trnrn No. 630. SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1837. PRICE 4* d. NOTICE, that a MEETING of the ARMY and NAVY PENSIONERS will take place at Mr. JOHN HILLMAN'S, Shakspeare's Head, Queen- street, Bir- mingham, at Seven o'eloCkin the evening of tile 21st of June, for the purpose of forming a Benefit Society. NOTICE. MESSRS. WILLIAM PETERS and Co., Wine Merchants, High- street, hereby caution all persons from paying any money due to them to ROBERT PAL- MER, late of the Parade, he having left their employ. . Birmingham, June 9th, 1837. ARMY CONTRACTS. Office of Ordnance, Pall Mall, 2nd June, 1837. NOTICE is hereby given to all Persons desirous of contracting to supply MEAT, BREAD, OATS, AND FORAGE, To His Majesty's Land Forces ( Bread and Meat for the Foot Guards generally, and for the Household Cavalry in Middlesex excepted) in Cantonments, Quarters, and Bar- racks, in the Counties of England severally, in Wales, in North Britain, in the Isle of Man, and in the Channel Islands, for three months, from the 1st of August next, in- clusive:— That Proposals in Writing, addressed to the Secretary to the Board ofOrdance, sealed up and marked on the outside Tenderfor Ai'my Supplies, will be received at the Ordnance Office, Pall Mall, on or before Thursday thirteenth day of July next; but none wilfbe received after eleven o'clock on that day. Persons who make Tenders, are desired not to use any Forms bat those which may be had upon application at the Office of the Secretary to the Board of Ordnance in Pall Mall; and of the Barrack Masters in the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man. By order of the Board, R. BYH AM, Secretary. ST. CHAD'S CATHOLIC CHAPEL. ON SUNDAY NEXT, June 18th, SERMONS will he Preached by the Rev. JOHN ABHOTT, in sup- port of the CHARITY SCHOOLS of that Chapel. Service in the Morning at half- past Ten, and in the Even- ing at half- past Six. N. B. The Annual Meeting of the Schools will be held in the School Room on Wednesday, July 5th. THE MINERVA LIFE ASSURA NCE COMPANY, King William- street, Mansion Mouse, London. CAPITAL ONE AJILLION. ITS distinguishing features are— MODERATE RATES of Premium, with participation of the profits every five years to the extent of four- fifths, or 80 per cent. The profit may be added as a Reversionary Bonus, or its value applied to the reduction of future Premiums, at the option of the policy holders. By Premiums by ascending and descending scales. Liberty granted to reside abroad ; to pass and repass the seas between Brest and Hamburgh, without obtaining the permission of the Directors. Personal appearance before the Directors is dispensed with, the certificate of the respective medical advisers being deemed sufficient. Age 25 35 45 55 £' 2 17 0 £ 3,14 11 00 60 £ 6 7 2 Every facility is afforded consistent with the security ot the Company. JOHN TULLOCH, Actuary, Agent at Birmingham. Mr. WM. GOODE, Bank, Bull- street. TENT PREACHING. ON SABBATH EVENING, 18th, and MONDAY EVENING, 19th, June, THE TENT will be PITCHED on NEW HALL HILL, near the bottom of Camderi- street, and on TUESDAY EVENING, June the 20th, at GOSTA GREEN; the Service will he con- ducted by the Rev. T. EAST. The Service on Sabbath Evening will commence at half- past six, and on Monday and Tuesday at half- past seven. " And the Lord said unto the servant, go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled."— Luhe xiv, 23 STOLEN OR STRAYED, LATE on Wednesday night or early on Thursday morning last, from a field adjoining Frederick- street, Edgbaston, A BLACK MARE PONY, about eleven hands high; she has a hole in the left ear and a slit in the right ear, with a white spot on the near side of the back; aged. If stolen, whoever will give such information as shall lead to the conviction of the offender or offenders ; or, if strayed, whoever will bring the same to Mr. Thomas Sargant, Hag- ley- road, near the Five Ways, shall be handsomely rewarded for their trouble. June 14, 1837. THEATRE ROYAL, BIRMINGHAM. UNDER THE SOI. K DIRECTION OF MR. ARM1STEAD. Immense attraction and brillian t success of Miss Shirreff and Mr. Templeton. Their last niijht but four. MONDAY Evening, June 19, 1837, the perform- ances will commence with the Opera of THE SLAVE. Captain Clifton ( with all the original music and introduced songs) Mr. TEMPLETON. Zerlina ( with all the original music and introduced songs) . . Miss SHIRREFF. Gambia Mr. GRATTAN. Matthew Sharpset „. JIr. W. H. ANGEL. Stella Mrs. OWEN. After which a favourite Drama, in which the whole strength of the Company will appear. In consequence of the immense preparations for nextweek, there will be no performance this Evening ( Saturday.) A NEW SUBSTANCE FOR ARTIFICIAL TEETH. LOSS OF TEETH SUPPLIED. And filling Decayed Teeth with Mineral Siliceum. MONS. DE BERRI AND CO., SURGEON- DENTISTS, 121, REGENT- STREET, LONDON, AND 17, EASY ROW, BIRMINGHAM, RESPECTFULLY acquaint the Nobility, Gentry, and the Public, that they have recently succeeded in forming a new substance for Artificial Teeth, which they can confidently recommend to be superior in every respect to those now generally worn, for, from their peculiar com- position, they cannot break from the plate, are more durable, perfectly incorrodible, and impossible to change from their original colour. They are also impervious to rhe use of acids, never need be removed, are perfectly free from smell, even when worn for a very considerable number of years, and are particularly adapted to those who have tender gums, as they are fixed with perfect ease and comfort, without the slightest pressure. They also supply as usual Artificial or Natural Teeth from one to a com- plete set, without extracting the roots, giving any pain, wires, or ligatures, at the following Paris charges: A single Artificial Tooth — 0 10 Acompleteset —— 5 5 A complete set of Natural Teeth, on fine gold An entire set of Natural Teeth, - highly finished, in the first style, with fine gold sockets, usually charged 40 guineas 20 Answering all the purposes of Mastication and Articu- lation, protecting the adjoining Teeth, and remaining per- fectly secure in their places. Mons. de Berri and Co. continue to restore Decayed Teeth with their celebrated Mineral Siliceum, which is ap- plied without pain, heat, or pressure. It is placed into the cavity in an almost liquid state, and in a few seconds hardens into enamel, preventing and curing the Tooth- ache, arrest- ing all further progress of decay, and rendering the opera- tion of extraction unnecessary. They also fasten loose Teeth, arising from neglect, calo- mel, or any other cause. *,* At home from ten till six. 121, Regent- street, London, and 17, Easv row, Birmingham. d. 0 0 0 0 0 0 FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH. Price Is. 1 Ud. per box. '• MIIS is a medicine ot long tried efficacy for cor- - L recting all disorders of the stomach and bowels, the common symptoms of which are costiveness, flatulency, spasms, loss of appetite, sick head- ache, giddiness, sense of fullness after meals, dizziness of the eyes, drowsiness, and pains in the stomaeh and bowels, indigestion pooducing a torpid state Of the liver, and a consequent inactivity of the bowels, causing a disorganisation of every function of the frame, will, in this most excellent preparation, by a little perseverance, be effectually removed. Two or three dozes will convince the afflicted of its salutary effects. The sto- mach will speedily regain its strength ; a healthy action of the liver, bowels, and kidneys, will rapidly take place; and instead of listlessness, heat, pain, and jaundiced appearance, strength, activity, and renewed health, will be the quick re- sult of taking this medicine according to the directions ac- companying each box. These pills are particularly efficacious for stomach coughs, eoldfc, agues, shortness of breath, and all obstructions in the urinary passages; and if taken after too free an indulgence at table, they quickly restore the system to its natural state of repose. Persons of a full habit, who are subject to head- ache, giddiness, drowsiness, and singing in the ears, arising from too great a flow of blood to the bead, should never be with- out them, as many dangerous symptoms will be entirely car- ried off by their immediate use. For females these pills are most truly excellent, removing all obstructions; the distressing head- ache so very prevalent with the sex ; depression of spirits, dulness of sight, nervous affections, blotches, pimples, and sallowness of the skin, and give a healthy and juvenile bloom to the complexion. To mothers they are confidently recommended as the best medicine Chat can be taken during pregnancy; and for chil- dren of all ages they are unequalled. As a pleasant, safe, easy aperient, they unite the recom- mendation of a mild operation with the most successful effect, and require no restraint of diet or confinement during their use. By regulating the dose according to the age and strength of the patient, they become suitable for every case, in either sex, that can be required; and for elderly people they will he found to be the most comfortable medicine hitherto prepared. Sold by T. Prout, 229, Strand, London, price Is. IJd. and 2s. 9d. per box ; and by Maher, Wood, Shillitoe, Sumner and Portal, Collins and Co., Humphries, Smith, Suffield, Flewitt, Edwards, Gazette and Advertiser offices; Shillitoe, ( late Cowell) Westbromwich; Turner and Hollier and Morris, Dudley; Valentine and Thorsby, Walsall; Mander and Co., and Simpson, Wolverhampton; Davis, Atherstone : Morgan, Lichfield; Harding, Shiffnall; Penned and Stew- art, Kidderminster; Morris, Bewdley; Maund, Broms- grove; Harper, Hodgkinson, Bayley and Roberts, War- wick; and most of the agents for the celebrated " Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Piifs," one of whom is to be found in every town in the Kingdom. To the Trade The usual fall allowance to the Trade by having them direct from No. 229, Strand. COMFORT, ECONOMY, AND CONVENIENCE. BIRMINGHAM COFFEE HOUSE, Nos. 1 and 2, CURZON- PLACE, UNION- PASSAGE HWELLINGS most respectfully presents his • sincere thanks to his friends and'ths public gene- rally, for the liberal manner in which they have patronised his Establishment, and begs to assure them that no exer- tion shall be wanting on his part to ensure an extension of that preference, which it will ever be his entire study to deserve. In anticipating the immense additional influx of visitors to Birmingham, consequent on the opening of railway communication, H. W. has taken the opportunity of making several improvements in his establishment, with the intention of rendering it additionally comfortable and con- venient to those friends who may favour him with their attention. Parties visiting Birmingham, either on BUSINESS or PLEASURE, will find CURZON- PLACE one of the most RETIRED and CONVENIENT Situations in the town, being within a few minutes' walk of the different Coach Offices, principal Streets, Public Buildings, and In- stitutions, & c. & c. Several Commercial Gentlemen having expressed great satisfaction with the Convenience and Retirement of Cur- zon- place, lias induced the Proprietor to fit up additional Bed Rooms for their accommodation. DINNER COMMENCING AT ONE O'CLOCK. A liberal BILL OF FARE is daily produced, and AMPLE Preparations are made, consisting of the most choice articles which the well- supplied markets of Birmingham produce. Private Rooms, and Private Dinners, on the shortest notice.— Charges moderate. Curzon- place, May 31, 1837. TO TOBACCONISTS AND OTHERS. TO be DISPOSED OF, on very Liberal Terms, in consequence of other engagements, the Business, in the above line, carried on for the last Ten Years upon the premises, No. 105, New- street, which are to be Let. The House is well adapted for Letting off, if desired. Apply on the Premises. ST. PETER'S CHURCH. ON SUNDAY MORNING NEXT, the 18th instant, a SERMON wil be Preached in ST. PHILIP'S CHURCH, in aid of the FUNDS for the RE- STORATION of ST. PETER'S CHURCH, Dale End, by the Rev. WALTER FARQUHAR HOOK, D. D., Vicar of Leeds, and Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty. N. B. The Public are hereby informed, that ST. PETER'S CHURCH, Dale End, will be RE- OPENED for DIVINE WORSHIP on SUNDAY, the 6th of August next ensuing,— PEW£ and SITTINGS may be obtained on ap- plication to the Rev. CHARLES CRAVEN, M. A., Minister, St. Paul's- square : or to Messrs. JOSEPH BENSON and JOHN HOLT, Churchwardens, both of Bull- street. A PUBLIC HOUSE ( licensed under the New Act) and General EA TING HOUSE, most, excellently situated im the Smithfield Market- place, Birmingham. BY JOHN RODWAY, TO be DISPOSED OF, by PRIVATE TREATY, the GOODWILL and POSSESSION of the above house, which is doing a great ready- money trade; and the situation being so much superior to most others in the town, will always insure to any person a very extensive business. The premises are spacious and very convenient both for business and family comfort, The coming- in will be trifling, as the proprietor will, to oblige the purchaser, dispose of the whole 6f his stock. For further particulars, apply to JOHN RODWAY, Appraiser and General Agent, Edgbaston- street, Birmingham, who has the Letting of various Public- houses and Liquor- shops coming- in from £ 200 to £ 1000. TO FARMERS, DEALERS, BUILDERS, AND OTHERS. TO be SOLD by AUCTION, by Mr. JOHN FALLOWS, ( by order of the assignees of James Hiam, a bankrupt,) on Monday, June 26th, 1837, on the premises, situate about one mile from Barstone Church, and three from Knowle, the whole of the valuable Live and Dead Stock, consisting of several new Milch Cows, very useful Horses, Store Pigs, Waggons, Carts, Scuffles, Ploughs, and Harrows; severaljacres of growing Wheat, Bar- ley, Vetches, and Grass; also a large quantity of Bricks, and Quarries, Boards and Building Materials. Catalogues of which may be had at the AUCTIONEER'S OFFICE, Temple- row, and at the place of Sale. Sale to commence at ten o'clock, under the usual con- ditions. SALE IN WORCESTER- STREET, BIRMINGHAM. TO CABINET MAKERS' AND PERSONS ABOUT TO FURNISH. 1^ 0 be SOLD by AUCTION, by MR. J. FAL- LOWS, ( by order of the Assignees of Mrs. Hughes, a bankrupt,) on the premises in Worcester- street, corner of Grub- stieet, Birmingham, on Tuesday and Wednesday, the 27th and 28th days of June inst., the whole of the stock of newly- made CABINET FURNITURE; consisting of Mahogany Telescope, Dining, Card, Pembroke, and other Tables, Horse Hair Sofa, Mahogany Sideboards, Bookcases, Chairs, Hair Seats, Floor Carpets, handsome four- post Ma- hogany Tent and other Bedsteads, fine Feather Beds, Chests of Drawers, Dressing Tables, Swing and other Glasses, great variety of painted Chairs, the usual Kitchen and Culinary Requisites, together with a well selected stock of Mahogany Timber, in boards and logs, Mahogany and Rosewood Veneeis, of good quality, with Cedar, Deal, Pine, and other Boards, and Timber of various kinds, and other Effects, catalogues of which will be ready after Wednesday next, at the Auctioneer's Office, Temple- row, Birmingham. The Ironmongery Stock will be sold on Tuesday and Wednesday, July the 4th and 5th, particulars of which will be stated in next week's paper. PORT OF GLOUCESTER. FOR SALE by PUBLIC AUCTION, on account of whom it may concern, by Mr. T. B. KlllK, on Wed- nesday next, 21st June, at twelve o'clock, at the Spread Eagle Inn, Gloucester, SIX HUNDRED QUARTERS OF FINE FOREIGN MALTING BARLEY, In excellent condition, now in Granary at Gloucester, at a rent of 6d. per 100 bushels per week; and two cases of GERMAN HORSE HAIR, for weaving. The bulks may be viewed, and further particulars ob- tained on application to the AUCTIONEER, or . PHILI. POTTS, LLOYDS, and Co., merchants, Gloucester, and No. 8, Cherry street, Birmingham. N. B. Approved bills at two months will be taken in payment. BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL AND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. rpHE FIRST EXHIBITION for the season of ± the BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL and HOR- TICULTURAL SOCIETY will take place at the SOCI- ETY'S GARDENS, Edgbaston, on THURSDAY and FRIDAY, the 29th and 30th days of June inst. Doors to be opened at twelve o'clock on Thursday and ten on the following day. Admission to Non- Subscribers, 2s. each— Children Is. Among the List of Money Prizes to be' awarded at the June Show, will be for the PREMIER PRIZE- A SILVER CUP. ( The Exhibitor who shall obtain the greatest amount of Prizes shall be entitled to the Cup— Entrance 7s. 6d., until the 22nd instant, after which day to be increased to 10s. Exhibitors desirous of entering must apply to Mr. GREEN, at the Gazette Office, or to Mr. CAMERON, at the Society's Gardens.) A List of the MONEY PRIZES, ( which are more numerous than usual,) may be obtained on application. Liberal Prizes will be awarded to Cottagers. Entrance 2s. 6d. each. EXTRA PRIZES according to merit. THE EVENING PROMENADES will commence on TUESDAY EVENING NEXT, June 20, ( weather permitting), when, by the politeness of Lieut.- Col. Sir Maxwell Wallace and the Officers of the Fifth Dragoon Guards, their SPLENDID REGIMENTAL BAND will attend and perform a variety of their most popular pieces. Shareholders and Subscribers are reminded, that their Annual Subscriptions became due in advance on the ls( o) June, and that their tickets for the season are prepared, und will be delivered to them on payment of their Subscriptions, by the Lodgekeeper. JOHN GREEN, Secretary. Edgbaston, June 17, 1837. NOTICE. IT having been represented to the Magistrates at- tending the Public- office, that the alteration of the day of attendance from Thursday to Friday was inconvenient. It was resolved at a Meeting of the Magistrates held for the purpose of taking the same into consideration,— That from and after Monday the 19th, instant, that the Days of Attendance at the Public- office be on Monday and Thursday in each week, as heretofore. VV. SPURRIER, W. H. GEM, H. M. GRIFFITHS. Public- office, Birmingham, June 16th; 1837. £ 50 CLUB. SHARE in the £ 50 CLUB, held at the SHIP, . in FOX- STREET, will be SOLD on next Wed- nesday night * Dinner on the table at five o'clock. Mr. PURSALL, Presfdentand Secretary. W. TIMMINGS, Vice- President. T. MEDLICOT, Steward. J. WILLIAMS, Treasurer. TO PASTEBOARD AND CARD- MAKERS. AYOUNG MAN, having served his time in Lon- don, is desirous of obtaining a permanent situation in or near to Birmingham in the Pasteboard, Card, or Jaquard- making ; can have an undeniable character from his present employer. Address, post- paid, to J. A. T., 46, Gee- street, Goswell street, London. BRITISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH, 2, HAMILTON- PLACE, KING'S CROSS, LONDON. MORISON'S PILLS. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that this Medi- cine is not genuine unless tile words " Morison's Uni- versal Medicines" be engraved on the Government stamp, in white letters, upon a red ground. General Agent for Warwickshire, MR. WADELTON, 22, SNOW- HILL, ( Four doors above Mr. Morris's, the Druggist,) BIRMINGHAM. SUB- AGENTS. Mr. Corbett, Ironmonger- row, Coventry. Mr. Heathcote, Market- place, Warwick. Mr. Bettison, Lower Broad- street, Leamington. Mr. Lapworth, Stratford- on- Avon. And one agent in every market- town in the county. s. No chemist or druggist is allowed to sell Morison's Pill REMOVAL. MR. WILLIAM MORGAN, Solicitor, from Offices No. 110, NEW- STREET, to Offices No. 132. NEW- STREET, next door to Messrs. Attwood, Spooner, and Co.' s Bank. WINES AND SPIRITS. FAMILIES may be supplied with every description of Foreign Wines of the choicest qualities and most approved vintages, at very low piices; and also with British and Foreign Spirits of the first description, both as regards delicacy of flavour and strength, on equally moderate terms, at PETERS'S WINE AND SPIRIT WAREHOUSE 77, BULL- STREET, CORNER OF TEMPLE- ROW, BIRMINGHAM. %* Bottles, jars, and packages must either be exchanged or paid for on delivery, allowance being made for them when returned. NOTICE. General Post Office. PERSONS who may be willing to contract for the conveyance of the Mail Bags, daily, on horseback, or in a light cait, to be approved by the Surveyor of the Dis- trict, or by stage coaches, between STONEBRIDGE and LICH FIELD, ( through Coleshill) are requested to state the sum, per annum, payable quarterly, for which they will undertake the same, on a written tender, directed to me, at the Post Office, Oswestry. Security will be required for the due performance of the Contract, find further particulars may be known on applica- tion at the Post Offices, at Coleshill and Lichfield. Tenders must be sent in on or before the 20th inst. By command of the Postmaster- General, B. CHURCHILL, Surveyor- General, Post Office. June 12, 1837. N. B. Stage Coaches employed on this service, will not be exempted from toll. The parties must be. ready to com- mence at one week's notice. 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: l s. l^ d. and 2s. The various counterfeits that are attempted to be im- posed upon the public in lien of this invaluable remedy, render it imperatively necessary for purchasers to ask for S. Ramsbottom's Com 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 Hannayand Co. 63, Oxford- street, being the name and address of the proprietor's wholesale agents. The following letter from Mi. John Winfield, of Bir- mingham, is one of many hundreds of the same tenor: — Gentlemen— Having read an advertisement in a Birmingham paper, I was induced to purchase from your agent, Mr. Maher, Ann- street, a bottle of Ramsbottom's Corn and Bunion Solventafter a week's application I found it had the desired effect. 1 have since re- commended it to many of my friends. You are at liberty to make any use you please of this communication.— Your obedient servant, Birmingham, August 6,1836. JOHN WINFIELD. To Messrs. Hannay and Co. Soldbyappointmentby M. Maher, 5, Congreve. Btreet, and W. Wood, Bookseller, High- street, Birmingham ; Parke, Wolverhampton; Rogers, Stafford; Mort, Newcastle; Mer- ridew, Coventry; Dicey, Northampton. WHEREAS a Fiat in Bankruptcy is awarded and issued forth against ANDREW CHAMBERS, of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, Engraver, Printer, dealer and chapman, and he being declared a Bank- rupt is hereby required to surrender himself to the Com- missioners in and by the said fiat named and authorised, or three of them, on the sixth and twenty- eighth days of July next, at Ten o'clock in the forenoon of each of the said days, at Radenhurst's New Royal Hotel, in New- street, in Birmingham aforesaid, and make a full discovery and dis- closure of his estate and effects, when and where the cre- ditors are to come prepared to prove their debts, and at the first sitting to choose Assignees, and at the last sitting the said bankrupt is required to finish his examination, and the creditors are to assent to, or dissent from the allowance of his certificate. All persons indebted to the said bankrupt, or that have any of his effects, are not to pay or deliver the same but to whom the Commissioners shall appoint, but to givenoticeto Messrs. Alexander Gem and Pooley, Solicitors, 60, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London; or to THOMAS B. LEFEVRE, Solicitor. 14, Cofmore- row, Birmingham. WHEREAS a Fiat in Bankruptcy is awarded and issued forth against WILLIAM HODGETTS, of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, Bookseller, dealer and chapman, and he being declared a bankrupt, is hereby required to surrender himself to the Commissioners in and by the said fiat named and authorised, or three of them, on the thirtieth day of May instant, and the twenty- third day of June next, at one o'clock in the afternoon of each of the said days, at Radenhurst's New Royal Hotel, in New- street, in Birmingham aforesaid, and make a full discovery and disclosure of his estate and effects, when and where the creditors are to come prepared to prove their debts; and at the first sitting to choose assignees, and at the last sitting the said bankrupt is required to finish his examination, and the creditors are to assent to or dissent from the allowance of his certificate. All- persons indebted to the said bankrupt, or that have any of his effects, are not to pay or deliver the same but to whom the Commissioners shall appoint, but to give notice to Messrs. Battye, Fisher, and Sudlow, Solicitors, Chancery- lane, London, or to WEBB and DOLPHIN, \ Joint Solicitors, May, 1837. FRANCIS MOLE, rmingham. rriHE CREDITORS who have proved their debts A under a Fiat in Bankruptcy awarded and issued firth against WILLIAM HODGETTS, of Birmingham, in tli county of Warwick, Bookseller, Dealer and Chapman, are requested to meet the assignees of the said bankrupt's estate and effects, on MONDAY, the 26th day of June instant, at One o'clock in the afternoon precise!} 5, at Radenhurst's New Royal Hotel, in Birmingham aforesaid, to assent to or dissent from the said assignees selling and disposing of the stock ill trade, household goods, furniture, chattels, and effects of thesaid bankrupt, orany part thereof, either bypub- lic auction or private contract, or by valuation or appraise- ment, for ready money orupon credit, and upon suchsecurity or otherwise as they may think proper; and also to assent to or dissent from the said assignees selling or disposing of all or any part of the real and personal estate of the said bankrupt, either with or without the concurrence of the mortgagee or mortgagees thereof, in such lots, and by public auction or private sale, and for such price or prices in money, and at such times and places as the said assignees shall think proper; and from time to time, at any such auction, buying in and afterwards reselling the same, or any part thereof, without being answerable for any loss or expense arising or occasioned thereby; and also to assent to or dissent from the said assignees paying to the mortgagee or mortgagees of the real or personal estates of the said bankrupt, or of any part thereof, the debts or claims due to such mortgagee or mortgagees, or any part or parts thereof, or concurring with him, her, or them, in effecting any sale, or contesting and disputing the validity and extent of any mortgage, lien, or other incumbrance, on or affecting the real or personal estate of the said bankrupt, or of any part thereof, or coming to any terms of arrangement with respect to such mortgage, lien, or incumbrance, as the said assignees may thnk fit; and also to assent to or dissent from the said assignees employing an accountant, collector, or other person or per- sons, to investigate the accounts of the said bankrupt, and to make up, settle, and adjust the books of account, and to collect the outstanding detits due to the said bankrupt's estate, and making such compensation to such accountant, collector, or other person or persons, for his, her, or their trouble therein as to the said assignees shall seem seem meet; and also to assent to or dissent from the said assignees' submitting to arbitration any dispute or difference that may arise relating to the said bankrupt's accounts, and to their compounding or otherwise agreeing any matter or thing relating thereto ; and also to assent to or dissent from the said assignees commencing proceedings or defending any action, suit, or suits at law, or in equity, for the reco- very and protection of any part of the said bankrupt's estate and effects, or to tiie compounding or submitting to arbitra- tion, or otherwise agreeing any matter or thing relating thereto ; and on other special affairs relating to the said bankruptcy. WEBB and DOLPHIN,") Joint FRAS. MOLE, J Solicitors. REPAIRING THE CONSTITUTION. BY REPAIRING the CONSTITUTION, the Advertiser means the HUMAN FRAME, which, by too free indulgence in momentary pleasures, destroys too often the noble fabric of man, and tortures him through his whole existence ; weakens his energies, and makes him un- fit to perform those functions which are required of him. Dr. FISCHELBERG, formerly of the Prussian army, who directs his entire study to those cases so frequently brought on by the indiscretion of youth and inebriety, and whose long and extensive practice on the banelul diseases arising from theabove causes, hasat length been so fortunate as to conquer, through his salutary and most valuable medicinal preparations, the most obstinate venereal diseases, and does with confidence assure the afflicted, that, by adhering to his medicines, a complete cure may be relied on, for which he pledges his reputation. Dr. F. may be consulted by both sexes with the greatest confidence, from nine in the morning till ten at night, and on Sundays from ten till two, at his Medical Establish- ment, No. 3, Christ Church Passage, New- street, Bir- mingham, where advice and medicines may be obtained. The PILES successfully treated by internal medicines only. Dr. FISCHELBERGis the sole Proprietorof the highly celebrated Royal Prussian Herb Pills, for the cure ol the Venereal disease. Sold, with proper directions for use, in boxes at 2s. 9d. and 4s. 6d. each, duty included.— Agent, Mr. Caldicott, bookseller, Dudley- street, Wolverhampton. Letters from the country, post- paid, with particulars < f the case, and enclosing a remittance, punctually attended to, and advice and medicines forwarded to any part of the kingdom. ggr Observe, No. 3, Christ Church- passage, New- street. N. B. Private door to the Surgery through the first entry in New- street. SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY. NOTICE is hereby given, that the meeting adver- tised to be holden on Tuesday, the 27th instant, is for the present postponed. By order, PHILIP D. SOUPER, Secretary. 5, John- street, Adelphi, 14th June, 1837. GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY. f J^ HE Directors beg leave to inform the Public, that - 1- the GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY, from BIRMINGHAM to LIVERPOOL and MANCHES- TER, will OPEN for the Conveyance of Passengers, Parcels, and Light Goods, ( from a temporary Station, at Vauxhall, Birmingham,) on the Fourth of July, 1837. The Trains from Liverpool and Manchester will start from the Stations of the Liverpool and Manchester Company in those towns, at the hours undermentioned. FARES. First Class Coach, Six Inside, whether in First Class or in Mixed Trains Mail Coach, Four Inside Bed- carriage, in Mail Coach Second Class Coach Children under ten years of age, Half Price. Gentlemen's Carriage, four wheels , ™ ~~ at ™ Ditto, two wheels Passengers, if belonging to and riding in Gentle- men's Carriages, each Servants, if belonging to and riding in Gentlemen's Carriages, each Grooms in charge of Horses, each . One Horse ... Two Horses Three Horses THE FOLLOWING, UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE, WILL BE THE HOURS OF DEPARTURE; From Birmingham. Arrival at L'pool8f Manchester. £ » . d. 1 I 0 1 5 0 2 0 0 0 14 0 3 0 0 2 0 0 0 15 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 1 10 0 2 10 0 3 10 0 0 3 0 1st Class. Mixed _ 1st Class 1st Class. Mixed .„ 1st Class, H. M. _ 7 0 o'clock — 8 30 .11 30 ~- 2 30 — 4 30 - 7 0 A. M- A. M~ A. M~ P. M~ P. M„ P. M„ H. M. - 11 30 o'clock A. M. 1 45 4 0 7 0 9 45 11 30 P. M. P. M. P. M. P. M. P. M. From L'poolManchester. 1st Class 6 30 o'clock A. M.. Mixed 8 30 A. M.. 1st Class „ 11 30 A. M.. 1st Class 2 30 P. M„ Mixed ,4 30 P. M_ lst Class 6 30 P. M„ Arrival at Birmingham. 11 5 o'clock A. M. 2 0 P. M. —— 4 5 P. M. 7 5, P. M. — 10 0 P. M. 11 5 P. M. ON SUNDAYS The four First Class Tra; ns only, with the addition of Second Class Coaches, will start at the same hours as on the week days, but will not take up and set down Pas- sengers at any but the six principal stopping places, viz.: Birmingham Stafford Crewe Warrington Wolverhampton Wliitmore Hartford Manchester and Liverpool. Besides which, the Mixed Trains will take up and set down Passengers at any of the following places : — Perry Barr Spread Eagle Minshull Vernon Newton Road Perikridge Winsford Bescot Bridge Bridgeford Acton James' Bridge Norton Bridge Preston Brook Wiilenhall Madeley Moore. Four Ashes Coppenhall And will take up and set down Passengers to orfrom any part of tin Grand Junction Railway at all the usual stopping places on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Tables of the Fares will be kept at each of the Stations. A WOLVERHAMPTON TRAIN Will start daily at the following hours:— from Wolver- hampton to Biimingham at Eight o'clock in the Morning, and from Birmingham to Wolverhampton at Seven O'clock in the Evening. Fares between Wolverhampton and Birmingham: Close Carriage, 2s. 6d.— Open Carriage, Is. 6d. A WARRINGTON TRAIN Will start daily from Warrington to Liverpool and Man- chester at Eight o'clock in the Morning. REGULATIONS. Time of Departure. The Doors of the Booking Office will be closed precisely at the time appointed for starting; after which no Passenger can be admitted. Booking. There will be no Booking Places, except at the Com- pany's Offices, at their respective Stations. Each Booking Ticket for the First Class Trains is numbered to correspond with the seat taken. The places by the Mixed Trains are not numbered. Luggage. Each Passengers' Luggage will be placed on the roof of the Coach in which he has taken his place; carpet bags and small luggage may be placed underneath the 6eat opposite to that which the owner occupies. No charge for bona fide luggage belonging to the passenger, under 1001b. weight; above that weight, a charge will be made at the rate Id. per lb. for the whole distance. The attention of travellers is requested to the legal notice exhibited at the different sta tions, respecting the limitation of the Company's liabilities to the loss or damage of luggage. Gentlemen's Carriages and Horses. Gentlemen's Carriages and Horses must be at the StationB at least a quarter of an hour before the time of departure. A supply of trucks will be kept at all the principal Stations on the line; but to prevent disappointment, it is recom- mended that previous notice should be given, when prac- ticable, at the Station where they may be required. No charge for landing or embarking Carriages or Horses on any part of the Line. Road Stations. Passengers intending to join the Trains at any of the stopping places, are desired to be in good time, as the Train will leave each Station as soon as ready, the main object being to perform the whole journey as expeditiously as pos- sible. Passengers will be booked only conditionally upon there being room on the arrival of the Trains, and they will have a preference of seats in the order in which they are booked. All persons are requested to get into and alight from the Coaches, invariably on the left side, as the only cer- tain means of preventing accidents from Trains passing in an opposite direction. Conductors, Guards, and Porters. Every Train is provided with Guards, and a Conductor, who is responsible for the order_ and regularity of the journey. The Company's Porters will load and unload the luggage, and put it into or upon any omnibus or other car- riage at any of the Stations. No fees or gratuities allowed to Conductors, Guards, or PorterB, or other persons in the service of the Company. Smoking, Selling of Liquors, No smoking will be allowed in any of the Coaches, even with the consent of the passengers. No person will be allowed to sell liquors or eatables of any kind upon the line. The Company earnestly hope that the Public will co- operate with them in enforcing this regulation, as it will be the means of removing a cause of delay, and will greatly diminish the chance of accident. Parcels. \ The charge for Parcels, including Booking and Delivery, will be from Is. 6d. upwards, according to size and weight. TRAVELLING TO LONDON, & c. Arrangements on the part of Coach proprietors are in progress, by which passengers may secure places in Liver- pool and Manchester, for London and other parts south of Birmingham, by Coaches, which will await the arrival of the Trains in Birmingham. By order of the Directors, J. R. CHORLEY, Treasurer and Chief Agent at Liverpool. Chief Agent at Manchester— Mr. GEO. BAKER. Chief Agent at Birmingham— Mr. SAML. EBOR ALL. Liverpool, June 7, 1837. 98 THE BIRMINGHAM JOUliNAL. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS. FRIDAY, JUNE 9. WIGAN PARSON'S BILL.— A long debate took place on the third reading- of this bill. Mr. Hindley, Mr. Roebuck, Mr. C. Buller, and Mr. Hume, strongly in- sisted that the addition to the income of the benefice ( 2500/.) should be appropriated to the religious instruc- tion of the parish, and not to the exclusive benefit of the rector. Great complaints were made, although the debate was prolonged till nearly seven o'clock, that none of His Majesty's Ministers made their appearance in the House during its continuance. The bill was ultimately passed, after several divisions, by a large majority. STATE OF THE NATION.— The Wigan case having been disposed of, and the order of the day read for going into committee on the Irish Tithe- bill— Mr. Roebuck rose to bring forward his motion for an enquiry into the state of the nation. The most pointed part of the honourable gentleman's speech was his de- scription of the part which the Ministers had acted by the peers. If it be asked why the people feel disappointed, I need only point to the three cases in which, amongst others, their hopes have been cruelly disappointed. First, all hopes of justice to Ireland are at end— at least all hope of justice being peaceably rendered to that country has vanished ; se- cond, all hope of justice to the dissenters of England has also gone to the same bourne; and lastly, the unrepresented millions see no chance of obtaining what they desire— a share in that government which decides upon their lives and fortunes. In every one of these cases, which I have se- lected from a ma6s by way of illustration, the cause of the people's disappointment is the same ; and that is, the course of compromise, the weak and dangerous trifling and tam- pering with principle, which the government has followed and adopted. They were told at the outset of their career that this course would fail, and that such dishonest dealing with principle would lead to defeat. Has not the event justified the prediction? You have tried on your knees to obtain justice for Ireland— your leal principles nave been cloaked, hidden, shuffled over, distorted, twisted ; degrada- tion could not go further than 1 have witnessed on the part of the Ministerial advocates of justice for Ireland; and what has been your reward? Contempt and scorn. Your ene- mies have trampled upon your measures; they have con- temptuously delayed, changed, or rejected them, as the hu mour of their insolence suggested; and you have bowed and humbled yourselves to the dust, and with supplicant voice, and crouching, crawling subservience, have prayed them to be moderate in their supremacy. What ought you to have done ? What you did not dare to do. You should have raised on high the banner of freedom for England and for Ireland. You should have boldly told the people of both countries, justice could not be gained by either while an irresponsible body of hereditary le> gislators could at will dispose of the fortunes and the happiness of the people. Bid you do this ? Never. But you did all you were able, to bring contempt upon those who pointed out the ' real seat of the mischief. You said you desired to introduce a responsibility into the local go- vernment of Ireland— so far you mantained the democratic dogma. But you scornfully treated all who explained to the people that the reason of the failure of your attempt was the irresponsibility of the House of Lords, and so far you, after the true see- saw or Whig fashion, favoured the aristo- cratic doctrine. The people looked on— they began to grow angry with the hereditary band of legislators. A word from yoif— a hand lifted up by one of the Ministerial leaders — would have created a feeling which the lords could not have withstood, But, then, hereditary privileges would have been in danger, and your order would have suffered. Be it so— let us allow that your conduct was natural. It is plain that you love those exclusive privileges more than you love good government for the people ; and that when the two things come into collision, you in reality side not with the people, but with their enemies. Let the world know this— be honest in the matter, and do not pretend to be Liberals with such feelings predominant. So much for the way in which you dealt with a great principle when the happiness of Ireland was concerned. He adverted to the conduct of Ministers in the House of Commons with equal severity— The Dissenters have petitioned the House to relieve them from an impost which, they tell us, presses hard upon their consciences— they tell us that to maintain a Church from whose doctrines they dissent is to them a grievous calamity — arid the Ministry listen to their complaints, and they im- mediately assume the name of friends of the Dissenters and of religious liberty. How do they manifest this their devo- tion to the cause of religious freedom ? Do they come down to this House and openly avow the doctrines upon which alone these imposts ought to be abolished? No; they assure all those who maintain the supremacy of the Church of England, and who resist this proceeding as an attack upon that supremacy, that they are among the warm- est friends of all the exclusive privileges of the Church of England ; they say, also, that they are enemies of the vo- luntary system. Thus far they maintain the doctrines of religious tyranny. But, on the other hand, on the see- saw principle, they bring forward a measure, the tendency of which is to support and advance the voluntary principle, and which ran be properly supported only by an appeal to to that principle: so far they are friends to religious liberty. The consequence of this proceeding has been defeat in this House— ignominious defeat, and disgust out of doors. The people are disheartened when led by such men, whose prin- ciples they cannot understand, and whose honesty, conse- quently, they begin seriously to doubt. Their conduct in respect to political Reform was in all respects similar— The noble lord who represents the Government in this House often talks of the controul which the people ought to have over their concerns; and at times he speaks the language of one who is really indignant at the vagaries o! irresponsible rulers; and yet he does nothing to strengthen the hands of the people in this House, and thus enable them to coerce irresponsible power elsewhere. Every thing yet offered to this House by the friends of popular government has met its chief opposition from the Ministerial bench. To the Ballot the Ministry have constantly shown an inveterate hostility; to every attempt to enlarge the suffrage they have also set themselves in opposition; and even now I am hardly certain whether the noble lord is intent on curtailing the mischievous effects of the rate- paying clauses of the Re- form- bill. Thus it is that on every occasion a doubtful course is pursued, no principle is steadily adhered to, none followed to its legitimate and necessary consequences; and the effect of this, as regards the noble lord and his friends, has been that the people are now careless of their fate, and will soon view with complacency any event which drives them from power. He noticed the standing argument against the Re- formers when they opposed such things— " Do not embarrass the Ministry by impracticable propo- sals, or foolish enthusiasm— let us gain as much as we can. and each advance aids us in going onward." This language I call dishonest; furthermore, it is exceedingly foolish. All this time you suppose your opponents blind or foolish— in fact, you fancy that what you all see plainly they cannot dis- cern. Is not this supremely ridiculous? What! are We to suppose that the right honourable baronet opposite is not so shrewd as we ? Do you believe that he and his party, here and elsewhere, do not, as plainly as we can, understand all the consequences of this proceeding ? and do you believe that they will be silent— that they will not tell the world what they conceive to he the inevitable consequence of any measure you propose? Have they not done it? Have they not accused you of hypocrisy, of pretended tenderness of conscience— and have you not winced under the accusa- tion ? for you had no answer to make. I am met, however, with the assertion, that " we cannot carry our measures if we avow our principles." Had I no other answer I could reply it is proved that you cannot carry yours, even though you should disengenuoualy endeavour to hide and distort them. But my real answer is, if you cannot honestly attain your end, forego it. Be content to wait till the people are prepared to admit your principles; labour to convert them — labour to prove your doctrines wise and just, but never seek to attain your object by dishonest subterfuge. I know well that the timid and the disingenuous will multiply in every shape, and form the accusation of imprudence against myself on the present occasion. I shall be said to have unwisely laid bare before an unprepared people my views and intentions. My answer is thai I have told the truth. Lord John R ussell defended the Ministry from the charges brought against it. Of the Lords he observed— His opinion was, that upon subjects of this importance ( however much he might disapprove of the course taken by the other house of Parliament)— he did not think there was a disposition in the other house to refuse to consider se riously these measures, with a view to the settlement of the subjects to which they referred. They maintained, indeed, that all these measures should he taken together. That was not his view of the case ; but he could conceive that that view might he taken of the question ; and he would still contend that the House of Commons ought to pass all the bills then before them, in the best form they could, and osend them up to the other house, leaving their lordships todeliberate upon them. He saw no cause to despair, or to imagine that they should not be able to come to some agreement on these matters. The honourable gentleman said ( and perhaps that was the object which he had in view in making the observations which he bad addressed to the house), that the House of Lords was an irresponsible body, and that they ought not to trust to this irresponsible body; that they wo'uld continue to do just what they pleased; and that the House of Commons ought not to be compromised. This was the doctiine of the honourable and learned gen- tleman ; but it did not follow that he ( Lord John Russell) should adopt them without abandoning those principles, those great principles, which he had through his political life adhered to, namely, those of the British constitution. He did not agree with the honourable and learned gentle- man that the term " irresponsible body" was to be applied to the House of Lords. His opinion was that they waited for, and did not feel that they were personally acting in the face of public opinion, and that if they should he persuaded that the great mass of public opinion was increasing in favour fas he thought it would be) of a course of justice to Ireland, they would vield to the force of public opinion. He was satisfied that the" House of Lords would feel the weight of their responsibility by adopting a contrary course, and they would never wish to engage in an attempt to thwart that opinion. The noble lord concluded by enumerating the ex- ploits of the Whigs. The hon. and learned gentleman, who has not been long a member of the House of Commons, has thought it proper to taunt us who sit on this bench with the nullity of any acts that we have been able to carry, and with a failure in point of performance, after we had promised to produce measures of considerable importance. I will take the liberty of mentioning to the honourable and learned gentle- man, that during the time that we have sat on this side ol the house, and more especially within the last few years, we have carried a repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts— ( hear, hear,)— which drew a degrading distinction between Dissenters and members of the Established Church. ( Hear, hear.) I would remind him that we have carried the Reform act. ( Hear, hear.) I would remind him that we have passed the Poor law Amendment act. ( Hear, hear, hear.) I would remind him further, that we have car- ried a measure for the Reform of Municipal Corporations. ( Hear, hear, hear.) Another for the commutation of tithes in England ; and an act for the total and entire abolition of Negro Slavery. ( Cheers.) So much for matters of expla- nation. With respect to administration, I will not now go into details, to show that as regards expenditure and taxation we have fully kept up to the promise of retrenchment made by Lord Grey when he took office. ( Hear, hear.) The motion of Mr. Roebuck was not pressed to a division. IRISH TITHES BILL.— Lord Morpeth having moved the second reading of the Irish Tithe Bill, Mr. Shar- man Crawfurd opposed it. It was also opposed by Lord Stanley at considerable length. The motion was ultimately carried by 229 to 14. Both Houses sat on Saturday, but merely for an hour, and in order to forward routine business. MONDAY. THE BUDGET — In answer to a question from Mr. Wallace, the Chancellor of the Exchequer said he was anxious to bring forward the Budget at the _ earliest possible day on which it would not interfere with other business. Sir Robert Peel thought the Budget was of itself the most important business Government could bring forward. CHURCH LEASES.— Lord John Russell rose to move for a select committee to inquire into the mode of granting Church leases, and the probable amount of increased value the Church lands might derive from an improved management. Lord John spoke at very great length, chiefly on the same topics that occupied his speech on introducing the Church rates resolution. He concluded with a general defence of the proposed Government plan— I do not know on what grounds the proposition can be opposed. I can see if the present mode of letting church lands is not unobjectionable, that the lessors may require a probable amount for the increase of the value; but I will not go into the proposition if there will be any increase of value, because that matter is so evident that attempting to discuss it would only throw a doubt on the resolutions to which the House has already given its consent. I only wish to call the attention of the House to the probable amount that the value of church lands may be increased, and to the mismanagement of the property. Many persons ob- jected to the measure because the interests of the dignita- ries of the church would be injured by it; but I think I have shown that no such lesult would be the consequence ; on the contrary, that by the change the property would be greatly improved and better secured. It has been urged against me that the proposition of my right honourable friend had been proposed and unanimously negatived in the church commission. I certainly was one who negatived the plan, and I did it on the ground that large sums might be advanced to make up private incomes and let the leases ex- pire. It was stated as an objection, that those who ad- vanced the money would be gainers; and that though there would be an increased value of the whole property, no ad- vantage, no portion of that increase, would go to the church by the adoption of such a plan. I own that these appeared to me well- founded objections; but, on consideration, lean see no inconsistency in opposing and supporting the resolu- tions agreed to by the House. If you say the State shall advance the sums, and the state shall have all the advantage, the state or the parties advancing the money shall be the gainers; but if, by an act of Parliament the state alone is to advance the amount required, ami to receive the amount of the increased value, then I say Parliament may dispose as it pleases of the surplus. I, therefore, think that such an objection as that urged in the commission is not a sufficient ground for rejecting a plan of this kind. Objection has also been made on the part of the lessees, but I think that is owing rather to the particular plan proposed ; because no lessee denies that there will be an increased value, though it may not be so large as the increase in the rent which the lessor might be disposed to ask. I do not, therefore, see why some plan may not be adopted by which the lessees may he gainers with the rest of the community. I, there- fore, cannot see any good ground for objecting to inquiry. I cannot see how any one can object to inquiry unless he knows of something winch he does not wish to meet the public eye. ( Hear, hear.) I am willing to resort to that test of the proposition made by my right hon. friend. ( Hear, hear, hear.) We ate not afraid i; f any light that can be thrown on the question of inquiry. ( Hear, hear, hear.) We think there should be inquiry, and accordingly have taken care that all papers and documents relating to the subject should be ready to be laid before the committee, should the inquiry be gone into. I do not think any blame can be imputed to those who propose to submit a great plan to the test of inquiry. It will be for the House to say, after the committee have'reported, what plan they will adopt, and what will be the application of the surplus, which must be considerable. I consider the best application of it will be as a substitute for Church- rates, in accordance with the resolutions of the House. I cannot see any possible better application. Others say, if there is a surplus it ought to he devoted to religious instruction; and those who say so ought to strengthen themselves by supporting the motion for inquiry—( hear, hear)— for if they can prove that the surplus that may arise from the increased value of the land should be set apart for religious instruction, in preference to the abolition of Church- rates, then we ought to have their support. I, therefore, do not see wdat objection eari be made to the measure. It is for the interests of the church, it is for the interests of the community ; and those who ob- ject to it only betray their unwillingness to have facts ex- posed to public view ; and although some object to it, I think unnecessarily, because it may tower the pride and dignity of the heads of the church, I prefer rather the good of the church, the harmony of the community, and the re- ligious instruction of the people. ( Cheers.) Mr. Goulburn stated his intention to oppose the committee, and, if not successful in his opposition, to propose an addition to the motion, limiting the appli- cation of the surplus, if any, to extending the means of religious instruction. Mr. Harvey proposed another amendment— He considered that by the course the Government had adopted, the Dissenters were further from the attainment of their object than they were before. That course was, to say the least, a clumsy one, for it was impossible that Church- rates could be abolished by any other means than by the recognition of a great principle. Now, almost all the members of that House were in favour of that abolition, but the difficulty was to find a substitute for the rates which threw 60 many obstacles in the way of carrying the principle into effect. Of all the substitutes which had hitherto been propounded to the House, that of the noble lord he considered the worst, as he had encumbered the question with the hostile interests of the church lessees. ( Hear.) When the hon. member for Leeds brought for- ward a motion for an inquiry into the state of Queen Anne's bounty, and relative to the intent and meaning of the Siatute of Anne, the noble lord thought it too sacied a thing to be touched, and said the House oiiRht not to go so far back as the reign of Queen Anne; and yet, on the subject of the Irish Church, the noble lord went as far back as that of Henry VIII. It was quite right to go back to the time of the Henries, but why refuse an inquiry into Queen Anne' 9 bounty, for by it both tithes and the first- fruits of every production were liable to the support of the Established Church? ( Hear.) According to the plan which the present Government had adopted, the question of Church- rates would remain unsettled for years; but as almost all parts of the House were in favour of their aboli- tion, he wished to see who was and who was not sincere in the expression of such a desire. All those, he was sure, who were sincere in their desire to see these rates abolished, would vote for hi? ( Mr. Harvey's) amendment. The noble lord had said that he did not connect this inquiry with the abolition of Church- rates—( hear)— and, therefore, it was that he ( Mr. Harvey) wished to bring the House to the recognition of the abstract principle of their abolition. ( Hear.) He would, therefore, without further troubling the House, propose, as an amendment, the addition of the following words to the motion of the noble lord : " And further, that whatever may be the result of this proposed inquiry, it is the opinion of this House that from and after ( a time to be fixed) Church- rates shall cease." ( Hear, hear, hear.) Lord Howick had always been hostile to the abo- lition of Church- rates without a substitute, and there- fore must oppose Mr. Harvey's amendment. He would vote for the committee on the terms of the original motion. He had no doubt their labours would be of no great duration. They were not to go into the con- sideration of every estate ; but from a consideration of the bearings and connections of various interests, to come to a safe conclusion on the whole question. Sir Robert Peel objected to the plan of a committee as tending to relieve ministers from the responsibility which they were fully entitled to bear. He ( Sir Robert Peel) considered the appointment of a Committee for the purpose proposed so objectionable in principle, so bad in precedent, and so inexpedient altogether, that, no matter what difference of opinion might exist upon the subject, he could not, for one, acquiesce m the appoint- ment of that Committee ; and a Committee for what pur- pose? For the purpose of performing the duty of the ex- ecutive Government of the country. ( Cheers.) It was a dangerous precedent, which might be acted upon in any season of political difficulty, when a Government felt it de- sirable to escape from a pressing embarrassment. ( Loud cheers.) There was a great question brought forward by His Majesty's Government, and made the subject of re- peated discussion in that House. A greater number had divided on the question than on any previous occasion dur- ing the session. It was impossible to overlook that in the second instance the division had been taken upon the prin- ciple of that measure. ( Cheers.) What was the principle of that measure? Whether this property should be pre- served to the Church, or whether it shsuld be diverted to other purposes ? Now, if His Majesty's Government felt that the opinion of the House was in favour of their mea- sure— if they felt that the plan they had propounded was one that they ought to persevere in— why did they not go forward in the course they had proposed to adopt? ( Cheers.) Instead of that, for the first time they were called upon by His Majesty's Government to consent to the extraordinary proceeding of referring a great public question to a Select Committee, and a Committee, too, of their own nomination. ( Cheers.) Why, if they consented to establish such a pre- cedent aB this, what would it lead to ? In any future time, if a Government found themselves on a great question sup- ported only by a very small majority, and if they wanted either the manliness or the perseverance to go on with their measure, they had only to come forward, and on the 12th of June ask the House of Commons to concur in the appoint- ment of a Select Committee to inquire into t^ e subject. ( Cheers.) He feared the restriction of the functions of the Committee promised little g'ood— Supposing the House could determine, and it was just possible that some honourable gentleman might have more confidence in a Committee than in the Government—( a laugh)— in the appointment of a Committee, he did hope that some gentleman who was favourable to the appoint- ment of it would record his opinions, in order that the views with which they entered on their office might be un- derstood. If the Committee went into the case on the prin- ciple laid down by the noble lord, they would go into it in the spirit of a foregone conclusion. ( Hear, hear.) They must find that there was a fund of 250,000/,; for unless they could realise that, the project of a substitute for Church rates must fall to the ground. 109,000/. would not be enough, because it would leave 150,000/. still to be provided from some other source, that must trench on the relief de- sired to be afforded to conscientious scruples. ( Hear, hear.) How then could the Committee enter on the enquiry in- fluenced by any prejudice, so as to be able to come to a fair conclusion? ( Hear, hear.) The Chancellor of the Exchequer quoted several in- stances in which under administrations of which Sir Robert had formed a part, analagous Committees had been appointed. Mr. II ardy considered the Committee to be a gross delusion. The House would never have heard of a Committee had the majority the other evening been 55 instead of 5. The House then divided on Mr. Harvey's amend- ment, when there appeared for the amendment 58, against it 489, majority 431. An amendment of Mr. Goulburn was then put, to leave out all the words of the motion, which if carried, would have been the same as directly negativing it. This amendment was lost by 319 to 236. Mr. Goulburn offered a third amendment— to add to the motion " witli the view of applying such amount to the gradual diminution of the evils which flow from the deficiency in the means of instruction and pastoral superintendence by ministers of the Established Church." This amendment was negatived by 291 to 265. The main question was then put and agreed to— the Committee to comsist of twenty- one members. TUESDAY. POST OFFICE.— The Chancellor of the Exchequer gave notice, that on Friday next he should move for leave to bring in a bill for the better administration of the Post- office. The Dublin and Drogheda Railway bill was read a third time and passed. Several witnesses were then examined in regard to the petition presented on a former evening, on the subject of the North Metropolitan Cemetery bill; and the resolution respecting Primrose- hill, alleged to have been altered by Sir Samuel Whalley. EXCISE LAWS.— Mr. Wallace rose to call the atten- tion of the House to the administration of the excise laws, and to move certain resolutions thereon; but, after a short discussion, it having been moved that the House be counted, the necessary number of members not being- present, the House necessarily adjourned. WEDNESDAY. Sir R. Bateson woved that the clerk attending the committee on Orange lodges in 1835 be at liberty to attend in Ireland as a witness in the trial of Jones v. Hunter and others. The motion was opposed by several honourable members, and ultimately the consideration of the ques tion was adjourned till next day. SUPPLY.— Lord John Russell begged to state, in the absence of his right honourable friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that as the state of public business made it necessary that a vote of supply should be taken on Friday, that vote would be moved pre- viously to going into the discussion on the Irish Tithe bill. CHURCH LANDS.— In reply to a question from Mr. A. Trevor, Lord John Russell stated that he would name the members of the committee oil Bishops' lear. es on Friday. SUGAR DUTIES.— It was arranged that in the com mittee of ways and means of Monday next, the resolu- tions respecting the sugar duties would be brought forward. Mr. Maclean gave notice that on that occasion he would move an address to the Crown for the repeal of the 4% per cent, duties in Barbadoes. POOR- LAW.— Mr. Walter gave notice that on the first order of the day on Friday, he should bring on the motion of which he had given notice respecting the present state of the Poor- law inquiry. EAST INDIA MARITIME OFFICERS' BILL.— Counsel having been heard for and against this bill. Mr. Robinson moved that it be^ committed. Sir J. Ilobhouse moved as an amendment, that the bill be committed that day six months. On a division the amendment was carried by a majority of 36. BRIBERY.— The Bribery at Elections bill was read a second time, after some opposition from Mr. A. Trevor and Colonel Sibthorp. SHERIFFS' COURTS.— The Sheriffs' Courts bill was recommitted, and certain amendments moved by Lord Stanley and Mr. Jervis agreed to. The bill is to be taken into further consideration on Wednesday. TENEMENTS BILL.— A discussion took place in com- mittee of the Recovery of Tenements bill, which, after being carried on for a considerable time, ended in the chairman reporting progress— no progress having been made. DUBLIN POLICE BILL.— Lord Morpeth stated that the amendments made by the Lords in the Dublin Police Bill could not be agreed to. He accordingly moved that the amendments be considered that day six months, which was agreed to. His lordship moved for leave to bring in another bill, for the same purpose, which was granted. HOUSE OF LORDS, FRIDAY, JUNE 9. IRISH MUNICIPAL BILL.— On the order of the day for going into committee on this bill being read— Lord Lyndhurst moved that the committee be post- poned till the 3rd July. His lordship, in making his motion, indulged in a bitter and scornful attack on Ministers— But look to the conduct of the Government in reference to that association. [ The Orange association, which his lordship warmly panegyrised.] Not a member of that so- ciety was to be appointed to any office or situation. Upon that principle His Majesty's Government acted. They not only acted upon it, but in their regulations for the police, in a bill which passed your lordship's house last year, they were directly excluded. ( Hear, hear.) This was what was done with that society; it was at direct variance with what was done with the other body. In the first instance it was de- clared that parties were incompetent to hold any office or situation, though the object of the society to which they belonged, was the maintenance of existing institutions; but with reference to the other association, with objects directly the reverse, there has been no disqualification of its mem- bers for any office or trust. Am I, then, warranted in the statement which I have made, that the increase of Roman Catholic influence— of the power of the Roman Catholics in Ireland, is not viewed altogether with distaste by the noble viscount? ( Cheers from Opposition members.) The noble and learned lord then proceeded to ask if he were not warranted by the conduct of the Government— if he were not warranted by their acts— in saying that they coun- tenanced that association? He did not say it was not natural— it was a formidable engine. It was for a time ex- ercised in favour and support of the Government, and there fore he did not mean to say it was not natural they should look to an association of that kind, having those objects in view, but at the same time supporting the Government, with as favourable an eye as possible. ( Hear.) But in what situation did the Ministers of this country stand? Had the Ministers of this country ever stood in such a posi- tion in any former period of our history? To whom did they look for support? They looked for support to the enemies of the Protestant Establishment in Ireland; they relied for support on those who were the declared enemies of the Protestant Church in England. ( Cheers.) Their main stay% nd support were the political Dissenters. De- prive them of the aid and support of one or the other of those bodies, and what would become of them ? The Government felt their power would then be gone, and that they would no longer have the power of supporting themselves; and he repeated that this was the first time in the history of this country that the Government of the country depended for its exclusive support on the declared enemies of the Protestant church. ( Cheers.) Where was this to stop? Lord Melbourne asked— What is the reason why you will not go into a considera- tion of this bill— why you will not go into committee, and then take into consideration all the practical suggestions of the noble and learned lord, rejecting all the general objec- tions with which he has chosen to accompany them, and which, if allowed to take effect, would be fatal to the whole measure? ( Hear, hear.) The noble and learned lord has alluded to gentlemen whom he has pleased to call the patrons and defenders of the Government. He 6ays we are entirely supported by the Roman Catholics of Ireland, and we are therefore willing to assist and promote their interests every way in our power to the prejudice of the Protestants at large. 1 say that is not the case. ( Hear, hear.) I beg to deny that imputation altogether. I beg to say that we are no more willing to see the Protestant interest in Ireland trampled or trodden under foot than he is— not in the slight- est respect. ( Hear, hear.) We are determined to assert the rights, liberties, and properties, and all that belongs to every class of His Majesty's subjects, whether they are of the Church Establishment, or whether they are not of it — whether they are of one description of faith or of another. ( Much cheering.) The noble and learned lord has adverted to the Roman Catholic association of Ireland. I have said what I think of that association, and I do not consider it necessary to repeat my remarks on the present occasion. But the noble and learned lord says, was there ever such an association before? In reply, I think I might endeavour to recal to the noble and learned lord's recollection, whether, when he sat on the woolsack from the year 1827 to the year 1829, there did not exist such a body in the country. ( Loud cries of Hear, hear.) The noble and learned lord then called to his aid neither the common law, if that was suffici- ent, nor did he introduce any new statute on the occasion. [ Lord Lyndhurst expressed dissent.] I know what the noble and learned lord is going to say, he would tell us that. he did so, was it not under cover of the concession bill— ( hear, hear,)— of that bill which was to confer equal civil rights and privileges on the Roman Catholics? I will not inquire now whether what was done on that occasion was prudently or wisely done, nor will I express an opinion as to the observation which accompanied the measure, because I do not wish to stir up matters which formerly created great differences of opinion;—( hear,;— but I cannot help saying that I think, unless it had been the intention to concede to the Roman Catholics all they required as regarded equality of civil rights, that concession never would have been made. Their lordships divided— no other peer taking any share in the debate, when there appeared— For going into Committee 119 For postponing the Committee 205 Against Ministers 86 MONDAY. Their lordships sat for a very short time, and were engaged in routine business only. The London and Birmingham Railway Amendment bill was now read a third time and passed. TUESDAY. A petition was presented by the Bishop of London from certain incumbents of parishes in the metropolis, complaining of hardships and losses which they suf- fered from the new cemeteries established in the neigh- bourhood of London, and praying to be heard by coun- sel against the Metropolis Cemetery bill. PUBLIC WORKS IRELAND.— On " the motion of the Marquis of Lansdowne, the House resolved itself into a committee on the Public Works ( Ireland) bill, when the several clauses were agreed to, with some verbal amendments. The report was ordered to be read on Friday. Lord Brougham postponed the Education bill till Tuesday next. MUNICIPAL CORPORATION ACT.— The Lord Chan, cellor gave notice that on Friday he Should move that their lordships take into consideration the reasons of the other House for objecting to their lordships' amend- ments in the Municipal Corporation Act Amendment bill. The House did not sit on Wednesday. energy of soul which distinguished her performances last year!" Whereupon the Philadelphia Gazette remarks; " Our enraptured contemporary evidently supposes that Ce- leste's soul lies in her toe!— the drollest location we ever heard of." DOMESTIC. NEWS OF THE WEEK. FOREIGN. In an admonition addressed by the present Emperor of China to the officers of his Government is this re- markable passsage:—" He who sincerely serves his country, leaves the fragrance of a good name to a hundred ages; he who does not, leaves a name that stinks for tens of thousands of years." On the 31st. the inhabitants of Waklkirch, in the canton St. Gall, Switzerland, had accompanied to her last abode a woman of the district, who was supposed to be dead. The interment being ended, the clergyman was perparing to re- turn home, when he heard groans proceeding from the grave. Ho immediately called the grave- diggers, and caused tlis coffin to be taken up and opened. Unfortunately, it was too late: the ill- fated woman had ceased to exist. In her despair she had turned round on her face, and had torn off all her nails. A DROLL LOCATION One of the New Orleans papers, in glorylying that springy Demoiselle, Celeste, exclaims in an agony of delight; " She has lost none of that giant THE METROPOLIS. A Parisian correspondent assures us that Lord Lyndhurst is about to lead to the hymeneal altar Miss Goldsmidt, the daughter of a gentleman of Hebrew extraction long resident in the French capital. Mr. Goldsmidt is favourably known as the author of a very clever work on French statistics, and was, if we mistake not, at one time, in some way or the other connected with the English embassy, although he did not form one of the corps diplomatique.— Obsei ver. W ILLIAM FLETCHER.— 44 The faithful attendant on Lord Byron for twenty years," applied on his petition on Mon- day to be discharged nnder the Insolvent act, and was unopposed by h is creditors. The insolvent had, as it ap- peared from his schedule, been struggling for some years with poverty. His debts amounted to £ 449 lis. 10d., and his credits to £ 231 15s. His insolvency was ascribed to outstanding debts, and to the discontinuance of payment by the Hon. Mrs. Leigh, of the allowance of £ 70 a- year, which she made him for some time subsequently to the death of Lord Byron. He had kept a lodging- house, and also an Italian warehouse, in Charles- street, Berkeley- square. In the last edition of Byron's works, by Moore, in explanation of the 14 stout yeoman" alluded to by Byron in his farewell at the commencement of 44 Childe Harold," there occurs the following note of Fletcher:—" After all his adventures by flood and field, short commons included, this humble Achates of the poet has now established himself as the keeper of an Italian warehouse, in Charles- street, Berkeley- square, where, if fie does not thrive, everyone who knows anything of his character will say fie deserves to do so." fie did riot succeed, however, and had been an inmate of Whitecross- street prison since the 11th of April last. Mr. Fletcher was, after a short examination, discharged. Mrs. Leigh had discontinued the annuity it appeared from in- ability. The cost of Fletcher's release was defrayed by her. It says little of Lady Byron to allow the old and approved domestic of her husband to be subjected to such straits, and as little for her daughter. FATAL PLEASURES.— Yesterday morning, between three and four o'clock, a meeting took place in a field near St. John'a- wood, between the Hon. Mr. and Robert M., Esq. The parties are nearly related to each other, and the misunderstanding arose in consequeuce of an elopement of a distressing nature. The parties had taken their stations, and were upon the point of firing, when a cabriolet dashed up the adjacent lane, at a tremendous speed, and a lady in a wild and hurried manner rushed into the field towards the party, but ere she could succeed in reaching them the word 44 fire!" was given, and one of the combatants, Mr. Henry , fell. The lady, who proved to be the Hon. Mrs. , perceiving this, uttered the most heart- rending shrieks, and rushing to the spot, accused herself of being the murderer of her husband. The gentlemen present had the greatest difficulty in forcing her from the spot. A surgeon in attendance at first pronounced the honourable gentle- man's wound to he fatal, but subsequently a consultation of medical men having been held at his residence, some slight hopes are entertained of his recovery. It is said the unfor- tunate cause of the catastrophe has been in a state of deli- rium since the event, and has twice made an attempt to lay violent hands on herself. PROVINCIAL. A young man named Milner, whilst engaged in painting the front of Mrs. Abbot's house in Union- street, Halifax, fell from the third story to the ground. During the fall he turned a somerset, and alighted on his feet, doing himself no other injury than would arise from a good shaking Halifax Guardian. NOVEL EXPORTS.— A large quantity of oysters are now being prepared for exporting to the East Indies; for this purpose they are shelled, and after undergoing a certain process, they are placed in small tin canisters of about a pint, which are then hermetically closed; it is said they will keep fresh for two or three years Jersey Argus. The thunder and lightning were very awful at Whittlesey in the afternoon of Tuesday last; the electric fluid struck and shattered the wings of a gate and the posts upon the farm of Heriry Haynes, Esq., and scattered the pieces to a distance of about forty yards from the foundation. The earth, also, was wonderfully torn up by the rapid demolition of the gate posts Hull Observer. The potato crops in the neighbourhood of this and throughout Cumberland are in the most healthy and thriving condition. The cause of the failure of these crops for the last two years has been now discovered to have been the mildness of the winters, which left the grubs to increase to such an extent that the produce of whole fields was con- sumed by them ; the severity of this winter has destroyed these voracious insects— Cumberland Pacquet. HOPS— MAIDSTONE— The beautiful showers of last week have very much improved the hops in this district. At pre- sent there is no appearance of the fly. In the cold soils, however, the bines 1 ave become yellow, through the late cold winds. On the 30th of last month died, in the parish of Dyrham and Hinton, Thomas Chandler and Alary his wife, both aged eighty- two years. They had been married 56 years, were both horn in the same year, both died on the same day, and were buried together in the church- yard of the above parish. ARISTOCRATIC FREAKS. — On Thursday the Marquis of Waterford and some of his friends went to Windsor, and ( lined with some of the officers at the Foot Barracks, which Iplace they left between ten and eleven o'clock at night. On " their way to the Castle Inn, where the carriages had been left, they committed a number of disgraceful outrages. In the line of streets they passed through they bioke the knockers off the doors; and in many instances threw them through the windows of the houses whence they had been taken. In one instance, where the lady of a reverend gen- tleman connected with Eton College was lying dangerously ill in bed, they broke the knocker off the door, and threw it in at the window of the room where she was lying. One of the constables attempted to secure one of them in their re- treat, but he was quickly attacked by his companions, who rescued the prisoner, and severely maltreated the constable. While the attention of the police was directed to the Castle Inn, two of the Marquis's party went to the College at Eton, and clambered over the wall into the square, where the statue of King Henry the Sixth, the founder of the Col- lege, is placed, which they mutilated and disfigured very much, and wrenched away the sceptre, and carried it away with them as a trophy. They then rejoined the Marquis and theif other companions at the Castle Inn, and after a short time their carriages were ordered, and they dove out of the town towards London. The moment the authori- ties of the College were made acquainted with the scanda- lous outrage which had been committed, they issued a re- ward of 25 guineas to any person who would give evidence that would iead to the conviction of the parties concerned in it. Shortly after the reward was offered the regis- trar of the college received a parcel, which was found to contain the sceptre which had been taken from the statue. It was not known whether the college authori- ties intend to take any further steps in the matter.— Morn- iny paper [ Lord Waterford has denied that he had any share in these pranks.] A COMPLIMENT TO THE COACHMAN.— Last week, in travel- ling from Manchester to London by mail, on arriving at Market Harborough the coachman, after doing sixty miles came for his fee. Three of us gave him the usual sum— viz., 2s. each; the fourth slipped into his hand what he supposed to be Gd. The coachman having the coach lamp in his hand perceived that the gentleman, evidently by mis- take, had given him hal( a sovereign. His honesty not allowing him to pocket it, he returned to the door to make known the mistake, when the gentleman suddenly ex- claimed, 44 Shut the door, you impudent fellow." 44 I beg your pardon," said the coachman, " I merely came to in- form you that"— when he was again cut short by 44 Shut the door you scoundrel, The coachman not being able to brook further ill- usuage exclaimed, 44 What you gave me, supposing it to be6d., is half a sovereign, and I wanted to make you acquainted with the mistake." 44 Oh,!" says the gentleman, evidently very much excited, " give it me back, and I'll give you a shilling." 44 No," was the reply, 44 you evidently have robbed many a poor coachman dur- ing your life, and now it comes tome in one lump. Good night;" and he shut the door. He wrapped himself up in his cloak, and never uttered a word the remainder of the journey.— Times. MISCELLANEOUS. ENGLISH CICERONES.— We were much amused with a re- mark of a good woman, who opened some of the doors above. There were sundry directions to visitors to St. Paul's to pay certain stipulated prices, only for seeing the different parts of the edifice. All the English ciceronea have a formal sing- song manner of going through their de- scriptions, that is often the greatest source of amusement one finds, but which nothing but downright mimicry can make intelligible to those who have not heard it. The woman in question, without altering the key of her ordinary mode of speaking, concluded her history by 6aying, 44 By the rules of the Church, I am entitled to only two- pence for showing you this, and1 we are strictly prohibited from asking any more; but gentlefolks commonly give me a shilling."— Cooper's England. EMIGRATION FROM IRELAND.— Irish agricultural labourers are offered in- the West India islands free board and lodging, and £ 20 a- year clear wages. They may be aent out free of expense from Dublin. - r - V L \ 99 THE BIRMINGHAM JOUliNAL. CRIMINAL INFORMATION. The King, at the prosecution of the Churchwardens of Birmingham, versus George Frederick Muutz, and others. Sir Frederick Pollock said that there was a case of the King against Muntz in which iie had to show cause against a rule obtained by hi* learned friend Sir William Follett, but it was a very much longer one thai) f hut which their lord- ships had just heard, the King and Kelly. The Lord Chief Justice: Is there any law mixed up in the'Case? Sir William Follett: There is no law in it. Sir F. Pollock: But there are fifty affidavits to facts and three of the parties appear by separate Counsel; it 1 much too late in the day, therefore, to bring it on to the ex. elusion of all other business. Sir William Follett: We may at least take part o to- dav. The Attorney- General: I can assure your lordships that it is really important to the public peace of the town of Bir- mingham that the case should be settled this term. The Lord Chief Justice: We should have been glad to have taken it yesterday. Mr. Justice Pa'. tison: We took motions yesterday and the day before, and our Counsel were ready. The Attorney- General said he could not force his learned friends to show cause, but it was really important that the case should be disposed of this term. Sir F. Pollock : I will take any course the Court thinks fit ; it certainly appears to me this is not a case that ought to be brought on at this late period of the day and of the term. The Lord Chief Justice : Our opinion is it ought not to come on. The Attorney- General: My lords, there is an action brought for libel ( against the Birmingham Advertiser,) arising out of the transaction, and it would he only right that that case should be staid until this rule should be dis- posed of. The Lord Chief Justice: With respect to that, if you have any reasonable grounds to postpone the trial of the action, you can make your application to a Judge at chambers. Mr. Hill: The action does not arise out of the rule; the action was brought first, and the rule arose out of the action. The Lord Chief Justice: Who are you for, Mr. Hill? Mr. Hill: I am with Sir Frederick Pollock. The Lord Chief Justice : Then you are against the rule. The Attorney- General: My learned friend is both in the criminal information and in the action. We have reason to believe that this is a manoeuvre to enable the parties to go to trial in the action for libel, and so to prevent us from proceeding with the criminal information ; and Mr. Hill is counsel in the action. It is proper now to put him on terms without the necessity of an application to a Judge at chambers. Mr. Hill: If the Court thinks it not nt all proper to go to trial, or reasonable that the action should 6tand over, I will take upon myself the responsibility of acceding to that arrangement. The Lord Chief Justice: That does seem to be rea- sonable. The Attorney- General: Very well, on that arrangement I will not press 011 the rula. The case consequently stands over till tlie next term, in the mean time the action is suspended. REX V. THE RECTOR OF BIRMINGHAM. The Attorney- General, Sir John Campbell): This is a rule that I understand my friend, Mr. Hill, obtained with very great difficulty in the Bail Court; and with very great respect to the learned Judge who granted that rule, I must express a li- tie surprise that his importunity prevailed. It is lor a mandamus to the rector of the parish of Birming- ham, and gave rise to the case of the King and Muntz, which your lordships have been pleased to postpone. There was a meeting held in Saint Martin's Church, Birmingham, on Easter Tuesday last, for the choice of Churchwardens. By the custom of that parish the minister appoints one Church- warden, and the rats- payers elect another. There were two candidates for the parish, Mr. Brown and Mr. Winfield. Mr. Brown had the majority; he was declared duly elected; and having been sworn in is now in possession of the office; and this is « new attempt to try before this Court the vali- dity of the election of one Churchwarden upon a mandamus to elect another. The election of Churchwarden is a matter of ecclesiastical cognizance ; and although, as the Church- wardens have certain functions to perform with regard to the management of the poor and other concerns, this Court, where there has been 110 election of a Churchwarden, will grant a mandamus to elect a Churchwarden, this Court, neither with respect to Churchwardens, nor with respect to any other officers, will enter upon a motion for a manda- mus into the consideration whether the person who has been elected was well elected or not. My lord, I think I may make a short statement of the case. I am perfectly willing to go into all the merits of it, and to show that there can be no doubt that Brown was duly elected; that if your lordships were now to exercise jurisdiction on the subject— if the question was pointedly before your lordships, was Brown duly elected or not?— that I could clearly show he was, and has a right to exercise all the functions of the office. Mr. Justice Pattison: Is it an election at Common Law or under an especial Act? , The Attorney- General: It was under the Common Law under Sturges Bourne's Act. Mr. Justice Pattison: That only regulates the vestry. There are Acts that refer to the appointment. The Attorney- General: No; none. There is no local Act here ; it is a mere Common Law Immemorial Church- warden ; the validity of whose election, according to the ancient practice, is to be decided by the Ecclesiastical Court; there they may bring a libel against Mr. Brown for exercising the office; we couid not, being duly elected. It is for that form to decide whether he was duly elected or not. If there was no Churchwarden,— if there had been 110 election, your lordships would put the law in motion, and require them to elect; but when they have elected, when there is a person now in the office who has been sworn in and is exercising the duties of Churchwarden, can your lordships try the validity of that election on a mandamus to have another meeting to choose another person as Church- warden ? Now, my lords, I believe it will not be dis- puted, it is the Ecclesiastical Court that is the fit forum for trying the validity of the election of a Common La- v Churchwarden, and that this Court will not exercise juris- diction upon such a subject. Now, the facts of the case, my lord-, are very short:— There was a meeting on Easter Tuesday, in Saint Martin's Church, Birmingham, for the election of three Churchwardens; the rector elected his Churchwarden, and then there were the two candidates, I have mentioned to your lordships, to he elected by the rate- payers. It i » alleged the great objection to the validity of Mr. Brown's election, is, that there ought to be a show of hands; and that the rector, who presided, ( Mr. Moseley,) acted improperly, in not having a show of hands. My lords, in my humble opinion, he acted on most excellent advice that he had receired, and did not propose that tiiere should be a show of hands, and why? Because this election is to be under Mr. Sturges Bourne's Act, where it does not de. pend on the counting of noses, or of hands; but it depends upon how many votes the rate- payer has, according to the sum in which he is rated. [ The Attorney- General pro- ceeded to give a detail of the mode in which the election was conducted, and the refusal of the rector to take a show of hands.] Now, my lords, there is the account of this transaction by Mr. Mosely, the rector. Now, my lords, having reminded your lordships that Mr. Brown, so elected, lias been sworn in, and is in possession of the office, can there be any reasonable doubt that this is not a case for a mandamus? If that was to try the merits of the election, how is Brown not duly elected ? Is there any custom that the election shall be by show of hands, and not under the law of the land? There had been no show of hands until 1832. Lord Denman : That Mr. Hill disclaims. Mr. Hill: I do not say the election ihould be carried on in any other way, contrary to the law of the land: God forbid I should! / The Attorney- General: Then there is no custom in the palish ; if there is no custom, we have the general law. Mr. Hill: I do not mean to set up a custom. The Attorney- General: Then there being 110 custom, here is Siurges Bourne's act, the 58th of George the Third, chapter 69, for the regulation of vestries, and that statute by- its first section regulates the calling a vestry; then by the second section it says—( it is not necessary to cite Camp- bell and Vauglian now, because they abandon that point)— by the second section the chairman of the vestry is ap- pointed; he is to have a casting vote, and the minutes are to be entered and signed. Then comes section the third, by which it is enacted, " In all such vestries every inhabi- tant who shall, by the last rates which have been made for the relief of the poor, have been assessed and charged upon, or in respect of any annual rent," & c., 60 that there is a plurality of votes given according to the amount of property on which the vestryman is rated. Now, does that by the enacting clause apply to the election of a Churchwarden or not? My Lords, it applies to all proceedings in vestry. The election of a Churchwarden is a proceeding of the • vestry, and, therefore, it applies and has been the universal practice ever since the passing of the act to apply it to the election of Churchwarden. Will my learned friend say it comes within the exception? I presume not; then my friend says it does not come within the exception; then if it is not within the exception, if it be within the enactment, then Sturges Bourne's act shall be the law. Mr. Hill: I do not mean to controvert that the parish is under the controul of that act. The Attorney- General: I am obliged to my riend for clearing my way. The next step is, if we were trying the merits of the election, against which I must always protest, where can be the necessity for a show of hands? is there any statute law which says so? If there was either statute law or common law, the moment it is conceded by my learned friend, which it now is most amply, that Sturges Bourne's act respecting the plurality of votes should pre- vail, a show of hands would be absurd. The poll clerks are then appointed, the polling goes 011 for three hours,, until the votes are exhausted, and for a quarter of an hour there was an interval without a vote being given, on that Mr. Moseley declares Mr. Brown is duly elected, and he is sworn in. If Mr. Brown's election was doubtful, or any question could be raised upon it, he has been declared to have been duly elected by the proper officer, although Mr. Moseley was deposed for a time, and another person was placed in the chair. He ( Brown) had a large majority, even of the single votes, because, when they had poll clerks to ta e the votes, who knew who were really rated and who were intruders— those who were non- rate- payers— it turned out he had a large majority, either of single votes or votings by plurality. If your lordships were sitting in the place of the Ecclesiastical Court, you would decide Mr. Brown was formally elected Churchwarden, and he had a right to exer- cise the duties of the office. When you find that Brown was de facto elected, and was de. facto sworn in, there does seem to me no pretence for saying that 011 a motion for a mandamus this Court is to be called on to decide the validity of the election. Sir Wm. Follett: The mandamus is to the Churchwarden and other persons to convene a vestry to elect a Church- warden; that presumes, therefore, there is no existing Churchwarden. In the first place, I apprehend no such question could be tried at all where a person has been actually, in point of fact, sworn in, by any application to your Lordships for a mandamus. In looking over the in- dex a case has been handed up. I thought probably there had been some decision in which the Court had entertained the case of the 7tli East— that was a mandamus to the Com- missioners to swear in. Mr. Jusstiee Pattison: The Court put it upon a case of a custom as to the time of closing the poll, and Lord Ellen- borougli says, that that gives jurisdiction; it was resisted on the ground that he was not properly elected, and because the election was improperly conducted ; namely, by closing the poll at a certain time. The affidavits made the time of closing the poll part of the custom, for the parish to elect; the Court said that this brought it within the range of a mandamus. Sir Wm. Follett: With that exception the Courts have universally held that they will not interfere in cases of this sort. I have heard your lordships say, that both parties so elected are entitled to be sworn in ; they cannot come for a mandamus on the ground of a vacancy, but the question is to be tried in the Ecclesiastical Court. The difficulty one has in this case is to find out what the objection is to the proceeding at all. I understand the objection to be that 110 show of hands was taken. What part of the election is the show of hands? I do not understand that a show of hands is a necessary part of an election at all. All elections that take place by popular suffrage, according to tile law of the country, must take place by pol- ling. The parties must enter their votes on the poll. Ire- member this point occurring- once before in this Court, and your lordships being referred to a case decided by Lord Stowell— a case of election of the Churchwardens— it is re- , ferred to in the case in which he lays down the law generally as applicable to elections. It is in 1st Hansard, p. 9, and is the case of Newton v. Siege. Lord Stowell there lays down the law that the proper mode of taking the election is by poll. You may take a show of hands by consent, that is a mere mode of doing it. Lord Denman : I suppose that this rule does not contain the objections. Sir William Follett: No, my Lord; I take it that is the objection. Mr. Hill: That is one objection. The great objection is that the poll was a mere farce, and a mere form. I will show that it was a void election altogether. Sir William Follett: As far as I collect from the affida- vits, I understand the great objection to be that the Rector refused to have a show of hands. He refused that because it led to inconvenience 011 a former occasion. The party who had the majority of hands went to the Archdeacon and was sworn in, and so also was the person who had the majority of legal votes. There has been litigation ever since, and considerable difficulty about it. The Rector thought the proper mode of election was to take it by poll, and he refused to put the motion by show of hands, and, I apprehend, he was not only justified, but was quite right in what he did. The proper mode of election is by poll, and not by show of hands. What is the ground for calling in question this election ? In the first place, supposing your lordships had jurisdiction, which I humbly submit you have not, to try the validity of the election at all,— if the Court had,— what is the objection?— Sturges Bourne's Act is admitted to apply, the poll is taken, the show is not taken; he goes to the Archdeacon who would have a right to refuse him,— the Archdeacon swears him in, he is now Churchwarden of that parish acting; then they come here, and say that the election is altogether wrong, there is no Churchwarden in the parish at all, and ask your lordship to send a mandamus to convene a Vestry. I sub- mit there is no pretence for that, and that the rule must be discharged. Mr. Humfrey followed on the same side. Mr. Hill: My lords, I am to support this rule. First, was this a void election? Secondly, supposing this was a void election, have we chosen the right mode in applying for a manda nus? I shall address myself to these questions in the order in which they stand. First, I shall apply my- self, and contend this is a void election. It appears by the affidavits that party feelings run high in Birmingham, un- fortunately, in this matter ; the affidavit states that at the two previous poll takings,— indeed, at all the previous poll takings,— the Rector allowed each party to choose half the poll clerks in order that there might be a check to the pro- ceedings"; however, this time he chose them ail himself, and when there was a remonstrance that they were all chosen from one side, the application had 110 effect upon the Rec- tor, in fact, they were persons who, if they were notallchosen from party motives, had party feelings, one of them being the Secretary of a Political club, who had interested him- selfin sending round circulars to collect a meeting together, and to dispose or his friends, some in one gallery, and some in another. Now that was the gentleman who was chosen one of the poll clerks. My lords, one affidavit goes on to state that that gentleman walked up and down the Church himself soliciting the votes as one of the poll clerks. It is sworn that the number of rate- payers qualified to vote is 4000, and surely two hours is too little time to be allowed for 4000 to vote. Lord Denman: But what if they would not come in. They all knew the election was coming on. Mr. Hill: Oh yes, my lord, they all knew the election was coming 011, but your lordships will find in an election there are many persons who cannot come at a particular time. The Rector was asked how long he would keep the poll open, but he refused to say a- iy time, but he said he was there il gentlemen would record their names, and he closed it without any notice, stating that a quarter of an hour had elapsed without any persons giving their names. It is sworn that at that time there were crowds of persons who wanted to vote, and who would have made affidavits to that effect. Mr. Justice Pattison : Do you say there was not a cessa- tion of voting for a quarter of an hour? Mr. Hill: No, my lord. Mr. Justice Pattison: If there was, I do not see how tliey could say they could not get to vote. Mr. Hill: I will read the affidavits my lord, there was a great deal of confusion at the time. ( The learned counsel read the affidavits.) Now, my lord, upon these facts I humbly contend before your lordships, that this is a void election. Now the law is, according to Sturges Bourne's Act, that it must not be the last rate made that is to be paid, but the last rate duly demanded, and it appears to me that the Rector entirely mistook his province in this matter; the Rector may have a" right to take the chair, though there is some doubt whether he has a right to take the chair as returning officer, upon the election of the Parish Church- warden ; but, considering that he has a right by law to be chairman, I should contend that if the meeting chose and wished to have a show of hands they had right to it, and they were not to be controlled or governed by the Rector or any other person. It is sworn, that at the election in 1836 the opinion of the veBtry clerk was, that Sturges Bourne's Act did not apply, but that every parishioner had a rignt to vote. Having this opinion, it was hoped down to the last that the Rector would not hold out against the wishes of the majority, but comply with them in this matter. Lord Denman: Was there any nomination? Mr. Hill: Yes, my lord. Lord Denman : Different people were nominated ? Mr. Hill: Yes, my lord. The A ttorney- General: Yes, each was put in separately and seconded. Mr. Hill: It is not that these parties lay by and tried to set up some technical ground, but it is distinctly sworn that there was a demand for a show of hands, and that the re- fusal produced the disposition to refrain from voting in many persons. I should be glad to know, therefore, what right the Rector has of his own power to deprive the parish of the show of hands; — I should be glad to know this, whether, upon any authority or reason, what right the chairman of this meeting had to do anything which is contrary to the wishes of the meeting over which he presides, unless the meeting wishes him to do anything which is prohibited by law. I may submit, with considerable confidence, this, namely, that the use of a poll is to be an appeal from a summary decision of a meeting; that might be either the real decision of that meeting, or that the meeting might not fairly represent the wishes of the whole body of electors. I say, it is an appeal from such a decision to the deliberate taking of the votes, one by one, when there shall be time for each person to come in and get his qualification duly ex- amined. I say, it is perfectly impossible, if the learned judge had any doubt that two days were not sufficient, with- out a special custom lor taking tile votes of 180 voters. I should think that your lordships would have no doubtHhat three hours were insufficient tor taking the votes of 4,000 voters, where there was no custom to regulate the proceed- ings. Now, then, let me call your attention to another fact not yet before you, namely, that there was, two or three years ago, a poll whether there should he a church- rate or not, and that poll wns, by the consent of this very Rector, kept open for seven days, to give the town an opportunity to give their votes; therefore it was well known what the true mode of conducting the poll was, and there can be no doubt that thiswasan altogether void election. Noiv the nex*. question is, supposing this to be a void election, is the present mode of proceeding the true mode? In order to try tlrat question, my learned friend set out with making some statements which, having regard to his great learning upon this and ail other subjects, 1 was a little surprised at. He began by saying that the Churchwarden was an ecclesiastical officer only, and that the election of Church- warden was a matter to be tried Jby an ecclesiastical juris- diction. I mean, my lords, to object to the premises and the conclusion. It has been laid down over aiufover again by this Court, that the Churchwarden is a temporal officer; it has been stated frequently that Churchwardens are temporal officers. Lord Denman : Mr. Justice Lee says so in a case where it was not necessary, in a case in Blackstone. Mr. Hill: There is a case also in Strange, 145, cited by Burn in his Ecclesiastical Law ; that was the case of Chapman and Binock. There is another case, which I do not recollect the name of, where the person returned was a poor milkman, and unfit to be a Churchwarden, and a per- emptory mandamus was granted. I was quite surprised to hear my learned friend say that the Churchwarden was not a temporal officer; he has the custody of all the goods of the church; he can bring an action upon them, ami nothing is so common as questions to arise upon the elections that are determined by mandamus in this Conrt. My lords, the only question remaining is, whether the mandamus was directed to the proper officer. I do not find that my learned friend has disputed that. I take it to be clear law, that the Church- warden, by the consent of the Minister— Mr. Justice Pattison : Who is it supposed to be directed to here? Mr. Hill: We have directed it to the Churchwardens and Overseers, and have served it upon the Rector for his con- sent, and also upon the gentleman who has been elected, Mr. Brown, and the parties who convened the meeting. Your lordships will recollect what is laid down by Prideaux. Mr. Justice Pattison : In the case of Strange it was held that you could not have a mandamus to the old Church - wardens, to summon them to hold a Vestry to elect fresh Churchwardens, and there was great doubt until the case of " King and Williams," and it went to the inhabitants at large. Mr. Hill: Yes, but in that case there were no Church- waidens. Mr. Justice Pattison: But I recollect looking to see how it went, and it was held it couid not go to the Church- wardens. Mr. Hill: There is an anonymous case in Strange, and the Court said, in answer to a motion for a mandamus, that it did not know the Churchwardens were the proper officers. I should suppose it probable that some special custom was spoken of there, and it seems well understood, that in all Ecclesiastical Courts the Churchwardens are the proper officers; and there is a case in which Lord Stowell states, that the Churchwardens were the proper returning officers ; and if so, there is no doubt he is the proper officer to convene a meeting; therefore, upon the grounds I have 6tated, I apprehend your lordships will make this rule absolute. I think I have shown clearly to your lordships that this is a void election. First of all, the Rector has assumed the powers to act contrary to the wishes of the vestry, in a matter which peculiarly belongs to them for their own choice. It was said if there was a case where the Rector ought to leave the chair, it was when there was an election for the parish Churchwarden, with which he has nothing to do. From his assuming to himself the power of con- trouling this meeting, and setting up his will against the majority of the meeting, and refusing them without any authority being given, the show of hands, which they had enjoyed from time immemorial; and from the hurried mode in which the poll was carried 011, and the choosing a person to be the poll clerk who was a partial person ; and from his not informing the persons when he meant to close the poll, and keeping it open for only two or three hours, and finally closing it because he said there had been a quarter of an hour without any body voting, though at the moment when he said the poll was closed, a requisition was put into his band requesting him to poll the whole parish;— from all these facts, I say the election is void, and I submit to your lordships, that this is the only remedy, nor can it be tried in any other way ; nor can we approach to trial in any other way that will not inflict great distress upon the parish of Birmingham, containing 130,000 persons whose rights are not to be lightly interfered with. I say, therefore, for the reasons I have stated, and because there is no other remedy, your lordships will make this rule absolute, and thereby enable us ro go to trial to decide this most important point, by directing this mandamus to go. Their lordships consulted for a short time, and then pro- nounced the following judgment : — Lord Denman : The case that appears most to the claim, is the case of the King and Shepherd; but, upon looking at that, the quo warranto was refused by Lord Kenyon, upon the ground that it was not a usurpation upon the rights and prerogatives of the Crown ; it was not surmised that theie was any other remedy in that case that the law could give to the party claiming the office of churchwarden. Now there is no other remedy, that I can see, in acase like the present; the parties cannot have any means of trying whether the present Churchwardens are properly elected or not; and I do not think it quite advisable, supposing that there has been an improper election, that the rates should be made in a case where the Churchwardens have not been properly elected ; because we may suppose that there are a portion of the party who may have procured the improper election. Now it does appear to me that, upon looking at the pro- ceedings of this election, they aie extremely questionable. I do not know whether the jury would say there was any degree of partiality that would make the election void ; but there are some very strong circumstances where it would be impossible to uphold what has been done. With respect fo the show of hands, I do not think there is anything in that, because I do not see how it can be a eriteiion of the number of votes under Sturges Bourne's act. If each man gave one vote, it would be a good way of ascertaining whether there was a majority on the one side or the other; but when it depends upon the number of votes, and when one person may have a number of votes, it is impossible to say by the show of hands how many have voted. However, the appointment by the Rector of ten poll clerks, and those poll clerks sworn to be partial persons, actually taking a part in the election while it was going on, actually asking questions not correct to be put under Sturges Bourne's act, namely, whether the last rate had been paid, and. then the Rector's not answering the question upon what principle or at what time the poll was to be closed, and finally closing it without any notice having been given; all this throws great suspicion upon ths c'onduct of the party conducting the election. If that election was void, there ought to be a new election, arid if not, there seems to me to be circumstances enough stated to makeit fit for the parties called upon to make their return, and state in what respect that election is good, and then it might be put in a proper trim. This I give as my opinion, because I do not see, at present, any other mode of correct- ing that which must be unjust and improper. Mr. Justice Littledale: I am of the same opinion; it seems tome, looking at the affidavits, there is little doubt whether the Churchwardens were properly elected. I think so much is disclosed that we ought to put it in a state of in- vestigation ; I do not see any other mode of proceeding but this. In the case that the A ttorney- General alluded to, there was an application for a mandamus where a quo war- ranto would lie; but in the case of the King and Shepherd, as here, it appears the quo warranto would not lie. The Attorney- General: I believe it has been settled that, in the Ecclesiastical Court, there is a clear remedy. Sir William Fo- lett: The very case that was referred to about the poll, was a proceeding of this sort. Mr. Justice Pattison: Where? Sir William Follett: I11 the case where Lord Stovvell gave the judgment in respect of the show of hands. It was trying the validity of the election. Mr. Justice Littledale: I do not see my way so clearly that we ought to refuse this rule ; what Sir William Follett said about the show of hands I think inapplicable, because it must depend upon trie question of property each person has; therefore the show of hands would not decide any- thing. In these proceedings by mandamus, there may be a difficulty hereafter, because this mandamus will go, and, if the Churchwardens return that the election took place, and that the person was sworn in, but that the office was full, I do not know whether it might not be traversed. The question may assume this shape if there is another election, and when a mandamus goes to swear in the person newly- elected, the return may be made that he was rot duly elected, and in that way it may come on; and there is no doubt the mandamus might go to elect one of the two per- sons duly elected. At present I do not see any other mode in this case, of bringing it to an investigation, except by making this rule absolute for the mandamus to go in its present form. As to whether there might be any after objection made. I do not know. Mr. Justice Pattison: I am entirely of the same opinion.' I do not see any distinction in principle, between a man- damus going to swear in one of two persons, who has ap- parently a minority, but who says he has a legal majority, and a case of this kind where the election is void. We ought not to interfere in the one case, unless we interfere in both ; if we ought to interfere by a mandamus to put the right person in, when the wrong man has been elected, surely we ought to interfere when the election is absolutely void. Although there is no direct authority for it, I think the rule ought to be made absolute. — Rule made absolute. A PASSING CLOUD. [ From the Spectator.'] Superficial observers of current events have got the notion that there is some deep rooted error in the political economy of the country. " We see," they say, " that the population of England is laborious and hardy; that their thewes and sinews are at the service of intelligent and industrious men, anxious for wealth and the comforts and luxuries which money alone can procure; that annually a greater and greater quantity of desirable things are produced; that for the last seven years, with one exception, the harvests have been abundant; that there are more ships, manufactures, houses, horses, sheep, and cattle, better roads and canals, larger towns, and more people in England and Scotland, than there ever were before; and Ireland is not so trouble- some by any means as she has been, and will be again— just at present the fine peasantry are lulled by the O'Connell spell, and their productive powers are more 011 the stretch than usual. Yet we find, notwithstanding all these elements, and evidences of comfort and satisfactory, that every class of society is more than uneasy— nay, that whole masses of the population are kept by charity only from starvation. Now the conclusion is, that this our economical condition is unnatural. Labour, intelligence, and capital, in abundance, cannot secure to Englishmen the solid comforts which the poorest inhabitants of Amer ca enjoy." Such is the reasoning of empirics— of theorists and politi- cal economists : some of them go further, and even venture toassert that these embarrassments and distresses will occur more frequently as the productive powers of the country, corporeal and intellectual, and as capital increase, unless a mighty change be effected— unless the field of employment for capital and labour be extended by emigration, and by the abolition of the gigantic monopoly of the British land- owners. But listen to a practical man— one who has gained expe- rience by the actual inspection of sugar hogsheads, and is learned in rum and iroolasses. Sir John Ilae Reid, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, assures the House of Commons that the country is only under " a passing cloud." People only fancy that the mischief is serious and weighty ; it is trifling— passagere— and need not give any thinking person the slightest uneasiness. It is gratifying to have this comfort from a practical man, who knows what he is about, and isa Governor of the Bank. Worthy inhabitants of Birmingham, Nottingham, Leeds, Manchester, and Paisley, do not disquiet yourselves. Starve and beg a little longer. Your imagination leads you into strange mistakes. You suppose that you are undergoing severe affliction: non- sense—' tis only " a passing cloud." The sun of prosperity is about to burst upon you with renewed splendour. Feast on the anticipation of its says. Sir John Rae Reid has the Government and the majority of the House of Commons with him ; for, thank God, Mi- nisters and members are for the most part practical men ; and it is a consolation to know, that when Mr. Spring Rice opens his budget, there will not be a word about the repeal of the Corn- laws, or Emigration, or Free Trade; and that as to any interference with the Bank of England's system (!) of controuling(!) the currency, it will be scouted. The speculatists and theorists may try to make out that Biddle has diddled the Directors ; and that it is in the power of the Government of any country, with which we trade exten- sively, to derange our currency by an arbitrary action oil its own circulation or coinage;— these things will be said, but then practical men of the John Rae Reid stamp will quash all such nonsense by the manly denial of the existence of any serious or permanent evil. The country is only under " a passing cloud." Fortunate it is for the country that prac- tical persons rule the roast. UNITED STATES. The following account of the events that have re- cently taken place in the United States is abridged from the correspondent of the Morning Chronicle of Tuesday. Philadelphia, May 16. The commercial hurricane which has for weeks been deso- lating the trade of this republic— sweeping over the country with the destructive and fatal fury of a simoom— has at length resulted in an explosion that will involve all ranks alike in one common calamity— I will not say ruin—- because I so well know the spirit and elasticity of the American people, that I believe they will recover from the shock much sooner than strangers can possibly anticipate. In a word, specie payments are suspended at all the banks in the Atlantic cities! Gold and silver are no more, or nearly so; and bits of paper of all possible amounts, from five cents, ( twopence- halfpenny English), up to several dollars each note, have taken their place. I will indulge in no prospective opinion, but merely give yoti a plain and circumstantial account of the entire affair, with its present effects both at home and abroad. On Tuesday last ( May 9th) a small institution in New York, called the Dry Dock Bank, could not meet the de- mands made upon it tor specie, not in consequence of insol- vency, but discounting beyond its means. The directors applied to the other banks ro sustain them, which not being immediately done, they closed their doois. Their capital was only 420,000 dollars— their discounts 811,784 dollars. The other banks then immediately paid in specie all the Dry Dock notes that were out. But the alarm had spread, and a general rush for specie was made simultaneously upon all the banks in New York. There was no standing against so overwhelming a torrent; and accordingly on the next evening the bankers of New York held a meeting; at which it was resolved that, under existing circumstances, it was expedient and necessary to suspend payments in specie. Three banks would not agree to the arrangement, and con- tinued to pay specie for a few hours; but finding all their gold and silver going from them, they stopped also. Great excitement prevailed, and the streets were crowded, but no acts of riot or violence occurred. The moment the news reached Philadelphia, the mer- chants and citizens held a meeting in the Exchange; and though there was at that time no immediate necessity for the measure, they requested the Philadelphia bankers to suspend specie payments; chiefly on the ground that im- mense sums in gold and silver would be drawn from their banks and conveyed to New York, where it would be sold at a premium of ten or fifteen per cent. The bankers met and discussed the matter nearly the whole night, when they all came into the views of the merchants, and suspended specie payments. The United States Bank would not con- sent at first, and paid for several hours ; but finding it was merely impoverishing itself for the benefit of brokers and speculators, who sold specie at a premium, that institution followed the general example after a few hours, and sus- pended also. A similar course was adopted at Baltimore, and, in fact, at every city and town in the Union that I have heard from, with the single exception of two ban/ is in Washington, the Bank of the Metropolis, and the Bank of Washington. They pay in specie, being upheld by government, more for show than from any other motive ; for as they are smal concerns, with few notes in circulation, they experience, o' course, no difficulty. f The New York Legislature being in session, a committee of merchants from New York repaired to Albany, the seat of government, and obtained the passing of a law which legalises the conduct of the banks. It is expected that the legislatures of Massachusetts, Alhabama, and many other states, will be convened, to de- vise measures for the emergency. Great distress beiuganticipated in this city, in consequence of the work- people requiring money to go to market with on Saturday night, the city- councils met on Friday evening, and passed an ordinance authorising the issue of certificates or script, to the amount of 130,000 dollars, in notes from ten cents, fbd. English) and upwards. That amount will be a mere drop in a bucket: they will probably extend it to a million. It is against the laws of Pensylvania to issue bank notes without an express charter for the purpose. The laws, how ever, are evaded by incorporated companies, who follow the example of the city corporation, and issue them in the form of script, certificates, or receipts. The city is becoming inundated with such paper, and the people receive it with confidence. In many cases, butchers and others have issued notes, payable in meat, & c., by wayof changing the five dollar notes of their customers. Specie in this city is worth from five to ten per cent, moie than paper. At New York it is worth a still higher pre- mium. Three banks in Buffalo were suspended a few days since, by an injunction from the Chancellor, not for insolvency, but breaking their charter by over- issue or over- discount. I cannot pronounce a single bank insolvent as regards property, but only short as regards specie. They have most of them immense surpluses. In New York this is the c. ase; and in Philadelphia they have all their specie in their vaults, and the banking institutions are among the richest in the Union. Boston and Baltimore also stand high in public estimation. The number of tailures in New York, since the commence- ment of the pressure, is 352. It will naturally be inquired— what do the President and general Government do in this crisis? As yet, I answer emphatically— and half America would answer with indig- nation— Nothing ! Not even an expression of sympathy from that quarter ! On the contrary, orders are istued for every thing due to Government to be paid in specie. The Go- vernment will not even receive the notes of its own pet banks, where the public deposites are placed, for duties. Even those banks, though they have themselves suspended, must be paid in specie. A little latitude 011 custom- house bonds already in existence, is the only allowance that has been made. 1' he conduct of Government is deemed strange, and has certainly increased the numbers of the opposition or Whig party wonderfully. 1 now eotne to a fact of especial interest to Great Britain. It is the state of commerce and balance of trade between the two countries. This has been variously stated in differ- ent publications. Some say that the merchants of America owe the merchants of Great Britain sixty millions of dollars. Others believe that the debt does not exceed forty. I take the mean, and suppose the amount to be fifty millions. VVithout beating about the bush, I will at once state my con- viction that the major part of that large sum will be lost I There is no mistake in tiiis branch of the business. You may as well calculate on the worst, for only those transactions that hare been carried on with old, prudent, and substantial houses will ever be realised at maturity. STEAM- BOAT BURNT IN AMERICA. ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY LIVES LOST. The steamer Ben Sherrod, Captain Castleman, left New Orleans on Sunday morning, the 7th of May, bound to Louisville; and on the night of the 8th, when about thirty miles below Natchez, she was found to be enveloped in flames, and out of nearly two hundred persons on board, only about fifty or sixty were saved. In a few minutes after the fire was discovered the whole boat was enveloped in flames. Being in the stream, and her wheel- ropes burnt off, it was impossible to run her ashore; and no alternative was left to the persons on board but to jump into the water and attempt to save themselves by swimming, or floating on such articles as they could find, or to perish in the flames. In the con- fusion and alarm many who could not swim sprang over- board without taking the precaution to provide themselves with a plank or box, and were drowned; many more, it is feared, were burned to death. So rapid was the spread of the fire, and so destitute were those 011 board of all means of escape, that nothing could be saved, not even the register of the boat, so that it is im- possible to say how many were lost, or what were their names. The story of the disaster was related to us by a young man who was a cabin passenger. When he awoke he put on his clothes and leaped into the yawl, which was banging at the stern, and was followed by about forty other men, one of whom cut the rope connecting the stern of the steamer to the bow of the yawl, and the latter canted over and hung in a perpendicular position, the bow towards the water. All on board were precipitated into the water, and are believed to have been drowned, with the exception of the narrator, and he saved himself by clinging to the thwarts. In a few minutes about twenty of the ciew made their way to the stern of the steamer and placed themseves in the boat, sus- pended as she was. One of them took out his knife and cut the rope which attached the yawl to the stern of the steamer, she plunged, as might have been expected, full twenty feet under water. All that had been hanging to her were miss- ing, except four and the individual who relates the story. He says when he rose to the surface he found himself under the yawl, and she was lying bottom up. Being strong, ac- tive, and expert at swimming, he worked his way from un derneath and mounted on her bottom, where he was soon joined by the four other men who had saved themselves, and in this situation they floated twelve miles down the river before they were picked up by the Columbus. One gentleman, Mr. Cook, floated down the river some miles before he was picked up. He hailed a wretch who had put off in a yawl from the shore, and begged his assist- ance. The scoundrel, who was intent only on picking up boxes, & c., asked, with the utmost sang froid, " How much will you give me?" To the entreaties of others for help he replied, " Oh ! you are very well off there. Keep cool, and you'll come out comfortable !" Davis, the pilot, who was at the wheel during the fire, was conversing with a friend of ours just before he left this city about the burning of the St. Martinville, and the burn- ing of her tiller rope, three or four years since—" If ever I'm in a boat that takes fire," said Davis, " if I don't run her ashore it will be because I shall be burnt in her." Poor fellow! his statement has been verified; he was burnt in the Ben Sherrod. Out of nine ladies that were on board only two have been saved, the captain's wife and Mrs. Smith of Mobile. Their husbands threw hencoops into the river, and jumped off the wheel- house; the ladies followed their example and were saved. A young and beautiful lady, whose name at present we cannot learn, on hearing the cry of fire, rushed out of the ladies' cabin, in her loose dress, in search of her husband, at the same time holding her infant to her bosom. In en- deavouring to go forward her dress caught fire, and was torn from her back to save her life. After witnessing her husband fall into the flames in the forward part of the boat, unable to reach him, she leaped with her child into the water, seized a plank, and was carried by the current within 80 yards of the Columbus; but, just as she had seized a rope thrown from the steam- boat, both mother and child sunk to rise no moie. The Ben Sherrod hail the largest crew of any boat on the river, and out of 50 saved over 30 belonged to the boat; out of the 60 or 70 cabin passengers there are but about ten or twelve left alive. One of the officers of the boat assured us that, in addition to the cabin passengers, there were at least 60 or more deck passengers, of whom scarce six are saved.— Abridged from the New York Papers. LIFE IN LONDON. DEDICATE DISCLOSURES Mrs. Margaret Miller, before Mr. Conant and Mr. Hall, at Marlborough- street, charged Mies Anna Adeliza Read, with having " shook and shoved her" last Tuesday. The charge appeared the more marvellous on taking the disparity in the sizes of the parties into consideration, the complainant presenting the bodily rotundity of " three single ladies rolled into one," while the delicate features, slim waist, and petite proportions of the defendant seemed to put the masculine achievement she was accused of quite out of tile question. The defendant was accompanied by a well- dressed red haired personage, who discharged the office of amicus curice. The fat complainant, with considerable warmth, averred that while in her bed room habiliments on Tuesday night the defendant suddenly burst in, blew out the candle, and gave her a shove that tumbled her unceremoniously over a piece of bed- room crockery. " However," said the com- plainant, " I don't care a pin for the assault; I want your worships to bind her over to leave my place, for I assure you the house I keep is of the most. respectable description." " Respectable!" said Miss Anna Adeliza, tossing her head contemptuously; " I live in the house, and can assure you it's anything but respectable." Here the defendant entered into certain particulars which settled the matter conclusively. " It's false, and I'll bring twenty gentlemen who use my home to prove it," retorted the complainant; " I'm a lone weak widow woman, but for all that, thank goodness ( doubling a fist s imewhat smaller than the knuckle of an ox), I can protect myself." Miss Anna: Yon knew Mrs. Miller said there would'nt have happened anything unplea- sant if you had'nt scandalously abused me to this gentle- man," pointing to her red haired companion. Mr. Conant: Pray, who is that gentleman ? Miss Anna: That gentleman ! Oh, he's a visitor— that is, a sort of acquaintance— a kind of particular friend. Mrs. Miller : Yes, your worship, you may guess what he is when I tell you he has lodged with that lady in my house for a month at least. All this bother only happened out of a bit of nonsense. Miss Anna: Nonsense! No such tiling— nobody could have put up with it, I'm sure. Mr. Conant: Well, how did it occur ? Mrs. Miller: You see this gentleman came into my room to have a bit of chat. He says to me, " Mrs. Miller, which do you think the prettiest girl— Anna ( meaning this young woman) or Lucy?" meaning another young lodger of mine. " Why ( says I), if I speak the truth, Lucy for my money— she's all natural— she's neither painted, padded, bustled, nor stuffed. ( Great laughter.) Miss Anna ( scrubbing her cheeks): Me painted and padded! Red- haired Gentleman : I can prove, your worship, she's neither padded nor painted. Miss Anna ( twisting herself about): Me stuffed and bustled! Red haired Gentleman : I can prove she's neither bustled nor stuffed. Mr. Conant ( handing over the warrant): There, I shall discharge this warrant, and leave you to your remedy at the sessions, if you choose to indict. The red- haired gentleman and Miss Anna Adeliza walked arm in arm away, and Mrs. Miller waddled after them, vow- ing she'd make the house too hot to hold them if they en- tered it again. 4 THE BIRMINGHAM JOUliNAL. BIRMINGHAM POLITICAL UNION. A PUBLIC MEETING WILL BE HELD AT NE WHAL L. HILL, ON MONDAY NEXT, JUNE 19th, TO CONSIDER THE STATE QE THE NATION. MEN OF BIRMINGHAM! rpHE Council which you elected to endeavour to I obtain a redress of'your grievances, count every minute lost, till they shall have entered on their solemn duties. Meet us on Monday next, at the OLD PLACE, under OUR OLD LEADER, lor the OLD CAUSE! COME IM THE POWER or TOUR NUMBERS ! COME IN rat MAJESTY OF TOUR HIGH RESOLVES ! THE EYES OF THE NATION ARE UPON YOU! Its INTERESTS depend, under PROVI- DENCE, on your deliberations. PEACE, LA W, ORDER! Be this your watch- word ! UNION FAST AND FIRM! Be this your rallying cry. FREEDOM and PROSPERITY for your Brethren and Youiselves ! Be this your constant and undeviating aim ! , The glorious FLAG of the UNION once more waves ever you ! The prayers of good men attend you ! The RULER of HEAVEN and EARTH, who wills that all his creatures be FREE and HAPPY smiles upon you ! PRESS FORWARD TOWARDS THE MARK! AND VICTORT WILL BE, VICTORY SHALL BE YOURS! In name and on behalf of the Council, G. F. MUNTZ, Vice- President. Birmingham, June 13, 1837. T. WESTON, Secretary. N. B. The Chair will be taken by Mr. ATTWOODat twelve o'clock precisely. COMMERCIAL DISTRESS. AT a MEETING of the COMMITTEE of MAS- TERS and WORKMEN, appointed on the 30th of May, to enquire into the causes of the present Commer- cial Distress, and held at the Public Office, on Thurs- day, the 15th June, 1837— JAMES JAMES, Esq., Low Bailiff, in the Chair, The following Resolutions were unanimously agreed to: Moved by RICHARD SPOONER, Esq.; seconded by Mr. WM. GARNER. 1st. That the alternations of great apparent prosperity and sudden deep distress, which have invariably attended the expansion or contraction of the currency, cannot but suggest to every thinking mind, that to our present monetary system is mainly to be attributed the present general and alarming distress. Moved by RICHARD SPOONER, Esq.; seconded by Mr. Jos. CORBET. 2nd. That to compel the industrious classes to apply to the parish funds ( who are thrown out of employment by circumstances over which they can exercise no control) is cruel and unjust, and in the end would be found greatly to aggravate the evils we now endure by compelling many who at this moment contribute to parochial rates to become themselves receivers instead of payers of those rates. Moved by RICHARD SPOONEK, Esq.; seconded by G. F. MUNTZ, Esq. 3d. That this Meeting is unwilling to propose a remedy for the evil, the existence and causes of which it has unani- mously declared; but it does not hesitate to say that a re- medy may and ought immediately to be applied, and that it is the imperative duty of the Legislature without delay to take measures for the immediate and effectual relief of the present increasing and alarming distress, before it assumes a shape which will make all remedies impossible. Moved by Mr. EDMONDS; seconded by Mr. Bnows. 4th. That the Low Bailiff be requested to communicate the above resolutions to His Majesty's Ministers, and report to a meeting of a Committee to be summoned by the Low Bailiff, the answer he may receive. JAMES JAMES. JAMES JAMES, Esq., having left the Chair, and the same having been taken by RICHARD SPOONER, Esq., Moved by Mr. EDMONDS ; seconded by Mr. P. M. TWELLS, That the cordial thanks of this Meeting be given to the Low Bailiff, for his able and impartial conduct in the Chair. R. SPOONER. WATERLOO DINNER. IN consequence of the ALARMING ILLNESS of the KING, the DINNER intended to take place at the CLARENDON HOTEL, on Monday, the 19th instant, is POSTPONED for the present. PARIS, LONDON, AND NORWICH SHAWL WAREHOUSE, 82, BULL. STREET. MESSRS. PAGE and GRUNDY beg respectfully to announce to the Ladies of Birmingham and its vicinity, that they have just returned from the London and Scotch Markets, where they have selected a choice and elegant Stock of SHAWLS and HANDKER- CHIEFS, suitable for the present season, which, owing to the very depressed state of the markets, they are enabled to offer at less than their usual moderate terms. Shawls cleaned, dyed, and altered in a superior style. 82, Bull- street. REMOVAL OF THE LA CE, HOSIER Y, AND ARTIFICIAL FLOWER WAREHOUSE. JPIDGEON takes this opportunity of apprising • the Ladies of Birmingham and vicinity, that for their better accommodation he has taken the spacious premises now occupied by Mr. W. Phillips, Hatter, 87, HIGH- STREET, where he hopes for a continuance of that support which has been so liberally bestowed upon him at his present establishment. Upon the Stock now at 4, Dale- end, a considerable reduc- tion has been made, in order toafford room for an entire new selection of the cheapest and most novel description the London market can produce. In the new Stock of LACE and HOSIERY, J. P. has taken advantage of the present depressed state of the markets, arid assures Ladies that it will be found at once the largest and most varied ever presented to their notice. In the ARTIFICIAL FLOWER department, it will be his studious care to obtain the newest and most approved designs, so ns to merit that distinction with which lie has been so particularly favoured. The Shop, 87, High- street, will be opened at the latter end of June. 4, DALE- END, BIRMINGHAM. TO RAILWAY COMPANIES, ENGINEERS, AND THE PUBLIC. TV/ IR. R- WITTY, Jun., has arrived in Birmingham, ITJL where he is exhibiting a WORKING MODEL of his NEW PATENT STEAM CARRIAGE, at Mr. HOCKNELL'S, NO. 112, SNOW- HILL, and solicits the attention of the Birmingham gentlemen and parties interested in Railway transit. The superiority of this construction over all extant, consists in a very simple and much more efficient application of the force of steam in producing locomotion, whereby full 30 per cent, more effect is produced with the same quantity of steam, and the Engine built atconsiderably less expense. Drawings to be seen in the room of all the various Steam Engines, both statu and locomotive, from the earliest period to the present time. To defray the expenses of the exhibition, admittance to the Room, for Principals, Is. each; for Mechanics and others, 6d. Attendance from ten to seven. Also a model of Witty and Co.' s Patent Catenarian Beam, for bridges, viaducts, and buildings. BIRMINGHAM POLITICAL UNION! TO THE INHABITANTS OF BIRMINGHAM. FRIENDS AND FEI. LOW COUNTRYMEN ! TJJLACED by your favour again at your head, I EL shrink not from the great duties which you impose. I have led you once to a glorious victory. By the BLESSING of GOD I will lead you to another VICTORT, equally glo- rious, and far more beneficial; a VICTORT which shall give LIBERTY, PROSPERITY, and GLORY, to your Country. MEN OP BIRMINGHAM! For years we have slumbered in political repose. Whilst the people have been permitted to live by their labour, we have not interfered in political affairs. We have watched the mitigated sufferings of our country in silence. But now, when the days ore come, against which I have warned you; now, when the iron hand of oppression is upon us, and millions of our countrymen are again deprived of em- ployment and of bread, now, we come forth again, in our great and holy cause. Our oppressors compel us to interfere. " Fate drags them on. Let their destiny be fulfilled," MEN or BIRMINGHAM ! MEN or THE HEART or ENG- LAND ! Your country calls you in her hour of need. REMEMBER! PEACE, LAW, ORDER, LOYALTY, AND UNION! These are our Mottoes. Under these banners the con- fidence of our country attends us. Under these banners we possess a giant's strength. But if we once abandon them, the secret of our strength is gone. A Pigmy's hand will crush us. DEAR FRIENDS and FELLOW COUNTRY- MEN! I will MEET YOU at NEWHALL- HILL, on the 19th inst. THOMAS ATTWOOD, Chairman of the Political Union. London, June 13, 1837. TO CORRESPONDENTS. *,• A number of letters lie at present on our table ; not a few of them reached us only yesterday. It is impossible to attend to them this week. We will see what another will effect. *,* In the first article of our lastnumher, the word" num- bers," in the third line, ought to have been '' members." BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. INDIA RUBBER OIL LIQUID AND PASTE BLACKING, manufactured by BRYANT and JAMES, Plymouth. H. KENWAY, Sole Consignee, GUINNESS'S PORTER STORES, Crooked- lane, Birmingham. WEDGWOOD'S PATENT MANIFOLD WRI- TE IIS. Price from 12s. 6d. to 55s. each. By W. Squire. || Sr A liberal allowance to the trade. Sold by HENRY KENWAY, GUINNESS'S PORTER STORES, Crooked- lane, Birmingham. EDINBURGH AND BURTON ALES in bottles. RUGELEY TABLE ALES in casks; DEVON SHIRE apd HEREFORDSHIRE CIDER and PERRY, in bottles. FOREIGN and BRITISH CIGARS supplied whole sale by H. KENWAT, GUINNESS'S PORTER STORES, Crooked- lane, Birmingham. GUINNESS'S SUPERIOR EXTRA STOUT DUBLIN PORTER, maybe had of HENRY KENWAT, sole appointed agent, Crooked- lane, Birmingham, BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. SATURDAY, JUNE 17. THE KING. We regret to say that neither the bulletins nor the reports from Windsor permit us to hope that, for many days longer, William IV. will remain amongst us. The royal patient is described as only sustained by cordials, which weaken in precisely the same ratio as they excite. The Queen's condition is also precarious— partly from illness, and partly from watching and fatigue. Th% amiable Ducbess of Gloucester is the prey of mental indisposition. Disease is busy in the Royal Household ! THE UNION. The number enrolled up to last night was 8,425. The Council met on Tuesday, to consider of the preparatory steps for the public meeting on Monday. It had been agreed that the meeting should be held at Holloway- head, where the ground is peculiarly fa- vourable for such a purpose. A strong feeling, how- ever, being manifested, both in the Council and in the Union, in favour of Newhall- hill, which is, in some measure, consecrated to such matters, and round which so many recollections of victory and triumph cluster, the Council were induced to review their resolution, and to determine that the first meeting, at least, should be held at the old place. A copy of the advertisement of the meeting, agreed to by the Council, as well as of a spirit- stirring address from Mr. ATTWOOD, will be found in another column. The Council met last night to discuss the terms of the resolutions and peti- tion to the House of Commons, meant to be submitted on Monday to the approbation of the people. The prayer of the petition, which is, of course, an echo of the resolutions, is meant to run in terms equivalent to the following:— That Parliament will forthwith proceed to consider, with a view to repeal, all those laws which make money scarce; and, more especially, the law of 1819, commonly known by the name of PEEL'S act. That it will, similarly, proceed to consider the various laws passed, in 1815 and subsequently, for the regulation of the import of corn; and generally, all laws at present existing, which impose duties upon, or prohibit the import of, the necessaries of life. The petition further prays, as measures essential to the safety of the throne and of the people, for— Household Suffrage, Vote by Ballot, Triennial Parliaments, The abolition of Property Qualification for Mem- bers of Parliament, And Wages of Attendance. Such is the substance of the prayer. It may be sneered at by the witlings of the House, because of the variety of subjects that it embraces; but we believe there is not a sincere Reformer in the town or in the kingdom, who will assert that it embraces one subject too many. That some of them are subordinate and some paramount, we allow. Grant the people Household Suffrage, and secure to them its free ex- ercise, and all that they ask besides would be speedily effected. But even had they the most ample power to select members, it would still be of great importance, that the range of their selection should be simulta- neously extended, by the abolition of the property qualification, and, mote especially, by the payment of members. It is, we conceive, the more necessary to press these changes, and to press them in such a way as shall compel their concession, because, without them, no one economic improvement will ever be obtained, or, if obtained, would any such improvement be secure. We have given in another place a pretty lengthened and, as far as we can judge, correct summary of the news brought by the last packets from America. It has not in the smallest degree surprised ourselves, however it may have surprised others. We said last week that America was bankrupt. We could not, therefore, feel surprised that a general bankruptcy of the commercial interests there had produced its cus- tomary effect— a run upon and stoppage of the banks. But we scarcely anticipated that they would all stop at once. We thought, as ours will do, that they would go down one by one. In this opinion we did our brother Jonathan injustice. He has certainly ex- hibited more sagacity than will be exhibited in Eng- land. All the banking establishments in the States might have perished, one by one, and the Government would have looked upon the succession of wrecks with the most entire unconcern. Their simultaneous strike carried terror, if not conviction, to the cabinet at Washington; and what the merchants had before vainly prayed for, was at once granted. Congress has been summoned for the special consideration of the metallo- mania question; and how a Congress summoned under such circumstances will treat the ignorant pre- judices of Jackson and Van Buren, is not difficult to see. One feature in the general smash is amusing-. The Government had in its wisdom determined that it would put down good paper and bad paper equally— it would have gold and nothing but gold. But Go- vernment has not gold to satisfy its own limited pur- poses; and it has been compelled to have recourse to the very paper which it had so decidedly renounced and denounced. This a pleasant piece of retri- bution. The American bankers have adopted a phraseology which we would recommend to those of our country- men who may find themselves in a similar state of de- licate embarrassment. Their notes are worthless, it is true; but they have not failed; oh no! they have only " suspended specie payments." When an unfor- tunate merchant or manufacturer figures in the Ga- zette, we trust that no one, in future, will be so ungen- teel as to denominate him a bankrupt. His bills may be protested ; but then he can easily replace them with other bills. His creditors may have as much paper as they please. He has merely " suspended specie pay- ments." The question is naturally asked, what effect will the failure of the American bankers have on England. The gentlemen of the London newspapers are divided on this question. One party infers that it will lead to an importation of gold— for, they learnedly observe, as the bankers are determined to pay gold no more, what can they do with it, but send it to us ? Another party holds that it will lead to an exportation of gold — for " look," say the latter arguers, " to the premium, why 100 sovereigns are worth 110/.!" We should not be surprised if in a short time 100 sovereigns were worth 210Z. There is a slight difficulty in the first theory. We have a lurking suspicion that the Ameri- can bankers " suspended specie payments," not be- cause they had, but because they had not, specie for their own necessities; and, therefore, we conclude that they can have very little to spare for ours; even were they inclined to spare it, which, for some time to come, we hardly think they will. The second theory is more plausible— but it too has its difficulties. Sup- pose 100 sovereigns to be worth 110 pounds, what would the 110 pounds be worth ? This is an equation of which the exporters of sovereigns would do well to obtain an approximate solution at least. We have no doubt that for one hundred bits of English coin, he miglitget one hundred and ten of Nicholas Biddle's bits of paper, but what would he get for the bits of paper? The truth, we take to be this— that, in itself, the stoppage of the American banks will affect this coun- try very little, if at all ; unless perchance in the way of example. Men seeing how tender a thing Banks are in the States might conclude, that in Eng- land they are not much better. Such a feeling here might produce what it has done there— a run; and that run might lead to its one only issue— a. suspension of specie payments. We must be understood as stating possibilities merely; for, at this moment, we see no probability of such an event. Barring such an effect, we don't see how the stoppage of the American Banks can aggravate the case of the English merchant; nor do we see that he can derive from it any advantage. It is the last wrestle of a patient whom previous symp- toms had sufficiently proved to be moribund. It may serve to convince those whom nothing short of such striking testimony would convince, of the truth of what we had previously announced— that, for the next two years, all prospect of commerce with America, or, at least, of a commerce conducted upon ordinary princi- ples, must be abandoned. Considered in the lightof a lesson, the stoppage will be useful. The extension of discounts by the Joint Stock Banks and the Bank of England some eighteen months ago, giving an impetus to trade, raised the prices of native manufactures and foreign produce equally. Of late the necessary operation of Peel's bill, compelling the contraction of these discounts, has pulled down the prices of native manufactures and foreign produce equally. The fall in the one shuts up our factories ; the fall in the other, by disenabling the foreign creditor from fulfilling his engagements, ruins our merchants. The American Banks, which had been led by the exigencies of commerce to extend their dis- counts, are, by the operation of Jackson's circular— the States'Peel bill— on the slightest interruption of the general credit, compelled again to contract them. The same causes are at work in the New World as in the Old. Trade between the gold laws of the one and of the other is speedily annihilated. The shock which com menced in London is communicated to and repeated in Liverpool, New Orleans, New York— wherever the pernicious system extends to— and everywhere with the same results. What is the conclusion ? Need we make it? It is, we see, the new cant of the Metropo- litan scribblers to designate our demand for the repeal of Peel's bill, Brummagem economy. Let us adopt the phrase. We mistake much if Brummagem eco- nomy, as Brummagem liberty once was, be not, in a few months hence, hailed as the only economy by which England can be saved from speedy destruction. A feverish anxiety has prevailed in Birmingham, for the last ten days, on the subject of a negociation, which was understood to be proceeding between the House of William and James Brown, of Liverpool, and the Bank of England. It was understood that the Bank had given certain facilities of accommodation, which would terminate on Thursday, the 15th; and there was a doubt, notwithstanding the ample resources of the House, if any further extension of those facilities would be granted. We are exceedingly gratified to be able to say that the doubt is now removed, and that the Bank has consented to extend its accommodation till the 31st of December. What might have been the result had the Bank decided otherwise, it is not easy to calculate. In Birmingham, we believe, it would have led to the immediate suspension of pay- ment in specie, as the Americans term it, by some ten or a dozen of respectable firms ; and that suspension to the bankruptcy of probably a couple of hundred small manufacturers and tradesmen. One or two banks would, very possibly, have in a short time fol- lowed ; and their fall would have pulled down hun- dreds more. Not alone in Birmingham would the shock have been felt; it would have fallen with equal if not greater force in Liverpool, and several other places. From this addition to a distress which is already intolerable, the determination of the Bank has saved the community. That it has prevented an in- crease of distress to many who were previously only partially affected is, we rather incline to believe, the amount of the good. Any accommodation so accorded is for the discharge of known and existing obligations, not for carrying into effect future and contingent specu- lations. We apprehend that not one order the more will be made or executed in consequence, that not one wheel additional will be put in motion, nor one addi- tional hand employed. Some of the more severe econo- mists are even disposed to assert, that the act of the Bank, though bringing greatpresentreliefto many, and though proceeding from the best motives, will produce more eyil than it averts. They say, if this great establishment had been placed in the same position as Wilson and Wildes and Wiggins, are placed, and if, as was anti- cipated, five or six hundred failures had ensued, the suddenness, as well as extent of the calamity, would have compelled attention to its causes, and a perma- nent remedy would probably have been the result. But if, instead of being concentrated in eight or ten days, the same or even a greater amount of suffering be spread over eight or ten months, the successive failures will be set down by our sagacious rulers to the operation of ordinary and uncontrollable causes, and no remedy will be sought or applied. Not denying that there is much force in this argument, we must confess that we are not so stern in our philosophy as not to rejoice that the affair has been regulated so as to save the few. We are of assured opinion that Go- vernment must hearken to the voice of the people. The remedy, if they will only be persuaded to demand it firmly and unitedly, and to persist in their demand, must be obtained. And if success is certain in the reason of the demand itself, provided it be wisely pro- secuted, surely when the distress, now unavoidable, is so great and so general, the averting of any, even the least addition that hitman contrivance can avert, ought to be hailed as a gain. A very choice specimen of Tory honesty was exhi- bited in the House of Commons on Friday on the debate on the Wigan Estate bill. The parson of Wigan enjoys at the present moment an income of 2500?. It is admitted that there is in the parish a large population who have not the benefit of spiritual instruction. The parson of Wigan comes before Parliament praying for permission to enter into cer- tain contracts with respect to the mines of the glebe land, which will certainly and immediately raise his income of 2,500?. to 4,500?., and which, contingently, may raise it to 10,000?. Mr. Hindley, Mr. Roebuck, Mr. Wakley, and other reform members were desirous that the surplus, which Parliament was thus about to create, should be devoted, not to swell the lu xuri of an individual, but to the praise of God and the spread of his Gospel to such of the population of Wigan as at present have neither church room nor church instruction. Mr. Wakley said— When the proposition respecting church- rates was brought forward, what was the course pursued by every member on that ( the Opposition) side of the House ? The lion, mem- bers opposite then had no objection to improving Church property, no objection to see a measure for improving Church property, but they insisted that the increased funds should be applied solely to spiritual purposes,—( hear, hear, and cheers,)— that these funds should be applied to extend the means of the Established Church. ( Cheers.) How do they propose to apply those means now ? ( Loud cheers.) Why, to increase the obesity of an already over- fat clergy- man. ( Cries of Oh, oh, and Order.) For what purpose is this bill brought forward ? Not to support the fabrics of the Church, or to uphold the Established Church, but to render the larder of the rector a little more capacious and comfortable, to improve the rectory house, and to give in- creased accommodation, and to increase his riches and give him, not 2,0001, a year more, but probably six, eight, or even ten thousand pounds yearly. ( Cries of Oh, oh.) It is possible. We cannot know the value of the mines. Hoiv can this rector with all Christian humility enter the pulpit and tell his flock, that " it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of Heaven"? ( Hear, hear.) I say that a more preposterous proceeding than supporting this bill, consider- ing the arguments used by the opposite side of the House, in opposition to the statement and the measure of the Chancellor of the Exchequer with reference to the Church- rates, I never knew to be adopted by any rational people. ( Loud cheers.) The people of England will now under- stand the whole object of honourable gentlemen opposite, with regard to the means they devise for extending the spiri- tual instruction of the Church. ( Loud cheers.) What was the answer of the Tories to this appeal ? The church and religion are their constant watchwords. " It will injure the Church," is their constant argument against every measure that is calculated to benefit the people ; " it will endanger religion," is their constant appeal against every scheme by which the happiness and peace of the people are intended to be pur- chased. The Reformers propose to enlarge the boun- daries of the Church. They propose to strengthen the hands of religion in a large and neglected parish, and the Tories, to a man, scout the attempt | The fund was not meant to be wrung from the hands of greedy bishops, or miscalculating lease- holders. No man's purse, in possession or expectancy) was to be drained in order to supply it. It was as truly the creature of Parliamentary enactment, as if it had been called from the vasty deep by the voice of s Speaker. The church advocates and the religion advocates, however, were resolute. Had it been pro- posed to extend religion by a tax, they would have jumped at the notion; but the gratuitous worship of the Almighty was not to be borne. The motion of the Reformers was, in consequence, negatived by a large majority. There were four divisions. At the head of three of the majorities stands the name of that exemplary man, who would propitiate the majesty of heaven by interdicting Sunday puddings and short stages— Sir Andrew Agnew ! And in all the four we find the name of Henry Goulburn, the same personage who, on Monday, called upon the House to devote the surplus rents of the bishop and chapter lands to the extension of religious instruction, instead of de- voting it, as Ministers wish, to the payment of Church- ates! We think our readers will concur with us, that f such a forty- Irishman- power of face do not bang Banagher, that celebrated town is, indeed, invincible. The " criminal information" case, it will be seen, was postponed in the King's Bench on Saturday. As there is still a lis pendens, we are unwilling to offer any remark which could be construed into an attempt to prejudice the one side or the other. There are some particulars, however, of the proceedings on Saturday which seem to require a little notice. The Attorney- General is made to observe that the peace of the town of Birmingham very greatly depended on the settle- ment of the case. Now, knowing Birmingham some- what better than the learned knight ( we would not say as much had it been Dudley that was in question), we beg to assure him, that, at the present moment, the peace of Birmingham depends for its maintenance on other guess matter than that to which he attributes so much importance; and that if he can only prevail on his colleague Mr. Rice to move in his court for a rule to show cause why our merchants are falling, and our workmen fallen, he may dispose of the criminal infor- mation, early or late, with the least possible risk of a supervening rebellion. There is another point in the discussion more important than the fears of Sir John— we allude to Mr. Hill's extraordinary offer to the Court, to stay proceedings in Mr. Muntz's action against the Advertiser, as a set off against the delay of the motion on the rule. Mr. Hill is a gentleman for whose character we have a great respect, but we must say that, in this instance, he altogether over- stepped the line of propriety, as well as of his duty as counsel. He is not in the case of Muntz v. Armfield ; and had no more right to propose an adjournment of that case than the crier of the Court had. We believe this is the first instance on record in which a counsel has undertaken to postpone a case in which he was not engaged, and of which and its promoters and their wishes, he knew literally nothing. We do not attribute to Mr. Hill any worse motive than a feeling of good nature towards both parties; and we do not wish him any heavier punishment than such good- natured blundering commonly meets with— the censure of those whom, without power, he seeks to bind, and the in- gratitude of those whom, without service, he seeks to oblige. As to the remarks of the Attorney- General, that the proposal of delay was a manoeuvre, and that the action arose out of the rule, they are equally en- lightened with his hint about the peace of Birmingham. Had he said that the criminal information was a manoeuvre to get rid of the action— an ingenious at- tempt to lift a lame dog over a stile— he would, we believe, have been rather nearer to the truth. A very interesting meeting took place on Thursday night at the Public- office, on the subject of the pre- sent distress. We need not here recur to the argu- ments of the two leading speakers, which are set forth in the report, and with which our readers had already been rendered familiar. The resolutions were passed with a unanimity altogether singular, considering the mixed character of the meeting—- masters and workmen, and, amongst the former, mer- chants, manufacturers, traders ; men of all creeds— Churchmen, Dissenters; of all politics— Radicals, Tories, Whigs; and, we may add, previous to the pre- sent distress, of all opinions on those points of econo- mic policy which formed the subject of discussion. Such an agreement of elements, hitherto so little con- cordant, is a very remarkable feature in the present times, and we should imagine will not be without its due weight with His Majesty's Ministers. They will now have to regard the objections to the standard of 1819 not as a fanciful theory of one or two indivi- duals, but as the deliberate judgment of a very large body of intelligent men, who, differing upon nearly all other subjects that agitate society, have yet been compelled, from the strong evidence of facts, to concur in this. The distress of Birmingham is now certified by 11,000 of its workmen, and by 3,000 of the bankers, merchants, manufacturers, and traders, on whom the workmen depend for employment. The causes of that distress have, to the entire satisfaction of a numerous and respectable meeting, been traced to the operation of Peel's bill— or, as we would rather have it named, the " Legion bill," for Peel's was not the only influence malign that was exerted in its con coction, though to him, as the master spirit, the merit has been hitherto exclusively assigned. We shall be greatly disappointed if adversity, which is proverbially so powerful a teacher, do not speedily convince the men of Manchester, of Leeds, of Sheffield, of Glasgow, and the other manufacturing towns of England and Scotland, as it has done the men of Birmingham, that unless that accursed bill be torn from the statute book, it is vain to hope for certainty or prosperity in the commercial transactions of the country. The people of Edgbaston seem to have been fright- ened from their propriety by the importunate askings of some bands of the unemployed, who have been vi- siting the mansions of the wealthy resident* there 5 THE BIRMINGHAM JOUliNAL. during the last fortnight. They have had one meet- ing, and on Wednesday they are to have another, for the purpose of getting up a police to protect the parish. It commonly happens that there are two opinions touching the expediency of most changes ; and it is not wonderful that there should be, touching the expediency of an Edgbaston police. Some of the Reformers, we understand, look upon the entire matter as less a question of police than of patronage— a mere Tory job— a tax on the parish, for public purposes os- tensibly, but for party purposes in reality. Of the accuracy of this opinion we do not pretend, in our present state of knowledge, to judge. The affairs of the parish have, hitherto, been managed by a little knot of individuals, and these individuals are Tories; and we have no doubt, that, like good partizans, they are prepared to make a job of this scheme, as they do of every scheme, that they have any controul over. And if the Reformers will sit with their hands across and witness such things, who will say the Tories are to blame ? Why, if the Reformers wished to have the management of their own business, and they have only to will it in order to obtain it, did they not stand forward at the election of Poor law Guardians ? If they allow a freedom in one case, they must not be surprised if it be taken in another. If they don't wish a police, let them attend on Wednesday and vote against it. If they count such attendance a burden, don't let them grumble when, as a necessary result of their supineness, they shall have the more sensible burden of a police- rate laid upon them. Mr. Attwood, we understand, arrived in town last night. The Tories are glorifying themselves on the sub- ject of the mandamus, that it will lead to nothing— it will prevent them from attempting a Church- rate. This the Reformers think something. The Tories had a meeting at Dee's yesterday, on the subject of the election, which will necessarily follow in case of the decease of the King. We can merely refer to Mr. Goddard's letter on " The News from America." His views and ours dif- fer, it will be seen. POLITICAL UNION.— Owing to the occupation of the Public Office on Thursday evening, by the Committee of Manufacturers and Operatives, the Council of the Union did not meet until last evening. Mr. P. H. Muntz having taken the chair, a sketch of a medal, designed by Mr. Davis, of Clarence- row, was sub- mitted by Mr. Weston for the approbation and sanction of the Council. On the motion of Mr. Edmonds, the medal was sanctioned by the Council, and ordered to be recommended to the members of the Union. A Committee was then appointed to make the necessary arrangements for the accommodation of the speakers at the meeting which is to take place on Monday. It was then moved by Mr. Pierce, and seconded by Mr, Blunt, and carried, that the Council do assemble at the Public Office on Monday morning, at Ten o'clock and do march in procession through High- street and New- street, to the place of meeting. PARK- STREET CHARITY SCHOOL.— On Sunday next, June the 18th, ( to- morrow) the Annual Sermons on behalf of this School will be preached by the Rev. BENJAMIN CARPENTER, of Nottingham, at the Old Meeting House in the Morning ( service to begin at eleven o'clock), and at the New Meeting House in the Afternoon ( service to begin at halt- past three o'clock.' PUBLIC OFFICE.— Yesterday, at the close of the business, the magistrates held a meeting, when it was resolved to change the ( lays of doing business from Monday and Friday to Monday and Thursday, the days on which the magistrates formerly attended. In the course of the conversation that took place at the Workhouse on Wednesday, on the subject of the Magistrates' letter, and the resolution of the Work- men's Memorial Committee, the question having been raised to what extent claims had been made, and re- lief afforded by the Overseers, Mr. Knight took oc- casion to submit to the Guardians certain facts, from which the answer to that question might be inferred. Mr. Knight has favoured us with his notes, which we do not doubt, our readers, as we do, will regard as of more than ordinary interest. Up to the 1st of May, it will be seen, the number of new claimants on the parish funds was, comparatively speaking, stationary. Mr. Knight says:— In endeavouring to form tin opinion of tlie pressure upon the working classes, consequent upon the present commer- cial embarrassment, by the number of CASES relieved weekly at the Workhouse, I separate from the total number of cases relieved, those called * new cases.' The old cases consist of aged and infirm persons, and o'hers who are com- paratively permanent claimants; and this portion are not particularly affected by the present state of trade. The increase ot ' new cases' is the only correct index of pressure at the Workhouse. For some time preceding and during the month of April, the new cases may be stated to have been 150 weekly. The following are the subsequent weekly numbers of the ' new cases' relieved :— May 1st . . .191 I May 29th . . .291 8th . . . 171 | June 5th . . 482 15th . . , 219 I 12th . . .733 2> d . . . . 212 | Here is an advance in the space of eight weeks from 150 to 733-, or 583, that is, about 400 per cent.; and in the course of the three weeks preceding last Friday, of 432 on 291, above 150 per cent! These are facts which speak more strongly than any state- ment, however eloquent, of the sufferings of the work- men. Let it be recollected that the pressure is but just beginning. As long as a penny or a rag remains, the great mass of the labouring poor avoid the work- house as they would the pest house. It is only when nothing else can be done, and as a last resource, just better than starving outright, that parish relief is had recourse to. The number on the list yesterday ex- ceeded 1000, being a further increase of nearly 300 ill the course of the last eight days. THEATRE ROYAL.— During the past week the Theatre lias been fully and fashionably attended. Those eminent artistes, Miss Sherriff and Mr. Temple- ton, have gathered fresh laurels in the field of song. The Operas have been, Love in a Village, Guy Man- neriny, and Rob Roy. Each was in its way a grand treat— the strongest in the vocal department was Guy Mannering, as in addition to Miss Sherriffand Mr. Templeton, we had Miss Byron as " Julia Manner- ing." In Rob Roy, the introduced songs and original music were excellently sung. The acting of Mr. Grattaii as the " Macgregor" was deserving of every praise; in Mr. Angel was an exemplary " Baillie ;" and Mr. Wallace did every justice to the " Dougal creature." The manner in which these Operas have been produced reflects great credit on the Manager. BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL AND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.— The approaching exhibition of this in- teresting institution, is announced to take place at the Society's Gardens, on Thursday and Friday, the 29th and 30th instant. The money prizes are formed on a liberal and extensive scale; and we are assured that the present exhibition bids fair to rival, if not surpass, any former one. The main character of the show consists in the concentration of the varied beau- ties which nature produces at this season of the year, not being limited to the display of any particular or descriptive class of flowers. There is little doubt but there will be a splendid gathering on the occasion, as there is already a considerable sensation created among exhibitors to vie with each other. Since the last year the Gardens, under the scientific management of Mr. Cameron, the curator, have undergone considerable improvement, and will be no trifling addition to the attractions of the day. A handsome Silver Cup will be awarded to the exhibitor who obtains the greatest number of money prizes. THE FLOWER SHOW.— The display of flowers ex- hibited on Thursday was superb ; the display of com- pany insignificant— a proof, if any were wanting, how much the affectation and how little the reality of love for the art of floricultural goes to swell such exhibi- tions. We have only room to give the— LIST OP PRIZES. TULIPS.— Pan of twelve.— 1st prize, silver cup, Mr. J. S. Hellier ; 2nd ditto, Messrs. Pope and Sons; 3rd ditto. Mr. H. Kendall; 4th ditto, Mr. E. Hill. Feathered Bizarres 1st prize, Surpass Catafalque, J. Pope and Sons ; 2nd ditto, Trafalgar, H. Kendall, 3rd ditto, Catafalque Imperial, J. Pope and Sons. Flamed Bizarres 1st prize, Catafalque Imperial, J. Pope and Sons; 2nd ditto, La Cantique, J. Pope and Sons; 3rd ditto, Grandeur Magnifique, Mr. J. Moore. Feathered Cherry and Rose—- 1st prize, Rose Vestus, Mr. J. Moore; 2nd ditto, Amiable Perfecte, J. Pope and Sons ; 3rd ditto, Cense Blanche, Mr. Sargant. Flamed Cherry and Rose.— 1st prize, Triomphe Royale, Mr. Kendall; 2nd ditto, Le Van Dycken, Mr. J. S. Hellier; 3rd ditto, Rose Unique, Mr. E. Hill. Feathered Bybloemen 1st prize, Franciscus Primus, J. Pope and Sons; 2nd ditto, Surpass Maitre Partout, J. Pope and Sons; 3rd ditto, L'Admirable | Superbe, J. Pope and Sons. Flamed Bybloemen 1st prize, Fine Bigaute, Mr. Ken- dall ;\ 2nd ditto, Rose Bigaute, J. Pope and Sons; 3rd ditto, Albion, J. Pope and Sons. GSJIANIUMS 1st prize, Speculum Mundi, Mr. Kendall: 2nd ditto, Duchess of Gloucester, Mr. Cowdrey ; 3rd ditto, Flora M'Donald, Mr. J. Moore: 4th ditto, Mrs. Sweet, Mr. Cowdrey. STOVE PLANTS 1st prize, Musa Coccinea, Mr. Ratlieram; 2nd ditto, Haemanthus Puniceus, Mr. D. Houghton; 3rd ditto, Ficus Elasticus, Mr/ J. Horton; 4th ditto, Thunbergia Leucantha, Mr. J. Horton. GREENHOUSE PLANTS 1st prize, Polygala Cordifolia, Mr. Kendall; 2nd ditto, Pimelia Decussata, Mr. J. Horton ; 3rd ditto, Elychrysum Sessamoides, Mr. Mellor; 4th ditto, Epacris Grandiflora, Mr. D. Houghton. ERICAS.— 1st prize, Vestita Coccinea, Mr. J. Horton; 2nd ditto, Gemmifera, Mr. Kendall; 3rd ditto, Ventricosa Pregnans, Mr. J. Horton. CALCEOLARIS.— 1st prize,' Bella, Mr. Mellor; 2nd ditto, Juno, Mr. S. Yates ; 3rd ditto, Purpurea Magniflora, Mr. J. Moore; 4th ditto, Pizarro, Mr. Yates. HERBACEOUS PLANTS 1st prize, Alstroemeira Aurea, Mr. Yates; 2nd ditto, Oculata, J. Pope and Sons ; 3rd ditto, Aquilegia Siberica, J. Pope and Sons; 4th ditto, Ramondia Pyrenaica, Mr. Sharpe; 5th ditto, Saponaria Ocymoides, Mr. Moore; 6th ditto, Peony, Mr. Moore. PANSIES.— Pan of twenty four 1st prize, Mr. Burman; 2nd ditto, Mr. Earl; 3rd ditto, Mr Ratheram. Pan of twelve 1st prize, Mr. Burman ; 2nd ditto, Mr. Mellor. Seedlings 1st Prize, Mr. Darke; 2ndditto, Mr. Cowdrey. DISPLAY OF VEGETABLES— Mr. Tolly. DISPLAY OF FRUIT— Mr. J. Horton. BRACE OF CUCUMBERS 1st prize, Mr. J. Horton ; 2nd ditto, Mr. Sharpe; 3rd ditto, Mr. Sharpe; 4th ditto, Mr. J. Horton. EXTRA PRIZES. GREEN HOUSE PLANTS. — Gladiolus Cardinalis Blandus, Mr. Mellor; Ixia Veridiflora, Mr. Kendall; Pimelia, Mr. Ratheram; Petunia Grandiflora, Mr. Cowdrey; Hoya Carnosa, Mr, J. Horton. HARDY SHRUBS Dentzia Scabra, Mr. D. Houghton; Rhododendron Seelby, J. Pope and 8ons; Kalmia Lati- folia, Mr. Kendall. COTTAGERS' PRIZES.— 1st prize, Cabbage, Mr. Smith; 1st prize, Lettuce, Mr. Smith; 2nd prize, ditto, Mr. Smith; Dish of Salad, Mr. Craythorn; 1st prize, onions, Mr. Smith; 2nd prize, ditto, Mr. Baker ; 3rd prize, ditto, Mr. Craythorn; Rhubarb, Mr. Clewer ; Pansies, Mr. Fletcher; 1st prize. Tulips, Mr. Craythorn; 2nd prize, ditto, Mr. Lees; Geranium, Mr. Griffiths. THE PROTEST.— The following names, we have authority to state, were inserted in the Tory protest without the knowledge or consent of their owners, or upon false representations of its nature and purpose:— Joseph Johnson, coal dealer, Bagot- stre6t. William Peters, wine merchant, High- street. William Poole, carpenter, Northwood- street. Benjamin Jorden, gentleman, Great Brook- street. Thomas Martin, grocer, Newhall- hill. Thomas Lowe, gilder, Bordesley- street. Joseph Handy, hair dresser, Masshouse- lane. John Cox, hair dresser, Moor- street. J. Pagett, butcher, Cheapside. Thomas Medlicott, Snowhill. George Smith, music seller, Snowhill. H. C. Chapman, Nineveh. Joseph Hancox, Noifolk- street. Several names are subscribed twice, and one has been pointed out to us that is signed no less than six times ! Mr. East proposes to preach in the open air at New- hall- hill, on Monday evening. We give to the zeal of the reverend gentleman our most cordial admiration ; and sincerely trust, as well as hope, it may issue in bringing at least a portion of those estrays from reli- gion, which are too numerous in all crowded coinmu nities, once more within the fold. The scheme has no sectarian views, nor does it spring from any party motive. It must do good. Even where it does not convert it will enlighten. And if it only cause the unthinking to think, half the battle is won. INQUEST.— Saturday evening an inquest was held before Mr. Seymour, on the body of an infant, found in a garden in Deritend. It appeared from the evi dence, that on the previous Thursday, one of three men who rent a garden in Heath Mill- lane, when digging on his portion of the ground, discovered a small box, closely nailed up. Before breaking it open, he ap prised the others of the discovery, and on the box being examined, it was found to contain the body of a male child. The body was examined by Mr. Kimberley, surgeon, but owing to the decomposed state in which it was, he was unable to say whether it had been born dead or alive. The jury returned a verdict that the body was found, but by whom deposited in the garden did not appear. INQUEST.— SUPPOSED MURDER.— An inquest was held on Saturday last, at the White Swan, Lawley- street, on the body of a man named Benjamin Lewis whose death was said to have been occasioned by ill- treatment he had received from his wife. Mr. Sey- mour, of Coventry, was the Coroner, and the Jury having inspected the body, that gentleman said he had an objection to the evidence being published. It might turn out to be a very serious case for the pri- soner, and it would be unfair to publish exparte state- ments. The reporters for the Journal and Philan- thropist refused to give any pledge as to the nature or length of the report they should give. They had no discretion in the case. They had been directed to at- tend and report the proceedings, and they must do so. They had, however, no objection to represent the wishes of the Coroner to their respective Editors, and no doubt if it appeared the ends of justice would in any way be frustrated by publishing the casein detail, it would not be done. The Coroner said he could not put the case upon that footing, and the reporters again said they had no discretion. They must report unless absolutely prohibited by him. The Coroner said it was his wish that the case should not be reported, hut he refused to make any order, and the reporters took notes of the proceedings. The case, however, turned out just the reverse of what the Coroner anticipated, and not worth giving in detail. The facts are simply these. The deceased was a comb- maker, about fifty years of age, and he had lately married a young woman about twenty- five. As is usual in such cases, they lived unhappily; they were both addicted to drink- ing. One day last week they were drinking together in a public- house, and went home about ten o'clock at night. A quarrel ensued between them in consequence of the deceased having pledged the sheets belonging to the bed, and tbe woman pushed him down against some chairs, and in the fall some of his ribs were broken, and be died in a day or two after. It appeared the deceased had struck the woman before she pushed him, and that he was going to strike her again. The Jury returned a verdict of " Justifiable homicide." DREADFUL DEATH A young man named Thomas Garland, a thimble- maker, and one of those unfortu- nates who, for misconduct or misfortune, are com- pelled occasionally to sleep at nights at the brick- kilns in tbe neighbourhood, came by his death on Tuesday morning. It appears that the poor fellow lay down early on the above morning, near to one of the brick- kilns belonging to Mr. Walford, New John- street West, and fell asleep. He had not, however, been long in that situation when the end of the kiln fell out, and he was covered with about 1000 burning bricks, and a great quantity of sand and fire, and be- fore any assistance arrived he was literally baked to death. " An inquest was held on Tuesday, before J. W Whateley, Esq., and a verdict of accidental death • eturned. The weather has been eminently " growing" for the last eight days. A fine ear might have heard the grass springing. The change on the face of crea- tion appears miraculous. Yesterday we had a ood deal of thunder and heavy rains; fortunately, tor the advancing crops, without any abatement of beat. WEST BROMWICH.— The people of West Bromwich are engaged in a tough battle with their parson. A Church- rate has been demanded of them, and yester- day was the first of the polling. Thenumbers at the close were, for the rate 427, against it 546, majority against the rate 119. The Tories are completely exhausted, and the victory is iii consequence secure; but the Re- formers, very properly, are determined not to leave anything to chance, and will muster to- day in sucli numbers as will effectually put down the attempt of their opponents not now only, but for the future. They passed on Tuesday some spirited resolutions, for which We regret we cannot find room. WALSALL POLITICAL UNION.— The Reformers of Walsall formed themselves into a Political Union on Saturday. The meeting was a singularly spirited one. LATEST NEWS. THE CRISIS AKD ITS CURE.— If the Government will do nothing,— if the country must be left to its fate, the people must depend upon themselves. There is plenty of capital in the country; there is abundance of labour; there is no want of enterprise and skill; there are no people who possess more probity ; none disposed to struggle more heartily with diffi- culties than the English. England has in herself all the raa aterials for still being the greatest nation upon earth, and she will, in the end, become so, in spite of doctrinaire New Poor- law bills and other absurdities, enough to destroy any nation ; but for the country to enjoy real and substantial prosperity, they must be really represented in Parliament— they must positively possess the legislative power; and to ob- tain this, the people must be true to themselves, and avail themselves of such means as lie within their reach, and which we shall, to the best of our skill, point out hereafter. — Brighton Patriot. GERMAN DINING.— Dinner here is one of the most cha- racteristic, and to an English visitor, newest features in the place. The sallying forth of the whole population from their abodes at the constitutional hour of one, to congregate together and dine in parties of two or three hundred at a table d'hOte, is, indeed, very unlike anything we are accus- tomed to at home, and the novelty is very amusing. I looked forward with great delight to our first dinner at the AlleeSaal; and as I had not then learned to be hungry at one o'clock, prepared to make active use of my eyes, and observe everything that was doing. Sitting down to a Ger- man toble d'Mte without an appetite, is not so great an evil as a similar failure elsewhere. The time is very long it is true, but not tedious, even though you should not be fortu- nate in an agreeable neighbour; in the latter case, of course, time is forgotten ; as when thus pleasantly beguiled it flies but too fast. Where there are so many people, and so many dishes, the eyes have ample amusement, and the ears are re- galed with the charming music that plays the whole time of dinner. I expected to see the Germans eat an immoderate quantity, but this was not the case. At the first glance they appeared to do so, for they helped themselves to everything that went round, and their plates were changed every two minutes. But these " helps" were ridiculously small, such as half a chicken's leg, a single slice of tongue, & c. Indeed, the host of the Allee Saal seemed resolved that his guests should not transgress in this way, and on the strength of his hotel being acknowledged the most fashionable dining- place at Schwalbach, often took the liberty of providing very scantily. He seemed to have adopted as his motto the German proverb, Alle gute dinge sind drie (" all good things are three"), for he seldom exeeeded that number of the same article on each dish; three fairy cutlets— three slices of ham that looked as if they had been carved for Queen Mab and so on. Occasionally a buzz of discontent at this short commons would run through the lines, among the English part of the company; not that there was not enough, but the character forprofusion which German dinners universally enjoy, makes people unreasonable in their expectations. One day I trans- lated this buzz to a German who sat next me, and who had enquired what they were speaking about. " Ha, is that possible!" he exclaimed, " your countrymen complaining of not having enough to eat— why I thought they accused us of being the most voracious people in Europe?" This was very true, and what could I say to defend my countrymen ? I could only feel sorry that my neighbour's feelings had been wounded, and for myself resolve to think well how it might hurt others, before I ever gave expression to any ill- natured opinion. The German kellners ( waiters) aie quite, a pe- culiar race. Their office is a most atduous one, from tha ceaseless activity it requires, and the national out- of- door ehair- and- table system. They are, of necessity, always young, and by far the most dapper, spruce, smart, well- dressed youths one sees. If I were asked to translate the word kellner, I should certainlyrender it " a biped tor carry- ing plates;" for their talents in this respect are quite mar- vellous. Trays are unknown; therefore the endless train of dishes and plates that compose a German dinner, are brought from the kitchen in the hands, or rather on the arms of the kellners. How one left arm can be made to accommodate such a number I cannot conceive. We have frequently reckoned as many as seven, full of soups, ragouts, & c., perched on it, the right being actively employed in handing them to the ober- kellner, ( head waiter) who alone haB the privilege of putting them on the table. The ra- pidity with which the latter functionary discharged this office at the Allee Saal was quite extraordinary. I have often watched his progress down the table as he advanced, attended by a host of kellners, their arms garnished with smoking dishes. As soon as one had been relieved of his cargo, away he flew to the kitchen to fetch a fresh supply^ while the indefatigable ober- kellner continued to fling down the dishes, stretching over the table with an effort that made one arm fly up into the air, while its fellow was ex- tended to the utmost with the dish, and seat the corres- ponding leg to as near a level with its owner's head as ever Taglioni's was. How the contents of the dishes, spun down thus one after another, like a deal at cards, escaped overflowing, I could not conceive, until closer observation showed me the sort of swing with which each was deposited on the table, causing the gravy, & c., to make a circular evo- lution within the dish without overpassing its edge. Owing to this extraordinary alertness of the active ober- kellner. the long tables at the Allee Saal were replenished and cleared in a very short space of time ; and not many minutes after the bevy of young kellners made their appearance with each course, the two er three hundred hungry expectants who had hailed its entree, were busily engaged in eating it. — Summer in Germany. CHATELLERAULT— We find the Vienne again at Chatel- lerault, flowing under a handsome stone bridge, and making an agreeable picture. Its smooth surface is covered with country craft. Longboats, of a graceful form with square sails, spread out their whiteness in the evening sun, catch- ing the lights which, intercepted by higher objects no longer, sparkle on the current; while a water- cart with its patient horse up to its shoulders in the river, and three grey posters knee- deep in a shallower part, lashing at the flies with their long tails, help out a quiet evening scene, transparently coloured ; to which the white houses on the opposite quay, with their light girdling of vine leaves, give an agreeable finish. But the people here are the best part of the picture. Before a blacksmith's shop, that happens to be in front of our windows, a group is at this moment formed, which would give pleasant work to a quick- sketching pencil. Two rough horses, with high padded saddles, compose its centre; one is held by a woman in the wide lappetted cap of the country, her smoothly divided black hair appearing under it, and a bright mixture of blue and scarlet forming the prominent lines of her dress. A man, who had just dismounted from the otiier beast,— wild, olive- coloured, and picturesque as a Spanish muleteer, leans against a post; and while the black- smith's work is going on, gives a passing word to a venera- ble elder, mounted on a fine mule, and inserted between two well- stuffed bales that swell up before and behind him. His beaver is aristocratically large, his coat pale fawn- colour, waistcoat light blue, and stockings a pure country white. While they talk, the horse is shod; and the woman, spring- ing like the false Teresa Panza on her steed, throws one leg over the saddle, and fixing herself firmly in the seat, unfolds a large cloth petticoat, split up behind and before, ties it on, and letting it fall over each side, presents the most decent appearance possible. Charming old carriages; an inappreciable demifortune. ( chariot drawn by one horse) as large as a town coach and a half, just panes, drawn by a superb mule; and in it a fair creature reading in the midst of five or sis others, with a full- blown rose— a natural one— in her hair. Carts, all drawn by oxen ; no horses were they as plump and mottled as the best ever turned out by Rubens, could become a country cart as oxen do. Every moment some merry lassie or grave dame, Jogs by on her mule, the split petticoat thrown scrupulously over her muscular proportions, and a freight of brooms, or other household articles strapped be- hind ; for this being market- day, all are purchasers. Two girls on one horse, both very smart and one pretty, with a lapetted matron, brown and fierce as a Cherokee chief in the van, trot down the street at this moment; the girls chat- tering like two plotting magpies, and the matron every now and then turning round her copper- coloured visage to see that all is right, and the green cloth petticoat duly arranged. — Sketches in the Pyrenets. In the House of Lords on Thursday, on the motion of the Earl of LICHFIELD, the Post Office bills were severally read a second time, after some discussion, in which Lord Ellenborough, the Duke of Richmond, Lord Brougham, and Lord Ashburtori took part. The MarqHis of LONDONDERRY brought forward his mo- t'on relative to the state of the war in Spain. A short debate ensued, which exhibited nothing worth remark or extract. In the Commons, Lord JOHN RUSSELL stated that it was desirable that a certain day should be fixed for proceeding with the Irish Tithe bill, he would appoint Friday week for that purpose. Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY moved an " Address to His Majesty, for carrying into effect the recommendation re- lating to the best means of setting apart a portion of the strangers' gallery for the admittance of ladies." The motion was, on a division, lost by a majority of 23. Colonel SiBTHoitp moved for a Select Committee to in- quire into the present state of the various public eommis- - ions. This motion was also lost on a division. On the motion of Sir O. MOSLEY, the Select Committee appointed to consider the petition of Messrs. Fourdrinier was revived, and the report already made referred to the same Committee. Sir H. VKKNEY obtained leave to bring in a bill for rating the owners and not the occupants of tenements under 20/. per annum. Mr. BARING obtained leave to bring in a bill to vest the Rolls' Estate in His Majesty, and to abolish certain pay- ments and fees which form part of the salary of the Master of the Rolls. The sitting of the House was long, and the subjects nu- merous, but none of them excited much interest. Since our article on the American news was written, there has been a fresh arrival, which brings papers to the 27th May. The bank stoppages were then universal in all parts of the Union, and the infection had reached the British colonies as well. The Quebec and Montreal banks have suspended specie payments; and the Toronto bank has been fain to follow their example. The Governor of Pennsyl- vania has refused to call the states together on the present crisis. He thinks the banks must take the consequences of their conduct— To allow the banks to issue notes for less than five dollars would be permanently injurious; to inter- fere to protect their charters would be equally so; to stay prosecution in case of bank debts would accustom the citizens to disregard punctuality! The New York papers anticipate the resumption of cash payments in February. The resumption, however, will be contingent on the coming crop. The following is the latest state of the New York market. We take it from the New York Enquirer of May 24: — " We cannot say there is any remarkable improvement in the aspect of affairs. Very few bills of exchange were purchased for this day's packets, and those that were, at rates varying from 3 to 4 per cent. We have heard some southern paper, endorsed by banks there and here, was sold at 115, some other bills even higher, while some were taken as low as 112. There are, however, considerable purchases of specie, probably for export, going on. At the board of brokers yesterday a sale was made of 325 Napoleons, at 4 dol. 10 cents, which is an advance of 10 cents each on pre- vious rates, 1,000 half dollars were also sold at 7 per cent, premium. Sovereigns to a considerable amount were af- terwards purchased in the street at 5 dol. 27 cents to 5 dol. 28 cents. Mexican dollars have been selling at from 7| to 9 per cent, premium." The French King is liberalising, in speech at least. To a deputation that waited on him the other day, he replied by quoting a stanza of the Marseillaise ! There have been some advancing and retreating in Spain, but nothing decided. The funds are stationary. Consols closed on Thursday at 91J. Birmingham Railway Shares are 132. A highly respectable Liverpool house, Bolton, Ogden, and Co., went down on Thursday. It also, it is said, had sought assistance from the Bank; but met with a denial. It sought too modestly. We have not heard the amount of its liabilities. MEETING OF GUARDIANS. A Special Meeting of the Guardians of the Poor was held on Wednesday evening, to receive a report from the Survey and Valuation Committee, and to sanction such a course for complying with the order of the Court of King's Bench, in the Appeal of the Birmingham and Staffordshire Gas Company, as might be deemed practicable and expe- dient. JAMES JAMES, Esq. having taken the chair, read the fol- lowing letter from the Magistrates relative to the existing distress : — " Gentlemen,— I am requested by the magistrates assembled at the Public- office to- day, to express to the Guardians and Overseers of the Poor of Birmingham, their earnest wish to concur with them in any measure of relief which the Guar- dians and Overseers may think proper to adopt, to meet the distress which it is feared must for a time afflict the opera- tives of the town. " The magistrates are desirous that the relief in work or provision, should, if possible, be given from the Workhouse, if it can be managed that the out- parishioners be also re- lieved at the same time, and the money raised by a regular rate, in order to obviate the difficulties which too often at- tend voluntary subscriptions Believe me, gentlemen, your faithful servant, " J. WEBSTER." The CHAIRMAN than read the following resolution, agreed to at a meeting of merchants, manufacturers, & c., held at the Public- office, on Monday:— " That this meeting, deeply sensible of the general dis- tress which prevails among the labouring classes, do earnestly recommend to the Guardians and Overseers, to afford liberal relief to those labourers who are unemployed and in want." A letter from Mr. Brooks Smith, inclosing £ 5 for the re- lief of the poor was also read, and it and the above com- munications having been entered upon the minutes, the fol- lowing resolution in reference to the two former, was pro- posed by Mr. Smith, and agreed to :— " Resolved that the Overseers, with the entire concur- rence and approbation of the Guardians of the Poor, are and have been extending relief to those applicants being parishioners who are deprived of employment by the pre- sent commercial distress, and are consequently subjected to great and unmerited sufferings, that such a course will be continued and extended as circumstances may require, notwithstanding the greatly increasing number of appli- cants." The thanks of the Guardians to Mr. Smith was then pro- posed and carried for his donation of bl. and the letter was or- dered to he acknowledged by the Chairman, who was to sug- gest to him that such a donation would not ameliorate the condition of the parochial poor, and that unlesss his donation was backed by a general subscription, the Guardians sub- mitted to him the propriety of withdrawing his money. A report from the Survey and Valuation Committee was then read, from which it appeared that the Committee in accordance with the order of the Court of King's Bench lately made, and which appeared in the Journal of last week, had directed the Surveyors to add to the survey and valuation the steam engines in their respective districts. The report also recommended to the meeting to adopt and sanction the addition of steam engines, and the presentation of the same to the Court of Quarter Sessions, in order to enable it to amend the survey and valuation. The report having been received, Mr. J. W. Whateley, solicitor, was introduced to the meeting, when that gentle- man, in answer to various questions put to him by the Guar- dians, gave it'as his opinion that the Guardians could not legally pursue any other course than that recommended in the report of the valuation committee. The meeting was then addressed at great length by Messrs. Knight, Edmonds, Barlow, and others, in support of the view taken of the subject by the committee. The whole of the speakers regretted exceedingly that they were under the necessity of rating steam- enginas, and said that so convinced were they of the importance of encouraging that species of machinery, that nothing but the imperative order of the Court of King's Bench, against which there was no appeal could induce them to agree to tax that description of property. Mr. G. F. Muntz opposed the recommendation of the committee, and said he considered it unjust in principle that such property should be rated, and that he and the other proprietors of steam- engines would most certainly appeal against the valuation, if so made, and he had not the least doubt successfully. Mr. DOUGLAS alter supporting the recommendation in the report, on the ground that the ordei of the King's Bench left them no alternative but either to amend the valuation by the introduction of steam engines, or subject themselves to perhaps far greater litigation, concluded by proposing that the meeting should adopt and sanction the course recom- mended by the valuation committee, and that steam engines be added to the valuation. The resolution was put, and all but unanimously carried. After which one requesting Messrs. Whateley's to give the appellants proper notice of the application to the Court of Quarter Sessions, for having the survey and valuation amended by adding steam engines thereto, was also agreed to. A resolution to the effect that the Guardians of the Poor of Birmingham were not the Guardians called upon to es- tablish an office for the Superintendent Registrar of births, deaths, and marriages, was next proposed and carried, and the meeting broke up at ten o'clock. PUBLIC OFFICE. MONDAT, MAY 29. ( Before F. Lloyd, T. Lawrence, and W. Blaheway, Esqrs.) ILLICIT SIIRITS. — Thomas arid John Broughton, brothers' were charged by the officers of Excise with having in their possession a quantity of unpermitted spirits. Mr. Meade, an officer, stated that on the previous Fri- day as he was going through Great Hampton- street, he met the prisoners carrying a square tin case, made like a trunk. From the information he had received he stopped them, and on examining the case found that it contained between three and four gallons of spirits. The case is very inge- niously constructed. It had no appearance whatever of being what it was, as the tin was covered over with wood, and in all respects calculated to deceive the eye. The elder prisoner said his brother knew nothing what- ever of the spirits being iii the case. He had merely asked him to carry it. The magistrates said they did not believe him. They had no discretion in the case beyond the power of reducing the penalty from 100/. to 25/., and that they would do. The prisoners were then convicted in that amount, and in de- fault of payment, were committed to the common gaol for three months. CHARGE OF ASSAULT AND SWINDLING. — A fellow who gave his name Hedgcomb was brought up charged with an assault on Mr. Etlioll, cabinet- maker and upholsterer, Ann- street. Mr. Etholl stated that about a fortnight ago, the prisoner called at his house, and after assuming a good deal of consequence, purchased a feather bed, for which he was to pay cash on its delivery. The bed was accordingly sent to a house in Hagley- row, which had been lately taken by the prisoner, but the money was not forthcoming. The bed, however was left, and he ( Mr. Etholl) called, but in vain, for the money. On the previous Friday, having received information that the prisoner had been obtaining goods in a similar manner from others, he went to his house and asked for his money or the bed. Mrs. Hedgcomb was at home and treated liim with great insolence. He still, how- ever, persisted in demanding his money, and she at last took up a poker and threatened to strike him with it if he did not decamp. He then left, and on Saturday he again went to the house and rang the bell. No answer was given. He rang again and again, and at last Mr. Hedgcome came to the window and threw down a stone which struck him on the arm. He still persisted in demanding admittance, when the prisoner threw down a child's chair and a fire- shovel, both of which struck him. He was obliged to retire, and having applied for a warrant, he had the prisoner appre- hended with some difficulty on Sunday morning. Several persons who saw the prisoner throw the stone, & c.. from the window, corroborated Mr. Etholl's state- ment. Mr. Smith, solicitor, on the part of the prisoner, submit- ted that Mr. Etholl had no right to go to the prisoner's house in the manner he had. The goo Is were purchased, and if every person who purchased goods was to be treated in the same manner there would he very little peace in the community. Mr. Lloyd: There would be fewer bad debts contracted. A servant girl belonging to the prisoner was then called, in order to prove that on Fridav, when Mr. Etholl called at the house, he assaulted Mrs. Hedgcomb ; but the fact was the girl's evidence only proved the complainant's case, and the magistrates convicted the prisoner of the assault, and ordered him to pay 40s. and costs. Mr. Edmonds then said he had to apply to the magis- trates to detain the prisoner until Friday, to afford him time to collect information which would bring home to'the prisoner several cases of swindling. There were a great many tradesmen in the town who had been defrauded by the prisoner, and he hoped the magistrates would remand him. The magistrates said they had no power to detain him, but if Mr. Edmonds pleased, he might then apply for a warrant; and if lie could show sufficient grounds, they would issue one, and the prisoner might be apprehended upon it. Mr. Christopher Andrews, carver and gilder, of Meeting- street, was then examined, and stated that on Thursday week the prisoner came to his house, and purchased a large fashionable chimney glass for 8/. He made a very hard bargain ; told him he must cut fine ; times were very hard; and he must recollect he was not going to sell for credit, and lie out of his money. Cash down on delivery, were his terms, and he must have the benefit of his money. He ( Mr. Andrews) accordingly did cut fine, and agreed to let him have the glass for the above sum. The prisoner then left, and the glass was sent home ; Mr. Hedgcomb was not at home. He went next day for the money, and saw Mr. Hedgcomb, upon which he told him he wished to purchase from him two small glasses, and if he would send him up two he had been looking at the day before, he would pay for the whole in the morning. Having not the least sus- picion of the fellow, he sent up the goods, but could never after gain admittance into the house. He had been informed the prisoner had obtained a great quantity of goods in tbe town, and that he had sent them by one of Crowley's boats to Leicester. Mr. Lloyd: Did you give the prisoner a bill for the goods? Mr. Andiews: Yes. Mr. Lloyd : I am afraid you have made a debt of it, and we have no controul in youtcase. Mrs. Poncia, of Worcester- street, was next called, and she proved that the prisoner called at her house, and pur- chased 51. worth of goods, for which he distinctly promised to pay when they were delivered. Her son went with them, but the prisoner was not at home, and be would not leave them. The hoy again went with the goods and saw the prisoner, when he expressed himself dissatisfied that the boy had not left the goods the day before, and prevailed upon him to leave them then, under the impression that he would have the money immediately. A bill was sent with tbe goods. Mr. Griffiths said he was of opinion Mrs. Poncia parted with the right to the goods the moment they were delivered, and in his opinion, the case was not better than the last. Mr. Edmonds contended that Mrs. Poncia had not parted with her right. The goods were sent under the impression that cash would be returned, arid the hoy did not leave them until he had been cajoled to deliver them up, under the false representations of the prisoner. Mr. Griffiths and the magistrates were of opinion the tiansaction amounted to a debt. Various other tradesmen then came forward, and detailed their grievances, but with no better success, as it appeared that Hedgcomb had taken tbe precaution, in every instance, to obtain an invoice with the goods, thereby constituting the whole trading transactions. Hall, the police officer, who apprehended the prisoner, stated that when he took him into custody, he told him he had sent the goods to Leicester, consigned to a person named Woodhouse, and if the parties would forego the warrant, he would give up all the goods. The magistrates asked Hedgcomb if he would give up the goods. He replied he would. They then asked him to sign an order for them, and he did so, upon which the persons who had been defrauded went into an anti- room, and immediately dispatched Mr. Ethol to Leicester, to stop the goods. Hedgcomb was remanded until he paid the fine levied upon him for the assault. it upjicur* the fellow is quite a stranger in the town. STREET ROBBERY. — A young man named Burley was charged with a daring assault and robbery. A man named Hustleby stated that between one and two o'clock on Sun- day morning, as he was going through Livery- street, and when near Little Charles- street, he was met by three men, one of whom suddenly knocked him down and threw himself upon him. He then pulled out a knife and threatened to cut his throat if he made a noise. Whilst in this position, and almost senseless, the other two men came up, rifled his pockets, and took from him 8s. 6d. in silver and 4Jd. in cop- per, with which they made off. In a short time after he recovered his senses, and on looking round found a man named Campbell, and Salter, the watchman, standing over him. He related what had occurred, and then went home. In the morning he went with Salter in search of the rob- bers, and a6 they were going through Bread- street they met the prisoner Burley, whom he immediately knew to be one of the two who had rifled his pockets. He gave him in charge. The prisoner being unable to deny the charge was com- mitted to the assizes. Frederick Homer, an incorrigible, about eleven years of sge, was charged with street robbery. A girl named Mary Donsell stated that she was servant to Mr. Cheshire, of Dale- end. On the 8th instant she was sent to Bath- row with a shawl. She had a child in her arms, and as she was going along by the rectory wall, she saw the prisoner and another boy standing at a short distance from her. She did not take any particular notice of them but passed on, when presently the prisoner followed her and snatched the shawl from under her arm and ran away. He then escaped, but wa^ afterwards taken by the street- keeper. The prisoner did not deny the offence, and seemed to enjoy the idea of his committal. Mr. Redlern said he had been repeatedly in prison. Richard How was charged by a woman named Mary Beach with robbing her of 2s., under the following aggra- vating circumstance. It appeared that that morning, as Mrs. Beach was passing through Spiceal street, she saw a boy lying in a fit and a crowd around him. Finding no person going to his assistance, she pressed forward to raise him up, and whilst in the act of doing so, she felt a hand in her pocket. She immediately turned round and saw the pri- soner dragging his hand away, and she then missed her money. She gave him into custody, and the money was found upon him.— The prisoner was committed to the sessions. 6 THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. LITERATURE. DR. LARDNER, ON STEAM NAVIGATION TO INDIA.— This is a very able treatise, as might naturally have been expected from the name and character of its author as a scientific enquirer. We took occasion of Captain Grindley's pamphlet to advert to the question of a steam navigation to India, and it is unnecessary, on the present occasion, again to go into it. We prefer extracting from the appendix an interesting geograph- ical tract on the island of Socotra, which, in the event of the plan of Captain Grindley being finally adopted, it has been proposed to occupy as an entrepot between Bombay and Suez— The island of Socotra is situate in the Indian Ocean, east of the African cape Guardalui, which bounds the mouth of the Gulph of Aden. , The chief town of the island is situate in lat. 12 degrees 39 minute's N. long. 54 degrees, 6 minutes, 30 seconds E. 1 Notwithstanding the considerable importance which the sland receives from its geographical position, standing, as it does, in the direct route of the commerce from whatever quarter of the Red Sea, as well as in the road of our ships bound to or from the Cape, it was not until the year 1834 that any direct information was obtained respecting it. In that year a survey of the island was made under the direc- tion of Captain Haines, of the Honourable Company's ship Palinurus, and Lieutenant Wellsted. The latter gen- tleman in the following year presented to the Geographical Society, a detailed account of the island, which was pub- lished in their journal, and to which I am indebted for the following particulars respecting it. The island consists of a narrow strip of land, stretching east and west, in extreme length about seventy- five miles, in width twenty miles. The southern coast is convex, and preserves nearly an un- broken line; the northern shore is irregularly concave, mid is broken into a succession of small bays, the western shores being also irregularly indented. The whole island consists of elevated ground or table land, surrounded by a low plane extending to the margin of the sea, varying in width from two to four miles. This low belt of ground is not susceptible of any considerable degree of cultivation ; the high land, however, exhibits a great va- riety of soil and surface. AB a general remark, it may be observed that nothing can present a stronger contrast than the opposite ends of the island during the north- east monsoon. While the eastern end is destitute of verdure, affords but scanty pasturage, and Las no other water than what is rained, in natural reservoirs, the western end is supplied with frequent streams, its valleys and plains are clothed with luxuriant verdure and covered with herds of cattle, and the scenery is, in many places, equal to the best of our own country. On the summits of the liills on the northern side of the island, and against the sides arid elevated regions of the granite peaks, a dark and rich mould is found, which nou- rishes a thick and luxuriant vegetation. In the plains around some of the villages are many beautiful valleys, the soil being of a reddish- coloured earth, which nourishes, at cer- tain seasons, an abundant supply of grass, and is well adap- ted for the cultivation of grain, fruit, and vegetable's. Ill the valleys through which the streams flow, there are not only extensive groves of dates, but the fertility of the soil is manifested by a broad border of the most beautiful turf, occasional inclosures of dukkun, and plantations of indigo and cotton. Though Socotra is situate only a short distance from the continents of Africa and Arabia, and is in the same latitude with their most parched and burning plains, yet it enjoys comparatively a remarkably temperate and cool climate; an effect which perhaps may be ascribed to the vast expanse of water over which both monsoons blow before they pass it. A register of the thermometer kept in the north- east mon- soon, proves tile average temperature to be 70J degrees, while several streams, at but a short distance from the sea, indicate a mean temperature of 7- t degrees. On the hills it is still cooler, and the great elevation of the granite moun- tains, would enable settlers to choose their own climate. Socotra enjoys frequent and copious rains, the dry season being much shorter than in the countries of Asia and Af- rica. The lofty peaks of the granite mountains attract the clouds, which deposit their aqueous particles to feed the mountain streams, or be precipitated in plentiful showers over the country. During the south- west monsoon, the average temperature is much higher than the above ; but in certain parts of the island on the windward side, the summits of the mountains and the open parts of the coast are delightfully cool. The most important natural production of Socotra is the aloe, for which the island has been celebrated from the ear- liest period. This plant grows spontaneously on the lime- stone mountains, Irom 500 to 3,000 feet above the level of the sea. The produce is brought to Tamarida and Colli- seah, the principal towns and harbours for exportation. In 1833, the best quality of aloes sold lor one rupee pound, while for the more indifferent, the price per pound was thirteen pence. The Socotran aloes are considered the finest in the world, but their value is impaired by the care- less manner in which they are gathered and packed. The dragon's blood tree is the article next in importance to the aloe, and like it, is usually met with on the hills, at the elevation of 800 to 2,000 feet above the level of the sea. There are two kinds on the island, the best of which is of a dark crimson colour, and its price at Muscat varies from si. to eight rupees a pound. There are other trees on the island, from which inferior gums are obtained. The date, the tamarind, and the brali are also common. Agriculture is almost unknown, the only grain cultivated in the island being a species of millet, called dukkun, which receives a preference chiefly because it requires little at- tendance, and will produce a crop at any season. Beans tobacco, and yams, are, also, occasionally cultivated. The pasturage of the island supports camels, oxen, sheep, goats, and asses. Cows are very numerous near Tamarida and resemble the Alderney breed, but their magnitude does not exceed that of Welsh cattle. Having abundant pas- turage they are sleek and fat, and their flesh, when young, is of a very superior quality. Vast flocks of sheep and goats are found in every part of the island; the latter being so numerous that their owners keep no account of them. Socotra was, at a very early period, dependant on the kings of the incense country, whom the Portuguese navi- gators found in the undisturbed possession of it. When Albuquerqe conquered the island, he vested the government in the hands of some of his officers ; but their sway was short, and Socotra again fell into the hands of its ancient possessors. From this period until the last half century, a brother, or some near relation of the sultan of Kisseen, on the Arabian coast, resided constantly upon it as its governor, But it is now subjected to merely an annual visit from such a personage. His sway is also disputed, for, during the visit of Lieutenant Wellsted, Hamed- ben- Tary, another chief, arrived, and, under threat of burning the town, succeeded at Colleseah, in obtaining about thirty dollars' worth of ghee lie also forbade camels or guides to be supplied to the Com pany's officers. On the suggestion being made to the natives of the pro bability of the island passing into the hands of the British, they manifested no discontent; but, on the contrary, ex- pressed a hope that they should then have some settled form of government. The male inhabitants of the island are usually tall, strong, and muscular, with remarkably well- formed limbs, European features, aquiline nose, expressive eyes, and good teeth and mouth. Their hair, which is long and naturally curled, has no approach to the woolly and crisp texture. They wear beard and whiskers, but not mustachios. Their dress con sists of a piece of cloth, wrapped round the waist, the end thrown over the shoulders; tlieir skins are clear, and markably free from any eruption or cutaneous disorder. Nearly the same observations may be applied to jthe per ions and features of the women: their complexion i s, in ge- Serai, however, more fair, and their dress consists of a cama ne, bound round the waist, by a leathern girdle, and srrapper of cloth is thrown over the shoulders. Their or [ laments are necklaces and earings; they go unveiled, and re freely approached. The moral character of the Socotran Bedouins is good ind heinous crimes are extremely rare among them. They are a lively ami generous nice, remarkably distinguished for their hospitality, which has no other limit than their means. There are few diseases prevalent in . the island ; a few cases of cancer and elephantiasis, and some indisposition produced by bad and insufficient diet, were observed; but in general the island is remarkably healthy. >' iThe little treatise of Dr. Lardner is illustrated and • enriched with several well- drawu maps and charts of the general route, and of the intervening stations. One recommendation of the learned writer, every one of practical sense will agree in, and that is, not to starve the plan by an insufficient outfit. If it is to be adopted at all, let it be adopted in such a manner as to give its practicability fair play. THE POCKET BYRON.— The miscellaneous poetry of the noble poet will occupy three volumes; the first has been on our table for the last two weeks. It contains the " Hours of Idleness," together with BROUGHAM'S critique, and its results, " English Bards and Scotch Reviewers." The volume closes with the imitation of " Horace's Epistle to Pisoes," a performance to which Lord BYRON attached more value thin most of his readers will be inclined to do. The present volume is essential to a complete edition of the bard's works; unless in that view it has very slender merits. Now that we can look upon the affair coolly, it would be difficult to trace in the " Bards and Reviewers" any- thing but the out- pourings of an angry spirit, more intent on abuse than truth. There is no poem, we believe, in the language, certainly none in modern times, of so much exaggeration and ill- nature, with so small an intermixture of wit or fancy. For the " idle hours" in which SCOTT found " passages of noble pro- mise," we believe there is no one will deny, that had not been for the subsequent performance, neither SCOTT, nor any one for him, would have been quick- sighted enough to find out the promise. The render- ing of the " art of poetry" is given up by common con- sent, and yet, after all, we should be inclined to say it was the best of the three. The notes of the present volume are the best of it; they are most of them curious, and those on the " Bards" are for the most part more pungent and pointed than the text. There is a beauti- tiful vignette of Harrow on the Hill, and the volume exhibits in its typography and getting up, the beauty and finish of its forerunners. THE COTTON MANUFACTURE I have always been struck by the difference between the hours of work usual over the whole world in cotton factories and in other employments ; and ( lid not, until now, perceive the reasons. It seems to arise from two causes,— first, the great proportion of fixed to circulating capital, which makes long hours of work de- sirable ; and secondly, the extraordinary lightness of the labour, if labour it can be called, which renders them practica- ble. I find the usual computation to be that the fixed capital is in the proportion of four to one to the circulating; so that if a manufacturer has 50,0001, to employ, lie will expend 40,000/. in erecting his mill and filling it with machinery, and devote only 10,000/. to the purchase of raw material ( cotton, flour, and coals) and the payment of wages. I find also, that the whole capital is supposed in general to be turned over ( or, in other words, that goods are produced and sold representing the value of the whole capital, to- gether with the manufacturer's profit) in about a year; in favourable times in rather less— in others, such as the pre- sent, in rather more. I find also, that the net profit an- nually derived may be estimated at ten per cent.; some computations placing it as low as seven and a half, others as high as eleven ; ten I believe to be about the average. But in order to realise this net profit, a gross profit of rather more than fifteen per cent, is necessary; for although the circulating capital, being continually restored to its original form of money, may be considered as indestructible, the fixed capital is subject to incessant deterioration, riot only from wear and tear, but also from constant mechanical im- provements, which in eight or nine years render obsolete machinery which when first used was the best of its kind. Under the present law, no mill in which persons under eighteen years of age are employed ( and, therefore, scarcely any mill at all) can be worked more than eleven and a half hours a day,— that is, twelve hours for five days in the week, and nine on Saturday.— Senior. TEN HOURS' BILLS.— The exceeding easiness of cotton factory labour renders long hours of work practicable. With the exception of the mule spinners, a very small portion of the operatives, probably not exceeding 12,000 or 15,000 in the whole kingdom, and constantly diminishing in number, the work is merely that of watching the machinery, and piecing the tlneuds that break. I have seen the girls who thus attend, standing with their arms folded during the whole time that I stayed in the room— others sewing a handker- chief or sitting down. The work, in fact, is scarcely equal to that of a shopman behind a counter in a frequented shop mere confinement, attention, and attendance. Under these circumstances, cotton factories have always been worked for very long hours. From thirteen to fifteen, or even sixteen hours, appear to be the usual hours per day abroad. Our own, at their commencement, were kept going the whole twenty- four hours. The difficulty of cleaning and repairing the machinery, and the divided responsibility — arising from the necessity of employing a double staff of overlookers, book- keepers, & e., have nearly put an end to this practice; but until Hobhouse's act reduced them to sixty- nine, our factories generally worked from seventy to eighty hours per week. Any plan, therefore, which should reduce the present comparatively short hours, must either destroy profit, or reduce wages to the Irish standard, or raise the price of the commodity, by an amount which it is not easy for me to estimate. The estimate in the paper signed by the principal fine spinners, is, that it would raise prices by sixteen per cent. That the increase of price would be such as to occasion, even in the home market, a great diminution of consump- tion, I have no doubt; and from all that I read and hear, on the subject of foreign competition, I believe, that it would, in a great measure, exclude us from the foreign market, which now takes off three- fourths of our annual production. • » • Every increase of price will further diminish consumption ; and every further diminution of consumption will occasion an increased rela- tive cost of production, and consequently a further increase of price. First will go the foreign market— already in t precarious state, and, once lost, irrecoverable; since, ac- cording to the law to which I have referred, the more our rivals produce— the wider the markets which are opened to their competition in consequence of the rise of English prices— the cheaper they will be able to produce. This again, by diminishing the quantity produced at home, will increase its relative cost of production; and that again will increase prices and diminish consumption ; until I think I see, as in a map, the succession of causes which may render the cotton manufactures of England mere matter of history. I have no doubt, therefore, that a ten hours' bill would be utterly ruinous. And I do riot believe that any restriction whatever of the present hours of work could be safely made. — Senior. RESULTS OF THE FACTORV SYSTEM.— The general impres- sion on us all as to the effects of factory labour has been unexpectedly favourable. The factory workpeople in the country districts are the plumpest, best- clothed, andhealthi est looking persons of the labouring class that I have ever seen. The girls, especially, are far more good- looking ( and good looks are fair evidence of health and spirits) than the daughters of agricultural labourers. The wages earned per family are more than double those of the south. We ex- amined at Egertou three of the Bledlow pauper migrants, fieing fresh to the trade, they cannot be very expert; yet one family earned 1?. 19s. 6d., another 11. 13s. 6d., and the other U. 16s. per week. At Hyde we saw another. They bad six children, under thirteen ; and yet the earnings of the father and the two elder children were 30s. a week. All these families live in houses to which a Gloucestershire cottage would be a mere outhouse. And not only are fac- tory wages high, but, what is more important, the employ- ment is constant. Nothing, in fact, except the strikes of the workpeople themselves, seems to interrupt it. Even now, when the hand- loom weavers and lacemakers are dis- charged by thousands, the factory operatives are in full employ. This is one of the consequences of the great proportion of fixed capital, and the enormous loss which follows its standing idle for a single day. Nothing can ex- ceed the absurdity of the lamentation over the children as " crowded in factories." Crowding in a factory is physically impossible. The machinery occupies the bulk of the space; the persons who have to attend to it are almost too distant to converse. Birley's weaving- room, covering an acre of ground, had not space among the looms for more than 170 persons. Bailey's factory, covering two acres and a half, one story high, and therefore, taking together the ground floor and first floor, containing five acres of apartments, was to be worked by about 800 operatives, which gives more than fifteen yards square to each. I only wish that my work- room in Southampton Buildings had as much space, in proportion to the people in it Senior. WESTMINSTER'S GLOIIY— Sir Francis Burdett, whose name one* filled all mouths in England, no longer attracts much political attention. He probably struck the first notes on too high a key, not to fall into an octave below before the air was finished. Your true and lasting melody steals slowly on the ear, commencing with more modulated straim, and rising gradually with the feelings that the sounds awaken. Luther, who has left a steadily increasing impression on the world, would probably have shrunk with honor, at first, from the degree of reformation to which he finally arrived by slower and more certain means. It may also be ques- tioned if Sir Francis Burdett had a mind sufficiently original, or a reason logical enough, either to conceive or to maintain the Reform that England needs, and, sooner or later, will have, or take revolution in its stead Cooper, 1827. RAHOTONQA.— One valuable peculiarity of this lovely island is, the extent of its low land. In many of the islands, the mountains approach so near to the sea, as to leave but little arable land ; but this is not, to my recollection, the case in any part of Harotoriga. Its soil also must be ex- ceedingly rich, or the climate peculiarly adapted to the fruits which grow there, for on our arrival we were asto- nished to see the taro and kape ( Arum esculentum), the ti and sugar cane, growing luxuriantly nearly down to the edge of the sea. The whole island was also in a high state of cultivation, and 1 do not recollect having witnessed any- thing more baautiful than the scene presented to me, when standing on the side of one of the hills, and looking towards the sea shore. In the first place, there are rows of superb chestnut trees, ( inocarpus,) planted at equal distances, and stretching from the mountain's base to the sea, with a space between each row of about half a mile wide. This space is divided into small taro beds, which are dug four feet deep, and can be irrigated at pleasure. These nverage about half an acre each. The embankments round each bed are thrown up with a slope, leaving a fist surface upon the top of six or eight feet in width. The lowest parts are planted with taro, and the sides of the embankment with kape or gigantic taro, while on the top are placed, at regular intervals, small beautifully- shaped bread- fruit trees. The pea- green leaves of the taro, the extraordinary size and dark colour of the kape, lining the sloping embankment, together with the stately bread- fruit trees on the top, present a contrast which produces the most pleasing effect. There is a good road round the island, which the natives call ara meilua, or the parent path, both sides of which are lined with bananas and mountain plantains; and these, with the Iiarringtonia, chestnut, and other trees of wide- spreading foliage, protect you from the rays of the tropical suri, and afford even in mid- day the luxury of cool, shady walks of several miles in length. The houses of the inhabitants were situated from ten to thirty yards or more from this pathway, and some of them were exceedingly pretty. The path leading up to the house wan invariably strewed with white and black pebbles; and on either side were planted the tufted top ti tree or draccena, which bears a chaste and beautiful blossom, inter- spersed alternately with the gigantic taro. Six or eight stune seats were ranged in front of the premises, by the side of the " parent pathway." These were relics of antiquity, some of which were regarded with much veneration by the people; who, while they pointed to them, would say. Here, my father, grandfather, or the great chief so and so sat." They were generally formed of two smooth stones, the one serving as a seat, and the other sunk in the earth to form the back. Here, in the cool of the evening, after the labours of the day, with a wreath of flowers on their brow, anointed with a sweet- scented oil, and wearing a new tiputa or the shining pakaku, sat the inmates of the house to chat with any loquacious passenger about the events of their own little world. — Williams. TIME— Time and change are great, only with reference to the faculties of the beings which note them. The insect of an hour, which flutters, during its transient existence, in an atmosphere of perfume, would attribute unchanging du ration to the beautiful flowers of the cistus, whose petals cover the dewy grass but a few hours after it has received the lifeless body of the gnat. These flowers, could they reflect, might contrast their transitory lives with the pro- longed existence of their greener neighbours. The leaves themselves, counting their brief span by the lapse of a few moons, might regard as almost indefinitely extended, the duration of the common parent of both leaf and flower. The lives of individual trees are lost in the continued destruction and renovation which take place in forest masses. Forests themselves, starved by the exhaustion of the soil, or con sumed by fire, succeed each other in slow gradation. A forest of oaks waves its luxuriant branches over a spot which has been fertilised by the ashes of a forest of pines. These periods again merge into other and still longer cycles, during whirb the lafpsf. of » thousand forests sinks beneath tlw1 which the latest of a thousand forests sinks beneath the waves, from the gradual subsidence of its parent earth ; or in which extensive inundations, by accumulating the sil of centuries, gradually convert the living trunks into their stony resemblances. Stratum upon stratum subsides in comminuted particles, and is accumulated in the depths of the ocean, whence they again arise, consolidated by pressure or by fire, to form the continents and mountains of a new creation. Such, in endless succession, is the history of the changes of the globe we dwell upon ; and human observa tion, aided by human reason, has, as yet, discovered few signs of a beginning— no symptom of an end. Yet, in that more extended view which recognises our planet as one amongst the attendants of a certain luminary; that sun itself, the soul, as it were, of vegetable and animal existence but an insignificant individual among its congeners of the milky way :— when we remember that that cloud of light, gleaming with its myriad systems, is but an isolated nebula amongst a countless host of rivals, which the starry firma- ment, surrounding us on all sides, presents to us in every varied form; some as uncondensed masses of attenuated light , some as having, in obedience to attractive forces, as- sumed a spherical figure; others, as if further advanced in the history of their fate, having a denser central nucleus surrounded by a more diluted light, spreading into such vast spaces, that the whole of our own nebula would be lost in it: others there are, in which the apparently unformed and irregular mass of nebulous light is just curdling, as it were, into separate systems; whilst many present a congeries of distinct points of light, each, perhaps, the separate luminary of a creation more glorious than our own. When the birth the progress, and the history of sidereal systems are consi dered, we require some other unit of time than even that comprehensive one which astronomy has unfolded to our view. Minute and almost infinitesimal as is the time which comprises the history of our race compared with that whicl records the history of our system, the space even of this latter period forms too limited a standard wherewith to measure the footmarks of eternity Babbage. LONDON.— I ought before this to have replied to your very kind invitation into Cumberland. With you and your sister I could gang anywhere; but I am afraid whether I shall ever be able to afford so desperate a journey. Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't now care if I never see a mountain in my life. I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature. The lighted shops of the Strand and Fleet street, the innumerable trades, tradesmen, and customers coaches, waggons, playhouses: all the bustle and wicked ness round about Covent Garden; the watchmen, drunken scenes, rattles;— life awake, if you awake, at all hours of the night; the impossibility of being dull in Fleet- street the crowds, the very dirt and mini, the sun shining upon houses and pavements, the print- shops, the old book- stalls parsons cheapening books, coffee- houses, steamB of soups from kitchens, the pantomimes— London itself a pantomime and a masquerade— all these things work themselves into my mind, and feed me without the power of satiating me. The wonder of these sights impels me into night- walks about her crowded streets, and I often shed tears in the motley Strand from fulness of joy at so much life. All these emotions must be strange to you; so are your rural emotions to me. But consider, What must I have been doing all my life, not to have ler. t great portions of my heart'with usury to such scenes ? My attachments are all local, purely local I have no passion ( or have had none since I was in love, and then it was the spurious engendering of poetry and books,) to groves and valleys. The rooms where I was born, the furniture which has been before me all my life, a book- case which has followed me about like a faithful dog ( only ex ceeding him ill knowledge,) wherever I have moved,— old chairs, old tables, streets, squares, where I have sunned myself, my old school— these are my mistresses— have I not enough without your mountains ? I do not envy you. I should pity you, did I not know that the mind will make friends of anything. Your sun, and moon, and skies, and hills, and lakes, affect me no more, or scarcely come to me iu more venerable characters, than as a gilded room with tapestry and tapers, where I might live with handsome visible objects. I consider the clouds above me but as a roof beautifully painted, but unable to satisfy the mind and at last, like the pictures of the apartment of a con noisseur, unable to afford him any longer a pleasure. So fading upon me, from disuse, have been the beauties of Nature, as they have been confinedly called ; so ever fiesh, and green, and warm, are all the inventions of men, and assemblies of men in this great city. — Lamb's Letters. THE ASTROLABE or SIR FRANCIS DRAKE.— Amongst the many interesting relics preserved at Greenwich Hospital, iu commemoration of the distinguished achievements of our great naval commanders, the Astrolabe of the famous Sir Francis Drake now forms a conspicuous and very important object of attention. It is deposited within aglass case upon a sort of tabular pedestal, which was erected for its recep- tion, in the centre of the platform of the Painted Hall, in August 1831, on its presentation by his present Majesty, who has, on many previous occasions, testified a particular pleasure in contributing to the memorials of British valour and enterprise collected at Greenwich Hospital. A suit- able inscription round the slab bears record of this very ap- propriate gift of a naval monarch to the maritime museum of the nation. The upper part of the pedestal is constructed in the form of a capstan ( an engine used in raising the anchor at sea), and most appositely consists of " heart of oak;" the base is of imitation- granite ; and the astrolabe rests upon a short rod placed in the centre of the slab, where, by an ingenious mechanical contrivance, it is sustained in an open position of its various parts, which would otherwise collapse, and thus present a congeries somewhat resembling the figure and arrangement of a watch, when closed ; re- quiring to be separately opened, at each division, for inspec- tion of the contents. This unique and truly interesting ap- paratus comprises the mariner's compass, sun- dial, ring- lial, quadrant, table of latitudes and longitudes, planetary sphere, lunar almanac, and other tables and instruments, forming the constant astronomical guide of the immortal Drake throughout his various expeditions, and which, being habitually suspended by a chain round the neck of the wearer, as a becoming addition to the dress of that period, was of easy reference in his observations ashore as well as at sea. The different portions of its intricate interior, to- gether with the case which incloses it, are constructed of the deeply alloyed gold employed in articles of jewellery during the early part of Elizabeth's reign ; and on the dial appears the following inscription:—" Humfray Colle made this dial), anno 1509." It will be seen, on reference to the list of engravers annexed to Walpole's " Anecdotes of Paint- ing in England," that the above artist was an eminent goldsmith and engraver, and held a situation in her Ma- jesty's mint. The device, on either lid of the case, implies a very suitable allusion to Sir Francis's projected enterprise of circumnavigating the globe; though, probably, meant only as a general illustration of the success usually attendant on indefatigable perseverance in any of the pursuits of life. It represents a lofty tree, ut the foot of which a pair of idle squirrels are engaged in mutual frolic, satisfied with the vain enjoyment of the present hour, and unwilling to en- counter the fatigue of scaling the heights above them ; whilst, on the summit of the highest bough, are exhibited, by way of antithesis, a couple of laborious snails, who, by dint of long- continued and unwearied exertion, have at length surmounted all the dangers and difficulties of the ascent, and are apparently exchanging their congratulations on the accomplishment of their task; thus typifying, in a plain and characteristic manner, the important truth, so forcibly ex- emplified by the witty JEsop, under his well- known fable of " The hare and the tortoise:"— that great natural abilities, without due application, will ensure no ultimate advantage to the possessor; while a constant and untiring devotion to the objects of our calling, however for a season retarded through an inferiority of genius, will eventually gain for us the elevation we seek, notwithstanding the seeming dis- tance, circuity, and numerous obstacles of the approach. There are many other emblematical figures engraved on the case; but whether they present any analogous reference to the above, it would be' difficult to determine, as they are partially erased through the friction of the metal by long- continued wear; and the only further embellishment which attracts our observation is a cable, aptly introduced as coil- ing round the edge of the ease, which is circular and richly chased.— Literary Gazette. HALES OWEN PETTY SESSIONS.— Thomas Carless appeared before — Glazebrook, Esq., to answer the complaint of Mr. Connop, of Carter's- lane. It ap- peared that for twenty- five years past the Chapel at Carter's- lane ( of which Mr. Connop is a trustee) had been frequently and seriously injured by the wilful breaking of windows, & c. Carless had at length been caught in the very act of disturbing the congregation, and breaking the windows. He confessed the offence and expressed contrition.— The magistrate said it was a most wanton outrage, and deserved the severest penalty.— Mr. Morgan, solicitor, of Birmingham, said that Mr. Conuop and other parties connected with the Chapel, had no wish to indulge a vindictive spirit. Had the defendant not expressed his sorrow for the conduct he had pursued, the intention of Mr. Connop certainly was to prosecute at the Sessions, with a view to avail himself of the remedies provided by the Tole- ration acts, which imposed a penalty of £ 40 for the offence of which Carless had been guilty; but, under the circumstances, they should be content with any decision of the magistrates.— The defendant was then fined in the amount of damages, and the costs of pro- secution. STATE OF TRADE. MEETING OF MERCHANTS, MANUFAC- TURERS, AND OPERATIVES. On Monday evening, a meeting of the committee, ap pointed at the Public- office on the 30th of May, to take into consideration the existing distress, and inquire into the causes of it, was held. Amongst those present were Richard Spooner, Esq., Lloyd Williams, Esq., and Francis Lloyd, Esq., magistrates; Mr. Daniel Ledsain, Mr. William Phipson, Mr. Jones, Mr. Tiridal, Mr. Meredith, Mr. Walker, Mr. G. F. Muntz, Mr. Salt, Mr. Alston, Sir. Armfield, Mr. John Hardman, jun., Mr. Bolton, Mr. H. Merry, Mr. Edmonds, Mr. Clowes, Mr. Pierce, Mr. E. S, Moor, Mr. Dearman, Mr. P. II. Muntz, Mr. Wm. Chance, Mr. Shaw, and others. James James, Esq., the Low Bailiff, having taken the chair, opened the business by observing, that not having attended the meeting at which the memorial from the work- ing men was received, and being comparatively unacquainted with the former proceedings, he was hardly competent to pre- side over the meeting. He felt, however, great satisfaction in its being so respectable a meeting, assembled for the pur pose of relieving the very great and general distress then being felt by the workmen throughout the town, and he hoped nothing whatever would transpire to disturb that harmony and good feeling which ought to exist on such an occasion. Mr. ALSTON, before the business was proceeded with, wished to know from the gentlemen who invited him, if he had been invited as a friend and neighbour, to take part in the pro- ceedings. His reason for asking the question was because he and many of his friends had been taxed with indifference to the existing distress, inasmuch as they had not met upon the subject. Now, the fact was, neither ha nor his friends had received any invitations to attend the previous meetings, although they were ready and willing to co- operate in every way in their power, to alleviate the distress of the poor. They had held several meetings at Dee's Hotel upon the subject, but not having received any invitation, they did not attend tile committee of masters and workmen. He merely made these observations to set himself right with his poorer neighbours, and to show them that nothing would have kept him away from any meeting, the object of which was to promote their interest. ( Hear, hear.) Mr. EDMONDS assured Mr. Alston that if lie and his friends had not been invited, it was owing to some accidental oversight. It was the wish of the persons with whom the proceedings emanated, that invitations should be in- discriminately sent round, and without the least reference to politics. Mr. SALT said the meetings had been advertised in the Birmingham Journal, a paper read by every body in the town. Mr. ALSTON expressed himself satisfied. The CHAIRMAN then said lie had received a letter from Mr. Ledsam, the magistrate, in which that gentleman re- gretted that owing tb indisposition lie was unable to attend. He had also received a letter from Captain Moorsom, apo logising for his absence. Mr. I . LOYD wished the minutes of the former proceed- ings to be read over. Mr. SALT, who had been appointed interim secretary to the meeting, read them, and said the object of the present meeting was to inquire into the causes of the existing dis- tress. At a former meeting, it was resolved that they should ascertain, upon unquestionable authority, that distress did exist in the town, and for that purpose gentlemen were deputed to wait upon the bankers, merchants, and manu- facturers, and obtain their signatures to a declaration expres- sive of the existing embarrassment. They had done so, and the lists were nearly all returned, and he considered they ought at once to proceed to inquire into the cause of the distress. It was admitted on all hands that it was very great and general, arid it was impossible, iu his opinion, to devise any remedy unless they knew the cause. A pledge had also been given to the working men, that there should be a full inquiry into the cause, and he considered they ought at once to proceed to the investigation. The CHAIRMAN said he had not come prepared to go into causes of the distress. The object of his attending was to endeavour to alleviate the sufferings of the poor. Mr. HEELEY thought that if a pledge had been given to the working men, that an inquiry into the causes should he gone into, that inquiry ought to be gone into, however te- dious or unpleasant it might be. Mr. CORBSTT, one of the operatives, said he knew the men fully expected an inquiry into the cause of their dis- tress, and if it was not gone into, great disappointment would be felt and expressed. He could not walk in the streets without being asked questions respecting the pro- ceedings of that committee, and he knew that the workmen would prefer inquiry to partial relief. They would, of course accept the kindness of the wealthy, and avail themselves of any subscription they might raise,* but they could not nor would they accept it at the expense of inquiry. He knew they could not apply a remedy to the evil, but they could suggest one, and tlieir suggestion might perhaps be attended to. With respect to the extent of the distress, he would say, from his knowledge of the state of the workmen, that there was at present greater distress than in the year 1825. ( Hear, hear.) And he was sorry to say it was hourly increasing. In his opinion, it would be a disgroce to the committee if they flinched from an inquiry into the cause. Mr. TURNER feared, if they went into inquiry, they might stop there until the next day, and that was the only reason why he opposed going into inquiry. Mr. SALT said he would at once move that they proceed with the inquiry. It was folly in the extreme to talk of procrastination. There was a system of legal robbery then being carried on by starving labourers. Companies of men, from twenty to one hundred in number, were parading about the outskirts of the town, and by indirect intimidation, ob- taining money from the occupiers of respectablehouses. This was bad enough, and he deplored such a 6tate of things ; still the unfortunate men might do worse. They might murder their unfortunate children, as men in similar circum- stances had been goaded to do. Viewing the appalling state which they were in, lie felt convinced they ought manfully to meet the evil. Why shrink from the cause? Why refuse going into the inquiry? Twenty years ago men shrunk from going into the cause, and the result was, ruin had been daily increasing upon them, until at last it had all but finally destroyed their commercial interests. It had been said they could not go into the inquiry without alluding to politics, and that the subject could not be discussed without men losing their tempers. Shame upon such nonsense, he could talk politics, and never lose his temper, and why not do so upon a subject still more deeply uffecting his in- terest. Mr. PIERCE thought the inquiry ought to be gone into. He believed a remedy could yet be devised for the evil, and f so, he knew there would be found spirit and energy, amongst the people to demand its application. Mr, LLOYD WILLIAMS opposed Mr. Salt's motion; and in doing so he begged most distinctly to say he did not do so from any want of sympathy for his distressed neighbours He agreed with Mr. Salt's observations, but he did not think he had drawn a logical conclusion. It was his ( Mr W.' s) opinion they ought at once to proceed to the adoption of some plan for the relief of the poor. If a physician was called into a patient, he would at first administer relief, and then inquire into the cause of the disease. ( No, no.) Well, if that simile would not do, he would say, if a house was on fire would they stop to inquire the cause of it before they proceeded to extinguish it? Certainly not. So he would say in reference to the question under consideration. He did not wish to blink, or in any way to get rid of, the in- quiry; but he felt convinced they ought first to apply them- selves to relieve the distress, and then go into the cause. He would go into the cause next dav, but let them give prompt relief. It had been said by Mr.' Salt that the poor men were going about in large numbers obtaining money. That be knew was the ease. They had called at bis house in a body, consisting of upwards of one hundred. He talked to the poor men, and told them they were acting illegally ; and that in place of surrounding the house in a body, it would be better if they were to send one or two to each house, and receive any contribution they could get, and then divide it between theih. He must say the poor fellows lis- tened to him with attention, and he did not hear one of them make use of an improper expression. Indeed they were remarkably civil; still, as he told them, there were many delicate lone females in the neighbourhood who would be, and no doubt had been, much alarmed at their appear- ance. He felt it would be better to afford some relief to these men, rather than compel them to continue going about n such a manner; at the same time he must again say he did not for a moment wish to blink the inquiry. Mr. SPOONER said he expected from Mr. Williams's ob- servations that he would have concluded with a resolution expressive of some plan of relief or remedy for the evil. He was aware there was very great and general arid appalling distress throughout the town and neighbourhood ; and most willing would he and those gentlemen around him be to lend themselves to any practical measure of relief, but he was not prepared to propose n plan. He saw no remedy they could propose without being acquainted with the cause. His friend Mr. Williams had said they must first put out the fire, and then ascertain the cause. So far correct; but they must recollect a fire was an accidental thing— a partial evil— which might be arrested, and, therefore, an immediate suppression was the first thing which would suggest itself. But believing, as he did, that the evils of which they had then to complain were not accidental, but that it was a permanent evil, brought on by false legislation—( hear, hear)— seeing that it was not confined to any one part of the town, to any one part of the country, nor to any part of Europe, but that the whole of the civilised world was affected by it; he could not see any remedy they could apply without first of all duly and entirely ascertaining the cause. ( Hear.) He was the last man who would wish to take any part in that in- quiry, but lie had long since made up his mind as to tha cause. He knew there was but one cause. He knew there was but one remedy. He knew, however, there were many other gentlemen present who entertained different ideas, and knowing that their ideas were pretty generally adopted, he wished to hear some remedy propounded for the distress by some of the gentlemen who differed from him. He must, however, say he had not been taken by surprise. Twelve months ago he declared it was a hollow, false, peace, which prevailed; and lie declared so under circumstances decidedly against him. At that period he was told by a first- rate and highly respectable merchant in London, whose name he should not mention, but which had lately been before the public, that never was there a man more mistaken in his views than he ( Mr. Spooner) was, relative to the currency and its workings. The merchant he alluded to told him that trade was being carried on upon a firm and sure basis, that orders were hourly arriving, and that goods could not be procured fast enough ; nay, tliat the goods then ordered could not be manufactured in three years, and that he could see clearly the delusion that had been hovering over his mind. Well, in reply to all this, he told the merchant that lie was free to admit lie had far more extensive opportunities of knowing the state of things than he ( Sir. Spooner), and no doubt ought to understand the subject better, still he would not bow down to liis opinion in reference io the ulti- mate results. He told him that he hoped he would be found a true prophet, but he felt confident he would not; and that before that day twelve months he would find that all his boasted prosperity was the result ofa false and hollow peace. That was the substance of a conversation he had, and for the truth of which he pledged himself. He thought ihey were bound to take the most speedy steps to alleviate the distress, which if not checked would increase. They must apply a remedy, but it must be an effectual one. He never would be a party to sending the working men— the men who were the strength and sinews of the country— to the degrading soup- shop. ( Applause from the working men.) " Neither would he be for offering them parish relief. If any gentleman wished to postpone the inquiry into the cause of the distress, he ought at the same time to apply some effectual relief. If no gentleman was so prepared with a remedy, he would say the inquiry was ofgreat importance; and the length of time it might take, or the trouble attend- ing it, ought not to be sufficient to prevent them from going into it. They must find out the cause and apply a remedy, and if they did not, they would repent not having done so. If there was any gentleman who hud got a sufficient remedy he would consent to postpone the inquiry. Mr. EDMONDS wished to know if there was any gentle- man present who could pledge himself that he could clearly and satisfactorily elucidate and make out the cause without entering upon the subject, which would have the effect of dividing the meeting ; and secondly, he wished to know if that remedy would have the effect of superseding the neces- sity of immediate relief. Mr. CORBETT thought it would indeed be rather strange if so complicated a subject could be inquired into without causing a difference of opinion. They would differ in the inquiry, and naturally so, but it did not follow they ought not on that account to go into the inquiry. Mr. JOHN KNOTT said he considered they ought to pro- pose some plan for immediate relief, and not allow the men to want whilst the inquiry was going on. He was one of a number of gentlemen who had lately requested Mr. Richard Spooner to place before the public his views respecting the currency, with a view of ascertaining how far it caused the distress; so that he had no objection to the inquiry. In the mean time, when they saw men going about seeking relief as had been represented, he thought they ought to give prompt assistance. Mr. HENRY KNIGHT was of opinion they ought at once to proceed with inquiry. There were only two ways by which they could give temporary relief, subscription or the poor- rates. Would any gentleman tell him private subscrip- tion would answer? He thought not. Then with respect to the poor- rates, they were aware that formerly the poor had a legal right to relief, but now they had not. The poor had therefore been prohibited by law from becoming paupers, and the result was, they had becomejjoliticians; and if that committee did not inquire into the cause of the distress, the men themselves most certainly would. The only thing he saw they could do was to send a recommendation to the Guardians of the Poor, to extend as liberal relief to the out poor as they could, and then proceed at once to an inquiry into the cause of the distress, and apply for prompt relief in the proper quarter. If they did not do so, too sure, as they lived, the working men would do it themselves. Mr. ALSTON thought a recommendation to the masters ought to emanate from the committee, requesting them to give their men all the work they possibly could. Mr. HENRY MEREDITH thought such a recommendation perfectly useless. He bad already stocked his warehouse with goods, and every master in the town had done his best. 7 THE BIRMINGHAM JOUliNAL. Mr. JONES thought they ought to call a large public meeting. ,. ,. Mr. ARMFIELD was for affording immediate relief. Mr. JENNINGS thought, as they stood pledged to the work- men, they must go into the inquiry. Mr. SAMUEL BEALF. hoped they would agree to some plan for immediate relief, and also go into an inquiry. Mr. Baker, Mr. Corbett, and Mr. Garner, operatives, expressed themselves hostile to receiving charitable contri- butions, in their demand for inquiry. Mr. G. F. MUNTZ was decidedly favourable to inquiry, but he was also aware that the men in the mean time must not be allowed to starve. He agreed with Mr. Knight's suggestion, that the Guardians ought to be requested to afford prompt and liberal relief. He believed the evil arose from the monetary system, and that could not be inquired into at a moment's notice. Mr. P. H. MUNTZ had no doubt the respectable and wealthy ratepayers present, would very willingly agree to relief being extensively given; but they should recollect there were a great number of small manufacturers and rate- payers in the town, who already paid very heavily, and could not afford to pay any more. After some further observations by Mr. Pierce, Mr. Salt, and others, a resolution, embodying Mr. Knight's recom- mendation to the Guardians was agreed to, and it was after- wards resolved that the committee should meet on Thurs- day evening, and proceed to inquire into the cause of the distress. Thursday evening the committee met, pursuant to notice. The office was crowded to excess, and the meeting consisted of gentlemen of all parties in the town. JAMES JAMES, Esq. having taken the chair, opened the business by reading the two resolutions agreed to at the meeting of Monday; after which, he said the first resolution, which was expressive of the existing distress, and recom- mended the Guardians of the Poor to give relief to the out- door poor, had been submitted to the guardians and overseers the evening before, and he had great pleasure in saying the overseers had anticipated the wishes of the meeting, and had commenced relieving the poor. The second resolution brought them to the immediate business of the present meeting, namely, inquiry into the cause of distress, and he had no doubt some gentlemen were pre- pared to enter upon the subject. He presumed the word " inquiry" would be paraphrased to mean " discussion," and of course every gentleman would be at full liberty to offer his opinion. It was a matter in which they were all deeply interested, and all must admit the cause of the great distress which prevailed, was a subject which demanded a most solemn inquiry. Mr. ALSTON then handed in a letter from James Taylor, Esq., apologising for his absence; also a letter from S. Dugdale, Esq., M. P., inclosing 45/., as that gentleman's subscription towards the relief of the poor. Mr. Alston said Mr. Dugdale was not acquainted with the particular object of that meeting, but having heard that a meeting was to be held in reference to the distress of the poor, he had sent the money. ( Applause.) The CHAIRMAN said they were not going to open a sub- scription ; the money would remain at the disposal of the getlemen to whose care it had been committed. Mr. CLEWS then handed in a report from the sub- com- mittee appointed to obtain the signatures of the merchant!, manufacturers, bankers, & c., to a declaration of the prevail- ing distress, from which it appeared that although the whole of the town had not been canvassed, they had in a very short time procured the signatures of 3003 persons of the above class. A general call having been made for Mr. Richard Spooner, that gentleman came forward, and proceeded atgreat length and with great ability to investigate the cause of the distress. He attributed the fluctuations in trade to the de. fects of the monetary system, and in a clear and able manner maintained his various positions. We regret being unable to give more than the following brief summary of his ad- dress:— Mr. SFOONEH began by saying that, in obedience to the call of the meeting, he was ready to state his opinion as to the causes < f the distress which so generally prevails. He should have preferred, however, that other gentlemen should first have stated their opinion, because his opinion was well known, and had been before the public in print more than once, and especially in the reports of both Houses of Parliament last year, on the causes of agricultural distress. He knew, also, that many persons, to whose opinions he paid great respect, decidedly differed from him; and others who not only dissented from his opinions, but treated them with ridicule; this, however, would not prevent him from stating them to the meeting, at their request. His opinions were not the opinions of to- day, or this year, or last year. He formed the opinions he now held on this subject eighteen years ago, when the bill, called Peel's bill, passed. He openly stated them at that time; he had read carefully every publication of note on the subject j he had thought upon it intensely, and could not discover, nor had he heard alleged any reason, grounded upon fact or argument, suffi- cient to lead him to change his opinion on that subject. The proximate cause of the present distress was the discredit which had been thrown upon what is called American paper, which prevented the payment of debts due from America, thus leading to a countermand of all Ame- rican orders, and, as a necessary consequence, to the quence, the throwing out of employment an immense num- ber of the labouring classes. lie was not going to confine himself to the mere proximate cause, but to endeavour to trace to its source what it was that made it imperative upon the bank to take those steps in self- defence, which led to that discredit and to the consequences that followed. In order to do this, it would be necessary to call the attention of the meeting to a short statement of the history of the currency for several years past. The standard of value which had been in force up to the year 1797, had been fixed by Queen Elizabeth, but any one versed in the history ol our country must know that the standard so fixed was foun without the assistance of paper money to be totally unable to meet the wantB of a constantly increasing population. The paper issued upon that standard of value was increased year by year. The first issue began with 501. notes, 20/. and 10/. and 5/. were afterwards introduced, and gradually had worked that depreciation in the value of money, which led to the exportation of the precious metals. This led to a run for gold— to great commercial failures, more espe- cially in the north of England, which then became so alarm- ing, that a secret committee was appointed to enquire into the cause and the remedy of it; that committee reported the cause to be or have been a great drain of gold for the purpose of purchasing foreign coin, and a general system of boarding owing to the fears of invasion which then very generally prevailed ; they recommended the immediate issue of Ex- chequer Bills; the bank became the holders of these bills, giving their notes in exchange; confidence was restored, and prosperity returned. But it lasted but for a season, it was like the prosperity they had seen for the few last years, built upon an unstable foundation ; it led to the exportation of gold, and, aided by the immense foreign loans and the expenses of carrying on the war, the bullion was so completely driven out of the country, that Mr. Pitt was compelled to pass the celebrated Restriction act. This effectually restored prosperity, and they went on from year to year borrowing large sums of money in paper, creating a great addition to their national debt. All public as well as Private engagements were made in this depreciated paper, n 1810 and 1811 the question of depreciation was brought before the House of Commons, and after a long debate the fact was negatived, Parliament declared that a one pound note and a shilling were equivalent to a guinea; thus as- serting that they had never departed from the ancient standard of value. The system continued until the conclusion of the war, and then those very persons who had been so forward in denying the depreciation and the departure from the standard, were then amongst the loudest to call for a return to that standard of value; the fact of the departure from which they had so positively de- nied. The Bank of England being compelled by law to pay in gold within six months of the close of the war, began to make preparations for so doing; and it being perfectly clear that gold would not come into this country unless it commanded as much here as it did elsewhere, it became ab- solutely necessary that the circulating medium should be decreased; this created such an intense mass of misery and ruin that it became necessary to extend the time for the Bank resuming cash payments,— partial relief was obtained, confidence was restored, arid prices rose. In the year 1819 the celebrated bill called Peel's bill passed, compelling the Bank at times stated in that bill toreturn to cash payments, this again made it necessary for the Bank largely to curtail its issues; distress immediately fell upon all classes of the community, that at last it became so intolerable that I. ord Castlereagh was obliged to call upon Parliament to adopt measures which were, in fact, departures from the principles of that bill— those measures led to a great increase of the circulating medium, a consequent rise of prices, and a resto- ration of a hollow and unsound prosperity. This continued through the years 1823, 24, and 25, in which year gold had IO completely left the country, that the Bank, in self defence, being obliged to curtail its issues, created a panic, and pro- duced a distress of the same nature as that under which they were now suffering. Mr. Spooner then related the fact of the panic being stopped by the discovery of a box of one pound notes and their issue, which was not then illegal. Confidence was restored, arid, after 6ome time, when the low prices of our commodities began to force their way abroad, distress was, to a certain degree, mitigated. He then alluded to the formation of Joint Stock Banks, called into action by Lord Liverpool, expressly for the purpose of correcting what that noble lord was pleased to term the vicious system of country banking. The effect of the for- mation of those Banks was to call into banking operations a great increase of capital, which, of course, must seek em- ployment, and by its employment created an enormous superstructure of'credit, which acted with accumulated force upon prices, created again that hollow pro- perty which had existed for the last three o four years, and which had ended, as all who un derstood the question predicted it would end, in driving gold out of the country, compelling the Bank imme- diately to decrease its circulation, and thus to bring upon every class of Society those evils under which they were now differing, and which, unless some active and immediate measures were taken, every man in that room would admit must end in the dissolution of the social compact. Mr. Spooner then went on to show that as long as the monetary system of this country was founded upon the basis of go!'! at 3/. 17s. lOi^ d. per ounce, they should be subject to tin- alterations of prosperity and adversity which they had, since the passing of Peel's bill, so perpetually experienced. Mr. Spooner then went on to show that the House of Com mons had always refused enquiry into this point, that when ever distress of any of the great interests forced the House of Commons to enquire into the cause of the evil, this sole cause of the distress was always excluded, every other cause but the right cause was assigned, and every thing but the proper lemedy recommended; over population was held to be the cause, and emigration the remedy— importa- tion of corn by others— and increased protection the remedy — and ludicrous as it might appear, two committees were sitting in adjoining rooms, at the same time, one to devise the means of getting rid of the extra population, the other to prevent the importation of too much corn ; thus they had co- existing too many mouths and too many loaves; too many backs and too many coats. Mr. Spooner then stated that nothing would compel the Government to take up the consideration of this subject, unless the people would loudly express their opinions, that the present monetary system was the cause of the evils which existed; and un- less they firmly, by every constitutional means, called upon the legislature to take the subject into their serious con- sideration. Mr. Spooner concluded by proposing the first resolution. Mr. G. F. MUNTZ seconded the resolution, and in so doing went at considerable length into the subject, in very nearly the same terms and order in which he had previously expounded it to the meeting at Northfield; it will be re- membered we gave in our paper of the 26th of November last, a very full report of Mr. Muntz's very able speech on that occasion, which is not less valuable that not a little of what was then anticipation, is now fact. The resolution was also briefly supported by Mr. Douglas and by Mr. Salt. Mr. G. GKEIN ( of the house of Bacchus and Green) hesitated to subscribe to the resolution, inasmuch as by attributing the distress entirely to the monetary laws it seemed to exclude the operation of Providence. It was explained to Mr. Green that the term in the resolution was " mainly" not " entirely," which appeared to satisfy his scruples. Mr. SPOONER having suggested a resolution expressive of the remedy necessary to be applied to the distress alluded to in the first resolution, a long conversation took place. Mr. MUNTZ thought they had better leave the considera- tion of a specific remedy to the government. That meeting had fully declared the existence of distress and its causes; and if they made that declaration known to the legislature, it would be for them to find out and apply the remedy. Relative to a remedy he would only say, he believed fiimly there did exist a remedy for the evil, and if such steps were taken by the government, as they could and ought to take, one week would not elapse from the time of commencing them, until benefit would be felt by the community. He was willing, however, to give to government an opportunity of proposing their own plans. That meeting might go so far as to say they were ready to give evidence upon the sub- ject, if required. In this opinion Mr. Douglas, Mr. Knight, and others concurred. Mr. SPOONER said he fully agreed with Mr. Muntz's ob- servations, and would not propose the resolution. On a resolution being proposed by Mr. SALT to the effect that the committee should be permanent, for the purpose of carrying the objects of the meeting into effect. Mr. TWELLS said he wished to cany out the resolutions of the meeting, but he did not wish to commit himself in any way. He did not wish to be supposed to bind himself to the political views or sentiments of Mr. Salt and those who agreed with him. ( Hissing.) Mr. MUNTZ said he was at a loss to conceive how l « Ir. Twells could commit himself in politics, on a question which was merely a matter of account. Mr. TWILLS said lie was very desirous to work in the business. He felt particularly interested in it, and if it was certain that he did not compromise any of his well known principles— Mr. EDMONUS spoke to order: he considered it very im- proper for Mr. Twells to introduce politics as he had done. During the whole of the previous discussion there had not been the least allusion to such topics, and Mr. Twells ought not to have been the first to introduce them. If he did not know where to stop, no doubt some of his intelligent friends around him would tell him. Mr. TWELLS said he was called upon by the resolution to pledge himself to an indefinite course. For all he knew the committee might propose to intimidate the Government. ( Hissing and confusion.) Mr. DOUGLAS spoke to order; he would just submit to Mr. Twells that if he persisted in what he called his right to introduce party politics at that meeting, he ( Mr. I).) and his friends must be allowed the right of reply. ( Applause.) If in place of going into the subject as the Radicals had done, Air. Twells would have them make it one of political discussion, then he would say to his friends behind him— " hear Mr. Twells, and we'll answer him." ( Loud cheer- ing.) Mr. TWELLS disclaimed any intention to disturb the unanimity of the meeting, and begged leave to withdraw his objection to the resolution. The resolution was ultimately withdrawn in order that one more definite in its terms might be substituted, which being moved and seconded, was put and agreed to, after some observations from Mr. Edmonds, Mr. Baker, and others and passed, as the rest had been, unanimously. A vote of thanks to the Chairman was then proposed and carried, after which the meeting broke up. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. THE LUST OF WEALTH. Coveteousness neutralises the effects of the preaching of the Gospel. The Saviour saw this abundantly verified in his own Ministry, and his parable of the Sower intimated that his Ministers would see it exemplified in theirs also. The judgment of the hearer is convinced of the divinity ol religion; he feels its power and trembles: he beholds its attractions, and is captivated; and could he at such times be detached awhile from his worldly pursuits, and be closely plied with the melting and majestic claims of the Gospel, he might, by the agency of the Holy Spirit, be induced to lay up for himself a treasure in Heaven. But the seed has fallen among thorns. " The cares of this world, and the deceit- fulness of riches, choke the word, and render it unfruitful." His impressions are written in sand, and no sooner does he leave the house ol God than his worldly plans and prospects come back, like the returning tide, and utterly efface them. MAMMON, PAGE 154. The solitary principle, that we hold our property as subor- dinate agents for God, were it only felt, embraced, allowed to have unobstructed operation on our practice, would, ol itself, be sufficient to break up the present system of selfish- ness, and to give an entirely new aspect to the cause of benevolence. Let the Christian reader, then, seek lo have this principle wrought into his mind as an everlasting con- viction. Let him remember, & c., & c. IBID, PAGE 237. I'll read no more. We are reasoning in a circle, and get on like a squirrel in his cage. " Let him remem- ber''' Aye, truly. Let there be light, and there was light. The author of Mammon seems to think that our moral chaos will subside to order by a similar command pronounced by human lips. He thinks to exorcise the legion of devils that in the train of covet- ousness have taken possession of the human heart, b} r an exhortation to remember the obligations of benevo- lence. His " let him remember" will be more effica- cious against covetousness than the Saviour's preach- ing, and example to boot. Covetousness triumphs over man's convictions of the divinity of religion ; it triumphs over his trembling consciousness of its power. Covetousness triumphs over the divinity of religion, even while his affections are captivated by its attrac- tions ; yet, " let him remember"— and all may be well. " Let him remember"— and the triumphs of covetousness have an end. Oh, vain and impious con- clusion ! The remembrance of a principle is to achieve what the precepts and example of " God manifest in the flesh" failed to accomplish! But there is something more stated than the remem- brance of a principle as necessary for the effect. The principle itself must be " felt, embraced, allowed to have an unobstructed operation on our practice." I grant you; but still we are in the circle. The Indians represent the world on the back of an elephant, and the elephant as standing on a tortoise, but to the tor- toise they gave not a resting' place for bis shell. So covetousness is the cause of all our sins, and the pre sent selfish system would be broken up, if an antago- nist principle were only permitted to have " unob- structed operation on our practice:" but how tha t " unobstructed operation" is to be brought about, the author of Mammon knoweth not, at least sayeth not; and for the way in which covetousness ( the accused principle to be destroyed) has hitherto neutralised the preaching of tiie Gospel, has triumphed over opr con- victions of its divinity, how it has triumphed over our hopes, our fears, and our affections, our first extract too truly shows. But is the disease hopeless, because the author of Mammon has failed to perceive, or has shrunk from the application of the remedy ? God forbid! Nay, were it so, surely we had long since been swept as a foul blot from the fair face of creation. How is it, then, that covetousness has hitherto " neutralised the preach- ing of the Gospel," and triumphed over our convic- tions, our hopes, our fears, and our affections ? Be- cause our social system affords it every facility for its most ample development. Nay, covetousness is the very basis of our system ; for competition is but the fiend covetousness in action; it originated in covetous- ness, and to covetousness it inevitably tends. Cause and effect it acts and re- acts on society, till the whole head is sick and the whole heart faint. Kings com- pete for territory, and our cursed but still beautiful earth becomes a human slaughter- house. Factions compete for power, and the people are sacrificed. Priests compete for proselytes and pelf, and, behold, how " § Christians hate one another !" The " lower orders compete and starve, amidst the abundance they have produced, competition denying them the privilege of the fall— they canuot eat their bread even in the sweat of their brow. No wonder that, under such a system, " the effects of the preaching of the Gospel should be neutralised." Love one another. Kings listen to the iterated and reiterated command, and cling not less tenaciously to their prerogative of blood. Love one another have priests repeated, and bound their brother to the stake. Legislators listen, and return to their faction. Mer- chants listen, and pursue their traffic in the marred image of their God. Love one another. The poor man listens, and, turning to embrace his brother, recoils from the scrambler for his bread. Thus it is that competition " neutralises the effects of the preaching of the Gospel," and thus it must be until society be based on a different principle. Chris- tianity in its heavenly love, and competition in its hellish selfishness, cannot co- exist. We have a reli- gion which, if its spirit were embodied in our institu- tions, would soon fraternise mankind ; but God respects the reason with which he has endowed us, and will not work miracles to counteract its perversion. Meanwhile, the preaching of the Gospel to a world of competitors, is like pouring the Jordan into the Dead Sea. AN UNWILLING COMPETITOR. ( To be continued.) THE NEWS FROM AMERICA. SIR,— The London Editors are a good deal puzzled in forming an opinipn of the probable effect of the suspension of their payments, by the Banks in America. Some of the papers, however, are not slow in denouncing the act. The Times for instance, characterises it as a " deliberate attempt tol rob the European creditor," while the Courier takes quite a different view. Unless the effect of the measure be counteracted by other measures, not easily foreseen, it appears to me evident that it will be this: viz.— to let loose the specie now held in America, and send it where the highest price will be obtained for it. That market is Eng- land ; consequently, if this view be correct, a Very large amount may be looked for within the ensuing six months. Whilst specie formed the only legal tender in the States, whilst it formed the medium of exchange in all the ordinary purposes of society, being the instru- ment for producing and supplying the daily wants of sixteen millions of people, scattered over a country of 2000 miles in extent, it was held with an iron grasp ; nothing could remove any great portion of it, but the substitution of some cheaper currency. Purchases of gold, might, it is true, be made with silver, but the American Government, by raising the standard of gold, rendered it no long- er an object of exportation in preference to silver. The very London papers alluded to, have stated, over and over again, that it was useless to expect very large quantities of specie from America, " whilst the government there insisted upon driving out paper, and in making gold and silver the medium of exchange." If their view of the case was correct, and I think its correctness cannot be questioned, surely, giving up the metallic currency and adopting paper, will, at once, release the specie. Gold and silver will become mer- chandise, as they ought to be; they will cease to be fixtures, and will find their way to those markets which most highly appreciate them. The first effect of the suspension in America will be to revive trade and restore confidence, debts between individuals will be discharged, and the foreign debt will be liquidated by shipments of produce and ship- ments of specie ; nor will this be a long time in effect- ing, the debt, in a national ^ point of view, being trifling. Moreover, England having got the specie will let out more paper; this will revive trade, raise American produce, and facilitate the desired object by a double operation. It is a great mistake to suppose that a deliberate intention to rob foreign creditors actuated the banks in America. The foreign debts are due in pounds, francs, and guilders, and not in paper dollars. The parties who will suffer are the Americans who owe the debts, as they will have to give, say five paper dollars for four silver dollars ; but even they, generally speaking-, will not be losers, because the adoption of paper will assist their trade and their collections, and will raise the prices of their goods on hand, more than it will raise the price of specie. Moreover, the banks could have no selfish view, because the community owe to them three times as much as they owe to the commu- nity; they will, therefore, receive three paper dollars for debts due to them, for every one they pay out. The fact is, the New York Banks had paid away nearly all their specie ; dire necessity alone compelled them to suspend, and we might as well charge the authors of Mr. Pitt's bill with a deliberate intention to wrong foreigners; or the authors of Mr. Peel's bill with a deliberate intention to double the payment to foreigners; or the Bank of England Directors in its present action upon the currency,'( which his forced down the proceeds of American cotton coming to this market, after the Americans had bought their goods at high prices, from, say sixteen millions sterling, to eight millions sterling,) with a deliberate intention to defraud America. All these events are the results of a worthless sys- tem of currency upon both sides the water ; caused in America by the unwise and unconstitutional inter- ference of the Executive Government; and in Eng- land, by interested or mistaken legislation. It becomes, now, a subject of deep interest how to amend the systems, and thereby prevent a recurrence of those disasters, which place industrious men upon a footing with spendthrifts and idlers, and reduce all trade to a mere system of gambling. I am sir, yours & c., S A. GODDARD. June 15, 1837. time be made the means of giving us work ? There is the Derby and Birmingham proposed to conic, I believe, not far from the town, and there is the Glou- cester and Birmingham coming into the town, and which was advertised some time ago, but which, as yet, I do not see any one at work upon. Surely you would be doing us a mercy if you can induce the directors of these works to commence operations at this time, that some of us may be relieved from our destitution, and the remainder may, at least, think that our towns- men have exerted themselves to the utmost to do what they could for us. It may be said we cannot work at such employments. Try us; and I think it will be found that it will answer the purpose of our employers as well as ourselves. I am, Mr. Editor, your obedient servant, A STARVING CITIZEN. THE MEMORIAL COMMITTEE. Sir,— I am very anxious to prevent the public mind from entertaining a wrong notion with regard to my conduct at the late Committee meeting of masters and men. I was opposed to charity being- the end and object of this Committee instead of enquiry. This town and the whole ofthecountiy have been, formally years past, exposed to fluctuations in trade; in fact to the strange operations of paper money. I trust that the true causes of these fluctuations may be de- veloped, and a wholesome remedy suggested; things of far more importance than subscriptions and soup- shops, which are degrading to sober, industrious, and reflecting Englishmen. Enquiry bespeaks a people not disposed to endure undeserved suffering, without looking into the workings of that system upon which their happiness depends. One word of advice to the unemployed, and that is that I deprecate the present mode of extorting money, in the suburbs of the town, by persons in groups of twenties and thirties. I denounce this species of in- timidation. The most deserving are the last to parti- cipate in promiscuous charity. Besides it resembles the wretched people in Ireland ; and in that country persons wall in their houses and keep dogs to prevent the approach of the hungry and destitute. No, no, my fellow townsmen, we arc not in love with " the fine rich feeling" of O'Connell. In case of need we claim relief as a right. There is an act of Parliament authorising relief to the destitute. We have magis- trates in Birmingham always disposed to enforce the provisions of this act; we have parish funds raised alike upon the greedy niggard, and upon the generous and benevolent; we have guardians and overseers to hear and to examine into the reasonableness and justice of our complaints. Thank God, we have these left yet. We are not at present under the sway of the triumvirate at Somerset- house; and I, therefore, de- nounce every means of extorting money by intimi- dation. I exhort you, my fellow sufferers, to observe the law strictly, and prevent the most distant act of violence toipersons or property. JOSEPH CORBETT. Birmingham, 15th June, 1837. COUNTRY MARKETS, & c. BIRMINGHAM MARKET. Corn Market, Jutw 15. Wheat in moderate supply to this day's market, and in conse* (, ueace of the fine growing weather the terms of last week were barely maiotained.— Barley, both malting and grinding, without any alteration in value.— Oats a dull sale at tlie terms of this day Be'n. night— Beans and Peas a shade lower. WHEAT— per62lbs. s. d. s. d. Old 7 0— 7 6 New 6 8— 7 4 Irish 0 0— 0 0 B All LEY— per Imp. Quarter. For Malting 30 0 — 33 0 For Grinding, per 49lbs 3 0 — 3 4 M ALT— per Imperial Ihishel. Old and new 6 9 — 79 OATS- perSms. Old 3 3 — 3 6 New 3 0 — 3 0 Irish a 6 — 3 3 BEANS— per bag, 10 scoregross. s. d. s. it. Old 17 0— 18 3 New 15 6— 16 6 PEAS— per bag of 3 Bush. Imp. FOB BOILING. White 16 6 — 17 6 Grey 16 0— 16 6 FOR GRINDING. per bag of 10 score 15 6— 16 0 White 16 0 — 16 6 FLOUll— per sack of280lbs. net. Fine 44 0 — 45 0 Seconds.... 39 0 — 41 0 THE UNEMPLOYED. MR. EDITOR,— As one of the thousands willing to work, yet compelled to linger in idleness any where out of sight of a wretched and starving family,— may I ask you how it is that our leading men, who have amassed fortunes by the sweat of our brows, can. at this time, show so little compassion as to contrive no scheme of public improvements for the employment of their destitute fellow- creatures ? Are there no streets lo be levelled, or other town works that could be set forward at this time ? No railways that could at this The following is the statement in Messrs. Sturge's circular PRESENT PRICES OF G11A1N. Birmingham, WHEAT, English, White, per bushel of 621b. Old . English, Red — .—,— . Old — Irish, White ~ ~*~ none Red — nominal Foreign —, do~~~ BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. Quarter Irish ... ...— nominal Grinding, per Quarter of 3921bs OATS, English, White, per Imperial Quarter Welsh, Black and White, per 312lb « . „ Irish, ( weighing 41 to 42Ibs.) do. - ( 37 to 391bs.) do. Black do. BEANS, English, Old, per bushel of 651bs. New Irish . Foreign ——— PE AS, Boiling, per Imp. Quarter .— Grinding, per Quarter of 3921bs. FLOUR, English, Fine, per Sack of 2801bs. Seconds June 15, 1837. 1. d. s. 1 to 7 2 .. 7 0 0 0 0 6 7 7 7 7 0 5 5 6 6 30 0 27 0 5 10 5 0 . nominal 46 0 32 6 41 0 Gloucester, June 10, 1837. si d. s. 7 0 to 0 .. WHEAT, English, White, per Imp. Bushel Old English, Red , Old . Irish, White, par 601bs — nominal Old . Foreign — nominal BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. Quarter Irish « — nominal Grinding, per Quarter of 3921bs. OATS, English, White, per Imp. Quarter Welsh, Black and White Irish ( weighing 41 to421bs); per Qr. of3121bs. ( 37 to 39U> s.) Black. BEANS, English, Old, per Imp. Bushel New —.— — Irish ...... . nominal PEAS, Boiling, per Imp. Quarter nominal 46 0 Grinding, per Quarter of 3921bs. 34 6 FLOUR, English, Fine, per sack of 2801bs„_ ™ > 45 0 1 2 4 0 6 0 0 28 0 22 0 22 6 22 6 24 9 24. 6 23 6 6 0 4 9 0 0 7 7 .. 7 .. 7 .. 7 .. 6 .. 6 .. 7 .. 33 .. 29 .. 26 .. 32 .. 24 , 27 26 25 6 5 5 . 6 54 37 . 48 44 BIRMINGHAM WEEKLY AVERAGE, Qrs. Bush. Wheat . Barley Oats Beans, Peas - 2442 0 812 12 0 s. d. 58 8 0 0 28 0 44 0 0 0 Wheat- Barley - Oats — Beans - GLOUCESTER WEEKLY AVERAGE. Qrs. Bush. 409 4 0 0 —. .„ . 82 4 —.—., s. d. 53 8 0 0 0 0 38 7 WORCESTER WEEKLY AVERAGE. Qrs. Bush. Wheat , Barley . Oats ™ Peas Beans 584 7 63 0 22 d. . 56 5 . 32 0 . 30 2f 0 0 . 43 6J Birmingham, June 15, 1837. At Gloucester and Worcester markets on the 10th there was a moderate supply of Wheat from the farmers, aud the demand being good, an advance of Is. per quarter was realised. Malting and Grinding Barley were nominally unaltered in value. Fine Oats were in limited request, and the prices of all descriptions maintained. Dry new Beans were a free sale at the previous week's currency, and in some instances rather moro money was obtained. During the preseut week the business transacted lias been to a trifling extent. The holders of Wheat demanded higher rates. A few fine Oats have been disposed of at 28s. 6d. per 3121Vil. here, and sweet feed qualities are enquired for, but consumers give with reluctance present rates, and buy only to meet their immediate wants. In Barley nothing doing. New Beans held with much firmness. Some old Foreign were sold at 17s. 6d. per 196lbs. here. Since our last we have had some fine warm rain which has materl. ally benefited the growing crops of all descriptions. AT THIS DAY'S MARKET, though the supply of Wheat was Bhort the sales made were at a reduction of Is. to Is. 6d. per quarter. Nothing worth notice doing in Malting and Grinding Barley. Fine Oats in demand; but secondary are dull at 6d. per quarter cheaper. Iu Beans no alteration. IMPORTS INTO GLOUCESTER From the 1th to the 14th inst. Ireland Coastwise.. Foreign.... Ireland...... Coastwise.. Foreign Wheat. Oats. Barley. Beam. Qrs 626 Qrs Qrs Qr » Qrs 114 Qrs Qrs Qrs Qrs Qrs Qrs 1125 Qrs Peas. Flour. Malt. Vetches. Qrs Sacks Qrs Qrs Qrs 4 Sacks Qrs Qrs Qrs Sacks Qrs Qrs WARWICK, SATURDAV, JUNE 10.— Wheat, per bag, old 0s Od to Os Od ; new, 20s Od to 22s Od ; Barley per quarter, 0s Od to Os Od; new, 27s Od to 33s Oil ; Oats, 28s Od to 33s Od; New, 26s Od to 31s Od; Peas, per bag, I8s Od to 19s Od j Beans, I6s 6d to 17s 6d; new, 15s Od to 16s 6d; Vetches, 0s Od to 0s Od; Molt, 60s Od to 64s Od per quarter. HEREFORD, JUNE 10.— Wheat, per bushel Imperial measure, 6s lOd to 7s Od. Ditto, 801bs. per bushel, 0s Od to 0s Od. Barley, Is Od to 0s Oil. Beans, Cs 6d to 0s Od. Peas, 7s Od to8i Od. Vetches, 0s Od to Os Od. Oats, 3s 6d to 0s Ud. CHELTENHAM, JUNE 8.— New Wheat, 7s Od to 7B 4d per bushel, Old Wheat, 78 3d to 7 » 6d. Barley, 3s 6d to 4s Od. Oats, 3s 64 to 4s 3d. Beans, 5s Cd to 6s 6d. FAIRS TO BE HOLDEN Warwickshire— June 19, Allesley Northamptonshire- Jam 24, 26, 27, Houghton Green j 28, Highain Ferrers— Staffordshire— Juue 24, Stafford; 26, Fazeley. Hop INTELLIGENCE Worcester, June 14 There were thirty pockets weighed iu our market on Saturday, and seventy during the week. We cannot report any improvement in the market; but prices remain firm at last week's quotations. Reports from the dis- tricts state that the bine, in consequence of the last three or four days' rain and sunshine, has made rapid progress; and also that the fly has partially made its appearance. New Worcester, 70s. to 96. ; choice to 5f.; yearling ditto, 63s. to 75s.; old Hops, 20s. to 60s. Borough, Monday, June 12.— The hop market is firm, but little business is doing. There is nothing particular from the plantations this morning, except the backward state of tho bines. The reduc. tion of 20s. per cwt. on pockets of last year's growth is from Sep- tember last. Old duty still at 155,000/. Present Prices, per cwt. : East Kent Pockets, fine, £ 4 10s. to £ 5 5s. and £ 7; bags, ditto, £ 4 Is. to £ 4 15s. and £ 5 18s.; Mid Kent Pockets, £ 4 2s. to £ 4 15 « . and £ 6 6s.; bags, £ 3 10s. to £ 4 13s. and £ 5 10s.; Weald of Kent, Pockets, £ 3 10s. to £ 4 10s. and £ 5 4s.; Sussex pockets, £ 3 10s. to £ 4 4s. and £ 4 12s.; Yearlings, £. 1 10s. to £ 3 3s. and £ 4 4s.; Old Olds, £ 1 Is. to £ 1 10s. aud £ 2 2 « . GLOUCESTER SHIP NEWS, From June 8 to June 15. IMPORTS : Tho Vespuccio, from Terra Nova, with 1200 Balm of beans and 25 pipes of concentrated lemon juice, consigned to J. and C. Sturge— Trial, Lisbon, 440 chests and half chests of oranges, W. Kendall and Son— Uarin, Wyburg, deals, battens, and lathwood, J. M. Shipton— Elizabeth and Ann, Ballidehob, 1002 barrels of oats, J. and C. Sturge— Sarah, London, 4 pipes and 12 quarter casks of port and sherry wines, Martin, Washbourn, and Lloyd ; 80 sacks of wheat, J. Biddle and Co. ; general cargo. Gopsill Brown— Sisters, Kidwelly, 910 bushels of oats, J. and C. Sturge— Fame, Neath, 40 tons of copper, W. Partridge and Co Belinda, Swansea, copper and general cargo, H. Soutlian and Son— Newport Trader, Newport, 20 tons of paving stone, 30 boxes of tin, and 4 bags of meal, H. Southan and Son— Gleaner, Cardiff, iron and empty cases, H. Southan and Son— Cygnet, Bridgwater, general cargo, Stuckey and Co. EXPORTS : The Carolina, for Riga, with 400 tons of salt, from John Foster— Frieuus, London, 94 tons 10 cwt. of salt, Gopsilt Brown— Ann and Elizabeth, Glasgow, clay and glue pieces, W. Kendall and Son and T. Slatter— Earl Grey, Carmarthen, 30 tons of salt, Gopsill Brown— Fame, Neath, fire bricks, & c., W. Kendall and Son— Newport Trader, Newport, general cargo, H. Southan aud Son — Cygnet, Bridgwater, general cargo, Stuckey and Co. STATE OF THE WORKHOUSE UP TO JUNE 13. Barometer at noon. Ex- treme during night. Ther- mome- ter 8 morn. Extreme heat during day. Ther- mome- ter at noon. State of Wind at 110011. Remarks at noon. June , Rain 10 29 55 50 0 62 0 68 0 58 0 NE 11 29 60 48 0 64 0 70 0 56 0 SW Rain 12 29 65 50 0 62 0 70 0 60 0 SW Itain 13 29 57 55 0 64 0 70 0 60 0 SW Rain 14 29 65 50 0 60 0 70 0 62 0 NE Fair 15 29 65 54 11 66 0 76 0 66 0 NE Fair 16 29 55 54 0 68 0 78 0 64 o WbyN Rain Wo- INFANTS. Men. men. Boys. Girls. Male. Fern. Total. 180 190 12 18 17 23 440 Admitted since .... 33 20 12 7 7 11 90 Bom in the House 1 1 2 213 210 24 25 25 35 532 Dischgd, absconded, 62 21 13 9 5 6 8 Totalof each 192 197 15 20 19 27 470 Number of Cases relieved last week 3,017 NumberofChildren in the Asylum 241 * Of whom 2 men, 3 women, and 1 girl died. METEOROLOGICAL DIARY. FURNI9HEPBY MR. WOLLER, RNOBABTON- BTREET. MARRIAGES. On the 14th instant, at St. Martin's Church, by the Rev. W. Marsh, Mr. Booth, maltster, of Gravelly Hill, to Mary, only daughter of Mr. John Alsager, of Patrick House, near Meriden. On the 15tli instant, at Aston, by the Rev. H. Chnvasse, Mr. John Briscoe, of Ward End Hall, to Eliza Cicely, eldest daughter of the late F. B. Steward, Esq., of Ashted. On the 13th instant, at St. John's, Hackney, Joshua Toulmin Smith, of Lincoln's- inn, Esq., to Martha, eldest daughter of the late Wm. Jones Kendall, Esq,, of Wake- field, Yorkshire. On Thursday week, at St. Martin's Church, by the Rev. Humphrey Pountney, M. A., Mr. Lamb, surgeon, of this town, son of the hue James Lamb, Esq., of Waresley, Worcestershire, to Eliza, daughter of Mr. B. Chesffhire, of Bath- street. On the lltli instant, at St. Martin's Church, Mr. John Collyer, to Frances, relict of the late Mr. Thomas Hutton, of Snow- hill. Ori the 5th instant, at St. Chad's, Lichfield, by the Rev. A. Kenney, Mr. Thomas Wilkes, to Mrs. Anne Walton, both of that city. On the 6th inst., Mr. Joseph Morgan, of the Old Bank, Hereford, to Miss Elizabeth Morgan, of Haywards, near Ross. On the 6th inst., at Lapley, by the Rev. James Bewsher, vicar, Mr. Bray, of Blymhill, to Miss Bayley, ( laughter of Mr. James Bayley, miller, of Wheaton Aston. DEATHS. On the 14th instant, in the 34th year of her age, Rebecca, wife of Mr. Thomas Smallwood, of Coleshill- street, On Monday last, at Summer- hill- terracc, in the 86th year of her age, Mrs. Mary Lobrot, relict of the late Mr. Frederick Lobrot, merchant, of this town. On the 13th instant, Mary, relict of the late Mr. Thomas Bland, of Weaman- street, aged 74. On Thursday week, at Bromsgrove, in the 33d year of his age, Mr. John Groves, boot and shoe maker. On the 10th inst., aged 32, Richard Newcombe Gresley, Esq., barrister- at- law, member of the society of the Middle Temple, late student of Christ Church, Oxford, and second son of Richard Gresley, Esq., of Meriden, in this county. On the 13th instant, at Solihull, aged 73 years, Miss Yates, eldest daughter of the late Rev. Dr. Yates, Rector of Solihull. On Saturday, at an advanced age, Sarah, daughter of the late Mr. Samuel Capenhurst, of Hill- street. After a short illness, Edward, infant sou of Mr. Edward Stokes, of this town, in his third year. On Saturday, in his 28th year, Henry, eldest son of the late Mr. William Beeson, of the Liglitwoods, Shropshire. On the 13th instant, at his house in Temple- street, Wol- verhampton, Mr. Richard Smith, in his 68th year. On the 6th instant, at Long Birch, Mrs. Toovey, late of Bilbrooke, in her 83d year. On the 6th instant, aged 31, after a long and painful illness, Mr. Henry Summerfield, lock manufacturer, of Porto Bello, near Willenhall. On the 5th inst., after a long illness, Thomas Blakemore, Esq., of Neenton, Salop. On the 7th instant, at Stafford, Samuel Thomas, third son of the Rev. T. P. Foley, Rector of Oldswinford, Worces- tershire. On Thursday week, in the 47th year of his age, Mr. Samuel Whitehouse Marlow, factor, of Windmill- street, Walsall. On Friday, at his residence, Leek Wootton, near War- wick, deservedly respected, James Perkins, gent., in the 87th j ear of his age. On the 6th inst., at his residence, Corve- street; Ludlow, William Jones, Esq., aged88. On the 8th instant, aged 75, the Rev. James Commeline, Rector of itedmarley d'Abitot, in the county of Worcester, and of Cowley, in the county of Gloucester, and an active Magistrate for the counties of Gloucester and Worcester. 8 THE BIRMINGHAM JOUliNAL. LONDON GAZETTES. FRIDAY, JUNK » . DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. JUNE 9.— SINCKLER PORTER, Cheater, attorney. at. lau-. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. WILLIAM CATTON, 67, Blackmail- street, Southwark, plumber and glazier. BANKRUPTS. 77,4 Bankrupts to surrender at the Court of Commissioner!, Basing. hall- street when not otherwise expressed."] JOHN BLYTHER, Hoo, Kent, grocer, June 22 and July 21. Sols. Messrs. Wood and Ellis, Corbet. eonrt, Gracecliurch- street. Pe<- Cr. CRAVEN CRAVEN, Bridlington, Yorkshire, grocer, June 21 and July 31. Sol. Mr. Charles Berkeley, 3, New- square, Lincoln's- inn. Pel. Cr. George Bishop and Bennett Pill, ltopeinaker. street, dis- tillers. Seal. May 30. ABRAHAM ROZENBAOM, Salisbury, jeweller, June 14 and July 21, at the Black Horse Inn, Salisbury. Sols. Mr. E. J Sydney, 2, New London- street, Fenchurch. street, London. Pel. Cr. Nathan Jacob Calisher, 13, George- street, Minorios, jeweller. Seal. June JOHN BANISTER, Birmingham, grocer, June 20 and July 31, at Radenliurst's New Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Sols. Messrs. Gatty and Turner, 2, Red Lion- squaie, London ; and Mr. Joseph Cress- well, Birmingham. Pet. Cr. Thomas Crayford Banister, Bir mingham, gent: Seal. Juno 3. FRANCIS BOOT, Nottingham, tatting and lace manufacturer, June 19 and July 21, at the George the Fourth Inn, Nottingham . Sots. Messrs. Johnson and Co., Temple, London; and Messrs. Cursham and Campbell, Nottingham. Pet. Cr. Malcolm Sinclaif, Nottingham. Seal. June fl. THOMAS WIGGERHAM and RICHARD SAUNDERS, Bir- mingham, ale and porter merchants, June 21 and July 21, at the Clarendon Hotel, Birmingham. Sols. Messrs. Blackstock and and Co., 1, Paper- buildings, Inner Temple, London; and Mr. Thomas R. T. Hodgson, Birmingham. Pet. Cr. George Henry Motteram, Birmingham, coal merchant. Seal. June 2. JOHN CHADWICK, Oldham, cotton spinner, June 24 and July 21, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester. Sols. Mr. George Capes, 5, Rayinond's- buildings, Gray's. inn, London; and Mr. Edward William Binney, Manchester. Pet. Cr. William Butter- worth, Manchester, grocer. Seal. May 29. JAMES RYDER, Manchester, crown glass cutter, June 24 and July 21, at the Commissioners'. rooms, Manchester. Sols. Messrs. Willis and Co., Tokenhouse- yard, London ; and Messrs. Barrett and Ridgway, Norfolk. street, Manchester. Pci. Cr. Edward Browne and John Clare, Warrington, crown glass manufacturers. Seal. June 1. WILLIAM BIRT, Warwick, plasterer, June 30 and July 21, at the Lansdowne Hotel, Leamington- priors, Warwickshire. Sols. Messrs. Newton and Ensor, 14, South. square, Gray's inu, London ; and Mr. Thomas Heath, Warwick. Vet. Cr. William Dixon Davis, Warwick, slater. Seal. May SI. WILLIAM BROWN and WILLIAM ANDREWS, Leeds, cloth dressers, June 23 and July 21, at the Court- house, Leeds. Sols. Mr. Charles Fiddey, Sergeant's- inn, Fleet. street, London; and MessrB. Barr and Co., Leeds. Prt. Cr. Robert Weare, Leeds, dyer. Seal. May 25. JOHN ILLING WORTH, LEWIS ILLINGWORTH, and SOLO. MON ILLING WORTH, Chorley, Lancashire, machine makers, July 4 and 21, at the Town- hall, Preston, Lancashire. Sols. Messrs. Adlington and Co., Bedford- row, London ; and Mr. Peter Stringfellow; Chorley. Pel. Cr. William Cropper, Blackburn, grocer and cotton waste dealer. Seal. June 3. RICHARD REYNOLDS, Leeds, bill broker, June 21 and July 21, at the Court- house, Leeds. Sols. Mr. Charles Wilson, 6, South, ampton. street, Bloomsbury. square, London ; and Messrs. Payne and Eddison, Leeds. Ptff. Cr. Robert Cawood, Leeds, merchant. Seal. May 29. WILLIAM SHADRACK COCKRAM, Taunton, Somersetshire, ironmonger, June 23 and July 21, at the London Inn, Taunton^ Somersetshire. Sol. Mr. George Stone, Taunton. Pel. Cr. Wil- liam Denton, Taunton, yeoman. Seal. May 30. WILLIAM PERKIN, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, timber merchant, June 24 and July 21, at the Swan Inn, Stafford. Sols. Mr. James Blair, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire j and Messrs. Clowes and Wedlake, 10, King's Bench. walk, Temple, London; Pet. Cr. John Billing- ham, Uttoxeter, nail manufacturer. Seal. Junes. CHARLES RADENHURST, Birmingham, innkeeper, June 24 and and July 21, at the New Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Sols. Messrs. Norton and Chapman, 3, Gray's. inn. square, London ; and Messrs. Stubbs and Rollings, Birmingham. Pet. Cr. Charles Mucklow, Birmingham, coach. builder. Seal. May 11. DIVIDENDS. George Francis Blyther, High- street, Rochester, grocer, July 3— John Sayre, 79, High- street, Shadwell, cheesemonger, JulyS— John Wade, Lynn Regis, Norfolk, stationer, July 3— John Ingram, Bir- mingham, grocer, June 30— John Edmonds Tozer, Milk- street, Gheapside, wholesale hosier, June 30— Richard Nichols, Wakefield, Yorkshire, bookseller, June 30— Samuel Symonds, Basingliall- street, Blackwell hall, factor, June 30— William Henry Fletcher, Portsea, grocer, June 30— Miles Pye, lute of Aintree, Lancashire, victualler, July 3, at the Clarendon. rooms, Liverpool— Edwin Markland, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, chemist, July 6, at the Duke's Head Inn, Great Yarmouth— Edward Baker, Bristol, oil gas manufacturer, July 7, at the Commercial. rooms, Bristol— Robert Campbell, Deritend, Bir. tningham, brass founder, July 4, at Dee's Royal Hotel, Temple- row, Birmingham— John Barnes Brancker, Liverpool, broker, July 8, at the office of Mr. Thomas Davenport, solicitor. CERTIFICATES, JUNE 30. William Cotton, Deptford, victualler— Joseph Green, Northfield, Worcestershire, retail brewer— James Hadley, Birmingham, mercer — fames Cheswick Blyth, Birmingham, factor— Joseph Jackson, Liverpool, brewer— John Charles Edwards, Hertford- street, May. fair, bill broker— Joseph Freeman, Ipswich, woollen draper— George Wood, PreRtwich, near Manchester, dyer— George Turnbull, How. don- doek, Northumberland, grocer— William Turnbull and Thomas Turnbull, Howdon. dock, Northumberland, timber merchants- Nathaniel Bingham, 42, Old Bond. street, surgeon— James Lorymer, Bristol, corn factor. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. David Price and Edward Downing, 114, Wood. street, woollen warehousemen— John Welch and Thomas Hudson, Liverpool, mer- chants— Thomas Hughes and Linton Hughes, 10, Llncoln's- inn- fields, attorneys— Thomas Carlill and George Carlill, Kingston. upon- Hnll, cabinet makers— Robert Bryan Forster and Stephen Ahum, 7, Cross- street, St. Mary, Islington, printers— Charles Weston and Walter Rosier, Hungerford. market, poulterers— John Halliday and Samuel Brown, Liverpool, engineers— Thomas George Martin and Francis Rockliff, 20, Billiter. street, wineund spirit mer- chants— John Arthur, David Arthur, and David Davies, Neath, Glamorgan, timber merchants— David Waddington and Peter Kerr, Manchester, commission agents— Robert Craik. Joseph Wood, and Joseph Massie, Barnsley, Yorkshire, linen and woollen drapers- William Robinson and John Craven, Bradford, Yorkshire, fulling millers— William Haynes and Richard Davies, Lawrence. lane, silk manufacturers— John Limbert, sen., and William Limbert, Chatham, Kent, linen drapers— Benjamin Harris and John Goodwin, Lane, end, Staffordshire, china manufacturers— John Goodwin, James Goodwin, and Benjamin Harris, Lane. end and Longton, Stafford- shire, manufacturers of earthenware ( so far as regards Benjamin Harris)— Braithwaite, Milner, and Co., 1, Bath- place, New. road, and Regent's- park- basin, manufacturing engineers ( so far as regards John Braithwaite and George Joseph Pitman)— Kendall and Sons, Birmingham, & c., merchants and perfumers, Pope and Co., Dock, head, Bermondsey, coal merchants. ASSIGNMENTS. John Hopper, Glanton, Northumberland, yeoman. Richard Pells, Ipswich, auctioneer and upholsterer. Richard Stephens, Clement's- lane, Lombard- street, merchant. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. • James Miller, Dundee, manufacturer. JOHN BATTIN, Birmingham, dealer, June 21 and July 25, • Radenhurst's New Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Soli. Messrs. Norton and Chaplin, 3, Gray's- inn- square, London; and Messrs. Stubbs and Rollings, Birmingham. Pet. Cr. Robert Gibbs, Bir- mingham, corn merchant. Seal. June 9. ROBERT DRAPER, Wood- street, Cheapside, London, button seller, June 24 and July 25, at the New Royal Hotel, New. street, Birmingham. Sols. Mr. Alexander Harrison, 8, Edmund. street, Birmingham; and Messrs. Norton and Chaplin, 3, Gray's. inn- square, London. Pet. Cr. Richard Steadman, Birmingham, button maker. Seal. June 6. WILLIAM EDWARDS BARTLETT and JOHN BARTLETT, Devonport, house carpenters, June 24 and July 25, at the Royal Hotel, Devonport. Sols. Mr. H. H. Barnes, 21, Ely- place, Hol- obrn, London; and Mr. John Beer, Devonpolt. Put. Cr. Elisa- beth Samwell, Devonport, widow. Seal. June 8. GEORUE BAKER the elder and GEORGE BAKER the younger, Portsea, Southampton, provision merchants, June 24 and July 25, at the George Inn, Portsmouth. Sols. Mr. George Lamburn Greetham, Portsmouth; and Messrs. Williamson and Hall, Veru- lain. buildings, Gray's- iun, Loudon. Pet. Cr. Thomas M'Cheane, Portsea, provision merchant. Seal. June 8. THOMAS AMNER, Lime- street, City, merchant, June 24 and July 35, at the Commissioners'. rooms, Manchester. Sols. Mr. Charles James Tapp Burt, 18, Aldermanbury, London ; and Mr. Edward Bennett, Manchester. Pet. Cr. Henry Charles, Manchester, com- mission agent. Seal. May 29. ELLIS ROBERTS, Carnarvon, plumber, June 26, at the Castle Hotel, Bangor, and July 25, at the Sportsman's Hotel, Carnarvon. Sols. Mr. William Lloyd Roberts, Carnarvon; and Messrs. J. and H. Lowe and Co , Southampton- buildings, Chancery- lane, Lon- don. Pel. Cr. Richard Roberts, Carnarvon, mariner. Seal. May . f. , SAMUEL WORTHEN, Hinckley- mills, Drayton, Shropshire, miller, June 38 and July 35, at the Shire- hall, Shrewsbury. Sols. Messrs. Blackstock and Co., 1, Paper- buildings, Temple, London ; a id Messrs. Harper and Parry Jones, Whichurch, Shropshire. Pet. Cr. Thomas Bartou, Wem, Shropshire, officer of excise. Seal. May 29. THOMAS HATTON, Macelesfleld, Cheshire, grocer, June 23 and July 25, at the Angel Inn, Macclesfield. Sols. Messrs. William, son and Hill, 4, Verulam. buildings, London ; and Mr. Richard Wormald, Macclesfield. Pel. Cr. Joseph Heap, Joshua Heap, Robert Heap, Ralph Heap, and William Davis, Liverpool, whole- sale grocers. Seal. May 30. EDWARD BALLE FORCE, Exeter, grocer, June 27 and July 23, at the New London Inn, Exeter. Sols. Messrs. Bruttou and Clip, perton, 17, Bedford. row, London; and Messrs. Brntton and Lang- worthy, Exeter. Pet. Cr. Henry Sparkes, Exeter, out of busi- ness ( as surviving partner of Joseph Sparkes and Henry SparkeB, bankers), and Edwin Force, Exeter, attorney. Seal. June 5. WHEATLEY KIRK, Leeds, piano- forte manufacturer, June 31 and July 25, at the Court- house, Leeds. Sols. Messrs. Battye and Co., Chaoeery- lane, London; and Messrs. Raynar and Bradley, Leeds. Pel. Cr. Joseph Kirk, sen., Leeds, tin- plate worker. Seal. June 1. GEORGE WHEATLEY, Leeds, grocer, June I and July 25, at the Court- house, Leeds. Sols. Messrs. Makinson and Sanders, Middle Temple, London ; and Mr. T. F. Fodeu, Leeds. Pet. Cr. Thomas Pemberton, Leeds, soap maker. Seal. May 26. WILLIAM HOGARTH, Newcastle upon- Tyne, builder, July C and July 21, at the Bankrupt Commission- room, Newca* tle- upou- Tyne. Sols. Mr. Joseph Watson, Newcastle- upon- Tyne ; and Messrs. Shield and Harwood, 33, Poultry, London. Pet. Cr. David Jackson, Leith, Scotland, iron merchant. Seal. May 13. DIVIDENDS. John James Clark and Adam Clark, Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, drapers, July 4— Dighton Mott, Leadeuhall. market, poulterer, July 6— Sarah Barlow and Robert Salmon Mulley, Little Bartholomew- close, West Smithfield, stone masons, July 6_ John G. Lynch and James Kite, Macclesfield. wliarf, New North. road, Hoxton, coal merchants, July 4— Charles Fea, now or late of Canterbury, wool- stapler, July 6— William Brotlierspn, Liverpool- street, saddler, July 6— William Marsham, late of Angel- court, Throgmorton. street, broker, July 4- John Langridge, Salisbury, Wiltshire, stay maker, July 4— Thomas King Creak, Joseph Corsbie, and John Corsbie, late of Durand's- wharf, Rotherhtthe, mast and block makers, Julv 4— Thomas Preedy and William Preedy, Oxford, grocers, July 10, at the Three Cups Inn, Oxford— Francis William Paddon, Plymouth, Devonshire, common carrier, July 17, at the Royal Hotel, Ply. mouth— William Payne Georges, Devonport, Devonshire, wine merchant, July 10, at the Royal Hotel, Plymouth— Jonathan Colling the younger, Newcastle- upon- Tyne, hatter, July 6, at the Bankrupt Commission. room, Newcastle- upon- Tyne— Thomas Price and George Hinckley Powell, late of Hay, Breconshire, October 6, at the Castle Hotel, Brecon— Christopher Hodson, Thomas Hodson, and John Wolfenden, Well- o'th'. lane Mill, Rochdale, Lancashire, cotton spiuuers, July 15, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester— Tl ytie Joel, Newcastle- upon- Tyne, dealer in watches and jewellery, July 5, at the Commissioners'. roorns, Newcastle- upon- Tyne— Thomas Coleman, Highwood, Yarpole, Herefordshire, and Edward Wellings, Ludlow, Shropshire, bankers, July 4, at the Crown Inn, Ludlow— Lichford Flitcroft, Manchester, publican, July 13, at the Commis. sioners'- rooms, Manchester— Alfred Whitfield, Crosby- hall Cham, bers, Bishopsgate- street, London, Manchester warehouseman, July 7, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester. CERTIFICATES, JULY 4. Jonathan Ackroyd, Sheffield, draper— Joshua Milner and John Milner, Bradford, Yorkshire, woollen drapers— Thomas Makin Fisher, Manchester, cotton spinner— Henry Potts, Valentine- terrace, Blackheath. road, Kent, builder— John Capner, Birmingham, maltster — John Thompson, Liverpool, grocer. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. John Paddon and H. J. Paddon, Plymouth, auctioneers— William Ashmore and T. P. G. Osborne, Sheffield, opticians— Charles Hors- naill and William Higgins, Maidstone, com factors— David Hamilton and Henry Gooch, late of 33, Nicholas- lane, Lombard- street, but now of 80, King William- street, tailors— Joseph Brice and Robort Pres. ton, Liverpool, corn fnctors— James Chatterton nnd Henry Chatter, ton, Liverpool, block and pump makers— James Turton and Robert Nicholas, Shrewsbury, canal carriers— George Lewis and John Scholfieid, Liverpool, porter merchants— Robert Kay Butler and John Walter Winfield, Birmingham, blacking makers— Aaron Clark, Frederick Boothby, and Joseph Pickett, 112, Great Portland- street,' Mary. la- bonne, piano. forte makers ( so far as regards Joseph Pickett) — William Dixon Fullalove and Thomas Brown, Manchester, auc- tioneers— John Shield and John Dawson, Allenheads, Northumber- land, common carriers— D- Macarthur and William Ramsay, Oporto — Samuel Hodgson Smyth and Richard H. Smyth, London— Ed ivard South and Charles Holmes, Sheffield, manufacturers of table knives — Gawen Holloway and Joseph Westwood, Emsworth, Hampshire, merchants— John Burns Smith, Salford, Lancashire, and John Smith, Horton, Yorkshire, patentees for tendering cloth— John Walker' James Walker, and Oliver Dearden, Little Bolton, Lancashire', cotton waste spinners ( so far as regards Oliver' Dearden)— Ainos Freeman and John Robinson, Leeds, grocers— William Drewitt and John Towle, South Hinchley and Weirs Mills, Berkshire, paper makers— Thomas Wellard King and Thomas Hodges Grove Snow- den, Ramsgate, attorneys— William Hawes Simms and Charles Colpas, Brighton, builders— Thomas Haukins and George Hankins, 8, Union. street East, Spitalields, wine merchants— William Sut- cliffe and Edward Peel, Dudley- hili, near Bradford, Yorkshire, worsted spinners— Henry Thomas Ryall and George Charles Dane, 8, Regent- street, Waterloo. place, Pall. mall, booksellers ( so far as regards H. T. Ryall)— William Wells, Thomas Myers, Joseph Rams, den, Jonathan Peel, and John Ratcliffe, Horton, Yorkshire, worsted spinners Iso far as regards T- Myers, J. Rarasden, and J. Peel;. TUESDAY, JUNE 13. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. Junb 13.— CHARLES STANB RIDGE, WILLIAM FORBES MARSHALL, arid THOMAS ROBINSON WILLIAMS, Lamb's- buildings, Bunhill. row, manufacturers of artificial skins. JUNB 13.— SAMUEL FLETCHER, Jew's. harp. wharf, Regent's, canal. basin, coal merchant. EDWARD PARRY and ARCHIBALD FISH, Warwick. street, Regent- street, tailors. BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED. WILLIAM WHICHER, Chichester, attorney. CHARLES RAISBECK HENZELL, Aldermaubury, Btock and brace manufacturer. BANKRUPTS. CHARLES CHAMBERS, Holles- street, Cavendish. square, mil liner, June 22 and July 25. Sols. Messrs. Alleu and Co., 17, Car. lisle- street, Soho square. Pel. Cr. Joseph George Tinckler, Wil. liam Tinckler, Johu Rigg, John Nixon, and John Atkinson, Old Bond- street, silk mercers. Seal. June 7. HENRY BOYS, 25, Beaumont- street, High. street, Mary- la- bonne, music seller, June 23 and July 25. Sot. Mr. Comer, 20, Dean, street, South wark. Pel. Cr. Charles Barker, 12, Birchin- lane, advertising agent. Seal. June 8. WILLIAM ROBINSON, Welbeck. Btreet, Cavendish. square, and late of Manchester, commission agent, June 23 and July 25. Sol. Mr. Corner, 20, Dean- street, Southwark. Pel. Cr. George Hast, ings Heppel, King William. street, gent,, administrator of John Heppel, deceased. Seal. June 9. EDWIN HARRISON, 55, Parliament. street, carver and gilder, June 20 and July 25. Sol. Mr. Crossfield, 91, Whitechapel- road. Pet. Cr. William Blaudford and Thomas Willett, 29, Bouverie- street, carver and gilder. Seal. June 9. NATHANIEL OGLE, now or late of Camberwell, steam carriage builder, June 21 and July 25. Sol. Mr. Margary, Quality- court, Chancery- lane, Pet. Cr. William Nathaniel Tuck, 22, Saint Martin's. court, picture dealer. Seal. June 5. 1EORGE WILDGOOSE, Macclesfield, Cheshiio, grocer, June 23 and July 25, at the Macclesfield Arms Hotel, Macclesfield. Sots. Messrs. Parrott and Colville, Macclesfield; and Messrs. Lucas and Parkinson, 9, Argyll. street, Regent- street, London. Pet. Cr. Joseph Wildgooss, Heaton Norris, timber merchant and builder. Seal. May 30. o LONDON MARKETS. Coax EXCHANGE, MONDAY, JUNE 12 — Wheat, Essex Red, new, 42s to 50s; fine, 54s to 57s ; old, — s to — s; white, new, 50s to 56s; fine, 58 « to 60s; superfine, 61sto63s; old,— s to — s Rye 30s to 38s.— Barley, 26s to 30s; fine, — s to — s; superfine, 31s' to 33s— Malt, 54s to 56s ; fine, 58s to 60s Peas, Hog, 37s to 38s ; Maple, 39s to 41s ; white, 36s to 38s ; Boilers, 40s to43e.— Beans' small, 40s to 42s; old, 44s to 48s ; Ticks, 32s to 36s; old, — s to' — s; Harrow, 33s to 40s OatB, feed, 22s to 24s j fine, 25s to 27s; Poland, 26s to 28s; line, 29s to 30s; Potatoe, 28s to 31s ; fine' 32s to 33s— Bran, per quarter, 12s Od toI3s0d Pollard, fine, per ditto, 14s. 20s. Pursuant to the Act/ of the Relief of Insolvent Debtors in England. THE COURT FOR RELIEF OF INSOLVENT DEBTORS. N the Sixth day of June, 1837, upon the filing of the petition and" schedule ot DANIEL HARRIS, formerly of Spiceal- street, Birmingham, and also of Bull- street, Birmingham, then of Jamaica- row, Smithfield, and also of the Bull- ring, Birmingham, then of Jamaica- row aforesaid, all in VVarwickshiie, occasionally lodging at Dukes- street, Aldgate, in the city of London, fruit- erer, and general dealer, and late of 50, Mansel- street, Goodman's- fields, Middlesex, general dealer, now out of business, a prisoner in the King's Bench prison, in the county of Surrey, it is ordered and appointed that the matters of the said petition and schedule shall be heard by the Court, at the Court- house, in Portugal- street, Lin- coln's- inn- fieids, on the 7th day of July next, at the hour of ten in the morning precisely; of which all creditors and person claiming to be creditors of the said insolvent, for the sum of five pounds or more, shall have notice by service of a copy o( this order, made within such time and in such manner as is prescribed by the rule Of Court in that behalf. BY THE COURT. TAKE NOTICE. 1. If any creditor intends to oppose the said prisoner's dischaige, notice of such intention must be given by entry thereof in the proper pagetmd column of the book kept for that purpose at the office of the Court, between the hours of ten in the forenoon and four in the afternoon, three clear days before the day of hearing above- mentioned, ex- clusive of Sunday, and exclusive both of the day of entering such notice and of the said day of hearing;— Notice to pro- duce at the hearing any books or papers filed with the sche- dule, must be given to the officer having the custody thereof within the same hours, on any day previous to the said day of hearing. N. B. Entrance to the office in Portugal- street. 2. The petition and schedule, and all books, papets, and writings, filed therewith, will be produced by the proper officer for inspection and examination, on Mon- dajs, Wednesdays, and Fridays, until the last day for entering opposition inclusive, on this notice being ex- hibited ; and copies of the petition and schedule, or such part thereof as shall be required, will be provided by the proper officer according to the Act 7 Geo. 4, c. 57, sec. 76. 3. Opposition at the hearing can only be made by the creditor in person, or by council appearing for him. L. NORTON, Attorney for the Insolvent, 43, Jewin- street, City. PRICE OF SEEDS, JUNE 12— Per Cwt Red Clover, English', 50s to 60s ; fine, 65s to 70s ; Foreign, 50s to 80s: fine, 60B to 65s White Clover, 54B to 60s ; fine, 65s to 70s._ Trefo » , new, 14s to ISs; fine, 19s to 22s ; old, 12s to 16s Trefolium, 16s toI8s; fine, 20s to22s.— Caraway, English, new, 46s to 52s ; Foreign, 48s to 538— Coriander, 14s Od to 16s Od, Per Quarter.— St . Foin, 36s to38s ; fine, 40s to 42s j Rye Grass, 28s to 35s; new, 35s to 45s ; Pacey Grass, 40s to45s; Linseed for feeding, 48s to 50s; fine, 53s to 56s ; ditto for crushing, 42s to 46s.— Canary, 38s to 46s.— Hemp, 44s to 50s. Per Bushel White Mustard Seed, 8s Od to 10s Od ; brown ditto, 10s Od to 12s ; Tare8,48 3d to 4a 6d ; fine new Spring, 48 9d to5s Od. Per Lasl.— Rape Seed, English, 35f to 371; Foreign, 33/ to 35(. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICE OFBRITISH CORN FORTHE WEEK ENDING JUNE 8, 1837 Wheat, 56s 4d ; Barley, 32s Id; Oats, 22s lid; Rye, 36s 2dj Beans, 37s 4d ; Peas, 36s Id. DUTY ON FOREIGN CORN FOR TUB PRESENT WEEK Wheat, 30s8d ; Barley, 13s lOd; Oats, 13s 9d ; Rye, 15s 6d; Beans, 14s0d; Peas, 15s 6d. jVf ESSRS. PERRY and Co., Surgeons, may he I TJL personally consulted from nine in the morning till ten at night, and on Sundays from nine till two, at No. 4, GREAT CHARLES STREET, four doors from Easy- row, BIRMINOHAM; NO. 23, SLATER- STREET, near DUKE- STREET, LIVERPOOL, and No. 2, BALE- STREET, near St. Peter's Church, MANCHESTER, of whom may be had ( gratis) with each box of pills, their TREATISE ON THE VENEREAL DISEASE, Gonorrhcea, Gleets, and Stric- ture, including practical Observations on Seminal Weak- ness, arising from early abuses, intended for the instruction of general readers, so that all persons can obtain an imme- diate cure with ease, secrecy, and safety. PERRY'S PURIFYINGffllPECIFIC PILLS, of Copaiba, Cubebs, and other Vegetable extracts, price 2s. 9d. and lis., per Box, a certain, safe, and the most speedy remedy ever discovered for the permanent and ef- fectual cure of gonorrhoea, gleets, strictures, seminal weak- ness, pains in the loins, affections of the kidneys, gravel, lumbago, local debility, irritation of the bladder or urethra, and other diseases of the urinary passages, frequently per- forming a perfect cure in the short space of three days, with ease, secrecy, and safety. Their operation is imper- ceptible: they do not require the slightest confinement, or any alteration of diet, beverage, or exercise. Neitberdo they disagree with the stomach, or cause any offensive smell to the breath, as is the case with Copaiba and Cubebs, when administered by mcdical men in the usual way. PERRY'S VEGETABLE PILLS are well known as a certain and effectual remedy for the Venereal disease, secondary symptoms, venereal eruptions, pains in the bones, ulcerated sore throat, diseased nosg, 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. It is a melancholy fact, that thousands fall victims to the venereal disease, owing to the unskilfulilest of illiterate men, who, by the use of that deadly poison— mercury, ruin the constitution, and cause ulcerations, with blotches on the head, face, und body, dimness in the sight, noise in the ears, deafness, obstinate gleets, and nodes on the shin bones, till at length a general debility and decay of the constitution ensues, and a melancholy death puts a period to their dread- ful sufferings. Messrs. Perry, Surgeons, continue to direct their studies to those dreadful debilities arising from the too free and indiscriminate indulgence of the passions, which not only occasion a numerous train of nervous affections, and en- tail on its votaries all the enervating imbecilities of old age, but weaken and destroy all the bodily senses, occa- sioning loss of imagination, judgment, and memory, in- difference and aversion for all pleasures, the idea of their own unhappiness and despair, which arises from considering themselves as the authors of their own misery, and the ne- cessity of renouncing the felicities of marriage, are the fluc- tuating ideas of those who have given way to this delusive and destructive habit. In that distressing state of debility or deficiency, whether the consequence of such baneful practices, excessive drinking, or any other cause, by which the powers of the constitution become enfeebled, they offer a firm, safe, and speedy restoration to sound and vigorous health. Messrs. PERRY and Co., may be personally consulted from nine in the morning till ten at night, and on Sundays from nine till two, and will give advice to persons taking the above, or any other of their preparations, without a fee, at No. 4, Great Charles- street, four doors from Easy- row, Birmingham); 23, Slater- street, near Duke- street, Liverpool; and at 2, Bale- street, near St. Peter's Church, Manchester; where their Pills can only be obtained, as no Bookseller, Druggist, or other Medicine Vendor is supplied with them. Letters from the country, ( post paid) containing a remit- tance for medicine, will be immediately answered. HAYANDSTRAW.— Smithfield.— Hay, 80s Od to 108s Od; Inferior, — sto— s; Clover, 100s to 126s; Inferior — s to — s; Straw, 38s to 44S.' * * —• L*"" 1 Whitechapel.— Clover, 115s to 130B ; new ditto,— sto — s ; second cut, — sto— s; Hay, 95 to I05s ; new ditto,— s to — s ; Wheat Straw, 38s to 42s. Cumberland.— Fine Upland Meadow and Rye- grass Hay, 105s to I15s; inferior ditto, 90s to 95s; superior Clover, 115B to I28s; Straw, 39s to 42s per load of 36 trusses. Portman Market.— Coarse heavy Lowland Hay,— sto— s; new Meadow Hay,— sto— s ; old ditto, lOOsto 116s ; usefulditto,— sto — s; New Clover ditto, — s to— sj oldditto, 110s to 116s; Wheat Straw, 42s to 45s per load of 36 trusses. OILS— Rape Oil, brown, £ 35 0s perton; Refilled, £ 37 08 ; Linseed Oil, ,£ 27 0s ; and Rape Cake, £ 5 5B Linseed Oil Cake, £ 12 10s per thousand. SMITHFIELD, JUNE 5 — TO sink the offal— per Sib.— Beef, 3s 2d to 4s lOd ; Best Down and Polled Mutton, 4s 6d to 4s lOd; Veal, 4s Od to 5s Od ; Pork, 4s 2d to 4s lOd ; Lamb, 5s lOd to 6s 2d. NEWGATE AND LIADENHALL By the Carcase — Bee!, 3s 4d to 4s 4d; Mutton, 3s 8d to 4s 8d; Veal, 3a Od to 5a Od ; Pork, 3s 4d to 4s 8d : Lamb, 5s Od to 6s Od. ASHLEY COOPER'S BOTANICAL PURIFY- ING PILLS are established by thirty years'experi- ence, are prescribed by most of the eminent Physicians and Surgeons in London, and are always administered at several public hospitals, as the only certain remedy for GonorrhcEa, 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 complaint for a time, without eradicating it from the con- stitution, and the patient on undergoing a little more fa- tigue than ordinary, finds all the symptoms return, and that they are suffering under the complaint as much as at first, and are at last constrained to have recourse to these pills, as the only certain cure. They are likewise a mostefficient remedy for Pimpled Faces, Scurf, Scorbutic Affections, and all Eruptions of the Skin. Captainsof vesselsshould make a point of always taking them to 9ea, 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, lie first offered these pills to the public, may be considered interesting. From that eminent surgeon, the late Joshua Brookes, Esq., F. R. S., Professor of Anatomy, & c. & c. Theatre of Anatomy, Blenheim- street. Dear Cooper,— I have tried your pills in numerous instances, and ray candid opinion is that they are a mostimproved system of treat- ment for those peculiar complaints for which you recommend them, curing with rapidity, and with a certainty that I had never before witnessed; but what I consider their most invaluable property is, that they entirely eradicate the complaint, and never leavethose dis- tressing secondary symptoms ( that harass the patient for life) which usually arise after the use of those uncertain remedies, Mercury and Copaiba. I think you cannot fail to have a very large sale for them. Believe me, yours, very truly, 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 besupplied with every Patent Medi- cine of repute, ( with an allowance on taking six at one time) warranted genuine and fresh from the various makers. Orders by post, containing aremittance, punctually attended to, and the change, if any, can be returned with the order. Ashley Cooper's Botanical Pills are sold by one or more respectable venders in every town in the kingdom, and any shop that has not got them will obtain them from London without any extra charge. Countiy 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; Rogers, Stafford; Mort, Newcastle; Merridew, Coventry. IN consequence of the increased demand, and for the convenience of purchasers, ROBINSON'S INVALU- A BLE COUGH PILLS, and his GENUINE APERIENT FAMILY PILLS, may be obtained in Birmingham of— Mr. FLEWITT, Chemist _. High. street Mr. H. JOHNSON, Chemist New- street Mr. A. JOHNSON, Chemist Union- street Messrs. MATTHISON and Co Edgbaston- street Mr. SMITH, Chemist Coleshill- street Mr. Woon, Bookseller High- street And of the Proprietor, at 35, Colemore- row Sold by one or more respectable Medicine Venders in every Town in the Kingdom, in Boxes, Is. l^ d. and 2s. 9d. each. Sole Wholesale Agents, Messrs. Barclay and Sons, Lon- don. To prevent fraud, observe none are genuine unless the Proprietor's name is on the Government Stamp. Dr. DE SANCTIS'S RHEUMATIC AND GOUT PILLS. Prepared by Bartholomew de Sanctis, M. D., Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, London. flMIE unfailing efficacy of Dr. De Sanctis's Pills i for the cure of Gout and Rheumatism, has been tried in an extensive practice, and their uniform success fully warrants Dr. De Sanctis in offering them for general use, as a specific, and the only one for the cure of GOUT, RHEUMATISM, RHEUMATIC GOUT, LUMBAGO, PAINS IN THE FACE, & c. Dr. De Sanctis is determined not to confine the use of these invaluable pills any longer to the sphere of his ac- quaintance, but has caused it to be laid before the public in the form of a Patent Medicine, hut he trusts that his long tried, and he hopes, well merited medical reputation, will secure him from any charge of empiricism, and not allow this most invaluable remedy ( in the discovery ofwhich he has devoted the greater part of his life and a large for- tune) to he classed among quack medicines. Suffice it to say, that these pills do not contain Colchi- cum or any other deleterious drug, they are perfectly inno- cent, and may be administered to the most delicate indi- viduals. The dose is one pill every eight hours until cured, the first dose will begin to mitigate the most violent attack within four of its administration; and a patient writhing under the most malignant attack of Gout or Rheumatism, may rely on its removal within forty- eight hours. Dr. De Sanctis lays before the public the following letters from some of his patients, which speak a higher eu- logium on the efficacy of the medecine than any represen- tation he could make himself. Brighton. mir,— The wonderful efficacy of yourwonder working medicine 8 almost incredible; fifteen years ago I was attacked with acute i Rheumatism, from having slept in a damp bed while travelling in • Flanders, the torture arising from which has been of the most ago- nizing description, for although at intervals I have been free frym pain ( had it been incessant I must have put an end to my existence) I have been more or less subject to it ever since, and when the at- tacks came on I felt as though I was being torn asunder. In fifteen hours from the first dose of your Pills ( but mind I took two of them) I was materially relieved, and at the expiration of a week I had not the slightest trace of my enemy left; as you decline to let me have the prescription in consequence of your Intention of introducing it as a Patent Medicine, you are free to publish this communication if you think proper, for the Pills deserve to be generally known. I am, sir, your obedient servant W. WEST. ( To Dr. De Sanctis. Miss Wilkins has been entirely" cured of a Rheumatic affection in the hip, which Miss W. has long been a snfferer from, by the use of Dr. De Sanctis's Pills, after several other remedies she tried had failed. Sir,— I think that without a single exception I have suffered more from Gout than any other individual ever endured, the pain has been so intense ( without the slightest diminution) for three and four weeks at a time, that I have frequently been obliged to have a nurso by me day and night, striking my foot with a stick, to mode- rate the pain by inflicting another, until I have sometimes had my foot so black that it has not recovered its colonr for months ; at the commencement of the last attack I procured some of your Pills, and to my very great satisfaction they immediately relieved me and pre- vented its further inroad, and I have now been free from it for eighteen months. I am, yours very truly, To Dr. De Sanctis. FRANCIS HEATH. Mr. Smith's compliments to Dr. De Sanctis, and begs to communi- cate to him that he found the most speedy relief from the use of his Pills, and was entirely cured in three days. Dublin. Sir,— Your Rheumatic and Gout Pills are certainly a most effica- cious Medicine ; I have been a severe sufferer from' Cold Rheuma- tism, which the Faculty have told me was always difficult of cure, it certainly has been difficult with me, for, for fifteen years I have fluctuated from bad toworseand worse to better, I have placed my- self in the hands of twenty. five Medical Men who pursued as many different modes fo treatment without any permanent effect, a fortu- nate circumstance introduced some of your Pills to me, a few months since, which entirely cured me, and thank God have not had a re- lapse since, I therefore think it but justice to you, to offer you my testimony of their efficacy, and 1 recommend ail Gouty and" Rheu- matic subjects never to be without them.— Your's& c. To Dr. Do Sanctis. JACOB JOHNSON. Cheltenham. Dear Sir,— When your name was mentioned to me by a friend, I certainly was sceptical of your being able to afford me any more relief than such as I had before obtained; but yourmostinvaluablePills have certainly cured me, and had I not obtained them, I as certainly should have been before this a corpse. I have beenforfiveandforty years a martyr to the horrid complaint of Gout, which in sufferings must be equal to the tormentB of hell, and during this long period I have tried every Remedy that money could procure or the most eminent Medical talent could suggest. I have taken Colcliicum in every form, and in very large doses, both with and without Opium, but unfortunately found the more Medicine 1 took, the more fre- quently the attacksreturned, increasingiu violence every time, and each attack becoming of longer duration, frequently of late from six weeks to two months, the most powerful remedies having at last failed to exert any influence on the complaint, the delay that occurred in consequence of my having to write to yon ere I could ob- tain the Pills, allowed the complaint to increase more than it had ever done before, for both my legs, which of late years have been attackedsimultaneously, and swelled to the size of my head, on the last occasion swelled up my thighs, and but for the timely arrival of your Pills no doubt would have got into my stomach and then as our immortal poet says, " In a coffin I'd pop'd off" instead of being here to return you my most grateful, sincere, and heartfelt thanks; the effect produced by your most ioestiraable Pills was wonderful; in a short time after taking the first dose I fancied my- self easier, but made up my mind to refer it only to a false confi- dence; but my astonishment was excessive when at the end of six hours I found the swelling begin to diminish, and in five days 1 found myself completely cured, and without any of those symptoms of lassitude and debility beingleft behind, which have always lasted for many days after every previous attack for the last ten years. I enclose yon a draft for fifty pounds, and feel it the most useful fee I ever paid for Medical assistance ; I trust that if you ever visit this neighbourhood you will not fail to spend a few days with me, and neither means or disposition will be absent from every en. deavour to minister to your enjoyment. Let me hope that many years will elapse ere the Grim Tyrant shall seize you with his icy hand, when if your Patients render that justice that is due to your invaluable discovery, your remains must be laid among the most eminent of British Worthies. — I am, dear sir, yonr most sincere well- wisher, and resuscitated patient, WM. LAMBERT. To Dr. De Sanctis. Mr. Wentworth presents his compliments to Dr. De Sanctis, and writes to say that he considers his Pills a harmless but most effica- cious remedy, and shall have great pleasure in recommendingthem to the notice of his friends; the particular complaiut Mr. Went- worth took them for was Rheumatic Gout in the righthand, which he is very subject to, but which he finds Dr. De Sanctis's Pills im- mediately remove. Dr. De Sanctis's Pills are sold by appointment, in boxes at 2s. 9d. each, at HANNAY and Co.' s General Patent Medicine Warehouse, 63, Oxford- street, the corner of Wells- street, London; by whom dealers in the country are supplied on liberal terms ; where may also be had HANNAY AND CO.' s INVALUABLE HORSE BLISTER. This most important improvement in the method of blis- tering cattle is prepared by Messrs. Hannay and Co., for and under the immediate inspection of the principal Veteri- nary Surgeon of one of His Majesty's cavalry regiments, who has used it during a period of many years with the most favourable results. Messrs. Hannay and Co begto recom- mend it to the use of their sporting friends and the owners of horses generally, as far superior to any other blister in present use. It has the peculiar properties of not destroy- ing the hair, and never blemishes the part to which it is applied, however frequently it may be used to the youngest foal; and no horse, however high his courage, will ever gnaw it; and the horse on which it has been applied may be immediately turned out to grass without a cradle. It has the invaluable property ( not possessed by any other article) of removing the blemish of a broken knee* by re- storing the hair. It has received the most unqualified approbation of some of the most extensive owners of cattle, and only requires to be tried to convince the observer of its invaluable properties. Sold in pots at Is. 6d., containing one dressing; pots, 2s. 9d. two dressings; 5s. four dressings. * » * The great celebrity of this blister has caused un- principled dealers to counterfeit it. Purchasers must there- lore be particular in seeing that it bears the name and address of " HANNAY and Co., 63, Oxford- street," on the label oil each pot. The above articles are sold by one or more respectable medicine venders in every town in the kingdom, and any shop that has not got either of them will procure it from London if ordered without any additional charge. Sold by special appointment by M. Maher, 5, Congreve- street, Birmingham; Meridew, Coventry; Parke, Wolverhamp- ton ; Welchman, Northampton ; Price and Co., Journal- office, Leicester; Rogers, Stafford; Mort, Newcastle; Stratford, Worcester. FRANKS'S SPECIFIC SOLUTION OF COPAIBA. ACERTAIN and most speedy cure for all Urethra, Discharges, Gleets, Spasmodic Strictures, Irritation of tile Kidneys, Bladder, Urethra and Prostate Gland. TESTIMONIALS. From Joseph Henry Green, Esq., F. R. S., one of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons, Surgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital, and Professor of Surgery in King's College, London, " 1 have made trial of Mr. Franks's Solution of Copaiba, at St; Thomas's Hospital, in a variety of cases of discharges in the male and female, and the results warrant my stating, that it is an elfica cious remedy, and one which does not produce the usual unpleasau effects of Copaiba. ( Signed,) JOSEPH HENRY GREEN. 46, Lincolu's. inn. fields, April 25,1835. From Bransby Cooper, Esq., F. R. S., Surgeon to Guy's Hospital, and Lecturer on Anatomy, & c., & c, Mr. Bransby Cooper presents his compliments to Mr. George Franks, and has great pleasure in bearing testimony of the efficacy of his Solution of Copaiba, in Gonorrhaea, for which disease Mr. Cooper has prescribed the Solution in ten or twelve cases with per- fect succesB. New. street, Spring Gardens, April 13, 1835. From William Hentsch, Esq., House Surgeon to the Free Hospital, Greville- street, Hatton street. My dear Sir,— I have given your medicine in many cases of Go- norrhoea and Gleets, some of which had been many months under other treatment, and can bear testimony to its great efficacy. I have found it to cure in a much shorter time, and with more i enefit to the general health, than any other mode of treatment I know of ; the generality of cases have been cured within a week from the commencement of taking the Medicine, and some of them in 1 « S3 time than that. Have the goodness to send me another supply. I am, dear sir, your's, very truly, ( Signed) WILLIAM HENTSCH. Greville- street, Hatton. garden, April 15,1835. Prepared only by George Franks, surgeon, 90, Black- friars- road, and may be had of his Agents, Barclayand Sons, Farringdon- street, London; Evans, Son and Co., Feinvick- street, Liverpool; Mander, Weaver, and Co., Wolverhamp- ton; at the Medical Hall, 54, Lower Sackville- street, Dub- lin ; of J. and R. Raimes, Leith- walk, Edinburgh; and of all Wholesale and Retail Patent Medicine Venders in the United Kingdom. Sold in bottles at 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and lis. each, duty included. Caution— To prevent imposition, the Honourable Com- missioners of Stamps have directed the name of " George Franks, Blackfriars road," to be engraven on the Govern- ment Stamp. N. B. Hospitals, and other Medical Charities, supplied as usual from the Proprietor. tgsT Mr. Franks may be consulted every day, as usual, until Two o'clock. Sold by appointment, by Mr. Maher, 5, Congreve- street, Birmingham; Merridew, Coventry; Owen and Gerdes, Liverpool; Bowman and Law, Manchester; and Deighton and Co., Betterby, York. MULREADDY'S COUGH ELIXIR. ONE dose is sufficient to convince the most scrupu- lous of the invaluable and unfailing efficacy of Mul- readdy's Cough Elixir, for the cure of cough's, colds, hoarseness, shortness of breath, asthma, difficulty of breathing, huskiriess, and unpleasant tickling in the throat, night coHgh, with pain on the chest, & c. The paramount superiority of this medicine above every other now in use, for the cure of the above complaints, only requires to be known to prove the passport to its being, ere long, universally made use of for the cure of eveiy description of Pulmonary Affection. To those who are unacquainted with the invaluable pro- perties of Muheaddy's Cough Elixir, the following letters will exhibit its efficacy: — Manchester, Jan. 2nd, 1835. Dear Sir,— The cough medicine you sent me is certainly a most surprising remedy; six days ago 1 was unable to breathe, unless with great difficulty, attended with much coughing, which always kept my soft palate relaxed, and in a state of irritation, and the more I coughed the worseit was, and it, in its own turn, produced a constant excitement of coughing. I am now about, to the wonder of iny friends and neighbours, entirely free from cough. One smpll 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 moro— it would have saved my having had to swallow, from time to time, upwards of a hogshead of their nauseous, and, as they all proved, useless drugs. The agreeable flavour of the medicine is a great recommendation: I think you ought to put it up aHd sell it to the public, and if any one should doubt its efficacy, refer them tome. I shall have the pleasure of being with you in a few days, when I shall press on your consideration the propriety of making it up for sale ; it would prove an enormous fortune to your grand- children. If you make up your mind to do so, as I am what the world styles an idle man, you may enlist me in your service in any way that you think would be useful. But I should advise vim to place the management in the bands of one of the great medicine bouses in London. Hannay's, in Oxford. street, are being advertised in all the papers here, as wholesale agents for Ramsbottom's Corn Solvent, which, by the bye, my girls all say is really a cure, and many other medicines. I should say this would be a very good house, Oxford street being oue of the most public- situations ia Lon- don. All join me iu kind remembrance to yourself aud Mrs. M. Believe me, yours, very truly, T. Mulreaddy, Esq. Stiun 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 80 was I when, finding that I had a severe cough, he drew forth from his pocket a phial, a portion of the cou tents of which he insisted upon mv swallowing instauter, and lef me the remainder, which I also took, and in the course of twenty- four hours I found myself quite free from even any tendency towards coughing ; he now tells me that you are his oracle of health; I, therefore, beg leave to present my report at head- quarters, with many thanks, and trust that 1 may be able to prevail on you to let me have half, or a whole pint of the medicine to stow in my sea. chest, as I sail again for America in about ten days, and if 1 can, in return, afford you any service on the other side of the Atlantic, I am at your command. T. W. BUCHANAN. Master of the Brig Nancy, of Orleans. T. Mulreaddy, Esq. Birkenhead, Jan., 1835. Dear Sir,— The bottle of Medicine you left for me the other day has greatly relieved the wheezing I have been so long subject to ; and I do not now find the cold produce the sensation it Used previous to taking your medicine ; it used formerly to nip me on going out, and I seemed as though I had a string run through my body, and he breast and back bones were drawn together. If you will be so good as to give me another bottle, I am sure it will work a perfect cure. I am, sir, your most obedient servant, Tj Mulreaddv, Esq. NICHOLAS BROWN. Dear Sir,— The effect of your medicine, in curing our children of the Hooping Cough, has been like magic, for which I, and Mrs. Wilson in particular, return our grateful acknowledgments, and the little W's shall not fail, ere long, to thank you in person. Rely on it, n our family you will bo styled doctor in future. Believe me, yours very sincerely, J. WILSON. Liverpool, Dec., 1834. My dear Sir,— You most assuredly deserve the thanks of society for presenting it with such an invaluable cure for Coughs. For years past, during the winter months, and aiways on foggy days, have I heretofore been compelled to confine myself a close and soli- tary prisoner iu 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. meneed taking the medicine you scut, and have taken twelve bottles. After I had taken " three, I could respire as vigourously as in the early part of my life, and I now believe that 1 was then perfectly cured— a cure not to have been expected at my advanced age, 80 years— but I persevered in taking it until I had consumed the whole twelve bottles. Your situation iu life, 1 know, places you beyond the necessity of preparing an article of the kind for sale, but it must and shall be done, and if you neglect to do it, my sincere wish is that you may be lugged out of your retirement, and compelled to provide it in quantities equal to the boundless waters; and you may rely upon it, that 1, a locomotive proof of its wonderful power, will spare neither time nor trouble to promulgate its efficacy, until you. will find your cottage attacked by myriads of my former fellow- sufferers, for a share of your bounty, and I myself now apply for the first, trusting that your goodness will not suffer you to refuse me 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 medicine has had the promised effect, and com- pletely cured my trying cough. If thou wilt let me have a quantity iu a large bottle, I will, in return, enter thy name to any charitable institution thou wilt fix on. Thine, T. Mulreaddy, Eeq. JACOB ROBERTS. Mr. Mulreaddy begs to observe, that to publish copies of he whole of the letters he has received of the above tenor, would require several volumes. The selection here pre- sented he considers quite sufficient, hut begs to say, that upon trial of his Cough Elixir, it will give itself the best recommendation. It will lie sold by his appointment, whole- sale and retail, by his agents, Messrs. HANNAY and Co., 63, Oxford- street, London ; and retail by every other respecta- ble vender of medicines in bottles at Is. l^ d. each. Purchasers should observe that it is wrapped up in white paper, on which, in a blue label with white, ettere, are printed the words,— Mulreaddy's Cough Elixir, pre- pared by Thomas Mulreaddy, Liverpool, andsold byhisap- pointmentat Hannay and Co.' s, Patent Medicine Ware- house, 63, Oxford- street, London. Price Is. l% d. and 4s. fid. Sold wholesale and retail by HANNAY and Co., 63, Oxford street, London, wholesale Patent Medicine Ven- ders and Perfumers to the Royal Family, where the public can be supplied with every patent and public medicine of repute; ' and also with the perfumes of all the respectable London perfumers, with an allowance oil taking six or more of any other article at the same time. Orders, by post, enclosing a remittance, punctually at- tended to, aiul the change returned in the parcel, or sent to any partot 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 Merridew, Coventry. Printed and published by FRANCIS BASSET SHENSTONK FLINDELL, of Lee Mount, in the parish of Edgbaston, at 38, New- street, Birmingham, where letters for the Editor may be 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. REYNEI. L, Chan- cery- lane; Mr. DEACON, 3, Walbrook; and Mr. HAM- MOND, 27, Lombard- street.— Saturday, June 17,1837.