4 l" r W w I* No. 640. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1837. PRICE 4Id. TO ROBERT WEBB, ESQ., HIGH BAILIFF. WE, the undersigned MAGISTRATES, CLERGY, and other INHABITANTS of the town of Birmingham, request you to call a meeting of the INHABITANTS of the town and Neighbourhood, to consider the propriety of INVITING THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE to hold its ANNUAL MEETING for 1838 at BIRMINGHAM: — Joshua Scholefield, M: P. Jemes James, Low Bailiff Theodore Price Richard Spooner Thomas Lee Francis Lloyd W. Blakeway John K. Booth, M. D. John Corrie John Gaibett Francis Jeune Sydney Gedge H. B. Mason Edward Johnstone, M. D. George Edward Male, M. D. John Eccles, M. D. James Johnstone, M. D. T. Ogier Ward, M. D. Peyton Blakiston, M. D. J. L. Moilliet Richard Wood Joseph Hodgson Charles Tindal C. R. Moorsom, Capt. R. N. C. J. Featherstone, R. N. James Moilliet Thomas Eyre Lee William Phipson William Beale George B. Lloyd John Yeend Bedford Samuel Danks William Boultbee Samuel Beale A. Jennens Joseph Wickenden James Russell Thomas Clark Francis Clark E. T. Moore William Scholefield William Hawkes J. T. Irigleby G. R. Collis Thomas Rickman, F. S. A. Charles Sturge George Gibbins Thomas Smith James Frederick Ryland Abel Peyton Richard Peyton Robert Smith Arthur Ryland In compliance with the above highly respectable Requi- sition, I do hereby appoint a MEETING of the IN- HABITANTS of this Town and Neighbourhood, to be lield at the PUBLIC- OFFICE, on TUESDAY MORNING NEXT, September 5, at Ten o'clock. The chair to be taken at half- past Ten precisely. ROBERT WEBB, High Bailiff. Camp Hill, August 30, 1837. FRIENDS OF THE ST. PATRICK'S ORPHAN SOCIETY. ADINNER will take place at the house of Mr. Gateley, Old Meeting street, on Tuesday, September 5 th, 1837. JOHN HARDMAN, sen., Esq., of Handswortb, will take the chair. The Catholic clergymen will also preside. You are respectfully solicited to attend. Dinner on the table precisely at five o'clock. Tickets to be had from each of the collectors, and at the bar, from Mr. Gateley, Old Meeting- street. Price Is. 6d. CLARENDON FAMILY AND COMMERCIAL HOTEL, UPPER TEMPLE- STREET, BIRMINGHAM. TH. HURLSTON has the pleasure of publicly • acknowledging the distinguished patronage and sup- port his Establishment has been honoured with, and at the same time he expresses to his friends and the public his most grateful thanks for the encouragement he has received, and begs to assure all who patronise him, that every assiduity on his part will be exercised for the purpose of affording com- fort, convenience, and satisfaction. Families s< nd Commercial Gentlemen visiting Birming- ham will find the CLARENDON HOTEL, both from its supe- rior accommodation and central situation, to possess peculiar advantages. The CLARENDON HOTEL during the last three months has been materially improved, additional private apartments and bed- rooms have been attached to the establishment, and families who intend honouring the approaching Musical Festival may retain, on early application, every domestic comfort and convenience a first- iate Hotel can afford. DINNERS in firststyle— WINES of the purest quality and most admired vintage. EXCELLENT STABLING AND LOCK- UP COACH- HOUSES. August 25, 1837. ST. GEORGE'S TAVERN, AND INDEPENDENT COACH OFFICE, OPPOSITE THE END OF UNION STREET, HIGH STREET, BIRMINGHAM. THE ROYAL ST. GEORGE OMNIBUS runs to and from the RAILWAY STATION, upon the arrival and departure of each Train ; and in order to meet the wishes of a numerous body of the trading community, the Fares from this Establishment will be fixed at SIXPENCE only. LONDON INDEPENDENT TALLY- HO, favourite Day Coach, mornings at Seven, in eleven hours. LONDON EMERALD, fast Night Coach, Evenings, at a quarter to Eight o'clock, punctually. The time of starting this Coach is put back one quarter of an hour, to render further accommodation to merchants, manufacturers, & c., having parcels to send to town, which are delivered in the City or West End of London immedi- ately upon arrival. A new light Coach, THE VICTORIA, to LEAMINGTON and WARWICK, every Afternoon at half- past Two o'clock, Sunday excepted. Superior fast COACHES to and from the above office to Liverpool Chester Shrewsbury Bangor Holyhead Malvern Worcester Cheltenham Gloucester Bristol Bath Coventry Stourbridge Kidderminster Leicester Ludlow Leominster Market Drayton Whitchurch Shiffnall Wolverhampton Conveyance Company's OMNIBUSES: Wolverhampton j llagley West Bromwich Stourbridge | Bevvdley Wednesbury Dudley I Kidderminster Bilston Walsall Brierley- hill Hales Owen HENRY GENDERS and Co. Commodious Passengers' Waiting Room at the St. GEORGE'S TAVERN, where Beds and every Hotel comfort may be obtained at Tavern prices. H. PEIRCE, Propiietor. NORTH WARWICKSHIRE ELECTION. ALL Persons having any claims against the Bir- mingham Committee for conductingthe ELECTION on behalt of Sir GRAY SKIPWITH and C. H. BRACEBIIIDGE, Esq., may have them discharged by applying to the Trea- surer, Mr. THOMAS CLARKE, Jun., 55, Lionel- street, be- tween the hours of eleven and three. Accounts not yet rendered must be forwarded to Mr. PARE, 30, Bennett's- hill, on or before Saturday next, or they will not he allowed. WILLIAM REDFERN, Chairman. New- street, August 26, 1837. NEW EDITIONS OP SCHOOL BOOKS OF ESTABLISHED MERIT. ENGLISH SPELLING BOOK; containing a progressive Series of Easy Lessons, with a variety of Engravings; the whole intended to furnish an improved Introductory Book to the first Elements of English. By W. MAVOR, L. L. D. Is. 6d. bd. 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PURSUANT to a decree of the High Court of Chancery, made in a cause, " JONES versus WINK- FIELD," the Creditor, nf HENRY WINKFIELD, late of Birmingham, in the county or w<, rv. iti., -.. a nail manufacturer, deceased, ( who died on or about the 10th day of September, 1834,) are by their solicitors, on or before the 2nd day of November, 1837, to come in and prove their debts before Jame « William Farrer, Esq., one of ti e masters of the said Court, at his chambers in Southamptou- build- ings, Chancery- lane, London, or in default thereof they will be peremptorily excluded the benefit of the said decree. ADLINGTON, GREGORY, FAULKNER, AND FOLLETT, Agents for WILLIAM WILLS, Solicitor, Birmingham. PURSUANT to a decree of the High Court of Chancery, made in two several causes, entitled respect- ively " BENSON versus GREEN," and " BENSON ver- sus PARSONS," the Creditors of JOHN GREEN, late of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, glazier, ( who died on or about the 10th day of February, 1810,) are, by their solicitors, forthwith to come in and prove their debts Chancery- lane, London, or in default thereof. » W excluded the benefit of the said deer^ jLTON 7. Chancery- lane. CORNELIUS BENSON, Birmingham. RE TABBERER. ALL Persons owing money to the Estate of THOMAS TABBERER, a Bankrupt, are requested forthwith to pay the same into my hands, and al such Persons neglecting to comply with this request on or before the ninth day of September next, ( on ^' nch day a. cendanoc will be eiven at the STORK HOTEL, in the Old Square, Bir- mingham, from twelve till four, for the purpo^ e of receiving all such debts as shall not then have been paid,) will be pro- ceeded against without further notice. Dated at Uttoxeter the 21st August, 1837. By order, WILLIAM ARNOLD, Solicitor to the Assignees NEW WORKS JUST PUBLISHED. By RICHARD BENTLEY, New Burlington- street, ( Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty.) I. KINDNESS IN WOMEN, a Novel, by J. HAYNES BAYLY, Esq. " Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall win my love."— Shakespeare. In 3 vols., post 8vo. " The very book to become a favourite at watering places, were it only for the air of these haunts which pervades its scenery and its characters throughout."— Athenaeum. " No one can forget the charm of Mr. Bayiy's exquisite ballads— simple, natural, they came home to the general heart, because they expressed the general feeling. ' One touch of nature makes the whole world kin;' and that one touch was the seat of his popularity. The same charm per- vades the present work."— Literary Gazette. II. THE BIVOUAC, or Stories of the Peninsular War, by W. H. MAXWELL, Esq., Author of " Stories of Water- loo," & c., 3 vols. " The stirring and touching scenes in tliis work as well as the interesting episodes it contains, will cause it to be pe- rused with constant interest."— Literary Gazette. A more rare or more charming combination of fact and fiction we have never met with, than is to be found in these delightful puges."— Sunday Times. HI. NARRATIVE OF THE LAST EXPEDITION INTO CENTRAL AFRICA, including a Steam Voyage up the Niger, by MACGREGOR LAIRD and R. A. K. OLD- FIELD, surviving officers of the expedition. " At length we have a book of real travels, embracing scenes of danger, privation, hardship, death ; full of novelty, variety, character; and not less remarkable for the spirited determination with which the enteiprise was carried through, than for the information gained as to the social and political condition of the interior of Africa, and the commercial spe- culation which that information suggests."— Spectator. IV. SECOND SERIES OF " ASTORIA;" second edi- tion, in 3 vols., post Svo. of Mr. WASHINGTON IRVING'S New Work. CAPTAIN BONNEVILLE, or Enter- prize beyond the Rocky Mountains. " Full of romance, it is extremely picturesque and ex- citing."— Atlas. Unsurpassed in deep interest by the wildest creation of fancy. A more stirringly interesting work has not issued from the press for many months."— Sun. The following are nearly ready. I. Mrs. TROLLOPE'S New Work, THE VICAR OF WREXHILL, by FRANCES TROLLOPE, Author of " Do- mestic Manners of the Americans," " Paris and the Parisi- ans," & c., 3 vols. II. Mr. IRVING'S New Work, THE HUNTERS OF THE PRAIRIE, or the Hawk Chief, by J. T. IRVING, Esq., Author of" Indian Sketches," & c., in 2 vols., post 8vo. III. New Work by the Author of " The Pilot," & c., second edition, in 3 vols., post 8vo., of ENGLAND, with Sketches of Society in the Metropolis, by J. FENIMORE COOPER, Esq., Author of " The Pilot," " The Spy," " Excursions in Switzerland," & c. IV. Mr. THEODORE HOOK'S New Work, second edition, in 3 vols., post 8vo., with numerous characteristic illustrations, JACK BRAG, by THEODORE HOOK, Esq., Author of " Sayings and Doings," " Maxwell " B1 FNTLEY'S MISCELLANY; Edited by DO0," and illustrated by GEORGE CRUIK- SHANK, for September, ( No. IX.) which was pub- lished with the Magazines at the end of the month, contains, in addition to OLIVER TWIST, BY BOZ, numerous contributions by the most distinguished humour- ous writers of the day, including THE REGATTA, by the popular author of " The Stories of Waterloo," " The Bivouac," & c., Sheridan Knovvles, and many others; and Two Comic Illustrations by GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. And a Fine Engraving of THE MURDER OF THE PRINCESS DE LAMBALLE; A Specimen Plate of Mr. Bentley's forthcoming edition of THIER'S HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. RICHARD BENTLEY, New Burlington- street. Agents for Scotland— Edinburgh, Bell and Biadfute; Glasgow, Duncan Campbell;— for Ireland, John Cumming, Dublin. 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BISHOP RYDER'S CHURCII.— Subsciiptions not before advertised. £. s. £. s. 5 0 Mr. English, Colmore- 0 row 1 1 5 — Barber— 1 0 0 — Blakemore 3 0 Collected at Christ 1 0 Church 34 17 1 0 Rev. E. Mortlock 20 0 0 10 Rev. T. Chambers ™ — 1 1 1 0 Mr. Blakemore ( addi- 0 10 tional) . 2 0 1 0 Edward Grove, Esq. 5 5 0 5 Rev. Edward Neale ™ 10 10 0 10 Rev. W. Dalton 5 0 1 0 Rev. Thomas Nunns 3 3 0 10 Mr. Benjamin Barns 10 0 Thomas Lee, Esq Mr. Thomas Simpson 5 — Francis Peisse 0 Mrs. Roberts, Clifton 50 Mr. Dumole, Uttox- eter — Mr. Woolrich — Hammond . — F. Lloyd, Bull- st. — Mr. S. Adkins ™ . — Roberts —. — llickard — — Goode — — Ainsworth Bull, Livery- st. Subscriptions already received exclusive of the Funds for endowment and repairs £ 2445 Grant of the Lichfield and Coventry Church Building Society . 1050 Deficiency of the Building Fund 721 Total expense of erecting and fitting up £ 4216 Subscriptions will be received by the Treasurers, Messrs. Taylor and Lloyds, Bankers, Birmingham. Any surplus not required for the Church will be applied to procure a permanent residence for the minister for the time being. THOMAS GUTTERIDGE,! rI c „ t .„ WILLIAM HARE, '} Hon. Secretaries. Birmingham, August 26, 1837. FIFTIETH, OR JUBILEE ANNIVERSARY OF THE SUNDAY SCHOOLS CONNECTED WITH THE OLD MEETING- HOUSE, BIR- MINGHAM. ON SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER, 10, 1837, TWO SERMONS will be preached in the OLD MEETING- HOUSE, Birmingham, by the Rev. HENRY ACTON, of Exeter; after which, Collections will be made in aid of the SUNDAY SCHOOLS. Service will commence in the morning at Eleven, and in the evening at half- past six. A JUBILEE MEDAL, commemorative of the Fiftieth Anniversary of these Schools, has been prepared; of which impressions may be had, in silver, at 7s. 6d.; in bronze, at 2s. 6( 1. ; and in white metal, at 6d. ; by early application to the WARDENS OF THE MEETING- HOUSE ; Mr. MARTIN, Grey- place, Bristol- road ; Mr. THOMAS CLARKE, Jun., 55, Lionel- street; the Rev. HUGH HUTTON, Round Cottage, Edgbas- ton; or Mr. REILLY, at the Schools, Old Meeting- street. The number of children at present in the Schools is up- wards of 600, of whom 130 will be presented on this occa- sion with Jubilee Medals, for superior diligence, regularity, and good conduct. The number of Teachers, most of whom were educated in the Schools, and all of whom give their services without fee, is 90. On MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 11, the friends of the institution will take TEA together, in the UPPER SCHOOL- ROOM, at Five o'clock; after which, various resolutions connected with the occasion will be submitted to the meeting. Tickets, One Shilling each, may be procured of the gen- tlemen named above; by whom, also, subscriptions or do- nations in aid of the Schools will be thankfully received. The presence of any friend of popular education will be esteemed a " favour. THE NEW VOLUME OF " STANDARD NOVELS." With the Magazines, on the 31st instant, complete in one volume, neatlj bound, and embellished with two engrav- ings by Greatbach, price 6s. MR. JAMES'S " PHILIP AUGUSTUS;" form- mg the new volume of the STANDARD NOVELS and ROMANCES. RICHARD BENTLEY, New Burlington- street. This popular sVries of the ' best productions of living novelists, now contains the works of Cooper, the author of the Spy, Beckford, Bulwer, Hope, Morier, Misses Lee, Theodore Hook, Mrs. Gore, Washington Irving, Max- well, & c. Each volume can be obtained separately, m al- most all instances containing an entire work. The next volume to be published at the end of Septem- ber will contain ROOK WOOD, by the Author of « Crichton," complete in one volume, price 6s. PUBLIC OFFICE. WHEREAS several persons have lately been BIT- TEN by DOGS supposed to be MAD, and there being reason to suspect the existence of Canine Madness in and near to the town of Birmingham, all owners of Dogs are required to confine them until the first day of October next; and if any dogs shall be found at large within the limits of the Birmingham Street Act between the date of this notice and the said first day of October next, the owners of such dogs will be subject to the penalty of FIVE POUNDS, and be liable to be apprehended by any Con stable, Police- officer, or Street- keeper, and conveyed before any Justice of the Peace, in order to their conviction of the said offence. By order of the Commissioners, ARNOLD and HAINES, Clerks. Birmingham, Aug. 25,1837. THIRTY GUINEAS REWARD. STOLEN, last night, or early this morning, out of afield near the Scott's Arms, Perry Barr, a BAY GELDING, three years old, fifteen hands two inches high, with a white star on the forehead, a slight tinge of white on the nostril, black legs, and switch tail when taken. Any one giving such information as shall lead to the ap- prehension and conviction of the offender or offenders, shall, on such conviction, receive a reward of Twenty Guineas from Mr. Craggs, Scott's Arms, Perry Barr, near Birming- ham, over and above Ten Guineas allowed by the Great Barr Association for the Prosecution of Felons. Any one impeaching his accomplice or accomplices, shall, on convic- tion, receive the above reward, and every means used to obtain a free pardon. September 1,1837. A NEW SUBSTANCE FOR ARTIFICIAL TEETH. LOSS OF TEETH SUPPLIED. A jWina Decayed Teeth with Mineral Siliceum. MONS. OK BERRI AND CO., „„„ . ™ SURGEON. DENTISTS, 121, REGENT- STREET, LONDON, AND 17, EASY- ROW, BIRMINGHAM. RESPECTFULLY acquaint tile Nobilltj-, Gently, and the Public, that they have recently succeeded in forming a new Substance for Artificial Teeth, which they can confidently recommend to be superior in every respect to those now generally worn, for, from their peculiar com- position, they cannot break from the plate, are more durable, perfectly incorrodible, and impossible to change from their original colour. They are also impervious to the use of acids, never need be removed, are perfectly free from smell, even when worn for a very considerable number of years, and are particularly adapted to those who have tender gums, as they are fixed with perfect ease and comfort, without the slightest pressure. They also supply as usual Artificial or Natural Teeth from one to a complete set, without extract- ing the roots, giving any pain, wires, or ligatures, at the fol- lowing Faris charges : —- A single Artificial Tooth A complete set £. s. 0 10 5 0 A complete set of Natural Teeth, on fine gold plate 15 0 0 An entire set of Natural Teetli, highly finished, » h « first style, with fine gold sockets, usually charged 40 guineas 20 0 0 Answering all the purposes of Masiication and Articula- tion, protecting the adjoinm* Teetii, and remaining per- fectly secure in their places. " r Mons. De Berri and Co., contw- , — />„„ ,] Teeth with their celebrated Mineral ^ KW> aced Into the plied without pain, heat, or mofWiW"" tew seconds hardens J,,, vit„ Preventing and curinj the iooth- ache, arrest- ing all further progress of decay, ind rendering the opera- tion of extraction unnecessary. They also fasten loose Teeth, arisini from neglect, calo- mel, or any other cause. Artificial Teeth out of repair restoreiequal in beauty and durability to their original state. » „ » At home from ten tl six. 121, Regent- street, London, and 17, Easy- row, Birmingham. SCOTTISH EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. AGENERAL MEETING of this SOCIETY was held on the 31st ult. in the Waterloo Rooms, Edin- burgh, for the purpose of considering and determining on the proposed alterations on the Society's Deed of Constitution, whereby the division of profits is to be triennial instead of septennial, and various other advantages are to be effected in favour of present and future members. CHARLES CROS- LAND HAY, Esq., having been called to the Chair, the Meet- ing was addressed by David Maitland Makgill, Esq., of llankeilour, as follows :— Sir,— I rise to move that the minutes of the Directors now read, and especially that the proposed new law, or alteration and modification of the deed of constitution, shall receive the approval of this General Court, subject always to the ulterior decision of a second General Court, to be held not less than six months from this date. It seems almost un- necessary that I should detain you in endeavouring to en- force by argument or illustration the additional advantages which will thus be secured to every policy holder, or, in other words, partner of this Society, whether entrant before or subsequent to March, 1836, because these advantages are so palpable, so articulately set forth, and clearly demon- strated in the report published by the Directors, and cir- culated amongst the members, that no man who has given his attention to the subject, arid whose mind is divested of bias or prejudice, can avoid giving his entire approbation to every portion of that report. But, sir, since attempts have been made out of doors, by interested and emulous parties, to sow disunion amongst us, to induce belief that an attempt is made to cut down the guaranteed privileges of entrants previous to March, 1836, and thus to prevent the adoption of this proposed modification, which will perfect the model of our Institution, and still further advance our So- ciety in public favour, I trust you will therefore bear with me for a few minutes, while I expose at once the spirit in which this attempt has been made, and the utter fallacy of the objections. It is a penalty, sir, which we must be content to pay for the unexampled prosperity and wonderful progress of this Society, that we should draw upon us envy and detraction from rival establishments. Had our career been less strik- ing and prosperous, had we progressed with a laggard step, we should not have been annoyed by impertinent attacks and intrusive counsels. I became a policy- holder to a large amount in the year 1832, and therefore I am just one of those on whom the crocodile tears and pretended sympathy of the Scottish Amicable have been bestowed, and I think that for myself and the numerous body of policy- holders, anterior to 1836, I may say that we " thank him for his couusel, although it sounded harshly," but feel that we are fully as well qualified, and somewhat better entitled, to protect our vested rights, than our meddling and ultroneous advocate of the Scottish Amicable. I have too much regard to the interests of my- self and my children, to consent to sacrifice those rights which, as an early member of the Society, are secured to me by its constitution; and I strongly recommend the al- teration, because, having given to it my mature considera- tion, I am convinced that it is conservative of the rights of all parties, and fraught with advantages to every member, as well as to future entrants. In considering our interests in this Society, we require to take an enlarged and liberal view of their whole bearings; and, therefore, even were it evident that by consenting to the new law I should communicate to later partners a small portion of the profits, which, by the original constitu- tion, were secured to me, I should still, as a matter of en- lightened policy, and even of self- interest, consent to the alteration, if I were convinced that I thereby removed a check to that great and progressive increase of the business of the Society, by which the profits of every policy- holder are so singularly augmented. But no such balancing of in- terests is required, for the privileges of the entrants during the first five years of the Society are substantially secured, while new and considerable advantages are afforded to all members. By the present law policies of five years' standing, which lapse before 1st March, 1841, receive an addition for every year subsequent to the first five years ; by the new law a like addition is made for each year from the dates of the respective policies. But what is of still greater consequence, in terms of the original constitution, the first division of pro- fits takes place in 1841, and two- thirds of the surplus fund is then divisible, not at once, but partly in vested retrospec- tive additions to policies of five years' standing, and partly in contingent prospective additions to such policies as may lapse between the septennial periods,— the remaining one- third of the surplus fund being absolutely reserved and left to accumulate, together with the growing surplus, until the next septennial division. By the new law, two- thirds of the declared surplus is at once divisible at Marcli, 1841, in vested additions to those who entered the Society previous to March, 1836; while the remaining one- third is to be taxed with contingent prospective additions to policies which lapse between the periods of division. Another ad- vantage reaped by the original policy- holders, and, indeed, by all members, is in the more frequent scrutiny of the af- fairs, and division of the profits of the Society. The advantages to those entering subsequent to 1836, and in time coining, are so obvious as to be admitted on all hands. Instead of being excluded from all participation in vested addition of piofits, unless they survive the second septennial period of 1848, all policies of five years' standing become entitled to a vested addition in 1844, and again in 1847, which additions are retrospective. Besides, by the new law, policies of more than five years' standing become entitled to an addition for every year from their dates, in- stead of the present restricted addition for every year subse- quent to the fifth year of their endurance. And, thus, the benefit of triennial vested additions is made to secure to the contributors, in as far as can with prudence be accomplished, those profits which are realised from the management of funds contributed by themselves. Perhaps I may be told, " This is all remarkably good ; you have shown very plainly that the new law affords in- creased advantages to all policy- holders, previous, as well as subsequent, to 1836, and also to all future entrants, but can all this be done consistently with what we hold to be of paramount importauce, namely, the most ample provision for tne iumiment or the obligations and engagements of the Society, and the perfect stability of the Institution under all circumstances?" Now, to this question I am enabled to give ( what indeed is demonstrated in the report of the committee) the most sa- tisfactory and affirmative reply. By the present law, too large a portion of the profits is left to accumulate in the re- served fund. By the proposed law, one- third of the declared surplus is still reserved, subject only to the payment of contingent prospective additions to policies which lipoma claims in the interval between the periods of division ; so that, in con. nection with the constantly growing surplus which the rate of premium ensures, there will never be less than one- third of reserved. surplus fund. But, further, in consequence our calculations being made by the Northampton tables, which exhibit the decrement of human life, especially in the early and middle stages, at more than it really is, it follows that the fund provided by us to meet the claims falling due by death of members, is greater than necessary,— while, from the same cause, the premiums drawn from members are, upon the average, re- ceived for a longer period than our calculations anticipate, — so that, both from the amount of claim upon us being less and the amount of revenue drawn being greater than our calculations, it follows that our actual surplus will always exceed our declared surplus. Thus, it is plain that we give paramount importance and place to the security and sta- bility of the Society, and make more than ample provision for all our engagements, while, by the proposed alteration, a larger portion of the profit will be secured to those policy- holders, by the management of whose contributions it was realised. And since, upon cautious calculation and mature deliberation, we find that we can, with the utmost safety, afford this extended distribution, and more frequent division of profits, we do no more than eternal justice requires, when we secure these piofits to the parties by whom they are contributed. ra:,. Uttmutn'- '""""' SH" of triennial be obtained from a period so short as three vear, fancy " o'f oifr f?<° « » in. para( ivelyTwZeJt're! l!'"" ' 16 P,°, icies are <= om- result of a few yeTrs % ? btained from postponing the S divSon of nU^' 0' 01,' 8 Prt(: autio » But as the average mOT ali v J 80 88 t0 I841- can be calculated \ vi? h s Iarge " un> her of live. ciety, t — < o believe 1h^^^^^ period for triennial investigation, the result of three years' business will, for all practical purposes, give as safe an ex- hibition of profit as a septennial investigation, while by the former method you will afford greater benefits to the mem- bers of the Society, and enjoy tile advantage of frequent and rigid scrutiny of your affairs. I have no share in the ordinary management of this So- ciety, nor had I aught to do with the training of the pro- posed law, but I have given to the report my earnest and sustained attention, and have been brought to a hearty ap- proval of every suggestion it contains. Nor am I the less anxious for the adoption of the new law, because interested and emulous rivals are making in. decent, and, I trust, abortive attempts to create disunion among us, the partners of this signally prosperous institu- tion, and to prevent our adoption of the great improvements suggested. In one thing I trust I express the feeling of the whole Society, when I declare my desire, that however we may be treated by others, we shall never condescend to this contemptible method of attacking brother or sister institu- tions. That we should institute a fair and honourable com- parison between our own progress and that of similar asso- ciations is unexceptionable, but we shall disdain to pry into the laws, or interfere with the proceedings, of other Assur- ance Societies, even could we find real, instead of, as in the present instance, fancied defects. Let us maintain the high vantage- ground we now hold, of claiming and receiving public favour and support, solely upon the merits of our Institution, and the advantages it affords. I look upon this as an important era in the history of our benevolent Association. During the past existence of the Society, we have experienced a degree of prosperity and a progressive increase which I believe to be wholly unparal- leled in the similar period of any Assurance Society in Scot- land, and I am convinced that, by adopting the proposed alterations, and thus perfecting the model of our Institution, you will stamp and confirm, nay, increase, our claim to that public patronage already so largely bestowed upon us; and and we maylive to see the day when the Scottish Equitable shall be in magnitude and importance what it now is in prosperity arid in promise, one of the first and noblest institu- tions in the empire. With this view, let us now give to the proposed law the consent, not of three- fourths of the mem- bers present merely, as required by law, but the united, unanimous, and hearty approval of every member of this Gerierul Court. Mr. Maitland Makgill's motion having been seconded by John Mac Gregor, Esq., banker in Edinburgh, was carried by unanimous acclamation. Thereafter, the proposed alterations were appointed, in terms of the Deed of Constitution, to be again considered and deliberated upon at another General Meeting of the Society, to be held for that purpose, on 1st February next. Thanks having been voted to the Chairman, the meeting separated. AGENT: BIRMINGHAM— ROBERT BENTON, Jun., Esq., Solicitor. NOTICE. TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION. REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS. ANY practising Physician, Surgeon, or Apothecary, who has not yet received a printed copy of an Address, signed by the President of the Royal College of Physicians, the President of the Royal College of Surgeons, and the Master of the Society of Apothecaries, by the authority and on the behalf of those Incorporations, respectfully request- ing the co- operation of all practising Members of the Medical Profession in aid of Registration, may receive a copy, free of postage, on application by letter communicating his name, profession, and address, to " The Registrar General, General Register Office, London." General Register Office, August, 1837. FENDER, WIRE WORK, AND PATENT WIRE- GAUZE WINDOW BLIND MANUFACTORY, AND FURNISHING IRONMONGERY ESTABLISHMENT, 24, UNION- STREET, BIRMINGHAM, ( Adjoining the Old Library.) JOSEPH ALLDAY with feelings of sincere grati- tude acknowledges the very flattering and liberal patron- age he has received from his Friends and the Public, and he hopes that an undeviating perseverance in a system of manufacturing and vending none but the best of articles, and furnishing them with regularity and dispatch, will ensure him a permanence of that support and encouragement which he has hitherto been honoured with. JOSEPH ALLDAY respectfully submits to the attention of the Nobility, Gentry, and Public generally, a list of the Articles manufactured and sold at his Establishment, wholesale, retail, and for exportation. THE WIRE- GAUZE WINDOW BLIND. J This useful and fashionable article, manufactured in its highest state of perfection, is admitted by all connoisseurs to be the very best material for the purpose of which JOSEPH ALLDAY has so variously adapted it. It is capable' of receiving, in every variety of tint, any device and every description of painting, from the glowing and beautiful landscape to the higher branches of Grecian art; and while it presents to the eye the solidity of the pictured canvas, it admits light and air without exposing the privacy of the apartment. This admirable invention will doubtless supersede the Venetian, Grecian, Cane, and all other Blinds; and JOSEPH ALLDAY solicits attention to his original and extensively as- sorted designs in this material. J. A. with as much pleasure as pride, assures the Public that his IMPROVED BLINDS are painted by the original Artist who painted the first Wire- Gauze Blind; and the ability of this artist is acknowledged to be so much superior to any one of his numerous imitators, that no Blind painted in the country will bear a compaiisori with those manufactured and sold by J. A. Wire- Gauze Blinds repaired and re- painted. IMPROVED PATENT WIRE- GAUZE DISH COVERS of most exquisite workmanship, as protectors against flies and insects. Wire- Gauze Meat Safes in strong iron or wood frames, Wire- Gauze Servants'Safety Lanterns, Rush Shades, & c. FENDERS of every description, in bronze, steel, iron, brass, or- molu, wire, & c. Fenders manufactured to any design. FIRE- IRONS in greac variety, ut mst- iaie quality, and most modern patterns. FIRE- GUARDS to fit any giates, in brass, iron, or patent tinned wire. Nur- sery Fire- Guard Fenders made to size. BIRD CAGES in mahogany, oak, rosewood, & c. withjbrass, iron, or patent tinned wire. Parrot, Canary, Lark, Bullfinch, Linnet, and every other description of Bird Cages. WIRE- WORK, plain, useful, and ornamental, fixed in any part of the king- dom. Wire- work for flower- pot stands, for the inside of green- houses, for training fruit trees and evergreens, for verandahs, arbour- fronts, arches, garden walls, and pleasure grounds; Invisible Wire Fences for protection against oxen, sheep, deer, & c.; Hare and Rabbit Proof for parks, lawns, carriage- drives, paddocks, & c.; Wire Lattice for all kinds of windows, French doors, sashes, bookcases, libra- ries, latders, and meat safes; Screens for malt, corn, gravel, and lime; Garden Riddles ; Riddles for cinders, coal, sand, lime, gravel, chalk, potatoes, & c.; Sieves for iron and brassfounders, for druggists, plasterers, and tallow- chandlers; Wire Kiln Floors for drying malt or any kind of grain, LAND- MEASURING CHAINS, divided with brass marks, two or four- pole long, or to order. ' Measuring Chains lev Mine Surveyors; and every article ill the Wire- working Trade. DOMESTIC IRONMONGERY, Superior made Block Tin Dish Covers; Pots, Saucepans, and Kettles in iron, copper, and tin ; Meat- hasteners, Brass '" id Japanned Bottle Jacks, Tin Tea Canisters, Sugar and » p>" e Boxes, Chamber Buckets, Slipper, Shower, and Foot " atns and every article manufactured in tin. CUTLERY hZ?' n ® PiV. e? B!\ d Forks,' ivory,' stag's- horn, bone, self- horn, black and buck s. horn handles, with Desserts and Car- vers, Game Carvers, and Steels to match; Tea Trays and Orden by letter promptly executed. THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, SEPTEMBER 2. 2 NEWS OF THE WEEK. FOREIGN. On the 3rd instant, a splendid aeriel sight was witnessed by the inhabitants of Lopersdorf, in Switzerland. At eight o'clock in the evening, when the sky appeared lurid, and there were only a few light clouds, an ignited globe sud- denly appeared from the south- east, crossed the air with the rapidity of a cannon- ball, above the mountain of Schwen- gimatt, throwing out in its passage radiant sparks, and ter- minated its course to the N. W., above Brunnersberg. GRANARIES OF THE VISTULA. — A Sheffield gentleman, on whose veracity we have the strictest reliance, informs us, that on passing up the Vistula, a fortnight ago, he saw at Dantzic heaps of wheat on each side of the river, five or six feet deep, of considerable breadth, and extending nearly seven miles. It is preserved from the effects of the water by a peculiar kind of matting and sail- cloth. Several thou- sand persor. sareconstantlyemployedin turning this immense quantity of grain, and exist upon it— the simple preparation of their meals being to boil the corn in the water of the Vis- tula. They reside in straw huts, erected adjoining the scene of their employment. THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS Extract of a letter from St. Petersburg, of the 9th instant:—" The Emperor was pre- sent a few days ago at some practices of the artillery, in exploding mines from a great distance, the ignition being produced by means of galvanism. Two bridges were blown • up; but by acting upon the second the experiment had been very nearly fatal to the Emperor. The charge was either too powerful, or a false calculation of the distance was made. The force of the explosion was so great that an immense beam and several other large fragments fell several yards behind the spot where His Majesty was stationed. He did not show the slightest emotion, and desired that neither the inventor of the process nor the officer who had the direction of the experiment should be subjected to any reprimand. Having, however, afterwards learned that a gunner had been mortally wounded, His Majesty ordered the officer to be put under arrest, hut the next morning he was set at liberty. FIRE AT SURAT The Bombay Gazette of the 3rd of May contains an account of an awful and destructive fire, which had destroyed three- fourths of Surat, ( comprising from 5,000 to 6,000 houses) above 600 lives, and an immense quantity of property. The fire originated in the house of a Parsee, but whether from accident or design had not been ascer- tained. Be that as it may, the fire was at first neglected, the neighbours refusing to allow water from their wells to extinguish it. The fire spread through the best part of Surat. The heat and dryness of the season aided the com- bustion, and the conflagration was soon beyond the power of man to control. It raged, with terrific fierceness, from Monday evening until midnight on Tuesday, when it burnt itself out, and left Surat one vast extended heap of ruins. SWAN RIVER.— Letters were on Wednesday, last week, received from Swan River to the end of last March. The colony was going on very favourably. The last harvest had proved abundant, and the necessaries of life were plentiful, and the prices moderate. Beef and mutton, 8% d. per lb. ; pork, 7d.; kangaroo, 5d.; flour, 2i{, d.; wheat and bailey, 5s. per bushel; butter, Is. 6d. per lb.; ducks, 4s. 6d. per couple. Cattle and stock of all kinds had greatly increased. The colonists, encouraged by their first attempts, were now embarking in the whale fishery in right earnest, and have established a whaling joint- stock company. Two American § hips had been engaged on the coast in that fishery last sea- son, and had been so successful that the owners had ex pressed their intention of sending next season a considerable number of vessels for the same employment. The climate seems particularly suited to the growth of wheat— so much so, that some of the settlers intend to sow an additional quantity of that grain this year to feed pigs on. Hitherto Western Australia has been visited by none of those droughts which occur so frequently on the eastern side of the island. Several parties have lately explored the interior of the colony,, in different directions, and have discovered much good land. SICILY.— THE SCHOOLMASTER ABROAD— Her Majesty's steamer Confiance, Lieutenant Arlett, which had been sent by Rear- Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs to the coast of Sicily, in consequence of advices received by this government from the British authorities in the Sicilian ports as to the state of affairs there, returned to this island on Monday last, having visited Syracuse, Catania, and Messina. The cholera mor- bus had reached Syracuse, where the mortality was about sixteen a day. The people, however, were incredulous as to the existence of any real disease, and, giving ear to many silly reports circulated by evil- disposed persons for the pur- pose of deceiving thein, believed that poison had been dis seminated with a view to destroy them. This poison, it is pretended, has been discovered in the form of powders and liquids, mixed up with the food, and even acting upon the respiratory organs, and affecting the air with a deadly influ- ence; and it having been declared formally that these in- gredients had been found in the house of the Intendant, that functionary, as well as the Inspecting Commissary and the Commissary of Police, fell victims to the ignorance ol the populace, and the wicked designs of the agitators. Martial law had been declared ill the town, but the troops were not sufficiently numerous to subdue the rioters, who at length carried their excesses so far as to stone a poor countryman to death, accused of having sown poison in the fields, and ten other persons, amongst whom was the Cap- tain of the Lazarette and a priest, were shot in the public square, just before the Confiance left the place. At Catania the same attempt to work upon the minds of the multitude by attributing the appearance of the cholera in Sicily to poison was only partially successful. No blood was shed, as at Syracuse, but scenes of riot took place; the magis- trates were deposed, the troops disarmed, anil the royal statues and emblems destroyed. On the 30th ult. a yellow flag was hoisted as a signal of revolt; but not being joined by the neighbouring towns the seditious became more marked as tliey proceeded in their acts of violence, and on the 3rd instant many of them were arrested by the better classes of the inhabitants, who re- instated the authorities, and returned to the soldiers their arms. Up to the 6th inst. Catania was quite free from the cholera. The advices from Messina are dated the 5th inst. That town and port were perfectly tranquil, and without any case of cholera— Malta Gazette of the 9th ult. REVOLTE DES BAIGNEUSES It has been the custom at Dieppe for the ladies who subscribe to the bath of M. Mira to enjoy the evening breezes from the sea, seated on three ranks of chairs on the teriace, the foot of which is washed by the briny waves, and to retire at a fixed hour, which latterly has come to be considered as far too early. A short time ago application was made, and a promise given by M. IVIira, that the saloons should be lighted, and that the en- joyments of the evening should be prolonged. Two nights passed, and the saloons remained involved in darkness. At sunset on the third, sounds were heard to steal along the shore indicative of a rising storm, not of the elements of earth and air, but from the disturbed spirits of the visitants of the terrace. Many anxious eyes were turned towards the windows of the saloons, but not a single ray of light was visible. At length one of the dissatisfied fair, more resolute than the rest, entered the interdicted rooms, drew forth two bougies she had brought with her, and by the aid of a phos- phorus- box set them in a moment flaming on the mantel- piece. At this signal, all the conlederate dames uttered a shout of victoiy, entered the saloons en masse, and one of them was entertaining the rest with sounds of triumph from the piano, when one of the attendants summoned them to depart, as he was ordered to extinguish the lights. This could not be submitted to, the insurgents interposed, and boldly declared that they would not quit the rooms unless driven out at the point of the bayonet. Several gentlemen' who had hitherto remained silent spectators, felt their gal- lantry in question, and came forward to support the cause Of the ladies; for the fair insurgents, finding thy © ontoofc likely to become serious, were 6truck with a panic, and were on the point of abandoning the fortress, when a flag of truce was sent in by M. Mira, announcing that he had sur- rendered. The dance has been kept up every evening since.— Galignani's Messenger. PPODUCE OF ST. HELENA— An acre of garden ground at St. Helena yields five hundred pounds a year! At all sea- sons of the year there is a ready market for stock and vege- tables ; yet a great part of the white population, who might make fortunes, are in debt; and as to the coloured people, if they get their pound of bread and beef, and pint of wine per day, they care lor little else. [ What else should they care for ? 1— Alexander. Cape of Good Hope papers received to the 18th of June, give the following from the frontier:—" The post from the frontier having been again delayed by the rain, we have only time to state that ail remains tranquil on the border and in Caffreland. Five head of Government cattle have been missed from Double Drift; the spoil was traced into Caffreland, and notice given to Stock, the nearest Pallati. Stock, when met by the messengers, was engaged in hunting; he immediately stopped the hunting, and sent some of his people to search for the cattle, which he recovered, and pro- posed at the same time to give up to the colonial authorities the two thieves, according to the treaty— so much for the wage Stock." DOMESTIC. will be the means employed.— 1. A reduction of 5,000 men in the strength of the army, which it is asserted can he ac- complished in consequence of the assumed tranquility ol Ireland. 2. The removal of reputed Tories from the com- mand of the army, and the Secretaryship at the Horse Guards, replacing them by others professing Whig or Radi- cal opinions. 3. The introduction of a incisure by Lord Howick, founded on the report made by a commis- sion composed of Whig civilians, recommending the transfer of offices connected with the military to the War- office, thereby giving to the Secretary at War, a controul which it was never intended by either the sovereign or the constitution that official should possess— Times. ROYAL HOUSEHOLD.— The Gazette of Tuesday evening contains the following appointments in Her Majesty's House- hold:— Mistress of the Holes— Duchess of Sutheiland. Principal' Lady of the Bed- Chamber— Marchioness of Lansdowne. Ladies of the Bed- Chamber— Marchioness of Tavistock, Countess of Charlemont, Countess of Mulgrave, Lady Portman, Lady Lyttleton, Lady Barham, Countess of Durham. Maids of Honour— Hon. Harriett Pitt, Hon. Margaret Dillon, Hon. Caroline Cocks, Hon. Miss Cavendish, Hon. Matilda Paget, Miss Murray, Miss Lister, Miss Spring Rice. Bed. Chamber Women Lady Caroline Barrington, Lady Harriet Clive, Lady Charlotte Copley, Viscountess Forbes, Hon. Mrs. Brand, Lady Gardner, and the Hon. Mrs. G. Campbell. Resident Woman of the Bed- Chamber— Miss Davys. THE BANK— Friday's Gazette gives the following state- ment of the quarterly average of the weekly liabilities and assets of the Bank of England, from the 30th May to the 22nd August. LIABILITIES. Circulation £ 18,462,000 Deposits 11,005,001 £ 29,467,000 ASSETS. Securities £ 26,717,000 Bullion 5,764,000 £ 32,471,000 THE METROPOLIS. MINISTERIAL PROSPECTS— CURIOUS IF TRUE.- Among the current reports of the day, we hear it runmured that se- ve? al changes connected with the army are m cantempla- tion bv the existing government, from which they expect „ o^ onTy to conciliate in a great degree the Radicals and Economists, but also serve the,, own purposes, to •££">> to the patronage and power they already possess. 1 o effect heobjecUabove stated, it is mentioned that the followmg A comparison with the last statement shows that the circulation has been increased by 201,000/., and the deposits increased by 333,000/., the securities decreased by 10,000/., and the bullion increased by 528,000/. The Dutchess of St. Albans has made a very extraordi- nary proviso in the bequest to her husband, the Duke, in her will. It appears that she had, for some considerable time previous to her decease, cherished an erroneous idea that certain of his grace's nearest relations entertained a hostile feeling towards her: in consequence of this pre- possession, she has made a declaration that, should certain members of the Duke's family reside with him at any time for eight days in any one year, his interest in the annuity of 10,000/. should cease, and that it should become part of her residuary estate. The present promises to be an abundant honey season in this country and France, and the article of excellent quality, though the early part of the season was unpropitious. THE THAMES TUNNEL Friday, a short period before low water, several barges filled with clay arid hags of clay, were moored over the aperture lately made by the irruption of the river in the Thames tunnel, and a great number of men commenced throwing the clay into the river over and in the neighbourhood of the place where the water oozed in. Several hundred tons of clay were discharged from the barges. Active preparations are making on land for pump- ing out the water from the tunnel as soon as the clay, which will be discharged every tide for several days, is settled over the works. On Friday morning a hostile meeting took place at half- past six on Wimbledon- common, between Captain Alex- ander Briscoe, residing in Sloane- street, Chelsea, and F. Hemmings, Esq., a gentleman residing in Great Brompton. Having arriveH on the ground, attended by their seconds and a surgeon, they proceeded to the common, where the seconds measured the ground, twelve paces; the parties fired together by signal, without either pistol taking effect. The seconds endeavoured to bring about a reconciliation, but without effect. The pistols being reloaded, they both again fired, Captain Briscoe receiving the contents of his antagonist's pistol through the pistol arm, above the elbow, and Mr. Hemmings those of the Captain's through his left thigh. Captain Briscoe advanced to his antagonist, and they both shook hands. DEXTEROUS ESCAPE The violent clap of thunder that burst over the metropolis on Saturday, so terrified a spirited horse with which Dr. James Scott was crossing West- minster- bridge, that the animal setoff at full gallop, and, the wheel of the cabriolet coming in contact with a coal- wag- gon, the doctor was precipitated out of the vehicle, but in the act of falling, caught hold of the shaft, which preserved liim from sinking under the wheel. The situation, however, of hanging with the head nearly on the ground, was awfully perilous; hut Dr. Scott regarded it with great presence of mind, and seeing that if he relinquished his hold the wheel must inevitably run over his body, he passed himself under the step, the iron of which he next seized with his right hand, and, drawing himself beneath the vehicle, laid hold of the axle- tree with his left. He then placed himself as clear of the wheels as possible, and lowered himself to the ground, the carriage passing over without doing him any injury. His son, a youth of fifteen, who was also in the cab, managed to steer clear of all collisions till he arrived opposite Astley's Theatre, when, stooping forward, and getting a firm hold of the reins as far as he could reach, he threw himself back with all his force, and produced such a sudden and severe cuib upon the horse's mouth as to pull him nearly on his haunches. SEVERE ACCIDENT. — About seven o'clock on Monday evening, as Mr. William Kelsey, of Air- street, Piccadilly, was proceeding on horseback through Pall- mall East, the animal suddenly took fright, and darted off at full speed, in the direction of St. Martin's- church. When opposite the principal entrance of the National Gallery, the horse ran against the cab of Mr. Beazley, of No. 29, Soho- square, which was proceeding in a contrary direction. The con- cussion increased its speed, and when about half- way be- tween the Gallery and St. Martin's- church, the animal threw its rider over its head, with frightful force, a distance of full six yards. M. Kelsey was immediately picked up and con- veyed on a shutter to the Charing- cross Hospital, when on examination, it was found, in addition to a fractured skull and jaw, the unfortunate gentleman had sustained other injuries. LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILROAD— Sunday nighty considerable alarm prevailed in consequence of the delay o the trains. At ten o'clock not one had reached London, while the time of arrival of the first is generally about a quarter or half- past eight o'clock. Reports were spread of an alarming tendency, that the steam- boiler had exploded, that the trains had been upset, and that several lives were lost. About a quarter past ten o'clock the first train, con- sisting of thirty- eight carriages, all completely filled, arrived at the head station in Euston- grove. We then heard that the cause of the delay was owing to the steam conveyance having got off the road at the Harrow station. By about a quarter to eleven two other trains arrived, the whole bringing above 1,000 persons. No personal injury was sustained by any one. THE THAMES TUNNEL — Mr. Brunei has been incessant and indefatigable in his exertions to remedy the damage done, and his success has been so great that hopes. no » amounting to certainty, are entertained that the works will he resumed, without danger or inconvenience, in the course of a very short time. On Saturday it was ascertained that the aperture had been completely closed, and on the pumps being applied it was found that little or no water obtained access to the shaft of the tunnel; but as some danger was apprehended if the water were taken off until the clay newly deposited in the aperture had in some degree become consolidated, the pumping was suspended till the following day. On Sunday the pumping was resumed, and it was very soon found tlmt the engine had complete command over the water, which was reduced to nine feet in the shaft. Monday the water still was reduced to four feet in the shaft, and there is no doubt but the water could be at once drawn off without difficulty if that were thought desirable. Mr. Brunei, however, with great prudence, postpones the draw- ing off the whole of the water till the clay becomes consoli- dated, and has acquired a proper consistence. As a proof that the damage done on the present occasion is trifling in comparison to that done when the water first broke into the tunnel, it is only necessary to state that on this occasion more has been done in five days towards drawing off the water than was done on the first occasion in five months. THE QUEEN DOWAGER It may not be generally known that a Queen Dowager enjoys most of the privileges be- longing to her as Queen Consort. But no man can marry her without special license " from the Crown," on pain of forfeiting his lands and goods. Blackstone states that a Queen Dowager, when married again to a subject, does not lose her real dignity as Peeresses Dowager do their Peerage when tiiey marry Commoners, for Catherine, Queen Dow- ager of Henry V., though she married a private gentleman, Owen a'p Meredith ap Theodore, commonly called Owen Tudor; yet, by the name ' of Catherine Queen of England, maintained an action against the Bishop of Carlisle. And so the Queen Dowager of Navarre, marrying with Edward Earl of Lancaster, brother to Edward I., maintained an action of dower ( after the death of her second husband) by the name of Queen of . Najarfe- v.' Sftrcsa- tk0. asuW^ r^" fSro^ Queen Victoria, for instance, Majesty, C^' heTowu marriage with any peer could give her consent . to her own or person whom she might select. PROVINCIAL. • . Sir Francis Burdett, to 1,800,000/, of. hewea thleftbythe^ cne Their visited Lincoln Minster on Monday m b retur carriage changed horses at the White nan, from Redbourn, and the aged baronet seized a few moments io hear his wealthy daughter on his arm for a brief gaze at the venerable pile.— Lincoln Mercury. THE LEAD TRADE— It may he interesting to a portion of our readers to know, that the price of lead is rapidly ad- vancing. It may be recollected that it was recently agreed IO suspend operations in the Spanish mines, and to'shut them up for twelve months; which has had the effect of causing in England and Wales, in addition to the home consumption, a great demand, to export, and the markets have consequently been relieved of their stocks. The de- mand now exceeds the supply, and prices have advanced Irom 4/. to 51. per ton, and are still advancing. Lead is likely to realise in the course of a few months, as great a* price as has been known for some years. The iron market is also advancing; the quotations early in the week showed an advance of from 20s. to 30s. per ton, but latter quotations make the advance to exceed 40s. It is stated that the stocks in Staffordshire, Wales, and Scotland are smaller at the pre- sent time than they have been for many years.— Chester Chronicle. The hon. Wm. Howard, the new M. P. for Sutherland, is uncle to, and not a brother of Lord Morpeth. Mr. Howard sat in the House during the minority of Lord Morpeth, as member for Morpeth. He is second son to the late, and brother to the present Ear), and the Dean of Lichfield. SAVAGE FIGHT,— Tuesday [ last week] a brutal fight took place for 5/. aside, between a baker named Hibbins, a Conservative, and Ashley, the landlord of the O'Brien Anns public. house, Stamford, a Radical, who had had a po- litical quarrel a few days before. The parties went into the county of Rutland, where the ring was just formed, when they were compelled by the magistrates to leave that county. The fight took place at £ olIyston- wood, North- amptonshire, and lasted for upwards of an hour, when Hibbins was declared the victor, after having burst both of the eyes of his antagonist Ashley, who is thus rendered blind for life Stamford Mercury. THE THUNDER STORM Between twelve and one o'clock on Satuiday, the storm raged with great violence near Ux- bridge. In a field at Hillingdon several trees and out- houses were struck by lightning, and two fine cows, the property of Mr. Reynolds, were killed on the spot. At Rmslip the roof of the George Inn was struck by the elec- tric fluid and seriously injured, and the numerous farms in the vicinity sustained by the violence of the storm damage to a considerable amount. About two o'clock, the family of Mr. Bignell were assembled at dinner in a large back room on the lower floor, facing the grounds at the back of the premises, when a very vivid flash of lightning took place. The electric fluid descending the chimney, struck most of those assembled at table and laid them prostrate. Two of the children, very fine hoys, named James and John, were killed on the spot. Mrs. Bignell and two of the other children were struck senseless and scorched severely. Mrs. Bignell had her right ancle dislocated, and was other- wise severely injured. Mr. Bignell and a servant, who were in the room, escaped. Immediately on the calamity taking place, medical advice was sent for, and in a very short time two surgeons arrived, hut all human aid was un- availing for the two poor lads ; the other sufferers received such attention as the nature of their injuries required, and are now in a fair way of recovery. When the lightning descended into the room through the chimney, the shock knocked down the whole of the furniture; the clothes of the unfortunate children who have fallen victims ignited, and, at the time the neighbours entered the house, were burning; their bodies are greatly blackened, and present an appalling spectacle. It is feared that Mrs. Bignell, who is the mother of a large family, will be rendered a cripple for life by the unfortunate visitation. MURDER.— On Saturday last a dreadful murder was com- mitted at Middlesbro'. According to the evidence given at the inquest, it appeared that Cuthbert Hutchinson, a car- penter by trade, belonging to this town, had been working at Stockton, and on Saturday, the day on which the mur- der was committed, was visited by two of his aoquaintances from Sunderland, who prevailed on him to accompany them to Middlesbro', and whilst in a public- house there, they met with Flower, a sailor belonging to York. Some quarrelling ensued, and by some of the witnesses it was stated that the deceased was, by others that he was not, implicated in the quarrel. Fowler left the public- house in a highly exaspe- rated state. After the lapse of some time, perhaps an hour or more, he was seen with an open knife in his hand, and swearing that he would stab the first man he met. Tne de- ceased was sitting in the yard near the public- house. Fowler rushed upon him, and plunged the knife into his heart. The coroner's inquest sat on Monday and Tuesday last, when a verdict of wilful murder against Fowler was recorded Sunderland Herald. INTREPID CONDUCT Last week as some boys were bath- ing in the river just below Usk Bridge, Brecon, one of them, while in a very deep and dangerous part of the stream, called Pwll- tro, was seized with the cramp and instantly sunk. An alarm was made and reached the ears of Mr. Prosser, of ihe Bridge- end, who rushed to the spot, and having ascer- tained the place where the poor boy had sunk, instantly stripped off his coat, and dashing into the water rescued the then apparently dead lad from a watery grave. This is the Jiftlt person whom this intrepid and humane man has rescued from untimely death, and, what is singular, from tile very same pool. MEUTHYR— Two young men, colliers, in the employmen of Messrs. Hill, were dreadfully burnt on Wednesday, from an explosion of foul air in one of the pits belonging to those gentlemen. It appears that they were aware of the presence of the injurious gas, and had placed their candles at a dis- tance, while they beat ( a term used by colliers) the foul air away. HEREFORD MUSIC MEETING Our Triennial Music • Meeting would not have taken place this year— but the liberality of our respected county members, coming forward a second time to take the responsibilities of the steward- ship upon them, with those gentlemen who had previously signified their willingness to do so, and other circumstances most honourable to the musical profession, have enabled the provisional committee to surmount the difficulties which presented themselves, and to fix Tuesday, Wednes- day, and Thursday, the 26th, 27th, and 28th of September, for the celebration of it. The general programme is now completed, and will be immediately distributed throughout the three dioeesses Hereford Journal. MORE DEATHS BY LIGHTNING.— Mr. Sharman, of Nether- stead Farm, in the parish of Colmworth, Bedford, was sit- ting by his fireside on Saturday morning last, with a little boy about eighteen months old, accompanied by his wife's sister, Miss Emery, about nineteen years of age, when all three were struck with lightning; Miss Emery and the little boy were struck to rise no more. Mrs. Sharman was in an adjoining room. She raised them all three from the floor: Mr. Sharman was quite insensible for two hours afterwards. The lightning struck the upper part of the house, passed through Mr. Sharman's bed- room, struck a gun standing by the bed- side, and split the stock to atoms, pas- sed down by the side of the chimney and struck them in the chimney corner, passed over another door in the kitchen where the servant was, who was not injured at all, shook the ceiling in several rooms of the house, and which fell down in several places. A meeting of the friends of the Bristol Total Abstinence Society, to form a Congregational Total Abstinence Society was held at Lady Huntingdon's Chapel, Lodge- street, on Thursday evening last; the Rev. W. Lucy in the chair, who, with several other gentlemen, having briefly addressed the meeting, the Rev. James Sharman, of Surrey- road Chapel, London, delivered an admirable and convincing ad- dress in favour of total abstinence from all intoxicating drinks; he himself had abstained for a considerable "'-—> and he found his personal comforts every wj increased, and he could do a much larger amount of work with less fatigue— he declared this to be the experience of all who had fairly tried it in the circle of his acquaintance, and re- lated many ctriUiwg anecdotes in proof of the great benefits a steady adherence to the principles of the Society was calculated to confer, both as regarded the temporal and eternal interests of mankind—- Bristol Gazette. FRIGHTFUL DEATH OF A BOY— On Mondayse'nnight an inquest was held at the Turk's Head, West Bromwich, before Henry Smith, Esq., Coroner, to ascertain by what means John Hawkes, a boy about ten years of age, came to his death Timothy Jones, a boy about thirteen years of age, and who worked with the deceased, stated, that on Friday, the 11th inst. he and the deceased, and several other boys were employed in the Bromfield iron works, about the rolling machinery; the occupation of the witness being to put the heated iron, after passing under the forge hammer, between the rollers to be converted into hooping, which is termed " middling ;" and the employment of the deceased to attend to a scraper attached to the rolling apparatus, and used for scraping the scales off the iron as it passes through the rollers. Two other boys named John Simpson and John Weston, ( now in custody on account of their share in the transaction) weie also employed in the works About three o'clock in the afternoon the deceased tied « running noose in a piece of cord, which he put round his waist, leav- ing the end hanging behind bin, it > is supposed from mere playfulness. At this time the mucln ' ery had slackened its pace, and was nearly at what is turned" sta1ng." The prisoner, . Weston, stepped g^ MXtt fa central beam,) and Simpwmii « . « other pfisonc, „ rnnnd a second time, and pmieri the unfortunate deceased close up with his back to the shift, and fastened it. The machinery quickened its spee, ar. d the deceased was taken round a great many times, at he rate of sixty revolutions in a minute, his head strikingeach time with great violence mainst the cast iron plating o the floor. As soon as the ' ituation of the poor boy b: ame known every effort was made to stop the engine, but was nearly a minute before it could be effected, and whethe poor little fellow was dis- engaged from the shaft, he was found to he quite dead. On a post mortem examination, nearly two pints of blood were found mixed with the brain ; there was considerable depres- sion and fracture ol the skull, and the brain was much scattered about the interior of the scalp. A verdict of man- slaughter was returned against the prisoners, Simpkiri and Weston, who were accordingly committed for trial. A deodand of 10s. was laid on the shaft. DINNER AT STOURBRIDGE TO MR. ST. PAUL AND MR. BARNEBY— On Monday last an elegant dinner was given at the Talbot Hotel, Stourbridge, to Mr. St. Paul and Mr. Barneby, the members for East Worcestershire, in order to congratulate them on their election. The room was neatly decorated with flags, displaying in union the colours of Mr. St. Paul and Mr. Barneby, and the dinner wss attended by about one hundred and thirty gentlemen of Conservative principles, chiefly residents of Stourbridge and its neighbour- hood. The chair, in consequence of the unavoidable absence of Colonel Smith, was filled by F. Rufford, Esq., and G. Grazebooke, Esq., officiated as vice- president. The chairman was supported on his right by Mr. St. Paul, and on his left by Mr. Barneby; and among the company we observed Major Hawkes, M. P., Mr. Dixon, Mr. Trow, Mr. H. Hickman, Captain Hickman, Mr. W. Hunt, Mr. J. Hunt, Mr. E. Dudley, Captain Chambers, Mr. Rufford, sen., Mr. Rufford, Mr. Cartwright, of Bewdley, the Rev. Mr. Craig, Dr. Dudley, Mr. John Dudley, Mr. R. Freer, Mr. Crompton, the Rev. C. Jesson, Mo Roberts, of Dud- ley, Mr. Thomas Scott, Mr. Wragge, Mr. Guest, Captain Bennett, Mr. Price, from London, the Rev. E. Dudley, the Rev. J. Dudley, Mr. Williams, & c. IRELAND. MR. RUTHVEN AND THE TRADES' POLITICAL UNION.— On Tuesday evening a numerous meeting of this body was held at the Dublin Corn Exchange, Mr. E. Brennan in the chair. Mr. Keating said he had a resolution to propose, which was to the following effect:—" Resolved, That we con- sider the recent communication of Mr. E. Ruthven as be- neath the notice ot the National Trades' Political Union, and worthy only of our contemptuous silence; and that we accept of his resignation, considering the writer or author of such as unfitted for any honourable and honest political as- sociation." It was with great pain he was obliged to pro- pose that resolution, as he had always looked upon Mr. Ruthven as the representative of his father, whose memory they would always cherish with affection. The letter which they had received from Mr. Ruthven, and which was alluded to in the resolution, was not fit for publicity, and as such it would not be read in a meeting for that body The resolu- tion was carried unanimously. Mr. Sharman Crawford has written- a long letter to Mr. O'Connell, which is published in the Dublin papers, charg- ing him with subserviency to the present ministry, and with not exercising the power he possesses for the benefit of Ire- land. The letter, which occupies two columns, is only the first of a series. SCOTLAND. THE ONE THING NEEDFUL As an instance of the im- moderate zeal of the clergy to promote the interest of Tory candidates, we may mention that on the 4th instant a well known poetical divine in the west went to the polling place at Bathgate, a distance of nearly three miles, to vote for Captain Hope, the Tory candidate for Linlithgow, although he had been so unwell the previous day that he was unable to appear in his own church, it being the fast day of his sa- cramental occasion— Scotsman. [ The worthy parson knew that heaven could1 do without him, but he was not quite so sure that Captain Hope could.] HARVEST.— Since our last the sky has been often en- veloped in clouds, and the air rather chill, thus affording premonitions of the approach of winter; nevertheless the labours of the harvest have met with but little interruption in this quarter, and they are continuing to be carried forward with, if possible, increased activity. Stooks are now visible in almost every direction; even in certain instances the fields have been already cleared ; and it is believed that the sanguine hopes which for some time past have been enter- tained in regard to the crops, both in respect of quantity and quality, will be fully realised. — Dumfries Times. SCOTCH CLERGY— The Rev. Dr. Gardner, of Bothwell, like his brethren, was a keen partisan of the Tory candidate, Mr. Lockhart'. He canvassed for him, and almost preached for him; one of his parishioners had determined to be neutral, but the rev. moderator had it in his power to make this voter's situation uncomfortable, and hence, in obedience to the wishes or commands of the rev. moderator, he gave his vote for Lockhart. What has been the consequence ? The rev. moderator has been burnt in effigy in his own parish, and his usefulness as a minister of religion is gone. Turn again to the case of the Rev. Mr. Smith, of Cathcart. This gentleman is registered as the occupant of the manse and glebe of Cathcart, in Renfrewshire, and voted at Pol- lockshaws on the 3d inst.; but it seems he lias also been registered in Lanarkshire as minister of Cathcat, although neither manse nor glebe is in that county. Still the rev. gentleman has voted in Lanarkshire, and the Tory press is angry that the oath of occupancy was put to him— Scots Times. MISCELLANEOUS. ARTESIAN WELLS— An economical and easy method of sinking Artesian Wells has recently been practised near Saarbruck, by Mr. Sellow. Instead of the tardy and costly process of boring with a number of iron rods screwed to each other, one heavy bar of cast iron, about six feet long and four inches in diameter, armed at the lower end with a cutting chisel, and surrounded by a hollow chamber, to re- ceive through valves, and bring up the detrilus of the per- forated stratum, is suspended from the end of a strong rope, which passes over a wheel or pulley fixed above the spot in which the hole is made. As this rope is raised up and down over the wheel, its tortion gives to the bar of iron a circular motion, sufficient to vary the place of the cutting chisel at each descent. When the chamber is full, the whole appa- ratus is raised quickly to the surface to be unloaded, and is again let down by the action of the same wheel. The pro- cess has been long practised in China, from whence the re- port of its use has been brought to Europe. DRAM DRINKING ON THE DECLINE— A hundred years ago the inhabitants of the metropolis were grievously ad- dicted to drunkenness ( particularly the lower classes), as may be imagined from the fact that there were then three times as many houses open for the sale of spirituous liquors as there are now, although the town then was little more than a third of the size it is at present. The following is an account of the houses of this description in 1736: — Inns 207 Taverns 447 Coffee houses 551 Ale houses 5975 Brandy shops 8609 15,839 The population at that time, according to Price, was about 630,000, whereas the quantity of gin consumed an- nually amounted to 7,000,000 gallons; on the other hand the population in 1835 was 1,776,500, and the number of houses of this description did not exceed 5000; from which it would appear that there were, at the former period, nine times as many spirit shops in the metropolis as there are at the present time, ill proportion to the population. — London as it is. Men reason concerning the goodness of God as children concerning the goodness of their parents, fancying that there can be no real kindness where there is not an unlimited in- dulgence, _ .. . . - mail wastes his mornings in anticipating i,; a afternoons and lie wastes his afternoons in regretting his mornings. ' We often speak of being settled in life— we might y^ u think of casting anchor in the midst of the Atlantic Ocean, or talk of the permanent situation of a stone that is rolling down hill. If you take a great deal of pairis to serve the world and to benefit your fellow- creatures, and if after, all the world scarcely thanks you for the trouble that you have taken, do not be angry, and make a loud talking about the world's ingratitude, for if you do, it will seem that you cared more about the thanks you were to receive, than about the bless- ings which you professed to bestow. EGYPTIAN POLICE.— The markets of Cairo, and the weights and measures, are under the inspection of an officer called the Mohhtesib. He occasionally rides about the town, preceded by an officer who carries a large pair of scales, and followed by the executioners, and numerous other servants. Passing by shops, or through the markets, he orders each shopkeeper, one after another, or sometimes only one here and there, to produce his scales, weights, and measures, and tries whether they be correct. He also inquires the prices of provisions at the shops where such articles jrp Often, too, he stops a servant, or ntu—-,——•• ger, in the street, whom he may chance to meet carrying any article of food that he has just bought, and asks him for what sum, or at what weight, he purchased it. When he finds that a shopkeeper has incorrect scales, weights, or measures, or that he lias sold a thing deficient in weight, or above the regular market- price, he punishes him on the spot. The general punishment is beating or flogging. Once I saw a man tormented in a different way, for selling bread deficient in weight. A hole was bored through his nose, and a cake ness, was suspend ™ - jyd ^. fjnf^' f sFring1' fejhick" stripped naked, with the exception of having a piece of linen about his loins, and tied, with his arms bound behind him to the bars of a window of a mosque, called the Ashrafeeyeh in the principal street of the metropolis, his feet resting upon' the silf. He remained thus about three hours, exposed to the gaze of the multitude which thronged the street, and to the scorching rays of the sun. A person who was appointed Mohhtesib, shortly after my former visit to this country, ( Moostufa Kashif, a Kooid) exercised his power in a most brutal manner, clipping men's ears ( that is, cutting off the lobe, or ear lap,) not only for the most trifling transgression, but olten for no offence whatever. He once met an old man driving along several asses laden with water melons, and, pointing to one of the largest of these fruits, asked its price. The old man put his finger and thumb to his ear- lap, and said, " 2ut it, sir. He was asked again and again, and gave the same answer. The Mohhtesib, angry, but unable to refrain from laughing, said, " Fellow, are you mad, or deaf?" " No," replied the old man, " I am neither mad nor deaf, but I know that if I were to say the price of the melon is ten fuddahs, you would say, " Clip his ear;" and if I said five fuddahs, or one fuddah, you would say, " Clip his ear; therefore, clip it at once, and let me pass on." His humour saved him. Clipping ears was the usual punishment inflicted by this Mohhtesb; but sometimes he tortured in a different manner. A butcher, who had sold some meat wanting two ounces of its due weight, he punished by cut- ting off two ounces of flesh from his back. A seller of koonafeh ( a kind of paste resembling vermicelli) having made his customers pay a trifle more than was just, he caused him to be stripped, and seated upon the round copper tray on which the koonafeh was baked, and kept so until he was dreadfully burned. He generally punished dis- honest butchers by putting a hook through their nose, and hanging a piece of meat to it. Meeting, one day, a man carrying a large crate full of earthen water- bottles from Semennood, which he offered for sale as made at Ckine, he caused his attendants to break each bottle, separately, against the vender's head. Moostufa Kashif also exercised his tyianny in other cases than those which properly fell under his jurisdiction. He once took a fancy to send one of bis horses to a bath, and desired the keeper of a bath in his neighbourhood to prepare for receiving it, and to wash it well, and make its coat very smooth. The bath- keeper, annoyed at so extraordinary a command, ventured to sug- gest, that, as the pavements of the bath were of marble, the horse might slip, and fall; and also, that it might take cold on going out; and that it would, therefore, be better for him to convey to the stable the contents of the cistern of the bath in buckets, and there to perform the operation. Moostufa Kastiif said, " I see how it is ; you do not like that my horse should go into your bath." He desired some of his servants to throw him down, and beat him with staves, until he should tell him to stop. They did so, and beat the poor man till he died Lane's Egypt. ROME.— Many a town of Great Britain, consisting of only 30,000 souls, produces a greater quantity of manufactured articles than the three million inhabitants of the Pontifical States— notwithstanding the enormous sacrifices made by the Papal government, the protections, the prohibitions, the premiums given for the encouragement of what is called native industry. At Rome, as elsewhere, there has long existed a desire and a determination to introduce and to sup- port a manufacturing interest— no matter at what sacrifice of other advantages, or of other interests— no matter at what cost to the agriculturists, at what loss to the treasury, at what hardship to the consumer; but in Rome, as else- where, the measures taken to increase and improve manu- facturing produce have been the main causes of decline and decay. Premiums and protections have only served to re- ward and to render permanent the most rude and ignorant processes of manufacture ; and prohibition, as far as it has succeeded ( and it has succeeded of course in the coarser and cheaper articles, which cannot pay the smugglers' profits) prohibition has kept away those superior foreign manufac- tures, whose presence would have compelled improvement in the home production. I visited some of the woollen manufactures, being the most important. Scarcely a valuable discovery had been introduced: the spinning— in some cases by hand, in other by machinery— far behind the universal progress in England, Belgium, Prussia, or France; the looms such as were generally employed in the fourteenth century, little better than those used by the Indians of the Dekkan ; the roving and carding all done by solitary work- men, and with the ancient teasels and hand cards; the shearing with the antique hand shears, such as have been employed from time immemorial; and in some places I saw the fulling performed by men halfnaked, employed to trample upon the cloth— a process, probably, not now to be found in any part of the civilised world. How then can it be an object of wonder, if manufactures, instead of making pro- gress, remain stationary or fall into decay, while rival pro- ductions move forward in the career of constantly improving change. In the Hospital of St. Michael they have, the privilege of furnishing cloth for the apostolical palaces and for the pontifical troops. The manufacture employs nothing but the national wool. The spinning is done by hand, for the most part by women confind in the various prisons; the warping is also done by manual labour; and it is made a boast that no machinery is employed where the work can be done without it. There are twenty- five looms in the esta- blishment, and 850 persons are employed. 30,000 canne of cloth ( about 77,500 yards) are said by M. Morichini to be the annual produce; and I should imagine they have the distinction of being the most costly cloth produced in Eu- rope at the present time. There are twelve conservatories in Rome, containing 572 inmates in all ( the average being forty- eight, the smallest number eight, and the highest 100.) In most of these some manufacture is carried on, but I be- lieve wholly by hand labour.— Bowring's Report. SIERRA LEONE.— But though the very name of Sierra Leone is allied to death and desolation in English ears, still our friend avers that it is a right pleasant place to live in. The sun may blaze at the rate of from 80 to 100 in the shade, or 120 in the open air, but then the glorious sea breeze, which blows with unintermitting freshness, is a doctor for almost all the ills it brings. Provisions are cheap and plentiful— fruits are abundant and delightful, and full of the acid qualities which are so grateful to burning stomachs in a tropical clime; and the Sierra Leone river, which is nine miles broad at Freetown, bestows a plenteous banquet of fish, while the pastures around give weight and fatness to the hairy African sheep. In matter of health, our informant is of opinion that, by proper attention to temperance and diet, much of the mortality which has sunk the fair fame of the colony, might be averted, and he points to one gentleman who has observed these requisites, and is still a hale and hearty member of the colony, after a residence of more than twenty- three years; but from this category, epidemics such as those which have desolated the colony in 1829, and in the present sea- son, are excepted for the same reasons that cholera is passed over in speaking of the usual causes of mortality in Britain. Already the vicinity is becoming more lightsome, and the fogs and rains less general, from the clearing of the dense masses of jungle or brushwood which covered the soir, and impeded ventilation ; and from this progress of improve- ment, mountain tops, where even a few years ago the thick mist floated the whole year round, now raise their summits to the sky clear as ether. The appearance of the external world, immediately after the rainy season, is beatific: vegetation rushes over the earth with a race- horse speed which we in this " distant island of the Gentiles" wot little of, and the magnificent flush of tropical flowers, and the grateful verdure of the orange, cocoa nut, palm, and teak tree, would say that here nature holds holiday. Boating, horse- racing, shooting, and bathing, are amusements which give life and elasticity to European frames, and not less cheering are the balls over which the more respectable of the black traders preside, and to which the young whites are invited; here are contra dances and Scotch reels to the music of the black militia band ; and altogether, between business, pleasure, and money- making, time passes away with exceedingly little of tropical torpor. The white society is certainly not very extended, consisting, as we have stated, of about seventy- five individuals, of whom only eight are ladies, all married, and singularly exclusive, so far as the younger portion of the British population is concerned. But above all the colony enjoys the blessings ot peace, and has , iune so uninterruptedly since the disturbances of 1800; even in case of danger there is ample space in the fort for the safety and protection of the English, but fortunately it has never been necessary that they should retire to it ; for though the neighbouring tribes are often at dagger- drawing with each other, they always find it their interest to remain good and faithful allies of fler Britannic Majesty. Crimes against the British part of the population are almost entirely confined to acts of petty pilfering, or the mystification which exists in African brains respects the proper definition of meum and teuum. Those inferring violence to either person or property are almost unknown, but, in their intercourse with each other, the blacks are not so fastidious, and occa- sionally they aim so well, and strike so deep, that the highest punishment of the law is called on to meet the demerits of the culprits, and " deter all others from doing the like in time coming." It is questionable if in any case the spectacle of public executions produce that moral effect as a warning to others which legislators have intended ; and undoubtedly at Sierra Leone this objection applies with full force. Our friend speaks of an execution in which two sable criminals sUrC » ,> « ] their lives for some rrigiurui , •... „ llI[ lri(. Q so tar irw. f « „| j/ Mr the awful nature of their situation, were quite well pleaSOT„ , he prominent position they held, as the observed of all obse. .. and lhe gilully trowsers and jackets with which they had been p. u, idod for the occasion appeared to banish from them all vulgar notions of the rope. No sooner is the bolt withdrawn than the concourse, how- ever great, take to their heels; they are afraid of sustaining injury from the angry spirits of the condemned. But alto- gether the affair is regarded much in the light of an exhi- bition on a large scale— something like the ascent ofabal. loon, or the letting off of fire works nearer home, a Jr!" L?'?!' y 18 <? erllaPs the only one in which there is not v8ff„? Jer-° f 1 ! e Br t. i8" arn'y quartered; it is some ftJVT6 tf? wllite tro° P'i w<-' re withdrawn from Ih » T' . .' ey not bfce? thus rt: movl'( I. ' t is possible that the devotion to rum on the part of the privates, would have marched them off,,, another way. Sierra Leone, however, has its army of free blacks, dignified by the title of the Royal J^ T' ,0ftcr" by tl, e wh^ e Population, and from 200 to 500 of Whom frequently do duty in the barracks at _ THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, SEPTEMBER 2. 115 one time. So rapid is promotion in the corps, from the constant change of population in the colony, that the senior lieutenant of the militia has not numbered twenty- four summers. There are four physicians and one apothe- cary in the colony, and our townsman, Dr. Fergusson, is attached to the Royal African Corps, which we have noticed. It is pleasing to'be able to record that this gentleman, who has, with few exceptions, heen blessed with vigorous health, has earned, by his indefatigable devotion to his profession, his ability, and kindness of disposition, golden opinions from all men, and his retirement from the colony, come when it may, would be regarded in the light of a public loss. The majority of the negroes call themselves Christians, but in reality they generally know as little about the principles of our faitli as their brethren of the interior. A number ol them, however, delight to follow the doctrines of Mahomet, as there is more show and outward observance about it, and therefore more captivating to minds which cannot dive below the surface. Rum at 4s. 4d. the gallon is the great bane of the lower classes, and were the principles of temper- ance firmly planted among the Sierra Leonites, much more would be heard of its prosperity, and less of its mortality. But the colony, with its government chaplain, and the array of voluntary YVesleyan and other missionaries, has as yet made very little progress in the path of morality— Dumfries Courier. THE WILLS ACT. The following regulations and directions in regard to wills have heen extensively circulated by order of the Secretary of State:— Directions for making a Will or Codicil, required by Slat. 1 Victoria, c. 26, t. 9, to be observed after the end of the year 1837. 1. The will or codicil must be signed at the foot or end thereof by the testator. 2. If he does not sign, it must be signed by some other person in his presence, and by his direction 3. The signature must be made, or acknowledged, by the testator, in the presence of two or more witnesses present at the same time. 4. The witnesses must attest and subscribe the will or codicil in the presence of the testator. 7' he principal Regulations contained in the recent act ( 1 Vic- toria, c. 26) for amending the laws with respect to Willi, which will take effect on the first day of 1838. No will made by any person under the age of 21 years will be valid Sec. 7. The new statute does not alter the law as to the wills of married women.— Sec. 8. The regulations to be observed in making a will or codicil are as follow:— 1. The will or codicil must be signed at the foot or end thereof by the testator. 2. If he does not sign, it must be signed by some other person in his presence, and by his direction. 3. The signature must be made, acknowledged, by the testator, in the presence of two or more witnesses present at the same time. 4. The witnesses must attest and subscribe the will or codicil in the presence of the testator.— Sec. 9. Appointments by will, under a power, are made subject to the above- mentioned regulations Sec. 10. The testator's marriage is a revocation of this will ( ex- cepting in certain cases of exercise of powers)— Sec. 18. The revocation of a will or codicil may be by any one of the following means:— 1. By a will or codicil executed in the manner above mentioned. 3. By a writing declaring the intent to revoke, and exe- cute)! as a will. 2. By burning, tearing, or destroying of the will by the testator, with intent to revoke, or by some person in his presence and by his direction.— Sec. 20. Alterations made in wills must be executed in like man- ner as wills. N. B.— The signature of the testator and subscription of witnesses may be made in the margin, or opposite, or near to, the alteration, or at the end of a memorandum, on the will, referring to the alteration.— Sec. 21. Residuary devises in wills will include ( unless a contrary intention appear in the will) estates comprised in lapsed or void devises. MR. ROEBUCK AND THE WHIGS. The honourable ex- member has addressed the fol- lowing' remarks to his friends in Bath :— The general election is now nearly at an end, and the character of the corning Parliament may be easily ascer- tained from a reference to the event of the separate contests that have taken place. To the general result of these elec- tions I appeal for the justification of my past conduct as respects the Whig ministry. By the event I desire to he judged; and I boldly challenge denial to the assertion that the bitter, but wholesome, truths told by me during the last' session of the late Parliament have received signal and in- structive confirmation by the defeat of the Liberal party in this so- called appeal to the nation. On the defeat itself, no one in his senses now doubts. It may be denied by party writers in party journals— the ex- pectant friends of the Ministry may publicly affect to talk of victory; but ill private— to themselves and their friends— the painful truth is acknowledged; the Tories have been victorious in the late contest. I will now proceed to explain why, at this moment, I in- sist upon this painful and humiliating circumstance. During the late contest for the representation of Bath, we had two Bets of opponents— the one open and avowed, viz., the Tories; the other, under the guise of pretended friendship, our most mischievous, because hidden, enemies, viz., the Whigs of Bath. The charges broughtby these two parties against me, varied in appearance, and it was sup- posed by some, that they did so in reality; however, the expressions in which these charges were made had some- times a wonderful similarity, and they may he briefly sum- med up in the oft- repeated phrase, " Oh, Mr. Roebuck goes too far." Going too far for the Tories every body under- stands ; it meant in my case, that I was determined to root out irresponsible government, to put down religious intolerance, to destroy all extravagant expenditure of the people's money; and also, as far as possible, to improve the intelligence and morality of the people, thus making them worthy of self- government. For all this the Tories naturally hated me; but all this the Whigs pretended also to desire. How did it happen that during the last session of Parliament they discovered that I went too far? Dur- ing the last session of Parliament, I, as often as the oppor- tunity offered, warned the present government that their tenure of office was drawing to a close. I told them that under the present defective system of representation no liberal government could long continue ; that with a people in a high state of enthusiasm— in an excitement bordering on revolution— a liberal House of Commons, even by the present defective machinery, could be re- turned ; but that as such a state of enthusiasm was ne- cessarily short- lived, and that, as in the ordinary calm of life, the Tory interest would predominate, they ( the present government) ought to feel that a few months would put an end to their Ministerial existence. I insisted, then, upon still further changes in our electo- rial system. Day by day I saw the enthusiasm raised by the Reform act cooling down. Personal and private and sinister interests were hourly gaining strength, and to me it appeared the duty of every honest representative of the people to press upon the consideration of those in power the necessity ol forming such institutions as would, in the ordinary states of public feeling, provide for us a good and liberal government. It was because I thus warned the government; because I pressed upon them the consideration of the necessity for the Ballot and an extension of the suf- frage ; because I told them that defeat awaited them if they remained inflexible on these matters; because, while so doing, I called in question the honesty or intelligence of those who were blind to the coming consequences of our present condition— it was for this that I was accused of going too far— it was for that Whigs and Tories joined to raise a cry against me— it was for this that they sought to exclude from Parliament him who could and would claim a hearing for disagreeable convictions. But what has the event proved? Is not the Tory influence daily increasing, as the enthusiasm of 1832 is disappearing? Have not the late elections proved all my anticipations of evil but too well founded ? For once men make great sacrifices, but no man is m. uugii a whole life. The feelings of the husband and the father necessarily blot out those of the citizen when they are constantly opposed, and that they are so opposed in the case of the liberal voter of every town or county in the kingdom is but too well known. Ask your- selves if I am not correctly describing your own condition. What solicitations, what threats, what hidden, what open corruption and bribery have you not experienced? How many have you seen yield to lear or to temptation? How often have you heard a tradesman say " my heart is with you ; but I dare not vote for you ?" Three times within five years has every man in Bath been called upon ' o meet all the evils which are denoted by this significant phrase. In 1832, in 1831, tl> c7 were oUte to withstand terror and temptation. In 1837 they had no longer courage to resist and can we wonder? Ought not our wonder and our in- dignation be reserved, not for the poor voter who succumbs, but for the foolish or dishonest statesman who so frames the law as to subject him to this ordeal? Because I did so— because I blamed Lord John Russell, and did not pour out the vials ol my wrath upon the eternal topics of Whig de- clamation, corruption and intimidation— because I sought to cure the evil in its cause the Whigs deserted me, and wisely added two stanch supporters to the rapidly- increasing party of the Tories, and took two steady friends from the as rapidly- decreasing body of the ministerialists. I had given, it seems, inexpiable offence by laising Tory cheers in the House of Commons. Alas, if that were a crime, the most offending might be found on the Treasury bench. Deafen- ing have been the Tory shouts that the ministerial leadei has raised when assailing the Ballot; when in vague and inane generalities he has talked of preserving inviolate the constitution; when he blindly threw away his own chance of retaining power, and subjected the defenceless people to the cruelty of the rich oppressor. These cheers, however, were not offensive. The applause the Whigs could not stomach was that which was raised by the indignant de- scription of their own shuffling and knavery. CORONER'S INQUEST. On Saturday last an inquest was held at the house of Mr. Davenport, Hospital- street, on the body of a boy named Tart, about fifteen years of age, who lately died in the Hos- pital, in consequence of injuries he received in the month of June last, in a scuffle with a man named John Barrow, a labourer employed upon the Liverpool and Birmingham Railroad. Since the occurrence. Barrow has been in prison, and was brought, in custody of the police- officers, to the inquest- room. The following is the evidence given in the case:— William Mathison examined: I live at Amstead Bridge; I am not in any particular trade; I live with my father upon his property; on the 10th of June last I saw the prisoner at a beer- shop kept by a man named James Birch ; it was between five and six o'clock in the evening I saw him come out of the public- house; I saw him come out of the public- house; I saw about twenty lads outside the house; they were making a great noise, and swearing they would kill some one; the prisoner came out of the house whilst the boys were there, and passed through them; I cannot say whether the deceased was in front of the house at the time; the prisoner had on at the time he came out of the house his working dre6s, and an adze upon his shoulder; the prisoner passed close to me, and I was about seven yards from the public- house door; when the prisoner was descending down the slope of the railway, I heard some of the boys say, " Here is in to him;" that is a slang phrase; the hoys then began to throw at the prisoner, and. he ran about 100 yards from them ; he then stopped, anil said something to them, but what I do not know; the prisoner then set on to run again; the boys pursued him, and he ran about another 100 yards, when he again stopped, and the deceased came up to him, and a scuffle ensued; the prisoner had his adze over his shoulder at the time ; they were both down in the scuffle, but who struck first I cannot say; I saw the prisoner hit the deceased two or three times with the adze upon the back ; I am sure I saw him strike him on the shoulder; I did not see him hit deceased upon the head; I was about 150 yards from them ; they were both down at one time, but the prisoner got up first, and then struck the boy with the adze; the deceased had hold of the prisoner's legs; the prisoner again ran away, and left the deceased upon the ground; the other boys then followed the prisoner; I then went up to the deceased, and I saw a cut upon his head ; he lay senseless; we carried him up to the lime pit in a cart, and sent him to the hospital; I saw no injury upon his back; he struck him with the hack of the adze. Coroner: Can you undertake to swear you sawhim strike with the back of the adze, you being at the time 150 yards from him ? Witness: I am almost positive he did, but I will not swear it; some of the boys beside the deceased were near the prisoner at the time, and they were between me and the prisoner, but there was a turn on the railway, which enabled me to see the whole affair; the deceased was at the bottom of the slope of the railway when he was struck; when 1 went up to him I saw some blood and hair upon a piece of stone that projected out of the railway; the stone was about half- a- yard above the boy's head. A piece of stone was here produced, but the witness could not identify it; in continuation, he said the projecting stone was so near the head of the deceased that he might have fallen upon it in the scuffle. An adze was next produced, but the witness could not identify it; he said it was like that which the prisoner had in his hand. Cross- examined by Mr. Edmonds : The boys were em- ployed driving horses on the railroad ; from all I heard said by the boys, I can positively swear they meant the prisoner when they threatened to kill somebody at the public- house, and when they followed him ; the deceased ran after the prisoner before the scuffle; he ran about 100 yards; the deceased was the first of the crowd of boys who were run- ning after the prisoner; the deceased was throwing stones at the prisoner; I think I saw about fifty stones thrown at the prisoner, and some of them hit him on the back; from what I saw I am certain the prisoner was in danger of his life. William Scott, a labourer, examined : On Saturday even- ing, the 10th day of June, I was in Birch's beer- shop, and when I caine out I saw a lot of boys standing round the prisoner; they all had got stones in their hands; I did not then see the deceased; I then went up to the prisoner, and said to him, " Jack, you had better go away;" he said I will if they will let me; he then came out from amongst the boys, and started off down the cutting, and ran away; the boys followed him; I heard some ol them say, " Damn him, we will murder him if we catch him;" I then saw the boys run after him, and pelt him with stones; they overtook him after a run of 150 yards ; the deceased went up to the prisoner, and the prisoner stopped, and I saw the deceased lift up his arm, and fling at the prisoner a stone, or something like it; the moment after 1 saw the deceased throw the stone, I saw the prisoner drop upon one knee; the prisoner then got up, and they had a sharpish turn together, and both fell hack into the ditch at the side of the railway; the prisoner got up, and ran away; I was about forty yards from the parties; I did not see the prisoner strike with the adze; I can't say whether he did or did not strike the deceased with the adze; I went up to the deceased, and found him lying rather on one side, with his head upon a stone, and the blood was trickling down the stone frcm his head. Cross- examined: I know the boys have been in the habit of going about in gangs, and if any words occurred with them and any of the men, they used to make a row; I was afraid he would get into a row with them, as other men had, and that they would ill use him ; 1 heard three or four of the boys swear they would kill him. By a Juror: Did any of the other boys interfere with the prisoner at the time of the scuffle between the prisoner and the deceased? Witness : Yes, they threw stones at the prisoner. William Ray examined : I saw the prisoner come out of Birch's public- house, and the boys had some words with him; I heard the prisoner say when he was starting from the door he should misuse them, if they followed and ill treated him ; the boys were of that description that it was quite dangerous to speak to them ; if anything was said to them, oi if they were displeased they would kick up a row, and send out and get a gang of fifty or sixty together; I knew they were a dangerous set of boys; I have known them follow Mr. Townsend himself and swear at him; there is no doubt the prisoner's life was in danger from the attack of the boys. Mr. Bindley, surgeon, was next examined, and he proved that the deceased died from the wound upon the head ; from the nature of the wound, it was his opinion the wound had been inflicted by an instrument such as the adze produced. He would not swear it had been, but the great probability was that it had, rather than by the fall against the stone. The Coroner referred minutely to the evidence. He said there were two or three points which the jury would have attentively to consider. First, whether the injury of which the deceased died had been produced by a blow of the adze, or by a fall. Secondly, supposing it to have been occasioned by a blow of the adze, had the prisoner received any or sufficient provocation. If he struck the blow without pro- vocation, it would, of course, he murder; if he received provocation, and a conflict had ensued, in which death en- sued, then it would be manslaughter. The deceased closed with the prisoner and fell, and in the full received the fatal wound, or whether the prisoner struck him in self- defence. In the latter case it would amount to no more than justifiable homicide. It appeared to him the prisoner had received provocation, and if the witnesses were deserving of credit, ( and he saw nothing to induce him to believe they were not), he must say he had received great provocation. If they believed his life was in danger from the violence of the boys, and that, under such circumstances, he struck him a blow which caused his death, they would return a verdict of justifiable homicide. The Jury consulted for a few seconds, and returned a verdict of " justifiable homicide." The facts which led to the affray, but which did not transpire in evidence are these : — It appears that there were employed on the railroad, at the time of the accident, a great number of boys from the age of six years and upwards; that they were of the most brutal and illiterate description, and used to congregate together in gangs; that they were in the habit of demanding money or drink, as they pleased, from men upon the line, and if refused, they waylaid the man. and beat on me e- r » ..:~ H ot them went into the public- house where Barrow and another man were drinking. They took up the vessels out of which they were drinking, and on being told they must not take the drink, they became insolent, swore they would fetch the gang and murder Barrow. They accordingly col- lected the gang, and waited outside the door until the men came out, when, as detailed above, they followed him, and compelled him, in his own defence, to knock one of them down. The poor man bears an excellent character, and was deeply affected during the investigation. Mr. Edmonds attended for Barrow, and no one who beard the evidence for a moment believed him morally or legally guilty. He was immediately liberated. DINNER AT THE TOWN HALL TAVERN. On Tuesday last week, the Ann- street district committee dined at the above house. The dinner was excellent, and served up in good style. Mr. John Pierce presided as chairman, and Mr. Couts as vice- chairman. On the right of the Chairman sat Mr. P. H. Muntz ; oil his lefi Thomas Attwood, Esq., M. P. Mr. Scholefield, owing to prior engagements, was unfortunately unable to attend. The cloth having been removed, the Chairman proposed in ap- propriate speeches the following toasts, which were received with enthusiastic cheering : — " The Queen." " The People, the only source of all legitimate power." Mr. SALT, in compliance with a general call from the company, responded to the last toast, and after showing that, in reality, all power emanated from the people, par- ticularly the industrious classes, proceeded to the considera- tion of the present existing distress and the cause of it. That distress did exist, and to a great extent, could not be denied, and that it proceeded from bad and dishonest legis lation was equally clear. The people were not represented in the House of Commons; and until they were, they need never expect to be free from those fluctuations n trade and commerce, which had been productive of so much misery. He had great reason, however, for hoping that the people of Birmingham were becoming alive to the real cause of the distress; and the moment they were they would assume such an attitude, as would lead to a speedy redress of their and the nation's grievances. He was engaged in endeavour- ing to disseminate correct information amongst the people ; and he had the satisfaction of knowing that he had done so with some success. He had engaged to meet the whole of the sixteen district election committees; and he would be able to prove to them that there were only two interests represented in the House of Commons, namely, the monied interest and the landed interest; and that their interest, that of the people at large, was either completely misrepre- sented, or altogether neglected. Toa6t—" Daniel O'Connell, Esq., and justice to Ireland." The CHAIRMAN then rose and said he had to propose a toast, which he was certain would be responded to by all present. It referred to the three great cardinal points upon which the Political Union was based— he meant " House- hold Suffrage, Vote by Ballot, and Short Parliaments." ( Cheers.) Without these measures it was impossible they could ever expect that justice would be done them. A few years ago if a man had talked of these things in a Birming- ham company, he might have expected either to have been thrown behind the fire or out of the window. Now, this was not the feeling. The people were fully convinced of the importance of these measures; and they had only firmly to unite and demand them, and they would obtain them. Toast—" Household Suffrage, Vote by Ballot, and Short Parliaments." The CHAIRMAN again rose, and said he must now request a bumper. He was about to propose the health of a gentle- man, whose merits were too well known to require any ob- servation from him in reference to them. ( Hear, hear.) He meant their honourable guest, Mr. Thomas Attwood. ( Vehement cheering for a long time.) There was one fact connected with the career of Mr. Attvvood which should never be forgotten; and that was, that the main object of his life had been the happiness of his fellow- men. ( Cheers.) He had always foreseen approaching commercial difficulties ; and feeling, as he did, intensely for the honour of his country and the prosperity of the people, had endeavoured to avert the evil by pointing out the remedy. If his advice had been attended to, they would not then have had to wit- ness the appalling distress which existed at that moment. He had that morning, within a few yards of the door of that house, met a pawnbroker who was in extensive business, and the account which he gave him of the misery of the people was most appalling. He assured him he could take him ( Mr. Pierce), at that instant, to the houses of twenty individuals in his immediate neighbourhood who were literally perishing for want of food. ( Hear, hear.) He said he knew it to be a fact, that the great mass of the workmen of Birmingham had pledged all their clothes, and whatever valuable articles they had been possessed of. It was melancholy to see men and women coming to his shop in the morning, craving three or four pence upon some trifling article, to enable them to buy a mouthful of bread for themselves and children. This wts the state of the working men; but that of the little shop- keepers and small manufacturers was not much better. They weie evidently coming down to the same condition of degradation and misery, and if not speedily relieved, would be inevitably ruined. They also were daily pledging. The pawnbrokers' shops were, however, all nearly if not entirely full, and they could not take in many more goods. As to cotton goods, they would not return upon them at all. A pawnbroker who gave to- day a shilling upon a se- cond- hand article, had no security that the price of cotton would not fall so low as to bring a new article of the same kind into the market for a smaller sum to- morrow. This uncertainty and its effects, the poor felt bitterly. This, continued Mr. Pierce, was the description he had read of the state of the poor. This was the state of things which Mr. Attwood had foreseen and foretold ( cheers), and to avert which had been the chief object of all the labour of his life. He trusted the people would, at length," learn, by woeful experience, to attach that importance to Mr. Att- wood's opinion upon these matters, which it deserved; and that they would see the necessity of aiding him in compell- ing the government to relax its pressure upon the poor, The health of Mr. Attwood was then drunk with great cheering. Mr. ATTWOOD returned thanks in a very eloquent and forcible Bpeech, in the course of which he adverted to the distress amongst the poor, and dwelt upon the cause of it in terms similar to those which appear in his speech de- livered on Monday night at the Golden Lion. The CHAIRMAN next proposed the health of Mr. Scholefield, which was received with every demonstration of affection and sincere attachment. He said they would but ill discharge their duty if they omitted to drink the health of Mr. Scholefield, who had been prevented from at- tending on that occasion. Mr. Scholefield had never for- gotten the men of Birmingham. In Parliament and out of Parliament, at home and abroad, the men of Birmingham were ever uppermost in his thoughts, and every vote and act of his public life had been directed towards their honour, happiness, and independence. It would, indeed, be in- gratitude of them if they forgot him during his temporary absence from them. ( Cheers.) He would, therefore, pro- pose to them the health of the honourable gentleman, and call upon Mr. Muntz to acknowledge the toast. Thebealth of Mr. Scholefield was drunk amidst vehement cheering, after which Mr. MUNTZ rose and said he had been put in a very queer situation by his friend Mr. Pierce. He had called upon him to answer for the sins and good qualities of another. Well, he had no objection to answer for the sins of his friend Mr. Scholefield—( hear, hear,)— because he had never known him guilty of one. ( Applause.) He had certainly known a great many of his good qualities, and he felt great pleasure in bearing testimony to them. He had always fought the battle of the people, when engaged in their struggle for a reform of the House of Commons, and since he had been returned to Parliament he had been incessant in his attention, and honest in his votes. Several other toasts were given, and the hilarity was kept up until twelve o'clock. PUBLIC OFFICE MONDAY, AUGUST 14. ( Before R. K. Booth. Esq.) HIGHWAY- BATE Mr. Henry Knight appeared on sum- mons to show cause why he refused to pay two pounds two shillings, for two years highway levy. Mr. Haines, the solicitor, attended on the part of the commissioners, and the summons having been read over, Mr. Knight said he required proof of the rate. The col- lector's book was then handed in, in which the amount claimed from Mr. Knight was set forth. Mr. Knight objected to the production of the book for the purpose of proving the validity of the rate. It was evi- dence that such a sum was entered against his name, but it was not evidence that a rate had been duly and legally made. Mr. Haines referred to the act, which; sets forth that the books are to be held as evidence of the legality of the demand. Mr. Knight concluded that the book was not evidence of the legality of the rate; upon which Dr. Booth said, he had no doubt if the production of the rate book would ob- viate the difficulty, Mr. Haines would have no objection to produce it. Mr. Haines said he had not; and the book was accord- ingly sent for and laid before the bench. Mr. Knight said he was so far satisfied. If he had not felt confident that the ratebook ought to have been pro- duced, he should not have required it. He must, however, say, he could, if he pleased, object to the rate, on the ground of it having been made by gentlemen who. in his opinion, were utterly disauayft° j' ' - .-' aking. a " te. ^ great. < u„,, j, Roiuicinen who had signnt The rate, resided in the parish of Edgbaston, although the act expressly required that no person, except an inhabitant, should act as a com- missioner. Those gentlemen had incurred, by their so acting, ruinous penalties if enforced; but it was not bis in- tention to go further then into tint part of the case, or to ground his objection to the present demand upon the ille- gality of the rate arising from that cause. His objection to the demand was, that the rate had been unjustly collected. In the year 1835 a rate was made ky the commissioners, and that rate he had paid. The grea; mass of the inhabitants bad, no doubt, also paid it; and, he believed, it n not saying too much, when he assertel, that some persons had actually paid that rate, who had been compelled to apply to the parish for money to enable tlum to do so. The rate was made upon a valuation of th: property . in the parish which hail been made by the guardians and overseers of the poor, and included, as a matter of course, the gas companies and the water works. Well, what were the facts? Why Messrs. Arnold and Haines, as solicitors for the gas com- pany, appealed against the valuation of the overseers, and the result of that appeal was, that the valuation was quashed by the Court of King's Bench; anil, notwithstanding this, these same gentlemen, on the part of the commissioners, were now actually employed to enforce from him and others a rate based upon that which they themselves had, no doubt, clearly proved an unjust valuation. Notwithstanding, however, . the extraordinary position in which Mr. Haines had been placed, notwithstanding that he would be com- pelled, in the present instance, to endeavour to prove black white, and white black, it was not his ( Mr. K.' s) intention to deny the validity of the rate. He contended it was a good one; and then he asked, was it justice towards him, was it justice towards the poor, who had been compelled to pay the rate, that they should have been so compelled, whilst the gas companies and other wealthy companies had not been compelled to pay? He had heen told that the Staffordshire Gas Company had paid the commissioners some money on account, until the decision of the Court of King's Bench, relative to the appeal against the valuation should he decided ; but it was an admitted fact, that these great and wealthy companies had not paid the amount of their rates ; and that, whilst he and others were being sum moned and compelled to pay, they were not summoned for their rates. He, therefore, called Hpon the magistrate to recommend the commissioners to apply to these wealthy bodies for payment of their rates, before they compelled him to pay. Mr. Haines, in reply, contended that Mr. Knight's line of argument was altogether irrevelant to the matter at issue. With regard to the first point, namely, that of the disqualification of Commissioners, he would merely observe, it was rather awkward to take up that part of Mr. Knight's argument, inasmuch as the names of none of the gentlemen said to be disqualified had been mentioned by him. He would only say, it was his opinion and that of some of the most competent judges, that actual residence was not ne- cessary to constitute the qualification of a Commissioner. It had been held so in the Bristol case, and in others of a similar nature, where the word " inhabitant" occurred. Certainly, according to the act, in that case, residence was not necessary. With respect to the illegality of the rate, Mr. Knight was the first person who had urged that objec- tion, although in his ( Mr. H.' s) opinion, lie was the last person who ought to complain on that ground, because he was a principal in making the valuation upon which the rate was founded. Mr. Knight: I did not question the validity of the rate. On the contrary, I admitted, and I again admit the rate is perfectly legal. Mr. Haines: The collector was told, when he called upon you, that you questioned the validity of the rate, that it had fallen with the poors'. rate. Mr. Knight: It was a misunderstanding. Mr. Haines : This rate was founded solely and entirely on the valuation of which Mr. Knight was an active promo- ter ; therefore, he again urged, that upon this ground Mr. Knight had no cause of complaint. With regard to adopt- ing the new valuation, it was solely on the ground of the former rate not being equal. That rate was appealed against by several large companies in the town, on the ground that they were too highly assessed. The Court of King's Bench supported this view of the question, and so far from the Commissioners not asking and demanding the rates from these companies, they had received from them about 300/. on account. If the Commissioners had not contested the point, they might well be excused from doing so, when the Overseers and Guardians did not succeed in their litiga- tion. On this ground, therefore, Mr. K. had failed, and upon this ground, it appeared, he was willing to rest his objection. Mr. Haines, in conclusion, observed, that he had answered all Mr. Knight's objections, and called upon the magistrate to make the usual order for enforcing the payment of the rate. Mr. Knight again distinctly disclaimed having founded his objection on the illegality of the rate. His complaint was, that having adopted this rate, and having collected it from him and others, they had not collected it from the wealthy companies of the town. Mr. Haines: We follow the example of the overseers in this. Mr. Knight: Mr. Haines's argument is this— that the rate is good, because it is not appealed against; therefore, being, as he says, good, and not appealed against, I contend that they are bound to collect every rate as it is charged in the book. If he admits it is bad with regard to the Gas companies, it is bad with regard to others, hut as to any arrangement between the Commissioners and them, I contend that Mr. Haines has no authority whatever to enter into it. The magistrate said, having heard the case on both sides, he presumed it would be unnecessary for him to adjudicate, as Mr. Knight would no doubt see the propriety of paying the rate. All the arguments which had been used, as applying to his feelings of equity, convinced him that it was very hard to enforce the rates from one and not collect it from another. There were many difficulties about the subject. It was not as to the question of equity, whether they neglected to urge large claims and enforce minor ones, but as to the validity of the claim that he bad to decide. Mr. Knight's object no doubt was to see that all parties were fairly dealt by, and as the case would go before the public, the object he had in view would, he trusted, be fully answered. Mr. Knight said he hoped it would have the effect of causing the wealthy as well as the poor to pay. With respect to the summons, he would not pay for it. He objected to the rate upon the ground of principle, and for the good of the public, and he ought not to be subject to any expense. The collector said he must enforce the payment. Mr. Knight said he objected on the ground of informality in the summons. It required him to attend in the name of his Majesty. It was, therefore, illegal, because he knew of no king except the King of Hanover,—( laughter)— in whose name they could not summon him. He would not pay for it. ( Before Lloyd Williams, Esq.) FURIOUS DRIVING Mr. Phillips appeared on summons which charged him with furious driving. Mrs. Mary Fisher stated that, on the previous Monday, she and her son, a young boy, were walking along Russell- street, and when at the corner of Weaman- row, Mr. Phillip's servant drove up in a phseton at full gallop. She narrowly escaped being run over, but one of the wheels passed over her child's foot. Mr. Edmonds submitted that the Street act required that the driver in such a case should be summoned, and not the owner of the vehicle. The act was referred to, and such being the case the summons was dismissed. Mrs. Fisher said she should summon the servant. When she remonstrated with him, he asked, " Why the devil she did not keep out of the way." That was all the acknow- ledgment he had made. John Day was charged with having received money from the Overseers of the Poor under false pretences. Mr. Lutwyche stated that the prisoner presented himself at the workhouse for relief; and represented that he had a wife and two children. Having reason to suspect his statement, he caused inquiry to be made, and found the prisoner had been deceiving him. The prisoner admitted the of- offence, and was committed as a rogue and vagabond, for three months to ' he House of Correction. A woman named Maria Lane was charged with having received money from various respectable persons under false representations. Mr. Wright, tobacco manufacturer, stated the prisoner called upon him and produced a memorandum book, which contained a petition on the first page, setting forth that she was the wife of a man named Lane, who had been a short time before robbed and ciuelly beaten, on the road between Walsall and' Birmingham; that her husband was in the Birmingham Workhouse, and that she was craving assist- ance from the humane to enable her to replace the money stolen from her husband, when he should be able to leave the Infirmary. The petition purported to be signed by Mr. Gem, surgeon ; it was signed in a bold good hand, and had all the appearance of a genuine document. On the other page were the names of Captain Moorsom, Mr. Hodgson, Mr. Fiddian, and other respectable gentlemen, who had been induced to subscribe liberally towards the object. He ( Mr. Wright) gave her ten shillings, not having had any doubt of her sincerity. It appeared, however, she had applied to Mr. Salt, and that gentleman, on examining the hook, expressed a doubt respecting Mr. Gem's signature, and said he would send to that gentleman. The prisoner immediately ran away, but was followed and secured. The magistrate said her offence was a grave one.; he ordered her to be committed for one month as a rogue and vagabond. Thomas Heming, Charles Heminy, and Joseph Cooke, were committed for stealing a quantity of bottled porter, the property of Mr. John Johnson, of Bordesley street. It r, u.„ tl. o .„;, lo,, oo, that Mr. Johnson, who is a publican, kept his porter In a stable at the back of his pre mises. For some months past he had been constantly missing bottles of porter, hut without being able to detect the cause. On Sunday morning, the 20th inst., the prisoners were seen going into the stable, and, in the course of the day, they were known to have sold several bottles of porter. The bottles were found upon them, and identified by Mr Johnson. William Richards was committed for stealing a handker- chief and a pair of ear- rings, belonging to Mr. Hollis, jeweller, of Great Hampton- row. The prisoner was in the employment of the prosecutor. Mr. Hollis had missed various articles, and had discharged two men, of whom he entertained suspicion. Of the prisoner he had no suspicion, until he was detected. On the evening of the 9th inst,, it appeared, he contrived to get into the warehouse after busi- ness hours, and, from the warehouse into Mr. Hollis's bed- room, whence he stole the property. Miss Hollis saw him come down ; and, on the following morning, she went with another person to his lodging, when he delivered up the stolen articles. He was committed to the sessions. COUNTKRFEIT COIN William Booker was placed in the dock, charged will) being a maker of bail money. Air. George ltedfern stated that in consequence of in- formation which he had received, he went to the prisoner's house, in Kimherley's court, in Essex- street, on Friday. Smith the street- keeper was with him. The prisoner's wife and her sister were in the lower part of the house. He went up stairs, where he found the prisoner. There was a slow fire in the room, arid near it be found npon the floor, two shilling moulds, and nine counterleit shillings. There was also a spoon with metal in it. Charles Smith, street- keeper, said he accompanied Mr. Redfern to the prisoner's house. When he went into the upper room he seized hold of the prisoner, who endea- voured to escape; he had six counterfeit shillings in his hand, and he found thirteen in another part of the room. The prisoner told him he had beeii hard up for want of work, and he thought it better to turn into that work, than go housebreaking. Jane Keeling, the girl whose name appeared in connection with Thompson, at present in custody for attempting to murder his wife, was brought up charged with robbing hec master. Mrs. Mauley, of Colmore street, stated that the prisoner lived as servant with her for two weeks. She left on the 8th of August. She had no other servant during the fort- night besides the prisoner. After she left, she ( Mrs. M.) missed, from a chest of drawers in her bed- room, two pair of silk stockings, a ring, and a 5/. note of the York District Bank. The locks of the drawers had been picked, and in- jured very much. When she missed the things, she went into the room which had been occupied as a sleeping room by the prisoner, and she there found the ring under the bed. She did not then, nor had she since seen any of the property. Mr. Mauley proved, that on the 7th of August, the day before the prisoner left his service, he went up into his bed- room and locked all the drawers of his chest. He particu- larly observed that there were ten five- pound notes of the York District Bank in one of the drawers, and when he again examined them he found only nine. He also missed the spoons and ring. The prisoner was committed. Louisa Edwards and Mary New some were charged with stealing 10/., belonging to Mr. Wm. llotton, fishmonger, of Dale- end. Mr. Rotton stated, that the prisoner Ed- wards had been his servant up to the 18th of August. On the 17th of August he counted out 10/. in silver, and placed it in two cartridges of paper upon his kitchen table. He and his wife went up stairs and presently came down again, and he then proceeded by the omnibus to Dudley on busi- ness. When he came down he missed the money, hut he thought Mrs. Rotton bad taken it up, and Mrs. Rotton thought he had taken it with him, so that until he ieturnej next morning it was not enquired after by either. When he mentioned the circumstance, the prisoner Edwards made out of the house unknown to him, and without either bon- net or shawl. She was afterwards taken into custody at Walsall, when she acknowledged the robbery, and said the prisoner Newsome had assisted her in buying goods with the money. The prisoner Edwards was committed, and Newsome was discharged. James Morris was committed for stealing a spade, a rake, a pair of shears, and a pair of gloves, from a garden at Ashted, belonging to Mr. John Hoisley. Wm. Wilkinson, George Owen, and John Sidaway, three well known daring thieves, were charged with assault, and attempt at highway robbery. The prosecutor, a bricklayer, named Thomas Stevens, was conveyed to the office in a car. He exhibited a most pitiable appearance from the effects of the beating he had received. On being sworn and examined, he stated that he lived in Spring- street. On Monday night, the 21st of August, about twelve o'clock, I was re- turning home along the Bell Barn- road when I met five men; they stopped me and asked me for money; I said I had not any money, and was endeavouring to pass on when one of the men gave me a dreadful blow, and knocked me against the wall. He said if I did not give him a quart of ale he would knock me down ; Stevens then told him again that he had nothing, upon which the man knocked him down ; and the whole of the party fell upon and beat him dreadfully; he felt their hands in his pockets, and he heard one of them say, " take off his neckerchief;" another of them tried his neckerchief, and said, " never mind, it is not silk, it is not worth anything." They then left him, and he got up and walked into an entry, upon which they followed him and again set upon him, and beat him and kicked him very badly. They kicked him terribly, and broke four of his ribs; he lost his senses, and remembered no more until he found himself at home, and the doctor with him ; he did not know any of the men ; he had no money. Edward Savage stated, that he lived on the Bell Barn- road. On the night of the attack upon Stevens he was at home; he heard men hooting, and he raised up his window sash and looked out; be saw five men go up to Stevens, and heard one of them ask him for a quart of ale; he said Stevens had called him a rogue, and he must pay him a quart of ale; he then struck him, and they fell to beating him. One of them said, " he had made his blood fly from him ;" another said, " he would murder him, or any watch- man who would take his part;" he called out from the win- dow'to them; he then dressed himself, and when the watchman and others came tip he went with them after the five men, and they took the three prisoners, who were three of the party; the other two got away. It was Wilkinson who first spoke to Stevens, and demanded the ale from him ; and it was he who said he would murder him; he was the man who first followed him down the entry; Sidaway said he had made his blood fly. Samuel Steward stated, that he was on the road at the time of the attack, and he saw the prisoners go up to Ste- vens, and heard Wilkinson demand the ale; and saw him and the party heat Stevens. Mr. Mills said, he lived on the Bell Barn- road; he went to his door when he heard the noise and cry of minder; he saw Stevens against the wall, and Wilkinson before him, calling out to him to come on; blood was running down Stevens's face ; be asked Wilkinson if he meant to kill the man, upon which the fellow replied, " he would punch his b—- y head off, and his ( Mr. M.' s) after." Enoch Williams stated, that he heard the cry of murder; he ran up and found Stevens lying on the ground in a wretched condition; there were no lamps in the road ; and it was a very lonely dark place. Mr. Bracey, surgeon, was coming by at the time, and he asked that gentleman to ac- company him up the road, and he did so. Mr. Edmonds, who attended for the prisoners, cross- examined the witness, but without being able to shake the evidence. The prisoners were committed to the assizes. The case excited great interest, and occupied the court until past five o'clock. Wilkinson was tried a year and a half ago for a rape, and narrowly escaped. The others are equally well known to the police. THURSDAY, AUGUST 31. ( Before Richard Spooner, Esq.) John Rowley was charged with attempting to pick pockets in the Market Hall. Mrs. Haywood of Brickiln- street, stated that on Satur- day evening, as she and her mother were entering the Mar- ket- hall, the prisoner and two others rushed against them, and presently her mother found the prisoner's hand in her pocket. She gave the alarm, upon which prisoner turned round and struck her child, which Mrs. Haywood had in her arms. The prisoner, in answer to questions by the magistrate, said he came from Bristol to look for work. He was com- mitted to the House of Correction for three months, as a rogue and vagabond. John Lindon was committed to the sessions for stealing a pair of hames, the property of John Kingston, The pri- soner broke open the prosecutor's stable on the night of the the 28th of August, and stole tile property, which was after- wards found in his possession. Thomas Allis was charged with stealing a pair of trowsers from the house of Captain Ilodgkins. There was not the least evidence, comparatively speaking, against the prisoner, and he was discharged. William Miness was committed for stealing two loaves from the shop of Mr. Munn, baker. The prisoner is an old offender, and was discharged fiom Warwick gaol last sessions. James Mills was committed for stealing four wheeling tools, belonging to Mr. W. Harcourt, brassfounder. Ann Thompson was charged with stealing three pair of socks belonging to Mrs. Elizabeth liolt. On the 28th day of August the prisoner went into Mrs. Bolt's shop, and asked to see some stockings, and while Mrs. Bolt was turn- ing round to reach her down the stockings, she took up three pair of socks off the counter, and ran out of the shop, i She was pursued and taken into custody. The prisoner was committed. William Gregory was committed for stealing a parcel of stockings and gloves from out of a waggon, at the Bell, in Phillip- street. The parcel had been sent that morning from Messrs. Corah and Sons to Warner, carrier, to be delivered at Alvechurch, and it had scarcely been placed in the wag- gon, when the prisoner was seen taking the parcel and run- ning away with it. He was pursued into the Inkleys, and after a sharp encounter with some thieves, who came to his assistance, he was secured, and taken to prison. Thomas Ward was committed for stealing some wearing apparel, belonging to Thomas Mole. The prisoner and prosecutor were fellow lodgers in Slaney- street, and on the morning of the 30th of August, file former got up, and hav- ing put on the prosecutor's clothes, he decamped. Mary Jordan, an old Irish woman, was committed for one month, for begging in the street. 4 WILL OPEN ON TUESDAY OR WEDNESDAY NEXT, FOR A SHORT TIME ONLY. PATRONISED BY ROYALTY AND THE FASHIONABLE WORLD. DEPOT DU PALAIS ROYAL DE PARIS At the Spacious Booms, between Radenhurst's Royal Hotel and the Theatre, New- street, Birmingham. MESSRS. LOUIS AND CO. ( from Palais Royal de Paris, and French Houses Leamington and Worthing,) beg most respectfully to inform the Nobility, Gentry, and Public of Birmingham and its neighbourhood, having just returned from the Continent, where they have become the sole Purchasers of the Bankrupt's Stock of Messrs. LE ROY and Co., of Paris and Geneva, a magnifi- cent and valuable Stock of JEWELLERY and FANCY GOODS, which is too well known to need description; but . finding them too immense for their Establishment, have come to a determination to accede to the kind advice of their numerous patrons, viz. Families of Distinction in this county, to bring this elegant Stock to Birmingham for the approaching Festival. It is from circumstances like these that the Messrs. LOUIS and Co. pjedge themselves to offer a saving of full 30 per cent, from the usual prices. The Stockconsistsof PARISIAN, GENEVA, FRANK- FORT, AND BERLIN FANCY GOODS, of the most highly useful and ornamental description ; several of which are in a style entirely novel in this country, and which Messrs. L. and Co. pledge themselves have never been equalled for elegance and beauty. LOUIS A ND CO. are so well known among the British Nobility and Gentry, that they need not comment respect- ing their splendid and valuable Stock, of the mode in which they conduct their transactions in their English Establishments. This splendid Stock consists of very ingenious manufac- tured Jewellery, set with Diamonds, Pearls, Cameos, Mosaics, and valuable Stones ; Geneva and other flat gold, and enamelled horizontal lever watches; musical cabinet boxes, playing from one to six overtures each; the finest specimens of Berlin and Dresden china; best polished jets; the Berlin iron ornaments; musical pendulum clocks, in or- molu, platina, alabaster, and bronze; ivory and other valuable work boxes ; the Hungarian opals; and a thousand other curious articles of the most interesting description. Qsg" L. and Co. particularly call the attention of the lovers of music to their splendid Musical Boxes, as many of them play six of the most celebrated German, Italian, and French Overtures. Ladies' or Gentlemen's Jewellery exchanged, or re- modelled in the last and most fashionable style. The newly- invented self- playing instrument THE EUTERPEON. One of those most splendid and costly Instruments has been lately imported by Messrs. Louis and Co., and will be by them exhibited gratis to their patrons at Birmingham. This astonishing and powerful instrument is capable of perform- ing the most difficult pieces from the finest operas, and with such a delightful precision, that it has called forth from the numerous composers and musicians who have heard it, the most enthusiastic applause. The one in Birmingham per- forms 50 pieces from the most popular operas of the day, viz : Gustavus— Lestoque— Masaniello— II Barbier de Se- ville— Oberon— Sorinambula— II Puritani— Polish, German, French, and English National Airs, & c. & c. & c. Messrs. Louis and Co. having been advised by their Soli- citors, that in removing part of their Stock from their regular Establishments, it may come under the License Act, they comply therewith. HYMEN LOUIS, Licensed Hawker, No. 22- 22, A: CABINET MANUFACTORY, AND UPHOLSTERY WAREHOUSE, 16, WORCESTER- STREET, Opposite the Market Hall, Birmingham. JWRIGHT respectfully calls the attention of • FAMILIES FURNISHING to his now very complete and extensive STOCK in the above branches. Families requiring to complete their establishments previous to the approaching Musical Festival, will find this collection of Cabinet Furniture, Upholstery, & c., one of the most extensive out of the Metropolis. J. W. begs to observe that the system of moderate charges is still most strictly adhered to in every department of his business. HOWQUA'S MIXTURE, AND HOWQUA'S SMALL LEAF GUNPOWDER. THE sole proprietor of the above celebrated TEAS has appointed J. E. LISSETER, Confectioner, 53, New- street, and 37, Colmore- row, sole Agent for the sale of them in Birmingham. These are the ordy Teas under those names which have been supplied for the ROYAL USE. " HOWQUA'S MIXTURE" is a mixture of Black Teas, all of the very highest character, having a FINE NATURAL AROMA;: " HOWQUA'S SMALL LEAF GUNPOWDER" is of the very finest quality, and such as could not be purchased in the market. — See Report in Times, May 9th. " HOWQUA'S MIXTURE," ( of forty rare Teas, all Black,) at 6s. per lb., is 8s. the catty. '' HOWQUA'S SMALL LEAF GUNPOWDER," at 8s. 7£ d. per lb., is lis. 6d. the catty. Sold only in the original Chinese catty packages, contain- ing one pound and one- third net of Tea. J. E. LISSETER, Sole Agent in Birmingham. THEATRE ROYAL, BIRMINGHAM. TO he LET, by Tender, for a term of years, the Theatre Royal," Birmingham. As possession may be had immediately, the Lessee will enjoy the advantage of the Evening of Saturday the 23rd of September next, in the week of the Birmingham Musical Festival, and also the Birmingham Michaelmas Fair, which happens on the 28th, 29th, and 30th of September. Tenders to be sent in on or before Monday, the 4th day Of September. Security for the rent will be expected to be given, and the Proprietors do not hold themselves bound to accept the highest tender. A copy of the conditions under which the Theatre will be let may be seen at the office of Messrs. BARKER and SON, Solicitors, Bennett's- hill, Birmingham. BARKER and SON. ' TO DRAPERS, UPHOLSTERERS, AND OTHERS. ON FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1837, will be SOLD, on the premises, 99, High- street, at one o'clock, without reserve, the valuable and well selected STOCK OF GOODS, the property of Mr. HENRY SHERBORN, who is declining the business, consisting of DAMASKS, MOREENS, PRINTED FURNI TURES, FRINGES, & c., of the best quality and des- cription. It is proposed to offer the Articles in one lot, at the lowest discount off the Stock- book Prices, which book, together with the whole of the Stock, may be viewed on the premises, No. 99, High- street, Birmingham, on and after Monday next, and until the day of sale. Further information and particulars of the mode of selling may be known on application at the office of Mr. CHAP- MAN, Accountant, Moor- street, Birmingham ; or Hertford- street, Coventry, if by letter, post paid. BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL & HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. rpHE FOURTH EXHIBITION for the Season JL Of the BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL and H OR- TICULTURAL SOCIETY will take place at THE TOWN- HALL, On THURSDAY and FRIDAY, the 28th and 29th of SEPTEMBER, when a liberal list of MONEY PRIZES will be awarded. SHAREHOLDERS and SUBSCRIBERS are reminded that their Annual Subscriptions became due in advance on the 1st of June last, and that their Tickets for the season are prepared, and will be delivered to them on payment of their Subscrip- tions, by the Lodge- keeper. A DAHLIA EXHIBITION Will take place at the GARDENS on THURSDAY, FRIDAY, and SATURDAY in the Festival week, on which occasion THE SOCIETY'S SILVER MEDAL will be awarded to the best Exhibitor. Gratuitous Entrance to Exhibitors. Admission to Non- Subscribers, one shilling each— Chil- dren half- price. JOHN GREEN, Secretary. September 1st, 1837. TO GROCERS. WANTED, for a short time, a YOUNG MAN in the above trade. Apply, by letter, postpaid, to HENRY WILLIAMS, Post- office, Wednesbury. Iiam the BIRMINGHAM MUSICAL FESTIVAL. ri\ HE Shopkeepers and Inhabitants of Birmingh; Ji- in general, are vieing with each other to present most pleasing appearance upon this important occasion. The decorators and painters are at work, and under their hands the town is emerging from the casing of three years' accumulated smoke. We cannot, however, behold the freshness of its present appearance, without a sigh escaping us, upon the apprehen- sion that, in a few months, the gas will have concealed its beauties with a sable lobe. Nevertheless, we rejoice in knowing that this lamentable effect may be avoided by the use of COOK'S PATENT GAS BURNERS, which may be procured, warranted not to smoke, at No. 148, GREAT CHARLES- STREET, Birmingham ; and which we strongly recommend to the public in general. The Committee lor decorating the Town. hall have adopted this Burner for the purpose of lighting that gigantic room, and we expect there to see its unrivalled beauties displayed to the best advantage. SALE AT NO. 99, HIGH- STREET, BIRMINGHAM. TO be SOLD by AUCTION, by Mr. JOHN FAL- LOWS, on the premises, No. 99, High- street, Bir- mingham, on Tuesday, the 12th day of September, 1837, the whole of the valuable and genteel HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, belonging to Mr. Sherborn, who is leav- ing town,— consisting of four- post and tent mahogany bed- steads, feather beds, hair and wool mattresses, chests of drawers, piano- forte, by Broadwood; tables, chairs kitchen and culinary requisites, and effects, catalouges of which may be had at the AUCTIONEER'S Office, Temple- row, Birmingham. The House and Premises to be Let, with immediate possession, and the whole of the Shop Fixtures, Gas Fit- tings, Sic. Sic. to betaken at a valuation. For particulars and to treat, applyto Mr. CHAPMAN, Ac- countant; or at the offices of the AUCTIONEER, Temple- row, Birmingham. Sale to commence at half- past Ten, under the usual con- ditions. j\/ I R. BROSTER, is l- etunicd from London to his residence, Medina House, East Cowes, Isle of Wight, where he continues to give instruction in his System for removing Impediments of Speech, and the recovery of weakness and exhaustion of voice, in public reading and speaking, & c. MILLINERY AND DRESS ESTABLISHMENT, No. 136, SNOW- HILL. MRS. CARTWRIGHT respectfully informs her connexion, and ladies in general, that her SHOW ROOM is open for their inspection, with a variety of Millinery and Dress Articles, particularly selected for the approaching Festival, to which she will continue to add the latest novelties as they are introduced in London. *** Apprentices wanted. PATENT LAMP, Uniting the qualities of the celebrated CARCEL LAMP, without its liability to get out of repair. TC. SALT respectfully solicits the Nobility, • Gentry, and the Public, to inspect the principle of the above Lamp, at his manufactory, No. 18, EDMUND- STREET, less than 100 yards from the Town- hall. ORATORIO NOVELTIES IN LADIES' COSTUME. MRS. SMITH most respectfully informs her con- nection, the nobility, and ladies visiting Birmingham during the Festival, that she will be prepared on TUESDAY NEXT, the 5th of September, to submit to their inspection a variety of splendid ARTICLES, selected from the first London and Paris houses, adapted for the Morning and Evening Concerts and the Fancy Dress Ball. Mrs. S. will continue to receive daily accessions to her Stock till the end of the Festival, and flatters herself, hav- ing made arrangements with the first houses in London, that her selections will meet the approval of those ladies who may honour her with their patronage. » ,* SIX APPRENTICES WANTED. 143, top of Snow- hill, 1 the third door from Bull- street, J GRAND FANCY DRESS BALL. MONSIEUR ALBERT begs most respectfully to acquaint the nobility, gentry, and inhabitants of Bir- mingham and its vicinity, that he intends opening for their inspection on MONDAV, the 4th of SEPTEMBER, a most splen- did wardrobe of FANCY DRESSES— consisting of an- cient and modt rn fancy court suits, among which will be found several dresses of foreign nations, the real, and only Mandarine dresses in England, six native Greek suits, of un- equalled splendour, Turkish, Arabian, Mahometan, French, Italian, and many of other nations; Brigands, Foresters, Charles the Second, Richard the First, Second, and Third, Henry the Eighth, Earl of Leicester, Count Almeria, Hamlet, Naval and Military English and Foreign Uniforms, with many others which cannot possibly be enumerated in the small compass of an advertisement; indeed, to give this wardrobe its meritB, he should say it is the first of its kind ever introduced into England. Monsieur A. has also, to meet the views of several ladies, manufactured many chastly; beautiful F'ancy fDresses, to match the above mentioned costumes. The whole will be open for inspection on MONDAY NEXT, at 72, BULL- STREET, Birmingham. Ornaments and braids of every kind will also be provided. Gentlemen wishing Dresses, by sending the character and dimensions, with a remittance, can have such dresses se- cured for them at a few hour's notice, persons being engaged from the principal London Theatres for that purpose. To the EDITOR of THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. KNOWING you are ever willing to communicate good news to your fellow- townsmen, I take the op- portunity of sending the following account concerning one of the most necessary articles of life, namely, WATER. Now, I believe, the Digbeth water has always been con- sidered the best water that had ever been found in Birming- ham, but it is now ascertained, beyond all doubt, that a Mr. David Greenley, of 147, Fenchurch- street, London, has ob- tained the purest water that can be obtained from the main spring at Saint George's- place, in Hospital- street, for Mr. James Ford, who has now got an abundant supply of that necessary article, so much so, that he can supply the water carts that serve that part of the town, with more than one thousand gallons an hour of the purest soft water that ever has been found in Birmingham ; and the same person abore stated will undertake to procure from five to five hundred gallons per minute, if wanted, for any person. J. Ford so- licits all persons to come and inspect the water, and the means used to obtain it, and he is well satisfied that he can have, if wanted, from the same spring, thirty thousand gallons'an hour, and as to the quality, see the certificate below. " The water given us by J. Ford to analyse is very pure, and contains less earthy matter than the Digbeth water. " J. and W. SOUTHALL, Chemists, " Bull- street. " 8th Month 25, 1837." SPLENDID AND SUPERIOR STOCK OF FANCY HOSIERY, GLOVES, LACE, AND VEILS, Adapted for the approaching Musical Festival. MARY SYSON solicits the inspection of the No- bility, Gentry, and Public, to the primest, largest, and best STOCK OF GOODS ever offered, and on terms M. S. never had in her power to submit. M. S. begs to acknowledge the preference she has re- ceived, and trusts that as she is able to make selections herself, from London and the best markets in the kingdom, to secure their increased patronage. M. S.' s Stock of useful Family Articles is replete, namely, Cotton, Merino, Wove Vests, Drawers, and Dresses; also Hose of every description. ORIGINAL SHOP ONLY, 8, CARR'S- LANE. THE POLL BOOK. On Monday next will be Published, price Sixpence, ALIST of the ELECTORS who POLLED at the LATE ELECTION for MEMBERS of PAR- LI AMENT for the BOROUGH of BIRMINGHAM. The whole so arranged, in alphabetical order, as to exhibit at one view, the split votes and plumpers for the three candidates. Prefixed to the Poll Book is a complete List of the Members of the New House of Commons, classed accord- ing to the Towns and Counties of England, Scotland, and Ireland, which they respectively represent; Tables of the New Members; of the Members rejected and resigned; of the Liberal losses and gains, and of the transfers. Published for the PROPRIETOR of the Birmingham Jour- nal; and to be had at the Journal Office, 38, New- street; and of the various Booksellers of Birmingham. In the Press, price One Shilling, Second Edition, Improved and Enlarged. Containing further information respecting Gentlemen's Seats and other objects to be seen on the line of road. The Editor hav • ing, since the first edition, walked through the Line to enable him the better lo meet the ivishes of tlie Public, and more deserve the flattering encomiums passed on the edition, which has been sold to rapidly. THE GRAND JUNCTION and the LIVER- POOL and MANCHESTER RAILWAY COM- PANION, containing an account of Birmingham, Liver- pool, and Manchester, and all the towns on or near the Line; together with every thing worthy of the attention and notice of the traveller on the Line; the Company's charges from one Station to another; with their regulations, time of departure and arrival of each train, & c. 8: c. With accurate ENGRAVINGS of the Line of road, a Section of the Line, 8ic. & c. Birmingham : Printed and Published by J. CORNISH, 37, New - street, and 16, Lord- street, Liverpool. London : S. CORNISH, 6, New Turnstile, Holborn. There will be two thousand copies of this second edition printed, and as it will be a Pocket Companion to most Travellers on the Line, all that is worth seeing in the towns on the Line is described, it is also necessary that the prin- cipal Establishments should be set forth, which cannot pos- sibly be done to better advantage than by inserting address cards in this work. The Publisher considers this an excellent medium for advertisements, consequently he will receive them from all persons desirous of availing themselves of this opportunity in Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool. They will be printed at the end of each town. The number of address cards will be limited, as the Pub- lisher's object is to keep the work in a neat pocket Size. Application for their insertion must be made not later than Wednesday next, September 6th, at 37, New- street, Bir- mingham, or 16, Lord- street, Liverpool. T TO GLASS MANUFACTURERS AND OTHERS. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 10 BE SOLD, a well- built GLASS- HOUSE, re- . cently erected, situated at Brooklyn, on the banks of the East River, about half a mile from the ! city of New York; is judiciously arranged for the business, has a six pot fur- nace, which with the lean- sand oven, and pot ash, act well. Occupies six lots of ground, seventy- five feet wide, and one hundred and sixty- five feet deep, and would be sold with the whole of the tools and implements, which have been in operation only a few months. • • " I tu* tHeitfed, the advertiser would receive as PARTNER r. V » one who fully understood the business, and /^> « r* r'T « » Uwmin% nd two or three thousand pounds capital. Fmttef^ irticulars may be known upon application to il^ ssrs. WARMER and SMITH, Church. street, Liverpool. PRICE'S GLASS AND CHINA WAREHOUSES, HIGH- STREET, BIRMINGHAM. HESE extensive Warehouses and Show Rooms are filled with an amazing quantity of Sets, Services, and Suits of the most beautiful, elegant new patterns, in Glass, China, and Earthenware, all at astonishingly CHEAP PRICES. Families furnishing, Innkeepers, & c., are invited to avail themselves of these advantages, by purchasing at Price's Glass and China Warehouses, 13, HIGH- STREET, BIRMINGHAM. N. B. Goods packed and sent to all parts of the kingdom. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We shall attend to Mr. Parsons's communication in our next number. BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2. WINES AND SPIRITS. FAMILIES may be supplied with every description of Foreign Wines of the choicest qualities and most approved vintages, at very low piices ; and also with British and Foreign Spirits of the first description, both as regards delicacy of flavour and strength, on equally moderate terms, at PETERS'S WINE AND SPIRIT WAREHOUSE, 77, BULL- STREET, CORNER OF TEMPLE- ROW, BIRMINGHAM. *** Bottles, jars, and packages must either be exchanged or paid for on delivery, allowance being made fox them when returned. The character of the ministerial majority continues to be the theme of comment in the Tory journals. The Times cannot understand how Lord MELBOURNE means to maintain his position, unsupported by the votes of the English representatives. It repudiates, indignantly, the charge to whicli its observations oil this subject had given rise— that it is desirous of drawing a line of unfair distinction between the na- tives of one portion of Her Majesty's dominions and those of another. It states its objection to Lord MELBOURNE'S Irish majority, as it is called, to con- sist in this— not that it is Irish, but that it is made up of persons who owe their election to the support of O'CONNELL, and not to the free voices, enlightened or otherwise, of their respective , constituengies. Under the old regime it was, at no time, deemed possible for any government to sustain itself in the house, upon a majority composed entirely of nominee members, con- venient as these gentlemen must be in facilitating the progress and settlement of every- day measures; and it is argued, that the same rule might hold good now, as before the Reform Bill— the majority of uninflu- enced constituencies being against the minister he must resign. We shall not enter upon the vexata qnestio of the uninfluenced condition of the English and Scotch constituencies. We are content to assume their inde- pendence. We wish only to make one or two re- marks on the alleged dependence of the Irish borough and county members— on the nominees of O'CONNELL. We grant, in the outset, that if the various repre- sentatives, whose election O'CONNELL has influenced, were nominees in the same sense, as those gentlemen, who were content to do the business of my Lord or Sir JOHN in the unreformed Parliament, the Ministry could not and ought not to rule the country, which had no better support than they afforded. But is there, in reality, any other than a very remote analogy in the two cases? In the unreformed Parliament it was once said to be threatened, by the well- known Lord CAMEL- FORD, that he would make a member of his black ser- vant ; and there can be no doubt that if his caprice had so inclined him, he might have done so. The reason why a majority, consisting of nominee members, was incapable of supporting a Ministry in the unreformed Parliament, was simply this— that such a majority the Ministry of the day could at all times, and by very simple and easy appliances, command. It was no in- dication of national, nor even of individual opinion. First, there were the Treasury boroughs, as they were called— these were the official property of the minister of the day. They had dwindled, when the Reform bill was introduced, to seven; still, these seven fur- nished fourteen certain votes— the present majority ac- cording to some of the most searching calculators. In addition to the Treasury boroughs there were a num- ber of others, which though strictly speaking private property, the minister could always manage to secure inasmuch as, from being the dispenser of place, as well as having command of the national purse, he was able to out- bid mere private speculators. A few of the close boroughs, in the hands of old and wealthy families were as iiidew"''"" 1*/ represented, it may be, as the most populous of tile v,. on boroughs now are ) UllL Un mass of them were, in the strictest sense, sale- able commodities, and fvere sold, by the Parliament, by the session, and, in some instances, by the month. Here then was the foundation of that rule, which the Tory journals would apply to the Irish members— no Minister tould subsist on a majority of close borcugh members, because they represented no class of the people, nor any shade of public opinion. Can any one, without an entire per- version of truth, assert, that this is the case with the Irish members— such of them we mean, of course, as may be supposed to owe their election to O'CONNELL'S influence? In what respect does O'CONNELL resemble the boroughmonger of the unreformed House of Commons ? There was a plain and palpable ground of power in the old boroughmonger. He commanded the votes of the electors, because he owned the property, by virtue of which the electors claimed to vote. His power— for it was not influence— was simply the power that his estate gave him. He held his patronage by a right of tenure. Whoever had the manor had the re- turn. Will it be said that O'CONNELL is proprietor, in any sense, of the boroughs whose elections he com- mands ? His patronage is altogether a patronage of influence; and on what is that influence founded? Why, simply on the concurrence of sentiment subsist- ing between him and the electors ! The people of Kilkenny elected Mr. HUMS on O'CONNELL'S recommendation; and they would have elected Mr. EWART on the same recommendation. What then? Would they have elected FREDERICK SHAW or ANTHONY LEFROY, if O'CONNELL had en- treated their sweet voices on his knees? Assuredly not; and had O'CONNELL ventured to recommend such an election, he would, at once, have sunk into con- tempt and helplessness,' where he is now honoured and potential, so as no subject ever was before. The electors of Kilkenny receive and return the object of Mr. O'CONNELL'S recommendation, because they know and approve of Mr. O'CONNELL'S principles, and rely on his judgment. We grant that the person so chosen, in his indivi- dual character, will not possess so much weight, as if, by his own unassisted name, he had obtained the suffrages of his constituents. Mr. HUME'S dignity, as a leader of the Reform interests, may suffer by his ac- ceptance of O'CONNELL'S assistance; but it is worse than folly to assimulate him to the puppets who were wont to represent the nominal constituencies under the old system. Mr. HUME must be assumed to to represent the opinions of Mr. O'CONNELL ; but he must, in common reason, be assumed to repre- sent the opinions of the people of Kilkenny also. Fail- ing that, he could not have been chosen. O'CONNELL'S recommendation was but a certificate of honestv and fitness. His influence went to this extent, no more— it enabled him, out of a number of candidates for legis- lative honours of similar principles and powers, to se- lect one. O'CONNELL is a patron of HUME in no other sense than HUME was a patron of ROEBUCK, whom he introduced, in the first instance, to the people of Bath, and whom the people of Bath elected, in a great measure, on his introduction. The difference between the Scotchman and the Irishman, is in the amount, not iu the nature, of the power of each. Un- less, therefore, we can come to the conclusion, that the majority must be unavailing for the purposes of ministers, because it is Irish, and this argument, as we have said, the Tories decidedly, and wisely, repudiate, we cannot, for the life of us, perceive in the causes that may have led to the choice of members by the Irish constituencies the slightest ground of rational objection. That there are not a few members in the Reformed House, who are nominees in the same sense as their predecessors in the unreformed House, is true. So far, however, from these nominees belonging exclusively to Ireland, that country is very honourably distin- guished for their absence; or, if they be found at all there, they will be found, we rather believe, strange as that belief may appear, not in Catholic but in Pro- testant Ireland. In England, and in Scotland, it is notorious, we have numerous specimens, both borough and county, of constituencies, as strictly close, as were ever the ephemeral burgesses of Old Sarum, or the most permanent half dozen good men and true of Gatton. Notices, we observe, are creeping into the columns of some of our provincial cotemporaries touching the revival of trade ; and, as the press of London is ever benevolently inclined to look upon the sunny side of such matters, these notices are eagerly caught up and joyfully circulated. We grieve that we are wholly unable to add Birmingham to the list of towns, where prosperity is again breaking on the sorrowful and suffering community. From all that we hear or can learn, in public or in private, the distress here is as great, at the moment when we write, as it has been at any period during the last six months. Orders are as few, profits as small, labour as scarce, and as poorly remunerated. There was a slight lightening of our burdens about a month ago. They are now as heavy, if not heavier, than before. We are stating a simple fact, and no rhetorical fiction, when we say, that the sheet which had given its scanty protection to the miserable workman during the night, is com- monly transferred to the pawnbroker in the morning, in return for a few pence, with which to purchase a scanty meal for his famishing children. Such is the prosperous state of Birmingham! There are two mistakes into which writers, who are not in a positiQii to become personally acquainted with matters of every day business, are ever and anon falling. They are told that trade suffers, that it is paralysed; and they are quite amazed when they hear, notwithstanding, that workmen are still parti- ally employed, that manufactories are still kept going. Not reflecting on the physical impossibilities that oppose themselves to the stoppage, at once and alto- r,— » 1... of^. r .. I.' liiti,' nf foreign and domestic, in such a community as that of England, when they are told of a crisis, they are apt to conceive of its effects as a realisation of that fine poetical fancy of our excellent member— as a cessation of all em- ployment, a rest, not holy indeed, but absolute from every species of interchange. And when they find the wheels of society revolving, however languidly, they raise their hands and eyes in wonder at the symptoms of reaction, as they please to call it, which the movement indicates. We need not say to our readers, that an entire cessation of trade never lias been, and, in all probability, never will be felt, here or elsewhere. Nay, the very causes, that tend to pro- duce a partial stagnation, lead, in turn, to a partial acceleration. Shake credit, break down prices, reduce labour, and out of that very state of things naturally springs up a demand— a feeble and ricketty demand, it is true— which may for the moment, and in the eyes of the unreflecting, pass for the approach of a return- ing prosperity. There is another, and a more feasible ground, on which our cotemporaries proceed, when they attempt to show that the commercial distress is disappearing. Look, they say, to the markets ; iron has advanced, and is advancing, copper is higher in price, so is lead, and so are other things. We admit all this, and so far fiom rejoicing in it, as our cotemporaries do, we see in it no more than an exemplification of the evils of our present system ; and instead of a symptom of re- viving trade, one of the great causes which that system is ever bringing into operation to destroy the very seeds of anything like a wholesome revival, or con tinuance of trade. A very few words will suffice to explain this. The monied interest, who find, under circumstances of ordinary prosperity, employment for their heaped- up- hoards in the bill market, are, on a cessation of business such as we now suffer under, driven to extraordinary expedients for the purpose of profitable, or what may promise to be profitable, investment. Now, the natural operation of such a cessation is to reduce the p rices of raw produce to a minimum; and when it has sunk to that minimum, it becomes a tempting object of specu- lation. There is no man so unobservant as not to have marked the extreme fluctuations of value, of raw pro- duce more especially, that have repeatedly occurred during the last twenty years. What has taken place before may take place again. So the monied capitalist argues. One buys, another buys, speculator succeeds to speculator, the same cause that impelled one pur- chaser impels many, and the desiderated event— a rise of price— follows, as a necessary effect of the compe- tition so generated. We are dinned by small logicians with arguments about speculating manufacturers and speculating mer- chants. The only injurious speculation, known to our commerce, is the speculation of men who are neither merchants nor manufacturers, and whose transactions, when they step out of their customary and legitimate department of bill- discounters, are equally fatal to both. When trade revives in a natural way, and by natural means, the tendency upwards makes its first appear- ance in the increased demand for, and increased price of the manufactured article. From the workshop the impulse descends to the mine. The revival of trade, which the newspapers are at present trumpeting, com- mences where it ought to terminate. The goods of the manufacturer weigh down his warehouse, because, from the price which, in order to procrastinate ruin, he feels compelled to put upon them, his customers cannot buy. To mend this state of affairs the monied speculator rushes into the iron market, the copper market, the lead market, and, by his purchases there, enhances prices ten, fifteen, twenty per cent.! And it is by this process that the manufacturer is to be profited, his prices all the while remaining at that zero to which the commercial distress has reduced them; and being even at that zero unsaleable, because there is in his lowest deep a lower deep to which he must be content to sink before he can successfully compete with his foreign rival! There was, until the last few weeks, one small and miserable chance, not of prosperity or of comfort, but of employment for our workmen, and something above starvation in return— that chance rested entirely on the low prices of the raw material. Had these low prices continued, orders were given, and soon would have been given, which, at greatly reduced wages to the labourer, and no profit to the master, could and would have been executed. No such orders can now avail! We are not theorising on this matter. We are stating a plain fact. Orders for goods, at the prices current a few weeks ago, have been received and refused; the rise in the metal market, insignificant as it may ap- pear, rendering it impossible to execute them. So much for re- action— so much for returning prospe- rity ! " Iron," as the market paragraphers express it, " is buoyant, but," unluckily, at the same time, " sword blades are dull, and guns do not go off." On Thursday, the 24th August, a Petty Session was held at the Public- office, before R. SPOONER, E. L- WILLIAMS and J. WEBSTER, Esqrs., for the purpose of adjudicating on the claims put in by Mr. BELCHER and Mr. ST. CLAIR, of Dudley- street, Mr. GREAVES, of Park- street, Mr. PRICHARD SMITH, of Aston street, and others, for compensation from the Hundred, for the damage done to their premises during the riot at the late election. A summary remedy is given by application to justices where the amount of damages does not exceed 30/. The magistrates made orders for compensation in several instances, together with a li- beral allowance in the shape of " reasonable costs and charges," to the attorney and surveyor ; and some cases were adjourned till Tl » uroJ » y npyt. the 7fl> Sep- tember. The sum of 41. 4s. was allowed in each case, being the amount of Mr. HEBBEUT'S charges for pre- paring the notices, & c., required by the statute, and attending before the magistrates to support the claims. The surveyor ( Mr. BATEMAN) was allowed 31. 3s. for his services in each case; so that, according to the old proverb, " it is an ill wind that bloVs iio body good." MI- . T B. PAYN, being high constable of the Hundred, attended as the iiuiiiluul J.> f.>( iil: mt • hut, as he rather supported the claims than otherwise, the cases were undefended so far as the rate- payers were concerned. In one case the damage was estimated at 21. 15s., and 71. 7s. was allowed for the costs. Indeed, the princi- pal objection made to the claims was, that Mr. HEB- BERT had put down several items of 12s. 6d. where one of the magistrates ( to whom, being a legal gentleman, jflYHOKLllVlllH THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, SEPTEMBER 2. 5 the taxing of the bill was assigned) thought that 13s. 4d. might have heen charged. Whether there was any indelicacy in two of the active supporters of Mr. STAPLETON adjudicating on the question of com- pensation to their friends, who had unfortunately suf- fered in the cause, is a mere matter of taste. Of course, Mr. SPOONER and Mr. WILLIAMS thought there was nothing at all open to observation in such conduct, or they would not have interfered. After all, however, there is very little doubt but that in no case that was brought before the magistrates, were the parties entitled to compensation from the Hundred. The statute under which the proceedings were taken, is the 7th and 8th Geo. IV., c. 31, by which it is enacted, that if any house, & c., " shall be feloniously demolished, pulled down, or destroyed, wholly or in part, by any persons riotously and tumultuously as- sembled together, then the hundred shall be liable to make good the amount of the damage." Now it will be readily observed, on reading the above clause, that it is not sufficient that the demolition be committed riotously, but it must also be committed under such circumstances as amount to felony. The statute which applies to offences of this description, is the 7th and 8th Geo. IV., c. 30, sec. 8, which enacts, that " if any persons, riotously and tumultuously assembled to- gether to the disturbance of the public peace, shall unlawfully and with force demolish, pull down, or de- stroy, or begin to pull down, demolish, or destroy, any house, & c., every such offender shall be guilty of felony." It will be seen that the words of the statute, which gives compensation from the hundred, correspond almost verbally with the language of the statute, making the demolition a felony; and if the circum- stances be such that the demolition does not amount to felony within the latter statute, the party injured is not entitled to compensation under the former. Now, it is quite settled that in no caseisa" beginning to demolish" a felony, unless the circumstances are such as prove that the intention of the mob was to pull down the premises, and that if their intention had been car- ried into effect they would have done so. In the cases brought before the magistrates, these gentlemen were satisfied with evidence to this effect, viz., " That a large quantity of persons assembled together, and broke the windows," & c.; but it is quite certain that such evidence does not show a case of " feloniously demolishing, pulling down, or destroying," within the terms of the act. To render this clearer, we will just cite a few passages from the opinions of eminent judges upon this part of the law. The present Mr. BARON PARKE, in REX. V. ASHTON, Jewin's Crown Cases, 296, says, " The beginning to pull down means not simply a demolition of a part, but of a part with intent to demolish the whole. If the prisoners meant to stop where they did ( i. e. breaking doors and win- dows) and do no more, they are not guilty; but if they intended, when they broke the windows, & c., to go farther and destroy the house, they are guilty of a capital offence. If they had the full means of going further, and were not interrupted, but left off of their own accord, it is evidence that they meant the work of demolition to stop where it did." In Rex. v. Thomas, 4 Carrington and Payne's Reports, 237, Mr. Justice Littledale expressed a similar opinion, and told the j ury that this was not a beginning to demolish within the statute, unless they were satisfied that the ultimate object of the rioters was to demolish the house, and that if they had carricd their intentions into full effect, tb^ r would, in fact, have demolished it. And in PRICE'S case, CARRINGTON and PAYNE, 510, an elec- tion mob pursued a person who took refuge in a house, which they thereupon attacked, shouting " Pull it down." They broke the doors and windows, but being unable to find the individual, they went away, and Lord J. C. TINDAL ruled that the case was not within the statute, the object of the rioters not being to destroy the house, but to secure the person they were in search of. From the opinions of these very eminent judges, it is clear that the intention of the rioters is the fact which determines whether the case be one of " feloni- ously demolishing." The magistrates, however, in these instances, received no evidence as to the inten- tion, but contented themselves with the simple fact of the damage having been actually committed. Had they received any evidence of intention, it is certain that such evidence would not have brought the cases within the act. In the cases of Mr. BELCHER, Mr. St. Clair, Mr. Greaves, and Mr. Prichard Smith, the rioters were discovered and indicted, not for felony, but for riot only; and although the counsel for the prosecution at Warwick remarked that some of the rioters might have been indicted capitally, yet that ob- servation applied only to the rioters who remained at Dee's more than one hour after the Riot Act was read, and not the slightest idea was expressed of indicting any persons for feloniously demolishing. The inten- tion of demolishing the premises was altogether want- ing. In the cases of Mr. BELCHER, Mr. ST. CLAIR, and Mr. GREAVES, the mob confined their attack to breaking the windows, and voluntarily desisted from further violence without the interference of police or military to prevent them, and such circumstances have been held over and over again not to amount to a case of feloniously demolishing within the statute. In Mr. PRICHARD SMITH'S case, one ofthe rioters was secured and confined in the yard, and the doors closed. The intention of the mob, in breaking open the doors, was merely to liberate the offender, and upon his release they desisted. Upon the whole it is quite clear that further evidence than that produced before the magis- trates was necessary to entitle the parties to compensa- tion; and that had such evidence been produced, it would have completely negatived those circumstances which would be necessary to support the claims. The affairs of the peninsula look gloomy. In Portugal there is open revolt; in Spain, civil war on the one hand and irreconcilable party dissensions on the other. It is not unlikely that CARLOS may, by a bold movement, place himself on the throne. Perhaps it were best he should. The Spaniards are plainly incapable of freedom. The ministry have issued a proclamation, in the shape of a pamphlet. We have only space just now for the following exquisite passage :— All parties— tbose for the ballot— those for extended suffrage— those for the abolition of church- rates— those for grand plans of public education— those for the appropriation clause— those for municipal institutions in Ireland— those for yielding to Canada a more democratic form of govern- ment than at present exists there, should one and all enter upon the new session with this conviction thoroughly im- pressed upon their minds, that there is not one of these ques- tions— no, not one— which is not secondary to the great object of maintaining Lord Melbourne's cabinet free from every species of embai rassment, The Poll- book will be ready for delivery on Monday. It is copied from the books of' the check clerks. We believe it will be found as accurate as it will prove in- teresting. It was our intention to give the entire names of those who voted in one alphabetical list; but it appeared, on consideration, that the better plan would be to arrange the names according to the votes given. In this way we have given, first, those who voted for Attwood and Scholefield; second, those who voted for Attwood and Stapleton; third, those who voted for Scholefield and Stapleton; fourth, the plumpers for Attwood ; fifth, the plumpers for Schole- field ; sixth, the plumpers for Stapleton. We need hardly observe, that the first and last divisions constitute by far the greater portion of the publication. We have prefixed, as an introduction to the Poll- book, a list of the new House of Commons, together with tables of the new members, the rejected members, the minis- terial losses and gains, and the transfers. The whole of them have been compiled with great care, and will be found, we believe, as accurate as any that have been hitherto published. The Poll- book has, of course, no reference to any party or party feelings. We give the votes, and leave the public to draw what conclusions they find good, and act on them when drawn as best pleases them. THE GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.— On Tuesday last an application was heard by Mr. Francis Lloyd, made by the Grand Junction Railway Com- pany, for his certificate for a jury to assess compen- sation to Mr. Thomas Lane Parker, for some land near Nova Scotia Gardens, which was wanted by the company for the purposes of their station. It appeared that the Railway act gave the company a right to purchase any land within 100 yards from the line, and that two thirds of Mr. Parker's land was within that distance; but Mr. Parker contended that the company had no right to compel him to sell them the remainder. Mr. Spurrier, on behalf of the company, contended that, under other clauses of the Railway act, a compul- sory right of purchase of the other one- third was given to his clients, and that they were entitled to Mr. Lloyd's certificate, to the effect above stated. After hearing Mr. Lloyd Williams on behalf of Mr. Parker, w ho contended that, in consequence of this land being omitted in the schedule of the act of incorporation, the company had no right to compel Mr. Parker to accept compensation, Mr. Lloyd was of opinion that the land in question must have been contemplated for the pur- poses of the railway, and decided on granting his cer- tificate. It appeared that the inheritance of the land belonged to Lord Howe, and that the company had agreed with his lordship for the purchase of his in- terest. Mr. Parker was possessed of a lease of the land for a term of years. We understand the case will not rest here, but that Mr. Lloytfs certificate will be removed to the Court of Queen's Bench, for the opinion of the judges.— Correspondent. THE THEATRICAL BENEFIT.— The sum realised last Friday amounts, we believe, to about 80/. Vestris and Charles Mathews got, it is said, about 200/. for their exhibition of Monday. So much for the allure- ments of charity and pleasure. A strange misrepre- sentation is made in Aris's Gazette, of an incident that occurred on the occasion of the benefit. After setting forth the application to the proprietors for the grant of the theatre ; which, by the bye, was tardily and reluctantly granted, and as much from fear as good will; the Gazette adds—" by way of grateful acknowledgement the audience gave three groans for the Tories." Had all the proprietors been Tories, which they are not, it would puzzle the Thebaus of the Gazette to show what gratitude was due to them from the audience, who had paid for their seats, and had a most unquestionable right to enjoy themselves as they liked best; but the story is entirely without foundation. There were no groans for the Tories asked or given. A vivacious personage in the gallery called out three groans for the King of Hanover; and some forty or fifty of his companions responded: these were the only groans that the evening produced. It is the intention of the committee to distribute the pro- ceeds of the benefit in the course of next week, in the shape of bread, to the more necessitous of the uuem ployed. Every care, we are assured, will be used to prevent any portion of the pittance to be distributed, from going into improper hands. The committee will make personal enquiry into the condition of every ap- plicant, and every case will be recorded for future in- spection. Had the benefit been attended as it ought to have been, this document would, in a statistical point of view, have been of great value, and even limited as it now must be, it will not be without considerable interest. The whole of the accounts have not been as yet got in, and some small sums due to the committee are still out standing. A detailed statement will ap pear in our next number. A correspondent, who signs " Musicus," addresses us on the subject of the coming Festival. He is dis- satisfied, it will be seen, with the arrangements, par- ticularly as regards the choice of performers. " Musi- cus" omits one important consideration, which, we think, goes far to explain the conduct of which he'so much complains. The Festival cannot be safely de- voted to the eliciting of undiscovered genius; its con ductors dare not calculate upon the chances of a hit; if they would advantage the charity, to which its pro- ceeds are devoted, they must select artistes that will draw— performers not merely excellent, but known, and known nationally. Local fame is always doubt- ful ; to rely on its attractions in such a case as the Birmingham Festival, would assuredly be unwise, and might be fatal. We had prepared a somewhat lengthened report of the very pleasant dinner at Mr. Owen's, in Broad- street, but we are compelled to omit it this week. It will appear in our next number. BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR PROMOTION OF SCIENCE. ~- A meeting convened by the Hiyh and Low Bailiffs, by circular, took pjace at the Public- office yesterday, amongst whom we noticed Dr. Booth, Mr. James Russell, Mr. Tindal, Mr. Wood, Mr. S. Beale, Mr. John Corrie, Mr. Boultbee, Mr. F. Lloyd, and others of all parties, to consider how an invitation should be sent to the British Association, requesting- them to hold their animal meeting of 1838 in this town. The meeting of this year is at Liverpool, and certainly Birmingham, from its central position, importance, and general intelligence, has a claim to be the seat of a scientific festival as well as a musical one. It was resolved, that in order that the invitation should be generally and numerously signed, and that it should be entirely of a public nature, a town's meeting should be held, from which it should emanate.— Thursday's paper. [ The meeting must, surely, have been kept very snug. We never heard of it.] DEPOT DO PALAIS ROYAL.— Our readers will per- ceive from the advertisement, that Messrs. Louis and Co. will open their splendid depot at the spacious rooms adjoining the Theatre, oil Wednesday next; where, in addition to their valuable stock of conti- nental manufactures, they have added an Euterpeon, possessing astonishing power and sweetness, which plays fifty of the most popular pieces of music of the day. THE HARVEST.— From all parts of the island, and from Ireland as well, the reports of the harvest are favourable. The weather has of late retarded, but has not as yet at all hazarded the hopes of the husband- man. The crop will not, however, be a very abundant one. We draw this conclusion not merely from the reports, but from the state of the markets. Had there been even a fair average, prices must, ere this, have fallen much more than the3' have done. The mining operations in Cornwall continue to im- prove. Tin and iron last week were \ l. per ton dearer, and the advance in copper was not less than 11. 10s. On Monday evening the Reformers gave a second tea party to the wives of electors and non- electors of West Bromwicb, when 416 women partook of the refreshment afforded— a fortnight before, nearly 300 having, in another part of the parish been entertained in a similar manner. The weather was exceedingly favourable, and the cheerful, cleanly, and truly Eng- lish appearance at each set of tables, was as delight- ful as it was novel. Government has offered 100?. for the discovery of the murderer of Sir. John Orchard, landlord of the Woolstapler's Arms, Stourbridge. KNOWLE VENISON FEAST.— The annual venison feast took place at the Greswolde Arms and Mermaid Inn, Knowle, on Tuesday last. The stewards ap- pointed for the occasion were, Dr. Jephson, of Lea- mington, C. Barclay, Esq., Mr. Thomas Clive, and Mr. William Webb, of Birmingham. Unfortunately Dr. Jephson, owing to urgent professional engage- ments, was unable to attend, but in his absence Mi'. Ferrers performed with great ability the duties of Pre- sident. Upwards of fifty gentlemen sat down to a most sumptuous dinner, and dessert and wines of the rarest and most choice qualities. HANDSWORTH.— A correspondent informs us that the inhabitants of this district have recently appointed a night constable, to protect them against those " in- dustrious gentlemen" whom the activity of the Bir- mingham police may happen to scatter amongst them. A Reform Association is commenced at Kiddermin- ster, and upwards of 100 members are already en- rolled. STAFFORDSHIRE YEOMANRY CAVALRY.— This regi- ment will march into Lichfield on Sunday, the 24th of September, for the usual period of eight days' per- manent duty. Since its last assembling the numbers of the respective troops have been much increased, par- ticularly the Newcastle, Lichfield, and Wolverhamp- ton. WORCESTERSHIRE YEOMANRY.— This regiment will assemble in Worcester on Saturday, the 9th of Sep- tember, for one week's drill. LICHFIELD RACES The meeting' takes place on the 12th and 13th of September, and promises excellent sport. Amongst the Stakes is the Staffordshire Stakes of twenty- five sovereigns each, with fifty added, for which Hornsea, The Drummer, Airy, Nell Gwynne, Calmuck, Heron, Morrison, The Glama, Chit Chat, and Cornborough have accepted, and fifteen pay five sovereigns each : this race will excite considerable in terest, from the amount of the stakes and the celebrity of the horses. Besides the Queen's Plate of one hun- dred guineas, the Members' Purse of fifty guineas, and other stakes, there is a Gold Cup, for which Elis, Venison, Bay, Middleton, Heron, Pelops, Dick, Noodle, Sir Felix, Morrison, Dr. White, The Drummer, and Chit Chat are entered. BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY.— This lively and most entertaining new periodical work ( of which eight number's have now appeared) continues its course of administering the materials for merriment to all Her Majesty's lieges, with unabated spirit. Indeed, as it proceeds, it acquires greater strength. " Oliver Twist," by Boz, ( the finest work of this witty and popular writer), illustrated by George Cruikshank, is alone worth the half- crown charged. Bentley's Miscellany contains also the laughter- provoking stories of In- goldsby, namely, " The Monstrc Balloon," " The Legend of Hamilton Tighe," " The Execution, a Sporting Anecdote," and others from the first- rate pens. In it are found, moreover, contributions by Maxwell, the celebrated author of " Stories of Waterloo;" by Samuel Lover, Augustine Wade, Captain Medwin, Dr. Maginn, Father Prout, Theodore Hook, Haynes Bayly, the author of " Hajji Baba," & c. An Ameri can paper, ( The New York Times,) which quoted from this Miscellany the ballad of " The Monstre Balloon," makes the following statement:—" This ballad, which is as perfect a thing of the kind as we ever met with, appeared in our columns some weeks since. We re- publish it at the especial request of several gentlemen who called to procure the paper containing it, the whole edition of which had been disposed of. It gives us pleasure to know that the taste of so many of our readers coincides with our own." Bentley's Miscel- lany, and " The Pickwick Papers," both emanating from the same unrivalled source, have already dis tanced all periodical competition. MUSICAL FESTIVAL. Every where around us preparations are making for the approaching Festival. Those inhabitants who have rooms they can spare, are actively employed in providing accommodation for strangers, and the wealthier classes are inviting their friends from a dis- tance to partake of the pleasure they themselves anti cipate. The Town- hall, as we have before stated, has been much improved— the length of the room has been increased, and the organ thrown back— the or- chestra also has been lowered, and rendered sufficiently capacious for between four and five hundred performers. The organ, likewise, has been newly decorated, by coating the pipes with silver, which produces a chaste and beautiful effect and harmonises well with the in- terior decoration of the hall, which is of a light neutral tint. The finest music from a large band, was, perhaps, heard in Westminster Abbey in 1834. The late ex- tension of our Town- hall has made it very nearly of the same dimensions as the portion of the Abbey de- voted to that purpose, viz., from the organ- screen to the west door. The hall is a few feet longer, but its width is within four feet of the whole extent of the nave and aisles, and that without a pillar or anything calculated to obstruct sound. It further possesses sufficient vibration without the inconvenience of echoes, which large gothic structures are almost lie cessarily subject to, and by which harmony is often greatly confused.— The organ, as now completed, is a most stupendous instrument. The swell and choir organ are inferior to none; and the scale of the pipes in the great organ is larger than in any other organ whatever. The power of the diapasons is finer than any ever built, and in the reeds is a posaune equal in power to four trumpets, but finer in quality; and the clarion and fifteenth reed, with a large trumpet, pro duce an effect never before obtained in this country. The performers engaged, it is already known, are selected from the most celebrated, both at home and abroad. With, therefore, in addition, the finest room and the grandest organ known, it is not too much to look with confidence to the most magnificent musical results, as well as to an attendance that will ensure to the important charity, in aid of which the perform- ances take place, an ample surplus. The institution, we may with propriety add, is greatly in need of as- sistance at the present moment, a circumstance which will hardly create surprise, when it is mentioned that upwards of seven thousand patients were upon its books during the past year, more than thousand of whom were admitted without recommendation from subscribers, and, therefore, without the smallest pecu- niary return to the establishment. MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF THE POLITICAL UNION. On Tuesday evening the Council met, as usual, in the large room or the Public- office. The room was filled in every part, and the business was several times interrupted by the confusion arising from the pressure and impatience of those who could not gain admittance. THOMAS ATTWOOD, Esq., M. P., was in the chair. After reading the minutes of the last meeting, the honourable member proceeded to say, that he had to announce to the council that lie had received 20/. as a donation for the use of the Union, from their friend Mr. Scholefield. ( Loud and continued cheering.) He had also to read a letter from Lord Howe, acknowledging, on the part of the Queen Dowager, the receipt of the address of condolence, which had been sent to Her Majesty from the Union, and ex- pressing the great satisfaction she felt at the sympathy felt by the Union towards her. Mr. A., in continuation, said he should make a few observations respecting certain meet, ings which were being held in the town: he meant the meetings of the united committee of operatives and masters. He had attended one of the meetings, held the evening before, and the result of their deliberation was to appoint the 26th of September for a great town's meeting, f possible, in the Town- hall, and, if it could not be held there, to be held at Holloway- head. The object of the intended great meeting was to take into consideration the present state of the money laws, and theip effect upon the commerce of the country; and if that effect was deemed in- jurious by the meeting, to have the same represented to Her Majesty's government. That these laws were injurious lie bad no doubt, and he as little doubted that they would bo able clearly to establish that fact. If so, if they could prove that the object of the money laws and the corn laws was to make money dear, and food dear, and labour cheap, then they would place the Ministry, whoever they might be, in a dilemma. They would compel them either to re- peal those laws, or to persist in perpetuating a system without exception unparalleled in infamy. He was glad to find that many gentlemen, who had heretofore been opposed to them upon the question of the Currency, were beginning to entertain different opinions, and were anxious to have the subject fairly investigated. ( Hear, hear.) Amongst these were Mr Shaw and Mr. Chance. They concurred fully in the propriety of calling a town's meeting, and going fully and fairly into the question. It was thought better not to name Newhall- hiil as the place of meeting, because there were recollections connected with it which some gentlemen did not like, and as their object was perfect good faith, and an earnest desire to go fairly into the question, he and his friends had avoided everything tending to disturb the good feeling which existed upon the great point. In the year 1829, when distress pressed upon the people, they held a similar meeting, and they sent up a deputation to Sir Robert Peel, with directions to tell him they considered all their distress to arise from the infamous money and corn laws. When they made those representations to Sir Robert, be told them they kept four- wheeled carriages, and that they must go home and curtail their expenditure, or something to that effect. Well, they did return home, and they esta- blished the Political Union—( cheers)— and that Union was still in existence. It still lived in the hearts ofthe people of the town and neighbourhood, and in his opinion it was destined to achieve still greater things than it had hereto- fore. He must frankly say, he did not expect any great good to result from the meeting about to take place; he feared the present Ministry would prove as indifferent to their just demands as Sir Robert Peel was. Neither had he any hopes from the new Parliament; he feared they, as well as their predecessors, had separate interests from those of the people. If this should turn out to be the case, then they must look, as before, to the Political Union, and to that peaceful agitation which it would create throughout the kingdom. It was only through it they had obtained justice before, and, he believed, they would have to depend upon it again. If, however, the proposed meeting should have a good effect upon the ministry, then would the people have prosperity; the men would be set to work, they would have good wages, and their masters good profits, and then would his right arm, as he had often said, be broken. Yes, the Union would cease to work; the people would cease to meet; trade and commerce, and with them com- fort, would take the place of idleness, and want, and agita- tation, and all parties would be happy. ( Hear, hear.) In order to produce this good effect upon the government, they must send up a deputation of twelve good and true men, who would plainly tell what the people meant— what they wanted— and what they were determined on having. ( Hear, hear.) Yes, they must, without distinction of party, select twelve men of the greatest talent, firmness, and inde- pendence in the town; and if, after making such a selection, and after so representing their distress, their just demands were still refused, and the cry of the people treated with contempt, then could they appeal to their fellow- men throughout the empire, and call upon them to join the Political Union, in order, by its means, to effect the re generation of their country. ( Loud cheers.) He was sorry they could not hold the intended meeting sooner; but, owing to the approaching Musical Festival, for the benefit of the Hospital, they could not, without interfering, per- haps, in some degree, with the interest of that invaluable cbarity. He was willing to make every reasonable conces- sion, for the sake of unanimity; and, as he had been in- formed that there was not a respectable Tory in the towo who would not sign the requisition to the High Bailiff to call the meeting, he should be sorry to do any thing to pre- vent their good intentions. The suffering of the poor was so great, that all parties must unite cordially for the purpose of obtaining prompt relief; and hence he was willing to forego every thing but principle on such an occasion. If, however, as he before said, it should turn out that their efforts were unavailing, then would he go straightforward for those great constitutional rights of which the people had been deprived, and without which, he feared, no good could be obtained. Household Suffrage was the undoubted con- stitutional right of the people, and without it be never could be satisfied. He had no objection to Universal Suffrage, if it could be got; but he would be content with Household Suffrage well carried out, and free from the trammels of taxes and rates. Before sitting down, he would merely observe he bad had many applications to him for the rules of the Union. He believed they were out of print, and as there were many in other parts of the country anxious to know what they were doing, he thought they could not do better than get a number of copies printed, and also a copy of the petition agreed to at the last New Hall- bill meeting. Mr. AARON said he rose to discharge a very pleasing duty. It was to propose a vote of thanks to their excellent friend, Mr. Scholefield, for his donation. ( Hear, hear.) They certainly did not 6tand in need of that proof of Mr. Scholefield's attachment to the principles of the Union, or of his good wishes to the cause of the people. ( Hear, hear.) No, he had given them many, and so far as their opinion of him went, it wasunnecessary. As money, however, was at all times acceptable, and as they cannot carry on a body like the Union without it, it was gratifying to find men like Mr. Scholefield coming forward with such liberal donations. He therefore begged leave to move that the thanks of the Union be given to Mr. Scholefield for his donation. Mr. DOUGLAS seconded the resolution. He said he con curred fully with Mr. Aaron, that they did not stand in need of any such solid proof of Mr. Scholefield's attach- ment to the cause of the Union, as that they had had an- nounced to them, still he always received such solid proofs with pleasure. Before sitting down he could not but con- gratulate the council upon the prospect they then had of bringing fairly before the public the great question of the currency. The first great object of the Union was peace. It was the leading word in their motto. It was an object which they were ever willing to do every thing in their power to obtain. That and the other purposes of the Union could only be satisfactorily achieved by an amalga- mation of all parties, such, as he rejoiced, was now taking place. Many of their fellow- townsmen who had long differed with them upon many points, as well as on that of their peculiar system of currency, were now about to abandon their opposition on that important question. He saw no reason why they should any longer despair of uniting upon other and " equally important points. Whilst men were kept asunder, they were almost certain to disagree. If once they could be prevailed upon to sit down together and calmly to examine their respective opinions, there was a great probability of their coming to an amicable under- standing. With respect to the currency, he must at the same time Irankly avow bis opinion, that in the present state of Parliament it was all but hopeless to expect a thorough investigation of its defects, or any serious effort to amend them. Indeed the minds of the public, as well as of their representatives, were very ill informed upon the subject. Still they would have the satisfaction of know- ing that they had done all in their power towards bring, ing the question before Government; and the fact that they had done so, would enable them to apply with still greater effect to the country. In his own opinion, without House- hold Suffrage and protection for the voter, they never would get a Parliament prepared and competent to enter upon the subject ofthe currency with a disposition to discuss it honestly. If, however, he were deceived in this opinion, if by such a meeting as they were about to hold, prosperity could be restored, he would rejo'ee at seeing the right arm of their chairman, as he had expressed himself, so broken. What, indeed, ought to be the object of all government? The happiness of the people. It was not for the sake of abstract power, not to giatify an idle am- bition that they contended. They asked for legislative change, that thereby they might have good laws, that by good laws they might have prosperity for all clssses. The greatest happiness for the greatest number, the motto of the first political philosopher England ever produced, was their motto also. If that could he attained without organic change, without organic change let it be attained, and welcomed. If they got the question of the currency satisfactorily settled, he granted the immediate effect would be— no more gatherings of the people in that room. The men would have work and wages, and the masters profits. Both would have enough and more to do in their own affairs; and naturally an apathy with regard to national objects would be the result. But would that apathy be permanent? It was impossible a nation could rise in commercial and manufacturing wealth, and long remain apathetic to the higher enjoyments of social liberty. When men come to have abundance of physical comforts, when they had cheerful fire- sides and plentiful tables, it was im- possible they could refiain from thinking and reading about the laws which had created their happiness; and without thinking of the means by which they could improve those laws, and render the possession of them secure. Reform would progress, and eventually, although slowly, they would obtain all those organic changes that they so much required. The vote of thanks to Mr. Scholefield was then put and carried with acclamation. Mr. AARON then moved that 500 copies of the rules of the Union be immediately printed. Mr. DOUGLAS said he approved of the resolution, still printing the rules would not have anything like the desired effect. They must, in his opinion, if driven to organise the people effectually, proceed to his friend Mr. Salt's plan. They must send deputations into the different large towns of the empire. By the legacy of the late Mr. Slater, the or dinary turids of the Union, and the donation they had just received from Mr. Scholefield, they would be in a condition to send out deputies who would arouse public feeling. In the course of a very few months they might contrive to con- nect the whole of Great Britain in one continuous chain; so that they would be able, with the voice of millions, to de- mand justice. This system of evangelising could not, how- ever, be gone into until after the great effort about to be made with respect to the currency had been fairly tried. They must go into the question of the currency without mixing itup with any other, and without, if possible, raising any doubts of its success. They must not cool the zeal of its new friends by proposing any thing in the shape of inti- midation. The question of the currency had hitherto been mixed up with politics, ordinarily so called : they were now about to try it upon its own merits, and submit it on these merits alone to the consideration of Her Majesty's minis- ters. If they failed in obtaining for the question a fair and favourable hearing, then, but not till then, they would ap. peal to the people, and in terms which could not be misun- derstood. Mr. CUTLER was of opinion that the working men ought to require the cheap newspapers they were in the habit of reading to publish weekly reports of the proceedings of the Council. Mr. SALT said they had suffered a long time, and their sufferings had been great, but be was in hope that ere long the cause of their distress would at least he examined into. The great struggle was coming, which he hoped would end in the happiness of the people; all parties were about to unite under a sense of their common wrongs, and if some promises of relief were not given by Ministers, then could he and his friends tax the political party opposed to them if they did not demand relief. They could tell them they ad- mitted the existence of distress ; that they admitted it was occasioned by bad laws, yet they would not demand such an alteration in the system as would enable them to obtain good laws. He hoped, however, great things from the forthcoming meeting; they would send up from it to Lord Melbourne good men and true; men who would net he bowed out of the room; men who would state facts in plain language, ask plain questions, and require plain answers. ( Cheers) These men would return immediately to the town; with the Prime Minister's answer, and tilt- inhabitants would go out in thousands and tens of thousands to meet them on their return. ( Cheers.) Yes, tile people would show their anxiety to know his lordship's answer, by going out to meet the deputation, and there entering into immediate resolutions, such as the answer might war- rant. He never was an advocate for delay, but he would say, if ever the people moved right a- head he hoped it would be on that occasion. If the answer was satisfactory — if such as would lead to the hope that men would be able to procure work, and reasonable wages for it— then all would be well, and they would feel thankful even for an extension of common justice to them ; but if the answer was unsatis- factory— if they were told that they must die, in order that the tax- eaters and the money lords might live and fatten- then they would go forth at once, and ask the people of the united empire to join them in demanding justice. ( Re- newed cheers.) Well, having obtained the sanction and support of some half- dozen of the large towns they would again apply to ministers, and if they still persisted in re- fusing justice, they would proceed with organising the people until they got them into that condition that no ministry dare refuse their demand, and retain tlieit places. If they merited the confidence of the people of England they would have it, and nothing could prevent them from obtaining it. Mr. COLLINS suggested, that in order to facilitate the collection of the ensuing quarter's subscription to the Union, that a councillor be appointed in each district of the town to leceive subscriptions. By this plan the money could be collected ill half the usual time, the members of the council would be brought in contact with the members of the Union, and the organisation of the people so mv desired, would be easily promoted. The CHAIRMAN highly approved of the plan, at commended Mr. Collins to move a resolution to thill proposed. Mr. COLLINS did so, and the resolution was unanimoui agreed to. Mr. DOUGLAS said if the men in the factories, or who were in the habit of meeting together in other places, were to appoint one person to write down their names on a slip of paper, and hand in the slip with the money to the collec- tor, it would he a great ease to the receiver. The CHAIRMAN said he had a few evenings ago called the attention of the council to the propriety of getting a new banner for the Union. ( Hear, bear.) If they could get one manufactured for ten or twenty pounds, he thought the money would he well laid out. The devices upon it would be clearly expressive of the feelings of the members of the Union. They should have upon it the Lion, the Lamb, and the Serpent. The first was expressive of true British courage; the second, of that simplicity and honesty with which they designed to carry on their proceedings ; and the latter, of their prudence and judgment. There had been a new Union medal lately struck off by Mr. Davis, of a very beautiful description, but he had never seen it ad- vertised, except once. He feared it was not sufficiently known amongst the people. There being no other business before the Council the meeting broke up. We inseit a copy of the Address ® f the Political Union to Her Majesty, and also of the letter of Earl Howe, Her Majesty's Chamberlain, acknowledging Her Majesty's gra- cious reception of it. " To Her Most Gracious Majesty, Queen Adelaide. " Birmingham, July 4, 1837. " We, the members of the Birmingham Political Union, beg leave most respectfully to present to Your Majesty the humble tribute of our sincere sympathy and condolence, in the grievous loss which Your Majesty and the Royal family, and this whole nation have sustained, by the death of our late good, and kind, and revered King, William the Fourth, of blessed memory. May God rest his soul in peace! We deeply feel the double bereavement of Your Majesty, sharing but yesterday with our lamented King, the dignity of the most powerful and most glorious sceptre in the world; and now, by the dispensations of Almighty God, suddenly deprived of the dignity of that imperial throne, and widowed at the same time, in the first, arid last, and tenderest affections of the human heart. *' We humbly and dutifully thank Your Majesty for the never- ceasing kindness and devotion with which Your Ma- jesty watched and consoled the last pains of our lamented King; and we implore the Almighty to comfort and support Your Majesty under all your afflictions, granting to Your Majesty all health and prosperity in this world, and ever- lasting happiness in that which is to come." " Bushy House, August 28th, 1837. " Sir— I have not failed to submit the Address of kind condolence from the Members of the Birmingham Poli- tical Union to Queen Adelaide, and am honoured by Her Majesty's commands to express how consolating has been to the Queen Dowager's feelings, this proof of attachment to herself, and of respect for the memory of the late King. " I have the honour to be, sir, " Your most obedient humble servant, " HOWE. " To Thomas Attwood, Esq." SPORTING. BIRMINGHAM AND SOLIHULL RACES:— These races commenced yes- terday. The attendance on the ground was good, but the stand was all but empty ; and there being few, if any, of the gentry or respect- ability of the neighbourhood in attendance. The morning was ex- ceedingly fine, but in the course of the afternoon some sharp showers of rain fell, and ( considerably marred the enjoyment of the meeting. On the whole it was a miserable dull concern, and in point of spirit and animation preseuted a striking contrast to the races of last year. Betting was out of the question, and money of any sort was scarcely to be seen on the ground: The North Warwickshire Stakes of 5 sovereigns each, 501, added by the Members for the Northern Division of the county. Twice round and a distauce.— Six horses entered for this race, which was admirably well contested. Mr Fowler's Mersey, 4 yrs, 8st 31b 1 Mr. Williams's b m Jenny Wren, 8st 121b 2 Lord Anson's br f by Tramp, 7st 31b 3 Mr. Crutchley's b c His Grace, 3 yrs, 7st51b .... 4 Mr. Hobson's b h Rollicking Rob, 8st51b 5 Mr. Harris's br g Merriman, 3 yrs, 7st 31b 6 Mersey was the favourite, and won by a head.—- Mr. Fowler, the winner, gave up the stakes, adding 10J. for the next year's meeting. The Solihull Stakes of 3 sovereigns each, with 30/. added. Heats, twice round and a distance. Mr. Briendley's b m Mackarel, 7st 121b 1 1 Mr. Peters's b c Indus, 3 yrs, 7st 41b 2 2 Mr. Thurlow's Miss Lloyd, 6 yrs, 9st 3 dip. Won easily. A Hack Stakes of 2 sovereigns each, with 15 added. Heats, twice round and a distance. Mr. Thurlow's Amy, 6 yrs, 10at, 1 3 1 Mr. Smith's bl h Miss Cope, 4 yrs, 9st 2 1 2 Mr. Brinley's b m Jumbo, 4 yrs 9st 71b 3 2 dr. Mr. Heath's b m Off She Goes, 5 yrs, 9st 71b.. dis. This was the best race of the day. In the first heat Amy was the favourite, and won by a head in capital style. It is said Bome good hoises are reserved for to- day. Indeed the racing on the whole yes- terday was very good, the jockeyship excellent, and no accident oc « curred; THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, SEPTEMBER 2. 118 POETRY. LOVE. Oh! Love 1— true Love!— what altera thee !— Not all The changes that flit o'er the heart of man ! Thou art the fruit that ripens— not to fall— The flower that lives beyond the summer's span ; The clinging plant that props the crumbling wall— The vesta] fire that braves the winter's ban, Nor is extinguished by the Bleet or snow Of human cruelty, and crime, and woe 1 Thou art the shadow of the heart that tends Our footsteps through bright sunshine or black shade ; Cold chills thee not- indifferente but amends- Want cannot kill thee, suffering not dissuade ; Thou art life's food, the morsel mercy lends To nourish when all other banquets fade : Yea! all conspire this maxim's truth to prove— Life is not where we live— but where we love ! With me Love is a vision of the mind, A dream that dazzles when I do not sleep ; A phantom, faintly seen and undefined ; An opiate, giving thoughts ecstatic, deep ; A holy spirit, in a tomb enshrined, O'er which humanity doth wail and weep : For purest Love hath ever on its wings A bleud of earthly and unearthly things I September 1, 1837. A. LITERATURE. ( Concluded.) SOCIETY IN AMERICA, BY HARRIET MARTINEAU.— The latter quoted passages from Miss Martineau's work are very singular, and we were anxious to intro- duce tliem, in order that our readers might appreciate the effect produced on a vigorous and inquiring mind, by a widening field for the examination of human nature; viewed, too, under circumstances calculated, more than any others existing, to produce " national coiitantment." Our authoress, we guess, will not thus let the subject drop;— will not content herself with thus declaring, though ever so strongly, her opinion, in a dozen pages, out of three volumes. The following passage on head- work and hand- work is powerful and encouraging. We wish, for our own share, that we could get out from under " the pressure of competition," undertaking our full dividend of the " sublimity of toil," for the allotted portion of the coming day, and earning thereby leisure and im- provement during the remainder, and happiness for the whole! There are many of the hand- workers, now, who are on the very borders of the domain of head- work-, and, as the en- croachments of those who work not at all, have, by this time, become seriously injurious to the rights of others, there are many thinkers, and persons of learning, who are driven over the line, and become hand- workers ; for which they, as they usually afterwards declare, can never be suf- ficiently thankful. There is no drowning the epitbalamium with which these two classes celebrate the union of thought and handicraft. Multitudes press in, or are carried in, to. ' he marriage feast, and a new era of society has begun. The mporarary glory of ease, and disgrace of labour, pass away * mountain mists, and the clear sublimity of toil grows upon ots sight. If, in such an era, a new nation begins its career, what should be expected from it?— Vol. 2, page 300. What expected ? A perfect Utopian common weal ! But what is the " new nation?" Not America;— its career is begun, and its result is " contentment," " restlessness," and " dissatisfaction." An odd mix- ture— but the new conglomerate is Miss Martineau's discovery, not ours. The fact is, she has put the wrong question. We do not want to know what should be expected from a new nation." We want that MAN should know and show what happiness HE can create, when he makes the discovery of the " Sublimity of toil." But we must quit this theme; there are other ab- stractions to claim our notice. Our authoress is indig- nant at the condition of female American society. " The intellect of woman is confined. * * * The morals of women are crushed."— Vol. 3, page 107,109. But these effects arejproduced by errors in education, precisely similar to those that prevail in Europe. The civil and political rights of woman are unacknow- ledged, but not alone is this the case in America. It is the condition, in civilised society, of the sex, and not alone of the American portion of it, that excites the writer's indignation. Her argument is from the spe- cific to the generic. In one respect the American institutions, in reference to women, offer an example to the mother country. Marriage in America is safer than in England, from the greater freedom of divorce; it is more tranquil and fortunate, from the arrangements about property being generally far more favourable to the wife than in England. * * * In no country, I believe, are the marriage laws so iniquitous as in England, and the conjugal relations, in consequence, so impaired. * * * Divorce is attainable only by the very rich. * * * In Massachusetts the term " cruelty" is made so comprehensive, that diyorces are obtainable with peculiar ease. The natural consequence follows: such a thing is never heard of. It will, probably, be next perceived, that if the civil obli- gation is fulfilled; if the children of the marriage are legally and satisfactorily provided for by the parties, without the assistance of the legislature, the legislature has, in principle, nothing more to do with the matter. This principle has been acted upon in the marriage arrangements of Zurich, with the best effects upon the morals of the conjugal rela- tions. The parties there are married by a form, and have liberty to divorce themselves without any appeal to law, on showing that they have legally provided for the children of the marriage. * » * There was some levity at first, chiefly on the part of those who were suffering under the old system ; but the morals of the society soon became, and have since remained, peculiarly pure— Vol. 3, page 119— 126. There is an air of fearless, dignified sincerity per- vading the pages from which these passages are culled, which render them singularly striking. We, in Eng- land, must still, on some points, content ourselves with the title given to us by Voltaire " Les sauvages de l'Europe;" but we cannot for ever shut our ears to the teachings of truth, justice, and civilisation. It is' something that such sentiments can be uttered, with impunity, by an author and a woman; but her genius, like Spenser's UNA, walks, unscathed, among perils which would have proved fatal to a mind of less in- tegrity;— it is something that worthy people are in- duced to read the pages without rending their hair, and throwing dust on their garments, in order to avert the wrath of heaven attendant on such abominations ! Miss Martineau's mode of looking at the state of religion in a country, may be inferred from the motto to her first chapter on the subject, from the German of Novalis. The Christian religion is the root of all democracy; the highest fact in the rights of man— Vol. 3, page 225. She remarks a vast amount of superstition and bigotry, as prevalent among the religious public of the United States, and deplores the injudicious treatment of sceptics. Xbe churches in Boston, and even th ® other public buildings, being guarded by the dragon of bigotry, so that even faith, hope, and charity, are turned back from the doors, a large building is about to be erected for the use of all,— deists not excepted,— who may desire to meet for purposes of free discussion. This is, at least, an advance.— ( p. 241.) The American clergy, it appears, do not manage matters well. A liberal- minded, religious father of a family said to me, " Take care how you receive the uncorroborated statements of clergymen, about that" ( some matter of social fact) " they are not likely to know anything about it." " Why ?" " Be- cause there is nobody to tell them. You know the clergy are looked upon by all grown men, as a sort of people between men and women."—( P. 289. ) " The evil lies in the superstition," to use the words of an American clergyman, " of believing that religion is something else than goodtiess"—( P. 294.) Progress, however, is making— The people have been brought up to suppose that they saw Christianity in its ministers. Tbe first consequence of the mistake was, that Christianity was extensively misunder- stood— as it is still. The trying moral conflicts of the time are acting as a test. The people are rapidly discovering that the supposed faithful mirror is a grossly refracting medium ; and the blessed consequence will be that they will look at the object for themselves, declining any medium at all.— ( P. 295.) Still, religion is everywhere safe. The institutions of America are planted down deep into Christianity. * » » The community will be Christian, as surely as democracy is Christian ( P. 296.) This is all very good and very bold, and of universal application. It is an encouragement to cautious and timid writers to have before them the example of a person like Miss Martineau, who, enjoying a consider- able share of popularity, and heing certain of having numerous readers, does not hesitate, in the strongest and most unequivocal manner, to expose the existing errors of society— errors which vitiate the very roots of the social system— and this, too, in a work which by no means necessarily called for such speculations. She bent her subject to her purpose. In her hands it became manageable, like the bow of Ulysses in the grasp of its owner. There is, perhaps, scarcely any other writer now living who could have so wielded the weapon without breaking its entireness. Fanny Kemble, in her Journal, occasionally throws off a flash of penetrating thought, which shows of what she would be capable, were such enquiries her immediate object— but Bulwer, in all his disquisitions on society, has never arrived at such clair- voyance. The truth is, that with all his accomplishments, man is a novice in the SCIENCE OF SOCIETY. In manufacture and in com- merce we form compacts, divide labour, and expend aggregated treasures in our preparations for mutual profit; but in our social arrangements we are still but hand- loom weavers, and hammerers of single pins. We possess the means, the detail of happiness, but have no notion of putting together the disjecta membra. We have all the ingredients, but it does not occur to us that they are meant to be compounded. " Labour's thousand arms ply everywhere unceasingly, for the service of man, yet man remains unserved." These words were uttered by the Edinburgh Review in 1831. The state of man is still unaltered, but Harriet Mar- tineau, of all our generally popular and received writers, is the first to declare openly, that under the freest political institutions, and enjoying the most ex- traordinary national prosperity, while the mass of man- kind are " obliged to devote four portions of time to do that which might be effected in one, " man is un- served," and ought to be " dissatisfied." This must not be forgotten. Philanthropic, intel- lectual, cultivated man, must, in future, exert himself in the service of his species, in ways hitherto uncon- templated. In America, in spite of its enormous re- sources, and in the face of encomiats of every grade, " all are dissatisfied." Why ? Because the science of society has yet to be learned there; and America is but a feeble type of the rest of the so- called civilised world. It remains to be seen whether, in the pursuit of individual and collective happiness, " the majority" will show themselves, eventually, " in the right;" whether, by the wisely- directed efforts of man, man may yet hope to be better served. W. H. S. THE BAGMAN'S UNCLE. ( From the Pickwick Papers, No, XVII.) " My uncle, gentlemen," said the bagman, " was one of the merriest, pleasantest, cleverest fellows that ever lived! I wish you had known him, gentlemen. On second thoughts, gentlemen, I don't wish you had known him, for if you had, you would have been all by this time in the ordinary course of nature, if not dead, at all events so near it, as to have taken to stopping at home and giving up company, which would have deprived me of the inestimable pleasure of ad- dressing you at this moment. Gentlemen, I wish your fathers and mothers had known my uncle. They would have been amazingly fond of him, especially your respec- table mothers; I know they would. If any two of liis numerous virtues predominated over the many that adorned his character, I should say they were his mixed punch and his after- supper song. Excuse my dwelling upon these melancholy recollections of departed worth; you wo'nt see a man like my uncle every day in the week. " I have always considered it a great point in my uncle's character, gentlemen, that he was the intimate friend and companion of Tom Smart, of the great house of Bilson and Slum, Cateaton- street, City. My uncle collected for Tig- gin and Welps, but for a long time he went pretty near the same journey as Tom ; and the very first time they met, my uncle took a fancy to Tom, and Tom took a fancy for my uncle. They made a bet of a new hat before they had known each other half an hour, which should brew the best quart of punch and drink it the quickest. My uncle was judged to have won the making, but Tom Smart beat him in tiie drinking by about half a salt- spoon full. They took another quart a piece to drink each other's health in, and were staunch friends ever afterwards. There's a destiny in these things, gentlemen; we can't help it. " In personal appearance, my uncle was a trifle shorter than the middle size ; he was a thought stouter too than the ordinary run of people, and perhaps his face might be a shade redder. He had the jolliest face you ever saw, gen- tlemen, something like Punch, with a handsomer nose and chin; his eyes were always twinkling and sparkling with good humour, and a smile— not one of your unmeaning wooden grins, but a real, merry, hearty, good- tempered smile, was perpetually on his countenance. He was pitched out of his gig once, and knocked head first against a mile stone. There he lay, stunned, and so cut about the face with some gravel, which had been heaped up alongside it, that, to use my uncle's own strong expression, if his mother could have revisited the earth, she wouldn't have known him. Indeed, when I come to think of the matter, gen- tlemen, I feel pretty sure she wouldn't, for she died when my uncle was two years and seven months old, and I think it's very likely, even without the gravel, his top boots would have puzzled the good lady not a little, to say nothing of his jolly red face. However, there he lay, and I have heard my uncle say many a time, that the man said who picked him up, that he was smiling as merrily as if he had tumbled out for a treat, and that after they had bled him, the first faint glimmerings of returning animation were, his jumping up in bed, bursting out into a loud laugh, kissing the young woman who held the basin, and demanding a mutton chop and a pickled walnut instantly. He was very fond of pickled walnuts, gentlemen. He said that he always found that, taken without vinegar, they relished the beer. " My uncle's great journey was in the fall of the leaf, at which time lie collected debts and took orders in the north ; going from London to Edinburgh, from Edinburgh to Glas gow, from Glasgow back to Edinburgh, and thence to Lon- don by tbe smack. You are to understand tbat this second visit to Edinburgh was for his own pleasure. He used to go back lor a week, just to look up his old friends; and what with breakfasting with this one, and lunching with that, and d'ning with a third, and supping with another, apretty tight week be used to make of it. I don't know whether any of you, gentlemen, ever partook of a real substantial hospita- ble Scotch breakfast, and then went out to a slight lunch of a bushel of oysters, a dozen or so of bottled ale, and a noggin or two of whiskey to close up with. If you ever did, you will agree with me that it requires a pretty strong head to go out to dinner and Supper afterwards. " liless you hearts and eyebrows, all this sort of thing was nothing to my uncle. He was so well seasoned that it was mere child's play. I have heard him say that he could see the Dundee people out any day, and walk home after- wards without staggering; and yet the Dundee people have as strong heads and as strong punch, gentlemen, as you are likely to meet with between the poles. I have heard of a Glasgow man and a Dundee man drinking against each other for fifteen hours at a sitting. They were both suffo cated as nearly as could be ascertained at tbe same moment, but with this trifling exception, gentlemen, they were not a bit tlie worse for it " One night, within four- and- twenty hours of the time when he had settled to take shipping for London, my uncle supped at the house of a very old friend of his, a Baillie Mac something, and four syllables after it, who lived in the oid town of Edinburgh. There were the baillie's wife and tbe baillie's three daughters, and the bailie's grown- up son, and three or fonr stout bushy- eye- browed, canty old Scotch fellows, that the baillie bad got together to do honour to my uncle and help to make merry. It was a glorious supper. There was kippered salmon, and Finnan haddocks, and a sheep's head, and a haggis; a celebrated Scotch dish, gentle- men, which my uncle used to say always looked to him, when it came to table, very much like a cupid's stomach ; and a great many other things besides, tbat I forget the names of, but very good things notwithstanding. The lassies were pretty and agreeable; the baillie's wife one of the best creatures that ever lived ; and my uncle in tho- roughly good cue ; the consequence of which was, that the young ladies tittered and giggled, and the old lady laughed out loud, and the baillie and the other old fellows roared till they were red in the face, the whole mortal time. I don't quite recollect how many tumblers of whisky toddy each man drank after supper, but this I know, that about one o'clock in the morning, the baillie's grown- up son became insensible while attempting the first verse of ' Willie brewed a peck o'maut;' and he having been, for half an hour before, the only other man visible above the mahogany, it occurred to my uncle that it was almost time to think about going, especially as drinking had set in about seven o'clock, in order that he might get home at a decent hour. But thinking it might not be quite polite to go just then, my uncle voted himself into the chair, mixed another glass, rose to propose his own health, addressed himself in a neat and complimentary speech, and drank the toast with great en- thusiasm. Still nobody woke; so my uncle took a little drop more— neat this time, to prevent the toddy disagreeing with him, and laying violent hands oil his hat, sallied forth into the street. " It was a wild gusty night when my uncle closed the baillie's door; and settling his hat firmly on his head, to prevent the wind from taking it, thrust bis hands into his pockets, and looking upwards, took a short survey of the state of the weather. The clouds were drifting over the moon at their giddiest speed, at one time wholly obscuring her, at another, suffering her to burst forth in full splendour and shed her light on all the objects around; anon, driving over her again with increased velocity, and shrouding every- thing in darkness. ' Really, this won't do,' said my uncle, addressing himself to the weather, as if he felt himself per- sonally offended. ' This is not at all the kind of thing for my voyage. It will not do at any price,' jaid my uncle, very impressively. And having repeated this several times, he recovered his balance with some difficulty— for he was rather giddy with looking up into the sky so long— and walked merrily on. " The baillie's house was in Ihe Canongate, and my uncle was going to the other end of Leitli Walk, rather better than a mile's journey. On either side of him, there shot up against the dark sky, tall, gaunt, straggling houses, with time- stained fronts, and windows that seemed to have shared the lot of eyesin mortals, and to have grown dim and sunken with age. Six, seven, eight stories high were the houses; story piled above story, as children build with cards— throwing their dark shadows over the roughly paved road, and making the night darker. A few oil lamps were scattered, at long distances, but they only served to mark the diity entrances to some narrow close, or to show where a common stair communicated, by steep and intricate windings with the va- rious flats above. Glancing at all these things with the air of a man who had seen them too often before, to think them worthy of much notice now, my uncle walked up the middle of tbe street with a thumb in each waistcoat pocket, in- dulging from time to time in various snatches of song, chaunted forth with such good will and spirit, that the quiet honest folk started srom their first sleep and lay trembling in bed till the sound died away in the distance ; when, satis- fying themselves that it was only some drunken ne'er- do- weel finding his way home, they covered themselves up warm and fell asleep again. " I am particular in describing how my uncle walked up the middle of the street with his thumbs in his waistcoat pockets, gentlemen, because, as he often used to say, ( and with great reason too) there is nothing at all extraordinary in this story, unless you distinctly understand at the be- ginning, that he was not by any means of a marvellous or romantic turn. " Gentlemen, my uncle walked on with his thumbs in his waistcoat pockets, taking the middle of the street to him- self, and sin^ infr, now a verse of a love song, and then a verse of a drinking due; and when he was tired of both, whistling melodiously, until he reached the North Bridge, which at this point connects the old and new towns of Edin- burgh. Here he stopped for a minute to look at the strange irregular cluster of lights piled one above tbe other, and twinkling afar off so high in the air that they looked like stars gleaming from the castle walls on the one side, and the Calton- hill on the other, as if they illuminated veritable castles in the air, while the old picturesque town slept heavily on in gloom and darkness below; its palace and chapel of Holyrood, guarded day and night, as a friend of my uncle's used to say, by old Arthur's Seat, towering, surly and dark like some gruff genius, over the ancient city he has watched so long. I say, gentlemen, my uncle stopped here for a minute to look about him ; and then, paying a compli- ment to the weather which had a little cleared up, though the moon was sinking, walked on again as royally as fiefore, keeping the middle of the road with great dignity, and look- ing as if he should very much like to meet with somebody who would dispute possession of it with him. There was nobody at all disposed to contest the point, as it happened ; and so he went on, with his thumbs in his waistcoat pockets, as peaceable as a lamb. " When my uncle reached the end of Leith- walk, lie had to cross a pretty large piece of waste ground which sepa- rated him from a short street which he had to turn down to go direct to his lodging. Now in this piece of waste ground there was at that time an inclosnre belonging to some wheelwright, who contracted with the Post- office for the purchase of old worn- out mail coaches; and my uncle being very fond of coaches, old, young, or middle- aged, all at once took it into his head to step out of his road for no other purpose than to peep between the palings at these mails, about a dozen of which he remembered to have seen, crowded together in a very forlorn and dismantled state, in- side. My uncle was a very enthusiastic, emphatic sort of person, gentlemen; so, finding that he could not obtain a good peep between the palings, he got over them, and setting himself quietly down on an old axletree, began to contemplate the mail coaches with a great deal of gravity. " There might be a dozen of them, or there might be more— my uncle was never quite certain upon this point, and being a man of very scrupulous veracity about numbers, didn't like to say— but there they stood, all huddled to- gether in the most desolate condition imaginable. The doors had been torn from their hinges and removed, the linings had been stripped off, only a shred hanging here and there by a lusty nail; the lamps were gone, the poles had long since then vanished, the iron- work was rusty, the paint worn away; the wind whistled through the chinks in the bare wood- work, and the rain, which had collected on the roofs, fell drop by drop into the insides with a hollow and melancholy sound. They were the decaying skeletons of departed mails, and in that lonely place, at that time of night, they looked chill and dismal. " My uncle rested his head upon his hands, and thought of the busy bustling people who had rattled about, years before, in the old coaches, and who were now as silent and changed; he thought of the numbers of people to whom one of those crazy, mouldering vehicles had borne, night after night, for many years and through all weathers, the anxiously expected intelligence, the eargerly looked- for re- mittance, the promised assurance of health and safety, the sudden announcement of sickness and death. The mer- chant, the lover, the wife, the widow, the mother, the schoolboy, the very child who tottered to the door at the postman's knock— how had they all looked forward to the arrival of the old coach. And where were they all now ! " Gentlemen, my uncle used to say that he thought all this at the time, but I rather expect he learnt it out of some book afterwards, for he distinctly stated that he fell into a kind of doze as he sat on the old axletree looking at the de- cayed mail coaches, and that he was suddenly awakened by some deep church- bell striking two. Now, my uncle was never a fast thinker, and if he had thought all these things, I am quite certain it would have taken him till full half- past two o'clock at the very least. I am, therefore, de- cidedly of opinion, gentlemen, that my uncle fell into the kind of doze without having thought about any thing at all. " Be this as it may, a church- bell struck two. My uncle woke, rubbed his eyes, and jumped up in astonishment. ( To be continued in our next.) SINAI— Immediately after breakfast I rose to ascend the mountain. The superior conducted me through the con- vent, which, even more than at night, seemed like a small city, through long galleries built of stone, with iron doors, and finally through a long subterraneous passage to tbe outer garden, a beautiful spot in the midst of the surround- ing barrenness, now blooming with almonds and oranges, lemons, dates, and apricots, and shaded by arbours of grape- vines to the extreme end of the walls. At this moment I gave but a passing glance at the garden, and flurrying on to the walls, where a trusty Arab was sitting as sentinel, I descended by a rope, the superior, or papa, as he is called, bidding me farewell, and telling me not to fatigue myself or be long away. * * • Immediately behind the wall of the convent we began to ascend. A Bedouin dwarf, the first specimen of deformity I had seen among the Arabs, led the way, with a leather bag of refreshments on his back. Sophronie, an old monk, fol- lowed, with long white hair and beard, supporting himself by a staff; after him came a young novice from Corfu, who spoke Italian, and then Paul and myself. For some time the ascent was easy. Ever since the establishment of the convent, it had been the business of the monks to improve the path to the top of the mountain; and for about twenty minutes we continued to ascend by regular steps. In half an hour we came to a beautiful fountain under an overhang- ing rock. Soon after, we entered a large open space, forming a valley which was surrounded on all sides by mountains ; and on the left, high above the others, rose the lofty peak of Sinai. It is this part of the mountain that bears the sacred name of Horeb. In the centre, en- closed by a stone fence, is a tall cypress, the only tree on the mountain, planted by the monks more than a hundred years ago. Near it is a fountain, called the fountain of Elias, which the prophet dug with his own hands, when he lived iri the mountain, before he was ordered by the Lord to Jerusalem. * * And among all the stupendous works of nature, not a place can be selected more fitted for the exhibition of Al- mighty power. I have stood upon the summit of the giant Etna, and looked over the clouds floating beneath it, upon the bold scenery of Sicily, and the distant mountains of Calabria ; upon the top of Vesuvius, and looked down upon the waves of lava, and the ruined and half- recovered cities at its foot; but they are nothing compared with the ter- rific solitudes and bleak majesty of Sinai. An observing traveller has well called it " a perfect sea of desolation." Not a tree, or shrub, or blade of grass is to be seen upon the bare and rugged sides of innumerable mountains, heaving their naked summits to the skies, while the crumbling masses of granite all around, and tbe distant view of the Syrian desert, with its boundless waste of sands, form the wildest and most dreary, the most terrific and desolate pic- ture that imagination can conceive. The level surface of the very top, or pinnae'e, is about sixty feet square. At one end is a single rock about twenty feet high, on which, as the monk aaid, the spirit of God descended, while in the crevice beneath his favoured servant received the tables of the law. * * The ruins of a church and convent are still to be seen upon the mountain, to which, before the convent below was built, monks and hermits used to retire, and, secluded from the world, sing the praises of God upon his chosen hill. Near this, also, is a Mahommedan mosque; for on this sacred spot the followers of Christ and Mahommed have united in worshipping the true and living God. Under the chapel is a hermit's cell, where in the iron age of fana- ticism, the anchorite lingered out his days in fasting, medi- tation, and prayer— Incidents of Travel. ANCIENT THEATRES— During the whole of the fifteenth century, perhaps the most barren period in the history of our literature, the mysteries, the basis of which consisted in a pantomimic representation of Scripture subjects, and the moralities, which generally united these subjects with moral personifications, continued to be the only scenic perform- ances. The mysteries were most frequently represented in large trading towns, such as Coventry, Chester, or York, whither a concourse of spectators was brought together by tbe occasion of a fair; and the trading companies of those cities, finding that the attraction of dramatic amusements swelled the number of their customers, took upon them- selves the management of the exhibitions, and performed the part of actors. At Chester, " Every company had his pagiante, or part, which pagiantes were a highe scaffolde with two rowmes, a higher and a lower, upon foure wheeles. In the lower they apparrelled themselves; in the higher they played, being all open to the tope, that all beholders might heare and see them. The places where they played them was in every streete. They begane first at the A hay gates, and when the pagiante was played, it was wheeled to the High Cross, before the mayor, and so to every streete; and so every streete had a pagiante played before them, till all the pagiantes for the daye appointed were played; aud when one pagiante was neere ended, worde was broughte Irom streete to streete, that soe they might come in place thereof exceeding orderlye ; and all the streetes had their pagiante afore them, all at one time, playing together; to se which playes was great resort; and also scaffoldes and stages made in the streetes, in those places wheare they determined to playe their pagiantes." * * The principal theatres in the age of Shakspeare, and those in which his own plays were most frequently represented, were that at Blackfriars, and the Globe on the Bankside, in Southwark. The latter was open to the sky, and therefore used only in summer; and it differed alsojrom the Black- friars theatre in being larger and more pubfisMo all classes, It does not appear that any theatre was ever honoured by the presence of royalty, and probably not by tbe higher ranks of the nobility. Masques were the favourite theatri- cal amusements of the court, and other dramas were acted either in the palace, or in the mansions of the higher class of nobility, by private companies of retainers, regularly li- censed for that purpose; the theatres were, however, the usual resort of the upper ranks of the gentry. Decker, in his Gull's Horn- book, one of the most curious records of the maimers of the age, gives the following advice to the gallant, or aspiring man of fashion, as to the choice of a seat in the playhouse: — " Whither, therefore, the gathers of the public or private playhouse stand to receive the afternoon's rent, let our gallant, having paid it, presently advance up to the throne of the stage;— I mean not in the lord's room, which is now but the stage's suburbs,— no, those boxes, by the iniquity of custom, conspiracy of waiting- women and gentlemen ushers, that there sweat together, and the covetousness of sharers, are contemptibly thrust into the rear, and much new satin is damned by being smothered to death in darkness; but on tbe very rushes where the comedy is to dance, and under the state of Cambyses himself, must our feathered ostrich, like a piece of ordnance, be planted valiantly, be- cause impudently beating down the opposed rascality. " For do but cast up a reckoning:— what large eomings- in are pursed up by sitting on the stage ? First, a conspicu- ous eminence is gotten; by which means the best and most essential parts of a gallant— good clothes, a proportionable leg, white hand, the Persian lock, and a tolerable beard, are perfectly revealed."— Early English Literature. DIU'UVTREN— Dupuytren was a man of middle stature, blown complexion, and strong make. In his youth he must have been extremely handsome. Those who possess the personal acquaintance of both, must have seen some resem- blance between Dupuytren and the Professor of Anatomy in the University of Dublin. The striking magnificence of forehead, expressive of intelligence of the highest order, and the small, dark, piercing eye, which distinguished the one, had their rival in the other; that eye, oftenest twinkling with playful malice in the one, and the other darting those stern annihilating glances which rendered the presence of the great surgeon of the Hotel Dieu so imposing, and fre- quently so oppressive, to those that fell beneath his scrutiny. " His eye," says a French author, " was enough to terrify a Corsair." But it was to the peculiar expression of his mouth, that the physiognomy of Duyputren owed its charac- teristic cynicism and appearance of universal distrust. Viewing the upper part of his face, and particularly his broad fair forehead, covered by a thin clieveleure, the figure was that of a man imbued with feelings of benevolence, and accustomed to exert the most untiring patience. But soon would the impression be destroyed by a sudden curl of the lip, an almost imperceptible compression of the mouth, a fastidious, though polite shrug of the shoulders— tokens of mental storm within— which, with calm exterior, he was disdainful to show, refusing to let his fellows become wit- nesses of any one feeling that governed him. Without the appearance of avoiding society, though present at all the learned meetings of the French capital, at the faculty, at the court, at the re- unions of private life, Dupuytren was, intellectually speaking, a perfect anchorite. Admired by all, the friend, perhaps, of a few distinguished men, there was not one who could say, " I know him." The dress which Dupuytren invariably wore was very pe culiar. At the Institute or the faculty, in town or at the court, in summer and in winter, he was always clothed in a little round- cut green body- coat, to which, when he visited the hospital, was added a small green cloth cap, of a cut altogether original. Those who have at any time followed his clinique, at the Hotel Dieu, will remember the slow, the almost jesuit pace, with which he entered the amphitheatre; the brim of his green casquette turned from his forehead, the white apron in front, his right hand thrust into the bosom of his coat, and his left constantly applied to his mouth; for no matter in what society he found himself, whether in public or in private, at the hospital, or presiding at a concours at the faculty, Dupuytren had a habit of con stantly gnawing the nails of his left thumb and index finger, like one who suffers from intense bodily or mental pain. When seated in the professor's chair, he never addressed himself to more than a fraction of the audience; his back was turned upon at least three- fourths of the assembly; and he commenced with a low and indistinct muttering, which afforded little indication of the splendid, and, on many occa- sions, truly eloquent discourse that was to follow.— Athenaeum. GENEVA— Within the last four years, the changes in the external appearance of the city have been very great. The banks of the Rhone, where its blue and rapid waters dash ( rom the calm expanse of the lake, were encumbered with mean buildings, inhabited by the lowest classes of the popu- lation— the butchers of the shambles, and the boatmen of the port. A small and unfrequented island, in the middle of the stream, afforded insecure moorings to a few clumsy barks, and tbe river could only be crossed by two smal bridges lower down. The whole of this quarter has now been swept away, to make room for two handsome quays, and rows of lofty and commodious houses; a long bridge, connected with the little Isle des Barques, crosses the stream ; and the island itself, flanked with free- stone abut, ments, and planted with trees, has been dedicated to Rous- seau, whose statue has been erected upon it. Little can be said in praise of this statue, which is the work of the cele- brated Genevese artist, Pradier. You will imagine, per- haps, tbat the sculptor has represented his immortal and unhappy countryman erect, wrapt in eager meditation, and looking with the eloquent gesture of a child and friend of nature towards those beautiful and tenible mountains, amidst which he wandered in impassioned youth. You may fancy him pointing with one hand, in token of affectionate upbraiding, to the city of his birth, and holding in the other the scroll of burning thoughts which he was wont to carry with him in his solitary walks. Instead of this, they have made him a stern. visaged sage, seated in his Roman toga, on a stool, supported by ponderous folios, in the garb and attitude of a stoic. A stranger requires to be told, for there is no inscription on the pedestal, that this is Rousseau. In the exhibition of pictures which has just opened, it is im- possible not to remark the same want of ideal power among the Genevese artists: M. Hornung, who painted a picture of the death of Calvin some years ago, which deserves to rank high among modern historical pictures, has deviated from his former track to imitate the minute handling and the transparent finish of the Dutch painters, without pos. sessing their harmony of colour, or their skill in relief. His influence has spoiled the style of several artists; their works are, for the most part, mere portraits of the prose of daily life, occasionally softened by a touch of sentiment; but of that art which is bred in the highest school of passion, con- templation, and poetry, they bear no trace. In landscape, they have made more progress, and the works of M. Diday and M. Guignon are very pleasingly painted ; but who would be a landscape- painter in Switzerland, where nature, prodigally grand, perplexes the eye with a myriad of effects, so enhanced by the brilliancy of a southern sun, so extended by distance and by magnitude, as to baffle the resources of the artist— to drive him into extravagance— and to destroy the unity and meaning of hi> work ? In the midst of these astonishing scenes, which are flatly contrasted, it must be allowed, with the character of the populations inhabiting them, no great poet and painter was ever born and bred; the progress of the Gevenese lies in the arts of civilisation and luxury, and they owe less to their imaginations than to their practical sagacity. Yet I have found amongst them no insensibility to the beautiful spectacles around them, but rather a sense of perpetual enjoyment heightened by use, and excited by the constant varieties of light and shade, storm and calrp. Within the last four or five years, the lake has been peopled with a little fleet of yachts and pleasure- boats, which are to be seen on breezy evenings, careering round like water- birds, with music on board, saluting the crowds of townspeople gathered on the ramparts to watch their way. I can wish you no better rest and recreation than to join these merry parties of fresh- water sailors; you should have a berth in the admiral's yacht, L'Epervier, and they would hoist the union jack by the side of the federal standard. — Athenceum. LEGHORN HATS— The demand for straw hats was at one period so extensive for the English market, that about 900 cases, containing 24,000 dozens, were shipped annually. Their average value was, 7,000 Tuscan lire per case, making £ T. 2,180,000 in all, or 70,000/. sterling. They would pay in England a duty of 68s. per dozen, equal to 91,600/. sterling, which is more than 116 per cent. But in the in- ferior qualities, when a case is not worth more than £ T. 4,000 to £ T. 5,000, the duty is from 150 to 200 per cent. * * The requiring by the English tariff a diameter of 22J inches as a maximum, unless a double duty be paid, is a mere vexation to trade, without any benefit to the revenue. It prohibits hats ofa certain shape when they are in fashion, as is frequently the case; it acts, as far as it acts, as a sump- tuary law, or, where it is avoided, it compels the importer to use the smuggler's co- operation. The present state of the law excludes all hats for the unopulent classes, for children, all narrow brimmed hats, either for men or women, the consumption of which is im- mense in almost every country. The duty upon them in England would be more than 300 per cent. The trade in straw hats with England was wholly crushed by tbe oppression of such enormous duties, and tresses of Tuscan plat superseded it in the English market. Upon this plat a duty of 17s. per lb. was levied. As a piece of 100 braccia weighs 4 oz., the duty amounts to 4s. 3d. T. per piece, or equal to about 75 per cent, on the average value. The yearly exportation of this plat from Tuscany is from 100,000 to 120,000 pieces, and the value one million of lire, say 33,000/. sterling, on which a revenue of 25,0601, should be paid. The system of duties which levies the same amount on straw hats, whatever be their value, is also applied to straw tresses. The prices, which vary from 3 lire to 12, or in the proportion of one to four, have no influence upon the duty. The lower qualities cannot afford to pay so heavy an impost, and the higher are the articles in which the smuggler can most successfully defraud the revenue. In both cases the duty is far too high. The contraband trade in straw hats and tresses is very considerable from the ports of both France and Holland. Besides these, Tuscany exports to England from 1,200 to 1,500 cases of straw for platting, of the value of about £ T. 900,000, or 30,000/. sterling, which is platted in Eng- land, and pays no import duty; so that 75 per cent, is the protection given to the manufacture of plat, and is above from 100 to 300 per cent, to the makers of hats. Of this state of things Tuscany has aright to complain, and the grievance inflicted on the consumer is evidently monstrous. It is true that the contraband trade relieves Tuscany from the consequences of English legislation. The highly taxed, the prohibited articles, do force their way, but the Treasury of Great Britain is despoiled, the trade falls into unscrupu- lous and dishonest hands; and it is hoped that a considera tion of these facts will not be lost upon the intelligent authorities of Great Britain Bowring's Report. SPANISH PAINTERS.— Murillo, who wus the pupil of Castillio, having been recommended to go to Italy to im- prove his style, went first to Madrid with letters of re- commendation for Velasquez; who, after looking at the pictures he had brought with him, advised him not to go; promising to obtain for him the means of studying the Italian painters in tbe Royal collections. Murillo accord- ingly gave up the idea of leaving Spain, and contented him- self with copying a great many pictures in the Escurial and the Palace at Madrid. To tins practice may be traced the different manners that are observable in his painting; sometimes he was inspired by Titian, sometimes by Van- dyke, and at others by Ribiera. Afterwards he returned to Seville, where he formed that grand style on which his high reputation is founded. His finest works are the St. Eliza- beth, at the Academy of St. Ferdinand, in Madrid; the pictures belonging to a Capuchin convent, and now in the Cathedral of Seville; the Charity, in the Hospital of Charity, in the same city; part of those bought by Marshal Soult; the portrait of himself and the San Rodriguez, now in the Louvre; and " The Trinity," as it is called, in our own National Gallery. This last picture Baron Taylor regards as one of the chefs d'autire of Murillo: it is satis- factory to know that we have got a first- rate picture of the master, though we have paid for it thrice its value. The largest sum given by the Baron for a Murillo was 2,000/.; and that was an excessive price, paid only in a particular instance. The bigotry of one set of monks was such that they threatened rather to destroy than part with their pictures to the Liberals ; but their cupidity was tempted by the offer of 2000/. for a Murillo, and 4,000/. for a grand pic- ture of Velasquez: these great sums were exceptions to the general average. Murillo was a man of scrupulously pure life, and strict in his devotions; and he never commenced an important work without first receiving the sacrament. One day he was found on his knees at prayer before a picture of the " De- scent from the Cross," by Pedro Campana : the Sacristan, it being late, came to shut up the church, and asked him why he staid so long before the picture ? Murillo replied, tbat he was waiting till they had taken down the body of Christ from the cross,— a remarkable instance of rapt en- thusiasm, aud the highest tribute that could be paid to the merits of tbe work. Murillo in bis will desired to be buried at the foot of this picture; and his wish was complied with. His remains still lie under the ruins of this church, which has since been destroyed— not by the Spaniards; and the picture is now in the grand sacristy of the Cathedral of Seville. The devotional character of Murillo is as strongly impressed in his Scripture pieces, as lps kindly and cheerful temperament is in his homely subjects. It was the spirit of faith and love inspiring the old painters tbat made their works what they are : they wrought for fame also; but not, as the modems do, for money merely. Velasquez was at first a pupil of Herrara el Viego; but the violent temper of his master caused Irim to leave his school, and he entered that of Pacheco. He afterwards went to Madrid with letters of recommendation for the Count Duke of Olivarez, who sat to him for his portrait, ( this picture is now in the Louvre.) The Duke presented it to Philip the Fourth; who was so pleased with it that he permitted the artist to paint his portrait also. Velasquez succeeded beyond expectation, and soon became a favourite of tbe King, who ordered a painting- room to be fitted up for him in the palace, and visited him every day. The King sent him twice to Italy to purchase pictures of the great THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, SEPTEMBER 2. 7 masters of that country, to adorn the Escurial and other royal palaces. At Rome he studied with great assiduity, and painted several pictures, particularly one of Joseph's brethren showing his coat of many colours to their father Jacob; it is in the Escurial. His best portraits are in the Museum of Madrid. With his most celebrated portrait picture of the Royal Family of Spain, is associated an anec- dote that exhibits his royal patron in a favourable light. The King had given the painter permission to introduce his own portrait among the group of Infantas; when the picture was finished, Philip saw and approved it; but said it wanted a touch 01 two to make it complete; then calling for a bru- h and palette— the painter all the while trembling with appre- hension that his royal patron was going to daub out some face that he did not like— the King painted a red cross on the breast of the portrait of Velasquez,— a delicate and appropriate way of bestowing that honourable order on the original. Velasquez lived in great splendour at Court, where he held high office, and was honoured by the King and his courtiers. He was especially charged with the reception of the great painters of other countries who visited Spain ; and hence originated his intimacy with Rubens. He accompanied the King in all his journeys, and was appointed Master of the Ceremonies attendant upon the King's mar- riage with a Princess of France in the Isle of Pheasants. On this occasion he distinguished himself by his lively wit and fine taste, and was celebrated in both Courts as the cavalier who had the handsomest dresses, and wore them in the most gallant style. But these honours were pur- chased too dearly; for the fatigues of his journey to Arragon caused his death on his return to Madrid. His tomb is in the nunnery of that city. Some of the most famous painters, especially of portraits, were men of wit and gallantry and fashion. Mixing with the highest society, and living in a handsome style, they refined upon the splendours and manners of Court by their intuitive sense of the graceful. Titian, Vandyke, and Rubens, and our own Reynolds and Lawrence, were all finished gentlemen, and cultivated the elegancies of society. Zurbaran, the painter of monks, was also an accomplished cavalier of his time. He fought a duel without the King's leave, and was ordered under arrest; to avoid which, be took refuge in the Convent of Mercy at Seville. It was then he ornamented this monastery with his chefs d'auvre. He made over some of his finest works to the Chartreuse of Xeres in 1038- 9; and most of these are now in the Louvre. His daughter was one of the nuns of Carmona. Many of the families of the great Spanish painters went into convents. The son of Murillo was a canon of the Cathedral of Seville. An anecdote in the life of Alonzo Cano affords a curioi/ S illustration not only of the power of the Inquisition, but of the selfish character ot royal patron ige. Cano was accused of having killed his wife out of jealousy; his fame as a painter would have screened him from justice, but the In- quisition, stronger than the ordinary tribunals, seized him ; and, as he would not confess the crime, condemned him to the question: before putting him to torture, however, the Inquisitors applied for the King's sanction; saying that without his leave they could not mutilate so skiful a hand. The King replied that he would not interrupt the course of justice of the supreme court of Inquisition; but he directed that the right hand of Alonzo Cano, which had produced so many fine works, should be respected. Ribiera, who was remarkable for the violent and terrific subjects he chose, enjoyed the reputation of being the great- est painter either in Spain or Italy. His daughter was se- duced 1> J' a nobleman, whom he killed in a duel; and to avoid the vengeance of a powerful family, lie went into a cloister, and lay concealed as a monk, so secretly that he was believed to be dead,— indeed he disappeared entirely.— Spectator. CHRISTOPHE Henri Christophe, born the 6th October, 1767, in the little West India of Greneda, of free but poor parents, was, in his eleventh year, given by his father to a French captain, to fill the situation of cabin- boy. The ship sailed for Hayti, where the captain, finding that he was a volatile youth, sold him to an agent of a plantation, who employed him as kitchen boy. In this post Christophe be- gan to show his genius, and made such advance in the culi- nary business, that his master at length made him cook. When the French general Destain, arriving with an army at Hayti, took volunteers, Christophe went on board a French ship of war, and so ceased to be a slave. At the close of the campaign, he quitted the service, and Bet up a tavern at Cape Haytien ( at that time Cape Fran- cois) with the Crown for his sign. His early occupation as cook was here of use to him, and his merits as restaurateur were acknowledged by his customers. But he often let ' them know that he was a coarse uninstructed man, and the rudeness of his behaviour frequently led to disagreeable consequences. On the breaking out of the French revolu- tion ( 1789), he again took up the warlike profession, first as chief gunner, and afterwards as a dragoon; and by his courage and zeal, soon attracted the attention of his com- manders. At the first burning of Cape Town, Christophe was made captain. Some time after, he turned captain of a private vessel. When his cruise was over, he set up as a wholesale butcher or slaughterer; but his rudeness equalled his skill, and hurt his credit. He often carried his brutality to such a length as to throw the meat in his customers' faces- At last he was obliged to give up the business, and to live on the little that he had saved. Some time after, General Toussaint named him com- mandant of Petit- Anse. Here he was again in his proper sphere. In 1801 he became commandant of Cape Town, As his rank ascended, he began more and more to show his hatred of the whites and the coloured people— which latter constituted, at that time, the chief part of the population. He took pains, nevertheless, to deceive the white officers of the French troops, with regard to his real sentiments, behaved towards them in a most friendly manner, and loaded them with presents, in order to confirm them in the decep- tions belief that he was sincerely devoted to France. When Dessalines proclaimed himself Emperor of Hayti, under the name of James I., he appointed Christophe his prime minister, and minister of war. On the death of Des- salines, the minister was called to be President and Gene- ralissimo of the Haytian republic, Petion being, at the same time, appointed his lieutenant, and governor of the southern division of the island. At a national assembly held at Cape Franyois, for the purpose of devising a consti- tution, Petion and Christophe fell out, and continued ever after irreconcileable enemies— the former recommending a national representation, while the latter wished to establish an unlimited monarchy. The consequence was, a sanguinary war between them. Petion, always beaten, but never tho- roughly conquered, kept his position in Port ail- Prince, and ruled, independently, as President, the southern portion of the island. In 1811 Christophe assumed the rank of king, under the name of Henry I.— Hitler. EGYPTIAN BATHS It was certainly not a very select company, nor over clean, and probably very few Europeans would have stood the thing as I did. My boatmen were all there. They were my servants said the rais, and were bound to follow me everywhere. As I was a Frank, and as such expected to pry ten times as much as any one else, I had the best place in the bath, at the head of the great re- servoir of hot water. My white skin made me a marked object among the swarthy figures lying around me ; and half- a- dozen of the operatives, lank, bony fellows, and per- fectly naked, came up and claimed me. They settled it among themselves, however, and gave the preference to a dried- up old man, more than sixty, a perfect living skeleton, who had been more than forty years a scrubber in the bath. He took me through the first process of rubbing with the glove and brush; and having thrown over me a copious ab- lution of warm water, left me to recover at leisure. I lay on the marble that formed the border of the reservoir, only two or three inches above the surface of the water, into which I put my hand, and found it excessively hot; but the old man, satisfied with his exertion in rubbing me, sat on the edge of the reservoir, with his feet and legs hanging in the water, with every appearance of satisfaction. Presently he slid off into the water, and sinking up to his chin, re- mained so a moment, drew a long breath, and seemed to look around him with a feeling of comfort. I had hardly raised myself on my elbow to look at this phenomenon, be- fore a fine brawny fellow, who had been lying for some time torpid by my side, rose slowly, slid off like a turtle, and con- tinued sinking until he too had immersed himself up to his chin. I expressed to him my astonishment at his ability to endure such heat, but he told me that be was a boatman, had been ten days coming up from Cairo, and was almost frozen, and his only regret was that the water was not much hotter. He had hardly answered me before another and another followed, till all the dark naked figures around me had vanished. By the fitful glimmering of the little lamps, all that I could see was a parcel of shaved heads on the sur- face ot the water, at rest or turning slowly and quietly as on pivots. Most of them seemed to be enjoying it with an air of quiet, dreamy satisfaction; but the man with whom I had spoken first, seemed to be carried beyond the bounds of ^ Mussulman gravity. It operated upon him like a good din- ner ; it made him loquacious, and he urged me to come in, ray, he even became frolicsome : and, making a heavy surge, threw a large body of the water over the marble on which I was lying. I almost screamed, and started up as if melted lead had been poured upon me; even while standing up it seemed to blister the soles of my feet, and I was obliged to keep up a dancing movement, changing as fast as I could, to the astonishment of the dozing bathers, and the utter consternation of my would- be friend. Roused too much to relapse into the quiet luxury of perspiration, I went into another apartment, of a cooler temperature, where, after re- maining in a bath of moderately wa~ m water, I u as wrapped up in hot cloths and towels, and conducted into agieat chamber. Here I selected a couch, and throwing myself upon it, gave myself up to the operators, who now took charge of me, and well did they sustain the high reputation of a Turkish bath; my arms were gently laid upon my breast, where the knee of a powerful man pressed upon them; my joints were cracked and pulled— back, arms, the palms of the hands, the soles of the feet, all visited in suc- cession. I had been shampooed at Smyrna, Constantinople, and Cairo; but who would have thought of being carried to the seventh heaven at the little town of Minyeh? The men who had me in hand were perfect amateurs, enthusiasts, worthy of rubbing the hide of the Sultan himself; and the pipe and coffee that followed were worthy too of that same mighty seigneur. The large room was dimly lighted, and turn which way I would there was a naked body, apparently without a soul, lying torpid, and tumbled at will by a couple of workmen. I had had some fears of the plague ; and Paul, though he felt his fears gradually dispelled by the soothing process which he underwent also, to the last continued to keep particularly clear of touching any of them ; but I left the bath a different man ; all my moral as well as physical strength was roused. I no longer drooped or looked back ; and though the wind tvas ^ ill blowing a hurricane in my teeth, I was bent upon Thebes and the Cataracts. — Incidents of Travel. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. MONETARY SYSTEM.— OVER SPECULA- TION, & c. The legislative fallacies or sophisms of the present time arc of too palpable a kind to be passed over with- out comment or remark, as to their results upon the country. One fact is sufficient, in its vast importance, to call forth public attention— the state of the mone- tary system— which, at the present moment, weighs or bears so seriously upon our national affairs and upon all classes of society, particularly those engaged in mercantile, commercial, and other pursuits, & c., who have begun to experience the want of A LEGALISED NATIONAL CURRENCY, SANCTIONED AND ISSUED BY THE THREE ESTATES OT THE COUNTRY, KLNG, LORDS, AND COMMONS, FOR ALL OUR NATIONAL WANTS AND DE- MANDS, to meet the heavy expenditure of taxation, rental, wages, poor's rates, agriculture, & c.; a suffi- cient quantity of which is not in circulation to sustain the various demands of the nation in its mighty efforts to continue its present trading and other interests. But of this our legislators are ignorant or unmindful, having secured themselves by turning all the channels of national wealth into their own pockets, by the enactments of selfish and oppressive laws; conse- quently the people, after long toil and study to live, are ruined, pauperised, and too often taunted in the House of Commons with ignorance of the monetary system; and that the present widelyspread ruin of our merchants, manufacturers, & c., arises from OVER- SPE- CULATION BEYOND CAPITAL— « tale many years trumped up and told to cover the disgraceful political frauds and trickery of our legislative aristocracy, Whig and Tory, upon the people, whose earnings and industry are not enjoyed by themselves, but basely pilfered from them by laws not equal or just, but enacted for the pitiful purpose of taking from every man, woman, and child, who toil for their daily bread, nearly one half of their earnings; and this " is called government of a free and enlightened country. British Legislation, as conducted by Whig and Tory patriots, who seemed to have doomed the country to suffer and sink under the grasping whithering rule of not one despot, but hundreds, sitting in judgment, re- presenting their own interests and filling their own coders, at the expense of a long- suffering, over- taxed, politically plundered people— a nation degraded in its own estimation, and brought to the brink of ruin by a system of legislation new in the anuals of the country — a complete mockery of all justice, as laid down by the constitution, upon which the base foot of oppression has presumed to tread, and the tongue of despotism to proclaim to the people that the merchants and manu- facturers of the land have been OVER- TRADING AND SPECULATING BEYOND CAPITAL, and which has been the cause of the present panic in the affairs of the nation. But they never tell us or speak one word about OVER- TAXATION, OVER- RENTALS, TORY WARS, and their direful results? No, no; OVER- TRADING is the ditty they sing to delude the people ; whom they artfully divide to conquer, to plunder, and insult, with the paltry illusion of TRADING BEYOND CAPITAL, & c., by way of masking the deep laid schemes and plans of those who would willingly continue the plunder to the latest moment of political misrule, or so long as the nation remained blind to its own honour and in- terests. Instead of telling the people, or taunting them with OVER- TRADING, & C., our legislators, in their mercy and kindness, had better set themselves about rectifying or lightening the OVER- TAXATION AND OVER- RENTALS OF THE COUNTRY, and not eternally ding in our ears the silly cuckoo cry of OVER- TRADING, & c., and we should very soon be blessed with the agreeable sight of prosperity and national happiness. Every reasonable man, be his politics what they may, must be convinced, that for these last FORTY YEARS OF GROSS MISRULE, there has been an OVER- TRADING IN TAXATION, war, and a most unjust legis- lative speculation^!, to what the people of these realms would bear in the deprivation of their property; which system has forced upon the people, the merchants, & c. of this country, the necessity of double production, and at the lowest possible price, and the least money for the reward of labour and profits ! all of which are at the last possible ebb ; merchants and manufacturers ruined; no sales effected; no shipping of goods; but little money in circulation from the hand of industry; public credit on the wane; shopkeepers and retailers on the deplorable verge of bankruptcy; their capitals swallowed up in the political whirlpool; and yet, we are told— nay insulted— nationally insulted with the paltry epithet of OVER- TRADING! the nature of which, may very soon be better understood in the senate by political theorists, when rentals, taxation, & c. begin to run short, by a decrease in their annual amount, or when an OVER- TRADING PEOPLE SO STIGMATIZED, are compelled, from dire necessity, or total inability, to refuse payment. Self- defence and protection vf pro- perty and labour is the first law of nature. There may, and, no doubt, has been, a greater production of all our manufactures than absolutely requisite, and with the least possible amount of money; but this system has arisen out of the necessity of the case, and unless the people had produced by their toil, a certain quantity or manufactures, how could they have lived? How could either their employers or themselves have paid or sustained the OVER- TAXATION AND OVER- RENTALS OF THE COUNTRY? in fact, the people have been forced, from the limited state of the capital of the country, to produce more goods than necessary; until the matter of over- production has found its own level in the ruin of thousands 1 After all, we may very easily trace the evil to its true source, and say, that all our present calamities have arisen from the corrupt STATE OF THE MONETARY SYSTEM, which has made all the paper rents, debts, and taxes of the nation, payable in standard gold, and has thus gorged the rich at the expense of the poor; and in this respect, it will be admitted by every one, that there has been a gross and most PALPABLE OVER- TRADING, almost to the destruction of the coun- try,— AN OVER- TRADING IN THE SENATE, IN TAXATION, RENTALS, CORN- LAWS, SINECURES, PLACES, PENSIONS, PATRONAGE, AND STATE JOBBINGS, unprecedented in history 1 There has been an over- trading in all these matters, and not in the industrial pursuits of the people, who are at one time taunted with overplus po- pulation, and told to emigrate, because, there is neither room nor food enough in England to feed them ! ( not exactly so in time of war, when their ser- vices and blood are required to aid despotism in the battle field); and at another time, their productions are deemed over- trading, or over- production, and they are blasphemously assured that their sufferings arise from Divine Providence having blessed them with too great a quantity of food 1 Thus taunted from time to time, they drag on from insult upon insult, to poverty and ruin ; but our legislators, whether Whig or Tory, would do well not to tantalize or play with the feel- ings of the people too long-, or too ofteu, and the rich and the poor, the electors and the elected, are but a link in one chain; they have all an heritage and in- terest in the land, and are entitled fully td a partici- pation of every blessing it affords. The link once se- vered may never be united. With every good wish for the peace, happiness, and prosperity of my country, I remain, Sir, yours, & c. JOHN CLAYTON. Nottingham, June 23th, 1837. RESULTS OF THE SYSTEM. [ The following letter has been addressed by an old confessor in the cause of reform to Mr. Attwood. It tells its own tale, and we trust that any comment of ours upon that tale, is altogether unnecessary. There are, we know, many hundreds of cases similar to, if not identical with, this; we have laid it before our readers, because the history of the writer takes it out of the common run.— E. B. J.] Sir,— I must beg of you a thousand pardons for thus presuming to address you ; but necessity compels me to leave nothing untried, which can, by possibility, enable me to obtain some kind of employment, which may put in my power the means of getting bread for my family. I had been in business for thirteen years when, two years ago, I was compelled to give it up owing to the operation which Peel's Currency Bill had upon my transactions, an account of which I sent to Sir Robert Peel in a letter, a copy of which letter, together with Peel's reply, such as it was, Mr. John Pierce told rne he showed to you. But to proceed with the object of this letter. I have an impression, that among the merchants, manufacturers, and others that you are acquainted with, you might perhaps hear of something I could do. I have been, during, my time, fourteen years in a factor's warehouse, a„ d had the management of the whole business durjng. the latter seven years. I was engaged, also, for seven years, as clerk to the late William Wallis, merchant, of jthe Old- square; and was, prior to April last, eighteen months at Van Wart, Sons, and Co., as Bir- mingham traveller, but the stoppage of the American trade deprived me of that situation. I have a son twenty- two years of age living with me, who has served an apprenticeship to the die- sinking business, and is one of the best draughtsmen in Birmingham. He could have assisted me if trade were good, but he has been out of work for these four months, and al- though he has hunted the town over repeat idly to get something to do, it has all been of no avail, and this increases my difficulties. I was in hopes last Easter, when the Radicals ob- tained the chief management at the workhouse, that they might, if they pleased, follow the example of the Tories, and assist, by finding work as collectors, & c., a few of their friends ; but though they have not yet done this, perhaps they may. It is unpleasant for me to state that I have any claim upon the considera- tion of the Reformers, but the expensive prosecution I underwent for two years in the I ory days of Castle- reagh, Canning, and Sidmouth, followed by an im- prisonment of eighteen months, for being implicated in the " Birmingham Conspiracy," as Castlereagh called it, would perhaps induce some of the Reform- ers, if they knew I wanted work, to give me some. As to wages, I should be satisfied with anything that would produce me bread and cheese. For months past, I and my family have been living upon potatoes and salt, with sometimes an addition of liver and lights, with a little bacon ; and this way of living we should be quite satisfied with, but without employ- ment we cannot get these; and have only been able to obtain this kind of fare by selling a considerable part of my household furniture. Mr. Van Wart and Mr. Hopkins told me, when I left them, that they would with pleasure render me any assistance they could, when any situation should offer; so that if you should, by any chance, hear of any person that could set me on, to these gentlemen I would refer him. I am extremely sorry to trouble you with so long a letter, but hope you will excuse me; and if you could suggest anything to me in the course of a- week, as a means of getting some employment, by dropping me a line you would infinitely oblige, your most obedient, humble servant, C. M. 25, Norfolk- street, Birmingham. MUSICAL FESTIVAL. SIR,— Having just read the announcement for the ensuing- Birmingham Musical Festival, I cannot re- frain from expressing my amazement at the total neglect of the musical talent of our native town. And first we will take a glance at the Principal Vocal Performers. Here I find Mr. Machiii, and that is all. But, sir, is that all Birmingham can produce ? Where is Mr. S. Pearsall, who certainly, as a tenor singer, stands as conspicuous as Mr. Machiu, and, like him, has come forward upon all charitable occasions cheer- fully to render his gratuitous services, and has, invari- ably, by his energetic style of singing, given the greatest delight to his admiring and raptured hearers ? Now, sir, let us turn to the instrumental part, and although we have Mendelssohn announced in the bills to preside at the organ, it is well known to all musi- cians, he will only play his concerto on that instru ment. Who, then, is to accompany the Choruses,& c.? Not a Birmingham man, but Mr. Turk', who was brought from London the last Festival at a great ex- pense, and our talented and insulted townsman, G. Hollins, was required to devote a considerable portion of his time to the instruction of the said great man, in the use of the various stops, & c., of that instrument, which it is said Mr. Hollins was not capable of pre- siding at! Fie ori't, fie on't! ' tis an unweeded garden, Things rank and gross in nature possess it merely. Now, sir, we will peep at the choral department, and in that announcement we have but one remove from the insult of last time. I mean that of other chorus singers having their due meed of praise awarded them, and the Birmingham Choir as their " assistants." Our choristers are named last, like " remnants of packthread, and old musty cakes of roses— to make up a show." But, sir, will our towns- men submit to this palpable insult? Forbid it, Heaven 1 Having now ( through your kindness) laid before the public a few of the fantastic tricks of the Festival Committee, I leave the said committee to digest it with what appetite they may, and remain, yours, Musicus. THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE. Mr. Editor,— I trust that the governors of our School of Medicine, and your readers generally, will observe, that during an interval of nearly three weeks the only attempt made on the part of the Thursday's Tory organ, to justify its assertion of Whig influence having been used to deprive that institution of the royal patronage, is in the shape of a reply to some un- known correspondent, who is assured that neither the " School or its founder will suffer from the puny attacks of the Journal correspondent." Your readers, then, will look in vain for the promised proof of this being- the act of Lord John Russell, which was to have been forthcoming in the next number of the Advertiser, and for the also promised results of the meeting of gover- nors, convened to take into consideration this most ex- traordinary proceeding, such proceeding being buried in mystery. We are, then, now fairly justified in our first conclu- sion; and every well- wisher of the school will cordially unite in the hope that the humiliating event in which these remarks have originated, may in future impress more forcibly on the minds of the individuals con cerned, the fact that " a tree is known by its fruits." All arrangements having for their object the better regulation of internal affairs, especially in the dissect- ing department, will tell more to the advantage of the school, than the external and parasitical splendour with which a mistaken zeal has sought to invest it. I am, your obedient servant, Birmingham, Aug. 31. ANTI- PUFF. [ Enough of this.— E. B. J.] THE DISTURBANCES IN LIVERY STREET. SIR,— Upon returning home yesterday, after an ab- sence of three weeks, I was astonished to see in your paper of the 12th August, under the police report, the infamous attempt to make me a party in the disturb- ances at the Great Hampton- street booth, upou the day of the late election, by some of the despicable wretches who do the dirty work of the Tory party in this town. Some fellow, of the name of Woodcock, is brought forward to swear that immediately preced- ing the disturbance, I rode up to the booth, took off my hat, and gave three cheers, thereby intimating that I went there for the purpose of exciting the people to mischief, and that I succeeded in doing so. The whole of the above is an infamous lie, and all the parties con- cerned in the statement knew it to be so. I rode into the town on that morning at the usual time, through Great Hampton- street, and passed the booth about twenty minutes past ten o'clock, with two other gentle- men: I never went to the booth, or pulled up my horse, or spoke a word of any kind : the people cheerc'd me, and frightened my horse;— I just lifted my hat in acknowledgment. The disturbance was unknown to me until after I had put up my horse at Mr. Par- rocks, been to my mtll in Water- street, remained there some time, gone to my warehouse in St. Paul's- square, opened letters, transacted the necessary business, pro- ceeded to the booth on Newhall- hill to vote, where I remained some time, returned to St. Paul's- square, and passed through the Church- yard into Henrietta- street, where a street- keeper told me that Hall had been beat- ing some one, and that the people had therefore beaten him. This was after twelve o'clock, and confirms the statement of gentlemen I have enquired from, who were in the booth, which is, that the disturbance did not commence until upwards of an hour after I had passed down Great Hampton- street; and I never was nearer the booth than Henrietta- street again till my return home at three o'clock. The above forms a fair specimen of the principles upon which the Tories here allow their underlings to endeavour to support their party cause at the expense of all they think they can injure. G. F. MUNTZ. Hockley Abbey, 28th Aug., 1837. COUNTRY MARKETS, & c. For Malting 30 0 — 33 For Grinding, per 40lbs 3 0 M ALT— per Imperial Bushel Old and new 6 9 — 7 OATS— per 391b s. Old 3 3 — S New 3 0 — 3 Irish l! 6— 8 BIRMINGHAM MARKET. Corn Market, August 31. BEANS— per bag, 10 score gross. s. d. s. ft. Old 17 0— 18 3 New 15 0 — 16 6 PEAS— perbag of 3 Bush. Imp. FOR BOILING. White 16 6 — 17 6 Grey 16 0 — 16 6 FOR GRINDING. perbag of- 10 score 15 6 — 16 0 White 16 0— 16 6 FLOUR— per sack ofWQlbs. net. Fine 44 0 — 45 0 SecondB— 39 0 — 41 0 WHEAT— per62lbs. s. d. s. d. Old 6 8 — 7 0 New 0 0 — 0 0 Irish 0 0 — 0 0 BARLEY— per Imp. Quarter. 0 3 4 The following is the statement in Messrs. Sturge's circular :— PRESENT PRICES OF GRAIN. Birmingham, August 31, 1837. s. d. WHEAT, English, White, per bushel of 621b. Old English, Red Old Irish, White Foreign „ BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. Quarter Irish Grinding, per Quarter of 3921bs. ™ OATS, English, White, per Imperial Quarter WelBh, Black and White, per 3121bs. Irish, ( weighing jto42lbs.) do. ( 37 to 39Ibs.) do. Black — do. BEANS, English, Old, per bushel of 651bs. New Irish Foreign PEAS, Boiling, per Imp. Quarter Grinding, per Quarter of 392lbs FLOUR, English, Fine, per Sack of 2801bs. Seconds Gloucester, August 26, 1837. s. d. t. TOtJiT, English, White, per Imp. Bushel Old English, Red Old 0 0 8 10 to . nominal 6 6 ~ do~ . nominal 6 6 Irish, White, per601bs « Red Old. Foreign BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. Quarter 28 0 Irish ——. nominal 26 0 Grinding, per Quarter of 392lbs. 22 6 OATS, English, White, per Imp. Quarter 22 Welsh, Black and White . , 21 Irish ( weighing 41 to421bs); per Qr. of3121bs. 24 ( 37 to 39lbs.) Black. BEANS, English, Old, per Imp. Bushel „ 5 New 5 Irish ~ ——^—^^ notninal 5 EAS, Boiling, per Imp. Quarter Grinding, per Quarter of 8921bs. FLOUR, English, Fine, per suck Of2801bs, Irish 0 6 0 22 0 22 0 4 0 0 0 Wheat . Barley Oats Beans, Peas « BIRMINGHAM WEEKLY AVERAGE. Qrs. Bush. 1010 0 0 0 622 5 0 0 20 0 s. d. 56 0 0 0 24 5 0 0 40 0 Wheat- Barley - Oats Beans Peas « GLOUCESTER WEEKLY AVERAGE. Qrs. Bush. 237 0 0 4 0 0 0 197 0 0 s. d 53 8 0 0 23 5 0 0 0 0 WORCESTER WEEKLY AVERAGE. Qrs. Bush. Birmingham, August 31, 1837. At Gloucester market on Saturday Wheat sold at the rates of the previous week ; at Worcester, on account of the wet, 2s. per quarter was obtained. No alteration in any other article of the trade, but fine Oats and Grinding Barley were enquired for. During the present week we have had a good deal of rain, and the sales effected in Wheat, have been at an improvement of Is. to 2B. per quarter, but it is generally held for a greater rise. Very few transactions are reported id other kinds of grain, and the price of each is nominally unaltered. THIS HAY, being fine, the Wheat market ruled dull, at an advance of 2s. to 3s. per quarter. Malting Barley more in demand; some old realised 35s. per im- perial quarter. Grinding unaltered. Feeding Beans and PeaB in fair request, at 14s. 6d. to 15i. 6d. per I961bs. Fine Oats much sought after, and Is. per quarter higher, but no improvement could be realised on secondary parcels. IMPORTS INTO GLOUCESTER From the 23rd to the 30th inst. Wheat. Oats. Barley. Beatu. Q « Qrs Qr. Qr. Coastwise.. Qrs 165 Qrs 220 Qrs Q" Foreign.... Qr « Qrs Qrs Qrs Peat. Flour. Malt. Vetches. Q" Sacks Qr. Qr. Coastwise.. Qr. Sacks Qr, Qr. Foreign,... Sr. Sacks Qr. Q « WARWICK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 26 — Wheat, per bag, old20sOd to 22s Od ; new, I9s od to 21s 6d ; Barley per quarter, 30B Od to 33s Od; grinding, 27s Od to 29s Od ; Oats, 30s Od to35s Od; New, 7s Od to 30s Od ; Peas, per bag, 14s Od to 15s Oil; Beans, 0s Od to ' Is Odj new, 15s Od to 17s Od; Vetches, Os Od to Os Oct; Malt, ') 0s Od to 64s Od per quarter. HEREFORD, AUGUST 26.— Wheat, per bushel Imperial measure, 7s 6d to 7s 8d. Ditto, 801bs. per bushel, 0s Od toOs Od. Barley, 3s 6d to 0s Od. Beans, 6s Od to 6s 3d. Peas, 4s 6d to Os Od. Vetches, 4s Od to 4s 6d. Oats, 4s Od to 4s 3d. CHELTENHAM, AUGUST24.— New Wheat, 6s 9ii to 7s 3d per bushel. Old Wheat, 0s Od to 0s Od. Barley, 3s 3d to 4s Od. Oats, 3B 3d to 4s 6d. Beans, 5s 3d to 6a 6d. HOP INTELLIGENCE.— Worcester, August 30.— The business in oar market is very limited, two pockets only having been brought to the scales since our last report. The accounts which we continue to receive from the plantations in this district are of the most favour- able description, and the duty has gradually got up to £ 27,000, at which sum it is now freely backed. It is estimated by some persons that the produce of the present year will surpass any growth down to the year 18- 26, when the duty exceeded £ 30,000; and by others that it will even be equal to that year, when it is considered that the cultivation has been much improved since 1826, and the planta- tions also much enlarged. Several planters will commence picking this week, and in a week or ten days it will be general. Prices :— yearlings, 56s. to 68s. J 1835' s, 50s. to 60B. Borough, August 28.— Two new pockets of Hops reached the market during the past week, particularly good in colour and ma- nagement. One was sold at five guineas per cwt., grown by Mr. Skinner, of Heathfield, Sussex ; the other remains on hand. A few more are expected about the middle of this week, although the pick, ing cannot be general till about the 10th of September. The district re- ports are very contradictory. The estimated duty remains nominal! y the same, 190 to 195m. Present Prices, per cwt.:— East Kent Po. - kets, £ 4 10s. to £ 6 6s. fine £ 0 0s.; ditto bags, .64 2s. to £ 5 15s. fine £ 0; Mid Kent Pockets, £ 3 18s. to £ 6 0s. fine £ 0 ; ditto bags, £ 3 10s. to £ 5 5s. fine £ 0 0s.; Weald of Kent, Pockets, £ 3 10B. to £ 4 10s. fine £ 0 0s.; Sussex pockets, £ 3 10s. to £ 4 8s. fine £ 0 0s.; Yearlings, £ 2 12s. to £ 3 15s. fine £ 0 0s.; Old £ 1 10s. to £ 2 10s. fine £ 0 Ot. ; Old Olds, 18s. to £ 1 10s. fine £ 0 0a. FAIRS TO BE HOLDEN.— Warwickshire— September 4, Soutliam, Warwick; 6, AUesley; 11, Bidford, Hampden- Arden, Warwick ; 15, Dunchurch, Solihull.— Northamptonshire— September 5, Brig- stock;, 11, Northampton.— Leicestershire— September 7, Harrow Inn. Melton Mowbray ; 13, Leicester Staffordshire— September 4, Ab. bot's Bromley, Tamworth; II, Fazeley ; 13, Holy Cross.— Worces- tershire- September 4, Kidderminster; 8, Stourbridge.— Gloucester, shire— September 5, Moreton- in- the- Marsh ; 6, Northleach, Tewkes bury; 9, Lechlade; 14, Cheltenham.— Oxfordshire— September 4, Chipping Norton, Oxford ; 14, Witney. GLOUCESTER SHIP NEWS, From August 24 to August 31. IMPORTS : The Albertina, from Dram, with 6452 red and white battens, 120 spars, and 120 rickers, consigned to Tripp, Brothers— Ingria, Wyburg, 2526 deals, 216 battens, 72 deal ends, and 1 fathom of lath wood, Price and Washbourne— Albion, Wexford, 1107 barrel- of black and white oats, 200 barrels of barley screenings, aud 5I! barrels of wheat screenings, J. and C. Sturge— Erin, Cork, 48, barrels of barley, J. and C. Sturge— Rebecca, Youghall, 170 barrels of barley, 380 barrels of black oats, and 66Jfc barrels of rye, Wait, James, and Co.— William, London, 50 casks of tallow, Richard Butt; 20 bags of sugar, Thomas Hobbs; general cargo, Gopsill Brown— Henrietta, Barnstaple, 220 quarters of barley, J. and C. Sturge— Sophia, Barrow, 140 tons of iron ore, W. Kendal I and Son- Providence, Carnarvon, 62 tons of slates, W. Jones— Gelert, Port Madoc, 57 tons of slates, Judd and Chandler— Velocity, Port Madoc, 69 tons of slates, Price aud Waslibourne— Catharine and Mary, Port Madoc, 77 tons of slates, Gopsill Brown— Lion, Cardigan, 240 quar- ters of oats, Vining, Gerard, and Viuing— Pilgrim, Solva, 1320bushels of oats, Vining, Gerard, and Vining— William and Ann, Sandersfoot, 50 tons of coals, John George; 20 casks of butter, to order— Belinda, Swansea, 50 tous of metallic Band, H. Southan and Soil— Newport Trader, Newport, 50 tons of pig iron, H. Southan and Son— Travel- ler, Newport, 40 tons of coals, Robert. Spinney— Cygnet, Bridgwater, general cargo, Stuckey and Co.— Henry, Bristol, ballast, Gopsill Brown. EXPORTS : The Diligence, for Dublin, with oak bark, from Thomas Jones ; stone and sundries, Thomas Davies— Glynrhonwry, Dublin, oak bark, Thomas Slatter; hoop, & e., iron, clay, and bricks, W. Kendall and Sou— Swallow, Coleratne, oak bark, Thomas Slatter— Sarah, London, 138 tons of salt, Gopsill Brown— Edmund Wode. house, Yarmouth, 176 tons of salt, Gopsill Brown— Cygnet, Fare- ham, 239 quarters of oats, Wait, James, aud Co.; 3 tons of salt, and 4 tons of fire bricks, Gopsill Brown— Minerva, Wick, 3BJ tons of salt, J. P. Kimberley— Henry, Whitby, G8 tons of salt, Gopsill Brown— Ann and Maria, St. Clear's, 25 tons of salt, Gopsill Brown; 10000 laths, Tiipp, Brothers— Belinda, Swansea, 40 tons of salt and sundries, H. Southan and Son— Gleaner, Cardiff, 12J tons of salt, Gopsill Brown; general cargo, J. R. Heane— Traveller, Newport, general cargo, J. R. Heane— Cygnet, Bridgwater, general cargo, Stuckey and Co. TOWN INFIRMARY, SEPT. 1.— Surgeon of the week, Mr. Bellamy. Patients admitted, 10; discharged, 15; in the house, 135. Out- patients visited aud in attendance, 762. Midwifery cases, 8. GENERAL HOSPITAL, SEPT. 1.— Physician and Surgeon of the Patients of the week, Dr. Evans and Mr. Jukes. Visitors, Mr. J. Cadbury and Mr. D. Ledsarn. In- patients admitted, 26; out, 135. Iu- patientBdischarged, 23; out, 90. Iiemaiuiuginthe house, 149. BIRMINGHAM DISPENSARY, SEPT. 1.— Sick patients relieved, 316; midwifery cases, 20; children vaccinated in the month, 415. STATE OF THE WORKHOUSE UP TO AUGUST ! Wo- INFANTS. Men. men. Boys. Girls. Male. Fern. Total. 185 179 25 28 22 12 451 Admitted since .... 16 19 4 5 10 6 60 Born in the House 1 1 201 198 29 33 33 18 512 Discligd, absconded, 11 63 and dead* 19 16 9 2 6 Totalof each 182 182 20 22 31 12 449 Number of Cases relieved last week 3,242 Number of Children in the Asylum 288 * Of whom 1 man, 1 woman, and 1 girl died. METEOROLOGICAL DIARY. FURNISHEDBY MR. WOLLE R, B DO B AST0N- 8T R E ET. Barometer at noon. Ex- treme during night. Ther- mome. ter 8 morn. Extreme heat during day. Ther- mome- ter at noon. State of Wind at noon. Remark, at noon. Aug. | 26 29 65 42 0 56 0 64 0 58 0 N Rain 27,29 50 40 0 54 0 6( 1 0 56 0 NE Fair 29129 45 42 0 60 0 64 0 58 0 EbyS Fair 29 29 40 50 0 58 0 60 0 54 0 E Rain 30 29 45 46 0 56 0 64 0 58 U E Rain 31 29 5') 44 0 60 0 66 II 50 ( 1 W Rain Sept. 1 29 50 44 0 58 0 64 0 52 0 SW Rain MARRIAGES. On the 20th ult., at Aston Church, by the Rev. H. Chavasse, Sarah, fourth daughter of J. Tew, Esq., of Nuneaton, to Mr. John Marston, of the same place. On the 29th ult., Mr. C. J. Smart, of Portwav, to Mary Jane, daughter ol Mr. Jackson, surgeon, of West Brom- wich. On Thursday last, Mr. William Snape, of Newhall- row, Great Charles- street, to Mrs. Ann Smith, of Kenyon- street. On Thuisday last, at St. George's, by the Rev. Mr. Crane, Mr. George Carlow, to Mrs. Sarah Heape, both of New- street. On the 24th ult., at St. Peter's Church, Dublin, Mr. John Renaud, of Stourbridge, to Sarah Lydia, daughter of the Rev. William Neville, late of Harborne. On the 12th ult., at St. Philip's Church, Mr. Thomas Perkins, to Miss Harriet Thomason, ot Bilston. On the 5th ult., at St. Martin's Church, by the Rev. Mr. Foye, Mr. John Perry, to Jane Wharton, both of this town. On Saturday, at Aston, by the Rev. H. Chavasse, Ed- ward, third son of the late Mr. John Gilbert, of Legge- street, to Caroline, second daughter of the late Mr. Edward Hobday, of this town; DEATHS. On Tuesday la't, aged 76, Sarah, relict of the late Mr. A. Salt, sen., of the Bristol road, Edgbaston. On the lath ult., at Warsaw, after a few days' illness, Mr. Thomas Moore Evans, merchant, of this town. On Saturday last, suddenly, Mrs. Mary Susannah Smith, of Barford- street. On the 30th ult., aged 64, Elizabeth, wife of Mr. Thomas Balker, of Edmund- street. On Wednesday last, in the 31st year of his age, Mr, John Lockmood. On the 27th ult, aged 29, at the house of her father, Mr. John Morton, of Moland- street, Julia Jane, wife of Mr. William Mosley, of London. On the 28th ult., after a long and painful illness, aged 30, William, third son of Mr. Charles Mellon, of Temple- street. On Wednesday last, at Wellington, Salop, aged 17, Josiah, youngest brother of Mr. Jeremiah Turner, of Upper Gough- street* On Wednesday last, aged 13, Martha, eldest daughter of Mr. R. H. Taylor, draper, of Bull- ring. On the 24th ult., after a long affliction, Maria, eldest daughter of Mr. Thomas Gibson, of the Crescent. On the 29th ult., in the 23rd year of her age, Margaret Nash, the beloved wife of J. H. VValsh, Esq., of Worcester. On Saturday last, at Halghton, Flintshire, Joseph, eldest eon of the late Mr. Lloyd, plumber and glazier, of the Castle- gates, Shrewsbury. On the 23rd ult., at Leamington, George Curtis, Esq., youngest son of the late Rev. Charles Curtis, of Solihull, in this county. 8 THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, SEPTEMBER 2. 8 LONDON GAZETTES. FRIDAY, AUGUST25. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. AUGUST24.— RICHARD BUSHELL, Walmer, Kent, plumber. BANKRUPTS. The Bankrupts to surrender at the Court of Commissioners, Basing- hall- street when not otherwise expressed.] EDWARD B AILEY, late of Yately, Southampton, and 2, Belgrave- place, Wandsworth, farmer, September 7 and October 6. Sol. Mr. Henry Vallance, 20, Essex- street, Strand. Pet. Cr. John Bailey, 27, Davis. street, Berkeley. equare, poulterer. Seal. August 18. DAVID SCOTT, Mary- la. bonne- street, woollen draper, September 8 and October 6. Sol. Mr. Edward Blackmore, Mitre. court Cham- bers, Temple. Pet. Cr. Edward Cooper, Staverton, Wilts, clothier. Seal. August 21. BENJAMIN WINKFIELD PIKE, New Gloucester. place, Hox. ton, fancy paper stainer, September 6 and October 6. Sol. Mr. Henry Ashley, 9, Shorediteh. Pet. Cr. Isaac Bull, Witbam- buildinga. Old. etreet. road, carpenter. Seal. August 21. WILLIAM WHITEBREAD, High. street, Wappin?, cheese, monger, September 6 and October 6. Sol. Mr. Hill, Copthall- court, Tlirogmorton. street, Pet. Cr. Henry Moutray Jones, Fish- mongers'. hall, merchant, and George John Graham, assignee of R. Carruthers. Seal. August 22. JOSEPH TOWNSEND, Liverpool, plumber, September 6 and Oc. tober 5, at the Clarendon- rooms, Liverpool. Sols. Messrs. Johnson and Co., Temple, London ; and Mr. Harrison Blair, Manchester. Pet. Cr. George Burdy, Liverpool, glass merchant. Seal. Aug. 18. JOHN STEVENSON, Sheffield, furniture broker, September 8 and October 0, at the Town- hall, Sheffield. Sols. Mr, John Thomas Church, 1, Great James. street, Bedford- row, London; and Mr. Burbeary, Sheffield. Pet. Cr. George Hall, Manchester, gent., on behalf of the Northern and Central Bank of England. Seal. August 11. JOHN FIELD, Sheffield, share broker, September 8 and October 6, at the Town- hall, Sheffield. Sols. Mr. Thomas Rodgers, Devon- shire- square, Bishopsgate- etreet, London; and Mr. Henry Vickers, Sheffield. Pet. Cr. William Thompson, Sheffield, clerk and book, keeper. Seal. August 19. JAMES WILD the elder, Sheffield, ivory dealer, September 8 and October 6, at the Town. hall, Sheffield. Sols. Mr. E. B. Tattershall, 9, Great James- street, Bedfoid- row, London; and Messrs. Pal. freyman and Bingley, Queen- street, Sheffield. Pet. Cr. Richard Nayler, Great Hucklow, Derbyshire, Dissenting minister. Seal. August 19, BICHARD HEVVETT, Cheltenham, brick maker, September I and October 6, at Yearsley's Hotel, Cheltenham. Sols. Mr. Wil. fiam Henry King, 7, Gray's- inn. square, Londou; and Messrs. Packwood and Leeds, Cheltenham. Pet. Cr. Freeman Padmore, Cheltenham, gent. Seal. August 15. DAVID HUGHES, Treheslog, Llansaiutfraed, Cwmtryddwr, Rad- norshire, dealer in cattle, September 11 and October 6, at the Lower Swan Inn, Kingston, Herefordshire. Sol. Mr. H. Ham- mond, 16, Furnival's. inn, London, Pet. Cr. £> avid Lantrow, Marchnant, Llanwrthwl, Brecoushire, farmer. Seal. August 8. JAMES HIGGINS, Birmingham, fishmonger, September 1 and Oc. tober 6, at the Swan Inn, High. street, Birmingham. Sols. Mr. Thomas Kirk, Symond's. inn, Chancery- lane, London; and Mr. John Yates, Liverpool. Vet. Or. Charles Steel, Liverpool, fish- monger. Seal. August 8. JOHN SENIOR, Hereford, cabinet maker, August 29 and October 6, at the Green Dragon Inn, Hereford: Sols. Messrs. Hopwood and Foster, 47, Chancery- lane, London. Pet. Cr. Frederick George Harding, Monument- yard, London, upholsterer, Arthur Wilcoxon, sen., Arthur Wilcoxon, juu., William Harding, aud Robert Wilcoxon, all of the same place. Seal. August 17. WALTER HOOTON, Sneinton, Nottinghamshire, lace maker, September 13 and October 6, at the George the Fourth Inn, Not. tingham. Sols. Mr. George Capes, 5, Raymond's- buildings, Gray's, inn, London ; and Mr. J. Wadsworth, Nottingham. Pet. Cr. George Walker, Nottingham, victualler. Seal. August 1. EDWARD SCOTT, Hillborough, Norfolk, miller, September 11 and October 6, at the Duke's Head Inn, King's Lynn, Norfolk. Sols. Mr. William Nettleford, jun., Vine- street- house, Millbank, Westminster; and Mr. Jonas Walpole, North wold, near Stoke Ferry, Norfolk. Pet. Cr. Johu Cock, North wold, farmer. Seal. August 15. SAMUEL EDWARD KETTLE NICKLIN, Leamingt6n. priors, Warwickshire, building surveyor, September 13 and October 6, at the Lansdowne Hotel, Leamington- priors. Sots. Mr. Joseph Carey, 2, Raymond's- buildings, Gray's- inn, London; and Mr. Hitchin, Barford, near Warwick. Pet. Cr. William Peace, Lea- mington- priors, wharfinger. Seal. August 3 HUMPHREY BROWN, late of Gloucester, but now of the Bristol- road., Edgbaston, Birmingham, carrier, September 7 and October 6, at Dee's Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Sols. Messrs. Gatty and Turner^ 2, Red Lion- square, London ; and Mr. Joseph Cresswell, 56, Newhall- street, Birmingham. Pet. Cr. William Lloyd Chand- ler, Tewkesbury, gent. Seal. August 17. CHARLES BAKER, Back of the Walls, Southampton, timber merchant, September 7 and October 6, at the George Inn, South- ampton. Sols. Messrs. Swain and Co., 6, Frederick's- place, Old Jewry, London ; and Mr. Thomas Hans Edwards, 1, Albion- place, Southampton. Pet. Cr. John Diston Powles, Alfred Williams Powles, and Thomas Octavius Powles, Freeman's- court, London, merchants. Seal. August 1. JOHN PEAKE and THOMAS HALL, Market- street, Lichfield, September 7 and October 6, at the Old Crown Inn, Lichfield. Sols. Messrs. Bartrum and Son, 72, Old Broad- street, London; and Messrs. E. and F. Bond, Lichfield. Pet. Cr. Robert Bell, on be- half of the National Provincial Bank of England. Seal. July 29. DIVIDENDS. John Exley, Riches- court, Lime- street, corn factor, September 18 — William Wickhara Greenhill, Cobliam, Surrey, cattle dealer, Sep- tember 18— John Angold, John. street, Tottenham- court- road, tim- ber merchant, September 18— Arthur Theophilus Kinsey Vale, Bromyard, Herefordshire, linen draper, September 18— John Staton, 10, Charing- cross, boot maker, September 16— Samuel Carter Hall, Elm grove- house, Kensington, bookseller, September 16— John Jennings, Canterbury, hotel keeper, September 22, at the Guildhall, Canterbury— Thomas Hinde, late of Liverpool, merchant, September 19, at the office of Messrs. Shackleton and Co., 30, Brunswick. street, Liverpool— Richard Batley, Norwich, merchant, September 18, at the Angel Inn, Norwich— James Parkyn, Devonport, linen draper, September 18, at Elliott's Royal Hotel, Devonport— William Ed- mondson, Liverpool, brush maker, September 21, at the Clarendon- rooms, Liverpool— John Brooke, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, woollen cloth manufacturer, September 18, at the Royal Hotel, Dewsbury— Edward Ollerenshaw the elder, Manchester, and Red Cross- street, Southwark, cotton spinner and hatter, September 26, at the Com- missioners'. rooms, Manchester— Edward Ledward, Liverpool, hat manufacturer, September 15, at the Clarendon- rooms, Liverpool, CERTIFICATES, SEPTEMBER 15. John Askew, Liverpool, and Egremont, hotel keeper— William Forbes Marshall, Larab's- buildings, Bunhiil- row, manufacturer of artificial skins— William Colwell, Bromsash, Herefordshire, timber merchant— Joseph Shuker, Shrewsbury, grocer— Joshua Tidd, Brownlow- street, Drury. lane, coach currier— William James Cockerill, Poultry music seller— William Catliff, Wisbeach, Cam. bridgeshire, draper. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Robert Montagu Hume and Edmund Maude— Sarah Tiffin and Elizabeth Tiffin, Pall- mall, milliners— William Swettenham and Robert Evans Davies, Liverpool, wine and spirit merchants— Shep- herd Simpson and Charles Cazotte, 23, Daries- street, Berkeley- square, buttermen— Charles Nicholas Cazotto and William Raw- ling, Daries- street, Berkeley- square, buttermen— George Cubitt, Norwich, and Charles Harvey, Bury St. Edmunds, preparers and • endors of Harvey's bark and sarsaparilla pills— Thomas Newman and George Newman, Winchcomb, Gloucestershire, plumbers- Peter Keuway and William Maw Shillitoe, Birmingham, cigar merchants— Samuel Pearce and William Birtwhistle, London, sur- geons— David Westaway and Thomas Westaway, Exeter, mercers — William Norton and Richard Whitton, sen., London, spirit, corn, and coal merchants— Brindley, Jones, aud Company, Nutsford dye- works, dyers— T. L. Marriott and Thomas Wheeler, Manchester, attorneys- at- law— Charles Heginbotham and Thomas Clarke Knight, 9, Fleur- de- lis. street, Norton Falgate, furnishing undertakers— Barnet Levy and Aaron Levy, Plymouth, silversmiths— Edward Luxford and Richard Travers Way, Bradford, Wiltshire, attorneys — James Clayton, John Clayton, and Richard Clayton, Preston and Manchester, manufacturers ( so far as regards James Clayton)— William Kendrick, George Moyse, and William Smith, Birmingham, lamp manufacturers ( so far as regards William Smith). ASSIGNMENTS. Jasper Tomsett Judge, Palace New- road, Lambeth, general adver. lising agent. John Little, Newcastle- upon- Tyne, cordwainer. William Thurston, Baker's- rovv, Wliitechapel, victualler. George Wilson, Darlington, linen draper. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. Robert Smith, Inverness, cloth merchant. tember 16 and October 10, at the Clarendon- rooms, Liverpool. Sols. Messrs. Norris and Allen, 19, Bartlett's- buildings, Holborn, London; and Mr. J. Bayley, Warrington. Pet. Cr. J^ ner Pier- point, Warrington, joiner and builder. Seal. August 24. MAHLON BROADBENT, Saddleworth, Yorkshire, woollen clothier, September 11 and October 10, at the Commissioners'- room8, Manchester. Sols. Messrs. Milne aud Co., Temple, Lon- don ; and Messrs. Slater and Heelis, Princes. street, Manchester. Pet. Cr. Launcelot Gibson, Manchester, woollen manufacturer, and Joseph Taylor and William Taylor, copartners. Seal. Aug. 21. JOHN GO MM BIRD, Manchester, commission agent, September 18 and October 10, at the Commissioner's- rooms, Manchester. Sols. Mr. Charles Cooper, 1, Marsden- street, Manchester ; and Messrs. Adlington and Co., Bedford- row, London. Pet. Cr. James Shorrock, Blackburn, warehouseman. Seal. August 10. JOSEPH ROBERT TAYLOR and EDWIN TAYLOR, Mas- borough, Yorkshire, earthenware manufacturers, September 7 and October 10, at the Town- hall, Sheffield. Sols. Messrs. Taylor and Son, John- street, Bedford- row, London; and Mr. W. F. Hoyle, Rotherham. Pet. Cr. Edward Lees, Greenacres- moor, within Oldham, cotton waste dealer. Seal. July 29. JAMES ESDA1LE, Oxford- street, Manchester, hatter, September 15 and October 10, at the Commissioners'. rooms, Manchester. Sols. Messrs. Swain and Co., Old Jewry, London ; and Mr. Thomas Tuffley Harding, King- street, Manchester. Pet. Cr. Samuel Isherwood, Manchester, manufacturer. Seal. August 9. JOHN HARVEY, Glastonbury, Somersetshire, innholder, Sep- tember 28 and October 10, at the Swan Inn, Wells, Somersetshire. Sols. Messrs. Cary and Cross, Bristol; and Messrs. Adlington and Co., Bedford. row, London. Pet. Cr. William Brooks, Kitwell- house, Shenley, Herts, E3q. Seal. August 15. JOHN VESEY, Exeter, hatter, September 13 and October 10, at the Old London Inn, Exeter. Sols. Messrs. Rhodes and Co., Chancery lane, London ; and Mr. T. E. Drake, Exeter. Pet. Cr. Daniel Oakey, London- wall, London, wholesale hatter, and John Oakey, his partner. Seal. July 10. DIVIDENDS. Thomas Ball, Fishmongers' Arms, West- street, Soho, licensed victualler, September 13 — William Thomas Jesse, Bourton, Gilling- ham, Dorsetshire, tick and dowlas manufacturer, October 30, at the George Inn, Frome— William Jesse and William Thomas Jesse, Bourton, Gillingham, Dorsetshire, tick and dowlas manufacturers, October 30, at the George Inn, Frome— Caleb Radcliffe Bury, Hulme, Manchester, drysalter, September 21, at the Commissioners'. rooms, Manchester— Thomas Vertue, Woodbridge, Suffolk, merchant, Sep- tember 21, at the Great White Horse Tavern, Ipswich— John Barnett, Stourport, Severn- carrier, September 22, at the Black Horse Inn. Kidderminster— James Rogers, Martley, Worcester- shire, tanner, September 21, at the Star and Garter Hotel, Wor- cester— William Hodgetts, Birmingham, bookseller, September 20, at Radenhurst's New Royal Hotel, Birmingham— Abraham Nick- olds Lea, Birmingham, builder, September 26, at the Royal Hotel, Temple- row, Birmingham— Edwin Whele, Walsall, Staffordshire, grocer, September 22, at the Swan Inn, Wolverhampton. CERTIFICATES, SEPTEMBER 19. Henry Ormerod Cadney, Halifax, corn dealer— Henry Beverly, Manchester, horse dealer— Stephen Peasnall Leamington- priors, Warwickshire, plumber— Silvanus Cartledge, Lincoln, merchant — James Trenholm, Darlington, common brewer— Henry John Rice Elworthy, East Stoncliouse, Devonshire, bill broker— Robert Batley, South Shields, woollen draper— Charles Eldridge, Brighton, builder — William May, Manchester, innkeeper- Joel Rudman, Bath, fruiterer— William Smelt the younger, Manchester, merchant- William Austin, White HartTavern, Abchurch. lane, tavern keeper. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Andrew Henry Poulett Thomson and Henry Bonar, London, merchants— Ralph Leigh and Samuel Thornicraft, Hanley, Stafford- shire, attorney8- at- law— James Binks, Joseph Marsden, and Robert Green, Leeds, cloth finishers— William Lawrence Clarkson and Daniel Moore, Ledbury, Herefordshire, cider merchants— William Jonas Watson and Henry Phillips, Cardiff", maltsters— Joseph Brown and Joseph Coleman, Coventry, watch manufacturers— Thomas Wilkinson and William Stocks Booth, Hey wood, Lancashire, iron- mongers— James Cunliffe and William Marsh, Ashton- in- Macker- field, Lancashire, blacksmiths— John Buckley and Thomas Bottom- ley, Shelderslow, Yorkshire, cotton spinners— Robert Cross, jun., and Frederick Ogden, Manchester, leather dealers— Robert Crossley and Copley Moorhouse, Halifax, worsted spinners— James Hopkins and Matthew Lumb, Asquith Bottom Mill, Yorkshire, worsted spinners— James Turner and Co., Rochdale, cotton spinners— Mar- garet, Thomas, and James Aspinall, Ashton- in- Mackerfield, Lan- cashire, bolt and nail makers ( so far as regards Margaret Aspinall) — Peter Fletcher and John Newton, Manchester, livery stable keepers— George Hoadley and Co., Bradford, Yorkshire, machine makers— Richard Hillier and Edmund Elines Beckingham, Newport, Monmouthshire, corn merchants— John Freeman aud George Howell, Halesworth, Suffolk, grocers— William Henry Timms and James Timms, Cardiff, nurserymen— Robert Eaton, Henry Knight, jun., and William Stroud, Swansea, bankers— Francis Houseley Nicholson and William Foster Nicholson, Halifax, linen drapers- Francis Warrington and Charles Eaton, Macciesfield, silk manufac- turers— Elizabeth Hill and Frederic Hill, 4, Broken. wharf, Upper Thames- street, wharfingers— John Prichard and James Gieeue Trevitt, Liverpool, linen drapers— Elia3 Cole and Thomas Cole, Starcross and Kenton, Devonshire, drapers— Myer Marks and Thomas Arnold Goodman, 15, Barbican, brass founders. ASSIGNMENTS. John Raynes Hayward, Beckington, Somersetshire, gent. John Monatt, York, shopkeeper. Thomas Gnosall Parr, Lichfield, gent. Stephen Ramsay, Thomas Nesbitt, Ralph Walker, and John Laid, law, Offertonhaugh, Durham, ship builders. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. James Pender and Son, aud William Pender, Dumbreek. field, Strathblane, Stirlingshire, bleachers. LONDON MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE, MONOAY, AUGUST29.— Wheat, Essex Red, new, 42s to 53s; line, 54s to57s; old, — s to — 8; white, new, 52s to 54s j fine, 56s to 58s; superfine, 58s to60s; old,— s to— s.— Rye, 30s to 34s.— Barley, 26s to 30s; fine, 32s to 33s; superfine, — s to — 8.— Malt, 50s to 56s ; tine, 58s to 60s.— Peas, Hog, 34s to 36s ; Maple, 37s to 38s; white, 34s to 38s ; Boilers, 38s to 40s.— Beans, small, 40s to 42s ; old, — s to — s ; Ticks, 33s to 36s ; old, — s to — s; Harrow, 38s to40s.— Oats, feed, 22s to 24s ; fine, 25s to 27s; Poland, 25a to 27s; fine, 28s to 29s; Potatoe, 28s to 30s ; liue, 30s to 31s Bran, per quarter, 10a Od to Us 0d,— Pollard, line, per ditto, 148.20s, PRICE op SEEDS, AUG 28.— PerCwt Red Clover, English, 50s to 60s ; fine, 63a to 703 ; Foreign, 50s to 58s; fine, 60s to 65s White Clover, 55s to 60s; fine, 65s to 70s.— Trefoil, new, 12a to 17s; fine, 18s to 21a ; old, — a to — s.— Trefolium, 15s to 17s ; fine, 18a to 20s. — Caraway, English, new, 44s to 483 ; Foreign, 46a to 50s— Coriander, 14s Od to 16s Od. Per Quarter.— St. Foin, 36s to38s ; fine, 40s to 42s; Rye Grass 28a to 353; new, 35s to 45s ; Pacey Grass, 40a to45s; Linseed for feeding, 48s to 50a; fine, 52s to 56a ; ditto for crushing, 44s to 47s. Canary, 38s to 42s Hemp, 40s to 46s. Per Bushel.— White Mustard Seed, 8s Od to 10s Od; brown ditto, lOaOd to 128; Tares, 4a 6d to 5s Od ; fine new Spring, 0s Od toOs Od. Per Last.— Rape Seed, English, 37fto 39i; Foreign, 362 to 382. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICEOFBRITI3H CORNFORTHE WEEK ENDING AUG. 23, 1837 Wheat, 56s 4d ; Barley, 32a Id; Oats, 22s lid; Rye, 36s 2d; Beans, 37s 4d ; Peas, 36s Id. DUTY ON FOREIGN CORN FOR THE PRESENT WEEK.— Wheat, 30s 8d; Barley, 13s lOd; OatB, 13s 9d; Rye, 158 6d ; Beans, 14s0d; Peas, 15s 6d. TUESDAY, AUGUST29. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. AUGUST29.- WILLIAM ANTONIO ROCHER, late of Clifford's- inn- paasage, Fleet- street, City, but now of 2, Bro& dwall, Black- friars, wine merchant, BANKRUPTS. ALEXANDER KNOX, Maddox. stroet, Hanover. square, tailor, September 7 and October 10. Sols. Messrs. Cook and Sanders, New- inn, Strand. Pet. Cr. Ausepliorua Roberta, Marylebone- street, woollen draper. Seal. August 15. ROBERT HUGH FRANKS, Redcross. street, Barbican, City, and Regent- street, hatter, September 7 and October 10. Sols. Messrs. Lowless and Son, 2, Hatton. court, Threadneedle. street. P*/. Cr. Joseph Ismay, William Borradaii, and George Borradail, New Bridge- street, Southwark, furriers. Seal. August 25. AILLIAM JOHrf HARRIS, 21, Red Lion. street, Clerkcnwell, watch- case maker, September 13 and October 10. Sols. Messrs, Robinson and Co., Charterhouse- square. Vet. Cr. William Taylor Abud, Saint James* s- walk, Clerkenwell, refiner. Seal. Auguat24. ENRY MOLYNEUX, now or late of Exeter, draper, September 9 and October 10. Sols. Messrs. Tilson and Co.; Coleman. street. Pet. Cr. Richard and Edward Standly, Cheapiide, warehousemen. Seal. August 26. JOHN LEICESTER, Warrington, Lancashire, bobbin maker Sep HAYANDSTRAW Smithfield Hay, 80s Od to 100i Od; Inferior, — 8 to— 8; Clover, 90a to 126a; Inferior— s to— a; Straw, 36s to 40s. Whitechapel.— Clover, 115stoI35a; newditto, 70sto95s; second cut, — s to — s; Hay, 100 to 112s j new ditto, 70s to 95a ; Wheat Straw, 38a to 428. Cumberland.— Fine Upland Meadow and Rye- grass Hay, 105s to 108s ; inferior ditto, 90s to 95s ; auperior Clover, 112s to 120a ; Straw, 39s to 42s per load of 36 trusses. Portman Market.— Coarse heavy Lowland Hay,— 8 to— e; new Meadow Hay, 60s to 74s ; old ditto, 90s to 100s; usefulditto, — B to — a; New Clover ditto,— a to— s ; old ditto, 120s to 126a; Wheat Straw, 39a to 45s per load of 36 trusses. OILS.— Rape Oil, brown, £ 32 0s per ton ; Refined, .£ 34 0s ; Linseed Oil, £ 26 0s; and Rape Cake,£ 5 10s Linseed Oil Cake, £ 11 10s per thousand. Louis THE SIXTEENTH.— Louis XVI. was of a command- ing height; he had broad shoulders, and a prominent sto- mach. He was short- sighted, his eyes half shut, his mouth large, his voice hollow and vulgar. He laughed freely and loudly. His air announced gaiety— not, perhaps, the gaiety which is the product of a superior spirit, but that joyous- ness, at least, which is the property of the good man, and is born of a conscience without reproach. He was not des- titute of knowledge— particularly in geography. For the rest, he had his weaknesses, like other men. He loved, for example, to play tricks upon his pages; and to lie in watch at five o'clock in the morning, to see, through the palace- windows, the signeurs of the court issue from the different apartments. If, during the hunt, you passed between the stag and him, he was subject to dangerous outbreaks. One day, of suffocating heat, an old gentleman of his suite, who had followed him to the chace, being fatigued, dismounted from his horse, and stretching himself on his back, fell asleep in the shade, Louis happened to pass in that direc- tion, and perceiving the good gentleman, thought it amuse- ment to awaken him. He, too, dismounted, therefore, from his horse; aad without having any intention of hurting his old servant, dropped a somewhat heavy stone on his breast. The latter awoke; and, in the first movement of pain and anger, cried out—" Ah! I recognize you well in that act; you were ever thus in childhood— you are a tyrant, a cruel man, a savage beast 1"— and so he went on, over- whelming the King with insults. His Majesty regained his horse as quickly as possible, half laughing, half vexed to have hurt the old man, to whom he was much attached,— and merely exclaiming, as he hastened away—" Oh! he is angry— he is angry— he is angry!"— Chateaubriand. REPAIRING THE CONSTITUTION. BY REPAIRING the CONSTITUTION, the Advertiser means the HUMAN FRAME, which, by too free indulgence in momentary pleasures, destroys too often the noble fabric of man, and tortures him through his whole existence ; weakens his energies, and makes him un- fit to perform those functions which are required of him. Dr. FISCHELBERG, formerly of the Prussian army, who directs his entire study to those cases so frequently brought on by the indiscretion of youth and inebriety, and whose long and extensive practice on the baneful diseases arising from theabove causes, has at length been so fortunate as to conquer, through his salutary and most valuable medicinal preparations, the most obstinate venereal diseases, and does with confidence assure the afflicted, that, by adhering to his medicines, a complete cure may be relied on, for which he pledges his reputation. Dr. F. may be consulted hy both sexes with the greatest confidence, from nine in the morning till ten at night, and on Sundays from ten till two, at his Medical Establish- ment, No. 3, Christ Church Passage, New- street, Bir- mingham, where advice and medicines may be obtained. The PILES successfully treated by internal medicines only. Dr. FISCHELBERG is the sole Proprietorof the highly celebrated Royal Prussian Herb Pills, for the cure of the Venereal disease. Sold, with proper directions for use, in boxes at 2s. 9d. and 4s. 6d. each, duty included.— Agent, Mr. Caldicott, bookseller, Dudley- street, Wolverhampton. Letters from the country, post- paid, with particulars of the case, and enclosing a remittance, punctually attended to, and advice and medicines forwarded to any part of the kingdom. Ifgf Observe, No. 3, Christ Church- passage, New- street. N. B. Private door to the Surgery through the first entry in New- street. CORNS. DICKER'S OPIATE CORN PLAISTER, for the removal of Corns, Bunions, and all hard fleshy substances on the feet. It is admitted by the thousands who 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 gradually dissolving the callous or horny substance. Prepared only and sold by Wm. Dicker, chemist, 235, Strand, next door to Temple- bar, London, in boxes Is. l£ d. each. Sold hy Knott, Gazette Office-, Wood, High- street; Flewitt, High- street; and Shillitoe, High- street, Birming- ham : Harper, Hodgkinson, and Roberts, Warwick : Stanley and Nevvby, Leamington : where likewise can be procured DICKER'S AROMATIC ESSENCE, an instant relief for the TOOTH- ACHE, in bottles at Is. ljd. each. INFALLIBLE HAIR DYE. AMONGST the number of compositions, advertised under various names as Hair Dyes, the only one that has stood the test of experience and proved as infalli- ble as it is efficacious, is AGID HASSAN'S celebrated, simple, and unerring CIRCASSIAN HAIR DYE, whicl will, in a few hours, change light, red, or grey hair, eye brows, lashes, whiskers, and mustachios, to a rich auburn, or jet black, or any shade between; giving a fine glossy appearance, without injuring the hair, discolouring the skin or linen, also being free from the purple hue ( even in the rays of the sun) which the other dyes impart. It is not less valuable to officers of the army, gentlemen of the turf, and all persons interested in the perfect appearance of that beautiful animal the horse; removing what is tech- nically termed " White Stockings." Sold wholesale by W. DAY and Co., at their old Italian warehouse, the Black Boy, No. 95, Gracechurch- street, and retail by the following Agents:— Mr. Aucott, per- fumer, New- street, Birmingham; Mr. Saunders, per- fumer, Warwick; Messrs. Price and Wood, perfumers, Leamington ; Messrs. Stephens and Son, perfumers, Aleester ; Mr. Vernall, perfumer, Worcester; in bottles, at 5s., 10s., and 15s. each, having proper directions how to use the same, with a fac- simile of the signature of Agid Hassan; also that of W. Day and Co. All without these are counterfeit. DR. JOHN ARMSTRONG'S LIVER PILLS. " 1 care not how I am physicked, so it be not by the adventure of a Quack, but advice of a Physician, who, I am sure, will prescribe no more for me than may consist with my safety, and need doth re- quire."— Old Divine. RJ^ HESE admirable Liver Pills are strongly recom- JL mended as an excellent family Aperient, a certain re- medy for an inactive Liver, a safe and effectual destroyer of worms in children, and as the Best Friend of the Dyspeptic, or Bilious Sufferer, whose usual symptoms are some or all of these:— flatulence, pain in the side and under the shoulder blades, distressing sensation of choking, oppression after meals, depression of spirits, and a yellow skin. They have also been of extraordinary service to persons afflicted with obstinate sores; and with scurvy, scorbutic humours, or eruptions of the skin. These favourite Liver Pills are warranted to contain no Aloes, Gamboge, or other Drastics; they do not occasion Piles, or any pain during their operation. Be careful to observe, before purchasing, that the Pro- prietor's sole compounding Agent's name and address— " John T. Eddy, Chemist, Bishop Stortford,"— are on the Government Stamp, engraved in white letters; which is also sealed with a tower, on a shield of ermine and gold. All other are counterfeits; as the Proprietor, a gentleman of private fortune, is the only possessor of this fine prescription, given to him by the late learned Physician ( in Russell- square) himself, in 1827. Sold by all patent medicine venders, in boxes at Is. l^ d., 2s. 9d., and 4s. 6d. UNDER THE ESPECIAL PATRONAGE OF HIS LATE MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY, AS the following' letter received from Major- General Sir Henry Wheatley, Keeper of the Privy Purse, testifies: — SIR,— I am honoured with the King's commands to express His Majesty's sense of your polite attention in sending the two bottles of Essence of Ginger, His Majesty has been pleased to direct me to forward you ten pounds in payment for it— enclosed you will find that amount I am, sir, your'a obediently, H. WHEATLEY St. James's Palace, June 25th, 1835. To Mr. Decimus Woodhouse. WOODHOUSE'S iETHERIAL ESSENCE OF GINGER, is particularly recommended to all Cold; Phlegmatic, Weals, and Nervous constitutions; it is certain in affording instant relief in Cholera Morbus, Spasms, Cramps, Flatulence, Languor, Hysterics, Heartburn, Loss of Appetite, Sensation of Fulness, Pain and oppression after meals ; also those pains of the Stomach and Bowels which arise from Gouty Flatulencies; Digestion however much impaired, is restored to its pristine state by the use of this Essence for a short time; if taken in tea, coffee, ale, beer, porter, cider, or wine, it corrects their flatulent tendency. The undernamed, and 208 other Medical men, have given certificates of their unqualified approbation of the value of the Essence, as also of its superiority over all other similar preparations. Drs. James Johnson, Physician to His late Majesty, A. T. Holroyd, S. Ashweli, R. Rowley, A. Mid- dleton, C. Loudon, D. Davies, surgeon to their Majesties, J. Pereira, G. Pilcher, F. Salmon, F. Tyrrell, J. H. Cur- tis, Aurist to His late Majesty, C. Millard. This Essence is prepared only by DECIMUS WOODHOUSE, Operative Chemist Extraordinary to His late Majesty, 43, ( late 18,) King William- street, New London Bridge; and sold by him, wholesale and retail, in Bottles, 2s. 6d., 4s. 6d., 10s. 6d., and 21s. each; and may be had of all Medicine Venders. Also, WOODHOUSE'S PATENT CORN PLASTER, for affording instant relief, and eradicating CORNS and BUNIONS without pain or danger. This plaster acts by softening and destroying the Corns or Bunions, and defending the affected parts from the pressure of the shoe. Thus its use is perfectly safe, and certain in affording relief in ten minutes, if a cure is not effected. In Boxes, Is. l^ d., 2s. 9d., and 4s. 6d. each. N. B A respectable Youth wanted directly as an Ap- prentice. 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, Af- fections of the Liver, & c., Stc., DIXON'S ANTIBI- LIOUS PILLS ( which do not contain Mercury in any shape) have met with more general approval than any other Medicine whatsoever. They unite every recommendation of mild operation with successful effect; and require no re- straint or confinement during their use. In tropical cli- mates, where the consequences of redundant and vitiated bile are so prevalent and alarming, they are an invaluable and efficient protection. They are likewise peculiarly cal- culated to correct 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. 9d., 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, Sackville- street, Dublin, and Prince's- street, Edinburgh; Sutton, Bow Church- yard; Newberry, 45, Edwards, 67, St. Paul's; and the principal Dealers in Pa- tent Medicine. BLAIR'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PILLS. ANOTHER extraordinary cure of Rheumatic Gout, from Lincolnshire, communicated by Mr. Noble, the general agent for that county. To Mr. Prout. 229, Strand, London. Boston, April 26, 1837. SIR,— Among the numerous instances which have come to my knowledge of the beneficial effects produced by the use of Blair's in- valuable Gout and Rheumatic Pills, the following is so striking and so well authenticated, that ( with permission of the parties) I send it to you for publication in any way you may think proper. Mary Barton, of Bolingbroke, in this county, aged sixty. seven, had been for twenty months afflicted in a violent degree with Rheumatic Gout. Her joints were so swollen, and her lingers contracted and stiffened to such an extent, that she was unable to get into or out of bed, or even to dress or undress herself, without assistance ; and so excruciating was- the pain aud agony ahe endured, that sleep was to herself aud husband almost a stranger. She despaired of relief, and much more of a cure, deeming her case hopeless. A benevolent gentleman residing in the village, hearing of her afflicted condition, visited her, and presented to her a box of BLAIR'S PILLS, by taking half of which she was greatly relieved, and two boxes completely restored her; so that from being an afflicted helpless cripple, she is now blithe and hearty, being able to perform all her household work in a manner that surprises her neighbours. For the truth of these statements 1 have permission to refer ( if by letter, post paid) to W. E. Emmit, Esq., and Mr. Thomas Braekenbury, draper and grocer, ( sub. agent for the sale of the Pills) both of Bolingbroke. Wishing health aud long life to yourself, I remain, sir, your obedient servant, J. NOBLE, Agent at Boston. These Pills are taken without the least care or attention, by either sex, young or old, and have the peculiar property of entirely removing the disease, without debilitating the frame, which is universally left in a stronger and better state than before the malady commenced. And there is another most important effect belonging to this medicine— that it prevents the disease flying to the brain, stomach, or other vital part. Sold by Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London ; and by his appointment, by Wood, Shillitoe, Sumner and Portal, Coll ins and Co., Humphries, Smith, Suffield, Flewitt, Ed- wards, Matthison, Gazette and Advertiser offices, Birming- ham ; Shillitoe, ( late Cowell) Westbromwich ; Turner and Hollier, and Morris, Dudley; Valentine and Thorsby, Wal- sall ; Mander and Co., and Simpson, Wolverhampton; Davis, Atherstone ; Morgan, Lichfield ; Harding, Shiffnall; Pennell and Stewart, Kidderminster; Morris, Bewdley; Maund, Bromsgrove; Harper, Hodgkinson, Bayley and Roberts, Warwick; and all respectable medicine venders throughout the United Kingdom, price 2s. 9. per box. Ask for Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills; and observe the name and address of " Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, Lon- don," impressed upon the Government Stamp affixed to each box of the genuine medicine. THE ONLY CURE FOR CORNS AND BUNIONS. RAMSBOTTOM'S CORN and BUNION SOL- VENT. By the use of this valuable remedy imme- diate relief from pain is obtained, and by its successive application for ashortperiod, the most obstinate Corns are entirely removed without recourse to the dangerous opera- tions of cutting or filing. The proprietor pledges himself that it does not contain caustic or any otherarticle that will inflame the skin; being white it will not stain the stocking; and the advantage it has over plaister is mani- fest, and fully appreciated, as the very high recommenda- tion bestowed upon it by every individual that has used it testifies. Price Is. IJd. and 2s. The various counterfeits that are attempted to be im- posed upon the public in lieu of this invaluable remedy, render it imperativelynecessary for purchasers to ask for S. Ramsbottom's Corn and Bunion Solvent, and to see that it has the signature of" S. Ramsbottom" written upon the label that is pasted on the outside of the wrapper of every genuine bottle, in addition to the name of the article, and words sold by Hannayand Co. 63, Oxford- street, being the name and address of the proprietor's wholesale agents. The following letter from Mr. John Winfield, of Bir- mingham, is one of many hundreds of the same tenor: — Gentlemen— Having read an advertisement in a Birmingham paper, I was induced to purchase from your agent, Mr. Maher, Ann- street, a bottle of Ramsbottom's Corn and Bunion Solvent;— after a week's application I found it had the desired effect. I have since re- commended it to many of my friends. You are at liberty to make any use you please of this communication Your obedient servant, Birmingham, August6,1836. JOHN WINFIELD. To Messrs. Hannay and Co. Soldbyappointmentby M. Maher, 5, Congreve- street, and W. Wood, Bookseller, High- street, Birmingham ; Parke, Wolverhampton; Rogers, Stafford; Mort, Newcastle; Mer- ridew, Coventry; Dicey, Northampton. A SHROPSHIRE REA1EDY. Far superior to all the Medicines in the World. OWEN'S BRITISH DROPS have been proved, from experience, to be the most safe, speedy, and effectual remedy ever yet discovered for the cure of the Ve- nereal Disease, Scurvy, Leprosy, Scalled- liead, Dropsy, Scro- fula or King's Evil, Scorbutic Eruptions, Wounds, Ulcers, and all impurities of the blood. These Drops were employed nearly twenty years in private practice, with never- failing success; and the immense number of cures performed by them during that period induced the proprietor to publish them, as a single instance was never known of their failing to cure the most inveterate cases. The fact is, there needs no comment on their virtues more than a fair trial, which cannot fail to convince the most incredulous of the truth of the foregoing statement. They require no restraint to diet, as they do not contain the smallest particle of mercury, nor any other pernicious ingredients. A wonderful cure performed by Owen's British Drops, after eminent Physicians could do no more Copy of a letter. Wenlock, March 25, 1837. Sir,— Prior to my coming to you, I had endured a very hard and painful conflict with a certain disorder of long duration, which is perfectly cured by the use of four bottles of your invaluable British Drops, after taking an immense quantity of medicines to no purpose . 11 am yours, & c., J. F. An inveterate case of King's Evil cured. Parish of Acton Burnell, June 2, 1837. Sir,— I think myself bound in gratitude to you for the cure of a child of mine, seven years of age, having been diseased three years with an inveterate case of King's Evil in the neck, most dreadful to behold. Having obtained all the advice that money could pur- chase, and also taken an incredible quantity of internal medicines and external applications, which proved ineffectual, wonderful to relate, she was effectually cured by taking two bottles of your British Drops, sir. From motives of delicacy, we don't wish the child's name made public. T. R. These Drops are prepared and sold by the proprietor, at Linley Villa, near Brosely, Shropshire, in square bottles 4s. 6d. each; also sold hy Butterworth, 18, High- street, Birmingham; Watton, Shrewsbury; Smith, Ironbridge; Brough, Kidderminster and Stourport; Trevor, Wenlock, Smith, Bridgnorth; Houlston, Wellington; Edmonds, Shiffnal; Parke, Wolverhampton; Wilkes, Walsall; Walters, Dudley; Griffiths, Ludlow ; Silvester, Newport; Heming, Stourbridge; and by most respectable medicine venders. N. B. None are genuine but those bearing the signature of E. OWEN, Linley Villa, on the Government stamp. FRANKS'S SPECIFIC SOLUTION OF COPAIBA. ACERTAIN and most speedy cure for all Urethra, Discharges, Gleets, Spasmodic Strictures, Irritation of the Kidneys, Bladder, Urethra and Prostate Gland. TESTIMONIALS. From Joseph Henry Green, Esq., F. R. S., one of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons, Surgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital, and Professor of Surgery in King's College, London, *• I have made trial of Mr. Franks's Solution of Copaiba, at St. Thomas's Hospital, in a variety of cases of discharges in the male and female, and the results warrant my stating, that it is an effica. cious remedy, and one which does not produce the usual unpleasant effects of Copaiba. ( Signed,) JOSEPH HSNHV Gnncw. 46, Lincoln's. inn. fields, April 25,1835. From Bransby Cooper, Esq., F. R. S., Surgeon to Guy's Hospital, and Lecturer on Anatomy, & c., & c, Mr. Bransby Cooper presents his compliments to Mr. George Franks, and liaa great pleasure in beaiing testimony of the efficacy of his Solution of Copaiba, in Gonorrhsea, for which disease Mr. Cooper has prescribed the Solution in ten or twelve cases with per- fect success. New- street, Spring Gardens, April 13,1835. From William Hentscli, Esq., House Surgeon to the Free Hospital, Greville street, Hatton street. My dear Sir,— I have given your medicine in many cases of Go- norrhsea and Gleets, some of which had been many months under other treatment, and can bear testimony to its great efficacy. I have found it to cure in a much shorter time, and with more benefit to the general health, than any other mode of treatment I know of; the generality of cases have been cured within a week from the commencement of taking the Medicine, and aome of them in less time than that. Have the goodness to send me another supply. I am, dear sir, your's, very truly, ( Signed) WILLIAM HENTSCH. Greville. street, Hatton. garden, April 15,1835. Prepared only by George Franks, surgeon, 90, Black- friars- road, and may be had of his Agents, Barclay and Sons, Farringdon- street, London; Evans, Son and Co., Fenwick- street, Liverpool; Mander, Weaver, and Co., Wolverhamp- ton ; at the Medical Hall, 54, Lower Sackville- street, Dub- lin ; of J. and R. Raimes, Leith- walk, Edinburgh; and of all Wholesale and Retail Patent Medicine Venders in the United Kingdom. Sold in bottles at 2s. 9d., 4s., 6d., and lis. each, duty included. Caution To prevent imposition, the Honourable Com- missioners of Stamps have directed the name of " George Franks, Blackfriars- road," to be engraven on the Govern- ment Stamp. N. B. Hospitals, and other Medical Charities, supplied as usual from the Proprietor. gg" Mr. Franks may be consulted every day, as usual, until Two o'clock. Sold by appointment, by Mr. Maher, 5, Congreve- street, Birmingham; Merridew, Coventry; Owen and Gerdes, Liverpool; Bowman and Law, Manchester; and Deighton and Co., Betterby, York. ASHLEY COOPER'S BOTANICAL PURIFY- ING PILLS are established by thirty years'experi- ence, are prescribed by most of the eminent Physicians and Surgeons in London, and are always administered at several public hospitals, as the only certain remedy for Gonorrhoea, Gleets, Strictures, and all other forms of Ve- nereal diseases, in either sex, curing in a few days, by one small pill for a dose, with ease, secrecy, and safety. Their operation is imperceptible, they do not require the slightest confinement, or any alteration of diet, beverage or exercise. They do not disagree with the stomach, nor cause any offensive smell to the breath, as is the case with all other medicines in use for these complaints, and after a cure ef- fected by the use of these pills, the party willnotexperieenc any return of the complaint, as generally occurs after taking Balsam of Copaiba, and other drugs of the like nature, which only possessing a local action, merely suppressed the complaint for a time, without eradicating it from the con- stitution, and the patient on undergoing a little more fa- tigue than ordinary, finds all the symptoms return, and that they are suffering under the complaint as much as at first, and are at last constrained to have recourse to these pills, as the only certain cure. They are likewise a most efficient remedy for Pimpled Faces, Scurf, Scorbutic Affections, and all Eruptions of the Skin. Captains of vessels should make a point of always taking them to sea, their unrivalled effi- cacy in curing Scurvy being known throughout the world. The following letter selected from numerous other pro- essional recommendations forwarded to the proprietor when, he first offered these pills to the public, may be considered interesting. From that eminent surgeon, the late Joshua Brookes, Esq., F. R. S., Professor of Anatomy, & c. & c. Theatre of Anatomy, Blenheira. street. Dear Cooper,— I have tried your pills in numerous instances, and ray candid opinion is that they are a most improved system of treat- ment for those peculiar complaints for which you recommend them, curing with rapidity, 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, Mercury and Copaiba. I think you cannot fail to have a very large sale for them. Believe me, yours, very truly, JOSHUA BROOKES. Ashley Cooper's Botanical Purifying Pills are sold in boxes at 2s. 9d. and 4s. 6d. each, wholesale and retail, at HANNAY and Co.' s General Patent Medicine Warehouse, 63, Oxford- street, the corner of Wells street, London, where the public can be supplied with every Patent Medi- cine of repute, ( with an allowance on taking six at one time) warranted genuine and fresh from the various makers. Orders by post, containing aremittance, punctuallyattended to, and the change, if any, can be returned with the order. Ashley Cooper's Botanical Pills are sold by one or more respectable venders in every town in the kingdom, and any shop that has not got them will obtain them from London without any extra charge. Country shops can obtain them through any of the London booksellers. Sold by appointment by M. Maher, 5, Congreve street, and Wood, Bookseller, High- street, Birmingham ; Parker, Wolverhampton; Rogers, Stafford; Mort, Newcastle; and 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 cough, with pain on the chest, & c. The paramount superiority of this medicine above every other now in use, for the cure of the above complaints, only requires to be known to prove the passport to its being, ere long1, universally made use of for the cure of ev6ry description of Pulmonary Affection. To those who are unacquainted with the invaluable pro- perties of Mulreaddy's Cough Elixir, the following letters will exhibit its efficacy: — Manchester, Jan. 2nd, 1835. Dear Sir,— The cough medicine you sent me is certainly a most surprising remedy; six days ago I was unable to breathe, unless with great difficulty, attended with much coughing, which always kept my soft palate relaxed, and in a state of irritation, and the more I coughed the worseit was, and it, in its own turn, produced a constant excitement of coughing. I am now about, to the wonder of my friends and neighbours, entirely free from cough. One small phial of your inestimable medicine, ten years back, would have saved me not less than £ 3,000 in medical fees, but it would have done more— it would have saved my having had to swallow, from time to time, upwards of a hogshead of their nauseous, and, as they all proved, useless drugs. Tlie agreeable flavour of the medicine is a great recommendation: I think you ought to put it up and sell it to the public, and if any one should doubt its efficacy, refer them tome. I shall have the pleasure of being with you in a few days, when I shall press on your consideration the propriety of making it up for sale ; it would prove an enormous fortune to your gfand- * " dren. If you make up your mind to do so, as I am what t* ; ai children. If you make up your mind to do so, as I am what the world styles an idle man, you may enlist me in your service in any way that you think would be useful. But I should advise you to place the management in the hands of one of the great medicine houses in London. Hannay's, in Oxford. atreet, are being advertised in all the papers here, as wholesale agents for Ramsbottom's Corn Solvent, which, by the bye, my girls all say is really a cure, and many other medicines. I should say this would be a very good house, Oxford street being one of the most public situations in Lon- don. All join me in kind remembrance to yourself and Mrs. M. Believe me, yours, very truly, T. Mulreaddy, Esq. ROBERT GRANT. Golden Lion Hotel, Liverpool. Sir— To my astonishment, the other day, I had a visit from my old and esteemed friend, Mr. Hughes, whom I had not seen for many years, and still more so was I when, finding that I had a severe cough, he drew forth from his pocket a phial, a portion of the cou tents of which he insisted upon my swallowing instanter, and lef me the remainder, which I also took, and in the course of twenty- four hours I found myself quite free from even any tendency towards coughing; he now tells me that you are his oracle of health; I, therefore, beg leave to present my report at head- quarters, with many thanks, and trust that I may be able to prevail on you to let me have half, or a whole pint of the medicine to stow in my sea. chest, as I sail again for America in about ten days, and if 1 can, in return, afford you any service on the other side of the Atlantic, I am at your command; T. W. BUCHANAN. Master of the Brig Nancy, of Orleans. T. Mulreaddy, Esq. Birkenhead, Jan., 1835. Dear Sir,— The bottle of Medicine you left for me the other day has greatly relieved the wheezing I have been so long subject to; and I do not now find the cold produce the sensation it used previous to taking your medicine; it used formerly to nip me on going out, and I seemed as though I had a string run through my body, and the breast and back bones were drawn together. If you will be so good as to give me another bottle, I am sure it will work a perfect cure. I am, sir, your most obedient servant, T. Mulreaddv, Esq. NICHOLAS BROWN. Dear Sir,— The effect of your medicine, in curing our children of the Hooping Cough, has been like magic, for which I, and Mrs. Wilson in particular, return our grateful acknowledgments, and the little W's shall not fail, ere long, to thank you in person. Rely on it, n our family you will be styled doctor in future. Believe me, yours very sincerely, J. WILSON. Liverpool, Dec., 1834. My dear Sir,— You most assuredly deserve the thanks of society for presenting it with such an invaluable cure for Coughs. For years past, during the winter mouths, and aiways on foggy days, have I heretofore been compelled to confine myself a close and soli- tary prisoner iu my library, to prevent the possibility of being tempted to join in conversation, the excitement of which always produced such violent paroxysms of coughing, that I have been in constant dread of sudden dissolution, by bursting of a blood- vessel. At the commencement of the present season, by your kind liberality, I com- menced taking the medicine you sent, and have taken twelve bottles. After I had taken three, I could respire as vigourously as in the early part of my life, and I now believe that 1 was then perfectly cured— a cure not to have been expected at my advanced age, 80 years— but I persevered in taking it until I had consumed the whole twelve bottles. Your situation in life, I know, places you beyond the necessity of preparing an article of the kind for sale, but it must and shall be done, and if you neglect to do it, my sincere wish is that you may be lugged out of your retirement, and compelled to provide it in quantities equal to the boundless waters; and you may rely upon it, that I, a locomotive proof of its wonderful power, will spare neither time nor trouble to promulgate its efficacy, until you will find your cottage attacked by myriads of my former fellow* sufferers, for a share of your bounty, and I myself now apply for the first, trusting that your goodness will not suffer you to refuse me a pretty considerable quantity, and I promise to distribute it most usefully. Whenever you have made up for sale, send me one thou, sand bottles. Ever your sincere well- wisher, T. Mulreaddy, Esq. W. HI/ UHES. Chester, 12mo., 1834. Esteemed Friend,— Thou hoot 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 in a large bottle, I will, in return, enter thy name to any charitable institution thou wilt fix on. Thine, T. Mulreaddy, Eeq. JACOB ROBERTA 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, but begs to say, that upon trial of his Cough Elixir, it will give itself the best recommendation. It will be sold by his appointment, whole- sale and retail, by his agents, Messrs. HANNAY and Co., 63, Oxford- street, London ; and retail by every other respecta- ble vender of medicines in bottles at Is. l% d. each. 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. l% 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 tjie respectable London perfumers, with an allowance on taking six or more of any other article at the same time. Sold I Wood, Wolverhampton; Merridew, Coventry. d and published by FRANCIS BASSET SHENSTONK L, of Lee Mount, in the parish of Edgbaston, Printed ; FLINDKLL, , at 38, New- street, Birmingham, where letters for the Editor may be addressed, and where Advertisements and Orders will be received. ( All descriptions of Jobbing carefully and expeditiously executed.) Agents in Lon- don: Messrs. NEWTON and Co., 5, Warwick- square; and Mr. BARKER, 33, Fleet- street. Saturday, September 2, 1837.