I don't know. Mr. Webster: From what parts of the Church- yard were the fences removed. Mr. Allport: From the gate opposite Dee's Hotel; from opposite Cherry- street, andthe entire of the fences around the walks. They were barriers which had been put up for the protection of the graves and tomb- stones, until the alterations in the Church- yard had been completed. Mr. Colmore, solicitor: Will you have the goodness to state whether those barriers were not put across the public walks of the church- yard. To this Mr. Allport made no reply; upon which Mr. Lawrence asked him whether the barriers bad not been put across those walks, respecting which notice of appeal had been given at the Sessions. Mr. Allport: Certainly; but we have an order, with the official seal of his Majesty's Commissioners, for erecting those barriers. Mr. Colmore: Do you not know, Mr. Allport, and I re- m nd you that you are upon your oath, that these barriers Wire knocked down for the mere purpose of inducing you to bring an action, and for the purpose of trying the right. Mr. Allport: I believe no such thing. Mr. Colmore: I again> sk you, Mr. Allport, whether those men knocked down the barriers merely for the purpose of doing wilful damage. Mr. Allport: I will not answer any such question. I have nothing to do with their motives. Mr. Colmore: Do youjmean to say you saw those six men knock down the barriers; and I once more remind you that you are upon your oath. Mr. Allport: I did see them knock down the barriers. El Mr. Colmore: On your oath, Mr. Allport; you did see them knock down the barriers. Mr. Allport : I don't think I am bound to answer this question. Mr. Griffiths, the Magistrates' clerk, here interfered, and saitl he was secretary to the Committee for carrying on the works in the church- yard, but having been absent from town he was unacquainted with the facts of the case, and he hoped the Magistrates would postpone the case until Monday. Mr. Colmore objected to the application, on the ground that the men had been bailed on the understanding that the case should be tried that day. They were present to meet the charge, and if it was postponed until Monday, he should certainly advise them not to appear', again if the case was not then gone into. Their bail was for their appearance that day, and it would not be extended perhaps. Mr. Webster said, after what had been stated by Mr. Griffiths, he thought it was but right to postpone the case, if Mr. Colmore then inquired from Mr. Allport the names of the witnesses, on account of whose absence he wished to have the case postponed. Mr. Allport replied, that one was the name of Turner and another of the name of Davis, but he said he had other charges against the prisoners besides those of trespass or wilful damage. Mr. Lawrence said, that before the case was postponed, Mr. Allport ought to state distinctly the nature of the charge. Mr. Allport said, he also charged them with digging holes in the church- yard, and also with having split and knocked to pieces, in a very serious and unjustifiable manner, the timber put there at an expense of 50/. The timber had also been sawed, and otherwise injured in putting up hand- bills. Mr. Lawrence said he thought Mr. Allport had had ano- tiler charge besides that of wilful damage and trespass. Mr. Allport said, he had no other charge, hut he was able to prove that considerable damage had been done to the property. Mr. Webster said, he believed it was admitted by both parties that there was not a malicious intention in pulling down the barriers, and he thought in courtesy and justice to Mr. Griffiths, the case ought to be allowed to stand over. The men he had no doubt would promise to attend again. Mr. Colmore then . wished to have the names of all Mr. Allport's witnesses. Mr. Allport said, he had not the slightest objection to give them. He did not know their christian names, but one was named Hines, the beadle of the church, another was named Grove, and there were two men named Davis, and another named Evans. Mr. Lawrence asked if all those named were to prove the damage. Mr. Allport replied they were. Mr. Colmore then inquired where the witnesses lived. Mr Allport replied, he did not know. Mr. Griffiths said it was quite enough for Mr. Colmore to know the names. It was not usual to give the names or residences of parties until they were brought forward as witnesses, and he advised Mr. Allport not to give their re- sidences. Mr. Colmore said, he must again apply to have the case gone into, for he understood there were some of the wit- nesses present. Mr. Griffiths said, the case had been already postponed, on the ground that he bad not had an opportunity of know- ing the facts of the case. Mr. Webster asked the prisoners whether they would promise to appear on Monday, and on saying they would, the case was declared adjourned until that day, and the par- ties left the office. Michael Connolly and Mary Connolly were charged with stealing 10s., the property of Mrs. Frances Dutton. Itap- peared that on Thursday, Mrs. Dutton, of Sutton Coldfield, went into the shop of Mr. Mountford, grocer, of High- street, to purchase some grocery, and pulled out her purse and laid it on the counter; in a few . minutes she missed it, and could form no idea of who had taken it. A man named Windridge was passing the shop at the time Mrs. Dutton went 111, and observing the prisoners, whom he knew to be bad characters, follow her, he watched them and saw tliera take the purse off the counter and make their escape. He gave information to the street keeper, and they were taken into custody in Carrs- lane. They were committed to the sessions. ThomasBrown was committed for stealing a pair of shoes, the property of Mr. William Pearce, shoemaker, of Queen- street. On Wednesday evening the prisoner went into the prosecutor's shop and asked to see a pair of shoes, Mr. Pearce handed him a pair, which he said would answer, but in place of paying for them he ran out of the shop with them. He was pursued and taken into custody. William Harrison was committed for stealing a pair of hoots, the property of Isaac Chambers, a shoemaker. The prosecutor lived in Witton- street, and on Wednesday morn- ing he missed a pair of boots out of his lodging, anil about three o'clock the same day, as he walking at the wharf, near Walmer- lane, he met the prisoner whom he had never seen before, with his boots upon his feet. He had him arrested, and on examining the boots he was convinced they were the pair he had lost. THE. BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. NEWS OF THE WEEK. FOREIGN. A NICE LITTLE WAR By tlie Jamaica papers, which have reached us to the 30th of January, we find that in con- sequence of the government of New Granada having re- fused to make restitution to Mr. Ilussell, our consul at Car- thagena, for the insult offered to him by confining him in the common prison, for having wounded a person in self- defence, Commodore Sir J. S. Peyton, on the 9th of Ja- nuary, issued a proclamation, declaring the whole coast of New Granada in a state of blockade, and sailed for that coast from Port Royal on the 12th, in the Madagascar fri- gate, accompanied by the Wasp sloop of war, to enforce his determination. Our minister at Bogota had demanded the immediate release and reinstatement of Mr. Russell, a sum of 5,000 dollars to be paid him as a compensation, and the dismissal of all the functionaries who had acted so illegally towards him. The Granadians, it appears, had dispatched a force of three small vessels of war and 300 men, and had driven away from a settlement, called Buccotoro, about 150 Englishmen. This was considered a very outrageous affair, as Buccotoro was not part of the Granadian territory. The people of Jamaica are urging reprisals by taking possession of all that part of the Isthmus of Darien which belongs to the Granadians, and not relinquishing it until arrangements are made for the prosecution of a plan long in agitation— that of cutting a ship communication between the Pacific and the Atlantic. New Granada having thought proper to provoke a war, the honour of England demands that - he should pay a penalty, and that penalty ought to be to the advantage of the commerce of England. Commodore Peyton was followed on the 20th by the Nimrod, 20, and on the 22nd by the Forte, 44, Commodore Pell, and the Cham- pion 18 Hampshire Telegraph. CHESS - A feat unparalled in the annals of chess playing lias just been accomplished by that Napoleon of the chess - players, M. de Labourdonnais, who some time since beat the celebrated player, M. de Jouy, with his back turned totheboaid. In the match to which we now allude, he has beaten two well- known and excellent players, M. Bonfil and M. Lecrivain, who played their games at the same time on two different boards, M. de Labourdonnais keeping his back turned to them during the whole of the play, and directing his moves merely from memory and calculation. The billiard- room in which the games were played, at the Chess Club, Rue de Menars, was crowded to excess, and nothing could exceed the enthusiasm of the spectators when M. de Labourdonnais gave his last check- mate. The games were finished in an hour and a half. What seems most ex- traordinary is, that M. de Labourdonnais did not require the bye- standers to preserve a strict silence, and that his at- tention and calculation appeared by no means disturbed by the noise around him. By the laws of the island of Jersey, incorrigible drunkards are deprived of their right to vote for the State, or to re- ceive any appointment, legislative or parochial, in the island. — Jersey Argus. DOIKG THE NATIVES.— Some waggish rogues have con- trived to give M. Persil a good deal of annoyance. It ap- pears that they managed to steal out of his office a large quantity of paper, only used for strictly official purposes— having the words " Chancellerie de la France," and some others to the same effect, printed on each sheet. They then filled up the blanks in the form of official communica- tions, and addressed them in the usual way to such of the public functionaries throughout the kingdom as they thought least likely to discover the hoax. Some they commended, in the name of the Minister, for their zeal; and others they as severely censured for their misconduct. Officials, who never dreamt of being heard of beyond the sphere of their political jurisdiction, were in extacies at finding that a Mo- narch deigned to eulogise them, and to consult with his Ministers on the all- important subject of their promotion; while, on the other hand, most active magistrates were overwhelmed with grief when assured, in the all- powerful name of M. Persil, that they had incurred the serious dis- pleasure both of the Minister and his Royal Master. Of course communications from every quarter poured into the office of the astonished and bewildered Persil. One heaped thanks and blessings on him for favours which he never thought of granting, and another deprecated a vengeance equally foreign to the mind of the Minister; Inquiries were immediately instituted, and the trick discovered. THE JEWS IN GERMANY.— The Second Chamber at Han. over has dissented from the act of toleration conceded by the first in favour of the Jews. A confercnce had been pro- posed, and it was hoped that a favourable compromise might be brought about. This question of Jewish emancipation is going the round of all the deliberative assemblies of Ger- many. In Saxony it has been agitated and favourably received. The debates at Dresden were remarkable for the profound research in Jewish history shown by some of the members, and the extensive acquaintance with Biblical and early Church muniments. The Chambers have not yet come to a decision. On Thursday last at Paris, a cabriolet belonging to the Queen of France was fined two francs, because Her Ma- jesty's name was not painted in letters two inches long, the size required by law. The driver of the cab was Count de Strada, who hail the use of it for the day. According to the Journal de Paris, the Dukes of Orleans and Nemours are on the point of coming to London on the invitation of the King of England, and will visit the princi- pal towns of the kingdom. It is said that in the ruins of the palace of the King of Naples, lately burnt down, an iron chest has been found en. closed within a wall, and which remained unhurt by the fire. It contained a large sum in Spanish quadruples.— L'Europe. DOMESTIC. THE METROPOLIS. BANK OF ENGLAND Quarterly average of the weekly liabilities and assets of the Bank of England from Decem- ber 13 to March 7 -.— Liabilities; Circulation, 18,178,000/. ; Deposits, 13,260,000/.; total, 31,438,000/. Assets:— Se- curities, 30,579,000/. ; Bullion, 4,048,000/.; total, 34,627,000/. The Commons Poor- law Committee are proceeding with the examination of witnesses. Mr. Fazakerly has been elected chairman. The inquiiy is public, but the publication of the evidence during the proceedings is prohibited. One of the points which it is understood will engage the attention of the committee is, how far it will be expedient to intro- duce the administration of the new system into the manu- facturing districts. EXTRAORDINARY FLOETSAM.— On Saturday morning last two coal whippers, while proceeding in a boat towards a collier lying off Irongate Stairs, saw a large bag floating on the water, which, with the assistance of the watermen they hauled into the wherry, and found it to contain 10,000 yards of blonde lace, and a quantity of lace veils. The property was enveloped in oil skins, and was not at all damaged The men gave information at the Custom- house, and the property, the value of which has been estimated at upwards of 500/. was seized on the part of the Crown, and lodged in the King's warehouse. The quantity of meat brought in one week to Leadenball and Newgate markets from Scotland, by steam, amounted to 700 sheep and fifty oxen ; and Irom Yorkshire 550 sheep, and 420 pigs. Mr. CLARKSON Thomas Clarkson, Esq., Barrister- at- Law, and one of the magistrates of the Thames Police, inet with his death under very dreadful and melancholy circum- stances, on Thursday night. He had been at Brentwood during the day, hunting with Lord Petre's hounds, and was returning home in a pony chaise belonging to his brother- in- law, when the horse took fright in Coppice- row, Clerken- well, and started off at full speed. He attempted in vain to stop the horse, which fell down in Ray- street; and the unfortunate gentleman was pitched out of the chaise and fell on his head. He expired in a few minutes afterwards, at the house of a surgeon in Red Lion- street. Mr. Clarkson was in his fortieth year, and was the son of the Ilev. Thomas Clarkson, of Ipswich, the celebrated advocate of negro emanaeipation, and the friend and coadjutor of the philanthropic Wilberforce. RELIEF TO THE MANUFACTURING INTERESTS.— We under- stand that the King, when informed of the present distress experienced by the silk manufacturers in Spitalfields, was pleased to direct that a sufficient quantity of silk for fourteen dresses should be immediately completed and fowarded to His Majesty at Windsor Castle London paper. NEW POLICE REGULATION.— With the view of ascertain- ing with some degree of correctness how far the dissemina- tion of knowledge may have tended to the diminution of crime, the commissioners of the metropolitan police have issued a fresh order to the superintendents of the various divisions. It has heretofore been customary for the in- spector on duty to note down on the charge- sheet the name, age, and address only of each person given into custody, but by the new regulation the said charge- sheets have an addi- tional four columns thus headed, and beneath which the necessary information is to be penned down—" Does he or she ( meaning the prisoner) neither read nor write?" " Read or write imperfectly?"—" Read or write well?"— " Superior education ?"— The above plan has been acted upon during the last few weeks. At a late meeting of the Linnean Society, the chairman ex- hibited a stalk of the " cow tree," or " Jersey cabbage," which was 9 feet 4 inches long, the circumference at 18 inches from the root being 4^ inches, and in two other parts 3$ inches. FIRES IN 1836.— The total number of fires in London during the last year was 564; in 33 instances the premises were totally destroyed; in 134 they were seriously damaged, and in 397 slightly damaged. The number of instances in which assurances were effected on the building and contents was 169; on the building only, 73; oil the contents alone, 10( 1; whilst 218 were not insured. ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.— A desperate attempt was made to assassinate Mr. Lock, of the Bank of England, on Monday. The criminal was a person named Kearney, who, some years ago, asssulted Mr. Astill on the street, and was imprisoned for a lengthened period fordoing so. He seems to be a man of exceedingly violent passions, inflamed to in- sanity by a long course ol harsh usage from the East India Company. The neighbourhood of Whitecbapel was thrown into a state of alarm on Monday night, by the escape of a wolf from the premises of Mr. Bemington, at the Three Nuns Tavern, where it had been confined. It ran about, snapping at tile passengers's legs, until a butcher in the market, upon whom it made an attack, being prepared, seized the animal by the throat, and, with his knife, nearly severed the head from the body. BIRTH IN ST. JAMES'S PARK— On Tuesday afternoon, between five and six o'clock, a respectably dressed young female was walking through St. James's- park, when she was suddenly seized with the pains of labour, and delivered of a fine male infant. A number of respectable females crowded round, and rendered the unfortunate lady every assistance in their power; and the constable on duty in the Park ran immediately to the Station- house in Gardener's- larie, and procured some policemen, with the stretcher. The lady and her offspring were placed on it, and conveyed with all possible despatch to St. Martin's Infirmary, Charing, cross. Conjecture wss busy on Thursday with the cause of the appearance of Sir Robert Peel, Lord Stanley, and Sir James Graham, at Lambeth- palace, which they entered arm in- arm about one o'clock that day. The cause was, however, revealed when the Archbishop of Canterbury, in the even- ing, attacked the Ministerial plan for abolishing Church- rates in the House of Lords. It was no doubt in reference to this conciliabule that Lord Melbourne expressed it as his opinion that his Grace had been " driven on by persons who had more guile and deeper designs than himself."— Morning Chronicle. Mr. Wakley, M. P., has experienced so severe a relapse of the complaint in his throat which attacked him three weeks since, that he has again been confined to his room, and rendered quite unable to attend to his Parliamentary duties. We understand that he had yesterday a uortion of the uvula removed by operation, and that in order to ensure a return of health, he has been ordered by his medical at- tendant to leave town for the benefit of hisnative air ( Devon- shire) until the close of the Easter recess. CENTRAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.— A general meeting of the Central Agricultural Society of Great Britain took place yesterday morning at the Ciown and Anchor Tavern. It was held in one of the small rooms of the tavern, which was tolerably well filled, and the meeting was of a respect- able description. The following members of Parliament were present:— Lord Wynford, the Earl of Darlington, . Mr. Handley, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Ormsby Gore, Sir C. B. Vere, Mr. Wilks, and Colonel Rushbrooke. In the absence of the Duke of Newcastle, the chair was taken by Mr. Bayley, M. P. DEATH OF MR. DAVIDSON, THE AFRICAN TRAVELLER— We deeply regret to say that the report of the death of Mr. Davidson, on his way to Timbuctoo, has been confirmed by letters of the 15th of February, received at the Foreign Office, from the British Vice- Consul at Mogadore, Mr. Wiltshire. In the letter from this gentleman, he states that the most circumstantial account he had heard was from a Jew trader of the name of Jacob Ben Cohen, who arrived there ffoin Draha, on the 2nd instant, and reported that Mr. Davidson had been robbed on the29th or 30th of Sha- bau ( thirty- two or thirty- three days after Mr. Davidson had started from Wednoon,) by the tribes of Idoulet and Ait Atta, in the district of Hamedu, four days journey from Tatta ; who, after receiving from Mr. Davidson 8 doubloons and 100 dollars, and a loaded camel, allowed the party, con- sisting of eighteen persons, to proceed on the route to Tim- buctoo. His informant stated that eight or ten days after- wards a marauding party of the tribe of El Harib, who were returning from plundering a place called Boushegrali, met Mr. Davidson's party a little to the south of Eguede, whom they immediately robbed, and shot Mr. Davidson. At Elmam Dee, a town distant six days from Tatta, where his informant was living, he saw in the possession of the Arabs and Jews various articles which had belonged to Mr. Davidson, which lie described, and left no doubt as to his fate. Amongst the articles he named a silver watch, a pocket compass, a sword three books, a box of medicine, a paper tea- caddy, beads and cowries, all of which he must have seen, or he could not describe them so correctly. His informant could not give a certain account of the fate of Abo Bekz, the companion of Mr. Davidson, but he understood he had gone on with the caravan ; in which opinion lie was borne out by the letter received from Slieick Beyrouck— The lamented decease ot this celebrated.; traveller, at least the seventh in African discovery, was very feelingly alluded to by the chairman ( R. J. Murchinson, Esq.,) of the Royal Geographical Society, at their meeting on Monday evening last. Mr. Davidson has long been known to the public from the account of his travels in Mexico, Egypt, and the Holy Land. His Majesty has been pleased to declare that George Henry Cavendish, Esq., M. P. for North Derbyshire, Richard Cavendish, Esq., and Fanny Cavendish, the younger sons and only daughter of the late William Caven- dish, Esq., ( who at his decease was the eldest son and heir apparent of George Augustus Henry, late Earl of Burling- ton), and brothers and sister of the present Earl, shall henceforth hold and enjoy the same titles, pre- eminence, and precedence, as if their father had survived the late Earl and succeeded to the same title and dignity. PROVINCIAL. WARWICK There is a vacancy in the representation of this borough by the death of Baroness Canning, and conse- quent accession of her son, the present member, to the title of Baron Canning. A public meeting was held at the Guildhall, Bath, on Tuesday last, for the purpose of adopting a petition for the repeal of the window tax. The Ref< rmers of Oldham have resolved to put General Johnson, of Lincolnshire in nomination as their candidate with Mr. Fielden. The Grand Jury found a true bill on Thursday against La Motte, the hygeist agent of Hull, for the crime of man- slaughter in causing the death of a person in that town by Morison's pills Doncaster Gazette. KEAN In the year 1817, Mr. and Mrs. Kean visited this city, and gave recitations and imitations of various actors, among others, of Kemble and Garrick, in Noke's room, Minister- yard. The bills were printed by the late Mr. Deighton, and poor Kean, after nightfall, and at an early hour in the morning, posted the bills himself round York ! — Yorkshireman. We believe that the general determination of the South Derbyshire electors is, that Griesley " must go."— South Derbyshire Chronicle. The Tories of Anglesea gave the beaten candidate at the late election, Mr. Fuller Meyrick, a consolatory dinner at Beaumaris last week. Drake alias Jowett, the swindler, whose case we noticed last week, has been committed for tiial. at Manchester, on the charge of endeavouring to get the forged bill of exchange for 11,437/. 12s. discounted at'the Stockport Branch Bank, and also for uttering two forged bills, of 486/. 17s. and 376/. 12s., which he had got discounted at two other Branch Banks. ATTEMPT TO MURDER On Friday night last, about half- past eleven o'clock, as Thomas Dukes, a gardener to W. Butler Best, Esq., was going to his home in the Habberley- road, near this borough, he passed a man on the footpath who had on a dark great coat. Dukes wished him good night; the man did not reply, but almost immediately fired off a loaded gun or pistol at Dukes, the ball from which lie distinctly heard whiz over his shoulder. Another fellow now appeared coming from the opposite side of the road, on seeing which, Dukes threw down some flower pots that he was carrying, and was preparing to receive him, when he was seized by the shoulder by the villain who fired, and im- mediately knocked down. He was kicked when upon the ground, and the pockets of his trousers examined by them, but fortunately there was not anything in them. In his jacket pockets Dukes had a silver watch, aud five shillings in silver, but the articles were not discovered. While they had him upon the ground, Mr. Nutting passed up the road with a car, and on hearing the car approaching, one of them said with an oath, " Let him go, he has got nothing," and they ran off across Blakebrook, towards the Bewdley road. Thirty guineas reward have been offered for their apprehen- sion and conviction.— Kidderminster Messenger. MURDER At the Worcester assizes on Wednesday, W. Ligbtband was indicted for the murder of J. Hawkins, at Areley Kings, on the 8th of September last. It appeared [ hat the prisoner was a labourer, and that Hawkins kept a shop, residing alone in the house; prisonerwent to the shop with a loaded gun on Tuesday1, the 6th of September in the evening, and whilst Hawkins was serving him with half- a pound of cheese, prisoner attempted to shoot him, but the cap only exploded, and the old man treated the matter as a joke. The prisoner returned home, and on Thursday even- ing, after carefully loading the gun, he again called at the shop, and whilst Hawkins was serving him with some sugar, prisoner shot him, and then beat him on the head with the stock of the gun till it broke ; he then dragged his victim to the back room, and with a coal hammer and the leg of a stool, completed the horrid murder; he then took seme money from the till and locked the door, and retired to his cottage, but returned early the next morning and plundered tlie lii use, taking 10/. and various articles. When appre- hended he confessed his guilt. The jury found the prisoner guilty, and Mr. Baron Parke sentenced him to suffer death, but the time of execution was not fixed, as by a recent act fourteen days may elapse before a murderer is " executed. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES— At Walsall, on Wednesday, a com- plaint was made by Mary Ann Wood against the stewards of a Friendly Society, held at the Bull's Head, Bloxwich. The complainant said she was the widow of Simeon Wood, lately deceased; that her husband, at the period of his death, was a member of the Bull's Head Society; and that she had applied to the stewards of the club for the money due to her, according to the rules of the society, but it had been refused. Mr. Ileeley, who appeared for complainant, said he believed his friend, Mr. Barnett, was about to pro- duce the will of the deceased, to show that the money in question was not the property of the widow, but should be paid over to the executors for the purposes specified in the will; but he ( Mr. Heeley) would contend that the money by the law of the society," belonged to his client, and could not be otherwise disposed of. The obvious meaning of the rule, which was confirmed by the decision of the committee of the club, was that four pounds should be paid for the ex- penses of the funeral from the box, and that one shilling from each member should be paid to the wife, or, if there were no wife, to the nearest relation, or legal representative. — Mr. Barnett contended that the stewards had no power to pay over any part of this money to the complainant. It clearly belonged, under the authority of the will, to the executors, who were the legal representatives of thetestator, and the stewards would be liable to an action for the amount. Tlie rules of the society could not abrogate the rules of law, or set aside the law of the land. Mr. VVood, the brother of the deceased, and one of the executors, had paid the ex- penses of the funeral, and had also paid over to the widow the sum of 20/. under the provisions of the will. The money due from the society was expressly bequeathed in the will to the executors for the purposes therein specified, and could not be legally paid to any other person— The magistrates decided that the 41, should go to the executors for the funeral expenses, and the shillings from members to the widow. SUICIDE.— An unfortunate circumstance occurred at Not- tingham, on Tuesday last, in the suicide of a solicitor ofthe name of Gell, of the firm of Lesson and Gell, one of the most respectable in the county, and who had been appointed under- sheriff. The unfoitunate gentleman had been un- well, and kept his bed the whole of Tuesday, on which day, about five o'clock in the afternoon, he desired the servant i n attendance to give him a glass of soda water, which, having done, she proceeded to his dressing table, when he rather sharply desired her to quit that part of the room. On turn- ing round to look at her master, on account of the manner in which he spoke to her, she saw him quickly raise two pistols ( one in either hand, and which he had concealed un- der the bed- clothes) to his bead, and instantly discharged them, one taking fatal effect. SINGULAR ESCAPE On Monday, as Mr. S. Bottomley, of the firm of Messrs. Bottomley and Wilkinson, was put- ting astrap on some part of the machinery at their mill in Bradford, he was caught up by and carried at a most fearful speed round the drum ; in a few seconds he was thrown off with considerable force, and found to be stripped of all his clothes, with the exception of neckerchief and stockings. He received much injury, but hopes are entertained of his recovery Leeds Mercury. Shrewsbury fair, last week, was abundantly supplied with prime stock, and buyers being numerous, good cattle were rapidly sold at from & y2d. to 6d. per lb., chiefly for Lanca- shire and Cheshire manufacturing towns. Half- fatted things also sold pretty well, and good fresh stores; but lean and aged beasts were unsaleable. Upwards of 1,500 sheep were penned, and little difficulty was found in selling them at prices varying from 7d. to 8d. per lb. Small fresh pigs rather advanced; bacon pigs were worthed, per lb. The supply of cheese was good, and was nearly all sold at prices not varying from those quoted at February fair. Butter was very abundant, but the report gone abroad of the sud- den decline at the last Shrewsbury fair, took thither a vast number of dealers from Warwickshire and Staffordshire, who purchased nearly every tub offered, at 9d. to lid. per lb. One dealer bought butter to the amount of 550/. A great deal of inferior quality was offered and sold at lower prices. Bacon was not plentiful, and sold at 6d. to 6% d. per lb; hams, 7d. per lb. THE GAME LAW.— At Aylesbury, Thomas Bates was charged with having, on the 29th of August last, murdered James Giltro, gamekeeper to Col. Hanmer, M. P., in the parish of Soulbury. The evidence was of a conclusive na- ture against the prisoner, and he had moreover confessed in gaol tiiat he was the man who killed poor Giltro, in the presence of his wile and a man named Henlay. From the particulars of this case, which have already appeared, it will be remembered that the prisoner had just shot a. pheasant, but did not pick it up at the time, and was trying to get out of the way of being observed, when Giltro came up and found him in a ditch. Giltro said, " Come out." Prisoner said " I will," and asked him to forgive him. Giltro said " I shan't forgive you ; you have caused me a deal of trouble." Prisoner'then said again, " I hope you will; it is the first time you have caught me." Giltro replied, " I shall forgive you nothing; 1 will do what I can for you." They walked together a little way. Giltro was about half a yard first. Prisoner had his gun in his hand, he struck him, and down he fell. Giltro said " Oh dear, oh !" He then struck him until his gun broke, and afterw ards inflicted several lilnwe with the barrel. He then went towards home, and deceased was subsequently found dead and cold. The prisoner was found guilty, and the judge ( Mr. Justice Park) in tears passed sentence of death upon him. RATING A decision of considerable importance to over- seers and others was given at Lichfield on Thursday morn- ing. Edward Aiblaster, publican, of Stowe- street, Lich- field, was summoned by Mr. Neville, overseer of the town- ship of Pipe Hill. It appears that Pipe Hill is partly in the county of Stafford, and partly in the county of the city of Lichfield, and it has hitherto been the custom of the over- seers to get their rates sanctioned by the county magistrates only. The land in Arblaster's occupation, however, being proved to be within the county of the city of Lichfield, the magistrates held that the rates for which the defendant was summoned could not be recovered, as the magistrates had not sanctioned tliern in the usual manner. In corrobora- tion of the accuracy of this decision, the magistrate's clerk, Mr. E. Bond, referred to the act 43d of Elizabeth, chap. 2, sec 1, which explicitly and clearly sets forth, that where anv parish or hamlet is situated partly in one county and partly in another, the sanction of the justices of both is necessary to the validity of a late, for whatever purposes granted. IRELAND, MURDER.— A dreadful murder was committed in Limerick on Monday last, on the person of an old lady named An- derson, the widow of Captain Anderson of the 4th garrison battalion. Her servant states that on that evening she was sent out by her mistress for some cakes. She observed a girl sitting at the door, who followed her a part of the way up the street. Upon returning she saw her again seated at the door. She then again left the house for the chapel, and on her return in about an hour was unable to obtain ad- mission. Procuring assistance, entrance was effected, and the unfortunate old lady was found in a closet with her throat cut from ear to ear. A knife, covered with blood, was found on a shelf. One of the hands of the deceased was greatly lacerated, and the other was clenched upon a large quantity of hair, evidently dragged from the head of a female. A woman, named Mary Cooney, who formerly lived with Mrs. Anderson as servant, was taken into custody under suspicious circumstances, and a verdict of wilful murder was returned against her. Robbery appears to have been ber object. [ Abridged from Limerick S/ ar.] At the Assizesjon Thursday Cooney was arraigned for the murder. The unfortunate woman pleaded guilty. The judge in, quired if the prisoner knew the consequences of pleading guilty to the charge? She replied she cared not what the consequence was, but she did it) and would not tell a lie, as she knew she was going before her God. His lordship did not think the miserable woman quite collected in her mind ; and she was asked again if she knew the consequence of pleading guilty? She said, I am guilty, but Iwa/ it a long day. The judge, after a pause, thought it better to have her withdraw her plea of guilty, and plead not guilty, which she did, and he then postponed her trial to next assizes. SCOTLAND. The Highland Society of Scotland has offered the pre- mium of five hundred sovereigns for the first successful ap- plication of steam power to the cultivation ofthe soil. FACTORY CHILDREN A case of importance to factory children has just been decided in the Justice of Peace Court. We believe it is well known that every operative cotton- spinner requires assistants, known by the name of " piecers;" these are, almost universally, children, who are employed and paid by the spinner, their wages being in- cluded in the amount placed to his credit in the books of the factory, and, consequently, their names do not appear in the books at all. When a weaver leaves a factory, the wages of these " piecers" are, we believe, universally deducted by the master and paid over to them. The right of the child- ren, however, to their wages, in cases of " arrestment," came, a few days ago, before the justices. An " arrestment'' was laid on the wages of a spinner in the factory of Messrs. J. M- Neil and Co. The master of tile works, justly con- sider that this arrestment could not affect the amount due to the piecers, paid the children the amount due to them, and held the arrestment good against what was really due to the spinner. A dispute arose between the parties, which ended in the case being brought into Court. After hearing the case for several days, and examining evidence as to the custom of the trade, the justices ultimately came to the de- cision that the wages due to the piecers were arrestable for the debts of the spinner, on the ground that the whole amount stood in his name in the wages book, thus laying down a principle by which unprotected children may be condemned, on a Saturday evening, when little thinking of it, to a state of starvation. After this decision, Mr. M'NeiJ, who took the most praiseworthy interest in tne matter, has appealed to the Quarter Sessions—['' Arrestment," in Scotch law, is similar to " attachment" Ai England.]— Glas- gow Paper. AN OUT AND OUTER The wor-' d and all its concerns has closed on all that was mortal of p well- known fuddling un- fortunate, named Barney M'C- mlay. This event, as the obituaries phrase it, took placr in the Infirmary, some few days ago, whither Barney ha^ been transferred, after main- taining a fair above- board contest with alcohol for a dozen years. Barney had originally been a tailor, but industry forsook him after he " tcok up" with John Barleycorn; and for many years past he has been known to all Dumfresians as a harmless devotes to " the ardent," who might be met all hours of the diy, and heard often during the night, crooning a stave of some easy- going ditty, or passing a rude joke with those who condescended to listen to him, and gave him a gill's price after it. We have heard Mr. Cobbett say, that the scions of the English aristocracy resembled in some respects the bald eagle of America, in so far as the one could scent out the heir or heiress of a rich Commoner over the length and breadth of the Kingdom, while the other could smell out a dead horse from the heights of Ca- nada to the Gulf of Florida; and, in like manner, poor Barney could discover a shopkeeper engaged in reducing whisky, from the one end of the town to the other, where lie was sure to make himself generally useful, by handing jars, or working the pump, and tasting between whiles M'Ginlay was in the present what Jamie Queen was in a past age— of whom it has been said, that the highest object of his ambition was that he could be converted into the worm of a distillery. Tee- totalism came too late for either of these worthies, who might have said or sung to their dying day— " And had the flood been whisky good, And Noah's sons such lads as I— We'd drunk the deluge where it stood, And left the Ark and Noah dry." — Dumfries Courier. MISCELLANEOUS. ARISTOCRACY.— In one country, the chiefs equal in strength, mutually afraid of each other, have formed vile compacts and coalitions, and portioning out power, rank, honours, have arrogated to themselves privileges and immunities; have erected themselves in separate bodies and distinct classes; have tyrannised in common over the people; and under the name of aristocracy, the state has been tormented by the passions of the wealthy and the great.— Volney. LANDLORD'S LAWS— By our Custom- house laws— created by the landed aristocracy, for the purpose of raising rent- cattle, sheep, lambs, swine, beef, mutton, Iamb and pork, are entirely prohibited. Although we were all starving, we dared not bring into this country a pound of beef, or a living ox, under a heavy penalty! Bacon and hams can, indeed, be imported on paying a duty of threepence per pound, or one hundred per cent.; but even this duty is a prohibition to all intents and purposes, as not more than £ 15,000 a year of revenue arises from these articles. About six months ago, a small cow was brought to Leith, on board a Bristol vessel, by a lady from Riga. She was a pet. but the law was imperative, and back the cow was sent to Rus- sia. Were butchers' meat not prohibited, cattle, sheep, beef, and mutton could be forwarded to Hull or London, from Germany and Holland, by steamers, as cheaply, and as easily as they are now from Dundee and Aberdeen to London ; and these foreign cattle, anil this foreign butchers' meat, could be sold at exactly half the price at which the beef, which the landlords compel us to buy, is sold. Beef from Holstein could be, at this moment, sold in Sheffield market at threepence- halfpenny per pound, while for the monopoly beef of the landlords, we are compelled to pay sevenpenee! It is found by careful calculation, that the average quantity ofbutchers' meat, consumed bv each inhabi. tant of Paris yearly, is 86lbs— the average quantity consumed by an inhabitant of Brussels is891bs; and the average quantity consumed by an inhabitant of London is 107lbs. Now, sup- pose we take the average of the three capitals, as the average amount consumed by each person in England and Ireland, during a year— which average amounts to 941bs— it will be found that each individual in the British island pays yearly, in tax to the landholders, threepence on each pound of meat — or in other words, for 941bs of beef, which he might have from abroad for 23s. 6d., he is compelled, by their wicked laws, to pay exactly double, or 47s. !— Sheffield Chronicle ( a now Reform papers THE VELVET CAP— Hummel was in the habit of wearing a small velvet cap when in his study composing, also when he attended rehearsals in large concert- rooms. An amateur called on him to inquire his terms for teaching composition, & c.; after being satisfied on that point, he asked Hummel why he wore his cap so constantly? The latter, being a bit of a wag, said he could not compose a bar without it, for he never felt inspired but when he donned his cap. The gentleman left Hummel, with a promise that he would attend the next morning to take his first lesson ; he did so; but, ere he commenced, he pulled out of his pocket a hand- some velvet cap, with a tassel to it, which he popped on his bead, saying—" Now for it," Hummel smileiV, but allowed his pupil to enjoy his imaginary inspiration. This reminds us of Dibdin's song, " The wieUom's, In the wig "— Musical WorlJ. A TUNISIAN ITAREM— In the castle we were received by the Bey's Secretary- Minister, and conducted to the door of the second court. At the double door of the harem two Mamelukes were stationed on guard; one of whom sum- moned an Italian interpretess, who invited us in. The room into which we were introduced was hung with gold- embroi- dered red satin; gilt bird- cages were suspended from the ceiling, and even here the walls were covered with weapons. Opposite to us, on an ottoman, sat the Bey's wife, richly, but not tastefully, dressed. She rose, received us with the words, " Blessed be your entrance! and may you stay as long as is agreeable to you;" and made us sit beside her. Her arms and feet were bare; on the latter she wore small embroidered slippers, which so little came on to the foot, that she held them fast when she moved between the great toe and the one next to it. From our seat we looked through several rooms, in which were crowds of black and white female slaves, sitting on the ground, some chattering, others variously occupied. Altogether I must have seen upwards of a thousand. * * » Having been well in- structed, I dressed myself gaudily and strikingly, whilst my companions, happening to be in mourning, were all in black. I, therefore, pleased the Princess best; she led me by the hand, and pressed me to eat. Our collation consisted of sweetmeats. When we had eaten enough, the remainder was packed into baskets, one of which was sent to each lady's house. Whilst we were eating, the Bey, his brother, and several of the Princes appeared, gazed curiously at us, and withdrew without speaking a word. Our visit ended by a tour through the harem, of which all the rooms were furnished alike; only a sleeping cabinet of the Bey's had anything remarkable, and of that the walls were decorated from top to bottom with small watches. The Princess ac- companied us to the harem door.— Pucltler Muskau. A STRAIGHTFORWARD WITNESS " Now, Mr. Weller," said Sergeant Buzfuz. " Now, sir," replied Sam. " I be- lieve you are in the service of Mr. Pickwick, the defendant in this case. Speak up, if yon please, Mr. Weller." " I mean to speak up, sir," replied Sam, " I am in the service o' that ' ere gentl'man, and a wery good service it is." " Little to do, and plenty to get, I suppose?" said Sergeant Buzfuz, with jocularity. " Oh, quite enough to get, sir, as the sol- dier said ven they crdered him three hundred and fifty lashes," replied Sam. " You must not tell us what the sol- dier or any other man said, sir," interposed the Judge—" it's not evidence." Wery good, my lord," replied Sam. " Do you recollect anything particular happening on the morning when you were first engaged by the defendant, eh, Mr. Wel- ler?" said Sergeant Buzfuz. " Yes, I do, sir," replied Sam. " Have the goodness to tell the Jury what it was." " I had a reg'lar new fit out o' clothes that mornin', gentl'men of the Jury," said Sam, " and that was a wery partickler and uncommon circumstance vitli me in those days." Hereupon there was a general laugh ; and the little Judge, looking with an angry countenance over his desk, said, " You had better be careful, sir." " So Mr. Pickwick said at the time, my lord," replied Sam, " and I was wery careful o' that ' ere suit ' o clothes; wery careful indeed, my lord." The Judge looked sternly at Sam for full two minutes; but Sam's fea tures were so perfectly calm and serene, that he said no- thing and motioned Sergeant Buzfuz to proceed Pickwick Papers. SAILING ON A FRIDAY.— You see, when a man goes on observing that certain things always fall out just tiie same way after other certain things happening, he must naturally put that and that together to make up his reckoning. Look here, now; I know the needle always points due north, allowing for variation, though neither you nor I can tell why it points north, nor why there is any variation, nor why the variation is different in different places ; but so it is, and we steer our course accordingly. I a'int superstitious if I be- lieve this, though I cannot account for it. Well, and if I see the craft that sails on a Friday goes to Davy's locker, while she that sails on Sunday makes a fair run, I say ot myself, Friday is an unlucky day. I don't call that super- stitious a bit more than I call believing in the compass superstition; to be sure, ' tisn't everyone sees this, and they that don't know don't care; and, certainly, blessed are the ignorant, for they know nothing. What happens in a craft, belongs to a craft, d'ye see; and a rotten timber laid in a ship when she is building, may cause more mischief than a stiff gale or a heavy sea after she is launched. Now, a ship, to my thinking, is more like a human being than just only a few pieces of wood and iron put together in a builder's yard ; a ship has almost as much life as a horse; and when she founders she groans, poor thing, like a dying creature. Well, you see, sir, if a fellow makes a bad start at the be- ginning of a cruise, he never gets right till ' tis over; there- fore, ' tis natural that the same should happen to a ship ; and I don't see why it should not, for my part. I was twice cast away on a Friday, and I don't like the ( lay at all.— Fraser. CELEBRATION OF THE BIRTH- DAY OF DR. PRIESTLEY. Monday last being the anniversary of the birth- day of the celebrated Dr. Priestley, dinners took place at various puoltc houses in the town. At three o'clock a large and highly respectable party sat down Wan excellent dinner at the bouse of Mr. Taylor, Aston- street. Mr. Billingham presided as chairman; and, after the removal of the cloth, proposed a number of appropriate toasts. On proposing the memory ot Dr. Priestley he spoke as follows : — To me it is a source of great satisfaction to behold so respectable a company as the one by which I am now sur- rounded, assembled to honour the memory of a man whose transcendent talents have rendered to his country most im- portant services, and whose conduct through life is worthy of our highest admiration. The purity of his principles— the soundness of his philosophy— the utility of the science he studied, together with the vast importance of those dis. coveries which his experiments brought to light, are circum- stances which the town of Birmingham can bear an honour- able testimony to— discoveries which distant ages will con- template with emotions of delight, and I make no doubt will have cause to bless the head that could connive, and the hand that could convey, such inestimable benefits to mankind as are treasured up in the truths he taught and the sublime subjects he studied. Gentlemen, it is much to be regretted that the intellectual attainments Dr. Priestley possessed are not periodically introduced to our notice, by persons more capable of exhibiting the powerful abilities that centered in so great a mind than the' humble individual who has this day the distinguished honour of addressing you. Surely, m Birmingham, where so great a debt of gratitude is due to Dr. Priestley, the 13th of March should never pass unnoticed; to say he had not his admirers in the classic circles of this town, would be a libel on a number of gentlemen who stand high in our estimation, were the members of the Philosophical Institution with their highly gifted and intelligent president at their head, to devote this 13th of March annually as a day for displaying to the arti- zans of Birmingham the superior importance to society of one branch of science which this astonishing man so in- tensely and so successfully studied, namely, chemistry; sure I am they would be listened to by a numerous com- pany which the circumstance must call together, and the day so dedicated would be deemed not spent in vain, the press would convey their observations to the public, and thousands in the British nation peruse with pleasure the proceedings of honouring the memory of one from whom they had received so many favours. The subject most dear to this good man's heart, and one in which he felt a pleasure in publishing to the world, was the principles contained in the religion he advocated, principles that waged war with every obstacle which opposes the onward course of man's elevation here, or his happiness hereafter— principles based on the foundation of love and mercy to the human race, re- gardless of class, colour, or condition; and whose introduc- tion into our world was for the express purpose of establish- ing peace on earth and extending good- will towards man. This was the gospel preached, and these the precepts he practised; notwithstanding the ardent zeal with which he advocated the creed that to him appeared most consistent, he sternly condemned every species of religious persecution as being contrary to the sentiments contained in the code of Christianity. On this subject that remarkable sentence of Mr. Pope appeared to meet his approval— " For modes of faith let graceless bigots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right." Gentlemen, I believe the whole of this truly excellent man's hie is worthy of our imitation. The sympathy he felt for the unfortunate, his habits of industry, frugality, and tem- perance, had he no other virtues to recommend him to our notice, call forth our warm admiration. In his character we behold the stern but steady opposer of the oppressor, the faithful friend of freedom, and the fearless advocate of truth and justice. There was no patriot in his day whose heart heat more warm for the liberties of his country, or a pen more pointed than his when exhibiting the cruelties and corruptions that were imposed upon the people by a wicked government,— not only lor his own country, but for the wel- fare of the world at large he manifested a deep concern; he knew the galling chains of slavery hung upon the wounded limbs of the negro— he beheld, with grief and indignation, their links extended round the universe, and, to his immortal honour be it recorded, did all in his power to snap them asunder. Though he could not succeed in destroying des- potism, he discovered in his day a remedy which Providence is now placing in the hearts of the people, that shall enable them to go on conquering and to conquer, till darkness shall be dispelled by light— truth succeed superstition— ig- norance be hurled from its haughty throne, and the United Empire of Great Britain be blest with equal laws imparti- ally administered and implicitly obeyed, it was the earnest desire of Dr. Priestley to introduce a plan by which the mind of the all- powerful many could be made tf reflect, convinced tlmt if the people gain cunrct information of the ( luioaee, from n similar source would they be enabled to find a remedy. The grand declaration of the learned Lord Bacon, that ' Knowledge is power,' Dr. Priestley knew was a truth to be ascertained only by an experimental acquaintance with human nature, tfie vast importance of the expression cannot be too deeply impressed upon the atten- tion of the people of England. Gentlemen, let us ask this important question, and let the history of the world give the answer. From whence have originated all those san- guinary wars so violently commenced and so vigorously car- ried on, from the Macedonian madman down to the remorseless Russian of the present day? The fruitful fields turned into a wilderness, cities sacked, and millions of the human. race savagely murdered? Truth, in language that cannot be controverted, tells us all these calamities have been caused by the craft and knowledge of the few, imposing upon the ignorance and superstition of the many, and it is only by increasing our knowledge of these facts, which will enable us to see through their tricks and with- stand their tyranny. It is a consolation to the real patriot to know that the disposition of the multitude is to increase the means of acquiring information ; that libraries of learn- ing, mechanics' institutes, day and night, Sunday and National schools, are multiplying through the British nation. Increase of knowledge is the prayer of the Darent and the passion of the child, age and youth have tiie means of in- formation within their " power, and are eagerly embracing them. This is the grand remedy the learned Dr. Priestley declared would reform abuses, create improvements, and nature designed her to be the wonder and admiration of the world. Yes, gentlemen, this good man knew there lay treasured up in the stores of information, those blessing^ for Great Britain that should enable them to possess that peace and prosperity which in his day they were so shame- fully deprived of. Gentlemen, what a cheering truth to be assured of that time is at length arrived, when corrupt men can no longer carry on their dark designs into execution, against the rights and liberties of the people of England. The glorious sun of knowledge has risen, its bright influ- ence extends to all quarters of the empire, all classes, ex- cept the sycophant who lives on the property ofthe people, are shaking from them that torpid lethargy in which they have too long indulged; information tells thein they are in possession jof a giant's power, and they are learning the science of properly applying it. I believe the period to be not very distant when they will be able to display that talent and ability, in the Government of their own affairs, tn. it shall rise superior to anything which has preceded it; they admire to a certain extent the theory of that Constitu- tion said to be British, one branch of which they claim as their property by the title deeds of the estate, and are de- termined not to rest satisfied till it is safe in their possession, to this end tended all the instruction, religious and political, which this eminent man ivas In the constant habit of im- parting to the people of England, that has'enabled them to tear the bandage from the eyes of their understanding, and pointed put to them a path which they must pursue if ever they attain to that eminence and independence on which every enlightened citizen of the British Empire ought to st nid. The capacious mind of Dr. Priestley comprehended the capabilities of the kingdom of England, to produce that support aud comfort for its inhabitants they stand in need of; he felt grateful to Providence for placing ns in the posi- tion we occupy, in a temperate climate, not injured by the i eat of the torrid, or harmed by the cold of the frigid zones, bounded by the immense oceans of the universe, whose eveiy sea rendered us that security we never could have obtained from any other quarter, that enabled us to ride upon its liquid element, smile at its strife, survey its angry surge and its foaming billows. He acknowledged the hand of Providence in planting among our vegetable substances the majestic oak, : ing of the forest, in impregnating the bowels of the island with those variety of minerals with which they abound, and all so suitable for the purposes to which they are applied, which has enabled us to build those stupendous ships of war with which our dock- yards and harbours abound, which has given us knowledge to understand their navigation, and courage to defend them from the assaults of the enemy, which has granted art and ingenuity to our miners and mechanics, that has enabled the one class to explore the coal mines of New- castle, the copper of Cornwall, the iron, tin, lead, stone, and clay, forming a vast magazine of wealth, from which the other class is enabled to manufacture articles suitable for all the markets of the world— with these blessings and laws founded upon justice, what earthly power can hinder our permanent prosperity in viewing the geographical position of Great Britain, and the capabilities of its people, the beautiful poet, Thompson, in rapturous admiration at the grandeur of the scene, gives vent to his feelings in the fol- lowing lines— The nations not so blessed as thee Must in their turn to tyrants fall, But thou shalt flourish great and free The dread and envy of them all. THE. BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. With this splendid panorama of British greatness | spread before our e/ es, let us this day declare, as long as life shall last our determination to do all in our power to add to its beauties- f> y defending its liberties against all parties disposed to def-* r° y them, let us render our assistance in facilitating tho » e political improvements which the common cause of our country and the enlightened period in which we live so loudly call for; by so doing we shall give strength and stability to the State, and be the instruments of hastening on that happy period when the brighest page of British history shall be unfolded to view, having inscribed on its surface in imperishable characters the glorious character of Great Britain— unity and universal suffrage, England free, justice administered, and God glorified. This was the ardent desire by day, and the earnest prayer by night, of that illustrious man whose memory we now honour. The following toasts were given duf ing the evening " The sovereign majesty of the people, and perish every obstacle that oppress their prosperity." " The freedom of the press; may its potent power put down tyranny, and permanently establish peace." " The glorious principles of civil and religious liberty: may they reign triumphant over the whole habitable globe." " Daniel O'Connell, Esq., the advocate for Ireland's hap- Einess; may justice crown his efforts, and his country be lessed with peace and prosperity." " The memory of Cobbett and Cartwright; may the poli- tical principles they published find an advocate in the heart of every Englishman." " Messrs. Attwood and Scholefield, Members for the Borough ; may they be able to give their constituents com- plete satisfaction by an honest discharge of their dutj." Mr. JOHN PIERCE returned thanks. " Lord Durham, the dauntless champion of British free- dom ; may the principles he advocates be speedily put in practice." At the Bell and Candlestick, in Ann- street, another and equally respectable company dined. Mr. George Wright was chairman and Mr. George Edmonds was vice- chair- man. After the removal of the cloth, the chairman ad- verted to the object which had brought them together, and in a very excellent speech detailed the merits of the dis- tinguished man, the anniversary of whose birth- day they had met to celebrate. Various popular toasts were given during the evening, which were spoken to by Messrs. Ed- monds, Dttyer, and others. Mr. Dwyer acknowledged the toast of " Justice to Ireland," and in a very lucid arid af- fecting manner detailed the wrongs of Ireland. He said, he had had extensive opportunities of knowing the real con - dition of that country for many years, and it was his firm belief that there never was a people more cruelly and un- justly treated than the people of Ireland. He was proud, however, to find that better days were dawning on that country, and he had not the least doubt, if Lord Mulgrave was allowed to rule a few years longer, he would remove all real cause of discontent, and raise Ireland to that condition in which she ought to be. If the present Ministry had done no more than appoint Lord Mulgrave as Governor of Ireland, they would be greatly entitled to the approbation of every humane heart and philanthropic mind. If it was only for the sake of Ireland, he hoped the people of Eng- land and Scotland would retain in office the present Minis- try. ( Loud cheers.) The existence of peace in Ireland depended upon their continuance in office, and notwith- standing all that had been said about Mr. O'Connell sup- porting them, he ( Mr. Dwyer) felt convinced that his po- licy was good, his motives honest, and must eventually be duly appreciated by those who now felt disposed to under- value them. LOSS OF THE STIRLING CASTLE. The arrival of the James from Sydney, New South Wales, at Liverpool, on Saturday, brings the particulars of the shipwreck of this long missed vessel. She sailed from New South Wales early in May last year, and was wrecked on the 21st of that month in lat. 34., long. 155. 12. east, on Eliza- reef. The crew immediately took to the boats, and put to sea with the intention of making Repulse- bay. The two boats parted company on the third day. One portion of the crew, consisting of the captain, his wife, chief mate, and some of the sailors, were thrown on an unknown island inhabited by savages; and the following interesting narrative from the mouth of Mrs. Eraser, the captain's wife, who escaped, is from the Australian of October 18: — " Mrs. Fraser called at our office on Saturday afternoon, and gave us the following particulars:— The longboat's company consisted of Captain Fraser, Mr. Brown, the chief mate, Mrs. Fraser, and Mr. Baxter, the second mate.— After they had been on shore some time a great number of the natives were observed, and Mr. Fraser suggested giving themselves up quietly to the natives, as they were entirely defenceless, and of course already in their power. They had scarcely time to make the suggestion when several tribes came down upon them, one of which immediately captured Captain Fraser; another tribe took Mr. Brown, and a third Mr. Baxter. The natives would not allow Mrs. Fraser to go with either of them, and left her alone upon a sandy beach, and the next morning a number of old women with some children came down, and they gave Mrs. Fraser to understand that she must go with them and carry one of the children upon her shoulders, which Mrs. Fraser of necessity complied with. BIrs. Fraser states that she travelled many miles into the bush with these women and the child, and was frequently exhausted upon the road She remained about three weeks in the bush with these people, when she fell in with her husband, Captain Fraser, who was dragging a board for the natives, in which he had been principally engaged since the time he parted from his wife. Captain Fraser was so dreadfully fatigued with heavy labour that he could not move the load that had been con- signed to him, and implored his wife to assist hiin. Mrs. Fraser states that she had neither the strength nor the liberty to do so, she herself being employed in the same manner at the time, and the natives keeping a sharp look- out after her. She was under the necessity of leaving the captain. When she returned shortly afterwards, she found he was speared in the back of the shoulder, which had been inflicted upon him for not making any progress with the wood. Mrs. Fraser remained with her husband until sunset, when he expired of his wound. The last words he uttered were, " Eliza, I am! gone." The savages immediately dragged Mrs. Fraser away from the body, dug a hole, and buried it. In eight days from this brutal affair the same cannibals killed Mr. Brown, the chief mate, by holding fire- brands to his legs and so burning him upwards. The cause of their destrojing Mr. Brown, was in consequence of his showing some signs of dissatisfaction at the death of his captain. The party now consisted of only two persons, Mrs. Fraser and Mr. Baxter; but they were parted from each other by many miles' distance, a large river running between them. These two unfortunate creatures remained with the natives about two months before they were res- cued, enduring the greatest misery from hunger and fatigue. Mrs. Fraser was employed in cutting down and carrying wood, fetching water, and fishing for the natives; and Mr. Baxter was engaged in the same manner on the other side of the river. The steward of the vessel had walked over- land to Moreton Bay, and there gave information of the si- tuation of Mr. Fraser arid his unfortunate companions, when a man named Graham, who was well acquainted with the bush, volunteered to head a party to the shipwrecked peo- ple, and pledged himself to rescue them from the savages. Lieutenant Otter and a party were immediately dispatched, and, with Graham, went in search of the unfortunate people. Mrs. Fraser states that he went in the miist of the natives, and, at the risk of his life, snatched her up and ran away to his party with her, and afterwards recovered the second officer in the same courageous manner. Mrs. Fraser re- quests us to make public her expressions of gratitude to those who have assisted her out of misery, and relieved her distresses, and begs us to thank them for their humane con- duct towards her. Mrs. Fraser intends to return immedi- ately to her natire land, where she has a large family." DISTRESS IN THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND. ration of turf for fuel has failed them— the herring fishing has failed them— and, above all, the crops have miserably failed. In many places disease has attacked their flocks— the fields yield no meat, the ' flocks are cut off from the lold, there is no herd in the stall.' Yes, my lord, many thousands are at this moment enduring the sternest priva- tions that can fall to the lot of humanity—' The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the mouth for thirst; the young children ask bread, but no man breaketh it unto them.'" The propriety of attributing any part of the distress to the failure of the kelp manufacture is doubtful, Kelp is a miserable substitute for barilla, containing not more than 5 or 6 per cent, of alkaline salt. It is the produce of burnt sea- weed. During the war, when foreign barilla could not be procured, the process of kelp making first came into notice, and the tenants on the coast found themselves then, for the first time, obliged to pay their greedy and rapacious landlords not only for the fruits of the land, but for the very weedage that covered the rocks of the ocean. No sooner was this new source of rent discovered than it was sought to be protected by heavy duties on the foreign article, though that yields, so superior is it, some 25 or 30 per cent, of alkali. For once, however, the landlords failed in their patriotic struggles; the soap and glass makers contrived to have the duties on Spanish barilla lowered; and from that moment kelp, as an article of manufacture, vanished from the market. This took place some six or seven years ago. The people still use the sea- weed as a manure; the princi- pal and almost the only difference that the reduction of the barilla duties has effected is to restore the rocks to their ancient master— Neptune— instead of making them a source of revenue for the Highland Lairds, and an argument for weed protection laws. The causes of the almost constant distress of the High- lands of Scotland, saving always such a harvest as that of last year, are the same in a great measure as those that have produced distress in Ireland— the disproportionate amount of labour employed in rearing food, from the smallness of the farms, and the poverty and ignorance of the tenants. There is besides in the Highlands no practical poor- law for any one, and no provision for the able- bodied at all. Till there be something of that kind the Lairds will not be impelled to do their duty, nor will the people learn their rights. Dr. Macleod, in one part of his address, stated, that in a case that he knew, the rent of the landlord had fallen, i. e. his weed rent, from 14,000?. to 4,000/., and asked how, having got together 0,000 of a population on the former rent, he could now maintain them on the latter. We admit the difficulty, but put it in another way. The landlord got to- gether and kept together these 6,000 for his own benefit, and so long as their being kept together, and his benefit were united, no man was more indignant at an attempt to disperse them. Now, when it is for his benefit that they should disperse, he calls on the public to pay for the process. Having pocketted the profit, he would fain make a present to John Bull of the loss! This is thej plain English of it. We shall be misunderstood if it be supposed that we wish to check the stream of charity towards these famishing people. We would ihave their present want redressed, but, at the same ' time, we would, if possible, prevent its re- currence. One of the schemes for the relief of the High- lands, is to permit a quantity of foreign corn to be imported thither free of duty! Such is the result of the Corn laws, that it is only by suspending their operation that the people can be saved from perishing! Will any man after this deny their right to the title of starvation laws? LAW OF LIBEL. The following is an abstract of Mr. O'Connell's " Bill to secure the Liberty of the Press :—" The preamble sets forth that " Whereas the freedom of the press is the chief promoter and best safeguard of the liberties of the people, and ought to he effectually protected against all vexatious prosecutions and frivolous suits; and the law of libel ought to be made as clear and distinct as possible; be it therefore enacted, & c. " 1. Ex officio informations not to be filed on account of libels. " 2. Indictments for libel not to be prosecuted upon the mere allegation of the criminal intentions of the publisher. " 3. In cases of public libel, not necessary to prove com- mission of crime to which libel is accessorial. " 4. Indictments for personal libels to be prosecuted by the person aggrieved alone. " 5. No action maintainable for words written or printed, unless such would be actionable if spoken. " 6. Defendant in actions for libel may prove tlie truth of his allegations. " 7. At the trial of any indictment for a personal libel, it shall be necessary for the prosecutor to prove the service on the publisher thereof, either personally, or at his place of abode ( one week at least before the indictment found), of a notice in writing, calling on him to retract and contradict the libellous matter. " 8. If publisher shall, within one week from the serving ot such notice as aforesaid, disclose the name of the author, and furnish the prosecutor with sufficient evidence to sustain the prosecution against the author, it shall not he com- petent for the prosecutor to sustain an indictment against the publisher. " 9. If action against author fails, publisher to pay the costs of proceedings to the prosecutor. " 10. No special jury without consent of defendant. " 11. Counsel for prosecution not entitled to reply, except in certain cases. " 12. Attachment not to issue for constructive contempt of court. " 13. Relates to the recovery of costs. Where damages do not exceed 40s., defendent shall be entitled to costs as if a verdict for liirn; if exceeding 40s, and not exceeding 20/., neither party to be entitled to costs from the other; and if exceeding 20Z. and not exceeding 50?., the plaintiff not to be entitled to mora costs than damages; and if exceeding 50I. the plaintiff to be entitled to full costs, as between at- torney and client. " 14. Act not to extend to prosecutions for blasphemous libels, or libels on His Majesty. " 15. Not to affect privileges of Houses of Parliament. " 16. Limiting duration of imprisonment and amount of fine. No convicted libeller, whether public or personal, to be sentenced to any greater length of imprisonment than six months, nor to a greater tine than 100/., nor to any other punishment than to imprisonment or to the payment of a fine. " 17. Not to extend to limit the punishment of accessor- ies before the fact. " 18. Not to prosecutions for a misdemeanour in ' certain cases.' " 19. Not to extend to Scotland. " 20. Repeal former Acts respecting libels. " 21. Defendant may prove that libel was published with- out his consent. " 22. Construction of terms. Public libel shall be con- strued to include any matter, written, or printed, reflecting upon His Majesty's Government or His Majesty's Ministers, or upon either or both Houses of Parliament, or upon any constituted authority in the state, or upon the conduct and management of public affairs in any department of the state, whether foreign or domestic, or upon the administration of justice; and shall also include any matter, whether written or printed, that may be accessorial to the- commission of any felony whatsoever; and that the words ' personal libel' shall be construed to include any matter reflecting on or injurious to any individual whatsoever, whether in a public or private station, or rank, or office, or employment or trade, or pro- fession, or business, or occupation. " 23. Act may be altered," A public meeting, to consider of the best means of meet- ing the extreme distress now prevailing in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, was held in the Egyptian Hall, at the Mansion House, on Saturday last. The meeting was addressed at great length by a reverend gentleman, one of a deputation— Dr. Macleod. The following is a part of the picture of misery drawn by the reverend speaker: — " Throughout all the Western Islands, beginning with Colonsay anil Jura, along the coasts of Argyle, Inverness, and Ross- shires, on to the remote isles of Orkney and Shet- land, the misery extends. The population of these districts amounts to 160,000. There are many entire parishes in these districts without meal, and having no more potatoes ( their sole subsistence) than sufficient to keep the people in existence a few weeks, while a fearful proportion of them are without a peat for turf) to burn, or an article of food to maintain life, except the miserable subsistence obtained from shell- fish and sea- weed collected at low water— hud- dled together from want of blankets or bed- clothes, under a covering ot dried ferns, or rushes, and, as a population, with- out seed either of potatoes or corn for the ensuing season. Heaven forbid, my lord, that I should dare to make one statement which I do not believe to be true, and for which I cannot produce the authority of men of character and worth. And if all the communications which we have received were duly considered by this great meeting, the conviction could not fail to reach them that the state of the poor popula- tiomvhose cause I advocate, is such as in these realms has sel- dom been equalled in the character of the distress, or the ex- tent to which it prevails. Every source has failed them ; the kelp manufacture has failed them— the employment arising from harvest work in the south ha3 failed them— the prepa- WARWICKSHIRE QUARTER SESSIONS. The General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, for the gaol delivery of prisoners only, was held on Tuesday last. There was an unusually small number of magistrates present; among whom we perceived W. Dickens, Esq., W. Staun ton, Esq., J. C. Bracebridge, Esq., E. L. Williams, Esq., Hyla Holden, Esq., the Rev. J. R. Bloomfield, Rev. Mr. Bree, & e., & c. There were about fourteen or fifteen counsel present, and many cases, during both Tuesday and Wednesday, were advocated on the part of the prisoners, in accordance with the new arrangements. This, as was anticipated, tended much to lengthen the business of the Sessions. The following gentlemen were sworn of the GRAND JURY. R. P. Westall, of Birmingham, Foreman. William Wall Brown John Burberry, Leek Wot- ton A. Murcott, Offchurch Robert Welchman, East- throp John Macbin, Birmingham George Jones, Birmingham Benjamin Sutton, Birmin- ham. Wm. Young, Leamington John Russell, Marton James Whartman, of Bir- mingham George E. Smith, Leaming- ton John R. Godfrey, Leaming- ton J. Sabin Dodd, Radford Richard Garner, Southam John Wilmot, Birmingham Charles Dicken, Meriden Charles Blakesley, Meriden Thomas Whale, Marton. Mr. Dicken, the Chairman, in addressing the jury, said, that in the absence of the chairman, Sir Eardley Wilmot, Bart., who was detained in London on his Parliamentary duties, it fell to him to briefly allude to the state of the pre- sent calendar. This, he was sorry to perceive, was unpre cedentedly heavy, being nearly one- fourth more than the usual number for some sessions past. There was, however, no case of any moment, which required particular notice from him ; they would, therefore, retire, and at the earliest period present their bills. A common jury was immediately impannelled, of whic'. i Mr. William Phillips, hatter, of High- street, was the fore man. E. L. Williams Esq., presided at a second « ourt, on the Nisi Prius side of the bar. LIFE IN LONDON. DICKSON V. THUMFLE Mr. Tliumple was a curious looking individual, and was summoned by his uncle, before the Court in Kingsgate- street, for the sum ot 1/. 8s., money advanced by the plaintiff to the hopeful defendant. Poor Master Tbumple had, it appeared, unfortunately, in some moment of inspiration and ill temper, written the fol- lowing:— My uncle, my uncle— he had a carbuncle, ^ Rich and red, on the top of his nose ; Three warts on his thumb, and a lot more to come, And a corn upon each of his toes. Such a thing was not to be borne, and therefore the uncle had resolved to take the " loron him." Mr. Commissioner Dubois: Pray what is the demand for? Plaintiff: ' Cos he says I'm a fool, sir. ( Laughter.) Commissioner: But surely truth cannot be so expen- sive ? Plaintiff: Vy in regard of that, I don't mean nothink, but I means he howes me. the money; ' cosvy, eh? Vy, ' cos I lent it him. Vot's plainer ner that? Commissioner: What was the money lent for ? Plaintiff: Because I had it to lend, and he wanted it. Commissioner: But the jury require a more satisfactory answer than that. Why did you lend it? Plaintiff: Because he said he wanted it. Commissioner: Now if you do not come to the point, I shall dismiss the case altogether. How came the defendant indebted to you? Plaintiff: Because he borrowed my money? Commissioner: But did he, I ask you, sir, borrow your money ? Plaintiff: Didn't he!— that's the pint. Commissioner ( to the jury) : Gentlemen, the plaintiff in this matter appears determined not to give a straightforward answer— you will, therefore, deal with the matter as you may think proper. One of the Jurymen: Perhaps, sir, you will be good enough to tell me in what manner the defendant is indebted to you? Plaintiff: In course ; I hasn't no objection. ( Laughter.) Juryman: Well, sir, it appears you have summoned your nephew, and the only support you have brought forward is that of your nephew having written a few couplets upon you. Do you know that he wrote them ? Plaintiff: To be sure I do. He carn't mean nobody but me. Juryman : But when was the money lent that you claim ? Plaintiff: When was it ? Why when he asked me for it. The Jury came to a decision that the complainant could not substantiate his case, or would not, and accordingly it was dismissed. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. ELECTION OF GUARDIANS. SIR,— When it happens that public servants delibe- rately insult their electors, by refusing' to comply with their just and reasonable wishes, a new election pre- sents a proper opportunity for the public to vindicate their authority, and to teach their officers that the ex- pression of the public voice is a law which is not to be disobeyed with impunity. The announcement of a new election of Guardians for this parish will remind the rate- payers of a case precisely of the character I have referred to. It will be recollected that at the first public meeting' of the rate- payers, after the expose I made in 1835, of the extravagant and illegal expenditure of the parish funds at the Workhouse, the following Resolution was passed as the best means of preventing the recurrence of such delinquencies:— Public meeting of the Rate- payers, called by the Overseers, Public- office, 28th July, 1835. Resolved, That the Overseers be requested, in every instance, to give, at least, seven days notice,} through the Birmingham newspapers, of their intention to pass their accounts before the magistrates; and that the Vestry Clerk be required to remind the present and succeeding Overseers of this Reso- lution. Notwithstanding, however, the importance of this resolution, which is just and fair in its object, and courteous in its phraseology, the Overseers have uni- formly treated it with indifference and contempt. Having reminded the rate- payers of this circumstance, I shall merely subjoin the names of the Overseers who have passed their accounts before the magistrates, since the resolution of the rate- payers was recorded, leaving them to be re- elected or rejected as the town may think proper. Messrs. Isaac Salt, Worcester- street, Henry Ash, Dale End. Samuel Woolfield, Holloway- head. Joseph Harris, Bull- street. George Melville Horton, Great Hampton- street. David Malins, jun., Great Charles- street. James Bracey Perry, St. Paul's- square. Thomas Hood, Moor- street. John Partou, High- street. Joshua Howell, Bull- street. John Boucher, New- street. John Smith, Coleshill- street. John Frederick Parker, Camden street. Edwin Abraham Butler, Hockley- bank. James Ciarke Purbrick, New- street. Edward Montgomery Martin, Dale- end. Theophilus Merry, Cherry- street. Frederick Dee, Temple- row. I have merely to add, that the conduct of the Over- seers, in refusing to comply with the wishes of the town is less pardonable, from the fact of their having- admitted, in one of - their anonymous letters to me, through their organ, Mr. D. Malins, Jun., one of their body, that " My determination to oppose the passing of the Overseers' accounts before the magis- trates was a wise one, and would, no doubt, be attended with beneficial results." I am, sir, your most obedient servant, J. B. ORAM. New Town Brewery, 17th March, 1837. RIGHT OF LANDLORDS TO VOTE. Are landlords of property of the annual value of twelve pounds who are compounded with by the over- seers in consequence of their being willing and ag- ree- ing to pay a reduced rate for the same, whether the property he occupied or not, entitled to vote at meet- ings of rate- payers for the election of guardians ? My opinion, I respectfully state, is that they are entitled to vote at such meetings. Those who hold a contrary opinion, found their decisions upon the assumed fact, that such landlords do not pay the whole of the sum charged upon them by the rates. It maybe useful, there- fore, to examine into a case of the kind with a view to a right understanding of the matter. Suppose a person, owner of three, houses, of the annual value by the levy book of 10/. each, together amounting to 30/. By the Guardian Act the overseeis are authorised and em- powered, in and by every rate made for the relief of the poor of this parish, to rate and assess the owner or landlord of such premises for the payment of such rate — it is further enacted, that if such owner or landlord shall be willing- and agree to pay a reduced rate for the same, whether such houses be occupied or not, the overseers are required to compound with such landlord or owner for the payment of the rates charged thereon, by making a deduction from the amount that would otherwise be due, of any sum not exceeding one- third the amount of such rat;. The deduction, it must be borne in mind, is not made by way of relief, but for a presumed equivalent, viz., that the land- lord agrees to pay whether the premises be occu- pied or not— he is compelled to become a party to an arrangement considered beneficial to the parish by its increasing the facility in collecting the rates hut he has the option of either paying at one rate only during the time his property is occupied, or at another but re- duced rate, provided he eng- age to pay during the whole time, whether his property be occupied or not; if he agree to take upon himself the liability and risk of voids, the overseers cannot, in such wise, charge upon him the same amount that would OTHERWISE be due; they have no power to charge him more than the reduced rate; the reduced rate is the whole amount that can be demanded or recovered from him ; and in paying it he pays the whole of the sum charged upon Iiim, and is, therefore, I contend, entitled to vote. I am aware that a case has lately been submitted to counsel, and an opinion given, at variance with what I have presumed to state; but I am by no means satisfied that the case has been stated so to as show, with sufficient accuracy and clearness, that no relief to the parties compounding is intended or contemplated by the act, but that it is meant as an equitable arrange- ment, by means of which the rates on small properties may be collected with greater facility and at less expense. In short, that, on the whole, the relief or benefit is sought to be conferred on the parish, and not on either the occupiers or the owner of the property; that the reduced amount, coupled with the liability, nay the being compelled, to pay during the time the property is void, is as full payment as the larger amount would be withoht such liability, and is all that can be charged upon, or demanded from such owner or land- lord. If there remain any doubt on the subject, surely the rate- payers will not sanction and adopt'the course least in accordance with justice and common sense. I remain, & c., March 17, 1837. HENRY KNIGHT. THE MEETING. Moseley- road, March 15, 1837. SIR,— I now hand you a copy of the letter of the High Bailiff, which that gentleman addressed to me on the 13th of February, in compliance with my request that he would state, in writing, what were the points he considered Mr. Annfield and I had to place before the counter- requisitionists as the result of our conver- sation held that morning. You were informed by me on Friday last of the cause of the delay in the trans- mission of the letter, and that it was such as to be beyond my controul. In the lace of your own disclaimer at the foot of my letter to you, which appeared in your paper of the 4th instant, and at the time the issue between us was in suspense, it would have been unfair on your part to have allowed any article to appeal in your columns against me, even had it borne the real signature of the writer; but as you inserted in your last publication a letter subscribed " A Constant Reader," charging me with wilful misrepresentation, I feel it necessary to add, that I consider fictitious signatures are not allowable where personal truth and honour are attacked ; and that by introducing such a letter you have so far de- parted from what is becoming in such cases, that I shall not deem either your own comments, or the un- founded personalities of your masked scribblers, de- serving- of any further notice. I remain, sir, Your obedient servant, JOHN M. KNOTT. ( COPY.) " Dear Sir,— You and your friends having protested ' against being called upon to assert your rights as members of the Church of England 111 a Dissenting Meeting- house,' I have taken the liberty of suggesting that the intended Town's Meeting shall be held in Mr. Bindley's ( late Mr. Beardsworth's) Repository, and that the expense of obtaining- the same shall be borne, one half by you and your party, and the other half by the Requisitionists. I will also endeavour to make such arrangements that a space on one side of, and close to the chair, shall be reserved for you and your friends. I am, dear sir, yours, very truly, " ROBERT WEBB. " Camphill, 13th February, 1837-" [ We have studied to treat Mr. Knott throughout the entire of this matter with the utmost personal courtesy; his petulance shows that it has been thrown away; but as our conduct was adopted for our own satisfac- tion, not for his, we are not disappointed at the result. His notice could confer on us neither honour nor dis- tinction. We cannot, therefore, regret its being in fu- ture, withheld.— E. B. J.] THE NEW POOR LAW. No 7. The case of the impotent poor differs considerably from tli at of the able- bodied poor. To the latter work- house discipline, so to speak, may be properly applied, inasmuch as it is neither meant nor wished that they should take up their abode there, and the briefer their stay as lodgers the better it must be for the rate- payers, and beyond all question the better for them- selves. But to the impotent, if from some casualty that is curable, relief must be given until the cure is effected, if from some disease or natural defect or de- cay it must be given for life. To them, therefore, whether their stay is to be short or long, the workhouse ought not to be a place of discomfort. It is stated by the Assistant Commissioners, 011 the authority of nu- merous witnesses, that of the cases of pauperism that are the daily subject of examination, few, if any, are the result of misfortune; that all of them, or at least an overwhelming majority, may be traced to dissipa- tion and idleness. I am not disposed to doubt the truth of this statement. Under ordinary circumstances it will seldom happen that those virtues which lead, by almost necessary consequence, to comfort and inde- pendence— sobriety, caution, industry— terminate in want and a workhouse. The experience of us moderns confirms in this the fine observation of the ancient writer —" Ihave been young and now am I old, yet have I not seen the virtuous man forsaken or his children beg- ging their bread." But though I do not at all doubt the statement to which I am adverting-, I hesitate to admit the inference that has been drawn from it. It has been concluded, that because poverty is commonly the result of crime or carelessness, therefore, for the sake of example, the bread that is eaten by the aged and helpless, as well as the young and able, ought to be eaten, as the wise man expresses it, " with bitter herbs," with a certain degree of discomfort and dis- agreeability, in order to draw a line of distinction be- tween the effects of a negligent and of a careful dispo- sition, and so to incline the labouring community to- wards the latter, and to turn them away from the former. The hope that by any unrequired confinement, any unnecessary deprivation of impotent claimants 011 the bounty of the parish, the manners of the com- munity at large will be amended, appears to me to be a very groundless hope. The causes, as far as I am able to understand them, of the imprudence that forms so marked a feature in the character of the labouring classes, are two— first, their general ignorance, which leads them 011 every occasion of prosperity to catch at the present enjoyment without calculation of the future; and second, and in a much higher degree, the ever- recurring fluctuations of trade and commerce that have, for the last twenty or five and twenty years more especially, . taken place in England. It would be altogether foreign to my purpose to inquire into the causes of the fluctuations, or how far they may be modified or prevented. But sure I am, until they are prevented, and until the common people of England are better instructed than they now are, it would be the height of folly to expect from them any steady or marked exhibition of prudent and careful habits. And of all the methods that could be devised for producing- such habits amongst them, that which is least likely to succeed is an undue seve- rity or parsimony in the treatment of them, when inca- pable of labour by infirmity or age. There seeins, in- deed, something like a contradiction in terms, to say that an application to the overseer in old age is the constant result of a manhood spent without foresight, and at the same time to affirm that a want of foresig- ht in manhood may be cured by - a consideration of the treatment to which old age is subjected when so ap- plying. I come then to a wholly different conclusion from that which the Commissioners have arrived at in regard to the necessity or propriety of giving relief to the impotent, unless in the workhouse. I am quite aware, and it is right that the public should be aware, that the new Poor- law does not- iuterdict the relief of the impotent poor, nor, under extraordinary circum- stances, of the able- bodied poor, out of the house. And the practice hitherto, in respect of the former class, has been conformable. At this moment there are very many impotent poor in all the unions that have been formed who receive out- door relief. But admitting this to be the fact, and the rather that very mistaken opinions are abroad on the subject, I must still remark that the whole tendencies of the law, and all the arguments as well as leanings of the central board, and of their co- adjutors the Assistant Commissioners, are towards in- door relief. All the arrangements of the unions tend that way, the edification of new and enlargement of old workhouses, all proceed 011 the assumption that the practice of out- door relief is for the present suffered, not approved merely as one to which the public have been so long accustomed that it cannot be immediately broken off. S. FURIOUS DRIVING. SIR,— You will oblige me by calling the attention of the police to the very dangerous practice of furiously driving the water carts in the directions of the pumps in Digbeth. An accident took place 011 Wednesday morning last, in Bull- street, of which I am the suf- ferer, solely proceeding from the above- named practice. The bearer who was driving me will state the parti- culars. Not the slightest blame can be attached to my driver, which can be proved by Mr. Fullford, ( into whose shop I was carried,) and several of the shop- keepers, on the spot where the accident took place. I am, sir, & c. EnwiN BOTT. NO. 9, Clarence- row, Newhall- hill, Thursday, March 16. BIRMINGHAM MARKET. Corn Market, March 16. Very little business has been done in the corn trade during tho week. At to- day's market there was a good supply of nil kinds of grain, with a dull sale for every article. Wheat of fine quality sup- ported the terms of last week, while inferior sorts were offering at less money with very few buyers Barley for malting Is. per quarter lower; grinding qualities were almost neglected Outs were in little demand at a reduction of 6d. to Is. per quarter.— Beans, both old and new, barely maintained the terms of this day se'nnight Peas almost without enquiry. WHEAT— per G2lbs. 8. d. 8. d. Old 7 6 _ 7 9 New 7 0 — 76 Irish 6 0— 6 6 B Alt LEY— per Imp. Quarter. For Maltillg 34 0 — 37 0 For Grinding, periUbt 3 6 — 3 9 MALT— per Imperial Bushel. Old and new 8 0 — 90 OATS— per 3911) 8. Old 3 6 — 3 9 New 3 6— 310 Irish a 9 — 3 3 BEAN S — per bag, 10 score gross. 8. d. s. d. Old 17 6— 19 0 New 16 0— 18 0 PEAS— perbag of 3 Hush. Imp. FOR BOILING. White 18 0 — 19 0 Grey 16 6— 18 0 FOR GRINDING. per bag of 10 score 16 0 — 16 6 New 17 0— 18 0 FLOUR— per sack o/ 280 » » . net. Fine 45 0 — 46 0 Seconds.... 40 0 — 42 0 TOWN INFIRMARY, MARCH 17.— Surgeon of the week, Mr. Bellamy. Patients admitted, lOj discharged, 13; in the house, 132; Out- patients visited and in attendance, 697. Midwifery cases, 3. GENERAL HOSPITAL, MARCH 17.— Physician and Surgeon of tha Patients of the week, Dr. J. Johnstone and Mr. Jukes. Visitors, Mr. James James and Mr. Piercy. In- patients admitted, 39; out, 95. In- patients discharged, 28; out, 45. Remaining in tho house, 181. BIRMINGHAM DISPENSARY, MARCH 17.— Sick patients relieved, 375; midwifery cases, 20. STATE OF THE WORKHOUSE UP TO MARCH 14. Wo- INFANTS. Men. men. Boys. Girls. Male. Fem. Total. 160 177 11 16 8 12 384 Admitted since .... 10 19 3 5 9 9 55 Born in the House 170 196 14 21 17 21 439 Discligd, absconded, 4 15 2 1 3 9 31 166 181 12 20 14 12 405 Number of Cases relieved last week NumberofChildreninthe Asylum..., * Of whom 3 women and 1 male infant died. . 2,520 . 185 METEOROLOGICAL DIARY. FURNISHEDBY MR. WOLLER, E DOBASTON- ST RE F. T. Barometer at noon. Ex- treme during night. Ther- mome- ters morn. Extreme heat during day. Ther- mome- ter at noon. State of Wind nt noon. Remarks at noon. Mar. 11 29 55 34 0 42 0 50 0 44 0 W Fair 12 29 80 35 0 44 0 48 0 42 0 NE It am 13 30 0 35 0 42 0 46 0 40 0 NE Fair 14 30 8 34 0 42 0 43 0 38 0 NE Fair 15 30 9 32 0 43 0 45 0 46 0 NE Fair 1G 39 5 35 0 41 0 46 0 44 0 NE Fair 17 30 10 39 0 43 0 49 0 45 0 NE Fair BIRTH. On the 13th inst., at Woodlands, the seat of Walter Wil- kins, Esq., the lady of J. Meyrick, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIAGES. On the 15th inst., at Aston, Mr. Thomas Hinkly, of Bordesley, to Miss Barretts, of Thorpe- street. On the 16th inst., at St. Thomas's, Mr. Thomas Saville, of Bromsgrove- street, to Emma, second daughter of Mr. William Jones, of Bond- street. On Monday last, at Erigbaston Church, Mr. Henry Piner, to Miss Mary Ann Smith, both of this town. On the 6th inst., at St. Philip's, Mr. Thomas Cook, of this town, to Jane, eldest daughter of the late Stephen Hopley, of Walsall. On Tuesday last, at Edgbaston, by the Rev. R. Rawlins, M. A., Mr. James Beddoe, of Bradford, to Ann, daughtec of Mr. Rawlins, of Rotton Park. On the 13th inst., at the Collegiate Church, Wolverhamp- ton, Mr. Thomas Poulton, of Wombourrie, to Maria, third daughter of the late Mr. James Evans, of Bilston. On Sunday last, at St. Peter's, Hereford, by the Rev. Mr. Barker, Mr. W. Caswall, cutler, to Miss Caroline Carpenter, both of Hereford. Lately, at Dowles, Worcestershire, by the Rev. Joshua Fletcher, Charles Edwards, Esq., of Kinnerton Court, Radnorshire, to Theodosia, eldest daughter of Wm. Piper, Esq., of the Hill Farm, near Bewdley. DEATHS. On the 8th instant, aged 29, deeply lamented, Elizabeth, the beloved wife of Mr. Thomas Clarke, of Digbeth. On the 2nd inst., aged 36, after a long and painful illness, Mary Onions, wife of Mr. Samuel Onions, jeweller, of Great Hampton- street. On the 3rd inst., sincerely and deservedly regretted by a numerous circle of friends, Anne, relict of the late Mr. Charles Bragg, of Bordesley- place, and second daughter of the late Mr. John Aston, of Lionel- street, aged 29. O11 the 9th inst,, of influenza, Mrs. Elizabeth Burden, housekeeper to Mr. Joseph Jerome, of the Hope and Anchor, Holland- street. On the 3rd inst., aged 46, Jane, wife of Mr. Morris, and daughter of Mr. Richard Tutin, of High- street. On the 19th ult., Mr. Thomas Curtis, in the 71st year of his age. On Tuesday last, at his residence at Camphill, in the 66th year of his age, John Simcox, Esq. On the 10th inst., John Acklenbrooke, Esq., ofWollaston Hall, Worcestershire, in the 78th year of his age. Yesterday week, after a long illness, in the 28th year of his age, John, youngest son of the late Mr. Bishop, of Lancaster- street. On Monday last, Mr. John Smith, who was, from the commencement in 1796, the faithful, highly valued, and con- fidential conductor of the Old Onion Mill Flour and Bread Company, of this town ; in him the proprietors have to re- gret the loss of a truly honest servant. On Tuesday last, Mr. Alexander Sanders, aged 81 years, upwards of 40 years beadle of St. Martin's Church, in this town, in which situation he conducted himself with great punctuality and faithfulness. The deceased was long known as a celebrated change- ringer. On the 10th inst., at Harefield Park, after a few days' ill- ness, Major- General Sir Henry Frederick Cooke, K. C. H. On Saturday last, at her son's residence in this town, aged 54, Mrs. Hughes, relict of the Rev. R. Hughes, Rector of Shelsley Walsh, Worcestershire. On the 13th inst., at Leamington, Georgiana Hamilton Coghlan, daughter of the late Mr. G. Coghlan, printer, of Paternoster- row, in her 21st year. On Saturday last, Mary Ann, the wife of Mr. W. Lang- ham, of Leamington, aged 44years, deeply lamented by her surviving relations. On Sunday last, at the Barley Mow, Presteign, Here- fordshire, Miss Stephens, aged 86. On the 11th inst., at Ross, Herefordshire, in his 88th year, Moses Fernandez, Esq., late of Ormond- street, London. On the 11th inst., at Woodstock, at an advanced age, Mr. Wm. Perry, for many years a surgeon of that place. On the 11th instant, in'the 43rd year of his age, deeply lamented, Fowler Price, Esq., of Huntingdon Court, neat Hereford. THE. BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. LONDON GAZETTES. FRIDAY, MARCH 10. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. MARCH ft— FREDERICK COOK, Bury St. Edmunds, common carrier. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. GEORGE LUSH, Bristol and Bath, provision merchant. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. THOMAS CHANDLER, late of Wood. street, Cheapsiae, and of City- terrace, City. road, warehouseman, April 6, at the Court of Bankruptcy. BANKRUPTS. The Bankrupts to surrender at the Court of Commissioners, Basing. halLstreet, when not otherwise expressed. 3 [ ABRAHAM HARRISON DRY, St. Martin's. lane, Charing cross, pawnbroker, March 23 and April 21. Sols. Messrs. Collier, Mar- chant, Birch, and Steel, Carey. street, Chancery- lane. JOHN AUSTIN, St. Mary Magdalen, near Hast. ings, buiider, March 21 and April 31. Sols. Messrs. Meymott and Sons, 86, Great Surrey- street, Blackfriars. HYACINTHE MARS RIMMEL, LOUIS JEAN BAI'TISTE PAUDEAU, and PIERRE JOSEPH GABRIEL AUGUSTIN BESSAN, 210, Regent- street, and 39, Gerrard. street, Soho, per- fumers, March 23 and April 21. Sols. Messrs. Hodgson and Burton, 10, Salisbury. street, Strand. EDWARD JACKSON HASTLER, King William. street, mercer. March 17 and April 21. Sols. Messrs. H. W. and W. C. Sole, Aldermanbury. JAMES LLOYD HEBERT, Shepton- Mallet, Somersetshire, inn. keeper, March 28 and April 21, Sol. Mr. John Frederick Isaacson, 40, Norfolk- street, Strand. EDWARD ALL WRIGHT, 34, Little Newport- street, Newport- market, cheesemonger, March 10 and April 21. Sols. Messrs. Hastings and Sheringham, 3, Harpur- street; Red Lion. square. FRANCIS EMERY, Furnace, Staffordshire, coal- master, Match 27 and April 21, at the Union Hotel, Lane. end, Staffordshire. Sol. Mr. George Young, Lane- end, Staffordshire. JAMES ROSTRON, late of New York, bnt now of Edenfieid, Lan- cashire, merchant, March 25 and April 21, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester. Sols. Messrs. Denis « n, Humphrys, and Cun- liffe, Manchester; and Messrs. Walinsley, Keightley, and Parkin, 43, Chancery- lane, London. GEORGE LAW, Polly- green, Rochdale, Lancashire, woollen- manufacturer, March 25 and April 21, at the Commissioners', rooms, Manchester. Sols. Messrs. Norris and Allen, 19, Bartlett's. buildings, London; and Mr. Heaton, Rochdale. JAMES BROWN and HUGH GRAHAM, Manchester, fustian, manufacturers, March 27 and April 21, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester. Sols. Messrs. Kay, Barlow, and Aston, Man. Chester. WILLIAM WRIGHT, New Brunswick Coffee- house, Liverpool, tavern- keeper, March 23 and April 21, at the Clarendon. rooms, Liverpool. Sols. Mr. Bretherton, Liverpool; and Mr. Armstrong, Staple- inn, London. JOSEPH STUBBS, Birmingham, whip. manufacturer, March 21 and April 21, at Radenhurst's New Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Sols. Messrs. Austen and Hobson, Raymond's. building, Gray's. iun, London ; and Mr. Bower, Birmingham. JOHN EDWARDS the younger, Brighton, grocer, March 17 and April 21, at the Town- hail, Brighton. Sols. Mr. Edward Corn, ford, Brighton; and Mr. James Hore, I, Lincoln's- inn. flelds, Lon. don. JOHN STEAD, Dawgreen, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, blanket- manu- facturer, April 1, at the Royal Hotel, Dewsbury, and April 21, at the Sessions- house, Wakefield. Sols. Messrs. Jacjues, Battye, and Edwards, Ely- place, Holborn, London ; and Messrs. Oldroyd and Rylah, Dewsbury. DIVIDENDS. Richard James Adams, Chelmsford, cabinet- maker, April 3— Thomas Price, 5, Margaret- street, Cavendish- square, patent axletree maker, April 3— Stephen Pontin, 45, Tottenham- court- road, builder, April 3— John Bowring and William Garrard, Exmouth- street, Clerkenwell, linen- drapers, April 4— Robert Campion, Horsely- down- lane, cooper, March 31— Matthias Dupont King and Henry King, Falcon- street, City, wine. merchants, March 31— George Paul Tode, Regent- street, St. James's, watch- maker, March 31- Joseph Lyue and Charles Lyne, Finsbnry- square, merchants, March 31- Edward Hodgson, Thrumpton, and Robert Olpherts, Retford, Not- tinghamshire, coach- builders, April 4, at the White Hart Inn, East Retford— William Brightmore Mitchell, Sheffield, merchant, April 13, at the Town- hall, Sheffield— Benjamin Lay, Colchester, carpenter, April 7, at the Three Cups Hotel, Colchester— Solomon Robinson, Salford, Lancashire, flax. spinner, April 6, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester— Thomas Brown, Grange, Cheshire, common brewer, April 1, at the Clarendon- rooms, Liverpool. CERTIFICATES, MARCH 31. Thomas Flaherty, Bath, tailor— Jonathan Nicholson, Southampton, court, Hoiborn, carpet- bag- manufacturer— William Cooper, Kidder, minster, carpet- manufacturer. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Eliza Collinson and Barbara Collinson, St. James's- place, dress, makers— James, William, and John Ridge, Exeter, tailors— William Knight and William Withers. Bristol, watchmakers— James Buckley and Thomas Barrow, Ashton. under- Lyne and Manchester, gingham and muslin manufacturers— Henry Alfred Townsend and Thomas Glover, Holborn, silk- merears— Joseph Henry Oates and Joseph Warwick, Leeds, ironfounders— William Smith and Henry Hilier, Sheffield, dealers in pigs— P. Novelli, C. Potter, and William Ross, Manchester, calico- printers— Maltmam William Shaw and William Pipe, Union. wharf, City- basin, coat- merchants— William Hobson, sen., and William Hobson, Jan., Lincoln, mercers— Philip Crellin and Philip Crellin, jun., llatcliff. highway, slopsellers— Wyatt Greenhough and Thomas Howell, Little Bush- lane, wine- merchants — Robert, John, and Anthony Ellis, Preston, cotton- spinners— John Lee Jones and John Edgar Jones, Mark- lane, and Barking, Essex, attorneys— John Law and John J. Palmer, Birmingham, cut- nail and hinge manufacturers— Mary Aston and Lucas Bennett, Glamford Briggs, Lincolnshire, surgeons— Lawrence Lucas and George Jack- son, Knuzdeeu- brook, Blackburne, dyewood manufacturers— Smith and Greaves, Prospect- row, Birmingham, paper- manufacturers, en- gravers and printers— John Hother and George Hother, Lewes, tailors— Thomas Pearson and Joseph Pearson, Aston. juxta, Bir. mingliam, patent cut- nail manufacturers— Joseph Green Eltoft and George Proctor, Leeds, carvers and gilders— Alexander Milroy and Robert Wilson, Bodmin, Cornwall, drapers and tea- dealers— Ann Cadwallader and William Cadwallader, Wolverhampton, maltsters — Robert Gogerty and Charles James Lawrence, brass. manufac- turers. JOSEPH SMITHERD, Derby, tailor, March 21 and April 25, itt the New Inn, Derby. Sols. Messrs. Samuel Taylor and Son, 14, John- street, Bedford- row; and Messrs. Mozley and Flack, Derby. DIVIDENDS. Edw. Dubbins, Brighton, plumber, April 4— Samuel Barber, Drury- lane, draper, April 4— Thomas Brown, Bell. yard, Lincoln's, inn, plumber, April 4— Henry Rowed and John William Green, shields, New Bond- street, tailors, April 4— Isaac Bird Baker, Con- duit- street, Bond- street, tailor, April 4— Charles Friend, Munster. street, Regent's park, milkman, April 6— John llowring and William Garrard, Exmouth- street, Clerkenwell, linen- drapers, April 4— William Rotherham, Shoreditch, draper, April 6- Henry Nantes, late of Warnford. court, Throgmorton- street, merchant, April 6— Samuel Sotheby and Samuel Leigh Sotheby, Wellington- street, Strand, auctioneers, April 6— Gad Southall and William Milnes, Pedlar's- acre- wharf, Lambeth, coal- merchants, April 4— John Hyatt, White Ferry House, near the Commercial. road, Pimlico, victualler, April 4— Richard Badnall, Leek, Staffordshire, banker, April 4— Christopher Dunkin Hays, late master of the ship Reliance, Meri- ton's. wharf, Bermondsey, mariner, April 4— Charles Adams, Pan. eras- lane, merchant, April4— William George Docking, Hampstead. road, cheesemonger, April 6— Thomas Folkard. High Holborn, hackneyman, April 6— John Gilbert Lynch and James Kite, Mac. clesfield. wharf, Hoxton, coal. merchants, April 6— James Green Pea. cock, Allhallows. lane, merchant, April 6— William Whately, Law- rence Pountney- hill, merchant, April 4— Robert Smith, firavesend, bricklayer, Apiil 5— Leonard Bladon, Hanway- street, tailor, April 5— Thomas Taylor, Topping's- wharf, Tooley. street, cheesefactor, April 8— Mary Ann Pite, Beech- street, Barbican, hatter, April 4— John Jeallous Brimmer, Greek. street, Soho, printer, April 8— Thomas Augustas Gay, Southampton- bnildings, Chancery- lane, law and general stationer, April 8— Richard Wace, Castle. street, Falcon, square, merchant, April 8— Samuel Carter, formerly of Newbury, surgeon, April 4— Robert Clark, High Holborn, woollen- draper, April 4— Joseph Colling, Yarmouth, Norfolk, grocer, April 4— James Hill, Montagu- mews, Montagu. square, hackneyman, April 4— Ed- ward Bowler, otherwise Eden Bowler, Paddington. street, and Lock- yard, Dorset- Bquare, liackneymau, April 4— Richard Williamson, Derby, saddler, April 5, at the office of Mr. John Moss, Derby- Stephen Thomas Probett; Derby, wholesale stationer, April 6, at the office of Mr, John Moss, Derby— James Everard, formerly of Naseby, Northamptonshire, brewer, April 7, at the George Hotel, Northampton— John Bloom, Goole, Yorkshire, coal- dealer, April 11, at the George Inn, Hull— James Enderby Nicoll and John Warbur. ton, Liverpool, tailors, April 19, at the Clarendon. rooms, Liverpool Joseph Croser, George Walker, and John Cockram Walker, New. castle - upon- Tyne, ship < md insurance brokers, April 7y at the Bank- rupt Commission- rooms, Newcastle- upon- Tyne— Charles Eldridge, Brighton, builder, May 25, at the Town- hall, Brighton. CERTIFICATES, APRIL 4. James Enderby Nicoll and John Warburton, Liverpool, tailors- George Perkins, Booth- town, Halifax, silk- spinner— James Har- wood, Birmingham, share- broker— Charles Jean Baptiste Pons, Old Bond- street, hatter— Johp Pook, of the Four Nations Hotel and Coffee- house, Colonnade, Haymarket. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. James Holman and Thomas Sclioley, Baalzephon- street, Ber- mondsey, millwrights— William Brassington and William Jelly, Salford, Lancashire, plasterers— Thomas Foster and William Ig- natius Okely, Bristol, architects- Daniel Cromwell and Oeorge Gubbins, Southampton, organ- builders— Robert Heighington and John Slinn, Woburn, Bedfordshire, linen- drapers— George Cooke, Nathaniel Hinchliff, and William Nutt, 7, Cleveland- street, Fitzroy- square, hearth rug- manufacturers— Robert Hartley and Peter Rymer, York, ironmongers— Robert Hartley, Peter Rymer, and John Walker, York, iron- founders— C. E. Garman and James Morton, 161, Tottenham- court- road, chemists— Thomas Moore Evans, Andrew Birch EvSns, Brooke Evans, and Edward Samuel Horridge, Birmingham, flax- dressers—' Thomas Ellis, Kenelm Chandler, and John Bally, Chester, lead- manufacturers— George Black and John Briggs, Carlisle, joiners— Joseph Canter and Hannah Archer, Barnsley, linen- manufacturers— W. Hardman, J. Austin, W. Yardley, and R. Peat, Farnworth, Lancashire, machine makers ( so far as regards W. Hardman;— J. Smith and J. Grierson, Liver- pool, tailors— John Parkyn and Joseph Barnicot, Ludgate- hill, haberdashers— Ann Seymour and Sarah Dorothea Rudd, 1, Stafford- street, Bond- street, milliners— George Daniel Arnold and William Pierce, Liverpool, brewers— Isaac Johnson, Thomas Hayward, and William Hunt, Stroud, Gloucestershire, hop- merchants— Robert Clarke and William Nickson, Liverpool, ship- builders— Joseph Kirkman and Thomas White, 3, Soho- square, seraphine- makers— Henry Fisher and John Fisher, Limpley Stoke, Wiltshire, common- brewers— Wiiliam Burton and Richard Burton, Islington- green, poulterers— John Hutchinson and Edward Nunnerley, Leicester, pavers— John Goldie and Richard John Mincher, Liverpool, patent maltsters— J. F. W. Brewer and H. Prockter, dealers— Jabez Beynon and James Julius Stocken, 10, Gracechurch- street, tobacconists- David Paramore and David Ramsay Paramore, Plymouth, coal- merchants— Samuel Worrall, Gulielmus Newill, and Hugh Oldham Shaw, Rochdale, spindle- manufacturers ( so far as regards G. Newill) Thomas Jackson and Agnes Mackechnie, Tureen- street, Glasgow, power- loom- manufacturers. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. William Gentle, Perth, grocer. James Sinclair, Dunn, Caithness- shire, carpenter. George Durr, Edinburgh, tailor. 208 to 22s.— Caraway, English, new, 43s to 47s ; Foreign, 50s to 52s— Coriander, 14s Od to 16s Od. Per Quarter.— St. Foin, 36s to38s ; fine, 40s to 42s; Rye Grass, 28s to 35s j new, 35s to 45s ; Pacey Grass, 40s to 45s; 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 Od to 9s Od ; brown ditto, 9s Od to 12s ; Tares, 5s Od to 5s 6d ; fine new Spring, 6s 0a to 6s 6d. Per Last.— Rape Seed, English, 32/ to 34/; Foreign, 30/ to 32/. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICE OP BRITISH CORN FOR THE WEEK ENDING MARCH 9, 1837.— Wheat, 56^ 9d ; Barley, 34s 0d; Oats, 23s 8d ; Rye, 39s 2d ; Beans, 39a 2d ; Peas, 37s lid. DUTY ON FOREIGN CORN FOR THE PRESENT WEEK.— Wheat, 30s 8d ; Barley, 10s lOd ; Oats, I2s 3d; Rye, lis Od ; Beans, lis 0d; Peas, 14s Od. HAY AND STRAW.— Smithfield.— Hay, 80s Od to 95s Od ; Inferior, — 6 to — s; Clover, 95s to 115s; Inferior — s to — s; Straw, 44s to 50s. Whitechapel.— Clover, 110s to 126s ; new ditto,— s to — s ; second cut, 100s to 115s; Hay, 84 to 92s ; new ditto, — s to — s ; Wheat Straw, 44s to 50s. Cumberland.— Fine Upland Meadow and Rye- grass Hay, 95s to 100s; inferior ditto, 84s to 90s; superior Clover, 112s to 118s; Straw, 40s to 50s per load of 36 trusses. Portman Market.— Coarse heavy Lowland Hay, — s to — s j new Meadow Hay, — s to — s ; old ditto, 84s to 98s ; useful ditto, — s to — a; 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 0s per ton; Refined, £ 46 0s; Linseed Oil, £ 33 0s ; and Rape Cake, £ 6 6s.— Linseed Oil Cake, £ 13 10s per thousand. SMITHFIELD, MARCH 13.— To sink the offal— per81b.— Beef, 3s 6d to 4s 4d ; Best Down and Polled Mutton, 4s lOd to 5s 4d; Veal, 4s 8d to 5s 6d; Pork, 4s 6d to 5s 0d ; Lamb, 7s 4d to 0s Od. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.— 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 0d to 0s Od. INFALLIBLE HAIR DYE. AMONGST the number of compositions, advertised under various names as Hair Dyes, the only one that has stood the test of experience and proved as infalli- ble as it is efficacious, is AGID HASSAN'S celebrated, simple, and unerring CIRCASSIAN HAIR DYE, which will, in a few hours, change light, red, or grey hair, eye- brows, lashes, whiskers, and mastachios, to a rich auburn, or jet black, or any shade between; giving a fine glossy appearance, without injuring the hair, discolouring the skin or linen, also being free from the purple hue ( even in the rays of the sun) which the other dyes impart. It is not less valuable to officers of the army, gentlemen of the turf, and all persons interested in the perfect appearance of that beautiful animal the horse; removing what is tech- nically termed " White Stockings." Sold wholesale by W. DAY and Co., at their old Italian warehouse, the Black Boy, No. 95, Gracechurch- street, and retail by the following Agents:— Mr. Aucott, per- fumer, New- street, Birmingham; Mr. Saunders, per- fumer, Warwick; Messrs. Price and Wood, perfumers Leamington ; Messrs. Stephens and Son, perfumers Alcester ; Mr. Vernall, perfumer, Worcester; in bottles at 5s., 10s., and 15s. each, having proper directions how to use the same, with a fac- simile of the signature of Agid Hassan; also that of W. Day and Co. All without these are counterfeit. Barley per quarter, 0s 0d to Oats, 0s Od to 0s 0d; New, , 0s 0d to 0s 0d ; Beans, 17s 6d to Vetches, 0s Od to 0s 0d; Malt, TUESDAY, MARCH 14. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. MARCH lO.- ROBERT KNOWLES, Trump- street, City, ware- houseman. BANKRUPCY ANNULLED. JAMES NEWTON, Leicester- square, linen- draper. BANKRUPTS. WILLIAM COATES WOOD, Dean- street, Gould's- hill, Lower Shadwell, ship and anchor smith, March 23 and April 25. Sols. Messrs. Thompson and Hewitt, 15, Great James- street, Bedford- row. JOSEPH ROUTLEDGE, City Hotel, King. street, Cheapside, City, hotel- keeper, March 21 and April 25. Sol. Mr. William Fisher, 8, Walbrook, City. JAMES RICE, Woodbridge and Ipswich, Suffolk, saddler, March 21 and April 25. Sol. Mr. James Reilly, 7, Clement's- inn. JOHN WOODHAMS, Pitt's Head, Grange- road, Bermondsey, victualler, March 21 and April 25. Sols. Messrs. Colley, Smith, Hunter, and Gwatkin, 9, Lincoln's- inn. JOSEPH KING, Liverpool- street, City, plumber, March 22 and April 25. Sol. Mr. H. Maltby, 34, Old Broad- street. ROBERT SEARS, Paternoster- row, City, engraver, March 28 and April 25. Sols. Messrs. Wood and Ellis, 2, Corbet- court, Grace- church- street. LOUIS ENGLAND, Shppperton- street, New North. road, builder, March 21 and April 25. Sol. Mr. W. J. Boulton, 33, Northampton- square, Clerkenwell. WILLIAM PILLING, Little Bolton, Lancashire, common brewer March 25 and April 25, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester. Sols. Messrs. Adlington, Gregory, Faulkner, and Follett, Bedford, row, London; and Mr. Edward Lees, 99, Fountain- street, Man. Chester. JOHN HAMILTON, Liverpool, and late of Quebec and Montreal merchant, March 30 and April 25, at the Clarendon- rooms, Liver, pool. Sols. Messrs. Taylor, Turner, Sharpe, and Field, 41, Bed. ford- row ; and Mr. Thomas Carson, North John- street, Liverpool. JOSEPH BETTRIDGE, Birmingham, silversmith, March 22 and April 25, at the Royal Hotel, New- street, Birmingham. Sols. Messrs. Austin and Hobson, Raymond's- buildings, Gray's- inn; and Messrs. Palmer and Son, Paradise- street, Birmingham. CHARLES MEREFIELD, West- street, Bristol, grocer, March 23 and April 25, at the Commercial- rooms, Corn- street, Bristol. Sols. Messrs. White and Whitmore, Bedford- row; and Messrs. Be van and Brittan, Bristol. JOHN HEADLEY, Leicester, hosier, March 28 and April 25, at the White Hart Hotel, Leicester. Sols. Mr. Dibben, Leicester ; and Messrs. Dyneley, Coverdale, and Lee, 3, Gray's- inn- square, CHARLES MARSHALL, Kingston- upon. Hull, victualler, March 22 and April 25, at the Kingston Hotel, Kingston- upon- Hull. Sols. Mr. John Wilkinson Hull; and Messrs. Meredith and Reeve, 8, Lincoln's- inn, London. CHARLES DOWSE, Peterborough, innkeeper, March 30 and April 25, at the George Inn, St. Martin's, Stamford Baron, North- amptonshire. Sols. Mr. Broughton, Peterborough; and Messrs. Tihon, Squance, and Tilson, 29, Coleman- street. JOSEPH GARNER, Dunchurch, Warwickshire, innkeeper, March 29 and April 25, at the Craven Arms Hotel, Coventry. Sols. Mr John Cox, Lincoln's- inu. fields; aud Mr. William Wilmot, Co. ventry. EHCKS and WILLIAM HICKS, Christchurch, Hamp. March 29 and April 25, at the Angel Hotel, Lym. Sols. Mr. John Scarlett Thomson, Rolls- y- lane ; and Mr. James Brown, Lymington, ijLeeds, Yorkshire, fiax. spinner, March 21 and ~ rt- house, Leeds. Sols. Messrs. Roper and Son, Gray's. inn j and Mr. S. Dickinson, 20, Albion- 22s Od ; new, 0s Od to 0s Od 0s Od ; new, 27s Od to 38s Od ; 26s Od to 35s Od; Peas, per bag, 19s Od ; new, 14s Od to 17s Od; 60s Od to 708 Od per quarter. WORCESTER, MARCH 11.— Wheat, old, per bushel, Imperial Measure, 6s 8d to 7s 2d. New ditto, 6s 8d to 7s 2d. Foreign ditto, 0s Od toOsOd. Barley, malting, 4s 6d to 5s Od. Grinding ditto, 3s 4d to 4s Od. Beans, old, 5s 8d to 6s 4d. New ditto, 5s 4d to 5s 8d. Oats, English new, 0s Od to 0s Od. Old ditto, 3s 6d to 3s 9d. Irish, ditto n* ew, 391b. a bushel, 0s Od to 0s Od. Old ditto, 391b. a bushel, 0s Od to 0s Od. Peas, white, boiling, 5s 8d to 6s Od. Grey ditto, 5s Od to 5s 4d. Grey Hog ditto, 0s 0d to 0s Od. Vetches, winter, 6s 4d to 0s Od. Spring ditto, 0s Od to 0s Od. GLOUCESTER, MARCH 11.— Wheat, per bushel, 7s 0d to 7s 6d. Barley, per Imperial quarter, 30s Od to 33s Od. Beans, per Im- perial bushel, 6s Od to 6s 4d. Oats, per Imperial quarter, 22s Od to 30s Od. Peas, per Imperial quarter, 46s Od to 54s 4d. Malt, per Imperial quarter, 0s Od to 0s Od. Fine Flour, 47s 0d to 49s 0d. HEREFORD, MARCH 11.— Wheat, per bushel Imperial measure, 6s lOd to 7s 6d. Ditto, 801bs. per bushel, 0s Od toOs Od. Barley, 4s Od to 4s 4d. Beans, 5s 8d to 6s 6d. Peas, 4s 9d to 5s 9d. Vetches, 0s Od to 0s Od. Oats, 3s 6d to 3s 9d. CHELTENHAM, MARCH 9.— New Wheat, 6s9d 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, COUNTRY MARKETS, & c. W ARWICK, SATURDAY, MARCH 11.— Wheat, per bag, old! 9s6d to BLAIR'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PILLS. THE extraordinary efficacy and complete safety of this Medicine, is now so fully established by such tes- timonials, as the public can at all times make reference to, either direct or through the medium of the respectable Agents, whose names and residences are given, that any lengthened description of its salutary effects is unnecessary. It is merely requisite to observe that for Gout, Rheumatic Gout, Rheumatism, Lumbago, Sciatica, Pains in the Head and Face, & c., it is a decidedly established remedy. But the Proprietor feels it a duty which he owes to the afflicted, to place before them a series of cures recently communica ted to him, one of which is the following: — An extraordinary cure of Rheumatism, communicated by Mr. Noble, the agent for Boston, Lincolnshire, to whom all enquiries in that neighbourhood are referred: To the Proprietor of Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills. Boston, July 2d, 1836. SIR,— Gratitude for the wonderful cure I have received, and a sense of duty which I owe to others who may be suffering from the same dreadful malady, prompt me to give you the particulars of my case, which you are at full liberty to publish, if you think fit. In the month of August, 1835, having recently had the small pox, I was exposed to a heavy rain, which thoroughly wetted me, and brought on a most violent attack of acute Rheumatism, from whifh my sufferings were intense, and I became wfcsted almost to a skele- ton. Several of the most eminent medical men in Boston attended me, but to no purpose ; and after dragging on nine months existence, in the most dreadful state of suffering, obtaining no rest either day or night, without using very powerful opiates, I began to despair of ever being cured. One of the bills, descriptive of your celebrated Pills, having been brought to the house, my mother resolved to buy a box, though ( as she told Mr. Noble the agent here, when she ap- plied to him for them) she had not much hope of their doing any good. Strange to say, however, but not more strange than true, the first dose I took procured for me, what I had not enjoyed for months, a comfortable night's sleep, and in forty. eight hours my pain waa entirely gone. Since that time my health has been gradually improving; I have had no return of my complaint, and am able to attend to my business. Any of my neighbours will attest the truth of my statement I remain, sir, your's ever gratefully, ANDREW CREEK. Witness, Josiah Belton, assistant to Mr. Noble, bookseller, Boston These Pills are taken without the least care or attention, by either sex, young or old, and have the peculiar property of entirely removing the disease without debilitating the frame, which is universally left in a stronger and better state than before the malady commenced. And there is another most important effect belonging to this medicine— that it prevents the disease flying to the brain, stomach, or other vital part. Sold by Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London; and by his appointment, by Mailer, Wood, Shiliitoe, Sumner and Por- tal, Collins and Co., Humphries, Smith, Suffield, Flewitt, Ed- wards, Gazette and Advertiser offices; Shiliitoe, ( late Cow- ell) Westbromwich; Turner and Hollier, and Morris, Dudley; Valentine and Thorsby, Walsall; Mander and Co., and Simpson, Wolverhampton; Davis, Atherstone ; Morgan, Lichfield; Harding, Shiffnall; Pennell and Stew- art, Kidderminster; Morris, Bewdley; Maund, Broms- grove ; Harper, Hodgkinson, Bayley and Roberts, War- wick ; and all respectable Medicine Venders in the Kingdom, price 2s. 9d. per box. Ask for Blair's Gout and liheumatic Pills; and attend to the following notice. In consequence of the great and in- creasing demand for this extensively useful medicine, the Proprietor has obtained permission from His Majesty's Commissioners of Stamps to have the name and address of " Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London," impressed upon the Government Stamp, affixed to each box of the genuine medicine, ( to counterfeit which is felony) thereby super- seding the signature of " Thomas Prout," as heretofore adopted. To the Trade The usual full allowance to the Trade by having them direct from No. 229, Strand. THE ONLY CURE FOR CORNS AND BUNIONS. RAMSBOTTOM'S CORN and BUNION SOL- VENT. By the use of this valuable remedy imme- diate relief from pain is obtained, and by its successive application for a short 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. ljd. and 2s. The various counterfeits that are attempted to be im- posed upon the public in lieu of this invaluable remedy, render it imperatively necessary for purchasers to ask for S. Ramsbottom's Corn and Bunion Solvent, and to see that it has the signature of" S. Ramsbottom" written upon the label that is pasted on the outside of the wrapper of every genuine bottle, in addition to the name of the article, and words sold by Hannay and Co. 63, Oxford- street, being the name and address of the proprietor's wholesale agents. The following letter from Mr. John Winfield, of Bir- mingham, is one of many hundreds of the same tenor: Gentlemen,— Having read an advertisement in a Birmingham paper, I was induced to purchase from your agent, Mr. Maher, Ann. street, a bottle of Ramsbnttom's Corn and Bunion Solvent;— after a week's application I found it had the desired effect. 1 have since re- commended it to many of my friends. You are at liberty to make any use you please of this communication.— Your obedient servant, Birmingham, August 6,1836. JOHN WINFIELD, To Messrs. Hannay and Co. Sold by appointment by M. Maher, 34, Ann- street, and W. Wood, Bookseller, High- street, Birmingham; Parke, Woverhampton ; Rogers, Stafford; Mort, Newcastle; Mer- ridew, Coventry^ Dicey, Northampton. FAIRS TO BE HOLDEN Warwickshire— March 21, Alcester; 25, Henley- in- Arden ; 27, Dunchurch Northamptonshire— March 23, Kettering; 25, Northampton; 28, Daventry. THE CHASE— The Warwickshire Hounds will meet this day. March 18, at Farnborough, at a quarter before eleven.— Sir Thomas Boughey's Hounds will meet on Monday, March 20, at Weston; Saturday, 25, at Chetwynd, at half- past ten.— The Ather. stone Hounds will meet this day, March 18, at Tooley, at a quarter before eleven.— Mr. Chandler's Hounds will meeton Tuesday, March 21, at Hagley ; Saturday, 25, at Shatterford, at half- past ten.— The Tenbury Hounds will meet this day, March 18, at Winricks ; Wed nesday, 22, at Abberley Lodge, at ten.— The Herefordshire Hounds will meet on Monday, March 20, at Eastwood Oak ; Thursday, 23, at Berrington; Tuesday, 28, at Brockhall Turnpike, at ten The North Warwickshire Hounds will meet this day, March 18, at Hockley House, at a quarter before eleven.— Mr. Drake's Hounds will meet this day, March 18, at Helleden. GLOUCESTER SHIP NEWS, From March 9 to March 16. IMPORTS : The L'Heureuse Pauline, from Nantes, with 44 tons of oil cake, 4 tons of clover seed, 1208 hectolitres of barley, 175 hectolitres of vetches, and 9 sacks of peas, consigned to J. and C. Sturge— L'Heloise de Sarzean, Nantes, 1335 hectolitres of beans; and 316 hectolitres of vetches, J. and C. Sturge— Leonidas, Brest, 101000 killograms of linseed cake, FOK, Sons, and Co Christine, Neustadt, 787 barrels of barley, and 374 barrels of peas, Phillpotts, Baker, and Lloyds— St. Peter, Cork, 342 barrels of oats, and 140 sacks of flour, Phillpotts, Baker, and Lloyds; 40 sacks of flour, J. and C. Sturge- Venus, Clare, 1098 barrels of oats, J. and C. Stur^ e— Eleanor and Graoe, Waterford, C47 barrels of white oats, and 360 barrels of black oats, J. and C. Sturge— Spread Eagle, Cork, wheat and flour, Phill- potts, Baker, and Lloyds— Tom, Blackpool, 18l' 5 bushels of oats, J. and C. Sturge— Swift, London, 2 puncheons of gin, Thomas Mann 32 bales of wool, John Holbrow; 250 barrels of resin, to order; pipe and 1 cask of gin, and general cargo, Gopsill Brown— Belinda Swansea, 56 tons of iron and copper, H. Southan— Sarah, Swansea general cargo, H. Southan— Blueher, Newport, 46 tons of metal, H, Southan— Newport Trader, Newport, 52 tons of iron, H. Southan Halcyon, Mumbles, 12 tons of metal, and 80 bushels of oysters, H Southan— Langport, Bridgwater, general cargo, Stuckey and Co. LONDON MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE, MONDAY, MARCH 13.— Wheat, Essex Red, new 40s to 52s; fine, 54s to 57s ; old, 58s to 60s; white, new, 50s to 55s; fine, 56s to 58s; superfine, 5Ssto6Is; old, 6' 2s to 65s.— Rye 30s to 36s.— Barley, 28s to 32s; fine, — s to — s ; superfine, 36 to 37s — Malt, 54s to 58s ; fine, 58s to 60s.— 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, 30s to 35s; old, 40s to 43s; Harrow,— s to — s.— Oats, feed, 18s to 22s ; fine, 24s to 26s Poland, 24? to 26s; fine, 27s to 28s; Potatoe, 28s to 29s ; line 30s to 31s.— Bran, per quarter, 9s Od to 10s 0d,— Pollard, fine, pe ditto, 14s. 20s. FB( CE OF SEEDS, MARCH 13.— Per Cwt.— Red Clover, English, 60s to 85s ; fine, 90s to 100s ; Foreign, 63s to 70s; fine, 75s to 85s— White Clover, 60s to 70s; fine, 75s to 80s.— Trefoil, new, 14s to 18s; fine, 19s to 22s ; old, 12s to 16s Trefolium, 16s to 18s; fine, A TREATISE IS PUBLISHED By Messrs. PERRY and Co., SutiLrEONS, ON VENEREAL AND SYPHILITIC DISEASES, AND GIVEN WITH EACH BOX OF PERRY'S VEGETABLE PILLS, jT 10N T A T N J NG plain and practical directions for the Vy effectual cure of 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 CHARLES- STREET, 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 indiscrimimte indulgence of the passions, which not only occasion a numerous train of nervous affec- tions, and entail on its votaries all the enervating imbecili- ties of old age, but weaken a: id destroy all the bodily senses, occasioning loss of imagination, judgment, and memory, in- difference and aversion for al pleasures, the idea of their own unhappiness and despair, which arises from considering themselves as 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 tint 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 restoiation to sound and vigorous health. It is a melancholy fact, that thousands fall victims to the venereal disease, owing to the unskilfulness of illite- rate men, who, by the use cf that deadly poison, mer- cury, ruin the constitution, anil cause ulcerations, blotches on the head, face, and body, dimness of 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, ti l 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 gonorrhaias and 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 a remit- tance for medicine, will be immediately answered. PATRONS. HIS MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY. HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF BELGIUM. And most of the Royal Family. James Johnson, Physician Extraordinary to His Majesty. Arthur T. Holroyd, Physician totheSt. Marylebone Dispensary. T. Hodgkin, M. D., Lecturer on Morbid Anatomy at Guy's Hospital. R. Rowley, M. D., Physician to the Aldersgate- street Dispensary. G. H. Weatherhead, Lecturer on Materia Medica and Therapeutics. T. Castle, Physician to St. Mary's Hall and to the Brighton Dis- pensary, Amos Middleton, Senior Physician to the Leamington Hospital. Charles Loudon, Physician to the Leamington Bathing Institution. D. Davies, Surgeon to their Majesties. Jonathan Pereira, F. L S. Lecturer oil Materia Medica. F. Tyrrell, 17, New Bridge- street, Surgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital. George Pilclier, M. R. C. S. L., Lecturer on Anatomy, Webb. street. F. Salmon, Consulting Surgeon to St. John's Hospital. Jarratt Dashwood Surgeon to the Royal Humane Institution. C. Millard, Demoinstrator of Anatomy at the School of Webb- street. J. Harrison Curtis, Aurist to His Majesty. I^ HE above, and 208 other Medical Gentlemen, . have given the most flattering certificates of the great value and superiority of WOODHOUSE'S iETHERI AL ESSENCE of JAMAICA GINGER, which is particu- larly recommended to all Cold, Phlegmatic, Weak and Ner- vous constitutions. It is certain in affording instant relief in Cholera Morbus, Spasms, Cramps, Flatulence, Hysterics, Heartburn, Hiccup, Loss of Appetite, Sensation of Fulness, Pain and oppression after meals; also those pains of the Stomach and Bowels which arise from Gouty Flatulencies; Digestion however much impaired, is restored to its pristine state by the use of this Essence for a short time. In bottles, 2s. 6d., 4s. ed., 10s. 6( 1., and 21s. each. N. B. As a restorative after an attack of the Influenza, this Essence will be found most beneficial by giving tone to the stomach, and vigour to the whole frame. BALSAM OF SPERMACETI. INFLUENZA— This Balsam is invaluable for this pecu- liar epidemic; it invariably relieves the Cough and other distressing symptoms attending it, also in soothing and allaying the irritation of the stomach, & c. Coughs, Asthma, Shortness of Breath, Weazing, Colds, soreness, tightness and oppression of the Chest, and most affections of the Chest and Lungs, relieved in ten minutes, by taking one dose of WOODHOUSE'S BALSAM OF* SBERMACETI, OR PECTORAL COUGH DROPS. Persons doubting the efficacy of this medicine, may take a dose in the Proprietor's shop before they purchase. The Proprie- tor earnestly recommends a trial of these Drops to persons afflicted with the above complaints, but he does not intro- duce them as being an infallible cure ( as many do), but is warranted in asserting their efficacy from the extensive relief afforded in numerous cases of the above description. Con- stitutional Coughs of three, four, and more years standing, have been cured in the course of a week by the use of these Drops. In the Hooping and Chin Coughs it will be found equally valuable; it will at all times relieve the most violent Consumptive Cough. In bottles, Is. l^ d., 2s. 9d., 4s. 6( 1. and 10s, 6d., each. These Preparations are prepared only by DECIMUS WOOD- HOUSE, Operative Chemist Extraordinary to His Majesty, 18, King William- street, New London Bridge, and sold by him wholesale and retail; and to be had of all medicine ven- ders in town and country. Country venders may be sup- plied through their town agents. Sold in bottles at 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., 10s. 6d., and 21s., each. CAUTION— To prevent imposition, be sure to see the name of DECIMUS WOODHOUSE, 18, King William- street, London Bridge, is engraved on the Government Stamp, oherwise cannot be genuine. 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 Gonorrhcua, Gleets, Strictures, and all other 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 theslightest 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, and 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 time, 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 of the Skin. Captains of 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 eminent 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 is that they are a most improved system of treat- ment for those peculiar complaints for which you recommend them, curing with rapidity, and with a certainty that I had never before witnessed; but what I consider their most invaluable property is, that they entirely eradicate the complaint, and never leave those dis- tressing secondary symptoms ( that harass the patient for life) which usually arise after the use of those uncertain remedies, Mercury arid Copaiba. I think you cannot fail to have a very large 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. 6d. each, wholesale and retail, at HANNAY 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 aremittance, punctuallyattended to, and the change, if any, can be returned with the order. 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. Mailer, 34, Ann- street, and Wood, Bookseller, High- street, Birmingham; Parker, Wolverhampton; Rogers, Stafford; Mort, Newcastle; Merridew, Coventry. FRANKS'S SPECIFIC SOLUTION OF COP; ISA- ACERTAIN and most speedy cure for all Uretia- a, 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. FrankB'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. ( Signed,) JOSEPH HENRY GREEN, 46, Lincolri'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 bearing testimony of the efficacy of his Solution of Copaiba, in Gonorrhoea, for which diseaBe Mr. Cooper has prescribed the Solution in ten or twelve cases with per- fect success. New- street, Spring Gardens, April 13, 1835. From 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 benefit 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 of his Agents, Barclayand Sons, Farringdon- street, London; Evans, Son and Co., Fenwick- street, Liverpool; Mander, Weaver, arid Co., Wolverhamp- ton; at the Medical Hall, 54, Lower Sackville- street, Dub- lin ; of J. and R. Raimes, 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 thename ofGeorge Franks, Blackfriars- road," to be engraven on the Govern- ment Stamp. N. B. Hospitals, and other Medical Charities, supplied as usual from the Proprietor. Igig" 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 Co., 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 superiority 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 to 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 1 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, in 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: I think you ought to put it up and sell it to the public, and if any one should doubt its efficacy, refer them tome. 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 world styles an idle man, you may enlist me in your service in any way that you think would be useful. But I should advise you to place the management in the hands of one of the great medicine houses in London. Hannay's, in Oxford. street, are being advertised in all the papers here, as wholesale agents for Ramsbottom's Corn Solvent, which, by the bye, roy 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. RoBEar 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 I had not seen for many years, and still more so was I when, finding that I had a severe 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 free from even any tendency towards coughing; he now tells me that you are his 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 medicine 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 Sir,— 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 me on going out, and I seemed as though I had a string run through my body, and tho 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. Mulreaddy, Esq. NICHOLAS BROWN. Dear Sir,— The effect of your medicine, in curing our children of the Hooping Cough, has been like magic, for which I, and Mrs. Wilson ill 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 deserve the 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 1 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, and have taken twelve bottles. After I had taken three, I could respire as vigourously as in the early partof my life, and I now believe that 1 was then perfectly cured— a cure not to have been expected at my advanced age, 80 years— but 1 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 for sale, but it must and shall be done, and if you neglect to do it, my sincere wish is that you may be jugged 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 ma 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. Mulreaddy, Esq. W. HUGHES. Chester, 12mo., 1834. Esteemed Friend,— Thouhast my sincere thanksfor 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 m 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 begs to observe, that to publish copies of he whole of the letters he has received 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 giye itself the best recommendation. It 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. Purchasers should observe that it is wrapped up in white paper, on which, in a blue label with whitel etters, are printed the words,— Mulreaddy's Cough Elixir, pre- pared by Thomas Mulreaddy, Liverpool, and sold by hisap- pointment at Hannay and Co.' s, Patent Medicine' Ware- house, 63, Oxford- street, London. Price Is. lUd. 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 partol London without extra charge. Sold by appointment by Maher, 34, Ann- street, and Wood, bookseller, High- street, Birmingham; Parke, Wolverhampton; Rogers, Stafford; Mort, Newcastle; and Merridew, Coventry. Printed and published by FRANCIS BASSET SIIENSTONE FLINHELL, 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. REYNEI. L, Chancery- lane; Mr. DEACON, 3, Walbrook ; and Mr. HAMMOND, 27, Lombard- street.— Saturday, March 18, 1887.