tvmt No. 689. SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1838. PRICE NATIONAL RENT- NATIONAL CONVENTION This day is published, AFULL and accurate Report of the Proceeding's at the GREAT MIDLAND DEMONSTRA- TION at Holloway Head, Birmingham, on Monday, August 6th, 1838, with the Resolutions, including a copy of the National Petition. Price Twopence, or for general distribution, Twelve • Shillings a hundred. The very great importance of the first meeting for the ap- pointment of Delegates to the National Convention, and fix- ing a National Rent, have induced the proprietor of the Birmingham Journal to publish the Report in a cheap and convenient form for universal perusal. To be had at the Journal Office, to which orders may be addressed; and of all Newsvendors of Birmingham and its neighbourhood. THE GREAT MIDLAND DEMONSTRATION. AT a MEETING of the COUNCIL of the BIR- MINGHAM POLITICAL UNION, held at the Public- office, on Tuesday, August 14th, 1838, It was resolved unanimously, That this council feel it a grateful duty to offer their most cordial thanks to those bodies of Reformers, who, by their attendance at the great meeting on the 6th of August, from various towns and districts, gave so convincing a proof of their determination to make every sacrifice which the glori- ous cause of Reform may require at their hands. P. H. MUNTZ, Chairman, JOSEPH HOLL, Secretary. BIRMINGHAM AND DERITEND GENERAL SELF- SUPPORTING DISPENSARY. THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the subscribers to this Institution, will be held at the Public- Office, on Tuesday, August 28, 1838, the chair to be taken at Twelve o'clock precisely. At this meeting an election will take place for a Surgeon, in the place of Mr. Aaron, who has resigned. Candidates are requested to send their testimonials ( ad- dressed to the Medical Committee), to Mr. ALLEN'S, Ben- nett's- hill, on or before Monday next, the 20th inst. W. SANDERS, Honorary Secretary. Public Office, August 17, 1838. AT a MEETING of the RATED INHABITANTS of the Town, duly called by advertisements in the Birmingham newspapers, the accounts of the present Con- stables and Headborough, Messrs. Taylor, Peart, and Powell, for the third quarter of the year of their office were presented. Mr. JOHN HOLLINGSWORTH, in the Chair. The Chairman having read the items in Mr. Peart's ac- count, amounting to £ 1808s. Id., Resolved, That the same be allowed and passed. Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be advertised in the usual manner. JOHN HOLLINGS WORTH, Chairman. Resolved, That the thanks of this meeting be given to the chairman. CARVING AND GILDING, PICTURE FRAME AND LOOKING GLASS MANUFACTORY. ASAVING of at least twenty per cent, upon every article connected with the above, at TURNER'S, SO, PARADISE. STREET, Birmingham. Portrait Frames £ 1 9s., usually charged £ 2 2s. MONEY.—£ 20,000, in Sums of not less than £ 2,000 at 4 per cent., and £ 600 at 5 per cent., ready for INVESTMENT upon approved SECURITIES. Apply, if by letter, post paid, to Mr. JOHN HORTON, Soli- citor, No. 208, Bradford- street, Birmingham. PONY PH/ ETON. TO BE SOLD, suitable for an invalid or an ag- ed couple, a Pony Phaeton, Pony, and Harness complete, price £ 15. May be seen at No. 28, Broad- street, Islington. TRADE FOR SALE. AFEW Hundred Pounds may be applied in an OLD ESTABLISHED MANUFACTURING BUSINESS, where the profits are good and the connec- tion of the highest respectability. If required, a part of the money may remain for a time. Apply, if by fetter, post paid, to Mr. ALLCOCK, Solicitor, Union- street. HOCKLEY ABBEY; TO be LET, on Lease, or from year to year, the de- lightful Residence called HOCKLEY ABBEY, con- taining spacious dining and drawing- rooms, eight bed- rooms, water- closet, kitchen, pantry, dairy, & c., with stable, coach- house, walled garden, lawn, and about Fourteen Acres of rich Meadow Land. The pleasure grounds ad- join the estate of Matthew Boulton, Esq., and the house is distant about one mile from the centre of the town of Bir- mingham. For rent and particulars apply to Mr. DUGDALE HOUGH- TON, Land Agent, Paradise- street, Birmingham. TO BE LET, tog- ether or separately, TWO VAULTS, and a ROOM for an OFFICE, situated at the bottom of Cannon- street. Apply to Mr. WARDEN, 1, Broad- street, Birmingham. Elegant modern HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, LI- NEN, PLATE, PIANO- FORTE, by Clementi; China, Glass, Kitchen Requisites, Brewing Vessels, SURGERY Effects, handsome PHAETON, nearly new, and under the duty; capital GREY HORSE, seven years old, quiet to ride, and has been driven four and a half years without winkers; a handsome BAY COB, seven years old, very quiet in harness; Saddles, Bridles, Harness, and other valuable property, in High- street, opposite Deritend Chapel. rpO be SOLD by AUCTION, on the Premises, A on Monday and Tuesday next, the 20th and 21st days of August inst., part of the elegant and modern HOUSE- HOLD FURNITURE and Effects, of Mr. Aaron, surgeon, who is removing to a distance. Also, will be SOLD, on Wednesday, the 22nd of August, the valuable Surgical Instruments and Utensils, Tincture and Powder Bottles, Drugs, & c., together with a small but select Library of choice Books, in Surgery and Miscellaneous Li- terature, amongst which will be found the works of Cooper, Bell, Abernethy, Blumenhach, and other celebrated medical authors. Also, a splendid large paper copy of the British Portrait Gallery, No. 1 to 61, with proof impressions of the plates, on India paper, equal to new, Valpy's edition ol Shakspeare's complete works, Lewis's Topograghy of England, Gibbon's Roman Empire, & c., & c. Maybe viewed this day ( Saturday), from ten till five o'clock, with catalogues, which may be had of JOHN RODERICK, Auctioneer. Offices, New- street and Bennett's- hill. Household Furniture, Brewing Vessels, 200 Bushels of prime Malt, and other property, at the Red Lion High street, corner of Dale end and Meeting- street, Birmingham. TO be SOLD by AUCTION, on the premises, on Friday next, the 24th day of August, commencing at Ten o'clock.— Particulars will appear in catalogues on Tuesday next, to be had on the premises and of JOHN RODERICK, Auctioneer. Offices, New- street and Bennet's hill. N. B. On sale many old- established Public- houses, li- censed by the magistrates, in various parts of Birmingham and its neighbourhood. Coming- in from £ 200 to £ 1400. For particulars see the list at his offices. PROFESSOR CALVERT'S LECTURES ON ORATORY, AT THE PHILOSOPHICAL LECTURE ROOM, CANNON STREET, BIRMINGHAM. ON TUESDAY EVENING NEXT, ( August 21) at half past seven o'clock, PRO FESSO R C ALVE RT, A. M., King's College, Aberdeen, will commence a course of Eight Lectures on ORATORY, ( substantially the same as delivered to the University of Cambridge, and the pre- sent year to the Chancery Lane and Mary le bone Institu- tions, London,) and continue them on the 23rd, 24th, 28th, 30th, and 31st inst., and the 4th and 5th of September. Ticket for the Course \ l. Is.; Family Tickets, 27.2s.; Single Lecture, 3s.; Course Ticket for Children and Mem- bers of Schools, 5s.; Single Ticket, Is.; at the Booksellers. The body of the Lecture Room will be set apart for Subscribers and Tickets. The Gallery will be open to the Public at Is. each. DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP AND REMOVAL FROM TEMPLE- ROW WEST, COLMORE- ROW, TO NEW- STREET. WILLIAM BOULTON begs to offer his grateful acknowledgments to the Ladies of Birmingham and its vicinity for the very kind patronage he has received from them during a partnership with his brother for eight years. W. B. takes this opportunity of informing those Ladies and the public generally, that the term of their Partnership has expired, and that he ha6 taken those eligible and exten- sive Premises lately occupied by Messrs. R. Gem and Sons, Attorneys, New- street, which he intends opening very early in the autumn on his own account, when he respectfully so- licits in part a continuance of their support. Birmingham, August, 1838. TO UPHOLSTERERS AND CABINETMAKERS. AN OLD- ESTABLISHED BUSINESS in the above line, may be taken to on very advantageous terms, at a large town, fifty miles from London. The business has been carried on for many years by the present Proprietor, who is retiring, and there is a good connexion, which may be greatly extended by an active man. For particulars, apply to No. 9, Moor- atreet, Birming- ham. TO PRINTERS, & c. ARESPECTABLE young man ( single) is offered an unexceptionable OPPORTUNITY of COM- MENCING in the A. BOVE LINE. The office is well stocked, old- established, and situated in a populous town in Shropshire. The proprietor's sole object is to relieve him- self of the pressure of some of the details of his business, and can materially assist a steady, active young man in ob- taining a livelihood with a trifling outlay of capital, Co, Apply personally, or post paid, to Messrs. EVANS and 3., Paper- manufacturers, 9, Moor- street, Birmingham. BIRMINGHAM TIN- PLATE COMPANY. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. AT a MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS in the BIRMINGHAM TIN- PLATE COMPANY, held at Dee's Royal Hotel, Birmingham, on the 8th day of August, 1838, SAMUEL EVERS, Esq., in the Chair, the Directors handed in their report, which was read by the Manager, whereupon it was Resolved unanimously,— That the report now read be ap- proved and adopted. Resolved,— That the acts of the Directors for the past year be confirmed; and that they be requested to accept the best thanks of this meeting for their valuable services. Resolved,— That the Directors for the ensuing year be chosen, and that the vote be taken by ballot. Mr. John Rawlins, having been requested to receive and examine the voles, declared the following gentlemen to be duly elected, viz.: — Mr. George Jones, Mr. Hemy Downing, Mr. Samuel A. Goddard. Mr. Henry Van Wart, Mr. Samuel Evers, Mr. James Barlow, Josh. Scholefield, Esq., M. P. Resolved,— That a dividend of five per cent, upon the paid up capital of the Company be declared, payable at the Com- pany's office, 50, Newhall- street, on the 17th of October next. Resolved,— That the report and the resolutions of this meeting be printed, and a copy handed to each shareholder. SAMUEL EVERS, Chairman. The Chairman having left the chair, and the same having been taken by Joshua Scholefield, Esq., Resolved,— That the best thanks of this meeting be pre- sented to Samuel Evers, Esq., for his able and efficient conduct in the chair. JOSHUA SCHOLEFIELD. ANNUAL NOTICE. BIRMINGHAM TIN PLATE COMPANY. Capital, £ 40,000, in 4,000 shares of £ 10 each. NOTICE is hereby given, that the Board of Di- rectors for the time being of this Company, have the entire ordering of the affairs thereof; and that the whole property, estate, and effects, are vested in the trustees. And also, that all Contracts and Sales must be made by the Manager, Deputy Manager, or by the Directors. And that all bills or notes which may be given by, or on account of the Company, will he accepted or drawn, re- spectively by the Manager and two Directors, or by three Directors. And also, that all bonds and other specialities, bills, notes, securities, and agreements to he given to, or in favour of, or entered into with the said Company, must be given to or entered into with the Directors, and must, before negotiating or paying away, be indorsed by the Manager and two Di- rectors, or by three Directors. And also, that advices for the payment of bills and accept- ances, and discharges for the payment of accounts, must be signed by the Manager and two Directors, or by three Di- rectors. And notice is hereby further given, that no shareholder or shareholders in the said Company, or any other person or persons, except the persons in the above regulations named, and they only to the extent therein mentioned, are or is authorised or empowered, on any account or pretence, to pledge or use the name, style, or firm of the said Company, in any manner or on any account whatsoever. And notice is hereby further given, that the Board of Di- rectors for the time being are appointed Trustees. HENRY VAN WART, SAMUEL EVERS, JAMES BARLOW, JOSHUA SCHOLEFIELD, rDirectors. GEORGE JONES, HENRY DOWNING, S. A. GODDARD. Birmingham, August 8, 1838. TO CORN MERCHANTS, MILLERS, FARMERS, MALTSTERS, & c. IN a season like the present, the MARK- LANE EXPRESS will be found invaluable to all persons in- terested in grain, as the greatest fluctuation is daily taking place in Wheat, and IMMENSE SPECULATION exists in the CORN TRADE generally: it is of great importance to obtain the fullest, most authentic, and latest state of the markets, which can only be had in the " MARK- LANE EXPRESS," as it is published in London every Monday evening, Two HOURS LATER than any other newspaper. It will contain all the proceedings of the " English Agricultural Society," with every new improvement in agriculture. May be had, by order, of all booksellers and newsmen. Office, 24, Norfolk- street, Strand, London. MONEY. £ 16,850 MONEY READY to he advanced upon Freehold, Copyhold, or long Leasehold Property, at a Reduced Rate of Interest. £ 13,690— Upon Reversionary or Church Property, & c. As this Money belongs to Trust Estates, the Money may be allowed to remain in the borrower's hands for any num- ber of years. £ 10,870— Upon respectable personal security alone, in sums from £ 200, £ 300, £ 500, or not exceeding £ 700, upon very moderate terms. Letters, post paid, directed to A. B., Villers- street, Old Kent Road, London, will always meet immediate and con- fidential attention. MR. STRAUSS' GRAND CONCERT. MR. STRAUSS, THE CELEBRATED WALTZ COMPOSER, OF VIENNA, RESPECTFULLY informs the Nobility, Gentry, and the Public of Birmingham and its neighbourhood, that he will have the honour to give a SECOND GRAND CONCERT, AT THE TOWN HALL, BIRMINGHAM, On MpNDAY, AUGUST 27, 1838, J WITH HIS SPLENDID BAND OF TWENTY. EIGHT PERFORMERS. Tickets of Admission to the Floor of the Hall, and the Great Gallery, to be had at all the Music Shops. The Side Galleries will be appropriated for Reserved Seats, the plans of which may be inspected at Mr. Fletcher's Music Warehouse, Temple- row, whereseats may be secured. Full particulars will he given in future advertisements. GRAND CONCERT, IN THE TOWN HALL, BIRMINGHAM. MR. HOLLINS HAS the honour to announce that his FIRST BE- NEFIT CONCERT is fixed for the Evening of THURSDAY, AUGUST 30. PATRON, His Royal Highness the DUKE of CAMBRIDGE. Principal Vocal Performers, MISS BIRCH, Who will on this occasion sing the following Songs:— " O Love! for me thy power," BELLINI. " Mad Bess," . _ PURCELL. " Lo! here the gentle Lark," ™ . ™ . BISHOP. MISS HOLMES, Who will perform tivo of her greatest pieces, viz.: " Ah, s'estinto ancor," MIRCADANTE. AND " O bid your faithful Ariel fly," LINLEY. She will also Sing, with Miss BIR CH, the Duet of " One rosy smile." MR. BAKER, MR. PEARSALL, MR. MACHIN, AND SIGNOR LABLACHE, Who will perform his three greatest efforts: — " Sanctum et terribile," PERGOLESI. " Largo al Factotum," ROSSINI. And the Duet, with Mr. MA CHIN, " Suone la trombe," ™ . BELLINI. Leader of the Band, MR. HENRY SHARGOOL. Conductor, MR. MUNDEN. At the Organ, A1R. HOLLINS. Tickets to the Floor 2s. 6d., and to the Great Gallery 4s., to be had at all the Music Shops, and the principal Book- sellers. In consequence of the great demand for reserved platjes, it is found necessary to reserve a considerable portion of the President's Gallery. Plans of the Hall may be inspected at Messrs. ALLEN and LYON'S, Bennett's- hill, where reserved places may be secured. THE TOWN HALL, BIRMINGHAM. MORI'S CONCERT. SPLENDID combination of talent from Her Ma- jesty's Theatre, London. MADAME ALBERTAZZI, The celebrated Prima Donna of Her Majesty's Theatre. SIGNOR IVANOFF, The celebrated Tenor Singer of Her Majesty's Theatre. SIGNOR F. LABLACHE, The eminent Basso Cantante, from Her Majesty's Theatre. MR. MORI, Leader of Her Majesty's Theatre and of the London Concerts. By the kind permission of Col. TOWNSEND, THE ADMIRABLE BAND OF THE FOUR- TEENTH DRAGOONS. CONDUCTOR— MR. LAVENU, of Her Majesty's Theatre. Mr. MORI, anxious to provide for the public the highest Musical Entertainment that can be procured, has great pleasure in being enabled to announce, that he has had the good fortune to prevail upon the above Splendid Artists to visit the principal towns, daring the short interval prior to their departure to fulfil their engagement at the Theatre Italien at Paris, and that in consequence he will give a GRAND CONCERT, On Monday, September 3rd, 1838, to commence at eight o'clock. The programme will consist of selections from the follow- ing Operas:— Lucia di Lammermoor, Falstaff, I Puritani, L' Elisir D' Amore, Cenerentola, Marino Faliero, Scara- muccia, Malek Adel, Anna Bolena, Sonnambula, La Gazza, Ladra, Otello, & c. Tickets to the floor of the hall 2s. 6d., and to the great gallery 4s. each, to be bad at the music warehouses of Messrs. MUNDEN and CAMERON, 70, New- street; Mr. FLETCHER, Temple- row; Mr. FLAVELL, Bennett's- hill; and Mr. SHARGOOL, Union- street. Plans of the hall may be inspected at Messrs. MUNDEN and CAMERON'S music warehouse, where reserved seats may be secured. £ 50 CLUB, No. 3, MEETS at the WHITE HART, Paradise- street, every Tuesday Evening. It is conducted upon se- cure and satisfactory principles. Any gentleman becoming a member will oblige, JOHN HIGHAM. IMPORTANT TO THE PUBLIC. MR. W. J. LEWIS has great pleasure in returning bis sincere thanks to the inhabitants of Birming- ham, for the unprecedented encouragement afforded him, and respectfully intimates that he will continue until the 1st of September, to receive pupils in his hitherto unrivalled systems of Writing, Short- hand, Arithmetic, and Algebra. Terms for a course of Lessons, in either system, 10s. 6d. Those who remain incredulous as to the degree of im- provement attainable under Mr. Lewis's instruction, are re- spectfully invited to visit his class rooms, and witness bona fide productions by his pupils, and thus do justice to his merits as a teacher. In consequence of the increased number of Writing and Short- hand Pupils, Mr. L. has engaged a gentleman of first rate Mathematical abilities to conduct the Arithmetic and Algebraic departmen t. Just published, Lewis's Lessons on Commercial Writing ; also, Six Lessons in the Italian Style for Ladies, and a number of School Copies; these are fac simile of Mr. W. J. Lewis's writing, he therefore challenges comparison with any others yet published. Class and Exhibition Rooms, 50, New- street. Separate apartment for Ladies. CHEAP READING. NOW PUBLISHING, in numbers, at Id. each, the Children of the Abbey; the Romance of the Forest; Castle of Athlin ; The Italian ; Castle of Otranto; Farmer of Inglewood Forest; Arabian Nights Entertainments; Milton's Works; Buffon's Natural History; and, also', price l% d., The New Moral World. Published by JAMES GUEST, At his Wholesale Playing Card, Book, and Publication Warehouse, 93, STEELHOUSE LANE, BIRMINGHAM. fgg" A large Stock of Waste Playing Cards on Sale. URE'S DICTIONARY ~ OF ARTS, MANUFACTURES, & c. On September 1st, in 8vo., Part I. and No. I. ( to be com- pleted in Ten Monthly Parts, price 5s. each, and 50 Weekly Numbers, price Is. each, illustrated by upwards of One Thousand Engravings on Wood) of ADICTIONARY OF ARTS, MANUFAC- TURES, AND MINES; containing a clear exposi- tion of their Principles and Practice. By ANDREW URE, M. D., F. R. S., M. G. S., M. A. S.,& C. %* Specimens, with Prospectus, maybe had of all Book- sellers. London: LONGMAN, ORME, and Co. WEALTH OF NATIONS. M'CULLOCII'S EDITION. This day is published, price One Guinea, in one large and beautifully printed volume, with Two Portraits, a New Edition, corrected throughout, and greatly enlarged, AN ENQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES of the WEALTH OF NATIONS. By ADAM SMITH, LL. D. With a Life of the Author, an In- troductory Discourse, Notes, and Supplemental Disserta- tions, by J. R. M'CULLOCH, Esq. A. and C. BLACK, and W. TAIT, Edinburgh, LONGMAN and Co., London. THEATRE ROYAL, BIRMINGHAM. LAST NIGHT BUT FOUR OF THE SEASON. fl^ IIE Management have the honour to announce JL that an engagement has been entered into, for Four Nights only, with Mr. R. PARTRIDGE and Mr. W. H. PAYNE, and their celebrated Dogs, NEPTUNE and CARLO, from the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. On MONDAY, AUGUST 20th, 1838, will be played the Drama of THE FOREST OF BONDY; Or, THE DOG OF MONTARGIS. In which the celebrated Dog NEPTUNE will perform. Aubri De Mondidier MR. W. H. PAYNE. Landry MR. R. PARTRIDGE. To be followed by the Farce of FORTUNE'S FROLICS; Or, THE PLOUGHMAN TURNED LORD. Robin Roughead MR. H. WEBB. To conclude with THE BLIND ORPHAN; Or, THE DOGS OF RAVENSDALE. Michael ( a Bravo) MR. PARTRIDGE. On TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1838, THE SMUGGLER'S DOG; Or, THE MURDER ON THE CLIFF. Black Harry ( a Smuggler) ™ MR. W. H. PAYNE. To conclude with THE SEAMAN AND THE SAVAGE; Or, THE DOGS OF THE WRECK. Captain Morton MR. W. H. PAYNE. Koah ( the Red Savi^ e)— MR. PARTRIDGE. WEDNESDAY, AUGST 22, FOREST OF BONDY; Or, THE DOG OF MONTARGIS. To conclude with THE BLIND ORPHAN; Or, THE DOGS OF RAVENSDALE. THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, for the BENEFIT of Messrs PARTRIDGE and PAYNE, and positively their last appearance. THE HINDOO ROBBER; Or, THE LEOPARDS OF THE PUNNA. The Leopards by the celebrated Dogs NEPTUNE and CARLO. With a variety of other attractive Entertain- ments. FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1838, the Last Night of the Season, and the BENEFIT of MR. MONRO. PIZARRO; Holla MR. J. SMITH. THE ROMP. Priscilla Tomboy by MRS. BOTTRILL. To conclude with THE DANCING BARBER. Lower Boxes, 3s Upper Boxes, 2s.— Pit, Is Gallery, 6d. Half- peice, to the Boxes only at Nine o'clock. Stage Manager, MR. SIMPSON. THEATRE ROYAL, BIRMINGHAM. LAST NIGHT OF THE SEASON. MR. MONRO, MANAGER, HAS the honour to announce that his BENEFIT will take place on FRIDAY EVENING NEXT, August 24, 1838, upon which occasion he most respectfully solicits the patronage of his friends and the public. MR. J. SMITH and MRS. BOTTRILL Have kindly consented to appear, the former in the charac- ter of " ROLLA," the latter as " PRISCILLA TOM- BOY," in the interlude of " The Romp." On FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1838, will be performed Sheridan's greatly admired play of PIZARRO. Rolla . Mr. J. SMITH. THE KEEL ROW DANCE, By Mrs. H. WEBB and Mr. W. RIGNOLD. After which, the Petite Interlude of THE ROMP. Priscilla Tomboy Mrs. BOTTRILL. Mr. MONRO will then recite THE PICTURE OF A PLAYHOUSE; OR BUCKS HAVE AT YE ALL. And return thanks for the very liberal patronage afforded him throughout the season. To conclude with the very laughable farce of THE DANCING BARBER. Narcissus Fitzfrizzle Mr. H. WEBB. Lower Boxes, 3s— Upper Boxes, 2s Pit, Is.— Gallery, 6d. IggT All demands upon the Theatre must be sent in by twelve o'clock on Saturday morning, August 25, 1838. NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS. ALL Persons indebted to Mr. I. AARON, Surgeon, of Deritend, Birmingham, are requested to Pay imme- diately their respective accounts to Mr. P. Harris, Bull- ring, who is duly authorised to receive the same; and those persons to whom Mr. I. Aaron stands indebted, are also requested to send forthwith the amount of their claims that they may be duly discharged. Bull- ring, August 17, 1838. NEW SOUTH WALES. TWO LECTURES will be delivered on this splen- did Colony; the evils endured by the working classes, and small capitalists in this country, the impossibility of their removal, and the certain cure by emigration, & c., & c., on the nights of TUESDAY and FRIDAY NEXT, at half- past seven, in the ASSEMBLY ROOMS, Old Square. Admission Threepence to those who have purchased the first number of a work on the Geography, Statistics, & c., of the Australian Colony, to others Sixpence. The book must be produced, and maybe had of Mr. SHEAF, 72, New- street, corner of Christ Church Passage; and of Mr. WRIGHT, Printer, 66, Lichfield- street; where also may be procured the prospectus of the Australian Philanthropic Emigration Society. August 17, 1838. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN PACKET SHIPS, To be despatched from Liverpool every second Month. ' On 25th August, rilHE beautiful Ship ORLEANA, 668 tons per re- - B- gister, ALEXANDER CAMERON, Commander; British built; only three years old ; and altogether one of the fastest and finest ships in the kingdom. Her accommodations for passengers are splendid. This vessel will call at Teneriffe and Kangaroo Island. She carries an experienced Surgeon, and is now loading in Prince's Dock. On 25th October, The new Ship SUSAN, 577 tons per register, JOHN YOUNG, Commander. For freight or passage ( early application is necessary) apply to JAMES WADDELL and Co., London, Agents for the Sale of Lands to Her Majesty's Commissioners in South Australia; or to WM. WADDELL, 3, India. buildings, Liverpool; Or, II. W. llOLLASON, Steelbouse- lane, Birmingham. IMPORTANT NOTICE. ARTIFICIAL TEETH SUPPLIED, AND DECAYED TEETH RESTORED. 1VTONS. DE BERRI and CO., SURGEON DEN- LY. l TISTS, 17, EASV- ROW, Birmingham, and 121, Re- gent- street, London, most respectfully acquaint their friends and the public, that, in consequence of their improvements in the mechanical department of Dentistry, they are enabled to supply ARTIFICIAL TEETH without Pain, Springs, Wires, or Ligatures, at the following reduced scale: — Filling a Decayed Tooth with Mineral Sili- ceum , £ 0 2 6 A Single Artificial Tooth 0 5 0 A complete Set „ 4 0 0 A complete set of Natural Teeth . 10 10 0 An entire set of Natural Teeth, highly finished in the first style, with fine gold sockets, ( usuallycharged forty guineas) 20 0 0 Moris. DE BERRI and Co. continue to RESTORE DECAYED TEETH with their celebrated MINERAL SILICEUM, applied without pain, heat, or pressure, which in a few seconds hardens into enamel, preventing and curing the Tooth- Ache, allaying in one minute the most ex - cruciating pain, and rendering the operation of extraction unnecessary, they also FASTEN LOOSE TEETH, whether arising from neglect, the use of calomel, or any other cause. SCURVY of the GUM EFFECTUALLY CURED and PREVENTED. 17, Easy- row, Birmingham. IggT One of the above firm may be consulted daily, for a limited period, at 46, FOREGATE- STREET, WORCESTER. Age at commence- ment. Annual Premium. BONUS. Gross Additions to the Sum assured. Equivalent to the following per centage on the premiums paid to the Company. £ s. d. £ £ s. d. 30 26 14 2 354 63 2 3 40 33 19 2 416 58 6 8 50 45 6 8 526 55 5 0 60 63 13 4 789 59 0 3 Birmingham, August 7,1838. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Part- nership hitherto subsisting between us the undersigned, WILLIAM HOLLIDAYand GEORGE MERRETT is this day dissolved by mutual consent; and that all debts owing to and by the said firm, shall be received and paid by the said William Holliday. WILLIAM HOLLIDAY. GEORGE MERRETT. F. JOYCE'S ANTI- CORROSIVE PERCUSSION GUNPOWDER. THE Nobility, Gentry, and Sporting- World at. large, are respectfully informed, that this well- tried' Composition, warranted in every respect, which has now stood the test of many years experience, both at home anff abroad, as well in His MAJESTY'S SERVICE as by Sportsmen in general, may be had as usual of Messrs Mapplebeck and - Lowe, Bull- ring, Birmingham ; Cooper and Summers, Co- ventry; Coles, Southam; and of every respectable Gun maker in England, Ireland, and Scotland, under the forms of Caps, Patches, & c. in Packets of 250 and 500 each, price 2s. 6d. and 5s. Where also may be had, Joyce's Improved Chemically prepared Waddings, in b » gs of 500, price 5s. each. To prevent accident and disappointment to Purchasers, from the use of spurious imitations, they are requested to observe the Name and Address of the Original Inventor and Sole Manufacturer on each Sealed Packet, without which they are not genuine. Manufacturer, for upwards of seven years, to HIS MAJESTY'S BOARD OF ORD- NANCE. Warehouse, 55, Bartholomew Close, London. ATLAS ASSURANCE COMPANY, ESTABLISHED 1809. DIRECTORS Sir Thomas Turton, Bart., Chairman. J. D. Hume, Esq., Deputy Chairman. Sir Courtenay The Hon Boyle. John Oliver Hanson, Esq. William Laforest, Esq. Moses Mocatta, Esq. James William Ogle, Esq. CHARLES Emanuel Pacifico, M. D. William George Prescott, Esq. Joseph Pulley, Esq. John Peter Rasch, Esq. John Woolley, Esq. ANSELL, Esq., Actuary. LIFE DEPARTMENT.— Persons assured for the whole term of life, in Great Britain or Ireland respect- ively, will have an ADDITION made to their policies every seventh year, or an equivalent reduction will be made in the future payments of premium, at the option of the assured. THE THIRD SEPTENNIAL VALUATION, up to Christmas, 1837, is now completed, and the Directors have great satisfaction in stating its result. The following TABLE shows the TOTAL ADDI- TIONS made to policies for £ 1,000, effected in London, or through an agent in Great Britain, which had been in force for the 21 years ending 1837:— ASSURANCES FOR SHORT PERIODS may now be effected in this office, at considerably reduced rates of premium. FIRE DERARTMENT— In addition to the benefit of the late reduction in the rates of premiums, this company offers to assurers the advantage of an allowance for the loss of rent of buildings, rendered untenantable by fire. 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Hazardous ... 2 0 Double Hazardous 3 6 INDEPENDENT AND WEST MIDDLESEX ASSURANCE COMPANY, For Fire, Lives, and Annuities, Opposite the Bazaar, Baker- street, Portman- square, London, ON EQUITABLE PPINCIPLES ! ! ! Established under acts of Pailjament. Capital, one Million. MANAGERS. Thomas Knowles, Esq. H. R. Perkins, Esq. Thomas Price, Esq. William Reid, Esq. Edward W. Taylor, Esq. John Wilson, Esq., Wm. Whittaker, Esq. James Alexander, Esq. George Anderson, Esq. Thomas Bedford, Esq. James Drummond, Esq. Samuel Eyre, Esq. Robert Ferguson, Esq. Thomas Hope, Esq. J. D. Hustler, Esq. AUDITORS— Sam. Eyre, Esq.; John Wilson, Esq.; G. E Williams, Esq. RESIDENT SECRETARY— Mr. William Hole. BANKERS— Cashiers of the Bank of England. PHYSICIAN— Marshal Hall, 1J. D., F. R. S., Manchester- square. SURGEONS— John Ogle Else, Esq., Manchester- street; James Devereux Hustler, Esq., Park- street. SURVEYOR— Simon Thurstan, Esq., 9, Southampton- street, Bloomsbury- square. SOLICITORS— Messrs. Williams and Son, 2, Hart- street, Bloomsbury- square. AGENTS. f Mr. R. Henry Tarleton, solicitor, Bennett's- Birmingham J. hill. (. Mr. Phillips, hatter. Leamington and Warwick ™ Mr. S. Bettison, 6, Uppec Parade. 2 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS— FRIDAY, AUGUST 10. The sitting was chiefly occupied with a motion for papers by Dr. Lushington, respecting the seizure of ail English vessel on the African coast, at Portandie, by the French authorities there. The motion was not pressed, Lord Palmerston stating that the case was still the subject of negociatiou. The House was edified during the latter part of its sitting, with an attempt of the member for Middlesex ( Captain Wood) to further tax currants and gooseber- ries imported from France, in order to defend the market gardeners round London from an injurious competition. The gallant opponent of cheap tarts, on withdrawing his motion, signified liis intention of renewing it next session. The House sat for a couple of hours only. MONDAY. Mr. LEADER presented a petition, complaining of the Dean of Westminster refusing to admit the statue of Lord Byron to be erected in Westminster Abbey. He gave notice that he should direct attention to the prayer of the petition. IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT BILL.— Mr. HUTT called attention to the clause in the Imprisonment for Debt i> i! l, regarding the 3s. advertisements. The SOLICITOR- GENERAL said the subject deserved attention, and should be remedied if possible. Lord J. RUSSELL said that he should, next session, renew the Juvenile Offenders Prisons bill. IRISH TITHE BILL.— The house took into consider- ation the Lords' amendments to the Tithes ( Ireland) bill. They were agreed to with several verbal altera- tions. CANADA GOVERNMENT BILL.— The Canada govern- ment bill was read the first and second time, and or- dered to be committed next day, on which occasion the debate on it is to be taken. TUESDAY. CANADA.— Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in a somewhat lengthened speech, stated to the house, that it was not intended by government to offer any amendments in the Canada Act Declaration bill. He concluded his speech with a bitter tirade against the conduct of Lord Brougham. He asked the honse at once to pass this bill of indemnity, limited as it was, but telling them at the same time, that when the time came he should he prepared, not indeed to say that the terms and words of the ordinance passed by the Eatl of Durham, was altogether to be justified— not that he thought it a light matter, as the lion, member for Westminster supposed, that persons who had not been ar- Taigned or summoned to answer for their offences, should be punished, if they should be found within the province— but he should be prepared to say, that looking at the con. < IUct of the Earl of Durham as a whole, that believing him to be animated by the deepest zeal for the welfare of this country— that believing him, likewise, to have wished to avoid anything which could be construed into unnecessary severity— he should be ready to take part with him, that he should be ready to bear his share of the responsibility which was to be incurred in these difficult circumstances. ( Cheers.) And he did say, that if that province was preserved to this country— that, if that insurrection being suppressed, the punishment of death could be altogether avoided in practice — and that, if there should be restored to these provinces the enjoyment of a free constitution, he should then sav that no sophistry, that no accumulation of circumstances, and that no bitterness of sarcasm, accompanied by profes- sions of friendship—( cheers from the ministerial benches)— and thereby attempting to disguise, but not, in fact, dis- guising, the petty and personal feelings which were at the bottom of all these attacks, ( he noble earl would have de- served well of his country, well of his sovereign, and well of posterity. Lord STANLEY deprecated the disallowing of the ordinances lest it should allow traitors to pass unpu- nished, and suggested to government, that they should prolong the session, were it only to prevent such a consequence. Mr. LEADER commented on the conduct of Lord Brougham and his council. He asked why Mr. Nel- son, and the rest of the patriots had been banished. Sir. C- Buller, in a scrap of a letter, which ministers had favoured him with, said, " I enclose you a copy of our first act about the prisoners. It will appear to you horribly despotic, but it is really mild. We put no one to death." They might have said in some paper sent to the government that they submitted to the mercy of the Crown, but that did not amount to pleading guilty, as they never had been arraigned. Mr. Charles Buller went on to say, " We would not interfere with the ordinary tribunals, or tamper with the juries. The legal guilt of these men was clear. From an ordinary jury their certain acquittal was equally clear." Was that to be tolerated from any man, more particularly from a man holding a high official station ; for the obvious conclusion was, that they bad not tampered with the juries, because they were convinced that acquittal would have been the result of trial ? He then went on to say, " These ig- norant Canadians"— how conciliatory!—" would have said either that their leaders in the revolt were right all along, or that the government had not dared to punish." And that was to be the excuse for depriving men of trial and the justification for transporting them in an illegal manner. He distinctly denied that the eight persons transported to Bermuda had pleaded guilty. He did not know whether the government was in possession of the paper which these persons had sent to the governor; but if they were, they had acted in a most ungenerous manner in withholding it. and in stating that there had been a plea of guilty. He held a copy of the paper in his hand, which, as it was in French, the house would perhaps permit him to translate, which be should do as faithfully as he could. They said that they had rebelled, but not against the person or go vernment of Her Majesty, but against a had colonial admi lustration, and they waited the issue, and said, " Let the punishment fall upon us." Then followed several passages complimentary to Lord Durham, and they then stated that they had not had recourse to arms to attack, but only to defend their liberties. They further stated, that Lord Gosford had, by a proclamation, invited them to return peaceably home, but that the magistrates had not encou raged them to do so, but, on the contrary, had sent out arrests against them for discussing public men and public measures. They did not struggle for independence of the mother country. Then came the following passage, which lie ( Mr. Leader) supposed was what was called a confession of guilt:—" We ardently wish to avoid the ceremony of a trial, as we are convinced that it would not be an impartial trial; but before an impartial tribunal we have nothing to fear." They added, that they allied no pardon for them- selves, and concluded in the following manner :—" We pray God for the success of your lordship's mission, and desire that your efforts be crowned with success. We implore the blessing of Heaven upon your lordship, and if, in the avowal of- generous sentiments, there be any crime, we plead guilty." Such was the letter which bad been sent to Lord Durham from those persons whom he had transported to Bermuda. He commented on the language of Lord Melbourne in discussing this bill. As for the conduct of the government at home, there were two pin ties who had a right to complain of it; the country had a right to complain of their conduct as weak and contradictory. What had been their course? ON Thurs- day night the prime minister of the crown had defended the ordinance, not only as legal, but as justifiable and proper On Friday night, finding a majority in the other house against him. he yielded every point, pronouncing the ordi- nance illegal, and submitting to the majority in the oppo- sition to him it) the other house, and did not hesitate to sacrifice his friend anil colleague, Lord Durham. He talked of a truculent democracy— spoke of the people as a " truculent democracy," for contradicting his opinion. What had been the conduct of that noble lord? He had climbed into power by the aid of the people; he had been enabled to keep in power by the aid of the people. He knew not by what means the minister sought to maintain bis power, if he cast off tiie people. He might trust to court favour, • and he might enjoy that in a high degree ; but that would n't keep him in long. But when, on Thursday flight, the prime minister of the crown said one thing, and on Friday night another— when on Thursday night he pro- nounced the ordinance good and proper, arid on Friday night illegal and indefensible— lie thought that Lord Durham himself hal good reason to complain of the conduct of ministers, who had sacrificed him to the opposite paity. If the minister had been defeated in the other house, he might liave relied on a majority in the House of Commons, and have defended his Iriend and colleague; but he had sacrificed him, and the Earl ol Durham, had, therefore, reason to complain of the conduct of ministers as well as the people. It seemed to him ( Mr. Leader) a sort of poetical justice, that ministers should be compelled at tile close of a long, and to them discreditable, session, to come down and sup port a bill of indemnity for one of their chief officers. Mr. IIAWES defended ministers. The discussion was continued by Sir William Follett, Sir John Camp- bell, Sir Edward Sugden, and other members. The bill was finally committed and reported, and ordered to be road a third time next day. WEDNESDAY. « A new writ was ordered for Great Yarmouth, in the room of Mr. Wilshire, who had accepted the Chilterns. CANADA INDEMNITY BILL.— Mr. LEADER took oc- casion of the order for the third reading, to set him- self right in respect to certain objections that had been made to his speech of the previous day. Mr. Hawes, of Lambeth, had accused him of a breach of friend- ship, in relation to Mr. Buller's letter. The plain answer was, the letter was printed in the Morning Chronicle, and from that source he quoted it. He was not on terms of private friendship with Mr. Buller, and as to the interchange of political cour- tesies, the practice of the house had made them ridiculous. The member for Lambeth said be had seen many mer- chants and others connected with Canada, and that those persons represented the state of things in that country as very satisfactory. Now 6ome idea might be formed of the real condition of that province, and the degree of tranquility prevalent there, when he ( Mr. Leader) stated that in former years 14,000, 15,000, and even as many as 20 000 immigrants had Entered the province of Lower Canada, while last year only 1.200 immigrants had repaired thither. ( Hear, hear.) Accounts which he had represented that there existed discontent, distrust, and great distress, the inevitable effects of the measures of government. Mr. Leader concluded by asking Lord John Russell what course he meant to pursue respecting the tweuty- three unfortunate persons against whom the ordinance they were annulling was directed ? Lord John refused to return any answer. Mr. HAWES repeated that the merchants of the city highly approved of Lord Durham's policy, and that they regretted that Lord Melbourne had not behaved with the same spirit in relation to this question that Lord John Russell had. Dr. LUSHINGTON defended the ordinance— Among so many conflicting opinions as to the real state of the law, even if the Earl of Durham had been attended by a legal adviser, he might well have been excused for falling into erior. Was it, then, fitting that he, a layman, among so many difficulties, should be accused of cruelty and carelessness of the lives of the people? For his own part he must say, though he knew nothing of the actual state ol things, or the necessity which might have existed for issuing the ordinance, he was not inclined to believe that the Earl of Durham would have exercised the authority committed to him without strong reasons. He knew the noble lord— he bad known him long; he was aware of his great abilities, of his high courage, of his lofty intellectual attainments, ot his accurate and exalted sense of honour, and esteeming him as he did, he had to hope that the attacks which had been made to discomfit and discourage his government, and to de- prive him of the means of conferring the great blessings of peace upon Canada— he did hope that that noble lord, knowing and feeling the importance of the duties with which he was intrusted, would rise superior to the ca- lumnies be had had to encounter, and deprive his enemies of what might be a victory to them, but what would be a misfortune to the country, by giving that country the peaceful and" satisfactory settlement winch his high charac- ter, and his known attachment to the princip'es of liberty, made him fitter to effect than any other man who could be sent thither. ( Hear, hear.) Lord EBRINGTON was determined to vote for the bill, and deprecated the appearance even of division upon it; at the same time he greatly regretted its being brought forward. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said, as the bill had passed the House of Lords, and as they were more conversant with the law than the House of Commons, he hoped the bill would be passed by the latter without amend- ment or comment. Sir G. G REY panegyrised the lenity of the ordinance. Eight of the persons noticed in it had confessed their guilt, and the other fifteen were notorious leaders in the late rebellion. Mr. GROTE thought if there was no intention of dividing, it was useless to prolong the discussion. Mr. FINCH then moved the postponement of the third reading to that day week, which was seconded by Mr. C. LUSHINGTON. The ^ TTOHNEY- GENERAL begged Mr. Fincli to withdraw his amendment; in which he was joined by Mr. Hutton, Mr. Ilawes, Mr. Bernal, Mr. Agliouby, and Dr. Lushington. Mr. FINCH having yielded to these intreaties, the bill was read a third time and passed. DEBTORS' SCHEDULES BILL.— This bill, after a short conversation, was withdrawn. HOUSE OF LORDS- FRIDAY. THE CANADA DECLARATORY BILL.— Oil the motion for committing this bill, Lord MELBOURNE said — Looking at these ordinances, and being compelled to ad- mit that one part of them was clearly without the bounds of the jurisdiction of Lord Durham, he could not but say be felt himself very much pressed by the argument which fell from his noble friend opposite on a former occasion, when he said that, considering one part of those ordinances was clearly and distinctly beyond the bounds of the authority created by the Canada Government act, and that with re spect to a chartered colony, the crown had not the power of disallowing one part of an ordinance, and allowing another. Her . Majesty ought to be advised to disallow the ordinance altogether. ( Hear, hear.) He expressed, at the same time, great fear lest the discussion of these matters, and the determination of their lordships, as shown by their vote on the second reading, would be seriously injurious in the colony; and he wished permission to introduce aproviso in the bill, stating that it was not meant to interfere with any measures which might be deemed essential under the present circumstances of the country. His lordship moved bis clause on the bringing up of the report. Lord BROUGHAM said ministers wished to let down Lord Durham gently. The amendment was not pressed. The bill, with some verbal amendments made by Lord Brougham, was finally ordered to be read a third time next day. The Scotch Prisons Bill was thrown out by 13 to 11, oti the question of its passing. Some discussion took place on a clause in the Im- prisonment for Debt bill, compelling newspapers to insrrt advertisements under the bill, whatever might be their length, for three shillings each. Tiie under- standing seemed to be that the clause must be struck out. The Scotch Burghs bill was rejected. MONDAY. BEER BILL.— Lord BROUGHAM stated that he should not press his bill during the present session; but next session he should renew it at an early period. CANADA GOVERNMENT DECLARATORY BILL.— Lord BROUGHAM, on moving the third reading of the above- named bill, said, in reference to what had transpired in the House on Friday, when this bill was again under discussion, that although the declaratory part of the bill was what he considered the most important part— and he never should have volunteered an indem- nity clause for the wrong doer— ho meant to use the word in a legal sense— still he would not tender any objections whatever to the indemnity clause. The Duke of WELLINGTON said that the noble and learned lord did perfectly right in proceeding with the bill; it was a course of proceeding strictly in accord- ance with the practice of the House. Lord DESMAN expressed his disapprobation, on principle, of Lord Durham's ordinances, but confessed a doubt as to the illegality of the deportations to the Bermudas, concluding with a strong and unqualified Condemnation ol acts of indemnity. Lord GLENELG proposed a clause to indemnify the officers and others who had acted under the ordinances, which was agreed to. BUSINESS OF PARLIAMENT.— The Marquis of SALIS- BURY moved for returns respecting the bids received from the Commons, the progress thereon, & c. He had been induced to make this motion, in consequence! of a notice of motion which had been given by an honourable member in the other house, for a return of the number of bills rejected by that ( their lordships') house— a motion which seemed to hiin to convey a species of imputation on that house. His object was to show that their lordships had by no means neg- lected their duties as legislators, for that, while they had been occupied through nine or ten months, really, to their inconvenience, during eight of these months they had literally had nothing to do. The motion was agieed to. IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT BILL.— Lord BROUGHAM, on the subject of the Imprisonment for Debt bill, sug- gested that there should be a short bill ( if the evils could not be otherwise remedied) to bring the bill into earlier operation than was at present fixed ; and secondly, to repeal the absurd and unjust clause regarding the advertisements to be inserted at 3s. each. TUESDAY. Lord LYNDHURST presented a petition signed bv 600 merchants and manufacturers of Glasgow, com- plaining of the state of trade. The petition was dated in June last. In proof that the petition was not with- out foundation, he read from a Parliamentary paper particulars connected with the imports and exports It appealed by that return, that the total amount of ex- ports for the year 1836 was 91,000,000/.. whilst in the last year the total amount was only 85,270,000/., making a dif- ference of nearly 6.000,000/. The total official value of ma- nufactures exported from Great Britain to foreign parts in 1837. was 77,932,617/., and in the last year 72 312,207/., making a decrease of 5.620,410/. When they came to enter into the details of this subject, they would find ample mat- ter for serious reflection. In 1837, our cotton exports a. nounted to 50,249.212/., and 1838, last year, they were only 41,403.110/, making a decrease on the export of cot- tons of 8,746,79a/. If they referred again to another staple manufacture, that of woollens, the exports in 1837 amounted to 7.535.064/., while last year the exports only amounted to 4 680 247/., making a decrease of 2,854,817/. In our linen manufacture there was a decrease of 1,000,000/. on the exports of last year as compared with 1837. On the exports of silk the decrease was 335,853/., and on hardware and cutlery 415,349/. The only article on which he found an increase was cotton yarn, in which there was an increase of upwards of 1,300,000/. He also referred to the competition of the foreign market— In the United States of America, which was always con. sidered our own especial market, the cottons of Germany could now be purchased at a lower price than similar articles, the manufacture of this country. ( Hear, hear.) He repeated, that it was clear to him, that a little ' activity and the exercise of a little diplomatic skill on the part of the noble Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs would have defeated the plan of Prussia, and prevented all this mischief. Another point connected with this subject, and one of no small importance, too, was this— that by the treaty of Vienna the rivers of Poland were to be free to the com merce of all nations. They were only to be subject to such small duties as were necessary to maintain the navigation. It was not only the waters of those rivers, but also of the transit through those rivers, embracing a trade very impor- tant to this country, that were declared free to all nations. But what had taken place? In consequence of'he subju- gation of Poland, the provisions of the treaty of Vienna had been distinctly and directly violated. The Russian tariff, and all the vexations which accompanied it, had been estab- lished in the districts which those rivers traversed, and se- rious impediments had been opposed, in consequence, to the pioeress of the commerce of England. He concluded by expressing a hope that an oppor- tunity would be offered for a more minute considera- tion of the particulars to which he had briefly alluded. Lord MELBOURNE said, if the complaints of the pe- titioners were real, if they meant something more than a mere show of argument, they ought to have come forward earlier. On the matter of complaint he ob- served- He apprehended the noble and learned lord's observations applied only to the last year. Up to the close of 1836, and the commencement of 1837, the commercial affairs of the country had been in a state of progressive advancement; the exports had regularly increased generally to almost all quarters of the world, and more particularly to many of those parts where the noble and learned lord stated they had declined. The depression of last year arose from tem- porary embarrassment, from overtrading and speculation, and particularly from the state of commercial credit in the United States; it was in no respect, therefore, surprising that there should he a great decline of the exports of this country, nor was there on that account the least ground for alarm or anxiety for the future. He could not doubt there would be a revival of trade from that temporary depression, to which all commercial affairs in the vicissitudes of things were necessarily subject. The noble and learned lord had pointed the attention of the government to various subjects which be conceived to be, and which unquestionably were, of the very greatest importance; and in the first place he had ditected their attention to the commercial union on the continent of Europe, instituted under the influence and gui- dance of Prussia, and which united in one common band of fiscal regulations so many of the states of Germany. That state of things might he hostile, or it might not, to the inte- rests of England; but if it were hostile, we could not com- plain, for it was contrary to no treaty whatever; it was a league which those states had a right to enter into if they thought proper, and which no skill, ability, or diplomatic address could have induced them not to adopt it, if they thought it best and most conducive to their own interests. He did not know whether it was the system of union or the high prohibitive duties established by it that was now com- plained of; the latter, be apprehended, was the real grievance. But that undoubtedly involved a question on which he did not wish to touch, well knowing it to be not very popular in that house; but at the same time they must bear in mind while they kept up such a very high prohibitive system with respect to the staple article of those states—( hear, hear from Lord Brougham)— such a very high prohibitive system with respect to that which they bad to give, and which we must wish to buy— it was not easy, on very fair and equal terms, to institute negotiations with those states of the continent for greater freedom of commerce. Lord LYNDHURST, in reference to the date of the petition, said, it had been placed in his hands only a i'ew days before. Lord STRANGFORD complained of the conduct of the French government in respect to Mexico, and the in- terruption to our trade in consequence—• Their mode of proceeding was the same, whether with Senegal, Mexico, Chili, or the north- eastern part of the Brazilian frontier. With regard to Mexico, be would not trouble their lordships with a long detail of the various circumstances which led to a demand for compensation on the part of France, lor injuries alleged to have been sus- tained by French subjects in Mexico. The amount of compensation claimed was 600,000 dollars, or 120.000/. sterling. The Mexican government refused to accede to this demand, considering it to be. exorbitant and unjust. Whether the demand was exorbitant or not, he would leave their lordships to judge, by one item in the account. There was a rich French pastrycook, who hud opened a shop in Mexico. During the disturbances which followed upon the appointment of a dictatorship, some soldiers came into his shop, ate some of his pastry, and, as soldiers sometimes did, went away without paying. ( A laugh.) The pastrycook was not slow in magnifying this attack upon his tarts and jell; es into an enormous outrage against His Majesty King Louis Philippe and the dignity of France. He assessed his own damages at the moderate sum of 25,000 . dollars, or 5 000/. sterling, which the French admiral added to, and merged in, the general account. A blockade took place, which interrupted the trade from this country to Mexico, which, the parliamentary returns would show, amounted to 4,000,000/. sterling annually. He held in his hand a list of the various vessels which had been detained in consequence of the blockade, but he would not trouble their lordships with it, nor with a statement of the loss which British capitalists had sustained by the suspension of the mining operations. Their lordships were aware that there were vast sums of money due from South America to this country, and that the Mexican government had consented to an arrangement, by which one sixth of their custom duties was to be appropriated to the payment of the debt. The whole of this payment was put a stop to by the block- ade, The case of Iiui- nos Ayres was another in which the French had been playing the same game. Lord BROUGHAM alluded to some of the more ob- vious causes of the falling off in our foreign trade—• The timber trade in the Baltic— a trade which he never could dilate upon too much— had been stunted to all time by a paltry majority of forty in the House of Commons. But the great staple of the countries bordering on the Baltic was their grain. Plentiful and cheap as was the grain pro ilticed in those countries, it was peremptorily said to the people, notwithstanding, " You shall not only have had houses, but dear bread." And yet, at the very time of their stunting the Baltic ttude in its two great staples of timber and grain, they complained that the trade oi this country with the Baltic had fallen off. Their blindness was such, that they did not perceive that, while they ruined their own commerce on the one hand by this system of policy, they forced the people on the other both to eat dear bread and live in dear houses. Why should not this very result have ensued? Why should not their trade with the Baltic have fallen off? In the first place, the piice of labuur in this country was rendered dear by the dearness of the bread In the second place, it was not to be expected that the coun- tries bordering on the Baltic would take our manufactures, when we declined to take theirs in return. Let them re- flect that the price of the quartern loaf had risen during the last two years from 7f£ d. to lid., while the quartern loaf at Amsterdam and at Antwerp was 52 per cent, cheaper. Surely this was not a very comfortable consideration for the English labourer. The tax paid by the people of this coun- try in the shape of a corn law exaction amounted positively to between 17,500,000/. and 18,000,000/. per annum. The effect of the present system was, that they not only stunted their manufactures, by shutting up some of the channels of importation, but prevented the British manufacturer from advantageously competing with the foreign market, by raising the price of bread, and consequently raising the price of labour. The effect of the high price of bread was to render all competition with the manufacturers which were fast springing up in France and Flandeis absolutely ruinous. They were burning the candle, as it were, at both ends. They declined to take the cheaper produce of those countries on the one hand, and upon the other, by this suicidal species of policy, they invited foreign manufacturers to enter into competition with them, with the immense advantage of cheaper bread, and consequently of cheaper labour. In both ways they were contracting and ruining their own trade. The Duke of WELLINGTON observed that— The question of the timber trade was a question not only of colonial policy, but of navigation. It was a question in which this country, and the trade of this country, were both materially interested. It was not a question of mere traffic in respect of the prices of different markets, but a great question both of navigation and of colonial policy. ( Hear, hear.) He ( the Duke of Wellington) was perfectly aware of the motive for bringing forward this question a^ tlie pre- sent period, and he must strenuously protest against it. He thought that it was not acting fairly towards the trade ot this country, and more paiticularly towards those questions which had been brought forward by his noble friend behind him, and by the noble and learned lord opposite. The question of the corn laws he looked upon as not only a question of great commercial interest, hut also as one of the highest internal, national, and legislative importance. ( Hear.) There was one point of the discussion with regard to this question, which the noble and learned lord opposite had entirely omitted in the course of the discussion which he had introduced that evening— that was the influence of the corn law, in the first place, upon Ireland. He had left that entirely out of the question. ( Hear, hear.) Another point which he had left out was the security to this country of its independence with regard to the article of food. ( Hear, hear.) There was no point more certain than that, if they came to be entirely dependent on the countries bor- dering on the Baltic, they would have the King of Prussia, and tiie Emperor of Russia, ( as had been done before) levy- ing a tax upon the importation of that article of food into the Thames and elsewhere into this country. ( Hear, hear.) He would not follow the noble and learned lord further into this subject than just to observe these little omissions in his speech,—( laughter)— which he ( the Duke of Wel- lington) considered, however, to be very important. ( Cheers.) He would, at the same time, observe that when noble lords brought forward subjects of this description, they should never forget that they were quite sure to be met either by friends or opponents with corn laws and tim- ber duties. ( Hear, hear.) The Duke attributed the disastrous state of our foreign trade ill a great measure to the crippled state of our navy. After some conversation, Viscount STRANGFORD moved for copies of the notices given by the French government, on the subject of the blockade of Mexico. The returns were granted. The Trading Companies' bill ( Mr. P. Thompson's) was, after a short conversation, thrown out, the num- ber for the third reading being 10; against it 12. WEDNESDAY. REGISTRATION OF ELECTORS.— The Lord's amend- ments of the bill, disagreed from by the Commons, were insisted upon after a division, the numbers of which were, 88 for, and 58 against insisting. Lord LYNDHURST mentioned that he had received a Iietition from Bristol, to the same effect as that which le had presented from Glasgow, but too late for pre- sentation that day. The Cornwal Tin bill was read a third time, after opposition from Lord Lyndurst, by 27 to 26. NEWS OF THE WEEK. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. JUNGLE HUNTING EXTRAORDINARY.— Some short time ago intelligence was received on board one of the company's pilot schooners, cruising off Saugor Island, at the mouth of the river Hooghly, that a rhinoceros had lately infested the neighbouring villages, and that the animal had destroyed several of the native ryots. A beast of this kind is seldom seen in this quarter, though it is impossible to ascertain how numeious they may be in the interior of the island, or in the sunderbands contiguous to it. In consequence ot this information Lieutenant Souter, and a Mr. Lewis, an officer in the pilot service, agreed to put, if possible, a stop to any further mischief there might arise from so formidable an enemy being suffered to remain at large; and, as they were aware that neither muskets nor rifles would have any immediate effect on the horny mail of the animal, they provided themselves with two six pounder carronades, which they contrived to convey into an adjacent portion of the jungle, close to a large tank, which the beast was in the habit of nightly frequenting, in order to slake his thirst. There was one track which he favoured, leading down to one of the sides of the tank. Having ditected the guns to a particular spot in this path, loaded with grape, they, by means of a rope- ladder, ascended a soondree- tree, situated on the opposite side, from which position they could con- veniently command an opportunity of discovering, by the aid of the moon's light, any animal there might pass that way. Having waited patiently for more than two hours, they beheld a huge beast coming down the defile, when Lieutenant Souter descended by the ladder, and, waiting a favourable opportunity of bringing one of the guns to bear upon the beast, applied the fuse to it, and discharged the contents in a volley at the object. After some minutes they cautiously reconnoitred the spot, hut could discover no signs of their having done execution, and consequently returned that night to the vessel. In the morning, how- ever, attended by a company of Lascars, and some natives of the neighbourhood, they repaired to the scene ol the last night's excursion, and on advancing some little way into the jungle they detected the beast apparently reclining at the base of a soondree tree. Not quite satisfied that he was dead, they ascendcd an adjacent tree, and discharged their rifles at him, hut finding that he remained motion- less, the Lascars ventured to approach nearer to him, when they pronounced him lifeless. On examination it was found that three of the shot had penetrated deeply into his body. Being too cumbrous to remove, they cut a tew strips or thongs from the hide, which they brought away, and took to Calcutta as trophies of their success in ridding the village of so formidable an enemy.— Indian Journal. REMARKABLE ACCIDENT.— 1The other day, at Bordeaux, a gentleman's horse, about to be put to a cabriolet, got the bit between his teeth and darted off at full speed. Such was its impetuosity that at a crossing it came head foremost against an empty cart, broke several spokes of the wheel, and upset both cart and horse. The servant, who was on its back, was thrown up into the air about fifteen feet high, and, when taken from the ground, was tcund to be so seriously injured that he died before reaching the hospital The horse fell dead on the spot. PROCRESS OF CONSERVATISM— For many years, to obtain an annual renewal of a license of port d'armes, it was suffi cient to present the old one, together with the receipt ol duty, and a new one was immediately gianted; " hut now," says the Temps, " there must every year he a new certifi cute of bonne vie et mceurs produced, and this certificate must be accompanied with the occult advice of the mayor and sub- prelects on the opinions of the petitioner. APPRENTICESHIP The only West Indian colony now from which we have not already received accounts that similar acts of freedom have been passed is Demerarit, where a bill to that effect, however, was on its passage through the legislature, with every probability of complete success. PBOORESF.— It is said that the Minister of the Marine intends to publish an ordinance emancipating all slaves fall- ing into tile possession of their fathers, mothers, uncles, aunts, brothers, or sisters, who are themselves free.— French paper. A FEW MOKE FEATHERS FOR THE HACK'S BACK.— There are, in North Carolina, eleven cotton factories in operation, and about as many more in progress of erection. The Sa- lisbury Carolinian says—" From these facts, it will be seen that North Carolina is making rapid progress in cotton ma- nufacturing; and we think the work has just commenced. Her facilities are so great, that the business, once started, must go on. We have water- power abundant and cheap, and, what is remarkable, labour in the western counties of North Carolina is cheaper than in New England. The etifeet3 of the establishments already in operation begin to be felt throughout the state. Three years ago, immense quantities of cotton yarns were brought up into the state by our merchants from the north, and sold to our citizens; now, not a hank is brought; our own establishments not only supply our wants for home consumption, but are be- ginning to export the article. Parcels of North Carolina yarns have already been sent to market in the city of New York, and find a ready sale at fair profits. Even now, se- veral of our establishments are making preparations to com- mence the weaving of coarse cottons. We may venture the opinion, that in two years North Carolina will not only supply the demand for her own consumption with tile coarser cotton fabrics, but also send them out for sale into the markets of the world." PRUSSIAN SOLDIERS IN THEIR CUPS The EchodefEst of the 12th ; inst., published at Bar- le- Due, states that the King of Prussia's birth- day was celebrated on the 3rd at Luxemburg by the garrison of the city, consisting of 8,000 men. The day was a sort of Saturnalia to the soldiery, who were allowed, without the slightest remonstrance from their officers, to quit their barracks, and to take up their tempo- rary quarters in the neighbouring cafes and wine shops. Copious libations, as might be anticipated, led to the intoxi- cation of entire battalions, who paraded through every quarter of the city, singing the Marseillaise, and with shouts of " Liberty forever!" In the expression of these senti- ments they were joined by a large proportion of the popu- lation, and the few officers who hazarded an attempt to restore order, and induce the men to return to their bar- racks, were not only unheeded, but seriously maltreated. This mutiny lasted for some time, and began to prove con- tagious amongst other battalions, but at length the riot was quelled, and the most disorderly were taken into custody. Education in France is made much more the business o£ the state than it has hitherto been in England; no person being allowed to establish even a private school until he has been examined by officers appointed for the purpose. DOMESTIC. THE METROPOLIS. No DANGER.— We were in error in stating yesterday, that the post office commissioners had determined on fixing a rate of twopence on on all letters, in lieu of the present rate of postage Globe. SUICIDE— On Tuesday, a young woman, named Conolly, poisoned herself in consequence of certain supposed atten- tions on the part of a foreigner, named Swartz, with whom she cohabited, towards some prostitutes. SERIOUS HINT.— The llerald of Wednesday morning states, that on a board which stands on the grounds of a Liberal M. P., not a hundred miles from Tring, is the fol- lowing important caution :—" Whosoever is found trespass, ing on these grounds will be shot dead, without any further notice." SERIOUS ACCIDENT.— This morning, between ten and eleven o'clock, as Mrs. Macnamara, an elderly lady, residing in Holies- street, Cavendish- squure, was riding round the outer circle of Regent's Park, the horse became restive, and plunged in a violent manner. The servant who accom- panied Mrs. Macnamara immediately dismounted, and en- deavoured to quiet the animal, but his attempts were inef- fectual, arid the unfortunate lady was precipitated to the ground with great violence, by which she sustained very severe injury. It was found that her right arm and leg were dreadfully injured, and that she had sustained a frightful fracture of the skull Sun of Wednesday. Oil Sunday last, Ellen Driscoll, a dwarf, measuring only two feet seven inches in height, who resided at No. 9, Seal- street, Whitechapel- road, died at the London Hospital from the effects of a fractured skull, which she sustained on the 25th of July, since which time she lingered with extreme suffering. She was 22 years of age, and very finely pro- portioned. The fortune of LBporte has undergone strange vicissi- tudes since he has had the direction of Her Majesty'^ theatre in London. One day rich, the next ruined, he has at last attained the summit of prosperity. The coronation of Queen Victoria, it is said, procured him an admission to the class, more honoured than honourable, of millionaires; for we are assured that, since the commencement of the summer season, thanks to the circumstances which have made. London the rendezvous of European aristocracy, he has realised a sum of 45,000/ Musical World. [ What does this sennet betoken ? Were such a puff made of any of our folks here, we should advise their neighbours to look to their pockets ] HvnR0rH0BiA.— About two months ago, a fine little boy, son of a painter and French polisher, residing in Upper Lisson- street, Marylebone, was seized upon and bitten in the lower part of the stomach by a dog, supposed to be in a rabid state; a surgeon, who was sent for immediately, cauterised the part, and no unfavourable symptoms were evinced by the child until Thursday last, when he expe- rienced much difficulty in breathing. Medical aid was once more obtained, but in spite of all the exertions used, he rapidly got worse, and on Sunday afternoon died from the effects of the bite. ROMAN PAVEMENT.— A few days ago, some workmen employed in making a common sewer down Queen- street, City, in the course of their labours came in contact with a hard substance, about twenty feet below the level of the road. On an examination being made, it was discovered to be the remains of a Roman pavement, and it was conveyed to Guildhall for public inspection. Apparently it was underneath the remains of St. Bennet's chuich, which was burnt down during the great fire of London. A HALLOO IN THE WOOD— The favourable change in the weather, which has at length assumed a settled and season- able aspect, and the manifest improvement it has pioduced in the appearance of the various crops, is stated in letters from numerous correspondents. The gloom which per- vaded the minds of many, produced by fears of a greatly deficient crop, is passing away, and the expectation is now entertained of a harvest but little, if any, below an average. All is activity in the agricultural counties, anil in the course of another week, " the joy of harvest" will be general in the southern and western districts, while the eastern and north- ern parts will derive yet more advantage from the genial influence of the now propitious weather Globe of Thurs- day. [ Thursday night it rained cots and dogs, and to- day ( Friday) it is as damp and chill as Christmas E. B. J.] GIIGRIOUS OLD ENGLAND— On Tuesday evening an in- quest was held at the Crown Tavern, Clifford's Iun- pa, sage, Fleet- street, on the body of John Sullivan, aged 69. It appeared, from the evidence, that about three weeks hack the deceased, his wife, and daughter, a girl about twelve years of age, took a room in a house in Hen and Chicken- court, St. Dunstan's. The deceased, on taking the lodging, informed his landlord, Mr. Shepherd, that he was a car- penter and in work. During the last week the deceased and his family were not seen or heard of. On Saturday, the suspicion of the other lodgers being excited, they went to the landlord, who caused the door of the deceased's room to be burst open, when the deceased, his wife, and child, were discovered lying on the floor nearly in a state of nudity, and quite insensible. The man was on the eve of dissolution. The room was entirely destitute of furniture, fuel, anil food. Mr. Shepherd instantly caused the attendance of the re- lieving officer of the West London Union, to which the ward is attached, and subsequently the surgeon of the ward was sent for, but before his arrival the deceased had expired. The poor woman and child are in a fair way of recover}'. The deceased had never applied to the Union for relief. The girl was examined, and she said that her lather and mother had expressed their determination to die rather than apply for parish relief. Verdict—" Natutul death by fever, accelerated by want." A TRICKSTER OUT TRICKED.— A few days ago a clerk in the Bank of England made, in the hurry of business, a mis- take, which placed him in some difficulty. A person handed him a 100/. note and a 50/. note for sovereigns. Instead of giving 150 sovereigns, the clerk handed over 300 to the stranger, who walked off with the prize. The mistake hav- ing been discovered in the course of the day, the clerk sent for Daniel Forrester, who immediately went to the place of address mentioned on the tace of one of the notes, and judging that the lucky stranger would not ba in haste to re- turn the balance, proceeded veiy cautiously in his inquiry. At last he observed a man whose appearance answered that of the person described to liini by liie loser, and walking up addressed him by name. The man having replied to the address, Forrester suddenly told him that the 150 sovereigns which weie taken in a mistake at the bank in the course of the morning were wanted. '' One hundred and filty sove- reigns in a mistake!" said the honest lellow; " I was not at the bank at all, and I know nothing of the sovereigns, I assure you." " Ob, yes you do," said Forrester, " you re- ceived 300 instead of 150, and you must come with me." 1 do a- sure you," persisted the man, " that I received no more than 150, I admit I was at the bank, but I got no more than I was entitled to." I am sorry to hear you say so," ol » - erved Forrester, " for what is now considered at the bank as merely a mistake, will soon be called by another name, and treated differently." They had not walked far togeiher towards Cornhill, when the man suddenly started and said, " God bless me! now I recollect that I did re- ceive more than I ought.'' " I thought you'd remember it at last, sir," said the officer, " although 1 was atraid you wouldn't be able to nr ke the discovery without my assist- ance." The 150 sovereigns were soon refunded, to the very great delight of the bank clerk, and the worthy person, whose hope of plunder was thus disappointed, but whose name and address we regret we have not been supplied with, was allowed to walk away. FIRE For several hours this morning [ Wednesday] the eastern portion ot the city was in a stare ol alarm by a fire breaking our on the premises of Mr. King, upholsteier and cabinet- maker, in Caniomile- streer. Bishopgale- street. The fire must have been smouldering for a considerable period before actually seen, so that, there was no time to eommu THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, AUGUST 18. 3 nicate intelligence of it before the horizon was illuminated to such a degree that it was visible from a great distance. The scene that presented itself when the discovery was made, which took place about half past twelve o'clock, was exceed. inelv distressing, and excited the sympathy of every one present • females were rushing out of the buildings adjacent to the one on fire almost in a state of nudity, having no other covering than their night habiliments; goods and furniture of every description were thrown out into the street and soon destroyed or stolen. Underneath the workshops and show rooms of Mr. King werestah/ es, tenanted by Mr. Blackman and Mr. " White, butchers; in them were several horses and twenty sheep. The work of Destruction was amazingly rapid. No lives were lost. PB. OVVNC1AI* NORTH UNION RAILWAY— The most strenuous and ac- tive eSotts ate in progress for the completion of this line. The contractors are making every pi ssiblo exertion to effect an opening into the town of Preston as early as possible in the next month Preston Chronicle. THUNDIB. SIOB- M ISD EXTRAORDINARY WHIRLWIND— At six o'clock on Monday evening last, a most extraordi- nary whirlwind, accompanied with thunder, lightning, hail and tain, took place in the neighbourhood of Chadderton, Oldham, and Middleton. In a field belonging to Mr. G. Wolstencroft, oS Uttie Green, Logwood Mill, near Mid- dleton, a large willow tree, upwards of twelve feet in cir- cnmfetence, was torn up \ iy the toots— it was also split up the middle. A considerable quantity of large boughs were loin off other trees, and carried in the air upwards of a mile, twirling round in the same direction as the hands of a clock. The clouds appeared very much disturbed at the time— the noise the wind made ivas heard upwards oi a mile. There was a smart shower of hail and rain, but it did not last many minutes; \> ut nearer Oldham tliete was mote rain, and a deal of damage was done. The streams of the Irk and Wedlock became much swollen, and some dwellings in low situations were inundated, but not to a serious extent. A child at Coldhuistlane was struck by the electtic fluid, but not materially hurt.— Bolton Chronicle. ATTEHTtiD SUICIDE Tuesday, a private of the 6th Dragoon Guards, quartered at Troubridge, shot himself with his pistol; the ball entered the lower jaw, and passed through the skull on the left side, taking away part of the biain; he was alive on Wednesday, but not expected to survive— Devizes Gazette. RADICALISM IN BOLTON At a meeting of the committee 0! the Reform As- ociation, last, evening, several alterations were made in the newspapers ordered for the reading room. Tile Northern Star in place of the Yorkshireman. the Bir- mingham Journal instead oi the Weekly Chronicle, and the Prtston Observer in the room of the Preston Chronicle, were voted unanimously Bolton Free Press. VAGABONDS.— The Leeds Intelligencer contains an adver- tisement announcing that no fewer than fourteen husbands in the township of Leeds have absconded, leaving their fa- milies chargeable, and announcing a reward per head for their restoration. FIRE- DAMP On Monday last, August 6, a fire- damp explosion took place in a level, belonging to the Gadlys Iron Company, Aberdare, by which three of the workmen were severely burnt. On the following day, Tuesday, a similar unfortunate occurrence took place in a level belonging to the Abernant Iron Company, in the same parish, by which six of the workmen received similar injuries. At the latter pb ce one horse was killed, and another much injured— Silurian. John Williams, 52 years of age, residing at Pen- y waun- fawr, a collier, employed by the Dowlais Iron Company, while at work in the level on the preceding Monday, from an explosion of fire damp, was so severely burnt, that after lingering till the Wednesday following, death released him from his sufferings. A son of Williams, and another man were at the same time so severely burnt, that doubts are en- tertained of their recovery.— Idem. FATAL ACCIDENT On the afternoon of Wednesday last, a person named John Williams, a tailor, 23 years of age, going to see his mother at Swansea; when on the road towards Merthyr, seeing one of the Uowlais locomotive engines, he got on part of the tender, but not adopting the necessary precaution of taking hold of the chain, lie was thrown off, and before the ennine could be stopped, it had pa- sed over his right thigh, which it nearly severed from his body - he was immediately removed to the nearest house, that of John Griffiths, Black Lion Inn, Mount Pleasant, where all that it was possible for humanity to do, was done, but without avail, death ending his sufferings in about five hours from the time he received the accident.— Idem Early on the morning of Thursday the 9th inst., the body of a man, named David Jones, a miner, employed by the Penydarran Iron Company, was found in the level, by his wife and others who were in search of him; he left his home on the morning of the preceding day, to go to his work, having previously told his wife that he should be late at work that evening; iie having been frequently in the habit of remaining after the other men had left work, and not returning about ten o'clock, she consequently went to bed; awaking early the following morning and finding that lie bad not returned, she became alarmed, got up, and called up some of her neighbours, who went with her in search ol him to the level, where they found him dead, and quite stiff, some earth being on him, which had fallen from the top of the level.— Idem. Saturday night the house of Mr. Grooves, butcher, Friar- street, was discovered to be on fire. Smoke was perceived issuing from the premises by some one passing at the time, who immediately gave the alarm, and roused the family, who hail retired to rest. Shortly afterwards the Birmingham Fire Office engine arrived, by which lime, however, the flames, by active exertion, had been extinguished, but not till the lurniture of the room in which they were first perceived, was much burnt and damaged. — Worcester Chronicle. HOT AND COLD MANCHESTER TRADE ( WEDNESDAY)— Theie has been a fair inquiry both for goods anil yam during the last few days; but the buyers, who were compelled to give a slit! ht advance last week in consequence of the in- creased firmness of the cotton market at that time, have en deavoured to take advantage of the subsequent decline in cotton al Liverpool. MARCH OF INDEPENDENCE Henry Taylor was charged with breaking the house door and beating his mother, l'he mother staled that on the previous evening, her son came home at eleven o'clock, and on having some bread and cheese given him, he demanded a hot supper to be cooked for him. This was refused by the witness, and the dutiful youth turned upon her and beat her, and afterwards de- stroyed the panels of the door. The magistrates, alter re prima. iding htm, desired him to beg his mother's paidon; but he boldly said " that he'd nevei do;" he was immedi- ately committed for one week— Worcester Journal. AN OFFENDING MAYOR G. Allies, Esq., the mayor, pleaded guilty to a charge of having the chimney ol his warehouse on fire on Wednesday. Inspector Pemberron lirought lorward the complaint, ami the defendant paid the expenses incurred: no fine being adjudged to be paid. This, however, has been the case for some months; and all parties offending against our local laws, have been treated in the same lenient manner. — Worcester Journal. On Monday last, a slack ot hay, the property of Mr. Hunli Parry, of Frankwell, in this town, and standing in a meadow near the Shelton road, was discovered to be on fire, in consequence of having been improperly harvested and too soon put together. There were about thirty tons of hay in the stack, and notwithstanding every assistance, on y about five tons were saved from destruction.— Salopian - Journal MAN ATTACKED BV A BULL. — On Friday last, as the cow- herd at Porkington was attending to his duties, he perceived the bull loose Irom his stall, and proceeded to tie him up, when the animal attacked him, threw him twice to the top of the building, and, when on the ground, hutted him so, that his life was all but sacrififled. A faithful dog, hearing his master's cries, flew to his assistance, and attacked his assail- ant in the rear, and thus, aft r a lime, the poor fellow was enabled to escape. Excited in the highest degree, and armed with a strong weapon, lie returned to the charge! and by the help of his canine assistant, heat back 1 he hull to his Stand, and there made him fast. He then staggered to the dairy, the servants were alarmed, anil a surgeon was promptly in attendance, who proceeded to examine him : the breast botie was found to lie seriously injured, three of the ribs badly fractured, and the body otherwise much injured. Re- storatives were administered, and in about an hour and a half the poor sufferer was removed in a carriage to his own cottage, and put to bed. Ills miraculous escape and intre- pid conduct aie matter of astonishment. The poor man lies in u dangerous state, arid, at present, bur little hope is emert lined ot bis recovery Salopian Journal. SCOTLAND. PARSON poweit v. STEAM POWER We understand that th" • 1' itimitteeof Presbytery, according to their instructions, applied to Lord Gillies, the resilient Lord Ordinary, on FruKty niglir, for an interdict against the proposed plan of running railway coaches on the . Sunday. Mis lordship OPIHIHII the railway company to lodge answers to the appli- cation, hut declined to grant an interim interdict. Accord- ing v the coaches commenced running on Sunday.— Edin bun/ h Observer. [ Ten to one, steam runs down the Pres- bj ter .| CHE vp CARRIAGE— The family of a noble peer, being lately at OIIH « f the wa'ering places on the Clytfe, his lady pur clH-" tl and paid lor a pair of gloves, which, however, she omitted in the hurry, to take with her. A few days after- WHMJ- a franked letter was received, requesting that each of the gloves should he transmitted through the Post- office, ut" f « * r separate covers, ro Lord S . at a distant part of Argtlealnre, which was accordingly done.— Glasgow Argus. On Tuesday last week, as a boat, in which there were six men, three women, and two boys, was proceeding from Stromness to Stronsay, in Orkney, she unfortunately swamped, when, melancholy to relate, the whole of the persons on board perished. A N UNKNOWN ONE The remains of a man, supposed to have perished in some of the snow storms of last winter, were found in the mountainous range between the Spittal of Gfenmulk and Braedownie, on Friday, 27th alt. Whether the unfortunate sufferer had been travelling across the Grampians, southward or northwards, is unknown, nor can it be ascertained who he was, or to what place he belonged. The body was consumed almost to a skeleton.— Edinburgh Courant. MORHFR On Sunday morning last the watchman, on duty at the Thorter- row. having entered a court on the east side of that lane, discovered a human body lying at the tide of an outside stair, leading by a few steps to apartments occupied by Arthur Wood, street porter. The body turned out to be that of John Wood, son of the above Arthur Wood by a first marriage. The young man, whet) taken up by th, e watchman, was quite dead, but bis body was warm. It was lying on the flagstones opposite bis father's door. the feet being next the stair, as if he had been thrown from it. There was a large contusion on the hack of the head, and, on examination by Drs. Webster and Moon, there was found a fracture of the skull, and marks of a rope were deeply indented round his necK, as if he had been strangled and then thrown on the ground. Arthur Wood and Wa wife were found in the house dunking spirits when the officers went to apprehend them. Both were examined before the police court yesterday, and handed over to ' he Procurator Fiscal for prosecution.— Dundee paper of Friday. RURAL AFFAIRS As regards the crops, our prospects are becoming more and more gloomy; and. unwilling as we are to excite alarm \ iy " forecasting the slypes of fut'ire evil." no one ran shut his eyes to what is passing, or con* template, without regret, the hardships entailed on the working classes by the enhanced price of the necessaries of life— particularly bread and oatmeal. Summer seems to have slipped from the cycle of the seasons, and even autumn, so far as it has gone, is, by no means, wfiat aurumn ought to be. In July, we looked forward with hope to August, and must now, we sunpose, turn with the same feeling to the month of September. Apart from rain, the temperature is a great deal ton low. and. for weeks past, the thermometer has been oftener at, or below, than above 60. A great deal of rain fell last week, particularly ori Tuesday, when it fell in torrents. For several hours lightning flashed and thun- der roared, and, strange as it may appear, some of the showers were profusely mixed with sleer, or rather haif, A great deal of grain was lodged during that disastrous day, and considerable damage done to the hay wherever it was left unricked — Dumfries Courier IRELAND TITHES .'— The Rev. William O'Donnell, priest of Lifford, has been committed to prison for costs upon a tithe bill issued by the Itev. Hamilton Stewart, which costs were due, not merely by rhe leverend prisoner, but by three other persons, one of them a Protestant lady. The impri- sorting a clergyman for a rax claimed for religious instruc- tion, was not sufficiently preposterous and indecent, without the additional outiage ot making him the sufferer for the debts of other persons, equally liable, and equally able to meet the demand— Irish Paper. IRISH AGITATION, — Mr. Henry Grattan has addressed the following letter to the " National Trades' Union : "— " The Corporation bill has been converted into an instru- ment of Iraud and oppression. Ir is our duty, as Irishmen, — it is our special duty, as citizens of Dublin, to enter our decided protest against this measure. Be assured that, if once passed, it will not be easily repealed. " We tried to amend our bad Reform bill, and we failed ; and so long as the House of Peers are ' lords of the as- cendant,' a gootl measure for Ireland may be repealed,— a bad measure may be made worse; but a measure that abridges tile rights and liberties of tile Irish, will long remain upon the statute book. " History informs us that the House of Lords have, from time immemorial, been the hereditary enemies of Ireland, and though with ' ropes of silk,' they were hangmen notwith- standing " You are aware of the bearings ol the case— the debates, the amendments, the ninety two clauses introduced by the Lords, rhe twenty six clauses omitted of the Commons— the scope and extent of these proceedings are within your knowledge; tile principles upheld by one party, the privi leges opposed by the other; and although the measure, as sent from the Commons, was by no means perfect, yet, compared to what it now is. it was • Hyperion to a satyr.' " As a fellow citizen, let me, then entreat of you to raise your voice against the present system of legislation; one which is aiike iifsulting to the feelings of Ireland, and derogatoiy to the dignity of England, anil which must prove injurious to the interests ot both ; one country can reap no fruits from the degradation of another; and in this political drama I heboid only one ingredient from whence to derive a ray of hope or consolation.— namely, that it makes every high minded man regret the absence of a domestic legislature, ami affords a lesson to all nations to fight for their liberties at first, as, if they do not, they a e sure to be trampled upon at last." GRATUITOUS SERVICES — It is said that Mr. Woodcock, the unpaid agent ot Mr. O'Conuell. at the late Dublin election, has been appointed to the office of clerk of appear- ances in the Exchequer Court, Dublin. New potatoes are selling as cheap as 3d. per stone in the west of Clare. MR. O'CONNELL — About twelve this day Mr. O'Con- nell arrived at his residence in Merrion- square, in excellent health. The lion and learned gentleman travelled by way of Liverpool, from which he crossed to Kingstown in one of the City of Dublin Company's steamers. Mr. O'Connell requests a meeiing of his constituents at rhe Com Exchange to morrow. The shipping list to rhe Chamber ol Com- merce from Kingstown, dated ten o'clock a. m., reported a steamer in the oiling with colours displaved. On reaching the pier it was found fo have conveyed Mr. O'Connell. wi ll the member for Meath, and others ot his friends — Dublin Paper of Tuesday. MISCELLANEOUS. The Journal de Cherbourg mentions the death of a young man in that town, who stood seven feet two inches and three quarters high. TURNUKE TRUSTS. — By a report to the House of Lords it appears that there are 1,119 turnpike trusts in England and Wales, the debts upon which amount to 7,304.80; U, being R681, per mile, guaranteed by 3,783 acts of Parlia- ment. A new combination of metals, as a substitute for the watch- pieces in which the pivots turn, and which are liable to become deranged by the action ot the oil, has been sub- mitted to the Academy of Sciences. It consists of platina, silver, and copper, and oil has no effect on it. THE SCHOOLMISTRESS ABROAD. — Governess wanted at New Zealand Wanted, a governess by a respectable family, residing at the Bay of Islands, New Zealand, com petent to teach English, French, music, drawing, and dancing. Satisfactory reference as to character and com- petency required. — Sydniy paper. OPTICAL PHENOMENON. — When the dense fog which overspread the horizon here on Friday se'nnight had cleared away, about ten the sky became so bright that one of the most imposing views of the opposite coast presented itself that was ever witnessed from our shores. It seemed as if a curtain had been suddenly withdrawn, exhibiting the whole line . of French coast as distinctly as if it hail only been a few miles off. At Calais, comparatively minute objects were plainly discernible. Boulogne piers were per- fectly visible; the sails of the vessels in that harbour were observed outspread, and tile whole of the villages along the coast seemed so close at hand that the spectator on Dover pier might fancy them as near as the martello tower im- mediately adjacent to Folkestone.— Dover Chronicle. WAGES AND FOOD In 1812, when the average price of wheat was I22s. 8d. a quarter. I wished ( says Mr. Milne, in his evidence before the House of Commons' committee,) to enclose a farm. I sent for my bailiff, and told him that I bad enclosed, about twenty- five years ago, a good deal of land, that the enclosure at that time cost me 3s. per ell ot 37 inches; that a neighbour of mine, two or three years ago, had made similar enclosures which cost him 5s. per ell; that I thought he had paid too much, and that I ought to do it cheaper. The answer I got from my bailiff was, that provisions were very high, that the labourers were doing double work, and that of course there was less demand lor labour; that he could do these enclosures at a cheaper rate than I had ever done them ; and he actually executed this enclosure at 2s. 6d. per ell. He again came and told me that I had proposed to him to do some ditching and draining uponafaim, which I did not intend to do for a twelve month. He requested that I would allow him to do it that season, as he could do it so much cheaper; and that a great many labourers were idle from having little work, in conse- quence of those employed doing double work at low wages. I desired him to goon with that work likewise; and be actually contracted for very large ditches at Gil. an ell, which I do not think I could get done now under from Is. to 1.6( 1., in consequence of the fall of provisions.— House of Com mans' Evidence. THE BREAD TAX.— The highest quotation of white wheat at Hamburgh is 49s. 2d. the quarter, and the highest quo- tation of red wheat of the first quality is 45s. Id. tile quarter, and therefore the mean price at Hamburgh of white and red wheat together is 47s. 2d. the quarter. The highest quota- tion of white wheat of the first quality in London is 78*. the quarter, and the highest quotation of red wheat of the first quality is 74s. the quarter, and therefore the mean price in London of white and red wheat together is 76s. the quarter. It appears, therefore, that with the sum ot SI. 16s. a man may buy 12J bushels of wheat at Hamburgh, whereas with th^ satne sum he can only buy 8 bushels in London. The highest quotation of Zealand white wheat of the first quality, at Amsterdam, is 50s. the quarter and the mean price of wheat in London being 76s. the quarter; it follows that wheat i « 52 per cent, dearer in London than at Am. sterdam. The highest quotation of white wheat of ( he first quality at Berlin is 45s. ] Oil. the quarter, and the highest quotation of while wheat of tile first qnalityMn Lou- don being 78s. the quarter, the difference is 70J percent. The highest quotation of red wheat of the first quality at Antwerp is 48s. lOd. the quarter, and the highest quotation of red wheat in London being 74s. the quarter, it follows that wheat is 51^ per cent, dearer in Loudon than at An- iwerp. The highest quotation of red wheat of the first quality at Stettm is 44s. 3d. the quarter, and the highest quotation of red wheat ol the first quality in London being 74s. the quarter, it follows that wheat is 67 per cent, dearer in London than at Stettin, and that with the sum of 31. ) 4s. H man may buy 13j bushels of wheat at Stettin, whereas with the same sum he can only buy 8 bushels in London. 1' fie present rfu'y on the importation of foreign wheat into England is 16s. 8d. the quarter, which is equal to the following rates: — To a rate of 35/ 6s 91. percent, on the prime cost of wheat at Hamburgh; to a rate oi 33!. 6s. 8d. per cent, on the prime cost of wheat at Amsterdam; to a rate of 361. 7s. 3d. per cent, on the prime cost of wheat at Merlin; io a rate ol 34/ 2s. Id percent, on the prime cost ot wheat at Antwerp; to a rate of 371. 13s. 4d. per cent, on the prime cost of wheat at Stettin; ami to a rare ol 35/, 5s. fid. per cent. 011 the mean price of the five above- mentioned places Times of Monday. FRENCH VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY A letter from Captain Diunont d'Urville, dated, " island of Conception, April 10, 1838," announces the arrival in that harbour of the cor- veues Astrolabe and Zelee. After remaining an entire month in the straits of Magellan, M. d'Urville left them on the 8th ot January, and, steering towards the south, came within view of the first mountains of ice on the 15th. Seven days af'erwards his progress was checked fiy a solid barrier of ice, w del) he sailed along a distance of 240 miles, and from fat. south 64 deg. ro 01. deg., near Che New Otkney Islands. On the' 2nd of February, lie continued ro advance southward, and on the 4th. being in lat. south 6' 2 deg., the two corvettes were so hemmed in on all sides, : hat he was beginning to despair of extricating them, when. 011 lhe 9ifi, be availed himself of a strong east south east wind to hoist all sails, and got clear of it. He then coasted the harrier ot ice tor a distance of 300 miles, without per- ceiving any opening, and on the loth, having reached the 33rd degree of longitude, ( Paris,) after visiting the points explored by Weddell, and seeing the rampart ot ice extend irig northward toward the Sandwich islands, he proceeded westward by the New Orkney Islands, the eastern part of those of New Shetland, and, turning again to the south, explored, between the 63rd degree anil 64th degree of lati- tude. for a distance of IsO miles. Crossing the whole of the straits of Bratisfield, be left the Austral shores on the 7th of March, after a navigation of fifty- two days among the ice. The crews being much fatigued, and the scurvy having manifested itself, particularly on board the Zelee, Captain d'Urville determined on making for the nearest harbour of the coast of Chili, and safely reached the bay of Conception on the 7th of April. MEN OF SCIENCE Sir John Heischel is, we believe, the first Englishman who has ever received a baronetcy purely 011 account ot his scientific acquirements. His lather was only a Hanoverian knight, which was also the honour en joyed by himself previous to the late coronation. Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer is only the second literary baronet, having been preceded by Sir Walter Scott. No great inventor has ever received a similar honour; Sir Richard Arkwright was indeed knighted, but that was not 011 account of his mechanical merits, but in the usual routine, as the bearer of an address of congratulation on His Majesty's escape from the knife of Peg Nicholson, or some equally important occa- sion,— Mechanics' Mag. A WELSH COUSIN At the late Pembrokshire assizes, a country girl, during her examination as a witness, being asked whether she bore any relationship to one of the parties in the cause, replied, " no, not at least for nine generations." NATURE AND ART There is in Gawsworth- gardens, near this town, a fish pond, in which is a miniature fort, on the top of which is a figure, said to represent some Earl Douglas overlooking the battery. The figure is represented as having in one hand a naked sword, and the other thrust into the pocket of his small clothes. In the recess formed by the latter hand, a bird of the linnet tribe has ( this season built its nest, and has there deposited six eggs.— Macclesfield paper. NEW POWER This morning a trial was made on the iron railroad of a perpetual motion, which is intended to supersede steam in drawing the trains. This unknown, mysterious, and perrennial Dower, which has excited the so- licitude of our greatest capitalists was such, that it forced the waggons off the rails after they had run about three yards. Happily the secret did not transpire.— Letter from Brussels of A uqust 2. MEMBERS' QUALIFICATION.— By the Members'Qualifica- tion bill, which has passed the House of Lords, the poses- sion of 300/. a- year frum houses, money in the funds, or other species of property, qualifies a person to represent an English borough. ARTESIAN WELL.— The bore which has been going on for so long a period near Paris has now reached the depth of 1,345 feet! If the well should have a depth of I 600 feet, according to recent calculations, the water will have a lemperature sufficiently high to furnish Paris with an abundant supply of hot water for baths, and for many other purposes. PUBLIC OFFICE, MONDAY, AUG. 13. ( Before J. Webster, W. Beale, and D. Ledsam, Esqs.) Rebecca Denham and Eliza Sheltry, two unfortu- nates, were, on the complaint of Mr. Taylor, constable, committed for one mouth for being' drunk and disor- derly in the streets. A youth of respectable appearance named R. Tom- hinson, fifteen years of age, was charged with robbing, under circumstances which will be found in the follow- ing evidence.— Mr. Tadman, clerk to Mr. May, factor, of St. Paul's- square, stated, that for some time past they had missed various sums of money, and suspicion falling upon the prisoner, who was formerly in Mr. May's employ, a plan tvas adopted to discover the thief- On Saturday night he ( Mr. T.) left ten marked sovereigns locked up in a drawer in the counting- house, and that ( Monday) morning, oil opening the drawer, he found that seven sovereigns, out of the ten, had been stolen.— John Darby, a lad in Mr. May's service, deposed that he that morning unlocked the warehouse, and that shortly afterwards the prisoner, Toinkinson, who was an acquaintance, called, and stopped for sonic time 011 the premises. Mr. Tadman, accompanied by Pugh, the street- keeper, went to the wharf of Messrs. Pickfords', the carriers, where the prisoner was emyloyed, and upon searching iiis pockets they found the seven sovereigns, marked in the exact manner described by Mr. Tadman. He was accordingly apprehended, and conveyed to the prison in Moor- street— Mr. Tadman, in answer to ques- tions from the magistrates, stated that the drawer in which the money was deposited ran upon narrow ledges, and the prisoner by using slight force was en- abled to remove the drawer 011 one side to obtain the money. They had ascertained this by a subsequent examination of the drawer. The prisoner, whose parents are very respectable people, having nothing to say in his defence, was committed to take his trial at the sessions. STEALING BRASS CASTINGS.— Samuel Hide stood charged with stealing- two brass castings, the property of Mr. Taylor, brass- founder. The prisoner was taken with the castings in bis pocket, confessed tli3 theft, and asked for forgiveness. He was committed to take his trial at the sessions. BASE COIN. — TVm. Woodcock, apparently a labour- ing brickmaker, was placed at the bar, charged with uttering base coin.— Mi's. Lucy Glover, the wife of a retail brewer, in Dcritend, deposed, that on the 28th of June, a young boy natned Thomas Scott, came to the house for some beer, for which he tendered a half- crown, which afterwards proved to be counterfeit. On a subsequent day, a girl named Hannah Needly, brought another base half- crown, which was refused, when Mrs. Glover followed her to a neighbouring court, and in a house saw the girl return the half- crown to the prisoner, Woodcock. Oil Mrs. Glover accusing him of giving the girl the base half- crown for the purpose of getting it changed, the prisoner de- nied that he knew it was counterfeit, and said he had got seven or eight more which he had won in gam- bling, and if it was bad they must be bad also. Mrs. Glover left the house, and was subsequently appre- hended in Mill- lane, by Jones, the Aston office, when he admitted that in company with two others, ( who escaped from custody,) he had travelled through the country passing base money. The prisoner deposed to himself and companions having circulated counter- feit coin in great quantities at West Bromwich, Wal- sall, Wednesbury, Dudley, Stourbridge, Bromsgrove, Stratford- upon- Avon, Warwick, Kenil worth, Coventry, Nuneaton, Atherstone, Coleshill, & c. The prisoner, ivheu before the magistrates, signed a confession to this effect. He was fully committed to take bis trial at the next sessions. His companions had not yet been beard of. Edward Webster was charged with habitually ab- senting himself from the service of Mr. Taylor, bis master. He had been already whipped for the same offence, and Mr. Taylor, not wishing that he should be again whipped, offered, with the consent of the pri- soner and his friends, to cancel his indentures.— To this Webster and his mother assented, and the pri- soner was discharged. DESPERATE ATTEMPT AT SVHCUVE IN THE DOCK.— A man named Wm. Pope, by trade a pearl button- maher, was placed in the dock charged witVi brutally assaulting his wife, and with threatening to kill her and his infant child.— Mrs. Pope, having been sworn, stated that the prisoner was a good mechanic, and able to cam from 25s. to 30s. per week. He was, unfortunately addicted to drinking, and was almost invariably intoxicated whenever he could procure liquor, and when in that state he was quite unmanage- able. Oil Saturday night week he got very drunk, and continued so until Wednesday morning, when be beat her in a dreadful manner; and swore m the most revolting manner, that he would throw bis infant cbild out of the window if it was not taken away. lie con- tinued in this state of excitement until she was obliged to apply for a warrant against him. Hipkiss, the officer, accordingly took him into custody, after much difficulty, and found in his possession a new pistol, bag, and bullet mould. A short time before he was taken, he was heard to say he would shoot her ( Mis. Pope) and one of her brothers— The prisoner, in a rambling and incoherent manner, said it was his wife's fault. She went out and left him without bis dinner.— The conduct of the prisoner, during the above statement, was such as bore out the tale of his un- happy wife, and the magistrates considering that he ought not to be at large without security, ordered him to find bail, and in default to be committed for twelve months. The instant the sentence had been uttered by the magistrate, the prisoner became suddenly out- rageous, sprang from the floor, and dashed his head with terrific violence upon the iron spikes in front of the ( lock. Rock, the officer, who was standing behind him, immediately seized him by the throat, but the prisoner, who appeared to be as strong as he was reso- lute, notwithstanding the energetic interference of the police, succeeded in again striking his head several times, with great violence, against the iron work of the dock, and the general impression of the spectators around the table, and in the inner part of the court, was, that the man must have mortally wounded him- self. The' consternation in the court was appalling, and the poor wife's situation truly distressing. She happened to be standing close to the dock ; her screams upon witnessing the scene were heart- rending. Mr. Webster humanely ordered her to be conveyed home by one of the officers. It was with great difficulty the prisoner, who was evidently bent upon his own destruction, was dragged out of the dock, and con- veyed below stairs. Fortunately, the last blow he struck was prevented taking effect by Hipkiss having placed his hand between the spikes and the man's head, the consequence of which was, that the officer's fingers were much lacerated. A surgeon was immediately sent for, and the prisoner was removed to the insane ward at the workhouse. ASSAULT.— Mr. John Allday, wire drawer, of Brad- ford- street, was brought up charged with violently assaulting Mr. Nicklin, wire worker, carrying 011 business in the same street. Mr. J. Simcox, solicitor, appeared on behalf of the complainant. Mr. Nicklin being sworn, stated, that on the evening of Tuesday week, as he was returning from town, when near the bridge in Bradford- street, be saw Mr. Allday walking on the opposite footpath. The defendant then crossed the road, and, after having given vent to the most dreadful oaths and imprecations, he struck him a violent blow 011 the side of his face, the marks of which were still visible. The blow was so violent that his hat flew off to a considerable distance, and he ( Mr. Nicklin) had from Tuesday until that morning been entirely incapacitated from following his business. After being slruck, he ( the complainant) made 110 reply, but proceeded on his way homewards, and afterwards went in search of a surgeon. On returning from Mr. Sivinson's, he again saw Mr. Allday in Bradford- street, when he ( Mr. Nickliu) requested a woman to stand at the door of her house, in order that she might be a witness to any violence the defendant might commit. On passing him Mr. Allday clenched his fist, and, again swearing, threatened him with future vengeance. Mr. Svvinson, the surgeon, was prepared to state, that had the blow been given a little higher or a little lower, it might have been attended with the most serious consequences. He ( Mr. N.) was apprehensive of danger from the threatened violence of the defend- ant.— Mr. Webster said, before he and his brother magistrate, Mr. Ledsam, ( Mr. Beale was sitting in the Public Court- room) called upon Mr. Nicklin to sup- port his case, by witnesses, they wished to know what answer Mr. Allday had to make to the complainant's statement?— Mr. Allday admitted that he committed the assault, and said, if he received similar provocation, he would repeat it. Coming down the street, some time since, lie was met by the " man" Nicklin, who abused him in the grossest manner. Not that he cared for the man, for he ( Mr. A.) always treated him with the most ineffable indifference. The complainant had charged him ( Mr. A.) with employing his servant to rob, and stated that he ( Mr. A.) was to be the receiver of the stolen property.— Mr. Webster said the magis- trates could not enter into that; Mr. Allday might have redress for any improper observations used to- wards him, without proceeding to acts of violence.— Mr. Simcox wished to ask how long it was since the provocation was said to have been given ?— Mr. Nick- liu: Two months. He ( Mr. N.) was particularly anxious that the magistrates should hear all the cir- cumstances of the case, as he was sure they would consider that the circumstances alluded to by Mr. Allday, instead of constituting a provocation, were a very serious aggravation of the assault.— Mr. Allday said the provocation was given about nine days before the assault was committed.— Mr. Webster: And was you out of town during that nine days?— Mr. Allday: No; but be believed Mr. Nicklin was.— Mr. Nicklin said he had been out of town for more than three weeks; and the conversation to which Mr. Allday alluded, and which he ( Mr. N.) hoped the magistrates would hear, took place somewhere about two months ago. He had never given him the slightest provoca- tion.— Mr. Webster said it was clear Mr. Allday had sufficient time to obtain redress for any supposed in- jury he might have received without resorting to violence.— Mr. Allday hoped the magistrates would hear the evidence of his servant; lie had been ill bis service for many years, and a more honest man did not exist.— The magistrates'intimated ( hat the assault was proved, and that it was their duty to see that the peace was preserved.-— Mr. Allday, while the magistrates were consulting together, interrupted them, and said, " Mr. Webster, in consequence of the great transactions in trade which are carried 011 between you and Mr. Nicklin, I do not think it right that y iu should sit in judgment upon this matter. At any rate it is not very delicate."— Mr. Webster, somewhat warm, " I thank Mr. Allday for his remarks, but this, I believe, is the first time any imputation has been thrown upon my conduct while 011 the bench. I am obliged to Mr. Allday, but 110 private considerations ever have, or ever will, influence my conduct as a magistrate. I knew nothin • of this case until it was accidental!\ brought before tne since I have t aken my seat "— Mr Spurrier strongly condemned the observations ot Mr. Allday, as an uncalled for insult to the bench.— Mr. Simcox said Mr. Beale had been asked to hear the case in company with Mr. Ledsam, but, in conse- quence of some private considerations, that gentleman declined, and it was by pure accident Mr. Webster took his place.— Mr. Taylor, the constable, confirmed this statement.— The magistrates convicted Mr. Allday in the penalty of 52. and costs, and ordered him to find sureties, himself in 501, and two other persons in 201. each, to keep the peace towards Mr. Nieklin, land all other Her Majesty's subjects for twelve calendar months.— Mr. Allday, having entered into the neces- sary sureties, was discharged. THURSDAY, AUG. 16. ( Before D. Ledsam and J. Webster, Fsqs.) Joseph Morris, a driver of one of the omnibuses he- longing to the Midland Company, was charged with furious driving.— Harrison, a street- keeper, stated, that on the 3rd instant he was 011 duty in Snow- hill, when he saw the defendant drive an omnibus down the hill, at the rate of from twelve to fourteen miles an hour. There were three horses in the vehicle at full gal lop. There was an omnibus belonging to another company running abreast at the same time, and the drivers were trying to pass each other. The persons ia the street cried " shame," and he held up his stick to caution him against going at such a rate, hut he did not stop.— Edward Rabey, another street- keeper, corro- horatei Harrissn's statement.— lit. Taylor, the con- stable, said, he saw two omnibuses driving at a most furious rate down Snow- hill, ahout the time stated the officers.— Morris denied the charge, and said be could produce witnesses who would prove that he was not driving at a greater pace than eight miles an hour. — Charles Booth was then called, and he swore that he was travelling by the omnibus in question to Wolver- hampton on the 3rd instant, and the drive* was not going- at a faster rate than eight miles an hour.— A man named Win. Russell deposed to the same effect.— The magistrate said, he believed the officers, and he should feel it his duty to prevent, as far as possible, such a dangerous practice. He should order Morris to pay 20s. and costs.— Several persons in the office said, the omnibuses were constantly being driven at an alarming pace through the town. Mr. Charles Guise was summoned to show cause why he detained in his house one of the night watch of the town.— John Waugh, one of the watch inspectors, stated, that 011 the morning of the 8tli instant, between one and two o'clock, he went into Bath- row, and called for the watchman. He did not answer, upon which he went to the door of the defendant's house and listened, when he heard the watchman inside in company with others. He rapped at the door, and a young man opened it and told him the watchman was not in the house. Believing, however, that he was inside, he waited about the door until three o'clock, when the watchman and two men, having the appearance of gen- tlemen, came out quite drunk.— Mr. Guise, jun., said, the watchman was in the house at the time, but the gentlemen had requested him to say he was not, least he should lose his situation.— Mr. Ledsam said, it was a case which did not admit of any lenity. It was really an unpardonable offence to entertain a watchman under such circumstances. He should order him to pay 51. and costs. Four women and two men were placed in the dock, charged with selling combs, laces, & c., in High- street. — Mr. Chapman preferred the complaint against the parties. He said, he did not wish to prevent theni from earning a livelihood, provided they did so without annoying the passengers and shopkeepers, but they were accustomed to making a noise in front of the shops and collecting around them crowds of persons, so that they were a great nuisance. If they would promise to sell their articles without annoying others, he would not press for their committal.— The parties said, they had no other means of obtaining a living, and they could not promise.— Mr. Webster, the magistrate, said, their goods became forfeited as they were selling with- out a license, and he should order them to be taken from them as they would not promise not to offend again.— Their combs, & c., were accordingly taken, and they were set at liberty. ( Before Joshua Scholefield, William Blakeway, and J. Webster, Esqrs.) William Weldon was committed forpicking pockets at Hollowayhead, 011 the day of the late great meet- ing. He is a regular thief, who got into the crowd, and was seen by a man named John Ryder to put a. his hand into a woman's pocket, and take out her handkerchief. He was taken into custody at the time, but was rescued by his companions, who met the offi- cers, and pelted them with stones. Richard Bull and William Lamb were charged with robbing a man named Thomas James. It appeared, from the statement of the officers, that 011 Saturday night James was going through John- street, when he was met by the prisoners, who robbed him of three half- crown pieces. He gave them into the custody of Beazley, tne watchman, and went with the prisoners to the watchhouse, where he also charged them with the robbery. On the following day be compromised the affair with the prisoners' friends, and it was found necessary to procure a summons to compel his attend- ance.— James was then sworn, and, in answer to ques- tions by the magistrates, he said he had been robbed, but he could not tell by whom. He did not know that the prisoners robbed him, and he could not swear against them. He had never given in charge to Beazley, but Beazley told him they were the men against whom he was to swear, and if he would call at his house he would put something into his head to say against them.— In consequence of this statement, the magistrates fully examined the case, and found that all the fellow had sworn against Beazley was utterly false. They consulted with the clerks, to know how they could punish the fellow for such infamous perjury, but finding a difficulty, they ordered him to pay 5s. for being drunk, and, in default of payment, 10 sit in the stocks for two hours. John Hemming was charged with embezzling 13s. 3d., the property of his master, Mr. Nash, baker, Lower Temple- sireet. Mr. Nash stated that the pri- soner had been in his employment five mouths, and it was part of his duty to deliver bread to his customers, and receive the money, and deliver it to him. Mr. Harris, of the Hope and Anchor, proved that 011 the 25tli of July lie paid the prisoner, 011 account of Mr. Nash, lis. 5d., and Mrs. Jones proved that on the 5tfi instant she paid him 6s. lOd. Mr. Nash deposed that the prisoner did not pay him more than 4s. out of the 18s. 3d. The prisoner in his defence said he had paid the money, but the book in which it was entered, had been altered. The magistrates committed him to the sessions. I11 the Private Room, the magistrates, prior to en- tering upon the investigation respecting the escape of the prisoners, ( which is noiiced in another column,) were occupied a long time in hearing a charge of assault, brought by Waterhouse ami Wightman, two common informers, against Mr. Edwin Lewis. It appeared from the statement of Waterhouse, that he . mil Wightman, and another of their fraternity, were in Mr. Cooper's public house, Moor street, on the pre- vious Friday evening, when they were attacked by a man of the name of Sloan, and another man, whose name he did not know, and Mr. Lewis, and violently beaten and kicked. In proof of his statement, he exhibited his face and neck, which bore ample proof that lie hail been punished by some person. Wight- man, his companion, was called, and corroborated his statement, several witnesses were examined, who proved that there was a general row between the par- lies. That it arose from a quarrel respecting informa- tions which had been laid against some of the com- • anv, but that Mr. Lewis took 110 part in the affair. Messrs. L- dsain, Webster, and Smith considered the a- sault proved, and ordered Mr. Lewis to pay 20s. and costs. 4 THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, AUGUST IB. TO CORRESPONDENTS. • • The carriage of the parcel from Wirksworth was charged Is. 8d.; so that oil the 29th of September there will remain in our hands two- pence to the ac- count of out correspondent. We rather think that even the Post- office would not charge so extravagantly for the transmission of five shillings, as 33 per cent. » t< The marriage stated in our last to have taknn place place between Miss Ann Terry and Mr. William Standley, had, we are informed by the parties, no ex- istence, save in the imagination of the idle scribbler • who, by his false representation, prevailed on us to give insertion to it. We have long been pestered with this species of petty and vexatious imposition, and know of but one effectual method of cure, which, having given most ample warning, we must now at length adopt. In future all marriages inserted in the Journal must be paidfor as advertisements. When in September last year we fixed the price cf the Journal at fourpence- halfpenny, we confi- dently calculated that a fall in the pricp of materials • would fully compensate not only for a larger reduc- tion than the amount of the duty remitted justified, but also for the great addition which we made to the size of our paper. Our calculation has failed us. In this respect our cotemporaries showed that they were better informed than we were. It is not too late to take advantage by their example. The pre- sent price of the Journal, with the heavy deductions to which it is subject, is much too small. We pro- pose, therefore, that in future it shall be the same as that of the Gazette and Advertiser, to which we do not think we arrogate too much in saying, that for information, compiled or original, it is equal. Neither do we think we claim more than we are fairly entitled to from the Reformers of Birmingham and the kingdom at large, when we ask from them the same remuneration for our labours, which the Tories are content to pay for the labours of their advocates. The Reformers have, at least, as much heart to be generous; and they can quite as well afford to be just. AFTER THE SEVENTH OF SEPTEMBER, THEREFORE, THE PRICE OF THE JOURNAL WILL BE FIVEPENCE. The advance will be of not incon- siderable importance to us, while it will be altogether insignificant to our readers; so we confidently hope that it will be cheerfully acquiesced in. BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1838. HER MAJESTY'S speech run thus;— MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, The state of public business enablei me to close this pro- tracted and laborious session. I have to lament that the civil war in Spain forms an ex- ception to the general tranquillity. I continue to receive from all foreign powers the strongest assurances of their desire to maintain with me the most amicable relations. The disturbance and insurrections which had, unfortu- nately, broken out in Upper and Lower Canada, have been promptly suppressed, and I entertain a confident hope that firm and judicious measures will empower you to restore a constitutional form of government, which unhappy events have compelled you for a time to suspend. I rejoice at the progress which has been made in my colonial possessions towards the entire abolition of negro apprenticeship. I have observed with much satisfaction the attention which you have bestowed upon the amendment of the domestic institutions of the country. I trust that the mitigation of the law of imprisonment for debt will prove at once favour- able to the liberty of my subjects, and safe for commercial credit; and that the Established Church will derive in- creased strength and efficiency from the restriction of the granting of benefices in plurality. I have felt great pleasure in giving my assent to the bill for the relief of the destitute poor in Ireland. I cherish the expectation that its provisions hare been so cautiously framed, and will be so prudently executed, that whilst they contribute to relieve distress, they will tend to preserve or- der, and to encourage habits of industry and exertion. I trust, likewise, that the act which you have passed relating to the composition for tithe in Ireland, will in- crease the security of that property, and promote internal peace. GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, I cannot sufficiently thank you for your dispatch and liberality in providing for the expenses of my household and the maintenance of the honour and dignity of the Crown. I offer you my warmest acknowledgments for the addition which you have made to the income of my beloved mother. I thank you for the supplies which you have voted fo r the ordinary public service, as well as for the readiness with which you have provided means to meet the extra or- dinary expenses rendered necessary by the state of my Canadian possessions. Mr LOKDS AND GENTLEMEN, The many useful measures, which you have been able to consider, while the settlement of the Civil List, and the state of Canada, demanded so much of your attention, are a satisfactory proof of your zeal for the public good. You are so well acquainted with the duties which now devolve upon you in your respective counties, that it is unnecessary to remind you of them. In the discharge of them you may securely rely upon my firm support, and it only re- mains to express an humble hope that Divine Providence may watch over us all, and prosper our united efforts for the welfare of out country. We have no room for comment. Parliament was prorogued on Thursday, by HER MAJESTY in person. Ministers making- a point of parading- their mistress and protectress on all possible occasions. We give the speech of the Speaker, ABER- CROMBIE, and of HER MAJESTY. The SPEAKER spoke as follows:— MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY, We, your faithful Commons, approach your Majesty at the close of a laborious and unusually protracted seesion of Parliament. The serious disturbances which unhappily broke out in the Province of Lower Canada demanded our immediate attention. It was our first care to place at the disposal of your Majesty such means as we deemed to be indispensable for the restoration of order and the main- tenance offuture tranquillity. In considering, as it was our duty to do, the causes which had led to these deplorable events, we found that the discord which had had so long ex- istedbetween the different branches of the government and the legislature, had rendered it impossible to conduct public affairs with that efficiency and harmony which were essen- tial to the prosperity and safety of that provinoe. Under this conviction we felt that it was necessary to interpose, by adopting a vigorous and decisive measure; and we have passed an act suspending for a limited time the constitution of Lower Canada, and have given large and extensive means t) leexercised under the controul of yonr Majesty, and on the responsibility of your Ministers, We are conscious that such a measure can only be defended by the deepest conviction of its necessity, and we anxiously look for our justification in the early re- establishment of the free institu- tions of that important colony, with such amendments as may best secure the happiness of its people, as well as cement its union with the mother country. Among the subjects recommended to our consideration in your Ma- jesty's gracious speech on the opening of the Parliament, there was none that presented greater difficulties, or which demanded more care and circumspection than the provision to be made for the destitute in Ireland. We felt that no measure for the introduction of a poor law into a country circumstanced as Ireland is, with respect to the number and condition of its population, could be proposed without incurring heavy responsibility; but looking at the example of what had been done on this subject by former Parlia- ments with respect to England, we thought that the time was come when we might legislate for Ireland with safety, and n ith a reasonable hope of success. We liave firmly adhered to these principles, which have been sanctioned by general concurrence and by experience ; but we have not carried them further than was necessary to give them a fair chance of success, and to meet the pressing exigency of the case. If the execution of this most impor- tant law shall be watched over and guided by the same pru- dent and impartial spirit which governed our deliberations in its enactment, we confidently hope that the benefits which it is calculated to confer will be gradually developed, that it will be found to be just towards all who are affected by its provisions, and that it will, eventually, be the means of greatly improving the comforts and habits of the people of Ireland. We have passed an act for abolishing compositions for tithes in Ireland, and have substituted rent charges, payable by those who have a perpetual interest in the land, The exaction of tithe trom those who were either unable, or who refused to pay, has been a fruitful source of strife, alike injurious to the public peace and the real interests of the church. We have given the strongest proof of pur desire to extinguish those evils, and to procure present re- pose and tranquillity, by making a liberal and munificent grant to indemnify, in certain cases, those to whom arrears of composition for tithes are due. We have mitigated the severity of the law, and the sufferings of the unfortunate, by abolishing, in certain cases, imprisonment for debt, and we liave endeavoured to increase the usefulness of the church by abolishing the holding of benefices in plurality, and by making better provision for the residence of the clergy. In passing these measures, we have again recorded our con- viction, that the surest way to maintain respect for our laws, and attachment for our institutions, is by gradually intro- ducing such amendments as are most likely to recommend them to the improving opinions and increasing knowledge of the educated classes of the community. We have made provision with liberality, but without improvidence, for the necessary expenditure of the year, as also for those addi tional expenses arising from the events in Cana'a. I have the Commons, t0 Present ollr , ast Some three weeks ago, we took occasion to com- ment, very briefly, on an attempt that was being made to get up Anti- Corn- law Associations in the west of Scotland, and which, it appeared, the very intelligent and patriotic inhabitants of Kilmarnock, amongst others, had been prevailed on to countenance. Our comment has been the subject of a letter from an ex- cellent and honourable man— HUGH CRAIG, Esq., of Kilmarnock; and it has called forth a somewhat lengthened notice from the Argus Glasgow news- paper. Our task with Mr. CRAIG is a short one, for we are not aware that we can more satisfactorily dis- pose of his argument, than he himself has done. He Jiich, with all humility, we pray Your Ma- t. says:— You seem vexed that any of the Kilmarnock folks should agitate the repeal of the Corn- laws. Are you afraid that they may be successful? Are you afraid they may obtain cheap food and an abundant and regular supply of well paid employment for the producing classes? Are you afraid that, without your pioneering and preaching, they make a vigorous attack upon and put to rout, the aristocratic hosts, who at present occupy the length and breadth of the land ? Are you afraid that they steal a march a- head of the men of Birmingham— fight the national battle without them— win the honour— and wear the laurels? No, my dear sir, I know you better than to entertain for one moment such unworthy suspicions. On the contrary, I believe you to be perfectly honest in your censure, and sincere in your advice; and I feel confident you will give me equal credit for can- dour and sincerity in my declarations of sentiment. Of the motives and conduct of others who may engage in or who disapprove of, Anti- Corn- law agitation, I have no- thing to say; but, for myself, I must tell you that, so far from apologising for what little I have done against the Corn- laws, 1 am fully determined, not only to continue the holy warfaie against them, but to attack, in every possible way, and on every proper occasion, all the most prominent and offensive battlements of the enemy's entrenchments; not with the vain hope of speedily demolishing, or even making an impression upon them, but to exhibit in all its ugliness to the people, and to keep constantly before their minds, the ruinous and deplorable results of aristocratic do- mination— the impossibility of improving it— the folly and absurdity of allowing it to continue ( when the people have the means of removing it), and the absolute necessity of uniting, and, by one mighty effort, securing their rightful privileges— privileges by which only the inhabitants of this country can obtain a code of laws suitable to a Christian community. As Mr. CRAIG is so ready to acquit us of any un- worthy motive, and to believe our censure, as he calls it, honest, and our advice sincere, it might have been as well to omit the string of queries with which he opens. However, every one has his own notions of rhetoric. We therefore assure the worthy Bailie, that neither rthen we wrote the article to which he replies, were we at all vexed, nor are we now. Wo give him every credit for candour and sincerity. We, moreover, entirely agree with him, that " to exhibit in all its ug- liness the ruinous results of aristocratic denominations," is most proper and praiseworthy; though we entertain strong doubts of the wisdom of attacks upon battle- ment's where, in the opinion of the attacking party, it is impossible to produce any impression. We think it is a throwing away of powder and shot, to say the least. But with Mr. CRAIG we will hold no contro- versy. We wish most truly that Kilmarnock may long enjoy the benefit of his presence and counsel; and much would it rejoice us if every town in the kingdom were provided with so good and abie a man, to combine and conduct its energies. The Argus, to which a more particular answer is due, is bitterly facetious on the plain men of Birming- ham. Its article is headed, " Absolute Wisdom;" and commences- with a sneer at our " magniloquent orators." We [ the JournalJ are " the Birmingham oracle;" and " Attwood and his friends" are but the luimble imita- tors of " Hunt and his friends." Mingled with this smartness, to which, not being gifted with talents that way, we have no desire to reply, there is a simplicity which is quite delightful. " How can we know," asks the Glasgow oracle, that it is vain to try for the repeal of the Corn- laws, " till we make the attempt." So, then, the attempt to obtain a repeal of the Corn- laws is now, for the first time, being made!— laws which, on their first introduction to Parliament, were more strongly opposed by all ranks and degrees of the people in every quarter of the empire, the landlords and farmers excepted, than any laws that had been framed since the institution of Parliament!— and whose enormities have pointed every speech on general or partial reform that has been uttered for the last three and twenty years! Again, we are told " it is assum- ing that the Corn- laws are beneficial to the landowners — which we deny— to assert the impossibility of bring- ing even a house of landowners to repeal them." We would like to know whether the assumption, or the denial, in this case, savours most of the absoluteness of wisdom. The Corn- laws have hitherto kept corn at a higher price than on the continent of Europe, they have kept land in cultivation which otherwise would not have been cultivated; they liave created rent where no rent would otherwise hnve existed. It was because of the tendency of a Corn- law to effect all this, that Sir HENRY PARNELL'S bill of 1814, and Mr. FREDERICK ROBINSON'S ( Earl RIPON) bill of 1815, were recommended to the existing House of Commons. We should have thought that it must be matter of notoriety in Glasgow, as it is every where else, that these [ laws are still openly supported, on the ground that they benefit, as the phrase goes, the agricultural interest. Why, the attempt to raise a question of their justice, made by Mr. VILLIERS a few weeks ago, was resisted by HER MAJESTY'S ministers, and the Tories of the lower house, on the ground, that, to make' the stability and permanence of the Corn- laws a matter of discussion, must injure the agricultural interest, which was then comfortably resting' under them ; and this language was repeated, with additions, in the upper house, when the ministers and Tories combined in praising these laws as the most efficient and satisfac- tory that had ever been made! We do not deny that it is possible for a Parliament of landowners to repeal the Corn- laws. It is possible for men to set fire to their houses, to blow out their brains, and now and then such things are done; but his absolute wisdom might, we think, be doubted, who, in any matter of great practical importance, should confidently calculate on such extreme possibilities. While the council of the Birmingham Political Union are adopting the policy of HUNT, the Argus, it seems, taught by experience, prefers following the policy of HUME. And here comes a discovery, that we were as little prepared for, as the discovery that high- priced grain was disadvantageous to its owners, namely, that to Mr. HUME'S nibbling at the estimates we owe the Reform act of 1832. O'CONNELL, at the opening of the session of 1836, declared, amidst " vehement cheering" from the ministerial tenches, that it was " Birmingham that carried the Reform bill;" and certainly, along with himself, for un- doubtedly he had a hand in it, we have hitherto been supposed to be contributors, in some degree. It appears, however, we must unlearn our learning, on his as on other heads. The Argus is as ingenious in mis- statement as it is happy in discoveries. " The language," it says " of the clear- sighted" ( we are accused of sneering) " is virtually this :—' Our opinion of the corn- laws is quite as bad as their enemies can paint them. There would be a certainty of their abolition, if our social organisa- tion was changed. Therefore we will not attempt to get them repealed until we get a new constitution.' There is an old proverb which seems very applicable to this sort of arguing—' While the grass grows the steed starves.'" There is another proverb, which we quote from a southern author, for the edification of the Argus— Still while you live, tell truth and shame the devil! Even though the devil, as Johnson contends, be a Whig. Our language is not really, or virtually, or any way what the Argus describes it to be. Our language is, and always has been, strictly practical on this and all subjects of public discussion. We believe, and we see nothing in the arguments of the Argus to convince us to the contrary, that to ask a repeal of the Corn- laws from the Parliament, as at present con- stituted, is sheer absurdity; and that the man who does so, contemns all experience instead of being its sober follower. We believe, also, that to press upon the people the formation of societies for such a hope- less and impracticable purpose, and so to divert their attention from changes, which, steadily, and unitedly, and energetically demanded, must be conceded, is, in its tendency, we do not say in its motives, extremely injurious to the cause of rational refo m. The Argus in its anxiety for grass will insist upon sowing the seed upon the rock ; we, in our simplicity, consider the formation of a soil a not unnecessary prelimi- nary. The closing paragraph of the Argus article, gives us unaffected pain— lias the Journal ever asked ( it says) the representative of Birmingham why he shirked that vote? Will Mr. Att- wood himself explain? Until he does this, he underlies the suspicion of being more anxious to extend a trade in inconvertible rag- money, by which he may gain, than to render sound and stable our commerce, and to give food to the famishing. It is somewhat hard, though we have got accustomed to it, that one public writer cannot in the most courteous phraseology question another's arguments, without an imputation of sinister motives; but it is really griev- ous to find a gentleman of high standing, and culti- vated intellect, like the editor of the Argus, turning aside from the subject of controversy, to make a charge of unqualified baseness against a man, who is in no way mixed up with it. To charge anyone with being so wholly abandoned to a low, selfish, pecuniary interest, that, for the sake of advancing it, he would openly, earnestly, and for years continue to advocate measures, by which the prosperity of the country was to be ruiued, and its population starved— such a charge could only be justified by damning proofs of the utter worthlessness and dishonesty of the party. Whit then is to be said of it when made against Mr. THOMAS ATTWOOD, a man, in the estimate of his bitterest enemies, of most honourable disposition, of much kind heartedncss, singularly disinterested in all things, and distinguished during a public life of not small duration, by an ardent zeal for the well- being and happiness ' of every one around him, especially of the humbler ranks. Tory virulence has never gone the length of questioning Mr. ATTWOOD'S mo- tives ; it remained for the Whig oracle of Glasgow, on no higher incitement than an indirect hint of its falli- bility, to impute to him motives at once sordid and detestable. Lord DURHAM, some time ago, issued an ordinance, banishing certain individuals, at the time confined in Canada, to the Bermudas, under pain, if they returned, of high treason, the high treason being constituted and proved by the mere fact of the return. These persons had not been tried, and, notwithstanding the grossly unfounded assertion of Sir GEORGE GREY on Wednes- day, not one of them had confessed himself guilty of more than Sir GEORGE GREY was guilty in 1832— an unsuccessful attempt to reform the abuses of the coun- try. The ordinance was crudely and inaccurately drawn, stuffed with misnomers, and without one leg to stand upon, in any court of law in Christendom. Lord BROUGHAM introduced a bill for its abrogation, and to indemnify Lord DURHAM and the bunglers who had drawn it. Ministers at first opposed the bill with great bitterness; but, on the second reading being carried in spite of them, they yielded with their usual grace— conceding all that was alleged against the ordinance, which they had yet struggled to maintain, and giving every facility to its passing. This in the Lords. In the Commons the great leader of the Whigs, in a most lofty speech, denounced the bill and its author, to whom he attributed all manner of base and selfish feel- ings— really we wonder that, huge, and muscular, and irritable, as BROUGHAM is, he did not lay the little pride of the house of Bedford across his knee, and " skelp" him into decency— and finished by calling on the house to dispense with the standing orders, for the purpose of more speedily passing- it! Sir EDWARD CODRINGTON and Mr. FINCH evinced a strong desire to countenance Lord DURHAM'S illegalities, by reject- ing the bill, but they were prevailed on to withdraw their opposition, and it passed accordingly. Now, we do not think such a miserable " little go" as this re- quires much or long notice, but we would just point to one precious argument for Lord DURHAM and his council. It is said that, interposing to keep the great man and his quintett of incapables within the bounds of the coercion act, will occasion great injury and dis- satisfaction to Canada. Everybody admits the doings of these men to he illegal. There is not the smallest doubt on that head, notwithstanding an attempt of Dr. LUSHINGTON to mystify common sense when discus- sing the subject. To declare illegality illegal will, therefore, greatly injure and dissatisfy the Canadians. The Whigs and the Tories may rob the Canadian ex- chequer, break up the Canadian constitution, erect a despotism in the person of the Earl of DURHAM, but if incidentally, and in the most minute particular, they adventure on the unusual task of checking an extra- vagance of the exorbitant and wanton power which they had created, the infinitesmal portion of justice thrown away upon the down- trodden serfs of the colony, must cause great injury, and occasion much dissatis- faction ! The scheme of the Political Union, in the very pro- bable event of their foiling to bring the oppressors of the people to their senses, to make a general and simul- taneous attack upon the indirect taxes, and thus starve the oppressors into a due submission, has been the sub- ject of most unsparing ridicule with the smarts of lite- rature and life, who measure ordinary men's wits and work by their own standard. It has been denounced as the most hopeless and impracticable of all visionary attempts. And yet it may be found so far practicable as to serve its purpose, notwithstanding. We have been not a little gratified to find the principle making its way where we had but few hopes for some time of meeting with it. The following is from the Dublin Post— We have been for some time aware that it was seriously in the contemplation of several leading and active men, to recommend to the people of Ireland this consideration namely, whether it would not be advisable, with a view of influencing or quickening legislation, to abstain from the use, as far as possible, of exciseable articles. The only ob- jection, and it was a strong one, was this— that the plan might prove embarrassing to ministers, or— for we must speak frankly— to the Lord- Lieutenant of Ireland, and the Irish government. The recent proceedings, however, of the Lords, have put an end to this hesitation. The initiation has been commenced in the city of Cork. There are some people who may doubt the possibility of carrying this plan into execution. We do not. We do not say that it will be acted upon— for the causes which prompt to such extreme action may be removed or mitigated. But we do say, that if the several towns and counties in Ireland come to non- consumption resolutions— very little beer or spirits will be consumed for the six months thereafter suc- ceeding, in three provinces out of the four. It will be the greatest god- send to the temperance societies that has ever occurred. Snuff and tobacco, too, will be refused. Witli regard to wines, those who like and can afford it, may en- joy them, but we have little doubt that the consumption of even wines will be decreased. As to tea, we should doubt whether the non- consumption principle would extend so far, hut the consumption of sugar will be diminished— for people will not be taking punch. We beg of our wiser contempo- raries 011 the other side the Channel, not to make light of these popular indications. We think if Irishmen are content, for the cause, to abstain from whiskey, it will not be so~ very difficult to get Englishmen to abstain from all. We mentioned last week, that Mr. SWYNFEN JERVIS had requested to become a member of the political union, and had transmitted a subscription of five pounds towards its funds. The letter which accom- panied Mr. JERVIS'S subscription has only just been put into our hands. It is as follows :— „. Whitehall- place, August 4th, 1838. Uear Sir,— I received the petition you did me the favour to send, and have read and considered it with that attention which so important a matter demands Though written, it appears to me, in a more florid and declamatory style than suits a document of so grave a cha- racter, it is impossible to deny the truth of much that it contains, or to escape from the conclusions that are neces- sarily involved in that admission. But, though going thus far with the petitioners, and ad- mitting what is too notorious to be disputed, that the Reform bill is a miserable failure, and utterly inadequate to the accomplishment of any great national purpose, neither fulfilling the intentions ( supposing them to have been sincere) of those who proposed that measure, nor the just and reasonable expectations of the people, by whose exertions alone it was carried; and granting, what is equally notorious, that the people have little to expect from a Parliament constituted like the present; yet I must be allowed to express my doubts whether the petitioners are wise in pressing for so much at once— whether, in a word, by demanding changes so various and extensive, they are not likely to retard the end in view, by furnishing motives to the fearful, and pretences to the dishonest, for a common league against alarming and unconstitutional an innovation. So, granting that the clear and acknowledged justice of the case— for who dare gainsay the right of the people to full and equal representation ?— will bear them out in their demands, is the time come for agitating the question on so large a scale ? ~ Is there not an intermediate step? the taking of which will lead, sooner or later, but with equal certainty, to that very goal wliieh they are now aiming at? Would not the immediate restoration of triennial Parliaments, the enlarge- ment of the franchise, so as to include all bona fide house- holders, together with the protection of the ballot, be a step, and a large one, of this nature? But, whatever may be the opinions of men upon this difficult subject, one thing, at least, is certain— the right of the people to employ all legal and constitutional means for the advancement of their political and social interests, and for the attainment of such objects as the " national petition," emanating from the sound hearts and vigorous intellects of the men of Birmingham, puts forth, provided they are at- tainable. In conclusion, I most cordially wish them success in the prosecution of this great end; and as earnest of my sin- cerity in making this declaration, I request you to enrol my name as a member of the Birmingham Political Union, and to pay over to the treasurer of that Union the sum of five pound on my account, as the amount ef my subscription for the present year. I am, dear sir, yours very truly, SwYNFFN JeitVIS. Thomas Attwood, Esq., M. P., Birmingham. Had Mr. JERVIS been a constant, or even casual, reader of the Birmingham Journal, he would have found his objections to the prayer of the National Petition— we will not say answered, but certainly- replied to, not once, but many times. We cannot now recapitulate the arguments so often urged in our columns against the bit by bit policy. We will only mention one, which has always appeared to us most amply convincing, and we would fain hope, that, upon mature consideration, it will prove equally so to Mr. JERVIS. Our present large demands, lie observes, " furnish motives to the fearful, and pretences to the dishonest, for a common league." The " dishonest" we may lay aside in any case. Doubtless, if by some unheard- of device, we could succeed in depriving them of a pretence, we should only then compel them to play the bold- faced villain, aud to oppose us without one. The " fearful" are the only party that we need care about conciliating, as they alone can by any sa- crifice be conciliated. Now, we tell Mr. JERVIS, and those who think as he does, and we speak from no inexact oi limited knowledge, that the people— the bold and the honest— will no longer go with them for household suffrage, triennial parliaments, and ballot; and we put it to such gentlemen, whether they are more likely to gain these modified changes by the aid of the fearful, and without the aid of the people, or to gain the thorough reforms for which the National Petition prays, by the aid of the people, and without the aid of the fearful. There is another— an irrefra- gable argument with us— why we should at once de- mand plenary justice ; and it is this— that the same amount of agitation which is required to gain the smaller, will suffice to conquer the great measure. It is of the very essence of folly to rest satisfied with any step, however large, towards our object, when it is in our power at once to run home. He that, in such a case, stops short of the goal, deserves to be distanced, and is almost certain to be so. MR. LLOYD WILLIAMS.— When we last took the liberty of addressing ourselves to this gentleman, we made it matter of serious and friendly advice, that he would retire into private life, whither we had as little right as inclination to follow him, and leave magiste- rialising for those in whose hands the administration of petty justice was likely to be more acceptable. Ap- parently Mr. WILLIAMS took our counsel in good part, and acted upon it, for since that time we have very rarely met with his name in those places where " mighty squireships of the quorum" congregate. Ru- mour told us some weeks ago, that he had exchanged the smoke and sedition of Biimingham, for the goat- feeding mountains of his native vviids, Adding to Cambria one true Briton more. We had congratulated the honourable gentleman and the town on a departure which, we trusted, would be equally advantageous to both ; when, of a sudden, and at a moment that we fancied him chewing the cud of sweet and bitter reflection on the hither side of Pen- maen- maur, we found him at No. 2, the scene of his former glories, oratorising as fluently as if he had been a councillor of the Union. The cause which led to the " flare- up" on the part of such a burning and shining light, previous to final extinguishment, and its usual conscqnences, was the presentation, we learn from Aris's Gazette, of a couple of silver soup tureens, by a select band of Birmingham Tories, as a grateful acknowledgment of the " firmness, discre- tion, and humanity," with which Mr. WILLIAMS dis- charged his duty during the late election riots. The same authority supplies a report of the learned gentle- man's speech, from which we take the following ex- tract— You arj aware, gentlemen, says Mr. Williams, that when I tesponded at a moment to your call for my services as a magistrate, during the riots in question, I was obliged promptly to determine what line of conduct to pursue. It has been most severely criticised and uncharitably censured by a class of persons who always judge mankind by their political creed ; but I was supported by an inward convic- tion that those measures which 1 adopted were calculated, as tliey ivere intended, to be humane and effectual. The law had been violated and set at nought; I judged, as a lawyer, that when force is used to break the law, it must be resorted to, so far as may be necessary, to restore it— that, under such circumstances, the best humanity is firmness and decision. That opinion has been confirmed by the friends of order, who, in this town, comprise, without comparison, the most intelligent and respectable portion of its commu- nity. Gentlemen, you have, by your liberality, furnished me with a splendid refu'ation of the mean calumnies with which I was beset. Now, whatever opinion we might, at this distance of time, be inclined to come i to, in respect to Mr. LLOYD WILLIAMS' judgment as a lawyer, on the occa- sion alluded to, we most certainly, even now, demur to the humanity of bis orders to the troops ; and as they happened not to be obeyed, we think the fact of their being effectual is also open to question. We hesitate, moreover, to concur with Mr. WILLIAMS that the " best humanity" is identical with that " firmness and decision" which he exhibited on the occasion when he lYMUiKir fftHSNJfWMTI! THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, AUGUST 18. 5 sallied from DEE'S yard in company with MIBENBOW HEBBERT ; though we incline to the belief that" firm- ness and decision" were the " best humanity" that Mr. WILLIAMS had to spare. Passing from words to things— H e really did not expect to be called on, either by the fondness or the firmness of Mr. WILLIAMS' admirers, or himself, again to revert to the election riots; but, forced upon us as they are, by the soup basins of the one, and the speeches of the other, we must, at the risk of trying the patience of our local readers, re- state a few parti- culars regarding them, in order that persons at a distance may not be deceived into an inaccnvate esti- mate of the'amount of " best humanity required for their suppression. The commencement of tlie distur- bance was an unlucky pehble discharged by an idle boy; which, in its course, broke one of Mr. DEE'S windows. The firmness and decision of the gentle- men who were in the tavern celebrating their defeat, was exhibited by pelting the people from the roof with stones and other missiles, insulting Mr. ATTWOOD, whose presence had been anxiously solicited to deliver them from the effects of their folly, and seriously en- dangering the safety of Mr. SALT, while he was humanely persuading the crow( 1 to retire. The peo- ple broke Mr. DET.' » windows-, smashed them regularly and thoroughly, and very absurdly we ad- mtt— and they did nothing more. Mr. DEE'S head remained safe; so did the heads of his guests— not a ViaYt of one of them yras stirved. Tor the martyr- dom inflicted on his windows and wine glasses BY the "£ U4'\ ca\ ha\\, Mr. DEE has received a most ample compensation— so ample, that we hare no doubt be would heartily rejoice to be exposed to a similar infliction once a week', or oftener if need were, dnr- ing the currency of his lease. The law was broken as " ell as the windows, we fully admit; and quoth Mr. WILLIAMS, when force is used to break the law, force must be used to restore it. Now, granting the truth of this sagacious dictum, it would still be a moot point how much force_ was requisite to restore the breach of the law, occasioned by breaking a few panes of glass in the windows of an election committee- room. The Justices in Sessi 011 seem to have thought a very small force necessary ; for they dismissed the rioters 011 their own recogni- zances. Mr. WILLIAMS—" best humanity"— ordered them to be shot. He was not obeyed; but the law was restored notwithstanding, glf his only wish, therefore, was to restore the law, that wish was en- tirely gratified. Does he mean that force alone ought to have been employed to restore the law? That to appease the people without firing on them was wrong P Was his " best humanity" wounded, because Col. WALLACE succeeded in pacifying the multitude without killing them? We really can discover on imaginable purpose to be served by the " splendid re- futation," if it be not to sooth the wound which the " best humanity" of Mr. WILLIAMS may be supposed to have suffered from its being cut short in its progress. There is an old proverb which tells us not to dispute about tastes. Perhaps we ought as little to dispute about the exhibilion of its singularities. Judging as plain men, we should have thought, amongst the numerous objects ofConservative honours, there might have been found some one upon whom they could have been bestowed with a more general acceptability than upon Mr. LLOYD WILLIAMS ; and that, looking to the known opinions of the town, if such honours had been determined on, a little less of ostentation would have done no harm. The wisdom and dignity of the eulogist may be estimated with tolerable cer- tainty, from the value of the thing eulogised. When the traveller of old was shown a temple dedicated to the monkey, he asked, very naturally, if such were the God, what were the worshippers ? The divinity in the present case we have set forth. The worship- pers also are deserving of commemoration. We learn from Aris, that the chiefs— for the polloi arc not enu- merated— were Messrs. J. UNETT, C. INGLEBY, E. ARMFIELD, GEORGE WHATELEY, GEORGE UNETT, SMYTHIES, BENSON, MIDDLETON, and BACH. All honour and joy to them and the object of their adoration! I11 another column will be found an article from the Ten Towns' Messenger, in refutation of the ridiculous pretences of the Birmingham advertising paper. With- out going into the peculiar merits of that paper, we entirely agree with the Messenger in denouncing, as most contemptible and absurd, the puff of an extended circulation so constantly put forth by these advertise- ment mongers. We have no hesitation in saying, that the real circulation of the Birmingham Journal is, at least, ten times greater than that of the advertising paper which scatters abroad double the number of copies that the Journal sells. It is not a large estimate to say, that every number of our paper is read, more or less, by at least fifty individuals; and that a very large portion of the gratuitous copies of advertising papers, finds no readers at all. There is another most import- ant point respecting political or literary journals— not only are they read, they are kept. Advertising papers, should they happen to be stripped of their envelope, which, in many cases, those to whom tliey are sent are not sufficiently curious to do, are no sooner glanced at than they are torn up. As to the cant of liberality in these things, it is marvellously ridiculous. Their libe- rality is that of the man who walks you round his little exhibition for nothing, with the expectation, that out of the profits of your purchases he is to receive ten times the price of a peep at his show. Their sneaking neutrality is not more tolerable. The Whig, the Tory, the Radical, 111 maintaining their several opinions, are' prepared, on occasion, to risk offending the thin- skinned of their friends, and, at all times, the thick- sculled of their opponents; and there is an honest boldness in this, let the opinions be what they may. But the shabby, sneaking, money- grubbing advertisement mon- ger, he who would have all the emoluments of tlie press, and none of its danger, he puts on a seeming of mode- ration, not because he is above, but because he seeks to take advantage of the passions of his neighbours, and pretends to a neutrality— the shelter of a weak head and a Cold heart, at best— only that by not offending the prejudices of any party, he may contrive to pick the pockets of all. It would appear' wonderful that any man should be so egregiously silly as t^ p be deluded with tli J trumpery puffs of the advertisement mongers, were it not matter of daily observance, that not only is " my public" a most gullible public, but so strongly does it affection being gulled, that the certain way for the most part to alienate its regards, is to treat it with openness and honesty. There has been considerable c'isturbance at Dews- bury, 011 occasion of the introduction of the Poor- law there. A Mr. Ingham, who acted as chairman of the guardians, was severely pelted, and a Mr. Greenwood, another guardian, was also roughly handled. The proximate cause of the riot, for it seems to have amounted to that, seems to have been the insolent and • obstinate conduct of Mr. Ingham, as chairman, in re- fusing to put the resolutions submitted to him. How the guardians came to appoint such a chairman, we don't pretend to guess. Mr. Oastler was 011 the spot, and he is accused, in an account that appears in the Times, of making a violent speech to the people— of telling tliem that " they had as good a right to burn Mr. Ingham's house, as he had to introduce the New Poor- law into Dewsbury." This might be intended to signify no more than that they had as good a right to act illegally as Mr. Ingliam had— he, according to the theory of the speaker, having acted illegally. But such speaking in figures is always foolish, and on such a Lucifer match subject, eminently dangerous. We must confcss we view these Poor- law squabbles with small favour. We sympathise strongly and ardently with honest men struggling for independence, and asserting their right to live by the fruits of their labour. Theirs is a noble struggle. We sympathise also with the aged, the infirm, the destitute, from any cause, in their demand of Christian treatment, whether in a workhouse or out of it. But to make a poor- law tlie begin- all and end- all of popular excitement and popu- lar demand, as if the resolution, as well as the expec- tation of every labouring man, was to end his days as a parish pauper— a condition, under old law or new, good law or bad, humiliating, dependant, miserable— be- speaks a very degrading estimate of the people; and if the estimate were a correct one, it would furnish a stronger argument against universal suffrage than any that its bitterest enemies have yet devised. We notice that almost all the loudest declaimers 011 this subject are Tories. There are exceptions, such as John Fielden, but the exceptions are rare. Now, it is the trick of the Tories and of all tyrants to preach up charity for the people, pity for the people. They rob us of the millions, and then they would fain compound by throwing back the hundreds." Let them have the tine linen and the feast, and they will give us the crumbs with the best will imaginable. We demand right, not charity; we would have our power respected, not our weakness compassionated. It is the duty of the leaders of the people to direct them as much as possible to heart- raising subjects, to fill them with pure and lofty thoughts, to inspirit them to noble actions. They altogether abandon their duty when tliey fix the people's minds upon parish food and parish shelter, as if that were the greatest good, which no right feeling man ever looked forward to without an inward terror and loath- ing. The new poor- law is cruel and arbitrary in prin- ciple, and its practice does not, we believe, fall short. It ought to be changed or mended, and must-, but, at best, it altogether a secondary matter— a little go. What the people ought to study and strive after, is to obtain such laws as may enable them suitably to sup- port themselves. When these are got, they will not be long in obtaining a humane and intelligible law for those who cannot support themselves. Her Majesty and suite will leave town for Wind- sor 011 Tuesday next; and their Highnesses the Priuce and Princess Hohenlohe will take their departure 011 Monday for Germany. On Friday last, tlie diploma of the Royal College of Surgeons was granted to Mr. B. North Arnold, second son of the Rev. Charles Arnold, of this town. We would call attention to an advertisement, stat- ing that lectures are to be delivered on emigration and Australia, next week. WOLVERHAMPTON CHURCH- RATE.— A correspon- dent lias just now ( Friday evening) informed us that the poll for a church- rate, which has been proceeding at Wolverhampton for some days, is closed, and that the result is a triumphant majority against church op- pression, the numbers being, for the rate, 574; against it, 2,965 ; majority, 2,391. A FRIEND AT COURT.— The privy council have granted an incorporation to Manchester. Manchester had an infinitely more liberal system of local govern- ment than Birmingham; it was greatly later in its application; its application was equally opposed in the borough, and there was a commission. But Pou- lett Thompson is member for Manchester, and Poulett Thompson is a privy councillor; and, moreover, the cotton lords are Whigs, and so, of course, are the cotton lords'dependents; and the Radicals of Man- chester are weak, and scattered, and disputatious, and have no chance of working the corporation, nor any thing else. So Manchester is municipalised and Bir- mingham is not. Our ingenious townsman, Mr. Josepli Smith, has, as a quid pro quo for Ills gratuitous services to Monro, obtained a grant of the theatre, whenever it may be necessary, for the benevolent purpose of assisting the poor. Nothing can be more commendable than such a devotion of his peculiar talents to the cause of extended charity. The next week's bills, by the bye, are full of novelty, snd it is the last week of the season. Now or never is, therefore, the word— we say now. Mr. LEWIS.— We have seen some specimens of this gentleman's writing for commercial purposes as well as for ladies, which appear to us to be exceedingly good, and well adapted for the purpose. MR. HOLLINS' CONCERT.— The advertisement of this concert speaks for itself, and needs only to be re- ferred to. It is merely necessary to state, that the Lablache of the scheme is the " big" manhimself, and not the " big" man's son. This will be the only oppor- tunity during the season, we believe, when the elder Lablache will exhibit bis wonderful powers in Bir- mingham. The Duke of Cambridge is expected. PROFESSOR CALVERT.— Our advertising columns announce a course of lectures on Oratory, at the Phi- losophical Institution, Cannon- street, by Professor Calvert— a name which must be familiar to most of our readers, from the very conspicuous figure it has sometime past made in the metropolitan journals. To render the lectures more extensively useful, the gal- lery of the Institution will be thrown open to the public at one shilling each.— See advertisement. On Monday evening, ' a meeting was held at the Public Office, for the purpose of raising subscriptions to indemnify Messrs. Muntz, Pare, Pierce, and Trow, against the expenses attending the defence of the criminal information. The meeting was numerously and most respectably attended. Thomas Bolton, Esq., in the chair. It having been previously resolved, that the public meeting should be postponed till the final decision of the case in the Queen's Bench, it was de- termined to immediately commence raising the re- quisite sum, 2,5001., by appeals to the different dis- senting congregations, and by a general subscription. Mr. James and Mr. Bolton were deputed to carry the former part of the arrangement into effect; and a sub- committee was formed in respect of the latter, to make a general canvass of the parish. The meeting adjourned until the sub- committee had completed their arrangements, when a general subscription will be forthwith instituted. When it is considered that, by reason of the exertions of these defendants, and the individuals who have acted with them, eaeli pa- rishioner has for eight years escaped the infliction of a church rate, we think there needs 110 further induce- ment to cause the friends of religious liberty, through- out the parish, to contribute liberally towards this fund. At all events, the minimum of their several contributions ought to equal the amount which the exertions of these gentlemen have saved them. This is independent of the principle which is involved in this case; and of the right which these defendants would have to be indemnified by their friends, had they suffered even in an unsuccessful cause. MEETING OF WOMEN.— O11 Wednesday night, a meeting of women was held in the large room of the Public Office, for the purpose of establishing a Female Political Union. The room was crowded. Mr. Salt addressed them at considerable length, upon the causes of the difficulties and distress to which they had been, and were still, subject. Seven hundred and fifty tickets were passed, and from the disposition mani- fested, there can be 110 doubt that had there been double that number signed, they would have been all disposed of. At the close of the business, Mr. George Edmonds briefly addressed the meeting. He said, when he first heard of the meetings of women taking place in Birmingham, he smiled at the idea of it. People were accustomcd to form their notions from the customs of society, and as the political business of the na- tion had been invariably conducted by men, he thought it strange when he heard that it was intended to pre- vail upon the women to take part in it. He certainly viewed the undertaking as likely to be productive of immense power. If the women of England took up the subject of politics— if they set about ascertaining the real causes of the misery of themselves and fami- lies, and resolved upon removing them, there was no doubt they could do it. If the women would meet, and unite, and co- operate, with due discretion and de- termination, they would do more in one year than the men could by themselves in many years. If their hus- bands had paid more attention to the business of poli- tics than they bad— if they had, in years past, kept a closer eye upon the government of their country, they would not be in their present dilemma. But the facl was, they did not, and the result was, that the empire was reduced to one common ruin ; its trade was anni- hilated, and its people weighed down with an insup- portable load of taxation. He looked with anxiety to the result of the women's union which they had formed. He felt confident that, if they united firmly, they would achieve all that was required. They had never yet failed in any undertaking, and he was Cer- tain, if they acted with prudence and discretion, they would not in the present instance. Mr. Collins also addressed the meeting. On Thursday a meeting of magistrates was held at the Public- office, for the purpose of investigating the circumstances connected with the escape of certain prisoners from the dock, who were charged with utter- ing base money, aud the particulars of which appeared 111 the Journal of last week. Before the magistrates proceeded to the investigation, the court was ordered to be cleared, and our reporter was prohibited from being present. After the lapse of a short time, the door was thrown open, and it was ascertained that the case was adjourned until two o'clock on Monday next, in consequence of Brownell, the constable, not being present. Why the farce of excluding reporters from such an inquiry should be gone through we know not. Reporters are permitted to be present at the most im- portant inquiries •, no matter what the age, sex, or respectability of the accused may be, they are sub- jected to exposure-, but the moment the vigilance or honesty of a constable is to be investigated, the press is to be excluded, and whatever may be the faults or follies of the official, they are to be talked over in private, with state secresy. POPE.—- This unfortunate man, whom, it will be seen by our police report, attempted to destroy himself, while in the dock at the Public- office, is still confined in the lunatic ward of the workhouse. When he en- tered on Monday evening, liis wounds were examined and dressed, and he received eveiy necessary attention. On Tuesday he became quite composed, and conversed in the most rational manner with the governor, and promised to reform his life, and said he would submit to any punishment they might put upon him at War- wick. From his demeanour he was considered quite capable of being removed to. Warwick, and arrange- ments were made for taking him away on Wednesday morning. About five o'clock Weston accordingly went to the workhouse, and Pope was gently apprised of his visit. The moment he saw the officer he became greatly agitated; he was, at the time, down the yard, in company of his keeper. Whilst the governor and Weston were standing talking respecting him, he sud- denly slipped from the side of the man who liad charge of him, and running furiously down the yard, he dashed his bead with great violence against an iron lamp- post, evidently with intent to destroy himself. He fell to the ground, and was presently taken up and conveyed into one of the rooms, where surgical assistance was immediately procured. He was not, fortunately, dan- gerously wounded. It seems the mere mention of carrying him to Warwick sets him deranged. THE WARWICKSHIRE FLOWER AND FRUIT SHOW. CARROTS— 1. Orange, Mr. Sadler: O. Orange. Mr. Sadler; 3 Mr. White; 4, Early Horn, Mr. Sadler. CAULIFLOWER 1, Mr. Burman ; 2, Mr. Darke. FRENCH BEANS.— 1, Mr. Sadler; 2, Mr. Sadler ; 3, Mr. White ; 4, D. Houghton, Esq. PEAS.— I, Matchless, Mr. Tolley; 2, NewSyraeter, Mr. T. Wright; .'!, Shalbon's Champion, Mr. Brewer: 4, Green Marroiv, Mrs. Has- lope. TURNIPS.— LJ Mr. White; 2, Mr. Fairlield ; 3, Mr. Baker ; 4, Mr. Peacock. POTATOES.— I, Foxes, Mr. Baker; 2, Ash Leaved Kidneys, Mra. Haslope; 3, Golden Drop, Mr. Darke; 4, Sivan Egg Kidnevs, Mr. Baker. FRUITS OR VEGETABLES, NOT CLASSED — 1, Cape Brocoli, Mr. Sad. ler; Strawberries, 2, Nonsuch, D. Houghton, Esq.; Cherries, 3, Kentish, Mr. Sadler; Parsley. 4, Double, Mr. Baker ; Parsnip, 5, Mr. Baker; Beans, 6, Johnson's Wonderful, Mr. Brewer; Ras- berries, Mr. Harrison. INSOLVENT DEBTOR'S COURT. We give, what we ourselves, and, we believe, our readers' consider the most interesting part of the show on Thursday — the list of prizes and their appropriation. The flowers were, for the most part, very fine, some of them exquisitely so, and the fruits and vegetables were, also, deserving of every commendation; the former looked so tempting, that tlie request not to handle the specimens was a very trying one. The company was numerous and very respectable. Hollins played some beautiful airs most beautifully. The following is the list: — CARNATIONS— Premier— Game Boy, Mr. Coudrey. Scarlet Bi- zarre—\, Duke of Devonshire. Mr. Britten ; 2, William the Fourth, Mr. Barnes ; 3, Seedling, Mr. Wallace; 4, Game Boy, Mr. Wallace; 5, Seedling, Mr. Britten. Crimson Bixarres— l, Paul Pry, Mr. Cou. drey; 2 Earl Grey, Mr. Coudrey; 3, Cartwright's Rainbow, Mr. Britten; 4, Count Paulini, Mrs. Haslope; 5, Gregory's Alfred, Mr. Britten; C, Lucretia, Mrs. Haslope. Scarlet Flakes— 1, Wash- ington, Mr. Coudrey ; 2, Booth's Conquest, Mr. C. Fletcher; 3. Rob Roy, Mr. Coudrey ; 4, Seedling, Mr. Wallace; 5, Madame Mara, Mr. Barnes ; 6, Champion, Mrs. Haslope. Purple Flukes— 1, Lady Mansfield, Mr. Barnes; 2, Bellerophon, Mr. Barnes; 3, Turner's Princess, M.\ Wallace ; 4, Fair Rosamond, Mr. Coudrey; 5. Miss Sitwell, Mr. Britten ; 6, Seedling, Mrs. Haslope. Rose Flakes— l. Lady Hood, Mr. Britten; 2, Lady Grey, Mr. Barnes; 3, Duchess of Devonshire, Mr. Britten ; 4, Sir George Crewe, Mr, Wallace; 5, Hyroil's Seedling, Mr. Fletcher; 6, Seedling, Mr. Wallace. PICOTRBS— Premier— Seedling, Mr. Fletcher. Bed Edged— 1, Parker's Sir Thorais, Mr. Coudrey; 2, Prince George, Mr. Fletcher : 3, Holmes's Mary, Mrs. Haslope; 4, Seedling, Mr. Coudrey ; 5, Derby Willow, Mr. Fletcher ; 6, Brown's Adelaide, Mrs. Haslope. Purple Edged— 1, Emma, Mr. Barnes; 2, Incom- parable, Mr. Fletcher; 3, Incomparable, Mr. Coudrey; 4, Seed- ling, Mr. Fletcher; 5, " Lady I. ee, Mr. Coudrey; 6, Seedling, Mr. Coudrey. Yellow Piccotees— l Park Grove Fairy, Mrs. Haslope; 2, Iruada, Mr. Britten. DAHLIAS— Pr<? tfitcr— Ausell'a Unique, Mr. Phillips. Crimson, Purple, and Maroon— 1, Springfield Rival, Mr. Moore ; 2, Marquis of Lothian, Mr. Coudrey; 3, Sir Henrv Fletcher, Mr. Beech; 4, Sir Robert Holland, Mr. Beech ; 5. Robert le Diable, Mr. Sadler ; B, Dr. Halley, Mr. Earl. Scarlet, Ruby, and Puce— I, Ruby. Mr. Phillips; 2. Glory, Mr. Percocks ; 3. Countess of Liverpool, Mr. Harrison ; 4, Orange Perfection, Mr. Pereocks ; 5, Lord Lyndhurst, Mr. Coudrey; 6, Beauty of the Vale, Mr. Coudrey. Blush, Hose, and Lilac— 1, Eva, Mr. Beach; 2, Rose Triumphant, Mr. Coudrey ; 3, Mitchell's Salter, Mr. Coudrey; 4, Ada Byron, Mr. Clarke; 5, Superb Lilac, Dugdale Houghton, Esq. ; 6, Brown's Rosette, Mr. Percock. White, Sulphur, and Yellow— 1, Topaz, Mr. Bench; 2, Sulphurea Elegans, Mr. Phillips; 3, Sir Robert Peel, Mr. Sadler; 4, Stone's Yellow Perfection, J. Pope and Sons; 5, Pactolus, Mr. Coudrey; 6, Sarah ; Mr. Sadler. Striped, Spotted, and Edged— 1, Dodd's Mary, Mr. Clarke; 2, Lovely Ann, Mr. Phillips; 3, Mrs. Broadwood, Mr. Earl; 4, Hononrable Mrs. Ashley, Mr. Earl; 5, Clio Perfecta, Mr. Sadler. Seedlings— 1, Mr. Percocks, 2, Mr. Phil- lips, 3. Mr. Sadler, 4, Mr. Sadler. Dahlia in pot— Lady Fordwich, Mr. Beach. ORCHID. EOUS PLANTS— 1, Maxillaria Stenopetala, J. Pope and Sons; 2, Kpidendron Fragrans, var., Dogdale Houghton, Esq.; 3, Brassia Caudata, Dugdale Houghton, Esq. ; 4, not awarded. STOVE- 2, Begonia Argyrostygnia, Dugdale Houghton, Esq.; 2, Senningia Guttata, J. Pope and Sons; 3, Caladium, sp., Dugdale Houghton, Esq. ; 4, Gloxinia Hirsuta, Dugdale Houghton, E* q, ; 5, Hasmanthus Punireus, J Pope and Sons ; 6, not awarded. GREENHOUSE PLANTS — I, Loaza Aurantiaea, J. Pope and Sons; 2, Erythrina Cristi Galli, Dugdale Houghton, E^ q. ; 3, Crassula Coccimiea, John Pope and Sons ; 4, Fuschia Conica, Dugdale Hough- ton, Esq. ; 5, Clethra Arborea, Mr. Tongue ; 6, Amaryllis Vittata, Mr. S. Yates : 7, Petunia Moorei, Mr. Coudrey ; 8, ^ erembergia In- termedia, Mr. White; !), Petunia Willtnorea, Mr. Coudrey. Plants of Commerce— I, Thea Viride, Dugdale Houghton, Esq. ; 2, Tliea Bo. hea, Dugdale Houghton, Esq. ; 3, Rice, J. Pope and Sons ; 4, China Orange, D. Houghton, Esq. Ericas— 1, Retorta, Mrs. Haslope; 2, Eweriana, Mr. White; 3, Ampulacea, Mr. White ; 4, Rubesepns, J. Pope and Sons; 5, Savillea, Mr. White; fl, Cubica minor, Mr. J. Moore. Calceolarias— I, Pardanthera, J. Pope and Sons ; 2, Seed- ling, Mr. Beach; 3, Seedling, Mr. Beach. Giraniums — 1, Gem, Mr. White; 2, Alexander, Mr. White; 3. Speculum Muudi, i » lr. Bar- ker ; 4, Lady Rolle, I. ady Rolle. TENDER ANNUAL— Clintonia Pnlchella, Mr. Earl. HARDY ANNUAL— 1, Sphenogyne speciosa, Mr. Yates; 2, Schizo- petalon Walkeiii. Mr. Phillips; 3, Lupinus Nanus. Mr. Earl; 4, Campanula Loreii, Mr. Coudrey; 5, Clarkia Pulchella, alba, Mr, Moore ; 6, Zinnia Coronata, Mr. Brtttell. FRAME OR ALPINE PLANTS— 1, Lilinm Eximeum, D. Houghton, Esq ; 2, Campanula Pyramidalis, Mr. Clarke, . lull. ; 3, Cypclla Herbertii. J. Pope and Sons ; 4, Oxalis Boweii, Mr. J. Moore; 5, Statice Sinuata, Mr. J. Moore; 6, Linaria Tristi, John Pope and Sons. HERBACEOUS PLANTS — 1, Liatris Spieata, Mr. Monre ; 2, Liatris pumilis, J. Pope and Sons; 3, Chelone Barbata, Mr. Clarke: 4, Agapanthus Umbellatus, Mr. Tongue; 5, Phlox Pyramidalis, alba, J. Pope and Sons; 6, Phlox Pyramidalis, J. Pope and Sons. Twelve cut specimens— 1, J. Pope and Sons ; 2, J. Pope and Sons. NOSEGAY, OR GROUP— 1, Mr. Beach ; 2. Mr. White. PLANTS OR FLOWERS NOT CLASSED— 1, Hydrangea Hortensis, D. Houghton, Esq.; 2, collection of Fuscliias. Mr. Yates ; 3. collection of Roses, J. Pope and Sons ; 4, Poppies, Mr. J. Moore; 5, African Marigolds. Mr. Coudrey; 6, Petunia, Mr. Percock. GOOSEBE • RY. — PreiSier— Young Wonderful, Mr. Fairfield. Red— 1, Wonderful, 22 dwt. 13 grs., Mr. Fairfield ; 2, Guido, 21 dwt. 12 errs., Mr. Wallace; 3, Companion, 20 dwt. 14 grs., Mr. Wallace; 4, Roaring Lion, 20 dwt. 1 grs,, Mr. Betts; 5, Atlas, ] 9dwt. 10 grs., Mr. Betts ; ( i, Squire Hammond, 19 dwt., Mr. Fairfield. Yellow— 1, Shuttle, 20 dwt. 2 grs., Mr. Betts; 2, Leader, 19 dwt. 13 grs., Mr. Fairfield ; 3, Teaser, 1Hdwt. 14 grs., Mr. Wallace; 4, Gunner, IS dwt , Mr. Wallace; o. Bunker's. hill. 10 dwt. 10 grs., Mr. Betts; 8, Two- he. One, 16 dwt. 0 grs., Mr. Fairfield. Green- 1, Providence, 19 dwt. 17 grs., Mr. Fairlield; 2, Thumper, 19 dwt. 5 grs., Mr. Betts; 3, Bumper, 18 dwt. 7 grs., Mr, Fairfield ; 4, Pea. cock, 17 dwt. 1 gr., Mr. Betts; 5, Bates' Favourite, 17 dwt. 12 grs., Mr. Wallace; 0, Green Meadow, 10 dwt. 7 grs., Mr. Fair- field. White — Tally. llo, 22 dwts. 16 grs., Mr. Betts ; 2, White Eagle, 20 dwt. 13 grs., Mr. Fairfield; 3, Lioness, IB dwt. 15 grs., Mr. Betts ; 4, Ostrich. IB dwt. 2 grs , Mr. T/> lley ; 5, Governess, 15 • hvt 18 grs., Mr. Fairfield; 6, Noupariel. ! 5divt. 11 grs., Mr Betts. Dish of 12, Red—\, 11 oz. 13 dwt., Mr. Fairfield ; 2, 10 oz 8 dwt., Mr. Policy. Yellow— 10 oz 1 dwt., Mr. Tolley; 2, 10 oz , Mr Fairfield. Green- 1, 9 oz 10 dwt , Mr. Fairfield; 2, 9 oz., Mr. Betts. White- 1. 9 oz. IRdwt., Mr. Betts; 2. 9 oz 18 dwt., Mr. Fairfield. Best Flavoured- I, Mr. Yates , 2, Mr. Tolley. PINES — 1, D, Houghton, Esq. MELONS. — 1, Mr. White. CURRANTS— B rck - I, Mr. Fairfield ; 2, Mr. Yates; 3, Mr Har- rison. Red- 1. Mr. Fairfield; 2, Mr. Yates. While- 1, Mr. Yates; 2, Mr. Harrison. APPLES.— I, Maiden Pippin, Mr. Yates; 2, Early Marigold, Mr. Beach; 3, Summer Queeuings, Mr. Yates. CELERY.— 1, Manchester Solid, Mr. Lewis; 2, Giant, Mrs. Has. lope ; 3, Mr. Caiker. % Z ONIO\ S,— Autumn Soivn— 1, Portugal, Mr Sadler; 2, Madeira, Mr. Betts; 3, White Spanish, Mr. J Hill; 4, Mr. Walker. Spring— I, White Spanish. Mr. Earle J 2, Globe, Mr. Moore; 3, Lisbon, Mr. Peacock; 4, Tripoli, D. Houghton, Esq. LETTUCE.— 1, Golden Coss, Mr. Sadler ; 2, Drumhead, Mr. White. CUCUMBERS— 1, Improved Manchester, Mr. E. Armfield; 2, Mr, Eurman; 3, Mr, Beach; 4, Mr, J, Harrison. On Tuesday and Wednesday a court for the relief of insolvent debtors was held at the Public- office, be- fore Mr. Commissioner Harris, when the following prisoners were discharged forthwith :— Edward Catley, formerly of Aston, gun- manu- facturer, and late of Little Somerset- street, Goodman's- fields, London, out of business •, John Bland, formerly of Birmingham, and late of the same place, gilt- toy maker and general dealer in hardware-, James Gougli, formerly of Aston, cordwainer and earthenware- dealer, and late of Birmingham, cordwainer, huckster, and retail brewer; Luke Wickstone, late of Birmingham, cordwainev, John Heaton, formerly of Walsall, and late of Birmingham, journeyman caster; John Hard- man, late of Birmingham, factor; Thomas Smith, late of Walsall, cordwainer; George Bailey, late of Wal- sall, fishmonger; Nathaniel Haines, late of Birming- ham, green- grocer, and milkman, and warehouse clerk ; William Hanks, formerly of Birmingham, coal- dealer, and late of the same place, green- grocer; Joseph Faulkner, formerly of Birmingham, scale- beam- maker; Robert Loveridge, [ ate of Birmingham, baker; George Trinfield, formerly of Birmingham, journeym 11 car- penter, and late of the same place, carpenter and builder; Theodore Bland, formerly of Birmingham, victualler, and late a lodger at the Derbyshire House, in the same place, ring- maker; Eleanor Simcox, here- tofore of Oldbury- green, ironstone bankswoman, and late of the same place, occasional charwoman; John Walters, heretofore of Aston, retail brewer and builder, and late of the same place, journeyman maltster and bricklayer; John Davenport, late of Birmingham, builder, carpenter, and joiner; Richard Robinson, for- merly of Birmingham, butcher and brewer, and late of the same place, butcher; George Perrin, formerly of Birmingham, victualler, and late of Aston, brewer by the hire; James Gosling, formerly of Smethwick, re- tail brewer, and late of Aston, coal- dealer. Remanded for three months after the filing of his Petition.— Thomas Briggs, late of Birmingham, retail brewer. Discharged conditionally, three months after filing his Petition.— Thomas Brown, late of Oldbury, grocer and general dealer. Order for hearing discharged.— Richard Deaken, formerly of Birmingham, corn and flour dealer. Petition dismissed.— Simon Macaar, late of Birm- ingham, tailor and draper. The pourt broke up at three o'clock on Wednesday, and the commissioner proceeded to Lichfield. BIEETING OF GUARDIANS. A special meeting of the guardians of the poor was held on Monday, to take into consideration the making a new survey and valuation, Mr. Thomas Phillips in the chair. On the motion of Mr. DOUGLAS, seconded by Mr. JEN- NINGS, it was resolved, " That the overseers, as soon as the same shall be necessary, do apply to the magistrates for a rate on the present survey and valuation, with the requisite addition of new properties, the same being so modified that no person shall be rated in a valuation exceeding tile valua- tion of 1834 by more than 25 per cent." The following gentlemen were appointed a deputation to confer with the Gas and Water Works Companies upon the subject of their rate, and report the same to a special meet- ing to be called for that purpose Joshua Scholefield, Esq., M. P., R. K. Douglas, P. H. Muntz, and Thomas Phillips. On Thursday evening the guardians again met, by ad- journment, ; to consider the propriety of anew survey and valuation, and Mr. Edmonds having taken the chair, letters were read from the surveyors stating, that they were ready, when requested by the guardians, to complete the survey and valuation of tlie parish now in progress, in accordance with the order of the Queen's Bench ; but that they could not undertake to defend it against any interested or litigious opposition that might be raised against it. Upon these letters a long discussion ensued, in which it was admitted by the speakers, that the guardians never contemplated the sur- veyors defending the surrey and valuation against such op- position as they had referred to in their communication, but they had a right to expect that the surveyors would make a valuation which would stand a judicial investigation, and that if it failed in that essential, they should be bound to re- make it without further charge. In accordance with this opinion, the following resolution, moved and seconded by Mr. Douglas and Mr. Pare, was carried; — " That this meeting, taking into consideration the fact that the surveyors have been allowed to fix their own terms, and also their own time, for making a complete survey and valuation of the parish, adhere to the resolution of the law committee of the 8th, that in such circumstances, if the survey and valuation shall, upon appeal, be proved to be in- complete, the surveyors shall be held bound, without any further charge, to complete the same." It was also resolved—" That the above resolution be communicated to the surveyors, and an immediate answer requested." At the close of the business, Mr. Douglas gave notice of the following motion for the next meeting of guardians: " As there is reason to expect that a Charter of Incorpo- ration for the borough of Birmingham will pass the Privy Council in a few days, and as the burgess list is directed by the Municipal fleform act to be made up on or before the Mh of September—- to instruct the officers of the house forth- with to prepare an alphabetical list of all persons in the town of Birmingham, being householders, arid resident for two years previous to the 1st of January last, with a view to the formation of such borough list." QUACK MEDICINES AND QUACK NEWS- PAPERS. [ From The Ten Towns' Messenger."] We copy the following impudent paragraph from the Birmingham Herald— a paper commenced a year or two ago, on the principle of a gratuitous circulation : — " QUACK MEDICINES. — We think it right again to repeat, that we invariably reject advertisements relative to ' Quack Medicines,' and others of a similar description. We have considered it necessary to lay down this rule, because we are aware that the appearance of such advertisements is most prejudicial to the interests of respectable advertisers; nor cou'd we with propriety forward our paper to the families (!! I) whose names are on our lists, if it contained the very objectionable advertisements which find ready ac- cess to the columns of the SALE PAPERS"( I!!!) We have on many occasions meditated an exposure of the dishonesty of this quack newspaper, when we have louud ' fiat it sought to deteriorate and injure what the proprietors of the Herald are pleased to denominate the " sale" papers; but on second consideration we have refrained, under the impression that the public would in time become acquainted with its spurious character, and its utter worthlessness as an advertising medium. Nor would we now have bestowed upon it this passing notice, were we not assured that the public have already partially adopted our own opinion. What possible objection the proprietors of the Herald can have to medicine advertisements, it is not, of course, for us to say; but we apprehend that the morality of quack ad- vertisements will bear comparison with that ol quack news papers. The Herald affects great contempt for the ,! sale" papers, as THE PRESS is generally termed by these speculat ing adventurers; but the writers forget that the title of their paper exhibits a proof that they are seeking to dispense with the gratuitous principle, and to obtain ten shillings as a y > arly subscription. Tliey say that the insertion of qtiack adver- tisements is prejudicial to the interests of advertisers. This is arrant nonsense ; and savours strongly ofan advertisement of the very nature against which they have so strongly put their veto. There is one important thing, however, highly prejudicial to respectable advertisers, and which the writer has omitted to notice. It will be a bitter pill to the Herald; but, nevertheless, we are constrained to declare it. We mean that it is the very climax of absurdity to imagine that the Birmingham Herald, or any of its quack contemporaries, possess any advantage over their " sale" contemporaries, as advertising mediums. We have ourselves been in the re- ceipt of these gratuitous sheets for years, from Dublin, Edinburgh, and elsewhere, and have uniformly thrown them aside unopened. There is not an auctioneer in the kingdom who has not been similarly honoured. We may venture to affirm that not one hundred out of every thousand of their toasted circulation aie perusedi Being a mere sheet of ad- ertisements, it possesses no attraction for the general reader, he tradesman, or the man of business. It is receives lirough the post- office, and either thrown aside unopened, or partially and carelessly glanced at. It is to be found at ill times lying, as received, on the tables of our attorneys ond auctioneers. In short, it is printed, and sent per post, ' iut beyond that advertisers have no advantage. Their ad- vertisements are very rarely read. But let us look at the fallacious and hollow pretensions of this advertising sheet > n another and more important point of view. The pro- prietors state, that they guarantee a circulation of five thou- - and. Granted. Bui where, we ask, and to whom are the - beets sent? Why, chiefly to all the attorneys and auction- eers, in England, Scotland, and Ireland, to individuals who ire likely to advertise, and not to those ivho are accu- tomed io read advertisements. Consequently, tlie " sale" papers, as tliey are contemptuously termed by the Herald, even those of the most limited circulation, possess higher claims upon the support of the public than such spurious publica- tions as the Herald. Its establishment was a tax upon the public, and it only exists upon a reputation, fictitious in its nature, and disreputably obtained. We say disreputably, because a few months ago the proprietors declared ihat their sole object in establishing tlieir paper, was to render the future publication of advertisements in " eight" different papers unnecessary. There was no disguise exhibited here. Their avowal that it was their intention to enrich themselves at the expense of their neighbours— to build tlieir own for- tunes on the ruins of eight newspaper proprietors— is rich'! Uut what are those " eight" newspapers? They are con- servative in character, and consequently their existence is an evil in the sight of the Kad'ieal proprietors of the Herald. The fair tradesmen of the neighbourhood generally, and Conservatives in particular, owe it to themselves and then indepenflfence, that they should refrain from encouraging the quack newspaper in question, in preference to those who devote tlieir fortunes, talents, and energies to the cause of good government. We have thrown these remarks hastily together, from * sense of duty, because we conceive it high time that the public mind should be enlightened as to the spurious a « 4 fallacious character of such publications as the Birmingham Herald. LATEST NEWS. O'CONNELL IN DUBLIN. The member for Dublin made an address— a lengthy one — to his Dublin constituents on Wednesday; which the London Advertiser has expressed. It appears in the num- ber of that journal which arrived in Birmingham last nig lit. The long introduction, and still longer narrative, we wil- lingly omit. The peroration is as follows : — " The great question between the Wliigs and Tories was the government, or.' rather the misgovernment, of Ireland, and it waa the people of Ireland themselves who should struggle for their rights without placing a vain dependence on any others. They had the Queen and the Lord Lieutenant for them; they liad also the ministers for them; but those could do nothing for Ireland, while they had to struggle with the opposition of the Lords. All that could be expected from them was the keeping of the Tories out of power ; and it was only when reduced te litter desolation, and when in a heap of smoking ruins, that Ireland would ever again submit to thatodious domination." He continued. " From all these circumstances it is plain that there should be caution, so that nothing was risked that could tend to render tliem liable to fade away, like the bul- rush, instead of attaining the durability of the oak. Now, there existed a jealousy between the Tories and the ultra- Radicals of England, and the latter thought that it was of no use whatever to take advice, while nothing more strongly proved their want of it more than the very rejection of it. The English Radicals, it was true, had been unhappy in their leaders. I do not, in saying so, mean to include ia the number such as that excellent man and patriot, Mr. Attwood. Others might be compared with him, as those light substances that float for a brief space upon the surface of the stream— then sink to the bottom to be heard of no more. Both the ultra- Tories and the ultra- Radicals con- tended which should do the more wrong to this country— yes, both the parties are arrayed against us ; and I tell you, my fellow- countrymen, that we have nothing now left to rely upon but our own resources. ( Cheers, and hear, hear, hear.) On Saturday we shall meet here again, when I engage to place before you a preparatory plan, the object of which will be to call upon Ireland, in every quarter, to furnish delegates, by whom the memorial of her wrongs may be laid before the throne of her most gracious Majesty the Queen. Two hundred Irish gentlemen, I am confident, will be found to offer their services as the delegates of their countrymen, who will make it their convenience to remain in England from week to week, assisting by their exertion* in watching over and promoting the rights and interests of Ireland. It will be the duty of those gentlemen to proceed from county to county, and from town te town, and call upon ; the people of England to do justice to Ireland;—( cheers)— to tell the English nation that at the period when this country was driven into an union with them, her national debt merely amounted to seventeen mil-, lions, while England owed five hundred millions of money. ( Hear, hear.) The gentlemen who would form that dele- gation should tell the men of England— We were compelled to enter into a partnership with you. Was it fair?— was it honest?— or was it reasonable that every house, every pre- perty in this country was to be pledged for their enormous debt? Independently of presenting their memorial to the Queen and the Commons, it Should be presented to the House of Lords also— aye, even to the House of Lords, the worst opposers of their common rights. When these de- legates return from London to their constituents, if they bear on their banner even justice, equal rights, and full equality on the fianchise with England and Scotland; then we fling to the winds the pledge that in coming here we bound ourselves to, in the alternative of justice being done to Ireland. And the question of repeal passes away for ever. The delegates will have in this, their patriotic mis- sion, the mighty weight of the Liberal press on their side, and it shall be proclaimed throughout universal England and Scotland too— we go back with ' justice' emblazoned on our banners to our native land, or we will have ' Repeal. ( Tremendous applause.") ' We wonder O'Connell does not tire of his attacks upoa the Ultra- Radicals. He has caught up the notion of de- legates from the Ultra- Radicals. It will do for a tub tilt another session come round. As to the threat of repeal— it had once some potency, and may again, but it must pass first into honester and steadier hands. By the bye. how comps Thomas Attwood to be ofa sudden such an object o£ regard to the Liberator? This is somewhat surprising, after the lecture lately read to him by Dan's clerical lieutenant, on the dangerous courses that he and his colleagues of the council were pursuing. TI1E CROPS- LATEST ACCOUNTS. SUSSEX— It would be thought idle, by practical men, for us to speak of the great improvement of the crops at this advanced state, or of their great deterioration, except from the effects of storm or blight; and we are happy to say tiiat we have no report to make of the latter description in this neighbourhood. On the contrary, the lastfew fine hot days have given a better appearance to all the crops, and reaping may now be said to be general; on the whole, thohgh We ., hear very different reports from different districts, we are strongly inclined to hope arid believe that the mischief done by the very severe weather to the wheat crop, has been, overrated in this district j and we know that many experi- enced farmers calculate upon, at least, an average crop in tolerably sheltered situations, where the land is iii fair con- dition, and has been drained ; for never was the good to be derived from well draining arable land more visible than ill the last cold spring. In the appearance of the wheat crop, it is true, that on the Down?, in cold, bleak, exposed situa- tions, tiler appearance is bad ; but in the valleys, the sheaves stand as thick, or more so, than we expected to see them before Ihe reapers went on, and the ears are fine. The unpropitious weather which has so long impeded the maturity of the crops has at length been >- ucceeded Uy cloudless skies and bright sunny days. On Saturday, the wheat harvest commenced at Hillfarrence, near this town, and on Monday, the reaping hook was very generally ia operation around this neighbourhood. The crop is sadly prostrated in many instances by the late unfuvourabte weather, but is otherwise free from injury, the quality ot the grain being exceedingly good. Although an abundant harvest would be inconsistent with the general produce, t ® expect, yet very little short of an average burthen may bis anticipated. — Taunton Courier. CHICHE- TER — The harvest, which commenced here last week, lias now become very general in this neighbourhood. There is every probability of an average crop. The weather has been most propitious for the harvest during the last weeii, and the wheat arid barley exhibit gratifying proofs of the beneficial change that has takeH p'acp. A large quantity of wheat is now cut in this couaty. i — Hereford Journal. BREAD.— The prospect of a late or bad harvest has hai the* effect of rai irg t e price of bread. Some of the bakers in Edinburgh I sive . aised the price of the 41b. loaf M — the highest price being now lid., although several bakers sell it at lOt. or 10J I. In Glasgow the 41b. loaf has : i's. a been raised to lid.; household, 9d.— Edinburgh Advertiser. DUBLIN CORN EXCHANGE, AUG. 14— Although the sup- ply of wheat continues to be extremely small, yet, from the fineness of the last few days, a reduction of from 2s. to 3s. per brl. was submitted to on wheat, and 31. to 6> i. per £> rt. on oats. 6 THE BIRMINGHAM JOCJiiNAL, AUGUST 18. POETRY. MARTYRS IN PRISON. Within the old Tower's* iron doors No frowning- gaoler waits ; The painter's art hath here uubarr'd Its everlasting gates. And thou, O gazer! standest now, Where, in their prison cell, As in some chamber of the past. The ancient martyrs dwell. II. Four men of God,— while that drear place Half shronds the form of light- Doth not their holy presence there, Still seem to keep it bright ? And lustre crown each pious brow With glory, mid the gloom, And faith undimm'd, that even now Shines upward from the tomb I in. The thunderbolt of tyranny Drops powerless to- day, And all its fetters seem to burst, When those old martyrs pray. The dungeon, whence they heavenward look To their eternal goal, Hath suddenly become to them A mansion of the soul. IV. One reverend, venerable man Kneels by the " Saviour. word j" And from its page of truth invokes The spirit of their Lord, Whose blest communions on the hearfc Pour Mercy's holiest flood, And symbolise in sacred forms The " body" and the " blood I" v. And lo! while listen all, absorbed, Devotion in their eyes, The mantle of immortal truth Falls on them from the skies ; Conviction strengthens in the soul, And lingering doubt departs j And Popish superstitions fade For ever from their hearts. VI. All in a moment— all alike The true faith treasure now, The kneeler's fervid face it fills, It shines on Ridley's brew ; Cranmer hath closed the book, as though Belief could claim no more ; And Bradford ponders o'er the truth His pen had raark'd before! VII. Enough! as from a broken spell, EHCII soul now heavenward springs; And Inspiration bears it on, Upon its soaring wings! Rapture hath rushed upon the hearfc. And lighted up the eye, And fill'd the martyrs' dungeon with The brightness of the sky I TILL. O painter ! honoured be the hour, When first thy genius trod The path that led thee before those Who shed their blood for God ; For God, and for a holy faith That still the stronger grew— The faith our country clings to now. The only and the true! IX. ' Tis well that memory boro thee back, Amid the past to search, And found for thee in martyr's cell Those " pillars of the church,"— The church that ever since defies The taint of Popery's breath, Is proud of their eternal life, Was hallowed by their death. ^ The i> ower of London. LITERATURE. MACCULLOCH'S EDITION OF THE WEALTH OF NA- UONS.— This edition of the great work of Adam Smith, is the most valuable and complete that has Ihitberto appeared. It is, at the same time, the most portable, and, from the copious and admirable index appended to it, the most easy to be consulted. The text is that of the edition of 1786, which contains the 3ast additions and corrections of the illustrious author. Prefixed is a life of Smith, compiled, in a great mea- sure, from Dugald Stewart's memoir, and an introduc- tory essay on the state of Economic Science, previous to the appearance of the Wealth of Nations. The pages are enriched with numerous notes, amd there is an appendix, closely printed, in double columns, of nearly 200 pages, on various subjects, which Smith bad passed over lightly, or which, from the times and circumstances under which he wrote, he had altogether omitted. This appendix brings down the history and progress of the science to the present year. Any thing like a criticism of the Wealth of Nations, a work which has so long stood the practical test of general acceptance, would be wholly out of place; and it would be impossible, in the columns of our ephemeral sheet, to do justice to the multifold argu- ments and facts contained in Mr. Macculloch's elabo- rate commentary and additions. We can safely re- commend them to the careful perusal of our more stu dious readers, convinced that, even where they differ from the learned author, they will not fail to be im- pjessed with a high sense of the great learning and ability that he has brought to his well- considered task' We have been favoured with a copy of what is called the " Sunday Sun," containing engraved por- traits of Marshal Soult and the Duke of Wellington. Soult's is an admirable likeness, and Wellington's is also singularly good. The entire paper is, of all the attempts that we have seen to give a decorative cha- racter to the political press, the most happily success- ful. We cannot go quite so for as the worthy pub- lisher, and say that each of the portraits is worth a guinea; but, unquestionably, nothing of the picture kind has ever come under our notice, which was at once so cheap and so admirable. PHRENOLOGY ; AS APPLICABLE TO THE PRESENT STATE AND FUTURE PROSPECTS OF SOCIETY. Coven- try : Turner. Birmingham: J. C. Barlow, Bennett's- hill.— The error of the knowledge- diffusers of the pre- sent day, is in being too particularly and solely at- tracted by the discoveries of PHYSICAL SCIENCE. They are too apt to rest satisfied with providing the means of becoming acquainted with existences, forgetting that if they reached the " Ultima Thule" of science; — if there were No more things in heaven and earth Than were talked of in their pfiiiosoplsy, Still, the aim of that philosophy might have yet to be discovered. Ail these " things" are but the vestibule of science— the moans to an end, the title- page and frontispiece to the opus magnum of the perfected ibumau intellect. They must tend to the great object of universal happiness; they must be made subser- vient and ancillary to the profound science of man and society, or they are valueless, or at best merely orna- mental and recreative. These remarks must not be received as slighting je dignity of inductive or demonstrative science ; but I endeavouring to fix its true place; and wc think them called for, when we discover the anxiety exhi- bited by the leaders of scientific and mechanics' insti- tutions to confine the attention of their classes to the study of " matter and its laws;" and to check or discourage those studies which form the application to actual utility, of the splendid discoveries and inven- tions by which the age is distinguished;— to rest satisfied with a knowledge of facts, without being de- sirous to search unto their corollaries. The seiencc of Phrenology is one which will not permit its votaries thus to loiter 011 their way. For its myriads 0( facts, it is indebted to physiology and anatomy; but it is absolutely impossible for the sincere student to rest content with its material discoveries. Every step opens a new vista to him, and his enquiries into the functions of the brain soon elevate themselves into a magnificently simple and perfect mental science. It is thus that, step by step, George Combe lays down the ichnography of bis work " On the Constitution of Man." And thus, at an early stage of his enquiries, he feels himself authorised to declare—" Were a system of living and occupation to be framed for human beings, founded on the exposition of their nature which I have now given, it would be " and then follows a programme of human life, on a scale of leisure, improvement, and enjoyment, which ought lo be the lot of all, or else the will of tho Creator is contravened by the blunder of his creations ; but which has never yet been the lot of any class of mankind whatsoever. The little tract before us, of sixteen pages only, pro- ceeds in this spirit; it asserts that " the present state of society can only bo considered rational, 011 the sup- position that the great objects of human existence on earth, are to eat, sleep, labour, amass wealth, and in- trigue for power." The results of the prevalence of such a system have been, that " in all ages and in all countries, the great body of the people have more closely resembled animals of a superior order, than rational beings, whose chief pleasure and occupation ought to be derived from the exercise of their moral faculties."—( Page 6.) Ignorance and crime have con- sequently ever abounded to an excessive degree; while those who have laboured for the amelioration of their rate, whether moralists, religious teachers, or political economists, have wandered in error, arising " from each class ascribing to man a nature suitable to their own views, without any scientific inquiry into its consistency with truth."—( Page 8.) " The phrenologist," says our author, " proceeds differently. He investigates the elementary qualities of human nature, their relations, and the cft'ects of their combinations." " He enquires what degree of improvement may be expected to take place in the great mass of the people." " The same mental or- gans and the same physical constitution are bestowed on the lower as on the higher ranks;" besides, " the earth is so prolific, and science has so prodigiously augmented, and continues so rapidly to increase hu- man power, that nature appears to admit the possi- bility of the members of society, generally, enjoying leisure to cultivate and reap enjoyment from the exer- cise of their higher faculties." What then ? Shall we, satisfied with the cheapness of our calicoes, bobbinnets, cut nails and screws, increase the hours of labour, whilst we lower the rate of wages? Supplying the deficiency in comforts which our science creates, by poor- rates, extensive alms- giving, and national charity schools? No, something better, says our phrenologist, may be done. " Man has not been created to act solely as a living appendage to machinery; and we rely, with a firm assurance, that he will, ere long, dis cover that his mechanical skill has been given to afford LEISURE for his moral enjoyment." [ Page 10."] High, however, as are the aspirations of the essay- ist, he does not hesitate to point out the errors of sys- teinists, who have endeavoured to effect a sudden re- generation by means of instruments who were them- selves " low in intelligence and morality;" and the history of the failures of Mr. Robert Owen and his fol- lowers, both in Great Britain and in North America, are adverted to as warnings to present and future speculators. Such a councillor and moderator as the tract before us, therefore, is peculiarly seasonable at the present day, when extravagant expectations of the sudden es- tablishment of of a " new and rational system of society" are entertained, on the one hand ; and when all hope of considerable improvement is checked 011 the other, by the political economists, who look for nothing beyond free trade and cheap government. It is to EDUCATION that the author points, as the grand ame- lioration ; the reconciler of all differences. " Duty and interest equally direct the higher orders to use every means to enlighten and improve the people; for in this must be found the future safety of the state." It is prognosticated, and phrenology claims to be the superintendent and director of the work, that " future leaders of the people will become as anxious to diffuse a knowledge of phrenology, as the present race of phi- losophers are to stifle its growth, and obstruct its pro- gress. The teachers of religion are called on to study this science, so as- to purify the moral atmosphere, and hasten tho day when it will be possible for each man to love his neighbour as himself. " We do not," concludes the author, " blame the tcachers of religion for their past omissions, but we point to PHRENOLOGY as an instrument of usefulness in their bands, of which they have yet to learn the importance." [ Page 16.] We have thus briefly analysed the contents of this really important little tract, and we conclude by re- commending all our readers to become intimately ac- quainted with its contents.— Correspondent. BENTHAM.— Acute, sagacious, reflecting, suspicious to n fault of all outward appearances nor ever to be satisfied without the most clo- e, aiding, unsparing scrutiny, he had an industry which no excess of toil could weary, and ap- plied himself wuh as urn- emitting perseverance to master every minute portion of each subject, as if he had not possessed a quickness of apprehension which could at a glance become acquainted with all its general features. In liim were blended, to a degree perhaps unequalled in any other philosopher, the love and appreciation of general principles, with the avidity for minute details; the power of embracing and following ou< general views, will) tho capacity for pursuing each one of numberless particular facts. His learning was various extensive, and accurate. History, and ol all nations and all ages, was familiar to him, gene- rally in the languages in which it was recorded. With the poets anil orarois of all times he was equally well acquainted, though he undervalued the productions of both. The writings of the philosophers of every country, and of every age. were thoroughly known to him, and had deeply oi'cu pied his attention. It was only the walks ol the exacrer sciences that he had not frequented; and he regarded illenn, very erroneously, as unworthy ot being explored, or valued them only lor the inventions useful to common life which flowed from them, altogetherneglecting the pleasures of scientific contemplation which lortn their main object and chief attraction. In the laws of his own country he was perfectly well versed, having been educated as R lawyer, and called to the English bar, at which his success would have been certain, bad he not preferred the life of a sage. Nor did he rest satisfied with the original foundations of legal knowledge which he had laid aside while studying the system ; lie continually read whatever appeared on the subject, whether the decisions of our courts, or the specula tions of juridical writers; so as to continue conversant with the latest state of the law, in its actual and practical administration. Though living retired ftotn society, he was a watchful and accurate observer of every occurrence, whether political, or forensic, or social, of the day ; and no man who lived so much to himself, and devoted so large a portion of his time to solitary study, could have been sup- posed to know so perfectly, even in its more minute details, the state of the world around him, in winch he hardly seemed to live, and did not nt all move. But of all his qualities, the one that chiefly distinguished Mr. Bentham, and was the most fruitful in its results, was the boldness with which he pursued his inquiries. Whatever obstacle opposed his course, be it little or be it mighty, from what quarter soever the resistance proceeded, with what feelings soever it was allied, be they of a kind that leave men's judgment calm and undisturbed, or of a nature to suspend the reasoning faculty altogether, arid overwhelm opposition with a storm of unthinking passion,— all signified nothing to one who, weighing principles and arguments in golden scales, held the utmost weight of prejudice, the whole in- fluence of a host of popular feelings, as mere dust in the balance, when any the least reason loaded the other end of the beam. And, if this was at once the distinguishing quality of his mind, and the great cause of his success, so was it also the source of nearly all his errors, and the prin- cipal obstacle to the progress of his philosophy. For it often, especially in the latter part of his life, prevented him from seeing real difficulties and solid objections to his pro posals; it made him too regardless of the quarter from which opposition might proceed ; it gave an appearance of impracticability to many of his plans; and what was tar more fatal, it rendered many of his theories wholly inappli- cable to any existing, and almost to any possible, staie of human affairs, by making him too generally forget that all laws must botli be executed by, and operate upon, men- men, whose passions and feelings are made to the lawgiver's hand, and cannot all at once be moulded to his will. The same undaunted boldness of speculation led to anoiher and a kindred error. He pushed every argument to the utter- most; he strained each principle till it cracked ; he loaded all the foundations on which his system was built, as if. like arches, they were strengthened by the pressure, until he made them bend and give way beneath the superincumbent weight. A provision, whether of political or of ordinary law, had no merit in his eyes, if it admitted ol any exception, or betokened any bending of principles to practical facilities. He seemed oftentimes to resemble the mechanician who should form his calculations, and fashion his machinery upon the abstract consideration of the mechanical powers, and make no allowance for friction, or the resistance of the air, or the strength of the materials— Brougham. SOUTH AMERICA.— In Chile and Peru, where the estates are large and productive, with a slave or vassal population to farm them,— sometimes, too, with a title of nobility an nexed to them,— the possession of landed property, he'ore the revolution, was deemed an enviable privilege, and the management of it a desirable occupation. In those coun- tries, the large landed proprietors looked down upon the merchants as on men of a distinctly inferior giade to their own in society. In Buenos Ayres and Paraguay it was otherwise. The only landed possessions cpnsideietl of any value in the former place were the large estanctas, or cattle farms. Many of these contained eighty and a hundred square miles of land, and some of them vastly more. On this whole extent of territory, there was not perhaps to be found more than three or four mud huts, which served as habitations for the ten or fifteen herds who tended the cat- tle, with one hut of somewhat better construction for the owner of the estate. Each estate of this kind had generally upon it from five to twelve or fifteen thousand head ot horned cattle; of which it is calculated that the owner may sell, or kill, yearly, one- fourth, and yet increase his stock. The proprietors of the cstancias, however, though men of solid property, did not, previously to the revolution, attain to much importance in the community, for the following reasons. In the first place, a limited and restricted com merce kept hides, the produce of their estates, at a verv low value. An ox was seldom, before the revolution, worth more than four shillings; so that even if one of the most wealthy of them, with fifteen thousand head of cattle on hi estate, killed, or sold, the fourth part, annually, his income did not exceed 800?. a- year. In the second place, small as their incomes were, they did not spend the half of them. In most cases, unfortuuately, a large proportion was ah sorbed by gambling. In town they lived 111 obscurity, while, in the country, like the peons, or herds, by whom they were surrounded, they bad a mud hut for their dwelling beef, and little more than beef, for their diet. In tile third place, they were almost all natives of the country, rustic in man ners, and rude in scholarship and address,— being possessed of the merest rudiments of a grammar- school education. They were without the learning, scanty as it was. of either the priest 01' the lawyer; and without the means, therefore, of interposing that qualification to the claims of superiority ever put forward by the haughty natives of Old Spain, and by the better educated classes of the estanciero's own countrymen. The estanciero, or landed cattle proprietor, feeling his inferiority, and taking his station in society ac- cordingly, bail his solace, and his recreation in his own soli- tary avocations, and in the occasional society of those of his own class, with whom he could expatiate upon tat herds ot cattle,— fine years for pasture,— horses more fleet than the ostrich or the deer,— the dexterity of those who could best, from the saddle, throw their noose, or laso, over the horns of a wild bull,— or of him who could make the nicest pair ol hoots from the skin stripped otf the legs of a patro, or wild colt. A good, substantial, roughly finished house in town, very little furniture in it; a large, sleek, fat horse, on which to ride; a poncho, or loose amplitude of camlet stuff, with a hole in the centre of it for his head, and falling from his shoulders over his body; large silver spurs, and the head- piece ol his bridle heavily overlaid with the same metal; a coarse hat fastened with black leather thongs under his chin ; a tinder- box, steel, and flint, with which to light his cigar; a knife in bis girdle, and a swarthy page behind him, with the uiiroasted ribs of a fat cow, for provision, under his saddle; constituted the most solid comfort, and met the most luxurious aspirations of the estanciero, or Buenos Ayres country gentleman. When thus equipped and pro- vided, he could take to the plains, and see a large herd of cattle grazing in one place, and in anoiher, hear them low- ing in the distance; and when he could look around for un interrupted miles upon rich pastures, all his own— his joy was full, his ambition satisfied ; and he was willing at once to forget and to forego the tasteless enjoyments and cum- brous distinctions of artificial society. Thus lived, anil thus was the country gentleman of the river Plate educated, be- fore the revolution. He is now greatly improved in man- ners, fortune, and mode of life; and he is rising gradually, but surely, to that influence to which a greatly increased and increasing value of property naturally leads. His cattle, which before the revolution were worth only four shillings a head, are now worth twenty; and for these twenty he can buy double the quantity, both of the neces- saries and luxuries of life ( bis own commodity of cattle always excepted), which he could procure for them before. Comfort and convenience in his town residence are now as necessary to him and his family as to the other classes of the community. He mixes more freely in general society, takes a share in the affairs and offices of state, educates his children more liberally; and though the estanciero himself may still adhere to many of his primitive and favouiite habits, yet many a rich estanciero's wife and daughters are to be seen driving about in handsome and modern- built carnages of their own — Letters on Paraguay. NEW YEAR'S DAY IN RUSSIA Yesterday was the Russ- ian New Year's day: it was celebrated by a/ etc which can be seen in no other country : it is a fete original, extraordi- nary, and characteristic ot the nation. The sovereign and his family commence the new year by an assembly given to the people; not less than twenty- five thousand invitations are issued to this gigantic rout. At seven o'clock in the evening the doors ol the winter palace and of the hermitage ate thrown open to the multitude: the innumerable rooms are lighted up with myriads of wax candles; at convenient distances are placed sideboards with refreshments, adorned with pyramids of gold and silver plate; bands of military music resound in every corner to amuse the ear: picked men, of tile highest statyre, from the guards, are stationed in the ante rooms, to give effect to the scene; and liveried servants swarm in every direction more numerous than the troops*. And for whom was this colossal entertainment pre- pared? For every rank and degree; from the highest noble to the lowest peasant, all were equally welcome, without distinction, to pay their respects at the foot of the throne; there are no exclusions; rich and poor, the field marshal and the invalid, the princess and the washerwoman, the master ol the horse and the dancing master, the maid of honour and the maid of all work, the prince and the mougik, the Queen of Georgia and the French milliner, may all hope fur a smile and a courteous word from the fountain of honour. In this immense crowd, slowly moving through the apart- ments, no instance of disorder or incivility occurs; not even an attempt to steal the most trifling ornament, which, to soine, must be a great temptation: the Emperor is in the midst ol his family, and the children are on their good be- haviour. The wives of the rich Russian merchants press through the dense multitude, decorated with necklaces and ear- rings of pearls and diamonds, without any apprehension. It would be no great injustice to suppose that, out of these twenty five thousand guests, some of them might have been light- fingered yesterday, and will be equally adroit oil the morrow : but on this evening a feeling of respect, of eti riosity, and of pleasure, seem to engross every other senti merit; and these dubious characters leave their dexterity with their pelisses at the door of the palace. The varied costumes of the Russian women, some ol high rank attached to the court, who were dressed in the richest habits of the distant provinces, added to the brilliant uniforms of the mi litary, gave such a lustre to the whole scene, that the dingy caftans and bearded chins of the lower orders, tar from im pairing the effect, seemed only introduced as a dark shade to relieve the higher colouring of the picture. At seven o'clock the different members of the diplomatic corps are introduced into the great hall of St. George, where they are received by the emperor, the empress, the grand dukes, an grand duchesses, attended by their numerous court. Th interview lasts but a few minutes, during which the crow flows in like an inundation of the sea. The emperor the gives the signal to move, by offering his hand to one of the ambassadresses present; the whole court follows his exam ample; and a grave polonaise is begun, which passes through all the different apartments to the sound of the military orchestras, stationed in every direction. This procession advances, without interruption, through the suirounding masses of all ranks, headed by the tall, commanding figure of the emperor; at every instant he salutes his subjects, by raising the two forefingers to his hat; and, though the anxiety to catch even a glimpse of his person is so great that the eager crowd seems to present an impenetrable hai- rier, it opens before him as if by magic ; the waves of fiutnai bodies recede, and leave always a space of at least six fee in liont to facilitate his progress. The men are all expected to appear in domino, which is only a short black mnntle on the shoulder, without a mask; but the tradespeople and tnougiks are exempted from this rule. Here was a collec- tion of all those nations who are only known in Europe by their name— Armenians, Greeks, Tartars, Persians, Geor gians, Imeretians, inhabitants of Caucasus and of the Don wearing their appropriate dresses, and gazing with astonish ment at a scene which must have appeared to them the work of a magician. In those rooms where the etnperoi was expected, the throng was at times so excessive, that parties were separated, shoes were lost, gowns torn, and respiration impeded "; but 110 sooner had lie passed than ease and tranquillity were restored. At last the polonaise finished ; and at eleven o'clock the emperor, with his party retired to ' lie private theatre of the Hermitage, where sup- per was prepared. It is illuminated in the most splendid manner with crystal ornaments and silver fringe, represen ing cascades and fountains ot water, which have a duzzlin,. effect to the eye; twelve negroes in the Turkish dress, keep guard at the entrance of this fairy palace. This curious assembly was conducted with the greatest regularity, and without any interference of police, military, or dictation of any sort; it is highly creditable to the mildness and civility ol the national character, as the same exhibition 011 the same scale in Paris or in Loudon would have produced scenes ol endless confusion.— Raikea. THE ARAB OP THE DESERT.— The Bedouins are essen tially a pastoral people; their only riches are their flock1 and herds, their home is in ' he wide desert, and they have no local attachments: to- day they pitch their tent among the mountains, to- morrow in the plain; and wherever they plant themselves for the time, all that they have on earth wife, children, and friends, are immediately around them, In fact, the life of the Bedouin, his appearance and habits me precisely the same as the patriarchs of old. Abraham himself, the first of the patriarchs, was a Bedouin ; and lour thousand years have not made the slightest alteration in the character and habits ot this extraordinaiy people, Read of the patriarchs in the Bible, and it is the best de scription you can have of pastoral life in the East at the present day. The women whom we had pursued belonged to the tent of a Bedouin not far from our road, but completely hidden from our view; and when overtaken by Toualeh, she re cognised in him a Iriend of her tribe, and in the same spirit and almost in the same words which would have been used by her ancestors four thousand years ago, she asked us to her tent, and promised us a lamb or a kid for supper. Her husband was stretched 011 the ground in fiont ot his tent and welcomed us with an air or manner that belonged to the desert, but which a king on his throne could not have cxceled. He was the embodied personification of all my conceptions of a patriarch. A large loose frock, a striped handkerchief on his head, bare legs, sandals on his feet, and a lo- ig white beard, formed the outward man. Almost im mediately after we were seated, he took bis shepherd': crook, and, assisted by his son, selected a lamb from the flock for the evening meal: and now I would fain prolong the illusion of this pastoral scene. To stop at the door ot an Arab's tent, and partake with him of a lamb, or a kid, prepared by bis hospitable hands, all sitting together 011 the ground, and provided with no other implements than those which nature gave us, is A picture of primitive and cupti vating simplicity; but the details were such as to destroy for ever all its poetry, and take away all relish from patri- archal fea° ts. While we were taking coffee, the lamb lay bleating in our ears, as if conscious of its coming fate. The coffee drunk, and the pipe smoked, our host arose, and laid his hand upon the victim ; the long sword which be wore over Ins shoulder was quickly drawn; one man held the head, anil another the hind legs, and, with a rapidity almost inconceivable, it was killed and dressed, and its smoking entrails yet curling with life, were boiling on the fire. One by one I had seen the many illusions of my waking dreams fade away, the gorgeous pictures of Oriental scenes melt into nothing, but I had still clung to the primitive simplicity and puiity of the children of the desert, their tem perance and shstinence, their contented poverty, and con- tempt for luxuries, as approaching the true nobility of man's nature, and sustaining the poetry of the " land of the east." But my last dream was broken; and I never saw among the wanderers of the desert any traits of character, or any habits of life, which did not make me prize and value more the privileges of civilisation. I had been more than a month alone with the Bedouins ; and, to say nothing of their manners,— excluding women from nil companionship, dip ping their fingers up to the knuckles in the same dish, eat- ing sheep's insides, and sleeping under tents crawling with vermin engendered by their filthy habits,— their temperance and frugality are from necessity, not fiom choice; for in their nature they aie gluttonous, and will eat at any time until they are gorged of whatever they can get, and then lie down and sleep like brutes. One might expect to find these children of nature free from tlie reproach of civilised life— the love of gold. But, fellow citizens and fellow- woishippers of mammon, hold up your heads, this reproach must not be confined to you! I never saw any thing like the expiession of lace with which a Bedouin looks upon silver or gold. When he asks for bucksheesh, and receives the glittering metal, his eyes sparkle with wild delight, his fingers clutch it with eager rapacity, and he skulks away, like the miser, to count it over alone, and hide it from ail other eyes.— Stephinson. FACTS.— Armouries, Tower.— Number of persons admit- ted to see the armouries in 1837, 14,523; ol whom 10,408 paid 2s. each. In the four weeks ending 28th Match, 1833, when the fee was reduced to Is., the admissions were 4,528, of whom 4.196 paid. Marriages— Number of places in England and Wales, licensed tor the celebration of mar- riage under the provisions of 6 and 7 Will. IV. cap. 85, 1.136; number of certificates for mairiage, granted under the same act, during the six months, from July to Decern her, 1837, 2,343; number of marriages celebrated other than according to the rites of the Established Chuich during the same period, 1,7- 13 ; of which 453 were in the superintend ent registrar's office, and 1,292 in registered places ol worship, or between Quakers or Jews; 220 were by license, and 1,525 011 production of a certificate. Numbers cele- 1 brated according to the rites of the Established Church within the bills of mortality in the same period, 6.032, of which 5,108 were after banns, and 911 by license. Merchant Seamen.— Registered seamen serving in Biitish vessels on 9th June, 1838, 156,872; apprenticed seamen serving at the same date, 21,107. Beer Houses Licenses taken out 111 1835, 39 654 ; in 1837, 45,394 ; increase 14£ per cent. Consumption of Spirits. — Quantities of British and foreign spirits paid duty in the United Kingdom, in 1836, 31,402 418 gallons; in 1837, 28,943,103; decrease 7.8 per cent. Con sumption of Wine— Quantities retained for consumption in the United Kingdom, in 1836, 6,809,212 gallons ; in 1837, 6,391,560; decrease 6.1 per cent. Newspapers— Number in the year ( ending 15th Septembei) 1836. 397; in 1837, 458; stamps issued in the first period, 35 576 056; in the second, 53,496.207; increase 50 per cent. Savings' Banhs. — Num- ber of depositors, including charitable institutions and friendly societies, on 20th November, 1836, 597,959; on same date, in 1837, 635,440 ; increase 6.2 per cent; amount of deposits, in 1836, 18,761,219/.; in 1837, 19.599 873/ ; increase 4.4 per cent. Exports from the United Kingdom— Total declared value, in 1836, 53.368 5721. ; 111 1837, 42.214 938/.; decrease, 11,153,634/= 29 per cent. Four- penny Pieces Number issued trom first coinage on 14ih March, 1836, to 31st March, 1838, 5,359,500; value 89,325/. — Statistical Journal. THE THAMES.— The removal of the old London Bridge has caused a considerable change ill the river above, and also, though in a less degree, below the bridge. Owing to the contracted arches through which the water had to make its way at the old bridge, there was a fall ot from four feet nine inches to five feet at low water; this fall is now re duced to about two inches; so that the low- water line above the bridge is nearly five feet lower at spring tides than lormerly. Inconsequence, a greatly increased body of tidal water now flows up and down the river; and as it meets with no obstruction, it Sows with a decid. dly greater velo- city. The effect of this is to scour and deepen the channel ol the river; its influence in this respect being already sen- sibly felt as far up as Putney Bridge, seven and a half miles above London Bridge. The shores above the latter, that were formerly foul and muddy, are now becoming clean shingle and gravel, and near low water the beach is quite hard and firm. I'he shoals are also decreasing below the bridge and there can be little doubt that the change will, at no distant period, be felt from the Nore up to Teddington. Before the removal of the old bridge, a barge starting from the pool with the first of the flood, could not get further than Putney Bridge without the assistance of oars. But- under similar circumstances, a barge now reaches Morrlake! our miles further up, before using oars, and with a little help, she may reach Richmond; and taking horses there, may get to leddington in a tide. The descent down the river has been equally facilitated; the mean velocities of the "!"*' all( l eh" between London Bridge and Westminster Bridge are, flood, three miles an hour ; extreme, three and a hall; ebb, three and a half; extreme, three and quarters— M' Culloch't Statistics. three MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF THE POLITICAL UNION. On Tuesday evening there was a very numerous attend- ance at the council meeting. Mr. JOSIAH EMES, iu the absence of Mr. P. H. Muntz, took the chair, and introduced to the council Mr. Henry Watson and Mr. Thomas Baker, who bad been elected members of the council at the late general meeting of the Union. Mr. WATSON said, his appointment as a councillor wat qu te contrary to his expectations. When one of his fellow workmen proposed, at the meeting at the Town Hall, that the members or the council should be elected one by one lie suppoited bun, because he was, and always should be. decidedly friendly to the popular mode of election. HE was sorry to find that some persons in the hall on that occa- sion, thought lie was raising an objection against the pro- ceedings He was not. He was sorry that more persons, who really would work, were not put upon the council. 1 hey were aware that all the work bail been done by a few gentlemen then around the table. If it had not been for those gentlemen, they would not have had the Political Union ill existence. They would not have had the approach, mg national convention. They would not have had the great meeting of last week. They would not stand so high in the political world as they did, had it not been for the exertions of those men. The people must, therefore, support them; and in a pecuniary point. They must not forking man, and they knew lie, at least, could not pay his own expenses. He must, therefore, be supported. Indeed, they must all be sup- ported. It was not to be supposed that any men could sacrifice their time and money for the public interest The working men must recollect that they were the parties who were sunk. They must recollect, that the efforts beine made would raise them up. If they expected to he lifted up, they must contribute their money towards defraying the necessary expenses tor that purpose. It was not by their cheering they could support the council, but by their con- tributions. All the talk in the world would not avail with- out money. The working men must do more than ever they had done, if the work which they had begun was to be fully carried out. He should feel it his duty to do all in his power to aid in promoting the cause, because it was his own cause— it w » s the cause of his order. Mr. P. H. MONTI having arrived, and taken the chair, read over the minutes of the last meeting. He observed that they had better proceed to the election of officers for the ensuing year. Mr. SALT, in consequence, moved the appointment of thomas Attwood, Esq., M. P., as chairman of the Union. It was unnecessary for him ( Mr. S.) to say anything in lavour of Mr. Attwood. His whole life said all, and more than he could say. The life of the hon. gentleman was a life without blemish, in the service of the people. Mr. DOUGLAS seconded the nomination. Mr. BENJAMIN HADLEV supported the nomination. No man knew Mr. Attwood better than Mr. Salt, still he ( Mr. H.) must say, he knew a little about him; and, certainly, would have telt as much disposed to propose him as any other man. Mr. Attwood's life was before them. They had tried him a thousand times, and never found him want- ing; and to the best of his belief they never would. ( Hear, hear.) v ' The CHAIRMAN said, there could be only one feeling upon the subject. He should, therefore, put the resolution. He did so, anil it was carried unanimously. Mr. DOUGLAS then said, he should take the liberty of moving that Philip Henry Mu . tz and Benjamin Hadley be vice- chairmen for the ensuing year. Mr. George Frederick Muntz being located at Swansea, rendered it im- possible that lie could attend the meetings of the council regularly; and it was indispensably necessary that they should have a person always at hand to fill the chair. There was another reason why he wished to propose Mr. Hadley — because he was a gentleman, wh se name was so well known, in connection with the old Union. Mr. SALT seconded the motion. Mr. HADLEY said, if his acceptance of the joint vice- chairmanship would confer any benefit upon the Union, he woultl accept it with pleasure. ( Hear, hear.) Although he had not been much amongst them lately, every man who knew him, knew that the principles he had always advo- cated were still as dear to him as ever. He was not behind he march of the council. Indeed, he did not know if he lid not go a little farther than they did. His late absence from the council was not, because he did not feel a sympathy with them. Circumstances prevented him from attending, and the same, or similar causes, might still prevent him from attending as often as he could wish. He should, how- ever, be present as often as he could ; but he begged they would not calculate upon a punctual attendance, although there never was a period, in the whole course of his political career, in which he was more entirely with them, heart and soul, than at the present time. The CHAIRMAN said, he had filled the office of vice chairman during the past year, at very great personal incon- venience to himself He was very glad they had elected his f.- iend, Mr. Hadley, as he knew he would occasionally, relieve him from some of the duty. Feeling that he bad associated with him. one who would always support him under difliculty, he should have still greater pleasure in ac- cepting the office. Mr. COLLINS moved that Mr. Douglas be appointed treasurer lot the ensuing year. He was sure that the very general satisfaction he had given, during the past year, to every member of the Union, would ensure for him an unani- mous vote. ( Hear.) When they had a tried friend they ought to keep him, and for that reason he proposed that • Mr. Douglas should be treasurer. Mr. BLUNT seconded the nomination. Mr. DOUGLAS said he would accept the office, although was rather onerous. It could not, however, last long, hrotigh the national convention they would make soine- ing of their affairs. Before the end of tile next twelve mouths, matters would be settled, one way or other. The nomination of Mr. Douglas was then put and carried. Mr. DOUGLAS proposed Mr. IIoll as secretary to the Union. ( Hear, hear.) Mr. Moll undertook the situation t year, in conjunction with Mr. Weston, who found its duties more than be could discharge. Since that time, Mr. ( loll had performed the whole of the duties with a laborious exactness they could hardly have expected from a paid officer ( Hear, bear.) He considered him justly entitled to their best thanks, for his past services ; and he was certain, if he would continue them for the ensuing year, he would confer great benefit upon the Union. Mr. SA LT seconded the motion, because he believed the Union never had so good a secretary, and never would again. Mr. HADI. EY said he bail filled the office six years, and he knew something of the duties which Mr. Holl had to per- form. He concurred in the testimony borne to Mr. Holl's conduct, by Mr. Douglas; and he was of opinion that they could not act more wisely than by appointing Mr. Holl. He supported the appointment. The CHAIRMAN put the resolution, observing that he did so with as much pleasure as it had been moved and se- conded. The motion was caried unanimously. The CHAIRMAN then read a letter of resignation from Mr. John Meredith; alter which he said he bad received a letter from Harwich, requesting that some persons should be sent from Birmingham, to pttend a great meeting of Radicals, about to be held at Chelmsford. The letter was addressed to him as a private individual, and he read it as such, not as an official communication. He merely noticed it, to show that the great meeting of Birmingham had already produced some effect. Indeed, he believed, that every town almost, in the kingdom was beginning to move, anil he had no doubt, that before the meeting of the con- vention, all the principal towns would have met and orga- nised. Mr. Douor- Assaid he might observe that, from what be had heard, the intended great meeting ut Manchester would be bettet arranged than they hail at one time reason to expect. It had been resolved to hold the meeting on the anniversary of the slaughter ol Peterloo, but Mr O'Connor, and others, thought it would he recalling old grievances, which the people were willing to forgive, if they could not forget. It T THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, AUGUST 18. was thought that if tiiey had met under such circumstances, it might give occasion to the enemies of the people to mis- represent their motives and intentions. The Reformers of Manchester had, therefore, with gieat good sense, agreed to hold a meeting, on the 20th, of delegates from the various towns and villages in the neighbourhood, for the purpose of making arrangements for a grand demonstration. He had no doubt the great meeting would he one of vast importance. He believed some persons from Birmingham would attend. Considering the immense population of the Manchester dis- trict, there could Vie little doubt but that the meeting would be productive of as great an effect as any in England, nor excepting even that of the 6th of August. Before sitting down, he wished to propose a resolution, whicli lie conceived ought to be passed before they sepaiated. He considered the thanks of the Union were particularly due to Messrs. Pierce and Collins, for t/ ieir labours as marshals at tile late great meeting. They were all aware that the utmost order and regularity prevailed. Indeed, all par ties concurred in describing it as one of the most orderly and well conducted meetings that had ever been held, and such it really was. For much of this older and regularity they were indebted to 3/ essrs. Pierce and Collins, who had made most admirable arrangements for the occasion. He knew that they had had a great deal of mental and bodily labour to undergo, and he considered them eminently entitled to the thanks of the council. Mr. EXES seconded the motion, which was put and carried usanimously. Mr. SALT rose to move a vote of thanks, which he con- sidered was of stitt greater importance. He knew it had been a great sacrifice to the men of Birmingham to leave their vsorskshops on the day of the great meeting, and pev- Laps incur, in many instances, the ill ivilJ and displeasure of some of their employers; still there were others who had made greater sacrifices. He meant those good men and true who had travelled many miles from distant towns to attend on that occasion. ( Hear, hear.) It was a great sacrifice for these men to travel fifteen or twenty miles at their own expense, and return the same day. The enemies of the people might call it a holiday, but it was one attended with so much toil, and labour, and expense, to those who attended it, that nothing hut the strongest possible feelings Of attachment to the cause could have induced them to make such a holiday. Notwithstanding all they had to endure, they came forth to Birmingham ; and although they could not, from the immense masses that were collected, hear perhaps, except an occasional sentence, of what was said, they stood their ground manfully until the conclusion of the business; they proved that they were determined to make every necessary sacrifice for the maintenance of their prin- ciples. Mr. DOOGI. AS said, he had the greatest possible pleasure in seconding the resolution. He knew nothing which tended more to show the spirit and determination of ( he people than the statements made by Mr. Salt. A friend of his ( Mr. D.' s) had been just telling liiin that the Whigs and Tories in the town were asking, if he did not really consider the meeting to he a failure ? He knew not what these gentlemen called a failure, but this he did know, that if they could only get up half such a failure, they would deem themselves very important persons. ( Laughter.) Had it not been for the unsettled state of the weather in the morning, there could be no doubt but they would have had many thousands more; as it was, he was really aston- ished that so many did attend. The firmness displayed by the men was also wonderful. At the close of the meeting the rain fell in torrents, still, they stood immovable until every gentleman 011 the hustings, who wished to address them had done so. He most cordially seconded the reso- lution. Mr. JOHN PIEKCE rose to acknowledge the compliment that had been paid him and Mr. Collins. Before doing so, he begged leave to introduce to the council, Mr. Hart and Mr. Monk, who had been appointed members of the couri. cil at the late meeting of the union. Two better men could not have been elected. With respect to the vote of thanks to himselfand colleague, it might have been spared; he felt, however, great pleasure in receiving and acknow- ledging it. The call for order which Mr. Collins and he had made, had been cheerfully responded to, not only by the men of Birmingham, but all others who attended the meeting He was sure he spoke the sentiments of the men who came from a distance, when he stated that, notwith- standing their fatigue, they returned home highly gratified with the proceedings of the day. It was pleasing to know, that in all parts of the country the utmost anxiety pre- vailed to know what the Birmingham Union was doing. A deputation had been sent to attend the great meeting from Wales, and they would have been introduced, only they arrived too late. They g& ve the most flattering accounts respecting the progress of reform in that quarter. They stated that they could engage to collect thirty thousand persons to meet a deputation from the Union, when they appointed a day to come. ( Hear, hear.) He felt pleasure in announcing that they had some reformers that night with them from Handsworth. They had, indeed, neighbouring towns and villages with them. The question was not, who were with them, but who were not with them. ( Hear, hear.) Talk of failure— it was impossible;—( applause)— success was inevitable. It was to be seen in the lofty de- meanour, the energy and strength that was evinced on the day of the great meeting. The fact was, the enemies of the people knew that when the band ol union was formed, no tyrant could 6top it; and hence it was that they endea- voured to talk down their demonstration as a failure. Their efforts, however, would be unavailing. They might as well think of turning aside the ocean tide, as of turning aside the course of national and social improvements which were going on in England. He had made many sacrifices in the cause of reform, and was willing to make still further. He and Mr. Collins had been sneered at for the appellation of marshal, hut he should look upon the day upon which he appeared in that character, as one of the proudest days of his life. He was engaged in a just, holy, humane, and up- right cause; and if it had not been a just cause, he would not have had anything to do with it. He hoped the men of Birmingham, and the men of England generally, would not consider any sacrifice too great for the promotion of the cause in which they were about to embark. Every man must consider that the cause depended solely upon his individual exertions, and if every individual so considered, the labour would be facilitated, and the object etfectually iecured. Mr. COLLINS fully concurred in the observations made by Mr. P. erce. He had had his reward for any services he had rendered the cause. The time to try men's souls was com ing very fast. Their friend, Mr. Douglas, said the approach- ing year would be one of the greatest importance they had ever seen. He had not the least doubt that was the case, and he should like, if possible, that they would not leave a single individual in Birmingham without an excuse for not co- operating with them. He had had conversations with many men, who had told him that they had been accustomed to subscribe to the old Union— but they h id not paid to the new Union, because they had never been waited upon. He thought they might adopt some plan to receive the subscrip- tions of such persons. He did not know but if the elec- tors! committees were applied to, that they might receive the subscriptions of the class of persons to whom he had alluded. The CHAIRMAN said they had been tried, and they refused. Mr. COLLINS said he was aware of many gentlemen who • were willing to receive subscriptions, anil canvass their respective districts. Mr. DOUCLAS announced that he had received two sovereigns as a donation from Mr. Richard Hollis. There was one fact to which he wished to allude, and it was this — that there appeared to exist throughout the whole of Ireland, a disposition to hirng the government to its senses* as it had been temied. There was a disposition to abstain from all exercisable article, J'he Dublin Evening Post, ( which, bye the bye, was a thick and thin ministerial paper,) only the other day, writing upon the subject, had asserted that the thing was very easily done; and at Cork it appeared they had actually made arrangements for commencing. ( Hear, hear.) The amount of exeiseable articles which could he dispensed with, without injury to the health of the public, was even greater than he had calculated. The people of Ireland did not consume so much tea and coffee, perhaps as the people of England, hut they consumed rafher more whiskey; and if the abstinence principles was adopted in that country, the effect would be very great. He believed there was also a disposition in Scotland to abstain. In fact, the scheme of his Iriend, Mr. Suit, had been taken up very generally, and was likely to lie extensively practised. At one of the large anti tythe meetings in Ireland, the doctrine had been preached, and it was a remarkable fact, and one worthy ot imitation, that at these great meetings in Ireland, not a single drop of whiskey has beeri consumed. ( Hear, hear.) He wished they had only thought of the matter before the gieat Birmingham Demonstration took place, and they would have dispensed with the booths at Hollo way- head, and thus commenced the abstinence principle on a small scale at once. It was certainly a very im port; nt point 10 find the people of Ireland acting as they did. ( Hear, hear.) It was necessary that they should concur with the people of England in compelling government to do them justice. Some of the speakers at the great meetings in Ireland said that the mere beginning of the thing would produce the desired effect upon their rulers. He ( Mr. D.) had always said, that the mere mention of the sinke against tea and coffee, and other ex- ciseable articles, would strike terror into any government. Of one thing lie was quite certain, that if the National Convent ion issued an order against the consumption of these articles, it wou'd produce a greater effect than ever was produced before in their time. ( Hear, hear.) Before he sat down, he would take the liberty of offering a ( ew re- mat ks upon 1 wo articles whicli had appeared in one of the London newspapers; the paper to which he alluded was the Weekly Dispatch, a paper which had attached to it some very able writers, which had a very large circulation, greater, it was said, than the circulation of any otliet in the king, dorn. It was countenanced, and, indeed, maintained by the industrious classes. It was not the paper of the aristo cracy or of the gentry ; its circulation was exclusively amongst the industrious classes. Now that the Tory papers should attack the Political Union arid the people, was very natural; and it was equally natural that the organs of the Whig party should attack the national petition. In all this there was nothing wrong. Such attacks were perfectly fair, and he found no fault with them. But the ground upon which they had to complain was, that the people had been grossly attacked by their own paper. They complained t/ iar the Weekly Dispatch, after getting into great circula- tion upon the profession of certain principles, after leading the people to believe that it was perfectly sincere in its ad- vocacy of those principles, should turn round upon them, and even while mouthing the most out and out Radicalism in one part of the paper, should in another attack the principles ot the man who was the leader of the people, and hold him up to all manner of contempt and hatred. He would read to them the title of the first article, to which he intended to call their attention. It was headed " The Birmingham meeting and the Canterbury trials." Now, he would pray them mark the rascality of this association. The object of the writer was to associate Thomas Altwood with the murdering madman Courteney, of Canterbury; and by so doing, hold him and the cause he advocated up \. o public indignation. The writer proceeded to say—" We are sorry to observe that the meeting was misdirected, it aimed at many points which are impracticable and impossible, and which would be extremely prejudicial to the labouring classes, could they be obtained." The gentleman who wrote this sentence was not very much accustomed to English composition, or else he would have seen that what was impossible was in most cases rather impracticable. If ever there was a meeting distinguished by all the elements ol good order, it was the meeting which had given rise to this article. The reporter of the Chronicle, and all who had witnessed the proceedings, admitted the admirable re- gularity that prevailed ; but what said the learned writer of the Dispatch?—" We seem to be coming back to the days when a Birmingham mob destroyed the house, and would have destroyed the life of Dr. Priestly." Was there ever a more false and infamous libel upon the people who composed the meeting than this? And yet this was the character which their great meeting of the sixth of August received from a man calling himself a Radical. The Dispatch writer next proceeded to the national petition. " The national petition," said he, " does no honour to the nation. The French in their commotions before the violences of the revolution, were by far more sensible. The petitioners state that they are bowed down under a load of taxes. These taxes are the result of the national debt, and having con- tracted that, however foolishly, we must pay it." As a sort of neutraliser of his virulent attack, the writer added, " Two or three objects are, at best, as much as we can ma- nage at one time, and the greatest of all is that which is least attended to— the corn laws." Upon this point be ( Mr. D.) would say one word. Every one knew what the opinion of the members of the Union was relative to the corn laws. It was well known that they were, to a man, opposed to them, that they viewed them as a great evil, but they considered them only as one of the manyinjuriotis effects a wholly vitiated system of government. In the extract he had just read from the Dispatch, there was a manifest attempt to direct the attention of the public to one of the effects of the system, in order, by so doing, to turn them from the cause. The sapient writer would have us remove the effect, but not to touch the tfause. The leaders of the people on the 6th, said, remove the cause, and with it the effect will not only cease now but for ever. Which was the more reasonable process? They knew well that when these infamous laws were about to be passed, almost every man in the country held up his hand against them, but without effect. During the last session, Her Majesty's ministers, backed by the Marquis of Chandos, had declared that it was a subject which ought not even to be mentioned. It was too sacred to be touched upon. He ( Mr. D.) would say, with these plain facts before them, it was utterly absurd to expect a removal of these laws by their present rulers ; and the man who sought to turn away their atten- tion from the great principles for which they were contend- ing, in order to such an attempt, must be either grossly dishonest or grossly ignorant. Another quotation—" The demon of mischief," quoth the writer, " seems almost to bribed to defeat the objects, and to distract the councils of what might otherwise be very useful associations." He ( Mr. D.) thought the demon of mischief was the man who sought to sow the seeds of dissension amongst them, and to hold them up to reprobation, by all manner of misrepresent- ation. There was another article in the same paper, still more scandalous than the one he had been quoting, from which he would read a few extracts, in order that they might yet farther judge of the character of the paper they had so liberally supported. " This petition," the article said, " has received, we are informed, five hundred thousand signatures already, and the promoters of it calculate on obtaining in the whole, the names of two millions of men. That the country has been misgoverned by the Whigs as well as the Tories is undeniable; but the promoters of this petition have certainly mystified the cause of the difficulties the nation labours under; they have misdirected the attention of the working men, and they have entrapped them into praying for that which would be positively injurious to them." He did think that if there was anything in the petition deserving of praise, it was its lucidness and the entire absence of mystification. But the cream of the ob- jection was, that they had entrapped the people. Was this the language which ought to be used by a man calling himself a Reformer? Did not the people know whether the things which they were demanding were injurious or not? Did they not know whether it would be injurious or otherwise to have the control of their own House of Commons, and the making of the laws by which they were governed ? In reference to the conduct of Mr. Attwood, with respect to the late great meeting, the Dispatch says—" Mr. Attwood, for instance, invited to the great meeting at Birmingham, the people of Wolverhampton, Walsall, and Dudley, the inhabitants of the Staffordshire collieries and ironworks, and Mr. Whitehouse, of Studley, with his battalions from Wor- cestershire. Having so framed and got up the ' National Petition,' as to insure its non- reception by Parliament, Mr. Attwood's party has coolly devised means to take advantage of the petitioners, by proposing, in a public speech, that at the great meetings to be holden, each shall appoint a dele gate to sit in London, and take care that the petition shall produce the ' proper effect' upon Parliament, and the country, that is, ' to knock incessantly at the gates of the government and at the door of every member of Parliament,' and ' to point' to the two millions of Englishmen whom they represent. If the petition should be rejected, then says Mr. Attwood, the delegates may appoint ' one solemn, general, and universal strike, among the industrious classes. They may shake hands in a hundred towns and a thousand districts in one and the same day. During oye sacred week they will desist from all work except the great and holy work of rectifying the wrongs of the country, presenting a spectacle the most glorious and terrific ever exhibited upon the face of the earth. Such is the seditious outline traced by Mr. Attwood himself, in a speech delivered to . the Political Union of Birmingham, on the 10th of July, and received by his hearers with great applause. We find a difficulty in characterising it as anything else than a deliberate proposal to revolutionise the country." And again—" The Birming- ham Political Union perceiving, during the last year, a con siderable fermentation among the working classes, on account of the apprehension and trial of the Glasgow cotton- spinners, resolved to take advantage ol it by deputing agitators to traverse the country in all direc- tions, to inflame the minds of tiie nrtizaus, and get up co- operating societies, and the ' National Petition' is the first public fiuit of their labours." Such was the language of a newspaper whicli derived an immense annual revenue from the people, whom, and their leaders, it so scandalously traduced. The economics of the " Dispatch" gentleman were very amusing. He says, " free banking and an extensive commerce, cannot possibly subsist together; either commerce will be destroyed by free banking, or banking must be put down to preserve commerce." ( Laughter.) Banking, the means by which commerce ex- ists, must be put down, in order that commerce may flourish! What would they think of tile man who, in order to in crease the speed and safety of travelling, would do away with railroad's, break up coach roads, kill all the horses, and bum all the carriages ? Let them now look to the gross incon- sistency of the man. He should read a few extracts of the most revolutionary stuff ever penned. " What is govern- ment," says the constitutional writer, the enemy of revolu- tionary doctrines, " in this country, but a steam- engine of ™ thousand hoise power, for rapidising swindling? There is almost as much of stupidity as of roguery in our house of representatives." Again—" If roguery in Parliament is all on one side, we cannot say the same of folly, for the Radi- cals, if always more honest, are sometimes as foolish as the lories." What is the proof? " On Monday night Mr. Fielden presented a petition, praying that Mr. Robert Owen might be heard at the bar of the house, in explanation of his principles of social reform !" For this act, purely forma], which any member in the house would have performed, " Mr. Fielden is doing his utmost to reduce Radicalism below contempt!" But they were not ignorant of the object of the writer. If he could only succeed, even with a few inconsiderates, in connecting Mr. Attwood's cause with the atrocities and the horrors of the French revolution, and exhibit Mr. Fieldeti as a fool, he would do much to weaken their influence, and consequently retard the cause of thn people. He ( Mr. D.) should conclude his notice of the Dispatch with another revolutionary extract:—" The three- loaf flag is nature's banner against monopoly ; it is the people's flag against aristocracy; it is the banner of God against the devil; for it claims the free bounty of Providence for humanity, in opposition to the evil spirit of extortion and < jppres » ion. If the creed of humbug constitutionalism be- gins with ' There are three estates— those of Queen, Lords, and Commons,' the creed of honest labour may begin with ' There are three loaves— those of England, France, and Russia.' Triad against triad— the loaves are the least dis- reputable faith. This minimum of bread, with a maximum of taxation, will not be endured much longer, now that the fact stares the people in the face. As they understand the matter, they may think it very well that a little Queen should follow a big King; but they will demand that a big loaf should succeed to a little loaf. They will demur to the landlord's tax, that makes the difference. The flag is a sig- nal : it portends a struggle. The corn laws cannot stand long against a popular assault: their only security has been the public indifference to a question that was not clearly apprehended. That security is going; the uplifting of this Hag makes it totter. The Bag of the tri colour was not a surer pledge of victory than the flag of the three loaves."— When, he would ask, did Mr. Attwood, or the Union, use such language as this ; and yet in the very same paper which put forth the language he had read, Mr. Attvvood and his friends were denounced as revolutionists, and every- thing that was bad. ( Cries of Shame.) He had brought the matter before their notice, because he felt confident that if the labouring population of this country continued to sup. port that paper, after such vile misrepresentations of thpir leaders and theii principles, they would be giving the lie to all their professions of confidence in the one, and their attachment to the other. Mr. SALT said that no man mingled more freely, and with less political rancour, than he did with either Whig or Tory, but words failed him to express the contempt and bitter hostility that lie felt for a traitor Radical. The government had suddenly awakened to a sense of their danger; they saw the people at length loused by the multiplied injuries heaped upon them, and, instead of acting locally, the whole empire was united in one great systemised mode of action, to procure that total change in the constituency which can alone secure justice to industry. The government knetv that the organs of the Whig and Tory press were wholly without influence with the people, and, therefore, they sought some traitor Radical to disunite the power they could not resist. He knew nothing more than what he drew from the internal evidence— the articles in the Dis- patch ; hut these forced the conclusion on his mind, that a paper, which had almost entirely been supported by the people, bad most basely betrayed them, and insulted them, and sought to sow discord among them, when the fairest opportunity, by general union, existed of vindicating the people's rights. He begged to call their attention to the singular community of abuse heaped on Mr. Attwood and Mr. Fielden, the interpretation lay on the very surface. 4t their late demonstration, Mr. Feargus O'Connor had named them as the two men to whom, in his opinion, the people surrendered the leadership in the great struggle for their liberties. It was not the persona! characters of these gentlemen— it was not the principles they advocated— that originated these articles. They had long been before the public, but the people had united under them for the re- covery of their liberty, and, therefore this abuse. It was necessary to sow distrust between the people and their friends. It was impossible not to recognise here the under- mining, grubbing habits of the Whigs. He ( Mr. Salt) was 110 exclusive dealer; he would never advocate carrying political hostility into the intercourse of daily life. He would tell the people to take in and read the Standard or the Morning Chronicle— to give their patronage as they pleased, to Whig or Tory; but it became every cause to scout and drive traitors from among them. He advised the people to read those articles with great attention ; to weigh them in their several parts, and in their connexion with each other, and with the circumstances of the times ; and if they come to the conclusion, that the Radical Dispatch had re- ceived Whig bribes, then, he would say, it would become the duty of every man who came to that conclusion to hunt the vermin down, and drive it out from among the Radicals. That paper had pronounced itself against the great prin- ciples of the national petition ; it had endeavoured to stop the effort making to establish those principles, not by fair argument, but by filling its columns with libels, to sow dis- trust among the advocates of those principles. If the public put the same interpretation he did on thosearticles. it would argue little for their sincerity in the Radical cause if they did not, in a very few weeks, drive it from among them, and leave it entirely to the circulation and support of the Whig government offices. The people must not put up with the insults of this writer, and allow him to assume, for the purposes of his circulation, the name of Radical. He compares the meeting of August the 6th to the mob of 1791; and insolently taunts us with lack of education. Doubtless, the honest artizans of Birmingham were mainly ignorant of Greek and Latin, and the pedantries of the schools ; but they well understand the language of Radicalism, and could instantly detect treachery, however cloaked. Wherever he had a connexion he would write, to call the attention of Radicals to these articles; and, he believed, the result would be a universal indignation, that would drive it from circula- tion among Radicals. Mr. HAIVT said, lie had been the night before in a large company in the village of Harborne, wherein he had been deputed to the council. The Dispatch was introduced, and never did he feel greater surprise than when the articles re- ferred to by the previous speakers were read over. He had always entertained a great respect for the editor of that paper, and finding the company very strong against him, he ( Mr. Hart) endeavoured to apologise for him. He said he thought he was mad—( laughter)— and if they would only have a little patience, perhaps he would return to his senses. It was, however, of no use. The paper was publicly burned. ( Loud and continued cheering.) The fate of the Dispatch was sealed there, as sure as he ( Mr. H.) held up his hand ; and if the people generally only stood true to themselves, they had nothing to fear from the power of the Dispatch, or any other paper. The Tories, from time im- memorial, had been truly bad to the people. The Whigs not much, if any thing, better. And until the people got rid of both the factions, they need never expect any effec tual change for the better. He could tell the writer of the Dispatch, notwithstanding all the ignorance of the people, that they knew well enough when they were hungry. ( Hear, hear.) They knew well enough whether they had, on Saturday nights, sufficient money to bring home for the support of their wives and children. They knew these, and their other wrongs, and they were determined to get rid of them. Mr. HADLEY said, he was never more disappointed than when he read the atrocious article in the Dispatch. He thought that if the people of England were in their senses, they would never suppoit a paper which had held them and their leaders up as revolutionists and plunderers. He hoped the people would take up the question ; without the support of the people, the paper must fall in a month ; if they continued to support it they'deserved to be maligned Us it had maligned them. The chairman said he hoped that, they would not only resolve upon not reading the Dispatch themselves, but that they would make known the opinions they entertained of it throughout the town generally. do the women leave their homes to attend political meetings. We hear it openly acknowledged by both factions of the state, that it is impossible, under its present bur- thens, the trade of England should be maintained in successful rivalry against the competition of the un- taxed foreigner. We know, therefore, that bad begins and worse remains. We ask ourselves, if the whole of our trade breaks down under the pressure of our burthens, what accelerated destruction, what multi plied miseries will come upon us when the whole of our burthens are brought to press upon half our trade? We see our fathers, husbands, and brothers, worn in strength, and subdued in spirit, by disproportioned toil, aud the more fatal agency of care, and under the present system ire see only a futurity aggravating every present evil. We will not go - through the ter- rible ordeal of suffering the strength of our country to be withered by so cruel a poverty. Our rulers coolly attempt to compel 11s to keep our burthens and lose our trade. We are determined, for the co. nmon safety, to throw off our burthens, and preserve the trade, the happiness, and the power of our country, and, therefore, do the women meddle with politics. The people have petitioned in vaiti for twenty years ; their humble prayers have been refused, and'their in- creasing miseries disregarded. The factions have given to the unconquered people of England for their inheritance, a childhood without mirth, a. manhood without independence, and an ole age without honour or comfort-, therefore do the women meddle with politics, and the whole family of the people unite for justice. The proud have steeled their hearts, but the poor have united their strength, and theTe is a bond of unity in truth, a strength in virtue, and a weakness in guilt, and the cry of the oppressed ever reaches the throne of grace. Let, then, the craven spirit submit, and the Jew spirit torture industry for its gain, and the scoundrel spirit laugh at the mortal agony of the country, and give no aid to the brave that battle for the right, yet shall the people be delivered and rejoice, for the wo- men have meddled with politics. The agency of the women sent the missionary on his christian pilgrimage ; it redeemed the slavery of the negroes' now secure victories. The men of Birmingham have set a noble example to the country. The women of Birmingham shall set a still more unrivalled one. Within a fortnight, fifty thousand women shall have signed the National Petition; and if that petition be rejected, instant measures will be adopted for the safety of the great interests of the country. Then, women of Birmingham, I pray you, meddle with politics, and I am, Your faithful friend, T. CLUTTON SALT. Birmingham, August 16th, 1838. ' THE ARCH AT HOLLO WAY- HE AD. Sir,— The Birmingham - ddiiert iw has the following paragraph :—" It is understood that this work ( mean- ing the handsome arch of evergreens) was done at the expense of the publicans of the neighbourhood of IIol- loway- head, & c." This is a scandalous insinuation. No publican paid one farthing towards the erection of it, nor in any way contributed to the undertaking. It was done almost without expense by the sober, indus- trious, and reflecting people of flolloway- head. It was they, and they alone, who came forward and vo- luntarily and cheerfully devoted their skill and labour in this work of gratitude and respect towards their friend Thomas Attwood, the talented and indefatigable members of the Political Council, and the distin- guished visitors from different parts of the country who honoured us with their presence on the great and memorable day of the sixth inst. THOMAS WARDELL, JUN. Holloway- head, 8th month, 15th, 1838. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. TO THE WOMEN OF BIRMINGHAM. Mr DEAR FRIENDS, I have twice called you from your important domes- tie duties to attend public meeting's. I have there ex. plained to you tiie causes which have brought wan to your board and care to your pillow. The iron pressure made you ready to listen ana apt to understand. Your husbands and brothers, your fathers and sons, have united in the great and glorious work of restoring th prosperity and independence of industry. I call upon you also,— upon wife and sister, mother and daughter, to join in this holy league of righteousness and love, that the great family of the people may move irresisti bly in their onward course, to recover the promises of abundance God has made to the diligent. The dull in intellect, the cold in heart, will sneer ingly enquire— why do women leave their domestic occupations ?— wherefore are women made to meddle with politics ? Let this be your reply :— The idle have legislated for the industrious, the wealthy for the poor, and they have trampled upon industry in their pride, and plundered it in their gree- diness. They removed the taxes from the sources that supply luxury and folly, and laid them on industry that supports life. They removed the property tax 0" seventeen millions from their own shoulders, and laid a tax of thirty millions on food, remorselessly taking from poverty a portion of even its scantiest mea' They taxed the English labourer in his bread, in hi beer, in his tobacco, in his tea, in every thing, and having thus burthened him, they have delivered him over to the free competition of the untaxed foreigner They dragged the wife from her home, the child from its sport, to break down the wages of the husband and father. They made monopoly for themselves, and competition for us. They made laws to make us poor, and then made poor- laws to deprive us of relief Therefore do the people gather together, and therefor 1 It has ever triumphed, and it shall the most glorious and perfect of its STREET NUISANCES. SIR,— Allow me through the medium of your columns, to call the attention of the commissioners to a most intolerable nuisance in the neighbourhood of Navigation- street, Hill- street, & c. For three weeks past the streets have been com- pletely blockaded with carts, wagg'ons, and wheel- jarrows, belonging to nig- htmen, many of them may be seen as late as ten o'clock, in the very act of laying down rubbish at that hour; leaving behind them some part they do Hot choose to carry away, to the great danger of both horse and foot passengers; besides the most obnoxious and unbearable nuisance. The injury to shopkeepers, through the above, is very serious, I myself, am one of the sufferers. A RATE- PAYER. August 17th, 1838. MUNTZ v. HOMER. act alleged in the declaration. AH the witnesses well remembered that he acted as a commissioner ill genera], but whether he did so in one particular in- stance they could not say. It was then proposed by Mr. Hill, to put in evidence the minute book of the commissioners' meetings, in which was an entry of Mr. Homer's name, present as a commissioner at a meeting on the 6th of February, 1837. In this book, the names of all commissioners present at any meet- ing are directed by the statute to be entered, and this book is declared to be evidence " in any action, relating to anything done in pursuance" of the act." Had this action been brought to try the validity of a rate or of any act done in the execution of the powers of the statute, there is no question that the entry in this book would alone hare proved not only the holding of any meeting of the commissioners, or the making of a rate, hut also the attendance of each individual commissioner there named, and all other facts relating to any meeting which were contained in the_ entry. Wherever the book is evidence at all in any action, it is evidence for every purpose. But did this action relate to anything done" in pursuance of the act ? The question to which this action related was the non- qualification of the defendant, and his being unqualified was certainly not in pursuance, but in violation of the statute, and in such case the book was altogether inad- missible for any purpose. It appeared on the trial that there were in the pos- session of Messrs. Arnold and Haines the original rough minutes of the meeting of the 6th Feb., 1837, from winch the entries in the l « ook are prepared, and. which minutes would most probably hare made out the plaintiff's case. The minutes being in the handwriting of the chairman of the meeting, might hare been handed to him, in technical language, " to refresh his memory,"— i. e., the witness seeing he had himself en- tered Mr. Homer as present at the meeting, and know- ing that unless Mr. H. had been present he would not have entered his name, would thereby have been en- abled to swear that Mr. H. was present. These ori- ginal minutes were not, however, mentioned in the sub- poena with which Messrs. Arnold and Haines were served; they, therefore, very prudently, left them at Birmingham; ancl the plaintiff not being enabled to enforce their production, and being prepared with only circumstantial evidence to prove the acting by the de- fendant as a commissioner, was nonsuited. There is a point on which this case is of some public importance. It is of importance that some thirty or forty of our commissioners should know their real situa- tion. But suppose our Whig ministers should have courage enough to grant us a charter of incorporation, it may be necessary to fix the legal definition of an in- habitant with respect to the town councilmen. At all events the liability of a large number of the commis- sioners to a 501, penalty about once in every month, will be a very strong argument when the question of surrendering their powers to the town council comes to be discussed. I am, & c. E. W. [ We think our correspondent is very like to be right, and ourselves to be wrong on the point of difference. We make our conclusion, from the fact that his view is grossly partial, unjust, and oppressive towards the people; ours fair and equitable. The commissioners, ill defiance of the express words of the statute that invests them with political existence, sit with closed doors. For all that they do in the way of burdening the public, they claim and possess an entire and absolute secrecy. They may put down any number of names to make up a deficient quorum— they may insert motions and meetings in their books that never were made or held — there is the record, and leal or lying it is indis- putable. But if the right or power of the commis- sioners is inquired into, if any attempt is made to render them responsible/ or what they do, the excluded public must be prepared with parole evidence. The book is evidence against them unchallengeable, im- peccable; but for them it is waste paper or worse. Unless they can bring evidence to prove that they saw what was done in darkness, and heard what was sig- nified in silence, witnesses whose eyes and ears can pierce through stone walls, their case is naught. It would be of no use to watch the entrance of an un- qualified commissioner into the sanctum; it would be of no use to prove that he stood, or sat, or spoke there. The entry in the book is the only proof earthly of his being present, or acting in any way as a commissioner; all the parole evidence on earth, bating the book, could not prove such acting, and the book is not evi- dence for the public. In a word the law, as inter- preted by the lawyers, is a farce, an insult, an outrage — as every law is when so interpreted, by which any- thing like popular right is assured, or popular con- troul granted.— E. B. J.] GENERAL HOSPITAL, AUGUST 17.— Physician and Surgeon of the Patients of the week, Dr. Eccles and Mr. Vaux. Visitors, D. Ledsam, Esq., and Mr. C. Shasv. In- patients admitted, 32; out, 147. In- patients discharged, 34; out, 130. Remaining la the house, 166. UruMiNGiiAM DISPENSARY, AUGUST 17.— Sick patients relieved, 278; midwifery cases, 9. STATE OF THE WORKHOUSE UP TO AUGUST 14. SIR,— It rather appears to me that your remarks on this case are founded 011 some misapprehension of the point on which it was decided— permit me to make an observation thereon. Some of your readers may not, perhaps, be aware of the precise ground on which the penalty was incurred, which this action was brought to enforce. The Bir- mingham Street act, in describing the qualification of the commissioners, requires that they shall be " Inha- bitants, and rated in the poor's books to the amount of 15Z." A question then arises, what is the legal defi- nition of the word '' inhabitant" in this clause? It is clear that by the use of the word inhabitant, something more is meant than a non- resident occupier. Had it been intended that mere occupiers should be qualified as commissioners, the word inhabitant would have been altogether superfluous, because an occupier would be sufficiently described by the words, " rated in the poor's books." But it is also well established by a series of decisions, that a distinction must be taken as to' the meaning of the word " inhabitant," where it is used in relation to an office requiring personal service. In the former case a non- resident occupier would be liable to be rated as an inhabitant, but in the latter case the individual must be a resident. The reason of this rule will appear on a slight reflection. In all larg, e . towns a number of the occupiers of property reside in other parishes, and unless a tax imposed 011 inhabitants were to fall also 011 occupiers, a large por- tion of property would be free from burden. On the other hand, the office of commissioner under the Bir- mingham Street act requires personal care and atten- dance on the spot. It is local in its duties, in its jurisdiction, and in its interests. It would evidently, then, be monstrous if a person resident at Liverpool were qualified, by occupying property at Birmingham, to be a commissioner here. But if a man who resides only a short distance from Birmingham were included by the word inhabitant, there is no rule to exclude a man residing many miles distant. Unless some cer- tain limits were defined, the qualification would de- pend on the question whether the distance were such as to permit the execution of the duties of the office; and this again might depend on the inquiry whether there were a railroad, or a stage coach only, as modes of' conveyance between the places. Again, were the rule otherwise, a person might he called 011 to serve in several " parishes at the same time— in some by reason of his being an occupier, and in one by reason of his being a resident in the place where the office is ! o be executed. Mr. Homer is or was residing in Edgbas. ton, and be ( with, perhaps, some forty or fifty other commissioners) was unquestionably not an inhabitant 0/ Birmingham, within the meaning of this act. The difficulty at the trial was in proving ( what it was certainly necessary to prove) that Mr. Homer acted as a commissioner, with respect to the particular In tiie House ... Admitted since . Qorn in tlie House Oiacligd, absconded, and dead* ... Total o f each . Men. 186 14 200 13 Wo. 103 10 203 15 Boys. Male. 20 19 Fem, Total. 433 40 Numberof Casesrelieved last weelc 2,827 Nutnberof Children in the Asylum 307 * Of whom I roan and 2 women died. MARRIAGES. On the 24th inst., at Handsworth, by the Rev. F. Har- greaves, jun., Mr. Thomas Bateman, of Bartholomew- street, to Miss Hannah Wilson, of Banbury. street, in this town. On the 14th inst., at Aston, by the Rev. J. II. Harrison, Mr. David Reeves, of the Royal Oak, Holt- street, to Miss Jane Dodds, third daughter of Mr. Robert Dodds, game- keeper of Aston Park. On the 13th inst., at St. Mary's, Nottingham, by the Venerable Archdeacon Wilkins, Mr. Edwin Bradley, third son of Mr C. Bradley, of Hurst- street, in this town, to Miss Tennant, ol Smithy. row, Nottingham. On Monday week, the Rev. H. Chavasse, of Aston, to Margaret Colquhoun, daughter of Alexander Dunlop, Esq., of Keppuck House, Dumbartonshire. On Thursday week, by license, at the Old Meeting- house, by the Rev. Hush Hutton, M. A., Air. Arthur Ryland, solicitor, of this town, to Frances, eldest daughter of Thos. Tyndall, Esq., of Rose Mount, Edgbaston. On Tuesday last, at Coleshiii, by tiie Rev. W. D'gby, Vicar, Mr. Thomas Burbidge, of High street, in this town, to Sarah, eldest daughter of Mr. Drakeford, of the former place. DEATHS On the 10th inst., in her 26th year, after a long illness, Maria, eldest daughter of the Rev. T. Davis, of OldLury. Her loss will be long and deeply lamented by all who knew her. On Sunday la « t, at the house of her daughter, No. 2S, Ashted- row, after a very short illness, highly respected, Mrs. Mary Pugli, widow, formerly of the Wheat Sfieaf, Shrewsbury. On the 7th inst., Charlotte, daughter of Mr. Thomas Weston, of Hockley- street, St. George's. On Monday last, at Stone, near Kidderminster, Mr. Ja, nes Lamb, aged 78 years. On the 12th inst., Mr.' Sydney Jones, third son of Mr. Charles Jones, aaed 19 years. On Saturday last, aged 63, Edward Wright, Esq., of Edtthaston, late ot Bull street. On the 8th inst., in the 73rd year of his age, Mr, John Riley, of Salop row, Handsworth. On the 2nd inst., ased 48, Mr. Joseph Swinbourne, butcher, late of Snow- hill. On the 5th mst., at his seat, Ilanley Court, Worcester- shire, in his 75th year, Colonel James VVakeman, Newport Charlett. On Wednesday week, at her brother's house, Kenilworth, Miss Payton, eldest daughter of Mr. Payton, auctioneer, ol Dudley. On fuesday week, aged 62, Mr. William Shaw, of Hurst street. 8 THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, AUGUST 18. 8 GRATTAN Among the orators, as among the statesmen of his age, Mr. Giattan occupies a place in the foremost rank ; and it was the age of the Pitts, the Foxes, and the Sheridans. His eloquence was of a very high order, all hut of the very highest, and it was eminently original. In the constant stream of a diction replete with epigram and point — a stream on which floated gracefully, because naturally, Bowers of various hues,— was poured forth the closest rea- soning, the most luminous statement, the most persuasive display of all the motives that could influence, and of all the details that could enlighten his audience. Olten a different strain was heard, and it was declamatory and vehement— or pity was to he moved, and its pathos was touching as it was simple— or, above all, an adversary sunk in baseness, or covered with crimes, was to be punished or to he destroyed, and a storm of the most terrible invective raged, with all the nights of sarcasm, and the thunders of abuse. The critic, led away for the moment, and unable to do more than feel with the audience, could in these cases, even when he came to reflect and to judge, find often nothing to reprehend; seldom in any case more than the excess of epigram, which had yet become so natural to the orator, that his argument and his narrative, and even his sagacious unfolding of prin- ciples, seemed spontaneously to clothe themselves in the most pointed terseness, and most apt and felicitous anti- theses. From the faults of h; s country's eloquence he was, generally speaking, free. Occasionally an over fondness for vehement expression, an exaggeration of passion, or an offensive appeal to heaven, might be noted ; very rarely a loaded use of figures, and more rarely still, of figures broken and mixed. But the perpetual striving after far- fetched quaintness; the disdaining to say any one thing in an easy and natural style; the contempt of that rule, as true in rhetoric as in conduct, that it is wise to do common things in the common way; the affectation of excessive feeling upon all things, without regard to their relative importance; the making any occasion, even the most fitted to rouse genuine and natural feeling, a mere matter of theatrical dis- play— all these failings, by which so many oratorical reputa- tions have been blighted among a people famous for their almost universal oratorical genius, were looked for in vain when Mr. Grattan rose, whether in the senate of his native country, or in that to which he was transferred by the Union. And if he had some peculiarity of outward appearance, as a low and awkward person, in which he resembled the first of orators, and even of manner, in which he had not like him made the defects of nature yield to severe culture : so had lie one excellence of the very highest order, in which he may be truly said to have left all the orators of modern times behind— the severe abstinence which rests satisfied with striking the decisive blow in a word or two, not weak- ening its effects by repetition and expansion,— and another ex- jellence higher still, in which no orator of any age is his » qual, the easy and copious flow of most profound, sagacious, > nd original principles, enumerated in terse and striking, > ot appropriate language. To give a sample of this latter peculiarity would be les3 easy, and would occupy more jpace ; but of the former, it may be truly said that Dante Jimself never conjured up a striking, a pathetic, and an ap- propriate image in fewer words than Mr. Grattan employed 0 describe his relation towards Irish independence, when, alluding to its rise in 1782, and its fall twenty years later, he said " I sat by its cradle— I followed its hearse."— Brougham. MONASTERIES OF METEORA We seemed close to the monasteries, but it was night before we reached their base, round which we had to wind and clamber amid the colossal ruins of rocks;— now in the gloom of caverns and overhang- ing precipices, now seeing the stars glitter through the openings of what appeared continuous cliffs. Never have I seen a spot so calculated to inspire superstitious awe; — even ascetics and ceuobites savour too much of earth for such an abode, fit only for a Sibyl's trances, or the orgies of a Thessalian saga. The traveller who wishes to enjoy their effect shouM visit them by night; for this pur- pose, instead of turning off t » the right to Calabaka, we pushed on to the cliffs, though at the risk of spending a supperless night on the bare rocks. On arriving below a monastery, we strained our lungs, and exerted our elo- quence in prayers to be hoisted up, but breath and tropes were alike unavailing; a basket, however, with a light and some homely fare, came whirling down. Next morning a net was let down; it was spread on the ground, and we were placed on it on a capote, our legs, arms, and heads, properly stowed away, the net gathered round us, and iitched on to a massive hook. " All's right," was shouted out from below; the monks began to heave round with the capstan bars above, and gusts of wind made us spin round, and thump against the rock in a majestically slow ascent of one hundred and fifty feet. When arrived at the top, we were hauled in like a bale of goods in a Liver- pool warehouse; and, the net being let go, we found our- selves loose on the floor, and were immediately picked up by the monks. The monastery and monks resembled all other Greek monasteries and monks; the first filthy and straggling, the second ignorant and timorous. I recollect but one object that particularly struck me— the chambers of the Turkish state prisoners; for Ali Pasha, reviving the tyranny of old, had converted these recluses into jailors, and their retreat into a dungeon, as under the Greek em- perors. They have a small library, containing, with some Fathers and rituals, classics and translations of modern authors, RoIIin, for instance. I searched for MSS. and found a few, but they were all polemical. The monks con. fessed themselves ignorant and barbarous, but they spurned the idea of having made use of their MSS. to heat their ovens. We were again slung in the net, and loVered amongst mortals. This was the monastery of Barlam. We crossed over some rocks, and found ourselves below the principal monastery, called Meteoron. A basket was sent down, and in it we deposited our teskere from Gench Aga, Ivhich was hoisted up, inspected, and permission granted for our ascent. We were, as before, stowed in a net, and the monks going briskly to work, we were hauled chuck up against the block, and then let down by the run, in the midst of an expectant circle of warriors and priests. * * Words cannot tell the delight of our new acquaintances, as they unslung us from the hook, and opened us out of the passage, at this unex- pected importation from Europe. Two reams of foolscap, or two bales of parchment, filled with Protocols, could scarcely have delighted more their eyes ; and hardly had we got upon our legs, when we were subjected to a strict examination as to the contents, character, and date of the expected budget, as if they had been custom- house- officer harpies, overhauling a ship's manifest, or a traveller's carpet bag Urquhart. TRIUMPHS OF A PLEADER " Now, gentlemen of the jury, this are a case. But I'll first tell you one thing. Ever since I have been prosecuting attorney, there is certain big bugs of the law that has been trying to ride over me rough- shod ; but, thank heaven, I have risen triumphantly over the rights and liberties of the law 1 yes, I rise indignantly above the jurisdiction of civility, in a blaze of glory."— Daily Indiana Democrat. There are scores of persons who would never dream of walking into a tailor's shop and asking for the gift of a waist- coat, or into a hatter's and begging to be favoured free gratis with a hat, yet can see no impropriety in calling upon the publisher of a newspaper for the gratuitous announcement of a course of lectures, or a patent fly trap, or any other notion, in the bringing in which before the public they happen to have an interest— Nantucket Inquirer. The Nashville Inquirer contains the gratifying intelligence that Mrs. Peas, of Connorville, last week presented her husband with three fine young peas, and Mr. Pea is so proud of them, that he has stowedt hem away, side by side, 1 a pot/- shaped cradle, freely exhibiting them to all comers. LONDON GAZETTES. J. RIDSD ALE, Darlington, Durham, chymlst, September 13. T. and J. FISHER and M. SIMMONDS, Asllby- de- la- Zouch, Lei. cestershire, bankers, October 8. T. DANIELL, Boulogne, France, copper smelter, December 21. W. TOLL, St. Germains, Cornwall, corn factor, August 31. CERTIFICATES, AUGUST 31. J. Collins, Groat Yarmouth, Norfolk, auctioneer— A. C. Freeman, Gosivell. street. road, butcher— R. Davis, Watling. street, linen factor — W. Redgrave, Great Queen- street, Lincoln's. inn. fields, brass- founder— S. Nickols, Leeds, carpet merchant— J. Dale, Wisbech St. Peter's, Cambridgeshire, woollen draper— S. Pott, Edmonton, glass dealer— J. Honey, Redruth, Cornwall, linen draper— H. M. Moore, Maidstone, ironfounder. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Strange and Thompson, Nelson- street, Greenwich, millinera- W. Holliday and G. Merrett, Birmingham— Payne and Ranyard, South- square, Gray's. inn, attorneys— Foster, Sutton, and Graves, Louth, Lincolnshire, corn merchants— Surtees and Co., Newcastle- upon- Tyne, wine merchants ( so far as regards W. A. Surtees) - T. Harri- son, jau., and Co., Liverpool, and T. Ridley and Co., Newfoundland — C. L. Phillips and Co., Johu. street, Crutchedfriars— J. Smith and M. Potter, New Bond- street— Bell, Leefe, and Co. ( so far as regards 0. Bell)— J. Haythorne and Co., Bristol, merchants— H. and W, Miller, King- street, Hammersmith, coach builders— J. D. Stiles and J. Hodder, Stamford- street, Christchurch, Surrey, cabinet makers— A. Cosser and J. Shorter, Bridge- road, Lambeth, carpenters— J. Farthing and F. Hurt, Nottingham, hosiers— Hawksworth and Co., Liverpool, coacli proprietors— T. Howarth and J. Austin, Man. Chester, Broughton, and Radcliffe, coach proprietors— Heywood and Jones, Manchester, cotton spinners— R. James aud J. Woodhead, Rotherham, Yorkshire, starch manufacturers— J. Paget and Co., Pleasley, Derbyshire, cotton spinners ( so far as regards G. Wragge). TUESDAY, AUGUST 14. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. AUGUST U.— FREDERICK LOUIS SCHWIND, Bahia, South America, merchant. AUGUST 14.— GEORGE BENJAMIN HARDING, Cannon- street, paper- hanger. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. THOMAS WATKINSON, Marsh. gate, Lambeth, and Earl. street, Seven- dials, publican. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. ELISHA DICKENS, Bagsworth, Derbyshire, cotton spinner. BANKRUPTS. JAMES MILLER, Drury. laue, stationer, August 23 and September 25, at the Bankrupts' Court. Sol. Mr. Baylis, Now Basinghall- street. Pet. Cr. Thomas Norris and Goswell Johnson, Queen, liithe, stationers. Seal. August 7. GEORGE THREADGOLD, Brentwood, Essex, corn dealer, August 23 and September 25, at the Bankrupts' Court. Soli. Messrs. Rixon and Son, Jewry- street, Aldgate. Pet. Cr. William Wells, 228, Shoreditch, corn dealer. Seal. August 1. EDWARD PETER EDGLEY, Soutliborough, Kent, victualler, August 23 and September 25, at the Bankrupts' Court. Sol. Mr. Slee, Parish- street, Southwark. Pet. Cr. George Lidbetter, Tunbridge Wells, brewer. Seal. August 9. JOHN GREEN, sen., JOHN GREEN, jun., and CHARLES WIL. LIAM GREEN; Hayle. mills and Otham. mills, Kent, paper manufacturers, August 31 and September 25, at the Bankrupts' Court. Sols. Messrs. Bower and Back, Chancery- lane. Pet. Cr. Charles Morgan and John Minter Morgan, Farriugdon. street, sta. tioners. Seal. August 13. GEORGE COLLINS, Leominster, Herefordshire, carpenter, August 28 and September 25, at the King's Arms Inn, Leominster. Sol. Mr. Smith, Chancery. Iaiie. Pet. Cr. Francis Collins, Leo- minster, gent. Seal. August 2. JOHN PRYCE HAMER, Liverpool, stock broker, August 31 and September 25, at the Clarendon- rooms, Liverpool. Sols. Messrs. Swain, Stevens, and Co., Frederick's- place, Old Jewry. Pet. Cr. Charles James Townley and G% rard Atkinson, Liverpool, stock and share brokers. Seal. July 20. ANTHONY BIRCH, Birmingham, grocer, August 28 and Septem- ber 25, at Dee's Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Sols. Messrs. Clarke and Medcalf, Liucoln's inn. fields. Pet. Cr. Georgo Naden, Bir- mingham, grocer. Seal. August 10. WILLIAM UNDERBILL, Wells, Somersetshire, innkeeper, August 25 and September 25, at the office of Messrs. Robins and Hobbs, Wells. Sols. Messrs. Buckley and Sanders, Gray's- inn- square. Pet. Cr. Edward Andrew Sanders, Edward Lloyd San- ders, and Joseph Barnes Sanders, Exeter, bankers. Seal. Aug 1. DIVIDENDS. A. BROWN, Quadrant, Regent- street, laceman, September 10. WEEKES, Lime- street, hide dealer, September 10. G. DICKINSON, Dover, paper manufacturer, September 12. T. EATOUGH, Blackburn, Lancashire, provision dealer, Sept. 5. W. EPPS, Margate, butcher, August 21. J. ORANGE, Nottingham, lace manufacturer, September 17. D. SCOTT, Flint, ironmaster, September 5. R. PRITCHARD, Tupsley, Herefordshire, brick maker, Sept. 10. CERTIFICATES, SEPTEMBER 4. F. Hill, Broken. wharf, Thames- street, corn dealer— D. Wood- house, Little James- street, Bedford. row, cliymist— R. Eaves, Church- street, Lambeth, licensed victualler— F. J. Lee, Long. acre, hatter— W. Stephenson, Stokesley, Yorkshire, liuen manufacturer- J. W. Bogie, Liverpool, underwriter. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Young and Co., South Shields, Durham, sail makers— F. Skidmore and C. Powell, Coventry, watch manufacturers— H. and J. Hedger and J. Olorenshaw, Coventry, watch manufacturers— T. and R. Jamson, Richmond, Yorkshire, school conductors— R. W. Sherlock and W. Chitty, Eyre- street- hill, Holborn, ironmongers— Hunt and Docker, Manchester, silk manufacturers— J. and J. Harford, Mary, lebone- court, and Adam and Eve- court, Marylebone, chimney sweepers— A. E. Reynolds and E. E. Child, High. street, Shadwell, silversmiths— J. Harmer and T. Flower, attorneys— Buttifant, Bly th, and Francis, Norwich, millwrights— Vivian, Rabett, and Co., Lon- don, warehousemen— C. W. R. Rickard, Vauxliall. bridge- road, and W. Lawrence, Paradise- row, Chelsea, engineers— Silcock and Ran- som, Manchester— Smith and Co., Bradford, Yorkshire, grocers— W. Hollis, jun., and R. Turner, Northampton, shoe manufacturers— Loverock and Merre, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, mercers— C. Bull and J. Acutt, Bridge. street, Vauxhall, linen drapers— B. Stub, bing and T. Hammant, Leadenhall and Newgate markets, meat salesmen— Pomfret and Ididdletons, Darlington and Sunderland- near- the. Sea, Durham, curriers— Robertson aud Feuillet, Aberdeen, cabinet makers. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. John Lang, Glasgow, writer. FRIDAY, AUGUST 10. BANKRUPTS. £ Th* Bankrupts to surrender at the Court of Commissioners, Basinghalt- itreet, when not otherwise expressed. 3 FREDERICK SHERWOOD, Cornwall- road, Lambeth, builder, August 20 and September 21, at the Bankrupts' Court. Sols. Messrs. Hopwood and Foster, Chancery. lano. Pet. Cr. Samuel Haugh, Thomas Burn, and James Frederick Burn, Crawford, passage, Clerkenwell, ironfounders, Seal. August 8. ROBERT JAMES, Wigmore. street, Cavendish square, poulterer, August 20 arid September 21, at the Bankrupts' Court. Sol. Mr. Lane, Argyll- street. Pet. Cr. Henry Lowman, Richard Hodge, and John Archard, 260, Regent- street, silk mercers. Seal. Au- gust 8. JOHN PITTAR, Holywell- street, Millbank, Westminster, mer. chant, August 17 aud September 21, at the Bankrupts' Court. Sol. Mr. Norton, Gower- street. Pet. Cr. William Burgess Swift, ffl, Gower- street, gent. Seal July 31. WILLIAM BO WN, Southampton, grocer, August 21 and Septem- ber 21, tho George Inn, Southampton. Sols. Messrs. Hicks and Braikenridge, Bartlett's- buildings, Holborn. Pet. Cr. Mary Hailing, Southampton, widow. Seal. July 14. FELIX M'SHANE, Liverpool, cattle dealer, August 31 and Sep. tember 21, at the Clarendon- rooms, Liverpool. Sols. Messrs, Adlingtou, Gregory, Faulkner, aud Follett, Bedford row. Pet. Cr. Peter M'Shane, Dundalk, cattle dealer. Seal. Augusts. HUGH ROBERTS, Llangifin, Anglesey, draper, September 14 and 21, at the Albion Hotel, Bangor, Carnarvonshire. Sol. Mr, Roberts, Carnarvon. Pet. Cr. Ann Owen, Llangepie, Anglesey, widow. Seal. July 16. RICHARD and THOMAS OTLEY, Sheffield and Addle- hill, manu- facturers of Britannia metal wares, August 20 and September 21, at the Town. hall, Sheffield. Sol. Mr. Rodgers, Devonshire- square, Bishopsgate- street. Pet. Cr. James Scarth, Leeds, ou behalf of the Yorkshire District Banking Company. Seal. August3. fcMES KNIGHT, Southampton, painter, August 18 and Septem- ber 21, at the Dolphin Inn, Southampton. Sols. Messrs. Roy, Blunt, Duncan, and Johnstone, Liverpool- street. Pet. Cr. James Hoskins Knight, Southampton, gent. Seal. August S. DIVIDENDS. ' , HALLILEY, Leeds, cloth merchant, September 8. LONDON MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE, MONDAY, AUG. 6.— Wheat, Essex Red, new. fiO sto 68s; fine, 68s to 71s; old, — s to — s; white, new, 66s to i fine, 70s to 72s; superfine, 74s to 76s; old,— sto— s.— Rye, 30s to 36s,— Barley, 28s to 34s; old, 35s to 39s j superfine, — s 00— s.— Malt, 50s to 56s ; fine, 58s to 60s— Peas, Hog, 32s to35s Maple, 36s to 37s; white, 36s to 38s; Boilers, 40s to 42s.— Beans, small, 38s to 40s ; old, — s to — s ; Ticks, 33s to 36s ; old, — s to s; Harrow, 38s to 40s.— Oats, feed, 20s to 23s ; fine, 24s to 26s ; Poland, 233 to 25s; fine, 25s to 27s; Potatoe, 27s to 28s ; fine, 29s to 30s Bran, per quarter, 7s Od to 3s 0d,— Pollard, fine, per ditto, 14b. 20s. GENERALAVERAGEPRICEOFBRITISH CORN FORTH E WEEK END IN JULY 82, 1838— Wheat, 62s Id; Barley, 31s 8d;, Oats, 22s lOd; Rye, 36s 4d ; Beans, 38s 2d ; Peas, 34s 4d. DUTYON FOREIGN CORN FOR THE PRESENT WEEK.— Wheat, 18s Id Barley, 15s 4d ; Oats, 22s 9d ; Rye, 16s 9d ; Beans, 14s Od; Peas 16s 2d. PRICE OF SEEDS, JULY 30 Per Cwt.— Red Clover, English, 50s to 708 ; fine, 80s to 85s ; Foreign, 50s to 653; fine, 70s to 75s.— White Clover, 50B to 56s; fine, 60s to 63s.— Trefoil, new, 14s to 18s fine, 195 to 21s ; old, 12s to 18s.— Trefoliam, 10s to 12B ; fine, 13s to 14s.— Caraway, English, new, 40s to 46s ; Foreign, 0s to 0s— Coriander, 10s Od to 12s Od. Per Quarter.— St. Foin, 40s to 44s ; fine, 46s to 4Ss ; Rye Grass, 28s to 30s; new, 30s to 34s ; Pacey Grass, 0s toOs; Linseed for feeding, 46s to 50s ; fine, 50s to 56s ; ditto for crusliing, 42s to 46s.— Canary, 66s to 70s.— Hemp, 38s to 42s. Per Bushel.— White Mustard Seed, 7s Od to9s0d; brown ditto' 8sOd to 12s ; Tares, 4s 6d to 5s Od ; fine new, Spring, 0s Od toOs Od ; Per Last.— Rape Seed . English, 36/ to 40/; Foreign, 321 to 34 (. WHEAT— perti' 2lbs. s. d. s. d. White 9 4 — 10 0 lied 9 2 — 9 8 Irish 8 9 — 9 0 B ARLICY— per Imp. Quarter. For Malting 31 0 — 3S 6 For Grinding, per 392/ 4* 34 6 — 54 8 M ALT— per Imperial Bushel. Old and new 0 0 — 00 OATS— per 3916s. Old 21 0 - 21 0 Neiv 0 0— 0 0 Irish 24 6 — 2( i 6 BEANS— per bag, IU score grots s. rf. s. d. Old 0 0— 00 New 0 0 — 0 0 PEAS— per bag of 3 Bush. Imp. FOR BOIUNjG. White 0 0 — 0 0 Grey 15 0 — 16 0 FOR a RINDING. per bag of 10 score 14 6 — 15 6 White 15 0 — 15 0 FLOUR— per sack of2S0lbs. net. Fine ...... 60 0 — 64 0 Seconds.... 57 0 — 58 6 10 0 to 10 Thefollowingls thestatement in Messrs. Sturge'sclreular: — PRESENT PRICES OF GRAIN. Birmingham, August 16, 1838. s. d. s. d. WHEAT, English, White. per bushel of621b Old English, Red Old Irish, White — none 0 0 Red .^^.. w^ w- ww- none 0 0 Old - M^ wytioiie 0 0 Foreign ™ . ™ . ™ . none 0 0 BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. Quarter ™ 31 Grinding, per Quarter of 3921bs.~~ OATS, English, White, per Imperial Quarter Welsh, Black and White, per 312lbs Irish,( weighing4] to421bs.) do. ( 37 to 391bs.) . do. Black ™ . ™ , ™ . ™ , ™ ™ do. BEANS, English, Old, per bushel ofOSIbs. New Irish, Foreign PEAS, Boiling, per Imp. Quarter Grinding, per Quarter ol392ll> s. FLOUR, English, Fine, per Sack of 2801bs. Seconds Gloucester, August 11 s. d. WHEAT, English, White, per Imp. Bushel — 10 6 Old . 10 0 English, Red ™ , 10 4 Irish, White, per 601bs ™ « ™ * ™ vrto? m? iaZ 0 0 Red nominal 0 0 Old ™ » ™ » ™ v ™ , ™ . ™ » ™ , n0mfftaZ 0 0 Foreign nominal 0 0 BARLEY, Engfish, Malting, per Imp. Quarter 0 0 Irish — .— 0 0 Grinding, per Quarter of 392lbs. 30 0 OATS, English, White. per Imp. Quarter 24 0 Welsh, Black and White .22 0 Irish ( weighing41 to 421bs); per Qr. of3121bs. 24 ( 37to391ba.) BEANS, English, Old, per Imp. Bushel New Irish Foreign PEAS, Boiling, per Imp. Quarter Grinding, per Quarter of 3921bs. FLOUR, English, Fine, persack of 2801bs, Seconds 1838. 8. d. to 10 9 .. II 0 .. 10 8 .. 10 8 .. 0 0 .. 0 0 ,. 0 0 ,. 0 0 f> 0 ,. 0 0 33 0 /. 32 0 WORCESTER WEEKLY AVERAGE. Qrs. Bush. s. d. Wheat ™ , ™ , 1641 3 „ ™ SO 6f Barley 80 0 33 1 Oats 190 0 24 3J Beans 170 7 39 2f Peas . 0 0 0 0 Wheat Barley Oats „ Peas ~ Beans GLOUCESTER WEEKLY AVERAGE. Qrs. Bush. s. d flll 4 83 2 45 0 31 6 827 0 23 3 0 0 , 0 0 75 5 39 3 Birmingham, August 16, 1838. Gloucester and Worcester markets on Saturday were each about 4s. per quarter higher for Wheat; the supply good. Very little Barley offering. Oats were Is. to 2s, por quarter dearer. Beans and Peas sold at a similar advance. During the present week, the weather having been very fine, has checked the rise in Wheat, aud some good English red has changed hands, at 10s. 6d. per 621bs. here. A parcel of Kubanka iu bond, at 66s. per imperial quarter, at Gloucester. Barley, Oats, and Beans are held for a considerable rise, but with, out finding buyers. At this day's market the supply of Wheat was again largo ; sales could not be made, except at a reduction of 4s. to 5s. per quarto I from last market day's currency. Retail parcels of Oats were disposed of at Is. per quarter more money. Beans 2s. per quarter more money, 17s. 6d. per 1961bs. having been obtained for good ones. Peas unaltered. 0ria? ing Barley in fair request, at former prices. IMPORTS INTO GLOUCESTER From the 8th to the 1 bth inst. Wheat. Oats. Barley. Beans. Qrs 792Qra Qrs Qrs Coastwise.. Qrs Qrs Qrs Qrs Foreign.... Qrs Qra Qrs Qra Peas. Flour. Eye. Vetches. Qrs Sacks Qrs Qrs Coastwise.. Qrs Sacks Qrs Qrs Foreign.... Qrs Sacks Qrs Qra WARWICK, SATURDAY, JULY 28.— Wheat, per bag, old 26s Od to 28s Od ; new, 25s 6d to 27s 0d ; Barley, per quarter, 0s 0d to OsOd; grinding, 30s Od to 3ts Od ; Oats, 0s Od to 0s 0d; New, 24s Od to 27s Od ; Peas, per bag, 16s Od to 18s Od ; Beans, 15s 6d to 17s Od; new, 15s Od to I6s Od; Vetches, 0s Od to 0s Od; Malt, 56s Od to 64s Od per quarter. HEREFORD, AUG. 4.— Wheat, per bushel Imperial measure, 93 OA to 9s 3d, Ditto, new, per bushel, 0s Od to 0B 0d. Barley, 3s 3d to 3s 6d. Beans, 5s Od to 5s 3d. Peas, 0s Od to 0s Od. Vetches, 3s Od to 3s 6d. Oats, 3s Od to 3s 3d. OILS.— Rape Oil, brown, .£ 37 10s per ton; Refined, £ 38 0s ; Linseed Oil, £ 27 0s ; and RapeCake,£ 5 10s.— Linseed Oil Cake, £ 11 0s per thousand. HAYANDSTRAW.— Smithfield.— Hay, 115s0d to 120s Od ; Inferior, 100s to IOJB ; Clover, 120s to I25s; Inferior 100a to 105s; Straw, 46s to 47s. IVhitechapel.— Clover, 115s to 120s ; new, 80s to 95s; second cut, — sto— s; Hay, 100 to 110s ; new ditto, — s to — s ; Wheat Straw, 38s to 42s. Cumberland.— Fine Upland Meadow and Rye- grass Hay, 115s to 120s; inferior ditto, 100s to 105s ; superior Clover, 120s to 126s; Straw, 48s to 50s per load of 36 trusses. Portman Market.— Coarse heavy Lowland Hay,— sto — s; new Meadow Hay, 80s to 90s ; old ditto, 100s to 120s; useful ditto, — s to — s; New Clover ditto,— s to— s; old ditto, 100s to 126s; Wheat Straw, 40s to 48s perload of 36 trusses. SMITHFIELD, AUG. 6.— To sink the offal— per 81b.— Beef, 3s 4d to 4s 2d; Best Down and Polled Mutton, 3s lOd to 4s 6d; Veal 4s Od to 5s 4d ; Pork, 4s 4d to 5s 4d ; Lamb, 5s Od to 5s 4d. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.— By the Carcase Beef, 3s Od to 3s 8d ; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 2d ; Veal, 3s Od to 4s lOd ; Pork, 3s 4d to 5s Od ; Lamb, 4s Od to 5s 2d. COUNTRY MARKETS, & c. BIRMINGHAM MARKET. Com Market, August 16. The weather being very fine during market time, and for several days previous, caused a great flatness in the Wheat trade, and the little disposed of was at a decline of 9d. to Is. per bushel below the rates of last week. Barley, both malting and grinding, was in re- quest, at a trifling advance. Oats but few on sale, and good fresh samples obtained the terms of this day se'nnight. Beans a good sale, at an advance of 6d. to 9d. per bag. Peas, for grinding, fully main- tained the prices of last market day. GLOUCESTER SHIP NEWS, From August 9 to August 15. IMPORTS: The Tempest, from Archangel, with 2919 deals, 1306 battens, aud 764 deal ends, consigned to Price, Washbourne and Price— Margaretta and Emily, Onega, 5883 deals and 1817 battens, Tripp Brothers— Vernal, Archangel, 2818 deals, 1029 battens, 755 deal ends, 25 barrels of pitch, 25 barrels of tar, and fathom of logwood, J. M. Shipton— Providence, Youghall, 632 barrels of oats, Vining and Sons; 1272 barrels of oats, J. and C. Sturge— Dennis Carthy, Waterford, 4 hogsheads of porter, Gardnrr ; 6 kilderkins of porter, Robertson; 100 firkins of butter, J. R. Heane— Jane, Port Madoc, 52 tons of slates, O. Jones— Elizabeth, Cardiff, empty— Sarah, Swansea, general cargo, Southan and Son— Thomas and Mary, Port Talbot, 56 tons of copper and tin, Southan and Son— William and Ann, Aberthaw, 20 tons of lime stone, to order— Blucher, Aberthaw, 44 tons of lime stone, to order— Hope, Quebec, 270 pieces of red pine timber, 66 pieces of yellow pine timber, 1200 deals, and 1514 staves, Tripp Brothers— Venus, Port Madoc, 52 tons of slates, Georgo Bet. tiss— Newport Trader, Newport, general cargo, Southan and Son. EXPORTS: The John Harvey, for Hayle, with 110% tons of salt, from Gopsil Brown— Good Intent, Dublin, 36| tons of bark, Thomas Jones— Fame, Neath, 9 tons of bricks and 10}£ tons of clay, Kendall and Son; 1 ton of cheese, Samuel Bowley— Providence, Newport, Gopsil Brown— Oello, Memel, 331 tons of salt, J. M. Shipton— Itowa, Wyburgh, 260 tons of salt, Gopsil Brown— Elinor, Beaumaris, 240 quarters of barley, J. and C. Sturge— Jane, Beaumaris, 52 tons of salt, Southan and Son. In all ages the hair has been noticed to be the most beautiful ornament belonging to the human frame; how strangely the loss of it changes the countenance, and prema- turely brings on the appearance of old age, which causes many to recoil at being uncovered, and sometimes even to shun society to avoid the jests of their acquaintances: In short, even the loss of property fills not the generous think- ing youth with that heavy sinking gloom as does the loss of his liair. To avert all these unpleasant circumstances, C. and A. OLDRIDGE'S BALM OF COLUMBIA stops the hair from falling off on the first application, and a few bottles restore it again; it also produces whiskers and eye- brows, prevents the hair from turning grey, makes it curl beauti- fully, and frees it from scurf. Price 3s. 6d., 6s., and lis. per bottle. No other prices are genuine. Numerous certificates of the first respectability, in sup- port of the virtues of Oldridge's Balm are shown by the Proprietors, 1, Wellington- street, Strand, where it is sold, and by respectable Perfumers and Medicine Vendors. Some complaints have reached the proprietors of a spu- rious Balm having been vended; they again caution the public to he on their guard against base impostors, by espe- cially asking for OLDKIDGES BALM OF COLUMBIA, 1, WEL LINGTON- STREET, STRAND, LONDON. ACERTAIN DISEASE PREVENTED by the use of llowed's Composition, which has been the means of saving thousands from misery and ruin. The Proprietors of this invaluable discovery, receive daily testi- monials of its efficacy, and transcendentqualitiesin resisting a disease so destructive to health and happiness— while un- like the mineral poisons administered by many Piactitioners, it tends to prolong life and restore decayed nature. It is sold by all respectable Medicine Vendors, for the use of both sexes, at 2s. 9d. per box, ( duty included) with copious directions, which, if attended to, will prevent the unhappy events too often arising from indiscriminate pleasure. Sold wholesale and retail by Rowed aud Co., at their Patent Medicine Warehouse, 64, Farrlngdon- street, Lon- don, WHOLESOME SUMMER BEVERAGE. PJ^ HE Fruit Season having commenced, J. T. BETTS JL and Co. feel that they will not be considered obtru- sive in again calling the attention of the Public to their PATENT BRANDY, and to the necessity of acting upon the advice of the faculty in the substitution of weak Brandy and Water, as an ordinary beverage for Beer or other ferment- able liquors. The cost of this salutary beverage will not exceed that of good malt liquor, while its peculiarly whole- some properties are exclusively guarded by Patent Right, aud by the testimonials of many eminent chemists after a searching analysis. These certificates have been frequently submitted to public notice since its introduction in 1829, and from its established reputation, and general adoption by all ranks and classes, the Patentees are only anxious that the public should bear in mind that their SOLE ESTABLISH- MENT is the Distillery, No. 7, SMITHFIELD BARS, LONDON. The Agents appointed for this district of country are Mr. JOHN SKELTON Birmingham. Mr. Thomas Durham Lichfield. Mr. John Dell Coventry. Mr. C. S. Clarke Wolverhampton. Mr. George Jull Leamington. Mrs. Elizabeth Biddle Stourbridge. Mr. Thomas Cook ™ . , „ Worcester. Mr. Hugh Martin Tewkesbury. Mr. Henry Pointer ™ . Cheltenham. Mr. James H. Lockyer Rugby. from whom, respectively, the Patent Brandy may be ob- tained, either pale or coloured, on the same terms as at the Distillery, viz., for quantities not less than Two Gallons, Eighteen Shillings per Imperial Gallon, of the highest legal strength, for cash on delivery. THE ONLY CURE FOR CORNS AND BUNIONS. jDAMSBOTTOM'S CORN and BUNION SOL- VENT. By the use of this valuable remedy imme- diate relief from pain is obtained, and by its successive application for ashortperiod, the mostobstinate Corns are entirelyremoved without recoursetothe dangerous opera- tions of cutting or filing. The proprietorpledgeshimself 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 hasused it testifies. Price Is. ljd. and 2s. The various counterfeits that are attemptedto be im" posed upon the public in lieu of thisinvaluableremedy, render it imperativelynecessary for purchasers to ask for S. Ramsbottom'sCorn and Bunion Solvent, and to see that it hasthe signature of" S. Ramsbottom" written upon the label thatis pasted on the outside of the wrapper of every genuinebottle, in addition to the name of the article, and words sold by Hannayand Co. 63, Oxford- street, being the name and address of the proprietor'swholesaleagents. 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 wasinduced to purchasefrom your agent, Mr. Maher, Ann. s treet, a bottle of Ramsbottom's Corn and Bunion Solvent;— after a week'eapplication Ifound it had the desired effect. I havesince re. commended it to many of my friends. You are at liberty to make any use you please of thiscommunication.— Your obedient servant, Birmingham, August6,1836. JOHN WINFIELD. Soldhyappointmentby M. Maher, 5, Congreve- street, and W. Wood, Bookseller, High- street, Birmingham ; Parke, Wolverhampton; Rogers, Stafford; Mort, Newcastle; Mer ridew, Coventry; Dicey, Northampton. BLAIR'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PILLS. Another extraordinary cure of rheumatism, from Lin- colnshire, communicated by Mr. Hall, Bookseller, Gains- borough. To Mr. Prout, 229, Strand, London. Gainsborough, April 7, 1838. SIR,— I am requested by Thomas Thomhill, of this town, to com. mnnicate to you the almost miraculous benefit he has received from the use of BLAIR'S PILLS. He purchased a box of them at my shop last night, stating that he had been suffering from rheumatic fever for the last fifteen weeks, which had rendered him unable even so much as to lift his hand to his head, without great pain. I was as- tonished to see him again this afternoon, laughing and throwing his arms about like a madman. He came to state, that he is already all but cured. I really could not have imagined that a single day could have made such a difference in the appearance of a man. Yesterday he was despairing of relief, and looked the picture of misery : to- day, he is full of spirit, and seems as happy as a prince. The fame of the medicine is now spreading rapidly: I see my stock is exhausted, you will therefore oblige by sending six dozen boxes immediately, to your obedient servant, B. S. HALL. These Pills are taken without the least care or attention, by either sex, young or old, and have the peculiar property of entirely removing the disease without debilitating the frame, which is universally left in a stronger and better state than before the malady commenced. And there is another most important effect belonging to this medicine— that it prevents the disease flying to the brain, stomach, or other vital part. Sold by Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London ; and by bis appointment at Birmingham, by Shillitoe, Wood, Collins and Co., Edwards, Flewitt, Sumner and Co., Smith, Suf- field, Gazette & nA Advertiser offices; Dudley, Morris, Tur- ner and Hollier; Wolverhampton, Mander and Co., Simpson; Atherstone, Davis; Walsall, Valentine and Co. ; Kidderminster, Pennell; Lichfield, Morgan ; Bewd- ley, Morris; Westbromwicb, Shillitoe; Shiffnall, Harding; Bromsgrove, Maunil; Warwick, Bayley, Harper, Hodg- kinson, Roberts; Bridgnorth, Nicholas ; Coventry, Wileys and Brown, Merridew, Rollason, Loveitt; and all respect- able medicine vendors throughout the kingdom. Price 2s. 9d. per box. Ask for Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills, and observe the name and address of " Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London," impressed on the government stamp, affixed to each box of the genuine medicine. A TREA TISE on every Stage and Symptom of a Certain Complaint, is just published by MESSRS. PERRY and Co., Surgeons, who may be personally consulted, on all cases of secrecy, from nine in the morning till ten at night, and on Sundays from nine till two, at No. 4, GREAT CHARLES- STREET, four doors from Easy- row, Birmingham ; No. 23, SLATER-, STREET, near DUKE- STREET, LIVERPOOL, and 4, BALE STREET, near St. Peter's Church, MANCHESTER; and country pati- ents requiring their assistance, by making only one personal visit, will receive such advice that will enable them to ob- tain a permanent and effectual cure, after all other means have failed; and with each box of PERRY'S PURIFY- ING SPECIFIC PILLS, price 2s. 9d. and lis., will receive gratis the TREATISE ON VENEREAL and SYPHILITIC DISEASES, with observations on se- minal weakness, and the deplorable consequences resulting from the use of mercury, containing plain and practical directions for the speedy and effectual cure of all degrees of the above complaints. Where an early application is made for the cure of a certain disorder, frequently contracted in a moment of in- ebriety, the eradication is generally completed in a few days, and in the more advanced and inveterate stages of venereal infection, characterised by a variety of painful and dis- tressing symptoms, a perseverance in their plan, ( without restraint in diet or exercise) will insure to the patient a per- manent and radical cure. It is a melancholy fact, that thousands fall victims to this disease, owing to the unskilfulness of illiterate men, who, by the use of that deadly poison— mercury, ruin the con- stitution, cause ulcerations, blotches on the head, face, and body, dimness of sight, noise in the ears, deafness, obsti- nate gleets, nodes on the shin bones, ulcerated sore throats, diseased nose, with nocturnal pains in the head and limbs, till at length a general debility and decay of the constitution ensues, and melancholy death puts a period to their dreadful sufferings. PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS, price 2s.. 9d. and lis. a box, are well known as a certain and effec- tual remedy for every stage and symptom of the venereal disease, without confinement, loss of time, or hindrance from business; they have effected many surprising cures, not only in recent gonorrhosa and simple cases, but when salivation and all other means have failed. Messrs. Perry and Co., Surgeons, continue to direct their studies to those dreadful debilities arising from the too free and indiscriminate indulgence of the passions, which notonly occasion the necessity of renouncing the felicities of mar- riage, to those who have given way to this delusive and de- structive habit, but weaken and destroy all the bodilysenses, producing melancholy, deficiency, and a numerous train of nervous affections. In this distressing state, whether the consequence of such baneful habits or any other cause, their mild mode of treatment will effect a speedy restoration to sound and vigorous health; and to those whose constitu- tions have become enfeebled, in consequence of improper treatment, or the venereal virus not being entirely rooted from their system, as well as from the dreadful effects of mercury, or from secondary symptoms of the venereal disease, including strictures, gleets, and all urethral dis- charges, their medicine will be found a most safe and inva- luable remedy. Messrs. PERRY may be personally consulted from nine in the morning till ten at night, and wiilgive advice to persons taking the above, or any other of their prepara- tions, without a fee. Attendance on Sundays from nine till two, at No. 4, Great Charles- street, Birmingham; where their medicines can only be obtained, as no Book- seller, Druggist, or any other Medicine Vendor is supplied with them. Country letters, ( post paid) containing a remittance for medicine, will be immediately answered. ASHLEY COOPERS BOTANICAL PURIFY- ING PILLS are established by thirty years'experi- ence, are prescribed by most of the eminent Physicans and Surgeons in London, and are always administered at several public hospitals, as the only certain remedy foe Gonorrhoea, Gleets, Strictures, and all other forms of Ve- nereal diseases, in either sex, curing in a few days, by one small pill for a dose, with ease, secrecy, and safety. Their operation is imperceptible, they do not require theslightest confinement, or any alteration of diet, beverageorexercise. They do not disagree with the stomach, nor cause and offensive smell to the breath, as is the case with all other medicines in use for these complaints, and after a cure ef- fected by the use of these pills, the party willnotexperience 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 complaintfor a time, without eradicating it from the con- stitution, and the patient on undergoing a little more fa- tigue than ordinary, finds all the symptoms return, and that they are suffering under the complaint as much as at first, and are at last constrained to have recourse to these pills, as the only certain cure. They are likewise a most efficient remedy for Pimpled Faces, Scurf, Scorbutic Affections, and all Eruptions of the Skin. Captainsofvesselsshouldmake apointof always taking them to sea, theirunrivalled effi- cacyincuring Scurvybeingknown throughoutthe world. The following letter selected from numerous other pro- essional recommendations forwarded to the proprietor when, he first offered these pills to the public, may be considered interesting. From that eminent surgeon, the late Joshua Brookes, Esq., F. R. S., Professor of Anatomy, & c. & c. Theatre of Anatomy, Blenheim- street. Dear Cooper,— Ihavetried yourpillsin numerous instances, aud my candid opinion is that they are a mostimproved system of treat- ment for those peculiar complaints for which you recommend them, curing with rapidity, and with a certainty that 1 had never before witnessed; but what I consider their most invaluable property is, that they entirely eradicate the complaint, and never leavethose dis. tressiug 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 B ROOKES. Ashley Cooper's Botanical Purifying Pills are sold in boxes at 2s. 9d. and 4s. 6d. each, wholesale and retail, at HANNAYand 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 admittance, punetuallyattended 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 Londonbooksellers. Sold by appointment by M. Mailer, 5, Congreve- street, and Wood, Bookseller, High- street, Birmingham; Parker, Wolverhampton; RogerB, Stafford; Mort, Newcastle; any Merridew, Coventry. MULREADDY'S COUGH ELIXIR. ONE dose is sufficient to convince the most scrupu- lous of the invaluable and unfailing efficacy of Mul- readdy's Cough Elixir, for the cure of coughs, colds, hoarseness, shortness of breath, asthma, difficulty of breathing, huskiness, and unpleasant tickling in the throat, night cough, with pain on the chest, & c. The paramount superiority of this medicine above every other now in use, for the cure of the above complaints, only requires to be known to prove the passport to its being, ere long, universally made use of for the cure of every description of Pulmonary Affection. To those who are unacquainted with the invaluable pro- perties of Mulreaddy's Cough Elixir, the following letters will exhibit its efficacy: — Manchester, Jan. 2nd, 1835. Dear Sir,— The cough medicine you sent me is certainly a most surprising remedy; six days ago I was 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 waB, and it, in its own turn, produced a constant excitementof coughing . I am now about, to the wonder of my friends and neighbours, entirely free from cough. One small phial of your inestimable medicine, ten years back; would have saved me not less than £ 3,000 in medical fees, but it would have done more— it would have saved my having had to swallow, from time to time, upwards of a hogshead of their nauseous, and, as they all proved, useless drugs. The agreeable flavour of the medicine ia a great recommendation: I think you ought to put it up and Bell it to the public, and if any one should doubt its efficacy, refer them tome. I shall have the pleasure of being with you in a few days, when I shall press on your consideration the propriety of making it up for sale; it would prove an enormous fortune to your grand- children. If you make up your mind to do so, as I am what the world styles an idle man, you may enlist me in your service in any way that you think would be useful. But I should advise you to place the management in the hands of one of the great medicins houses in London. Hannay's. in Oxford. 8treet, arebeingadvertised in all the papers here, as wholesale agents for Ramsbottom's Corn Solvent, which, by the bye, my girl3 all say is really a cure, and many other medicines. 1 should say this would be a very good house, Oxford- street being one of the most public situations in Lou- don. All join me iu kind remembrance to yourself and Mis. M. Believe me, yours, very truly, T. Mulreaddy, Esq. ROBERT GRANT. Golden Lion Hotel, Liverpool. Sir— To my astonishment, the other day, I had a visit from my old and esteemed friend, Mr. Hughes, whom I had not seen for many years, and still more so was I when, finding that I had a severe cough, he drew forth from his pocket a pliial, a portion of the con- tents of which he insisted upon ray swallowing instanter, and lef me the remainder, which I also took, and in the course of twenty- four hours I found myself quite free from even any tendency towards coughing ; he now tells me that you are his oracle of health; I, therefore, beg leave to present my report at head. quarters, with many thanks, and trust that I may be able to prevail on you to let me have half, or a whole pint of the medicine to stow in my sea- chest, as I sail again for America in about ten days, and if 1 can, ia return, afford you any service on the other side of the Atlantic, I am at your command; T. W. BUCHANAN. Master of the Brig Nancy, of Orleans. T. Mulreaddy, Esq. Birkenhead, Jan., 1835. Dear Sir,— 1The bottle of Medicine you left for me the other day has greatly relieved the wheezing I have been so long subject to ; and I do not now find the cold produce the sensation it used previous to taking your medicine ; it used formerly to nip me on going out, and I seemed as though I had a string run through my body, and the breastandbackbones weredrawn together. If you will be so good as togivemeanotherbottle, I am sure it will work a perfectcure. I am, sir, your mostobedientservant, T. Mulreaddy, Esq. NICHOLAS BROWN. Dear Sir,— The effect of your mediclne, in curing our children of the Hooping Cough, has been like magic, for which I, and Mrs. Wilson in particular, return our grateful acknowledgments, and the little W's shall not fail, ere long, to thank you in person. Rely ou it, n our family you will be styled doctor in future. Believe me, yours verysincerely, J. WltSON. Liverpool, Dec., 1834. My dear Sir,— You most assuredlydeserve the thanks of society for presenting it with such an invaluable cure for Coughs. For years past, during the winter months, and aiways on foggy days, have I heretofore been compelled to confine myself a close and soli- tary prisoner in my library, to prevent the possibility of being tempted to join in conversation, the excitement of which always produced such violent paroxysms of coughing, that I have been in constant dread of sudden dissolution, by bursting of a blood- vessel. At the commencement of the present season, by your kind liberality,! com- menced taking the medicine you sent, and have taken twelve bottles. After I had taken three, I could respire as vigourously as in the early part of my life, and I now believe that 1 was then perfectly cured— a cure not to have been expected atmy 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, butit must and shall be done, and if you neglect to do it, my sincere wish is that you may be lugged out of your retirement, and compelled to provide it in quantities equal to the boundless waters; and you may rely upon it, that I, a locomotive proof of its wonderful power, will spare neither time nor trouble to promulgate its efficacy, until you will find your cottage attacked by myriads of my former fellow- sufferers, for a share of your bounty, and I myself now apply for the first, trusting that your goodness will not suffer you to refuse ma a pretty considerablequantity, and I promise to distribute it most usefully. Wheneveryouhave 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,— Tliouli as t my sincere thanks for thy Samaritan present. Thy medicine has had the promised effect, and com- pletely cured my trying cough. If thou wilt let me have a quantity iu a large bottle, I will, in return, enter thy name to any charitable institution thou wilt fix on. Thine, T. Mulreaddy, Eeq. JACOB ROBERTS. Mr. Mulreaddy begs to observe, that to publish copies of he whole of the letters he has received of the above tenor, would require several volumes. The selection here pre- sented he considers quite sufficient, but begs to say, that upon tri;. l of his Cough Elixir, it will give itself the best recommendation. It will be sold by his appointment, whole- sale and retail, by bis agents, Messrs. HANNAT and Co. ,63, Oxford- street, London; and retail by every other respecta. blevenderofmedicines in bottles at Is. l^ d. each. || gr 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 byhisap- pointment at I- Iannay and Co.' s, Patent Medicine Ware- house, 63, Oxford- street, London. Price Is. lUd. and 4s. 6d. / a 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, Coventiy. Printed and published by FRANCIS BASSETSHENSTONI 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, AugusS 18; 1838.