No. 627. SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1837. PRICE 4* D. NOTICE, that a MEETING of the ARMY and NAVY PENSIONERS will take place at Mr. John Hillman's Sliakspeare's Head, Queen- street, Birming- ham, at Seven o'clock in the evening of the 31st of May, for the purpose of forming a Benefit Society. MATTHIAS GREEN'S LECTURES. ON Tuesday next, May 30th, and Friday, June 2nd, MATTHIAS GHEEN will deliver TWO LECTURES on ENGLISH GRAMMAR, in the Theatre of the Philosophical Institution, Cannon- street. These two Lectures will comprise a full exposition of English Etymology and Syntax; illustrated by examples extracted from Mr. Green's Grammar, and printed on boards expressly for the audience. Tickets of admission Is. each to a single lecture, or Is. 6d. to the two Lectures, miy be had at the Newspaper Offices; at Messrs. ALI. EN arid. LYON'S, Bennett's- hill; at Mr. Green's, 29, Batli- street; and at the Institution, Cannon- street. Members of the Mechanics' Institution, and Sunday- school teachers of all denominations may get tickets at half- price. The doors will be opened at seven o'clock, and the Lec- ture will be commenced at half- past seven in the evening. Another Course of Twenty Lessons on English Gram- mar will be commenced by Mr. Green on Friday, June 9th, at his residence, 29, Bath- street. Time of attendance from half- past seven until nine o'clock, on every Friday evening. On June 80th will be published an English Grammar, on a new plan, by Matthias Green ; in which the science is rendered easy and attractive, while it is treated of with system suitable to a school book. SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, and Co., London; ALLEN and LYON, Bennett's- hill, Birmingham. PETERS'S WINE AND SPIRIT WAREHOUSE, 77. BULL- STREET, Corner of Temple- row, Birmingham. EPETERS begs very gratefully to acknowledge • the favours which have been so unceasingly bestowed on him in the Wine and Spirit Trade, during the last four years, and respectfully solicits a continuance of the same. The custom so prevalent amongst advertising aspirants to public patronage, of arrogating each to himself, the capa- bility of supplying the public wiih those articles of which he may be the vender, on terms that shall wholly eclipse the pretensions of his more modest, but equally respectable, " brothers in the trade," has become so conspicuously ab- surd as to be eschewed by all respectable dealers: E. PETERS, therefore, contents himself with submitting his list of prices. With regard to qualities, E. P. challenges any house in the trade to comparison, with the greatest confi- dence as to the result. BRITISH SPIRITS. per gal. per pint. Strong London Gin Superior ditto ditto Beet ditto ditto .. trood Brandy Ditto, for Wine .. Patent ditto Scotch Whiskey .. Irish ditto s. d. 8 0 9 0 - 10 6 . 12 0 , 14 0 , 16 0 . 16 0 13 0 s. d. I 0 1 2 1 4 1 6 1 10 2 0 2 0 1 FOREIGN SPIRITS. per gal. per pipt. Canadian Brandy F. Cognac Brandy Best ditto Old Jamaica Rum Excellent ditto .. Best Pale ditto .. White Brandy .. at. pe: 16 0' . 29 0 . 30 0 . 12 0 . 13 0 . 14 6 . 32 0 . d. 2 0 3 8 1 6 1 8 1 10 4 0 FOREIGN WINES. per gal. per pint. Old Port Prime Sherry .... Best Pale ditto .. Pine Madeira Good Tent Best ditto Mountain Lisbon d. 13 0 . 13 0 . 16 0 . 9 0 . 13 0 . 16 0 . 13 0 . 16 0 . s. d. 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 2 per doz. per bottle, s, d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Ports from 30 0 to 42 0 2 6 to 3 6 Sherries.. 30 0 to 42 0 2 6 to 3 6 Cape .... 18 0 to 20 0 1 6 to 1 8 Tent .... 24 0to36 0 2 0 to 3 0 Mountain 30 0 to 36 0 2 6 to 3 0 Lisbon 36 0 . .. 3 0 EastlndiaMadeira 66 0 .. 5 6 West ditto 42 0 .. 3 9 Every variety of BRITISH COMPOUNDS and CORDIALS from 10s. 6d. to 13s. per gallon. Pickling Vinegar, 2s. per gallon. Fine Table ditto, 2s. 8d. per gallon. ' LOSS OF TEETH SUPPLIED. And filling Decayed Teeth with Mineral Siliceum. MOSS. DE BEItRI 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 neio substance for Artificial Tcetli, 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 set, without extracting the roots or giving any pain, the incumbrance of wires or other ligatures, at the following Paris charges:— A single Artificial Tooth „— —. 0 Acompleteset— 5 A complete set of Natural Teeth, on fine gold plate 15 d. 10 0 5 0 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 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. NORTH MIDLAND ItAILW AY. CONTRACTS FOR W6RKS. THE Directors of the NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY COMPANY will meet at the RAILWAY OFricE, No. 13, GEORGE- STREET, MANSION- HOUSE, LONDON, OI1 Thursday, the 8th day of June, 1837, at half- past Two 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 laying and ballasting of the permanent way, and furnishing the necessary Blocks and Sleepers, ( but exclusive of the Rails, Chairs, Pins, and Oak Trenails,) from the south side of the proposed Sheffield and Hotherham Railway, in the parish of Rotherham, and terminating at a point thirty chains on the north- east side of the Greasborough Canal, in the parish of Ravvmarsh, 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 Kiver Calder, in the parish of Methley, and terminating at a point thirty chains on the south side of a place called Goose Hilt 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 arid 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 he 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 for, and the names of the proposed sureties are to be specified in the Tender. The Directors will not bind themselves to accept the lowest offer. The Contractor ( if he require it) will be furnished by the Company with a counterpart of the Contract, at his own expense. 1 By Older, H. PATTESON, London, 10th May, 1837. Secretary. NOTICE. IF the Person who left a HORSE at Mr. POTTER'S, Aston Park, in the name of " Price, of Birmingham," does not fetch the same away before the 10th of June, he will be Sold to defray the expenses of the same. May 26, 1837. NOTICE. CAPTAIN HOSKINS having recently retired from the army, and commenced the business of a WINEand SPIRIT MERCHANT, in LOWER TEMPLE- STREET, corner of New- street, is most anxious to rectify an error which he finds preyalent with the public generally, and requests their particular attention to his address, and that his establishment is totally unconnected with any other. From several annoying circumstances which have come to the knowledge of Captain Hoskins and his friends, in consequence of a similarity of name with other individuals, he finds himself imperatively called upon to draw the at- tention of the public to this advertisement, to prevent any further confusion. Wine and Spirit Vaults, Lower Temple- street, corner of New- street, Birmingham. May 24, 1337. NEW UNION MILL. THE Proprietors of this Concern are respectfully informed that their ANNUAL GENERAL MEET- ING will be held at the Mi", on Monday next, the 29th day of May, at twelve o'clock precisely. MANGLES FOR SALE. GREAD begs leave to inform the Public that he • has an assortment of Mangles, at a Low Price, of good seasoned wood, and warranted. £ s. Best full sized patent, at 10 0 Second size ditto —.— 9 10 Half patent ditto 8 0 Common ditto — 7 0 At his Manufactory, No. mirigham. d. 0 0 0 0 2, Moat Row, Smithfield, Bir- WATKINS'S DUBLIN PORTER STORES REMOVED FROM THE MARKET- HALL, FRONTING WORCESTER- STREET, TO 22J. ANN STREET, BIRMINGHAM. SLEA and Co. beg to inform their Friends and ® the Public, that they have iust received a supply of WATKINS'S BROWN STOUT, and respectfully solicit the favour of their orders. The quality of this Porter is excellent, and may be had either in casks or bottles. THE OLD PEACOCK INN, ASTON- STREETS BIRMINGHAM. ife ® SECOND ANNUAL DINNER. T-" 1 JAMES POUNTNEY begs to remind his Friends that his SECOND ANNUAL DINNER will take place on Tuesday May 30th, 1837, when their attendance will be esteemed a favour. *% Tickets 2s. 6d. each, to he had at the Bar. J. P. takes this opportunity of returning his sincere thanks for the very liberal support with which he has hitherto been favoured, and begs to assure the Public generally that no exertion shall be wanting on his part to ensure their comfort and convenience, and a continuance of that preference it will ever be his study to deserve. May 17th, 1837. WHEREAS a Fiat in Bankruptcy is awarded and issued forth against JOHN CONDON, late; of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, but now of Bed- ford- row, in the county of Middlesex, Brick- maker, dealer, ana cnapman, ana ne neiug UeclareU a Bankrupt, is hereby required to surrender himself to the Commissioners in the said fiat named and authorised, or three of them, on the thirteenth day of June next, and the eleventh day of July next, at one o'clock in the afternoon of each of the said days, at Radenhurst's New Royal Hotel, in Birmingham afore- said, and make a full discovery and disclosure of his estate and effects; when and where the creditors are to come pre- pared to prove their debts, and at the first stitting to choose Assignees, and at the last sitting, the said Bankrupt is re- quired to finish his examination, and the creditors are to as- sent 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 Mr. THORNDIKE, Staple- inn, London, or to W.% WHEELER.} Joint Solicitors- Waterloo- street, Birmingham. Valuable FREEHOLD and LEASEHOLD PRO- PERTIES in Great Hampton- street, Livery- street, Ken- yon- street, and Caroline- street, Birmingham, and desirable BUILDING and GARDLN LAND near to the Village of Erdington, in the parish of Aston juxta Bir- mingham. r|> 0 be SOLD by AUCTION, by E. and C. ROBINS, free from auction duty, on' Wednesday the 14th day of June next, ( instead of Tuesday the 6th, as be- fore advertised) at four o'clock iu the afternoon, at the house of Mr. Carter, the White Horse Tavern, in Friday- street, in Birmingham, ( by direction of the Assignees of Mr. Robert Perry) either in the following or such other lots as may be agreed upon, and subject to conditions to be read at the time of sale . REGENT PARADE, CAROLINE- STREET. LOT I Two substantially built, genteel, and neatly fitted up Freehold Houses, with Manufactories and Out- offices complete and entire, situate in Regent Parade, Caro- line- street, occupied by Mr. Taylor and Mr. Simmons. LIVERY- STREET and KEN YON- STREET. LOT II The roomy and well fitted up Public House, being No. 126, in Livery- street, near Great Hampton- street, known by the sign of the RED LION, occupied by Mr. Thomas Colley, with entire yard, brewhouse, workshop, and offices. LOT III.— The spacious Court, No. 27, in Livery- street, adjoining to lot2, in which are five Dwelling Houses, Nos. 1 to 5, with brewhouse and offices. LOT IV.— Two substantial new built Front Houses, No. 55 anil 56, in Kenyon- street; two Back Houses, No. 2 and 3; the new Workshop occupied by Mr. G. Taylor; Brew- house, and a part of the Court. LOT V Three Dwelling Houses, with paled Gardens in front, occupied by Corbett, Crisp, and Worwood. LOT VI.— Three other Dwelling Houses, with paled gar- dens in front, also a Workshop adjoining, occupied by Henry Lea, • , and Bearfoot. LOT VII.— Three Dwelling House, several ranges of new and substantial Workshops, Stable, Yard, and other Pre- mises, respectively occupied by Messrs. Palmer, Biddle, Ilawkes, Jannan, Giimley, and Jones, N. B. Lots 2 to 7, each inclusive, are leasehold for a term, of which about 57 years are unexpired, subject to £ 16 16s. 2d. per annum ground rent, which will be apportioned. HOCKLEY PLACE, GREAT HAMPTON- STREET. LOT VIII The genteel and convenient Dwelling House, No. 170, in Hockley Place, with a substantially built Manufactory, and roomy premises at the back. LOT IX The adjoining House, Manufactory, and Pre- mises, numbered 171. LOT X The adjoining House, Manufactory, and Pre- mises, No. 172. Each of the last three lots are well fitted up, and form very complete and desirable premises for respectable Manu- facturers w ho wish to reside on the spot. LOT XI A clear annual Ground Rent of £ 9 4s. abun- dantly secured, and paid by Mrs. Eagles, for property ad- joining the above. N- B. Lots 8, 9, 10, and 11 are leasehold for a term, of which about 90 years are unexpired, subject to £ 30 per an- num ground rent, the payment of which will be divided be- tween the purchasers of lots 8, 9, and 10. LAND AT ERDINGTON. LOT XII.— A Piece of Freehold Land, measuring about acres, occupied by Mr. Parkes, and situate near the vil- lage of Erdington, in the parish of Aston juxta Birming- ham. N. B. Mr. Perry designed to divide this into four lots, and to build a neat Gardener's Cottage on each, which it was ascertained would let well and pay great interest. The Land may, if wished, be so divided at the sale. For any other information, apply to Mr. WILLS, Solicitor, Waterloo- street; or to the AUCTIONEERS, New- street, Bir- mingham. DISTRESS IN THE NORTH AND WEST OF SCOTLAND. rpHE Inhabitants of the HIGHLANDS and IS- 1- LANDS of SCOTLAND, to the amount of Eighty Thousand, have been and still continue in a state of desti- tution truly appalling. Deprived of their former chief re- source in the making of Kelp, a failure in their crops, accom- panied by a mortality in their cattle, has left them exposed to the HORRORS OF FAMINE. Their extreme misery is awakening the sympathy of our countrymen in the Metropolis, as in other parts of the kingdom; and, from past experience, it is fully expected that the people of Birming- ham will not be deaf to this appeal from suffering humanity. Subscriptions are received at the BANS, in Birmingham ; and by the Secretaries, the Rev. ROBERT WALLACE, Mi- nister of the Scotch Church, and Mr. ROBERT WOOD, 55, Newhall- street. £ s. Robert Webb, Esq., High Bailiff ... 5 0 James James, Esq., Low Bailiff ... 5 0 Messrs. Taylors and Lloyds 40 0 J. L. Moillet and Son 15 15 Mrs. Moilliet, Hamstead Hall 5 5 Messrs. Walker, Horton, and Armitage ... 10 10 Rev. T. Moseley 5 0 Mrs. Taylor, Moseley- hall 5 0 Miss Taylor, ditto 5 0 William Chance, Esq 5 0 Daniel Ledsam, Esq. 5 0 Edward Armfield, Esq 5 O R. Smith, Esq., Edgbaston Grove ... 5 0 Mr. John Mabson 5 0 Mr. R. T. Cadbury 5 0 Mr. William Bolton 5 0 Messrs. T. and J. M. Knott 5 0 Messrs. J. H. and R. O. Clarke ... 5 0 Messrs. William Wood and Son ... 5 0 Butler, Brothers 5 0 Rev. T. Nunns 3 3 Rev. Rami Kennedy 3 3 Rev. W. Marsh 3 3 Clement Ingleby, Esq. 3 3 Mr. Robert Wood 3 3 Mr. J. Gibbs, Hagley- road 3 0 Mrs. M. Boddington, Ilandsworth ... 2 2 Rev. Mr. Breay 2 2 Mr. J. B. Lillington 2 2 Messrs. Dain and James 2 2 Mr. James Baker ... 2 0 Miss Skey, Spring Grove 2 0 Mrs. Grant 1 1 Mr. Campbell 1 1 A Friend, by Mr. Campbell 1 1 Rev. D. Davies 1 1 T. Chavasse, Esq. 1 1 Mr. T. Bembridge 1 1 Mr. John Hardwick, Bradford- street ... 1 1 Mr. S. Hyam ... 1 1 Messrs. Wright and Dain 1 1 Mr. T. Summerfield 1 0 Mr. James Woolfield ... 1 0 Dr. Huey 1 0 The Rev. M. W. Foye 1 0 Mr. James Reynold Boyce 1 0 Rev. Robert Wallace 1 0 Anonymous, by the Rev. R. Wallace ... 1 0 A I. adv, by ditto 1 0 A Friend, by ditto 0 10 A Friend, by Mr. Campbell 0 in M. N 0 10 Mr. M'Laren 0 5 SCOTTISH EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, ri^ HE Directors hare resolved to submit a motion to JL the next Quarterly Court of'Director!, 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 f uture. 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 ocations 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 iu 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. REGULAR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN HULL AND LEITH. THE ST. GEORGE STEAM PACKET COMPANY'S SHIP, INNISFAIL, J. MOFFATT, COMMANDER. IS intended to Sail as under, witli 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, AIay28th . at 1 o'clock Afternoon Sunday, June 4th at 5 o'clock Afternoon Sunday, June 11th , 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, June21st . at 4 o'clock Afternoon Wednesday, June 28th 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'KE AN, 26, Shore, Leith ; or I and H. HOBSON, Manchester. HULL AND SELBY RAILWAY. TO CONTRACTORS. NOTICE is hereby given, that the Directors will meet at their Office. 54, SAVILLE- STREET, HULL, on SATURDAY, the 24th June, at twelve o'clock precisely, to receive the TENDERS which may be sent at or before that time for the following Works, viz Contract, No. 1, A— Forthe erection and entire completion of an Opening lion Bridge, over the River Ouse, at Selby. Contract, No. 2, A— For the erection and entire completion of an Iron Bridge, of one Arch, over the River Der- went, near Wressel. Contract, No 3, A— For the erection and entire completion of an Iron Bridge, over the Market- Weighton Canal, near Bromfleet- house. Contract, No. 1, B— For the forming and preparing ( exclusive of ballasting and finishing the way,) of the approach to the Bridge over the Market- Weighton Canal. Drawings and specifications of the above work may be seen at No. 54, Saville- street, Hull, on and after the 15th of May; and other information may be had on application to Messrs. WALKER and BURGES, 23, Great George- street, Westminster. The Directors will not consider themselves bound to ac- cept the lowest Tender. GEORGE LOCKING, Secretary. Hull and Selby Railway- office, Hull, 1st May, 1837. 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 great alarm, that difficulties and losses, to which there is 110 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 110 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, and 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 pro- tecting their mutual interests. " With a view of establishing and maintaining, under all circumstances of difficulty and distress, a cordial and confi- dential u: i in 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 witli 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 ruin around us, and famine in our houses. We think it madness that the terrible destruction should be allowed to proceed moi) th 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, the 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 inter- ests of the industrious classes. SAMUEL BROWN, Chairman. Public Office, May 25th, 1837. AT a Meeting of the Rated Inhabitants of the Town, duly called by advertisement in the Birmingham News- papers, held this day, the accounts of the present Constables and Headborough. Messrs. Naden. Rawlins, and Suffield, for the Second Quarter 0" the r Year of Office, were pre- sented, Mr. JOSEPH BARROWS in the Chair; The Chairman having read the items in the account of Mr. George Naden, Constable, amounting to £ 101 16s., Resolved unanimously, That the same be allowed and passed. The Chairman having read the items in the account of Mr. S. W. Suffield, Headborough, amounting to £ 44 19s. 4( 1. Resolved unanimously, That the same be allowed and passed. Resolved, That the minutes and proceedings of this Meeting be advertised in the usual manner. JOSEPH BARROWS, Chairman. Resolved unanimously, That the best thanks of this Meeting be cordially pre- sented to the Chairman. Just Published, Volume the Second of rpHE LIFE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT. By L J. G. LOCKHART, Esq. his Literary Executor. Volume Third on First June. Edinburgh: R. CADELL. London: J. MURRAY; and WHITTAKEliand Co. As above may be had: LIFE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT, Vol. 1. WAVEIiLEY NO VELS, 48 Vols. SCOTT'S POETRY, 12 Vols. SCOTT'S PROSE WORKS, 28 Vols. GUEST'S BIRMINGHAM DIRECTOR; OR, STRANGER'S GUIDE AND TRADESMAN'S COMPANION. Is published this day, price Is. AMAP OF BIRMINGHAM, corrected to the present time, folded in a case for the Waistcoat Pocket. 11. THE ABOVE, with the Addition of an ALPHA- BETICAL STREET DIRECTORY, with other in- formation interesting to the Stranger or Tradesman. Price 2s. 6d. HI THE MAP, printed on a large sheet, with STREET DIRECTORY, Is.; 011 Canvass and Rollers, 3s. " This Map is made for use more than ornament, and is decidedly the most distinct and complete ever published at a small price. To the stranger it should be an inseparable companion, and a fixture iu every counting house."— Bir- mingham Journal. IV. Now publishing, to be completed in Eighteen Parts, at Sixpence each, a Re- issue of THE HISTORY OF BIRMINGHAM. By W. HCTTON, F. A. S., with considerable additions. Illustrated with many Engravings, a Map of the Town, & c. he. Sixth Edition. This Edition contains more than Two Hundred pages of additional matter, including a complete History of the Political Union, compiled, by permission, from docu- ments in the possession of the late Chairman, T. Attwood, Esq. Ask for Guest's Edition. v. The most splendid BIRMINGHAM ALMANACK ever published, containing Nine Beautiful Engravings of the Public Buildings. Price only 2d. Birmingham : JAMES GUEST, Steelhouse- iane. London : sold by Wakelin, 1, Shoe- lane; Berger, Holywell- street; Hetherington, Strand ; and all Booksellers. 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 be ready to receive tenders, on or before the 5th day of Jutie 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, W. L. MABERLY, Secretary. rpHE COSSACK TAVERN, Advertised for Sale, - I- situated in Hick's- square, in the parish of Birming- ham, is settled by mutual consent, through a misunder- standing. SARAH VINCENT. May 26, 1837. ri^ O be SOLD, the Business and Fixtures and Small JL Stock, of a HUXTER'S SHOP, doing a ready money business. Such an opportunity seldom offers, as the Proprietor is going to enter into other engagements. Enquire at the COSSACK TAVERN, Novascotia- street, near Coleshill- street, Birmingham. THE RED LION PUBLIC- HOUSE, NEAR DERITENB BIUDGE, In the parish of Aston, which has been doing mo. e business for the lust thirty years than any other Public- house in the parish; the same is now in full business, with eight numerous a/ id respectable Clubs attached. By JOHN RODWAY. rpo be SOLD by AUCTION, on the premises, on - 1- Friday the 9th day of June next, at six o'clock in the evening, ( unless sooner disposed of by private treaty,) the Licenses, Good- will, and Possession of the above much ad- mired, well situated, very convenient, and good accustomed Public- house, which is too well known to need any praise by the seller. The premises have lately undergone a thorough and complete repair, and comprise comfortable sleeping- rooms, spacious club- room, pleasant tap. room to the front, snug liquor- shop and bar to the front, back par- lour, excellent cellaring, convenient brew- house, shopping, which may at a little expense be converted into good stabling, private yard or play giound, piggeries, & c., & c. The usual effects and stock to be taken to by the pur- chaser at a fair valuation. For further particulars and to treat apply to Mr. H. H EWSON upon the premises, ( who is leaving the same in consequence of other engagements,) or to the AUCTIONEER, Edgbaston- street, Birmingham. Decidedly the best Public- house for in and out door business in the town of Birmingham, the HOPE and ANCHOR Caroline- street. By JOHN RODWAY. IV) be SOLD by AUCTION, upon the premises, at six o'clock in the evening, on Wednesday the 7th day of June next, subject to conditions then to be produced ( unless sooner disposed of by private treaty,) the valuable Lease, Licenses, Good- will, and Possession of the above first- rate Public- house, which is situated in a fast improving neighbourhood, and surrounded by numerous and extensive manufactories ; the premises are particularly well calculated for the business, and very convenient for a family, and being a corner house,- might at a trifling expense be so arranged as to have one of the best wine and spirit shops in the town, not having any other old licensed Public- house near. The average consumption of malt is about fifty strike per week, besides doing an extensive trade in the spirit line. The usual effects and stock, which is prime, to be taken by the purchaser at a fair valuation. For further particulars and to treat apply to Mr. JONES on the premises, who is retiring from the public business, or to the AUCTIONEER, Edgbaston- street, Birmingham. GENTEEL COTTAGE RESIDENCE, EDGBASTON. TO be SOLD by AUCTION, by Mr. J. FAL- LOWS, 011 TUESDAY, the 6th day of June next, at the Bell Inn, Bristol- street, Birmingham/ at Four in the Afternoon, ( by order of the Assignees of Mr. Charles Ry- larid, a bankrupt,) the very genteel COTTAGE RESI- DENCE, called " SPRING VALE COTTAGE;" lately in the tenure or occupation of the said Mr. Charles Ryland, plea- santly situated at Spring Vale, at the bottom of Spring- street, near the Bristol Read, an 1 just within the bounds of Edgbaston parish. The House contains two front par- lours, back- kitchen and brewhouse, and four chambers; and in front there is a Gat den tastefully laid out, and well stocked with choice flowers, and fruit and other trees. There is a newly- erected Green. house adjoining to the House, and a Summer- house and very complete Out- offices belong also to the property, The above Property is Leasehold for the unexpired term of Eighty years from Lady- day last, subject to the trifling ground rent of £ 2. 18s. 7d. per annum. For further particulars apply to Mr. BARTLEET, Solicitor, or Mr. HARRISON, Solicitor, Edmund- street ; to Mr. TARLETON, Solicitor, Upper Temple- street ; or to the AUCTIONEER, Temple- row, all of Birmingham. VERY DESIRABLE FREEHOLD PROPERTY, KING'S NORTON AND YARDLEY, WORCES- TERSHIRE, About three miles from the town of Birmingham. TO be SOLD by AUCTION, by Mr. J. FALLOWS, at the White Hart Inn, Digbeth, in Birmingham, on Thursday next, the first day of June, at Five o'clock in the afternoon, in the following or such other lots as may be agreed upon at the time of sale, and subject to such condi- tions as will be then and there produced, if not previously disposed of by Private Contract, of which due notice will be given :— LOT KING'S NORTON PARISH. 1.— Two Pieces of Valuable LAND, lying together, afford- ing a desirable site for the erection of a Country Resi- dence, being a very short distance from the Alcester Turnpike Road, and about three miles from the centre of the town ', of Birmingham, and fronting to the road leading from King's Heath to Mosely. No. 1. The Ridding ™ 2. Nine Acres 0 39 3 25 2.— A valuable Piece of LAND, fronting the road leading from Billesley Common to Mosely, and surrounded by land belonging to Thomas Blaney, Esq., and Miss Mary Allcock. No. 3. Six Acres. — YARDLEY PARISH. 3.— Three Pieces of valuable A R A BLE and WOOD LAND, immediately opposite to the last lot, and adjoining to lands be- longing to James Tyalor, Esq., Joseph Dyott, Esq., and Mrs. Mary Ruston, pos- sessing every ad vantage for the erection of Villa Residence. No. 4. Bell Piece 4 0 10 5. Wood Piece 4 3 18 6. Wood 2 1 1 13 0 24 5 3 6 11 3 29 30 3 19 The estate is in the occupation of Mr. Thomas Slater ( or his nnder tenant, Mr. Joseph Hanly) from year to year. The whole is worthy the attention of the capitalist and building land speculator. Further particulars, with a lithographic plan of the pro- perty, may be had of Messrs. HORTON and COPE, Solicitors, Waterloo- street; of the AUCTIONEER, Temple- row; or of Mr. JOSHUA HAMMOND, Land Agent and Surveyor, Ben- nett's- hill. TO MANUFACTURERS AND OTHERS. Valuable FREEHOLD ESTATES, fronting the river Mersey, nearly opposite the Northern Docks at Liverpool. rpo be SOLD by AUCTION, at the Clarendon J- Rooms, Liverpool, on Friday the 9th day of June next, at one o'clock— a valuable FREEHOLD ESTATE, fronting the river Mersey, and nearly opposite to the Nor- thern 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 strong sea 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 he 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 adspted for building purposes. Plans may be seen and further particulars knwfn by ap- plying to Messrs. BARTLEY and FISHER, Solicitor^, Liver- pool, if by letter post- paid. 2 THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. i IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS. FRIDAY, MAY 19. Lord Melgund took his seat for Hythe, and Mr. Broadwood for Bridgwater. SUNDAY TRAVELLING.— A debate cf considerable in- terest took place on the clause in the Glasgow and Ayr Railway bill, prohibiting Sunday travelling. Mr. DUNLOP, member for Ayrshire, having observed that he thought it useless to appeal to Mr. Roebuck's religious feelings, Mr. ROEBUCK asked what such an insinuation meant. A mail of high feeling, of Christian charity, of common honesty, would not make an insinuation when he dared not make a direct assertion. The SPEAKER said the expression was not Parlia- mentary. Mr. ROEBUCK bowed to the decision. His remark was called forth by an insinuation that ought not to have been made. It was right to understand this question fully— The Sunday was not ordained by the Christian religion ; but was an ordinance that had grown up by mere custom. ( Hear, hear.) He held in his hand, and he was determined to push this question to the utmost, a tract written by Archbishop Whateley—( Hear, hear, from the Tories)— and he quoted Archbishop Cranmer. ( Hear, from the Minis- terial benches.) He hoped that was authority enough for gentlemen opposite who talked about the Church of Eng- land. Now what said Archbishop Cranmer:—" Know ye not, good children, that the Jews in the Old Testament were commanded to keep the Sabbath day, and they ob- served every seventh day, called the Sabbath, on Saturday ; but we Christian men in the New Testatment are not bound by such commandments of Moses's law concerning differences of times, days, and weeks ; but have liberty and freedom to use other days for our Sabbath days, thereon to hear the word of God and keep holy rest, and therefore the Christian liberty may be kept and maintained. We now keep no more the Sabbath on Saturday, as the Jews do, but we observe the Sunday, and certain other days as the magis- trates do judge convenient, whom in this thing we must obey." What was the meaning of that assertion ?— why, that the fourth commandment, like the other portion of the Jewish law, was abrogated by the Christian Creed, and was no law upon us. Archbishop Whateley, no ordinary au- thority, distinctly laid down that rule, and said, that on the Sunday— which was a mere day of commemoration, and not ordained, nor commanded in any way by the Christian religion— we keep our holy rest. ( Hear.) Now he would go somewhat farther. He wanted to know by what rule and by what Christian guide those men were led, who in- sinuated that those individuals were not Christians who op- posed the principle of such a bill as that before the House ? He held in his hand the code of the Christian faith, and he would quote that reverend book, and would from it take his rule and his Christian charity. ( Cheers.) He was about to read, with all due reverence, and he hoped that reverence would extend to others, a portion of St. Paul's epistle to the Romans. In the 14th chap, of that epistle St. Paul spoke thus," Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations. For one believeth that he may eat all things, another, who is weak, eateth herbs. Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth; for God hath received him. Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? To his own master he starrdeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand. One man esteemeth one day above another; an- nother esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. He that regardeth the day regardeth it unto the Lord, and he that regardeth not the day to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks ; and he that eateth not, to the Lord, he eateth not, and giveth God thanks." Another verse runs thus—" But why dost thou judge thy brother? Or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judge- ment seat of Christ— it is written, as I live saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue confess to God. So, then, every one of us shall give account of himself to God." Again,—" Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may defy one another. For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man which eateth for offence. It is good neither to eat flesh nor to drink wine, nor any thing wherewith thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak."* He would read one veise more, and have done. " Let us there- fore, not judge one another any more; but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling- block, on an occasion to fall, in his brother's way." That was his ( Mr. Roebuck's) rule. ( Hear, hear.) He would say, that no particular day having been specified, it was not the duty of the Legis- lature to interfere and enjoin the observance of any given day, and thereby " put a stumbling- block in their brother's way." Irr his opinion it savoured more of Christian chaiity — and above all of Christian humility— for a man to take care of his own conduct—( Hear, hear)— to square his rule for himself; and not in, any arrogance of special command, to call on another to do that which he would be unwilling to do himself. Let them, if they will, be assured that that they are in the right path, but let them not drive others into it. ( Loud cheering.) Who, he would ask, had set the lion, members on the other side up ? Who had enabled them to judge? He saw nothing to distinguish them from other men— at least nothing of excellence. ( A laugh.) But the hon Member for Ayrshire had said the people of Scotland liked the clause, and be ( Mr. R.) • would ask, if so, did the law command them to travel on the Sunday? Was there any thing in the Act of Parliament to insist upon their going upon the railway on that day ? Were they notable to show their peculiar faith by staying at home on Sunday? ( Hear.) Why did not members begin nearer- home if such enactments were to be carried? Why not stop the Greenwich Railway or the Greenwich steamers? ( Hear.) They dared not! ( Cheers.) Itwas well known that to do so was beyond the power of Parliament. ( Con- tinued cheering.) He respected the people of Scotland; but he did not admire their manner of keeping the Sabbath Day. He knew the meaning of the nod of the Iron, mem- ber for Edinburgh— it savoured of the same arrogance that he had before alluded to. ( A laugh.) He would repeat that any ascetic observance of the Sabbath was unwise, and that forcing the conscience of any man was not only unwise but unjust. The people of Scotland would not be injured by the rejection of the clause— it still left them their own uncontrolled will in the worship of God according to their consciences, and they should abstain from uncharitably forc- ing the consciences of others. ( Hear.) Lord JOHN RUSSELL said if Sunday travelling on railways was improper, the principle ought not to be acted on in respect to one railway, but all railways. Mr. CHISHOLM said the clause merely left the law of Scotland as it was. The ATTORNEY GENERAL said Mr. Chisholm did not understand the clause he supported ; it would ac- tually prevent a man from riding to church in the di- rection of the railway. It prohibited all travelling be- tween twelve o'clock on Saturday night and Sunday night. The clause was regulated by 115 to 83. After some conversation on the mode of managing business in the House, which every one seemed to condemn, though no one offered an acceptable scheme of amendment, the order of the day was read for going into Committee on the— CAPITAL PUNISHMENT BILL.— Mr. EWART proposed an instruction to Committee to restrict capital punish- ments to cases of murder. Mr. HUME seconded the motion. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that as the law now stood, there were thirty- seven offences to which the penalty of death was annexed, of these he meant to repeal the penalty altogether in twenty one cases, and to re- but it in several others. This he thought was all that the opinion of the country was likely at the pre- sent moment to receive. After some discussion the instruction was negatived by 73 to 72. In a subsequent conversation on the burning of buildings bill— Sir ROBERT PEEL strongly condemned the practice of admitting parties indiscriminately to see and con- verse with criminals after condemnation. He did not mean to say that persons whose object was to obtain information which might be useful to the Secretary of State, or those whom the prisoner might desire to see, should be refused admittance, but he thought that persons whose object was mere curiosity should not be admitted to visit a prisoner under such circumstances. When persons of distinction visited convicts under sentence for a serious crime, it invested the culprit with the character of a hero. The publication of the details of conversations held on those occasions, with the history of the past life of the convict, was calculated to excite sympathy for his situation, and to raise him in the eyes of the vulgar. If, therefore, persons who had the management and controul of prisons had not the good sense or discretion to prevent the growth of such practices, the law ought fo interpose, to put a stop to them. ( Hear, hear.) The House afterwards divided on the preamble of the bill, which was earned by 102 to 40. The offences against the prison bill was afterwards read a second time and committed, and the preamble agreed to. MONDAY. SHROPSHIRE ASSURANCE BILL.— This bill was read a third time in the face of a protest from Mr. P. Thomson and Sir Robert Peel, both of whom con- tended that the House must refuse their consent to such a bill, on the same grounds that they had refused their consent to the Birmingham Plate Glass Com- pany. The third reading was carried by 100 to 79. CHURCH- RATES.— A great number of petitions having been presented forand against the Ministerial measure, ( of the former 294, and of the latter 295) and some preliminary conversation having taken place on the order of public business, Mr. Bernal brought up the report on the Church- rates' resolution. Mr. ANDREW JOHNSTONE then moved his amend- ment, which consisted in omitting the words of the Government resolution, in order to add—" it is the opinion of this House that funds may be derived from an improved mode of management of Church lands, and that these funds should be applied to religious instruction, within the Established Church, where the same may be found deficient in proportion to the ex- isting- population;" the object of which amendment would leave Church- rates to be provided at present, and to devote the improved value of the Bishop's lands to build and endow new churches. Mr. Baines opposed the amendment and Mr. Hardy supported it. The debate was continued by Mr. Hume, who advised Mr. Johnstone to withdraw his motion, as unsuited to the occasion, and as mooting a question which was not fairly before the House ; by Mr. Peter Borthwick, Mr. Horace Twiss, and several others. Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, amidst loud cheering from the Opposition, spoke against the Ministerial plan. He should like to know how it would be likely ( unless some new scheme of a commission were devised, entailing enormous expenses on the country, to see what was the state of the repairs of the churches)— lie should like to know how the church was to be kept up in repair so well or so economically as by the mode of law at present esta- blished, by which persons residing in the different parishes were interested in seeing that the edifices did not go into a state of dilapidation, and who acted upon the principle that a stitch in time saved nine. Itwas impossible to sup- pose that if this expense were to be paid out of the public purse, the churches could be kept in a state of efficient re- pair. He, therefore, thought the measure was impolitic; but he objected to it chiefly because it went to an isolated object, and to affect the rights of property for the small sum of 250,000/. He objected to the scheme, moreover, because he was satisfied it would be found to be impracticable, even by those wlio wished to pass the measure, which, lie con- tended, had already been thrown out, if they looked to the consideration to be given to the opinion of the House as given on a former occasion, seeing that the majority was formed by placemen and adherents, who, even in olden times—( here the shouts and cheers from the Ministerial side of the House prevented our hearing the closing sen- tence.) When they saw the state of party in that House, —( hear, bear, from the Ministerial benches,)— it was im- possible for them to sanction this measure; they could have no confidence in His Majesty's Ministers. Would the House support them and look to them to uphold the in- stitutions of the country? He thought, on the contrary, they were a weak Ministry, who, though they could be im- pelled into a course which led them to disavow that which they intended, yet hoped to reintroduce a measure which had been carried by only twenty- three. This did seem to him to be one of the~ most extraordinary circumstances, and one of the most unjustifiable measures, which had ever occurred in that House. But, fortunately, there was another House—( loud and long continued cheering from the . Ministerial side of the House)— there was a cheek and con- trol upon that House, and therefore they might safely feel secured that this most mischievous, most unjust in principle, and most impolitic measure, could not be proceeded with, and that it stood no chance whatever of being brought into practical effect. Early in this debate the honourable mem- ber for Leeds appeared to be exceedingly sensitive about the Dissenters, and he disclaimed everything opposed to what the Dissenters themselves put forward as their views, and be firmly denied that the Dissenters had any wish to subvert the Established Church of this country. Did the honourable gentleman carry the whole body of Dissenters in his belly? ( Oh, and loud laughter and cheers.) Sir Francis entirely dissented from a remark of Mr. Bailies, that the Dissenters did not desire a separation of the Church and State, and read in refutation of that remark a passage from the Philanthropist, in which the editor described the Church question as still un- touched, notwithstanding the settlement of Church- rates were gone into, as Ministers desired, which set- tlement he did not consider even as a boon. He ( Sir Francis) believed that there was not a great por- tion of the Dissenting body who did desire this; but there was a pretence of conscientious scruples lately started which he had never yet heard of before. ( Hear, hear, from the ministerial benches.) But the great writers— the Dod- dridges, the Baxters, the Robert Halls, and others— had never dreamed of this conscientious scruple, and he doubted whether their consciences ever allowed them to imagine that when a just demand was made they should as honest men resist it. The writer to whom he had alluded in the dissenting journal then gave them fair notice that the aboli- tion of Church- rates alone would not satisfy them. Here, then, was a sort of intimidation ; and was the House to do that which was unjust— to alter the fundamental laws of the country to pacify persons of this description, who were un- worthy of the notice of the House of Commons. ( Hear, hear.) Then the same journalist [ the PhilanthropistJ pro- ceeded to say:—" But neither Church- rates, nor the exclu- sion of the Bishops from the House of Lords, will satisfy us; we require the Church of England to be reduced to what she is— one of the sects." But was that House to follow out this doctrine? This was the cant of patriotism of the present day. ( Loud cheering from the ministerial benches.) What he believed was, that which every man of reflection must know, that if the every wish of a man were complied with, Providence could not provide a greater- curse for him. He should liked to have asked, if he had had the power of foreknowledge— he should liked to have asked those who, not with ulterior views, asked relief from the Test and Corporation act, when the great bulk of the people thought that necessary for their security, and were glad when the time had arrived when those shackles would be removed with safety as they thought— he should liked to have asked them whether they did not consider the repeal of the Test and Corporation act as a great boon? But it seemed that now a boon was to be regarded in a different light when it was obtained. Gratitude, then, seemed to lose its effect, and to perish in its exertions. He did acquit the great body of Dissenters, as be did a great portion of ( be Roman Catholics, of taking part in that mischievous agitation which distracted Ireland. He did exempt from blame all that enlightened portion of the Roman Catholics of agitation. He believed they detested it as much as any men could. But what sort of encouragement had the people of England to pursue the career of concession ? Thus they were told that the Roman Catholics were treated as people who were regarded as the inhabitants of a country which bad become ours by right of conquest. If any men thought that they were able to subvert the institutions of this coun- try— if they thought to raze the spirit of this Protestant state, and to overturn the institutions and constitution of the country— they would find themselves grievously ( he should say happily) mistaken. The honourable baronet contended that this measure was overturned. As far as the law of the case was concerned, it had been demolished in all its parts by the honourable and learned members to whom he had alluded; and the measure was based on calcu- lations on which, God knew, they had little to rely. Little, indeed, could they rely on the calculations of the right hon. gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who had found a mare's- nest, or rather had found the means of picking other men's pockets to pay debts which were not due from them ; he had been guilty of a sort of petty larceny— he had interfered with the rights of property, and shaken them to their very foundation. Sir Francis, in conclusion, said he thought the time had arrived when the people of this country were bound to declare that they would not submit to any further innovations. Mr. SHEIL replied to Sir Francis Burdett. The chief point in Mr. Shiel's speech was a quotation from a speech of Sir Francis in 1824. On the 6th of May, 1824, the honourable member for Middlesex brought forward a motion to enquire whether the property of the Irish Church was not more than com- mensurate to the services which it had to perform. On that occasion the noble lord whom he saw opposite— the noble lord the member for Lancashire ( Lord Stanley)— delivered the speech, conspicuous, no doubt, at the time, but ren- dered more remarkable afterwards, in consequence of the noble lord's ostensible adherence from that period to the propositions he then maintained. ( Hear, hear.) It must be felt that the motion made by the honourable member for Middlesex on that occasion involved to a certain extent the prirrciples on which the proposition of the Government now rested. ( Hear and no.) At all events it was con- tended on the other side of the House that if Church- rates were abolished, the foundation of the Church would be shaken. ( Hear, hear, hear.) The honourable baronet in- deed went further, and said that the security of property would be affected. ( Hear, hear.) Now what was the language used by the honourable baronet on the occasion to which he referred, in May, 1824? He knew that the House had a general distaste to references made to speeches deli- vered in what the honourable baronet called the " olden time;" and the House perhaps was right in feeling and expressing that distaste, because it was not fair to refer to casual or isolated expressions in bygone speeches, in order afterwards to ground a charge upon them ( hear, bear); but when a man in the year 1837 laid down certain broad abstract propositions— when he found fault, not with the details of a measure, but came forward with a distinct and decisive denunciation of its principle upon general constitu- tional grounds, it was fair, he thought, to go back, not to particular phrases, but to the general tenor of a comprehen- sive speech delivered in the year 1824, irr which he delibe- rately, clearly, and beyond all equivocation, laid down doc trines of an abstract nature diametrically opposed to those which he now came forward to advocate. ( Cheers.) The passage he was about to quote did not refer to the inadver- tencies or inconsistencies to which he ( Mr. Sheil) took the liberty of adverting at the outset of his observations, and which the » House, with its usual good sense and tact, had not allowed him to dwell upon, because they were too noto rious to require repetition or illustration ( laughter and cheers) ; but this in 1824 was the language of the honour- able baronet, who spoke now of the necessity of upholding the Protestant ascendancy in Ireland. He entreated the attention of the honourable baronet to what he was going to read— he knew it was necessary that the honourable ba- ronet's memory should be refreshed. ( Laughter and Cheers.) On that occasion the honourable baronet was not content with going into the grievances under which the Irish people weie labouring— he did not confine himself to the specific facts brought forward by the honourable mem- ber for Middlesex— he did, as he ( Mr. Sheil) had already mentioned by way of introduction to what he was going to read, distinctly state the broad, general abstract grounds on which he intended to vote for the motion of the honourable member for Middlesex. This was the statement:—" With regard to the Church of Ireland, I am one of those who do not believe Church property to be so mischievous to a coun- try as many persons imagine; but neither, on the other hand, do I consider it so sacred, or to stand on the same footing, or to be hedged round by the same protections, as private property. The property of the Church is pay given for a public service, and it requires that the service'should be peiformed. One portion of it was given for pious uses; and as to the donors, who were, according to some gentle- men, to have their gifts set aside by any alteration of Church property, I will ask, to what Church did they give this property? Certainly not to the Church which now holds it, but to another, from which it was taken by the state and transferred to this. As to the arguments, there- fore, which have been addressed to the interests of the landed gentlemen, telling them to beware of shaking their own property by suffering that of the Church to be touched, I trust, sir, that the landed gentlemen of this House have too much good sense to adopt any fear of the . kind, and too much manliness not to treat such opinions with contempt. If it can be shown that the property of the Established Church in Ireland is so distributed as to be a great evil— if it can be shown that by altering the distribution we shall largely promote the interests and happiness of of all the people, that we shall benefit the public— if it can be shown that this property is an enormous grievance, will it not he absurd to say " [ Here Sir Francis Burdett inter- posed an observation, the purport of which did not reach the gallery.] The honourable and learned member ex- claimed, " Does the honourable baronet say no? ( Hear, hear.) Does he say that these are not the sentiments he then expressed? Why, he was a teller on the division which took place upon the occasion. ( Great laughter and cheers.) The tellers Were Joseph Hume and Sir Francis Burdett. ( Renewed laughter and cheering.) Ay, and since I am pointing out the inconsistencies of public men, I may state that I find in the list of those who voted for the propo- sition of the honourable member for Middlesex the name of Maurice Fitzgerald, who has since contested the represen- tation of Lambeth. ( Laughter and cheers, in the midst of which an honourable member exclaimed— And Lord Pal- rnerston.) Do you want more names ? Then I will tell you that in the same list is fo be found the name of Sir James Scarlett. ( Laughter and cheers.) If you do not think me capable of replying to the honourable baronet, I appeal to a higher authority, and refer you to his own dis- tinct, explicit, solemn denunciation of the Irish church, founded upon the abstract doctrine that the property of the church is the property of the state. ( Cheers.) I proceed with the passage from which I was quoting at the point from which I was broken off by the interruption of the House :—' Will it not be absurd to say that it is not to be touched— that Parliament cannot alter the destination of the property o( the church— when it is shown that this des- tination is an alarming evil, and that the alteration would be productive of great public good ?'" He ( Mr. Shiel) should not have said one word about the Irish Church, had not the honourable baronet gratuitously availed himself of the oppor- tunity of animadverting upon the conduct of Irish agitators— upon the conduct of those, and the House well understood his meaning, whom he described in sarcastic tones as the supporters of the Government. He ( Mr. Shiel) was not ashamed to say that he and those who thought with him were the firm supporters of the Government which carried the English Municipal Corporation Reform hill—( hear, hear, and laughter)— that they were the supporters of the Government which carried the Births and Deaths Regis- tration bill—( renewed laughter and cheering)— that they were the supporters of the Government which carried the Poor Law Amendment bill— a bill which the right honour- able brronet ( Sir R. Peel) opposite declared he would not consent to rescind— which the Duke of Wellington, to his honour, declared he would never repeal. ( Hear, and laughter.) Let him do the right bon. baronet ( Sir R. Peel) justice. This new alliance was no alliance of his. ( Hear, hear.) Itwas not " Peel and Burdett," but Burdett and Oastler." ( Cheers.) But to return for a moment to the subject of the Irish church. The hon. baronet ( Sir F. Burdett), who declared that he had never undergone any political metamorphosis— who maintained that his political creed, political character, and political views remained un- spotted and unchanged— let the House hear what he said of the Irish church, of which he was now such a devoted and enthusiastic advocate, in the year 1824. In the same speech from which he ( Mr. Shiel) had already been quoting, the honourable baronet said—" With regard to the Church of Ireland the single question is, does that church do good or evil? Is Protestant ascendancy— for that is what is meant by preserving the church— of so much benefit that it must at all hazards be preserved, or is it not a curse to the people of Ireland? Even if it can be proved that the Protestant ascendancy is not an evil, it does not follow that the church should be protected in all its wealth. But if that ascendancy is the cause why all classes have not equal rights— if it pre- vents the Government from doing justice to all its subjects— if it exposes the majority to the tyranny of a small number, and will not allow the nation to be governed by any other principle than terror, then, sir, I cannot consider the Pro- testant ascendancy as so necessary to be preserved, or that it is not of more harm than good." ( Cheers.) After Mr. Sheil sat down, the House was addressed by Sir R. Inglis. When Sir Robert concluded, the debate was, on the motion of Mr. Brotlierton, ad- journed. TUESDAY. BRIDGWATER.— Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTH present- ed a petition from R. B. Sheridan, Esq., ag- ainst the return of Mr. Broadwood. The petition was ordered to be taken into consideration on the 15th of June, at three o'clock in the afternoon. In the course of presenting petitions on the subject of Church- rates, Mr. SCHOLEFIELD took occasion to notice a very strange error, which, by some means, had crept into the report of petitions in respect of the petition from Birmingham against Church- rates. It was de- scribed in the report as having been signed by no more than eighty- four names, whereas it had been signed by 19,200. GLASGOW AND GREENWICH RAILWAY.— Sir ANDREW AGNEW had given notice of his intention to move a clause in this railway to prohibit Sunday travelling, and he withstood the arguments of Sir J. Y. Buller, Dr. Bowring, and Mr. Aglionby, used to induce him to forego his intention. Sir Robert Peel, however, having also declared his intention of opposing Sir Andrew, and having declared his opinion that the proper method of proceeding was by a general bill, the honourable member for Wigton gave way. Sir ANDREW added, that on withdrawing the clause, he would give notice of such a general bill, and he ex- pressed a hope that it would be supported by those who advised its introduction. Sir ROBERT PEEL did not feel called on to pledge himself to any such course. CHURCH- RATES.— After some brief conversation on the subject of the public business, Mr. BROTHERTON rose to address the House on the adjourned debate on the resolution and amendment. He observed, in sup- port of the resolution, that in Manchester there were thirly churches of the Establishment supported by their own members. The Ministerial plan would be of ad- vantage to Churchmen as well as Dissenters. Mr. FITZROY, member for Hastings, said he was in- structed by his constituents, Dissenters as well as Churchmen, to say that they did not consider Church- rates as a burden. If the petitions were examined, they would show an overwhelming majority againt the Ministerial plan. Mr A. TREVOR spoke against the resolution. Mr. CHARLES BULLER spoke at great length in its support. As to the notion, that building new churches would make them more religious, which was the gist of Mr. Johnstone's argument, it was nearly as sound as his who, attributing the drinking of gin to thirst, merely proposed to cure it by erecting prompt and sucking wells before each gin shop door where the people might quench their thirst fully, and at no cost. But if they would insist on new church room, why not do as the Catholics did, in many instances, have seve- ral services during the day, and to different congre- gations p With respect to" the supply of established instructors they had an easy rule— The various parishes in England and Wales might be stated, in round numbers, to contain about 14,000,000 of parishioners. The number of benefices amounted to 10,718. The average number of parishioners in each benefice, in- clusive of Dissenters, would amount to 1,026. Dr. Chal- mers, in his report, had laid down 2,000 or 3,000 persons as the number to whose spiritual comfort a clergyman could well attend. Now, taking the mean of these two numbers, namely, 2,500, as the proper number, it would appear that in the Church of England there were twice as many bene- ficed clergymen as there ought to be. The number of bene- fices in some dioceses was really extraordinary. In Norwich and Ely there were more than could he found in the whole of Scotland. In Norwich there were not less than 189, and the average income was about 9,000/. The whole amount of revenue was about 164,000/., and the number of parish- ioners was 133,000. The average number of souls in each parish was about 700, which gave 1/. 5s. a soul, while in London the average amounted to not more than from 2d. to 4d. In the diocese of Ely the number of parishioners was 33,980, while the revenue amounted to 44.580/., which gave 1/. 2s. 3d. a soul. In the revenues of the clergy it was clear there was no deficiency, and of all professions that of the clergyman was the cheapest. He had his house and grounds, and no other profession had so much leisure, and leisure that was profitably employed ; for they had, in ad- dition to their livings, chapels of ease, and other sources of emoluments, which added considerably to their incomes; and yet, from their own report, they admitted that the averag- e amount of their incomes was 300/. per annum. Now this, he contended, was infinitely beyond the incomes of all other professions, because the expenditure attached to it was as nothing when compared with others. Mr Buller noticed, in conclusion, the sentiments of Sir Robert Peel, when in power, on this question— The first thing the Church of England should do, in order to stand well with the country, was, to take their hands out of other people's pockets. This sentiment was well ex- pressed by the right hon. member for Tamworth, who knew much better than any man in that House how to express himself on points of this nature, hut when he ( Mr. Buller) was on that ( the Opposition) side of the House, and when the right hon. baronet had not that large minority behind him, he said, with regard to the question of Irish Church- rates, it would be for the interest of the church to abandon them altogether, for it was not worth while, for the amount, to keep alive the hostility which existed towards the church. Was it then worth while, for the insignificant sum of three pence per head, as it had been estimated by one of the right hon. baronet's supporters, to keep up this hostility to the church in England. ( Hear, hear.) Mr. STUART WORTLEY expressed himself opposed to the measure. Mr. FOWELL BUXTON also spoke in favour of the amendment. Sir JAMES GRAHAM spoke for the amendment, and did not speak of Church- rates as an ancient and immemo- nal right, imposed time out of mind, and, therefore, ought not to be taken away. Oh no ; but he said that " the Church- rate was one of those burdens which pressed upon the land, and as the removal of the local burdens was point- edly alluded to in the Speech from the Throne, it might be the Church- rates was included amongst them." This was what the noble lord had said, and the right honourable baronet did not forbid this interpretation, because, on the contrary, he told the House that the noble lord was quite right, that he " thought there was an obligation on the State to provide for the repair of churches, but he also thought the charge of providing for that repair bore unfairly on the land, and it was that subject which he had in view when lie spoke in the King's Speech of devising a method for miti- gating the press of those local charges which bore heavily on the owners and occupiers of land, and for distributing the burdens of them more equally over other descriptions of property," at the same time adding, " that it had a specific reference to the report of the committee of last session on county rates, and to the relief of the agricultural interests from certain local burdens of which the Church- rate was one therein mentioned." ( Loud cheers.) After an ineffectual attempt of Mr. G. Palmer to be heard, Mr. Johnstone withdrew his amendment, and the question was put on the original motion, when there appeared for ' the motion, 287, against it, 282; majority for Ministers, 5. The two Houses did not sit on Wednesday, and on Thursday the Lords sat only a few minutes. THURSDAY. OFFENCES AGAINST THE PEACE ( IRELAND) ACT.— Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD moved for leave to intro- duce a bill to repeal this act. Lord MORPETH opposed it. The act was said to be a dead letter, and he acknowledged it had not been necessary to act upon it; but that fact, he thought, was a reason why it might be allowed to expire a na- tural death, which it would do in 1840, instead of being now repealed. The motion was lost by 87 to 5. FRENCH COMPENSATION FUND.— Mr. MACKINNON brought forward his motion for a Select Committee to consider the claims of D'Arcy Talbot, Esq., and other claimants on the French Compensation Fund. The case of these claimants has been repeatedly before Parliament. The Chancellor of the Exchequer opposed the Com- mittee, which was negatived by 40 to 30. CRACOW.— Lord DUDLEY STUART moved for copies of any correspondence that had taken place with the Russian and Austrian authorities respecting the occu- pation of Cracow. His Lordship was proceeding to read a somewhat lengthy document, when, on the motion of a member [ the reporters never give the name in such cases] the House was counted out, therf being only thirty- six members present. > i V HOUSE OF LORDS FRIDAY, MAY 19. KIRK OF SCOTLAND.— The Earl of HADDINGTON, in asking a question in reference to the report of the Commission appointed to inquire into the state of reli- gious instruction in Scotland, took occasion to enter at length into the want of church accommodation in that part of the island, with a view to elicit from His Ma- jesty's Ministers a declaration of their intentions as to its supply. Lord MELBOURNE said it was the intention of Mi- nisters to found some measures on the reports of the Commission, but it was not deemed proper to do so until their reports were complete. He lamented a fact MONDAY. SUNDAY LIBERTIES.— The Bishop of EXETER gave notice of a motion for the production of the Poor- law Commissioners' order, touching paupers leaving the workhouse on Sunday to hear Divine service. Lord ELLENBOROUGH doubted if the paupers, who were so auxious to go out, were influenced by a desire to go to church. He was at a place in the country the other day, where a pauper, being allowed to go - -- , —~ out on a Sunday, immediately proceeded to the in so doing, took occasion to vindicate his own consis- public- house, where he got drunk and then went to tency, and defend that of Sir Francis Burdett. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said Sir James used an Irish sort oflogic in defending his consistency. He said that he formerly opposed the hon. baronet the member for Westminster, and that he now agreed with him; and this he called his consistency. The lion, baronet the member for Westminster was considered as a convert; but converts were generally received with open arms, whereas this new convert had met with bitter sarcasm in defence of right the hon. baronet. It was something like Mr. Canning's good- humoured observations upon the Whigs at a Westminster election. He said that the Whigs had ribands at their heads and mud at their heels. ( Laughter.) This was the way in which the right hon. baronet had decorated his new convert. The right hon. gentleman the member for Cambridge, 1828, brought in a bill to provide additional Church accommodation. That very measure was opposed by the right hon. baronet the member for Cumber- land, who on that occasion stated that he " objected to it altogether—( Hear)— and although he was ready to support the Church in all its rights, yet he could not support any measure which the unwise friends of the Church might bring forward to enable her to grasp more revenue than she then had." ( Cheers.) Here the question was not to in- crease the wealth of the hierarchy, and to enable the Church to grasp at greater power, but merely to build ad- ditional Churches for the spiritual benefit of the community, and yet the right bon. gentleman spoke of the " unwise friends of the Church." ( Hear, hear.) But gentlemen on his ( Mr. Rice's) side of the House were not the " unwise friends" on that occasion. ( Cheers.) It was the hon. and right hon. gentlemen opposite who were then, and in his opinion were now, the " unwise friends" of the Church Establishment. ( Hear, hear.) The bill to which he had re- ferred was their bill —( Cheers)— and, in addition to the op- position given to it by the right hon. baronet, he found that on the same occasion Sir Francis Burdett also said " that there was not a clause in the bill to which he did not object"—( Cheers and laughter)— so that it appeared that both these armed knights came down to wage war against the measure. Sir ROBERT PEEL said— All sorts of ingenious pretexts were sought for in defence of this proposition, because it was well known what must be the judgment of any impartial man upon it. They had heard the imputations cast on the Irish Parliament for hav- ing abolished the tithe of agistment; they had heard the condemnation that had been issued against those lay le- gislators who had robbed the Church in order to increase the value of their own possessions. Why, what were they going to do in the present instance? ( Hear, hear.) Did they deny the liability of the land— the obligation that had existed time out of mind ? Yet they proposed to relieve the land from that liability, and pretended to find in the revenue of the Church a surplus which, whether applied to secular or ecclesiastical purposes, was still an equivalent provided out of the property of the Church for the burthen the landed proprietors were legally bound to sustain. ( Hear, hear, hear.) And was the Church rich enough to provide this surplus? ( Hear, hear.) That this had been asserted there was no denying— that it had been asserted, even in the teeth of direct evidence to the contrary, must be in the recollection of the House. The hon. member for Lis- keard bad been trying to find reasons for the riches of the Cjiurch, yet he was also trying to show that the Church was too rich—( hear, hear, from Mr. C. Buller)— and that it had quite funds enough to increase the means of divine worship. But what said the report of the Church Com- missioners?— a report signed last year by five or six <. f the supporters of the present measure for compelling the Church to provide an equivalent for Churrh- rates. Why, the report stated that such was the destitution of the Church, as regarded the means of public worship, that it presented no funds whatever for the provision of those means, and a grant for the purpose was necessary. Lord JOHN RUSSELL noticed Sir Robert's argument derived from the alleged antiquity of Church- rates, by referring- to a speech pronounced by Sir Robert in 1835— Let him go to Hansard, but, much more, let him go to the Mirror of Parliament, and he would find some passages in the speeches of the right honourable baronet, when he was Prime Minister in 1835, which would show that he was not then so averse as he seemed to be now, to afford some relief to the landed interest. An honourable member op- posite, on seeing the King's Speech, asked what was the meaning of that part of it that respected the burthens of the agricultural interest, and on being told that it related to the burdens of Church- rates, he said, knowing that that was one of the burdens of which the agricultural interest greatly complained, he could not help rejoicing that the subject was one of those which was to come under the con- sideration of the Government. ( Hear, hear.) The noble lord, the member for Liverpool, who moved the Address, bed. There was no business before the House of the slightest Importance. TUESDAY. CHU RCH- RATES.— Lord BROUGHAM presented a pe- tition signed by 19,792 inhabitants of the West Riding of Yorkshire. There was none but routine business before their lordships. noticed by the Earl ofHaddington, namely, that there were so many more persons in Edinburgh than there was accommodation in the churches, at the same time it was plain that a more ample accommodation would do little to remedy the grievance, since, at the present moment, there were no less than 20,000 unoccupied sittings, 11,000 in the Dissenting and 9,000 in the established places of worship, and to prove that it was not the price of the seats that prevented their being occupied, the lowest rented seats were worst let. His lordship noticed the bishops' lands, and the yet unex- hausted tiends as funds which might be made avail- able for the endowment of such additional churches as might be deemed necessary. The Earl of ABERDEEN complained that the com- mission were so constituted that the concurrence of its members was rendered impossible. For the tiends they were as much matter of private property as rent. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS AMENDMENT BILL.— The bill was reported. The only amendment of im- portance was the selection of the presiding officer by lot, moved by Lord Denman, and unanimously agreed to. NEWS OF THE WEEK. JOBEIGN. SPAIN, MAY 17.— The late successes are thus described by the correspondent of the Morning Chronicle :— bun has fallen. At ten o'clock this morning the fort surrendered to the Queen's troops, and immediately the town, or rather the part of it which was not already in possession, was taken by assault. At day- break three batteries were opened upon the fort, and one upon a large fortified house at the upper part of the town. From this the fire was re- turned with great spirit, but the fire was, throughout the morning, languid. The Rifles, who were quartered in the church, kept up a sharp fire of musquetry on the fortified house in the town, while on the far side of the fort about 100 of the same regiment rendered very dangerous work the service of the guns in the fort. Until ten o'clock the fire continued very brisk; hut at this hour, the fort having surrendered, Colonel Woolridge, with a party of the 10th Regiment and of the Rifles, succeeded in mining the gate leading into the upper part of the town, and immediately the assault commenced ; but in little or no time, the Car- lists, finding themselves surrounded on all sides, threw down their arms and awaited their fate; but few, however, I am happy to say, were slain. On entering, the troops behaved with the greatest forbearance, and instantly obeyed the orders of their officers, that all should be saved. May 18.— I have but time to announce to you that the Queen's troops entered Fontarabia this morning at twelve o'clock, the town having about half an hour previously reca- pitulated. The garrison of Carlists, consisting of 310 men, are prisoners of war, the only condition being a promise that if the Carlists so desire it, they shall he the first dis- charged. They demanded, in the first instance, to leave the town with their arms, and permission to join the Pretender. Of course this offer was at once rejected ; and a great deal of parleying took place before the terms finally stipulated were agreed to. The officers and men were allowed their personal effects, but all else falls into the hands of the Queen's troops. At twelve o'clock the garrison fell into ranks on the Glacis, and immediateiy after General Evans, escorted by a company of each regiment, entered the town. Like Irtin, it was fortified in every part, and if well gar- risoned and provided must have withstood a long resistance. As it was, very little was found. No bread, and but a few- oxen. In the Plaza strong defences had been erected ; and had the town been taken by storm, there must have been a frightful slaughter. It is a poor place all— much poorer than Irun.— Iriin and Fontarabia will remain garrisoned by Spanish troops, and the Legion will to- morrow morning move back to Hernani. The loss of the Queen's troops in yesterday's affair was 130, of which 63 were Rifles. In the two days the Carlists had 115 killed, 95 wounded, and about 600 prisoners taken. On Tuesday morning a young man named De Grouchy, who had been sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment for 2 THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. i felony, made his escape from the Royal gaol of Jersey in broad day- light, and, strange to say, returned to prison tile same evening, and demanded admittance. When asked why he broke prison, he said he merely wished to change his best for his working clothes, having done which, he thought he might as well return to the gaol— Jersey Patriot. We learn that the Emperor of Russia, apprised of the merits of lithotripsy, has requested Baron Heurteloup, the distinguished professor of that art, to repair to St. Peters- burg, in order to confer on his subjects the benefits of so admirable an operation. The baron left London, in conse- quence, a few days ago; and, with the view of assuring his speedy return, a committee of distinguished Russian surgeons has been named, and is awaiting his arrival to receive in* structions in lithotripsy. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT NEVIS.— We have just received, by the packet, which arrived last evening, the St. Chris- topher Gazette, of the 21st ultimo, containing an account of a most disastrous fire, which took place on Tuesday night, April 18, in Charlestown, Nevis, which destroyed two- thirds of the town, and levelled to the ground most of tbe principal houses, and all the merchants' stores, with pro- perty to a considerable amount. The fire broke out about 11 o'clock on the premises occupied by Mrs. Brown as an hotel, and instantly communicated to the adjoining houses. All exertions to subdue the flames were unavailing, as there was no engine produced, nor for a long time could a single bucket or ladder be found; and the morning's dawn exhi- bited the dreadful scene of the destruction of twenty large and forty small houses!— The sufferers to the south were— Mrs. Brown, Miss Butler, Mrs. M'Phail, Miss Sturge, Messrs. G. Athurton, J. Nicholson, D. Evans, and S. Pem- berton. On the west— Mrs. Bradley, Miss J. Athurton, Messrs. W. Maynard, jun. ( occupied by tbe President as a Government house) F. G. Galpine, W. Roper, J. Nichol- son, W. T. Claxton, W. M. Mill, and Mr. J. Athurton. On the east— Miss Ferrier, Messrs. Drew and Matthews, G. H. Lane, Ferrier, Stanley, and Co., and I- Nicholson; . besides premises occupied as a Custom house. To the loss of the valuable dwellings belonging to the above individuals may be added that of considerable quantities of goods, old wine, bottled liquor, lumber, shingle, an immense pile of timber, in the yard of Messrs. Roper and Co. puncheons of rum, & c. The amount of loss is estimated at nearly 60,000/. DOMESTIC. THE METROPOLIS. The Vestry of St. Marylebonne, on Satuiday, again post- poned the payment of the demand for county rates, on the score that such rates are levied by an irresponsible magis- tracy, who has refused to hear proof of the inutility and waste of the contemplated extraordinary outlay by them of near 30,000/. The Poor- law Commissioners have issued an order, in which they suspend tbe operation of the Parochial Assess- ment Act till the 29th of September next. It is already known that a pension of 300/. a year has been conferred on Lady Morgan. We have great pleasure in adding, that the King was at the same time graciously pleased to confer a pension of200/. a- year on Mrs. Edward Paley, and pensions of 100/. each on Mrs. Tidy and Mrs. Cameron Sun [ Who are they?] By the death of General the Hon. Sir Alexander Hope, G. C. B., which took place on Friday, at Chelsea Hospital, the Lieut.- Governorship of that establishment has become vacant, as well as the Colonelcy of the 14th Foot, which he lias held since March, 1835. He was one of the oldest of- ficers in the service, having been appointed Lieut.- Colonel of the 90th Foot so long ago as 1794. On Friday morning the wife of a respectable man, of the name of Rodbard, residing in Watling- street, City, was safely delivered of four children, three girls and one boy. The mother and infants are doing as well as can be ex- pected. A porpoise was shot on Monday in the river Lea, near the lock, by Thomas Barter, landlord of the Imperial Crown, Bromley, Bow. The poipoise measured four feet two inches in length, and twenty- seven inches in girth. JOHN MINTER HART.— We understand that this notori- ous person, whose conviction for Forgery at the Old Bailey some time since cannot be forgotten, died on his passage to Sydney. We are happy to hear that a public meeting will be held at the Freemasons' Hall, Great Queen- street, on Monday, the 29th of May, Joseph Hume, Esq., M. P., in tbe chair, at twelve for one, to take into consideration the propriety of petitioning His Majesty and both Houses of Parliament on the advantages of admitting the public, free of expense, to all depositories of national monuments and exhibitions of art in national buildings, especially to Westminster Abbey. St. Paul's, and the annual exhibition of native talent in the new National Gallery. Exclusion from national monu- ments is a national disgrace. The intellectual recreation of the people demands open exhibitions— the honour of the country requires them. SINGULAR ACCIDENT Yesterday, between the hours of eleven and twelve, a spirited horse belonging to Mr. Audle, of Fenchurch- street, on returning from the West India Docks, with a small cask of goods in the cart, took flight, and began to kick at a furious rate, and after a few minutes plunged forward at a frightful pace. The driver, who was in the cart at the time, used every effort in his power to check his progress, but the infuriated animal dashed forward with a rapidity that betokened certain destruction to every, thing that came in his way. At length, however, it ran its head with such violence against the lower part of an iron lamp- post at the corner of Bedford- street, that its under jaw and the greater part of its tongue were literally cut away from tbe bead, and fell to the ground at his feet. A farrier in the neighbourhood was sent for. hut as there could not be the most remote idea of relieving the poor animal ( which was worth at least seventy guineas,) itwas killed. BRIDGEWATEH ELECTION.— Mr. Broadwood's \ nano- fifties are likely to come down to veiy base notes indeed. Sir W. Molesworth on Tuesday presented a petition against liis re- turn, charging bribery and other corrupt practices. In fact, no return procured since the passing of the Reform Bill has abounded in such glaring instances of profligacy as this. Some very curious disclosures of private occurrences are likely to come out— a payment of 1,000/. to stifle certain complaints— and the most open bribery will be brought to light. Tuesday the Bishop of London performed the ceremony of confirmation upon several hundred young persons of both sexes, in the parish church of St. John, Hackney, on which occasion he delivered a solemn and impressive ad- dress. The church was filled with a highly- respectable con- gregation, both of communicants and spectators, and the attendance was much greater than on that of many previous years. FIRE IN HOLYWELL STREET.— Thursday morning, shortly after five o'clock, a fire broke out in Holywell- street, Strand. The upper part of the house was let to four or five tenants. About the time stated, as two of the brigade of the Bedfordbury Station were proceeding down the street, they perceived the flames to be raging in the back part of the house, and in a very short time tbe whole of the build- ing was in one entire blaze. The Fire Brigade exerted themselves in a manner that deserves the greatest praise. We regret to say that two young persons are missing. DIVISION OF TUESDAY There were but84 Members ab- sent from the division, and of these not more than half a dozen were lost to the Tories. Mr. Bish would have voted last night in the majority, but he was unfortunately shutout on the division, having accidentally been locked in the library. Colonef Thompson was absent, having accepted an invitation to dine with the Mayor and inhabitants of Hull yesterday, we believe, in celebration of the birth- day of the Princess Victoria. Sir F. Burdett and Sir W. W. Wynn* came down on their crutches to swell the intolerant mino- rity; and such was tbe condition of the Welch Baronet, that be had to sit in the Speaker's room until the division bell rang. Besides Colonel Thompson, Sir It. Heron, Sir G. Strickland, Sir T. Wilmington, Mr. Bennett, Mr. Hoskins, Mr. B. King, Mr. Wallace, Mr. Wilkins, Sir P. Bellew, Mr. R. M. Bellew, Sir Wm. Brabazon, Mr. Maurice O'Con- nell, Mr. L. Dobbin, and Col. Gore Langton, were all ab- sent without pairs, and all in favour of the Ministerial mea- sure. Messrs. M. O'Connell, Dobbin, Langton, and Sir T. Winnington were unfortunately kept away by illness ; and the two Messrs. Bellew have been obliged to go to Ireland to pay the last tribute of affection to a deceased parent. Sir William Brabazon is at present in the county of Mayo, or- ganising opposition to the Irish Tithe Bill. It will be for his constituents to say whether it is there or in the House of Commons the calls of duty ought now to find him. It is not by such untimely absence he will stimulate the Liberal electors of Mayo to vote for him, on another occasion, against Mr. James Browne. This is the first division in which the name of Sir F. Burdett figures among the Tories; the place which the alphabetical arrangement gives < hini is not inappropriate— between Sir J. Buller and Sir C. Bur- rell, ultra- Tory and Stanleyite.— Morning Chronicle. * This is a mistake, Sir William was not present. PROVINCIAL. The first importation of cotton destined to be manufac- tured in Hull arrived on Wednesday. It consisted of 150 bales, and waB brought by the Railway Company's boat. Bull Packet. Mr. Henry Ellis, half brother of the Earl of Ripon has during the past week issued an address to tbe electors of the city of Lincoln, asking their support in the event of a general election, which he thinks not distant. Georgt Mildtfum, schoolmaster, who is now enduring a sentence of twetveiftiontbs'imprisonment in Barnstaple gaol, which was passed upon him in October last, for an assault, has written letters in which he makes a confession of the murder of his wife, who died at Southmoulton, some years since, under suspicious circumstances.— North Devon Jour- nal. DR. DALTON.— We regret not to be able to record any decisive improvement in the health of our distinguished townsman. Since our last notice be appears to have made little or no progress towards convalescence.— Manchester Guardian. On Friday evening three collegians started on horseback from Huntingdon on their return to Cambridge. One of the young gentlemen put his horse into a gallop, when, as be came up to the Woolpack Inn, at Fenneston, the bridle broke, and he was precipitated with dreadful violence from his horse upon his head, fracturing bis skull in the most shocking manner. His companions immediately went lor a surgeon, but he was a corpse on their return.— Huntingdon Gazette. On Saturday last a young man named Stowe, residing at Trowbridge, had a quarrel with his wife, which terminated in a fight, in the course of which the wife wounded him in the neck. The mother of Stowe, who was standing by, on seeingtheblood flow copiously from her son's throat, thought him dying, and expired from the effect of fright.— Wiltshire Independent. On Friday evening, a man named Cropper left a public house at Waddington, and was so drunk that he fell in the middle of the road, where a waggon passed over bis arm, cutting it off close to the shoulder; the poor wretch lay there until the morning without assistance, and consequently bled to death.— Lincoln Gazette. Mr. Ryle, M. P. for Macclesfield, has written to his constituents to inform them that he does not intend becom- ing a candidate for the representation of the borough at the next election. Charles Townley, Esq., has pledged himself to come forward at the next election as a candidate on the Reform interest for the representation of North Durham, in the room of Sir H. Williamson, who retires. The village of Silverton, about six miles from Exeter, on the old Tiverton road, was visited by a most dreadful ca- lamity, similar to and almost simultaneous with that of Exeter. During the progress of the conflagration in the latter place a messenger came with the news and a demand for assistance. Two powerful engines then playing in Paris- street were instantly dispatched by four horses. They reached the village in twenty minutes, when the fire was found to have made destructive progress, which continued unretarded by all their exertions for some time, the wind being high, and the roofs all thatch. Thirty- five dwellings, with a timber- yard and all its contents, were destroyed in the space of two hours. Seventy pool families have been deprived of the shelter of bouse and home— Devonport In- dependent of Saturday. On Thursday last, at Beaubray, two workmen, one named Laine, aged forty- eight, and the other Blanvillian, aged seventeen, were working in a marl pit, when suddenly the earth fell and covered them in. Attempts were made to rescue them, when a second mass of earth falling deprived the bystanders of all hope, and completely buried the two sufferers. A number of labourers were set to work by the authorities, and it is thought that a second pit, at least 120 feet in depth, must be dug in order to extricate tbe bodies. THE BUMP OF ADHESIVENESS At^ the Botley Friendly Society's anniversary on Monday, the room was decorated with laurels, festoons of flowers, & c., resembling a bower. Over the president's seat a tree was formed from the branches, in which was a bird's nest ( a cockfinch's) with three eggs, on which the hen sat quite docile and did not offer to leave her nest; she was taken out frequently and passed round to the company, and restored to her eggs.— Hampshire Advertiser, FORGERY AND SUICIDE.— A man named Thomas Kelly, by trade a mason, who resided at Newport, was apprehended on Friday week at Barnstaple, under suspicion of forging two checks, on the West of England and South Wales Dis- trict Bank. It appears that, in the afternoon of the above day, he went to the shop of Mr. Alexander, a watchmaker, in High- street, to purchase a watch, in payment of which he tendered a check of 16/. 8s., diawn in favour of Richard Gilbert and signed Francis Squire. Mr. Alexander, sus- pecting that all was not right, went immediately to the Bank, leaving Kelly in the shop, for the purpose of getting the check cashed. On his way thither he met Mr. Thome, the manager, who discovered it to be a forgery. Kelly was in consequence apprehended, and identified as the person who had succeeded in passing a forged check for 14/. 8s., at the shop of Mr. Kenward, linen- draper, on the 17th of April last, when he purchased some cloth, and received about 12/. in cash. The deposition of Mr. Kenward was taken before a magistrate, and Kelly was remanded to pri- son till the following day. In the course of the night, how- ever, he put an end to his existence by banging himself, be- ing discovered by the turnkey, on going his round in the morning, suspended, quite rtpnd. in hio ooll , a handkorohiof was round his neck, which had been affixed to the grating.— Western Luminary. LEICESTER A meeting took place last week for the purpose of allowing the two reform candidates, Mr. Duck- worth and Mr. Easthope, to explain their sentiments to the electors. We give a short extract from the speeches of these two gentlemen. Mr. Duckworth said—" The West- minster election naturally led him to the consideration of one or two political questions, in which the electors of Lei- cester no doubt took great interest, and respecting which they would be anxious to hear his sentiments. The Ballot ( cheers), an extension of the Suffrage ( loud cheering), and Triennial Parliaments. ( Cheers.) First, as to the ballot. He had long cherished a desire that this measure should not be adopted, and it was the work of many years to eradi- cate this prejudice from bis mind. It was a question almost unheard of by Reformers in his youth ; but it had gradually forced itself on their notice, it bad grown into importance in their eyes— the necessity for its adoption had appeared by degrees, and had been admitted with reluctance. He might not be so sanguine as many in his anticipations of benefit from tbe Ballot, yet he did think that it was the only re- medy at all likely to be effectual against the corruption and intimidation which were the greatest obstacles to the pro- gress of Reform. ( Cheers.) As to an extension of the suffrage, he had always been anxious to go as far as was safe and politic; it was desirable to avoid alarming, not only the timid, but also a large class of other Reformers. It was of the utmost importance that the friends of liberty should be united; and, therefore, to secure this union, no course should be taken that would incur the risk of alienating from the cause of Reform large masses of the community. Hold- ing these views, he would not at present go further than the Household Suffrage; but if, in after years, when greater progress had been made in general education, it should be- come the opinion of the country ( which it was not at this time), that the franchise might be still further extended, then, but not till then, he should think it politic to advocate the enfranchisement of all men above the age of twenty, one. ( Cheers.) Till education was more general, till the people were more desirous of knowledge, it might not be safe to go beyond Household Suffrage ; but to that extent he was quite prepared to go. ( Loud cheers.) With re- gard to Triennial Parliaments, his opinions were more strong than on the two other questions to which he had re- ferred; because he felt that the measure would be more useful than either of them. If septennial Parliaments ex- isted in practice, the attention, wishes, hopes and fears of the people would in a great degree subside, and languor and apathy would take their place. Then the electors would go to sleep, and Reform would go to sleep too." ( Laughter.) The following were the expressions of Mr. Easthope on the same topics :—" He had already expressed his opinions on the ballot before a meeting of the electors of Leicester; hut if it were necessary to repeat what he had before stated, for the information of gentlemen not present on that occa- sion, he would, of course, comply with their wishes. ( Cries of" Go on, Mr. Easthope.") " He could only say, that by intimidation, by corruption, by Toryism in some of its worst and deadliest forms, he had been forced to acknowledge the necessity of the Ballot. ( Cheers.) His feelings were in favour of tbe poor and the rich^ oing openly and manfully to the poll; but this was finer in theory than in practice.— When men were reduced to beggary and ruin, in consequence of open votes, given according to conscience, a plausible theory must be given up, and tliey must be guided by a sounder practice. ( Applause.) As to an extension of the suffrage, believing the ballot to be essential to secure tbe independent exercise of the franchise, he was anxious to obtain that measure first, and then to extend tbe suffrage.— He sincerely desired to get rid of the small constituencies, many of which were still a disgrace to the nation, either by sluicing or swamping them, or by some other means. I t was his anxious wish to extend the franchise to the utmost possible limit consistent with the happiness of society and the safety of the institutions under which we live. He could see r, o danger in household suffrage; he was prepared to vote for that measure, when brought forward in Parliament. ( Applause.) If he differed in anything from his worthy colleague, it was on the subject of triennial Parliaments.— He was anxious to see the duration of Parliaments shortened, but he did not think it a more important question than the Ballot. He would have triennial Parliaments, if he could obtain such a reform; if not, he would say quinquennial Parliaments, but he would prefer triennial." ( Cheers.) LATE FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE ARGOED COLLIERY On Wednesday last immediately after the dreadful catastrophe related in our last number, the whole available force of the steam- engine was put on the pumps for the purpose of drawing off the water, in the hope of saving some of the thirty- two human beings entombed in the mine. On Friday afternoon the mine was emptied sufficiently to admit several persons to enter the shaft, and notwithstanding the great danger attending the undertaking, there was scarcely a cob lier in the neighbourhood that did not. without an instant's hesitation, offer his services. Six men were selected from the numbers presenting themselves, who immediately sought the courses of the mine most likely to lead to the recovery of tbe bodies, and the rescuing any one who might have providentially escaped. On reaching the shaft they fell in with several bodies of the drowned men, and were attracted to an air- hole in the seam by hearing groans issuing there- from. It is impossible to describe the joy felt by these men on discovering ten of their companions, four men and six lads, still living. The poor fellows had crept into the narrow passage, where they had sustained life for three days and two nights. They were in the most exhausted condition, so weak from wet, cold and hunger, that they could not walk. Notice was given to the medical gentle- men of the neighbourhood, several of whom immediately attended at the pit's mouth, and directed the best mode of treatment to each sufferer as he arrived at the surface. A little weak broth or gruel was given to them, and they were removed to their homes in light carts, with straw oyer the bottom, the people of the surrounding cottages bringing the blankets from off their beds in which to wrap them. After the searchers had afforded every aid in their power to the above ten persons, they again entered the engine- shaft, and made a minute search for any others that might still be living. Hearing a groan in another air- hole they took from it a boy, who was in so weak a state that he expired imme- diately on being brought into the air. Up to Monday morn- ing ten bodies of the drowned men had been picked up, on whom an inquest was held in the afternoon of that day. Roberts, one of the men rescued from the mine, said that the first alarm he had was from one of the colliers, named Jones, calling to him to leave the seam as the water was breaking in ; but that, thinking the boys had given a false alarm, he disregarded the warning, and resumed his work, which he had scarcely commenced when the alarm was given a second time. He then went to the engine shaft, but found the water too high in it to allow of escape ; he then returned, and tried to gain a passage through an air- vent into the by- shaft; but the passage was too narrow, and he was fixed in the place where he was found. The seam of coals rose at the rate of one yard in three, by which means he and those in the air- hole with him were between thirty and forty yards higher than the pit's bottom. Three men, named Ither, Williams, and Jones, who were endeavouring to gain the same place of refuge, were carried away by the flood. On the same evening some of the boys were crying for food, when Roberts and Kendrick recollected they had a few slices of bread and butter in their pockets, which they divided amongst them. For three days they were cramped up in this narrow passage, during which the cries from the boys were of the most heart- rending description. The water did not rise so rapidly at the place where the men employed in the engine- pit were engaged as in the other parts ; but the poor fellows saw their danger, and became sensible that it was impossible to escape. An elderly man, named Robert Owens, and William Williams, both of whom have perished, called tbe men together, addressed them on the awfulness of their situation, implored them to join in prayer to the Throne of Mercy, which they all con- tinued to do until the gradual rising of the flood hurried each individual into eternity Chester Gazette- There is at present residing on Newton Common near Monmouth, an old woman named Parker, who has attained the great age of 106 years. She is able to walk up and down stairs and to converse upon general subjects with her family. Her memoiy, however, is nearly gone, and at inter- vals she is imbecile. About five or six years ago she could walk a tolerable distance, but is now too feeble to go beyond her own habitation. She sometimes expresses her belief " that she is never to die."— Merlin. CATHEDRAL AT DURHAM It is an undeniable fact, that the congregation which, on an average, frequents the Cathe dral Church at Durham on each Sunday, ( exclusive of those holding situations therein) does not exceed seventy persons ; and for this small number there is an establish- ment kept up, which consists of a dean with an income of between ten and twelve thousand pounds per year ; twelve prebendaries with not less than from two to three thousands a year each; six or eight minor canons with salaries at or above two hundred pounds a year; an organist with the same; and, above all, eight singing or chanting men, each of whom has one hundred pounds a year. Theie are also several minor offices— Provincial paper. MONEY AND BREAD MONOPOLIES The insane meddling of the Bank of England, coupled with the temporary excite- ment caused by the appearance of the American bonds in the maiket, has produced its natural results. The distrust which was subsiding has been aroused anew— uncertainty and suspicion have been increased, and we are deeper in diffi- culties and distress than we ever were before. Nor is '. he worst come, though God knows we are bad enough.— Until prices have sunk to the lowest possible point— till almost every uncertain trader has been compelled to give way— till, in short, distrust can exist no longer, because every thing can be no worse— until this be the case, there can be no im- provement. This is a horrible state of things, and a still nioie Horrible prospect, but this is the prospect, and we must look it in the face as best we may. Bank monopolies and bread monopolies have plunged us into this horrible abyss. In America things are even worse than at home. In New Orleans there is scarcely one solvent person, and the other towns of the States are little better. The traders of the state of Alabama have held a convention, in which they have resolved that, all debts due to citizens of Alabama shall be paid in the first place, and what remains shall go to those who are at a distance ! 1 The plan is not very honest. Jonathan Wild, had he been a merchant, might have invented it; but it has at least the recommendation of being convenient.— But, amid all, the deepest distress and suffering is falling on the operatives. In many parts of Yorkshire their condition is dreadful; and in Lancashire, and the West of Scotland, it is even worse. Hunger is among them with its fangs— bun ger introduced by infernal laws and institutions— hunger caused by dear bread. And yet, though there be to crown all, a bad harvest in prospect— still the oppressors tell the starving men, women, and children, here and everywhere, that they mu6t pay double for their bread— that while hunger is gnawing at their vitals, they shall pay half of their food in tribute, to a set of the most worthless wretches tbe world ever saw, Can this be borne ? Will this be endured ? If tbe vengeance of man does not follow such atrocities, the vengeance of God will.— Leeds Times. SCOTLAND. THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY F'or some time past it is well known that there has been a keen competition for the chair of Moderator in the present General Assembly, between the two candidates, Drs. Gardiner and Lee— both in every respect qualified to till the office. This question, which has created a considerable sensation in the Scottish Church, was, on Thursday last, decided in the Assembly in favour of Dr. Gardiner, by a majority of 262 to 59. IRELAND. A GOOD JOKE For some past a person residing in the town of Armagh contrived to do ail extensive business with the Agricultural Bank, but finding that the firm purposed coming down on him lor the amount of some bills he got cashed, be and his wife adopted a novel plan for settling his affairs. They gave out that he had a malignant fever, and three days after he expired. A coffin was procured, and filled not with the remains of poor John, but with mother earth, and word being sent to the priest that he would be interred at two o'clock, his reverence attended, and having to all appearance buried poor John, collected ll. of offer- ings; the disconsolate widow, having a little property left belonging to her greatly regretted husband, actually ad ministered, and from the pitiful story she made, the gentle- men concerned in executing the administration not only gave their service gratis, but also raised some money for her, as poor John was a general favourite. A gentleman belonging to Armagh happened to be in Liverpool about three weeks ago, and to his great surprise and terror ob- served poor John a short distance before him. Having summoned up sufficient courage, he went up to him. John at first denied he was the person, but on finding the gentle- man would not be further imposed on, he confessed all, and promised to pay as soon as able. When the gentleman came home he went to tbe widow and asked had he re- turned from Liverpool, on which she got very angry, as- serting that her poor husband had died of two days' illness. The gentleman perseveiing in his assertion, the widow said if he was seen it must have been his ghost. However, to settle the dispute the grave was opened, when it was dis- covered that the coffin was only filled with clay. His credi- tors, we understand, purpose giving him a clear receipt for cleverness, and he threatens to prosecute the priest unless he gives up the offerings, his soul or body not being bene- fited by it— Pilot. AN IRISH ELECTION 200 YEARS AGO. — The freeholders ai- t mbl d in Philipstown to elect knights for the King's county, and some of the Irish having consulted together the same morning, attended the Sheriff to the Shire- house between eight and nine o'clock, where, the writ being read, Sir Francis Rushe and Sir Adam Loftus ( ancestor of the first Viscounts Ely) were propounded by some of the free- holders as ihe fittest men to be elected. But Philip O'Dun delivered to the Sheriffs two several lists of names in paper, who ( he said) had given their names lor Sir John M'Cough- lan and Callagh O'Mulloy, whom they had chosen already, and would have none others ; and upon delivering, the list they cried out " M'Coughlan and O'Mulloy I" The other side, to the number of sixteen, gave their votes publicly f0r Sir F. Rushe and Sir A. l. oltus. The ( jnder- Shei'itt re_ ceived the papers, and made up the indentures for M'Coygi,. Ian and O'Mulloy, having the greatest number of llames in the list, which indentures were adcepted by the High Sheriff; yet, notwithstanding, he returned Sir A. Loftus and Sir F. Rushe, alleging " that the greatest number of voices given publicly were for them." In which proceeding on the part of M'Coughlan and O'Mulloy we find this mis- carriage— that two gentlemen whose names were returned upon the list, disavowed the same, and subscribed the other part. Some other also confessed he had set his hand to the list after the election was clone, and Sir Terence O'Dempsy being absent, gave his voice by proxy to the said M'Coughlan and O'Mulloy, which O'Mulloy could not speak English! a deficiency not uncommon amongst the magnates of the land— Burke's History of the Landed Gentry. THE POLITICAL UNION. On Tuesday last, the re- organisation of the Birmingham Political Union took place. It had been previously re- solved upon by the Reform Association, that the final con- stitution of the Union would not take place until four thou- sand persons had enrolled themselves as members. To this resolution the Council were determined in adhering, had it not been that the circumstance of the birth- day of the Princess Victoria occurring on Wednesday, rendered it, to a certain extent, necessary that the Union should be formed for the purpose of addressing that distinguished lady and her mother, in the name and on behalf of an association, at one time, and, ere long, likely again to be, the most powerful political body in Europe. Up to Tuesday morning tbe numbers enrolled were three thousand seven hundred, and there being not the least doubt that the remaining tlnee hundred would be entered in a few days, it was considered by the Council that it was better to call a meeting at once of those already entered, and proceed to the constitution of the Uuion, and thus formally sanction the address. Though only two placards were exposed in front of the Town- hall during the course of the day, announcing that a meeting of the Union would take place at the Public- office that even- ing, at six o'clock, on business of importance, so great was the interest excited, that, before the above hour, not only was the great room crowded to excess, but every passage leading to it, and hundreds were collected in the street who could not gain admittance at all. Mr. P. H. Muntz having taken the chair, Mr. Benjamin Hadley proceeded to state the object of the meeting, but owing to our reporter not being able to gain admission until he had commenced speaking, we are only able to notice the latter part of his address. Mr. HADLEY said, they had been called together to con- sider the propriety of establishing the Union, in order that they might he enabled to address the Princess Victoria. ( Cheers.) It was of importance, not only to Birmingham, not only to England, but to Europe, that on so important an occasion an address should emanate from the Bir- mingham Political Union. He would, therefore, ask them if it was their wish that the Political Union should be forth- with established for that purpose. ( Immense cheering, and cries of " Yes.") [ The cry of " The Union, The Union," was caught up by those outside, and responded to with ve- hement cheering.] Mr. Hadley said he wished them not to misunderstand him in reference to his desire for addressing the Princess. Whilst he found a majority of the British people in favour of monarchial institutions, be felt he was bound to concur in the generally received opinion of his fellow subjects. ( Loud cheers.) He felt he would not be acting honestly to society to pursue any other course. He, therefore, came forward most cheerfully to pay a tii- bute of respect to the Princess Victoria, as one destined to be the future Queen of the realm. He did so with a sincere and honest attachment to her, because he believed, from the education she had received, that her reign would be glorious and happy for the people. ( Cheers.) He rejoiced with all his soul that she was of age to take the reins of Government into her hfind in the event of the King's death, and that, by her accession, the Duke of Cumberland would be for ever excluded. " In conclusion," said Mr. Hadley, " we come to you for the purpose of re- establishing the Union. ( Cheers, ) Is it, therefore, your wish that it be established ? ( Yes, yes.) Then I shall propose a resolution to that effect." Mr. Hadley then read the resolution. Mr. DOUGLAS said, if he might use a familiar expression, the steam was certainly getting up. ( Laughter, and cries of " It is up.") Then the Council of the Union would have to take care of the safety valve, and, as he had before said, their posts would not be to be envied if the present state of things continued. ( Hear, hear.) They would, however, when elected, do their best, fearless of consequences. They would go on step by step, cautious in every movement, but determined never to relinquish their efforts until they laid the foundation of better days and greater security for the industrious classes. At present the Reform Association was in existence, and would continue until the resolution he rose to second was can ied. Then it would give way to that Union which had been the terror of all the tyrants of Europe. ( Cheers.) With respect to a Council, all that was wished on the present occasion was, that the meeting would constitute the Council of the Reform Association a Council of the Union ad interim in order that they might at once send up the address noticed by Mr. Hadley, and mnlio tbc airaii^ eiiicius for rile first public meet- ing, which would be held, he believed, at the furthest next week. ( Cheers.) They would bold that meeting in the Town- hall, and on that occasion, although they would be happy to see in the galleries such of their friends as had not yet joined the Union, they could only admit to the body of the Hall the members of tbe Union, and they alone would have a voice in the formation of the Council. Mr. D. ad- verted to the protest got up by the Tories against the Union, and strongly denounced the impudence of these men in protesting against the conduct of their fellow- townsmen in the exercise of a lawful right. In conclusion he seconded the resolution, which was put by the Chairman, and the Union was declared to be re- established amidst tremendous cheering. The impatience of those outside, and the cries for ad- journment now became so great that business was for a time suspended. Mr. EDMONDS proceeded to address the meeting amidst considerable confusion. He concluded by proposing the address. The cry of adjournment being still kept up, the chair- man, in order to satisfy those outside, proposed that those within should leave the room, and make way for those who had not heard the address. This plan was thrice acted up- on, and the room was thrice filled. Still it was found insuffi- cient to satisfy the curiosity without doors, and Mr. Edmonds was at last obliged to go to the window and read it to those assembled, after which the crowd at once separated. At the close of the busines Mr. G. F. Muntz made his appearance, and was received with vehement cheering. He briefly acknowledged the compliment, and tile meeting dissolved. severity; witness has been a magistrate for 30 years; has been under the necessity three times of issuing warrants against the defendant for breaches of the peace, Captain Brown proceeded lo charge Mr. Thomson with being a disinterested witness. The Court interrupted him, and stated that he was not justified in making such observations. Question by Capt. Brown to Mr. Thomson: Have you never made false accusations against me ? Sir Joshua Rowe : You are not bound, Mr. Thomson, to answer such questions. Re- examined : Nothing would have brought witness here but a subpoena; has not the slightest interest in the pre- sent transaction. Capt. Brown put a variety of personal questions to Mr. Thomson, which the latter immediately denounced as being false as hell. The case for the plaintiff here closed. Capt. Brown addressed the jury in his own behalf: He declared the boy to be an exceedingly bad character ; that he was continually running away, and that in consequence of the entreaties of the mother, who being the natural guar- dian of the child, he was induced to order the boy to be flogged. He said that he served fifty years in His Majesty's service, and that ( luring that period he had seen the sons of noblemen of the highest rank receive far severer floggings than the one for which he was now arraigned. He then concluded, by calling the following witnesses in defence, viz.: — Dr. Moore: Does not think tbe boy was severely flog- ged : saw him several days after the flogging. Cross- examined by Mr. Batty: Continued several days in the hot- house after the flogging. Never enquired into the fining. There were ulcers, but judging from other scratches, considered that they were there before the flagel- lation. Two- thirds of his thigh were marked. There might, perhaps, have been half- a- dozen scratches, and a few ulcers. Has seen boys in ordinary life as severely flogged at school. Q: Perhaps you mean a military school ? A ': No. Q: Then a naval college ? A: No, not even there. I mean in Ireland. ( Loud laughter.) Q: They don't think much of breaking heads in Ijeland? A : Schoolmasters don't flog on the head. Louis Barclay, sworn : During defendant's absence, Dr. Palmer had two apprentices flogged. This witness proved that the mother asked defendant to flog the plaintiff when- ever he behaved ill; the boy was very bad ; saw him when he was in the hot- house ; did not examine him ; he had a whitlow on the finger. Cross- examined : The mother complained of the severe flogging which had been inflicted; never examined the boy's shirt. Robert Munro: The plaintiff is quite a lad, about ten years of age, he was continually running away; the after- noon after he had been flogged he again runaway; when- ever the boy behaved well, defendant encouraged him by giving him money; the flogging was not severe enough to prevent his walking; the cat produced is the same. Cross- examined: The marks inflicted festered; should not like to have had such a flogging; would not have taken such a flogging for a doubloon, nor for two, not even for twenty doubloons; what he considers is a severe flogging, is where the person cannot move. Dr. Moore re- called: Apprentices are very apt to be troubled with scrofulous eruptions; did not observe that this boy was liable to scrofula. Captain Brown and Mr. Batty having severally addressed tbe Jury, the Chief Justice summed up; the July retired, and in a short time after, returned a verdict in favour of the defendant. NEWSPAPERS. THE APPRENTICE SYSTEM. [ The following- report of a case heard at the Surrey Assize Court, Jamaica, oil the I3th of last month, gives a much better view of the condition of the ap- prentices than any comment we could make. It will not fail to be remarked that the mother of the hoy was not examined. We take the report from the Teleqranh of April 18th.] SURREY ASSIZE COURT— THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1837. Court: Sir Joshua Rowe, Knight, Presiding Judge; Assistant Justices, Messrs. Mitchell and Spalding. ° ' Shenekin v. Brown, Captain, R. N. Mr. Batty stated that the present action was brought to recover damages for an assault, which was committed on the plaintiff's person. The plaintiff is an apprentice in the employment of the defendant, and by his direction, the plaintiff was severely and illegally flogged. Patrick M'Kenzie sworn: Knows plaintiff; is as fair as a quadroon ; is an apprentice on Morant estate ; knows the defendant. Witness then detailed the nature of the as- sault— Capt., Brown flogged plaintiff with a cat; there were no knots on the whip; the defendant ordered him to be tied up in the stable, and to be flogged with the cat; witness was ordered to hold up bis shirt; whilst he was being flog- ged, was not severely cut; the boy did not go up to the hot- house the same day, but the next; he was afterwards rubbed over with salt water to prevent the flogging turning out bad— the cat was not wet. It had been already used. Is a servant of defendant. Cross- examined by Captain Brown: Witness is the boy's uncle ; witness did not say after he had been flogged that he deserved more. Heard the mother say that he was a had boy, and that she wished the defendant to flog him— de- fendant finding the boy incorrigible, was anxious of putting out the boy, but the mother interfered, and requested him to punish the boy. Is aware that the defendant was fined 5/. for the same identical flogging. The defendant here produced the instrument of torture which was proved by the witness. The Chief Justice said, as there had already been an ad- judication in this matter, surely the ends of justice had been answered. Mr. Batty: The apprentice has received no satisfaction for the injury. A fine to the King was no remuneration to file boy; and probably itwas at the instance of the mo- ther, that the matter was cairied before the special magis- trate. Examination continued: Witness bad often himself pun- ished the boy for stealing; the boy is eleven years of age. Re examined : The mother asked Captain Brown to punish the boy some time last year; the mother complained of the injury inflicted, and took the boy over to Dr. Palmer, who in consequence fined Capt. Brown. The hoy was marked, and had a few bumps occasioned by the flogging ; there were marks of matter a week afterwards. The boy was not in the habit of running away from the property, but from work. Thomas Thomson sworn: Described the nature of the marks, which he examined, and found them exceedingly severe. He described the marks particularly, and consi- dered them unnecessarily severe. Cross- examined: Never saw a boy flogged with equal The reduction of the Newspaper duty took effect on the 15th September, 1836. In the half year ended 5th April, 1836, the number of Newspapers stamped in Great Britain was 14,874,652, and the net amount of duty received was 196,909/. In the half year ended 5th April, 1837,. the number of newspapers stamped in Great Britain was 21,362,148, and the net amount of duty received was 88,502/. ; showing an increase in the number in the last half year as compared with the corresponding half year before the reduction of 6,487,497, and a loss of revenue of 108,317/. Of the above number of stamps taken out in the half year ending 5th April, 1837, 11,547,241 stamps have been issued since 1st January, 1837, when the distinctive die came into use; whereas only 14,784,652 were issued in the six months end- ing April, 1836. Since the reduction of tbe duty, one daily newspaper, one published twice a week, twenty- three weekly newspapers, one published once a fortnight, one occasional, have been established in London ; of which eight are now' discon- tinued, and two are incorporated with other papers. Within the same period, thirty, five weekly newspapers and one three times a week have been established in the country, of which six are now discontinued or incorporated with other papers. HOW LONG WILL MINISTERS RUB ON? In January last, the writer of a sort of official pamphlet,* after giving a list of Ministerial measures for the session, prophesied or promised as follows : — " These will pass rapidly through the Commons, for they will probably resemble in all essentials the bills of last year; and it is of importance that they should reach the Lords before Easter. Full time will thus be allowed for their Lordships'most mature deliberation; and the fate of the bills will be decided when the House of Commons is in full vigour of attendance, and before the annual money- bills have passed ; a time when addresses and remonstrances are of the greatest weight." Such was the language then generally held by official people and tbe partisans of the Government. The Lords were to be vigorously " bombarded with good measures," and the " pear would be ripe by Easter." What a difference between the promise and the performance! This promise, however, served its temporary purpose, by inducing many very sincere Reformers lo enter upon the session with " confidence in Ministers." Their present dis- appointment is as great as was their anger then with tbe few who ventured to say that the only object of Ministers was to rub on any how, and to predict the result which has come to pass. May we not claim, then, for the future, a little more " confidence" in the Spectator? At all events, it will be acknowledged that in urging Ministers to begin the session with " a plan of action calculated to unite and stimulate all classes of Reformers," we were not moved by affection for the Tories. The impeded and hopeless condition of the public business in Parliament, is not more obvious than the low and sinking state of political feeling out of doors. Westminster and Bridgewater ( though the latter, properly speaking, was a mere affair of the purse, not of polities) have satisfied every- body that, amongst Reformers generally, indifference and apathy have taken the place of active enthusiasm. If the Reform majority in the Commons were not dwindling into a minority,— even though it were in the humour for " ad- dresses and remonstrances,"— the masses, everywhere but in Ireland, would be passive spectators of the energy which it should display; and it would therefore be readily defeated by the Peers and the Crown. But the Reform majority in the Commons fairly represents the state of feeling amongst Reformers elsewhere; both have sunk, since the beginning of the session, in numbers, hope, and power of action ; and are still sinking. All this, too, we long ago pointed out to the Whigs, as an inevitable result of their having no policy hut that of endeavouring to rub on any how. This seems to be their only policy still; and the time for any other may perhaps be considered as past. The end of this policy being certain,— to wit, the return of the Tories to power,— the only question of much present interest is how long the rubbing on system may answer its sole pur- pose. When, in short, will " the pear be ripe" for the Tories ? Let us ask Lord Lyndhurst. He it was who set on foot that Tory policy of resolute obstruction, which not only united und stimulated his party, but also made it necessary for the Whigs, as was said at the time, " either to go on or to go off." He is said to have boasted in private that he had placed them in this dilemma. He challenged the Com- mons majority to a serious battle with the Lords. His boldness revived the hopes of the Tories, and excited them to vigorous exertion. But the Whigs did not " go on;" they declined the challenge , they submitted to tbe insult; they did nothing to counteract the new Tory enthusiasm ; and the consequence is, that their once zealous supporters are dispirited and careless. It was Lord Lyndhurst, we are firmly persuaded, who provided for the election of a thorough going Tory as member for Westminster. The Lyndhurst policy, being of a bold and decided character, does not admit of any faltering; it would be changed by ever so little hesi- tation or other evidence of fear. Does Lord Lyndhurst adhere to his own plan of making the Tory Lords set the Whig majority in the Commons at defiance? Will the Tory Lords carry his plan into effect ? Whoso can answer these questions, may tell how long Ministers will probably rub on.— Spectator. A fellow hawking printed statements of the result of the Westminster election at Bristol, recommended his wares by the following eloquence:—" Here is a particular ac- count of the glorious Conservative triumph of Sir Francis Burdett wot has baten the mon wot vili lose his sate for Bridgwater." NAMES or PARTIES IN FRANC*— A doctrinaire, says the Quotidienne, is " a man who makes a god of himself." Then what is a legitimist? Why one who " makes a fool of himself!" 2 THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. i w ANTED, a SALESMAN.— Apply to Mr. A. CAMPBELI., Siawl Warehouse, New- street. GENERAL STATIONERY AND BOOKSELLING ESTABLISHMENT, 71, EDGBASTON- STREET, ( near St. Martin's Church, Birmingham. 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THE Public is respectfully informed, that on WED- NESDAY, MAY 31, and FRIDAY, JUNE 2, Mr. SUT- TON will deliver his original and extraordinary perform- ances of VENTRILOQUISM and MAGICAL ILLU- SIONS, in his THEATRE of MAGIC, with tbe most splendid Apparatus and Physical Cabinet that has ever been exhibited in this country, NOTICE The public must not imagine that this Brilliant Entertainment is similar to the exhibitions of this country; it is ORIGINAL, and entirely of foreign extraction except the Exhibitor, who lias the honour to be an Eng- lishman, being a combination of different experiments, col- lected by Mr. S. during his grand tour in several of the Persian Provinces, tile West Indies, and North and South America. This extraordinary Professor concluded on last Saturday, May 20, at tbe Colosseum, Regent's- park, London, his forty- eighth morning performances ; having during that time been patronised by most of tbe nobility and gentry of London. These lines are sufficient as an announcement; the success of the entertainment rests on its own merits; which, if any, the public will duly appreciate. Doors open at half- past seven ; to commence precisely at eight o'clock. Admittance Two Shillings— Children under twelve years only admitted at half- price in company with their parents or Guardians. TO CORRESPONDENTS. *„* Several communications are necessarily omitted. BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. SATURDAY, MAY 27. THE UNION. The number of members last night was 3,975. THE TOWNS' MEETING ADDRESS TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS VIC- TORIA. A copy of this Address is appended to the report of the meeting at which it originated. Mr. SCIIOLE- FIELD, in announcing its presentation, says:—" On our introduction into the Presence Chamber, the Duchess of KENT stood at the right hand of the PRINCESS. * * * I then read the Address, which was listened to with the most marked attention by the royal ladies. On its conclusion, the DUCHESS, ma- nifestly touched by the grateful mention of the valuable education she had given to her daughter, said, with considerable emotion, that ' it was, indeed, a proud day, both to the PRINCESS and herself, to receive the flattering congratulations which the Address conveyed to them.' " reign, in the peace and prosperity of a grateful people. " In the name and on behalf of the Union, " P. H. MUNTZ, Chairman. " B. HADLEY, Secretary. X " R. K. DOUGLAS, Treasurer." The communication which announces the presen- tation of the Addresses adds— " On Mr. ATTWOOD'S reading the Address of the Birmingham Political Union to the Princess VIC- TORIA, both Her Royal Highness and her royal mother, the Duchess of KENT, were greatly affected. Mr. ATTWOOD then read the Address of the same body to Her Royal Highness the Ducliess of KENT, who was unable to repress her emotions; and expressed her high gratification at the sentiments of gratitude and respect towards herself contained in the Address; and at . finding that her anxious labours in forming the character of her royal daughter, were so highly appreciated by all classes of His Majesty's subjects." A letter from Mr. SCHOLEFIELD says—" I should not rest satisfied if I did not acquaint you with the truly gracious ( and to my colleague and myself, most flattering) reception which we met with at the Palace of Kensington to- day." * * " The Duchess of KENT was actually moved to the shedding of tears on the mention of her own valuable direction of the education of her royal daughter, and her reply was in terms so touching, and evidently so sincere, as to impress Mr. ATTWOOD'S mind and my own, with feelings of the most ardent hope from the rule of the future QUEEN of ENGLAND." We should be sorry to weaken the effect of these communications by one word of comment. THE ADDRESSES OF THE POLITICAL UNION. These Addresses were presented to Her Royal Highness, the PRINCESS VICTORIA, and to Her Royal Highness tin; Duchess of KENT, on Thursday, by Sir. ATTWOOD and Mr. SCHOLEFIELO. Our representa- tives were honoured with an audience of her Royal Highness at Kensington Palace for that purpose. On presenting the Address to Her Royal Highness the Princess VICTORIA, Mr. ATTWOOD spoke as follows:— " May it please Your Royal Highness, " I have here an humble and affectionate Address from a body of men calling themselves the Bir- mingham Political Union; a body of men, than whom His MAJESTY has not more loyal subjects in his dominions; who have not intruded on public attention for some years; but who now come forward for the purpose of mingling their tribute of loyalty and affectionate respect, with that of all their coun trymen, in congratulating Your Royal Highness upon this happy occasion." Mr. ATTWOOD then read the Address. " Unto Her Royal Highness the Princess ALEXANDRINA VICTORIA, the respectful and dutiful Address of the Birmingham Political Union. " May it please your Royal Highness, " The members of the Birmingham Political Union, 111 common with tlicil fcllow- cowuUjfiucii, take tliu liberty of approaching your royal presence, to offer to you their congratulations on the auspicious advent of your eighteenth birthday. " The destined Sovereign of our beloved country could, under no circumstances, be regarded with indif ference; but Your Royal Highness lias peculiar claims to our respect and aftection. " We are told, that, by the judicious care of your illustrious and excellent mother, you have been trained up to know and to cherish those great principles of civil liberty, which it is the birthright of Englishmen to enjoy, and the first and highest privilege of their Sovereign to maintain. We believe, and sincerely re- joice in the belief, that Your Royal Highness's educa- tion and sentiments have, in this respect, been truly reported. " The Throne of Great Britain and Ireland, which, in the ordinary course of nature, you will be called on to fill, demands from its occupant, at all times, and more especially in ours, the entire resources of an en- lightened patriotism. " On ascending it, you may expect to find many public grievances to be redressed, and many public wants to be supplied ; nor will the difficulties opposed to your most zealous endeavours be few or small. You will have to suffer numerous anxieties, and to brook not a few disappointments. " But as the obstacles to a faithful discharge of the high duties which Providence has imposed upon you are great, so great will be your praise and your glory in overcoming them. And the path to victory, in such a cause, is kiiown and certain. " If, as Queen of this mighty nation, you steadfastly resolve that your royal affections shall be circumscribed by no other limit than the hearts of the entire of your subjects; if you determine to study the happiness of the universal People, without respect to creed or opinion ; the march of your reign will be ever onward, assured, and joyful. Faction may flatter you for its selfish ends, and abandon you when they are served ; the most powerful party will, in the day of trial, prove a broken reed; but the People will never forsake you, in good report or in evil, unless, unhappily, you shall have first forsaken or deceived them. " Hoping and trusting tiiat the confidence of Your Royal Highness in the People will be as fixed and permanent as their affection towards your person and character is hearty and sincere, the Radical Reformers of this great town, whose voice we speak, respectfully tender to Your Royal Highness the willing tribute of their loving and dutiful wishes. May length of days be in your right hand, and, in your left hand, riches and honour! May your ways be ways of pleasantness, and all your paths be peace ! " In the name and on behalf of the Union, " P. H. MUNTZ, Chairman. " B. HADLEY, Secretary. " R. K. DOUGLAS, Treasurer. The honourable gentleman afterwards read the Address of the same body to Her Royal Highness the Duchess of KENT :— " To Her Royal Highness the Duchess of KENT, the respectful and dutiful Address of the Birmingham Political Union. " May it please Your Royal Highness, " The members of the Birmingham Political Union respectfully offer to Your Royal Highness the tribute of their affectionate congratulations, on the happy- event of your illustrious daughter's eighteenth birthday. " While they warmly sympathise in the honest exultation of a mother's heart, at the mighty prospect that PROVIDENCE has seen fit to open to her beloved child, they would most earnestly thank Your Royal Highness for the successful pains that Your Royal Highness has taken to fit that child for the worthy fulfilment of her high destinies. " It is their hope and praver that Your Royal Highness may be spared for many years to reap the fruits of your enlightened care; and to trace the wisdom and honour of your illustrious daughter's The division of Tuesday, on the second reading of the Ministerial resolution " respecting tithes, exhibits a majority for Ministers of no more than five. The numbers, including tellers, were— for the second read ing, 289; against it, 284. The Tories have confidently asserted that, as a consequence of the division, Minis- ters must resign. The necessity and the expediency of such a step, are two questions which may each de- mand a word or two of remark. In the ' House of Commons of old, when a Minister was either outvoted, or his majorities were so much reduced as to give rise to suspicion that if he remained in office, he would be outvoted, a resignation was the customary rule. Mais nous avons change tout cela. The Reform bill has in- troduced new rules and principles of resignation, as well as other things. And of all men the Tories are the last who should affect to deny that it has. In February, 1834, Sir ROBERT PEEL being Prime Minister, found himself not supported by a small majority— he would have given a bit of either ear for such a God- send— but opposed by a considerable majority, on the Ministerial question of the choice of Speaker, by a small majority oil the Ministerial ques- tion of the Address, and on several other equally essential questions, and lie clung to office with a des- perate gripe notwithstanding; and there can be no doubt, that if there had existed the slightest prospect that, by his adherence to place, the majority could have been worked down, be would still have been found adhering to it. And a most important element in arriving at a just conclusion in this matter must not be forgotten— the House of Commons to which Sir ROBERT declined to give way, as long as his de- clinature was possible, notwithstanding its majorities against him, and that to which Lord JOHN RUSSELL is not so much counselled as ordered to give way, notwithstanding its majorities in his favour, is a House of Commons chosen under the auspices and influence of Sir ROBERT himself. Considered as a piece of logic, the argument of the Tories in favour of a resignation is quite as absurd and puerile as their attempts that way commonly are. There are various other reasons why a resignation is no neces- sary consequence of the division on the Church- rates' resolution, and the most ohvinns of these may be discovered in the nature of the question itself. Though in point of principle, the Ministerial scheme is most worthy of all commendation; yet it is not to be denied that a little doubt attaches to it in a practical point of view. That any arrangement by which the Church should be deprived of power or emolument must offend the Church, was plain; but the Ministerial scheme has other and powerful enemies in the lessees of church lands ; not a few of whom, on general principles of policy, would yield to ministers an entire and cordial support. It by no means follows, therefore, were Ministers defeated on the question of Church- rates, that they would be defeated on any other question that involved tbe great principles of progressive Re- form on which they profess to act. The slightest con- sideration of the question in this point of view, will show the value of that plea which tbe Tories are so fond of putting, namely, that Ministers must resign because the majority is a decreasing one, even were there not a counter plea of a more obvious kind by which to meet it.— On all questions but this their ma- jorities have been fully maintained, and on some, as the Irish Municipal bill, increased. But there is an argument against the necessity of resignation, not only in the nature of the Ministerial scheme, but in the na- ture of the grievance which it is meant to re- move. We believe we have a fair claim to belief when we say we speak of the opinions of the Radical party. Now we assert, without the slightest fear of contradiction, that tbe Radical party have never looked upon the question of Church- rates but as occupying an exceedingly subordinate place. They look upon the evil of Church- rates but as a small eruption in the extremities of a body politic, of which, at tbe present time, the whole head is sick and whole heart faint; and could tbey only see Ministers diverting their attention honestly and earnestly to the treatment of that head sickness and heart faintness, they would be tbe first to call on them to leave tbe cure of the remote and comparatively harmless pimple to some future occasion of greater leisure. The Radi- cals go farther. Many of them, we say it advisedly, would be grieved rather than gratified, to see the Church- rate question amicably settled as a preliminary measure. Tliey know that such a settlement would deprive them of the outward support, at least, of not a few persons whose outward support even is of not small importance. They know that by a speedy eon- cession the ranks of Conservatism even, not to say Whiggery, might expect to be swelled by the junction of many influential individuals here and elsewhere, who now stand aloof from both. If the Tories were wise, they would see and act upon this obvious truth. But, fortunately for the cause of right, they are poor and miserable, and blind and naked, notwithstanding all the pride of their boasting that they are rich and increased in goods, and have need of nothing. The doctrine of the expediency seems to us quite as obscure as that of the necessity of Ministers' resigning on ac- count of tbe recent vote. We certainly entertain none of those fears that move others when we say so. We have no fears for Ireland were the Tories in power to- morrow. They dared not, for their heads, disturb the present Government there. Indeed, so far from fear- ing for Ireland, or for the Empire at large, we are so confident that tbe return of Sir ROBERT PEEL to power would be the signal for a fast and firm union amongst Reformers, and so confident also that it only wants such a union to carry all that the Reformers de- sire, that we should look upon such a return as the very reverse of unfavourable to our cause. At the same time, we admit that the remedy of such a crisis as a Tory ministry would be sharp, and might be dan- gerous, and though it be slower in coming, we must ever prefer the vindication of freedom by peace- ful and lawful assembling, to struggling for it behind a barricade. The fact is, the question of the expedi- ency of Ministers' resigning, is one for their consider- ation rather than ours ; it is their honour and interest that is at stake, and theirs only. That if defeated on any great question of public policy, the settlement of which they deemed essential to the well- being of the State, they would be called on to give up the reins of power is plain; and they would give them up on such a question with the certainty of approval from all right thinking men. But to abandon office because defeated in a small measure, would savour of pettish- ness, notof dignity. Our opinion of Ministers' position, in respect to the House of Lords and the King, and the grounds which that position presents to justify assig- nation, has been repeatedly expressed. If'they are content to retain place, notwithstanding the insolence of the Peerage and the contempt of the Court, it would be the very acme of absurdity to talk of resignation, because they had been indifferently supported on such a question as that of Church- rates. THE PROTEST.— This most insolent production, which was published in the Tory papers of Monday and Thursday, formed the subject, it will be seen, of a brief conversation and resolution at the meeting of the Political Union on Thursday. We entirely concur in the propriety of the resolution, and take this opportu- nity of stating, that measures are already being taken for carrying it into effect. No one can more strongly deprecate than we do the carrying of political differ- ences into the retirement of private life, or making them the grounds of preference in the selection of a merchant or tradesman. This is tbe worst and most odious feature of that warfare that the low Tories— for the really respectable of the party disdain it— have for the last five years more especially been waging with their reforming neighbours and fellow- townsmen. We trust, however sorely tried, the latter will not be lightly induced to follow so base an example. But when we deprecate the notion of allowing the customary inter- changes of society to be infringed upon by political considerations, we must make an exception of those, who, like the protesters, not content with the most un- limited assertion of their own principles, dare to hold up others who are lawfully seeking to vindicate theirs, as foes to the peace and the prosperity of the town. Such a declaration must be met as it deserves. He that stigmatizes his neighbour as a public enemy, has no right to complain if his neighbour treat him as a private enemy. SPAIN.— The affairs of the Peninsula are brighten- ing as the weather gets milder. It will be seen from a paragraph under the head of foreign news, that the Legion has resumed the offensive, and with marked success. There have been disturbances in various quarters, but the last accounts describe them as sup- pressed. The names of Samuel Hunt, printer, Canal- street; A. Knight, engineer, Ann- street; and Edward Owen, gun- maker, Camden- street, we are authorised to say, were affixed to the Tory protest without their consent or knowledge. The name of A. Allen, Bennett's- hill, son of Mr. Josiali Allen, was obtained by a low and despicable trick. THE PRINCESS'S BIRTII- DAY.— Wednesday was kept as a general holiday, the greater number of the shops in town being shut. There were several dinners, political and otherwise, at Dee's, the Clarendon, and other houses. The illuminations were few and far between. Messrs. Betteridge and Co. illuminated, and Mr. Collis, Church- street. We do not know if there were any other. THE CORPORATION QUESTION.— We have an ar- ticle on this question in type, but it has been squeezed out by a press of temporary matter. TRADE.— When the canal was stopped for cleansing the other day, the quantity of goods waiting for con- veyance to Liverpool for exportation to America, was 10 tons ; on the same occasion last year the quantity was 200 tons! We have given the division on the Church- rate question at length. It will be useful. The Tories have plastered our walls with placards in favour of Sir John Benn Walsh and a Mr. Staple- ton, formerly Private Secretary to Canning; who are, it seems, to be candidates for the representation of Birmingham! Sir John Wrottesley is not to be made a lord. DISTRESS IN THE HIGHLANDS.— We strongly solicit the attention of the benevolent to the advertisement in another column, respecting the distress in the High- lands and Islands. We are sorely beset in Birming- ham, but our sufferings as yet are light, to what these wretched people have been enduring for many months passed. We need not say that the smallest contribution will be gratefully received. Mr. Matthias Green, our townsman, gives his first lecture on English grammar on the 30th— next Tuesday. THE WORKMEN'S ADDRESS.— The conference be- tween a deputation of the workmen, and tbe merchants and manufacturers, is to take place on Tuesday. MR. SUTTON.— It will be seen that this exceedingly clever performer means to delight the natives on Fri- day next. POLITICAL UNION. Thursday night, the Council met for ordinary business ; as on Tuesday the room was crowded to excess. The CHAIRMAN ( Ml. P. II. Muntz) reported that the address to the Princess Victoria, agreed to at the last meeting, had been forwarded for presentation ; but that as yet no answer had been received ; when it arrived it would be made known to tbe Union. He was proud to be able to say three thou- sand nine hundred members were enrolled. ( Cheers.) Mr. HADLEY rose to propose a resolution of business. It was exceedingly important, when tbey held a general meet- ing to elect tbe Council, that none should be admitted into the Town- hall except such as were members of the Union. ( Cheers.) He was aware that very great inconvenience had arisen in tbe old Union from allowing Whigs, Tories, and Radicals, indiscriminately, to be present on such occa- sions. The Council ought to be elected solely by the mem- bers ( hear, hear), and to secure this, none else ought to be admitted. Every member presenting his ticket at the Hall door would be allowed to enter freely, and those who had not tickets must stay without. He concluded by mov- ing a resolution to that effect. Mr. FELIX LUCKCOCK said he felt thoroughly convinced of the importance of the proposed regulation, and he cor- dially seconded the resolution. Mr. G. F. MUNTZ thought the resolution one of vital im- portance to the Union ; he recollected that very great injury arose from allowing persons, who were not members, to take part in tile proceedings of the old Union. Persons who took no part in the Union, ought not to be allowed to take part in its meeting; and he felt quite certain that the man who would refuse ( if he had it at all) to pay tbe trifling sum required for admission, could not be deemed worthy of any consideration. He was decidedly of opinion it was not for tbe good of any society that others than members should be allowed lo take a share in its management. Mr. DOUGLAS wasalso in favour of the resolution, and for two reasons— First, because lie expected the number of members who would be enrolled against the time of meet- ing would be so great that they would be hard pressed to find accommodation for them in the Town Hall; and se- condly, as tbe Council had boasted so much of their num- bers, he wished to prove to the world that there was nothing false in their statement. This they could not do if they threw open the doors and admitted every person indiscrimi- nately ; whereas by adopting the proposed plan they would be able fully and clearly to exhibit their real strength. Mr. BOULTBEE supported the resolution. It was quite clear nothing in the shape of public business could be car- ried on without regularity; and he felt pleased at the reso- lution, inasmuch as it would tend to promote order. It the working men believed, that by means of the Union they could obtain those rights to which tliey were entitled; if tbey considered that it would be instrumental in relieving them in their present difficulties, or that it would tend to prevent a recurrence of them, most assuredly they would not, they could uot, hesitate to pay one halt- penny per week for that purpose. ( Hear, hear.) The resolution was then put and carried unanimously. Mr. DOUGLAS for tbe better regulation of the mode of carrying on the discussions of the Council, moved a resolu- tion to the effect, that each member, unless in case of spe- cial permission from the chairman, should not occupy a longer period in speaking, upon any one subject, than fifteen minutes. Mr. HADLEY seconded the resolution; and after a some- what lengthened and humourous conversation, in which Mr. Edmonds and several others took part, the resolution was amended by substituting twenty minutes for a quarter of an hour; and thus amended was agreed to. Mr. G. F. MUHTZ said there was one subject he wished to introduce to the notice of the Council, because he con- sidered it of very great importance, and interesting to all in the room. He alluded to tbe declaration of the members of the Loyal and Constitutional Association against the re- establishment of the Union. That declaration was quite consistent with the old principles of the party. They had not only signed it themselves, but, as usual, they had put down their ditto's; they had put down not only tbe shop- keepers, but their servants and apprentices. Now, in his opinion, it would be a great advantage to the Reformers to be able to refer occasionally to the names of the gentle- men who had signed that declaration, and, for that pur- pose, he wished a cheap edition of that list to be published, in order that each Reformer should see who they were who signed it; whom they were with whom he had to deal. ( Loud cheers.) In such a hard fight as they had before them— for although they had had several hard fights, still he feared they would have many more— it was their duty to take all legal, peaceable, and orderly means to op- pose the common enemy—( renewed cheers)— and the best and most effectual means he knew of was, for them not to give their money to men who, like the protesters, op- posed their rights by falsehood and misrepresentation. He was the last man who would recommend such a course if he dul not see a necessity for it; and if he did not know that it had been and was daily acted upon by their oppo- nents. They had done so with himself. For twenty years he had been in the habit of doing work for a manu- facturer, whose custom was at once, and without any cause being assigned, taken from him. He put some questions to the party, and by them he was told that the work had been well and punctually executed, that all his transactions had been straightforward and honourable, and that the gentleman had never received better treatment from any man with whom he had had dealings. Well, having obtained these admissions, he pushed his enquiries further, and he was at last told that the sole reason why he lost the per- son's custom was because he differed from him in politics. This Tory manufacturer actually told him that was the only reason why he took his work from him. ( Shame- shame.) He asked him what he ( Mr. M.) hail ever said, in the course of his political agitation, that was unjust - what measure had he ever proposed or supported injurious to the rights of any individual; and to this the Tory gentleman was obliged to reply that he knew of none. He then aked him if such were the fact, did be expect he would change his opinions forsake of the employment he derived from him; he told him he certainly would not, and he might take his employment where he pleased. ( Cheers.) Having himself suffered as far as their malignity could go, and believing that they must fight their enemies with their own weapons, be did then recommend it, and say it was the duty of every Reformer who wished well to himself, to his fellow townsmen, and to his country, to look at the list of protestors, which had just appeared, and learn from that list who they were with whom he ought to deal, and who they were with whom he ought not to deal. ( Cheers.) If they acted on this rule, steadily and firmly,- they never would again see another declaration against the Lnion,— at least such a one as had appeared. He proposed tins resolution at the present meeting, because it was pro- bable he might not be in Birmingham for some days to come. The Tories published a similar declaration some time ago, and he then told them if they ever published another they would repent it; but wisdom was not in ( hem, honour was not in them, and he could safely say, from their late conduct towards himself and others, that honesty was not in them. After the manner they had treated him, what had the poor and the woiking man to expect from them? Nothing but tyranny and oppression, grinding poverty and degredation. He therefore gave tbe poor and the labouring man his advice to meet them boldly; he cared nothing about them ; they could not injure him ; he could take care of himself. But if the industrious classes ever again let them get the rule over them, so sure as they did, so sure would they have leasoti to rue tiieir supineness. Let them unitedly, spiritedly, and firmly adopt the practice he had re- commended, and get tbe list printed, so that every man would know how to deal with those who bad, as far as theic power lay, insulted and trampled upon him. Mr. HADLEY said he rose with great pleasure to second the resolution, and he did so from a conviction that it was one amongst other means which would have the effect o£ bringing their Conservative friends to their senses. The Reformers of Birmingham had been repeatedly spit upon by them, and they had endured their insults long enough. ( Cheers.) They had borne every insult offered by them, and he did not know a single act of retaliation they had ever indulged in. When he saw the declaration they had issued against the Union; when he knew that the people or theic leaders had not violated a single law; when he knew it was their wish to uphold and maintain the law; when he knew that, from the first hour the old Political Union was estab- lished, until tbe present moment, that not a single violafion of the law had ever taken place, or been recommended by them ; when he knew all this, and knew also that their only object was to enquire into, and ascertain the cause of the national calamity which had come upon them, with u view to remedy; when he knew they only desired to raise the condition of the poor, and procure for them, if possible, those rights of which tbey had been deprived, and that labour and just reward for it to which they were entitled; he felt most indignant at the impudent assump- tion on the part of any men to dare to denounce them. ( Cheers.) He defied them to show any personal advantage he or his friends bad ever gained by advocating; the cause of the people. He defied them to show they had any other than tbe motives they professed; and if they could not prove that they had, he would ask them how dared they so denounce them? ( Cheers.) They had no right to do so,- and he for one would never again consent to submit to such insults without resenting them. As for any real injury the published list could do them or the public cause, it wasouC of the question. It was well known to all, that it had served to swell the numbers of the Union. ( Cheers.) Still, its authors did not design it to produce that effect. They designed to injure it if they could, and where and how they could, and there was, therefore, no thanks to them if it had not the effect desired. He was glad for one reason they bad published their list. It showed pretty well the strength of their party;—( hear, hear.)_ It showed the miserable condition they were reduced to, when out of a population of 160 thousand, they could only procure seven hundred persons, of all descriptions, to oppose the Union. He hoped the proposed list would be speedily printed, and in ( be hands of the people, and he would suggest that the names be printed, together with the residence and trade of the protestors, Mr. AARON supported tbe resolution. Considering his standing in society, no man had greater reason for support- ing it than he had. It would be strange if he, as a surgeon, when called upon to attend a patient, would stop to ask the person's creed or politics before he would consent to go and minister the necessary relief. ( Hear, hear.) Was it not equally strange in tbe patient to ask what was tbe creed or politics of the surgeon, before he would consent to ask his advice? ( Hear, hear.) Yet such had been tbe case in reference to himself times without number. If the Re- formers of Birmingham would carry out the resolution, and the example of the Tories in respect to exclusive dealing, nothing would more tend to bring their opponents to their senses. They must not, however, attach more importance to the list than it really deserved. He knew it contained forgeries, and that names had been attached to it in the most shameless manner. The names of several excellent Reformers had been putin the list, only they bad taken the precaution-- to jnake some slight alteration in the spelling, in order to evade detection. Mr. Aaron noticed several instances of this. All their tricks, however, would lie of no avail. The declaration against the formation j> f the Union, would have justas much effect in stopping the re- organisation of that body, as the caudle and lantern of the boy in London had, when used to set fire to the Thames. Mr. DOUGLAS said the proposition before the meeting was, in its consequences, one of a very grave character. It was one which went to set up a hedge between man and mail, and they ought to be well convinced of its necessity, arid see clearly the grounds upon which they were called to accede to it. Although the Tories had used him as they had used his friend Mr. Muntz, and even worse; still, un- less he was convinced there existed a public necessity for the proposed course; and that tbe conduct of the protesters was such us called for such a measure of defence, he should hesi- tate before he adopted it. He was one of those who would discriminate between men who could not see the wrong, and those who could, and would not see it. He would be in. clined to pity the unfortunate Tory who belonged to the first class, rather than to injure him. He really did believe there were Tories who could not see their enor; and if he could draw a distinction between them and those who saw it, and yet would go on iu it, he would know where to begin. In order, therelore, to arrive at this knowledge, I hey must view the conduct, and ascertain, if possible, the motives of the men who had signed the declaration. In the tii ,- t place, they must recollect that these men were, as much as tbey were, fully entitled to give expression to their opinions in any legal and constitutional manner they thought proper. Not content, however, with doing so, they had the effrontery to protest against their fellow- men for exercising a similar right. They were not content with the powers of the law to suppress the illegalities of the Union, if any t- hould be committed, nor were they content with the constitutional power which they possessed of applying to Parliament for new laws, if the present were found inefficient. No, this was not enough to satisfy them, but they must take upon themselves the right to denounce and hold up, as much aa they could, to public contempt and execration those who dared to exercise their rights as the law and tbe constitution freely permitted them. They assumed to themselves the right to meet and form themselves into political associations, to appoint officers, and publish so much or so litt e of their proceedings as answered their purpose. Tl ey assumed to 2 THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. i themselves the right, in their capacity as a political society, to address the public and the highest authorities in the con- stitution; and yet the moment another portion of the com- munity— men in every way as respectable as themselves, and in nothing under Heaven one iota inferior—( cheers)— the moment these men united together to petition the Legisla- ture, or to exercise their lawful functions as citizens and freemen, that moment these impudent persons issued their protest against them. ( Hear, hear.) They nounced the Unionists for doing that which they deemed not only not illegal, but which they had done themselves. In his opinion when men came forward to interfere thus insolently with the free exercise of their right, then the question of exclusive dealing became one which might be entertained by those who were thus at- tempted to be crushed. If a grocer thought proper to de- nounce him ( Mr. Douglas) as a mischievous person, and hold him up to the town and to the kingdom as a vile character, he did not see why he had not a right to with- hold his money in future from the man that so denounced him. If the cheese- monger and the ale- seller acted in the same manner lie did not see why he was obliged to deal with such men, in preference to those who were disposed to act a just and generous part by him. ( Hear, hear.) Mr. EDMONDS said when his friend Mr. Douglas com- menced his address he had reason to think he would have arrived at a different conclusion. The question, however, before the meeting was not, in his opinion, a question whether they were to agree to a system of exclusive deal- ing or not, because the resolution went only to the publi- cation of the list, and did not recommend exclusive deal- ing. He thanked God such was the case, because he most certainly never could agree to such a resolution. He was most decidedly an advocate for liberty, and had been all his lite, though he knew that it had been a charge against the Reformers, that whilst they preached up liberty they were the greatest tyrants themselves, and most ready to coerce those whJ differed from them. Now he considered the question of liberty was certainly involved in the question of exclusive dealing; and he, for one, never would be a party to making political differences of opinion a ground of separator! between man and man. In reference to the Loyal ind Constitutional Association, there was no man who eitertained a more deadly hatred to its principles than h( did ; he would denounce them in every shape and form; and would, with all his heart, if it would do any good, sign a protest against them. This he had a right to do. This right he claimed, and this right he was willing to extent to them. Their declaration was nothing more than an exiression of hostility against the Union, and in his opinioi they had a right to protest against it if they saw fit. Each party had a right to the free expression of their feelings, and hi never would consent to interfering with that sacred right. He knew that great mischief had been inflicted upon manknd by that party; that they had, as a body, been a curseto the world; and he was ready and willing to oppose them but he could never consent to do so at the expense of princple. He had no objection to the publication of the list nerely to exhibit so much wickedness and folly, but he cerbinly could not nor would he recommend them to in- terfere with the signers in respect to their trade or calling. It was a mode of persecuting men for their opinions, whih he could not agree to. Br. G. F. MUNTZ said, he was somewhat surprised at the instruction Mr. Edmonds had put upon his observa- tion: ; he had not recommended a system of exclusive deal- ing no; there was no man who would be more unwilling to recommend such a system. What then had he recom- mended ? Why he had only advised them not to deal with those who had denounced them ; he had recommended them not to deal with those who had dared to charge upon them all the misery of the past; who had accused them of every crime and injustice they could think of; and who had done all in their power to blast and destroy their characters throughout the country. Was he to be told that when men coolly and deliberately satdown to destroy the character and reputation of their fellow men, that they were exercising a right— a sacred right— which was not to be interfered with ? ( Cheers.) If that was a right, he would say, accursed be such a right. ( Renewed cheers.) If that was liberty which gave to any man, or body of men, a right to malign, traduce, and vilify his or their fellow men, he would say, accursed be such liberty. It was a right and liberty he had never taken; it was a right he would never concede to any man. ( Cheers,) It was against the men who had assumed this infamous liberty he wished to direct his observations, and not against Tories indiscriminately. He did not wish to make a general denunciation. He knew there were many honourable and conscientious Tories, who had not signed that protest, aud who weie, in every sense of the word, entitled to all the courtesies of their fellow- townsmen to the fair play of honourable warfare; with one of those men he would not interfere. ( Cheers.) But with those who had interfered with them and their reputation he would interfere; and if the Reformers were so weak as to be afraid to give expression to their just feelings of indignation on such an occasion, they deserved all the insult they had got. With all regard for the liberty of the subject, with every desire to perpetuate arid extend that liberty, he felt confident there was no illiberality in denouncing men who had first denounced them. There was no impropriety in discouraging and discountenancing men who would and had belied and traduced them. This they had done know- ingly, willingly, and intentionally; and if the Union suffered, they had themselves to please. ( Loud cheers.) Mr. DOUGLAS explaned ; he had taken the same view of the resolutio ^ s Mr. Muntz. What he had said, and what he felt, was, r'. at any man who, without any just grounds, denounced his fellow man as a public enemy, ought him- self to be denounced and treated as such. Mr. EDMONDS suggested that the names which had been erroneously put upon the list, should be omitted in the proposed publication. Mr. HADLKY said persor. s who had to complain of their names having been inserted without their knowledge, and no doubt they would coirect the mistakes through the Journal. The resolution was then put by the chairman, and carried unanimously. Mr. MUNTZ said he would take advantage of this oppor- tunity, as he might not be in town during the following week, to call the attention of the people t'o the absolute ne- cessity of immediately eniollirg themselves as members of the Political Union. The difficulties they had met with were nothing compared with what they had to expect. This he had frequently told them before in the sunshine of prosperity, and had been as frequently ridiculed for broaching such ideas. Now, however, the time Irad arrived when the most incredulous were convinced that he had told the truth. Some years ago, immediately after the passing of the Re- form bill, he had taken an opportunity, at a public meeting, to caution them against the dissolution of the Unions, which were said to be no longer necessary. He then re- peated to them the fable of the wolves and the sheep. The wolves called upon them to get rid of their dogs, as, being upon friend y terms with them, they were no longer ne- cessary. The sheep complied with the request, and so soon as the dogs were gone the wolves devoured them. The Reformers were the sheep, the Unions the dogs, the Tories the wolves. The result had justified his expectations. ( Hear, hear. ) The Unions bad been first neglected and then dissolved, and the Reformers were all but devoured by the Tories. Now again he repeated to them the abso- lute necessity of raising the Union to its fullest power, being the only means by which the Reformers could com- pete, by their numbers, with the wealthier few. By such means alone could they obtain the permanent cure for those alternations of misery to which they were continually subjected. By extending the franchise so as to enable them to return to the House of Commons a majority of men of business, who understood the true interests of the people, instead of lordlings and scions of nobility, who never had learned anything— never could learn, and never would learn anything— that was useful. He, therefore, exhorted and entreated them earnestly and zealously to support the Union until it was more powerful than ever. Their enemies had done all in their power to obtain their support to the Loyal and Constitutional Union, and because they would not come forward even without contributing, they reviled them most falsely and maliciously because they now subscribed and paid to the Political Union. He concluded by calling 011 them to conduct themselves in a legal, constitutional, just, and honourable manner, which was the only way by which permanent good could be obtained, and by which they could justify themselves to their consciences and their country. Mr. EDMONDS exhorted the men to abide by the council of such men as Mr. Attwood—( Cheers )— and Mr. Muntz. They had evinced a thorough knowledge of the wants of the people, and he believed they were well acquiinted with the cause of their distress. He then adverted to the growing poverty amongst the poor, which he described in very strong and feeling terms. He said it was increasing to a degree beyond conception, and unless some remedy was speedily applied, it would soon be beyond endurance. Three cheers for the " Bundle of sticks" having been called for and responded to, the meeting then broke up. TOWN'S MEETING, TO ADDRESS THE PRINCESS VICTORIA. On Tuesday a highly respectable meeting, convened on requisition by the High Bailiff, was held in the Town- hall, for the purpose of agreeing to an address to be presented to the Princess Victoria, on her attaining her legal majority. The High Bailiff, Robert Webb, E< q., on taking the chair, at twelve o'clock, read the requisition calling the meeting. He observed that he had very little to say upon the subject of the meeting. It was a very happy, and certainly an im- portant occasion. The Princess Victoria, on the ensuing day, would attain that age at which, if it should please Pro- vidence to remove their gracious Sovereign, she would be enabled, according to law, to take into her own hands the reins of Government without the intervention of a regency. All present would with him ( Mr. Webb) deeply regret whenever, in the course of Providence, they must lose their present Sovereign. ( Hear, hear.) He had been a good monarch to the country; and, since his accession to the Throne, had given his assent to many very good and useful laws. With respect to the Princess Victoria, they did not at present know a great deal about that illustrious lady, but what they did know was favourable. She was possessed ol very considerable abilities, and of a kind, benevolent, and amiable disposition—( hear, hear)— and having had the ad- vantage of being educated by a most intelligent and discreet mother, they had much to hope from lier accession to the Throne. When she came to the Throne she would no doubt recollect those great and enlarged views of Govern- ment which she had imbibed in her education, and acting upon them she could not fail to be well qualified to rule over this great and important nation. ( Hear, hear.) JAMES JAMES, Esq., Low Bailiff, came forward to pro- pose'the first resolution. He said nothing but the office which it was his honour to hold could induce him to take so prominent a part in the proceedings of the day; and, so called on, he felt it would not be good taste for him to occupy their time at any great length. There were present gentlemen much more competent to address them than he was, and he should not long detain them from the pleasure of hearing them. Connected with the object of the meeting, he would say there was one truth so obvious to all, that it would carry conviction to every mind, and that was, that an essential element of the British character was attach- ment to constitutional monarchy ; and so strong was it that every opportunity was seized to evince it. They were called upon that morning to give expression to their feelings of loyalty, and they had cheerfully responded to the call. There were many gratifying facts connected with the short history of the illustrious lady who was the subject of the meeting; but the chief one was, that she had been reared by that in- valuable lady, who, though a stranger in a strange land, had, by her conduct, secured to herself the gratitude and affection of the British people; and who would also, he had no doubt, secure the affections of future ages. She had succeeded in forming a character which would be the hope and promise of this country—( hear, hear)— and although he responded to the sentiment uttered by the High Bailiff, that his pre- sent Majesty might long reign over a free, loyal, and at- tached people, and that the day might be yet far distant when he would descend to the tomb, yet it was to him a matter of great consolation to know, that they had, in that event, such a cheering prospect before them, iu the antici- pated accession of the Princess Victoria. ( Hear, hear.) He believed the Princess Victoria was destined to be a blessing to this country. ( Hear, hear.) He felt convinced that such was not only the feeling of the meeting, but the feeling of the town generally. The inhabitants of Birmingham yielded to none in attachment to the Throne; they knew it had been a means of shelter and protection ; they claimed some affinity to those principles which placed the House of Hanover on the Throne, and hence their loyalty and devo- tion to the monarchy of the empire. He hoped the House of Hanover would long continue to reign, and that England was yet destined to be more illustrious than ever under its sway. Mr. James concluded by proposing the resolution. Mr. WILLIAM REDFERN said he had only undertaken the office of seconding the resolution, which had just been put into the hands of the chairman, in absence of the gentleman who had been specially appointed to^ loso. He did not intend to inflict a long speech upon the meeting. He had but a very few sentences to utter, and he would have done. They were told in history that Augustus had found Rome of brick and left it of marble. This was deemed to be high re- nown. Perhaps it was; but, in his ( Mr. R.' s) opinion, it was not that high and dignified and exalted species of re- nown which became the ruler of a great people. It was a renown that might be achieved by a tyrant and which had been achieved by a tyrant:— for Augustus was a tyrant; he had lobbed the Roman people of their liberties, of the patriotic spirit of their forum, of the glowing eloquence of their orators, of all control over their own Government, and of all power in the appointment of their own function- aries; and in exchange he had given them marble palaces, sumptuous baths, and splendid theatres, where, lost in luxury, they forgot the manly virtues of their forefathers. This was not the renown that a good citizen or patriot states- man would covet. This was not the renown which he coveted for the future Queen of these realms. ( Cheers.) He trusted ivhen she was gathered to her fathers, ( and he hoped that period was far distant) our posterity would be able to say that under hergovernment England flourished in peace and plenty at home, and was respected and honoured abroad. " In conclusion," observed Mr. Redlern, " there is another wish near and dear to my heart. It is a wish in which, I believe, every person present may not coincide to the full extent of my meaning, and therefore in giving utterance to it I hold no one pledged to its adop- tion. That wish is— that, engraven in ever enduring characters upon her tomb, may be this epitaph— that in the Sister Kingdom she found seven millions of human beings almost slaves, and that she left them entirely free." ( Loud and continued cheering.) The resolution was then put to the meeting by the chair- man, and passed unanimously. Mr. WILLIAM PmrspN said, although he felt great plea- sure in attending the meeting, he felt great diffidence in being called on to follow the last speaker, who had so elo- quently addressed them. He appeared before them the representative of an estimable clergyman, whom the com- mittee intended should have submitted the address he held in his hand. He had spent a good deal of time that morn- ing with the gentleman to whom he alluded, endeavouring to prevail upon him to attend the meeting, , but he was unable to do so, owing to prior engagements. He had authorised him, however, to say he fully and entirely concurred in every sentiment contained in the address; and that nothing but urgent business prevented him from attending. ( Name, name.) The gentleman he alluded to was the Rev. Rann Kennedy. ( Applause.) Mr. Phipson then read the address, which he said had been drawn up by the Low Bailiff, the Rev. Dr. Jeune, Mr. Wills, and Mr. Arbuth- not, and concluded by proposing its adoption. Mr. WILLS said lie had great pleasure in seconding the resolution proposed by Mr. Phipson. He would not tread upon the ground which had been so well occupied by gentle- men who had spoken before him, by adverting to the circumstances peculiar to the Princess Victoria, and which gave a grace and interest to the present meeting. Indepen- dent of these circumstances, he had great pleasure in second- ing the resolution, because it implied that they respected themselves; because it implied that 011 that and every similar occasion, they recognised the great principles of constitutional liberty, which placed the house of Hanover on the throne. While they recognised these principles, they, of necessity, attracted the object of their address to a consideration of them. It could not eseape the attention of that illustrious lady, that she was not recognised by the people as the heiress of the Throne, for the purposes of private or individual aggrandisement; but that she was recognised upon those great principles which constituted her true title to that high dignity. ( Applause.) The ad- dress would call to her mind, that she was the heiress of a family which was seated on the Throne to the exclusion of a monarch who had forgotten what was due to his people ; and who, in consequence, had justly forfeited their affections and allegiance. Upon these general grounds he cheerfully seconded the adoption of the address. The address was then read, and being put, was carried unanimously. The Rev. T. M. M'DONNELL said he had the honour to move that the members for the borough be requested to pre- sent the address to Her Royal Highness. He believed the members for the borough were not very well known at Court; and lie was not quite certain that they had any great anxiety to be known there. It would, however, be gratify- ing to them to know that on this occasion they would go to Court to present the affectionate and loyal address, of a grateful people to one of the most important members of the Royal Family. ( Hear, hear.) Yes, they would pre- sent an address from a people who well knew the value and importance of constitutional liberty— a people, who, with- out arms in their hands, had sucessfully risen up in the vindication and assertion of that liberty. They would tell her that their only object was to secure the throne to the monarch, and liberty and happiness to the people. Many falsehoods were propagated throughout the town and em- pire, against the people of Birmingham ; but they had by tin' tenor of their conduct given a palpable refutation of the calumnies of their enemies. For what purpose, he would ask. were they assembled that day? They were met to offer the sincere and honest expression of their loyalty and attachment to their future Queen. They would let others go like crawling slaves to the foot of the throne, and re- quest the future monarch to become the representative of a paltry faction ; but they came forward to offer to her the sympathies of a powerful, a free, and a generous nation. ( Cheers.) He should be very glad, if he could be permitted within the precincts of royalty, to ask her Royal High- ness, which did she likeliest— to be the partizan of a faction which was expiring, and with which she also must expire, if she became connected with it;—( cheers)— or to be the Queen of a free and determined people, who were ready to surround and protect her at all hazards against the combined enemies of the world. ( Hear, hear.) The people knew the value of their liberties, and they respected the Princess because they believed she had been educated in the princi- ples ol liberty. ( Hear, hear.) Gentlemen present must allow him to say, he did riot concur in opinion with those who thought they were so greatly indebted to the House of Hanover for civil and religious liberty— in fact, he knew of no House which had practised so little of it; still he should not then have alluded to it, were it not that he was unwilling to come before his fellow townsmen, and by his* silence, appear to subscribe to sentiments he did not agree to in his own breast. At present the House of Hanover was the great guarantee of civil liberty; but they must recollect that it was only in the reign of the late King, and that too against his will, that the Dissenters had been placed upon any thing lik a footing with the ascendancy Church; and it was only in the same reign, that the Catholics were finally relieved from the iniquitous laws to which they had been subjected ; and admitted within the pale of the constitution. The present dynasty had oc- cupied the throne for 114 years, from 1715 to 1829, before those concessions were made; and it was not too much to say they were a long time schooled before they learned the principles of religious liberty. It was their present Monarch, who, in 1832, learned the principles of civil liberty and signed the great charter of liberty. Before the passing of that measure the people, it was true, could meet, and they had the name of enjoying liberty; but in reality until they had obtained that bill, which, to a certain extent, gave them controul over their rulers, they could not be called free men. ( Hear, hear.) He must confess he felt a lurking attachment to His Majesty for that measure; for, although it was not a complete measure ( hear, hear), he had no doubt it would eventually enable the people to work out the rest. He was happy to believe that the Princess Victoria would prefer to be the Queen of a powerful nation rather than be made an instrument of the greatest tyranny which ever cursed any nation. She was daughter of the first member of the royal family, who ever took part in or identified himself with the interests of the people; and her mother was a lady of distinguished attachments, who, hav- ing broken through the thraldom of early education, had, with a greatness of soul they could hardly expect to find in a man, decided upon believing that she and her daughter were not born to minister to the bad passions of a few, but to the wants and happiness of the many. He was glad the people had come forward on the eve of her daughter's legal birth, to offer to her their allegiance and protection. That meeting, and all such, ought to be deemed invaluable, be- cause they were composed of men from whom it was at- tempted to estrange the Princess. He had, therefore, great pleasure in requesting their high- spirited representatives to carry their congratulations to Her Royal Highness; and, if speeches were permitted upon such occasions, he hoped tliey would make one worthy of the men of Birmingham. Mr. JOSEPH WALKER said he would not detain the meet- ing with any lengthened remarks. He concurred most fully in all that had been said by the previous speaker; and he cordially seconded the resolution. The resolution was then put and carried unanimously. The High Bailiff having left the chair, the Low Bailiff was called to it, upon which Mr. EDMONDS rose to propose a vote of thanks to the chairman, and 011 doing so said, he had the honour to pro- pose a resolution which was considered usual and formal 011 these occasions. He meant a vote of thanks to the chair- man. ( Hear, hear.) Perhaps, however, lie would be allowed to make a few observations relative to the general question, particularly as the meeting was not fatigued with what had been said, and what had been so well said. He felt great pleasure in seeing associated, on that occasion, men of all parties who divided this great country, for the purpose of paying a tribute of affection to a lady whom he ( Mr. E.) had no doubt would be a friend to the people. If they had met merely to pay an empty tribute to royalty, he thought, at that particular juncture, when the poor were suffering such dire calamities throughout the land from want of employment, and when there were such peculiar circum- stances connected with Ireland pending, he should have felt a difficulty in appearing before tliern to pay this tribute. He came, however, because every one who knew him knew that he was a Radical Reformer. The address had been framed so as to evade all party objections, and secure the approbation of the highest Tory as well as the most intense Radical, and he was glad it was so. At the same time, he could not but consider what sort of satisfaction each of the different parties must fee) in concurring in the address. With respect to his excellent friends the Tories, he could not dive into their hearts and ascertain the motives which agitated their gentle feelings; but he supposed they were delighted at the thought that they were met to pay respect to a family brought into this country by the people, and that to the exclusion of a tyrant. He presumed, when they boasted of the Revolution, it was 011 the ground that the people had a right to elect their own monarch. ( Applause.) If such were their feelings, he most cordially sympathised with them. He was always delighted in having grounds upon which he could meet the adverse party; and with the Tories he now expressed a hope that the people of Great Britain never would become the slaves pf royalty, or anything else, but that they would rise in mass, when- ever their liberties were infringed upon, and declare that the whole machinery of the Constitution was made for the entire, and not a section of the people, and that it must work accordingly. ( Cheers.) He felt sorry there were not present a greater number of those Conservative gentlemen, who had displayed their loyalty by putting buttons on their coats with the crown upon them ; he had hoped they would have followed up their loyalty, and attended at the call of the High Bailiff, to give expression publicly to their attachment to the heiress of the Crown. Surely, the Tories did not feel aggrieved that the lady whom they were met to honour was not to be super- seded by a man who stood upon the top of the Conservative ladder of preferment. Surely, they did not prefer him to the morally pure and excellent lady whom providence had des- tined to be their future Queen. But there was another class present, lie meant his excellent friends the Whigs; whom he met with still greater satisfaction. He made a great distinction between the statesmen of that party who had conferred great benefit on the country, and those who declared that an extension of liberty would be an injury to the state. He knew the time would soon arrive, when the former class would find the interests of the millions were identified with their own, and that the rights and interests of property would only be secured and respected, in propor- tion as justice was done to all. ( Applause.) He was equally delighted to see before him his brother Radicals, and he was sure he could say for them they had come there with no other guide than their own consciences. He defied any party to show that they were actuated by any base or party motives. No, they attended from pure loyalty, to ex- press their confidence in the lady who was to be their future Queen, and whom they hoped, by her impartiality, would be justly entitled to be called the " mother of her country— ( Hear, hear.) If he could address that lady, he would caution her against faction of every kind;—( hear, hear)— he would caution her against the sycophancy of a court, and implore her to exercise the great powers that she possessed, and consider that she was destined to influence, for good or evil, the fate of the millions, not only of her own subjects, hut those of other monarchs. He would caution her not to be deluded by the lies of the faction which might be in power, or those of the faction out of power. He would caution her not to give way to the false idea that the men then before him ought to be kept slaves. ( Cheers.) He would tell her the people had ever been too confiding ; and that if they had any fault, it was that they had paid too ready a submission to those in power; whilst they suffered their rights and liberties to be wrung from them. He would now return to the resolution with which he started. He was glad the High Bailiff had conferred upon them two favours. The first was, that he had given them an opportunity of meeting in their Town- hall, from which they had been long excluded. In this he thanked him. In the second place, he felt thankful to him for calling the meeting, and taking the chair. He had not only in this, but every similar occasion, discharged his duty towards the inhabitants, and he considered him justly entitled to their best thanks. ( Cheers.) Mr. SAMUEL BEAL seconded the resolution, but in the few observations that he made, he spoke in so low a tone of voice, that our reporter could not catch the words. He concluded by expressing his entire concurrence in the pro- ceedings of the day. Mr. WILLIAM PHIPSON said as a very considerable devia- tion had taken placC from the course usually pursued in moving thanks to the chairman, he hoped he would be per- mitted to notice a remark made by Mr. Edmonds respect- ing the Town- hall. He perceived from want of informa- tion, or some worse motives, every opportunity was taken to throw odium upon the Commissioners, as if they took pleasure in keeping that building from the inhabitants. Now, however well deserving the High Bailiff was of thanks for his conduct, and no man was more willing to admit his right to the approbation of his fellow- townsmen on this and all other occasions; still he thought it was not justice to the Commissioners to attribute to him all the merit of opening the Hall. The fact was, everything which could be done by the Commissioners had been done to prepare the Hall for the use of any portion of the inhabitants who might want it. He thought it only justice to the Commissioners to say so much. Mr. EDMONDS said he did not mean to attribute bad mo- tives to any person. Mr. PHIPSON : I did not allude to what you said. The Low BAILIFF said he could testify to the desire en- tertained by the Commissioners to get the Hall ready for public use, and it was to them and the High Bailiff they were indebted for it being ready for the present occasion. He was also happy to be able to bear testimony to the great anxiety evinced by the High Bailiff to do justice to all parties, arid from a knowledge of his services arid impartiality, he confidently called upon them to pass the resolution he had to propose. The vote of thanks to the Chairman was then put and carried, with loud and continued applause. The HIGH BAILIFF returned thanks, after which the meeting broke up. The following is the address :— " To Her Royal Highness the Princess Alexandrina Victoria. " We, the inhabitants of the Borough of Birmingham, in Town's Meeting assembled, beg leave to approach Youi Royal Highness with sentiments of heartfelt attachment to Your Royal Person. " We joyously avail ourselves of the present opportunity to congratulate' Your Royal Highness on your arrival at that important period of Your Royal Highness's life, when, by law, you are qualified to exercise the functions of Royalty, in the event of your accession to the Throne of these realms. " In common with all the rest of the subjects of our most gracious Monarch, we fervently pray that His Majesty may long be preserved to reign over a loyal and united people, while we cherish the thought that when it shall be the will of a wise Providence to bereave us of his paternal protection, the Sceptre will be transmitted to a Princess worthy of her great inheritance. " We know that Your Royal Highness has been reared with anxious care by an illustrious parent, who has instilled into your mind those Christian principles which give lustre to exalted station, and formed in your breast, by precepts and example, the virtues which alone can secure the glory of rulers, and the good of their people. " May He, by whom Kings reign, enrich Your Royal Highness with His choicest gifts, and make you long an ornament and a blessing to your country. " Signed, " ROBERT WEBB. " DINNER AT DEE'S HOTEL. ( We give the following as abridged from the Tory paper of Thursday): — James Taylor, Esq., presided, and Mr. Armfield and Mr. Beswick officiated as Vice- Presidents. The dinner having been removed— The CHAIRMAN begged to drink " The King," and " long life to him!" ( Loud cheers.)—" The Queen" followed. The CHAIRMAN.— They were met on a most interesting occasion— on the Heiress Presumptive to the Throne of Great Britain attaining an age when she became qualified to assume the duties of Sovereignty, in the event of the demise of the Crown; and he ( the Chairman) could not propose the health of the Princess, without alluding to those consti- tutional principles which seated the House of Hanover on the Throne of these realms. ( Loud cheers.) They all hoped and trusted, that Her Royal Highness had been brought up and educated in those principles, ( cheers), and if in the course of Providence she should succeed to the Throne, they had reason to believe she would still maintain Protestant ascendancy, which formed the strongest claim of her family to the throne, and by which she would gain the hearts and affections of all true Englishmen. ( Loud cheers.) " The Princess Alexandrina Victoria, the Heiress Pre- sumptive to the Throne," four times four. The CHAIRMAN was sure that the toast he was about to propose would prove most acceptable to the company. It was the health of" The Duke of Wellington, the great Cap- tain of the age." ( Loud and long- repeated cheers.) It was not only as the greatest Captain of the age that they drank the health of the Duke of Wellington, for, in other respects his character and talents were properly appreciated. ( Cheers.) He had been elected Chancellor of the Univer- sity of Oxford, an honour which would not have been con- ferred 011 him unless he had merited it. ( Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN had great pleasure and satisfaction in an- nouncing that, even in the House of Commons, the Consti- tution was gaining a great increase of supporters. ( Cheers.) Since they had sat down to dinner he had received an au- thorised report, from which it appearedf that, at half- past one o'clock that morning, upon a division, at which 569 members were present, the Ministerial measure for the abo- lition of Church- rates, was carried by a majority of only FIVE! ( Protracted cheering.) He begged to propose " Our glorious Constitution in Church and State," ( 3 times 3). Song—" The British Oak." The Rev. W. R. BEDFORD said, whether clergyman or layman, they must all feel that a Church Establishment in connection with the State, was a question most vitally affecting the welfare of England. ( Cheers.) If any of them entertained a doubt upon the subject, he would ask them, as fathers and as tradesmen, whether religion did not inculcate and enforce the performance of every duty more effectually than all other means ? and if so, whether it was not best taught by those who went through a regular educa- tion with that object. In conclusion, he hoped they would allow him to propose the health of their Chairman—" James Taylor, Esq.," one of tile steadiest and firmest friends ofthe Church of England. ( Loud cheers.) The CHAIRMAN was an admirer of the Constitution of England on principle, and moreover, because he believed that neither in theory, nor in practice was there such another excellent system of Government to be found 011 the face of the earth. ( Loud cheers.) E. L. WILLIAMS, Esq., proposed—" The House of Lords." It had been proposed to effect a change in that body, from some supposed offence taken by the Commons, because the Lords were not willing to submit to their dic- tation, and alleging also that that body did not sympathise with the people. Not sympathise with the people ! Did they not find their names prominent in all our subscriptions to public charities,, and as patrons to all our institutions for the encouragement of the arts and sciences? But what dolts must those men be who talked of altering what they did not understand! The great boast of the Radicals was, that Magna Charta should be preserved ; but when a change in the House of Lords was was talked of, what dolts must they be who foiget that that House was the ulterior Court of Appeal, the highest Court of Criminal Jurisdiction in the realm. Mr. E. F. Cox had the honour of proposing the health of—" The Earls of Dartmouth, Aylesford, and Bradford, the patrons to our charities and the benefactors to our town." Mr. CHARLES SHAW gave—" The health of Sir Robert Peel." The name of Sir Robert inspired the friends of the Constitution with confidence, while it carried dismay to their enemies. He had made a stand in the Conservative cause, and it was their duty to rally round him. ( Loud cheers.) It was to Sir Robert Peel that they must look at the present; it was to that statesman they must look in the House of Commons for the preservation of the Church and State. ( Loud and enthusiastic cheering.) The CHAIRMAN said he had now the pleasure of proposing a toast, which would come home to every Englishman's heart; it was—" The health of Sir Francis Burdett, and the Conservative electors of Westminster," and may their noble example, in the defence of Constitutional principles, be imitated throughout the United Kingdom. ( Loud cheers.) The CHAIRMAN : " The Universities of the United Kingdom." Mr. GUTTERIDGE replied to the toast. The Universities were distinguished by the names of the most eminent among the Peers and the Commons, from Sir Robert Peel, and last but not least, to that good old Englishman, Sir Francis Bur- dett. The University of Dublin had redeemed the charac- ter of Ireland from being a moral waste in the land ; and the Protestant Clergy in the sister island had by their ex- emplary and self- denying conduct, been the means of pre- venting that unfortunate country from sinking into a state of absolute barbarism. The Rev. RVLAND BEDFORD : In the reign of Charles I. that monarch had been supported by the University of Ox- ford, and 011 all occasions the Universities had been the first to advance aud defend the principles of loyalty. Who was it, lie would ask, that resisted the encroachments of James I., was it not the University of Oxford ? Did not that Uni- versity resist the tyranny of the Stuart? There was one other University to which he wished to allude, and that was the London University; and in reference to this seat of learning he would say that he trusted it would equal if not surpass the other Universities in loyalty to the throne, and in furthering the spiritual and moral welfare of the country. Mr. GEM proposed—" The Bishop and Clergy of the Diocese." The Rev. RYLAND BEDFORD returned thanks. He did hope, that, if it should be the will of Providence for the Princess to ascend the throne, that she would follow the example ofthe last Queen of England. It was iu her reign, that, in small livings, where the stipend was not sufficient to support the clergy, that Queen Anne's Bounty was in- stituted, being a Parliamentary grant to the clergy. He would further hope, tnat the Heiress Presumptive would, by similar means, support the Establishment, and follow the example of her illustrious predecessor, during whose reign there had been fifty churches built in the metrooolis by Parliamentary grant. An endeavour was now being made to erect 50 additional churches in London, but, he re- gretted to say, that it was left almost entirely to voluntary aid. I11 this town, St. Philip's Church had been built by Parliamentary grant in the reign of Queen Anne, and he would indulge the hope that the future Sovereign would fol- low so noble an example. The CHAIRMAN proposed the health of the " Members for the Northern Division of the County." The Rev. RILAND BKDFORDgave—" The Governors and Masters of King Edward's School."— They were well aware, that, on the the line of instruction adopted in this school, the interests of the town much depended, and he was happy to say that the system of instruction pursued there was of a most liberal character, and in conformity with the intentions of the Royal [ Founder?] Mr. C. INGLIBT : " The mercantile and manufacturing interests of Birmingham." The Company broke up at eleven o'clock. THE CRIMINAL INFORMATION. REX. V. MUNTZ, PARE, PIERCE, AND TLTOW. The motion to make the conditional rule absolute stood for Wednesday. The counsel on the one side and the other mustered in Court early, ( before the Judges arrived,) and in a conversation that took place between the two parties, the Attorney- General, who is for the prosecution, proposed to allow the rule to be enlarged, provided the defendants would then and there file the whole of their affidavits, and consent to go to trial next assizes in the event of the rule's being made absolute; aceepting of short notice, for that pur- pose. Sir Frederick Pollock and Mr. Hill on behalf of Messrs. Muntz and Pare, were disposed, in the first instance, to accede to this arrangement, which would, it is to be observed, have effectually precluded them from filing any additional affidavits, whatever additional facts might transpire in the interval; and acting on the supposition that the arrangement would be final, Mr. Erie, who was of counsel for the other de- fendants left the Court. Sir Frederick, however, on consulting with the agent of the parties, was induced to change his opinion, and on the Judges' taking their seats, the Attorney- General proceeded in terms of his notice to move. Sir Frederick then observed, that, as the Attorney- General would not consent to enlarge the rule without imposing conditions to which his clients were not disposed to submit, he must, lie sup- posed, proceed to show cause for the conditional rule's being discharged. He accordingly began to read his affidavits. He had, not, however, gone on for any- considerable time, when another and more equitable arrangement was made by the intervention of the Court, namely, that the matter should stand over for a few days— no definite number was mentioned— and that the defendants should agree, in consequence, to accept of short notice, but should not be precluded from filing additional affidavits. The opinion is, that the motion of the Attorney- General will be renewed in three or four days, probably on Monday. ELECTION OF A CHURCHWARDEN. APPLICATION FOR A MANDAMUS. BAIL COURT.— TUESDAY. THE KING V. THE CHURCHWARDENS OF BIRMINGHAM. Mr. HILL moved for a rule to show cause why a writ a mandamus should not issue, calling upon the defendants to show cause why a vestry should not be summoned for the purpose of electing churchwardens for the ensuing year. On Easter Tuesday, according to custom, an election took place, and two gentlemen, named Brown and Winfield, being proposed, the former was declared to he elected by the rector of the parish. A show of hands was demanded 011 the other side, and the rector said he would dispense with that part of the proceeding, and take the sense of the parishioners, as he was empowered by Sturges Bourne's act. The election took place without a show of hands, which he ( Mr. H.) admitted would not be conclusive, but at the same time, was a necessary preliminary step. A great deal of excitement prevailed 011 the occasion, and the rector, alleging that no vote had been tendered for the space of a quarter of an hour, thought proper to close the poll without computing the votes, and finally declared Brown duly elected. On former occasions, check clerks had been ap- pointed, and between 3,000 and 4,000 rate- payers had voted and if the rector had allowed the election to proceed similar numbers might have polled on this occasion. It was swornr that the polling cleiks, who were interested persons, went about the church canvassing for votes. Mr. Justice Coleridge : What are the specific grounds of complaint upon which you move? Mr. Hill: The right of the parishioners to vote was re- fused, which circumstance created so much excitement that it was impossible to go on with the election. Mr. Justice Coleridge: Has Brown been sworn in? Mr. Hill: It appears that he may be; the other indivi- dual is not in a condition to apply to the officers of the Ecclesiastical Court. Mr. Justice Coleridge: How could it be ascertained'that every person holding up his hand was an elector? " - Mr. Hill: Suppose, my lord, it was even an idle custom, the voters were entitled to it. . Mr. Justice Coleridge: Take a rule to show cause.— Rule granted. Mr. Hill then applied to have the writ served " on Mr. Brown ; to which the Court assented in case he had been sworn in as churchwarden. [ We take the above from Tuesday's Sun, with just such verbal alterations as are necessary to make it intelligible, which the reports of the Sun very seldom are. We have no difficulty here in supplying the lacuncewhich the bungling reporter has left from his not knowing the facts, and not attending to the counsel.] PUBLIC OFFICE. MONDAY, MAY 22. { Before T. Lawrence, Esq.) John Baylis, an apprentice to Mr. Derman, nail cutter, was committed for two months for neglecting his work. John Lawrence, on the complaint of Mr. Derham, was also committed for two months for neglecting and wilfully spoiling his work. WEARING SIDE ARMS— Two men, named Farley and Smith, privates of the 38th Regiment of Foot, four com- panies of which arrived here on Saturday, from Weedon 011 their march ' to Ireland, were brought up charged with having been drunk and disorderly in the stieets on Sunday. Chumbley, the officer, stated that on Sunday the pri- soners and some of tjie cavalry stationed in the barracks, were drinking together, and in the evening they made their way to Gosta Green. As they were going along they fel! out with spme persons in the street, and drew their side arms, and swore they would run any person through who came near them. He went up to them and endeavoured to get them away, but they refused, became outrageous, and cut one man who was standing by on the mouth with a bayonet, and they cut another on the hand. He at last se- cured them, and having obtained assistance, he conveyed them to prison. As he was going through Woodcock- street one of the horse soldiers came up to him, brandished his sword over his head, and swore he must not take them to prison. There were hundreds of people collected in the streets, and If the prisoners and their associates had not been deterred by the people they would have done much mischief. Mr. Bland corroborated Chumbley's statement, and Mr. Lawrence remanded the prisoners. Philip Tansley was committed for stealing three gowns and some pinafores belonging to Mr. Smith, of Bedlam's End, Balsall Heath. The prosecutor sent the clothes made up into a bundle to his daughter in Birmingham, and the prisoner stole them from the waggoner by whom they were to be delivered. Mr. Lawrence was the only magistrate in attendance, and the double cases were postponed. FRIDAY, MAY 26th. ( Before T. Lawrence and W. Blaheway, Esqrs.) Joseph Hipkiss was charged with forgery by Mr. Bolton of Spaik Brook, who, on being sworn, deposed as follows : On the 20th of March last, the prisoner, whom I had for- merly known, called at my house and said, " I understand you have a horse to sell;" I said I had, aud after some con- versation and trial of the horse, he agreed to purchase it at 11. 10s. if I would take a bill for 10/. 12s., which he then showed me, saying he had just received it from Mr. Richards for goods he had sold to him. I said I had no objection if he would allow me to enquire whether he was respectable. I then said to him " What Richaids is it?" and lie replied " Benjamin Richards, of Freeman- street." 1 aske< 3 him what he had sold him, and he replied, nails. I then agreed to take the bill, and the horse was to remain until 1 satisfied myself of the respectability of Richards. I then went and saw Mr. Richards the next day, and showed him the bill, and he then came with me to my house. As we were going along towards my house, we saw the prisoner near it, but he went away. I then went into the house, and from what my wife told me, I followed him, but he ran away. I, however, overtook him, and asked him to come back and take the horse, but he refused, and made off in company with another man. The bill was then produced, and Mr. Richards proved it was a forgery. The prisoner was committed. 2 THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. i POETRY. THE MOON. Wanderer ! that stoop'st so low, and com'st so near To human life's unsettled atmosphere ; Who lov'st with Night and Silence to partake. So might it seem, the cares of them that wake ; And, through the cottage- lattice softly peeping, Dost shield from harm the humblest of the sleeping ; What pleasure once encompassed those sweet names Which yet in thy behalf the Poet claims, An idolizing dreamer as of yore !— I slight them all; and, on this sea- beat shore Sole- sitting, only can to thoughts attend That bid me hail thee as the Sailor's Friend ; So call thee for heaven's grace through thee made known Bv confidence supplied and mercy shown, When not a twinkling star or beacon'B lignt Abates the perils of a stormy night j And for less obvious benefits, that find Their wav, with thy pure help, to heart and mind , Both for the adventurer starting in life s prime ; And veteran ranging round from clime to clime, Long- baffled hope's slow fever in lus veins, And wounds and weakness oft l. is labour's sole remains. The aspiring Mountains and the winding Streams, Empress of night! are gladdened by thy beams ; A look of thine the wilderness pervades, And penetrates the forest's inmost shades; Thou, chequering peaceably the minster s gloom, Guid'st the pale Mourner to the lost one s tomb ; Canst reach the Prisoner- to his grated cell Welcome, though silent and intangible!— And lives there one, of all that come and go On the great waters toiling to and fro, One, who has watched thee at some quiet hour Enthroned aloft in undisputed power, Or crossed by vapoury streaks aud clouds that move Catching the lustre they in part reprove— Nor sometimes felt a fitness in tliy sway To call up thoughts that shun the glare of day, And make the serious happier than the gay ? Yes, lovely Moon ! if thou so mildly bright Dost rouse, yet surely in thy own despite, To fiercer mood the phrenzy- strlcken brain, Let me a compensating faith maintain ; That there's a sensitive, a tender, part Which thou canst touch in every human heart, For healing and composure.— But, as least And mightiest billows ever have confessed Thy domination ; as the whole vast Sea Feels through her lowest depths thy sovereignty; So shines that countenance with especial grace On them who urgo the keel her plains to trace Furrowing its way right onward. The most rude. Cut off from home and country, may have stood— Even till long gazing hath bedimmed his eye, Or the mute rapture ended in a sigh- Touched by accordance of thy placid cheer, With some internal lights to memory dear, Or fancies stealing forth to soothe the breast Tired with its daily share of earth's unrest,— Gentle awakenings, visitations meek ; A kindly influence whereof few will speak, Though it can wet with tears the hardiest cheek; And when thy beauty in the shadowy cave Is hidden, buried in its monthly grave ; Then, while the Sailor, mid an open sea Swept by a favouring wind that leaves thought free, Paces the deck— no star perhaps ill sight, And nothing save the moving ship's own light To cheer the long dark hours of vacant night— Oft with his musings does thy image blend, In his mind's eye thy crescent horns ascend. And thou art still, O Moon, that Sailor's Friend! WORDSWORTH. BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE TO THE PRINCESS VICTORIA. BY MISS LANDON. When has the day the loveliest of its hours ? It is the hour when morn breaks into day. When dew- drops wet the yet unfolded flowers, And sunshine seems like hope upon its way. Then soars the lark, amid the azure singing A seraph's song, that is of heaven, not earth ; Then comes the wind, a fragrant wanderer, bringing The breath of vales, where violets have birth. Which of the seasons in the year is fairest ? That when the spring first blushes into bloom ; There is the beauty earliest and rarest, When the world warms with colour and perfume. Then are the meadows filled with pleasant voices, Earth one bright promise what it is to be; Then the green forest in its depth rejoices, Flowers in the grass, and buds upon the tree. If thus so fair the spring time and the morning. But in the world of leaf and bud; how fair, With all their early loveliness adorning, Still lovelier in our human world they are. outh is around thee, Jadye of the ocean, Ocean that is thy kingdom and tliy home, Where not a heart but kindles with emotion, Dreaming of honoured years that are to come. What is the light of morning's rosy breaking, To the young promise of that royal mind ? What are the hopes of sunny spring's awaking, To hopes which in thy future are enshrined ? Mighty the task, aud glorious the fulfilling, Duties that round thy future hours must be j The east and west depends upon thy willing- Mistress art thou wherever rolls the sea. Fair art thou, Princess, in thy youthful beauty, Thoughtful and pure the spirit claims its part; Gazing oil thy young face, a nation's duty Bursts forth into the homage of the heart. O'er thy high forehead is the soft liair braided; Be never darker shadow on that brow! Not yet one tint of youth's sweet hues is faded ; The loveliness of promise lights thee now. Around thee are a thousand hearts addressing Prayer for thy sake to every power divine ; No lip that names thee, names without a blessing, A nation's holiest wishes all are thine. Farewell unto thy childhood, and for ever; Youth's careless hours dwell not around a throne; The hallowed purpose, and the high endeavour, The onward- looking thought must be thine own. ***** From glowing Ind to Huron's waters spreading Extends the empire that our swords hath won ; There have our souls been peace and knowledge shedding j Upon thy sceptre never sets the sun. A nobler triumph still awaits thy winning, " The mind's etherial war" is in its birth ; The Cross of Christ is on its way, beginning Its glorious triumph o'er the darkened earth. God's blessing be upon thee, Royal Maiden ! And be thy throne heaven's altar here below, With sweet thanksgivings, and with honours laden, Of moral victories o'er want and woe. Glorious and happy be thy coming hours, Young Daughter of Old England's royal line! As in an angel's pathway spring up flowers, So may a nation's blessing spring in thine. MECHANICS' INSTITUTION. Mr. Henry Hopkins' Lecture on Education. LECTURE I. The lecturer commenced by stating, as his apology for ad- dressing an audience on a subject of such great importance, that he had been during fourteen years engaged in the work of education, and that what he should offer would be the result of his own experience. He then asked— What is the object of education? It is not to enable us to accumulate riches, or to acquire worldly wisdom. It is not even to rest as an end, in the communication of a knowledge of lan- guages and sciences. It consists of that process of mora! and intellectual training, which shall lead human beings to the practice of virtue for its own sake as most conducive to happiness. Thus considered, the course generally pursue! is an absurd one. The child at an early age is placed unde. the care of a person of whom it is only known that he is a " very clever man;" but who out of school hours takes no interest in the conduct of his pupils, who are on their part, to maintain silence during certain hours, and to be ready to repeat their lessons when called for; but in all other re- spects are left exposed to the influences of the frequently bad examples of their companions. The time of pupilage, on the contrary, ought to provide the means of conferring on mankind the greatest blessings, and should be viewed by the young as a period of pleasure and delight. Nor should the advancement of the intellect alone be attended to; the physical powers Of the body should be Cultivated and brought iuto a state of activity by constant and judiciously varied exercise. Education should commence from the time o' birth, for children are, almost from the commencemeni of their existence, capable of receiving from those around them, influences and tendencies to good and evil. Thit consideration exhibits the high importance of INFANT SCHOOLS, which, well- conducted, are calculated to make the children happy, to give them habits of order and obedience, anil to instil the rudiments of a great mass of useful infor- mation without the infliction of any painful drudgery. Very different is the training of children in general; too often neglected, owing to the avocations of their mothers, their obedience is enforced by harsh and arbitrary commands, and not unfrequently by terrifying their minds by threats ol the visitations of hobgoblins, and black inen. Even dark- ness is made a source of terror ; and many instances might be adduced, in which the painful results of these nursery horrors never cease through life to exercise a baneful in- fluence on the mind. With respect to the progress of the mind, a domestic education does not offer the advantages which attend a well regulated school. The association with companions of their own age is productive of many beneficial effects, and the absence from home need by no means tend to wean the affections of children from parents, because the conscientious teacher would lose no opportunity of enforcing the moral and relative duties. In fact, the culture of the moral and reli- gious feelings ought to be a paramount portion of the duties of the instructor, although, in many cases, it is too little attended to by him, and too little regarded even by the parents. An instance was here given of a person who re- moved his son from a school because he understood that much time and attention were bestowed on the inculcation of morals. " Now," said he, " you know boys do not come to school to learn morality— that will come of itself— whai they come to school for is to learn Latin and Greek." A very rapid progress in study, at an early age, is by no means desiiable. Instances of this kind are frequently attended with disappointment as to future progress— or, it the mind be enabled to continue its preternatural exertions, it is at the expense of the health. Disease and premature death are the probable consequence of this injurious excitement of the mental powers. The mode and degree of punishment is an important portion of the subject of education. Corpora punishment should be entirely discarded, unless in some unfortunate instances, where previous bad training renders the individual inaccessible to any other mode of correction, and in such cases every effort should be used to impress the mind with a feeling of the disgrace attendant on such in- flictions. Corporal punishment, however, is too often re- sorted to, in order to gratify the anger of the master, and his desire for revenge; and in some cases the infliction becomes, as has been candidly acknowledged, " apositive pleasure." The amount of misery which a schoolmaster ol such dispositions imposes, during his life, is absolutely enor- mous. But what shall supersede the practice of corporal punishment? Prevention is better than cure, and a course of kind and affectionate treatment seldom fails in its effects. Whatever mode, however, is pursued, the correction should immediately follow the offence. Firmness and decision on the part of the teacher are also important. Mild punish- ments, which are certain, are more efficacious than a severe but capricious system. Rewards should be cautiously be- stowed ; their influence should not be disregarded, but they should attend absolute progress, and not position in the class, otherwise the pupil of less capacity has no chance against a competitor of greater quickness. Punctuality and industry are important points, aud may be enforced by an energetic instructor to a surprising extent. Instances may be quoted in which the pupils have appropriated on an average three and a half hours per day out of their leisure to voluntary ex- ertion. ( These instances were in Mr. Hopkin's own school — we should think such extra exertion prejudicial.) Unfortunately, rational principles of education are rarely followed in our public schools. Placed in their situations by patronage, the masters have not sufficient motives to give anxious attention to the progress of the pupils, and fagging, with all its demoralising train of evils, still prevails. In many cases, the persons selected are grossly incompetent, and on this vital point an obvious remedy would be— one which has been often recommended in this country and long practised in France— a Board of Education— by which every candidate for the office ot teacher should be publicly ex amined, a veto being placed against the practice of the pro- fession without the sanction of such body. " Pity it is," says Roger Ascliam, " that more care is commonly had, yea, and that among very wise men, to find out rather a cunning man for their horse, than a cunning man for their children. God, that sitteth in heaven, laugheth their choice to scorn, and suffereth them to have tame and well- ordered horses, but wild and unfortunate children— and, therefore, in the end, they find more pleasure in their horse, than com- fort in their child." CUTTING OUT The Surprise, at dark, had stood in shore under a crowd of sail; arid, when sufficiently close, the boats were hoisted out, and left the ship in two divisions, as indicated, the pinnace leading the first, and the gig lead- ing the second, having the rest in tow. At the time of leaving the Surprise, the Hermione was visible through a night- glass; and such was the anxiety of the leader of this bold enterprise, that he never once lost sight of her, but stood with the night- glass in his hand until an event occurred which made the gallant Captain look in another direction. The boats had crept along silently, and rather slowly, to- wards the harbour's mouth; and now the lights were visible from the town ; they were about two miles distant from the Hermione, and as yet apparently undiscovered. The oars, as they silently dipped in the water, were feathered close to its surface; no phosphoric brightness betrayed the approach- ing enemy— not a word was uttered, and even in the lead- ing boat, so strietly was silence observed, and so well were the boats pulled, that the jolly- boat was scarcely discernible. Suddenly the boats were hailed; a volley of musketry suc- ceeded, a long gun dashed its contents in the direction of the English crews, and it became evident that all was dis- covered. The Hermione was seen with lights on her main deck, and at quarters; a gun from the shore answered the gun previously fired, and it was plain that the only surprise which could have been effected was now destroyed. Captain Hamilton trusted that his officers " would have obeyed his directions, by disregarding every other object but the one in view; and when he cast off the tow and gave three cheers, he added, " Hurrah for the first onboard!" Murray steered the pinnace, and her bow never varied in the least from the direction of the frigate. The gallant fel- lows nojv no longer dipped in their oars silently ; but they dashed forward, cheering as they went, and giving the enemy ample time to make every preparation. It was now the first error was committed. The launch and the second di- vision of boats, instead of dashing forwards, turned short round upon the gun- boats which bad given the alarm, and thus Captain Hamilton, who kept his face towards liis foe, reached the bow of the Hermione unsupported; not a boat was pulling in the same direction but the jolly- boat, and she was soon far astern. As the pinnace passed the larboard bow of the Hermione, the forecastle gun was fired at her; but she was so close that the contents passed over her, and at that moment might be seen the extiaordinary sight of a frigate's pinnace, with about twenty men in all, going unsupported alongside a frigate, having at least three hundred men on board, to cut her out; that frigate being perfectly prepared and actually at quarters, with her main- deck properly lighted by fighting lanterns, and her Captain and officers on the quar- ter- deck awaiting on an attack, as was afterwards affirmed, from the Surprise herself and not her boats. In a work of this kind we only follow the hero. As the pinnace was crossing the hawse of the Hermione, her rudder caught a rope which went from the bows of the frigate to her boat moored at the buoy. Murray lifted the rudder, when the boat fell between the starboard forecbains and the cathead. A rush was made to be the first man on board. Captain Hamilton, upon jumping upon the lower anchor, which had that day been weighed and was still covered with mud, slipped off, and nearly fell into the boat; however, still keeping firm hold of the foremost lanyard of the fore shroud, he recovered his footing, and leaped over tbebulwark. « # » ###* The Spaniards had by this time become acquainted with the nature of the attack, and a rush was made from the main- deck by the after- hatchway; but the English, flushed with the success of the enterprise, and finding themselves in possession of the quarter- deck, soon repulsed the enemy. During this affair the marine officer's party boarded 011 the larboard gangway. This welcome, but tardy assistance,— for it appears they had tried to board on that gangway be- fore, but were repulsed,— placed the success of the enter- prise beyond a doubt, as far as the possession of the frigate was concerned, although from the main- deck a continued fire of musketry was still kept up. In the mean time the cables had been cut; the men appointed to perform that duty, as they got to their respective situations, made ample amends for their former neglect. The mizen- topsail was loose, the ship adrift, and creeping out of the harbour, when the marines made a rush on the main- deck, and the Hermi- one surrendered— The Arethusa. CEMETERY AT PALERMO. — About two miles from Paler- mo, on the road to the interior, stands a convent of Capu- chins, which, having heard a good deal. of its splendour and of the customs of its inmates in reference to their dead, I resolved to visit. I was accompanied in the excursion by tlirfce friends, non- commissioned officers belonging to the 20th Dragoons, and one of the regiments of infantry, with whom, as soldiers we are not unapt to do, when setting forth on a pleasurable expedition, 1 drank rather more wine than I ought to have done. We were not, however, in the slightest degree intoxicated,— indeed I repeat once for all, thai} drunkenness never had the slightest charm for me, even in niy most thoughtless years; but vve had taken enough to plaqe all things within us and around us in the brightest light, and to lender us freer both, of speech Und action than we might have been, had we more spared the wine cup. In this merry mood we hastened to the monastery, the brethren of which were particularly kind and civil: conducting us first through the chapel and other public rooms above ground, and then leading the way into the crypt beneath. Here the only light afforded came from a couple of torches, which two of the monks carried before us, and by the glare of which we perceived that the walls of the crypt were 011 all sides indented by niches, which being in three tiers, con- tained each within its recess the body of a dead man. I say the body, for these were not mere skeletons. Flesh indeed there was none, but the skin was there, drawn slightly over the bones ; and the hair and the beatd— the latter of which flowed in many instances as low as the breast. More- over, every coipse was dressed in the sort of garments which the man used to wear when he lived. Warriors there were and generals; senators, priests, and private gentlemen; some in their uniforms, some in their robes, some in their canonicals. We were assured likewise by our guides that several had stood as we beheld them for three centuries. The garments did indeed fall to pieces, and were from time to time replaced ; but the bodies were just as they had been when first planted in these niches. Moreover, on the breast of each was a plate attached to a chain that went round his neck; the great men having theirs of silver, the less dignified being labelled with brass; while each bore an inscription il- lustrative of the career and services of the individual thus honoured in death. Of course we were very curious to learn by what process the bodies could be prepared, so as to hinder time and an exposure to the atmosphere from decompos- ing them; and the monks, seeing that there were no women in our company, undertook to explain to the whole affair. As we passed along the crypt towards the further ex- tremity, where the torch bearer stated that our sources of information lay, I experienced, I know not why, a strong inclination to pull one of the great warriors by the beard. I did so, and behold, a large portion of the hair, with a lump of skin, remained in my hand. There was a loud cry, of course, and a volley of reproaches, which however I found it easy to silence by putting my hand into my pocket and pulling out two silver coins of the value of twenty pence. " Buy some sticking- plaster with that," said I," and put on the beard again. Nobody will find it out." The monk smiled, took the money, and passed me. But the spirit of mischief was in me. I seized a senator's hand and began to shake it; and lo, it too remained in my grasp. It separated from the wrist as if it had been made of sand. There was a louder cry than before, and more scolding, which a similar method of reply put to silence. I gave the monk a Spanish dollar, and he made light of the counsellor's misfortune. Indeed it ap- peared to me that his civility aud that of his brethren was in- creased ; at all events we lost no ground in their esteem, that is certain. Accordingly they led us on to a door in the distant wall, which they opened,> nd we found ourselves in a small apart- ment, within which two persons were in the act of preparing a body for removal into the cemetery. Their mode of doing so was this : they cut the body open in the back, took out all the entrails, and kept the wound open by means of sticks, exactly as a butcher keeps open the carcases of his sheep and calves; they then made numerous incisions into the fleshy parts of the legs, thighs and arms. And having thus treated the corpse, they laid him face up- wards, upon a sort of iron ladder, beneath which burned a slow fire of herbs, which they took care to keep always at the same degree of temperature. The fire was just hot enough to melt the fat, and shrivel up and wear away the loose flesh, withoutcraclfing the skin or scorching the bones, and there was a dish, like a dripping pejn, which caught the gravy and conveyed it beyond the furnace. After melting the corpse in this manner till the skin had everywhere col- lapsed upon the bones, they thrust an iron spike through the cavity into the head, and sewed up the wound again ; then putting 011 his garments, they fastened under them a broad iron ring round the waist, which having a hook that caught in another ring that was driven into the wall, gave the body, when placed in the niche, its upright attitude. We stayed here till all was explained to us, when we again followed our conductors up stairs, who led us into the pleasure gardens belonging to the monastery and introduced us to the superior. Being here, we were invited to sit down beside a table that was spread under a tree, and hospitably regaled with wine and fruit, and other light refections. Finally, having given some fresh donations to the brother- hood, we took our leave, and returned to Palermo, both delighted and instructed by occurrences of the day The Hussar. THE TCHERCAS.— The Circassians have no idea of wri- ting. Certain epochs in their history are consecrated by songs aud by some old traditions, for the most part fabulous. In business they only make use of witnesses, or of an oath taken over some amulets, which, among them ( where in- trigue is unknown), suffices to cause the engagements which have been contracted to be scrupulously observed. Their relations being confined within a narrow sphere, they are seldom obliged to communicate their thoughts otherwise than by words; and when they are forced to do so, they send a messenger. Some Turks who are settled at Anapa, or in the interior of the country, are the only literati. The Circassians appear, however, to feel liovv useful writing would be to them. The different marks of their harness gave me the idea of forming an alphabet, by using these signs for the initials of each proprietor; there are about thirty- six of them. Perhaps it would be better to make them acquainted with the Latin characters now adopted generally in Europe, and which might suffice, in the hands of a skilful man, for every sound. * * * The Circassians acknowledge a Supreme Being, and several celestial powers of a secondary order. They believe in the immortality of the soul and in another world, in which men are to be rewarded according to their works; but careless about such a future state, all their actions have temporal prospects immediately in view. Merissa or Mereime, surnamed the Mother of God, is the protectress ef bees. The Circassians say, that the thunder, in its wrath, would have exterminated them all, but that this holy woman concealed one of them in her sleeve, by which means the species was preserved. The festival is celebrated in the month of September. The Cir- cassians regale themselves, on that occasion, with viands and beverages prepared with h& ney. I think the etymology of the name of this divinity is Melissa. It is not extraordi- nary that in a country where honey is one of the chief arti- cles of nourishment among the inhabitants, a protectress should have been given to the insect which produces it. The Greeks call the bee Melissa— Melissa may very well have been originally a Damatra ( Ceres), whose name and worship are now disfigured and confounded with those of the Virgin Mary. Seozeres was a great navigator, to whom the winds and waves were subject. He is especially vene- rated by those who live by the sea- side. He is represented by a dry pear- tree, 011 which only a few remnants of branches have been left. Each family preserves one for this purpose in the court of its house; no one touches it excepting on the fete day of this divinity, which takes place in the spring. This tree is the emblem of Seozeres; it is plunged into water, and washed; a cheese is fastened to its summit, and it is adorned with as many little tapers as there are guests assembled. As soon as it is thus decorated, several persons go to take it to intioduce it in full ceremony into the house. The rest of the company wait at the door to receive it, and to compliment it on its happy arrival. Its entrance is pre- ceded by a sacrifice and preparations for a grand festival. They eat and drink during three days at intervals, praying Seozeres to prevent the winds and waves from committing ravages. When this period of feasting is past, the cheese and other viands are distributed among the guests, and the tree is carried back to its place ; the whole society accom- pany it, wishing the god a happy voyage, and he is then for- gotten till next year. He is also the protector of the flocks, and has two brothers. His long voyage, his power, the form of his emblem, which resembles an enormous club, might induce the belief that this divinity was a Hercules. The devotion which the tribes on the shores of the Black Sea paid to Achilles, might likewise lead one to suspect some affinity with the worship paid to that hero, snrnamed Pontarkhos, chief or protector of the sea. But the true origin of Seozeres is most probably the Akhaikoros or Ak- ikaros, mentioned by Strabo in his Geography, ( Book sixteen, page 762) as revered by the inhabitants of the Bosphorus, equally with the Zamolxis of the Getas; and who, according to Lucian, was revered by the Scythians and Persians as a sacred object, and even as a divinity, under the title of Akinaki or Akiraki. Tliebse, king and protector of forges. On his fete day, libations are made in honour of him on a hatchet and plough. Naok hatclie, Skuska, Yemiche, and Meste, are other saints or demi- gods, who have also days consecrated to them. The Circassians hold in great veneration three sisters, who pre- side over domestic harmony and concord between neigh- bours, and who defend the traveller with their protecting shield. Whoever changes his abode makes a sacrifice to them on arriving at his new domicile, and the traveller who takes a journey does the same on setting out. The simi- larity between these three sisters, the Penates, and the Guardian Angels, are a new proof of the mixture of creeds which compose the religion of the Circassians. Towan's the end of the October moon, they celebrate the commemo- ration of the dead; this epoch of recollections is marked by prayers, which each separate family addresses to the celes- tial powers, in order that they may not allow them to stand in need of anything in the eternal regions. The Circassians have no god of thunder— but it might be erroneous to assert that they never have had one. Thunder is held in great veneration amongst them; they assert that lightning is an angel that strikes those who are distinguished by the bene- diction of the Cieator; the body of a person who has been killed by lightning is solemnly interred; and whilst they weep for the deceased, the relations rejoice in the distinc- tion conferred upon their family. These people come out in crowds from their houses at- Hie noise made by this angel in his aerial course; and when some time has elapsed with- out his having been heard, public prayers are offered up that lie may return to visit them. Thanksgivings are made for the rains which have attended it, and for its having re- freshed and purified the air during the heats of summer. » * * » " With this quotation we would conclude, but that our fair readers would think us very unmindful of them, if we neglected to say something of the lovely and fascina- ting Circassian ladies— the principal mercantile export ol the country too, let the economists and traders observe that — who form the ornaments and delights of Oriental harems. Well, we read, as an addition in the Russian edition, all the Circassian ladies have the itch, but it is of a verv mild description, and is called the prince's itch; it must, indeed, be so, for during two voyages in the summer, when I fre- quently retained in my hands those of the beauties thus affected, I did not catch this disorder. I know not what can occasion it; all the Circassians have it, and I have also seen it in the Crimea among the Tartars, but not so fre- quently. At first it disgusted me; at length, however, I became used to it, so that it no longer excited my attention. Notwithstanding this effect of habit, we must believe that the Turks cure their slaves before they bring them into their harems. Their care must contribute much to embel- lish them, for it must be owned, that very few beauties can anywhere resist the effects of the labours and the kind of life to which the women are subjected in their native land. One example will suffice. I said one day to M. Tausch that the warehouses required plastering again. This young man replied, with his Circassian naivete, that he would tell the princesses so; that they had already done it themselves, and would do it again with pleasure. Imagine, gentle reader, these powerful princesses, with their itchy hands, plastering with mud the warehouses of a merchant, and own that this really is too much in the style of Homer.— De Marigny. BRIITHS ASD DEATHS.— In the majority of European na- tives, the annual births amount to one in thirty, and the deaths to one in forty of the population ; which will yield an annual increase of about nine per cent, every ten years. The highest rate of births observed in any nation has been about one in twenty- three; the lowest rate, about one in thirty- three. The highest rate of deaths observed, has been about one in thirty; the lowest rate, ( in England) one in fifty ot the total population. The highest rate of increase of popti lation ever observed, is that of the United States of North America; next to which is that of the population of Eng- land. In the United States, the increase, for a long period, has been at the rate of thirty- two per cent, every ten years, independently of the gain from migration. The white population and the slave population have increased at the same high rate. In England, during a recent period, the rate of increase has been sixteen per cent, every ten years ; which is just twice as great as the average rate of increase in other European countries. This high rate of increase in England, compared with that in the rest of Europe, has not been derived from a higher average of births, but from a lower average of deaths. The higher rate of increase of the American population is, probably, the consequence of a rate of mortality, as that of England, combined with a higher proportion of births, say one in twenty. three. The decrease of the black population of the West Indies is mainly attributable to the diminished fecundity of females to meet the annual mortality; one in thirty- six has been frequently observed, and now exists, in several increasing European populations. The climate of the West Indies manifests its hostility to the constitution of African negroes, more by the diminution of births than by the increase of deaths; more by the destruction of the germs of life, than by the destruction of existing individuals. — It is a remarkable fact, the author goes on to state, and one which has never yet been explained, that a very great increase in the deaths, for a short period, is always accom- panied by a great diminution in the births at the same period. The most marked instances of this are found, in Sweden, during the two years 1772- 3, and during the five years 1806- 10; in Belgium, during the year 1817; and in France, during the year 1832 ( the year of cholera). The explanation ot this fact, Mr. Edmonds believes to consist solely in an in- crease of deaths, including foetal deaths. From the ob- servations of Dr. Granville, 011 women of lying- in charities in London, it appears that one in three of all conceptions terminates thus; for the entire nation, one in six is given. In order to account for the diminution of births in years of severe mortality, we have only to make the very reasonable assumption that foetal life is not more capable than respiratory life of resisting disease and priva- tion ; we have only to assume that an increase of thirty per cent, in the respiratory deaths, is also accompanied by an increase of thirty per cent, in the foetal deaths. The aggre- gate mortalities of two nations may differ in the proportions of one in forty to one in fifty, as in Sweden and England, and yet the mortality, at any age above twenty, may be the same in both nations. It was only at ages under twenty that the mortality of the English population was less than that of Sweden. Similarly, with respect to the fecundity, we should not be warranted in concluding, because the proportion of births were equal, that the fecundity of one people was equal to that of the other — Statistical Society's lectures. MODERNISMS.— It is the state of unfinished action which is understood in such phrases as " the house is building," and " the house was building," in which the action is taken abstractedly, without attending to the agent. The Romans expressed the same ideas by means of the passive voice, domus ( edificatur, and domus cedificabatur. Every language has its idioms, which pedants only would attempt to change. For some time past, " the bridge is being built," " the tunnel is being excavated," and other expressions of a like kind, have pained the eye and stunned the ear. Instead of" the stone is falling," and " the man is dying," we shall next be taught to say, " the stone is being fallen," and the " man is being dead." This incongruous conjunction of a present with a per- fect participle, as if for the purpose of producing a confusion of tenses, is an absurdity of very modern origin, and has scarcely yet appeared in any respectable composition. John- son writes to Boswell, " my Lives are reprinting-" Boling- broke says that " the nation had cried out loudly against the crime while it was committing;" and Milton, in his speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing, indignantly exclaims, " yet these are the men cried out against for schismatics and sectaries, as if, while the temple of the Lord was build- ing, some cutting, some squaring the marble," & c. Viewing the present participle solely in its verbal state, it becomes assimilated to the infinitive, and is a general name for the whole class of continuous exertions.— Booth. ORIGINAL LETTER OF BRUCE " London, April 16, 1775. Dear Sir,— You desire that I should again repeat to you my adventure with the Moor of Gibbel Aurez. It is this. I11 the journey which I made through the southern part of Bar- bary, I was necessarily led to see the ancient Cirta, once, as you know, the capital of a large kingdom ; now it is called Constantina, and gives its name to the most considerable province under the Government of Algiers. The bey who commanded there was my particular friend. At my request he gave me nine Moorish horsemen to accompany me in the search after ruined architecture in the neighbouring moun- tains of Atlas. Lambesn, a principal station of the Romans in Africa, the third legion ( legio tertia Augusta), was the place I chiefly wanted to see. It is situated in the middle of a circular range of mountains of no considerable height, which probably are the Aurasius mons of the middle ages, the Mount Andes of Ptolemy, if I mistake not, for I write without books and from memory. It is, however, a part of Mount Atlas, finely watered, the valleys all cultivated, the mountains covered with wood, and abounding with every sort of verdure. Several powerful clans or tribes of Arabs inhabit these mountains, some of them independent, and at constant war with the Bey of Constantina. It happened that one of these had its dwelling upon a pointed rock ( pro- bably the Tumar of Procopius,) just over the ruins of Lam- besa. As we approached them,' these ruins, the nine soldiers of the bey began to murmur for fear of the Neardie ( so they call this sturdy tribe, who had often beat the bey), and matters had come the length of an absolute refusal to follow, when we alighted at an encampment of Arabs," three hours' journey from Lambesa. I was fatigued with hunting and the heat of the day, and having pitched my tent, lay down to sleep, when I heard a dispute between my servants and an Arab who was wanting to come into the tent to speak to me. As everything is of consequence to be attended to in these countries, I got up and brought the Arab into my tenr. He was an old man of sixty, of a mean appearance. He asked me what countryman I was, if I had been in Italy, and if I spoke Italian. I answered, that I was an English- man, had been all over Italy, and spoke Italian perfectly, and I was very much surprised to hear him ask me in very good Italian, if I had ever been at Nice, or knew General Paterson, . Having satisfied him that I knew the general, and how near neighbours and intimate friends our families were, he leaped up and embraced me with great jo> and sincerity, calling General Paterson his father. He told me he had been taken by the Sardinian gallies, and at first ill- used ; but that, by the interposition of General Paterson, be had been exempted from all hardships and confinement, and treated with great humanity, tenderness, and confidence; that he had also assisted him in his redemption. There was no end of his thanks and gratitude: he brought his wives and daughters into my tent, the greatest of all marks of venera- tion among the Arabs. He feasted us magnificently, and seemed only at a, loss he could not do more. The Arabs, who from the door of the tent had heard their chief speak an unknown language, and show such marks of respect to a stranger and a Christian, the object of their aversion, came all into the tent; and, after a very adroit explanation given by the old man, all of them made me the most fervent offers of service, as the friend of the deliverer of their chief. It was now time to enter into a discourse about the Neardie, the fears of my companions, and my resolution to see Lam- besa, at all hazards. They, laughed heartily at the feais of the bey's horsemen, which, however, they confessed to be well founded, but seemed to think lightly of the journey itself. " You shall do," said the old man, " in this case, what no wise man will do in general. You shall have your old friends for yoHr new. You shall have the bey's soldiers to eat and drink here, and I will conduct you to Lambesa. It any harm falls on you in my company, let the soldiers witness against me to their master." I made no scruple to follow Ins directions, and the next morning we entered the dark, rocky, wooded defiles which lead to Lambesa; full of lions and tigers, and men more savage than these animals. We stayed three days at Lambesa without molestation, and returned to the tents of our Arab conductor. To this accident is owing my having made one of the most accurate drawings ever seen on paper, as well as the knowledge of many his- torical circumstances. He attended us two days' journey on our return, and, embracing me at parting, said to me in Arabic, " God is a free agent in judgment; he saves whom he pleases, and condemns whom he pleases; if so, we may, though of different religions meet in Paradise. To me'it seems impossible, God, the great and the merciful, should make men like General Paterson and you for damnation."_ Your's, & c., JAMES BRUCE. TIIE KAFFIRS— Kaffir. land, from the Keiskamma to the Umtata. Js a tract of South Africa highly favoured by na- ture. The air is so pure, the sky generally so serene, and the whole face of the country so parklike and inviting, that it realises all vve have read of Arcadia. The continuation of the great range of the Winterberg bounds the country of the Amakosa on the north ; and beyond these mountains are extensive plains, waving with rich pasture and abound- ing with game. There, on the Bontebok Flats, a part of the Amakosa hunting- ground near the Doom river, are seen troops of bounding deer of many varieties; the splendid bontebok, or painted antelope, with its colours of bay, purple, and white ; the magnificent dooda, browsing close to the cover, with its sweeping spiral horns; and gnoos, with their cow- head, horse's tail, and deer- lim'us, sporting and frisking in a most grotesque and strange manner. Wolves and lions are found in proportion to the great quan- tity of game. Wild fowl are in abundance; and,' as where the slaughter is, there will the eagles be gathered together," large vultures are continually soaring aloft, am. keenly watching for their prey below. » « t ^ he people who inhabit these fair regions, the Amakisa, are among the finest specimens of the human race: tall, straight limbed, and active; their every attitude is gracelil, and every motion is performed with ease. The head of the Amakosa is well developed, and his expanded fffehead shows considerable intellectual capacity. The lair is woolly; the nose is tolerably prominent, and, though in ge- neral round, in some there is a tendency to an tquiline shape; the lips are inclined to fullness; the teeth an beau- tifully white; and the large eye, ever restless, show deep cunning, is easily lighted up with a smile, yet often lashes with relentless cruelty when the evil passions are at work within. The colour of the skin is a light chocolate and, though this is often concealed with a coat of grease aid red clay, to preserve it from the effects of the sun, the pesons of the Amakosa are not disagreeable. The . chest is rot so broad, nor the arms so strong, as those of Europeans for the Kaffir- males perform little manual labour; but the lover limbs are muscular in the extreme. The trowsers of revv Europeans are large enough for the brawny Kaffir thjh; the legs are really " pillars of Hercules." The Amatosa disdains to wear any covering on the head, which is jcca- sionally ornamented by the females, who curl it cbsely with red ochre into small knots about the size of a pea. In war a band of leather encircles the brows; and from it stand erect, on both sides, the long wings of the blue crane, giving the head a demoniacal appearance. From the shouV- ders hangs the ugooba, kaross, or mantle of softened hide, worn with the hair next the body, and fastened with a thong at the neck. The Kaffirs near the colony aie beginning to change their leather covering for one of cloth, which is not so heavy, and is warmer in wet weather than hide. The chiefs and counsellors wear kalosses of leopard skins, neatly vandycked at the neck and skirt, and worn so as to show a part of the closely spotted hair. In walking, the open ka- ross displays the whole of the naked body, and the Kaffir is without sense of decency. * * * The women are as studious to conceal their persons, as the men are savagely proud and shameless in the exposure of theirs. * * * One of the best traits of Kaffir manners is their hospitality. When a stranger of any consideration arrives at a kraal, a bullock is killed for him; he receives a clean hut for himself; and a widow is sent to assist him. Among the worst characteristics of Kaffir society, on the other hand, is its great incontinence. Most young women are frequently and forcibly violated before marriage; and widows are considered public property. When the chiefs, also, wish to carry any particular point, they seize a number of young women, and give them up to their wild warriors. * * * The summary and capital punishments of the Kaffirs are merciful; that is, they take the culprit aside and destroy him with clubs, or thrust him through with an assegai. But their torturing with black ants, aud above all, with hot stones applied to the body, is dreadful. Some time ago, there crawled to the mission station of the Cliumie, a Fingo herdsman, whose legs from the ancles upwards were perfectly roasted; and the skin and flesh of the sole de- tached from the foot, and flapping against it. He died of a lock- jaw in a few days, in the greatest agony; and why was this dreadful punishment inflicted? Because in driving a cow into a kraal, he had thrown a stick at her; it had glanced off the horn, and struck the son of a Kaffir counsellor on the leg ! And this is the fine pastoral race, whom tra- vellers have held up for our admiration I and whom a religio- political party, in their mad ambition for extending their sway over South Africa, have pretended were far more " sinned against than sinning." Such are some of the pro- minent features of the people against whom the war was waged, alter their ruthless attack upon the colony and Gra- ham's Town. The contest was attended by all the horrid instances of barbarous strife, not only battles, but ambus- cades, massacres, and murders of every description. Of a few of the most curious details we will make a selection, which will serve to show the character of the people, of the struggle, and of the work. " We passed" ( says Capt. A.) " some huts burnt down by Col. Smith in his late dashing in- road; only one hut having been left standing, for an aged and decrepid woman. There was a halt and " an off saddle;" and several of us went to see the old Kaffir. She was sitting at the wicker door of her large bee- liive and very neatly thatched dwelling; several folds of cloth stained with red. clay were round her crisped hair ; and the lower part of her body was concealed by a kaross of softened hide. She drew in her stomach as we approached; and clapping it with her skinny hand, called ont Lambelli lambelli!"—" I am very very hungry." Haversacks were immediately searched, and biscuit given to her. She leant forward and kissed the hands of the donors; soaked the biscuit in a little pot of water beside her; and rapidly munched it, still mumbling' " Lambelli."—" Where are Taylie and Macomo ?" was asked. She stretched out her lanky arm, and arching it, pointed to the mountains northward, and drawled out the word " Amatolee." We did not find out until we had been some time in Kaffir- land, that it was customary with the Kaffirs to leave an old woman at their deserted kraals, to give information to the warriors, who stole back at night to communicate with her, and supply her with food. Of course, our old woman said she had been left by all her people, and was dying of hunger. Doubtless, she must have laughed heartily,— not in her sleeve, because she had none,— but at our simplicity, when we left her with a great pile of biscuit and biltong ( dried meat), and clapping her belly with hollow sound for more. She pretended deaf- ness too, and would answer nothing but " Amatolee,' and " Tamboochanee" ( in the bush of the mountains), remind- ing me of the master of the good ship Tyne hailing a schooner on the coast of Brazil, " Where are you from?" Answer, " Bahi." " Where are you going to?"—" Bahi." " Did you see the English admiral?"—" Bahi," ( roaring with hands on either side of the mouth). " We took you for a slaver."—( Louder still) " Bahi." * * Alexander. OFFICIAL PIETY— In New England, a vast deal of time is spent in attending preachings, and other religious meet- ings ; und in paying visits, for religious purposes, to the poor and sorrowful. The same results follow from this practice that may be witnessed wherever it is much pursued. In as far as sympathy is kept up, and acquaintanceship be- tween different classes in society is occasioned, the practice is good. In as far aB it unsettles the minds of the visitors, encourages a false craving for religious excitement, tempts to spiritual interference 011 the one hand, and cant on the other, and humours or oppresses those who need such of- fices least, while it alienates those who want them most the practice is bad. I am disposed to think that much good is done, and much harm ; and that, whenever women have a greater charge of indispensable business on their hands, so as to do good and reciprocate religious sympathy by laying hold of opportunities, instead of by making occu- pation, more than the present good will be done, without any of the harm. All American ladies are more or less lite- rary; and some are so to excellent purpose : to the saving of their minds from vacuity. Readers are plentiful; think- ers are rare. Minds are of £ j very passive character, and it foilows that languages are much cultivated. If ever a wo- man was pointed out to me as distinguished for information, I might be sure beforehand that she was a linguist. I met with a great number of ladies who read Latin, some Greek, some Hebrew, some German. With the exception of the last, the learning did not seem to be of much use to them exeept as a harmless exercise. I met wrth more intellec- tual activity, more general power, among many ladies who gave little time to books, than among those who are distin- guished as being literary. I did not meet with a good artist among all the ladies in the States. I never had the pleasure of seeing a good drawing, except in one instance; or, except' in two, of hearing good music. The entire failure of all at- tempts to draw is. stilj a mystery to me. The attempts are incessant; but the results are below criticism. Natural philosophy is npt pursued to . any extent by women. There is some pretension to mentafand moral philosophy; but the less that is said on that head the better Martineau. THE blRMINGHAM JOURNAL. 7 PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION CHURCH- RATES REGULATION. ( From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) TUESDAY, MAY 23- Resolution reported from the Committee!—" That, for the repair and maintenance of parochial Churches and Cha- Eels in England and Wales, and the due celebration of ( ivine Worship therein, a permanent and adequate provi- sion be made out of an increased value given to Church Lands, by the introduction of a newsystem of management, and by the application of the proceeds of pew rents; the collection of Church- rates ceasing altogether from a day to be determined by law ; and that, in order to facilitate and five early effect to this resolution, the Commissioners of lis Majesty's Treasury be authorised to make advances on the security, and repayable out of, the produce of such Church Lands," read a second time; Motion made, and Question put,—" That the House do agree with the Com- mittee in the said resolution."— The House divided:— MAJORITY— Acheson, Lord Adam, Sir C Aglionby, H A Ainsworth, P Alston, Rowland Andover, Viscount Angerstein, J. Anson, Colonel Anson, Sir G Astley, Sir Jacob Attwood, Thomas Bagshaw, John Bambridge, E T Baines Edward Baldwin, Dr Ball, NichoUs Bannerman A Barclay, David Baring, F. rhornhill Barnard, E G Barron, H W Barrs, G ! Belfast, E » rl of Bentinck, Lord W Berkeley, Hon F Berkeley Hon G Berkeley Hon C Bernal, talph Bewes, " Biddulpi, R Blake, I J Blunt, fir Charles Bodkin John James Eowes John BowriK, Dr Brady, Denis Caulfield Bridganan, Hewitt Brocklehurst, J Brodik W B Brotlirtori, J Browie, R D Buckngham, J S Bullf, Charles Bull*, E Bulver, H L Bulver, E L Bunion, W W Buton, Henry Buler, Hon P Button, T F Bngi George Bng, Right Hon G S Cllaghan, D Ctnpbell, Sir John Cmpbell, W F Crter, J B Cve, Robert Otway Qvendish, Hon C ftvendish, Hon G H ( ayley, E S ( halmers, Patrick thapman, M L ' hetwynd, Captain W Chichester, J P B Churchill, Lord C Clay, W Clayton, Sir William Clements, Viscount Clive, Edward B Codrington, Sir E Colter, J Collns, W Conjngham, Lord A Cooles, T H Cowjer, Hon W F Crawford, W S Cravford, W Cravley, S Cronpton, S Cufeis, E B Cureis, H B Dataeny, Lord Deiison, VV J Deiison, J E Denistoun, A Dilwjn, L W Diiett, Edward Donkia, Sir R S Duriconbe, Thomas Dundas, Hon J C Dundas Hon T Dundas J Deans Dunlop, John Ebringtm, Viscount Edwards, John Ellice, Right Hon E Ellice, Edward Ejjsh'iistone, Howard Etwall, Ralph Evans, G Ewart, William Fellowes, Hon N Fenton, John Fergus, John Fergusson, Sir R C Ferguson, II Fergusson, Rt Hon R C Flinn, W F Fitzgibbon, Hon R Fitzroy, Lord C Fitzsiinon, C Fleetwood, P H Folkes, Sir William Fort, J French, F GaskeJI, D Gillon, William D Gisborne, T Gordon, Robert Grattan, James Grattan, Henry Grey, Sir George Grote, George Guest, J J Gully, John Hall, Benjamin Handley, Henry Harland, W C Harvey, 1) W Hastie, Archibald Hawes, Benjamin Hawkins, J H Hay, Sir A L Heathcoat, J Hector, C J Hkdk- y, Charles H obhmise, Rt Hon Sir J C Hodges, T L Hodges, T T Holland, Edward fcHoward, It ( Howard, P H ' Howick, Viscount Hume, Joseph Humphrey, John • AYES, 287. Hurst, R H Hutt, W James, William Jephson, D O Jervis, J Labouchere, Rt Hon H Lambton, H Lee, J Lee Lefevre, C. Shaw Lennard, T B Leveson, Lord Lister, E Cunliffe Lushington, Dr Lushington, Charles Lynch, A H M'Leod, R Macnamara, W M'Taggart, John Maher, John Mangles, J Marshall, W Marsland, Henry Martin, Thomas Maule, Hon. Fox Melgund, Viscount Methuen, P Molesworth, Sir Win Moreton, Hon A Morpeth, Lord Morrison, J Mostyn, Hon E Mullins, F W Murray, Right Hon J A Musgrave, Sir R Nagle, Sir R O'Brien, W S O'Conriell, Daniel O'Connell, John O'Connell, M J O'Connell, Morgan O'ConnoY Don O'Ferrall, R M Oliphant, Laurence Old, W Paget, Frederick Palmer, General Palmerston, Viscount Parker, John Parnell, Sir H Parrott, Jasper Pattison, James Pease, Joseph Pechell, Captain Pendarves, E W W Philips, Mark Philips, G It Phillipps, C M Pinney, W Ponsonby, Hon John Potter, R Poulter, J C Power, John Power, James Poyntz, W S Price, Sir R Pryme, George Pryse, Pryse Ramsbottom, J Rice, Right Hon T S Rippon, C Robarts, A W Robinson, G R Roche, William Roebuck, J A Rolfe, Sir R M Rooper, J B Rundle, John Russell, Lord John Russell, IiOrd Russell, Lord C Ruthven, E Scholefield, J Scott, J W Scrope, Poulett Seale, Colonel Seymour, Lord Sliarpe, General Sheil, R L Simeon, Sir R Smith, J A Smith, Hon R Smith, It Vernon Smith, Benjamin Speirs, Alexander Stanley, W O Stewart, P M Strangways, Hon John Strutt, Edward Stuart, I. ord J Stuart, Villiers Talbot, CRM Talbot, J II Talfourd, Mr. Serjeant Tancred, H W Thompson, P B Thomson, Rt Hon C P Tliorneley, Thomas Tooke, W Trelawney, Sir W Troubridge, Sir T E Tulk, C A Turner, W Tynte, C J K Verney, Sir H Vigors, N Villiers, C P Vivian, John Henry Wakley, Thomas Walker, C A Warburton, H Ward, H G Wason, Rigby Wemyss, Captain Westenra, Hon II R Westenra, Hon J C Whalley, Sir S White, Samuel Wigrrey, J N Wilbraham, George Wilde, Mr. Serjeant Wilks, John Williams, Wm Williams, W A Williams, Sir J Winnington, H J Wood, Charles Wood, Alderman Worsley, Lord Woulfe, Mr. Serjeant Wrightson, W B Wyse, Thomas TELLERS. Stanley, E John Steuart, Robert MINORITT- , Agnew, Sir A Alford, Viscount I Alsager, Captain i Aiiiiijljmit, Gen. .! Arcluffil, Gen M • Ashley, Lord I Ashley, Hon H I Attwood, M [ Bagot, 41on W HSailey, Joseph " jaillie, H D llfuur, Thomas • relay, Charles Tring, F faring, H B rB » ring, W B Baring, Thomas Bateson, Sir R Beckett, Rt Hon Sir J LBell, M 1 tcntinck, Lord G ^ ieresfcrd, Sir John letheli, R - NOES, 282. Blnckburne, 1 J Blackstone, W S Boldero, Henry H G Boiling, W Bonham, It F Borthwick, Peter Bowles, George Rushout Bradshaw, James Bramston, T. W; Broadwood, Henry Brownrigg, S J Bruce, Lord E Bruce, C L C Bruen, Colonel Bruen, F Buller, Sir J. Yarde Burdett, Sir F Burrell, Sir C Campbell, Sit H Canning, Rt Hon Sic S Cartwright, W R Castlereagh, Vise Chandos, Marquis of Chaplin, Colonel Chapman, Aaron Chichester, Arthur Chisholm, A W Clive, R H Codrington, C W Cole, Hon Arthur H Cole, Lord Compton, H Combe Conolly Edward M Cooper, E J Coote, Sir C Copeland, W T Corry, Hon H L Crewe, Sir George Crisps, Joseph Dalbiac, Sir Charles Damer, G L D Darlington, Earl of Dick, Quintin Dottin, A R Duffield, T Dugdale, W S Dunbar, George Duncombe, Hon A East, James B Eastnor, Viscount Eaton, It J Egerton, Sir P Elley, Sir John Elwes, John Payne Estcourt, T J B Estcourt, T. Junior Farrand, Robert Feilden, W J Ferguson, Sir R Ferguson, George Finch, G Fitzroy, Hon Henry Fleming, John Foley, E T Follett, Sir W Forbes, William Forester, Hon G Forster, C S Fox, Charles Freshfield, Jas Wm Gaskell, J M Geary, Sir William Gladstone, W E Gladstone, T Glynne, Sir S R Goodricke, F H Gordon, Hon W Gore, Ormsby Goring, H D Goulburn, Right Hon H Goulburn, Mr. Sergeant Graham, Sir J B Grant, Hon Col Greene, T G Greisley, Sir Roger Grimston, Viscount Grimston, Hon E H Hale, B R Halford, Henry Halse, J Hamilton, George A Hamilton, Lord C Hanmer, Henry Hanmer, Sir J Harcourt, G G Harcourt, George Simon Hardinge, Rt Hon Sir H Hardy, John Hawkes, Thomas Hayes, Sir E Heriniker, Lord Herbert, Hon S Herries, Rt Hon J C Hillsborough, Earl of Hinde, John Hodgson Hogg, James Weir Hope, James Hope, H T Hotham, Lord Houldsworth, T Houstoun, George Hoy, James Barlow Hughes, W H Ingham, R Inglis, Sir R H Irton, Samuel Jackson, Mr Serj Jermyn, Earl Johnstone, Sir J V Johnstone, J J H Jones, Wilson Jones, T Kearsley, John Hodson Kerrison, Sir Edward Kirk Peter Knatchbull, Rt Hon Sir E Knightley, Sir C Law, Hon C E Lawson, Andrew Lees, John Frederick Lefroy, A Lefroy, Rt Hon T Lemon, Sir Charles Lennox, Lord J G Lennox, Lord A Lewis, David Lincoln, Earl of Long, W Longfield, Richard Lopez, Sir Ralph Lowther, Colonel Lowther, Viscount Lowther, J H Lucas, E Lushington, Rt Hon S R Lygon, Hon Col H B • Mackenzie, Thomas Mackinnon, W A Maclean, Donald Mahon, Viscount Manners, Lord C S Martin, John Matthew, George B Maunsell, T P Meynell, Capt H Miles, Wm Miles, Philip John Miller, Wm H Mordaunt, Sir John Morgan, C M R Mosley, Sir O Neeld, Joseph Neeld, John Nicholl, J Noel, Sir G N Norreys, Lord O'Neill, Hon. General Ossulston, Lord Owen, Sir J. B Owen, H. O Packe, Chas. Wm. Palmer, R Palmer, George Parker, Montagu Patten, J. Wilson Peel, Right Hon. Sir R Peel, Col. Jonathan Peel, E Pelham, J. C Pemberton, Thomas Penruddocke, J. H Perceval, Colonel Pigot, Robert Plumptre, John P Polhill, Frederick Pollen, Sir J Pollington, Lord Pollock, Sir F Powell, Colonel Praed, W. Mackworth Price, Samuel Grove Price, Richard Pringle, Alexander rusey, Philip ltae, Right Hon. Sir W. Reid, Sir J. Itae Richards, J Richards, Richaid Rickford, William Ross, Charles Rushbrooke, Colonel Russell, Charles Sanderson, Richard Sandon, Lord Scarlett, Hon. Robert Scourfield, W. M Shaw, Right Hon. F Sheppawl, Thomas Shirley, E. J Sibthorp, Colonel Sinclair, Sir G Smith, A Smith, T. A Smyth, Sir Henry Somerset, Lord E Somerset, Lord G Spry, Sir S. T Stanley, Edward Stanley, Lord Stewart, John Stormont, Viscount Stuart, Lord D. C Sturt, Henry Charles Tennent, J. Emerson Thomas, Colonel Tollemache, Hon. A. G Townley, It. G Townshend, Lord J Trench, Sir F Trevor, Hon. G. R Trevor, Hon. Arthur Twiss, Horace Tyrrell, Sir J. T Vere, Sir Charles B Verner, Colonel Vernon, G H Vesey, Hon Thomas Vyvyan, Sir It R Wall, C Baring Walpole, Lord Walter, John Welby, Glynne Earle West, John Beatty Weyland, Major Whitmore, T C Wilbraham, Hon B Williams, Robert Williams, Thomas AVilmot, Sir J E Wilson, Henry Wodehouse, Edmund Wood, Colonel T Wortley, Hon James S Wyndham, Wadham Wynn, Rt Hon C W Yorke, Eliot T Young, Geo Fred Young, John Young, Sir W TELLERS. Fremantle, Sir T Clerk, Sir G FOR. Beauclerls, Major Grosvenor, Lord R ITorsman, Edward Roche, David O'Brien, Cornelius Vivian, Major Charles Sanford, E. A Walker, It Bellew, Sir Patrick Heneage, Edward Tracy, C. H Fielden, John Hallyburton, Hon. D. G Loch, James Childers, John W Fazakerley, J. N Tvnte, C. K. K PAIRED OFF. AGAINST. Barneby, John Egerton, W. Tatton Knight, H. G Maxwell, Henry Marsland, Thomas Hay, Sir J Charlton, E. L Ryle, John Fancourt, Major Corbett, T. G Dowdeswell, W Duncombe, Hon. W Scott, Lord John Egerton, Lord Francis Hill, Sir Rowland Wynn, Sir W. W Calcraft, John Hales Major Fancourt and Sir Rowland Hill were absent from indisposition. Mr. Bish was shut out from the division. TRAVELLING— In 1703, when Prince George of Den- mark went from Windsor to Petworth to meet Charles III. of Spain, ( says Mr. Godwin, jun., in a judicious and well, timed " Appeal to the public on the subject of Railways,") it appears that the journey, which is a distance of about forty miles, occupied fourteen hours, although those who travelled it did not get out, save when they were overturned or stuck fast in the mire, until they reached their destina- tion. " We were thrown but once in going," says the re- lator; " but his Highness's body coach would have suffered very much if the nimble boors of Sussex had not frequently poised it or supported it with their shoulders from Godal- ming almost to Petworth. The last nine miles of the way cost us six hours to conquer them." THE BREAD TAX WHEAT The highest price of the best wheat in Paris is 23f. per hectolitre, which is equal to 35s. 3d. per English quarter. The highest price of the best Essex and Kent wheat in London being 62s. per quar- ter, the difference is 26s. 9d. per quarter dearer in London tnan in Paris, or 75% per cent, and the same money which in London buys but eight bushels of wheat, is in Paris the value of fourteen bushels of the finest quality. Flour.— The highest price of flour of the " first mark" in Paris is 46 francs per 159 killogrammes, corresponding with 29s. per English sack of 2801bs. The highest price of the best " town made" flour in London is 52s. per sack, showing fine flour to be 23s. per sack dearer in London than in Paris, or 79 per cent.; and that the 52s. which in London can procure but 2801bs., will in Paris purchase 5021bs. of the finest flour. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. the footpath to avoid ail accident. I remonstrated with the man upon his brutal conduct, but was soon silenced by the abuse from him and two others attending his cart. _ * In my humble opinion, a little attention to this by our street- keepers, would prevent the lives of persons being endangered by such wanton carelessness. AN INHABITANT. PROTESTANT ASCENDANCY. KEEP ON YOUR OWN SIDE. SIR,— I had thought that in a country which boasts itself of liberty and religious tolerance, that a species of bigotry could not exist, so flagrant as the one I have now to record, and which I beg may find a spare corner in your Journal, so that the world may blush over the ignorance which prompts men, on a day of general rejoicing, to separate between the Churchman and Dissenter; such meanness, sir, I think deserves showing up; but let facts speak for themselves:— During the last few days previous to the 24th inst., the leading personages in the beautiful and rural town of Henley- in- Arden, have been scouring- the vicinity to obtain subscriptions for the laudable purpose of giving a dinner to the poor and the Sunday- school children, in commemoration of the Princess Victoria attaining her majority, for which they raised about 30/., part of which was obtained from Dissenters and Catholics; but judge, sir, the surprise of the latter, when on Monday they were told, that, instead of a public dinner, no one was to be admitted to it, but such as worshipped God in the same way as the parson of the parish! The Dissenters, on such indignity being offered them by their Church- folk neighbours, started a subscription of their own, and such was the general indignation, felt even by intelligent Church- men, that they obtained enough to provide a sufficiency to give a general invitation to the Catholic poor, and all who chose to come. About one hundred sat down to dinner in the grave- yard of the Baptist Meeting- house, after which, finding they had sufficient funds to provide tea, they gave another general invitation to tea, to which about two hundred sat down, and during which the band of the town played. This, sir, is but a tithe of the intolerant spirit manifested in that town, but as the first specimen of a series I intend handing you, should you think that publishing them is the way- to correct them. METIUS. A poor old woman, nearly fourscore, applied to a rev. gentleman for a ticket to the Church- party dinner, but was told, that as she was not of the Church- party, he should not give her one. TO JAMES TAYLOR, ESQ., Apparently chairman of a body of men who have as- sumed to themselves the NAME of the Loyal and Constitutional Association, and to the other parties who have attached their names to a protest against the resuscitation of the Political Union. SIR,— The following occurrence is one out of a very many similar instances which I almost daily witness. Two ladies, one an invalid, were driving a pony phae- ton along Edmund- street, on Saturday last, and were met by a cart laden with coals. The lady repeatedly beckoned to the carter to keep more on Ins right side, there not being anything to prevent him, when the only notice he took of them was to laugh ; conse- quently, they were obliged to run their phaeton upon An article has appeared in the Gazette of Monday last, signed by you, many of you calling yourselves gentlemen, regretting the attempts which were being made to recommence the Political Union, and admo- nishing your fellow- townsmen not to join that body. Will you oblige me by stating what injury the Politi- cal Union did, and whether it was not the cause of preventing disturbance and anarchy at the memorable period when the unprecedented conduct of your party so nearly threw the country into the convulsions of a revolution ? Your address or placard commences with informing the town that attempts are being made to re- establish the Union; and that the Union has been the cause of the former distress. Do you think that the assertion of a premeditated falsehood can be of benefit to any one, or that a party so weak that the truth is not sufficient for its defence, does not incapa- citate itself still more by adding- lying to its other crimes? What attempts have been made ? Who has made the attempts to resuscitate the Political Union? Have public meetings been called ? Have the walls been placarded by any but yourselves ? Have parties been sent round from house to house with threats and offers, as by the Tory party ? In short, have any means been adopted to obtain members ? No ! You know how false would be such an assertion. The working- classes requested the Reform Association to recommence the Political Union, and the answer of that body was " If you want the Political Union, let 4000 come forward and subscribe their names and mo- ney, and then let those 4000 elect their own Council; till then the Council of the Reform Association will act for you. Was this an attempt to revive the Union ? The protest you have published is worthy of your party. When I see the names of bigotted partizans whose ideas, publicly expressed, prove them to be admirably qualified either for the lunatic asylum or the treadmill, I can in no way feel surprised; but when I observe the names of men whose fathers worked at the anvil or the lathe, and who accidentally amassed a little more wealth than their neighbours— men whose ideas are as limited as their consciences are lengthened— men who for the sake of being tolerated in a society for which their education and manners render them unfit, turn round upon their old fellow- workmen and abuse all those who, from a strict sense of honourable duty, join together to prevent a recurrence of those disasters which are now pressing so severely on all classes ; when I see these creatures pretending to lord over their fellow- townsmen, and protesting against the exercise of their legal rights, the feeling of disgust which at first presents itself is changed into one of ridicule and contempt. And now, as your party are so fond of asking ques- tions, may I perhaps be allowed to put one or two to you :— 1. Is it true that you offered half- a- crown a- piece to every man that would join your club ? 2. Is it true that you gave suppers to those who would attend your meetings ? 3. Is it true that with all this, you never had more than 217 members ? 4. Is it true that the expenses of the late trial at Warwick were paid out of the funds subscribed for railing off the walks ? 5. Is it true that the Conservatives had a party of fellows with bludgeons at the church on Easter Tuesday, to create disturbance ? 6. Is it true that a " Committee of Disturbance" was formally organised, and that the Chairman of that committee had a tambourine in church in order to lead them P 7. And last, but not least,— is it true that a gentle- man declared, " If he were to wade up to his knees in blood," he would have a churchwarden of his own choice? Now, to these questions, I expect you, Mr. James Taylor, and your worthy colleagues to give a straight- forward answer. As for you pretended neutrals, who signed the would be important protest against the Union, allow me to remind you of your miserable insignificance. Honesty is a great attribute, wisdom almost as impor- tant; to both of these apply your study, and remember that lioweveryour reeentconduct maybe rewarded by a clique which calls itself society, you may not relish being the objects of contempt and ridicule to the over- whelming majority of your fellow- townsmen. And observe,, " That the neutrals who take no interest in public affairs are at best but aliens to the country they live in; we ought no more to neglect our duties to our country than to our respective families, and he who says, ' I never attend to public affairs,' merely states, in other words,' I never perform my public duties.' " With this quotation I leave you to your own reflec- tions, trusting you may in future learn to think for yourselves, and not be guided by the busy tools of a mischievous faction. BRUMMAGEM. Birmingham, May 25, 1837. POLITICAL PROGRESS. LETTER I. SIR,— Three thousand years ago Thebes and Athens threw off their Monarchies, and became Republics. And now England has tried the monarchical experi- ment for a thousand years, and how are we situated ? It is asserted that man is a progressive animal, but his history furnishes facts which, at all events, afford an argument to the contrary. Here we are, in the 19th century, being mocked by a court, and trampled upon by a batch of hereditary tyrants. The wisdom of our ancestors continues to govern us with law made for the feudal times, and we have hardly room enough left to edge in a single clause suitable to our present con- dition. Is it to be endured that, with the increase of knowledge which the last century has induced, we are to be referred back for wisdom to the benighted and barbarous times of our great grandfathers ? Their in stitutions might do very well for their state, but they will not do for ours. We are marching forward; our knowledge and wants are extended, and we must have laws and institutions consonant with our progress. I am not for quarrelling with a Monarchy, so long as it produces happiness amongst a people. It does not matter what name may be given to a Government. It is not the name but the effects which ought to be the criterion of its value. A King, like a President, is merely the national trustee, and he has no more right to appropriate the property of the country to other than national purpose, or to act in any way against the in- terests of the majority, than he has to cut the people's throats. It is all very well for men to vaunt themselves of loyalty— it often answers their purposes ; but where is the virtue of loyalty. If a man knows that he will be ruined by proclaiming himself a Republican, then he has the plea of making a virtue of necessity, but it is a sorry sort of necessity after all, and the inference is somewhat disparaging to the necessity. Virtue is made of different materials. It is no more virtuous to wear the badge of loyalty, than it is criminal to toss up the cap of liberty. One man likes chicken and cham- pagne, whilst another prefers herrings and beer. It is altogether a matter of taste. But either loyalty or republicanism is criminal when they interfere with the happiness of our fellow beings ; and yet there are more excuses for this than that. Liberty is the natural breath of man, and w hen the noxious vapours of des- potism infect it, he may be excused for struggling to breathe a pArer air. We have tried the monarchical form of Government for a thousand years, and what have we ? A court— the constant accompaniment of monarchies— continually plotting against the people. We have a House of Peers fattened by our toils, and bent only on mischief; and we have a House of Com- mons directly interested against the people. The con- sequences of this triad are a debt paralysing all our energies; taxes on everything, and running through everything we do or think of; a pension list, paying- those who have plenty for doing nothing but support- ing tyranny; a church made up of laziness, bigotry, and persecution ; a priest- ridden and poverty- stricken people, who hardly dare ask for their rights, because there is a dissolute, useless, and profligate array, to prevent them from doing so. These are only samples of the consequences which have arisen out of a mo- narchy. True, they have not arisen in the present reign, but we know that they have sprung out of a monarchical Government, and that such results are as certain to flow from it as that the same tree will con- tinue to produce the same kind of fruit. That man is to be pitied whose warped judgment leads him to advocate the perfection of the British Constitution. He ought to excite no worse feeling than pity, because he may support such an abortion, and yet retain his sincerity; but lie must be especially pitied, on account of the proof which he affords of his ignorance of that constitution, and what is equally painful, of human nature itself. There is a broad principle of justice, which all ought to be guided by, and I would ask any man possessed of a deliberative reason, whether itbejwsf to deprive the greater portion of his fellow- creatures of their political rights ? Iam sure such a man would answer, no. And yet we find many who reason tolerably clear on other subjects, ready to answer in the affirmative. And what is the reason ? Why a fear that property would not be suf- ficiently represented. What a deplorable motive. Which is of the most consequence, property or people ? Is gold to be preferred to humanity? But nothing can be more absurd than to suppose that property would be unprotected. The mass of the people are interested in preserving property. It is the'capital which furnishes them with employment. The rule which decides whe- ther a man is entitled to participate in the Government, has no connexion with his moral qualifications. It is something like the terms on which he may enlist into the Grenadier Guards. If he do not stand six fe without his shoes, he won't do. It is not more ridicu- lous to make the rule of admission a standard of height than to make it a standard of value. Because men are poor, poverty becomes an argument for keeping them so. Give them a share in framing the laws, and poverty will disappear. The rich have imposed the heaviest taxes upon the common necessaries of life, of which they consume but a small proportion, and thus they effect the continuance of poverty ; they lay a tax upon knowledge, and then turn round, and refuse jus- tice because the people are poor and ignorant. It is folly to suppose that if laws were enacted in conformity with the views of the majority, that they would be op- posed to the interests of the majority. If any party were to suffer it would be an inconsiderable mi- nority; and there is no man, having an idea of justice in his head, or a spark of philanthropy in his breast, who will deny the just doctrine, of the greatest amount of happiness to the greatest number. F. M. B. COUNTRY MARKETS, & c. BIRMINGHAM MARKET. Corn Market, 7V/ a « 25. Wheat in short supply to this day's market, with a ready sale, at an advance of 4d. per bushel above the terras of last week.— Barley for malting nearly unsaleable, while grinding samples were a good trade, on speculation, at an improvement of Is. per quarter.— Oats were likewise Is. to 2s. per quarter higher.— Beans and Peas were 3d. to Gd. per bag dearer, with a ready sale. WHEAT— pgr Qilbs. s. d. s. d. Old 6 0 — G 8 New 6 0— 6 D Irish 0 0 — 0 0 BARLEY— per Imp. Quarter. For Malting 30 0 — 33 0 For Grinding, per 49 lbs 3 0 — 3 4 M A LT— per Imperial Bushel. Old and new 6 9— 79 OATS- verSWll. Old 3 3 — 3 G New 3 0— 3 6 Irish 2 6 — 3 3 BEANS— perbag, 10 score gross s. d. 8. d. Old 17 0— 18 3 Neiv 15 6— 16 6 PEAS— perbag of 3 Bush. Imp. FOR BOILING. White 16 6— 17 6 Grey 16 0— 16 6 FOII GRINDING. perbag of 10 score 15 6 — 16 0 White ...... 16 0 — 16 6 FLOUR— per sack ofWOlbs. net Fine 42 0 — 43 0 Seconds.... 38 0 — 39 0 The following is the statement in Messrs. Sturge's circular :— PRESENT PRICES OF GRAIN. Birmingham, May 25, 1837. s. d. 8. d. WHEAT, English, White, per bushel of 621b. 7 4 to 8 0 English, Red ~~— „ 6 9 .. 7 10 Irish, White none 0 0 . Red —....— 5. 0 Foreign ..... — 6 .6 . BARLEY, English, Malting, per Inip. Quarter 31 0 Irisli„ ™ ~ ™ ™ ™ w,„ w„~„,— nominal 27 0;, . Grinding, per Quarter of 3921bs. 24 . 0. OATS, Eugllsh, White, per Imperial Quarter 24 0 . Welsh, Black and White, per 312lbs 24 6 . Irish, ( weighing 41 to 4- 2lbs.) do. 2C 0 , 7 0 6 5 7 35 9 a 4 9 4 6 SO 0 , 25 6 32 0 26 6 28 6 ( S7to391bs.) do. Black^.^ do. BEANS, English, Old, per bushel of 651bs New Irish. Foreign PEAS, Boiling, per Imp. Quarter Grinding, per Quarter of 3921bs FLOUR, English, Fine, per Sack of 2S01bs. Seconds Gloucester, May 20,1837. WHEAT, English, White, per Imp. Bushel Old English, Red Old Irish, White, per 601bs nominal Red ,„...„„„,... do Old — Foreign nominal BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. Quarter Grinding, per Quarter of 392ibs. OATS, English, White, per Imp. Quarter Welsh, Black and White Irish ( weighing 41 to421bs); per Qr. of 3121bs. ( 37 to 391bs.) Black BEANS, English, Old, per Imp. Bushel New Irish Foreign PEAS, Boiling, per Imp. Quarter Grinding, per Quarter of 3921bs. . FLOUR, English, Fine, per sack of 2801bs Irish „ nominal d. 2 0 2 0 4 0 5 6 7 0 30 0 28 0 - 2- 2 0 22 0 21 6 24 6 22 6 22 6 4 5 5 46 34 s. d. to 6 0 9 0 0 0 G . 44 0 . 41 0 .. 6 9 .. 6 6 .. 7 9 .. 33 0 .. 29 0 .. 26 0 .. 30 0 .. 25 0 .. 27 6 .. 25 0 .. 25 6 6 5 5 6 54 .. 46 .. 44 37 6 0 BIRMINGHAM WEEKLY AVERAGE. Qrs. Bush. d. Wheat 0 0 0 0 Barley 333 0 — 29 1 Beans 0 0 0 0 Peas 0 0 0 0 Wheat Barley Oats „ Beans GLOUCESTER WEEKLY AVERAGE. Qrs. Bush. 412 4 145 0 288 4 37 4 Wheat, Barley . Oats ™ Peas w Beans , WORCESTER WEEKLY AVERAGE. Qrs. Bush. 461 33 0 0 20 d. . 58 II . 32 0 . 0 0 0 0 . 42 8 Birmingham, May 25, 1837. At Gloucester market on Saturday Wheat sold at an advance of Is. per quarter; at Worcester the same day an improvement of 2s. per quarter was realised. Oats Is. per quarter higher. In Malting and Grinding Barley no alteration, but we had less pressing on the market. Beans and Peas unaltered in value, and not much doing iu either, and no inclination to press sajes. During the present week some parcels of fair red Wheat havo changed hands at 7s. 6d. per 621bs., being fully 2s. per quarter above the currency of last market day. No transactions reported in Malting Barley.— Grinding is held for some advance, but with this buyers will not comply. Oats sell readily at a further rise of Is. per quarter : good feeding have found buyers at 26s. 6d. per 3121bs. here, and the market is nearly cleared of all descriptions. The weather, though become rather milder, is far from seasonable, and the complaints of the growing crops increase. AT THI3 DAY'S MARKET the supply of Wheat from the dealers was considerable, and large sales made at an advance of 2s. to 3s, per quarter. Nothing doing in Malting Barley.— Grinding, about Is, per quarter dearer. Buyers comply reluctantly with the rise noted above on Oatt. In Beans and Peas no alteration. IMPORTS INTO GLOUCESTER, From the nth to thelith inst. Wheat. Oats. Barley. Beans. 133 Qrs 1363 Qrs Qrs Qrs Coastwise.. Qrs 353 Qrs Qrs Qrs Foreign.... Qrs Qrs Qrs 534 Qrs Peas. Flour. Malt. Vetches. 21 Qrs 52 Sacks Qrs Qrs Coastwise.. Qrs Sacks Qrs Qrs Foreign Qrs Sacks Qrs Qrs WARWICK, SATURDAY, MAY 20.— Wheat, per bag, old 19s Od to 21s Od ; new, 18s Od to 20s Od ; Barley per quarter, Os Od to Os Od; new, 28s Od to 34s Od ; Oats, 2Ss Od to 3- 2s Od; New, 24s Od to 30s0d; Peas, per bag, 17s Od to ! 9s 6d ; Beans, 17s Od to 18s Od; new, 14s 6d to 16s Od; Vetches, Os Od to Os Od; Malt, 608 Od to 64s Od per quarter. HEREFORD, MAY 20.— Wheat, per btiBhel Imperial measure, 6s lOd to 7s Od. Ditto, 801bs. per bushel, Os Od toOs Od. Barley, 4s Od to Os Oil. Beans, 6s 6d to Os Od. Peas, 7s Od to 8s Od. Vetches, Os Od to Os Od. Oats, 3s 6d to Os Od. CHELTENHAM, MAY 18.— New Wheat, 6s 9dto7s3d per bushel, Old Wheat, 6s 9d to 7s 3d. Barley, 3s Od to 4s 6d. Oats, 3s Od to 4s Od. Beans, 5s Od to Os Od. FAIRS TO BE HOLVES.— Worcestershire— May 30, Bromsgrove (" toll free)— Staffordshire— May 29, Fazeley, Lane. enA.— Gloucestershire— May 31, Northleach Oxfordshire— May 30, Nettlebed ; 31, Chipping Norton. HOP INTELLIGENCE.— Worcester, May 24— There was more ani- mation in our market on Saturday than we have noticed for some months past, and several parcels of Hops were sold at a small advance from last week's prices. It is calculated that a considerable portion of last year's crop is still in the hands of the growers, who appear to be holding hack for better prices, as they consider the backward state of the plant and the present cold weather much against the growing crop. Current prices:— New Worcesters, 70s. to 96s., choice to 51., yearling ditto, 63s. to 75s.; old Hops, 20s. to 60s. Sixty. six pockets passed the scales, and eighteen during the week. The reports this week from several districts iu Herefordshire are by no means favourable, the late cold nights having checked the growth of the plant, which in many places is notsufiiciently forward for tying, and is still much infested with the flea. The bine on the rich soils is looking hearty though unusually late for the season. Borough, Monday, May 22— We cannot notice any material alte- ration in the market, demand steady, prices firm. The estimated duty is quoted from 155 to 160,000. Reports from the different dis. tricts state merely that the bine is very backward, and the continu- ance of cold has greatly increased the flea. Present Prices, per cwt.: East Kent Pockets, fine, £ 4 10s. to £ b 5s. and £ 7; bags, ditto, .£ 4 4s. to £ 4 15s. and £ 5 18s., Mid Kent Pockets, £ 4 2s. to £ 4 15s. and £ 6 6s.; bags; £ 3 10s. to £ 4 13s. and £ 5 10s.; Weald of Kent Pockets, £ 3 10s. to £ 410s. and£ 54s.; Sussex pockets, £ 3 10s. to £ 4 4s. and £ 4 12s.; Yearlings, £ 2 10s. to £ 3 3s. and £ 4 2s.; Old Olds, £ 1 Is. to jti'lCs. and £ 2 2s. MARRIAGES. On the 14th inst., at St. Martin's Church, Mr. William Foley Hall, of Tower- street, to Sarah Matilda, eldest daughter of Mr. John Banks, seedsman, of Cheapside. On the 9th inBt., at Aston, Mr. James James, coal dealer, to Diana, only daughter of Mr. John Green, butcher, of Smallbrook- street. On the 17th instant, at Harhome, by the Itev. T. G. Simcox, Mr. John Hemmings, of Smethwick, to Mary Molineaux, of Cheapside, in this town. On the 28rd inst., at Edgbaston, by the Rev. Rann Ken- nedy, William John,' youngest son of Mr. Beale, of Camp- bill, to Martha, youngest daughter of William Phipson, of Westbourne, Esq. On the 20th inst., at St. Mary's Church, Burnham, by the Rev. W. Hammond, Mr. George Brown, of Gloucester, to Louisa Maria, daughter of Joseph Bygrave, Esq. On the 23rd inst., at. Newport, by the Rev. W. Sandford, M. A., Mr. Podmore, of Liverpool, to Eliza, eldest daughter of Mr. Silvester, post- master, of Newport, Shropshire. DEATHS. On the 17th inst., after a protracted illness, Mrs. Rollett, aged 87, widow of the late Mr. Richard Rollett, master sail maker to Captain Cook, on board the Resolution, in his second voyage round the earth. On the 8th inst., at her son's house in Loveday- street, Mrs. Ann Harrison, in the 77th year of her age. On the 14th inst., at Welford, Gloucestershire, after a long and painful illness, Mr. William Bolton, plater, of Church- street, aged 28 years. On Monday last, in the 40th year of her age, Mary, wife of Mr. Smith, of Springfield, Birmingham- heath. On the 21st inst., at his residence in Walsall, Mr. George Johnson, draper, aged 32. On the 21st inst., Julia Augusta Wyon, second daughter of William Wyon, Esq., of the Royal Mint. On the 17th inst., after a long illness, Mr. John Howell, of Aston- road, aged 57. On Wednesday morning, at her house in the Regent's- park, Mrs. Lockhart, wife of Mr. J. G. Lockhart, and only surviving daughter of the late Sir Walter Scott. On the 20th inst., in his 77th year, the Rev. Edward Burn, M. A., for nearly fifty- two years the much respected Minister ojf St. Mary's, in this town. On the 22nd inst., Sarah, wife of Robert Long, Esq.; of the Manot House, Dawlish, Devonshire, and of the Cres- cent, Cheltenham. On the 21st inst., at Northwich, the Rev. Thomas Jones, father of Mr. John Jones, chemist and druggist, of Adelaide- building*, Liverpool. \ 8 THE blRMINGHAM JOURNAL. 8 LONDON GAZETTES. FRIDAY, MAY 19. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. MAY 18.— WILLIAM HAM, 36, Upper North- place, Gray'a. inn- road, livery stable keeper. BANKRUPTS. The Bankrupts to surrender at the Court of Commissioners, Basing- hall- street when not otherwise expressed. 3 ARTHUR THEOPHILUS KINSE\ VALE, Bromyard, Here- fordshire, liuen draper, May 29 and June 30. Sol. Mr. Warne, II, Leadenhall- street. Pet. Cr. John Taylor and Robert Kipling, Cateaton. street, warehousemen. Seal. May 16. WILLIAM SIDNEY WARWICK and THOMAS WILLIAM CLAGETT, Billiter- square, City, merchants, June 1 and June 30. Sols. Messrs. Freshfield and Sons, New Bank- buildings. Vet. Cr. Daniel Meinertzhagen, Frederick Hath, sen., John'Frederick Gunning, and Frederick Huth, jun., South place, Finsbury, mer- chantjs. Seal. May 12. THOMAS VIGERS, Brixton, and late of 291, Strand, brass- founder, May 26 and June 30. Sols Messrs. Fisher and De Jersey, 162, Aldersgate- street. Pet. Cr. Thomas Lloyd, 141, Al- dersgate- street, grocer. Seal. May 10. JOSEPH SAUNDERS, Watford, Hertfordshire, butcher, June 1 and 30. Sols. Mr. William Sanger, 4, Essex. court, Temple ; and Messrs. Cowley and Son, Watford. Pet. Cr. Edmund Fearnly Whittingstall, Watford, Esq. Seal. May 16. ROBERT WOOD, Rochdale, Lancashire, money scrivener, June 2 and 30, at the Commiasioners'- rooms, Manchester. Sols. Messrs. Norris and Allen, Bartlett's. buildings, Holborn, London; and Mr, Heaton, Rochdale. Pet. Cr. James Law, Rochdale, gent. Seal. May 12. ALEXANDER GLENDENNING ROSS, Bradford, Yorkshire, wool merchant, May 31 and June 30, at the Court- house, Brad- ford. Sols. Messrs. Hawkins and Co., 2, New Boswell- court, Lincoln's- inn, London; and Mr. William Wells, Bradford. Pet. Cr. Isaac Wright, Bradford, woolstapler. Seal. April 25. GEORGE HOUGH, Bradford, Yorkshire, ironmonger, May 31 and June 30, at the Court- house, Bradford. Sols. Messrs. Woodhouse and Co., King's Bench. walk, Temple, London; and Mr. James Stott, Leeds. Pet. Cr. Charles Smith, Leeds, spirit merchant. Seal. April 29. JONATHAN ADAMS, Banbury, Oxfordshire, innkeeper, June 5 and 30, at the White Lion Inn, Banbury. Sols. Messrs. Golby and Co., Banbury; and Mr. John Cox, 62, Lincoln's- inn. fields, Lon- don. Pet. Cr. Thomas Golby, Banbury, carrier. Seal. April 26. EDMUND TAYLOR, Liverpool, colour manufacturer. May 31 and June 30, at the Clarendon- rooms, Liverpool. Sols. Mr. E. Chester, Staple- inn, London; and Mr. Thomas Davenport, Liverpool. Vet. Cr. Thomas Jenkinson, Liverpool, merchant. Seal. May 9. PVILLIAM HENRY SUGDEN, Leeds, linen draper, June 6 and 30, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester. Sols. Messrs. Milne and Co., Temple, London ; and Mr. Edward Bent, St. Ann's, square, Manchester. Pet. Cr. James Fildes, George Horsefield, and Joseph M'Kinnell, Manchester, calico printers and manufac- turers. Seal. May 13. JOHN ASKEW, Liverpool, and Egremont, Cheshire, hotel keeper, May 31 and June 30, at the Clarendon- rooms, Liverpool. Sols. Mr. William Deau, Essex- street, London; and Mr. John Pea- cock, Church- street, Liverpool. Vet. Cr. John Peacock, Liver- pool, gent. Seal. May 11. THOMAS GOUGH, Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, cloth dealer, May 26 and June 30, at the George Inn, Stroud. Sols. Mr. Alexander John Baylis, New Basinghall- street, London; and Messrs. Winterbotham and Thomas, Tewkesbury. Pet. Cr. Ed- ward Barnard and William Barnard, Nailsworth, clothiers. Seal. May 6. THOMAS TURNER, Otley, Yorkshire, currier, May 25 and June 30, at the Court- house, Leeds. Sols. Messrs. Battye and Co., Chancery- lane, London; and Messrs. Raynar and Bradley, Leeds. Pet. Cr. Edward Ostler, Leeds, leather factor. Seal. May 9. JAMES NEWTON, Bilterne, Hampshire, builder, May 31 and June 30, at the Star Inn, Southampton. Sols. Mr. Walker, 5, South- ampton- street, Bloomsbury- square, London; and Mr. Deacon, Southampton. Pet. Cr. John Harley, Southampton, stone mason. Seal. May 13. BENJAMIN GLOVER, Liverpool, drysalter, June 13 and 30, at the Clarendon. rooms, Liverpool. Sols. Mr. Grocott and Mr. Holden, Liverpool; and Messrs. Walmsley and Co., Chancery- | lane, Lohdon. Vet. Cr. James Aspinall, Liverpool, banker, and manager of the Central Bank of Liverpool, and Robert William- son, Golden- hill., near Newcastle, earthenware manufacturer. Seal. May 5. JAMES LYON, Bristol, merchant, May 29 and June 30, at the Commercial- rooms, Bristol. Sols. Messrs. White and Whitmore, Bedford. row, London; and Messrs. Bevan and Brittan, Bristol. Pet. Cr. Thomas Richard Guppy, Bristol, sugar refiner. Seal. May 11. JOHN WOOLISON, Leamington. priors, plumber, June 13 and 30, at the Lansdown Hotel, Leamington- priors. Sols. Messrs. Haynes and Moore, Warwick ; and Messrs. Taylor and Co,, 41, Bedford- row, London. Pet. Cr. Edward Clarke, Leamington- priors, builder. Seal. April 20. WILLIAM PITTS, Great and Little Hampton, Worcestershire, miller, May 31 and Juno 30, at the Star and Garter, Worcester. Sols. Messrs. Johnson and Co., Temple, Loudon; and Messrs. Seddon and Co., Manchester. Pet. Cr. George Hall, Manchester, gent., one of the registered officers of the Northern and Central Bank of England. Seal. May 3. DIVIDENDS. Thomas Count, Colchester, Essex, wine merchant, June 12— J. Samuel Crispin, St. Martin's- court, St. Martin's- lane, boot and shoe maker, June 12— Stephen Keyte, 15, Minories, oilman, June 12— Colin Robertson Duncan Davidson Milligan and Robert Milligan DaJzell, late of Fenchurch- street, and now of Lime- street- square, merchants, June 9— John Kendrick, Sydney- alley, Leicester- square, printseller, June 9— Thomas Chandler, late of Wood- street, Cheap - side, warehouseman, June 9— Adolphus Richter, Soho- square, book- seller, June. 10— William King, Vauxhall Brewery, South Lambeth, common brewer, June 10— Thomas Taylor Ryan, late of New York, but now of Pitfield- street, Hoxton, merchant, June 10— George John Richard James Dickinson, Ealing, surgeon, June 9— George Jones, Leicester- street, Leicester- square, auctioneer, June 9— William Brock and Benjamin Le Mesurier, Warnford- court, Throgmorton- street, merchants, June 9— Edward Devlin and James Peoples, Liverpool, woollen drapers, June 14, at the Clarendon- rooms, Liver- pool— Alexander Fletcher, Redbridge, Southampton, auctioneer, June 15, at the Dolphin Hotel, Southampton— Richard Lenten, Bath, stationer, July 29, at the Three Cups Inn, Bath— Edward Jones, Lewin's Mead, Bristol, June 14, at the Commercial- rooms, Bristol- Jeremiah Daniel, Bath, coal merchant, June 10, at the Elephant and Castle Inn, Bath. CERTIFICATES, JUNE 9. Thomas Armstrong and Nicholas Armstrong, Caldcoats, near Carlisle, tanners— John Bowker the elder, Salford, Lancashire, dyer — Samuel Walton, Nantwich, Cheshire, linen draper— Thomas Wig- gington, late of Sheerness, jeweller— William Nelson Proctor, Man- chester, cotton dealer— Thomas Fowler, Basingstoke, Hampshire, victualler— Richard Lenten, Bath, stationer— Robert Belt, New- castle- upon- Tyne, merchant— William Wright, New Brunswick Coffee- house, Brunswick- dock, Harrington, near Liverpool, vic- tualler. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Elizabeth Ashfon and John Ashton, St. Ives, Huntingdonshire- Samuel Tudor, William Heslewood, and William Tudor, Hull, and 166 and 167, Upper Thames. street, London, white lead manufac- turers ( so far as regards William Heslewood)— William Maddick and Son, Manchester, manufacturing chemists— Jonathan Leece and John Noble, Huddersfield, rope and twine makers— Henry Wilson and William Wilson, formerly of Glamford Briggs, but since of Messingbam" and West Puttervvick, Lincolnshire, grocers— John Holme3 and George Holmes, jun.,. Elm, Isle of Ely, farmers aud graziers— William Sant, John Leslie, and Donald Tulloch, Eastern- wharf, Adelphi, coal merchants— Thomas Brailsford and William Shepley Lingard, Chorlton- upon- Medlock, Manchester, common brewers— John Lias, Henry John Lias, and Charles Lias, Fmsbury- street, Finsbury, silversmiths— George Frederick Isaac and Thomas Tuckey, 14, Henrietta- street, Covent- garden, publishers— John Vickers, William Vickers, and James Taylor, Manchester, iron and brass founders— Elise Hubert Desvignes and Pierre Arseine Lubin Despres, 2, Bridle- lane, Golden- square, rectifiers and spirit dealers — Mary Matterson and Martha Smith, late of Wigton, Cumberland, milliners and dress makers— Robert Swansborough and Henry Oake, late of 7, Bread- street, London, Manchester warehousemen, and Great Grimsby, Lincolnshire, under the firm of the Patent Perennial Flax Company— John Lownsborough, John Rocliffe Lee, and Thomas William!?, Liverpool, silk mercers ( so far as regards Thomas Wil- liams)— William Forder, sen., James Channell, and William Forder, j un., Southampton, wine aud spirit merchants ( so far as regards James Channell;. ASSIGNMENTS. Frederick Hopkins, Pitfield- street, Hoxton, linen draper. Roger RffcooTe and Charles Moore, Worcester, glove manufac- turers. Robert Wright, Howden, Yorkshire, tanner. TUESDAY, MAY 23. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. MAY 22. WfLtilAM PRESTON LAUDER, 22, Sloane- street, Chelsea, surgeon. MAY 23.— HENRY CURME, Bridport, Dorsetshire, cabinetmaker. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. MAY 20.— JOSEPH KING, late of Liverpool- street, City, plumber. BANKRUPTS. SAMUEL BENTON, Fore- street, linen draper, June 2 and July 4. Sol. Mr. David Jones, Sise- laue. Vet. Cr. George Gillett, Francis Sherreff, ar\ d Richard Cobden, Watling- street, warehousemen. Seal. May 17. WILLIAM BUTLER, Portland- place; Market- street, Clerkenwell, builder, June 2 and July 4. Sol. Mr. Sandell, Bread- street, Cheap, side. Vet. Cr. William Hobson aud Thomas Poynder, Earl- street, Blackfriars, ; lime and brick merchants. Seal. May 20. OBERT CA'NNON, Sotithampton- row, job master, June 6 and July 4. Sols. Messrs. Clutton and Fearon, 48, High. street, South, wark, and 8; Fig- tree- court, Temple. Pet. Cr. James Mason and Nancy Brown, widow, Old Bailey, hay salesman. Seal. May 20. HOMAS JAMES BREEDS BURFIELD and CHARLES. ibU. R FIELD the younger, Hastings, brewers, June 3 and July 4, Sola. Messrs. Hindmarsh and Son, Crescent, Jewin- street, Cripplegate. Vet. Cr. Richard Mills, St. Margarett's- hill, Southwark, hop factor. Seal. May 19. WILLIAM HENRY WALLACE, 13, Cardington. street, Hamp- stead. road, engraver, June 2 and July 4. Sol. Mr. Corner, 20, Dean- street, Borough. Vet. Cr. John and William Robins, Tooley- street, stationers. Seal. May 22. THOMAS PARKER, formerly of Fleet- street, afterwards of Berners- street, and late of Great Russell- street, Bloomsbury- square, goldsmith, . May 31 and July4.( Sols. Messrs. . White and Borrett, Frederick's- place, Old Je. wry; and Messrs. Worship and Son, Great Yarmouth. Vet. Cr, Ann Everett, Great Yarmouth, widow, and Isaac Everett, South Creak, Norfolk, executrix and executor of James Everett, deceased. Seal. May 17. JOHN HUDSON, Gloucester, coal merchant, May 29 and July 4, at the Upper George Coffee- house, Gloucester. Sols. Mr. Edward Washbourn, Palace- yard, Gloucester; and Messrs. White and Whitmore, 11, Bedford- row, London. Pet. Cr. Edxvard WTeedo » , Gloucester, gent., John Allis Hartland, Tewkesbury, Esq., and Lindsey Winterbotham, Tewkesbury, gent., executors of Joseph Lane, late of Gloucester. Seal. May 17. JESSE OLIVER, Dumb Mill, near Bradford, Yorkshire, corn miller, May 31 and July 4, at the Court house, Bradford. Sols. Messrs. Smithson and Dunn, 23, Southampton- buildings, Chan- cery- lane, London ; and Messrs. Dunning and Kenyon, Leeds. Pet. Cr. Thomas England, Nicholas England, and John Skelton, Leeds, corn factors. Seal. May JO. ROBERT HARDY, late of Kingston. upon. Hull, victualler, May 30 and July 4, at the George Inn, Kingston- upon- Hull. Sols. Messrs. England and Shackles, Hull; and Messrs. Rosser and Son, 6, Gray's- inn- place, Gray's- inn, London. Pet. Cr. Samuel Ward, Kingston- upon- Hull, brewer. Seal. May 13. EDWARD READ, Baxfield, Suffolk, cordwainer, May 30 and July 4, at the King's Head Inn, Beccles. Sols. Messrs. Lofty and Potter, 35, King- stroet, Cheapside; London ; and Messrs. Church- yard and Co., Woodbridge, Suffolk. Vet. Cr. Jasper Goodwyn, Framlingham, Suffolk, currier. Seal, May 12. WILLIAM MAYBURY, late of Manchester, but now of Trieste, merchant, June 10 and July 4, at the Clarendon- rooms. Liverpool. Sols. Mr. E. Chester, Staple- inn, London ; and Mr. T. Davenport, Commerce- court, Liverpool. Vet. Cr. Jame3 Robinson Unett ( at present in Liverpool), and James Power, Messina, in the kingdom of the two Sicilies, merchants aud partners. Seal. May 2. SAMUEL BARROW, Stockport, Cheshire, com dealer, June 3 and July 4, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester. Sols. Mr. James Coppock, 3, Cleveland- row, St. James's, London"; and Messrs. Coppock arid Woollam, Stockport. Pet. Cr. James Wood, Ludworth, Derbyshire, farmer. Seal. April 20. # ALFRED SIDEBOTTOM, Two Bridges, Lancashire, calico printer and manufacturer, June 3 and July 4, at the Commissioners'. rooms, Manchester. Sols. Messrs. Milne and Co., Temple, Lon- don ; and Mr. Edward Bent, St Ann'a. square, Manchester. Pet. Cr. John Lee, Manchester, cabinet maker. Seal. May 11. JOHN HAUGHTON, Blackburn, Lancashire, cotton spinner and manufacturer, June 6 and July 4, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester. Sols. Messrs. Makinson and Sanders, 3, Elm- court, Temple, London ; and Messrs. Atkinson and Co., Norfolk. street, Manchester. Pet. Cr. Henry Barlow, Brinnington, Stockport, cotton spinner. Seal. April 24. RICHARD MAWDSLEY, JOSEPH GRAVES, and JOHN MOORE, Manchester, dyers, June 7 and July 4, at the Commis- sioners'- rooms, Manchester. Sols. Messrs. Kay and Co., !, Town- hall- buildings, Cross- street, Manchester ; and Messrs. Bower and Back, Chancery- lane, London. Pet. Cr. WTilliam Maddick, Man- chester, manufacturing chemist. Seal. May 16. THOMAS GITTON, Bridgnorth, Shropshire, scrivener, June 9 and July 4, at the Crown Inn, Bridgnorth. Sols. Mr. Henry Vickers, Bridgnorth ; and Messrs* Philpot aud Son, 3, Southampton- street, Bloomsbury, London. Pet. Cr. John Longmore, Chelmarsli, Shropshire, yeoman. Seal. May 11. EDWARD OLLERENSHAW the elder, Manchester, and Red- cross- street, Southwark, cotton spinner and hatter, June 5 and July 4, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester. Sols. Mr. Hampson, Norfolk. street, Manchester; and Messrs. Adlington and Co., Bedford- row, London. Pet. Cr. James Tinker, Salford, furrier and hatter. Seal. May 16. THOMAS GREGSON, Burnley, Lancashire, cotton manufacturer, June 6 and July 4, at the Commissioners- rooms, Manchester. Sols. Messrs. Adlington and Co., Bedford- row, Loudon ; and Messrs. Claye and Thompson, Manchester. Pet. Cr. Robert Hughes, Manchester, commission agent, and Henry Hope Stanley, his late partner. Seal. May 15. WILLIAM JONES, Chorley, Lancashire, draper, June 3 and July 4, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester. Sols. Mr. Sale, Spring- gardens, Manchester; and Messrs. Baxter, Lincon's- inn- fields, London. Pet. Cr. James Shipton, Wolverhampton, timber merchant. Seal. May 13. JOHN THRELFALL, Preston, currier, Juno 16 and July 4, at the Town- hall, Preston, Lancashire. Sols. Messrs. Bower and Back, 46, Chancery- lane, London; and Messrs. Walton and Greenwood, Preston. Pet. Cr. John Lawe, Joseph Hudson, and Robert Lawe, Preston, bankers. Seal. May 13. EDWARD BARKER, Exeter, druggist, June 20 and July 4, at the Old London Inn, Exeter. Sols. Messrs. Keddell and Baker, 56, Fenchurch- street, London ; and Mr. John Stogdon, 6, Bedford- circus, Exeter. Pet. Cr. John Laidman, Exeter, gent. Seal. May 13. WILLIAM HENRY SMITH, Bootle, near Liverpool, brewer, June 9 and July 4, at the Clarendou- rooms, Liverpool. Sols. Messrs. Crossley and Sudlow, Manchester; Mr. Holden, South John- street, Liverpool; and Messrs. Walmsley and Co., Chan- cery- lane, London. Vet. Cr. George Frederick Crossley, Liver- pool, bookkeeper. Seal. April 24. WILLIAM HALE, Oxford, corn factor, May 29 and July 4, at the Roebuck Inn, Oxford. Sols. Messrs. Robinson and Co., 32, Char- ter- house- square, London; and Messrs. Dudley and Co., Oxford. Vet. Cr. John Akerman, Wythaw, Berks, mason. Seal. May 18. CHARLES ELLIOTT, Leeds, tallow merchant, June 2 and July 4, at the Kingston Hotel, Kingston- upon- Hull. Sols. Messrs. Hicks and Morris, 5, Gray's- inn- square, London; and Mr. Thomas Holden, Hull. Pet. Cr. James Bowden and John Peele Clapham, Kingston- upon- Hull, mercliauts. Seal. May 16. THOMAS BECKETT, Norbury, Cheshire, cheese factor, June 8 and July 4, at the White Bear Inn, Middlewich, Cheshire. Sols. Messrs. Blackstock and Co., 1, Paper- buildings, Temple, London ; and Messrs. Harper and Parry Jones, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Vet. Cr. William Hale, Bickley, Cheshire, farmer. Seal. April 28. WILLIAM DEAN and JOSEPH DEAN, Birmingham, timber merchants, June 9 and July 4, at Dee's Royal Hotel, Birmingham, Sols. Mr. Richard Edgar Smith, 3, New Boswell- court, Lincoln's- inn, London; and Mr. Greatwood, Birmingham. Vet. Cr. John Dean, Birmingham, gent. Seal. May 19. THOMAS PALMER, Upper Porchester- street, Edgware- road, commission agent, June 9 and July 4, at the Union Inn, Birming- ham. Sols. Messrs. Holme and Loftus, 10, New- inn, London ; and Messrs. Parker and Lowe, Birmingham. Vet. Cr. Henry John Gyde, Birmingham, gun engraver. Seal. May 17. MICHAEL JOHNSON, Leeds, tailor, May 29 and July 4, at the Court- house, Leeds. Sols. Mr. William Hargreaves, Leeds; and Messrs. Battye and Co., Chancery- lane, London. Vet. Cr. Charles Barr, William Williams Brown, Joseph Janson, and John Whit- taker, Leeds, bankers. Seal. May 16. DIVIDENDS. William Longstaff and William Henry Longstaff, 13, Bury- street, St. James's, tailors, June 15— Samuel Passey. Birmingham, stationer, June 13— John Drayton and Charles Drayton, St. John- street, Clerkenwell, woollen drapers, June 13— John Mannerings, Chatham, builder, June 13— Edwin Bryant, George- yard, Lombard- street, City, merchant,. June 13— Edmund Farbrother, Oxford, wine mer- chant, June 13— William Augustus Barttelott, Regent- street, per- fumer, June 13— Arthur Henderson, Wallingford, Berkshire, linen draper, June 13— Andrew John Mackenzie and Henry Roper, Cross- street, Finsbury, merchants, June 14— Boykett Breeds, Hastings, lime burner, June 14— Samuel Harrison and William Bristow, Old Brompton, nurserymen, June 14— Desire Dellier, Berners'- street, Oxford- street, upholsterer, June 15— Joseph West, High- street, Shoreditch, grocer, June 15— William Croft, Preston, plumber, June 16, at the Town- hall, Preston— William Perry, Stourbridge, Wor- cestershire, grocer, June 21, at the Vine Inn, Stourbridge— Robert Claxton, Norwich, tailor, June 15, at the Castle Inn, Norwich- Matthew Smith, Liverpool, druggist, June 13, at the Clarendon, rooms, Liverpool. CERTIFICATES, JUNE 13. John Hall Wheeler, Hoxton- square, baker— Robert Gillett the elder, 57, Princes- street, Lambeth, flour factor— John Barnett, Stourport, Worcestershire, Severn carrier— John Gardner, Glou- cester, smoke- jack maker— Henry Wilson, Duke. street, Southwark, grocer— Richard Williamson, Derby, saddler. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Edward Hunt and Samuel Hunt, King- street, Nottingham, bakers — Joseph Hadfield and Charles Parker, Liverpool, sail makers- William Wright, Thomas Siminson, and George Shaw, Kingston- upon- Hull, manufacturing chemists— James Brown and William Ball, Birmingham, Britannia metal manufacturers— Mary Willson and Matthew Willson, 68, Great Queen. street, Lincoln's. inn- fields, furniture brokers— Mary Ann Bridge and Thomas Adamson, St, Helen's, Lancashire, coopers— James Thompson and Samuel Thomp- son, Sheffield, cutlers— Dauiel Lister and Samuel Stratton, 27, Lin coln's- inn- fields, solicitors— Emanuel Hainsworth and John Pickles, Dudley- hill, Bradford, Yorkshire, worsted spinners— William Taylor and John Wood, Kedbrook, Yorkshire, bleachers— George Fielder, Frederick Fielder, and Alexander Fielder, Dobcross, Manchester, merchants ( so far as regards Frederick Fielder)— John Common, James Harrison, and William Johnson, Ouseburn, Newcastle- upon. Tyne, common brewers. ASSIGNMENTS. John Hardesty, Birmingham, Tictualler. William Peuu, Chichester, spirit dealer. PRICE OF SEEDS, MAY22.— Per Cwt.— Red Clover, English, 50s to 00s ! lino, 65s to 70s ; Foreign, 50s to 60s; fine, 60s to C5s— White Clover, 54s to 60s; fine, 65s to 70s.— Trefoil, new, 14s to 18s; line, 19s to 23s ; old, 12s to 16s Trefolium, His tol8s; fine, : 20s to 22s.— Caraway, English, new, 43s to 473 ; Foreign, 50s to- 52s— Coriander, 14s Od to 16s Od. Per Quarter.— St. Foin, 36sto3Ss ; fine, 40s to 42s; Rye Grass, 23s to 35s; new, 35s to 45s ; Pacey Grass, 40sto45s; Linseed tor feeding, 48s to 50s; fine, 52s to 56s ; ditto for crushing, 426 to 16s.— Canary, 36s to 46s.— Hemp, 46s to 50s. Per Bushel.— White Mustard Seed, 7e Od to 9s Od ; brown ditto, 9s Od to 12s ; Tares, 4s 3d to 4s 6d : fine new Spring, 4s 9d to 5s Od. Per Last.— Rape Seed, English, 32/ to 34(; Foreign, 30( to 32(. GBNERAI. AVERAGE PRICEOFBRITISII CORN FORTHE WEEK ENDING MAY 18, 1837.— Wheat, 56s 4d; Barley, 32s Id; Oats, 22s lid; Rye, 36s 2d ; Beans, 37s 4d ; Peas, 36a Id. DUTY ON FOREIGN CORN FOR THE PRESENT WEEK.— Wheat, 30s 8d ; Barley, 13s lOd; Oats, 13s 9d; Rye, 15s 6d ; Beans, 14e0d; Peas, 15s 6d. HAY AND STRAW.— Smithfield.— Hay, 80s Od to 100s Od ; Inferior, - s to — s ; Clover, 95s to 120s ; Inferior — s to — s; Straw, 38s to 42s. Whitechapel.— Clover, 105s to 126s ; new ditto,— s to — s ; second cut, — sto— s; Hay, 90 to 100s; new ditto,— s to — s ; Wheat Straw, 38a to 44s. Cumberland.— Fine Upland Meadow and Rye- grass Hay, 100s to 105a; inferior ditto, 90s to 95s; snperior Clover, 115s to 126s; Straw, 45s to 46s per load of 36 trusses. Portman Market.— Coarseheavy Lowland Hay,— sto — s; new Meadow Hay, — s to— s ; old ditto, 84s to 105s ; usefulditto, — s to — s; New Cloverditto, — s to— s; old ditto, 110s to 118s ; Wheat Straw, 44s to 48s per load of 36 trusses. OILS.— Rape Oil, brown, £ 40 0s perton; Refined, £ 42 Os; Linseed Oil, £ 30 0s ; and Rape Cake, £ 5 10s.— Linseed Oil Cake, £ 12 10s per thousand. SMITHFIELD, MAY22— TO sink the offal— per 81b.— Beef, 3s 2d to 4s 6d; Best Down aud Polled Mutton, 4s lOd to 5s 2d; Veal, 4I Od to 5s Od ; Pork, 4s 2d to 4s lOd ; Lamb, 6s 6d to 6s 8d. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL By the Carcase — Beef, 2s Sd to 4s Od ; Mutton, 4s Od to 5s Od ; Veal, 3s Od to 5s Od ; Pork, 3s 4d to 58 Od ; Lamb, 5s 8d to 6s 4d. LONDON MARKETS. 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. 9il. and lis., per Box, a certain, safe, and the most speedy remedy ever discovered for the permanent and ef- fectual cure of gonorrhcea, 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. Tljeir 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 arid 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 certain 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 thfemselves as the authors of their own misery, and the ne- cessity of renouncing the felicities of marriage, are the fluc- tuating ideas of those who have given way to this delusive and destructive habit. In 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 yigorous 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 no « e, 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 he 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 he 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. THE ONLY CURE FOR CORNS AND BUNIONS. RAMSBOTTOM'S CORN and BUNION SOL- VENT. By the use of this valuable remedy imme- diate relief from pain is obtained, and by its successive application for a short period, the most obstinate Corns are entirely removed without recourse to the dangerous opera- tions of cutting or filing. The proprietor pledges himself that it does not contain caustic or any other article that will inflame the skin; being white it will not stain the stocking; and the advantage it has over plaister is mani- fest, and fully appreciated, as the very high recommenda- tion bestowed upon it by every individual that has used it testifies. Price Is. ljd. and2s. The various counterfeits that are attempted to be im- posed upon the public in lieu of this invaluable remedy, render it imperativelynecessary for purchasers to ask for S. Ramsbottom's Corn and Bunion Solvent, and to see that it has the signature of" S. Ramsbottom" written upon the label that is pasted on the outside of the wrapper of every genuine bottle, in addition to the name of the article, and words sold by Hannay and Co. 63, Oxford- street, being the name and address of tlie proprietor's wholesale agents. The following letter from Mr. John Winfield, of Bir- mingham, is one of many hundreds of the same tenor: — Gentlemen— Haviog read an advertisement in a Birmingham paper, I was induced to purchase from your agent, Mr. Maher, Ann- street, a bottle of Ramsbottom's Corn and Bunion Solvent;— 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, August 6,1836. JOHN WINFIELD. To Messrs. Hannay and Co. Sold by appoint men thy M. Maher, 5, Congreve- street, and W. Wood, Bookseller, High- street, Birmingham; Parke, Wolverhampton ;. Rogers, Stafford ; Mort, Newcastle; Mer- ridew, Coventry; Dicey, Northampton. CORN EXCHANGE,- MONDAY, MAY 22— Wheat, Essex Red, new 40s to 50s; fine, 50s to 55s ; old, 56s to 58s; White, new, 50s to 52s; fine, 56s to 58s; superfine, 58sto60s; old, 628 to 63s.— Rye, 30s to 368.— Barley-, 26s to 29s; fine, — s to — s; Superfine, 30s to 328.— Malt, 5( te to 56s ; fine, 56s to 58s.— P « as, Hog, 35s to 36s; Maple, 37s to 388 ; white, 34s to 36s; Boilers, 38b to 3Ds Beans, small, 408 to 41s; old, 44s to 48s; Ticks, 30s to 36s. j old, 40s to 44s; Harrow, — s t- o — s Oats, feed, 2ds to 236 ; fine, 24s to 27s; Poland, 24s to 27sfine, 28s to 29s; Potatoe, 28s to 30s'; fine, 32s to 33s.— Btafi, per quarter, 12s Od to 138 Od,— Follard, fiue, per ditto, 14a. 20s, ; - ••" DR. JOHN ARMSTRONG'S LIVER PILLS. " I care not how I am physicked, so it be not by the adventure of a Quack, but advice of a Physician, who, I am sure, will prescribe no more for me than may consist with my safety, and need doth re- quire."— Old Divine. DR. JOHN ARMSTRONG, who gave the propria etor this invaluable prescription, was the author of the splendid works on Typhus and Scarlet Fever; and on the Principles and Practice of Physic, published by Rix. These Pills are scientifically prepared for the Proprietor, a gentleman of private fortune, by his Wholesale Agent, Mr. J > l\ n T. Eddy, Chemist, Bishop Stortford, whose name and address ( tt> prevent imposition) are engraved in white letters on the Government Stsmp. Each box is also sealed with a tower, on a shield of ermine and gold, the Proprie- tor's arms. None else genuine. From the very extraordinary relief afforded by these Pills to DYSPEPTIC and BILIOUS PERSONS, the sale is becoming truly immense. All the Wholesale Houses sup- ply them to the Trade; and every respectable patent modi- cine vender, and many of the chemists in London, Edin- burgh, and Dublin, and in the country, ( where the Agents have become too numerous any longer to he advertised without apparent partiality) retail them to the public, in boxes at Is. lid., and 2s. 9d. each. Hundreds of striking cases and flattering testimonials might be noticed; but each DYSPEPTIC or BILIOUS SUFFERER who tries these pills ( most costly in their preparation to the proprietor), will furnish a sufficiently satisfactory and convincing case of cure or relief to himself. For some of the cases and testimonials, see the Sun, Watch- man, Mark Lane Express, and the envelope of each box. PATRONS. HIS MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY. HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF BELGIUM. And most of the Royal Family. James Johnson, Physician Ex'raordinary to His Majesty, Arthur T. Holroyd, Physician totheSt. Marylebone Dispensary. T. Hodgkin, M. D., Lecturer on Morbid Anatomyat Guy's Hospital. R. Rowley, M. D., Physician to the Aldersgate- street Dispensary. Or, H. Weatherhead, Lecturer ou Materia Medica and Therapeutics. T. Castle, Physician to St. Mary's Hall and to the Brighton Dis- pensary Amos Middleton, Senior Physician to the Leamington Hospital. Charles Loudon, Physician to the Leamington Bathing Institution. D. Davies, Surgeon to their Majesties Jonathan Pereira, F. L S. Lectureron Materia Medica. F. Tyrrell, 17, New Bridge- street, Surgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital. George Pilcher, M. R. C. b. L , Lecturer on Anatomy, Webb- street. F. Salmon, Consulting Surgeon to St. John's Hospital. Jarratt Dashwood Surgeon to the Royal Humane Institution. C. Millard, Demomstrator of Anatomy at the School of Webb- street. J. Harrison Curtis, Aurist to His Majesty. ri^ HE above, and 208 other Medical Gentlemen, JL have given the most flattering certificates of the great value and superiority of W OO DH OUSE'S iETHERI AL ESSENCE of JAMAICA GINGER, which is particu- larly recommended to all Cold, Phlegmatic, Weak and Ner- vous constitutions. It is certain in affording instant relief in Cholera Morbus, Spasms, Cramps, Flatulence, Hysterics, Heartburn, Hiccup, Loss of Appetite, Sensation of Fulness, Pain and oppression after meals; also those pains of the Stomach ami Bowels which arise from Gouty Flatulencies; Digestion however much impaired, is restored to its pristine state by the use of this Essence for a short time. I n bottles, 2s. 6d., 4s. 6d., 10s. 6d., and 21s. each. N. B. As a restorative after an attack of the Influenza, this Essence will be found most beneficial by giving tone to the stomach, and vigour to the whole frame. BALSAM OF SPERMACETI. INFLUENZA— This Balsam is invaluable for this pecu- liar epidemic; it invariably relieves the Cough and other distressing symptoms attending it, also in soothing and allaying the irritation of the stomach, & c. . Coughs, Asthma, Shortness of Breath, Weazing, Colds, soreness, tightness and oppression of the Chest, and most affections of the Chest and Lungs, relieved in ten minutes, by taking one dose of WOODHOUSE'S BALSAM OF SPERMACETI, OR PECTORAL COUGH DROPS. Persons doubting the efficacy of this medicine, may take a dose in the Proprietor's shop before they purchase. The Proprie- tor earnestly recommends a trial of these Drops to persons afflicted with the above complaints, but he does not intro- duce them as being an infallible cure ( as many do), but is warranted in asserting their efficacy from the extensive relief afforded in numerous cases of the above description. Con- stitutional Coughs of three, four, and more years standing, have been cured in the course of a week by the use of these Drops. In the Hooping and Chin Coughs it will be found equally valuable; it will at all times relieve the most violent Consumptive Cough. In bottles, Is. l^ d., 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d. and 10s, 6d., each. These Preparations are prepared only by DECIMIJS WOOD- HOUSE, Operative Chemist Extraordinary to His Majesty, 18, King William- street, New London Bridge, and sold by him wholesale and retail; and to be had of all medicine ven- ders in town and country. Country venders may be sup- plied through their town agents. Sold in bottles at 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., 10s. 6d., and 21s., each. CAUTION— To prevent imposition, be sure to see the name of DECIMUS WOODHOUSE, 18, King William street, London Bridge, is engraved on the Government Stamps oherwise cannot be genuine. BLAIR'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PILLS. rpHE extraordinary efficacy and complete safety of A this Medicine, is now so fully established by such tes- imonials, as the public can at all times make reference to, either direct or through the medium of the respectable Agents, whose names and residences are given, that any lengthened description of its salutary effects is unnecessary. It is merely requisite to observe that for Gout, Rheumatic Gout, Rheumatism, Lumbago, Sciatica, Pains in the Head and Face, & c., it is a decidedly established remedy. But the Proprietor feels it a duty which he owes to the afflicted, to place before them a series of cures recently communica- ted to him, one of which is the following: — Copy of a letter from the Neighbourhood of Birmingham. To Mr. Prout, 229, Strand, Loudon. West Bromwich, July 6th, 1836. SIR,— Having been for a number of years subject to the Gout and Rheumatism, I have tried every remedy that has been recommended, without the least benefit, until last year a friend of mine cathe to visit me, when in one of my violent attacks. Being himself quite a martyr to the chalky Gout, lie told me of the great relief he had ex- perienced from taking Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills. I immedi- ately sent to Mr. Cowell's, of West Bromwich, for a box, and in twenty- four hours, after taking a few Pills, was quite relieved, and able to attend to my business, and in two days was as well as ever I was. It is now more than twelve months since; but a few weeks ago I bad another attack, and having some Pills by me remaining, took a few, and in a short time was able to attend to my business as usual. I have recommended them to a number of my ' friends, who have all experienced the same beneficial result as myself, and I will, with the person who named them to me, ( should you choose to make use of this letter) satisfy every enquiry that can be made.— I am, sir, your's, very gratefully, SAML. LLOYD. Near the Old Bell Inn, Spon- lane, West Bromwich. These Pills are taken without the least care or attention, by either sex, young or old, and have the peculiar property of entirely removing the disease without debilitating the frame, which is universally left in a stronger and better state than before the malady commenced. And there is another most important effect belonging to this medicine— that it prevents the disease flying to the brain, stomach, or other vital part. Sold by Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London ; and by bis appointment, by Maher, Wood, Shillitoe, Sumner and Por- tal, Collins and Co., Humphries, Smith, Suffield, Flewitt, Ed- wards, Gazette and Advertiser offices; Shillitoe, ( late Cow- ell) Westbromwich; Turner and Hollier, and Morris, Dudley; Valentine and Thorsby, Walsall; Mander and Co., and Simpson, Wolverhampton; Davis, Atherstone; Morgan, Lichfield; Harding, Shiffnall; Pennell and Stew- art, Kidderminster; Morris, Bewdley; Maund, Broms- grove; Harper, Hodgkinson, Bayley and Roberts, War- wick ; and all respectable Medicine Venders in the Kingdom, price 2s. 9d. per box. Ask for Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills; and attend to the following notice. In consequence of the great and in- creasing demand for this extensively useful medicine, the Proprietor has obtained permission from His Majesty's Commissioners of Stamps to have the name and address of " Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London," impressed upon the Government Stamp, affixed to each box of the genuine medicine, ( to counterfeit which is felony) thereby super- seding the signature of " Thomas Prout," as heretofore adopted. To the Trade The usual full allowance to the Trade by having them direct from No. 229, Strand. ASHLEY COOPERS 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 the use of these pills, the party willnotexperieenc any return of the complaint, as generally occurs after taking Balsam of Copaiba, and other drugs of the like nature, which only possessing a local action, merelysuppressed the complaintfor 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 most efficient remedy for Pimpled Faces, Scurf, Scorbutic Affections, and all Eruptions of the Skin. Captains of vessels should make a point of always taking them to sea, their unrivalled effi- cacy in curing Scurvy being known throughout the world. The following letter selected from numerous other pro- essional recommendations 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, & e. & c. Theatre of Anatomy, Blenheim- street. Dear Cooper,— I have tried your pills in numerous instances, and my candid opinion is that they are a most improved system of treat- ment for those peculiar complaints for which you recommend them, curing with rapidity, aud 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 neyer leave those 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, . JOSHUA BROOKES. Ashley Cooper's Botanical Purifying Pills are sold in boxes at 2s. 9d. and 4s. 6d. each, wholesale and retail, at HANNAY and Co.' s General Patent Medicine Warehouse, 63, Oxford- street, the corner of Wells- street, London, where the public can be supplied with every Patent Medi- cine of repute, ( with an allowance on taking six at one time) warranted genuine and fresh from the various makers. Orders by post, containing a remittance, 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. Maher, 5, Congreve- street, and Wood, Bookseller, High- street, Birmingham ; Parker, Wolverhampton j Roger!, Stafford; Mort, Newcastle; Merridewf, Coventry. DARKER BOTT, of Nottingham, DENTIST, begs ' leave to inform bis Friends, and the Public in general, that he has disposed of the entire property in the following well- known and valuable Articles, to Messrs. BARCLAY and SONS, Farnngdon- street, London, whose names will, iu future, be affixed to each bottle or box of the genuine Pre- parations, viz. 2SBOTT'S TOOTH POWDER, price Is. l^ d., and BOTT'S TINCTURE for Scurvy in the Gums, price Is. 9d. BOTT'S CORN SALVE, price Is lUd. BOTT'S SANATIVE SALVE for the Relief and Cure ol Disorders incident to the Breast, particularly in nil kinds of Sores; and iu attenuating, softening, and dissi- pating all Hardness and Knottinefes therein, price Is. lUd. per packet. BOTT'S NANKEEN DYE, warranted to stand wash- ing, price Is. per bottle. BOTT'S CLOTH POWDER, for taking Grease Spots, Paint, & c. out of Silks, Stuffs, and Woollens, without dis- charging the Colour, price Is. per bottle. Prepared by BARCLAY and SONS, Farringdon- street, Lon- don, and sold by all Venders of Medicine. INFALLIBLE HAIR DYE. AMONGST the number of' compositions, advertised under various names as Hair Dyes, the only one that has stood the test of experience and proved as infalli- ble as it is efficacious, is AGID HASSAN'S celebrated, simple, and unerring CIRCASSIAN HAIR DYE, which will, in a few hours, change light, red, or grey hair, eye- brows, lashes, whiskers, and inustachios, to a rich auburn, or jet black, or any shade between ; giving a ftie glossy appearance, without injuring the hair, discolouring the skin or linen, also being free from the purple hue ( evci in the rays of the sun) which the other dyes impart. X is not less valuable to officers of the army, gentlemen of he turf, and all persons interested in the perfect appeaance of that beautiful animal the horse; removing what i tech- nically termed " White Stockings." Sold wholesale by W. DAY and Co., at their old Italian warehouse, the Black Boy, No. 95, Gracechurchitreet, and retail by the following Agents: — Mr. Aucoti per- fumer, New- street, Birmingham ; Mr. Saunders per- fumer, Warwick; Messrs. Price and Wood, perfmers Leamington ; Messrs. Stephens and Son, perliners Alcester ; Mr. Vernall, perfumer, Worcester; in littles at 5s., 10s., and 15s. each, having proper directions'iow to use the same, with a fac- simile of the signatui of Agid Hassan; also that of W. Day and Co. All witout these are counterfeit. MULREADDY'S COUGH ELIXIR. ONE dose is sufficient to convince the most'scrup- lous of the invaluable and unfailing efficacy of Ml. readdy's Cough Elixir, for the cure of coughs, coh, hoarseness, shortness of breath, asthma, difficulty if breathing, huskiness, and unpleasant tickling in the throt, night cough, with pain on the chest, & c. The paramount superiority of this medicine above evei other now in use, for thS cure of the above complaints, onl requires to be known to prove the passport to its being ere long, universally made use of for the cure of eveij description of Pulmonary Affection. To those who are unacquainted with the invaluable pro- perties of Mulreaddy's Cough Elixir, the following letters will exhibit its efficacy: — Manchester, Jan. 2nd, 1835. Dear Sir,— The cough medicine you sent me is certainly a most surprising remedy; six days ago I was unable to breathe, unless with great difficulty, attended with inucb 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 tliey all proved, useless drugs. The agreeable flavour of the medicine is a great recommendation: I think you ought to put it up and sell it to the public, and if any one should doubt its efficacy, refer them tome. I shall have the pleasure of being with you in a few days, when I shall press oil your consideration the propriety of making it up for sale ; it would prove an enormous fortune to your graud- children. If you make up your mind to do so, as I am what t| ie worldstyles an idle man, you may enlist me in your service in any way that yon 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, ar « > being advertised in all the papers here, as wholesale agents for Ramsbottom's Corn Solvent, which, by the bye, mv girls all say is really a cure, and many other medicines. 1 should say this would be a very good house, Oxford street being one of the most public situations in Lon- don. Alljoiu 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 I had notseen 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, and lef me the remainder, which I also took, and ill the course of tweuty- four hours I found myself quite freefrom eveaany 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 mo have half, or a whole pint of the medicine to stow in my sea chest, as 1 sail again for America in aboutten days, and if 1 can, ill return, afford you any service 011 the other side of the Atlantic, . am at your command. T. W. BUCHANAN. Master of the Brig Nancy, of Orleans. T. Mulreaddy, Esq. Birkenhead, Jan., 1835. Dear Sir,— Tlie bottle of Medicine you left for roe the other da; has greatfy relieved the wheezing I have been so long subject to anil I do not now find the cold produce the sensation it used previou 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 thj breast and back bones were drawn together. If you will be so god as to give me auotherbottle, I am sure it will work a perfectcure. I am, sir, your most obedient servant, T. Mulreaddy, Esq. NICHOLAS BROWN. Dear Sir,— The effect pf your medicine, in curing our children if the Hooping Cough, has been like magic, for which I, aud Mri. Wilson in particular, return our grateful acknowledgments, aid the little W's shall not fail, ere long, to thank you in person. Itelf on it, iu our family you will be styled doctor iu 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. Fir years past, during the winter mouths, and aiways on foggy dayl, 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 1 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, BO 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, aud compelled to provide it in quantities equal to the boundless waters; and you may rely upon it, that I, a locomotive proof of its wonderful power, will spare neither time, nor trouble to promulgate its efficacy, until you will find your cottage attacked by myriads of my former fellow- sufferers, for a share of your bounty, and 1 myself now apply for the first, trusting that your goodness will not suffer you to refuse mv a pretty considerable quantity, and I promise to distribute it most usefully. Whenever you have made up for sale, send me one thou- sand bottles. Ever your sincere well- wisher, T. Mulreaddy, ESQ. W. HUGHES. Chester, 12mo., 1834. Esteemed Friend,— Thou hast my sincere thanks for thy Samaritan present. Thy medicitle has had the promised effect, and com- pletely cured iny trying cough. If thou wilt let ine have a quantity iu a lar^ e bottle, I will, in return, enter thy name te any charitable institution thou wilt fix on. Thine, ' T. Mulreaddy, Epq. 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 prc » 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. Igg" Purchasers should observe that it'is wrapped up in white paper, on which, in a blue label with wliitel ettere, are printed the words,— Mulreaddy's Cough Elixir, prt- pared by Thomas Mulreaddy, Liverpool, and sold byhisap- pointment at Hannay and Co.' s, Patent Medicine Ware- house, 60, Oxford- street, London. Price Is. l^ d. and 4s. 6d. Sold wholesale and retail by HANNAY and Co., < 3, Oxford street, London, wholesale Patent Medicine Ven- ders and Perfumers to the Royal Family, where the public can be supplied with every patent and public medicine of repute; and also with the perfumes of all the respectable London perfumers, with an allowance on taking six or more of any other article at the same time. Orders, by post, enclosing a remittance, punctually at- tended to, and the change returned in the parcel, or sent to any partof London without extra charge. Sold by appointment by Maher, 5, Congreve- street, and Wood, bookseller, High- street, Birmingham; Parke. Wolverhampton ; Rogers, Stafford; Mort, Newcastle; and Merridevv, Coventry. Printed and published by FRANCIS BASSET SHENSTONV FLINDKLL, of Lee Crescent, in the parish of Edgbaston, at 38, New- street, Birmingham, where letters for the Editor maybe addressed, and where. Advertisements and Orders will be received. ( All descriptions of Jobbing carefully and expeditiously executed.) Agents in Lon- don: Messrs. NEWTON and Co., 5, Warwick- square; Mr. BARKER, 33, Fleet- street; Mr. RIYNEI. T,, Chan- cery- lane; Mr. DEACON, 3, Walbrook ; and Mr. HAM- MOND, 27", Lombard- street— Saturday, May 27, U37.