PRICE 4* d No. 631. SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1837. THEATRE ROYAL, BIRMINGHAM. IN consequence of the immense and continued suc- ~ cess of MISS SHIRREFFand MR. TEMPLE- ON, the Manager, ever anxious to secure the patronage of is liberal supporters, has the honour to announce that they re- engaged^^ pjVE NIGHTS ONLY! uring which time the Operas, now in active preparation, vill be produced. On MONDAY, June 26, by particular desire, will be re- e , ted the admired and highly successful Opera of NATIVE LAND; or, the Return from Slavery. • Yurelio, ( with introduced songs and the original music,) Mr. TEMPLETON. Ccelio, ( with introduced songs and the original music,) Miss SHIRREFF. a- nina, ( with introduced songs and the original duet with Miss Shireff,) Miss BYRON. . Ciemanthe, ( with songs) Mrs. OWEN. Tancredi, Mr. GRATTAN. Peregrino, Mr. W. H. ANGEL. The increased Orchestia, led by Mr. Giles, will play l'wo popular Overtures. .- , The Performances will conclude with Jerrold s Nautical Lama of . . BLACK- EYED SUSAN; or, All in the Downs. ilue Peter, ( with Gay's beautiful Ballad of Black- Eyed Susan) Mr. TEMPLETON. William, Mr. GRATTAN. Susan, Miss A. COOXE. • natbrain, Mr. W. H. ANGEL. In active preparation, Two new Operas. Boxes, 3s Upper Boxes, 2s.— Pit, Is— Gallery, fad— No Ha'f price to Pit or Gailery. i ICK- CLOTHS*, MARQUEES, TENTS, FL AGS,& c. " Every hour, every minute of Lord Snowden's time was ow occupied in preparations for the reception of the Royal arty. Gunter was forthwith called into council; Edging- ) ii was summoned in the tent and marquee department."— , ove and Pride, vol. 2, page 77. BENJAMIN EDGINGTON, 2, Duke- street, Lon- don- bridge, has on sale or hire an extensive assort- ment of splendid MARQUEES, or Temporary Rooms, ' • ith or without boarded Floors, for dancing— one is of ex- aordinary dimensions, being 260 feet long, under which ,000 persons may stand, or 1000 individuals dine. New and Second- hand lUCK- CLOTHS, fitted up with oles, & c., complete; the second hand are equal to new, iving only been used once on a recent occasion. A Warehouse, 208, Piccadilly. ' ursuant to the Act for the relief of Insolvent Debtors in England. ' HE COURT FOR RELIEF OF INSOLVENT DEBTORS. On the Twentieth day of June, 1837. FTPON the filing- of the petition and schedule of U SAMUEL LAWRENCE, formerly of Suffolk- treet, Birmingham, Warwickshire, japanner and varmsh- inaker, then of Edgbaston, near Birmingham, Warwick- lire, out of business, and late of Trafalgar- place, New- cut, 1 the borough of the city of Bristol, journeyman varnish- mker, a prisoner in the gaol of the city of Bristol, in the ounty of the same city. It is ordered and appointed that j the matters of the said petition and schedule shall he heard > y Henry Revel! Reynolds, Esq., or one other of Hii Ma- - sty's Commissioners for the relief of Insolvent Debtors, oceeding on his circuit, at the Court- house, at the city of j Bristol, in the said county, on the Eighteenth day of July Jnext, at the hour of ten in the morning precisely; of which I all creditors and persons claiming to be creditors of the said .. solvent for the sum of Five Pounds or more, shall have otice by service of a copy of this order, made within such lime and in such manner as is prescribed by the rule of • iinrt in that behalf. It is likewise ordered that the said | prisoner shall, within ten days after the issuing liereol, cause I cue duplicite of the said petition and schedule, and all I book9, papers, and writings relating thereto in his possession or power, to be lodged with the Clerk of the Peace, at his I othce, at the city ot Bristol, in the said county. 1 BY THE COURT. TAKE NOTICE. 1. If any Creditor intends to oppose the said prisoner's dis- I charge, notice of such intention must be given to the said I prisoner in writing, three clear days before the day of hearing, exclusive of Sunday, and exclusive both of the day of giving such notice and of the said day of hearing. | 2. The Petition and Schedule will be produced by the I proper officer for inspection and examination at the office of I the Court, in London, on Mondays, Wednesdays, anil Fri- days, between the hours of ten and four on this notice being exhibited; and copies of the petition and schedule, or such j part thereof as shall be required, will be provided by the I proper officer according to the act 7 Geo. 4, c. 57, sec. 76. I N. B. Entrance to the office in Portugal- street, Lincoln's I Inn Fields. 3. The duplicate of the petition and schedule, and all I books, papers, and writings, filed therewith, will be produced 1 by the said Clerk of the Peace, for inspection and examina- tion, at his office above mentioned; and copies of the peti- tion and schedule, or such part thereof as shall be required, will be provided according to the act 7 Geo. 4, c. 57, SHEARMAN and FREEMAN, 21, Bartlet's- buildings, Holborn, London ; for HENRY DAY, Solicitor, Bristol. Tl tl I Pursuant to the Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors in England. THE COURT FOE RELIEF OF INSOLVENT DEBTORS. ON the Twentieth day of June, 1837. Upon the filing of the petition and schedule ol GODFREY' SWIFT 1IRST, formerly of 11, Cotton- street, Poplar, Middlesex, hen mate of the ships Repulse and Ganges East Indiamen, I ' lie former trading between London and Canton in China, and the latter between London and Calcutta in India, after- wards of Langdon, Warwickshire, then of No. 16, Ber- mondsey New- road, Surrey, then of 51, St. Pauls- square, Liverpool, Lancashire, out of employ, alterwards master of he ship Portia, trading between Liverpool and Quebec in America, then of the Royal Hotel, Liverpool, Lancashire, | lien of the Nelson Inn, Gravesend, Kent, then of 1, West Derby- street, Liverpool aforesaid, then of 17, Collett- place, Commercial- ioad, Middlesex, then of 46, Leadenhall- street, afterwards of 12, George- street, Minories, both in the city > f London, employed part of the time trading between London and Antigua, in the West Indies, and Mexico in America, as master of the ship William Wise, and late of 3, i Elizabeth- place, Fox- lane, Kingsland- road, Middlesex, master mariner, out of employ, a prisoner in the Debtor's . irisoii for London and Middlesex, in the city of London. 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, Lincoln's- inn- fields, on | : lie nineteenth day of July next, at the hour of ten in the morning precisely; of which all creditors and persons claiming to be creditors of the said insolvent, for the sum of five pounds or more, shall have notice by service of I. i copy of 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 discharge, notice of such intention must be given by entry thereof in the proper page and 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 hooks, papers, 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 ;> y 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 I creditor in person, or by council appearing for him. R. B. CHAMBERS, Attorney, 14, Austin- friais. BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL & HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. HE FIRST EXHIBITION for the Season, of the BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL and HORTI- CULTURAL SOCIETY, will take place AT THE SOCIETY'S GARDENS, EDGBASTON, On THURSDAY and FRIDAY NEXT, the 29thand 30th days of June, 1837. LIST OF MONEY PRIZES TO BE AWARDED AT THE JUNE SHOW. 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. Best Specimen. Stcond. Third. Fourth. Fifth. Sixth. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. I. s. d. s. d. Orchidece 10 0.. .7 6.. .5 0.. .3 6 Stove Plants 7 0.. .5 0.. .3 6.. .2 6 Greeiihouse Plants 7 6.. .6 0.. .5 0.. .3 6... 3 0.. 2 6 Amarylli 5 0.. .3 6.. .2 6 Alstroemerias 3 6.. .3 0.. .2 6.. .2 0 Calceolarias 3 6.. .3 0.. .2 6.. .2 0 Ericas 5 0- .3 6.. .3 0.. .2 6... 2 0 Pelargoniums 7 6.. .6 0.. .5 0.. .3 6... 3 0... 2 6 Seventh, 2 0 Salpiglossis 3 6.. .3 0 Cactuses 3 6.. .3 0.. .2 6.. .2 0 Feriis 3 6. .3 0. .2 6. .2 0 Exotic Plants of Commerce ... r3 6.. .3 0.. .2 6. 0 Tender Annuals ... 5 0. .3 6. .3 0. .2 6... 2 0 Ranunculus 7 7. .3 6. .3 0. .2 6... 2 0 Pinks, red laced ( in" U 0. .3 6. .3 0. .2 6 Pairs) 1 Ditto, purple ditto 5 0.. .3 6.. .3 0.. .2 6 Ditto-, plain ditto 3 6. .3 0. .2 6. .2 0 Pansies, ( Gardeners' and Amateurs) in I3 6... 3 0. .2 6 pots ( 6) * Dittd, ditto, fin pans" ( 25) .:. . ..., b 0. 3 0. .3 0 i)! tto,( Nurserymen)\ _ in pans ( 50) ... J 6. .5 0. .3 0 0... 2 6 Roses, cut | 6 0. .5 0. .4 0. .3 Ditto, in pots 5 0. .3 6i .3 0. .2 6 Grdupes of Flowers' S- 7 6. .5 0 cut 1 Paonias 5 0 .3 6 .2 6 Hardy Frame Plants 3 fi. .3 0. .2 6. 0 Herbaceous Plants 3 6. .3 0. .2 6. 0 Native Orchidece, cult. 3 6. .. 3 0. .2 6 Hardy Annuals, in V3 6. .. 3 0. .. 2 6. .. 2 0 pots J Pines 10 0. .7 6. .5 0. .. 3 6 Grapes 10 0. .. 7 6. .. 5 0. .. 3 6 Peaches and Nec-~| 10 0. .. 7 6. .. 5 0. .. 3 6 tarines ... J Melons 5 0. .3 6. .. 3 0. - 2 6... 2 0 Cherries 3 6. .. 3 0. .. 2 6. .. 2 0 Strawberries 7 0. .. 5 0. .. 3 6. .. 3 0... 2 6 Cucumbers 3 6 .. 3 0 .. 2 6 .. 2 0 Cauliflowers 6 0. .. 3 6. .. 3 0. .. 2 6 Peas 5 0 3 6. .. 3 0. .. 2 6 Beans 3 6 .. 3 0 .. 2 6 .. 2 0 Turnips 3 6 .. 2 6 6 Potatoes 5 0. .. 3 6. .. 3 0 .. 2 Cabbage 5 0. .. 3 6. - 3 0. .. 2 6 Lettuce 3 6 .. 3 0 .. 2 6 .. 2 0 Onions, ( Winter) 3 6 .. 3 0 .. 2 6 .. 2 0 Carrots 3 6. .. 3 0. .. 2 6 .. 2 0 New or Rare Vege- tables } 5 0 .. 3 6 * All Pansies exhibited in pot to be established specimens. Liberal Prizes will be awarded to Cottagers. Entrance 2s. 6d. each. Personal admission after Four o'clock. EXTRA PRIZES according to merit. Admission to Non- Subscribers, 2s. each.— Children, Is. JOHN GREEN, Secretary. Tickets to be had at all the Newspaper Offices. BRITISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH, 2, HAMILTON- PLACE, KING'S CROSS, LONDON. MORISON'S PILLS. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that this Medi- cine is notgenuine unless the 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, 2- 2, SNOW- HILL, ( Four doors above Mr. Morris's, the Druggist,) BIRMINGHAM. SUB- AGENTS. Mr. Corbett, Ironmonger- row, Coventry. Mr. Heatlicote, Market- place, Warwick. Mr. Bettison, Lower Broad- street, Leamington. Mr. Lapwoith, 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 GUEST'S BIRMINGHAM DIRECTOR; OR, STRANGER'S GUIDE AND TRADESMAN'S COMPANION. Is published this day, price Is. AMAP OF BIRMINGHAM, corrected to the present time, folded in a case for the Waistcoat Pocket. ii. THE ABOVE, with the Addition of an ALPHA BETICAL STREET DIRECTOKYR, with other in- formation interesting to the Stranger or Tradesman. Price 2s. 6d. m THE MAP, printed on a large sheet, with STREET DIRECTORY, Is.; on Canvass and Rollers, 3s. " This Map is made for use more than ornament, and is decidedly the most distinct and complete ever published at a small price. To the stranger it should be an inseparable companion, and a fixture in every counting house."— Bir- mingham Journal. iv. Now publishing, to be completed in Eighteen Parts, at Sixpence each, a Re- issue of THE HISTORY OF BIRMINGHAM. By W. HUTTON, F. A. S., with considerable additions. Illustrated with many Engravings, a Map of the Town, & c. & c. Sixth Edition. This Edition contains more than Two Hundred pages of additional matter, including a complete History of the Political Union, compiled, by permission, from docu- ments in the possession of the late Chairman, T. Attwood, Esq. Ask for Guest's Edition. v. The most splendid BIRMINGHAM ALMANACK ever published, containing Nine Beautiful Engravings of the Public Buildings. Price only 2d. Birmingham: JAMES GUEST, Steelhouse- iane. London: sold by Wakelin, I, Shoe- lane; Berger, Holywell- street; Hetberington, Strand; and all Booksellers. INGLISH'S SCOTS PILLS. FTHE TRUE SCOTS PILLS, invented by Dr. AN- -! DF. RSON, Physician to King Charles the First, are pre- pared faithfully from the original Recipe, by B. H. INGLISH alone, the Doctor's only Representative, at No. 165, Strand, London, where they, and not any other Medicine have been sold for upwards of 200 years. They are particularly useful in Bilious, Gouty, and Dropsical Complaints, Headache, Indigestion, want of Appetite, Disorders of the Stomach and Bowels, and Obstructions. Families, Travellers, and Seafaring People should never be with- out them. N. B. They are recommended in Liquorice Powder, to prevent their sticking together. Sold in boxes, at Is. ljd. each, by all respectable Medi- cine Venders. *** Ask for INGLISH'S SCOTS PILLS, and be care- ful to observe the directions they are wrapped in are signed B. H. INGLISH, and that his Name and Address are on the Government Stamp. Particular attention is requested to this Caution, as numerous Counterfeits are obtruded on the Public. GLOBE INSURANCE, PALL- MALL AND CORN HILL, LONDON. Established 1803. FIRE, LIVES, AND ANNUITIES. CAPITAL, ONE MILLION STERLING: The whole paid up and invested : thereby affording to the Assured an immediate available Fund for the Payment of the moat extensive Losses, and without liability of Partnership. EDWARDGOLDSMID, Esq. Chairman. HENRY ROWLES, Esq. Deputy Chairman. DIRECTORS. John Hodgson, Esq. Sheffield Neave, Esq. William Phillimore, Esq. John Poynder, Esq. Philip Ripley, Esq. Robert Saunders, Esq. Emanuel Silva, Esq. Aid, Sir W. G. Stirling, Bart. W. Thompson, Esq. Aid. M. P. William Tite, Esq. F. R. S. Henry Alexander, Esq. Richard Alsager, Esq. M. P. C. Raymond Barker, Esq. Jonathan Birch, Esq. Jonathan Chapman, Esq. Thomas Collier, Esq. Boyce Combe, Esq. W. T. Copeland, Esq. M. P. George Fraser, Esq. George Carr Glyn, Esq I. L. Goldsmid, Esq. F. R. S. Edward Vaux, Esq. Robert Hawthorn, Esq. MEDICAL REFEREE John Ridout, F. L. S. & G. S. SECRETARY. John Charles Denham. THE Offices of this Company in Cornhill being taken down, in furtherance of the public improvements, the Directors give notice, that the Company's business will be transacted at the SOUTH SEA HOUSE, THREAD- NEEDLE- STREET, until the Premises in Cornhill are re- built. The Company purchase Redeemable Life Annuities and Reversions, secured on Landed Property or Moneys in the Funds, in sums from Two to Ten Thousand Pounds. LIFE INSURANCE. The Directors recommend attention to the fact, that this Company has never deviated from those permanent prin- ciples on which it was originally established, guaranteed by a large, real, and accessible Capital. They are not unmindful of the different modes of Life Insurance that have been adopted of late years, in order to attract the favour and attention of the public, on the princi- ple of appropriating a share of future profits to all persons assured. Such Societies, however, being associations for mutual benefit, are necessarily attended with all the dis- advantages of mutual risk and liability incidental to their formation; and however desirable it maybe for individuals insuring their Lives for the benefit of their own families, or immediate nominees, to speculate on the advantages of Mutual Assurance and Partnership, those who effect Llle Insurances in the capacity of Trustees, or otherwise, in the performance of a specific duty, for the consequences of which they are, or may hereafter be held responsible, may find that an uncertain and indefinite engagement is not only unsuited, but repugnant to the object they have in view. As many Persons have beeii deterred from offering them- selves for Insurance, considering that on account of some Ailment or other peculiarity of Health or Constitution, their Lives would not be accepted, the Directors give no- tice, that they receive Proposals on Lives so affected, upon an unreserved and faithful statement of the particular cir- cumstances of the case, and under the professional advice of their Medical Officer. Special Insurances of this Class, if approved, will be sub- ject to such Extra Premium as may appear to the Directors apportioned to the risk to be undertaken by the Office. Policies for the whole Term of Life- will be purchased on Terms to be agreed on with the Parties interested, should they be desirous of surrendering them to the Company; or a Loan may be obtained thereon, in proportion to the value of the Policy. LIFE INSURANCES, for SHORT AND LIMITED PERIODS, may lie effected at reduced rates, arid with the lea3t practi- cable delay. FIRE INSURANCE. FARMING STOCK Insured generally on the Farm. Rates and Conditions of Fire and Life Insurance, & c. may be obtained at the Offices in London, and of the Company's Agents in the Country. Fire Insurances due at Midsummer, must be paid on or before the 9th day of July. BIRMINGHAM FIRE OFFICE, UNION- STREET. Established 1S05— Empowered by act of Parliament. CAPITAL SUBSCRIBED, £ 300,000., Of which £ 100,000 is paid up, and at all times available for claims upon the Establishment. TRUSTEES. James Taylor, Esq. W. C. Russell, Esq. Thomas Lee, Esq. Mr. Samuel Lloyd Richard T. Cadbury, Es q DIRECTORS. Thomas Lee, Esq., Chairman. R. T. Cadbury, Esq., Deputy Chairman. James Lloyd, Esq. Mr. Howard Luckcoc- k Mr. John Mabson Mr. James Moilliet R. E. E. Mynors, Esq. Mr. William Parry William Phipson, Esq. Mr. Samuel Smith, jun. Mr. John Whittingham William C. Alston, Esq, Mr. Thomas Beilby Mr. Thomas Bembridge Mr.' James Busby Mr. Benjamin Coley Mr. Edward ' I'. Cox Mr. Samuel Dawes Mr. Benjamin Guest Mr. John Hardman Mr. Henry S. Lingham Pg^ HE Directors are desirous of expressing their - i- acknowledgements for the constant and steady suppoit afforded them for upwards of thirty years, and soliciting a continuance of the same favour, have the pleasure of appeal- ing with confidence to their townsmen to attest the promp- titude and liberality with which the claims upon them from losses by Fire have always been adjusted and paid, and of assuring them that their practice will in future be guided by the same just and honourable principles. In the settlement of losses by Fire, this Company does not interfere to rebuild or replace property destroyed, but the amount thereof is paid in cash as soon as it can be as- certained. There is no office whose RATES OF PREMIUM are LOWER, and its expensive and most effective ESTABLISHMENT OF FIRE- MEN and ENGINES will continue to be, without any distinc- tions. dt- XOU- d GRATUITOUSLY to tile PUBLIC SERVICE. Proposals, containing the Rates and Conditions, with every information respecting the mode of Insurances, may be had gratis at the office in Union street, or of the agents of the Company, who aie also now in possession of receipts for the renewal of insurances due on the 24th day of June, the payment of which is respectfully requested. By order of the Directors, JOHN SIMMONS, Secretary, June 20,1837. Abergavenny, J. C. Watkins Alcester, W. H. Mascall Atherstone, Rd. Broadbent Bedworth, Thomas Morris Bilston, William Hackett Bridgnorth, John Lewis Bristol, John Daniell Bromsgrpve, J. Holyoake Bromyard, James Davies Broseley, John Harvey Burslem, William Ward Cheltenham, H. S. Merrett Chepstow, Benj. Tayler Chester, Henry Bailey Chipping Norton, T. Hodg- kins Cleobury Mortimer, J. Eaton Coventry, Joseph Douglas Darlaston, Charles Thornhill Daventry, John Webb Derby, Bretnor and Swan- wick Devonpoit, J. Ramsey, jun. Droitwich, Charles Pumfrey Dudley, Thomas Goode Evesham, R. Burlingliam Gloucester, John Fowler Hales Owen, Samuel Briggs Hanley, Moore and Macliin Henley- in- Arden, John Pratt Hereford, William Heather Hull, Samuel Tomalin KeniUvortb, Wni. Robbins Kidderminster, Wm. Pitt Lane End, William Clarke Leamington, Owen White Ledbury, John Burden Lichfield, John Proffitt Ludlow, Richard Hance Manchester, Cyril Prescott Newport, Richard Lowe Newcastle, John Mort Nottingham, Charles Leavers Oldbury, Edward Wheeler Oswestry, Thomas Hill Oxford, William Cooke Penkridge, John Starkey Pershore, J. B. Baugh Redditch, W. H. Boulton Ross, John Bellamy Rugeley, W. W. Hawkins Sheffield, J. Fairbank and Son Shrewsbury, Thos. Tisdale Shiffnal, Peter Harding Solihull, John Wilkes Stafford, James Davison Stone, Paul Smith Stourbridge, R. Hopkins Stourport, John Lane Stratfoid, Eliz. M. Morris Sutton Coldfield, S. Smith Tamvvorth, W. H. Wain Tipton, Simeon Round Walsall, Edward Banton Warwick, S. W. Haynes Wem, John Ashley West Bromwich, Wm. Salter Whitchurch, Thos. W. Lee Willenhall, Geo. Ley Pearce Worcester, S. Pumphrey Wolverhampton, Wm. Duf- field DEATH OF WILLIAM THE FOU! VRB' ELEGANT MEDALS, of various sizes, COM- MEMORATIVE of the DEATH of the KING, are now published by EnMUNn HEELEY and Co., Union- street, Birmingham. NORWICH UNION. FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE OFFICES, BTNNETT'S HILL, BIRMINGHAM. CAPITALS FIRE, £ 550,000— LIFE, £ 1,500,000. fg^ HE Public are respectfully informed, that Receipts - 1- for the Renewal of Fire Insurances which become due on the 24th inst. are ready for delivery on application at the office as above, and to any of the following Agents. The equitable principles on which these Institutions are founded, coupled with the liberality evinced in every branch of the management, insure to them the largest share of the public support. Prospectuses, and every information on the business of Fire and Life Insurance, may be had on application to the various Agents. j A powerful Engine ready for action at a moment's warn- ing. The Engine House is in Congreve- street. JOHN GREEN, Agent. Alcester, Wm. White, jun., Aldridge, Charles Juxon, Bewdley, Thomas Bennett, Bilston, Titus Thompson, Bromsgrove. Benj. Maund, Burton- on- Trent, T. Wayte, Burslem, George Powell, Cheadle, G. Marson, Cirencester, Wm. Stevens, Coventry, Wm. Foster, Evesham, Anthony New, Hanley, Thomas Allbutt, Kidderminster, Chas. Cole, Kineton, William Johns, Leamington, W. F. Cawley, Leek, William Challinor, Norwich Union Office, Bennett's- hill, June 20. 1837. Lichfield, William Baker, Pershore, Charles Laugher, Rugeley, James Moxon, Stafford, Bamford and Shaw, Stone, John Lloyd, Stourport, Thomas Tyler, Stratford on- Avon, Wm. Smith, Tamworth, J. & S. Willeox, Warwick, J. Margetts, jun. West Bromwich, James Ro- binson Wordsley, Robert Green, Walsall, J. Adams, Wolverhampton, W. Buckle, Worcester, T. H. Wheeler. FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE. SO many concerns of this nature have lately started up; the professions and promises of all are so inviting, but their failures are so frequent and disastrous, that it be hoves all prudent persons to pause before ihey commit their safety to untried adventurers, while Offices of approved solidity and conduct are open to insure them. Such of these projects as escape tile payment of heavy losses for some yearsimay continue so long afloat, but such as, at an early stage, feel the effects of raising business by taking bad risks at inadequate rates are soon exhausted. Upward* of thirty new Insurance projects have sprung up, and broken dowii within as many years. In contrast with these, the undersigned Agents respect- fully recommend to public attention, those long established Offices, the COUNTY FIRE OFFICE and the PRO VIDENT LIFE OFFICE of London. Their Capitals in hand exceed a Million Sterling. In the COUNTY FIRE OFFICE, 170,000 persons have sought protection and have found it. Claims have been paid to 3,000 sufferers. Re- turns of 10, 20, and 25 per Cent., amounting to £ 100,000, haye been invariably paid to all who have continued insured for seven years, an advantage which no other Fire Office ex- isting has afforded. In the LIFE OFFICE, the success has been equally re- markable. The Bonuses on Life Policies during the last thirty years have successively increased to 40 per Cent. Many other important advantages are detailed in the pro- posal of these Offices, which may be had gratis of us. WILLIAM SUMNER, 97, High- street, Birmingham, John Buckerfield, William Plummet- William Tite John Laing Samuel Hoitt Robert Maunton, John Merridew, J. W. Buchanan W. F. Wjratislaw James Whitehead Thomas Ashtvin Henry Elvins Alcester. . Atherstone. Coleshill. Coventry. Henley- in- Arden. . Kineton. . Leamington. Nuneaton. Rugby. Southam. Stratford - on- Avon. Warwick. 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 foiming 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 the 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: £. s. d. A single Artificial Tooth 0 10 0 A completeset. ™ , 5 5 0 A complete set of Natural Teeth, on fine gold plate „ 15 An entire set of Natural Teeth, highly finished, in the first, style, with fine gold sockets, usually charged 40 guineas 20 0 0 Answering all the purposes of Mastication and Articu lation, protecting the adjoining Teeth, and remaining per- jectly secure in their places. Mons de Berri and Co. continue to restore Decayed Teeth with their celebrated Mineral Siliceum, which is up- 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. Artificial Teeth out of repair restored equal in beauty and durability to their original state. *** At home from ten till six. 121, Regent- street, London, and 17, Easy row, Birmingham. C. AND A. OI. DRIDGE'S BALM OF COLUMBIA, 1, Wellington- street, Strand, London. TO preserve the human hair lias been, for a long lime, the unsuccessful pursuit of innumerable Chemists and Naturalists; and, although there have been various compounds professing to accomplish this desirable end, still nothing really capable of restoring and preserving one of the most beautiful of nature's gifts was discovered until 1821, when the result of a series of experiments tried for a long previous period upon persons of all ages and constitu- tions, fully established the infallible virtues of this most po- tent restorative. The wonderful virtues of this inestimable compound in restoring the hair to its pristine beauty, and the certainty with which its conservative agency operates in preserving it to the latest period, has received, r. s might be expected, the most flattering testimonials from the grateful thousands who have exnerienced its effects. OLDRlDGE'S BALM causes Whiskers and Eyebrows to grow, prevents the hair from turning grey and from falling off, and the first application makes it curl beautifully, and completely frees it from scurf. At the office of the Proprietors C. and A. OLDRIDGE, 1, Wellington- street, Strand, the most convincing proofs of its infallibility may be seen in innumerable certificates fr m gentlemen of the first respectability. Sold at the Proprietors, ( as above) and by all respectable Perfumers and Medicine Venders in Birmingham, price 3s. 6d., 6s., and lis. per bottle. No other prices are genuine. N. B— Ths Public are requested to be on their guard against Counterfeits. Ask for C. and A. OLDRlDGE'S BALM, NO. 1, WELLINGTON- STREET, STRAND, LONDON. SOUTH WEST*** "^ WAY. || NOTICE is hc'j- jby given, that the meeting advei tised be holden on Tuesday, tile 27th instant, is fi , the present pujtpyned. By order, PHILIP D. SOUPER, B Secretary. 1H| 5, John- street, Adelphi, 14th June, 1837. First GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY. f BTIE Directors beg leave to inform the Public, thai J- the GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY, fion BIRMINGHAM to LIVERPOOL and MANClIl'. h TEll, will OPEN for the Conveyance cf Passenger Parcels, and Light Goods, ( from a temporary Station, a Vanxhall, Birmingham,) on the Fourth of July, 1837. Th Trains from Liverpool and Manchester will start Iroin tl i Stations of the Liverpool and Manchester Company in thos towns, at the hours undermentioned. FARES'. From Birmingham to Liverpool or Manchester. £ s. i. First Class Coach, Six Inside, whether in 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 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, One Horse Two Horses Three Horses each. THE FOLLOWING, UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE, WILL BE THE HOURS OF DEPARTURE. From Birmingham. Arrival at L'poolSf Manchestn H. M. H. M'. Ist Class 7 0 o'clock A. M„_ 11 30 o'clock A. SI Mixed 8 30 — A. M 1 45 r. n 1st Class- 1130 A. M—. 4 0 p. u 1st Class 2 30 P. M 7 0 r. iu Mixed 4 30 P. M 9 45 P. JI 1st Class. 7 0 P. M 11 30 r. u From L'pool If Manchester. ^^ Arrival at Birmingham. Ist Class ™ Mixed 1st Class . 1st Class„ Mixed ™ 1st Class- .6 30 o'clock A. M.. — 8 30 . . A. M— ,11 30 . A. M. - 2 30 p. M— -. 4 30 P. M„ — 6 30 P. M„ 5 o'clock A. JI 0 P. JI | 5 .—- p..-*, 5 P. 3I O P 3! 5 r. M ON SUNDAYS The four First Class Tra- ns only, with the addition v \ Second Class Coaches, will start at the same hours as oi i he 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 Whitmore Hartford Manchester an- Liverpool. Besides which, the Mixed Trains will take up and set dow, Passengers at any of the following places :- Minshull Veinoi | Winsford Acton Preston Brook Moore. Perry Barr Spread Eagle Newton Road Penkridge Bescot Bridge Bridgeford James' Bridge Norton Bridge Willenhall Madeley Four Ashes Coppenhall And will take up and set down Passengers to or from an part of the Grand Junction Railway at all the usual stopping places on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. TabK, of the l-' ares will be kept at each of the Stations. A WOLVERHAMPTON TRAIN Will start daily at the following hours:— from Wolve: hampton to Biimingbam at Eight o'clock in the Morniuj and from Birmingham to Wolverhampton at Seven o'cloc 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 Ma Chester at Eight o'clock in the Morning. REGULATIONS. Time of Departure. The Doors of the Booking Office will be closed preeisel at the time appointed for starting; after which no Passenge' can be admitted. Booking. There will be no Booking Places, except at the Con pany's Offices, at their respective Stations. Each Bookin Ticket for the First Class Trains is numbered to correspon with the seat taken. The places by the Mixed Trains a- not numbered. Luggage. Each Passengers' Luggage will be placed on the roof , the Coach in which he has taken his place ; carpet bags ar small luggage may be placed underneath the seat opposi to that which the owner occupies. No charge for bona fir. luggage belonging to the passenger, under 1001b. weigh: above that weight, a charge will be made at the rate Id. pi lb. for the whole distance. The attention of travellers i requested to the legal notice exhibited at the different si: tions, respecting the limitation ol the Company's liabiliiii to the loss or damage of luggage. Gentlemen's Carriages and Horses. Gentlemen's Carriages and Horses must be at the Statin at least a quarter of an hour before the time of departnn A supply of trucks will he kept at all the principal Station on the line ; but to prevent disappointment, it is recon mended that previous notice should be given, when pun ticable, at the Station where they may be required. Jv charge for landing or embarking Carriages or Horses on an part of the Line. Road Stations. Passengers intending to join the Trains at any of th stopping- places, are desired to be in good time, as till; frini will leave each Station as soon as ready, the main obji n being to perform the whole journey as expeditiously as po- sible. Passengers will be booked only conditionally up there being room on the arrival of the Trains, and they wi have a preference of seats in the order in which they ai- booked. All persons are requested to get into and uligl. from the Coaches, invariably on the left side, as the only cer tain means of preventing accidents from Trains passing r an opposite direction. Conductors, Guards, and Porters. Every Train is provided with Guards, and a Conductoi who is responsible for the order and regularity of ill journey. The Company's Porters will load and unload th luggage, and put it into or upon any omnibus or other car riage at any of the Stations. No fees or gratuities allowi to Conductors, Guards, or Porters, or other persons in th service of the Company. Smoking, Selling of Liquors, Sfc. No smoking will be allowed in any of the Coaches, eve with the consent of the passengers. No person will b allowed to sell liquors or eatables of any kind npon the lim The Company earnestly hope that the Public will co- opera'< with them in enforcing this regulation, as it will be tli means of removing a cause of delay, and will greatly diminisl the chance of accident. Parcels. The charge for Parcels, including Booking and Delivei) will be from Is. 6d. upwards, according to size and weight*. TRAVELLING TO LONDON, & c. Arrangements on the part of Coach proprietors are i progress, by which passengers may secure places in . Livei pool and Manchester, for London and other fOiith o Birmingham, by Coaches, which will aw* it the » M'i » al < jf t - Trains in Birmingham. By order of the Directors, J. R. CHORLEY, Treasurer and Chief Apent at Liverpo, Chief Agent at Manchester— Mr. 6fE& BAKER', Chief Agentat Birmingham— Mr. SilBfL. B BORA 1.1 Liverpool, Juue 7, 1837. THE i l l It M I N G HAM JOURNAL. WILLIAM THE FOURTH. . ! William Henry, tlie third son of George tbe Third, was ifj in on the 21st of August, 1765. In the notices of his jK .- Mldhood he is described as small of his age, but remarkably • ntelligent and engaging in his manners, with a manliness of 1S| emper which probably had some influence with his lather III the choice of his future destination. At the age of thir- pi ecu the Prince was Qiteied as a midshipman on board the ^ Prince George, a ninety- eight gun ship, commanded by Admiral Digby. He had soon an opportunity of seeing - rvice. An armament, commanded by Rodney, and of • vhich the Prince George formed a part, sailed from Spit- iiead, it! December, 1799; and, on the 8tli of the following nonth captured the whole of a Spanish convoy, consisting if a sixty- four gun ship, and a great number of armed ves- • e! s and transports. Eight days afterwards, the memorable • m agement took place with the Spanish fleet, commanded '; v Don Juan de Langara; a conflict which ended in the apture or destruction of the whole of the enemy's ships, rendered abortive the expedition which the French and - paniards had jointly protected against our West India set- t ements. The Prince served nearly all the rest of his time as mid- • hipman in the West Indies and off the coasts of Nova Scotia i. nd Canada. Some characteristic anecdotes are related of | iiis period of his naval career. Having had some words villi a brother midshipman of the name of Sturt, the young nan said to him, " If you were not the King's son, sir, I vouid teach you better manners." " Oil!" said the Prince, ' don't let that be any hindrance," and offered to fight his idversary in the nautical fashion, over a sea chest. Slurt, 1 lowever, declined the contest, which lie said, would he un- <; ir, he being the elder and stronger ol the two. The Prince ias struck by the young man's generosity, offered him his . and, and became his cordial friend. When the Prince was t l'ort Royal, in 1783, a midshipman named Lee was con. tm. iried to be shot for insubordination. The whole body of uidshipmen were deeply affected at this sentence, but knew Hit how to obtain a mitigation of it, as Mr. Lee had been • rdered for execution, while they had no time for an nppli- • ation to the Admiralty, and considered an application to Vdmiral Rowley ( the commander on the station) useless, n this emergency Prince William Henry came forward, d diew up a petition, to which he was the first to affix his ame, and got the vest of the midshipmen in port to follow lis example. He then went himself to the Admiral with he petition, and begged his comrade's life with such earnest- • .* ss that he succeeded in saving him. While upon the North American station, the Prince pre- iring the activity of a cruising vessel to remaining in a . ationary situation, was removed at his own request from lie Prince George to the Warwick of 50 guns, commanded > y Lord Keith, and served under that officer when he cap- ured L'Aigle, a large French frigate, La Sophie, of 22 ; uns, and the Terrier sloop. ofwar, off the Delaware river, • n the 11th of September, 1782. He then joined Lord lood, and it was then that he became acquainted with Nelson, to whom he was first introduced by Lord Hood on ioard the Barfleur. In June, 1783, Lord Hood's squadron returned to Eng- and, and in the summer of 1785, the Prince, having served lie regular time as a midshipman, and having undergone he usual examination, was appointed third lieutenant of lie Hebe frigate. In February, 1786, he was appointed rst lieutenant of the Pegasus of 28 guns; and on tiie 10th f April in the same year, lie received his commission as upturn of that frigate,' in which he immediately afterwards ailed for Nova Scotia. He soon afterwards proceeded to i( e Leeward Island station, where ha remained for some Months under the orders of Nelson, then captain of the ioreas frigate. While in this situation, his Royal Highness - npported Nelson in his measures for correcting the abuses hich existed in the dock- yard at Antigua, and also in the lansaetions of contractors, prize- agents. Sic. A strong and • sting friendship sprang up between them. The King has vela red that his mind took its first decided naval turn from us familiar intercourse with Nelson when they served ogether; and the high opinion which that great commander • iitertaiued of his junior officer is expressed in a letter to lis early friend, Captain Locker, in which he says—" You • tin have heard, long before this reaches you, that Prince • Villiam is under my command. I shall endeavour to take • are that he is not a loser by this circumstance. He has lis foibles, as well as private men, but they are far over- aUnced by his virtues. In his professional line lie is supe- ior to near two- thirds, I am sure, ol the list; and in atten- iiui to orders, and in respect to his superior officer, I hardly mow his equal. This is what I have found him." In a ubsequent letter Nelson says, " His royal highness keeps ijj the strictest discipline in his ship, and, without paying a any compliment, she is one of the finest ordered frigates I have seen." In December, 1837, the Prince returned to England after • 1 absence of a year and a halt. Soon after his return he - asappointed to command the Andromeda frigate, in which ie again sailed for the West Indies. On his arrival at I'ort Royal he received tiie congratulations of the House of Assembly, who voted him a thousand guineas, to he laid out II the purchase of an elegant star, ornamented with dia- monds ; to be presented to him as a testimony of the high espect and esteem of the island. On the 19th of May, 17o9. His Royal Highness was cre- ned Duke of Clarence and St. Andrews, in the kingdom Great Britain, and Earl of Minister, in Ireland. In .790, when the conduct of the Spaniard* in Nootka So; and eeosed to render a war inevitable, lis was nominate^, to the . itnmand of ( IK Valiant, of 74 guns; and o- the 3rd of ) pr,, il-': ier, the same year, aib—^ { o tll(, r'ank Q'f rear ~ f " le red ; aim. C) 1 the . death of Sir Peter Parker, 1 December, 1811, he succeeded that veteran officer as ad- ami! of the fleet. While tbe French war continued, the hike frequently solicited employment in active service nainst tlu enemy, hut without success. Pitt seems to iave thought one scion of royalty in office sufficient. Duiing a short trip to the Continent which the Duke nade at the close of the war, a remarkable anecdote has een related of him in the United Service Journal. When he British troops advanced on Antwerp for the purpose of estro) ing the French fleet, they had a night- march of a a. ist uncomfortable description. Shortly after daybreak hey leached a wood occupied by French pickets. " As he'cheering rays of the sun," says the narrator, " reached is, our ears were saluted by the dropping fire of the skir- uishers, which the frozen earth and wood made to reverbe- ne with a thousand echoes. As our pace increased, so iid the tire ; and some heavy volleys, close upon our right, old of our near approach to the enemy. On clearing the . ood we discovered the village of Meridiem, and advanced II it at double quick, passing the dead bodies of several of he enemy, behind low walls and hedges, that guided us to lie entrance of the village by the church. On entering the . tain street, expecting to be saluted by the fire of the enemy, lie leading comnanies commenced cheering, but were checked v the lion- hearted Sir Thomas Graham's calling ' silence.' , n advance of a few paces brought us up with the skir- uishers, and exhibited the French broken and escaping , ver a sheet of ice : numbers of them were overtaken by he gallant 95th, and brought hack, to my utter amazement, u the highest spirits. Being halted and standing at ease, xeept a few straggling shots to the right, I went to the head . t the column to see how matters were going on, and bad list got to the extremity of the village, when a gentleman .1 a blue frock coat advanced from a house on the opposite i. le of the road, and laying his hand on my arm said, " You iad better retire, or else you will be fired on." At the mo- neut he said so, several balls struck the earth close by us, I Hid went ricocheing past. I was so confounded that I had lit the power of thanking him, nor could I, at the moment, . Vail myself of the hint; when I did, I did it well, for I did quickly. As the gentleman moved off, smiling at my . eturbation, for it was the first time I had seen duck and- irake played alter that fashion, I observed he had got a shot lirough the skirt of his great coat. I was not long in • oming to the rear, where I found tbe men piling their rms. and was attracted to a door by seeing a crowd round . . I learned that the smell of new bread had brought them ogether. When I mentioned my blue- coated friend, the rmv at that time wore grey great- coats, it wa<. suggested iiat'though he might have had a belly- full of fighting by hut time, some new bread might be acceptable. Just then III officer came up and iniormed us, that he of whom we vere in search was no less a personage than the Duke of Clarence!" rile Duke's connection with the celebrated Mrs. Jordan • rined too remarkable a feature of his private life, to allow I- to pass it over without notice. When he was yet a very • mug man, he was smitten with the charms of this most Motivating woman. She was at that time generally sup- i i'.- ed to be the wife of a Mr. Ford, though she still retained be theatrical name which she had originally assumed. The declared attachment of the Prince," says BoaJen, her io » rapher, " weighed at first no more with her than to in- luce her to take the opportunity of ascertaining whether lr. Ford WHS sincere in his devotion to her, in which case lie thought herself every way entitled to his hand ; and, in It ict. even upon a mere worldly estimate of the matter, a sirable match, in possession of a positive arid progressive ,, 1' tune, the honourable result of superior, indeed unequalled . dents. She at length required from Mr. Ford a definitive inswer to the proposal of marriage, and finding that be lirunk from the test, she told him distinctly that her mind i ns made up at least to one point, that if she must choose et> veen offers of protection, she would certainly choose nose which promised the fairest; but if he could think her vorthyof being his wife, no temptation would be strong • inunh to detach her from him and her duties." During this connection, which commenced in 1790, and • ndured for twenty years, Mrs. Jordan, by constant exer- ; on ill her profession, materially increased an income which as by no means ample; and their habits and course of life I . vere exceedingly retired and domestic. In the year 1810 the Duffe and Mrs. Jordan separated. This event appears to have been totally unexpected on her part, l he . Duke's intention was communicated iii a letter addressed to her at Cheltenham, desiring her to meet him at Maidenhead, where they were to bid each other farewell. (< Mrs. Jordan," says her biographer, <( ha8 concluded her engagement, but remained one night over to perform Nell for the manager's benefit. It was in the afternoon of this very day that she received tils letter. With that steady kindness which always distinguished her, siie arrived at the theatre dreadfully weakened by a succession of fainting fits. She, however, struggled on with Nell, until Jobson arrived at the passage where he was to accuse the conjurer of making her laughing drunk. When the actress here attempted to laugh, the aftlcted woman hurst into tears. Here Jobson, with great presence of mind, altered the text, and exclaimed to her, ' Why Nell, the conjurer has not only made thee drunk, he has made thee crying drunk.'" The circum- stances which rendered this step necessary on the Duke s part, have not, as far as we are aware, been explained. In a letter written by Mrs. Jordan to a friend, a few days after- wards, she says, " My mind is beginning to feel somewhat reconciled to the shock and surprise it has lately received; for could you and the world believe that we never had, for twenty years, the semblance of a quarrel. But this is so well known jn our domestic circle that the astonishment is the greater!' Money, money, my good friend, or the want of it, has, I am convinced, made him, at this moment, the most wretched of men : but having done wrong, he does not like to retract. But with all his excellent qualities, his do- mestic virtues, his love for his lovely children, what must be not at this moment suffer? His distresses should have been relieved before, but this entre nous. * * * And now, my dear friend, do not hear the Duke of Clarence unfairly abused. He has done wrong, and he is suffering from it. But as far as he has it left in" his own power, lie is doing everything kind and noble, even to distressing him- self." In another letter she says: " The constant kindness and attention I meet with from the Duke, in every respect but persona] interviews, and which depends as much on my feelings as his, has, in a great measure, restored me to 1113' former health and spirits,. Among many noble traits of 100 Iness, he has lately added one more— that of exonerating me from my promise of not returning to my profession. This he has done under the idea of its benefitting my health, and adding to my pleasures and comforts; and though it is very uncertain whether I shall ever avail myself of this kindness, yet you, if you choose, are at liberty to make it known, whether publicly or privately." I11 a third letter, dated the 7tii of December, she says : " I lose not a mo- ment in letting you know that the Duke of Clarence has concluded and settled on me and his children the roost liberal and generous provision: and I trust everything will sink into oblivion." The Duke did not marry till a good many years after- wards, but if the newspapers of the day are to be credited, this did not arise from any aversion 011 his part. More than one wealthy commoner was pointed out as the object of his attention, and, amongst others, the famous Miss Tylney Long was said to have received a lormal offer of his hand, her three per cents and broad acres rendering her particu- larly desirable at that moment. Perhaps it would have been as well for her that she had listened to the Prince. Mrs. Jordan returned to the stage, hut in the following year went to France, in consequence of the state of her circumstances. After residing lor a short time at Bou- logne she removed to St. Cloud, where she died in July, 181G. Many stories were told of the poverty and destitution in which she closed her once brilliant career; and charges of unfeeling and unnatural conduct were made against the Duke and their children. But we have her own testimony to the liberality ol the provision settled on her by the Duke ; and her biographer shows very clearly that the embarrass- ments of lift latter days proceeded from acts of impru- dence committed by herself. There was, we have heard, an annuity, though an exceedingly inadequate one, and coupled with the condition of not continuing to act, to which Mrs. Jordan's letter above quoted refers. The annuity Mrs. Jordan was compelled, by her circumstances or her carelessness, to dispose of. She died in straitened but not in destitute circumstances. Oil the lltli of July, 1818, the Duke of Clarence mar- ried Adelaide Louisa Theresa Caroline Amelia, daughter of the Duke of Saxe Meinengen. Parliament having 011 this occasion granted an addition of only 6,000/. to the Duke's income, the royal pair, thinking that their allowance was too limited to enable them to support the dignity of their station in this country, went to reside at Hanover. They returned, however, to England ill the end of the year 1819. In the end of the following year the Duchess became the mother of a seven months' child, which died in infancy. On the other occasions— twice in 1819 and again in 1821— the Duchess had the misfortune to be prematurely confined. On the death of his brother, tile Duke of York, in 1827, the Duke of Clarence, having become heir presumptive to the Crown, obtained an additional Parliamentary grant, which raised his income to nearly 40,000/. per annum. In the course of the same year, during Mr. Canning's admi- nistration, he was appointed Lord High Admiral. He performed the duties of an office so congenial to his habits and inclinations with great zeal and activity; but, when the Duke of Wellington became Piime Minister, some ou'- jions were made to the expense of his progresses through " the different naval stations, i" consequence of which he t'houglit proper to resign the office, Such was the official language of the day. Tlie truth we believe to be, and such was avowed at the time, the Prince was utterly unfit for the office, and lie was too obstinate to receive instruction. His language to Sir Edward Codring- ton— never contradicted— when proceeding 011 his most delicate and difficult mission of" untoward" memory—" Go it Ned" may be received as a specimen of the heedless, not to say reckless, manner in which lie was disposed to exercise his high functions. When the Catholic Relief bill was about to he brought into Parliament, much anxiety was felt as to the line of con- ikict which would he adopted by the heir presumptive to the Crown. Reports were in circulation that His Royal Highness was adverse to the claims of the Catholics; but he put an end to all doubt on the subject by his speech in the House of Lords on the 23rd of February, in a debate on the presentation of petitions for and against the proposed measure. The Duke's speech contained an able and manly exposition of sound and liberal principles, expressed in forcible and even eloquent language. He concluded with an impressive exhortation to the bench of bishops:—" I trust," he satd, " that in the interval between the passing of the bill which we are to consider to- night ( the Associations' Suppression bill) and the announcement of those measures by which the noble duke purposes to effect this most de- sirable object, the right reverend prelates will apply them- selves seriously, deliberately, and without the admixture of any unseemly passion or prejudice, to the consideration of the condition in which we are now placed, and what would be the result of its continuance. I trust that in this de- liberation they will call to mind that they are the appointed ministers of peace. I trust they will also call to their recol- lection what might be the situation of Great Britain, if those events which are every day taking place upou the continent of Europe should by any possibility give rise to such diffi- culties as would involve us in another war. I would ask the right reverend prelates, whether they can conscientiously bring themselves to oppose a measure which may place us ill a situation to avoid all hostilities in the present state of Europe? and I would ask them still furthei, whether, know ing that by opposing it they may be the means of introduc- ing hostilities abroad and enmity at home— I ask them how they can then dare to call themselves the ministers of peace?" This strong and well- timed declaration of the Royal Duke's sentiments produced a great impression on the House, and had considerable effect ill facilitating the accomplishment of the measure. O11 Saturday, June 26, 1830, George the Fourth ex- pired; and on Monday, the 28th, the Duke of Clarence was proclaimed King by the title of William the Fourth. The King manifested a marked difference in his habits and deportment from those of his predecessor, and speedily acquired unbounded popularity by the frequency of his ap- pearance in public, the frank simplicity of his manners, and the easy condescension of his intercou- e with all ranks of his subjects. In one of his journeys to town, very soon after his being proclaimed, the King passed through Croydon, at the moment when that pretty little village was in all the bustle of its fair. He was immediately surrounded by the crowd, who were anxious to obtain a sight of His Majesty — 11 sight denied them for many years. Many of the more forward were gratified with a shake of the King's hand. Such an occurrence had not happened at a Croydon fair" in the memory of the oldest inhabitant." and produced its effect accordingly. Theii Majesties visited the great winter theatres immediately after their opening. The crowds, both within the theatres and in the streets, were immense, and the acclamations such as an English monarch had been long unused to. The quiet and sober mode of life adopted by the King and Queen very much resembled that of George III. and Queen Charlotte. This was peculiarly remarkable at Brighton; and the appearance of the court there, so different from what it had lately been, occasioned much observation. The King's domestic habits at the Pavilion were ascribed to a love of economy. But if this was meant for censure, it was truly praise; for, us was well observed by one of the journals of the day, " economy is a great virtue in a king, as what lie spares he spares not for himself, but for his people.'' And in truth the King was economical only to he liberal. " The public," said The Brighton Gazette, " well know that the King has always evinced a most liberal and charitable disposition: but they are not aware of the extent of private charity bestowed on individuals of this town at the suggestion of the King. Certain members of the establishment have been deputed by the King to inquire into the distresses of poor families, who, if found fit objects of charity, have been relieved from the royal purse; and in more than one instance the sheriffs' officers have been removed from their premises by the private bounty of the King ol England." t'lie habits of business adopted by the King at the outset of his reign, and persevered in to the end of his life, deserved and obtained not less approbation. In regularity arid dis- patch he even exceeded the habits of his father— whose con- duct, by the way, in this respect, has seldom been sufficiently appreciated— and his diligence presented a stiik'ng contrast to the supineness exhibited in tlie former reign, when days and weeks often elapsed before the royal signature could be obtained even to an important document. Every paper submitted for his consideration and signature was executed and returned to the proper office within twenty. four hours after he received it— Generally, indeed, in much less time. In these labours which, though minute and not quite so onerous as a blind admiration of royalty would repre- sent— for after all they consist of little else than affixing a stamp to a piece of'paper, the preliminary investigation being in every case certified by less illustrious hands— but which are by no means unimportant to the parties concerned, the Queen is said to have acted as private secretary; and the favoured visitors of the domestic circle describe, in a very pleasant way, the King seated at his morning table signing, while his royal consort, standing by his side, was occupied in placing the various documents before him, and laying them aside when finished. When the King entered upon the functions of Govern- ment he made no change in the cabinet of his predecessor. On the ministers waiting on him, he even expressed his ap- probation of their policy. He appears to have been then unaware of the state of public opinion ; to which, however, his eyes were soon opened. On the 23d of July His Ma- jesty piorogued the Parliament, which met again for the dispatch of business on the 2d of November. When the King went to the House of Lords to open the Parliament, the people marked their loyalty to his person by the loudest acclamations, hut a different spirit was displayed towards his ministers. The Duke of Wellington, 011 lii's way to the house, and on his return, was followed by one loud shout of indignation raised by assembled thousands. The funds suddenly fell three per cent., and the people in the pro- vinces expected every mail would bring tidings of some con- vulsion in the metropolis. But the fright speedily passed away, and became converted into amusement at the ridicu- lous figure made by the ministers in their endeavours to justify their conduct. This was their coup de grace. They were left in a minority 011 a question connected with the civil list, atid immediately resigned. The King most readily accepted the resignations of the Duke of Wellington and his colleagues, and immediately sent for Lord Grey, whom he authorised to form a new ministry, of which he himself should be the head. Lord Grey accepted office, on the condition that he should have His Majesty's authority to make Parliamentary Reform a cabinet question ; and from that hour we may safely date the final downfal of Toryism in England. A circumstance occurred soon after that served in a more marked way to exhibit the unpopularity of ministers. The King had been invited to dine at the Guildhall on the Lord Mayor's day, and very extensive public and private prepara- tions had been made for his reception. To the astonish- ment and indignation of the metropolis arid of the kingdom, on the evening of the 8th of November, it was announced to tbe Mayor that His Majesty could not attend the dinner. The excuse put forth was that his progress miaht occasion tumult, and possibly blood- shed, not because he was unac- ceptable to the multitude, but because the Duke was the object of their hatred. The most unfounded reports were spread abroad to justify the King's refusal, and for a day or two they were believed. On the memorable 1st of March, 1831, the Reform bill was brought into the House of Commons. It is not our intention, in this hasty sketch, to follow the history of this great measure, unless in so far as the King was personally concerned with it. We shall, therefore, remind our reaile. s that, when General Gascoyne's motion that the number of members for England and Wales should not be altered, was carried against ministers, the opposition, dreading a disso- lution, carried a motion for adjournment, which, in effect, s'opped the supplies, by preventing the report on the ordnance estimates from being brought up. This violent proceeding determined the King to accede to the proposal of his ministers that Parliament should he dissolved— a measure that was carried into effeet on the following day. The scenes which took place in both houses were very re- markable. The House of Lords, in expectation of some- thing extraordinary, was very full ; the area below the throne, reserved for members of the House of . Commons, was crowded; and many peeresses were present. After some stormy conversation Lord Wharncliffe proceeded to move 1111 address to the King, representing that the house had heard with anxiety a report that a dissolution was about to ; ake place, an I in poring His Majesty not to dissolve Parliament at such a juncture. But his lordship had scarcely finished reading his motion when the house was startled by the voice of the Lord Chancellor Brougham, who had gone out a few minutes before to receive His Majesty. He hastily entered, and, advancing to the table, exclaimed in a very loud voice, " My lords, I have never yet heard it doubted that the King possessed the prerogative of dissolving the House at pleasure; still less have I ever known a doubt to exist on the subject, at a moment when the Lower House has thought fit to refuse the supplies." Having uttered these words, the noble lord again withdrew as rapidly as he had entered. The moment the Chancellor withdrew, Lord Londonderiy called loudly to the Earl of Shaftesbury to take the chair ; and the call being echoed from some other quarters the Earl resumed his seat on the woolsack, which he had quitted on the Lord Chancellor's entrance. Loud cries arose of " Order," " Shame," " The King." The peers rose 011 their seats, many of them exclaiming and ges- ticulating so vehemently that the ladies appeared alarmed and apprehensive of a scene of personal violence. Lord Mansfield began a speech accusing the King's ministers of conspiring together against the safety of the State, and of making the Sovereign the instrument of his own destruction. He was proceeding in this strain when he was interrupted by cries of" The King, the King !" The folding doors were thrown open and the King entered, wearing his crown, and took his seat 011 the throne. Alter tbe Commons had en- tered, and the Speaker made his address, the King rose, and read with great emphasis, his speech, in which he announced that he had come for the purpose ot proroguing Parliament, with a view to its immediate dissolution. " I have been in- duced," said His Majesty, " to resort to this measuce for the purpose of ascertaining the sense of my people, in the way in which it can be most constitutionally and authentically expressed, 011 the expediency of making such changes iu the representation as circumstances may appear to require, and which shall be founded on the acknowledged principles of the constitution, and may tend at once to uphold the just rights and prerogat ves of the con, and to give security to the liberties of the people." There had also been a consi- derable tumult in the House of Commons. Sir Robert Peel wa6 in the act of delivering a violent philippic against the King's advisers, when he was suddenly interrupted by the mace of the Black Rod thundering at the door. The orator stopped, the Speaker rose, and, along with the mem- bers, followed the Black Rod to tlie presence of the King, by whom they were forthwith dismissed to their constituents. His Majesty immediately returned to the palace, and was greeted on his way with the enthusiastic cheers ot an im- mense multitude— the people calling out " Down with the boroughmougers !" " We thank your Majesty"! God bless your Majesty for thinking for your people !" The dissolution of Parliament was hailed by illuminations and rejoicings in the metropolis and every part of the king- dom. His Majesty's appeal to the nation was so well answered, that, in the new House of Commons, all oppo- sition to the progress of the Reform bill was thenceforward vain. It was passed on the 21st of September, 1831, and though, to the indignation and dismay of the nation, the Lords ventured to throw it out 011 the second reading, yet the measure had gained a footing which rendered its future progress ii resistible. After the second Refoirn Bill had passed the House of Commons, notwithstanding an opposition protracted by every device of Tory ingenuity, it proceeded, in the House of Lords, through the stages preparatory to its being dis- cussed in committee. There it was arrested by Lord Lynd- hurst's motion for postponement of its most important clauses having been carried by a majority of 35. As soon as the division was declared, the result was transmitted to the King, who was at Windsor. Next day a cabinet coun- cil was held, when it was unanimously agreed that Min s- ters must resign their offices. Lord Grey ai d Lord Brougham immediately laid before tbe King this determi- nation of his Ministers. What passed at the interview can- not, of course, be exactly known to the public. It was said at the time that the King even shed tears. Be this as it may, the King accepted of the resignation of his whole cabinet. He immediately sent for Lord Lyndhurst, who consulted with the Duke of Wellington, and the result was, an offer of the premiership to Sir Robert Peel. Mean while, the House of Commons passed some very strong re- solutions, and threatened the still stronger measure of stop- ping the supplies; the people met throughout the capital and all over the country, declaring their purpose of meeting the crisis by refusing taxes, and by every lawful resistance to government; and a run commenced on the Bank, which, though in small sums, amounted in two or three days to above a million. It was reported at the time that representations were made to Earl Grey by deputations li om the principal manu- facturing towns, both Reformers and Tories, respecting the danger that might ensue from his retirement; that the Bank ot England waited on him with a similar oiject; that Earl Grey having referred the whole of these deputations to Apsley House, the Duke of Wellington was so convinced of tbe necessity of rsstoring the Whigs to power, that lie actually appointed a meeting with Earl Giev at the Palace, and that the latter, contrary to all precedent of etiquette, was thus induced to wait 011 the Sovereign, for the purpose of being re instated in office as Premier, without the pre- liminary of a Royal invitation. After the Ministry had been restored ( it was in abeyance for a week only), the King showed his own zeal in the cause, by making a personal appeal to the anti- reform lords, calling upon them to with- draw their opposition. It was conveyed in a letter from Sir Herbert Taylor, dated May 17, and in these terms: — " I am honoured with Ilis Majesty's commands to acquaint your lordships that all difficulties to the arrangements in progress will be obviated by a declaration in the House to- night, from a sufficient number of Peers, that in conse- quence of the present state of affairs, they have come to the resolution of dropping their further opposition to the Re- form bill, so that it may pass without delay, and as nearly as possible in its present shape." This expression of the King's personal wishes 011 the subject had the effect of pre- venting further opposition on the part of the Duke of Wel- lington, and a number of other Tory Peers. They took no further share in the proceedings respecting the bill, which was soon carried through its remaining stages; on which it received the Royal assent, and became the law of the land. The King's presence at Ascot- heath races, in the season of 1832, was marked by a painful occurrence. The meeting of Tuesday was by no means fully attended, but the Royal party was numerous and splendid. On the termination of the first race, the King and the Queen, with several of their attendants, were at the window of the Royal Stand, when, on a sudden, His Majesty started and exclaimed, " O God, lam hit!" From the exclamation, and the excitement which accompanied it, it would seem that the King imagined lie had been struck by a bullet. The confusion of the Royal party was great, but it was almost instantly terminated by the King taking off his hat, and telling the attendants Who crowded round him that he was not hurt. The blow was then perceived to have been received from a stone, from the crowd in front of the Stand, which had been thrown with great force, for it had produced a deep dint in His Majesty's hat. In n few moments the King again stepped forward and showed himself to the people, by whom he was raptu- rously cheered. The author of the deed was seized, and found to be a discharged seaman, of the name of Dennis Collins. He was brought to trial for high treason, and being fonnd guilty ( notwithstanding the plea of insanity set up in his defence) received sentence, which, however, was changed to imprisonment for life. Addresses on this occa- sion were presented to the King from both Houses of Par- liament, the Common Council of London, and the Uni versities. The month of June, 1834, was marked by tbe re.' irement from office, and from public life, of the father of Reform, Lord Grey. The immediate cause of his resignation was a difference of opinion in the Cabinet respecting the Irish Coercion bill, and the same cause led to the resignation of Lord Althorp. The King then decided upon committing to Lord Melbourne the task of forming an administration. This task his lordship accomplished. The Melbourne Administration differed little, in its members, from that of Lord Grey, except in the absence of the late Premier him- self. Lord Althorp resumed his office as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Lord Grey's resignation took place on the 9th, and the reconstruction of the Cabinet was completed by the 17th of July. On Saturday morning, the 15th of November, the me tropolis was astounded with the intelligence that the King had dissolved the Melbourne Ministry. Lord Melbourne had goiie to Brighton, where His Majesty was, on Thurs- day, and had returned the following night to announce the event to his colleagues. The King had expressed no dis- satisfaction, but had let it be understood that he considered it at an end with the death of the late Earl Spencer, and the consequent removal of his son, Lord Althorp, to the Upper House. The Duke of Wellington, who had been in previous com- munication with His Majesty, was trusted with the forma- tion of a new Ministry; and in the meantime invested pro tempore, with the different offices of the executive govern- ment. A person belonging to the Queen's household was sent off express to Italy to bring home Sir Robert Peel; who hastened to England, and was placed at the head ot the government. A dissolution took place, followed by a genera! election. The Parliament met, and on the 20th of February, 1835, Mr. Abercrombie was chosen Speaker, in preference to Mr. Manners Sutton, by a majority of 10, in a House of 626 members, the largest on record. It was immediately seen that the Ministry could not carry 011 the Government with so hostile a Parliament; and after a hopeless struggle, Wellington and Peel announced their resignations in both Houses on the 9th of April, having the night before been left in a minority of 27 on Lord John Russell's resolution on the Irish Tithe question. Next day, Lord Grey, Lord Lansdowne, and Lord Melbourne received his Majesty's commands to form a new administration; and the present government was accordingly formed. The King's illness, notwithstanding the Battering remarks of the London newspapers, we looked upou, our readers will recollect,- from the first moment of its announcement as hopeless; though we did not anticipate the fatal event so soon. The bulletins have been as royal bulletins, couched in that happy language which, without asserting what is di- rectly false, contrives to conceal all that is true. Even through the cautious generalities of court physicians, how- ever, ijiere had, during the last eight days, escaped such in- formal ion as left no probability of misconception. During the latter end of last week it is understood that the state of the Royal patient was such as indicated the inevitable ap- proach of the filial change. On Sunday he sunk into a slum- ber, from which he was with difficulty roused, and when at last he opened his eyes his mind was plainly absent. The Waterloo flag presented by the Duke of Wellington on the 18th of June, as the quit rent of Strathfieldsaye was brought into the sick chamber with a view, if possible, to rouse the King's attention, but without effect. The sacrament was administered to him on Monday by Dr. Howley, as the bulletin seems to indicate, without any audible recogni- tion of its nature 011 the part of the recipient. Tile phy- sicians only say it was received with " apparent" comfort. During Sunday and Monday the sinking continued. The precise time of the Royal decease is variously stated. The bulletin says twenty minutes past two o'clock ; the . Horning Herald, which brought the earliest intelligence to Birmingham, announced it as happening at ten minutes be- fore three; an " express" from Windsor, dated half- past two o'clock, says the latal event occurred within a few mi- nutes of two! When George IV. died, it was reported that the fact was kept secret till Sir Henry Halford's carriage was ready to proceed to Beechy, and that being thus enabled to make the first announcement, obtained, as a matter of course, the appointment of first Physician to the King— for it seems that in these matters the adage is literally fulfilled of first come first served. It is quite possible that in the present case, as in the last, the clock may have been tam- pered with in order to allow of a similar application- The court circular will by and bye inform us if a similar result have been the consequence. The customary suspension of Parliamentary business has of course taken place, and will continue til! the funeral is over. The mourning in the metropolis is general, and will be equally general, we have no doubt in the provinces. FOUEST SCENERY. — We do not always know what the forest hides when we look upon it. I remember once ( it was in Worcestershire) passing a narrow forest- path that zigzagged pleasantly up a hill, and was soon lost among the trees, and proposing to my companion to follow its windings. 1 had often remarked its ochre line as a cheerful point in the rustic landscape; but fancied it merely a track which the wood- cutters had beaten out through the briars. It soon carried us off from the road, and through many a brake and hollow, until at last, and just as we began to think of turning back, it suddenly emerged from the thicket info a hamlet of six or eight cottages; not placed, country- dance fashion, opposite to each other, hut scattered round a green spot coveied with short- nibbled grass, and almost as circu- lar as a fairy ring; one turning its gable to the sun, anothei 1 unning away from it into the apple- trees ; here a hawthorn bush, there a broad stumpy elder, flowering over the garden wicker. A cow gazed at herself in a still pool, and a little boy lay on his back beside her, looking up at the sky; file ground lose gently all round the hamlet, and the trees which grew on it covered the roofs with their shade. I never saw a sw'eeter apparition— and it really looked like one ; for, except the little boy, there was not a human being visible, or audible either; plenty of cock- crowing, and some flurried gabbling from a dozen or so of ducks, who had tucked their legs under tliern, and were warming themselves on a sunny spot, which they had made puddle of by the pool's side; but otherwise a still and sultry silence— the silence of a summer noon, when the air seems heavy with sweetness. Il l had been suddenly asked for u name of this secluded spot, 1 should have said Rest. The inhabitants were all out cutting wood or gathering sticks, or working in the distant fields, children and all; and the babies too— no body left behind but the little boy anil un old woman, whom we discovered spinning in the midst of her bee- hives. She had been pie- paling her grandson's supper, she told us ; and that being done, had sat down to her wheel to spin till his return. 1 never saw a more perfect picture of comeliness or cottage comfort,— and of wonder too, at seeing us in her rosemary and gillyflower garden ; for no one ever rambled that way, she said, except now and then an autumn sportsman. There were no candles burned in the hamlet; when evening dark- ened she put by her work, said her prayers, and went to bed by the last ray of daylight— in winter at four o'clock or earlier. What a beautiful conscience the kind old soul must have had! When we turned away from this pretty unexpected scene, and had descended twenty paces through the wood, we lost sight of it entirely; and could hardly be- lieve that the close trees, whose branches seemed knit to- gether, hid so many homes in their bosom.— Sketches in the Pyrenees. THE MEETING. Our readers were made acquainted last week withgt the intention of the Council ol' the Political Union to ' hold a public meeting of the inhabitants 011 Newliall- liill, and they had ail opportunity of reading the ad- dress of the Qbuncil, and also the spirited call of Mr. Attwood, in our advertising columns. We now pro- ceed to lay before them a report of the proceedings to which reference was then made. It had been usual, on former occasions, to go in procession to the place of meeting. The custom was observed on the prese occasion. The men under whose management the procession was entirely placed, and with whom it originated, assembled, in the first instance, iu Smith- field. From that point they proceeded up Spiceal- strcet to the Bull- ring, where they congregated as early as ten o'clock in great numbers. By eleven the Ring was filled and High- street was crowded. Moor- street, in a short time after, was all but impassable. The Council met a few minutes before eleven, to arrange such preliminaries as were immediately necessary, and for the purpose of joining in the procession when the time appointed for its advance arrived. About hall'- past eleven Mr. Attwood was perceived making hit way down High- street. He was received with long and loud cheering, which did not cease nor intermit till he had arrived at the Public- office. In a. few minutes the honourable member, as President of the Union, supported by Messrs. G. F. and P. H. Muntz. as Vice- Presidents, took his place at the head of tlu column. The Secretaries and Treasurer came next, then the Members of the Council, three and three, then the Members of the Union four and four; and it, this array the long line proceeded slowly up High- street, New- street, Bennett's- hill, Newball- street, Mount- street, and George- street, 011 to the Ilill. The | Irish Society, the Gun- maker's Society, and the Tem- perance Society formed part of the" procession. Ill was guarded by members of the Union 011 horseback, | its march regulated by bauds, of music, and 1 hundred fiags and banners fluttered along its formi- dable line. The procession, we need hardly say, nu- merous as it was at starting, gathered fresh number? at every stage of its progress. By the time it hat. reached the foot of Bennett's- hill, tlic entire of New- street, from the Town- hall to High- street, presented one dense mass of human beings. Newhall- street presented a similar picture; and, indeed, wherever, from the inequalities of the ground, it was possible ti get a view of the line, as far as the unobstructed vision could reach, there was nothing to he seen but one immense sea of human beings pouring onward iu inexhaustible numbers. The hustings were very con veniently placed in the northern part of the area, which, though called a hill, has a much better title, in its pre- sent state, to the name of valley. On the light, and close to them, some speculator'had erected a lofty j platform, for the gratification of such of the curious a"> [ could not obtain access to the hustings. The flags| and banners, amongst which the royal standard waved f conspicuous, were ranged along' the edge of tin elevated carriage way that forms the eastern line of the hill, with the exception of the old Union flag, which floated over the hustings. The level of the bill wa> entirely occupied with men, the females, of whon there were a considerable number, ranged themselves on the slope that leads down from the road, where their light and gay coloured garments formed a striking contrast with the darker hues of the fore- ground, resembling, if we may compare great things to little, the richly carved and gilded frame of some fine old Rembrandt, with its dim outlines and masses of shadow. The day was fair and breezy, and a thin veil of fleecy clouds tempered the heat, which would, otherwise, have been exceedingly oppressive. The numbers of such a meeting have always presented a puzzling, and, for the most part, a disputed problem. We do not allude to the ridiculous assertion of the Tories, " 011 high military authority," that there were not more than 5,( 100 person's present. We allude to the different opinions of the Reformers themselves. The truth we would endea- vour to elicit by something more certain than vague guesses. The area of Newhall- hill is very nearly 100 yards square, and there is a large space 011 the ' north side which cannot measure less than some couple ol | thousands of square yards, in addition to the ter thousand of the area itself. The men, for forty or fifty yar. is in front of the hustings, were not crowded but packed. Wc are rather below than above the mark in allowing seven to a square yard in this part of tiie field. The files in tbe more distant part of the hill were laxer. Still we think on the hill itsell there could not be much, if at all, less than 50,000 men And this would tally pretty nearly with a calculation derived from the amount of the population of tlx town aud neighbourhood. The town and neighbour- hood contain about 40,000 men capable of bearing arms, of whom at least three- fourths were present, and there was an accession from the neighbouring towns of not less than 15,000. These constituted the meet- ing, properly so called. Of spectators— male and fe male, young and old— there were certainly not le. si- than 100,000 congregated on the hill, the road, the adjoining streets, and the valley 011 the east side oi the road, all of which were covered, and that ill nu- merous spots where not even a glimpse of the speaker, could be obtained. The ground at Newhall- hill, as was plainly seen in the course of the day, is 110 longei spacious enough for such meetings as that of Monday It will be seen that another and roomier spot will b selected for the next. The business of the day com- menced at half- past twelve, when— Mr. ATTWOOH came forward, and was received witl the most vehement cheering, which lasted for a long time Silence being restored, tbe honourable gentleman com menced by saying they had often met there, on that sacrei spot, under the auspices of a King who was then at the laf hours of his life. Under that King they had received a great favour. Considering the circumstances under which their King was placed, and considering that he was now arriving at that awful hour at which they must all arrive, it would no doubt be gratifying to His Majesty to know tha the men of Birmingham, feeling deeply for his situation, had on that day offered up a spontaneous prayer iu his behalf Before, therefore, he proceeded to the business of the day I he would ask them to join him in imploring the blessing c'f J the Almighty on their good King. ( Hear, hear.) He mi' f going to ask them to call down God's blessing upon him and he hoped every man present would take off his hat am respond to the call. ( Cries of " We will.") [ Mr. Attwood in the most solemn and impressive manner, then appealei to them, and the whole multitude simultaneously took of their hats, and all looking up to Heaven, cried out with on. heart and one voice, God bless the King." This producei a sublime and awful effect. | Mr. Attwood, in continuation said he was sure when their good King, if he should Iivi heard that one hundred thousand brave men of Birminghan had offered up their prayers for him in his hour of need, 1 would be a great comfort to him. Mr. A. then moved tlm their old, valued, and tried friend, Mr. G. F. Muntz, shoul take the chair. ( Cheers.) Mr. MUNTZ having taken the chair, that gentlemai opened the business by requesting the meeting to observ as much silence as possible, after which he spoke to the fol lowing effect. He said he felt an extraordinary mixture c pleasure and pain at again addressing them on that conse- crated ground— of pain when he considered the great neces sity for their meeting to do that which he fiui others bin hoped was well done years ago. Then they had reason ti believe the obtaining of the Reform bill would have give comfort and happiness to all the united kingdom. IIov 1 they had been disappointed he need not tell them. Why] were they there? They were there in consequence of tin great pressure upon their comforts, and because they am their families were reduced to poverty—( hear, hear,)— and | why was that great pressure? Because of the want of capa bility in their rulers to govern them ably. In a short timi ! every man would understand how it was that tliey had been subject to alternations of prosperity and adversity, the pe riods of the latter far exceeding those of the former Tliey would recollect that he had before told then that the Political Union would not produce that happiness | and comfort which they aimed at. lie told them it would^ however, by indirect operations upon the Goverr; n(> ni' make the Ministry energetic, upright, and aisle; mid it| would have done so, only they bad been ' jisuppfilnted in tin Reform bill. If the 50f. clause had no't been introduced,— a J clause just in itself, if the occupiers < jt ] Hn( l Wl re independent, they would liuve derived gre„[ er benefit from the Reform bill; but under the cirCumstailce8 wtilcli the tenants hai Bi a THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL.. I iM • een placed, they had not. They were not tenants at will, rhey were tenants without will. ( Hear, hear.) I hey had no mind of their own. They had been compelled to vote H- uinst their own and their neighbour's interest, and they nu- t continue to do so as long as they continued m their iresent situation. Then in addition to that clause, there vas the clause which compelled the paying of poor- rates :, rior to voting, than which a more unjust clause could not < e well conceived. Therefore it was, the Reform bill had lot had the effect it ought to have had, or anything like the • ffect which another Reform bill must have. ( Cheers.) 1' hey were met that day for the purpose of considering the li- tress to which all classes were being reduced, but they vere also ijiet for another purpose. They were met to U- mand an additional quantum of those rights which they • uglit to have. ( Applause.) They were met to obtairt an Extension of the Suffrage.—( hear, hear,)— Vote by Ballot,— . hear, hear,)— Triennial Parliaments,—( hear,)— and other Measures calculated to promote the happiness of the people; aid they were met not only to obtain those alterations in he laws, and that happiness of the people, but to maintain hem. ( Applause.) Of what avail would it be if the alter- Ions would only give them eighteen months prosperity, vliich would be succeeded by privation and misery, from . iiich they would not know how to extricate themselves. e had a right to make these observations relative to the ,' iiorance which generally prevailed respecting the cause ol • icir embarrassments. Eighteen mouths ago, he predicted hat had lately taken place. He told them what was then ermed prosperity would soon terminate in adversity. In . sovember 1835 he had said this in print, and at a public inner twelve months ago he stated the same, and with few xceptions those present iBughed at him. They were all hen busily engaged in speculations of various sorts, and • ley could not for a moment fancy that such a change as he ail predicted could come to pass. In a short time after, when he was called before a committee of the House f Commons, and examined respecting the cause of the • gricultural distress, he gave the same opinions; and a astonished were those before whom he gave his vidence, and so completely incredulous were they, that e was well informed they laughed heartily at his folly, nd said that nothing but actual madness could induce iin to entertain such ideas. When he told them . hat twelve months would not elapse before they would be educed to distress, they said nothing but madness could ' ad to such an opinion. Now, lie would leave it to them i o say who was mad. ( Hear, hear.) He who hail clearly ireseen and foretold the coming distress, or they who .• ould not, or could not see it. ( Hear, hear.) It was JOthing novel, however, for men, whenever they foretold nything new, or which others could not distinctly see, to " put down as mad, or anxious to obtain celebrity for ex- nordinary notions or ideas. The fact was, there was • tithing extraordinary about his predictions. They were • lerely the result of attention to the subject, and if others mil hat examined the question disinterestedly as he had one, and with an earnest desire to arrive at proper con- tusions, they would have seen just as clearly as he bad, nil been obliged to acknowledge that there was nothing • olid in their late prosperity, and that it would end is it had done. The fact was, he viewed the question of • ie currency, us he had all others, simply in reference to the • elfare of the great mass of the people. His wish was to ive it based upon just and equitable principles, and so that , iose would be protected who could not take care of them - • Ives. He need not tell them how he had been abused nil maligned by bis enemies. ( Hear, hear.) They had lucked him upon false, infamously false grounds, simply ecause they had not any good ground whereupon to attack, fhey pretended, forsooth, that he was not a Christian, be- ause he would not go all their party lengths, for the pui- , ose of upholding religion. What did he do? Why, he - eted upon the fundamental principle of Christianity, which vent most decidedly to protect the poor against the aggres- ions of the rich. Why was it that the sacred religion of vhich these men professed to be such admirers, emphati- ally declaied that it was harder for a rich man to enter the iitgdom of Heaven than for a camel to enter the eye of a eedle ? Why, because of the sacredness of the rights of the oor, and the tendency oil the part of the rich to violate ml infringe upon them. Therefore, it was a principle of • liarity to uphold and protect the rights of the poor ; charity id not consist in men giving alms publicly, that the world light know of it, and applaud the donor; charity did not onsist in any ostentatious parade about relieving the poor, nt it consisted in doing as you would he done by, under II circumstances, and in extending relief to their fellow- ten, so that it would neither be known or seen only by he receiver. The great principle of charity was always to st Justly towards their fellow- men, particularly towards the t> or, who, from their situation in society, were unable to • rotect themselves. ( Hear, bear.) What, be would ask, wis all the private charity which individuals could give, ompared with the loss which the- poor would sustain from 10 loss of one week's work. Say there were twenty thou- and men in Birmingham and neighbourhood out of work, md that their average earnings was only 10s. per week, vhy, in that case, and it was a moderate calculation- hear, hear)— the poor had lost 10,000/. in one week. Hear, hear, hear.) Could any individual charity com- pensate for that loss? ( Cries of " no.") Could all the wealth if the Tories or their friends compensate the poor for that > ss? Could all the private charity they could give, or vculd give, reach the misery which want of employment • ad occasioned? (" No, no.") And if they could not ompensate for the loss of one week, what could they do owards relieving the distress and misery which months • f bad work or no work would occasion ? They could do othing by private charily, comparatively speaking; hut they • ould have performed great charity by resisting those bad uvs which had led to such poverty. These were the se- • ret, the whole secret of all their abuse of him. He knew hey had made bad, and infamously bad laws against the > oor; that they robbed them of the fruits of their industry; mil because they had, he ever should, denounce them for laving done so. They abused and calumniated, and as far is their malignity could go, they had persecuted and ari- . oyed him. Now, if he wanted to he a great man and escape heir abuse he could do so. He had only to say that the vorking men around him were the greatest set of scoun- lrelsonear. il. ( Laughter.) He had only to say this and n- t upon the impression that they were so, and he would be aken by the hand. In place of being despised he would • e caressed. In place of being ignorant, lie would be a i- ery clever fellow. In place of being abused, he would > e very talented and highly respectable. ( Cheers.) And n place of being unworthy of notice, he would be courted, • i was that unfortunate old renegade, Sir Francis Burdett. Hissing.) He recollected being in the House of Com nous when Sir Francis took his seat after his last election, j mil when he was coming into the House he was surrounded < y all the great men of the Tory party, who cheered inn and shook him by the hand. So it would be villi him (. Mr. Muntz) if he was to turn round upon he people and abuse and aid in oppressing them. ( Hear, • ear, hear.) He would be lauded to the skies, and the l'uries would think they could never too highly prize him. This, however, he never would do. ( Cheers.) No power n earth, no influence on earth would ever be sufficient to nke him out of his present line of conduct* ( Vehement - heering.) It was natural lor him not to oppress the • oor from principle. He defied any man living to come or-. vard and say he had ever taken the slightest advantage • f him iu any of the relations or transactions of life. He inew he had often sacrificed his own interest whenever he vas not sure he was on the right side of right and justice, nd racher than iun any risk of injuring another, he would Iways do so. He did not mean to say he had not had uring his life, occasional difference with men, but he did aean to say he never took an advantage of any man. He id not mean to say he had not been compelled to discharge • ad servants, but he would say that lie had repeatedly put ip with the weaknesses of his men, and that too at a great i- s, and that it was not until they became injurious to their ellow- workmen, and past nil hope of reclaiming, that he Uncharged them. He had suffered in comfort and pocket • ecuuse he would give a man chance after chance, aud it vas only when he could endure his misconduct no longer ! ie had discharged him. This had been his conduct, and le defied any mail, rich or poor, to show he had ever icted unjustly towards hiin. But he was said by his enemies to he on the side of the people right or wrong. That was false. Did he not oppose the Trades' Union? Did he not tell them it was neither right nor equi- table, nor expedient to endeavour to obtain those prices by resistance, which masters could not afford to give. He told the men they would repent, and he believed they found he had told truth. Whenever lie saw the men going wrong lie went against them. There were, also, other occasions on which he had rendered himself unpopular, because he would not sacrifice his principles. Did he not vote against [ the popular will in the case of St. Martins' burial ground j He also opposed the measure of emancipation for the slaves, on the ground that the proposed relief was only a delusion, and he believed his friend, Mr. Joseph Sturge, had since found that it was nothing better. He also opposed it on the ground of paying twenty millions for the removal of an evil, without insuring such removal, which ought never to have existed, but which still continued under another name, although the people had consented to pay such an enormous sum for its abolition. ( Hear, hear.) He stated these things, to show he had not always tone with public opinion. He went with the people whenever he found they went upon what he conceived fair and proper grounds, and when- ever they found he did not act upon the principles of right and justice, then, he would say, let them denounce, con- demn, and desert him, for he would deserve no better. It was a common principle with him to balance accounts once a year with the Toiies. He had balanced them once al- ready this year, but he had since then got so much in their debt, that he was obliged to do so again. Short reckonings | made long friends. They all knew, that tile other day, he had recommended the Council of the Union to get a list of the names of the persons printed who bad signed the protest against the Union. Now for doing this he was accu< etj of having recommended exclusive dealing, limit winch nothing was more false. He. never recomman- ijJ exclusive dealing. He recommended, as a set- off against these men, who had so imprudently and wantonly come forward and protested against the just lights of their fellow men to associate le- gally for the redress of their wrongs, that they should de- nounce the men who had signed the protest, in order that they might know how to deal with them. Was that exclusive dealing? Did any man see exclusive dealing carried on towards any man who had not signed the protest. ( Cries of " No, no.") Hut who began the exclusive dealing? Why the very men who accused him and his friends of it. Did he ( Mr. Muntz) ever name Mr. Armfield as having practised exclusive dealing towards him? (" No, no.") Did he ever even hint at any cireumstances from which any person in the meeting at which he adverted to the subject, could infer that he had alluded to Mr. Armfield? Certainly not. How then was it that that gentleman could suppose he meant him? Because the cap fitted him, lie put it on. ( Laughter.) He saw his ( Mr. iVl's.) observations oil the subject, and immediately wrote to him, and not content with that, he actually published the correspondence, as if to make known his own conduct in the transaction. But what did Mr. Armfield say? He said he never did leave off dealing with him ( Mr. Muntz) because of politics.. Now, in reply to this, he would say, he did do so. ( Hear, hear, hear.) Mr. Armfield might deny it, but he would again repeat he did leave off doing business with him on account of his politics. He would say he never insinuated one word about the Savings Bank, as he had since stated. The fact was Mr. Atmfield dealt with him for six months after the run upon the Savings Hank, so that it was not the fact that he had declined doing business with him on that account. All persons who had been in the habit of telling untruths should carry a pocket ledger about them and enter what they said, in order that when called upon by the same party, theycould repeat it without running therisk of being detected in an error. They commenced exclusive dealing with him, and they were abusing him falsely for recommending it. Their indignation was unbounded; he thanked God for it, for he would not have their applause for the world. He cared nothing for either their power or influence. There were, he was free to admit, amongst the Tory body many excellent men who really professed Toryism from principle, but as to the working part of them the devil himself could not find their equals. ( Laughter.) They were aware he had brought an action against their vagabond newspaper, for publishing what every body who was present at the oc- currence which gave rise to it knew was a lie. Well, what did they do? Why they took five weeks to concoct sixteen affidavits against him, than which more extraordinary affi- davits were never before got up. They contained state- ments which he charitably believed the parties who had sworn to them had never seen. He would publish them all after the business was over, and he had very little doubt the parties when they saw them before the public would at once disown them. But what did the party say in the last number of their paper ? Why, that he ( Mr. Muntz) had consented to put i ff the trial. Now this he denied in toto. He went to London and remained tl) « re for the express purpose of having it gone on with. He had done all he could to have it brought on, and up to that moment he could not tell how it was that it had not been gone into. He could not understand how it was that it was not. gone on with, unless there was some underhand work of which he was not aware. Again the Tory writers had said that if exclusive dealing had been practised in former years he ( Mr. M.) might be at present a beggar in Bohemia. Now it was unfortunate for the writer, he had no connection whatever with Bohemia. He had not to thank Birmingham for the position he held, for when his father came to reside in it he was worth more money than the reporter, editor, publisher, and three fourths of the proprietors of the paper. The people of Birmingham gained more by liis ancestor ( ban he gained by them. With respect to ancestry, if he was to analyse his origin lie could show it was not possible that he ever could be in that state of destitution of which his calumniator talked. It, how- ever, showed what the party was who could resort to such low means of warfare. Pretty fellows they were to talk of origin or ancestry, when not one in ten of them could go back to their grandfathers, and many of them would not ac- knowledge their own fathers. The people, however, might judge how they would treat them when they treated him in the manner they had done, although well knowing that he was perfectly able to look down upon their malignity with contempt. One word more respecting the protesters. He would say publish their names, not because they belonged to this or that body of men, tint simply because they had the assurance to protest against the right of the people. The present distress, trouble, and misery, was all occasioned by want of good Government, and from the fact of their not being able to return men to the House of Commons, who understood their wants and who could relieve them. They did not want men in that house who would loll about the house perfectly indifferent to a debate, and only waiting to give their vote when required upou a subject of t'. ie merits of which they knew nothing. They wanted such a state of things as would enable them to return men who would do justice by all parties, and when that was the case the nation would not be subject to such alternations as they had ex- perienced. Mr. ATTWOOH came forward to move the first resolution, and was received with great cheering. He said, my good and kind friends, I also, like our excellent chairman, come before you with feelings of joy and pain. With joy, be- cause I know 1 am among those brave men who broke down a tyranny of 700 years' duration. I come with sorrow, be- cause it is the misery of the people which has brought me. ( Hear, hear.) When we carried the Reform bill, 1 thought we had produced a lovely offspring of British liberty, but unhappily for us, it has turned out a witch's bantling. ( Laughter.) For twenty years we suffered all manner of calamities; our country suffered more than a mother's pangs to bring forth less than a mother's hope. I am sure, now that we have again come forth, we n u- t carry a still greater Reform bill. ( Hear, hear.) We have broken down the old boroughmongeis, but we have created a set of bastard boroughmongers, little better tlmn the old- We have tried the Grey Parliament, and we have tried the Peel Parliament, and both of them only gave the people a serpent when they nsked for bread. The people expected to rest in peace and happiness. They promised us beds of roses, but they kept, all the roses for themselves, and they guve the people the thorns. I am sorry, my friends, I feel it my duty to take part on the present occasion. You know how quiet I have been. You know how quiet the Political Union has been. For lour years we have slumbered in po- litical repose. If the people had been permitted to live by their labour— if the iron hand of the boroughmongers had not been upon u « , the men of Birmingham would nut be here to day, to point out to the nation the course it ought to pursue. More than twelve months ago, in the month of January last year, at the Town- hall, anil in the month of November following, I told you that these days of misery and distress were coming. ( Hear, hear.) I told you that the iron hand of the boroughmongers would be upon you ; and that, ere long, one million of men would be again thrown out of work. I regret to say, what 1 foretold has proved too true. I regret to say, that the men who have turned thescrewsoseverely upon us are notdisposed to relaxit; that screw which makes men mad; that cruel screw which breaks the hearts of the best men in England ; and which drives them to that state of desperation thai, in the excess of their frenzy, they destroy their own children; so that crimes are committed in England, frightful, enormous, un- natural, and unheard of in history, except only in the de- struction of Jerusalem, when the frantic mothers drank their children's gore. ( Cheers.) This fearful state of things must be altered, and I have come forward to- day, determined to do all in my power to alter it. ( Immense cheering.) I know the danger that surrounds me, but I will brave it. I will have the misery of the people relieved, or I will take care that the oppressors shall sleep in the same bed with their victims. ( Renewed cheers.) I know the difficulty of the undertaking. Napoleon used to say, " he who takes the helm must support the weight of it." 1, at your call, presume to take the helm. ( Cheers.) I can support the helm, and I will support the helm, and, by your aid, I will carry the good ship England into the port of liberty, prosperity, ami glory. My motto has always been justice, integrity, humanity, and liberty. I remember the saying of our Warwickshire poet, -— the honour of his country and of mankind— Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aiincst at lie thv country's, Thy God's; andtruth's. Then, if thou fallest, thou fallest A Mossed martyr. I have no ends but these. I am ready to live a patriot, or to die a martyr,—( cheers)— but I will take care, my friends, that I will not die, by the blessing of God, until I see my country happy and free. I will take care that no spies shall ever weave their nets around me or any of my good friends. Keeping clear of the nets aiid meshes of the law, we shall defy all human power. So long us we gather up the masses, and magnificently, and peacefully, de- mand our rights, so long shall we be successful, anil no power on earth can resist us. 15ut if they could get us, my friends, to commit outrages, to break the peace, to insult our neighbours, to rob and attack property; if they could seduce us to attempt force, they would bring force against force, and we should have a horrible civil war, in which the people would suffer most. I will take care we shall not have a civil war. ( Applause.) We will conduct our- selves in such a manner that it will he impossible for them to attack us with any justice; but if they should attack us, mark what I say. I am going to tell you an anecdote which it is proper you shou'd always keep in mind. When the tyrant, James II., meditated the destruction of English liberty, he gathered an army of eleven thousand men on Hotmslow Heath, ne. ir London, He, trusting to his army, arrested seven oft he Bishops, and brought them to an unjust trial. A Jury of fieir country released them while the tyrant lay encamped upon Houn'iW He: lth- He heanl an iffl, ien! t shout in ( he camp, arid inquired of his Officers wiw it was. Ht Was told " it was nothing hut the soldieis shouting for the release of the Bishops." " Do you ca,'. 1 ". lat nothing? said the tyrant, " it is more than my crown is worth." He imme- diately took horse, fled to the sea- shore, alio £. njflanil was never after cursed by his presence. Now I tell you * am tried, the same fate shall await whatever King or Queen shall try me. ( Vehement cheering for some time.) I shall conduct myself so, in such a strictly legal, just, and Upright manner, that no jury upon earth shall ever convict me ; and if ihey attempt to crush me in defiance of law, I shall rely upon the people of England to protect me, and I know that they will protect mc. ( Renewed cheering.) They will vindicate the laws which will he outraged in my person, and execute a sudden, quick, and certain judgment upon their oppressors. Noiv it is proper I should here state how the lamentable change has occurred which has this day called us together. Last year the workmen did pretty well, but this year they are in u state of misery and distress la- mentable to behold. I will tell you how this general misery of the industrious classes has been suddenly brought on. For twenty years the boroughmongers have been acting upon a system, which has drained lip nearly all the circu- lating money of the country into the hands of the monieil interest in London. The men who twenty years ago had too much, have had more given to them out of the poverty of the poor. For the last two or three years this money, thus gathered into masses in London, has been pumped out of those masses by the Joint Stock Hanks, and distributed into circulation throughout the country, to work the great duties of production and consumption, and of feeding and clothing the people. The Government itself, alarmed by the Political Unions of 1832, Compelled the Bank of Eng- land to act upon a liberal and extensive system of accom- modation, stimulating and encouraging the Joint Stock Banks to accomplish the great duty of distributing these masses of money into the uses of the country. Now then, my friends, observe the process by which you have been deprived of bread— observe the process by which you, of Birmingham alone, have probably been deprived of £ 50,000 per week, during tile last six months. So long as the Go- vernment and the Bank of England acted upon this system of relaxing the screw, the upright, industrious, and honour- able merchants of Birmingham were enabled to purchase the products of your labour, and at the same time the Ame- rican people were enabled to pay for these products. The process was this. The Birmingham merchants bought the products of your labour, which they immediately consigned to Liverpool. The great agency houses in Liverpool ac- cepted bills at three months, upon the security of these goods. The Birmingham merchants discounted the Bills at the Joint Stock Banks, and with the money thus raised they paid you and your workmen for the goods in question The Joint Stock Banks re- discounted these bills iu the money markets of London, out of which markets neai ly the whole money was, in fact, raised for your support. In the course of three months the great agency houses in Liverpool received back from America consignments of cotton, to- bacco, rice, and other produce, in payment f' r the Birming- ham goods sent there. Now what could be a more natural or healthy or beneficial process than this? Millions of families were maile happy by it on both sides of the water. The workmen and their employers received wages, profits, and employment; and the mass of the American people were enabled to consume and to pay for the spades, the axes, and hardwares of an hundred kinds, which they pur- chased in Birmingham, and which were necessary for the support or comfort of their families. Now why should not this process, alike beneficial to both nations, have gone on for ever? I will tell you. The process in question had drained nearly all the gold out of the Bank of England. What with this process and what with the payment of the labourers upon the rail- ioads, effected by a similar process, file Bank of England was neaily exhausted of gold ; and she found out that she must cither force back the gold through all hazards and all miseries, or otherwise have recourse to paper money again. This the Government would not allow. They would have their golden idol at the expense of the industry and the welfare of the people. They, there- fore, instructed the Bank of England to take care of itself, and to adopt such measures as would be necessary to. force back the gold, however cruel, murderous, or oppressive they might be to the people. The Bank of England, acting upon this ciuel policy, accordingly gave public notice in the autumn or summer of last year, that they would not in future discount any bills drawn by an American merchant, nor nny bills bearing the name of a Joint Stock Bank issuing note*. The whole money market of London was instantly affected; the money eould by no possibility be raised, for tlie payment of the wages of labonv, in the way it had been for two years before; the great agency houses refused to grant any more bills; the Birmingham manufacturers and merchants refused to give out any more orders ; a total stag- nation or paralysis of the commercial system ensiled ; the prices of American produce, whether cotton, tobacco, or other articles, were suddenly forced down 50 per cent. ; and when the great agency houses of Liverpool received back such American produce, to the amount of tight millions sterling, in payment for manufactured goods exported to America within the last six months, such American pro duce was found to produce only four millions sterling in- stead of tiie eight millions sterling which it was calculated to produce, and under confidence in its producing which the great agency houses had contracted their debts and obliga- tions. Hence the ruin and embarrassment of the great agency houses. They have had the earth suddenly, secretly, and fraudulently removed from under their feet by the power of the boroughmongers, and thus it is that they fell. They are not to be blamed; the cruel, unjust, and mur- derous laws are to be blamed, which alone caused their ruin. It is in this way, my friends, the present lamentable state of trade is produced. The boroughmongers have de- prived you of a market for your goods. They have left you to perish without employment and without hope; and at the same time they have deprived the American people of the power of consuming your goods as before, and of paying for those already consumed. I think, my friends, I must have made this subject clear to you. But you will ask, why do the boroughmongers produce so much mischief among the industrious classes, for, apparently, so trifling an object— that of preserving gold, ami gold only, in circulation, at an ancient and long- forgotten standard ? My friends, the bo- roughmongers are wise in their generation, and yet, at the same time, they are fools. They are wise in seeking ihe means of aggrandising their own plunder, but they are fo ils in seeking to impose upon the industrious classes a greater burden than humanity can bear. Their object was, and is, lo usuip all the wealth of the nation, all the plunder ol in- dustry into their own hands. Their object was, hud is. to l- eep just so much money in circulation as would be suffi- cient to pay their own rents, debts, and taxes, but not one farthing more. Observe how ciuelly they measure their iniquities. They impose taxes to the amount of fifty- five millions per annum, which swallow up, twice over, all the gold and silver money in the nation every year. They im- pose rents which do the same. They thus, four times over, require all the gold and silver money in the nation every year, and then they appear to wonder the nation is in dis- tress ! But all this is , yrist to their mill, so long as fhey can substantiate it- The destruction of the poor is the aggran- disement of the rich. If these bad men should increase the money of the country to a fair level, the industrious classes would possess a f. vr sh ire with themselves. But by keeping the money down within the gripe of their own rents, debts, and taxes, the whole of the wealth of the country becomes transferred into their own hands. This, my friends, is the secret principle which lias animated the boroughmongers. They wish to break down the bees, mid toelevat • the drones upon their ruin. Mark! Jlow cruelly this principle has been acted upon for more than twenty years. The borough- mongers knew that the gold money would break down prices generally to the level which existed before the late war; tfiey, therefore, proceeded, in the first place, to pro tect their own rents . by establishing Corn- laws. They thought to create an artificial famine in the nation, and thereby to presei ve their own high rents and prices of food, payable out of the low metallic wages of the people. This was the crgin of the Corn laws, calculated to make food scarce in England. Then came the money laws, calculated equally to make money scarce in England; and'when the people of England, ground between these twin iniquities, like wheat between the upper and nether millstone, sought refuge in the workhouse, the melancholy patrimony of their fathers, then came the New Poor- laws, to close the pates of the workhouse against them, and to open Bustiles in their stead. Now, my friends, let me remind you of a passage in the Ho'y Scriptures, the great source of all our knowledge, wisdom, and virtue, and you will fintl there is nothing new under the sun, and that the same crimes prevailed 4,000 years ago as now exist amongst us. In the hook of Amos it is written as follows, " When will the Sabbath he gone, that we may set forth wheat, making the measure small and the coin great, falsifying the balances by deceit, yea, aud sell the refuse of the wheat? Shall not the land tremble for this?'' Here, my friends, is a curse imposed upon the de- fratiders of the people. These Jewish boroughmongers were, indeed, rather worse than ours, for they not only studied to make the measure small and the coin great, but they also studied to cheat the people further with a bad article, " selling the refuse for the wheat." Observe, further, how cruelly and madly they act. What is the most important thing to support man's life?— Food, to be sure. Is it wise and just in a government to pass laws to make the food scarce which supports man's life? Certainly not. What is the next most important thing iu society next to food? Certainly, money to buy it with ; for without the money to buy food, the people must starve in the midst of plenty. Is it wise ill a government to make scarce the money which buys the food that supports man's life? It would be madness to do so. What is ruin ? Is it not bankruptcy, insolvency, and want of means to pay debts, which de- livers up honest men into a prison, and consigns families to ruin? What, then, would " ou tllink of a government which, on : ne c- ie ,, » „; pass laws to make scarce the food which on lilt - IB imiiui , k n; - er hand, pass laws to supports mau s me, an", oil uie ot... r make scarce the money which purchases tne • OOUC* feeds the hungry, and clothes the naked, and hieaks open prison doors, and saves families Irom ruin? Your ainm will fuP'! a government of " Iirth. Well, illy iriends, we shau - Q„ e f this. The circumstances of our country are 0 1 an;' urgent. Let us hope better days are dawning upon , us- Now. when we get further reform— when we get the in- dustrious classes to take legal possession of their own House of Commons, we shall have a great and permanent change. When you get representatives in that Home, take care they are not crawling sycophants, but independent Englishmen. You must find those men yourselves, in wide, and brave, and generous England; and when you send them to Par- liament, you must pay them for their services. ( Hear, hear.) 1 always told you that you could do no good until you got the House of Commons into your own hands. In Sweden the House of Commons consists all of labourers, and Sweden is one of the happiest countries iu the world. So long as you send men into Parliament too rich to see your interest, or too needy to be honest, you will never do anv good. But if you will procure men who really can and will serve you, and if you will insistupon and obtain House- hold Suffrage, Vote by Ballot, Triennial Parliaments, and the Abolition of Property Qualification, and cut out the placemen, then you will have a happy and free country. There is a committee sitting in Parliament now to inquire into the workings of the New Poor Law bill, and what do you suppose, my friends, has been brought out? Why, that the agricultural labourers in the South of England are living upon bread and water only. ( Shaine, shame. ) These very men forty years ago used to have beef and bread and beer every day, and if I live, by the blessing of God, they shall have it again. ( Great cheering.) They tell us there are too many of us, but this is not the case. How can it be, when every man can produce every year four times as much of the good things of life as he and his wife and ten children can possibly consume ? What, then, do they mean by saying there are too many of us? ' 1 hey mean there are too many unprincipled men in high places. The population does not press upon the food, but it presses upon tile arbitrary, and cruei, and unjust laws which enable the rich to plunder the poor. I told the House of Commons what I tell you, that the object of the New Poor Law bill is to break down the wages of the English people to the level of the Irish labourer, in order to enable the landlords to receive their paper rents in gold money. They found out that tither the landlord, or farmer, or the labouier must fall, and they decided that the unhappy labourer should go to the wall. This I told them, and this I proved to them. When I had made my speech, a very good and honourable gentleman, Mr. Law Hodges, the member for Kent, rose up and de- clared in the House, upon his honour as a gentleman, he did believe " that the sole object, effect, and intention of this accursed hill was to serve as a supplement to Peel's bill of 181S." Now, look my friends, at the instructions given by Ministers to the Poor Law Commissioners iu framing this bill. 1 heard it charged iu the House of Com- mons that thd instructions given to the Commissioners con- tained a charge that they must enquire into the means of bridging the labourers of England to live upon a coarser sort of food. That charge was not contradicted. My blood boiled. I thought to myself am I in hell or in bedlam ? The agricultural interest complain of want of markets for their produce, and here they go to close millions of hungry mouths, to deprive the people of the means of consuming agricultural produce ou the one hand, iu the hope of lifting up agricultural- prices on the other ! How can the agricul- ture of England be supported by closing the mouths of the people, or by compelling them to live upon coarser food ? I hope, however, my friends, notwithstanding this and all the other infamous bills, we shall shortly carry a sudden and permanent prosperity. If we do not, we shall carry in our holy struggle, a full measure of liberty which will eventually lead to it. The first thing we must do is to abolish the in- famous Corn Laws; and secondly, we must abolish the more infamous money laws; and thirdly, when the poor man is reduced to poverty, and unable to procure the means of subsistence, we must take care that lie can procure the shelter of the workhouse, or the decent relief of parochial assistance if he requires it. I trust the result of this meet- ing will be to compel Government to abolish these iniquitous laws, and if so, we shall soon find a return of that prosperity, and those comforts, which the people of England once en- joyed. You will find the Americans, in place of being a nation of bankrupts, will be able to meet all their engage- ments, and payall they owe. In fact, if the Government will only do what they ought, in so short a time as one single mouth from the present, the men of Birmingham will lie again set to work, and they will he able to send out to America sixty thousand pounds sterling of goods per week. Yes, my friends, if your rulers will deal fairly by the Americans, that brave and glorious people will send you orders for goods, and honestly pay for them, to a far greater amount than I have stated, and the consequence to you must be a return of that prosperity you so iately enjoyed, and of which you never ought to have been deprived. If, however, my friends, the Government will prove insensible to your cries, if they will not loose their grasp upon you, if they persist, iu refusing those comforls which God designed you should have; if we shall fail in our present attempt to obtain justice, then, my friends, we must imitate the conduct of the brave and heroic Romans of old. They were a great, and powerful, and free people, in the days of their Republic. When the persecu- tor's hands were upon thern, when the aristocracy were op- pressing them, what did they do? Why, my friends, they were not divided amongst each other. They did not begin to squabble with each other. The masters and men were not divided in sentiment, and envying each other. No, they were united, and, being so, they demanded justice for each other from the aristocracy of the country. Masters and men all retired to the Aventine- hill, and there they de- manded that there should be an end to the bad laws which oppressed them ; that there should be novee tabula, or new tables, and new regulations; and that the rights and liberties of the people should be restored and permimentlyestablished. In a word, they demanded and obtained what the late Mr. Cobbett would call an equitable adjustment. Tfiey com- pelled the aristocracy to give way, and they always main- tained their proper position in the country, until they at last suffered themselves to be swindled out of their liberties, if it shall occur to us that the people of England must take extreme measures, I promise to show you two millions of men handed together in a solemn and sacred compact. ( Cheers.) It is true, they cannot meet at one place, but on a given day, and in one and the same hour, they shall meet in their respective tffftns, and cities, and villages, and with one voice they shall demand those rights and liberties which the people of Birmingham claim. ( Renewed cheering.) If our rulers refuse to hear us through our deputation to- morrow, they shall listen to and attend to two millions of Englishmen. ( Cheers.) Now, mark what I say, my friends, if they refuse to listen to us to- day, to- morrow they shall listen to two millions of Englishmen ; and if they refuse to listen to them, then these men shall, one and all, both masters and men, strike work at one given hour— ( cheers)— and if I live to conduct this great operation, there will not be the sound of an anvil to be iieard, there will not be a plough moved, there will not be a shuttle thrown, but all will stand still for one whole week. During that sacred week, we will forget all our labours, and all our cares, and we will direct all our energies to the rectification of the common wrongs of all; and I promise you that we will exhibit such a sublime spectacle as the wide earth and the wide range of history never exhibited befoie. ( Loud cheering.) But, my friends, in the working of these great duties necessary to these great ends, we must be always upon our guard against traitors, and fools, aud spies. If we listen to either, we are lost. We shall find many of these, some urging us from a wild enthusiasm, and some urging us that they may crush the people, and sell our blood and our liberties for gold. Against these we must hold up our motto—" Peace, Law, Order, Loyalty, and Union." Before this sacred banner traitors, and lools, and spies, will shrink, as the evil spirits from below aie reported to fly before the sacred symbols of our holy religion. ( Cheers.) My friends, I know that you are aivare of, and deeply feel, tlie domestic miseries that we now endure, but I think you cannot l e aware of the bitter cup of foreign shame which we are compelled to drain to its very dregs. ( Applause.) You do not know, you cannot know, tor the villainous press conceals, how cur country is disgraced abroad. Why if your forefathers could, they w ould rise up in their graves with indignation at the insult am! contumely to which we have submitted from Russia. The Dardanelles gives England command over the Black Sea and all the countries adjacent, and this the Russians have caused to be closed. The Russians have also seized upon an English ship, carry- ing the English banner and trading under the sanction o the English Government. This ship, the Vixen, they havi ey f Tllev have iMigiisii Government, t ins snip, seized anil confiscated, and literally sold prisoned the captain and the crew, and what is more, they have commissioned this very ship as a Russian sloop of war, and sent it out to cruise upon the same coast on which it was captured, thus holding out the shame and degradation of England before all the nations of tile earth! Was ever disgrace like this endured by Englishmen? We that struck down the conqueror of tile world, Napoleon, aie now to be insulted and degraded by ; he Russian Bear; and what pre- parations have we to meet, thase insults? I assert to you that a minister of the King asserted three weeks ago that the Russians have at this moment tivenly- six line of battle Ships all well manned, aiid ali ready for sea, in the harbour of Cronstadt, and that the English nation has oulv five line of battle ships ready to meet them in a fortnight. Here' then there are twenty- six line of battle ships ready to enter ! i! the Thames, and burn Chatham In a lortmght, and we have only five line of batle ships to meet thJra. Is this to be en jured ? Is it not enough that we should bjcomj- e led to rn fc? g dure domestic misery at home, but v. e also at the same time - p- must be compelled to drain the bitter cup of foreign shame . For what, mv friends, did we break down the power of Napn ffg leon. if not to secure ourselves against foreign despn ^ tism? Be was a great man, and if we ave to iall, 1 8i, 0U,'- Ma prefer falling beneath the power and. « fti! ity of such a uian.^ t rather than submit to the bar'Jlirie foftaKice of Oie 11 fr;|$ Hear. Before, however, Xve ,. an expect to have cither on j ... J foreign honour or ( joiiiestic interest on- . , ' .... ended to, we it...- lavo" a -„... p. ete Reform of the House cfMp Commons ( chtx « ), and of this Reform I do not ; J? sBuir. M I have asked you to offer up your prayers for our goon Kihft, and you have mO't effectually responded to my call and I have not the least do oh t, if he should live to hear cdjSSg this expression of your attachment, it will cheer him in lib V^ J last hour. But if not, if it shall pi ease God to take him, MW we shall fall into good hands. ( Clietrs ) I had, as you an- Si aware, the pleasure of presenting an address lo tile Princess Victoria ( renewed cheers), and I was very much pleaseii •*• with what she said and what she did on that occasion. ' ^ gw had also to present an address to that excellent woman iii> j^ S Duchess of Kent, and I never saw a woman exhibit fintr feelings of tile heart and head than she did. We are, then || Lj not in bad hands, and if we shall lose our good Kins, the blessing of God, I trust that we shall yet succeed in re dressing the wrongs of the industrious classes, and in result- ing the prosperity, the glory, aud liberty of our country My friends, I have no more to say. I had the honour n originating the Political Union. I am a member of it. ( Cheers.) I always was. I will live by it, and, if npce- sary, I will die by it. ( Renewed cheers.) Mr. EDMONDS said, he rose for the purpose of secnndini the resolution, which had been so ably proposed by tliei. excellent chairman, Mr. Attwood. Experience had taugh them that public men were not always to be relied upon ; mid when they found one upon whom they could rely, the* could nut too highly appreciate his worth. Such an on was the honourable gentleman who had again come forwnr to lead them. Sir Francis Burdett— he who had attend? at the meeting of the Political Union ; who had fraternise! with them; who had cheered their every sentiment; alas: he had been seduced to go over lo the very men, who ono sought his life, and who were the deadliest enemies of tin people. Their excellent leader, Mr. Attwood, had, f.| more than twenty years, been engaged in advocating thei cause. Up to that moment he had advocated those gren principles which were alone calculated to promote the inter ests and the happiness of the working classes; and wfiei they found him unflinching in his effort's for their beneii whilst others were betraying the people, they could not, a- he had before said, too highly prize his services. ( Cheers Now the subject which had brought them together was tli great distress which existed amongst the working classe- and to him ( Mr. E.) he confessed that was a most inter estirig subject. When in the year 1827, they met on th • sacred spot, for the express purpose of considering the ili tress of the nation which then existed, and with a view t- the application of a remedy, fie then quoted Mr. Attwood' language, which he had uttered long before that time. Mi. Attwood had pointed out the cause, and suggested areme 1 in a work he published twenty years ago ; but it was in attended to. Since then they had been subject to vuiiou fluctuations in trade, and to great misery, simply becau-. t le base enemies of the people would not attend to his ad vice. As he ( Sir. E.) had said, he quoted Mr. Attvvood • language at tile meeting referred to, and he would quote i again ; and he thought they would agree with him, tli it very forcibly described the existing distress. Mr. Ed monds then read tile following extract: — What is the condition of our beloved country ? I should tic linpi> if my duty could allow me to pass over this dreadful topic in silen lie assured, I shall not attempt to rouse and aggravate your passion, tiy fictitious descriptions of unreal misery. No! the torturing rcnl ties which croud the whole field of vision, instead of exciting playful and creative fancy by their overwhelming magnitude an importance, confound and suppress it. There is neither leisure no disposition for the " pomp of circumstances." The most va » r « and the most volatile imagination is fixed in agonisingrconteniplalini of our present and prospective calamities, whose aspi'ct, like tin pernicious glance of the basilisk, holds the unwilling and thinki. i mind in a state of horrid fascination. To adopt the language < if highly respectable townsman, Thomas Attwood, Esq.,—" Ou uln soever side I look throughout the whole commercial world, 1 c perceive nothing but indulgence, and indolence, and poverty, am despair. If I look to the east or the west, or to'tiie north or to t> i south, I can see or hear nothing hut those appailingsymptoms wliicl precede the mora! earthquake, and which threaten, erelong, to tiui si into such a vehemence of action, as may shake the bottommost folii. dations of society. For these last two years, the landlord has " ceived no rent, and the farmer no profits; the merchant exhaii- i his capital and his industry iu vain ; the manufacturer sees hi- In,;-. . earned accumulations gradually passing away ; while the agrieulti rnl and mechanical labourer is driven into the workhouse or I . grave." Sln- h was the language of Mr. Altwood, and the meetu, impressed with the conviction of the truth ,, f it, resolved,— Th \ vhii3t we admire the humanity which lias prompted the less suit' iug inhabitants of this town, to administer to the immediate craving of a famishing population, we must question the wisdom which satisfies itself with tempi^ ary expedients to meliorate the pub sufferings, leaving the cause in full operation, to exhaust and dele tho purposes of their imperfect benevolence ; and we must condem the patriotism which contents itself with commiserating t national calamities, instead of demanding in the spirit of free- bor, men, that a thorough investigation he made into the sources when they How, in order that they may at once aud forever be annihilate d Such, said Mi. E. in continuation, was the language use by Mr. Attwood many years ago. When he looked aroum him and saw such a vast multitude assembled, either fro their own sufferings, or by reason of their sympathies !• others, he felt, as he did twenty years ago, that he was e- gaged in a cause in which a man could freely die and appen to the Deity for his approbation of his exertions, made t obtain the relief of 50 aiaiiy suffering fellow- creatures ( Cheers.) Ilisfriend, Mr. Attwood, 2! the period allude to, maintained that it was to the contraction ot iiie CUITW. they were to attribute all the misery that afflicted then and, if they looked to the history of the past, in his ( M E.' s) opinion, they would find that there was a great deal truth iu the honourable gentleman's doctrine. It was clem and so clear that it could not be denied, that when the cur rency was contracted misery increased ; and that when • was expanded prosperity followed. Such being the far without going further into the subject, he thought, at lea.-' there was so much apparent truth in Mr. Attwood's vieii as justly entitled them to consideration. ( Hear, hear. He would not, he repeated, go into a discussion then ; bu he would say he considered Mr. Attwood had not beo fairly treated by the House of Commons or the Mini.- tn when, only a few nights before, he hud brought the subj.- i before them. Lord John Russell did not even condescen to reply to his observations, or to enter into an arguinen and the subject was passed over as unworthy of notic:-. He had supported the Whigs as long as he could see then doing any good; but, he must say he detested the abomina- ble course they had taken in reference to several great am important measures; and particularly ia their dogged oh stinacy in refusing to go into a fair investigation of the cnu- of the distress under which the nation was then gvoanini; He wished the Whigs would be either hot or cold. ( Hear hear.) He wished from his heart they would go out i. be what they ought to he. ( A voice in the meeting,- " Lay it on them."— Laughter.) He ( Mr. Edmonds) dii not think they wanted the condemnation of the honest nie. in thecountry. They had it already. Mr. E. next ad'vertu to the protest against the revival of the Union, arid, iu In own good- humoured style, belaboured the protesters, few years ago, when Loid Dartmouth put on his armou: and came forth determined to resist the merchants and nr. nufacturers of Birmingham, he called a Conservative iriii.- i ing, and as. the Tories had seldom any facts to draw uuoi. they drew upon their imagination, and declared that th Political Union was defunct. ( Laughter.) That it \ va* dead and buried, and that it was placed i n ler a giaie over which was erected the beautiful . monument of tl <.' Loyal and Constitutional Association. If there was am truth in that assertion, most certainly that day's meetil g looked something like a resurrection. With respect to th protest itself, was there ever a more precious tissue of false hoods? It stated that the old Union caused distress Now, ; i more attrocious falsehood even by Tory impttdein- i was never uttered. It did not cause the distress, it aro:; i out of it, and it achieved to a certain amount, its cure, i procured the one Reform bill, and he trusted the presc..' H£ Union would achieve a far greater Reform bill. ( Cheers, pi He had no doubt it was destined_ to effect great thing's Only let them look at the facts connected with its ibe, El Not only unsolicited, but, he might say discouraged by tin leaders, 8,6C0 men perfectly free, undeterred by threat ffS uninfluenced by promises, had come forward,' paid their sub- rS st'riptions, and enrolled their names. If the Tories con but see it, this was a glorious fact. Mr. E. next alluded to an article which appeared in Aris's Gazette against tli Union, in which it was asserted that the old Union h:, i; produced bad effects, from the fact of it having severed tin' masters from the workmen. In reference to this artic . signed as n was by a highly resectable gentleman, he iva compelled to say it was altogether false; ant! he could i oi hut regret that so highly respectable a gentleman, us t:-, one he alluded to, should be induced to lend his nanie ti. a document which amounted to nothing less than a uiiv libel upon tile people of Birmingham. ( Loud cheers. , Again, the Tories ta: d the members of the Council were not religious men. Now, considering the use these men made of the sacred names of loyalty and religion, he c " i'q tainly thought they were the most impudent fellows livin to dare to talk ahout other people's religion. ( II ear, hear Only let them think of Mr. Hebbert and Mr. Geor » pj! Whateley preaching religion! ( Laughter.) He woul' pi not be surprised- when these worthies, in company wir' Sai nt Gutterridge, next met for the purpose of writing against the Political Union, that Mr. Hebbert sliouh. Ktf kneel down and implore a blessing upon their pious under ifef taking. ( Renewed laughter.) But to he serious, was i not truly ridiculous to hear such persons talking about re fe ligion. Iu conclusion fie seconded the resolution ; whic, ^ uas then put from the chair, and carried with ere cheering. ( Continuedin page 6.) m , . • - L „ ^ •• ' < - •/ " - . •• ' - - " " ' 7 THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. • - . i. OJ Z QJ 5 = PROCLAMATION OF HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA. 5> HE Ceremony of PROCLAIMING the AC- CESSION OF HER MAJESTY, will take place town, on MONDAY NEXT, the 26th of June inst. i'hose Gentlemen who aie desirous of taking I'art in the ' eremony, are requested to meet the HIGH SHERIFF t the TOWN HALL, on that day, at half- past eleven .' clock precisely. * « * Entrance, Door in Congreve- street. • PROCLAMATION Having been made in front of the Town Hall, the Proees- ! on will move in the following order : — Advance Guard of the Fifth Dragoon Guards. Constables and Headborough of Birmingham. Constables and Headborough of Deritend. Detachment of Dragoons. Beadles of the different Churches and Chapels in full dress. Police- officers with their Slaves. £ Band of the Fifth Dragoon Guards. O Troop of the Fifth Dragoon Guards, with the • „ Standards of the Regiment. \ = Gentlemen of the Town and Neighbourhood three abreast. Beadles of the Court Leet. Court Leet Jury with their Wands. 5 « > High and Low Bailiffs. Steward of the Manor. : Church and Chapel Wardens. Dissenting Ministers. 5 Clergy of the Establishment, in their Canonicals, 5 Dragoon Trumpeters. . S Magistrates. ' r^ Members for the Borough. ? Sheriff's Officers. Under Sheriff. High Sheriff, on Horseback. Colonel Thorn, Commanding the District. Dragoon Guards. The Procession will move along Ann- street, C. olmore- < nv, Bull- street, High- street, Digbeth, Smithfield, Broms- • rove- street, the Horse Fair, Smallhrook- street, Worcester- treet, New- street, and thence to the Town Hall, where he Procession will separate. PROCLAMATION Vill also he made at the bottom of Bull- street, at Nelson's *: atue, in Smithfield, in the Horse Fair, and in New- street, pposite the Free School. ggr No Carnages, Waggons, or Carts will be allowed to tand in the streets through which the Procession passes, nd the Police are directed to enforce the Regulation. ROBERT WEBB, High Bailiff. JAMES JAMES, Low Bailiff. Town Hall, June 23, 1837. - w s* o re o ii o 3 JEWELLERY AND BLACK ORNAMENT ESTABLISHMENT, No. 102, BULL- STREET, AND 55, GREAT HAMPTON- STREET, BIRMINGHAM. IOSEPH PRICE, in returning thanks to his ' f friends and the public for the patronage he has received, nost respectfully invites their attention to a large and ex- ensive assortment of all kinds of JEWELLERY, BLACK > RN A MENTS, SILVER, PLATED, and FANCY \ 11TICLES, & c., & c. J. P. having just returned from the Continent, his Stock > ill be fo\ md to possess patterns of the newest designs and fashions. A large and well selected Stock of JET NECKLACES, £ A R- RINGS, BRACELETS, BROOCHES, & c., tillable for the present Mourning, at unprecedentedly low rices. N. B. All kinds of Jewellery, Black Ornaments, & c., made • il repaired on the shortest notice, and lowest terms. BUC'ELLAS WINE. rIMIIS Wine is particularly recommended at the pre- fi. sent season; it is a light and delicate Wine, produced <> m the most celebrated of the Portuguese Vineyards. ' 1 he price for the first quality is Thirty- six Shillings per lozen, at ' ETERS'SWINE AND SPIRIT WAREHOUSE, Bull- street, corner of Temple- Row. UiR. 0iNtiH. fUVi AND Ul:. RJtS Y JUNCTION RAILWAY. THIRD CALL OF £ 5 PER SHARE. ' pH E Directors of the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway Company having resolved that a ilird Instalment of Five Pounds per Share, payable on or Wore the ELEVENTH BAT of AUGUST, 1837, should be called or, Proprietors of Shares in this Company are hereby re- tired to pay on or before that day, to any of the under- nentioned Bankers, the sum of F'ive Pounds on each of heir respective Shares. BANKERS: — London— Sir Richard C'arr Glyn, Bart., and Co,, Lom- iircl street. Jiirming/ iatn— The Birmingham Banking Company. Manchester— The Manchester and Salford Ilank. Derby— Messrs. W. W. and S. Evans. Burton- upon- Trent — Messrs. Blurton, Webb, Peel, » > l Co. Sheffield— Messrs. Parker, Shore, and Co. The Bankers have been severally instructed to charge in- vest, at the rate of £ 5 per cent, per annum, according to the provisions of the Act of Incorporation, from " the eleventh day of August, on all sums which shall be tendered after that day. HENRY SMITH, Chain*'-- — " - » ' - n! ;., e Board u, - " rrora. THOMAS KELL, Secretary. „. » i ioo- strfiet, Birmingham, June 22nd, 1& 37. BIRMINGHAM AND DERBY JUNCTION RAILWAY. CONTRACTS FOR WORKS. I'M IE DIRECTORS of the Birmingham anii Derby Junction Railway Company will meet at their O. tices, in Waterloo- street, Birmingham, on WEDNESDAY, the second day of August next, at Twelve o'clock at noon necisely, to receive TENDERS for the following CON- TRACTS:— ' First Contract.— To make the Railway, with all the Ex- cavations, Embankments, Bridges, Culverts, Fences, and other works, excepting the Bridges over the Derby Canal and the River Derwent, commencing in the parish of Nor, m, niton, in the county of Derby, and terminating near the town of Derby, being a distance of about miles, ( pro- viding all the necessary materials for the same, except the Rails and Chairs,) and to keep the same in repair for one , eir after the completion. Second Contract.— To construct and complete the Bridges over the Derby Canal and the River Derwent, and a keep the same in repair for one year alter the completion. Drafts of the contracts, with plans and specifications of the works, will be ready for inspection at the Company's ithces, Waterloo- street, Birmingham, on and after the 28th iistant. Forms of tender may be had at the Company's Offices, Old no others will be attended to. The tenders must be delivered, sealed, at the Company's Offices, on or before Wednesday, the second day of August next, at Twelve o'clock at noon ; and parties tenderingmust ttend in person, or by some one duly authorised on their lehalf, at the time of meeting. The Directors will not bind themselves to accept the lowest tenders. The parties whose tenders are accepted will be required u enter into bonds, with two sureties, for the due perform- rnce of their contracts, in a penalty of not less than ten ler Cent, on the gross sum contracted for, and the names of he proposed sureties are to he specified in the tenders. The contractors, if they require it, will be furnished with • ounterparts of their contracts, at their own expense. By order, THOMAS KELL, Secretary, Waterloo- street, Birmingham, June 22nd, 1837. GREAT REDUCTION IN WOOLLBN CLOTHS' IN consequence of the very depressed state of trade, at MAGUIRE AND HIGGINS'S, Golden Fleece, bottom of Bull- street, Birmingham,— Superfine Broad Cloths, in every colour, at 10s. 6d. TO FARMERS, CARRIERS, & c. VJS7ILLIAM JOHNSON, 39, Queen- street, Bir- » v mingham, respectfully returns his sincere thanks to the Nobility, Gentry, Farmers, and Carriers in this and the adjoining counties, for the very liberal and extensive sup- port he has met with since his commencing business, and begs to assure them, and the Public at large, that he con- tinues to manufacture RICK COVERS, with Poles, & c. complete, WATER- PROOF OIL- CLOTH WAG- GON SHEETS, TARPAULINGS, & c. & c„ of the best materials, and by first- rate workmen, equal to any houses in London or Birmingham. iggfT Marquees and Tents made to order, or lent on Hire. Dealer in Sacks, Ropes, Mats, Sfc. Orders per post, punctually attended to. Queen. street, June 23rd, 1837. FREE MASONRY. HARMONIC LODGE, No. 313. HELD AT BROTHER JOHN MANTLE'S, FREE MASON'S TAVERN, STONE- STREET, DUDLEY. THE Brethren of this Lodge will celebrate the Festival of St. John the Baptist, at the above place, on Tuesday, the 4th day of July next, when the company of any regular brother will be esteemed a favour. The Lodge will be open in due form at twelve o'clock. Dinner on the table at three. * » * Tickets, 3s. 6d. THE BULL'S HEAD, TAVERN POPE- STREET, rpo be SOLD by AUCTION, by W. CLARKE, JL upon the Premises as above, on Wednesday next, June 28, 1837, at six o'clock in the evening, subject to con- ditions to be then produced, by direction of the Assignees of JOHN CAPNER, a Bankrupt, ( unless in the mean'time Disposed of by Private Contract,) the ALE, WINE, and SPIRIT LICENCES, GOOD- WILL, and POSSES- SION Of that superior and ^- ell- established Tavern, known by the Sign of the BULL'S HEAD, POPE STREET, doing an excellent business, both in and out of doors. The above House is situate in one of the best neighbour- hoods for the business ; is held at a moderate rent, and com- prises suitable Bed- rooms, large Club- room, Tap- room, Bar and Parlour to the front, extensive Cellaring, Marble and Skittle Alleys, & c. For further Particulars apply to Mr. HARRISON, Solicitor, Edmund- street, or of the AUCTIONEER, Upper Temple- street, Birmingham. , STEAM TO ROTTERDAM. ITHE ST. GEORGE STEAM PACKET COM PANY's magnificent and powerful STEAMSHIP, SEA HORSE, ( 600 Tons Burthen, and 250 Horses Power,) J. WM. BOUCH, Commander, Is intended Sail for ROTTERDAM, during the months F JUNE and JULY, as follows, carrying Post- office Letter Hags,— Wednesday, June 21 at 8 o'clock evening. Wednesday, 28 — 3 o'clock afternoon. Wednesday, July 5 — 8 o'clock evening. Wednesday, 12 — 1 o'clock afternoon. Wednesday, —- 19 — 8 o'clock evening. Wednesday, 26 — 1 o'clock afternoon. Returning from Rotterdam on Saturdays. FARES. ( est Cabin £ 2 2 0 I Deck £ 0 15 Fore Cabin 15 0) Horses 3 3 IMPORTANT FREEHOLD F> ROPERTY, Near to Trinity Chapel, Bordesley; AND A HIGHLY VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY, SPICEAL- STREET, BIRMINGHAM. TO be SOLD by AUCTION, by E. and C. ROBINS, on Wednesday the 28th of June instant, ( by direction of the Assignees of Mr. Wm. Hodgetts, and free from auction duty) at four o'clock in the after- noon, at the George Inn, in Digbeth, Birmingham, sub- ject to conditions then and there to b£ produced FREEHOLD, CAMP- HILL. All that well- built and substantial House and extensive Premises, at Camp- hill, near to Trinity Chapel, Bordesley, many years known as the Bull's Head Tavern and Tea Gardens, together with the House and Offices adjoining, and a considerable extent of Building Land, nearly half an acre, having frontages both to the Oxford and London turnpike roads, and to the lane leading from the same to the Coventry road. LEASEHOLDS, SPICEAL- STREET. The roomy Front Shop and commodious Dwelling House, with extensive vaulted cellars, and other conveniences, being No. 15, in Spiceal- street, now occupied as the retail establishment of Messrs. R. and G. Thomas, Edge- tool and File Manufacturers, at a yearly tenancy of 60/. The neatly fronted Shop with four good rooms over, and two excellent cellars, being No. 16, in Spiceal- street, now occupied in the Bookselling and Stationery Trade of Mr. Hodgetts, and the office of the Birmingham Advertiser, together with the extensive ranges of Building used as the Printing Offices of the Advertiser, and the general Print- ing Establishment of Mr. Hodgetts. The commanding Front Shop, arid excellent Family House attached, with other conveniences for carrvirig on an extensive trade, being No. 17, in Spiceal- street, nov( i occupied by Mr. Johnson, Chemist and Druggist, as yearly tenant, at the rent of 80/. per annum. Two Dwelling Houses at the back of No. 15, in the occupation of Hr. Hutchins, Basket- maker, at the low rent of 151. 12s. An extensive Upper and Loner Warehouse, with single- stall Stable, admirably adapted, from its contiguity to the market, for any business requiring room. The above premises are Leasehold, 56 years of which were unexpired at Lady- day last, subject to the low ground rent of 18/. a year to the Rector of St. Martin's. LEASEHOLD, DERITEND. One Moiety of Property in Birchall street, consisting of Sr. John's Sunday School and four Dwelling Houses, now let to the Rev. E. Palmer, at the rent of 16/. 16s. per year. Twenty Shares in the Cambrian Mining Company. One Share in the Botanical and Horticultural Society. For further information apply to Messrs. WEBB and DOLPHIN, Solicitots; to Mr. MOLE, Solicitor; or to the A UCTIONEKns. rpHE CREDITORS who have proved their debts X under a Fiat in Ban.' r'UDlcy aw'^' ded and issued forth against WILLIAM HODGETTS, of Birmingham, in th county of Warwick, Bookseller, Dealer and Chapman, are requested to meet the assignees of the said bankrupt's estate and effects, on HoSDav, the 26tii dr. y of June instant, at One o'clock in the afternoon precisely, at Radenlmrst's New Royal Hotel, in Birmingham aforesaid, to assent to or dissent from the said assignees selling and disposing of the stock in trade, household goods, furniture, chattels, and effects of the said bankrupt, or any part thereof, either by pub- lic auction or private contract, or by valuation or appraise- ment, for ready money or upon 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 debts 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 the compounding or submitting to aibitra tion, or otherwise agreeing any matter or thing relating thereto ; arid on other special affairs relating to the said bankruptcy. WEBB and DOLPHIN,") Joint FRAS. MOLE, J Solicitors. HULL AND I. EITH. THE I N N I S F A I L, J. MOFEATT, Commander. Sails for LEITIIevery SUNDAY, and returns on WED- NESDAY. Best Cabin, 20s.. Deck, 7s. 6d. Including Steward's Fee. For further information, apply at the Company's- office, 5, MINERVA TERRACE, HULL. June 15th 1837. AN AGENT WANTED, RPO COLLECT ORDERS' in Birmingham, for an . article of general consumption* Apply personally, at 93, Smallhrook- street. SCHOOLMISTRESS WANTED. ff^ HE Guardians of the Poor of Birmingham are J- desirous to engage a person well instructed and qualified to tench on the INFANT SCHOOL SYSTEM as SCHOOLMISTRESS at the ASY LUM. Particulars of the Duties required may be fully known, on application to Miss ALCOCK, the matron of the Asylum. Salary, £ 20 per ann., together with Board, Lodging, & c. Testimonials to be addressed to the Asylum Committee. Asylum Vestry. June 19th, 1837. aw ur. nijc. uo iin V-. V7/ 11-.. PERSONS desirous of supplying the HAM WORKHOUSE, 4c., with C TO DEALERS IN COAL. BIRMING- COAL foi » the ensuing twelve months, ( about 800 tons'* will send in SEALED TENDERS, addressed to the'HousE PROVI- SION COMMITTEE, on or before 4 O'CLOCK on THURSDAY, the 6th of July. N. B.— Payments quarterly. Particulars of the Contract may he known by applying to Mr. T. ALLCOCK, Governor. Workhouse Vestry, June 22, 1837. ENGLISH GRAMMAR. In the Press, and will be published on the first of July, AN ENGLISH GRAMMAR. By MATTHIAS GREEN. The plan of instruction in this work is new and simple. The technical terms of the accidents of words are not introduced till the learner is qualified to distinguish the parts of speech. Subscriber's Copies, 2s. 6d. SI^ IPKIN, MARSHALL, and Co., London: ALLEN and LYON, Birmingham. This day is published, in 12mo., with Plates, 5s. the 3rd edition of AGUIDE to GEOLOGY. By JOHN PHILLIPS, F. R. S., G. S., & c., Professor of Geology in King's College, London. A more able elementary work could not be produced." — Literary Gazette. London : LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, and LONGMAN. TO DEAF PERSONS. DR. COOPER'S ' VOICE CONDUCTORS, or EAR CORNETS, are extremely light, they may be almost concealed in the hair, are retained without assist- ance, admit of being slipped on and off like spectacles; and arouse the faculty of the Ear, so that individuals convers- ing with Deaf Persons make themselves heard without raising their voice. To be had of Messrs. ATLEE and Co., manufacturers of Patent Elastic Surgical Bandages of eveiy kind, 137, Islington, Birmingham. REMOVAL. THOMAS COX begs to inform the Merchants, Factors, and others, that he has REMOVED his Establishment from Mary Ann- street, St. Paul's, to more convenient Premises, situate in RE A- STREET, MOSE- LEY- STREET. June, 23rd, 1837. DESIRABLE FURNISHED APARTMENTS AND OFFICES FOR A PROFESSIONAL GENTLEMAN. rilO be LET, on moderate terms, in the neighbour- .1- hood of St. Philips'Church ; comprising convenient offices, sitting room and commodious bed room, with attendance. Apply to R. N. at the Printer's. JAND W. BOUI. TON beg most respectfully to s inform the Ladies of Birmingham and the surround- ing districts, that they have an extensive and well- assorted Stock of Articles of every description for Mourning; having purchased largely of Silks, Chalis, Muslins, Mousseline de Laines, Shawls, Handkerchiefs, & c. & c. at a very advanta- geous period, they are enabled to offer them on terms which, they feel assured, will be satisfactory to purchasers. Corner of Temple- row West, and" Colmore row, June 21, 1837. MILLINERY AND DRESS ESTABLISHMENT, 140, SNOW- HILL. • '•>-'. '' MRS. DALE returns her grateful acknowledge- ments for the liberal support she has experienced many years, and begs to inform her Friends she is declining the Brsiriess, in favour of the MISSIS ALLCOCK, whom she can confidently recommend, and solicits for them that sup- port which she doubts not they will endeavour to merit. MISSES ALLCOCK having taken to the above Es- tablishment, respectfully solicit a continuance of that patronage so amply bestowed on their predecessor, and hav- ing had considerable experience with Mas. DALE, assure their Friends and Ladies generally, it will be their con- stant study to make themselves worthy of their confidence. * » * A vacancy for one in- door Apprentice. June 24th. FRENCH MILLINERY AND DRESS ESTA- BLISHMENT. PATRONISED BY LADY BARBARA CRANFORD AND LADY SOPHIA GREISLEY. Maud M. HUGHES respectfully inform the • Nobility, the Ladies of Birmingham and its vicinity, that their SHOW- ROOM will Re- open on the 26t! l Instant, with a fashionable assortment of Millinery Dresses, & c„ selected by M. HUGHES from the first French Houses in London, which, on inspection, they trust will merit a continuance of their distinguished patronage and support. 18, Colmore- row, corner of Church- street. % » Apprentices and Improvers wanted. 82, BULL- STREET, BIRMINGHAM. WSABIN lespectfully announces to his friends • and the public, that he has. just returned from Lon- don, where he has selected a large and choice assoitment of PIANO- FORTES, with every improvement, by makers of the greatest celebrity. Harps and Piario Fortes tuned, repaired, taken in ex- change, and Lent on Hire. W. S. returns his giateful acknowledgments to his friends and' the public for the kind patronage he has so long received, and begs a continuance of the same. DOWEI. L'S CARRIAGE MANUFACTORY, BRADFORD- STREET. BIRMINGHAM. ASPLENDID ASSORTMENT OF NEW CAR- RIAGES, of the most fashionable description, always ON SALE at the above Establishment; also a variety of Second- hand PIIiETONS, GIGS, & c. N, B. Old Carriages taken in Exchange or Sold on Com- mission. All Carriages built as above, warranted and kept in repair for twelve months. CLAIMS OF BRITISH SEAMF. N. ON TUESDAY EVENING, June 27, a LEC- TURE will be delivered at LIVERY- STREET CHAPEL, on the Claims of British Seamen on Christians of all Denominations, by Rev. THOMAS TIMPSON. gratuitous Foreign Secretary to the British and Foreign Sailors' Society. The Lecture to commence at half- past seven o'clock. The attendance of all classes is requested ; there will be no collection. ' 51THEREAS a Fiat in Bankruputcy is awarded \ f and issued forth against RICHARD RATH- BONE, of Moor- street, in Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, spade maker, dealer and chapman, and he being declared a Bankrupt is hereby required to surrender him- self to the Commissioners in and by the said fiat named and authorised, or three of them, on the 1st day of July next, at twelve o'clock at notin, and the 1st day of August next, at one of the clock in the afternoon, at the New Royal Hotel, in Birmingham aforesaid, and make a full discovery and disclosure of his estate and effects; wTien 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 th : 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 Bank- rupt, or that have any of his effects, are not to pay or deliver the same but to whom the Commissioners shall appoint, hut to give notice to HENRY CHARLES CHILTON, Esq., Soli- citor, 7, Chancery- lane, London ; or to CORNELIUS BENSON, Solicitor, Birmingham. 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 the public gene- rally, for the liberal manner in which they have patronised bis Establishment, and begs to assure them that no exer- tion shall be wanting on his part to ensure ari 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, has 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 AM PLE Preparations are made, consisting of the most choice articles which the well- supplied markets of Birmingham produce. Private Rooms, arid Private Dinners, on the shortest notice Charges moderate. Curzon- place, May 31,1837. A GENERAL STATEMENT OF THE RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS OF THE GUARDIANS OP THE POOR OF THE PARISH OF BIRMINGHAM, FR OM LADY DA Y, 1836, TO LAD Y DA Y, 1837, £. s. d. £. DR. 85 13 7 rrO Balance from last Year's J- Account Produce of Levies during the Year • r „ . POOR- HOUSE DEPARTMENT. I o Cash received/ rom Relatives of Paupers „„ Ditto ditto from Governor for Board of Daughter Ditto ditto for Bran sold Ditto ditto Pounded Pot, Old Rags, & c. ^ Ditto ditto Chloride of Lime sold Ditto ditto Flour to the Out- Poor s. d. 5716 15 10 28625 4 3 2 70 Brought forward To Cash received for Sand Sold Ditto Rent of Houses Ditto Prisoners' Passes Ditto Fines Ditto Old Timber Sold Ditto Lists of Voters Sold Ditto from the Executors of the late Mr. Henry Jacob £. s. 1079 33 25 25 3 2 d. £. i. d. ~ 38911 16 10J 7 0 0 0 10 6 30 1 6 18 18 1J 9 1 6 98 19 0 T R, . OUT- POOR DEPARTMENT, lo Cash received from Relatives 23 11 6 Ditto ditto of Lunatics 29 9 0 284 18 10J 53 0 6 1663 13 8 BASTARDY DEPARTMENT. To Cash received from Fathers 474 4 q POOR BELONGING TO OTHER PARISHES j To Cash received from Overseers of other Parishes J740 6 ASYLUM. To Cash received for Labour of Children— .—. 248 10 11 Ditto ditto for Garden rents 102 19 9 Ditto ditto from Relatives 1 10 0 To Cash received from the Col. lector of Excise 3766 15 MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT, lo Cash received from the Keeper of the Machine Ditto for Rent of Land Ditto for County Voters' claims Ditto Registration of Borough Electors „„ Ditto Summonses 353 0 138 1 151 10 15 10 138 16 21 5 TRUSTEES OF THE PUBLIC- OFFICE. To Cash received from the Over- seers of Aston for Rent ™ . 60 0 0 Average number of Out- Door Cases relieved weekly 2796 Ditto ditto of Poor in the House — — — 360 Ditto ditto of Children in the Asylum ™ , 192 Carried forward - 465 2 38911 16 S lOJ CR. By Wheat and Flour Barm for Baking Bakers' Wages Meat and Bacon Cheese rm ^^ Vegetables, Oatmeal, and Salt Malt, Hops, and Malt Liquor ™ » Milk and Butter Grocery, Soap, Candles, & c. Tobacco for the aged Poor Coal ™ Building and Repairs Furniture and Repairs Straw ____ Mills and Repairs of Mills _ Gratuities to men at the Mills ™ __ Di tto to Shoe- menders Ditto to Nurses and to sundry persons employed in the house ___ Ditto to persons on leaving the house Incidental Expenses House Expenses ___ Wages to Hie Superintendent of the Mills Gas Light Governor and Matrons'Salary ( with board) Clergymen's Stipends ™ . Clerk of the Chapel Wine for the Sick ™ Coffins and Burials Water and Water Pipes Leader of the Psalmody Assessed Taxes ™ , Insurance ™ . POOR- HOUSE DEPARTMENT. EXPENDITURE. £. s. d. — — 959 14 1 — — — 11 0 0 — — — 62 8 0 — — 853 0 0 — 89 1 11 — 117 10 2 — 269 3 — — — 261 16 — — 343 3 — — — 17 12 — — 389 10 — 328 3 — 84 17 17 2 — — ™ 16 19 5J 12 14 9 2 4 84 2 1 7 9 6 6 222 14 114 8 4 6 2 5 67 55 52 79 250 55 5 8 114 0 0 2 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 42 18 11 67 12 0 77 1 0 8 0 0 0 16 6 12 0 0 4856 15 10 Aged, Infirm, & c. Casual Poor New Casual Cases ™ . , Birmingham Poor in other Parishes Board of Lunatics in Stafford Asylum Trusses Coffins Board of Deaf and Dumb Children . Payments to Pensioners ™ . Fees for Pension Assignments OUT POOR DEPARTMENT. — 5655 3 3 ™ 6676 15 5 ™ 1377 18 64 544 13 11 340 6 10 ™ 30 11 0 ™ 161 6 0 ™ 6 0 0 3560 50 3 24 3 8 14792 14 114 3610 6 104 By Drawing, Getting, and Loading Sand Wages to Men at the Sand Mine Superintendant' 8 Wages ™ . Gratuities to Steerers of Boats ™ . „ » Incidental Expenses at the Sand Mine Wheelwright and Blacksmith's Work ™ . Riddles ™ . Drugs, Leeches, and Sundry Surgical Expenses Surgeons' Salaries ™ , House Apothecary's Salary ™ . ™ , ™ . Assistants in the Surgery ™ . ™ , Treasurer, Vestry Clerk, and Assistant's Salaries Visitors of the Out- poor's Salaries Wages to the Keeper of the Machine Magistrates' Clerks' Fees ™ Assistant Overseers' Salaries ™ . Expenses in Binding Children in other Parishes Stationery, Printing, and Advertisements Apprentice Fees ™ , ™ » County Rates .— ™ . Constables' Accounts ™ » — — Expenses of Lists of Voters ™ . Ditto of Visiting Lunatics in Stafford Asylum Clothing, Shoes, Leather, & c. Annuity — ™ . — — Repairs of Freehold in Lichfield- street Re- assessments and Surveying — — Apprehending Men for neglect of Family — Law Charges and Sessions Business Bonds for Collectors of Taxes — ™ . Expenses of Appeal against the Rate ™ , Case and Opinion on the Election of Guardians Repairs of the Weighing Machine on Snow- liill Gratuity to Lock- keeper ™ . ™ . Rent of Sand Wharf — — MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT. 535 13 1 36 5 0 3 0 0 26 15 0 20 6 6 4 12 11 0 10 0 785 19 11 190 0 0 82 18 152 16 558 0 261 0 78 0 57 6 1030 0 6 19 180 17 92 8 3241 19 696 14 99 8 12 0 202 9 29 11 11 102 7 0 259 4 2 63 4 6 5 5 0 163 13 10 5 5 0 102 17 0 5 12 4 15 9 0 1 0 0 25 4 0 4 0 0 0 0 4 0 3 5 0 6 3 3 0 9 9,134 8 3 BASTARDY DEPARTMENT. By Weekly Payments to Mothers — — 937 7 64 Expenses in Apprehending Reputed Fathers— 2 5 6 Magistrates' Clerks' Fees — — — — 16 0 940 10 04 By Weekly Relief — Casual Cases .—. ™ . Removals — — Magistrates* Clerks' Fees POOR BELONGING TO OTHER PARISHES. ™ . 1628 19 24 310 14 0 59 7 1 65 15 6 2,064 15 94 By Bread and Flour ™ Meat and Bacon ™ . .— — Vegetables, Oatmeal, and Salt — Malt, Hops, and Malt Liquor — — Grocery, Soap, Candles, & c. — — Clothing—. — — — — Milk and Butter — — — Servant's Wages, including School- mistress Furniture and Repairs —. Building and Repairs ™ . — ™ . Plants, Seeds, & c. — — — Shoes, and Shoe- mending — — Governor and Matron's Salary, with Board Gas Light — — — Coffins — — — — Insurance — —• — — Tithe — — — — — Stationery — — ™ . Incidental Expenses — — — Wine for the Sick ™ . — ASYLUM EXPENSES. 183 12 9 383 12 6 20 4 3 44 17 6 150 18 0 160 2 9 145 1 136 5 117 40 165 3 3 6 1 4 6 16 16 3 73 9 0 93 15 0 31 13 6 23 3 6 2 16 5 10 3 6 11 15 61 2 29 1 3 3 1,903 7 0 £ 42740 5 tl TRUSTEES OF THE PUBLIC- OFFICE. By amount advanced to their order — — — 572 14 8 Ditto ditto ditto prior to Lady- day, 1836 753 2 44 Balance carried to next year's account 4111 7 4 42740 5 84 ACTUAL COST. £. s. d. 951 14 1 6 0 0 62 8 0 883 9 2i 86 18 9 113 18 2 286 16 10 266 12 94 341 6 34 17 5 6 408 1 2 378 0 •> i 97 15 94 17 2 6 12 13 6 15 14 4 11 14 9 198 18 8i 7 4 0 63 18 84 52 13 9 52 0 0 71 5 9 250 0 0 55 0 0 5 0 0 46 4 44 85 6 0 77 1 0 8 0 0 1 13 0 12 0 0 5655 3 3 6676 15 5 1377 18 64 407 18 10 396 12 9 30 11 0 174 8 0 2 0 0 3560 3 24 45 4 0 585 0 0 36 5 0 1 14 0 8 16 0 18 0 0 4 12 11 0 10 0 639 4 n 180 0 0 82 18 4 152 16 0 558 0 0 261 0 0 78 0 0 49 14 6 1030 0 0 6 19 3 213 5 34 92 8 0 3241 19 6 659 7 2 81 17 2 12 0 0 191 17 0 29 11 11 102 7 0 257 4 2 245 6 6 5 5 0 163 13 10 5 5 0 102 17 0 5 12 4 15 9 0 1 0 0 12 12 0 937 7 64 2 a 6 6 0 0 1628 19 24 310 14 0 53 19 11 47 13 0 170 19 7 366 4 04 19 4 I 44 8 1 161 6 U 183 6 6i 143 7 6 134 16 4 112 7 6 48 16 1 188 3 " i 13 4 0 77 4 0 78 15 0 32 19 6 30 16 9 2 8 0 5 10 0 3 6 6 15 0 6 66 6 10 19 > 3 3 £. s. d. 4951 17 14721 7 9| l 3605 7 2,' I 9,133 2 11| 939 19 0 2,041 6 1• 1,926 13 10? 739 5 9 38458 0 24 Bread, £ 174 3s. 11( 1., Flour, Bran, and Barley Meal, £ 52 12s. 341I., Shoes, £ 23 Os. 8d., for the Asylum, have been supplied from the Workhouse. fTHOMAS WHITTLE, This Account has been examined by us and found correct, June 19, 1837,4 G. V. BLUNT, ( THOMAS WESTON. THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. M A T a PUBLIC MEETING of the Inhabitants of t\. Birmingham, held at NJSWH ALL- HILL 011 Moil- lay the 19th of June, 1837, G. F. MUNTZ, Esq., in the Chair, I'he following Resolutions were unanimously agreed to :— 1 st. That the present sufferings of the Industrious Classes ire general and extreme, that tliey require the immediate uid efficient interference of the Legislature for their relief. 2nd. That nearlv the whole of these sufferings are un- ' ubtedly to be attributed to the cruel and oppressive laws, Ircli have made food scarce on the one band, and money carce on the other : and that it is the opinion of this meet- ' ng, that these cruel and oppressive laws never could have een continued in existence if the wants and interests of the udustrioui classes had been fairly and efficiently represented 11 the Commons House of Parliament. 3rd. That the following Petition to the House of Com- mons he adopted, that it be signed by the inhabitants • enerally, and presented by the members for the borough. To the Honourable the Commons of the United. Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled, Pile humble Petition of the inhabitants of the town of Bir- mingham, assembled at a Great Meeting 011 Newhall- hil), on Monday, the 19th of June, 1837, Sbeweth, " That your petitioners are now suffering extreme hardships nd privations; and that such hardships and privations have, i'ith temporary intermissions, been endured for many years. " That your petitioners believe that nearly the whole of hose hardships and privations have been occasioned by rbitrary and unjust laws, calculated to enhance tile price of he necessaries of life, and, at the same time, to increase lie burdens of the industrious classes— to make food scarce, ml money scarce— to break down the value « f labour and f the products of labour, the only property of the workmen ud their employers. " That in the year 1829 the inhabitants of Birmingham re- resented to the then unreformed House of Commons, that heie arbitrary and unjust laws arose from the defective state if the representation of the industrious classes in Pailia- iient; and they deemed it their duty to their King and country to endeavour, by all constitutional means, to effect | i thorough and efficient Reform in that representation. " That, previous to adopting measures for obtaining such 1 Reform, they were desirous to make known to Parliament he distresses and privations of the industrious classes; and ' iey accordingly did, in the spring of the year 1829, present 1 petition to the [ louse of Commons, signed by upwards of verity thousand men, in which they set forth those dis- resses and privations, and in which they attributed the aine to the arbitrary and unjust laws above referred to ; ml earnestly implored a re- consideration of such laws, with > view to their repeal. " That the said petition so signed, and containing facts ml arguments which did not admit of contradiction, was | reaterl with entire neglect and contempt. " That the petitioners who presented the said petition, xasperated by such unworthy treatment, and disappointed < 1 the relief which they had a just right to demand, and eeing no hope of redress from the Legislature as at that une constituted, did, on the 25th of January, 1830, form liemselves into an association called the Birmingham Poll - • eal Union a strictly legal and constitutional associa • mi— which, after a course of much labour and patriotic ex- rtion, unstained by crime, or breach of the peace, or out- age, or insult of any kind, at length succeeded, by the as- Utance of their countrymen and through the favour of their xcellent Sovereign, in obtaining a Iteform of the House of ' ommons. " That your present petitioners feel compelled to declare hat the iteform so obtained has most grievously disap- minted the hopes and expectations of the country. After ire years of patient trial your petitioners have no reason to uelieve that the wants and interests of the industrious classes , re better. understood, or their rights and liberties better irotected now, than they were in the unreformed Parliament; ml your petitioners are convinced, that it is absolutely ne- essary to effect a further and much more extensive Reform > f the Commons House of Parliament, before the indus- i- ious classes can hope to enjoy any permanent relief and roteetion. " That your Petitioners humbly represent to your Ho- nourable House, that during the years 1835 and 1836, a material improvement was effected in the trade of the country. The workmen in most trades had full employ- ment; and their employers enjoyed comparative ease and prosperity. No large stocks of goods, and 110 over- trading of any kind existed. Within the last six months, a great and lamentable change has taken place. The workmen are, 0 a frightful extent, unemployed, and yet, of the few goods iroduced, the greater part remains in the warehouses of the M- oducer. Tile process of production and consumption are dike arrested. Distress and embarrassment press upon both ; mployer and labourer ; and such of them as still hold up, i « re rapidly exhausting the resources that hard labour and • eonomy may, in better times, have enabled them to ac- cumulate. " That Parliament having adopted and persevered in main- - lining laws, which are calculated to make money scarce and find scarce; and perceiving that this double mischief could i. it fail to force the working men to seek refuge in the vorkhouse, have not hesitated to enact other laws, which ' isit poverty as a crime, and thus to accumulate punishment hd degradation, as well as misery, upon the heads of the |. > oor. " Against these laws, as well as against those other laws ilreaily referrel to, your petitioners respectfully, but most - arnestly, remonstrate. They are convinced that such laws • innot be permitted to exist permanently in England; and bey would fail in their duty to their King and their country, f tliey did not make known this great truth to your honour- jile House. " Your petitioners do, therefore, most earnestly implore nir honourable House to take this petition into your seri- ms consideration, and they pray : — " First,— That you will forthwith proceed to consider, vith a view to the repeal thereof, the law of 1819, providing or the resumption of cash payments by the Bank of Eng- unil, according to the standard of £ 3 17s. lojd. per ounce if gold, commonly known by the name of Peel's act. " Second,— That you will forthwith proceed to consider, • vith a view to repeal, the laws passed in 1815, and subse- quently, for regulating the importation of foreign and colq- lial corn ; and, generally, all laws at present in existence, vhich have for their object to impose a duty upon or to pro- libit the importation of any of the necessaries of life. | " Third,— That you would consider, with a view to re- leal, the laws^ recently enacted, which visit poverty as a • rime. " Lastly, and above all things, your petitioners pray, that [ / our honourable House will proceed to bestow upon your letitioneis, and the people at large, the following great and , indeniabie constitutional rights and privileges, namely— " HOUSEHOLD SUFFRAGE, " VOTE NR BALLOT. " TRIENNIAL PARLIAMENTS. " WAGES OF ATTENDANCE FOR PARLIAMENTARY RE- PRESENTATIVES. " ABOLITION OF PROPERTY QUALIFICATION IN REIRE- SENTATXVES. " And your petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray." 4th. That a copy of the above Resolutions, and of the ' etition, be forthwith presented to His Majesty's Minis- ters, by a deputation consisting of the following gentlemen, MR. PHILIP HENRY MUNTZ, MR. BENJAMIN HADLEY, MR. THOMAS C. SALT. . ud that the Deputation be instructed to urge upon His Majesty's Government the absolute necessity of immediately aking efficient measures for the relief of the country. G. F. MUNTZ. • Vnd Thomas Attwood, Esq., having taken the chair— Resolved that the best thanks of this meeting are due to G. F. Muntz, Esq., for his conduct in the chair this day. T. ATTWOOD. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We have again to intreat the patience of our numerous correspondents, whose favours the meeting and the anecdotes of the King— with i. ei her of which we could dispense, have once more postponed. :%* We cannot conceive on what possible grounds either new Poor- law or old should be blamed for the tragedy at Smethwick ; seeing that the miserable man never applied for parish relief. There seems to be no earthly doubt of his insanity. %* The long advertisement from Edinburgh came too late for insertion. » „* We regret that we were unable last night to procure a copy of the District Fire Office advertisement. pulse that it communicated to the national mind, that its importance is to be calculated. It has, in this way, become the means to an end, which, whatever be the disposition of the reigning' power, can by 1 : It BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. SATURDAY, JUNE 24. The notice of the King's illness, that appeared in our last number, must have sufficiently prepared our readers for the fatal event, which we are now called upon formally to announce— WILLIAM THE FOURTH DIED AT TWO O'CLOCK ON TUESDAY MORNING. We have inserted, in another place, a somewhat lengthened notice of the late King's life, compiled From a narrative in the Morning Chronicle of Tuesday, with a few additions and corrections. There is not much in the private history of WILLIAM THE FOURTH, on which a critic would feel disposed to fasten. It was little remarkable for evil; and not much for good. His education is understood to have been indifferently attended to; and he does not seem, at any time, to have striven to supply its defects by a late application. His conduct, when in the navy, has been variously reported. By some we have heard him described as hasty but generous; and there are not wanting anecdotes, though but indifferently vouched, to corroborate the description. By others he is said to have been insolent and overbearing; and in some instances to have received in the boldness of his com- panions, a prompt aud hearty correction. There used to be a current story, about thirty years ago, of his being, on one occasion, soundly thrashed by a midshipman ( not « The Ex- Duke of Cumberland was to have left the country on Thursday. Lord Durham's arrival is variously stated. Some ac- • mints say he would arrive yesterday; others say 011 Monday. The Ministers retain their places for the present. Addresses of congratulation have been presented to the Queen from the city of London, and from numerous other bodies. A dreadful Rccidcnt happened at Paris on Wednesday week la* t, during the fete in the Champs de Mars. I11 consequence of a crush that took place at one of the gates, no less than twenty- three persons perished from suffocation. Hay- making has partially commenced in the neighbour- hood of London. Some accounts say the O'Connell rent will this year amount to 40 000/.! The Manor Mills, lower Deptford- road, were burnt to the .- round on Wednesday night. This was the most striking ' ( ire that has happened in London since the destruction of tfie two Houses of Parliament. The post mortem examination of the late King showed j water on the chest. 1 General Evans has returned to London. He took his seit on Thursday, amidst loud cheering. Sturt), whom he had insulted. Another and a plea- santer instance of reproof is preserved. A captain of the navy, whose father, after some cross- questioning, was ascertained to be a saddler, was once introduced to the Prince. The Royal tar was exceedingly loqua- cious on the subject of a saddler's son being a post- captain ; and repeated^ questioned the saddler's son— how he came to enter the navy. The patience of the officer was at length exhausted; and he replied, with an arch look which immediately silenced the illustri- ous catechist—" Why, your Royal Highness, my fa- ther had a large family, and you know, in that case, there is always one fool among them, and him they send to sea." The connection with Mrs. JORDAN we should be slow to condemn 011 mere moral grounds. The mar- riage law of England imposes conditions on the Royal family, which neither justice nor nature sanction; and they ought not to be lightly blamed when they endea- vour to escape from its absurdities. But though the absence of the ceremony, provided the realities of the solemn compact were present, might be easily excused, there were particulars in the connection in question, as well as in the dissolution of it, that present irregu- larity in anything but an illustrious garb. We may find in the history of England, not a few examples of princes that have " protected " actresses; but WILLIAM HENRY, Duke of CLARENCE, offers the first specimen, we believe, from the institution of monarchy down- wards, of a Prince of the Blood Royal kept by an ac- tress. There is 110 blinking the fact, and it is a humi- liating one for Royalty, that, for twenty years, the establishment of the Duke of CLARENCE owed its sup- port, in a great measure, to the professional labours of his mistress. The Duke's love of money, a hereditary vice by the bye, seems to have displayed itself at a very early age. BURNS, writing in 1788, alludes to a story then current of the attempts of " Royal tarry breeks," as he calls him, to gain the hand of a wealthy widow. And when the DUKE quitted Mrs. JORDAN, he was notoriously in pursuit of that lady, whose subsequent marriage with LONG POLE WELLESLEY obtained for her so unhappy a destiny. The tics of twenty years' cohabitation, the claims of a large family, and the fascinations of a most loving and devoted woman were sacrificed without a sigh to the temptation of Miss TYLNEY LONG'S three per ftents. And though BOADEN attempts to smooth it down, the settlement upon Mrs. JORDAN was mean and miserable— not equal to a tithe of the sum that her exertions had, during a quarter of a century, been pouring into the royal purse. The appointment of the Duke of CLARENCE to the Admiralty, in 1828, was looked upon at the time as a decent excuse for increasing his fortune, rather than as a serious employment. He was determined, however, to use the power which the Ministry had conferred on him, and he did use it, in such a fashion as com- pelled WELLINGTON, after a few months' trial, to re- move iiim from a place for which be was so plainly in- competent. The report at the time— and it was fa- voured by the remaiks of the ministerial Journals— was, that the Royal Duke's extravagancies were the result of mental aberration. From the time that he left the Admiralty until the death of GEORGE IV. the public heard very little of the Duke of CLARENCE. It was remarked, when that event took place, that there was an almost indecent haste in the new King's assumption of power. He left Bushy for St. James's the same forenoon that his brother died, and his demeanour altogether was the reverse of that which affectionate men from feeling, and all men from prudence are in the habit of display- ing. His bluntness and familiarity of manners, how- ever,- - rare and always over- estimated qualities in a King— prodigiously in the admiration of the multitude ; and even previous to the famous 27th of November, 1830, WILLIAM IV. was one of the most popular monarchs of modern times; and his vigour and determination during the discussions of the first Reform bill, contributed to raise him still higher in public estimation. The fervour of the people's attachment suffered con- siderable abatement when, in May 1832, he refused to Lord GREY those constitutional powers which were deemed essential to carry the then maimed and halting measure. Men then began, for the first time, to suspect that they had been somewhat hasty in their estimate of the KING'S Reform principles; and subse- quent events did not tend to remove their suspicions. The abrupt aud yet unexplained dismissal of Lord MELIIOURNE was a blow to the popularity of WILLIAM the REFORMER, which the compulsory restitution of that nobleman to power did not much tend to restore. Of late, the once extolled monarch has been an ob- ject of sufferance merely. Reformers could not forget his services in their cause; but they were at length reluctantly brought to the conclusion, that further pro- gress was all but hopeless while he retained the throne. Whether, by his removal, it will be retarded or acce- lerated, events are yet too young to enable us to determine. While we speak freely on the subject of the late KING— and of all human beings, freedom of speech is most legitimately indulged in touching a dead monarch — we should be sorry, were it concluded, that we were insensible to the eminent advantages which his brief reign has conferred on England. Putting aside his personal character, which is of minor importance, and admitting, which we believe to be the truth, that his notions of civil liberty were of a very narrow kind, and adopted more from impulse than reflection ; still it is impossible to deny that, in respect to the means of working out a permanent prosperity, WILLIAM the FOURTH left Great Britain in a very different, and in- finitely more favourable position than he found it. The great measure of March, 1831, must not be es- timated by the mere amount of favourable change, which was not small. It is rather by the mighty im- ' ingenuity be long deferred. It put the nation 011 the i% ht road, and it set it in motion; and no lets or hindrances, which the Court or the factions can interpose, will ever alter or arrest its march. If we scruple, from the evident coldness towards the popular cause which the late KING, during the last two years of his life, be- trayed, whether his title as a Reformer was correctly bestowed, we must still admit that he opened the way to that reform to which we now look confidently forward. A revolution might have given us, in compensation for its waste and its woe, a much better and more ex- fended bill than we have received from WILLIAM the FOURTH; but with an adverse Court, hardly any force short of a revolution would have done it. It is the glory of the late reign, and a great glory it undoubt- edly is, that it accomplished, by peaceful and lawful means, that which must have been torn from a hostile monarch by violence, by mutiny, and possibly by blood. And not only was this great change, in itself, peaceful and lawful: but, in its operation, as a prece- dent and example, there is every reason to bone, that it will impress, on every future change, a similar cha- racter of peace and legality. Long after his failings, which, considering the circumstances of his birth and nurture, were but small and limited, have passed from men's memories, the reign of WILLIAM the FOURTH will be hallowed as that in which the great moral lesson was first practically taught— that Peace, Law, Order, were not only compatible with, but, by a pru- dent and intelligent people, could be rendered emi- nently contributive to the most extended and radical political change. Le Roi est mart— le Roy ne meurt jamais— vice le Roi.' said CHATEAUBRIANT, 011 the departure of Louis XVIII. and the accession of CHARLES X. There is philosophy as well as simplicity in the sentiment. Nations have 110 " behindments." Their eyes and their course are onward ever. Therefore, not under- valuing the merits of the dead, nor grudging to him the sigli of natural affection, from those to whom per- sonally his merits were known, as citizens of a free state, to whom the living monarch must ever be the first object of social concernment, we exclaim, with sincerity,— LONG LIVE VICTORIA, FIRST OF THE NAME ! And let all the people say AMEN ! It is difficult to escape the enthusiasm which such an accession as the present tends to kindle. The last two Kings were men grown and bearded ; whose cba- racters- we had had for years an opportunity of study- ing; and which, for good or for evil, we knew to be formed. The Princess is as yet of so tender an age, that, like the clay in the hands of the potter, she may be moulded into any form, that circumstances and heaven may direct. Hope, which, after a thousand disappoint- ments, still whispers bright things, anticipates a wo- manhood of honour, and an age of triumph, from a youth so fair of promise. Then again, the present monarch is a female. The very rarity is worth something— a maiden Queen, which is a still greater rarity. The fragility of her sex, were there nothing else, would hedge in our Queen more strongly than all the pomp and circum- stance of Royalty. A woman, young, beautiful! It makes even old blood leap up! Allegiance towards such a one is mingled with a sentiment of personal affection, and patriotism assumes the garb and port of chivalry— Our love is duty and our duty love! We can excuse some out- breaking of extravagance in the professions of attachment to Her Majesty. In such a case even the compliments of a Court, pro- verbially cold and hollow, have a tone of honest warmth and sincerity. But there are more solid grounds of rejoicing— grounds which the sternest of patriots will not fail to appreciate. The Princess was born in adversity. The world looked cold 011 her in- fancy and childhood. In the retirement of domestic privacy, she was taught to look upon the realities of things. It is only lately that the glitter of a crown has been held up to her gaze. She was not educated for royalty. Her faculties have not been checked in their natural expansion by the destroying flatteries of pensioned sycophants. Her mind is well cultivated— her heart well schooled. So says fame— if truly, happy will that truth be for her, as well as her sub- jects ! We would not shade so brilliant a commencement by any cloud of doubt. The disappointment, if any come, will come too soon. But we may be permitted to obtrude one voice of not ungentle warning. The destiny of the youthful Queen is in her own hands, to fashion it as she lists. If she determine on giving free course to the wishes of the people, there is no gratitude which she may not securely reckon upon— there is no indulgence, which a wise and virtuous woman could wish, that she may not demand, with assured confi- dence of its being- granted. Let faction only dare to question her will! There is, in this single town and neighbourhood, one hundred thousand brave hearts, and one hundred thousand stout right arms, that, let our Queen but raise her taper finger, will fly to her rescue. Trusting to the people, she need no other earthly trust. If, unhappily forjthe people and herself, she shall attempt to stem the onward movement of reform, we do not say she may not for a time succeed. We know the wealth of our enemies; we can estimate their power; we have experienced their unscrupulousness. The Radicals are only strong in their principles; in the intensity of their purpose; in their too often dis- united, always disorganised, numbers. We may be put down. What has happened before, may happen again. But woe to the victor in such a struggle! The Throne would be, indeed, a seat of thorns, which was erected on the downfal liberty of a brave nation. No reign that has yet occurred in England can boast of the glory and the honour that await the present reign, provided the young monarch shall be content to smooth the advance of her people to a full enjoyment of freedom and prosperity. But if she give up to a part what was meant for the whole ; if, instead of vindicating the rights of the many, she strive, as, with hardly an exception, her predecessors have done, to uphold the rights of the few, then the opening sun- shine of her reign will only render more dismal, by its contrast, the shadows, clouds, and darkness, which will infallibly hang upon its progress. One of the results of the King's decease, is the eleva- tion of ERNEST, Duke of Cumberland and Ex- Master of the Orangemen, to the throne of Hanover. Hanover is a male fief, as it is termed, and can only descend to issue male. It will, in future, form a separate king- dom. The London journals have been puzzlingtliem- selves and their readers, with lengthy discussions, whether the Duke can continue a peer of England. The well known reply of the well known DANIEL PURCELL, to the gentleman who proposed to him as the subject of a pun, " the King," namely, " the KING is no subject," might suffice, we think, to convince the votaries of Vattel, that ERNEST, having become KING of one State, can 110 longer be a subject in another; and that, when he takes ship for his little kingdom, he will, to use a north country phrase, be— aince awa'and aye awa'. We have no wish to rip up old charges, or to aggravate new against this man. When the Dutch heeiv We are content to dismiss him in the more polished language of TOMMY MOORE—" Go where Glory waits thee;" for assuredly, if he lived to the years of METHUSELAH, neither Glory nor honour would wait 011 him in England. From private information, as well as public notices, we are led to anticipate a dissolution of Parliament in about three weeks. We must enter our strong pro- test, even though we know it to be of 110 avail, against the injustice of such uncalled fol- precipitation. There are now under the consideration of the Legislature a host of bills— we do not speak of such disputed measures as the Irish Municipal bill, or the Church- rates enquiry, which, let the present Parliament sit how long soever, would have issued in rejection only, but of private bills— on which enormous sums have been lavished, and 011 which much larger sums depend; and these, if the dissolution take place within so brief a period as is contemplated, must be sacrificed, and the whole toil and expense they have cost thrown utterly away. What possible necessity can there be for such injurious waste ? That 110 new measure should be introduced into Parliament is reasonable. Whether WILLIAM the FOURTH had died or lived, the propriety of introducing new measures after the 21st of June, might well be questioned; but why should any bill, public or private, in which progress has been made, and whose termination, if time is allowed for its consideration, may, with tolerable certainty, be predicted be lost, for want of such an oppor- tunity? What profit is to result from a hasty disso- lution ? We are not privy to the Ministerial expec- tations, but if they look for an increase of strength from an appeal to the people 011 such an isolated mea- sure as the Irish Municipal bill, or the half- strangled Church- rates resolution, we believe they will find themselves mistaken. The people require a more ex- tended and beneficial change than these, or twenty such measures are calculated to effect. If all that we have to look f< jr is the mere continuance in office of Lord MELBOURNE'S Ministry, and Lord MELBOURNE'S policy, we tell him plainly that the earnest Reformers of England neither can nor will take any interest in any appeal that he may make. If, before proceeding to a dissolution, Ministers boldly and unambiguously declare for an extension of the franchise to all house- holders ; or, if they cannot make up their minds to that, for the removal of those hindrances to the exercise of the present franchise— we mean the rate- paying clauses— which have rendered it a mockery and an in- sult, instead of a boon; and for Ballot; or, if thev offer to the nation, what we consider a still better pledge than words— the immediate assump- tion of Lord DURHAM to that place and in- fluence in the Cabinet, to which his Lordship's clear honour, high intellect, and known liberality entitles him— then we pledge heart and baud to sup- port them, and, God willing-, our pledge shall be re- deemed in their entire success. If the ensuing struggle is to be a mere struggle of Whig" and Tory, why then a plague of both their Houses ! Let them struggle it out as likes them! of old wished to get rid of a mauvais sujet, they used to convey him to the border of the States, and, when arrived there, gently to push him over the line, ex- claiming at the same time, loup schellum, which sig- nified!, being interpreted, " run rogue." We, also, would convey His MAJESTY of Hanover to the border, and gently push him beyond it, but we are too polite to add the unceremonious valediction of plain Myn- , We are informed, 011 what we consider good autho- rity, that on Monday the Dragoons were kept in rea- diness to mount at a moment's warning; and that ball cartridges were served out to them, in case their ser- vices should be called for. This preparation, which, carried out, might have issued in the slaughter of four or five hundred of the inhabitants, peacefully and law- fully assembled— must have originated in the sugges- tion of a magistrate. Who was the man ? If there be justice in the Ministry, or in Parliament, he shall not escape exposure and punishment. MR. A. STAPYLTON.— This gentleman is now 011a visit to Birmingham. He at ended a meeting of the select at Dee's yesterday, whom he favoured with a specimen of his oratory, and a statement of his prin- ciples. We don't know if he promised to stand. For about five thousand pounds he may contrive to be handsomely beaten. CHURCHWARDEN.— The committee met last night, but nothing was done, the sub- committee not being- prepared with their report The Council of the Union met 011 Tuesday. Mr. Attwood was present. There was 110 business of im- portance before the meeting. The merchants, manufacturers, traders, and inha- bitants at large, are, it seems, excluded from the proclamation procession of Monday uext. Only the gentlemen of the town are to be allow ed to join in it. Mr. M'Donnell and his brethren are also excluded. There are to be 110 clergymen, save the parsons and Dissenting ministers. WEST BROMWICH CHURCH- RATE.— The Tories have been beaten by a large majority. We have 110 space for particulars. THE LATE KING.— A medal, very neatly executed, has been struck by Messrs. Edmund Heeley and Co., Union- street. It bears on the obverse a likeness of William IV., with the date of his accession ; and 011 the reverse, a tomb and trophies, with the date of his decease. THE THEATRE.— The Theatre has presented one of the richest musical treats, during the past week, that ever Birmingham enjoyed. Templeton took his be- nefit last uigTit. The house was full— a just tribute to his surpassing- merits. We are highly gratified to find that he and Miss Shirreff are to continue with us for one week more. Their engagement is most credi- table to the management. The public, we have 110 doubt, will appreciate it as they ought. THE PROTEST.— The following- names have been attached to this document without authority :— Thomas Clarke, Ford rough- street. William Hanks, Cardigan- street. Lewis Solomons, Bromsgrove- street. The Saloj ian coach was upset at the junction of New- street and High- street 011 Thursday. One pas- seng- er, a clergyman, was considerably hurt. CONSUMPTION OF BUTCHER'S MEAT.— The general distress now existing in this district, is lamentably ex- hibited in the following fact. A respectable butcher in a neighbouring parish, declares that during the last year, his sales of butcher's meat have fallen oft' as follows:— Last year be killed 011 an average six cows per week. He now kills only one. Last year he killed thirty- eight sheep pet week. He now kills only five. Last year he killed fifteen lambs per week. He now kills only three. Last year lie killed ten Irish pigs per week. He now kills— none ! He further declares that all the other butchers in bis parish, which is large and populous, are doing the same, or even worse than himself. The long estab- lished respectability of our informant renders it worthy of credit. We leave our readers to judge what must be the extent of the existing distress in this neigh- bourhood, and what its inevitable, and not distant ef- fect upon the agricultural classes. EDGBASTON.— PROPOSED POLICE ESTABLISHMENT. — A meeting of rate- payers of the parish of Edgbaston Mas held yesterday ( Wednesday) in theparish Church, pursuant to an adjournment, from Wednesday the 7th instant, for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of establishing an efficient police. Mr. Aspley, one of the Churchwardens, was called to the chair, and proceeded to read the requisition presented to the Churchwardens, and in consequence of which the present meeting was called. Mr. Rogers, in call- ing- the attention of the rate- payers to the subject upon which they were met, stated, that the Committee, of which he was a member, were of opinion that four police- officers, with an inspector, for the purpose of perambulating the parish from nine o'clock in the morning until nine o'clock at night, would, under the present circumstances be sufficient to prevent the nu- merous robberies and nuisaucei of which the parish so justly complain. The expense would be from 2.50/. to 300/. per annum. It was the wisli of those gentle- men with whom the proposition originated, that there should be an efficient night as well as day police; but as the cost of such an establishment could not be less than 1,200/. a- year, they did not feel themselves justi- fied in submitting such a proposition to the parishioners. The fact was that a great portion of the parish was already watched, in districts, either by subscriptions or by a levy, as provided under the 3rd and 4th of his late Majesty. It was deemed better, therefore, for the present, to confine their attention to an efficient day force; and it was thought that the number of officers he had stated, under judicious guidance, would be sufficient for the required purpose. Mr. R. con- cluded by moviug a resolution to the effect that it w a - expedient to appoint, according to the provisions of the 3rd and 4th W111. IV., four police- officers and an inspector, the cost thereof to be defrayed by a general rate upon the parishioners.— The motion was seconded by Mr. Arnifield, and supported by Mr. R. Wheeler. • Mr, Ferreday, and several other speakers, all of whoit bore testimony to the absolute necessity for the estab- lishment of an efficient police force.— Mr. Henry Smith said, all had admitted that an additional police force was required in the parish, and the only consi- derations were, first, was it a day or night police, 01 both, or was it only a Sunday police that was required Mr. Smith went on to argue that in his opinion an ii crease of the night police was alone immediately wanted, and concluded by moving an amendment t- the effect, " that the appointment of an efficient nigh police is most important."— This amendment beini seconded by Mr. W. Phipson, Mr. J. C. Barlow said in his opinion, from all he had heard stated, and from what he himself knew, there ought to be an efficieir force for both night and day.— In this view Mr. Bar low was supported by Mr. James James, and a ven large proportion of the meeting. After considerable discussion Mr. Rogers consented to withdraw the ori ] ginal motion, on the understanding that Mr Barlow would submit an amendment in accord ance with the opinions he had expressed. Mr. j Smith's amendment now stood as the origin"' motion, upon which Mr. Barlow moved, as an amend- ment, " that it is the opinion of this meeting that 111 I efficient night and day police should be appointed." Upon this a division took place, when there appearee for the amendment, 43; for the original motion, 00.— Mr. Barlow said, his amendment being lost, he shoul now move another, to the effect " that a day police b appointed, consisting of four officers and one inspector.' I As a great part of the parish was already watcher r during the night, he thought if tliey made anyinereas of police lorce at the expense of the parish, it ought ti be for a police force during the day. Another division took place, when there appeared, for the amendment 32 ; for Mr. Smith's motion, 38. A poll was now de manded under Mr. Sturges Bourne's act; but after i had proceeded for a considerable time, it was inter rupted by a long and desultory conversation, in which all parties expressed a wish that the question shoul. be brought to some amicable settlement. At length . motion of adjournment was proposed and carried almost unanimously. The meeting then broke ' up without any of the proposed measures being carried but it appeared to be the general opinion that som steps ought to be adopted for increasing the efficient of the police of Edgbaston. Mr. W. Phipson, Mi H. Smith, Mr. J. James, Mr. Rogers, and otln gentlemen, deprecatcd, in strong- terms, a paiagrap: which appeared in the Journal of Saturday last, i which it was attempted to show that the propose* police establishment was a Tory job. Mr. W. Pi in son designated the. paragraph as illiberal and uncalle for, and without the slightest foundation. He had th pleasure of attending the first meeting, and there ap peared to be only one desire amongst all present, an that was to promote the interests of all the parishioner — A man or the name of Bradshavv, who had 110 rig! to be present, here stated that lie assisted Mr. Dougla the Editor of the Journal, in drawing up the para graph, and he felt proud in doing so. The meetin broke up about twelve o'clock.—[ We take the ahov from the Tory paper of Thursday. We could wis, that the " strong terms" in which Mr. W. Phipsoi' Mr. James, Mr. Henry Smith, and others, deprecat-. the notice in the Journal of last week, had been re ported, ( our own reporter was necessarily absent f' 101 the meeting,) we should, in that case, have been abl to judge of their justice, a quality which, in langoag at least, is somewhat more important than strength Mr. Phipson, we see, in a subsequent paragraph, de scribes the paragraph as " illiberal and uncalled foi and without the slightest foundation." Its character as liberal or illiberal, we confess we care very littl about, and as to its being uncalled for— by Mr. Phip- son we presume— why, we must admit that it was si The foundation, which we did not describe as of oui own laying, was supplied by a Whig, a gentleman too, which will, doubtless, weigh with the honourabh objectors, and a resident in Edgbaston parish—.' parish about which or its managers, Whig or Tory, v < personally know exceedingly little. That either . man of the name of Bradshaw, or of any other nann assisted us in drawing up the paragraph in question is one of those pleasant fictions which writers, that ar fond of the ridiculous, are in the habit of passing l'< wit. From Mr. Bradshaw we certainly first heard 1 the meeting of the 9th, the presumed object of tha meeting was not suggested by him. We shall on] now renew our advice to the Edgbaston Reformers, t watch this matter narrowly, and if tliey find it to be 1 Tory job, or, what is quite as likely, a Whig job, t. treat it as a job deserves to be treated, even though i should happen to be supported by " Mr. W. Phipsoi Mr. H. Smith, Mr. J. James, Mr. Rogers, aud otht gentlemen."— E. B. J.] . M S ( las THE QUEEN.— Her Majesty held a Privy Council at Kee sington Palace, on Tuesday forenoon, when the cnstomai acknovvledgment of Her Majesty by the style and title 1 Victoria the First was subscribed by the Privy Councillor present, amongst whom were sixty- seven peers. The Dull of Cumberland, now King of Hanover, signed first, the same Council Her Majesty made the following dech, ration:— " The severe and afflicting loss which the nation has su tained by the death 0f His Majesty, my beloved uncle, In. devolved upon me the duty of administering the Govern ment of this empire. This awful responsibility is imposed upon me so suddenly, and at so early a period of my lilt that I should feel " myself utterly opprest by the burtliei were I not sustained by the hope that Divine Providence which has called me to this work, will give me strength fir the performance Of it, and that I shall find, in the purity < my intentions, and in my zeal for the public welfare, tin: support and those resources which usually belong to a moit mature age, and to longer experience. " I place my firm reliance upon the wisdom of Parliamen', and upon the loyalty and affection of my people. 1 esteeu it also a peculiar advantage, that I succeed to a Sovereiu whose constant regard for the rights and liberties of hi subjects, and whose desire to promote the amelioration the laws and institutions of the country, have rendered In name the object of general attachment and veneration. " Educated in England under the tender and enlightens care of a most affectionate mother, I have learned from n>< infancy to respect and love the Constitution of my nativ' country. " It will be my unceasing study to maintain the Reform*' religion as by law established, securing at the same time 1. all the full enjoyment of religious liberty; and I shall steadily protect the rights, and promote to the utmo of my power, the happiness and welfare of all classes of ii; • subjects." The Queen arrived at St. James's Palace on Wednesday morning about ten o'clock. Soon after, 6he appeared at ti t Presence Chamber window, when she was rapturou- ^ greeted by such of the people as were allowed access to t hi court yard. Tile Queen seemed deeply affected, and re peatedly shed tears. The proclamation being made in ti c Court- yard, the Garter at Arms with his attendants, pn - eeeded to Charing- cross, and afterwards to the city, wlier the proclamation was made at all the customary point". The Qu een returned to Kensington Palace iininedia'el' after the ceremony. She will remain there till the fanera of the King, which is not yet fixed. Qien Adelaide's dowry is £ 100.000 a year. ilie general jfiourning, for which the usual admonition lias issued, commences thisday. The Queen Dowager is still at Windsor castle. Th Dowager. house, Marlborough. house, requires extensive re pairs. She will, it is said, reside at Bushy till it is ready. ( Meeting coacluded from page 3.) Mr. ATTWOOD moved without preface the second resolu- ion. Mr. DOUGLAS sail), the history of the Corn- laws, that is of • ie laws by which lood was made scarce, many of his audi, irs were acquainted with. They were introduced in 1814 > y a Whig, and a member of the present Government, Sir lenry Parnell. The attempt to pass Sir Henry's proposal • nto a law was met by an opposition so general and deter- mined, that it was abandoned for that year. The enemies jf the people were, however, repressed, not discouraged ; liey returned to the attack in 1815, and under the auspices » f a man who was afterwards known by the title of pros- i M- ity Robinson, the attack was successful, in the face, he ' elieved he might aver, of more petitions, and these more - unanimous than had ever been laid on the table, or thrust into the great bag beneath it, on any former occasion. The rowed object of the Corn- laws was to make the supply of orn more constant and uniform ; the modem which its ad- vocates sought to accomplish that object was as happy a pecimen of their reasoning, as the real object was of their honesty. They proposed to make the supply steady, an 1 low did they proceed ? Hy limiting the surface from which ihe supply was to be drawn. They shut out the Continent of Europe; they shut out America ; they shut out our own .' olonies even ; and they would have shut out Ireland also, had it been in their power; and having thus done all that i hey were able, to uarrow the field of production and to Multiply the chances of failure, they declared that, in future, ind, as a consequence of such proceedings, the supply of corn would be abundant and its price uniform. The real ob- ject of the Corn- law promoters was not, however, so care- nlly concealed that it did not peep out. He recollected its oeing stated broadly in the House of Commons by one of the landed interest, wdiile the bill of 1814 was under discussion, that they must have a law to prohibit the importation of corn, for that otherwise they would be flooded by the wheat of the Continent, which was even then pouring ill upon them in a full stream. And this real motive came out in a more palpable form than in the inconsiderate speech of the Plundering country gentleman; it came out clearly in the enactment itself. Going back for a number of years pre- ious to 1793, that is, pieviotis to the disturbing influences • onsequent upon the suspension of cash payments by the Sank, and the other operations on the currency during the . var, it would be found that the bushel of wheat, in years of ordinary supply, was very nearly of the same value as ihe ounce of silver, or taking the price of gold to he, in round numbers, 4I. per ounce, that one ounce of gold was equal to sixteen bushels of wheat. Now the reason for this, which might be called the natural proportion of the two ar- icles, was not far to seek. It would be found in the simple act, that laying aside contingent and temporary causes, to dig the ore, to purify and smelt, and bring into the narket one ounce of gold, required sixteen times aa much human labour as to sow, reap, and bring into the mar- ket one bushel of wheat. Now mark what the Jaw declared. It declared that the price of wheat in order to be remunerative must be 7s. 6d. per bushel, that is, it sub- lituted an artificial proportion between wheat and money • ir the natural one. The natural one was one to sixteen, he artificial, one to twelve. In saying that the Corn- laws were meant, and so far as they were operative, tended to raise the bushel of wdieat from 5 s. to 7s. 6d., and protesting against that rise, he must not be understood as Opposed to i remunerating price for corn. Much pains had been used, md much false statement made, and bad argument em- ployed, to show that the manufacturing classes were ene- nies to ( he landlords. They were not enemies to either, i'hey wished no harm to any man, they did not object to dear corn, wonderful as that admission might seem ; what ' ley objected to was war prices for food, and peace prices > r labour. The origin and action of the Money- laws had . een often explained to them. The concocting and passing A these laws was a tougher job than the Corn- laws. The liidlords made short work with their laws. A single ses- sion sufficed them. The Money- laws cost more prepara- iion. The bullion committee sat in 1810. It was on the iretended discoveries of that committee that the Money- raws were grounded ; yet the first actual measure for carry- ing the principles of that committee into effect, was not introduced till 1819, and it was not fully completed till ten ears after. The Corn- laws went to raise the price ol vheat from 5s. to 7s. 6d. per bushel, that is, it enhanced he nominal value of the article 50 per cent. The Money- aws fixed the standard of gold at £ 3 17s. lOJd. This was . lie standard, let them recollect of 1796, when the national < ebt was 200 millions. The national debt in 1819 was 800 nillions ; and every national burden of what kind soever, had increased in an equal if not higher ratio. Now mark the consequence of adopting a standard, which however well fitted it might be to the one period, was wholly in- capable of anything like rational application to the other. Lay together the Corn- law on the one hand, the law which made food scarce, and Peel's act on the other, the law which made money scarce, and see how they jointly operated on the working man. Suppose, ( or instance, that lis labour per day was worth five shillings, that it was ex- changeable, as the bushel of wheat was, against an ounce of • ilver. Now, bad Great Britain been surrounded hy an Uipassable barrier; had the sea which washed her shores > een, as the ancients fancied it, an impassable line ofsepara ion between country and country, instead of being, as the nnderns had made it, the highway of the world, then ideed no evil would have happened The British ibourer being exposed to no unequal competition, his wages vould have risen in the same proportion as the price of the - usliel of wheat had been raised. We should have had an irtificial rate of wages, and an artificial rate of food, and no larm done. But the moment the products of British in- dustry went into Ihe foreign market, they came into com petition with labour, which being burdened with compara- ively speaking, no taxes, and no interest of war debt, was sufficiently remunerated with peace prices. The conse- quence was, that while food in England was increased in value, labour was paid at the old price ; and the workman, nstead of purchasing a bushel of wheat by tile exertions of one day, was compelled to give a day and a half for that uurpose. He ( Mr. D.) thought that ' by this brief state- ueut, which he had endeavoured to make so plain as to be uulerstood by every one whom he then addressed, he had ufficiently shown the nature and operation of the laws that nake food scarce ; and money scarce, and that the priva- lons of the industrious classes were traceable to them. I'lie resolution went on to say, that these laws could never have been maintained had the industrious classes been pro- perly represented in the House of Commons, lie did not liink many words would be required to prove so plain a truth — but first for the fact. And heie he felt disposed to go a little arther than the proposition in the resolution, and to say hat these laws could neither have been originated nor naintained, had the industrious classes possessed that power in the lower House, to which they were entitled, i'oshow what power they did possess, he would quote, for heir edification, a statement of the composition of the House of Commons, immediately before the passing of the ileform hill. That statement might suffice for any year hat had elapsed from the close of the war, for though the men were occasionally changed, and nominee B took he place of nominee A, the character and class of the men varied exceedingly little. According to the state- uent he referred to— they would observe that many ndividilali figuied in more than one class — of the i58 Members of the House of Commons, 258 were country gentlemen; 218 placemen and pensioners; and 257 peers or die relations of peers. Now what earthly chance could the ii dustrious classes have, opposed to such odds of party? For the country gentlemen, it was notorious that all of them had been told, and very many of them believed that the in- terests of the industrious classes and their own, were diame- trically opposed to each other. The placemen, it was ob- . ious, must be opposed to the people, for if was upon the resources of the people that ihey battened. II the people had their own, what was to become of them? Of the tJeers and their various branches, it was unnecessary to speak. We had been told of them that they were account- able to their own consciences only, and experience had suffi. ciently shown that they made conscience of maintain ing - acred their peculiar responsibility. Such were the great livisions of the House. In addition to these there were 112 officers of the army and navy; 88 lawyers; the East India interest was represented by 62 members; and the West India by as many. Lastly, there were 45 merchants of all descriptions and opinions; and 6 manufacturers! And of these 6, Henry Hunt was one! There was a represen- tation of the industrious classes! How was the case mended in the Reform Parliament? Why the lawyers had increased; the East India gentry had rather fallen off; we lad more theoretical politicians, more Liberals, certainly uore Irish Liberals; but so far as the industrious classes were concerned, thedifference between the un. Reformed and the Reformed Parliament, was almost imperceptible. No wonder that those laws which oppressed the industrious classes were maintained, seeing that the causes that led to their adoption in the first instance, were still in so active operation. The discovery of the origin of the present evils, if he had been successful in tracing'it, naturally suggested the remedy. If they sprung from bad laws, and these bad laws from an unequal state of the representation, the repre- sentation must be amended before we could look for relief. Now, to affirm, if the industrious classes were fairly and efficiently represented, that the laws that press upon indu- try oust soon cease to press upon it; to prove that the people, f they were invested with the power to provide for their own happiness, would use their power for that purpose, was pretty nearly the same as proving what the school- men called an identical proposition. It was quite easy to sup- pose a part opposing the rest, or one part opposing another, hut to suppose the whole opposing itself " was altogether ab- surd. We had heard in the fable of the revolt of the mem- bers against the belly; but not even in fable did anyone • vcr hear of a conspiracy of the belly and members for the destruction of both. He did not deny that objections had been raised against investing the industrious classes with power, and these lie would briefly consider. And first, it was asked, who were the industrious classes? He would answer— they were the hive, with the exception of the drones. They collected the wax; they formed the cells; they made the honey. All that in society was good and pleasant, was the work of their hands. His hearers, per- haps, knew how in the common wealth of the bees the drones were served. While the flowers were plentiful arid food abundant, these representatives of gentility were patiently suffered to buz about, to criticise the labours, and to partake of the sweets that the workers had gathered; but wdien the autumn came on, and the trees began to grow bare, and the drones became burdensome, they were driven from the home of in- dustry to seek entertainment where they could find it. And at that period they might be seen in a very woe- begone condition, fluttering about the hedges and banks until the nipping breath of winter disposed of them. Now, with re- spect to the drones of the state, he would advise no such rigorous treatment. He was willing to tolerate them— nay to feed them, and to listen to their advice, that is, if he were not obliged to follow it. He would not seek in any way to disturb or lessen their enjoyments. Provided always that they would be content with their fair share, he would allow them the range of the hive; he would only call for restriction when they attempted to monopolise the honey tor their own use. To lecur to the objections he alluded to— It was said that if the people had the entire power to return members to the House of Commons, they would use it exclusively for their own benefit. The factions, whether Tory or Whig, are so much in the habit of practising exclu- siveness, that they cannot conceive how any public matter can be devoid of it. The people advocate exclusive in- terests ! the exclusive interests of the whole ! Then we are told that they are ignorant, and do not know what is good for them. To this he would reply, it was plain from the present position of society, that those who had hitherto attended to the interests of the people are at least equally ignorant. A change cannot possibly do any harm that way. But it is further urged, that they were incapable of exercising an ex- tended franchise. They are not sufficiently free of themselves to use it freely. The best way to cure this defect was to make ihem free. A year's practice in such matters was worth a century of study. Would any one desirous of training a runner, advise as a preliminary, the tying up of his legs on tile pretence that he did not know how to use them ? But it seems the concession of the suffrage to the masses would be dangerous. To whom ? To the masses them- selves ? They were willing to encounter the rich. To the drones ? That would be as they demeaned themselves; besides it was their own concern. Lastly, it is objected lo the people that they are changeable! He wished most sin- cerely they were. It would save many a meeting like the present, and many a lecture such as had been addressed to ir. If the people were really changeable, the leaders of the people would have a light task compared with what they had at present. What lie, and he believed all who agreed with him in opinion, grieved at was, that the people were so little inclined to change; that only the extremity of suffering could induce them to seek for relief; that only the harshest oppression, long endured, could stimulate them to rise, and demand relief. To say the people were cha ifeable was but, in other words, to affirm the moral as well as physical absurdity, that the larger the bod}', the easier was it put in motion. Individuals were changeable, factions were changeable, but the characteristic of the great body of the people was aversion from change. A few words more, and he would conclude. If the present distress had occurred in one trade or department of trade, or in one town or district, it might have been fairly argued that of such a partial effect the cause also must be partial. But when we find it sparing no branch of commerce, do- mestic or foreign, no manufacture large or small, makii g bankrupt the master and taking his bread from the work- man, in every town and village in the kingdom, it is con- sistent with every principle of reason, that we should attri- bute this general suffering to one general disease. What is that disease ? Will it be said that our merchants are im- prudent, or ignorant, or inactive? They rise up early, and go to bed late, and eat the bread of carefulness. What precautions can they be charged with neglecting? What opportunities of success have ( hey omitted to improve? In the east and the west, in the rioith and the south, is there a mart that they have left unexplored or unvisiteil ? Where do we find manufacturers more skilled than those of Britain ? And have their right hands now lost their cunning ? Where are the workmen more industrious, more sedulous? England is the home of labour. The free- born and free- thinking Englishman, out of his own uncontrolled will, works more hard, and with an intenser application, and greater waste of body and spirit, than all the appliances of force have ever been able to make the slaves of other countries work. Is the defect of which we complain in the climate or circumstances of the country itself? Talk of the covered hills of France ! How infinitely poor are they compared with the sunny plains of glorious England! The clouds drop down fatness on our happy isle. Look to ( lie ever greenness of its pastures, to its waving harvests, to the rich abundance of all things with which it teems. Go through our land from the east to the west, and from the north to the south, and say, be it not a goodly laud ! Mark the facilities for conveying our productions and our imports from one quarter of the isle to another. Number, if you can, our roads, look to our canals, to our railways! Sail round our shores, and see how they are indented with harbours, where the tide of commerce pours in from a thousand sources, and nature and art contend together foritsaccommodation. There is not a breeze that fans the face of the blessed Heaven that does not waft some vessel to our ports with supplies for necessity or ourpieasure. if then neither in our mercantile, in our manufacturing, nor in our physical condition can any cause be discovered of that distress which is ever and anon, as at present, pressing upon us, is it not a legitimate, is it not a just, is it not a necessary inference, which is made in the resolution, which I conclude with most heartily se- conding, that the cause must be sought in our legislative system, in absurd and injurious laws, which come between the people and that prosperity which Heaven and earth had alike destined for their inheritance? Mr. SALT said, from the length of time that they had been assembled together, their powers must by this time be almost exhausted, and therefore he would be very brief in the observations he should make. They had been informed of the great wrongs which they suffered, and they had now to propose a remedy for these wrongs. He held in his band a petition to what was called the Commons House of Par- liament. ( Hear.) Not such a House as he ( Mr. Salt) would wish to see; hut he it what it might, he knew well that it could not long resist_ such meetings as these. ( Cheers.) It was not Birmingham alone that spoke the sentiments which they felt, but in every part of England tliey had brothers suffering under the same wrongs, and with hearts stung with the same determination ; and from that meeting should go forth i. n address to the Government of the country, which should speak to their rulers, not in the language of content, but with the voice of starving mil- lions, calling on the executive of the country to do them justice. ( Cheers.) No Government could exist in a country wronged as theirs was, and no Government ought to exist that suffered such great and terrible wrongs to con- tinue. The petition which he had to submit to them called for a repeal of the Corn- laws— for a repeal of the Money- laws— for a repeal of the New Poor- laws— for a lestitution of Household Suffrage— Triennial Parliaments— Vote by Ballot, and paid Members; and they should have them all. ( Loud arid continued cheers.) There had been held, a few diiys since, a meeting in Birmingham of all the principal Tories, Whigs, and Radicals. They all agreed that there was something wrong in the present system. Now, being agreed upon that, the Tories and Whigs must agree, and shall agree, to demand the remedy ; ami he w ished to know if all agreed to demand justice of the Government, whether they dared refuse them ? ( Cheers.) Who would support them in their refusal? Did they depend on the army? Why the army belonged to the people. ( Cheers.) They could tell them that the army was made to support the Government, and the Government to support the people. ( Cheers.) Would the army support the Government and uphold the Poor- laws, those laws which would subject them when worn out of the service, to all the horrors of the bastile system. ( Loud cheers.) All they had to do was to keep to their niotlo—- peace, law, order, resolution, perseverance, arid all the present distresses would be speedily relieved. The petition having been read,—- Mr. P. II. MUNTZ, in the absence of his friend Mr. Had- ley, rose to second the resolution. They bad heard much that day of the distress of tile country— they had heard like- wise remedies proposed for that distress, one of which was, a better representation of the working classes in the House of Commons. In this opinion be ( Mr. Muntz) entirely concurred, for he felt that all remedies and all relief would he of little value, and never could be permanent, till they had a better class of representatives in the House of Com- mons, and this they could only obtain by their determined and united exertions. ( Cheers.) In seconding the resolu- tion, he therefore called upon them to stand firm and united, until they had obtained all they had a right to demand. Mr. PIERCE, in coming forward to propose Ihe next reso- lution, was received with loud cheers. He said that the resolution which lie was about to submit to them would be of infinite advantage to their common cause. He meant that they should not adopt the common practice of merely sending their resolutions and petitions to the House of Com- mons, only to hear that they bad been thrown under the table, ( blear, hear,) hut that they should send three good, honest, and trusty men to enforce their claims when they got there. ( Loud cheers.) The three inen whose names lie had to pro- pose to them were in every way worthy of their confidence, and before he read them to the meeting he wished them to give their sanction to one proposition— it was this, that i three men were not sufficient to enforce their claims on the attention of the Government, would they on some future oc- casion not send three only, but three hundred thousand men to enforce them. ( Tremendous cheering, and cries of " We will.") This might be thought by some men a childish sort of proposition; but seeing the amount of suffering, and their patient endurance, he knew that his countrymen had courage and fortitude sufficient to carry them through when any great work was to be accomplished. ( Loud cheers.) The diffi- culty would soon be accomplished if the men of Birmingham once set the example; and if once determined, they might easily send 300,000 from the two millions of men which their worthy leader had mentioned. ( Loud cheering.) He would ask of them no instructions of these good men ; know- ing as he did, their virtue, patriotism, and determination, he was quite certain if they just instructed them to tell minis- ters, that if they did not listen to what they had to say, pro- bably some day when the railway was finished, they would find 300,000 men coming up toenforce their claims upon their notice, in a manner which they dared not refuse. ( Loud and enthusiastic cheering.) Mr. Pierce concluded hy proposing that Messrs. Hadley, P. H. Muntz, and T. C. Salt, be Bp- pointed a deputation to present the petition and resolutions to ministers. Mr. AARON felt great pleasure incoming forward on an occasion like the present, though quite unprepared to address them at any length. It was tiie first time for him to speak at Newhall- hill, but he hoped it would not be the last. ( Great cheering.) The resolution just proposed was, in effect, to send three good men and true, to enforce upon the legislature their just demands. Mr. Pierce had said, if they would not listen to three, they would send 300,000. He co- incided entirely with him, and whenever they found it ne- cessary to sanction such a measure, be ( Mr. Aaron) was ready to be one of that number. ( Great cheering.) He tiusted, however, that extreme measures like this would not be necessary— he trusted that the three " good men and true" would so speak the voice of the men ot Birmingham, and through them the voice of the industrious classes ol England, that the Ministers would be compelled to listen, and listening, would he impelled to obey. ( Loud applause.) What were those men who dared to " refuse the rights of their fellow- men? Who were they ? Whence did they come, and who gave them their power? ( Chesrs.) Who hut the millions? and if they they refused the millions their rights, they could deprive them of it. ( Renewed cheers.) He did not think that the present Government was a whit better than the former one. There was, however, a dif- ference. The Tories robbed them, but it was done fear- lessly, openly, and barefacedly. The Whigs professed to do much in their favour, while they secretly robbed and plundered the people. ( Cheers.) Lord John Russell had said the other day in the House of Commons, that the dis- tress of the present time was not to be compared to the distress of 1826. He asked them, did be tell the truth or did he not? ( Hear, hear.) He either told a direct and wilful falsehood, or he was altogether ignorant of the sub- ject, and therefore unfit for the station he filled. ( Cheers.) What then were they to do? (" Turn him out.") He be- lieved that if he was turned out, there could ' be found thousands of men more fif than him for the situation be oc- cupied. Another gentleman in the House of Commons, ( Sir John lieid) who, he believed, was a director of the Bank of England, said that the present distress was but a passing cloud. Aye, it was a cloud— one that brought de- struction and misery to thousands of hearts in their country, and one that be feared would not soon pass a. vay. ( Hear, hear.) Such being the case, what was it necessary that they should do? Supposing it to be but a passing cfoutl, and supposing, for a moment, that they were not in the same distress as in 1826, what then? Were these alternations of prosperity and adversity the consequence of a healthy system? He ( Mr. Aaron) denied they were the conse- quence of a healthy state of things ; and, therefore, if that was the case, their clear and hounden duty was to demand such an alteration in tile government ot their country as would produce an alteration iu the system. ( Loud cheers.) The terrors of a few Newhall- hill meetings would induce them to relax the screw; but if they allowed temporary prosperity to divert them from the course on which they had entered, until they had not only prosperity, but the means of maintaining it, they would not deserve to l. ave it. They were nsked to give their voice to Vote by Ballot, Triennial Parliaments, and Household Suffrage. ( Cheers.) These were the rights necessary for the maintenance of tranquillity and prosperity, and these they must have— lie cared not whether their fathers had them or not; if they had them, they were undeserving of them, for suffering them to be wrested out of their hands. ( Cheers.) In calling upon them then to approve of the resolution that would be sub- mitted to them, it was his opinion that three better men could not be found. They woti'd not go like slaves, crawl- ing on their bellies and demanding freedom for the people, but they would say, in the language of freemen,— These aie our rights. W'e demand them for the people ; and with the help of God and the people, these rights we shall have. ( Enthusiastic cheering.) Mr. MUNTZ having vacated the chair, on the motion of Mr. Edmonds a vole of thanks was passed to that gentle- man, succeeded by immense cheering. Mr. ATTWOOD said, as the place where they were then assembled bad been found too small, lie trusted they would meet on the next occasion by thousands and hundreds of thousan Is in the fields of Hoiloway Head. Mr. EDMONDS called upon the meeting before they sepa- rated, to offer to . Mr. Attwood their warm affection and undoubted confidence as their leader, by whom ere long they would accomplish the great achievement of their rights, liberties, and happiness. Mr. PIEHCK briefly seconded the suggestion of Mr. Ed- monds, which was responded to by the enthusiastic accla- mations of the multitude. Mr. ATTWOOD returned thanks. They had given him a pledge that they would stand by him— a pledge which he would redeem at some future day. He recommended the observance of peace, order, and obedience to the laws. He would he the last man to recommend any other course. They should violate the law to injure no man ; but wo to the man who violated the law to injure them. ( Cheers.) Mr. Attwood concluded his address to the meeting by so- lemnly asking a blessing on them and their families. Three cheers were then given simultaneously for their patriotic leader, after which the immense concourse sepa- rated. Tile people exhibited the best possible humour through- out the day, and not the slightest confusion or irregularity occurred. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. On the subject of the meeting', the following inter- esting correspondence has taken place :— Letter of Mr. Attwood to Sir Herbert Taylor. Birmingham, June 20, 1837. SIR,— To- day the melancholy news has reached us of the death of our good King. We are all impressed with real grief. But yesterday, I had the honour of presiding at a great meeting of the inhabitants of Birmingham, at which we all of us offered up a spontaneous prayer to Almighty God for his safety. I assure you, sir, that it was a grand and sublime sight to see, as I did, a hundred thousand of the late King's subjects, all taking off their hats in solemn silence, and all lifting up their faces to Heaven, and, all cry- ing out with one heart and one voice, " God bless the King." We fondly flattered ourselves that our good King would have lived to hear the prayers of his people in his behalf. And we thought that the knowledge of those spontaneous and heartfelt prayers would have been a comfort and conso- lation to him in his last hour. It has pleased Almighty God to remove him suddenly from this world. I request the favour of you, sir, to make known to our present young and interesting Queen, the new proof of which I now present to you, that her Royal Uncle descends into the grave covered with the blessings and the prayers of a grateful and devoted people. I have the honour to be, sir, Your obedient humble servant, THOMAS ATTWOOD. Answer of Sir Herbert Taylor. Windsor Castle, June 22, 1837 SIR, I do not delay in acknowledging the leceipt of your letter of the 20th inst., and assuring you of the heartfelt sa. tisfaction with which I have read so just and so well merited a tribute to the memory and worth of my late revered and lamented Royal Master. I have not failed to take the earliest opportunity of submitting it to Queen Adelaide, whose feelings have, in this period of affliction, been gratified in the highest degree by the expression of the loyal and affect: onate sentiments of the assembled inhabitants of Bir- mingham, when they offered up their prayers to the Almighty for their excellent King, as also by the terms in which you have conveyed them. As I am not in communication with any person in imme- diate attendance upon our present Queen, I have trans- mitted your letter to Lord Melbourne, with a view to the accomplishment of the w'sb expressed in the concluding part of it. I have the honour to be, sir, Your most obedient humble servant, H. TAYLOR Thomas Attwood, Esc. The debates in Parliament, during the by past week, from the decease of the King, bear a character of minor importance. We shall content ourselves with a very brief summary of what lias been done, the rather that our columns are more than ordinarily full of local matter. On Friday the Lords discussed the Commons' amended amendments on the Municipal Amendment bill, two of which, strange to tell, they allowed— a third was negatived. Lord Wick low offered an amend- ment on the Irish Grand Juries bill, which went to destroy the bill, but luckily for Ministers, he did not press it. On Monday the Lords were engaged in dis- cussing- the Bristol Municipal petition. Lord Glengall afterwards introduced a petition from some Irish pro- prietors, complaining of encroachments on the fish- eries of the river Suir, and of serious riots that had ensued in consequence. The Irish Bankruptcy bill was read a second time. On Tuesday their Lordships merely met for the pur- pose of taking the oath of allegiance to the new Queen. On Wednesday they again met for the same purpose. On Thursday, after some routine business, not the least remarkable of which was the King of Hanover's taking the oath of allegiance, the message from the throne was presented and read— we give it below— and an address to Her Majesty, condoling and congratulating her, was moved by Lord Melbourne and seconded, according to etiquette, by Lord Welling- ton. Lords Brougham and Grey also spoke, chiefly to the virtues of the late King; after which the House adjourned. In the Commons on Friday, the bill which went to deprive the people of London of Primrose- hill, on the pretence of converting it into a burying- place, was thrown out by a large majority. The Brighton Rail- way Companies having at length agreed to one line, it was referred to the engineer appointed to report on the comparative advantages of the four. Lord J. Russell stated that the Registration of Voters' bill could not be passed this session. In answer to a question of Sir Stratford Canning, Lord Palmerston stated that Lord Ponsonby, ambassador at Constantinople, had applied for leave of absence, that Sir Charles Vaughan had been appointed as his lordship's locum fenejw, that Lord Ponsonby, after Sir Charles had reached Alalta, declined the leave that had been granted to him, and Sir Charles was accordingly on bis way home again. Mr. Walter proposed that the Poor- law committee should make its report on the evidence already sub- mitted to i£, including that from West Hampnett. The motion was rejected by 119 to 30. In moving the Ordnance Estimates in committee, Sir J. L. Hay stated that there was an increase of £ 102,000, partly covered by an offset of old stores sold, amounting to £ 41,000. The estimates were agreed to, after a con- siderable discussion. The House sat a few minutes on Saturday, for the purpose of r < ceivingthe report of the committee. On Monday the House was counted out at twenty minutes past four o'clock. On Tuesday the members merely met to take the oaths of allegiance. The same business proceeded on Wednesday. On Thursday the following Message was brought down by Lord John Russell— The QUEEN entertains the fullest confidence that the House of Commons participates in the deep affliction Her Majesty feels at the death of the late King, whose constant desire to promote the interests, maintain the liberties, and improve the laws and institutions of the country, will insure for bis name and memory the dutiful and affectionate res- pect of all Her Majesty's subjects. The present state of the public business, and the period of the session, when con- sidered in connection with the law which imposes on Her Majesty the duty of summoning a new Parliament within a limited time, renders it inexpedient to recommend to the House of Commons any new measures for its adoption, with the exception of such as may be necessary for carrying on tiie public business, from the close of the present till the meeting of the new Parliament. An address, similar to that which had been agreed to in the House of Lords, was moved by Lord John Russell and seconded by Sir Robert Peel. An address of condolence to the Queen Dowager was also agreed to. The Chancellor of the Exchequer stated that he would bring forward the Budget on Friday next. PUBLIC OFFICE. THURSDAY, JUNE 22. ( Before if. Spooner, Esq.) Thomas Fouks was committed to the sessions for stealing two shirts and other articles of wearing apparel, the pro- perty of a man named Stenson, who lives near Saturday Bridge. George mills was ordered to pay 2s. 6d. fine, and 8s. 6d. costs, for cai rying away apiece of railing from a field belong, ing to Mr. Price, Wheeler- street, and in default of payment was committed to the House of Correction for one month. Mary Hill was committed for stealing a shawl belonging to Mrs. Champion. Maryann Iiines was committed for uttering counterfeit mpney. On Monday, about four o'clock, she went into the Plaisterer's Arms, Parade, called for a pint of ale, arid pre- sented a bad shilling in payment. The person who served her, told her the money was bad. upon which she gave him threepence in copper and immediately left, in the evening of the same day she went into the King Edward public house, where she met a poor muffin seller, named Carpenter, to whom she passed another bad shilling. The poor woman, however, discovered the fraud, and caused her to be appre- hended, and searched by Smith, a street keeper, when another counterfeit shilling and some good money was found upon her. William Seabriflge was charged with picking pockets. Mr. Short stated that on Tuesday evening be was standing at the shop window of Messrs. Mansell and Co., Union- street, reading a paragraph ill a newspaper, when he felt a crush against him ; he presently missed his handkerchief and on turning round he saw the prisoner and another man walking way. He caused the prisoner to be apprehended by a street keeper, and the handkerchief was found upon him. The prisoner was committed. Josiali Jiiley was committed for cutting, with intent of stealing, a quantity of lead piping, the property of Mr. John Wheeldon, of Cecil- street. INTERIOR OF NEW HOLLAND. [ The following interesting account of a recent exploratory tour is given in a report by Major Mitchell, Surveyor- General to the Secretary of the Colony. J My intended route was the same as that which I wished to have followed last year— namely, to pursue the river as far as Mount Granard, and then travel westward, as the nature of the country permitted, towards die River Darling. When I reached Mount Granard, I found less of a moun- tain range extending westward than I bad expected, and although we procured abundance of water on its summit ( where I passed a night), and that numerous hills, as pro- mising as it was in tilis respect, appeared to the westwaid, the season was so extremely dry, that I considered it safer, with such a party in charge, to rely on the ponds in the Laehlan, at least some way further; especially as I had observed from the bills a branch of that river, as it seemed leading in a very favourable direction over the lower country. After we had descended along the hank of the Lachlan about sixty miles further, water became very scarce; the natives having a name for each hole or quarry. I was then induced to quit its hanks, on the assurance of an old native that he could find me water in the direction in which I wished to proceed to the Darling. At the end of the first day's journey, on quitting the Lach- lan, we reached the Northern Channel, but found it dry; and although the old man procured a few quarts some miles bejond, we passed the night without finding any for the cattle; and, next morning, the chiefs of a tribe then among the hills beyond, came forward to assure me that all there was dried up. My guide, however, persisted, and was de- sirous we should go on ; but although I was satisfied that iu common seasons I might have found water there, 1 thought it might he in too parched a state then, after two seasons of drought. In so precarious an enterprise as our further progress thus appeared to be, merely on account of water, I adopted what I considered the alternative to follow the course of the Lachlan to the Murrumbidgee, and that of this river to the Murray, and thence to survey the Darling upwards with a light party. I must here mention, that before I determined on this plan, 1 had ascertained the identity of the river ex- plored last year, with that which joins the Murray from the northward. I was consequently desirous to get through the survey of that barren and unpromising country as soon us possible, in hopes that in proceeding up the Murray, w, might make discoveries more equal to the expectations raised by such an expedition. On descending the Lachlan, we frequently travelled along Its banks all day without seeing any water in its bed, passi... the night without any; and near the place where Mr. OxU v buried a bottle, I travelled three days and passed two night' without finding any, during a ride of one hundred and twenty miles with a party on horseback. There the Luchlan spread' into several branches, but these unite a short way below where we found the channel as deep and well defined as It was above; and near the junction of this river with tin Murrumbidgee, the ponds in its bed were deep anil nu merous. Relying on Arrow- smith's Map ( to which I am referee by the instructions), I passed the junction of the Murrum Indgee with the Murray, without being aware of it. But i branch of the former river presented so favourable a positioi for a depot camp, in which I wished to leave Mr. Stapylton with the heavy part of our equipment, that I immediatelj took it up, leaving there the drays, boats, and most of tin cattle and provisions in that officer's charge, with eight men while I proceeded forward with a lighter partv, in order t< complete the survey of the Darling. By this arrangement, my party was in better trim to flea with the savage natives whom we were likely to meet; whih the cattle left at the depot, and which were already exhausts by a long journey, were refreshed for continuing'it into the southern country on my return from the Darling. During my first day's journey from the depot I made the banks of the Murray below the junction of the branch ot the Murrumbidgee, and we subsequently encamped when the breadth of this river was one hundred and sixty- five yards. On the following day we were compelled to make a detom by another branch of this river, and thus came upon a fine full lake, sixteen miles in circumference. I found the river Darling of considerable width, at, and for above six miles above, its junction with the Murray, from which the back water extended fifteen miles up. But, abovt that point, the channel seemed scarcely so wide as it was where I had explored it before. It contained so little water that at my last camp I stepped across its bed dryshod : n little water only dropping over the smooth bottom, seemed the effect of the rain fallen just before. This river exacth resembled the Lachlan in its woods, course, and in the cha racter of its banks— the hitter being peculiar to those tw. rivers only. The sole difference is, that the Darling is on n rather larger scale. The country, on both banks, was of tin same barren description as that I had seen above, or, if pos- sible, worse, for the arid red sands and thick scrubs ap proaclied the banks of the river, leaving little room for gras.. As soon, therefore, as I recognised the points of a rangi previously intersected, and thus ascertained the identity o the Upper and Lower Darling, I hastened to rejoin Mi. Stapylton at the depot. From the natives we learned tlnn other lakes, similar to Lake Benanee existed in the country northward from the Murray, especially a large one namei Cou iowra; and that the Darling tribe came across the coun I try from that river to the Benanee Lake, without passim along the bank of the Darling. As I make the junction of the River Darling and Murray in longitude 142 deg. 3 min. 26 sec. E., or upwards ol » degree more to the eastward than it appears to be in Arrow smith's Map, published in 1832, my movement from tin depot point will appear less of a detour on my map, than l>> that map might be supposed. And the longitude of the junc- tion of the Murrumbidgee, near my depot, being also mori to the eastward than it is in that map, ( being 143 deg. 20 min 36 sec. E.,) I had less reason to regret the season of drought which hail compelled me to pursue a route which a previous knowledge of the localities was alone wanting, to have provei the most eligible for the accomplishment of both objects o the expedition. I found that Mr. Stapylton and party had remainei during the whole period of my absence unmolested. Tin waters of the Murrumbidgee had risen, and the branch oi which I had fixed was lull and flowing— so that it wa- necessary in order to rejoin that party, to swim our horse acioss. From the depot camp to the junction of the Muri um bidgee and Murray, the distance was eight miles, over flrn ground ; and for two miles below the junction ( by tin river) I moved the whole party across the Murray, with i view to proceed up that river, according to the second part of my instructions. We bad proceeded far up this river before the country oi its banks appeared much better than any we had seen lowei down. Grassy plains extended some way from the rivei but were limited by sand bills covered with cypress- tree- and scrubs. We crossed various broad lagoons, apparently the beds of ana- branches of the river in seasons of higi flood. After several days travelling ( nearly southward) reed, appeared in extensive fiats along the river ; and in longitudi 143 deg. 40 min. E., the course of the river being from tin S. E., the reeds extended eastward to the horizon. Tin mean distance of the bergs of sand hills covered witl pine, which limited the reedy flat, was there about eiglu miles across. We soon passed the region of weeds, which gradually disappearing as we ascended, were replaced bj grassy plains. We reached the junction of a river which I took to be that of the Twisdeu ( or Goulburn) of Air. Hume, in latitudi 35 deg. 19min. 43sec. S., longitude 143 deg. 41 min. 15 sec E. A clear grassy hill, which I named Swan Hill, mwk- this junction, which takes place close under it. The bank- et this river were so soft and steep, and wood was so scare, there, that the cattle could not be watered without danger nor could firewood be procuied; on one frosty night in pai ticular, this river unexpectedly brought us to a stop, when we had nearly reached the larger one beyond, whosi whole course was distinguished by lines of lofty trees, as oi most other rivers. These, so distinctly different, flowed fo> many miles very near each other, each river preserving tin same character throughout. In this vicinity, we caine upon a very singular formation consisting of numerous lakes of salt or brackish water, am which were enclosed by semicircular ridges on their easteri shores. The largest of these lakes was named Boga, tun ( was six miles in circumference. The river floods havint reached this by a small channel, the water in it was sweei and it was peopled by a savage tribe, who refused to give u any information, throwing their spears at Piper, who shn one of them. Beyond Boga Lake we crossed some very fine plains, bli- the main channel of the river we were endeavouring to ex plore, was no longer accessible, nor even visible, from tin numerous branches and still reaches which intersected tin alluvial margin, which appeared to be very broad. Following the general course of the river, we next enterei on a tract remarkable for extensive forests of box, with oc casional intervals of open grassy plains. It was watered by chains of ponds in deep channels, whose meandering course, through a peifectly level country, seemed to pin sue no particular diiection. From what I afterwards nb served on higher plains, 1 conclude that these waters ari derived from the floods of the river, and that these spreading into branches of minor depth, thus water tin level country. Turning more towards the river, we passed alternately over grassy plains, and through belts of lofty gum trees— the beds of broad lagoons. Near the river, deep reaches o still water cut off all access to it, so that we could onfy traci its general course. The highest point at which we found ii accessible before turning south being in latitude 35 deg. 5£ min. 35 sec. south, longitude 144 deg. 35 min. 38 sec. east. The extreme western point of a range then appearing ii the southern horizon, I proceeded towards it, anxious ti know more of the country back from the river. The view I obtained from that summit induced me to direct oui course southward, with the intention of returning across tin heads of the Murray further to the eastward, where 1 hoj e the hills might afford me the means of extending the survey across the adjacent country; I perceived from the height a distant line of lofty trees, which seemed to mark the courst of another river; beyond were the summits of very distan hills, verdant plains variegated with clumps and lines of tree.- extending westward to the horizon; the whole seeming good pasture land. At about thirty miles from the hill, and on the 144th de gree of longitude, we reached a deep but narrow stream flowing between high and grassy banks to the westward, at the rate of one mile and a half per hour. Its mean deptl was nine feet; in one night, however, it suddenly rose four teen feet higher, carrying away a rough bridge we had jusi completed. The aboriginal name of this river is the " Yar rayne ;" the plains beyond it were five miles iri breadth, and of the best description. Forests of black- butted gum, and casuarinte, then extended back to the mountains and forest hills; in these forests, instead of novelty, we found the Blue Mountain Parrot, and other birds common near Sydney; many of the plants also which grow in Cumberland. " Barrabungale," a lofty mountain of granite, was the cliiel point of that range, hut, on ascending it, the weather was unfavourable for my observati ns; a group of open forest hills were connected with Barrabungale, they enclosed vallies richly covered with grass, and all well watered. We passed over many fine tracts, sheltered by open forest hills, and crossed various fine streams, all flowing westward. At " ie que length, on the 11th July, I discovered the summits of a noble mountain range of broken and picturesque outline, and by subsequent survey I found that this was the predominant feature ot that vast territory, lying between the river Murray I and the southern coast, giving birth to numerous streams of | convenient width and constant current, by which the sur- rounding country is watered abundantly. These Grampians of the south are' situated between 36 deg. 52 min. and 37 deg. 38 min. of south latitude, and between 141 deg. 55 min. and 142 deg. 47 min. of east longitude; the latter being the ongitude of Mount William, the highest and most eastern summit, and on which I passed a night, vainly hoping that the clouds would rise above it. Situated thus centrically, this lofty mass, so essential to water the lower country, presents no impediment, like the THE B I R M I N G H AM JOURNAL. last ranges of the settled district, to the formation of roads, iid ihe progress of colonisation. The principal river flowing under the north side of these I mountains is the " Wimmera," which has no steep bank?, I rid appears to be a very constant stream. I explored its • nurse to 142 deg. of longitude, when it turned to the north rest, leaving me in a country covered with circular laker, ! all of which the water was salt or brackish. These had • emicircular ridges on the eastern side, as in those of Boga, HI the Murray, and the land about them was in general very Iiorl and grassy, its mean elevation above the sea being ^ iiout 580 feet. From the continued rainy weather the earth was in a very • oft state, and this at length became a most serious impedi- ment to the progress of the expedition, the party being un- file, even with the greatest exertion, to proceed through the mid above three miles a day. But for this I might have re- turned at least two months ago. When we gained the head of a small ravine falling towards the principal river rising in the Grampians, we found firmer : round, and our progress was much better, although still irrationally impeded by the soft and boggy state of the ' ai til. The river, which I named the " Glenelg," flows first vestward, and then southward, entering the sea at the leepest part of the bay, between Cape Northumberland and ! ape Bridgewater. I explored the last fifty miles of its • nurse in the boats, having left Mr. Stapylton with a depot, nr I had great reason to hope that it led to some important • stuury; Uie average width was one hundred yards, the nean depth, four fathoms. In this I was, however, dis- ppointed, for the river terminated in a shallow basin within ho sand hummocks of the coast, the outlet being between wo low rocky heads, but choked up with the sands of the • each. In the higher part of the Glenelg, the rock over which it rlows is granite, hut after it passes through a ridge of irimitive sandstone, coveied with forests of iron bark, ( and which forms there a kind of coast range,) the banks consist wholly of a secondary limestone. The soft state of the earth lad tendered our progress by land almost hopeless, when I aunclied the boats on the Glenelg, hut on quitting that river with the party, I succeeded in re- crossing the Iron- mrk range with the drays, by following up a tributary flow- ng to the Glenelg from the eastward. The difficulty of this movement was milch increased, by numerous swampy creeks md swamps which we had to cross. The eastern part of that range is highest, and on the higher parts, where the imsis of the soil is trap- rock, the enormous growth and thickness of the trees presented a new impediment to the progress of our drays, the fallen timber covering so much of ' lie. surface. The trees, consisting of Stringy bark and Blue Gum, were many of them six feet, and some as much as eight eet in diameter. Beyond this range, which terminates in Cape Bridge- water, I expected to have found some considerable river entering the sea at Portland Bay; I found only, however, three small rivets, which I named the Turry, the Fitzroy, md the Shaw, entering the bay at different parts east of the anchorage. On approaching this bay, situated on what I considered in unexplored const, the unwonted sight of houses drew my mention, and a vessel at anchor. I soon ascertained that Messrs. Henty, from Swan River, had formed a whaling and ' arming establishment there. Thesegentlemenaccomodated me with a small supply of flour, although the supply for their , w11 establishment was nearly exhausted. Portland Bay appears to be a good anchorage in all winds, - ave those from the S. S. E. It is much better sheltered rom the prevailing winds of the lofty promontory of Capes Bridgewater and Nelson, than any part of Port Phillip is, k which harbour I reconnoitred from Mount Macedon on he 1st inst., 1 and the position of two reefs seem favourable i the formation of a small harbour. 1 still entertained hopes of finding a gojd port on the • oast, and should have thoroughly examined it, for an object 0 desirable to the valuable and extensive territory I had • xplored ; but the almost impassable state of the ground, mil our very limited stock of provisions, confined me to the lirect line homewards from Portland Bay, by which I tra- velled completely round the Grampians, crossed all the ivers, and determined the position of the principal heights. 1 uidled much to have examined Cadong, which, according to the natives, is a large piece of water on the coast, west- ward of Cape Otway. This receives, as they said, several mall rivers which I saw flowing southward, over the plains . Vom the Australian Pyrenees, a group of very fine forest iilsof considerable height, eastward of the Grampians. From me of these I observed the eastern shore of a piece of water, ' ii the direction indicated by the natives. The country on that coast generally, is low, and almost ssvampy, but the soil is rich, and the climate being sufficiently noist, and water abundant, it appears better adapted for igriculture on uri extensive scale than any other part of New South Wales. The soil consists chiefly of decomposed trap ir limestone, these being the rocks immediately below it. The whole of the coast country eastward of Cape Nelson is of volcanic formation, as many interesting geological pheno- mena attest; amongst others, an extinct volcano ( which I tamed Mount Napier,) is not the least remarkable, having . in open crater, and being surrounded with ashes and scoiise to the distance of two miles ' around its base. From ihe fresh appearance of the lava at the summit, I thought it might have been in activity within the memory of man, • ut I could not find any allusion to fire in the aboriginal name ( Murrowun), We encountered much soft ground near Mount Napier, mil, by the time the party attained the southern extremity I of the Grampians, most of the cattle were exhausted—- one ] poor animal died in the shafts. Some weeks of repose were bsolutely necessary, and this our stock would not admit of; on the contrary, I could only hope that they would last to the end of the journey by allowing the men a very reduced [ ration. Having some spare cattle, I decided on proceeding in ulvance with a light party, and a month's provisions, leaving he rest to refresh for two weeks, with a party under Mr. [ Stapylton, whom I provided with two months' provisions, ihat he might, at the end of two weeks, follow my track at eisure, through Australia Felix. I hoped, by proceeding ' aster, to survey and reconnoitre the country at more free- dom, and also to reach the colony in time to send back a - upply of provisions to meet Mr. Stapylton on the banks of lie Hume. My route homeward, from the vicinity of the Australian Pyrenees, passed through a country of the most varied and iiscinating description. At intervals of fifty or sixty miles, ve crossed ranges of granite, through all of which I found nisses for the carts across the very lowest parts, recommit- • ing the ranges as far as possible in advance. The districts between the different ranges consisted of excellent land, hiclily covered with the Danthonia grass, and well watered. I hoped to have met with some advanced station befoie [ we reached the Murrumbidgee, but although we did not, , ve were fortunate in finding a way for the carts to this point, unobstructed by mountains or swamps. It is near the sta- ion of Mr. Thompson, a gentleman who has accommodated me with a supply of provisions, to be sent back to the other party to- morrow. We reached the station the third day after our supply had been exhausted. MILITARY SKETCH F. S. ( Napier's Remarks on Militaiy Law.) SENTRIES— Whenever anything or any place requires to lie guarded, it does not always come into the heads of com- manders to think whether some simple mechanical means of safeguard cannot be discovered; and they exclaim, " Oh, place a sentry ;" as if it were a trifle to place a sentry. General officers sometimes forget, and civil governors may not know, that each sentry demands ( besides a considerable urcrease of duty to the corporals on guard) the sacrifice of three men's sleep every night throughout the year,— that in time of peace, when garrisons are small, the necessary duties are very severe on the private soldieis, who reason thus: Here I am in the Colonies for ten or fifteen yeais ; I shall have to sit up every third or fourth night for the whole of that period ; and if a fool gets the command, and adds a few sentries, I shall not have above three nights in my bed luring the week. Now will any man tell me that the addi- lioh of a single sentry does not spread great and reasonable discontent through the whole garrison, unless there be an evident necesity for such an increase of discomfort ? Besides, where ma'aria prevails, this hardship is injurious to the health of the soldiers; for in hot climates men are more ex- nosed to ' lloess in the night than in the day. No man who Ins studied the health of the soldiers in colonial garrisons, will dispute this fact. It would be useful if the number of nights in bed, which are allowed to the soldier in each co- ony and at hon e, were ieported in a monthly return to lead quartets; and the abuse of placing sentries unneces- sarily would then l> e seen, and in some measure correct! d. \ t present it is very great; for instance, in the Ionian s'ands, there are some filty or sixty British soldiers kept \ lt of bed all the year round, to give'sentries at the doors of Greek Senators and Regents. MILITARY SOI. ITAHY CONFINEMENT.— Unless imprison- ment, and more especially solitary confinement, he perfectly executed and instantly applied after the commission of crime, it is idle to expect good effects. If a man is sentenced to solitary confinement, and that a comrade can hold converse with him through the door, the letter of his sentence is as- suredly executed, he is alone in his cell as tar i s his body is concerned, but his mind is not alone : a man can be pel f.- ctly amused without seeing or touching his companion; the spirit of the sentence remains in such cases unfulfilled ; one might as well say that Pyramus and Thisbe were in solitaiy confinement! Even the' " hole in the wall" acts its part in military life ; lor I rarely knew a black- hole door that bad not a hole qnickly bored in it. through which, with a quill and a bladder, as much gin could be compassionately intro- ] duced by some comradeor tender " Tliisby," as would re- concile the involuntary heimit to his fate, and furnish him with spirits to encounter any sentence. These spiritual perforations are neatly stuffed with coloured bread, so as to give no offence to the eye of a commanding officer ; and to furnish the fullest excuse to the non- commissioned officer of the guard not to see them, unless when he has a spite at the prisoner, to indulge in which he is willing to lisk the ill- will of the whole regiment by a discovery. HABITS OF OBEDIENCE Soldiers must obey in all tilings. They may and do laugh at foolish orders, but they neverthe- less obey; not beccause they are blindly obedient, but be- cause they know that to disobey is to break the backbone of their profession. To regularity of habit the soldier is trained: he is taught the necessity of it in principle, and is obliged to practise it; the first lesson he learns is to be ex act in waiting upon time; his hours of going to bed, of rising, of going to meals, of going to parades, all are fixed, and he is punished if he neglects to attend to thetn with precision, Irs person, lis arms, his room, must all be cleaned, and they are examined at least twice a day in every well- commanded regiment. Now we know that ifarms are cleaned once a month, and carefully put by, they would re- main perfectly serviceable; and that men and rooms, if ex- amined once a day, or once in two or three days, would be sufficiently watched to secure cleanliness; hut then habits would he lost. The irksomeness of having a musket con stantly in the hand, and of ever watching time, would gra- dually increase, and encroach upon the system of obedience; and the greater the distance between the hours when obe- dience is demanded, the greater number of instances of dis- obedience would occur, till finally disobedience would be- come the rule, obedience the exception; and a man's body being equally dependant upon habit with his mind, would soon feel the musket to he no longer its companion, but its torment; and a shadow falls upon the glory of an army when soldiers grow tired of their arms. Thus, by frequent and close attention to the ordinary proceedings of a camp or garrison, exact obedience becomes a habit; and men ac- customed to obey in trifles, rarely disobey in matters of im- portance. So are soldiers trained for war. THE COLOURS. — Great, then, is the value of the standard: it is a telegraph in the centre of the battle to speak the changes of the day to tile wings. Its importance has, therefore, been immense in all ages, among all nations, and in all kinds of war: " Defend the colours! form upon the colours/" is the first cry and first thought of a soldier when any mischance of battle has produced disorder ; then do cries, shouts, firing, blows, and all the tumultof the combat, thicken round the standard ; it contains the honour of the bmd, and the brave press rc- uiul its bearer! An instance of the attachment shown by our troops to their standards oc- curred after the battle of Corunna. It was night. The regimental colour of the 50th ( General Napier's own regi- ment; was missing; a cry arose that it had been lost; the soldiers were furious; the present Sir Harry Fane, with a loud and angry voice called out, " No, no ! the 50tlr cannot have lost their colours!" They were not lost. Two gallant ensigns, Stewart a Scotchman and Moore an Irishman, had been slain, as they bore the banners charging through the village of El Vina: two colour sergeants, whose names I cannot recollect, seizing the prostrate colours, bravely con- tinued the charge, carrying them through the battle. When the fight was done, an officer received one of these stand- ards from the sergeant: it was now dark, and he allowed his alarm for the safety of the colours to overpower his better judgment; he forgot both their use and their honour, and had gone to the rear, intending to embark with them, though the regiment was still in its position. The stray colour was found, and the soldiers were pacified; but / his officer never could remove the feeling which his well- meaning but ill- judged caution had produced against him. This anecdote shows the sentiments entertained by British troops for their colours; sentiments pervading all ranks, from the general to the drummer. Sir Henry Fane's words, thus loudly ex- pressed, rendered liirn " a favourite with the fiftieth regiment ever after. » * » * When colours are worn out, they ought not to be thrown away. I understand that the 50, h, having been lately made a royal regiment, received a blue standard, and the silk of the old colours was burned with much ceremony. The wood of the spear was made into a snuff box; and its lid encloses the ashes of that black banner which had so often waved amidst the white curling smoke of the battle. On this box are engraved the names of those who fell bearing the colours in combat. RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH OBEDIENCE.— From martinets, from the amateurs of " grand reviews," from God knows who, from what the soldiers call •' all sorts," I have heard of the superiority of Austrian, Prussian, and Russian discipline and perfect obedience, compared to that of our soldiers. I dare swear that the reader, if he has attended tile humbug- ging ( I crave pardon for using so vulgar an expression) at " Kalish," will tell me of " Russian obedience." I will answer by telling him a story; and it may, perhaps, draw the attention of those gentlemen who talk of a British army as a mass ofbrute force," and speak of what they term our " blind obedience," in a somewhat crude and contemptuous manner, I may, perhaps, say displaying ignorance ; for mili- tary obedience is the result of reflection, not of blindness, and is invariably found to be most perfect among the most civilised nations. To proceed with my story: when the late Duke of York was on the Continent, in the early part of the war, he had some of these obedient Russians with him. A redoubt was to be carried by storm, and he ordered three Russian regiments to make the attack. They marched up steadily under a heavy fire, found a deep ditch with pali- sades in it: the Russians halted, looked at the obstacles for a few seconds, and then retired. A seeorid and a third time these Scythian automatons were marched up to the attack ; and again, and a third time, they retired with great loss, brave, stupid, and " blindly obedient." At last, that ever- glorious soldier, Sir Ilalph Abercrombie, provoked at their failure, said to tile Duke of York, " If your Royal Highness will allow me to send three light infantry com- panies of Englishmen, I will answer for the redoubt being taken in ten minutes." The Duke consented. The Eng- lishmen advanced at a rapid pace, ran up to the edge of the ditch, halted an instant, to contemplate the unexpected de- fences below, and then intrepidly leaped down; away went the palisades with a crash, while, cheered by their own animating shouts, the victors sprang upon the parapet, and the redoubt was taken ! FLOGGING The punishment of flogging is not only an unequal infliction, for the above reasons— namely, that for siui. ii. ar offences it is applied, by unequal forces, in unequal quantities, and by unequal wills, to unequal powers of en durance,— but also because the first punishment is the most cruel. A man who has been frequently flogged, feels it less every time— his back gets callous: therefore, he is less punished in proportion as lie deserves it more; and being thus hardened, both morally and physically, he sometimes makes a joke of his punishment. I have often heard men, while receiving the lash, set the whole regiment laughing; others blaspheme; others, acain, bear their agonies with a fortitude which elicits the admiration of the spectators. All this does harm to the minds of men, and especially of young men. The habit of seeing a man tortured, of seeing his blood spring, his convulsion, and writhings of agony, and hearing his hoirible shrieks, is, I repeat, mischievous to the human heart, and hardens it against the nobler feelings. * * * * I have seen many hundreds of men flogged, and have always observed, that when the skin is thoroughly cut up, or flayed off, the great pain subsides. Men are frequently convulsed and screaming during the time they receive from one lash to three hundred lashes, and then they bear the remainder, even to eight hundred or a thousand lashes, without a groan ; they wiil often lie as if without life, and the drummers appear to be flogging a lump of dead, raw flesh. Now, I have frequently observed that, in ' liese cases, the faces of the spectators assumed a look oi disgust; there was always a low whispering sound, scarcely audible, issuing from the apparently stern and silent ranks; a sound arising Irom lips that spoke not ; but that sound was produced by hearts that felt deeply : and this, too, when the soldiers believed in its justice, and approved ot the punish* ment; when the willing drummers had, up to that moment, laid on the lash with great asperity. The low and scarcely audible sound spoke aloud to n. y mind that the punishment had become excessive— that the culprit had disappeared and the martyr taken his place. CORINTH — Climbing over masses of masonry and by ruined walls, we at length arrived in the main streets of Corinth: here there was some little appearance of life and trade, of which the suburbs gave no promise; houses were building, and shops were opened, in some of which we recognised the handiworks of Birmingham. We asked for the khan, ( for that Turkish appellation prevails in Greece) and, on entering it, our host informed us that he had porter, — ay, genuine London porter!— this was a luxury we dreamed not of, and which our walk made doubly agreeable. Mr. Burgess, a former traveller, ( whose Itinerary 1 much regret not having known before we began ours) describes this man as a" villainous Cephaloniote." He does not state why he bestows this epithet upon him ; but the following melancholy and mysterious occurrence is not calculated to improve the reputation of his hotel. The purser of His ivjajest) ' s ship Portland, while the ship was at anchor at Calamachi, started with some brother offic ' is for a walk to Corinth over the isthmus, in the month of August last, 1836. When ascending the Acro- Corinthus, he left Ins own party- joining another to get on faster. In about an hour he de- scended, passing his former party, to whom he said, " he had seen enough," and returned to the town, where a Greek gentleman, of whom he. inquired for the hotel, conduit d him to within fifty yards of it, and there left him. This oc- curred at nine o'clock in the morning, and since that time nothing has been discovered which can give a clue to the fate ot this unfortunate gentleman, though every exertion has been niade, both by his brother officers, and the authori- ties, and inhabitants of the town. — Giffard. THE LAY^.— The law is that which puts a difference be- twixt good and evil, betwixt just and unjust. If you take away the law, all things will fall into a confusion. Every man will become a law to himself, which, in the depraved condition of human nature, must needs produce many great enormities. Lust will become a law, and envy will become a law; covetousness and ambition will become laws; and what dictates, what decisions such laws will produce, may easily be discerned in the late government of IrelaiK!.— Pym. DELPHI. — The Castalian spring itself appears in the un- poetical shape of a parallelogram, which has been obviously iormed for the purpose of a bath, ( a very shallow one) in which, as we read, the Pythia performed her ablutions be- fore she ascended the sacred tripod. We, according to cus- tom, drank of the Castalian stream, but we understand that the benefit of its inspiration depends on the posture in which the specific is taken ; if the votary stoop his lips to the fountain, the effect is one thing; if he scoop up the sacred water in his hand, it is quite another. I do not recollect which mode is supposed to confer the inspiration, but, as I stooped to drink, I fear my readers will have discovered that this was not the favourable attitude. I think one of the tragedians, though I have not been able to discover the pas- sage, mentions that ( Edipus, when he came to consult the oracle, sat by the fountain, under the shade of a plane tree; and if my recollection of this incident be correct, it is singular that there is, close to the fountain, the stump of a plane tree, now in the very last stage of decay, and, no doubt, of great antiquity; not, of course, that which the poets de- scribed, but a tree may have been propagated here success- ively on the spot, and cherished for the sake of old traditions. — Giffard. BERNADOTTE— Of Bernadotte, all speak with respect: nothing, it is said, can he better, kinder, or more judicious than his conduct towards his relations here. He does not invite them to Stockholm, or countenance their unenvited approaches: he does not push his subjects out of old posts to make room for them ; and has not yet thought of turning a prefecture into a principality for their aggrandizement. But he occupies himself about their welfare, even to that of his distant and obscure petits cousins, aiding, encouraging, taking a personal and minute interest in their education, from the conviction that, as he himself expresses it, in the present age the only powerful protection is personal merit ; and all this with such activity of heart and utter absence of ostentation, and above all so much good sense— the moral faculty the soonest overset by sudden elevation— that one cannot hear of it without a feeling of respect. — Sketches of the Pyrenees. THE LOOK OUT.— At the gray of the morning, after the attempt to seize the smugglers had been defeated by the in- strumentality of Snarieyyou, upon the top of the immense fragment of the rock which we have described as lying upon the sea- edge of the platform, was perched a fair, slight- made little girl, of about twelve years of age. She was simply clad in a short worsted petticoat, and boddice of a dark colour; her head was bare, and her hair fluttered with the breeze; her small feet, notwithstanding the severity of the weather, were also naked; and her short petticoat disco- vered her legs half way up to the knee. She stood there, within a few inches of the precipice below, carelessly sur- veying the waves as they dashed over the rocks, for she was waiting until the light would enable her to see further on the horizon. By those who might have leaned over the ridge above, as well as by those who sailed below, she might have been taken, had she been seen to move, for some sea- bird reposing after a flight, so small was her frame in juxta- position with the wildness and majesty of nature which surrounded her on every side. Accustomed from infancy to her mode of life, and this unusual domicile, her eye quailed not, nor did her heart beat quicker, as she looked down into the abyss below, or turned her eyes up to the beetling mass of rock which appeared, each moment, ready to fall down and overwhelm her. She passed her hand across her temples to throw back the hair which the wind had blown over her eyes, and again scanned the distance as the sun's light increased, and the fog gradually cleared away. " A sharp look out, Lilly, dear; you've the best eyes among us, and we must have a clue irom whence last night's surprise proceeded." " lean see nothing yet, mother; hut the fog is driving hack fast." " It's but a cheerless night your poor father had, to pull twice across the channel, and find him- self just where he was. God speed them, and may they be safe in port again by this time!" " I say so too, mother, and amen." " D'ye see nothing, child ?" " Nothing, dear mother; but it clears up fast to the eastward, and the sun is bursting out of the bank, and I think I see something under the sun." " Watch well, Lilly," replied the woman, who was throwing more wood on the fire. " I see a vessel, mo- ther: it is a sloop beating to the eastward." " A coaster, child?" " No, mother, I think not. No, it is no coaster— it is that king's vessel, I think : but the glare of the sun is too great; when he rises higher I shall make it out better." Which do yon mean, the king's cutter on the station— the Yungfrau ?" " Yes, mother," replied Lilly, " it is. I'm sure it is the Yungfrau." " Then it is from her that the boats came last night. She must have received some infor- mation. There must be treachery somewhere; but we'll soon find it out." It may appear singular that Lilly could speak so positively as to a vessel at a great distance; but it must be remembered that she had been brought up to it all her life. It was her profession, and she had lived wholly with seamen and seamen's wives, which will account for her technical language being so correct. What Lilly said was true; it was the Yungfrau, which was beating up to regain her port, and, having to stem a strong ebb- tide during the night, had not made very great progress. " There ere three other vessels in the offing," said Lilly, looking round ; " aship and two brigs, both going down channel;" and us she said this the little thing dropped lightly from rock to rock- till she stood by her mother, and commenced rubbing her hands before the now blazing lire— Captain Marryat. AN ORATOR.—" Let's bear Smallbones,— let's hear Small- bones !" exclaimed some of the men. Whereupon they all collected round the lad, who addressed the crew as follows. His audience, at first, crowded up close to him, but Small- bones, who could not talk without his arms, which were about as long and thin as a Pongo's are ill proportion to his body, flapped and flapped as he discoursed, until he had cleared a little ring, and when in the height of his energy he threw them about like the arms of a windmill, every one kept at a respectable distance. " Well, now, I considers this, if so be as how the dog be a devil and not a dog, I sees no reason for to come for to go for to be afraid ; for ar'n't we all true Christians, and don't we all fear God and honor the King? I sartainly myself does consider that tiiat ere dog could not a have dimmed into this here vessel by any manner of means natural not by no means, ' cause it's very clear, that a dog, if so be as he be a dog, can't do no more than other dogs can; and if be can do more than heither dog or man can, than he must be the devil, and not a dog— and so he is— that's sartin. But if so be as he is the devil, 1 say again, I don't care, ' cause I sees exactly how it is,— lie be a devil, but he be only a sea- devil and not a shore- devil, and I'll tell you for why. Didn't he come on board some how no how in a gale of wind when he was called for? Didn't I sew him up in a bread- bag, and didn't he come back just as nothing had happened; and didn't the corpon- l launch him into the surge over the taffrail, and he comes back just as if nothing had happened? Well, then, one tiling is clear, that his power be on the water, and no water will drown that ere imp, so its no use trying no more in that way, for he be a sea- devil. But I thinks this; he goes on shore and he comes back with one of his impish eyes nocked out clean by somebody or another, some how or another, and, therefore, I argues that he have no power on shore not by no means; for if you can knock his eye out, you can knock his soul out of his body, by only knocking a little more to the purpose. Who ever heard of any one knocking out the devil's eye, or injuring him in anyway? No; because he have power by sea and by land ; but this here he only a water devil, and he may be killed on dry land. Now, that's just my opinion, and as soon as I get's him on shore, 1 means to try what I can do. I don't fear him, nor his master, nor any thing else, ' cause I'm a Christian, and was baptized Peter."— Captain Marryat. WOMAN " First, all things which God has made are good ; women, therefore, being his creatures, to calumniate them is to blaspheme one of his works. Secondly, there is no sin more hateful than ingratitude; and it is being un- grateful to the Virgin, if we do not honour all women for her sake. Thirdly, it is an act of cowardice for man who is strong, to offend woman who is weak. Fourthly, the man who speaks ill of woman brings dishonour upon himself, in- asmuch as every man is of woman born. Fifthly, such evil speaking is, for the last- mentioned reason, a breach of the fifth commandment. Sixthly, it is an obligation upon every noble man to employ himself virtuously both in word and deed; and lie who speaks evil incurs the danger of infamy. Seventhly, because all knights are bound bv their order to show respect and honour to all womankind. Eighthly, such manner of speech brings the honour of others in ques- tion. Ninthly, and principally, it endangers the soul of the evil speaker. Tenthly, it occasions enmities, and the fatal consequences resulting therefrom. Eleventhly, husbands, by such speeches, inay be led to suspect their wives, to use them ill, to desert them, and; petadventure, to make away with them. Twelfthly, a man thereby obtains the character of being a slanderer. Thirteenthly, lie is in jeop in y with those who may think themselves bound to vindicate a lady's reputation, or revenge the wrong which has been done to it. Fourteenthly, to speak ill of women is a sin, because of the beautv which distinquishes their sex, which beauty is so admirable that there is more to praise in one woman than there can lie to condemn in all. Fitteenthly, it is a sin, be- cause alt the benefactors of mankind have been born of women, and, therefore, we are obliged to women for alltlie good that has ever been done in the world." Such are the fifteen reasons which Di, go de San Pedro excogitated to show that it is wrong for men to speak ill of women ; and the twenty reasons which he lias superinduced to prove hat they are hound to speak well of thetn, are equally co- em and hot less curious. — Southey. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. THE INQUEST IN DERITEND. SIR,— I shall feel obliged by your correcting an error which appears in your Journal of Saturday, the 17th instant, in the report of an inquest on the body of a child found in Heath Mill- lane. The paragraph alluded to is—" But owing to the decomposed state in which it was, he was unable to say whether it had been born dead or alive." I beg to say my evidence was that—" No air had everpassed through the lungs." Consequently the child was still- born. I am, sir, yours very respectfully, AV. KIMBERLEY. High- street, 30th June, 1837. MUNTZ v. ARMFIELD. Sir,— In your notice of the proceedings in the case of the King v. Muntz, you have stated that Mr. Hill was not concerned in the case of Muntz v. Armfield, and had no right to consent to a postponement of that case. I think it right, in justice to Mr. Hill, to inform you, that the statement referred to is erroneous, and that he bad authority to consent to the suspension of pro- ceedings in the action. I can readily account for your mistake, as, owing- to the illness of my agent ( Mr. Faulkner) when Mr. Muntz was in town, that gentle- man, on whose authority I understand your statement was made, was not apprised of the fact that Mr. Hill bad been retained. I am your obedient servant, WILLIAM WILLS. Birmingham, 22d June, 1837. COUNTRY MARKETS, & c. BIRMINGHAM MARKET. Corn Market, June 22. A moderate supply of Wheat, with a very dull sale, at a reduction of 3d. to 4d. per bushel.— Barley, both malting and grinding, offering on loiver terms with few buyers.— Cats in slack demand at 6d. to ] 8. per quarter lees money Beans and Peas with difficulty find buyers at a trifle reduction in price. WHEAT- perSVlbs. s. d. s. d. Old 7 0- 7 6 New 6 8— 7 4 Irish 0 0 — 0 0 BARLEY— per Imp. Quarter. For Malting 30 0 — 33 0 ForGrinding, per49lbs 3 0 — 3 4 M A '— per Imperial Bushel. Old and new OATS— per 39 « s. Old New Irish 8 9 — 79 3 3 — 36 3 ( I — 3 6 2 6 — 3 3 BEANS— per bag, 10 score gross. s. d. s. ft. Old 17 0— 18 3 New 15 6— 16 6 PEAS— per bag of 3 Bush. Imp. FOR BOILING. White Hi 6 — 17 6 Grey 16 0 — 16 6 FOR GRINDING. per bag of 10 score 15 6 — 16 0 White 16 0 — 16 6 FI. OUK— jDfrsaclc of'ASms. net. Fine 44 0 — 45 II Seconds 39 0 — 41 € The following is the statement in Messrs. Stnrge's circular :— ' PRESENT PRICES OF GRAIN. Birmingham, June 22, 1837. s. d. WHEAT, English, White, per bushel of 621b. 7 0 English, Red 6 in Old — 6 9 Irish, White . none 0 0 Red 5 0 Old do 5 6 Foreign ...—.. 6 6 BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. Quarter —. 30 0 Irish ,— . nominal 27 0 Grinding, per Quarter of 3921bs. 24 0 OATS, English, White, per Imperial Quarter 24 0 Welsh, Black and White, per 312lbs 24 6 Irish, ( weighing 41 to 42lbs.) do. 26 0 ( 37 to 391 bs.) do. 24 0 Black do. 24 0 BEANS, English, Old, per bushel of Palhs. 5 10 Iriah.~-.~~* — —. „ none 0 0 Foreign .. . .. 5 6 PEAS, Rolling, per Imp. Quarter nominal 46 U Grinding, per Quarter ol 3!) 21l> s . 32 6 FLOUR, English, Fine, per Sack of2801bs — 44 0 Seconds 41 0 to d. 7 6 .. 7 3 .. 7 4 .. 7 3 .. 0 ' « .. 6 4 .. 5 9 .. 7 4 .. 32 6 .. 30 0 .. 27 0 .. 3- 2 0 .. 26 0 .. 28 6 .. 26 0 .. 26 0 .. 6 4 .. 5 8 .. 0 .. 6 .. 56 .. 34 .. 48 .. 44 Gloucester, June 17, 1837. WHEAT, English, White, per Imp. Bushel Old ... . English, Red Irish, White, per 601bs nominal Red do Old . Foreign s. d. 7 0 to 7 0.. 7 I .. s. d. 7 6 BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. Quarter 30 Irish ...... nominal 28 Grinding, per Quarter of 3921bs. 22 OATS, English, White, per Imp. Quarter 22 Welsh, Black and White . 22 Irish ( weighing 41 to42lbs); per Qr. of312lba. 24 ( 37 to 391bs.) — 24 Black. BEANS, English, Old, per Imp. Bushel New — 23 6 6 0 4 9 Irish ~*~~~~. nominal. 5 0 Foreign 5 0 PEAS, Boiling, per Imp. Quarter nominal 46 0 Grinding, per Quarter of 3921bs. 34 6 FLOUR, English, Fine, per sack of2S01bs 45 0 . 7 6 . 7 8 . 7 0 . 6 9 . 6 6 . 7 9 . 33 0 . 29 0 . 25 0 . 32 0 . 24 . 27 . 25 . 24 .. 5 ,. 5 .. 6 .. 54 .. 37 .. 48 .. 44 Wheat . Barley Oats „. Beans~ Peas BIRMINGHAM WEEKLY AVERAGE. Qrs. Bush. .4- 25 0 .— 0 0 0 0 0 452 0 0 s. d. 57 3 0 0 25 6 0 0 0 0 GLOUCESTER WEEKLY AVERAGE. Qrs. Bush. s. d. Wheat--. 452 4 .—.—. 55 10 Beans ..... 40 0 ——. 39 4 Wheat Bariey .. Oats Peas Beans WORCESTER WEEKLY AVERAGE. Qrs. Bush. s. d, 300 0 28 4 30 0 43 0 Birmingham, June 22, 1837. At Gloucester market on Saturday Wheat firmly supported the prices of the previous iveek ; at Worcester, a reduction of Is. to 2s. per quarter was in some instances submitted to. Nothing worth notice doingin Malting or Grinding Barley. Oats in limited request, at former prices. • Beans unaltered ill value. During the present week the weather having been favourable for the growing crops, very littte has been passing in the trade, but Corn of all kinds is- heid for last market day's currency, at which the sales made have been effected. AT Tins PAY'S MARKET we had a fair supply of Wheat, and the few sales made were at a reduction ol 2s. to 3s. per quarter, with which holders would not generally comply. In Malting Barley nothing doing. For Grinding there was some enquiry, but purchasers were unwilling to buy except at lower rates. Oats in limited request, and a decline of 6d. to Is. per quarter sub- mitted to. Beans held for former rates. „ IMPORTS INTO GLOUCESTER From the 14 th to the 21* if inst. Wheat. Oats. Barley. Beans. Qrs Qrs Qrs Qrs Coastwise.. Qrs 264 Qrs Qrs Qrs Foreign Qrs Qrs Qrs Qrs Peas. Flour. Malt. Vetches. Qrs Sucks Qrs Qrs Coastwise.. Qrs Sacks Qrs Qrs Foreign Qrs Sacks Qrs Qrs WARWICK, SATURDAY, JUNE 17.— Wheat, per bag, old Os Od to 0s Od ; new, 20s Od to 22s Od ; Barley per quarter, 0s Od to Os Od ; new, 27s Od to 33s Od ; Oats. 28s Od to 33s Od; New, 26s Od to 3ts0d; Peas, per bag, 18s Od to I9s Od j Banns, 16s 5d to 17s 6d J new, 15s Od to Ifis 6d; Vetches, Os Od to Os 0( 1; Malt, 60s Od to 64s Od per quarter. HEREFORD, JUNE 17.— Wheat, per bushel Imperial measure, 7s 2d to 7s 4d. Ditto, SOlbB. per bushel, 0s Od to Oe Od. Bariey, 3s 6d to Os Od. Beans, 5s 6d to 6s Od. Peas, 5s Gd to 6s Od Vetches, Os Od to 0s Od. Oats, 4s Od to 4s 3d. CHELTENHAM, JUNE 15.— New Wheat, 7s Od to 7s 4d per bushel Old Wheat, 7s 3d to 7s 6d. Barley, 3s 6d to 4s Od. Oats, 3s 6 to 4s 3d. Beans, 5s 6( 1 to 6s 6d. M eMi Hop INTELLIGENCE.— Worcester, June 21 The arcounts fron the plantations speak generally of an attack of fly, but as the bine : everywhere looking healthy and growing very fast, it has given n animation to the trade, though prices are firm at last week's quota- tion. Twenty- six pockets were weighed on market day, an I foil only during the week. The duty has been done at 20, WW. Cur rency : New Hops, 70s. to 95s.; yearlings, 65s. to 8- ls. Borough, Monday, June 19— The advices from the plantation' this morning speak of a great Increase of fly on the bines; th. market is in consequence firm, at a slight advance. The old'dut- has fallen to 150,0001. Present Prices, per cwt. : East Kent Pockets, tine, £ 4 10s. to £ b 5s. and £ 7; bags, ditto, £ 4 4s to £ 4 15s. and £ 5 18s.; Mid Kent Pockets, £ 4 2s. to £ 4 I and £ 6 68.; 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 £ 4 123.; Yearlings, £ 2 10s. to £ 3 3s. and £ 4 4s • Ol Olds, £ 1 Is. to £ 1 10s. and £ 2 2?. GLOUCESTER SHIP NEWS, From June 15 to June 22. IMPORTS: TI16 Wansbeck, from Odessa, with 399 casks of tallov 146 bales of wool, and 1706 oak pipe staves, consigned to Fox, Son- and Co. ; 100 bags of linseed, J. nnd C. Sturgei- Niiples Packet, I.- cata, 1000 enntars of brimstone, Chance nnd Co.; 1850 rantars o: brimstone, H. Soutlian and Son— Hebe, Cadiz, 258 casks of win, , Johnsons and Tasker— Blucher, Wexford, 1125 barrels of oats, j and C. Sturge— Flora, Wexford, 597 barrels of oats, to order Mercury, Wexford, 1319 barrels of oats, J. and C. Sturge- Unio Kilrush, 1473 barrels of oats, J. nnd C. Sturge— Ocean, Watertor 500 barrels of oats. Wait, James, and Co.— Edwin, Ballyshnnnoiv, ' tons of oats, to order— Trader, Blackpool, 2118 bushels of onts', . and C. Sturge— John Booth, Plymouth, 99 cases of lemons and 1 hh of wine, Fox, Sons, nnd Co.; 50 casks of cement, Gopsill Brown ; I casks of cement, J. R. Heane— Providence, Bristol, 70 tons of st. nr to order— St. Austle Packet, Fowey, 50 tons of stone nnd ( In., Gopsill Brown— Lily, Bangor, 53 tons of slates, John Forster- Iii hernia, Port Madoe, 92 tons of slates, Horsey- Brothers, Milfur, i 41 tons of coals, J. Ward— Catherine, Milfonl, 36 tons of coals, .1 Ward- Sarah, Swansea, 30 tons of coals, H. Southan and Sou- Newport Trader, Newport, general cargo, H. Southan and Son- Good Intention, Barnstable, 12 lace machines, George Brown. Severn, Bridgwater, general cargo, Stuckey nnd Co.- Cygnet Bridgwater, general cargo, Stuckey and Co. EXPORTS: The Barin, for Wybnrg, with 119 tons of salt, fro Gibbs, Bright, and Co.- Speculator, Dublin, 49} tons of barli Thomas Jones- Henry, Whitby, 70 tons of salt, Fox, Sons, and C, - Sisters, Kidwelly, 16J tons of salt, Gopsill Brown- Lucy Ent Leith, 28} tons of glue pieces, Thomas Slatter— Mount's Hay, Pei zance, 53 tons of salt, H. Southan and Son— Newport Trader, New. port, 5J tons of soap, 3} tons of ironmongery, 5 tens of crates, nnd 7 tons of sundries, II. Southan and Son. TOWN INFIRMARY, JUNE 23,— Surgeon of the week, M. Ryland. Patients admitted, 6; discharged, 15 J in the hon> 141; Out- patients visited and in attendance, 675. miiwifer cases, 3. GENERAL HOSPITAL, JUNE 23 Physician and Surgeon of th Patients of the week, Dr. Male and Mr. Vnux. Visitor Mr. E. T Moore and Mr. C. Shaw. In- patients admitted, 33 out, 150. In- patients discharged, 44; out, 79. Remaining in th house, 133. Bi RMINGHAM SAVINGS' B AN IC.—- Rlont/ ily Report.— A mount ROOEIVEU from the 20tl> of May to the 20th of June, in 4( 57 deposit- £ 2,351 2s. 8d. Amount repaid from ditto to ditto, in 338 sum £ 4,553 8s. lid. Amount invested in the Bank of Ens- land £ 114,463 78. 6d. New accounts opened this mouth, 87. Numbi of accounts now open, 6,220. STATE OF THE WORKHOUSE UP TO JUNE 20. In the House Admitted since .... Born in the House Dischgd, absconded, and dead* ... Total of each . Men. Wo- INFANTS men. Hoys. Girls. Male. Ft'in. Tots 192 197 15 20 IB 27 2( i 18 7 * 7 tl 218 • 215 20 27 23 34 5lj 19 15 4 4 I 12 5 199 200 16 23 18 22 47 Number of Cases relieved last week 3_ 3i NumberofChildren in the Asylum ' 24, * Of whom 2 men and 2 female infants died. METEOROLOGICAL DIARY. FURNISHED BY Mil. WOLLEIl, E DGilASTON- STItEET. Barometer at noon. Ex. treme during night. Ther- mome- ter 8 morn. Extreme heat during day. Ther- mome- ter at noon. State nt Wind at noon. Hcmar at noon. Juue 17 29 60 51 0 64 0 7<? 0 62 0 SW Rain 18 29 65 55 0 61 ( i 70 0 64 0 \ V Fair 19 29 65 54 0 ( 14 0 72 11 62 n SW Fair 20 29 70 55 0 fi.) II 711 0 fid n w Rain 21 29 70 50 0 64 I) 72 0 SB 0 WbyN Fair 22 29 75 48 n 6'.< 0 74 0 62 0 W Fail- 23 29 90 55 o 66 0 76 0 68 0 E Fair BIRTH. At Brighton, the I. aily Jane Lawrence I'eel, of a | daughter. MARRIAGES. On tlie 20th inst., ut Aston Church, Mr. Tlioma- | Samuel lioyce, to Alisa Sarah . linker, both of this town. On the 24th of December, 1838, at St. I'liilip's Cliurcl. Sydney, by the Ilev. W. Cowper, by special licence, Join Ilenry Harvey, K^ q., late of the Honourable Ea* t Inriu Company's Own Service, to Mary, second daughter ol Mi Charles Docker, of Great Hampton- street, in iliis town. On the 14th inst., at St. Thomas's Church, by the Ilev William Marsh, Mr. John Booth, of Peddemoor Hall, t Mary, only daughter of the late Mr. Joseph Alsager, Patrick House, Meriden. On the 9th inst., at Bishopwearmouth, by the llev Charles Grant, L. L. B., Mr. John Perks, of wolverhain; ton, to Louisa, youngest daughter of the late John Hartk- E « q., of Smethwick, Staffordshire. On Monday last, at Sc. Martin's, Mr. Joseph Coope to Mrs. Mary Humphiiss, both of Bagot- street, in th, town. On the 17th inst., at St. George's, Mr. John Phillips, i Bridgnorth, Shropshire, to Charlotte, third daughter ( John Asprey Smith, Esq., late of Tong, in the saint county. On the 20th inst., by the Rev. John Howells, Mr. Job Woodward, of Dudley, to Maria, youngest daughter of tl; late Mr. Peter Mills, of Horseley- heatb, Tipton. On the 14th inst., at St. George's Church, Hanover square, Loudon, Edward Vansittart Neale, Esq., o son of the Ilev. Edward Neale, of Allesley Park, i this county, to Frances Sarah, eldest daughter of Jaini William Farrer, Esq., of Ingleborotigh, in the county < York, one of the Masters of His Majesty's High Court ( Chancery. DEATHS. On the 23rd inst., Mrs. Willing ton, of Hurley Hall, i. this county, in the 93rd year of her age. On the 14th inst., Lovata Harrison, aged 5 years and months, ( laughter of Mr. Joseph Harrison, of Stafford- street On Thursday lost, aged 18 months,' Catherine, daugbtei j of Mr. William Hock, of Regent- place, Harper's- liill. On the 8th inst., Mrs. Jones, aged- 75, wife of the late) Mr. Jones, of the Duke Inn, Bridgnorth. On the 28th ult., Martha, wife of Mr. Thomas Harding, I of Woodcock- street, after a long and painful illness, aged Si On Tuesday last, after a lingering illness, in the 29ii year of his age, Mr. Thomas Hall, of Hertford- street Coventry, only brother to Mr. Hall, silk- mercer, of Wei-, street, in this town. Oil the 14th ult., at Northumberland, United State^ Mrs. Little, relict of the hue Rev. Robert Little, former!-, i of this town, and sister of Mr. Pierey, of Priory- place. Edgbaston. On Friday last, in liii 85th year, Mr. John Rymer father of Mrs. Roden, of the Bowling Green Tavern, Hoi- 1 loway- head. On Saturday last, after a few hours' illness, aged 76, Mrs Rosehanna Bennet, widow of the late Mr. William llennet, I of High street. f On the 14th inst., Eleanor, only daughter of Mr. John I Underhill, of Dudley, aged 2 years and 7 months. On Monday last, at Leamington, Air. William Whateiey,! of Wellesbourne, near Warwick. On the 16th inst., at Hill Top House, West Bromwich, I aged 30, Mrs. Catherine llagnall, wife of Mr. James Bag- nail, ironmaster. On the 17th inst., at Market Drayton, Elizabeth, relic1 I ol the late John Scott, Esq., of Howland- street, Fitzroy square, London. On the 19th inst., William Frederick, youngest son o j the late Mr. Hewitt, surgeon, of this town. On the 16th inst., aged 4 years, Thomas Kempson, only I son of Mr. Sainuel Walker, of St. John's. square, in Wol verhampton. On the 19th inst., aged 56, after a long and painfn illriess, Mary, wife of John Stubbs Bedford, Esq., of tin I Stockings. On Monday last, in Clemens- street, Leamington, Mis Caroline Chetwode, daughter of Sir John Chetwode, Bart. | of Oakley Hall, Staffordshire, aged 29. Ori the 14th inst., at lledditcli^ after a IOIIR and afflictin; j illness, aged 17, John, only sou of Mr. John Parker, of ilia place. Uut : • / i , \ 8 THE B I R M I N G H A M JOUllNAL. LONDON GAZETTES. FRIDAY, JUNE 16. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. | JUNE 14.— RICHARD EL LING WORTH, Couey- street, York, bookseller. • iu. VE 16.— JOHN M'LEAN, Exeter, linen draper. BANKRUPTS. The Bankrupts to surrender at the Court of Commissioners, Basing- hall. street when not otherwise expressed.] ;~ ORGE RICHARDSON, Smith's- buildings, City- road, coach builder, June 27 and July 28. Sols. Messrs. Bruce and Smith, 2, Francis- street, Golden- square. Pet. Cr. Charles Rich, 10, Palace- row, New- road, engineer. Seal. June 14. 0 4N SOULBY and ALFRED SOULBY, Union Brewery, Lam- beth- walk, brewers, June 27 and July 28. Sol. Mr. Ogden, St. Mildred's. court, Poultry. Pet. Cr. John and William Nicholson, St. John. street, distillers. Seal. June 14. ! ENRY KTSTGSLEY, Enfield- town, Middlesex, tailor, June 27 and July 23. Sols. Messrs. Teeadale and Co., Fenchurch- street. Vet. Cr. George H. Head, Riekaby- house, Cumberland, Esq. Seal. June 1. • REDERICK LANGLEY, 11, Poultry, bill- broker, June 23 and July 28. Sol. Mr. Ivimey, 89, Chancery- lane. Pet. Cr. Joseph Connop, Dorset- street, Dorset- square, gent. Seal. June 13. S K AC BRUNT, Leek, Staffordshire, button manufacturer, June 27 and July 28. Sols. Messrs. James and Terrell, 30, Basinghall- - trert. Pet. Cr. William Spensley and Anthony Close, 28, Great Winche8ter. street, silk merchants. Seal. June 10. | VVILLIAM WALLIS, 76, Connaught- terrace, Edgeware- road, lodging house keeper, June 23 and July 28. Sol. Mr. Garrard, 13, Suffolk- street, Pall- mall East. Pet. Cr. Joseph Key, 18, Lower Brook- street, Grovenor- square, upholsterer. Seal. June 15. ODWIN HILLMAN, 55, Parliament- street, carver and gilder, June 20 and July ' J8. Sol. Mr. Crossfield, 91, Whitechapel- road. Pet. Cr. William Blandford and Thomas Willett, 29, Bouverie- street, carver arid gilder. Seal. June 9. JAMES WEBB, Bath, tailor, June 27 and July 28, at the offices of Messrs. Batchellor and Co., 1, Vineyards, Bath. Sols. Messrs. Arlington and Co., Bedfoid- row, London ; and Messrs. Batchellor and Co., Bath. Pet. Cr. Sarah Webb, Bath, and Mary Parsons, wife ot James Parsons, Bradford, Yoikshire, gent., as executrix of George Webb, late of Coldaston, Gloucestershire, mealman, deceased. Seal. June 12. AMES TREtfHOLM, Darlington, Durham, common brewer, June 23 and July 28, at the house of Mr. Brodie, innkeeper, Dar- lington. Sols. Messrs. Tilsons and Co., 29, Coleman- stieet, Lou. don; and Mr. Allison, Darlington. Pet. Cr. Bright Wass, Cleasby, Yorkshire, gent. Seal. May 30. OHN SHAYLE DAVIES, Monmouth, ironmonger, July 3 and 28, at the King's Head Inn, Monmouth. Sols. Messrs. Perkins and Frampton, Gray's. inn- square, London; Mr. Smith, Bristol; and . Messrs. Thomas and Joseph Edwards, Ross, Herefordshire. Pet. Cr. James Silvanus Fortunatus Brown Bromage and James Prosser, Alonmouth, bankers. Seal. June 6. l'HOMAS SYERS, Clayton- 6quare, Liverpool, tailor, June 29 and July 28, at the Clarendon- rooms, Liverpool. Sols. Mr. Dean, Essex- street, Strand, London; and Mr. Houghton, Chatham- buildings, Liverpool. Pet. Cr. John Taylor, Liverpool, whole- sale grocer. Seal. June 9. / AMES BATTIN, Birmingham, dealer and chapman, June 21 and July 28, at Radenhurst's New Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Sols. Messrs. Norton and Chaplin, 3, Gray's- inn. square, Loudon ; and Messrs. Stubbs and Rollings, Birmingham, Birmingham. Pet. Cr. Robert Gibbs, Birmingham, corn merchant. Seal. June 9. | SAMUEL LIVINGSTON, Heaton Norris, Lancashire, provison dealer, July 1 and 28, at the Commissioners'- rooras, Manchester. Sols. Mr. Edward Waller Foulkes, Manchester; and Messrs. Walmsley and Co., Chancery- lane, Loudon, Pet. Cr. James Barber, Manchester, draper. Seal. May 18. RICHARD WALKER, Birmingham, metallic gun- wadding manu- facturer, June 24 and July 28, at Radenhurst's Royal Hotel, Bir- mingham. Sols. Mr. Henry Smythies, Birmingham ; and Messrs. Millie and Co., Inner Temple, London. Pet. Cr. William Malone, Birmingham, tailor. Seal. June 10. LEONARD ALBIN the younger, Liverpool, wine and spirit mer- chant, June 29 and July 28, at the Clarendon- rooms, Liverpool. Sols. Messrs. Blackstock and Co., 1, Paper- buildings, Temple, London; and Mr. Robert Grace, Liverpool. Pet. Cr. Leonard Albin, sen., Spalding, gent. Seal. June 3. tiOMAS BROWN and JAMES BROWN, Leeds, iron manufac- turers, June 20 and July 28, at the Court- house, Leeds. Sols. Messrs. Makinson and Sanders, Middle Temple, London j and Mr. Thomas Francis Foden, Leeds. Pet. Cr. Thomas Greenwood Clayton, Henry Leah, Thomas Marshall, Richard Clay, and Joseph Marshall, Bierley, Yorkshire, iron masters. Seal. June 8. iOHN TAYLOR MAJOR and SAMUEL MAJOR, Poole, up- holsterers, June 26 and July 28, at the Loudon Tavern, Poole. So/ s. Messrs. Durant and Welch, Poole ; and Mr. John Elliott Fox, 40, Fiusbury- circus, London. Pet. Cr. Henry Harris, sen. and jun., Poole, builders. Seal. May 30. THOMAS HARVEY GOBLE, Worthing, Sussex, coal merchant, July 10 and 28, at the Town- hall, Worthing. Sols. Mr. William Tribe, Worthing; and Messrs. Hillier and Co., 6, Raymond's- buildings, G ay's- iun, London. Pet. Cr. William Tribe, Worth- ing, geut. Seal. June 5. WILLIAM ENGLAND CARTER, Chesterfield, druggist, July 3 and 28, at the Rutland Arms Inn, Bakewell, Derbyshire. Sols. Mr. Thomas Munning Vickery, 25, Lincoln's- inn- fields, London ; and Mr. Richard Giattori, Chesterfield. Pet. Cr. Francis Frith, Sheffield, gent. Seal. May 24. EDWARD MARSDEN, Dudley- hill, Birstall, Yorkshire, worsted manufacturer, June 22, at the Court- house, Bradford, and July 28, at the Court- house, Leeds. Sols. Messrs. Risdale and Craddoc'r, 5, Gray's. inn- square, Loudon ; and Messrs. Bloo'me and Gatliffe, Leeds. Vet. Cr. John Goodman, Roundhay, Barwick- in- Helmet, Yorkshire, stuff'merchant. Seal. May 23. . VILLIAM ROCKET POOLE, Birmingham, licensed victualler, June 23 and July 28, at the New Royal Hotel, Biamingham. Sols. Messrs. Austen and Hobson, Raymond's- buildings, Grny'sJnn, London; Mr. John Edward Latimer, and Mr. John Suckling, Bir- mingham. Pet. Cr. Edward Latimer, Oxford, wine merchant. Seal. JVfay 17. ANDREW CHAMBERS, Birmingham, engraver, July 6 and 28, at Radenhurst's New Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Sols. Messrs. Alexander and Co., 60, Lincoln's- inn- tields, London; and Mr. Thomas B. Lefevre, Birmingham. Pet. Cr. James Phillips Lwcas, Birmingham, auctioneer. Seal. June 10. DIVIDENDS. John Rhodes Pidding, 12, George- yard, Lombard- street, and ? ollard- lane, Finchley, merchant, July 10— Henry Woodtborp, \ vely, Essex, grocer, July 10— Samuel Fletcher, Great Marlborough- • treet,' St. James's, Westminster, silversmith, July 1.0— John Ab- olon,' late of 12, Old Bond- street, Piccadilly, but now of Jermyn- troet, St. James'*, tailor, July 10— Abraham Harrison Dry, St. | vlartin's- lane, near Clmring- cross, pawnbroker, July 10— Thomas ' reston, Cateaton- street, warehouseman, July 8— Andrew Patter- on, Greenwich, music vender, July 8— Edmund Wilson, Lower J rhame3- street, cheesemonger, July 7— Francis Glass, Cateaton- treet, factor, July 7— William Hambidge, Witney, Oxford, butcher, uly 8, at the Crown Inn, Witney— David Davies, - Newbridge, Gla- lorganshire, general shopkeeper, July 7, at the Commissioners'- oom3, Bristol— Martin Charles Grafton, Alcester, Warwickshire, tnner, July 7— Charles Berry, now or late of Birmingham, sia. oner, July 11, at Dee's Royal Hotel, Birmingham— Joseph Russe'l • he younger, Taunton, Somersetshire, tailor, July 14, at the George ' nn, Taunton. CERTIFICATES, JULY 7. Joseph Phipson, Birmingham, button manufacturer— John Moore ' \ daras, Strand, jeweller— William Tomlinson, Ashbourne, Derby. I - hire, maltster— Adam Bailey, St. Neots, Huntingdonshire, grocer— vVilliam Finch, Worcester, scrivener— Thomas Lawes, Lombard, street, bill broker— Charles Robbins, Digbeth, Birmingham, currier, PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Charles Brown and Enoch White, 16, Holy well- row, Shoreditch, ' » at manufacturers— Benjamin Sorsbie and Malin Sorsbie, Newcastle. ' ipon. Tyne, commission merchants— Joseph Edmonds and Richard Edmonds, Vauxhall- walk, Lambeth, cape dressers— John Rae and William Rae, Liverpool, joiners— Samuel Wright and William Sugden, Halifax, Yorkshire, worsted manufacturers— Susanna Wood and James Wood, Sandwich, timber merchants— Archbald Borland md Henry Lacock Tovey, Berinondsey- street, Surrey, surgeons Ecclea Shorrock, Thomas Ainsworth, and James Shorroclc, Over Darwen. Lancashire, flax spinners ( so far as regards Thomas Ains. . vorth)— Peter Evans and Peter Evans, jun., Chester, cheese agents — George Ponaford and James G. Miller, 46, Blackfriars- road, Surrey, > utcher8—' Thomas Brown and James Broughton, Manchester, book- binders— Jnmes Lawson and John Lidgett, 277, Wapping, chain •• able dealers— Robert Selby Firmin, William Joseph Taylor, and vVilliam King, 13, Conduit- street, Bond- street, button manufac- urers ( so far as regards W. J. Taylor)— Eliza Burchatt and Mary Sheppard, 26, Edwardes- square, Kensington, schoolmistresses— Alexander Ramsay Watlin and William Challen, Great Titchfield- street, piano- forte manufacturers— John Fairrie,. John Anderson, Thomas Fairrie, Adam Fairrie, William Fairrie, and John Dennis- | on, Church- laue, Whitechapel, sugar refiners ( so far as regards John Anderson). ASSIGNMENTS. James Knight, March, grocer and draper. John Mascall, Brighton, tailor. William Webb, Tamworth, plumber, & c. William Whewell and John Bower, Lancaster, iron and brass | founders. Ann Wood, Birmingham, victualler. TUESDAY, JUNE 20. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. [ JUNE 20.— JOSHUA KIDD, Brownlow- street, Drury- lane, coach currier. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. | DAVID LONGSDON, late of Castle- street, Southwaik, furrier. BANKRUPTS. [ JOHN DEANE, Sydney- square, Comroercial- ioad, pasteboard manufacturer, June 30 and August I. Sols. Messrs. Young and Vallings, St. Mildred's- court. Pet. Cr. Alfred Knight, Basing, lane, stationer. Seal. June 17. | CHARLES STANBRIDGE, WILLIAM FORBES MARSHALL, and THOMAS ROBINSON WILLIAMS, Lamb's- buildings, Bunhill. row, manufacturers of artificial skins, June 30 and August 1. Sol. Mr. Lyle, 10, Great James- stroet, Bedford- row. Pet. Cr. Benjamin Wright, 53, Bunhill- row, St. Luke's, builder. Sjal. June 16. FRANCIS SMITH, Crawford- street, Mary. la. bonne, linen draper, June 27 and August 1. Sols. Messrs. H: W. and W. C. Sole, 68, Alderinanbury. Pet. Cr. Henry Sturt, Benjamin Bradley Ward, James Carter Sharp, aud John Ward, Wood- street, warehouse- men. Seal. June 6. EDWARD BEETHAM, Portsmouth- chambers, Linroln's- inn- fields, bill broker, June 27 aud August 1. Sol. Mr. Stovin, Ports- mouth- chambers, Lincoln^. inn. fields. Pet. Cr. George Griffith, 2, Blenheim- place, St. John's Wood- road, gent. Seal. June 16. WILLIAM SPICElt, Little St. Andrew- street, St. Giles- in. the- fields, licensed victualler, July 1 and August 1. Sols. Messrs. Martineau and Co., Carey- street. Pet. Cr. Samuel Charles Whit- bread, William Henry Whitbread, Joseph Godman, sen., Joseph Martineau, Joseph Godman, jun., John Cam Hobhouse, bart., and Richard Martineau, Chiswell- street, brewers. Seal. June 17. RICHARD RATHBONE, Moor- street, Birmingham, spade maker, July 1 and August 1, at the New Royal Hotel, New- street, Bir- mingham. Sols. Mr. Henry Charles' Chilton, 7, Chancery. lane, London; and Mr. Cornelius Benson, Birmingham. Pet. Cr. John Chandler, Birmingham, innkeeper. Seal. June 15. THOMAS HARDING, Moland- street, Birmingham, gun maker, June 30 and August 1, at the New Royal Hotel, New- street, Bir- mingham. Sols. Messrs. Austen and Hobson, Raymond's- build- ing8, Gray's- inn, London ; and Messrs. Palmer and Son, Paradise- street, Birmingham. Pet. Cr. Joseph March, Aston, near Bir- mingham, gun barrel maker. Seal. June 15. CHARLES HUMBERSTON and SAMUEL FRODSHAM, Liver- pool, commission merchants, July 12 and August I, at the Claren. don- rooms, Liverpool. Sols. Mr. William Dean, Essex- street, London; and Mr. John Peacock, Church- street, Liverpool. Pet. Cr. Thomas Roberts, Liverpool, book keeper. Seal. June 9. JOSEPH KIRK the elder and JOSEPH KIRK the younger, Leeds, tin- plate workers, June 26 and August 1, at the Court- house, Leeds. Sols. Messrs. Battye and Co.. Chancery- lane, London ; and Messrs. Raynar and Bradley, Leeds. Pet. Cr. John Parker, Kingston- upon- Hull, merchant. Seal. June 6. GEORGE BROOK, JOHN RAPER, and BENJAMIN BROOK, Leeds, ironfounders and machine makers, July 1 and August I, at the Court- house, Leeds. Sols. Messrs. Robinsou and Barlow, 26, Essex- street, Strand; and Mr. William Ward, Bank- street, Leeds. Pet. Cr. Thomas Kirby, Leeds, one of the public officers of the Leeds Banking Company. Seal. June 7. MANFORD NOtT, Reading, toy dealer, July 14 and August 1, at the George Inn, Reading. Sols. Messrs. Battye and Co., 20, Chan- cery- lane, London; and Mr. Joseph Whatley, Reading. Pet. Cr. James Lyon, Clapham Rise, Esq. Seal. June 9. GEORGE BRYANT, Winterboume, Gloucestershire, maltster, July 5 and 28, at the Commercial. rooms, Bristol. Sols. Mr. George F. Peters, Bristol; and Mr. William Jones, Crosby square, Lon- don. Pet. Cr. Samuel Luxton, Bristol, ironmonger. Seal. June 13. JOHN FREER, Syston, Leicestershire, hosier and glover, June CO and August 1, at the Castle of Leicester. Sols. Messrs. Holme and Loftus, 10, New- inn, London; and Mr. William Gregory, Leicester. Pet. Cr. Robert Beasley, Thorp Satcliville, Leicester- shire, worsted spinner. Seal. June 10. JOHN WINNINGTON, Chorlton- upon. Medlock, Manchester, druggist, July 8 and August 1, at the Commissioners'- roomB, Manchester. Sols. Mr. Thomas Cuvelje, Southampton- buildings, Chancery- lane, London; and Messrs. Rowley and Taylor, Prin- cess- street, Manchester. Pet. Cr. Betty Banks, Manchester, widow. Seal. June 13. JOHN ATKINSON, Colne, Lancashire, cotton manufacturer, July 1 and August 1, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester. Sols. Messrs. Bower and Back, Chancery- lane, London; and Mr. Bunting, Manchester. Pet. Cr. Thomas Fernley, jun., Stockport, cotton spinner. Seal. June 8. JOHN WILSON, Manchester, butcher, July 4 and August 1, at the Commissioners'. rooms, Manchester. Sols. Messrs. Hall and Co., 2, Verulam. buildings, ( Aay's- inn, London ; and Mr. William A spin all, Ridgefield, Manchester. Pet. Cr. Henry Clough, Cheetham, Lancashire, butcher and cattle dealer. Seal. June 6. WILLIAM EGGLESTON, Hulme, aud Audenshaw, Lancashire, common brewers, July 3 and August 1, at the Commissioners'- rooms,. Manchester. Sols. Messrs. Abbott and Arney, 10, Char- lotte- street, Bedford- square, London; and Mr. E. Bennett, Prin- cess- street, Manchester. Pet. Cr. David Evaus, Manchester, joiner and builder. Seal. June 14. JOHN THELWALL, Wirksworth, Derbyshire, hat manufacturer, June 30 and August 1, at the George Inn, Wirksworth. Sols. Messrs. Walter and Pemberton, 4, Symond's- inn, Chancery- lane, London; and Mr. Hodgkinson, Wirksworth. Pet. Cr. William Cadman, Wirksworth, lace agent. Seal. June 9. JOHN BURMAN, Birmingham, linen draper, July 6 and August l, at Radenhurst's New Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Sols. Messrs. Norton and Chaplin, 3, Gray's- iun- square, London ; and Messrs. Spurrier and Co., Birmingham. Pet. Cr. Edward Corah, Bir- mingham, wholesale draper. Seal. Juno 10, WILLIAM BAKER, Kidderminster, and Noble- street, London, carpet manufacturer, July 7 and August I, at the Lion Inn, Kid- derminster. Sols. Messrs. Allan and Benbow, Stone- buildings, Lincoln's- inn, London ; Mr. Hallen, Kidderfainster; and Messrs. Nicholas and Pardoe, Bewdley. Pet. Cr. Joseph Newcomb, Kid- derminster, carpet manufacturer. Seal. June 13. JOSEPH BROWN, Manchester, tobacconist, July 8 and August 1, at the Commisioners'- rooms, Manchester. Sols. Measrs. Bovver and Bacon, 46, Chancery- lane, London ; and Messrs. Owen and Gill, 27, Princess- street, Manchester. Pet. Cr. Charles Sharp. Liverpool, tobacco manufacturer. Seal. June 14. DIVIDENDS. James Justice Davi-?, Newbury, Berkshire, upholsterer, July 11 — Richard Wright, Woolwich, victualler, July 11— John Richards and Joseph Richards, 8, Morris. walk, Bridge- street, Southvvark, corn and coal measure makers, July 11— John Drayton and Charles Drayton, St. John- street, Clerkenwell, woollen drapers, July 11 — Hyacintlie Mars Rimmel, Louis Jean Baptiste Vandeau, and Pierre Joseph Gabriel Augustin Bessau, 210, Regent- street, and 39, Ger- rard- street, Soho, perfumers, July 11— John Woodhams, Pitt's Head, Grange- road, Bermondsey, victualler^ July 11— James Rice, Wood, bridge and Ipswich, Suffolk, saddler, July 14— Thomas Hutton, Henry William Leplne, and Charles Edward Lepine, 6, Newgate- street, City, fringe manufacturers, July 11— Jonathan Fuasell, Old- street, currier, July 17— William Llewellyn, Cow. cross, West Smithfield, ironfounder, July 15 — William Beaumont and Charles Beaumont, Ember- mills, Thames Ditton, Surrey, millers, July 12— John Pooley Kensington, Edward Kensington, Henry Kensington, William Stean, and Daniel Adams, London, bankers, July 12— Charles Wood and Keneth Poole, 19, Abchurch- lane, City, bill brokers, July 11— William BrockTiud Benjamin Le Mesurier, Warn- ford- court, Throgmorton- street, City, merchants, July 11 — Walter Ritchie, Finsbury- square, merchant, July 12— Thomas Scott, 45, Watling- street, City, wine merchant, July 12 — William Atkinson, Austin- friars, City, merchant, July 11— Jame3 Hill, Montagu- mews, Montagd. Bquare, hackneyman, July 11— James Smith, 45, Curzon. street, May- fair, and Weymouth- street, Portland- place, ironmonger, July 11 James Lloyd Hebert, Shepton Mallett, Somersetshire, inn- keeper, July 11— Robert Johnatone, Chelmsford, Essex, woollen draper, July 15— Thomas Jacomb Lancaster, Cateaton- street, City, merchant, July 13— Thomas Coleman, Darlaston, Staffordshire, nail master, July 11, at the Red Lion Inn, Wolverhampton— Thomas Kilvington, Brough, Westmorland, innkeeper, July 18, at the Bush Inn, Carlisle— Laurence Rostron, Salford, and John Rostron, Eden- field, Lancashire, manufacturers, July 14, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester— Wilson Dargue, Whitehaven, Cumberland, innkeeper, July 14, at the Globe Inn, Whitehaven— James Peters, Littlehampton, Sussex, corn merchant, July 12* at the Dolphin Inn, Chichester— Thomas Vertue, Woodbridge, Suffolk, merchant, August 8, at the Great White Horse Tavern, Ipswich— William Rose and James Turley, Coseley, Staffordshire, timber merchants, July 25, at the Stork Hotel, Birmingham— William Withers, Holt, Norfolk, money scrivener, July 12, at the Angel Inn, Norwich— Samuel Knott, Fairfield, near Manchester, corn dealer, July 22. at the Com- raissioners'- rooms, Manchester— George Wilson, Hexham, Nor- thumberland, spirit dealer, July 14, at the Bankrupt Commission- room, Newcastle- upon- Tyne. CERTIFICATES, JULY 11. Joseph Pickering, Bedford, upholsterer— Thomas Legg, Wind mill- street, Tottenham. court- road, carver and gilder — William Augustus Bartelot, Regent- street, perfumer— David Riddick, Ciren. cester, Gloucestershire, tea dealer— John Carter, late of Rellenden, E^ sex, and now of Great Baddow, Essex, wine merchant— George Wood, Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire, linen draper— Thomas Hopkins, Kidderminster, carpet manufacturer— William Burton Palmer, Bir- mingham, and Northfield, Worcestershire, draper— Robert Parsons, York, surgeon- dentist— Thomas Spell Maston, Kenilworth, car- penter. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. George Sandoman and Thoma3 G. Sandeman, Oporto— Thomas Nayler aud Richard Milton, New- cut, Limeliouse, flexible canvas manufacturers— Jarctfis Torevell and Matthew Cowton, Scarborough, common carriers— Thomas Todd aud J. Elnathan Smith, Liverpool, merchants— Thomas Taylor and Jehu Taylor, 13, East- street, Herne- bay, grocers— John Haywood and James Booth, 35, Charlotte- street, Blackfriars- road, hat manufacturers— Andrew Churcher and Thomas Churcher, 22, King- street, Golden- square, perfumers— Patrick Rox- burgh, James M'Queen, and William Roxburgh, 12, Wood- street, Cheapside, merchants— Samuel Green and Charles Nevill, Man- chester, calico printers— Edward Buxton and Edward Young Bux- ton, Exeter, curriers— John James Foquett and John Johnson, New. port and Ryde, attorneys— Thomas Cater and Thomas Fisher, Plymouth, ironmongers— William Led ward and John Led ward, Ashton- under- Lyne, pawnbrokers— William Bailey and Jonathan Priestley, School Ridge, Thornton, Yorkshire, stone merchants- Henry Woods and John French the younger, Chelmsford, coach masters— William Burrows Naylor and Marcus Smith, Brightside Bierlow, Sheffield, brick makers— John Lupton and Daniel Earl Basinghall- street, woollen warehousemen— William Whewell and John Bower, Lancaster, ironfounders— Thomas Bayley and William Nickson, Congleton, Cheshire, common brewers— Joseph Townsend and William Ridgway, Etruscan- rooms, Pilgrim- street, Newcastle- upon- Tyne, dealers in china— Appleby Sutton and John Thomas Flower, Doncaster, hatters— David Clayton, John Clayton, James Clayton, and Abraham Clayton, Bingley, Yorkshire, machine makers— John Jones and David Lewis, Liverpool, drapers— John Hewitt, Penzance, and Robert Lightfoot Hewitt, East Retford Nottinghamshire, dealers in china clay— Arthur Pink and Samuel Mason, Levenshulme, near Manchester, common brewers— John Simmonds and Charles Simmonds, 3, Southampton- row, and 28, Totteuham- court- road, silversmiths— Andrew Aylrner, Samuel Sharrocks, and Henry Sharrocks, Manchester, cotton spinners- Robert Clegg, Joseph Henderson, David Murray, James Baldwin, Leonard Baldwin, William Lister Oddie, Giles Collinge ( deceased), 5nd Felix Leach, Enfield, Clayton- le- Moor, Lancashire, cotton spinners ( so far as regards Giles Collinge and David Murray)— Va- lentine Morris, Valentine Morris the younger, Richard William Morris, and William Gale Pike, 9, St. Mary- at- hill, wine merchants ( so far as regards William Gale Pike)— Edward Frederick Long and William Wrilliams, 8, Mincing. lane, Irish provision merchants. ASSIGNMENTS. Joseph Atkinson, sen., and Joseph Atkinson, jun., Wakefield, woolstapler. Charles Crook, Jernftyn- street, linen draper. Rees Davies, Llangammarch, Breconshir^, general shopkeeper. William Herring, Bawtry, grocer aud draper. John Millard, Castle Cary, draper and tailor. Horatio Nathaniel Phillips, Hungerford- market, victualler. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. Charles Arthur and Sons, and Charles Arthur and Andrew Arthur, Kirkaldy, and Johu Arthur and William Arthur, Kinghorn, flax spinners. LONDON MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE, MONDAY, JUNE 19— Wheat, Essex Red, new, 42s to 50s; fine, 5' 4s to 57s ; old,— 9 to — 8; white, new, 50s to 55a J fine, 56K to 58s; superfine, 69sto62s; old, — S to — A.— Rye, 30s to 36a.— Barley, 26s to 30s; fine, — a to — s ; superfine, 31a to 33s — Malt, 54a to 56a ; line, 58s to AOs.— Peas, Hog, 37a to 38s ; Maple, 39a to 41s; white, 36B to 39s ; Hollers, 408 to 42p.— Beans, small, 40s to 42s; old, — s to — 8 ; Ticks, 30s to 368; old, — 8 to — sj Harrow, 38s to 40s.— Oats, feed, 22s to 24s ; fine, 25s to 27s; Pol and, 26s to 28s; tine, 2fls to 30s; Potatoe, 28s to 31s ; fine, 32s to 33s Rran, per quarter, 12s Od to ] 3s Od.— Pollard, fine, per ditto, I 4s. 20s PRICE OP SEEDS, JUNE 19.— Per Cwt.— Red Clover, English, 50s to 60s ; fine, 65a to 70s ; Foreign, 50s to 60s; fine, 60s to 65s— White Clover, 54s to 60s ; fine, 65s to 70s.— Trefoil, new, 14s to 18s; line, 19s to 22s ; old, 12s to 16s.— Trefolium, 16s to 18a ; fine, 20s to22s'. — Caraway, English, new, 46s to 523 ; Foreign, 48s to 53s— Coriander, 14s Od to 16s Od. Per Quarter St. Foin, 38s to38s ; line, 40s to 42s; Rye Grass, 28s to 35s; new, 35s to 45s ; Pacey Grass, 40s to45s; Linseed for feeding, 48s to 50s; fine, 52s to 56s ; ditto for orushiug, 42s to 46s Canary, 38s to 46s.— Hemp, 44s to 50s. Per Bushel.— White Mustard Seed, 8s Od to 10s Od ; brown ditto, lOsOd to 12s ; Tares, 4s 3d to 4s 6d : fine new Spring, 4s 9d to5s Od. Per Last.— Rape Seed, English, 35/ to 37/; Foreign, 33/ to 35?. GENERAL AVERAGE FUICEOFBRITISH CORN FOR THE WEEK ENDING JUNE 15, 1837 Wheat, 55s 4d ; Barley, 32a Id; Oats, 22a lid; Rye, 36s 2d ; Beans, 37s 4d ; Peas, 30s Id. DUTY ON FOREIGN CORN FOR THE PRESENT WEEK. — Wheat, 30s8d ; Barley, 13s lOd ; Oats, 13s 9d; Rye, 15s 6d ; Beans, 14s0d; Peas, 15s ( id. HAY- AND STRAW.— Smithfield.— Hay, 80s Od to 100s Od; Inferior, & to — s ; Clover, 105| to 126s ; Inferior — s to — s; Straw, 38s to 44a. Whitechapel.— Clover, 110s to 1308 ; newditto,— sto — s ; second cut, — sto— s; Hay, 95 to 100d; new ditto, — s to — s ; Wheat Straw, 38s to 44s. Cumberland.— Fine Upland Meadow and Rye. grass Hay, 105s to 110s; inferior ditto, 90s to 95s; superior Clover, 120s to 126s; Straw, 39s to 43s per load of36 trusses. Portman Market.— Coarae heavy Lowland Hay, — s to — s; new Meadow Hay, — s to — s ; old ditto, 100s to i I2s ; useful ditto, — s to a; New Cloverditto, — s to— s; oldditto, 120stol30s; Wheat Straw, 40s to 46s per load of36 trusses. OILS Rape Oil, brown, £ 34 10s per ton; Refined, £ 36 10s; Linseed Oil, £ 28 0s ; and Rape Cake, £ 5 5s.— Linseed Oil Cake, £ 12 10s per thousand. SMITHFIELD, JUNE 19.— To sink the olt'al— per 81b.— Beef,- 3s 2d to4s8d; Best Down aud Polled Mutton, 4s 4d to 4s 8d; Veal, 4s Od to 5s Od ; Pork, 4a Od to 4s 8d ; Lainl), 5s lOd to Gs Od. NEWGATE AND LBADENHALL.— By the Carcase — BeeJ, 3s 4d to 4s4d; Mntton, 3s 8d to 4s 6d; Veal, 3s Od to 5s Od ; Pork, 3s4d* to 48 8d ; Lamb, 5s Od to 6s Od. REPAIRING THE CONSTITUTION. BY REPAIRING the CONSTITUTION, the Advertiser means tile HUMAN FRAME, which, by too free indulgence in momentary pleasures, destroys too olten 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. FISCHEI. BERG, 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 baneful diseases arising from theabove causes, has at length been so fortunate as to conquer, through his salutary and most valuable medicinal preparations, the most obstinate venereal diseases, and does with confidence assure the afflicted, that, by adhering to his medicines, a complete cure may be relied on, for which he pledges his reputation. Dr. F. may be consulted by both sexes with the greatest confidence, Irom 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. FISCHEI. 11EUG is the sole Proprietorof the highly celebrated Royal Prussian Herb Pills, for the cure of the Venereal disease. Sold, with proper directions for use, in boxes at 2s. 9d. and 4s. 6d. each, duty included— Agent, Mr. Caldicott, bookseller, Dudley- street, Wolverhampton. Letters from the country, post- paid, with particulars of the case, and enclosing a remittance, punctually attended to, and advice and medicines forwarded to any part of the kingdom. ggr Observe, No. 3, Christ Church- passage, New- street. N. B. Private door to the Surgery through the first entry in New- street. „ ESSRS. PERRY and Co., Surgeons, may be 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, BIRMINGHAM; No. 23rSLATER- STREET, near DUKE- STREET, LIVERPOOL, and No. 2, BALI:- STREET, near St. Peter's Church, MANCHESTER, of whom may be had ( gratis) with each box of pills, their TREAXlSE ON THE VENEREAL DISEASK, Gonorrheal, Gleets, and Stric- ture, including practical Observations on Seminal Weak- ness, arising from early abuses, intended lor the instruction of general readers, so that all persons can obtain an imme- diate cure with ease, secrecy, and safety. PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS, of Copaiba, Cubehs, 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, alfections 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 shoit 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. Neitherdo they disagree with the stomach, or cause any offensive smell to the breath, as is the case with Copaiba and Cubebs, when administered by medical men in the usual way. 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 nose, chronic rheumatism, scrofula, scorbutic and glandular affections, local and general debility, nocturnal pains in the head and limbs, depression of spirits, and all diseases arising from an impure state of the blood. It is a melancholy fact, that thousands fall victims to the venerea! disease, owing to the unskilfulness of illiterate men, who, by the use of that deadly poison — mercury, ruin the constitution, and cause ulcerations, with blotches on the head, face, and 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 aud 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 She powers of the constittrfion become enfeebled, they offer a firm, safe, and speedy restoration to sound and yigorous 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- rovv, Birmingham); 23, Slater- street, near Duke- streef, 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. OR. JOHN ARMSTRONG'S LIVER PILLS. " I cure not how I am physicked, so it be not by the adventure of a Quack, but advice of a Physician, who, I am sure, will prescribe no more for me than may consist with my safety, and need doth re- quire."— Otd Divine. r| THESE admirable Liver Pills are strongly recom- J- mended as an excellent family Aperient, a certain re- medy for an inactive Liver, a safe and effectual destroyer of worms in children, and as the Best Friend of the Dyspeptic, or Bilious Sufferer, whose usual symptoms are some or all of these :— flatulence, pain in the side and under the shoulder blades, distressing sensation of choking, oppression after meals, depression of spirits, and a yellow skin. They have also been of extraordinary service to persons afflicted with obstinate sores; and with scurvy, scorbutic humours, or eruptions of the skin. These favourite Liver Pills are warranted to contain no Aloes, Gamboge, or other Drastics; they do not occasion Piles, or any pain during their operation. Be careful to observe, before purchasing, that the Pro- prietor's sole compounding Agent's name and address— " John T. Eddy, Chemist, Bishop Stortford,"— are on the Government Stamp, engraved in white letters; which is also sealed with a tower, on a shield of ermine and gold. All other are counterfeits; as the Proprietor, a gentleman of private fortune, is the only possessor of this fine prescription, given to him by the late learned Physician ( in Ilussell- square) himself, in 1827. Sold by all patent medicine venders, in boxes at Is. l^ d., 2-. 9d., and 4s. 6d. THE ONDY CURE FOR CORNS AND BUNIONS. RAMSBOTTOM'S CORN and BUNION SOL- VENT. By the^ use of this valuable remedy imme- diate relief from pain is obtained, and by its successive application for a short period, the most obstinate Corns are entirely removed without recourse to the dangerous opera- tions of cutting or filing. The proprietor pledges himself that it does not contain caustic or any other article that will inflame the skin; being white it will not stain the stocking; and the advantage it has over plaister is mani- fest, and fully appreciated, as the very high recommenda- tion bestowed upon it by every individual that has used it testifies. Price Is. ljd. and 2s. The various counterfeits that are attempted to he im- posed upon the public in lieu of this invaluable remedy, render it imperatively necessary for purchasers to ask for S. Ramsbottom's Corn and Bunion Solvent, and to see that it has the signature of" S. Ramsbottom" written upon the label that is pasted on the outside of the wrapper of every genuine bottle, in addition to the name of the article, anil words sold by Hannayand Co. 63, Oxford- street, being the name and address of the proprietor's wholesale agents. The following letter from Mr. John Winfield, of Bir- mingham, is one of many hundreds of the same tenor: — Gentlemen— Having read an advertisement in a Birmingham paper, I was induced to purchase from your agent, Mr. Mailer, Ann- street, a bottle of Ramsbottom's Corn and Bunion Solvent;— after a week's application I found it had the desired effect. I have since re- commended it to many of my friends. You are at liberty to make any use you please of this communication.— Your obedient servant, Birmingham, August6, 1836. JOHN WINFIELD. To Messrs. Hannay and Co. Soldbyappointmentby M. Maher, 5, Congreve- street, and W. Wood, Bookseller, High- street, Birmingham ; Parke, Wolverhampton; Rogers, Stafford; Mort, Newcastle; Mer- ridew, Coventry; Dicey, Northampton. BLAIR'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PILLS. THE extraordinary efficacy and complete safety of this Medicine, is now so fully established by such tes- imonials, as the public can at all times make reference to, either direct or through the medium of the respectable Agents, whose names and residences are given, that any lengthened description of its salutary effects is unnecessary. It is merely requisite to observe that for Gout, Rheumatic Gout, Rheumatism, Lumbago, Sciatica, Pains in the Head and Face, & c., it is a decidedly established remedy. But the Proprietor feels it a duty which he owes to the afflicted, to'place before them a series of cures recently communica- ted to him, one of which is the following: — Copy of a letter from the Neighbourhood of Birmingham. To Mr. Prout, 229, Strand, London. West Bromwich, July 6th, 1S36. SIR,— Having been for a number of years subject to the Gout and Rheumatism, I have tried every remedy that has been recommended, without the least benefit, until last year a friend of mine came to visit me, when in one of my violent attacks. Being himself quite a martyr to the chalky GoTit, he told me of the great relief he had ex- perienced from taking Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills. I immedi- ately sent to Mr. Cowell's, of West Bromwich, for a box, aud in twenty. fonr hours, after taking a few Pills, was quite relieved, and able to attend to my business, and in two days was as well as ever I was. It is now more than twelve months since; but a few weeks ago 1 had another attack, and having some Pills by me remaining, took a few, and in a short time was able to attend to my business as usual. I hare recommended them to a number of my friends, who have all experienced the same beneficial result as myself, and I will, with the person who named them to me, ( should you choose to make use of this letter) satisfy every enquiry that can be made.— I am, sir, your's, very gratefully, SAMU LLOYD. Near the Old Bell Inn, Spon- lane, West Bromwicli. These Pills are taken without the least care or attention by either sex, young or old, and have the peculiar property of entirely removing the disease without debilitating the frame, which is universally left in a stronger and better state than before the malady commenced. And there is another most important effect belonging to this medicine— that it prevents the disease flying to the brain, stomach, or other vital part. Sold by Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London ; and by his appointment, by Maher, Wood, Shillitoe, Sumner and Por- tal, Collins and Co., Humphries, Smith, Suftield, Flewitt, Ed- wards, Gazette and Advertiser offices ; Shillitoe, ( late Cow- ell) Westbromwich; Turner and Hollier, and Morris, Dudley; Valentine and Thorsby, Walsall; Mander and Co., and Simpson, Wolverhampton; Davis, Atherstone ; Morgan, Lichfield; Harding, Shiffnall; Pennell and Stew- art, Kidderminster; Morris, Bewdley; Maund, Broms- grove ; Harper, Hodgkinson, Bayley and Roberts, War- wick ; and all respectable Medicine Venders in the Kingdom, price 2s. 9d. per box. Ask for Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills; and attend to the following notice. In consequence of the great and in- creasing demand for this extensively useful medicine, the Proprietor has obtained permission from His Majesty's Commissioners of Stamps to have the name and address of " Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London," impressed upon the Government Stamp, affixed to each box of the genuine medicine, ( to counterfeit which is felony) thereby super- seding the signature of " Thomas Prout," as heretofore adopted. To the Trade The usual full allowance to the Trade by having them direct from No. 229, Strand. ASHLEY COOPERS BOTANICAL PURIFY- ING PILLS are established by thirty years'experi- ence, are prescribed by most of the eminent Physicians and Surgeons in London, and are always administered at several public hospitals, as the only certain remedy for Gonorrhoea, Gleets, Strictures, and all other forms of Ve- nereal diseases, in either sex, curing in a few days, by one small pill for a dose, with ease, secrecy, and safety. Their operation is imperceptible, they do not require theslightest confinement, or any alteration of diet, beverage or exercise. They do not disagree with the stomach, nor cause any offensive smell to the breath, as is the case with all other medicines in use for these complaints, and after a cure ef- fected by the use of these pills, the party willnotexperieenc any return of the complaint, as generally occurs after taking Balsam of Copaiba, and other drugs of the like nature, which only possessing a local action, 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 ull the symptoms return, and that t- hey are suffering under the complaint as much as at first, and are at last constrained to have recourse to these pills, as the only certain cure. They are likewise a mostefficient remedy for Pimpled Faces, Scurf, Scorbutic Affections, and all Eruptions of the Skin. Captains of vessels should make a point of always taking them to sea, their unrivalled effi- cacy in curing Scurvy being known throughout the world. The following letter selected from numerous other pro- essional recommendations forwarded to the proprietor when, he first offered these pills to the public, may be considered interesting. From that eminent surgeon, the late Joshua Brookes, Esq;, F. R. S., Professor of Anatomy, & c. See. Theatre of Anatomy, Blenheim- street. Dear Cooper,— I have tried your pills in numei^ jus instances, and my candid opinion is that they are a mostimproved system of treat- ment for those peculiar complaints for which you recommend them, euring 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 lifef which usually arise after the use of those uncertain remedies, Mercury and Copaiba. I think you canuot 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. Gil. 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 allo( vlince on taking six at one time) warranted genuine and fresh from the various makers- Orders by post, containing a remittance, punctually attended to, and the change, if any, can be returned with the order. Ashley Cooper's Botanical Pills are sold by one or more respectable venders in every town in the kingdom, and any shop that has not got them will obtain them from London without any extra charge. Country shops can obtain them through any of the London booksellers. Sold by appointment by M. Maher, 5, Congreve- street, and Wood, Bookseller, High- street, Birmingham; Parker, Wolverhampton; Rogers, Stafford; Mort, Newcastle; Merridew, Coventry. SNOOK'S APERIENT FAMILY PILLS, a most excellent medicine for Bile, Indigestion, Giddire6s o the Head, Piles, aud Dropsical Complaints. Their composition is truly excellent; they do not con , tain any antimonialor mercurial preparation whatever, and] do not require the least confinement or alteration of diet ; moderate exercise promotes their good effects ; they sel- dom operate until ten or twelve hours after taken, and then very gently; they destroy worms, purify the hu- mours, and evacuate all foul corruptions, whereby so main diseases are produced ; by removing obstructions, the) cause the food to pass to its respective parts, becoming ii I good restorative and preservative of health to both sexes, and to those of a costive habit, a truly valuable treasure. — Also SNOOK'S PECTORAL or COUGH PILLS,, ferl Coughs, Colds, Asthmas, and Shortness of Breath. It is well known that Coughs and Colds, if not soon removed, are, in many cases, attended with considerable danger; for the removal of which the Pectoral or Cough Pills are with confidence recommended as an excellent medicine, and in most cases a certain specific. A single box will be a suffi- cient trial to prove their good effects. SNOOK'S DENTIFRICE for the TEETH am GUMS. The Pills are now prepared by Messrs. BARCLAY ty » « I SONS, who have purchased the recipe from Mr. SNOOK | whose names are engraved on the Government Stamp af fixed to each box ; without which they cannot be genuine. The_ Pills are sold in boxes, at Is. l% d. and 2s. 9d. each. ' The Dentifrice in boxes, at Is. ljd. INFALLIBLE HAIR DYE. AMONGST the number of compositions, advertise! under various names as Hair Dyes, the only one | that has stood the test of experience and proved as infalli hie as it is efficacious, is AGID HASSAN'S celebrated simple, and unerring CIRCASSIAN HAIR DYE, whirl will, in a few hours, change light, red, or grey hair, ey brows, lashes, whiskers, and mnstachios, to a rich aul ur or jet black, or any shade between ; giving a fine glosv appearance, without injuring the hair, discolouring the ski! or linen, also being free from the purple hue ( even in the rays of the sun) which the other dyes impart. It is less valuable to officers of the army, gentlemen of the tor' and all persons interested in the perfect appearance o that beautiful animal the horse; removing what is tech nically termed " White Stockings." Sold wholesale by W. DAY and Co., at their old Italian warehouse, the Black Boy, No. 95, Gracechurch- str'cet and retail by the following Agents: — Mr. Aucott, pel fumer, New- street, Birmingham ; Mr. Saunders, |. n fumer, Warwick; Messrs. Price and Wood, perfumers Leamington ; Messrs. Stephens and Son, perfumer^ Alcester; Mr. Vernall, perfumer, Worcester; in bottle- at 5s., 10s., arid 15s. each, having proper directions ho\ to use the same, with a fac- simile of the signature i Agid Hassan; also that of W. Day and Co. All withou. these are counterfeit. MULRKADDY'S COUGH ELIXIR. > ONE dose is sufficient to convince the most scrupu- lous of the invaluable and unfailing efficacy of Mul readdy's Cough Elixir, for the cure of coughs, colds hoarseness, shortness of breath, asthma, difficulty o ) breathing, huskiness, and unpleasant tickling in the throat night coHgh, with pain on the chest, & c. The paramount superiority of this medicine above ever) I other now in use, for the cure of the above complaints, onlj requires to be known to prove the passport to its being ' ere long, universally made use of for the cure of even ] description of Pulmonary Affection. To those who are unacquainted with the invaluable pfo perties of Mulreaddy's Cough Elixir, the following lettei will exhibit its efficacy:— Manchester, Jan. 2nd, 1835.. • Dear Sir,— The cough medicine yoa sent me is certainly a irios surprising remedy; six days ago I was unable to breathe, unless I with great difficulty, attended with much coughing, which ahvaw I kept my soft palate relaxed, and iu a state of irritation, and'. ill. I more I coughed the worseit was, and it, in its own turn, produce! I a constant excitement of coughing. I am now nbout, to the worde* | of my friends aud neighbours, entirely free from cough. One sinal phial of your inestimable' medicine, ten years back; would hav saved me not less than £ 3,000 in medical fees, but it would hnv> done more— it would have saved my having had to swallow, froir 1 time to time, upwards of a hogshead of their nauseous, and, as the} all proved, useless drugs. Tne agreeable flavour of the medicine i a great recommendation: I think you ought to put it up and sell ii to the public, and if any one should doubt its efficacy, refer then tome. I shall have the pleasure of being with you in a few da> s.^ when I shall press on your consideration the propriety of making I 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 tin world styles an idle man, you may enlist me in your service in an\ way that you think would be useful. But I should advise you ti place the management in the bands of one of the great medicim houses in London. Hannay's, in Oxford. street, are beingadvertisei I in all the papers here, as wholesale agents for Ramsbottom's Cori Solvent, which, by the bye, my girls all say is really a cure, am I many other medicines. I should say this would be a very avCM I house, Oxford street being one of the most public situations in I. on. | don. All join ine iu kind remembrance I o yourself and Mrs. M. Believe me, yours, very truly, T. Mulreaddy, Esq. ROBERT GRANT. Golden Lion Hotel, Liverpool: Sir— To my astonishment, the other day, I had a visit from m\ old and esteemed friend, Mr. Hughes, whom I had notseen for inanj I years, and still more so was I when, finding that I had a seven f cough, lie drew forth from his pocket a phial, a portion of the con I tents of which he insisted upon my swallowing instanter. and lei me the remainder, which I also took, avid in the course of twenty four hours I found myself quite freefrom even any tendency toward coughing ; he now tells me that you are his oracle of health; 1 therefore, beg leave to present my report at head- quarters, win many thanks, and trust that I may be able to prevail on you to Ii" me have half, or a whole pint of the medicine to stow iu my sea chest, as I sail again for America in about ten days, and if 1 can, it 1 return, afford you any service on the other side of the Atlantic, 1 am at your command. T. W. BUCHANAN. Master of the Brig Nancy, of Orleans. T. Mulreaddy, Esq. Birkenhead, Jan., 18S5. Dear Sir,— The bottle of Medicine you left for me the other da\ 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 previou to taking your medicine ; it used formerly to nip me on going oul and I seemed as though I had a string run through my body, and h- breast and back bones were drawn together. If you will be so goin | as to give me another bottle, I am sure it will work a perfect cure. 1 am, sir, your most obedient servant, T. Mulreaddv, Esq. NICHOLAS BROWI*.' Dear Sir,— The effect of your medicine, in curing our children < the Hooping Cough, has been like magic, for which I, and Mis Wilson iu particular, return our grateful acknowledgments, HIM the little W's shall not fail, ere long, to thank you in person. I on it, u our family you will be styled doctor in future. Believe me, yours very sincerely, J. WILSON. Liverpool, Dec., 1834. My dear Sir,— You most assuredly deserve the thanks of socleti for presenting it with such an invaluable cure for Coughs. Foi I years past, during the winter mouths, and aiways on foggy days | have I heretofore been compelled to confine myself a close and soli tary prisoner iu my library, to prevent the possibility of being temptei to join in conversation, the excitement of which always produce' I such violent paroxysms of coughing, that I have been in coQSffin dread of sudden dissolution, by bursting of a blood- vessel. At tin commencement of the present season, by your kind liberality, I com menced taking the medicine you sent, and have taken twelve bottles After I had taken three, I could respire as vigourously as in tin early partof my life, and I now believe that 1 was then perfect]* cured— a cure not to have been expected at my advanced age, 8' years— but I persevered in taking it until I had consumed the whol- twelve bottles. Your situation in life, 1 know, places you beyoiu the necessity of preparing an article of the kind for sale, but it in us: I and shall be done, aud if you neglect to do it, my sincere wish is thiii ' you may be lugged out of your retirement, and compelled to provide it in quantities equal t » the boundless waters; and you may relj L upon it, that I, a locomotive proof - of its wonderful power, wii I spare neither time nor trouble to promulgate its efficacy, until yot. J will find your cottage attacked by myriads of my former fellow 1 sufferers, for a share of your bounty, and I myself now apply foil the first, trusting that your goodness will not suffer yon to refuse rth I a pretty considerable quantity, and I promise to distribute it most I usefully. Whenever you have made up for sale, send me one thou. I sand bottles. Ever your sincere well- wisher, T. Mulreaddy, Esq. W. HUGHES. Chester, I2mo., 1834. Esteemed I-' riend,— Thou haat my sincere thanksfor thy Saniarihti I present. Thy medicine has had the promised effect, and com- 1 pletely cured my trying cough. If thou wilt let me have a quantity J m a large bottle, I will, in return, enter thy name to any charitabli institution thou wilt fix on. Thine, T. Mulreaddy, Eeq. JACOB KOUF. RTS. Mr. Mulreaddy begs to observe, that to publish copies oil he whole of the letters he has received of the above tenor. | would require several volumes. The selection here, pre- sented he considers quite sufficient, but begs to say,. thai I upon trial of his Cough Elixir, it will give itself the. best I recommendation. It will be sold by his appointment, whole- 1 sale and retail, by his agents, Messrs. HANNAY and Co., 63 f 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 i|. white paper, on which, in a blue label with white etters,| are printed the words,— Mulreaddy's Cough Elixir, pre pared by Thomas Mulreaddy, Liverpool, and sold byhisap- j pointmentat Hannay and Co.' s, Patent Medicine Ware- 1 house, 63, Oxford- street, London. Price Is. l^ d. arul| 4s. 6d. Sold wholesale and retail by HANNAY and Co., 60.| Oxford street, Londtm, wholesale Patent Medicine Ven- ders and Perfumers to the Royal Family, where the publtv can be supplied with every patent and public medicine oil repute; and also with the perfumes of all the respectableI London perfumers, with an allowance on taking six or morel of any other article at the same time. Soldbyappointmentby Maher, 5, Congreve- street, and I Wood, bookseller, High- street, Birmingham; Parke,| Wolverhampton; Rogers, Stafford; Mort, Newcastle; umlj Merridew, Coventty. Printed and published by FUANCIS BASSET SHENSTONI I FLINDELL, of Lee Mount, in the parish of Edgbaston.. at 38, New- street, Birmingham, where letters for tin Editor maybe addressed, and where Advertisements ai. i'j Orders will be received. ( All descriptions of Jobbing] carefully and expeditiously executed.) Agents in Lon | don: Messrs. NEWTON and Co., 5, Warwick- square; J Mr. BARKER, 33, Fleet- street ; Mr. REYNEI. T., Chan cery- lane; Mr. DEACON, 3, Walhrook; and Mr. HAJI- MOND, 27, Lombard- street..— Saturday, June 24,1837.