No. 685. SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1838. PRICE 4h> THEATRE ROYAL, BIRMINGHAM. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. SIMPSON. UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF W. SCHOLEFIELD, ESQ., HIGH BAILIFF. MR. SIMPSON, STAGE MANAGER, HAS the honour to announce to his friends and the patrons of the drama, that his BENEFIT will take place on Monday next, July 16, 1838; upon which occasion lie most respectfully solicits the support of the play- going public, and trusts the bill of entertainment, offered to their notice for the evening in question, will prove satisfactory. On MONDAY NEXT, July 16, 1838, previous to the play, the splendid OVERTURE TO GUY MANNER1NG. When will be performed the admired play of THE SLAVE: Gambia, the Slave, Mr. J. SMITH. Matthew Sharpset, Mr. Balls, ( who has kindly given bis valuable services.) Sam Sharpset Mr. Simpson. After which, ARIA, from LA SOMNAMBULA, with a Cornet de Piston Accompaniment, arranged by Mr. A. MELLON. To be followed by the Operatic Farce of THE POOR SOLDIER; Patrick, the Poor Soldier, by a Lady of Birmingham, who will introduce " Rory O'More," and other popular songs. To conclude with SIMPSON AND CO. Mr. Bromley Mr. Balls. Peter Simpson , Mr. Simpson. Lower Boxes, 3s.; Upper Boxes, 2s.; Pit Is.; Gal- lery, 6d. Tickets may be obtained of Mr. WADDS, BOX Book- keeper, at the Theatre, where places may be secured; at Mr. TURNER'S, Printer, Snowhill; and of Mr. SIMPSON, 125, Suffolk- street. MR. SIMPSON, Stage Manager. HYGEIAN LECTURE IN BIRMINGHAM. THE Public is hereby informed, that Dr. LYNCH will deliver a PUBLIC LECTURE in Birmingham, on THURSDAY EVENING NEXT, the 19th inst., at ball- past eight o'clock, wherein he will, by incontrovertible evidence, PROVE the superiority of the Hygeian System of medicine over that practised by the majority of the medical pro- fession. The place for holding the Lectuie will be duly announced. Admission gratis. British College of Health, New- road, London, July 12, 1838. STAMMERING REMOVED. MR. SPENCE being under engagements in several cases of Stammering and Defective Utterance, will remain in Birmingham until they are fulfilled. By his system the most confirmed Stammerer is enabled to speak with ease and fluency, where no organic disease exists. The method pursued is peculiarly his own, and has ob- tained the unqualified approbation of many medical gen- tlemen both in London and Edinburgh. Apply at Mrs. TURNER'S, No. 30, Paradise- street. OLD ENGLISH POPLAR. TO be SOLD by PRIVATE CONTRACT, 250 OLD ENGLl'SH POPLAR TREES, some of them running 50 to 60 feet in length, the whole averaging 30 feet length, and from 7 to 11 inches quarter girt, very straight, of excellent quality, and fit for chamber- floor boards and other purposes. The trees are growing in meadows at Hasfield, near Gloucester, within half a mile of the river Severn, and a convenient landing- place there. For a view, and to treat for the same, apply to Mr. WIL- LIAM CROOK, Hasfield, near Gloucester. rpHE WEEKLY TRUE SUN Newspaper, a large - 1- Quarto Paper of Forty Columns, Price Five Pence, continues to republish Advertisements FOR NEXT OF KIN and HEIRS AT LAW, which have appearetl during the last Thirty Years. More have just been obtained and Upwards of ONE THOUSAND will appear in Succesive Weeks. Early Orders should be given, as the back numbers can- not always be obtained. Office 366, Strand. LONDON NEWSPAPERS. .7. W. B LIS SET, NEWS AGENT, 7, CARTHUSIAN- STREET, CHARTER- HOUSE- SQUARE, LONDON, SUPPLIES any of the Daily Morning Newspapers the day of publication, at 18s. per quarter, or any ol the Daily Morning or Evenings the day after publication, at 9s. per quarter; any of the Weekly ( excepting the Atlas and Spectator) on the Monday following at 2s. 6d. per quarter, or 7s. 6d. per annum. The money can be remitted by Post- office order, and must, in all cases, be paid in advance, and all letters post paid. IMPORTANT NOTICE. MONS. DE BERRI and CO., SURGEON DEN- TISTS, 17, EASY- ROW, Birmingham, and 121, Re- gent- street, London, most respectfully acquaint theirfriends and the public, that, in consequence of their improvements in the mechanical department of Dentistry, they are enabled to supply ARTIFICIAL TEETH without Pain, Springs, Wires, or Ligatures, at the following reduced scale: — A Single Artificial Tooth ™ . £ 0 5 0 A complete Set ™ . ™ . ™ . 4 0 0 A complete set of Natural Teeth 10 10 0 An entire set of Natural Teeth, highly finished in the first style, with fine gold sockets, ( usually charged forty guineas) ™ . 20 Filling a Decayed Tooth with Mineral Sili- cetim ™ - ™ , 0 Mons. DE BERRI and Co. continue to RESTORE DECAYED TEETH with their celebrated MINERAL SILICEUM, applied without pain, heat, or pressure, which in a few seconds hardens into enamel, preventing and curing the Tooth- Ache, allaying in one minute the most ex • cruciating pain, and rendering the operation of extraction unnecessary, they also FASTEN LOOSE TEETH, whether arising from neglect, the use of calomel, or any othercause. SCURVY of the GUM EFFECTUALLY CURED and PREVENTED. 17, n; a9y- row, Birmingham. 0 0 r| 1HE EIGHTEENTH HALF- YEARLY OPEN- - L ING of MR. PITMAN'S CLASSIC, COMMER- CIAL, and SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL, will take place on WEDNESDAY Morning, the 18th instant. Mr. P.' s dis- dipline is firm, but mild ; and the motto of the school, " Punctuality and Perseverance," is strictly enforced. 19, New Hall Street. BIRMINGHAM AND EDGBASTON PROPRIE- TARY SCHOOL. Principal— JOIIN RYAI. L, Esq , L. L. D., of Trinity College, Dublin. Classical Master— Rev. C. H. MATURIN, M. A., and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Commercial Master— Mr. F. B. RIBBANS, of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and late Head English Master in King's College School, London. French Master— Monsieur MELIOT. Music Master— Mr. THOMAS MUKDEN. fl^ HE Committee announce, that the second session JL will commence on TUESDAY, the 24th of July; and it is particularly requested that the Pupils will attend punc- tually at nine o'clock in the morning, The Rev. C. H. MATURIN and Mr. F. B. RIBBANS, under the sanction of the Committee, receive Pupils of the School to Board with them; and their terms may be known by applying to them, or to the Honorary Secretary. Copies of the Rules of the School, and of the first Report of the Committee, as well as any other information, may be obtained from the Honorary Secretary, Bennett's- hill, Bit- mingham ; enquiries by letter to be post paid. J. C. BARLOW, Committee- room, Edgbaston, Honorary Secretary. June 16, 1838. WORKS ON TOPOGRAPHY AND MINING. Lately published by C. Tilt, London.— Sold in Birmingham by RADCLYFFE and Co., 14, Great- charles Street, and by the Booksellers generally, BIRMINGHAM and SOUTH STAFFORD- SHIRE; or Illustrations of the History, Geology, and Industrial Operations of a Mining District. By W. HAWKES SMITH. With numerous finely engraved plates, 8vo., price, bound, 7s. 6d. EIGHT VIEWS OF DUDLEY CASTLE and the LIME CAVERNS, from drawings by D. Cox, J. R. Walker, and others. With notices, Historical, Geological, and Descriptive. By W. HAWKES SMITH. Quarto, neatly bound, 6s. The MINER'S GUIDE. A large Chart of Sections of the principal Coal and Ironstone Mines, in Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Shropshire, Durham, and South Wales. Carefully coloured and handsomely mounted on canvas and roller. With a volume containing a copious mass of Geologi- cal and Practical Information, Mining Calculations, & c. By THOMAS SMITH, Land and Mine Agent. Price, Complete, Tlnee Guineas. Just Jublished, in a convenient pocket volume, price Is., or neatly done up in extra cloth, with a gilt label and co- loured map, Is. 6d., the third edition, considerably en- larged and improved. CORNISH'S GUIDE and COMPANION to the GRAND JUNCTION and the LIVERPOOL and MANCHESTER RAILWAYS, containing also, the Stangers' Guide to Liverpool and Manchester, and an Ac- count of Birmingham and all the Towns on or near the Line, together with every thing worthy the attention of the traveller, the Company's charges from one station to another, their regulations, time of departure, and arrival of each train, & c., & c. London : published by S. CORNISH and Co., 126, New- gate- street ; Birmingham, J. CORNISH, 37, New- street; Liverpool, J. CORNISH, 35, Lord- street; Manchester, BANCKS, HAYWOOD, and FLETCHER; Stafford, J. ROGERS; and sold by all Booksellers. Just Published, price 3s. 6d., handsomely bound in fancy cloth, OSBORNE'S GUIDE to the GRAND JUNC- TION, or BIRMINGHAM, LIVERPOOL, and MANCHESTER RAILWAY. Tlis above work con- tains upwards of fifty Wood Engravings, illustrative of the most interesting scenery, & c., on the line; a splendid Map of the Railway; a Map of the Town of Birmingham, of the Liverpool'Docks, and a Geological Map of South Staffordshire. Every means have been taken to render this volume as useful and interesting as possible. The information relative to the Railway is ample and correct; and the manufactures and general features of the country through which the line passes most fully described. E. C. and W. OSBORNE, 30, Bennett's Hill, Birmingham ; Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., and Darton and Clark, Lou- don. Sold by all Booksellers. " This volume strongly recommends itself to all who are desirous of possessing a cheap and copious description of the Grand Junction Railway, aud of every object of inte- rest connected either with the scenery or topography of the country through which it passes. The notices of the vari- ous towns and villages on either side the line, are well sketched, and we have some excellent chapters, diversified with much new and useful information, on the Staffordshire Mining District, the Cheshire Salt District, and the Pot- teries; with an interesting description of the manner in which those valuable branches of our manufactures, earthen- ware, porcelain, and china, are carried on. The whole of the matter in the volume possesses a freshness and original- ity that must give it an additional interest where so many works, describing the same route, have been already written. It is, in all respects, a new, and, we may add, considerably improved work, the author having avoided those beaten tracks traversed by preceding writers on the same subject, who have fallen into the footsteps of their predecessors, and not unfreqtiently into their errors. The tables of fares and distances are the most copious we have yet seen published." — Midland Counties Herald, July 12. MOXON'S EFFERVESCENT MAGNESIAN APERIENT. THIS mild, agreeable, and efficient purgative is universally approved and recommended by the Faculty as the best corrective of disordered state of the Stomach, Head, and Bowels, and the safest remedy for Gout, Piles, Fistula, Gravel, & e., and for obviating the injurious effects of the stronger drastic purgatives-, for this latter purpose it should be taken the morning following. If frequently taken duiing the heat of summer and autumn, no medicine is better calculated to prevent or speedily remove those dan- gerous disorders Cholera Morbus, Dysentery, Diarrhoea, and other troublesome affections of the bowels. Perusal of the following letter is particularly requested : — To Mr. Moxon,— Dear sir, I am qnitc out of your invaluable me- dicine, the Magnesian Aperient; six months ago I recommended it to a gentleman who had been a dreadful sufferer from the Gout, he in. forms me since he took it regularly he has uot had a 9ingle attack or even tb^ slightest symptom. Let me recommend you to impress up- on the minds of ail sufferers from morbid sensibility of tile stomach and bowels, the necessity, the absolute necessity, of taking a tea- spoonful of it regularly every morning; taken iii the manner I have described, it never interferes with the avocations of the day, and it invariably creates an elasticity of mind, and a flow of spirits, which gives a zest to every enjoyment, besides it enables the invalid to en- jcry many of those luxuries with impunity, from which he must otherwise be debarred, and without which life is irksome and dis- tressing. The moment I get out of bed 1 take a tea spoonful of your Panacea, winter and summer, ( during this severe storm I have never omitted it) and instead of it producing any cold sensation in the stomach, it invariably creates a genial glow, a pleasurable warmth, and I go down stairs to breakfast with an appetite that would do no discredit to a plough boy, and I now enjoy a state of health to which I have for years been a stranger. Will you havo the kindness to send me a large bottle, packed in a box, directed for me, Fleece Inn, Darlington. WILLIAM WRIGHTBON. Houghton. le. Spring, Feb. 14th, 1838. Sold in bottles at 2a. 9d., 4s. 6d., and in family bottles at Us.,( with aground- glass stopper) containing the quantity of five of the 2s. 9d. size, being a saving of tweuty per cent, to the purchaser. Wholesale agents— BARCLAY and SONS, 95, Farringdon- street, London; J. and R. RAIMES, Edinburgh. Sold by all Druggists and venders of medicine throughout the Empire. TO EXCAVATORS AND BRICKLAYERS. PERSONS willing to contract for the execution of the several Works necessary for constructing a Main Sewer, from Diglis to Lowesmere, in the city of Worcester, about one mile in length, and four feet six inches diameter in the clear, in nine inch work, may inspect the Plans and Specifications, by application at the Office of Mr. HENRY ROWE, architect, Copenhagen- street, Worcester. Tenders to be sent ( under cover) on or before Saturday, the 28th instant, to my Office, Sansome- street, Worcester. By order of the Commissioners, Worcester, 6th July, 1838. C. BEDFORD, Clerk. rpHE OVERSEERS of the Parish of Aston hereby J. give notice to the RATEPAYERS, that all POOR. RATES must be PAID on or before FRIDAY, the 20th day of July instant, ( whether demanded or not,) or they will lose their vote for the ensuing year for members o Parliament for the borough of Birmingham. COLLECTORS. JOHN BLUNT, Darwin- street, Bordesley. HENRY EDWARDS, Heneage- street, Duddeston. Holt- street, July 11, 1838. BIRMINGHAM LIBRARY. THE Subscribers to the Birmingham Library are hereby informed, that it will be CLOSED from MONDAY NEXT, the 16th, to SATURDAY the 28th instant, for the purpose of cleaning the rooms and inspecting thebooks. No book will be issued from the library after Wednesday, the 11th instant, and it is particularly requested that all books in circulation be returned on or before Satur- day, the 14th instant. By order of the Committee, WM. ALLDRITT, Librarian. P. S.— Catalogues recently published, price 5s. THE LONDON FISH COMPANY, NO. 4, DALE- END, BIRMINGHAM, HAVE engaged SALMON FISHERIES at Bally- shannon and Carlisle, which will enable them to supply FISH during the season in twenty- four hours from the time it is taken. Every other description of Fish in season may also be obtained at this establishment, of the primest quality and at the lowest possible prices. T. W. CLARKE, Manager. WANTED, in a Manufacturer's Warehouse, a Young Man of honest, industrious, sober, steady habits, who can write a good hand, and is quick in common accounts. Address, C. C., post paid, at the Printer's. PACKET SHIPS FOR SOUTH AUSTRALIA. TO SAIL FROM LIVERPOOL. THE new Ship " SUSAN," JOHN YOUNG, Com- mander, 577 tons per register, coppered, and in all respects a first- class vessel, will be dispatched on the 1st of August for the above flourishing colony. This Vessel is a very fast sailer, carries an experienced Surgeon, and her accommodations for Cabin, Interme- diate, and Steerage Passengeis, are of the most superior description. Ample information respecting the Sale of Lands, & c., will he given on application, if by letter, post paid, to Mr. W. WADDELL, 3, India Buildings, Liverpool; to whom also apply for freight or passage, or to Mr. HENRY W. ROLLASON, 108, Steelhouse- lane, Birmingham. FROM LONDON. • The following Vessels will be despatched positively on the undermentioned dates: — PRINCE GEORGE, 482 tons, on 15th August. BAROSSA, 738 tons, on 1st October. EDWARD, 568 tons, on 15th November. Apply to TOMES, WADDELL, and Co., Agents for the Sale of Land in South Australia, No. 1, Lime- street, London. rfllHERE are STEAM PACKETS now running, JL every TUESDAY, THURSDAY, and SATURDAY, from RYE to BOULOGNE, which make the passage in about three hours and a half. In addition to the road from London to Rye being the most picturesque of any in England, it is not so far, by ten miles, as it is from London to Dover. Persons may also take TUNBRIDGE WELLS on their way to the Con- tinent, which they could not do before, without going many miles out of their road. One of the Packets on this station, the EDINBURGH CASTLE, is the fastest in the English Channel; as a proof of this, she sailed one day fifty- five milesin three hours and ten minutes! She was built in Scotland about two years ago. Travellers will find this line of road so agreeable, and the charges at Rye so moderate, to what they are at Dover, that if they only give it one trial, they will never go to France any other way. FOR BEAUMARIS, BANGOR, AND MENAI BRIDGE, THE favourite steam yacht ZEPHYR, Captain GOFF, is intended, until further notice, to sail from George's Pierhead, Liverpool, every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday mornings, at one quarter to eleven o'clock, thus affording to passengers, per Railway by the Bir- mingham Train, an opportunity of immediately proceeding into Wales. The departure from Menai Bridge to Liver- pool will be on the alternate mornings, at nine o'clock, and as the Zephyr usually makes the passage in five hours or under, passengers for the interior will be in time for the Railway Trains to Manchester and Birmingham the same day. Refreshments supplied on board at a moderate rate. A Stewardess attends the Ladies' Cabin. Please apply at the Sr. George Steam Packet Company's Offices, 21, Water- street, or Clarence Dock, Liveipool. N. B No charge for boats in Liverpool. DIRECT STEAM COMMUNICATION BETWEEN LONDON AND ST. PETERSBURGH. rfflHE ST. GEORGE STEAM PACKET COM- . BL PA NY beg to inform the public that they intend placing their steam ship SIRIUS, on the station between London and St. Petersburg!], for conveyance of passengers and goods; to sail from London on the 1st of August, and St. Petersburgh on the 15th, calling at Copenhagen to re- ceive and land passengers, and will continue to leave Lon- don the 1st, and St. Petersburgh the 15th of every suc- ceeding month during the season. The Sirius. having been tlie^ rs^ steamer to cross the At- lantic, has established a character for superiority of sailing, antl possesses every accommodation for the comfort and convenience ofpassengers, consequently presents a favourite conveyance between the capitals of Great Britain, Den- mark, and Russia. Further information, as to rates of freight and passage, will be afforded on application at the oflices of the Com- pany, Clarence Dock, Liverpool; 137, Leadenhall- street, London ; Hull, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Exeter, Plymouth, Bristol, Dublin, Cork, and Newry. THE ONLY CURE FOR CORNS AND BUNIONS. RAMSBOTTOM'S CORN and BUNION SOL- VENT. By the use of this valuable remedyimme- diate relief from pain is obtained, and by its successive application for ashortperiod, the mostobstinate Corns are entirely removed without recourseto the dangerous opera- tions of cutting or filing. The proprietorpledgeshimself that it does not contain caustic or anyotherarticlethat will inflame the skin; being white it will not stain the stocking; and the advantage it lias over plaister is mani- fest, antl fully appreciated, as the very high recommenda- tion bestowed upon it by everyindividual that hasused it testifies. Price Is. i£ d. and2s. The various counterfeits that are attemptedto be im- posed upon the public in lieu of thisinvaluableremedy, render it imperativelynecessary for purchasers to ask for S. Ramsbottom'sCorn and Bunion Solvent, and to see that it has the signature of" S. Ramsbottom" written upon the label that is pasted on the outside of the wrapper of every genuine bottle, in addition to the name of the article, and 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, 1 was induced to purchase from your agent, Mr. Malier, Ann. street, a bottle of Ramsbottom's Corn and Bunion Solventafter a weelt'sapplieation I found it had the desired effect. I have since re- commended it to many of myfriends. You are at liberty to make any use you please of thiscommunication.— Your obedient servant, Birmingham, August6,1836. JOHN WINFIELD. Soldbyappointmentby M. Maher, 5, Congreve- street, and W. Wood, Bookseller, High- street, Birmingham ; Parke, Wolverhampton; Rogers, Stafford; Mort, Newcastle; Mer ridew, Coventry; Dicey, Northampton. INFLUENZA. Relief in a few hours A cure in a few days. SIMCO'S CHEMICAL ESSENCE of LINSEED is, as every body says, the best and most efficacious medicine in the world for coughs, colds, asthmas, hoarseness, impeded respiration, difficult expectoration, soreness or rawness of the chest and stomach, consumptive cough, and pulmonary affections. Asthmatic persons who have been cured by this Essence, declare that prior to its use they had not been able to lie down in bed for twenty nights, on ac- count of impeded respiration. This medicine will be found valuable to persons who are obliged to travel in the fogs and damp air. It will cure children's coughs in two days. Its immense sale is a sufficient proof of its wonderful effects. If any person afflicted with a cold, will take two full- sized tea- spoonsful of this Essence, in a little warm rum and water at night, such person will, in the morning, find him- self almost well. The wonderful and surprising good effects in cases of influenza antl coughs are well known; abundant opportunities of late have been afforded, antl nearly 1,000 bottles were sold by the late proprietor, within fourteen days, in the month of February, 1837. It is gaining uni- versal patronage, and is highly spoken of; the extraordinary cures effected by it in Northampton, have spread it far and wide. A Ivlrs. Tressler, residing ill Bull- lane, Northampton, was afflicted in July, 1835, with a dreadful cough, and great pain in her side and chest: and she wishes the proprietor to mak.' known to the public, that his Chemical Essence of Linseed quite cured her violent cough, and also the pains in her chest and side, aud that she considers it the heat cough medicine ever prepared. John Foster. Kingsthorpe Lodge, desires that it may be made public that his wife was afflicted with a bad cold, which occasioned pains in alt her limbs, and much fever and slight cough, with sore throat, which Simco's Chemical Essence of Linseed cured very speedily. Sold by Wood, Shillitoe, Higli- street; Matthison and Co., Edgbaston- street; Banks, Market- place; Knott, Harvey, Martin, and Clark and Sons; Birmingham: Turner and Sons, Hickman, Dudley: Fleemirigand Seyde, Parke, Wolverhampton; and Lomax, Lichfield. Any medicine vendor not keeping it will procure it if requested. Wholesale by Barclay and Sons, and Bodington and Co., London; and S, Simco, Northampton. TO PRINTERS. WANTED, several good COMPOSITORS. Ap- ply to E. C. and W. OSBORNE, Bennett's- hill. TO PRINTERS. PERSONS desirous of contracting for the Printing, & c., of the LISTS of BOROUGH and COUNTY ELECTORS of the parish of Birmingham for the current year, are requested to send in sealed tenders, addressed to the Chairman of the Overseers of the Poor, at the Work house, on or before Monday next, the 16th instant. The overseers do not pledge themselves to accept the lowest tender. Full particulars may be known on application to Mr. JOSEPH UNDERWOOD, at the workhouse. As overseers are bound by law to have the lists completed by the first day of August, a guarantee for the due execu- tion of the work within the time limited, will be lequired from any person or persons undertaking the same. Birmingham Workhouse Vestry, July 10,1838. £ 4,000 AT four and a half per cent., and £ 400 ready to be advariced; £ 300 and £ 250 wanted, on approved se- curity— Apply to R. HENRY TARLETON, solicitor, 24, Ben- nett's- liill, Birmingham. fl^ O be LET, with immediate possession, a HOUSE A and SHOP, with SHOPPING at back, situate No. 61, Smallbrook- street. Rent £ 45 per annum, or without shopping £ 40 per annum. WANTED immediately, a WAREHOUSE WO- MAN, who can take the management of a Bone Button Warehouse— Apply at No. 2, King- street. Refer- ences from her last situation must be given. DIXON AND SON'S SHEFFIELD PLATED WARES stand so high in public estimation, that any encomium would be superfluous. A general assortment may be had at GILROY'S GENERAL FURNISHING HARDWARE ESTABLISHMENT, 50, NEW- STREET, nearly opposite the Theatre. Also, D. and Son's BRITANNIA METAL TEA and COFFEE POTS, of various beautiful patterns. M'ANOR COTTAGE FRUIT & TEA GARDENS, BALSALL HEATH, NEAR MOSELEY. JAMES CURNIN most respectfully returns his sincere thanks for the liberal support he has received during twenty- five years'residence in Birmingham, and begs to inform his friends and the public that he has large quan- tities of STRAWBERRIES, RASPBERRIES, and CHERRIES, and every kind of Fruit. Schools or any party may be accommodated on the shortest notice and on liberal terms. ROYAL HAT DEPOT, No. 1, CORNER OF NEW- STREET AND HlGH- STREET. WPHILLIPS, in gratefully acknowledging the • increasing support of a discerning public for about thirty years, begs to assure them that every exertion in his power shall be made to produce the greatest novelty of the day, in goods which cannot be excelled in quality, and at prices that must ensure their continued patronage. FOR CASH ONLY/ S. S. Good Black or Drab Light Summer Hats 5 to 6 Super Gossamers ™ - ™ . 9 to 12 Prime London Stuffs 10 to 16 Those usually sold as best ™ . ™ , 18 The finest that human skill or ingenuity can invent, warranted ™ —. 21 Igg^ Shipping orders executed on the shortest notice. No credit. No abatement. NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership subsisting between us, the undersigned JOHN BOULTON and WILLIAM BOULTON, of Temple, row West, in Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, Silk Mercers and Drapers, is this day Dissolved by mutual con- sent. The debts and credits of the said late copartnership will be paid and received upon application to either of us. Dated this 7th day of July, 1838. JOHN BOULTON, WILLIAM BOULTON. Witness— ROWLAND HILL, Clerk to Mr. Griffiths, Attorney, Bit mingham. JOHN BOULTON BEGS very respectfully to inform the Ladies of Bir- mingham, its vicinity, and the public generally, that, in consequence of the termination of the Partnership here- tofore subsisting between his brother and himself, the bu- siness at the corner of Temple- row West, and Colmore- row, will, in future, be conducted by him on his own ac- count. J. BOULTON begs to announce that his Establish- ment is NOW OPEN; and that it is bis intention TO SELL OFF THE STOCK with as much EXPEDITION as possible, in order to make room for an entirely new assort- ment of the most prevailing and Fashionable Articles. With that view he will offer GREAT ADVANTAGES to Purchasers, by submitting every article at prices which cannot fail to produce such a result. In soliciting the luture patronage of his friends and the public, J. BOULTON begs to say, that it will be his constant study to deserve it by selecting only such articles as are calculated to give stability to his business, and selling tliem at the lowest remunerating rate of profit, by frequently visiting the various markets, and securing a regular succes- sion of novelties, and by paying that undeviating attention and courtesy to customers necessary to secure good will and support. Temple- row West, and Colmore- row, Birmingham, July 12, 1838. SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY. ffi^ HE payment of the first dividend of Five Shillings Jl- per Share, upon the Shares that have' been sent in, will be continued on Monday the 9th, Monday the 16th, Monday the 23rd, and Monday the 30th of the present month of July, between the hours of Ten and Four; on which days the Committee will continue to receive the re- maining outstanding Shares. Parties applying on behalf of others, must be provided with powers of attorney, authorising them to sign the deed of " Confirmation, Release, and Indemnity," and to receive the dividend or dividends, By Order, PHILIP SOUPER, 5, St. John- street, Adelphi, Secretary. July 2, 1838. BILIOUS AND LIVER COMPLAINTS. AS a mild and effectual remedy for those disorders which originate in a morbid action of the liver and biliary organs, namely, indigestion, loss of appetite, head- ache, heartburn, flatulencies, spasms, costiveness, affec- tions of the liver, & c.,& c., DIXON'S ANTIBILIOUS PILLS ( which do not contain mercury in any shape) have met with more general approval than any other medicine whatsoever. Tiiey unite every recommendation of mild operation with successful effect; and require no restraint or confinement during their use. In tropical climates, where the consequences of redundant and vitiated bile are so pre- valent and alarming, they are an invaluable and efficient protection. They are likewise peculiarly calculated to cor- rect disorders arising from excesses of the table, to restore the tone of the stomach, and to remove most complaints occasioned by irregularity of the bowels. Sold in boxes, at ' 2s. 6d., 4s. 6d., lis., and 22s. ; each box being sealed with the arms of the proprietor; and none are genuine which have not " George Dixon" engraved on the government stamp; by Messrs. Barclays, Farringdon- street; Butler, chemist, Cheapside ( corner of St. Paul's), London, Sack, vil e- stieet, Dublin, and Princes- street, Edinburgh; Sut- ton, Bow- church Yard; Newberry, 45, Edwards, 67, St. 1 Paul's; and the principal Dealers in Patent Medicine. BIRMINGHAM AUXILIARY IN AID or THE BAPTIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY. RPHE FIFTEENTH ANNIVERSARY of the A above Society will be held in the TOWN- HALL, on TUESDAY EVENING, the 17th of July, 1838; the Rev. JOSEPH BURTON, ( Missionary from Nassau, ill the Bahamas,) the Rev. EUSTACE CAREY, the Rev. J. SPRIGG, A. M., the Rev. D. R. STEPHEN, and other ministers, are expected to take part in the proceed- ings. The doors will be opened at half- past Five, and the chair taken at six o'clock. The side galleries will be re- served for admission by tickets at 6d. each, which may be had of Mr. J. W. SHOWELL, 48, New- street; of Messrs. MATTHISON and Co., Edgbaston- street; and of Mr. HUD- SON, bookseller, Bull- street. To- morrow, the 15th of July, SERMONS will be preached in aid of the missions, by the Rev. EUSTACE CAREY, at Mount Zion Chapel, Grabam- street, in the morning, and at Cannon. streetf Chapel, in the evening. By the Rev. J. SPRIGG, A. M., of Ipswich, at Cannon- street Chapel in the morning, and at Bond- street Chapel, in the evening. By the Rev. I>. RHYS STEPHEN, of Swansea, at Bond- street Chapel in the morning, and at Mount Zion Chapel, Graham street, in the evening. Services to commence at half- past Ten, and half- past Six. On Monday evening, July 16th, a Union Prayer Meet- ing will be held at Cannon- street, service to commence at a quarter past Seven o'clock. On Tuesday morning, July 17th, there will be a PUff- LIC BREAKFAST in the Town- hall, at half- past nine. Tickets Is. 6d. each, which may be had of Mr. E. BLAK*- MORE, Belmont- row; Mr. TIMMIS, Coleshill- street; Mr. J. W. SHOWELL, 48, New- street; Messrs. MATTHISON and Co., booksellers, Edgbaston- street; and of Mr. HUDSON, Bull- street; and it is earnestly requested that those friends who purpose being present on the occasion will make early application for tickets, in order that the committee may be enabled to complete their arrangements. NOTICE. ALL persons found angling, netting, destroying, or taking the Fish out of the Woodside Reservoir or Dudley Canal, from Paretree- lane to the Delph, Brierley- hill, will be prosecuted according to law. PROMOTER LIFE ASSURANCE AND ANNUITY COMPANY, 9, CHATHAM PLACE, BLACKFRIARS, LONDON, ESTABLISHED IN 1826. DIRECTORS. Wm. Goodenough Hayter, Esq., M. P. Charles Johnston, Esq. John Towgood Kemble, Esq. John G. Shaw Lefevre, Esq. F. R. S. Robert Palk, Esq. William Unwin Sims, Esq. Samuel Smith, Esq. Le Marchant Thomas, Esq. TRUSTEES. John Deacon, Esq., John G. Shaw Lefevre, Esq., F. R. S. William Unwin Sims, Esq. IN this Office Assurers for the whole term of life have now the option, as most accords with their views and circumstances, either of securing a certain sum at death at a low rate of premium ; or of participating in J of the nett profits of the Company on paying an increased rate of premium. The following are the annual premiums for the assurance of £ 100 oil a healthy life in either case: — WITHOUT PROFITS. Age 20 | £ 1 lis. 8d. | 30 | £ 2 2s. 2d. | 40 | £ 2 17s. Od. | 50 | £ 4 0s. 8d. WITH PROFITS. Age 20 | £ 1 16d. lid. | 30 I £' 2 Us. 2d. | 40 | £ 3 6s. 6d. | 50 | £ 4 14s. 2d. A division of the nett profits will take place quinquen- nially. Bonuses accrue on all beneficial policies on which three annual premiums shall have been paid, at the time a division occurs; and the holders of such Policies have the option either of receiving their bonuses in a present sum, or of having them applied in argumentation of their Policies, or in reduction of their luture Premiums. Assurers on the non- bonus system may contract to pay their Premiums either in one sum, in a given number of payments, in annual, half yearly, or quarterly payments, or in any other way most suitable to their convenience. Officers in the Army and Navy when in active service, persons afflicted with chronic and other diseases, and sucli as are going beyond the limits of Europe, are also Assured at moderate Rates. Prospectuses and all necessary information may be ob- tained at the Office, or of the Agents :— Mr. S. W. SUFFIELD, 1, Congreve- street, Birmingham. Mr. T. M. COPPIN, Solicitor, Stratford- on- Avon. Mr. THOMAS SMALLBONE, Solicitor, Leamington. Mr. EDWARD EVANS, Foregate- street, Worcester. Mr. T. H. HOUGH, Solicitor, Shrewsbury. HOWQUA'S AND MOWQUA'S TEAS. CELEBRATED ri^ HESE TEAS consist of one description of Black - 1- the Genuine Howqua's Mixture, and one of Green Mowqua's Small Leaf Gunpowder, and are sold in Chinese Catty and half Catty packages. The GENUINE HOWQUA'S MIXTURE is an admixture of a variety of the choicest Black Teas, the same as drank by the celebrated Chinese tea merchant, whose name it bears, and is distinguished from every other 6ort by a fine natural aromatic fragrance, combined with great strength and briskness, and is far more nutritious and wholesome than any hitherto offered to the public. MOWQUA'S SMALL LEAF GUNPOWDER. This delicious Green Tea is grown only on one estate, and possesses a rare and delicate flavour, being without except tion the finest Green Tea grown in China. Genuine Howqua's Mixture 7s. 6d. per Chinese Catty, containing one pound antl a third of a pound, being at the rate of 5s. 8d. per lb.; Half Catties 4s.; Mowqua's Small Leaf Gunpowder 10s. 8d. per Chinese Catty of the same weight, being at the rate of 8s. 2d. per lb.; Half Catties os. 6d. These Teas are the best, the cheapest, and most useful of any imported into this country. The Importers, Brocksopp, How, and Co., of London, have appointed the following Agents for the sale of the above Teas : — Sole Agent for Birmingham, RICHARD DOIDGE, confectioner, 88, Broad- street. Leamington . Messrs. Mallory and Mann. Warwick ™ , ™ , ™ . ™ . Samuel Mallory, tea dealer. Boston J. 11. Bull, tea dealer, Market- place. Horncastle . John Cassarn, tea dealer. ALTON, near Cheatlle James Edwards. Sleaford ™ » ™ . ™ . ™ , George Flint. Worcester ,— ™ . Harding, Brothers, tea dealers. Crowland J. Martleet, tea dealer. Stamford Wm. Smith, Red Lion- square. Grimsby George Shepherd, tea dealer. Grantham . Edward Wilkinson, tea dealer. N. B. Only one Agent will be appointed in each town for the sale of these Teas. Apply, post paid. RINGWORM EFFECTUALLY CURED. A certain and most speedy Cure for this insidious and dis- tressing Disease may now be had. BEATSON'S RINGWORM LOTION will tho- roughly and safely eradicate every species of the malady and Scalled Head in the short space of fourteen days, how- ever malignant or long standing. This invaluable Lotion is now extensively used and recommended by Medical men throughout the kingdom, and employed with unvarying success in most of the principal Schools. It contains nothing of an injurious, burning, or offensive quality, and the cure is effected simply by applying it to the parts for a few miirtites » morning and evening. Ample directions for the treatment of the Disease and the use of the Lotion, together with many highly respectable testimonials, are given with each bottle, price 2s. 9d. Pints lis. May be had of all the principal Druggists and Medicine Venders in the kingdom :— besure to ask for BEATSON'SI Ringworm Lotion ; the great success of it having tempted many unprincipled persons to vend a substitute under the name of " Ringworm Lotion." The genuine has the Pro- prietor's Name and Address on the seal over the cork, and outside the wrapper, as follows: S. L. BEATSON, Practical Chymist, 18, Thornton- street, lloisleydown, London. AGENTS— Birmingham, BANKS, High- street; W. JACKSOK Union- street. THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, APRIL 202. 7 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS— FRIDAY, June 14. Mr. J. FIELDEN presented a petition against the new Poor- law from Tiverton. It had been in opera- tion there for a couple of years, without effecting- any of its promised results. It was equally unsatisfactory to the rate- payers and the poor; the former paid as much as ever, and the latter were worse treated. The honourable gentleman presented thirty- five other peti- tions oil the same subject, having- from 30,000 to 40,000 signatures annexed to them. On the motion of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, the house agreed ( after a division of 99 to 193) to sit on the fore- noons of Tuesdays and Thursdays, ill order to expe- dite business. The Irish Voters Regulation bill was declared to be abandoned by government. SAVINGS BANKS.— Oil the motion for going into committee of supply, Mr. HOME moved the following- resolutions on savings banks:— 1. That there has been received by the commissioners for the reduction of the national debt, on account of savings banks and friendly societies in Great Britain and Ireland, between the Gtli of August, 1817, and the 20th Nov. 1837, the aggregate sum of 31,973,101/. 2s. lid., principal and in- terest, and they have paid, within the same period, the sum of 11,460,446/. 8s. 2d., leaving the amount of 20,517,714/. 14s. 9d., due to the trustees of savings banks and friendly so- cieties on the 20th November, 1837. 2. That the government securities and cnsli standing, on the 20th November, 1837, in the names of these commis- sioners, valued at the market prices on that day ( the 3 per cents, at 93/. 4s., the 3£ per cents, at about par), and in- cluding 302,196/. 17s. 5d. of cash remaining in their names, uninvested iu the Banks of England and Ireland, amounted only to 20,453,494/. 12s. 8d., showing a deficiency in assets of 64,220/. 2s. Id. to pay the whole amount due and owing by them to the trustees. 3. That the commissioners received, within the period of twenty years, as in- terest or dividends on government stock and securities standing in their names, the aggregate amount of 8,073,963/. 16s. 6d, whilst they paid as interest to the trus- tees of savings banks and ( riendly socie- ties, in the same time, the sum of . . 9,558,060/. 15s. 6d. showing an aggregate amount of interest of 1,484,096/. 19s. Od. paid by the commissioners to the trustees, more than they have received from the government securities, being, on the average, an annual sum of 74,207/. more allowed to trustees than received. 4. That the commissioners have paid to the trustees of savings banks and friendly societies, a fixed rate of interest of 3d. per 100/. per diem, or 4/. lis. 3d. cent, yearly, from 1817 to 1828 ; and from that year to the present time, the fixed rate of 2£ d. per 100/. per diem, or 3/. 16s. OJd. per cent, yearly; whilst a variable and lower rate of interest has been received by the commissioners, thereby producing a great loss yearly to the public; and that loss is rapidly in- creasing, according to the increase of the deposits. That the aggregate loss in ten years, viz., from 1817, to 1828, was 487,657/., or about 48,765/. yearly, on the average of these ten years. That the aggregate loss in fifteen years, viz., from 1817 to 1832, was 965.661/. or 68.957/. yearly, on the average of these fifteen years. That the aggregate loss in twenty years, viz , from 1817 to the 20th November, 1837, was: 1,548,317/. ( including 64,220/. deficient in the estimate of assets), or about 77,416/. yearly, on the average of these twenty years, exclusive of compound interest, which ought to be added to show the actual excess of interest paid by the commissioners. In the year ending 20th November, 1838, the loss may be estimated at about 90,000/. 5. That, whilst the commissioners paid, to about 500 savings banks in England, Wales, and Ireland, interest at the fixed rate of 3/. 16s. OJd. per annum, 412 banks paid their depositors only 3/. 6s. 8< i., and 88 banks paid their depositors 3/. 8s. 5d. ( being the largest amount allowed by the act to be paid), thus leaving a surplus of interest of 9s. 4Jd. percent, to the trustees of 412 banks, and 7s. 7Jd. to the trustees of 88 banks. That out of that surplus the expenses of the savings banks have generally been defrayed; and, on the 28th of February, 1838, there was standing in the Bank of England, to the credit of the commissioners " in the separate fund account," the sum of 247,787/. of that surplus, the interest of which, amounting, at 3J per cent., to 8,672/. 10s. yearly interest, is available towards defraying the loss incurred by the public, as before shown, although the principal sum remains liable to be called for by the several savings banks, if required by them, and will reduce the an- nual loss to the government to that amount. 6. That the government securities standing in the names of the commissioners on the 20th November, 1837, namely, 13,306,210/. of 3J per cent, stock, though valued at. pur, was purchased at prices varying from 75/. 18s. 7d. per 100/. stock upwards, and the 6 931,317 of 3 per conts., though valued at 93/.; 4s. per 100/. stock, was purchased at piices varying from 67/. 17s. lid. per 100/. stock upwards. That these securities, if sold at this time, would realise the full amount of capital and in'erest due to the trustees of savings banks and friendly societies; but if the 3 per cents, should fall from 93/. 4s. to 8.3/. 4s. per 100/. stock, and the 3J per cents, from 100/. to 90/. per 100/. stock, there would be a loss of capital to the government of two millions sterling, and if the fall of 3 per cents, soould be to 73/. 4s., and the 3J per cents, to 80/. per 100/. stock, the loss of capital would be four millions sterling on the whole amount due to depo- sitors, and so in proportion to the amount of stock sold out to meet the demands of the depositors. 7. That the whole of the deposits, amounting to £ 0,517,714, are by law payable in cash ; sums under 10,000/. may be demanded by every bank at five day's no- tice ; and sums above 10,000/. at fourteen days' notice ; and in times of political excitement and panic, the depositors may thus legally rr. ake large demands of cash, so as to pro- duce a heavy loss to the government, and greatly inconve- nience, if not endanger, public credit 8. That, by tile existing law, the commissioners for the reduction of the national debt may buy, sell, and exchange the government securities of the savings banks, as they may think fit; they may purchase Exchequer bills, and exchange them for stock; they may sell out stock and purchase Ex- chequer bills; thereby affecting materially the currency of the country, and changing the nature of the public debt, without the previous knowledge of Parliament; and it ap- pears that they have exercised these powers largely during the last twenty years, having paid 35,355,014/. for the pur- chase of stock and Exchequer bills, and received from the sale of stock and Exchequer bills, the sum of 16,684,645/. leaving 18,670,369/. as the amount of cost of the stock and Exchequer bills standing in their names on the 20th of No- vember, 1837. 9. That, whilst it is highly important to the best interests of the country, that the government should continue to afford encouragement and protection to the prudential in- vestment and safe custody of the savings of the industrious classes, it is proper that such assistance should be afforded without lass to the government, and with as little danger as possible to public credit. Mr. SPRING RICE deprecated any reduction of the interest on savings banks deposits, as a step that would almost inevitably lead to a run of the depositors. He admitted, at the same time, that the interest was too high. The resolutions were not pressed. THE DUKE OF SUSSEX.— Mr. GILLON moved an ad- dress to the Queen, for an increase to the allowance of the Duke of Sussex. He grounded his motion on the fact, that the duke bad not, not being a military man, those opportunities of augmenting his income that tvere possessed by his royal relations. Captain PECHELL seconded the motion. It was opposed by Lord JOHN RUSSELL, who consi- dered it essential that any such proposition ought to come from government, and not from an individual member of the legislature. On a division, there appeared, for the motion, 68 ; against it, 98. Mr. SPRING RICE, after noticing the expenses at- tendant on the coronations of George IV. and Wil liam IV., moved that 70,000/. be granted to the Queen for the expense of the coronation of the 28th instant. Mr. HUME. commended the peaceful and orderly demeanour of the people on the occasion. The vote was agreed to, as was a vote of 74,986?. for repairs of public buildings and palaces, and royal gardens. The rest of the votes were, after a few de sultory remarks, agreed to. SATURDAY. The house sat at twelve o'clock. The Prisons ( Scotland) bill was passed through committee. Several other bills were forwarded a stage. The house sat till five o'clock. MONDAY. The Middlesex C ounty Court bill, which extends the jurisdiction, of the court in several particulars, authorises the establishment of a new court to adjudi- cate on sums not more than 10?., was recommitted by 80 to 5. The National Loan Fund bill was opposed by Mr. P. Thompson on the part of government, but was read a third time notwithstanding, by 109 to 38. After some desultory conversation, respecting Lord Durham's acts in Canada, and other matters, in the course of which it came out that plans of the Peninsu- lar, furnished by Captain Mitchell, and for the non- completion of which the public had paid the sum of 5,000/. had never been deposited in any public- office, and were, in fact, at present in private hands, the house went into committee of supply. In discussing the grant of 9,000?., for factory super- intendents, Mr. Brotherton expressed his opinion that the labours of these functionaries were burdensome to the public, vexatious to the masters, and of no advan- tage whatever to the children. Mr. LABOUCIIERE, on the vote for the Mint service, excused the glaring imperfection of the late corona- tion medal, on the ground that from an accident Pis- trucci had nearly lost the use of his eyes for a fortnight before it was finished. Mr. HUME advised its being remelted. The vote of 1,095?. to Protestant Dissenting ministers was opposed ineffectually by 16 to 84. The secret service vote of35,000?. was also opposed, but without success, by 13 to 111. The Qualification of Members bill was read a third time, by 14 to 63; but on Colonel Sibthorp moving an adjournment, and threatening to renew the motion, its passing was postponed till Wednesday. TUESDAY. In the morning sittings a long discussion took place on the Irish Tithe bill, or rather on ail instruction to the committee, moved by Mr. O'Connell, that they would take the requisite steps for paying the arrears now due. Mr. O'Connell repeated his statement, that he saw no chance of the successful working of the bill. The principal speakers were Lord Stanley, Lord John Russell, and Sir Robert Peel. The motion was not pressed to a division ; the understanding seeming to be that a middle plan, proposed by Sir Robert Peel, would be ultimately adopted. Sir Robert proposed— In the first place, that a commission should be appointed— ( a laugh from the opposition)— an unpaid commission— ( hear, hear,)— hut a commission they must have, in order to ascertain the amount of arrears. He did not say they should guarantee the payment of the whole amount of arrears, but place at the disposal of the commission a certain definite sum, 307.000/., or rather he would propose 500,000/. Ascertain the whole amount of arrears due by the occupy- ing tenants, and determine the proportion which the defi- nite sum placed at the disposal of the commission bore to the whole amount of arrears. Thus, if 307,000/. were placed at the disposal of the commission, and the amount due 614,000/., of course they would only have the means of pay- ing 50 per cent. He then proposed that they should intro- duce an optional principle into the plan, and that the go- vernment should offer to purchase the arrears by a tender of 50 per cent. The state would thus stand in the position of the tithe- owner in respect of those arrears. He pio- posed they should give the parties two months, or some definite period, to decide whether they would adopt the offer of the government; but, in his opinion, if they offered reasonable terms, a great many would sell their right to arrears, in consideration of immediate payment offered by the state. The state, as he had said, would then be in the position, and have the existing right of the tithe- owner to arrears: they might then look into the position of parties, and determine in what cases it would be right to enforce the law, and where it would be better to avoid its enforcement. But let the state be the party to enforce the law : let them attempt to make arrangements, with the landlord, and say, " We have 100/. due to us from your tenant; bear a portion of it, and we will remit the remainder of it." There could be no injustice in that plan to the clergyman ; for he might remain in possession of his right to recover the arrears, in case he refused the offer of the state. But in nine cases out ot ten the clergyman would accept the offer. One great recommendation of this plan would be, that it proceeded to a considerable extent, on the optional principle, and whilst they placed themselves in the position of the clergyman, they could determine according to the circumstances of the occupying tenant, where it would be wrong to enforce the Jaw, and where the tenant, being solvent and refractory, it should be enforced. Above all, they would prevent the clergy and the occupying tenantry from coming into collision. Sir Robert observed, that he would only deal with the arrears of the last two years. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.— A motion of Mr. W. Glad- stone, for a committee on the spot, to investigate the relations, past and present, of the colonists and natives on the eastern parts of the Cape of Good Hope, was negatived by 41 to 32. BEER ACT.— Lord F. EGERTON having referred to the petitions lie had presented, one of which was signed by 6,000 of the most respectable inhabitants of Man- chester, as evidence of the strong feeling of the public against this act, called the attention of the house to the operation of the measure. He contended that the license given to open houses for the sale of beer to be drunk on the premises, had been followed by consequences the most injurious to public morals and to the peace of society. He was anxious to put an end to this system, which had led to a frightful in- crease of crime, and had multiplied the temptations to vice which beset the poor man. He had received communica- tions from Iluddersfield, York, Iiotherham, Leeds, Shef- field, Bristol, Portsmouth, and London, tending to show that the operation of the act was equally pernicious to the moials of a large manufacturing community as of a less thickly peopled rural district. He had received, among others, a letter from Mr. J. F. Forster, chairman of the quarter sessions, at Salford, a gentleman remarkable for the liberality of his character arid the capacity of his under- standing, who expressed himself strongly opposed to the measure, from the experience of its pernicious consequences he had had as a magistrate. This gentleman stated that he had been not unfavourable to the experiment at first, from a wish to supply the labouring classes with a wholesome and refreshing beverage at a cheap rate, and to extend to them every advantage which their station permitted; but he was now quite satisfied that the introduction of beer shops had been productive of consequences bad in every respect among the working classes, destructive of their habits of foresight and economy, subversive of moral feeling, anil ininousin many instances to their families. ( Hear, hear.) These beer shops, the noble lord went on to say, were olten kept by men destitute of character, and became hot beds of depravity, sometimes being the scene of most disgraceful outrages. The opponents of the measure had predicted the consequences it would produce with more truth and accuracy than could have been anticipated. The spread of immorality and crime, the ruin of the licensed victuallers, which was now proceeding, as his right honourable friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer well knew, and the serious increase in the consumption of spirituous liquors, weie among the evils attributable to it. ( Hear, hear.) The Beer bill would, in fact, have been more correctly designated as a bill for the increase of immorality and drunkenness in England. So appalling were the evils which it produced, that he found himself obliged, notwithstanding the" late period of the session, to bring the subject under the notice of the house. His object was to procure the repeal of that part of the law which permitted shops to be opened for the consumption of beer on the prenises. It was im- possible that the force of public opinion, which was daily gathering strength in reference to this matter, should allow that provision to remain in force another session—( hear, hear)— and he thought it advisable to warn those who mi^ ht have embarked their capital in the business, that a storm was impending which would soon sweep the iniquity away. Without interfering unnecessarily with the poor man in the free disposal of his time anil money, it was merely the duty of the legislature to remove the facilities to crime which were presented to him, and to guard his morals from con- tamination, ( Hear, hear.) The noble lord then moved that an humble address be presented to Her Majesty, that she will be pleased to give directions that there be laid before the house copies of any passages in presentments of grand juries in England and Wales, bearing reference to the state of the law affecting the sale of beer in the years 1836, 1837, 1838. Mr. SANDFORD, in seconding the motion, said he did not wish to return to the old system, but thought that regulations might be effected which would very much ameliorate the present practice. Mr. RICE said, his noble friend could not be more anxious than he was to take any measures calculated to advance the morality of the people but he was not convinced that the proposition of the noble lord would lead to any such result. He must say, he thought, when the measure of the Beer act was adopted, that the right hon. gentleman, the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer, took a step in opening tile. beer trade which was one of the wisest and most liberal that was ever adopted—( hear, hear);— and he believed that the benefit accruing from it to the public, in respect of conve- nience, was considerably more than sufficient to compensate lor the consequent loss to the revenue. With respect to the increase of crime, which had been so much relied on, he could not at all admit that increase to be a consequence of the Beer act. Nor had he had any more faith in the allegations which were made of a greatly increased con- sumption of spirituous liquors. Where were the proofs of it? Gin shops in London were not on the increase, but quite the reverse. What would be the effect of any altera- tion of the present law, that should put an end to the sale ot beer in those houses? Would it not be to bring on again the old monopoly—( hear, hear)— and all the evils of the licensing system ? He did not mean to say that the exist- ing law was incapable of improvement, but he wished most earnest'y to deprecate any return to the old system. There- fore, though he had no objection to this return, and though he was aware that no proceedings were to be taken upon the motion during this session, yet, differing as lie did from the noble lord as to many of the facts which he had stated, as well as from the arguments which he had deduced from those facts, he felt it his duty to implore the house and the public to consider well the inconvenience and evil which must result from a change of the law as it stood ; to discuss dispassionately both sides of this question; to compare ob- jection with objection; and to determine at length to legislate upon general principles, in case, as generally hap- pened, facts were found to agree with those general prin- ciples, which they ought to look to on this very important question; and having done this, then let them proceed to apply police regulations, not to one class only of these house?, but to all indifferently. ( Hear, hear.) Mr. PAKINGTON expressed himself convinced, from his experience as a chairman of quarter sessions, that it was almost impossible to overrate the prejudicial effects which the Beer aet had produced in the morals of the people. Mr. HUME said, the eternal reproduction of this subject before the house, session after session, seemed to him to be a most reprehensible meddling with the comforts of the poor man. ( Hear, hear.) He did not see why the poor man should not be allowed to take his pot of beer wherever he could get it at the cheapest rate. When hon, gentlemen talked so much of the increase of crime, and the demoralised state of the people, had tb'ev no idea that this might be attributable to the poverty of the people, rather than to their occasional indulgence in a pot of beei ? But lie must say he doubted the facts al- leged, respecting the increase of crime. He could by no means undeistaml how it could be so, at a time when the table was loaded with papers and returns from magistrates and other respectable authorities, fcom which it appeared that the general morals of the people were in a very much higher state now than formerly. Notwithstanding the great increase of visitors at fatifs, there were fewer cases of resort to the police than heretofore. During the last two years there had been sagreat an improvement in the people of the metropolis, that one policeman was sufficient where three were necessary. With respect to beer- shops, the licensed victuallers had been going round in order to raise an opposition to these shops. No less than 314 licensed victualling houses were complained of, where 230 or 240 beer- shops offended. If any thing pleased him more than another in what had fallen from the Chancellor of the Exchequer, it was the declaration, that if the house put down beer- shops he would consider how far licensed victuallers ought to go entirely free. Lord DUNGANNON said, that the hon. member bad taken an extremely partial view of the question. The evils of the beer- houses had increased to a serious extent. In a part of the country with which he was ac- quainted, deer- stealing, highway robbery, and crimes of a deeper dye, had been concocted at these houses. The credit allowed there had ruined many poor families. The facts came before him as a magistrate and a country gentleman. When it was found that all classes in the country considered this as a serious evil, a case would be made out to induce Her Majesty's government to take the subject into their serious consideration. He was not adverse to the comforts of the poor, but these shops conducted the poor man into every species of vice. In the rural districts of the country the evil was most serious, and on his own estate he had strictly forbidden every tenant to set up a beer- shop. Mr. WARBURTON said, that ever since the act passed this class of shops had been unpopular with magis- trates and clergy. Long before the act passed old women had railed against public- houses; what had been said of public- houses then was said of beer- houses now, and always would be said of places of humble entertainment, which never would he popular with a certain class. What had been said by the noble lord of beer- houses might be said of club- houses as well as of taverns. If the noble lord should succeed in pre- venting the sale of beer, or from its being drunk on the pre- mises, he ( Mr. Warburton) should propose that no liquor should be drunk on the premises of licensed victuallers, or in any hotel in London. Mr. DARBY said, that the honourable member for Kilkenny might have learned from what had fallen from judges aud magistrates at sessions, that robberies and crimes had been planned at beer- shops, which were mostly sinks of vice. A better description of persons went to public- houses than to beer- shops, which were the resort of bad characters, and were often kept open all night, and this could not he prevented in the country. Mr. HAWES said, that the whole of the noble lord's ease rested on an alleged increase of crime. If this could be shown, and that the beer- houses were the only causes of crime, that would be an argument for putting them down. But what was the fact? In two metropoli- tan counties, Middlesex and Surrey, there had been a steady decrease of crime during the last three years, though the population had increased and beer- shops had multiplied It was true there had been a better police, and prompter gaol deliveries. Of serious offences, in 1834, the number was 17 per cent. ; in 1835, 16 per cent.; in 1836, 15 per cent.; in 1837, 13 per cent. If the state of crime was ex- amined, it would be found that all those offences which might be supposed to be the result of hard drinking and bad company had diminished, and that offences had decreased in the country districts, where the evils of beer- shops were said to be most felt. Education was the proper corrective of crime, and who were the opposei s of all education, not founded upon a particular creed, but the honourable gentle- men opposite? The noble lord was bound to show that the state of crime was an evil to be attributable to beer- houses. Mr. SLANEY opposed the motion— He was of opinion that the noble lord ought to propose some measuwfor ameliorating the present system, which, even with its delects, was preferable to the former, instead of endeavouring- to put it down altogether. He admitted there had been an increase of crime, but lie was more in- clined to attribute it to the enormous increase in the con- sumption of spirits than to the effects of the beer- shops. From the returns, which he had minutely examined, he found that the consumption of spirits had, within twenty years, increased from 9,000,000 gallons to27,000,000 gallons. That was a frightful increase, and, in some degree, owing to the scandalously inefficient manner in which the police dis- charged their duty. Whenever he had left that house after midnight, sometimes at one and two o'clock, he had inva- riably seen on his way home, several spirit- shops open, and persons coming out of them in a state of inebriation. If the police were attending to their duty, that could not take place with impunity to either party. With regard to beer- shops, he was certainly of opinion, that some improvement should be made in the mode ef granting licenses. Some criterion, that of property, perhaps, ought to be required, before anyone should be permitted to establish a beer shop. There was a great difference between the working of the present system in large towns and in the country, as the competition created in the former from the multiplicity of such houses, secuied to the inhabitants a good article at a cheap rate. This was not so in villages, which required a check of a different nature. On the whole, lie thought the subject should be inquired into, with a view to the improve- ment of the present system. Mr. M. PHILIPS would never he induced to sup- port a repeal of the Beer bill. It was clear there could be nothing done at present on the subject, and he would strongly recommend that at an early period of next session, a committee should be appointed to investigate and report upon it. Lord INGESTRIE suggested an early inquiry. Mr. WALLACE was convinced that if there were no such persons as licensed victuallers they would have no complaints against the bill. In his country the facilities for selling spirits and beer were much greater than in England. They actually en- couraged persons of good character to take out licenses for that purpose; but in this country it was the reverse. The worst description of persons were driven into the beer- shops, by endeavouring to depreciate them in as well as out of Parliament, and stating that all who entered them were persons of bad character. ( Hear, hear.) He would ad- vise, as in his country, the encouragement of fair competi- tion. He could produce villages in Scotland in which every other house was a beer- shop ( loud laughtet) ; and yet from those houses the people returned as sober as the frequenters of Crockford's or any other club in London. ( Renewed laughter.) They went to those places to refresh, not in- toxicate themselves. It was thought no disgrace to do so; and if the same liberal system were adopted in England, he had no doubt it would be attended with the same happy result. Mr. C. VILLIERS felt disposed to support the sug gestion of the hon. member for Manchester, for a com- mittee of inquiry early next session ; by which time they might have petitions and facts to proceed upon. He denied that the Beer act had had a mischievous ten- dency, and totally differed from what had been stated by the noble lord who intioduced the subject on that point, and in reference particularly to South Lancashire. He de- fied any man to show that the conduct of the people had deteriorated since the introduction of that act. On the contrary, he was prepared to maintain, that previous to its passing they were in a much worse condition, and that pro- perty also was much less secure. It was the interest of the magistrates and of those who created them to go back to the old system, and that he apprehended was the object 01 endeavouring to put down the Beer act. Sir G. GUEST was understood to support the motion. Mr. BROTHERTON was of opinion that the great in- crease of beer- shops had led to intemperance, and iu many instances to poverty. He was, therefore, dis- posed to support the suggestion for inquiry, with the view to the adoption of some ulterior measure for the improvement of the present system. Mr. AGLIONBY advocated the present system, and denied that any evils had arisen from it either in towns or in the country— none, at least, of a greater magni- tude than an efficient police would suffice to prevent or put a stop to. An hon. member on the ministerial side of the house stated, in supporting the motion, that in his part of the country ( Hampshire) a building was lately being erected, the workmen engag- ed iu which were paid from 10s. to 15s. a- week; that several beer- shops were immediately opened; that these workmen habitually got drunk iu them, and scarcely ever took home any of their wages to their families. Mr. PARROTT thought the Beer act one of the best acts that had ever passed; and if they were now to re- strict the trade within its former limits they would cause a loss to the revenue of 500,000?. a- year. Mr. HINDLEY said, he was not favourable to the con- tinuance of the present system. But as it would be very difficult to interfere with those who had embarked capital in the trade, he would say that it would now, perhaps, be better to improve than destroy it. He was decidedly of opinion that the police system likewise required amelioration. The motion was agreed to. Lord SANDON called the attention of the house to the unsettled claims of British subjects on the government of Portugal for military services rendered to Donna Maria in the contest with Don Miguel. Lord PALMERSTON said that the government had not been inattentive to these claims, and assured the house that whatever influence the British government pos- sessed should be exerted to bring about as early a settlement of them as the circumstances of the Portu- guese government would admit. On the motion of Sir R. BATESON, a return w as ordered of all the stipendiary magistrates in Ireland, specifying their names, salaries, and emoluments, the dale of their appointments, their residence, and the districts under their charge. Mr. PRAEO moved for papers relative to the king- dom of Qudc, part of which Sir J. Hobhouse objected to produce, and Mr. Praed was contented to take the others, which were accordingly ordered. WEDNESDAY. The Hartlepool Dock and Railway bill was read a third time, after a division of 15 to 65. The Westminster Improvement bill was withdrawn ; the Tontine clause being generally objected to. PAROCHIAL ASSESSMENT BILL.— Mr. Shaw Lefevre moved the second reading of this bill. The motion was the occasion of some conversation, in which the object of the bill is very imperfectly set forth. It is to make tithe rent charges, under the Commutation aet, pay the same rate as rents, instead of paying the same rate as tithes. The motion was opposed by Mr. Goulburn and Sir Edward Sugden, it was however, carried by 104 to 42. Sir William Rae's bill to give tojusticesof thepeace a concurrent jurisdiction with sheriffs, in respect of small debts, was thrown out on the third reading, by 63 to 45. IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT.— This bill was read a second time. In answer to Lord Stanley, the Attorney- General said it was his intention to press this bill during the present session of Parliament, because it would be a great reproach to him if it were not to be passed. Everything likely to excite party feeling had been extracted from it, and he therefore hoped it would pass without any opposition. The house adjourned at a quarter past nine. HOUSE OF LORDS— FRIDAY. The Poor Relief ( Ireland) bill was read a third time. The passing of the bill was postponed till Monday. MONDAY. The Earl of RADNOR complained that the pledge, on which his bill for the reform of the university statutes had been opposed, namely, that the university itself was about to make such a reform, had been violated, little or no progress having been made by the univer sity in that direction. The l) ukc of WELLINGTON, in reply, called upon the house to allow the colleges to proceed in their labours, and when these were completed they could, if unsatisfactory, be made the subject of discussion and amendment. The Marquis of CAMDEN said, every disposition to meet the altered circumstances of the times existed in the University of Cambridge. The conversation terminated by the reading a second time of the Irish Municipal hill, which was done with hut one word of disagreement from Lords Londonderry and Roden ; the Duke of Wellington contenting him- self with stating, that in committee amendments would be offered which would make the billmore conformable than it. now was to the interests of Ireland. Lord BROUGHAM postponed his motion on the sub- ject of the slave trade till Monday, in order to allow the Irish Municipal bill to be cotnmitted. The Benefices Plurality bill was considered in com- mittee. The third clause, which provided that no clergyman who held cathedral preferment of 1,000?. or upwards, should hold at the same time any benefice exceeding 500?. in value, was struck out on the argu- ments of the Bishops of Rochester, Gloucester, Salis- bury, London, and the Primate. The house then resumed. Lord MELBOURNE having moved that the Irish Poor- law do pass— The Marquis of LONDONDERRY, after observing that Ireland was almost unanimous in its opposition, moved the rejection of the bill. The Earl of Limerick, Lord Clanricarde, Lord Monntcashell, briefly, and Lord Brougham at some length, supported the Marquis of Londonderry's amend- ment. Lord BROUGHAM said— He believed the analogy attempted to be drawn between England and Ireland to lie fallacious. Their lordships had heard that all the population of Ireland— Protestant and Catholic, Radical and moderate, if there were such a tiling as a moderate party in that country—( laughter)— the rich and the poor, objected to the measure; one class consider- ing it a burden and a curse, and the other as a sham and pretext, and wholly unfitted to their exigencies. Was such the ease iu England ? True, the English Poor- law Amend- ment act was unpopular with some classes, the jobbers in workhouses and vestries, and by the lazy, idle, and dissolute poor. But, with the exception of those parties.— few in numbers, and iu influence nothing— the English bill was pleasing as well to the industrious or laborious poor as to the upper and middle classes. Above all, the bill was uni- formly supported by those classes to whose hands its execu- tion was intrusted. Would that be the case in Ireland? Nothing of the kind. ( Hear, hear.) The very men to whose hands their lordships would be compelled to intrust the execution of the measure were banded together as one individual against it. They abjured, they abhorred, and detested it. ( Hear.) Lord Brougham, after observing on the perturbed state of Ireland, according to Mr. O'Connell's admis- sion, ended by stating his belief that the only mode of tranquillising it, was by making the priests stipen- diary— He had no hesitation in declaring it as his opinion, that, except there be a provision for the Roman Catholic clergy, all efforts to benefit Ireland will be fruitless, and will end in disappointment. Such a step at first might be dis- agreeable to the priests; they might be annoyed by it, agitate, address their lordships by petition, deprecate any provision from the government, and declare that they would not receive a penny; but he ( Lord Brougham) would not mind that. Let there be a lund provided, and he would say to the Roman Catholic clergy, " one priest shall have 100/. a year, another 150/., a bishop 300/., an archbishop 450/., or some such amounts." He would say, " here is the money,, will you take it? You have opposed this provision— you have not forfeited your consistency, you still retain the con- fidence of, and consequently the influence over your flock, but here is the money, a grant from Parliament," and after this, although not in the habit of indulging in predictions, he felt satisfied that all the priesthood would immediately come into terms. Lord MELBOURNE did not think the bill was more unpopular now than the English poor- law was when it was passed. Lord PLUNKETT said, Ireland had always been in a dangerous state; its present condition was no novelty. But a dangerous state and an insurrectionary state were very different. After a few words of Lords Roden, Glengall, and Gort, against the bill, it was passed by 93 to 31. TUESDAY. Lord BROUGHAM moved— That an humble address be presented to Her Mnjestypray- ing that she would be graciously pleased to direct that there be laid before this house copies of any orders issued by the Admiralty, touching any warning or prohibition against an entrance into the Spanish ports by Sardinian or other ves- sels; and of any warning or notification addressed to neutral powers accordingly. The motion, after a long discussion, was lost, the numbers being for it, 57 ; against it, 57. The discus- sion, especially towards the close, was wittily per- sonal. Lord BROUGHAM said Lord Melbourne's speech against the motion— Was entirely destitute of argument from the beginning to the end ; it had not a single rag to cover its nakedness. ( Laughter.) The government felt they were in an awkward situation ; but they said to themselves after some hours' debate. " This is a troublesome business! If we had only happened to have thought of the suggestion of the noble duke, which he has thrown out as a plank to save us, like many others which he has thrown to us in the mo- ment of difficulty, we might have avoided all this." The noble viscount had appealed to the patriotism, and pru- dence, and love of justice of i heir lordships, but he ought to have added that he trusted to their lordships' gullibility ( Renewed laughter.) The DUKE of WELLINGTON came to the assistance of ministers, on the attack being made upon tliem— He did not approve of the policy of those instructions; and, except what he had heard in the debates of that house, he knew nothing of those instructions; but as far as he understood, they never had been acted on, and he thought it most likely that they never would be. Under these . circumstances, he confessed that he felt induced to ask their lordships not to call for the instructions which the noble viscount had declated it would be detrimen- tal and inconvenient to the public service to produce.— ( Murmurs.) The EARL of MANSFIELD declared his intention to vote for the motion. He said he had heard the Duke of Wellington's recommendation with great pain. The Lords did not sit on Wednesday. NEWS OF THE WEEK. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. The present effective strength of the National Guards of Paris is 58,431 men, among whom there are 1,784 officers, and 9,500 non- commissioned officers. A most atrocious piece of cruelty has been recently dis- covered at Gerauvilliers, in the Meuse, when two unnatural parents, through hatred of one of their children, a girl only twelve years of age, kept her chained up in a stable along with the cattle for two months, beat her continually, and allowed her little or no food, nor any covering except the straw which she could colleet from the litters of the ani- mals. The poor child died at the end of this time, and was buried under a dung- hill by the father and mother. The report of her death, however, got wind, and the autho- rities had the body exhumed. It was then found that she had been reduced to little more than a skeleton previous to her decease, and that her wrists and heels were partially worn away by the dreadful treatment which she had been made to undergo. The Prince de Joinville and suite arrived in this city last evening, aud took lodgings at the Astor- house, where they were received with appropriate honours by our French residents. The piirice, we understand, will partake this day of a splendid banquet with his countrymen, and pro- ceed on Monday to Boston, whence he will repair to New- port for embarkation Letterfrom New York, of the 16 th. EGYPT AND TUB PORTE.— Mehemet Ali has at last thrown down the gauntlet, and to the face of Europe and the Mahometan world challenged the Sultan, through so provoking a summons, to enter the lists, that it has grown alike impossible for him to recede, and for his antagonist to decline the acceptance of the combat. In an official note addressed on the 4th ult. to the British, French, Austrian, and Russian consuls at Cairo, the viceroy has requested them to acquaint their respective courts with the fact of his having renounced all allegiance to the Sultan, and consti- tuted himself independent sovereign of Egypt, Arabia, and Syria Letter from Constantinople, June 16. M. PAPINEAU.— The Hon. L. J. Papineau, late Speaker of the Assembly of Lower Canada, is said to have passed through this city a few days since, to join his family at Sara- toga Springs. We believe that M. Papineau spent the winter and spring in Saratoga county Commercial { New York) Advertiser. The day before yesterday, on the quay near the Pont Notre- Dame, a man, apparently a carpenter, threw himself on his knees before a heavily- laden waggon, and placed his head under the wheel, by which it was instantly crushed to pieces. The face was so horribly mutilated that it was im- possible to recognise the individual, or even to guess at his age. The action had been so sudden that the bystanders could not prevent this lamentable suicide from taking place ; all that they could do was to transport the body to the Morgue.— Paris papers of Saturday. A BOLD RUFFIAN.— A lady went the other day into a shop in the Rue Richelieu to buy a Cachmere shawl, and, having arranged the price, took from her purse a bank- note, and was in the act of handing it over to the cashier's counter, near the door, when a man, who had been observed watch- ing Inn at the shop do > r, rushed in, struck the lady, and, snatching tile note from her hand, exclaimed, " I have already forbidden you to buy a shawl; but will watch you, and you shall not have one." He then went out of the" shop, and the lady fainted away. On her revival, the master of the shop began to condole with her on this scene of vio- lence, and regretted that she had so brutal a husband. " My husband!" cried the lady; " I never saw the man be- fore!" It tuined out that she had been robbed; pursuit was instantly made after the audacious rogue, but it was all in vain : lie had got clear off.— Paris paper. The storm of the 4th did great damage at Boitsfort, Watermail, and in the environs of Brussels. A waterspout burst in that district, the water rooted up the trees, tore up the pavement, aiul caused all the ponds to overflow ; cattle and numbers of swine were drowned. The carriages which happened to be on the roads, weie obliged to hasten to the higher ground, not to be carried away by the torrents, which poured down on all sides. The crops suffered great injury. The sluice of the polder of Lillo was set at work at nine o'clock in the morning ; during that time a quantity of water, estimated at 300,000 cubic yards, was drawn off. The number of men employed on the works is still 1,457, and that of the boats 295. MEDICAL RETORT — Miss Martiijeau in her last volumes, " Retrospect of Western Travel," has a chapter upon " originals," in which she tells an anecdote of a " village doctor" in Vermont, who was called upon to attend liec travelling companion, from whom, notwithstanding her re- peated enquiries, she could not extract the slightest infor- mation as to her friend's prospects in regard to health. He would give her no hints by which she could form her plans and write to her friends, and she was never so completely in the dark about the nature of any illness. " I fancy ( says she) I hear now the sharp, conceited tones of the doctor, doggedly using his power of exasperating my anxiety." The " village doctor" referred to resides at Brattleboro'. He is a highly respectable physician, and in relation to the subject THE BIRMINGHAM. JOURNAL, JULY 14. says, " I ail not tamely to be held up to the derision of Eng- land and America. It is true, I did not tell lier, although she almost pestered my life to be informed, I bore it ail, nnd equivocated and eva < 1, and all from motives of deli- cacy, to if/ are the wdmaH's feelings. If she lias been very much coi rerned to know, and is yet in the dark, 1 will en- lighten her darkne s. Her friend was in the first stage of delirium tremens!"— American Paper. - in EQUESTRIANISM EXTRAORDINARY— It is a pity that the members of your Jocl; ev Club were not present at the great fair of Berdytchew, in Volhnyia, which commenced on the 12th of June, and is not yet over. Figure to yourself25,000 wild horses, brought thither by Tartars, Kalmucks, Gabar- dians, and Cossacks; as many more trained horses, and every day, morning and evening, eight or ten races between Asiatic and European horsemen. On the 14th the Tartar Ali defied the Pole Abramowitch. The course was six French miles, and the prize was to be the possession of two race- horses, and a sura of 10,090 francs. The Pole ivon ; his horse cleared the distance in twenty- seven mi- nutes. The Tartar's horse fell when it had reached about midway. On the 25th, twenty- five Circassian, Cossack, Polish, Russian, and Tartar horsemen started from the post at the same time, and cleared a space of two leagues in about eight or nine minutes. Nothing could be more pic- turesque than the variegated colours of the costumes of the riders, the fierv Eastern steeds, whose silky manes were wafted by the wind, and a crowd of ladies in carriages en- couraging the runners as they passed. The captain of the Cossacks of the Don, Jelovajeki, arrived first, and won the prize, which was valued at 20,000 francs— Letter from Brody, in Austrian Galicia. CHINESE CONVERTS " We learn from Pekin," says a letter dated St. Petersburgh, June 22d, " where a mission from the Greek Church of Russia has existed since the time of Peter the Great, that upwards of 30,000 Chinese have embraced Christianity, and that there was every reason to believe that all persecution of Christians was on the point of ceasing. The emperor himself is said to have studied Christianity, and to hold it in respect; while at his accession to the throne Christian blood was frequently made to flow. The rigorous laws against Christians now only exist on paper, and their execution is intrusted to such mandarins alone as are favourable to the Christians. The law of 1836, although in terms applying to all Christians, was directed solely against the English, of whose political influence the emperor began to be afraid. There are, in China, several Vicariats, whose chiefs are to be found at Pekin, Nankin, and Macoa." THE POLES General Schypoff, director of Public In. sfruction in Poland, has recently published an ordinance, containing the following articlesr— 1. In all parishes where schools are established there shall be a Professor of the Russian language, appointed by government. 2. The children of the inhabitants, of whatever rank, shall attend these schools to learn the Russian language, shall be punished in the usual manner, and his parents fined fifty roubles for the first offence, 100 roubles for the second, and 300 roubles for the third ; but the fourth time they and their children shall be held guilty of a breach of the orders of the autho- rities. 4. No person shall be allowed to have a private tutor in his family, who is not furnished with a certificate that he is perfect master of the Russian language, and every child who is privately taught shall be brought once a month before the Russian professor of the parish to be examined in the language. 5. No person can fill a situation, civil or military, until he proves that he can speak the Russian language. DOMESTIC. THE METROPOLIS, THUNDER- STORM The neighbourhood of the metropolis was yesterday ( Friday) morning, about seven o'clock, visited by a most dreadful storm of thunder and lightning, which lasted for a considerable time, and during which we regret to state, a fatal calamity occurred at Kensington. In Leonard- place, on the left hand side of the high raod, the lightning struck the premises of a gentleman named Crick- ett, residing at No. 12. At the moment, a boy named Thomas Green, about fourteen years of age, was engaged in the stables attached to Mr. Crickett's coachhouses, which are situate at the bottom of that gentleman's garden, when he was alarmed by a loud and deafening explosion ; he ran up stairs to the room above, in which the coachman, named Charles Webb, and his wife, were still sleeping. On reaching their door, he observed smoke issuing through the crevices, and on looking in saw Webb and his wife lying on the bed enveloped in flames. On the neighbours' reaching the door of the room, an awful sight presented itself, Webb being discovered on the bed quite dead, and by his side his wife in apparently a dying state. The right arm of theformer, down to the wrist, was much scorched and contracted, and the fingers drawn in towards the hand. The right side of the body, from the hip to the chest and neck, was also very much excoriated. The face, although of a livid hue, appeared uninjured, and the features were perfectly calm, as if in sleep. The upper part of the unfortunate woman's person was frightfully burnt and disfigured. Over her right eye was a wound, more resembling a pistol shot than any- thing else, and the ear on that side was completely shrivelled up. Her features were much distorted, and her face, neck, breast, and arms dreadfully burnt. She was insensible, but still alive. The unfortunate couple, who were about thirty- one years of age, had notbeen married above twelve mouths. — London paper of Saturday. The extreme humidity of the spring has had a disastrous effect on some of the more sensitive animals of the mena- gerie in the Garden of Plants. The monkey tribe have been the greatest sufferers, chiefly from affections of the chest, and a considerable number have died during the last few months. SUGAR.— THE BOUNTY The Gazette this day ( July tjtb) quotes the average price of British Plantation MuscovaJo Sugar, exclu- sive of duty, at — 33s. 4£ d'. Yesterday, at auction, in Mincing- lane, Manilla ( free labour sugars from the Phillippine islands) were bought in by the vendor, at from . 21s. to 23s. Gd. This morning Manilla sugar was sold by auction at the Commercial Sale- rooms, Mincing- lane, at fiom 20s. 6d. to 23s. Od. Being 10s. per cwt. cheaper than West India sugar. Refined sugar, equal in quality to double- refined,* lias been sold this week ( free on board) at • 33s. 6d. Deducting shipping charges 2s. 2d— 31s. 4d. Which is 2s. per cwt. cheaper than the Muscovado sugar from which it is made! British treacle is worth 9s. per cwt. in the foreign markets. The same has been sold this morning in London at 26s. per cwt., being an excess of price paid by the British consumer of 178. per cwt. On Friday, the 15th ult., a train on the London and Birmingham impelled by three engines, conveyed 1,652 fat sheep from Denbigh Hall to London. The opinion of the drovers is, that the old mode, when the railway is complete, will be superseded; not that the expense is materially lessened, but that the animals arrive at their destination from 5 to 7 per cent, superior in value, than after a journey of fifty miles by the road.— Bucks Herald. REVIEW A review of the regiments in and near London took place in Hyde P. nk on Monday. The Queen was present, and the scene" was a very brilliant one. The penny- a- line man of the Sufi says-.—" The appearance of the Hyde Park- to- day must have struck the minds of the illustrious strangers present with admiration, if not with wonder and awe. The splendid evolutions of the whole of the forces engaged in the sham battle was calculated, as was frequently observed upon the ground, to ensure peace tor at least the life time of those foreign representatives who were present. The troops went through their evolutions uncommonly well; but the last volley, when die troops of the line, the rifle brigade, and the artillery fired continuously, was abso- lutely grand, and excited wonder." Doubtless the evolu- tions of 4,500 men must have appeared very grand, and the noise they made quite awful, to Wellington and old Soult, for whose amusement the show was got up. CHARGE OF ATTEMPTING TO ENTER THE QUEEN'S APART- MENTS Yesterday an unfortunate man, named Thomas Flower, who has been charged upon two several occasions at the Queen's- square Police- office, with having been found in the precincts of Buckingham- palace, in order to demand the hand of Her Majesty in marriage, was brought before Messrs. Gregorie and White, charged at the instance of the Hon. Charles Murray, with having attempted to intrude himself into the apartments of the Queen at the palace. Mr. Randall, one of the Queen's pages, deposed, that on Monday night, about ten minutes before twelve o'clock, he was passing through the picture gallery and found the de- fendant, who was attired in the meanest manner, seated upou a chair, within seven yards of the royal bed- room. It appeared that Her Majesty had only retired to rest about ten minutes previously, and that the defendant had obtained entrance by mixing with the servants of the foreign ambas- sadors, who had been invited to an entertainment after the review in Hyde- park. Police- sergeant Cook, of the B division, stated, that the man, who 6tyles himself Captain Flower, of the 13th Light Dragoons, was most obstreperous upon being taken into custody. It required the aid of two policemen and two of the Rifle Brigade to convey him to the station- house, and even then it was necessary to strap his legs and arms. He said, that his intentions towards the Queen were highly honourable.— Defendant : And so they are. It was entirely by mistake that I wandered into the picture gallery, nor did 1 know that Her Majesty's bed- room was so closely adjacent. I came to speak to Lady Mary Stopford. Mr. Randal! stated that the man had tried several gates of the palace before he managed to gain access to the picture gallery. Had he entered ten minutes sooner the Queen would have been passing to her bed- room. Defendant, who is evidently a lunatic, was ordered to find sureties to keep the peace for the future; in default, he was sent to. the Tothill- fields House of Correction. The man is of a respectable family, and lias, for many years, been connected in the jewellery line with one of the first firms in London. [ We received this from the reporter who usually furnishes the accounts of what takes place at the Queen- square Police- office. If it be true, we question whether there is another lady in the country so negligently served as the Queen ; and certainly no time should be lost in providing Her Majesty with attendants whose watchful- ness will guard her against the possibility of similar visits from madmen, who may be as mischievous as this poor crea- ture seems to be harmless.]— Times. PROVINCIAL. LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILROAD— On Saturday after- noon, a fatal accident occurred to a man of the name of Dent, in the service of the London and Birmingham Rail- load Company. Dent, who was on the roof of one of the carriages, had been employed in placing the tarpauling over the luggage, and which had been removed by the violence of the wind. A few miles from Watford, he was so engaged just as the line of carriages was about to pass under a bridge, going at a speed of about 30 miles an hour, when his head came in violent collision with the arch of the bridge, and lie was immediately precipitated from his situation, falling between the carriages on one of the tram rails. The train, owing to the velocity with which it was going, went on near a mile before it could be stopped. It then returned, when the men found the poor fellow's body had been run over. It was in a frightfully mangled state. Dent had been in the employ of the company several months, and was a trust- worthy and valuable servant. The Royal William steamer, which sailed from Liverpool on Thursday night, at 8 o'clock, for New York, was off Holyhead at 4 o'clock on Friday Morning, having steamed the distance at the rate of 8i knots per hour. CHURCH AND QUEEN The inhabitants of Holbeach set on foot a subscription for the purpose of giving a feast to the poor on the day of the Coronation, when about 401, was got together. This sum being quite inadequate, the vicar was solicited to set an example'to those who refused to subscribe unless he did, and to give a sum of money towards the en- tertainment. The rev. gentleman resisted every impor- tunity, in consequence of which the money was returned to the subscribers. On Friday night, about 12 o'clock, the poor people, who had been disappointed of their anticipated rejoicings through the vicar, assembled in vast numbeis before his house, on which they made a desperate attack, first breaking the windows, and ultimately pulling down the premises, three parts of which they levelled with the ground. THE OLD POOR LAW. — BIGAMY EXTRAORDINARY.— At the Devon county sessions last week, a man was indicted for bigamy, he having married a second wife,. the former be- ing then living. It appeared that in 1811, a" woman of the parish of Hemlock, who was with child, swore to the pri- soner as being the father, and he was apprehended by the parish officers. He denied the charge, and not being able to pay was held in custody. The officers urged him to marry the woman, in order to get rid of the burden from their parish, which he at first refused to do, but being threatened with a deprivation of his liberty, he chose what lie thought might prove the least of the two evils, and gave his unwilling consent to wed the frail one. A license was immediately procured, and he was taken from custody to the church, where the ceremony was gone through. On coming out of church, however, they separated^ his wife went her way, and he retired to his home. Ten years since he married a second wife, with whom he lived in happiness and contentment. Theformer woman now became chargeable to the parish, and the accused not being willing or in cir- cumstances to maintain her, an indictment was preferred against him by the parish officers for bigamy, which was sustained wholly upon the allegation that he knew his first wife was alive. The jury found the prisoner guilty; and the court sentenced him to be imprisoned one hour. SCOTLAND. BRUTAL. ASSAULT On Friday morning last, in conse- Suence of a warrant from Mr. John Adair, procurator- fisdal, ames M'Culloch, aged 20; Robert Turnbull, aged 17; and Robert Diamond, aged 12, were taken into custody at Freugh, and brought into Stranraer for examination, on a charge of assaulting, to the danger of life, Alexander, son of David Orr, labourer, a child only nine years old. The three prisoners, it appears, as well as David Orr, were farm servants in the employment of Mr. Milroy, of Freugh, to whom either Orr or his wife, the mother of the child, com- plained of the improper usage his ( Milroy's) horses received from the prisoners, and particularly from M'Culloch, and for this act they sought the savaga revenge of attacking the child, whom they met on the road on the Tuesday preceding their apprehension, and who was sent on a message by his mother. M'Culloch commenced the attack by throwing the child down with his face against a whin bush; one of them got on the top of him, and pressed on the small of his back, while another beat him about the spine with a sharp stone, and the third kicked him about the body; at last one of them drew a knife, and an attempt was made to stab the child, but it only scratched his breast. His cries at last brought his mother to his assistance, who took the poor boy in her arms, and endeavoured to protect him from those wretches, but it was not until they saw his father hastening towards the place that they desisted and ran off; and even then, one of them, when he had got a little distance, took up a large stone and threw it with so sure an aim, that it struck the boy on the back as he lay senseless is his mother's arms.— Gallowai/ Register. On Sunday afternoon an Irishman and his wife were walking along the banks of the Union Canal, when the man was observed to give his wife several unmerciful blows, and then to thrust her into the water. The alarm was instantly given, and the fellow, after a most obstinate resistance, was seized. A young lad, a baker, dragged the unfortunate woman from the water, but the spark ol life was extinguished. She is reported to have been a pleasant- looking girl, about 18 years of age, and, what makes her death more to be la- mented, she was far advanced in pregnancy. Her unfeeling husband is now a prisoner in Falkirk steeple— Stirling Ob- server. THE BRITISH QUEEN This stupendous steam ship measures 1,862 tons; the deck is flush, there being no ob- struction of paddle- boxes or machinery on the whole of her length, which is 275 feet, nearly double the length of Nel- son's monument in the Green. The Americanjnd British flags flaunted at her masts on Saturday. The interior of the vessel is equally wonderful— it is like a little town— there being two flats of berths, which amount, we are given to understand, to 300. The Queen has a full length like- ness of Her Majesty in front, and is supposed to be the largest vessel in the world, being thirty- five feet longer than any ship in the British navy. She was built by Messrs. Curling and Young, of Limehouse, for the British and American Steam Navigation Company; and when she gets in her machinery, which Mr. Robert Napier of this city is to have the high honour of furnishing, the Queen will ply betwixt London and New York. Every person who saw her before she left the Thames, including many naval offi- cers of high rank, expressed themselves in terms of ad- miration of the handsome appearance of this vessel, and she proved herself a capital sailer on the way down, her general running being about eleven knots an hour.— Scot- tish Guardian. We are sorry to learn, that, in very many instances in this and the neighbouring districts, the turnip crop has proved almost a total failure. In several cases they have been sown thrice over, and failed in each time. The failure in the potatoe crop is happily but of a partial nature, and does not appear to be giving the farmers much concern.— Paisley Advertiser. MISCELLANEOUS. THE BREAD TAX The price ot white wheaten bread of the first quality, at Paris, is 67^ c. the loaf of two kilogram- mes, which is less than Gd. the loaf of 41b. English weight, and the price of bread of the first quality in London being lOd. the loaf of 411)., the difference is" 66| per cent, that bread is dearer in London than at Paris. The highest quotation of white wheat of the first quality is 33f. the 1J hectolitre, which equals 50s. 5d. the quarter; the highest quotation of flour of the first quality is60f. the 159 kilogram- mes, which answers to 37s. Sd. the sack of 2801b. English weight, and the highest quotation of flower of the first qua- lity in London being 60s. the sack, it follows that flower is 59J per cent, dealer in London than at Paris, and that with the sum of Si. a man, may buy 4461b. of fine flour at Paris, whereas, with the sirme sum, he can buy only 2801b. in Lon- don. At Dieppe, wheat rules from 40f. to 45f. the double hectolitre, which is from 45s. lOd. to 51s. 7d. the quarter. At Brie- Comte- Robert the registered price of wheat of the first quality is 21f. 33c., of the sscond quality 20f. 60c., and of the third quality 18f. 67c., which gives a mean price of 20f. 20c. the hectolitre, and which answers to 46s. 3( 1. the quarter. At Rheims,' wheat rules from 15f. 20c. to 17f. 20c., which is from 35s. 9d. to 39s. 4d. the quarter. At Blois, the registered mean price of wheat is 19f. 71c., which equals 15s. 2d. the quarter. At Charleville, the quotation of wheat is from 18f. to 20., which is from 41s. 3d. to 45s. 10d. the quarter. At Dunkirk, wheat rules from 25f. to 30f. the one and a half hectolitre, whiich is from 38s. 2d. to 45s. lOd. the quarter. At Meaux, the quotation of wheat ol the first quality is 20f. of the second quality, 19f. 33c., and of the third quality 18f., which gives a mean price of 19f. 11c., and which answers to 43s. 2d. the quarter. At ; Limoges wheat is quoted from 19f. to 20f. which is from 43s. 6d. to 45s. lOd. the quarter. At Dijon the highest quotation of wheat is 19f. 10c., which equals 44s, 5d. the quarter. At Hennebon the quotation of wheat of the first quality is 18f. 54c., which is 42s. 6d. the quarter. At Rouen wheat rules from 20f. 50c. fb 20 f. 7JC., which is fro. n 47s. to 49s. lOd. the quarter. At Lyons the highest quotation of wheat is 18f., which equals fs. Gd. tlie quarter. At Soissons the quotation of wheat the first quality is from 2G0f. to 2G5f., of the second qua- lity from 254f. to 255f., and of the third quality from 245f, to 250f., all the muid of 13 hectolitres ; which gives a mean price of 19f. 63c. the hectolitre, and which answers to 4' 4s. 1 Id. the quarter. The highest quotation of flour of the first quality is 51 f. the 150 kilogrammes, which answers to 32s. Id. the sack of 2S01bs. English weight; and the high- est quotation of flour of the first quality in London being 60s. the sack, it follows that flour is 87 per cent dearer in London than at Soissons, and that with the sum of 31. a man may buy 5241b. of fine flour at Soissons, whereas with the same sum he can buy only 2801b. in London— Times. MAKE- BELIEVE WINES.— It is not, perhaps, generally known, that very large establishments exist at Cette and Marseilles, in the south of France, for the manufacture of ^ veiy description of wines, the natural products not only of France, but of all other wine growing and wine export- ing countries. Some of these establishments are on so llarge a scale as to give employment to an equal, if not greater, number of persons than our large breweries. It is no uncommon occurrence with speculators engaged in this sort of illicit traffic to purchase and ship imitation wines, fabricated in the places named, to Madeira, where, by col- lusion with persons in the custom- house department of the island, the wines are landed in the entrepot, and thence, after being branded with the usual marks as of the genuine Madeira vintage, reshipped, principally, it is belie , fo the United States.— Times. CAUSE AND EFEECT.— Two persons meeting, one ob- served to the other, " So, our old friend the counsellor, is dead ; and I am surprised to hear that he has left very few effects." " Not at all to be wondered at," replied the other, " as I understand lie had very few causes." THE WEST INDIES. The following' is an extract from the New York papers, brought by the Great Western :— We have received files of Jamaica papers by the ship John W. Cater, Captain Mead, to the 6th June. Their contents are not unimportant. It will be recollected that in August next, by an act of British Parliament, all house servants in the British colonies were to be emanci- pated, but the servitude of field labourers was to be con- tinued some years longer. We learn by our last advices from England, that an attempt to carry a bill through the House of Commons, providing for the emancipation of the whole at once, had failed; yet, notwithstanding, it now appears, a general abolition of negro servitude is about to take place. The spirit of resistance in the planters seems to have been entirely subdued by the untiring fanaticism of their countrymen in England. We shall now see what will become of these colonies, once so highly valued by Great Britain, that the capture of a West Indian island from an enemy set the streets of London in a blaze of illumination, and was rewarded by the highest honours to the officer who made it. We venture to predict that gra- dually they will dwindle into perfect insignificance,— that they will cease to produce more than is necessary to keep alive a miserable population of lazy negroes, and that the contrast in their future state will be as great as that of St. Domingo at the present hour, compared with what it was under the reign of Louis XVI. The Jamaica Despatch introduces the following speech from the governor, with some remarks, which we annex: — " Ministers, injtheir places, have opposed the measure of abolition. And yet his excellency is commanded to wrest it from the hands of the colonial legislature, under threat that cultivation must cease. Is this not a violation of the compact ? However, the legislature of Jamaica is prepared to grant entire and unqualified emancipation. But the governor has no right to claim, in behalf of the government, an account of any pacific measures that have been adopted; because the apprentices have rested in sober hope, relying upon the generosity of the planters; for if they had been the devils incarnate, represented by the lying locus focus and spies of this country, and the Sturges and Sligos of Great Britain, they, the apprentices, would have been running riot in licen- tiousness, revolt, and carnage. Notwithstanding the Par- liamentary interference— the firebrand speeches of Lord Brougham— the constant agitation of the aboliton party, striving to excite the worst passions of human nature— still the forbearance of the plan ers prevails, and peace and tran- quillity reigns triumphant." SREECH OF THE GOVERNOR. " Gentlemen of the Council. Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the Assembly. I have called you together at an unusual season, to take into your consideration the state of the Island under the laws of apprenticeship for the labouring population. I need not refer you to the agitation on this subject throughout the Bri- tish empire, or to the discussions upon it in Parliament, where the honourable efforts of the ministry were barely found sufficient to preserve the original duration of the law, as an obligation of national faith. I shall lay before you some despatches on this subject. Gentlemen,— General agitation and Parliamentary inter- ference have not, lam afraid, yet terminated. A corresponding excitement has been long going on among the apprentices themselves, but still they have rested in sober and quiet hopes, relying on your generosity that you will extend to them that boon which has been granted to their class in other countries. Gentlemen of the council, Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the Assembly, In this posture of affairs it is my duty to declare my sen- timents, and distinctly to recommend to you the early and equal abolition of apprenticeship for all classes. I do so in confidence that the apprentices will be found worthy of freedom, and that it will operate as a double blessing, by securing also the future interests of the planters. I am commanded, however, to inform you, that Her Majesty's ministers will not entertain any question of compensation; but should your views be opposed to the policy I recommend, I would entreat you to consider well how impracticable it will become to carry on coercive labour— always difficult, it would in future be in peril of constant comparison with other colonies made free, and with those estates in this island made free by individual proprietors. As governor, under these circumstances— and I never shrink from any of my responsibilities, I pronounce it physi- cally impossible to maintain the apprenticeship with any hope of successful agriculture. Gentlemen of the Council, Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the Assembly. Jamaica is in your hands; she requires repose by the removal of a law which has equally tormented the la- bourer' and disappointed the planter— a law by which man still constrains man in unnatural servitude. This is her first exigency— for her future welfare she appeals to your wisdom to legislate in the spirit of the times, with " liberality and benevolence towards all classes." IDOLATRY IN INDIA. Copy of a correspondence between Robert Nelson, Esq., cf Bath, and the Directors of the Hast India Company. London, Feb. 27, 1838. SIR,— I have the honour to request the favour of your as- certaining for me the opinion of the Honourable Court of Directors, whether the covenant I have entered into with the Hon. the East India Company renders it imperative on me to accept and undertake any office the Madras govern- ment may, conformably to law, and to the usages of the service, think fit to appoint me to. In soliciting this in- formation, I refer principally to certain offices connected with the idolatry of the country, which 1 could not feel at liberty to hold.— I have the honour to be, sir, To the Secretary of the Your obedient servant, Hon. Court of Directors ( Signed) R. NELSON, of the East India Company. Madras Civil Service. East India House, March 16, 1838. SIR,— I have laid before the Court of Directors of the East India Company your letter dated 27th Feb., 1838, in which - you request to be informed whether the covenant into which you have entered with the company renders it imperative on you to accept and undertake any office the Madras government may, conformably to law, and to the usages ot the service, think fit to appoint you to. You state that you refer principally to certain offices connected with the idolatry of the country, which you could not feel at liberty to hold. In reply, I am commanded to inform you, that the court has seen with surprise that an officer of your standing can entertain any doubt of its being imperative on you to accept and undertake any office which the government may, con- formably to law, and to the usages of the service, think fit to appoint you to, without any exceptions or reservations whatever.— I am, sir, your most obedient, humble servant, ( Signed,) J. W. MELVILLE. R. Nelson, Esq. 17, Norfolk- buildings, Bath, March 17, 1838. SIR,— I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 16th inst., conveying the opinion of the Court of Directors upon the inquiry contained in my letter of the 27th ult. It is painful and alarming to find the court establishing the principle, that every civil servant is bound by covenant to assist in and uphold the idolatrous worship of India. The directors are well aware, that acts of this nature form part of the functions of many officers under the Madras Presidency; and your letter tells me, that a civil servant has no option but to discharge them, if it be the pleasure of the government to appoint him to such office. The instiucfions of the Lord Jesus Christ are to keep myself from idols, and to flee from idolatry. The East India Company require me to unite myself with idols,— taking part in their worship, by assisting others therein. The commands of these two masters are thus in direct opposition to each other, nnd I have to choose whom I will serve, since obedience to both is impossible. As 1 prefer to follow the Lord Jesus Christ, I must re- nounce the service of the East India Company, which I therefore now do. I have accordingly to request that my name may be struck out of the list of civil servants on the Madras establishment; all the privileges of which station 1 hereby resign. I have the honour to be, sir, To the Secretary of the Your obedient servant, Hon. Court of Directors ( Signed) R. NELSON, of the East India Company. FRENCH AND ENGLISH BILLS. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH— MONDAY, JOLY 9. SITTINGS AT NISI PRIUS, AT GUILDHALL, Before Lord Denman and a Special Jury. KOTHSCHILD V. CURRIE. This was an action on a bill of exchange. The plaintiff purchased the bill in the ordinary course of business, and was a holder for a valuable consideration. The bill became due on a Saturday, and was presented at Paris on that day. It was dishonoured. The Monday was the fete of Louis Philippe, and business was only transacted up to twelve o'clock in the morning. By the law of France a bill must be protested and registered, in order to secure the rights of the holder over all the parties whose names are on the in- strument. The protestation for non- payment and the regis- tration are in that respect equivalent to the notice which, by the law of England, must be given by a holder to all the parties, of whose liabilities he intends to avail himself. The bill in this case was not protested and registered till Tues- day, notice did not reach this country till the Friday. The defence was, that there had been negligence in giving notice, that the English law relating to notice must prevail with respect to a bill to be enforced in this country, and if that was so, then, as no notice of the dishonour was given on the Monday, so as to reach England on the Wednesday, or at the farthest on the Thursday morning, all the parties, save the acceptor, were discharged. It was contended by the plaintiff, that the French law relating to bills of exchange must prevail, and that accord- ing to it the protestation was in sufficient time. Lord Denman was of opinion that the French law must prevail, and left the jury to say whether due diligence had been used. The jury deciding that question in the affirmative, re- turned a verdict for the plaintiff, leave being reserved for the defendant to move the court above. MARYLEBONE. The Reformers of Marylebone, in testimony of their res- pect for Wm. Ewart, Esq., the late candidate, gave him a dinner yesterday, at the Eyre Arms, St. John's Wood. Upward of 400 electors were present; and among them many who at the last election voted for Col. Thompson.(?) This confirms the report that the Marylebone Reformers have at length discovered their mistake, and are now de- termined to redress the evil which their temporary dif- ferences have occasioned, by henceforth faithfully com- bining theij efforts — sinking all minor points— to return two Reformers to represent the borough in Parliament. — Globe. Mr. Ewart, in his speech, on his health being drunk, said— Much still remained to be done, whether they looked to political, to commercial, or that which he would call social reform. In all our boroughs the voice of the people was controulled, aud in the counties also, by intimidation, and the suffrage contaminated by bribery and corruption. When the great French General, Marshal Soult,—( great cheer- ing)— in his peregrinations through this country, should see on the highways bills of sales placarded, in'wich it was significantly intimated that an estate of freehold was to be sold with a considerable number of votes for the county— ( shame, shame)— what would he the reflection of that gal- lant marshal, knowing as he did that in France a very different system prevailed? He ( Mr. Ewart) was there- fore an advocate of the vote by ballot, as well as the exten- sion of the suffrage. ( Applause.) He also advocated the shortening of Parliaments and abrogation of anyqualification for Members of Parliament; he was likewise of opinion that the people would never be fairly represented till the country was divided into sections, and each section returned a similar number of Members to Parliament. With regard to commercial reform, he would only allude to the sugar monopoly of the West Indies, and to that colossal grievance the corn law. ( Loud applause.) Till these commercial restrictions were removed, justice could not be done to the people. ( Cheers.) And with most characteristic consistency he pro- ceeded to say, that there was every prospect of effect- ing- " social reform" under Her Majesty's present mi- nisters. Sir B. Hall admitted, notwithstanding the zeal for social reform felt by ministers, that in the pre- sent state of the House of Commons it was impossible for them to go on long. Perhaps it may not be equally impossible to go back. Mr. O'Connell, on his health being drunk with great enthusiasm, observed— He was guided by a single- mindedness of purpose that told him it was their duty to struggle for their liberties and his own. ( Cheers.) And while he had the power to struggle for freedom, he would never put himself into the livery of slavery. ( Cheers.) He wanted equal pailiameii- tary reform with that of England. Ireland was a poorer country, and yet had a higher franchise fixed upon her than England. ( Shame, shame.) He also wanted corporation reform. They were going to give Ireland a corporation bill that would have the appearance of reform, but none of the reality. Was there any man who did not know that a rating value and the real value were not the same thing? ( Cheers and laughter.) The question would be mooted to- morrow in the House of Lords. The Duke of Wellington, it was said, was an Irishman. ( Laughter.) They would see to- morrow whether he would show himself to be one or not. He ( Mr. O'Connell) was afraid that the noble duke would show himself to be more the old soldier than ever against his country. Some compromise might be talked of; but, supported as he was, by the feelings and opinions of Eng. lishmen, he was convinced that justice must be ultimately done to Ireland, and, therefore, he would be no party to any compromise. ( Loud cheers.) After adverting to the tithe question, to the question of universal suffrage and the ballot, the lion, and learned gentleman concluded a long and eloquent address by exhorting the electors of Marylebone to merge all minor differences, and by uniting their efforts, rescue the borough from its present anomalous position, having one part of it vigorous and healthy, while the other was in a state of paralysis. ( Cheers.) The minor differences of the Radicals of Mary- le- bone, are the differences between practice and profes- sion, between truth and falsehood, right aud wrong. Minor differences, indeed, as times go. TREMENDOUS STORM IN LANCASHIRE. ( Abridged from the country journals.) MANCHESTER.— During Wednesday afternoon last an ex- tremely terrific thunderstorm, with an almost unprecedented heavy fall of hail and large pieces of ice, several inches in circumference, and followed by torrents of rain, passed over a considerable part of this county, a few miles to the north of this town. The hail, and large pieces of ice of irregular form, have done great damage to gardens, conservatories, and to many factories and large works, especially to their skylights. The effect of the heavy rains pouring down the small streams tributary to the Irvvell, was to cause the most rapid rise of that river ever recollected; commencing about six o'clock on Wednesday evening, it continued rising till about nine o'clock, and then gradually subsided. It is stated that it rose at the rate of a yard and a half per hour for those three hours, being about four yards and a half above its usual level; at nine o'clock it overspread some fields in Lower Broughton, and in some places the haymakers were to be seen busily engaged, knee deep in water, raking the green newly mown grass from the flood, which was sweep ing it away. In other places it was with difficulty that the cattle could be driven home, and a great quantity of new hay and some live stock are said to have been carried away by the flood. ROCHDALE.— On Wednesday last this town was visited by one of the most terrible thunderstorms which ever hap- pened in this part of the country. About two in the after- noon the most vivid flashes of lightning began to dart in quick succession from the dark clouds which obscured the face of the sky. Soon after the rain began to fall in torrents, mingled with hail and large irregular pieces of ice. Some of the hailstones measured an inch and a quarter in diameter, which would be nearly four inches in circum- ference. Messrs. Lomax had 800 panes of glass broken in their factory, the chief part of which were skylights; Mr. Henry Kearsall, 1,850 panes in his factory, warehouse, and greenhouse ; all the skylights and many windows in the new mill of Mr, Brierly were broken; Mr. King, in Oldham- 3 road, who had an extensive loom- shop attached to his factory, had 3,000 panes broken. The storm had not raged an hour before the river rose to an alarming height. The Spodden, a small rivulet which takes its rise between Wliit- worth and Backup, and meets the river Roach about 20S yards below the town, bore everything down before it by three o'clock. So sudden was its rise, that it enclosed half- a- dozen children and some men who had gone into a field to watch it, before they were aware of their perilous situa- tion. Retreat was impossible. The field was surrounded with water, and the ground upon which they stood every moment became narrower and narrower, till at last all wa « one sheet of water; the little urchins had now retreated into a thorn hedge, where every moment they\ vere expected to be washed by the raging element from this last place of refuge. The water was at its highest a little before four^ when it began to subside; at half- past four a man plunged in on horseback, and brought the children to land, by two at a time. Every bridge from Whitworth to Rochdale has been carried away by the flood. Messrs. Tweedale, at Broadley, have suffered considerably. The weight and pressure of, the flood burst the bank of one of the lodges, and the whole force of the swollen stream coming against the gashouse o£ the works, which was a small stone building, carried by an arch over the brook, and situate about 100 yards higher than the dyehouse, actually uplifted it and bore the building, containing three retorts weighing from 25 to 30 cwt. each, down the stream and upon its surface, till it came in con- tact with the upper end of the dyehouse, which it struck with such force as to drive in part of the wall, thus giving entrance to the flood. The water swept away before it about 190 bales and packs of wool, some of them weighing 7001b each. Four horses in a stable were with difficulty rescued; a man broke the window, and when he entered he found them up to the shoulders in water; in a shippon adjoining the^ table, a little boy, son of the covvkeeper, had crept for safety ; he was heard screaming, and some persons who were going to his assistance saw him attempt to catch at a pole, but he was immediately swept down the stream and drowned; his body has not yet been found. A large cart at the bottom of the warehouse was swept away, a large boiler was also carried away, and a stack of between seventy and eighty tons of hay from beneath a French barn. In the smithy of the establishment nothing was left but the stithy. A great quantity ( probably fifty tons) of sawn inch and inch- and- a- half boards for flooring, which were piled in two large tiers, were entirely swept away. Such was the force of the flood, that most of the bales aud packs of wool were burst, and, we believe, only two or three of the whole bales have been recovered, and a very small quantity of the timber. At the new mill of Messrs, J. Schofield and Sons, at Buckley, near Rochdale, on the Harmer- brook, all the panes of the upper floor of the mill were broken, and a large thick wall washed down. At Benfield- hall, near Rochdale, at the print- works of Messrs. W. Benecke and Co., upwards of 200 panes of glass were broken, and part of the lodge. bank washed away. Several parts of walla were washed down at Makeant- mill, about three miles be- low Rochdale. At the fulling mill at Manwood, belonging to Mr. J. Gibson, a great quantity of pieces and dyewood were carried away. At Spotland bridge, 200 yards lower on the same river, the whole of Mr. Whitaker's premises were swept away within less than two hours from the commence- ment of the storm. Above Mr. Whitaker's dye- house, a large and uncommonly firm bridge of two arches was nearly swept away. Nothing like the extent of the injury is yet ascertained. Several lives have been lost. At a little dis- tance from this place three men weie caught in a coal pit, aud had not time to escape from a watery grave. The damage done within a few miles of Rochdale cannot be estimated at less than 80,000/. It is remarkable, that at two miles distance, on the southern side of the town, scarcely any fell; at Littleborough, Heywood, and Mid- dleton, there was scarcely a shower. BOLTON.— On Wednesday afternoon last, the rain fell in torrents, accompanied by violent peals of thunder, aud, what was rather singular, the rain was interspersed with hailstones as large as horsebeans. The electric fluid killed a horse, belonging to Mr. Hargraves, which was pasturing in a field on Bolton- moor. At Turner- bridge, a lad of about fourteen years of age, named Noble, whilst endeavouring to catch some timber, accidentally fell into the river, and was carried away. Every foot- bridge, with one exception, between Bolton and Birtonshaw, was carried away. At the works of Messrs. 11. and E. Ashworth, the Egerton- mill, and the new Edgley mills, the lowest rooms, which are used as mechanics' shops, were filled with water, and the ware- houses of the latter mill, containing cotton and yarn, wa « filled about four feet deep. On Friday night, about half- past eight o'clock, the lightning struck the gable- end of the new part of the Royal George factory, belonging to Messrs. Ormerod and Hardcastle, which was lately destroyed by fire. The whole came down and buried three men in the ruins. The neighbours and all the hands about the factory rushed to the spot, and in a few minutes extiacted the bodies, which were most shockingly injured. BURY.— Great damage has been done to the property in the immediate vicinity of the rivers Roach and Irwell, as well as to that on the banks of their numerous tributary mountain streams. A valuable cow, the propeity of Mr. James Kay, grocer, ot Bury, was struck by the electric fluid, in afield near Bolton- road, and killed on the spot; and we are informed that the chimney of a house near Park- hills was struck, but not materially damaged. At Black Pits, the mills of Messrs. Turner and Co. were so much damaged by the overflowing and rapid current, that some time must elapse before they can be put into operation. At Messrs. Walker and Lomax's mills upwards of three hundred squares of glass were broken in the skylights by the heavy hailstones. PRESTON.— The thunder on Wednesday was first heard between eleven and twelve, and there was no intermission till near five in the afternoon. The lightning was exceed- ingly vivid, and twice during the continuance of the storm there was ail almost Egyptian darkness. Robert Moss, who, with a wife and three children, resided in Albert- street, near the National School, was fatally struck between one and two o'clock, and his death appears to have been instantaneous as an " eye- flash." He was at the moment engaged in administering some humble nourishment to his poor wife, who had been prematurely confined in child- bed on the preceding night. WOODPLUMTTON.— A very fine ask- tree, forty inches in girth, in the fold of Mrs. Hannah Harrison, of Cottam, was struck and shivered to atoms; a flock of poultry, eleven in number, which were sheltering under a tree near to the Plough Inn, in Grimsargh, were all killed ; a cow, the pro- perty of Mr. Lawrence Snape, of Lea, which was grazing along with several others, was struck dead, and it is some- what curious that there was no outward mark or sign of in- jury to be seen upon the carcase. A cow, which was at pasture upon Clifton Marsh, was also killed. As the canal packet was on its way to Lancaster, ( when between Lea and Swillbrooke), the bridles of the horses were so much burnt as to be rendered useless; but, strange to say, the horses and rider escaped uninjured, save being very much frightened. YORKSHIRE.— In the valley ( Silkstone) on the south west 6ide of Dodworth, the water rose to such a height that it leached the entrance of a coal- pit, in the hill side, belonging to Mr. R. Clarke, called the Moor- side Pit; the water rushed in so, that in a short time the pit was filled; a num. her of colliers were at work in the pit, and many of them perished iri the water; twenty- seven persons have been taken out dead. The unfortunate persons are all from ten to eighleen years of age ; eleven of them are females. At Wentworth Castle all the glass of the green and hot houses is wholly destroyed, as well as their valuable contents; the pineries, frames, flowers, shrubs, Sc., are all swept away, and four thousand yards of walling laid prostrate. The hail- stones measured four inches aud a half round. The water swept away timber trees, walls, bridges, and a quantity of furniture from the houses; coals, tubs, pigs, and clothes from the hedges; and ten beasts from Mr. John Archer, of Saville- hall, near Barnsley. The following is a more de- tailed account of the calamity at Silkstone;— The sudden rush of water causcd one of Messrs. Field, Cooper, and Co.' s coal- pits to be nine yards deep, as well as washed a great part of their railway up. The flood has done a great deal of damage along the valley from Little Houghton to Silkstone. Windows have been brotmi in nearly all the houses from Round- green to Silkstoni by the large pieces of ice. Such a flood has not been known since 1807. Ir\ many gardens not only the crop, but even the soil has been carried away. Large trees were rooted up, and taken down the stream. But by far the most dreadful part of the ac- count is, that twenty- six lives have been lost. As the water was seen to be running down the shaft of a coal- pit belonging to Mr. R. C. Clarke, at Silkstone, the person in authority at the top sent a man into the pit to order all to . put out their lights and come out as soon as possible. Con- sequently all made the best of their way to- the pit bottom, expecting to be drawn out immediately; but, lamentable to relate, on account of so much water having fallen, the steam- engine could scarcely keep the steam up, and they could not be drawn out. About forty of the smaller chil- dren then set off to the day- hole, the horizontal shaft by which persons may walk in or out of the pit, without going up or down the perpendicular shaft. Having got through a trap door that is set a few yards up the day- hole boardgate, and about ten or twelve yards below what is called " a slit," driven in a top bed of coal, full of dirt, they were making the best of their way up the road, when the water burst into the day- hole, met the children, and forced twenty- six of them back to the door, where they were afterwards found, all quite dead, within the space of eleven or twelve yards between the doors of the slit; fourteen of the largest chil- dren escaped by getting into the old slit ends. The sufferers are from the age of seven years to seventeen. It was the most heartrending sight that could be witnessed, to see the carts with the bodies in them going through Silkstone, leaving a corpse or two at nearly every door. 4 THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, AUGUST 11. THE WEATHER. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, July ram changeable rain fair fair changeable rain TO CORRESPONDENTS. A " Unionist" should claim. There can be no loss in mooting the question. * » * We have not space this week for the Manchester Address. •„* The father has a right to the custody of the child. •„* The marriage inserted in our last number of Miss White, Inge- street, was an impudent hoax; no such event took place. BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, SATURDAY, JULY 14,1838. THE NATIONAL PETITION. The signatures to the National Petition handed in at the meeting' of Council on Tuesday evening-, swells the gross nnmber to 40,000. This is for Birmingham alone. The mode in which the petition is being signed in Scotland, cannot be better described than by the following extract of a letter from Cupar, the county town of Fifeshire. The writer says:— It is with the greatest pleasure that I have to inform you, that the signatures already sent into Cupar from the different places within twelve miles of this place, who had the plea- sure of hearing you and Mr. Collins address them, to be attached to the National Petition, amount now to 19,000 and upwards. I am also happy to say that there is not a town or village within the above distance but has formed itself into an association for the purpose of holding meetings, and looking after its own interests. The committee here wishes information how the signa- tures, when complete, are to be forwarded to your place. It has been proposed to send them to Dundee, Edinburgh, or Glasgow; but as I am very anxious that you should be consulted on this point, and every caution taken that no mistake may happen, but that they may arrive safe at Bir- mingham to the great joy of the subscribers, I will wait for your kind communication to me on the subject. The even- ing of the coronation day the non- electors here held a soiree, at which delegates from above sixteen different places attended; and I can assure you that it surpassed all expecta- tion to witness the eloquence and fervency of sentiment dis- played on the occasion. All are determined to support their brave brethren and fellow sufferers in Birmingham and the country at large, in carrying out the great cause in which they have engaged. In answer to the query here put, and those which have reached us from other places, we would state, that any contributions of signatures towards the Na- tional Petition may be securely addressed ( carriage paid) to the " Secretary of the Birmingham Political Union," or to any of the members of Council, " at the Journal office,^ Birmingham;" where every care will be taken of them, until the assembly of the National Delegation, which will be charged with the presentation of the petition to Parliament. There is no town of importance in the empire from which, through the medium of the London coaches, access to Birmingham cannot be easily had. It is a ground of much and continued complaint amongst our American brethren, who advocate the amelioration of the slave, that Congress, has in respect to that subject, come to a determination which goes far, if not altogether, to shut out both argument and exhortation ; by resolving that petitions, the objec of which is to open, or in any way touch upon the+ slave question, shall be " laid on the table"— a techni. cal phrase which implies that they shall not be dis- cussed. They exclaim against so extraordinary a procedure in a legislature, which is not only above all others free, but the representative of the freest consti- tuency in the world. It is, they say, a conduct which the least liberal governments of the old world, where the representative system prevails, would altogether repudiate. Alas! for the knowledge of the trans- atlantic Reformers. They have not attended very closely to the history of one of those liberal governments or they would have found a parallel to the inconsis- tency of which they complain— more than a parallel, they would have found that inconsistency in a griev- ously aggravated form. Let them only make them- selves acquainted with the resolutions of the reformed House of Commons of free England, and they will find among them one, by virtue of which, discussion is forbidden, not on petitions that bear upon an obnoxi- ous subject, but upon all petitions whatever. They will find there a rule, by which, not one class but every class of petitions are laid upon the table ; by which, on pretence of husbanding the time'— Heaven save the mark! of the most useless do- nothiug aggre- gate of knaves and fools, with which Providence, in its anger, has seen fit to plague the nations— the briefest statement or argument in favour of a petition is rigidly forbidden ! If they examine farther they will find, not indeed in the f'ogn of ail express rule, though it is hard to say how soon it may be so embodied, that discussion is all but forbidden in the Parliament of England, and, by its highest authorities, not merely on peti- tions, but in every form whatever, on those topics which it offends the delicate ears of our aristocratic lawgivers to touch upon. Let them listen to the re- mark of the First Lord of the Treasury, on Monday last, on the subject of the Corn- laws. After a flourish gbout a country thriving in spite of bad laws, one of those truisms, to which men who cannot, and men who will not argue, find it convenient to resort, for the purpose of eluding an inevitable conclusion, his lord- ship said—• Next to change itself, what was most to be dreaded was the continnal apprehension and probability of change ; and, therefore, not intending to introduce any, he regretted that this was made a subject of discussion. It is not necessary, writing as we do to men of common sense, to comment on the absurdity of this J « r4Jy-: assertion about change; it is not necessary tlifit, ihto the very innocent bleating of this right fioinSfyaSje Lamb, we should observe that change for the ft^ ikrjffi not only no matter of dread, but the great vWost- bfeiatural desire in all sane minds, at all ' - M/ 1U times and under all circumstances; and that, so far from the probability of such a change being only in- ferior in evil to the reality, the moment such a pro- bability is entirely and for ever shut out, the springs of human action are at once stopped, common men hang or drown themselves; and, what is stronger proof still, even Whig ministers abandon office. But it is not to the logic of the head of the wrong- heads, that we deem it necessary to reply, it is to his deprecation of discussion. Now, on what subject is discussion deprecated P Is it on one of those fundamental principles of government, which has, for hundred of years, been so intimately mixed up with the social fabric, that to raise a question of its truth might appear tantamount to challenging the stability of the entire building ? It is on a law of no more than twenty three years standing, passed in spite of the universal denunciations of the English people, opposed to all sound policy as well as all sound morality, a law which starves the poor to feed fat the rich, which depresses labour to enhance rents, which robs the industrious to swell the pockets of the idle, which fills the sated with fat things and sends the hungry empty away, which gives to him that hath faiuch and takes away from him that hath little; a law against which, the prayer of the widow, of the orphan, of him that is ready to perish, knocks at the gate of heaven night and day ; a law which combines in itself every ingredient of mischief intended and perpetrated, full of absurdity, big with cruelty, violating all dictates of reason, opposing all religious precepts. This is the law— the law of luxury to the ruler and starvation to the people— of which the head of a reform ministry deprecates even the discussion ! We strongly sympathise with the griefs of the black man. Personal bondage is an evil so intolerable, life in such a state is so little desirable, that, were we in it, there is no plan so desperate which we would not counsel and practise in order to get rid of the tyranny that held us there. But we sympathise yet more strongly witli the griefs of the white man than we do with those of the black man ; and really the degree in either case seems to differ but little, and the substance hardly at all. The negro labours and starves for the benefit of one man; the Englishman labours and starves for the benefit of one class of men. The only distinction seems to he that the vengeance of the former may be more easily gratified, its object being defined; while the latter will, in many instances, be found " boding ruin," yet " knowing not what to fear;" and thus, like a man fighting in the dark, exhausting his strength in a vain struggle against an unseen enemy. Seeing that, not only in respect of all petitions, whatever discussion is by our reformed Parliament positively and pointedly interdicted, but that upon a subject the most generally interesting to the com- munity, a hearty attempt is being made to shut out discussions, whether on petition or motion, we trust the American emancipationists will no longer consider their position as one of peculiar hardship, and con- demn their Congress as singularly perverse, since of its perversity it has so worthy and zealous an imitator in the Parliament of England. Mr. GILLON, member for Falkirk, is a highly re- spectable and patriotic gentleman. His principles are sound; his practice as a legislator honest. It is with regret that we perceive sucli a man led into a doubtful course by any feelings of sentimentalism ; and we doubly regret that such a feeling, in a Radical member, should be excited by the difficulties of the great and the wealthy, whose removal or alleviation may be safely left to men, whose political opinions naturally incline them to a more intimate sympathy with such difficulties. The Duke of SUSSEX is, for a prince, a liberal man— a Whig, perhaps a little more. He is, besides, a man of good abilities, and, like all our royal family, ( with the exception, we believe, of the King of Hanover,) of kind and courteous de- meanour. Bating one blot in his escutcheon-— his re- pudiating of Lady Augusta Murray, which was pro- bably more the result of weakness of resolution than any thing else,— the duke is entitled to every respect which an exalted station, and great personal merit, commonly command. That respect has been freely granted him, and with that his friends ought to be con- tent. There is something exceedingly mean and con- temptible in the notion, that the only way in which great public virtue and intelligence can be rewarded, is by heaping filthy lucre on their possessor. To put such a fortunate combination above the sordidness of want, to surround it with the decencies of comfort, is a rea- sonable duty ; but it argues a miserable standard of dignity, to suppose that the gratitude and applause of one's countrymen are worthless, unless they are served in agolden censer. But the Duke of SUSSEX is already amongst the wealthiest of the wealthy. How stands he in respect of worldly goods ? His Royal Highness is in the receipt of 21,000/. a- year, undiminished by tax or burden; he has a furnished palace free; he lias no expensive influence to maintain; he is not called on to support half- a- dozen of establishments for the sake of the retainers that they ' create ; to keep packs of hounds to conciliate rural depend- ants; no parish overseer makes a claim upon him; the government collector passes him by. The Duke has a soil and a daughter by Lady AUGUSTA MURRAY, leg- ally illegitimate, though born in marriage ; but the pension list has kindly eased him of the burden of their maintenance. By his present lady he has no family." If Lady BUGGINS survive her royal husband, she will certainly be looked to, if she require it. The duke has no plea, nor, we dare say, desire for accu- mulation. We shall not compare his income with those of the highest functionaries in other free states. We are content to compare it with those of the noble- men witli whom lie is expected to associate. And we do not, we believe, much err when we say, that of these there is not half- a- dozen whose nett receipts do not fall short of those of his royal highness; to say nothing of the claims of relations to which all of them are more or less liable. Can anything be more un- called for, under such circumstances, than ail additio: to the duke's income? Can anything be less advisabl at any time; but especially at the present ? Mr. GILLON spoke of the fortunes of the other royal princes, and argued from tlieir amount that that of th< Duke of SUSSEX ought to be augmented; thus en- deavouring to establish and extend one enormity by the existence of others still greater. We respectfully say to Mr. GILLON, and we have not a doubt the same truth will soon reach him from Hamilton and Falkirk, that the present allowances of the royal family are a just ground of serious complaint to all thinking men; and so far from seeking to increase them, it would be more in character for a sincere Radical Reformer to set seriously about some plan for their speedy reduction. The Gazette of Tuesday contains the following announcement:— The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury having certified to the Commissioners for the reduction of the National Debt, in pursuance of the act 10th Geo. IV., c. 27, sec. 1, that the actual expenditure of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland exceeded the actual revenue thereof, for the year ended the 5th day of April, 1838, by the sum of 1,428,531/. 18s. 7% d„ The Commissioners for the reduction of the National Debt hereby give notice, that no sum will be applied by them on account of the Sinking Fund, under the provisions of the said act, between the 6th day of July, 1838, and the 10th day of October, 1838. Neither the " certificate" of the Lords of the Trea- sury here referred to, nor the accounts submitted to the public on the 5th, take note of the " extraordinaries') incurred in the suppression of the Canada disturb- ances, which are estimated at some three quarters of a million, nor of the further cost of removing the causes of future disturbances, which will probably amount to a quarter more, to say nothing of the permanent charge which the experiment of the removal must occasion. Neither shall we seek to swell the million and a half of deficiency, by any additions less honourably vouched. We merely point attention to the picture of affairs which the Gazette exhibits; and truly, in the twenty- fifth year of a profound peace, with tranquillity abroad and no d istress at home— at least none worth mention- ing, ( vide QUEEN'S speech in loco)— and while all the world are throwing up their caps for joy, ayd nothing but processions, and reviews, and fetes, and feasts, is acted or contemplated, the aspect is a mighty pleasant one. It will be a matter of natural inquiry to many of our readers, how government contrives to get oil, under the circumstances in which it is now placed ? When a private individual " overruns the constable," there are certain embarrassments, to which his speed almost inevitably exposes him. How happens it that the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER escapes from these difficulties to which other men, whose expendi- ture exceeds their income, are commonly exposed P The means by which this is effected, is not the least curious part of the system. It is not by a loan that might be too strong. It is not by a new tax— the direct and intelligible way— that Mr. RICE dares not venture upon; and to do him justice, we believe it is the only thing that he and his colleagues dare not venture upon. Mr. RICE makes an issue of Exchequer hills. He and the Bank of England are, at all times, on the best possible understanding. Their mutual affection is quite refreshing to behold. He gives the bank a large piece of paper, the bank gives him a small piece of paper, and the whole affair is settled. The only difference, saving always the difference of size, between the two pieces is this— the larger bears interest, the smaller does not. When the bank, at the year's end, carries back the large piece to the Ex- chequer, it receives thauks, and three pounds for every hundred for its care in keeping it; when the CHAN- CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, at the year's end, carries back the small piece to the bank, he receives no thanks, and no pounds for his care. For the million and a half of deficiency in the year ending 5th April last, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER was con- tent to pay to the bank the trifling sum of seventy- five thousand pounds ; and all this as a considera- tion for exchanging little bits of paper against big bits. " How the deuce is this ?" our un- initiated friends will exclaim ; " why can't the fellow pay his debts with the big pieces as well, or cut them into little pieces if it be more convenient, and then the whole of this immense sum would be saved." Tush ! good friends! This is one of the secrets of govern- ment. What would be the use of a government, if there were no mystery in it ? If you can't discover the beauty of the process at a first examination, try a second. To be serious, this exchanging of Exchequer bills bearing interest against bank notes bearing none ; and that for no purpose of convenience under heaven, but merely the obtaining of small change— the conversion of a bill of £ 100 into twenty bills of £ 6— is disgrace- ful alike to the age and the g- overnment. Why should not the Exchequer issue its own £ 5 notes ( or call them bills if you please) rather than pay the bank so extravagantly for the accommodation of its issues ? Is there a man in the kingdom that would not as readily accept a £ 5 government note, without interest, as he would a bank note without interest; even if the law making the latter a legal tender did not extend to the former. We have, on other occasions, advocated the propriety of a government issue of notes equal to the amount of the revenue, and receivable for all revenue payments. Such an issue would be of the greatest possible advantag- e to internal commerce ; and it would of itself be a source of no inconsiderable profit, whereas the present system is a source of very great expense. But if the Whig ministry have not the wisdom or the courage to make this bold effort to restore national prosperity, surely it requires no great fund of either to issue, for ordinary aud required purposes, Exchequer bills of £ 5 instead of £ 100. Such bills would be readily available for the customary interchanges of society ; they would scatter over the country, instead of being locked up in strong- boxes in London; and in theirprofitable uses the public would receive a large compensation for the want of interest, which might be altogether dispensed with, or, if the bank charter pre- sented any obstacle, made purely nominal. We intended, this week, to make some remarks on the sudden and strange out- break of Lord BROUGHAM against the beer- shops; but the conversation in the House of Commons on Tuesday, which we have given at length, renders any minute discussion unnecessary. It is pretty plain, with the present feelings of the House of Commons, that the beer- shops are secure till next session. We only repeat our opinions, when we say, that any restriction on the sale of beer or wine, or that more terrible thing, which it is now the fashion to call alcohol, to be drunk on the premises or off, by license or otherwise, is wholly indefensible on any principle of reason, and altogether contrary to every principle of sound commercial economy. But the attempt not to restrict, but to abolish the sale of that lowest and weakest beverage— beer, the only one which the la- bouring classes of the country can afford to drink, while the sale of the most injurious as well as expen- sive beverages are protected and encouraged, is a base and infamous attack upon popular liberty, which, in a more enlightened and more responsible state of public opinion, would hound its advocates and supporters from society. We do not enter upon the cruel and manifest robbery which Lord BROUGHAM SO coolly meditates of the beer- sellers; though that is no trifling con- sideration. We only notice it in relation to a specious proposal, by which, we trust, the beer- sellers will not allow themselves to be deluded. When the Duke of WELLINGTON broke up the brewers' monopoly, not a few very good men spoke of the necessity of compen- sation to the publicans. Now, again compensation is talked of to the beer- sellers. Holding, as we must ever do, that the brewers' monopoly was a gross en- croachment on the people's rights, the abrogation of which they were entitled to demand, we should certainly have resisted any compensation in that case. But com- pensation for the re- enactment of the encroachment is too ridiculous once to be listened to. We would not have paid for a right, and much less can we consent to pay for a wrong. Let the beersellers, if they hope to be saved from the spoliation with which the aristocracy- threaten them, join heartily and firmly with the peo- ple in the attempt now being made to obtain for all the right to t/ ie management of their own affairs. That right once fixed on a secure and intelligible basis, there needs be no fear of lordly attacks upon the indulgences of the working man; till then, his necessaries, his conveniences, his indulgences, are equally in danger. The Radical Association of Perth already counts a thousand members.— Perth Chronicle. SECTIONAL MEETINGS.— It is intended by some Reformers in the town to establish Sectional Meetings, for the purpose of facilitating and increasing the col- lection of the funds of the Political Union. Oil Wednesday evening a meeting was held at the George, Chapel- street, for the purpose. Mr. Ash- more, on being called to the chair, stated the object of the meeting, observing that the Union had taken cer- tain steps in the cause of Reform, which it was im- possible they could retrace. They must go forward, but that they could not do, with credit to themselves, or advantage to the country, unless supported by the people. The undertaking before them was one of vast niaguitude and importance, aud could only be achieved by perseverance and courage on the part of the people and their leaders. He, therefore, thought it necessary that steps should be taken for the re- establishment of sectional rooms. They had been found useful before, and he had no doubt would again. The company was then addressed by persons friendly to the object, after which a resolution, expressive of the intention of the company frequenting that house, to hold a sectional meeting weekly, was agreed to. RETAIL BREWERS.— We beg to remind those per- sons desirous of obtaining licenses to retail spirits, See. at the next General Annual Licensing Meeting, that Sunday next is the LAST DAY on which they can give the necessary notice of their intention of applying for such license. The clerk to the magistrates will make out ( upon application) the necessary notices. TIIE THEATRE.— Mr. Balls has played during the week to fair and loudly applauding audiences. He is an actor of very great merit, and every way deserv- ing of all the encouragement he has received. His personation of the three Singles is amongst the best things we have seen. Mr. Simpson, the manager, takes a benefit on Monday, when he is to have the assistance of our townsman, Mr. Smith, who plays Gambia for the first time. We trust the play- fre- quenters will not be tardy in coming forward on such ail occasion, and with such inducements. CORNISH'S RAILWAY GUIDE.— A third edition of this clever little book has just appeared. In addition to a careful revision of the whole, the compiler has now given a street guide for Liverpool and for Man- chester, which will not fail to be appreciated by those that visit either of those towns. BAPTIST MISSIONS.— It will be perceived that the anniversary meetings of this society are announced to take place in the Town Hall, on Tuesday next. There will be a public breakfast in the morning, and the annual meeting takes place in the evening. The Rev. Jos. Burton, missionary from Nassau, in the Bahamas, the Rev. Eustace Carey, and other ministers, are ex- pected to be present, when interesting details will be given respecting the progress of the society's missions in various parts of the world. The order of the reli- gious services will be found detailed in the advertise- ment in another columu. HOME MISSIONARY BAZAAR.— Oil Monday this ba zaar was held in the Town- hall. It was conducted solely by young ladies belonging to the Rev. Thomas Morgan's congregation in Bond- street, assisted by elderly ladies and their servants. Throughout nearly the whole day the floor of the Hall was filled with visi- tors, among whom were many of the most respectable families in Birmingham. The tables were arranged in three semi- circles, extending more than half- way down the Hall. In the course of the day, Mr. Hollins gave several of his chef- d'oeuvre. i, including a beautiful chorus introducing the peal of bells, " In verdure clad," '' Angels ever bright and fair," " The last Rose of Summer," " The Thunder- storm," & c., & c.; and we were gratified to observe that at these periods the business of the bazaar was entirely suspended. There was one feature in the bazaar which is worthy of particular commendation— namely, that visitors were never ouqe solicited to pur- chase. The articles exhibited for sale were very mis- cellaneous, including many of great beauty and at- traction. Busts of Sir Walter Scott, Lord Bacon, and Sir Isaac Newton, were appropriately placed above the tables set apart for the choice literary productions exhibited on the occasion. The receipts at the doors were, we understand, about 30/., and at the tables in proportion. Parliamentary electors in cities and boroughs, en- titled under the Reform act, will lose their votes for the next year, unless they pay, on or before the 20th of July instant, all the poor rates ( and window tax, if any) payable from them in respect of their premises previously to the 6th of April last. Electors for the county, not upon the present registry, or who, being thereon, have subsequently changed residence, must send in their claims to be registered, addressed to the overseers of the parish in which the property on which they so claim is situated, describing the nature of the tenure, the situation of the property, its descrip- tion and name, with the name of the occupying tenant, and [ the residence of the claimant. The last day of making such claim will be on 20th instant. The Rev. F. Beardsall repeated his lecture on wines last night. The body of the hall was about half full of auditors, chiefly females, and there was a sprinkling in the side galleries. The lecturer was listened to with much attention. The singular fact, that wine being distilled yields an ardent spirit, seemed to ex- cite not a little wonderment. It was repeatedly an- nounced by Mr. J. Cadbury; and at every announce- ment the surprise of the company seemed to aug- ment. There was a small distillatory apparatus in the organ gallery, for the express purpose of confound- ing the sceptical. The wine- dealers were sharply- handled by the reverend gentleman for their mal- practices. Mr. Beardsall's chief authority is Accum. If we recollect, Accum wrote pretty strongly against bread also. His " Death in the Pot" was as severe on bakers as on brewers. Can no one get up a lec- ture on the manifold miseries of eating ? Bread yields alcohol on distillation, as well as wine. A patent for its extraction was obtained only a few years ago. It might be exhibited by the lecturer. There is nothing like doing the thing well. A total abstinence from drinks leaves half the disease behind ; to complete the cure, we ought to have a total abstinence from meats also. RELIGION IN FRANCE.— On Monday evening, a meeting was held in Christ Church school- room, Pin- fold- street, to hear an address from the Rev. C. A. Cordes, minister of the Protestant Church, at Lyons, upon the present state of religion in France. The meeting was thinly attended. The Rev. Mr. Breay sided, and, after reading a portion of scripture, and offering up an appropriate prayer, introduced the Rev. Mr. Cordes to the meeting, who proceeded to trace the progress of Protestantism in France, from a very early- period up to the present time, and then gave a detailed account of the gradual progress of the chureh of which he is minister, in Lyons, concluding by an appeal to the meeting and Christians generally, in behalf of the object of his mission, namely, the collection of funds to enable him to erect a Protestant chapel for the use of his congregation ill the above city. 5" TIIE INFORMERS.— One of these fellows, named Eaves, was accused on Monday of offering to license a retail brewery for a weekly allowance of money. On Thursday, the retail brewer who made the com- plaint appeared before the magistrates, and called two witnesses, who swore that they were present when Eaves offered to allow him the privilege of selling ale after the prescribed hours, without being subject to in- formations, if he would give him a weekly sum of money. The magistrates said it was such conduct as they could not tolerate, and they never would again entertain any information which Eaves might lay. It is, we believe, a fact, that there are hundreds of houses thus licensed, and if the parties who had been thus swindled will only attend and prove the fraud before the magistrates, the informers must be dismissed from the office. ST. CHAD'S CATHOLIC SCHOOLS.— On Monday the twenty- ninth annual meeting- of the subscribers and friends of these schools, was held at the Antelope, Bread- street. The Rev. E. Peach presided. From the report for the past year it appeared that the schools under the able management and assiduous attention of Mr. Phelan, have greatly increased in numbers, and that the children have made considerable improvement in the useful branches of learning. The rooms, which have lately been enlarged to the greatest extent which they admit of, are now insufficient to accommo- date half the children of the district requiring educa- tion, and the report concluded by earnestly calling upon the friends of the charity, to adopt some means by which the present establishment may be enlarged, or to establish a branch school in another part of the town, by means of which the children of the Catholic poor may have the means of procuring education. After the reception of the report, and the passing- of the accounts, thanks were given to the Rev. Mr. Peach and Rev. Mr. Abbott, for their incessant exer- tions in the cause of the charity. The rev. gentlemen returned thauks, the former observing that the schools originated with him, but he hoped they would not die with him. They had, under Providence, been the means of conferring useful information during the last twenty- nine years to vast numbers, who, by means of their education, had been able to fill with credit to themselves and their religion respectable situations in society. These schools were not only the first Catholic schools in Birmingham, but he might say they were the first established in the district since the reformation, and he hoped they would go on increasing in useful- ness. They had always his warmest attachment, and so long as he lived should have his most earnest prayers for their success. The moral and religious education of their poor children was, in his opinion, a paramount duty, the discharge of which had always afforded him the greatest pleasure. The Rev. Mr. Abbott, in acknowledging the compliment paid him, in connection with his venerable and highly esteemed friend, said, it was to him great satisfaction to know the schools were in a flourishing condition. ( Hear.) They were daily instructing those whose parents could not pay for their instruction, and when he considered the demoralised state of society, the great incentives to juvenile depravity, and the members that daily fell victims of evil communications, he could not but con- sider charities, such as they were then met together to support, the most valuable institutions in the country, well deserving the support of the Christian and the philanthropist. ( Hear, hear.) The St. Chad's schools had originated in the principle of charity. That prin- ciple had upheld them, and, he hoped, would continue to support them, until they became, what he most ear- nestly desired to see them, a medium of instruction adequate to the wants of the greatly increasing catho- lic population of the town. Alter the business of the schools had been gone through, the friends of the charity partook of an excellent dinner in the above bouse. The Rev. Mr. Peach was in the chair, and the evening was spent with the utmost conviviality. At the close of the entertainment, a vacancy in the committee, occasioned by the death of the lamented Mr. Bridge, was filled up, the rev. chairman observ- ing that there was no man, who had the pleasure of knowing the deceased, who did not know that he was a truly good and excellent man. ( Hear, hear.) ALARMING FIRE.— About half- past seven o'clock on Wednesday evening, a fife broke out upon the ex- tensive premises of Mr. John Knott, marbled and co- loured paper manufacturer, Coventry- road, Bordesley, and, for some time after its discovery, fears were en- tertained lest the property would be entirely destroyed. As yet, the origin of the fire is not ascertained, but it appears that the principal part , of the conflagration was confined to the upper stories of the workshops. Oil the alarm being given at the Birmingham Office, the engine of that establishment was immediately dispatclied, and on its arrival was planted in a position where it acted upon the flames. The engine of the Norwich Office was also speedily on the ground, and, being stationed so as to prevent the devouring element from spreading to the machine- room and warehouse, ( where, we understand, the most valuable part of the property was situated,) rendered most important ser- vice. The engine of the District office next arrived, and was directed to a part of the building where the flames were raging, so as to prevent their spreading in THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, AUGUST 11. 5 that direction to the other workshops. It is due to the extreme promptitude and consideration of Captain Stevens of the 14th Lancers, who, hearing of the fire, proceeded from the barracks, accompanied by upwards of forty of his men, was very early upon the spot with the engine of the barracks, and performed a most effi- cient part in allaying- the flames, and in preserving that order upon which the safety of the property so much depended. The police also was extremely ef- fective in the performance of their duty; and it is ow- ing to the combined efforts in the way we have just described, as well as to the kind offices of the neigh- bours, that the damage sustained was confined to thfi workshops, and to the injury of the stock incident to removal from the principal seat of the business. The lire was effectually subdued by half- past ten o'clock, and, we are happy to add, without any personal injury being sustained. Mr. Knott is fully insured. DEATH OF MR. ORCHARD.— The death of this per- son at Stourbridge, in August 1837, under suspicious circumstances, must be fresh in our reader's recollec- tions. The wife and daughter of the deceased were tried on a charge of murder at the Worcester assizes yesterday and acquitted. The evidence was altogether circumstantial, and very feeble. FATAL ACCIDENT.— An inquest was held on Satur- day morning last, before Mr. Wbateley, at the Vaux- hall Tavern, on the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Barton, who came by her death under the following afflicting circumstances. On the previous Thursday evening, the deceased, who was the wife of the driver of the well- known coach called the " Royal Dart," accom- panied by her son, together with Miss Carrit and her niece, went in a four- wheeled vehicle from their house in Vauxhall- grove, to visit Mrs. Carter, of Camp- hill. On arriving at the house, the son, who had been dri- ving, alighted, with the reins in his hand, and pro- ceeded to the head of the horse, but perceiving the little girl, who was getting out, in the act of falling, he threw the reins to his mother over the dash board, which she, in her excitement, was not able to get hold of, and ran to assist her. The horse, immediately it found the carriage somewhat lightened of its burden, made a start, first at a moderate rate, but Mrs. Barton becoming alarmed, screamed out for assistance, the animal immediately took fright at the cries, and ran off at a fearful speed. The son instantly ran to the head of the horse, but was not able, at the rate the h irse was going, to check him ; he then clung to the shafts until he became exhausted, and let go his hold. Unhappily, Mrs. Barton, instead of keeping her seat, jumped from the carriage into the road, and received such injuries on the head that she died in a few mi- nutes after being taken from the ground. Mr. Archer, the surgeon, was called in, but surgical aid was en- tirely unavailing. The jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death. The deceased has left behind her a family of ten children. WARWICKSHIRE FLORAL AND HORTICUL- TURAL SOCIETY'S SHOW. The show, in the Town ball on Thursday, was one of the most beautiful that we have seen for a long time. The flowers and vegetables exhibited were equally noticeable, and the company was most numerous and respectable. We give a list of the prizes: — ROSES.— Premier Prize, Crimson MOBS, Mr. Coudrey. Purple, Scarlet, and Crimson, 1st prize, Uoyal Purple, J. Pope and Sons; Sud, Seedling, J. Pope and Sons; 3rd, Bouquet Royale, J. Gough, Esq.; 4th, Ornament de Parade, J. Pope and Sons; 5tli, Couleur de Chaise, J. Pope and Sons; Ctli, Violet Blue, Mr. J. Moore. Blush, Pink, and Lilac, 1st prize, Provence, Mr. Coudrey ; £ nd, Duke of Devonshire, W. C. Burman, Esq.; 3rd, Reine de Provence, W. C. Burman, Esq.; 4th, Maiden's Blush, J. Gough, Esq.; 5th, Rosamond, Mr. E. Hill. White, Cream, and Yellow, 1st prize, Madame Dubarry, W. C. Burman, JEsq.; 2nd, Madame Hardy, IW. C. Burman, Esq. j 3rd, Globe, White Hip, Mr. Yates ; 4th, Rose Lee, J. Gough, Esq.; 5th, Unique, J. Gough, Esq.; Oth, White Damask, Mr. Yates. Shaded, Mottled, Striped, or Edged, 1st prize, Rosa Mundi, Pope and Sons; 2nd, Grand Purple, Mr. J. Moore ;| 3rd, Burning Coal, Mr. Dickenson ; 4th, Damask Leda, J. Pope and Sons ; 5th, Hebe's Lip, Mr. J. Moore; 6th, Tricolor, Mr. J. Moore. Mots Roses, let prize. Blush, Mr. i. Moore; ' 2nd, Crim- son, Mr. Coudrey; 3rd, Crested Provence, Mr. Tew; 4tli, White, Mr. Coudrey. Cluster, 1st prize, Russelliana, Mr. E. Hill ; 2nd, Noisette, Mr. Phillips. Roses, iu Pots, 1st prize, Sweet Scented China, Mr. Coudrey ; 2nd, Spongs, Mr. Beach ; 3rd, Moss Provence, Mr. Coudrey. PINKS.— Premier Prize, Duke of St. Alban's, Mrs. Haslope. Purple Laced, 1st prize, Duke of St. Aiban's, Mrs. Haslope ; 2nd, Mr. Cou- drey; 3rd, Sir John, Mr. Coudrey; 4th, Shrewsbury Beauty, Mrs. Haslope; 5th, Republican, Mrs. Haslope; 6th, Mr. Britten. Red Laced, 1st prize. Seedling, Mr. Coudrey ; 2nd, Lord Althorpe, Mrs. Haslope; 3rd, Earl of Uxbridge, Mrs. Haslope ; 4th, Lord Codring. ton, Mrs. Haslope; 5th, Republican, Mr. Coudrey; 6th, George the Fourth, Mrs. Haslope. Plain, 1st prize, Seedling, Mr. Barnes ; Sud, Seedling, Mr. Barnes ; 3rd, Seedling, Mrs. Haslope ; 4th, Seed- ling, Mr. Barnes. RANUNCULUS.— Premier Prize, Princess Charlotte, J. Pope and Sons. Purple, Crimson, and Scarlet, 1st prize, Mr. Phillips; 2nd, Incomparable, J. Pope and Sons; 3rd, Mr. Wilcox ; 4tli, Mr. Wil. cox. Orange, Yellow, and Pale Colours, 1st prize, Mr. Wilcox ; 2nd, Mr. Wilcox ; 3rd, Mr. Phillips ; 4th, Prince of Orange, J. Pope and Sons. White- ground, Striped, Spotted, and Edged, Ist prize, Mr. Phillips, 2nd, Mr. Phillips; 3rd, Princess Elizabeth, J. Pope and Sons; 4th, Mr. Phillips. Yellow- ground, Striped, Spotted, and Edged, 1st prize, Mr. Wilcox; 2nd, J. Pope and Sons; 3rd, Mr. Wilcox; 4th, Mr. Wilcox. STOVE PLANTS.— 1st prize, Gloxinia Speciosa, D. Houghton, Esq.; 2nd, Gloxinia Maxima, D. Houghton, Esq.; 3rd, Gloxinia Violacea, J, Pope and Sous; 4th, Hibiscus Militaris, J. Pope and Sons; 5th, Stapelia Revoluta, D. Houghton, Esq.; 6th, Amaryllis Vittata, Mr. White. OncHiD. EOus PLANTS.— 1st prize, Cychnoches Loddegesii, J. Pope and Sons ; 2nd, Epidendron Fragrans var., D. Houghton, Esq.; 3rd, Brassia Candata, J. Pope and Sons; 4tli, Brassevola sp., D. Hough, ton, Esq. GREENHOUSE PLANTS.— 1st prize, Pimelia Decussata, J. Gough, Esq.; 2nd, Petunia Moorei, Mr. Coudrey; 3rd, Syphocampelis Bicolor, Mr. Dickenson; 4th, Gordogini Multiflora, J. Pope and Sons; 5th, Mirbelia Baxterii, Mr. Dickenson; 6th, Cactus Aker. mannii, Mr. J. Moore; 7th, Petunia Willmorea, Mr. Dickenson; 8th, Cressula Versicolor, Mr. Tongue; 9th, Pimelia Hispida, Mr. White; 10th, Mimulus Hodsonii, Mr. Dickenson. PLANTS OP COMMERCE,— 1st prize, Thea Boliea, D. Houghton, Esq.; 2nd, Thea Viridis, D. Houghton, Esq. ; 3rd, Ficus sp., D. Houghton, Esq.; 4tli, China Orange, D. Houghton, Esq. ERICAS.— Ist prize, Gemmifera, Mrs. Haslope ; 2nd, Viridifloro, J. Gough, Esq.; 3rd, Ventricosa Prsegnans, Mr. White; 4th, Coven, tryana, Mr. Brewer; 5th, Mirabilis, Mr. Dickenson. CALCEOLARIAS.— 1st prize. Guttata, J. Gough, Esq.; 2nd, Mirabilis, Mr. White; 3rd, Fidelity, Mr. Dickenson ; 4th, Pardanthera, Mr. Dickenson; 5th, Cistrensis, Mr. Coudrey; 6th, Talisman, J. Pope and Sorts. GBRANIUMS.— 1st prize,' Beauty of Ware, J. Pope and Sons; 2nd, Tam o'Shanter, Mr. Parsons ; 3rd, Speculum Mandi, Mr. Dicken. son; 4th, Diomede, J. Pope and Sons; 5th, Millers Adonis, Mr. Dickenson; 6th, Captain Cook, Mr. Dickenson; 7th, Fosterii, Mr. Fames ; 8th, Pope's Lord Rradford, J. Pope and Sons ; 9th, Lady Denbigh, Mr. J. Moore; 10th, Diana, Mr. Dickenson. FRAME IPLANTS.— 1st prize, Cypripediun Spectabile, J.' Pope and Sons ; 2nd, Statice Sinuata, Mr. Barnes ; 3rd, Campanula Garganica, J. Gough, Esq.; 4th, Ixia Longiflora, Mr. Yates; 5th, Alstrsemeria Pelegrini, J. Gough, Esq.; 6th, Lychnis Fulgens, Mr. Moore. HERBACEOUS PLANTS,— 1st prize, Delphinium Barlowii, Mr. Dick- enson ; 2nd, Spirea Trifoliata, Mr. Moore; 3rd, Anterrliinum Carryopliylloides, Mr. Dickenson; 4th, Delphinium Sinenses" Mr. Beach; 5th, Hyacinthus Monstrosus, J. Gougli, Esq.; 6th, Mule Pink, J. Pope and Sons. TENDER ANNUALS.— 1st prize, Clintonia Pulchella, Mr. Dickenson ; 2nd, Rhodanthe Manglesii, Mr. Moore; 3rd, Balsam, Mr. Whale; 4th, Balsam, Mr. Whale. HARDY ANNUALS.— 1st prize, Collinsia Bicolor, Mr. Whale ; 2nd, Limjiauthes Douglasii, Mr. Coudrey ; 3rd, Eutoca Viscida, Mr. Coudrey ; 4th, Linaria, Mr. Coudrey. HEARTSEASE, TWELVE BLOOMS. — 1st prize, Mr. Mellon; 2nd, Mr. Coudrey; 3rd, Mr. Sadler ; 4th, J. Pope and Sons. HEARTSEASE, TWENTY. FOUR BLOOMS.— Ist prize, Mr. Mellon ; 2nd, Mr. Coudrey. NOSEGAY, OR GROUP or FLOWERS. — Ist prize, Mr. White; 2nd, Mr. Teiv. HEARTSEASE, IN POTS — 1st prize, Hamlet, Mr. Coudrey; 2nd, Butterfly, Mr. Coudrey ; 3rd, Sampson, Mr. Coudrey; 4th, Claude, Mr. Coudrey; 5th, Seneca, ; 6th, Seedling, . PINES.— Ist prize, Queen, D. Houghton, Esq. STRAWBERRIES.— Ist prize, J. Gough, Esq.; 2nd, Mr. J. Sadler; 3rd, Mr. Yates ; 4tb, Mr. Tew. CHERRIES.— 1st prize, ; 2nd, Mr. J. Sadler; 3rd, Mr. John Moore. CUCUMBERS — 1st prize, Manchester, Mr. White; 2od, Improved ditto, Mr. T. Beach; 3rd, Defiance, Mr. J. Harrison; 4th, Man- chester, . ONIONS.— 1st prize, White Portugal, Mr. J. Sadler; 2nd, White Spanish, Mr. White; 3rd, Potato Onions, Mr. Neal; 4th, Spring BOwn, . CARROTS— 1st prize, Early Horn, Mr. J. Sadler; 2nd, Mr. Walker ; 3rd, White German, D. Houghton, Esq. POTATOES— 1st prize, Early Kidneys, Mr. J. Sadler ; 2nd, Fox's Seedlings, Mr. J. Sadler; 3rd, Albion Kidneys, John Gough, Esq.; 4th, Fox's Seedlings, , LETTUCE.— Ist prize, Golden Cross, Mr. Joseph Sadler; 2nd, rumhead, Mt. Baker; 3rd, Siberian, Mr. J. Moore ; 4tli, Drumhead, Mr. White. CABBAGE.— 1st prize, East Ham, Mr. J. Sadler ; 2nd, Mr. J. Sadler ; 3rd, Mr. Coudrey ; 4tli, West Ham, Mr. Phillips. PEAS.— 1st prize, Early Warwick, John Gough, Esq.; 2nd, Wood- ford's Marrows, Mr. J. Sadler; 3rd, Early Warwick, ; 4th, Mr. Coudrey. BEANS Ist prize, Long Pod, Mr. J. Sadler; 2nd, Windsor, Mr. J. Sadler. TURNIPS.— 1st prize, Stone, Mr. Baker; 2nd, Early Dutch, Mr. Yates ; 3rd, Yellow Altringham, Mr. Baker; 4th, Mr. Coudrey. LATEST NEWS. HOUSE OF COMMONS.— THURSDAY. COAL TRADE BILL.— Lord G. SOMERSET moved an instruction to the committee to repeal those clauses of the Railway bills which impose a countervailing duty of 13d. per ton 011 coals imported into London by land. Mr. HUME seconded the motion. Mr. LABOUCHERE advised the house to let the bill pass as it was, because, if they did not, the city would recur to its ancient chartered dues, which were much more burdensome than those proposed in the bill. Sir ROBERT PEEL opposed the instruction— He ( Sir R. Peel) for one, could not consent that sea- borne coal should be charged with a duty, while inland coal was allowed to pass free. ( Hear, hear.) The city, in his opinion, had a vested interest in this matter, which he ( Sir Robert Peel) was willing to protect to the uttermost. ( Hear-) It had shown a great example of liberality in ap- propriating so large a proportion of these funds for the pro- tection and convenience of trade. Although he could not concur in the proposal of his noble friend, he would at the same time express a strong opinion, that it was impossible that anything could be mote advantageous to the city, than to make every reduction they could in the price of coals. The facility of procuring fuel was one of the greatest ad- vantages which could be conferred upon the labouring classes of the community. ( Hear, hear.) Itwasmostim- portant to facilitate the delivery of coals. The metropolis was gradually becoming a great manufacturing town ; and this, coupled with the improvements in steam navigation, rendered it most important that the price of coals should be reduced to the very lowest scale possible. ( Hear, hear.) The improvement ot this great city he considered an object most worthy the application of its funds ; and lie thought, therefore, it was a legitimate application of part of this duty to the construction of a Royal Exchange. ( Hear, hear.) He should give his cordial support fo the gradual reduction of the coal duty. He should be happy if there were none at all; he thought that would be the proper way of meeting the monopoly. ( Cries of Hear, hear.) But he would never consent to an attempt to secure to the consumers greater advantages than they ought justly to possess. He was of opinion it would be setting a most dangerous pre- cedent to interfere with the property of other persons —( hear)— not that he denied the existence of the monopoly — not that he did not believe in the existence of the combi- nation—( hear)— and he was quite ready to put an end to it by every legitimate means—( hear)— but at the same time he would resort to 110 means not reconcilable with the prin- ciples of justice. ( Hear.) • The house found the consistent arguments of Sir Robert so powerful, that Lord G. Somerset withdrew his motion. A more lengthened discussion took place in com- mittee on the clause which went to permit collier ves- sels to remain iu the liver fifteen days previous to breaking bulk. It was opposed by Mr. Hume, and ultimately struck out by 96 to 49. THE SCOTCH BURGHS BILL.— This bill, which re- duces the municipal franchise, In certain small burghs, to 61. per annum of rent, was committed 011 a division of 56 to 36. The house was counted out at six o'clock. HOUSE OF LORDS.— THURSDAY. AFFIRMATION BILL.— This bill, after several amend- ments, all tending to cramp and destroy its utility, Was passed through committee. BIRMINGHAM CORPORATION.— The Earl of RIPON wished to ask his noble friend the President of'the Council, whether he had received a petition from any persons against a grant of incorporation to the town of Birmingham, and whether the Privy Council had taken such representation into their consideration ? The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, who spoke iu a tone of voice so low as to be hardly heard, was understood to say, that information on the subject had only been received in the course of the last few days, and that he had not yet been able to convene a meeting of the Privy Council to take the subject into consideration. IRISH MUNICIPAL BILL.— Lord LYNDHURST pro- posed his amendments:— A bona fide 10/. value was what he ( Lord Lyndhurst) con- tended ought to be the qualification ; but then he had to in- quire what was a house at 10/. value. He held a house of 10/. value to be a house that would give to the landlord a 10/. rent, the landlord paying all such charges as weie ne- cessary to enable him to command such a rent. He did not mean the value of the repairs in any year, but the average of the repairs necessary to enable the landlord to command a rent of 10/. An article was valued by the price it would sell for; so he would value a house by the rent it would let for, deducting that which might be necessary to keep the premises, so as to fetch that relit. He'apprehended, there- fore, that he stated it clearly and fairly, when he said that the test must show that the qualification was a house which, when let to a tenant year by year, the tenant paying the usual charges, would bring the landlord 10/. in the shape of rent, after he had paid the average charges necessary to keep that house in repair. He hoped he made himself understood, for this was the principal, the basis of the whole of his amendments. Now he proposed to check the value by the rating, and it still remained to consider the nature of the rating, and to see if the value under it corresponded with the definition of rating which he had given. Now a bill had been passed two or three years ago with respect to rating in England, and under thac bill the estimate of value corres- ponded with the description he had given to their lord- ships. He alluded to Mr. Poulett Scrope's bill, and that measure, as worked under the authority of the Poor- law Commissioners, took the value thus— viz , what a tene- ment would let for from year to year, the tenant paying the usual charges, and deducting from that rent the amount of those repairs and insurances which were paid by the landlord, and which enabled him to command the rent. But there was still another proposition to be taken into account, and that was the rating under the Irish Poor Relief bill, which was worded differently from the bill to which he had referred. He would not go into details, because it was difficult clearly to communicate them ; but the result was this:— that the results of the rating under the Poor Relief bill were in substance precisely the same as under Mr. Poulett Scrope's bill; therefore, with the rating under the Poor Relief bill, the clear yearly value of the tenement could be accurately ascertained. If he had made himself intelligible, there was only one remaining point, but it was a most material and important point, and one oil which the whole question turned. In England the Parliamentary franchise was fixed at the yearly value of 10/. In Ireland it was the same, and in Scotland the same, and 10/. also in Scotland was the muni- cipal franchise. That principle had not been adopted with lespect to the municipal franchise in England, but that he had left out of the account. Now, in the application of the Parliamentary franchise in England, the revising barristers have never, except in one or two instances, deducted for the landlord's repairs; the consequence had been that the value of a 10/. tenement in England was less than the clear annual value to which he had referred. He did not think the revising barristers had done right, but, however, in Ireland the uniform practice had been to throw the items for repairs and insurances in favour of the franchise. Now, what had been the arguments used in another place? Why, it had been said, " Why will you raise the value in Ireland higher than that which is practically the value in England?" He ( Lord Lyndhurst) would not stand up in favour of any such : t proposition ; but he maintained that they must take the practical rating here and apply it to Ireland, and there- fore what he proposed was, to make the estimate of the value in Ireland coirespond with that of England in this way— he would add to the rated value the amount of the landlord's repairs and insurances, as stated on the face of the rate, and he should say that the 10/. value would be measured by the aggregate of those three sums, and thus it was de- monstrable to anybody who had considered this bill, that the value in Ireland would correspond with the practical value here in this country. ( Hear, hear.) His Lordship after having, at the request of Lord Brougham, restated the nature of this amendment of the qualification, added— There was, however, another amendment which it was also his intention to move, with reference to trustees. There were in Ireland many charities which had been endowed for Protestant purposes, and he intended to propose an amendment to tile effect that none but Protestants should be concerned in the administration of those trusts. He should also propose, that for the maintenance of the peace of those towns and boroughs, and for all purposes of police, the constabulary shall be employed, as in London and else- where ; for that purpose he should move, that the clause relating to watchmen and a watch rate, should be expunged from the hill. Again, there was another alteration in the bill which he thought essential— he meant as to the boun- daries of the corporate towns. There was a bill on this subject now in the other house of Parliament, founded on the report of the commissioners. He did not think it right to take the chance of that bill being passed into a law, and therefore lie meant in a schedule to set out the boundaries as stated in the report of tile boundary commissioners, and as he believed the bill in the other house corresponded, with one exception only, with that report, there would be 110 objection to that amendment. Their lordships would also feel that it would be necessary to provide for the discharge of the various duties in, and the management of property belonging to, towns now corporate, and to which operations would not be granted under this bill as amended in the way he proposed, and for that purpose he proposed to vest those duties in commissioners, to be elected in the manner he had already pointed out. The house would scarcely be aware, from this statement, what a variety of details these alterations would embrace; the points themselves were very simple, but the alterations were of a most extensive character. Lord. MELBOURNE said nothing could be more fair and candid than the course taken by Lord Lyndhurst. It was impossible to execute the task assigned him in a more clear and dispassionate manner than Lord Lyndhurst had done. The great and most material amendment propounded by the noble and learned lord, was that which had reference to an alteration of the qualification. As it at present stood in the bill, the qualification was fixed at a 5/. house, exclusive of charges which the noble and learned lord threw in and joined with his 10/. qualification. Now, he ( Viscount Melbourne) presumed they all had the same object— the intention of giving municipal corporations fairly, and in such manner as would give satisfaction and contentment to all parties; that they should not give amongst a great body of inhabitants, a corporation either of an oligarchical or an aristocratic character; that the power should not be placed in a few hands, which, so far from giving satisfaction, would only lead to a renewal, a re- opening, and a re- agitation of this question. Meaning, therefore, on all sides to settle this subject, the plan to be pursued, he apprehended, would be that which really would be satisfactory, and all this would depend 011 the nature of the qualification, the num- ber admitted, and the number excluded. If the number admitted was small, 110 satisfaction or settlement would follow. The noble and learned lord admitted that the qualification in Ireland ought not to be higher than it was in England. Now, he ( Viscount Melbourne) would take leave to ask whether, considering the relative situation of the two countries, their relative condition as to wealth and poverty, it was really fair that the qualification should be of the same value ? It ought to be considered how far the same qualification that suited a wealthy country was appli- cable to a poor country. ( Hear, hear.) He would not, however, discuss the matter further until the house went into committee, and the amendment came regularly under consideration. Lord WICKLOW congratulated the House on the pleasing fact, that all differences in this respect to this measure were now removed from them. He held that the establishment of a 51. franchise would, in itself, be monstrous, and in that the government must acquiesce, when they, in framing the Poor Law bill, pro- vided that a person possessed of so small a property as a 51. value, was of so low a description as to be entitled to be freed from the payment of all rates under that bill. Minis- ters having acted so, was it possible that they would now, for the purpose of carrying this bill, require that the 51. franchise should be maintained? From every thing that had taken place elsewhere, as well as from the good sense of the noble lords opposite, he was led to hope that they would not make a stand upon this point. The House havinar gone into committee, on clause 6th being read, Lord Lyndhurst moved his amend- ment. Lord MELBOURNE said he should take the sense of the house on the amendment. The house divided, when, there appeared, for the amendment, 96; against it, 36. Majority against ministers, 60. Lord MELBOURNE intimated that, after so decided an opinion, he should not again divide their lordships on the qualification. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE admitted that the qualification sent up by the Commons was not what it ought to be; still he thought that of Lord Lynd- hurst was not the best. After some other amendments, the most important of which was to vest the appointment and government of the police of the several boroughs in government, and not in the borough councils, the house resumed. STEAM BOAT DISASTERS. The New York papers, received by the Great West- ern, give an account of two of those terrible steam- boat accidents that are of so frequent occurrence in the waters of the United States. By the first of these, the burning of the George Washington, forty persons are said to have lost their lives. The follow- ing- is from the New York Sunday Morning News :— The George Washington was a new boat, this being her second trip; and at the time of her present disaster she was on her way from Cleveland to Buffalo. About three o'clock in the morning of June 1G, when off Silver Creek, the boat caught fire in the vicinity of the boilers, and the flames had made such progress before they were discovered, that the most vigorous attempts to extinguish it were with- out avail. The scene that followed is thus described by one of the passengers: — " The passengers were alarmed, and aroused from their slumbers. Such a scene of confusion and distress ensued, as those only of my readers can imagine who have been in similar circumstances. " Despair did not, however, completely possess the mass, until it became evident that the progress of the flames could not he arrested. From that moment the scene beggars all description. Suffice it to say, that numbers precipitated themselves from the burning mass into the water; some of them with a shriek of despair, others silently sunk beneath the waves; others, momentarily more fortunate, swam a short distance, biH were soon drowned; others still, on pieces of board and wood, arrived on the beach; yet some even of these sank into a watery grave. The small boat had by this time put off, loaded with about twenty- five souls, for the shore. These arrived safe, picking up one or two by the way. The writer of this was one of the num- ber. Other small boats came to our assistance, which, together with the Washington's boat, saved perhaps the majority of the persons on board. " There is reason to believe that as many as forty perished. It is impossible to compute the precise number, Many remained in the boat until it was wrapped in one sheet ot flame. Of these there is reason to believe that numbers peiished in the conflagration; while others, half- burned, precipitated themselves into the watery elemeut, thus suffering the double agony of death by fire and water." Immediately after the alarm, the head of the boat was turned towards the shore; but the rudder being guided by ropes, instead of iron rods, as is the case on the Mississipi, was, soon rendered useless, as the ropes were burnt; and the vessel, which was now on fire in every part, lay on the water an unmanageable wreck. As soon as the flames were observed from the shore, all the boats that could be collected were sent out to her assistance ; and the steamer North America, which was some miles a head, put back on perceiving the light, and was the means of saving many lives. But the succour, prompt as it was, came too late to rescue the whole of the passengers; and as the boats of the George Washington were not capable of containing all, ( by eveiy account we have met with, we do not perceive that she had more than one in a serviceable condition,) manyj were obliged to commit themselves to the water, where death presented fewer terrors than in the burning vessel. Captain Edmonds, of the North America, rendered all the assistance in his power ; and having taken 011 board many of the survivors, and picked up all the floating baggage, he caused the George Washington to be towed into Silver creek, where she now remains, sunk in about six or eight feet of water. The boat was valued at 50,000 dollars, and was not in- sured. The captain and all the other officers were saved. Another journal adds— An English family, consisting of a man, his wife, and two children, came on board the boat at Toledo. While the fire was raging the man worked by the side of our informant, till they could stay on board no longer. Then he and his wife threw their children overboard, and jumped in after them. The father and two children were drowned ; the mother was saved. Several passengers went into convulsions with terror 011 the deck at the outset, and perished in the flames. A woman, with a child grasped under each arm, all three dead, was picked up by the North America on her return to Buffalo. The other steamer, the Pulaski, was destroyed by the bursting of 011c of her boilers, supposed to be occa- sioned by the rolling of the vessel. The first mate seems to have looked much more carefully to him- self than to his passengers. According to the account of the accident given by him— About ten o'clock at night he was called to the command of the boat, and that he was pacing the promenade deck in front of the steerage- house ; that he found himself, shortly after, upon the main deck, lying between the mast and side of the boat; that upon the return of consciousness, he had a confused idea of having heard an explosion, something like that of gunpowder, immediately before he discovered himself in his then situation. He was induced, therefore, to rise and walk aft, when he discovered that the boat mid- ships was blown entirely to pieces; that the head of the star- board boiler was blown out, and the top torn open ; that the timbers and planks on the starboard side were forced asunder, and that the boat took in water whenever she rolled in that direction. He became immediately aware of the horrors of their situation, and the danger of letting the passengers know that the boat was sinking, before lowering the small boats. He proceeded, therefore, to to this. Upon dropping the boat he was asked his object, and lie replied that it was to pass round the steamer to ascertain her condition. Before doing this, however, he took in a couple of men. He ordered the other boats to be lowered, and two were shortly put into the water, but they leaked so much in consequence of their long exposure to the sun, that one of them sunk, after a fruitless attempt to bail her. He had in the interim taken several from the water, until the number made ten. In the other boat afloat there weie eleven. While they were making a fruitless attempt to bail the small boat, the Pulaski went down with a dreadful crash, in about forty- five minutes after the explosion. Both boats now insisted upon Mr. Hibberd's directing their course to the shore, but he resisted their remonstrances, • replying that he would not abandon the spot until daylight. At about three o'clock in the morning they started, in tile midst of the waitings of the hopeless beings who were float- ing round in every direction upon pieces of the wreck, to seek land, which was about thirty miles distant. After pulling about thirteen hours, the persons in both boats became tired, and insisted that Mr. Hibberd should land. This he opposed, thinking it safest to proceed along the coast, and to enter some one of its numerous inlets; but he was forced to yield to the general desire, and to attempt a landing upon the beach, a little east of Stump Inlet. He advised Mr. Cooper, of Georgia, who had command of the other boat, and a couple of ladies with two children under his charge, to wait until his boat had first landed, as he apprehended much danger in the attempt, and, should they succeed, they might assist him and the ladies and children. There were eleven persons iu the mate's boat, ( having taken two black women from Mr. Cooper's.) Of these, two passengeis, one of the crew, and the two negro women, were drowned, and six gained the shore. Alter waiting for a signal, which he received from the mate, Mr. Cooper and his companions landed in about three hours after the first boat, in safety. The Pulaski was on her passage from Charleston to Baltimore, and had left the former place on the morn- ing of the 14th. The accident happened at about eleven o'clock of the evening' of the same day, the vessel being at the time about thirty miles from the shore. The captain was thrown into the sea by the explosion, and drowned. After the explosion the vessel parted iu the midst, and the heavy parts of the contents of the hold, namely, the engine and chain cable, sliding into the sea, the forecastle and promenade deck were left floating. The boats and the gallant mate having abandoned them to their fate- Such of the passengers as were alive, and who had not left the vessel in the boats, sought refuge in these frag- ments. On the promenade deck was " Mr. Lamar, of Sa- vannah, who having got possession of one of the boats, placed in it his family, thinking that if the promenade deck should sink, the boat would remain afloat. Unfortunately, however, it caps'ized, and they were all precipitated into the sea, and all of them but one was drowned. Those 011 the forward- deck, originally eighteen in number, thr0w into the sea everything to give it greater buoyancy. On Friday about twelve o'clock, while floating upon the ocean, two sails were seen, one in a north- easterly direction, and the other in a south- westerly direction, about five or six miles distant. O11 Saturday morning early, another small portion of the wreck was discovered, about five miles distant, with a small sail and a flag flying, this remnant made a successful attempt to reach those upon the bow, whom they joined about noon. They were five males: they attached them, selves immediately to their fellow sufferers upon the bow, whose number they swelled to twenty- three. The twenty- three then proceeded to erect a jury mast, upon which a square sail was hoisted— the wind continuing to blow from the S. E. ( in which quarter it had been ever since the wreck) they were blown towards the land, which became visible about four o'clock, P. M. At sunset quite a strip of land was seen, and trees discovered. The night was passed without any material change, and on Sunday morning, upon the occasional lifting of fog, land was quite apparent, about three or four miles off, which they continued to approach until they got within half- a- mile. The wind which had been gradually coming round settled down to N. E. about eleven o'clock, which blew the wreck along the coast, about the same distance from land during the day. The wind gradually increased in violence, and the rain poured down during the whole of Sunday, until five o'clock, when it be- came calm, and the rain ceased. On that night the wind came out from the N. W. On Monday it was clear and quite calm. At twelve that day the wind blew a light breeze from the S. W. About four o'clock, four vessels passed within three miles, steering east. On Tuesday morning about sunrise, the schooner Henry Cameron, Captain Davis, was seen about five miles off in an easterly direction. She continued to near until within three miles, when the exhausted sufferers were discovered; she then immediately squared sails and bore down to the wreck, which she spoke about half- past eight o'clock A. M. She then passed by and anchored within a short distance. Capt. Davis lowered his boat immediately, and succeeded in transferring the whole of the sufferers to his vessel, where every proper comfort at his command was humanely fur- nished these unfortunate beings. They gave information to the captain of their unfortunate fellow voyagers on the promenade deck, and after cruizing about a short time, he fell in with this part of the wreck also, on which remained, however, but Mrs. Noah Smith and Miss Rebecca Lamar, Chailes Lamar, two gentlemen and two negro women, in an exhausted and worn out condition; ten had died from exhaustion, and six had left for the shore in one of the boats which they had picked up, which they had reached in safety. It were needless to attempt a description of the excessive suffering endured by those on the pieces of wreck. Though four days on them, they felt no hunger, but experienced the want of water most intensely. It rained all day on Sunday, but they were able to catch no rain they could drink, except a little in their hands; a piece of sail which they had and their clothes, being so satu- rated with salt water, that the rain they caught with them could not he swallowed. Among the incidents of this appalling disaster, the affecting one is mentioned that the Rev. Dr. Woart and wife, after a most fervent prayer, clasped their child in a mutual embrace, and in a few minutes the three sunk together resignedly into the waves of death. No baggage of any kind was saved. All the passengers had money, which was in their trunks, and it is estimated that at least 150,000 dollars in bank notes and specie have been lost, and upwards of 10,000 dollars in watches and jewellery. HILL COOLIES. O11 this subject the Demerara Royal Gazette of the 8th of May has the following observations:—• We have this evening published the conditions of the agreement mutually entered into by the natives of India, who are British subjects there, and Messrs. Henley, Dow- son, and Bestel, agents in Calcutta, for such planters iu the West Indies and elsewhere as may wish to employ the said natives as labourers upon their estates. The Whitby, which, as we have mentioned in our last, sailed from Cal cutta a fortnight before the Hesperus, arrived yesterday in Berbice with a cargo of labourers, which, at the time she sailed, amounted to 270. We have not heard whether any have died on the passage or not. Every one who is con- vinced of a speedy increase to our labourers, will see the propriety and advantage of administering to the convenience and comfort of these Coolies. These two cargoes are the first that have arrived here, and the success of the experi- ment will very much depend upon the manner in which they are treated. The introduction of large bodies of males lias a most im- moral tendency. The colony is even now suffering from the large excess of males over females, among the labouring immigrants from the neighbouring islands; and the present extensive increase followed up, as we suppose it will be, by further importations of a similar nature, bids fair to demoral- ise and throw back our hitherto advancing state of society. It is utterly impossible that this flagitious system of depor- tation should be suffered to continue. As soon as the in- telligence of the" late arrivals of the Hesperus and Whitby reaches England, the question will be asked, what do the importers of these people contemplate as the result of their speculations? Appearances will inevitably guide to the following conclusions:— The importers keep out of view entirely the comfort of the labourers during their sojourn; they concern not themselves with the disarrangements of social ties among the negro population, which must ensue by the introduction of hundreds of males into a population where that sex is already preponderant; they look nor to the rearing of a progeny from the new colonist1, they make no provision for it; no, they contemplate the grinding of sugar out of the bones and sinews of these labourers, so lonjj as they are fit for work, and as they wear out, to supply their places by fresh importations. It is in this light that the circumstances atttending the importation of Coolies to British Guiana will be viewed at home. One of the most powerful orators and most influen- tial men in England, Lord Brougham, has already take » this view of the subject, and when he finds his anticipations corroborated by the facts of the first introduction of East India labourers to British Guiana, what have we to expect- but a deprivation for the future of that source of obtaining labour ? With reference to the remuneration of these Coolies, we beg to refer our readers to the circular of a Calcutta house, which we subjoin, and we now call the serious attention of our local authorities to the circumstances of the case, re- commending— in order to prevent the evil consequences to- be dreaded from locating a number of these men 011 one spot— that they shall be declared at liberty to choose their own service, on satisfying their importers for the expense of passage, & c.; or that the owners of the ship shall give bond to import within twelve months an adequate proportion of females. Something of this kind must be done forthwith, by our- selves, or it will be done for us, the moment the particulars of the case reach England. The importation of labourers, to be conducted to a suc- cessful issue, must be made mutually beneficial. Our friends in Berbice seem to be aware of this truth, and in conse- quence of their offering better wages than the employers of this country, the same vessels which formerly brought their immigrants to Demerara, now carry them to Ber- bice, with an advantage to the labouiers of from 20 to 39 per cent. On looking over the returns of immigrants furnished by the sheriff of that county, we observed coopers, carpenters, sugar- boilers, and trenchers, engaged at a dollar a- day; able field hands at from sixteen to twenty dollars per month- Can it be expected, is it reasonable, that other labourers can be contented, who in their ignorance have contracted to serve for a lengthened term of years at somewhere about three or four dollars per month ? We were before fully convinced of the necessity of a pro- tector of immigrants, but the importation of the Hill Coolies impresses us still more strongly with a conviction of its indispensibility. The documents here alluded to are hardly amusing. They consist of a circular, and tables of calculations, and copy of agreement, which had been forwarded to the Demerara editor, from a firm at Calcutta. The circular runs thus :— To Sir,— We beg your reference to the enclosed circular, which signifies the establishment of our firm at Calcutta. Having been actively employed for the last two years i » procuring Indian labourers for our friends at the Mauritius, we venture to anticipate orders for your estates, earnestly assuring you that your interests will meet with every zeaJ and attention. Our Mr. Henley was the first person to direct the atten- tion of the planters of the Mauritius to the immense re- source which this colony offers to the sugar colonies, for obtaining a constant supply of agricultural labourers, and his suggestion has been adopted with the most unequivocal success. The labourers hitherto procured by us, have cost their employers, lauded at the Mauritius, about 100 rupees ( or 10/. sterling) per man, which sum comprises six months* advance of wages, provisions, and water for the voyage- clothing, commission, passage, insurance, and all incidental charges. The expense attending the shipment of Indian labourers to the West India colonies would be necessarily augmented — firstly, by the higher rate ol passage- money, and the increased quantity of provisions and water; and, secondly, from the necessity of making arrangements indispensable to the health and comfort of native passengers on a voyage of so long duraiion, in the course of which they would be exposed to great vicissitude of climate. On making ample allowance for these changes, we do not apprehend that a labourer sent direct from this country to Demerara, and engaged to work on your estates for a period of five consecutive years, would cost, when landed there, above 210 rupees, or 21/. sterling. Possessing a competent knowledge of the cultivation of the sugar cane, with the advantage of a long experience in a sugar colony, we will undertake ( if favoured with your orders) to select good and efficient labourers, adapted to every description of tropical agriculture. We are, sir, your most obedient servants, HENI. EY, DOWSON, AND BESTEI,. The first table shows the cost of sending a Coolie to Demerara, or elsewhere, on a four months' voyage, with wages for six months, and all other charges in- cluded. The sum is ' 21/., the passage- money alone being calculated at 12?. Table second is a calculation of the cost of a Coolie for five years, the limit of the apprenticeship graciously permitted by Her Majesty's christian and considerate advisers. The moneys are rupees, anas, and paras. ^ A statement exhibiting the Approximate Monthly Rate o Hire of an Indian Labourer at during a period oft five consecutive years. To the cost of his introduc- tion, via No. 1 —— His wages for sixty mouths at 5 Its. per mensem Deduct advance paid in Cal- cutta, six months ™ . Victualling for sixty months at 5% Its. per mensem viz.: — 21b. of rice per diem, or 601b. per mensem, at 6 rupees per cwt . — 21b of ghee or clarified butter, at one rupee per pound — Sib of salt . Rs. As. Ps. 300 30 3 3 5 8 0 Clothing for five years at five rupees per Passage to Calcutta, if required by the la- bourer at the expiration of his contract Rs. As. Ps. 210 270' 330- 50 Company's rupees —, . 885 At 2s. per company's rupee, 88/. 10s. sterling. Giving, for a period of sixty months, a monthly hire of 1/. 9s. 6d. ! Not the least instructive item of this bill for foot}, clothing, and labour, is the last. The ingenious" Messrs. Henley ( any relation of bis lordship's ?) charge 12/. for the passage out, and 61. for extras, while they only allow 5/. iu all for the passage home ! The following is an extract from the articles of agreement. 6. The undersigned engage to work on week days throughout the day, with the exception of three flours allowed for repose and meals, and on Sundays until nine o'clock a. m., and in cases of urgency, more especially during the crop, which render extraordinary services necessary, occurring night or day, or on Sundays, they engage to assist with good will and assiduity and without remuneration. 7. The undersigned natives of India are not allowed either individually or collectively to work for any person, even on Sundays or during the hours allowed for repose, with- out the sanction of M. 8. M. or representative engage to well treat and protect the said natives of India, and in all cases to act justly and equitably towards them, paying their wages regularly, providing them with house or lodging on the estate, and hospital and medical attendance when required, but it is expressly understood that they will receive no wagex during illness. 9. The said labourers engage and consent, in case of ab- sence from work without the permission of their employer, that a deduction of two day's wages shall be made for every day of such unlicensed absence. And they further agree that in case any of the conditions herein stipulated should be violated or'broken in case of disputes arising from mis- understanding of the present agreement, or from miscon- duct on their part, " to submit themselves and all such differ- ences to the jurisdiction of the special and constituted authorities of the said island of The way in which these tricking tyrants slip out of" the obligation imposed by government, that the Coolies shall not become burdensome to the colony, is very ingenious— 10. As the government of exacts a guarantee from M. or representative that the said shall not become a burden to the colony in case of their misconduct, incapacity, or breach of engagement, rendering it necessary that they or any of them should be sent back to Calcutta, it is agreed that they shall be retained from the pay of each individual the sum of one rupee per month, until a suffi- cient sum shall be provided to defray their return passage: and it is agreed that the said reserved fund shall be repaid them, at the expiration of this engagement, being equally divided amongst those who have faithfully fulfilled the conditions oi' their contract. Lord Brougham has, we suppose, given up his ad- dress to the Queen against this crying enormity. He is too busy with the beer shops to attend to the slave trade. 6 GLEANINGS. AMERICAN STEAM NAVIGATION As regaids, then, what may be called the mere mercantile interests concerned — and chiefly the immediate, not prospective, ones— between the two countries, particularly, which seem to have taken up the enterprise in good earnest. The. se, of course, will experience in this, as in every department, its first and greatest effects. To a vast extent, steam. vessels will take the place of sailing- vessels, and that at once. This is not a case, be it understood, in which most people can do as they please. A gentleman, taking a honey- moon excursion with his bride, may possibly prefer some other conveyance to a stage- coach, or even a railroad— and he may even be allowed to humour himself in his fancy; but not so the merchant, his agents, Ills letters, or many of his goods. What one does must be done by all. The whole of the mercantile world, with scarcely noticeable exceptions, will, from this moment, adopt the new conveyance, so far as accommodation is provided for them ; their entire corres- pondence must go the same way. The Great Western, on her first trip, has brought home twenty thousand letters— perhaps three times as many a- s any sailing ' packet oil the same route ever carried. ' Die reason of this transfer in each case is too obvious for explanation; but it may not be known to all our readers to what a degree the uncertainty, as well as the length, of a sailing voyage to New York, as compared with a steamed one, is an argument for this new arrangement, and a proof of the necessity of its universal adoption. From the very high and well- deserved reputation of the " Liners"— the most perfect conveyance of the kind, and the greatest advance in merchant navigation ever known up to the spring of 1838, it is perhaps a common impression that a passage between France or England and the United States in one of these superb vessels, might be counted on as much for a tolerably well settled period of time, as for the comforts and luxuries to be enjoyed in the course of it, or for the nautical management. The fact is entirely otherwise, as every man in the business well knows. Some seasons are more un- favourable in this respect than others; and the winter months are none of the best we allow. Neither is the return voyage so uncertain or so long, we should remark, as the voyage out:— it is notorious that the " Liners" have always bad smaller fare coming than going, in about the proportion of twenty- eight guineas to thirty- five, and that even the steam- boats ( without so much reason for it) have thus far continued the custom. But to take a case at hand — During tlie last winter— at the very time when we were continually getting " late" American intelligence, by un- usually short and quite regular passages,— the corresponding packets going westward were encountering the full face of the same winds and currents by which those coming east- ward were propelled. All the " Liners" which left the three European packet- ports during six weeks were baffled and beat about in such a manner, that at one time about eighteen of them were due at New York ; and thirty out of fifty belonging to that port were then supposed to he on the ocean, working their way home. The average length of this passage is about thirty two days. One of the Liver- pool ships, which sailed January 4, was spoken fifty- live days out, in long. 43— some 1,000 miles from her destination ; the others were fifty, sixty, or even seventy days on tiie voyage. * * * * * Almost all mercantile travel and correspondence must be transferred at once. All light, rich, and seasonable mer- chandise must speedily go in the same way; it will never do for one man's silks, as the fashionable season comes on, to be sixty days on the voyage, while his neighbour's are fouiteen; neither will it do to buy long in anticipation of the market. As to travel anil business not mercantile, these like the heavy articles of commerce, will linger, more or Jess, for some time, with the " Liners" and other sailing craft. Some people, on sea as well as land, are shy of your new- fangled steam things to this day, arid would rather stick by even a two- horse coach, a French diligence, a Mis- sissippi ark, or a Newcastle coal- sloop, than trust themselves to the tender mercies of this second " infernal machine" in any of its shapes, especially for the awful distance of 3,000 miles. We respect the caution of this class, but they will gradually disappear, and so will those who profess to prefer a longer passage, and abhor doing things in a hurry, as much as it they were on half- pay. In fact, there will remain, speedily, no opportunity for the indulgence of these fears, whims, or tastes. We shall have to do, like the merchants, what every body el6e does. * » » Brother Jonathan is a business- man, no doubt; he looks pretty well to the main chance; nor is he greatly shocked or put to inconvenience by any of the ordinary methods of money making which fall in his way. In these particulars, be it observed, he " favours" oid John himself. If the Americans are not literally as much as we are " a nation of shopkeepers," it is partly, we conjecture, because they leckon some other things just as profitable, and not so very different are they after all; we do not refer now to wooden- nut making, or white oak cheeses, by any means, but to trapping, sending out ice, and a most fantastic variety of those " Yankee notions," so called by themselves— suitable, undoubtedly, to the circumstances of the communities and countries in which they originate, and to which they are destined; in a word, wherever money is to be made, there are they as sure to be gathered together as young eagles over a carcase. No obstacle stands long in their way; no distance, difficulty, or disaster, turns them aside. Mr. Clay, in one of his speeches, relates an anecdote of the master of a vessel who sorely embarrassed the people of the Custom- house at Leghorn, by presenting ship- papers made out at Cincinatti, a port some 2,000 miles up the Mississippi, and one of its branches. Not many years ago the commander of a Russian exploring ship in the Antarctic Seas, coming on the coast of a remote and solitary island, was proceeding, as a matter of course, to take possession in the name of the Czar, when lo! a sharp- built little sloop of some sixty tons, made her appearance round a point of the island, and hailed him to ask if he wished for a pilot? It was a Connecticut " skipper," who had cruised off that way to " seek his fortune;" the person is now well known here as captain of one of the most splendid of those fine ships— the New York " Liners." As a driving, penetrating, indefatigable, business people: the Americans have a name literally all over the world; they are emphatically the " universal Yankee nation." Arid yet we say— prominent as this part of their character is, con- siderable as the interests are to which we have called a passing attention— it is not these alone they have in view. Unquestionably young Jonathan ( as well as old John) thinks of something besides packing iiis ice and his pork, and getting the equivalent therefore. The Americans are not all merchants, and the merchants are not all mere mer cantile men. They, in common with the whole nation, with the entire continent, have a vital, an exquisite interest in the Old World, and in the whole of it, and in all its history, fortunes, and proceedings; interests, social, literary, scien- tific; interests, political and religious. No great movement can take place among us which they must not feel in every nerve of the body politic of the States; sooner or later, more or less; and though distance, now reduced by one- half, however, and isolation, and peculiar institutions, may seem almost to make them, in some respects, an independent world by themselves, on the other hand, these very circum- stances enhance, in the American mind, the freshness and depth of the interest they have in their connexion with the Old World, and the visitations they are in the habit of get- ting from- it Quarterly Review. CIRCASSIAN BRIDAL.— The princess and her principal women were dressed iii scarlet mantles, trimmed with gold lace, and large hats, turned up in front with bands of gold lace and buttons, and ornamented here and there with gold coins. The mantles were stamped with the mark of vene- rable antiquity in the variety of shades,— in one place faded in another mended with pieces of a brighter colour; they had probably been heir- looms in the family for centuries, and, from some superstitious motive, never worn except on occasions like the present, which called for more than an ordinary display of oriental grandeur. It could not, how- ever, have been from poverty, ot any scarcity of cloth among this people, as they are famous all over the Caucasus for their manufactures ol wearing apparel. The princess was merely distinguished from her youthful companions by the immense size of the scarlet saddle- cloth that covered her horse, the ends of which nearly reached the ground. It was showily decorated with gold embroidery, and appeared quite as much c- tititled to be respected for its age as the mantles and the hats. A noble rode on each side of the horse of bis mistress, to take especial care that it did not shy or make any faise step which might endanger the life of its precious burden. It was, however, a very unnecessary precaution, and, probably, was part of the ceremonial ob- served on these occasions, for not one of the noble knights who attended her sat firmer in the saddle, than the fair princess herself. Several of the male attendants, of inferior rank, in addition to the usual weapons worn by the moun- taineers, were armed with hatchets, for the purpose of cut- ting down the brush- wood that might impede the progress of the cortege, and for making rafts on which to transport the ladies and their baggage across the rivers, should it be found necessary. In the midst of all this grandeur and assumption of state, it was not a little ludicrous to see the stock of provisions, composed of barley and other meal, in bags, bottles of the skhou, and shoulders and legs of mutton, dangling from the saddle- bows. The princess and her prin- cipal women wore large transparent white veils, which did not appear altogether destined to conceal their pretty fea- tures from observation, as, with the exception of one or two, the faces of all were in great part uncovered. It might be that only the old, or those not handsome, availed themselves of the shade of the muslin, for the others were really ex- tremely beautiful, especially the piincess, whose noble mein, and animated, commanding features, realised all we can imagine of an Amazon of old. The expression of her countenance was very different from that feminine gentle- ness which distinguishes the beauties of our own country, being rather the eye and character of one who could rule a kingdom, command an army, or set the world in a blaze » I could not sufficiently admire the courteous bearing of the fine youth who had been delegated by his brother to conduct his bride to her future home. He leaped from Irs horse, and, after respectfully saluting her, in a manner that would have done honour to any one of the most gallant knights ol the middle ages, drew his sword, and proceeded to make a long, and 1 dare say eloquent, oration ; but, as it underwent a double translation, I have no doubt its force and spirit were proportionably injured. He commenced by praising her beauty, comparing her eyes to the diamonds, her cheeks to the roses of Arianoi ( Persia), and her form to the grace- ful antelope. Neither did be forget to eulogise the virtues and bravery of the bridegroom, his brother,— the number of enemies he had slain in battle, the courage of the bands of warlike clansmen who called him lord, the fertility of the country she was about to adopt as her own, and the vast flocks and herds of which she was to become the sole mis- tress. Then, turning the point of his sword alternately to the four quarters of the globe, swore fie would protect her safely till he could deliver her to bis brother, even at the sacrifice of his life and of the lives of his escort, should it become necessary— a declaration responded to by the whole band with loud acclamations. — Spencer. THE VIPER.— Without stopping to repeat the various ex- periments I made, I will only state that I found the nitrate of silver to be a complete rteutraliser of the poison. A pigeon pricked with a needle imbrued with the pure poison, dies in three or four minutes. Mix the poison with a minute quantity of scraped nitrate of silver, and apply it in the same way, great inflammation ensues, but not death. * * The poison of a full grown viper amounts in quantity to more than two large drops, one contained in the sheath of each fang, which is very similar in construction to that of the claws of a cat. This poison is of a yellow colour, and of the consistency of cream. The fangs are two in number, placed on the roof of the mouth, inserted into two bones, which form an angle opening towards the back of the mouth. They are jointed at the base, so that, when not called into use, they lie down immersed in the poison bag. Besides being hollow like a horn, and a hole near the point for the exit of the poison, they have a groove along their whole length, to aid in the same providential arrangement. Upon causing a viper, on which I had placed my foot, to bite my boot, the more violently he pressed his fangs against the leather, the greater was the issue of poison, which I could plainly see flowing from the hole near the point of the tooth, and along the grooves, so as to cover a surface of my hoot equal to the size of a sixpence. Behind the main fangs, on each of the bones above spoken of, there are five other fangs, diminishing in size as they recede from the main ones. These take and supply the place of the latter in case of rupture or extirpation, so that any person depending on the fact of having broken or extracted the fangs of a viper, would soon after find, to his cost, that they had been renewed. * * Taken internally, the poison of the viper is not injurious, at least to any violent degree. I swallowed the poison extracted from two full grown vipers, amounting in quantity to about four large drops; the weight I cannot state. It caused no new sensation whatever. The viper is the only poisonous serpent existing in Europe. There are two varieties, the red and the brown. They may be dis- tinguished at a glance from any other snake, by their small length in proportion to their thickness, and the abrupt ter- mination of their tail; by their flat, heart- shaped head, thin neck, and square, cocked- up nose. The back is covered from head to tail with rectangular, oblong, square, black spots, those on one side the spine being in contact with the others on the otlfer side, at the angles, just like the black squares on a chess- board. But the most certain feature is the eye, the pupil of which is a rectangular oblong square, instead of round, as in all other European serpents. The vipers do more mischief in the Maremme than is generally known. In the month of October, when sharp weather begins in the mountains of Abruzzo, large flocks of goats are brought to the low warm regions of the Maremme, where they iemain the winter. Before, however, they are taken back again to the mountains in the spring, the goatherds assure me that they lose a dozen or more, from the bites of vipers.. The legs of goats are particularly " clean," as horse jockies call it; and a viper can hardly stick in his tooth without penetrating some vessel, which speedily conveys the poison through the system. The same occurs to cows, calves, and dogs ; when bitten in the leg they often perish, while in other parts the effects are comparatively nothing Maceroni. ROMAN SPORTS One of the amusements of the Roman nobility and gentry, in the month of October, is lark and quail shooting. The vast plains by which Rome is com- passed on the east and south, all wheat land, produces clouds of larks and quails. In the autumn the larks, both young and old, assemble into immense flocks, besides being singly scattered over the stubble land. A party of gentle- men and ladies, proposing to enjoy the sport of wholesale lark shooting, provide themselves with a tent, a store ol wine, maccaroni, anchovies, hams, bread, & c„ together with charcoal and cooking utensils. Each person i9 furnished with often as many as half- a- dozen guns, which are planted on a rack, or rastella, near the tent, before the owner. A servant is usually employed to load the guns as fast as he can. Two methods are employed to attract the larks to the vicinity of the tent; one is a round box, in the shape of the transverse section of a cone, the sides of which, present- ing an angle of forty- five degrees, are set with several pieces of looking- glass all around. This truncated cone being fixed upon an upright rod, about six feet high, is turned round by a string attached to its axis, or it turns by means of internal wheels, & c., like our roasting bottle jacks. The effect of the mirrors sparkling in the sun, causes the larks to hover over the machine, and as fast as they are shot down, others supply their places with surprising perseverance. But the owl produces the best decoy. A fencing foil is attached to a stake, which is driven into the ground, at thirty yards in front of the tent. On the point of the foil is a round cushion or a perch, on which is placed the owl, se- cured by a string. By frequently pulling a string, the vibra- tion of the foil obliges the owl to keep opening his wings. Every lark that catches a glimpse of the fluttering bird of night flies towards it, and with piercing cries hovers above it; at times, even approaching to within a few feet of the apparently detestable object. Meanwhile, the shooters, women as well as men, iiave nothing to do but fire away as fast as their servants can load their guns. If for a few minutes the larks disperse, they speedily return in greater numbers than ever. Another and very pleasant part of the sport, is the eating of the slain. The skill ol the cook pro- duces several dishes of very different appearance. A nice browned, salamandered pie, built of maccaroni, and filled with larks and truffles, mushrooms and anchovies, is one of the best conditions of lark eating. Another dish is loclole arrabiate, which I can only translate by " furified larks." They are put whole into a stew- pan, with chopped ham, and a certain quantity of grapes or raisins. A brisk fire makes them brown, and taste most deliciously. Quails or starlings are excellent in the same way.— Maceroni. SMOKING Happy lookin' critter, ain't he with that are little, short, black pipe in his mouth ? The fact is, squire, the moment a man takes to a pipe he becomes a philosifer; it's the poor man's friend; it calms the mind, soothes the temper, and makes a man patient under trouble. It has made more good men, good husbands, kind masters, indul- gent fathers, and honest fellers, than any other blessed thing in this univarsal world. The Indgians always bin ied a pipe and a skin of tobacco with their folks, in case smokin' should be the fashion in the next world, that they might'nt go un- provided. Gist look at him : his hat has got no crown in it, and the rim hangs loose by the side, like the bale of a bucket. His trousers and jacket are all flying in tatters of different colour'd patches. He has one old shoe on one foot, and an untanned mocassin on t'other. He ain't had his beard cut since last sheep- shearin', and he looks as shaggy as a yearlin' colt. And yet you see the critter lias a rakish look too. That are old hat is cocked on one side quite knowin'; he has both hands in his trousers' pocket, as if he had somethin' worth feelin' there, while one eye shot- to on account of the smoke, and the other standin' out of the way of it as far as it can, makes him look like a bit of a wag. A man that didn't smoke couldn't do that now, squire. You may talk about lortitude, and patience, and Christian resig- nation, and all that sort of thing, till your'e tired; I've seen it, and heerd tell of it too, but I never knew an instance yet, where it didn't come a little grain heavy or sour out of the oven. Philosophy is like most other guests I've seed, it likes to visit them as keeps good tables, and though it has some poor acquaintances, it ain't more nor half pleased to be seen walkin' lock and lock with ' em. But smokin' — Sam Slick. THE ART OF TICKLING. — YOU have got a plaguy nice thing of it here ; that's a fact, and no mistake ( the critter had three thousand dollars a- year:) how on airth did you manage it? 1 wish in my heart I had ataken up the trade o' preacliin too; when it ( Joes hit it does capitally, that's sartin. Why, says he, if you'll promise not to let on to any one about it, I'll tell you. I'll keep dark about it, you may depend, said I. I'm not a man that can't keep nothin' in my gizzard, but go right off and blart out all I hear. I know a thing worth two o' that I guess. Well, says he, it's done by a new rule I made in grammar— the feminine gender is more worthy than the neuter, and the neuter more worthy than the masculine; I gist soft sawder the women. It ' taint every man will let you tickle him ; and if you do, he'll make faces at you enough to frighten you into fits; but tickle his wife, and its electrical— he'll laugh like any thing. They are the. forred wheels, start them, and the hind ones foller of course. Now it's mostly women that tend meetin' here; the men- folks have their politics and trade to talk over, and what not, and ain't time; but the ladies go considerable rigular, and we have to depend on them, the dear critters. I gist lay myself cut to get the Wind side o' them, and I sugar and gild the pill so as to make it pretty to look at and easy to swallar. Last Lord's day, lor instance, I preached on the death of the widder's son. Well, I drew such a pictur of the lone watch at the sick bed, the patience, the kindness, the tenderness of women's hearts, their forgiving dispositions—( the Lord for- give me for saying so, tho\ lor if there i.-. a crea;-•> critter that'never forgives, it's a woman; they seem to lorgive a wound on their pride, and it skins over and locks ail iieal'd up like, hut touch ' em on the sore spot agin, and see how cute their memory is)— their sweet temper, soothers of grief, dispensers of joy, mimstrin' angels. I make all the virtues of the feminine gender always,— then I wound up with a quotation from Walter Scott. They all like poetry, do the ladies, and Shakspere, Scott, and Byron, are amazin' favourites; they go down much better than them old- fashioned staves o' Watts : — " Ob woman, in our hour of ease, Uncertain; coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou." If 1 didn't touch it off to the nines it's a pity. I never heerd you preach so well, says one, since you located here. I drew from natur', says I, a squezin' of her band. Nor never so touchin', says another. You know my moddle, says I, lookin' spooney on her. I fairly shed tears* said a third ; how often have you drawn them from me ? says I. So true, says they, and so nateral, and truth and natur' is what we call eloquence. I feel quite proud, says 1, and considerable elated, my admired sisters,— for who can judge so well as the ladies of the truth of the description of their own virtues. I must say I feelt somehow kinder, in- adequate to the task too, I said,— for the depth, and strength, and beauty of the female heart passes all under- standin'. When I left ' cm I heard ' em say, ain't he a dear man, a feelin' man, a sweet critter, a'inost splendid preacher; none o' your moral lecturers, but a rael right down genuine gospeal preacher. Next day I received to the time of one hundred dollars in cash, and fifty dollars produce presents from one and another. The truth is, if a minister wants to be popular, lie should remain single, for then the galls all have a chance for him ; but the moment he marries, he's up a tree; his flint is fixed then ; you may depend it's gone goose with him arter that; that's a fact. No, Sam; they are the pillars of the temple, the dear little critters. And I'll give you a wrinkle for your horn, perhaps you ain't got yet, and it may be some use to you when you go down atradin' with the benighted colonists in the out- landish British provinces. The road to the head lies through the heart. Pocket, you mean, instead of head, I guess, said I; and if you don't travel that road full chisel it's a pity. Well, says I, Ahab, when I go to Slickville I'll gist tell Mr. Hopewell what a'most precious, superfine, superior darn'd rascal you have turned out; if you ain't No. 1, letter A, I want to know who is, that's all. You do beat all, Sam, said he; it's the system that's vicious, and not the preacher. If I did'nt give ' em the soft sawder they would neither pay me nor hear me; that's a fact. Are you so soft in the horn now, Sam, as to suppose the galls would take the trouble to come to hear me tell ' em of their corrupt natur' and fallen condition ; and first thank me, and then pay me for it. Very entertainin' that, to tell ' em the worms will fatten on their pretty little rosy cheeks, and that theif sweet plump flesh is nothin'but grass, flourishin' to- day, and to be cut down, withered, and rotten to- mor- row, ain't it? It ain't in the natur'o' things; if I put them in Concait o' themselves, 1 can put them in concait o' me; on that they will come down handsome, and do the thing ginteel, its gist onpossible.— Sam Slick. GENIUS Ere I drop my pen, I cast a glance behind me — I look for the men of whom I have spoken. While tra- versing Verona, in 1833— that city so gay, in 1822,' with the presence of the sovereigns of Europe— I found it once more wrapt in silent dulness. The congress had vanished from its solitary streets, even as the court of the Scaligieri arid the Roman senate. The arena, the circles of which I had seen crowded with a hundred thousand spectators, was deserted. The edifices, whose architecture I had admired when glaring with illumination, now met my gaze, gray and naked, beneath an atmosphere of rain. What varying am- bitions were stirring amongst the actoisof Verona, amongst those who directed— impelling or restraining— them ! What dreams of the future! How many destinies of nations were discussed, examined, Weighed! Let us summon up these followers of dreams:— alas! we but opeii the hook of the day of wrath, " liber scriptus proferetur." Monarchal princes ! ministers ! Behold your colleague returned to his post! Where are ye? Answer. The Emperor of Russia, Alexander ?— Dead. The Emperor of Austria, Francis?— Dead. The; King of Fiance, Louis XVli I. ?— Dead. The King of Fiance, Charles X. ?— Dead. The King of Eng- land, George IV. ?— Dead. The King of Naples, Ferdi- nand I.?— Dead. The Duke of Tuscany?— Dead. The Pope Pius VII. ?— Dead. The King of Sardinia, Charles Felix?— Dead. The Due de Montmorency, minister of foreign affairs of France?— Dead. Mr. Canning, minister of foreign affairs of England ?— Dead. M. de Bernstorff, minister of foreign affairs of Prussia ?— Dead. M. Geritz, of the Austrian Chancery ?— Dead. The Cardinal Gon. salve, secretary of state to his holiness?— Dead. M. de Serre, my colleague at the congress?— Dead. M. de Lami- asonfort, minister at Florence ?— Dead. M. de Aspremont, my secrets y of embassy?— Dead. Count Neipperg, hus- band of Napoleon's widow?— Dead. The Countess Tol- stoy?— Dead. Her fine and youthful son?— Dead. My host of the Lorenzi palace? Dead. How many moie are wanting amongst those individuals who figured during fhe war of Spain? Ferdinand is no more, Mina is no more, Monsieur de Rayneval is no more; not to mention the most important of all in my eyes— de Carrel, escaped from the fields of Catalonia, to fall at Vincennes. Carrel, I felicitate you on having, at one step, finished that journey, the pro- longation of which becomes so fatiguing and so barren. 1 envy those who are gone before me; like the soldiers of Caesar, at Briiides, from the height of the rocks bounding the shore, I cast my eyes over the great sea; .1 look towards Epirus, awaiting the coming back of those vessels which bore across the first legions, and which, in turn, are to carry me. If so many men, whose names were inscribed with mine upou the register of the congress, are now inserted in the obituary; if not only individuals, but royal dynasties, have perished ; if Poland has fallen; if Spain is revolution- ised anew; if I have been to Prague, seeking the fugitive asylum of that illustrious race of whom I was the representa- tive at Verona— what is all this but the common course of earthly things! Oh, the magic of genius ! Who now re- members the speeches that circulated round the board of Prince de Metternich? Yet no traveller will ever listen to the larks singing in the fields of Verona, without recalling Shakspeare. Each of us, on raking into the profound depths of memory, will discover a bed of death; sentiments that are extinguished, chimeras outworn, although once nursed, like those of the dwellers in Herculaneum, at the bosom of hope !— Chateaubriand. ORTHOGRAPHY.— That the schoolmaster has riot gone far abroad, may be seen from the following announce- ment on the unoccupied " Three Magpies," not ten miles from town : — " A Louse to Let." We were much puzzled till we discovered that Alehouse to Let was the import of the. ludicrous inscription. NEW INK.— M. Cannet declares that he has obtained a very beautiful black ink, of easy preparation, from the flowers of the Iris— Athenaum. SOLDIERS AND SAILORS.— One of the most curious parts of the evidence, taken before the committee respecting the Post- office, is that of Captain Benthain, of the 52( 1 regi- ment, regarding the correspondence of soldiers. It is pro- vided by statute, that each single letter sent by, or addressed to, a soldier, shall be charged only Id., provided the former is franked by the commanding officer of the regiment or de- tachment; and that, in either case, the penny is paid before the letter is posted. This privilege the soldiers value very highly. Common sailors, in the merchant service, on the other hand, never write letters at all, not having the privi- lege of sending them through the Post- office for a penny. Mr. Pearson, witness, who has 200 sailors in his employ- ment, says—" I know they never think of writing to their friends. " 1 know very well they would be very glad to do it, but they cannot afford it. The expense of a single letter to the north is very nearly equal to the wages of a full sea- man, and exceeds the wages of an apprentice." It is re- markable that the only correspondence between friends, passing through the Post- office, should be between common soldiers and their relations, or each other; for all the wit- nesses agree that any friendly intercourse which passes through the Post- office between any other class, is quite inconsiderable. The common soldiers are certainly much worse educated than the general body of the people ; but assume that the adults in the united kingdom amounted to 0,500,000, that one half are able to write letters, and that they write as frequently as common soldiers— no very ex- aggerated supposition— and we have 150,000,000 letters that never would be written under the present system, yielding a gross return to the Post- office, even at one penny a- piece, of considerably above half- a- million sterling, from a source — letters on friendship— which now yields nothing—• Tail's Magazine. Scott says of the results of his early reading—" My memory of events was like one of the large old- fashioned stone cannons of the Turks, very difficult to load well and discharge, but making powerful effect, when by good chance any object came within range of his shot." Prince Talleyrand, by his will, has left 50,000f. to the es- tablishment, founded by him at Valangay, for the Soeurs de la Croix, whose duty it is to attend the indigent sick at their own homes. — Galiynani's Messenger. MESMERISM. The Monthly Chronicle contains the conclusion of an article on this subject, written, it is said, by Dr. Lardner. We give a few extracts. Having ascertained that the magnetic or mesmeric in- fluence is transmitted through every material substance on which experiments have been made, it occurred to Dr. Lard- ner to institute an inquiry as to its capability of reflection, and to determine whether the physical laws of that reflec- tion bore any analogy to those which are known to prevail in the cases of the reflection of light, sound, and heat. In the course of the observations made upon the patient, it had been found by Dr. Elliotson that if she were induced to present her hand towards her own person, and move it in the same manner as another operator would do, she would produce in hersell the same effects, throwing, herself from delirium into sleep waking, or « oma; and it was also ascer- tained that by making the same motion of the hand at her image in a common looking glass, a like effect would be pro- duced. In order to submit this question to a more con- clusive test, Dr. Lardner proceeded in the following manner : — A mirror was placed, at- a distance of several feet from the patient, having its plane- at an angle of about forty- five degrees with a line drawn from- the person of the patient to the mirror. Another mirror was placed at a distance of from twelve to fifteen feet from- the first, receiving on its plane the rays from the first, also at an angle of forty- five degrees. Dr. Elliotson presented himself to this second mirror in the direction of the ray reflected from it. By this arrangement, the operator was placed in an apartment at a considerable distance from the patient. The two reflections would thus carry the ray of the magnetic influence ( if it were subject to the same laws as those which govern light) from the patient to the operator, or vice versa. Things be- ing thus arranged, Dr. Elliotson made towards the second mirror the motions of the hand which, when made towards the person of the patient, usually throw her into a state of coma; after eight or ten motions thus made, the patient dropped off in a magnetic sleep. This operation was re- peated sufficiently often to render it certain that the sleep was not casual, but that it was connected with the move- ments of the operator by the relation of cause and effect. This experiment by the multiplied reflection was subse- quently tried by Dr. Lardner, assisted by Mr. Wood, of the University Hospital, and others, very frequently, and in the presence of many witnesses, and always with the same effect. It may be objected, that in these experiments the patient saw the operator by the reflection of the mirrors. Hut to this it is answered, that the same effects were produced, 1st, When the patient's eyes were closed ; 2ud, When she was turned from the mirror; 3rd, When the operator wasplaced in a dark apartment, and did not stand opposite the mirror towards which he made the passes; 4th, That the operator could not be seen by another person looking into the mirror from the place occupied by the patient. It having been ascertained that the influeuce proceeding from the operator to the patient penetrated through screens of various substances, it occurred to Dr. Laadner to inquire whether the influence reflected from the mirrors had the same power of penetration. For this purpose, the mirrors being adjusted as before, a silk handkerchief and a cotton towel were successively thrown over the first mirror, and the operator proceeded with the usual manipulations for a considerable time without producing the slightest effect. A person stationed near the first mirror was now directed to remove the cloth from it— the operator never ceasing the manipulations; immediately on removing the cloth from the mirror, the usual effects were produced on the patient, and she dropped into a state of coma. The same experiment was tried, with the same result, by placing the cloth upon the second mirror, by interposing it between the two mirrors, and by interposing it between the person of the patient and the first mirror. Thus it appears that the magnetic influence is so far en- feebled by reflection, that it loses its power of penetrating substances through which it passes freely when not reflected. The writer quotes the case which we gave from the Sun, showing that the bodily strength of patients un- der magnetic influence is greatly increased. The following are the concluding observations :— In the discussion to which these phenomena have given rise, it is often asked how these effects can be accounted for? And this is asked in a manner which implies that the inability to account for them, is sufficient to set aside the reality of the facts themselves. Nothing can be more un- sound in philosophy, or untenable in logic, than such an in- ference. We know that the gravitation of the sun is tians- mitted through space to distances of hundreds and thousands of millions of miles; that at this distance it produces enor- mous mechanical effects; yet, if we are asked to account for these wonderous effects, can we do so? Newton inves tigated their laws, and placed us in a condition to predict with certainty their succession for countless ages to come ; but he utterly failed in accounting for them, and in showing by what particular agent it was that they are conveyed through the universe with a speed so inconceivable, and to distances so immense. Tile progress of all knowledge requires that the individual facts should be first well ascertained; that as their number is multiplied, and their relation developed, they shall be classified; that then the general laws which govern them shall be made manifest; and the last result at which the human mind arrives, is the theory by which these facts are accounted for. How absurd then, and how unpbilosophi- cal must be the notions of those who now, in the very dawn of the science of animal magnetism, ( if so it can be called,) when we are in possession only of a few scattered and iso- lated facts, and even these few, matter of dispute as to their reality and as to their concomitant circumstances, except that a satisfactory and sufficient theory shall be furnished to account for them ! In conclusion,— without affecting indifference to the threats of those journalists who offer us the pleasant alter- native of being posted as quacks or dupes,— our reverence for truth overbalancing our fear of their ridicule, we are compelled to admit that many of the facts of animal magne- tism have been established by evidence, to our minds, as conclusive as any of the proofs on which other physical facts repose ; that the facts thus established, require the admis- sion either of an agency in nature hitherto unnoticed, or, what is tantamount, the admission that new functions shall be ascribed to some known agent; that this agency is ma- terial, is propagated through space in straight lines; that various corporeal substances are pervious by it with different degrees of facility, and according to laws which still remain to be investigated; that it is reflected from the surfaces of bodies, according to definite laws, probably identical with, or analagous to, those which govern the reflection of other physical principles, such as light and heat; that it has a spe- cific action on tiie nervous systems of animated beings, so as to produce in them perception and sensation, and to excite various mental lotions. Of these several proposi. tions we cannot disco .' any grounds of doubt, which would not shake all the foundations of physical science. The phenomena recorded and observed, also suggest some probable conjectures, which may be confirmed, modified, or overturned by more extended and varied experiments. It appears probable, that whatever may be the medium by which this action is propagated through space, its proximate exciting cause is animated matter; that the energy of the action has a necessary relation lo the quantity of animated matter in the agent ; that this energy is weakened accord- ing to some definite relation to the distance through which it is propagated that without any visible external move- ment on the part of the agent, a mere men'al operation or emotion, by affecting his nervous system, may cause the latter to excite the requisite action in the propagating me- dium, which, being conveyed to a distance, may affect the nervous system of another animated being, and thereby pro- duce in it corresponding mental perceptions and emotions. If the power of the mind of the agent to produce mecha- nical motion in his nervous system be admitted,— and this cannot be denied,— there is nothing in the last conjecture which is not in perfect accordance with all that we know of the organs of sense, and the way in which they are affected. Commons, and the abolition of the property qualification of members, which was unknovyn to our history and constitu- lion until the statute of Anne. I remember that when you first " drew out from the ancient storehouse of our consti- tution," as I then expressed it, these truly great and in- valuable principles, they were not at first properly appre- ciated by the public mind, although enthusiastically ap- proved by the men of Birmingham. I now congratulate you upon their rapid progress in the public estimation; and I cannot but express my anxious hope that you may yet live to see them again embodied in the practice of our constitu- tion, and contributing with the other doctrines of your " great master" as you call him, John Home Tooke, in securing stability and glory to the throne, and liberty, happiness, and contentment to the people I am, my dear sir, yours, ever faithfully, THOMAS ATTWOOD. St. George's Terrace, 6th July, 1838. THE PRESS AND THE PEOPLE. The following letter has been addressed by Mr. Attwood, to the Author of " Political Addresses to the Queen :"— MY DEAR SIR In your address to Her Majesty, pub- lished in the Sunday Neics of the 24th ult., you have en- deavoured to give ( o the Queen that information respecting the late GRAND DEMONSTRATION of the PUBLIC MIND at Glas- gow, which it is of high importance that Her Majesty should have, but which the whole of the daily papers have studiously endeavoured to conceal from her eyes, and from those of the public. I now trouble you with a Newcastle- upon- Tyne paper, of the 30th of June, by which you will perceive that a DEMONSTRATION, scarcely interior in import- ance, has also taken place there; at which it appears that not less than from 60,000 to 80,000 men were present, who conducted themselves in a peaceful, firm, and legal manner, although illegally surrounded and insulted by soldiers, con- sisting of horse, foot, and artillery. This great and im- portant meeting has not been noticed by the Daily Press, which I have often called " the best possible public DE- LXJDER." At both these great meetings, and at twenty others which have been equally concealed from the public knowledge, the GREAT NATIONAL PETITION, recommended by the Birmingham Political Union in May last has been unanimously adopted and euthusiastically approved. I send you a copy of this petition, which I am informed has been signed already by 70,000 men at Glasgow; and I am sure that it will give you satisfaction to perceive that among the great rights claimed by the people, are included those two great constitutional principles to which you first directed our attention in our BIRMINGHAM PETITION OF RIGHTS of the 13th of December, 1830, viz., the payment of the wages of attendance" to members of the House of LETTERS OF PUBLICOLA. STIPENDIARY MAGISTRATES. The paramount, and, in fact, the only duty which a ma- gistrate or criminal judge has to perform is the prevention of crime. In the mode of attaining this object the only principle to be regarded is that of maintaining severity, and of making the laws as merciful as possible, consistently with the purposes they have in view. A magistrate ought in any case to have nothing under consideration but the public and the diminution or extinction of offences. These are, how- ever, points of which an English magistrate never has the slighest idea. A brutal notion prevails amongst them that the object of the law is vengeance against the criminal, or, if they have any idea of preventing the recurrence of mis- conduct, their opinion is that the end is to be reached, not by tile certainty and rationality of justice, or by any other means than that of extreme severity. Our magistrates never have the smallest conception that society or the public are the principal or the only party in a criminal case. On the contrary, they invariably consideran offence as a ques. tion between two individuals. Consequent upon this is the degrading practice of commuting offences for money; and as absurdities are always cumulative, we come to the climax of all magisterial infamies— the habit of apportioning fine to the encouragement of crime, at least amongst the rich. Every offence is made by them a marketable commodity; and whilst vengeance, with even savage cruelty, is dealt against the poor, the wealthy have a thorough impunity of guilt. I will briefly, but logically, substantiate every pre- mise of my case. In your paper of last week, we had two cases of a ruffianly coal- heaver, at Hungerford Market, who, having committed the grossest outrages on all peaceable persons proceeding to the steam boats, knocked down five police men, and made the most savage resistance to their captors. Whether these gentlemen subsequently bribed the police, with or without a connivance or consent of the magistrates, by retiring in a private room, I know not, for the lurther proceedings in the affaii did not make its appearance in the newspapers. Per- haps the magistrates pursued the principle of equal justice, and apportioned a fine to the offence, stating a ratio between the outrage and the breeches pocket, and the class of society of the criminals. He might have argued—" As a noble- man's brutality is as five pounds to one indulgence, a coal- heaver's is as five shillings, and thus the coal- heaver's may have escaped at the cost of twenty- five shillings for knock- ing down five policemen, all their offences against the public being gratis, or in vulgar phraseology, ' had for no- thing.'" Then the public had the case of four prize fighters committed to trial for brutal assaults. No money could ex- piate their guilt. Here is one principle taken up. Imme- diately this four lordly ruffians act precisely in the style of the four coal- heavers, only they carry their brutality further in degree, and the magistrates let them off " Scott- free" at five pounds per man. Were I asked as a honourable man, whether I would prefer being in moral or intellectual estimation, the magistrate, the aristocratic, or the coal- heaving blackguard, I should certainly say, not the magis- trate, for he unquestionably is the vilest of the three. Speaking by comparison, the coal- heavers were the only gentlemen in the whole set. In the same week occurred a case of a truly infamous character, and yet there was found a magistrate bad enough to match tiie case. Lord Waterford, an hereditary peer, who never gave but one vote in the House of l. ords, and that was in support of the church, at the request of the Bishop of Exeter, at five o'clock in the morning, a decent hour, was driving a trull in a cab, and he chose to drive most furiously on the foot pavement to the risk of the lives and limbs of all persons then passing, and who at that hour must, of course, have been of the working classes, repairing to their hard and early labours. His lordship was drunk, and it appears that he could not have been captured if he had not run the cab against a post, by which lie was thrown six yards out of the cab, but his life was providentially saved by his noble head being an overmatch for the pavement. What the Commissioners of Paving may say, I do not know. This hereditary legislator declares, upon his honour, that the horse committed all the fault, having, " a heavy load behind him." The weight of the lady in the cab was not stated in evidence : but it was proved that the heredi- tary legislator was intoxicated, with his collar and shirt open, and his chest exposed in the most indecent manner. This sublime specimen of the English Constitution grossly insulted Mr. Dyer, the magistrate, refused to produce any witnesses, and preferred paying the charge for his offence ; and Mr. Dyer was actually weak enough to fine him forty shillings! What an exemplification of English justice! The income of this Marquis is about sixty thousand a year, and forty shillings to him is about the value of a single pinch of snuff to a labourer. The result is, that this here- ditary legislator, supporter of the church, and friend of the Bishops, of Exeter and London, may calculate in his banker's account that he may indulge any night, and all night long, in the pastime of putting the lives ol people in danger for forty shillings if caught, and, if not caught, he may have his amusement for nothing. How has the sole end of public justice been answered?— How lias the magistrate's sole duty been performed? Instead of preventing offence, he has ad- vertised to all the country that any man's father or son may have his life put in danger by any ruffian who can afford to pay forty shillings. Let me take another case— that of another Marquis. The Marquis of Blandford summoned before Mr. Rawlin- son a cabman for refusing to receive his lordship as a fare. The noble marquis alleges, that the cabman was most im- pudent, for he said to him, not knowing his rank, and that he was the heir t » hereditary wisdom—" Does your mother kuow you're out." For the offence, Mr. Rawlinson fined the poor cabman forty shillings. To what conclusions do we come at last?" The difference between marquises and cabmen is immense under our constitution. The noble or amateur cabman for brutally endangering the lives of the people, and for violating the public peace, and grossly oat- raging decency, is fined precisely the same spm as the vulgar cabman who refuses to take a marquis as his one shilling fare. This is equal justice! I do not complain of the magistrates for this. The law of England holds that ari ignoiance of the law is no excuse for an offence ; and tile two worthy magistrates have therefore a charitable zeal, a pious enthusiasm, for telling the people what the law really is. The debtor nnd creditor, tiie ledger, the per contra, stands thus:— Threaten many lives, the price is forty shillings; ask a marquis, " Does your mother know you're out ?" the charge is forty shillings. Mr. Rawlinson told the marquis of Blandford that the public were much indebted to him for bringing forward the charge. May I not say that the people are equally indebted to the noble Marquis of Waterford for getting drunk, exposing his person, and put- ting the safety of passengers in jeopardy, for a great point of law is established—/ us aut nefas, the charge is forty shillings. Two pounds sterling, anglice forty shillings, is ruin to a cabman, and a joke to a marquis; but the law of England knows no difference between persons— a great de- fect, by the bye, in our glorious constitution. At Marl- borough- street, a miscreant is fined by Mr. Dyer only twenty shillings for the most atrocious cruelty towards his horse. This cab driver threatened to serve the complainant in the same way. Here there is a reverse of principle— refuse a marquis's shilling fare, and Mr. Rawlinson fines a cabman forty shillings; revoltingly maltreat a horse, and abuse a commoner, and Mr. Dyer propounds that the charge is ona pound. Who would not rather be a marquis, than a horse, or alord than one of the vulgar? But let me leave lords, horses, and asses, and advert to another case. It appeirs that a young man, at the fair in Hyde Park, was kicked in the face by tsvo ruffians who kept a show there. His lip was split in halves by the first kick; his teeth were knocked out; and then the other ruffian, whilst the victim was lying on the ground, gave him another kick, which split the other lip. What did Mr. Dyer do in this case to avenge public justice? The report says— " The prisoners having signified their willingness to make compensation, the magistrates allowed the parties to retire. The complainant having been satisfied, the prisoners were liberated." Such a report would be incredible to persons unaware of English policeism. It appears that on Tuesday last a Mr. Battye, a man of property, was brought before Mr. Hoskins, charged with what the newspapers are pleased to call an unprovoked as- sault. " Unprovoked," like " IF." is a conventional term- or very convenient application. I can conceive few provo- cations sufficient to justify any man's striking a woman a violent blow, especially in the public streets. Let me, how- ever, state the case : — " It appeared from the evidence, that on the previous evening, as Miss Holmes was passing along the New- road towards home, she wasaccosted hy the defendant, who seized hold of her umbrella, and requested that she would take his aim. She refused to do so, and he then struck lieraviolent blow on the face; he also abused her in a most vile manner, and on a policeman coming up he was given in charge. THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, AUGUST 11. 7 Defendant denied having nsed bad language, but admitted that he iia i conducted himself improperly, for which he was sorry. Complainant said that if he would give 21. to the poor box, she should be satisfied. He did so, and was liberated." . Can imagination stretch further in infamy than this con. elusion " He did so, and was liberated?" Any man, by this, may lmve his wife, sister, mother, or daughter, exposed to a brutal insult and to a violent blow in the face, provided the ruffian chooses to go into the magistrates' private cham- ber, and patch up the business for about two pounds— minus aut plus. Such are our magistrates, and, I suppose, snch is the law. Some time ago an Irishman, in a public street, walked up to a girl of repectable character, and, for mere enjoyment, gave her a furious blow in the face, which completely de- prived her of one of her eyes. There had been no provoca- tion whatever. The magistrate asked the girl whether « ' she knew any thing of the ruffian." " I never saw him," replied the girl, " and you will never again see him," rejoined the magistrate, " at least with that eye." This wretch, to the best of my recollection, was fined two pounds for his pleasure. The magistrate was decidedly the greater brute of the two. Here we have an equalisation of fines. The marquis— cabman— the cabman versus the marquis— the Irish knocker- out of a girl's eye, all fined in the same sum. Tiiis is equality of justice— no distinction of ranks or for- tunes. Moses, whose laws are certainly the very lastthat I should wish to see established in a civilised or religious com- munity, lays down a Jewish act of Parliament, which enacts " an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth," but our stipen- diary magistrates actually set the laws of God at defiance, for they declare that an eye or a tooth may be paid for by pounds, shillings, und pence. The Marquis of Waterford may knock out the eye or the tooth of any man, woman, or child, at any hour of the day, in any street in London, and he will find some worthy or worshipful magistrate that will fix the price of the article lost, at a sum varying from two to five pounds. The noble marquis is to be tried at Derby, at the approaching assizes, for his his aiistocratic gentility at Melton Mowbray. It is well known that all the witnesses against him have disappeared. Here is another illustration of^ English courts at law— Abridged fiom the Weekly Despatch. MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF THE POLITICAL UNION. On Tuesday evening the Council met at the Public- office. Shortly after seven o'clock, Thomas Attwood, Esq., M. P., accompanied by Mr. T. C. Salt, entered the room, and was received with the most enthusiastic cheering, which lasted several minutes. The honourable gentleman, having taken his seat as Chairman of the Council, shortly after rose and spoke as follows: — " My kind friends, it is the most gratifying thing in my life to perceive the generous and affectionate senti ments with which you always receive me, whenever I come amongst you. You certainly do me justice, in believing that it is my most anxious desire to serve you and the masses of the people generally, and I only regret my total inability to do you any good in the place where yo'ur favour and affection has placed me. Burdett, in his better days, used to say the House of Commons was a " queer place." That was in the boroughmongeringdays; but certainly, if it was true then, it is more so now, under the Reformed House of Commons. Without speaking with any disrespect of the gentlemen who compose the House of Commons individually, who, as individuals, are cer- tainly very gentlemanly and worthy men, I must say of them as politicians, that they are the worst set I ever knew assembled in that house. 1 have been in Parliament six sessions; and this is the third Reformed Parliament, and, as far as I can judge of it, it is worse than the old borough- mongering set. It has less sympathy with the interests of industry, and with the rights and liberties of the industrious classes, and it is still more indifferent to the foreign honour of the nation. Our country is immersed in misery at home, and covered with dishonour abroad, and yet the House of Commons appear to know nothing or care nothing about these great subjects. Now this is a melancholy state of things, and it almost makes me despair of the safety of the country. I have 110 hope whatever, but in the masses of the people; and the difficulty and danger of bringing them into efficient action for the safety of the nation, are tre- mendously great. Nevertheless, into such efficient action, peaceful, legal, and overwhelming in their power, the mighty masses of the people must be brought, or I am quite sure the doom of our country is sealed. ( Cheers.) In this state of things, it gives me great gratification to come amongst you. We are told in the ancient fables, that a son of the earth, when struggling with his enemy was always over- powered when he left the ground, but recovered strength the moment he touched his mother earth again. Now I feel something like that myself. When I am in the place above, I feel in total despondency, as if the cause of the people was weak, but when I come back to Birmingham I then feel confident our cause is strong. ( Cheers.) Be- sides, my friends, such receptions as I invariably experience from you, are certainly calculated to reward and encourage any virtues I may possess, and discourage and depress any bad sentiments, to which the nature of the best of us is liable. But as I have told you, 1 have 110 hope of safety for our country, except through the excilions of the great masses of the people. There I have hope. ( Cheers.) I see in the men of Birmingham bravery, patriotism, prudence, and determination in their country's cause. I have seen a similar fine spirit exhibited in Scotland, in the magnificent meetings of the people at Glasgow and Renfrewshire. I liave seen them adopting, unanimously, and with spontaneous enthusiasm, the great principles laid down in our national petition. ( Cheers.) Within this last fortnight I have heard ol the grand exhibition at Newcastle- upon- Tyne, where 70,000 men adopted our petition unanimously, and conducted them- selves with admirable firmness and discretion, although in- sulted by the presence of the military, horse, foot, and ar- tillery. If any collision had unfortunately taken place, and vengeance had placed arms in the hands of seventy thou- sand men, I dread to think of the consequences that might have occurred to our country. The same spirit which actu- ates the men of Newcastle, is rapidly spreading through all the towns of the north of England, in fact through all the industrious classes generally. These are the Commons of England, and if they all conduct themselves with the same spirit as the men of Birmingham, Newcastle, and Glasgow, the day of their victory is not remote— a victory the most peaceful, the most glorious, and, I think, the most bene- ficial that ever was obtained by any people upon the face of the earth. But, as I have said, we have great difficulties before us. The whole aristocracy areagainst us— the whole of the country gentry are against us, unless, perhaps, a very few individuals like our friend Sir Charles Wolseley. The whole of the learned professions are against us— the public press is against us— the landed interest, the funded interest, and the monied interest, are against us, and nine- tenths of the rich tradesmen are against us; or, if they are with us, they have not the courage to declare their prin- ciples by supporting us. Some of those gentlemen are fearful of their credit, others of their respectability, dread- ing that they should lose their caste in society, as it were; and others are crawling around the footstools of the aris- tocracy— that very aristocracy, under whose grinding yoke, they themselves are suffering unmeasured injuries and ca- lamities. I cannot believe, however, but that very many of these respectable tradesmen will cordially join our cause, as soon as we have placed the industrious classes in a proper position to ensuie their victory. We, the men of Birming- ham alone, or even of Glasgow and Newcastle combined, have no right to dictate to our country; but let us show all the great towns of the kingdom united with us, and let us show all the industrious classes generally, acting peacefully and legally, with one object, one heart, one hand, and one mind, and we shall have a right to dictate to our country. ( Loud cheers.) We shall have to express the will of the people, and, by the very nature of things, that will must be- come law. Our national petition, which has already been signed by seventy thousand men in Glasgow, by forty thou- sand in Birmingham, and by thousands in proportion in other large towns, will shortly bo completed by full two millions of signatures, and then we shall feel the ground upon which we stand. I have heard some gentlemen say that they will not sign a petition to the House of Commons. Nothing can be more erroneous. Ho'. v can the opinion of the people be made known to their country and each other? Petitions to the Parliament and the Crown are the only legitimate means by which the opinions of the people can be made known, and by which the masses of the industrious classes can be banded together for the recovery of their liberty and their prosperity. Every man who signs our na tional petition is banded with us in defence of the princi- ples we support. Will the House of Commons despise us, when they see two millions of Englishmen thus banded together? Will they refuse to grant our prayers? If they do, the law still gives us sufficient means to deal with them. We shall have forty- nine delegates assembled in London permanently, who will form a general convention of the industrious classes, and who will really represent the whole of the industrious classes of the kingdom. The law, bad as it is, still allows, forty- nine of such delegates to sit perma- nently in London, or Birmingham, adjourning from day to day. The law as it stands at piesent, will not allow us to send delegates from political unions or other associated bodies, but it does allow us to send delegates from public meetings of the people, assembled in the several districts of the country, each meeting assembling in the morning and dispersing in the evening ^ without permanent existence. Each town or district of the country will appoint one such delegate, to the number of forty- nine in the whole, and those forty- nine will assemble legally in London, to take charge of the national petition, which will be signed hv two millions of men, and to take care that it produces the proper ffect upon the Parliament and the country. ( Loud cheers.) They will knock incessantly at the gates of the government. They will knock at the door of every member of the House of Commons. They will point to their two millions of Englishmen, banded in one solemn and holy league, and they will demand liberty and justice for their country. Will the House of Commons then despise them? I think not. But if they do, what will be the resource of the general convention of the industrious classes. They will issue out their orders under the law to the masses of the people, and the masses of the people will legally obey those orders ; and on the same day, in every district of the kingdom, forty- nine more great meetings will take place, and instantly two mil- lions of signatures will again be thrown into the House of Commons. I think and I know that the House of Commons will then do them justice. ( Hear, hear.) If not, the cause of the people will riot be lost. The forty- nine delegates will, probably, take a leaf out of the Roman history; they will advise the people to retire to the Aventine- hill. They IV! 11 do no work unless they are allowed to work for them- selves. This was the policy'of the ancient Romans, when oppressed by the aristocracy. They proclaimed a general strike from labour, until they compelled their oppressors to relax their gripe upon the people, to grant an equitable ad- justment of taxes and burdens, and to do justice to industry. ( Cheers.) Well, then, if this dire necessity must come, why should not the forty- nine delegates of the industrious classes advise anil recommend and appoint one solemn, ge- neral, and universal strike amongst the people ? Why should they not recommend that the whole of the industrious classes, masters and men, should shake hands in a hundred towns and in a thousand districts, 011 one and the same day. The masters and the men will forget or suspend their mutual differences for a time, and during one sacred week they will desist from all work, except the great and holy work of rec- tifying the wrongs of their country. ( Loud cheers.) Our country will exhibit a spectacle the most glorious and ter- rific ever exhibited upon the face of the earth, a spectacle which, in my humble opinion, no government that ever ex- isted could despise. ( Cheers.) But, my good friends, I sincerely hope that we shall have 110 occasion to proceed to this fearful extremity. Let us only produce two millions of men, united together, and acting peacefully under the sanc- tion of the law, and we shall speedily obtain all the great objects which we seek— those vital objects which are essen- tial to the liberty, the glory, and the prosperity of our country. Certainly, if we should demand anything wrong unjust, or illegal, we shall not succeed, and we ought not to to succeed. Our country will not support us, and the House of Commons will set us at defiance; but if we take our stand upon the rock of the constitution, and demand nothing but'what is legal, just, and upright, and act effi- ciently together, we certainly shall succeed. If we should, for instance, demand any parcelling out of the land, a divi- sion of property, or an Agrarian scramble, or any wild or unjust object of that kind, we shall certainly do no good, we shall do ourselves and our country harm. But if we abide by the law and the constitution, and act efficiently together, I repeat it, my friends, we shall obtain the most glorious victory ever obtained upon the earth before. Universal suffrage, annual parliaments, vote by ballot, wages of atten- dance, and the abolition of property qualification, are all our constitutional rights. Experience has proved that they are necessary to the salvation of the country. Without these, our country must sink in the scale of nations— mise- rable at home and dishonoured abroad. She will go on increasing in misery and degradation, until permanent ruin, or some fearful catastrophe, occur. At present, things, in a commercial sense, may be said to be improving, but it is all delusion. No permanent good can exist under the present system. If things should go on to improve to- day, and to bring on some kind' of prosperity amongst the industrious classes, that prosperity is certain to pass away again within a few years. Again you will be plunged in adversity, if possible, more hopeless than the present state. Many of you have now only three days work per week, and you are compelled to sell the produce of your industry at half- price. The taxes and burdens of the country are thus made to press upon you with quadruple pressure. Your means are re- duced one half, and your burdens are doubled at the same time. But what does the Houseof Commons know ol this state of things? They neither know it, nor believe it, nor regard it. You must have your own House of Commons representing one common interest with yourselves, and feeling in common with yourselves those common burdens and calamities which the laws of the present House of Commons impose. The forty- nine delegates will, I trust, be ready to assemble before the next meetingof Parliament. In the great meetings that will appoint them, the people cannot be too careful or too prudent. They must consider all men as their enemies who recommend violence of any kind. Spies, enthusiasts, and traitors will not do for us. We are not to be trapped into crimes or into errors which may give our enemies an advantage. We will have no secret societies, nor any secret movements, nor will we have any arms at our meetings. We will contemplate 110 violation of the law, and we will allow no violation of the law. But if our enemies shall dare to violate the law against us, and to attempt to controul the law and the people, we will take care that the people shall be put infighting order, to act in defence of the law, and to vindicate the law against all aggres- sors. With respect to the great meeting we are about to hold in Birmingham, I have no occasion to give you advice. I know you will preserve the law, and set an example to your country. If any improper person shall misconduct himself, you will deliver him up into the hands of the con- stables, and if any unjust attack should be made upon you by military 01 other force, you will cheerfully obey the orders of the council, and leave your vindication in their ha uls. The council will have the means of obtaining jus- tice in their hands, and you may be assured they will not fail to obtain it. In holding this great meeting the neigh- bouring towns will, of course, present themselves in large bodies, and I am sure we can rely upon them. I should be very sorry not to see our excellent friend, Whitehouse, of Studley,—( cheers)— and his faithful battalions from Wor- cestershire. Our friends at Wolverhampton, Walsall, and Dudley will not fail us, nor will the inhabitants of the Staf- fordshire collieries and iron works desert us. ( Cheers.) These brave men have been doing pretty well of late, sup- ported principally, I believe, by the immense railroads which are in progress throughout the couutry. But they will not desert the men of Birmingham at their call. They will come amongst us as they ( lid in 18131 and 1832, and by the exhibition of patriotism,) courage, arid social order, they will again assist us iu securing and improving their own prosperity, and in giving liberty and prosperity to their country. The people should, of course, be prepared to elect a delegate at this meeting. No delegate should, I think, be a member of Parliament. When the number of forty- nine is completed, they should assemble in London, from whence they may adjourn to Birmingham, if they should deem it necessary. It is a great effort that we have before 11s, but it is righteous, just, and holy, and I trust the blessing of God will be upon us. ( Cheers.) The honourable gentleman then read the minutes of the last meeting. Mr. HOLI., the secretary, announced that there were nearly 40,000 signatures attached to the national petition in Birmingham. ( Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN wished to know if any steps had been taken to obtain signatures in the adjoining towns. Mr. DOUGLAS, in reply, said he believed the towns around Birmingham still required to be canvassed. He did not think anything had been done to obtain signatures, except in Birmingham. Communications had been sent to several neighbouring towns, and in due time, he had no doubt, they would send in their thousands. With respect to the intended great meeting, he would say, that the committee appointed to make the necessary arrangements for it, and their honourable chairman, had agreed that the meeting of the members of the Union, for the purpose of electing the council, should take place on the same day as the great meeting. The members of the Union would meet in tlie Town Hall, and after electing the council, proceed to meet their fellow- townsmen at Holloway- head. It would only be a loss of time to have two meetings, and that was un- necessary. The people would have enough to do without losing time unnecessarily. A great admiral he had the honour of serving under toi a short time, said, on a memo- rable occasion, that England expected every man to do his duty. The council of the Union did not use that language under feelings of similar hostility to those which dictated them to the naval hero ; but they did expect that every man who signed the national petition, would stand by that petition. They did expect that they would not be absent on the sacred occasion, when they would lie called upon to take steps to support it, by appointing a delegate to watch over and protect it. ( Hear, hear.) The present he con- sidered the crisis which would decide the fate of the Re- formers of the empire. If Birmingham was to go back, the e: uise would, most assuredly, go back, although eventually it would not be lost. If Birmingham should unfortunately retrograde, still there would be found sufficient spirit, in- telligence, and honesty, throughout the kingdom, to carry forth the great and good work of reform. But it would be a great discouragement to the cause, if they were to go back. He knew, however, they would not do so. They would stand forth and lead the country, as they had done before. London was ready to start the moment tLat they held their great central meeting in Birmingham. The south of Eng- land would start, and they all knew the men of the north were ready. ( Cheers.) It was necessary, therefore, that they should be alive, not only to the injury the cause would receive by their supineness, but the injury their characters would receive if they receded. With respect to the two plans proposed for carrying their objects, namely, the attack upon the exchequer, and Mr. Attwood's sacred week, he would only observe, that they could try both if necessary. He was not wedded to either particularly, and lie would adopt either, or both, or something else, if anything better should be proposed. ( Hear, hear.) The reason why he rather preferred the attack upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer was, because they could not only reach the revenue by that means, but they could reach the shopoeracy, the squirocracy, and all the other little ocracies. He was of opinion, that if the tea and coffee dealers were to see their shops deserted for a few weeks, if the publicans were to see their parlours and their kitchens deserted for a few weeks, they would soon perceive the necessityVjf aiding the people in their struggle for their just rights. He had, how- ever, no objection to combine the abstinence plan with that of their honourable friend, Mr. Attwood, and cease Iroin labour for a week. He would rejoice at a week's holiday, if it was only to afford the poor man an opportunity for recreation. There need not, however, be any difficulty about the matter. There was one easy method by which they could decide the point, and that was, to submit it to the meeting of delegates. ( Hear, hear.) When they should meet, and a necessity arrive for action, they would decide upon the plan of operation, and all would be bound by their decision. ( Cheers.) They would say whether they were to have the holy week, or the strike against the Chancellor. That there existed a necessity for some change, could not be doubted. It appeared, from the papers of that day, that a most appalling accident had occurred in a coal pit in Lan- cashire, by which twenty- six children had lost their lives. They were from the age of seven up to fourteen years; and he would ask, if the fathers of these infants had sufficient wages for their labour, would they send their children down into the bowels of the earth, and subject them to such a wretched existence and so miserable an end ? ( No, no.) He won- dered why those persons who declaimed so loudly against the factories, did not direct their attention to the coal pits, where thousands of innocent children were buried alive, and daily suffering the greatest misery. There would, however, soon be an end to this state of society. The time must soon arrive when the poor man would be represented, and when they would have the power of putting an end to such an unnatural state of things. He saw this change in the two millions of signatures that would be attached to their petition. He saw it in their union and determination. They had only to hold up the hands of two millions of men, and all they desired would be achieved. The question, then, was, would those hands be held up? ( Yes, yes.) If so, success was inevitable. Their honourable chairman had said they had parsons, and lawyers, and squires against them. He ( Mr. D.) knew it, but he also knew the whole of them would be dust in the balance, when arrayed against the millions. ( Cheers.) There was too much intelligence amongst the masses to dread the long purses. Let them only raise the hands of two millions of men. and iu twelve months there would be no necessity for Political Unions. Mr. D. then moved that Monday week should be the day appointed for holding the great meeting. Ma. EDMONDS seconded the resolution, and after con- gratulating their honourable chairman on the restoration of his health, and expressing his entire approbation ol the plans laid down for the future operations of the union, adverted to the meditated attack upon the retail brewers, by Lord Brougham and the Duke of Wellington. In his opinion, a more foul or atrocious act never was contemplated. It was well known to their chairman and others, that he was oppo- sed to the passing of the Beer act, because it was a robbery against the old publicans, by which many of his acquaintances suffered severely. But he could conceive nothing more atro- cious, than after the government had passed that act, and after they had, by so doing, called into existence thousands of men, who had expended thousands of pounds upon the faith of that act of pailiament— he could not conceive anything more atrocious than to turn round upou the people and an. nihilate them at a few months' notice. ( Shame.) It was sporting with the people at an unpardonable rate. When he considered that it was the Duke of Wellington who brought forward that measure, and reflected upon the lan- guage he had lately used upon the subject, he could not express the indignation he felt at such unprincipled conduct. It was, however, only in accordance with the general con- duct of the aristocracy towards the people. If a set of villains, dealers iu human blood, were to be deprived of the power of selling their fellow- men, and scourging them at their pleasure— if such an act of justice was to be done to a portion of their fellow- beings, the scoundrels who were thus to be restrained in their savage practices, were first of all to be compensated with millions of money for the loss they would sustain by giving up their inhuman traffic and customs; but if a set of honest industrious men weie to be robbed of their all— if they were, after being cajoled to expend their hard earnings in a certain business, to be forth- with deprived ol this trade, and robbed of the means of subsistence for themselves and families, not a sentence was to be heard about compensation. The old publicans ought to have been compensated, and upon every principle of justice, the new publicans ought to be compensated, if sup- pressed. Mr. Blaxland, Mr. Salt, and Mr. Collins, then briefly ad- diessed the council, after which three cheers were given for the chairman, and the meeting separated. PUBLIC OFFICE. MONDAY, JULY 9. ( Before J. T. Lawrence, W. Beale, — Alston, and II. Smith, Esqrs.) A young lad named IIassail was committed to piison for two months, for neglecting his work. Thomas Barratt and Thomas Allan, two other apprentices belonging to Mr. Bedford, were also brought up, reprimanded, and discharged 011 promising to attend diligently to their work in future. John Wiseman, an apprentice belonging to Mr. Bradley, was committed to the House of Correction for two months for neglecting his work. Mr. B. stated that the prisoner played one day in the first week of this year, two days the second week, three days the third week, and he had worked none since. Richard Williams was charged with embezzling four pounds, one shilling, aud sixpence, the property of his employers, Messrs. Podmore and Twells, metal dealeis, New- street. — Mr. Podmore stated that the prisoner had been in the service of himself and partner for the last eight years, and it was his duty to collect the accounts in the town. Messrs. Tonolly, Brothers, stood indebted to the firm in the sum of four pounds, five shillings and nine- pence, subject to a discount of 5 per cent. In the course of col- lecting, the prisoner, it appeared, received from Messrs. Tonollys the amount due, but did not account for it. He afterwards absconded.— Mr. Chance Maniori, clerk to Messrs. Tonolly, proved that on the 12th of May last, he paid the prisoner four pounds, one shilling, and sixpence, and produced the prisoner's receipt for that amount Fenn, police- officer of Wolverhampton, stated that in consequence of information he received from Spittle, one of the Bir- mingham officers, he kept a close watch for the prisoner in the above town, and he apprehended him last week. When he took him, he said his name was John Jones, and that he knew nothing of Messrs. Podmore and Twells. Finding, however, that he was well known, he acknowledged his proper name, and that lie had taken the money. He said, he got drunk soon after he received it, and he either lost it, or it was picked out of his pocket. Drunkenness, he added, was the cause of his misfortune. The prisoner, when called 011 for his defence, said, " I acknowledge the offence." He was committed to the assizes. „ Emma Knight, one of the unfortunates, was committed to the House of Correction for one month, for being drunk and disorderly in Henrietta- street 011 Sunday morning. GARDEN ROBMNQ— Charles Taylor, John Wootnn, and Edward Bickley, were charged with robbing a garden in the Cottage- lane, belonging to Mr. Watts.— John Hughes, watchman, of Pope- street, stated that early on Sunday morning he saw the prisoners coming from towards Mr. Watts's garden, each carrying a bundle. He followed them until they got into George- street, where he stopped them and took them into custody, and on examining their bundles found they contained gooseberries, lettuces, and cucumbers He afterwards found Mr. Watts's garden had been robbed. — Thomas Pass, gardener to Mr. Watts, produced the roots of lettuces which he found in the garden, and they corres- ponded with the lettuces taken from the prisoners. They were committed for one month to the House of Correction. [ It may, perhaps, be well to note here, that the magistrates are determined on punishing all persons convicted ofgarden robbing vviih the utmost rigour.] Emma Taylor and Ellen Lewis were charged with stealing tinee sets of curtains, a brush, and a wash hand basin,, the property of Mr. George Willmore, jeweller, of Exeter- row— Mrs. Mary Ellis stated that she had been a tenant of a house in King- street, belonging to Mr. Willmore. She was in arrears of rent to the amount of 15/., and she gave up all her household furniture to Mr. Willmore, towards discharging the debt. She left the house 011 the 2nd of July, and the furniture was then ail safe, with the exception of some chairs, and a few other articles Mr. Willmore allowed her to take away. The curtains, brush, & c., produced by Mall the officer, were part of the property she left in the house.— Mr. Willmore proved that his house had been entered and the above articles taken away. Hall, the officer, deposed that he apprehended the prisoners in a house in Inge- street, anjl found the property in the place. He said they admitted having taken them, but said they did so merely to keep them safe. The curtains were hang- ing Irom the window, and they took them to save them from being stolen The magistrates said the evidence was very slender against the prisoners, and dismissed the charge. — There were three or four other charges brought against the prisoners. It appeared they had been equally careful of divers other articles, belonging to various persons in the neighbourhood where they lived, and they were in the course of the day committed for one of thp offences. Charles Nicholls was committed for picking Mr. Tildas- ley's pocket of his handkerchief. On Thursday, Mr. Tildasley was standing near the Townhall, when the prisoner was seen by John Gavin, a watchman, taking the handkerchief. William Prude was charged with embezzling sundry small sums of money belonging to his employer, Mr. Jabez Smart Allen, cut glass manufacturer, Prospect- row.— Mr. Allen stated that the prisoner had been his shopman for the last twenty- two months, and it was his business to receive money, and account daily for it in a book he kept for that purpose. On referring to that book he found the following entry, " Mr. Reynolds, Market Tavern, six half pint tum- blers, fluted, on hire— returned." He had made inquiry respecting these tumblers, and he had found that Mr. Reynolds had purchased them and paid the prisoner for them. In the same book he found an entry of 7s. worth of glass to Mr. Blisset, and he had repeatedly directed the prisoner to call for the money. He left home on Monday week for the purpose of collecting it, and on his return he stated that Mr. Blisset would call between that day and Saturday and pay the money. In the month of June last, the prisoner also received 2s. 6d. from Mr. Wilkins, which he never accounted for.— Mr. Reynolds, Mr. Blisset, Mr. Wilkins, and Elizabeth Hobday, were called, and they pro- duced receipts for the above sums, paid the prisoner on account of his employer, none of which he accounted for to Mr. Allen. Mr. Edmonds attended for the prisoner, and cross- examined the parties, but without invalidating their testimony, and the prisoner was committed. William Griffis was placed in the dock, charged with housebreaking.— Mr. John Bromwich, of Edgbaston, stated that about three o'clock on the morning of the 25th of last month, he was awoke in his bed by a noise in his kitchen. He got up and went down, when he saw a man's hand through a pane of glass which had been broken. He walked easily across the room, and seized hold of the hand, when he discovered it was the prisoner, who was outside endeavouring to get in. The prisoner made desperate efforts to break away, and in doing so, smashed five panes of glass and cut his arm in a shocking manner. He ( Mr. B.) still held him, until the prisoner begged he would loose his hand, and promised positively he would go to the door and surrender himself. In consideration of the state in which his arm was, he let go his hold, and the prisoner gave him- self up as he had promised. There was another man outside the window when he seized the prisoner's hand, but he made his escape when he found his companion had been trapped. On examining about the ground, a steel and a quan- tity of worsted was discovered, which had been removed from inside the window Mr. Green, the constable, stated that on being sent for on the above morning, he went to Mr. Bromwieh's house, where he found the prisoner bleeding so dreadfully, that he feared he should bleed to death, and he had him removed to the General Hospital, where he had since been.— The prisoner in his defence said he was very drunk at the time alluded to, and he mistook the house. — The constable said the prisoner was not drunk.— He was committed to the assizes. William Bowdler was charged with stealing a quantity of lead, the property of Mr. Godwin, King's Head, Allison- street— Mr. Godwin stated that the prisoner had been in his service. He ( Mr. G.) usually kept in his possession the key of a malthouse, in Park- lane, belonging to Mr. Miles, maltster. On Saturday the prisoner and his brother obtained from him the key to go into the malthouse, and it appeared they carried away a large lead gutter Mr. Tolly, keeper of a marine store, in Pinfold- street, stated that on Saturday the prisoner and his brother came into his shop, and offered the lead, which he then pioduced, for sale. He suspected it was stolen, and asked the prisoner where he had it from. He told him it belonged to his master, Mr. Fisher, of Moland street. This he ( Mr. Tolly) did not believe, and having purchased^ the lead, he made inquiries respecting the owner, arid found it belonged to . Mr. Godwin, whom he apprised of the robbery. The lead was identified, and the prisoner was committed. Emma Bruce was committed for stealing a large table cloth, belonging to Mr. James Jones, of Moor- street. The cloth was given to be washed to Mrs. Evans, a washer- woman, who hung it out upon her line at ten o'clock on Thursday week, and in an hour after it was stolen and pledged by the prisoner at the shop of Mr. Abraham Norwich, pawnbroker, where it was found by Hipkins, the officer. William Pickett, a young lad, on the complaint of Gavin, a watchman, was committed for three months, as a rogue and vagabond, for picking a gentleman's pocket of his handkerchief on Snowhiil. Edwin Cooper, a young man, who had his left arm ban- daged up, was placed in the dock, on a charge of disorderly conduct,— Whately, a watchman, made the complaint, and said about three o'clock on Sunday morning, the prisoner and others were in Snowhiil, making a great noise. The prisoner refused to go home, and Noakes, the night con- stable, came up at the time, and directed he should he taken into custody. The prisoner said he had not offended any one, and the watchmen beat him dreadfully with their sticks.— Noakes and Whateley said they did not strike him, nor did they see any person beat him Mr. Gem, the magistrate's clerk, said it was pretty evident some person had ill used him, and the man ought not to have been so treated. The prisoner was discharged, the magistrates believing fiat he had received enough of punishment. In the private room, Eaves one of the informers, applied for a summons to compel a person to come forward and give evidence against a retail brewer. The brewer, whose name did not transpire, said the charge was utterly false. The fact was, Eaves had offered to allow him to sell ale at any hour he pleased, if he would give him so much weekly money.— Mr. Alston, the magistrate, asked the brewer if he had any witness who could prove what he had said. The man said he could prove it, upon which Mr. Alston said, if he could the magistrates would never again entertain any information laid by Eaves Mr. Laurence, the magis- trate, said he had no doubt the retail brewers were laid under a tax by the informers. THURSDAY, JULY 12. f Before D. Leilsam, II. Smith, and IF. C. Alston, Esqrs.) Several persons were fined in various penalties, for having their chimnies on fire, incommoding the streets, by allowing baskets, & e., to stand upon the foot- path, and other offences against tlie Street act. Mr. Crow, of Digbeth, one of the persons fined, complained of the partiality of one of the street- keepers. He said, 011 a late occasion, a chimney be- longing to one of his neighbours was 011 fire, and in a very bad state indeed. The street- keeper was sent for, and directed to take notice of it. He did so, and went into the house, where he saw the fire burning up the chimney. He did not, however, lay an information against the owner of the house, and when asked the reason, he replied that Mr. Dester told him not to mind it, as he was only young upon the round. He ( Mr. C.) also knew that some of his neighbours were allowed to leave boxes, & c., standing for hours at their doors, whilst he was compelled to remove his goods immediately on receipt of them Mr. Ledsam said, he hoped no such partiality had been shown, as it would be highly improper to make any such distinction. POOR- RATES— Twenty- one persons were summoned, for non- payment of poor- rates due in the parish of Aston. The parties were severally ordered to pay. INDECENT ASSAULT.— A man named Owen Parry, a tailor, was brought up, charged with an aggravated assault upon a young woman, named Eliza Collin's Mr. Samuel Hutton stated, that on Tuesday evening, about half. past seven o'clock, he was standing in front of his premises, opposite New- street, when he saw the prisoner coming towards his house in a very excited state, from the effects of liquor. A very respectably dressed female was also passing at the time, and the prisoner, without any provocation or inducement, caught hold of her round the waist, and used her in the most indecent manner. His language was also very gross, and his conduct altogether of the most outrageous kind. He ( Mr. Hutton) obtained the assistance of Stedman, the street- keeper, and gave him into custody. Ho became more violent, and some hundreds of persons collected, and some of them attempted to rescue him from the officer. Tlie young woman was removed into his ( Mr. H.' s) shop, where she remained one hour in the most distressed con- dition, before she recovered from the effects of the ill treat- ment she received Miss Collins then preferred the charge against the prisoner, the facts of which are contained in Mr. Hutton's statement. — Stedman proved that he apprehended the prisoner, and that when he did so he assaulted him in the most violent manner— The prisoner, when called upon for his defence, said, he was so drunk he did not know anything about the transaction. It was well known to his shopmates, that whenever he got drunk he did not know what he did— The magistrates said his intoxication was no extenuation. lie had been guilty of a most aggravated assault, and they regretted they could not punish more severely than the la< r allowed. Tliey ordered him to pay bl., and in default to be committed for three months. Joseph Bonner was charged with robbing a country lad, named Thomas Benncr of his watch.— Benner stated, that on Thursday he came into Birmingham from Buxton, in Herefordshire, to look for his brother. He went into the Exchange public- house, in Dale- end, where he saw the prisoner. He stopped there for a short time, and lost two shillings out of his pocket in some way. He then left, and the prisoner followed him out, and asked him to go a walk with him. He did so, and they went into New- street, where the prisoner showed him the school, and asked him if it was riot a beautiful building. The prisoner then asked him to go into a public- house, and he would treat him. He did so, and they had a glass of rum each. They walked about again, and he took him into another house, and treated him to another glass of liquor. ' I hey left the house in which they were, and the prisoner took him to another house. He refused to take any more, and told the prisoner he wished to keep sober, lest he should be robbed of his watch and money. The prisoner called for a glass of spirits, and put something into it. He then told him to drink it off, as it would sober him immediately. He did so, and it was no sooner down than he became quite stupid, and knew no more of what took place until he found himself in a public- house, in Carr's- lane, robbed of his watch— Harriet Pool, servant of Mr. Mole, attorney, Moor- street, stated, that 011 Thursday she was standing at her master's dining- room window, when she saw the pro- secutor coming down Moor- street, leaning on the prisoner's arm. They stopped opposite the window, when the pri- soner pulled up the prosecutor's smock- frock, cut away his guard chain, and took his watch, with which he made his escape, and left the prisoner standing perfectly uncon- scious in the street. She gave a description of the prisoner to a street- keeper, and he was taken into custody The prisoner was committed to the assizes. Joseph Thomas was committed for stealing a quantity of files belonging to his employer, Mr. Day, scale and beam maker, Suffolk- street.— Smith, the street- keeper, saw Thomas in Edgbaston with the files in his hand, and, suspecling they were stolen, he asked him where he got them, when, after some hesitation, he acknowledged they belonged to his master. Samuel Stevenson was committed for stealing a piece of bacon from out of the shop of Mr. Dawson, huxter, of Ashted. Two men, named Pevin and Lindon, were ordered to enter into sureties to keep the peace towards Joseph Milward. The complainant, it appeared, had prosecuted one of the prisoners at one of the late sessions, for robbing him, and in consequence had since been subject to his threats, in which the other prisoner joined. William Sparrow and Abraham Whitehouse were com- mitted for stealing 11 cwt. of pig iron, the property of Messrs. Blakewell and others. The prisoners were em- ployed as boatmen to convey a boat load of iron, from the Buffery iron works, near Dudley, to Coventry, and in their way they sold the above quantity, and conveyed it to a house in Newhall- street, in Birmingham. Joseph Peters was committed for three months as a rogue and vagabond, for having been found upon the premises of Mr. Ford, Carr's- lane, with intent to commit a felony. Joseph Atkiss was ordeied to enter into sureties to keep the peace towards his wile. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. WE DEMAND! SIR,— When the leaders of the Political Union set out on their mission to the north, many were the taunts and jeers of the Tories; but let them look at the pre- sent state of affairs. The cry of the people has been changed; instead of " humbly pray," it is, " we de- mand." Will our rulers, when they see the spirit of the country, dare to refuse the demand for libertv ? It was the universal will of the people, unequivocally expressed, that carried the Reform bill; and it will be the will of the people that will carry a greater and far more efficient reform. Since the Melbourne ministry last entered office, they have retarded instead of fur- thering the cause of reform. With an adverse court, they were maintained in office solely by tlie people; and yet they have done nothing whatever in return. Are such men entitled to the confidence of the people? The universal voice of the empire answers— 110 ! The Reformers of England aud Scotland must de- pend on themselves alone, in the great moral struggle about to take place. They must accept assistance from all, while they rely 011 themselves alone. A perfect union of heart— a singleness of purpose— a bold aud unflinching determination to stand fast by their prin- ciples, unmindful of the taunts and threats of foes, or the snares of pretended friends— must and will charac- terise all their struggles to be free. The spirit of the nation is now aroused. The cry is now as it was in 1832— We will, we will, we will be free! It remains with the people themselves to stand true to their principles, and victory is certain. I am, sir, your obedient servant, A HIGHLANDER. GENERAL HOSPITAL, JULY 10.— Physician and Surgeon of the Patients of the week, Dr. J. Johnstone Rnct Mr. Wood. Visitor. 1", Mr. E. T. Moore and Mr. D. Ledsam. In- patients admitted, 26; out, 98. In- patients discharged, 29; out, 93. Remaining in the house, 147. BIRMINGHAM DISPENSARY, JULY G.— Sick patients relieved 331; midwifery cases, 10. STATE OF THE WORKHOUSE UP TO JULY 10. Wo. INFANTS. Men. men. Boys. Girls. Mule. Fem. Total. In the House 1S9 19ti 9 IS 9 9 430 Admitted since .... 10 15 5 l 8 (> 45 Bom in tiie House I 1 199 211 14 19 17 16 476 Discligd, absconded, 7 14 1 4 1 27 Totaiof eaci ! 9-' 197 14 IS 13 IS 449 Number of Cases relieved last week 2,897 NumberofChildren in the Asylum 293 * O f whom 0 men and 0 female infant died. METEOROLOGICAL IJIAIIY. FURNISHIS It it Y Mil. WOI. I. EK, I£ 0( 1 IIA STON- STREET. Barometer at UOOIi. Ex- treme during night. Ther- mome- ters morn. Extreme heat during day. Ther- mome- ter lit noon. State of Wind at noon. Remarks at noon. July , 7 29 55 46 0 58 0 66 0 58 0 SW Rain 8 29 50 48 0 58 II 70 0 64 0 W Rain 9 29 60 50 0 66 0 76 0 66 0 W Fair 10 " 9 65 5 2 0 64 0 74 0 64 0 W Rain 11 29 65 51 0 62 0 70 0 6- 1 0 SW Rain 12 29 60 56 o 64 o 74 0 66 o W Rain 13 29 45 56 o 66 o 76 0 70 0 S Fair MARRIAGES. On Saturday, at St. George's, by the Rev. John Garbett, M. A., Mr. Charles Joshua I'enn, engraver, of Livery- street, to Mary, third daughter of the late Mr. Robert Warner, japanner, of Summer- lane. On the loth instant, at Lutterworth, by his father, the Rev. Dean J. Burdett, Rector of Gilmorton, Henry Francis Burdett, Esq., surgeon, of Newhall- street, in this town, to Mary Elizabeth, eldest daughter of William Jones, Esq., of the former place. On Thursday week, at Edgbaston, by the Rev. H. Pixell, M. A., Mr. James Thompson, iron- merchant, of St. Mary's- square, to Anne, eldest daughter of Mr. William Izod, of George- street, Edgbaston. On Thursday week, at Oldswinford, Mr. Compson, to Miss K. Monteitli, both of Stourbridge. On the 5th inst., at Leamington- priors, Captain Henry Fowler Mackay, of the Enniskillen Dragoons, to Caroline Matilda, youngest daughter of Lieutenant- General Ainslie. On the 8th inst., at Aston, Mr. William West, sou of Mr. Isaac West, of Fisher- street, to Ann, daughter of Mr. George Phillips, of the Aston- road. DEATHS On Sunday last, after a long and painful illness, Elizabeth, wife of Mr. Richard Aston, surgeon, of this town. On the 9th instant, after a long and painful illness, Mr. Joseph Brittian, of Regent- place, in this town, aged 32. On the 7th inst., after a lingering illness, aged 34, Henry, second son of Mr. John Payton, of Pope- street, in this town. On the 7th inst., at Hockley, aged 46, Mr. Joseph Richards. On Tuesday last, after a long and painful illness, Joseph Pearson, Esq , of Graisley House, near Wolverhampton, in ihe 72nd year of his age. On Tuesday last, aged 23 years, Mary Ann, only daughter of the late Mr. Joseph Kendall. On Sunday last, Harriett, youngest daughter of Mr. Thomas Rollason, of Steelhouse- lane. On the 4th inst., in h s 62nd year. Mr. Samuel Fortes- cue, surgeon, of Rugeley, Staffordshire. On Thursday week, after a lingering illness, Eliza Har- vey, aged 27, second daughter of Mrs. Smith, of Great Charles- street. i On Friday week, in the 36th year of her age, after a long and painful illness, Susannah, wile of Mr. J. S. Spencer, artist. On the 6th inst., at Sheldon, late of Hemel Hempsted, Mary, second daughter of Mr. Cooper, of Laugley Hal), in this county. On the 4th inst., at the Parsonage, Bushbnry, Mr. T. Lovatt, of the High Green, Wolverhampton, aged 52. On the 8th inst., at Hurst- hill, Sedgley, Sophia, wife of Mr. Thomas Kettle, in the 33rd year of her age. On the Gth inst., at Pershore, at the advanced age of 96, Samuel Hackett, Esq. On Sunday week, much respected, Mr. Thomas Lawley, of St. John- street, Lichfield, in the 84th year of his age. On Thursday week, much lamented, Mr. Thomas Bar- ton, of this town. On the 27th ult., at his residence in Dunkerque, Richard Vincent, Esq., late of the 6th Enniskillen Dragoons, deeply lamented by all who knew him. THE BIRMINGHAM. JOURNAL, JULY 14. 14 AMERICA AND THE CANADAS. The Great Western steam ship arrived at Bristol on Sunday afternoon, after a passage out and home of altogether unexampled shortness— the, passage out occupying- only fourteen days, and the passage home twelve days. The outward passage has, we believe, on very rare occasions been performed in three weeks, and the homeward passage in fifteen days, the ordi- nary period for the one, however, has been six, and for the other, four weeks. The success of the Great Western will go far to establish a new era in trans- atlantic commerce. The difference of facility of transmission by steam, and by sailing vessels, is so great, that it is plain, not only all letters and papers, but all light goods whatever, will in future go by steam. Perhaps it may lead also to a more satisfac- tory arrangement of the pecuniary differences between the" two countries. There will be more care and judg- ment on both sides of the water, when a visit from the principals, whether European or American, is become so easy and so certain. The Great Western brought files of New York papers down to the 25th ult., and Canadian journals to the 16th. Lord Dur- ham had, it seems, sent his brother- in- law ( Col. Grey) to Washington, with despatches to the English am- bassador there, and charged with a private communi- cation for President Van Buren, 011 the subject of the burning of the Sir Robert Peel. On that subject, the President had, 011 the 20th, sent a message to Congress, in which he notices also the firing 011 the Telegraph, at Brockville, by the Canadians. He says:— The excited state of public feeling on the borders of Canada, on both sides of the line, has occasioned the most painlul anxiety to this government. Every effort has been, and will he made, to prevent the success of the design apparently formed, and in the course of execution, by Cana- dians who have found a refuge within our territory, aided by a few reckless persons of our country, to involve the nation in a war with a neighbouring and friendly power. Such a design cannot succeed while the two governments appreciate and confidently rely upon the good faith of each other in the performance of their respective duties. With a fixed determination to use all the means in my power to |> ut a speedy and satisfactory termination' to these border troubles, I have the most confident assurances of the cordial co- operation of the British authorities, at home and in the North American possessions, in the accomplishment of a purpose so sincerely anil earnestly desired by the govern- ments and people both of the United States and Great Britain. Amongst the documents that accompany the mes- tage, is one from the war department, in which it is Itated, that— Tlie department, having subsequently received informa- lion, communicated by the governor of the State of New Yoik, that disturbers of public order had taken refuge 011 a portion of the Thousand Islands, situated within the jurisdiction of the United States, where they were collect- ing arms and munitions of war, and engaged in fitting out hostile expeditions against Canada, Major- General Macomb was despatched to Sackett's Harbour, to take the command of the foieeson the noithern fiontier, with instructions to take prompt and vigorous measures to maintain our treaty stipulations, and to execute the laws of the United States, and especially to lose no time in directing operations against the lawless men who, for the avowed purpose of committing depredations upon the territory of a friendly power, have stationed themselves on the islands in the river St. Law- rence. The general has been since advised to station a gaard of regulars at each of the ferries on the river, and at each port of entry 011 the lakes, in order to protect the per- sons and property of the subjects of Her Britannic Majesty from any further outrage. The same document mentions that the military force in the British North American colonies amounts, in the aggregate, to between fifteen and sixteen thousand tnen. Letters from Buffalo of the 19th, mention a skirmish between the insurgents and a detachment of the royalists, in which the latter were beaten back. They add, that the state of Upper Canada was any- thing but tranquil. The Albany Argus gives the fol- lowing account of the attack 011 the Sir Robert Peel, and the leader of the baud that made it:— Early in the spring, a party of refugees made a lodgment on " The Thousand Islands," in the St. Lawrence. The leader of this gang is William Johnson— well known in that region as Bi: l Johnson— and known also as the leader in the recent destruction of the Sir Robert Peel. He is a Cana- dian by birth, is about 58 years of age, of a powerful frame, and of great fearlessness and energy of character. He has four sons, who partake, to a considerable degree, of the character of the father. He was employed as a spy in the American service during the last war; and, in the course of it, performed many hold and hazardous exploits. He had at his command a six- oared barge, in which he roamed the lake and river, intercepted despatches, attacking the small craft, seizing property, and harassing the British settlements. On one orcasion, he intercepted despatches twice in one day, at Presque Isle. O11 another, his boat having been driven on the British shore in a gale, and the crew captured, he eluded his pursuers for a fortnight, and finally made his escape in a bark canoe, crossing the lake ( 36 miles in width) alone in that fiail vessel, and reached Sackett's Harbour in safety. Since the war, he has resided at French Creek, in the double capacity of trader and smuggler. It is said that he boasts of having a force under his immediate command of 150 men ; but this is probably an exaggeration, although he has undoubtedly more than those who were with him in the capture of the Sir Robert Peel, and could probably command, if necessary, a much greater number. The principal rendezvous and head- quarters of Johnson and his marauders, are at a fastness called Fort Wallace, on on island, and within the British territory. It is said to contain a fortification of much strength of position ; little is known, however, in relation to it, as Johnson refuses to let any one, not belonging to the gang, visit it. He boasts much of its strength, and expresses the belief, that with a dozen men he could defend it against the attack of two hundred. He has a second rendezvous on Abel's Island, immediately below Well's Island, and opposite Alexandria Bay. " The Thousand Islands" are said to number about seventeen hundred, and to vary in size, from ten miles in length to a single rock a foot square. Well's Island ( from whence the attack was made 011 the. Sir Robert Peel) is the largest of the group, and forms what is designated by the sailors the Upper Narrows— the passage bringing vessels within pistol shot of the island. They occupy more than twenty- five miles in the river, which, in some places, is more than ten miles wide. They are little else than rock, with occasional patches of fertile land. Their sides! are, in many parts, perpendicular rocks, thirty feet in height, with abrupt shores, and great depth of water. They are gene- rally covered with dense forests and thick underbrush ; and the passages between them are narrow, winding, and often rocky. It is scarcely possible to conceive of a place better formed by nature to afford a secure retreat for freebooters than this cluster of islands. Johnson lias several boats, every way adapted to his de- signs, one of which is forty feet in length, but of so light a construction as to be easily carried across the islands, and its speed is said to exceed that of the swiftest boats on the lake. Shortly after the destruction of the Sir Robert Peel, he proceeded in this boat with a few of his men up the fake, made a predatory incursion upon an island near the mouth of the Bay of Quint a, and plundered the inhabitants, return- ing on the night of the 8th instant to the fastnesses of the Thousand Islands. It is not known that he has been on the main land since the burning of the Sir Robert Peel. He has had occasional interviews with some of our citizens since that event, but they have taken place on the water. He, and those that attend him on these occasions, are well armed. His own appearance, with six pistols, a dirk, and a bowie knife in his belt, is sufficiently belligerent. LONDON GAZETTES. UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE— A meeting of the inhabitants of the parishes of Kirkaldy, Dysart, and Abbotshall, was held 111 the Secession Chapel here, on the 13th curt., for the pur- pose of establishing a Universal Suffrage Association. Mr. William Kiigonr in the chair. The following1 resolution was proposed and unanimously agreed to : " That it is deemed necessary to form an association for the purpose of co- operating and corresponding with similar associations in other places in forwarding the great cause of reform." A committee was then chosen for the purpose of carrying the above resolution into effect. The meeting was then ad- dressed by Mr. Feddie from Edinburgh, who, in an address of considerable length, most powerfully and eloquently showed the necessity of universal suffrage, in order to ob- tain any substantial reform. THOM, THE CANTERBURY MANIAC.— The household fur- niture of this celebrated person was this week brought to the hammer, at his late residence in Pydar- street, Truro. 13ut although Mr. Edsall, the auctioneer, with his usual tact and ability, referred to the unhappy celebrity of the unfortunate man, as calculated to give increased value to his effects, it was not found that there was that anxiety among the people of Cornwall to possess " relics" of him, which appears to prevail among those of Kent; and the furniture, which was handsome and respectable, though it sofd at a good price, did not go beyond that. The only object, much deset ving of notice, was a bed, which was said to have cost nearly a hundred pounds, but it did not come up to the description in the advertisement, and was knocked down for fourteen guineas. — Cornwall Gazelle. FRIDAY, JULY 6. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. JULY 5.— EDWARD JAMES HARGRAVE, late of the King's Arms public house, Bishopsgate- street- without, London, vic- tualler. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. SOLOMON PITCHFORTH, Brighouse, Halifax, Yorkshire, wood sawyer, August 3, at the George Inn, Hudderstield. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. PETER WOOLLEY, Ross, Herefordshire, tailor. BANKRUPTS. c The Bankrupts tosurrenderatthe Courtof Commissioners, Basing. hall- street, when not otherwise expressed.] THOMAS VINER, Hungerford, Berkshire, hop merchant, July 13 arid August 17. Sol. Mr. Ashley. 9, Shoreditch. Pet. Cr. James Gough, Shoreditcli, timber merchant. Seal. July 5. ROBERT BEETON, Blackfriars- road, liuen draper, July 13 and August 17. Sols. Messrs. Turner and Herman, Basing- lane, Cheapside, Loudon, ret. Cr. William Cooper, Wood- street, warehouseman. Seal. July 2. GEORGE BALDING, Southampton, currier, July 13 and August 17, at the Star Inn, Southampton. Sols. Messrs. Lys and Mullins, Tooke's- court, Chancery- lane, London; and Mr. T. F. Kelsall, Fareham. Pet. Cr. Edward Sharland, Wallington, Fareham, farmer. Seal. ' July 3. JAMES BOWERMAN, Castle Cary, Somersetshire, shopkeeper, August 17, at the Ansford Inn, Ansford, Somersetshire. Sol. Mr. Russ, Castle Cary. Pet. Cr. William Herridge, Wincanton, farmer. Seal. July 19. JOHN WILSON, Burnley, Lancashire, draper, August 2 and 17, at the Bull Inn, Burnley. Sols. Mr. Appleby, 11, Kiug's- road, Bedford- row, London; and Mr. R. T. Grundy, Bury, Lancashire. Pet. Cr. Michael Hay, Marsh, near Huddersfield, cloth manufac- turer. Seal. June 23. EMANUEL HALEY, Tong, Yorkshire, cloth merchant, July 10 and August 17, at the Court. house, Leeds. Sols. Messrs. Battye and Co., 20, Chancery. lane, London ; and Messrs. T. and J. Lee, Leeds. Pet. Cr. Thomas Roberts, Pudsey, Calverley, cloth manufacturer. Seal. June 8. NEIL MACLEAN, Leamingtorupriors, Warwickshire, carpenter, July 17 and August 17, at the Lansdowne Hotel, Leaminfcton- priors. Sots. Mr. William Russell, Leamington- priors; and Messrs. Richards and Walker, 29, Lincoln's- inn- tields, London. Yet. Cr. William Russell, Leamington priors, gent. Seal. June 27. JOHN STEPHENSON and GEORGE MOSS, Nottingham, marble masons, July 1( 5 and August 17, at the George the Fourth Inn, Nottingham. Sols. Messrs. Blackstock and Co., 9, King's Bench, walk, Inner Temple, London; and Messrs. Brabner and Co., Liverpool; or Messrs. Clark and Wells, Nottingham. Pet. Cr. Thomas Wylie, Liverpool, stone mason. Seal. June IS. JOSEPH SPENCER, Manchester, commission agent, July 16 and August 17, at the Commissiouers'- rooms, Manchester. Sols. Messrs. Adlington and Co., Bedford- row, London ; and Mr. Hart, 3, To\ rn- hall- buildiugs, Manchester. Yet. Cr. William Holmes, Manchester, manufacturer. Seal. June 26. DIVIDENDS. HENRY WILMOT SCALY, 26, City road, upholsterer, July 28. JOHN STATON, 10, Charing cross, bootmaker, July 28, atone. RICHARD STONE, Thame, Oxfordshire, carpenter, August 1, at eleven, at the Roebuck Inn, Oxford. WILLIAM HOYLE and RICHARD EASTHAM, Lee- mill, near Bacup, Lancashire, woollen manufacturers, July 31, at eleven, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester. STANHOPE TURNER and JONAS PILLING, Bolton- le. Moors, Lancashire, iron founders, July 31, at eleven, at the Commercial Inn, Bolton. le. Moors. • THOMAS YOUNG, Newcastle- upon- Tyne, grocer, August 6, at twelve, at the Commission. room, Newcastle- upon- Tyne. HENRY POPE, East Retford, Nottinghamshire, wine merchant, August 1, at twelve, at the office of Messrs. Newton and Gylby, East Retford. WILLIAM BOWDLER, late of Cheapside, London, Manchester warehousman, July 30, at eleven, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester. RALPH THORNE, Snodshill- lane, Chisledon, Wiltshire, hay dealer, July 25, . it twelve, at the Goddard Arms Inn, Swindon. JOHN BARTON BALDWIN, Wliitkirk, Yorkshire, merchant, July 26, at one. ROBERT MACK MOREMENT, Burnham Westgate, Norfolk, grocer, July 31, atone, at the office of Mr. Henry Gridley, solicitor, Fakenhatn. WILLIAM JOHNSON, Wincham, Cheshire, tanner, July 28, at eleven, at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, Northwich. WILLIAM CHAPMAN, Birmingham, grocer, July 31, at eleven, at Dee's Royal Hotel, Birmingham. JOHN TEASDALE, Bolton- le- Moors, Lancashire, road contractor, July 31, at eleven, at the Commercial Inn, Bolton. le Moors. JAMES WILLIAM GRAY, Exeter, lead merchant, August 1, at twelve, at the Half Moon Inn, Exeter. JAMES TOWNSEND, Honiton, and GEORGE BROOKE, Whimple, Devonshire, bankers, July 31, at one, at the Dolphin Inn, Houiton. BROOKS HUGH BULLOCK, Quiet. street, Bath, and Grafton. street, Bond- street, London, wine merchant, July 28, at one, at the Commercial- rooms, Bristol. CERTIFICATES, JULY 27. Thomas Stokes, Clevedon Hotel, Clevedon, Somersetshire, inn- holder— Benjamin Oveston, High- street, Hackney, man milliner- James Vinton, 32, Brewer- street, Middlesex, woollen draper— Robert Hugh Franks, Redcross- street, Barbican, and Regent- street, hatter— John Jones, 210, Whitechapel- road, and 136 and 244, High- street, Wapping, rag merchant— David Beast, London- road, Surrey, chemist. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. John Hooper and Thomas Be van, Queen- street, Cheapside, Lon- don, surgeons— John Vickers, jun., and John Nuttall, jun., Man- chester, dealers in cotton fents— Thomas Harrison and John Green, Atherton, Lancashire, bolt makers— Martha Roberts and Robert Milnes, Whitchurch, Shropshire, stone masons— Mary Metcalfe and George Metcalfe, Gainsburgh, Lincolnshire, merchants— Corrie, Huson, and Co., Liverpool, general brokers— James Littler Barritt, Joseph Hodges Barritt, and William Eley, Fleet- street, London, bibl£ and prayer- book warehousemen— Johu Martin and John Har- risson Gardner, Maldon, Essex, tailors— Ridsdales and Johnson, Wakefield and Leeds, blanket and stuff merchants ( so far as regards Thomas Johnson)— John Ellison and James Ellison, Barnoldswick Mill, Yorkshire, corn millers— Charles Hodges and Francis Hodges, Bristol, music and musical instrument sellers— George Richards and Stephen Clark, Seal, Kent, surgeons— The Haverton. hill Flint Glass Company, Billing- ham, Durham— William Hawks, senior, and Co., Gateshead Iron Works, Durham, and Hawks, Stanley, and Co., London, steel and iron manufacturers ( so far as regards Sir Robert Shafto Hawks)— Birch and Little, Manchester, small ware manufac- turers ( so far as regards Hannah Budge and James Hesketh)— Jonas Hall Pope and Henry Smith, Manchester- square, London, surgeons — Joseph Marsland and Aaron Wallis, Ball Grove Mills, Lancashire, cotton spinners— Ben Johnson, Charles James Tasker, and Richard William Johnson, Gloucester, wine and spirit merchants ( so far as regards C. J. Tasker)— John Bayly and John Bethune Bayly, De- vizes, Wiltshire, attorneys— Ann Acton and Joseph Bishop, Bir- mingham, maltsters— Thomas John Feldwick and James Howell, 1, West- street, Smithfield, account- book manufacturers— Percival, Parton, and Booth, Liverpool, brokers— Thomas Blyth and Sons, Limehouse, Middlesex, merchants ( so far as regards Thomas Blyth) — John George Walters and Samuel Walters, Liverpool, watch makers— Miles Walters and Samuel Walters, Liverpool, marine painters— John William Bowen and Henry Philips, Swansea, linen drapers— John and Philip Black, Glasgow, manufacturers. ASSIGNMENTS. John Bath, Devonport, grocer. James Shipman, Hoddesdon, grocer. TUESDAY, JULY 10. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. WILLIAM MARTIN, victualler, Rope- maker's- fields, Saint Anne, Middlesex. GEORGE OXLEY, scrivener, Toxteth- park, Lancashire. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. JOHN NORRIS ANDREWS, corn dealer, Northamptonshire. BANKRUPTS. WILLIAM HAYES, grocer, Sflisbury, Wiltshire, July 21 and August 21. Sols. Messrs. Roy, Blunt, Duncan, and Johnston, Liverpool- street, London. Pet. Cr. George Knott and John Healy Booth, Upper Thames- street, grocers. Seal. July 9. EFFINGHAM WILSON, bookseller, Sweeting's- alley, Cornhill, . July 18 and August 21. Sol. Mr. Holmes, Liverpool- street. Pet. Cr. George and Alfred Greenland, Poultry, booksellers. Seal. July 6. JAMES LAWRENCE, beer seller, Westbourne. street, Pimlico, July 17 and August 21. Sols. Messrs. Amory and Coles, Throg- morton- street. Vet. Cr. Joseph and Charles Goding, New Lion Brewery, Belvidere- road, Lambeth, brewers. Seal. July 7. JAMES GREENALL, victualler, Liverpool, July 21 and August 21, at the Clarendon- rooms, Liverpool. Sols. Messrs. Blackstock and Co., King's Bench- walk, Temple ; and Mr. Jones, Liverpool Pet. Cr. Jane Jones, Liverpool, brewer. Seal. July 6. ROBERT LYNHAM COURTNEY, ironmonger, Walsall, July 26 and August 21, at the Swan, Wolverhampton. Sols. Messrs. Rickards and Co., Lincoln's. inn- fields, London; and Mr. Thomas, Walsall. Pet. Cr. Charles Messenger, Wyrley, Staffordshire, farmer. Seal. June 27. DIVIDENDS. P. J. LUNTLEY and T. MILNER, wholesale druggists, Bread- street hill, July 31, at twelve. W. JEFFERY, dealer in horses, Little Chester. street, Belgrave. square, July 31, at twelve. J. BATES, furrier, Long- acre, Bermondsey, July 31, at one. W. ARMSTRONG, merchant, London, August 2, at twelve. F. LAWRENCE, general dealer, New- cut and Lower Marsh, Lam- beth, August 2, at twelve. T. B. MILNES and R. CO WEN, iron and brass founders, Notting. ham, August 3, at twelve, at the Ram Hotel, Nottingham. R. SHEPPARD, corn merchant, Boston, Lincolnshire, August 2, at eleven, at the Peacock Inn, Boston. J. HOWELL, schoolmaster, Banbury, Oxfordshire, August 3, at one, at the Star and Garter Inn, Worcester. J. COPLESTONE, grocer, Exeter, August 2, at one, at the Old London Inn, Exeter. C. LEAR, innkeeper, Exeter, Augusts, at two, at the Half- moon Inn, Exeter. J. CARTER, tanner, Rumbridge, Eling, Southampton, August 2, at one, at Quick's Hotel, Southampton. W. SHAD BURN, optician, ship ventilator manufacturer, Sheffield, August 1, at one, at the Town- hall, Sheffield. W. KINGS WELL, cooper, Liverpool and Booth, August 3, at two, at the Clarendon- rooms, Liverpool. G. S. BLACKBOROW, wine and spirit merchant, Bristol, August 2, at one, at the Commercial- rooms, Bristol. CERTIFICATES, JULY 31. W. F. F. P. Bryant and H. J. Peake, ironmasters, Cefencribber, Glamorganshire— J. E Dowell, straw plait dealer, Fore- street, Cripplegate— S. Ride, engineer, Leicester— T. Dewhurst, bookseller, Manchester— J. Ride, engineer, Leicester— R. Marshall, carpenter and undertaker, Bristol— R, Brown, ironfounder and civil engineer, Maidstone, Kent. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. L. Harris and S. Moss, tailors, Liverpool— J. Brooks and E. Pein, merchants and calico printers, Manchester— J. Thornley and R. Hill, lace dressers, Nottingham— T. Widdowson and E. Marsden, coal merchants, Liverpool— R. Rawlins and J. Jordan, attorneys- at- law, Whitchurch, Hampshire— J. Woolhouse and H. Woolhouse, joiners and builders, Sheffield— J. Waddington and S. Potter, surgeons, Margate— J. Gerrard, W. Gerrard, and J. Gerrard, china manufac- turers, Stoke- upon- Trent, Staffordshire ( so far as regards Joseph Gerrardj— W. Edge, jun., and J. Wray, builders and joiners, Great Bolton, Lancashire— J. Ridley, sen., and W. Ridley, millers and merchants, Cressing and Heybridge, Essex— J. S. Thirwall and T. Smurwaite, wine merchants, Scarborough— G. Corynaon and A. Booker, attorneys- at- law and solicitors, Plymouth— B. Fletcher, R. Thompson, E. Evans, T. C. Riley, and J. F. Cannell, ironfoundersj Haigh Ironworks, Lancashire ( so far as regards J. F. Cannell)— J. Campbell, G. Campbell, T. T. Ryan, and D. Annan, commission merchants, Mexico ( so far as regards G. Campbell)— J. Bryden and J. W. Parkiuson, smaHware manufacturers, Manchester— J. Coker and W. Coker, grocers, Little Walsingham, Norfolk— W. Hems and B- Hems, cutlers and furnishing ironmongers, Blackman. street, Borough— A. Sykes, E. Little, G. C. Schwabe, and B. Butler, com- mission agents, Liverpool ( so far as regards E. Little). ASSIGNMENTS. John Gloge, Portsmouth, woollen draper and tailor. John Horner, Leicester, carpenter. John Watts, Kilkhampton, Cornwall, maltster. LONDON MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE, MONDAY, JULY 9.— Wheat, Essex Red, new, 54s to 64s ; line, 66s to 67s ; old, — s to — s; White, new, 63s to 66s i fine, 68s to 70s {' superfine, 72s to 73s; old, — s to — s.— Rye, 30s to 36s.— Barley, 28s to 34s ; old, 35s to 36s; superfine,— s to —- s — Malt, 50s to 56s; fine, 58s to 60s.— Peas, Hog, 32s to 35s ; Maple, 35s to 36s; white, 36s to 38s ; Boilers, 40a to 42s.— Beans, small, 38s to 40s; old, — s to — s ; Ticks, 32s to 34s; old, — s to — a; Harrow, 36s to 3Ss Oats, feed, 20s to 23s ; fine, 24s to 25s; Poland, 22a to 24s; fine, 25s to 26s; Potatoe, 27s to 28s ; fine, 29s to3( h.— Bran, per quarter, 10s 0d to 1 IsOd,— Pollard, fine, per ditto, 148.20s. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICE OF BRITISH CORN FORTHE WEEK ENDING JUNE 30-, 183S.— Wheat, 67s 3d J Barley, 31s 2d; Oats, 22a 9d; Rye, 368 3d; Beans, 37s 6d ; Peas, 35s lOd. DUTYON FOREIGN CORN FORTHE PRESENT WEEK.— Wheat, 22s 8d ; Barley, 15s yd ; Oats, 13s 9d ; Rye, 18s 3d; Beans, « 4s0d; Peas, 16s 9d. PRICE OF SEEDS, JULY 9.—- Per Cwt.— Red Clover, English, 506 to 70s; fine, 80s to 85s; Foreign, 50s to 65s; fine, 70s to 75s.— White Clover, 50s to 56s; fine, 60s to 63s.— Trefoil, new, 14s to 18s; fiue, 19s to 21s ; old, 12s to 18s.— Trefolium, 10s to 12s; fine, 13s to 14s.— Caraway, English, new, 40s to 44s ; Foreign, 40s $ 0 42s— Coriander, 10s Od to 12s Od. Per Quarter.— St. Foin, 42s to 48s ; fine, 50sto54s ; Rye Grass, 18s to 303 ; new, 32s to 40s ; Pacey Grass, 42s to48s; Linseed for feeding, 46s to 50s; fine, 50sto56s ; ditto for crushing, 42s to 46s.— Canary, 40s to 50s.— Hemp, 32s to 40s. Per Bushel.—- White Mustard Seed, 7s Od to9s0d; brown ditto, 8s 0d to 12s ; Tares, 4s 6d to 5s Od ; fine new, Spring, 5s 3d to6s 0d; Per Last.— Rape Seed, English, 36/ to 40/; Foreign, 34/ to38/. OILS.— Rape Oil, brown, £ 36 10s per ton ; Refined, £ 38 0s J Linseed Oil, £ 26 0s; and Rape Cake,£ 5 10s.— Linseed Oil Cake, £ 11 0s per thousand. HAYANDSTRAW.— Smithfield.— Hay, 90s Od to 112s 0d; Inferior, — s to —- s ; Clover, 90s to 120s; Inferior — s to — s; Straw, 38s to 44s. Whitechapel.— Clover, 115s to 120s ; new, 80s to 95s; second cut, — s to — s; Hay, 100 to 110s ; new ditto, — s to — s j Wheat Straw, 38s to 42s. Cumberland.— Fine Upland Meadow and Rye- grass Hay, 110s to 115s ; inferior ditto, 90s to 95s ; superior Clover, 110s to I26s j Straw, 43s to 45s per load of 36 trusses. Portman Market. — Coarseheavy Lowland Hay,— sto — 8; new Meadow Hay, 80s to90s ; oldditto, lOOsto 115s; useful ditto, — s to — s; New Cloverditto,— s to— s; old ditto, 100s to 117s ; Wheat Straw, 40s to 46s perload of36 trusses. SMITHFIELD, JULY 9 — TO sink the offal— per 81b.— Beef, 3s 4d to 4s 6d ; Best Down and Polled Mutton, 3s lOd to 48.10dj V^ l, 4s Od to 5s 2d ; Pork, 4s 4d to 5s 4d ; Lamb, 5s 0d to 6s 2d. NEWGATE AND LKADENHALL.— By the Carcase— Beef, 3s Od. to 3s 10d ; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 4d ; Veal, 3s Od to 5s 4d ; Pork, 3s 6d to 5s 4d ; Lamb, 5s Od to 6s Od. COUNTRY MARKETS, & c. BIRMINGHAM MARKET. Corn Market, July 12. A good supply of Wheat to tills day's market, with a ready sale, at fully the terms of last week. Nothing doing in malting Barley. Grinding samples in good demand, at ail advance of 6d. to Is. per quarter. A better sale for Oats than of late, and fine qualities rather exceeded the rates of last week. Beans plentiful, with a slack sale, at fid. per bag less money. Little enquiry for Peas. WHEAT— per s. d. s. d. Old 8 6— 9 3 New 8 8— 9 4 Irish 7 8 — 8 C BARLEY— per Imp. Quarter. For Malting 30 0 — 37 0 For Grinding, periSlbt 3 3 — 3 6 MALT — per Imperial Bushel. Old and new 6 9 — 79 OATS- per3 » lbs. Old 3 3 — 36 New 3 0 — 3 6 Irish 2 6— 3 3 I BEANS— perbag, 10 scoregross. s. d. a. d. Old 15 6 — 16 ( 1 New 13 6 — 15 3 PE AS— perbag of 3 Bush. Imp. FOR BOILING. White 16 0 — J7 0 Grey 15 0— 16 0 FOB GRINDING. per bag of 10 score 14 6 — 15 6 White 15 0 — 15 0 FLOUR— per sack ofZ% 01bs. net Fine 52 0 — 55 0 Seconds 48 0 — 50 0 Thefollowiug is the statement in Messrs. Sturge'sclrcular: PRESENT PRICES OF GRAIN. Birmingham, , July 12, s. d. WHEAT, English, White, per bushel of 621b. Old English, Red ~—. „ Old Irish, White Red Old , ARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. Quarte Irish .. — Gri nding, per Quarter of3921bs. OATS, English, White, per Imperial Quarter Welsh, Black and White, per 312lbs.~. Irish, [ weighing 41 to 421bs.) do. ..— ( 37 to 391bs.) do. . Black do. ,— BEANS, English, Old, per bushel of 651bs New .... ........ I rish~ — „„.,.—— Foreign —,———— PEAS, Boiling, per Imp. Quarter — Grinding, per Quarter of 3921bs FLOUR, English, Fine, per Sack of 2801bs. „ ™ Seconds ..... — none none none none 0 0 0 0 31 0 . 27 , 21 21 . 23 . 21 . 22 . 5 . 4 10 ! 0 0 , 4 10 . 40 0 . 27 0 . 53 0 , 48 0 s. d. to 9 1 .. 9 2 .. 8 10 .. 9 0 .. 0 0 .. 0 0 .. 0 0 .. 0 0 .. 38 6 .. 0 0 .. 30 0 .. 34 0 .. 22 0 .. 25 6 .. 22 9 22 9 5 10 5 6 0 0 5 6 52 0 30 0 56 0 51 0 Gloucester, WHEAT, English, White, per Imp. Bushel English, Red _ Old Irish, White, per 601bs nominal Red ........ *~.^ tu) minaX Old . r^^^^ notninal Foreign — — nominal BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. Quarter Grinding, per Quarter of392lbs. OATS, English, White, per Imp. Quarter Welsh, Black and White . Irish ( weighing41 to42lbs); per Qr. of3121bs ( 37 to 391bs.) __ Black „ BEANS, English, Old, per Imp. Bushel . New — Foreign-—...—,— ——,— P15 AS, Boiling, per Imp. Quarter .... Grinding, per Quarter of 3921bs. .. FLOUR. English, Fine, per sack of 2801bs Seconds .. „ July ( , T. d. 8 6 0 0 28 0 , 1838. s. d. to 8 il .. 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 34 0 0 0 20 0 5 0 4 4 0 0 4 10 44 0 28 0 53 0 50 0 Wheat- Barley - Oats Peas — Beans _ WORCESTER WEEKLY AVERAGE Qrs. Bush. 618 1 .„ 0 0 .... s. d. • 70 6J . 0 0 . 0 0 0 0 37 8 » Birmingham, July 12, 1838. At Gloucester market on Saturday last Wheat fully supported the prices of the previous week. At Worcester, same day, the sales made were at a reduction of Is. to Is. 6d, per quarter. No transactions reported in Barley. In Oats more was doing at former rates. Beans dull, and in some instances lower prices were accepted. During the present week very little has been done in the corn trade. Some limited parcels of English Wheat have changed hands, at about last week's currency, say 8s. 8d. per 621bs. for good red. Of Barley we have scarcely any offering, and very little is wanted. Only retail sales of Oats have been effected ; thair value is nominally unaltered. In Beans and Peas nothing doing worth notice. We had again a good deal of rain yesterday. For a parcel of Russian Wheat in bond, weighing 581bs. to 59! bs. per bnshel, 48s. per im- perial quarter at Gloucester was realised since our last. The morning being fine our market to- day was without auimation, but an advance of about Is. per quarter was obtained on Wheat; prime white realised 9s. 2d., and tine red 8s. lOd. per 621bs. Barley nominally unaltered. Very little enquiry for Oats, but the few sold were at former prices. No demand for Beans or Peas. IMPORTS INTO GLOUCESTER From the 4th to the II th inst. Wheat. Oats. Barley. Beans. Qrs 1473 Qrs Qrs Qrs Coastwise.. 506 Qrs Qrs Qrs Qrs foreign.... Qrs Qrs Qrs Qrs Peas. Flour. Rye. Vetches. Ireland..;.. Qrs Sacks Qrs Qrs Coastwise.. Qrs Sacks Qrs Qrs Foreign.... Qrs Sacks Qrs Qrs .. 32 0 .. 28 0 .. 22 0 .. 24 0 .. 21 0 .. 21 6 .. 5 6 .. 4 9 .. 0 0 .. 5 4 .. 50 0 .. 31 0 .. 55 0 .. 52 GLOUCESTER WEEKLY AVERAGE. Qrs. Bush. Wheat ——.— 496 1 Barley. . 0 0 Oats . 574 0 Beans .... ... ...... 50 0 Peas 0 0 S. d 67 6 0 0 21 7 87 0 0 0 WARWICK, SATURDAY, JULY 7.— Wheat, per bag, old 24s Od to 26s Od ; new, 0s Od to 03 Od j Barley, per quarter, 34s Od to 37s Od ; grinding, 28 « Od to 30s Od ; Oats, 28s Od to 32s Od j New, OsOdtoOsOd; Peas, per bag, 0s Od to 0s Od; Beans, 0s Od to Os Od ; new, 14s Od to 15s 6d j Vetches, 18s Od to I9s 0d; Malt, 56a Od to 64s Od per quarter. HEREFORD, JULY 7.— Wheat, per bushel Imperial measure, 9s Od to 9i 3d. Ditto, new, per bnshel, 0s Od to 0s 0d. Barley, 3s 3d to 3s 6d. Beans, 5s Od to 5s 3d. Peas, 3s 6d to 4s Od. Vetches, 3s Od to 3s 6d. Oats, 3s Od to 3s 3d. CHELTENHAM, JULY 5.— Wheat, 8s 6d to 9s Od per bnshel, Ditto, red, 8s Od to 8s 6d. Barley, 3s Od to 4s 6d. Oats, 3s Od to 4s Od. Bean8,5s Od to 5S 6d. GLOUCESTER SHIP NEWS, From July 5 to July 11. iMponTs : The Sovereign, from Shoreham, with ballast, consigned to Gopsil Brown— Minerva, Cardiff, 48 tons of coals, Wait, James, and Co.— Lively, Teignmouth, 88 tons of pipe clay, Partridge and Co.— Phtenix, Port Rush, 55 tons of oats, J. and C. Sturge— Hope, Port Rush, 49 tons of oats, J. and C. Sturge— Bariu, Wyburgh, 900 pieces of deals, 300 pieces of battens, and 120 deal ends, J. M. Ship, ton— Expedition, Bangor, 81 tons of slates, Judge— Restitution, Quebec, 375 pieces of fir timber, 10 pieces of oak timber, 1600 deals, 2091 staves, and 6 cords of lathwood, Price, Washboume, and Price — Pyrenees, Quebec, 294 pieces of fir timber, 11 pieces of oak timber, 1200 deals, 3227 staves, and 1 cord of lathwood, Price, Washbourne, and Price— Sincerity, Geurnsey, 316 quarters of wheat, M'Cheane and Bartlett— Mary Ann, Aberdovey, 62 tons of slates, Hemming— Fame, Neath, 45 tons of copper, Partridge and Co.— William and Elizabeth, Miramachi, 403 pieces of fir timber, 26 pieces of oak timber, 6270 deals, and 10 cords of lathwood, Price, Washbourne, and Price— West Hendon, Miramichi, 65 pieces of fir timber, 61 pieces of birch timber, 21 pieces of hunlock timber, 5292 deals, and 4 cords of lathwood, Price, Washbourne, and Price— Rainbow, Mira- inichi, 257 pieces of fir timber, 44 pieces of birch timber, 1979 deals, 79 deal ends, and a quantity of lathwood, John Forster— Blucher, Cardiff, empty, Gopsil Brown— Unity, Plymouth, 250 quarters of wheat, Phillpotts, Lloyds, and Co.— Friends, Liverpool, 50 bags of rice, Jos. Morris; general cargo, Kendall and Son— Cornubia, Waterford, 500 barrels of oats, Phillpotts, Lloyds, and Co.; 165 barrels of oats, to order; 20 hogsheads, 50 barrels, and 50 half, barrels of porter, Jesse Sessions— Mary, Waterford, 500 barrels of oats, M'Cheane and Bartlett; 20 bales of bacon, Jos. Morris. EXPORTS : The Pearl, for Waterford, with 68 tons of salt, from Gopsil Brown— William and Ann, Carmarthen, 31 tons of salt, Gopsil Brown; 24 quarters of barley, J. and C. Sturge— Elizabeth and Ann, Bridport, 65% tons of salt and 3 tons of bricks, Gopsil Brown— Justitia, Alexandria, 99 tons of bricks, 30 tons of clay, and 53 tons of coals, Kendall and Son— Belinda, Swansea, general cargo, Southan and Son— Frederick, Konigsberg, 400 tons of salt, Gopsil Brown— Tredegar, Barnstaple, 7034 tons of salt and 5 tons of soda, Southan and Son— Newport Trader, Newport, general cargo, Southan and Son— Simeon, Laugharne, 18 tons of barley, Thomas Davies ; 6 tons of deals, Tripp Brothers— Armada, Wexford, Wait, James, and Co.— Westmoreland, St. John's ( N. B.), Gibbs, Bright, and Co.— Sovereign, Shoreham, 38 tons of salt, Gopsil Brown Fame, Neath, 11 tons of bricks and 5 tons of clay, Kendall and Son ; 4% tons of furniture, Southan and Sou ; ljj ton of cheese, Samuel Bowley— Daniel O'Connell, Newport, J. and C. Sturge— Providence, Shoreham, SO tons of salt, Gopsil Brown. CORNS. DICKER'S OPIATE CORN PLASTER, for tl. e removal of Corns, Bunions, and all hard fleshy sub- stances on the feet. It is admitted by the thousands vvlio have tried it. and the most sceptical, to be the only remedy ever offered to public notice; it acts both as an opiate and solvent, by relieving the most excruciating pain, and gradu- ally dissolving the callous or horny substance. Prepared only anil sold by Wm. DICKER, chemist, 235, Strand, next door to Temple Bar, London, in boxes Is. ljd. each. Sold also by Messrs. J. M. Knott, Wood, Flewitt, and Shillitoe, High- street, Birmingham ; Harper, Hodgkin- son, and Roberts, Warwick; Stanley, and Newby, Lea- mington ; where likewise can be procured DICKER'S AROMATIC ESSENCE, an instant relief for the Tooth Ache, in bottles Is. 1 l^ d. each. A THE A TIS E on every Stage and Symptom of a Certain Complaint, is just published by | VJESSRS. PERRY and Co., Surgeons, who may - L'- JL be personally consulted, on all cases of secrecy, 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. 23, SLATER-, STREET, near DUKE- STREET, LIVERPOOL, and 4, BALE- STREET, near St. Peter's Church, MANCHESTER; and country pati- ents requiring their assistance, by making only one persona! visit, will receive such advice that will enable them to ob- tain a permanent arid effectual cure, after all other means have failed; and with each box of PERRY'S PURIFY- ING SPECIFIC PILLS, price 2s. 9d. and lis., will receive gratis the TREATISE ON VENEREAL and SYPHILITIC DISEASES, with observations on se- minal weakness, and tile deplorable consequences resulting from the use of mercury, containing plain and practical directions for the speedy and effectual cure of all degrees of the above complaints. Where an early application is made for the cure of a certain disorder, frequently contracted in a moment of in- ebriety, the eradication is generally completed in a few days, and in the more advanced and inveterate stages of venereal infection, characterised by a variety of painful and dis- tressing symptoms, a perseverance in their plan, ( without restraint in diet or exercise) will insure to the patient a per- manent and radical cure. It is a melancholy fact, that thousands fall victims to this disease, owing to the unskilfulness of illiterate men, who, by the use of that deadly poison— mercury, ruin the con- stitution, cause ulcerations, blotches on the head, face, and body, dimness of sight, noise in the ears, deafness, obsti- nate gleets, nodes on the shin bones, ulcerated sore throats, diseased nose, with nocturnal pains in the head and limbs, till at length a general debility and decay of the constitution ensues, and melancholy death puts a period to their dreadful sufferings. PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS, price 2s. 9d. and lis. a box, are well known as a certain and effec- tual remedy for every stage and symptom of the venereal disease, without confinement, loss of time, or hindrance from business; they have effected many surprising cures, not only in recent gonorrhoea and simple cases, but when salivation and all other means have failed. Messrs. Perry and Co., Surgeons, continue to direct their studies to those dreadful debilities arising from the too free and indiscriminate indulgence of the passions, which notonly occasion the necessity of renouncing the felicities of mar- riage, to those who have given way to this delusive and de- structive habit, but weaken arid destroy all the bodily senses, producing melancholy, deficiency, and a numerous train of nervous affections. In this distressing state, whether the consequence of such baneful habits orany othercause, their mild mode of treatment will effect a speedy restoration to sound and vigorous health ; and to those whose constitu- tions have become enfeebled, in consequence of improper treatment, or the venereal virus not being entirely rooted from their system, as well as from the dreadful effects of mercury, or from secondary symptoms of the venereal disease, including strictures, gleets, and all urethral dis- charges, their medicine will be found a most safe and inva- luable remedy. Messrs. PERRY may be personally consulted from nine in the morning till ten at night, and will give advice to persons taking the above, or any other of their prepara- tions, without a fee. Attendance on Sundays from nine till two, at No. 4, Great Charles- street, Birmingham; where their medicines can only be obtained, as no Book- seller, Druggist, or any other Medicine Vendor is supplied with them. Country letters, ( post paid) containing a remittance for medicine, will be immediately answered. ASHLEY COOPER'S BOTANICAL PURIFY- ING PILLS are established by thirty years'experi- ence, are prescribed by most of the eminent Physicans 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 < tt 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 thesligbtest confinement, or any alteration ofdiet, beverageorexercise. They do not disagree with the stomach, nor cause and 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 vvillnotexperience any return of the complaint, as generally occurs after taking Balsam of Copaiba, and other drugs of the like nature, which only possessing a local action, merelysuppressed the complaint for a time, without eradicating it from the con- stitution, and the patient on undergoing a little more fa- tigue than ordinary, finds all the symptoms return, and that they are suffering under the complaint as much as at first, and are at last constrained to have recourse to these pills, as tire only certain cure. They are likewise a mostelBcient remedy for Pimpled Faces, Scurf, Scorbutic Affections, and allEruptions of the Skin. Captains of vesselsshould make a point of always taking them to sea, their unrivalled effi- cacy in curing Scurvy being known throughoutthe 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 thateminenisurgeori, the late Joshua Brookes, Esq., F. R. S., Professor of Anatomy, & c. & c. Theatre of Anatomy, Blenheim- street. Dear Cooper,— I have tried your pills in numerous instances, and my candid opinion is that they are a mostlmproved system of treat- ment for those peculiar complaints for which you recommend them, caring with rapidity, and with a certainty that I had never before witnessed; but what I consider their most invaluable property is, that they entirely eradicate the complaint, and never leave those dis- tressing secondary symptoms ( that harass the patient for life) which usually arise after the use of those uncertain remedies, Mereury- and Copaiba. I think you cannot fail to have a very large sale for them Believeme, yours, verytruly, JOSHUA BROOKES. Ashley Cooper's Botanical Purifying Pills are sold in boxes at 2s. 9d. and 4s. 6d. each, wholesale and retail, at HANNAY and Co.' s General Patent Medicine Warehouse, 63, Oxford- street, the corner of Wells- street, London, where the public can besupplied with every Patent Medi- cine of repute, ( with an allowance on taking six at one time) warranted genuine and fresh from the various makers. Orders by post, containing aremittance, punctuallyattended to, and the change, if any, can be returned with the order. Ashley Cooper's Botanical Pills aie 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; any Merridew, Coventry. MULREADDY'S COUGH ELIXIR. ONE dose is sufficient to convince the most scrupu- lous of the invaluable and unfailing efficacy of Mul- readdy's Cough Elixir, for the cure of coughs, colds, hoarseness, shortness of breath, asthma, difficulty of breathing, huskiness, and unpleasant tickling in the throat, night coHgh, with pain on the chest, & c. The paramount superiority of this medicine above every other now in use, for the cure of the above complaints, only requires to be known to prove the passport to its being, ere long, universally made use of for the cure of every description of Pulmonary Affection. To those who are unacquainted with the invaluable pro- perties of Mulreaddy's Cough Elixir, the following letters will exhibit its efficacy: — Manchester, Jan. 2nd, 1835. Dear Sir,— The cough medicine you sent me is certainly a most surprising remedy; six days ago I was uuable to breathe, unless with great difficulty, attended with much coughing, which always kept my soft palate relaxed, and iu a state of irritation, and the more I coughed the worseit was, and it, in its own turn, produced a constant excitement of coughing . I am now about, to the wonder of my friends and neighbours, entirely free from cough. One small phial of your inestimable medicine, ten years back; would have saved me not less than £ 3,000 in medical fees, but it would have done more— it would have saved my having had to swallow, from time to time, upwards of a hogshead of their nauseous, aud, as they alt proved, useless drugs. The agreeable llavour of the medicine ia a great recommendation: I think you ought to put it up and Bell it to the public, and if any one should doubt itsefficacy, refer thera tome. I shall have the pleasure of being with you in a few days, when I shall press on your consideration the propriety of making it up for sale ; it would prove an enormous fortune to your grand- children. If you make up your mind to do so, as I am what the world styles an idle man, you may enlist me in your service in any way that you think would be useful. ButI should advise you to place the management iu the hands of one of the great medicine houses in London. Hannay's, iu Oxford street, are being advertised in all the papers here, as wholesale agents for Ramsbottom's Corn Solvent, which, by the bye, my girls all say is really a cure, and many other medicincs. I should say this would be a very good house, Oxford- street being one of the most public situations in Lon- don. All join me in kind remembrance to yourself and Mrs. M. Believe me, yours, yery truly, T. Mulreaddy, Esq. ROBERT GRANT. Golden Lion Hotel, Liverpool. Sir— To my astonishment, the other day, I bad a visit from my old and esteemed friend, Mr. Hughes, whom 1 had not seen for many years, and still more so was I when, finding that I had a severe cough, he drew fortli from his pocket a phial, a portion of the con- tents of which he insisted upon my swallowing instanter, and lef me the remainder, which I also took, and iu the course of twenty- four hours I found myself quite free from even any tendency towardl coughing ; he now tells me that you are his oracle of health ; I, therefore, beg leave to present my report at head. quarters, with many thanks, and trust that 1 may be able to prevail on you to let me have half, or a whole pint of the medicine to stow in my sea- chest, as I sail again for America in about ten days, and if 1 can, ill return, afford you any service on the other side of the Atlantic, I am at your command. T. W. BUCHANAN. Master of the Brig Nancy, of Orleans. T. Mulreaddy, Esq. Birkenhead, Jan., 1835. Dear Sir,— The bottle of Medicine you left for me the other day has greatly relieved the wheezing I have been so long subject to; and I do not now find the cold produce the sensation it used previous to taking your medicine; it used formerly to nip me on going out, and I seemed as though 1 had a string run through my body, and the breast and backbones were drawn together. If you will be so good as to give me another bottle, I am sure it will work a perfect cure. I am, sir, your most obedient servant, T. Mulreaddy, E- q. NICHOLAS BROWN. Dear Sir,— The effect of your medicine, in curing our children of the Hooping Cough, has been like magic, for which I, and Mrs. Wilson in particular, return our grateful acknowledgments, and the little W's shall not fail, ere long, to thank you in person. Rely ou it, n our family you will be styled doctor in future. Believe me, yours verysincerely, J. WILSON. Liverpool, Dec., 1834. MydearSir,— You most assuredlydeserve the thanks of society for presenting it with such an invaluable cure for Coughs. For years past, during the winter mouths, and aiways on foggy days, have 1 heretofore been compelled to confine myself a close and soli- tary prisoner in my library, to prevent the possibility of being tempted to join in conversation, the excitement of which aiways produced such violent paroxysms of coughing, that I have been in constant dread of sudden dissolution, by bursting of a blood- vesBel. At the commencement of the present season, by your kind liberality, I com. rnenced taking the medicine you sent., and tiave taken twelve bottles. After I had taken three, I could respire as vigourously as in the early partof my life, and I now believe that 1 was then perfectly curcd— a cure not to have been expected at my advanced age, 80 years— but I persevered in taking it until I had consumed the whole twelve bottles. Your situation in life, I know, places you beyond the necessity of preparing an article ot the kind for sale, but it must and shall be done, and if you neglect to do it, my sincere wish is that you may be lugged out of your retirement, and compelled to provide it in quantities equal to the boundless waters; and you may rely upon it, that I, a locomotive proof of its wonderful power, will spare neither time nor trouble to promulgate its efficacy, until yon will find your cottage attacked by myriads of my former fellow: sufferers, for a share of your bounty, and I myself now apply for the first, trusting that your goodness will not suffer you to refuse m » a pretty considerable quantity, and I promise to distribute it most usefully. Whenever you have made up for sale, send me one thou* sand bottles. Ever your sincere well- wisher, T. Mulreaddy, Esq. W. HUGHES. Chester, 12mo„ 1834. Esteemed Friend,— Thou bast my sincere thanks for thy Samaritan present. Thy medicine has had the promised effect, and com- pletely cured my trying cough. If thou wilt let me have a quantity iu a large bottle, I will, in return, enter thy name to any charitable institution thou wilt fix on. Thine, T. Mulreaddy, Eeq. JACOB ROBERTS. Mr. Mulreaddy begs to observe, that to publish copies of he whole of the letters he has received of the above tenor, would require several volumes. The selection here pre- sented he considers quite sufficient, hut begs to say, that upon trial of his Cough Elixir, it will give itself the best recommendation. It will be sold by his appointment, whole- sale and retail, by his agents, Messrs. HANNAT and Co., 68, Oxford- street, London ; and retail by every other respecta. hie vender of medicines in bottles at Is. ll^ d. each. Igy Purchasers should observe that it is wrapped up in white paper, on which, in a blue label with white etters, are printed the words,— Mulreaddy's Cough Elixir, pre- pared by Thomas Mulreaddy, Liverpool, and sold by his ap- pointment at Hannay and Co.' s, Patent Medicine Ware- house, 63, Oxford- street, London. Price Is. ly^ d. and 4s. 6d. Sold wholesale and retail by HANNAY and Co., 63, Oxford street, London, wholesale Patent Medicine Ven- ders and Perfumers to the Royal Family, where the public can be supplied with every patent and public medicine of repute; and also with the perfumes of all the respectable London perfumers, with an allowance on taking six or more of any other article at the same time. Sold by appointment by Maher, S, Congreve- street, and Wood, bookseller, High- street, Birmingham ; Parke, Wolverhampton; Rogers, Stafford; Mort, Newcastle; and Merridew, Coventry. Printed and published by FRANCIS BASSET SHENSTONK FI. INDELL, of Lee Mount, in the parish of Edgbaston, at 38, New- street, Birmingham, where letters for the Editor may be addressed, and where Advertisements and Orders will be received. ( All descriptions of Jobbing carefully and expeditiously executed.) Agents in Lon- don: Messrs. NEWTON and Co., 6, Warwick- square; and Mr. BARKER, 33, Fleet- street.— Saturday, July 14,1838.