tmtn No. 626. SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1837. PRICE 4Jd. BY DESIRE AND UNDER THE IMMEDIATE PATRONAGE OF THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF DARTMOUTH, THE RIGHT HON. LORD WARD. THE REV. W. GORDON, A. M. THE REV. J. SPRY, A. M. William Izon, Esq. Joseph Halford, Esq. John Bagnall, Esq. Walter Williams, Esq. Thomas Williams, Esq, G. Hinchliffe, Esq. Captain Devy, B. Haynes, Esq. T. Bagnall, Esq. J. Bagnall, Esq. W. Bagnall, Esq. W. Izon, Jun., Esq. W. H. Halford, Esq. W. Whitehouse, Esq. MR. GREIG, { Fellow of the London Philosophical Society, Professor of Elocution. Sfc.~) T17ILL DELIVER A LECTURE ON ELOCU- » » TION AND ORATORY, comprehending a series of Poetic Delineations, exemplyfying and illustrating the Spirit and Power of Language through a range of subjects, which will comprise Narrative, Pathetic, Impassioned, Humourous, and Satrical varieties, original and selected ; at the Dartmouth Hotel, West Bromwieh, on Friday Evenin, May 26, 1837. Doors open at seven. The Lecture to commence at half- past seven. Tickets 2s. 6d. each, may lie obtained at the Dartmouth Hotel, and at Mr. SALTER'S, Printer, New- street. THEATRE ROYAL, BIRMINGHAM. Immense success of Mr. Grattan's New Drama. FIRST NIGHT OF MR. AND MRS. WHITE. Mrs. White,... Miss Byron. Mr. White,... Mr. Wright. REVIVAL OF THE FARMER'S STORY. Stephen Lockwood,... Mr. Grattan ; Mary Lockvvood,... Miss Byron; Tippet,... Mrs. Owen; Bristles,... Mr. Wright. ON SATURDAY the Performances will commence with the highly successful domestic Drama of THE FARMER'S STORY! Stephen Lockwood, Mr. GKATTAN. Bristles,— Mr. WRIGHT. Mortlake, Mr. TYRRELL. Derby,— Mr. GRAY. Ryland, Mr. WALLACE. Rut,— Mr. YOUNG. Mary Lockwood Miss BYRON. Tippet, Mrs. OWEN. Two favourite Comic Songs, by Mr. HUDSON. After which the favourite Farce of MRS. WHITE. Mrs. White, Miss BYRON. Mr. White,— Mr. WRIGHT. A Mock Gavotte, Miss Byron and Mr. Wright.. To conclude with the new romantic Drama of THE CORSAIR'S BRIDE. The Corsair, Mr. GRATTAN. Sazon,— Mr. W. H. ANGEL. Zeda,( witha Song)— Miss BYRON.. On Monday a variety of new and splendid Entertainments in which Miss Byron, Mrs. Owen, Mr. Wright, Mr. W. H. Angel, and Mr. Grattan, will appear. Together with a magnificent Pantomime, in which those celebrated artists, Messrs. Brown, King, and Gibson, who are engaged lor a limited number of nights, will have the honour of making their first appearance this season. BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. INDIA RUBBER OIL LIQUID AND PASTE BLACKING, manufactured by BRYANT and JAMES, Plymouth. H. KEN WAY, Sole Consignee, GUINNESS'S PORTER STORES, Crooked- lane, Birmingham. WEDGWOOD'S PATENT MANIFOLD WRI- TERS. Price from 12s. 6d. to 55s. each. By W. Squire. IKS* A liberal allowance to the trade. Sold by HENRY KENWAY, GUINNESS'S PORTER STORES, Crooked- lane, Birmingham. EDINBURGH AND BURTON ALES in bottles. RUGELEY TABLE ALES in casks; DEVON SHIRE and HEREFORDSHIRE CIDER and PERRY, in bottles. FOREIGN and BRITISH CIGARS supplied whole- sale by H. KENWAY, GUINNESS'S PORTER STORES, Crooked- lane, Birmingham. GUINNESS'S SUPERIOR EXTRA STOUT DUBLIN PORTER, maybe had of HENRY KENWAY, sole appointed agent, Crooked- lane, Birmingham. LOSS OF TEETH SUPPLIED. And filling Decayed Teeth with Mineral Siliceum. MONS. DE HERRI AND CO., SURGEON- DENTISTS, 17, EASY ROW, BIRMINGHAM, AND 121, REGENT- STREET, LONDON, CONTINUE to restore Decayed Teeth with their celebrated Mineral Siliceum, which is applied without pain, heat, or pressure. It is placed into the cavity in an almost liquid state, and in a few seconds hardens into en- amel, preventing and curing the Tooth- ache, arresting all further progress of decay, and rendering the operation of extraction unnecessary. They also fasten loose Teeth, arising from neglect, calo- mel, or any other cause. Mons. de Berri and Co. have recently succeeded in form- ing a new substance for Artificial Teeth, which are decidedly superior to any other now in use, inasmuch as they never change colour, or break from the plate, are perfectly indestruct- ible, and are adapted with ease and comfort to the most tender gums. Artificial or Natural Teeth of surpassing beauty, to match, equal in colour and shape, those left in the mouth, fixed, from one to a complete sat, without extracting the roots or giving any pain, the incumbrance of wires or other ligatures, at the following Paris charges:— d. 0 0 2 0 ASTON UNION. TO BUILDERS AND OTHERS. PERSONS willing to contract for the Alterations and Additions required in the Workhouse at Erdingtc n and the Register Office in the Aston- road, or either ol them, may inspect the Drawings and Specifications on application to the Clerk, No. 7, Woodcock street. The Contractor will have to enter into satisfactory sure- ties for the proper execution of the works. Sealed Tenders, addressed under cover to the Chairman of the Board of Guardians, to be delivered ( free of expense) at the Erdington Workhouse, on or before Tuesday, May 30, by ten o'clock in the morning. By order of the Board, ENOCH PEARSON, Clerk to the Guardians. Aston, May 13, 1837. General Post- office, May 1837. NOTICE is hereby given, that His Majesty's Post- master General will be ready to receive tenders on or before the 5th day of June next, at twelve o'clock, for running a Mail Coach, with two horses, between Bir- mingham and Stratford- on- Avon, by way of Henley- in- Arden. The conditions may be seen on application to the Post- offices at Birmingham and Stratford- on- Avon, or at the office of the Surveyor and Superintendant of Mail Coaches in London. The tenders are to be endorsed " Tenders for the Bir- mingham and Stratford- on- Avon Mail Coach," sealed up and addressed to His Majesty's Postmaster General. By command, W. L. MABERLY, Secretary. General Post- office, May 1837. NOTICE is hereby given, that His Majesty's Post- master General will he ready to receive tenders, on or before the 5th day of June next, at twelve o'clock, for run- ning a Mail Coach, with two horses, between Birmingham and Leamington, by way of Warwick. The conditions may be seen on application to the Post- offices at Birmingham and Leamington, or at the office of the Surveyor and Superintendantof Mail Coaches in London. The tenders are to be endorsed " Tenders for the Bir- mingham and Leamington Mail Coach," sealed up and ad. dressed to His Majesty's Postmaster General. By command, V. L. MABERLY, Secretary. A single Artificial Tooth 0 Acompleteset — 5 A complete set of Natural Teeth, on fine gold An entire set of Natural or Terro Metallic Teeth, highly finished, in the first style, with fine gold sockets, usually charged 40 guineas 20 0 0 Arranged on the most scientific and improved principles, protecting the adjoining Teeth; remaining perfectly secure in their places; and in every case restoring perfect Articu- lation and Mastication. 121, Regent- street, London, and 17, Easy row, Birmingham. PROTECTED BY FIVE PATENTS. PERRY IAN PENS. NINE Patent Perryian Under Spring Pens, This Pen, by means of the Under Spring, al- lows of an opening across the back, which gives additional freedom and elasticity, rendering it a most pleasant and useful instrument for the general purposes of writing. Nine Double- patent Perryian Pens, with holder ™ . 2 0 Nine Patent Perryian Flat Spring Pens, with ditto„ 2 0 Nine ditto Side Spring Pens, with ditto 2 0 ' Nine ditto India- rubber Spring Pens, ditto ™ . ™ - ™ 2 6 Nine ditto Regulating Spring Pens, ditto 2 6 Any of the above Pens may be had with, Medi- um, * ine, Extra Fine, or Broad Points. , ' New Patent Perryian School Pens, for Large, Round, or Small Hand, with holder Nine Patent Three pointed Pens Nine Patent Peiryian Office Pens, with hold! Nine ditto Varnished Pens, ditto ™ ™ « Six ditto Lithographic Pens, of unequalled delicacy and flexibility for the Stone, & c., , wjth holder .— 3 6 Six ditto Drawing or Mapping Pens, of the most exquisite fineness, with holder 3 6 The Patent Perryian Elastic Holder may be had with most of the above Pens, at an advance of threepence per card. Perryian Limpid Blue and Black Ink. Writing performed with the blue Irfk is first of a clear blue colour, but in a short period becomes a permanent black. These Inks are superior to most of the writing fluids in use, and being very limpid, are peculiarly adapted for Me- tallic Pens, as well as for those made from quills. They are also suitable for the Copying Machine; sold in bottles at 6d., Is., and 2s. each, by all Stationers and Dealers in Me- tallic Pens, and at the Manufactory, 37, Red Lion Square, London; each Card and Bottle is signed— JAMES PERRY and Co. GRAND AND SPLENDID CHANGE OF PERFORMANCES! AT RYAN'S SPACIOUS AND MOST EXTENSIVE ROYAL CIRCUS, BRADFORD- STREET, BIRMINGHAM, ON MONDAY, MAY 22, AND FOUR FOLLOW. ING DAYS. NO PERFORMANCE ON SATURDAY NIGHT. MR. RYAN cannot again solicit Public support without expressing his heartfelt gratitude for the munificent and influential patronage with which the above place of chaste and scientific entertainments has been hitherto honoured— a proof that his efforts to afford amusement have merited approval. The Performance will commence with Mr. FIELD'S aston- ishing LEAPS and SUMMERSETS! First, Over a Garter, 16 feet high— Second, Over a horse lengthways, and a man standing on his back— Third, Over Six Horses, and through a small hoop at the same time— Fourth, Over Ten Horses— Fifth through a Hogshead of REAL FIRE !— MASTER and Miss GINNETT, the Equestrian Wonders, will perform their admired Act on Two fleet Horses at the same time, called the FISHERMAN OF NAPLES, and ITALIAN MILK- MAID MASTER POWELL will go through his astonishing EQUILIBRIUMS ON THE MAGIC LADDER. Who will while standing on his head, on a Perpendicular Pole, fire off a brace of Pistols, alter which he will turn round without the assistance of his hands, representing the Antipodes, being a most astonishing feat, and which has never met with a parallel MASTER ADAMS, the Juvenile Equestrian, will for the first time here, perform liis admired Act on a single horse, called the BRIGAND! or, the Robber of the Alps. Personating Three distinct Characters, in appropriate dresses MON- SIEUR HENGLER, will go through the whole of his Per- formances on the TIGHT ROPE, as performed by him before their present Majesties, in the Royal Pavilion, Brighton ; also at the Theatre Royal, Sans Carlos, Lisbon. — Clowns, Messrs. USHER, PRICE, RANDALL, and WIL- LIAMS.— Conductors of the Ring, HENGLER. GINNETT, and FIELD.— An entirely new and^ splendid Spectacle, called'the DUNMOW FESTIVAL; THE WHITE WREATH; or, the Flitch of Bacon!— Sir Roger De Coverley, Mr. RYAN. — GRAND PYRAMIDICAL STRUCTURES; or, Animated Architecture, by the whole company forming themselves into various pictures, and tableaux on the backs of three horses; to be immediately followed, at the earnest solicitations of numberless Patrons of the Circus, the whole Company of STILL VAULTERS! will most particularly exert themselves in their various trials of com- petition, including the extraordinary abilities of the cele- brated PRICE, who has positively thrown in rapid succession, the unprecedented number of Thirty- one and Twenty- eight SUMMERSETS! making the number of Fifty- nine in Two Trials. THE BEAUTIFUL TWIN PONIES! Will exhibit a variety of extraordinary and uniqne exercises; seat themselves at the SUPPER TABLE WITH THE CLOWN, partake of the dishes before them with a strict observance of punctilious etiquette, previously playing at Leap Frog, and Jumping through several Circumferences, Garlands, & c., with a variety of other Tricks peculiar to their docile temper. Managed by Mr. GINNETT.— Mr. POWELL will, for the first time here, enact upon his rapid Courser, a TAR'S VICISSITUDES; or, Lifeofa Sailor. The vicissitudes of a Sailor's Life are, perhaps, more painful than any other, as the passions of his nature, by a variety of causes and effects, are continually agitated. In youth, when the hardy stripling leaves his home, if the dashing of a foaming surge be not even to his taste, the dread of ridicule rivits him to an occupation which possesses few charms and incessant danger. As manhood dawns, and heoften returns to bis native country, " some blooming Sue," or " lovely Kale," enthrals his sanguine heart, and the bright torch of Hymen with fleeting bliss, makes him happy, till bitter se- paration tears him from his lovely partner. The happy return is with the tenderest solicitude watched for— prayed for; the vessel heaves ill sight, and poor Jack beholds his lovely girl a mother; she presents to his longing arms the pledge of love. The dangers of the sea are now forgotten in the sweet caresses of affection, and for a time he is happy. A second voyage, he hopes will crown him with success, and on his return, he determined to4' harbour for life" in the bay of sweet content. He arrives in a foreign clime, after a prosperous voyage, and makes a venture of all his hard earnings, and again sets sail for happy England. The unspeakable pleasure derived from viewing his pur- chases and the presents intended for home, can only be felt and described by a parent or husband. Suddenly clouds begin to lower— the high wave begins to loll— the lightnings flash, and thunders roar; the storm rages, whilst the feel- ings of true affection must give way to the fortitude of a gallant sailor; he mounts the quarter deck, and takes the helm ; destruction appears inevitable, but by steady perse- verance the vessel is saved ; Jack's cargo is landed, and his escape and return blessed with happiness, the congratula- tions of his friends, and the endearing affections of wife and little ones— Mr. RYAN will go through his admired, daring, and arduous Act on a number of horses at one time, assisted by several of his Pupils, entitled THE REVOLT OF THE GREEKS! AND FLIGHT OF THE SARACENS— Mr. CHAPMAN will, for the first time here, introduce his old ENGLISH EQUESTRIAN ACT, on a single horse at full speed ; during the circuition he will perform a. number of interesting Feats, such as Leaping over Pipes, a Glove, over Garters, through Hoops,& c. 8ic. The whole to conclude with THE ECCENTRIC CITIZEN; or, a London Merchant willing to serve a Friend, with the introduction of a strange visitor little ex- pected.— Characters by Messrs. HENGLER, FIELD, and PRICE, and MASTER HENGLER. Doors to be opened at half- past Six, and commence at half- past Seven o'clock— Front Boxes, 2s. 6d Side Boxes, Is. 6d— Pit, Is— Gallery, 6d. Equestrian Tuition by teachers of the highest talent.— Horses broke either for the road or field. Cards of terms may be had at the Circus, from Eleven till Three o'clock. Box Office open from Ten till Two, where places may be taken, and tickets obtained. PARASOLS, 79, BULL- STREET. JHOWELL respectfully announces to his nume- • rous friends and the public, that he has prepared a large and elegant assortment of Parasols adapted to the present season, combining fashion, taste, and usefulness, and of which he invites an early inspection. Parasols and Umbrellas made, repaired, and recovered. A large stock of Silk and Gingham Umbrellas always on hand. SCOTTISH EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, THE Directors have resolved to submit a motion to the next Quarterly Court of Directors, on 5th June, for making certain alterations on the existing Law of the Society relative to the Distribution of Profits, whereby additional advantages will be secured to all its Members pre- sent and future. In regard to all Members who have joined the Society since 1st March, 1836, or those who may do so in future, the leading alterations to be proposed are the following: — 1. After the first allocation of Profits, in March, 1841, the all c. itions are to be triennial instead of septennial. 2. All Policies of more than five years'standing, are to receive Annual Additions Retrospective to their dates. A Policy, therefore, entered into at present, if it become a claim in June, 1842, will be entitled to six, or if it become a claim in June, 1843, it will be entitled to seven Annual Additions. In other words, it is intended that it shall re- ceive five additions over and above those at present provided to it. 3. All Policies which may be effected on or before 1st March, 1839, will receive Vested Additions at 1st March, 1844, retrospective to their dates. With these alterations, no other Assurance Society can afford greater advantages to Insurers, than the Scottish Equitable Society. By order of the Directors, ROBERT CHRISTIE, Manager. Edinburgh, May, 1837 The Annual Reports of the Proceedings of the Society may be had from the Society's Agents, along with a full ex- planation of the contemplated alterations. ROBERT BENTON, Jun., Esq., Solicitor, Agent for Birmingham. TO THE PROPRIETORS OF THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BANK OF ENGLAND. \\ 7E, the undersigned, being Members of the Com- » » mittee appointed at a public meeting of Shareholders, held at Ladyman's Hotel, in Bridge- street, Manchester, on the 20th day of April last, beg respectfully to inform the Proprietors, that since the publication of the notice in the Birmingham Journal newspaper, of Saturday the 29th of April last, convening two extraordinarygeneral meetings of the Company, on Thursday, the 25th day of May, and Thursday, the 22nd day of June, 1837, at the times and place, and for the several purposes mentioned in such no- tice, we have agreed to the following propositions of the Board of Directors, namely: — " That the remaining Members of the original Board of Directors, will tender their resignations so soon as the debts owing by the Northern and Central Bank to the Bank of England and the London and Westminster Bank are paid, provided that a sufficient number of Directors remain to form a Board for the election of others to succeed them." The Board accompany this proposition with the assurance thatit has been their intention, since the early part of Janu- ary last, to tender their resignations at the above period. " That the Directors will immediately elect six gentlemen to add to their body as Directors, the names to be furnished by the Committee." " That when the Bank of England and the London and Westminster Bank are paid, the Directors will, as early as practicable, call a general meeting of Shareholders, for the purpose of laying before them a full and correct statement of the affairs " of the Bank, and also for the nomination of duly qualified Shareholders to supply the vacancies that may then exist." The Committee having been strongly urged by the repre- sentations of the Inspectors, that it would be inexpedient and injurious to the interests of the Bank, for the present Board of Directors immediately to withdraw, and actuated by a sincere desire to promote the best interests of the Shareholders, recommend the foregoing propositions to the Proprietors at large, and beg to inform them that they have been approved of by the Inspectors, whose opinion on this subject is entitled to every consideration, from their expe- rience in the affairs of the Bank. We trust that these arrangements, by securing additional assistance to the establishment, will be satisfactory to the Proprietors, and that they will agree with us in considering the two Extraordinary General Meetings of the Company unnecessary in the present state of the Bank affairs, and will approve of our countermanding the same accordingly. We remain, with the greatest respect, Your very obedient servants, THOMAS GREIG. W. S, STELL. JAMES PATRICK. JOHN WADDINGTON. J. S. STUBBS. S. DUCKWORTH. JOHN MORLEY. THOMAS BURY. Manchester, May 17, 1837. REGULAR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN HULL AND LEITH. THE ST. GEORGE STEAM PACKET COMPANY'S SHIP, INNISFAIL, J. MOFFATT, COMMANDER. IS intended to Sail as under, with or without Pilots, and with liberty to Tow Vessels, during the months of MAY and JUNE, 1837, as follows: — FROM HULL EVERY SUNDAY. Sunday, May 21st at 6 o'clock Afternoon Sunday, May28th at 1 o'clock Afternoon Sunday, June 4th at 5 o'clock Afternoon Sunday, June lltli . at 12 o'clock Noon Sunday, June 18th . at 6 o'clock Afternoon Sunday, June 25th ™ . at 12 o'clock Noon. FROM LEITH EVERY WEDNESDAY. Wednesday, May 24th at 4 o'clock Afternoon Wednesday, May 31st , at 12 o'clock Noon Wednesday, June 7th .. at 4 o'clock Afternoon Wednesday, June 14th at 11 o'clock Morning Wednesday, June 21st ,—. at 4 o'clock Afternoon Wednesday, June28th at 11 o'clock Morning. A Stewardess attends the Ladies' Cabin. Merchandise of all descriptions forwarded with the greatest care and dispatch, if addressed as under: THOMAS S. PIM, St. George Steam Packet Company's Office, Hull. W. B. M'KK AN, 26, Shore, Leith ; or land H. HOBSON, Manchester. REPAIRING THE CONSTITUTION. BY REPAIRING the CONSTITUTION, the Advertiser means the HUMAN FRAME, which, by too free indulgence in momentary pleasures, destroys too often the noble fabric of man, and tortures him through his whole existence; weakens his energies, and makes him un- fit to perform those functions which are required of him. Dr. FISCIIELBERG, formerly of the Prussian army, who directs bis entire study to those cases so frequently brought on by the indiscretion of youth and inebriety, and whose long and extensive practice on the banelul diseases arising from theabove causes, has at length been so fortunate as to conquer, through his salutary and most valuable medicinal preparations, the most obstinate venereal diseases, and does with confidence assure the afflicted, that, by adhering to his medicines, a complete cure may be relied on, for which he pledges his reputation. Dr. F. may be consulted by both sexes with the greatest confidence, from nine in the morning till ten at night, and on Sundays from ten till two, at his Medical Establish- ment, No. 3, Christ Church Passage, New- slreet, Bir- mingham, where advice and medicines may be obtained. The PILES successfully treated by internal medicines only. Dr. FISCHELBERGis the sole Proprietorof the highly celebrated Royal Prussian Herb Pills, for the cure of the Venereal disease. Sold, with proper directions for use, in boxes at 2s. 9d. and 4s. 6d. each, duty included. Letters from the country, post- paid, with particulars of the case, and enclosing a remittance, punctually attended to, and advice and medicines forwarded to any part of the kingdom. Observe, No. 3, Christ Church- passage, New- street. N. B. Private door to the Surgery through the first entry in New- street. TO BUILDERS. PERSONS desirous of contracting for the OFFICES, ENGINE- HOUSE, and other Build- ings to be erected, in addition to those already completed, for the BIRMINGHAM PLATE and CROWN GLASS COMPANY, at Smethwick New Village, near Birmingham, may on and after Tuesday the 9th of May, inspect the Plans and Specifications of the various Build- ings at the Office of the Company, and also receive any further information which may be required, on application to Mr. JOSEPH PLEVINS, Architect, 8, Waterloo- street, Birmingham. Tenders to be delivered ( free of expense) at the Com- pany's Office, Waterloo- street, at or before twelve o'clock on Wednesday, the 24th of May, endorsed " Tender for erections at the Birmingham Plate and Crown Glass Company's Works." Birmingham, April 29, 1837. _ GUAND JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY. PURSUANT to an act passed in the third year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, "' An act for making a Railway from the Warrington and Newton Railway, at Warrington, in the county of Lancaster, to Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, to be called the Grand Junction Railway,— notice is hereby given, that the Directors appointed under and by virtue of the said act, have, pursuant to the provisions thereof, made a fur- ther call from the several subscribers to and proprietors of shares in the said undertaking, of the sum of £ 5., in respect of every share, and have ordered that such call be paid to Messrs. Moss and Co., Bankers, Liverpool, or on their account to Messrs. BARCLAY, TRITTON, and Co., Bankers, London, or to the BIRMINGHAM BANKING COM- PANY, Birmingham, on oi before the 12th day of June next; and the several proprietors of shares are required to pay such call accordingly.— Dated at Liverpool this 17th day of May, 1837. I. SWIFT, Clerk of the Company. IMPORTANT PERIODICAL WORKS. In course of Publication by CHARLES KNIGHT and Co., Ludgate- street. THE PICTORIAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND ; being a History of the People, as well as a History of the Kingdom; illustrated with many hundred Wood- cuts of Monumental Records; Coins; Civil and Military Cos- tume; Domestic Buildings, Furniture, and Ornaments; Cathedrals, and other great works of Architecture; Sports, and other Illustrations of Manners; Mechanical Inventions; Portraits of Eminent Persons ; and Remarkable Historical Scenes. The ' Pictorial History of England' is published in Monthly Parts, price 2s., and in Weekly Numbers, price 6d., and will be completed in three super- royal Octavo Volumes, similar to those of the ' Pictorial Bible.' The Work, in addition to its Wood- cuts, will contain about as much letter- press as twenty common octavo volumes of four hundred pages each. The publication commenced on the 1st of March, and the Parts and Numbers are kept on sale by all Booksellers. THE PICTORIAL BIBLE; being the Old and New Testaments, according to the authorised version: illustrated with many hundred Wood- cuts, representing the Historical Events, after the most celebrated Pictures; the Landscape SceneB, from Original Drawings or from Authentic En- gravings; find the subjects of Natural History, of Costume, and of Antiquities, from the best sources. To which are added, Original Notes, chiefly explanatory of the Engravings, and of such Passages connected with the History, Geo- graphy, Natural History, and Antfquities of the Sacred Scriptures as require observation. The ' Pictorial Bible' is issued in Monthly Parts, price 2?., and in Weekly Numbers, price 6d. One Volume, including to the end of RUTH, has been published, handsomely bound in cloth, price 17s. 6d. The Second Volume will be completed on the 1st of July, in- cluding ISAIAH, price One Pound. The Third Volume will complete the Work. Under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knoivtedge. THE PENNY CYCLOPAEDIA OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. Published in Monthly Parts, price Is. 6d., forming every four months a Volume, price 7s. 6d. bound in cloth. It is also issued in Numbers, price One Penny, which are on sale concurrently with the issue of the Parts. The Work is copiously illustrated with Wood- cuts. The Eighth Volume, now ready, extends, in alphabetical arrangement, to Dyionysius. The ' Penny Cyclopa; dia will not exceed Twenty Volumes in the uihole; and the rate at which it is now issued,— namely, Three Volumes annually, will bring the Work to a conclusion in four years. " The great anxiety of the Committee and of the Editor has been to produce a Cyclopedia which, in accuracy, com- pleteness, and originality, should not be surpassed by any similar publication of this or any other country; and the Publisher has not hesitated to incur the large expenses which are necessary for the attainment of this excellence, although the work is sold at a price not amounting to a fourth of the cost of any other Cyclopedia of established reputation. The articles in this work have been drawn up with the greatest care from the best and most recent authorities. It will be found, on making a comparison, that the essential differences between the articles in the ' Penny Cyclopaedia' and those in other Cyclopaidias or Dictionaries, are suffi- cient to prove that original sources of information only, and not previous compilations, have been consulted by the writers for this work. Independently of this, the numerous references given in all the more important articles show dis- tinctly what are the authorities that have been used; they indicate to the careful reader the means of extending his knowledge on any particular subject, and at the same time give him the power of testing the general accuracy of the work by consulting the same sources of information that have been used by the writers."— Extract from the Preface to the Sixth Volume. THE PENNY MAGAZINE OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. Published in Weekly Numbers, price One Penny, and in Monthly Parts, price Sixpence. Five Volumes have been completed, containing upwards of One Thousand Wood- cuts, illustrative of subjects of Natural History, Antiquities, and Views, Foreign and Domestic, & c. & c., derived chiefly from Original Drawings, by Artists of ability. The price of the First Volume ( which closed with the Supplement of December, 1832) is 6s., bound in cloth; the other Volumes, uniformly bound, are 7s. 6d. each. 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 periotl, 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. 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'sCorn 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, anil 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 froir. your agent, Mr. Maher, Aim- street, a bottle of Rainsbottom's Corn and Bunion Solvent j— after a week's application I found it had the desired effect. I 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, Augusttl, 183( 5. JOHN WINFIELU. To Messrs. Hannay and Co. Sold byappointmentby M. Maher, 5, Congreve- strec t, and W. Wood, Bookseller, High- street, Birmingham; Parke, Wolverhampton ; Rogers, Stafford; Mort, Newcastle; Mer- ridew, Coventry; Dicey, Northampton. WARWICKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. THE Seventh ANNUAL MEETING of this So- ciety will be holden at Warwick on Wednesday, the 31st day of May instant. All Stock and Implements in- tended to be shown, either for premiums or extra stock, must be at the place of show by nine o'clock in the morning of the above day, and not be removed till two o'clock. The members and friends of the Society will meet at the Warwick Arms Inn, Warwick, after the show, at two o'clock, for the transaction of business ; and dine together at three o'clock. The Committee are requested to attend at the Warwick Arms the preceding day, ( Tuesday the 30tli,) at one o'clock, for the purpose of examining and deciding on tire claims for premiums. STAFFORD S. BAXTER, Atherstone, May 15th, 1837. Honorary Secretary. BIRMINGHAM AND DERBY JUNCTION RAILWAY. CONTRACT FOR WORKS. THE COMMITTEE of DIRECTORS of the BIRMINGHAM and DERBY JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY will meet at the Railway Office, in Waterloo- street, Birmingham, on Wednesday, the 14th day of June next, at Twelve o'clock at noon, to receive Tenders for Contract for the following work : — To construct a VIADUCT OF SEVENTEEN ARCHES over the River Anker and the Turnpike Roads from Tamworth to Polesworth and Shuttington, in the township of Bolehall, in the parish of Tamworth, in the county of Warwick. A Draft of the Contract, with Plans and Specification of the Works, are ready for inspection at ttie Railway Office. Printed forms of Tender may be had at the Railway Office, and no others will be attended to. The Tenders must be delivered, sealed, at the office, on or before Twelve o'clock at noon, on Wednesday, the 14th day of June next; and parties tendering must attend in person, or by some one duly authorised on their behalf, at the time of meeting. The party whose tender is accepted will be required to enter into a bond, with two sureties, for the due performance of his contract, in a penalty not less than ten per cent, on the gross sum contracted for, and the names of the proposed sureties are to be specified in the tender. The Directors will not bind themselves to accept the lowest offer. The Contractor, if he require it, will be furnished by the Company with a counterpart of his contract at his own expense. By order, THOMAS KELL, Secretary. Birmingham, May 8, 1837. NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY. CONTRACTS FOR WORKS. THE Directors of the NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY COMPANY will meet at the RAILWAY OFFICE, NO. 13, GEORGE- STREET, MANSION- HOUSE, LONDON, on Thursday, the 1st day of June, 1837, at One o'clock precisely, to receive Tenders for the under- mentioned Contracts:— CONTRACT, NO. 1.— TO make the Railway, with all the Excavations, Embankments, Bridges, Culverts, Drains, and Fences complete, including the lrfying and ballasting of the permanent way, and furnishing the necessary Blocks and Sleepers, ( hut exclusive of the Rails, Chairs, Pins, and Oak Trenails,) from the south side of the proposed Sheffield and Itothwham Railway, in the parish of Rotherham, and ating at a point thirty chains on the north east side ot , e Greasborough Canal, in the parish of ltawmarsh, both in the West Riding of the County of York, being a distance of one mile and seventy- two chains; And to keep the same in repair for one year after completion. CONTRACT, NO. 2.— To make and maintain the Railway, ( including a Viaduct over the Calder Valley) in like man- ner, from a point about half a mile on the north side of the River Calder, in the parish of Methley, and terminating at a point thirty chains on the south side of a place called Goose Hill Common, in the parish of Warmfield- cum- Heath, all in the said West Riding of the County of York, being a distance of three miles and twenty- two chains. Drafts of the Contracts, with Plans and Specifications of the Works, will be ready for inspection, at the Engineer's Office, in Chesterfield, and the Railway Office in Leeds, on and after Monday the 15th instant. Printed Forms of Tender may be had, after the above date, at the Railway Offices in London, Leeds, and Ches- terfield, and no others will be attended to. The Tenders must be delivered at the Railway Office in London, on or before One o'clock on the said 1st day of June, under a sealed cover, addressed to the Secretary, and indorsed, " Tender for Works," and the parties tendering, or persons duly authorised by them, must be in attendance at the time of meeting. The parties whose Tenders are accepted, will be required to enter into a Bond, with two sureties, for the due perform, ance ot their Contract, in a penalty of not less than ten per cent, on the gross sum contracted lor, and the names of the proposed sureties are to be specified in the Tender. The Directors will not bind themselves to accept the lowest offer. The Contractor ( if he require it) will be furnished by the Company with a counterpart of the Contract, at his own expense. By Order, H. PATTESON, Secretary. London, 10th May, 1837. FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH. Price Is. l^ d. per box. THIS is a medicine of long- tried efficacy for cor- recting all disorders of the stomach and bowels, the common symptoms of which are costiveness, flatulency, spasms, loss of appetite, sick head- ache, giddiness, sense of fullness after meals, dizziness of the eyes, drowsiness, and pains in the stomaeh and bowels, indigestion pooducinga torpid state of the liver, and a consequent inactivity of the bowels, causing a disorganisation of every function of the frame, will, in this most excellent preparation, by a little perseverance, be effectually removed. Two or three dozes will convince the afflicted of its salutary effects. The sto- mach will speedily regain its strength ; a healthy action of the liver, bowels, and kidneys, will rapidly take place; and instead of listlessness, heat, pain, and jaundiced appearance, strength, activity, and renewed health, will be the quick re- sult of taking this medicine according to the directions ac- companying each box. These pills are particularly efficacious for stomach coughs, colds, agues, shortness of breath, and all obstructions in the urinary passages ; and if taken after too free an indulgence at table, they quickly restore the system to its natural state of repose. Persons of a full habit, who are subject to head ache, giddiness, drowsiness, and singing in the ears, arising from too great a flow of blood to the head, should never be with- out them, as many dangerous symptoms will be entirely car- ried off by their immediate use. For females these pills are most truly excellent, removing all obstructions; the distressing head- ache so very prevalent with the sex ; depression of spirits, dulness of sight, nervous affections, blotches, pimples, and sallowness of the skin, and give a healthy and juvenile bloom to the complexion. To mothers they are confidently recommended as the best medicine that can he taken during pregnancy; and for chil- dren of all ages they are unequalled. As a pleasant, safe, easy aperient, they unite the recom- mendation of a mild operation with the most successful effect, and require no restraint of diet or confinement during their use. By regulating the dose according to the age and strength of the patient, they become suitable for every case, in either sex, that can he required; and for elderly people they will be found to be the most comfortable medicine hitherto prepared. Sold liy T. Prout, 229, Slrarid, London, price Is. lid. and 2s. 9il. per box; and by Maher, Wood, Shillitoe, Sumner and I'ort'l, Collins and Co., Humphries, Smith, Suffield, Flewitt, Edwards, Gazette and Advertiser offices; Shillitoe, ( late Cowell) 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, Bronjs- grove; Harper, Hodgkinson, Bayley and Roberts, War- wick; and most of the agents for the celebrated " Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills," one of whom is to every town in the Kingdom. /* • / To the Trade.— The usual full allowance ( fl the " Trade hy having them direct from No. 229, Strand. • ' " > K 2 THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. i IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS. FRIDAY, MAY 12. The Speaker was enabled to take the chair some time before four o'clock, owing- to the very full attend- ance of members, particularly on the opposition benches. Sir Francis Burdett, who had been for some time seated behind the Serjeant- at- Arms, afterwards ap- peared, on crutches, to take his seat for Westminster. He was introduced by Sir George Sinclair and Lord Sandon. The first glimpse that was caught of him was the signal for loud and enthusiastic cheering from the opposition benches, which was continued for seve- ral minutes, responded to by jeering cheers and other noises from the ministerial side of the House. These friendly and unfriendly recognitions continued during the whole time of the oaths being administered. Sir Francis then took his seat 011 the opposition bench be- low where Sir R. Peel, Sir James Graham, & c. usually sit. Having stayed about half an hour, the hon. baronet quitted the House. Mr. Ellice ( who was introduced by Mr. Baines and Mr. Lanibton) then appeared to take the oaths and his seat for Huddersfield. His appearance was the signal for loud cheering from the ministerial side. Mr. D. W. HARVEY, after presenting several pe- titions on the subject of the Poor- law Amendment Act, expressed his disapprobation of the conduct of the Committee, and hoped that the House would allow him to discontinue his attendance at such committee. Lord ASHLEY inquired whether the regulations is- sued by the Factory Inspectors had received the sanc- tion of the Law Officers of the Crown, and when it was intended to introduce the Factory Act Amendment bill? Lord JOHN RUSSELL answered, that the regulations were issued agreeably to the advice of the Law Offi- cers. With respect to the bill, he could not state when that would be introduced. The noble lord having moved that the House, at its rising, should adjourn to Wednesday next, Mr. MAX- WELL proposed as an amendment, that he should have leave to bring in a bill to give publicity to the prices of hand- loom weaving. The amendment was ulti- mately lost by a majority of 82 to 39. On the motion of Mr. ' HARCOURT, a Select Commit- tee was appointed to inquire into the facts stated in the Duke of Marlborough's petition. The House again went into a Committee on the Irish Poor Relief bill, which occupied the remainder of the sitting, the question 011 which the debate turned being whether an instruction should be given to the Committee to introduce a provision for settlement into the bill. Mr. Lucas, Colonel Wood, Mr. C. Bul- ler, Mr. P. Scrope, Lord Stanley, Lord Sandon, Mr. Hardy, Mr. Wyse, and other members advocated the principle, while Mr. Lynch, Lord Howick, Mr. Vil- liers, Mr. Shaw, Mr. O'Connell, Lord J. Russell, and Mr. Chalmers opposed it. The motion eventually was negatived by 120 to 68. The House next went into Committee on Ways and Means, and the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER asked for a vote of 11,000,000/. Exchequer bills for the service of the year 1837. In answer to questions from Mr. Goulburn, the right hon. gent, gave an ex- planation relative to the condition of the unfunded debt. The vote was agreed to, as also was a vote of 60,000/. for retired allowances to His Majesty's forces in India. The Concealment of Births bill went through Com- mittee, and was ordered to be read a third time on Wednesday.— The Annual Indemnity bill was read a third time and passed. The House then adjourned for the Whitsun holidays until Wednesday next. WEDNESDAY. A great many petitions against and for the Ministe- rial measure of Church- rates, were presentedby various members; one of the latter, presented by Mr. H. Mars- land from Stockport had 9,000 signatures attached to it. Some discussion took place on a clause in the Glas- gow and Ayr Railway, prohibiting Sunday travelling Dr. BOWRING moved its omission. Mr. ROEBUCK supported the amendment— He wished to leave the observance of Sunday to the feei- ng of the people. The strict observance of that day was, in his opinion, contrary to the Christian religion— it wes nothing more than an ascetic and Jewish usage, having no relation to the morals of the people; it was mere matter ol hypocrisy in some people, and of ignorance in others. The Tory members supported the clause. Mr. C. BULLER ridiculed the humbug of such clauses, and of their sppporters— He did not see that the lories were any stricter observers of the Sabbath than other men. He could say for himself that he had partaken of most elaborately got- up dinners on Sundays at the houses of some of the honourable gentlemen opposite. ( Hear, hear, and laughter.) The clause was carried on a division, by 51 to 47. CONTROVERTED ELECTIONS.— The House went into committee 011 this bill, and proceeded to discuss the general details on a motion for the postponement of the first clause. They had not proceeded far, when it was accidentally suggested that not 40 members were present, and a motion for counting the House being made, and there being only 36, the Speaker immedi- ately left the chair. HOUSE OF LORDS FRIDAY, MAY 12. Lord WYNFORD presented a petition from Bristol, complaining of the English Municipal Corporations Act, and setting forth that under the old law justice was cheaper, and the general municipal system more effective. Viscount MELBOURNE said that every effort had been made to pass an efficient measure ; but if there were peculiar grievances they ought to be reme- died. Lords WHARNCLIFFE and WICKLOW complained that the House of Commons had deferred until the 9th of June the further consideration of the Irish Tithes bill, the day to which the House of Lords had post- poned the Irish Municipal Corporations bill, avowedly for the purpose of knowing what other measures the Ministers had regarding Ireland. By this arrange- ment their lordships could not obtain the information they required, and the postponement to which they adverted, appeared like a desire of thwarting their lordship's wishes. Lord BROUGHAM said that what had been done was only an obvious imitation of their lordship's example; and perhaps it might have the effect of inducing their lordships to reconsider their vote regarding the post- ponement of the Municipal Corporations bill. The Committee on the English Municipal Corpo- rations Act Amendment bill was deferred until Friday next; and their lordships, on the motion of the Mar- quis of Lansdowne, fixed a conference with the Com- mons on the resolutions relating to Canada for Thurs- day next, to which day the House was adjourned, af- ter some routine business had been disposed of. NEWS OF THE WEEK. FOREI& I. SPAIN. It was reported in the beginning of the week that a corps of Carlists, under the Prince Don Sebastian— the younger brother of Don Carlos— had broken up from the head quarters, but the cause of the movement, or its direction, were not well ascertained. Since that time the retreat of this corps has been reported, and the occupation of Hernani by Esparteio. The Paris papers of Tuesday are occupied with the discussion of these two reports. The evacuation of Hernani ( with slight rssistance) was, itis alleged, a natural consequence of the withdrawal of IloiiSebastian's sixteen battalions, in the face of Espartero's force, about 32,000 men. The most probable view of the reported movement of Don Sebastian, is that Don Carlos, Don Sebastian, and their council, had judged it impossible to defend Hernani against Espartero's superior force, and that they had therefore resolved to cross the Ebro at all risks, in order to effect a diversion in Castile, and thus com- pel the Madrid government to recal a large part of the troops collected about St. Sebastian. The corps of Don Sebastian, it is suggested, would have great difficulties in passing the Ebro. The waters of the river are very high and rapid at this season ; there are no practicable fords; the only points where there are bridges are towns or fortified places, which cannot be carried by a coup de main. The passage can only be effected by barks and rafts, or a bridge of boats. A part of Irribarren's corps, which is cantoned in the south of Navarre, is specially charged with the defence of the river, and distributed with this view on the two banks. Irribarren himself may come down from Puente- la- Reina with his whole forces, and take the enemy in the fact at the moment when occupied in passing the river— and the Carlists will then be exposed to the most fatal disaster. Su. ch is the reasoning, which the event will show to be true or false; at present, like prudent men, we can only venture to assert— that it is the one or the other. General Evans, it is now pretty confidently stated, will return in June as he stands pledged. The amnesty granted by Louis Philip, is being liberally interpreted, whether from fear or honesty, it matters little to its objects. Some of the Lyonese prisoners have even been permitted to take up their residence in the suburbs Of that city, though formally excluded by the terms of the am- nesty from the city itself. NEW YORK, APRIL 24 From the South, the express mail of Saturday and Sunday brought unwelcome tidings; the failures on the 13th were as follows:—" Hagen, Niven, and Co., 500,000 dollars; Ca. uthers and Hansen, 1,000,000 dollars; Martin, Pleasants, and Co., 3,000,080 dollars; N. and J. Dick and C., 15,000,000 dollars; Ballitt, Ship, and Co., 2,500,000 dollars; Wilcox and Anderson, 1,000,000 dollars; Buchanan and Hagan, 1,000,000 dollars. Yeat- man, Wood, and Co., amount not transpired, but immense; besides other houses, making an aggregate of over 27,000,000 dollars, all gone by the board in two days." In consequence of the fatal termination of a duel that took place last year between M. Prestat, now a sub- Lieutenant in one of the regiments in Africa, and M. Hans, both at that time in the Polytechnic School, and in which the latter was killed, the mother of M. Hans, a widow, brought an action against his adversary for a compensation for her loss. The case was heard last week before the Tribunal de Pre- miere Instance, and Lieutenant Prestat was adjudged by the Court to pay the widow an annuity of eight hundred francs for her life. The remains of the Hon. Susan Penelope Copley were on Friday last deposited in a temporary tomb in the ceme- tery of Montmartre, Paris, whence they are to be conveyed to England. The funeral was strictly private; nevertheless the carriage of Count Campuzano ( Spanish Ambassador), of Lord Canterbury, of the Princess Lieven, and of a few other distinguished individuals, followed the funeral car. On the 28th ult., at ten in the evening, an extraordinary phenomenon took place on the shores of the Baltic, in the province of Koeslin, in Prussia. A hill of more than 100 feet in height, and covered with furze, suddenly sunk with a noise resembling thunder. The abyss which has been thus opened must be at least 200 paces in length. This circum- stance produced a movement of the ground in the neigh- bourhood, Uy which the adjoining hills were raised from twenty to thirty feet. The cause of this phenomenon has not yet been discovered. SLAVING Letters received in Liverpool mention that intelligence had been received there from the Cape of Good Hope, stating His Majesty's brig- of. war Dolphin had cap- tured two slavers. The following are the particulars — The Dolphin had arrived at the Cape of Good Hope about the date of the 20th of January from England, with nearly 20,000/. on Government account, bringing also along with her the crew of a Brazilian slaver. She had, it appears, captured two vessels of this description : first, the schooner Androhina, with 254 slaves 011 board, evidently Brazilian, though sailing under Portuguese colours, having procured a Portuguese passport at Angola, and escorted by a brig from that place to the coast of Brazil, and cleared out for Moz. ambique, Ambrig, and Monte Video. Both these vessels, it was ascertained, had sailed from Rio Janeiro a few months previous, under Brazilian colours, and were carrying the slaves across to the market, protected by the semblance of a Portuguese flag. The other vessel was recognised to be the Brazilian corvette Incomprehensible, French built, of 560 tons, and pierced for 18 guns, with 700 slaves on board, from Mozambique to Angola and Lisbon, also pro- ceeding on the voyage under Portuguese passport and colours, but found to be Brazilian, by papers which were discovered on board. She was despatched under guard to Sierra Leone for adjudication. The scene on board th; s vessel, it is said, was truly heart- rending. There were about 100 slaves lying almost lifeless on the deck, with the remaining 600 in the most abject misery, being in a state of nudity, and so closely packed together, that they lay as one lifeless mass, in consequence of the heat they bad experi- enced in rounding the Cape. It was with great exertion that they were ultimately brought round ; and, after having been properly attended to, were placed in a situation to ex- ercise themselves. A PERSUADER The following powerful, elegant, and classic appeal was made in a Court of Justice somewhere in Kentucky, by one of the " learned heads" of the bar: — " Gentlemen of the jury, do you think my client, who lives in the pleasant valley of Kentucky, where the lands is rich, and soil are fertile, would be guilty of stealing eleving little skains of cotting? I think not, I reckon not, I calculate not. And I guess, gentlemen of the jury, that you had better bring my client in not guilty, for if you convict him, lie and his son John will lick the whole of you." ~ D OMESTIC. THE METROPOLIS. A hairdresser and perfumer, who resides in Marclimont- street, Brunswick- square, displays in large letters, on a boaid over his shopwindow, the following words:—" Acme of Kallitrichoplas." At the Central Criminal Court 011 Saturday morning, James Baine was indicted for stealing a copper, the property of a person named Plant. It appeared from the evidence that, between nine and ten o'clock on the night of the 6th of May, the prosecutor heard a noise in the back part of his premises, and, on going into the yard to see what was the matter, he found the prisoner and his maid- servant, who had, it appeared, secured him while in the act of taking out the copper. The prisoner on being called on for his defence, addressed the Court as follows : —" Please your vorsliups. its nothing but my werry great politeness as got me into this here scrape. The fact is, I sees the young voman a coming, and so I vvery natrally steps on von side to let her go by, and in return for my politeness she collars me, and charges me vith stealing the copper, ven it vos quite dif- ferent." We regret for the sake of good manners that this defence did not avail the prisoner, for the jury immediately returned a verdict of guilty. THUNDKR- STORM Sunday afternoon, about a quarter past three o'clock, the metropolis and contiguous parts were visited by an awful thunder- storm. It came on with a Btrong wind from the north- east, and was accompanied by rain and hail- stones of great size, which did great damage to the greenhouses, and so choked up the gutters of many dwellings that they were soon inundated with water, which, as the hail melted, found its way through the roofs. The lightning was remarkably vivid, and the peals of thunder awfully loud, particularly at Pentonville, Islington, and other parts northward. The houses situated in White Conduit- fields were shaken to their foundations. The tem- pest continued to rage with unabated violence for about three quarters of an hour, and shortly before four o'clock a boy, named William Welch, who was looking after some cows belonging to Mr. Smelt, of White Lion- street, Pen- tonville, which were grazing in an adjacent field, was struck by the electric fluid. Some passers by immediatly removed him to a shed adjoining a cottage in the fields, where an attempt was made to bleed him by one of the by- standers; no blood, however, flowing, he was conveyed to Mr. Len- nard, the sign of the Norfolk Arms, in Payne- street, White Conduit- fields. Mr. Russell, the surgeon, of Golden terrace, instantly attended, and after having resorted to the usual means for restoring animation, such as warm baths, & c., pronounced life to be extinct. A cow, and some boys near her, were struck down by the same flash, and completely stunned, but shortly afterwards recovered. COVENT GARDEN THEATRICAL FUND.— On Saturday evening this excellent institution celebrated its twenty- first anniversary festival in the great hall of the Freemason's Tavern. The company was highly respectable, and its Chairman, Lieut.- Gen. Sir G. Murray, G. C. B., had the support of a numerous attendance of vice- presidents, the warm friends of the charity. After the health of the King, the patron of the institution, and a munificent contributor to its funds, and of the other branches of the Royal Family, had been given, and all honoured by the most marked de- monstrations of public regard, the gallant baronet proposed, as his next toast, " Prosperity to the Covent- Garden The- atrical Fund." Mr. B. B. Cabbell then pioposed the " Health of their excellent Chairman." The Chairman briefly returned thanks, and after the health of the Duke of Sussex, as president of the fund, bad been drunk w th all the honours, the Chairman next proposed the " Health or Mr. Bartley," the treasurer, who returned thanks in an animated speech. The healths of " The Duke of Cam- bridge and other Vice- Presidents of the Fund," then fol- lowed, for which Mr. Sergeant Talfourd returned thanks in an eloquent speech, and concluded by proposing " The Patrons of the Drama." Mr. Bartley then announced the subscriptions of the evening, which, including the usual donations of the King and other members of the Royal Family, amounted to 850/. " The memory of Shakspeare" was then given, and followed by " The health of Mr. Sheridan Knowles," which he acknowledged in his usual eloquent manner. THE TEA TRADE, MONDAY The clearances last week amounted to 393,3501b. The market continues very heavy, and the arrivals of the new season teas are frequent and ex- tensive. SPLENDID [ HUMBUG] MUNIFICENCE OF SIR FRANCIS BUR- DETT.— The following fact is not generally known, and there- fore we deem it not out of season at the present time to lay it before the public:— A few years since a meeting was held at the Freemasons' Tavern, upon the subject of the educa- tion of the poor, at which the Duke of Sussex presided. Among the many gentlemen who addressed the meeting was Sir Francis Burdett, who said—" On entering this room I ight unfit the poor for their present station in life, and because I feared it would open their eyes to the misgovernment of their rulers, and render them unsettled, and open to agitation. Still I was disposed to lend my assistance, though only in a small degree, and upon this prin - ciple— that knowing as I do the advantages of instruction, and the great loss attendant upon its want, and how much I should have felt grateful to any one who had contributed to enlighten me, I would willingly Co unto others that which under other circumstances I would they should have done unto me. But from what has this day transpired, all my doubts— my prejudices even— are removed, and I shall now contribute in a way not originally intended."— Sir Fran- cis handed in, at the conclusion of this speech, a check for one thousand guineas— The London Tory Newspapers of Monday. Mr. Chambers observed that a paragraph had appeared in the different papers of last week, which he attended there that night to explain. It had been stated by The Morning Herald, and other papers, that Sir Francis Burdett had given 1,000 guineas on one occasion for a school. The cir- cumstances were these— an attempt was made, in the year 1825, to establish a school on such liberal principles that the children of all sects might attend it. Sir Francis Burdett attended that meeting, and instead, as it bad been stated, of giving 1,000 guineas, he gave 1,000/. in the Three per Cents, which they knew was not equal to 1,000 guineas; and he gave it, too, on a certain condition. ( Hear.) He gave it with a certain proviso, that it should only be appropiiated in case the project succeeded to the building of a school- house. The project did not succeed, and the consequence was that Sir Francis Burdett got back his 1,000/. ( Hear, hear.) To serve an electioneering purpose, then, Sir F. Burdett had told the truth about giving the money, but he did not follow the English law, and " tell the whole truth, and nothing but the truth." ( Cheers and laughter.) They had, then, Sir F. Burdett getting double interest for his money— he got his election by it in 1815, and now gained another election for it in 1837. The Pharisees were content with one in- terest— the gratification of their vanity, for any good they did; but Sir Francis Burdett required double interest ( Hear.)— Mr. Leader's dinner at Marylebone on Monday. PROVINCIAL. THE LATE BISHOP OF NORWICH The public will, we think, be gratified to learn that the universal feeling of attachment which the many amiable qualities of our late benevolent Bishop excited throughout the diocese, is not likely to remain unrecorded, as a subscription is about to be raised, for the purpose of erecting a monument in the Cathe- dral, in token of the affection and respect with which all parties regarded his private virtues Norfolk Chronicle. NOBLE REVENGE The trustee of a number of cottages in a township within the Halifax Poor- law Union, who had experienced the mortification of defeat in the late election of Guardians, refused, at the last rent- day, to return the usual shilling to those tenants who had not given him a vote ! Halifax Express. FOSSIL RUMOURS.— Recently there has been discovered at Darley Bridge, near Matlock, a large and beautiful fossil bed, the strata of which is fiimly fixed in an immense rock composed entirely of limestone. The specimens consist chiefly of the oyster and cockle, interspersed with different species of the eel. These fossils are in the highest state of perfection, and upon inspection well worth the attention of those who turn their pursuits to the minutiae of antidiluvian remains. Both the oyster and cockle shells have at differ- ent times been detached from the limestone in such a perfect state as to be scarcely distinguished from those taken from the ocean.— Derbyshire Chronicle. The state of the weather in this neighbourhood, during the present week has been far more congenial than that of its immediate predecessor. Much rain fell during Sunday and Monday; and the wind was very chill. In the course of the Tuesday morning a slight fall of snow took place, and in the afternoon a severe hail storm passed over the town. The consequence has been that the progress of vegetation has been again much retarded Doncaster Gazette. On May- day, the two Liverpool and Cheltenham coaches, the Hirondelle and Hibernia, accomplished the journey, a distance of 132 miles, in eleven hours !— Manchester Guardian. FATAL COLLIERY ACCIDENT— Loss OF THIHTY- ONE LIVES On Wednesday last an alarming fatal accident happened in the Argeod colliery, belonging to Messrs. Hampton. It appears that a considerable increase of water had flowed into the mines from the northward of the works during the pre- ceding ten days. This was supposed to come from some of the old works, or " deals," and as the engines were power- ful enough to keep it under, it excited 110 dread in the minds of the colliers, who continued their work as usual. On the men going down into the works on Wednesday morning the water had increased to a great height in the east works, and about nine o'clock the under ground- agent gave orders to the men to leave off work and go to the surface. The order had scarcely been given, when the roar of water rushing in with dreadful impetuosity was heard, and the men, eighteen in number, ian to the shafts, and escaped to the surface. The water was running by them as they were getting out, knee- deep, and filling the engine- pits, which were on a level of coal. There were upward of thirty individuals at work in the engine- pits when the water rushed in, only two of whom had the power of escaping, which they did by climbing up the engine; the others were too far off to render escape possible before they were covered with water. The steam- engine was immediately set pumping with all its available power, but the water gained so fearfully upon it as to be in a quarter of an hour fifteen yards deep in the main shaft, thus rendering all power of assistance completely hopeless. The colliery bank during the day presented a most heart- rending scene, from the parents, wives, and children, of the sufferers, some in despair, others, still clinging to hope, calling on those relatives lost by them in terms of frantic despair, or the tenderest affection. It is quite uncertain when the bodies can be lecovered, which depends upon the time the engine takes in reducing the water in the mine. No hopes are entertained of the lives of any of the men being saved, for should any have escaped drowning, the accumulation of foul air in the mine, after ventilation, must have destroyed them. The number missing has been ascertained to be thirty- one, ten of whom are married men leaving large families ofnowdestitue children. The body of one boy has been washed up Chester Chronicle. YEAST, AND PUTRID SORE THROATS.—" I went to reside at Brampton, a very populous village near Chesterfield. I had not been there many months before a putrid fever broke out among us, and finding by far the greater number of my parishioneis much too poor to afford themselves medical assistance, I undertook, by the help of such books on the subject of medicine as were in my possession, to prescribe from them. I early attended a boy about fifteen years of age, who was attacked by this fever; he had not been ill many days before the symptoms were unequivocally putrid; I then administered bark, wine, and such other remedies as my books directed ; my exertions, however, were of 110 avail, his disorder grew every day more untractable and malignant, so that I was in expectation of his dissolution. Being under the absolute necessity of taking a journey, be- fore I set off I went to see him, as I thought, for the last time, and I prepared his parents for the event of his death, which I considered as inevitable; reconciling them in the best manner I was able to a loss which I knew they would feel severely. While I was in conversation 011 this distres- sing subject wish his mother, I observed in a corner of the room a small tub ol wort working. The sight brought to my recollection an experiment I had somewhere met with, a piece of putrid meat being made sweet by sus- pending it over a tub of wort in the act of fermentation. The idea instantly flashed into my mind that the yeast might correct the putrid nature of this disease; and I instantly gave him two large spoonsful, telling the mothei if she found her son better, to repeat this dose every three hours. I then set out on my journey. On my return after a few days I anxiously enquired about the boy, and was informed he had recovered ; 1 could not repress my curiosity ; though I was greatly fatigued with my journey, and night was coming on, I went diiectly to where he lived, which was three miles off in a wild part of the moors. The boy himself opened the door, looked surprisingly well, and told me that he felt better from the instant he took the yeast."— Correspondent ( Rev. 1 r. Ciirtwriylit) of Derby Reporter. The Earl of Burlington has given the munificent sum of 500/. luvwiVds liquidating the expenses attending ( he erection of a new church at Ea « lboume The noble earl has also presented tile local authorities with the piece of ground on which it is to be erected. BRIDGWATER.— The eleetion here has terminated in the return of Mr. Broadwood. He was assisted in his canvass by Billy Holmes, and a London attsrney, named Croucher, who is said to have an extraordinary faculty for carrying the election of gentlemen who are not over acceptable to the honest part of the voters. It was he who brought in Sir F. Burdett for Westminster. As the Countess of Carhampton was taking an airing on Monday on a led horse, the animal commenced kicking, and her ladyship was thrown from her seat, and although no fracture has been discovered, the hip- joint has sustained very considerable injury— Brighton Gazette. RAILWAY ACCIDENT.— On Thursday as the Eden, loco- motive engine, was taking a train of coal waggons from the Station to the Carlisle basin, after passing the bridge which crosses the Denton Holm road, she suddenly dashed off the rails. The tender was driven with such velocity against the flank wall as to make a considerable breach in it; the engine man was sitting in his seat, apparently dead; but bis attend- ant had leaped off, and escaped without injury. After a short time the man was able to articulate, and we are happy to say is now in a fair way of recovery. The engine was not so much injured as might have been expected, but several of the waggons were much broken, wheels wrenched off, axle- trees broken, and several of the wooden sleepers split in two. The immediate cause of the accident is unknown Whitehaven Herald. DEATH FROM STARVATION.— An investigation into the death of a poor woman, nearly 70 years of age, of the name of Green, who died from starvation, at Amblecote, neat Oldswinford, took place on Wednesday week, before Mr. Smith, the coroner, of which the following are the particu- lars:— William Tame stated that he was a labourer in hus- bandry, and had cohabited with the deceased for nearly elevenyears. She was a widow, and he first met with her at Watlington, Oxfordshire. Their occupation was to travel about the country, selling matches and religious tracts, and had both been very ill and badly off lately. For the last month they had lodged in Dudley, and on Saturday last he made application to Mr. Prince, the relieving officer in Dudley, for relief, and was refused, but was sent to a Mr. Smithyman for an order upon the parish surgeon, but he re- fused them relief. As the deceased was very ill on Satur- day afternoon, he made an application to Mr. Shorthouse, one of the overseers in Dudley, and lie refused to give an order, but sent him to Mr. Prince again, with the deceased, but he refused relief, because they did not belong to the parish. The deceased wished to relate her illness, but he would not hear her, and shut the door in her face. On the following ( Sunday) morning, they left Dudley, intending to come to Stourbridge, and the deceased, continuing to get worse, she was unable to proceed further than Whittymore Farm, in the hamlet of Amblecote, and about a mile distant from Stourbridge. Both got wet through; and the de- ceased was obliged to shelter under a hedge in the rain, whilst he went to a farm- house to ask permission to put her into a hovel, and was refused. He next went to a public- house, and asked leave to put her into a cow- house, but this was refused. Several persons, as they passed along the lane, stopped to look at the deceased as she lay down ; and one of those persons told him there was a hovel near, which was open. He and three others carried her to the hovel, and placed her there, and one of the persons fetched two boltings of straw, which were put underneath her, and niade her as comfortable as the means afforded. He lay down by her side, but did not sleep much, being very wet, and the deceased moaning all night; she died about six o'clock on the following morning, being Monday, the 8th inst. She had been ill for several weeks, and he made an application for relief at the Dudley workhouse about a month ago, when he saw Mr. Prince, the relieving officer, and who at that time refused to afford the deceased any relief; but a short time afterwards, the deceased being very ill, Mr. Prince, on the application of Mrs. Maedormant, came to see her, and provided her with 2s. worth of victuals, but no money, and this is the only relief she was ever able to get. He applied at the clergyman's, the Rev. Mr. Cart- wright's house, in Dudley, and was relieved with a shilling and a bottle of wine.— Mr. Cooper, surgeon, in Stourbridge, examined: Made a post mortem examination of the de- ceased, upon whom there are no external marks of violence whatever. He considered the deceased's death to have been caused by the want of proper nourishment and ex- haustion. She was very thin The Jury returned a ver- dict of " Died for want of proper food and nouiishment, and from the exhausted state of her body."— To prevent the poor fellow, Tame, from again being compelled to apply to the Dudley parish officers, the Coroner humanely gave him 5s. out of his own pocket, and the surgeon and jurymen subscribed 10s. more, to enable him to go by coach to his own parish. We regret to state that the loss of cattle to the farmers on the Glamorganshire coast, owing to want of keep, has been dreadfully severe. We have heard of one farmer, near Lantwit Major, who has already lost 55 head. The loss in the parishes bordering on the coast, is we fear, almost gene- ral. It has been stated as a fact, that in some parts of the kingdom, out- houses have been unthatched for provender. Can we do better than again remind farmers of that useful but neglected vegetable provender— furze. Two seasons of scarcity and loss, we hope, will induce them not to despise so simple a provision for times of need. Furze is not only a substitute for hay, but cattle like it better and will thrive more upon it.— Merthyr Guardian. NEW POOR LAW.— A meeting of the inhabitants of the West Riding of Yorkshire was held near Huddersfield on Tuesday last, for the purpose of deciding upon a petition to Parliament against the New Poor- law. The petition was unanimously agreed to. STOKE- UPON- TRENT— It seems probable that this borough will be keenly contested by Mr. J. Davenport and Alderman Copeland on the Conservative interest, and two out of the following list of five gentlemen on the Ministerial interest: — The Hon. G. Anson, Lord Leveson, Lord Waterpark, Mr. M. Bridges, of Bristol, and Mr. R. A. Slaney, of Shrews- bury. KIDDERMINSTER The Tory papers having industriously reported that Mr. G. R. Phillips intends to resign the repre- sentation of Kidderminster into the hands of Mr. Godson, the Conservative candidate, we are happy to learn that so far from this being the case, the Reformers of Kidderminster are on the alert, and are determined to prevent the borough falling into Tory hands. Prompt measures are taken for securing the return of a Liberal candidate whenever a disso- lution takes place. The Reformers of Rochester and Chatham have sustained a severe loss in the death of Mr. Henry Prentis, a gentle- man greatly beloved by all who knew him, and possessed of great influence in that part of Kent. He died at the early age of 37, of the small- pox. On Wednesday, the 19th ult., a female named Dorothy Kivell died in the parish of Petrockstow, who had reached the extraordinary age of one hundred and five years Ply- mouth Journal. SCOTLAND. The Duke of Norfolk has subscribed 10/. to the fund for erecting monuments in the capitals of England and Scot- land to the memories of Messrs. Muir, Palmer, Skirving, Margurot, and Gerald. The state of trade in Kilmarnock is still unsatisfactory. During the last week some webs arrived from Paisley, but so scanty is the supply, that the number of the unemployed is rather on the increase, whilst the out- door labour at the command of the Town Council's committee is partly finished; and in some cases applicants for employment have been unavoidably put off until the determination of the Duke of Portland, regarding some projected improvement, is made known. The subsciiptiou for relief of the unem- ployed has been very liberal in Kilmarnock, and several handsome donatious from gentlemen at a distance have been received.— Edinburgh Courant. FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT.— On the evening of Sabbath last this beautiful lake ( Loch Leven) was the scene of a sad and distressing occurrence— four persons having met with a watery grave. Three of them belonged to Perth and its neighbourhood. Being desirous of visiting the island on which the ruins of Loch Leven Castle stand, they em- barked in the boat used for the passage, in charge of a young man, the son of the boatman, but had not proceeded far when a sudden gust of wind, in sweeping over the lake, caught the sail of the boat, and instantly upset her, pre- cipitating the four persons into the water. Three of them caught hold of the boat, to which they clung for nearly two hours, and in which situation they were observed from the shore, but there being no boat on the Kinross side, it was impossible to render them any assistance, and the unfor- tunate men sunk to rise no more.— Perthshire Advertiser. The Town Council of Glasgow have agieed to petition the Legislature for the abolition of capital punishment, ex- cept in cases of premeditated and completed murder Glasgow Evening Post. The crisis, as it is called, did not set in here ( Kirkaldy) till it was felt in almost every other manufacturing district, but now we feel it in its intensity; and yet we have not heard of any good weavers being turned adrift; their wages have been reduced, but not below what they were two years ago, when things were going on in a fair way, and when there was no complaint from the operatives. Our manu- facturers are for the most part a very prudent people, never venturing beyond their depth, and hence the flux and reflux of trade have not such weighty influence here as in other paits. We have had 110 failure of any consequence, and we are inclined to think the worst is past.— Edinburgh Courant. MELANCHOLY AND FATAL ACCIDENT— Sproat, a black smith at Auchinghay, in the parish of Borgue, came by his death on Monday night, the 8th instant, in the follow- ing awful manner. About ten o'clock, he and liis wife, according to their usual custom, went to the byre to milk and fodder the cows. The candle was placed " in what is called a cruise, which was incautiously fixed in the wall, and but a few inches from the open loft, in which there was straw or hay. In a very short time it ignited, and commu- nicated to the thatched roof, which was instanUy in flames. Being anxious to save three cows and a stirk, Mrs Sproat, who was nearest the door, got one of them oJt, but while her husband was endeavouring to unloose the others, the roof of the building suddenly fell in, and he and them were covered in the rums Two of the children hastened to alarm the servants of Sir John Gordon, Bart., who, although nearly half- a- m. le distan, came to the spotimme- diately ; but though the most active exertions were made some time elapsed before the half- calcined body could be extricated from the smouldering ashes— Dumfries Courier. SHEEP—" I know farms in this county ( Peebleshire) on average extent that could not number 20 lambs when the season was more than half over. In the Lammermuirs whole stocks have died out, and I am aware of 40 scores of hogs in that district which have died down to 5 scores. In short the oldest shepherds with whom I have conversed never witnessed a season so extreme as the present. We have been m snow since the 29th October, and it is only within the last ten days that my high grounds were partial y relieved As to wreaths, I have hundreds of aeresof land which they streak or rather whiten still. Sheep farming is as yet 111 its infancy, and late events will do more than a bousand lectures on the subject to impress . tore- masters w 11 the necessity of forming keb- parks, and cultivating whips extensively. Would that we had a Coke o Nor oll to head and lead us in gaming the victories of rural improve- ment! Yesterday ( the Editor speaks) we had an oTortu- nity of conversing with a most intelligent agriculturist from the extreme north of Scotland, and were awry to Ie ™ £ from him that weakness and mortality have scourged many of tl ™ argest grazmgs in the four counties with which he is most intimately acquainted- Perth, Inverness, Ross and Suther- land. Such as understock have suffered least but still in almost every instance numbers of hogs and Iambs have die ™ In many respects he considers the Highlands nearly as bad as the South, and inquired how we could expect It to be otherwise, seeing " they are 300 miles nearer the north Dole " What the half- breds will do at the different fa rs he p emends not to know; but as for Cheviot stock of every desc iption he shortcoming will be greater than has been Lown fo the all n yearS" Eve, r>< wl. ere the sheep are miserably lean, and three years at least must elapse before the hirsels can recover the (. low inflicted on them in the back- end of 1836 and spring of 1837— Dumfries Courier of Tuesday. IRELAND. , 1 Th ® , G£? at AGGREGATE MEETIN0— THJS T A8SEM_ Wage of cftizens took place yesterday- one of the vastest and most enthusiastic that ever congregated in Ireland. The masses— the unconquerable masses were there; and they spoke a language and assumed an attitude not difficult to interpret— the language of fervid energy and inexpressible determination— the attitude of men who knew how to dis- tinguish between a nation of freemen and a province of slaves; they wanted the bayonets of the volunteers of ' 82, but they had all their firmness and indignant patriotism. We never witnessed such a glorious array— pregnant with all the elements of national regeneration. There was once a powerful charm in repeal— and there is still— to summon up a multitude of glowing spirits to restore the plundered rights of their country; but it never created more stirring influences and overpowering feelings than the gathering of yesterday brought into life. One hundred or one hundred and twenty thousand citizens assembled under the light of Heaven— all interfused with one passionate emotion— all ready to lay down their lives for their liberties. What will the Lords say to this? Will they persevere in a course of bitter and insulting contumely that must finally wrap the constitution in ruin, and bury them and their absurd privi- leges in the universal shock? or will they yield, even now on the verge of anarchy, to the indignant cries of Irish millions? One of the two things must inevitably happen —' tis now within the field of vision even of the most short- sighted— a brimming measure of justice, or national in- dependence. The brand is already burning— the train is laid— and if the Peers do not seize the occasion, and con- vert the mature elements into the advancement of social order and imperial connection, the despotism of the Lords will be flung back in their teeth, and Ireland will become what she should, and has a right to be— a powerful mari time nation— self preserved, self governed. The masses, and a large portion of the middle classes, struggled for re- peal ; the aristocracy, whether for good or ill, then stood silent; but the insane perversity of the Peers has wonder- fully ripened a combination of the three elements into full- grown maturity. The platform on yesterday proved the truth of this felicitous union. The people have now ardent and powerful leaders; the leaders have a mighty and en- thusiastic people. To doubt the ultimate success would be to doubt of a proposition which the history of nations uni- versally proves true— let a people will to be free and they are so.— Dublin Freeman of Tuesday. BOROUGH OF SLIGO— Never was triumph more glorious than the one gained by Mr. Somers over the Tories in hrs recent canvas; an absolute majority of seventy electors have pledged themselves to support the Liberal candidates, besides twelve independent and spirited Protestant gentle- men, who have declared their intention not to vote at all, which give a virtual majority of eighty- two Sligo Champion. » MISCELLANEOUS. The following epitaph upon Paul Fuller and Peter Potter, who lie close together, is in Shrewsbury churchyard : — • Tis held by Peter and Paul, That when we fill our graves or urns, Ashes to ashes crumbling fall, And dust to dust once more returns And lo f a truth unmeant for mirth, Appears in monumental lay— Paul's grave is filled with FULLER'S earth, And Peter's crammed with POTTER'S clajr. NUPTIALS EXTRAORDINARY— On Wednesday, at Upping- ham, Mr. January, to the Hon. Miss May, daughter to the Countess of Spring. After the ceremony, the happy couple treated all the householders for many miles round with snow cakes. It was thought this union never could take place, as Lord Sol, who is trustee over Miss May's fortune, always • efused his sanction, and it is said will either dissolve the marriage, or interfere to divert her foitune in favour of the next sister— Stamford Mercury. TRAINING— Amateur jockeyship being an art every day becoming more fashionable, and gentlemen jockies a class of equestrians more obnoxious to gratify than the professionals, the following somewhat curious fact, derived from an au- thority that can be relied on, may be of service at the pre- sent season:— Some years ago a lad at Newmarket was almost starved, in order, in conjunction with very severe sweats, to reduce him so that he might be able to ride a match of importance at a particular weight. He was put into the scales at nine in the morning upon which the race was to be run, and again at ten, and was found to have gained thirty ounces in weight in the course of an hour having only tasted half a glass of wine in the interval. To those who know nothing of chemistry this will appear fabu- lous; nevertheless it is very easily accounted for. The effect of the wine would be to stimulate the action of the nervous system, and invite nature, exhausted by abstinence, to open the absorbent pores of the whole body in order to suck in some nourishment from the air. In many of the narratives of shipwrecks and other casualties at sea are re corded instances of persons who have existed for extraordi- nary periods upon incredibly small quantities of wine, their preservation being attributed to the effect produced in the case of the groom- boy at Newcastle. In training, the safest ingredient that can be introduced into the stomach is soda- water, a potulent more favourable to the vacuum than any fluid heretofore discovered— Sporting Magatine for MISER MOULD— An illiterate personage, who always vo- lunteered to go round with the hat, but was suspected o f sparing his own pocket, overhearing, one day, a hint to that effect, made the following speech:—" Other'gentlemen puti down what they thinks proper, and so do I. Charity's a private concern, and what I gives is nothing to nobody." Thomas Hood. What would a fine lady say to see such a meal as the fol- lowing laid before her at six o'clock in the morning ? It is a tavern bill from a landlord in " the good city of Chester :". " Breakfast provisions for Sir Godfrey Walton, the good Ladie Walton, and their fair daughter Gabriel— three pounds of saved salmon; two pounds of boiled mutton and onions; three slices of pork; six red herrings; six pounds of leavened bread; one choppin of mead ; five choppms of Btrong beer." • Manners and Customs of the \ blh century. BELLADONNA— Parkinson says the Italian dames UBe the juice as a cosmetic, or the distilled water thereof, peradven- ture by the excessive cold quality to take away their high colour, and make them look pale Badoeces seems to hint that tlioBe who have delirium from the poison see beautiful women before their eyes, and hence the name. But others, again, tell us that the name " Belladonna" was added to that of Atropa, the Fate, who, in the heathen mythology, was destined to cut short the thread of life, to distinguish it as the poison which, in the hands of so many poison venders— such as the infamous Locusta— was employed to destroy so many lovely women, and that it was the chief ingredient of those horrible poisons which at one'period were so dread- fully notorious in many parts of Italy.— Dr. Sigmond's Lectures. RINGLETS Dr. Millingen, in his " Curiosities of Medical Experience," states that Backstrom relates the case of a Prussian woman, whose hair extended beyond the 6ides of her bed, and she was in the habit of turning it over to make a quilt; that Caligerus saw a man in Copenhagen whose locks were six feet three inches in length; while another gives an account of a woman whose hair measured six ells. Whenever anything is confidently stated to be " beyond a doubt," it may reasonably be suspected to be very doubtful indeed. 2 THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. i PRACTICAL JOKES.— One of Satterthvvaite's best jokes was tying a bit of meat very securely to the bell- handles which dangle outside the gates of certain suburban villas— sweet retirements of snug citizens; the result of which operation was that every hungry dog that chanced to pass that way instinctively— reasonably almost, but naturally certainly— began to grabble at the tempting morsel, which he vainly attempted to detach ; the inevitable consequence of which attempt was the violent ringing of the bell. Out come the servants candle in hand, look all around, see nothing— shut the gate, and go in. The next doggy who comes trotting along, and who has not happened to dine well, has another touch at the meat; away goes the bell again, out come the servants, as before, and, as before, go in again. And thus ten times in the night the family within continue to be alarmed beyond measure at what appears to be a systematic attack upon Hawthorn Cottage, or Eglantine Hall, the master of which is a decided hypochondriac, and the mistress expecting to be confined every half hour— Theodore Hook in " The Humourist." A LADY- BIRD EXTRAORDINARY— A man employed in cutting down a sycamore tree, in a gentleman's garden in the neighbourhood of Breck- lane, Everton, found a throstle's nest, near the top of it, composed of eight yards of lace and two net caps, which articles had been missed by the family, and, in consequence, one of the servantsunfortunately turned away. To what a state of luxury must we have arrived, when even birds form their beds of blonde lace '.— Liverpool Albion. STICKS Well, I picked out one that looked to my liking — a good, substantial stick, with an ivory top to it, for 1 seen that the goold- headed ones was so dear, 1 couldn't come up to them ; and so says I, " give me a howld of that," says I, and I took a grip of it. I never was so surprised in my life. I thought to get a good, brave handful of a solid stick; but, mv dear, it was well it didn't fly out of my hand almost, it was so light. " Phew," says 1, " what sort of a stick is this ?" " I tell you its not a stick, but a cane," says he. " Faith, I believe you," says I. " You see how good and light it is," says he. Think of that, sir, to call a stick good and light— as if there could be any good in life in a stick that wasn't heavy, and could strike a good blow I " Is it joking you are?" says I. " Don't you feel it yourself?" says he. " Truth, I can hardly feel it at all," says I. " Sure, that's the beauty of it," says he. Think of the ignorant vagabone— to call a MICK a bea » ty that was as light almost as a bullrush! " And so you can hardly feel it?" Bays he, grinning. " Yes, indeed," says I, '* and what's worse, I don't think I could make any one else feel it either." " Oh, you want a stick to bate people with ?" says he. " To be sure," says I. " Sure, what's the use of a stick ?" " Well, pick out the heaviest of them you plaze," says he," take your choice." So I went poking and rum- maging among them, and if you believe me, there wasn't a stick in the whole shop, worth a kick in the shins, divil a one Rory O'Moore. GENERAL PROSPECTS The pairs corresponding with the 1782 and 83, are 1836 and 37. In the former pair of years, the first summer and the last winter had by far the greatest proportions of the falls, the cold exceeding upon the first summer: on the contrary, in the last pair of years, the greatest falls are upon the first winter and the last summer; the cold being excessive upon both the summers of the pair, but more particularly severe upon the last, or summer of 1837, a season which promises to exceed in cold, rain, snow, frost, any summer within the last 500 years. It will, there- fore, behove the rulers of the land, of all ranks, as well as the public at large, to be as well prepared for this severe visitation of nature as circumstances will permit— for not only are these years exceedingly unfavourable, but the year 1838 is equally unpromising; consequently this, and the following year of 1839, will form a period of distressing pri- vation, since upon these two last the deficiency of the years 1837 and 38, will fall with greatest effect.— Mackenzie, Manual of the Weather. Why is the handsomest carpenter that ever lived uglier than the ugliest man of any other trade? — Because he is a deal plainer. THE ENDLESS LADDER— A patent has recently been obtained for a most ingenious and useful machine, adapted to mining and many other purposes, where the main object is to raise or lower weights and packages in constant suc- cession. This simple, but very effectual contrivance con- sists of an endless ladder, made either of chain or rope, which passes over and under two revolving drums or cylinders, mounted upon horizontal axes; one placed at the bottom and the other at the top, of the shaft or plane, to or from which the ladder is intended to reach. A con- tinuous motion being given to either of the cylinders by the power of steam, or animal force, the endless ropes or chains, furnished with horizontal staves, like those of a common ladder, are made to circulate over the revolving cylinders by which they are extended, so that one part ol this endless ladder is continually ascending with a slow but uniform motion from the lowermost of the cylinders to the uppermost, whilst, rice versa, the other part of the ladder is descending to the lowermost in an uninterrupted circula- tion. A vast deal of labour is thus unremittingly per- formed, with the important result of great economy in time and power. The invention also provides a safe and easy conveyance for men; the accomplishment of which, in a philanthropic, as well as any other point of view, has long been a desideratum in mining operations. For this purpose, a small moveable step or footboard, furnished with a handrail is applied, which, if desired, can be made wide enough to admit of several persons standing abreast, who are, by this means, passed up and down without fatigue, and in perfect security. Independently of the certain advantages that would result from the application ot such machinery to the purposes for which it appears to us so admirably adapted, we consider Dr. Spurgin, of London, the inventor of this apparatus, to have thus planned a most admirable contrivance for the poor miners, a numerous class of our fellow citizens, who, from the peculiar nature of their occupation, are exposed to fear- ful risks of life and limb, and whose casualities would be materially diminished by the adoption of this machine. CAUSES or REBELLION.—" A'int you trembling while I speak, sir?" said Mr. Bumble. " No," replied Oliver, boldly. " Oh, you know, Mr. Bumble, he must be mad," said Mrs. Sowerby, " no body in half his senses could venture to speak so to you." " It's not madness, ma'am," replied Mr. Bumble, after a few minutes of deep meditation, " it's meat." " What?" fexclaimed Mrs. Sowerby. " Meat, ma'am, meat," replied Bumble, with stern emphasis. " You've raised an aitificial soul and spirit in him, ma'am, unbecoming a per- son of his condition, as the board, Mrs. Sowerby, who are practical'philosophers, will tell you. What have paupers to do with soul or spirit either? It's quite enough that we Jet ' em have live bodies. If you had kept the boy on gruel, ma'am, this would never have happened."— Box. A DISSOLUTION The Dublin Evening Pott contains the following anecdote in its London correspondence:— A Tory ( General Gascoigne) had the dexterity to sound a high personage as to a dissolution, in the event of a change of Ministry. ' No,' replied the venerated personage, ' I can see no necessity for any change. Dissolution, indeed ! Why, if I again dissolve the Parliament, the historical re- cord of my reign would be that it was nothing but a reign of dissolution.' NEW TITHE ACT.— This " healing measure" appears to work very beneficially, the meetings held under it being characterised by a mutual feeling of good- will between the clergy and their parishioners, and generally terminating sa- tisfactorily. It is also extensively acted upon. Our columns of this day contain six notices of meetings in this county for commutations under the new act, and they have been numerous since it came into operation.— Hereford Journal. THE PEori, r..— The experiment of the particular constitu- tion of the United States may fail; but the great principle which, whether successfully or not, it strives to embody— the capacity of mankind for self- government— is established for ever. It has, as Mr. Madison said, proved a thing held im- possible. If a revolution were to take place to- morrow in the United States, it remains a historical fact, that, for half a century, a people has been self- governed; and, till it can be proved that the self- government is the cause of the in- stability, no revolution, nor series of revolutions, can tarnish the lustre, any more than they can impair the soundness of of the principle that mankind are capable of self- govern' men!.— Miss Martineau. WASHINGTON— Washington's influence is a topic which no one is ever hardy enough to approach, in the way of mea- surement or specification. Within the compass of his name lies more than other words can tell of his power over men. When the British officers were passing up the Potomac, in the last war, to perpetrate as dastardly a deed of spoliation at the capital as ever it was the cruel fate of soldiers to be ordered to do, they desired to be told when they were passing the burial place of Washington, and stood uncovered on deck as long as they were within sight of Mount Vernon. Any in England, who happen to know how deeply disgraced their country was by the actois in this expedition, will feel what the dower must have been which, breathing from that shore, humanised, for the hour the cowardly plunderers as they passed by— Miss Martineau AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS.— Side by side with the sinners of the rostrum, stand the sinners of the newspaper press. The case is clear, and needs little remark or illustration. The profligacy of the newspapers, wherever they exist, is a universal complaint; and, of all newspaper presses, I never heard any one deny that the American is the worst. Of course, this depravity being so general throughout the country, it must be occasioned by some overpowering force of circumstances. The causes are various; and it is a testi- mony to the strength and purity of the democratic sentiment in the country, that the republic has not been overthrown by its newspapers. While the population is so scattered as it now is, throughout the greater part of the Union, nothing is easier than to make the people know only one side of a question; few things are easier than to keep from them, al- together, the knowledge of any particular affair; and, worse than all, on them may easily be practised the discovery that lies may work the intended effect before the truth can over- take them. It is hard to tell which is worst— the wide dif- fusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true. It is no secret that some able person at Washington writes letters on the politics and politicians of the general government, and sends them to the lemotest corners of the Union, to appear in their newspapers; after which they are collected in the administration newspaper at Washington, as testimonies of public opinion in the respec- tive districts where they appear. It is no secret that the newspapers of the south keep out of their columns all information which might enlighten their readers, near and afar, as to the real state of society at home. I can testify to the remarkable events which occur in the Southern States, unnoticed by any press, and transpiring only through acci- dent. Two men were burned alive, without trial, by the gentlemen of Mobile, just before my arrival there ; and no newspaper even alluded to the circumstance, till, many months after, a brief and obscure paragraph, in a northern journal, treated it as a matter of hearsay. It is no secret that the systematic abuse with which the newspapers of one side assail every candidate coming forward on the other, is the cause of many honourable men, who have a regard to their reputation, being deterred from entering public life ; and'of the people being deprived of some better servants than any they have. Though a faithful public servant should be able to endure all the consequences of faithful service, yet there are many cases where men, undecided as to their choice of public and private life, are fixed in favour of the latter by this one circumstance. It is the one obstacle too much. A public man in New England gave me the history of an editor of a newspaper, who began his professional course by making an avowed distinction between telling lies in conversation and in a newspaper, where every body looks for them. Of course, he has sunk deeper and deeper in falsehood ; but retribution has not yet overtaken him. My informant told me that this editor has made some thousands of dollars by his abuse of one man, and jocosely proposed, that persons who are systematically railed at by any news- paper, should lay claim to a proportion of the profits arising out of the use of their names and characters. The worst of it is, that the few exceptions to this depravity,— the few newspapers conducted by men of truth and superior intelli- gence, are not yet encouraged in proportion to their merits. It is easy to see how a youth, going into the wilds, to set up a newspaper for the neighbouring villages, should meet with' support, however vicious and crude his production may be ; but it is discouraging to perceive how little preference is given, in the Atlantic cities, to the best journals over the worst. Still there is a preference, and it appears to be on the increase ; and that increase, again, is in proportion lo the intrepidity of the paper in discussing affairs as they arise. There will be no great improvement in the literary character of the American newspapers, till the literature of the country has improved. Their moral character depends upon the moral taste of the people. This looks like a very- severe censure. If it be so, the same censure applies else- where; and English morals must be held accountable for the slanders and captiousness displayed in the leading ar- ticles of British journals, and for the disgustingly jocose tone of their police reports, where crimes are treated as entertainments and misery as a jest. Whatever may be the exterior causes of the Americans having been hitherto ill served in their newspapers, it is now certain that there are none which may notbe overpowered by a sound moral taste. In their country the demand lies with the many. _ When- ever the many demand truth and justice in their journals, and reject falsehood and calumny, they will be served ac- cording to their desire Idem. FEMALE ELECTORS. — One of the fundamental principles announced in the Declaration of Independence, is, that go- vernments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. How can the political condition of women be reconciled with this? Governments in the United States have power to tax women who hold property; to divorce them from their husbands; to fine, imprison, and execute them for certain offences. Whence do these governments derive their powers ? They are not" just," as they are not derived from the consent of the women thus governed. Governments in the United States have power to enslave certain women, and also to punish other women for inhu- man treatment of such slaves. Neither of these powers are " just," not being derived fiom the consent of the governed. Governments decree to women in some states half their husband's property; in others, one third. In some, a woman, on her marriage, is made to yield all her property to her husband ; in others, to retain a portion or the whole in her own hands. Whence do governments derive the unjust power of thus disposing of property without the consent of the governed? The democratic principle condemns all this as wrong, and requires the equal political representation of all rational beings. Children, idiots, and criminals, during the season of sequestration, are the only fair exceptions. The case is so plain that I might close it here; but it is interesting to enquire how so obvious a decision has been so evaded, as to leave to women no political rights whatever. The question lias been asked, from time to time, in more countries than one, liow obedience to the laws can be re- quired of women, when no woman has, either actually or virtually, given any assent to any law? No plausible answer has, as far as I can discover, been offered— for the good reason, that no plausible answer can be devised. The most principled democratic writers on government have, on this subject, sunk into fallacies as disgraceful as any advocate of despotism has adduced. In fact, they have thus sunk from being, for the moment, advocates of despotism. Jefferson in America, and James Mill at home, subside, for the occa- sion, to the level of the author of the Emperor of Russia's Catechism for the young Poles.— Idem. INDIAN ADVENTURES.'— The Nez Perces, the Flatheads, and the Hanging- ears, pride themselves upon the number of their horses, of which they possess more in proportion than any other of the mountain tribes within the buffalo range. Many of the Indian warriors and hunters, encamped around Captain Bonneville, possess from thirty to forty horses each. Their horses are stout, well- built ponies, of great wind, and capable of enduring the severest hardship and fatigue. The swiftest of them, however, are those obtained from the whites while sufficiently young to become acclimated and inured to the rough service of the mountains. * • * One day a large band of the Blackfeet appeared in the open field, but in the vicinity of rocks and cliffs. They kept at a wary distance, but made friendly signs. The trappers re- plied in the same way, but likewise kept aloof. A small party of Indians now advanced, bearing the pipe of peace; they were met by an equal number of white men, and they formed a group midway between the two bands, where the pipe was circulated from hand to hand, and smoked with all ceremony. An instance of natural affection took place at this pacific meeting. Among the free trappers, in the Rocky Mountain band, was a spirited young Mexican, named Loretto; who, in the course of his wanderings, had lansomed a beautiful Blackfoot girl from a band of Crows, by whom she had been captured. He had made her his wife after the Indian fashion, and she had followed his for- tunes ever since, with the most devoted affection. Among the Blackfeet warriors who advanced with the calumet of peace, she recognised a brother. Leaving her infant with Loretto, she rushed forward, and threw herself upon her brother's neck, who clasped his long- lost sister to his heart, with a warmth of affection but little compatible with the reputed stoicism of the savage. While this scene was taking place, Bridger left the main body of trappers, and rode slowly towards the group of smokers, with his riflle resting on the pommel of his saddle. The chief of the Blackfeet stepped forward to meet him. From some unfortunate feeling of distrust, Bridger cocked his rifle, just as the chief was extending his hand in friendship. The quick ear of the savage caught the click of the lock; in a twinkling he grasped the barrel, forced the muzzle downwards, and the contents were discharged into the earth at his feet. His next movement was to wrest the weapon from the hand of Bridger, and fell him with it to the earth. He might have found this no easy task, had not the unfortunate leader re- ceived two arrows in his back during the struggle. The chief now sprang into the vacant saddle, and galloped off to his band. A wild hurry- scurry scene ensued; each party took to the banks, the rocks, and trees, to gain favourable positions, and an irregular firing was kept up on either side, without much effect. The Indian girl had been hurried off by her people at the outbreak of the affray. She would have returned through the dangers of the fight to her hus- band and child, but was prevented by her brother. The young Mexican saw her struggles and her agony, and heard her piercing ciies. With a generous impulse, he caught up the child in his arms, rushed forward, regardless of Indian shaft or rifle, and placed it in safety on her bosom. Even the savage heart of the Blackfoot chief was reached by this noble deed. He pronounced Loretto a madman for his temerity, but bade him depart in peace. The young Mexi- can hesitated ; he urged to have his wife restored to him ; but her brother interfered, and the countenance of the chief grew dark. The girl, lie said, belonged to his tribe— she must remain with her people. Loretto would still have lingered, but his wife implored him to depart, lest his life should be endangered. It was with the greatest reluctance that lie returned to his companions. The approach of night put an end to the skirmishing fire of the adverse parties, and the savages drew off without renewing their hostilities. * * * A few months subsequent to the event just related, the young Mexican settled his accounts with the Rocky Mountain Company, and obtained his discharge. He then left his comrades, and set off to rejoin his wife and child among her people ; and we understand, that, at the time we are writing these pages, he resides at a trading- house established of late by the American Fur Company, in the Blackfoot country, where he acts as interpreter, and has his Indian girl with him— Captain Bonneville. TRAPPERS To explain the meaning of the appellation, free trapper, it is necessary to state the terms on which the men enlist in the service of the fur companies. Some have regular wages, and are furnished with weapons, horses, traps, and other requisites. These are under command, and bound to do every duty required of them connected with thfe service; such as hunting, trapping, loading and unloading the horses, mounting guard; and, in short, all the drudgery of the camp. These are the third trappers. The free trappers are a more independent class; and, in de- scribing them, we shall do little more than transcribe the graphic description of them by Captain Bonneville. " They coine and go,' says he, " when and where they please; pro- vide their own horses, arms, and other equipmeNts; trap and trade on their own account, and dispose of their skins and peltries to the highest bidder. Sometimes, in a dangerous hunting- ground, they attach themselves to the camp of some trader for protection. Here they come under some restrictions; they have to conform to the ordinary rules for trapping, and to submit to such restraints, and to take part in such general duties, as are established for the good order and safety of the camp. In return for this pro- tection, and for their camp- keeping, they are bound to dis- pose of all the beaver they take to the trader who commands the camp, at a certain rate per skin ; or, should they prefer seeking a market elsewhere, they are to make him an allow- ance of from thirty to forty dollars for the whole hunt." There is an inferior order, who, either from prudence or poverty, come to these dangerous hunting- grounds without horses or accoutrements, and are furnished by the traders. These, like the hired trappers, are bound to exert them- selves to the utmost in taking beavers, which, without skin- ning, they render in at the trader's lodge, where a stipu- lated price for each is placed to their credit. These, though generally included in the generic name of free trappers, have the more specific title of skin- trappers. The wandering whites who mingle for any length of time with the savages, have invariably a proneness to adopt savage habitudes ; but none more so than the free trappers. It is a matter of vanity and ambition with them to discard everything that may bear the stamp of civilised life, and to adopt the manners, habits, dress, gesture, and even walk of the Indian. You cannot pay a free trapper a greater compliment, than to persuade him you have mistaken him for an Indian brave; and, in truth, the counterfeit is complete. His hair, suffered to attain to a great length, is carefully combed out, and either left to fall carelessly over his shoulders, or plaited neatly, and tied up in otter skins, or party- coloured ribands. A hunting shirt of ruffled calico of bright dyes, or of orna- mented leather, falls to his knee; below which, curiously fashioned leggins, ornamented with strings, fringes, and a profusion of hawk's bells, reach to a costly pair of moccasins of the finest Indian fabric, richly embroidered with beads. A blanket of scarlet, or some other bright colour, hangs from his shoulders, and his girt round his waist with a red sash, in which he bestows his pistols, knife, and the stem of his Indian pipe; preparations either for peace or war. His gun is lavishly decorated with brass tacks and vermilion, and provided with a fringed cover, occasionally of buckskin, ornamented here and there with a feather. His horse, the noble minister to the pride, pleasure, and profit of the mountaineer, is selected for his speed and spirit, and prancing carriage, and holds a place in his estimation second only to himself. He shares largely of his bounty, and of his pride and pomp of trapping. He is caparisoned in the most dashing and fantastic style; the bridles and crupper are weightily embossed with beads and cockades; and head, mane, and tail, are interwoven with abundance of eagles' plumes, which flutter in the wind. To complete this gro- tesque equipment, the proud animal is bestreaked and be- spotted with vermilion, or with white clay, whichever pre- sents the most glaring contrast to his real colour. Such is the account given by Captain Bonneville of these rangers of the wilderness, and their appearance at the camp was strikingly characteristic. They came dashing forward at full speed, firing their fusees, and yelling in Indian style- Their dark sun- burnt faces, anil long flowing hair, their leg- gins, flaps, moccasins, and gaudily dyed blankets, and their painted horses, richly caparisoned, gave them so much the air and appearance of Indians, that it was difficult to per- suade oneself that they were white men, and had been brought up in civilised life."— Captain Bonneville. WESTMINSTER ELECTION. come forward— the mischief had been done. It was then resolved to support Mr. Leader, and his return was made a party question, and the most respectable members, Liberals, enrolled themselves on his committee, and made every ex. ertion in his behalf; but the great bulk of the electors was not to be deceived. They disapproved of the whole affair, and of Mr. Wakley's " Leader;" and, however much they censured Sir Francis, from whom they had withdrawn their confidence, and equally disapproving of his deser- tion of his old principles, they determined not to vote at all. Notwithstanding the great exertion which was made by both parties in their canvass, very little more than a third of the electors hare exercised their fian- chise. The constituency of the city of Westminster consists of nearly 16,000 voters, of this great body, with every effort that was made both by Tories, by Liberals, by Radicals, and ultra- Radicals, the gross poll only exhibits 6619 ; but this is a far greater number than polled at the last two elections, and which may be accounted for by the sitting of Parliament, and the present season o! the year when all the gentry are iu town, and who pressed their tradesmen to come forward. The majority of Sir Francis is composed more of old friends who have formerly sup- ported him and who have now given him their protection, more from the recollection of his past services than any ap- probation of his present conduct. This however, a mix- taken feeling, is not to be severely condemned; it proves that a public man who sacrificed himself for the people is not to be harshly abandoned in the hour of need and mis- fortune. It is undeniable that the people are deeply in- debted to Sir Francis Burdett— they owed him a debt of gratitude— they have paid it, and are now released from all farther duty, but should the changed old patriot range him- self regularly with the enemies of Reform, they may honestly dismiss him from their service at the next election. Of his majority there are not so many Tories as will generally be supposed to be; at the election of Sir Thomas Cochrane they could only muster 1,508; at that of Mr. Escot only 750 — so that of the gross poll of 3,567 not a half can be put down as Tories, the remainder are old friends, or those who have felt it to be a duty to oppose the Destructives— the lending patrons of Mr. Leader. The result of this election is not a sign of reaction; is not a fair trial of the strength of Reformers and Anti- Reformers, of Liberals and Tories. It has been more, or as much, personal as political. Had Sir George Murray entered the lists, instead of Sir Francis resigning and coming forwaid again, the poll would have been very different even with Mr. Leader, however unfit he would have been as his opponent; but had a well- known and proper candidate been brought forward by a committee of respectable and influential Reformers, the majority iu his favour would far have exceeded that of Sir Francis. It is very questionable whether the Liberals have acted wisely in having given at all to their support to Mr. Leader, and whether they ought not have allowed the weakness of the ultra- Radicals to have been fully exhibited. Those persons require correction. They vastly over- rate their talents and influence. Had they been left to themselves they would not have polled above 1,300. This failure of Mr. Leader should be a warning to Mr. Hume for Middlesex, Sir Wm. Molesworth, at Leeds, Mr. Roebuck, at Bath, Col. Thompson, at Hull. The result of the Westminster elec- tion is not indicative of an indifference to the correction of abuses, or of hostility to ministers, but it is positively indi- cative of the fact that the majority of tradesmen are op- posed to demagogues and republicans. We borrow some elucidations of the late Westmin ter election from a quarter where they will not be sought, unless by such as are specially directed— the Dumfries Times, of last Saturday. The following1 is an extract from the letter of the London correspondent of that journal. We betray 110 confidence in stating that this correspondent is Colonel Lesly Jones. We derive the fact from internal evidence solely; but we are not the less sure that it is a fact. For the opinions of the gallant Colonel himself, talemit quantum; but so far as lie speaks the opinions of the Whigs, the letter is a pleasant confirmation of the doubts enter- tained of the honesty of that party during' the late struggle. It appears, that the electors having nega- tived the motion for referring the choice of a represen- tative to Mr. De Vear, the oilman, and his coadjutors, all that remained for the Whigs was a strict neutrality ! Mr. Leader is unknown ! It would be of advantage to some of these neutral gentlemen if they could say as much of themselves. Unhappily they are known and estimated as they deserve. The following is the extract:— This triumph is probably attributed to a variety of causes, but the true souree and origin of the mischief was, the con- ceited, overbearing, and reckless conduct of Messrs. Wak- ley, Roebuck, and that clique of the extreme Radicals, who had resolved to stuff Mr. Leader down the throats of the electors of Westminster, and who would not admit of a com- mittee of enquiry and scrutiny, to ascertain who the Liberal was that was most likely to command the greatest support, and thus be able to beat the Tory's man. This, I say, is the true source of the defeat inflicted upon the Liberal cause. No doubt Sir Francis's prompt resignation, upon the call of the " pismires," which was not expected or cal- culated upon, and his submitting himself again to the judg- ment of the electors, made a favourable impression on the great body. In fact, had he not so wantonly attacked the liberal measures of Government, and so unscrupulously thrown himself into the arms of the Tories— it would have been hopeless to have offered any opposition to his return. Still, had honest, discreet, and judicious preparatory mea- sures been resorted to by the Liberals of all grades, fairly represented in a sensible committee, and the candidate been fairly chosen because of his standing— his staunch reforming character— his independence of party, and his extensive views of politics, and knowledge of human nature— I say, had such measures been adopted as were suggested, but ridiculed, scouted, and over- ruled by a mere clique of the Tory Radicals— I have no doubt whatever, that a Reform candidate would have been triumphantly carried against Sir Francis, poor, crotchety old man. The course pursued by the Ultra Radicals was far different, and as is generally the result of their impracticable measures, or foolish advocacy of them, the result, of course, proved beneficial to their opponents the Tories. That party, ( the Tory Radicals,) from over- weaning conceit, ignorance, and forwardness, without feeling the pulse of the electors— most injudiciously and hastily got up a requisition to Mr. Leader, and also got up public meetings to bolster up their clique and their protegee. This imprudent and officious conduct was seen through, and the domineering disposition of Mr. Leader's political patrons, disgusted hundreds of influential electors, and alienated more of a similar description— many of them the oldest and stanchest Reformers, of every shade of opi- nion, thus endeavouring to disarm the Tories of the prin- ciple weapons by which they carried their new ally to victory. After what they saw of the conduct of the Ultra- Radicals, it was impossible for Mr. De Vear and Col. Jones, and their friend, to work with such men, regardless of that advice and that practical knowledge and confidence which alone could ensure success in so arduous a struggle. No arrangement— no effective committee, no moral confidence, could be looked for from a quarter which furnished little but buffoonery, and spouted in wholesale, visionary, violent, or, at present, impracticable, if not dangerous, speculations. However painful, strict neutrality seemed the only alternative. Mr. Leader, a gentleman of but moderate abilities, and only known in Westminster by his ultra opinions and connection with the clique of impracticable Radicals and Republicans of the House of Commons, was the most unfit candidate that could have been selected as the opponent of Sir Francis Burdett. Then he was presented to the electors, at the meeting held to call upon the members to resign, by such an obnoxious person as Mr. Wakley, seconded by Mr. Craw- ford, and supported by Mr. Roebuck, Col. Thompson, and Dr. Wade, ail of whom abused whoever was respectable, and every institution which is valuable ; Mr. Leader himself indulging in a most violent tirade against the nobility, the gentry, and expressing oil every subject the most violent opinions. He obtained the show of hands certainly, but he disgusted and alienated many of the electors, rendered others indifferent, and created many enemies where he might have made friends. Very few, or scarce any, of the Liberals approved of his conduct, or were pleased with his ready acceptance of the offer made him by a band of ultra- Radicals, who were fearful that a truly influential Reformer should be brought forward. After a few days Mr. Leader saw his error. Finding that the requisitionists who had promised so well, and offered him the representation of the first city of the country, did not possess the strength they boasted of, he then presented himself at Brooks's, of which clnl) he is a member, and offered to withdraw if the Whigs had any other candidate to bring forward ; and in this line of conduct he was supported by Sir William Moles- worth. But it was then too late for any other person' to CORONERS. A bill to provide for payment of the expenses of holding Coroners' Inquests. Whereas the holding of Coroners' Inquests on dead bodies is attended with divers necessary expenses, for the payment whereof no certain provision is made by law, and such ex- penses lirfve usually been discharged without any lawful authority for that purpose out of the moneys levied for the relief of the poor, and it is expedient to make adequate legal provision for the payment of such expenses; Be it therefore enacted, by the King's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that whenever any inquest shall be holden on any dead body, the Coroner holding the same shall advance and pay all such reasonable sums as have usually been paid to the constable or other person giving no- tice to the Coroner holding such inquest, and to the constable or other person summoning the jury, and to the jurors attending such inquest, and also when required shall pay a reasonable sum by way of remuneration for the use of any room or other place where such inquest shall be holden, and of any room or other place where the dead body on which such inquest shall be taken shall have been deposited: And it shall be lawful for the treasurer of the county, riding or division within which such inquest shall be holden, and lie is hereby required to pay to such Coroner, out of the county rates, all sums which he shall so advance and pay, and all other expenses heretofore usually paid and allowed, and which shall have been properly incurred in and about the holding of any such inquest: Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall be deemed or taken to affect an act passed in the last session of Parliament, intituled, " An act to provide for the attendance and remuneration of medical witnesses at Coroners' Inquests." And be it enacted, that before any such payment shall be made by such treasurer, the Coroner shall lay or cause to be laid before two or more justices assembled at some petty sessions to be holden in and for the division in which such inquest shall have been liolden, a full and true account in writing of all such expenses as aforesaid, accompanied by proper vouchers for the same; and such justices may, if they shall think fit, examine such Coroner on oath as to all or any of the items of such account; and such justices, if satisfied of the correctness of such account, or any two of such justices, shall sign the said account in testimony of their approbation and allowance thereof, and shall thereupon make an order on the said treasurer for payment of the sum which they shall so find to be due to the said Coroner, and such order shall be a sufficient voucher and authority to the said treasurer for making the payment thereby directed. And be it enacted, that this act may be altered or repealed by any other act in this present session of Parlia- ment. for the great prudence and success which they have shown in the conduct of the establishment. Thanks were then given to the chairman, for his conduct in the chair, after which the meeting broke up. SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF RELI- GIOUS LIBERTY. NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK OF ENGLAND. On Friday the annual meeting of the National Provincial Bank of England was held in the London Tavern. The number of proprietors present was unusually great. Sir Andrew Leith Hay was unanimously called to the chair. The Chairman begged to express the great gratification he felt in meeting the shareholders under such auspicious circumstances as those which would be found detailed in the report. All the anticipations of growing prosperity which had been indulged in on former occasions would be found to be realised. ( Loud cheers.) He would not detain them by general observations, but would let the report speak for itself. The report was then read. It stated, that in the course of last year, a number of new branches had been established in different parts of England, and that the Directors had in several instances purchased the business of private bankers under very advantageous terms. The amount of deposits, notwithstanding all the discussions that had of late taken place on the subject of Joint- stock Banks, had greatly in- creased since the close of 1835; and such had been the general success of the establishment during the past year, that, after paying the current expenses, deducting bad debts, and paying a dividend of five per cent, to the shareholders, there was a balance of profit to go to the reserve fund of 21,000/. The paid- up capital of the establishment was up- wards of 400,000/., and there was not the slightest probabi- lity of making any further call on the shareholders. The Directors had anticipated the late crisis in the money market so long before it occurred, that they were enabled fully to prepare themselves for it without either contracting their accommodation to their own customers, or increasing their own responsibilities. The report, after going into various details, which were loudly cheered by the meeting, stated that such was the confidence reposed in the National Pro- vincial Bank of England that, notwithstanding the general distrust which had of late prevailed, the amount of its de- posits had increased within the last six months by 100,000/. The report concluded by expressing a confident conviction, that not only would the profits on the establishment enable the Diiectors to continue their dividend of five per cent., but that they would be yearly able to add to the amount of their reserve fund. The report was received with loud cheeis from all parts of the house. Mr. Brown, a country banker, wished to ask the chairman whether the manager of this establishment had been ex- amined by the Select Committee of the House of Commons now sitting on Joint Stock Banks? The Chairman said he had, a few days ago, and he had the satisfaction of stating to the shareholders that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who was chairman of the committee on the occasion, had mentioned to him on Mon- day, that in the whole course of his ( the Chancellor of the Exchequer's) experience, he had never met with any gentle- man who gave his evidence more clearly and satisfactorily than their manager had done relative to that establishment, and on the subject of joint stock banking generally. Another shareholder wished to ask what was the amount of bad debts which the Bank had sustained during the four years it bad been in operation ? The Chairman : Only 7,000/. odd. This statement was received with loud acclamation. The adoption and printing of the report was then moved and agreed to without a dissenting voice. The most cordial thanks of the meeting were then, on the motion of Mr. Horace Twiss, M. P., voted to the Directors On Saturday the annual meeting of the Protestant Asso- ciation for the Protection of Religious Liberty was held in the great room of the City of London Tavern, which was crowded with a highly respectable auditory. Lord Nugent in the chair. Dr. Brown, LL. D., opened the business of the day by stating, that their honorary and much respected secretary, John Wilks, Esq. M. P., had that morning been seized with a serious indisposition, which prevented his appearing amongst them to render an account to the meeting of the proceedings of the society during the past year ; he had, therefore, been suddenly called on to supply his place. Dr. Brown having read the report for the past year, The Rev. Mr. Burnet, in a very eloquent speech, pro- posed a resolution congratulatory of the past, and anticipa- ting still greater success from the society's efforts in the cause of religious liberty. He thought the necessity that existed for such a society as this, in the present enlightened age, was a disgrace to England. ( Hear.) Since Christian- ity had been promulgated its followers had been persecuted; and though their blood was not now spilt on the shores of Britain, still the hated spirit of persecution was abroad in the land; and till the sceptre was wrested from the iron hand of tyranny which had so long abused it, persecution would not cease. ( Hear, hear.) A nation could not be free while a portion of her population, no matter however moral, industrious, wise, peaceable, and virtuous, were treated with forbidding scorn, and deprived of their privi- leges as citizens, merely because they choose to worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences. ( Cheers.) The man who is compelled to pay for religion could not be a freeman. There was nothing about compul- sory payments in the Old or New Testament; it might be found in the Koran, but that was no authority; it might be found in the decrees of the popes, but they were happily relieved from their dominion ; but it was found in the sta- tutes of the English law. ( Hear, hear.) It was of this he complained; he might, he knew, be told it was the act of the majority, but what right had the majority to tax the minority unjustly ? Why no more right than they had to decimate or exterminate them. ( Cheers.) If they had a right to dictate to us our religion, they had a right to de- stroy us from the face of the land. ( Cheers.) The prin- ciple of compulsion in matters of religion was, therefore, irrational and injurious to civil liberty; it was the duty and interest of every friend of mankind to stand torward in sup- port of the voluntary principle, and to stand opposed to compulsory payments, because it interfered with the happi- ness, liberty, and independence of every member of the community. ( Cheers.) Dr. Bowring, M. P., seconded the resolution, and 6aid that at a late period, when on a visit to Rome, he examined some of the tombs of the early Christians, where they slept in humble unadorned sepulchres, and afterwards the bury- ing places of the popes, where their dust reclined in gorge- ous pomp, and on comparing the lives of the former in their humble simplicity with the rank and grandeur and crimes of the latter, he was led to exclaim with Dante— *• Oh ! Constantine, thou did'st a grievous ill to our Church when thou madest our churchmen rich!" ( Cheers.) The fact was proved beyond doubt that wealth encumbered the chariot of religion and impeded her course. ( Hear.) Chris- tianity rever was so pure as when she was poor, and for that reason he would always leave her to be supported by the voluntary gifts of her friends, who, while they give her enough to make her strong, healthy, and fit for labour, would not overload her with luxuries to deprive her of strength. ( Hear.) He had always been opposed to com- pulsory payments for the support of religion, and had in his place in Parliament always opposed the Regium Donum. ( Loud cheers.) Dr. Brown said, a letter had just been brought to him from Dudley, in Worcestershire, which, as it would afford some important information to the meeting, he would read. The letter was dated Dudley, the 12th of May, and was directed to the secretary of this Association. It stated that in August 1834, the churchwardens of Dudley called a ves- try meeting to make a church- rate; the motion for so doing was, however, lost by a large majority, and an amendment for an adjournment for nine months carried. In the face of this the churchwardens summoned another vestry at the Town- hall three weeks afterwards; and being again de- feated they proceeded to the poll, which they only allowed to be open ten hours to receive the votes of 17,000 rate- pay- ers. An opinion was given by Dr. Lushington that the proceedings were illegal; and on the strength of this opinion the opposers of the rate had ventured into the Ecclesias tical Court, and the letter stated that the result of this ap- peal was the loss of the suit, with 1,000/. costs against the appellants. ( Cries of " Shame!") Dr. Brown said be trusted the Dudley case would make Dissenters still more urgent ill their demands on the Legislature for the abolition of this odious impost. ( Cheers.) Lord Nugent said he trusted the meeting would excuse him going rather without the line of his duty as chairman to propose a resolution that, the Society for the Protection of Religious Liberty be requested to take the Dudley case into their immediate consideration. ( Cheers.) Dr. Bennett seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously. Dr. Brown said that, as the temporary organ of the so- ciety, he would undertake to say no time should be lost in attending to the request of the meeting. ( Loud cheers.) Dr. Bennett then proposed a resolution approving of the bill lately carried by the Government through the Houses of Parliament, for the registration of births, mar- riages, arid deaths, and in doing so, eulogized the present Ministry for the great care and perseverance they had exhi- bited in bringing forward the measure, a sentiment which was loudly responded to by the numerous assembly. He, however, took an exception to that part of the measure which enforced the publication of the bans before the Board of Guardians, and said it was not a part of the bill when sent up to the Lords, but introduced by a Tory lord, no doubt with an intention to degrade Dissenters. Mr. Mellor seconded the resolution. Dr. Brown proposed the next resolution, generally ap- proving of the conduct of the present ministry, and calling upon the friends of religious liberty to support them. He said he had been termed a political Dissenter ( laughter); for that he cared not, they might as well call a botanist who was a Dissenter, a botanical Dissenter. ( Hear, hear.) He always was the friend of civil and religious liberty, and as such he admired the course pursued by His Majesty's Ministers, to whom he must Bay the Dissenters were bound to accord the meed of commendation. ( Cheers.) Up to the year 1828 the Dissenter was prescribed, and prescrip- tion, he thought, was worse than death. And why was the Dissenter then prescribed ? merely because he chose to worship God in his own way. In conclusion he again urged the claims of the present Ministry to the support of every friend of religious liberty. The Rev. C. Stovell and several other gentlemen then addressed the meeting. After a vote of thanks to the chairman, the meeting broke up. LIFE IN LONDON. COURT or REQUESTS, KINGSGATE- STREET.— A broker sum- moned a Jew marine store- keeper bight Moses Coheu, for the sum of 1/. 19s. Ild., the alleged amount of his share of the profits of some '' swag" which the plaintiff had pointed out to the defendant as an available purchase and a profit- able speculation. " What was the nature of the goods?" inquired Mr. Dubois ? Plaintiff: Screws, sir, two hundred weight, and odd, and he bought ' em at 4d. per pound, and sold ' em again at 9d. " By the pearl of father Isaacs vat an extortioner you must pe, to go to tell that story to the gentlemans who will nevare pelieve you ( said Mr. Cohen.) Oh, you vorsh dan Newgate." ( Laughter.) Commissioner: Did you make any agreement, Mr. Cohen ? Mr. Cohen : Nevare, so true as I am there. He came to my shop, and he say, " Cohen, I say, I cot arioder par- gain !" " Vat is it now?" says I. " Oil," ses he, " I got a fine lot of plue stones for sharpen de knife;" and I say, " Ver well, I go look, and if I buy I make you the fool allowance." ( Laughter.) Mr. Dubois: And did you? Cohen: Indeed and I tid ; bought te goods, and ven I see him I say, " Dare is a shilling for you." Mr. Dubois: Very liberal indeed ! Cohen: It was vat I coult afford; den I bought the screws, and ven I see him I says, " Veil, maa poy, I buy screws, and now I give you half- a- crown, and he say, " your half- crown," and so he pring me here for what he call half de profits. Mr. Dubois: Have you sold the screws ? ' No, sare, he may have them all pack again, at a penny a pound more than I gave ! Mr. Dubois: I'ut on your hat, sir, and take the book; officer swear the defendant. The defendant swore that no other understanding had ex- isted beyond that of a mere gratuity for the information given, and the case was dismissed. " Mr. Commissioner," said the broker, " you really don't understand, and carn't comprehend this ' ear question." ( Laughter.) Mr. Dubois: And I can assure you I don't want to com- prehend. The case is dismissed. 2 THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. i EXTENSIVE DRUG SALE. TO CHEMISTS, SURGEONS, DRYSALTERS, APOTHECARIES, DRUGGISIS, AND GROCERS. BY JOHN RORWAY. TO be SOLD by AUCTION, on Tuesday, Wednes- day, Friday, and Saturday, the 23rd, 24th, 26th, and 27th days of May inst., without reserve, that extensive, en- tirely new, and ably selected DRUG STOCK, recently fitted up in a novel style of elegance, No. 33, High- street, Birmingham. The Fixtures consist of handsome sets of substantial drawers, in gold labels, counters, shelves, & c. from London. The Utensils, or Materiel of this handsome establishment comprise the most unique and richly enamelled superb specie glasses, newly gilt tincture and specie bottles and pots, exectued by the best London artists, handsome sur- geon's lamp, splendid chandeliers, scales, large bell and marble mortars, handsome carved Phcenix, a most curious new revolving surgeon's dispensary, so constructed as to form a handsome piece of furniture, and an improved patent new soda water and lemonade engine, by a first London maker, superior to and more easily managed than any former plan. The Stock consists of Sulphate of Quinine, Oil of Vitriol in carboys, Opinm, Rhubarb, and Calomel, Soda Water and Lemonade, in gross hampers, genuine Eau de Cologne, Otto of Roses, Perfumery, and Lozenges, Drugs, Chemicals, and Tinctures, of curious and choice quality, in the greatest variety. N. B. To persons embarking in business this Stock pre- sents an opportunity perhaps never before or again occur- ring. The sale will commence each morning at half- past Ten. Admission by Catalogue, which are now ready, 6d. each, returnable to purchasers. Apply to the Auctioneer, Edgbaston- street, Birmingham. OLD CROWN PUBLIC HOUSE, El) GBAS TON- S TREE T. Under a Deed of Assignment for the benefit of Creditors. BY I. ALLEN. TO be SOLD by AUCTION, on the premises, on Thursday next, May 25th, 1837, at six o'clock in the evening, the valuable LICENSES, GOODWILL, and POSSESSION of the above very desirable Old PUBLIC HOUSE, in one of the best ale selling districts in Bir- mingham, in full business; the Premises, comprising ex- cellent ale vaults, brewhouse, cooking- kitchen, out- offices, tap- room, parlour, bar, liquor- shop, large club- room, and several sleeping rooms, are situated at the corner of Lease- lane and Edgbaston- street, closely connected with the Market Hall and Smithfield Market, and on the direct Bristol and other roads. The Stock in Trade, Fixtures, Brewing Utensils, House- hold Furniture, and effects, to be taken at a fair appraise- ment. Persons wishing an exceedingly good establishment, should apply immediately at the offices of the AUCTIONEER, Smithfield. HgJ* Sufficient reasons for the proprietor's insolvency can be given, in no way connected with the establishment. THREE FAST TROTTERS FOR UNRESERVED SALE. BY MR. LUCAS, ON SATURDAY, the 27th instant, at half- past two o'clock precisely, at his Repository, Great Char- lotte- street, Liverpool, TWO BLACK MARES, 15 hands 1J inch high, accustomed to run together or separately in Harness; ride well, and can do their mile in three minutes. A Chesnut GELDING, 15 hands high, supposed to be the fastest Trotter in England; can do his mile considerably under three minutes. Purchasers are requested to be punctual, as they will be absolutely sold to the highest bidders at the time above mentioned. May be viewed on application to Mr. LUCAS, at the Repository. TO MANUFACTURERS AND OTHERS. Valuable FREEHOLD ESTATES, fronting the river Mersey, nearly opposite the Northern Docks at Liverpool. fronting the river Mersey, and nearly opposite to the Nor them Docks at Liverpool. This valuable property, containing about twelve statute acres of Land, with three Marine Cottages thereon, is situ- ate on the banks of the Mersey, about half a mile north of the Egremont Ferry, and a quarter of a mile from the in- tended Sea- bank Ferry. It is abundantly supplied with excellent spring water, and from its extent its frontage to the river ( against which it is protected by a strongsea wall) and its vicinity to the Northern Docks, to and from which carriage would be very light, it presents a most excellent opportunity for the erection and carrying on of different extensive manufactories or public works, there being no buildings to be incommoded thereby ; or the Estate, from the beauty of its situation, its extensive prospects, and the gradual rise of the land from the shore, is admirably adapted for building purposes. Plans may be seen and further particulars known by ap- plying to Messrs. BARTLEV and FISHER, Solicitors, Liver- pool, if by letter post- paid. WHEREAS a Fiat in Bankruptcy is awarded and issued forth against WILLIAM HODGETl'S, of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, Bookseller, dealer and chapman, and he being declared a bankrupt, is hereby required to surrender himself to the Commissioners in the said fiat named and authorised, or three of them, on the 30th day of May inst. and the 23rd day of June next, at one o'clock in the afternoon of each of the said days, at Raden- hurst's New Royal Hotel, in New- street, in Birmingham aforesaid, and make a full discovery and disclosure of his estate and effects; when and where the Creditors are to come prepared to prove their debts, and at the first sitting to choose Assigness, and at the last sitting the said bank- rupt is required to finish his examination, and the creditors are to assent or to dissent from the allowance of his certi- cate. All persons indebted to the bankrupt, or that have any of his effects, are not to pay or deliver the same but to whom the Commissioners shall appoint, but to give notice to Messrs. Battye, Fisher, and Sudlow, of Chancery- lane, London, or to WEBB and DOLPHIN, Solicitors, Birmingham. TO THE HIGH BAILIFF OF THE TOWN OF BIRMINGHAM. WE, tlie undersigned Inhabitants of Birmingham, respectfully request that you will convene an early MEETING of the Inhabitants of this Town, for the pur- pose of agreeing to an ADDRESS of congratulation to be presented to HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS VICTORIA, the Heiress Presumptive of the Throne, upon the important occasion of her attaining her age of majority,— James James, Low Bailiff Thomas Attwood, M. P. Joshua Scholefield, M. P. Joseph Webster John T. Lawrence George Barker William Wills Daniel Ledsam Thomas Smith James D. W. Crompton I'. H. Muntz John Eccles, M. D. Thomas Ityland W. Hawkes Smith Charles Shaw John Bourn Dyer Berry Smith Samuel Smith, jun. Thomas Tyndall James Russell Benjamin Hudson Tho. Eyre Lee Harry Hunt C. R. Moorson John Sturge John Harris Thomas Beilby R. K. Douglas John Horton Wm. Linwood Samuel Martin Samuel Buckley, jun. James Drake Edward C. Osborne George Naden S. W. Suffield Robert Kell William Uyland Robert Martineau John Phipson Thomas Forrest G. B. Knowles John Rodway William Ick Geo. Dudley Thomas Clark, jun. J. W. Carter A. Temple Smith Howard Luckcock Thomas Bolton John Fletcher Bond S. H. Amphlett Wm. Stone J. C. Barlow W. Broomhead W. S. Harding Arthur Ryland Wm. Marshall Brooke Smith James Smith Thomas Small Samuel BachS Wm. John Beale R. W. Gem Francis Jeune Josiah Corrie William Phipson Rice Harris William Chance Henry Smith E. T. Moore Geo. Edmonds Wm. Beale Abel Peyton Wm. Harrold Thos. Clark Geo. Attwood James Moilliet George Goodwin John B. Payne Josh. Walker Thomas Kell Richard Peyton Richard Bartleet Henry Knight Frederick W. Harrold Jacob Pope John Birt Davies, M. D. William Redfern Samuel Danks William Barlow Cornels. Robins Chas. Sturge Joseph Rock Wm. Wood John W. Showell Henry Johnson John Greene Thomas Redfern Fiederick Ryland G. Harrold J. Tomlins W. R. Lloyd Wm. Greatwood Charles Mucklow Joseph Lyon Josiah Allen John Wilmot Samuel A. Goddard Edward Baker Josh. Bateman Joseph Ratcliff Edward Butler J. F. Taylor Geo. Holmes John Danks Thomas Munden John Boulton Joseph Cresswell Rd. Southall, jun. John Butler James Deykin vVm. Robertson W. Room F. Room Samuel Beale In compliance with the above highly respectable Requi- sition, I hereby appoint A TOWN'S MEETING," for the purpose mentioned therein, to be held in the TOWN HALL, on TUESDAY NEXT, the 23rd inst. The Chair to be taken at 12 o'clock. ROBERT WEBB, High Bailiff. THE Commissioners in a Fiat in Bankruptcy, bear- ing date the 16th day of September, 1834, awarded and issued forth against JAMES E ADES and WILLIAM BREARLEY, of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, Chemists, dealers and chapmen, and copartners, intend to meet on the 23rd day of May inst., at three o'clock in the afternoon, at Itadenhurst's Royal Hotel, in New- street, Birmingham, to audit the accounts of the Assignees of the estate and effects of the said bankrupts under the said fiat, pursuant to an Act of Parliament made and passed in the sixth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled " an Act to amend the Laws relating to Bankrupts ;" and the said Commissioners also intend to meet on the same day, at four o'clock in the afternoon, and at the same place, in order to make a final dividend under the joint estate of the said bankrupts ; when and where the creditors who have not already proved their debts are to come prepared to prove the same, or they will be excluded the benefit of the said dividend; and all claims not then proved will be disallowed. Mr. WILLS, Solicitor to the Assignees. WHEREAS, a Fiat in Bankruptcy is awarded and issued forth against ROBERT PERRY, of the parish of Aston, near Birmingham, in the county of War- wick, dealer and chapman, and he being declared a bank- rupt, is hereby required to surrender himself to the Com- missioners in the said fiat named and authorised, or three of them, on the 26th day of April, and the 26th day of May instant, at one o'clock in the afternoon on each of the said days, at Itadenhurst's New Royal Hotel, in New- street, in Birmingham aforesaid, and make a full discovery and disclosure of his estate and effects; when and where the creditors are to come prepared to prove their debts, and at the first sitting to choose Assignees, and at the last sitting the said bankrupt is required to finish his examination, and the creditors are to assent to or dissent from the allowance of his certificate. All persons indebted to the said bankrupt, or that have any of his effects, are not to pay or deliver the same but to whom the Commissioners shall appoint, but to give notice to Messrs. Adlington, Gregory, Faulkner, and Follett, Solicitors, Bedford- row, London ; or to Mr. WILLS, Solicitor, Birmingham. FRENCH MILLINERY AND DRESS ESTAB- LISHMENT. PATRONISED BY LADY BARBARA CRANFORD AND LADY SOPHIA GREISLEY. MAND M. HUGHES respectfully inform the • Nobility, the Ladies of Birmingham and its vicinity, that their SHOW- ROOM will Re- open on the 25th instant, with a fashionable assortment of Millinery Dresses, & c., selected by M. HUGHES from the first French Houses in London, which, on inspection they trust will merit a continuance of their distinguished patronage and support. 18, Colmore- row, corner of Church- street. %* Apprentices and Improvers Wanted. MILLINERY AND DRESS ESTABLISHMENT. 143, TOP or SNOW- HILL. MRS. SMITH begs respectfully to inform her connection and Ladies generally, that she is now in London making arrangements for the reception of her Summer Stock, and obtaining the best information relative to the latest changes in dress. Her Show Rooms will be ready for the season on Friday the 26th instant, when she hopes to receive a renewal of those favours experienced for a series of vears. May 17, 1837. CARPETS AND PAPER HANGINGS. Rand J. SMITH respectfully invite the attention • of the inhabitants of Birmingham and its vicinity to their large and well assorted Stock, which consists of Brussels, Kidderminster, Damask, and Venetian Carpeting, suitable for Drawing, Dining, and Bed- rooms; also painted and plain Druggets, Floor Cloth, Door and Carriage Mats, Bed Ticks, Laces, Fringes, & c., & c. Paper Hangings and Borders for every description of room in great variety of pattern and style, and at prices un- usually low. Shakespear Rooms, New- street. DOWELL'S CARRIAGE MANUFACTORY, Bradford- street, Birmingham. ASPLENDID ASSORTMENT of NEW CAR- RIAGES, of the most fashionable description, always ON SALE at the above Establishment; also, a variety of Second- hand PHAETONS, GIGS, & c. N. B Old Carriages taken in exchange, or sold on com- mission. REMOVAL. MR. JOHN WALKER, Land Agent and Sur- veyor, informs his friends and the public, that his offices are removed from No. 5, Waterloo- street, to No. 11, Bennett's- hill, near the Post- office, Birmingham; and he gratefully acknovvledges their past and solicits a continuance of their favours and support. No. 11, Bennett's- hill, Birmingham, May 12th, 1837. CLARENDON. VICTORIA DINNER. ADINNER will take place at the CLARENDON HOTEL, on Wednesday May 24th, to CELE- BRATE the attainment of the MAJORITY of HER ROYAL HIGHNESS the PRINCESS VICTORIA. Tickets, 2s. 6d.— Dinner on the table at four o'clock. THE Commissioners in a Fiat of Bankruptcy awarded and issued forth against RICHARD LENG, of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, Victualler, dealer, and chapman, intend to meet on the 23d day of May inst., at eleven of the clock in the forenoon, at Radenhurst's New Royal Hotel, in New- street, Birmingham, aforesaid, in order to take the last examination of the said bankrupt; when and where he is required to surrender himself, and make a full discovery and disclosure of his estate and effects, and finish his examination, and the creditors who have not already proved their debts are to come prepared to prove the same, and with those who have proved their debts, are to assent to or dissent from the allowance of his certificate. WILLIAM DUNN WHEELER, 1 Joint RALPH DOCKER, / Solicitors. RED LION INN, 58, HIGH- STREET, BIRMINGHAM. HENRY PAHUD most respectfully informs his friends that his HOUSE WARlllisIG DINNER will take place on Wednesday, the 24th of May instant being the Birthday of Her Royal Highness the PRIN. CESS VICTORIA, when the favour of their company will be gratefully esteemed. Dinner on the Table at Four o'clock precisely. Tickets, 10s. 6d. each, including a bottle of Wine and Dessert. AT a MEETING of the WORKING CLASSES, held at the Public- office on May the 16th, 1837; It was resolved unanimously, First,— That the following memorial to the merchants, manufacturers, and traders, of the town of Birmingham, be adopted:— " TO THE MERCHANTS, MANUFACTURERS, AND TRADERS OF BIRMINGHAM. " We, the undersigned workmen, on behalf of ourselves, and of the productive classes generally, make this earnest appeal to you as to our natural allies, having with us a com- mon interest in averting the ills under which all so cruelly suffer. " We represent to you, that we see, with gieat alarm, that difficulties and losses, to which there is no assignable limit, press upon the mercantile and manufacturing interests ; that each week is made memorable by the failure of houses eminent for their knowledge of commercial affairs, and for their great and undoubted wealth, and that a state of inse- curity generally prevails, which renders wealth, and pru- dence, and industry no safeguards against ruin and bank- ruptcy. " The inevitable consequence of this state of affairs is a general contraction of business, which is rapidly depriving us of our employment, aud- which must speedily renew the degrading miseries of the Soup Shop and the Workhouse. " We are strongly of opinion that the frequent failure of solvent houses is a monstrous anomaly, the causes of which require immediate and searching investigation ; we further believe, that a skilful and industrious people reduced to exist on charity, or a starving people in a country filled with abundance, is a state of things strange and unnatural, which cannot long continue without endangering the existence of social order. " In former periods of difficulty and distress, we have seen the country torn by discord and disgraced by outrage. We believe that such aggravations of our sufferings can only be averted by all classes uniting, conferring, and deliberating together, in order to ascertain and enforce the means of protecting their mutual interests. " With a view of establishing and maintaining, under all circumstances of difficulty and distress, a cordial and confi- dential union between masters and men, we earnestly en treat merchants, manufacturers, and traders generally, and particularly those to whom this is by name addressed, to meet us, and advise with us in our present difficulties. We have been continually told, from the beginning of these diffi- culties, that there was no cause for alarm ; yet we see iuin around us, and famine in our houses. We think it madness that the terrible destruction should be allowed to proceed month after month without enquiry, or any united effort to arrest its progress ; but whatever difference of opinion may prevail in men's minds in this respect, we trust none can exist as to the propriety and duty of exhibiting, by a com- pliance with this request, a sympathy with our sufferings, and an earnest desire to remove them." Second,— That the attendance of merchants, manu- facturers, and traders, of the town of Birmingham, is ear- nestly and respectfully requested at the Public- office on Tuesday, 30th May, at eleven o'clock precisely, for the purpose of receiving the said memorial, and deliberating on the measures necessary to be adopted to protect the in- terests of the industrious classes. SAMUEL BROWN, Chairman. BIRMINGHAM BANKING COMPANY. THE DIRECTORS of this Company respectfully inform the late connexions of the Bank of Birming- ham, that they have made arrangements to continue advising of Bills and Notes payable at Messrs. GLYN, HALLIIAX, and Co. W. BEAUMONT, Manager. ST. MARTIN'S BURIAL GROUND T* RUST. ALL Persons who have any outstanding security, claim, or demand against the Trustees, under the Act of Parliament, passed in the year 1807, for providing an additional Burial Ground for the parish of St. Martin, in Birmingham, for moneys advanced and lent to the said Trust, are requested to send in the amount and particulars of such their respective demands to Mr. R. W. GEM, the Clerk to the said Trustees, on or before the 24th day of May next. By order of the Trustees, R. W. GEM, Clerk. WIRE GAUZE WINDOW BLIND MANUFACTORY, Wire Work and Furnishing Ironmongery Establishment, 24, UNION- STREET, BIRMINGHAM. JOSEPH ALLDAY respectfully returns bis grate- ful acknowledgments to his Friends and the Public, for the kind encouragement and liberal support with which he has hitherto been favoured, and begs to assure them that the most unremitting attention will be paid to all orders he may be honoured with. J. A. again solicits the judgment of the Public upon his superior WIRE GAUZE WINDOW BLINDS, generally acknowledged to be inimitable, and which have been pronounced ( by artists and gentlemen of experienced taste) the most durable and elegant articles ever manu- factured. The choice assortment of exquiste patterns and beautiful designs which this Transparent Wire Gauze is capable of receiving is now ready for inspection, and to those who wish to combine utility and economy with elegance and ventilation, without the exposure of the domestic apartment, these Blinds are especially recom- mended. Families Furnishing will oblige JOSEPH ALLDAY, by in- specting his Stock of Fenders, Fire Irons, Tea Trays, Tea Urns, Tea and Coffee Pots, Table Cutlery, Dish Covers, Kitchen Furniture, & c., all of which will be found of the most modern patterns and best workmanship, and supplied upon terms equal to any respectable house in the kingdom. May 6, 1837. PATENT HOT WATER APPARATUS, With Pipes of one inch diameter. THE Attention of MALTSTERS is requested to this system for drying Malt, being found to produce a purer and better article than that dried by cokes, and be- sides preventing the sulphur arising from the use of coke becoming impregnated with the malt, it is a great saving in the expense of fuel. One may be seen that has been working for two seasons at Mr. KERR'S, Maltster, Frede- rick- street. It is also adapted for every other purpose where heat with safety and cleanliness is required. Numerous references, and any information, may be had of JOHN BARNETT, 20, George- street, Birmingham. TO be DISPOSED OF, by PRIVATE TREATY, the genuine STOCK IN TRADE, TOOLS, FIX- TURES, and GOOD- WILL of Mr. HENRY HOLMES, Gun- maker, Harrington- street, Liverpool, who is retiring from business. The Stock is of the best quality, and Mr. HOLMES having been established in Liverpool upwards of thirty- six years, renders further comment unnecessary. Apply to Mr. HOLMES, on the premises. All letters to be post- paid. ON SALE. AQUANTITY of Fine Mealy POTATOES, suitable for table or planting— Apply to J. and C. STUHOE, Broad- street. DOG LOST. ALIGHT BROWN SETTER; whoever will bring him to Mr. BARKER'S, Bennett- hill, will be rewarded; and whoever detains him after this notice will be prosecuted. BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. SATURDAY, MAY 20. THE UNION. The number of Members enrolled up to last night was 3,400. _ THE USURY LAWS.— These statutes, which old Sergeant ONSLOW used to attack so perseveringly in his anuual motion, are now trembling under the axe of the smiter, and in a few weeks more will have ceased for good or for evil to exist. What the learned Sergeant in vain endeavoured to effect by a direct process, is about to be consummated by a side wind. Our mercantile readers are aware, that for a consider- able time, in respect of bills of not more than three months date, the discount has been by law left to the conscience and tlie necessities of the party giving and asking accommodation. The principle is about to be extended to all bills of not more than twelve months' date. We need not say that bills of a longer date than twelve months date are unknown to commerce, and that unless under very peculiar circumstances, no merchant ever dreamt of giving or taking - even a twelve- months' bill. The act which it is the purpose of Ministers to carry is, in a word, neither more nor less than Mr. Sergeant ONSLOW'S motion in another form. We shall not enter here into the question, how far the Usury laws are or are notdefensible on rational grounds; much less are we inclined to argue the question oil religious grounds, for the clergyman as well as the economist has mingled in the dispute; what we consider of more importance is the use to which, as report goes, the alteration in these laws is about to be turned. Our readers know something about the bonds of Mr. NICHOLAS BIDDLE. They are now rife in our market, and every arrival is, we believe, quietly and silently adding to their number. The Bank of the United States is plainly determined that the ingenious scheme of its Chief Director, of turning the balance of trade in favour of America, by tempting the " moneyed men" of England to invest their capital in American, rather than in British secu- rities, shall not go to sleep. The thinly veiled pretence of assisting the American merchants, is understood by all parties. BIDDLE Bonds are now an ordinary marketable security, and will keep the market like India Bonds and other promises to pay, as long as the market will keep them. They have risen to 95l/ z; in other words, the moneyed men of London are content, in respect to these bonds, to take per cent, interest- The original rate was 6 per cent., but even at 4they successfully compete with home securities. For every million of these bonds that Mr. BIDDLE can sell in the London market, he can draw from the Bank of England 955,000 sove- reigns, which sovereigns, so long as the bonds pass current, he is under 110 necessity of again parting with. He has only to pay the interest, and issue a fresh bit of paper. The Bank of England can abate this evil in one way only— by offering their bonds at such an interest as will tempt the moneyed men to invest with them rather than with NICHOLAS. Allowing for a little prestige in favour of home se- curities, perhaps a capitalist would rather have a Bank of England bond at 51 per cent., than a United States Bank bond at 6 per cent. The capitalist will be offered 5J per cent. What will NICHOLAS do in that case? Why he will give 7, 8, 10, or 12 per cent., and the Bank of England must accompany him pari passu, or be beaten out of the field. Which is likely sconest to tire ? In New Orleans, the other day, ordinary bills were discounting at 60 per cent! Fioin 12 to 15 fier cent, is a customary discount. NICHOLAS can augli at the efforts of the old lady of Threadneedle- street. The circumstances of America will enable him to gain a handsome profit while she cannot sub- sist. But this is not all. Suppose the Bank of Eng- land to issue bonds at 5J per cent., what becomes of the Government Securities? No man in his senses will deny that a Bank Bond is as good as an Exchequer Bill. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER— the man that is to bring in the bill of which we are tracing the consequences— must raise the interest 011 Exchequer Bills to 5J per cent., or else nobody will take them. Here is a nice little item of £ 450,000 to be provided for. But neither the bonds nor the bills can stop at 5J, nor 6, nor 7. The additional interest 011 the unfunded debt, in six months hence, if a miracle, or something like it, do not interpose, will not fall short of a million. So much for competing with NICHOLAS! And yet, looking to the drain of gold, which the American bonds are certain to produce, we do not see how the Bank of England is to help itself. It is, in this case, as it has been in respect of other cases, in a cleft stick, from which there is 110 chance or possibility of escape but one, and that one neither the Bank or the Govern- ment has the courage or the judgment to look in the face even. The commercial news from abroad is all for the worse and nothing for the better. The last accounts from New York, of the 24th of April, state, that in the course of two days— the 13th and 14th— failures had taken place at New Orleans to the amount of 28,000,000 dollars! Of great houses and small, 200 had gone in forty- eight hours ! One of the former is set down at 15,000,000 dollars— three millions sterling! The sagacious Ministerial press consoles the country that these houses are not debtors of England. It must be a vast consolation, that in- stead of being put to death at once, we have the pros- pect of finishing our career by a gentle consumption. Do these simple people imagine that the capital of America can be destroyed, without affecting England at large, to precisely the same extent, though not in precisely the same way, as if every farthing of the extinguished capital had stood to the credit of the English merchants ? Wherein lies the difference of trade annihilated for the future, or credits cancelled for the past, but in this, that the latter is a limited and defined evil, and that the issues of the former are in- calculable? At home, the failures that come out are few, com- paratively speaking, but who can number those which are arranged in secret? This week a very heavy stoppage has taken place in Glasgow— that of OSWALD and Co. We fear this is but a beginning of the end. In Birmingham the restriction of employment goes on and increases. One of our principal manufac- turers, last week, put his men on two days in lieu of three, to which they had been previously limited. We noticed, last week, a strong fact of a large mer- cantile house having been accustomed to pay three thousand pounds per week, and then paying not a solitary shilling, thus striking off not less than from a thousand to fifteen hundred pounds of wages. We give now a fact of a manufacturer, not in a very ex- tensive way, that will equally show how the distress is working. " I used to pay my men," said our in- formant, " £ 50 per week; for several weeks past I have paid them no more than £ 10. I have had them at two days, and this week I meant altogether to sus- pend working; but they came to me and begged, for God's sake, that I would go 011 for this week at least. I have agreed to do so; but I feel I cannot work for stock much longer, or I shall be ruined as well as they." This is but a sample. Had we inclination and opportunity to put the question to ninety- nine out of a hundred of the manufacturers of the district, we have no doubt that they would, to a man, tell the same tale. On the subject of the present distress we have been tempted to reproduce the following remarkable sen- tences in Mr. Attwood's speech in November last. They are now much more important than when first pronounced:— If these should come, as I think they will, we shall have the game in our own hands. God forbid that these miseries should come, but I think they will, and that they will again be brought upon us by the fraud and plunder which is at this moment contemplated upon the industrious classes. Mr. Cobbett used to say, " I defy you to agitate a fellow with a full stomach." Nothing is more true; men do nor generally act from abstract principles, but from deep and unregarded wrongs, injuries, and sufferings. The people of England never came forward to advocate the abstract principles of Major Cartwright, although in all respects a just, upright, and patriotic man ; but when they saw and felt that the yoke of the boroughmongers was laid heavy upon them, they very easily and very quickly shook it off. ( Applause.) When their employment and wages were gone, and the borough- mongers stood convicted before the country, the borough- mongers were quickly cashiered. The Staffordshire ironmasters are blowing out their fur- naces and discharging their men just as they did before, when the same screw was put into operation. But this is not the way to proceed; they should take their workmen by the hand, and demand justice from the Government. They all know now, that this is the money screw that is working them. The Joint Stock Banks, and even the Government newspapers, have taught the people that the prices of manu- factured goods must be reduced, and the great mass of the workmen must be thrown out of employment, or the Bank of England must cease to pay in heavy gold. That is the question, my friends, which is now well understood, although acknowledged by only a few of us, in 1816, 1819, and 1825. No one pretends now there is any over- trading. Every one now knows that the manufactured goods have been carried off in the absolute consumption of the people, quite as fast as they have been made. My friend Charles Jones explained this to Lord Liverpool in 1826. " Don't you think, Mr. Jones," said his lordship, " that the prosperity of 1825 was artificial, and the goods were manufactured for stock, and not for consumption?" " Quite the contrary," said Mr. Jones. " In the year 1825, when our workmen were all in full work and prosperity, their goods were carried off into absolute consumption quite as fast as they could be produced. But now, in 1826, our workmen have but half work, and yet half of their goods are made for stock." Mr. Jones went further; he told Lord Liverpool that he had taken the trouble to consult above twenty of the principal retailers of the Lancashire and Yorkshire goods in the Bir- mingham market, and that every one of those gentlemen had assured him that in 1825, when the Lancashire workmen were in full woik, the Lancashire goods could not be ob- tained in Birmingham so fast as they were wanted to supply the retail wants of the Birmingham population, but that in 1826, when the Lancashire workmen had only three days work per week, the produce of their labour stagnated with- out a market in every draper's shop in Birmingham. " And so," said Mr. Jones, " if there is any 6uch thing as over- trading, it exists now, in 1826, when our workmen are at half work, and it did not exist last year, when they had full w< rk. ' So everybody knows in the present year, 1836, when the manufacturing workmen have been all fully em- ployed, the products of their labour have been consumed quite as fast as they have been produced ; but now, when they are going to be put upon half work again by the opera- tion of the money screw, one half of the goods they produce are beginning to stagnate in our warehouses ! Here, then, the Government must take their choice. If they will persevere in turning tlie screw they must meet a state of things which no Government in the world can con- troul. They will bring back the miseries of 1816, 1819, and 1826, and those miseries acting upon a nation whose eyes are now open, and whose minds are awake, will quickly put the Government in its proper situation. You, my friends, will also have a great destiny before you, if you think proper to use it. You have acted as leaders of the nation; the nation has given you its confidence, and you have deserved it. If the terrible crisis should come, which I contemplate, the road is open before you. You may again act as leaders of the nation, with double effect. The nation knows your integrity, your prudence, your humanity, and your strict legality, in all your proceedings, and the nation will support you with an overwhelming power in any just and legal mea- sures which you may think necessary. You will have to send round your delegates, in order to explain your views to the people, and the whole of the industrious classes will peacefully and legally assist you in the attainment of any just and legal objects which you may desire. The people want'nothing; but unity to make their legal power irresistible. Through you they will obtain unity. Two millions of the bravest and beat men in Europe will answer to your call. They will appear under leaders ap- pointed by you. They will clap their hands when you clap yours. They will stamp with their feet when you stamp with yours. They will use no violence , they will humbly " address, remonstrate, and petition." But the sound of their voices will be like the muttering of ten thousand thunders. Well, my friends, if ever these great circumstances should arise, my opinion is, as it always was, that the people should demand and obtain household suffrage, triennial Parliaments, vote by ballot, the wages of attend, anee for members of Parliament, and the abolition of their property qualification. ( Cheers.) I should prefer universal suffrage, but my reason for recommending household suf- frage is, that we can more distinctly and certainly prove that it is an ancient constitutional right which our fathers pos- sessed, and out of which we have been defrauded by the boroughmongers. The vote by ballot is a most constitutional right, because, as I have often said, the Constitution gives us the right of freedom of election, and in giving us that great right, it must be understood as necessarily giving us the means of exercising it. So also with the wages of attend- ance. You will never have justice done you until that great right is restored. And what right has the Bank of England to attack the American merchants? She puts a mark upon them, and dis graces them, and cuts off their facilities, and the means by which they have for years been accustomed to conduct the great machinery of that export trade, which gives employ- ment and maintenance to millions of our people. ( Ap- plause.) Either those facilities ought not to have been granted, or they ought not to have been withdrawn. The people have lived upon them, and their habits and means of existence have become dependant upon them, and to withdraw them is to scatter ruin, and poverty, and misery, amongst hundreds af thousands of families. The ostensible excuse of the Bank of England is— that the American houses export gold. But the real object is, as the Govern- ment papers acknowledge, to break down the prices of manufactured goods, in order that they may turn the ex- changes in our favour. Of course we must have a reform of the House of Lords —( cheers);— but there will be no difficulty in that, if you can but once get a proper House of Commons. At present I see but little difference between the two Houses, but I think they must both ultimately conform to the wishes of the nation. These are now grave facts— when spoken they were but glimpses of unborn events, but how true notwith- standing ! ' THE PRINCESS VICTORIA.— The Reform Association at their meeting on Thursday unanimously agreed to an address to this illustrious lady 011 her approaching birth- day. The Tories, for some time past, have been talking about dinners and addresses— exclusive of course. They are mighty men in the dinner way, we know; their addresses, like themselves, are, for the most part, naught. A town's meeting, prompted, we suppose, by the proceedings at DEE'S, has been called; the notice appears in our advertising columns. It was attempted by the gentlemen who got up the requisition, to procure the concurrence of the Loyal and Consti tutional, but they declined. The attempted liegociation of the Registration Society, and the filth voided on the Whigs 011 that occasion has, it appears, been already forgotten. What a meek, forgiving race, our towns- men are. A fewTories, isolated from their party, have signed the requisition, and this is considered quite a matter ofjov and rejoicing. We have not seen the intended address, but, of course, due care will betaken to render it as little obnoxious as possible, out of con- sideration to theloyal gentlemen whobavecondescended to countenance it. The Common- hall has been set in order with an expedition equal to the delay that had previously been quietly endured. So long as the people only, who have had to pay for building it, and for pulling it down again, required the Hall, its clear- ance was impossible; but the moment the Commis- sioners issued their commands, the irremovable ob- structions disappeared, as if by miracle. We are well pleased it is so. Wc must have a preliminary meeting of THE UNION in ten days or a fortnight. Had it not been for the young Princess' birth- day, we must have held it sub dio; and even yet, advanced as the season is, we are hardly ensured against a snow- storm. MR. JOSEPH STURGE.— We have much pleasure in announcing Sir. Sturge's safe arrival at home, on Wednesday morning, in good health. He left his friends, Dr. Lloyd and Mr. Harvey, in Jamaica, quite well, 011 the 7th ult., and sailed for New York in the Orbit, where he arrived 111 fourteen days. He spent four days there, and then took passage lor England in the Virginia, which reached Liverpool af er a voyage of twenty- one days, 011 the 15th inst. Mr. Scoble had not reached Jamaica when Mr. Sturge left, as it is sup- posed he had not completed his enquiries at Demerara. Thus far our Thursday's coteniporary— On the subject of our excellent townsman, of whom, par parenthese, we may say that we have not seen him, at any period of our too brief acquaintance, look- ing better, or in better spirits, we have received hints and communications so numerous, that we are puzzled in what way to dispose of them. It is a very pleasant thing to us to find, 011 the occasion of this good man's restoration to his friends and brethren, so general a desire manifested to greet him with respect and affec- tion. We need not say, that in no honour that the gratitude of the public may prompt them to pay, and that his retiring and modest character will permit him to receive, will we be found unwilling or unzealous coadjutors. Among other plaus of expressing the opinion entertained of his more recent services in the great cause of humanity, a public breakfast has been suggested. Such an expedient will afford to a large number of the honourable gentleman's friends the high gratification of once more seeing him with their eyes, and hearing him with their ears; and it will admit of his communicating, once and for all, and to all, the important results of his most interesting journey. A deputation of the Anti- Slavery Society, a correspondent Informs us, waited on Mr. STURGE yesterday, to congratulate him on his arrival, and to consult with him as to the time to be fixed for such a meeting, supposing it to be finally resolved 011. From the same source we learn that Mr. STURGE'S concur- rence has been obtained, and that the 6th June has been named as the day 011 which the breakfast is to take place. We are happy that Mr. STURGE'S imme- diate avocations have compelled a few weeks delay, as we shall be enabled, by that means, to assemble in the Town- hall, which is now at length about to be cleared ; and the disappointments which would not have failed to arise from a meeting in any apartment of less capacious dimensions, will be thus avoided. The meeting, we need hardly say, will have and can have nothing of an exclusive character in it. It will, indeed, present one of those rare opportunities, in which men may meet because they agree— rare, alas t compared with the number of those which we are all too much more disposed to take advantage of— oppor- tunities to separate because we differ. ' As Mr. STURGE'S departure was a signal for all shades of opinion to coalesce in one common expression of approbation, so we trust his return will equally combine every ele- ment of the community in one cordial and honest welcome- giving. An authority, to which we may be excused for alluding on such a topic, takes a distinc- tion between the respect that is paid to a righteous, and the affection that is felt for a good man. But JOSEPH STURGE may worthily claim our suffrages in both capacities ; he has won, and he ought to receive, both the head homage and the heart homage of Eng. 2 THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. i lishmen. For the wonderful sagacity and patient perseverance with which his humane labours have been prosecuted, have been as conspicuous as the " melting blood" of that kindly and affectionate spirit that prompted him to undertake them. THE HIGII BAILIFF'S DINNER.— The proclamation of the fair took place on Thursday in the usual man- ner, and with the customary formalities. We have been told that the number of gentlemen in the proces- sion was smaller than last year— we do not pretend to settle this important point. At three o'clock, a party of some fifty met the High Bailiff at Dee's, where a collation was prepared for their reception. The carte a manger of the establishment is too well known to require our commendation. The fare was ample and choice and well served. The wines were more various than one who had a reverend care of his digestion could well desire ; and as excellent as they were va- rious. Mr. Scholefield, the member, was present, and of the magistrates we saw Mr. Towers Lawrence, Mr. Webster, and Mr. F. Lloyd. Of course of a party strictly private no report is required. The company met for social enjoyment, and to pay a mark of respect to their honourable host; and they seemed very fully to realise the objects of their assembling THE FLORAL SHOW.— We are unable to give to our readers a report on the only point respecting this show that possesses the slightest interest— the list of prizes. That is exclusively reserved, as usual, for Aris's Ga- zette ; because Mr. Green, the secretary of the Society, is an attache of that paper. AMERICAN MARKETS.— A very striking fact, exem- plificatory of the state of the New York market, was mentioned to us this week. Rogers's penknives are a well known article in the home as well as the foreign market. They are of a very superior character. These knives, of the wholesale price of 3s. 9d., a Birmingham gentleman, now in New York, saw, a day or two be- fore the last packet sailed, sold by auction at 12 cents— 6d. each! Such was the ruinous reduction to which an American merchant had been compelled to submit, with the hope— perhaps a vain one— of supporting his credit. On Monday night last the Catholic Chapel in Shad- well- street in this town was sacriligiously broken into, by demolishing part of one of the windows. The vil- lains were disappointed of their booty; nothing of value being suffered to remain in the chapel at night. In the charity boxes, which they broke open, they pro- bably found no more than a few shillings, for these had been emptied of their contents a few days previous. Nothing else was missing'. THE PROTEST.— During the week, it seems, Mr. James Taylor's troop of yeomanry had a drill day. When the mighty evolutions were finished, the gallant gentleman, so the report goes, called the petty officers around him; and, after explaining to them the awful character of the incipient Union, delivered to them copies of the protest, with an earnest exhortation to have them signed by the troopers, and as many more as they could procure. Amongst the beaters- up for names, we are informed, is a yeoman who has, for some time past, been canvassing his neighbours for re- commendations to the bench, to grant him a public- house license. Whether his present canvass will for- ward his suit that way, we know not; he is said to be most loyally zealous. THE FAIR.— Thursday our annual great fair com- menced, having been opened in the usual manner by the High Bailiff and the officers of the Court Leet. On that day and yesterday we were visited by a large concourse of strangers from the neighbouring villages, and the appearance of the town on the whole has been far more gay and sprightly than could have been anti- cipated from the depressed state of trade. As is cus- tomary on these occasions, there was no lack of amuse- ments, and every means which ingenuity could devise, ( from humble " Punch and Judy" to the more costly drama,) was put in requisition to secure a portion of public favour. The actors, however, grumble sadly, and it is to be feared that many of them will retire ill- requited for the exercise of their great talents. Re- lative to the more substantial part of the fair we cannot boast a great deal. There was a large supply of Beef, but the quality rather inferior; the price ave- raged from 6d. to 7d. per lb. The trade in Mutton was rather flat, and the price averaged from 7d. to 7- id. per lb. The supply of Store Stock was short and very inferior, and little was done in that trade. There was one unusual and somewhat extraordinary circumstance connected with the market on this occasion, and that was the appearance of two lots of fat beasts from the London and Anglesea markets. It is, we believe, the first time that any dealers have speculated on buying in the London market to re- sell in Birmingham; so it has been, but with what advantage we do not know. The Horse fair was miserable, much worse than for many years past. There was a very good supply, but few exchanged owners. None except those of a superior quality were sold, and they fetched good prices. Owing to the fair coming a week before the great Horse fair at Rugeley, not one of the. London dealers was down, and this, in some degree, added to the dullness of the market. ADJOURNED MEETING OF GUARDIANS.— Wednesday evening, an adjourned meeting of Guardians was held at the Workhouse, pursuant to notice, when the fur- ther discussion of the communication received from the Cemetery Company, in reply to the proposition adopted at a previous meeting, was resumed. James James, Esq., being again called to the chair, Mr. H. Knight spoke at some length in support of the amend- ment moved by Mr. P. H. Muntz, on Wednesday week, referring the Cemetery Company, in answer to their communication, to the resolution passed by the Guardians at a previous meeting; several other amend- ments were submitted, in order to an amicable arrange- ment oftlie matter in dispute. Mr. Harrissuggestedthat a friendly conference should take place between two or three of the Guardians on one side, and the same num- ber of Directors of the Cemetery Company on the other, with a view to a satisfactory adjustment of the points at issue. Mr. Barlow suggested that the Guar- dians should take the opinion of some eminent counsel for their guidance upon the agreement, and if that opinion were in favour of the claims of the. Cemetery Company, to abide by it; if otherwise, that the Guarr dians, seeing their way clearly, might then safely act upon that opinion; and, should the Company feel themselves aggrieved, they would be at liberty to take what steps they thought proper. Mr. Kuigbt pro- posed, but subsequently withdrew a recommendation, that the poor should be employed in removing the sand, and instead of leaving it to the Key Hill Com- mittee from time to time to give instructions, that a surveyor should be appointed by the Guardians to see that the work should be carried on in a manner con- sistent with the rights of the parish and the reasonable wishes of the Cemetery Company. Mr Edmonds said he had a statement to make by which he thought the whole of this unpleasant affair might be ended, and although he was not authorised by the Cemetery Company, he believed they would be disposed to enter into the arrangement. It was this: that an estimate should be made of the value of the sand removed during a certain period,— say the last three months,— and a calculation taken of the residue of the term at this rate of profit, and the Company would purchase it from the Guardians on those terms. He thought nothing could be more fair or honourable than this mode of proceeding. After some desultory conversa- tion upon the subject, the question was put upon Mr. Harris's amendment, which was lost by a large ma- jority. The amendment of Mr. Muntz having then been put, was carried by a large majority. Several notices of motions for the next general meeting of Guardians were given,—- amongst others one for the discontinuance of the practice of tea drinking in the workhouse by Committees of Guardians. A vote of thanks having been given to the Chairman, the meet- ing separated. THE THEATRE— MISS BYRON.— MRS. OWEN.— We had an opportunity of seeing Miss Byron as The Little Jockey on Saturday, and on Monday as Grace in the " Married Bachelor." We were very much pleased with her in both instances, especially in the latter. There was a quiet repose in her expression and deportment, which, though not so attractive to the holiday visitors of the gallery, as her more em- phatical personation of the hero of Newmarket, was well calculated to gratify a judge that sought for something better and higher than " dumb show and noise." She evidently felt and understood ber part. In the course of the piece she gave several introduced songs, a practice which we do not over admire, but which will, we fear, continue to be observed whether we do or not. She sung them well. Her " Rise gentle Moon," which it may be recollected, when it came out gave not a little eclat to Miss Love, by the op- portunity that it afforded of exhibiting her powerful contr' alto, and which we really think Miss Byron executes" quite as well as Miss Love used to do, was loudly encored. Some of the gods, however, would have the " Dashing White Sergeant," and with much good humour, and good grace, Miss Byron at once complied. It was encored also. The last time we heard the song on the stage, Kitty Stephens was the performer, and she was then in the plenitude of her powers. To the fascination of Miss Stephens's silvery soprano, Miss Byron makes no pretence; but she gave the lively trifle— for it is but a trifle— with great spirit. On Saturday she sung in a very superior manner, " Tell me my heart," a song, which is hack- nied, in the same sense that Hamlet is hacknied, because every one will attempt it, but which ade- quately given, will be fresh as long as good and ap- propriate music is appreciated. It was not encored, and we were not surprised that it was not. On Mon- day, a lady named Owen, formerly Miss Beaumont, made her curtsey to the men and women of Birming- ham. She also is a singer, and a very sweet one. She has the advantage of a fine face and person, but her charms are somewhat mature. In the small part, Lady Courtall, which she had selected, her acting was exceedingly good. We have not space to advert to the acting of the gentlemen, farther than to say, that it struck us, both on Saturday and Monday, to be every way worthy of that of their fair coadjutors. MR. HOPKINS.— It appears that a short paragraph in our last number lias placed this gentleman in a po- sition in which it was notour purpose to place him, and from which we take the earliest opportunity of relieving him. When we said the lectures on education were merging into a quarrel between two rival teachers, we should have added, that Mr. Hopkins personally had not in any way contributed to that impotent conclu- sion. He had strictly abstained from replying to the remarks directed against his lectures ; the controversy which we were anxious to crush had its origin in the inconsiderate zeal of some unknown admirer, who signs Mc S. T. Touching a point in dispute between Mr. Greig and Mr. Hopkins's friends, namely, the paternity of a proposal for a public examination of all teachers, previous to their being allowed to practice, not only was such proposal set forth by Mr. Simpson in 1834, but, unless our memory greatly fail us, we have seen a similar proposal at least twenty years ago, and then it certainly was not looked on as new. Our present purpose is not, however, to settle any claim which Mr. Greig may have to the previous promulga- tion of such a scheme, which, as we understand, Mr. Hopkins does not question, but to relieve Mr. Hopkins from any suspicion that our somewhat hasty paragraph might have cast upon him, that he liad had any per- sonal communication with the Birmingham Journal on the subject of that claim. RAILWAY BILLS.— The House of Lords, on Friday, just previous to adjournment, agreed to the following resolutions, relative to all railway bills before, and to be brought before, their lordships; and directed them to be added to the standing orders:— 1. That before any bill shall be read a second time in this House for making any railway, or for varying, extending, or en- larging any such railway already made, lists of the owners, lessees, and occupiers, distinguishing which of them have assented to or dissented from such in- tended railway, or such variation, extension, or en- largement, or are neuter in respect thereof, up to the time of such bill having been brought up to the House from the House of Commons, and an estimate of the expense signed by the person making the same, and a copy of the subscription contract after mentioned, be deposited in the office of the clerk of the Parliament, and that the receipt thereof be acknowledged accord- ingly by one of the clerks of the said office upon such documents.— 2. That no Committee on any private bill relating to railways shall have power to examine into the compliance with the standing orders, nor into any parts of the contents of any notice, list, applica- tion in writing, estimate, books of reference, or con- tract, or of any copy of any notice, list, application in writing, estimate, books of reference, or contract, nor of any plan or section, or copy of any plan or section, which are or may be hereafter ordered by any standing order of the House to be given, made, deposited, or produced by the parties applying for such private bill, previously to the second reading thereof in the House, excepting only in so far as may be required to enable such Committee to report as to the sufficiency of the estimate to be proved in evidence before them accord- ing to the standing orders of the Houses. PENNY POSTAGE. — Several gentlemen connected witli the provincial newspaper press had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday se'nnight, when the right lion, gentleman promised to introduce a clause into one of the Post- office Regula- tion bills now before Parliament, removing the charge upon newspapers transmitted through ail the penny- posts under the controul of the Postmaster General, restraining their free delivery only within the boundary of the city or town of publication. The Secretary of the Post- office, who was present at the interview, also stated that the Post- office authorities were willing to establish penny- posts wherever the inhabitants of a village or district could show that the postage upon letters would pay two- thirds, or in particular cases even one- half the cost of the establishment. Memo- rials should therefore be addressed to the Post- office wherever this accommodation is desired, and such por- tion of the expense can be met. DUTIES ON GLASS.— On the motion of Mr. W. O'Brien, a return was recently made to the House of Commons of the amount of duty charged on glass of th? various descriptions, in 1836, with the amount of drawback, distinguishing the produce of the duties in England, Ireland, and Scotland. By that return, which is just printed, we learn that the amount ofduty paid in 1836 in England, was 869,361?.; in Scotland, 52,412/.; and in Ireland, 11,516/.; total, 933,290/. The amount of drawback on exportation in 1836 was, in England, 482,043/.; in Scotland, 21,240/.; and in Ireland, 446/.; total, 503,729/., leaving the duty ac- tually accruing ( from which, however, must be deducted the cost of collection) 429,561/. England manufac tures six descriptions of glass paying duty, viz. :— flint, plate, broad crown, bottle, and German sheet glass; on which the duty paid amounts, in the same order, to 80,222/ ,66,511/., 11,443/. 542,616/., 124,143/., and 44,424/.; total, 869,361. Scotland manufactures flint glass, 8,198/. duty, crown, 15,403/.; and bottle, 28,810/.; total, 52,412/. Ireland manufactures flint glass, 7,323/.; and bottle glass, 4,123/.; total, 11,516/.— The highest amount of drawback on any description of glass is 142,840/. in England and Scotland, on crown glass exported. Of the German sheet glass, nearly the whole is exported. The business before Parliament on Thursday was small and unimportant, The Commons was again counted out! Yet there is a grievous complaint of want of time to discuss the Government measures. The capture of Hernani by Espartero is confirmed. On the 16th General Evans was about t » march on Irun. Mrs. Lockliart, the favourite daughter of Sir Walter Scott, died, after a lingering illneBS, on Wednesday. REFORM ASSOCIATION. ADDRESS TO THE PRINCESS VICTORIA. Thursday evening ; the crowd at the Public- office was by far greater than on any former occasion ; every spot in the building was closely packed by persons who appeared to take a deep interest in the proceedings. Mr. P. H. MUNTZ, on taking the chair, said he had to announce that three thousand three hundred persons had enrolled themselves in the Union; only seven hundred tickets remained to be disposed of, in order that the ; fpur thousand should be made up. ( Cheers.) They would recollect that a few weeks ago, the Reform Association passed a resolution respecting the London Association; that body had since met, and noticed the resolution and the pro- ceedings generally. He would read the account of the meeting. Mr. Muntz then read from the London Mercury the report referred to, and also an article by the editor, in reference to the subject. He proceeded— he was aware it was not customary to read such remarks at public meetings, but he had done so because he considered it highly im- portant that they should know what were the opinions ol the Reformers of London; what they were doing, and what they intended doing. ( Hear, bear.) He had a few remarks to make respecting a placard that had been issued by the Tories within the last few days, but he would de- fer them until the other business of the meeting had been disposed of. MR. DOUGLAS rose to propose a resolution for an Ad dress to the Princess Victoria and her illustrious parent. He was gratified in one respect, with regard to the proposi- tion he had to submit to them, that they were, to a certain degree, not quite formed into a regular body. He should have had some difficulty in submitting the resolution to the Council, if they had been finally formed, because they would have, in that event, business of so deep interest to attend to, he should not think of occupying their time with any passing matter, how important soever it might appear. But while the Union was yet suspended, such an incidental proposition as he had to submit to them, might be very properly entertained. It was characteristic of the Re- formers of Great Britain, that they were loyal for loyalty sake. ( Hear, hear.) They were not loyal for the sake of the places to be gained by it. They were not loyal for the sake of the purses which it filled; nor any advantages to themselves; but because loyalty in itself was good, since it was intimately connected with the welfare of the public at large. If the Reformers of England lovedakinglygovernment, itwas because they con- sidered the kingly government to be advantageous for the nation; they were content to leave to the parties the more pecuniary advantages of monarchy, if they would but allow the system to work outits natural consequences— the benefit of the people at large. ( Hear, hear.) The Whigs and Tories were now for their own sakes offering up the tribute of their loyalty to the rising sun of Great Britain; the honest Reformers feeling, as they did, not small hopeinthat rising sun, should also'come forward and give expression to their feelings and wishes. They would not come before that illustrious young lady— for she was illustrious every way— with any other than sentiments of real and unaffected respect. He never wished to speak of those above him in other than the language of respect; he did not envy those above him their titles and dignities: he was ready and willing to give them all due honour. In doing so he felt he was merely discharging a formal duty. They had been told, he knew not how truly, that the Princess Victoria ( immense cheering) had been educated in a manner very different from that of persons in her high rank ; if but a part of what they had heard was true, although he ( Mr. Douglas) following the words of one who was himself a prince and a prophet, did not place much confidence in princes, yet he must say, under the peculiar circumstances of the Princess Victoria, he was inclined to place some trust in her. ( Cheers.) She was not born to a crown. It was a long and unforeseen train of circumstances that had left nothing between ber and the most illustrious crown in the world, hut the uncer- tain life of an aged man. When she was born, England had a King in the vigour of life; she had various other relations who stood before her in the succession; it could not, there- fore, be said that 6he had been educated in the prejudices of an heir apparent or presumptive. Looking to this fact, that she was not born to a throne, that she was treated some- what like an ordinary being, that the mighty prospects now before her had not dawned until her mind had been some- what imbued with solid principles, he thought it reasonable that they should bail her anticipated accession as an event likely to promote the good of the nat'on. ( Cheers.) He need not tell them the Princess had lost her father when very young; that her mother was not a very great favourite with royalty; that she was a woman said to be possessed of great soundness of feeling and good sense, and well able to teach her daughter those homely virtues which would en- dear her more to the people than the manners of a court could do. It was generally admitted that the Duchess of Kent had well performed her trust towards the Princess, that she bad reared her for the people; ( hear, hear,) and such being the case, he thought they were bound to present themselves before her, and, not in the idle words of flat- tery, but in the plain and intelligible language of true Englishmen, to tell her that they looked forward to the day when she might be called to the throne, as an event that would be greatly favourable to the principles of univer- sal liberty. They would tell her she had but one hope, one stay, and that was the people ofEngland. They would tell her that there was but one thing that would give stability to the throne, and that was, a firm determination on her part not to give way to one faction or the other, but to rely con- fidingly on the nation, and consult its interests, and its in- terests alone. ( Great cheering.) They would tell her the people bad even been loyal; that they had never deserted their king until he bad first deserted them ; and they would assure ber, that while she was true to the great principles of freedom, she could, with perfect safety, iest upon their affec- tions. He wished that the Reform Association should, on this occasion, approach the presence of the excellent mother of the Princess also. For her feelings lie entertained a very deep sympathy and respect. A mother, who was not lifted up by the prospect of such an advancement for a beloved child, as the throne of the greatestand wealthiest kingdom on earth presented, must be above or below the feelings of hu- manity— she must be an angel or a brute. The excellent Duchess of Kent was neither. She was a good, plain, sen- sible, honest, German woman. ( A laugh.) Next to calling her a good Englishwoman, it was, in his opinion, the best compliment he could pay her, to say she was a good German ; for from their German ancestors came all that was best in the character of Englishmen. The Tories, in Birmingham and elsewhere, were going to address the Princess; and how did they think? Upon bis word, the conduct of these men was more intolerable than the New Poor- law breakfast diet— it was worse than gruel— the way in which these men would turn every thing, great or small, to their little, paltry, dirty, party purposes, was enough to make a man sick of humanity. ( Laughter.) What were they going todo? Why, they were about to address the Princess Victoria, praying her to become what they called the Protectress ol Protestant liberty. ( Laughter.) They wanted that young woman, in the prime of life, and full of health and hope, to give herself up to the contemptible animosities of the High Church faction, and to immerse herself in the red 6ea of Catholic and Protestant polemics. ( Shame, shame.) They were incapable of contemplating even the joyous event of the birthday of this excellent young Princess, than as an occasion of advancing their own pitiful selfish views. Now, was it not, he would ask, worse than gruel without salt, to hear these persons chatter about loyalty and devo- tion to one whom they would he the foremost to injure, and oppose, if happily they could not pervert her? ( Hear, hear.) The Whigs had come after the Tories; he knew not if they would have come at all, if their oppo- nents had not. He wished the Council to take the pre- cedence of both parties. Their Address would be the unbought and unpurchasible offering of honest English- men. They would speak the general principles of truth to the Princess. They would take care not to utter one word that would dishonour the Princess, nor the people. They would approach her, not forgetting the accident of her high rank, and not forgetting the dignity of freemen, which was in them essential. In a word, they would approach her in a spirit becoming true honest hearts, equally resolved to maintain her rights, and their own. Mr. D. here read the resoluti > n. In conclusion he said— he trusted they would all see the propriety the proposed course. ( Hear, hear.) It was due not only to England, but to Europe, that the three thousand three hundred men, who had enrolled their names in the Association, should come forward at this particular crisis, and declare their confidence in one whom they had reason to hope would be instrumental in promoting the general happiness, not of England alone, but of the en- tire civilised world. Mr. EDMONDS seconded the resolution. He said there had been occasions when he expressed himself warmly in reference to Kings and Princes, and whenever lie departed from that course, it was because he felt convinced that the occasion required it. It must be recollected that Kings were part of the machinery of the Constitution of the country, and upon its being well regulated depended the welfare of the people. Whether King, Lords, and Com- mons was the best sort of government be was not then going to inquire; it was not improbable but the time would arrive when the people of England, improved by education, could command su ' ll an influence over their rulers as to render a modification of the Constitution neces- sary. At present, however, the Constitution under which they lived was supported by public opinion, and it would be absurd to introduce any speculations which would inevi- tably be attended with confusion. Allowing this to be the fact, they came to an important point in reference to the Princess Victoria, and that was, that this young lady would be in a condition, in a very few days, in case the K ing should die, to take the government of this great country into her hands. Now although his friend, Mr. Douglas, had very properly ridiculed the idea of forcing upon the Princess the consideration of Church- rates and other points of ecclesi- astical controversy; still, as the Constitution of the country, of which she was designed to be the head, gave her great power in these matters, it became the people to impress, if possible, on her mind good sound notions respecting them. They should give her to understand that equal laws and rights and liberties were above all things nearest to their hearts; and that they would be willing at all times to defend her in the support of them with their best blood. ( Cheers.) She should be taught not to look upon the people of Eng- land as her enemies, ( hear hear,) or treat them as such. It was a well- known fact, that the fate of this great nation had not seldom been decided by the worst species of advisers who could obtain access to royalty. They knew that women of indifferent fame had more than once dictated to the Kings of England; and they knew that these Kings had, in a moral point of view, become as degraded as in a legal sense they were elevated. Let them recollect that the sovereignty of the country could be worked for the benefit of the people, and that in the conduct of their present Monarch they had a proof of its capability of being so worked. His present Majesty was entitled to great praise. ( Hear, hear.) Although bred up amongst Tories, yet he rose nobly superior to early prejudices when he put his seal upon the Reform bill. ( Hear, hear, hear.) He ( Mr. Edmonds) was, therefore, decidedly favourable to the proposed addresses. When be reflected that if pleased Providence to take the Princess out of the world, a man was destined to occupy the thione whose name be felt a difficulty in mentioning ( hear, hear); when he reflected that a Cumberland ( groaning) would then be their ruler; and when he recollected what that Cumberland was, he blessed God that the young lady whom they were now about to address was likely, nay, in the ordinary course of things, certain, to be their Queen. He hoped the length of her life would prevent the possibility of a Cumberland ever coming to the throne ( cheers,), and he considered the fact of the nation being freed from the rule of such a man ought to be a subject of profound thankfulness. It had been said, and he believed truly, that Lord Durham ( cheers) had been en- trusted with the political education of the princess. If such was the fact, what better guarantee could they have that she had been well instructed? His lordship was an advo- cate for Household- suffrage ( cheers), and, in fact, for all those great principles for which the people were contending. It afforded him ( Mr. E.) great satisfaction to find the Political Union in posse, and which would soon be in esse, the first in expressing attachment to the Princess Victoria. They could say, what the Tories never could say, that their appeal to her feelings was not tinged with base self- interest. They could show her they had no other interest than the good of the nation. They were not going to pander to bad feelings where they were, or to excite them where they were not. No, their motives were pure and their loyalty sincere and unbought. Mr. EDMONDS then, in reference to the extract read by the Chairman, briefly adverted to some observations made respecting him ( Mr. E.) in the London Mercury. He observed that he had not accused the editor of that paper of dishonesty, but he must now repeat, what he had before said, that he considered he adopted a very injudicious means for promoting the cause of reform, by constantly abusing some of the best friends of reform. Why abuse such a man as O'Connell, because he differed from him upon some point of economy, or the application of some new plan ? O'Connell was a man, who by his wonderful talents, per- severance, and honesty in the public cause, had acquired an unprecedented influence over his fellow men, and he was not to be lightly condemned because, for instance, he could not see the benefits which others saw in the introduc- tion of Poor Laws into Ireland. It was bad policy to hunt down, or, ratherhe should say, to attempt to hunt down, such a man— for he did not believe it possible for either friend or foe to crush him so long as he pursued the course whichjhe had hitherto done. ( Cheers.) But it was not O'Connell only, Roebuck, Leader, and even Hume, men of undoubted honesty, had been assailed by the " Mtrcury" and it was folly to conceal the fact, that such conduct amounted to nothing less than fighting the battle of their enemies. ( Hear, hear.) As for O'Connell,• if be was to forget the cause of England altogether, and devote all his great energies to the amelioration of his own country; such was his ( Mr. E.' s.) love of country, that he could not even then consent to blame him. Ireland had been made a hell upon earth. ( Hear, hear.) But who had made it so ? The Tories—( Hear, bear.)— who wished to keep it so. The Tories and some of the treacherous Whigs. The Bur- detts of the party. ( Hissing.) Who were they hissing ? ( Loud cries of " Burdett.") He thought so. He recol- lected being one day on a platform with that now unfortu- nate old man, when he ( Sir Francis) turned round in his address, and called him ( Mr. Edmonds) bis brother, and yet he says he has undergone no change. He ( Mr. E.) was sure if Sir Francis entertained at the time the princi- ples he had lately upheld at Westminster, he should have considered it a disgrace to have been in the same room with him. ( Cheers.) He felt deep disgust at the conduct of Burdett; and he rejoiced to find that he had become what he richly deserved to be, an object of public contempt, and a bye word of scorn. The resolution was then put and carried with loud accla- mation. The CHAIRMAN then proceeded, in a laughable strain, to dissect the placard to which he referred at the commence- ment of the meeting. He considered it right occasionally to notice these things, for the purpose of exposing them. The placard purported to be written by a " Working Man/' whereas, in point of fact, there was not an honest working man in the town who would charge his fellow man with that which be knew to be false. No, it was not written by a working man, but by some poor, lying creature, who dared not put his own name to the production, well knowing that it would be sufficient at once to damn it. The fellow commenced by calling the Reformers gentlemen. Oh, be wished he could call the writer and his friends by that name. ( Laughter.) He next went on to say trade was bad, and they had no objection to admit that; and he wished to know if the Political Union could mend it. Now, who was it made trade bad. ( Cries of The Tories, and their bad laws.) What caused the distress and hunger, to which the poor were now subject ? ( A voice, Peel and his infa- mous bill. Cheers.) Last Saturday it was stated in the Journal, that a mercantile house in Birmingham, in the habit of paying 3,000/. per week, one half of which went for wages, had not on that day paid one pound ! Was that true or false? ( Hear, hear.) If itwas true, the Tories, by their infamous laws, robbed the labourers of Birmingham in one week of more money than had been drawn from them by the Political Union during the entire five years of its ex istence. But then they asked, would the payment of one penny a week by the working men to the Union revive trade? He never said it would. The Council of the Asso- ciation never promised to revive trade. All they told the people was, that they would endeavour to obtain such alte- rations in the old laws, and the introduction of such new ones, as would prevent a recurrence of the distress. These honest gentlemen, these pure and spotless conservators of the public money—( laughter)— asked the Council if they would give an account of the money raised by the old Union? He an- swered, yea, they would give an account, and could give it. They had already given it— for was there not an annual meeting of the Union during every year of its continuance, at which the accounts were regularly audited, and after- wards published in the Jamnal ? ( Hear, hear, and cries of Yes.) They said it was believed 20,000/. had been raised by the Union; now that, their friend O'Connell would say, was a pure Tory lie. The whole amount raised for the purposes of the old Union was only three thousand one hundred and eight pounds! and of that sum not more than eight hundred pounds were collected from the working men ; the rest was subscribed by the merchants and manufacturers. ( Hear.) Again, they said four hundred pounds were due to Mr. Attwood. That was also another Tory lie. In a word, the contents of the placard, from beginning to end, was nothing but a tissue of lies and calumnies, got up by an anonymous slanderer, who had neither the courage nor honesty to avow his dirty work. Mr. DOUGLAS adverted to that part of the placard in which the writer described the Council as anxious to act as the leaders of the people. He said he could assure those gentlemen that if the Council should be appointed to lead the people, their situation would not be one to be envied. He would not rest on a bed of roses who was selected as a leader of the people, if the present distress continued, as it promised to do, for a few months longer. ( Hear, hear.) When he knew that so many thousands in Birmingham were reduced at this moment to the last degradation of a social being, entreating their fellow of the earth for leave to toil, and havingthe poor petition denied— when he knew all this, and calculated the effect which such things could not fail to operate, he repeated his conviction that for the next six months the leadership of the people was not a potto be envied; but one of great difficulty and not small danger. He believed the Bocial state of Great Britain never was in greater danger than at the present time. It was not a question involving the prosperity of Birming- ham, or of Warwickshire, or a few of the adjoining coun- ties; no, it was the question of the happiness and liberties of the empire— of Europe he believed— that was about to be tried. ( Cheers.) We were trembling on the brink, it might be, of a revolution. That last resource might soon be all that was left us. Men would not lie down and die contented for want while they saw plenty round them. ( Renewed cheering.) Men would not see their wives and children perish for lack of necessary food whilst others were revelling in luxury. So long as men could ride in carriages and " feast sumptuously every day," those who went on foot would not be willing to perish from want. There was plenty in the land for all men, and if bad laws interfered to prevent its equitable destribution, they would exercise the power which belonged to them, antecedent to all law, and make an equitable distribution for theok- selves. ( Vehement cheering.) The meeting was afterwards briefly addressed by Means. Boultbee and Aaron. We regret that the length'to • whidfe our report has already run prevents us from giving that observations. The meeting, which continued crowded excess, did not break up until past ten o'clock. From tfcs enthusiasm displayed there can be little doubt the 4,09* members required for the re- establishment of the Union, will be enrolled against next Thursday night; the As- sociation in that case will meet for the last time, to gise way to that once formidable and all commanding rwast " THE BIRMINGHAM POLITICAL UNION." The following is a copy of the placard commented on ig> Mr. Muntz: — TO MESSRS. MUNTZ, PIERCE, EDMONDS, HADLEY, PARE, & ATTWOOD. GENTLEMEN, Trade is bad, and we all know it. Will beginning t& a POLITICAL UNION revive Trade? Will my payw ® a Penny or Sixpence a Week increase my Wages? wS giving up my time for attending the Meetings, better d « e. condition and increase the comforts of my WIFE mtt Children? Before I join the Union again, you will much oblige one and my Shopmates by giving us answers to the above Mat the following questions: — 1st. Will you give the Subscribers a Statement of baw the Money was spent which was collected by the Council of the old Union ? IT is BELIEVED THAT ABOVE TWENTY THOUSAND POUNDS WERE COLLECTED. We are willing to believe you honest; yet as no Aceosu ® was ever given, either to the Members generally, or to itfce COUNCIL itself, by the FINANCIAL COMMITTER, you cannot be surprised at our objection to join the U » OK till we can answer our friends on this head. 2nd. Is it true that the old Union owes Mr. Attw ® i* £ 400, and that there are other debts unpaid ? 3rd. Will the NEW Subscriptions go to pay the OEJV DEBTS? Now, Gentlemen, there is another report I should lilee have answered. It is said that your Opposition to ssOTte ST. PHILIP'S CHURCH YARD, cost at Warroctfi, above TWO HUNDRED POUNDS, And that Proceedings are still going on. It is also posed that your Defence for making A RIOT IN ST. MARTIN'S CHURCH WILL COST FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS. Some of you applied to the Town Commissioners for tSe Expenses about St. Philip's, on the plea that you " mc& at for the good of the People, and therefore they ougSst B » pay it." They replied that they had " NO MONEY FOB. SUCH PURPOSES." Now some of us have heard tSa* your Object in forming the Union is for the purpose « E getting Funds to carry on such things as these; as allwoic Shop are unwilling to believe that any of you woaH liar guilty of such dishonesty, I hope you will give a esriifi Answer to this : but should you refuse this reasonable Be- quest, I shall recommend all who depend upon their lijfc— 1 for BREAD, to TAKE CARE OF THEIR POCKETS, Nor part with ONE PENNY until they know what bH been done, and what will be done, with the Money. It is often said the " TORIES ARE TYRANTS," « PICK- POCKETS," and would " rob the Poor Man of his Eat- ings;" but ' tis no good to call Names and mistake NAMES FOR THINGS. It is high time to PRACTtSMR LIBERALITY, as well as to PROFESS it; thereto** don't let it be said that " THE LEADERS OF THE PEOPLE" are a thousand times worse than the Tow*. A WORKING MAS. MA Y, 1837. PUBLIC OFFICE. MONDAY, MAT 15. ( Before J. Webster and T. Lawrence, Esqrs.) A HOPEFUL SON— Robert Anderson, a brass- foua& n was charged with assaulting his father and grandmotinsB. It appeared that the prisoner, who is about twenty- Has* years of age, left his father's house some to back, awfiOT- dertook to provide for himself. Owing, however, toxical ion, he was thrown out of work, and was i* it& e habit of applying to his mother for relief, unknown to & father. On Saturday last he went home to obtainJfrutC when a quarrel ensued between his father and mother, the prisoner interfered and struck the former. His gr « » ft- mother, a very infirm old woman, was knocked downwilSne scuffle, and narrowly escaped being severely injured. The prisoner in his defence said he was very badly oS& aoMl his father refused to assist him. The magistrates, after a suitable admonition, ordere ® 5ra » to find sureties to keep the peace, and in default to bea*- mitted. Edward Newey, a well known thief, was charged wMfc robbing a little girl, the daughter of Mr. Pew, of « « St handkerchief. On Thursday the child had been sent, in company wiJk her brother, of an errand to North William- street, xari when on the road they were met by the prisoner, who sttitwi the little girl if she would let him tie her handkerchif. Site replied it did not requiie tieing, when he snatched it icam her neck and ran off. A young man named Potter, who saw the transMfcien, pursued the prisoner and laid hold of him, when herariE- denly turned round, pulled a clasp knife out of his poeto* and swore he would rip him open if he did not let hie; pt. At the moment three other young thieves came uptedte prisoner's assistance, and Potter deemed it prudent to esiirsr him to escape for the present. In a few minutes a'tarte procured the aid of persons who were passing andsor- ceeded in retaking the prisoner, and found upon hrrae s& e handkerchief and the knife. The prisoner was conraiiKni to the sessions. A young man whose name we could not catcli, * JW charged with begging in the shop of Mr. Bolton, Tempto- row. The prisoner acknowled that he had been begging, * wl in answer to questions by the magistrates, said he had fern employed on the London and Birmingham ltailwajt, * rat having received a severe accident, he was obliged to srtrauK to the amputation of one of his legs. He had no means ® fg! » w>- curing a wooden leg, and he was begging as much JSMHKJ" as would purchase him one, and enable him to go hoto& jft his friends, in Ayre, in Scotland. Mr. Webster, the magistrate, considered the poor feiirw, under such circumstances, was more to be pitied dram blamed, and humanely gave him a few shillings to etaSste him to get home, and ordered him to be discharged. The business of the day was devoid of the least ptafiie interest. FRIDAY, MAY 19th. ( Before R. Spooner and W. Blaheway, EsqreJ) Ann Sucar was charged with stealing a large cheese fcva. the shop of Mr. Tavener, Snow- hill. Mr. James Upton stated that he was in the service « £ SfUi prosecutor. On the day before, he left the shop for ® minutes, and on his return he met the prisoner comingitu* of the shop, and the cheese under his ' arm. She ssia- ntr ® was only taking it to her husband to see if he woulflluty it, but as he did not believe her, he gave her into custody, The prisoner was committed. Mr. Itedfern observed that the prisoner was one df rSfce oldest female thieves in the town. Fifteen years ag ® • sft ® was first committed, and since then she had visited Wartsidk gaol five or six times. Isaac Ross was committed for stealing a handteitfcwf and pair of gloves from Mr. William Irwin, in the FER, NM Thursday. Joseph Evans was committed for stealing a handkerda^ from Mr. Bromwich. Mary Newey was charged with stealing a gold wnfiefli, belonging to Mr. Thomas Cox. Mr. Cox stated that on Sunday evening, at half- pafftten o'clock, he was walking up Broad- street, when he meSCSw- prisoner, who stopped and spoke to him. He contkraMl speaking to her for a few minutes, and when she *< HIC awuy, he found his watch had been taken out of Ilk feftv and a stone put in the place of it. Capenhurst, the street- keeper, said he received infonna- tion of the robbery, and on making inquiry respecting ibe watch, he found it had been pledged at Mr. Samuel1* fcjf the prisoner, whom he took into custody. Mr. Cox identified the prisoner, as did also Mr. Sarong and she was committed. FORGERY— A young man, who gave bis name as foamt Lewis, was charged with uttering a forged bill of exchssg^ at the Bank of Messrs. Attwood and Spooner. Mr. H. Marshall said that the prisoner came to theiucdk on the 18th instant, and presented a bill for 15/. purpoitSOT to be drawn by Mr. W, Payne, of Edgbaston- strett, ai* accepted of Mr. R. Mills, victualler, of Bradford^ StesK. On examining the bill, some suspicions as to its gemmmsw ness were excited, and a person was about to be dispateS « « t, to make enquiries of Mr. Payne and Mr. Mills, who ® ( Cfce prisoner rushed out of the bank, ( and endeavotwei escape; he was pursued and given into the custody of an officer. It subsequently turned out that the bill wae& feK- he prisoner acknowledged that the bill was forgoS, bat said that he intended to take it up before it became doam He was fully committed. There were some other caiea but none of interest. 2 THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. i POETRY. WE MET IN THE BOWER. We met in the bovver, when the pale sun- set gleam Shed a calm golden light o'er the evening sky,— We met in the bovver, ere the last fading beam Of day became mingled with night's deeper dye. She looked liked an angel of sweetness and light, Seduced from her home, by the beauty of even; And my soul in that hour felt a thrill of delight, That might have been envied by spirits in Heaven! We met in the bower, when pale luna was keeping Her vigils o'er nature, in tranquil repose,— We met in the bower, when the tears of eve's weeping Like sparkling diadems hung on the rose: Oh! that hour of love's passion I ne'er can forget, As I heard the sweet music that flow'd from her tongue ; And though the bright sun of her beauty hath set, Its lingering radiance o'er memory's flung I Handsworth, May 12, 1837; THE TRUMPET CALL OF LIBERTY. TUNE—" March to the Battle Field." Hark! ' Tis the Trumpet Call Of Liberty is pealing ; Rouse, Britons, one and all, Your Majesty revealing! House from your leaden sleep, Death is in your slumber; Rise, as doth the mighty deep! Its billows wild out number. Flock to the standard true, Again behold ' tis flaunting I Defiance to the Tory crew, And all their idle vaunting. Stand to the glorious blue ! Brothers in communion j Swear to be firm and true, Tyrants dread our Union. Let the British lion roar In a voice of thunder I Bid them tremble as before, With terror and with wonder. By no dis8entious jar, Let brothers be divided. Stand for the tug of war And be no. more derided. In your nativp strength alone, Justice full demanding; Yield your birthright unto none, Nor your understanding. Equal rights and justice claim, Patriots of the nation; Kindle up bright freedom's flame A glorious constelation! CHORUS, Press to the standard, press, brothers in communion, Heaven will your efforts bless, and sanctify your Union. E. P. MEAD. LITERATURE. THE POCKET BYRON.— The May volume of this ex- quisite little edition concludes the dramas. We need not advert to its matter, which is as familiar to our poetic readers as household words. To those who wit- nessed Macready's personation of " Werner" when he was last here— the finest thing-, as we view it, that the stage at present possesses— the perusal of that play of the noble poet will bring with it a fresh interest. It is not over complimentary to his lordship's dramatic talents, that in the only piece of his writing which has gained and promises to retain possession of the stage, he has only the merit of versifying, and that but indif- ferently, the thoughts of another. THE FOREIGN AND BRITISH REVIEW, NO. 8.— We extracted in our last number, from this able and judi- cious periodical, a passage of weight and importance on the value of local government. We can freely re- commend the entire article from which the extract was made, to the attentive perusal of political readers, not only for the general soundness of its views, but for the number of curious facts accumulated by the writer in their illustration. In addition to this article, which we mention first, inasmuch as it stands specially con- nected with the pressing question of a Corporation for Birmingham, there is one on the Cape of Good Hope as a colony; one on some very pleasant books on England and English society, from which perhaps we shall draw in our next number; one on the political press of France, replete with behind the curtain glimpses ; and one on that most fertile of all themes, the mis- government of Ireland, liberally written. These are the chief. There is a paper headed " Rea- sons against the Ballot" which might have been omit- ted without seriously detracting from the value of the review. There are a few things more " weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable," than a twice- told tale; and amongst these few is a twice refuted argument. Baling the article on ballot, the number is an exceedingly good one. THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA TREATISES.— GEOLOGY.— The Proprietors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica have adopted the plan of publishing some of the larger treatises separately, such as Sir D. Brewster's on magnetism, Professor Phillips on geo- logy. Professor Jameson on Mineralogy; these form handsome post octavo volumes published at 6s. each. Cheap as these volumes are at 6s., they are only one half of a 6s. part of the Encyclopedia, being printed from the types of the Encyclopedia by divi- ding the columns of the quarto into octavo pages. One of these, Geology, by Professor Phillips, is now before us; it is a favourable specimen not only of the cheapness, but of the excellence of the contents of the great work, which is not, as some have supposed, merely a reprint of the former edition with the supple- ment incorporated; for, in fact, the edition now in course of publication is not only revised and carefully corrected in the portion retained, but a large propor- tion of it is entirely new matter, written expressly for the seventh edition. The Encyclopaedia Britannica has generally been regarded merely as a book of refer- ence, but the publication of these treatises in separate volumes, shows that in addition to its value as a mass of various and useful information, so arranged as to be easily referred to, it may likewise be considered as a series of new books, periodically published, by the most distinguished writers of the present day, and supplied in the pages of the Encyclopedia Britannica, at a third of the price they would probably have been charged, if published as separate and independent books. MAMMON, OR COVETOUSNESS THE SIN OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.— By the Rev. JOHN HARRIS. London : Ward and Co. 1837.—( Concluded from our last number.)— Covetousness, then, according to the Rev. John Harris, is the grand characteristic feature of the Christian world. What are its especial indi- cations among the most highly civilised and cultivated people? *_ " Gold is the only power which receives univei sal homage. At this moment what a populous and gigantic empire can it boast! The mine, with its unnatural drudgery; the manu- factory, with its swarms of squalid misery; the plantation, with its embruted gangs; and the market and the exchange, with their furrowed and careworn countenances. Philoso- phy itself has become mercenary in its pay; aijd science, a votary at its shrine, brings all its noblest discoveries, as offerings, to its feet."* ( p. 79.) This is a strange and melancholy picture! The authorand adjudicators assert it to be a true one. What corollaries are to be drawn from it ? Does the decla- mation mean anything or nothing ? Letting alone the slaves in " the plantations," who, as Charles Pem- berton has it, are " only niggers," shall we admit that " unnatural drudgery," " squalid misery," and " care- worn countenances," are the inevitable consequents on the advance of science and art? Must the groans of the oppressed body and of the wearied spirit, become louder and deeper, in proportion as the means of satis- fying all our wants increase, and because of that in- crease ? Or must we not rather conceive, that there exists some vast error at the root of all ? Some enor- mous blunder in our mode of conducting the business of " the mine, the manufactory, the market, the ex- change"? An error so great that, suffered to remain, not all the hundred and forty- three volumes of denun- ciations and arguments against the sin of covetousness, were they all published, could suffice to prevail against it. Again; " Though no part of the world is exempt from the influ- ence of covetousness, a commercial nation, like BRITAIN, is more liable to its debasement than any other." " The name of our idol is MAMMON." " Tiiis is tiie brand- mark of the present age." ( p. 81.) And an ugly mark it is. The brand of the mind- slayer. The mark of Cain was a trifle in comparison. But how is it? Our country was " merry England," so long as our manufacturing powers were " the spin- ners and the knitters i' the sun." But now that we make unconscious steam our primum mobile, and when in its use, iron and brass do the work of bone and muscle, our national mirth is changed to " drudgery, squalor, and care" ! All these points, it should be observed, are illustrated by quotations from secular authors, who are brought forward, as, in this case, more effective allies than divines. Onr author now seems on the brink of an important discovery, and a new agent for evil is thus introduced:— " To the same unhallowed spirit of gain, is to be traced that fierce " COMPETITION," of which the labourer, the artisan, the dealer, the manufacturer, and even the mem- bers of all the liberal professions, alike complain. On all hands it is admitted that the way in which business is now conducted, involves^ all the risk, uncertainty, and unnatural excitement of a game of chance." ( p. 86.) This is good and strong, but we differ, in one point, from the reverend author. In our judgment the ge- neology is erroneous. Competition is not the off- spring of the spirit of gain, but rather its parent. It owes its own existence to the GREAT ERROR to which we have just adverted, namely, the mistaken and par- tially beneficial use of the immense powers placed in the hands of civilised man. " This competition, under certain limits," pronounces our author, " is necessary to the activity and healthy condition of the social economy." We demur, also, to this, because we can- not conceive the possibility of assigning " limits" to the progress of competition. Once admitted into the social economy, its influence is inevitable:— " Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current, and compulsive course, Ne'er know returning ebb, but keep due on To the Propontic, and the Hellespont, Even so " no hounds can be prescribed to the march of com- petition. The acknowledgment of this power, as necessary to the health of the social economy, is a concession and a sophism. It is an agent either for good or for evil. If for good, we must give it full swing, and rejoice, as our political economists do, at the commercial supremacy which for a time attends it, and at the hurry, bustle, selfishness, and gambling spirit, which alarm our bewildered author. If for evil, let its badness be declared, and let us not talk of en- tertaining a snug little amount of competition, any more than we would cherish a moderate fever, or a nicely apportioned partiele of deadly virus, just for the enjoyment of its flush and excitement. So, further on: " The root of all our laws is to be found in the sentiment of property; and this senti- ment, right in itself, has, by its exccss, infected" every- thing. This excess— but this is an erroneous term, there is no such thing here as excess;— this supremacy of property is inevitable, where the system of indivi- dual accumulation is entertained, while the powers of production have increased indefinitely— almost in- finitely. It is right, or it is wrong; but whichever it be, it is so, totally and unconditionally. It will not consent to be fostered, to a certain extent; " soberly," as Lady Grace says in the play; coddled and fondled, like a cherubic bull- puppy, or a pet lion cub ; under a special charge not to increase beyond a convenient magnitude. " We are, from circumstances, and long may we be,— an active, industrious, trading people." Be it so, but trade without " fierce competi- tion" cannot exist among civilised people; and with competition we have the excess of the sentiment of property,— that is, the love of money— individual ac- cumulation on the part of the few, and squalor, desti- tution, and ignorance, as the lot of the many. " Mam- mon," by the Rev. John Harris, is waste paper, and Dr. Conquest has uselessly squandered his hundred and five good golden sovereigns. These concessions of ignorance or want of thought ruin the whole fabric. The author has lacked either moral courage or intel- lectual enlightenment to enable him to probe the con- dition of a selfish world, to the bottom, and the con- sequence is, that seeing and deploring, and battling with its error and vices, and their miserable results, he has nothing to offer but palliatives of the most ineffica- cious nature. Among the mass of easy common- places which per- petually meet the eye of the reader, it is, however, refreshing to perceive one powerful attack on the com- fortable prejudices of wealth and selfishness. It is where the author well and forcibly opposes the sophisms of those, who affect to consider their own absurd and wasteful expenditure, as virtual charity, because, forsooth it employs the labouring classes ! " The labour which is beneficial to the individual, may be quite unprofitable to the country. And the question is, whether such outlay has not, when viewed as part of a great and slowly developed system, a tendency to generate many of the evils which the economical science deplores ; shortening the intervals between what are called the PERIODICAL CRASHES." ( p. 202.) This sentence ought to be written in letters of gold or of sunshine, to attract universal attention ; though if " The Working Man's Companion" happen to see it, he will forthwith attack Mr. Harris for impugning his favourite system of " creating new wants"— in order to find new modes of toil for the " working clas- ses." And it is good too to hear how innocently and unconsciously we talk of " the periodical crashes," as if such alternations of prosperity and blank dismay, were as inevitable in our solar system as night and day, or Summer and Winter. There is, however, in this a glimpse of the truth, but it is quickly lost sight of; our author has yet to learn the very elements of Political Economy. Another brief flash irradiates the following sentence:— " The art of acquiring money, ( that is, in fact, producing wealth,) has been well nigh brought to perfection. The art of using it, so as to make it produce the greatest measure of happiness still remains to be practised. This, indeed, the Gospel alone can teach, and has taughtfrom the beginning." ( p. 235.) That is to say, the great, the characteristic teaching of the Gospel is not perceived, and never has been practised in the Christian World. Thus, then, great part of our national labour is wasted on ridiculous, unprofitable, and injurious ob- jects ; our powers of production approach perfection, and their very perfection only leads us the farther astray from the path of Christian morality, of benevo- lence, of happiness; and yet, here is a volume of three hundred pages, all against " the sin of selfih- ness," in which the author can point out no remedy for the ills which surround and amaze him, beyond the unpleasant operation of distributing, gratuitously, that which has been accumulated by such an expen- diture of time, care, toil, and anxieties on the part of individuals. This is a shallow and unsatisfactory view of the great question. An author, with such a theme before him, should have enquired more thoroughly into the actual and possible state of the social economy. There is in truth, enough, and to spare, for all; and the one great ground of complaint in the mouth of the Philanthropist, ought to be, that there are, at present in the face of this abundance, too great diversities in the condition of human beings, partakers of the same native capacities, and ultimate prospects; and his great object ought to be, not to worry the wealthy professor of a religion of charity, into excessive alms- giving, but to devise some change in the social sys- tem, by which an equality of physical comfort, and of intellectual advantages maybe gradually approached; in which the art " of producing the greatest measure of happiness," as " taught by the Gospel from the beginning," may be universally practised. i We will not, with our author ( p. 6.) commit the oversight of saying, " the awful invasion of smfrus- trated the divine intentions" in the creation of rational beings; because neither our religion, nor our philoso- phy permit us to entertain the wretched, heathenish notion of opponent duties of GOOD and EVIL ; of an Oromasdes and an Arimanes, engaged in perpetual and doubtful conflict. As believers in the infinite knowledge, power, and benevolence of the Divine Being, we are fully convinced, that, from the begin- ning, his " intentions" were much better known to himself than to the author of the prize Essay before us; that no power exists which can " frustrate his in tentions," and that the period is approaching, when it will be seen that what blind and presumptuous Theo- logy, or rather Mythology, chooses to call EVIL, and to personify as a real, spiritual entity, and a formidable enemy of the Creator of the Universe, is, in reality, but a portion of the great scheme, of which at present we discern only a small section, but which will, at length, be perceived to consist solely of GOOD, to tend solely to the production of UNIVERSAL HAPPINESS. * So Professor Sedgwick in a speech addressed to the British Association, in 1835, " urged most strenuously upon the Association the necessity of keeping in mind the objects of its institution, and to confine their researches to DEAD MATTER, without entering into any speculation on the relations of intellectual beings,-— and he would brand, as a traitor, that man who would dare to outstep the prescribed boundaries of the Institution." ( See the Journals of the date.) THE FERRYMAN'S DAUGHTER; A RHINE SKETCH. BY T. C. GRATTAN, ESQ., AUTHOR OF " HIGHWAYS AND BYE WAYS." It is a pleasant arrangement among the peasantry of all countries, that the " daily bread" for which the fathers work so hard is brought to them by one of their children. This may appear a small matter; but time and circumstances often give great importance to small matters. The precision with which the German labourers rest from their toil at ten o'clock in the morning, would of itself make one attach an exclusive value to that chosen hour. The thought that so many thousands of rural workmen are at that given mo- ment reposing on the broad lap of nature, picturesquely served by their sons or daughters, and taking their simple refreshment with wholesome appetites and thankful hearts, is a pleasant thought. It puts one in good humour with human nature. It is pleasanter still to look closely on some group in your field or your garden so employed, and the preparatory handwashing in the nearest fountain or stream might prepaie you to expect a ceremony more ela- borate than that of sitting down to eat a section of dry brown bread— poetically called black— for the national motto of Germany, Schwarzbrod und Freiheit, is as much an exaggeration of fancy with legard to the food as to the freedom. This is morgen- brod of Germany; and the abend- brod is an entremet for four o'clock— a connecting link between dinner and supper. Now, happy is the man whose wife can afford to send him a jug of coffee at these middle meals ; and happy was Johan Reisacher. Not that he had a wife at the time I knew him, but just a maiden sister who made his bed, his soup, and his coffee, with due attention and re- gularity. He had, however, a daughter— the child of his old age, the consolation of the widower, his every- day com- panion out of school- hours, the knitter and mender of his stockings, and the Hebe of his abend- brod. Susannah Reisacher was one of those hardy, straight- forward, strong- built, and sober- minded children that we meet with now and then ; and at the first glance we assure ourselves that, be their condition what it may, they will inevitably make the best of it, and thrive progressively through life, without any other distinction than that of always doing their duty. Susannah fully bore out the pro- mise of her countenance. She was one of the most dili- gent and orderly scholars of Sasbach school, the most attentive to the duties of household affairs, and steady be- yond comparison in those she owed to her old father and her elderly aunt. She was twelve years old when she first attracted my notice ; and her father had been ferryman of Sasbach, in the distiict or parish of Breisach, for more than double that number of years. And it must be confessed that old Reisacher had the appearance of one who bad been blowd about by the east winds of life. He looked more worn than his threadbare grey jacket, and yet there was an air of precaution and economy that promised an unusual length of days both to himself and to his ward robe. He was the oracle of his village, and a remarkable man in his way. He could ascertain when a dog or a cow had been looked at by an evil eye; and, if invoked, would counteract this spell, by burning certain withered leaves at midnight, in presence of the afflicted quadruped. He could, more- over, stop the gaping mouths ot insignificant wounds by the mysterious utterance of two or three sentences ( which no one ever heard); and these ( when assisted by cobwebs or certain chewed leaves) had been known to produce mira- culous results. But I must not trust myself with the precise detail of his many superfluous accomplishments. Let those already mentioned suffice; and let him stand out in my picture as a part and parcel of a group in which he does not form the principal figure— an adjunct of that deep rolling river on which my scene is laid, in which he enthusiastically gloried, from a conviction that he somehow ( he knew not how) be- longed to it or it to him. He often used to say, as he looked on it in its angry moods, that it was " gastlich schon," which is, being interpreted, " horribly beautiful;" and 6Uch it certainly was on the day that forms the epoch of my sketch. It was within a few minutes, more or less, just four o'clock, on the 15th of September, 1831, when I resolved to cross by the Sasbach ferry, and resume my evening walk- on the other side of the river; for the mid- day meal had been long over, and, like all eaten bread, soon forgotten. But, on approaching the well- known boat, I paused to ob- serve the innocent appropriation of the hour, on the part of my old acquaintance and his young attendant. There stood Susannah in the middle of the boat— her feet and legs un- conscious of shoes and stockings; and there sat old Johan, at one end of it, indulging in all the garrulous greetings common to the proprietors of wrinkles and grey hairs. The coffee- jug, which he at times applied to his lips, seemed to liquidise his imagination ; and, from his smiles and gestures, I could fancy him in a diluted state of feeling, altogether amiable. The schwarz- brod remained beside him for graver discussion. But just at this moment I was unfortunately perceived, and the meal came to an untimely end. With all the ready bustle of one who wisely and habitu- ally considers his business as of more importance than his ease, friend Reisacher rose from his seat, laid his hand on the oar, declared himself ready, with his usual obstinate ac- tivity ; and, on my stepping into the boat, he proceeded to make his angular transit, first against the current, and then with it, with geometrical precision; and in five minutes we were at the opposite side of the river, which moved on in a sullen swell, reflecting the dark and heavy autumn clouds that rolled slowly above. During those five minutes I had proceeded in tempting the venerable connoisseur to accom- pany me to a village not quite half a league from the ferry, for the purpose of looking at a wood- ranger's horse, which, making liberal allowance for the errors of its potato diet, was very much the sort of animal that I had a mind to purchase. To ask the opinion of John Reisacher on such a matter was to bind him to you for ever. But I scarcely know what unlucky prophecy, or abortive imprecation might have followed the rejection of his advice if once solicited. There was a self- opinionated stubbornness about him, that never forgave a slight offered to his judgment. But I am again dipping into his character, when it is his daughter's conduct I want to describe. " Susannah, child," said the old man, " keep the boat here, and wait for me, I shall be back in three little half- hours. Let no one persuade you to cross, for the wind is rising, and the current is very strong; and the weather seems upon the change: I feel that we shall have a squally evening. But I shall be with you in time to take you home, and excuse you from your good aunt Lena's scolding for staying out so long." And so saying, he drew up, coiled the rope round a tree hard by, and away we went, the weather seer carefully avoiding to look up at the sky ( which could have told any fool that bad weather was coming) lest his atmospheric sagacity might appear less profound than he meant me to believe it. Susannah took out her blue worsted stocking, and multi- plied its parallelograms, comfortably indifferent to the cold gusts that swept aoross the valley. But after a time, the heavy cloud which old Reisacher preferred not seeing, and the chilling wind which his daughter seemed determined not to feel, began to burst and hiss; and a sudden stop was put to one of my companion's vainglorious panegyrics on his own infallibility of judgment in matters of horseflesh, by a loud crash of thunder. " There will he a storm," said I. " Ay, indeed there will; but I scarcely thought it would be so bad as what is coming," replied Johan, thoughtfully, and staring full in the face of the lowering sky. " Yet the child need not get wet for all that, unless she likes it; for is not there the old tarpaulin and the oars, whereof she may make a covering?" I saw clearly that old Reisacher was appealing to himself, rather than to me, so I waited until his inclination prompted him to step out faster on our way to the wood- ranger's house, which we at last reached, as nearly wet through as it was possible to be. The wood- ranger was at home, but the horse was not; and the'storm increased, and so, at last, did the father's anxiety about his only child. " I must go back," said he, gazing from the eminence we stood on, back towards the Rhine; " Susannah will be frightened. Pray look at the river, sir, I never saw it more furious, and never so suddenly aroused. It is cjastlich shon! Isn't it?" " It is a fine sight to look at from this safe distance," said I; " but it lias few charms for the poor fellows in that boat, that is tossed about so roughly." " ' Tis true for you, sir; I doubt if it be not in great dan- ger," observed Jolian, eying keenly the wave buffeted little craft to which I called his attention. It was heavily laden with a large freight of firewood, so heavily that, even in the smoothest weather, the gunwale would have touched the water's edge. It was in the middle of the river, endeavouring to force its way up against the stream, by the aid of a square and tattered sail, but every effort of tne men who managed it was baffled by the extreme violence of the waves, which we could plainly see washing over it from stem to stern. " I'll just wish good evening, sir, and hurry on to the ferry; > nd I hope the boat may have succeeded in passing it before I arrive, for that ledge of rock just above the sta- tion is hard to steer past in such a dreadful squall," said my companion, with benevolent anxiety. But I was not dis- posed to part with him thus. The danger to which the un- happy boatmen were exposed, was attraction sufficient to lead me closer to the scene; and old Johan and I proceeded rapidly together on our way back, hurried silently forward by the force of mere excitement, and never losing sight of the struggling vessel, which, though it made scarcely any way, was nevertheless gaining on us, as we approuched the ferry in a now nearly parallel line with the river. Every moment that led us nearer, showed us the increas- ing peril of the frail craft; and I thought I could distinguish at times a despairing cry for aid from the two men who were imperfectly managing her, and whose gestures, as she was heavily tossed to and fro by the angry swell, spoke a plain story of terrified helplessness. A hollow in the road made us lose sight of her for a few minutes; and as we ascended again, in breathless impatience, we caught a new view, which confirmed our worst forebodings. The boat, either from the rudder being unshipped, or the man at the helm being washed down by a wave, had turned completely round, and was swept across to almost the other side of the river, by the strong side wind, and the violent eddy. Every wave threatened to swamp it altogether, and it was drifting fast into the ledge of rocks alluded to by Reisacher, and over which there was now a foam of breakers scarcely to be believed by one who has not seen the Rhine in one of its angriest moods. We were now within a few hundred yards of the ferry. The cries for help were less frequent, for there was to all appearance no help at hand. Four or five peasants, men and women, stood at different points on the banks, throwing up their hands, and screaming unavailing advice or consola- tion to the poor boatmen; and now and then the dismal echo of their shouts was felt rather than heard, as I and my old companion ran along the slippery load. In a few minutes more the boat drifted into an eddy most particularly dreaded by the old ferryman. " It's all over with her now; and there she goes, sure enough!" exclaimed Reisacher, as a powerful wave caught the boat under the side, and turned it keel upwards. " They must be lost before we can reach the river," added he, catching at the railing by the roadside, overcome by agitation and exertion, while I stopped to recover my breath, and stared down into the river from the precipitate bank. The rain now swept in sheets up the stream, and almost hid every object upon it; but I fancied I distinguished, like a phantom boat in the mist, old Johan's little skiff, striving to plunge through the waves, and rocked like a cradle by the opposing influence of wind and tide. " No, it cannot be! Yet— yes, it is, it is Susannah striving to steer towards the wreck !" exclaimed I, involuntarily. The old man's eyes, dim from age, but their vision quick- ened by affection, were fixed, like mine, in straining scru- tiny ; and when his gaze was sure of its object, he cried out in a tone of bitterest anguish— " Oh, my child! my Susannah! It is her— it is the boat. She will perish. Oh, save her! save her! Herr Gott!" And with incredible speed he darted away from our resting- place. I soon overtook him, and supported him on my arm, us he tottered, panting and exhausted, to the tree against which his little skiff had been erewhile coiled. We now saw it within fifty yards of us on the boiling surf, and the heroic child— her young heart buoyant with pity's life- blood— working her helm- like oar with all her strength, and looking pale and stern at the rain and the waves, which drenched her through,— at the furious wind, which had loosened her long hair, and sent it streaming around her,— and at the broad lightning, which gave, at intervals, a super- natural hue to her whole person. She was, in a minute or two moie, in the power of the formidable current, in which the half- diowned men now clung to their captiied boat, and she was in nearly as much danger as they were. It was a moment of actual distraction for her father, and of indescri- bable awe to me. I shall never forget the sensation of that fearful interval of suspense. The gray- headed old man now gasped convulsively; and, wildly stretching forth his arms, he flung himself on the earth, as if to shut out the scene of almost inevitable death. The despairing men were, with hoarse, faint voices, hailing and cheering on the intrepid girl, and giving what snatches of instruction they could utter as to the means of approach- ing them. But, alas! the utmost strength of a child, for- tified, as it must have been, by a powerful feelingof religious confidence and a noble courage, was insufficient for so severe a struggle; and I had the deep anguish of 6eeing the wreck, and the forlorn brothers, who hung upon it with a fierce jet enfeebled grasp, swept by within a dozen yards of the ferry- boat. At this moment old Reisacher started up, and he would have plunged into the merciless river, had I not forcibly held him back; but, screaming louder than the storm, his voice now reached Susannah, and it seemed at once to paralyze all her power and skill. She cast her looks by turns on the wretched objects she would have saved, and on the half- maddened parent, who seemed rushing in a frantic effort to assist her. At this crisis, Martin Buckholz, one of the brothers, per- ceiving that their combined hope of safety depended en- tirely on the possibility of his gaining the ferry- boat— for his companion could not swim— he resolved to trust bimBelf, inexpert, exhausted, and encumbered as he was, to the chances of the torrent. He slipped down into the water, struck out his new nerved arms, to buffet every wave, and rolling and plunging with the fierce energy of despair, he little by little approached the skiff. Susannah regained her presence of mind, and she laboured at her oar with renewed strength and redoubled efforts. She soon met the bold swimmer; he grasped the prow— heaved himself up the side— caught the oar from his preserver's hands— and though now a considerable distance from the heavy rolling wreck, he came up with it just as his brother was fainting from exhaustion and terror, and lifted him safely into the skiff. And how to describe old Reisaclier's delight, quick fol- lowing his despair, as he saw the ferry- boat bounding tri- umphantly across the waves, with itB miraculously rescued freight; the tears, the blessings the thanksgivings— the love, the pride, the gratitude .'— all fell down in plenteous showers upon the head of his child, or rose up to Heaven in fervid but silent thought. Susannah— calm, modest, and apparently unconscious in the midst of all our united praise and admiration— was destined to the conviction that she had done a virtuous and heroic action, without knowing, at the time, its un- common merit. The Grand Duke of Baden, on hearing the circumstance, was pleased to bestow a gratuity of two hundred florins on our little heroine, together with a medal, as a special mark of distinction, bearing the inscription, " She trusted in God." She was, when I last saw her, a year after the adventure, receiving the full benefit of an excellent education; for some voluntary subscriptions procured her many additional ad- vantages ; and she walked at the head of her village school- fellows, in their daily promenades, with a step as composed, and a look as unassuming, as before the event which has given her name its local iinmoitality. But since the year 1831 friend Reisacher has lost his old sister, and given'up the ferry. But the gratitude of Martin and George Buckholz does not allow him to want the com- forts of a house in his old age; and I should not be at all surprised to hear at any day ( for Susannah is now seven- teen) that the gratitude of Martin, who is still unmarried, was about to give a still more permanent expression of his attachment to the younger remaining member of the female branch of the Reisacher family New Monthly. A SLAVE- AUCTION IN ALGIERS.— NOW began the auction for the men. They had been inspected by the intending purchasers; many a hand had been passed down the back sinews of their legs, the muscles of the shoulders had been pinched, the size of the arm- bone had been measured, the head had been examined for gray hairs— in short, every part had been duly scrutinised, and the price to which each bid- der would go was settled in his mind. The first couple disposed of were the captain and one of his crew. In order to show the strength of the animals, they were placed under the pole, to which was attached a stone of considerable weight, and they were told to lift it. The slings were of such a length as to require both the pri- soners to bend down a little before they could get the poles placed upon each shoulder, and this position showed the muscles of the legs and back to the greatest advantage. In vain they tried— evidently tried; the weight was more than their united power could apparently move. The price fell; the enraged pirate asked what would be the highest bidding if they lifted the stone, and a considerable advance was im- mediately offered by the government if such should occur; whereas, in the event of a failure, the price was so much depreciated as to very materially discomfort the pirate. He called four of his men, who were armed with long sticks, about the circumference of a man's finger, and he placed them so as to command a good position for inflicting the blows which were to follow. Having again agreed with tiie bidder as to the price should the stone be weighed, he gave the order for the unfortunate men to try again. With a fearful knowledge of the punishment which awaited them, they both tried. The muscles of the legs seemed bursting through the skin, the perspiration started like a fountain from their bodies, their backs groaned to achieve the task; when the pirate, fearful that they might not succeed, beckoned to his men, and they began to strike the prisoners with all their force over their legs, urging them as if they were horses, and goading them to the fear- ful trial. Escape was impossible, and to turn impracticable; they again tried, and succeeded in weighing the enormous weight, both falling down over the Btone almost dead with exhaustion. The brutes now plied their sticks again until the poor fellows were sufficiently recovered to stand erect; when the marks of the blows, and the tender manner in which they walked, evidently showed how severe had been the punishment. An objection was taken on the part of the purchasers as to the fair lifting of the stone, and the pirate offered to make them do it again; and, when taunted with the impossibility of making such exhausted creatures raise so heavy a weight, he crossed his fingers, emblematic of the creed of his victims, and after spitting in their faces and kicking them for cowards who were afraid to work, he made a trifling reduction of the price, and the unfortunate captain and his man became government slaves to the Dey of Algiers. They were kept on the spot, in order that, if a larger purchase was made, all the slaves might be driven away together, to carry sand like donkies, to weigh stones for the fortifications, and to have black bread and bastinadoes for their pay. It was now the turn of Hammerton and his sulky com- panion to be brought before these devils in Turkish garb; and no slight hurst of pleasure was manifested as the two were brought forward. One was a miniature Hercules- short, compact, sturdy, and stubborn; the other slim, well- proportioned, handsome, and active. Such a contrast could never assimilate. The man who bade for the government fixed his eyes upon the mate, and made a liberal offer for liim without a trial. The pirate raised his price of course, ( Turks are as subtle as Indians at a bargain,) a controversy arose, and the pirate swearing a good Mahomedun oath, bet his value, as named by the government purchaser, that the slave should lift the stone by himself, which the two others, both stout men, had nearly failed to accomplish. It was a bargain, because it was safe betting on the one side; the Turk, of course, had he gained the bet, would have got his slave for nothing, and charged his master a wholesome price; on the other hand, it was one of those angry offers which losing gamesters are apt to make when they run a tilt against fortune and are sure of being worsted. Two of the pirate crew now stepped forward and un- bound the captives. One was sullen and reserved, as if winding himself up for an act of desperation; the other quietly and modestly succumbed to his fate, with a coun- tenance truly resigned,, yet resolved to do his utmost in any trial. They were now both unbound and standing beside each other; the mate remarked with a sullen curse, that those turban- headed fellows should feel his wrath if they attempted to harness him. Hammerton sighed as he said, " We had better do our utmost at first; and then we may avoid those cruel sticks." " If I lift, may I be —!" Hammerton merely replied, " Your determination will ruin us both." Two of the pirates, who carried sticks, one the old Turk who had been insulted by the mate, now advanced, and giv- ing the mate a sharp blow on the bare shoulders, pointed to the stone. The unexpected salute sent him into a boiling rage ; be turned round, grasped the offending pirate, shook him like a child, seized the fellow's stick, and with one blow broke it over his turban. A furious row instantly ensued. The sturdy Englshman, seeing the coming storm, grasped hold of an idler, who had been attracted to the scene by the crowd, and seizing his scimitar, dismissed him to his companions, going at a quicker rate than was customary, owing to an impetus behind which propelled the Turk beyond his usual grave and lazy pace. The lion was now fairly roused ; he stood like Spartacus after he had broken his chains ; he merely made a few backward steps so as to get the water in his rear, and then offering himself as a lair mark, cried out in English, " Now, come on you ruffians, and see who will make me lift the stone !" To kill such a slave was no part of the pirate's plan, and naw was the time to strike a good bargain. His price rose; but the wary old Turk said, > " If he does not lift the stone, he is mine." " There was no time mentioned," said the vender; " and we shall see if we cannot wear him out." He now directed his crew to » et some long stout sticks, and make a regular advance to push the mate over the quay, whilst others were sent in a boat to seize him in that help- less state and bind hjs arms. The Turks advanced in a semicircle, and ma ing one determined rush, they suc- ceeded in effecting the plan; the poor fellow, tottering back fell overboard, the scimitar dropping from his hand as 2 THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. i lie attempted to recorer himself. He was instantly seized by the hair of his head, and kept from entering the boat until his arms were secured ; he was then landed, brought to the fatal stone, and harnessed. And now the Turks found that it was impossible for the man to lift the stone, in consequence of its size hindering him from standing right over the weight. A platform was soon erected, through the centre of which the slings were led ; they were then fastened over the mate's shoulders in such a manner that he could not extricate himself, at the same time bending him down ; and the Turk whom he had so signally disgraced appeared by his side, with a brighter eye, a more resolute arm, a thicker stick, and a more wil- ling heart. The victim being secured, the pirate captain gave the nod to the administrators of his law, and heavy and thick fell the blows. The insulted Turk did not confine his operations to the calves of his legs alone, hut every part of the naked body was shortly in large weals. Still the mate would not make the slightest effort to lift the stone; sullenly, and without moving or flinching, he bore the re- peated strokes until he sat down unable to move, even had his inclination been to have done so. The beating was continued, and fresh sticks supplied the place of those which were broken; but the insulted man, he who had been beaten by ar. Isauri, a dog of a Christian, a cursed giaour, although almost fainting with fatigue, continued to ply his strokes. Still more enraged than the rest, the pirate captain raised his sword to dispatch him; but the government purchaser claimed him as his own ; all further precautipn ceased; the wretch was unbound, and the captain and the man already bought were ordered to carry their fainting shipmate to the prison destined for their reception. — The Arethusa. ARICKARA INDIANS.— Who can calculate on security in the midst of the Indian country, where the foe lurks in silence and secresy, and seems to come and go on the wings of the wind? The horses had scarce been turned loose, when a couple of Arickara, or Hickaree, warriors entered the camp. They affected a frank and friendly demeanour; but their appearance and movements awakened the suspi- cions of some of the veteran trappers, well versed in Indian wiles. Convinced that they were spies sent on some si- nister errand, they took them into custody, and set to work to drive in the horses. It was too late; the horses were already gone. In fact, a war party of Arickaras had been hovering on their trail for several days, watching, with the patience and perseverance of Indians, for some moment of negligence and fancied security, to make a successful swoop. The two spies had evidently been sent into the camp to create a diversion, while their confederates carried off the spoil. The unlucky partisan, thus robbed of his horses, turned furiously on the prisoners, ordered them to be bound hand and foot, and swore to put them to death unless his property was restored. The robbers, who soon found that their spies were in captivity, now made their appearance on horseback, and held a parley. The sight of them, mounted on the very horses they had stolen, set the blood of the mountaineers in a ferment; but it was useless to attack them, as they would have hut to turn their steeds and scamper out of the reach of pedestrians. A negociation was now attempted. The Arickaras offered what they con- sidered fair terms; to barter one horse, or even two horses, for a prisoner. The mountaineers spurned at their offer, and declared, that, unless all the horses were relinquished, the prisoners should be burnt to death. To give force to their threat, a pyre of logs and faggots were heaped up and kindled into a blaze. The parley continued: the Arickaras released one horse and then another, in earnest of their pro- position ; finding, however, that nothing short of the relin- quishment of all their spoils would purchase the lives of the captives, they abandoned them to their fate, moving off with many parting words and lamentable bowlings. The prisoners seeing them depart, and knowing the horrible fate that awaited them, made a desperate effort to escape. They partially succeeded, but were severely wounded and retaken ; then dragged to the blazing pyre, and burnt to death in the sight of their retreating comrades. Such are the savage cruelties that white men learn to practise, who mingle in savage life; and such are the acts that lead to terrible re- crimination on the part of the Indians. Should we hear of any atrocities committed by the Arickaras upon captive white men, let this signal and recent provocation be borne in mind. Individual cases of the kind dwell in the recol- lection of whole tribes; and it is a point of honour and conscience to revenge them Captain Bonneville. MANNERS OF AMERICAN GENTLEMEN AND LADIES IN PUB- LIC.— So much more has naturally been observed by travel- lers of American manners in stages and steam- boats than in private houses, that all has been said, over and over again, that the subject deserves. I need only testify that I do not think the Americans eat faster than other people, on the whole. The celerity at hotel- tables is remarkable; but so it is in stage coach travellers in England, who are allowed ten minutes or a quarter of an hour for dining. In private houses, I was never aware of being hurried. The cheerful, unintermitting civility of all gentlemen travellers, through- out the country, is very striking to a stranger. The degree of consideration shown to women is, in my opinion, greater than is rational, or good for either party; but the manners of an American stage- coach might afford a valuable lesson and example to many classes of Europeans who have a high opinion of their own civilisation. I do not think it rational or fair that every gentleman, whether old or young, sick or well, weary or untired, should, as a matter of course, yield up the best places in the stage to any lady passenger. I do not think it rational or fair that five gentlemen should ride on the top of the coach, ( where there is no accommodation for holding on, and no resting- place for the feet,) for some hours of a July day in Virginia, that a young lady, who was slightly delicate, might have room to" lay up her feet, and change her posture as she pleased. It is obvious that, if she was not strong enough to travel on common terms in the stage, her family should have travelled in an extra, or staid behind, or done anything rather than allow five per- sons to risk their health and sacrifice their comfort for the sake of one. Whatever may be the good moral effects of such self- renunciation on the tempers of the gentlemen, the custom is very injurious to ladies. Their travelling man- ners are anything but amiable. While on a journey, women who appear well enough in their homes, present all the cha- racteristics of spoiled children. Screaming and trembling at the apprehension of danger are not uncommon; but there is something far worse in the cool selfishness with which they accept the best of everything, at any sacrifice to others, and usually, in the South and West, without a word or look of acknowledgment. They are as like spoiled children when the gentlemen are not present to be sacrificed to them, — in the inn parlour, while waiting for meals or the stage, and in the cabin of a steam- boat. I never saw any manner so repulsive as that of many American ladies on board steam- boats. They look as if they supposed you mean to injure them, till you show to the contrary. The suspicious side- glance, or the full stare, the cold, immovable observa- tion, the bristling self- defence the moment you come near, the cool pushing to get the best places, everything said and done without the least trace of trust or cheerfulness, these are the disagreeable consequences of the ladies being petted and humoured as they are. The New England ladies, who are compelled by their superior numbers to depend less upon the care of others, are far happier and pleasanter com- panions in a journey than those of the rest of the country Miss Martineau. HONOUR IN THE Sou'- WEST.— A passenger on board the Henry Clay, in which I ascended the Mississippi, showed in perfection the results of a false idea of honour. He be- longed to one of the first families in Kentucky, had married well, and settled at Natchetz, Mississippi. His wife was slandered by a resident of Natchetz, who, refusing to re- treat, ( retract?) was shot dead by the husband, who fled to Texas. The wife gathered their property together, fol- lowed her husband, was shipwrecked below New Orleans, and lost all. Her wants were supplied by kind persons at New Orleans, and she was forwarded by them to tier desti- nation, but soon died of cholera. Her husband went up into Missouri, and settled in a remote part of it to practise law ; but with a remote suspicion that he was dogged by the relations of the man he had shot. One day he met a man muffled in a cloak, who engaged with him, shot him in both sides, and stabbed him with an Arkansas knife. The victim held off the knife from wounding him mortally till help came and his foe fled. The wounded man slowly recovered; but his right arm was so disabled as to compel him to post- pone his schemes of revenge. He ascertained that his enemy had fled to Texas; followed him there; at length met him, one fine evening, riding with his double- barrelled gun be- fore him. They knew each other instantly; the double- barrelled gun was raised and pointed, but before it could be fired, its owner fell from the saddle, shot dead like the brother he had sought to avenge. The murderer was flying up the river once more when I saw him, not doubting that he should again be dogged by some relation of the brothers he had shot. Some of the gentlemen on board believed that if he surrendered himself at Natchez, he would be let off with little or no punishment, and allowed to settle again in civilised society; but he was afraid of the gallows, and in- tended to join some fur company in the north- west, if he couPd, and if he failed in this, to make himself chief of a tribe of wandering Indians Idem. NEGRO IMITATIONS.— The Americans possess an advan- tage in regard to the teaching of manners which they do not yet appreciate. They have before tHeir eyes, in the man- ners of the coloured lace, a perpetual caricature of their own follies,— a mirror of conventionalism Irom which they can never escape. The negroes are the most imitative set Of people living. While they are in a degraded condition, with little principle, little knowledge, little independence, they copy the most successfully tho^ e things in their supe- riors which involve the least principle, knowledge, and in- dependence,— viz., their convemio> iulisins. '(' hey carry their mimicry lar beyond any which is seen among tbe me- nials of the rich in Europe. The black footmen of the United States have tiptoe giaces, stiff cravats, and eye- catching- flourishes, like the footmen in London; but the imitation extends into more important matters. As the slaves of the south assume their masters' names and military titles, they assume their methods of conducting the courte- sies and gaieties of life. I have in my possession a note of invitation to a ball, written on pink paper with gilt edges. When the lady invited came to her mistress for the ticket which was necessary to authorise her being out after nine at night, she was dressed in satin with muslm over it, satin shoes and white kid gloves; but the satin was faded, the muslin torn; the shoes were tied upon the extremities of her splay feet, and the white gloves dropping in tatters from her dark fingers. She was a caricature, instead of a fine lady. A friend of mine walked a mile or two in the dusk behind two black men and a woman whom they were courting. He told me that nothing could be more admirable than the coyness of the lady and the compliments of the gallant and his friend. It could not be very amusing to those who re- flect that holy and constant love, free preference, and all that makes marriage a blessing instead of a curse, were here out of the question; but the resemblance in the mode of courtship to that adopted by whites, when meditating mar- riage of a not dissimilar virtue— a marriage of barter— could not be overlooked. Even in their ultimate funereal courte- sies, the coloured race imitate the whites. An epitaph on a negro baby at Savannah begins " Sweet blighted lily!"— Idem. SLAVES We saw to- day the common sight of companies of slaves travelling westwards, and the very uncommon one of a party returning into South Carolina. When we over- took such a company proceeding westwards, and asked where they were going, the answer commonly given by the slaves was, " Into Yellibama." Sometimes these poor creatures were encamped, under the care of the slave- trader, on the banks of a clear stream, to spend a day in washing their clothes. Sometimes they were loitering along the road ; the old folks and infants mounted on the top of a waggon- load of luggage, the able- bodied on foot, perhaps silent, perhaps laughing, the prettier of the girls perhaps with a flower in the hair, and a lover's arm around her shoulder. There were wide differences in the air and gait of these people. It is usual to call the most depressed of them brutish in appearance. In some sense they are so; but I never saw in any brute an expression of countenance so low, so lost, as in the most degraded class of negroes. There is some life and intelligence in the countenance of every animal; even in that of " the silly sheep," nothing so dead as the vacant, unheeding look of the depressed slave is to be seen. » » * We visited the negro quarter, a part of the estate which filled me with disgust wherever I went. It is something between a haunt of monkies and a dwelling- place of human beings. The natural good taste so remark- able in free negroes is here extinguished. Their small, dingy, untidy houses, their cribs, the children crouching round the fire, the animal deportment of tile grown- up, the brutish chagrins and enjoyments of the old, were all loath- some. There was some relief in seeing the children playing in the sun, and sometimes fowls clucking and strutting round the houses; but otherwise a walk through a lunatic asylum is far less painful than a visit to the slave quarter of an estate. The children are left during working hours in the charge of a woman ; and they are bright, and brisk, and merry enough for the season, however slow and stupid they may be destined to become Idem. AMERICAN GOVERNMENT However the Americans may fall short, in practice, of the professed principles of their association, they have reatised many things for which the rest of the civilised world is still struggling; and which some portions are only beginning to intend. They are, to all intents and purposes, self- governed. They have risen above all liability to a hereditary aristocracy, a connec- tion between religion and the State, a vicious or excessive taxation, and the irresponsibility of any class. Whatever evils may remain or may arise, in either the legislative or executive departments, the means of remedy are in the hands of the whole people ; and those people are in posses- sion of the glorious certainty that time and exertion will in- fallibly secure all wisely desired objects. They have one tremendous anomaly to cast out; a deadly sin against their own principles to abjure. But they are doing this with an earnestness which proves that the national heart is sound. The progress of the Abolition question within three years, throughout the whole of the rural districts of the north, is a far stronger testimony to the virtue of the nation than the noisy clamour of the slave- holders of the south, and the merchant aristocracy of the north, with the silence of the clergy, are against it. The nation must not be judged of by that portion whose worldly interests are involved in the maintenance of the anomaly; nor yet by the eight hundred flourishing abolition societies of the north, with all tbe sup- porters they have in unassociated individuals. The nation must be judged of as to slavery by neither of these parties; but by the aspect of the conflict between them. If it be found that the five abolitionists who first met in a little chamber five years ago, to measure their moral strength against this national enormity, have become a host beneath whose assaults the vicious institution is rocking to its foundations, it is time that slavery was ceasing to be a na- tional reproach. Europe now owes to America the justice of regarding her as the country of abolitionism, quite as em- phatically as the country of slavery. The civilisation and the morals of the Americans fall far below their own prin- ciples. This is enough to say. It is better than contrast- ing or comparing them with European morals and civilisa- tion ; which contrast or comparison can answer no purpose, unless on the supposition, which I do not think a just one, that their morals and civilisation are derived from their political organisation. A host of other influences are at work, which must nullify all conclusions drawn from the politics of the Americans to their morals. Such conclusions will be somewhat less rash two centuries hence. Mean- time, it will be the business of the world, as well as of Ame- rica, to watch the course of republicanism and of national morals; to mark their mutual action, and humbly learn whatever the new experiment may give out. To the whole world, as well as the Americans, it is important to ascertain whether the extraordinary mutual respect and kindness of the American people generally are attributable to their re- publicanism ; and again, how far their republicanism is answerable for their greatest fault— their deficiency of moral independence. No peculiarity in them is more remarkable than their national contentment. If this were the result of apathy, it would be despicable; if it did not co- exist with an active principle of progress, it would be absurd. As it is, I can regard this nutional attribute with no other feeling than veneration. Entertaining as I do, little doubt of the general safety of the American Union, and none of the moral progress of its people, it is clear to me that this national contentment will live down all contempt, and even all won- der; and come at length to be regarded with the same ge- nial and universal emotion with which men recognise in an individual the equanimity of rational self- reverence.— Mar- tineau. INDIAN HONOUR.— Mr. Robert Campbell, in the course of one of his trapping expeditions, was quartered in the village of Arapooish, and a guest in the lodge of the chief- tain. He had collected a large quantity of furs, and, fearful of being plundered, he deposited but a part in the lodge of the chief; the rest he buried in a cache. One night, Ara- pooish came into the lodge with a cloudy brow, and seated himself for a time without saying a word. At length, turning to Campbell, " You have more furs with you," said he, " than you have brought into my lodge." " I have," replied Campbell. " Where are they ?" Campbell knew the uselessness of any prevarication with an Indian ; and the importance of complete frankness. He described the exact place where he had concealed his peltries. " ' Tis well," replied Arapooish ; " you speak straight. It is just as you say. But your cache has been robbed. Go and see how many skins have been taken from it. Campbell examined the cache, and estimated his loss to be about one hundred and fifty beaver skins. Arapooish now summoned a meeting of the village. He bitterly reproached his people for robbing a stranger who had confided to their honour; and commanded that whoever had taken the skins, should bring them back: declaring that, as Campbell was his guest and an inmate of his lodge, he would not eat or drink until every skin was restored to him. The meeting broke up, and every one dispersed. Ara- pooish now charged Campbell to give neither reward nor thanks to any one who should bring in the beaver skins, but to keep count as they were delivered. In a little while the skins began to make their appearance, a few at a time; they were laid down in the lodge, and those who brought them departed without saying a word The day passed away. Arapooish sat in one coiner of his lodge, wrapped up in his robe, scarcely moving a muscle of his countenance. When night arrived, he demanded if all the skins had been brought in. Above a hundred had been given up, and Campbell expressed himself contented. Not so the Crow chieftain. He fasted all that night, nor tasted a drop of water. In the morning, some more skins were brought in, and continued to come, one and two at a time, throughout the day: until but a few were wanting to make the number complete. Campbell was now anxious to put an end to this fasting of the old chief, and again declared that he was perlectly satisfied. Arapooish demanded what number of skins were yet wanting. On being told, he whi- pered to some of his people, who disappeared. After a time the number was brought in, though it was evident they weie not any of the skins that had been stolen, but others gleaned in the village. " Is all right now?" demanded Arapooish. " All is right," replied Campbell. " Good 1 Now hriiiR me meat and drink !" When they were alone together, Arapooish had a conver- sation with his guest. " When you come another time among the Crows," said he, " don't hide your goods: trust to them and they will not wrong you. Put your goods in the lodge of a chief, and they are sacred; hide them in a cache, and any one who finds will steal them. My people have now given up your goods for my sake; but there are some foolish young men in the village, who may be disposed to be troublesome.— Don't linger, therefore, but pack your horses and. be off." Campbell took his advice, and made his way safely out of the Crow country. He has ever since maintained, that the Crows are not so black as they are painted. " Trust to their honour," says he, " and you are safe: trust to their honesty and they will steal the hair off your head."— Bonne' ville. WHITE RACE OP ATLAS M. Guyon, chief surgeon to the African army, writes to M. Dureau de la Malle, that at Bougia there is now living, a woman, originally from the in- terior, supposed to be descended from the white tribe of Mount Aureps. She is at most twenty- six or twenty- eight years of age, of very agreeable physiognomy, blue eyes, fair hair, beautiful teeth, and has a very delicate white skin. She is married to the Imaun of the mosques, Sidi Hamed, by whom she has three children, bearing a strong resemblance to herself. M. Arago observes, that these white people are not so rare in that part of the world as might be supposed, for when he was going from Bougia to Algiers, in 1808, by land, he saw women of all ages in the different villages, who were quite white, had blue eyes and fair hair, but that the nature of his journey did not permit him to stop and ask if they came from any peculiar tribe. TRIPOLI.— Mr. Lyell, in his address to the Geological Society at the late anniversary, observed :—" I cannot deny myself tbe pleasure of mentioning the singular and unex- pected facts brought to light during the last year, by Pro- fessor Ehrenberg of Berlin, respecting the origin of tripoli. I need scarcely remind you, that tripoli is a rock of homo- geneous appearance, very fragile and usually fissile, almost entirely formed of flint, and which was called polir- schiefer, or polishing slate, by Werner, being used in the arts for polishing stones or metals. There have been many specula- tions in regard to its origin, but it was a favourite theory of some geologists that it was a siliceous shale hardened by heat. The celebrated tripoli of Bilin in Bohemia consists of siliceous grains united together without any visible cement, and is so abundant that one stratum is no less than fourteen feet thick. After a minute examination of this as well as of the tripoli from Planitz in Saxony, and another variety from Santa Fiora in Tuscany, and one from tile Isle of France, Ehrenberg found that the stone is wholly made up of mil- lions of siliceous cases andskeletons of microscopic animalcu- les. It is probably known to you, that this distinguished physiologist has devoted many years to the anatomical investigation of the infusoria, and has discovered that their internal structure is often very complicated, that they have a distinct muscular and nervous system, intestines, sexual organs of reproduction, and that some of them are provided with siliceous shells, or cases of pure silex. The forms of these durable shells are very marked and various, but con- stant in particular genera and species. They are almost inconceivably minute, yet they can be clearly discerned by the aid of a powerful microscope, and the fossil species preserved in tripoli are seen to exhibit in the family Bacil- laria and some others, the same divisions and transverse lines which characterise the shells of the living infusoria. * * * The flinty shells of which we are speaking, although hard, are very fragile, breaking like glass, and are therefore admirably adapted when rubbed for wear- ng down into a fine powder fit for polishing the surface of metals. It is difficult to convey an idea of their extreme minuteness, but I may state that Ehrenberg estimates that in the Bilin tripoli there are 41,000 millions of individuals of the Gaillonella distans in every cubic inch of stone. At every stroke therefore of the polishing stone we crush to pieces several thousands, if not myriads of perfect fossils." THE CROW COUNTRY.— Before ( says our author) we ac- company Captain Bonneville into the Crow country, we will impart a few facts about this wild region, and the wild people who inhabit it. We are not aware of the precise boundaries, if there are any, of the country claimed by the Crows; it appears to extend from the Black Hills to the Rocky Mountains, including a part of their lofty ranges, and embracing many of the plains and valleys watered by the Wind river, the Yellowstone, the Powder river, the Little Missouri, and the Nebraska. The country varies in soil and climate; there are vast plains of sand and clay, studded with large red sand- hills; other parts are grand and picturesque •- it possesses warm springs and coal- mines, and abounds with game. But let us give the account of the country as rendered by Arapooish, a Crow chief, to Mr. Robert Campbell, of the Rocky Mountain fur company. " The Crow country," said he, " is a good country. The Great Spirit has put it exactly in the right place; while you are in it you fare well— whenever you go out of it, which ever way you travel, you will fare worse. If you go to the south, there you have to wander over great barren plains; the water is warm and bad, and you meet the fever and ague. To the north it is cold; the winters are long and bitter, and no grass; you cannot keep horses there, but must travel with dogs. What is a country without horses ? On the Colum- bia they are poor and dirty, paddle about in canoes, and eat fish. Their teeth are worn out; they are always taking fish, bones out of their mouth. Fish is poor food. To the east, they dwell in villages; they live well, but they drink the muddy water of the Missouri— that is bad. A Crow's dog would not drink such water. About the forks of the Mis- souri is a fine country; good water; good grass; plenty of buffalo. In summer, it is almost as good the Crow country; but in winter it is cold; the grass is gone; and there is no salt weed for the horses. The Crow country is exactly in the right place. It has snowy mountains and sunny plains; all kinds of climates, and good things for every season. When the summer heats scorch the prairies, you can draw up under the mountains, where the air is sweet and cool, the grass fresh, and the bright streams come tumbling out of the snow banks. There you can hunt the elk, the deer, and the antelope, when their skins are fit for dressing; there you will find plenty of white bears and mountain sheep. In the autumn, when your horses are fat and strong from the mountain pastures, you can go down into the plains and hunt the buffalo, or trap beaver on the streams. And when winter comes on, you can take shelter in the woody bottoms along the rivers ; there you will find buffalo meat for your- selves, and cotton- vvcod bark for your horses: or you may winter in the Wind river valley, where there is salt weed in abundance. The Crow country is exactly in the right place. Everything good is to be found there. There is no country like the Crow country." Such is the eulogium on his coun- try by Arapooish. We have had repeated occasions to speak of the restless and predatory habits of the Crows. They can muster 1,500 fighting men ; but their incessant wars with the Blackfeet, and their vagabond, predatory habits, are gradually wearing them out Bonneville. AMERICAN CAUTION.— There would be something amus- ing in observing the operation of this habit of caution, if it were not too serious a misfortune. When Dr. Channing's work on Slavery came out, the following conversation passed between a lady of Boston and myself. She began it with— " Have you seen Dr. Channing's book?" " Yes, have you ?" " Oh no. Do not you think it very ill timed?" " No; I think it well timed ; as it did not come out sooner." " But is it not wrong to increase the public excitement at such a time ?" " That depends upon the nature of the excitement. But this book seems to have a tranquillising effect: as the ex- hibition of true principles generally lias." " But Dr, Channing is not a practical man. He is only a retired student. He has no real interest in the matter." " No worldly interest; and this, and his seclusion, en- able him to see more clearly than others, in a case where principles enlighten men, and practice seems only to blind them." " Well; I shall certainly read the book as you like it so much." " Pray don't, if that is your reason." A reply to Dr. Channing's book soon appeared;— a pam- phlet which savoured only of fear, dollars, and, conse- quently, insult. A gentleman of Boston, who had, on some important occasions, shown that he could exercise a high moral courage, made no mention of this reply for some time after it appeared. At length, on hearing another person speak of it as it deserved, he said, " Now people are so openly speaking of that reply, 1 have no objection to say what I think of it. I have held my tongue about it hith- erto; but yesterday I heard speak of it as you do; and 1 no longer hesitate to declare that I think it an infa- mous production."— Idem. AMERICAN TALK— The most common mode of conversa- tion in America I should distinguish as prosy, but withal rich and droll. For some weeks, I found it difficult to keep awake during the entire reply to any question I hap- pened to ask. The person questioned seemed to feel him- self put upon his conscience to give a full, true, and parti- cular reply; and he went back as near to tbe deluge as the subject would admit, and forward to the millennium, taking care to omit nothing of consequence in the interval. There was, of course, one here and there, as there is everywhere, to tell me precisely what I knew before, and omit what I most wanted; but this did not happen often; and I pre- sently found the information I obtained in conversation so full, impartial, and accurate, and the shrewdness and drollery with which it was conveyed so amusing, that I became a great admirer of the American way of talking before six months were over. Previous to that time, a gentleman in the same house with me expressed pleasantly his surprise at my asking so few questions; saying that if he came to England, he should be asking questions all day long. , I told him that there was no need of my seeking information as long as more was given me in the course of the day than my head would carry. I did not tell him that I had not power of attention sufficient for such information as came in answer to my own desire. I can scarcely believe now that I ever felt such a difficulty. They themselves are, however, aware of their tendency to length, and also to something of the literal dullness which Charles Lamb complains of in relation to the Scotch. They have stories of American travellers which exceed all I ever heard of them anywhere else; such as that an American gentleman, returned from Europe, was asked how he liked Rome; to which he re- plied that Rome was a fine city; but that he thought the public buildings were very much out of repair. Again, it is told against a lady that she made some undeniable true re- marks on a sermon she heard. A preacher, discoursing on the blindness of men to the future, remarked " how few men, in building a house, consider that a coffin is to go down the stairs !" The lady observed, with much emphasis, on coming out, that ministers had got into the strangest way of choosing subjects for the pulpit! It was true that wide staircases are a great convenience; but she did think Chris- tian ministers might find better subjects to preach upon than narrow staircases. * » Yet there is an epigramatic turn in the talk of those who have never heard of " the art of conversation" which is supposed to be studied by the Eng- lish. * * Some young men, travelling on horseback among the White Mountains, became inordinately thirsty, and stopped for milk at a house by the road- side. They emptied every basin that was offered, and still wanted more. The woman of the house at length brought an enormous bowl of milk, and set it down on the table, saying, " One would think, gentlemen, you had never been weaned." * * There cannot be a stronger contrast than between the fun and simplicity of the usual domestic talk of the United States, and the solemn pedantry of which the extremest examples are to be found there; exciting as much ridicule at home as they possibly can elsewhere. I was solemnly assured by a gentleman that I was quite wrong on some point, because I differed from him. Every body laughed; when he went on, with the utmost gravity, to inform us that there had been a time when he believed, like other people, that he might be mistaken ; but that experience bad convinced him that he never was; and he had in conse- quence cast behind him the fear of error. I told him I was afraid the place he lived in must be terribly dull,— having an oracle in it to settle every thing. He replied that the worst of it was, other people were not so convinced of his being always in the right as he was himself. There was no joke here. He is a literal and serious- minded man. * * I rarely, if ever, met with instances of this pedantry among the yeomanry or mechanic classes; or among the young. The most numerous and the worst pedants were the middle aged ladies. One instance struck me as being unlike any- thing that could happen in England. A literary and very meritorious village mantua- maker declared that it was very hard if her gowns did not fit the ladies of the neighbourhood. She had got the exact proportions of the Venus de Medici, to make them by; and what more could she do? Again. A sempstress was anxious that her employer should request me to write something about Mount Auburn considered under three points of view: as it was on the day of creation — as it is now— as it will be on the day of resurrection. I liked the idea so well that I got her to write it for me, in- stead of my doing it for her .— Idem. AMERICAN LAW or DIVORCE I have mentioned that divorce is more easily obtained in the United States than in England. In no country, I believe, are the marriage laws so iniquitous as in England, and the conjugal relation, in consequence, so impaired. Whatever may be thought of the principles which are to enter into laws of divorce, whether it be held that pleas for divorce should be one, ( as narrow interpreters of the New Testament would have it,) or two, ( as the Continental and United States' laws in many instan- ces allow,) no body, I believe, defends the arrangement by which, in England, divorce is obtainable by the very rich. The barbarism of granting that as a privilege to the ex- tremely wealthy, to which money bears no relation what- ever, and in which all married persons whatever have an equal interest, needs no exposure beyond the mere state- ment of the fact. It will be seen at a glance how such an arrangement tends to vitiate marriage; how it offers impu- nity to adventurers, and encouragement to every kind of mercenary marriages; how absolute is its oppression of the injured party; and how, by vitiating marriage, it originates and aggravates licentiousness to an incalculable extent. To England alone belongs the disgrace of such a method of le- gislation. I believe that, while there is little to be said for the legislation of any part of the world on this head, it is no- where so vicious as in England. Of the American States, I believe New York approaches nearest to England in its laws of divorce. It is less rigid, in as far as that more is comprehended under the term " cruelty." The husband is supposed to be liable to cruelty from the wife, as well as the wife from the husband. There is no practical distinction made between rich and poor by tbe process being rendered expensive; and the cause is more easily resumable after a reconciliation of the parties. In Massachusetts, the term " cruelty" is made so comprehensive, and the mode of sus- taining the plea is so considerately devised, that divorces are obtained with peculiar ease. The natural consequence fol- lows; such a thing is never heard of. A long. established and very eminent lawyer of Boston told me that he had known of only one in all his experience. Thus it is wher- ever the law is relaxed, and, ccerteris paribus, in proportion to its relaxation ; for the obvious reason, that the protection afforded by law to the injured party causes marriages to be entered into with fewer risks, and the conjugal relation car- ried on with more equality. Retribution is known to im- pend over violations of conjugal duty. When I was in North Carolina, the wife of a gamester there obtained a di- vorce without theslightest difficulty. When she had brought evidence of the danger to herself and her children,— danger pecuniary and moral,— from her husband's gambling habits, the bill passed both Houses without a dissenting voice. It is clear that the sole business which legislation has with marriage is with the arrangement of property; to guard the reciprocal rights of the children of the marriage and the community. There is no further pretence for the inter- ference of the law, in any way. An advance towards the recognition of the true principle of legislative interference in marriage has been made in England, in the new law in which the agreement of marriage is made a civil contract, leaving the religious obligation to the conscience and taste of the parties. It will be probably next perceived, that if the civil obligation is fulfilled, if the children of the mairiage are legally and satisfactorily provided for by the parties, without the assistance of the legislature, the legislature has, in principle, nothing more to do with the matter. This principle has been acted upon in the marriage arrangements of Zurich, with the best effects upon the morals of the con- jugal relation. The parties there are married by a form ; and have liberty to divorce themselves without any appeal to law, on showing that they have legally provided for the children of the marriage. There was some previous alaim about the effect upon morals of the removal of such impor- tant legal restrictions ; but tbe event justified the confi dence of those who proceeded on the conviction that the laws of human affection, when not tampered with, are more sacred and binding than those of any legislature that ever sat in council. There was some levity at first, chiefly on the part of those who were suffering under the old system; but the morals of the society soon became, and have since remained, peculiarly pure . Idem. BIDDLE'S DIDDLE.— In what shape, it becomes very in- teresting to inquire, will British capital be transferred to America? Nothing will come hither but pieces of paper— promises to pay a high rate of interest. Even the interest may, for a long while, be paid with fresh promises to pay a high rate of interest. But something of intrinsic value must go to America. This something will probably consist here- after of a variety of commodities for which there shall be a demand in America. But for some time to come, gold is the commodity for which there will be the greatest demand in America. American securities, representing 10,000?., are brought to sale in Londpn. The buyer pays for them with bank- notes. The holder of the notes changes them at the bank for gold, and remits the gold to his principal at New York. This is the most direct and simple process; but whether by a direct and simple, or by a roundabout and complicated traffic, it seems plain that the transfer of Ame- rican securities to England will cause a transfer of English gold to America. What then becomes of our immutable Currency- law— of that " Peel's bill" which was never to be changed? It has been nullified by President Jackson and Mr. Biddle. If American securities take a firm hold of the English money- market, we shall have to legislate afresh on the subject of currency.— Spectator. COUNTRY MARKETS, & c. The following is the statement in Messrs. Sturge's circular PRESENT PRICES OF GRAIN. Birmingham, May 18, 1837. ~ s. d. s. d. WHEAT, English, White, per bushel of 621b. 7 0 to 7 9 Old ~ 7 0 7 9 EDglish, Red — ™ 6 9 .. 7 4 Old „ ™ ™ — 6 10 .. 7 3 Irish, White — „ none 0 0 .. 0 0 Red ™ w ™ ™ - « nominal 5 0 .. 6 4 Old .„„., do 5 6 .. 5 9 Foreign ~ do 6 6 .. 7 4 BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. Quarter 31 0 .. 35 6 Irish ™ . ™ , ™ , ™ . nominal 27 0 .. 30 0 Grinding, per Quarter of 3921bs. ™ ™ ™ 24 0 .. 25 6 OATS, English, White, per Imperial Quarter ™ „, 24 0 .. 32 0 Welsh, Black and White, per 3I2lba. ™ ™ ~ 23 6 .. 24 S Irish, ( weighing 41 to 421ba.) do. 2- 1 0 .. 28 6 ( 37 to 391 bs.) do. 22 6 ., 25 6 Black do. 22 6 .. 25 6 BEANS, English, Old, per bushel of 651bs. — 6 0 .. 6 6 New 5 0 .. 5 8 Iriah ™ ™ ~ none 0 0 .. 0 0 Foreign .. w. , 5 6 .. 6 0 PEAS, Boiling, per Imp. Quarter ™ ™ ~ « omtna/ 46 0 .. 56 0 Grinding, per Quarter of 3921bs. ™ . 32 6 .. 34 6 FLOUR, English, Fine, per Sack of 2801bs 41 0 .. 44 0 Seconds 33 0 .. 40 0 Gloucester, May 13,1837. si d. 8. d. WHEAT, English, White, per Imp. Bushel — 7 0 to 7 4 English, Red ™ > » ™ . ... 7 0 .. 7 3 Old 7 0 .. 7 4 Iriah, White, per 601bs ™ . . nominal 6 4 .. 7 0 Red , ™ ~. do 5 0 .. 6 9 Old ™ , 5 6 .. 6 6 Foreign -. J.^..-- . . nominal 7 0 .. 7 9 BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. Quarter 30 0 .. 33 0 Irish ™ ™ ™ nominal 28 0 .. 29 0 Grinding, per Quarter of 3921bs. ™ . 22 0 .. 26 0 OATS, English, White, per Imp. Quarter ™ . ™ .„ 22 0 .. 30 0 Welsh, Black and White 20 6 .. 24 6 Irish ( weighing 41 to 421bs); per Qr. of 3121bs. 22 6 .. 27 6 ( 37 to 391bs.) 20 6 .. 24 0 BEANS, English, Old, per Imp. Bushel 6 0 .. 6 4 New ™ . ™ _ ™ ™ ~ 4 9 .. 5 4 Irish w nominal 5 0 .. 5 6 Foreign. ™ ™ , — 5 0 .. 6 0 PEAS, Boiling, per Imp. Quarter nominal 46 0 .. 54 0 Grinding, per Quarter of 3921bs. 34 6 .. 37 6 FLOUR, English, Fine, per sack of 2801bs ™ ™ _ ™ 44 0 .. 46 0 Irish - ™ ™ 40 0 .. 44 0 BIRMINGHAM WEEKLY AVERAGE. Qrs. Bush. 8. d. Oat^ 395 0 25 0 Beans ™ 0 0 0 0 GLOUCESTER WEEKLY AVERAGE. Qrs. Bush. 8. d. Wheat 402 0 51 10 Barley . 207 4 30 9 WORCESTER WEEKLY AVERAGE. Qrs. Bush. s. d. Wheat ™ ™ ™ ™ ™ 791 4 52 Ilf Oats ... 0 0 - ™ 0 0 Peas 0 0 0 0 Birmingham, May 18, 1837. At Gloucester and Worcester markets on Saturday Wheat sold at an advance of Is. per quarter. In Barley no alteration. Oats 6d, per quarter higher. Beans the turn dearer. During the present week but little Wheat has been offering, and some sales made at fully 2s. per quarter over the currency of last week's prices obtained, 6s. lOd. to 7s. 2d. for runs of red. Some fair English Malting Barley realised 32s. and Chevalier 33s. per imperial quarter. Oats are In request and saleable at some further improvement. Beans and Peas rather more enquired for. AT THIS DAY'S MARKET we had again a short supply of Wheat, which was taken off, at an advance of 2s. to 2s. 6d. per quarter, above the prices of this day se'nnight. The Maltsters appear to have ceased buying, and no transactions in Malting Barley reported. Grinding more enquired for, at former rates. Oats 6d. per quarter dearer. Beans unaltered in value. In Peas nothing doing. IMPORTS INTO GLOUCESTER, — From the 10th to the 17 fh inst. Wheat. Oats. Barley. Beans. Ireland Qrs 1998 Qrs Qrs Qrs Coastwise.... Qrs 154 Qrs Qrs Qrs Foreign Qra Qrs Qrs Qrs Peas. Flour. Malt. Fetches. Ireland..:.... Qre Sacks Qrs Qra Coastwise.... Qrs Sacks Qrs Qrs Foreign QrB Sacks Qrs Qrs t -- ; WARWICK, SATURDAY, MAY 13.— Wheat, per bag, old 19s Od to 21s Od ; new, 18s Od to 20s Od ; Barley per quarter, 0a 04 to 0s Od; new, 28s Od to 34s Od; Oats, 26s Od to 32s Od; New, 24s Od to 30s Od; Peas, per bag, 17s Od to 19s 6d ; Beans, 17s Od to 18s 0d; new, 14s 6d to 16s Od; Vetches, 0a Od to 0s Od; Malt, 60s Od to 648 Od per quarter. HEREFORD, MAY 13. — Wheat, per bushel Imperial measure, 3s lOd to 7a Od. Ditto, 801bs. per bushel, 0s Od toOs Od. Barley, 4s Od to 0a Od. Beans, 6s 6d to 0s Od. Peas, 7s Od to 8B Od. Vetches, 0s Od to Oa Od. Oats, 3s 6d to 0a Od. CHELTENHAM, MAY 11.— New Wheat, 0s Odto 0s Od per bushel. Old Wheat, 6a 8d to 7a 2d. Barley, 3s 5d to 4s 3d. Oats, 2s 3d to 3I 2d. Beans, 5s Od to 6a 6d. FAIRS TO BE HOLDEN Warwickshire— May 22, Sutton ; 26, Co. ventry. BIRMINGHAM MARKET. Corn Market, May 18. Very few transactions have taken place in the corn trade during the week. At this day's market there was a short supply of all kinds of grain. Wheat readily made an advance of 2d. to 3d. per bushel— Barley for malting continued a dull sale at the terms of last week, while grinding qualities were in good demand, on speculation, at an advance of Is. per quarter.— Oats a free sale at la. per quarter more money Beans and Peas fully maintained the rates of this day se'nnight. WHEAT- per62fij. s. d. 8. d. Old 6 0 — 6 8 New 6 0 — 6 9 Irish 0 0 — 0 0 BARLEY— perlmp. Quarter. For Malting 30 0 — 33 0 For Grinding, perWtbs 3 0— 34 M ALT— per Imperial Bushel. Old and new 6 9 — 7 9 OATS— per 39/ 6*. Old 3 3— 3 6 New 3 0— 3 6 Irish 2 6 — 3 3 BEANS— joerbag, lOscoregross s. d. s. d. Old 17 0— 18 3 New 15 6— 16 6 PEAS— per bag of 3 Bush. Imp. FORBOII. ING. White 16 6— 17 6 Grey 16 0— 16 6 FOIT GRINDING. per bag of 10 score 15 R — 16 0 Whits 16 0 — 16 6 FLOUIt— per sack o/ 2R0/ i « net Fine 42 0 — 43 0 Seconds..,. 38 0 — 39 0 MARRIAGES. On the 16th inst., at Morvil Church, Salop, by the Rev. Mr. Haslewood, William Henry, eldest son of Mr. Wil- liam Haslewood Smith, of this town, to Mary Catharine, second daughter of Richard Backhouse, Esq., of Bransley, Salop. On the 16th inst., Mr. John Hukin, plater, of Branston street, to Miss Juliana Chevers, of Caroline- street, both of this town. On the 16th inst., at Yardley, by the Rev. H. Gwyther, Mr. Samuel Ileeley, of Moor- street, in this town, to Miss Wheeler, of Mickleton, Gloucestershire. On Saturday, at Solihull, by the Rev. Thomas Sanders, Mr. George S. Sandeis, of Daventry, to Elizabeth, third daughter of the late Mr. Richard Jabet, of this town. On the 16th inst., at Prestwich Church, by the Rev. Tho- mas Corser, M. A., Incumbent of Stand, the Rev. George Dugard, M. A., Incumbent of St. Andrew's Manchester, to Mary, youngest daughter of the late Rev. James Lyon, M. A., Rector of Prestwich. On the 11th inst., at Kingsbury, Mr. Charles Walker, grocer of High- street, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Mr. Robert Glover, of Holt. On the 15th inst., at the Collegiate Church, Mr. Matthias Drew, to Miss Ann Pool, both of Wolverhampton. On the 13tli inst., at Tettenhall, by the Rev. T. Quayle, Mr. Mace, of Mineral- terrace, Walsall, to Martha, second daughter of the late Mr. Underhill, of Albrighton. On Thursday last, at Aston, by the Rev. Horace Cha- vasse, Mr. Thomas Tilley, to Miss Susannah Felton, both of this town. DEATHS. On Wednesday last, Anne, the only child of Mr. Lefevre, solicitor, Colmore- row. On the 14th inst., in the 69th year of her age, Catherine, wife of Mr. A. Flint, of Great Hampton- street. On Sunday, the 14th inst., of influenza, at the residence of her brother- in- law, George Gibbins, Esq., of Colmore- terrace, Lucy Harriet, youngest daughter of the late Mr. Lewis Thomson. On Saturday last, in the 22nd year of her age, Ann, daughter of the late Mr. Robert Saunders, of this town, and formerly of Oxford. On the 16th inst., aged 48, Mrs. Hemming, wife of Mr. R, Hemming, of New Meeting- street. On Tuesday last, aged 24 years, Jane, daughter of the late Mr. Thomas Edwards, of Aston- road. On Saturday la9t, at Broseley, in her 68th year, Jane, the beloved wife of the Rev. James Bevan, incumbent of Tipton, and late curate of Woinborne and Trysull. On tbe 16th inst., Mr. John Marsh, coach- builder, of Gloucester. On Monday last, aged 71, Mrs. Brown, relict of the late Mr. Richard Brown, of Regent street, Leamington. On the 12th inst., in the 64th year of his age, Mr. Thomas White, of Mill- street, Ludlow. On the 12th inst., aged 74, Mr. William Spurrier, of Church- street, Tewkesbury. On the 13th inst., Mr. J. Harrington, tailor and mercer, Tythine. On the 15th inst., Mrs. Martin, widow of the late Mr. John Martin, of Worcester, aged 86. On the 16th inst., at Hahberley House, in his 19th year, Charles, third son of the late James Hooman, Esq., of Franche, near Kidderminster. - On Wednesday last, in the sixth year of her age, Maria Louisa, second daughter of Mr. John Davis, of Worcester, 2 THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. i LONDON GAZETTES. FRIDAY, MAY 12. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. Iter 12.— WILLI AM BUTLER, Portland. place, Market- street, CSwkeawell, builder. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED/ aaarHARD CROFTS, Coventry, ribbon manufacturer, May 26, at Craven Arras Hotel, Coventry. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. J © BS STIRLING, Conduit- street, Bond- street, silk mercer. BANKRUPTS. 3ft* Bankrupts to surrender at the Court of Commissioners, Basing. hall- street when not otherwise expressed. ] 3H303IAS EVANS, Mortimer- street, Cavendish- square, apothe. mmj, May 19 and June 23. Sol. Mr. Hoggard, 8, New- inn, - Strand. 2Vf Cr. George Andrews, Cork- street, tailor. Seal. May 9. JOSEPH ANDREW, late of the Crown, Lad- lane, but now of 18, ^ aBdford- street East, Wilmington. square, licenced victualler, Marjr 19 and June 23. Sols. Messrs. Martineau and Co., Carey- atesti, Lincoln'a- iun- fields. Pet. Cr. Messrs. Whitbread and Co., C& Ahnrell. street, brewers, Seal. May 3. X& IXRY STEAINS, Bunhill. row, grocer, May 19 and June 23. Sols. ffinsrs. Hiudmarsh and Son, Crescent, Jewin- street. Vet. Cr. Danby, Whitechapel, grocer. Seal. May 8. SAMUEL CARTER HALL, Elm- grove House, Kensington, tosSseller, May 23 and June 23. Sols. Messrs. Lythgoe and JSsrtin, Essex- street, Strand. Pet. Cr. Henry Singer Chinnock, Ww& ael's- place, Brorapton, apothecary. Seal. May 4. THOMAS RUSSELL DRURY, Johnson's- court, Fleet- street, jronter, May 23 and June 23. Sol. Mr. Willoughby, Clifford's- Pet. Cr. Henry Drury, 21, Billiter. street, wine merchant, SMI May 9. • SffiBlS FOSTER, 3, Liacoln's- inn- fields, horse dealer, May 24 and JhKfc » 25. Sol. Mr. Christmas, Gray's- iun- square. Pet. Cr. Wil- lisstt Berkely Beatty, Savage- gardens, merchant. Seal. May 9. iB& SPH ELIAS NOAKES, Robertsbridge, Sussex, innkeeper, May 31 and June 23. Sols. Messi s. Burfoot, Temple j and Messrs. S » ae » es and Alleyne, Tonbridge. Vet. Cr. Anthony Harman, Uteakridge, brewer. Seal. May 4. JKHEEN" PAUL, formerly of Newport, Isle of Wight, corn merchant, iste? y of 37, Mincing- lane, commission agent, but now of 14, Old ^ tSmnge, May 26 and June 23. Sol. Mr. Baylis, Basingliall- street. Staf, Cr. Charles John Rowsell, Philpot- lane, merchant. Seal. m* j io. VeJtBECAI BINNEY, late of Manchester, corn dealer, June 2 and 25v » t the Coramissioners'- rooms, Manchester. Sols. Messrs. « 3? ssrerand Back, 46, Chancery- lane, London ; and Messrs. Owen * sa£ © ill, 27, PrincesB- street, Manchester. Vet. Cr. Joseph Owen, Bfrvrge Booth, and Joshua Walmsley, Manchester, corn factors. Sfra?. May 6. S230SGE MICKLE, Newcastle- upon- Tyne, merchant, June 5 and Jto* 23, at the Bankrupt Commission- room, Newcastle- upon- Tfae. Sols. Messrs. Meggison and Co., 3, King's- road, Bedford- saw, London; and Messrs. Brockett and Philipson, Newcastle- wpwa- Tyne. Pet. Cr. Isaac Ay ton,' Newcastle- upon- Tyne, mer- « fea » t. Seal. May 8. MOSS HORSFALL, Coventry, maltster, May 25 and June 23, at the Craven Arms Inn, Coventry. Sols. Messrs. Weeks and Gil- Cook's- court, Serle- street, Lincoln's- inn, London; and Messrs. Carter and Dewes, Coventry. Pet. Cr. William Tyler, Cferantry, gent., one of the public officers of the Coventry Union ® aaking Company. Seal. May 2. J& KSSPH EMANUEL, Birmingham, jeweller, May 25 and June 23, a* iEadeuhurst's New Royal Hotel,- Birmingham: Sols. Messrs. Alexander and Co., 60, Liticoln's- inn- fields, London; and Mr. " Eifimas B. Lefevre, Birmingham. Vet. Cr. Michael Emanuel, S& rramgham, jeweller and factor. Seal. May 5. 2& ERBERT HARDIE, Manchester, merchant, May 26 and June 33, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester. Sols. Messrs. 3 » ifeB8 « n and Co., Temple, London; and Messrs. Seddon and Co., J& aachester. Pet. Cr. George Hall, Manchester, one of the ^ registered officers of the Northern and Central Bank of England. Steal May 6. RICHARD EVANS, Carmarthen, linen and woollen draper, JBQ « 3 and 23, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester. Sols. Messrs. Makinson and Sanders, 3, Elm- court, Middle Temple, . S « £* adon; and Messrs. Atkinson and Co., 3, Norfolk- street, Man- dator. Pet. Cr. Samuel Watts, John Watts, and James Watts, Manchester, merchants, and Thomas Guest, Manchester, manu- ifetstarer. Seal. May 4. 2& QBERT ARNOLD, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, draper, June 1 32* 3 23, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester. Sols. Messrs. Jfoaeph and William Heron, 21, Princess- street, Manchester; and Messrs. Johnson and Co., Temple, London. Pet. Cr. Samuel Clay William Clay, Manchester, warehousemen. Seal. April 20. UfiULIAM EDMONDSON, Liverpool, brush maker, May 25 and 23, at the Clarendon- buildings, Liverpool. Sols. Mr. E. Chester, Staple- inn, Loudon; and Mr. John Fowler, Dale- street, JJrerpool. Vet. Cr. Mary Leece, Edge- hill, near Liverpool, a^ Bteter. Seal. April 27. KANIEL MAGNAY, Wakefield, Yorkshire, hotel keeper, May 19 aasi June 23, at the Court- house, Wakefield. Sols. Messrs. Ad- j& sgton and Co.; 1, Bedford- row, London; and Mr. Thomas Taylor, Wakefield. Pet. Cr. John Wood, Wakefield, butcher. SM& April 14. SOBERT BETTS, Alford, Lincolnshire, wool merchant, May 25 June 23, at the Windmill Inn, Alford. Sols. Mr. James Scott, 15^. Lincoln's. inn. fields, London ; and Messrs. Bourne and Son, Aifsrd. Vet. Cr. Beeley Abbott and Robert Abbott, Alford, farmer. Seal. April 27. WILLIAM HODGETTS, Birmingham, bookseller, May 30 and Jsne 23, at the New Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Sols. Messrs. awtye and Co., Chancery- lane, London ; apd, Messrs. Webb and SSoiphin, Birmingham. Pet. Cr. William Whitehouse, Birming- Iwa, law stationer. Seal. April 29. .. .. . JAMES HI AM, Temple Balsall, Warwickshire, farmer, May 29 snd June 23, at Radenhurst's New Royal Hotel, Birmingham. S& b, Messrs. Parkes and Son* 10, South- square, Gray's- inn, Lon- i$ « > 3j and Mr. W. S. Harding, Waterloo street, Birmingham. JPW. Cr. George Hall, Manchester, one of the registered officers • itbe Northern and Central Bank of England. Seal. May 2. GEORGE EAST and GEORGE PHILLIPS VINCENT, Aston, 3Mur Birmingham, glass makers, May 19 and June 23, at Raden- iarst's New Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Sols. Messrs. Adlington atnd Co., Bedford- row* London; and Mr. Wills, Birmingham. Tt%. Cr. James Denham Barney, Birmingham, alkali maker. Steal. May 9. WILLIAM VINEY, Tiverton, Devonshire, currier, May 23 and June 23, at the Commercial- rooms, Bristol. Sols. Messrs. Clarke aad Medcalf, 29, Lincoln's- inn. fields, London ; and Messrs. Savery mid Clark, Bristol. Pet. Cr. William Williams and John Milsom, Bristol, paper makers. Seal. April 11. . JAMES PARKYN, Devonport, linen draper, May 23 and June 23, Elliott's Royal Hotel, Devonport. Sols. Mr. Timothy Surr, 80, litanbard- etreet, London ; and Mr. J. E. Elworthy, George- street, jDaTonport. Vet. Cr. John Parkyn, Bodmin, linen draper. Seal. Mj* y 5. DIVIDENDS. T Jbhn James Clark and Adam Clark, Market Raisen, Lincolnshire, drapers, June 2— Henry Greenhill, Philpat- lane, tea dealer, June 2 — Joseph Penrice and Matthew Andrew, Old ' Change, warehouse- BM> b, June 2— William Bull, Wilstead- street, Somers'- town, corn dealer, June 2— Joseph Savory Eveleigh and William Eveleigh, Wniojj- street, Southwark, hatters, June 2— CJvarles Flight, St. Jwoe&' s- street, tailor, June 5~ Alexander Greaves, Queen- street, Cfeespside, merchant, June 5— William Butt, Sheerness, Kent, linen ibra^ er, June 6— John Nevin, Seven Oaks, Kent, ironmonger, June 2 George Green and Anna Lynn, Golden- lane, Barbican, leather stivers, June 2— James Turley, Bradley New Ironworks, Bilston, Staffordshire, ironmaster, June 6, at the New Hotel, Wolverhamp- ton— James Willis Timmins, Westbromich, Staffordshire, nail faeigf, June 14, at Dee's Royal Hotel, Birmingham— Thomas Col- Kngwood, late of Abingdon, Berkshire, corn dealer, June 2, at the Inn, Abingdon— James Beeston, Drayton- in- Hales, Shrop. tHure, mercer, June 6, at the Victoria Hotel, Newport— David Parry, jPwatypool, Monmouthshire, victualler, June 6, at the Commercial- sooms, Bristol— Henry Hirst the elder, Northallerton, Yorkshire, dealer, June 1, at the Golden Lion Inn, Northallerton. CERTIFICATES, JUNE 2. TSioroas Morgan, Great Trinity- lane, Bread- street, Cheapside, cacrpenter— Joel Coleman Joel, Bishopsgate Church- yard, City, o& binet maker— Philip Edmund Dover, Great Russell- street, up- ftel& terer— John Hamilton, Liverpool, merchant— John Shipham, Nottingham, grocer— Charles Tyrwhit Jones, Pitt's Head- mews, Fark- lane, horse dealer— Samuel Symond's, Basinghall- street, City, warehouseman— Robert Cooper, Bristol, jeweller, PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Trancis Benjamin Searle and Francis Searle, Hertford, grocers— Jv& m Dunlop and James Miller, Manchester, commission agents— J&) in Summers, Robert Scott, and James Scott, Manchester, shawl Bsanufacturers ( so far as regards James Scott)— George Thomas Day and Thomas Stevens, Chester- wharf, Pimlico, coal merchants— Charles Edwards and Richard Walker, Newgate- market, salesmen . — L. Friedlander and M. Beyfus, Haydon- square, Minories, leech and cigar merchants— Samuel Manley and John Heal, Pilton, near Barnstaple, wood turners— James Bellingham and Edward Belling-. Ham, Maidstone, cabinet makers— John Ashworth and J imes Taylor, Kewton Heath, and Manchester, silk manufacturers— Jeremiah Cfiirns and David Davis, Gellywion and Cardiff, Glamorganshire, * © al masters— George Pearce and Alexander Scott Grave, 51, Grace- cbturcb- streat, stationers— William Varty, William Newby Varty, arid John Varty, Bishopsgate- street- within, linen drapers ( so far as irsgaids William Varty)— William Haworth and James Duncan, 81, " Watling- street, Manchester, warehousemen— Samuel Gayner Flook aw « i Thomas Flook, jun., Bristol, wine and spirit merchants— George Wilson Addison, John Tankard, Joseph Clayton, and John Thorn- ton, Bradford, Yorkshire, worsted spinners - Andrew. Scott and Son, 3Sorth Bridge street, Edinburgh— Stuart, Finlay, and Co., Glasgow acad Parkholm, commission merchants and calico printers fso far ' as * j? gards Samuel Mac Dowal Stuart). ASSIGNMENTS. Jonas Binus, Mornington- place, Hampstead- road, gent. Daniel Cockerill, Mile- end- road, victualler. William Latham, Salford, cotton spinner. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. George Hickes, Glasgow, commission agent. Matthew Andrew Baird, Little Govan, dyer, Andrew Houston, lasgrow, manufacturer, and John Muir, Paisley, clothier, ^ ww- ge Wilson, Haugh. mill, near Leven, flax spinner. TUESDAY, MAY 16. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. MAY 16.— ROBERT CANNON, Southampton- row, Bloomsbury, job master and livery stable keeper. BANKRUPTS. JOSEPH MALLITT, Abergavenny, tailor, May 26 and June 27. Sol. Mr. Walker, Southampton- street, Bloorasbury- square. Vet. Cr. George Stanton, 127, Regent- street, man's mercer. Seal. May 12. JOHN POWNALL WILLIAMS, East Stone. liou3e, Devonshire, draper, May 23 and June 27. Sols. Messrs. Ashurst and Gains- ford, Cheapside. Pet. Cr. George Greenwell, William White, and Smith Greenwell, Cheapside, warehousemen. Seal. May 12. HENRY GOODALL, Rathbone- place, upholsterer, May 23 and June 27. Sol. Mr. Heptburn, 12, Coptliall- court. Pet. Cr. Richard Chase, High Holborn, basket maker. Seal. May 11. MARC LOUIS SANGROUBER, Gerrard- street, tailor, May 23 and June 27. Sols. Messrs. Richardson and Pike, 28, Golden- square. Pet. Cr. William Cobbett aud Henry Cobbett, Sackville- street, Piccadilly, woollen drapers. Seal. May 13. RICHARD HUGHES, Addle- street, licensed victualler, May 27 and June 27. Sol. Mr. Sandell, 22, Bread- street. Pet. Cr. Evan Watkins, New Town, Montgomeryshire, woollen merchant. Seal. May 13. JAMES WILLIAM ADDISON, Southampton, provision agent, May 26 and June 27. Sols. Messrs. Bartrum and Son, Old Broad- street. Pet. Cr. Edmund Charles Bartrum, Old Broad. Street, gent. Seal. May I. ROBERT BUSSEY, Leeds, plasterer, May 26 and June 27, at the Court- house, Leeds. Sols. Messrs. Barrand Co., Leeds; and Mr. Charles Fiddey, 14, Sergeant's- inn, Fleet- street, London. Pe*. Cr. William Clark, brewer, William Weare, timber merchant, Samuel Simpson, John Rothery, Leonard Forster, maltsters, Joseph Green, brewer, Richard Lamb, lime merchant, Christopher James Officer, baker, Charles Wood, sen., tobacconist, William Henry Collins, brewer, John Walker, maltster, Thomas Wilson, spirit merchant, and William Wray, stone mason, all of Leeds, Seal. May 9. CHARLES CALVERT, Manchester, picture dealer, June 5 and27, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester. Sols. Messrs. Milne and Co., Temple, London; and Mr. Edward Bent, Manchester. Vet. Cr. Elizabeth Calvert, Manchester, widow. Seal. May 11. JOHN CARLISLE, Liverpool, stone mason, May26and June 27, at the Clarendon- rooms, Liverpool. Sols. Messrs. Norris and Allen, 19, Bartlett's- buildings, Holborn, London; and Mr. Toulminj Liverpool. Vet. Cr. Edward Hunter and James Hunter, Huyton and Liverpool, Lancashire, flag merchants. Seal. May 2. JOHN KELLY, Merthyr Tidvil, Glamorganshire, and Tredegar, Monmouthshire, grocer, May 29 and June 27, at the Commercial- rooms, Bristol. Sols. Mr. William Harmar, Bristol; and Messrs. Bicknell and Co., 57, Lincoln's- inn. fields, London. Pet. Cr. James Bailey, jun., and James Bailey, Redcliffe and Bristol, grocers. Seal. April 18, JOHN STATON, Charing- cross, boot maker, May 27 and June 27. Sol. Mr. Birt, Aldermanbury. Vet. Cr. John Ellis, 5, Acre- lane, Brixton, gent. Seal. May 13. ARTHUR DUNN; George- row, City- road, chemical manufacturer, May 23 and June 27. Sols. Messrs. Bell and Co., Bow Church- yard. Pet. Cr. George Hebden Gray, Watling- street, gent. Seal. May 13. JOHN WILSON, Lawrence- lane, woollen warehouseman, May 23 and June 27. Sols. Messrs. Turner and Hensman, Basing- lane. Pet. Cr. Jonah Davy, Joseph Mares, and James Robinson, Leeds, merchants. Seal. May 15. JAMES THOMAS WRIGHT and NATHAN HACKNEY, Burslem, Staffordshire; earthenware manufacturers, May 30 and June 27, at the George Inja, Burslem. Sols. Messrs. Dyneley and Co., Gray's. inn, London; aud Mr. Harding, Buralem. Vet. Cr. Ralph Clews, Newcastle. under- Lyme, coal master, and Jeremiah Ginders, Little Ingester, Staffordshire, flint grinder. Seal. May 3, JAMES HARRISON, Manchester, solicitor, May 29 and June 30, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester. Sols. Mr. Thomas Cuvelje, Southampton- buildings, Chancery- lane, London; and Messrs. Rowley and Taylor, Manchester. Pet. Cr. Alexander Butler Rowley, Manchester, solicitor, as executor of James Campbell, Chorlton - upon- Medlock, Manchester, gent. Seal. May 8. WILLIAM PERRY, Bath, victualler, May 26 and June 27, at the Castle and Ball Hotel, Bath. Sols. Messrs. Dax and Bicknell, 51, Lincoln's- inn- field8, London ; and Mr. Biaton East Drake, Bath. Pet. Cr. Judith Dunsford, Mells, Somersetshire, widow. Seal. April 29. THOMAS WHITE, Manchester, innkeeper, May 30 and June 27, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester. Sols. Messrs. Adling- ton and Co., Bedford. row, London; and Mr. Hart, Manchester. Pet. Cr. Joseph Barker Abbott aud John Abbott Kaye, Liverpool, wine merchants. Seal. May 9. JAMES BOOTH LAMBLEY, Bristol, wine and spirit dealer, May 26 and June 27, at the Commercial- rooms, Bristol. Sols. Messrs. Hare and Little, or Messrs. Gillard and Flook, Bristol; and Messrs. Bridges and Mason, Red Lion- square, London. Pet. Cr. William Watson, Bristol, wine merchant Seal. April 27. SAMUEL PEARSON, Knaresborough, innkeeper, May 26 and June 27, at the Elephant and Castle Inn. Knaresborough. Sols. Messrs. Hawkins and Co., New Boswell- court, Carey- street, Lon- don ; and Mr. Gill, or Mr. Dewes, Kuaresborough. Pet. Cr. Richardson Part and Thomas Pitt, Manchester, silk manufacturers. Seal. April 27. GEORGE LUMLEY and WILLIAM BROWN, Knaresborough, flax- spinners, May 26 and June 27, at the Elephant and Castle Inn, Knaresborough. Sols. Messrs. Battye and Co., 20, Chancery- lane, London ; and Mr. Dewes, or Mr. Gill, Knaresborough. Vet. Cr. Robert Dearlove, Knaresborough, gent. Seal. May 6. DIVIDENDS. John Burke, Golden- lane, St. Luke's, and Camden- rovv, Bethnal- green, soap maker, June 5— John Wright, jun., and George Lock- wood, 5, Trinity- square, coal factors, June 8— Samuel Manton Briggs, Barnet, plumber, June 6— Charles Wood the elder and Charles Wood the younger, Poppin's- court, Fleet- street, printers, June 6— Edward Burn, St. Helen's- place, merchant, June 6— William de Burgh, Bishopsgate- street- without, licensed victualler, June 6— Daniel Davies, 37, Aylesbury- street, Clerkenwell, oilman, June 7— Josiah Morris, Brighton, silk mercer, June 7— Nathaniel Bingham, 42, Old Bond- street, surgeon, June 8— Richard Davies, Noble- street, straw hat manufacturer, June 6— James Henry Maun, Charles- street, St. James's- square, scrivener, June 6— Thomas Luck, Lad- lane, dealer in lace, June 6— Steven Liversidge, Masborough, Yorkshire, iron- founder, June 8, at the Angel Inn, Rotherham, Yorkshire— Henry Ormerod Cadney, Halifax, Yoi- kshire, corn dealer, June 15, at the Magistrates' office, Halifax— Edmund Johnson, Lostock Gralam, Cheshire, tanner, June 8, at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, North,. wich, Cheshire— William Johnson, Wincham, Cheshire, tanner, June 8, at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, Nothwich, Cheshire- James Levick, Sheffield, ivory merchant, June 2, at the Town- liall, Sheffield— John Lea, Braunston, Northamptonshire, coal merchant, June 8, at the Saracen's Head Inn, Daventry— Isaac Lomas, now or late of Sheffield, grocer, June 7, at the Town- hall, Sheffield— John Culcope and William Bond, Birmingham, factors, June 6, at Raden- hurst's New Royal Hotel, Birmingham— Christopher Pope, St. Philip and Jacob, near Bristol, copper manufacturers, June 21, at the Commercial- rooms, Bristol— Jervis Walton, Ash Grove Mill, Southouram, Halifax, cloth dresser, June 9, at the Magistrates' office, Halifax— Thomas Jackson, Wath- upon- Dearne, Yorkshire, grocer, June 9, at the Town- hall, Sheffield— Thomas Welch and John Sells, New Islington, Manchester, cotton spinners, June 9, at the Commissioners' - rooms, Manchester— Christopher Hodson, Thomas Hodson, and John Wolfenden, Well- o'th'- lane Mill, Rochdale, Lan- cashire, cotton spinners, June 9, at the Comrai8sioners'- rooms, Man. Chester— Charles Dumbrell, Brighton, grocer, June 15, at the Town, hall, Brighton— Joseph Pilkington, Manchester, merchant, June 13, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester— Richard Aspinall, late of Ramsbottom, Lancashire, cotton spinner, June 8, at the Commis- sioners'- rooms, Manchester— Israel Levers, Manchester, corn dealer, June 9, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester— William Deuby, Manchester and Heywood, near Bury, Lancashire, fustian manu- facturer, June 20, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester.' CERTIFICATES, JUNE 6. James Frankland, Ltverpool, merchant— William Gough, Wem, Shropshire, tanner— Samuel Douglas, Robin Hood- lane, Poplar, omnibus proprietor. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. John Turner, sen., and John Turner, jun., Cambridge, bricklayers and builders— John Ellis and Thomas Stephens, Leeds, bricklayers- John C. Harrison, Charles Glegg, and George A. Brown, New Orleans ( so far as regards George A. Brown)— Edward Gelling and John Burrow, Douglas, Isle of Man, grocers and spirit dealers- John Byrom and William Hibbert, Manchester, fent dealers— Joseph Geiger and Marcus Marburg, Leman- street, Goodman's. fields, cigar and snuff manufacturers— Thomas Smith and James Marshall, Liver- pool, painters, plumbers, and glaziers— Henry Digby Cotes de la Motte and Charles Willcox, Swanage, Dorsetshire, surgeons and apothecaries— Matthew Attack, Jabez Foster, and Ratcliffe Gledhill, Manchester, fustian shearers— James Knott and Thomas Frost, Ashton- under- Lyne, linen drapers— Sarah Robertson, Mary Robert- son, and Alexander Itobert3on, Manchester, doublers and sewing cotton manufacturers— Peter Storey, Thomas Ramsbottom, Henry Cunliffe, and John Crossley, Stonebridge, within Oswaldtwisle, Lan. cashire, fellmongers and leather sellers— Robert Moss and Samuel Moss, Salford, Lancashire, stonemasons— Thomas Williams and John Goudie, Liverpool, spirit and cigar merchants— Jonathan Cocker and William Higgins, Salford, machine makers— Charles Colton, William Edwards, and Samuel Soorn, Chester, brewers- Edmund East, John Henry Finden Brown, and Thomas Forster, Vigo- street, Westminster, woollen drapers— Elese Hubert De- soignes and Pierre Arseine Lubiu Despres, 2, Bridle- lane, Golden, square, rectifiers— John Wright and Charles Wright, Birmingham and Leamington priors, and Bilston and Wolverhampton, cabinet makers— Charles Stuart and John Sheran, Peterhead, tanners. ASSIGNMENTS. Charles Dupre Fisher, Manchester, merchant. William Lee, Southampton, SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. William Buchanan and Co., Glasgow and Paisley, shawl manu- facturers. Wo. INFANTS. Men. men. Boys. Girls. Male. Fein. Total. 163 199 13 20 13 18 426 Admitted since .... 10 13 3 5 7 8 46 Born in the House 2 2 173 212 16 25 20 28 474 Dischgd, absconded, i 40 16 13 1 2 7 Totalof each 157 199 15 23 19 21 434 Mr. R. T. Cadbury and Mr. C. Shaw. In- patients admitted, 30; out, 120. In patients discharged, 26; out, 58. Remaining in the house, 158. BIRMINGHAM DISPENSARY, MAY 19.— Sick patients- relieved, 397; midwifery cases, 15. STATE OF THE WORKHOUSE; UP TO MAY 16. Number of Cases relieved last week 2,481 Number of Children in the Asylum 2' J3 * Of whom 3 men and 3 women died. METEOROLOGICAL DIARY. FURNISHEDBY MR. WOLLER, EDGBASTON- STREET. Barometer at noon. May 13.29 70 14; 29 87 15 29 90 16 30 0 17 30 0 18 29 0 19 29 95 Ex- Ther- Extreme! Tlier- State of treme mome- heat morne- Wind during ter 8 during ter at at night. morn. day. noon. noon. 42 0 46 0 .18 0 50 0 W 40 0 44 0 56 0 52 0 NE 46 0 52 0 62 0 54 0 . N 46 0 56 0 66 0 60 0 N 44 0 50 0 64 II 56 0 N 46 0 50 0 58 0 54 0 NE 45 0 48 0 62 0 56 0 NE Remarks at noon. Rain Ruin Fair Fair Fair Rain Rain LONDON MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE, MONDAY, MAY 15—- Wheat, Essex Red, new, 40s to 508 ; fine, 50s to 55s ; old, 56s to 58s; white, new, 50s to 52s; fine, 56 » to 58 « ; superfine, 58ato60s; old, 62s to 63s.— Rye, 306 to 36s.— Barley, 26s to 29a; Sue, — s to — s; superfine, 30s to 32s,— Malt, 54s to 56s; fine, 56s to 58s.— Peas, Hog, 35s to 36s j Maple, 37s to 38s; white, 34s to 33s ; Boilers, 38s to 39s.— Beans, small, 40s to 41s; old, 44s to 48s; Ticks, 30s to 36s; old, 40s to 44s ; Harrow,— s to— a.— Oats, feed, 20s to 23s ; fine, 24s to 27s; Poland, 24s to 278; tine, 28s to 29s; Potatoe, 28s to 30s ; fine, 32s to 33s Bran, per quarter, 12s Od tol3s0d— Pollard, fine, per ditto, I4s. 20s. PRICE OF SEEDS, MAY 15.— Per Cwt— Red Clover, English, 50s to 60s ; fine, 65s to 70s ; Foreign, 50s to 60s; fine, 60s to 65s,_ White Clover, 54s to 60s; fine, 65s to 70s.— Trefoil, new, 14s to 18s; flue, 19s to 22s ; old, I2s to 16s Trefolium, 16s to 18s; fine, 20B to £ 2s. — Caraway, English, new, 43s to 473 ; Foreign, 50s to 52s— Coriander, 14s Od to 16s Od. Per Quarter.— St. Foiu, 38s to38s ; fine, 40s to 42s; Rye Grass, ; s to 35s; new, 35s to 45s ; Pacey Grass, 40s to45a; Linseed for feeding, 48s to 50s ; fine, 52s to 56s ; ditto for crushing, 42s to 46s Caaary, 36s to 46s.— Hemp, 46s to 50s. Per Bushel.— White MustardSeed, 7e0d to 9s Od ; brown ditto, Od to 12s ; Tares, 48 3d to 4s 6d ; fine new Spring, 4s 9d to 5s Od. Per Last.— Rape Seed, English, 32( to 34f; Foreign, 30? to 32(. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICE OFBRITISH CORN FORTHE WEEK ENDING MAY 11, 1837.— Wheat, 56s 4d; Barley, 32a Id; Oats, 22s lid; Rye, 36s 2d ; Beans, 37s 4d ; Peas, 36s Id. DUTY ON FOREIGN CORN FOR THE PRESENT WEEK.— Wheat, 30s 8d ; Sarley, 13s lOd; Oats, 13s 9d ; Rye, 15s 6d ; Beans, 14e0d; Peas, 15s 6d. HAY AND STRAW.— SmithfiM— Hay, 80s Od to 100s Od; Inferior, — sto— s; Clover, 95s to 120s ; Inferior — s to — s; Straw, 38s to 42s. Whitechapel.— Clover, 105s to 126s; newditto,— s to — s ; second cut, — s to - s; Hay, 90 to 100s ; new ditto, — a to — s ; Wheat Straw, 38s to 44s: Cumberland.— Fine Upland Meadow and Rye- grass Hay, 100s to I05s; inferior ditto, 90s to 95s; superior Clover, 115s to I26s; Straw, 45s to 46s per load of 36 trusses. Portman Mai- kef.— Coarse heavy Lowland Hay, — s to — s; new Meadow Hay,— sto— s ; old ditto, 84s to 105s ; useful ditto,— 8 to a ; New Clover ditto, — s to— s; old ditto, 110s to 118s ; Wheat Straw, 44s to 48s per load of 36 trusses. OILS Rape Oil, brown, £ 40 0s per ton ; Refined, £ 42 Os; Linseed 0il,£ 30 0s; and RapeCake, £ b 10s— Linseed Oil Calce, £ 12 10s per thousand. SMITHFIELD, MAY 15.— TO sink the offal— per 81b.— Heef, 3s 2d to 4s Od; Best Down and Polled Mutton, 4s lOd to 5s 2d; Veal, 4s Od to 5s Od ; Pork, 4s 2d to 4s lOd ; Lamb, 6s 6d to 6s 8d. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.~ By the Carcase — Bee/, 2s 8d to 4s 0d; Mutton, 4s Od to 5s Od ; Veal, 3s Od to 5s Od ; Pork, 3s 4d to 5a Od ; Lamb, 5s 8d to 6s 4d. GLOUCESTER SHIP NEWS, From May 11 to May 18. IMPORTS : The Ariel, from Oporto, with 23 pipes, 13 hhds., and 14 quarter casks of port wine, consigned to Johnson and Tasker ; 17 pipes of port wine, Martin, Washbourne, aud Lloyds and Co.; 20 pipes of port wine, John Jones and Sons; 8 pipes, 4 hhds. and 20 quarter casks of port wine, Vernon, Banaster, aud Co. ; 10 pipes of port wine, Cook and Haines; 5 pipes of port wine, Thomas Brown and Sons ; 2 pipes, 2 hhds. and4quarter casks of port wine, Needham and Thomson ; 1 pipe and 4 hhds. of port wine, Elizabeth Knowles and Son ; 1 pipe and 4 hhds. of port wine, J. G. Cripps ; 100 casks of port wine, J. Wintle and Co.— Echo, Lisbon, 162 chests and 252 half chest3 of oranges, W. Kendall and Son— Anneken Elizabeth Sine Secljer, Attona, 470 quarters of linseed, aud 3 boxes of horse hair, Hentig and Howell— Gipsy, Waterford, via Bristol, 500 doz. of veloes, M'Cheane and Bartlett— James, Waterford, 500 barrels of oats, J. and C. Sturge; 65 bales of bacon, to order— George Pon. sonby, Wexford, 550 barrels of oats, Wait, James, and Co.; 643 barrels of oats, J. and C. Sturge— New Diligence, Bangor, 50 tons of slates, George Bettiss— Elizabeth, Port Madoc, 58 tons of slates, George Bettiss— Eleanor and Betsey, Aberdovey, 64 tons of slates aud slabs, J. Rowlands and Son— Brothers, Milford, 41 tons of coals, to order— Gleaner, Barry, 20 tons of lime stone, Reece and Son- Sarah, Swansea, 10 tons 15 cwt. of copper, and 33 tons of coals, H. Southan and Son— William and Ann, Cardiff, 24 tons of pig iron, J. R. Heane— Cygnet, Bridgwater, general cargo, Stuckey and Co. EXPORTS : The Sisters, for London, with 67 tons of pig lead and sundries, from Davies Brothers— Thomas, Exeter, 22 tons ef salt, and 43 tons of bricks, H. Southan and Son— Mary, Barnstable, 46^ tons of salt, and 12$ tons of soda, H. Sonthan and Son— Blucher, Bideford, 34 tons of salt, H. Southan and Son— Earl Grey, Carmar- then, 20 tons of salt, Gopsill Brown— Sarah, Swansea, 34J tons of brimstone and general cargo, H. Southan and Son— Tredegar, Swan- sea, fire bricks, H. Southan and Son— Newport Trader, Newport, general cargo, H. Southan and Son— Vine, Bristol, 14 tons of salt, H. Southan and Son, TOWN INFIRMARY, MAY 19.— Surgeon of the week, Mr. Gem. Patients admitted, 16; discharged, 27; in the house, 143; Out- patients visited and in attendance,' 788 Midwifery cases, 9.. : ; _ ./•• • i ' > GENERAL HOSPITAL, MAY 19.— Physician and Surgeon of the Patients of the week, Dr. Evans anil Mr. Wood. Visitors PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS of Copaiba, Cubebs, and other Vegetable Extracts, prepared only by Messrs. PERRY and Co., Surgeons, 4, Great Charles- street, four doors from Easy- row, Birming- ham ; and No. 2, Bale- street, St. Peter's- place, Manches- ter, of whom may be had ( gratis) with each box of pills, a TREATISE ON VENEREAL AND SYPHILITIC DISEASES, with observations on Seminal Weakness, & c., & c. PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS, price 2s. 9d. and lis., per Box, a certain, safe, and the most speedy remedy ever discovered for the permanent and ef- fectual cure of gonorrhoea, gleets, strictures, seminal weak- ness, pains in the loins, affections of the kidneys, gravel, lumbago, local debility, irritation of the bladder or urethra, and other diseases of the urinary passages, frequently per- forming a perfect cure in the short space of three days, with, out confinement, with ease, secrecy, and safety. Their operation is imperceptible : they do not require the slightest confinement, or any alteration of diet, beverage, or exercise. Neither do they disagree with the stomach, or cause any offensive smell to the breath, as is the case with Copaiba and Cubebs, when administered by medical men in the usual" way; and after a cure is effected by the use of these pills, the party will not experience any return of the complaint, as generally occurs after taking other medicines which, only possessing a local action, merely suppress the complaint for a time without eradicating it from the constitution, and the patient is at last constrained to have recourse to Perry's Purifying Specific Pills, as the only certiin cure. Messrs. Perry, Surgeons, continue to direct their studies to those dreadful debilities arising from the too free and indiscriminate indulgence of the passions, which not only occasion a numerous train of nervous affections, and en- tail on its votaries all the enervating imbecilities of old age, but weaken and destroy all the bodily senses, occa- sioning loss of imagination, judgment, and memory, in- difference and aversion for all 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 tile fluc- tuating ideas of those who have given way to this delusive and destructive habit. In that depressing state of debility or deficiency, whether the consequence of such baneful practices, excessive drinking, or any other cause, by which the powers of the constitution become enfeebled, they offer a firm, safe, and speedy restoration to sound and vigorous health. PERRY'S VEGETABLE PILLS are well known for the certain and effectual remedy of secondary symptoms, venereal eruptions, pains in the bones, ulcerated sore throat, diseased nose, chronic rheumatism, scrofula, scorbutic and glandular affections, local and general debility, nocturnal pains in the head and limbs, depression of spirits, and all diseases arising from an impure state of the blood. 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, Birmingham, where their Pills can only be obtained, as no Bookseller, Druggist, or any other Medicine Vendor is supplied with them. Country letters ( post paid) containing a remittance for medicine, will be immediately answered. IN consequence of the increased demand, antl for the convenience of purchasers, ROBINSON'S INVALU- ABLE COUGH PILLS, and his GENUINE APERIENT FAMILY PILLS, may be obtained in Birmingham of— Mr. FLEWITT, Chemist ™ .... High- street Mr. H. JOHNSON, Chemist New- street Mr. A. JOHNSON, Chemist Union- street Messrs. MATTHISON and Co Edgbaston- street Mr. SMITH, Chemist —.— Coleshill- street Mr. WOOD, Bookseller High- street And of the Proprietor, at 35, Colemore- row Sold by one or more respectable Medicine Venders in every Town in the Kingdom, in Boxes, Is. l% d. and 2s. 9d. each. Sole Wholesale Agents, Messrs. Barclay and Sons, Lon- don. IjgT To prevent fraud, observe none are genuine unless the Proprietor's name is on the Government Stamp. ASHLEY COOPER'S BOTANICAL PURIFY- ING PILLS are established by thirty years' experi- ence, are prescribed by most of the eminent Physicians and Surgeons in London, and are always administered at several public hospitals, as the only certain remedy for Gonorrhoea, 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 the slightest confinement, or any alteration of diet, beverage or exercise. They do not disagree with the stomach, nor cause any offensive smell to the breath, as is the case with all other medicines in use for these complaints, and after a cure ef- fected by tiie 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, merelysuppressed 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 vesselsshould 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- essional recom mendations forwarded to the proprietor when, he 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 opinionis that they are a mostimproved 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 leavethose dis. tressing secondary symptoms ( that harass the patient for life) which usually arise after the use of those uncertain remedies, Mercury and Copaiba. I think you cannot fail to have a very large sale for them. Believe me, yours, very truly, JOSIIUA 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- 6treet, 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, punctually attended 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. Malier, 5, Congreve- street, and Wood, Bookseller, High- street, Birmingham ; Parker, Wolverhampton; Rogers, Stafford; Mort, Newcastle; Merridew, Coventry. Dr. DE SANCTIS'S RHEUMATIC AND GOUT PILLS. Prepared by Bartholomew de Sanctis, M. D., Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, London. ' T'fHE unfailing- efficacy of Dr. De Sanctis's Pills A for the cure of Gout and Rheumatism, has been tried in an extensive practice, and their uniform success fully warrants Dr. De Sanctis in offering them for general use, as a specific, and the only one for the cure of GOUT, RHEUMATISM, RHEUMATIC GOUT, LUMBAGO, PAINS IN THE FACE, & c. Dr. De Sanctis is determined not to confine the use of these invaluable pills any longer to the sphere of his ac- quaintance, but has caused it to be laid before the public in the form of a Patent Medicine, but he trusts that his long tried, and he hopes, well merited medical reputation, will secure him from any charge of empiricism, and not allow this most invaluable remedy ( in the discovery of which he has devoted the greater part of his life and a large for- tune) to be classed among quack medicines. Suffice it to say, that these pills do not contain Colclii- cum or any other deleterious drug, they are perfectly inno- cent, and may be administered to the most' delicate indi- viduals. The dose is one pill every eight hours until cured, the first dose will begin to mitigate the most violent attack within four of its administration; and a patient writhing under the most malignant attack of Gout or Rheumatism, may rely on its removal within forty- eight hours. Dr. De Sanctis lays before the public the following letters from some of his patients, which speak a higher eu- logium on the efficacy of the medecine than any represen- tation he could make himself. Brighton. Sir,— The wonderful efficacy of your wonder working medicine is almost incredible; fifteen years ago I was attacked with acute Rheumatism, from having slept in a damp btd wlrile travelling in Flanders, the torture arising from which has been of the most ago- nizing description, for although at intervals I have beenfreefrom pain ( had it been incessant I must have put an end to my existence) I have been more or less subject to it e ver since, and when the at- tacks came on I felt as though I was being torn asunder. In fifteen hours from the first dose of your Pills ( but mind I took two of them) I was materially relieved, and at the expiration of a week I had not the slightest trace of my enemy left; as you decline to let me have the prescription inconsequence of your intention of introducing it as a Patent Medicine, you are free to publish this communication if you think proper, for the Pills deserve to be generally known. I am, sir, your obedient servant W, WEST. To Dr. De Sanctis. Miss Wilkins has been entirely cured of a Rheumatic affection in the hip, which Miss W. has long been a snfferer from, by the use of Dr. De Sanctis's Pills, after several other remedies she tried had failed. Sir,— I think that without a single exception I have suffered more from Gout than any other individual ever endured, the pain has been so intense ( without the slightestdiminution) for three and four weeks at a time, that I have frequently been obliged to have a nurse by me day and night, striking my foot with a stick, to mode- rate the pain by inflicting another, until I have sometimes had my foot 60 black that it has not recovered its colour for months; at the commencement of the last attack I procured some of your Pills, and to my very great satisfaction they immediately relieved me and pre- vented its further inroad, and I have now been free from it for eighteen months. I am, yours very truly, To Dr. De Sanctis. FRANCIS HEATH. Mr. Smith's compliments to Dr, De Sanctis, and begs to communi- cate to him that he found the most speedy relief from the use of his Pills, and was entirely cured in three days. Dublin. Sir,— Your Rheumatic and Gout Pills are certainly a most effica- cious Medicine; I have been a severe sufferer from" Cold Rheuma- tism, which the Faculty have told me was always difficult of cure, it certainly has been difficult with me, for, for fifteen years I have fluctuated from bad toworseand worse to better, I have placed my- self in the hands of twenty. five Medical Men who pursued as many different modes fo treatment without ally permanent effect, a fortu- nate circumstauceintroduced some of your Pills to me, a few mouths since, which entirely cured me,, and thank God have not had a re. lapse since, I therefore think it " but justice to you, to offeryou my testimony of their efficacy, and 1 recommend all Gouty and Rheu- matic subjects never to be without them.— Your's & c. To Dr. De Sanctis. JACOB JOHNSON. Cheltenham. Dear Sir,— When your name was mentioned to me by a friend, I certainly was sceptical of your being able to afford me any more relief than such as I had before obtained; but your most invaluable Pills have certainly cured vpe, and had I not obtained them, I as certainly should have been before this a corpse. I have been for five and forty years a martyr to the horrid complaint of Gout, which in sufferings must be equal to the torments of hell, and during this long period I have tried every Remedy that money could procure or the most eminent Medical talent could suggest. . I have taken Colchicum in every form, and in very large doses, both with arid without Opium, but unfortunately found the more Medicine 1 took, the more fre- quently the attacksreturoed, increasingin violence every time, and each attack becoming of longer duration, frequently of late from six weeks to two months,, the most powerful remedies having at last failed to exert any influence on the complaint, the delay that occurred in consequence of my having to write to you ere I could ob- tain the Pills, allowed the complaint to increase more than it had ever done before, for both my legs, which of late years have been attackedBiinultaueously, and swelled to the size of my head, on the last occasion swelled vip my thighs, and but for the timely arrival of your Pills no doubt would have got into my stomach and then as our immortal poet sa. ys, " In a coffin I'd pop'd off" instead of being here to return yon my most grateful, sincere, and heartfelt thanks; the effect produced by your most inestimable Pills was wonderful: in a short time after taking the first dose I fancied my- self easier, but made up my mind to refer it only to a false confi. dence ; but my astonishment was excessive when at the end of six hours I fouud the swelling begin to diminish, and in five days 1 found myself completely cured, and without any of those symptoms of lassitude and debility beingleft behind, which have always lasted for many days after every previous attack for the last ten years. I enclose you a draft for fifty pounds, and feel it the most useful fee I ever paid for Medical assistance ; I tru- t that if you ever visit this neighbourhood you will notfail to spend a few days with me, and neither means or disposition will be absent from every en- deavour to minister to your enjoyment. Let me hope that many years will elapse ere the Grim'Tyrant shall seize you with his icy hand, when if your Patients render that justice that is due to your invaluable discovery, your remains must be laid among the most eminent of British Worthies I am, dear sir, your most sincere well- wisher, and resuscitated patient, WM. LAMBERT; To Dr. De Sanctis. Mr. Wentworth presents his compliments to Dr. De Sanctis, and writes to say that he considers his Pills a harmless but most effica- cious remedy, and shall have great pleasure in recommending them to the notice of his friends; the particular complaint Mr. Went- worth took them for was Rheumatic Gout in the right hand, which he is very subject to, but which he finds Dr. De Sanctis's Pills im mediately remove. Dr. De Sanctis's Pills are sold by appointment, in boxes at 2s. 9d. each, at HANNAY and Co.' s General Patent Medicine Warehouse, 63, Oxford street, the corner of Wells- street, London; by whom dealers in the country are supplied on liberal terms ; where may also be had HANNAY AND CO.' s INVALUABLE HORSE BLISTER. This most important improvement in the method of blis- tering cattle is prepared by Messrs. Hannay and Co., for and under the immediate inspection of the principal Veteri- nary Surgeon of one of His Majesty's cavalry regiments, who has used it during a period of many years with the most favourable results. Messrs. Hannay and Co beg to recom- mend it to the use of their sporting friends and the owners of horses generally, as far superior to any other blister in present use. It has the peculiar properties of not destroy- ing the hair, and never blemishes the part to which it is applied, however frequently it may be used to the youngest foal; and no horse, however high his courage, will ever gnaw it; and the horse on which it has been applied may be immediately turned out to grass without a cradle. It has the invaluable property ( not possessed by any other article) of removing the blemish of a broken knee* by re- storing the hair. It has received the most unqualified approbation of some of the most extensive owners of cattle, and only requires to be tried to convince the observer of its invaluable properties. Sold in pots at Is. 6d., containing one dressing; pots, 2s. 9d. two dressings; 5s. four dressings. *** The great celebrity of this blister has caused un- principled dealers to counterfeit it. Purchasers must there- fore be particular in seeing that it bears the name and address of " HANNAY and Co., 63, Oxford- street," on the label on each pot. The above articles are sold by one or more respectable medicine venders in every town in the kingdom, and any shop that has not got either of them will procure it from London if ordered without any additional charge. Sold by special appointment by M. iVIaher, 5, Congreve- street, Birmingham; Meridew, Coventry; Parke, Wolverhamp- ton; Welchman, Northampton ; Price and Co., Journal- office, Leicester; Rogers, Stafford ; Mort, Newcastle ; Stratford, Worcester. MULREADDYS 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 moat surprising remedy; six days ago I was unable to breathe, unless with great difficulty, attended with much coughing, which always kept my soft palate relaxed, and in a state of irritation, and the more I coughed the worseit was, and it, 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 aud 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 alt the papers here, as wholesale agents for Ramsbottom's Corn Solvent, which, by the bye, my girls all say is really a cure, and many other raedicinos. I should say this would be a very good house, Oxford street being one of the most public situations in Lon- don. All join me in kind remembrance to yourself and Mrs. M. Believe me, yours, very truly, T. Mulreaddy, Esq. ROBERT GRANT. Golden Lion Hotel, Liverpool. Sir— To my astonishment, the other day, I had a visit from my old and esteemed friend, Mr. Hughes, whom 1 had not seen for many years, and still more so was I when, finding that 1 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, ar. d lef 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 the breast and backbones 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, air, 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 in particular, return our grateful acknowledgments, and the little W' 8 shall not fail, ere long, to tliank 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 I heretofore been compelled to confine myself a close and soli- tary prisoner in my library, to prevent the possibility of being tempted to join in conversation, the excitement of which always produced such violent paroxysms of coughing, that I have been in constant dread of sudden dissolution, by bursting of a blood- vessel. At the commencement of the present season, by your kind liberality, I com- menced taking the medicine you sent, and have taken twelve bottles. After I had taken three, I could respire as vigourously as in the early part of 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 I persevered in taking it until I had consumed the whole twelve bottles. Your situation in life, I know, places you beyond the necessity of preparing an article of the kind for sale, but it must and shall be done, and if you neglect to do it, my sincere wish is that you may be lugged out of your retirement, and compelled to provide it in quantities equal te the boundless waters; aud you may rely upon it, that I, a locomotive proof of its wonderful power, will spare ueither 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 yoii to refuse me a pretty considerable quantity, aud 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,— Thou hast my sincero thanks for thy Samaritan present. Thy medicine has had the promised effect, and com- pletely cured my trying cough. If thou wilt let me have a quantity in a large bottle, I will, in return, enter thy name te any charitable institution thou wilt fix ou. Thine, T. Mulreaddy, Eeq, JACOB ROBERTS. Mr. Mulreaddy begs to observe, that to publish copies of he whole ofthe 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 give 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. Ig^" Purchasers should observe that it is wrapped up in white paper, on which, in a blue label with white etters, are printed the words,— Mulreaddy's Cough Elixir, pre- pared by Thomas Mulreaddy, Liverpool, and sold byhisap- pointment at Hannay arid Co.' s, Patent Medicine Ware- house, 63, Oxford- street, London. Price Is. l% d. and 4s. 6d. Sold wholesale and retail by HANNAY and Co., 63, Oxford- street, London, wholesale Pa; eni Medicine Ven- ders and Perfumers to the Koyal Family, where the public can be supplied with every patent and public medicine of repute; aud 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. 1 Sold by appointment by Maher, 5, Congreve- street, and Wood, bookseller, High- street, Birmingham; Parke, Wolverhampton; Rogers, Stafford; Mort, Newcastle; and Merridew, Coventiy. Printed and published by FRANCIS BASSET SHENSTONE FLINDELL, 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. REYNKI. L, Chancery- lane; Mr. DEACON, 3, Walbrook ; and Mr. HAMMOND, 27, Lombard- street— Saturday, May 20, 1837.