4 trtttttt No. 645. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1837. PRICE 4Id. REMARKS ON MR. WILLIAMS'S LAST LET- TER TO MR. WEBSTER. To the Editor of the BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. SIR, IDID not intend to have been again brought be- fore the public, but the letter of Mr. Lloyd Williams, which appeared in Aris' Gazette of Monday last, requires me now to state some farther particulars respecting the con- duct of that gentleman. On Saturday evening, July 29th, about seven o'clock, a letter was delivered to me from Mr. l. loyd Williams, at the house of a gentleman where I was dining. In the letter was enclosed a memorial of thanks to Col. Thorn for his services during the riots, and was signed Edwd. Lloyd Wil- liams, John K. Booth, Wm. Blakeway. Mr. Williams's letter was to the following effect. The original is now with the Home Secretary, but I pledge myself for the general correctness of the representation I here give of it. " My dear Sir,— We have thought it right to present to Col. I horn a memorial of thanks for his services during the late disturbances. I have drawn up a few lines, which Mr. Spooner has desired might be sent for your signature, and then he will sign it, and send it to Colonel Thorn. I have left a space for your names." The letter concluded by saying, he hoped I had recovered from the effects of my late exertions, or words of that meaning. Signed, ED. LLOVD WILLIAMS. I immediately returned for answer, ( inclosing the memo- rial,) that I should have the greatest satisfaction in signing a memorial of thanks to Colonel Thorn, in conjunction with the other military, but that a vote of thanks to one only would be virtually casting a reflection on the others. Signed, J. WEBSTER. On the following day I wrote to Mr. Richard Spooner, inclosing Mr. Williams's note, and a copy of my answer. On the first of August I received the following reply from Mr. Spooner. " Dear Webster,— Lloyd Williams called upon me on Sa- turday, and at his request I drew up and signed a letter of thanks to Colonel Thorn and the military under his com- mand. This, Lloyd Williams promised to send to you and the other Magistrates for signature. I suppose his note to you must have been written before he saw me." The remainder ofthe letter was upon other subjects, but concluded with a request, that I would meet him at War- wick on Friday. On the Friday following, August 4th, I met Mr. Spooner • at Warwick. He then told me that Mr. Williams had called upon him with the memorial, which he ( Mr. Williams) had afterwards forwarded to me, to ask his signature; that he ( Mr. Spooner) had refused to sign it, as it gave a vote of thanks to one part of the military only; that Mr. Williams said, he would not sign a vote of thanks to Colonel Wal - lace, as it would prevent an enquiry into the Colonel's con- duct. However, aU4fyl Mr. Spooner, " I drew up a memo- rial of thanks in generftl terms, to all the military, signed it, and desired Mr. Williams to forward it to you." We afterwards saw Mr. Francis Lloyd, who said he had had a similar application from Mr. Williams to sign a memo- rial to Colonel Thorn < Jhly, and bad refused. On the follow- ing day, Mr. Spooner, Mr. Lloyd, and I, decided to call Mr. Williams out of Court, and ask for an explanation of these circumstances. Mr. Williams appeared much embarrassed; but said, " he could not sign a vote of thanks to Colonel Wallace; the Colonel had refused to obey his orders, and a vote ot thanks would prevent an enquiry." On Tuesday, August 8th, Mr. Spoonerand I met by ap- pointment, ( it being the day of the county election,) at his rooms in Birmingham. Mr. Spoonei then told me, that Mr. Lloyd Williams had, since we last met, admitted to him, hav- ing signed his ( Mr. Spooner's) name to the memorial to Colonel Thorn alone, and having sent it to the Colonel. Col. Thorn soon afterwards called, and I took the opportunity of expressing my regret that a vote of thanks should have been sent to him which did not bear my signature, and I gave the reason why I had refused to sign the memorial Mr. Williams had forwarded to me. I added, " Colonel Thorn, you will excuse me for not saying more, us I will never injure the pro- fessional reputation of any man." Mr. Spooner immediately said, " Webster, it will not do, Colonel Thorn must know all;" and, addressing the Colonel, said, " Colonel Thorn, if that memorial bears mysignature, it was written without my knowledge and authority." Col. Thorn replied, " It does bear your signature." Immediately upon the appearance of Mr. Lloyd Williams' letter, in answer to my " Narrative," I sent a copy of the foregoing statement to Mr. Spooner, and by return of post, iVIr. Spooner informed me that " it was a correct statement, and that I was at liberty to publish Ms letter." I trust the public will now acquit one of having unneces- sarily printed my " Narrative;" and will feel that when charges were brought forward against Sir M. Wallace* by a person who had acted in such an extraordinary manner, it was my duty to come forward in Colonel Wallace's de- fence. Mr. Williams appears to attach great importance to my having invited Mr. Attwood into Mr. Stapleton's private room, that he might address the people. If he had not repeated the charge, I should have allowed that, as well as liis other assertions, to pass without farther notice; but I now affirm, that I neither directly nor indirectly knew of Mr. Attwood's coming, until I saw him enter the room. A6 it was convenient to Mr. Williams to believe my statement, that I beckoned Mr. Edmonds to come into the room, he will now, perhaps, credit my assertion respecting Mr. Attwood. JOSEPH WEBSTER. Penns, October 3rd, 1837. BIRMINGHAM WATER WORKS COMPANY. PERSONS wishing- to be supplied with PURE SOFT WATER from the Works of this Company, before the winter sets in, are respectfully informed that ex- tra hands are in attendance to execute any order on the shortest notice. No charge is made for water supplied during the erection of buildings, nor till they are inhabited. By order ol the Directors, JOHN ARNALL, Clerk to the Company. Water Works- office, Square, October 2nd, 1837. T1 BIRMINGHAM AND DERBY JUNCTION RAILWAY. CONTRACTS FUR WORKS. HE DIRECTORS of the BIRMINGHAM and DERBY JUNCTION RAILWAY COM- PANY will meet at the COMPANY'S OFFICE, in WATERLOO- STREET, Birmingham, on WEDNESDAY, the 29th NOVEMBER NEXT, at twelve o'clock at noon, for the purpose of receiving sealed tenders for the undermentioned contracts. STONE BRIDGE CONTRACT To make the Railway, with all the excavations, embankments, fences, bridges, culverts, and other works, including the supplying all necessary materials, except the rails, chairs, and keys, commencing at the junction of the Stonebridge line with the London and Birmingham Railway, near the village of Hampton- in- Arden, in the county of Warwick, and terminating near Hawkswell, in the parish of Coleshill, in the said county, being a distance of about four miles; and to maintain the same for one year after the comple- tion of the whole. M AXSTOKE CONTRACT To make and maintain the Railway, in like manner, from the termination of the Stone Bridge contract, to a point, near Hoggerhill's end, in the parish of Nether Whitacre, in the county of Warwick1 a distance of about three miles and a quarter. KINGSBURY CONTRACT— To make and maintain the Railway, in like manner, from the termination of the Maxstoke contract, to a point near the Cliff Brickyard, in the parish of Kingsbury, in the said county of Warwick, a distance of about three miles and three quartets. ELFORD CONTRACT.— To make and maintain the Railway in like manner, from the intersection of the boun- dary of the parishes ofTamworth and Clifton Campville, to a point near the junction ofthe rivers Tame and Trent, in the parish of Croxall, in the county of Stafford, a distance of about four miles and a half. Drawings and Specifications of the Works, with Drafts of the Contracts, will be ready for inspection at the Com- pany's- office, at Birmingham, on and after Thursday, the second day of November next. Printed forms of tender may be obtained at the Com- pany's- office ; no others will be attended to. The Directors will not bind themselves to accept the lowest tender. NATIONAL PATENT SALT COMPANY. PROPOSED TO BE INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER, OR ACT OF PARLIAMENT. CAPITAL, £ 300,000, in 15,000 Shares of £ 20 each. DIRECTORS. William Adams, Smith, Esq. Waterton, Henry, Esq. Webb, Sir Henry, Bart. WINES AND SPIRITS. FAMILIES may he supplied with every description of Foreign Wines of the choicest qualities and most approved vintages, at very low prices; and also with British and Foreign Spirits of the first description, both as regards delicaey of flavour and strength, on equally moderate terms, at PETERS'S WINE AND SPIRIT WAREHOUSE, 77, BULL- STREET, CORNER OF TEMPLE- ROW, BIRMINGHAM. *„* Bottles, jars, and packages must either be exchanged or paid for on delivery, allowance being made for them when returned. Agents specialty appointed Mr. Banks, chemist, Bull- ling; Mr. Shillitoe, chemist, High- street; Mr. Maher, No. 6, Congreve- street; Mr. D. Johnson, druggist, Smithfield ; Mr. It. Ma thison, and Co., booksellers, Edgbaston- street; Mr. Hudson, Philanthropist- office, each of Birmingham, have j ust received a supply of the annexed established medicine, now in great repute. RELIEF IN A FEW HOURS. A Cure in a few days. CIMCO'S CHEMICAL ESSENCE of LINSEED, an infallible remedy for consumptive and asthmatic coughs, colds, hoarseness, incipient coughs, and influenza. Sold in bottles Is. D/ jd., 2s. 9d., and 4s. 6d. One 2s. 9d. bottle is equal to three bottles at Is. ljd. each. The following letter was sent lor publication by a respect, able chemist and druggist-.— Mr. Simeo. Sir,— Having been for about tlyee \ vi* eks past, suffering with a cold, attended with a dreadful coligh, and finding it still increasing, myself and friends became alarmed for the consequences. I was per- suaded la- » t Thursday morning to make trial of your Chemical Ess. ence of Linseed, aud to my great Burprise, found relief in less than ten minutes after the first dose, and having continued taking the doses, according to the directions, I feel now ' almost recovered. Finding such extraordinary relief from it, I have recommended it to a friend of mine, who was suffering dreadfully from a catarrhal affec. tion j lie purchased a bottle, and when 1 called on him this after, noon he informed me that he was considerably better, and said he believed it would also completely cure him. Such being the benefits arising by a iiBe of your inestimable Essence of Linseed, I will thank you to send me immediately a supply for sale, by the carrier to. day, aud I have no doubt but I shall have a brisk demand. I am, sir, yours respectfully, MARK CAUCUTT. Chemist and druggist, Stoney Stratford, Saturday, March 5, 1838. Prepared only by the proprietor, Samuel Simco, chemist, Northampton ; where also may be procured, if you value your health, SIMCO'S COMPOUND CAMOMILE PILLS, a mild, yet speedy, safe, and effectual cure of indi- gestion, spasms, and other stomach complaints, in boxes, Is. IJd. and 2s. 9d. A 2s. 9d. box is equal to three Is. IJd. ones. These pills may be considered a useful family medi- cine. Sold iu London by Barclay and Sons, Farringdon- street; Bailey, Potter, and Co< V Garlick- hill; Sangar, 150, Oxford- street; Prout, 229, Strand ; Butler, 4, Cheapside ; Stirling, Whitechapel; and by Munder- and Weaver, Wolverhumpton ; Mr. D. Bullock, chemist", Prince's- strect, Manchester; Sut- ton, Nottingham ; Thompson, Chronicle- office, Leicester; Knight, Nuneaton ; Morton, Hinckley; Harper and Co., chemists, Warwick and Leamington; Brown, Reading; Anthony, Hereford; and by all druggists and medicine vendors in town and country. Attwood, George, Esq. Badingfold, Sir H. Paston, Bart. Mackenzie, K. F. H. Esq. Smith, George Hugh, Esq. TRUSTEES. John Wright, Esq. | Henry Waterton, Esq. BANKERS. Messrs. Wright and Co. AUDITORS. Ashburnham Bulley, Esq. | John Davison Smith, Esq. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Meggison, Pringle, and Manisty. SECRETARY. J. P. Anstice, Esq. npHIS Company has contracted for the purchase of J- the WHARTON PATENT SALT WORKS, in Cheshire, which are the most perfect and extensive estab lishments in the kingdom. The refined salt is manufactured on these works by a valuable patent process, at a considerably less cost than by any other system. On the property there is a rock mine in full working, attached to which are all the requisite engines and machi- nery, and the Salt is delivered immediately from the pit's mouth into the vessels which convey it to Liverpool, The line of the Grand Junction Railway passes the pro- peity, and affords great facility to the inland trade. The supply of Salt has been for a considerable time inadequate to the increasing demand, and the Subscribers may safely calculate upon speedy and large dividends, with that certainty of further benefit, according as the vast capabilities ofthe works are developed and brought into operation under regular and good management. The Directors take this opportunity of stating that all former interests in this property have ceased, and will be exclusively possessed by the Company ; also, that they hope to complete the purchase of a considerable part of the pro- perty in the course of a few weeks; it is therefore de- sirable that parties wishing to hold shares should apply for them without loss of time. Prospectuses, and any further information, may be ob- tained by applying, if try letter, post paid, to the Secretary, at the Company's offices, 20, King's Arms Yard, Coleman- street; to the Solicitois, 3, King's- road, Bedford- row, London; or Mr. J. SMITH, 73, High street, Birmingham. SCOTTISH EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. HEAD OFFICE, 1, GEORGE- STREET, EDINBURGH. riiHIS is a MUTUAL ASSURANCE SOCIETY. M, The whole Profits are divisable amongst the Assured. The Divisions are henceforth to be TRIENNIAL in- stead of Septennial. All Policies of five years' standing, which may became payable between one period of division and another, will receive annual additions retrospective to their dates. According to the most accurate prospective calculation which can be made, the holder of a Policy for £ 1,000 effected before the 1st of March next, will, it it be- come payable in its fifth year, receive at least £ 1,100, in its sixth year £ 1,120, in its seventh year £ 1,163, in its eighth year £ l, 186, and so on. The following is a view of the progress and situation of the Society since its institution : — Amount Assured. Annual Revenue. Accumulated Fund. £ s. d. i£ s. d. £ s. d. At lst March, 1833,— 164,624 0 0 1 5,300 0 0 1 6,512 12 1 Do. Do. 1815,— 325,611 0 0 11,364 19 4 24, « ( il 16 5 Do. Do. 1837,— 740,462 0 0 | 26,902 14 2| 56,114 13 11 ROBERT CHRISTIE, Accountant in Edinburgh, Manager. ROBERT BENTON, jun., Esq., Solicitor, Agent for Birmingham. NORWICH UNION FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE OFFICES, BENNETT'S HILL, BIRMINGHAM. CAPITALS. FIRE, £ 550,000— LIP E, £ 1,500,000. THE Public are respectfully informed, that Receipts for the Renewal of Fire Insurances which become due on the 29th of September are ready for delivery on application at the office as above, and to any of the following Agents. The equitable principles on which these Institutions are founded, coupled with the liberality evinced in every branch of the management, insure to them the largest share of the public support. Prospectuses and every information on the business of Fire and Life Insurance may be had on application to the various Agents. A powerful Engine ready for action at a moment's warn- ing. The Engine House is in Congreve- street. JOHN GREEN, Agent. Lichfield, William Baker Alcester, Wm. White, jun. Aldridge, Charles Juxon Bewdley, Thomas Bennett Bilston, Titus Thompson Bromsgrove, Benj. Maund Burton- on- Trent, T. Wayte Burslem, Geo. Powell Cheadle, G. Marson Cirencester, Wm. Stevens Coventry, William Foster Evesham, Anthony New Hanley, Thomas Allbutt Kidderminster, Chas. Cole Kineton, William Johns Leamington, W. F. Cawley Leek, William Challinor DEEDS, NOT WORDS. LIFE AND FIRE INSURANCES. RATES REDUCED £ 30 PER CENT PER ANNUM. LIFE INSURANCE is now considered by all classes of the comniuriily to be one of the most im- portant duties of life, to provide for those who are incapable of providing for themselves. During the last 50 years, the thousands of Widows and Orphans who have been saved from want, misery, ruin, and distress, afford sufficient proof of the great utility and im- portance of Life Assurance. For example, a person aged 34 years, by paying £ 2, per annum, half yearly or quarterly, may insure his life in this office, and thereby secure £ 100 for the benefit of his family or representatives. Other ages at equally low rate, as under. LIFE ANNUITIES granted immediately for every £ 100 sunk with this Company £ 8 to £ 15 per cent, in- terest will be given. FAMILY ENDOWMENTS are granted for future and existing Children, upon equally liberal principles. INDEPENDENT WEST- MIDDLESEX ASSURANCE COMPANY, For Fire, Lives, and Annuities, BAKER STREET, PORTMAN SQUARE, LONDON. On Equitable Principles. ESTABLISHED UNDER ACT OF PARLIAMENT. CAPITAL, ONE MILLION. This Company continue to accept INSURANCES at the following Reduced Rates: — s. d. Common Insurances 1 0 per cent. Hazardous ditto 2 0 „ Double Hazardous ditto 3 6 „ Farming Stock 1 6 „ LIFE INSURANCE RATES. Age. 24 34 44 48 50 55 £. s. < 1. | £. s. < 1. 6. ( 1. 1 £. s. d. |£. e. d. d. Premium. 1 110| 200 2 15 0 |: i 5 0 14 0 0 4 18 0 Pershore, Charles Laugher Itugeley, James Moxon Stafford, J. K. Shaw Stone, John Lloyd Stourbridge, Jos. Fowler Stourport, Thomas Tyler StratfoVd- on- Avon, W. Smith Tamworth, J. & S. Willcox Upton, Thomas Bird, jun. Warwick, J. Margetts, jun. Westbromwich, J. Robinson Wordsley, Robert Green Walsall, J. Adams Wolverhampton, W. Buckle Worcester, T. H. Wheeler Norwich Union Office, Bennett's. hill, Sept. 23. 1837. PROVIDENT LIFE OFFICE, ( Specially empowered by Act of Parliament,) REGENT. STREET, LONDON. ESTABLISHED IN 1806. PRESIDENT. THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EARL GREY. VICE PRESIDENTS. Earl of Carnarvon, Viscount Duncannon. ROYAL HAT DEPOT, CORNER OF NEW- STREET AND HIGH- STREET, BIR- MINGHAM. GENTLEMEN accustomed to purchase HATS - at 26s., 28s., and 30s., are respectfully solicited to make one trial of WILLIAM PHILLIPS'S EXTRA SUPERS, at 21s., of the first London makers, and warranted as fine as can be manufactured : those usually sold as BEST I8s. prime London STUFFS, 12s. and 14s. For CASH, only. KENWAY AND BOWMAN, CONSIGNEES, GUINNESS'S PORTER VAULTS, CROOKED LANE, BIRMINGHAM. BY AUTHORITY OF LETTERS PATENT. BRYANT AND JAMES'S INDIA RUBBER OIL LIQUID AND PASTE BLACKING. THE utility of India Rubber, in offering an effectual resistance to moisture is a fact with which the Public must now beso generally acquainted, from the variety of useful purposes to which it has been applied, that to dwell upon it might be considered superfluous, but in claiming attention to tlieir Patent Blacking, in the manufacture of which, India Rubber forms an important ingred ent, the Patentees can state with confidence that they have succeeded in producing an article which, when regularly used, will impart to Leather, in some degree, the properties of India Rubber itself, viz., Softness, Elasticity, and, above all, resistance of( moisture; aud when the importance to health, of protecting the feet from damp is considered, connected with the fact, of Black- ing being an article of daily consumption by millions in this kingdom alone, tli^ accomplishment of so desirable an oh ject will not be considered trifling or unimportant, but I sufficient reason'for inviting the public attention to it. But, whilst contributing to the promotion of health, by its resistance to moisture, it at the same time adds to the durability of leather, anil is less liable to rub off than com- mon Blacking, by which the inconvenience, too often expe- rienced, of soiling the stocking or dress, is avoided. It produces a brilliant polish with very little labour, and, in this respect also, will be found equal, if not superior, to any Blacking in present use. tgf For all kinds of Leather Work, subject to exposure, it is equally applicable, and will be found a valuable acquisition Sold Wholesale and for exportation, by KENWAY and BOWMAN; and retail by druggists, grocers, & c., in town and country. Liquid, in jars, ( id., Is. anil Is. 6d. each. Paste, in pots, 6d ,1s., and Is. 6d. each. Ditto, in packets, Id. and 2d. DIRECTIONS. Add to the paste sufficient water or stale beer, to reduce it to the consistence ot thin- cream ; and when thoroughly mixed lay it equally over the article1 to be polished, using the shining brush immediately. Observe every package has the words, " Patent Indian Rubber Oil Blacking." KENWAY and BOWMAN, Sole Consignees, GUINNESS'S PORTER STORES, Crooked- lane, Birmingham. The Marquis of Salisbury, K. G. Earl of Hardwicke, K. G. TRUSTEES,. Francis Const, Esq. I J. U. Conant, Esq. Andrew Macklew, Esq. | Alexander Henderson, M. D. Glynne Earle Welby, Esq. I J. T. Barber Beaumont, Esq. M. P. | And Thirteen Directors. MANAGING DIRECTOR. J. T. Barber Beaumont, Esq. SECRETARY. J. A. Beaumont, Esq. LIFE INSURANCES. PT^ HE recent extraordinary uprise of projects of this 1. kind, must naturally induce all considerate persons to inquire into, and reflect on, the security and benefits to be expected from them ; particularly as before the successive reductions of premiums, which have lately taken place, and while money improved at a high rate of interest, upwards of Thirty Life Insurance Offices broke up, some of them in total insolvency; and the expedients to which other of the minor Offices have resorted to avoid payment of heavy claims, render them no less disastrous to persons who have inconsiderately put their trust in them. Still Life Insurance continues a favourite subject with'the projectors of Joint Stock Companies, because for the first few years deaths seldom happen, and all received appears on the side of profit. On this account also the New Fire Offices undertake Life Insurance to improve the aspect of their accounts, although for many reasons Life Insurance and'Fire Insurance ought to be kept entirely separate concerns, Considering these things, and additionally that when a man insures his life he enters into a contract for life, and if he see reason cannot withdraw from it, and open a new Insurance in another Office, but under the material disadvantage of paying for an advanced age, he will pause before he resorts to untried ad- ventures while Offices of approved stability and conduct are open to insure him. THE PROVIDENT LIFE OFFICE will be found upon examination to have long realised every benefit and convenience to the public which is promised in the new pro- jects. For the main purpose, provision for surviving objects of affection, the advantages of the Provident Office are second to none. All the profits, cxcept about five per cent, thereon allotted to the Original Members for their guarantee Capital of a quarter of a Million sterling, and their exonera- tion of the insured from all responsibility, are septenially divided among all insured for Life', in proportion to their contributions, and added to their policies; or in their option applied to the reduction pf their future premiums. These additions have amounted'to forty per cent, on the premiums received, and in the whole to £ 313,662. Their effect may be judged of from a policy taken out by His late Majesty on his own life for £ 3,000, which additions in creased to £ 3,963. But if a man fall into the necessity of requiring that re- lief for himself, which he intended for a surviving family, or his object cease, or his means of continuing his payments fail, after he have made seven payments, the Provident will give fiim the value of his policy, which if he sees fit he may apply to the purchase of an annuity for the remainder of his life; or lie may obtain a loan from the Office on the secu- rity of such Policy. Another benefit of very great practical importance is peculiar to the Provident Office. From va- rious causes the exact time for paying renewals is frequently passedover, and some of the Offices avail themselvesof the lapse of only a few days to refuse to renew, and to seize on all they have been receiving for years as a clear gain. In the Provident, a whole year is allowed for the revival of a policy, neglected to be renewed when due. As some recent Offices have adopted the name Provident, it may be necessary to obseive that the Provident Life Office, founded in 1806, conjointly with the Original Pro- vident Life Office or Bank for Savings, is iu Regent- street, Piccadilly, in the same building with the COUNTY FIRE OFFICE. Proper Forms may be had of the Agents. AGENTS WANTED; applications to be made by letter, ( post paid,) addressed to the Secretary, Mr* WILLIAM HOLE, in the first instance. N. B— No connection with any of the combined monopo- lising companies!! ! BIRMINGHAM W. PHILLIPS. Leamington *) o t> Warwick } S' Be ™ SON. West Bromwich W. PHILLIPS. BY THE KING'S PATENT. DR. SIBLY'S REANIMATING SOLAR TINC- TURE. The warm and renovating qualities of this Tincture render it the best Medicine for Debility, Con- sumptions, Nervous and Rheumatic Complaints, Spasms, Indigestion, Lowness of Spirits, and all those distressing affections which harass the weak, sedentary, and delicate. During a period of forty years, in which it has beenjin most extensive use, it has never once been found to fail in its ef- fects. It is pleasant to the taste, grateful to the stomach, re. yi. ves the spirits, and strengthens the whole frame. Pre- pared and sold by- Mr. J. 11. SAJFSLL, NO. 34, Newington- crescent, Kennington- road, in bottles, at 6s., 7s. 6d., lis., and 22s. each. Wholesale Agents, BARCLAY and SONS, 95, Farringdon- street, London, and sold retail by all respectable Medicine Venders throughout the kingdom. Also, Dr. SIBLY'S LUNAR TINCTURE, forcom- plaints incident to the Female Sex. In bottles, at 4s. 6d. and 10s. 6d. each; which may be had as above. PATENT HOT WATER APPARATUS, MANUFACTURED BY JOHN BARNETT, 20, George- street, St. Paul's, Birmingham. DIAGRAM representing the PATENT HOT WATER APPARATUS, with reference to its various parts T, is a coil of tubing placed with- in the furnace, as shown in the fi- gure ; O, is the tube by which the water ascends in a heated state from the coil T, and passing through the expansion B, is carried round the building in length of pipe, or it may be formed in coils where required. After giving out the heat, the water returns into the coil at the furnace, as shown at figure A. The pipe marked R, is the filling pipe, to supply the apparatus with water. The fuel is supplied at H, and the furnace consists of two compart- ments, N, wherein the fuel is con- tained, and the compartment E, which is a sort of hot chamber, in which the coil of tubes, T, is placed ; the water therein becomes heated by the fire in the compartment N, and the smoke and heated air pass fioin the ignited fuel into the chimney I. PI^ HE coil of pipes constituting- the Furnace has I- been introduced at tli » back of Kitchen Grates or other fire places, thereby saving all fuel and attention, and dis- pensing with the brickwork, as shown in the above figure.. Tile pipes being wrought iron, of only one inch diameter, afford great facility in conducting the heat to any part of the building required. This method is superior to any other, and is now adopted by noblemen and gentlemen, in prefer- ence to the very injurious method ol heating by hot air. References and further information may be had on appli- cation to Mr. BARNETT, as above. 20, George- street, St. Paul's, Birmingham, September 26, 1837. THEATRE ROYAL, BIRMINGHAM. A NEW SUBSTANCE FOR ARTIFICIA L TEETH. LOSS OF TEETH SUPPLIED. And filling Decayed Teeth with Mineral Siliceum. HONS. DE BERRI AND CO., SURC EON- DENTISTS, 121, REGENT- STREET, LONDON, AND 17, EASY- RO W, BIRMINGHAM. RESPECTFULLY acquaint the Nobility, Gentry, and the Public, that they have recently succeeded in forming a neio Substance for Artificial Teeth, which they can confidently recommend to be superior in every respect to those now generally worn, for, from tlieir 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 Paris charges :— - £• s. d. A single Artificial Tooth 0 10 0 A complete set 5 0 0 A complete set of Natural Teeth, on fine gold plate ^ . 15 0 0 An entire set of Natural Teeth, highly finished, in the first style, with fine gold sockets, usually charged 40 guineas—_„ 20 0 0 Answering all the purposes of Mastication and Articula- tion, protecting the adjoining Teeth, and remaining per- fectly secure in their places. Mons. De Berri and Co., continue to restore Decayed Teeth with their celebrated Mineral Siliceum, which is ap- plied without pain, heat, or pressure. It is placed Into the cavity in an almost liquid state, and in a few seconds hardens into enamel, preventing and curing the Tooth- ache, arrest- ing all further progress of decay, and rendering the opera- tion of extraction unnecessary. They also fasten loose Teeth, arising from neglect, calo- mel, or any other cause. Artificial Teeth out of repair restored equal in beauty and durability to their original state. *„• At home from ten till six. 121, Regent- street, London, and 17, Easy- row, Birmingham. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MRS. TERN AN, And positively her last appeaiance in Birmingham, previous to the commencement of her engagement in London. First appearance here these five years of Mr. STUART, the popular Tragedian of the Theatres Royal, Liverpool and Manchester. ON MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1837, will be per- formed Sheridan Knowles' last new popular Play, entitled the WRECKER'S DAUGHTER! Robert, Mr. STUART. Marian, Mis. TERNAK. To conclude with a new Farce, written by J. B. Buck- stone, Esq., called the CHRISTENING ! Tickets to be had of Mrs. TF. RNAN, 34, Temple- row, and at the Box- office of the Theatre. Boxes, 4s.— Upper Boxes 3s.— Pit 2s.— Gallery Is. The Box- office will be open from eleven until four, when places may be taken of Mr. C. MELLON. Acting Manager, Mr. W. BURROUGHS. THEATRE ROYAL, BIRMINGHAM. j\/| R- MUDE has the honour tc announce to his iTl friends and the Public that his BENEFIT is ap- pointed to take place on FRIDAY NEXT, OCTOBER 13th, 1837, on which occasion will be performed A FAVOURITE PLAY, WITH OTI1KR ENTERTAINMENTS. Tickets to be had of Mr. MUBE, No. 19, Ann- street, and at the Box- office of the Theatre, where places for the Boxes may be taken. OPEN TO ALL ENGLAND. BIRMINGHAM GRAND CHYSANTHEMUM SHO W. rpHIS EXHIBITION will take place at the - I- TOWN HALL. Due notice of the day will be given as soon as the time of flowering can be ascertained. A liberal List of MONEY PRIZES will be awarded, together with a splendid Piece of Plate, to be called THE VICTORIA VASE! * m* The Committee for making the necessary arrange- ments will meet at Mr. INSLEY'S, Mill- street, Islington, on Tuesday evening next, at seven o'clock. Birmingham, October 6,1837. BIRMINGHAM CHORAL SOCIETY. AT a Meeting of the Members of the above So- ciety, Committee- room, Old Square, Mr. BAItWELL, in the Chair, Resolved, That the sincere thanks of this Society be presented to Mr. G. HOLLINS, the Chorus Master, for his unwearied exertions in instructing the members in their duties pre- paratory to the late Birmingham Festival. Resolved, That in the opinion of this meeting, great injustice has been done to Mr. HOLLINS, by the insertion of Mr. MUK- DEN'S name as Chorus- master, Mr. HOLLINS having sus- tained that office solely ever since the year 1834, not only with great credit to himself, but has since that time con- siderably raised the character of the Birmingham Choral Society, by his active and for the most part unassisted exertions in preparing this Society for the late Festival, the Conductor of which, ( Mr. Knyvett,) pronounced them to be equal, if not superior to any choral body in the king- dom. With these impressions on our minds, without at- tempting to depreciate the eminent abilities of Mr. MUN- DEN, we cannot but award the meed of honour to whom honour is due. Resolved, That the above resolutions be inserted in the Birmingham Journal, Aris's Gazette, and the Birmingham Herald, J. SIMMONS, Sec. Pro. Tern. Birmingham, October 4th, 1837. rpHE almost universal use of MRS. JOHNSON'S J- AMERICAN SOOTHING SYRUP is by far the most satisfactory testimonial that can be produced of its infallible success in relieving children from convulsions, fevers, and all the complaints to which they are liable when suffering from painful dentition. As soon as the syrup is rubbed on the gums, the child will be relieved, the gums cooled, and the inflammation reduced. It is as in- nocent as efficacious, tending to produce the teeth with ease ; and so pleasant, that no child will • refuse to let its gums be rubbed with it. When infants are at the age of four months, the syrup should be rubbed on the gums; and parents should never be without the syrup in the nursery where there are young children ; for if a child wakes in the night with pains in the gums, the syrup immediately gives ease; thereby preventing convulsions, fevers, & c The great success of this medicine during the last twenty- five years has induced unprincipled persons to imitate it, under the name of American Soothing Syrup, and copying parts of Mrs. Johnson's Bills, & c. Parents will, therefore, be very particular to ask for JOHNSON'S AMERICAN SOOTHING SYRUP, and to notice that the name of BARCLAY and SONS, 95, Farringdon- street, London, ( to whom Mrs. Johnson has sold the recipe) is on the stamp affixed to each bottle. LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY. rrmE PUBLIC MEETING of the AUX- JL 1LIARY MISSIONARY SOCIETY, for the Counties of WARWICK and SOUTH STAFFORD, will be held on TUESDAY EVENING NEXT, OCTOBER 10th, IN THE- TOWN HALL. The Chair to be taken at Six o'clock precisely, by J AMES JAMES, Esq., Low Bailiff, When the Rev. JOHN BURNET, of Camberwellthe Rev. JOHN ELY, of Leeds; the Rev. J. F. FREE- MAN. from Madagascar; the Rev. Messrs. CRISP and GOGERLEY, from India; the Rev. T. JAMES, from Woolwich, and other Ministers, will attend and commu- nicate much information concerning the spread of Christi- anity abroad. The information from Madagascar, is of a peculiarly interesting, though painful nature. On the PRECEDING SABBATH, October 8th, SERMONS will be Preached at EBENEZER CHAPEL, by the Rev. Mr. CRISP in the Morning; and by the Rev. JOHN ELY in the evening. At KING- STREET, by the Rev. Mr. FREEMAN in the Morning; and the Rev. Mr. CRISP in the Evening. At CAKR'S- I. ANE, by the Rev. Mr. ELEY in the Morn- ing; and the Rev. Mr. FREEMAN in the Evening. At LIVERY- STREET, by the Rev. J. A. JAMES in the Morning; anil the Rev. Mr. ALSOP in the Evening. A SERMON will be Preached on WEDNESDAY EVEN- ING, October lltli, at EBKNEZER CHAPEL, by the Rev. JOHN BURNET Service to commence at Seven o'clock. A MEETING for PRAYER will be held in the SCHOOL ROOM, CARR'S- LANE, on TUESDAY MORNING at Seven o'clock. Collections will be made after each of the Services, in aid of the London Missionary Society. Tickets of admission to the Side Galleries and the Area of the Town Hall, one shilling; to the Large Gallery, six- pence ; to be had by applying to Mr. HUDSON, Bookseller, Bull- street; Messrs. WBIGHTSON and WEBB, New- street; and Mr. SHOWELL, New street. The rest of the Hall to be fiee. TO BONE TURNERS. ACONSTANT supply of fresh large white Lei- cester and Nottinghamshire NEATS' HEEL BONES, lit 10s. 9d. per great hundred. F. G » AT, 108, Bradford street, Birmingham. A good Japnnner wanted. GROUND TENANTS. THE GROUND TENANTS of I'REND CREGOE COLMORE, Esq.. are requested to Pay their Rents, which becamedueat Michaelmas last, on Wednesday, Thurs- day, and Friday, the lst, 2nd, and 3rd days ol November next, at ouroffiee, iti Bennett's- hill, where attendance will be given fiom ten o'clock in the morning till five in the evening. BARKER AND SON. Bennett's- hill, October 5th, 1837. T GROUND TENANTS. i^ HE GROUND TENANTS of the most Noble the MARQUIS OF HERTFORD, in the parish of Birmingham, are requested to pay their Rents, which became due at Michaelmas last, on Wednesday, Thursday, and Fri- day, the lst, 2nd, and 3rd days of November next, at our office, in Bennett's- hiil, where attendance will be given from ten o'clock in the morning till five in the evening. BARKER AND SON. Bennett's- hill, October 5th. 1837. rpHE Creditors of JOHN CARMICHAEL, o. Birmingham, merchant, previous to his bankruptcy in 1826, are requested to attend a meeting at the Clarendon Hotel, Temple- street, on Monday next, at eleven o'clock precisely, when they will hear something to their advantage. WALTER HALL CAPPER. No. 1, Waterloo- street. WHEREAS, on Wednesday last, a Wopian, call- ing herself CLARK, and giving her resi- dence at No. 8, Castle and Falcon Yard, Digbeth, brought a FEMALE CHILD, about two years and a half old, to the Workhouse, and stated she found it the same morn- ing on a step in Moor street, and that she knew nothing ot its relations. The child is now in the workhouse. On enquiry at the woman's supposed residence she cannot be found. The woman said she formerly lived at Wednes- bury. The child is evidently brought from the country, and has on a bleck frock, a pink striped coat, a blue stripped tippet, and an old beaver bonnet pieced behind with brown silk. Any information relative to the said child, or its parents, will be gladly received by the Governor. Binniugham Wprkhottse, Oct. 4th. THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, OCTOBER 7. COMMERCIAL DISTRESS. MEETING IN THE TOWN- IIALL. This long- talked- of meeting- took place, agreeably to advertisement, oil Wednesday: From the confident assertions of the members of the workmen's committee, with respect to the feelings of their brethren, we were ied to expect a much larger attendance. Indeed, for a considerable time before the day of meeting, it was announced to be altogether impossible to hold it in the Hall; and an adjournment, or the expedient of putting theresolutionsto the assembled multitudes outof doors as • well as to those within, was looked upon as essential, and provided for. When the time came, however, there was neither demand nor necessity for either alternative. The Hall held the entire of the assem- blage ; and it would, without inconvenient pressure, lave held several hundreds more. The only portion that was at all crowded was the side galleries; the grand gallery was filled, but by no means densely ; and the same remark will apply equally to the body of the Hall. Something of this slackness was attribu- table to the day selected for the meeting. The work- men— many of them at least— are now upon four days a- week; they begin work oil Wednesday, and are not of course over- willing, under such circumstances, to lose a day. Of the thirteen thousand petitioners, there might be present 4,500 at most; of tlie three thousand ' corroborators" perhaps 250. Of Tories we noticed only five; of Whigs, in addition to those that took part in the proceedings, there might be a dozen. The composition of the platform was, in other respects, • what it usually is oil such occasions. Of the masses • we cannot speak so confidently. There were amongst them many faces that we have not been in the habit of seeing at public meetings; and we missed not a few that customarily appear at such. The marks of approbation exhibited a new feature in assemblages of the men of Birmingham. Mr. Spooner was most vociferously applauded; and every expression that fell from the speakers, complimentary to that gentle- man and the Tories, was eagerly caught up and cheered. The Radicals, on the contrary, with the ex- ception of the honourable members and Mr. Salt, were coolly received, and one of them, we observe, from a contemporaneous report, was hissed, while venturing to express an indirect doubt of the sincerity of their new allies. We did not hear tlie hissing; but think it very probable that it took place. The meeting was remarkably quiet and regular, as moderately attended meetings almost invariably are. The fact is, that all, or nearly all, the irregularity of crowded meetings arises from the physical discomfort of the individuals that compose them, their consequent shifting about, the noise that the shifting generates, and the impossi- bility, amidst that noise, for any speaker, with lungs not brazen, to catch the ears and so engage the atten- tion of the more distant parts of the audience. The quiet and regularity of the meetinghad its usual draw- back— there was little enthusiasm. The subject dis- cussed was indeed a dry one, and not much understood even in Birmingham; and the meeting, in its cha- racter, as well as in its elements, had a strange appear- ance in our controversial town. It was the first, we rather think, of a popular character, that had been held for the last seven years at least, from which poli- tics had been sedulously excluded. The exclusion was complete— much more so than we could have at all anticipated. Whether this was owing to the apa- thy or to the prudence of the men, we shall not deter- mine. In either case it was curiously exemplary. Previous to ( lie High Bailiff taking the chair, Mr. ES- MONDS said, preliminary to beginning the very important busi- ness of that morning, he rose to move that the High Bailiff took the chair, and also to take that opportunity of im- pressing upon the meeting the necessity oi' observing strict order, and affording to every gentleman who might address tlie meeting, a fair and patient hearing. They were met for the first time combining the three great political parties in the town, Conservative, Whig, and Radical. They had had a great many periods of excitement when these parties had come into collision, and no man had taken a more prominent part in the discussions than he had, but he did feel that the subject they had met to consider, was one of suth paramount importance that they ought to put aside all those feelings, and meet as men and christians to enquire into the cause of the distress of the country. ( Hear, hear.) Upon a question of such great and vital importance they should bring to bear all the talent and influence they could command, and put aside every feeling that would in any way tend to prevent the full and free exercise of those arguments calculated to throw light upon the subject. He must say he often felt regret, when at meetings like the present, he saw a species of tyranny exercised by a few, for the purpose of preventing certain persons from expressing their opinions. The great mass of the people were anxious to hear, yet owing to the tyranny of a few they could not. No man, in his opinion, who was friendly to the working classes, who wished to ascertain the cause of their distress, and see a remedy applied, could for a moment think of in- terrupting the proceedings about to take place. Having made these few observations, he moved that the High . Bailiff take the chair. ROBERT WEBB, Esq. then took the chair, and proceeded to read the requisition, after which he briefly addressed the meeting. He said as there were many gentlemen in the Hall who would have to address them, lie should not de- tain them by any observations of his. The question they had met to consider was one of great importance, and lie hoped it would be carefully and calmly considered, and that they would give every speaker a fair and impartial hearing. He hoped they would reflect that if they wished to give effect to their proceedings, they could not more effectually do it than by conducting their proceedings with strict order and decorum. By this conduct their resolutions would have great weight with the authorities upon whom they designed to opeiate. Mr. H. SrooNER being called upon by the High Bailiff, presented himself to the meeting amidst loud and long- con- tinued cheering. He commenced by observing that it had devolved upon him to submit for their consideration, and, he hoped, approval, a report drawn up by a committee of merchants, commercial men, workmen? and others, ap- pointed to examine into the cause of the present distress, and to suggest such measures as they might deem wise and proper with a view to the alleviation of that distress; but before he read that report he hoped he might be allowed to say that a more numerous meeting, or one of a more im- portant and interesting character than the one he had then the honour to address, had never before been assembled in the town of Birmingham. ( Loud Cheers.) It was import- ant in its constitution, as, happily for once, on this occa- sion all party feelings were forgotten, and the sole and sim- ple object of all present was to endeavour to do their duty, individually and collectively in convincing tho5e by whom they were governed that the great ai d overwhelming dis- tress under which they now suffered must not be allowed to continue— distress not brought on by any measures or con- duct of their own, but by a series of bad legislation which it was the duty of the government to correct. ( Cheers.) And he ( Mr. S.) did say that if this numerous and import- ant meeting, together with similar meetings throughout the kingdom, implored the attention of the government to the real grievances under which tliey suffered, and their re- presentations were neglected or disregarded, such a govern- ment could not long exist; because a government if it ex- isted at all, must depend for its maintenance upon the affec- tions and respect of the people. ( Cheers.) TheReporthe ( Mr. S.) was about to submit to their approbation was as follows :—" Your Committee feel it their painful duly to state that the distress of this town and neighbourhood is very great; that they see no reason to anticipate any speedy or effectual relief. The alternations of great apparent pros- perity and sudden deep distress which have invariably at- tended the expansion or contraction of the currency prove beyond doubt that to our moneiary system is mainly to be attributed the present general and alarming distress. In the opinion of your Committee no permanent relief can be given while that syslem which has been proved so liable to fluctuations is suffered to continue. Your committee can- not but express its decided conviction, that the effectual and permanent relief of the general distress is a question para- mount to all others ; and that nothing can accomplish this great and important object, but such a revision ol cur pre- sent laws as shall tend to the adoption ofa monetary system adequate to the wants of this great commercial community." He ( Mr. S.) would not detain the meeting at any length upon the various points touched upon by the report just read, because lie knew he should be followed at great length by their worthy representative, Mr. Attwood— a gent eman whom it was needless for him ( Mr. S.) to say lie bad long known and deeply respected— and although it was equally well known that they differed upon many j oints, they agreed upon that which constituted the ma n object of the present meeting. ( Cheers.) His honourable friend it was who first sounded the alarm as » o the probable consequences of returning to cash payments, and from the first to the last he had been zealous and consistent in enforcing upon go- vernment and successive Parliaments the evil which had been inflicted upon the commerce and industry of the country. ( Cheers.) Hitherto his warnings had not been regarded. If they had, the country would have been placed upon that proud pre- eminence which it ought to oc- cupy, and have become the glory and envy of the world ; —( loud cheers)— as it was, it had become a scoff and a bye- word amongst the nations of the world; and the manufacturers and labourers of the kingdom were deprived of that full employ and adequate remuneration for their labour to which they were justly entitled. ( Cheers.) He knew his honourable friend ( Mr. A.) would follow him at con- siderable length upon this subject, and display greater knowledge of its details and bearings than he ( Mr. S.) pretended to possess ; but there were one or two points in the report he was about to submit for their adoption to which be solicited their attention. In the first place it as- serted that the distress at present existing in this town and neighbourhood was " very great." Now, he ( Mr. S.) knew that many persons, even in Birmingham, disputed the correctness of this assertion. They admitted that the depression of trade, and the distress consequent upon it, had been great, and that in some branches it was now partially felt; but they contended that a re- action had now taken place, and that all things would come round, if let alone. Why let such persons as these look at the immense meeting he was then addressing. Was not that a pretty strong proof of the existence of distress? ( Cheers.) Had their fellow townsmen possessed plenty of work, wasitpro- hable that they would have left it in the middle of the day, and in the middle of the week, to complain of injuries which did not exist? No; they would not have come there to hear of distress which they did not feel; but have remained at home, or in their workshops labouring to sup- port their wives and families. ( Cheers.) If any man said such an exhibition as he ( Mr. S.) then witnessed was not a proof of the existence of distress, be he whoever he might, he knew nothing of the minds of the brave and generous, and industrious artizans of Birmingham. ( Cheers.) The committee in their report next said, " that they saw no reason to anticipate any speedy or effectual relief." Now, the approximate cause of the distress of which they complained, ann particularly in Birming- ham, was the suspension of one particular branch of tiade which gave employment to an immense number of the indus- trious classes throughout the whole country. He alluded to the trade with America, and he might add with India; and indeed he might say the whole of their foreign trade— the colonial trade being the only exception. Now, was there any reason to suppose that the trade with these countries was likely to be improved, or that the distress which had resulted from its suspension was likely to be alleviated? He would appeal to the American merchants by whom he wa6 surrounded, and ask them, was there any prospect of orders ? was there any probability of their again being able to give employment to the thousands mainly dependent upon them for the support of themselves and families ? The report next alluded to the great alternations of apparent prosperity and deep distress, occasioned by the contraction and expansion of the currency. It was im- possible to look back to the history of this country for the last twenty- two or twenty- three years, and not observe the fluctuations which had taken place in the circulating me- dium, and that, in exact proportion, distress closely fol- lowed and was intimately connected with these fluctuations. The Committee expressed it as their opiniou that no per- manent relief could be given while that system which had proved so liable to fluctuations was suffered to continue. [ Air. S. with great force and eloqaerice here proceeded to describe the return to a metallic currency, as an attempt to maintain an old obsolete standard of value too narrow and contracted for the commercial wants of the country, and too liable to be operated upon by causes over which the com- munity had ho control.] They required a medium of circu- lation not liable* to such operations, and such a one as would be the means of giving full employ to all classes of the people. He was aware that his honourable friend would treat and illustrate this part of the subject with his usual glowing eloquence arid imagination. They required that the circulating medium of the country should be placed on a solid basis. Under the present system, commercial transactions, conducted on the soundest principles, were brought to a close, in consequence of operations over which the parties who entered into bargains and contracts, bad no possible control. He might go back as far as the year 1788, to show what had been the consequence of expand- ing and contracting the currency of the country : but, for practical purposes, it would be only necessary for him to revert to the commencement of the war. They all knew that during the war they had a paper currency. He ( Mr. S.) was not going to justify the suspension of cash payments at that period, for he was aware that in that step had ori- ginated all the evils which had since followed. As soon as the war ceased, the Bank was bound to prepare to pay in specie; and as soon as that commenced, the working classes immediately began to experience the ruinous con- sequences, and labour being the first thing upon which an alteration in the currency would act, considerable numbers of workpeople were thrown out of employ. The distress continued and increased, until the government acted upon, not by the argumentum ad hominem, but by the argu- mentum adpocheiem, again put out paper. Prosperity suc- ceeded, and continued nntil the passing of Peel's bill, in 1819. With the return to cash payments came distress, aggravated to such a degree that His Majesty's minis- ters went down to Parliament, and obtained an exten- sion of time. In the year 1821, a fresh issue of paper took placc, producing prosperity in 1823, and then, as always will take place while gold at £ 3 17s. lOJd. per ounce is the standard— prosperity and the standard quarrelled. You must he prepared to give up one or the other; prosperity and this obsolete standard cannot co exist. He ( Mr. S.) did not blame the Bank of England; but he blamed the system. They are called upon to maintain a sufficient circulating medium, and at the same time to preserve the ancient standard ot value, two things perfectly incompatible with each other; inconsistent with a wholesome state of trade; and incompatible with the safety of the British con- stitution. ( Cheers.) He might be asked, as he frequently bad been, how he could expect to carry his notions of the currency, when two Parliamentary committees had already sat, and having investigated the subject, had negatived the return to paper issues? He denied that such was the case; for, when a committee had been moved for, the motion was invariably met by a pompous resolution, to the effect" That this house will not entertain any measure tending to a de- parture from the ancient standard of value." And a prohi- bition was thus laid upon them, when appointed, against en- tering into enquiry on the subject of the currency. When be ( Mr. S.) had the honour to be amember for a few weeks of the House of Commons, he recollected that the late Mr. Dugdale presented a petition, signed by some thousands of persons in Birmingham and its neighbourhood, praying for and inquiry into the cause of the'distress, and the same evening a petition, to the same effect, was presented from the county of Surry. Upon that occasion he ( Mr. S.) ven- tured to say, that it was in vain to legislate for local and isolated districts; that the distress was great and wide- spread, and would become general, and was all occasioned by the bill of 1819, called Peel's bill; and that sooner or later, unless the cause was removed by the repeal of that bill, it would undermine the chief pillar of the constitu- tion. ( Cheers.) Those were his opinions in 1820. Mr. S. next referred to his friend, Mr. Attwood, 1 raving been ex- amined before several committees in the House of Com- mons, relative to the commercial state of the country, and said, that although he bad been asked various questions, as to the prices oi cotton and other commodities, the committee invariably prevented his attempting to enter upon the ques- tion of the currency, as forbidden ground. They, in fact, examined him upon all points but the right. Would the meeting believe it, that, on one occasion, there were two Parliament committees sitting, one of which declared ( there having been productive harvests) that there were too many loaves for the mouth; and the other, being a committee on emigration, that there were too many mouths for the loaves? In one room it was decided that there were too many mouths, and in the next that there was too much bread. One of these committees determined to recommend, as one cure for the distress of the nation, a system of emigration. He ( Mr. S.) afterwards met with a part of this emigration committee, and the conversation turning upon the subject, he ventured to say that he too should recommend emigra- tion ; but he differed with them as to the quality and rank of the parties who ought to emigrate. Now the class he ( Mr. S.) would have emigrate should be those political economists who recommend it themselves—( cheers and laughter)— for, if society is too large, it was just too large, in his opinion, by the number they added. ( Cheers and laughter.) Those were the kind of emigrants he should recommend to leave the country; but he would never con- sent that the English labourer, who wanted nothing more than that his industry should be unshackled, should be compelled to seek a maintenance for himself and family in a foreign country. ( Cheers.) He would give them an instance of the absurd views entertained on this subject by a man who once was at the head of the government. Some years ago, in the House of Lords, be recollected hearing the late Lord Stanhope, in the course of a conversation on the currency, ask Lord Liverpool bow it was he persisted in calling gold the ancient standard of the country, when the ancient standard was notoriously a mixed one of gold and silver; and upon what ground it was that his lordship deemed u gold standard the most fitting for this country? Lord Liverpool replied, that Lord Stanhope's question was very brief, and his answer should be equally plain and brief. His opinion was, that Great Britain, being the richest country in the world, it ought to have the richest standard in the world—( laughter)— an opinion which might well be paro- died in the well known words— Whn drives fat nx » n Should himself be fat. Mr. S. next proceeded to a discussion of the justice of a return to a paper circulation. It was now stated, that by a return to the issue of paper its advocates were desirous o committing a kind of robbery, by paying, a sovereign with half a sovereign. But he would ask, was the justice of the case considered, when, in 1797, government compelled a man to receive 20s. in paper, when lie had every moral and legal right to receive it in gold ? Mr. Spooner concluded by warning the meeting and the country generally, against the delusion of a boasted reaction. A temporary improve- ment like the present, might be sufficient to arouse a hope that the danger was past, but most assuredly another crisis would develope itself; and so long as the standard remained at 3/. 17s. 10d., every appearance of prosperity would prove hollow and delusive, and end^ in utter disappointment. Mr. Spooner concluded, amidst loud cheers, by moving the adoption of the report. Mr. SAMUEL HUTTON rose to second the resolution, and in doing so, said he rose with feelings of deep sympathy for the sufferings which he knew his unfortunate fellow- townsmen were labouring under. He exceedingly regretted he did not 6ee around him those gentlemen who had been so actively engaged at the late Musical Festival, because he felt convinced that the present was an occasion which called for all the energies of the charitable and humane. Fearing there might be Borne doubt expressed at the meeting respecting the existence of distress, and the extent of it, he called at the Excise- office that morning, and on inquiring the amount of the falling off in the revenue, he was told that they were deficient not less than £ 10,000 during the; late quarter. From this falling off in the sale of exciseable articles, it was evident that the distress amongst the poor must he very great. As Mr, Corbett would address th* h* in support of the resolution, he would not trespass further upon their time. Mr. CORBETT supported the resolution. His heart, observed, was wanned by the reception the meeting had given to Mr. Spooner, for that gentleman was entitled to the gratitude and confidence of the working men. He ( Mr. Corbett) had stepped forward with pleasure to support this resolution ; for it was an historical fact that the food of the labouring people was beef, mutton, pork, and veal; but, through the alternations in the monetary system, it was now little else hut bread and water. Such had been the fluctuations, that money by being depreciated, or rather provisions by becoming deafer, labour and profits had been affected, but the labourer and the artizan had been most helpless victims to this system. In 1802, in consequence of the depreciation of money, the rise of commodities was so great that the civil list bad run into debt 990,053(., and the minister brought a motion into the House of Commons, which was passed, to pay this enormous sum; and in 1804 a similar motion was carried, to pay, for the same purpose, 591,842/. 3s.; and a permanent addition was made to the civil list of 60,000/. annually. The judges had their salaries raised twice; but, notwithstanding these acknowledged alterations in the value of money, the wages of the working people remained the same. The income of the royal family, and the salary of the judges, were increased to keep pace with the depreciation ; but the working people were thrust into prison by combination laws, passed by the same House of Commons,', for attempting to secure their families against a diminution of their weekly earnings. The distress pro- duced by the fluctuations was not confined to manufacturing districts, but it spread amongst the agricultural people. Mr. Whitbread brought in a bill, in 1796, to establish a minimum of wages, but he could not succeed. He repeated his exertions in 1800, alleging that the labourers were suffer- ing great hardships, and that the farmers would not raise their wages. The evidence before the House of Commons proved that the present wages of labourers in husbandry was not sufficient to furnish them with meat and beer. James Sparshott, ninety. one years ofage, gave evidence in last April. He stated that he remembered when he was young George the Second was King; that in the early part of his life most of the married labourers owned their cottages; that they brewed their own beer; that they used to feed two or three hogs in the year; that they eat meat and dnwk beer every day of their lives; that at that time there were very few poor; that it was difficult to induce a person to receive parochial aid, in order that the parish should make a rate; but now they owned no cottages, brewed no beer, kept no pigs, and they ate bread and drank water. And yet it was these wretched people who, in case of want of employment, of sickness, of helpless old age, that, as Lord Brougham said, must fall back upon their own resources. He, with a salary of 5,000/., said this when he brought in the infamous Poor- law Amendment bill, a bill so cruel and infamous that he hoped to see in this great town a meeting as large as the present one, for the purpose of attempting its repeal. ( Hear, hear.) His object had always been unanimity between masters and workmen; but owing to the alternations in the monetary system, turn- outs were continually producing animosities. It wa6 his wish that the currency be placed upon a steady and secure basis, preventing fluctuations, which render labour and property alike insecure. ( Hear, bear.) Starvation amongst the working people stalked over the land. Privations greater never were endured in the memory of man, than were endured now. Rags and pota- toes, and scarcely these in thousands of instances, were the l § t of those who produced all the comforts of life. It was not to be expected that the people would remain silent, when ruin to their employers and starvation to themselves pre- sented so dreadful a gloom ; nor was it to be expected that they would lie down and die of starvation, without com- plaining. ( Applause.) Could any government be secure, while the people were enduring all manner of want ? And can we be feared and respected by our neighbours, when the working population is being degenerating, physically and morally, by this cruel system ? No! neither the laws of the country, nor the country itself, was secure under this de- basing state of things. They have been too long the victims of improvident management in public affairs. The eyes of the whole country were fixed upon the meeting of that day. It was not to be expected that the people would confide in a government that turned a deaf ear to their just and heavy complaints. To- day would decide whether Her Majesty's government regarded the support of millions of working men, backed by their masters, as worth having. Mr. ATTWOOD was received with the most vehement ap- plause, which lasted for some minutes. He could not help feeling a degree of melancholy satisfaction, that the opi- nions which he had advocated for twenty- seven years were now responded to, by all parties, whether Tories, Whigs, or Radicals. In 1829 he had thought it his humble duty to bring forwaid a series of resolutions at Beardsworth's Re- pository, which formed the ground- work of a petition pre- sented to Parliament, and signed by 20,000 of the good, upright, and honourable men of Birmingham. ( Cheers.) That petition was the same in purport as the memorial he was about to read. The duty which had been intrusted to him by the committee was not a very easy one. He had had given to him three colours, black, blue, and yellow, which he had been requested so to mix as to make one colour. He had accordingly, to the best of his ability, en- deavoured to unite the opinions of all parties in one common centre. Itwas possible that some smalldifferences of opinion might still exist; but as the memorial had, with some trifling exceptions, met with the approbation of the committee, lie hoped it would give satisfaction not only to the industrious classes of Birmingham, but the industrious classes of the whole kingdom. ( Loud cheers.) It ought to be remembered that the distress which existed in this country, was also universally prevalent in America. Some years ago the workmen of Birmingham went to America to seek employ- ment; but such was the state of things across the Atlantic, that they were now driven back again from one desolate country, and on their return found a desola'e country here. It was true that there was now a little improvement, and if they had a little patience they might possibly for a time enjoy the comforts of last year; but most assuredly they would be again plunged into adversity, and speedily as bad as ever. Did they ever see a poor toad under the farmer's harrows? Tine after line is driven into his back; at length the harrow passes ; the poor little wretch wounded and ex- hausted, without strength to crawl away, looks up from be- hind a clod, and just as he is beginning to hope that his miseries are at an end, he sees the turn of the furrow bring the harrow beck Kgain ; and again the fatal tines are driven into his vitals. Now this would be their fate and the fate of their children. There could be no hope of solid prosperity among the industrious classes so long as the present system was persevered in. And how could they wonder at the miseries around them ? In the year 1797 all mankind knew they could not have borrowed 1,000 millions without the assistance of a paper currency ; and all admitted that at the end of the war the salaries of the judges and other public officers could not have been doubled and trebled without the use of artificial money. But then came Sir Robert Peel— another Daniel who said it was much easier to pay debts in gold than to contract them in paper ;—( cheers and laughter)— who said that this was easily to be done, although it would require more gold to pay with than was to be found on the ground or under the ground throughout the whole world. There was, however, in Sir Robert Peel's opinion, no diffi- culty in accomplishing this. They had heard from Mr. Spooner the various causes to which commercial distress had been attributed. By some it had been said that there were too many mouths, by others that there were too many loaves; while Lord Liverpool had asserted that it was over- trading to- day and over- producing to- morrow. Thus making the commercial and manufacturing interests like flies in a sugar bottle, perishing in a superabundance of sweets. They had only to enjoy the delights of a fast clay, and prosperity would again return. ( Cheers and laughter.) These were the blasphemous opinions of Lord Liverpool, backed by Sir Robert Peel, and the factions which had so long preyed upon the best interests of the country. He ( Mr. A.) hoped, however, there would be no exhibition of any factious feeling that day, but what- ever minor differences of opinion they might entertain, they would unite as one man in their endeavours to re- dress the grievances of the commercial and working classes. It was, indeed, possible they might again experience pros- perity, but he ( Mr. A.) believed not unless they influ- enced Lord Melbourne to relax the screw. If they could influence the government to take the gripe of the moneyed interests from the throat of the nation, they should hear no more of over- production, over- trading, or over popula- tion. _ These terms were used as mere delusions, when the circulating medium was fouud unequal to the com- mercial wants of the nation. The doctrine of over- pro- duction and over- population was preposterous. Money was the medium by which the necessaries of life were transferred to the mouths and the backs of the people; and if money was reduced, clothing would stagnate in the warehouse, und food stagnate in the farm yard. Let there be plenty of money in the pocket, and no man would want employment. Sir Robert Peel had stated that the labouring classes had benefitted by the passing of his bill; how that assertion was borne out by the former and pre- sent state of the working classes had been already shown by his friend who spoke last. In order to remedy the terrible injuries under which the people now suffered, he thought it his duty, as he did in 1829, to call the attention of the government to the iniquitous monetary laws, by which the commercial interests were oppressed. An ap. peal was thus about being again made to the government; if they refused to listen, to the prayer of their petition, andsent back their memorial unheeded, he would not say what would follow, or how they should act, because lfe did not at the present moment wish to commit others by his declaration; but this he would say, that if concessions Jvere not granted to- day, the gate of conciliation would be closedVto- morrow. ( Loud cheers.) Before he sat down he begged to say that the memorial he was about to read had been unanimously agreed upon by the committee, with the exception of a few expressions; the memorial stated nothing Imt facts, and the man was not yet born who could contradict any one ol them. And he ( Mr. A.) pledged his word, that if any men attempted to contradict them he should break his teeth upon a file. Mr. A., after reading the memorial, ( for which see advertisement,) concluded by moving its adoption, and sat down amidst loud cheers. Mr. MORTON JONES seconded the resolution. He re- gretted being obliged to follow Mr. Attwood, who, in his memorial and speech had so fully gone into the subject. It was quite evident there were two great causes of tlie distress. The first was, the unjust Corn- laws, which raised the price of provisions, and created poverty among the people. The second cause was to be found in the conduct of the Bank Directors, who, in their own defence, were compelled to restrict their circulation, and cause a decrease of the means of employment. There were, in his opinion, only two important classes in the community— the manufacturing and the agricultural— and their interests ought mainly to be consulted. As for the jobbers and money- lenders, they were only agents to the two great classes, and ought to be legislated for in reference to the interest of the former. In place of that, however, all would seem to be done with regard to their interests, whilst the interests of the main bodies were not only neglected, but sacrificed. These things ought not to exist; they must not exist. ( Cheers.) Mr. MACKAY, an operative, said he rose to give his most cordial and conscientious support to the very excellent and elaborate memorial which had been read by their very ex- cellent member, Thomas Attwood, Esq. It would be superfluous in him to say much, but he begged leave to offer a few plain remarks on the subject. He considered the memorial to be one of the best manufactured articles that ever emanated from the toy shop of Europe. Birmingham contained confessedly the best artizans in the world; and were in no wise deficient in manufacturing memorials, and whoever the gentleman was that drew it up, it is one of the best specimens of a master mind, and showed that he was in possession of two good qualities, viz., a wise head and a good heart. It contained everything wanted, it left nothing untouched, and^ was, from beginning to end, one undivided chain of facts and truths. It referred them back for twenty- two years, when that abominable Corn bill passed into law, which, in its operation, has produced the misery which was now so very apparent, and reduced this once happy and flourishing country to a state bordering upon ruin and starvation; he ( Mr. M.) said at the time it was made the law of the land, that it was a death blow to our commercial interests. During the past twenty- five years the various acts of Parliament which had been made, had, in his opinion, militated very much against the subject; for instance, the benefit societies acts recently made. They stated that they were for the better encouragement of those laudable institutions, but in fact they operated very mate- rially against them, and laid burdens upon them in putting them to great expenses in having their rules enrolled, & c. If the distress continued much longer he feared that many of those societies would be broken up, for it was impossible for the members to make their payments when their families were lacking bread and beer. The simple aim of these societies was to support each other in sickness and old age, and to provide a decent funeral for the members and their wives ; and by this provident forethought, in times of prosperity and health, they were independent of the parish pay- table; but if these institutions were broken up, or num- bers excluded for non- payment, the consequence must be the increase of the poor's rates to an alarming extent, as the sick must be supported, and the parish must bury the dead. It gave him great pleasure in witnessing the scene before him ; the rich and poor meeting together ; the master shaking hands with the servant, and the merchant with the citizen; he was rejoiced to see them with one heart and mind meet together in order to restore to bis poor distressed fellow- townsmen trade and prosperity, whereby they might be enabled to enjoy the comforts as well as the conveniences of this life. If he were asked who was the greatest captain of the age, it would not be the man who led his troops to slaughter and butchery, but he who took the cause of the 13,000 memorialists in hand, anil exerted himself to the best of his ability in order to ameliorate their condition. The one gains a victory by the distribution of thousands of his fellow- men on a field of slaughter, the other obtains a a bloodless victory in fighting a moral battle ; he envied not the man whose laurels were gained at the expense of thousands and tens of thousands of valuable lives, but he did admire him who advocates the cause of the poor unem- ployed mechanics and their families. He requested per- mission to offer on behalf of the memorialists, his humble meed of praise to those gentlemen for their praise- worthy and laudable conduct in commencing this great and glorious work, and he trusted they would still continue, and not rest satisfied until every poor distressed mechanic should be in the full enjoyment of plenty of bread, beef, and beer for himself and his family. Mr. THOMAS SMITH, of Hockley, here came forward, and requested to speak. He was immediately attended to by the chairman, and he proceeded to read " from a paper a detailed report of the state of the corn market, and of the imports and exports, for the purpose of showing the opera- tions of the Corn- laws, and their injurious effects. A por- tion of the meeting became impatient, and several times requested Mr. Smith to close his observations. He, bow- ever, persisted, but at length retired; he was called back again by the meeting, who seemed to think he bad not been fairly dealt with, and that the terms of impartiality laid down at the commencement had not been acted upon in his regard. On resuming again, with very good humour, Mr. S. was loudly cheered, but he had not proceeded far in his statement when he adverted to the currency, and depre- cated an expansion of it. To this an objection was raised by the meeting, and Mr. S. was obliged to retire without finishing the leading of his document. Mr. JAMES TURNER proposed the third resolution, and in doing so said that it would be bad taste in him to make a long speech, when the question they had met to consider had been so fully and fairly discussed by those who had preceded him. Being at the head of a large manufactory in this town, he considered it his duty to be present and take part in the proceedings. It was neither iiis habit or inclination to mix in politics, but that was an occasion which called for the active co- operation of all classes, apart from political considerations. ( Cheers.) In alluding to Mr. Corbett's remarks he said, that having worked for his father and himself for a period of nearly forty years, he could bear the most favourable testimony to bis character, as not having only obtained the good will and respect of his employers, but on several occa sions preventing disorder and irregularity among his fellow workmen. He was happy to see so much unanimity prevail, assured that such a course of proceeding would not fail to have its due influence with the government. Mr. COLLINS, an operative, said be held in his hand a re- solution of great importance, previous to reading which, he wished to take the liberty of making a few observations. The resolution stated, that in consideration of the great distress amongst the people, and the anxiety that prevailed, it was necessary that the deputation, on its return, should come before a public meeting to declare their teport. ( Cheers.) It was quite certain, that whenever there was great distress, there also must be great anxiety of mind. In fact, it was this great anxiety of mind that constitutes the greatest portion of that distress. They could see, visibly, the effect produced upon the countenance by the compli- cated state of the mind; and if the High Bailiff and the gentlemen around him, moved, as he did, amongst the working classes, they would see that the distress amongst them was intense, and that it had, and was, daily, producing the worst feelings, and a display of the worst passions of their nature. In times of prosperity the men worked hand in hand together in their manufactories. There was no scarcity of work, and no incentive to envy. All went on happy. But in times like the present, when labour was scarce, all were striving to procure a share of it; but all could not obtain it. There must be the fortunate few, and the result was, that nothing but complaints, envy, jea- lousy, and ill- will was created amongst them. ( Hear.) These bad feelings were not the result of innate viciousness on the part of the people. No, they were the result of the cause they had stated. Sheer distress called forth these bitter animosities. ( Hear, hear.) This being the case, it was of very vast importance that the voice of the people should be heard by the government, and that in such a language as could not be misunderstood, and which could not be despised or neglected. ( Cheers.) In times of prosperity, whenever they met with a person in distress they could sympathise with him, and extend relief, but in times like the present, every family was in distress, and the exercise of individual sympathy was unavailing. He would refer to the fact stated in the memorial, that in differ- ent years remonstrances had been made to the government upon Peel's bill, but without effect. Now, he would say, he hoped the present remonstrance would not be so unsuc- cessful. They were now more united ; their knowledge upon the subject was more extensive; and they were more determined than ever on obtaining that justice they were entitled to. Under these circumstances their grievances could not be unattended to, or their sufferings allowed to pass unrelieved. Former governments had despised their complaints and remonstrances, but there was a point beyond which it was not right for any government to force the people. ( Cheers.) If they should be so infatuated as to continue to despise their applications, when that time arrived, the most serious results would follow to every class. It was, therefore, the duty of every individual to use all his influence and energies to avert this state of things. In conclusion, he begged leave to second the re- solution. Mr. BENJAMIN HADLEY said, he felt great pleasure in supporting the resolution before the chairman. In his opinion it was the most important resolution which had been submitted that day—( hear, hear,)— because great events depended upon it. He could not, for a moment, suppose, that the gentlemen who formed the committee, and who had acted with good sense and patriotism in bring- ing the matter to its present crisis— in case Lord Mel- bourne refused to listen to their memorial, he could not suppose that those gentlemen would overlook the impor- tance of their position, and, forgetting all their toil and ex- ertions, quietly submit to the rejection of their appeal without making further efforts. His object in rising on that occasion, was to know if the gentlemen who formed that committee would break up in the event of the memo- rial being either rejected or slighted. He wished to know if they would disperse and retire into their private society without further efforts. He wished to know if this was the course they intended to pursue, and if they would pass by unnoticed the gigantic distress which existed. ( Hear, hear.) He trusted some gentlemen of the committee would state the ultimate object they proposed to themselves from their present labours. He thought little, if any good, would result from the present proceeding. He was satis- fied if the other large towns in the empire were not called up, if they were not induced to join them in their appeal to government, their intentions would he frustrated, be- cause he did not think government would pay that atten- tion which it ought to the prayer of their memorial. To prevent a failure of this 6ort, a failure which must be at- tended with disappointment and mortification to all con- cerned, he thought it indispensably necessary that the com- mittee should resolve upon obtaining, if possible, the aid and co- operation of the other manufacturing and commer- cial towns, because he felt convinced, as he before bad said, if they did not, they never could force the consideration of the subject upon the government. ( Hear, hear.) He trusted, therefore, he was not asking too much, when in the name of that magnificent meeting, he wished to know what they had to expect from the committee. ( Hear, hear.) If the measure was worth fighting for, why let them fight for it. He wished not to be misunderstood; he alluded to a moral fight, and no other. He thought that man a coward who refused to fight out the question, now that it had been well mooted and so ably sustained. He was sure there were thousands of men in Birmingham whose interests were deeply involved in it, and who would not sit down quietly until ministers showed at least a disposition to attend to the wants of the people and alleviate their distress. He hoped, therefore, the gentlemen of thecoir. mittee would not allow a brave and magnanimous population to perish for want of exertion; on the contrary, he hoped they would appeal to their fellow- countrymen and challenge their sympa- thies, and thus combined, that they would go forth to the go- vernment in such a manner as could not fail to command success. He hoped all their talk and past efforts would not amount to a flash in the pan. If there was truth in all they had that day heard of the distress amongst the poor, cer- tainly it was sufficient to rouse them to action, and urge them on to demand a prompt enquiry into the cause, and the application of a speedy remedy. Mr. DOUGLAS said it was not his intention to have ad- dressed them, or taken any part in the proceedings. Had not his friend Mr. Hadley risen, he should not have taken the liberty to address them. From the circumstance of his having risen, and from the indication offuture proceedings held out in the resolution, it was indispensable that that meeting should not separate without knowing what future measures the committee contemplated. ( Hear, hear.) He should rather be a prophet of good than of evil, but, notwithstanding the anticipations of other speakers, he would not preach peace when he knew there was no peace. He would tell them honestly there would be an absolute necessity for further measures—( hear, hear)— that the depu- tation they had appointed would meet with the same polite and unsatisfactory reception which the deputation received that was sent up from the late meeting held at Newhall- liill. He did not ground this opinion upon any allegation against Lord Melbourne, or wish to say he had not a dis- position to attend to them, or afford relief, but he felt con- fident the question of the currency would come before him in such a manner as would prevent him from giving that im- mediate and satisfactory reply they might desire, and to which they were entitled. He was sure that without consult- ing his brother ministers, without consulting Parliament, without consulting the people throughout the country, he could not give such an answer as they required ; therefore, although rejoicing as much as any one of them in the amal- gamation of parties which had taken place, and in the fusing down of all party feeling, rejoicing that they had met to make common cause upon this great and important ques- tion ; yet he could not promise to himself, upon this com- bination of Whig, Conservative and Radical—( aye, and Conservative Radicals, too, lor he would not allow any man to assume that name exclusively)— any great or bene- ficial result, unless their efforts were followed up. Now, if the gentlemen of the committee would march along with them in the road of agitation, ( and let them call it econo- mical agitation, he would not quarrel for a name,) if they would march with them to other large towns, and endeavour to move the people, and by moving the people, compel the Parliament, and through the Parliament the Ministry, to attend to their wants, then he would rejoice; but, if from any motive, either of fear or something worse, they fell back, then he hoped there would be lound sufficient spirit, in one party, at least, to follow up the measure. Yes, lie knew the people would have sufficient spirit to follow up the question, whoever might decline doing so. ( Hear, hear.) Mr. CHANCE said it was not his intention to have risen so early in the proceedings, were it not for observations which had fallen from Mr. Hadley and Mr. Douglas. He begged to say those gentlemen were members of the committee, and ought to have known what was going on and what was to be done in the event which they seemed to anticipate, and why any imputation should be thrown out against him and the other members of the committee he knew not; why any doubt should be thrown upon their future conduct, he could not tell. ( Hear, hear.) He had been appointed on the original committee, and he could say that when in town he had attended all the meetings; he had attended ac great inconvenience to himself, and had, on all occasions ex- pressed his determination to carry out the question to a perfect termination. They must not fancy that because he was not a member of a political union, that he had not their interest at heart; or that he was not willing to do every- thing in his power to promote their interest or alleviate their distress. ( Hear, hear.) He would not yield to any man on earth in good feeling towards the people, nor would he yield to any mail in ardent desire for their welfare. His talents, whatever they were, and his pocket were at their service whenever they thought proper to command them. ( Cheers.) He hoped they would never ask him to become a member of the Political Union, because he had never been a member of any political society, but his services would be always at their command. Mr. HADLEY said he was sorry Mr. Chance had misunder- stood and misrepresented him. He had not impugned the motives of any gentleman, much less those of Mr. Chance, whom he believed, and had good reason for believing, was sincere in ( because. He recollected, at one of the meet- ings of the committee, when it was stated that trade was getting better, and that distress did not exist to any great extent, Mr. Chance rose and said, he cared not whether trade was better or worse, or whether distress did or did not exist to the extent stated, it was his wish and determination tiiat the question of the Currency should be enquired into. ( Hear, hear.) It was not likely, with a recollection of that fact, that he could think of impugning his motives, or sus- pect his future intentions. He begged, therefore, distinctly to say, he did not impugn the motives of any gentleman. He was too much interested in the investigation of the question to do or say anything which would have the effect of creat- ing disunion upon the subject, or create ( in ill feeling that would destroy the prospect they had before them. Mr. DOUGLAS, in explanation, said he had simply to ob- serve, in reference to Mr. Chance's remarks, that he hud expressed himself so strongly in favour of that gentleman's conduct at a meeting of the committee, that he should have thought it would have been sufficient to induce him to believe that he could not have intended to impugn his conduct or motives. It was the resolution which had been proposed by Mr. Collins that gave rise to bis obser vations, and that resolution was not agreed to by the gene- ral committee, so that he could not have known it. It was agreed to by the sub committee, and not generally known. THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, OCTOBER 7 3 Mr. SALT next addressed tile meeting. He said the little difference which had taken place between them arose, in his opinion, from the fact, that they had not lately had any extensive communication with the very excellent gen- tlemen who had that day favoured them with their attend- ance ; and whose motives they had consequently not had an opportunity of appreciating. No man had evinced more zeal or spirit in the cause than Mr. Chance. It was true he had told them he did not nor would not belong to a poli- tical union. Now he ( Mr. Salt) would tell him, that this was altogether a matter of words. He knew that Mr. Chance belonged to every society that had justice for its object; and he was certain he would not refuse them his co- operation in the cause which they had undertaken. The people of England had come to the conclusion, that the Corn- laws ami the Money- laws had crushed the people of England. The people of Birmingham were about to ap- point a deputation to represent their grievances to the go- vernment of the country, and the gentlemen comprising the committee, who had so well discharged their duty, would not leave the work unfinished. The cause in which they had embarked was one of justice and humanity. ( Hear,' hear.) Their only object was to prevent the manufacturers and merchants of the country from the degradation of ruin and bankruptcy; and to secure to the industrious classes sufficient work, anil adequate remuneration for their labour. If the deputation about to proceed to London returned without the olive branch of peace— if they were told by ministers that there was no hope for the people, they would come again to them, and his friend Mr. Chance might call it either political union, or any other union he pleased, but a union they would have, and such a one as would ulti- mately command success. If they objected to call it a political union, they could call it a union of humanity and justice; and to such an association who could raise an ob- jection. If justice was not done the people, the gentlemen he saw around him would stand by them, and lend their assistance in procuring the liberty, prosperity, and hap- piness of the country. Mr. BOULTBEE supported the resolution. He said he had come to the meeting that morning under the appre- hension that the memorial which they were to send up would be put upon the ministerial shelf like former docu- ments of a similar description ; but the resolution belore the meeting had given him a gleam of hope. If anything could give effect to the proceedings of that day, it would be the fact that the people of Birmingham would be wait- ing" in thousands, and with deep anxiety, to receive the answer of the Prime Minister. He knew that distress was increasing from day today, and he feared it would be still worse. If the government treated the people as they had done before, he hoped the people of Birmingham would do all in their power to press the consideration of the sub- ject upon the country. They must unite the people throughout the kingdom upon this great and important question, and he should like to know what government could think of refusing to listen to the complaints of a united people, and at the same time imagine they could retain their power. ( Applause.) Mr. COLLINS said he wished to make a few observations with respect to the resolution. It was not the work of any committee; the fact was, he had prepared the resolution himself, and he had never submitted it to any committee, so that Mr. Douglas was perfectly right in saying he had no previous knowledge of it. In framing the resolution he had not presumed even to hint at what they were to do in the event of being disappointed. If their memorial was treated with contempt, it would be for the people to say what they would do. ( Cheers.) It would be for the people to say whether they were to be governed by a faction which either could not, or would not, relieve them. He did not expect that their first appeal would produce any great effect upon the ministry. But he did hope and think that they could, by peaceable, legal, and constitutional means, communicate their thoughts and sentiments to their fellow- men through- out the kingdom; and if they could but once concentrate public opinion, and bring it into operation, no government could resist. By this means they might restore prosperity to the country, and make it what it ought to be, the happiest spot upon the earth, so happy that not only those who were at present in it could live comfortably there, but that those who had emigrated from it would return, to enjoy the blessings of its prosperity. Mr. SHAW next came forward, and was received with loud cheers. He said, when he responded, with pleasure, to the call made upon him by thirteen thousand of his fel- low- townsmen, he felt he had only discharged an impera- tive duty in so responding. He would go farther— he felt it was a particular honour to be thus called upon; he felt that having realised a fortune by the sweat of his own brow, and by the sweat and toil of those before him, he could not hesitate to come forward when the distress of his fellow- men was so pressing. Although lie did not agree fully with Mr. Attwood upon the question of the currency, they fully agreed as to the fact that great want and distress existed amongst the people. He became a member of the com- mittee from an earnest desire to better the condition of the people, and it was liis determination to go on to the end, and never cease until the money laws of the country were enquired into, and the evils of which they complained were fully redressed. Mr. Attwood and he disagreed, in part, as to the cause of the distress, but they agreed that it was the duty of the government to enquire into the cause and apply a remedy. These were his sentiments, and he knew they were the sentiments and opinions of the gentlemen in the town called Conservatives. ( Hear, hear.) If he under- stood the meaning of the word Conservative, it meant not only protection for the rights of the rich, but also protection for the rights of the poor. A person in the body of the Hall: We have never seen that protection yet. Mr. SHAW, in continuation, said, a doubt had been ex- pressed by Mr. Douglas relative to the course which he ( Mr. S.) and his friends would pursue. Now he did not wonder st this. It was on y reasonable to expect that such would be the case, because they had not been in the habit of attending public meetings, or making known generally their sentiments and opinions. It was the first time he had attended a meeting of the kind, and he knew many gentle- men, not then- present, of the Conservative party, who entertained the same opinions as he did. He saw no reason why they should not. Did not Whigs and Tories, and all parties, join in supporting the General Hospital 7 And why not joi; i as cordia'Iy on an occasion like the present. He saw no difficulty in uniting on this occasion; and be pould assure them that he would never leave them until the evils of which they had to complain were done away with, and all their wrongs redressed. ( Loud cheers.) Mr. VAN WART said, he most cordially supported the resolution before the meeting. He hoped when their peti- tion was presented to Parliament, if it should not be treated as it deserved, that the rejection of their just claims would be followed by a strong remonstrance. ( Applause.) They had been trifled with long enough. There had been too much legislation for the benefit of the rich, and too little for the poor; it was time an end was put to such exclu- sive legislation. lie would most cordially act with the gentlemen of the committee in carrying out the wish of the people, and in supporting their just rights. They must have an alteration in the Money- laws and the Corn- laws. ( Hear, hear.) They could not exist together, and it was folly and injustice to thir. k of so maintaining them. JOSHUA SCIIOLEFIELD, Esq., M. P,, novv presented himself to the meeting, and was received with three rounds of applause. He said, he availed himself of that opportunity to assure them, that whenever the question under considera- tion came before Parliament, it should receive his best attention, and all the ability he was possessed of should he devoted to the settlement of it in such a manner as would be beneficial and satisfactory to the people. ( Hear, hear.) As had been stated by Mr. Van Wart, nearly all the legis- lation hitherto, had been for the benefit of the rich. The object of it had been to protect the powerful and to leave the helpless unprotected. He was sorry to be compelled to Bay so, but in justice he must bear his testimony to the fact, that since he had had the honour of sitting in Parliament, whenever the interest of the rich was the question for debate, it was well attended to, and the result was always in their favour; but when the question was one involving the liberties or the interests of the poor, it was not attended to. Questions affecting their interest were, comparatively speaking, without supporters, and the result was, that few measures calculated to afford them any real benefit were ever carried. ( Applause.) He shouldnot have touched upon that topic, were it not he thought it necessary to say, that he should not be wanting in the discharge of his duty. In answer to the question put by Mr. Hadley, he would say, that if there was any such person as a renegade amongst them, he hoped he could say, if he knew his own heart, that he ( Mr. S.) would not be the man ; he would never shrink, under any circumstances, from demanding, until he attained justice for the people. In making these observa- tions, he would also claim for himself the title of Conserva- tive—( hear, hear,)— as well as those Tories who wished to have it exclusively. He, as well as those gentlemen with whom he generally acted, were real Conservatives, and no less so because they felt a strong determination to obtain full and ample justice for the people. He entered the hall that morning with something like feelings of regret, he was about to say despair, but thank God he never did despair of his country, but from what had taken place, he now hoped good would result. They had prospects before them which he hoped would not be blasted. They had a young and in- nocent Queen, whose good fortune it had been not to have been brought up in the trammels or intrigues of a court, but under the auspices of one who knew how to appreciate public opinion, and teach her the necessity of consulting the realinterest and happiness of the people. He prayed earnestly that she might feel and consider it was hef duty to attend to the wants of her subjects; and if so their remon- strances would not be unattended to. He hoped, also, the ministry would see the necessity of- doing what was right towards the people. His fears were, that the interests which they, in common with all preceding ministers and the aristocracy of the country, had in upholding things as they were, would operate upon them, and prevent them from doing that justice which they must know and feel ought to be done to the nation. He well knew thsir par- tial interests had already and for many years past prevailed against the people, and his fears were, that in this instance they would still prevail. It would, however, be for the people to say how long this state of tilings should continue; how long the partial exclusive interests should exist aud predominate to the injury of the great mass of the commu- nity. He did not advise them to think of or use any other but moral means; but these means, he hoped, they would exert, and never cease using them until they made their country what she ought to be, the happiest country in the world. They must bear in mind, that before this could be brought about, they would have great distress to endure. They must recollect that great distress already existed, and that it was likely to increase, and that they must provide for it in some way so that the poor did not perish. He hoped the overseers of the poor could see that it was their duty to extend relief to the poor, and that it might not be said to the disgrace of Birmingham, that any human being perished for want of that good which nature craved, aud which a bountiful God designed he should have. ( Cheers.) In conclusion, he would only say that they could not de- mand more of him in any shape or form than he was per- fectly willing to give them, though it should be at the ex- pense of his health or life. ( Renewed cheers.) Mr. CHANCE next rose, and was received with applause. He said, he entirely accorded with the statements made respecting the distress in the town aud neighbourhood, and he also accorded with the statements made respecting the imperfect state of the currency, and he should never cease until that question was settled, whatever sacrifice might be required. With respect to the corn laws, little had been said about them in committee or at that meeting, and for this reason, that it was thought if two questions were brought before Lord Melbourn, it would have the effect of embarrassing him, and preventing the settlement of either. His opinion was, the corn- laws were cruel, because they increased the price of food; and impolitic, because he thought the importation of corn at all times, and at a mode- rate duty, would soon equalize the price of corn all over Europe, and with our machinery, we would then have an advantage over every other nation. Mr. Chance then read the resolution, which called upon the overseers to be libe- lal to the poor, and in reference to it added, that the recom- mendation lmd his most cordial support, because he sin- cerely desired that the poor should be provided for. ( Ap- plause. ) Mr. GODDARD seconded the resolution. He said it was so self- evident that it did not require any support from him. The resolution did not hold out parochial relief as a remedy for the evils under which they laboured, nor did it even hold it out as a palliative. No, it merely contained an expression of the opinion of that meeting, that the poor should not be allowed to die for want. He believed that hundreds of men, women, and children, in Birmingham, rose from their beds every morning without knowing where to get food for the day. ( Shame, shame.) This was a state of things which ought not to exist whilst there was property in the land sufficient to relieve the poor. He feared as winter approached, the condition of the poor would be infinitely worse; nothing, indeed, but an unex- pected revival of trade could rescue them from dire distress. They had been told that all the misery they had to endure was the result of over- trading. Than this assertion nothing could be more untrue. ( Hear," hear.) Over- trading was relative and comparative. Suppose one hundred vessels arrived from America with cotton, and that there was no demand for it in this country, that would have the ap- pearance of over- trading ? And suppose one hundred vessels sailed . from England with Birmingham and other goods, and that there was no use or consumption for them in America, that also would have the appearance of overtrading. But what was the fact? Why, that there was demand enough in both countries for the goods of each, hut the people could not purchase them. The question then came, what was it that had stopped the means of purchase? Why, it was the double action of the governments of America and England upon the currency. So long as the determination to persist in a gold currency continued, they need not expect the people of either coun- try to he in a state to purchase each other's goods, and the distress they then deplored would continue. Than this nothing was more certain. ( Hear, hear.) It was no matter whether the money of a country consisted of gold, copper, or paper, provided there was sufficient of it to carry on the affairs of the nation. But when it was clear and evident that there was not a sufficient quantity of gold to answer the purpose, was it not folly to refuse the advantage of a well regulated paper money ? In his opinion, nothing but an alteration of the currrency, or an equitable adjust- ment— a thing he considered impracticable— could stop the fluctuations to which they had been subject, and the misery they entailed. He hoped the overseers would be induced, by the resolution he supported, to deal liberally with the poor, until the government could be prevailed upon to restore to the merchants and manufacturers of the town, the means of employing them at remunerating wages. Mr. GEORGE EDMONDS said, he concluded one object of the resolution before them was to back up the overseers of the poor, and make them acquainted with the fact, that the rate- payers then assembled had given their sanction to their affording liberal relief to the poor. He happened to be in circumstances in which he was frequently applied to by the suffering poor, and he was sometimes placed in the situation of ordering relief himself— in one case where a wife and three or four children had been left without food, after repeated applications to the overseers. He knew they had been told to come into the house and they would receive relief; but they had been so told under the expectation that they would not go into the house, and that they would rather pine in wretchedness, than accept of assistance under such circumstances. He hoped the overseers would now understand that the rate- payers did not require the poor to be tortured in this manner, and that they would not compel them to go into the house unnecessarily. He hoped a strict investigation of the merits of the different applicants would be made, and if, uponjenquiry, they were found de- serving of relief, that they would have it extended to them, without standing upon formalities. Having said so much respecting the resolution, he hoped they would allow him to congratulate them upon the very liberal conduct they had adopted towards those gentlemen who had come forward to address them, although, in one instance, they had dons so according, indeed, to his own wish, but under circumstances which seemed to induce a belief that he had been deviating from the recommendation he had given at the outset of the meeting. When he wished Mr. Smith to cease speaking, it was because he saw that gentleman was reading his ob- servations from paper, and believing, as he did, that it was a dry and not a very interesting subject, he advised him to allow his observations to appear, in the newspapers, rather than occupy the meeting' with them. The view he had taken of the matter, it would appear, was correct, as the meeting had afterwards expressed a similar wish. The Low BAILIFF having been called upon to move the next resolution, said, he had been taken by surprise. He had been so pleasantly occupied listening to those gentle- men who had addressed them, that he should have preferred remaining silent, not from any want of interest or feeling in the cause—( hear, hear,)— but from inability to do justice to it. He had been early associated with the committee, on which he had an opportunity of learning, not only the dis- tress, but the great eagerness of those of the working classes who were upon that committee, to have the cause of the distress inquired into. Many of the committee when they first met, did so under the impression and with the hope that they should raise a sum of money, and thus afford some alleviatien for the sufferings of the poor. ( Hear, hear.) Their object was not to prevent that inquiry, which he was proud to find, had since taken place, but to meet, if possible, the prevailing distress amongst the industrious poor. In his intercourse with the committee, he was parti- cularly struck with the conduct of the working men who were members of it. When it was proposed to extend the hand of charity to their fellow workmen, they modestly refused it. They said, " No; we feel grateful for your kindness, but we prefer having the real cause of our misery gone into, and a proper remedy applied, rather than put off the question by charity. We only require labour and fair wages for it. That we have a right to, and that we will have." This wa3 the spirited language of the working men; it reflected great credit upon them; and forcibly struck him with the conviction, that such feelings and senti- ments had entitled them to a better fate than that they had been doomed to endure. He was, also, very forcibly struck with the good feeling displayed by them in reference to their employers, and, on the whole, he thought he could 6ay, that the interests of the working classes had been well represented by them. ( Hear, hear.) He had, therefore, great pleasure in meeting them on that occasion, and in co- operating with them in promoting the object in hand. It was perfectly obvious that very considerable expense would necessarily be incurred in carrying their memorial and resolutions into effect, and it was necessary that every person who could, should contribute a small sum towards defraying it. If every one contributed, it would come light upon all, but unless the subscription became pretty general, the business must be carried on, either at the expense of a few, or be neglected. There must, therefore, be a'canvass for subscriptions, and he hoped it would be generally at- tended to. With respect to accompanying the deputation, he should be most happy to do so; but if it did not leave very soon for London he feared neither he nor his colleague would have the honour of being of the party. In a few days more they would have to make their bow and resign office, and as the resolution which appointed them referred to the High and Low Bailiffs, for the time being, there was a possibility that others might fill their situations at the time of the deputation leaving. If, however, he was one of the party, he could assure them, that although he could not promise as to what ulterior course he might pursue, he would most certainly urge upon Lord Melbourne, with great earnestness, the propriety of taking the subject into his deep consideration. _ Mr. HADLEV thought there was a very important omis- sion in the resolution, which the meeting could rectify. It was the omission of the names of the High and Low Bailiffs. As had been stated, it was possible the gentlemen who now held these offices might he out of office before the deputation left, and in that case they could not accompany it, unless specially requested, and as he was anxious to have amongst them men whom they knew, and upon whom they could depend, he proposed that the names of the present High aud Low Bailiffs be inserted. ( Hear, hear.) The recommendation was immediately attended to, and the names of Messrs. Webb and James were inserted in the resolution. Mr. MORTON JONES said, the resolution which had been proposed by the Low Bailiff was one of the most import- ant which had been proposed that day. They were then in a position to obtain a very great victory, or meet with a great disappointment. He would, therefore, ask them if the committee they had appointed should stand by them, would they stand by the committee. ( Cheers, and cries of, We will.) If the memorial from Birmingham was found insuf ficient to command success, would they not go forth and try to enlist other towns in the cause. ( Renewed cheers, and cries of Yes.) He was proud to find such was their deter- mination, and he hoped they would, one and all, seriously reflect that they had embarked in a just and holy cause, from which they could not and ought not to recede. Mr. BAKER, an operative, next addressed the meeting. When he took, he said, a retrospective glance at what had taken place during the last twenty years, and reflected upon the privations they had had to endure, he could not but behold the present meeting, and consider the proceedings which had brought them together, without great pleasure; and, notwithstanding the doubts expressed, he could not but anticipate great results from it. In the great fluctu- ations of the monetary system, they ( the working classes) had been victimised to a most dreadful extent, and the result was, that great ill- will and bickerings had existed between the masters and men. When the masters found that, by these fluctuations in trade, their interests were being sacrificed, and that they could not retain their prices, they turned upon the men and reduced their wages, in the hope of being able, by that means, to meet the competition, and carry on. Had they, in place of doing so, taken their workmen by the hand, and gone to the government and re- presented their mutual distresses, and insisted upon relief; had they told the government that they could not and would not endure stich unmerited ( privations, they would, ere that time, have obtained effectual redress : but in place of doing so, the masters carried on the murderous system of competition ; wages were reduced to the lowest scale of en- durance ; and general poverty, distrusts, dislikes, and com- binations were the consequences. All this arose from a mistaken notion on the part of their employers. They did not reflect that, in proportion as they reduced the wages of their men, so in proportion were they reducing their means of consuming the necessaries and comforts of life, and in proportion were they adding to the general want of employ- ment and scarcity of money. In proportion as the workmen of Birmingham were reduced, in proportion were they and their wives and children unable to consume Manchester and other goods, and so with the people of other towns with respect to Birmingham goods; and thus it was the system of destruction had been carried on, until all became en- veloped in one common ruin. From these considerations the working men had been induced to call upon the mer- chants and manufacturers to come forward and consider their position, and he was rejoiced to say the experiment had not failed, and that they had nobly responded to their call, and hence the present highly important meeting. He wished to impress upon those gentlemen who had so come forward, the importance of their sticking to the people, and to assure them that so long as they did, they would have no reason to complain. He hoped they had seen that the working men had not evinced a spirit of obtrusiveness in their conduct and intercourse, and that whilst they could associate with them, and help to find out the cause of their mutual distress, and assist in pointing out a remedy, they knew how to maintain their proper position in society, and pay to wealth and station that respect to which it would always be entitled, when used for the general good of so- ciety. When the merchants and manufacturers had come forward, they offered money, for which they felt thankful, but, as had been stated, they refused to take it, preferring a thorough cure of the evil which led to their distress. They had before experienced their charity, in soup shops and other degrading means, but they had resolved not to try them again. They said, so long as they retained their facul- ties as artisans, and were capable of earning their bread by honest industry, they would not descend to beggary. They only required the means of maintaining that position in society to which they were entitled, and which they would maintain. Although they had refused the profferred charity, he must say the poor were suffering the most dread- ful privations. He knew it might be said, the law afforded them a workhouse. This was true, but God knew that was a sorry reserve for any man. The distress had increased, and he was sorry to say that the dissolute in society had availed themselves of it, and applied with success to the parish for relief, when they did not stand in need of it. This had caused the overseers of the poor to resort to means to keep away the poor. But against whom did this operate? Why against the really industrious and deserving poor. No regulations they could adopt would keep away from the workhouse the dissolute and characterless; but the honest poor man would rather go home and perish for want than again submit to the taunts and insults of the parochial officers. Although he agreed with the spirit which dic- tated the resolution in reference to the overseers, he must say there was something in it he did not like, lie Knew there were men who would suffer any calamity, nay death itself, rather than submit to a workhouse, or go to the over- seers of the poor; aud hence he would like to see a sum of money raised by levy, or any other means, and placed in the hands of the guardians of the poor, to be distributed by them to such objects as they knew were deserving of re- lief. Those gentlemen could seek out,_ in their respective neighbourhoods, real objects of charity, and give them assistance in a manner congenial to their feelings and pro- portionate to their wants. By this plan the imposture could be detected, the really deserving relieved, and the wishes of the contributors most effectually carried into effect, and the guardians would become, not in name but in reality, guardians of the poor. His friend Mr. Corbett had stated to them that, in by- gone days, every man could brew his own ale, but now they could not, and hence was perhaps to be attributed tho6e dissolute habits amongst too many of his fellow- workmen. He hoped they would correct those dissolute habits, inasmuch as he believed they had had the effect, in a great measure, of keeping away from them that class of gentlemen whom he had the pleasure of seeing around him, and who had so happily lately asso- ciated with them. They could give those gentlemen to understand, that while they had hearts to feel they could and would feel grateful for the sympathy they had evinced towards them. He did not wish to appear invidious in pointing out the names of those gentlemen who had rendered them great services in the late inquiry, hut there were some to whom they were particularly indebted; amongst these were Mr. Chance, Mr. Shaw, and Mr. Goddard. Mr. James and Mr. Henry Knight had also rendered them much service— a better friend the poor had not than Mr. Knight. Mr. Douglas was also of great use to tnem, and afforded a great deal of useful political knowledge ; and last, but not least, they had their staunch and excellent friend, Mr. Salt. ( Applause.) Than Mr. Salt there did riot exist a better or more kind- hearted man to the poor. If he might take the liberty of saying it, his countenance indicated humanity, and those good feelings of their nature which was its pride and glory. He had mentioned the names of those gentlemen, because he considered those who did well by their country, deserved the approbation of those in whose service they had been engaged. He should like, when Mr. Salt was removed from this world, to see inscribed upon his tomb, " Here lies the ardent and sincere friend of the workingman." ( Cheers.) Mr. WATSON, another operative, seconded the resolution. He said he hud been connected with the working man's committee, since its first sitting to the present hour, and no man knew more of its proceedings than he did. From his knowledge, he could assure his fellow townsmen that the delay of the meeting which had taken place, originated in causes over which they had no control. It had been said that the gentlemen of the Conservative party were to blame. This was not the fact, and if his fellow- townsmen had been present, and seen the manner in which they had thrown down their money on tbe table to relieve them, and pay the expenses, they never could forget their kindness. After the very excellent speech they had heard from his friend Mr. Baker, he should not detain them at any length, because little was necessary to be said upon the subject. They were indebted to Mr. Salt and Mr. Spooner for that meeting, and he must say, if ever he felt pleased with his fellow- workmen, it was at the reception they had given to Mr. Spooner. He was a Reformer of the old school, but he was of opinion they ought, on that occasion, to bury all party and political feeling. He could assure them, the gentlemen whom he had named, and others of the commit- tee, were willing to take the working men by the hand, and lift them up from their present lowly condition. He con- sidered they were indebted to those gentlemen for putting them in that situation that their cause must go before go- vernment, and their distress he relieved. Mr. DOUGLAS wished to say a few words with respect to the observations which had been made relative to the overseers. He should be exceedingly sorry if the meeting broke up, under the influence of exaggerated statements against the overseers of the poor. The over- seers had great difficulties to contend with. ( Hear.) They had had a rate quashed at the Quarter Sessions, and hail been compelled to appeal to the public for a voluntary supply. He also wished them to recollect, that although the rates were given to the poor, they were, in many cases, taken from the poor; and iti often became a very difficult question to say, whether the payer was not in greater dis- tress than the receiver. He did not stand there the advo- cate of the overseers in every instance. Cases of severity wijuld occasionally happen. But he felt it was only justice to them to say, he did not believe they had been guilty of any systematic or intentional severity in the discharge of their duty. When they reflected that the overseers, with some two exceptions, were gentlemen entertaining political opinions completely the reverse of his own, they must see that he was not influenced by any unfair bias or partiality in their regard. He was sure in thus defending the conduct of the overseers, he could be borne out by his honourable friend, Mr. James. They had carefully watched the conduct of the overseers iu their capacity of Guardians, and the re- sult was that they had come to the conclusion that they had acted on all occasions with liberality, and with great humanity; and if they had appeared rigid in some instances, it was only from a conviction that they must derive the means of their liberality from a class of the community who were very ill able to afford them. J. JAMES, Esq., said he felt obliged to Mr. Douglas for coming forward as he had done in defence of the overseeis. He could, indeed, fully corroborate all and every word he had said- respecting the conduct of the gentlemen alluded to. Everything said in their favour they were fully entitled to, and he felt great pleasure in bearing testimony to the truth of Mr. Douglas's observations. A vote of thanks to the committee was then proposed and carried with applause; after which the committee rose from their seats whilst Mp. Richard Spooner returned thanks. He saitl, on the part of the committee he returned thein thanks, for the high and distinguished honour they had conferred upon them. He could say they went into that committee with a plain desire to probe the evil to the bottom, and find out a remedy. If, in the discharge of that duty, the committee met with their approbation, it was the highest honour they could expect. Aliusion had been made to what might be done if the deputation were unsuccessful in their application to government. He must say, he con. sidered it was peifectly premature to say what course ought to be pursued. The resolution appointing the deputation, charged them with the responsibility of making known to them the result of their mission. When they returned and made known the result, then it would he for the people to give their commands, and he pledged himself they would be implicitly obeyed. ( Loud cheers.) THOMAS ATTWOOD, Esq., moved a vote of thanks to the High Bailiff, and in doing so highly complimented that gentleman. J. SCHOLEFIELD, Esq., M. P., seconded the resolution, and begged leave to bear his testimony to the great courtesy of the High Bailiff, and to assert that in his experience be never knew the office of High Bailiff filled with more honour than it had been by Mr. Webb; and he could also say, he never knew it filled by a man who had more at heart the interests of tile working and industrious classes. ( Cheers.) J. JAMES, Esq., also begged to be allowed to bear his testimony to the worth and excellent qualities of his honourable colleague. ( Cheers.) He never knew a man more anxious to discharge his duty, and he considered him justly entitled to all the thanks and esteem they could con- fer upon him. ( Renewed cheers.) He would not put the vote in the usual way; he hoped it would be carried with acclamation. The call was instantly responded to, and the Hall re- sounded with three hearty cheers for the High Bailiff. Mr. WEBB briefly returned thanks. He said he had ac- cepted the office with a firm determination to discharge, faithfully and impartially, the duties of it; aud if he had done so to their satisfaction, he felt amply repaid for his labour. He could not feel that he had deserved the honour they had just conferred upon him. Ifhe could so feel, he would, indeed, feel proud. J. JAMES, Esq., then proposed three cheers for the Queen, which were cordially given. Three cheers were proposed for Lord Melbourne by Mr. Shaw. Three cheers were given for the members for the Borough, and three for the Low Bailiff. The meeting broke up at about five o'clock. AMERICAN TITTLE TATTLE. The people in every part of the Union are indignant at the conduct of the French Government, in sending Mounier, the French convict and regicide, in a ship of war, to land in the United States, without consulting them. The address of the Quakers of Great Britain to the Queen has excited much attention and admiration in this country. It has been copied into every public journal in the republic. The Americans rejoice in the re- election of O'Connell, but mourn over the corruption of Middlesex, in rejecting Joseph Hume. It is calculated that nearly 1,200 people perished by the late hurricane in the West Indies. Two or three horrible events have lately occurred in the west and south. At Madisonville, Louisiana, the overseer of Colonel Pugh was murdered, his head being severed from his body with an axe. The crime was supposed to have been committed by the slaves under his care. The colonel arrested all his negroes; seven have been executed, and the remainder are being tried, ( because they were supposed to be guilty.) Two men quarrelled in Indiana. Some time after one of them murdeied the other with a bowie knife in the open street before his little children. Ths fiend was not appre- hended. A man who had stolen a horse at St. Louis, permitted himself to be tied with cords, which he afterwards cut with his knife, and attempted to escape, whereupon a bystander, one Mr. Kremer, coolly levelled his rifle and shot him dead. The magistrate justified Kremer in the act. At a shooting match in Arkansas a rencontre took place between W. Rachaels and J. Carruthers. A son of the latter, Robert Carruthers, seeing Rachaels about to shoot his father with a pistol, fired at him with a rifle, missed him, arid shot his own father! Young Carruthers became in- furiated, seized a rifle from a bystander, and shot Rachaels. He then surrendered himself to the civil authorities. The rapidity with which the government express was carried with the President's message to all the chief cities in the Union deseives a record. That to this city and New York is unparalleled, perhaps, in'the history of the world. The express left Washington at twelve o'clock on Tuesday, reached Philadelphia ( 145 miles) at six; and New York ( 242 miles), at three minutes before eleven; thus perform- ing the whole distance in ten hours and fifty- seven minutes. Seventy- four miles of railroad between Baltimore and Wil- mington was travelled in one hour and fifty- five minutes. AMERICAN BANKS. There is no concert of action between the banks of dif- ferent sections of the Union, with the exception of those of the Girard and Nashville. Hence, another reason for the extraordinary state of American domestic exchanges, which the message of Mr. Van Buren will render, protanto, worse than ever. I do not believe, however, that Congress will indorse by a majority either his views, principles, or plan. The exports by the packets of the 1st, in specie, were 300,000 dollars, 240,000 of which went to England. Total exports of specie to England since the panic, estimated fit 5,000,000 dollars; but it must not be considered that the greater part of this sum was in payment of old debts, the probability being that nearly one- half was consigned for the purchase of goods for the fall trade. A great demand will probably exist during the next two months for specie at home. The following estimate having been made a week since, in round numbers, by James Gordon Bennett, a shrewd calculator, as the payments gradually coming to ma- turity in New York alone: — Suspended custom- house bonds, ™ . 5,000,000 dols. Extended paper 10,000,000 All other paper — 15,000,000 Total 30,000,000 To meet these says the same able writer, " we have the fall business, which may yield „ ™ . 10,000,000 dols. Payments of old debts in New York 2,500; 000 Other sources 10,000,000 22.500,000 Thus showing a deficiency of 7,500,000 dollars, which must either receive aid from the banks, a further extension from the government, or become bankrupt at once." Of course the above may be in part deemed hypothetical; but as they are given by a man of ability, observation, and experience, I feel disposed to believe that they are not far from the truth. I am of opinion, in carefully reading the President's mes- sage, that the merchants will receive aid from the govern- ment by a further extension of time on custom- house bonds. The Boston banks have made the best exhibit in the Union; their late statement of August 19th showing that their condition was— Capital „„.— 20,400,800 dols. Circulation —... —,— ™ 1,862,746 Individual deposits 6,298,241 Real estate , , 652,591 Amount of loans 33,852,425 The condition of the New York banks you are already in possession of. It is far worse. Philadelphia has made no general expose; and Baltimore is but middling as compared with Boston. One of the reasons, secret and not expressed, for the Philadelphia banks not agreeing to the convention of bankers to decide upon a time for the resumption o£ specie payments, as per the New York circular, is presumed to be, that the New York banks are not in so good a con- dition as those of her sister cities, and, therefore, could not meet them upon fair grounds. The result of premature action in such a mattei might, tbeiefore, be, that all the ad- vantage would he on the side of New York, in withdrawing specie from other cities, which would experience an unfa- vourable revulsion. Thus, by the official return made a few days since to the bank commissioneis, it appears that the NewY'ork banks had only— 1 dollar in specie for 4^ dollars in circulation. 1 do do. for 131,4 dollars in circulation and deposits. And 2 dollars 20 cents, on loan for one of capital. By the Boston returns, the banks of that city have— 1 dollar in specie for 1 dollar and 80 cents in circulation. 1 do. do. for 7 dollars aud 74 cents, circulation and de- posits. And 1 dollar 68 cents, on loan, for one of capital. Philadelphia is supposed to be still better off, and Balti- more not quite so well. It must be remembered that the New York banks stopped payment because theyhad not specie to go on with ; but the banks of the other northern cities stopped before there was any run of consequence, and chiefly for the purpose of preventing their specie being with- drawn to New York. The bank of Washington has resumed specie payments; but this merely for the sake of display at the seat ot govern- ment, the extent of its issues not being large. It is, in fact, a government institution.— Correspondent of Chronicle. [ We believe that Congress will indorse, by a large ma- jority, Mr. Van Buren's views, principles, and plan, and in our conscience we believe that the Chronicle's correspon- dent, whose tone is so wonderfully lowered, is of the same opinion, though, to save his consistency, he will not avow it.] INCENDIARY FIRES NEAR GRAVESEND. Three distinct fires were discovered early on Sunday morning, two of them in the homestead of Mr. Baker, and the third iu the farmyard of Mr. Brown, at the village of Chalk, 011 the road towards Rochester. All the fires occur- red, as nearly as possible, simultaneously; and there is not the slightest trace connecting one fire with the others. The farms are situate 011 different sides of the main road, and very nearly opposite each other, the approach being to each a few yaids down cro= s lanes, one leading to East Chalk, and the other to Cobham- hail. The earliest discovery of the fires was made by the guard and coachman of the up Dover mail. The guard alighted at the spot, and ran up the lane to Mr. Brown's farm, where he found a large stack of wheat immediately behind the barn on fire. It was then not burning fiercely, and the guard says a few buckets of water would have extinguished it. On the opposite side 0£ the road they could see a large barn on fire, and a third fire in the rear of the barn. The guard aroused the families of Mr. Baker and Mr. Dorell— the latter gentleman occupy- ing the residence belonging to Mr. Brown's farm. Both are in fact church properties, annexed to the living of Chalk, and are let by the present incumbent to different tenants. The guard also gave an alarm at Chalk Turnpike, and also at Gravesendand Northfleet. Befoie, however, he reached these places, the light from the fires were distinctly visible for miles around. The two engines belonging to the cor- poration of Gravesend, under the conduct ot Mr. North, the inspector of the local police, wete first brought to the spot, and were followed by other engines from Chatham, Rochester, and other places. Unfortunately, from the situation of the property, there was great difficulty in obtaining a supply of water. The ponds on the farms were soon drained, and it then became necessary to connect together several engines, and by pump- ing from one into the other, a scanty supply was got from distant ponds and wells. A well in the farm- yard of Mr. Baker gave a most excellent supply. A considerable crowd had soon assembled, most willing to render assistance, but a complaint is made that a portion of the labouring men assembled looked on with indifference, and although re- peatedly urged by the Gravesend police, refused to afford their aid. The property destroyed consists of a large double bam in the farm- yard of Sir. Baker, filled with corn of this year's growth, partly thrashed and partly iu the straw. Ia a field behind, of seven large stacks of wheat, beans, and hay, only one stack of wheat is saved, which contains about sixty loads. Of the exact quantity destroyed it is difficult to speak; but those acquainted with farm property will be able to form some idea of the frightful havoc made upon Mr. Baker's property, when informed that the farm was of rather more than one hundred acres extent, principally arable, and that all of this year's produce has been utterly destroyed, except the single stack of wheat. Even yes- terday morning there still continued a large body of fire among the produce, which had been strewn over the ad- jacent fields, and which the labourers were busy in turn- ing over. The loss of Mr. Brown is confined to one stack of wheat of about seventy loads. The escape of a large barn, distant from the destroyed stack less than twenty feet, and of a number of stacks of various kinds close around, is a mat- ter of general surprise. The barn is of wood tarred over, aud filled with beans in stalk, and great praise is due to the police and the neighbourhood for the extraordinary exer- tions by which the lavages of the flames were stopped in this direction. From inquiries made by the police, and from information received from various quarters, strong suspicion fell upon a man named John Norton, a thresher, who had been dis- charged from Mr. Baker's employ 011 the Saturday week previous, upon a belief that he had been embezzling corn from the barn. The man had been known in the interval to have made several unsuccessful applications to the farmers around for work, and on the Friday before the fire he left Chalk, and was not seen there again till Sunday morning, when, during the time the flames were raging fiercely, lie was seen in a public- house close by, refusing to assist in extinguishing the fire, and expressing exultation at the occurrence. About four o'clock on Sunday afternoon he was taken into custody. The policeman who apprehended him, on searching him found in one pocket a tobacco box filled with tinder, and in another pocket, wrapped up in paper, a lucifer match and part of another, the ignitable end of which was wanting. In his fob was a good silver watch. No sandpaper was found about him, but the next morning the half of one was picked up in front of Mr. Baker's house. The accused accounted for the possession of the matches and the tinder by saying he used them for lighting his pipe when at work out of doors. As to his time from Friday, he said he had walked to Woolwich and back in search for work, that he had made stays at different public houses on tbe road, and had on the Saturday night slept in an out- building at Northfleet. He has since been discharged on his own recognisance. TIIE PBICE OF PROFESSIONS.— A friend from childhood of Marsha lLefevre, Duke ofDantzic, and who had not run so brilliant a career as the Duke, came to see him at Paris ; the marshal received him warmly, ancflodged him in his hotel, when the friend could not cease his exclamations upon the richness of the furniture, the beauty of the apartments, and the goodness of the table, always adding, " Oh ! how happy are you !"—" I see you are envious of what I have," said the marshal; " well, you shall have all these things at a better bargain than I had; come into the court, I'll file at you with a gun twenty times, at thirty paces, and if I don't kill you, the whole shall be your own What! you won't!— Very well; recollect, then, that I have been shot at more'than a thousand times, and much nearer, before I arrived where you find me."— From the French of Lamarque. THE MILITART DUKE OF CUMBERLAND.— When at the head of the army in Germany, he was particularly struck with the ability and valour displayed by a Serjeant belonging to his own regiment. Having often noticed the gallantry, and made inquiries into the private character of the man, his royal highness took occasion, on an exploit performed by him, to give him a lieutenancy. Some time afterwards, this person, so favoured, entreated his royal patron to take back the commission, and restore him to his former station. Sur- prised at so extraordinary a request, the duke demanded the reason, and was told by the applicant that he was now se- parated from his old companions by his elevation, and could not gain admittance into the society of his brother officers, who considered themselves as degraded by his appointlhent. " Oh! is that the case?" said the prince; " let the matter rest, and I will soon find a way to give you satisfaction." The next morning his royal highness went on the parade where he was received by a circle of officers. While in conversation, lie perceived the lieutenant walking by hiiji- self. On this, the duke said, " Pray, gentlemen, what has that officer done, that he should he drummed out of your councils ?" Without deigning to wait for an answer, he went up, took the lieutenant by the arm, and in that posture of familiarity walked up and down the lines, followed with all humility by the whole staff, much to their own mortifi- cation, and the amusement of the privates. When the parade was over, Lord Ligonier respectfully requested that his royal highness would honour the mess with his pre- sence that day. " With all my heart," replied the duke, " provided I bring my friend here with me." His lordship bowed, and said, " I hope so." After this, no one presumed to treat the duke's friend with contempt, but, on the con- trary, all seemed eager to seek his acquaintance. He rose to the rank of a general; and, with more gratitude than taste, erected the gilded equestrian statue of his patron which stands in Cavendish- square. THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, OCTOBER 14. 3 STATE OF THE COUNTRY. TOWN'S MEETING. AT a MEETING of the INHABITANTS of BIR- MINGHAM, held in the TOWN HALI., on Wednes- day, October the 4th, lor " the purpose of receiving and Mueidering the Report of the Committee of Merchants, Bankers, Manufacturers, Tradesmen, and Workmen of the town of Birmingham, respecting the general distress, ditii- eulty, and embarrassment of the Commercial classes," THE HIGH BAILIFF in the Chair, Moved by RICHARD SPOONER, Esq., seconded by Mr. SAMUEL HUTTON, It was resolved unanimously, I. That the following Report be approved and adopted : — " Yeur Committee feel it their painful duty to state that the distress of this town and neighbourhood is very great; that they see no reason to anticipate any speedy or effectual relief. The alternations of great apparent prosperity and sudden deep distress which have invariably attended the expansion or contraction of the currency, prove beyond doubt, that to our monetary system is mainly to be attributed the present general and alarming distress. In the opinion of your Committee, no permanent relief can. be given, while that system which has been proved so liable to fluctuations is suffered to continue. Your Committee cannot but express its decided conviction that the effectual and permanent relief of the general distress, is a question paramount to all others ; and that nothing can accomplish this great and important object, but such a revision of our present laws as shall tend to the adoption of a monetary system, adequate to the wants of this great commercial community." Moved by THOMAS ATTWOOD, Esq., and seconded by THOMAS MORTON JONES, Esq., II. That the following Memorial be approved and adopted " 7b the Right Honourable Viscount Melbourne, First Lord of Her Majesty's Treasury. " Mr LORD,— We, the inhabitants of the town of Bir- mingham, in town's meeting assembled, beg leave respect- fully to represent to your lordship, as follows:— " Ist We are assembled here, in the discharge of a great imperative duty, which we owe to ourselves, to our sove- reign, and to our country. We have set aside upon the occasion, all party feelings and considerations, and we meet together, Whigs, Conservatives, and Radicals— all united in sentiment and in opinion, and all determined to have re- course to every just and legal measure which may be calcu- lated to relieve the miseries of our country. " 2nd We represent to your lordship that, divided as we are upon political subjects— upon the great subject of the general distress among the industrious classes, and upon its chief cause and remedy, we are not divided. The pres- sure of mutual suffering has at last produced mutual har- mony among us upon this great subject; and we are now fully convinced that the long suffer ings and dangers of our country are mainly to be attributed to unjust and impolitic legislative measures. « ' 3rd In the year 1829, more than twenty thousand of us signed a petition to the House of Commons, humbly expressing our conviction that the great cause of the mise- ries of the industrious classes was to be found in the act of 1819, commonly called PEEL'S BILL, which unjustly con- verted all the paper rents, debts, taxes, prices, and obliga- tions, of this over- burdened country into standard gold, at JE3 17S. lOUd. per oz ; and humbly and earnestly p. aying, from that Right Honourable House, that' either the mone- tary means of the industrious classes should again be lijted up to a level with their monetary burdens, or that their monetary burdens should be cut down equally to a level with their monetary means.' Our humble pi ayers and representations were neglected by the House of Commons. " 4th Many of us had presented to the Houses of Par- liament petitions to a similar effect in the yeais 1816 and 1819, 1822 and 1826, at each of which dis istrons perods he very same distresses and fluctuations existed among the in- dustrious classes, which were undoubtedly occasioned by the monetary measures which the legislature was at each period adopting, all apparently calculated to aggrandise the wealth of the rich out of the poverty of the poor. These petitions were also disregarded. " 5th In the month of January in the present year, up- wards of one hundred of the principal merchants and manu- facturers among us addressed a memorial to your lordship, in which we pointed out the disastrous circumstances which were then occurring, and expressed ' our conviction that unless remedial measures were immediately applied, a large propor- tion of our population would be thrown out of employment.' The remedial measures have been neglected, and our me- lancholy apprehensions have been more than verified in the result. Our merchants and manufacturers are now deprived of their ordinary incomes; and, in many cases, their pro- perty, the fruit of long- continued and honourable industry, has been sacrified ; and our honest, skilful, and meritorious workmen and mechanics, are driven, by thousands, out of employment, and out of bread. " 6th In the month of June last, the united committee of workmen, manufacturers, and merchants of this town, through their chairman, the Low Buihtf, presented to your lordship unanimous resolutions, representing ' that the alter- nations of apparent prosperity, and of sudden deep distress, which have invariably attended the expansions or contrac- tions of the currency, cannot but suggest to every thinking mind, that to our present monetary system is mainly to be attributed the present general and alarming distress.' And representing further to your lordship, that ' it is the impera- tive duty of the legislature to take measures for the imme- diate and effectual relief of such distress, before it should assume a shape which would make all remedies impossible.' Upon each of these occasions, my lord, our humble complaints, warnings, and representations, have been treated with neglect. " 7th.— Hitherto, my lord, this great subject has not been generally understood. The present is about the fifth period of depression and distress which has occurred in England during a period of twenty two years ot prolound peace, which ought to have been years of uninterrupted prosperity and contentment. At each period the people liave been struck by an unseen hand; their fortunes have been sacrificed, and their industry blasted by unseen laws. Those laws are now laid bare to the public eye. Com laws, to make scarce the food which supports man's life; and Money laws, to make scarce the money which purchases the food. Corn- laws to aggrandise the landed interest; and Money- laws to aggiandise the monied interest. Ci u- lied be- tween this double oppression, the people are either de- prived of employment altogether, or they are reduced to half employment; o v they are condemned to give much labour for little money ; and then they are condemned to give much money for little food, " 8' h And mark, my lord, how cruelly these principles counteract each other. The Corn- laws seek to preserve " remunerating prices," by diminishing the quantity offood, pressing for sale in the markets; but the Money- laws conn. teract tliat object, by reducing the quantity of money in circulation, which constitutes the only means of purchase in the market. The money in the pockets of the people is re- duced quite as fast as the quantity of food in the markets is reduced ; arid the people being thus depiived of the means of purchase, have it not in their power to purchase the proper quantity anil quality of food, until its prices are forced down to" a level with their means of putchase. It is thus that we find, in defiance of I lie Corn- laws. thai whenever the present Money laws are attempted to be per- manently enforced, tile prices of agricultural produce are gradually FOKCFO DOWN below a remunerating level; not through lie quantity of food in the markets being too great, l> ut through tlie mass of the people being compelled to consume too little. It is only through ihe literal starvation if the people that the intended effect ot llie Corn- laws can be counteracted, and that the prices ol agricultural produce are at last to he gradually forced down in the same degree with manufactures and labour. " 9th We respectfully rrpresent to your lordship, that this state of tilings ought not to be suffered to coniiiiue; and that it cannot, with safety to ihe constitution, and to the present fabric of society, be suffered to continue. The people must live by their holiest labour; the merchants, znanufac urers, and traders, must flourish by the exercise of prudence, industry, and care. 7hese are the grand objects of Legislation, which are paramount to all others, and to which all others ought to be forced to give way. If these great objects are neglected too long, necessity, which knows Ilo law. will carve to its own ends, and the most fearful consequences will ensue. We respectfully warn your lord- ship. that the people and the government cannot, with impunity, be placed at i<* ue with each other, upon the great question, of whether both can exist together. " 10 h VIY lord, we do implore your lordship's interfer- ence to. rectify this great subject. If tile industrious classes must pal/ remunerating prices tor their food, they must also have remunerating vrices for their labour They ilin- t not be driven Inwn into a state ol half employment, and of a de- creased i';' re of wages at the same time. Let the monetary system of the country be accommodated to the existing state of society, giving shelter, and justice, and security to all; but let nor the existing state of society be forced into an arbitrary conformity with a monetaiy system, which the pro- gress ot thujas lia> rendeied inapplicable, and which, in its frequent and violent fluctuations, crushes industry, and scat- ters in'serv. nrivation. arid ruin, throughout the country. " II h — Until this great gi ievance is rectified, my lord, all oilier sulijectsof legislation are of little comparative im portance. So long » s the presenr system of the currency exist", inidur tlir present operation of public and private burdens, ihei- tf van bg. no solid and permanent prosperity anions tlVjmlilstrimi<( classes in England. Continual and distre « » " i » fliTCniaiions vvrst inevitably occur; short and de- lusive apparent prosperity must quickly he sue- ^ iku— anil.> fuinmis periods of depression and . r i J -- ' - « —>-•- -•-, ti, e pro- cess by which the present general distress of the industriou classes has been necessarily produced, by the present slate o the law. The Bank of England, being bound by law to pin sovereigns in the discharge of all its obligation*, is bouni also by law to provide the necessary quantity of sovereign.' for that purpose. When the masses of the people were lately fully employed, and received in some degree reason able wages, at six days' work per week, they required mori sovereigns than the Bank of England could continue tc supply; the Bank of England became nearly exhausted and was compelled, in its own defence, to adopt measures t< force back the gold into its coffers out of foreign countries and out ol the uses of industry at home, in defiance of al the misery and distress which such a terrible operation pro duces in the country. It is only by placing the industriout workmen upon reduced wages, and upon three days' work pei week, and by crushing and ruining a large proportion of theb employers, that the Bank of England lias now been enabled to force back the gold into her coffers, and to save herself fron ruin, by scattering ruin, misery, and desolation, among thou sands and hundreds of thousands of families. " 12th We respectfully represent to your lordship, thai the measures which the Bank of England, in its own defence has found it necessary to adopt, during the last twelve months, for the purpose of forcing back the gold into its coffers, combined with similar operations in the United States of America, have had the effect of depriving the in- habitants of this town and district of more than 60,000/. sterling per week; having reduced the purchases of labour, and of the products of labour, to more than that extent among them, during the current year. The loss which the) thus sustain, amounting to moie than three millions ster ling per annum, creates a pressure is this district, which cannot be effectually relieved by any efforts of private cha- rity or of parochial assistance. " 13th By these cruel and destructive operations, forced upon her by the state of the law, the Bank of England is now said to have succeeded in increasing her stock of sovereigns,, by an amount of three millions sterling. We submit to your lordship, that if the accumulation of these sovereigns in the Bank of England is effected for a national object, the whole burden of this great operation ought not to be thrown upon us, and upon our unfortunate countrymen of the industrious classes; but that the whole nation ought to bear the burden equally and commonly: and every class of the community ought to be made to contribute equally, accord- ing to its respective wealth and means. " 14th.— So long as the whole burden, my lord, is thrown upon the industrious classes, there can be no safety for our country. No prudent tradesman or capitalist can safely undertake the responsibility of employing capital in the operations of industry. All trade is made, in a great degree, a matter of gambling speculation. The wildest adventurers and the most prudent tradesmen have almost an equal chance of success or ruin. The foundations of social order are shaken. Every fluctuation which occurs still more embitters the feelings of the people,| and en dangers their situation. Exasperated by disappointments and sufferings of many kinds, the industrious classes be- come at last gradually alienated from the institutions of their country, and prompt to entertain designs for over- turning a fabric of society which no longer affords them shelter and protection. " 15th My lord, it is our duty to make this last and solemn appeal to your lordship. Your lordship knows the situation of our country. Your lordship knows that the perpetual and violent fluctuations, by which we are all in- jured and endangered, are the inevitable result of the present state of the law. Whenever the present monetary system is enforced, the misery and ruin among the people create such a mass of discontent, as compels the government to interfere with. the Bank of England to relax the pressure. Then the Bank of England, in its own defence, is compelled by the state of the law, to renew the pressure ; and thus the most distressing fluctuations are perpetuated. Under the present state of the law, industry cannot be safe without ruin to the Bank of England; and the Bank of England cannot be safe without ruin to industry. " 16th.— In this painful and dangerous state of things, my lord, it is our duty respectfully to ask of your lordship the three following questions : — First,— Is it the intention of Her Majesty's government to continue to act upon the tampering and temporising policy which, for twenty- two years, has made the industrious classes the victims of perpetual fluctuations? Or, secondly,— Is it the intention of Her Majesty's govern, ment that the present monetary system shall be rigidly and permanently enforced, in combination with the Corn'laws ? Or, tliiidly,— Is it the intention of Her Majesty's govern- ment thai the present monetary system shall be relaxed per- manently, according as the just rights and interests of the people may require 9 We are convinced that there is no hope of redress from Parliament, unless we first obtain the support of Her Majesty's government. Give us that support, my lord, and your lordship may yet save our country from a long train of calamities. Through the ex. ercise of wisdom and virtue on your part, the wrongs and sufferings of the industrious classes may yet be redressed, the government of our young and interesting Queen may be carried triumphantly through all its difficulties, and you, my lord, may establish in history a never- dying claim upon the gratitude and respect of a prosperous, loyal, and con- tented people. " Signed, by order of a General Meeting of the Inhabitants of Birmingham, in their name and on their behalf, " ROBERT WEBB, High Bailiff." Moved by JAMES TURNER, Esq., and seconded by Mr. GEORGE EDMONDS. III. That the memorial be presented to Lord Melbourne by a Deputation consisting of the following gentlemen: — the members lor the borough, the present High and Low Bailiffs, Messrs. R. Spooner, W. Chance, Charles Shaw, G. Edmonds, T. C. Salt, Baker, Corbet, Watson, Sutton, and P. H. Muntz. - Moved by Mr. COLUNS and seconded by Mr. WM. GARNER, IV. That in consideration of the sufferings of the people, and of the great anxiety which fills the public mind on this important occasion, that it be an instruction to the Deputii- tion to apprise the committee of the liay and hour of their return to Birmingham, and that the committee do call a meeting of the inhabitants to receive the Deputation, hear their report, and adopt immediately such measures as the public welfare may require. Moved by CHARLES SHAW, Esq., and seconded by H. VAN WART, Esq., V. That the committee which drew up the memorial of merchants, manufacturers, and workmen, be requested to draw up Petitions to both Houses of Parliament founded on the above memorial, and after getting them signed by the inhabitants, to have them presented on the meeting of Parliament. Moved by WM. CHANCE, Esq., and seconded by S. A. GODDAKD, Esq., VI. That this meeting, deeply sympathising in the dis- tresses of the working classes, earnestly recommend the Overseers of the Poor to exercise a liberal aid in relieving their urgent wants. Moved by the Low BAILIFF and seconded by T. M. JONES, Esq., VII. Thar a committee of the following gentlemen be appointed to obtain subscriptions to defray the expenses already incurred, or which may be incurred, in pursuing the objects of this meeting:— The High and Low Bailiffs Messrs. Bolton. Clowes, Van Wart, Hopkins, Goddard, Chance, T. C. Salt, Hutton, T. Ityland, T. P. Salt, Jas. Barlow, T. SummerSeld, C. Shaw, James Turner, W. Phipson. Thomas Clarke, F. Room, F. Lloyd, R. Peyton, B. Fiddian, and Edmund Heeley. Moved by Mr. BAKER and seconded by Mr. WATSON, VIII. That the best thanks of the meeting be offered to the committee for their perseveiing and humane exertions on behalf of the working classes. ROBERT WEBB, Chairman. The High Bailiff having left the chair, and the same having been taken by the Low Bailiff, It was moved by THOMAS ATTWOOD, Esq., seconded by JOSHUA SCHOLEFIELD, Esq., And resolved, XI. That the cordial thanks of this meeting be given to the High Bailiff, lor the public spirit, humanity, anil discre- tion, which he has exhibited in the chair, and during his whole continuance in office. JAMES JAMES. EDUCATION FOR T H E PARTIALLY DEAF AND FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB. MASSEY- HOUSE, PENKETH, NEAR WARRINGTON, Conducted by James Riddatl Wood, formerly master of the Manchester school for the Deuf and Dumb. rj^ HE object of this Establishment is to provide a I suitable education for those children of respectable pa- rents, whose sense of healing is either defective or totally wanting. The former receive oral instruction, by which means the imperfect hearing is strengthened and improved, and articulation is taught upon scientific principles; while the Utter are instructed through the medium ot signs, com- bined with written language. The interrogative and analytical method of tuition is pur- sued, being directed especially to the enlargement of the intellect, and to the formation of habits of integrity and virtue, founded on careful moral and religious instruction. TERMS. Under ten years of age 35 guineas per annum. Above ten years of age— 40 ditto Washing included. Parlour boarders and adults charged extra. A class is now being formed for the education of pupils whose articu- lation is imperfect. Further particulars, with highly respectable references, may be had by applying to the office of the Birmingham Journal, ( post paid) or to Mr. WOOD, Penketh. PATENT VICTORIA LAMP, MANUFACTURED ONLV AT T. C. SALT'S LAMP, CHANDELIER, LUSTRE, AND GAS LAMP MANUFACTORY, No. 18, EDMUND- STREET, Less than 100 yards from the Town- hall, where the nobility, gentry, and the public are respectfully invited to inspect it. f| M! E wick of this Lamp is supplied with a constant - 1- stream of oil, ensuringaguperior and unfailing brilliancy of light during the longest night. The Lamp is perfectly shadowless, and will light every part of a large room for all purposes of reading or work- ing, with a consumption of one- third less oil than an or- dinary Lamp. It is so perfectly clean and so easily managed and kept in order, that it may be safely confided to the least ex- perienced servant without chance of accident or failure. BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL & HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS of this INSTITUTION will take place on Wednesday next, October 11, at the GARDENS, and the EARL of DARTMOUTH will take the chair at three o'clock in the afternoon. G. B. KNOWLES, F. L. S. 1 „ „ FREDERICK WESTCOTT, J Hon becs' Birmingham, October, 6, 1837. Just published, price, stitched, Is. 6d., cloth 2s. DRAKE'S ROAD BOOK of the GRAND JUNC- TION RAILWAY, from Birmingham to Liverpool and Manchester, with an accurately engraved Map of the en- tire route. Birmingham : Printed and published by J. DRAKE, 52, New- street, and sold by all Booksellers. Wholesale Agents for Liverpool, WILLMER and SMITH; for Manchester, LOVE and BARTON; for London, LONGMAN and Co., and C. TILT. REMOVAL. JOHN PAGE most respectfully returns his sincere thanks for the very liberal support he has received for the last twelve years, and wishes to inform the Public gene- rally that he has REMOVED from 51, MOOR- STREIT, to more extensive Premises situated at the corner of DART- MOUTH- STREET, ASTON ROAD, where he solicits a continuance of their favours. The Premises have been built purposely for the Foun- dry Business, which enables him to manufacture all sorts of CAST IRON GOODS on the most reasonable terms. CHEAP WHOLESALE AND RETAIL BOOT AND SHOE MART, 70, BULL- STREIT, OPTOSITE THE MEETING HOUSE. GREAVES and SON beg- leave to inform the In- habitants of Birmingham and its vicinity, that they have just opened the above Establishment with a large and well selected Stock of Ladies'and Gentlemen's BOOTS and SH OES, warranted of first- rate manufacture and quality. G. and S. beg leave to observe it is their intention to keep only good, durable, and tasty articles, certainly the most essential points in the purchasing of Boots and Shoes; they also are enabled, from having purchased their Stock from first- rate houses, ( for ready money) to offer their goods at very reduced prices. One trial will convince the Public that a considerable saving will be effected by pur- chasing at this Establishment. Gentlemen's WELLINGTON BOOTS, 15s.; YOUTH'S Ditto, 14s.; CLARENCE DittoV 9s. 6d.; BLUCHER Ditto, 7s.; Walking SHOES, 5s. 6d.; and all other descriptions equally low. WOOLLEN DRAPERY AND TAILORING ESTABLISHMENT. JOSEPH WHITTLE respectfully tenders his sin- cere thanks to his numeious^ Friends, for the very liberal support which he has received during the twenty years in which lie lias carried on the business of a WOOLLEN DRAPER and TAILOR, and begs to inform them that he has DECLINED in favour of bis SON, to whom lie with confidence recommends them, feeling well assured that every possible exertion will be used to deserve and secure their respected patronage. JOSEPH WHITTLE, jun., in taking- to the above BUSINESS, so long and so successfully carried on by his Father, most anxiously and respectfully solicits the honour of that pre'erence which his revered parent has so liberally enjoyed ; and assures his Friends and the Public generally, that it shall be his study to merit their support, by charging the most moderate prices, and by paying the strictest attention to their commands. J. W. has just returned from London, where he has pro- cured the LATEST FASHIONS. A SUIT of CLOTHES made in the first style at five hours' notice, if required. 17, High- street, Birmingham, Oct. 1, 1837. CONTINUED ATTRACTION. FRESH ARRIVAL OF PARISIAN AND GENEVA MANUFACTURES, READY FOB INSPECTION THIS DAY. NOW OPEN, FOR A SHORT TIME ONLY. PATRONISED BY ROYALTY AND THE FASHIONABLE WORLD. DEPOT DU PALAIS ROYAL DE PARIS At the Spacious Rooms, 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, they have just returned from the Continent, where they have become the sole Purchasers of the Bankrupt's Stock of Messrs. LE ROY rind 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 a short time. It is from circumstances like these that the Messrs. LOUIS and Co. pledge themselves to offer a saving of full 30 per cent, from the usual prices. The Stock consists of PA RISIAN, 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 AND CO. are so well known among the British Nobility and Gentry, that they need not comment respect- ing their splendid and valuable Stock, or the mode in which they conduct their transactions in their English Establishments. 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. 2222, A: TO ROD STEEL ROLLERS. WANTED, a first- rate Workman in the above line. One of steady, active, and industrious character may meet with constant employment and liberal wages, by ap- plying, post paid. Box No. 94, Post- office, Sheffield, or J. S. Woolpack Inn, Moor- stteet, Birmingham. October 4th 1837. MALTHOUSE. PT^ O be LET, and maybe entered upon immediately, A a convenient TW I'. NTY- FIVE QUARTER MALTHOUSE, situate in Sun street. Apply at the VINEGAR BREWERY, Sun- street. OLD EST ABLUSH ED RETAIL PUBLIC HOUSE, THE COCK, In Nova scotia- street, Birmingham, close to the Liverpool Railway Stores. ri^ O be DISPOSED OF, the LICENCES, GOOD- X WILL, and POSSESSION of the above House, now tloing a good share of profitable business, desirably situated in a populous neighbourhood, and over- looking the Liverpool Railway Stores. The usual effects to be taken at a fair appraisement; com- ing in about £ 80. For particulars, and to treat, apply to RODERICK, Agent, Auctioneer, and Appraiser, New- street, corner of Ben- nett's- hill, Birmingham. TWO OLD- ESTABLISHED PUBLIC HOUSES, Near to the centre of the Town oj Birmingham, I^ O be LET, with immediate Possession. The LICENCES and HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, BREWING UTENSILSand small STOCK, to be taken at a fair appraisement. Coming- in about £ 80 and £ 260. For particulars apply to RODERICK. Agent, Auctioneer, and Appraiser New- street and Bennett's bill, Birmingham. A SPLENDID ASSORTMENT OF FURS. H. MICHAEL & Co., MANUFACTURING FURRIERS, 115, NEW - STREET, ( CORNER OF KING- STREET, ) RESPECTFULLY announce to the Ladies of Bir- mingham and its vicinity, their having finished a large and fashionable assortment of FURS of everydescrip- tion of skins, comprising SHAWLS, CAPES, MUFFS, BOAS, TRIMMINGS, & c., all of which being newly made, are warranted perfect and free from moth. N. B. Al! kinds of Furs cleaned, repaired, and altered to the present fashion. * » * Furs taken in exchange. TO CORRESPONDENTS. *„* The communication of T. A. R. is an advertisement. * » * The long letter of a " Churchman" would only serve to bestow a most disproportionate consequence on a personage otherwise unknown and uninfhiential. With all submission to a " Churchman," we think that much greater blame is due to the appointed clergyman of the Church, for allowing such a miserable bigotted fool to insult his people, than to the witless thing itself that is the organ of the insult. If the congregation had a proper sense of their own dignity, they would, in such a case, rise from their seats, and leave the indecent brawler to himself and the four walls. And if their pastor persisted in thrusting upon them persons so in- competent and worthless, they would chastise his con- duct by a similar contempt. This is the second in- stance, within a few weeks, of the pulpit in question being made a spouting place for ultra- Tory politics. The clergyman himself is a pretended puiist; but it would appear he has no objection to the scattering of filth, provided he can manage to keep his own fingers clean. BIRMINGHAM MARKET. Inspector** Weekly Return of Corn sold, computed by ihe Standard Imperial Measure.— October 5. Total Quantities. Total Amount. Price per Qr. Quarters, i Bimhels. s. d. £ a. d. 1139 0 3135 1 9 9. 15 n 212 0 430 11 0 1 19 s 233 0 295 7 tl 1 5 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 n 0 328 0 713 1 ft 2 3 5 37 0 77 0 0 2 1 7 BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1837. It is never a pleasant duty to cast a shade of doubt on the confiding hopes of our friends, however sanguine and unfounded we may deem them; but a duty is to be performed whether it be pleasant, or the contrary. We, therefore, feel impelled to state plainly, that we do not at all participate in the expectations entertained by the speakers at the public meeting- of Wednesday, either of present or of ultimate relief to the distresses of the country, from the means now being used to ob- tain it. We claim for ourselves the credit of entering on the experiment of a combination of all parties, for the purpose of investigating the causes of the present distress, with perfect sincerity. We did not, indeed, entertain any great hopes of a successful investigation by such means; and if we had, they would have been effectually damped by the determination, not to ex- clude politics in the customary sense, for that was an essential rule of the new union, but, to exclude poli- tical causes, even should the course of inquiry lead directly to them. Yet, under these circumstances, we did not consider, in our then state of suffering, that any chance of relief, no matter how slight or remote, should be omitted. There is, indeed, such a charm in the friendly and familiar mingling of previously alien- ated neighbours, that we should have felt ashamed to interpose any bar to it, had the object been as trivial as it was important and praiseworthy. Taking- it for granted that Whig, and Tory, and Radical, were fully and honestly determined to lend their joint countenance and influence to the raising up, from its downfallen condition, the trade and commerce of the town, and with it, of the country at large; although we could not help thinking that the path chosen could not lead to that most desirable issue, we were still ready to tread it along with them. The first meeting that was held in the Public- office, had very much of the appearance of a real com- bination of parties. It was numerous; and the ad- mixture was pretty fairly proportioned. But the gen- tlemen who composed it, only met to separate. Of the Tories present on that occasion, by far the greater number did not make their appearance a second time. The secession has continued and increased up to the meeting of Wednesday, when, as we have remarked elsewhere, there were no more than four or five gen- tlemen belonging to the party present, and of these not one to whom the party looks up, or who possesses any permanent influence among its members. The first and leading objection, therefore, to the conciliation plan is, that no conciliation has been effected. Hear the organ of the Tories on this sub- ject, a witness to whose testimony implicit belief is due— " With the exception," says the Tory journal of Thursday, " of Mr. ATTWOOD'S ordinary clique, and a very few- others, who have embraced his views on the currency, we look in vain for " the merchants, manu- facturers, and tradesmen, of the town generally," from whom, in conjunction with the workmen, ema- nated the committee, whose report the meeting of yes- terday was convened to receive and consider. A lengthy memorial to Lord MELBOURNE, stating forcibly and clearly Mr. ATTWOOD'S views of the present ope- ration of the Corn- laws and the Money- laws, was pro- posed to the meeting, and, of course, unanimously adopted. It purports to be the expression of the com- mon sentiment of " Whigs, Conservatives, and Radi- cals ;" but we fear the halcyon days of such a union have not yet arrived. We are sure that the Conserva- tives of this town sympathise with the workmen in their present sufferings, and would gladly do anything in their power to relieve them. Under this feeling some of them signed the requisition to convene the meeting. We are willing to believe that such of our townsmen as are usually classed with the Whigs, have an equal desire to relieve the existing distress. Neither party, indeed, can have any peculiar interest in the Corn- laws, or the present monetary, system. But the general absence of both these parties from the meeting, is a sufficient testimony that they do not concur in Mr. ATTWOOD'S specific." The trutli is, that some of the g- entlemen present, as little as the gentlemen absent, concurred in Mr. ATTWOOD'S views; and one of them openly and honestly confessed as much. He was willing to join Mr. ATTWOOD, in order to procure from government an enquiry into the monetary laws ; and that was the amount of his concurrence. Such is the concession, for the obtaining of which the Radicals have been counselled to put in abeyance, if not to abandon, their long- cherished principles ! For the Whigs, who were induced to join Mr. SPOONER and Mr. SHAW, on Wednesday, in lending countenance to the Radicals, we have every respect, which we really do not mean to violate when we say, that they— we mean those of them that took part in the meeting— as little as the Tories, were leaders or influential amongst their party. There has been, we are bound to state it, a sinking of differences— we would call them principles— on the part of the Radicals, without the slightest approach to a similar process on the part of the Tories or the Whigs. Still, if any good were to come out of a coalition, in which every thing is given up by the majority and nothing by the minority, we should be content, if not approving. But we cannot, by any effort, work ourselves up to the expectation, that the smallest good will come out of it. There are two ways in which ministers may dispose of the memorial. First, they may say, and very truly, as they have said before, " Here is no specific remedy pointed out to us. The economics of Birmingham, are, in a great measure, confined to the town where they were first broached, and far from being generally acquiesced in there; the present system was had recourse to on the recommendation of men of great name and note; and has been repeatedly sanctioned by all parties in Parlia- ment. Neither the people nor their representatives are prepared for its abolition. If we were to submit a measure for that purpose to the house, it would inevi- tably be rejected; and, probably, we should be rejected along with it." With such a statement as this, minis- ters, if they speak at all, may bow the deputation out; and there is an end. Second, ministers may adopt the let- us- down- goft plan. They may agree to an enquiry— by a select committee of course. We need not quote here the frequently expressed opinions of our honourable mem- ber, Mr. ATTWOOD, on the subject of select committees. They are familiar to our readers. But if he were offered such a committee, could he refuse it? If he did, would the deputation ? Now, let us see what this second method would issue in. The committee would assemble— say about the middle of March. It would be impossible to move for it, in' the preliminary session, to be held in Novem- ber. It would examine forty or fifty witnesses ; and somewhere about the 20th July it would report the evidence. If it happened to be renewed in the ensuing- session, which it might be, the chapter of accidents having very probably by that time produced some casual and temporary prosperity; and the people hav- ing become dull to the question, from hope long de- ferred, it would finally report—" that the existing standard of value ought, on no account, to he altered." We do not pretend to anticipate which of these plans ministers may determine upon; but we hold it to be as sure as the sun gives light, that they will adopt the one or the other. In respect of the corn- laws, our case is, if possible, more helpless. Does any one remember how these laws were opposed, on their first introduction, in 1S14 and 1815? Was any measure of domestic policy ever so opposed ? And yet it was passed— not passed merely, but every attempt, from one quarter or ano- ther, from 1815 to the present time, to have it modi- fied, has been scouted with contempt! What hope is there that the ministry will move on that question ? Not the most remote. They will not give us a com- mittee there. Nay, the entire chances with a House of Commons, constituted like the present, are, that the corn- laws, instead of being relaxed, will, if changed at all, be rendered more stringent. We are decidedly of opinion, that without an alter- ation in the currency laws, it is impossible that any- thing like permanent prosperity can be restored to England. We are so convinced of th is, that we look upon such an alteration as the end of all legislative improvement. And precisely because we regard it as the end, we consider it a hopeless as well as irrational plan of procedure to begin with it. We would begin, in these matters, as in others, at the beginning-. The fons et origo mali is the predominance in the people's house of the power of the factions. Previous to any such amended laws being obtained, as the condition of the people requires, the power of the factious must be abated. The people must rule in their own house. Economical change must be got at through political change. In seekiug economical change first, we are mistaking the end for the means. We are spending our strength in a vain attempt to hang the roof before we rear the walls. And here is a ready test of the value of the coalition plan— supposing the economic change to be refused, as it is certain to be, will our Tory allies go along with us in demanding political change? Every word, every act of the party tells us that they will not; they will cordially concur with us in an endeavour to re- alise impossibilities; bat, the moment we come to plain practical issues, they will leave us to our oufn unassisted efforts. Such is the well nieaut plan of conciliation, from which so much of virtue is ex( iejted to flow! We could tolerate even this; let it not be sai I we are impracticable; but there is an evil in this matter that remains to lie noticed. By holding out to the people a source of relief, where source there is none; by declaiming on the importance of fanciful and in- jurious plans, we may turn away their attention from those which are real and efficacious. Tueir energies are useless unless concentrated ; by diverting them into a variety of unfruitful channels, we in ijr chance to dry them up altogether. The issue of tuese schemes of coalition will not, as far as we can see, be the modification or the alteration of Toryism, hut it may, and very probably will, be the weakening, if not the destroying, of Radicalism. One gentleman, on Wednesday, spoke of a new Union, to be called " The Union of Truth and Justice." Fine words! I wonder where he stole ' em. For our parts, we should very much grieve to see any new union, however sounding its name, if its creation must be preceded by the destruction of the old. And though we do not think there is much in a name, yet THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, OCTOBER 14. 3 even the name of the old Union we would feel loath to give up, for the sake of adding to its list of members some half- a- dozen of its most determined enemies, men who had protested against its very existence; and much less, for the sake of adding six, or six hundred such, would we desire to change, not only its name, but its principles. For sure we are, that, let the " Union of Truth and Justice" be formed when it may, the truth and justice of Household Suffrage, Ballot, and Short Parliaments, will not be found amongst the articles of its creed. I We know that in uttering these sentiments we are going contrary to that smooth and smiling current, along which some of our friends are at present drifting with much complacency; we are aware, too, that, as words out of season, what we have now said will meet with but slender acceptance. And we may have dwelt on the subject with over- much seriousness, and at over- much length. But we were anxious to free our soul. If evil come, we hare given the warning ; if good, we are but foolish prophets ; and there is nothing in that imputation that we cannot contrive to bear with patience. The Portuguese insurrection has come to an un- timely end, and from a very simple cause. Saldanha and Palmella's troops were without pay, and so were the Queen's. It was a question which could bear starvation longest; for to do both of them justice, there was as little inclination, as there was capability, of flghtiug on either side. While the scales in which the fate of Portugal were thus in a state of equilibrium, tbe Court, most providentially for them, contrived to effect a sale of some national property in Oporto— houses— for 80 contos of reis, and to get cash down for the half of the purchase money. That sum ( only £ 10,000) at once decided the issue— down in an in- stant went the Queen and Cortes, and up went Sal- danha and his braves. The defeated party consent, for want of a better resource, to self- banishment— they go out, as we Birmingham people call it. In a few months they will be recalled, or will go back again without an invitation, as the chapter of accidents may seem to advise. We shall then have another nice little rebellion, to be settled in a similar nice little way, and with similar nice little results. Perhaps the Queen may go out next time. The people of Portugal, like the ass in the fable, take no interest in the matter, be- lieving it to be of very little moment, provided they must wear the pack- saddle, by what party it may happen to be put on. The French Chambers have been dissolved, and a string of peers as long as Oxford- street, has been added to the already numerous list of the Upper House. The first name is a Baron Dandiniere; whether this be a descendant of the well known George Dandin, we know not. In Spain the cause of the Queen is once more look- ing up, as the reporteis of ' Change- alley say. The Carlists have suffered in some late rencontres; but to what extent it would not be safe authoritatively to affirm. The minister, also, has suffered a defeat in the Chambers, in respect to his financial measures; and an insurrection is rumoured to have taken place at Cadiz. New York papers to the 11th have been received. The Whig papers are in high spirits at the defeat, as they call it, of Van Buren, in the choice of a govern- ment printer. The defeat is this— there are two go- vernment newspapers, the Globe and the Madisonian. The proprietors or each were candidates for the office of government printer. The first division stood thus— Globe ( Democratical) 101 ; Madisonian ( Democratical) 53; Intelligencer, ( Whig) 68. On the second division the Whigs gave their votes to the Madisonian, which, in consequence, beat the Globe by eleven votes. This the ingenious gentleman who supplies the Chronicle witli American news, calls a great Whig victory !—" a death- blow to the sub- treasury system !" Supposing the numbers on the second division correctly to indi- cate the state of parties present, they would stand thus:— Total number present, 225; Democrats, 154; Whigs, 69 ; Neutrals, or, as the Yankees significantly term them, Blanks, 2. Majority for the sub- treasury system, 85! of such affairs, and if we were, the want of a diagram would prevent us from giving an intelligible account of the means employed; we may, however, describe the effects produced. The first advantage of the lock- is— that no jar of the stock, however rude, or in what direction soever given, will make it go off. From the numerous class of accidents arising from the slipping of the gun from the hand, or from grounding it too hastily, Round's lock offers an absolute security. Its second characteristic, and it is one of much value, is the impossibility of firing both barrels, in a double- barrelled piece, simultaneously— a provoking as well as painful accident to the sportsman, and of very fre- quent occurrence with ordinary locks. The me- chanism which locks the trigger, is, in prin- ciple, the same as Purdie's well known con- trivance, with this essential difference in its con- struction, that, in Round's, the spring, by the pressure of which the trigger is released, is re- movable at pleasure; and when removed the gun can neither be fired by accident or design. A gen- tleman on entering a house, or in pushing his way through a hedge, or in any circumstances wbere pecu- liar caution is essential, has only to remove the spring — the work of an instant— and the gun can neither go off nor be let off, till he return the spring to its place. The inventor of the very ingenious piece of mechanism, which we have thus imperfectly described, is a com- mon operative gun- maker, who has, during the recent and still prevailing stagnation of trade, been for some seven- and- twenty weeks without employment. The lock is the fruit of his compelled leisure. He means to secure the reward of his ingenuity by a patent, if he can obtain the means, and he is well deserving of it. FASHIONS FOIL OCTOBER. [ From the Ladies' Magazine and Museum.'] MOBISING DKESS.— Dress ot striped jaconot inuslin, the corsage plain, and made to cross in front. Sleeves without gathers at the shoulders, and perfectly tight all the way down, ( being cut in the cross way from the material) with the exception of a single puff or sabot exactly above the elbow; two frills, not very wide, form a heading to the sa- bot; the sleeve is finished at the wrist by a lace ruffle. The skirt of the dress is ornamented with a deep flounfce. Un- derneath the corsage is a chemisette of cambric quite high, and trimmed with a lace frill at top. Cap border, or half cap, of blonde. The border is double, and only commences at each temple; at top it is united by a small wreath finished at each end by a full- blown rose and a bunch of cherries; the rose is placed between the two borders on the left side, and at the back of the border is a bow of rich sarsnet riband with long ends. A similar riband ties the half cap under the chin; hair in smooth bands quite off the face; white kid gloves, Scotch thread stockings, black shoes. Dress of gros de Naples, corsage tight and a pointe ; a deep fall of rich blonde goes quite plain round the bosom of the dress, sleeves tight and plain, with ruffles at the elbow ; blonde cap, consisting of a round cawl, and rather deep head- piece, with tivo borders in front, the upper one wide and standing upright off the face, the lower one very narrow and falling over the brow; a bunch of grapes is placed at each side, just below the temples, white ribands, hair in smooth bands'. Pelerine or fichu of embroidered muslin with falling collar; the pelerine as well as the collar is trim, med all round with a narrow outre- deux ( insertion), outside which is an embroidered or a lace frill; the pelerine is pointed back and front. Hat of gros de Naples, the front large and trimmed with a ruche, the crown not very high; the bows are on the right side, and retain the bouquet that droops to the left over the front of the bonnet. A SERMON will be preached on SUNDAY NEXT, Oc- tober 8, by the Rev. CHAKI. ES BERRY, of Leicester, in the NEW MEETING- HOUSE, Birmingham, for the benefit of the SUNDAY SCHOOLS attending that place. Service to commence at three o'clock in the afternoon. Trade is a little better in Birmingham, and the distress somewhat alleviated in consequence. The " coming- ou" sheets of the workhouse exhibit, during the last six weeks, a diminution of nearly one- third— from 1014 to 713. Mr. Webster has addressed to us, on the subject of Mr. Lloyd Williams, another short letter. It will be found in our advertising columns. We presume it to be a concluding one— it is certainly conclusive. The length of the " Meeting" has excluded a great many shorter notices. We have inserted, in another page, a curious and able paper from The Spectator, on the subject of the Pension List. There is, it will be seen from an advertisement in another column, to be a grand open Chrysanthemum show in the course of a few weeks. On Monday last, the following gentlemen were ap- pointed Overseers of the Poor for the ensuing year :— Mr. Thomas Mountford, jeweller, New- street. Mr. John Palmer, wire- drawer, Great Charles- street. Mr. Thomas Phillips, wine- merchant, New- street. Mr. John Hollingsworth, woollen- draper, High- st. Mr. Thomas Matthews, grocer, Snow- hill. Mr. Thomas Hill, anvil- maker, Digbeth. We are desired to say, that since the advertisement of the London Missionary Society was put in type, the Rev. John Burnet, of Camberwell, has engaged to be at the public meeting, and to preach at Ebenezer Chapel on Wednesday evening, at seven o'clock. PALAIS ROYALE, NEW- STREET.— The eyes of our influential families are still directed to this emporium of fashion. Messrs. Louis and Co., therefore, con- tinue to enjoy tbeirpatronage, have added some splen- did new articles to their elegant establishment. We wish them further success, as the spirited manner in which they conduct their business well deserves it. EXCLUSIVE DEALING.— A correspondent sends us the following extract from the Oxford Herald of January 18th, 1835:—" The farmers and the landlords must learn to stand up for themselves. He hoped that every one of these classes would be ready to uphold his own interests by dealing only with such electors and traders as supported them. He would take care to have the names of the voters published, and these lists should be sent to tbe Agricultural Societies; that is, that every banker, every lawyer, and every chimney- sweeper, might be marked by them. ' I say, ( conti- nued Mr. W.) I will have the names entered in a black book, with the trades attached to the names ; I • will sell the shirt off my back before I will fail to have a black book, which shall serve to mark every elector.'"— Speech of Mr. Lloyd Williams. The Herald remarks—" Pity would incline us to draw a veil over the concluding part of Mr. Williams' obser- vations, and we have purposely said no more than was necessary, in justice to the electors of all classes and opinions." SAFETY GUN We have been shown a gun lock, bearing the name of A. and G. Round's patent- lever lock which seems to realise every requisite of safety and simplicity that a sportsman could well desire. We are hardly enough acquainted with the mechanism A NERVOUS MAW— Colonel H n, a very nervous and somewhat absent gentleman, being once asked by a fair friend who was riding, and wanted to cut some part of her steed's leathers, whether he could lend her a knife:—" A knife? a knife?" said he; " why really I've not a knife in my pocket, but I've a pencil." THE MOST EFFICACIOUS OF ALL REFORMS— We cannot bring ourselves to wish that there were nothing but Quakers in the world, because we fear it would be insupportably dull; but when we consider what tremendous evils daily arise from the petulance, and profligacy, and ambition, and ^ ra- tability of sovereigns and ministers, we cannot help thinking it would be the most efficacious of all reforms to choose all those ruling personages out of that plain, pacific, and sober- minded sect.— Edinburgh Review, on Clarkson's Life of Penn. [ A correspondent sends us the above. The Re- viewer takes a narrow view of the matter. We would not trust the Friends with irresponsible power; it would speedily make them unfriendly, and where a proper responsibility exists, we have a much better safeguard than either personal or party virtne supplies for wise and honest behaviour— E. B. J.] ABBOTSFORD SPORTS.— The only guest who had chalked out other sport for himself was the staunchest of anglers, Mr. Rose; but he, too, was there on his shelty, armed with his salmon- rod and landing- net, and attended by his hu- mourous squire Hinves, and Charles Purdie, a brother of Tom, in those days the most celebrated fisherman of the district. This little group of Waltonians, bound for Lord Somerville's preserve, remained lounging about to witness the start of the main cavalcade. Sir Walter, mounted on Sibyl, was marshalling the order of procession with a huge hunting- whip, and among a dozen frolicksome youths and maidens, who seemed disposed to laugh at all discipline, appeared, each on horseback, each as eager as the youngest sportsman in the troop, Sir Humphry Davy, Dr. Wollaston, and the patriarch of Scottish belles- lettres, Henry Mac- kenzie. The Man of Feeling, however, was persuaded with some difficulty, to resign his steed for the present to his faithful negro follower, and to join Lady Scott in the soci- able, until we should reach the ground of our battue. Laid- law, on a long- tailed wiry Highlander, yclept Hoddin Grey, which carried him nimbly and stoutly, although his feet almost touched the ground as he sat, was the adjutant. But the most picturesque figure was the illustrious inventor of the safety- lamp. He had come for his favourite sport of angling, and had been practising it successfully with Rose, his travelling companion, for two or three days preceding this, but he had not prepared for coursing fields, or had left Charlie Purdie's troop for Sir Walter's, on a sudden thought, and his fisherman's costume— a brown hat with flexible brims, surrounded with line upon line o! catgut, and in- numerable fly- hooks— jack- boots worthy of a Dutch smuggler, and a fustian surtout dabbled with the blood of salmon, made a fine contrast with the smart jackets, white cord breeches, and well polished jockey- boots of the less distinguished cavaliers about him. Dr. Wollaston was in black, and with his noble serene dignity of countenance, might have passed for a sporting archbishop. Mr. Mac- kenzie, at this time in the seventy- sixth year of his age, with a white hat turned up with green, green spectacles, green jacket, and long brown leathern gaiters buttoned upon his nether anatomy, wore a dog- whistle round his neck, and had all over the air of as absolute a devotee as the gay cap- tain of Huntly Burn. Tom Purdie and his subalterns had preceded us by a few hours with all the greyhounds that could be collected at Abbotsford, Darnick, and Melrose; but the giant Maida had remained as his master's orderly, arid now gambolled about Sibyl Grey, barking for mere joy like a spaniel puppy. * * On reaching Newark Castle, we found Lady Scott, her eldest daughter, and the venerable Mackenzie, all busily en gaged in unpacking a basket that had been placed in their carriage, and arranging the luncheon it contained upon the mossy rocks overhanging the bed of the Yarrow. When such of the company as chose had partaken of this refection, the Man of Feeling lesumed his pony, and all ascended the mountain, duly marshalled at proper distances, so as to beat in a broad line over the heather, Sir Walter directing the movement from the right wing— towards Blackandro. Davy, next to whom I chanced to be riding, laid his whip about the fern like an experienced hand, but cracked many a joke, too, upon his own jack- boots, and surveying the long eager battalion of bush- rangers, exclaimed ' Good heavens ! is it thus that I visit tile scenery of the Lay of the Last Minstrel?' He then kept muttering to himself, as his glowing eye—( the finest and brightest that I ever saw)— ran over the landscape, some of those beautiful lines from the Conclusion of the Lay— : " But still, When summer smiled on sweet Bowhill, And July's eve, with balmy breath, Waved the blue- bells on Newark heath, When throstles sung in Hareheadshaw, And corn was green on Carterhaugh, And flourished, broad, BIsckandro's oak, The aged harper's soul awoke, & c. \ lnckenzie, spectacled though he was, saw the first sitting lime, gave the word to slip the dogs, and spurred after them ii « e a boy. All the seniors, indeed, did well as long as the course was upwards, but when puss took down the declivity, they halted and breathed themselves upon tne knoll— cheer- ing gtiily, however, the young people, who dashed at full speed past and below them. Coursing on such a mountain is not like the same sport over a set of fine English pastures. I'liere were gulfs to be avoided, and bogs enough to be threaded — many a stiff nag stuck fast— many a bold rider measured his length among the peat- hags— and another stranger to the ground besides Davy plunged neck deep into a treacherous well- head, which, till they were flounder ing in it, had borne all the appearance of a piece of delicate green turf. When Sir Humphry emerged from his invo- luntary bath, his habiliments garnished with mud, slime, and mangled water cresses, Sir Walter received him with a triumphant encore. But the philosopher had his revenge, for joining soon afterwards in a brisk gallop, and Scott put Sibyl Grey to a leap beyond her prowess, and lay humbled in the ditch, while Davy, who was better mounted, cleared it and him at a bound. Happily there was little damage done— but no one was sorry that the sociable had been de- tained at the foot of the hill. « * • ANNUAL FESTIVALS — FISHING— One was a solemn bout of salmon- fishing lor the neighbouring gentry and their fa- milies. instituted originally, 1 believe, by Lord Somerville, but now, in his absence, conducted and presided over by the Sheriff. Charles Purdie, already mentioned, had charge ( partly as lessee) of the salmon fisheries for three or four miles ot the Tweed, including all the water attached to the lands of Abboislord, Gala, and Allwyn: and this festival had been established with a view, besides other consider- ations, of recompensing him for the attention he always be- stowed on any of the lairds or their visitors that chose to fish either from the banks or the boats, within his jurisdic- tion. His selection of the day, and other precautions gene- rally secured an abundance of sport for the great anniver- sary; and then the whole party assembled to regale on the newly caught prey, broiled, grilled, and roasted in every va- riety of preparation, beneath a grand old ash, adjoining Charlie's cottage at Boldside, on the northern margin of the Tweed, about a mile above Abbotsford. This banquet took place earlier in the day or later, according to circum- stances ; but it often lasted till the harvest moon shone on the lovely scene and its revellers. * * Sometimes tbe evening closed with a " burning of the water;" and then the Sheriff, though not so agile as when he practised that rough s- port in the early times of Asheslie], was sure to be one of the party in the boat,— held a torch, or perhaps took the helm,— and seemed to enjoy the whole thing as heartily as the youngest of the company.— Lockhart. PUBLIC OFFICE. MONDAY, OCTOBER 2. { Before F. Lloyd, J. Scholefield, and W. Blakeway, Esqrs. J EFFECTS OF DRUNKENNESS. — An elderly man, named William Ware was charged with breaking a pane of glass. Mr. Bladon, landlord of the Unicorn, Digbeth, stated, that the prisoner came into his house on Saturday evening, and began to curse and swear, and knock about the company in the kitchen in a most violent manner. He was remon- strated with, upon which he became more outrageous, dashed the vessels upon the floor, and drove his hand through a pane of glass. The prisoner, after a suitable reprimand from the magistrates, was ordered to pay for the damage he had done, and was discharged. A man, named Glasby, was charged by Mrs. Adeock, of the Dog, in Loveday- street, with still more disgraceful conduct. Mrs. Adcock, on being sworn, stated, that the prisoner came to her house on Saturday evening and asked for some ale. Seeing he was intoxicated, and knowing that he was very unruly when in that state, she refused him drink and ordered him out of the house. He refused to go; insisted upon having drink, and created a great disturbance. Having obtained assistance, she got tbe prisoner out of the house, upon which he ran home and fetched an axe, with which he commenced smashing the door. He used the most dreadful imprecations and threats, and swore if he got in he would send their b y brains to hell. The night- constables and street- keeper came up and with difficulty removed him to prison. The prisoner in his defence said, he was very sorry for what had taken place, and if the magistrates would overlook the offence that time, he would take care never to offend again. The fact was, when he got a sup of drink his head went all roads and he did not know what he was doing. The magistrates said they would forgive him if he would pay for the damage he had done. It appeared he had smashed eleven shillings worth of the door, and if he would pay that sum and the expenses, they would release him from that charge. The prisoner said he had not got the money, but perhaps his wife might raise it. The magistrate said, if the money was not paid they should order him to be committed to prison. Frankish, the street- keeper then preferred a complaint against the prisoner. He said, when he was taking him to the lock- up his conduct was most disgraceful. He refused to go, and kicked and beat him and his brother officer in the most brutal manner. He collected a great crowd around them, and called upon the people to " Billy Hall" them. Hundreds of people assembled, but they behaved very well, and he succeeded in getting the prisoner to Moor- street. The prisoner made the same defence as in the first charge, but his general misconduct and brutality when drunk being represented to the magistrates by several of the officers, he was ordered to pay 40s. and costs, and in default of payment was committed to prison for two months. He was also committed for two months on the first charge. Thomas Madden and James Durkin were convicted of a violent assault upon a man named James Kelly, on Sunday, in London ' Prentice- street. The affair happened in one of those disgraceful drunken rows in which the Irish labourers are in the habit of indulging on Saturday nights and Sun- day mornings in the above neighbourhood. The parties were allowed to make up the matter, and the complainant received 2/. from the friends of the prisoners. Jesse Challoner was charged with street- robberv. John Wall, the street- keeper, stated, that on Saturday night, about half- past eleven o'clock, as he was going down Bromsgrove- street, he saw a man lying on the ground and three or four fellows kicking him. He went up to them, and saw the prisoner put his hand into the man's pocket and take out something. He raised the man up, but he was so badly injured he could hardly tell who or what he was. He believed he lived at King's Norton, but he could not tell as lie had not seen him since that night. The prisoner denieil the charge, but as he was well- known to the officers as a bad character, he was committed to the House of Cor- rection for three months as a rogue and vagabond. If the person whom he bad assaulted had attended, he would have been committed for tile felony. It was not stated why mearrs were not taken to ascertain particularly who the man was who had been so grosdy illtreated. Samuel Raivson, toll- collector at the Aston gate, wai charged with an assault upon a young man named Barnett a sheriff's officer. Mr. Edmonds attended for the com- plainant, and Mr. Smith for the defendant. Barnett, on being examined, stated that some day last week he went to Sutton Coldfield, under a warrant from two Commissioneis of Stamps, to seize upon a carriage and horses, belonging to a man named Frederick Ross, who was in at rears for car duty. Having made the seizure he re turned to Birmingham with the carriage and horses, and when he came to Aston toll- gate he was stopped by Mr. Rawsonarrd his wife. He demanded to be allowed to pass, but Uawson said he would not allow him unless he paid him twenty shillings, which Ross owed him for toll. This he refused, saying he had no right to pay it. He then pre. sented him Is. 6d., which was the toll due for the carriage for that day, but Rawson refused to take it. He then asked Rawson to allow the carriage to go to the Cross pub- lic- house and take the horses from under it, until he could send to Birmingham for Mr. Hancox. This also was re- fused by Rawson. Mrs. Rawson held hold of the reins, and he told her if she did not let go lie would knock her down. He then came down from the coach- box and took hold of the reins, upon which Rawson seized him by the neckcloth, and throttled him, and kicked him several times on the hand. Mr. Smith, prior to witnesses being called, said he had a legal objection to offer. According to an act of Parliament he held in his hand, the magistrates had no power to adju- dicate in case of an assault committed under the execution of a warrant from a court of justice; and inasmuch as the present assault arose out of a disputed right, and in the exe- cution ot a warrant such as he had described, the charge could not be entertained by the bench. The magistrates, by advice of their clerks, overruled the objection. Witnesses were then called, who proved the offence to have been committed as stated by the complainant, and the defendant was ordered to pay 40s. and costs. in great numbers, and threw stones and created a riot and disturbance. Beck, the headborough, came, and the women were escorted home by the police, followed by the mob, who threatened them and beat a woman named Bridget Scally, so that she was now in a dangerous state. Complainant saw both the defen- dants there. Emma Read threw a stone which hit him. There had been a strike in the trade, and it was an attempt to prevent him carrying on his trade at his present prices. Complainant's work- women had not dared to return to their work since that time. Mr. Smith, on the prisoner's behalf, called several witnesses to show that the row was not connected with the subject of wages, but arose in consequence of dis- putes between Mr. Weaver's workmen and the de- fendants ; and that water had been thrown from Mr. Weaver's premises oil the prisoners, at two o'clock, before any disturbance commenced. After a long ex- amination, the magistrates retired to consult in a private room, and on returning, Dr. Booth stated, that they did not think they ought to pass over this case as a common assault. It was a case of too serious a nature, aud of too much public concern for them to do so. It was evidently a case of combination on the part of the defendants, to prevent Mr. Weaver's ser- vants working- at their present wages, and the magis- trates would deal with it under the act of Parliament relating to such cases. It appearing that warrants were issued against several other persons not then in custody, and that an information must be prepared under the statute re- lating to intimidation by workmen, and the parties re- summoned, the magistrates adjourned the case till Thursday at twelve o'clock. On Thursday an information, under the 6th Geo. IV. c. 129, having been laid by Mr. Weaver against nine defendants, the case came on again to be heard. Seven defendants, viz., Charlotte Wain, Emma Read, Ann Eadren, Ellen Minshull, Sarah Turner, Elizabeth Whittal, and Robert Basford, a master manufacturer, answered to their names. The evidence was to the same effect as detailed on a former day— all the defendants being proved to have been there, and to have aided and abetted in the disturbance. The magistrates consulted for a few minutes, when Mr. Spooner stated that, with respect to Basford, his case was of an aggravated nature, inasmuch as being the master of one of the girls, he ought not to have encouraged them to acts of violence, which, but for his example, they might not have attempted. They, there- fore, ordered him to be taken to the House of Cor- rection, and there kept to hard labour for three calendar months. Ann Eadren had been guilty of very ex- citing and dangerous conduct in carrying about the effigy, and throwing it, in a burning state, on Mr. Weaver's premises, they therefore sentenced her to two months at the House of Correction, and hard labour; and with respect to the rest, they were there aiding and assisting, and were therefore responsible ; but not having committed any distinct acts of violence, the Court, therefore, would pass upon them a more euient sentence, and adjudge them to one month's mprisonment with hard labour. Mr. Smith gave notice of appeal on behalf of Bas- ford, and he having given bail, the case, so far as he was concerned, was remitted to the sessions. COMBINATION. The following curious case was heard, partly on Monday and partly on Thursday, at the Police- office. Mr. Weaver, a bone button- manufacturer, residing in Bagot- street, Aston- road, preferred a charge of assault against two girls, named Emma Read and Charlotte Wain. Mr. Edmonds appeared for Mr. Weaver, and Mr. Smith for the prisoners. On being examined, Mr. Weaver stated that on Tuesday, the 26th ult., about three o'clock in the afternoon, a large quantity of persons assembled to- gether, to the number of several hundreds. They commenced throwing stones at his premises, some of which hit him. They behaved in a very riotous manner, and cried out something about three farthings a gross, and said, " Turn out the ," meaning the workmen and women, " and we'll tear their livers out if they work at that price." They brought an effigy made of rags and straw, and carried it about before complainant's premises, and said it was his wife's pic- ture. They then took the effigy away, and in a short time returned with it again, having made it a good deal larger. They set fire to it, and threw itover com- plainant's palings and gates into his yard, and he or- dered water to lie sent over it to quench it. They were dispersed about half- past four o'clock by Chumbley the officer ; but about six o'clock they returned again THE QUEEN'S ARRIVAL AT BRIGHTON. ( From the Morning Chronicle.) Tuesday having been fixed by Her Majesty for taking up her abode at the Pavilion, and the loyal in- habitants of the queen of watering- places having de- termined to give their sovereign a public reception, extensive preparations had been made for carrying their determination into effect. During this week the committee appointed by the town had been actively employed in making the necessary arrangements, and nothing could have added to the success which at- tended their labours. A programme had been pub- lished, but it was so much departed from that we cannot give it. The weather, which had been hazy in the morning, with an appearance of rain, cleared away at noon, and a beautiful autumnal afternoon fol- lowed. As early as seven o'clock in the morning, crowds of people from the neighbouring towns and villages were found wending their way towards the royal town, and every conveyance, from the handsome private chariot down to the humble pony cart, decked out with roses and laurel leaves, with its six insides, was put in requisition to bring together the largest assemblage Brighton had ever seen. Crowds of pe- destrians stationed themselves soon after twelve o'clock along the line of reception, which extended from the palace gates to the entrance of the parish of Brighton, near the Hare and Hounds, whilst carriages were drawn up by the sides of the road in the fields towards Preston. The houses in all parts of the town were decorated with evergreens and flowers, and at various parts white flags, with gilded inscriptions of " Hail, Queen Victoria," " Hail, youthful Queen," " Welcome, Victoria," & c., met the eye; and the royal standard and union jack floated from the different heights. At the Pavilion Hotel especially, we noticed a magnificent crown upon a cushion, containing also the Bible, com- posed of yellow and crimson dahlias, and beautifully hung amidst festoons of laurel and other evergreens. The velvet- like appearance of the cushion and book was very fine. All the streets leading to the London- road were stopped, and in the spaces thus left a large number of balconies were erected, which were crowded with people, and as the balconies in front of the houses opposite were also full, the whole presented a magnificent appearance. In the roads were anchored two tenders, bearing Admiral Sir P. Durham, Port- Admiral of Portsmouth, and Lord Yarbo- rougb's, and several other yachts, all decked in their colours. On the north side of the London- road, beyond Preston- gate, many noblemen's and gen- tlemen's carriages drew up in a single file soon after two o'clock. At the entrance of the town, on the borders of Preston parish, a beautiful triumphal arch, from the design of Mr. George Cheeseman, had been erected. It consisted of a large arch formed of ever- greens, and a smaller arch over the pavement on each side. Above the centre arch were the initials " V. R.," composed of yellow dahlias. In the middle was a crown of the same flowers, with a crimson centre, and oil either side two dolphins, bearing the arms of the borough. Below this crown was the inscription of " Hail, England's Queen," formed of lilac flowers, the whole being surmounted with union flags, and having a magnificent appearance. But the great feature in the preparations was the Amphitheatre, from a desig- n of Mr. Jolin Fabian, erected at the eastern palace gate. This amphitheatre was 250 feet in circum ference, open to the sky in the centre, but having covered galleries running round, to which admission was obtained by tickets. The upper gallery was filled by 1,000 people, mostly ladies, for whom seats had been provided ; whilst in the lower gallery there was standing room for 1,400 persons. These galleries were divided by pillars into twelve compartments, and were finished off with evergreens and flowers formed into minarets, to correspond with the architecture of the palace entrance, the new entrance gate of which formed the rear of the amphitheatre. The fronts of the galleries' between the flowers were hung with crimson and green, and each compartment contained the royal initial. The entrance was formed of an archway sixty feet in height, also decorated with flowers and everg- reens, and surmounted with the in scription of " Welcome Victoria." The Florists' So- ciety had been requested to superintend the decora- tions, but they declined. The florists of the county undertook to supply the deficiency, which they did to perfection. The Duke of Norfolk alone sent ten waggon loads from Arundel Castle, and more contri- butions were liberally made by the following noble- men and gentlemen:— The Earl of Chichester, Lord Gage, Sir George Shiffuer, R. Tillstone, Esq., W. Campion, Esq., Thomas Attree, Esq., Mrs. Wood, of Chestham, Mr. Briggs, Mr. Cameron, Mr. Hall, of Henfield, Mr. Borrer, of Hurst, Mr. Borrer, of Hen- field, Thomas Broadwood, Esq., of the Holmbush, and John Colbatch, Esq. Through this amphitheatre passed the greater por- tion of the public bodies who were to take part in the proceedings of the day. At two o'clock upwards of 5,000 children, of charity and other schools, arrived, with banners bearing appropriate inscriptions, and passed on to their station near the northern archway. Soon afterwards the coast- guard passed through, and were placed on the south side of the road. Succeed- ing them, passed the commissioners of the town, headed by the royal standard, and a very handsome purple banner, on which was emblazoned the Queen's arms. Subsequently, the high constable, Mr. Wright, accompanied by eight headboroughs, each bearing a purple scarf, and decorated with white bows, colours which were also worn by the committee of manage- ment, came up. Then the Fishermen's Society, the Odd Fellows, the Free and Accepted Masons, and the other societies took their places. At three o'clock, the band of Admiral Sir P. Durham's flag- ship entered the amphitheatre, and during the interval previous to Her Majesty's arrival, played several popular pieces from I Puritani, II Giovanni, and other operas. The inner circle now presenting a charming coup d'ceil. The fine blue sky, the luxuriance of the evergreens, the beauty of tbe ladies, and the crowds in the lower gallery, made a perfect tableau, whilst in the centre were placed the clergy of the establishment and dis- senting places, in full canonicals, including Dr. Shep- herd, Rev. H. M. Wagner, the vicar, Dr. Proctor, Rev. J. S. M. Anderson, Rev. T. Troche, & c. & c.; the Commissioners of tbe Town; Admiral Sir P. Dur- ham; Lord Yarborough; the Members for the Bo- rough, Captain Pechell, R. N., and Sir A Dalrymple, Bart.; and the other public functionaries. The crowd outside was, by this time, immense; not only was the road to the extremity of the borough absolutely cram- med, but the whole road as far as Patcbam, six miles, was lined with horsemen and carriages. On either side of tbe entrance to the amphitheatre were placed the coast- guard, the Odd Fellows, the Fishermen, the friendly and benefit societies, a detachment of the Carabineers, and lastly, the children of the various schools, whilst within the palace grounds, the Foot Guards were drawn up, and headed by the band of the horse regiment, the whole being under the command of Colonel Wildmau. Precisely at a quarter- past four o'clock the royal standard, hoisted on the tower of St. Peter's church, announced the arrival of the royal cortege within tbe precincts of the borough, whither it had been escorted by a large body of the yeomanry of the county. No sooner was the signal answered by the raising of the standard on the tower of the old church, than a royal salute was fired from the battery, from the revenue cutter and tenders in the roads, and from the yachts. As soon as Her Majesty reached the northern archway the Carabineers formed ten deep, and as a guard of honour waited upon their Queen ; and no sooner had she passed than the town band struck up, and a choir of fifty singers chanted tbe national anthem. The progress from this spot to the Pavilion was a complete display of enthusiasm; every window, balcony, and house- top was crowded, and amid the waving of handkerchiefs and hats, and the loud huzzas of a delighted people. As the procession neared the palace the guard of honour filed oft'on either side, and two outriders preceding, Her Majesty, in an open barouche, accompanied by her august mother, and at- tended by the Countess of Charlemont and Miss Brand, and followed by another carriage, containing Colonel the Hon. G. H. Cavendish, the Baroness Lehzen, and Lady Mary Stopford, arrived at the bar- rier of the amphitheatre, where she was met by the high constable and his headboroughs, and by them ushered into the palace grounds, through the public bodies who were ranged on each side of the road. Here the cheers were renewed with unabated ardour, and were not a little helped by the warmth with which they were responded to by the coast- guard on the out- side, the ladies all rising, and the gentlemen remain- ing uncovered. It was past half- past four o'clock that Her Majesty was able to reach the royal grounds, and throughout her progress she continued to acknowledge the acclamations of her people in the most graceful manner. Arrived within the palace grounds, the royal party were received by General Sir George Quentin, who had previously arrived, and as Her Majesty alighted on the lawn tbe band of the Carabineers again played the national anthem. Her Majesty, who wore a link bonnet and striped cachmere shawl, was in excellent health and spirits, and appeared highly delighted with the reception she had met with. No- thing could have passed off better. Great credit is due to the committee for their exertions, and their best reward must be the entire satisfaction of nearly forty thousand persons collected from every part of the county. Soon after the Queen's arrival the bells rang a merry peal, and in the evening a more general illu- mination than has taken place for many years, showed the warmth of Her Majesty's welcome. We under- stand that along the road also many persons were col- lected to witness the royal progress. At Reigate two triumphal arches were erected ; and at Crawley, in addition to a rural arch, the children were collected to do honour to their sovereign. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. THE MEETING. Sir,— It was remarked by several gentlemen at the Town's Meeting yesterday, that they saw no profes- sional gentlemen there, except Mr. George Edmonds and our worthy High Bailiff,— no lawyer, no doctor, no parson, or minister of any denomination! This fact speaks for itself, and it '' speaks volumes " I am, sir, your humble servant, Birmingham, Oct. 5, 1837. A LOOKER- ON. P. S. I believe there was a Roman Catholic Priest present— our public spirited townsman, the Reverend Mr. M'Donnell. More shame for the other clergy of the town, of all denominations. WATCHMEN. MR. EDITOR,— Allow me to call your attention to the state of watchmen and their pay, within this town. There is not the least doubt in the minds of tbe com- missioners themselves, as well as almost every house- holder in the borough, that unless we have young and efficient men for watchmen during tbe approaching winter, depredations innumerable and serious will be perpetrated. Crime, I fear, sir, will be spurred oil through the depression of trade; therefore it behoves all, for the preservation of lives and property, to re- quest our commissioners to keep no man on duty, this winter, who is incapable of performing it. There are, to my knowledge, many watchmen ( good old servants I admit) who, through their age, & c., cannot prooerly fulfil the functions of a nimble and expert night officer; this must be remedied. I find, also, that a watchman has to be now out from ten at night till five in the morning ; and that, shortly, he will stop on his ground till six in a morning;— now, be has 12s. per week; then, he will have 13s. per week. Now, I complain that these wag- es are too little ; but when I find that it costs a watchman Is. extra in shoes, and 7d. in oil and cotton, it reduces his pay to 10s. 5d. and to lis. 5d. per week! Four days nine hours for 10s. 5d.! Five days six hours for lis. 5J.!! When, sir, we consider a watchman's work, the miles he walks, the danger to which he is exposed, both in health and from violence, the insults he puts up with, and, in short, a faithful protector of persons and pro- perty, I think he is, most assuredly, honestly entitled to 16s. or 18s. per week; and I cannot help thinking, that my fellow rate- payers would rather pay a little larger rate than subject their all to insufficient, worn- out, and, in many instances, dilatory watchmen- Hoping, Mr. Editor, that you will insert these few- lines, I remain, yours, & c., Summer- lane, Oct. 5. 1837. A RATE- PAYEB, 6 THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, OCTOBER 14. 3 NEWS OF THE WEEK. EOEEIGN. CANADA. We gave last week some passages from the Governor's message, and also from what was represented on the reply of the House of Assembly. It seems that The Chronicle, from which we copied, was in error respecting the latter document, which was not the reply that was voted by a more moderate [ ministerial] reply, which the Assembly had rejected. The following are extracts from the real reply:— Of the commission the Assembly says :—" The avowal which it has pleased your Excellency to make to us, that the disposition of the authorities and of Parliament with re- gard to us, and the oppressive and unconstitutional mea- sures which have been the result, are the consequences of the recommendations made. by certain pretended authorities, known by the name of the royal commissioners, has con- vinced us of the correctness of the opinions we have hereto- fore expressed with regard to this commission, which, con- stituted and acting under no law and without regard to law, and bound beforehand by its instructions to the partial views and narrow policy of the British ministry in the government of the colonies, could not possibly co- operate in doing jus- tice to the inhabitants of this province, and in establishing their institutions, their liberties, and their prospects for the future, on the solid basis of their wishes and their wants, as well as on the principles of the constitution. We were, therefore, in nowise astonished at discovering in the pro- ductions of this pretended commission nothing but precon- ceived opinions, prejudices at variance with its mission and its duty, ideas of government founded 011 data utterly fo- reign to the country, or at finding it fomenting divisions and national distinctions, forgetful of constitutional principles, calumniating the provincial representation, and practising deception towards this House and the people. We are bound especially to notice in the reports in question, as far as they have come to our knowledge, one essential and paramount contradiction which pervades every part of them, and forms their essence. It is, that while they admit the reality of the greater portion of the abuses and grievances of which we have complained, the commissioners do not re- commend their removal and the destruction of the causes which had produced them, but an act of aggression against this House, which has denounced them, and the absolute destruction of the representative government in this pro- vince by the illegal and violent spoliation of the public moneys of the people, by the ministers or by the Parlia- ment; whereas it was the duty of the commission and of the mother country to assist this House in the entire re- moval of these evils, and in rendering their recurrence im- possible, by re- constituting the second branch of the legis- lature by means of the elective principle, by repealing all laws and privileges unjustly obtained, and by ensuring the exercise of the powers and legitimate control of this house over the internal affairs of the province, and over all matters relative to its territory, and the wants of its inhabitants, and more especially over the public revenue raised in it." On the subject of the intended bill for carrying out Lord John Russell's resolutions, it is observed : — " We perceive in this measure, 011 the one hand, a formal and total refusal of the reforms and improvements demanded by this house and by the people, and, on the other, an abuse of the powers of Parliament, for the purpose of de- stroying by force the laws and constitution of the province, of violating with regard to us the most sacred and solemn engagements, and of thereby establishing irremediably on the ruin of our liberties, and in the place of the legitimate, efficient, and constitutional control which this house, and the people through it, have a right to exercise over all the branches of the executive government, corruption and in- trigue, the pillage of the revenue, the seizure of the best resources of the country by the colonial functionaries and their dependants, the domination and ascendancy of the few, and the oppression and servitude of the mass of the inhabitants of this province, without distinction of class or of origin. " It is our duty, therefore, to tell the mother country, that if she carries the spirit of these resolutions into effect in the government of British America, and of this province in particular, her supremacy therein will no longer depend upon the feelings of affection, of duty, and of mutual inter- est which would best secure it, but 011 physical and materia] force, an element dangerous to the governing party, at the same time that it subjects the governed to a degree of uncer- tainty as to their future existence and their dearest interests, which is scarcely to be found under the most absolute go- vernments of civilised Europe. And we had humbly be- lieved it impossible that this state of permanent jeopardy, of hatred and of division, could be knowingly perpetuated by England on the American continent; and that the liberty and welfare of every portion of the empire were too dear to the independent body of the English people, to allow them to prefer maintaining, in favour of the functionaries accused by the people of this province, the system which has been hitherto its bane. The Assembly denies that it has been influenced by other than honest motives, or that it has had recourse to other than constitutional means— " In our efforts to remove the evils which have pressed upon our country, we have had recourse to none but con- stitutional means founded 011 the most approved and best recognised principles. We have it so much at heart to see the government once more deserve the public confidence, that to assist it in attaining that confidence we should re- coil before no sacrifice but that of the liberties or of the honour of the people. We have given proof of this dis- position even of late, whenever we have been able to en- tertain a hope that we were thereby aiding to advance the prosperity of the country. But we declare that in the present conjuncture we have not been able to derive from your Excellency's speech, or from any other source, any motive for departing even momentarily from our determi- nation to withhold the supplies until the grievances of the country are redressed. " Your Excellency acknowledges that the chief object for which we are now convened is to afford us an opportu- nity, by granting the supplies, of preventing their being violently taken by an act of the Imperial Parliament, founded on the resolutions already adopted. In the ab- sence of any other motive for thus recurring to our autho- rity than the tardy consideration of the character of those resolutions, as well as of the act of which the) might form the basis, Her Majesty' 6 government might, we humbly conceive, have recollected that those resolutions are not our work; that we had already fully deliberated on the demand made to us by your Excellency; and that while we have not before us any act,, or even any hope, which can promise a mitigation of the evils under which the people are suffering, we should not be justifiable in placing in the hands of hostile powers the means of aggravating and per- petuating those evils. " There could exist, then, no considerations but such as might be dictated by a servile fear, foreign to our mandate and derogatory to the character of the people, to induce us to be wanting to our duty in the present instance, by ratifying the violation of the rights of our constituents and of this House by the British authorities, and by taking on ourselves the responsibility of the consequences which might result from it. We leave this responsibility to those who have assumed it, and strong in the justice of our cause, we rely, as we heretofore have done, on Providence, on the public and private virtues of all classes of the people, on their constancy, their perseverance, and their attach- ment to the principles of order and liberty which, following their example, we have unceasingly endeavoured to main, tain." Sir George Gepps, it will be remembered, has received, as his reward for the report— the most ignorant as well as tyrannical ever presented by a commission— the appoint- ment of Governor of the important colony of New South Wales, which, of all others, requires a man of liberal and comprehensive views. This is always the way. Had the commissioners reported favourably of the popular cause in Canada, they would, every man of them, have been shelved for the rest of their lives. DOMESTIC. THE METROPOLIS. POLISH REFUGEES The friends of humanity will learn with regret that the Literary Polish Association, which has for five years ministered to the wants of the Polish refugees, defeated at length in its effoits to raise further funds, has been obliged to notify to 160 of those noble but most unfor- tunate strangers, not participating in the Parliamentary grant, its inability to afford them any more assistance. POOR- LAW The Third Report of the Poor- law Com- mission, with appendixes ( A), ( B), and ( C), has been pub- lished. The unions of parishes now embrace a population of 11,347,215, out of 13,897,117, the whole population of England and Wales in 1831. The outstanding parishes in England are 1,301, containing a population of 2,525,098, and 28 in Wales, containing a population of 34,874. Of the agricultural counties Cumberland seems to be the only one containing a large proportion of parishes not united. 11 has 83 out of 293 parishes not yet united, and a population of 85,648 out of 169,681. Lancaster has a population of 382,617 out of 1,336,854 not yet united. Derby, 105,459 out of 237,170. Middlesex, 708,948 out of 1,358,330. Warwick, 145,358 out of 336.610; and the West Riding of York, 331,485 out of 976,353. SINGULAR CASE.— A11 inquiry of a very interesting nature took plate on Mondav at the Crown, East Smithfield, be- fore Mr. Baker, the coroner, and a respectable jury, on an iiquisition upon the body of a man, name unknown, who was drowned on Friday in St. Katherine's Dock. The de- ceased was a lumper, and had been employed to clean out a ship lying in the docks, called the Guineaman. He had gone down into a boat lying alongside for a scraper, when lie slipped overboard. Mr. John Birtwhistle, surgeon, stated that he was present with his brother and another medical gentleman when the accident occurred. He held his watch in his hand, and full seven minutes had passed be- fore the body of the deceased was brought to the surface of the water. Witness and his friends were in the boat into which the man was taken; and while he was 011 the way to the dock- house they cut his clothes off, cleaned his mouth of mud, and attempted to resuscitate him by using artificial breathing. On their arrival at the bath- room, where every- thing was ready for their use, in a short time the man re- covered so far as to give the most positive proof that success would attend their efforts ; after an hour, however, he ap- peared to sink, but in half an hour rallied again and shrieked loudly with the agonies of re- action; at the end of two hours and a quarter the man appeared so far recovered that witness was about to leave him to the care of Mr. Elliston, his assistant, when he went off like " the crack of a gun," and died suddenly, he should think, from the rupture of some vessel or from suffocation. He had just before this listened to the beating of the heart, and had ascertained that the circulation had extended to the extremities by feel- ing the tibial artery, and the result of his examination was to him satisfactory, when the man went suddenly off.— The jury," after making some remarks on the unfortunate issue of a case which had given such hopes of recovery, returned a verdict of " Natural death." PROVINCIAL. THE COAL- MINK ACCIDENT AT WORKINGTON.— Professor Sedgwick has written a letter to Mr. Williamson Peile, of Workington, in which he has enclosed a draft for nearly 40/. which has been subscribed by the gentlemen forming the meeting of the Geological Section of the British Associa- tion, at their late meeting at Liverpool, on his mentioning the brave and generous conduct of a miner named Brennan, who, after saving four individuals from the jaws of death, returned, at the hazard of his own life, to the stables in the mine, and effected the escape of an old man, the father of a large family, who would have perished but for his assistance. Mr. Sedgwick wished the above- named sum of money to be given to the man, with a suitable address, in the presence of his fellow- workmen, which was complied with on Tues- day by Mr. Peile, who went to Parton pit, where Brennau is now employed, and calling the men together, he paid a high compliment to Breunan's courage and humanity, and exhorted his fellow- workmen to follow his example in cases of similar emergency and danger.— Cumberland Pacquet. LAMENTABLE ACCIDENT IN NORTH WALES.— A most me- lancholy accident occurred there on Monday. A party of ladies, among whom was a Miss Anwyl, of Bala, had been visiting Tanybvvlch and Festiniog, and from thence visited the grand waterfalls of the Cynfael river. One of these falls consisted of three steep rocks, over which the water foams into a deep black rocky basin, overhung with perpen- dicular and projecting rocks. The female party from Bala visited this romantic spot, and the waters were thundering with the recent floods. One of the ladies, Miss Anwyl, sister of the highly respected family in Bala, became giddy and fell headlong from the rock to the boiling abyss below. It was long before assistance could be obtained from the village, nearly a mile distant. A man, secured by a rope round his waist, was let down from the top, who found the unfortunate lady immersed in a pool of water, and dead.— Shrewsbury paper. AN ACTIVE BISHOP.— On Tuesday Dr. Stanley ( Bishop of Norwich) presided at the meeting of the Norfolk and Norwich Church Missionary Society, and spoke earnestly and eloquently iu its behalf. O11 Wednesday, at the Bible Society, and1 on Thursday at the meeting for promoting Christianity among the Jews, he was present, and took part in the proceedings. On Monday evening he was present at the Temperance Festival at Nouvieh, at which he declared himself a convert to their principles. On the morning of the same day his lordship laid the first stone of the new Infant and British School at Catton— Norfolk Herald. DREADFUL MURDER AND SUICIDE.— CLIFTON ( BRISTOL), SEPT. 29 A circumstance occurred yesterday, which has thrown our beautiful village into a state of the utmost agita- tion and excitement. It may not generally be known, that at nearly the summit of a cliff rising 300 feet above the sur- face of the river Avon, and which is commonly styled St. Vincent's Rock, there is a hole or nearly circular aperture extending twenty or thirty yards inward, and to which an underground passage has lately been excavated by the pro- prietor of the Clifton observatory. About noon yesterday, an elderly gentleman, accompanied by a young and lovely female, appeared at the door of the observatory, and re- quested to be admitted to the Giant's Hole, as this cave is generally called. While one of the attendants went for a torch, which was to light them through the passage, the door- keeper observing that the gentleman seemed in a state of great excitement, muttering to himself in a low tone of voice, asked if he were not well, hinting that it might be better he should rest himself ere he ventured into the close air of the cavern. This intimation was either not heard or not heeded; but. the lady said, " I am much obliged to you for your attention, but my husband is subject to these fits of absence." The torch- bearer having performed his office, left them leaning over the balustrade at the outer entrance of the cave, enjoying the view of the picturesque landscape on each side ot them, and of the river rolling at their feet. What remains of this catastrophe can only be told by the people who were walking under the rocks at the time. They state that they saw a lady and gentleman leaning over the balustrade; the gentleman soon turned round, and could distinctly be perceived using violent gestures to the lady, who, terrified, sank to the ground, clinging to the railing; they then saw him attempt to lift her up by the waist, which she resisted, still holding fast to the iron rails, and uttering the most piercing screams. He at last succeeded in lifting her up to the top of the railing; the people at the observatory, hearing the cries, hastened to the scene, but not in time to save the victim; he had no sooner heard their footsteps than, with a jerk, he hurled her into the depths below; for a moment he steadfastly regarded the body of the unfortunate lady as it whirled round in the air and fell upon the grouud a disfigured mass, and then with a spring, and a demoniacal laugh at those who were on the point of seizing him, he cleared the barrier betwixt him and eter- nity; but a just Providence ordained that he should suffer acutely for his double crime; he fell upon a pointed pin. nacle of a rock, and there, impaled and writhing, the wretched man hung for nearly a minute; gradually his hold relaxed, his joints stiffened, and he fell heavily about ten yards from the body of his wife. Those who ran to the lady when she fell only heard her repeat these words— " My God, I am innocent." On inquiry it has been ascer- tained that they arrived at the Gloucester Hotel the night before, from London : but all attempts to discover the name or address of the parties has proved abortive. THE ISLAND OF JUAN FERNANDEZ— A paragraph has been going the round of the papers, stating that this island rendered celebrated by being generally believed to have been the spot on which Defoe placed Robinson Crusoe, had disappeared. A gentleman, well acquainted with the west coast of South America, states that there is not the slightest truth in the statement, the island having been seen, as usual, by seafaring men recently arrived from the Pacific. — Caledonian Mercury. [ The gravity of this contradiction is very edifying. Suppose any scribbler at a loss for a para- graph, should have stated that the island of Ireland, which was of volcanic origin, and had risen from the sea sometime or other, had suddenly sunk again, such a matter of fact per- son would have quoted the arrival of the Dublin steam- packet in proof of the report's being unfounded. The state- ment about Robinson Crusoe is equally good. Defoe's tale is alleged, 011 no very strong proofs, to have been founded on Selkirk's solitary residence at Juan Fernandez; but the locale of Robinson's intended shipwreck and hermi- tage, as every one knows that has read his veritable history, was at the mouth of the Amazons, on the opposite side of the American continent. The editor of The Mercury we presume, a member of the Statistical Society, and es- chews, like Mr. Slug, the perusal of works that are not true. J DEATH IN A STAGE COACH— An inquest was held at the Cock Inn, Barnet, 011 Wednesday, last week, on the body of Mr. Thomas Smith, an inside passenger of the Brilliant, Birmingham coach, who expired in that vehicle between South Mims and Barnet, about six o'clock on Tuesday morning. Deceased complained of illness on the road ; he did not appear unwell on getting into the coach; was ex- ceedingly sick at Daventry and Markyate- street, and seemed so much worse that the witness ( Samuel Harley, the guard) urged him to have medical advice and remain at the inn, offering to pay for a bed for him: no persuasion, however, could induce him to stop, being, as he said, anx ions to get home. Abont two miles from Barnet one of the passengers called out to witness that he thought the deceased was dead ; which, on the coach being pulled up, proved to to be the case. The jury found a verdict of " Died by the visitation of God."— Hertford Reformer. STATE OF TRADE We are exceedingly glad that we have it in our power to announce that the trade of our port is greatly improving, and that, at the present time, the timber trade is considerably better than it has been for several weeks past, notwithstanding the very large importations. The scene the Humber has lately daily presented, owing to the great arrival of large vessels from America and the Baltic, has been particularly splendid, and cannot have failed in giving every beholder, interested in the welfare of the town, the greatest satisfaction Hull Rockingham. The demand continues regular for all kinds of useful goods, and the wrought hands generally are in full employ. Business is safe; there is full confidence in prices and an absence of speculation— Leicester Mercury. The wool market seems to be stationary: it was about an average day. All the manufacturers, with the exception of two, have raised their wages, and have also promised a further advance.— Lofton Free Press. The anticipated increase of price 011 iron, which we an- nounced through our correspondent a short period since, has been realised, as an advance 011 bars of sixty- seven per cent, is now quoted, and corresponding terms on that of pigs. But this even is only nominal, as the iron- masters will not receive any orders but what are subject to the terms at which it may be sold when shipments are made, which, from their heavy demands, they will not submit to any period but what is discretionary with themselves.— Western Times. We are sorry to state that trade still continues in a very languishing state, both ill this place [ Arbroath] and Dundee. A considerable quantity of flax has been imported here during the last two or three weeks, but there is little or 110 improvement in the demand for linens; and, in the export fabrics, it is not thought there will be anything done till spring, by which time, it is hoped, commercial matters in America will have assumed a brighter aspect, and this great mart for our manufactures be once more opened up to British in lustry— Caledonian Mercury. Business has been very flat iu this town during the last few days; the cessation of purchases lor Russia, the unfa- vourable tenor of the American President's message, and the flatness in the Liverpool cotton market, have all pro- duced their share of effect on the demand for goods and yarn in this town.— Manchester Guardian. There has not this week been quite so much activity [ at Preston] in the cotton trade, as was the case in the two preceding weeks. There is 110 decline in public confidence, nor has any visible reduction taken place in the prices of either the raw or manufactured material.— Manchester Guardian. There is a comparative suspension of the large purchases of yarns which have recently been making for shipment, and the market is consequently quiet; nor, indeed, is it ex- pected that much will be done either in goods or twist, 011 continental account, until after the termination of the ap- proaching German fairs. There are no symptoms of want of confidenre, however, or of a decided decline of prices.— Macclesfield Paper. YOUTH RENEWED Thomas Holburn, 91 years of age, an inmate of Bedlington woikhoUse, and whohad been com- pletely blind for twelve years, had his sight suddenly re- stored whilst at dinner about ten days ago, and he is now going his rounds in the village, recognising his old acquaint- ances and haunts.— Newcastle Chronicle. MISCELLANEOUS. THE DUKE OF KENT Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent, died in the fifty- third year of his age, having been born No- vember 2, 1667. He was first, educated under Dr. John Fisher, late Bishop of Salisbury, who was afterwards the tutor of the Princess Charlotte; but at the age of seventeen, his royal highness was sent to Hanover with General Bude, a native of Switzerland, and high in the estimation of George the Third. While in Germany, he was subjected to all the strictness of the Prussian discipline ; and of its severity, as well as of his own conformity to military rules, he used to relate an anecdote, which we shall give in his own words. " Being placed as a cadet at Hanover, the regiment 011 duty was discharged in the usual form ; but the general commanding happened to forget to dismiss me, which was always accompanied with a distinct and peculiar ceremony. On this, I continued, in a very uneasy position, and was actually forgotten for four hours, when at length the commanding officer rode up, and apologised. I should have remained, but for this, at my post, until I had fainted with fatigue." This rigid tuition had a bad effect upon the royal duke, who became, in consequence, so severe a dis- ciplinarian himself, that when he obtained the command over British soldiers, his conduct made him enemies, and produced mutiny oftener than once. From Hanover, Prince Edward was removed to Geneva, and there re- mained, to complete his education, till the month of Janu- ary, 1790, when he returned to England without parental permission, and, in consequence, was sent off to Gibraltar. His stay there was short; for, in 1791, he was ordered to Canada, from whence, on the breaking out of the war, he proceeded to the West Indies, to join Sir Charles Grey, under whom he displayed great gallantry, in the attack 011 St. Lucie, and also in the capture of Guadaloupe and Mar- tinique. At the close of the campaign in 1794, the Prince returned to British America, and served as a major- general at Halifax till 1798, when, in consequence of a fall from his horse, he left that station for England. Iu April following, having attained his thirty- second year, he was created Duke of Kent; to support which dignity the annual allowance of 12,000/. was appropriated by Parliament. About the same time he was promoted to the rank of General of the army, and appointed commander- in- chief in North America, to which destination he proceeded in July; but ill health again soon obliged him to return, and he arrived in England in the autmn of 1800. In May, 1802, the duke went to Gib- raltar, as governor of that importat fortress; but this proved an untoward event, and, after the lapse of a few months, his royal highness was recalled, never more to be rein- stated in actual service. VISIT TO MOZART'S WIDOW AND SISTEH.— Madame told us that Mozart's voice was a tenor; his speaking tone gentle, unless when directing music; that then he became loud and energetic— would even stamp with his feet, and might be heard at a considerable distance. Six months be- fore his death, he was possessed with the idea that some of his enemies had given him Acqua Toffana, and had calcu- lated the precise time of his decease—" for which," he would exclaim, " they have ordered a Requiem. Yes, it is for myself I am writing this Requiem." His wife entreated him to lay it aside, assuring him that illness alone induced such ideas, and that when he was better he would resume the composition with renewed vigour. He yielded to her advice, and, to change the current of thought, composed a masonic ode, which was performed by the company for whom it was written, and much praised. He was present, and returned home quite elated. " Did I not know that I have written better," he said, " I should think this, from the applause it has obtained, the best of my works. How absurd was my notion of having taken poison,— yes, 1 must have been ill, but now give me back the requiem, and I will proceed with it." In a few days, however, his illness re- turned, and he relapsed into his former idea of having been poisoned. He wrote the " Recordare" and principal parts first; saying, " if I do not live to complete the work, these are of the greatest consequence." When he had sketched the principal parts, he sang them over with his wife and Sussmayer, and during the performance was several times affected even to tears. Afterwards lie called Sussmayer to him, toJ bserve his directions, if he ( Mozart) should die be- fore the work was completed. The fugue written at the commencement, he desired might be repeated, and showed how he wished those parts to be filled up, which were al- ready sketched out. It was in consequence of this filling up, that Sussmayer afterwards, falsely and ungenerously wrote to Breitkopf and Hartel, music- sellers of Leipsic, that he had written the principal part of this celebrated re- quiem : but, as Madame justly observed, any one could have supplied what he had done, after the sketching out and precise directions of Mozart; and that nothing which Suss- mayer ever composed, either before or after, proved him to possess the least talent of a similar kind. Three days be- fore Mozart's death, he received from the Emperor the ap- pointment of music- director at St. Stephen's; a situation that was of comparative^ competence, and at once removed him from the cabals of Salieri and others. He wept bitterly, and exclaimed " It is too late ; now that I might enjoy a little leisure, and write something worthy of the inspiration I feel, I must die." It was his highest ambition to have written an oratorio in the style of Handel; but it seems, as if predestined, that the composer of the " Messiah" and " Israel in Egypt," should stand alone and unrivalled in that style, by the removal of the only one who could possi- bly have surpassed him— Musical World. PRACTICAL MEASURES. [ From the Spectator of September 30.3 THE CIVIL LIST AND ITS PENSIONS. In Parliamentary and official language, the Civil List is granted to the sovereign in lieu of the hereditary and oc- casional revenues of the crown, which have been surren- dered to the public. This assertion, however,, is a mere abstract historical fact, which becomes ridiculous or fraudu- lent if any practical conclusion is to be grounded upon it; for out of these revenues the monarch had to carry on the whole civil government of the country,— to maintain both army and navy in time of peace, if he kept any, and in time of war too, if he required a larger force and for a longer period than his subjects were bound by their feudal or char tered obligations to provide. The Civil List now can only be looked upon as a provision made by the nation for its first magistrate, in which ample allowance should be granted for his personal comfort and public dignity; and we mean by dignity, such a state and display as the customs and circumstances of the country manifestly require— not what a philosopher might, abstractedly speaking, deem dig- nity, or a mere economist might think enough on looking to the practice of America, or to other countries, where the habits of the people are less luxurious and ostentatious, or the nation at large less wealthy. But whilst liberality should even lean towards profusion in all that regards the necessary expenses of the crown, everything should be | rigidly banished from the Civil List which merely forms a bait for the noble and needy intriguers of a party,'. furnishes a source of patronage to a minister, or enables him to make his sovereign's expenses a cloak for gratuities and grants which neither in themselves nor in their origin he dared venture to bring before Parliament. And this caution is now more especially necessary, when the throne is filled by a young woman, whom the law, were she a subject, would still con- sider an infant, than if the sovereign were a man practised in the courtly world, and capable of eomprehending the nature of all the transactions for which it might be desired to make him a screen. Proceeding to apply these views, we must observe on starting, that the materials for the inquirer aie very scanty. Up to the death of George the Fourth, the Civil List was fiamed to appear as if the cost of the civil government was really defrayed by the sovereign. The salaries of the jud ges, ambassadors, and some civil officers, with the di- plomatic pensions, and several other items of expenditure, were charged upon it; and as the grant was made for the life of the sovereign, and it was held to be indecent and disloyal to inquire into the particulars of the expenditure, it became a fruitful field for abuses, and swelled to a large amount. The Civil List of George the Fourth exceeded 1,160,000/. ; and it was upon the point of separating the miscellaneous charges from the regal expenses, that the Duke of Wellington's ministry chose to be driven from power. When the Whigs succeeded to office, they substan- tially shirked the question referring the whole to a com- mittee, and thus shifting the labour anh responsibility from themselves. This committee reported, " that it is expedient that the Civil List should be applied only to such expenses as affect the dignity and state of the crown, and the proper maintenance of the majesty's household." They also sug- gested, with a sort of formal flourish, a saving of eleven thousand five hundred and twenty- nine pounds ten shillings, in an expenditure of more than half a million! The com- mittee morever recommended, that the interests of the pensioners on the Civil List should be preserved intact; as, although their legal right determined on the demise of the crown, yet, having hitherto been continued for life, the re- cipients might have made arrangements on the faith of that expectancy. At the same time, they suggested that the royal or ratfcer ministerial power of granting Civil List pensions should be limited for the future to 75,000/.; and proposed that the balance of the existing pensions on the Civil List of George the Fourth above that amount should be transferred to the consolidated fund. All these sugges- tions were confirmed by the House; the Tories only ob- jecting to the reductions, and to the change from mystery to simplicity; the staunch economists taking it as a first step towards an improved system, and as a compact for the Reform bill, and reserving themselves for a future occasion. The Civil List thus granted was arranged into the five following classes. I. Their Majesty's Privy Purse. Tlie^ King — — £ 60,000 The Queen 50,000 £ 110,000 II. Salaries of His Majesty's Household , 119,344 III. Expenses of His Majesty's Household 171.500 IV. Charities and Special and Secret Service „ 22,623 V. Pensions — — ,— 75,000 £ 498,470 No attempt was made to give the details of this expendi- ture, except in the second and fourth classes; and there they are so few, and the unenumerated particulars so jum- bled together, that they rather appear as if designed to shun inquiry than to satisfy an inquirer. We must, however, go through them as well as we can ; only hoping that if the Civil List be relegated to a committee in November next, it will neither display so much affectation of fastidious deli- cacy, nor shroud matters in so much mystery. And first of the The King The Queen FIRST CLASS. Their Majesty's Privy Purse. . £ 60,000 . 50,000 £ 110,000 This expenditure seems to be the pocket or pin money of royalty. In fixing its amount, the committee observe, that " from the nature of the subject, they could have no data on which to form their opinion ; they, therefore, in the case of the Queen consort, had recourse to precedent, by which alone they were guided. In consequence of Queen Victoria being unmarried, a tempoiary saving of 50,000/. or 60,000/. will take place ; but a precedent on this momentous point cannot well be consulted, because the last era of a female Sovereign, Queen Anne's, is too remote to be applicable to the present times. Reason must therefore decide the point; and as 60,000/. was the allowance to George the Fourth as well as to William, and as that sum there- fore seems to be affixed to the exerciser of sovereignty, we dare say the nation will have no objection to the larger amount, SECOND CLASS. Salaries of His Majesty's Household ™ £ 119,344 The Royal Household seems to be regulated according to the old feudal or baronial system, being distributed into four divisions. 1. The Lord Chamberlain's department; which regulates and enforces etiquette, and attends to the personal wants of majesty. 2. The Lord Steward's; which should keep the accounts, attend to the household economy, and look after the carnal comfort of majesty and its servants. 3. The department of the Master of the Horse; whose name indicates its object. 4. The Master of the Robes; which department also explains itself in its title. We have already stated that this is the only class of the Civil List in which any details are presented, as well as re- marked upon their inefficiency. The system pursued by the committee was only to enumerate those salaries of the officers of state in which they recommended a reduction ; and as their recommendations were few and timorous enough, the greater part of these honorary, though overpaid functionaries, are excluded. As regards the menial servants of royalty, no inquiries were made; the committee " not thinking it consistent with the respect due to His Majesty to scrutinise the details of his household." There can be no wonder that such a dissatisfactory report emanated from a body animated by such servile ideas! Even in giving the amount of the offices and superannuations not reduced, they neither chose to state the amount of pay distinctly from the pensions, nor to separate the sum paid to officers of State from that to menial servants. If ministers intend again to delegate this subject to a committee, the country will ex- pect a different result; and we promise that it shall not be hidden under a bushel. Such as the data are, however, we give them. The names are those of the officers who held the appointments at the late King's death. Lord Chamberlain's Department. £. £. Lord Chamberlain— Marquis of Conyngham 2,000 Vice Chamberlain— Lord C. Fitzroy 700 Groom of the Stole— Marquis of Winchester 1,500 Lords and Grooms of the Bedchamber, ( numbers not stated) „ ™ 10,000 Captain and Band of Gentlemen Pensioners 3,600 Captain and Yeomen ™ ™ ™ 500 Four Physicians to the Person 400 Two Surgeons to the Person 200 Offices and superannuations not reduced Lord Steward's Department. Lord Steward— Duke of Argyle Treasurer of the Household— Sir W. Free- Comptroller of the Household— Rt. Hon. G. S. Byng — — — Secretary of the Lord Steward 18,900 38,124 57,024 Offices and Superannuations not reduced, Master of the Horse's Department. Master of the Horse— Earl of Albemarle, Chief Equerry and Clerk Marshal ™ . Four Equerries Four Pages of Honour „ ™ Veterinary Surgeon „ ™ Equerry Crown Stables Offices and Superannuations not reduced Master of the Robes' Department. Master of the Robes— Sir George Seymour 2,000 500 500 750 3,750 31,255 35,005 26,465 850 £ 119,344 With regard to the domestics of royalty, nothing, we conceive, should be looked at beyond the general fitness of the establishments. It is not seemly for a nation to be squabbling about a footman more or less in the household of its sovereign; but as respects the officers of state, one simple rule of reduction should be acted upon,— that where the duties are none, or merely formal, the salary should be abolished, or be fixed at an amount equivalent to the direct outlay the post may impose upon the party filling it. To this proposal we cannot see a valid objection, either in prin- ciple or practice. As an invariable rule, the persons filling these offices should be chosen from the first nobility or gentry, both in fortune and respectability. From their condition, such persons must have ample means, which their character will have prevented them from squandering; and unless we misjudge the spirit of the better part of the English aristocracy, they would rather that an office which is virtually honorary should be made so in reality. Can it be supposed that the Countess of Durham or the Dutchess of Sutherland really regards the emolument of Lady in Waiting, whatever it be? Could the salary of the Lord Chamberlain be an object to the Duke of Devonshire, or to any nobleman who could worthily fill the post? And, mutatis mutandis, the same remark applies to all such offices. It will perhaps be said, that " these arguments may sound very well in theory, but that practically it would be difficult to procure proper persons to fill the posts, if the salaries were reduced as we propose." Such an assumption, however, is contrary to everything we see around us. The glitter of a court, the frequent communication with royalty, its real or supposed friendship, and the fashionable consider- ation these offices bestow, would always procure manv more candidates than there are places; audit must be re. membered that those who desire these posts are the best indeed the only persons, fitted for them. The cost of a commission in a crack regiment would purchase an annuity nearly if not quite as large as the pay it returns; yet we see men of family striving to. enter these regiments,- subjecting themselves to the direct charge of mess and uniforms as well as t9 the incidental expenses, and submitting to all the re- straints and exposure of military duty, ( for even home dutv has its marches in bad weather,) for the social distinction t. iey bestow. And in many other pursuits, and in society far greater inconveniences and expenses are encountered for a similar object. To use the usual argument of public spendthrifts when hard pushed, that reducing the salarv might shut out talent without wealth, would be absurd ialent fitted to " shine in courts," can only be formed amongst the wealthy and the noble. The people are not ikely to suffer by any change in the pay of Lords Chamber- lain, Grooms of the Stole, or Lords of the Bedchamber. We _ can indeed conceive a possible case, where the sovereign may have a personal regard for an individual whose means are scanty, and that he might wish to increase them by a nominal post. Under such circumstances, there are ample funds at the disposal of royalty, as we shall pre- sently show, for increasing the salary. If the " delicacy" ot the parties should shrink from such an arrangement, such delicacy, like virtue, must be its own reward. No ra- tional person will maintain that public offices with large and unnecessary salaries are to be kept up, because persons them J W'th Wh° m ! t W0U'd be a" ° bjeCt hold Upon the whole, we conclude, or rather we conjecture, that if the salaries of the household were examined by a liberal ( we do not ask for a severe) economy, a savine of from 30,000/ to 40,000/. a year might be effected, wliicl?, with the 50,000/. from the Privy Purse, is no trifle. THIRD CLASS. Expenses of His Majesty's household ™ £ 171,500 This sum appears to be the cost of feeding and clothing the bipeds and quadrupeds of the royal establishments. According to the committee, this is done at the cheapest rate; but, as the passage is a curious example of blind reliance upon fact and of rigmarole in expression, we quote it— " The committee next proceeded to inquire into the third class, that for the expenditure in the departments of the Lord Steward, Lord Chamberlain, Master of the Horse, and Master of the Robes. They had rio means of investi- gating the details of this expenditure; but, being satisfied from the information of the late as well as by the present Chancellor of the Exchequer, that these different expenses were managed with every view to economy, and that it would be impossible for His Majesty's expenses to be re- duced to a smaller amount, either according to any estimate which could be made for the future, or by reference to the experience of the time which has elapsed since His Majesty acceded to the throne; and feeling that it is not the wish of any part of the people to curtail the hospitality or in- terfere with the comfort of the sovereign, they recom- mend that the amount alotted to this class should be 171,500/." If they had no means, why did they not ask for them? What is the use of tliQ Steward's department, if it does not fulfil its chief function of keeping the household accounts ? The Lord Steward, we dare say, could not have rendered them any information,— for which reason we propose the abolition of his salary; but surely his secretary, or the Treasurer of the Household, or their respective clerks, could have furnished the same particulars as any well- regu- lated private house can produce. Mark, too, the logic of legislators. They have no means of investigation, but a Chancellor and an Ex tell them no reduction can be made; and therefore they are " satisfied," though it does not appear that these functionaries had better " means" than themselves; and no one will conceive either Lord Althorp or Mr. Goulburn to be such conjurors, that their judgment is immaculate upon the unseen and the unknown. We are ready to re- echo the committee's remark, that it is " not the wish of any part of the people to curtail the hos- pitality, or interfere with the comfort of the Sovereign;" but, having been taught by the declamations of the Whigs out of office, that the name of the sovereign was only used as a cloak for waste and profusion, they may wish to ascer- tain whether it be true or false. In this, of course, as in the preceding list, a general view only is desirable. No one proposes to haggle about jugs of ale or joints of mutton. The only question is as to the propriety of any particular branch of the establishment, which, originating in feudal times, may now have become useless, or unadapted to the age. The following are the heads of the FOURTH CLASS. Royal bounty and special service £ 8,500 Alms and charities „„ 3,126 Poor of London 1,000 Home secret service ^ 10,000 £ 22,626 From the very nature of this expenditure, its details would seem not open to investigation. The sums might be considered too large, but the expenditure itself was properly secret. The committee, however, went into this, and made a reduction of 500/. from the first item, and of Hi. ( how virtuously exact 1) from the second. As we propose to free the Civil List of " our Maiden Queen" altogether from the od iHm and discredit of the Pension List, we conceive this class— upwards of 20,000/. of which is of the nature of a pension- fund— might stand as it is. FIFTH CLASS. Pensions ,— — — — £ 75,000 This very unpopular and exciteable subject may be con- sidered under two heads; the past and the future. We will take the past first. Although entertaining strong opinions 011 the subject of pensions, we have not been so forward as some of our con- temporaries in pressing it upon the public; because we con- sidered that this identical amount was not very material in a financial view; that a sort of compact had been made with the late King, in which the nation got the Reform Bill in exchange for the Pension List; that the grant, moreover, was legally given to the King for his life; and that the time for regulating the terms of a bargain is when you are making it, and not after you have signed and sealed. Now, how- ever, the right is at an end; and the proper, indetd, con- sidering the feelings of the country, the only course, we conceive, is to subject the claims of the pensioners to an examination— rather equitable, however, than legal. But the House must be aware of being jockied. On the death of George IV., the gross amount of the Civil List Pensions was 170,000/., reduced by duties and fees ( no longer pay- able) to 145,750/. The Civil List Pensions of William were fixed at 75.000/., ( now reduced by deaths or resigna- tions to 58,668/.) being transferred to the Consolidated Fund. It is possible that many of the worst of the pen- sions were thus transferred, 011 the chance of keeping them out of sight. Unless, therefore, members of Parliament look shaip, they will be diddled, and be also made tools of for deluding the country. We trust that Mr. Harvey, who has taken possession of this question, and that members who are pledged to vote upon it, will hear this fact in mind. At all events, it will be our " congenial vocation" to scruti- nise closely the proceedings upon what is called the Pension List. . With respect to the future, we would earnestly suggest that pensions should be entirely removed from the Civil List. Bad as we hold all pensions to be in principle— ex- pensive and profuse, as we shall shortly endeavour to prove thein in practice— these Civil List Pensions are the worst of the kind. All the others are only granted on applica- tion to Parliament, or under some of its acts, or in pursu- ance of some office regulation ; and legitimate service is always the pretence, and generally the reality of their grant, however improper the grant may be in its nature or its amount. But the Civil List Pensions are bestowed at the pleasure of the minister, without responsibility, regulation, or check. They have been granted for no service, or for the worst of service; their tendency, if they operate at all, must be to lower the spirit of the aristocracy, and to train its more needy members to the practice of those arts by which admission on it is procured, and to infuse into them the feelings of paupers. Nor is there any valid public rea- son that we can see to counterbalance its evils. A few names in science or literature— a few relatives of men who have served their country against her enemies— may have been placed there as outposts to parade before the public; but these are all of any worth, and these are unseemly. It is not fit that the poet or the philosopher, or the relations of a lieio. should be placed upon tile same level as the minions of a court, the adepts in back- stairs intrigue, or persons of a still less reputable character. These, however, are naked assertions. A few examples in the form of an account, will slisw the matter more clearly. Running over the Civil List as it stood at the death of George IV., the only names that we see connected with literature or science, are the late Dr. Gillies, the his- torian of Greece, and, we believe, royal historiographer,— which explains his pension ; Robert Southey, the Tory poet- laureate; and the widow of Colonel Congreve, rocket inventor and royal favourite. From 1830 till 1835, distin- guished names are scant; South, the royal astronomer, being the only one under the Grey administration. Of late they have become more numerous; for which, however, the Tories are to be thanked. When Peel last came into power, one of his claptraps was pensioning for popularity, and on Lord Melbourne's reinstatement he imitated his an THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, OCTOBER 14. 3 tagonist,— which explains the names from Airey downwards on the left hand side of the following account, arid which contains the whole charge, past, or present, for letters, science, or art. In the heroic way, on the death of George IV., we find nothing certain, except ( proh pudor !) Ann Countess Dow- ager of Mornington. We had an impression that the daughters of Collingwood had been used to bolster up the list, but we cannot find them. The names ol Wolfe, Rod- ney, and Duncan, are indeed there, with very miserable pittances attached to them ; but whether they are any rela- tions to the great commanders we do not know. The pensions to the grandchildren of poor Sheridan are hardly to be censured ; but no one will dream of keeping up a Pension List for any such purposes as this, especially when he looks at the wretched amount of the dole, and compares it with the allowance to Mrs. Fox, a connexion of the noble family of Holland. Nor ought they in strictness to stand on the side of the account where we have placed theiti: however, we can afford to be charitable with such a statement as we exhibit below. The names themselves explain the nature of the right hand side of the table. This list might easily have been ex- tended ; but enough is given to show the character of the larger pensions, and a few small ones are added to display the delicate spirit of aristocratical pensioners. The reader will observe that some of the parties are dead ; and he will, of course, understand that the object is not to give a table of the names 011 the Civil List Pensions as they exactly stood at any given time, but to show the uses to which it has been turned. LITERATURE AND SCIENCE. * Dr. John Gillies, Historian of Greece — Mrs. Congreve, widow of Colonel Congreve, in- ventor of the rockets .— — Mrs. Maturin, widow of the novelist and drama- tist — — — — — Robert Southey — — ,—, — Sir James South, Astronomer Royal, granted in 1831 — — — — — — PEEL'S POPULARITY PENSIONS. Richard Airey ™ Robert Southey ( additional) Mrs. Somerville, astronomer ™ James Montgomery, poet Sharon Turner, historian £ 184 s. d. 0 0 311 0 0 155 300 0 0 300 300 200 150 200 MELBOURNE S IMITATIONS OF PEEL. Mrs. Somerville ( additional) 100 0 0 Thomas Moore, the lyric poet, historian, and biographer , . ™ 300 0 0 Michael Faraday, the philosopher and chemist 300 0 0 John Banim, the novelist 150 0 0 Dr. John Dalton, the chemist 150 0 0 Sir David Brewster, astronomer Sir William Ouseley, Orientalist „ w » Miss Mitford, author of Our Village 200 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 £ 3,546 0 0 NAMESAKES OF GREAT MEN. Hon. Ann. Rodney . , „ John Rodney „„. . „, Jane Rodney . . „ ™ m Anne Rodney , , „„. „ Sarah Rodney , , . , „ Williamina Duncan ™ „ Ann Wolfe „„, . „ Helen S. Sheridan „ Caroline E. S. Sheridan ( Mrs. Norton) ,„ Jane Georgiana Sheridan „~ „. Francis C. Sheridan ,„ Charles K. Sheridan ™ „ 76 19 0 88 1 0 88 1 0 88 1 0 88 1 0 39 10 0 40 8 6 6 6 6 6 C 57 1 57 1 57 1 57 1 57 1 Total of Literature, & c. £ 4,340 0 0 Amount of Royal and Noble Pensions, as below — — 129,348 0 0 Total of Civil List Pensions £ 133,6 0 0 Viz— Civil List of William Fourth 75,000 Still payable from Consolidated Fund 58,688 133,688 0 0 500 500 ROYAL PENSIONS. George Fitzclarence, Earl of Munster; who resigned it, when it was regranted to his wife 500 0 0 Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence Lord Frederick Fitzclarence Sidney, Adelaide Augusta Wilheimina, Earnes- tine Wellington, and Sophia Phillipa, and to the survivor „„ „„ Lord Errol and family ™ , , Duke of Sussex's family „ ™ , 500 0 668 0 934 0 Mrs. Ashworth's family Lord Auckland and his sisters NOBLE OR NOBLY- CONNECTED PENSIONS. Lord Elphinstone , 300 Lord Allen and family „ ™ „„ 640 * Mrs. Harriet Arbuthnot ™ 938 1,781 701 Mrs. Bankhead, widow of Castlereagh's phy- sician 350 Lord Bathurst's family 1,400 Lady Elizabeth Baker, sister to the Duke of Leinster , „„ 461 Lord de Blaquiere „ ™ „ ™ 1,937 Lady Catlicart „ ™ 389 Lord Caithness's family ™ 722 The Cockburn family 1,453 Lady Clare, the notorious Fitzgibbon's widow ' 80 Thomas Peregrine Courtnay, his family 1,300 The Dyson family „ 893 Lady Louisa Murray, wife of Sir George 233 Mrs. and Miss Fox, widow and daughter of Charles James 1,214 Lord Gifford , 800 Goddard family „ ™ „ ™ 702 Hamilton family , ™ 922 Marquis of Tweeddale's family 300 Lord Hereford ™ 600 Lord Huntingdon and family 622 Sir William Johnston 738 Colonel Leigh, brother- in- law to Lord Byron 700 Lord Minto ™ . . 9S8 Lady Milnes, relation of the Duke of Portland 1,002 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Lord Montford ™ „ 611 Countess of Mulgrave ^ ™ 800 Lord Portmore „ ™ 509 Dame Mary ltae, wife of the Tory Lord Advo- cate „„ 660 Earl of Rothes and family ™ 601 Lieut.- Col. M. Shaw ~~ ™ 999 Sir Robert Shaw ™ 714 Sir Culling Smith's family ™ 755 0 0 Lord Strangford and family 687 0 0 Mrs. Tierney, widow of the Right Hon. George 400 0 0 Mr. James Moore, brother of Sir John, and his biographer, Napier's Cain, Cain, & c., & c. ™ 780 0 0 Lady Westmeath „ ™ 386 0 0 Lady Charlotte Murray Macgregor „,„ 97 Captain George Drummond( De Melfont) 97 Lady Maria Dillon ™ ™ 43 Countess Dowager of Errol 88 1 0 Hon. Harriett Sewell „ ™ 88 1 0 Varieties of the same genus . „ 94,414 0 0 0 0 0 0 18 0 Total of Royal and Noble Pensions £ 129,348 0 0 There are nearly forty peers, or their families, pensioners on the Civil Lisf; among them are six dukes, four marquises, and eight earls; and the liberality with which the do- nothings or doers of ill are rewarded is very striking, when contrasted with the pensions to merit. The services of Lord de Blaqutere ( does any one on this side of the water know who he is?) are estimated to be six times more valuable than those of his countryman " the poet of all circles;" the reputation of Mrs. Arbuthnot was estimated by the granters of Civil List pensions as excelling Mrs. Somerville's three- fold; the fame of Lady Louisa Murray is valued by the same parties as superior to that of the excel- lent and gifted Miss Mitford by 150 per cent. ; and the dulness of the Bathursts ( fully provided for in many other public departments) is considered more valuable to the nation than the philosophical genius of Faraday, by just 365 per cent. After all this, we can still suppose the existence of a feel- ing that the sovereign should have the means of rewarding old servants; whilst many, unconsciously biassed by the notions they have drawn from the splendid reign of Louis the Fourteenth, will be apt to hold that to pension letters and science is the peculiar province of royalty. Be it so— they will find ample funds in existence for both these heads of expense, as well as for any peculiar individual whom the Queen may delight to honour. The Privy Purse is 60,000/. a year; the Royal Bounty and Special anil Secret Service ( not the real secret service annually voted) 18,500?. ; and the Superannuation Allowances to the Household, ex- pressly retained by the committee for the purpose of pen- sioning old servants, instead of being transferred to the Consolidated Fund, doubtless amount to 10,000/. or 15,000/. more at the least, making altogether upwards of 90,000/. to be expended at pleasure. Should this, however, be deemed insufficient, add another 10,000/. to the Royal Bounty; which is more than double the sum spent on proper objects for this last quarter of a century. But if Lord Melbourne knows what is best for himself, and can comprehend what is due to the mora! dignity and regal character of his Sove- " reign, he will take steps to separate her name from the • odious Pension List, if he do not advise the Queen herself . to recommend it from the Throne, LITERATURE. STATISTICAL JOURNAL, NO. 1.— Pixley, London.— The title of this periodical sufficiently indicates the nature of its contents. The papers are of various lengths and values. The best is that on Crime, which contains many curious particulars. A statistical maga- zine is a magazine of materials. The arranging and construction of these materials, and their application to social uses belongs to another and higher branch of literature. The searcher out of facts is not, however, to be despised. If lie effect little of himself, he enables others to effect a great deal. Still there is little in his labours that is extractable. Instead, therefore, of taking from the statistical magazine, of which we may say, in general terms, that it is neatly, and, so far as we can judge, carefully got up, our readers will pro- bably be better pleased with an extract from Bentley's very clever and humorous parody on the labours of the Statistical Society, which we quote with one remark, that parody pre- supposes merit in the subject which it travesties, and tiiat it is no serious condemnation of the really useful labours of the society that they have furnished to the humour- loving author of " Oliver Twist" an occasion of indulging himself and the pub- lic with a hearty but harmless laugh— SECTION C.— STATISTICS. HAY- TOFT, ORIGINAL PIG. President, Mr. Woodensconse— Vice- Presidents, Mr. Ledbrain and Mr. limbered. Mr. Slug stated to the section the result of some calcu- lations he had made with great difficulty and labour, regard- ing the state of infant education among the middle classes of London. He found that, within a circle of three miles from the Elephant and Castle, the following were the names and numbers of children's books principally in circu- lation:— Jack the Giant- killer 7,943 Ditto and Bean- stalk 8,621 Ditto and Eleven Brothers 2,845 Ditto and Jill 1,998 Total 21,407 He found that the proportion of Robinson Crusoes to Philip Quarlls was four and a half to one, and that the pre- ponderance of Valentine and Orsons over Goody Two Shoeses was as three and an eighth of the former to half a one of the latter: a comparison of Seven Champions with Simple Simons gave the same result. The ignorance that prevailed was lamentable. One child, on being asked whe- ther he would rather be Saint George of England or a respectable tallow- chandler, instantly replied," Taint George of Ingling." Another, a little boy of eight years old, was found to be firmly impressed with a belief in the existence of dragons, and openly stated that it. was his intention, when he grew up, to rush forth, sword in hand, for the de- liverance of captive princesses, and the promiscuous slaughter of giants. Not one child among the number in- terrogated had ever heard of Mungo Park— some inquiring whether he was at all connected with the black man that swept the crossing, and others whether he was in any way related to the Regent's Park. They had not the slightest conception of the commonest principles of mathematics, and considered Sinbad the Sailor the most enterprising voyager that the world had ever produced. A Member strongly deprecating the use of all the other books mentioned, suggested that Jack and Jill might per- haps be exempted from the general censure, inasmuch as the hero and heroine, in the very outset of the tale, were depicted as going up a hill to fetch a pail of water, which was a laborious and useful occupation— supposing the family linen was being washed, for instance. Mr. Slug feared that the moral effect of this passage was more than counterbalanced by another in a subsequent part of the poem, in which very gross allusion was made to the mode in which the heioine was personally chastised by her mother For laughing: at Jack's disaster; besides, the whole work had this one great fault, it was not true. The President complimented the honourable member on the excellent distinction he had drawn. Several other members, too, dwelt upon the immense and urgent neces- sity of storing the minds of children with nothing but facts and figures, which process the President very forcibly re- marked, had made them ( the section) the men they were. Mr. Slug then stated some curious calculations respecting the dogs'- meat barrows of London. He found that the total number of small carts and barrows engaged in dispen- sing provisions to the cats and dogs of the metropolis, was one thousand seven hundred and forty- three. The average number Of skewers delivered daily with the provender, by each dogs'- meat cart or barrow, was thirty- six. Now, mul- tiplying the number of skewers so delivered by the number of barrows, a total ofsixty- two thousand seven hundred and forty- eight skewers daily would be obtained. Allowing that, of these sixty- two thousand seven hundred and forty- eight skewers, the odd two thousand seven hundred and forty- eight were accidentally devoured with the meat, by the most voracious of the animals supplied, it followed that sixty thousand skewers per day, or the enormous number of twenty- one millions nine hundred thousand skewers annu- ally, were wasted in the kennels and dust- holes of London, which, if collected and warehoused, would, in ten years' time, afford a mass of timber more than sufficient for the construction of a first- rate vessel of war for the use of Her Majesty's navy, to be called " The Royal Skewer," and to become under that name the terror of all the enemies of this island. Mr. X. Ledbrain read a very ingenious communication, from which it appeared that the total number of legs be- longing to the manufacturing population of one great town in Yorkshire was, in round numbers, forty thousand, while the total number of chair and stool legs in their houses was only thirty thousand, which, upon the very favourable average of three legs to a seat, yielded only ten thousand seats in all. From this calculation it would appear— not taking wooden or cork legs into the account, but allowing two legs to every person— that ten thousand individuals ( one half of the whole population) were either destitute of any rest for their legs at all, or passed the whole of their leisure time in sitting upon boxes. BRITISH AND FOREIGN REVIEW, NO. X.— We have been able to give 110 more than a glance at this number. We shall give some extracts, and a more lengthened notice of it next week. I11 the mean time, we can say, from the examination that we have bestowed on it, that it maintains its character as a publication of great ability, as well as moderation. The largest papers in the present number, are 011 our commercial relations with Turkey, and the American Commercial Crisis. Both subjects are highly impor- tant, and both are diligently handled. POCKET BYRON.— The second volume of Don Juan, and the tenth of the series, which is now before us, completes the pocket edition. The concluding volume is, in all respects, equal to its precursors, paper, ty- pography, illustrations— Balgonie's Brig. In no- ticing, for the last time, this work, we think it only justice to the publisher, to advert once more to the arrangement by which, while the ten volumes form a whole, unexampled for elegance and cheapness, each section of the ten is so arranged, as to be independent altogether of the rest. Though there are few that would choose to possess Lord Byron's works in bits, there are many, who, while they kept the larger and more imposing edition of the same publisher for the lib- rary, would like, during the shooting tour, at the water- ing'place, in the stage coach, the steam- boat, to have the Childe, or Don Juan, or the Dramas, for casual perusal. The pocket edition offers, to the stationary, au easy op- portunity of obtaining the whole works of Byron, whilst it holds out an equal advantage to the rambling, by the facility which it gives of selecting for extra- foraneous amusement, those portions that they may happen to prefer. _ GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY.— Another road- book for the amusement and instruction of the travellers by the Railway, has been published by our townsman, Mr. Drake. In plan it resembles, of necessity, its predecessor. The traveller is conveyed in regular course from Birmingham to Liverpool or Manchester, and at the various halting points in his progress, the wonders, great and small, that lie on his left hand and his right, arc pointed out, and their claims to his notice pleasantly, though succintly detailed. We owe to the compiler our thanks for having transferred from our fleeting columns to his more permanent record the piece of poetry entitled " Fast and Slow," which appeared in the Journal some weeks ago. " Drake's Road Book," is very neatly got up, and is illustrated with a map of the railway, and also a section of the levels, the times of starting, fares, and numerous par- ticulars " too tedious to mention," though all of them very proper for railway travellers to know. AUTHORLINGS.— One of the most common tricks of the tribe of small compilers is to throw off, in a sepa- rate sheet, the supposed best things in their volume or volumes, by way of saving the discriminate critic to whom they may happen to be addressed, the labour of selection. A few improving 011 this species of impu- dence, do not scruple to transmit the sheet of extracts without the work, trusting, that from the laziness or occupation of the editor, they may still contrive to glean a little praise. Now we feel for the editor in these and in all oases, and would not willingly deprive him of any advantage, however small. We would punish at the same time the impertinence of the quacks, who at present trade 011 his good nature and lack of leisure. We advise the editor, therefore, and we shall follow our own advice in this particular, always to use the extracts sent him if worth using, but sedulously to avoid quoting any authority. Half a year's per- sistence in this plan will effectually put down the system. THE QUEEN AND THE DUKE. ( ilORY O'MOORE'S VERSION. ) [ An ex- Scotch member, a grave religious matter of fact man, Major Cumming Bruce, at a political dinner a few days ago, stated that the Queen, having been interrogated respecting her matrimonial views by Lord Melbourne, sharply answered that there was but one man in the king- dom she sighed for, and that was the Duke of Wellington! At the time of the Catholic bill we remember its being an- nounced by the Tory organs that the Marquis of Douro was meant to be the happy man ; but the Duke was not then a widower. As the version of Major Bruce is rather succinct, we copy from The Chronicle the following detailed account.] TO DANIEL O'CONNELL. King Arthur reigns in England, lu Ireland reigns King Dan, The Queen in Windsor CaBtle; Dethrone them if you can. Honoured Sir,— Our bread is baked black; and your fine spikulations about Mastbur Johnny go for nothing. The match is made, 6ure enough; Counsellor Prate is drawing up the marriage articles, and the Queen is to be married 0' Michaelmas morning to the Duke of Wellington. I seen an empty coach and four rowlin away from the Castle this morning, with nothing at all in it barrin Mr. Hudson, and they tould me he was flyin post to fetch up the Archbishop of Exeter to tie the happy knot. O wirra strue, if a body could a' thought she'd fancy so ould a boy as that, ' tis your- self we'd a' put in nomination for the state long ago. Now, don't go for to suppose that ' tis wantin to ampose upon your innosense I am. Not a word o' lie in it. I hard it from a Consarvative, and by coorse, you no, it must be true. There's one Cummins, a High Lander, up at the Castle, a runner to the Wally de Sham of the King that was, and now a soart of suppernumery tay- boy of the backstairs; he was put into the sarvice by a natheral first cousin of his own— Squire Bruce they call him— who had a power of in- fluence in th' ould times ( I dar say you knew something about him in the Parliament House). This chap— not Squire Bruce, but his cousin Cummins— is all and all with the Queen's under- housemaid's deputy's assistant's own maid; and that's the lake that the whole murder came out through, jist as I'm going to tell it to you. One morning last week this Miss Emily Mugs, Sawny Cummins's Dezdymonia, was in her turn of duty down 011 her marrowbones, brightnin the bars of the grate in the Queen's Boord- o'- war— a soart of a drawing- room— where she houlds discoorse with Lord Palmerston and the rest of the ministhurs; when who would walk in hut Her Majesty and the master of the band, Lord Melbourne himself, to give awgents to one another upon the affairs of the nation. They talked about Lord Hill and the army, Sir James Graham and the navy, and Father Crotty and the Church ; then passed some remarks upon the King of Francg and his Protestant daughter- in- law, the King of Beljam and his Roman wife, and the Queen of Spain and her haythen of an uncle; but yourself was the biggest troppick they handled that day, and if your ears worn't hot enough 011 both sides of your head, it must be bekase they're too well yuste to that kind of basting by this time to make any account of it. When the council of war was finished, and the Queen stood up out of her throne, as much as to say—" Get out ye Whig," his lordship axed if he might make so bold as to trouble her with a few questions on a very delicate subject. " Oh, by ail manner of manes," says Her Majesty, " you no I needn't answer none of'em, if I'd rather not." " It's what 1 was going to say," says his lordship, " that considerin your Majesty is your own misthress, as well as the mifethress of the world, and— and—" " And what, my ministher?" says Her Majesty sharply. " And in fact," says he, " you are arrived at a Queen's estate, with fine castles, palaces, and parks, coaches, horses, servants, and galiores of everything to make a family com- fortable, and housekeepin asy ; I was thinkin that your Ma- jesty might be thinkin, maybe, of sharin the throuble with somebody to your likin." " Ah, then," says the Queen, lookin very arch at the grey hairs in bis ministhership's whiskers—" What the dickins put that bright idaya into your wise head ?" " Why," says he, " if I may mal< e so free, I first thought of it when I heerd you calling yourself Queen Victoria the First." " And what of that ?" says the Queen, rising herself up as stately as she looked that day in the House of Lords, and striking the table with her knuckles three times, like a double rap at a hall door—" What of that, my lord ?" says she. " It is very bould of me, sartinly," says my lord ; " but it sthruck me at that present time, that you didn't mane it should be Queen Victoria the Last." At this Her Majesty set up a laugh that would do your heart good to hear it, only for what came aftherwards; and ." Ye nincompoop of a man," says she, " is it in earnest ye are ?" ' Never was more sarious in my life," says he; ." and what I would beg leave to no in the behalf of that is this— is there any person, in case you would take a likin to him, that you think id answer to go partners with you— any jintleman, I mane, that you could find in your heart to make Queen of England along with yourself?" With that the Queen looked grave agin— though you might still see the laugh twinkling like a diamond in her roguish blue eye; and—" My lord," she says, " do you spake to me now as my Prime Ministher, or ( and the smile broke out once more in spite of her) am 1 to understand you as my coottier?" " Ah, then, murther alive," says he, " d'ye suppose that I am sitch a jackeen as to think of the like of that ?" " Well," says she, " sense you ax me the question I'll be at a word witii you. The ould Duke of Wellington is the man for my money; and as soon as iver my uncle comes from Beljam the whole matter will be as good as settled. But I'll not forget you. I'll send you a green ribbon depend upon it, and if you mislike the colour, why you can frank it 011 with my lovin compliments to our friend Dan." It was my lord's turn now to ax Her Majesty was she in earnest ? " Pon my honour," says she, " there's my hand and word; and if you don't believe me, wait a while. If any body else but the ould Duke hands me out to dinner at the Lord Mayor's, I wouldn't say that there's a woman in England nose her own mind for three weeks together." All this while, Miss Emily Mugs let on to be scrubbing the bars, unknownst, but you may be sure she had one of her ears ( and that same not the shortest of the two, I'll go bail) cocked out from under the bordher of her cap ; and at tay in the evening Sawney Cummins was put in possession of every particle of what passed. This is the way the secrets of state gets wind. I hard it from Mr. Cummins, who wrote it off by express to his cousin in Scotland, tellin him he might prent it, or make a speech of it, or do anything at all he plased, barrin to hould his tongue about it; for it was the dyentickle words out of Her Majesty's own sweet lips, God bless her! And, sir, you may now take the same liberty with the story by ritin Mr. Cumminses name or Mr. Bruce's ( if you think better) upon the back of it, and sending it, like a bank note, as a ready penny all over the world. Mr. Cummins took the misure of Lord Melbourne's phizage, in two minutes after the enterview was over, and d'ye think but the chin was exactly four inches farther off from the forehead than it was going in, afore he popped the question. Mr. Cumminses name is enough to make the world bleeve anything. It's remarkable nice he is about what he gives out for fax. Major Longbow being an uncle of his by the mother's side, made him a big sight too particular for a gen- tleman that wears a sword by his side. COUNTRY MARKETS, & c. BIRMINGHAM MARKET. Corn Market, October 5. A good supply of all kiuds of Gruin to this day's market, with a dull sale. Wheat, old, at a reduction of 2d., and new 3d. to 4d. per bushel. Old malting Barley maintained the rates of last week; grinding samples in good demand, at 6d. per quarter advauce. Oats more plentiful, with a slack 6ftle, at the terms of this day se'nuight. Beans without any alteration in value. Peas, for grinding, in good demand, at a trifle advance; more enquiry for boilers. WHEAT— per6Qlbi. 1. d. s. d. Old 6 8 — 7 6 New 8 0— 7 0 IriBll 5 9 — 6 3 BARLEY— per I inp. Quarter. For Malting 38 0 — 42 0 For Grinding, per 4916s 3 3 — 3 6 RIA LT— per Imperial Bushel. Old and new ( i 9 — 7 9 OATS— perS91hs. Old 3 3 — 3 6 New 3 0— 3 ( i Irish tl 6 — 3 3 BEANS— per bag, lOseoregross. s. d. s. d. Old 16 6 — 18 0 New 0 0 — 0 0 PEAS— perbag of 3 Bush. Imp. FOR BOILING. White 17 0— 18 6 Grey ...... 16 6 — 17 6 FOR GRINDING. per bag of 10 score 14 9 — 15 3 White 15 0 — 15 6 FLOUlt — persacfc of269lbs. net. Fine 44 0 — 45 0 Seconds.... 39 0 — 41 0 The following is the statement in Messrs. Sturge's circular :— Birmingham, October 4, 1837. The weather for some tiroo after our last monthly circular Was unfavourable generally for securing the remainder of the harvest, and in many parts of the kingdom there was such a succession of wet, that the grain of all descriptions was materially injured by it, but the last fortnight has beeu tolerably fine, and with the exception of a few late districts in Scotland, Ireland, and the northern counties of England, we believe the crops are mostly housed ; and the Wheat, which was uncut on the 20th of last month, has probably been secured in a sufficiently dry state to thresh at once. The difference in the price of the best and most inferior new Wheats being from 44s. to 60o. per quarter, is a proof of the great variation in quality as well as quantity ; and though the fact of the duty of 28s. 8d. and 29s. Sd. per quarter ( the highest ever paid) having been submitted to on from 100,000 to 150,000 quarters of Foreign Wheat, mostly of the finest qualities, for home consumption, shows a want of confidence in any further advance of prices, at least for some time to come, as a considerable loss must be sustained on all liberated or nearly so— yet the general accounts of the yield by no means prove a large crop in auy of the districts from which we have received decided informa. tion of the actual produce, while in some quarters a great deficiency is confidently reported. We believe, however, that no opinion of the general results of the harvest can yet be formed with accuracy, but we expect that on the earliest and very late soils the Wheat will prove decidedly deficient, yet that on the forwarder of the stiff lands it is a fall average, and these comprise a great portion of the king, dom. At present our quotations for old Wheat are nearly the same as they were at the begining of last month, though the price has been effected in the. internal Is. to 2s. per quarter by the state of the weather. From Ireland the reports are as various as on this side of the channel. The quantity and quality are said to exceed an average in the north and west, whilst in the south and east the quality is stated to be inferior, and the yield complained of. From Scotland we have no accounts yet which would justify us in giving a decided opinion, but it is generally expected to prove short per acre with a very limited breadth of land under Wheat. Best old English Wheat sells at 7s. 4d. to 7s. 8d. per 621bs.; new from 5s. 8d. to 7s. 2J. per 621bs. here. Prices in most of the foreign ports are maintained, with, as far as is ascertained, an average crop. Well prepared new Irish would probably bring 6s. per 601bs, at Glou. cester. The injury to the Barley is much more extensive than Wheat, and a large proportion will not be fit for malting purposes ; and though the crop of straw in some districts is fully an average, the grain being small, % he yield is not large; and in many others it proves greatly deficient; and if the demand should not be much less than usual, fair samples will, we think, command high rates during at least part of the season. Several sales have already been made on this market as high as 42s. per quarter. Grinding parcels move off as they arrive, at equal to 24s. per 3921bs. at Gloucester. The Oats grown in this part of the country are so limited in quantity, that the state of the crop has but little effect on the value. Tliey are generally secured without much injury from the rain, and the quality is pretty good. We have had a free sale for Irish of all descriptions, and there are none at present on the market at Glou- cester. There have as yet been so few new imported that we cannot judge of the quality : what have come to hand are inferior to early shipments of last year, though the ( Irish) crops are well reported of. Considerable sales were recently effected to arrive at 22s. to 22s. 6d, per 3121bs. for good feed at Gloucester. Old Beans are become scarce, and advanced during the mouth about 4s. per quarter ; the present value of primo Bnglish is 46s, to 48s. per quarter. A few new have appeared at market, and sold at 15s. per 1961bs. Foreign sell at 15s. to 16s. per 1961bs. hore. Old Peas have changed hands to some extent for grinding, at 15s per 1961bs., and what remain on the market are now held for mure money. A few English White Boilers were disposed of at 48s. to 52s. per imperial quarter. Winter Vetches are offering in abundance at 36s. per imperial quarter. Some old foreign have gone into consumption for feeding at 14s. per 1961bs. No coarse Flour on the market, but some daily expected at Gloucester. PRESENT PRICES OF GRAIN. Birmingham, October s. d. WHEAT, English, White, per bushel of 621b. Old English, Red Irish, White ~—— Red ... nominal Old do ™ Foreign — —.. do,.... BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. Quarter Irish.. 6 7 5 7 6 5 5 6 34 ~ nominal 27 23 0 23 0 , 22 a Grinding, per Quarter of 3921bs. —~ 25 OATS, English, White, per Imperial Quarter Welsh, Black and White, per 3121bs. Irish, ( weighing lto421bs.) do. , ( 37 to 391 bs.) do. . Iliac:: do. . BEANS, English, Old, per bushel of 651bs. 5 8 New .— —........... 5 0 Irish—.—.... n< yue 0 0 Foreign ,—— — 5 0 PEAS, Boiling, per Imp, Quarter nominal 40 0 Grinding, per Quarter ol 392! bs 29 0 FLOUR, English, Fine, per Sack of 2801bs 42 0 Secouds ......—.......—...— 39 0 5, 1837. d. to 7 6 .. 7 10 7 4 , 7 7 6 10 6 4 5 9 7 4 , 42 6 . 34 0 27 6 34 0 ... 24 25 6 .. 28 23 6 .. 24 24 6 .. 0 .. 5 .. 54 0 .. 32 6 .. 44 0 .. 41 0 Gloucester, September 30, 1837. s. d. s. d. WHEAT, English, White, per Imp. Bushel . Old . —.—~— 7 0 English, Red ™ 6 8 Old 7 1 Irish, White, per 6011, ^. nominal 6 6 Red do 5 0 Foreign — nominal 6 6 BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. Quarter 32 0 Irish nominal 26 0 Grinding, per Quarter of 3921bs. ... 23 0 OATS, English, White, per Imp. Quarter 22 0 Welsh, Black aud White 20 6 Irish ( weighiug41 to421bs); per Qr. of 3121bs. 24 0 ( 37 to 391bs.) Black. BEANS, English, Old, per Imp. Bushel New Irish ! i ... — PEAS, Boiling, per Imp. Quarter— Grinding, per Quarter of 3921bs. FLOOR, English, Fine, per sack of 2801bs, Irish . 21 6 38 0 31 0 25 0 30 0 24 0 27 0 23 6 21 6 .. 23 5 3 4 9 ~ nominal 5 0 4 10 nominal 40 0 28 6 44 0 . 41 0 5 7 5 0 5 4 5 4 51 0 31 6 46 0 43 0 Wheat,. Barley , Oats Beans „ Peas —. GLOUCESTER WEEKLY AVERAGE. ( irs. Bush. ... 232 4 0 0 0 0 252 237 65 s. d. 54 8 25 11 24 4 33 1 30 8 Wheat. Barley - Oats ™ Peas .... Beans - WORCESTER WEEKLY AVERAGE. Qrs. Bush. 1 513 119 127 0 50 s. d. . 54 7} . 33 7i • 24 0i . 0 0 . 41 10i Birmingham, October 5, 1837. At Gloucester and Worcester markets on Saturday the Wheat trade again ruled dull, and rather lower than the previous week. Malting Barley in demand, and prices of good samples working up- wards. Oats of all descriptioni scarce and enquired for. Grinding Barley unaltered. Old Beans Is. per quarter higher; no new offering. During the present week tho sales effected in Wheat have been at a reduction of Is. to 2s. per quarter from last market day j best new red not exceeding 7s., and old 7s. 4d. to 7s. 6d. per 021bs. In Malting Barley less doing, aud no improvement can be realised thereon, Oats continue very scarce, but they are less in request. Old English Beaus fully as dear, and tho best Bell at 48s. per quarter. No sale reported in Grinding Peas : good Boilers held for 48 » . per quarter. AT THIS DAY'S MARKET best old and new Wheat barely sup. ported the prices of this day se'nnight, and all other descriptions were Is. to 2s. per quarter lower. Old Malting Barley fully as dear, but even the best new comes in so badly that it was neglected. Few Oats at market, but we had less enquiry. In Beans and Peas no alteration, with a small supply of either. WARWICK, SATURDAV, SECT. 30— Wheat, per bag, old 21s Od to 22s Od ; new, 19s 6d to 20s Od ; Barley, per quarter, 34s Od to 38s Od J grinding, 28s Od to 30s Od ; Oats, 30s Od to34s Od; New, 0s Od to OsOd; Peas, per bag, 16s Od to 18s Od j Beans, 17s Od to 17s 6d; new, 14s Od to 15s 6d; Vetches, 17s Od to 19s Od; Malt, 60s Od to 64s Od per quarter. HEREFORD, SEPT. 30 — Wheat, per bushel Imperial measure, 7s 7d to 7s lOd. Ditto, new, per bushel, 7s Id to7s 7d. Barley, 4s Od to Os Od. Beaus, 5s Od to 5s 3d. Peas, 5s Od to 0s Od. Vetches, 0s Od to 0s Od. Oats, 4s Od to 4s 6d. CnELTENHAM, SEPT. 28.— New Wheat, 6s 6d to 7s Od per bushel, Old Wheat, 7s Od to 7s 9d. Barley, 3s Od to 4s 6d. Oats, 3s 6d to 4s Od. Beaus, 4s 5d to 6s Od. Hop INTELLIGENCE. — Worcester, October 4.— The supply brought to our market on Saturday, and upon previous days, fully justifies our assertions for the last two months, that tho growth of this dis- trict is very superior, both in quantity and quality. The duty was estimated at £ 35,000. There was a great variety in the samples offered, but they may be considered remarkably fine and good, and to have been got down in excellent condition, which caused prices to vary accordingly; but there being rather a scarcity of very fine, or what may be termed choice hops, on sale, and the inquiry being generally directed to samples of that description, they were taken off freely at an advance of 2s. per cwt. upon the prices of last Satur- day. The number of pockets weighed was— new, 2952; old, 103; total, 3055; besides 895 during the week. Borough, October 2.— At Worcester market on Saturday tho sale was very extensive, at a reduction of 2s. to 3s. from the preceding week, except for a few lots of very superior quality. On tho whole, the hop trade may be called firm for choice samples, but heavy and a shade lower for middling and inferior. The duty is still quoted at £ 180,000. Present currency of merchants' prices New Kent Pockets, 75s. to 88s., choice, 90s. to 112s.; new Sussex pockets, 70s. to 82s., yearling bags and pockets, 56s, to 70s. choice, 90s. ; 1834 and I835' s, 45s. to 63i. choice, 70s. Present Prices, per cwt. East Kent Pockets, £ 4 10s. to £ b 8s? fine £ 0 0s.; Mid Kent Pockets, £ 4 4s. to £ 4 12s. fine £ 0 0s. ; Weald of Kent, Pockets, £ 3 16s. to £ 4 8s. fine £ 0 0s.; Sussex; pockets, £ 3 15s. to £ 4 Ss. fine £ 0 Os.; Yearlings, £ 3 10s. to £ 4 10s. fine £ 0 0s.; Bags, £ 4 2s. to £ 4 10s. fine £ 0 0s.; Old Olds, 18s. to £ 3 3s. fine £ 0 Os. GLOUCESTER SHIP NEWS, From September 28 to October 5. IMPORTS : The Hebe, from Charente, with brandy and wine, par- ticulars in our next— Marie Rose, Nantes, 85413 killogrammes of linseed and rape cake, Fox, Sons, and Co.— Auguste Heleue, St. Malo, 29304 killogrammes of linseed and rape cake, to order— Itowa, Wykurgli, 2400 deals, 966 battens, 324 deal ends, aud 3 fathoms of lathwood. Price and Washbourne— Alexander, Wyburgh, 2461 deals, 2085 battens, 270 deal ends, 126 batten ends, and 4 fathoms of lathwood, Price and Washbourne— Carolina, Riga, 200 pieces of timber, 2540 deals, 650 deal ends, 20 wainscot logs, and 4 fathoms of lathwood, John Forster— Leviathan, Dram, 2943 red and white battens, 420 six feet batten ends, and 240 spars, J. M. Shiptou— In dustrious, Hamburgh, 73 tons of oak bark, Phillpotts, Lloyds, and Co Nancy, Dublin, 262 barrels of oats, 170 barrels of barley, and 24 bags of flour, J. aud C. Sturge; 15 tons of oil cake, Charles Marklove ; 15 barrels and 70 kilderkins of porter, W. Stallard— Star, Wexford, 1109 barrels of corn, Wait, James, and Co.— New Dili- gcuce, Newry, 46 tons 3 cwt. of oats, Wait, Jame3, and Co.— Henry Turner, Wick, 100 barrels and 100 half barrels of red herrings, 335 half barrels of while herrings, 11 barrels of cod fish, and 6 barrels of heck, haddock, cod, and ling, Daniel Meadows— Commerce, London, 98 chests of tea, ( under bond) Thomas Southern— Catharine, Liver- pool, general cargo, W. Kendall and Sou— Catharine, Barrow, 120 loos of iron ore, W. Kendall and Soil— Thomas, Bangor, 66 tons of slates, W. Hughes— Eleanor and Jane, Bangor, 58 tons of slates, Shelton— Ann and Ellen, Carnarvon, 49 tons of slates, W. Walker— Feronia, Port Madoc, 52}£ tons of slates, W. Hughes— Sarah, Port Madoc, 63 tons of slates, Price and Washbourne— William, Port Madoc, 61 tons of slates, Price and Waslibourne— Eliza, Port Madoc, 59 tons of slates, J. Chadborn and Price and Washbourne— Eleanor, Port Madoc, 52 tons of slates, Owen Jones— Dasher, Bude, 219 quarters of oats, J. and C. Sturge— Speedwell, Barry, 70 tons of coals, John George— Blucher, Tenby, 43 tons of coals, S. Smith- Fame, Neath, 43 tous of copper, W. Partridge and Co.— Sarah, Swansea, 33} tous of copper, 10 tons of coals, and sundries, H. Southan and Sou— Unity, Swansea, 48 tons of coals, H. Southan and Son— Halcyon, Mumbles, 100 bushels of oysters, H. Soutliau and Son — Traveller, Newport, 40 tons of coals, Robert Spinney— Cygnet and Severn, Bridgwater, general cargoes, Stuckey and Co. EXPORTS : The Elizabeth, for Dublin, with oak bark, from Thomas Slatter ; castings and clay, W. Kendall and Son— Galway, Cork, 69J tous of iron, W. Kendall and Sou— Comet, Newry, 10 tons of iron, W. Kendall and Son ; oak bark, Thomas Jones— Abeona, Ilfracombe, fire bricks, coals and furniture, H. Southan and Son— Nautilus, Hayle, 45 tons of Bait, H. Southan and Son; 16} tons of iron, VV. Kendall and Son— Fame, Neath, fire bricks, W. Kendall and Son; 300 bushels of wheat, M'Cheane and Bartlett— Belinda, Swansea, 40 tons of salt, and general cargo, H. Southan and Son— Dolphin, Swansea, 247 bushels of apples, Hawkes— Union, Swansea, 22D bushels of apples, Arnold— William, Cardiff, iron. Hack and Brittonf 15 tous of salt and sundries, H. Southan and Son— Newport Trader, Newport, general cargo, H. Southan and Son— Gleaner, Cardiff, 13$ tons of salt, Gopsill Brown; general cargo, J. R. Heane— Cygnet and Severn, Bridgwater, general cargoes, Stuckey and Co.— Brothers, Bridgwater, 52 tons of salt, H. Southan and Son— Thomas and Sarah, Higlibridge, 40 tons of salt, EI, Southan and Son; deals and lathwood, John Forster. TOWN INFIRMARY, OCT. 6.— Surgeon of the week, Mr. Cox. Patients admitted, 16; discharged, 12; in the house, 129. Out- patients visited and in attendance, 737. Midwifery casoB, 14. BIRMINGHAM DISPENSARY, OCT. 6.— Sick patients relieved, 275; midwifery cases, 10. STATE OF THE WORKHOUSE UP TO OCT. 3. Wo. INFANTS. Men. men. Boys. Girls. Male. Fem. Total. 176 192 17 14 17 8 11 424 Admittedsince .... 12 18 2 7 8 53 Born in the House 188 210 19 21 25 19 482 Dischgd, absconded, 30 9 5 3 2 2 179 201 14 18 23 17 452 Number of Cases relieved last week 3,0t3 Number of Children in the Asylum... 294 * Of whom 3 men and 1 woman died. METEOROLOGICAL DIARY. FUFTNISHEP BY MR. WOLLRIT, E DOBASTON- STREET. Barometer at noon. Ex. treme during night. Ther- mome- ter 8 morn. Extreme heat during day. Ther- mome- ter at nooil. State of Wind at noon. Remarks at noon. Sept. 30 Oct. 1 2 3 4 5 6 29 60 29 55 29 55 29 ( SO 29 75 29 70 29 70 45 0 44 0 46 0 50 0 52 0 50 0 50 o 58 0 58 0 60 0 62 0 60 0 62 0 60 0 64 0 62 0 68 0 70 0 68 0 68 0 62 0 58 0 00 0 60 0 62 0 58 0 62 0 58 0 E W sw s w WbyN WbyN Fair Rain Fair Rain Rain Fair Rain MARRIAGES. On the 4th inst., at Rowley Regis, by the Rev. George Barrs, Mr. John B. Thome, of this town, to Catherine Elizabeth, only daughter of Mr. John Levett, of the former place. On the 19th ult., at Handsworth Church, by the Rev. D. NT. Walton, M. A., Mr. Charles Barnett, of Smith- street, to Selina R. Dixon, third daughter of Mr. Joseph Dixon, of Great Hampton- street. On Tuesday, at Aston Church, by the Rev. H. Chavasse, William Reeves, Esq., of Wharf- street, to Mrs. Ann Merideth, of Broad- street. On the 30th ult., at St. Andrew's Church, Dublin, by the Rev. James Nevins, Mr. S. Allport, of Weaman- rovv, in this town, to Miss Eliza Ann Turkington, of the former city. Lately, at Handsworth, Mr. William Bromley, of this town, to Mary, second daughter of Mr. William Clay, of Lower Essex- street. On Saturday last, at Harborne, William, second son of Mr. George Evans, to Sarah, second daughter of Mrs. Nancy Law, both of Northwood- street, in this town. DEATHS. On the 29th ult., at his residence in Ann- street, Mr. William Spears, aged 66. On the 28th ult., in this town, Mr. James Drtunmond Roy, student of medicine, third son of Mr. John Roy, late cabinet- maker of Edinburgh, much and justly regretted. On Wednesday, after a severe affliction, aged 14, Mary Catharine, third daughter of Mr. Isaac Green, of Suffolk- street. On Sunday last, Mr. Samuel Kynaston, coach- maker. Oil the 6th inst., Mr. John Hawley, of Heath Mill- lane, Deritend, aged 32. On Saturday last, at the Causeway, Hereford, Mrs. Sarah Bennett, aged 72. On Friday last, at his residence, Trafalgar, near Oswestry, aged 70, Colonel Faunce. , On the 1st inst., George, eldest son of Samuel Newton, Esq., of Croxton Park, Cambridgeshire. On the 2nd inst., at Bromsgrove, John Compson, Esq., of Penleigh House, near Westbury, Wilts. On the 29th ult., at Cheltenham, Anne, wife of the Rev. S. E. Bernard. On the 29th ult., at Cheltenham, aged 64, T. Meyrick, Esq., of Bush, Pembrokeshire. On the 29th ult., at Park Cottage, near Ombersley, in her 74th year, Mary, relict of the late Mr. John Taylor, of the Baytree, Ombersley. On the 27th ult, at Dudley, John Tvvamley, Esq., in the 74th year of his age. On the 1st inst., at Hampton Court, aged 83, Margaret, sister of the late Sir P. Warburton, Bart., of Arley, Cheshire. 8 THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, OCTOBER 14. 3 LONDON GAZETTES. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29. BANKRUPTS. The Bankrupts to surrender atthe Court of Commissioner!, Basing- halLstreetwhen not otherwise expressed.] JAMES THOMAS JACKSON, Herculi'S public house, I. enden. hall- street, City, licensed victualler, October 9 arid November 10. Sol. Mr. George John Parry, 25, St. Swithin's- lane, Lombard, street. iPet. Cr. James Baudall, 17, Old Cavendish- street, tailor. Seal. September 28. WILLI A M ST ANNE TT, White Lion and Lamb, Princes. street, Lambeth, victualler, October 10 and November 10. Sol. Mr. Rushbnry, 5, FlBh. street. hill. Pet. Cr. John and James Lyall, Chelsea, brewers. Seal. September 25. BENJAMIN OVERTON, High- street, Hackney, mall milliner, October 12 and November 10. Sol. Mr. James Robinson, Queen, street. place. Upper Thames- Btreet. Pet. Cr. Samuel Baker Morris, Maiden. lane, Wood. street, lace manufacturer. Seal. Sep. tember 26. EDWIN WALKER, WILLIAM JOHN WALKER, FRE. DERICK WALKER, and PARKER NEWTON WALKER, Thurstonland, Kirkburton, Yorkshire, clothiers, October 11 and November 10, at the Pack Horse Inn, HuddersBeld. Sols. Messrs W. and S. Stephenson, Holmfirth, near Hud< iersfield ; and Messrs. Eattye and Co , Chancery- lane, London. Pet. Cr. Joseph Robin. Bon, Honley, Almondbury, Yorkshire, dyer. Seal. September 5. HORATIO TURNER and WILLIAM TURNER the younger, Greenhill, near Cross- hills, Kildwick, Yorkshire, worsted stuff manufacturers, October 13 and November 10, at the Devonshire Arms, Keighley. Sols. Mr. Singleton, 1, New- inn, London; and Mr. John Barret, Bingley, Yorkshire. P « <. Cr. William W. ight, Silsden, Klldwicken, Yorkshire, worsted spinner and manufac- turer. Seal. September 9. JOHN NATTRESS, Manchester, brazier, October 13 and Novein. ber 10, at the Cominissiouers'. rooms, Manchester. Sols. Mr. Andrew Snape Thorndike, Staple. inn, H- ilborn, London; aud Mr. William Dunn Wheeler, Birmingham. Pet. Cr. William Walker, Birmingham, cock founder. Seal. September 9. WILLIAM HOOD, Atherstone, Warwickshire, clock and watch manufaeturer, October 19 and November 10, at the Three Tuns Inn, Atherstone. Sols. Messrs. R. M. and C. Baxter, 48, Lin. coln's. inn. fields, London; and Mr. Baxter, Atherstone. Pet. Cr. William Hentnn, Atherstone, farmer. Seal. September 18. MATTHEW ANDREW, Sheffield, grocer, October 6 and No. vember 10, at the Town. hall, Sheffield. Sols. Mr. Thomas Rodgers, 9, Devonshire- square, Bishopsgate. street, London ; and Mr. Ryalls, Sheffield. Pet. Cr. Francis Wright Everet, Chester, field, Derbyshire, gent. Seal. September 2. JOSEPH BUSSELL KIRK, Barton St. Mary, near Gloucester, furniture broker, October 6 and November 10, at the Upper George Coffee- house, Gloucester. Sols. Mr. Joseph Lewis, Gloucester; and Mr. William a Beckett, 7, Golden. square, Lon- don. Pet. Cr. Martha Trickey, 2, Oxford. parade, Gloucester, spinster. Seal. September 19. DIVIDENDS. Martin Osterfield Wray, Holborn. hill, chemist, October 20— Joshua Robinson, Melbury- terrace, Dorset- square, St. Marvlebone, painter, October 20— Samuel Clough, Leeds, timber merchant, Oc- tober SO, at the Court- house, Leeds— Charles Hicks and William Hicks, Clirlstchurch, Hampshire, mealman, October 23, at the Angel Inn, Lymirigton— George Baker the elder and George Baker the younger, Portsea, provision merchants, October 24, at the George Inn, Portsmouth— William Knowles, Hyde, Cheshire, cold, wainer, October 23, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester— James Norrls Chapman, Bridgwater, linen draper, October 28, at the Commercial- rooms, Bristol— William Jones, Wolverhampton, builder, October 24, at the Lion Inn, Wolverhampton— Joseph Starling, Warminster, hatter, October 25, at the Bath Arms Inn, Warminster— JoBcph Theodoret Duttou, Harrington. Cumberland, manufacturing chemist, October 21, at the Clarendon. rooms, Liver- pool— William Kent and Henry Green, now or late of Liverpool, woollen drapers, October 28, at the Clarendon. rooms, Liverpool- Thomas Watkinson, Liverpool, tobacconist, October 27, at the office of Mr. Leather, solicitor, Clarendon. buildings, South John- street, Liverpool— John Thelwall, Millhouses, Wirksworth, Derby, shire, hat manufacturer, October 23, at the George Inn, Wirks. worth— John Bowering, Nelson- place, Clifton, butcher, October 31, at the Commercial- rooms, Bristol— Daniel Wait Hall, Peter- street, Bristol, glazier, October 24, at the Commercial- rooms, Bristol. CERTIFICATES, OCTOBER 20. Joseph Woollet, Gould. square, City, merchant- Joseph Coates Borwell, Oxford- street, and Snlford, Manchester, baker— William Hart Everett, Manchester, commission agent. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Lewis Southcomb and William Binford, South Moulton, Devon, aliire, 3ttorneys. at. law— George Henry Hooper and Alexander Denoon, Coleman- street- buildings, merchants— Antonio Dial Pena and James Pike, 9, Jermyn. street, tailors— Thomas Morris and Samuel Morris, Worcester, coal merchants— Francis Seymour and Charles Beckington, Newcastle- upon- Tyne, attorneys. at- law— George Hind and Frederick Jewell, Westmeon, Hants, linen drapers— John Henson and Thomas Newball, Nottingham, hosiers- William Jones and William Henry Tamlyn, Bristol, bookbinders- George Noden and Steven Noden, 8, Acton. street, Gray's. inn. road, health lug manufacturers— William Young, Robert Murdock, aud Henry Leahy, Dublin, solicitors— Charles Frederick Engstrom, Lawrence Engstrom, and George Engstrom, Mincing. lane, mer.' chants ( so far as regards George Engstrom)- Joseph Hulbert and John Moore, Marchmont. street, Brunswick- square, butchers— John Clutton and John Peter Fearon, 48, High- street, Southwark, aud 1, Crown- office- row, Temple, attorneys— Thomas William Ingram and William Morjand, 25, Villiers. street, Strand, musical instrument makers— Charles Lyndon and Edwin Pitts, Nant y Moch Foundry, Holywell, Flintshire, iroufounders— George Shears and Nathaniel Commin, Exeter, maltsters— George Edwards, Charles Edwards, and William Grinling, Laxfield, Suffolk, grocers— Daniel Bagnall, Phineas Bullock, and William Mason, Highfield Colliery, Oldbury, Shropshire, ironmasters ( so far as regards Daniel Bagnall). ASSIGNMENTS. Edward Stretch, Regent Hotel, Brighton, hotel keeper. James Wilcox, Richmond Hotel, Brighton. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. John M'Niel and Co , Glasgow, cotton spinners. building, Louth, Lincolnshire— Paul Harivood, York, ironmonger, November 1, at the Falcon Inn, Micklegate, York— William Cooper, Kidderminster, carpet manufacturer, October 27, at the Black Horse Inn, Kidderminster- Joseph Lewis, Conwill Elvet, Carmarthen, shire, draper, November 2, at the Boar's Head Inn, Carmarthen— Seth Phillips Lewis, Dark- gate, Carmarthen, draper, Dei- ember 14, at the Boar's Head Inn, Carmarthen— John Twist, Selby, Yorkshire, timber merchant, October 24, at the White Swan Hotel, York- William Dunn Crow, Ecclesfleld, Yorkshire, tanner, October 27, at the Town. hall, Sheffield- Edward Marsden, Dadley- hill, Yorkshire, worsted manufacturer, November 3, at the Court- house, Bradford- John Darwin and Francis Frith, Chapeltown, Yorkshire, iron. founders, October 27, at the Town. hall, Sheffield Stephen Liver. sidge, Masborough, Yorkshire, ironfounder, October 24, at the Commercial Inn, Sheffield— Michael Atkinson, late of Fulbeck, Lin. coloshire, and formerly of Lincoln, money scrivener, October 25, at the Hotel, Newark. upon. Trent— Edward Bowdidge, Cheltenham, dealer, November 20, at the Clarence Hotel, Cheltenham— George Lane, Monmouth- street, Bath, wine merchant, December .2, at the Commercial. rooms, Bristol— James Cojquhoan Kemp, Liverpool, merchant, October 21, at the Clarendon. rooms, Liverpool— Joseph Lancashire, Wirksworth, Derbyshire, currier, October 23, at the George Inn, Wirksworth- Thomas " Clarftsriti. late of Kingsbury, Warwickshire, coal dealer, October 28, at the Warwick Arms Inn, Warwick. CERTIFICATES, OCTOBER24. Thomas Noblet and William Noblet, Manchester, corn merchants — Jacob Watts, Bristol, boot and shoe maker— John Southam, Til- lotson- place, Waterloo. road, boardiug house keeper— Francis Wood Harris, 67, Hatton. garden, general hardware factor— James Keyse, Abersychan, Monmouthshire, grocer. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Joseph How and George How, Chatham, farmers— John Cutbuslr and Edward Leverett, London, drysalters— George Watkins and William Watkins, Cambridge. terrace, Edgware. road, ale mer. chants— George Leeke Baker, James Hodgson, and Charles Baker, attorneys ( so far as regards James Hodgson)— Peter Martin the younger and Jumes Kay, Liverpool, coal merchants— Mark Pear, man and Edward Thomas Pearman, Coventry, attorneys— Jane Johnston and John Johnston, Manchester, tick manufacturers- William Tuke and Henry Ramsay Spence, York, land surveyors— B. G. Sloper, W. A. Brown, aud Randal Curell, Stonebridge, near Chester, chemical manufacturers— John Jolly and George Viuer, Hastings and St. Leonard's, grocers— Richard Porter and William Moffet, Bury, Lancashire, pairrters— Joseph Hill the elder and Joseph Hill the younger, Southampton, builders— James Burnet and John Lodge, Kirkheaton, Yorkshire, fancy waistcoat manufacturers — Benjamin Pilkington the elder and Benjamin Pilkington the younger, Perceval. street, Clerkenwell, jewellers— Thomas William Keenlvside and Nicholas Walton, 16, Westgate- street, Newcastle- upon- Tyne, attorneys— Thomas Burbridge and Thomas Slack, 87, Newgate- street, hair cutters— George Alderson Pllipps and John William Bleaden, Ramsgate, music sellers— William Riley, James Walsh, and Samuel Robinson, Guiseley, Yorkshire— William Peard Jillard, John Spencer, William Holiister, John Plummer Spencer, and Henry Prankerd Jillard, Oakhill, Somersetshire, brewers ( so far as regards William Hollister;— William Goy and Wiiliam Sharps, Farnhara. road. wharf, Hampshire, coal merchants— A. Mayes arid H. Mayes, I. amb Victualling. house, Houghton- street, Clare. market, victuallers— Tottenham Lee and Samuel Lee, St. John's. mill, Wakefield, worsted spinners— Henry Moore and Henry Harvey Hodgson, Bull. street, Birmingham, innkeepers— Sarah Seymour, Harriet Seymour, and Edward Seymour, Laurel Tree Victualling- house, Bayham. street, Cainden- town, licensed Vic. tuallers— Wingate, Thompson, aud Co., Paisley— Legg, Milne, and Co., Bervie, coal merchants. ASSIGNMENTS. Thomas Bott Burford and George Christel, Ratcliffe Highway, paper stalners. John Gilder, Cheltenham, builder. William Goy and William Sharp, Farnham- road- wharf, Hants, coal merchant and barge owners. Charles William Robert Speechly, Peterborough, corn merchant. CORN EXCHANGE, MONDAY, OCT. 2— Wheat, Essex Red, new, 43s to 54s; fine, 56s to 60s; old, 63s to 65a; white, new, 50s to 58s, fine, 60s to 6' 2s ; superfine, 64sto66s; old, 66s to 68s Rye, 32s to 35s.— Barley, 26s to 30s; tine, 33s to 35s; superfine, — 8 • s — Malt, 508 to 56s; fine, 58a to 60s.— Peas, Hog, 34s to 35s ; Maple, 368 to 37s; white, 36s to 38s ; Boilers, 40s to 42s.— Beans mall, 36s to 40s; old, 40s to 41s; Ticks, 31s to 35s; old, 36s to 39s; Harrow, 40s to 42s Oats, feed, 22s to 24s ; line, 25s to 26s ; Poland, 243 to 26s; fine, 27s to 2Ss; Potatoe, 28s to 29s; fine 29s to 30*.— Bran, per quarter, 10s Od to 1 Is 0d.— Pollard, fine, per itto, 14s. 20s. PRICE OF SEEDS, OCT 2.—^ er Cwt.— Red Clover, English, 55s to 63s ; fine, 65s to 70s ; Foreign, 528 to 60s; fine, 63s to 68s— White Clover, 55s to 60s; fine, 65s to 70s.— Trefoil, new, 13s to 17s; fine, 18s to 21s ; old,— s to — s.— Trefolium, 14s to 17s; tine to 21s.— Caraway, English, new, 44s to 483 ; Foreign, 46s to 50s— Coriander, 14s Od to 16s Od. Per Quarter 1 St. Foin, - 8 to — s ; fine,— 3 to— 8; Rye Grass, s to — s; new, — s to— s; Pacey Grass, — s to— 8; Linseed for feeding, 48s to 50s ; fine, 52s to 56s ; ditto for crushing, 44s to 47s.— Ca- lary, 38s to 42s.— Hemp, 40s to 46s. PerBushet White Mustard Seed, 10a Od to 12s Od j brown ditto, 12s0d to 14s ; Tares, 4s 6d to 5s Od ; fine new, Win., 5s 3d to5s 9d. Per Last. — Rape Seed, English, 31/ to 33/; Foreign, 28Z to 30(. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. SABAH BROWN, butcher. Trinity, street, Cambridge. BANKRUPTS. WILLIAM GWYTHER, linen draper, Piccadilly, October 10 and November 14. Sol. Mr. Burt, Aldermanbury. Pet. Cr. Thomas Storar, Watling- street, warehouseman. Seal. September 26. WILLIAM RANSON, flour merchant, Stowmarket, Suffolk, Oc. tober 28 and November 14, at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, Ipswich. Sols. Mr. Norris, Debenham, Suffolk; and Messrs. Dixon and Sons, New Boswell. court, Carey. street, London. Pet. Cr. Jame3 Green Crosse, Norwich, Burgeon. Seal. September 7. JOHN SIMMONS MORRIS, ironfounder, Devonport, Devon, October 17 and November 14, at Elliott's Hotel, Devonport. Sols. Mr. Surr, Lombard. street, London; and Mr. Elworthy, Ply. month. Pet. Cr. Sarah Morris, Devonport, widow. Seal. Sep- tember 18. EDWARD JONES, grocer, Kingston- upon. Thames, Surrey, Oc. tober 13 and November 14. Sol. Mr. Pounall, St. Michael's- alley, Cornhlll. Pet. Cr. Charles Edward Pounall, 9, St. Michael's, alley, Cornhill, gent. Seal. October 3. JOHN WILLIAM SHAW, broker. Liverpool, October 14 and November 14, at the Clarendon- rooms, Liverpool. Sols. Messrs. Blaskstock, Bunce, Vincent, and Sherwood, Paper. buildings, Temple, London ; and Messrs. Littledale and Bards well, Water- Btreet, Liverpool. Pet. Cr. Richard Humphreys Shaw aud George Shaw, Liverpool, merchants. Seal. September 21. THOMAS COOKE, grocer, Loughborough, Leicester, October 14 and November 14, at the office of Mr. St. G. Smith. Sols. Mr. St. G. Smith, Derhy; arid Mr. J. Scargill, Hatton. court, Thread- needle. street, London. Pet. Cr. Thomas Cooke, jun., Derby, grocer and tea dealer. Seal. September 26. JOSEPH JOHNSON, flour dealer, Liverpool, October 14 and No. vember 14, at the Clarendon- rooms, Liverpool. Sols. Messrs Norris aud All ™ . Bartlett's- buildings, Holborn, London; and Mr. Toumlin, Liverpool. Pet. Cr. William Jones, Liverpool victualler. Seal. September 18. WILLIAM BOLTON, linen draper, York, October 17 and No. vember 14, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester. Sols. Messrs. Makinson and Sanders, Elm. court, Middle Temple, Lon don; and Messrs. Atkinson, Birch, and Sate rulers, Manchester Pet. Cr. Samuel Watts and James Watts, Manchester, merchants ' Seal. September 28 GEORGE DENNISTOUN and ROBERT LAIRD, merchants Liverpool, October 14 and November 14, at the Clarendon- rooms Liverpool. Sols. Messrs. Lowndes and Robinson, Liverpool ; and Messrs. Taylor, Sharpe, and Field, Bedford. row, London. Pet Cr. Thomas Browne and James Buchanan, Lancaster, brokers Seal September 26. PHILIP MAWDSLEY, victualler, Kirkdale, near Liverpool, Oc tober 20 aud November 14, at the Clarendon- rooms, Liverpool Sols. Messrs. Blackstock, Bunce, Vincent, and Sherwood, Temple London ; and Mr. Jones, Liverpool. Pet. Cr. Robert Websti r Litherland, and Daniel Ledaon, Melling, Lancashire, farmers. Seal. September 27. DIVIDENDS. Alexander Colvin, William Ainslie, Bazett David Colvin, Thomas Anderson, and Daniel Ainslie, now or late of Calcutta, merchants, October 24— Daniel Henry Rucker, John Anthony Rucker, and Henry John Rucker, Wormwood. street and Mincing. lane, West India merchants, October 24— John Kidder, 6, Strand, silversmith, October 24— Thomas Wilcox, Broadway, Deptford, licensed vie. tualler, October 26— George Suggett, Barbican, merchant, October 25— William Kingsford, Buckland, near Dover, paper manufacturer, October 27, at the Bell Inn, Sandwich, Kent— William Stamper, Cockermoath, Cumberland, tin- plate worker, October 25, at the . Crown and Mitre Inn, Cockermouth— Joseph Balm and John Roth, well, Nottingham and Quorndou, tatting and lace manufacturers, December 27. at the Ram Hotel, Nottingham— Thomas Brown Milnes and Robert Cowen, Nottingham, ironfounders, January 5, at the Ram Hotel, Nottingham— Thomas Elliot, Nottingham and Beeeton, lace manufacturer, December 26, at the Ram Hotel, Not. tinghatn—\ ViHiam Housman, Close, New Sarum, Wiltshire, scri. vener, October 26, at the Red Lion Inn, New Sarum— Samuel Brown, Tonlby, Lincolnshire, grocer, October 26, ut the PuWia. LONDON MARKETS. Ayents specially appointed. — Mr. Banks, chemist, Bull- ing; Mr. Sliillitoe. chemist, High- street; Mr. Maher, No. i, Cougreve- street; Mr. D. Johnson, druggist, Stnithfield ; R. Mattliison and Co., booksellers, Eilgbastoti- street; Mi'. Hudson, Philanthropist- office, each of Birmingham, have just received a supply of the annexed established medicine, now in great repute. ^ IMCO'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PILLS, only Is. IJ- gd. per box. TO THE PUBLIC!!! Especially to the Gouty and Rheumatic, I wish to state that I think no man has been more grievously afflicted with Gout and Rheumatic Gout than myself; such was well known in my neigh, hourhood. During a lengthened affliction, I took much and various medicines, and I also gave a fair trial of some pills which have been so profusely advertised, thinking by the statement of cures inserted in such advertisements, that I should most assuredly receive benefit, if not a cure; but in this I was sadly disappointed, consequently, I despised and declined medicine altogether, until I became so seri- ously afflicted that rny life was in imminent danger; Stomach and head alarmingly attacked, shoulders, elbows, hands, knees, and feet swollen, and pains almost insupportable, chalky concretions vented from mv joints, and to me death seemed desirable. In this dilemma SIMCO'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS were irrtro. duced to my notice; a box was quickly procured, and by the time I had taken three days' doses, ( although previously so ill) I felt myself much better, and, after a few more days' doses, my appetite, which had long been lost, returned, pains and swellings nearly gone. I persevered with the regular doses until the, expiration of a fort- night, and then, however incredible it may appear, I walked over to Northampton, a distance of six miles; this was in January last. I continued the Pills occasionally for. another fortnight, determined, if possible, to exterminate my gouty complaint ; since which time, I am happy to state, I have enjoyed an uninterrupted state of good health, ease, and comfort, consequently, I feel it my duty to intro. duce and recommend Sirnco's Gout and Rheumatic Pills, convinced by experience, that there is no public medicine in the present day at all to be compared with this one ; and I have witnessed its curative properties upon several persons with whom I am acquainted, and ware it not for increasing the expense of publishing, I could detail their cures, but it is not necessary ; therefore I subscribe my signa- tnre, THOMAS WALKER. Bugbrook Wharf, Bugbrook, Northamptonshire, Oct. 26, 1836. P. S. 1 will just mention that one Saturday night, a friend was severely attacked with a fit of gout, in the toe and right hand ; early the following morning he procured a Is. l| d. box, took the doses ac. cording to the directions, and on the following day, ( Monday) he was not only able to attend to his occupation, but he was quite well. I will venture to state that one 13Jd. box of Simco's Pills will, in every case, produce a much more speedy and happier effect in either Gout, Rheumatics, or Rheumatic Gout, than any other Proprietor's 2s. 9d. bottlo or box of Gout medicine, of the present day. Sold wholesale by BARCLAY and SONS, Farringdon- street; Messrs. BAILEY, POTTER, and Co., wholesale drug- gists, Garlick- hill; by Mr. D. BULLOCK, druggist, Prince's- street, Manchester; aud MANDER and Co., Wolverhamp- ton. Sold in boxes, at Is. 1%< 1. and 2s. 9d. each, duty in- cluded. A Is. l^ d. box confains doses for five days, and a ' 2s. 9( 1. box for fifteen days. Warranted free from mercury. None can possibly be genuine, unless the proprietor's signature is written on the government stamp, pasted on each box, ( o counterfeit which is felony. Sold in London by Barclay and Sons, Farringdon- street; Bailey, Potter, and Co., Garlick- hill; Sanger, 150, Oxford- street; Prout, 229, Strand ; Butler, 4, Cheapside; Stirling, Whitechapel; and by Mander and Weaver, Wolverhampton ; Mr. D. Bullock, chemist, Princes- street, Manchester; Sut- ton, Nottingham; Thompson, Chronicle- office, Leicester; Knight, Nuneaton; Morton, Hinckley; Harper and Co., Chemists, Warwick and Leamington; Brown, Reading; Anthony, Hereford; and by all druggists and medicine vendors in town and country. THEONLY CURE FOR CORNS AND BUNIONS. RAMSBOTTOM'S CORN and BUNION SOL- VENT. Bytheuse 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 wi thout recourse to the dangerous opera- tions of cutting or filing. The proprietor pledges himself that it does not contain caustic or any other article that Will inflame the skin; being white it will not stain the stocking; and the advantage it has over plaister is mani- fest, and fully appreciated, as the very high recommenda- tion bestowed upon it by everyindividual that has used it testifies. Price Is. 1 Jd. 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 wasinducedto 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 myfriendB. You are at liberty to make any use you please of this communication.— Your obedient servant, Birmingham, August 6,1836. JonN WINFIELD. Soldbyappointmentby M. Maher, 5, Congreve- street, and VV. Wood, Bookseller, High- street, Birmingham ; Parke, Wolverhampton; Rogers, Stafford; Mort, Newcastle; Mer- ridew, Coventry; Dicey, Northampton. A1 GENERAL AVERAGE PRICE OF BRITISH CORN FOR THE WEEK ENDING SEPT. 30, 1S37.— Wheat, 57s 8' d s Barley, 28s 7d; Oats, 23s 3d; Rye, 33s 3d; Beans, 40s 3d ; Peas, 36s 4d. DUTYON FOREIGN CORN FOR THE PRESENT WEEK,— Wheat, 296 8d ; Barley, 19a 10d ; Oats, 12s 3d; Rye, 16s 9d ; BeanB, 9s6d ; Peas, 14s Od. HAYANDSTRAW.— Smitlifield.— Hay, 80s Od to iOOs Od ; Inferior, s to — s; Clover, 84s to li5s; Inferior — s to — sj Straw, 36s to 40s. Whitechapel.— Clover, 110s to! 26s; new, 110s to 120a; second cut, 50s to 95s; Hay, 105 to 110s ; new ditto, 80s to 100s ; Wheat Straw, 36s to 38s. Cumberland.— Fine Upland Meadow and Rye- grass Hay, 106s to 110s; inferior ditto, 86s to 95s ; superior Clover, 115s to 125s ; Straw, 40s to 50s per load of36 trusses. Portman Market.— Coarse heavy Lowland Hay,— sto— s; new Meadow Hay,— sto— a; old ditto, 80s to 105s ; usefulditto, — s to ; New Clover ditto,— 8 to— B ; old ditto, 105s to 126s, Wheat Straw, 36s to 40s per load of 36 trusses. A CERTAIN CURE FOR CORNS AND BUNIONS. LLINGHAM'S ROTTERDAM CORN AND BUNION SOLVENT "'' « ch gives relief upon the first application. The CORN SOLVENT now submitted to the notice of the public, has been in general use for the last fifteen yeaj's, and has never been known to fail where the directions have been followed ; it has afforded relief after all other remedies had been tried without success. The following are selected from numerous other testimonials equally satisfactory, in the possession of the proprietor: — SIR,— For many years I have suffered by corns, and latterly I felt such excruciating pain, having five on my left foot, that the frequent bathing, paring, and tiling of them in no way relieved me ; for months I could trot wear boots, and for ten or twelve days not even shoes. I tried Allingham's Rotterdam Corn Solvent, of which I find you are proprietor ; after using it two days I could wear shoes; in four days, one of the corns, the most painful, was entirely eradicated ! By this one I suffered more in particular, as it was between my toes. I have, in a week after and since, been able to wear boots. Having experienced this benefit in eight corns on my own person, and having recommended this Solvent to many patients of mine, who all have been cured, I deem it but just to give you this testimony, to use it as you may think proper : and am, sir, your obedient servant, D'EMDEN, Surgeon. dentist, 18th March, 1836. 1, Southampton- street, Strand. SIR,— The surprising efficacy of your Corn Solvent on s veral per- sous to whom I have sold it, induces me to write for three dozen of the small size, for which I have enclosed the money. Mrs. Egar, of this place, purchased a bottle of me a few days ago; the pain she had previously experienced rendered her incapable of walking far, or sleeping at night; she affirms that after two applications the pain and inconvenience entirely left her, and further states, although she is but a poor woman, that she would give a sovereign per bottle for it, could it not be got for less.— Your's respectfully, Gainsborough, 25th August, 1836. T. SPOUNCER. A further testimony to its merits no less strong, is offered by the ingenuity which some unprincipled persons have ex- ercised to imitate its title and appearance, and to substitute for it an article not merely inefficacious, but mischievous; it is therefore necessary to ask for ALLINGHAM'S ROT- TERDAM CORN and BUNION SOLVENT, and see that J. A. SHARWOOD is written on the outside wrapper, as none others are genuine. Prepared and sold by J. A. Sharwood, 55, Bishopsgate- without, London, in bottles at Is. l% d., 2s. 9d., and 4s. 6d. each ;, and by appointment, by M. Maher, Ann- street, and Wood, High- street, Birmingham; Nelson and Herring, Leamington; H. Harper, Warwick; T. G. Lomax, Lich- field; Moore, Atherstone; T. Iliffe, Nuneaton ; Merridew Coventry; and most Medicine Venders. Any vender not having it, will procure it on its being ordered. OILS Rape Oil, brown, £ 36 0s per ton j Refined, £ 38 0s ; Linseed Oil, £ 28 0s ; and Rape Cake, £ 6 0s Linseed Oil Cake, £ 12 12s per thousand. SMITHFIBLD, OCT. 2— To sink the olt'al— per 81b.— Beef, 3s 2d to 4s 8d ; Best Down and Polled Mutton, 4s Od to 4s 8d; Veal, 4s Od to 5s 2d ; Pork, 4s Od to 5s Od ; Lamb, 5s Od to 0s Od. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.— By the Carcase — BeeJ, 3s 4d to 4s 2d ; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 4d; Veal, 3s 4d to 5s Od ; Pork, 4s Od to 5s 8d ; Lamb, 4s Od to 4s 8d. SNOOK'S APERIENT FAMILY PILLS, a excellent medicine for bile, indigestion, giddiness a most excellent medicine for bile, indigestion, giddiness of the head, piles, and dropsical complaints. Their composition is truly excellent; they do not contain any antimonial or mercurial preparation whatever, and do not require the least confinement or alteration of diet ( mo- derate exercise promotes their good effects); they seldom operate until ten or twelve hours after taken, and then very gently.; they destroy worms, purify the humours, and evacu- ate all foul corruptions, whereby so many diseases are pro- duced ; l> y removing obstructions, they cause the food to pass to its respective parts, becoming a good restorative and preservative of health to both sexes, and to those of a costive habit, a truly valuable treasure. Also SNOOK'S PECTORAL or COUGH PILLS, for coughs, colds, asthmas and shortness of breath. It is well known that coughs and colds ( if not soon removed) are, in many, cases, attended with considerable danger; for the removal of which the Pectoral or Cough Pills are with con- fidence recommended as an excellent medicine, and in most cases a certain specific. A single box will be a sufficient trial to prove their good effects. SNOOK'S DENTIFRICE for the TEETH and GUMS. The Pills are now prepared by Messrs. BARCLAY and SONS, ( who have purchased the recipe from Mr. SNOOK) whose names are engraved on the government stamp affixed to each box ; without which they cannot be genuine. The Pills are sold in boxes, at Is. l% d. and 2s. 9d. each. The Dentifrice in boxes, at Is. l^ d. 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., & c., DIXON'S ANTIBI- LIOUS PILLS ( which do not contain Mercury in any shape) have met with mote general approval than any other Medicine whatsoever. They unite every recommendation MESSRS. PERRY and Co., Surg- eons, may be personally consulted from nine in the morning, till ten at night, and on Sundays from nine till two, at No. 4, GREAT CHARLES STREET, four doors from Easy- row, Birmingham ; No. 23, SLATER STREET, near DUKE- STP. EET, LIVERPOOL, and No. 2, BA^-^ TREET, near St. Peter's Church, MANCHESTER, of whon!* ty be had ( gratis) with each box of pills, their TREATISE ON THE VENEREAL DISEASE, Gonorrhoea, Gleets, and Stric- tures, arising from early abuses, intended for the instruction of general readers, so that all persons can obtain an imme- diate cure with ease, secrecy, and safety. PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS, of Copaiba, Cubebs, and other Vegetable extracts, price 2s. 9d. and lis., per Box, a certain, safe, and the most speedy remedy ever discovered for the permanent and ef- fectual cure of gonorrhoea, gleets, strictures, seminal weak- ness, pains in the loins, affections of the kidneys, gravel lumbago, local debility, irritation of the bladder or uretlra, and other diseases of the urinary passages, frequently per- forming a perfect cure in the short space of three days, with ease, secrecy, and safety. Their operation is imper- eeptible ; tlrey do not require the slightest confinement, or any alteration ofdiet, beverage, or exercise. Neither do they disagree with the stomach, or cause any offensive smell to the breath, as is the case with Copaiba and Cubijbs, when administered by medical men in the usual way. PERRY'S VEGETABLE PILLS are well known as a certain and effectual remedy for the Venereal disease, secondary symptoms, venereal eruptions, in the bones, ulcerated sore throats, diseased nose, chroj^ rheumatism, scrofula, scorbutic and glandular affections, l|| pal and general debility, nocturnal pains ' in the head and limbs, depression of spirits, and alldiseases arising from an impure state of the blood. It is a melancholy fact, that thousands fall victims to the venerea) disease, owing to the unskilfulness of illiterate men who, by the use of that deadly poison— mercury, ruin the constitution, and cause ulcerations, with blotches on the liend, face, and body, dimness in the sight, noise in the ears, deafness, obstinate gleets, and nodes on the shin bones, till at length a general debility and decay of the constitution ensues, and a melancholy death puts a period to their dread- ful sufferings. Messrs. Perry, Surgeons, continue to direct their studies to those dreadful debilities arising from the too free and indiscriminate indulgence of the passions, which not only occasion a numerous train of nervous affections, and entail on its votaries all the enervating imbecilities of old age, but weaken and destroy all the bodily senses, occasioning loss of imagination, judgment, anil memory, indifference and aversion for all pleasures, the idea of their own unhappiness and despair, which arises from considering themselves as the authors of their own misery, and the necessity of renouncing the felicities of marriage, are the fluctuating ideas of those 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 lew days, hj 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 ofdiet, beverage or exercise. They do not disagree with the stomach, nor cause any offensive smell to the breath, as is the case with all other medicines in use for these complaints, and after a cure ef- fected by the use of these pills, the party willnotexperieenc any return of the complaint, as generally occurs after taking Balsam of Copaiba, and other drugs of the like nature, which only possessing a local action, merelysuppressed the complaint for a time, without eradicating it from the con- stitution, and the patient on undergoing a little more fa- tigue than ordinary, finds all the symptoms return, and that they are suffering under the complaint as much as at first, and are at last constrained to have recourse to these pills, as the only certain cure. They are likewise a most efficient remedy for Pimpled Faces, Scurf, Scorbutic Affections, and all Eruptions of the Skin. Captains of vesselsshould 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 he considered interesting. From that eminent surgeon, the late Joshua Brookes, Esq., F. R. S., Professor of Anatomy, & c. & c. Theatre of Anatomy, Blenheim. street. Dear Cooper,— I have tried your pills in numerous instances, and my candid opinion is that they are a mostimproved system of treat- ilain of mild operation with successful effect; and require no re- : who have given way to this delusive and destructive habit, c . j : t _ i: l Tn rlisfTPssino' staff* or demlifv ftr dpnnipnrv. whethpi 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. In that distressing stafe of debility or deficiency, whether the consequence of such baneful practices, excessive drink- ing, or any other cause, by which the powers of the con- stitution become enfeebled, they offer a firm, safe, and speedy restoration to sound and vigorous health. Messrs. PERRY and Co., may be personally consulted from nine in the morning rill ten at night, and on Sundays from nine till two, and will give advice to persons taking the above, or any other of their preparations, without a fee, at No. 4, Great Charles- street, four doors from Easy- row, Bir- mingham ; 23, Slater- street, near Duke- street, Liverpool; and at 2, Bale- street, near St. Peter's Church, Manchester; where their Pills can only be obtained, as no Bookseller, Druggist, or other Medicine Vendor is supplied with them. Letters from the country ( post paid), containing a remit- tance for medicine, will be immediately answered. Dr. DE SANCTlStS RHEUMATIC AND GOUT PILLS. Prepared by Bartholomew de Sanctis, M. D., Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, London. F11HE unfailing efficacy of Dr. De Sanctis's Pills JL for the cure of Gout and Rheumatism, has been tried n an extensive practice, and their uniform success fully warrants Dr. De Sanctis in offering them for general use, as a specific, and the only one for the cure of GOUT, RHEUMATISM, RHEUMATIC GOUT, LUMBAGO, PAINS IN THE FACE, & c. Dr. De Sanctis is determined not to confine the use of these invaluable pills any longer to the sphere of his ac- quaintance, but has caused it to be laid before the public in the form of a Patent Medicine, but he trusts that his long tried, and he hopes, well merited medical reputation, will secure him from any charge of empiricism, and not allow this most invaluable remedy ( in the discovery of which he has devoted the greater part of his life and a large for- tune) to be classed among quack medicines. Suffice it to say, that these pills do not contain Co'chi- cum or any other deleterious drug, they are perfectly inno- cent, and may be administered to the most delicate indi- viduals. The dose is one pill every eight hours until cured, the first dose will begin to mitigate the most violent attack within four of its administration ; and a patient writhing under the most malignant attack of Gout or Rheumatism, may rely on its removal within forty- eight hours. Dr. De Sanctis lays before the public the following letters from some of his patients, which speak a higher eu- logium on the efficacy of the medecine than any represen- tation he could make himself. Brighton. Sir,— The wonderful efficacy of your wonder working medicine as almost incredible; fifteen years ago I was attacked with acute Rheumatism, from having slept in a damp bed while travelling in Flanders, the torture arising from which has been of the most ago. nizing description, for although at intervals I have been free from ipain ( had it been incessant I mu6thave put an end to my existence) I have been more or less subject to it ever since, and when the at- tacks came on I felt as though I was being torn asunder. In fifteen hours from the firstdose of your Pills ( but mind I took two of them) I was materially relieved, and at the expiration of a week Iliad not the slightest trace of my enemy left; as you decline to let me have the prescription in consequence of your intention of introducing it as a Patent Medicine, you are free to publish this communication if you think proper, for the Pills deserve to be generally known I am, sir, your obedient servant W. WEST. To Dr. De Sanctis. Miss Wilkins has been eutirely cured of a Rheumatic affection in the hip, which Miss W. has long been a snfferer from, by the use of Dr. De Sanctis's Pills, after several other remedies she tried had failed. Sir,— I think that without a single exception I have suffered more from Gout than any other individual ever endured, the pain has been so intense ( without the slightest diminution) for three and four weeks at a time, that I have frequently been obliged to have a nurse by me day and night, striking my foot with a stick, to mode- rate the pain by inflicting another, until I have sometimes had my foot so black that it has not recovered its colour for months; at the commencement of the last attack I procured some of your Pills, and to my very great satisfaction they immediately relieved me and pre- vented its further inroad, and I have now been free from it for eighteen months. I am, yours very truly, To Dr. De Sanctis.. FRAINCRS HEATH. Mr. Smith's compliments to Dr. De Sanctis, and begs to commun cate to him that he found the most speedy relief from the use of his Pills, and was entirely cured in three days. Dublin. Sir,— Your Rheumatic and Gout Pills are certainly a most effica- cious Medicine; I have been a severe sufferer from Cold Rheuma tism, which the Faculty have told me was always difficult of cure, it certainly has been difficult with me, for, for fifteen years I have fluctuated from bad toworseand worse to better, I have placed my- self in the hands of twenty five Medical Men who pursued as many different modes fo treatment without any permanent effect, a fortu- nate circumstance introduced some of your Pills to me, a few months since, which entirely cured me, and thank God have not had a re- lapse since, I therefore think it but justice to you, to offer you my testimony of their efficacy, aud 1 recommend all Gouty and" Rheu- matic subjects never to be without them.— Your's& c. To Dr. be Sanctis. JACOB JOHNSON. Cheltenham. DearSir,— When your name wasmentioned fo me by a friend, I certainly was scepticalofyourbeingabletoafford meany morerelief than such as I had before obtained; but your most invaluable Pills have certainly cured me, and had I not obtained them, I as certainly should have been before this a corpse. I have been for five and forty years a martyr to the horrid complaint of Gout, which in sufferings must be equal to the tormentsof hell, and during this long period I have tried every Remedy that money could procure or the most eminent Medical talent could suggest. I have taken Colchicum in every form, and in very large doses, both with and without Opium, but unfortunately found the more Medicine 1 took, the more fre- quently the attacksreturned, increasingin violence every time, and each attack becoming of longer duration, frequently of late from six weeks to two months, the most powerful remedies having at last failed to exert any influence on the complaint, the delay that occurred in consequence of my having to write to you ere I could ob- tain the Pills, allowed the complaint to increase more than it had ever done before, for both my legs, which of late years have been attackedsiinultaneously, and swelled to the size of my head, on the last occasionswelled up my thighs, and but for the timely arrival of your Pills no doubt would have got into my stomach and then as our immortal poet says, " In a coffin I'd pop'd off" instead of being here to return you my most grateful, sincere, and heartfelt thanks; the effect produced by your most inestimable Pills was wonderful; in a short time after taking the first dose I fancied my- self easier, but made up my mind to refer it only to a false confi. dence ; but my astonishment was excessive when at the end of six hours I found the swelling begin to diminish, and in five days 1 found myself completely cured, and without any of those symptoms of lassitude and debility being left behind, which have always lasted for many days after every previous attack fur the last ten years. I enclose you a draft for fifty pounds, and feel it the most useful fee I ever paid for Medical assistance ; I tru t that if you ever visit this neighbourhood you will not fail to spend a few days with me, and neither means or disposition will be absent from every en- deavour to minister to your enjoyment. Let me hope that many years will elapse ere the Grim Tyrant shall seize you with his icy hand, when if your Patients render that justice thatis due to your invaluable discovery, your remains must be laid among tlie most eminent of British Worthies.— I am, dear sir, your most sincere well- wisher, and resuscitated patient, WM. LAMBERT; To Dr. De Sanctis. Mr. Wentworth presents his compliments to Dr. De Sanctis, and writes to say that he considers his Pills a harmless but most effica- cious remedy, and shall have great pleasure in recoinmendingthem to the notice of his friends; the particular complaint Mr. Went- worth took them for was Rheumatic Gout in the right hand, which he is very subject to, but which he finds Dr. De Sauctis's Pills im- mediately remove. Dr. De Sunctis's Pills are sold by appointment, in boxes at 2s. 9d. each, at HANNAY and Co.' s General Patent Medicine Warehouse, 63, Oxford street, the corner of Wells- street, London; by whom dealers in the country are supplied on liberal terms; where may also be had HANNAY AND CO.' s INVALUABLE HORSE BLISTER. This most important improvement in the method of blis- tering cattle is prepared by Messrs. Hannay and Co., for and under the immediate inspection of the principal Veteri- nary Surgeon of one of His Majesty's cavalry regiments, who has used it during a period of many years with the most favourable results. Messrs. Hannay and Co beg lo recom- mend it to the use of their sporting friends and the owners of horses generally, as far superior to any other blister in present use. It has the peculiar properties of not destroy- ing the hair, and never blemishes the part to which it is applied, however frequently it may be used to the youngest foal; and no horse, however high his courage, will ever gnaw it; and the horse on which it has been applied may be immediately turned out to grass without a cradle. It has the invaluable property ( not possessed by any other article) of removing the blemish of a broken knee by re- storing the hair. It has received the most unqualified approbation of some of the most extensive owners of cattle, and on ly requires to be tried to convince the observer of its invaluable properties. Sold in pots at Is. 6d., containing one dressing; pots, 2s. 9d. two dressings ; 5s. four dressings. * » * Tire great celebrity of tliis blister has caused un- principled dealers to counterfeit it. Purchasers must there- fore be particular in seeing that it bears the name and address of HANNAY and Co., 63, Oxford- street," on the label on each pot. The above articles are sold by one or more respectable medicine venders in every town in the kingdom, aud any shop that- lias not got either of them will procure it from London if ordered without any additional charge. Sold by special appointment by M. Maher, 5, Congreve- street, Birmiri ham; Meridew, Coventry; Parke, Wolverhamp- ton ; Welchman, Northampton ; Price and Co., Journal- office, Leicester; Rogers, Stafford; Mort, Newcastle; Stratford, Worcester. raent for those peculiar complaints for which you recommend them, curing with rapidity, and with a certainty that X had never before witnessed; but what i consider their most invaluable property is, that they entirely eradicate the complaint, and never leavethoae 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 comer of Wells- street, London, where the public can be supplied with every Patent Medi- cine of repute, ( with an allowance on taking six at one time) warranted genuine and fresh from the various makers. Orders by post, containing a rem ittauce, punctually attended to, and the change, if any, can be returned with the Older. 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; IlogerB, Stafford; Mort, Newcastle; and Merridew, Coventry. MULREAODY'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 throatf 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 long, universally made use of for the cure of every description of Pulmonary Affection. To those who are unacquainted with the invaluable pro- perties of Mulreaddy's Cough Elixir, the following letters will exhibit its efficacy: — Manchester, Jan. 2nd, 1835. Dear Sir,— The cough medicine you sent me is certainly a most surprising remedy; six days ago I was uuable to breathe, unleea with great difficulty, attended with much coughing, which al\ vay « kept my soft palate relaxed, and in a state of irritation, and the more I coughed the worseit wasv 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 iri 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. The agreeable flavour of the medicine ii a great recommendation: I think you ought to put it up aHd sell it to the public, and if any one should doubt its efficacy, refer them tome. I shall have the pleasure of being with you in a few days, when I shall press on ybur consideration the propriety of making it up for sale ; it would prove an enormous fortune to your grand- children. If you make up your mind to do so, as I am what the worldstyles an idle man, you may enlist me in your service in any way that you ftiiflk would be useful. But I should advise you to place the management in the hands of one of the great medicine houses in London. Hannay's, in Oxford. street, are being advertised in all the pap.- rs 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 t> f the most public situations in Lon- don. All join me in kind remembrance to yourself aud Mrs. M. Believe me, yours, very truly, T. Mulreaddy, Esq. ROBERT GUANT. Golden Lion Hotel, Liverpool. Sir— TQ my astonishment, thf 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 con tents of which he insisted upon my swallowing instanter, and left me the remainder, which I also took, and in the course of twenty- four hours I. found myself quite freefrom even any tendency to warda 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. Birkeuhead, 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 j and I do not now find the cold produce the sensation it used previous to taking your medicine; it used formerly to nip me on going out, and I seemed as though 1 had a string run through my body, and the breast and backbones were drawn together. If you will be so good as to give me auother bottle, I am sure it will work a perfectcure. I am, sir, your most obedient servant, T. Mulreaddy, Esq. NICHOLAS BROWN. Dear Sir,— The effect of your medicine, in curing our children of the Hooping Cough, liaS been like magic, for which I, and Mra. 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 dayi, have I heretofore been compelled to confine myself a close and soli- tary prisoner in my library, to prevent the possibility of being tempted to join in conversation, the excitement of whieh- jtlways 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 bottlea. 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, 8( J 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 kiud 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 te tne boundless waters; and you may rely upon it, that I, a locomotive proof of its wonderful power, will spare neither time nor trouble to promulgate its efficacy, until yon will find your cottage attacked by myriads of my former fellow, sufferers, for a share of your bounty, and I myself now apply for the first, trusting that your goodness will not sutler you to refuse me a pretty considerable quantity, and I promise to distribute it most usefully. Whenever you have made up for sale, send me one thou* sand bottles. Ever your sincere well- wisher, T. Mulreaddy, Esq. W. HUGHES. Chester, 12mo., 1834. Esteemed Friend,— Thou hast my sincere thanksfor 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 ROBERTS. Mr. Mulreaddy begs to observe, that to publish copies of he whole of the letters he has received of the above tenor, would require several volumes. The selection - here pre- sented he considers quite sufficient, 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. tggf Purchasers should observe that ins 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 byhisap- poiritment 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; arid also with the perfumes of all the respectable London perfumers, with an allowance on taking six or more of any other article at the same time. Sold by appointment by Maher, 5, Congreve- street, and Wood, bookseller, High- street, Birmingham ; Parke, Wolverhampton; Rogers, Stafford; Moitf, Newcastle; and Merridew, Coventry. Printed and published by FRANCIS BASSET SHENSTONK FLINDELL, of Lee Mount, in the parish of Edgbaston, at 38, New- street, Birmingham, where letters for the Editor may be addressed, and where Advertisements and Orders will be received. ( All descriptions of Jobbing carefully and expeditiously executed.) Agents in Lon- don: Messrs. NEWTON and Co., 5, Warwick- square; and Mr. BARKER, 33, Fleet- street.— Saturday, October 7,1837.