4 u a( i fcesti IlllttHfj U N( ON 3/ f (/^/ b/^ P^ j No. 646. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1837. PRICE 41 d. z4 pleasing exterior is the first letter of recommendation. — LORD CHESTERFIELD. IN considering the testaceous tribes, it is not the animals themselves, but their clothing ( the shells) thai we chiefly regard. So, in our thoughts respecting men, we wldom go little beyond their external covering. Dress may be neglected by the sloven, despised by the lofty speculator, and overlooked by many who have never given it any reflection, but none besides the hermit can safely profess to be independent of it; hence, since dress is thus important, and unavoidably enters into the estimates we are accustomed to form of each other, it can never be but a matter of the first consequence in the economy of nature. In the recollection of our friends how much of our thought is taken up by the clothes they wore, and how im- possible it is to form a notion of them in any other dress. The great importance of dress may be judged by reflecting how various habits have been and are appropriated to va. rious dignities— ambition itself maybe defined as only an anxiety entertained by certain intelligent beings to get pos- session, for a time, of certain dresses, which must be kept filled like the kingly office— rising in the army is but pro- motion from a coat with one stripe, to a coat with two or more. No man ought to be insensible to the influence ol dress; a good exterior procures at once an easy entrance into good society. It is a becoming part of the amourpropre of every one to have a dress worthy of himself, such as may neither seem to make undue pretensions, nor to be need- lessly humble, but to be appropriate to his figure, age, and character, and upon the whole recommendatory; hence the necessity of employing a person who is sensible of the vast im- portance of appearance— who can set off advantages and dimi- nish imperfections— who can f urnish with clothes which shall be a passport into good society— a letter of recommendation carried about without trouble, and seen and read of all men. THE PROPRIETOR OF THE LONDON & PARISIAN PANTECHNETHECA OF FASHION, TAILORING, WOOLLEN DRAPERY, AND OUTFITTING ESTABLISHMENT. 23, New street, Birmingham, Is able to confer these advantages on gentlemen, as he has in his establishment none hut artists of first- rate excellence men who can suit the cut to the character, whether the smartness and spruceness of youth is wanted, the elegant and fashionable dignity of middle age, or the sober solemnity Of declining years. S. HYAM begs to tender his sincere acknowledg- ments to the Nobility, Gentry, and Inhabitants gene- rally, of Warwickshire and the adjacent counties, for the very liberal and extensive patronage they have afforded him since his removal to his present superb premises ; and he begs to inform them, that owing to the severe and un- precedented pressure 0: 1 the money market, which obliged manufacturers to submit to unheard of sacrifices in the sale of their goods, that they might meet obligations incurred during prosperity, he has been enabled to purchase goods for cash, at prices wholly unparalleled; and be is determined his valuable and extensive connexion shall enjoy the ad- vantages which he has been enabled to reap, through having the ability to purchase goods, almost unlimitedly, off per- sons who have been obliged to dispose of them at unre- munerating prices. He solicits the favour of inspection, and be is confident it will be found that he makes no as- sertion without foundation, and no professions but what may be realised at his Establishment. S. HTAM is conscious that his Establishment owes much of its celebrity not only to the superiority of its cut, but to the fact that it contains, without exception, the largest and decidedly the most varied and best assorted Stock that can be found in the world ; heliee it is his interest, and shall continue to be his study, to furnish it with every new and fashionable article as soon as it may appear in the metropo- polis, or can be procured from the continent— so that his distinguished Patrons and Friends, by calling at his Estab- lishment, mav depend upon finding at all times the newest and most fashionable patterns— and owing to the Proprie- tor employing agents to transmit every new and elegant design as soon as discovered, they " may rely upon having every garment made in a style the most fashionable, and at one- third of the price charged by the metropolitan houses; the Proprietor being determined to continue to maintain that proud superiority which his Establishment has already attained, and as a single concern, remain altogether with- out a rival— in the immense quantity, endless variety, and first- rate excellence of its goods, the fashion and superiority of its cut, beauty and durability of its workmanship, and lowness of its charges. S. HYAM feels confident that his establishment possesses advantages which cannot be met with in any other in the universe, and as he is determined to continue that honour- able and liberal system of business which has afforded such satisfaction to his customers, of allowing any gentlemen to return every article which may not please either in fit, quality, colour, or make, he confidently calculates upon the future favours of those very numerous gentlemen who have already honoured him with their commands; aud in soliciting a trial from those who have not yet patronised him, he would observe, that he shall feel favoured by their calling to inspect his immense and valuable stock and splen- did show rooms, which he would feel happy in showing to any party who may come on business, or be desirous of seeing the magnificent Establishments of the town. The facilities which the GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY affords to persons living in the vicinity of the line, will enable them to come to Birmingham and return with the articles procured from S. Hyam's Tailoring and Outfitting Establishment, Pantechnetheca, 23, New- street, Birming- ham, suited to their various tastes, in less time than they could have been procured at home, and at prices so much below what they have been in tire habit of giving, that the difference will more than counterbalance the expense of the journey. In submitting the following List of Prices the Proprietor solicits an inspection of his Stock, at the prices required for them, and fearlessly challenges competition in the united qualities of Fashion, Material, Manufacture, and Cost, confident his Establishment will always maintain its pre- cedence for the Magnitude, Extent, and Variety of its Stock, Elegance of Cut, Superiority of Workmanship, and Lowness of Charges. No business done at this Establishment from after sun- set on Friday Afternoon, until Saturday Evening at Six o'clock, after which time it will be opened for business until Twelve o'clock. S. HYAM'S LIST OF PRICES, For Gentlemen's Clothing made to Order in the most fashionable and elegant style. Mr. Hyam's List of Prices continued. WAISTCOATS. Summer Waistcoats, newpatterns, 7s. each, or 3for 1 0 ~ ' • • - ' " 18 NWV 0 8 0 10 .0 11 0 9 Splendid Silk Valencia, 10s. each, or 3 for Kerseymere Waistcoats, from — Fine Quality, ditto — . — Silk Waistcoats, from „„.— — Valencia Ditto, from CLOAKS. Cloth Opera Cloaks, from — ™ — Spanish J Circular ditto . .— Ditto, a complete Circle of 9^ yards round the bot- Velvet Collars, & c., extra. Youth's Camlet Cloaks, from Ditto, Cloth ditto, from 3 3 0 0 8 0 11 Suit of Livery. Best Cloth, ditto Large sizes extra. £. s. 1 12 2 2 2 8 2 12 COATS. Gentlemen's Fine Dress Coats, from Saxony ditto Imperial ditto Extra Imperial ditto, best quality manufactured. Superfine Frock Coats, or Surtouts with silk facings 1 15 Saxony ditto ..— » —-—... —.—, . 2 6 Imperial ditto — 2 12 Extra Imperial ditto, the best quality manufactured 2 16 Ladies' Riding Habits —.— .—. .— 3 15 Gentlemen's Petersham Great Coats, ( Double Superior quality, ditto .— — 2 2 Very best ditto — 2 8 Fine Cloth ditto, ( of any colour) 2 2 Superfine ditto, ( Double Milled) ~ 2 15 Mackintosh and Co.' s Patent Waterproof Great Coats made to measure .— These will be found of that CHARACTER which has raised S. H's. Establishment to such eminence in the estimation of the highest circles, where nothing short of EASY GENTLEMANLY ELEGANCE COUtd be tolerated. TROWSERS. Buckskin Trowsers, on S. Hyam's new principle of cutting, especially recommended to Sporting Gentlemen - .—— Summer ditto, beautiful patterns 10s. 6d. or three pairs for Kerseymere Trovvsers from Fine Quality, ditto Very best CHILDREN S DRESSES. Superfine Plain Cloth Dress, consisting of a Tunic, Vest, and Trowsers ~— 110 Ditto, Superior Quality, handsomely Braided, faced with Silk 1 8 0 Youth's Dress, ( of any colour) consisting of Jacket, Waistcoat, and Trowsers, made to any pattern 14 0 Ditto, Superior Quality, neatly braided — 1 12 0 Contracts by the year, originally introduced byS. H., and having gained him such unequal fame, his prices being the lowest ever offered-, he still recommends it to every gentle- man to whom fashion, economy, and regularity, are an object. Second Quality. Two suits of superfine clothes, any colour £ 6 10s. Three ditto ditto 9 10 Four ditto ditto 12 10 Best Quality. Two suits of West of England Wool- dyed, the best quality that can be made £ 7 16s. Three ditto ditto 11 11 Four ditto ditto 15 0 Velvet Collars, & c., extra; and so on in proportion for each suit. Each suit to be returned on the receipt of its successor. Gentlemen contracting for three or more suits, are allowed two suits in wear during the whole term. The largest and most extensive stock of Mackintosh and Co.' s Patent Waterproof Cloaks, Capes, Nursing Aprons Sfc., 15 per cent, under the regular price. 1 12 0 JABEZ BELLISTON ( from AVERY'S,) Weighing Machine Manufacturer, respectfully informs the Public generally, that be has commenced business on his own account at 23, MOOR- STREET, eleven doors above the Pub- lie- office.. J. B. assures those Friends who favour him with their commands, that all orders entrusted to him shall be supplied with the most correct article, which, from his long experience in the business both in London and for the last seven years in this town, he feels perfectly competent to perform. %* Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation. Blerchants and Factors supplied on the lowest terms. Birmingham, Oct. 5, 1837. GROUND TENANTS. THE GROUND TENANTS of FRENDCREGOE COLMORE, Esq., are requested to Paytheir Rents, which becamedueat Michaelmas last, on Wednesday, Thurs- day, and Friday, the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd days of November next, at ouroffice, in Bennett's- hill, 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. GROUND TENANTS. rriHE GROUND TENANTS of the most Noble the JL 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 1st, 2nd, and 3rd days of November next, at our office, in Bennett's- hill, 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. A NEW SUBSTANCE FOR ARTIFICIAL TEETH. LOSS OF TEETH SUPPLIED. And filling Decayed Teeth with Mineral Siliceum. MONS. DE BERRI AND CO., SURGEON- DENTISTS, 121, REGENT- STREET, LONDON, AND 17, EASY- ROW, BIRMINGHAM. RESPECTFULLY acquaint the Nobility, Gentry, and the Public, that they have recently succeeded in forming a new Substance for Artificial Teeth, which they can confidently recommend to be superior in every respect to those now generally worn, for, from their peculiar com- position, they cannot break from the plate, are more durable, perfectly incorrodible, and impossible to change from their original colour. They are also impervious to 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- Inuiinn. Pmric (* hnr( Tps • s. d. 10 0 0 0 0 0 lowing Paris charges; A single Artificial Tooth — 0 A complete set — —— 5 A complete set of Natural Teeth, on fine gold An entire set of Natural Teeth, highly finished, in the first style, with fine gold sockets, usually charged 40 guineas— ™ 20 Answering all the purposes of Mastication and 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. 1 1 0 1 10 0 15 1 0 1 3 BREECHES. Gentlemen's Cotton Cord Breeches. Ditto, Woollen Cord .. Ditto. Kerseymere ( of any colour). Ditto, Best Manufactured Kerseymere Gaiters 0 8 0 14 0 15 0 19 0 7 DR. JOHN ARMSTRONG'S LIVER PILLS. " I care not how I am physicked, so it he not by the adventure of a Quack, hut advice of a Physician, who, I am sure, will prescribe no more for me than may consist with my safety, and need doth re- quire."— Old Divine. Tl^ HESE admirable Liver Pills are strongly l- ecom- JL mended as an excellent family Aperient, a certain re- medy for an inactive Liver, a safe and effectual destroyer of worms in children, and as the Best Friend of the Dyspeptic, or Bilious Sufferer, whose usual symptoms are some or all of these :— flatulence, pain in the side and under the shoulder blades, distressing sensation of choking, oppression after meals, depression of spirits, and a yellow skin. They have also been of extraordinary service to persons afflicted with obstinate sores; and with scurvy, scorbutic humours, or eruptions of the skin. These favourite Liver Pills are warranted to contain no Aloes, Gamboge, or other Drastics; they do not occasion Piles, or any pain during their operation. Be careful to observe, before purchasing, that the Pro- prietor's sole compounding Agent's name and address— " John T. Eddy, Chemist, Bishop Stortford,"— are on the Government Stamp, engraved in white letters; which is also sealed with a tower, on a shield of ermine and gold. All other are counterfeits; as the Proprietor, a gentleman of private fortune, is the only possessor of this fine prescription, given to him by the late learned Physician ( in Russell- square) himself, in 1827. Sold by all patent medicine venders, in boxes at Is. 2s. 9d., and 4s. 6d. Smith, William Adams, Esq. Waterton, Henry, Esq. Webb, Sir Henry, Bart. 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 extra 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 until they are inhabited. By order of the Directors, JOHN ARNALL, Clerk to the Company. Water Works Office, Square,! October 2, 1837. J 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. 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. Asliburnham Bulley, Esq. | John Davison Smith, Esq. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Meggison, Pringle, and Manisty. SECRETARY. J. P. Anstice, Esq. THIS Company has contracted for the purchase of 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- pel ty, 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 by letter, post paid, to the Secretary, at the Company's offices, 20,' King's Arms Yard, Coleman- street; to the Solicitors, 3, King's- road, Bedford- row, London; or Mr. J. SMITH, 73, High- street, Birmingham. BIRMINGHAM FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL. NOTICE is hereby given, that in pursuance of an act passed in the second year of the reign of his late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled, " An act to enable the Governors of the Possessions, Revenues, and Goods of the Free Grammar School of King Edward the Sixth in Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, to erect a School- house, Masteis' Houses, and other suitable accom- modations for the said School, and to extend the objects of the Charity, and for other purposes;" and also of an act passed in the first year of the reign of her present Majesty, to alter some ofthe provisions of the act above- mentioned, and to provide in a different manner for some of the objects in the said act— the Governois of the said School intend, after the expiration of one month from the date of this notice, to apply to the High Court of Chancery to approve of a Scheme for teaching Modern Languages and the Arts and Sciences in the newly erected Grammar School Build- ings, in New- street, in Birmingham, and also for the sanction or direction of the said Court as to the purchase of certain Messuages, Land, and Hereditaments in Peck- lane, Colmore- street, and Little Col more- street, or of any of the estates and interests of the owners thereof in the same.— Dated the ninth day of October, 1837. J. W. WHATELEY, Secretary to the said Governors. TURRET CLOCK. WANTED to purchase, a TURRET CLOCK, with an illuminated face, either new or second- hand; but if the latter, it must be in perfect repair and warranted. Particulars, with size of the dial and price, to be ad- dressed to the Secretary of the Stockton and Darlington Railway Company, Darlington. GAME LISTS. COUNTY OF WARWICK. SECOND publication of Persons who have ob- tained GAME CERTIFICATES for the year 1837. List ( 1) GENERAL CERTIFICATES, at £ 3 13s. 6d. each. Adams, James, Fillongley Adcock, Joseph, Stoneleigh Arkwright, F., Leamington- priors Baker, Isham, Sherbourn Barker, Charles, Kingsbury Barker, C., Sutton Coldfield Bint, William, Meriden Briscoe, H., Little Brom- wich Burman, C., Henley- in- Arden Burridge, John, Leamington- priors Butler, Edwin, Birmingham Chandler, Samuel, Kineton Coombs, Richard, Warwick Court, J., Stratford- upon- Avon Crovvther, Rev. S., Church Over Dalton, George, Coventry Davis, Richard, Leamington Dormer, Joseph, Stoneleigh Dunn, Francis, Barston Field, E., Stratford- upon- Avon Fry, E. W., Henley, in- Arden Gameson, W., Birmingham Greensall, John, Edgbaston Greenway, C. T. Warwick Grimes, Edward, Church Over Hancocks, John, Warwick Hiorns, Joseph, Ashow Holbeach, George, Alveston Holyoake, T. Morton Bag- gott Hood, Robert, Merevale Howson, John, Sambourn Husband, George, Salford Hurst, Godfrey, Knowle Ivens, Wm., Grandborough Jefferies, Charles, Foleshill Jones, George, Birmingham Locke, Rev. C. C., Marton Lowe, Thomas, Binton Moore, Charles Eli, Cough- ton Power, Richard, Birming- ham Rogers, Thomas, Coventry Rose, Thomas, Hampton Lucy Russell, John, Leamington Seymour, W. H. Coventry Smallwood, John, Birming- ham Smith, J., Stratford- upon- Avon Towle, William, Nuneaton Townsend, H. W., Rugby Turner, George, Duddeston aud Nechells Wakelin, Joseph, Exhall Waller, Rev. E., Teach- brooke Watson, Wm., Duncburch Williams, Hugh, Kineton Whitehouse, W. D., Studley Whittington, Jos., Preston Baggott Whittington, John, Preston Baggott BOROUGH OF BIRMINGHAM. WE, NATHANIEL BASEVI and JOHN ROBERT KENYON, the Barristers appointed to revise the Lists of Voters for the Borough of Birmingham, do hereby give notice, that we shall hold a Court for that purpose, at the Public Office, in Birmingham aforesaid, on Monday, the 16th day of October instant, at half. past ten o'clock in the forenoon, where ail Overseers are required to attend with their several Lists and the several notices served upon them. Dated this 5th day of October, 1837. N. BASEVI, J. R. KENYON. List ( 2) GAME KEEPERS, not being Assessed Servants, at £ 3 13s. 6d. each. Green, Thomas, StudJey, Manor of Sidenhall, appointed by the Ear! of Cornwallis. List of Persons Licensed to Deal in Game. Dolphin, Joseph Warwick Edmunds, Zepli Rugby Underbill, James Warwick Made up to the 9th October, 1837. By order of the Board, CHARLES PRESSLY, Secretary. Stamps and Taxes. IWILLIAM PARE, Superintendent Registrar of ^ Births, Deaths, and Marriages, for the district of Bir mingham, in the county of Warwick, by virtue and in pur- suance of an act passed in the 6th and 7th years of the reign of his late Majesty, King William the Fourth, intituled " An act for Marriages in England," do, by this present writing under my hand, APPOINT Mr. JOHN MI- CHAEL MURPHY, of St. Peter's. place, Birmingham, REGISTRAR for the purpose of being PRESENT at MARRIAGES at which the presence of a Registrar is made necessary. Witness my hand this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord, 1837. WILLIAM PARE, Superintendent Registrar. BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY. rHE BIRMINGHAM AUXILIARY BRANCH of the above SOCIETY intends to hold its ANNI- VERSARY MEETING on WEDNESDAY EVENING NEXT, the 18th inst., at the TOWN HALL. The Chair to be taken at six o'clock. The Rev. ANDREW BIIANDRAM, M. A., is ex- pected to attend as the Representative of the Parent So- ciety ; and the assistance of other Clerical Friends from a distance is hoped for, in consequence ofthe previous Church Missionary Meetings. Tickets for Reserved Seats on the Floor, and in the Side and Organ Galleries, may be had, price Sixpence each, at the Offices of Aris's Birmingham Gazette, The Birmingham Herald, the Birmingham Advertiser, aud the Philanthropist; also, at Mr. PEART'S, Bookseller, Bull- street; and Mr. HAMMOND'S, Minories. A part of the Floor, and the Great Gallery, will be open to the Public. The attendance of Clergymen, Dissenting and Wesleyan Ministers is particularly requested on the platform Orders have been given for their admittance at the Com- initte- room door, in Congreve- street, on presenting their own cards. Birmingham, October 11,1837. WINES AND SPIRITS. FAMILIES may be 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 delicacy of flavour and strength, on equally moderate terms, 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. 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 ita 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 IJ, 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 oil of tubes, T, is placed ; the water therein becomes heated by the fire in the compartment N, and the smoke and heated air pass from the ignited fuel into the chimney I. THE coil of pipes constituting the Furnace lias been introduced at the 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. The 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 of heating by hot air. References and further information may be had on appli- cation to Mr. BARNETT, as above. WANTED, a good WORKMAN at Fitting- up, in the above business. 20, George- street, St. Paul's, Birmingham, October 10th, 1837. LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY. OPENING OF THE LINE TO TRING. FT1HE Public are informed that on MONDAY, the 16th JL of October, the Railway will be opened for the con- veyance of passengers and parcels, from Boxmoor to the Tring Station at Pendley, thirty- one miles and a half from London, including the intermediate station of Berkhamp stead, distant twenty- seven miles and three quarters from London. The coaches will he in two classes. First class coaches the same as at present. Second class coaches carry four passengers on each seat; are covered, and are open at the sides. The coaches will be lighted by lamps in the inside. The following, until further notice, will be the times for departure of the trains ; — First Train 7 o'clock morning Second 10 o'clock morning f r , Third 2 o'clock afternoon [ and Fourth 5 o'clock afternoon | irom inng. . Fifth . 7 o'clock afternoon J On Sundays:— First Train ™ l^ ingf f- m London. (. 1 o'clock morning from Tring. Second Third London to Harrow to Watford to Boxmoor to past 1 o'clock afternoon 5 o'clock afternoon FARES. [" Harrow | Watford • j Boxmoor | Berkhampstead „ L Tring ) from London and f from Tring. / Watford J Boxmoor " J Berkhampstead. (. Tring r Boxmoor — -< BerUhampstead. (. Tring { Berkhampstead. Tring Ut Class. 2 0 2 6 3 6 1 6 2 0 1 6 s. d. 2 0 2 6 3 6 4 0 4 6 1 0 2 0 2 6 3 0 1 0 1 6 2 0 1 0 1 6 1 0 Berkhampstead to Tring By order, 11. CREED, 1. C. R. MOORSOM, | Secretaries. Office, Cornhill, London, 9th October, 1837. DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP AT HALL AND OWEN'S, No. 6, NEW- STREET, BIRMINGHAM. THE Public is respectfully informed, that in con- sequence of Mr. Owen taking to his Brother's Esta- blishment at Fazeley, the whole of their extensive Stock, according to their articles of partnership, must be imme- diately converted into CASH! And as it cannot be accom- plished without a very considerable reduction, the shop must unavoidably be CLOSED THIS DAY, ( Saturday) the 14th instant, in order to make that ENORMOUS SA- CRIFICE on the STOCK, ( which consists of LINEN and WOOLLEN DRAPERY, SILK MERCERY, HOSIERY, HABERDASHERY, LACE, GLOVES, and every article connected with the trade,) as cannot fail to secure an immediate sale, which will take place on MON- DAY NEXT, October 16, and continue until the whole is sold off. N. B. Parties purchasing for. families or charities should make an early call, as the stock will be so reduced as to en- sure an immediate disposal. OPEN FROM NINE TILL FIVE. LEECH BLEEDING. AN excellent business in the above line to be dis- posed of, in a very eligible situation, where a person has carried it on for eighteen years, and who is recom- mended by all the medical gentlemen in the neighbour- hood. Apply at No. 2, Cox- street, Paul's- square. October 7th, 1837. Desirable opportunity of taking to an Old Established Public House, Licensed by the Magistrates. TO be disposed of by Private Treaty, Free of Good- will, an OLD LICENSED HOUSE, situate in the centre of the town, in a densely populated and manu- facturing district. The coming- in will be under £ 200. For further particulars apply to Mr. W. CLARKE, Auc- tioneer and Appraiser, Temple- street, Birmingham. OLD AND NEW PUBLIC HOUSES, PERSONS desirous of embarking in the Public Business are respectfully invited to inspect the List of Houses on sale in and near to Birmingham. JOHN RODERICK, Agent. Offices, New- street, corner of Bennett's- hill, \ opposite the Post- office, Birmingham. J RESPECTABLE OLD LICENSED PUBLIC HOUSE, No. 82, BARR- STREET, PARISH OF SAINT GEORGE'S, BIRMINGHAM, Rent and Payments £ 36 per Annum. rpo be DISPOSED OF, the ALE and SPIRIT JL LICENSES, GOOD- WILL and POSSESSION of one of the most convenient, respectable, and well- fre- quented PUBLIC HOUSES in the Parish of St. George's, known by the sign of the ROYAL OAK ; to which may be added, at a trifling expense, a Retail SPIRIT SHOP, the situation of which will command an extensive business. Valuation of Stock and Effects about £ 120. For particulars and to treat, apply to Mrs. CHINERY, upon the premises ; or to RODERICK, Auctioneer and Appraiser, New- street, Birmingham.; THE MONUMENT TAVERN, SAND PITS, NEAR BIRMINGHAM. BY RODERICK. TO be SOLD by AUCTION, on the premises, on Thursday next, the 19th day of October, at six o'clock in the evening, subject to conditions then to be produced, ( unless sooner disposed of by private contract)— the LI- CENSES, GOODWILL, and POSSESSION of the above Retail House, pleasantly situated at the Sand Pits, Birmingham, in a very populous district, and doing a good business. Any person wishing to embark in the trade, and who is conversant with the Hay and Corn Trades, would find this a valuable opportunity, there being good Stabling and Sheds erected for that purpose. Rent under £ 20 per annum, and coming- in very low. For particulars, and to treat, apply to Mr. PERRY, upon the premises, or to the AUCTIONEER. THE ROLLING MILL RETAIL PUBLIC HOUSE, IN DARTMOU TII- S TREE T, A S T O N- R O A D, B 1 R MING II A M. BY RODERICK. rpO be SOLD by AUCTION, on the premises, on JL Tuesday, the 24th day of October inst., ( unless sooner disposed of by Private Contract,) at four o'clock in the afternoon, subject to conditions then to be produced, the LICENSES, GOOD- WILL, and POSSESSION of the above desirable and respectable House, situate near to several large Iron Works, Mills, and Manufactories, and to the locks of the Birmingham Canal Coming- in very low. For particulars and to treat, apply to the PROPRIETOR up- on the premises, who is leaving in consequence of ill health, or to the AUCTIONEER. TO WHEELWRIGHTS, WOOD TURNERS, CARPENTERS, & c. SALE IN HENEAGE- STREET, NEAR TO WINDSOR- STREET. rpO be SOLD by AUCTION, by WILLIAM JL JOBSON, on Tuesday next, October 17, 1837, on the premises of Mr. Turner, I- Ieneage- street, a capital Turning Lathe, excellent small Timber Carriage, well- built Hand- Cart, large Iron Wheel and Frame for turningwheels, three new Lathe Frames, three new Lathe Wheels, large quantity of well seasoned Fellies, two Saw Benches, Sky- light Frame, Carpenter's Benches, Nest of Drawers, and numerous other Effects. Sale to commence at Half- past Two o'clock. VALUABLE LEASEHOLD BUILDINGS, CECIL STREET, NEWTOWN ROW, BIRMINGHAM, Free from Auction Duty, rpO be SOLD by AUCTION, by W. JOBSON, ( by JL order of the Assignee of RICHARD TIPPING, a Bank- rupt,) at the Saracen's Head, in Bull- street, in Birmingham, on Thursday, the 19th day of October inst., precisely at Six o'clock in the evening of the same day— ail that desirable and newly- erected LEASEHOLD PROPERTY, being Two FRONT and Two BACK HOUSES, WARE- HOUSE, upper and lower SHOP thereto adjoining,, with sufficient LAND for the erection of two more Back Houses, the rental of which, as it now stands, will produce£ 44 14s. per annum, and only subject to a ground rent of £ 6 7s. per annum ; 98 years of the lease unexpired fsom Michael- mas last. For further particulars, apply at the office of, Mr. EDWARD CHEENEY, Solicitor, Moor- street; Mr. P* ICHAur> SMITH, Solicitor, Aston- 6treet ; or to the AUCTIONEER, 87, Great Charles street, all of Birmingham. CHOICE AND VALUABLE COLLECTION OF PAINTINGS. TO be SOLD by AUCTION, by Mr. J. BARKER, on the premises, No. 116, New- street, on Tuesday, the 17th day of October inst., precisely at eleven o'clock, the superior collection of paintings. of a gentleman deceased, removed from Staffordshire for unreserved sale; amongst which will be found a splendid Gallery Picture, the Holy Family, by Domenichino ; an exquisite Moonlight by Van- derneer; a beautiful Landscape by J. Ruysdael; a highly finished Gem, the Triumph of Neptune and Amphitrite, by J. B. Franks; fine Landscape, with numerous figures, by Wynants; together with the genuine productions of the following esteemed masters:— Guido, Vandyck, Rot- tenhamer, J. Ostade, Castiglioni, Berghem, Poussfn, Poe- lemberg, Both, Rembrandt, Van Goyen, Rubens, Terberp, Brughel, Miraveldt, Gainsborough, Van Balen, Chipriani, Morland, & e. The whole may be viewed on Monday, the 16th inst., when catalogues will be ready for delivery, and may be had ofthe AUCTIONEER, NO. 116, New- street, on Friday and Saturday next. On Monday, 2nd of October, was published, Volume the Fifth of THE LIFE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT, by Mr. LOCKHART. ROBERT CADELL, Edinburgh ; JOHN MURRAY, and WHIT- TAKER and Co., London. Of whom may be had, THE LIFE, vols. I., II., III., and IV. WAVERLY NOVELS, 48 vols. jf^ W SIR WALTER SCOTT'S POETRS,/ 2, voK ii- SIR WALTER SCOTT'S PROSE WORKS, vols. THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, OCTOBER 14. 3 NEWS OF THE WEEK. POEEIGN. We have received Jamaica papers to a recent date, by the last packet, from which we extract the following, as illus- trative of the present most unsatisfactory state of things in that colony. Copies of two circulars of Sir Lionel Smith to the special magistrates. " No. 1661. ( Circular.) " The King's House, 29th July, 1837. " Sir,— In all cases where special magistrates have to complain of the uujust, severe, or unkind treatment of apprentices by overseers, from whose general conduct, nine- teen complaints out of twenty now originate, they will be so good as to accompany such reports by information of facts, i stating the names of attorneys employing such overseers in this country, or where there is no local attorney, the name of the proprietor or parties owning the property in England, which such overseer may be wholly in charge of. " By command, " Special Justice " S. R. WARREN, Sec." " No. 1197. ( Circular.) " The King's House, 2nd August, 1837. " Sir,— In all magistrates' courts of valuation on appren- tices in future, the special magistrate, before commencing proceedings, is directed to ascertain from the general magis- trates associated with him, whether they are agreed to a'low a deduction upon the extreme value of any such apprentices, of one- third for contingencies, which has been the principle formerly adopted, but lately generally denied. " 2. If the associated magistrates will not agree to this just deduction, the Court need not proceed, but the special magistrates will at once report the valuation as inconclusive, and then give notice to have other magistrates selected, • who will agree to the usual deductions for contingencies. " I have the honour to be, sir, " Your obedient servant, " Special Justice — " S. II. WARREN, Sec." The first contains the Governor's testimony as to the true causes of the bad working of the apprenticeship. Soon after his arrival, in his first speech to the Assembly, we remem- ber that he plainly attributed it to the conduct of the two or three special magistrates, who were among the few who administered the law impartially. We are glad to observe that he has seen his error. The circular on valuations exposes a crying abuse. The agpientices who purchase their freedom are valued at a certain price more than they were worth as slaves before the introduction of the apprenticeship, and the price is enhanced instead of diminished the nearer they approach the day of final emancipation. The editor of the Falmouth Post observes upon these circulars— " The editor of the Standard is in high dudgeon, in con- sequence of the directions lately forwarded to the special magistrates, in two circulars, first published by him arid copied by us in another part of this day's Post. The first is characterised by our contemporary, as a document which, if acted upon, is certain to ' produce much harm and com- motion, and not a little injustice and discontent;' the second is described as emanating from the Colonial office, in conse- quence of the assertion made by Joseph Sturge, that ' the valuations put upon apprentices are not only excessively high, but the system of valuation is so contrived as to prevent the negro from having the slightest chance of fair play.' " But whose opinion is it, asks the Standard writer, that nineteen out of twenty complaints originate from the general conduct of the overseers? It is not, cannot be, the opinion of the executive! Oh no ! It is the opinion of the power above his Excellency Sir Lionel Smith, for whose fame the editor of the Standard now trembles. It is im- possible, lie says, that it can be the genuine and unbiassed opinion of Jamaica's present ' liberal and intelligent ruler!' No '. It has been dictated by the colonial secretary, in con- sequence of the representations of his ' pseudo philanthropic and calumniating friends,' among whom one of the most conspicuous is Quaker Sturge, who, after all, does not turn out to be the mistaken man which he was supposed to be on his arrival in this island; and Sir Lionel Smith, so says the Standard, ' has only given currency to it in this island, as proceeding from the executive by a concession of principle, which necessity, but not his will compels.' We can assure the editor of the Standard, tlmt Joseph Sturge did not assert a falsehood when he said that the system of valuation in some parishes was so contrived as to prevent the appren- tice from having fair play ; we know that in the parish of Hanover, the door of justice was in several cases closed against individuals who appeared to purchase their freedom; that the evidence tendered was frequently set aside, and that a special justice actually refused in many instances to give notices of valuation, unless the persons claiming release would swear that they were prepared with the money to purchase their discharge, and this too when there were disputes about classification. These are facts which we assert with confidence', we shall publish them, and we are pre- pared to prove them whenever we tnay be called upon to do so. We shall now conclude this article, by stating in the language of the Standard, that ' feeling a9 we do, we could not think we were performing our duty as we ought, unless we thus expressed ourselves plainly and firmly upon this as well as all other matters in which the rights, liberties, and interests of the PEOPLE of this island are concerned.'" Non- registered slaves,— By the plain tenor of the act for the abolition of slavery, the slaves who were not duly regis- tered according to law, were entitled to their unqualified freedom ; but this, like the other parts of the Abolition act, which were intended to secure the lights of the negro, has been nullified by the trickery of the planters, while the colonial government has either treacherously or supinely connived at the sacrifice of those rights, though purchased at so enormous a price, and which they were bound by every principle of honour and of duty to the nation to pro- tect. In Jamaica, there are at this moment several hundred of these non- registered slaves still detained in bondage. In one parish only have they generally succeeded in obtaining their freedom, and that principally through the strenuous ex- ertions of one or two private individuals. In a recent de- cision the chief justice, who has never yet, by any accident in cases where apprentices have been concerned, decided in favour of the weaker party, has declared that these non- registered slaves are lawfully held in bondage as apprentices; a decision so monstrous, that one of his associate judges, a planter, expressed his dissent from the bench in a candid and able argument. On this subject the Falmouth Post ob- serves ( Wednesday, June 21)— " We mentioned in our last number, that we awaited the judgment of Sir Joshua Rowe, in the case of Bayley and Ewart with great anxiety; not that we imagined any decision of the learned knight could affect those persons who, from the commencement of the apprenticeship, have been in the enjoyment of unqualified freedom, but because we enter- tained a hope that, his honor would have given a different decision to that which he did, and have put thereby entirely to rest those angry feelings on the subject which have unfor- tunately too long existed. It is said by some, that an attempt will now be made to compel the non- registered apprentices to return to work for their former masters, but we are rather inclined to think that such an attempt will meet with a determined and justifiable opposition, for he who supposes that freemen will tacitly return to slavery, and subject themselves again to whips and chains, and all the other evils attendant on a state of bondage, is nought but a madman or a fool. " In delivering judgment on the above mentioned case, Sir Joshua, for himself and the assistant judges who agreed with him, said ' the view we have taken appears to me to be in principle the same as that of the Mauritius case by the Privy Council;' ' if the slaves by the operation of that act had an absolute right to unqualified freedom by any omission to mnke the return required by the laws of the island, then no matter by whom the omission was made, they should have been declared unconditionally tri e, and the owmerswho liad been damnified by the neglect of a public officer would have had their remedy against him.' I/' " We cannot conclude this article without stating that we are of the same opinion with Mr. Justice Bernard; we do not consider that the decision of the Chief Justice can pos- sibly prevent the non- registered apprentices from claiming the enjoyment of unqualified freedom. " lstl'y. Because the opinion of Sir Joshua Rowe is op- posed to the principles of the British Abolition act. " gndly. Because the law officers of His Majesty's Government have declared that all persons who wTere not duly registered are absolutely free. . " 3rdly. Because the special justices have orders not to inteifere when certificates of noli- registration are pro- duced. " 4ibly. Because there was a difference of opinion be- tween the judges, and " Stilly. Because an appeal is to be made to the King in Council against the decision of the chief and his asso- ciates who agreed with him in deciding in favour of the defendant." • The consequences of this decision are already apparent. The non- registered slaves are still to be held in unlawful bondage, while the few who have obtained their freedom, wiil either be forcibly reduced to slavery, which will com- promise the peace of the island, or they will be virtually outlawed. That this last is not a chimerical anffcipation is evident from the following report of a case by a bench of local magistrates. " 1' FTTY SESSIONS, LUCEA, HANOVER, AUGUST 9. " Before Richard Chambers and James Kitely Biuns, Esqrs. " A complaint was made, pursuant to affidavit, previously lodged at the peace- office, by James M'Donald, Esq., a magistrate of the parish ol Hanover, against the Rev, John Stainshy, rector of Hanover, under the 20th « clause of the act in aid of the Abolition law, for harbouring and employ- ing a man named John Fergusson, alleged by M'Donald IO be tin apprentice belonging to him. " Mr. M'Donald sworn: On the 28th of July last was coming to Lucea, saw John Fergusson close to the road on the lelt side near the church, asked what he was abou;. Fergusson made no reply; Fergusson quitted him in August 1836. Cross- examined: Has seen Fergusson since November 1836; applied for his apprehension ; never brought him be- fore the special magistrate since August 1836, as the special magistrate refused to act on complaint against Fergusson because he was not registered in 1832. " By the Court: Was in his possession since 1833. " Mr. M'Donald proposed to prove by Mr. Munro that Fergusson was employed by defendant, upon which de- fendant said that it would shorten the proceedings and save time, and that as he did not wish to take any advantage of any want of proof of the plaintiff, he would admit at on. e that he had employed Fergusson. He then proceeded to move the Court that the charge against him should be dis- missed. The evidence of M'Donald showed that Fergusson was ipso facto not his apprentice, inasmuch as on the ground stated by M'Donald, viz., Fergusson's non- registration in 1832, the special magistrate had refused to coerce him as an apprentice under his jurisdiction. If the sitting magistrates did not dismiss the complaint they would incur a fearful responsibility, by acting in defiance of the instructions of government respecting the non- registered negroes, and by disregarding and attempting to set aside the decision of the special magistrate grounded thereupon. Besides, if they decided against defendant they would make the tnan, John Fergusson, an outlaw. For this man, by the noil- interfer- ence of the special justice, had been permitted to disobey the commands of his alleged employer, and become a free man; but if he was by the bench denied the liberty of em- ploying himself as a free man, he would be to all intents and purposes an outlaw. There was not in law an intermediate state between an apprentice and a free man. " Defendant further urged that no injury had been done byfeim to M'Donald by his employment of Fergusson; be- cause Fergusson was not at the time, nor had he been since November last, in the employment of Mr. M'Donald, and could not be compelled according to M'Donald's own evi- dence, to obey bis commands. " To these representations Mr. Richard Chambers, the senior magistrate, replied, that he considered the bench had a right to set aside the decision oj the special magistrate in this case, because it was illegal, and to contravene the instructions of government, because they were contrary to law, and that it was the duty of the bench to punish defendant for harbour- ing John Fergusson, an apprentice belonging to the prose- cutor, M'Donald. In this Mr. J. K. Binns, after much hesitation, concurred. The decision of the magistrates therefore was, that Mr. Stainsby be fined in the sum of 10/., the penalty fixed by law, and the further sum of 10s. for employing Fergusson one day. " Mr. Stainsby immediately gave notice that he would bring this, the decision of the magistrates, under review of the Supreme Court, by certiorari." The Falmouth Post gives the following account of the manner in which Ferguson discovered that he was not registered: — " John Fergusson and Joe Grant, were purchased previ- ously to the 1st August 1834, by Mr. M'Donald, from the estate of the late W. Grant, of Green Island. When the question of non- registration was first urged as a sufficient cause to dispossess the former owner of the right of pro- perty in the apprentice, Grant and Fergusson, either both or one of them, happened to be sick, and applied to Mr. M'Donald, whom they still looked upon as their owner, for medical aid and sustenance. His reply was, ' I have nothing to do with you; you were not registered in 1832, and therefore you are free, and have no claim whatever upon me.' The men were thus left to themselves, but fortunately recovered ; subsequently, after the decision of the Mauritius case, M'Donald demanded their return to his employ, but having already tasted the sweets of freedom, they relused to obey his command. ' Hi!' said one of them; ' Massa him- self no say we free; him no tell us when we sick dat we no have claim pon him; how den him order we now back to work?' They immediately procured their certificates of non- registration, and as Mr. M'Donald still insisted on their return to his employ, and as they refused to comply, they were brought up before special justice Hulme, who we believe, punished them. This magistrate, it appears, had punished about the same time another non- registered ap- prentice with a severe whipping, who soon after walked to Spanish Town, and made a complaint to Sir Lionel Smith. The Governor, it is said, was on the point of dismissing Mr. Hulme from the magistracy, and would have done so, but for reasons which perhaps we may explain at another time. Since then, Justice Hulme has refused to take notice of charges preferred by supposed owners against non- registered apprentices, and in consequence of this determination, Grant and Fergusson quitted the service of M'Donald, and by his own admission they have not been with him since. Tlrs we know to be the fact." The agent for Jamaica, Mr. Burge, is occupied in en- deavouring to procure evidence in rebutter to neutralize the testimony of Dr. Palmer and our fellow- townsman, Mr. Sturge, before the Commons'committee. What suc- cess is likely to attend his efforts, may be inferred Irom the observations of the Watchman on his despatch. " The agent's letter, or rather extracts from it, have gone the round of the several newspapers, and a great deal of im- portance appears to be attached to what that gentleman says of Dr. Palmer's plan of a treadwheel, and his evidence. On looking attentively over the communication in question, we see little to rejoice at, or be pleased with. Our well paid man of business tells us along rigmarole about who are to be examined before the committee, and who are not. That the evidence is not to be reported to the house, but will remain unpublished, and be taken up by another com- mittee, if it be thought proper in the new parliament. That it it will be thought proper, and that the enquiry will be prosecuted, with increased zeal and energy in the new house, every person feels assured, and Mr. Burge may gird up his loins for the fight, if indeed he has any stomach for it. The agent also tells us that it was intimated to him, that if he had any witnesses who could give testimony respecting the construction of the tread mills and the manner in which they were used, and, generally, of the discipline of the work- houses, the committee would hear them. This, doubtless, was wondrous kind and condescending. We think Mr. Burge had a right, which no committee could question or deny, to bring forward evidence, if he could, to disprove any and every charge that is advanced against the colony, and, therefore, when we hear liirn talk about its being inti- mated to him that he might do what it is his duty and his right to do, we cannot forbear a smile at bis obsequiousness, or pity the vanity which would induce him to represent the circumstance as a favour conferred on him, and for which the gulls in this island ought to be particularly thankful. He talks, too, about the tread wheels at Black River and Man- deville, and tells us they were made in England. We can tell Mr. Burge it is not likely that Mr. Sturge or Doctor Palmer would say any thing about these wheels, nor those in Falmouth and this city, and some otlieis we could men- tion. He might, therefore, save himself and the commit- tee the time and trouble which must necessarily be wasted in examining witnesses respecting them, lie had need procure witnesses to defend the character of the wooden instruments to be seen at Lucea, Savanna la- Mar, and some other places. It will be well if be does this. We say no- thing about the one at Montego Bay, lately condemned by Sir Lionel Smith. At Lucea we saw the straps attached to the hand rail, with which the prisoners weie regularly strapped on, and from the manner iu which that wheel is regulated, it may be made as complete an instrument of tor- ture as ever human being invented. How the vestiy of [ Ianover has allowed so disgraceful a thing te remain in their bouse of correction we cannot tell. The agent also tells his constituents, that upon the examination Dr. Palmer falsified his drawing, for the diameter ol the wheel which he described would not admit ot the number of negroes being on it as appeared in the drawing. It is evident, from this very remark, that Mr. Burge, with all his legal craftiness, knows nothing about the matter. What has the diameter of the wheel to do with the number of " persons placed upon it, or which it is capable of containing. It is ttue that the greater the diameter, the greater the circumference and of consequence, the easier tiie labour of ascending, from the motion of the wheel being so much slower. If Mr. Burge and the committee have sought to ascertain from the diam- eter of the wheel the number of persons it will admit upon it, they will find that they have committed an egregious mis- take, and that the doctor has not falsified his plan. Besides no man who knows Doctor Palmer would credit for a mo- ment so very improbable a story ! He may have drawn or published a plan showing how the prisoners are suspended, but that he would produce an incorrect drawing in evidence before a committee of the House of Commons, we beg leave to say we cannot and will not believe. Then the height is made so much of. And what does that signify? Is it of any consequence whether a piisoner hangs seven feet from the ground or seven inches? The injury, if any is likely to result, will be as effectually produced in the one case as in the other. The objection is riot to ihe height, hut to the strapping of the arms, by which means the prisoners when exhausted and unable to keep their standing position, are suspended by the wrists, w ith their bodies or thighs pressing against the revolving steps of the wheels, and by which they are not unfrequently bruised. The strapping system is decidedly objectionable, and ought to be put a stop to. It has been discontinued for a considerable period in the house of correction of this city, where the people are and have been kept on the wheel, without recourse to it. Instead of quibbling about the diameter of the wheels, and the height at which persons have been suspended, it would be better to advise the vestries, or rather the magistracy, for they have the eadusiye control of the houses of correction, to do away with the strapping altogether, and condemn all the wooden wheels now in use. Let them apply to Mr. James, of this city, and we engage he will furnish them with as substantial and properly regulated tread wheels as any that can be imported from the mother country, and not for the sake of a few hundred pounds bring discredit upon their houses of correction and the island at large. There is one other paragraph of the agent's letter to which we must al- lude, and it is the most amdsirig of any we have seen for a longtime. He says it appeared to hirn of such paramount importance not to be absent from the committee ( for he believed that he could, from his local knowledge, suggest questions eliciting answers which might be received) that he did not feel himself at liberty to leave London. He has, therefore, been obliged, with great regret, ( hear it the hon. Richard Barrett!) to forego an opportunity which was afforded him of offering himself, under very favourable cir- cumstances, as a candidate at a place ( query what place?) at the general election, where it was required he should im- mediately present himself; but the distance from London was too great, and the constituency too large to allow him to return in the intervals of the sittings of the committee. Let those that will, believe this. We regard it as being of a piece with the diameter of the wheel, proving that so many persons could not stand on it! What a cruel circumstance; and how extremely unfortunate, that the confounded com- mittee, which is not to report, and, therefore, is labouring for nothing, should come in the way of Mr. Burge, and prevent his offering himself, under such very favourable cir- cumstances, for a nameless place, a great distance from London, and with so large a constituency! Mr. Burge might have offered himself, but we strongly suspect that would be all. To offer oneself, and to be returned, are two very different things. The fact is, the wily lawyer knows that it is desirable, or considered so, that the agent should have a seat in Parliament, and that, at some future period, lie will be thrown over- board to make room for some one in Parliament, and therefore it is that he comes with his rig- marole about the committee, the distance from London, and the extent of the constituency! We wonder what sort of excuse he would have coined for not being returned, had the committee not been sitting. If ever men paid liberally to be gulled, the House of Assembly do. How long they will continue thus to waste their constituents' money remains to be seen." The following are cases of gross cruelty, and several in- stances of gross violations of the legal rights of the appren- tices :— " WORKING OF THE ABOLITION ACT. " Tn our late excursion to Hanover, we learnt that a woman, named Hetty Chisholm, was lately brought before Mr. Special Justice Pringle, for refusing to work: this woman, we are informed, was working some weeks ago in the great gang of her master ( Mr. Francis Chisholm) which at that time was jobbing upon an estate near Rose- hill settlement; on representing her pregnancy, she was placed in the second gang, then jobbing at Riley's estate, near Lucea; she did not, however, remain there long before she refused to work, again alleging her pregnancy ; she was then in her eighth month, and was besides unwell. In con- sequence of her refusal to work, she was taken before Sti- pendiary Hall Pringle, who examined Doctor Stephens as to her capability to do field labour. This gentleman, it seems, expressed his opinion that she was fit for work, and upon that opinion she was committed t © the workhouse, to be locked up in the room allotted to females; she had not been there many days, ere she was delivered of twins; the living part, however, of each of them had fled, ere their bodies came into the world. This event occurred on Thursday night, the 22ud of June ; on the following morning the question arose, ' must there be a coroner's inquest upon these bodies?' The learned Doctor Stevens, as we are informed, and as might have been expected, said to Mr. Buchanan, the supervisor, that there was no neces- sity for an inquest, and the bodies were accordingly buried! It appears, however, that the coroner, on being informed of the fact, commanded Old Buchanan, under pain of 500/. penalty, to dig the bodies up; he did so: a coroner's in- quest was held upon them, and a verdict returned that the children died by the visitation of God!! " This is another instance of the oppressive grinding of the Abolition against females, and shows how very improper it is, on the part of the special justices, to follow too implicitly the advice of doctors, wiio are paid by the masters of appren- tices, instead of acting from the dictates of common sense, and common humanity ! It is reported that Doctor Stevens, in his evidence given at the inquest, stated it as his opinion that the children were only six months advanced towards the period of gestation ; but we will ask Mr. Johnson, the coroner, was Doctor Stevens a proper witness in this case? Was it decent, was it just, to examine the man on whose dictum the woman had been sent to the house of correction. The coroner ought to have known that Doctor Stevens was an interested party, and he ought therefore to have called in some other medical gentleman, uncompromised by any opinion previously given. It is known that the woman, Hetty, was unwell in the month of February last, and was then placed under medical treatment; she reported herself at that time to be three months advanced in pregnancy. This statement, taken with the appearance of the bodies ( as represented to us) leads to the conclusion that it is quite correct: besides, we should like to know why Doctor Stevens advised Buchanan to inter the bodies ? Does not this look like an attempt to get them quietly conveyed out of sight, with a view to prevent further inquiry or investi- gation ! Was Doctor Stevens not fully aware, that in respect to all persons who die in places of punishment, a coroner's inquest must be held, and that the persons in charge of these establishments must give notice to the coroner, under a heavy penalty for non compliance? If Doctor Stevens did not know this, it is to be regretted that he is so lamentably ignorant of the law respecting the regu- lations of an institution, in which he holds the responsible situation of surgeon ! If he did know the law, then his ordering or advising the interment of the children was cul- pable in the extreme, for he subjected the supervisor to a veiy heavy penalty. In concluding this article we cannot help stating that there is something radically wrong in the conducting of all the public institutions in Hanover, and the sooner the work of reform is set about the better!"— Fal- mouth Post. " In adverting to the case of the woman belonging to Orange Valley, Sir. Kriihb said, ' I understand that no longer than yesterday a woman belonging to Orange Valley, the mother of nine children, six of whom are alive, was tied by her hands and feet by order of a special magistrate, and brought down in a cart to the workhouse.' " SPECIAL MAGISTRATE'S COURT, FALMOUTH, " Saturday, August 19. " BEFORE JUSTICE THOMAS. " James Irving, Peter Reynolds, and sixteen other ap- prentices belonging to Peru estate, came into court and com- plained, " 1st. That their overseer unjustly deprives them of the days to which they are legally entitled. " 2nd. That they are jobbing on a neighbouring estate, and that they are required to be at work at six o'clock. " 3rd. That they are kept at work considerably longer than they ought to be, as the shell does not blow for them to leave off until long after dark. " 4th. ' I hat their clothing and other necessary supplies are withheld from them. " 5th. That they were determined to come to Falmouth to complain, because Mr. Pryce, the special magistrate of the district, paid no attention to the statement of their wrongs. " Justice Thomas said that he could not interfere with Mr. Pryce's district; be, however, wrote a letter to that magistrate requesting him to attend to the complaints of the people at as early a period as possible. " Ellen Gray, an apprentice to Greenside estate, an old and apparently very feeble woman, complained of her over- seer, Mr. Nesbett; she stated that she is the mother of six children, and from the want of strength, is unable to do any other than light work ; on mentioning this to the busha, he said " he did not care, that she should work in the great gang," and as she was quite incompetent to do so, she thought the best thing she could do was to come to the magistrate. Ellen further stated that she was sick at pre sent, and required medical attendance. " Justice Thomas ( after writing): Here, take this note to your busha; I have directed him to have you examined by the doctor; if lie is of opinion that you are sick, you will be sent to the hot- house, and when you come out you are to be put to light work until you recover strength enough to labour in the great gang.* * Mothers of six children cannot be compelled to work in the great gang [ Ed. F. P.] LAW " F PARENT AND CHILD IN JERSEY. — The Attorney- General appeared before the Royal Court on September 30, and called on the judges to deprive Mr. Nicholas Anthoine, clerk in the Impost- office, of the right of controul or manage- ment of his children, he being an habitual drunkard, and that the said court should appoint fit guardians for the said children. The Attorney- General stated that the persons directed to inquire into Mr. Anthoine's conduct had re- ported that be had often been seen drunk, and whilst in that state bad danced in the streets, gathering a crowd around him. and was consequently unfit to be an example to a growing family, and unfit also to be intrusted with its con- troul. The Solicitor- General, in behalf of Mr. Anthoine, contended that the articles exhibited were insufficient to warrant the court in inflicting so serious a penalty on any man as depriving him of the controul of his own family, and instanced his being able to conduct the affairs of his office as a reason against granting the prayer of the citation. The Attorney- General replied, urging the prayer of the me- morial. The Chief and other Judges confirmed the At- torney- General's demand, and oidered that the defendant's family be given into the guardianship of a proper person, chosen by their nearest relations with the approbation of the court.— Jersey Patriot. CHOLERA IN AMERICA.— Letters from the United States represent the cholera as making dreadful ravages in Central America. In some villages two- thirds of the inhabitants have been carried off. In Salvador thirteen hundred per- sons have died ; and at Tonganata upwards of twelve hun- dred. The Indians, . in some places, under the belief that the President had caused the waters of the rivers to be poisoned, had murdered many of the inhabitants, alleging that the President intended to give the country up to the English. DOMESTIC. THE METROPOLIS. THE LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.— The number of passengers to Boxmoor last Sunday was more than three times as large as it has been for many weeks past, in spite of the very unsettled state of the weather in the morning. This was accounted for from the circumstance that a report ( we believe unfounded) has got abroad that on the opening of the line to Tring, which takes place to- morrow, the fares will be materially heightened to all the stations. The train which left Boxmoor at five o'clock in the afternoon con- sisted of about twenty carriages, each containing on an ave- rage sixteen or seventeen passengers, and yet, notwithstand- ing this immense weight, the twenty- five miles were accom- plished in a few minutes beyond the hour, including a stop- page of three minutes at each of the intermediate stations near Watford and Harrow, and at Kensall- green, to take in water. A treaty of commerce, highly favourable to this country has lately been entered into between the British Consul- Genera! and the Peruvian government; and has been for- warded to London, to receive the sanction of ministers. THE SYRIUS DUBLIN STEAM- SHIP.— Tuesday afternoon, about three o'clock, a fire broke out in a coal- room of the Sirius Dublin steam- ship, while she was in the act of dis- charging her cargo at the Alderman's tier, below St. Kathe- rine's dock, off Wapping. Happily, by means of the fire engine on board, and those of two other steam- vessels which were lying alongside, the fire was got under by the united crews of these ships without doing any serious damage. Viscount Melbourne left town on Monday to visit Her Majesty at Brighton. Friday's Gazette announces that the Queen has been pleased to appoint Major- Gen. George Thomas Napier, C. B. to be Governor and Commander- in- Chief of the settlement of the Cape of Good Hope, vice Sir B. D'Urban, recalled. Her Majesty has been pleased to signify to the Council of King's ( Tory) College, London, that she takes a warm interest in the prosperity of the institution, and has com- manded that her name shall be recorded as its patroness. PROVINCIAL. HAND- LOOM WEAVERS.— We understand that the com- mission appointed to inquire into the condition of the hand- loom weavers will commence their labours about the be- ginning of November.— Manchester Guardian. EXCLUSIVE DEALING.— A short time ago, a tradesman in Bradford was soliciting a clerical demagogue for an order in the way of business. After some talk about qualities and prices, the latter asked the tradesman what political principles he held. He replied " I am no party man; I never meddle with politics at all." " Oh," said the divine, " I shall deal with none but the Conservative party," and dismissed him without giving him the order.— Leeds Mer- cury. We are informed from good authority, that General Fcheffkine, aide- de- camp to the Emperor of Russia, ac- companied by a young Russian gentleman, conversant with science, has very recently, by order of His Imperial Ma- jesty, made a tour in the north of England, in order to be- come acquainted with the management of railroads and locomotive engines. We have also learned that most ex- tensive railroads are about to be formed in Russia, and that coals for these locomotive engines will be purchased in the Tyne and Wear.— Sunderland Herald. LOCAL SUBSCRIPTIONS.— Sir William Molesworth has very sensibly and manfully refused to subscribe to a local charity in Leeds, to which he was invited by a set of Tory managers there, not improbably witli a view to bring obloquy on him i; i case of refusal. Sir William in his answer says—" It is evident the expenditure which is sometimes required from the representative in the form of subscriptions cannot be considered as a mode of discharging his trust, nor can it be looked upon as a performance of any public duty, or as any public service which ought to entitle him to the approba- tion of his constituents. It is, therefore, in reality, merely a species of bribe for conciliating the good will of the elec- tors, who ought only to be influenced by considerations of a public nature, and a far higher description. To the wealthy the amount of such subscriptions is of slight consequence; and in many of the venal boroughs it forms the only assign- able reason for the selection of the members. On the other hand, it presses as a heavy tax upon the poorer and real representatives of the people. It tends, therefore, in many cases, to exclude from parliament all but the rich, and thus virtually makes the choice of the elector depend upon the pecuniary qualifications of the candidates. These tenden- cies I consider to be of the most mischievous description, and I feel it my duty to resist them by attacking, on the first opportunity, a system which I think most pernicious." Ann Colley, who was tried at the last Stafford assizes for murdering her three children, and who was detained in custody during Her Majesty's pleasure, destroyed her- self in the county gaol, in a fit of insanity, oil Thursday, last week. FATAL PUGILISM.— On the 2nd inst. two men, named Edward Smith and Thomas Davies, met in a place close to Kington, for the purpose of deciding a pugilistic contest, and after a regular stand up fight which lasted considerably more than one hour, Davies received a blow from his antagonist which laid him senseless on the ground ; the unfortunate man, who has left a wife and two infant children, was conveyed home, where he lingered till early the next morning, when he expired.— Hertford Journal. The iron trade continues very brisk, and the advanced prices are fully maintained— the erection of new works in South Wales, must give employ to a large number of hands, but if the supply should so increase as to affect the prices, the consequences must be far from beneficial.— Hereford Journal. At Worcester on Saturday last, hop3 fully maintained the prices of the preceding week, and in some instances from one to two shillings per cwt. advance were given. The finest samples were in considerable resquest.— Here- ford Journal. SHORT AND SWPET.— The first marriage under the new Re- gistration Act having taken place yesterday moining at the registrar's office, our readers may perhaps wish to know the nature of the ceremony, which was as follows:— The bride said, " I call upon these persons here present to witness that I do take thee to be my wedded husband," the bride- groom repeating the same words but altering the last into wife. The registrar then said, " I declare these people to be legally married." The parties signed the register, and all was finished in less than three minutes.— Taunton Courier. CONSERVATIVE DINNER— On Friday last a party of free- holders and electors of East Worcestershire, more parti- cularly those residing in the parish of Blockley, met at dinner at the Bell Inn, in that place, to the number of one hundred and upward, for the purpose of celebrating the Conservative triumph in the return of Messrs. St. Paul and Barneby to represent the Eastern Division of the county. The room was decorated in a tasteful and elegant manner with wreaths of oak and hops, festoons of flowers and evergreens, the colours and banners of the honourable members, arid on the walls were displayed the names of Wellington, Northwiek, ltedesdale, Peel, St. Paul a id Barneby, & c. ; and a handsome transparency over the chair- man displayed the constitutional motto of " Church and Queen." POTTERY REFORM ASSOCIATION The dinner at Hartley to celebrate the establishment of the Pottery Reform As- sociation, took place in the large room of the Saracen's Head Inn, on Tuesday afternoon. Six arches spanned the width of the room, which was handsomely decoiated and illuminated at suitable distances, four of them bearing the name of the most distinguished members of the govern- ment, Melbourne, Russell, Mulgrave, and Morpeth. The fifth bore the name of Queen Victoria. The president's chair was ably filled by John Ridgway, Esq., supported on his left by Edward Buller, Esq., M. P. for North Stafford- shire. The vice- presidents were Francis Wedgwood, Esq. and Francis Morley, Esq. HOWDEN HORSE FAIR.— This great horse fair, which lusts a week, concluded on Saturday; the chief part of the business was however finished in the first four days. The show of horses was the largest known for years, and wa- calculated by dealers to have amounted from first to last to nearly 10.000. The show of first- rare horses was not how ever so great as in former years, which was accounted for by the fact of a number of London dea'ers having been down in the neighbourhood for some time before the fair, making extensive purchases. M. Cremier, a French horse- dealer, and a few others of his countrymen, bought a Con siderable number of fine brood mares. Prince Esterhazy gave 150 guineas for a fine hunter. Counts Wryna and I- Iunyadi purchased about thirty first- rate mares at good prices. CONSERVATIVE BANQUET..— The friends of the Conserva- tive cause in the Potteries and Newcastle have resolved to have a dinner on a scale of magnificence ssltlom if if ever equalled in this county. Friday, the 20th instant, is the day fixed. It is intended to erect a pavilion on the Pottery race- ground, and by connecting it with tile grand stand to avail themselves of the upper stories of that build- ing as galleries for the ladies. The Eail St. Vincent has consented to preside. IHE RURAL POLICE SCHEME— During tile present and preceding week, Edwin Chadwick, Esq., assistant law com- missioner, and commissioner of rural police, lias been pur- suing his inquiries, in several parts of the county, into the working of the Cheshire constabulary force; prepara- tory, it is said, to the bringing forward in the ensuing Par- liament of a bill tor the establishment of a general system of police in England— Macclesfield Courier. EVERY LITTLE IIEMS— IRISH ELECTION PETITIONS Ihe subscriptions in this city and Ledbury in aid of the fund for petitioning against the return of many of the Irish Radical members on the ground of undue in- lluence, amount at present to £ 39 I7s. 6d. The sum subsiribed at Ludlow to this date is £ 34 6s. A subscrip- tion has also been commenced at Leominster Hereford Journal. EDUCATION— A National School, capable of accommo- dating nearly 200 children, and in a most healthy situation, was opened last week, in the chapelry of Wednesfield. The institution owes its origin to the benevolent exertions of the Rev. J. Clare, the incumbent of the chapelry, and an earn- est and affectionate address was delivered to the inhabitants by the rev. gentleman on the occasion of its opening. BISHOP OF HEREFORD— On Saturday the Right Rev. Dr. Thomas Musgrave, was duly inducted and installed at our Cathedral, by the Very Right Rev. the Dean of Hereford. SCOTLAND. PROFESSOR WILSON.— We grieve to announce that this gentleman, the editor of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, and proprietor of the beautiful villa at Elleray, on the eastern bank of Windermere, has fallen into a state of mental incapacity, The last infirmity of noble minds, from which his nearest friends seem to have little hope of his recovery. We do not know when an event came to our knowledge bringing with it a train of reflections more pain- ful than that we now most unwillingly publish Kendal Mercury. PUBLIC- DINNER— The Hon. J. E. Elliot, M. P., has ac- cepted an invitation to a public dinner by the magistrates and a large number of the inhabitants of Hawick. It was advertised to take place within the Subscription- rooms there, on Friday the 20th of October current Scotsman. THE HIGHLAND SOCIETY.— Thiswell known and eminently useful association, held its annual meeting at Dumfries, the week before last. The show ofstock and other matters, for which the prizes of the society had been advertised, com- menced on the 4th instant. The local journals are filled with accounts of the meeting, which forms an important era in their annals, combined as it has been with the annual races and other festivities. There was a grand dinner in a pavilion erected for the nonce, after the model of that in which Lord Durham was entertained at Glasgow. The Marquis of Tweedaie was in the chair, and the Duke of Buccleugh, Sir James Graham, and a number of other lead- ing characters, Scottish and English, were present. The Highland Society, for the most part, eschews politics, or rather like other Torified societies, it insists that any stray Whig or Radical, whom chance or inclination may intro- duce to its meetings, shall eschew his politics— that being the established limit of Tory conciliation in the north and in the south equally. At Dumfries, however, a sturdy town and independent withal, with an honest Radical for its member, and not a few as Radical and honest as the member amongst its constitiseney, and a spiiited and independent tenantry around it, the Tory limit seems to have been uncere- moniously overpassed. The entire affair appears, indeed, to have been one of most glorious confusion, theantagonist prin- ciples struggling for mastery in peals of cheers and tempests of hisses, with a admired equality of zeal. The Dum- fries Courier, a journal of liberal politics, but of rare and admirable moderation, cannot help letting out its dis- satisfaction on the occasion. The leader in the quarrel was, of course, a parson— when went there by a time, since the great flood, that a row political began or ended without the assistance of one of the men of peace ? After alluding to certain alleged pranks of waiters, such as charging Is. 6d. for a bottle of soda water, " Which small mistakes," says the worthy editor, " we would not have mentioned, had not the dearth of beds in many instances, in connection with the numerous rumours afloat, the misconduct of waiters, and the difficulty of accommodating, far less pleasing, so large a company, sent many away with a bad impression of the liberality, if not the morale of a district it is our duty, as it is our wish, to uphold, so far as is consistent with truth, to the best of our ability"— he goes on, " Of the speaking part of the concern, the first grievous mistake was committed by the Rev. J. Yorstoun, and to us it is astonishing that a gentleman every way so experienced, sensible, and sagacious, should have so far forgotten himself as to introduce Church politics for a moment. The etfect was most unfortunate, and, as many gentlemen said, Tories as well as Whigs, created an angry feeling which rankled in the breasts of numbers during the whole evening. Sir James Graham was also to blame in implying rather than speaking politics ; and we were delighted to find the Duke of Buccleugh, in respect to the Peerage, carefully avoiding the trap so in- geniously set for him. During the whole evening he be- hayed admirably, and the same compliment is justly due to our county member, Mr. Hope Johnstone. General Sharpe, in the course of an extemporaneous effusion, made one slight mistake, by alluding to majorities; but it was unintentional, and had he been allowed to proceed with, out interruption, the geneial impression appeared to be"' that he would have come off with flying colours. As members of the Highland Society, there are gentlemen of every shade of opinion; and accordingly the rule has always been to meet on neutral ground, by avoiding politics. This fact should have been known to the Rev. Mr. Yorstoun - and had the excellent Principal Baird been present, as chaplain, the probability is that not a single hiss would have been uttered during the evening. It is the above rule that has kept the Society together, and enlarged pro- digiously its sphere of usefulness, and the reader may easily picture the decadence that would ensue were a body so important to split into two, under the name of Whig and Tory Highland and Agricultural Societies. But the un- pleasant circumstances to which we have been alluding, will do good on the whole, by operating ns a beacon to guide, not a rock to split on ; and when the committee meet at Glasgow, next year, all due pains will no doubt be taken to prevent indiscreet local, from compromising in any way the general influence of the Society." We trust the suggestion of the Courier will be acted on, else we fear the dinner at Glasgow will be one of confusion worse con- founded. Mr. Heathcoat's celebrated steam- plough was exhibited at the show, and seems to have been very much admired, though its general applicability is doubted by the Scottish agriculturists. IRELAND. IRISH REAPERS.— About 10,000 Irish shearers have already embarked at Liverpool on their way home. A provincial paper states that one steamer, at one trip, wafted over 1,500 steerage passengers, at the moderate fare of 4d. a head. MISCELLANEJUS. LONDON BEGGARS— In those lodging- houses which were formerly open to the begging fraternity promiscuously, arid where business was carried on on a large scale,- it was found, from experience, necessary to take certain precautions against the abstraction of any of the articles of furniture. Mother Cummings, who died a few years since, and who for a long period kept a lodging house in a low street in Bloomsbury, always made a point of turning the key on her customers when they went to bed, and then unlocked the door with her own hand in the morning. By this means she prevented any of them making away with any articles of furniture in the course of the night; and as she witnessed every one of them quit their hovels in the morning, the idea of felony in the case of her property was out of ' he question. I may here mention, that Mother Cum- mings, while she was alive, kept by far the most exten- sive lodging house for mendicants, of any of her con- temporaries. She has been known to have had, on re- peated occasions, upwards of eighty lodgers in one night. And, strange us it may seem, it waspioved to be a lact, that she had one round bed in which, when there was an unusual demand foi accommodation, eighteen or twenty persons have been huddled together for the night. Mother Ccmmings made always a distinction between the better and inferior class of mendicants. With this view she had two prices of accommodation for the night. The charge for a bed iu ordinary circumstances was twopence per night, but if any one chose to indulge in the luxury of c pan straw, the charge was fourpence. The charge, therefore, of the different applicants for lodgings, in the matter of their bed, enabled her at once to range her customers into two clashes ; and both were treated by her with a measure of attention corresponding to the place they occupied in her estimation. — Sketches in London. THE BREAD TAX.— Wheat.— The highest price for the best Wheat in Paris, is' 27 francs per 1J hectolitre, which is equal to4Is. 3d. per English imperial quarter. The highest price of the best Essex arid Kent wheat in London, is 68s. per quarter, showing fine wheat fo be 26s. 9d. per quarter dearer in London than in Paris," or upwards of 65 per cent.; and that the same money which will in London buy but eight busl'eU of wheat, will, in Paris, procure nearly four- teen bushels of the finest quality. Flour.-— The highest price of flour of the " first murk" in Paris, is 53 francs per 159 kilogrammes, which is equal to 32s. 9d. per English, sack of 280 pounds. The highest price of the best " toVm made" flour in I. ondon. being 55s. per suck, shows firte flour to be 22s. 3,1, | l(. r sa. k deader in London than in Paris, or nearly 68 per cent. ; and that the same money which in London buys but 280 pounds of fine flour, will in Paris pur- chase 470 pounds of the very best quality. THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, OCTOBER 14. 3 MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF THE POLITICAL UNION. Tiie council met pursuant to adjournment on Tuesday eveNing, at the Public- office. THOMAS ATTWOOD, Esq., M. P., having read the minutes of the lan meeting, pro- ceeded to say. that many members of the council ( luring the last three weeks had been engaged in preparing for the late town's meeting. Although lie concurred in the object of that meeting, drew up the memorial for it, ami rendered all the assistance in his power to promote it, yet he did not en- tertain any very sanguine hopes from it, because he felt convinced that the root of all their evils lay in bad legislation —( hear, hear)— and tliey could never mend the fruit unless they mended the tree. He had, however, never been the last in sympathising with the distress of his fellow- country, men ; and influenced by a desire to obtain relief for them, he was unwilling to refuse trying any means by which that relief could be obtained; and hence he complied with the request of his fellow- townsmen, and lent his assistance at the late meeting. He knew that if justice was done on this occasion, they should make their country happy and prosperous, hut lie also khew that they would not in that case get much further political liberty, for it was a fact, that it was only through adversity that the people were induced to seek and obtain political liberty. Out of the nettle misery, they plucked the flower liberty. They com- menced the Political Lnion upon the motto, " unity, liberty, prosperity." Through unity tliey sought liberty; through liberty tliey sought prosperity. They knew if they liad unity and liberty, they were certain to have prosperity; but they had not unfortunately obtained the necessary liberty, and the result was, that they had been disappointed in their expected prosperity. ( Hear.) They had, as he had often said before, only worked to change one set of oppressors for another, quite as bad as the former; and in his opinion they had very little hope, except in another and a better change. Nevertheless, as this would require time and money, and as be knew that it would require great ex- ertions and great sacrifices and dangers before the people would be put in the full enjoyment of their liberties, he would be partly content if he could see them permanently placed in a state of prosperity; and hence he hud, in com- pliance with their request, come forward on the late occa- sion. When lie saw thirteen thousand of the workmen sign a memorial expressive of their distress, and saw that document backed up and suppoited by the admission of three thousand of the merchants, manufacturers, and trades- men of the town generally, he had felt it his duty to take part in the proceedings. I- Ie could not say what would be the result. It was possible it might be attended with suc- cess ; but it was probable, and highly probable, that it would not be so. If, however, they were repulsed by the govern- ment, and driven back upon the people; if they were told that the mass of the people must continue to pay high firices for their food, and receive low prices for their abour, and have but little employment at any price; if they were told these things, then would they go forth to the people of England, arid they would be able to lay before them such a statement of facts, as would make the country rock from one end of England to the other. He thought the report they would be compelled to make to the people, would be such as to induce them to rise up universally, and tell the government with one voice, that they would no longer endure such a state of misery and destitution, and that they mu6t have relief. They would tell the govern- ment that they would not submit to such an iron fate; and that if the government did not protect them against such dire distress, they would take their affairs into their own hands, and overturn a government which should prove itself either unable or unwilling to protect the rights, and liberties, and happiness of the people. He could not help thinking that Her Majesty's government would find it proper to comply with the prayer of the memorial, whicli in a few days would be presented to them by himself and some of his friends around him. One of bis reasons for thinking so was, that Lord Melbourne could not possibly keep his posi- tion by any other means. He had a very great respect for Lord Melbourne as a public man, and he thought he was the best man he knew to lead the destinies of England, and he had great hopes from his good sense. It was his ( Mr. A.' s) opinion, that Lord Melbourne was in that position that he could not govern England unless he dropped into the hands of the Reformers of Birmingham. Let them mark his position ; he had governed two sessions of Parlia. ment, and daring these two sessions he hud attempted to carry a great many little things— such as Irish Corporation and Irish Church bills, Marriages and Deaths bills, and such like— all very good in their way, and the value of which he did not mean to depreciate, but perfect little goes compared with the wants of the nation. Well, he had brought for- ward all these little matters, and lie had failed with them. Finding this, Lord Melbourne availed himself of the new reign, and he dissolved the Parliament in hope of increasing Lis strength; and the result was, as they all knew, notwith- standing all the influence he possessed, and the advantages of the Court in his favour, he had not bettered his condition. If there was any difference between the present Parliament and the late Peel cho9en Parliament, it was so little that a man with his spectacles on could hardly see it. Now, what was the reason of this? That there was a cause was cer- tain; and that it was necessary that Lord Melbourne should know exactly that cause was equally certain. What then was the cause why Lord Melbourne had not succeeded better in the late general election ? Why because, during the previous sessions, he had been playing such small games. The little measures he introduced gave no satisfaction to the people, but had had the effect of arousing the religious feelines, and fears, and prejudices of the country ; and had made the late election a mere squabble between Protestants and Catholics, and ' Churchmen and Dissenters. The en- thusiasts in these different classes had engaged themselves in these petty squabbles, but thegreat mass of the people were comparatively indifferent to these trifles. The people, compa- ratively speaking, took little or no interest in them; and hence it was that Lord Melbourne was in bis present position. He broke down where he thought to have succeeded, and he was now all but in a minority. His present position, there- fore, was this: if he attempted to go 011 with the present Parliament, and play the little games of the last two ses- sions, he would be beat. He would not be able to carry the Irish Church bill, or the Irish Corporation bill, or the Church- rate bill. The Irish appropriation clause had been already abandoned; and it was pretty evident, if he attempted • these measures in the new Parliament, he would be defeated. It was, therefore, more than probable he would not try these small measures. Well, then, would lie stand quite still, and do nothing? Could he woik a Tory system in Whig hands ? Could he say to himself and his colleagues in office, that all was secure, and they had nothing to do but to pocket their salaries, and go to sleep on the treasury bcnches ? Oh no, he could not adopt this course, because if he did, so sure as he lived, he would find other members of the house who could also go to sleep, whose assistance was vital to him; whilst the Tories, ever awake and united, hungry as wolves and banded like wolves in a pack, would pounce upon him and, thrust him out of office. Such a course of indifference would turn the Dissenters, and the Radicals, and the Catholics against him, or at least render them lukewarm in his support; and his destruction as minister would be inevitable. Here then was the position of Lord Melbourne. If he attempted to carry little mea- sures he would be defeated, and if he did not attempt them he would be defeated. ( Laughter, and cries of hear, hear.) Finding himself in this position, he would bo compelled to adopt one of three courses. He must either join the, Tories, or join the Radicals, or join the men of Birmingham, and make the country prosperous and happy. If he joined the Tories, he would be compelled to make great and painful sacrifices; and he ( Mr. A.) did not believe lie was a man who would sacrifice his political character. He thought, as he had said before, that Lord Melbourne was an honour- able man, and he would not join the Tories, and sacrifice his character and his principles. ( Hear, hear.) Besides, if he did join the Tories, he would have to fall into the second ranks, and he did not think that he ( Lord Mel- bourne) would be willing to play second fiddle; or to allow the Duke of Wellington to drive the coach, whilst he was only an outside passenger. Well then, it might be con- cluded that Lord Melbourne would not join the Tories. Would he join the honest Radicals ? He might possibly make up his mind to do so, and to tell them he would go for Household Suffrage, Vote by Ballot, and Triennial Parlia- ments; and by these means, thinking he might create popu- lar excitement, and get a better House of Commons, he might perhaps dissolve the present house, and appeal to the country next summer. ( Cheers.) In that case he would have all the Whig lords against him ; and in his ( Mr. A.' s) opinion, he would have also the Court against him; so that this plan would fail, and he would be compelled to retire. What then could he do to enable him to keep his place? In his ( Mr. A.' s) judgment, there was but one course by which he could be enabled to keep his place until after midsummer next year; and that was, by making industry flourish. If he would allow him ( Mr. Attwood) to draw up a proclamation from the Queen, lie would pledge himself to bring about such an immediate prosperity arid contentment, as would render Lord Mel- bourne's place perfectly secure and beyond the reach of his enemies for the next twenty years. All this he would do in perfect good faith and honesty, without compromising the Queen, and without endangering the interests or stability of any class in the community, and he would engage that this prosperity should last for one hundred years, just as easily as for one. If Lord Melbourne would act thus, he would draw the teeth of the Tories; and his ( Mr. A.' s) only regret would be, that there would be no further ad- vance of reform amongst the Radicals, for it was quite cer- tain that they also would sink into a state of quiet and con- tentment. If Lord Melbourne would take that course, he would become exceedingly popular. The best part of the Tories would support him, and the worst only would in- effectually oppose Ilia:. The Court, the Aristocracy, and the Church, would support him. - The Whigs and the Radi- cals would support him. He would become all popular and all powerful, and might enjoy his place and the confidence of the country for- twenty years to come. If Lord Mel- bourne did this, they would have great and permanent pros- perity; but he was afraid they would not obtain any further measures of Jiher ty ; because he feared there would not be sufficient public virtue or public spirit to seek or demand liberty, when the masses of the people were in a state of comfort. He feared they would not then have the courage and energy to demand their great and undeniable constitu- tional rights of Household Suffrage, Wages of Attendance, and Triennial Parliaments, without which they never could expect the House of Commons or the government to be what they ought to be— a real reflection of public interest and opinion. He was a decided advocate for these great measures, and all others that w& uld secure the liberty of the people, because he felt confident that it was in proportion as liberty flourished in a nation, that it became prosperous, and happy, and exalted above all others. With respect to Lord Melbourne, he would again express his opinion that he could not possibly remain prime minister of England oyer next midsummer, unless he acted upon the measures which had been laid down for him by the people of Birmingham. In this lay his safety, and in this alone. If he does justice to the people he may laugh at his enemies ; but if he refuses it his enemies will, very shortly, laugh at him. They would soon be going up to him, and they would return and let the people know what was his final determination. The people would then know what they were to expect; and he thought the Tories of this town, pledged as they were to obtain justice, could not move a single step, in the event of their memorial being disregarded, without joining the Political Union. ( Cheers.) Mr. P. H. MUNTZ, in reference to the late meeting, said, he certainly was not at all sanguine as to the good effects likely to result from it. He did not expect any relief from ministers. As a friend to the people, he did not wish to create any division at the late meeting, and hence he ab- stained from offering any opinion; if he had spoken he should certainly have thought it his duty to have told the meeting he considered the hope of relief a delusion. He felt convinced that the working classes never would obtain any amelioration of their condition until they obtained a proper representation in the House of Commons. Mr. CUTLER concurred in opinion with Mr. Muntz, that until the working- men had the power of choosing their own representatives, they never need expect anything like per- manent relief. Still he had reason to hope good would re- sult to the people from the late meeting, because it would at once show them who were their real friends, and where their strength lay. Mr. AARON never looked upon the meeting only asasort of by- play; certainly not as a measure calculated to afford any permanent relief. Mr. SALT anticipated good would result from the meet- ing, inasmuch as the refusal of the government todo justice, and to listen to their just demands, would increase the power and efticiency of the Political Union, and render it capable of achieving the permanent liberty and happiness of the peoples Mr. DOUGLAS did not think any good could result from the late proceedings; and in so saying, however, he dis- claimed most distinctly all imputation against the sincerity or zeal with whom they originated. He could not see how the memorialists were to prevail with the government in the manner anticipated by their honourable chairman. The question of the currency was one upon which public opinion was anything but made up. On the contrary, it was a question in which the public unhapjflly took little interest; and he doubted very much whether the great mass of the working people throughout the kingdom were not averse, rather than favourable, towards it. He ( Mr. D.) need not say he was fully convinced that the honourable chairman was most correct in his theory; but he did not believe there were a sufficient number of the same way of thinking throughout the country, to justify the hope, that the pro- posed representation to Lord jMelbourne would produce any immediate effect. There being no motion before the meeting, the conver- sation here ended, and adjourned until Tuesday evening next. LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY. A very numerous and most respectable meeting of the Birmingham auxiliary branch of this society was held in the Town Hall on Wednesday evening. The admission was by tickets, and from the sum received there could not have been less than 2500 to 3000 of these sold. James James, Esq., the Low Bailiff, occupied the chair with his accus- tomed ability. The principal speakers were the Reverend Mr. Gogerley, from Calcutta; the Reverend J. Freeman, from Madagascar; and the Reverend Mr. Crisp, from Ma- dras The most interesting portion of the intelligence com- municated by these gentlemen, was the description of the recent re- establishment of Paganism in Madagascar, given by Mr. Freeman. It is well known that for several years the cause of the Missionary Society in that inland wore a very prosperous aspect. Whether from unfounded fears of. the native authorities, or whether there was any real ground in the conduct of the whites for an apprehension that the in- dependence of the island was threatened by its European connexion, the splendid fabric which many pious men had for years been building up, and on which so many and so fervent hopes rested, was struck to the ground- at a blow. " The Christian missionary," said Mr. FREEMAN, " received for a considerable time Rhadama's ( the sovereign) support; education made rapid advances in the island, and in a com- paratively short period of time twenty thousand young per- sons we able to read in their own tongue, which, previous to the introduction of the missionaries, had not been re- duced to a written language. ( Hear, hear.) The Scrip- tures being now translated, a growing spirit of inquiry sprung up in the minds of the people, and the first convert to the truths of Christianity, was the heir to the throne of Rhadama, who, he ( Mr. F.) had reason to believe, died in the faith of his Saviour, having been cruelly murdered by the present Queen, on her accession to the throne. The superstitions of the people were rapidly rolling away before the spread of knowledge, and thousands were relinquishing their idolatry; they ( the missionaries) had 100 schools in operation, with 200 teachers, and 415,000 children were in course of instruction. At this moment, when everything appeared to prosper, orders were given for the suppression of the whole machinery of education and religious service. While engaged in prayer, the missionaries with their wives and families, received an order to attend the Sovereign. They complied with the order; tremblingly did their wives accompany them to the presence of the Queen, and British females would feel for the wives of missionaries in trials such as these. As they approached, every thing about the palace bore the appearance of pomp; officers lined the ap- proach to majesty, and an endeavour was evidently made to strike terror into their minds. After some time, an officer appeared with an official document ( which he then held in his hand) containing the Queen's order for the suppression of all future Christian labours in the country, when for the very act of writing that letter she stood indebted to them. The following Sabbath was appointed for proclaiming this edict to the people. It was a day of terror to the natives of Madagascar ; for Britons knew not what it was to tremble beneath the despot of another land. Early in the morning, crowds began to fill a large plain near the city, and at mid- day upwards of 150,000 persons were collected on the spot, when, amidst the roar of artillery, and under the presence of 30,000 men under arms, the message was declared to the people, denouncing Christianity on pain of death, in the most fierce and savage manner. Whatever might have been the feelings of the people, they were not expressed, for there were 30,000 uplifted spears and mus- kets ready to execute the sovereign's will. Immediately after this, orders Were given, that every book, containing the slightest allusion to Christianity, or the Word of God, should be collected together and handed back to the mis- sionaries. The order was implicitly obeyed; the whole of the books in circulation were given back with this message: ' These things belong to your ancestors, but with them we shall have nothing to do.' Such, for the present, has been the termination of the public labours of tiie missionaries in Madagascar." The reverend gentlemen added—" After some months, however, several of the natives, anxious to possess some portion of this precious treasure, made appli- cations to tliem, though at the risk of liberty, property, and life, and obtained back some copies of the Sacred Scrip tures ; and this they treasured up in their houses as far more precious than gold or silver. ( Loud applause.) He knew that there were those who retired from their villages into the caverns of the rocks, and into the forests, and the tombs, where they might peruse in safety the word of eter- nal life." The Rev. JOHN BURNETT, of Camberwell, spoke with much force and eloquence in reference to another portion of the business of the evening— the protection or encourage- ment rather yielded by the government of India to the Pagan rites of the natives, more especially those performed at the notorious Juggernautli. Mr. I'oyrider, an East India proprietor, has had the merit of repeatedly bringing this matter before the court in Leadenhall- street, but hitherto with little success. Mr. Burnett advised the meet- ing to pursue a different course.—" His friend who pre- ceded him observed that there were 110 treaties binding them to this:— but supposing that tkere were treaties, and that they had promised to make Hindooism immortal there, were they bound to these treaties, he would ask? Were treaties like the pillars of high heaven, that God himself should be renounced for them ?" " Let him endeavour to point out the way in which their indignation should take a practical course. It was said the India Company was now a commercial body, having ceased to exist as a political company. It was very well to speak to an individual about certain things in his own private room— he may put them off as he pleased ; but it was very different when they came to speak to the same individual in the presence offive orsix other men, for whose opinion he entertained a respect. Address, then, not the India directors alone— address the board of control— address the House of Commons— your own Commons. ( Immense cheering and laughter.) It might be said that it would be useless to do this, for the India Company was independent of that house, and had its own charter. It was a mistake; it was for tlie members of that house to say, whether the company and the board of control were to have their own way; and he wot| ld venture to say, that half an hour's conversation with the India Com- pany in the House of Commons, would do more to convince them than all the petitions and addresses which might be presented to them in private. ( Cheers.) He thought the meeting owed it to India— they owed it to themselves, and their common Christianity, to bring the matter fairly before the House of Commons, and persist in bringing it before them until they had got. all the circumstances by heart; for there were a good many there who recollected very little, and knew very little, and read very little ; ( great laughter) but by keeping the question before them, they would iu time be found, as it were, to understand it, and after having thus schooled them into a knowledge of the subject, he felt con- strained to believe that they would do them justice. ( Cheers.) He did not think he was ridiculing the House of Commons when he said they did justice when they were well instructed. ( Great laughter.)" We don't think there is any Ridicule in the matter; we fear, however, that seri- ously speaking, the compliment is but ill deserved. The Commons are exceedingly well instructed on many subjects touching which they seem quite as slow to do justice as when they were in a state of ignorance. At the commencement of the meeting the following interesting statement of the progress of the parent society, was made by the Rev. Mr. James of Woolwich—" He was gratified to find that their committee were so careful in hus- banding the time of the meeting, as not to present them with a lengthened report; but as that meeting and their town and neighbourhood were closely identified with the London Missionary Society, it might not be out of place if he referred, in one or two sentences, to a summary of the efforts which the society iiad made during the year which ended with their last anniversary meeting. ( Hear, hear.) The society had now, iu several parts of the world, 428 sta- tions and out stations, in which were engaged 114 mission- aries, and 31 European, and 451 native assistants. They had 84 Christian Churches, containing 0,615 communicants, and 514 schools, with 34,322 scholars; being an increase, let it be observed, reported during the year, of 156 stations and out stations, 162 agents, 10 churches, 1,375 communi- cants, 71 schools, and 4,621 scholars. ( Hear and cheers.) It was truly delightful to observe even this increase, but it might still be asked, what were these amounts in the im- mense field before them. There were, besides, 15 printing establishments connected with the stations of the society iu active operation, especially in India; and there were, also, now pursuing a course of preparatory study in their several colleges, with a view to Missionary labour, 36 students, who, as their course of study was completed, would be prepared to go forth in the service of their Lord and Master. The total amount of subscriptions received during the year, was 64,372/. I6s. 5d., being an increase on the preceding year of 11,507/. 13s. 6( 1.; the expenditure in the same period amounted to 63,000/., being an increase of 2,533/, He had read this, not for the purpose of slackening the efforts of the friends of { he cause, but just to show that the contributions they had rendered in past years, had been expended in promoting the very object for which they were intended, and that the society only waited their increased contributions, to make increased efforts, till the period came when all those delightful predictions 011 which they loved to dwell should be accomplished, and the earth should be filled with the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters covered the channels of the deep." ( Cheers.) There is one remark which the report of the speakers at this meeting will naturally suggest— the paucity— we might say, absence of lay speakers. This is a very common ac- cident in such cases; and, as we view it, a decided defect. Amongst the movers and seconders of the various resolu- tions of Tuesday, we observe the name of but one lay man. We do not of course object to the discourses of the reverend missionaries, who come to tell facts and to describe experiences, which only those who have been present and participated in them can tell and describe. Neither do we for a moment mean to cast any reflection 011 the ability, or zeal, or the sincerity of the orators of Tuesday, or of clerical orators generally. What we wish to impress on those persons to whom the arrangements of such public meetings is, that by leaving, formally at least, the entire discussion to clergymen, they lead the laity by almost a necessary consequence, to infer that the duty of propagating Christianity has something of an official character in it; and that it concerns the minister of re- ligion ra her than his flock. We know it will be answered that iri practice there are advantages in the prevailing cus- tom ; that in respect of such matters clergymen are best prepared for the work. We grant this, and we draw pre- cisely an opposite conclusion from it. Looking upon the work to be one in which the humblest layman has as powerful an interest as has the Archbishop of Canterbury; and deeming the duty of applying to that work to be as imperatively binding on the one as on the other; we would have the laymen set to the work, in order, that if not sufficiently skilled therein, lie may by dint of practice attain to skill. We take the extracts given above from the columns of a cotemporary, which devotes more than ordinary attention to such meetings. We were unfortunately prevented, by a meeting on other business in another place, from being present in the Town- hall on Tuesday. In our cotempo- rary's report there are some mistakes which we should hardly have expected. It is not of much importauce to speak, as he does repeatedly, of Sir William Bentinck; but we cannot so easily excuse the strange mistake of making Madagascar a British colony in one sentence, while he pro- ceeds, in the next, to detail the act of the native government by which Christianity was suppiessed there. We suppose the British colony alluded to by the speaker was the Mau- ritius, between which and Madagascar a very extensive slave trade was carried on for years after the trade had been declared illegal by the English Parliament; and whose colonists, we may add, through the guilty supineness, if not worse, of the Colonial- office, have been allowed to claim, and to receive, compensation for those very slaves, surrep- titiously obtained from Madagascar, for the obtaining of which, had they been dealt with as they deserved, they would have been visited with the punishment of felons, to which, by Lord Brougham's law, they were strictly amenable. PENSIONING IN PRACTICE. We continue our extracts from the able papers on economic Reform, now publishing in The Spectator. The following is preceded by an introduction, for whicli we regret our want of space, in which the abo- lition of pensions and half- pay of every kind ( prospec- tively) is recommended, the full pay being increased in such a ratio as to enable the recipient to make an adequate provision for himself. The recommendation is of great importance. As an extension of the prin- ciple, we would suggest the application of the proverb, " Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof," not to one but to all departments of government. We would have war supported by taxes instead of loans, and the engagements of every year, how varied or onerous soever, discharged during its currency. One effect of this plan would be brief quarrels, and well considered; and there would be 110 debt, as well as no dead weight. The amount of what is called our " Dead- weight"— i. e., our pensions— pay without service— is a general matter of astonishment and complaint amongst persons who have given any attention to the state of our finances. Yet there are very few documents in which its exact amount can be seen stated. The accounts of the Exchequer merely give some of the Civil pensions, mixing together the effective and dead- weight payments of the Army and Navy. The accounts emanating from the Treasury display these re- spective costs of the Army and Navy with tolerable clear- ness, but jumble the Civil Pensions together in a most de- ceptive manner; in addition to which, the accountants express themselves in a jargon unintelligible to almost everybody else. A person who had been practised, or had practised himself, in . the subject, might indeed draw up a pretty full statement for the current year, by going carefully through the first eighty accounts of the volume called the Finance Accounts, and then examining the Army, Ord- nance, Commissariat, Navy, and Miscellaneous Estimates; though here he would occasionally be defeated from the vague nature of some statements, and the manner in which paiticulars, separate in their nature, are blended together in one lump sum. Those who object to this labour, may learn the total amounts from several financial works, and see the details pretty fully exhibited for the year 1832 33 in the Spectator's supplement on expenditure, published about five years ago. But we believe, there has never yet been given a clear comparative view of the sums respectively paid for Pay and Pension, so as to show the actual cost of the personnel of each branch of service which does the work, in contrast with that which lias ceased to do anything. To accomplish this as correctly as it is possible with the data at our disposal, is the object of the annexed table. The course we have pursued in framing it, has been, to deduct from the general expense of the department, those charges which obviously do not relate to the personnel, or those payments which are made to persons who, we believe, are not entitled to pensions by the rules of the service, and who, though they may get them in special cases, are too few in number to affect the general totals to any extent. Thus, from the Navy Estimates we deduct the amounts for timber and stores for shipbuilding, the cost of making embankments, erecting new buildings, & c., as well as rent, and all those expenses which fall under the head of contingencies; the wages of common workmen, whom we consider not entitled 10 allowances of any kind, are also excluded. By this means, we fairly pit pay against pension.; the pay column containing only those receivers who are entitled to a pen- sion, and the pension columns showing the incomes ol those persons who do no Work for their pay. In pursuing this process of subtraction throughout the multitudinous ac- counts, we have not scrupled to give and take where we doubted the character of the detail payments; yet when contingencies were blended with other charges in one gene- ral amount, we have let them stand. We may also inform the accomplished official, that we are aware of some small omissions; chiefly under the head of Public Offices. It would have answered no purpose to swell the table with the trifling charges of minor offices. In an extensive view of this kind, very minute accuracy is not important; nor if it were, is it attainable under the present disgracefully con- fused state of the Public Accounts. COMPARATIVE VIEW OF THE COST OF PAY AND PENSIONS IN THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS OE THE PUBLIC SERVICE. The Numbers in the table refer to the No. of Account in the finance Accounts ending bill January, 1837. The Civil List for the personal ex- pense of Majesty, including 75,000/. pensions. ( Finance Ac- counts, No. 67)—. — ™ Pensions to the Royal Family, and for Military, Naval, Judicial, and Miscellaneous," and we may add, Unknown Services. ( No. 68) Pensions payable out of the Gross Revenue before it reaches the Exchequer, and whilst yet in the hands of the Officers who receive it,— viz.: Excise. ( No. 25) Duke of Grafton — £ 7,200 Earl Cowper .—. 1,600 Assignees of the late Charles Boone, Esq., moiety of the Earl of Bath's pension — 1,200 Post- office. ( No. 44) Duke of Marlborough* 3,125 Duke of Grafton ( addi- tional, see Excise) — 3,407 Heirs of the Duke of Schomberg — 2,900 Compensations payable out of the Gross Revenue before it reaches the Exchequer, and whilst yet in the hands of the Officers who re- ceive it,— viz.: Customs, ( No. 17) Compensation allowances to Naval Officers in the Plantations — 3,922 Compensation to Naval Officers of the Coast Guard Service, for the loss of half- pay — 23,014 Pay. Pension. 510,000 510,019 10,000 9,432 Custcyns, Ireland, ( No. 21) Compensations to Officers of the late Irish Fishery Establishment—. Compensations to Naval Officers of the Coast Guard Service, for loss of half- pay 26,936 204 7,436 Excise, Ireland, ( No. 29) Allowances to the late Officers of the Tax- office in Ireland, over and above the arrears of duty collected — — 9,844 Compensations charged on the Con- solidated Fund, No. 69; and voted in Miscellaneous Estimates, ( Nos. 3 and 4) Earl Camden, to make good the deficiency of his fees as late one of the Tellersof the Exchequer* 20,022 Alfred Copps, Keeper of the Lions in the Tower 206 Weighmasters of Butter, for deficiencies of fees 4,024 Sir Abraham Bradley King late Grand Master of an Orange Lodge, and late King's Stationer in Ire- land. ( A very gross job.) 2,500 Linen Board, and sundry small offices iu Scotland and Ireland „„. 16,006 34,576 9,844 42,758 Total amount of Pensions for which no analogous active ser- vice seems to be rendered so as to furnish means of comparison ( The authorities for the following are the respective estimates.) A MIT, Cavalry and Infantry, both of the Guards and of the Line Civil Departments of the Army, The Horse Guards —. Secretary at War's Office Adjutant- General's Office Quarter- Master General's Office Judge- Advocate- General — Abolished Offices, or depart- ments included in the Army charge, as the Medical De- partment .—. . « « Ordnance, Engineers, Sappers, and Miners and Artillery Civil Departments Commissariat NAVY, Officers, Seamen, and Marines, " wages and victuals" Civil Departments of the Navy, Shipbuilding & Dock yards, Victualling and Medical Es- tablishments, Ma- rine Barracks and Marine Infirmaries £ 125,157 Admiralty — 87,699 Registry Office — 1,390 Scientific Branch— 5,284 £ 1,126,629 3,115,811 2,438,054 12,871 772 27,879 20,383 7,135 435 5,522 63 4,587 1,200 ... 24,285 406,047 109,775 151,133 60,072 73,565 52,726 1,520,443 1,339,420 DIPLOMATIC SERVICE, Ambassadors, ( No. 70) Consuls, ( Miscellaneous Esti- mates, Nos. 2 and 3) Slave Trade Commissioners, ( Ditto) — — — JUSTICE, Courts of Justice in England and Wales and Ireland, so far as paid from Consolidated Fund, ( No. 71) Ditto in Scotland, ( No. 63) — ( The following are chiefly from the Miscellaneous Estimates.) PARLIAMENT, House of Lords — House of Commons PUBLIC OFFICES, Treasury — „ ™ Exchequer and Paymaster of Civil Services, ( just estab- lished) —. — — Paymaster- General, ( just estab- lished) .—. — « Audit Office . . Mint Home Office „„ Foreign Office „ ™ Colonial Office ™ Privy Council and Board of Trade Alien Office . COLLECTION OF THE RE1 Customs, ( Finance Accounts, No. 9) Excise ( ditto) . . „ ™ Stamp Offices ( ditto) Lund and Assessed Tax Office ( do.) Post- office ( do. ) f Management of Crown Lands ( do.) 219,530 108,790 83,389 11,500 255,062 96,895 208,765 54,960 13,746 5,069 177,216 14,105 28,000 4,200 45,000 6,597 47,330 11,020 15,000 3,267 33,900 42,235 11,828 26,120 1,819 18,453 3,059 22,467 3,009 19,545 6,342 21,288 2,065 500 2,057 ENUE. 566,016 177,526 739,200 129,121 65,366 15,116 49,195 26,310 249,533 26,613 22,466 9,185 8,111,778 6,086,809 SUMMARY. Total of Pay, £ 8,111,778 Total of Pensions,£ 6,086,809. Of the results of this table, it may be truly said, that there is nothing like it in the world. Eight millions for the payment of present service, and six millions for the pensions of past; independent of the " Dead- weight" juggle between the government and the Bank of England, whicli would considerably swell the amount, could it be truly stated!— it is a product, as Johnson observed of Pope's Homer, " that 110 age or nation can pretend to equal.'' Who, after this, can ever talk of national ingratitude? True it is that Ot- vvuy and Butler died in penury, if not of absolute want; that Goldsmith and Burns, with many other lights of a past age, struggled with poverty and difficulty, as did Coleridge and others in our own times ; but never mind, whilst we have such a pay and pension table to prove how freely we pay and spend our taxes. But the facts, which the details of this table furnish, are of too singular and striking a kind to be altogether passed over. Space and time, indeed, would fail us to display the subject in all its richness; but we will do something, if not much,— O reader! " Give all we can, and let jou dream tiie rest.*' After the substantial question of the comparative amount of pay and pension, the next point which naturally suggests itself, is the respective number of recipients; but in many instances this cannot be stated at all, and in none with per- fect completeness. The nearest approximation, however, is in the army. Excluding the King's troops in India, paid by tlie company, the total amount of persons engaged in active service is 81,311 ; whilst the number of individuals receiving pensions is 93,336. The number of officers oil actual service is4 515; the number pensioned is 5,901, or including those of disbanded foreign regiments, 6,592. In the Ordnance, the number of officers employed is 746; oE pensioned, 625. But all this is nothing to the navy. The gross amount of half- pay, & c., for officers only, is upwards of 810,000/.; the pay of officers, sailors, and marines, " afloat," is only 911,420/.; so that the regular pensions to officers only, ( independent of pure pensions for extraor- dinary services,) is within one- ninth part of the whole pay of the navy employed. If the cost of the officers paid be compared with the cost of the officers idle, the disproportion is of course grosser. There are 1,513 officers actively em- ployed, at a cost of 277,063/.; but there are 5,986 idle, at a cost of 810,771/. Here is a COUP D'CEIL OF THE COST AND NUMBERS OF NAVAL AND MARINE OFFICERS RECEiyiNG PAY Oil PENSION. PAY. 115 Flag Officers and their retinue — — 7 Officers superintending Dock- yards ™ 1,253 Captains, Commanders, Lieutenants, Masters, Surgeons, and Pursers — £ 30,540 4,430 1,275 238 Marine Officers 183,949 218,919 . 58,044 1,113 Total active £ 277,063 PENSION. £ 4,415 Commissioned officers, including Admi- rals, Captains, Lieutenants, Masters, and Chaplains — .— — 658,030 613 Medical Officers— -— — — 66,457 470 Pursers — — — 38,927 5,499 487 Marine officers 763,414 47,357 £ 810,771 The contents of 5,986 Total idle This is bad, but worse remains behind, the following table, exhibiting the comparative numbers of naval officers employed and idle, are so astounding, indeed incredible in their results, that we think it necessary to give chapter and verse for the statements. The inquisitive reader will find the data from which this table is formed, at pages 5 and 42 of the Navy Estimates for the year 1837- 8. If he wishes to purchase the document at Hansard's office in Great Turnstile, Lincoln's- inn- fields, he must ask for " No. 25" of the Parliamentary Papers for 1837. TABLE OF THE COMPARATIVE NUMBERS OF NAVAL OFFICIRS EMPLOYED AND IDLE* Employed Idle. 11 Admirals - „ 212 61 Captains „ ™ _ 623 65 Commanders 979 393 Lieutenants — ~ ~ 2,219 218 Masters ™ 351 38 Chaplains — 32 290 Medical Officers ™ 613 101 Pursers ™ ™ 470 Total 1,177 Employed. 5,499 Idle. So that, in round numbers, For every 1 Admiral employed, there are 20 Admirals idle; For every 1 Captain employed, there are 10 Captains idle; For every 1 Commander employed, there are 15 Comman- ders idle. And for every 1 Lieutenant employed, the are 6 Lieutenants idle. To complete this extraordinary specimen of pensioning in practice, we will state the most striking items of its propor- tionate cost. THE PAY. For Admirals employed is £ 24,455 For Captains employed is — ~~ — 30,850 For Commanders employed is 19,502 For Lieutenants employed is — — 49,533 THE PENSION. For Admirals idle is — — — .— £ 117,037 For Captains idle is — — 131,526 For Commanders idle is ,— — 150,909 For Lieutenants idle is .—. — 218,041 Another table upon this subject, and westop. The follow, ing is a comparative view of the respective amounts of soma of the principal branches of the Army Dead- weight expen- diture, as it stood in 1817, and as it stands now. We take 1817, virtually three years after the general peace, to allow ample time for the reduction of the army to a peace estab- lishment, and as therefore affording tl\ c fairest specimen of what the Army Dead- weight was at the heaviest period it could ever have rightly been,— namely, at the close of a long and grduous war. A single glance will suffice to show, that, in several instances, there has been a considerable ad- dition of pension expenditure after twenty years of uninter- rupted peace. The only two diminutions of any conse- quence are in pensions for wounds and to foreign officers, where no interest was to be served by increasing the amounts, and where increase was indeed impossible from the nature of the case. The authority for the column of 1817, is the third report of the Finance Committee of 1828, appendix I., page 30 ; that for 1837 is the Army Estimates. COMPARATIVE VIEW OF THE DEAD- WEIGHT OFTHE PRINCIPAL BRANCHES OF THE ARMY IN 1817 AND 1837. Ill 1817. General Officers , £ 101,280 Retired Full- pay, Half- pay, and Allowances — 647,301 Out- Pensioners of Chelsea and Kilmainham 911,832 Widows' Pensions ™ 96,406 Compassionate List 30,150 Royal bounties to relations of Officers killed in action 33,510 Pensions for Wounds 123,291 Foreign Half- pay and Pensions 124,750 Commissariat ,— 33,743 Superannuation Allowances in Civil Departments , 22,009 In 1837. £ 113,000 615,500 1,255,718 148,728 31,431 27,220 89,230 71,800 52,727 47,150 £ 2,124,272 £ 2,452,503 Total in 1817, £ 2,124,272. Total in 1837, £ 2,452,503. Whatever may be thought of our proposition to abolish all future pensioning by express statute,— taking care of course to provide some well- considered self- superannuating fund, no one, after such a display, will deny, at least, the practical evils of the existing system. And how they are to be remedied, without the strong arm of the law, we cannot see. The Horse Guards, we believe, do pretty much as they please. The Admiralty professes to have a regulation for the purpose of keeping down the numbers of the half- pay list: in answer to which regulation, we offer our list of the employed and the idle. But the truth is, that no re- gulations are sufficient to resist the interests of party, the feelings of casts, and the claims of relationship amongst the dispensers of good things. Whilst our aristocratic youths are begging by hundreds for commissions, officers will be put upon tiie half- pay or retired list, to make room for those who have the most influence, no mutter whence it arises ; and when such young sprigs get tired of service, they are, by the same interest, put upon lialf- pay at pleasure— pen- sioned, in fact, by the nation. This expose, and the suggestions which accompany it, will not, very likely, be pleasing to our retired warriors. But, in reality, it would be a great advantage to the services to have the number of lialf- pay officers greatly reduced. Were there only a few to choose from, merit and service would stand some chance; but in a crowd their claims are readily evaded. Fancy that ten or twenty ships are com- missioned to- morrow, their officers to be chosen from the half- pay list— how easy would it be for favouritism and ne- potism to work, almost without the possibility of nnj^ shameful detection, in choosing from sixteen hundred cap. tains and commanders? But suppose the choice to be made from a hundred or eo— the neglect of acknowledged merit, or well- founded claims, would he much more diffi- cult, as being much more conspicuous. However, we are, perhaps, anticipating the third section of the subject. * The Duke of Marlborough's pension is 5,000?,, and Schomberg's 4,000/.; but we give them us set down. We also give Lord Camden's AB it stands. Formerly his lordship only retained 2,700lt and paid over the surplus to the public ; he may do so still, but we have not found any repayment carried to account. + The smalt comparative peusion- list of tlio Post- office, is ex- plainable by alt the day pay of postmen and allowance* to Poat- office- keepers being included in the pay column. THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, OCTOBER 14. 3 PATENT VICTORIA LAMP, MANUFACTURED ONLY AT T. C. SALTS LAMP, CHANDELIER, LUSTRE, AND GAS LAMP MANUFACTORY, No. 18, EDMUND- STREET, Zess than 100 yards from the Town- hall, where the nobility, gentry, and the public are respectfully invited to inspect it. rriHE wick of this Lamp is supplied with a constant _ I_ stream of oil, ensuring a superior 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. THEATRE ROYAL, BIRMINGHAM. In THE LAST NIGHT BUT TWO. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. MONTAGUE, Of the Theatre Royal, Bath, and formerly of the Theatre Royal, Birmingham, who will have the honour of making his First and Only Appearance this Season, and Fifth these Seven years, in Two favourite characters. ON WEDNESDAY EVENING, October 18th, 1837, will be performed ( first time these seven years) O'Keefe's elegant Comedy of WILD OATS. Rover ( the Strolling Gentleman) Mr. MONTAGUE, i which character he will sing " The Picture of a Play House." In the course of the evening Mr. Montague will deliver A FAREWELL ADDRESS. To conclude with the Nautical Drama of BLACK EYED SUSAN. William _ _ Mr. MONTAGUE, In which character he will sing " Jack's the Lad." Tickets may be had of Mr. MONTAGUE, 4, Navigation- street, and at the Box Office; where places for the Boxes may be secured. THE BIRMINGHAM CHORAL SOCIETY'S SECOND CONCERT of SACRED MUSIC will take place in the Town- hail, on TUESDAY EVENING, October 24, 1837. PRINCIPAL VOCAL PERFORMERS. MISS BRUCE, MR. PEARSALL, AND MR. MACHIN. The Choruses are selected from the works of Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Graun, Leo, Mendelssohn, & c. Leader of the Band, Mr. H. SHARGOOL. Principal Second, Mr. RUDGE. Principal Violoncello, Mr. R. S. GILES. Principal Double Bass, Mr. FLETCHER. Organ, Mr. HOLLINS. Conductor, Mr. MUNDEN. Tickets to the Galleries, 3s., and to the Floor of the Hall, 2s. each, may be had at the diflerent Music Shops and Booksellers. Doors will be opened at half- past Six, and the Perform- ances will commence at half- past Seven precisely. BIRMINGHAM MARKET. Inspector's Weekly Return of Corn told, computed by the Standard Imperial Measure.— October 12. OPEN TO ALL ENGLAND. BIRMINGHAM GRAND CHRYSANTHEMUM SHOW. THE SECOND ANNUAL EXHIBITION will take place at the TOWN HALL, on THURSDAY, the 23rd of November, when a liberal List of MONEY PRIZES will be awarded, ( copies of which may be ob- tained of the Chairman, Mr. GREEN, Gazette Office, and Mr. CAMERON, Botanic Garden,) including a splendid PIECE of PLATE, to be called THE VICTORIA VASE. Entrance Fee for the Vase, 7s. 6d. to the 16th of Novem- her, after which time to be raised to 10s. Entrance for the re- maining Prizes, including the collections, ( to consist of twelve,) 2s. 6d. each. THOMAS WILLIAMS, Birmingham, October 13, 1837. Chairman. VERY REDUCED FARES, rpo WORCESTER, TEWKESBURY, GLOU- X CESTER, CHELTENHAM, BRISTOL, and BATH, from the ST. GEORGE'S COACH OFFICE, HIGH- STREET, and the NELSON HOTEL, Bull- ring. MEEK, HEATH, BLAND, LEONARD, and LANE, Proprietors. 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 arid fashionable assortment of FURS of every descrip- 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. All kinds of Furs cleaned, repaired, and altered to the present fashion. *,* Furs taken in exchange. SI G NO R R I VA ROLO, AUTHOR IN ENGLAND, AND PROFESSOR OF THE ITALIAN, FRENCH, $ GERMAN LANGUAGES. IS desirous of informing the Public, that he continues his instructions, and will engage to teach pupils for a circuit of twenty miles round Birmingham, at a moderate extra charge. TERMS OF ATTENDANCE IN TOWN. Single Lesson for one individual .—. 0 2 0 Ditto ditto for two . 0 3 6 PER QUARTER. One individual, two lessons weekly 1 10 0 In the Schools — — 1 10 EVENING CLASS. Two lessons weekly , . 0 12 0 S. R. informs also, that he has now published an Italian Poem, concerning Her Must Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, and King William IV., at one shilling each copy. * » * S. Rivarolo trusts by his assiduity and zeal in the arduous task, to deserve the patronage of the enlightened gentry and literati. RESIDENCE, 51, EDGBASTON- STREET, BIRMINGHAM. S. RIVAROLO. CONTINUED ATTRACTION. FRESH ARRIVAL OF PARISIAN AND GENEVA MANUFACTURES, READY FOR INSPECTION THIS DAY. Wheat Bm ley Onta .. Rye ... Beans Peas.. Total Quantities. Quarters. ; Busht- la. j .€. Total Amount. < T~ Price per Qr. X^ s. d. 1072 132 668 0 0 0 2885 9 0 230 8 0 860 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 13 9 1 14 10 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1837. 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 < le Paris, and French Houses Leamington and Worthing,) bee most respectfully to inform the Nobility, Gentry, and Publico! Birmingham and its neighbourhood, they have just returned Irom the Continent, where they have become the sole Purchasers ol the Bankrupt's Stock of Messrs. LK ROY and Co., or Paris -- til l Geneva, a magnifi- cent and valuable Stock of J E VV EL I. E R Y and FANCY GOO OS, which is loo well known to need description ; but finding tItem too immense for flieir Establishment, have come ID a determination to accede to the kind advice of their mimeion* patron-, v> z Families of Distinction in this cou ity, "> bring ( Ins eleg. nt Stock MI Birmingham for a short time. It is from circumstances like these that ' tie Messrs. LOUIS and Co. pledge themselves to offer a saving of lull 30 per cent. Irimi the usual prices. The Sriick cini- isfsot P \ It I SI \ N GENEVA, FRANK- FORT, \ Nil) 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. I. and Co. pledn- e themselves have never been equalled lor elegance aud beauty. LOUIS A N 1) CO. are so well known among the British Nobibtv atid Gentry, that they need not comment respect- ing their splendid and valuable Stock, or the mode in which rliev conduct iheir transactions in their English Estalil'shinenfs. Messrs. Louis and Co. having been advised by their Soli- citoi s i bat in removing part ol their Stock Irom their regular Establishments, it may c ime under the License Act, they comply therewith. HYMEN LOUIS, Licensed Hawker, No. 2222 A. We noticed, a week or two ago, the complaint by the Whig journals of the Tory attempt to procure a majority in the House of Commons, by promoting- a subscription against the Irish returns, which com- plaint we looked upon then— and we still look upon it in the same light— to be altogether childish ; inasmuch as the true and only way to meet the subscription was not by whining or clamour, but by a subscription in opposition. We advised the Whigs, in consequence, to shut their mouths and open their purses. There is, however, another and more effectual plan— why, in- stead of standing on the defensive merely, which is but a coward's game at best, do they not at once carry the war into the enemy's camp ? The Chronicle has explained very clearly the advantage which, in the present nicely balanced state of the House, the Tories will derive from a system of wholesale petitioning. The numbers ofthe one party and the other are somewhere about 328 and 338; that is, according to the Tory account. Suppose fifty petitions to be presented against as many Liberal members, the consequence, so far as the composition of the committees which are to try these petitions is concerned, would be, to take fifty names from the Liberal side. The ratio of the parties would thus be 328 to 288, instead of 328 to 338. The mode of striking election committees is this— a day is fixed for a ballot, which commences at three o'clock. The names of the first hundred members, who enter the House after that hour, are put into balloting glasses, and from these thirty- three are promiscuously drawn. It follows„ by the law of chances, supposing the mem- bers to be equally prompt in their attendance, that the ratio of the numbers drawn, and that of the entire number of the parties respectively, will be identical. Let the Tories, by the presentation of fifty petitions, put in abeyance the privileges of fifty Liberal members, then, in every thirty- three names, indifferently selected from th « balloting glasses, there will, on an average of cases, be found eighteen Tories and fifteen Liberals. The Tories having a majority in the election com- mittees may, in all cases, where there is the slightest peg on which to hang a doubt, give the seat to their own man— and tliey will. The only safeguard against a frivolous petition is the necessity imposed oil the party of entering into recognizances to defray the costs in case of a " frivolous and vexatious" verdict, which, we may just remark, is never given. It is plain that the defensive plan will not avail the Liberals under such circumstances ; that if the Tories choose to present a sufficient number of peti- tions, and to insist on them, they must have a majority on all election committees, which majority they can turn to account as they please. What then ought to be the game of the Whigs ? Counter- petitions as- luredly. The enemy ought to be fought with his own weapons. In every case of a contested election, where a Liberal has lost the day, a petition against the sit- ting member might be presented. Perhaps it would not be necessary to carry forward all these petitions. We hardly imagine it would. The Tories finding that their game was one at which two could play with equal chances of success, might prefer drawing the stakes. Glancing over the Spectator lists, we find no less than ninety feasible cases of Liberal appeal; and of Tory appeal no more than sixty- four. Supposing pe- titions to be presented in these cases only— by extend- ing the petitioning system to all cases of contested election, whether feasible or the contrary, the condi- tion of the Tories would be very much worsened,— instead of the above- mentioned ratio of 328 to 288, we would get 238 to 274; and instead of 18 Tories to 15 Liberals in committee, we would have 15 Tories to 18 Liberals. The tables would be exactly turned. The result, if sought in the same spirit, would be to raise the Liberal majority from 10 to 40; instead of reducing it from a majority of 10 to a minority of 30. We take these numbers, we have said, according to the Tory estimate. If the majority be, as the ministerial papers allege, 40, so much the better for Lord MEL- BOURNE; and so much the stronger our argument in favour of an energetic policy in this matter. The expense would be considerable— and what then? By a mere tame defence, the expense will be very considerable, and defeat all but inevitable : while, by acting on the offensive, victory is certain. The truth is, the only difficulty in the matter is the recogni- zances. The wealthy Whigs should look to this, they are well able. Why, the Marquis of WESTMINSTER'S signature alone would suffice for ten times the amount required. Here is one Whig, whose simple cheque would stand good in any banking- house in Europe for a couple of millions; and yet, forsooth, difficulties are to be started, when the object is security for a paltry forty or fifty thousand pounds! And this, too, when the salvation of a party is at stake, wiiich numbers amongst its adherents, exclusive of the Marquis Billionaire, so many individuals of enormous wealth ! The sum of one hundred pounds has been remitted from Canton, tlnontth Mr. Bridgman, the editor of the Chinese Repository, to the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, to be given by them as a prize for the best essay " On the Opium Trade and its Effects, Commercial, Political, and Moral." The essays are to be sent in before the 1st of October, 1838, the names of the authors being enclosed in sealed covers, of which the one bslonging to the successful essay is alone to be opened, The American journals, of which files have been re- ceived to the 26th, as well as those English journals which are more anxious to prophecy future good, than to recommend the means of securing it, still insist on the choice of the Madisonian, in preference to the Globe, to perform the Government printing, to be a proof of falling off in the VAN BUREN, and of an increase of strength in the Whig party. Suppose the question in our own House of Commons were, whether the place of Mr. Hansard should be supplied by the proprietors of our Globe, or those of the Courier, which two journals hold very nearly the same position in relation to each other that the Madisonian and the Globe of the United States do, that is, the Globes of the one hemisphere and of the other, for weighty reasons, no doubt, are somewhaUmore earnest in their ministerial- isms than their brethren, and suppose that a Tory op- position, byjoining their forces to those of the Courier's friends, should turn the scale in its favour, after a demonstration of their weakness in an attempt to give the printing to the Standard, in preference to either of the other competitors, would any one on the out- side of Bedlam contend, that the success of the Courier, from such a chance combination, was an indication of the downfallen state of Lord MELBOURNE and a sure forerunner of the triumph of his opponents? We are quite ready to admit that in all a priori calcula- tions of party power there must be great uncertainty. The division on the question of gold or- paper will alone put to rest the controversy, whether the Presi- dent and the democrats, or Mr. WEBSTER and the Whigs, are the more powerful in the United States House of Representatives. All that we would impress on those sanguine persons at home, who speak so con- fidently in this matter, is not to confound a division on a trifling and collateral motion with that which maybe anticipated when the powers on the one side and the other are fairly pitted against each other, and when the maintenau : e of their respective principles are identified with the result. The American arrivals since our last publication announce that a bill has been submitted to congress to empower government to issue hundred dollar notes [ exchequer bills we would call them] to the amount of twelve millions, in order to make good the deficiencies of the year from post- poned payment of duties and other causes. This expe- dient also, which has been forced upon Van Buren by the stoppage of the Banks is dwelt upon by the Ame- rican Whig journals, as corroborative of their argu- ment that the President must abandon his determina- tion. To us, we confess, it speaks a language pre- cisely the contrary of this. It is a matter of serious complaint in the President's speech, that by depositing the revenue of the state with banks which, instead of fulfilling their engagements have suspended specie payments, as it is called, the government also has been compelled to suspend specie payments, and as a remedy for this he recommends that the government shall, in future, be its own banker. The fact that go- vernment is compelled to come to congress for leave to issue exchequer bills in order to pay its creditors, is a proof of the validity of the President's argument, aud tends to strengthen his recommendation rather than to weaken it. We noticed, some time ago, the rise of raw produce — iron, copper, lead— aud we pointed out, as we be- lieve correctly, the causes of the rise; that it origi- nated, not in any return of a healthy state of trade, in which case, the enhancement of prices would have first taken place in the manufactured article, but in the speculative purchases of the moneyed men, whose capital, from the sudden withdrawal of negociable securities, consequent on the stagnation in all depart- ments of business, was beginning to lie idle on their hands. There is au immediate consequence of this speculative rise, which requires to be pointed ouf, for it is very apt to be mistaken, by superficial observers at least, for a veritable re- action. The true test of re- viving trade is increased consumption. Anything short of this is unreal. Now there is, just now, and under similar circumstances there always will be, a considerably increased demand for manufactured goods even, but no increase, or if any, very little in- crease of consumption. The solution of this apparent contradiction is not difficult. Cotton— for cotton as well as iron has risen, and from similar causes— falls to a minimum, or what is considered to be a minimum, that is, the price is so low, that any further depression will render the production of the article impracticable. Cotton, in such a case, and the more especially, when, as we have observed, bills have almost disappeared from the market, becomes a favourite article for tem- porary investment. It is inquired after, and a few purchases are made. The intelligence immediately spreads— cotton is in demand. The market, to use the language of the brokers, becomes firm; the purchases continue, it rises. Not only speculators now pour in, manufacturers, so far as their means go, join the crowd. Even those who are most incumbered with goods, are anxious, before raw produce has attained a price which might preclude them, when a demand came, from the power of taking advantage of it, to get possession of a moderate stock. The process does not stop here. The dealer hearing that cotton is up, naturally con- cludes that yarns must follow, and he, too, however full his warehouses may happen to be, ventures into the yarn market. The shopkeeper pricks up his ears at the double intelligence, and though his shelves are groaning under the weight of unsaleable webs, begins to think about new orders. In this way, without one addition to the real demand, without the slightest in- crease of consumption, the action runs along the whole line. Nor is it wonderful that careless observers should be deceived by such appearances, or that interested reporters should dilate upon them. The rule in all such cases by which a false may be distinguished from a real revival of trade, is to be found in the course which the revival takes. If it proceed from the raw produce to the manufactured article, ending with the retail demand, then be assured it is altogether false and hollow, and will not continue. If, on the contrary, the increasing demand go down from the merchant to the manufacturer, and from the manufacturer to the grower, or the miner, as the case may be, then, and then only, the revival may be looked upon as real, and its permanence, if no counteracting causes interpose, ' Je safely calculated upon. Those who know the feelings of respect entertained by Mr. ATTWOOD towards Mr. WEBSTER, required no denial on the part of the former to convince them that the language imputed to him had never been uttered ; and certainly no one, possessed of the smallest preten- sions to fairness, would have dreamed of asserting that it was really uttered after Mr. ATTWOOD'S distinct and positive disclaimer. No rule is better established, or more obviously sound, than that which leaves to the party charged with an obnoxious phrase, the unchal- lenged privilege of explanation or denial. We are by no means certain that a writer who could persist in charging Mr. ATTWOOD with language which he had positively declared that he never employed, will be satisfied with the additional evidence of the following letter, which Mr. WEBSTER has done us the honour to address to us. Nor, indeed, do we think that his satis- faction is a point worth aiming at. If, however, by some strange chance, there should still remain a doubt of the correctness of Mr. ATTWOOD'S statement upon the mind of any other person in the community, Mr. WEBSTER'S letter will, we presume, finally and perma- nently remove it. It is as follows :— " SIR,— The Advertiser newspaper of Thursday last, having again repeated its assertion, that Mr. ATTWOOD used coarse language to me in Mr. STAPLE- TON'S committee- room, on the 25th of July last, I think it due to Mr. ATTWOOD to declare, that the as- sertion is false, and that he never used the expressions to me which have been attributed to him. I have hitherto refrained from taking notice of the gross and vulgar articles which have appeared in the Advertiser respecting me. Towards the editor of that paper I feel no animosity, he is, of course, under the direction of his employers ; but I cannot help feeling surprised that the proprietors, who, I presume, call themselves gentlemen, should have degraded the public press by the insertion of foul calumnies, not calculated to elicit truth, but to disturb the peace of private families, and to destroy the social feelings which should subsist between man and man. I remain, sir, your obedient servant, '' JOSEPH WEBSTER. " Penns, Oct. 13, 1837." THE INQUIRY.— We have not been able to ascertain the names of all the gentlemen who saw fit to request an inquiry into the conduct of Col. Sir M. WALLACE, at the late election. There are said to have been nine in number, and that of the nine seven were lawyers. Amongst the names the following have been commu- nicated to us— Mr. G. BARKER, Mr. J. W. WHATELEY, Mr. G. WHATELEY, Mr. J. B. HEBBERT, Mr. J. INULE- BY, Mr. JAMES TAYLOR, Mr. L. WILLIAMS. Answers from the Horse Guards and from the Home Office, it appears, were received by these gentlemen and their colleagues some weeks ago. Why they have not been yet made public our readers will be at no loss to guess, when we add, that they coolly but decidedly negative the demand ofthe zealous nine. The Horse Guards, it is understood, do not profess to see, in the manage- ment of the troops, theslightest ground on which to found an inquiry; and Lord J. RUSSELL, while awkwardly aiming at letting the Tories down soft, according to his usual custom, is yet compelled to concur in opinion with Lord HILL. We trust we shall get possession of the documents themselves. It is right that they should be publicly known. We know nothing- more revolting to the principles and feelings of Englishmen, than the underhand mode of attack adopted by the " harmonious nine." They scatter all manner of rumours, false and mixed, when the object is to criminate a gallant gentleman, and when his honourable acquittal is com- municated to them, they wrap themselves up in an im- penetrable silence. Is this, we will not say honour- able, is it honest? Amongst the persons we have named, there are some in private life of high and gentlemanly feelings. How can they reconcile such concealments to the respect which they owe to their own characters, to say nothing of the respect due to the characters of others ? Mr. ATTWOOD has been repeatedly charged with making use, towards Mr. WEBSTER, of a very coarse expression, in the committee- room of Mr. STAPLETON, on the evening of the day of polling in July last. Since the above was written we have received the following letter, which it will be seen completes the nine names :— " Sir,— It is reported that of the nine gentlemen who sent up a memorial to the Home Office, complaining of the conduct of the above- named officer, at our late election, seven were lawyers as under:— Mr. Lloyd Williams Mr. J. W. Whateley Mr. C. Ingleby Mr. George Whateley Mr. J. B. Hebbert Mr. H. Smithers Mr. George Barker And that only two tradesmen could be induced to sign it, viz., Messrs. James Taylor and Edward Armfield, the former of whom was the proposer of Mr. Stapleton; and Mr. Lloyd Williams, the only magistrate who would have anything to do with the memorial, was chairman ofhis committee. That there is to be a peti- tion against the return has been announced by Mr. Lloyd Williams, which accounts for so many legal names being appended to the memorial; but how, Mr. Editor, do you account for there being the names of only two tradesmen appended to it? We shall, per- haps, see when the memorial and the answer to it are printed, which they must be. I am sir, & c. Birmingham, Oct. 13, 1837. AN ELECTOR. The state of the revenue for the quarter ending the 10th instant has been published. It exhibits a falling off in the quarter, as compared with the corresponding quarter of last year, of 1,187,762/.; and, as compared with the corresponding year, of 2,097,295/. The com- parison of year with year is, however, an imperfect one. The true way to calculate the f'al ing off, is to compare the three quarters of 1837, which have just elapsed, with the three Corresponding quarters of 1836. Viewed in this way, the deficiency will stand thus :— 5th April. 5th July. 10th Oct. 1836 8,682,543 11,848,935 12,880,927 1837 8,622,134 10,983,589 11,693,165 Decrease 60,409 865,346 1,187,762 Here is a total decrease of 2,113,517; and adding to that total only 1,200,000/. for the ensuing quarter, when the pressure of our distressed trade will be severely felt— it is only beginning to tell— we have a diminution in the revenue of three and a- lialf millions in round numbers, in one year, and this, be it remem- bered, in a year, during the course of which not a single tax has been removed or diminished! Mr. Spring Rice will be more puzzled, we guess, to meet such a state of affairs, than he was with the question of the cross posts and the newspapers We need not perplex our readers by any attempted explanation of items of the revenue tables. We have tried any time these twenty years to understand them, and have not yet succeeded. Amongst the curiosities of the present tables, may be noted the setting apart of some 1.600,000/. during the year ending on the 10th instant, in redemption of the national debt, while the sum applied to the consolidated fund, that is, the in- terest of the unredeemed debt, has, according to the same authority, been increased by 300,000/.! THE GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY.— Some of the London journals have, of late, been carping in no very truthful spirit, against this great aud useful under- taking. The following paragraph is one ofthe latest— " GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY— The bungling manner in which the business of this great concern is conducted, is disgraceful in the extreme. In the first place there are not halfenough engines to work the road; in the second, enough men are not employed thereon ; and in the third, they should have been more prepared before they opened the l- oad for public traffic Times." The journalist, with singular consistency, adds, that the directors were daily pestered by complaints. If so, it is rather strange they did not endeavour to re- move their cause. The zeal of the Times and Standard in magnifying every trifling railway accident three- fold, while the substantial benefits of railways are left unnoticed, is almost amusing. To candid and honest criticism, founded on accurate information, no one can possibly object; nay even though the information of the journalist were not altogether correct, if it were sincerely sought after, his censure might be excused. But making every possible allowance for an editor who writes at a distance of a hundred miles, what is to be said of a Birmingham editor, who, with every facility of correction, can step out of his way, in order to give currency, and, as far as he can, authority, to the mistakes or calumnies ofhis metropo- litan brother? The Grand Junction Railway, exclu- sive of its merits as a work unequalled iir extent and utility, has solid and tangible claims to the kindly con- sideration of Birmingham. We need not point to the pecuniary advantages that have already resulted to the town from its opening, to the crowds of strangers that it has attracted hither, and that, too, at a period when, from the unexampled pressure on our trade, retail as well as wholesale, any influx of capital, however trifling, was to be received with gratitude. The consideration of such advantages ought to have induced, had he been actuated by no higher motive, a local journalist, to whom, by the smallest exertion, the truth was acces- sible, to enquire, before he ventured to decide. Had any enquiry been instituted, it would have at once been found, that the reports circulated in the metropolis to the injury of the railway, were in nearly every instance groundless; that the statements made had seldom any foundation, but in the misinformation of the writer; that instead of any imputation of remiss- ness, the Directors of the Grand Junction had in reality received, both from the public and the shareholders, the highest commendations. Since the railway has been opened— no farther back than July— sonic fifty thousand individualsViave been conveyed, the greater part the entire length of the line, in a manner altogether unexampled for convenience, cheapness, and expedition. There have been, on a few occasions— a very few— an accidental delay. Still, taking the whole of these into account, the journey from Birmingham to Liverpool has, on an average of trips, fallen short of five hours. Compare this with the twelve hours that are required for the journey of the best appointed coaches! If the directors have been guilty of an error, it goes to this extent, no more— that they calculated the journey at four hours and a half, to which, there is no doubt, it will very soon be reduced. As to the paucity of en- gines, before that is made a ground of inculpation, it would be well to estimate the difficulty with which a supply of engines is procurable. In Birmingham, and small praise it is to us, the spot where the steam- engine originated, there is not a single company or individual competent to the making of a locomotive. It is said the company ought not to have opened the railway, till every point and particular was completed. Who say so? The public? Do they count for nothing the high benefit of such an undertaking, whether for pleasure or business, that they would have willingly consented to forego it for another six months ? And that without the smallest ground of expedience or necessity ? We say nothing of the thousands that the opening of the railway has added to the funds of the shareholders, though even that circumstance enhances the value of the opening, inasmuch as it will enable the directors to execute improvements which otherwise they might not have ventured on. From the attack made upon the rail way by the Tory journals in London, and the enforcement of it by the Tory journal of Birmingham, one would almost believe that tliey had confounded, from the analogy of the terms, the Grand Junction with the Union, and in their heated brains converted that into a Radical, which was only a national undertaking. It is, we admit, the greatest Reform that has been achieved since the passing of the bill; aud, in point of practical utility, we almost doubt if it be not the better measure of the two. The funds have not suffered from the publication of the state of the revenue. They fell £ per cent., but they have again risen J. Exchequer bills are 52- 4! How comes it that the interest is not lowered ? Another { Canada bank has failed— we mean sus- pended specie payments— the Commercial Midland, Upper Canada. The confusion in Canada becomes daily worse con- founded. A great number of militia officers have been deprived of their commissions, and magistrates struck off the roll of the peace, for attending the popu- lar meetings. These petty attempts at persecution wound but do not weaken, and are treated by the parties with invariable contempt and indignation. There is no continental news, unless a change of ministry in Spain, an event which usually happens every six months, is to be so accounted ; and a defeat of the forces of Don Carlos, which should have been total, only the Queen's troops could not follow so fast as the Pretender's ran away. The latter are said to be in utter rout; and will doubtless remain so— till they rally again. It is known to our readers that in the spring of the present year some movements were made, and a com- mittee appointed, for the purpose of procuring for Bir- mingham the benefit of an Incorporation. From various causes, but chiefly from the uncertainty in which, during the last few months of the life of William the Fourth, the ministry were placed, it was thought expedient to suspend operations. Within these few weeks they have been resumed with renewed alacrity, and there is every reason to believe that this important matter will speedily be brought under the notice of the inhabitants. We shall, in our next week's number, go into the question at length. GUARDIANS.— A general quarterly courtwas held on Tuesday at the Public- office; for the purpose of receiv- ing the reports of the various committees, and other routine business. Letters of resignation of the office of guardian, were read from Mr. Robert Martineau and Mr. E. M. Martin. Three gentlemen were pro- posed as candidates for the vacancies thus created. Mr. William Hill Malins, Little Charles- street; Mr. Thos. Smith, High- street; Mr. Cor. Robins, New- street. A ballot having been called for, the numbers were declared to stand— Mr. Malins 20, Mr. Smith 15, Mr. Robins 5. The two first gentlemen were declared duly elected accordingly. THE ECLIPSE.— Nothing could be more favourable than the weather last night for observing this pheno- menon. From beginning to endtthe sky was without a speck. The orb of the moon was distinctly visible at the point of greatest obscuration. REGISTRATION— WALSALL.— The result is— Tories, objections, 7; Reformers, 4; Tories, claims, 0; Re- formers, 17; leaving a majority for the Reformers of 14. WEST BROMWICH REGISTRY.— Tories, objections, 13 ; Reformers, 12; Tories, claims, 11; Reformers, 75. Reforming majority, 60. An old favourite of the Birmingham play- goers, Mr. Montague, takes a benefiton Wednesday next, the last night but one of the performances, and the only night of bis appearance here. We refer to some extracts in another page ftom the Jamaica Journals, for some important information touching the working of the apprenticeship system. ] 1 i i s d C 0 1 fi CI ni ui Pi w w H w Sc ah bo iiK rel Fr pel sot the wet sidi wet wbi cide side sup oft coat the T with cons ente wert coac the ] or 1( thist coacl short THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, OCTOBER 14. 3 EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS.— A variety of matters of more pressing, not more pleasing, interest, has pre- vented us hitherto from following up, as we fully in- tended, our notice of this most delightful of all pos- sible lounges. We only recur to it just now for the purpose of pointing the attention of such of our readers as may not yet have visited the exhibition, to a few of the finer specimens of art in the smaller rooms. We give the numbers of the paintings merely. We have 110 space for remarks, nor are they necessary. In the front room, west, we recommend the visiter to take a peep at Nos. 151, 170, 171, 177, 180, 185, 194, 199 204, 210, 220, 221, and 229— the admirable portrait of Mrs. W. Scbolefield, which we alluded to in our for- mer notice. In the front room, east, Nos. 230, 233, 239,242, 245, 247, 267, 268, 270 ( the child especially), 276, 282, 292, 293, 305, 307, 308, 313, deserve and will pay an inspection. The miniature room is very rich The more striking paintings are those numbered 316, 318, 320, 321, 324, 325, 336, 339, 340, 346 353, 355, 361, 376, 377. The water colour room will not detain tbe visitor long; but be ought to look at 400, 421, 424, 429, 436, 451. In the sculpture room there are two lovely busts of two pre- eminently lovely indi- viduals— a girl and a woman— one of them described as noble, but deriving her real patent of nobility from a higher power than that of kings; we allude to Nos. 527 and 535, on which the worshippers of heaven's purest workmanship might gaze a livelong day, and leave something still of beautiful to discover and admire. The model 539 is also of great merit, though of a very different kind. MECHANICS' INSTITUTION.— At the conclusion of Dr. Cantor's course of lectures on Anthropology, on Tuesday evening last, C. V. Mainwaring, Esq., sur- geon, moved a vote of thanks to the lecturer, for the very able manner in which he had treated the subject, which resolution was carried by loud plaudits from a very numerous and respectable assembly of the mem- bers. J. B. Jukes, Esq., of Wolverhampton, was an- nounced as being about to commence a course of six lectures on geology. The character of the lectures de- livered to the members of this institution, is highly creditable to the committee of management. BANK OF BIRMINGHAM.— A meeting of shareholders in this company was held, by adjournment from the New Royal Hotel, at tbe Clarendon, on Friday last week, for the purpose of appointing two auditors of the accounts. Mr. John Greene, the late chairman of the directors, presided on the occasion, and amongst those gentlemen who took part in the proceedings were, Mr. Barlow, solicitor, Mr. Joseph Marshall, Mr. T. Welch, Mr. J. Upfill, Mr. S. Haines, Mr. B. Hadley, and Mr. Blaxland. From the statements and observations, it would appear that, in point of manage- ment and success, the Bank of Birmingham w as a worthy twin- brother of the defunct Northern and Cen- tral. During the management of Mr. Lovell, the bank lost 4,000/.; since that period 11,000/.; and which, together with nearly 20,000/. paid in dividends out of the capital, makes a total deficiency of between 30,000/. and 40,000/. Some of the shareholders pre- sent exhibited considerable anger against the directors, and especially against their chairman, Mr. Greene. It appears that the chairman had received from a house which b. anked largely with the Company, a pipe of wine, the cost of which ( 95/.) had been defrayed by the bank. Some of the shareholders expressed great anxiety that this transaction should he explained, when Mr. Greene stated that his brother directors had agreed to his having the wine for a remuneration for extra services. This explanation appeared to be unsatisfac- tory, and Mr. Greene at length declared that rather than be beholden to the Company for the wine, he would give a cheque for the amount. The meeting came to the resolution to appoint Mr. Barlow, solicitor, and Mr. Joseph Marshall, of Newhall- street, auditors of the bank accounts; and the directors were instructed tb give up all the books, papers, documents, & c., con- nected with the bank, for inspection and examination by these gentlemen. BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL AND HORTICULTURAL SO- CIETY.— The annual general meeting of this society was held at the gardens on Wednesday last; it had been previously announced by circular that the Earl of Dartmouth would preside on the occasion, but Mr. Knowles, one of the honorary secretaries, read a note from his lordship, stating his inability to attend on account of a temporary lameness. George Barker, Esq., was then called to the chair, on the motion of Mr. Whateley, and after Mr. Knowles had read the report of the committee, the resolutions of the day were respectively moved by Messrs. B. Maund, F. L. S., Thomas Clark, jun., J. W. Whateley, T. Pickman, F. A. S , T. Ryland, T. Bolton, and . J. Hodgson, F. R. S. Mr. Ryland announced bis intention of proposing at the next general meeting a resolution to the effect that no member of the committee, who should have absented himself from the monthly meetings a certain number of times, should be eligible for the ensuing year. J. Alston, Esq., Mr. Pare, and the Secretaries, were ap- pointed to scrutinise the lists for tbe election of a new committee, and, after a vote of thanks to the chair- man, moved by Mr. T. Clark, jun., the meeting broke up. An Operative Conservative Association has been established in West Bromwich, which has received, it is said, the support of a large and respectable body of the parishioners.— Wolverhampton Chronicle. INQUEST. — Wednesday evening, an inquest was held at the Cottage retail public- house, Spark Brook, on the body of a child two years old, who had been suffocated the day before. The child belonged to Mr. Low, landlord of the above house. On Monday, he was left alone for a few minutes in the back yard, and having followed some ducks to the edge of a ditch, fell in and was suffocated in the mud before he was disco vercd. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death. SUDDEN DEATH.— On Thursday evening, about seven o'clock, a man, named Daniel Sankey, dropped down dead in Ann- street, close to the gate of the Free Church. He was an engineer by trade, forty j'ears of age, and worked for Mr. Phillips, wood- turner, Licbfield- street. He left work at ten minutes past five o'clock, and went to his lodging in an adjoining court, where he had his tea. He eat heartily, anil never appeared in better health. After tea, as was his usual practice, he went out to take a walk, and when passing the Free Church, be was observed, by a mail who was walking behind him, to reel and fall. He was immediately raised up, but was unable to speak. He was then removed into the shop of Mr Suffield, where he received every possible attention from Mr. Scott, but without effect. Mr. Ryland, surgeon, was also called to his assistance, but life was extinct. The body was removed to the Town- hall tavern, where an inquest was held on it yesterday evening. The jurv returned a verdict of" Died by the visitation of God." From the evidence of the surgeon, the poor man ap- peared to have died from apoplexy ; he was perfectly sober. The Tally- ho coach, from Birmingham, which left the Swan at eight o'clock on Wednesday morning last week, was upset about two miles on the Dunchurch side of Coventry, and several of the outside passengers were hurt. A lady, with a child about four years old, which she protected in the fall, was left where the ac- cident occurred, and it is feared she had received con- siderable injury; a gentleman was also left behind, supposed to have his collar- bone broken. The cause ofti le accident was an unquiet horse, which ran the coach against an embankment in a narrow place where the road is being altered. The Shrewsbury and Birmingham mail was upset with great violence on Wednesday morning week, in consequence of the axle- tree breaking just as it was entering Wolverhampton. None of the passengers were very seriously injured, though Mr. Jobson, the coach proprietor of Shrewsbury, was much cut about the face, and some of the other passengers were more or less bruised. The guard immediately proceeded to this town with the letter bags in a chaise, and, another coach having been procured, tbe passengers followed shortly afterwards. Sir Robert Peel, Lady, and Miss Peel, are gone on a tour in the Low Countries. THE WALLACE TESTIMONIAL.— At a meeting of tbe Wallace Testimonial Committee, held at the Public- office on Thursday evening, a further adjournment took place, the committee still hoping that after the enquiry prayed for by Mr. Lloyd Williams has been put to rest, the Colonel may be induced to recall his resolution with respect to tbe intended present. ST. MARY'S.— The Rev. John Casebow Barrett, M. A., late of Christ Church, Oxford, and now of Hull, has been presented to the incumbency of St. Mary's Chapel in this town, in the room of the late Rev. Ed- ward Burn. MR. SAMUEL WESLEY.— This accomplished scholar, and extraordinary musical genius, expired on Wednes- day afternoon, about twenty minutes past four o'clock. ALLEGED FORGERIES.— At the close of the business yesterday, at the Public- office, a respectable looking man, fashionably attired in a hunting coat, light trowsers and waistcoat, and black neckerchief, and the whole set off by an elegant gold chain and watch, was brought into the office in custody, on suspicion of hav- ing in his possession some forged bills ofj exchange, drawn by Abraham and Co., on the Queenbo- rough Bank, and made payable at the London and Westminster Bank, and also bills belonging to the Cheltenham Bank. Representatives from the Town and District Bank, the Birmingham Banking Com- pany, the Commercial Bank of England, and Messrs. Taylor and Lloyd's Bank, were in attendance, and identified the prisoner as having offered bills for discount at their respective establishments. The pri- soner gave his name Henry Palmer, but when ca lied upon by the magistrates to state his connections, he declined giving any information. He insisted that the bills were all good, and demanded that they should make immediate application at the above Banks, in order to his speedy release. He also refused to inform the magistrates at what inn in town he had put up ; but two waiters, from the Albion Hotel, were called, who gave evidence to his having been at that house on Thursday. Hall, the officer, stated that on searching the prisoner, he found in his pocket a duplicate for a watch, which had been pledged at Cheltenham. In answer to a question by the magistrate, in reference to this duplicate, he said he had purchased it; as for pledging, he was not under such necessity. After some conversation, it was proposed that a gentleman from the Commercial and another Bank should pro- ceed, by the first conveyance, to London and Chel- tenham respectively, in order to ascertain if the bills are forgeries or not, and return if possible in time so that the case might be gone into this evening, ( Saturday,) and the prisoner be discharged as speedily as possible, if the documents were found to be genuine. Mr. James attended professionally for the prisoner, who, however, appeared perfectly competent to defend himself. lie cheerfully consented to pay, out of the money he had in bis possession, the expense of the gentlemen going to London and Cheltenham; observ- ing, with the utmost confidence, that he hoped not an instant would be lost in making the necessary en- quiries, conscious as he was, that the managers of the banks, to whom they were about to apply, would say they knew him to be a highly respcctablc person, and that he bad a banking account at Cheltenham. He was removed to the lock- up room, where he again expressed his confidence as to the result, and cautioned our reporter, who was present, to take care how lie represented the case to tbe public. It seems almost impossible that the further consideration of the case can be gone into before Monday. CASTLE BROMWICH.— On Sunday, Octcber 1, two sermons were preached at Castle Bromwich Church; in the morning by tbe Rev. Sidney Gedge, and in the evening by the Rev. J. G. Breay, in aid of the Church Missionary Society. The collection amounted to 13/. FREEMASONRY.- - The Earl Ferrers, in consequence of his advanced years, contemplates resigning the office of Provincial Grand Master, and will, it is said, be succeeded by the Hon. Colonel Anson, MP. MANCHESTER AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.— At a special meeting of the directors of this Company, held on Saturday last, tbe 7th instant, John Urpeth Ras- trick, Esq., was appointed engineer to the Company. CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY.— At the first general meeting of the proprietors of this undertaking, held at Liverpool, on the 29th ult., it was unanimously resolved to carry the work into effect, and directors were appointed to proceed with the work. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.— This great line, there is every probability, will be opened to Maidenhead by the middle of November. It is expected to be a pat- tern of easy and quiet running, as the engineer means to lay his rails on wooden sleepers, Kyanised, instead of on stone blocks. He calculates to use 400 loads of timber per mile.— Railway Magazine. BIRMINGHAM CANALS.— The grand canal tunnel at Coseley, near Bilston, which forms part of another important work undertaken by the Birmingham Canal Company for the improvement of their navigation, was opened to the public on Friday week. WARWICK SESSIONS.— Tbe Michaelmas Quarter Sessions for the county commence at Warwick on Tuesday next. There are about 100 prisoners for trial. WARWICK AND WARWICK AND NAPTON CANALS.— At the half- yearly meeting of the Warwiok and Bir- mingham and Warwick and Napton Canal Companies, a dividend of 8/. 10s. per share on the former, and of 71. 10s. per share on the latter undertaking', were de- clared for the half- year. COVENTRY CANAL.— At the general meeting of the Coventry Canal Proprietors lately held, a dividend of 24/. per share was declared for the half year. AFFAIR OF HONOUR.— Considerable excitement pre- vails in the town of Dudley, in consequence of an an- ticipated hostile meeting between T. Hawkes, Esq., M. P. for that borough, and M. Turner, Esq., the un- successful candidate at the late election. The dispute took place in consequence of language having been used by Mr. Turner at the meeting held before the Swan Inn. Mr. Turner was taken into custody on Wednesday, and taken before tbe magistrates for the borough, who bound him over to keep the peace for twelve months in 700/. penalties. Mr. Hawkes has gone away in order to avoid being called upon to give bail. PENNY- A- LINE HOAX.— The account of murder and suicide on St. Vincent's Rock, Clifton, which we in- serted in our last, on the authority of our metropolitan contemporaries, the Sun and Globe, was a pure hoax from beginning to end. Whether the joke was perpe- trated by some wicked wag, anxious to amuse himself at the expense of public sympathy, or by some forlorn penny- a- liner, driven to its wits' end for a dinner, has not been ascertained. MR. HILL'S PLAN.— Mr. Wallace, M. P., in a letter to the Aberdeen Herald, says, " it is not intended that the stamps shall yield any return to the Exche- quer; and it is confidently expected that the quantity of paper taken from the few individuals to whom the manufactory necessarily must be entrusted, will be so large, as to enable them to sell it at a very small ad- vance indeed, if any at all, on the usual price of the same paper when unstamped. I have carefully studied Mr. Hill's indisputable plan, and have anxi- ously looked at the consequences of adopting the stamp covers all over the kingdom. Tbe result is, my firm belief in the positive certainty of the success of both ; my belief is, that, under the operations of Mr. Hill's plan, by far the greater portion of the re- venue of the Post- office will be collected by stamped paper sold in stationers' shops, and in every shop in which a mixture of articles is sold all over Great Britain and Ireland. Stamps are to be used on all sizes and kinds of paper, from thin banker's post to pasteboard. It is on weight only that postage is to be charged; and letter senders, or parcel- senders, will choose for themselves, sheets of three feet square or three inches '* THE PALAIS ROYAI. E, NEW- STREET This elegant esta- blishment continues to enjoy the lull confidence and patron, age of our most influential families, and as the proprietors continue to add to their already splendid stock of goods, ar- ticles of the most refined taste and fashion, there is no doubt their visit to Birmingham will prove highly successful. SECOND GRAND CHRYSANTHEMUM SHOW— O^ EN TO ALL ENGLAND.— This exhibition, it will be seen, is announced to take place on the 23rd of next month, at the Town Hall, on a scale of unprecedented attraction and splendour. The exhibition of last year created a stimulus among floral amateurs to surpass each other this year. The cultivation of this elegant and beautiful flower has therefore become more general, and the collections in this town and neigh- bourhood are in consequence more numerous and valuable. A liberal list of prizes is to be awarded, including a mag- nificent piece of plate, to be called " THE VICTORIA VASE." ROTATORY STEAM ENGINE Mr. Ruthven has now got the rotatory engine upon Avery's principle erected, and we saw it in motion on Wednesday. Having described it be- fore, we shall merely observe at present, that it moves by the re- action of high pressure steam, which rushes through two small orifices at the opposite sides of two hollow arms, and impels them in a circular direction with incredible velocity. The engine lias neither piston, cylinder, beam, crank, nor valve. The arms are of two feet six inches ra- dius, and as they perform about 3,000 revolutions in a minute, their extremities must move at the rate of a mile in eight seconds. This very high velocity, or something ap- proaching to it, is essential to the working of the engine. No noise is heard when it is in motion, but only a low humming sound like that of a boiling kettle. The trial on Wednesday was merely to show its mode of operating ; but it is soon to be employed in some heavy work which will test its powers, and we shall then speak of it more at large. If its capabilities correspond to the inventor's description, it will deserve to be considered one of the happiest appli- cations of steam power which has ever been given to the world.— Scotsman. PUBLIC OFFICE. MONDAY, OCTOBER 2. ( Before Towers Lawrence and W. Blaheway, Esqrs. J SHOP LIFTING Ann Jones was charged with shop- lifting. Mr. John Sutton Pratt stated- tliat he was shopman to Mr. Fuiford, draper, of Bull- street; on the previous Thursday, the prisoner and another girl came into Mr. Fulford's shop, and asked to see some prints; he handed them a variety, and they commenced examining and shuffling them about; suspecting their appearance, lie kept a close watch upon them, and presently saw the prisoner take one of the pieces and conceal it under her shawl; they then bought one piece and were'going away, when he stopped the prisoner, took the stolen piece from her, and gave her into the custody of a street- keeper. The prisoner was committed to the sessions. Martha Brown, an interesting looking little girl, who said she was only ten yeais of age, was charged with stealing fifteen shillings. Miss Ann Pool stated, that on Saturday morning she went into Mr. Porter's shop, in Bull- street, to purchase a pair of shoes; she had fifteen shillings in a piece of paper, which she laid upon the counter whilst she examined the article she was about to buy. The shoes at first handed to her not answering, she turned round in the shop for an in- stant to ask for another pair, and on again turning back she missed her money; the prisoner was at the door, and a lady who was in the shop at the time said she was of opi- nion that she must have taken the money, and advised her to have her apprehended; she accordingly did so, and the money was found in lier bosom. Mr. George Redfern said, although the prisoner was very young she was a most expert thief; she had been repeatedly in custody, and was quite an incorrigible. The mother of the prisoner, presented herself to the bench and expressed her regret that her daughter was so unfortu- nate, and asked the magistrates to forgive her. Harrison, the street- keeper, said he believed if it were not for the mother the girl would not be a thief; the father and mother were notorious drunkards, and she encouraged the girl to steal. The prisoner was committed, and the mother left the office; she was brought back, however, in a few minutes, charged with creating a disturbance in the street, and she was ordered to find sureties, and in default was locked up. Mary Richardson, one of the unfortunates, was charged with robbing a man named Henry Thomas of seven shillings and sixpence. The prisoner met the prosecutor in Water- loo street on Saturday night, and whilst in conversation with liim, she contrived to extract the money out of his pocket and make lier escape. She was taken into custody by a watchman, and the money was found upon her. She was committed to the sessions. Esther Ross, an old sinner, advancing to seventy years of age, was charged with passing counterfeit money. Mr. James Taberner, butcher, of Broad- street, said, that on Saturday the prisoner came to his shop and purchased meat which came to one shilling and fourpence- halfpenny, and in payment she handed a two shilling and sixpenny piece; he saw it was bad, and asked her where she got it; she said she received it from a woman, but she did not know her name; he then said he would give her into custody; upon which she begged ha would let her go, and said it would be the death of her if she was sent to prison ; he how- ever gave her into custody, because lie had reason to believe that she had lately passed more than one bad half- crown upon him. Mr. John Watts, butcher, of William- street, Five- ways, stated, that on the previous Thursday the prisoner came to his shop, and in payment of meat gave him a bad half- crown piece, and he gave her the change; about three months ago she passed another at his shop, but she was not suspected until Mr. Taberner had her apprehended. Mr. George Redfern said the prisoner was an old offender, and were it not that the mint laws had lately been altered, he had no doubt ( old as she was) she would have been transported. The prisoner was committed to the sessions. A young man named Watkins, was charged with an as- sault upon Mrs. Dolan, landlady of a retail brewery in Smithfield- street. Mrs. Dolan stated that the prisoner and a female came into her house on the previous Friday, and called for a pint of ale; they were served with it, and they had another, for which they paid; a man named Chester came in, and a disturbance took place between the parties, upon which she went and said they must have no more drink; the prisoner then took up the pint vessel, threw it at her, and struck her in the mouth, and cut her in a dreadful manner. The prisoner said he had no intention of striking Mrs. Dolan; the fact was Chester had ill used him, and it was at him he threw the pot, and not at Mrs. Dolan. The parties were allowed to settle the matter; they re- tired for that purpose and did not return. The complainant's face exhibited a frightful appearance. Charles Atfield and Samutl Hitchins were charged with an assault upon John Smith, a bailiff's officer. Smith, on being sworn, stated that he had received an execution to enter the houses of the prisoners, and that of a man named Cooper. In pursuance of his warrant, he and two others went into Cooper's house, to 6eize upon the goods, and whilst they were there the prisoners caine in, began to abuse them, and asked him if he was not ashamed of himself to come there and take the goods of poor people who were hungry. They then began to beat and ill use them, and they were obliged to defend themselves. The prisoner, Atfield, then ran out of the house and went to an adjoining mill, where he collected twenty or thirty men and boys, and brought them to the house. As many of the party entered the house, and began to beat him and his companions to that degree that they were confined to their beds. There was altogether a regular upset in the neigh- bourhood. Hundreds were collected, and it was with diffi- culty he and his brother officers escaped with their lives. Atfield then produced his clothes, which were covered with blood, and exhibited his face and arms, which bore ample proof of the heat of the action in which he had been engaged. Atfield, in his defence, said he did not strike the officers until they commenced beating him and others with their sticks. Hitchins also denied having struck the complainant until he was assaulted by them, and said he had witnesses who could depose to that effect. A woman and man were then called, who swore that Smith and his companions first assaulted the prisoners. On being cross- examined, it would appear they had not been in a situation at the commencement of the affray to be able to see who was the aggressor. The magistrates said they were of opinion the assault was proved. If, however, the parties could settle the case, they would have no objection. The prisoners and the complainant retired, and the former said they could not pay the sum required. Atfield said he had eight children, all depending upon him for bread, and he had been twenty weeks out of work. The complainant said he wished the case settled by the magistrates. It was next to an impossibility for him or any other officer to discharge his duty unless protected. The magistrates ordered the prisoners to pay 40s. each and costs, and, in default of payment, to be committed for one month, and to be^ ept to haul labour. Elizabeth Weston was charged with having obtained goods under false representations. The prisoner had lived servant to Mr. Mayou, and after she left him she went to his butcher's, and obtained meat in his name. Mr. Mayou did not appear against her, and she was dis- charged. CHARGE or FORGERY— Mr. Partridge, maltster, appeared to answer a charge of forgery, brought against him by the proprietors of the Birmingham branch of the Rugeley and famworth Bank, Mr. Barrow, manager of tile bank, stated, that on the 2nd. of March last Mr. Partridge came to the bank, and pre- sented to him a bill, which he requested to liave placed to his account. It purported to be drawn upon and signed by Henry Caldicott, of the Old Rodney, in Coleshill- street. He gave him money on account of the bill, the signature to which had since been denied. Mr. Caldicott was then examined, and swore as follows : The handwriting of the bill now produced is not mine ; I never authorised any man to sign it for me ; I never saw it until it was presented to me, alter it had been cashed at the bank ; I know Mr. Partridge; he had many bills from me, but not that one ; Mrs. Partridge lias signed bills for me, and my brewer has signed bills on my account; Mrs. Partridge is not here ; the brewer is. Perkins, the brewer, was then called, and swore as fol- lows : I was brewer for Mr. Partridge in the month of March last, and for two years before ; I have been in the habit of signing bills for Mr. Partridge; I have signed seven or eight; perhaps twenty times I have done so; 1 have no memorandum of any of the bills so signed; the bill now produced was signed by me, and by the authority of Mr. Caldicott; Mr. Partridge came to Mr. Caldicott's house for a bill, and there was a bill drawn, but it was drawn wrong, and it was put in the fire ; Mr. Caldicott then told me to go out and buy another stamp, and sign a bill for Mr. Caldicott, and I did so. Mr. Partridge said he had had dealings with Mr. Caldi- cott, and received from him, at various times, bills signed by his wife and his brewer; he understood from him he could not write, and that be consequently allowed them to sign for him; he called for the bill in question, which was drawn to accommodate Mr. Caldicott, and when it was handed to him he found it was not written in a negotiable manner, and he put it into the fire, upon which Mr. Caldi- cott desired the brewer to sign another, as had been stated. Mr. Caldicott, in answer to questions by Mr. Spurrier, said, he owed Mr. Partridge about 20/., but he had had notli'ng to do with the bill. The magistrates said, they must certainly dismiss the charge against Mr. Partridge, and so far as the case appeared, he left the court perfectly free from any imputation. ' Mr. Borrow said he had another charge to prefer against Mr. Partridge, on the ground of another bill. He was not, however, then prepared with his witnesses, and wished the case to stand over until Thursday. The magistrates consented; and Mr. Partridge was allowed to depart on promising to attend. A bad character named Millwood was charged with rescu- ing two thieves when in custody. A young man named Joseph Taylor stated, that on the 26th of last month he was going along a lane at Saltley, and when near Mr. Hobday's house he saw two young men carrying some dung from the middle of the road to the hedge. He watched them, and on their going a little way off he examined the place, and found they had been conceal- ing two turkeys which had just been killed. He gave in- formation to Mr. Hobday, and that gentleman and he went after the men and took them into custody. As they were conveying them to prison they met the prisoner and two others, who immediately attacked him and Mr. Hobday, and rescued the prisoners from them. Mr. Hobday said he had been seriously injured by the party, and obliged to obtain medical assistance. The prisoner was committed. A labourer named Dunn, who had been employed at the New Church, Edgbaston, was committed for stealing a quantity of lead from the building. ( In the Private Room, before J. Webster and J. Scholefield, Esqrs., and Dr. Booth.) Mr. Thomas Maries, retail brewer, was summoned for keeping open his house after the hour allowed by the magis- trates. Weston, the officer, proved the offence, but on being cross examined by Mr. Edmonds, he could not swear that the defendant's house was in the parish of Birmingham, the parish laid in the information. Mr. Edmonds then submitted that the house was situated in the parish of Aston, and that the irregularity was fatal to the information. The magistrates admitted the validity of the objection, and dismissed the complaint, but on the advice of Mr. Gem, the magistrates' clerk, Weston laid another information, to be heard at a future day. Mr. M'Corley and Mr. John Stagg pleaded guilty to informations against them, and were fined 40s. each, and costs. Mr. Samuel Piper appeared on an information laid by Eaves, the informer. A fellow named Brett was called to prove the offence, and swore that at twenty minutes past ten o'clock, on the night of the 23rd of September, he went into the defendant's house and had a glass of ale at the bar; there was not any person in the tap- room, but there were many persons, perhaps twelve, above in the club- room. The house door was open when he went up to it, and he had nothing to do but walk in. A woman named Ashbourn was called, and on being ex- amined by Mt. Edmonds, she swore positively just the reverse of the infoimer, and the information was dismissed. Mrs. Phillips, against whom the same fellow laid an in- formation, was not so fortunate. He swore he purchased a glass of ale at her house on Sunday morning, the 1st inst. She was unable to disprove the charge, and was fined 40s. and costs. The next charge was against Mr. Samuel Glover. Brett swore as follows: I went to the defendant's house on Satur- day evening, the 30th of September, and at half- past ten o'clock, I was served with half- a- pint of ale, and saw eleven other persons served whilst I stopped. I can't 6wear positively whether the sign of ths house is the Sun or the Star. Mrs. Elizabeth Cooper, an elderly and apparently a re- spectable woman, sworn : I was in the Sun retail- brewery on the night in question, and can positively swear the house was closed at ten o'clock, and no ale was sold after that hour. The case was dismissed. Mr. Abraham Fullwood was fined 40s. and costs. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12. ( Before R. Spooner, J. Towers Lawrence, and Wm. Blake- way, Esqrs.) Henry Smalley was charged with cruelly beating and otherwise ill- treating a mare, belonging to Mr. Munro, of Ladywell Baths. Mr. Munro stated that Smalley had lately been a groom in his service. On the second instant he sent him to ride his mare for a short distance, and with express directions that he should give her nothing more than gentle exercise. On his leturn home through Bromsgrove- street, he met him driving the mare in the most cruel manner. He cut her under the belly with the whip, and drew the blood in several places. He curbed her with the bit, and beat her about the head until her face was covered with lumps, and the poor animal exhibited altogether a wretched ap- pearance. He spoke to him about his misconduct, upon which he began to abuse and d n him, and still persisted in beating the mare. Smalley, in his defence, said he had broken the mare, and that she was so restive he was obliged to keep her down. On one occasion she kicked his leg. In answer to questions by the magistrates, Mr. Munro swore he had given him positive orders to give the mare gentle exercise, and that there was no necessity for his cruelty towards her. The magistrates orded Smalley to pay 10s., and 9s. costs, and in default of payment to be committed to the House of Correction ( or fourteen days. DRUNKENNESS— A young man named John King, was charged with drunkenness. One of the street- keepers said he had been'called upon the day before by some soldiers, to take the prisoner into custody. He had enlisted that morn- ing, got regularly mad drunk, stripped every article of clothing of his person, and was obliged to be tied hands and feet. The soldiers had promised to appear against him, but they had not yet come. William Hall, the officer, said the prisoner was married only a fortnight ago, and he had hardly been sober since that time. The magistrate said as the soldiers had not appeared, they would discharge him. On the complaint of Mr. Bynner, vestry clerk, James Taijlor was committed for one month, to hard labour, for refusing to work. Mr. Bynner stated that the prisoner appeared to have carried on a regular traffic upon the workhouse. Five times he had been taken into the house, and five times he went out and sold liis clothes, and returned all but naked and in a filthy condition. When in the house, he would not work or contribute in any way towards his support, although strong and well able. George Terry was committed to the sessions for stealing from the person of Ann Rice, three sovereigns. The prosecutrix keeps a house of ill- fame in Vale- street. On the 19th of August the prisoner went into her house, and whilst he was sitting on a sofa with her, he picked her pocket of the money. William Parhes was charged with an assault upon Mr. Bryan Crumpton. The complainant stated that oil Tues- day night between eleven and twelve o'clock, he was walk- ing with a young lady in Summer- row, when the prisoner came up to liim and grossly insulted him and the lady; he told him to pass on, but he would not, and continued abus- ing and insulting him. He then called the watchman and gave the prisoner into custody, upon which he turned round and struck him ( Mr. Crompton) a violent blow upon the face. Two watchmen and some of the officers spoke to the prisoner's general violent conduct. He was fined twenty shillings and costs, and in default of payment was committed for one month. Henry Walker, an apprentice to Mr. Collins, was com- mitted to prison for one month and to to be whipped, for ne- glecting his work and general misconduct. Messrs. Bretherton, coach proprietors, appeared on sum- mons for obstructing that part of High- street opposite their office. Mr. Hutton, one of the commissioners, represented to the magistrates that the defendants were in the habit of allowing their coaches to stand in the street a longer time than was allowed by the street act. The shopkeepers ad- joining and near the coach office were greatly annoyed, and the commissioners in justice to them and the public were compelled to insist upon an abatement of the nuisance. If the person who had attended on the part of the proprietors would plead guilty, and give a positive promise that the coaches would not be suffered to obstruct tbe street in future, he should recommend the magistrates to inflict a small penalty. The clerk, who represented the defendants, said, the ob- struction had been unavoidable, but it would not take place in future. The magistrates ordered the defendants to pay forty shillings, adding that if they were summoned again, they certainly would inflict the full penalty of five pounds. A boy named Field, was committed for stealing aquantity of files, the property of Messrs. Messenger, of Broad- street. Thomas Parman proved that the prisoner worked in the manufactory; that on Tuesday morning last he missed one dozen of large files from the warehouse, in consequence of which he made inquiries, and received such information as induced him to suspect the prisoner. He sent for him, and on interrogating him he acknowledged he had stolen them, and sold them at the shop of Mr. St. Clair, in Dudley- street, Mr. Newby, a foreman in the factory, proved the finding of the files in Mr. St. Clair's house. Lydia Carr, a servant of St. Clair's, and who had been taken into custody for buying the files, knowing ' them to have been stolen, but who was'afterwards admitted evidence, proved that the prisoner sold the files to her as old iron. The prisoner admitted the robbery, and said he had sold 35^ 1bs. at St. Clair's, and received only two shillings and elevenpence. He was committed to the sessions, Mr. Spooner observing that the girl who purchased the property had better be cautious in future. A woman who gave her name Mary Ellis, and said she was a native of the North of Ireland, was charged with fortune- telling. As the day was far advanced, and the case likely to occupy some time, she was remanded until Mon- day next. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14. ( Before Richard Spooner, Esq.) Mr. Thomas Partridge, jun., maltster, of Legge- street, appeared to answer another charge of forgery. Mr. Barrow stated, that the prisoner, from the early part of the piesent year, kept an account with the Rugeley and Tamworth Bank. On the 9th of March last he paid into the bank three promissory notes, one of which he then pro- duced. It purported to be drawn upon a man named John Hewlett, retail brewer, of Navigation- street, signed by him, and endorsed by the prisoner; the prisoner received cash for it, minus the discount. It was presented for payment in due course, dishonoured and returned, and notice thereof was sent to the prisoner's house in Legge- street. For some weeks after the bill became due, lie could not see the pri- soner, nor hear anything about him, until perchance he met him in tile street. He then asked him why he had not called upon him; to which the prisoner replied he was afraid to call, and he then gave him Howlett's address and directed him to call upon him for the money. He accord- ingly went to Howlett's house and saw him, and asked him about the bill, when he denied all knowledge of it, and said it was a forgery. Mr. Borrow was cross- examined by R. Webb, Esq., soli- citor, who attended on the part of the prisoner, but his evidence was not shaken. He said he was quite free to ad- mit that when the prisoner said to him in the street, that he was afraid to go to the bank, he might have meant that he was afraid of being arrested. Indeed, at the time he could not suspect any other fear could have operated upon the pri- soner, because he had at that time no knowledge that the bill was a forgery. He could not swear positively whether the prisoner received the cash for the bill, or whether it was paid to another person for him; he could swear that he vir- tually paid the money for the bill in question, because no other person in the bank had power to order payment of approved bills except himself; according to the custom of the house he must have seen the bill and ordered payment of it. John Howlett examined: He was a painter, and kept a retail brewery in Navigation street; there was no other per- son of the same name in the street. He had examined the note then produced, and he could say no part of it had been written by him, nor did he ever authorise any person to draw up or sign it for liim. The moment he heard of the forgery he went to the bank, and told them of it. He had had dealings with the prisoner for malt, and had given him about four notes altogether in payment; he recollected hav- ing asked him to draw the body of two notes, but he never gave him authority to draw or sign the one in question. Cross- examined by Mr. Webb: He apprised the bank of of the forgery when the clerk called upon him; that was about six weeks or two months ago ; the reason why he did not take any steps against the prisoner was, because the bank did not press him; if the bank would not take pro- ceedings against him, he would not go against the prisoner; his object in giving evidence against the prisoner was not for the purpose of shifting the responsibility of the bill from his own shoulders; he recollected the prisoner and Mr. Emery calling upon him a few days ago ; he was very friendly with the prisoner, drew some of the best ale he had in the house, and treated him, told him he was sorry it was not good; told him lie was the best friend he ever had, and was willing still to say so, if he had not forged bills upon him ; he did not recollect taking money to the prisoner's house in March, in part payment of a bill, could not be positive as to the fact; he meant to swear positively he never paid or offered part payment to the prisoner of any forged bill. Mr. WEBB submitted there was no case made out upon which the prisoner could be committed. His answer to the charge was, the prisoner paid the bill into the bank, but that Howlett gave him authority to use his name. In support of this answer, he would only refer to the evidence of How- lett, from which it was plain that there was an under- standing between them. Mr. Spooner said there could be no doubt that accommo- dation bills had passed between them. Still there was the fact clearly proved, that the prisoner paid in the bill and received cash lor it, and there was a distinct disavowal of the signature. In his opinion, it was a case for a jury to decide, and he should commit the prisoner. Mr. Webb applied to have the prisoner adm'tted to bail. Mr. Spooner said he had no objection, provided it was very good and sufficient. The prisoner was removed, in order to afford him time to enter into the necessary sureties. HORSE STEALING.— Francis Brindley was charged with horse stealing. Mr. Pye, landlord of the Black Horse, Banbury- street, stated that on the 27th of last month, he was lead- ing a cart mare up Bradford- street, when the prisoner asked liim what the mare was worth. He replied about £ 14, and walked on, without saying anymore. He then took the mare diiect to a forge, and told the farrier to shoe her, and when lie had done so, to take lier home. In the course of a short time after, lie had occasion to go to Walsall, and did not return until Sunday, when he found that almost immediately after he left Birmingham, the farrier brought home his mare, and in the course of the evening the prisoner called, and having indirectly represented to his man that he had purchased the mare, he obtained her oi I of the stable, and took her away. He gave information of the robbery, and Mr. Beck, constable, traced the mare to the Birmingham and London railway, where she was em- ployed by an excavator, of the name of Hartland, who said he bought her from the prisoner. He got possession of his mare, and went in search of the prisoner to Worcester, where he found him in his father's house, and after some resistance took him into custody. He had a slight know- ledge of the prisoner, but was quite positive he had no fur- ther conversation with him the day he met him with the mare. Mr. Beck proved the finding the mare; and Mr. Pye's hostler proved that the prisoner obtained the mare from him, upon the representation that he had purchased the mare from his master. The prisoner denied having stolen the mare. He was committed. Various other persons appeared against the prisoner, and charged him with divers frauds. Mr. Hopkins, of Belmont- row, lepresented that he had called on him last week, and favoured him with an order for thirteen bags of beans, which was duly executed, and for which he was to have received prompt payment. The goods were speedily resold, and the money pocketed by the prisoner. Mr. Charles Coleman, of King's Norton, stated that he bad sent, per boat, 5£ tons of hay to Birmingham. His servant, Laurence Twist, was waited upon by the prisoner at the wharf, who bought the liay from him at a good price. He removed five tons, which he immediately sold, leaving his man in care of the other half ton, until he re- turned with the cash. Mr, Hopkins, of Upton, was also gulled out of five tons of hay; and Martin, the informer, was favoured with an order for some bran. The prisoner is a young man, but has been a prisoner in Worcester gaol for similar offences. He is one of a gang of horse- dealing swindlers, by which the town has been lately infested. 6 THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, OCTOBER 14. 3 LITERATURE. THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN REVIEW.— RELIGIOUS TOLERATION.— Bancroft's History of America, a book which we have not seen, but which, from the ap- parent discriminate praise bestowed upon it by the reviewer, deserves to be extensively known, furnishes an opportunity for stating some facts of the compara- tive liberality of various religious parties, which are certainly not quite consonant with generally received opinions. Not many readers M ill be prepared to learn that amongst the religious sects by which the United States were successively colonised, the Catholics alone understood and practised the principles of toleration in its largest sense, and that the head of these Catho- lics was an Irish peer. And it is 110 compliment, cer- tainly, to the Protestant settlers, that not only were their earliest law s disgraced by religious disabilities, but that they enforced their narrow and contracted views, by the persecution of their most enlightened and worthy members. Another feature in the colonies originally Catholic, some persons will be as little prepared to hear— the love of democratic institutions which the original settlers infused into their posterity, and which they equally evinced in their own conduct. Although, a priori, it might be expected of a religion in which the entire laity is compared with the priest- hood, considered to be on one level of equality, and where, moreover, the connection of the priest and the people has so much more of a personal and peculiar character, than in many other denominations of Chris- tianity, that aleaning towards popular government was a natural consequence, it is nevertheless a very gene- rally received opinion, that the Catholic religion is the religion of monarchy, par excellence, and in its working, more favourable to the power and pretensions of the few than to the interests of the many. The history of America entirely refutes this opinion. The Catholic clergy of the United Strates has never attempted to oppose this political, tendency, but it seeks rather to justify its results. The priests in America have divided the intellectual world into two parts; in the one they place the doctrines of revealed religion, which com- mand their assent; in the other they leave those truths which they believe to have been freely left open to the re- searches of political inquiry. Thus the Catholics of the United States are at the same time the most faithful believers and the most zealous citizens. In tracing the history of the early settlers, and the character which they impressed 011 the colonies, the reviewer, following Mr. Bancroft, distributes the settlers into three groups. 1st. Those who colonised Virginia. 2nd. Those who colonised Maryland. 3. The Pilgrim fathers, as they are happily designated in Mrs. Hemans's ode,* of the New England states. On the 16th of December, 1606, the first embarkation of persons destined to remain in America set sail from Eng- land ; the number of these was one hundred and five, of whom only twelve were labourers, and very few mechanics. As might have been expected, the attempt was a failure. In the year 1609, James granted a second charter, by which Lord Delaware was appointed Governor and Captain- General of Virginia for life. Great numbers of persons desired to emigrate under this patent, and assisted by the public enthusiasm, which seemed almost to have grown out of former disappointments, ample means were found to fit out a fleet of nine vessels, in which upwards of five hundred persons embarked. The results of this expedition were not less disastrous than those of the other: these were not the men destined to b come the sires of American citizens: " the emigrants of the last arrival were dissolute gallants, packed off to escape worse destinies at home, broken trades- men, gentlemen impoverished in spirit and fortune, rakes and libertines, men more fitted to corrupt than to found a commonwealth, ' it was not the will of God that the new state should be formed of such materials; that such men should be the fathers of a progeny, born on the American soil, who were one day to assert American liberty by their eloquence and defend it by their valour." The attempt was on the point of being abandoned ; the colonists were suffering extreme hardships, augmented by disunion and internal jealousies; the climate was unwhole some to men in their helpless condition ; numbers were dying from disease and starvation. The few whom death and desertion had left at Jamestown were in the act of departing, with the intention of joining the fishing stations of Newfoundland, when they were met by Lord de la Ware himself, coming up the river with new emigrants and abundant supplies. Hope revived for a time; but the health of Lord de la Ware sinking under the diseases of the country and the cares of his station, he too was obliged to return to England, leaving the colony in a disastrous con- dition, and the number of settlers reduced to about two Hundred. One of the results of these calamities was a great re- action in the popular mind in England : " in the age when the theatre was the chief place of public amuse- ment and resort, Virginia was introduced by the stage- poets as a theme of scorn and derision." But there were spirits who never despaired of success even in moments of the greatest discomfiture; among such was Sir Thomas Dale, whose letters to the council in England, while they acknow- ledged the small number and the weakness of the colonists, yet breathed a spirit of undying hope in the future destinies of Virginia. " Ifanything otherwise than well betide me ,' said he, " let me commend unto your carefulness the pursuit and dignity of this business, than which your purses and endeavours will never open nor travel in a more meritorious enterprise. Take four of the best kingdoms in Christen- dom, and put them altogether, they may no way compare with this country, either for commodities or goodness of soil." The remonstrances of Dale, backed by the interest of Lord de la Ware, were the means of obtaining relief for the settlers; so prompt, indeed, was the assistance, that the * This beautiful ode, for it is worthy that title, has been set to music by the poetess'sister. Our readers will not, we feel assured, be displeased to see the words here ; if we had the necessary types we would give the melody also, which is simple and beautiful. THE HLGRIM FATHERS. The breaking waves dashed high, On a stern and rock- bound coast; And the woods against a stormy sky, Their giant branches tossed. And the heavy night hung dark, The hills and waters o'er ; When a band of exiles moored their bark, On the wild New England shore. Not as the conqueror comes, They, the true- hearted; came ; Not with the roll of the stirring drums, Or the trumpet that sings of fame. Not as the flying come, In silence and In fear ; They shook the depths of the desert gloora, With their hymus of lofty cheer I Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard and the sea; And the sounding aisles of the dim wood rang To the anthem of the free! The ocean eagle sotred From its nest, by the white waves' foam ; And the rocking pines of the forest roared ; This was their welcome home! What sought they thus afar ? Bright jewels of the mine ? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war ? They sought a faith's pure shrine. Aye! call it holy ground, The spot where once they trod! They have left unstained what there they found-* Freedom to worship GodI fleet as it approached was mistaken for a hostile lorce by those to whom it was carrying hope and the means of exist- ence. The number of the colonists was now greatly in- creased; a new settlement was founded, to which was given the name of Henrico, after Prince Henry, the eldest son of James 1.; a better discrimination was used in the selec- tion of emigrants, and a large supply of live cattle was landed in the colony. But of all the elements of prosperity now so happily introduced, the most important were the establishment of the right of private property, instead of the joint- stock system which had been acted upon hitherto, and the introduction of the democratic principle into the government of the colony. The nature of the political institutions of this happy land— self- governed from the first, and therefore well governed, are thus stated by Mr. Bancroft. Virginia was the first state in the world composed of separate townships, diffused over an extensive surface, where the government was organised 011 the principle of universal suffrage. All freemen, without excep'ion, were entitled to vote. An attempt was once made to limit the right to housekeepers; but the public voice reproved the restriction ; the very next year it was decided to be " bard and unagreeable to reason that any person shall pay equal taxes and yet have 110 votes in elections; and the electoral franchise was restored to all freemen. Servants, when the time of their bondage was completed, at once became elec- tors, and might be chosen burgesses. Thus Virginia established upon her soil the supremacy of the popular branch, the freedom of trade, the independence of religious societies, the security from foreign taxation, and the universal elective franchise. If in following years she de- parted from either of these principles, and yielded a reluctant consent to change, it was from the influence of foreign authority. Virginia had herself established a nearly inde- pendent democracy; prosperity advanced with freedom; dreams of new staples and infinite wealth were indulged, while the population of Virginia at the epoch of the Resto- ration may have been about thirty thousand. Many of the recent emigrants had been royalists in England, good officers in the war, men of education, of property, and of condition. But the waters of the Atlantic divided them from the political strifes of Europe; their industry was employed in making the best advantage of their plantations; the interests and liberties of Virginia, the land which they adopted as their country, were dearer to them than the monarchical principles which they had espoused in England; anil therefore no bitterness could exist between the parti- sans of the Stuarts and the friends of republican liberty. Virginia had long been the home of its inhabitants. " Among other blessings," said their statute book, " God Almighty hath vouchsafed increase of children to this colony, who are now multiplied to a considerable number;" and the huts in the wilderness were as full as the bird- nests in the woods. This is a pleasant exemplification of the danger of universal suffrage, 011 which some politicians are so fond of dwelling. The virgin land was settled by high churchmen, who hetd the exclusion of Catholics from office to be a necessary safeguard of freedom. When Sir George Calvert ( afterwards the first Lord Baltimore) attempted to settle there, the first act of the zealous colonists was to tender to him the oaths of allegiance and su- premacy, without subscribing to which he could not be allowed to remain in the colony as a private citizen. It is a lamentable fact, that these degrading oaths continued to be tendered to every Catholic aspirant for high office in the mother country, down to so late a period as 1829. The colonies had learned wisdom somewhat earlier. Lord Baltimore, excluded from Virginia, was driven to plan a settlement to the north of the Potowmac. The plan was carried out by his son, and the flourishing state of Maryland was the happy consequence. The founder of Maryland was not careful of religious freedom only— Lord Baltimore took care that his new colony should be effectually separated from its high- church intolerant neigh- bour; he secured its perfect independence of the throne in England ; he was not required " to obtain the royal assent to the appointments or legislation of his province, nor even to make a communication of the results;" the plantation was completely exempted from English taxation. The liberality of the government suffered but one, and that a partial, interruption from the Puritans during the Commonwealth, who attempted by the enactment of penal laws, to deprive their Catholic fellow- citizens of the franchise they had so well pur- chased and so nobly used. It is pleasant to find such an event as the restoration of the unworthy Charles not altogether destitute of good. It delivered the liberal religionists of Maryland, from the persecuting bigotry of their narrow- minded brethren. The re- viewer, with great truth, remarks- One of the great advantages gained by the circulation of books like Mr. Bancroft's history, is the diffusion of a tole- rant spirit in matters of belief. All nations have a deep in- terest in the substitution of a pure sentiment of religion, the fruits ol which are charity and peace, for the wicked pretence which exhibits its piety in loud and incessant pro- fession, but yields only the bitter fruits of intolerance, per- secution, debasement, and crime. The bigots of all sects have produced, and are still producing, much misery to mankind; and we do not hesitate to avow our conviction, that no nation can hope to prosper where a considerable party are so imperfectly educated, as to believe that they are serving God by denying to their countrymen the rights of conscience. It is, we fear, the union of religion with the temporal authority that is the root of the evil. The volume now before us shows how the Puritan, who had himself suf- fered for conscience' sake, was scarcely less guilty of perse- cution when he obtained power, than the Churchman, whose haughty intolerance taught him to despise all creeds but his own. The mild spirit of Christianity has never benefitted by this connection; but we find, 011 the contrary, that sects, which in their alliance with temporal greatness, had de- parted most widely from the precepts and practice of true religion, were the first, under different circumstances, to carry the free spirit of the Gospel, the democracy of the New Testament, into full and beneficial operation. In the case now before us, we see that Catholics, as Catholics, are not intolerant; nor would it be difficult to prove, that more enlightened lawgivers, braver soldiers, bolder patriots, or better citizens, are nowhere to be found, than among the Catholics of these as well as of the other kingdoms of Europe. Penn is not the only man to whom the quaint com- pliment of Voltaire is applicable— that his treaty with the Indians was tl5? only one 011 record which was not sanctioned by an oath, and which had never been broken. Lord Baltimore's treaty with the Indians seems to have been conceived in the same simple fashion, and it was certainly observed with the same confiding fidelity on both sides— When Lord Baltimore arrived with his followers on the spot where soon afterwards he laid the foundation of the village of St. Mary's, he observed that the Indians, by whom the land had been occupied, were engaged in a voluntary migration to the interior of the country, and this, we imaj gine, was one of his inducements for selecting that place for the site of his plantation. The Indians had suffered se- verely from the vicinity of the warlike tribe of the Susque- htnnalis; and it was easy, therefore, for the strangers, " by presents of cloth and axes, of hoes and knives, to gain the good- will of the natives, and to purchase their rights to the soil they were preparing to abandon. They readily gave consent that the English should immediately occupy one half of their town, and after the harvest should become the exclusive tenants of the whole. Mutual promises ot friend- ship and peace were made; so that, upon the 27th day of March, the Catholics took quiet possession of the litile place; and religious liberty obtained a home, its only hon e i 1 the wide world, at the humble village which bore the name of St. Mary's." Here we perceive, that in their very first act, the policy of the emigrants was in strict conformity with the dictates of kindness and morality ; they acknow- ledged the rights of the natives and successfully cultivated a friendly intercourse with them. " The Indian women laugbt the wives of the new comers to make bread with maize; the warriors of the tribe instructed the huntsmen how rich were the forests of America in game, and joined them in the chase." There was one^ exception to the liberal tenor of the laws of the Marylanders— the penalty of death was denounced against such religionists as denied the di- vinity of Christ, or the doctrine of the Trinity. It does not appear that any penalty was ever dreamed of for the denial of Christianity altogether. The only palliation that this plain departure from principle and consistency admits of, is, the fact that the law was never acted on. The most romantic part of Mr. Bancroft's narrative is that which respects the pilgrim fathers, the subject of the third class in his three- fold division. The " pil- grims" trace their rise to the north of England. They were a considerable body in Elizabeth's time. From the persecutions that they endured under that princess and her successor, they were first induced to flee to Holland for an asylum. It was not until after a residence of a dozen of years there, that their atten- tion was turned to the wilderness of the far west; nor was it without long negociation and hard conditions that they obtained permission to transport themselves thither— Having held asolemn fast, and prayed that God would show them " a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for our substance," they set out from Leyden for Delft- Haven. " The pilgrims were accompanied by most of the brethren from Leyden to Delft- Haven, where the night was passed ' in friendly and Christian converse.' As the morning dawned, ltobinson, kneeling in prayer by the seaside, gave to their embarkation the sanctity of a religious rite." They proceeded from Delft to Southamplon; and in about a fortnight, the Mayflower and the Speedwell, freighted with the first colony for New England, set sail for America. The emigrants amounted to about one hundred and fifty persons, including women and children. Their object was to form a settlement on the banks of the Hudson ; but after having encountered all the disasters of the ocean, aggravated by the treachery and cowardice of their captain, which com- pelled them to return and leave one of tneir vessels in England, the passengers in the Mayflower were compelled to land on the bleak shores of New England. They arrived about the middle of November, and the approach of the severe winter of North America, taught them that they must lose no time in selecting the site of their future plan- tation. Their shallop required repair, and seventeen days were expended in putting it in order. At length, on the 6th of December, a small party set out on an exploring voyage; " the cold was severe, the spray of the sea froze as it fell upon them, and made their clothes like coats of iron." An attack, which they succeeded, however* in repelling, was made upon them by a tribe of Indians. They were nearly lost in a storm, and their rudder, mast, and sails, were car- ried away. Compelled to trust to Providence for their pro- tection, they were floated in the midst of darkness and lain, and the fury of the winds, into a sound, where disregarding the danger of an attack from the natives, they lighted fires and resolved to pass the night. " Morning, as it dawned, showed the placg to be a small island within the entrance of a harbour. The day was re- quired for rest and preparations. Time was precious; the season advancing; their companions were left in suspense. The next day was the Christian Sabbath.' Nothing marks the character of the pilgrims more fully, than that they kept it sacredly, though every consideration demanded haste." Page 337. On Monday, the eleventh day of December, the exploring party of the fathers landed upon a rock at the spot where the town of Plymouth now stands. That rock is pointed out with pride to the traveller by the descendants of the Puritans, and fragments of it are piously preserved in the cabinets of American citizens. " This rock," M. de Tocqueville beautifully observes, " is become an object of veneration in the United States. I have seen bits of it carefully preserved in several towns of the Union. Does not this sufficiently show that all human power and greatness is in the soul of man ? Here is a stone which the feet of a few outcasts pressed for an instant, and this stone is become famous; it is treasured by a great na- tion, its very dust is shared as a relic: and what is become of the gateway of a thousand palaces ?" The bigotry and tyranny of Laud contributed greatly to swell their numbers, and the colony had very soon a flourishing aspect. It is passing strange, and would almost serve to verify the remark of an eminent writer— that 110 man ever became a martyr, who would not; under other circumstances, make martyrs of his fellows— that grievously as the " pilgrims" had suffered, under laws passed for the purpose of estab- lishing a general conformity in religious matters ; and though but just emancipated, by a voluntary exile, from their operation, they should no sooner be fairly settled down in their new home, than they should proceed to pass regulations for its government, in spirit and in letter, the very same as those of which they had, themselves been the victims. • Such, however, was the case, and it is deserving- of notice, and ought to be a lesson of moderation to mo- dern zealots, if such men ever listened to a lesson of moderation, that in the Catholic state of Maryland, the Puritan of Massachusetts, and the Protestant of Vir- ginia, whom the prosecuting spirit of his brethren had expelled from his home, found a quiet resting place and a safe asylum. The first man who had wisdom enough and firmness enough to protest against the penal laws of the " Pilgrims," deserves a longer notice than we can bestow upon him. The story of Robert Williams, as detailed by Mr. Bancroft, is strongly recommended by the reviewer for separate publication, and perhaps some spirited publisher may be found who will act 011 the recommendation. Williams was a minister, " godly and zealous, and having precious gifts." The best gifts he possessed were a clear head, a warm heart, and a love of freedom, as consistent as it was ardent. He was a Puritan and a fugitive from English persecu- tion; but his wrongs had not clouded his accurate under- standing; in the capacious recesses of his mind lie had re- volved the nature of intolerance, and he, and he alone, had arrived at the great principle which is its sole effectual re- medy. He announced his discovery under the simple pro- position of the sanctity of conscience. The civil magistrate should restrain crime, but never controul opinion; should punish guilt, but never violate the freedom of the soul. The doctrine contained within itself an entire reformation ot theological jurisprudence; it would blot from the statute- book the crime of non- conformity ; would quench the fires that persecution had so long kept burning; would repeal every law compelling attendance on public worship; would abolish tithes and all forced contributions to the mainte- nance of religion ; would give an equal protection to every form of religious faith; and never suffer the authority of the civil government to be enlisted against the mosque of the Mussulman, or the altar of the Fire- worshiper, against the Jewish synagogue or the Roman cathedral. » » * In the unwavering assertion of his views he never changed his position ; the sanctity of conscience was the great tenet which, with all its consequences, he defended as he first trod the shores of New England; and in his extreme old age it was the last pulsation of his heart. The people of Boston were little prepared for the re- ception of such opinions. The magistrates were in- dignant. Williams was denounced as a malignant. Since the world began, there has not appeared one active advocate of general freedom that has not been so denounced. The clergy were of course not slack. When were they P The ministers got together and declared any one worthy of banishment who should obstinately assert that " the civil magistrate might not intermeddle even to stop a church from apostasy and heresy;" the magistrates delayed action only that a committee of divines might have time to repair to Salem and deal with him and with the church in a church way. Meantime the people of Salem were blamed for their choice of a religious guide, and a tract of land to which they had a claim was withheld from tlism as punish- ment. The breach was therefore widened. To the ministers Williams frankly and temperately explained his doctrines ; and he was armed at all points for their defence. As his townsmen had lost their lands in consequence of their at- tachment to him, it would have been cowardice 011 his part to have abandoned them ; and the instinct of liberty led him again to the suggestion of a proper remedy. In con- junction with the church he wrote " letters of admonition unto al) the churches whereof any of the magistrates were members, that they might admonish the magistrates of their injustice." The church members alone were free- men ; Williams, in modern language, appealed to the people, and invited them to instruct their representatives to do justice to the citizens of Salem. This last act seemed flagrant treason ; and at the next general court Saletn was disfranchised till an ample apology for the letter should be made. The town acquiesced in its wrongs and submitted; not an individual remained willing to justify the letter of remonstrance ; the church of Wil- liams would not avow his great principle of the sanctity of conscience ; even his wife, under a delusive idea of duty, was for a season influenced to disturb the tranquillity of his home by her reproaches, Williams was left alone, absolutely alone. He removed first to Plymouth, and afterwards to a place called Seekonk. His ultimate resting- place was Rhode Island. It was in June that the lawgiver of Rhode Island with five companions embarked 011 the stream; a frail Indian canoe contained the foundev of an independent state and its earliest citizens. Tradition has marked the spring near which they landed ; it is the parent spot, the first inhabited nook of Rhode Island. To express his unbroken confi- dence in the mercies of God, he called the place Providence. " 1 desired," said he, it might be for a shelter for persons distressed for conscience." * * * The laud which was now occupied by Williams was within the territory of the Narragansett Indians; it was not long before an Indian deed from Canonicus and Miantonomah made him the un- disputed possessor of an extensive domain. Nothing dis- plays more clearly the character of Roger Williams than the use which he made of his acquisition of territory. The soil he could claim as " his own, as truly as any man's coat upon his back;" and he " reserved to himself not one foot of land, not one tittle of political power, more than he granted to servants and strangers." " He gave his lands and other estate to them that he thought most in want, until he gave all away." He chose to found a commonwealth in the un- mixed forms of a pure democracy, where the will of the majority should govern the state. Yet " only in civil things." God alone was respected as the ruler of conscience. To their more aristocratic neighbours it seemed as if these fugitives " would have 110 magistrates," for everything was as yet decided in convention of the people. This first sys- tem has had its influence on the whole political history of Rhode Island; in no state in the world, not even in the agricultural state of Vermont, has the magistracy so little power, or the representatives of the people so much. The annals of Rhode Island, if written in the spirit of philoso- phy, would exhibit the forms of society under a peculiar aspect; had the territory of the state corresponded to the importance and singularity of the principles of its early ex- istence, the world would have been filled with wonder at the phenomenon of its history. Rhode Island was subsequently, in consequence of a personal mission of its founder, erected into a separate colony. On his return, Williams secured, if it had been necessary, by letters from the Parliament, from any effects of the remaining ill will of his former townsmen, landed at Boston— A double triumph awaited Williamson his return to New England ; he arrived at Boston, and letters from the Par- liament ensured him a safe reception from those who had decred his banishment. But what honours awaited the successful negociator on his return to the province which he had founded ! As he reached Seekonk he found the water covered with a fleet of canoes; all Providence had come forth to welcome the return of its benefactor. Placed in the centre of his fellow- citizens, the group of boats started for the opposite shore; and as they paddled across the stream, Roger Williams, placed in the centre of his grateful fellow- citizens, and glowing with the purest joy, " was elevated and transported out of himself." We have dwelt long, and extracted freely from this able and liberal paper. The whole is worthy of an attentive perusal; as, indeed, are all the articles of the present number. We shall quote but one short para- graph more. The increasing power and consequcnce of Massachusetts had attracted the longing eyes of a superior class of emigrants. Even peers began to make inquiries, with a view to settlement there. The aristo- cratic spirit, however, was still strong. Theywould have an upper house. The states had but a single assembly, and that elective. The fathers of the colony were not altogether averse for the sake of such powerful friends to meet their desires in this way. But the lords went farther, they would have the upper house hereditary. To this the colonists gave a steady refusal. Where God ( said they) blesseth any blanch of any noble or generous family with a spirit and gifts fit for government, it would be a taking of God's name in vain to put such a talent under a bushel, and a sin against the honour of magistracy to neglect such in our public elections. But if God should not delight to furnish some of their posterity with gifts fit for ma- gistracy, we should expose them rather to reproach and pre- judice, and the commonwealth with them, than exalt them to honour, if we should call them forth, when God doth not, to public authority. Truly and well may the reviewer extend his con- cluding remark, in reference to the zeal, enlightened and honest, displayed by the New England states for the diffusion of education, to the history generally of these good and wise men—" Honour to the memory of the pure and good who have taught, by an im- perishable example, how the liberties of a nation may be nurtured and secured !" OLIVER TWIST CHAPTER XIV. (• Continued.) The Jew rubbed his hands, and, sitting down at the table, affected to laugh at the pleasantry of his friend,— obviously very ill at ease, however. " Grin away," said Sikes, replacing the poker, and survey- ing him with savage contempt; " grin away. You'll never have the laugh at me, though, unless it's behind a nightcap. I've got the upper hand over you, Fagin ; and, d— me, I'll keep it. There. If I go, you go; so take care of me." " Well, well, my dear," said the Jew, " I know all that; we— we— have a mutual interest, Bill,— a mutual interest." " Humph !" said Sikes, as if he thought the interest lay rather more on the Jew's side than on his. " Well, what have you got to say to me 1" " It's all passed safe through the melting- pot," replied Fagin, " and this is your share. It's rather more than it ought to be, my dear; but as I know you'll do me a good turn another time, and " " ' Stow that gammon," interposed the robber impatiently. " Where is it? Hand over." " Yes, yes, Bill; give me time, give me time," replied the Jew, soothingly. " Here it is— all safe." As he spoke, he drew forth an old cotton handkerchief from his breast, and, untying a large knot in one corner, produced a small brown- paper packet, which Sikes snatching from him, hastily opened, and proceeded to count the sovereigns it con- tained. ° " This is all, is it?" inquired Sikes. " All," replied the Jew. " You haven't opened the parcel and swallowed one or two as you come along, have you ?" inquired Sikes, suspi- ciously. " Don't put on a injured look at the question : you ve done it many a time. Jerk the tinkler." These words, in plain English, conveyed an injunction to ring the bell. It was answered by another Jew, younger than Fagin, but nearly as vile and repulsive in appearance. Bill Sikes merely pointed to the empty measure, and the Jew, perfectly understanding the hint, retired to fill it, pre- viously exchanging a remarkable look with old Fagin, who raised his eyes for an instant, as if in expectation of it, and shook his head in reply so slightly that the action would have been almost imperceptible to a third person. It was lost upon Sikes, wiio was stooping at the moment to tie the boot- lace which the dog had torn. Possibly if he had ob- served the brief interchange of signals, he might have thought that it boded no good to him. " Is any body here, Barney?" inquired Fagin, speaking— now that Sikes was looking on— without raising his eyes from the ground. " Dot a shonl," replied Barney, whose works, whether they came from the heart or not, made their way through the nose. " Nobody?" inquired Fagin in a tone of surprise, which perhaps might mean that Barney, was at liberty to tell the truth. " Dobody but Biss Dadsy," replied Barney. " Miss Nancy!" exclaimed Sikes. " Where ? Strike me blind, if I don't honour that ' ere girl for her native talents." " She's bid havid a plate of boiled beef id the bar," re- plied Barney. " Send her here," said Sikes, pouring out a glass of liquor; " send her here." Barney looked timidly at Fagin, as if for permission ; the Jew remaining silent, and not lifting his eyes from the ground, he retired, and presently returned, ushering in Miss Nancy, who was decorated with the bonnet, apron, basket, and stieet- door key complete. " You are on the scent, are you, Nancy!" inquired Sikes, proffering the glass. " Yes, I am, Bill," replied the young lady, disposing of its contents; " and tired enough of it I am, too. The young brat's been ill and confined to the crib; and " " Ah, Nancy, dear!" said Fagin, looking up. Now, whether a peculiar contraction of the Jew's red eyebrows, and a half closing of his deeply- set eyes, warned Miss Nancy that she was disposed to he too communicative, is not a matter of much importance. The fact is all we need care for here; and the fact is, that she suddenly checked herself, and, with several gracious smiles upon Mr. Sikes, turned the conversation to other matters. In about ten minutes' time Mr. Fagin was seized with a fit of coughing, upon which Miss Nancy pulled her shawl over her should- ers, and declared it was time to go. Mr. Sikes, finding that he was walking a short part of her way himself, expressed his intention of accompanying her; and they went away to- gether, followed at a little distance by the dog, who slunk out of a back- yard as soon as his master was out of sight. The Jew thrust his head out of the room door when Sikes had left it, looked after him as he walked up the dark pas- sage, shook his clenched fist, muttered a deep curse, and then with a horrible grin, reseated himself at the table, where he was soon deeply absorbed in the interesting pages of the Hue and Cry. Meanwhile Oliver Twist, little dreaming that he was within so very short distance of the merry old gentleman, was on his way to the bookstall. When he got into Clerk- envvell he accidently turned down a by- street, which was not exactly in his way; but not discovering his mistake till he had got half- way down it, and knowing it must lead in the right direction, he did not think it worth while to turn back, and so marched on as quickly as he could, with the books under his arm. He was walking along, thinking how happy and contented he ought to feel, and how much he would give for only one look at poor little Lick, who, starved and beaten, might be lying dead at that very moment, when he was startled by a young woman screaming out very loud, " Oh, my dear bro- ther!" and he had hardly looked up to see what was the matter, when he was stopped by having a pair of arms thrown tight round his neck. " Don't!" cried Oliver, struggling. " Let go of me. \ Vho is it? What are you stopping me for ? The only reply to this, was a great number of loud la- mentations from the young woman who had embraced him, and who had got a little basket and a street- door key in her hand. " Oh, my gracious," said the young woman," I've found him ! Oh, Oliver! Oliver! Oh, you naughty hoy, to make me suffer such distress on your account! Come home, dear, come. Oh, I've found him. Thank gracious good- ness heavins, I've found him !" With these incoherent ex- clamations the young woman burst into another fit of cry- ing, and got so dreadfully hysterical, that a couple of wo- tn< n who came up at the moment, asked a butcher's boy, with a shiny head of hair anointed with suet, who was also looking on, whether he didn't think he had better run for the doctor. To which the butcher's boy, who appeared of a lounging, not to say indolent disposition, replied that he thought not. '• Oh, no, no, never mind," said the young woman, grasp- ing Oliver's hand ; " I'm better now. Come home directly you cruel boy, come." " What's the matter, ma'am?" inquired one of the wo- men. " Oh, ma'am," replied the young woman, " he ran away near a month ago from his parents, who are hard- working and respectable people, and joined a set of thieves and bad characters, and almost broke his mother's heart." " Young wretch," said one woman. " Go home, do, you little brute," said the other. " I'm not," replied Oliver, greatly alarmed. " I don't hnotv her. I haven't got any sister, or father and mother either. I'm an orphan ; I live at Pentonville." " Oh, only hear him, how he braves it out!" cried the jou ig woman. " Why, it's Nancy!" exclaimed Oliver, who now saw her face for the first time, and started back in irrepressible astonishment. " You see he knows me," cried Nancy, appealing to the bystanders. " He can't help himself. Make him come home, there's good people, or he'll kill his dear mother and father, and break my heart!" " What the devil's this?" said a man, bursting out of a beershop, with a white dog at his heels; " young Oliver! Come home to your poor mother, you young dog! come home directly." " I don't belong to them. I don't know them. Help ! help!" cried Oliver, struggling in the man's powerful grasp. " Help I" repeated the man. " Yes, I'll help yon, you young rascal! What books are these? You've been a stealing ' em, have you? Give ' em here!" With these words the man tore the volumes from his grasp, and struck him violently on the head. " That's right!" cried a looker- on, from a garret window. " That's the only way of bringing him to his senses!" " To be sure," cried a sleepy- faced carpenter, casting an approving look at the gariet- window. " It'll do him good!" said the two women. " Arid he shall have it, too!" rejoined the man, adminis- tering another blow, and seizing Oliver by the collar. " Come on, you young villain! Here, Bull's- eye, mind him, boy ! mind him !" Weak with recent illness, stupified by the blows and the suddenness of the attack, terrified by the fierce growling of the dog and the brutality of the man, and overpowered by the conviction of the bystanders that he was really the hard- ened little wretch that he was described to be, what could one poor child do? Darkness had set in; it was a low neighbourhood; no help was near; resistance was useless. In another moment he was dragged into a labyrinth of dark, narrow courts, and forced along them at a pace which ren- dered the few cries he dared to give utterance to, wholly unintelligible. It was of little moment, indeed, whether they were intelligible or not, for there was nobody to care for them had they been ever so plain. * * * » The gas- lamps were lighted; Mrs. Bedwin was waiting anxiously at the open door; the servant had tun up the street twenty times to see if there were any traces of Oliver; and still the two old gentlemen sat perseveringly in the dark parlour, with the watch between them. ( To be continued ) DEATH- BED OF JOUN BALLANTYNK— I accompanied Sir Walter when one of their last interviews took place; and John's death bed was a thing not to he forgotten. We sat by him for perhaps an hour; and I think half that space was occupied with his predictions of a speedy end, and details of his last will, which he had just been executing, and which lay on his coverlid ; the other half being given, five minutes or so at a time, to questions and remarks, which intimated that the hope of life was still flickering before him— nay, that his interest in all its concerns remained eager. The proof sheets of a volume of his " Novelists Library" lay also by his pillow ; and he passed from them to his will, and then back to them, as by jerks and starts the unwonted veil of gloom closed upon his imagination, or was withdrawn again. He had, as he said, left his great friend and patron 2,000/., towards the completion of the new library at Ab- botslord ; and the spirit of the auctioneer virtuoso flashed up as he began to describe what would, be thought, be the best style and arrangement of the bookshelves. He was interrupted by an agony of asthma, which left him with hardly any signs of life: and ultimately he did expire in a fit of the same kind. Scott was visibly and profoundly shaken by this scene and its sequel. As we stood together THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, OCTOBER 14. 3 a few days afterwards, while they were smoothing the turf over John's remains in the Canongate churchyard, the heavens, which had been dark and slaty, cleared up sud- denly, and the midsummer sun shone forth m his strength. Scott, ever awake to the " skiey influences," cast his eye along the overhanging line of the Calton Hill, with its gleaming walls and towers, then turning to the grave again, " I feel," he whispered in my ear, " I feel as if there would be less sunshine for me from this day forth." As we walked homewards, Scott told me, among other favourable traits of his friend, one little story, which I must not omit. He remarked one day to a poor student of divi- nity attending his auction, that he looked as if he were in bad health. The young man assented, with a sigh. " Come," said Ballantyne, " I think I ken the secret of a sort of draft that would relieve you, particularly," he added, handing him a check for five pounds or ten pounds, " particularly, my dear, if taken upon an empty stomach." John died in his elder brother's house, in St. John- street, a circumstance which it gives me pleasure to record, as it confirms the impression of their affectionate feelings towards each other at this time, which the reader must have derived from James's letter to Scott last quoted. Their confidence and cordiality had undergone considerable interruption in the latter part of John's life, but the close was in all respects frstcnislt # * * In communicating John's death to the Cornet, Sir Walter says, " I have had a very great loss in poor John Ballantyne, who is gone, after a long illness. He persisted to the very last in endeavouring to take exercise, in which he was often imprudent, and was up and dressed the very morning before his death. In his will the grateful creature has left me a legacy of 2.000/., life rented, however, by his wife; and the rest of his little fortune goes betwixt his two brothers. I shall miss him very much, both in business and as an easy and lively companion, who was eternally active and obliging in whatever I had to do." I am sorry to take leave of John Ballantyne with the remark, that bis last will was a document of the same class of too many of his states and calendars. So far from having 2,000?. to bequeath to Sir Walter, he died, as he had lived, ignorant of the situation of his affairs, and deeply in debt. — Lockhart. WOI. FF The well- known Joseph Wolff, in his unceasing wanderings, has again reached India; much altered, it is said, for the worse in bodily health, and for the better in spirit and demeanour. He had suffered severely from fever in Sennaar; and appeared milder and much less impetuous on his return to Bombay than he was when, two or three years ago, he left it Bengal Hurharu. SAFETY RAILWAYS. The following is a copy, omitting- a few sentences, about telegraphing-, which are not immediately con- nected with the subject, of a paper read at Liverpool, before the Association, on the subject of safety rail- ways :— " In the course of interrogating this subject," says Dr. Currie, the proprietor of these railways, " it has appeared to me, in which opinion I am joined by some eminent and experienced engineers, that it will be generally found that railways will absorb the light traffic contiguous to the lines, while, at thesaine time, the heavy traffic will continue to move in its usual channels, as at present, by water and wag- gons. I have classed accordingly, the internal traffic of the country, viz.:— " Heavy traffic, being such as is now conveyed by water and waggons. 1st. — Agricultural produce of every description. 2nd.— Coals, minerals, and the raw materials, whether foreigh or domestic. 3rd Manufactured goods and other property, capable of being made up into heavy bales and other large packages for home 01 foreign consumption. Light traffic is such as is now conveyed by coaches, vans, See. lst Passengers and their travelling baggage. 2nd.— Light and valuable conveyance. 3rd— The royal mails, Which may ultimately be expected to be conveyed by the railways. . " If this principle be admitted, the immense capital re- quired for the present railways, being the principal obstacle to the more general adoption of this new and rapid mode of conveyance, may, in some measure, be removed by the safety railway, which is capable of being economically con- structed, maintained, and worked, in proportion to the traffic expected on any proposed line. " In order to obviate the serious and well- grounded alarm and apprehension for the safety of the inhabitants along the lines, I propose to plan the safety railway out of the reach of injury to persons and property, by being constructed of timber or other materials, and raised at least ten feet above the ground, and supported upon bearers of timber or other materials, when passing oner gardens, ornamental grounds, arable lands and any low or level country, allowing, underneath the railway, free and uninterrupted access and communica- tion, thereby leaving the country open, and removing every obstruction to agricultural operations, as well os to the local intercourse of the inhabitants, who may pass by night or day without risk or danger. " In the commencement of establishing the safety railway it offers, perhaps, the only opportunity which may hereafter occur, of placing this most useful and important means of communication upon a- system of strict uniformity. It is, therefore, proposed to be constructed upon one uniform and regular system in regard to the gauge or breadth between the rails, so that all the carriages may run upon every line of railway throughout the kingdom. The safety railway being likely to obtain a straighter line than the present railways, as it is believed that landowners may not have any reasonable objection to allow the safety railway to pass over theii lands, since it can be constructed, altered, or re- moved, without causing any permanent injury to the land, or occasioning very little damage to the materials of which it may be constructed. It may, therefore, be better with a view to the future improvement of railway communication, which ought not to he lost sight of, to proceed in the be- ginning upon the principle of direct lines, by drawing a straight line from one terminus to the other, and construct ing the railway as near to that line, as the nature of the country and the state of railway science will admit of; as it may be expected that subsequent improvements will be directed to reduce the sinuosity, it being contemplated that inclined planes may be ascended by locomotives without stationary engines, thereby rendering cuttings, embank- ments, and tunnels unnecessary, and consequently occasion- ing great saving of capital. " To render the safety railway more extensively useful and beneficial to the country, I propose to adopt certain trunk- main, or royal lines, from the metropolis, viz.-.— the Edinburgh, the Glasgow and Carlisle, the Newcastle, the Liverpool, the North Wales and Irish, the South Wales, the Bristol, the Exeter to the Land's End, and also a cross line from Exeter, by Bristol, Gloucester, Birmingham, to York, which cross all the other royal lines, thereby opening a more direct chain of rapid communication between the mining and manufacturing districts at both ends of the kingdom, without passing through London; and also a cross royal line from Lancaster to Cambridge. These royal lines are so arranged, that three- fourths of the principal inland towns and seaports are within from one to twelve miles of some one of these royal lines, consequently it may occasion a great saving of capital to railway companies, by directing their respective branch lines, which may seldom exceed ten or fifteen miles, towards the branch royal lines, which the branches will thus contribute to support and maintain, rather than single towns or districts running separate lines of railways to London. Ill this respect, very extensive im provements are in contemplation, by the adoption of lighter carriages, lighter power, and, consequently, less expensive railways, instead of the ponderous vehicles now used on railways." We do not mean to raise any controversy on the subject of Mr. Currie's plan of a railway in the air; but we must confess that we do not see any very great advantage it would possess over one on the ground, save only the advantage of facility and safety in crossing the line. We cannot help thinking that in- stead of being less than by the former method, the expense of such a railway as Mr. Currie proposes would be much greater. The notion, that by raising a railway on pillars, we should get rid of the necessity of cutting? and embankments seems to us a strange one. If the height of the pillars is meant to be uni- form, there will be the same necessity of making arti- ficial levels, as were the rails laid on the ground ; and if the railway, in order to avoid that necessity, is to be ever and anon lowered, then the safety principle is at once sacrificed. THE BIRMINGHAM FESTIVAL. As it is not our wish to prolong controversy on this matter, we give the following without comment:— Our remarks on the Birmingham Festival have been partly copied into the Journal of that town, and subjected to the criticism of its editor. We cannot continue the discussion of this subject at any length, for the controversy, to mostol our readers, would be a one sided and an uninteresting one. We did not use " more severity than the occasion required." There is a wen which has been growing for years from the neck of this Festival, and a sharp knife and a steady hand are necessary to remove it. The patient may smart under the pain, but this is his only chance for recovery. It is with this view, and no other, that the operation was performed. Without arrogating a particle of metropolitan infallibility, we may be allowed to say that we enjoy better opportunities of comparing festival with festival, and music in London with music elsewhere, than our fellow journalist. Possibly we have known and attended more even of the Birmingham Festivals than his recollection reaches to. We lament over their fallen state, arid would fain see them again what they were twenty years since. Our list of pieces performed relerred solely to those of the morning performances : we expressly exempted the con- ductor or the managers from any controul over the vocal compositions of the evenings. But the Journal's amplified list makes the affair more conspicuously ludicrous; 6ince there, Beethoven and Costa, Weber and Knyvett, are shown to have contributed to the Birmingham Festival in equal proportions. We find also compositions by Knight, Ilobbs, Horncastle, Stevenson, Donizetti, Mercadante, et id genus omne— but nothing of Sphor or Hummel- nothing of Purcell, and the least possible contribution from the other great masters of the English school. Touching the motives and reasons wHteh prompted the bringing forth the twin babes of the Birmingham Festival— we mean The Ascension and The Triumph of Faith— the matter stands thus : Either those who concoct the scheme are competent judges, or they are not: if the latter, what are we to say to their unparalleled impudence in assuming the direction of so important an affair, and the puerile weak- ness of those who suffer the interests of the charity for whose benefit the festival is undertaken to be so compro- mised ?— if the former, we must have recourse to the suppo- sition of some unworthy motive. The Journalist is not able " to find out the parties seeking advantage from the perpetration." Perhaps not— these intrigues are not nego- ciated altogether at Birmingham: London is the proper scene and centre of musical intrigue, and the game is planned and partly played there. Be this as it may, the alternative is precisely what we have stated, and no other— either palpable imbecility and ignorance, or a dirty job. The other points at issue between us concern mere questions of taste. We have our opinions as to the com- parative merits of certain singers— the Journalist has his. On such subjects it is useless to argue. The question con- cerning the merits of Paul is much of the same kind ; but we must not be understood by our previous silence to have admitted that its author" has not copied freely from Handel." The contrary is visible enough to those who are acquainted with Handel's voluminous compositions. Some of the choruses are clever parodies upon those of Handel; in others are to be found entire phrases and subjects; while the chorales are the composition of Sebastian Bach. The truth is, the works of Handel are so little known to this age, that they may be gleaned from almost with impunity. The advice of Horace, partially quoted by the Journalist, we will cite entire: it contains just the rule on which Paul was constructed— that is, " if you find it difficult to excel in any new subject, you may make another's your own, if you take care not to copy too literally." Difficile est proprie comiaunia dicere: tuque Rectius Iliacum carmen dedueis in actus, Quam si proferres iguota indictaque primus. Publica matcries privati juris erit, si Non circa vilem patulumque moraberis orbem : Nec verbum verbo curabisreddere fidus Interpres : nec desilies imitator in arctum, TJnde pedem proferre pudor vetat aut operis lexl It may have been, as the Journalist supposes, from " modesty" that Mendelssohn chose to adopt the style and the passages of another, but in HIM this argues an undue want of self- reliance. Oratorios almost without number have been written after the manner o( Handel, all of which are forgotten. It belongs to lesser minds to copy. Kent, when reproached with stealing from his master Croft, justi- fied himself by the plea that he could not have written any- thing so good; but Mendelssohn should be urged to disdain such a justification. The general tenor of the Journalist's observations is too strongly marked by candour and good sense to excite any other feeling in our mind than that of respect: and it is in the power of such writers to accomplish a restoration of the Birmingham Festival to its former rank. Let him, for ex- ample, compare the materials which composed the last Worcester Festival, and all its musical arrangements with that of Birmingham, and he will see the inferiority of the latter in every thing save mere numerical strength. " The means of reform," he says, " are entirely in the hands of the subscribers to the Hospital:" let those means, then, be properly and effectively used, and the object which we mutually aim at will be accomplished.— Spectator of October 7. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. THE UNION OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS. MR. EDITOR,— The most unerring blow which was ever struck against the nation, was dealt by the op- pressor's arm from under the cloak of pretended love. The slaves who, from countless acts of cruelty be- come callous to the lash, may be at once softened unto tears by his taskmaster's unwonted look of kind- ness: and it appears that the goaded men of Birming- ham, after all their long- endured privations, clasp with open arms their hereditary enemies, the Tories, on the instant that, by the pressure of their own embarass- ments, they are compelled to appear with the friendly mien of fellowship. Misery, indeed, of necessity, makes our friends acquainted with strange bed- fellows, but I did not until lately suspect that they would be so willing to embrace their unavoidable companions; still less that they would permit the strangers to kick their old companions out of the bed." I view with pain, disappointment, and suspicion, the proceedings which have recently taken place amongst us. Three months ago we had an arduous struggle to return to Parliament our invaluable members. In doing so we were opposed by every art and every device which the deadly animosity of the " Conserva- tives" could resort to ; we had to brook calumny, abuse, and obloquy; our candidates themselves were exposed to the most atrocious libels. When the strife ended in our success, new weapons were brought into requisition against us— the Tory committee men were metamor- phosed into magistrates, who marshalled the instru- ments of death against the men whose feelings had been heated and outraged— they laid down the election squib to snatch up the Riot act— and, indeed, so rooted was the ennxity of our opponents, that the armed dragoons were pronounced inefficient for their deadly purposes, and the military commander was assailed with unmitigated rancour because he dared to exercise towards the objects of Tory wrath the heavenly quality of mercy! The annals of this election are still before us, and yet, in a short season, what have we done P Abandoned the pursuit of our political amelioration to fraternise with the party of the very men who would have sent an orange state pensioner to Parliament, to the exclusion of Thomas Attwood or Joshua Schole- field! Has the state of things altered so much in the t me intervening between our election and to- day? Not a jot. In what way, then, can we account for so sudden and unprecedented a change in the aspect of our local politics P Is it conceivable that the party, who in July strove, by every possible means, to oust Mr. Attwood from Parliament as a dangerous and destructive legis- lator, now confess that the welfare and integrity of the empire depend upon the successful issue of his greatest labours— labours, be it remembered, not newly entered on, hut which, for the last twenty- seven years, the honourable gentleman has been engaged in ? Sanguine and ardent must be the temperament of those who come to this conclusion, aud many such there are amongst us: for confidence in the honesty of political opponents is the besetting sin of the Reformers; and Mr. Att- wood himself, possessing, as he does, every virtue and every characteristic of the purest nature, is peculiarly liable to give the greatest credit to the motives of others, because of the unimpeachable integrity of bis own. I boldly arraign the Tory party, in resorting to the appearance of a union' with the Radicals, with the in- sidious object of obtaining under our wing, and bols- stered with our praise, the ear of our popular as- semblies— of distracting the attention of the people from the pursuit of, and iuducing them to abandon the articles of their political faith— and of extinguishing by such means the ardour of the men of Birmingham, whose indomitable spirit is a dreaded stumbling- block to the faction in their pursuit of power. What can we think of the sincerity of the men who voted for Mr. Stapleton, when they now come forward and say, " The country can only be saved by the abolition of the Corn- laws and the repeal of Peel's bill ? Was Mr. Stapleton so zealous an advocate for these changes ? Did he promise even not to oppose them? No. But the Tory party of this town sought for, and brought that bigottea young mail to Birming- bam$ because he pledged himself, heart aud hand, to support the policy of their leader, Sir R. Peel— the abrogation of whose very measure is the great object which these gentry profess so zealously to demand— because he would stand in the ranks of that faction who uphold the Corn- laws with the most inexorable determination. If, therefore, those who nc » w coalesce with the Radicals in their exertions to obtain these much desired objects are sincere in so doing, what can we say of their conduct in plunging the town into all the tumult of the 25th and 26th of July, for the ex- press purpose of electing a member, the sworn op- ponent of their views ? If, on the contrary, they strove to defeat Messrs. Attwood aud Scholefield, because, in their hearts, they believed them to b%^ nfitted for their representatives, of what increasing hypocrisy, in acting as they now do, must not they be guilty ! A few months ago, when the sufferings of our com- mercial population were as great, if not greater, than they now are, we were bidden by our tried and valued friends to revive the Political Union, and, througli its agency, to exert ourselves to obtain householder and protected suffrage, and short Parliaments, as being ne- cessary to secure the election of a House of Commons, the majority in which would have interests identical with those of the nation at large. Right well aud nobly did the people respond to this desire, and nine thousand men swelled the muster roll of our strength. The friends of exclusive privileges, the lovers of Tory rule, the haters of rational liberty, became alarmed; they knew that we had singled out the key- stone of their strong arch, and that in steadily dealing our blows against it the super- structure was doomed to fall, and they " protested" against our Union, vilified our leaders, denounced our aims, and put us under law. Still our numbers increased, and our attitude became more formidable; what was to be done ? We laughed at their wrath, we disregarded their threats— though they impiously teemed from the mouths of their parti- sans in the House of God. But the Tories are cunning in their generation; and, apprehending the cause of their failure, the assault against us was discontinued, and their sappers and miners went to work. They came in all humility, and, putting- on the aspect of converted men, told us that we were quite right in seeking to pull down the bridge of corruption, and that if we would promise to discontinue our foolish plan of striking its key- stone, they would heartily join us in stamping on the top, and endeavouring to press it down. The proceedings of Wednesday last show that we have adopted the sapient plan. You have well anticipated the result of the applica- tion to Lord Melbourne, but I fear worse effects will follow. The people are utterly wearied of their suffer- ings, aud almost despair of having their condition mended. In such a state, impatience may succeed to the calm patriotism of more prosperous times, and doubts and suspicions arise in their minds, whether their leaders are pursuing the best means to obtain the end of all our labours. It is, therefore, of vast import- ance, to manifest that stability of purpose which never fails to beget confidence, and to avoid any appearance of vacillation or fickleness in the course which is adopted. The Tories are well aware of this truth, and see that the Radicals can be the only losers in the enterprise they have now undertaken. If its result should be the realisation of the objects sought, it will secure for them a lasting popularity, simply because of their co- operation ; but should it fail, ( as fail it will), their situation can be no worse than at present, but they will have succeeded in distracting the minds of the Radicals from the prosecution of their political views— in sowing doubt and mistrust amongst our more impatient eo- adjutors— in bringing down upon the ministry, ( which the faction hate because of its Reform principles), on the eve of the first Parliament of the new reign, a cloud of discouragement and un- popularity— and, by dragging us through the mud and mire of an unsuccessful expedition, in producing that inert and exhausted feeling which is the grave of all great enterprises. The sooner this unnatural coalition be at an end, the better for the Reformers will it be. Every day that it continues in existence, the Tories are making use of our shoulders to climb into popularity. How will Birmingham bespoken of if it continues long? With what amazement would the patriots of Ireland and Scotland, who so short a time ago looked to its attitude as their unerring guide, hear that, after mus- tering up its giant strength as in 1832, it had aban- doned its post, recanted its political tenets, and was labouring at a quixotic and impracticable task, at the behest of the men whom it had heretofore denounced as the enemies of our country. Would they believe, to use your own expressive words, that the smiles of the Tories had induced the Radicals of Birmingham to " spend their strength in a vain attempt to hang the roof before they reared the walls ?" There is not a man among these pretended proselytes* who does not feel thoroughly convinced that nothing but a split be- tween the government and its supporters, will arise from this interview with the Town Hall deputation. When the Tories succeed in inducing the Radicals to make an onslaught on a Reform administration, it is hard indeed if, end bow it may, we do not suffer by it. The one straight road lies before us, and no fanciful flights will carry us along its paths. With a House of Commons constructed like the present one, and a House of Lords similar to it in all its bad character- istics, and unlike it only from the surpassing Toryism of the by- birth- legislators, there is no hope that a mi- nistry can repeal Peel's bill or the Corn- laws. The Parliament must be reformed before we can advance with those vast measures, and every moment that we lose in labouring to bring- about that necessary work, we pei- petuaie our evil state. Away then with this coquetting with our political foes! Let us ag- ain un- furl the banner under which we have already fought and most signally conquered, and by insisting on our indefeasible right to householder and protected suffrage, and short Parliaments, show that we can lay the axe at tho root of the tree, and that we have confidence in those doctrine!, which we have so long been taught to cherish. I am, sir, & c. Birmingham, Oct. 10th, 1837. KESHAW. * Of course I do not couple Mr. 1{. Spooner with his present associates, the Tory partisans of Birmingham. He is too waim hearted and goixi a man for such company. per week as the rich have to know what becomes of their silver or gold; and I think, sir, that if the weekly contributions of the poor were to be deducted from the annual amount, there would be a very great defi- ciency. Then why not allow the poor as much room as the rich ? But the rich have many friends, while the poor is despised of his neighbour. This ought not to be when the object in view is the general sal- vation of souls. Will you believe me, sir, when I tell you that these are the very gentlemen, that preach up and so strenuously support by their words the voluntary principle; and are, at the same time, using more coer- cive measures than the system they wish to abolish. I hope these gentlemen will take into consideration how contrary to their own laid down principles they are acting; and, at the next annual meeting, instead of taxing the public with tickets of admission, allow the voluntary principle to come into full play and operation; by so doing, I think they will do more good to the missionary cause, and obtain the cordial support of all parties. I remain yours sincerely, A SUPPORTER OF THE VOLUNTARY PRINCIPLE. WATCHMEN. SIR,—- Finding my epistle to you last week, has caused some stir among our watchmen ; and in all pro- bability, from what I have just heard, some considera- tion from our Watch Commissioners, I anticipate that some good will inevitably be the result; and, as a rate- payer, sir, I have a right to demand, from the above- named authorities, all I requested in my letter of the 5th. I j have named the circumstance to all the rate- payers I have the honour to be immediately ac- quainted with ; and all, without even a single breath of dissent, concur with me that our watchmen are not sufficiently paid; that many are incapable of duty and ought to lie pensioned off; and that they M ould freely, and with pleasure, pay a larger rate for the purpose, so that our persons and property may be efficiently and faithfully guarded from the midnight plunderers. I, therefore, in the name of my fellow rate- payers, call most respectfully upon the commissioners to give their attention to this important subject, that attention which the case so unquestionably demands, and as early as possible. Thanking you, Mr. Editor, for the insertion of my last, and requesting you will favour mc by publishing this, I am, your obliged servant, A RATE- PAYER. Summer- lane, Oct. 11, 1837. COUNTRY MARKETS, & c. BIRMINGHAM MARKET. Corn Market, October 12. Wheat in good supply, with a dull sale; at a reduction of 3d. per bushel on old, and 6d. on new.— Malting- Barley more plentiful, at the rates of last week j grinding 6d. per quarter lower.— Oats in large supply, with a flat sale, at Is. per quarter less money.— Old Beans inigood demand, at a trifle advance.— Boiling Peas enquired for, at 18s. to 19s. per bag of 3 bushels imperial.— No alteration in tho value of Peas for grinding. BEANS— perbag, 10 scoregross. s. d. s. d. Old 16 6 — 18 0 New 0 0— 0 0 PEAS— perbag of 3 Bush. Imp. F0 It BOI1.1NG. White 17 0 — IS 6 Grey 13 6— 17 6 FOR GRINDING. per bag of 10 score 14 9 — 15 3 White 15 0 — 15 6 FLOUlt— persack ofiS0lbs. net. Fine 44 0 — 45 0 Seconds.... 39 0 — 41 0 WHEAT— per62lbi. t. d. s. d. Old 6 6— 7 0 New 5 0 — 8 6 Irish 5 0 — 6 0 BARLEY— perlmp. Quarter. For Malting 38 0 — 42 0 For Grinding, per 49lbs 3 3 — 3 6 M ALT— per Imperial Bushel. Old and new ti 0 — 7 9 O ATS— per39lbs. Old 3 3 — 3 6 New 3 0 — 3 6 Irish 2 6 — 3 3 The following is the statement in Messrs. Sturge's circular: PRESENT PRICES OF GRAIN. Birmingham, October 12, 1837. j. d. s. WHEAT, English, White, per bushel of 621b. 6 0 to 7 Old 7 2 .. 7 English, Red 5 9 .. 7 Irish, White 6 4 .. 6 lted ...... — nominal 5 0 .. 6 Old .,.„ „ do—. 5 6 .. 5 Foreign , ,.< lo 6 BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. Quarter 34 Irish , .— nominal 27 Grinding, per Q uarter of 3921bs. 25 OATS, English, White, per Imperial Quarter 23 Welsh, Black and White, per3121bs 23 Irish, ( weighing 41 to 421bs.) do. — 25 ( 37 to OOlbs.) do. 22 Blnck ™ , ™ .- ™ ™ ~„~. do, 21 BEANS, English, Old, per bushel of 651bs. 5 New —— —.— 5 T rish —— , — none 0 Foreign ,—,—— 5 PEAS, Boiling, per Imp. Quarter nominal 40 Grinding, per Quarter ol 3921!> s. ™ .„,„ ™ „„ 21) FLOUR, English, Fine, per Sack of 2801bs 42 Seconds —— 39 Gloucester, October 7, 1837. s. d. 0 WHEAT, English, White, per Imp. Bushel _ Old — — 7 0 English, Red 5 6 Old , 7 1 Irish, White, per 601bs nominal 6 0 Red — fir,—„ 5 0 Foreign 6 6 BARLEY", English, Malting, per Imp. Quarter 32 0 Irish nominal 26 0 Grinding, per Quarter of 39- 2lbs. 23 0 OATS, Euglish, White, per Imp. Quarter 22 0 Welsh, Black and White . . 20 6 Irish ( weighing 41 to421bs); per Qr. of3121bs. 24 s. d. 7 0 7 6 6 9 7 6 THE MISSIONARY MEETING. SIR,— In passing- along one of the streets of this town, the other day, my attention was directed to a large bill, posted against the wall, the contents of which I read. It stated that the Birmingham Auxi liary of the London Missionary Society, would hold' their annual meeting in the Town Hall, October 10, the chair to be taken by James James, Esq., Low Bailiff, and after stating the ministers that were to address the meeting, and the different places of worship where sermons were to be preached the Sunday previous, aud collections made, it concluded by stating tint tickets of admission to the side galleries, and the area of the hall would be Is. each, to the great gallery 6d. each, and that the rest would be free. They may well say, " the rest to be free;" for I think when the side and front galleries, and the area of the hall are filled, there remains very little rest. I am very sorry to say that these zealous supporters of the missionary cause are doing great injury to it, by excluding the poor sup- porters from at least hearing the statements of the annual meeting, for it is a well known fact, that in these distressing times the labouring classes can scarce live, leaving out paying for tickets of admission, be- sides the ordinary collections. I should like to know whether these gentlemen wish to exclude the poor from giving their Id. and 2d. per week. If they do not, why do they exclude them from the annual meeting, or allow them so little room? The poor man is as anxions to know what becomes of his mite as the rich are to know what becomes of their pound; and the poor person that gives Id. and 2d. per week, has an equal right to know what becomes of that Id. and 2d. ( 37 to 391bs.) 21 Black . 21 BEANS, English, Old, per Imp. Bushel 5 Neiv , 4 Foreign.. ........... . 4 10 PEAS, Boiling, per Imp, Quarter .^ nominal 40 0 Grinding, per Quarter of 392lbs. „ w* 28 6 FLOOR, English, Fine, per sack of2801bs „. 44 0 Irish . , 41 o GLOUCESTER WEEKLY AVERAGE. Qrs. Bush. Wheat 557 5 Oats 0 0 Beans 87 0 „,„, Peas — 0 0 . 6 . 7 , 36 . 31 . 25 . 30 24 . 27 , 23 . 23 , 5 . 5 , 5 , 5 , 51 , 31 . 46 43 s. d 51 0 27 5 0 0 36 10 0 0 Wheat, Barley , Oats „. Peas — Beans - WORCESTER WEEKLY AVERAGE. Qrs. Bush. s 4 „ 54 o ZIZZZZZZZTo 4 .—. 40 667 190 0 16 67 Birmingham, October 12, 1837. At Worcester market on Saturday Wheat sold at a reduction of 1 vrtiout Is. per quarter; at Gloucester, same day, it was 2s, per marter lower. Old malting Barley in request, fully as dear; rhost of the samples of new being of inferior quality were neglected. Old Oats very scarce and fully aa dear, but havingjome arrivals of new they were rather lower. Beans and Peas without alteration. During the present week holders of Wheat have not given way in price, consequently but very little has been sold, the quantity offer, ing is not large. Old malting Barley, that will grow in demand, the turn higher ; prime newtlie same ; secondary parcels and grinding are neglected ; and to effect sales lower prices must be submitted to. Some few Wexford new Oats were taken at equal to 22s. 6d. • Clonmel 23s. 6d.; and best Newry 25s. per 3121bs. at Gloucester. In Beans and Peas but few transactions are reported. This day's market was but moderately supplied with Wheat, yet best samples were Is. 6d. per quarter lower, and secondary 2s. 6d. Fine malting Barley supported former prices ; grinding neglected and to force sales, lower prices must have been submitted to. ' New Oats Is. per quarter lower, and for forward delivery sales were made at a reduction of 2s. to 3s. per quarter, according to time allowed for sending them in. Foreign Beans offering 6d. per 196 lbs. cheaper; in English no alteration. Peas without variation. IMPORTS INTO GLOUCESTER From the 4th to the 11 th inst. Wheat. Oats. Barley. Beans. 193 Qrs 5699 Qrs 1216 Qrs Qrs Coastwise.. Qrs Qrs Qrs ' Qrs Foreign.,.. Qrs Qrs Qrs Qrs Peas. Flour. Rye. Vetches. Qrs 180 Sacks Qrs Qrs Coastwise.. Qrs Sacks Qrs Qrs Foreign.... 306 Qrs Sacks Qr » Qrs WARWICK, SATURDAY, OCT. 7.— Wheat, per bag, old 20s Od to 21s 6d ; new, 18s 6d to 21s Od ; Barley, per quarter, 36s Od to 42s Od ; grinding, 2S9 Od to 30s Od ; Oats, 33s Od to36s Od; New, 0s Od to 0s Od ; Peas, per bag, 17s 6d to 19s Od ; Beans, 16s 6d to 17s Od; new, 14s Od to 15s Od; Vetches, 0s Od to 0s Od; Malt, 30s Od to 64s Od per quarter. HEREFORD, OCT. 7— Wheat, per bushel Imperial measure, 7s 9d to 7s lOd. Ditto, new, per bushel, 7s Od to 7s 3d. Barley, 3s 9d to 4s Od. Beans, 5s Od to 5s 6d. Peas, 5s Od to 0 « Od. Vetches, 3s 9d to 4s Od. Oats, 3s Od to 4s Od. CHELTENHAM, OCT. 5.— New Wheat, 6s 6ii to 0s 0d per bushel, JId Wheat, 7s 6d to 8S Od. Barley, 3s Od to 4s 6d. Oats, 3s Od to 4s 6d. Beans, 5s Od to 6s 3d. Hop INTELLIGENCE Worcester, October 11.— The demand for hops in our market on Saturday, at the early part of the day, was rather languid, but the market soon became more animated, and at the close a large bulk of hops was disposed of. A great number of pockets were pitched for sale, and prices could not be maintained. The planters were mostly compelled to submit to a reduction of 3s. per cwt. from last week's prices, upon all descriptions of hops. There was a great falling off in the supply of fine coloury samples, the greater proportion being of a yellow east, although ripe and full of condition. The number of pockets weighed on that day was— new 2,437, old 108; and new 2,056, old 181, in the week ; the latter being principally the purchases made the previous Saturday. Borough, October 9 Our trade for hops continues good, though nottotheextentthatwasexpected. Weyiiill fair commences on Wed- nesday, and the result will most likely establish the price for the sea- son. Present Prices, per cwt.:— East Kent Pockets, £ 4 10s. to .€ 5 5s. line £ 5 12s. ; ditto bags, £ 449. to £ 4 10s. flue £ 6 5s, ; Mid Kent Pockets, £ 3 16s. to £ 4 10s. fine £ 5 12s.; ditto bags, £ 3 10s. to £ 4 4s. fine £ 5 5s.; Weald of Kent, Pockets, £ 3 10s. to £ 4 2s. Sue £ 4 10s.; Sussex pockets, £ 3 3s. to £ 3 15s. fine £ 4 Ss.; Year- lings, £ 2 2j. to £ 2 16s. fine £ 4 4s.; Old Olds, 18s. to £ 1 10s. fine £ 2 2s. FAIRS TO BE HOLDEN.— Warwickshire— October 18, Hampton. io. Arden; 23, Rugby.— Northamptonshire— October 27, Daventry.— Leicestershire— October 16, Bosworth Husbands; 19, Market Har- borough.— Worcestershire— October 16, Belbronghton; 17, Shipston- on. Stour— Staffordshire— Oct. 16, Fazeley; 18, Cannock, Cheadle ; ID, Yoxall; 21, Rugely; 24, TamworUt.— Gloucestershire— October 16, Cirencester; 18, Newnham, Winterburn; 24, Marshfield, Stow- ou- the- Wold Oxfordshire— October 23, Nettlebed; 26, Banbury. GLOUCESTER SHIP NEWS, From October 5 to October 12. IMPORTS : The Hebe, from Charente, with 56 cases of cham- pagne, 5 hogsheads of claret, 8 puncheons, 75 hogsheads, and 30 quarter casks of brandy, consigned to Johnsons and Tasker; 20 puncheons and 35 hogsheads of brandy, Kent and Sons " 10 punch- eons, 10 hogsheads, and 4 quarter casks of brandy, Vernon and Co.; 7 puncheons and 9 hogsheads of brandy, W. Stallard ; 6 puncheons and 6 hogsheads of brandy, W. and J. Palling; 6 puncheons of brandy, John Jones and Sons ; 15 hogsheads of brandy, Richard Austin ; 40 quarter casks of brandy, J. Wintle and Co ; 13 hogs- heads of brandy, Martin, Washbourn, and Co.; 3 hogsheads of brandy, W. H. Haviland— Rainbow, Odessa, 421 chetwerts of peas and 1055 chetwerts of maize, J. and C. Sturge— Gloucester Packet, Waterford, 20 kilderkins of porter, W. H. Haviland ; 109 sacks of flour, M'Clieane and Bartlett— Friends, Waterford, 140 barrels of white and 433 barrels of black oats, J, and C. Sturge ; 450 barrels of white oats and 300 barrels of wheat, Phillpotts, Lloyds, and Co New Parliament, Waterford, 300 barrels of oats and 20 sacks of flour, M'Cheane and Bartlett- Sorah, Waterford, 12- 21 barrels of oats, J. and C. Sturge— Christy Jane, Waterford, 384 barrels of barley and 26 barrels of wheat, J. and C. Sturge— Industry, Waterford, 330 barrels of barley and 271 barrels of oats, Phillpotts, Lloyds; and Co.- Ida, Waterford, 684 barrels of oats and 140 barrels of wheat, Phillpotts, Lloyds, aud Co.— Comubia, Waterford, 500 barrgls of oats, M'Cheano and Bartlett- Ellen, Wexford, 433 barrels of oats and 20 sacks of barley, J. and C. Sturge ; 337 barrels of oats and 362 barrels of barley, Phillpotts, Lloyds, and Co.— Sea Flower, Wexford, 575 barrels of oats, Phillpotts, Lloyds, and Co— Rambler, Wexford, 435 barrels of oats, 158 barrels of barley, and 77 barrels of wheat, Wait, James, and Co. — Hinton, Cork, 453 barrels of barley, 56 sacks and 15 barrels of flour, J. and C. Sturge ; 410 barrels of oats. Wait, James, and Co John and Mary, Cork, 583 barrels of oats. Wait, James, and Co.— Hope, Cork, 837 barrels of oats, Vining, Gerard, and Vining— Mary, Cork, 626 barrels of oats, Wait, James, and Co.— Britannia, New Ross, 549 barrels of oats aud 210 barrels of barley, Wait, James, and Co.— Johns, Newry, 990 barrels of oats, J. and C. Sturge— Adelaide, Newry, 58 tons 10 cwt. of oats, M'Cheane and Bartlett— Venus, Newry, 104 tons of oats, Phillpotts, Lloyds, and Co.— William, Dundalk, 998 barrels of oats, Vining, Gerard, and Vining— Bridget, Carnarvon, 54 tons of slates, Owen Jones— Jane and Elizabeth, Port Madoc, 73 tons of slates, Tripp Brothers- Pro- gress, Port Madoc, 82 tons of slates, Gopsill Brown— Success, Aber. dovey, 72 tons of slates, Gopsill Brown— Union, Bangor, 8- 2 tons of slates, Cox and Co.— Newport Trader, Newport, 408 boxes of tin, H. Southan and Son— Belinda, Swansea, geneial cargo, H. Southaa and Son— Gazelle, Forth Cawl, 37 tons of pig iron, H. Southan and Son— Abeona, Mumbles, 125 bushels of oysters, H. Southan aud Son — Cygnet, Bridgwater, general cargo, Stuckey and Co. EXPORTS : The Convention, for Pillan, with 480 tons of salt/ for John Forster— March, London, 198} tons of salt, Gopsill Brown- Catharine, Penzance, 116 tons of salt, H. Southan and Son— Dasher, Bude, 29j tons of salt and 3 tons of fire bricks, Gopsill Brown- Eleanor, Cardiff, 30 tons of salt aud 4$ tons of soap, H. Southan and Son— Eliza, Cardiff, 50 tons of salt, Gopsill Brown— Unity, Barn, staple, 33 tons of salt, 2 tons of soda, and 3 tons of bricks, Gopsill Brown— Sarah, Swansea, 15 tons of salt, 12 tons of bricks, 1J ton of cheese, and 3^ tons of iron, & c., H. Southan and Son— Ann and Ellen, Newport, 20 tons of salt, H. Southan and Sou; 4% tons of cheese, J. Bowly; j a ton of packs, J. R. Heane— Eleanor and Jane, Newport, 25 tons of salt, H. Southan and Son- Newport Trader, Newport, 23% tons of flour, 2| tous of soap, 2j tons of packs, and 3 tons of sundries, H. Sonthan and Son— Feronia, Porth, 49 tons of salt, H, Southan and Son— Thomas, Bridgwater, 25 tons of bark, Thomas Slatter— Cygnet, Bridgwater, 20 tons of salt, 1- 2 tons of ironmongery, 3 tons of bricks, 3 tons of trusses, aud 3 tons of auu- dries, Stuckey and Co. GENERAL HOSPITAL, OCT. 13.— Physician and Surgeon of the Patients of the week, Dr. Male and Mr. Vaux. Visitors, Mr. D. Ledsam and Mr. J. Turner. In- patients admitted, 34; • nit, 111. In- patients discharged, 31; out, 70. Remainingiu the house, 156. BIRMINGHAM DISPENSARV, OCT. 13.— Siek patients relieved, 3258; midwifery cases, 10. STATE OF THE WORKHOUSE UP TO OCT. 10. Wo- INFANTS. Men. men. Boys. Girle. Male. Fem. Total. 179 201 14 18 23 17 452 Admittedsince .... 14 12 9 2 3 3 43 Born in the House I 2 3 193 213 23 20 27 22 493 Discligd, absconded, 12 46 11 6 3 8 C fotalofeach 182 201 17 17 19 16 452 3,017 NumberofChildren in the 292 i Of whom 2 men, I woman, and 1 female infant died. METEOROLOGICAL DIARY. FURNISHF. 1> B V MR. WOLLER, S 1) 11 BAST0N- 8TRE ET. Barometei at noou. 7 29 75' 8 - 29 80 9 29 85 19 29 90 11 29 90 12 30 0 13 30 20 Ex- treme during night. Ther- mome- ter 8 morn. Extreme heat during day. Ther- moiiie. ter at noon. State of Wind at noon. Remarks at noon. 45 0 58 0 64 0 56 0 SW ' Rain. 44 0 58 0 64 0 54 0 W Rain 44 0 .16 0 62 0 52 0 W Fair 46 0 58 0 62 0 66 0 SW Fair 44 0 50 0 64 0 58 n SW Fair 42 0 48 n 58 0 50 0 NE Fair 38 0 48 0 58 0 48 0 E Fair MARRIAGES. On the 10th inst., at Aston Church, by the Rev. H. Chavasse, Mr. Nathaniel Vyse, jun., of Small heath, to Eleanor, second ( laughter of Mrs. George, of the Wool Pack Inn, Moor- street. On Wednesday week, at the Scotch Church, Oldliam- street, Liverpool, the Rev. Robert Wallace, Minister of the Scotch Chui cli, in this town, to Miss Jeffrys, of St. Anne- street, Liverpool. On the 28th ult., at Edgbaston, Mr. Thomas Harborne, of Snow- hill, in this town", to Miss Elizabeth Rogers, of Hartlebury, Worcestershire. .. vj On the 5th inst., at St. Chad's, Shrewsbury, Mr. William Goodall, professor of music, to Miss Emma Jones, both of Shrewsbury. DEATHS. On Monday last, aged 38, after a long and severe affliction, Susan, wife of Mr. Nathan Kimberley, of Bristol- street. Oil Thursday last, deeply lamented, aged 84, Rebecca, wife of Mr. Matthias Green, of Bath- street. Oil Saturday last, aged 67, Mr. Samuel Bo9tock, of Nun- eaton. On the 23rd ult., at her aunt's, Fordrough- street, Carolina Sarah Bridge, eldest daughter of Christiana Bridge, aged 14 years. On the 10th inst., Richard Samuel, infant son of Mr. Richard Blood, jun., of Grosvenor- place. On Friday week, Mr. John Hawley, of Heath Mill- lane, Deritertd, aged 82. On the 7th inst., in his 71st year, Thomas Jesson, Esq., of Bridgnorth. On the 7th inst., Elizabeth, wife of Mr. Charles Hall, sen., brush maker, of Park- street, Walsall, aged C6. On the 8th inst., in Charlotte- street, Bedford- square, VIrs. Langton, relict of Thomas Langton, Esq., late of Lutwyche Hall, Salop, in tile 84th year of her age. On Sunday last, aged 68, Benjamin Claxson, Esq., of Eastgate House, an Alderman, and one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for Gloucester, 8 THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, NOVEMBER 152. 5 LONDON GAZETTES. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. OCTOBER 4.- ROBERT RAND . ILL CHUBB, 70 and 71, Newgate. street. City, seedsman. OCTOBER 5.— ROBERT WICKSTEED, late of the Camel public house, 107, Minories, City, of Haydon. square, but now of 57, Paradise- street, Rotherhithe, victualler and livery stable keeper. BANKRUPTS. The Bankrupts to surrender atthe Court of Commissioners, Basing- hall. stree when not otherwise expressed.'} ROBERT SHIRLEY, Kinfare, Staffordshire, worsted yarn manu- facturer, October 17 and November 17, at the Black Horse Inn, Kidderminster. Sols. Mr. George Smith, 49, Chancery- lane, Lon- don; and Messrs. Hill and Daniel, Kidderminster. Pet. Cr. Jaineg Randall, Kidderminster, wool merchant. Seal. September 28. GEORGE BULLOCK, Derby, tea dealer, October 14 and November 17, at the office of Mr. Saint George Smith, Derby. Sols. Mr. Saint George Smith, Derby; and Mr. John Scargill, Hatton- court, Threadneedle- street, London. Yet. Cr. Robert Ward, Derby, gent. Seal. October 3. JOHN EVERINGHAM HARRISON, Nottingham, hatter, Oc- tober 16 and November 17, at the George the Fourth Inn, Not- tingham. Sols. Mr. Yallop, Basinghall- street, London; and Messrs. Parsons and Sons, Nottingham. Pet. Cr. Frederick Robinson and Thomas Moore, Nottingham, bankers. Seal. Sep- tember 12. HENRY SILVESTER, Birmingham, Florentine button maker, October 16 and November 17, at the Union Inn, Birmingham. Sols. Messrs. Alexander and Co., 60, Lincoln's- inn. fields, London ; and Mr. Danfas, Birmingham. Pet. Cr. Joseph Farnell, Birmingham, haberdasher. Seal. October 2. WILLIAM GRUNDY, Warrington, Lancashire, cotton spinner, November 4 and i7, at the Commercial Inn, Bolton- le- Moors, Lancashire. Sols. Messrs. Clarke and Medcalf, 20, Lincoln's- inn- fields, London; Mr. Frederick Grundy, Manchester; and Messrs. T. and A Grundy, Bury. Pet. Cr. Aaron Wetherell, Salford, grocer. Seal. September 26. JOHN BROOM, Kidderminster, worsted yarn spinner, October 17 and November 17, at the Black Horse Inn, Kidderminster. Sols. Messrs. Holme and Loftus, 10, New Inn, London; and Mr. William Talbot, Kidderminster. Yet. Cr. Henry Talbot, sen., Kidderminster, Esq. Seal. September 13. ROBERT SHEPPARD, Boston, Lincolnshire, corn merchant, October 14 and November 17, at the Peacock Inn, Boston. Sols. Mr. S. H. Jebb, Boston ; and Messrs. Hawkins and Co., 2, New Boswell- court, Carey- street, Londou. Yet. Cr. Richard West- land, Boston, Lincolnshire, merchant. Seal. September 28. JOHN FORD the younger, Porto Bello, Wolverhampton, lock- smith, October 27 and Novembtr 17, atthe Lion Hotel, Wolver- hampton. Sols. Messrs. White and Whitmore, 11, Bedford- row, London; and Mr. Samuel Smith, Walsall. Pet. Cr. Matthew Tildesley, Wolverhampton, builder. Seal. September 30. RICHARD PARR, Liverpool, draper, October 20 and November 17, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester. Sols. Messrs. Smithson and Dunn, Southampton- buildings, London; and Messrs. Thompson and Cresswell, Manchester. Pet. Cr. John Makin, Benjamin Williams, jun., and John Gardom, Manchester, silk manufacturers, and Richard Ransom, same place, linen and cotton manufacturer. Seal. September 7. DIVIDENDS. Henry Jackson, Mincing. lane, merchant, October 27— J. Wood- hams, Pitt's Head, Grange- road, Bermondsey, victualler, October 27— Charles Wright, Dover- street, Piccadilly, hotel keeper, October 27— Benjamin Bensley, Andover, Hampshire, printer, October 28— John Barnett, Tottenham- street, Fitzroy. square, copper- plate printer, October 28— Joshua Kidd, Brownlow- street, Drury- lane, coach currier, October 28— John Wilson, Lawrence- lane, woollen warehouseman, October 28— John Catt, Tonbridge Wells, smith, October 28— William Smith, Leatherhead, innkeeper, October 28— Ralph Clewes and James Clews, Cobridge, Staffordshire, manufac- turers, October 30, at the Swan Inn, Hanley, Staffordshire— John Kingsford, Barton, Canterbury, miller, October 31, atthe Guiidhall, Canterbury— Simpson Kingsford, Staney, Kent, miller, October 31, at the Guildhall, Canterbury— Jonathan Dury, Kidderminster, grocer, November 2, at the Black Horse Inn, Kidderminster— Thomas Beard the elder, now or late of Dursley's Cross Inn, Long- hope, Gloucestershire, victualler, November 1, at the Lower George Inn, Gloucester— James Webb, Argyle- buildings, Bath, tailor, No- vember 1, at the office of Messrs. Batchellor and Co., 1, Vineyards, Bath-^ Thoraas Hopkins, Kidderminster, carpet manufacturer, Oc- tober 31, at the Black Horse Inn, Kidderminster— John Weatherley, North Shields, brewer, November 1, atthe Bankrupt Commission- room, Newcastle upon- Tyne— Joseph Warren, Melbourne, Derby- shire, grocer, October 27, at the office of Mr. John Moss, Derby- Charles Ross, Register- square, Beverley, Yorkshire, wine mer- chant, November 2, at the Beverley Arms Inn, Beverley— Richard Rathbone, Moor- street, Birmingham, spade maker, November 1, at the New Royal Hotel, Birmingham— Samuel Ford, Birmingham, merchant, October 27, at Dee's Royal Hotel, Birmingham— Robert Edward Dexter, Northampton, ironmonger, November 3, at the New Royal Hotel, Birmingham— George Baker the elder and George Baker the younger, Portsea, Hampshire, provision merchants, Oc- tober 30, at the George Inn, Portsmouth— George Harris, Derby, woollen draper, October 30, at the office of Mr. John Moss, Derby- Edward Woolley, Bilston, Staffordshire, iron master, October 28, at the Lion Inn, Wolverhampton— Thomas Lockett, Manchester, en. graver, October 31, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester. CERTIFICATES, OCTOBER 27. John Middleton, Bread- street, Cheapside, warehouseman— Thomas Evans, 25, Mortimer- street, Cavendish- square, apothecary— George Richardson, Smith's- buildings, City- road, coach builder— John Green, Bushey, Hertfordshire, dealer in cattle— Daniel Burgess, 9, Duke- street, Grosvenor- square, jeweller— John Palmer, Coleshill, Warwickshire, scrivener— John Sillet, Yoxford, Suffolk, linen draper— Abraham Rozenbaom, 2, Catherine- street, Salisbury, eweller. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. William Fairburn and Edward John Cobbett, 62, Berwick- street, Soho, composition ornament manufacturers— F. W. Sack and C. G. Weber, Liverpool, dealers— Edward Smith and Joseph Cook, late of Diana- place, New- road; cabinet makers— Benjamin Conigrave and Joseph Conigrave, Aldersgate- street and St. John. street- road, cabinet makers— Thomas James Poole and John Gill, Huntspill, Somersetshire, surgeons— Joseph Higgins and Eliza Jones, Lloyd- street, Manchester, lathe makers— William Hiedeman, Thomas Carfrae, and Isaac Hayton, Copthall- court, London, and George Hodgskin, Cape of Good Hope, merchants ( so far as regards Thomas Carfrae)— Edward Hickman, Surrey- canal- bridge, Old Kent- road, and William Richards, Brixton, ammonia manufacturers— Mary Ann Farmer and William Smith, 87, High- street, Southwark, hop merchants— Luke Cock and Edward Smith, Chepstow, Monmouth- shire, coach builders— Frederic Lewis Westenholz and John Gerard Wich, Mark- lane, merchants— Joseph Dodson and William Oxen- forth Cawkwell, 19, Mill- lane, Tooley- street, Southwark, potato talesmen— Robert Marriott, Stowmarket, and John Marriott, Need- ham. market, Suffolk, solicitors— John Denniston and Samuel Den- niston, Halifax, Yorkshire, painters— George Rose and Thomas Osbaldeston, Preston, iron founders— Charles Frederick Engstrom, Lawrence Engstrom, George Engstrom, and Robert Brew Anderson, Liverpool, merchants ( so far as regards George Engstromj— Louisa Matilda Gane and Caroline Gane, Frome Selwood, Somersetshire, milliners— James Archer, Zaccheus Archer, and Peter Huyser, Quorndon, Leicestershire, and Nottingham, warp lace machine manufacturers— E. L. Plant and Thomas Plant, jun., Cheltenham, hatters— Benjamin Fagg and Robert John Cambridge, Cheltenham, coach factors— James Newsom and Henry Cooper, Burnham, Buck- inghamshire, plumbers— John Cree and James Truscott, Devonport, linen drapers— Rosser Hesketh Barton and John Carter, Ulverston, Lancashire, apothecaiies— Richard Heydon and Charles F. Burnard, Plymouth, dyers— Andrew Legg, David Milne, Geoige M'Kenzie, and James Linton, Bervie, Stonehaven, coal merchants. ASSIGNMENTS. John Bellamy, Hemel Hempstead, builder. Thomas Taylor, Chelmsford, victualler. Godfrey Vennell, Maidstone, haberdasher. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. James Brownlee, Melville- place, Ediuburgh, grocer. lington and Co., Bedford- row, London; and Messrs. R. and W. Ascroft, Preston. Yet. Cr. John Eccles, Preston, cotton manu- facturer. Seal. October 4 WILLIAM BARTLETI\ Redditch, Worcestershire, needle manu- facturer, October 20 and November 21, at Dee's Royal Hotel, B*. mingham. Sols. Messrs. Porter and Nelson, 1, New court, Middle Temple, London ; and Mr. Edward Browning, Redditch. Yd. Cr. Edward Perks, Redditch, needle manufacturer. Seal. September 27. THOMAS HOLLAND and WILLIAM ELLAM the elder, late of Birmingham, lead and colour merchants, October 20 and No- vember 21, at Dee's Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Sols. Mr. E. A. Chaplin, 3, Gray's- inn- square, London ; Messrs. Richards and Motteram, Birmingham; and Mr. Fox, Ashburne. Yet. Cr. William Ryder, Birmingham, on behalf of the Commercial Bank of England. Seal. September 25. JOHN HICKMAN, late of Ledwych, Shropshire, but now of All Stretton, Shropshire, hop merchant, October 25 and November 21, at the Shire- hall, Shrewsbury. Sols. Messrs. G. and R. Anderson, Ludlow; and Mr. George P. Wilton, 16, Gray's- inu- square, Lon- dou. Pet. Cr. Richard Dawes, late of Elsich, Diddlebury, Salop, but now of Westhope, Diddlebury, gent. Seal. September 20. JOHN LLEWELLYN, Guildhall- square, Carmarthen, draper, Oc- tober 16 and November 21, atthe Boar's Head Inn, Carmarthen. Sols. Messrs. Morris and Jones. Quay- street, Carmarthen; and Mr. Henry Charles Chilton, 7, Chaucory- lane, London. Pet. Cr. Henry Jones, Carmarthen, victualler. Seal. September 11. JOHN CHAPMAN the younger, Frome Selwood, Somersetshire, clothier, October 30 and November 21, at the George Inn, Frome Selwood. Sols. Messrs. Perkins and Frampton, Gray's- iun, Lon- don ; and Mr. Henry Miller, Frome Selwood. Pet. Cr. Samuel Allen Ball, Frome Selwood, dyer. Seal. October 6. DIVIDENDS. James Pensam, Bell Tavern, Fleet- street, City, licensed victualler, October 31— Donald Currie, 20, Regent- street, army accoutrement maker, October 31— William Brooks, 47, Hatton- garden, jeweller, October 31— William Jones, Wigmore- street, St. Marylebone, car- penter, November 1— John Cooke, Southmolton- street, tailor, No- vember 1— Edmund Lloyd, Harley- street, Cavendish- square, book- seller, November 1— Thomas Livesey Crompton, Worthington. mills, Standish, Lancashire, paper maker, November 6, at the Com- missioners'- rooms, Manchester— John Hope Neild, Motley- bank, near Altringham, Cheshire, brewer, Noiember 1, at the Commis- sioners'. rooins, Manchester— William Armitage, Sowerby. bridge, Halifax, Yorkshire, and Bradley- mills, Huddersfield, dyer, Novem- ber 3, at the George Inn, Huddersfield— John Howell and John William Hentig the younger, Gloucester and Worcester, merchants, November 10, at the Upper George Coffee- house, Gloucester- Thomas Griffin the younger, late of Trentham, Staffordshire, gen- tleman, November 1, at the Castle Hotel, Newcastle- under- Lyne— William Williams, Liverpool, timber dealer, November 2, at the Clarendon- rooms, Liverpool— James Thomas Wright and Nathan Hackney, Burslem, Staffordshire, earthenware manufacturers, No- vember 1, at the George Inn, Buralem— Job Jackson and John Clewes Jackson, late of Burslem, Staffordshire, earthenware manu- facturers, November 1, at the George Inn, Burslem— John Jen- nings, Canterbury, hotel keeper, October 31, at the Guildhall, Can- terbury— George Wills Hearle, Devonport, printer, November 2, at the Royal Hotel, Devonport— Charles Calvert, Manchester, picture dealer, November 3, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester- John Williams, Bangor, Carnarvonshire, draper, November 3, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester— Alfred Sidebottom, Two Bridges, Lancashire, calico printer, November 6, at the Commis- sioners'- rooms, Manchester— Samuel Brown and James Cheetham, Manchester, commission agents, November 6, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester— William Dizon, Scarborough, draper, October 31, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester— William Jones, Chorley, Lancashire, draper, November 3, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester. CERTIFICATES, OCTOBER31. John Swinburn, Liverpool, cabinet maker— John Corson Gordon, Manchester, dealer and chapman— Hugh Morgan, late of Builth, Breconshire, farmer— John Shindler, Brompton, Gillingham, Kent, butcher— John Whitehead, ^ Voodford, Essex, but late of Park- street, Southwark, and Stratford, Essex, dyer— James Standen, Lion and Goat public house, Grosvenor- street, victualler— Robert Sears, Paternoster- row, City, engraver— James Rudge, Corn Exchange, Mark- lane, merchant. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Samuel Amos the elder, Evesham, Worcestershire, and William Amos, late of the same place, but now of Birmingham, hop mer. chants— Thomas Hetherington anil Joseph Hetherington, Newgate- street, Newcastle- upon- Tyne, provision dealers— George Higlilield and William Henry Chapman, Liverpool, sail makers— Charles Cleare and Joseph Shillito, Wood- street, Cheapside, lace ware- housemen— Thomas Young and Charles Holloway, Uxbridge, linen drapers— Frederic Edwards and Benjamin Crouch, silversmiths, Cambridge— Joseph Hosken James and Richard Michael Hodge, Truro, solicitors— Thomas Home, William Home, and James Home, . jun., Bankside, Southwark, coal merchants ( so far as re- gards James Home, jun.)— Albert Davies and W. H. Hobkirk, Rushall and Pewsey, Wiltshire, surgeons— Thomas Bill, Thomas Procter, and Roylauce Child, Tunstall, Staffordshire, china manu- facturers— Charles Willis and Edward Willis, Liverpool, gold and silver watch dial makers— Adam Cochrane and Pruddah Ivison, Newcastle- upon. Tyne, hat manufacturers— David Lloyd and Wil- liam Roberts, Leadeuliall- market, leather factors— William Dawson, late of Bramhope, Yorkshire, and William Johnson, Churwell, Yorkshire, coal miners— Richard Philp and Gosling Philp, Lindfield, Sussex, brewers— Sarah Hendry and Maria Hendry, 106, Great Portland- street, dealers in ladies wardrobes— Charles Roberts, George England, and James Simpson, Lancaster, ironfounders— James Prance, Eliza Smith, and Mary Smith, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, carpet manufacturers— George Dearlove, Joseph Thomas Fenton, Richard Fenton, and Samuel Jackson, Hunslet, Leeds, scribbling millers— John Fisher, Edward Fisher, Joseph Fisher, John Orr, William Orr, and Robert Orr, Longroyd Mills, Huddersfield, silk spinners ( so far as regards John Orr, Wiiliam Orr, and Robert Orr) — Thomas Capstick the elder and Thomas Capstick the younger, Manchester, coal merchants— Henry Edwards and Frederick B. Williams, 21, Bread- street- hill, chemical manufacturers. ASSIGNMENTS. Charles Cooper, Staplefield common, Sussex, blacksmith and inn- keeper. Robert Levick, Gutter- lane, lace manufacturer and commission agent. Elijah Robinson, Wisbcach, linen draper. Peter Saunders, Cresent, Minories, commission agent and ship and insurance broker. REPAIRING THE CONSTITUTION. BY REPAIRING the CONSTITUTION, the Advertiser means the HUMAN FRAME, which, by too free indulgence in momentary pleasures, destroys toe often the noble fabric of man, and tortures him through his whole existence; weakens his energies, and makes him un- fit to perform those functions which are required of him. Dr. FISCHELBERG, formerly of the Prussian army, who directs his entire study to those cases so frequent!) brought on by the indiscretion of youth and inebriety, and whose long and extensive practice on the baneful diseases arising from theabove causes, hasat length been so fortunate as to conquer, through his salutary and most valuable medicinal preparations, the most obstinate venereal diseases, and does with confidence assure the afflicted, that, by adhering to his- medicines, a complete cure may be relied on, for which he pledges bis reputation. Dr. F. may be consulted by both sexes with the greatest confidence, from nine in the morning till ten at night, and on Sundays from ten till two, at his Medical Establish- ment, No. 120, Snowhill, opposite the Coach and Horses Tavern, Birmingham, ( late of Christ Church Passage, New- street) where advice and medicines may be obtained. Tiie PILES successfully treated by internal medicines only. Dr. FISCHEI. BERG is the sole Proprietorof the highly celebrated Royal Prussian Herb Pills, for the cure ol the Venereal disease. Sold, with proper directions for use, in boxes at 2s. 9d. and 4s. 6d. each, duty included Agent, Mr. Caldicott, bookseller, Dudley- street, Wolverhampton. Letters from the country, post- paid, with particulars of the case, and enclosing a remittance, punctually attended to, and advice and medicines forwarded to any part of the kingdom. ggf Observe, No. 120, Snowhill, opposite the Coach and Horses Tavern. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. OCTOBER 4.— RICHARD BRIGGS, Running Horse public house, Davies- street, Hanover- square, licensed victualler. OCTOBER 5.— GEORGE SADLER, Carnaby. Btreet, Middlesex, linen draper. OCTOBERS THOMAS COMPSON, Halesowen, Shropshire, tan- ner. OCTOBER 9.— JOHN ANNELY, Commercial- wharf, St. Woolas, Monmouthshire, coal merchant, BANKRUPTS. JOHN HENRY NAINBY, 1- 28, Blackfriars. road, dealer in to. bacco, October 17 and November 21. Sol. Mr. Hare, 35, Great Jamee- street, Bedford- row. Vet. Cr. William Lambert, 29, York- street, Westminster, builder. Seal. October 6. THOMAS FOULKES, formerly of the Duke of Clarence public house, London- road, but now or late of the Bell public house, Bell- yard, Gracechurch- street, victualler, October 17 and No. vember 21. Sol. Mr. Davis, Charlotte- street, Bedford- row. Vet. Cr. David John Davis and Pheneas Davis, 3, Red Lion- square, Holborn, wine merchants. Seal. October 9. SAMUEL BULLEN, Norwich, linen draper, October 19 and No. vember 21, at the Castle Inn, St. Peter of Mancroft, Norwich. Sols. Mr. Andrew Storey, 5, Field. court, Gray's- inn, London; and Mr. W. L. Mendham, Norwich. Vet. Cr. John Bothwick Snowden, Norwich, linen draper. Seal. September 12. ROBERT FOULKES, Denbigh, North Wales, linen draper, Oc. tober 23 and November 21, at the Comraissioners'. rooius, Man. Chester. Sols. Messrs. Makinson and Sanders, 3, Elm. court, Middle Temple, London; and Messrs. Atkinson and Co., 3, Nor- folk- street, Manchester. Pet. Cr. Samuel aud James Watts, Manchester, merchants. Seal.- September 15. WILLIAM ANTHONY AUGUSTIN WEST, Eccleston, Lan. eashire, glass manufacturer, October 20 and November 21, at the Clarendon. rooms, Liverpool. Sols. Mr. E. Chester, Staple. inn, London; and Mr. John Barues, St. Helen's. Pet. Cr. Lee Wat. son, John Thompson, James Thompson, and Robert Dalgleish, sen. and jun., St, Helen's, Lancashire, brass and ironfounders. Seal. September 28. ROBERT ELLIS, Preston, Lancashire, cotton spinner, October 25 and November 21, at the Town- ball, Prestou. Sols. Messrs. Ad. Agents specially appointed Mr. Banks, chemist, Bull- ring; Mr. Shillitoe, chemist, High- street; Mr. Maher, No. 5, Congreve- street; Mr. D. Johnson, druggist, Smithfield; Mr. R. Matthison, and Co., booksellers, Edgbaston- street; Mr. Hudson, Philanthropist- office, each of Birmingham, have just received a supply of the annexed established medicine, now in great repute. SIMCO'S CHEMICAL ESSENCE of LINSEED, an infallible remedy for consumptive aud asthmatic coughs, colds, hoarseness, incipient coughs, and influenza. Sold ill bottles at Is. l^ d., 2s. 9d., and 4s. 6d. One 2s. 9d. bottle is equal to three bottles at Is. ljd. each. AomTloNAL RECOMMENOATIONS.— A Mrs. Tressler, residing in Bull- lane, Northampton, was afflicted in July, 1835, with a dreadful cough, and great pain in her side and chest; and she wishes the proprietor to make known to the public, that his Chemical Essence of Linseed quite cured her violent cough, and also the pains in lrer chest and side, and that she considers it the bestcough medicine ever prepared. John Foster, Kingsthorpe Lodge, desires that it may be made public that his wife was afflicted with a bad cold, which occa- sioned pains in all her limbs, and much fever and slight cough, with sore throat, which Simco's Chemical Essence of Linseed cured very speedily. If any person afflicted with a cold, will take two full- sized teaspoonsful of this Essence in a little warm rum and water at night, such person will, in the morning, find himself al- most well. The wonderful and surprising good effects in cases of influenza and coughs are well known ; abundant opportunities of late have been afforded, and nearly 1,000 bottles were sold by the proprietor, wholesale and retail, within fourteen days of the month of February, 1837. It is gaining universal patronage, and is highly spoken of; the extraordinary cures effected by it in Northampton have spread it far and wide. Prepared only by Samuel Simco, chemist, Northampton. See that the proprietor's signature is on the government stamp, pasted on the cork of each bottle. Sold wholesale by the vendors of Simco's Gout and Rheumatic Pills. Sold in London by Barclay and Sons, Farrjngdon- street; Bailey, Potter, and Co., Gal lick- hill; Sangar, 150, Oxford- street; Prout, 229, Strand; Butler, 4, Cheapside; Stirling/ Whitechapel; and by Manderand Weaver, Wolverhampton : JJr. D. Bullock, chemist, Prince's- 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. LONDON MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE, MONDAY, OCT. 9— Wheat, Essex Red, new, 40s to 50s ; line, 52s to 57s; old, 60s to 63s; white, new, 50s to 54s, fine, 56s to 58s; superfine, 5Ssto64s; old, 63s to 6( 53 Rye, 32s to- 353.— Barley, 26s to 30s; fine, 33s to 35s; superfine, — s to — s — Malt, 50s to 56s ; fine, 58s to 60s— Peas, Hog, 33s to 34s ; Maple, 35s to 36s; white, 36s to 38s; Boilers, 39s to 40s Beans, small, 38s to 40s; old, 42a to 43s; Ticks, 31s to 31sj old, 36s to 39s; Harrow,— s to— s Oats, feed, 22s to 24s; fine, 25s to 26s ; Poland, 24s to 26s; fine, 27s to 28s; Potatoe, 28s to 29s ; fine, 29s to 30s.— Bran, per quarter, 10s Od to 1 Is 0d._ Pollard, fine, per ditto, 14s. 20s. PRICE OF SEEDS, OCT. 9.— Per Cwt Red Clover, English, 55s to 63s ; fine, 65s to 70s ; Foreign, 52s to 60s; fine, 63sto68s White Clover, 55s to 60s ; fine, 65s to 70s.— Trefoil, now, 13s to 17s; fine, 18s to 21s ; old,— s to — s— Trefoliuin, 14s to 17s; fine, 18s to 21s. — Caraway, English, new, 44s to 48s ; Foreign, 46s to 50s— Coriander, 14s Od to 10s Od. Per Quarter— St. Foln, - s to — s ; fine,— s to— s; Rye Grass, — s to — s ; new, — s to — s ; Paeey Grass, — s to— s; Linseed for feeding, 48s to 50s ; fine, 52s to 56s ; ditto for crushing, 44s to 47s.— Canary, 38s to 42s.— Hemp, 40s to 46s. PerBushet— White MustardSeed, 10s0d tol2s0d; brown ditto, 12s Od to 14s ; Tares, 4s 3d to 4s 6d ; fine new, Win., 5s Od to5s 3d. Per Last.— Rape Seed, English, 31/ to 331; Foreign, 281 to 30(. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICE OF BRITISH CORN FOR THE WEEK ENDING OCT. 3, 1837.— Wheat, 56s 6d; Barley, 29s 5d; Oats, 23s Od; Rye, 328 4d; Beans, 40s 6d ; Peas, 36s 5d. DUTY ON FOREIGN CORN FOR THE PRESENT WEEK.— Wheat, 29S 8d ; Barley, 19s lOd ; Oats, 12s 3d; Rye, 16s 9d ; Beans, 9s 6d; Peas, 15s6J. HAY AN n STRAW.— Smithfield.— Hay, 80s Od to iOOsOdj Inferior, — s to— s; Clover, 80s to 115s; Inferior— s to— s; Straw, 36s to 40s. Whitechapel.— Clover, 120s to 130s ; new, 105s to 120a ; second cut, 70s to 95s ; Hay, 100 to 110s ; new ditto,— s to— s ; Wheat Straw, 32s to 38s. Cumberland.— Pine Upland Meadow and Rye- grass Hay, 106s to 110s; inferior ditto, 86s to 95s; superior Clover, 115s to !' 25s; Straw, 40s to 50s per load of 36 trusses, Portman Market.— Coarseheavy Lowland Hay,— sto s; new Meadow Hay, — s to— s ; old ditto, 80sto 105s; usefulditto,— sto — a ; New Clover ditto, — s to— s ; old ditto, 105s to 126s; Wheat Straw, 36s to 40s per load of 36 trusses. OILS.— Rape Oil, brown, £ 35 0s per ton ; Refined, £. 31 0s ; Linseed Oil, £ 29 08 ; and Rape Cake, £ B 0s Linseed Oil Cake, £ 12 12s per thousand. SMITHFIELD, OCT. 9.— To sink the offal— per 81b.— Beef, 3s 2d to 4s 8d ; Best Down and Polled Mutton, 4s Od to 4s 8d; Veal, 4s Od to 5s Od; Pork, 4s Od to 5s 6d ; Lamb, 5s Od to 0s Od. CORNS. DICKER'S OPIATE CORN PLAISTER, for the removal of Corns, Bunions, and all hard fleshy substances on the feet. It is admitted by the thousands who have tried it, and the most sceptical, to be the only remedy ever offered to public notice. It acts both as an opiate and solvent, by relieving the most excruciating pain, and gradually dissolving the callous or horny substance. Prepared only and sold by Wm. Dicker, chemist, 235, Strand, next door to Temple- bar, London, in boxes Is. l£ d. each. Sold by Knott, Gazette Office-, Wood, High- street; Flewitt, High- street; and Shillitoe, High- street, Birming- ham : Harper, Hodgkinson, and Roberts, Warwick : Stanley and Newby, Leamington : where likewise can be procured DICKER'S AROMATIC ESSENCE, an instant relief for the TOOTH- ACHE, in bottles at Is. l£ d. each. THEONLY CURE FOR CORNS AND BUNIONS. O AMSBOTTOM'S CORN and BUNION SOL- •-•' VENT. By the use of this valuable remedyimme- diate relief from pain is obtained, and by its successive application for ashortperiod, the mostobstinate Corns are entirely removed without recourseto the dangerous opera- tions of cutting or filing. The proprietor pledges himself that it does not contain caustic or any otherarticle that will inflame the skin; being white it will not stain the stocking; and the advantage it has over plaister is mani- fest, and fully appreciated, as the very high recommenda- tion bestowed upon it by every individual that has used it testifies. Price Is. ljd. 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'sCorn and Bunion Solvent. and to see that it has the signature of" S. Ramsbottom" written upon the label that is pasted on the outside of the wrapper ofevery genuine bottle, in addition to the name of the article, and words sold by Hannay and Co. 63, Oxford- street, being the name and address of the proprietor's wholesale agents. The following letter from Mr. John Winfield, of Bir- mingham, is one of many hundreds of the same tenor: — Gentlemen— Having read an advertisement in a Birmingham paper, I was induced to purchase from your agent, Mr. Maher, Ann- street, a bottle of Ramsbottom's Corn aud Bunion Solvent;— after a week'sapplication I found it had the desired effect. I have since re- commended it to many of my friends. You are at liberty to make any use you please of this communication.— Your obedient servant, Birmingham, August6,1836. JOHN WINFIELD. Soldbyappointmentby M. Maher, 5, Congreve- street, and W. Wood, Bookseller, High- street, Birmingham ; Parke, Wolverhampton; Rogers, Stafford; Mort, Newcastle; Mer- ridew, Coventry; Dicey, Northampton. Agents specially appointeil Mr. Banks, chemist, Bull- ring; Mr. Shillitoe, chemist, High- street; Mr. Maher, No. 5, Congreve- street ; Mr. D. Johnson, druggist, Smithfield ; R. Matthison and Co., booksellers, Edgbaston- street; Mr. Hudson, Philanthropist- office, each of Birmingham, have just received a supply of the annexed established medicine, now in great repute. SIMCO'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PILLS, per box. Sold wholesale by Barclay and Sons, London. Various additional proofs of the efficacy of this medicine. Copy of a letter from Mr. Brown, medicine vendor, Broad- street, Reading. March 23rd, 1836. To Mr. SIMCO.— SIR,— Inclosed you will receive a .£ 10 note as a payment of my account; and please to send me by first conveyance ( as I have not a box of your Gout and Rheumatic Pills left) sixteen dozen of 13* d., aud nine dozen of 2s. 9d. boxes. I find a brisk sale for your Pills— wherever they go they recommend themselves. I have sent them into nine separate counties ; persons are frequently calling to state to me the good and beneficial effects of your valuable Pills ; several call in their carriages, and all declare yours to be the best Gout and Rheumatic medicine ever yet invented. I could send you a vast number of cases of cures, but at present 1 will confine myself to a few only, which are as follow :— Farmer Illsbey's son and daughter, of Strathfieldsaye; these had previously been long under medical treatment, with no good purpose. Two farmers at Mortimer, Berks. Two tradesmen at Twyford, near Reading. Two brothers of the name of Johnson, cattle dealers, at Reading. Three respectable victuallers, or publicans, at Henley- on- Thames. A gentlemau's butler of the same place ; Captain Othy, of Reading ; Mrs. Jayer, Reading; Misa Pocock, Reading, five years afflicted with Rheumatic Gout, and disabled, but can now take a three miles walk with ease. Isaac Brew, cured with two 13Jd. boxes. The above account you are at liberty to publish ; and if any one wishes for a recommendation respecting Simco's Gout and Rheumatic Pills, let them only write a letter to either of the parties herein. named, or to me, when such will receive a satisfactory account of their efficacy, tor their good effects are known throughout Reading and neigh, bourhood; your Pills are highly esteemed, and no other Gout medicine will sell here; please not to forget sending my order im- mediately. Simco's Gout and Rheumatic Pills are prepared only by Samuel Simco, chemist and druggist, Northampton. Sold in London by eaeh of the wholesale medicine houses, and ma) be had of every medicine vendor in the Kingdom, in boxes at 13Jd. and 2s. 9d. each ; a 13Jd. box contains doses for five days, and a 2s. 9d. box doses for fifteen days— and is the safest, the cheapest, and most effectual remedy ever discovered and prepared for the cure of Gout, Rheumatic Gout, and Rheumatism. None can possibly be genuine, unless the proprietor's signature is written on the government stamp pasted round each box. 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 Manderand 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. BLAIItS GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PILLS. ANOTHER extraordinary cure of Rheumatic Gout, from Lincolnshire, communicated by Mr, Noble, the general agent for that county. To Mr. Prout. 229, Strand, London. Boston, April 26, 1& 37. SIR,— Among the numerous instances which have come to ray knowledge of the beneficial effects produced by the use of Blair's in- valuable Gout and Rheumatic Pills, the following is so striking and so well authenticated, that ( with permission of the parties) I send it to you for publication in any way you may think proper. Mary Barton, of Bolingbroke, in this county, aged sixty- seven, had been for twenty mouths afflicted in a violent degree with Rheumatic Gout. Her joints were so swollen, and her fingers contracted and stiffened to such an extent, that she was unable to get into or out of bed, or even to dress or undress herself, without assistance ; and so excruciating was the pain and agony she endured, that sleep was to herself and husband almost a stranger. She despaired of relief, and much more of a cure, deeming her case hopeless. A benevolent gentleman residing in the village, hearing of her afflicted condition, visited her, and presented to her a box of BLAIR'S PILLS, by taking half of which she was greatly relieved, and two boxes completely restored her; so that from being an afflicted helpless cripple, she is now blithe and hearty, being able to perform all her household work • ty a manner that surprises her neighbours. For the truth of these statements I have permission to refer ( if bv letter, p03t paid) to W. E. Emmit, Esq., and Mr. Thomas Brackenbury, draper and grocer, ( sub- agent for the sale of the Pills) both of Bolingbroke. Wishing health and long life to yourself, I remain, sir, your obedient servant, J. NOBLE, Agent at Boston. These Pills are taken without the least care or attention, by either sex, young or old, and have the peculiar property of entirely removing the disease, without debilitating the frame, which is universally left in a strongerand better state than before the malady commenced. And there is another most important effect belonging to this medicine— that it prevents the disease flying to the brain, stomach, or other vital part. Sold by Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London ; and by bis appointment, by Wood, Shillitoe, Sumner and Portal, Collins and Co., Humphries, Smith, Suffield, Flewitt, Ed- wards, Matthison, Gazette and Advertiser offices, Birming- ham ; Shillitoe, ( late Cowell) Westbromwich ; Turner and Hollier, and Morris, Dudley ; Valentine and Thorsby, Wal- sall; Mander and Co., and Simpson, Wolverhampton; Davis, Atherstone; Morgan, Lichfield ; Harding, Shiffnall; Pennell and Stewart, Kidderminster; Morris, Bevvdley; Maund, Bromsgrove; Harper, Hodgkinson, Bayley and Roberts, Warwick; and all respectable medicine venders throughout the United Kingdom, price 2s. 9. per box. Ask for Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills ; and observe the name and address of" Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, Lon- don," impressed upon the Government Stamp affixed to each box of the genuine medicine. INFALLIBLE HAIR DYE. AMONGST the number of compositions, advertised under various names as Hair Dyes, the only one that has stood the test of experience and proved as infalli- ble as it is efficacious, is AGID HASSAN'S celebrated, simple, and unerring CIRCASSIAN HAIR DYE, whicl will, in a few hours, change light, red, or grey hair, eye brows, lashes, whiskers, and mastachios, to a rich auburn, or jet black, or any shade between ; giving a fine glossy appearance, without injuring the hair, discolouring the skin or linen, also being free from the purple hue ( even in the rays of tiie sun) which the other dyes impart. It is not less valuable to officers of the army, gentlemen of the turf, and all persons interested in the perfect appearance of that beautiful animal the horse; removing what is tech- nically termed " White Stockings." Sold wholesale by W. DAY and Co., at their old Italian warehouse, the Black Boy, No. 95, Gracechurch- street, and retail by the following Agents:— Mr. Aucott, per- fumer, New- street, Birmingham; Mr. Saunders, per- fumer, Warwick; Messrs. Price and Wood, perfumers, Leamington ; Messrs. Stephens and Son, perfumers, Alcester ; Mr. Vernal], perfumer, Worcester; in bottles, at 5s., 10s., and 15s. each, having proper directions how to use the same, with a fac- simile of the signature of Agid Hassan; also that of W. Day and Co. All without hese are counterfeit. FRANKS'S SPECIFIC SOLUTION OF COPAIBA. ACERTAIN and most speedy cure for all Urethra, Discharges, Gleets, Spasmodic Strictures, Irritation of the Kidneys, Bladder, Urethra and Prostate Gland. TESTIMONIALS. From Joseph Henry Green, Esq., F. R. S., one of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons, Surgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital, and Professor of Surgery in King's College, London, " I have made trial of Mr. Franks's Solution of Copaiba, at St. Thomas's Hospital, in a variety of cases of discharges in the male and female, and the results warrant my stating, that it is an effica- cious remedy, and one which does not produce the usual unpleasant effects of Copaiba. ( Signed,) JOSEPH HENRY GREEN. 46, Lincoin's. inn- tields, April 25, T835. From Bransby Cooper, Esq., F. R. S-, Surgeon to Guy's Hospital, and Lectureron Anatomy, & c., & c, Mr. Bransby Cooper presents his compliments to Mr. George Franks, and has great pleasure in bearing testimony of the efficacy of his Solution of Copaiba, in Gonorrlnea, for which disease Mr. Cooper has prescribed the Solution in ten or twelve cases with per- fect success. New- street, Spring Gardens, April 13,1835. From William Hentseh, Esq., House Surgeon to the Free Hospital, Greville- street, Ilatton street. My dear Sir,— I have given your medicine in many cases of Go- norrhcea and Gleets, some of which had been many months under other treatment, and can bear testimony to its great efficacy. 1 have found it to cure in a much shorter time, and with more benefit to the general health, than any other mode of treatment I know of; the generality of cases have been cured within a week from the commencement of taking the Medicine, and some of them in less time than that. Have the goodness to send me another supply. I am, dear sir, your's, very truly, ( Signed) WILLIAM HENTSCII. Greville. street, Hatton. garden, April 15,1835. Prepared only by George Franks, surgeon, 90, Black- friars- road, and may be had of his Agents, Barclay and Sons, Farringdon- street, London; Evans, Son and Co., Fenwick- street, Liverpool; Mander, Weaver, and Co., Wolverhamp- ton; at the Medical Hall, 54, Lower Sackviile- street, Dub- lin; of J. and R. Raimes, Leith- walk, Edinburgh; and of all Wholesale and Retail Patent Medicine Venders in the United Kingdom. Sold in bottles at 2s. 9d., 4s., 6d., aud lis. each, duty included. Caution.— To prevent imposition, the Honourable Com- missioners of Stamps have directed the name of " George Franks, Blackfriars- road," to be engraven on the Govern- ment Stamp. N. B Hospitals, and other Medical Charities, supplied as usual from the Propiietor. iSgT Mr. Franks maybe consulted every day, as usual, uniil Two o'clock. Sold by appointment, by Mr. Maher, 5, Congreve- strect, Birmingham; Merridew, Coventry; Owen and Gerdes, Liverpool; Bowman and Law, Manchester; and Deighton and Co., Betterby, York. MESSRS. PERRY and Co., Surgeons, may be personally consulted from nine in tiie 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, BALE- STREET, near St. Peter's Church, MANCHESTER, of whom maybe 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 uretha, and other diseases of the urinary passages, frequently per- forming a perfect cure in the short space of three days, with ease, secrecy, and safety. Their operation is imper. ceptible ; they do not require the slightest confinement, or any alteration of diet, beverage, or exercise. Neither do they disagree with the stomach, or cause any offensive smell to the breath, as is the case with Copaiba and Cubebs, when administered by medical men in the usual way. PERRY'S VEGETABLE PILLS are well known as a certain and effectual remedy for the Venereal disease, secondary symptoms, venereal eruptions, pains in the bones, ulcerated sore throats, diseased nose, cbronic rheumatism, scrofula, scorbutic and glandular affections, local 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 venereal 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 bead, 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, and 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 who have given way to this delusive and destructive habit. In that distressing state of debility or deficiency, whether the consequence of such baneful practices, excessive 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 till ten at night, and on Sundays from nine till two, and will give advice to persons taking the above, or any other of their preparations, without a fee, at No. 4, Great Charles- street, four doors from Easy- row, 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. Lettersf rom the country ( post- paid), containing a remit- tance for medicine, will be immediately answered. 4 SHLEY COOPER'S BOTANICAL PURIFY- ING PILLS are established by tiiirty years'experi- ence, are prescribed by most of the eminent Physicians and Surgeons in London, and are always administered at several public hospitals, as the only certain remedy for Gonorrhoea, Gleets, Strictures, and all other forms of Ve- nereal diseases, in either sex, curing in a few days, by one small pill for a dose, with ease, secrecy, and safety. Their operation is imperceptible, they do not require the slightest confinement, or any alteration of diet, beverage or exercise. They do not disagree with the stomach, nor cause any offensive smell to the breath, as is the case with all other medicines in use for these complaints, and alter 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 recourseto these pills, as the only certain cure. They are likewise a most efficient remedy for Pimpled Faces, Scurf, Scorbutic Affections, and all Eruptions of the Skin. Captains of vessels should make a point of always taking them to sea, their unrivalled effi- cacy in curing Scurvy being known throughout the world. The following letter selected from numerous other pro- essional recommendations forwarded to the proprietor when, he first offered these pills to the public, may be considered interesting. From that eminent surgeon, the late Joshua Brookes, Esq., F. R. S., Professor of Anatomy, & c. & c. Theatre of Anatomy, Blenheim- street. Dear Cooper,— I have tried your pills in numerous instances, and my candid opinion is that they are a most improved system of treat- ment for those peculiar complaints for which you recommend them, curing with rapidity, and with a certainty that I had never before witnessed; but what I consider their most invaluable property is, that they entirely eradicate the complaint, and never leave those dis- tressing secondary symptoms ( that harass the patient for life) which usually arise after the use of those uncertain remedies, Mercury and Copaiba. I think you cannot fail to have a very large sale for them. Believe me, yours, very truly, JOSHUA BROOKES. Ashley Cooper's Botanical Purifying Pills are sold in boxes at 2s. 9d. and 4s. 6d. each, wholesale and retail, at HANNAY and Co.' s General Patent Medicine Warehouse, 63, Oxford- street, the corner of Wells- street, London, where the public can besupplied with every Patent Medi- cine of repute, ( with an allowance on taking six at one time) warranted genuine and fresh from the various makers. Orders by post, containing aremittance, punctuallyattended to, and the change, if any, can be returned with the order. Ashley Cooper's Botanical Pills are sold by one or more respectable venders in every town in the kingdom, and any shop that has not got them will obtain them from London without any extra charge. Country shops can obtain them through any of the London booksellers. Sold by appointment by M. Maher, 5, Congreve- street, and Wood, Bookseller, High- street, Birmingham ; Parker, Wolverhampton; Rogers, Stafford; Mort, Newcastle; and Merridew, Coventry. MULREADDY'S COUGH ELIXIR. ONE dose is sufficient to convince the most scrupu- lous of the invaluable and unfailing efficacy of Mul- readdy's Cough Elixir, for the cure of coughs, colds, hoarseness, shortness of breath, asthma, difficulty of breathing, huskiness, and unpleasant tickling in the throat, night cough, with pain on the chest, & c. The paramount superiority of this medicine above every other now in use, for the cure of lhe 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 Bent me is certainly a most surprising remedy; six days ago I was unable to breathe, unless with great difficulty, attended with much coughing, which always kept my soft palate relaxed, and in A state of irritation, aud the more I coughed the worseit was, and it, in its own turn, produced a constant excitement of coughing. I am now about, to the wonder of ray friends and neighbours, entirely free from cough. One small phial of your inestimable medicine, teu years back; would have saved me not less than £ 3,000 in medical fees, but it would have done more— it would have saved my having had to swallow, from time to time, upwards of a hogshead of their nauseous, and, as they all proved, useless drugs. The agreeable flavour of the medicine is a great recommendation: I think you ought to put it up aHd sell it to the public, and if any one should doubt its efficacy, refer them to me. I shall have the pleasure of being with you in a few days, when I shall press on your consideration the propriety of making it up for sale ; it would prove an enormous fortune to your grand- children. If you make up your mind to do so, as I am what the world styles an idle man, you may enlist me inyour service in any way that you think would be useful. But I should advise you to place the management in the hands of one of the great medicine houses in London. Hannay's, in Oxford. street, are being advertised in all the papers here, as wholesale agents for Ramsbottom's Corn Solvent, which, by the bye, my girh alt say is really a care, and many other medicines. I should say this would be a very good house, Oxford street being one of the most public situations in Lon- don. All join me in kind remembrance to yourself aud Mrs. M. Believe me, yours, very truly, T. Mulreaddy, Esq. ROBERT GRANT. Golden Lion Hotel, Liverpool. Sir— To my astonishment, the other day, I had a visit from my old and esteemed friend, Mr. Hughes, whom 1 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 towards coughing; he now tells me that you are his oracle of health; I, therefore, beg leave to present my report at head- quarters, with many thanks, and trust that I may be able to prevail on you to let me have half, or a whole pint of the medicine to stow in my sea. chest, as I sail sgain 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. BUCUANAN. Master of the Brig Nancy, of OrleanB. T. Mulreaddy, Esq. Birkenhead, Jan., 1835. Dear Sir,— The bottle of Medicine you left for me the other day has greatly relieved the wheezing I have been so long subject to ; and I do not now find the cold produce the sensation it used previous to taking your medicine ; it used formerly to nip me on going out, and I seemed as though 1 bad a string run through my body, aud ike breast and back bones were drawn together. If you will be 80 good as to give me another bottle, I am sure it will work a perfect cure. I am, sir, your most obedient servant, T. Mulreaddy, Esq. NICHOLAS BROWN. Dear Sir,— The effect of your medicine, in curing our children of the Hooping Cough, has been like magic, for which I, and MrB. 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 Bociety for presenting it with such an invaluable cure for Coughs. For years past, during the winter mouths, and aiways on foggy days, have I heretofore been compelled to confine myself a close aud soli- tary prisoner in my library, to prevent the possibility of being tempted to join in conversation, the excitement of which always produced such violent paroxysms of coughing, that I have been in constant dread of sudden dissolution, by bursting of ft blood- vessel. At the commencement of the present season, by your kind liberality, I com- menced taking the medicine you sent, and have taken twelve bottles. After I had taken three, I could respire as vigourously as in the early part of my life, and I now believe that 1 was then perfectly cured— a cure not to have been cxpected at my advanced age, 80 years— but I persevered in taking it until I had consumed the whole twelve bottles. Your situation in life, I know, places you beyond the necessity of preparing an article of the kind for Bale, 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 t » the boundless waters; and you may rely upon it, that I, a locomotive proof of its wonderful power, will spare neither time nor trouble to promulgate its efficacy, until you will find your cottage attacked by myriads of my former fellow- sufferers, for a share of your bounty, and I myBelf now apply for the first, trusting that your goodness will not suffer you to refuse me a pretty considerable quantity, and I promise to distribute it most usefully. Whenever you have made up for sale, send me one thou* sand bottles. Ever your sincere well- wisher, T. Mulreaddy, Esq. W. HUGHES. Chester, 12mo., 1834. Esteemed Friend,— Thou hast my sincere thanks for thy Samaritan present. Thy medicine has had the promised effect, and com- pletely cured my trying cough. If thou wilt let me have a quantity 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 bis 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. ( g^* Purchasers should observe that it is wrapped up in white paper, on which, in a blue label with white etters, are printed the words,— Mulreaddy's Cough Elixir, pre- pared by Thomas Mulreaddy, Liverpool, and sold byliisap- pointment at Hannay and Co.' s, Patent Medicine Ware- house, 63, Oxford- street, London. Price Is. l^ d. and 4s. 6d. Sold wholesale and retail by HANNAY and Co., 63, Oxford street, London, wholesale Patent Medicine Ven- ders and Perfumers to the Royal Family, where the public can be supplied with every patent and public medicine of repute; and also with the perfumes of all 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; Mort, Newcastle; and Merridew, Coventry. Printed and published by FRANCIS BASSET SHENSTONK FLINDELL, of Lee Mount, in the parish of Edgbaston, at 38, New- street, Birmingham, where letters for the Editor may be addressed, and where Advertisements and Orders will be received. ( All descriptions of Jobbing carefully and expeditiously executed.) Agents in Lon- don: Messrs. NEWTON and Co., 5, Warwick- square; and Mr. BARKER, 33, Fleet- street.— Saturday, October 14,1837.