mmn No. 693. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1838. PRICE 5D GAME LISTS. COUNTY OF WARWICK. F IRST Publication of Persons who have obtained GAME CERTIFICATES for the year 1838. LIST 1.— GENERAL CERTIFICATES, at £ 3 13s. 6d. each. Abbotts Seth, Long Itching- ton Adderley Chailes B, Lea Marston Adey Simon, Bearley Adey Capei, Warwick Adams Rev T C, Ansty Adams A R, Ansty Adams Francis, Birmingham Adcock Joseph, Nuneaton Adcock Edward, Fillongley Ainsworth Joseph, Birming- ham Alder Henry C, Newnham Paddox Allibone John, Hillmorton Alder Thomas, Ladbrook Alder William, Napton Allen Richard, Long Itch- ingtOD Alcock William Henry, Bal- sail Allin Thomas, Knowle Allin John, Birmingham Allcock William, Edgbaston Alkin Richard jun, Harts- liill Amos George, Edgbaston Anstey Thomas, Balsall Arblaston Thomas, Birming. bam Archer Richard, Wasperton Arnold Joseph, Henley- in- Arden Arnold Nathaniel, Southam Arnold Thos, Withybrook Arnold Thomas, Combe Ashmore John, Wolston Astley William, Hurley Aston John, Birmingham Atkins Thomas, Arrow Atkins William, Arrow Atty Robert James, Snitter- field Avery Richard, Studley Aylesford Earl of, Great Packington Badger Samuel, Birming- ham Bagot Rev E, Erdington Baldwin Beniah, Solihull Baldwin Walter, Solihull Ballard William, Fiilongley Bamford Thomas B, Wilne- cote Barber Edward, Birming- ham Barker Charles, Birmingham Barker Charles, Lea Marston Barker Charles, Sutton Cold- field Barke William, Old Strat- ford Barnwell Stephen, Allesley Bates Thomas, Newbold- on- Avon Bates Edward, Pailton Bates Joseph, Coventry Baxter Stafford S, Ather- stone Bate John, Studley Bailey Joseph, Brailes Barnwell William, Exhall Barclay William, Haseley Baker Isham, Sherbourn Baker John, Grendon Ball Amos, Shrewley Baldwin Henry, Stratford on- Avon Badsom Thomas, Stratford- on- Avon Bamford John, Bolehall Barton James P, Sutton Coldfield Barratt John, Austrey Bellamy William, Haseley Bellow James, Wootton Wawen Beach John, Tanworth Beach W A, Tanworth Beach Thomas, Birmingham Beak William, Birmingham Beasley Richard, Nuneaton Beck Egerton, Allesley Bedford Thomas S, Edg- baston Best Edward, Wilnecote Benn William Heygate, Rugby Benn Thomas, Rugby Berry Thomas, Bilton Berry John, Rugby Beesley Richard jun, Nun- eaton. Bellairs Rev H, Bedworth Bellairs Oswald, Bedworth Beech William, Brandon Biddulph William, Frankton Biddle John, Grafton Temple Biddle Henry, Bidfgrd Bishop Robert, Burton Das- sett Bishop Joseph, Burton Das- sett Biddulph Rev Henry, Bird- ingbury Birch George, Ipsley Birch John, Coleshill Birch William, Great Pack- ington Birch T F, Wootton Wawen Bledon John, Haselor Blews John, Birmingham Bolesworth John, Hurley Bolton Thomas, Studley Bolton Richd, Priors Mars- ton Boddington T, Ryton on Dunsmore Boddington Wm, Kenil- worth Boddington John, Kenil- wortli Boddington Richd, Alcester Boddington Nathan, Witton Bolton Wm, Rowington Bond Joseph jun, Poles- worth Booth John, Erdington Boswoith Joseph, Solihull Bosworth E D, Castle Bromwich Boultbee Edward, Baxterley Boultbee John, Baxterley Boultbee Joseph, Knowle Boulton John, Birmingham Bourne George, Kingsbury Bower Edward, Birmingham Bray Solomon, Birmingham Breedon John, Baxterley Brittain Henry, Berkeswell Bray James, Kenilworth Bradbury John, Lapworth Brearley John, Fillongley Briscoe John, Saltley Briscoe Henry, Little Brom- wich Brown William, Moxhull Brown Zeph, Ratley Brown James Lakin, Kings- bury Browp George, Sutton Cold- field Brown John, Atherstone Brookes Thomas, Norton Lindsey Brown Thomas, Coventry Brooks Michael, Tanworth Brookes Samuel, Lapworth Brookes Joseph, Wolverton Brierly Thomas Brown, Brinklow Brookes Thomas, Lapworth Brown Wm, Coleshill Bryan Wm, Stretton under Fosse Burton Wm Mister, Allesley Burman Thomas, Tanworth Burbery J J, Wroxall Bursell Henry, Kenilworth Buckland John, Ladbrook Burbury Joseph, Grand- borough Burman Charles, Henley in Arden Burman Richard, Henley in Arden Burman Richard, Lapworth Buller Wm, Stratford on Avon Busby James, Birmingham Bushell James B, Knowle Butler Henry, Kenilworth Cattell William, Brownsover Catterns Henry, Coventry Castle Thomas, Packwood Canning John, sen., Sher- bourn Canning Thomas, Norton Lindsey Carles Rev C C, Warwick Carter Samuel, Birmingham Carter Thomas Hall, Morton Morrell Cattell Thomas, Milverton Carvell William, Southam Cater John, Birmingham Cave Sir J R B, Bart, Kenil- worth Cave Thomas Brown, Kings- bury Chattaway J, jun, Alcester Chattock Harvey, Solihull Chattock Thomas, Castle Bromwich Choyce John, Wootton Wavven Chare Joseph, Sambourn Chattaway E W, Snitterfield Chattaway Rd, Stratford on Avon Chattaway John, Coughton Chamberlain J T, Wootton Wawen Chamberlain T, Wootton Wawen Chandler Samuel, Kineton Chamberlayne H T, Long Itcliington Cheatle Farmer, Dosthill Cheatle William, Kingsbury Chetwode John N L, An- sley Chetwynd George, Grendon Chilwell Charles, Sheldon Clarke William, Ipsley Clifton Rev G H, Snitter- field Clive Rev A, Solihull Claveiing Rev J, Morton Morrell Clarke George, Rugby Cooke Thomas James, Hil- morton Cooke Joseph, Birmingham Cooke George, Streetfields Coleman Edward, Coleshill Collett Samuel, Alcester Collins Thomas, Birming. ham Colmore Thomas, jun., Bor- desley Cox John, Bidford Cooper E, jun, Henley in Arden Court John, Stratford on Avon Court Thomas, Solihull Cory Isaac, Old Stratford Coibett William, Austrey Cooper William, jun, Ullen- hall Cooper Thomas, Stourton Cook Henry, Warwick Cook John, Warwick Cook Thomas, Whitnash Cook Thomas, Leek Woot- ton Coomhes Richard, Warwick Colville F, Barton on the Heath Cotton Thomas, Kenilworth Cox Charles, Southam Cjtton Edward, Kenilworth Craddock John, Nuneaton Craddnck T J, Nuneaton Cross Joseph, Corley Crowther Rev Samuel, Churchover Curtis John, Snitterfield Cummins William, Ashorn Curiyngham D G, Welles- bourne Dabbs Arthur, Seckington Dale John, Coleshill Dalton Edward, Brinklow Dalton Geo,, King's Newn- ham Dand Joseph, Newbold on Avon Dawes John, Barston Dawes Henry, Birmingham Dawson Baker, Wappenbury Dawson George M., 14th Light Dragoons, Birming- ham Davis William, Whichford Davis John, jun., Coleshill Dester Charles, Willoughby Dester William, jun., Seck- ington Dester William, Wharton Denbigh Earl of, Newnham Paddox Dicken Wm W, Birmingham DickenWilliam, Cherrington Dickenson Edward W, Wilnecote Dilke Charles, Nuneaton Dilke Thomas, Maxstoke Dilke William, Hampton in Arden Dixon Joseph, Shustoke Dolben Charles, Ipsley Dolben Rev Thomas, Ipsley Dormer Lord, Badbroke Dormer Richard, Solihull Docker Ralph, Birmingham Dodwell William, Ashorn Dodwell German, Ashorn Dodd T S, Radford Dodds Robert, Aston Manor Donner James, Ashow Dodwell Thomas, Coventry Doughty John, Solihull Driver Edward, Stoke Duffield Joseph, Birmingham Dugdale W S, Shustoke Dyke William, Arrow Dyke Thomas, Haselor Edden William, Idlicote Edgington Isaac, Aspley and Fordhall Eden Thos., Butler's Mars- ton Edmunds Thomas, Warwick Ellis William, Warwick Elkington J, Stietton on Dunsmore Elkington Joseph, Prince- thorpe England Edward, Coventry Entwistle T, jun, Ipsley Enoch Joseph, Compton Verney EtheringtonThomas, Studley ' Evans John, Birmingham Eyton Henry, Birmingham Farmer William, Dosthill Farmer Richard, Sheldon Farmer Thomas, Stoneleigh Faux Charles, Nether Whit- acre Fetherstone John, Packwood Fern Joseph, Leamington Priors Ferreday Edward, Birming- ham Ferrers Compton, Baddesley Clinton Ferrers Charles, Baddesley Clinton Ferrers Ed M, Baddesley Clinton Fidgeon Cave, Dosthill Fielding Lord, Newnham Paddox Fielding Colonel, Monk's Kirby Field Edward, Stratford on Avon Fincher J M, Wellesbourne Fletcher George, Woolford Great , Flecknoe J, jun, Harbury Floyd, William, Berkeswell Fosbrooke Thomas, Bidford Fortnum William, Honington Freer Thomas, Birmingham Freer Thos M, Atherstone Franklin Edward, Radford Freeman Thomas, Priors Marston Freer John, Mancetter Freer J B, Stratford on Avon Frier Thomas, Weethley Fullerton George M, 14th Light Dragoons, Birming- ham Fuller Burell, Coventry Garlick W. Allesley tSalton Darwin, Budbrook Gameson William, Birming- ham Garratt Thomas, Gaydon Gardner John, Pillerton Priors Gardner Robert, Southam Garratt Thomas, Gaydon GetleyJ M, Alveston Gem Samuel Edward, Row- ington Gem R W, jun., Birming- ham Genders Thomas, Fillongley Gibbs William, sen., Alves- ton Gibbs William, jun., Alves- ton Gibbs Richard, Stretton on Gibbs Wm. Langley Fosse Gibbons W F, Kenilworth Gilbert Samuel, Barston Gilbert Thomas, Birming- - ham Gillett John, Brailes Gibb Harry Scott, Rugby Gibson John, Kingsbury. Gibson John, Shustoke Gold John, Birmingham " Goldney George, Coventry Goode Richard H, Allesley Goodliall Edward, Stoke Goode Charles, Leamington Priors Greaves Edward, Barford Greenway K, Warwick Greensall John, Edgbaston Gregory Rev Arthur, Corley Griffin George, Butler's Marston Griffin Frederick, Solihull Grimes Henry, Sutton Coldfield Grimmett Richard, Stretton on Fosse Guest Benjamin, Edgbaston Hand James, Hill Farm, Attleborough Hand J. White Stone, Attleborough Harris George, Baddesley Ensor Hartopp Sir E C, Sutton Coldfield Hartopp Wm. E. Sutton Coldfield Hall George, Coventry Hall James, Seckington Harding Rev. Newnham Paddox Harding George, Solihull Hancox James, Brinklow Hancox Thomas, Coventry Hands George, Coundon Haswell Wm. Coventry Hayward Thomas, Coventry Halford Thomas, Alveston Harcourt Edward, Birming- ham Harding W J. Alveston Harding Charles, Alveston Hands John, Kenilworth Harris Thomas, Stoneleigh Harris Rev Thomas, Marton Harris James, Brailes Harris Wm. Weston Harris Wm Brailes Harrifon Edwin, Duddeston Hawkes Richard, Wolverton Hands Wm. Ilmingtou Handley Thomas, Barford Hathaway Richard, Stretton on Fosse Harwood Wm Walton Hanson Francis, Tysoe Hearne S S. Bidford Hendley Thomas, Grafton Temple Heath Richard, Salford Heath Wm. Salford Heming Henry, Aston Cant- low Heath John, Warwick Heath John, Harbury Hebbert Captain W. Bilton Hill Hilnry, Lapworth Higginbotham John, Kings- bury Higgins Hugh, Compton Wyngates Hinde Wm- Offchurch Hinde Joseph, Offchurch Hiorns Joseph, Ashow Hiorns Thomas, Brinklow Hipwell John, Churchover Hood Robert, Merevale Hopkins Abraham, Birming- ham Hobbins Wm. Sambourn Hodges John, Bidford Hodgetts Jessamy, Birming- ham Hornblower John L. Bir- mingham Hortin Richard, Sherbourn Horton John, Tanworth Horton George B. Birming- ham Horton SamuelV. Edgdaston Horton Richard, Sutton Coldfield Hortin Thomas, Snitterfield Holden Hyla, Wasperton Holyoake Thomas, Morton Baggott Holland Wm. Fillongley HollandSamuel, Birmingham Hollick Richard, Fiilongley Hollis James, Sutton Cold- field Homer George, Solihull Horley Henry, Ufton Hoskins Captain, Birming- ham Hunt Charles, Binton Huband George, Salford Hughes Joseph, Sutton Coldfield HHrlston William, Wasper- ton Hunt James, Halford Hull W S. Leamington Priors Hull Thomas, Warley Huskisson William, Birming- ham Ilifife Charles, Nuneaton Irons Wm. Alcester Ivens Edmund, Grand- borough Ivens Martin, Long Itching- ton Ivens Richard, Southam Izon John Brown, Sowe Jacot William, Sutton Coldfield Jackson C H. Old Stratford Jackson Joseph, Stratford on Avon Jaggard Richard, Warwick Jaines George, Leamington Priors James Charles, Sutton Coldfield Jassett Wm. Napton Jaggard Joseph, Leek Wootton Jeston Henry, Farmborough Jervoise S S. Baginton Jefferies Charles, Bedworth Jenaway Joseph, Clifton Jenaway Bethnal, Clifton Jee Richard Roberts, Harts- hill Jenkins William, Hampton in Arden Jenkins Humphrey, Bir- mingham Jenkins William, Birming- ham Jenkins William, jun. Bir- mingham Johnson Michael, Ryton Johnson Wm. Coventry Johns Wm: Claverdon Jones George, Birmingham Jones Charles, Alcester Jones James, Avon Dassett Jones George, Sutton Cold- field Jordan Thomas, Loxley Keay George, Fillongley Kelsey John, Ansley Kellam Wm. sen. Ryton Kellam Wm. jun. Ryton Kempson Samuel, Sutton Coldfield Kendrick Thomas, Birming- ham Kendrick John, Warwick Kendrick John, Solihull King Wm. J. Birmingham Kinzett Thomas, Farmbo- rough Kimbell John, Knowle Kimnell C. Stretton on Dunsmore Kirby Edward, Coventry Lakin John, Freasley and Hall End Lakin John Marsh, Wilnecote Latham Henry, Solihull Lambly J W. Hillmorton Lancaster John, Birmingham Lane Joseph, AstonCantlow Lane T W. Alveston Lane Thomas, Coleshill Lant John, Holberry End, Allcsley Lant John, Arley Landon John, Bourton Lant Richard, Berkeswell Lambley Abraham, Sutton Coldfield Lawley Sir F. Middleton Lea Isaac, Birmingham Lees George, Berkeswell LeesJoseph Henry, Coleshill Lewis Wm. Allesley Ledbrook William, Burton Dasset Leatherland William, War- wick Ledbrooke Thomas, Cub- bington Leigh Cliandos, Stoneleigh Lindley Thomas, Bearley Littleton Joseph, Kenilworth Lickorish Rev R. Wolston Lickorish J M. Wolston Lloyd John, Coventry Long James, Alcester Lowe T. sen. Binton Lowe Thomas, Kingsbury Lowe Edward, Hampton in Arden Long Peter, Packwood Lowe Richard, Tanworth Lowe John, jan. Henley in Arden Longford W S. Stre tton on Fosse Lowe J W. Eatington Loveday James, Warwick Lovall Wm. Leamington Priors Lucy George, Cliarlecote Lynes Wm. Coventry Lythall Edmund, Folesliill Lythal Morris E. Hartshill Masters John, Coventry Mander Richard, Alcester Mander J. jun. Lapworth Masefield J. jun. Salford Malin Henry, Studley Matthews Marmaduke, Bar- cheston MatthewsJohn, Birmingham Marshall Mark, Halford Marshall G. jun. Little Bromwich Makepiece Wm. Radford Mann John, Ladbrook Meredith Henry, Birming- ham Messenger Charles, Over Wbitacre MiddletonWilliam, Birming- ham Miles Thomas H. Nuneaton Miles Joseph, Amington Miles Joseph, Caldecote Mills William, Bentley Millington William, Bir- mingham MilhvarJ James, Ipsley Millward William, Birming- ham Mole Thomas, Bordesley Mole Francis, Bordesley Morris Thomas S. Coventry Moseley Richard Brandon Moy Thomas, Coventry Morgan John, Wixford Morgan Charles, Coughton Morgan Richard, Coughton Moore Charles, Coughton Moore Edwin, Knowle Morris Mordecai, Wootton Wawen MordauntSirJ. Bart. Walton Mould William, Kingsbury Moulton Thomas, Kenil- worth Murcott Abraham, Bubben- hall Murcott William, Leaming- ton Priors Murcott Wm. Cubbington Murcott G H. Cubbington Neale John, Exhall Neville Charles, Weston Newland John, Pillerton Herzey Newey Isaac, Barston NewportRevFrancis, Ansley Nicholls William, Little Packington Norman John, Kingsbury Nutt Charles J. Coventry Nuttall Samuel, Chivers Coton Oakley Charles, Allesley Oldacre James, Birmingham Oldham Stephen. Coundon Oldham W S. Wasperton Oldham J S. Morton Morrell Oldham T W. Southam Oldham William, Leaming- ton Priors Ollarton Stephen, Birming- ham Oram Wm. Warwick Oldish John, Amington Orton Wm. Barnacle Overton Josiah, Hillmorton Owen John, Solihull Parsonage I, Birmingham Parsons William Newton Paine Edmund, Stratford on Avon Parry John, Salford Page James, Billesley Palmer Rev Charles, Light- horn Palmer Edward F, Coles- hill Palmer John, Coleshill Parker Joseph, Butlers Marston Parker Thomas L, Birm- ingham Parker William, Edgbaston Parkins Jos G, Bordesley Paul Edward, Wilnecote Pearman Thomas, Birming- ham Pearman Edward Thomas, Coventry Pearson George, Foleshill Peck Abraham, Bordesley Perks George, Alcester Perks John, Coleshill Penn William, Old Stratford Penrice Edward, Birming- ham Perkins John, Hillmorton Perkins H A, Sowe Perkins John, Over Whit- acre Perkins Rev F D, Sowe Perkins Richard, Coventry Perkins William S, Sutton Cold field Petch Edwalrd, Atherstone Philipson R B, Rugby Phillips Henry, Coventry Phillips Charles, Birming- ham Phipps Thomas Cross, Long Lawford Phipson Richard B, Birm. ingham Pickard Edward, Hartshill Piercy J E, Warley Hall Pilgrim John, Atherstone Pole Thomas G, Birming- ham Portlock Ebenezer, Birm- ingham Potts Henry, Budbrook Potts William, Stonleigh Potts W jun, Stonleigh Potts James sen, Stonleigh Power William, Freasley and Hall End Powers Henry, Atherstone Pratt J S, Weston Pratt Benjamin, Coventry Pratt Arthur, Newton Princep William, Newton Regis Radford J jun, Lillington Reading W G, Ipsley Reading E P, Fenny Compton Reading John, Priors Hard- wick Reading Richard, Lillington Reeve Thomas, Sheldon Reeve Thomas, Coleshill Reynolds Richard, Wootton Wawen Reynolds Thomas, Newton Rich John, Barford Richards William, Birming- ham Richards Westley, Birming- ham Rimell Thomas, Honington Riley Richard, Wellesbourne Roberts Rev J C, Wolston Roberts J jun, Warwick Robbins Henry, Barford Robbins Richard, Barton on the Heath Robins John, Birmingham Robins Josiah, Birmingham Robinson John, Nuneaton Robinson Rev W, Wishaw Robinson Thomas, Nuneaton Robinson Thomas, War- mington Rochford Robert, Sutton Coldfield Rodway Henry, Birming- ham Rogers Thomas, Coventry Rollason Abel, Erdington Houghton John jun, Co- ventry Rose Thomas, Norton Lind- sey Russell John, Marton R ley Edward, Sutton Cokl- fie d S ibin John, Harbury Sibin S H, Harbury Sachwell John jun, Bubben- liall S idler Richard, Sutton Cold- field Sadler Edward, Sutton Cold- field Sale Edward, Clifton Salisbury Wm, Dordon Salmon George, Atherstone on Stour Sanford Rev G W, Wed- dington Sargeant Daniel sen, Corn- broke Sargeant Daniel jun, Com- broke Sanders Richard, Warwick Sandford William, Warwick Scott Lord John, Dunchurch Seal Robert, Coventry Serjeant Wm, Wyken Seymour Wm Henry, Co- ventry Selby John, Wormleigliton Sedgley Bjun, Warwick Shakespear Thomas, Corley Shakespear John, Corley Sheaf George, Bidford Sheldon Thomas, Birmington Shore Joseph, Edgbaston Shore Anthony, Edghaston Short Col Robert, Balsall Short John, Balsall Shuckburgh Sir F, Shuck- burgh Silk Thomas, Birmingham Silvester William, Oversley Simms Henry, Eatington Simons Edward, Hampton in Arden Sitwell Rev H, Leaming- ton Hastings Skipwith Sir Gray, Newbold Hall Skipwith Henry, Newbold Hall Slatter John, Salford Smallwood Joseph, Birming- ham Smith J A, Stretton Bas- kerville Smith Thomas, Old Stratford Smith James, Alcester Smith James, Ansley Smith Thomas, Alcester Smith Henry, Snitterfield Smith John, Warwick Smith John, Hurley Smith George, Ilmington Smith Thomas, Cubbington Smith Samuel, Birmingham Smith G T, Marton Smith John, Sutton Coldfield Smith Harry, Sutton Cold- field Smith William, Birmingham Smith Thomas N, Austrey Smith Wm, Hunningliam Smith John, Berkeswell Spencer Henry, Coventry Spraggett Richard, Chads- hunt Squiers Samuel, Milverton Stanbridge Thomas, Birm- ingham Stiles William, Old Stratford Steel Thomas, Warwick Staunton Rev W, Warwick Staunton Edward, Warwick Staite John, Radford St Quintin W, Leamington Prior* Startin A, Exhall Stork Joseph, Birmingham Stow John, Coventry Sutton Wm Lucas, Dun- church Sutton John, Henley in Arden Sumner James, Alcester Sumner John, Coughton Swinburn Richard, Old Stratford Swinburne Samuel, Birm- ingham Swinnerton Joseph, Ston- leigh Tarleton John W, Birming- ham Taylor Abel, Bickenhill Taylor William, Southam Taylor W G, Leamington Priors Taylor Joseph, Knowle Taylor William, Barston Teague Thomas, Knowle Terry Thomas, Erdington Thomas Edward, Birming- ham Thompson J, jun, Baddesley Ensor Thompson Joseph, Attlebo- rough Thornley Henry, Bickenhill Thornley Robert, Bickeneill Thornley Samuel, Birming- ham Thornley Charles, Coleshill Thornton Samuel, Elmdon Throckmorton Sir Charles, Coughton Timmins Charles, Stretton on Fosse Timms William, Stourton Tibbitts Frederick, Poles- worth Tibbits Smith, Wolfhampcote Tibbits George, Wollhamp- cote Todd Joseph, Sutton Cold- field Torbitt Dionysius, Fillongley TowleJohn, Attleborough Townsend Joseph, Alveston Townsend Henry, Long Lawford Townsend Wm, Bilton Townsend Thos, Hilmorton Townsend Rev T, Bulking- ton Truslove C, Stretton on Dunsmore Trepass A, Warwick Trow Wm, Birmingham Turviile John, Haseley Turner George, Birmingham Twainley Zachariah, Bir- mingham Umbers Thomas, Stratford on Avon Umbers Wm, Wesson Umbers Abraham, Wesson Umbers Wm, jun, Wappen- bury Umbers Thomas, Wappen- bury Underbill Richard, Edgbas- tOIl Upfill James, Edgbaston Upton Samuel, Solihull Upton John, Knowle Vale Samue), Coventry Van Wart Henry, Birming- ham Vaughton Rev R R, Arley Vuughton Robert, Arley Voile James, Rugby Vyse John, jun, Cattle Bromwich Waddams James, Bedworth Waddams Daniel, Sutton Coldfield Waddams William, Grafton Temple Waddams Thomas, Grafton Temple Wagstaflf Thomas, Chilvers Coton Wakefield Thos, Minworth Walker Robert, Ilmington Walker T C, Newbold on Avon Walker C J, Newbold on Avon Walker Thomas K, Lea Marston Wallis John, Barford Wallis Frederick, Erdington Walmer John, Duddeston Walton Wm, Leamington Watt James, Aston Manor Ward T H, Barford Ward T C, Old Stratford Warner Wm, Bulkington Warner Richard, Bulkington Warner R, Weston Hill, Bulkington Wartcrton Wm, Wolvey Watson Samuel, Grandbo- rough Watson Thomas, Pillerton Priors Watson Walter, Dunchurch Wells Charles, Coventry West Wm, Ailesley Webb John, Alveston Webb T T, Alveston Webb Rev Elias, Salford Webster Baron D, Sutton Coldfield Webster Rev. J, Sutton Coldfield Wedge Charles, Hampton , in Arden Weitman Thomas, Oldbury Wells Daniel, Compton Wynyates Wegnelin J C R, Ladbrook Wesson, Edward, Stonleigh Wesson Henry, Over Whit acre Whittington John, Studley Whittington Thos, Wootton Wawen Whitehouse W D, Studley Wheeler E, Leamington Hastings Wheeler Joseph, Honily Wheeler Robert, Edgbaston Whitby Edward, Birming- ham White Thomas, Shotswell Wiggan John, Birmingham Wilcox Thomas, Stretton Wilkes John, Birmingham Wilkins Wm, Sutton Cold- field Willson Wm, Solihull Wilson H C, Southam Wilson John, Solihell Wilson John, Birmingham Wilson Thos, Birmingham Willington Joseph, Balsall Willmoie John, Birmingham Wild James, Claverdon Wilkes Edward, Sambourn Williams John, Warwick Wilkes James, Brailes Wilmot Sir E, Berkeswell Winfield John W, Birming- ham Wise II C, Leek Wootton Wise Rev John, Lillington Williamson Joseph, Wappen- buiy Wise Matthew, Leamington Wood John, Birmingham Worsey John, Bearley Worsey John, jun, Bearley Woodley Wm, Kineton Worthington Thos, Chilvers Coton Wright Thomas, Allesley Wright Charles, Shilton Wright Moses, Birmingham Wright John, Southam Wyatt Robert, jun, Wolf- hampcote Wyresdale Wm, Coleshill York John, Coleshill York Luke Bell, Birming- ham Young John, Birmingham Young Wm F, Oldbury List 2.— GAMEKEEPERS, not being Assessed Servants, at 51. 13s. 6d. each. Barber James, Kenilworth appointed Calloway Rich., Welcombe Clarke Thos., Hill Wootton Eaton James, Willenhall Green Thomas, Sidenhall Hiatt Chas., Leek Wootton Seager Richard Whateley Henry, Welles- bourn by , for Kenilworth by , for Welcombe, In- gon, and Clopton by , for Leek Wootton by Thomas S. Morris, Esq. for Willenhall by , for Sidenhall by , for Woodloes, Lil- lington, and two- fifths of Moreton Morrell by G. Lucy, Esq. for Hamp- ton Lucy, Charlecote, and Fulbrook. by Lord Willoughby de Brooke, for Burton Das- set List 3.— GAMEKEEPERS, being assessed Servants, at 1/. 5s. each. Brigstock Richard, Little Lawford appointed Chapman Wm., Studley Clarke John, Tanworth Cockage Henry, King's Newnham Creed John, Charlecote Daniel Thos., Wappenbury Goodall, Wm., Studley Hay John, Spernal Herbert Harwood, Welles- bourn Hiatt Wm. Solihull Lurking Henry, Snitterfield Lurking Edward, Snitterfield Neale Thomas, Long Itch- ington Read John Wallis Edward, Barford Watts Thomas, Dunchurch Watts Thomas, Combe by John Caldecott, Esq., for Little Lawford by Sir F. Goodricke, for Great Alne, Studley, Map- pleboroughGreen, Spernal, Shelfield, and Morton Bag- gott by Bolton King, Esq., for Tanworth and Botley by Lord John Scott, for ChurchLawford andKing's Newnham by G. Lucy, Esq., for Hamp- ton Lucy, Charlecote, and Fulbrook byB. Dawson, Esq., forEy- thorpe by Sir F. Goodricke, for Great Alne, Mapplebo- rough Green, St. John's of Jerusalem, Morton'' Bag- gott, and Studley Priory by Sir F. Goodricke, for Spernal by Sir J. Mordaunt, for Wellesbourn Mountfort by H. Greswold, Esq., for Radford and Harbury by Robert Phillips, Esq., for Snitterfield, Wolverton, and Bearley by Robert Phillips, Esq., fcr Snitterfield, Wolverton, and Bearley by — Chamberlayne, Esq., for Lower Itchington by the Earl of Warwick, for Wedgnock by the Earl of Warwick, for Warwick, Barford, Teach- brooke, and Ashorn by Lord John Scott, for Dunchurch, Toft, Tliur- laston, and Cawston by Lord Craven, for Binley, Sowe, Wyken, and Combe Fields Names of Persons Licensed to Deal in Game. • Bastock, Thomas,. Bellamy, Thomas ™ .., Beinbridge, Nicholas Bloxham, Samuel „ ™ Cannon, John Doughty, Thomas, Eagles, Eliza . Edmunds, Zepbaniah . Elkes, William Eccleston, William ™ — Gammon, Peter Gee, Edwin.. George, Catherine Keirle, James Matterson, William „ Parker, Samuel Rotton, John — Roby, George — • Shears, Samuel Sproston, John Whittingham, Hairiet Wilkes, William Wilson, Thomas Wild, Edward Wilkins, Joseph ™ , — Made up to the 7th of September inclusive. By Order of the Board, CHARLES PRESSLY, Secretary. Stamps and Taxes. _ PENALTIES. The Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes.. hereby give Notice, that every Person taking, killing, or pursuing Game, without first obtaining a Certificate, incurs a Penalty of £ 20, and is also liable to be surcharged in double the amount of the Certificate Duty. . Leamington Priors Leamington Priors Birmingham . Leamington Priors . Birmingham . Birmingham . Birmingham . Rugby . Birmingham Birmingham . Birmingham . Birmingham . Rugby . Birmingham Coventry . Coventry . Birmingham . Leamington Piiors • Birmingham . Stratford- upon- Avon . Birmingham . Birmingham . Leamington Priors • Birmingham • Coventry Any Person in pursuit of Game refusing, on being duly required, to produce his Certificate, or to peimit the same to be read, or a copy thereof to be taken, or refusing to declare hie true name and place of residence, also incurs a Penalty of £ 20. Game Keepers are desired to take notice that a Certifi- cate at the rate of £ l 5s. will not authorise any Person te kill Game beyond the limits of the Manor for which he is deputed; and, in order that a Certificate at each rate of duty may protect a Game Keeper, it is requisite, not only that he should be deputed by some Lord or Lady of a Manor, or reputed Manor, but also that such Deputation should be registered with the Clerk of the Peace, or the Game Keeper will be liable to be surcharged in double the Duty of £ 3 13s. 6d., and also to be prosecuted by any coin- mon informer for the Penalty of £ 20. It is the intention of the Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes to publish, in a separate List, the names and resi- dences of all Persons surcharged in double duty for sport- ing without Certificates. BIRMINGHAM SOCIETY I1QR THE PURCHASE OF WORKS OF LIVING ARTISTS. SECOND YEAR, 1838. COMMITTEE. Francis Lloyd, Esq., Sutton Coldfield, Chairman. Charles B^ ch, Esq., Mitch- ley Abbey. William Chance, Esq., Edg- baston* J. T. Lawrence, Esq., Balsall- heath. J. F. Ledsam, Esq., Edg- baston. E. T. Moore, Esq., Summer- ro w « Westley Richards, Esq., Edgbaston. William Scholefield, Esq. r Edgbaston. Charles Shaw, Esq., Edg- baston. J. W. Unett, Esq., The Square. Joseph Walker, Esq., Cres- cent. J. E. Piercy, Esq., Warley Hall. J. G. Reeves, Esq., Moor. street, Treasurer. Rev. Hugh Hutton, Edgbaston, Secretary. RULES. AN annual subscription of one guinea constitutes a. member; but each member may multiply his subscrip- tion to any amount, to have proportioned privileges, men- tioned below. After the payment of all exipenses of the society, the remainder of the money shall be divided into various sums, not lower than - five pounds, which shall be balloted for by all the members. The time of balloting for the prizes, shall be as soon after the opening of the annual exhibition of the Birming- ham Society of Arts, as the committee may deem ex- pedient. All sums sei, apportioned by the ballot, shall be expended to the full amount, in the purchase of works of art in the aforesaid exhibition. Every drawer of a prize shall be at liberty to select for himself, from the catalogue of the exhibition, one picture, of at least the value of the prize drawn; and to add to the sum of bis prize, to any amount, for the purchase of any work of higher value. Every member shall have one chance in the balloting, foe every guinea contained in his subscription. In the year in which the Birmingham Society of Arts exhibits works of ancient masters only, the subscriptions shall be paid as usual, but no balloting shall take place; but in the following year the prizes shall be increased in number and value, and persons becoming members in this year, shall be required to pay two guineas, to entitle them to a single chance each, in this extended scale of prizes. No person shall be entitled to the privilege of balloting, who has not paid his subscription for the current year. At the annual general meeting of the subscribers, imme- diately after the balloting for the prizes, a Committee, Secretary, and Treasurer, for the ensuing year, shall be chosen by the members present. A list of the subscribers will lie, during the exhibition^ on the table, in the saloon of the Society of Arts, in which persons desirous of becoming members, are requested to insert their, names, residence, and number of shares re- quired; but. those whose names are already enrolled, need not repeat their signatures. The subscriptions for the current year are now due, which may be paid to J. - G. REEVES, Esq., Moor. street, treasurer, or to Mr. JACKSON, at the door of the Society of Arts, by whom receipts will be given. ( Signed) HUGH HUTTON, Secretary. Committee room, Society of Arts, September 5, 1838. ST. GEORGE'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL SCHOOL. SESSION 1838- 39. THE following COURSES of LECTURES will be delivered in this School, commencing October 1, 1838:— THEORY AND PRACTICE OF PHYSIC— Dr. Macleod and Dr. Seymour. THEORY AND PRACTICE OF SURGERY— Mr. Caesar Haw- kins and Mr. G. Babington. CLINICAL MEDICINE— Dr. Macleod and Dr. Seymour. CLINICAL SURGERY— Sir B. C. Brodie, Bart., Mr. Csestt Hawkins, and Mr. G. Babington. MATERIA MEDICA— Dr. Seymour and Dr. Macleod. MIOWIFERY— Dr. Robert Lee. BOTANY— Dr. Robert Dickson. MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE— Dr. R. Lee and Mr. Charles F. Macauley. ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY— Mr. Tatum and Mr. Henry James Johnson. PRACTICAL ANATOMY WITH DISSECTIONS— Mr. H. J. Johnson and Mr. Henry Charles Johnson. CHEMISTRY AT THE ROYAL INSTITUTION— Mr. Brande and Mr.. Faraday. The Introductory Address on the opening of the Hos- pital School for the session 1838- 39, will be delivered by Sic Benjamin C. Brodie, Bart., in the Theatreof the Hospital, on Monday, October lst. at one o'clock P. M. The Anatomical Lectures are delivered in the Anatomical Theatre, in Kinnerton street, Wilton- place. A public distribution of prizes in the several classes will take place at the termination of the session. Further particulars and prospectuses may be obtained by applying to the Porter of the Hospital, to the Porter of the Hospital Museum,, and at the Anatomical Theatre, in Kin- nerton- street, London. 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, 1938. SIR,— I am requested by Thomas Thornhill, of this town, to com- municate to you the almost miraculous benefit he has received front the use of BLAIR' 3 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 alt 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, aud looked the picture of misery : to- day, he is full of spirit, and seems as happy as a prince. The fame of tha 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. HALE. These Pills are taken without the least care or attention, by either sex, young or old, and have the peculiar property of' entirely removing the disease without debilitating the frame, which is universally left in a stronger and better state than before the malady commenced. And there is another most important effect belonging to this medicine— that it prevents the disease flying to the brain, stomach, or other vital part. Sold by Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London ; and by his appointment at Birmingham, by Shillitoe, Wood, Collins and Co., Edwards, Flewitt, Sumner and Co., Smith, Suf- field, Gazette and Advertiser offices; Dudley, Morris, Tur- ner and Hollier; Wolverhampton, Mander and Co., Simpson; Atherstone, Davis; Walsall, Valentine^ Co. ; Kidderminstej, Pennell; Lichfield, Morgan ley, Morris; Westbromwich, Shillitoe; ShiffnalU" Bromsgrove, Maund; Warwick, Bayley, Harjf kinson, Roberts; Bridgnorth, Nicholas ; CovenI and Brown, Merridew, Rollason, Loveitt; and £ able medicine vendors throughout the kingdofl 2s. 9d. per box. Ask for Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills,! the name and address of " Thomas Prout, S London," impressed on the government stamp each box of the genuine medicine. C8 NEWS OF THE WEEK. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. M. Arago has announced that M. Walsh has, within these few days, indistinctly perceived the comet which makes its return every three years, and is to be visible in the course of the present month. The director of the ob- servatory at Breslau was, however, enabled, as early as 18th August, to make some observations respecting this luminary. M. Arago suggests that it would be interesting to inquire st this opportunity into the truth of the opinion of M. Walsh, that the diameters of comets diminish in proportion to their proximity to the sun.— Galignani. MURDER OF A PRIEST A cure of the environs of Ajaccio, who was greatly beloved by his parishioners, was assas- sinated on the festival of St. Louis whilst in the act of per- forming mass at the altar. His murderer fired two musket • hots at him in succession from behind one of the pillars of the church. The first shot only wounded the victim ; the second extended him a corpse on the steps of the altar.— Galignani's Messenger. CORONATION AT MILAN.— PRICE OF T& E SHOW.— The prices at this moment demanded here for every thing are enormous. The charge for all matters of necessary use have, I am told, quadrupled ; while those that may be con- sidered to appertain to the purposes of luxury have no limits but in the extent to which persons will permit themselves to be imposed upon. Many who had come to see the coronation are leaving on account of the prices required for lodgings, even without taking into calculation what the other expenses may be at hotels. Five and six pounds a night are amongst the common average charges for any thing like respectable apartments for a gentleman's family. And then as to seats to witness the procession, a notion may be ascertained respecting the charges for them when, st a common tavern, close to the Porte Orientale, the lowest price that would be taken yesterday evening was one hundred Austrian livres. In the fashionable parts of , _ _ the Corso, of the Corsia di Sorvi, and the Soalini del. dealers and others, has been pronounced equal in every Duomo, the demand lias been five, six, and eight times " respect to the produce of China. more than that. I shall not, however, be surprised to find that on the day of the entry the worthy people of Milan discover that their avarice has induced them to go a little too far; At this moment what seems to puzzle them most is, not what they ought fairly to receive, but what they can With safety demand. The coronation at Milan may not equal that of London in grandeur, but at present, as far as strangers are concerned, they will, I am sure, discover that Italy can surpass England in the extravagance of its demands and unreasonableness of its prices.— Morning Chronicle. Considerable attention has been drawn to the trial, at Perpignan, of General Brossard, who was put under arrest in Algiers by General Bugeaud, and sent to France to be tried on charges of insubordination, malversation, and fraud. The result of four days' investigation was the acquittal of General Brossard on the main charges, and a verdict of " guilty of interfering as an officer with matters incompatible with his rank." The sentence was six months' imprison- ment, a fine of eight hundred francs, with costs, and dis- qualification from all future employment. In the course of the trial, some disclosures were made highly disgraceful to General Bugeaud. It appeared that this person appro- priated to himself large sums of money received from Abd el Kader, and others, in Africa. Officers did the same in a less degree. General Broesard having appealed to a Court of Revision, the court has quashed the whole proceedings, and given directions for a new trial. There is said to be a good deal of discontent in the French army. One of the regiments, supposed to be tainted with disaffection, the Sixteenth Regiment of Light Infantry, had been sent on that account from Paris to Perpignan. On its arrival at the latter place, it was reviewed by General Castellan; who made a speech to the regiment, to the effect that its discipline was faulty, and the punishments inflicted for improper speeches and insubordination not sufficiently severe. After the regiment had filed off before General Castellan, the Colonel, M. Devaux, ordered the soldiers to form in close columns, and then reminded them that he lad been their commander for eight years, and that the regiment had always been remarkable for its discipline and « al in the service'; hot he said they had been calumniated, and he could not endure it. He then endeavoured to break his sword on the pummel of the saddle, but failing, threw it on the ground. He ordered the colours to be carried to the Lieutenant- Colonel, and rode away. MR. TURTON We ( Glasgow Courier) have this moment received the following communication from a gentleman of this city. It is an extract from a private letter. The Mr. Thom here spoken of was editor of the Montreal Herald, a Conservative paper, and the uncompromising opponent of the late administration of Lord Gosford: — " You will be surprised to learn that Mr. Thom has been appointed in the room of Mr. Turton, who, it is said, proceeds immediately to England with dispatches of an important nature from Lord Durham." BUSINESS MATTERS Our importers have been receiving aheavy supply of. goods, especially of English and French, iCt by no means an over abundant stock, and the packets next looked for from England are expected to add con- siderably to it, though from France we anticipate our importations have about ceased for the season. The foreign goods that have reached here have met with ready sale, and at fair prices, and I have no doubt all the importations of desirable articles will pay well. Domestic goods, both woollens and cottons, are exceedingly active, and we have not been so bountifully supplied as we should have been, were it not that many of the mills, north and east of New York, have not done business to the fullest extent for want cf water. At Philadelphia, our great monied mart of America, having an immense heart, the Bank of the United States, the money market has been hardly as free as it is here, but business is very active, and all foreign and Ameri- can manufactured goods are doing well and paying handsome profits.— Letter from New York, dated 20 th August. DOMESTIC, THE METROPOLIS. MUTINY ON BOARD THE BRAGANZA A letter received at Lloyd's from their agent at Emden, dated the 1st of Sep- tember, says—" In the night of the 24th ultimo, a ship was driven on shore near the Isle of Juist. On the 30tli ultimo five men of the crew arrived here, and upon our in- quiring, reported it to be the Ceres, Captain Wright, bound with a cargo of sugar from New Orleans to Hamburgh, which we published through the newspapers of this city, but which afterwards proved to be false. Strong suspicion of barratry and mutiny arising, the said five men were arrested, and put to trial, and we can now, from their de- positions, give the following authentic account:—' The cop- pered brig Braganza, from Philadelphia, Captain Jolly, or Tolly, left Philadelphia on the 8tk of July last, with a cargo of sugar and logwood, bound for Genoa. About three weeks afterwards, when the vessel was in the Atlantic, a mutiny was raised by part of the crew, being four of the sailors arrived here, viz.:— Cornelius Williams, surnamed " Wilhelm Hamburgher, from Holstein; John Adams ( who hanged himself in prison on the day he was arrested); Joseph Yerbreiggen, from Belgium; Hans Kundven, from Sohleswig; the fifth, James Danveys, from Aberavon, Glamorganshire ; a boy sixteen or eighteen years of age has been inactive, and will in all probability prove innocent. The captain was beaten, wounded, thrown overboard, and drowned under horrible circumstances. The mate, Van de Sleuss, was wounded, and afterwards died on board the • vessel; the second mate, Moore, after having been thrown overboard, mounted the vessel again, and reached the cabin, where he was then locked up, together with the captain's wife ( Mary.) Mr. Deal, from Philadelphia, the owner of the vessel, and perhaps of the cargo too, and Mrs. Deal, his wife, were kept prisoners during ten days, as well as the cook, called Browne, a negro, who was locked up in the forecastle. The mutineers intended to suffocate the four persons in the cabin, but left or failed doing so, and after- wards agreed to let them live, and to leave them, together with the negro, to the mercy of the waves, in the long- boat, on their swearing never to denounce them. This was exe- cuted, and the said five persons left the Braganza in the be- ginning of August in the long boat, at about seventy- five miles distance from Europe, with sufficient provisions for three weeks, a compass, boat's sails, & c.; no vessel being then in view; but the weather was fine, and the Braganza having seen several sail the same day, it may be hoped that the boat may be picked up by one of them. The mutineers » ow steered to the North Sea, with the intention of sinking ttie vessel at a convenient period in the neighbourhood of the Elbe, but were prevented from so doing by running on shore on this coast. The vessel has been unloaded by coasters of several quarters, part of which has been deli- vered to the authorities, the remainder has been stolen, together with the stores of the vessel. Both of the mates were subjects of the United States." DISASTROUS OCCURRENCE On Friday afternoon, about eleven o'clock, a very melancholy occurrence took place in the burial- ground attached to Aldgate Church, Hounds- dltch, by which two men, named Thomas Oakes and Ed- ward Liddell, lost their lives. It appears that Oakes, who was appointed grave- digger, had the day previous dug a ^ rave in that part of the ground where the paupers are in- terred. The depth of it was near twenty feet. It was en- tirely a new grave, and the unfortunate man had penetrated into the maiden earth. On leaving he placed a wooden flap wrer it, as is the common practice, and in the flap was a trap- door. Friday, about the time above mentioned, he went to the grave for the purpose of finishing it, and de- scended by the trap- door. In a few minutes after he was Sonnd at the bottom of the grave in a state of insensibility, lying with his head on the- ground, when information was given to City police constables, Martin 94 and Evans 60, who with the sexton proceeded to the spot. The flap was promptly taken off, upon which the sexton inquired of the by- standers who would venture down. A ladder was fixed to the base of the grave, when Edward Liddell, a Fellow- ship porter, offered to descend. He took a rope with him, but just as he was in the act of stooping to fix it round the body of Oakes he fell senseless. Some other persons then attempted to descend, but, on coming in contact with the air of the grave, they soon felt that they must quickly re- trace their steps. Asa last resource a butcher's meat hook was procured, by which the bodies of the unfortunate men were drawn to the surface. Mr. Jones, a surgeon, and some other medical gentlemen in the neighbourhood, who had promptly attended, used the necessary means to restore life, but in vain. THE DUEL AT WIMBLEDON— The proceedings of the co- roner's inquest, after several adjournments, terminated on Friday, The jury returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder" against Francis Lionel Elliott, principal in the first degree, and against John Young, Henry Webber, Boughton, and two other persons unknown, principals in the second degree. The parties are understood to be at Boulogne. ANOTHER HINT His Royal Highness the Duke of Cam- bridge has purchased Coombe Wood, near Kingston, the beautiful seat of the Earl of Liverpool, as a residence for Prince George. WOODEN PAVEMENT A deputation from the inhabitants of Oxford- street having waited upon the Marylebone vestry on Saturday last, and presented a memorial, the object of which was to obtain their sanction to the trial of an experi- ment as to paving Oxford- street with wooden blocks; a discussion ensued, which, on a division, terminated in their adoption of the plan. A part of Oxford- street will be forth- with paved with wood, by way of experiment. It is thought that six months will be sufficient to test the efficacy of this mode of paving. A quantity of tea, the produce of the British territories at Assam, has been received at Leadenhall- street, and having been submitted to the judgment of several tea " EXTRAORDINARY EXHIBITION Astley's theatre in London is at present the scene of an extraordinary performance, in which a Mr. Van Amburgh, and some wild beasts, are the principal actors. The Times thus describes what occurs: — The performances consisted in Mr. Van Amburgh's getting first into one large cage, in which was an enormous and most ferocious- looking lion, an immense tigress, whose terrible fangs threatened destruction to every living thing, a smaller lion, and three very respectable sized but well- be- haved leopards. When in the cage he amused himself, his assistants, and the spectators, by causing the animals to jump on his back, apparently to attack him in the most fero- cious manner, to stimulate the mo6t furious intentions, yet stop short in the climax of their fury, and become obedient to his voice and gestures. He took a boy into the cage with him, and made the lions and tiger obey him, and lay aside their fury at his command. He then entered a second cage, in which were lions and tigers. He introduced a living lamb, which was brought from a neighbouring butcher's, to make the lion and lamb lie down together, and behave as if old friends and old companions. This exhibition is one of the most curious things lately produced. The Lord Mayor, it is said, has issued orders to prevent angling in the Thames on Sundays. PROVINCIAL. THE GREAT WESTERN The Great Western took her departure on bar fourth trans- Atlantic voyage, at half- past five o'clock this evening. The steamers Cambria and St. David were employed from an early hour in the morning, in conveying passengers, goods, and luggage from the Hot- wells to King- road, where the Great Western was lying. She carries one hundred and thirty- six passengers ( including servants), amongst whom were Professor Baclie, ( grandson of Dr. Franklin,) Professor Patteson, Judge Woodward, Mr. Wilson, the vocalist, Mr. George Combe, the cele- brated phrenologist, and Miss Sherriff. She has also a full cargo of very valuable goods, chiefly manufactured silks, laces, and cottons. The passengers' luggage alone is esti- mated at nearly one hundred tons, measurement— Letter from Bristol, 8th Sept. MURDER AND SUICIDE.— The scene of the shocking oc- currence to which we refer is a small hamlet called Fairhurst, in the township of Goosnargh, between eight and nine miles from this town, and about six miles from Garstang. Edward Sanderson, his wife, and their five children, resided at Fair- burst, in which place Sanderson has lately been occupied as a day labouier. On Thuisday morning last, Sanderson went to his work, but was not expected home to dinner; he left his wife and five children in their usual state of health, and did not observe anything particular in the demeanour of the latter. About half- past twelve o'clock at noon of the same day ( Thursday), Mr. John Brewer, of Little Inglewhite, was passing Sanderson's house, when he was called in by Mrs. Sanderson, who stated to him that they ( meaning herself and children) had eaten some pudding for dinner, and she was afraid there was something in it which had poisoned them. She also requested him to go for a surgeon. Mr. Brewer, at this time, saw the children, and . they, as well as their mother, appeared to be sick, and the younger children were vomiting. A medical man, resident in the neighbourhood, was in attendance before one o'clock, and he found both the mother and children in so dangerous a state that he was induced to send for Messrs. Smith and Clarkson, surgeons, of Garstang, both of which gentlemen tendered their assistance with all possible promptitude. The medical gentlemen, by use of emetics and other means, exerted themselves in every possible way during the after- noon, to mitigate the sufferings, and if possible, preserve the lives of the ill- fated family, but, melancholy to relate, their efforts were utterly fruitless and unavailing. The names of the children were— Eleanor, twelve years of age; Daniel James, nine; Margaret, six; Robert, four; and William, two years of age. Previous to the shocking affair of which we write, they were all promising children, and in the enjoyment of good health. About five o'clock, Robert, the youngest boy but one, after enduring the most acute suffering, died a very short time afterwards; William also expired in great agony. The next two children, Daniel James and Margaret languished in great anguish for about an hour longer, when they also died nearly simultaneously. Not a long period had elapsed alter the portals of life were closed upon the two last named victims, ere Eleanor, the eldest of the dire- fated family, breathed her last. Long before her dissolution, it had become quite plain that the iron hand of death was fast enclosing within its grasp the mother of the five murdered innocents. Before her death this un- happy woman stated, that in consequence of her being in debt, " her neighbours had turned their backs on her, and that she had, therefore, put some arsenic into the pudding to poison herself and children." She also made some com- munications to the Rev. Mr. Gradwell, but we have not heard to what effect. The poor creature died in excruciating torture between nine and eleven o'clock. She was thirty- two years of age.— Preston Chronicle. WRECK OF A STEAM BOAT.— The Forfarshire steamer, from Hull to Dundee, John Humble, master, ( late master of the Neptnne, of the Tyne) yesterday morning struck upon the " Long Stone" or Outer Fern Island." She had proceeded as usual to Bamborough Head, when the pumps ceased to be able to keep water in the boiler. This was on. Thursday morning, at four o'clock, the day after she left Hull. Both deck pumps were set on, but the crew were forced to draw out two of the furnaces lest they should in- jure the boiler. Two hours afterwards the furnaces were again lighted, and the vessel proceeded, deck and engine pump3 going. At eight o'clock of the same morning, the wind increased with great violence from N. N. E., the vessel being nearly abreast of Berwick. The leak in the boiler began to increase. The deck pumps were now unable to clear the boiling water, and the fireman unable to fire her. At eleven P. M., she bore up nearly as far as St. Abb'D Head. At one o'clock yesterday morning the engineer reported the engine would no longer work. The fore and aft sails were then set to draw her off the land. The rain was heavy, and the wind tremendous, blowing her leeward; and from the fog they | were unable to perceive the lights until they were down upon them. An attempt was made to near on the other tack, to try to push her between the Fern is- lands, to the westward, but she refused the guidance of her helm, and at three yesterday morning fell broadside upon " The Long Stone." A few minutes previous to her striking, some of the crew came aft, and lowered the larboard quarter boat down, and were pushing off, when the mate at tile helm, believing all chance gone of saving the vessel or their lives on board, swung himself into the same boat. They then drifted to the south, and were picked up last night, and brought into Shields by a Montrose sloop. They have scarcely any hope of the passengers and remainder of the crew ( to the number of forty- one) being able to save their lives. It is, however, reported at Shields this morning, that the steamer was seen yesterday lying high and dry upon the rocks. If so, it is to be hoped that many valuable lives may have been saved from a watery grave. Since receiving the above, a correspondent has supplied us with the following gratifying intelligence:— A gentleman, who has just re- turned from North Sunderland states, that the Forfarshire was seen yesterday on the rock called the " Great Hawker," near the above place. A boat had gone to the relief of the passengers, but had not returned when our informant left. About twelve or fourteen persons, however, were safely landed on the rock; and it was expected the whole of the passengers would be got ashore in safety Gateshead Observer. STOCKPORT POLITICAL UNION.— On Wednesday evening, a public meeting was held in the large room of the Bull's Head Inn, Market- place, to form a branch union, and join the people of other towns in their efforts to obtain a tho- rough Radical reform. About eight o'clock Mr. Davies was called to the chair, and read the placard calling the meeting. The room was filled to suffocation. It was found necessary to adjourn to the Market- place, and the several speakers addressed the meeting from the windows of the Inn. The following resolutions were severally moved and passed unanimously:— " 1st. That this meeting is convinced of the right of the suffrage extending to all those subjects of twenty- one years of age, of sane mind, and not incapacitated by crime, and to the obtaining of this right it is necessary that we join the National Association in furtherance thereof. " 2nd. This meeting, feeling confident that a greater con- trol would be placed in the hands of the constituency, were Parliaments annual, with the vote by ballot, ( as the more limited the power, the honester the man), that we are de- termined not to rest satisfied with anything less than these, our ancient and just rights. " 3rd. That as the real wealth of the country is labour, and as capital is not the just qualification of fitness for a representative, but talent and integrity, this meeting is of opinion that we ought to demand no property qualification, and members to be paid for their services. " 4th. That in order to obtain these rights, universal suffrage, annual Parliaments, vote by ballot, no property qualification, and the payment of members, it is necessary that the working classes of Stockport, take immediate and decisive steps on their own resources, as there is no confidence to be placed in Her Majes ty's ministers, owing to their violating the principles they stood pledged to support." The speakers were Mr. Leah, Mr. Robert Horsefield, Mr. Peter Chappel, Mr. John Royle, Mr. William Taylor, and Mr. William Abraham Docker. TEMPERANCE MEETINGS.— The Tee- totallers of this town have been all alive during the present week. On Monday and Tuesday evening they held public meetings at their usual place, in St. George's- street, where they declared open war against all drunkards, and all dealers in intoxicating drinks, and were busily and successfully engaged in beating up for recruits for this crusade- like expedition. We have, on former occasions, seen a more respectable assemblage, but never witnessed any of their meetings so numerously attended as they were, being crowded to excess. Mr. Wight, their old favourite, was, without ceremony, placed in the chair. The meetings were addressed by several individuals, some of whom were reformed drunkards. Their principal champion, was a Mr. Powell, from Birmingham. In the course of his lecture, he fearlessly threw down the gauntlet to any gentleman who would be bold enough to take it up. He is a person of good natural abilities, and advocated the principles of the society with much zea\.— Cheltenham Free Press. During a short residence of Miss Angela Coutts Burdett at the Queen's Hotel, Harrowgate, an Irishman not only introduced a letter into her bed room, but introduced himself. The result was that the lady immediately or- dered her carriage, and left the Hotel, from which the Irishman was unceremoniously expelled. The affair created a great sensation at this fashionable watering place. [ No doubt.] LAMENTABLE ACCIDENT.— About seven o'clock on Thurs- day morning a man named Roberts descended into a well at Lucton, which was about thirty- eight feet deep, without first letting down a lighted candle, a precaution which should never be omitted every time there is occasion to en- ter a well, and becoming immediately involved in the car- bonic acid gas, he fell senseless— his companion, Allen, aware of the perilous situation of RobertB, precipitately descended to his assistence, when he instantly called for more help, and a female servant threw him a rope. Stephens was then let down to attempt to rescue his companions, and when at the bottom exclaimed, " we shall all be dead to- gether." An alaim was immediately given, and John Martin, who came to the spot, gallantly descended, but he was also affected by the gas, and the four men lay senseless at the bottom of the well; at this moment Mr. Charles Forde Walker, writing master at Lucton school, hearing a noise, hastened to the well, and with the most praiseworthy courage and humanity, determined to attempt the rescue of the sufferers— he promptly procured an additional rope, de- scended, and fa'stened it to Martin, whose head was lying on Steven's body, and both were drawn up, but Mr. Walker was severely affected by the noxious gas; notwithstanding which, with devoted gallantry, he again descended in the bucket with a rope tied round his body, which he managed to secure to Roberts's legs, and they were drawn up in safety, when Mr. Walker was so completely paralised by the gas, that he remained insensible for some time, and quite unable to descend again. The bodies of Allen and Stevens were with much difficulty got up as soon as possible, but as they had been in the well more than half an hour, they were quite dead. Every effort was made to restore anima- tion, but failed with all except Martin, who recovered. Hereford Journal. A few days ago, the female hyenseat the Zoological Gar- dens, Liverpool, presented her lord with four fine cubs, this being, we believe, the first instance on record in which these animals have bred in this country. GLOUCESTER MUSICAL FESTIVAL.— This festival com- menced on Tuesday under the most favourable auspices. On no former occasion have the arrangements been so complete, or the performers so numerous: indeed, the stewards de- serve the highest praise for the great exertions they have made for the public accommodation. A great portion of the seats for this day ( Wednesday,) Thursday, and Friday, have been taken, so that we may fairly calculate that this will be one of the best meetings ever held. The Fancy Ball on Friday evening is expected to be on a very grand scale Bristol Gazette. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.— On Saturday last, Mr. Jacob Smith, a respectable draper of this town, went out on a shooting excursion, carrying with him a double barrelled fowling piece. He dined with a friend in the vicinity, and shortly after the meal was despatched, went out as it was conjectured, for the purpose of resuming his sport. In rather more than an hour after his departure he was acciden- tally discovered lying under an apple tree quite dead, the contents of one of the barrels having lodged in his heart. The unfortunate gentleman was much respected, and has left a large family of young children to deplore his untimely fate Worcester Chronicle. SUFFOCATION.— In Newport river, on Wedhesday night last, Jean Benson La Senne, the captain of a trench vessel, caused his ship to be fumigated with charcoal and sulphur, in order to destroy rats, and battened down the hatches. The master of an adjoining vessel kindly invited the Frenchman and his crew to sleep on board his vessel, an hospitality which the crew accepted, but the ill- fated captain declared his intention to sleep on his own deck, and got up his bed for that purpose. In consequence, however, of the rain which fell during the night, the unfortunate man went below, and was found a corpse iri the morning.— Bris- tol Gazette. The result of the scrutiny into the votes respecting the church rate at Wolverhampton, gives 714 for the rate, and 649 against it, being a majority of 65 votes in favour of the rate. Many votes, however, await the decision of Dr. Lnshington, respecting their validity, which, it is expected, will materially affect the result. EXECUTION AT DEVIZES.— George Maslen, alias Maske- lyne, convicted at our asssizes of maliciously shooting at Mr. Bryan Rumbold, with intent to murder him, was exe- cuted this ( Thursday) forenoon, pursuant to his sentence, in front of tile New Prison, near this town Devizes Gazette. SCOTLAND. Too LEARNED.— We understand that a memorial from a number of respectable individuals in the parish of C , in East Lothian, was lately presented to the heritors, request- ing the use of the school- room, at certain hours when it was otherwise unoccupied, for public lectures. To this reason- able request the heritors thought proper to give a decided refusal; the grounds of which may readily be guessed at, when we mention that one of the two persons who consti- tuted the meeting at which the memorial was received, was the minister of the parish, who, a few days previous, was heard to remark, when talking with another on the pro- posed lectures, that " he thought the people were getting far too learned."— Scotsman. HOUSEBREAKING EXTRAORDINARY,— On Monday night, the policeman on the Druminond. place district observed a light in the upper story of No. 29, and, knowing that the family were from home, he immediately procured the keys, and accompanied by several of his brethren, made his way up to the upper flat of the house, where he had perceived the light, and there found four well- known thieves comfort- ably sleeping on one of the beds. Of course they were in- stantly secured. On the table beside the bed were a pack of cards and a pipe, with which they had been enjoying themselves before going to sleep. Every door was found forced or cut; the press in which the silver plate was kept was empty, and the plate lying on the floor ready to be car- ried off; every chest was broken open and ransacked, by breaking off the back of the drawers, thus exposing the whole contents at once. In their possession were found the keys of rhe wine cellar. They seemed to havs been making themselves quite at home, and to have abandoned all ceremony. IRELAND. IRISH WANTS— First, we demand, in coalition with the people in the United Kingdom, an enlarged constituency, extending at least to household suffrage; a triennial election for members of Parliament, instead of the septennial one which we at present possess, and which is quite too long; vote by ballot, which has obtained 200 sound votes in its favour last session in the House of Commons; and payment of the representatives from the taxes. Under these several heads we shall give our reasons for their adoption in suc- ceeding numbers, and shall therefore pass on to the second or local branch of our demands, which is, " justice to Ire land," in the fullest sense of the expression. By justice to Ireland we mean the total abolition of tithes, root and branch, in name and nature. A complete and equal municipal bill, such as our united brethren of England and Scotland enjoy. An addition of fifty or sixty members to our representa- tion. A local legislature, such as any of our colonies enjoy— Nova Scotia, for instance— with power sufficient, though not imperial, to work the practical resources of the country. We want a total abolition of the Bank of Ireland mono- poly, and on this, as on all other questions, perfect equality with England and Scotland. We want a more enlarged share of the money voted by Parliament for public works. We want a complete alteration in the present prison sys- tem, which costs Ireland 1,000,000/. sterling per annum. We want enlarged and general employment for the people, and for this purpose we must have an immediate grant of at least 1,000,000/. per annum from the public treasury, to- wards completing four great railway arteries, north, west, south, and east. We have had plenty of chaffing. Let us have the money to do the work. These are some of the measures which we may rank under justice to Ireland, and for which we are prepaied to agitate. There are others, like rivulets, that now flow into these; but these are the main questions which must first be esta- blished, and to their establishment we stand pledged with all our might— O'Connell's Letter. [ Anything more ?] MISCELLANEOUS: IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT IN FRANCE During the period of incarceration, the creditor is compelled to allow his debtor a franc a day, and in default of such stipend being paid monthly, the debtor can demand his release. The length of imprisonment is thus rendered proportionate to the amount of debts contracted : one year's imprisonment for debts not exceeding 500f. ( 20Z.;) two years' imprisonment for debts not exceeding l, 000f. ( 40/.;) three years'imprison- ment for debts not exceeding 3,000f. ( 120/.;) four years' imprisonment for debts not exceeding 5, OOOf. ( 200/. ;) five years' imprisonment for any debts exceeding 5, OOOf. No term of imprisonment, even if the debts amount to millions, can exceed five years. These laws have received, by a new act passed in April, 1832, several modifications and amendments relative to foreigners.— Sherwood's Monthly Miscellany. A FAMILY COMPACT— A few miles from Derby, and but a short time ago, two brothers of a respectable family married two Bisters; a third brother, feeling disappointed that there was not another sister, determined not to marry out of the family, and took the mother to wife.— Derby Re porter. GUARDIANS' MEETING, Wednesday night a special general meeting of the Guar- dians of the Poor was held in the Chapel in the Workhouse, in the words of the circular by which it was convened, " to deliberate and decide upon the best means of averting the injury the parish is likely to sustain, from the practice of a section of the guardians holding secret meetings for the transaction of parochial business; to take into consideration the financial difficulties of the parish; to receive a report from the overseers respecting the absence of Mr. Under- wood, the levy clerk, from his duties, and on other matters connected therewith ; and also to receive a letter of resig- nation from Mr. Kilvington, assistant- overseer, and to adopt such measures thereon as may be deemed necessary." The meeting, in consequence of the first subject announced for consideration, was more than usually well attended. Mr. Edmonds, upon the motion of Mr. Douglas, was called to the chair. The CHAIRMAN then read the minutes of the proceedings at the last meeting. Mr. SALT complained that the surveyors were proceeding with the survey, notwithstanding the resolutions of the last meeting. They had been engaged in a survey of his premises in the course of the week. One of the Overseers explained that they were engaged in the survey of new buildings, necessary for the levying of a rate; and Mr. Douglas stated, that as regarded the old sur- vey, the duties of the surveyors were suspended. Mr. SALT said his were old premises. The CHAIRMAN then read the circular by which the meeting was convened. Mr. DOUGLAS then rose and stated, that the circular enu- merated four subjects, which were to be brought under the consideration of the meeting; and, he believed, whether they stood high or low in the notice paper, was a mere matter of accident. He always found, however, that when matters relating to an election were to be brought forward, it was considered most urgent, and there was an unusually large attendance of guardians. He would not, therefore, occupy more of the time of the meeting, but conclude by moving that the letter of Mr. Kilvington, in which he resigned his situation as assistant- overseer, be then read. Mr. HADLEY seconded the motion. After a short conversation, in which the chairman, Mr. P. H. Muntz, and other guardians, took part, Mr. D. MALINS, by whom the first proposition named in the circular was to be brought forward, stated, that on con- dition he should be allowed to proceed with his motion after the business of the appointment of an assistant- overseer had been disposed of, he had no objection to Mr. Douglas's motion taking precedence. He could not see what objec- tion certain gentlemen could have to the introduction of the subject of which he had given notice, and which, in point of order, stood first on the paper; if, however, they had any serious objection to it, and entertained any fears of unpleasant disclosures, then he could easily see why they wished to put the matter off. ( Hear, hear, and cries of No.) Mr. DOUGLAS said he had offered a substantive motion to submit to the meeting, and he should not be bound by any conditions. The motion of Mr. Douglas was then put and lost by a majority of 2; the numbers being, for the motion, 13; against it, 15. Mr. DOUGLAS then again rose to speak, when he was in- terrupted by Mr. D. Malins, who said there was no motion before the meeting. Mr. D. replied that he should conclude with one; but first he had a few observations to make upon the situation in which the guardians were placed by the extraordinary notice of motion which stood first on the list. If a murder was committed, it was usual before an inquest was held to ascertain whether there was any body- It was stated in the notice that a section of the guardians were in the liabit of holding " secret meetings for the trans- action of parochial business." Now, he did not believe that any such secret meetings " for the transaction of parochial business" had been held, and he would therefore ask Mr. Bynner, their legal assessor, whether he knew of any paro- chial business transacted by a section of guardians assembled in a secret meeting? Mr. BYNNER : No, certainly. Mr. DOUGLAS : He had another question to a6k. He believed that no parochial business could be transacted except at a special meeting, duly convened like the present, or their usual quarterly meetings, or in committees regu- larly appointed by the whole body of guardians. Now, he wished to ask Mr. Bynner whether, according to the act of Parliament, it was possible any secret meetings of a section of the guardians could transact parochial business? Mr. BYNNER : No. Mr. D. MALINS protested against Mr. Douglas putting a series of questions to the vestry clerk, as highly irregular. ( Hear, hear, and considerable confusion.) Mr. DOUGLAS contended that he was perfectly in order, and should put as many questions as he pleased. He thought h is years and experience enabled him to form as correct a judgment in such matters as Mr. Malins. ( Hear, hear.) Their clerk had answered the questions he had put in the manner he ( Mr. D.) expected, and to him satis- factorily; and the allegation contained in the notice of motion, that secret meetings were held for the transaction of parochial business, was, consequently, a gross falsehood. ( Hear, hear, and cries of No, no.) Mr. MALINS denied that the notice stated parochial business was transacted at such meetings; but they were called together for that purpose. ( Interruption.) He was not to be driven from his position; the allegation was perfectly true. ( Hear, hear.) Mr. DOUGLAS : They had it upon the word of their legal assessor, not only that parochial business never had been, but that, according to the act of Parliament, it never could be, transacted at secret meetings of a section of the guar- dians. It was, therefore, he repeated, a false allegation. ( Cries of hear, hear, and No, no.) In order to save the time of the meeting, and not allow it to be unnecessarily wasted in the discussion of such utter frivolity, he should conclude with moving " that they do now pass on to the consideration of the next order on the notice paper." Mr. PARE, in seconding the motion, said, that, although he had attended the first meeting to which allusion had been made, he had, for want of time, been unable to attend the second. One object of those meetings was, as he un- derstood, to do away, if possible, with those long speeches at guardians' meetings, of which so much complaint had been made. The moment, however, these meetings were called, for the purpose of effecting unanimity and saving time, a charge was brought against them for holding secret meetings for the transaction of parochial business. Mr. D. MALINS, in rising to move an amendment, said, it would be necessary for him to make a few observations upon the course taken by Mr. Douglas, and those by whom he was supported. In the first place, in the notice of motion, respecting which so much had been said, it was not asserted that parochial business was transacted at these meetings; but merely that they were held for that purpose. ( Interruption.) He begged to say that no unseemly be- haviour, noise, or indecent interruptions should put him down. ( Hear, hear.) He had a duty to perform, and be the treatment which he received what it might, he would fearlessly arraign those gentlemen whose conduct he thought deserving of condemnation. ( Hear, hear.) He at once admitted that he was the guardian who had been instill* mental in calling the present meeting together, and he would tell them why he had done so. A few months ago a party of gentlemen, disappointed ut the result of a certain ballot for the election of one of tlieir parochial officers, met together for the purpose of establishing a correct organisa- tion of their forces, and by that means save them from any future failures. He learnt this from a circular, which was addressed to about eighty of the guardians, and a copy of which he then held in his hand. It was as follows -.— " Birmingham, July 7,1838. " SIR,— We, the undersigned, earnestly and respectfully solicit your attendance at the Public Office, on Monday next, at eight o'clock in the evening, in order to consider matters of essential importance to the cause and progress of reform, in respect to parochial matters. If you cannot attend, we trust you will be so kind as to instruct a friend to act for you. " We are, sir, your very obedient servants, " Joseph H. Cutler Josiah Ernes R. C. Mason John Pierce R. Mole Thomas Aspinall R. K. Douglas W. H. Malins P. H. Muntz Samuel Jones Samuel Burrell Benjamin Hadley Daniel Turner George Unite Samuel Wells G. V. Blunt William Pare Robson Beilby John Evans." This circular was given to him by a guardian, to whom it was addressed, but who, not wishing to act himself, very kindly came and requested him, as a friend, to act for him. ( Laughter.) Accordingly, in obedience to the reauest ol his friend, lie ( Mr. M.) presented himself on the occasion, when, greatly to his surprise, he vva6, on his entrance into the room, informed that he would not be suffered to remain. ( Laughter.) He looked with astonishment when this an- nouncement was made; and naturally asked himself what had he, as guardian, done, that he was to be excluded from any meeting of guardians for the transaction of parochial business? He was informed by one gentleman, their pre- sent chairman, that none but sheep had been invited, whereas he ( Mr. M.) was a wolf. ( Laughter.) Upon this intimation, and not wishing to disturb the proceedings of the secret conclave, he retired. Since that period he had been furnished with another circular, dated September 3rd, and headed " Private and confidential." ( Hear, hear.) Mr. DOUGLAS rose to order. Before Mr. Malins read that letter, he wished to know to whom it was addressed. ( Cries of Read.) Mr. MALINS said, if he did not fully make out his case, he would cheerfully submit to any censure they might pass upon him. He begged to declare that the letter was ad- dressed to a " liberal" guardian, who had placed it in his ( Mr. M.' s) hands, with full permission to use it on that oc- casion. The CHAIRMAN wished to know if Mr. Malins intended to put the letters in evidence; if so, they ought to be au- thenticated. Mr. MALINS was going to conduct his case, not with the subtlety of a lawyer, but in a plain common sense manner, which would be understood by every person who heard it. ( Confusion.) Mr. BARROWS wished to know if any person denied the authenticity of the circular? ( Hear, hear, and cries of Read.) Mr. P. H. MUNTZ contended, that all letters not duly authenticated, ought to be considered the productions of the person by whom they were read. Mr- MAHNS claimed the privilege of using the letter as he pleased, and was about reading it, when Mr. DOUGLAS wished to be informed, whose signature was attached to the letter? Mr. MALINS said, Mr. Douglas did not need from him any answer to that question ; he was fully aware of the na- ture of the circular. Mr. DOUGLAS asked if they had ever heard before of a letter being read, when both the name of the party by whom it was written, and to whom it was sent, was refused? Mr. MALINS said, if he was guilty of any fraud the shame would recoil upon his own head. Mr. Douglas, Mr. Rodway, and others still pressed for the signature to the letter, when Mr. MALINS said, Mr. Douglas was asking for that which he knew did not exist. There were no signatures to the second letter, and the reason was obvious. ( Hear, hear.) He then proceeded to read the following circular: " PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL. " APPOINTMENT OF ASSISTANT- OVERSEER. — A meeting of those guardians, who concurred in the resolutions passed at the Public- office, on the 9th of July last, will take place at the Public- office, on Wednesday next, September 5, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon precisely ; to consider of the proper mode of filling the vacancy in the Assistant- Over- seership. Such gentlemen as cannot attend are requested to empower a friend to act for them. " Monday, September 3, 1838." Mr. MALINS then proceeded to say, that Mr. Edmonds, in a conversation with him, hail admitted the authenticity of these letters, and the holdi ig of the two meetings to which the circular in question invited the attendance of a certain section of guardians. [ Mr. Edmonds said in some degree Mr. Malins was correct; but he could not admit the genuineness of any letter until he had seen it.] He ( Mr. M.) wished to know why the meetings were made " private and confidential," when the business under discussion related to parochial affairs. He ( Mr. M.) could not with certainty state the resolutions adopted at these meetings, but public report said that their object was to unite a certain political party in all votes relating to parish affairs. ( Hear, hear.) He ( Mr. M.) ought perhaps to mention that at the first meeting ( which he attended, but from which he was com- pelled to retire) Mr. Douglas told him that not more than thirteen guardians ( out of the eighty invited) gave their attendance. It was admitted, likewise, that the gentlemen who took part in the proceedings of these secret meetings, were pledged to vote at the guardians' meetings, as by pre- vious arrangements the majority might have directed; that the minority of the faction who held their councils in secret had, in fact, no voice, nor any voices of their own,; but were bound, hand and foot, in despite of conscience, to vote as the majority might have determined. Mr. BLUNT, in the midst of much confusion, said the as- sertion was false, and a lie! ( Confusion.) The CHAIRMAN called Mr. Blunt to order, and repri- manded him for the hasty expression to which he liad given utterance. Mr. MALINS said, he did not hear the expression, but he could well afford to forgive him for having used any offensive epithets towards himself. ( Hear, hear.) Now, if there was one stronger ground for condemning these secret meet- ings than another, it was apparently because their proceed- ings would not bear the light. ( Hear, hear.) Why did they desire concealment and secresy? Where was the ne- cessity of making their meetings " private and confiden- tial ? " He had been informed that the principal object of the last meeting was, to nominate some gentleman to the office of assistant- overseer. If such were the fact, was it creditable to them as a body, that there should be any ap- pearance of party feelings in the transaction? ( Hear, hear.) He confessed that he could not help but feel greatly sur- prised to find a number of gentlemen, who professed to ba • ardent lovers of liberty, justice, and open, straight- forward fair dealing, immediately they found themselves unshackled by the provisions of an act of Parliament, resorting to hole- and- corner meetings, and becoming all at once the advocates of voting by proxy. ( Hear, hear, and laughter.) He hoped they should never hear any more objection to the House of Lords voting by proxy. ( Hear, hear.) He ( Mr. M.) could not help but think that if the practice of secret meet- ings for mere party purposes was continued, that the con- fidence reposed in them as a body, by the rate payers, would be considerably shaken, and that instead of being looked upon as a body of gentlemen interested in the wel- fare of the poor, they would be viewed in no other light than as a body of men engaged in secret intrigues and cabals to forward the interests of themselves or the party with whom they might be connected. Mr. M. concluded by moving the following amendment:— " That in the opinion of this meeting, it is highly im- proper for the guardians of the poor, or any part of them, to hold any other meetings for the transaction of parochial affairs than those which are called and constituted under the authority of the Guardian act— and this meeting especially disapproves two secret meetings of a number of guardians, held at the Public Office, on the 9th of July last, and on the 5th of September, the latter for considering the proper mode of filling the vacancy in the office of asfistant- overseer, ob- viously with a view of unduly influencing this body in the appointment of that officer— and this meeting is further of opinion, that the continuance of this practice will tend to excite the distrust of the rate payers, and lead to disunion and factious strife amongst the guardians themselves, there- by disqualifying them for the efficient discharge of the im- portant duties devolving upon them." Mr. GOUGH seconded the amendment. Mr. P. H. MUNTZ said, he should not have risen to op- pose the amendment, if it was true in point of fact. He cared nothing about the condemnation it contained, because as he always acted upon his own convictions of right, he cared not whether one portion of the guardians or another approved of his conduct. He simply objected to the amend* THE TOIM INGHAM JOURNAL, SEPTEMBER 15. ment because it stated that the guardians ought not to do what it was impossible they should do— that they ought not to hold private meetings for the transaction of public busi- ness. That was the only objection he had to it. The reason why he attended the first meeting, alluded to by Mr. Malins, was, because he considered it held out a prospect. of coming to some useful arrangement. He had heard complaints made, several times, of a great deal of time being unneces- sary consumed by the guardians in Ipng speeches, and he had seen that certain gentlemen had inserted, in a very con- spicuous part of a certain newspaper, remarks upon the subject. In consequence of these remarks, a number of gentlemen witli whom he usually acted, thought it proper to call a meeting for the purpose of trying to prevent the evil complained of. Their only object was to come to some understanding with one another, by- which division ol sen- timent and useless argument jmight be prevented ; and he. attended because he thought such an arrangement would be useful. Mr. Malins had asked, why he had not been per- mitted to remain in the meeting. He had asked, what he. had done, as a guardian, that he should be excluded. He ( Mr. Muntz) would tell him why fie was not permitted to remain. Because he was one of those persons who had made the complaints alluded to, and they thought him an unfit person to be consulted upon the matter. He ( Mr. Muntz) had not attended the last meeting, because he had not leisure time. Mr. Malins talked about the confidence of the rate- nayers in the guardians, and expressed a fear that such meetings would tend to destroy that confidence. Now he ( Mr. Muntz) would say, that if the rate- payers thought that the guardians ought not to meet at the Public- office, or any other place, for the purpose of discussing matters for the welfare of the parish, enabling themselves to carry on their business with perfect ease to themselves and utility to their constituents— if they so thought, the sooner they rejected him ( Mr. Muntz) the better. He had met, and he should meet again if he thought proper; he had no fears about the rate payers. One word with respect to the comparison drawn by Mr. Malins of the meetings of the guardians, of which he had been complaining, and the' House of Lords. It appeared from the circular, that if the person to whom it was directed could not attend the meeting, he was requested to send a guardian who would act for him; and from that Mr. Malins had expressed a hope that he should never hear any more objections against voting by proxy in the House of Lords. Now, if Mr. Malins had, for one moment, considered the difference which existed between the parties, he would not have dreamed of such a comparison. If the guardians thought fit to vote by proxy in such meetings, they bound nobody except themselves ; when the Lords voted by proxy, they bound millions of men, women, and children— they bound whole nations. No wonder that the people should object to their voting with, out hearing the arguments for and against the measures upon which they had to legislate. If Mr. Malins could arrange matters in the House of Lords, so that their lord- ship's votes should bind nobody but themselves, they might vote by proxy with all his ( Mr. Muntz's) heart. If the amendment was altered, so as to take out the contradiction contained in the first part of it, he should have no objection to let it pass— it was one that he should not think worth opposing. It might, indeed, be a question, whether, in the present state of parochial affairs, they ought to waste their time discussing such sheer nonsense, and whether it would be prudent to put such a proceeding upon their minutes. Mr. PIERCE, as one of the persons who had attended the meetings in question, and for attending which he took great credit to himself,—;' iear, hear)— would ask, if Mr. Malins had made out the case which he had promised to lay before them. Mr. Malins had ransacked his vocabulary for fine words; he had treated them to many splendid metaphors; he had exhibited mighty powers of eloquence;—( laughter) — but, after all, he ( Mr. Pierce) must say, his speech was but a frothy effusion, which contained a great deal about nothing. ( Laughter, and bear, hear, from Mr. Malins.) Mr. Malins might cry hear, but he could not alter the fact. Mr. Malins admitted that they could not transact the busi- ness of the parish at the meetings in question ; and, as he was not present, he could not tell what they had done. If gentlemen had come to him ( Mr. Pierce) he would have told them all that took place ; they would not, in that case, have been under the necessity of taking their stand at the corner of Moor- street, under the pretext of looking into the windows, to take down the names of gen- tlemen going to the Public- office. ( Interruption from Mr. Malins.) He ( Mr. Pierce) and his friends went to the Public- office openly and boldly, to transact what they con- sidered business of importance, and they despised the idea of meeting privately in little coteries. Mr. Malins knew what certain friends of his were in the constant habit of doing, and he had, unfortunately, in this case, judged others by their bad practices. As he ( Mr. Pierce) felt that Mr. Malins had not established one single accusation, he must oppose his unmeaning amendment. Mr. RODWAY said, he had had a good deal of intercourse in the town amongst all parties, and he had been told by the Tories that the Radicals had been in the habit of making long speeches at the guardians meetings. He told these people that they could not accuse him of having done so; but he knew he could accuse their organ of long speech making. Mr. MALINS : Who is their organ ? Mr. RODWAY: You are. ( Laughter.) He thought, in the present state of parochial affairs, the rate- payers would give Mr. Malins very little thanks for occupying their time with such absurdities. They ought at once to proceed to some business of importance, and not waste their time. Mr. JENNINGS considered the amendment false in fact, and that Mr. Malins must know it was false. It charged them with transacting business when Mr. Malins knew they could not transact business. The persons who at tended the meetings objected to, attended as private indi- viduals, not as guardians; and they had a right to do so, Mr. Malins had stated, that the persons who had met pledged themselves to vote for certain persons right or wrong. Than this there never was a grosser calumny upon any body of honourable men. In support of this calumny he had not given one fact, nor had he the courage to give up one single name. Mr. WESTON attended the first meeting, and would have attended the second only he had been prevented by busi- ness. He never would give up his right to meet and con- sult with ten or twenty guardians, when and wherever they might think proper to meet. He was not so foolish as to think he had a right to meet in private, and transact parish business; but he did think he had a right to meet and take council with his friends whenever he thought proper. Mr. PARE could not understand what Mr. Malins and his friends really meant. They had repeatedly accused them ( Mr. Pare and his friends) of squabbling at meetings ; and the moment they met for the purpose of putting an end to diffeiences of opinion, then Mr. Malins • turned found, and accused them of holding secret meetings. If such meetings were continued, he ( Mr. Pare) should at tend them regularly, because be considered them perfectly just and highly useful. It was only a few nights ago a person was elected by Mr. Malins's party. ( No, from Mr. Malms.) Mr. Pare was sorry Mr. Malins had dis- owned Ilia party. That, however, would not alter the fact. A person had been elected by Mr. Malins's party, contrary to the terms of the guardians advertisement; and if meetings such as Mr. Malins appeared to be so much alarmed about were regularly held, such improprieties would not take place. Mr. EMES opposed the amendment. It appeared really very extravagant for Mr. Malins to talk about such meet- ings, when it was a notorious fact that all the appointments of guardians and officers used to be made at private Tory parties. Mr. KNIGHT said, he had not attended the meetings in question, nor did he approve of any such meetings being held by any party, lie objected to the amendment, be cause he knew such meetings had been held by the gentle men who were then complaining. Was it not true that great jealousies had been created, from the fact that many appointments had taken place in that room which were the result of private meetings. If the amendment went merely to condemn the practice of private meetings, he should not object to it; but inasmuch as it was designed to condemn one party only, he should oppose it; and he hoped they would lose no more time over such an unimportant affair, but proceed at once to the consideration of their parochial difficulties, with a view to remove them, Mr. GOUGII really did not know what previous meetings Mr. Knight alluded to. He had never attended any such meeting. He had never been asked to attend any such meeting. H e had never heard of any such meetings amongst the party with which he was connected. He did not mean to say that he might not have conversed 011 such subjects with gentlemen whom he met while walking along the street. In the same way the rumour of the meeting com- plained of had reached him. Mr. SALT said he would detain the meeting only a very few moments; but he could not withhold joining Mr. Malins in the expressions of his regret that Mr. Malins had, by the shaping of his motion, been deprived of the right of reply; because he felt persuaded that Mr. Malins could not have failed to have used that right to make an ample apology to that meeting for the whole of his conduct in this matter —( laughter)— and he sincerely sympathisedwith Mr. Malins that lie had not the opportunity of thus, in some measure, silencing bis own self- reproaches. The time of the meeting had been consumed by accusations and criminations, and what was their sum and substance ? That Mr. Malins and his seconder had certain impressions on their minds that some uncertain evil was meant! If he ( Mr. Salt) was compelled to blame Mr. Malins for the course he had pur- sued, he was in justice bound to . speak in terms of much harsher censure of his friends, Mr. Douglas and others, who, in the manner they had dealt with this gentleman, had, with a total want of charity, overiooked the situation in which Mr. Malins was placed. It was true he entertained most unjust and unfounded surmises ? but he would put it to any candid individual to say, whether circumstances might not have biased Mr. Malins's mind in this respect. Mr. M. had, perhaps, witnessed and been familiar with the intrigues and mysteries of No. 2; and was not every allow- ance to be made if the result had been that he adopted a contemptible opinion of human nature? Mr. Malms, he ( Mr. S.) would maintain, had only acted up to the light vouchsafed to him. ( Laughter.) Gentlemen laughed; if they laughed at this, they might perhaps laugh also at the alarnr Mr. Malins felt least the guardians should fall in public estimation. He ( Mr. S.) would maintain it was most ungenerous and unkind that, rising on the tide of popular estimation, they disregarded, cruelly disregarded, the feelings of those who had been constantly falling; arid in their abundance they had no sympathy for the alarm which Mr. Malins felt for the loss of the last rag of public favour. Although he ( Mr. Salt) felt certain that, if he lived, he should be re- elected to the office he held, that no power on earth could prevent it, he, nevertheless, could feel for those whose slender chances of such selection kept them - ina state of constant alarm; and he blamed his friends that they only met those fears with laughter; and, in their own triumph, felt no pity for the defeat of others. Mr. MASON would be sorry to take up their time and at that late hour. He was one of those who attended at the secret meetings, and he thought it no disgrace to do so; but it was a disgrace to be driven to such measures, by see- ing the Tories joining the overseers to carry the last three elections, the result of which they were now heartily ashamed of. ( Laughter.) Mr. HARRIS would vote in favour of the amendment, because he considered all combinations for public purposes were bad things. He had received a circular of the first meeting, but he did not attend, because he disapproved of the principle. But whatever crime the party had com- mitted in the present case, it could not, however, be called original sin. ( Laughter.) The CHAIRMAN hoped Mr. Harris would refrAm as much as possible from going into any theological discussion, as he feared the meeting might deem the introduction of theology a little irrelevant. Mr. DOUGLAS replied. The happy allusion to the House of Lords had been so well noticed by his friend Mr. Muntz, and the appeal to the rate- payers had been so well and so delicately touched by Mr. Salt, that he had nothing to say upon these points. He might, perhaps, observe that al- though not an old inhabitant, he should feel very little difficulty in entering the arena of an election with the gen- tleman who had introduced the subject. If the rate- payers turned him out, they would only save him a great deal of trouble. He thought, however, there was no great fear of them turning him out. He rather inclined to think they might turn out those who wished to turn him out. ( Hear, hear.) Mr. Harris had expressed great fear of combina- tion for public purposes. Now, he ( Mr. D.) only wished they had a much more extensive combination for public purposes; it was to the want of such combinations they were to attribute nearly all the evils of which they had to complain. With respect to the letter headed " Private and Confidential," he would only say, that any gentleman who could receive a letter so marked, and hand it to another to be made public use of, was altogether unworthy of confi- dence. It had been stated that the object in bringing for- ward the subject was, to prevent disunion amongst the guardians. The fact was, that its promoters were anxious to create disunion. They dresMed the unity of purpose that must arise from the meetings complained of; hence the outcry against them. The Radical section of the guar- dians were becoming thoroughly united; it was there the shoe pinched. He never meant to deny having met for the purpose of consultation with the men with whom he usually acted. He was of a party, and never should be ashamed of owning that he was. The man who said he was of no party, was one whom all parties ought to unite to squeeze out from amidst them. With respect to the amendment, he cared not a button whether it was carried or not. If he and his friends pleased, they would meet the next day, in spite of any such nonsensical motion. Even if they did not meet, they might doubtless hear what was going on by chance; they might be visited by rumours while walking along the street; they might take council at crossings. The Tory party disclaimed such meetings as were the subject of the amendment. How was it, if such meetings were so carefully abstained from, that he invariably saw such a 6trong muster of these gentlemen whenever any situation was to be filled with a favourite partisan; while, for the ordinary business of the parish, they seldom or ever showed their faces, particularly since the guardians had dispensed with the tea and toast, and other delicate incentives? The Tories prided themselves that they never combined for public purposes; he granted that. Yetby some singular coincidence, by some unaccountable law, these pure gentlemen pretty regularly combined for private purposes. News of the ordi- nary business of the parish never reached these gentlemen, in the streets or elsewhere; but whenever there was any- thing to be got or given, the intelligence invariably reached them. One word in conclusion. If gentlemen would stultify of themselves, by asserting facts which did not exist, and which could not possibly exist, they might vote for the amendment— he could not. He would, however, put it to Tories even whether it was necessary to write themselves down as fools, in the vain hope of thereby proving that the Radicals were knaves. The amendment was about to be put, when Mr. PALMER demanded a ballot. The ballot being taken, the numbers 011 a scrutiny were declared to be— For the amendment 25 Against — 37 Majority against the amendment 12 The next business in the circular, the consideration of the financial difficulties of the parish, was then gone into briefly, after which the meeting adjourned till Friday. MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF THE POLITICAL UNION. The Tuesday evening the council held its weekly meeting, room was crowded. Mr. P. H. MUNTZ having taken the chair, observed that the council had not met on the previous Tuesday, in conse- quence of Mr. O'Connor attending 011 that night to address' the Reformers at the Town- hall. He ( Mr. M.) was not present at that address, but he understood it was a very ad. mirable one; and he rejoiced to hear that Mr. O'Connor's opinions were such as the men of Birmingham could cheer- fully and heartily respond to. They must take care to keep well united. The men of the North, and the men of Lan- cashire, and the men of London, and the men of Birming- ham must stick close together in sentiment and action. They must forget the coin- laws, the poor- laws, and the money- laws—( hear, hear)— and adhere rigidly to the one great principle ; and if they did, there could be no doubt they would ultimately triumph. The Whigs and Tories were, of late, quite unhappy about the people. They were deploring their condition, because they would be led by bad men. They saw the people determined 011 adhering ti priciple, and not to men, and hence the outcry. ( Hear, hear.) They bid us agitate for the corn- laws, because they knew that the moment the question was raised, they would enlist against us all the agricultural interest. They knew they would at once divide the people, and that was the reason why they advised them to agitate for the repeal of the corn. laws. The people, he repeated, must stick to their first resolution. By going for the great principle of uni- versal suffrage, they were certain to have with them all the working classes, with the exception of the swine of opera- tive Conservative Associations. ( Laughter.) He did not apply the term swine to Tories generally. He did not deny to every man the right to judge for himself upon that and every other point; but he considered that the man who believed himself unworthy to enjoy the power of electing a representative to make laws for the government of him- self and his country, to be in a state ot confessed and most swinish ignorance— according to his own admission— un- worthy of the blessings of good government. Well, with the exception of a few of this class, all the working men would be with them. In a few days it would be tried whether the men of London would go for a repeal of the corn laws; or whether they would stand upon the great principle of universal suffrage. He had no doubt some of their friends from Birmingham would attend that great meeting, and explain the object for which the men of Bir- mingham were contending. He also knew some good men from the North would attend, some men from Lancashire, Hull, and other places, and well knowing as they did die rascality of the manoeuvre which would direct tn- attention of the people from universal suffrage, they would cau- tion the people against it. He thought it would be proper for the council to address the people of England upon the necessity of avoiding the discussion of the corn or any other law at tile present moment. They ought again to tell the people that without universal suffrage, which would give them power to make their own laws, they had nothing to hope for; and that they must direct all their energies to the attainment of that great measure. A resolution, he believed, to that effect would be submitted to them, and an address prepared in due course. Mr. DOUGLAS said, he had a little bit of news to give to the meeting, which he should give them in the first place. It was very fortunate that the union had made up their minds to go for a principle, and not details, because they got rid of all objections that might be urged against details. For instance, there had been objections raised against their friend Mr. Attwood, because he advocated an alteration in the money laws. There were objections raised against Lord Brougham, because of certain opinions he entertained rela- tive to the poor- laws ; and it was just possible that even by some good Radicals there might be objections raised against Mr, Fielden, for his views upon the same subject. Now, the great advantage in going for a principle, such as universal suffrage, was, that they got rid of all these objection^. Going for that whjch must give the people full power to decide whether they ought or ought not to repeal the corn- law or any other law. The. man who went> with them in that course, at once submitted himself to the great voice of the people; and no man who, submitted himself to the voice of tiie nation could be described as submitting to an impro- per standard of opinion. The hit of news he was going to give them was respecting a letter from Lord Brougham to Mr. Tijit, of Edinburgh, a very worthy good man. He was the editor of the only Radical periodical in the country, and a man who had rendered great services, to the cause of reform, Mr. Tait had written a very short letter to Lord Brougham, requesting to- kuow if it was his lordship's intenr tion to visit Scotland during the recess. Lord Brougham took the opportunity of this letter to put forth, in his reply, a great many excellent opinions, which he should now read to the council. [ Mr. D. then read extracts from the letter, which will be found in another part of the paper, and pro- ceeded]— He thought he might say, without flattery to Lord Brougham, that this letter was exceedingly satisfactory to the Reformers ol Great Britain. It was gratifying to find his lordship coming forward in advanced life to advocate the principles of his youth ; and he had 110 doubt the noble lord would prove a great support to their cause. It was a very comfortable thing to have even one man in the House of Lords advocating the principle of an extended suffrage, and that to the fullest extent, for when Lord Brougham ad- mitted that the suffrage would be most safely placed upon the broadest basis, he at once went to the furthest verge of Radical reform. It was, he repeated, most gratifying at the present crisis to have such a man as Lord Brougham advo eating their cause. He had displayed during life great devotion to the cause of reform. He had advocated great principles when they were not only not fashionable, but very inconvenient, and although there might have been some apparent falling off, or vacillation of opinion, in Lord Brougham of late years, it was extremely gratifying to find liitn come back, with renovated determination, to the old tried principles of his youth. He should now move the suspension of the standing order, to give gn opportunity of bringing forward a subject of great importance— he meant an address to the National Guard of Paris. ( Hear, hear.) Mr. HOLL seconded the motion. Mr. BLAXLAND said, he had entertained some idea of mentioning the subject of the petition of the National Guard of Paris. Mr. Douglas having taken it up, he should wil- lingly leave it to him. He saw by the Sun newspaper of that morning, that the editor had come round a little, though he still kept harping upon the corn laws. Long before the Sun rose upon that question, he ( Mr. B.) had taken it up, and at home and abroad had denounced the corn laws as the most cruel and unjust laws that ever disgraced any country. He would, therefore, answer the Editor of the Sun by say- ing, they were as anxious for the repeal of the corn laws as he was. They knew their enormity, and felt their oppres- sion, as much as he did; but they knew they had been carried by force of arms, and they would never be willingly surrendered by the men who had now the power of making the laws. It was well known to all present that the corn laws were carried by bayonets and bullets. The troops were drawn out, to enable the members to deliberate upon the measures in the House of Commons, and the men of Birmingham well recollected that the soldiers and the can- non were sent down amongst them to make them swallow that infamous measure. ( Hear, hear, and cries of We re- collect.) Nothing could be more determined than public opinion at that time, and yet the corn law was carried. How, then, could they expect that law to be voluntarily repealed, when nearly the same House of Commons was still in exist- ence? It was folly to expect it, and it was worse than folly to recommend the agitation of the question at that particular time. Until the people became possessed of power sufficient to enable them to return men who would fairly, fully, and honestly represent their wants and wishes in the House of Commons, they need never hope to have the corn laws, or any other objectionable laws, repealed. That was his most decided opinion, and such being the case, he was most entirely opposed to the agitation of the corn laws, until the question of universal suffrage was settled. ( Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN put the motion for the suspension of the standing order, which being carried— Mr. DOUGLAS said, before moving the address to which he had alluded, it might be necessary to tell them what was the nature of the representation in France. In France, a very large amount of the taxes were direct; and it was only those who paid a very considerable sum in the shape of direct taxes, who had any vote for the election of a member of the Chamber of Deputies. The consequence of requiring so very high a qualification was, that, in France, a country possessing a population of some thirty- three millions, there were only on the electoral fist about two hundred thousand names. They were very badly off in England, but not so bad as this. At the passing of the Reform bill, they were promised one million of electors. They had not got that number. They had not more than five hundred thousand of a working constituency ; still they were far better off than France, which contained a population 50 per cent greater than England, and a constituency 60 per cent, less, The only thing which enabled the French to bear up at all against the power of the court was, that they had the ballot in its most perfect form; and, however hazardous the ballot might be in England under the present system, still, from a variety of causes, it worked well for the people in France. In France, owing to the general distribution of property, owing to the absence of the law of primogeniture, was such, that there were no great landlords or squires to in - fluence or control the electors, and prevent them from doing their duty to their country. The result was, that considering the crippled state of the machine, the people had there maintained their power with a success altogether wonderful. The ballot had been their grand protection against the system of centralisation acted upon by the French govern- ment. That system was such, that the minister of the day had actually a greater number of places at his disposal, than there were electors in the country; and thus, without the . ballot, the ministry would at all times have the entire con- stituency at their command. In England we denied to officers of excise, to custom- house officers, and to the clerks in the Post- office, the exercise of the elective franchise, believing they could not, on account of the influence of government, exercise that right with justice and independ- ence. In France the servants of the government were allowed the franchise; but inconsequence of the ballot they were enabled to vote as their consciences dictated. Sometime previous to the revolution of July, 1830, the National Guard had been suppressed by an edict of the King. The first outbreak of that revolution was signalised by the apparition of a National Guard, in the interdicted unilorm of his corps. He was joined by others of the Na- tional Guard in Paris, with their arms in their hands, and the result was the banishment of Charles the Tenth, and ( he punishment of his ministers. The people had, in 11 great measure, lost the fruits of their struggle. It had been often said of John Bull," that when he gained a victory, he generally gave away the fruits of it, when shaking hands. Whether this was a characteristic of John Bull, or not, he would not say ; but it was quite evident that it had been the case with the people of France at the revolution of 1830. They had fought for liberty, and won a great victory— a greater than bad ever been achieved, since victories were first chronicled. They were brave men, but they were not men of business. They gained the greatest triumph ever obtained by a people against a government; but, unfortu- nately, in shaking hands after the struggle was over, they allowed one hand of the wily enemy to insinuate itself into their pockets, whilst they were pressing the other. They allowed their enemies to steal away the suffrage, or rather, they left it, the most important of all things, where they found it. The consequence was, that they were as badly off now, in regard to the suffrage, as before the revolution of 1830. He did not know if the Radicals of Birmingham could take credit to themselves for recipro- cating with the people of France, in the year 1838, the benefit received from Frenchmen in 1830. It was, however, a fact, that they had had a communication with Paris. They hud had, moreover, the honour of some good French Ra- dicals sitting round that council table, who listened with the utmost eagerness to their debates, and took a very earnest note of their proceedings. This he did know, although he could not assert that they had provoked by their example the demand for an extension of the suffrage which had just been made. The Parisians were not prepared for universal suffrage, and we must not blame them for it. We must recollect that some of our own countrymen were not pre- pared for it. The Union had only lately commenced the agitation of the question. It was true the principle of universal suffrage had long been abstractedly maintained by all who sat at that table ; nevertheless, it was only within a few months that it treated it as a working practical question We must not then blame men of another country, if they did not at once see with the same eyes as we did. The people of France did not demand universal suffrage, but they demanded what was entitled to the sympathy of the people of England. They demanded that the suffrage be granted to every one of the National Guard throughout the empire. Now the National Guard were men who carried muskets. They had colonels, captains, lieutenants, and officers of every grade, appointed by themselves. ( Hear.) They were fourteen hundred thousand strong, and being in possession of arms and artillery they were not to be trifled with. He need not tell them that such a body demanding its rights was a rather imposing spectacle. For their power as well as their popularity, it became us to sympathise with them in their demands. He should read to the council the petition which the National Guard had presented to the Chamber of Deputies, and they would see the spirit by which they were actuated. Mr. D. then read the following petition: — Deputies— The sovereignty of the people is the prin- ciple of the constitution of 1830; and, nevertheless, out of thirty- three millions of French, 180,000 alone participate in the election of the Chamber of Deputies. Of all represen- tative states, France is that' where the electoral franchise is most limited. The present law does not give the electoral franchise to a number of citizens sufficiently great to render the interests of the elector and that of the, community at large identical. The interests and rights of the people must hence be, and are, sacrificed to the interests and pas- sions of a few privileged persons. The existing law is an insult to the French nation. In the midst of a brave and intelligent people, which marches at the head of civilization — which proclaimed to the world the principles of liberty and equality— which accomplished the revolutions of 1789 and 1832, against the efforts of European aristocracy,— it is pretended that only 180,000 of Ik citizens are worthy or capable of exercising electoral rights, This is to reduce all not included in the number to helotism< Electoral reform therefore just and necessary. Nobody Can prevent so mportant a measure. The government has often called the National Guard the safeguard of society: why, then, should the law deny to its members the right of electing deputies, as well as defending the public order? We, in coes4quence, demand electoral reform ; and, without enter- ing into details, demand that every National Guard be an elector!" From this petition they would see how every National Guard felt. They did not beg nor supplicate. They used iretty strong language— something like us Radicals of Eng- and— and they would get what they so sought. ( Cheers.) With respect to the old revolution of 1789, it had been re- peatedly asked, what better France was in consequence of that struggle? He would answer that question, by telling them what France had not, and they might compare it with what England had. England, remember, had had its revo- lution as well as France. Now the people of France had 110 tithes; they had no church rates; they had no corn laws; they had no hereditary aristocracy. These things they had not. by virtue of their revolution, and if they gained nothing else than an exemption from these things, they would have gained not a little. They were now about to obtain a constituency. The government could not re- fuse it. Men with muskets on their shoulders, and bayonets at the end of them, and cartridge boxes at their belts, were not to be trifled with. Now, looking to the fact that the revolution of 1830 had so mightily accelerated the march of reform in England, and knowing that the same National Guards which carried that revolution were now demanding electoral rights, he thought the council ought, in plain gra- titude, to wish them God speed. The Union was a great body. It was an influential body. It had moved, and was daily moving, many tens of thousands of the people. He had a right to say it was a powerful body, for it alarmed, in 110 small degree, both Whig and Tory, and they were pow- erful. He knew no better direction of its power than to assist, as far as its sympathy went, the peaceful demand of the brave vindicators of French liberty. He would now read the draft of an address that he had prepared. It would be submitted to a committee, and, when finally approved of, transmitted to the general of the National Guard. Mr. D. then read the following address : — " To the National Guard of Paris. " Members of the National Guard of Paris! " It is with very great satisfaction, that the men of Bir- mingham have learned your determination to procure for yourselves, and for your countrymen, an extension of the Electoral franchise. " Across the waters, which separate, but do not divide, the freemen of France and England, we offer to you, through the Council of our Political Union, the right hand of a sincere fellowship. " Your brave and beautiful country, like our own, is the prey of Party, whose only principle of government is the advancement of their own interest. The masses of the nation, the foundation of its power and the sources of its wealth, possessing 110 voice in the making of laws, to which notwithstanding they are forced to submit, nor in the im- position of taxes, which they are nevertheless compelled to pay, are suffering, with you as with us, the necessary con- sequence of such an unjust exclusion— their interests are neglected, and their rights are trampled upon. " Members of the National Guard of Paris! " The men of Birmingham have not forgotten the victory over a base and besotted tyranny achieved in the Three Glorious Days; neither are they ungrateful for the im- pulse which that triumphant exhibition of the popular will gave to the cause of English reform. It was the standard of their National Guard which cheered on the patriots of Paris at that memorable crisis— under the same unsullied banner they are now about to rally for the practical appli- cation of the principles which they then so nobly vindicated. " With the honest sympathies of men suffering under the same wrongs, influenced by the same hopes, and aiming at the same end, we bid you and them, God speed I May your present peaceful and lawful endeavouis to emancipate yourselves and your children from the thrall of faction, be crowned with a success yet more abundant, than followed your former glorious effotts against the encroachment of a single despot." The reading of the address was followed by loud applause, after which Mr. BENJAMIN HADLEY said, he rejoiced exceedingly to find that the members of that council were alive to the most important subject brought before them by Mr. Douglas. He perfectly well recollected what took place in Birming- ham, when a dinuer was given at the late Mr. Beardsworth's repository, in honour of the French revolution and the Na- tional Guards of Paris. There was one fact connected with that dinner, which was not, although it ought, to be generally known. He had the honour of being on the committee appointed to draw up the toasts for that dinner, and he well remembered, to the honour of their excellent friend, Mr. Charles Jones, that he objected to any toast given in honour of Louis Phillippe. Such was the opinion he entertained of that man, that he believed he would sell the cause of the people. How correct Mr. Jones was in his opinion time had fully told. That mail had been the main cause of the failure of the greatest viqtory ever gained by any peo- ple. He ( Mr. H.) well remembered the conduct of the National Guards of Paris on the occasion, and he^ did not hesitate to say that it gave a great impetus to reform in this country. They were indebted, in a great measure, to the French revolution for the position that they at present held. He rejoiced at the present efforts of the national guards. He saw from these efforts that it was not true that the peo- ple of France were in a state of political apathy ; that they took no interest in the maintenance of political liberty. He never believed the reports published respecting the content- ment of the people of France. There was at present in Birmingham a very intelligent French gentleman, who had distinguished himself in the last revolution, with whom he ( Mr. H.) had had several conversations, and who had uni- formly told him that the great mass of the people in France were in a state of political discontent. He was glad the cause of liberty had been taken up in France by such men as the National Guards. They were men whom Louis Phil- lippe dare not set at defiance. They stood in a'most deter- mined and commanding attitude, to secure the liberties for which they were contending, and if anything could go from England to help them, a moment ought not to be lost. He seconded the resolution. Mr. EDMONDS said, before he introduced the observation he wished to make, he begged to introduce a sovereign which was presented to the Union by Mr. Davis, the me- dalist, who had lately got out a new medal of the Union, having upon it the suffrage, iu place of household suffrage. Mr. Douglas, to whom they were indebted immensely for having brought forward several resolutions of the greatest importance, had that evening brought before them a subject which he thought was very important; he meant the im portance of their recognising the assertion of moral force on the part of the National Guard of France. It was by moral force that the members of the National Guard attempted to make Louis Phillippe respect the rights of man. It was delightful to know that however unacceptable urguments might be to royal and princely and aristocratic heads, still when they were combined with the platoun ex- ercise, they carried conviction even to the dullest. They had frequently had the picture of the first French revolution laid before them. They were told over and over again of the many excesses that were then committed. They were told now, that if the people obtained power, the first thing they would do would be to chop off heads; and as Birmingham was celebrated for its machines and the quantity of work they turned out, he should not be surprised if some worthy terrorist was already dreaming of a Birmingham guillotine to chop off heads at so much a gross. ( Laughter.) As the great mass of political power would be concentrated in Bir- mingham, there, of course, they would tell us, we shall ex- perience most the mischiefs of the French revolution. Now, there were never more impudent lies told than by those people who attempt to make them believe that the French revolution was a bloody revolution. Compared with the evils which necessarily spring from despotic go- vernments, it was but as a feather in the balance. That there were dreadful excesses he did not deny, and no one could deplore them more than he did. But let them look at Waterloo; in that battle there were more men. killed by thousands than there were, on civil condemnations, during the whole time of the French revolution. Would any one tell them what good had proceeded from the battle of Waterloo, where the people of England were sacrificed to the god of Tory power? But, had no good arisen from the French revolution? Wy did that revolution take place? Because the French people were pressed down to the earth, till at last nature forced them to throw off all tliose . encum- bering weights, and to extinguish the tyranny by which they were oppressed. With respect to the last revolution, he would say, it wits Conducted with the greatest moderation; it was a glorious revolution. During that period property of immense value came into the harids of poor Frenchmen. Was there one atom of that property stolen or . injured? He could not help reminding them that at the celebration in Birmingham of the last French revolution, there was a strange mixture of parties. It would'hardly be believed, that one of the gentlemen who figured on that occasion was no other than Mr. Richard Spooner, who was so well known at the present time as the leader of a very different party. Some one had said, that he who had once had the rays of light poured on his mind, could never lose the sense of what was right. He believed this to be the truth, and he felt as- sured that Mr. Spooner had as great an abhorrence of tyranny as any of them had. On that occasion, Mr. SpBonermoved 01 seconded a resolution of congratulation to the French! He felt gratified at the present attempt of the mgn'of France to obtain their rights. It was a new spectacle. Soldiers gently reasoning with their tyrants, and telling them that they are men who have arms, and will not be- trifled with. Several motions of great importance had originated with their friend Mr. Douglas. The national petition was due to that gentleman; and on every occasion on which they had made a figure before the public, his advice hal been of the utmost importance. This induced him ( Mr. Edmonds) to say that he was a great accession, notonly to the Political Union, but to the people of Birmingham, and to the whole of the political public of the country. ( Hear, hear, hear.) He had an object in view in making that observation, he wished to say on the present occasion, that they were so deeply indebted to Mr. Douglas, that they would be the basest of the base, if they did not stand by him and support him in all his exertions for the public good. Even the Tory Advertiser was forced to characterise the Journal as the first Liberal paper in that part of the country. He must tell them if they did not stand by that paper, if they chose to sacrifice it for any other, they might talk about principle as much as they chose; but to desert their benefactors was the worst treachery. He must say the Liberals were not supporting that paper with advertisements as they ought to do. He hoped they would see the importance of attending to their duty in this respect. If such a paper was allowed to go down, if its editor was withdrawn to another sphere of exertion, they would never obtain another vehicle equally powerful, nor another man with the same ability and devo- tion to the cause of the people. Mr. HADLEY said the observations made by Mr. Ed- monds respecting the Journal, were of vital importance to the Reformers, not only of Birmingham, but to the cause of liberty throughout the country. ( Hear, hear.) He would say, if they refused to support a man, whose whole soul was in the cause, they would be of all people the least excusable, and the most censurable. From the nature of his Own education, and a pretty general knowledge of politics, and of the abilities requisite for conducting a newspaper, he would say he knew no paper in the kingdom which con- tained a greater quantity of excellent matter, or which was conducted in its literary or political departments with greater ability than the Birmingham Journal. He knew it to be a fact, that so great were the talents of the editor of that paper, and so ingeniously and ably were the politics of that paper conducted, that the Tories of the town and neighbourhood now felt forced to read it, and openly to acknowledge the ability with which it was conducted. ( Cheers.) The resolution was then put and seconded, relative to the address, and a committee appointed to see it en- grossed. Mr. COLLINS entirely concurred in the address to the National Guards of Paris. It was an important address, because it would produce a great effect. He had a subject J net less importance to introduce to their notice. They ivere all aware that very strenuous exertions were being made to direct the attention of the people from the great movement which was going on. The enemies of the peo- ple were aware that they were determined in obtaining universal suffrage, which would at once put an end to their misrule. They had accordingly directed all their energies through the press, to divert the attention of the people from that great object; and as they knew they could not succeed without placing something else before the Re- formers, they had selected the corn- laws, for the repeal of which they were urging them to agitate. Now, he ( Mr. C.) was convinced that it would require as much agita- tion to abolish the corn- laws, as it would to obtain universal suffrage—( hear, hear)— and such being the case, where was the man who could not see the folly of wasting all their strength and time in trying to re- to remove a portion of the effects of a bad system, rather than go at once for a removal of the cause of all the evils which afflicted the country? They must take care not to be diverted from their object. If the corn laws were the only evil they had to complain of, they ought, of course, to go for their repeal; but they were not. They were only a part of the evils, and their removal would not confer the promised advantage, even if it could be insured. If they were re. pealed to- morrow, what security would they have, with the present House of Commons, that some other equally mis- chievous laws would not be passed ? No man could charge the men of Birmingham, or the Union, with being friends to the corn laws. ( Hear, hear.) No, they were not. They would go any length to repeal them ; but they saw the folly of raising the cry for their repeal at present. They had fixed their hearts upon universal suffrage, and that, and nothing less, would satisfy them. He felt it was necessary that the people of England should be reminded of the great object for which they were contending, and specially cau- tioned against divisions. He held in his hand a resolution to the effect that that council, seeing that attempts were being made to divert the attention of the country from the agitation of the question of universal suffrage, felt it to be their duty to issue an address to the Reformers of the king- dom, cautioning them against being led away by such arti- fices. He felt confident such an address was necessaiy at the present moment. Mr. C. then moved the resolution for a committee to prepare the address. Mr. PIERCE rose with great pleasure to second the reso- lution proposed by Mr. Collins. He said he observed that some of the newspapers, writhing under the castigation they had received, appeared quite anxious to remove the idea entertained of them, that they wished to divert the attention of the people from universal suffrage. How some of these could reconcile their disclaimers with the resolution they had drawn up the other day, to be submitted at t| ie approach- ing great meeting in London, he knew not. Editors were, he supposed, to be allowed a little more than ordinary latitude in these matters. He felt fully persuaded of the necessity of such an address as Mr. Collins bad adverted to. It was quite certain, if they had boldly gone for universal suffrage seven years ago, they would not be in the condition they were at present. However, there they were, contend- ing for this great principle, and he hoped no man would allow himself to be diverted from it. He hoped, no man, however humble, would say lie could do nothing towards the achievement of it. Let no man say he had 110 interest in the question. The object which the council had in view was to give to every man of sound mind, and untainted by crime, power to elect his own representative, and make laws for the government of himself. Every man, therefore, had a direct interest in their labours. With respect to the repeal of the corn laws, he would say, that it was quite evident that the Whigs, who advised them to agitate for a repeal of them, bad not the least wish that they should be repealed. The corn- laws were a source of monopoly and profit to the Whigs as well as Tories, and they had no intention of re- pealing them. The people must, therefore, push forward, anil have no other ol ject in view than universal suffrage. Mr. BAKER said, they must pay very little attention to the complaints of the newspapers, because it was quite obvious, let them do as they might, they never could please them. Twelve months ago exertions were made by the people of Birmingham to induce the government to enquire into the cause of the distress of the nation, and then the newspapers charged them with an attempt to alter the currency, and blamed them for the attempt. At another time they called the attention of the people and government to the corn laws, and then they were told that they were trying to set the agricultural and manufacturing interests at loggerheads. They had tried their hands upon every subject, and the newspapers always told them they were wrong. It was quite clear, therefore, that if they intended to do any good lor themselves, they must not mind the gentlemen who managed the London press. With respect to agitating foe a repeal of the corn laws, it was absurd to talk about it. ( Hear, hear.) The com laws were only one consequence of a system of misrepresentation. When the corn bill was passed, two millions of hands were held up against it, and notwithstanding it was carried by the bayonet and the can- non; nothing but an irresistable force from without would be sufficient to induce their rulers to alter that law. He hoped they would not, therefore, be diverted from the great object they had iu view by any clap- trap question that might be raised for that purpose. The business of the council being gone through, the meeting adjourned. Previous to the members separating, Mr. Douglas brought under their notice a subject of considerable importance, and which required to be generally known to the Union, he meant the establishment of sectional rooms throughout the town. He had before him the rules of one which, was in full operation, at the Commercial Inn', Great Hampton- street. It appeared to be admirably conducted. The object of the society was to enrol members of the Union, and to assist such well- meaning men to purchase tickets as were not able to buy them out of their own small resources. He hoped the example of the gentlemen who met at the above inn would be speedily and generally followed. 4 THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, SEPTEMBER 15. GRAND MUSICAL FESTIVAL, InAidof the BUILDING FUND of the. BIRMING- HAM MECHANICS' INSTITUTION, IN THE TOWN HALL, ON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10TH, 1838. THE COMMITTEE have much pleasure in an- nouncing to their Friends and the Public, that they INTEND producing on the above occasion, HANDEL'S cele- - ferated ORATORIO of THE MESSIAH, IN THE MORNING, AND A MISCELLANEOUS SELECTION, IN THE EVENING. The following Vocalists are already engaged:— MISS BIRCH, MISS BRUCE, MR. BAKER, MR. BRAHAM, MR. HARRISON, AND MR. PHILLIPS, PRINCIPAL TRUMPET— MR. HARPER. CONDUCTOR— SIR GEORGE SMART, ( Of the Chapel Royal,) Who will preside at the Organ. The Choral and Orchestral Department will be full and complete; and neither trouble nor expense will be spared to render the Performances a splendid musical attraction. The whole of the Seats in the Galleries will be reserved at 5s. each. Admission to the Floor of the Hall, 2s. 6d. each. Plans of the Reserved Seats in the Galleries will be ready on Wednesday next, at Mr. Fletcher's Music Saloon, 31, " Temple row. , , Tickets to the Floor may be had at most of the Book- sellers and Music Shops, and at the Newspaper Offices. BIRMINGHAM ROYAL SCHOOL OF MEDI- CINE AND SURGERY. THE council of this institution request terms of lodgings, with or without board, for medical students. References will be required. Address, undercover, ( post paid) WILLUM SANDS COX, Hon. Secretary. Paradise street, Sep. 12th, 1838. NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM. THE committee of this department of the Royal School of Medicine have pleasure in announcing that the Museum, including the rich collection of Mr. Weaver, is now open daily from 11 o'clock until 4 o'clock to share holders, and to the public on the following terms.— Single admission for adults, one shilling; children, six- pence; annual personal admission, five shillings. Annual subscriptions are solicited, and there are shares yet unappropriated. WILLIAM SANDS COX, Hon. Secretary. Paradise- itreet, Sep. 12th, 1838. GENERAL HOSPITAL, BIRMINGHAM. Committee Room. 14th Sept., 1838. AQUARTERLY BOARD OF GOVERNORS ; of this Institution, being the anniversary, will be holden on Friday next, the 21st instant, at Twelve o'clock, when the company of the Governors generally is requested. By order of the Weekly Board, WM. MILLER, Secretary. IMPROVEMENTS IN EDUCATION FOR THE MIDDLE AND HIGHER CLASSES OF SOCIETY. MR. JOHN SMITH, of Liverpool, has arranged . to deliver his much approved COURSE of FOUR LECTURES on the EARLY TRAINING of CHIL- DREN, and on the Smith- and- Dolier Plans of Instruc- tion, at the Heathfield Rooms, Handsworth, on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday evenings, September 17th, 18th, 520th, and 21st, at seven o'clock. Particulars, gratis, may be had at the Rooms, and of Messrs. WRIGHTSON and WEBB, New- street, Birmingham R H. HULL, 16, BULL- RING, CORNER OF MOOR- STREET, ETURNS his best thanks to the ladies of Bir- mingham for the very liberal patronage he has re. ceived since his commencement in business, and takes this opportunity to respectfully solicit their inspection of his Stock for the approaching season, consisting of BLANKETS, FLANNELS, PLAIN lr PRINTED MERINOES, SHA WLS, CHEAP DARK SILKS, AND SILK VELVETS FOR CLOAKS. H. H.' s woollen goods were purchased prior to the recent Advance on Wool, and having the advantage of no former year's Stock, his Friends may make their selections without • njr danger of having unfashionable colours, or articles injured bv moth. NORTHERN DIVISION OF WARWICKSHIRE. WTOTLCE is hereby given, that NATHANIEL il BASEVI, and JOHN ROBERT KENYON, Esquires, the Barristers appointed to Revise the Lists of Voters - for the NORTHERN DIVISION of the COUNTY of WARWICK, will hold Courts for that purpose at the following times and places, when and where all OVERSEERS are required to attend with their several LISTS, and the several Notices served upon them. At © UNCHURCH, on MONDAY the 17th day of SEPTEMBER, at half- past Ten o'clock in the fore- noon, to Revise the Lists for the following parishes and Townships: — Bilton Bourton and Draycote Brown sover Churchover Clifton- upon- Dungmore Cotford Dunchurch I'rankton Killmorton At BRINKLOW, on Long Lawford Monk's Riding Newton and Biggin Newbold- upon- Avon Princethorp Rugby Stretton- on- Dunsmore Tliui las ton Willoughby TUESDAY the 18th day of SEPTEMBER, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, to Bevise the Lists for the following parishes and town- • hips: — Ansty Brandon and Bretford Brinklow Combefields Chilrch Lawford Easenhall Harborough Magna Haf'uorough Parva Little Lawford Monks Kirby Cestersover Newnham Paddox At COVENTRY, on WEDNESDAY the 19th day of SE- PTEMBER, at half- past ten o'clock in the fore- noon, to Revise the Lists for the following parishes and townships Street Fields Street Aston Newnham Regis Pailton Shilton Stretton- under. Fosse and Newhold Revel Wibtoft Willey Withyhrook and Hopsford Wolston and Marston Allesley Berkswetl ^^ JBinley ~ Corley Coundon Coventry Bxhall Foleshill At NUNEATON, on MONDAY, the 24th day of SEPTEMBER, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, to Bevise the Lists for the following parishes and town- ships:— Keresley Ryton- on- Dunsmore Sow Stivichall Stoke Willenhall Wyken Astley Bedworth Bulkington Barnacle Bramcoate Marston Jabbett Burton Hastings Caldecote Chilvers Coton Copson Nuneaton Attleborough Stockingford Stretton Baskerville Weddington Wolvey At ATHERSTONE, on TUESDAY the 25th day of SEPTEMBER, at half- past ten o'clock in the fore noon, to Revise the Lists for the following parishes and townships: — Ansley Arley Atherstone Baddesley Ensor Baxterley Bentley Hartshill Mancetter Merevale Oldbury At POLE'SWORTH, on WEDNESDAY the 26th day of SEPTEMBER, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, to revise the lists for the following parishes and town ships: Amtngton and Stonedelph Austrey Boleliall and Glascote Grendon and Whittington Newton Regis Polesworth Donion Freasley and Hall End Wharton Seckington Shuttington Tamworth Castle and Borough Wilnecote At COLESHILL, on THURSDAY the 27th day SEPTEMBER, at half- past ten o'clock in the fore noon, to Revise the Lists for the following parishes and townships: — Coleshill Cu* dworth Fillongley Great Packington Kingsbury Hurley t Dosthill ' Lea Marston At SUTTON COLDFIELD, TO IN THE RETAILERS OF MILL BREAD THE BOROUGH OF BIRMINGHAM. Committee Room, Edgbaston. street, Thursday, Sept. 13th, 1838. Mr. B. GILES, in the Chair; YOUR memorial has been presented; an answer lias also been received, the result of which is as follows: — At a meeting of the Committee and Proprietors of Flour Mills, held on the 10th inst. Resolved, That the present commission upon the sale of Mill Bread be continued. Your Committee are thoroughly convinced that the above resolution entirely precludes from us the possibility of our selling Mill Bread without inflicting a serious injury, as the reward for capital, risk, and labour. Your Committee are desirous that the interest of the trade should be speedily sought' after. Arrangements are being made for holding a meeting to receive some important propositions, and to adopt measures most advisable to insure justice to the Retailers of Mill Bread. B. GILES, Chairman. SURGEONS, MERCHANTS, MANUFACTURERS, PAWNBROKERS, AND OTHERS. TO be LET, in St. Mary's- square, Birmingham, Four extensive and respectable PREMISES, well adapted for gentlemen in the above capacities, with good Chambers, Stables, Gig House, and Cart Entrance to double lighted Shopping. Apply to R. C. MASON, 36, Loveday street, Birmingham. TO MACHINE RULERS AND BOOKBINDERS. TO be LET, a small portion of Shopping, fitted up with a capital Ruling Machine, complete with frames and pens, arid also Binder's rolls, letters, and other requisites. This is an opportunity which seldom occurs for persons wishing to commence in the above business, as the rent re quired will be very low; and there is already some connexion attached. Apply by letter, with real name and address, post paid, W. F., at the Post- office. TO BOOKSELLERS AND STATIONERS. TO be DISPOSED OF, in a good situation in a large market town, in one of the midland counties, a Business in the above branches, to which Printing might be be added with advantage. The Proprietor quitting the con- cern through ill health. Letters, post paid, directed M. A. to the care of the printer of this paper, will receive attention. THREE TUNS PUBLIC HOUSE, PINFOLD- STREET, BIRMINGHAM. TO be SOLD by AUCTION, on tbe premises, on TUESDAY, the 25th day of September inst., at five o'clock in the evening, subject to conditions then to be pro- duced, ( unless in the mean time an acceptable offer should be made by private contract,) the LICENSES, GOOD- WILL, and POSSESSION of the above well frequented house, now doing an excellent business; with several Societies attached; situated near to New- street and the Town- hall, Birmingham. The premises are convenient for. the business. Rent and payments under 30/. per annum. For particulars, and to treat, apply to the proprietor, upon the premises, who will give satisfactory reasons for leaving or to JOHN RODERICK, Agent and Valuer. Offices— New- street and. Bennett's- hill. NEW ASSORTMENT OP SATINS, SILKS, SHAWLS, FURS, & c., & c,, AT THE CORNER OF TEMPLE- ROW AND COLMOREROW, BIRMINGHAM. JOHN BOULTON most respectfully announces that he has, during the past week, purshased in the London Markets, an entirely new and extensive assortment of the most prevailing articles for Ladies' wear; they are now ready for inspection, and consist of the most approved colours and richest qualities in Figured and Plain SATINS, GROS DE NAPLES, DUCAPES, SATINETTES, BARATHEAS, SATIN TURCS, & c., & C.; MOUS- SELINE DE LAINE, CHALIS DE LAINE, CHALIS, and a variety of other DRESSES adapted to the season ; also Embroidered MUSLIN ROBES, of en- tirely new patterns; some novelties in SHAWLS, SCARFS, HANDKERCHIEFS, & c., & c.; SILK VELVETS and FRENCH MERINOS, in every shade of colour; LACE GOODS of eveiy description; MUS- LIN WORK, RIBBONS, GLOVES, & c., & c. FURS. JOHN BOULTON begs also to announce, that his Stock of FURS ( for the reception of which he has fitted up some convenient and spacious apartments) will be ready for inspection on MONDAY NEXT. It is entirely new, and se- lected with great care and attention. An early inspection will make apparent to LADIES disposed to purchase the advantages of selecting from a new stock of Furs, many de- scriptions of which are so much reduced in price as to bear no comparison with former years. JOHN BOULTON acknowledges with gratitude the patronage which has been extended to him, and begs to state that the business at the corner of Temple- row West and Colmore- row will in future be conducted by him entirely on his own account. He is induced to repeat this announce- ment in consequence of a report ( originating, no doubt, in misconception, and extensively circulated) that he is about removing from the Premises above- mentioned. Such re- port is without the least foundation, and he feels it to be his duty to endeavour thus to counteract its mischievous tendency. September 6th, 1838. MICHAELMAS FAIR. NOTICE is hereby given, that the usual Cattle and other Markets will be held in Birmingham on Thursday the 27th day of September. WILLIAM SCHOLEFIELD, High Bailiff. September 15,1838. WANTED, immediately, for the Journal Office, a Lad, as Light Porter, or an elderly Man of sober habits would not be objected. Apply to the Publisher. MR. G. R. COLLIS, late Sir E. THOMASON'S Works, Birmingham, will have in a few weeks, a vacancy for the son of a gentleman, as an articled Apprentice, in the counting- house and manufactoiy. As the situation holds out peculiar advantages for gaining a superior knowledge of manufacturing and mercantile busi- ness, a premium will be required. Address, if by letter, post paid, to Mr. G. R. Coins, Church street. Birmingham, September 17th, 1838. REMOVALS. ROBERT SMALLWOOD, grateful for past fa- vours, again informs the Nobility, Gentry, and the Public generally, that he has, for the puipose of REMOV- ING GOODS to any part of the kingdom, both Covered and Open WAGGONS, Horses, and careful Drivers, which may be had at a short notice. Apply at his Commercial Wharfs, Worcester- wharf, Bir- mingham. A £ 50 SOCIETY, AT the WHITE HART, Paradise- street, continues to meet on every Tuesday evening. The proprietor of the house gives a Supper on the next Club night at half past seven o'clock, and respectfully invites any Gentleman wishing to become a Member. ^ A Share will be Sold. NO. 1, MONEY CLUB has commenced at the Three Tuns, Digbeth, for £ 50, £ 40, £ 30, or £ 20. Time of meeting— every Thursday evening, from seven to nine o'clock. Any gentleman becoming a member, will oblige their humble servant, THOMAS BARNS. £ 500, and £ 100, to lend on mortgages. Apply ( post paid) to Mr. Tarleton, Solicitor, Temple- street. jyjONEY.—£ 200, £ 100, NEW- STREET TO RAILWAY STATIONS. JUST Published, price Is., PLAN OF AN IN- TENDED NEW STREET, to the aentre of the town from the Railway Stations. Sold by WRIQHTSON and WEBB, New- street. REGISTER OFFICE, 72, NE W- S TREE T, CONDUCTED BY MR. AND MRS. SHEAF. WHO have on Register MALE and FEMALE SERVANTS, suitable for Private Families, Hotels, Inns, & c. & c. WANTED, a situation for a Young Woman, as Housekeeper, to a Widower or a Single Gentleman.— Wages not an object. WANTED, a situation for a Young Woman as a Ladies' Maid, Upper House- maid, or in a Travelling Family. A vairiety of HOUSES and SHOPS to Let. APARTMENTS to Let in George street, Easy row, High street, Bath row, Crescent street; Bridge street, Digbeth, Bar- tholomew row, Steelbouse lane, Great Charles street, Hockley hill, Parade, Spring Vale street, Cannon street, Alcester street, Graham street, Summer hill, Russell row, Horse fair, Howe street, Summer lane, Harborne road, Handsworth, & c. A good Pork Trade to be disposed of. A Day School to be disposed of, & c. Want to Purchase, Freehold and Leasehold Property. Letters post paid. ROSE AI^ D CROWN PUBLIC HOUSE, Lichfield- street, Birmingham. TO be DISPOSED OF by PRIVATE CON TRACT, ( in consequence of the Purchaser not fulfilling his agreement), the Licenses, Good Will, and Possession of the above Public House, which is old established, and known to possess a regular profitable custom. The usual Effects to be taken at a fair appraise- ment. For particulars and to treat, apply upon the premises, or to JOHN RODERICK, Agent and Valuer. Offices— New street and Bennett's bill. OLD ESTABLISHED PUBLIC HOUSES, INNS, SPIRIT AND WINE VAULTS, LICENSED BY THE MAGISTRATES. TO be SOLD by PRIVATE CONTRACT, a va- riety of Houses of the above description in Birming- ety ham, situate near to Milk street Moor street Snow hill Digbeth Great Charles street Broad street Balsall street Bull street Newtown row Hill street I Summer lane Constitution hill Maryann street Bartholomew street Coleshill street Suffolk street Warstone lane Oxford street Camden street Hill street Coming in from £ 100 to £ 1400. Por particulars and to treat apply to JOHN RODERICK, Auctioneer. Offices— New street and Bennett's hill. Premiums obtained for Old Houses within the last ten days—£ 500, £ 410, £ 3.15, £ 300, £ 200, £ 140, £ 100, and 70 Guineas. New Houses £ 40, £ 5, £ 3. SALE AT No. 6, SEVERN STREET. TO be SOLD by AUCTION, on the premises as above, on Monday, September 17th, 1838, all the Genteel HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE and other Effects. The sale to commence at ten o'clock— Conditions nsual. G. H. ST. CLAIR, Auctioneer. Offices and Sale Rooms, 26,. Upper Temple street. Little Packington Maxstoke Meriden Nether Whitacre Sheldon Shustoke Over Whitacre on FRIDAY the 28th day of SEPTEMBER, at eleven o'clock in the fore- noon, to Revise the Lists for the following parishes and townships:— Middleton I Moxhull and Wishaw Minworth | Sutton Coldfield At SOLIHULL, on SATURDAY the 29th day of SEPTEMBER, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, to Revise the Lists for the following parishes and town- ships :— Baddesley Clinton Balsall Barston Bickenhill Elmdon At BIRMINGHAM, at t Hampton- in- Arden Kinwalsey Knowle Nuthurst Solihull PUBLIC- OFFICE, MONDAY the 1st dayof OCTOBER, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, to Revise the Lists for the following parishes and townships : — Aston, near Birmingham Aston Manor Bordesley Castle Bromwich Deritend Duddeston and Nechells Erdington NATHANIEL BASEVI. JOHN ROBERT KENYON. Dated the 1th day of September, 1638. Little Bromwich Saltley and Washwood Water Orton Witton Birmingham Edgbaston FRAMPTON, NEAR BOSTON, LINCOLNSHIRE. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, by JOHN MAR- SH ALL, at the Peacock Inn, in Boston, in the County of Lincoln, on Wednesday, the 24th day of October next, at Five o'clock in the evening. Subject to such con- dition* as shall be declared at the time of sale, A vbry valuable ESTATE, tithe- free, situate in Framp- ton, id tbe County of Lincoln, on fhe London road, three miles kiuth of the borough of Boston, consisting of a spa cious and substantial freehold mansion, in excellent repair and condition, with suitable ofljCes of every description; stables, coach- houses, capital gardens, hot- houses, and ex- tensive pleasure grounds, late the residence of Charles Keightly Tunnard, Esq., deceased; together with 202acres of remarkably rich pasture, feeding, and arable land, lying contiguous thereto, whereof the lawn ( ornamented with thriving plantations, and a handsome lodge) contains up- wards of forty acres. There are also three capital farm- houses on the estate, and a convenient cottage. Fifty acres are of copyhold tenure, of the respective manors of Stone Hall, Earl's Hall, and Multon Hall. The residue of the estate is freehold. The mansion house is unoccupied. The lands and farm- houses are in the respective tenures of Mr. Samuel Smeeton, Mr. Henry Munk, Mr. Samuel Burrell, Mr. George Brad- ley, Mr. John Sharp, Mr. Robert Watson, Mr. John Brown, and others. Possession of the mansion, gardens, & c., may be had immediately, and of the lands, & c., now in occupation, at Old Lady Day next. The mansion may be viewed on application to Mr. Sa- muel Burrell, at Frampton, who will also show the estate. Particulars may be had on, and after, the 20th of Septem- ber, at the principal Inns in Boston, Sleaford, Spalding, Spilsby, Lincoln, and Stamford, and of Messrs. Pearson and Holdich, Solicitors, Sleaford, and of Mr. Jebb, Solicitor, Boston, at whose offices plans of the estate may be in- spected, and of whom any further information may be ob- tained. Boston, September 3,1838. TO NEWS AGENTS. rpHE NORTHERN STAR, price 4jd., edited by JL F. O'Connor, Esq., published every Saturday. Ageiit for Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Staffordshire, and the Midland Counties, JAMES GUEST, 93, Steelhouse lane, Birmingham, by whom the trade will be supplied upon the same terms as at the Office. All orders ( post paid) with remittance or reference for payment, punctually attended to.' A splendid Portrait given gratis once a month. On Saturday, September 22, a Portrait of W. Cobbett will be given. IMPORTANT NOTICE. ARTIFICIAL TEETH SUPPLIED, AND DECAYED TEETH RESTORED. MONS. DE BERRI and CO., SURGEON DEN- TISTS, 17, EASY- ROW, Birmingham, and 121, Re- gent- street, London, most respectfully acquaint theirfriends and the public, that, in consequence of their improvements in the mechanical department of Dentistry, they are enabled to supply ARTIFICIAL TEETH without Pain, Springs, Wires, or Ligatures, at the following reduced scale:— 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, ( usually charged forty guineas) 20 0 0 Mons. DE BERRI and Co. continue to RESTORE DECAYED TEETH with their celebrated MINERAL SILICEUM, applied without pain, heat, or pressure, which in a few seconds hardens into enamel, preventing and curing the Tooth- Ache, allaying in one minute the most ex- cruciating pain, and rendering the operation of extraction unnecessary, they also FASTEN LOOSE TEETH, whether arising from neglect, the use of calomel, or any othercause. SCURVY of the GUM EFFECTUALLY CURED and PREVENTED. 17, Easy- row, Birmingham. Iggr One of the above firm may be consulted daily, for a limited period, at 46, FOREGATE- STREET, WORCESTER. LIGHT PORTER. TO COACH IRON FOUNDERS AND PLATERS. S TRAVELLER, a respectable young man, who L has a perfect knowledge of the above business, hav- ing been in one of the first HOUSES IN LONDON UPWARDS OF NINE YEARS, is well acquainted with the LONDON COACH MAKERS, and in all the provincial towns of the West of England, a permanent SITUATION is required. Unexceptionable references can be given. Please direct, post- paid, J. E., 81, A., Park- street, Gros- venor square, London, which will meet with immediate attention. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The deputation returned from Glasgow on the 30th of 1 A correspondent asks us, " if a young girl has a bastard child, and it is 1% years, or 18 months old, whether she can swear the child, or whether she can get any money for the said child?" This is rather a puzzling question. We don't think it is customary to swear a child of years, or 18 months old. As to getting any money for such a child, that will depend, we suppose, a good deal on its condition. We don't think the fact of the girl's being young is of much importance. We cannot read our correspondent's other query. ' The Hospital and Dispensary lists reach the Journal with great irregularity. This week the one came too late for insertion, and the other did not come at all. BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1838. 81. lis. 6d.; the two attendances of the principal, and the one of the clerk are charged 17/. 12s. 6d.; Mr. WRIGHT'S charges for three attendances at Warwick 3/. 3s. There is the Radical clique job— do the immaculate opponents of the Radical clique wish for any more explanation ? They may contend that Messrs. Whateley sell better law than humble unknown Edward Wright does— we have shown that they charge a better price. Now, the law is a matter, of the quality of which we do not pretend to judge. One thing only we know, the issue was the same in the six cases and in the four- teen. We ask, their, the most prejudiced of the rate payers, be they the respectables of the Blue list, whom the negation of their customary afternoon refection, much more than Radical argument, has so sorely grieved; be they the gentlemen of the White list, who, of course, are not moved by such small bribes, would the law committee, after trial being made of Mr. WRIGHT'S ability and charges, have been justi- fied in refusing to have recourse to him a second time ? Was a saving of somewhat more than two- thirds in the article of law expenses to be despised, for fear, for- sooth, of the imputation of jobbing from a party, whose whole history is one gross palpable job ? For our own part, we shall ever give the prefer- ence in parish business or national business, to a re- former, provided always he have the the talents that the charge intrusted to him requires. The Tories, in every case, in parish business and in national business, give the preference to a Tory, whether he possess the requisite abilities or not. This is the small difference between Tory jobs and Radical jobs. But in the case we have been discussing, the interest of the parish was so plain and obvious, that had Messrs. WHATE- LEY been ultra- radicals, and Mr. WRIGHT been an ultra- Tory, we, and we feel confident the Radical clique, who take the lead in the weekly debate, as they do in every thing else they mingle in, would have pursued precisely the same course. GREAT LEINSTER AND MUNSTER RAILWAY. FIRST EXTENSION FROM DUBLIN TO KILKENNY. AT the FIRST HALF- YEARLY MEETING of the COMPANY, held at their offices, 62, Moorgate- street, this day, FRANCIS WILSON, Esq., Deputy. Chairman, IN THE CHAIR, The following resolutions were passed unanimpusly :— Moved by JOSEPH HARRIS, Esq., seconded by G. L. SMYTH, Esq., 1. That the Report, Statement of Accounts, and Memo- rial to Government now read, be approved, received, and entered on the minutes. Moved by EDWARD IRVING, Esq., seconded by EDWARD STEWART, Esq., 2. That the Report be printed and distributed amongst the Proprietors. Moved by; G. L. SMYTH, Esq., seconded by JAMES HORSEMAN, Esq., 3. That the Proprietors of the Great Leinster and Mun- ster Railway feel it an imperative duty to protest against the principles laid down by the commissioners on Irish railways, of undue interference with private enterprise; and they cannot but regret that the recommendations of the commissioners have a tendency to check the flow of British capital into Ireland, and to paralyse the industry of the Irish people; but they entertain a 6trong feeling of confi- dence that no such interference will receive the sanction of Her Majesty's government."* Moved by CHARLES H. LA TOUCHE, Esq., seconded by BENJAMIN SHAW, ESQ.^ 4. That this meeting do now adjourn, as recommended in the report of the Diiectors, for the purpose of receiving the report of the Engineers, and for such other matters as may be submitted by the Board at said adjourned meeting. Thanks were then voted to the Directors and the meeting adjourned. w ( Signed) FRANCIS WILSON, Office, 62, Moorgate- street, Deputy Chairman. London, August 31, 1833. We h ave a few remarks to make on parish business, the text for which is supplied in the following state- ment, which appeared in the Tory paper of Thursday— The Radical clique, who take the lead in the weekly debate, are most decided jobbers. There is a clause in the Guardians' act which prohibits a guardian from supplying the Workhouse with any article, or commodity, under pain of a heavy penally. Mr. G. Edmonds, however, is a law- yer, and, in spite of this clause, he contrives legally to serve the guardians with law. The thing is admirably managed, Eveiybody knows that Mr. Edmonds is an articled clerk to Mr. Wright— a gentleman, who, if we are correctly in- formed, was introduced into the town for the special pur- pose of becoming Mr. Edmonds's master. Of course, after the unfortunate affair in the Queen's Bench, Mr. Edmonds takes special care not to receive any of Mr. Wright's pro fits; but it so happens that he is the most active manager of Mr. Wright's business, and that Mr. Wright is occasionally employed as parish lawyer! We wonder whether Mr, Wright has ever shown his face at the Workhouse; or whether, although he is occasionally the parish legal adviser, Mr. Bynner ever personally consulted HIM! This is job the first;— but another is in progress. To job the first we shall for the present limit our observations; job the second we shall attend to when we know what it is. As facts go rather farther than assertions, we shall confine ourselves to facts, merely premising, that so far as the case alluded to concerns Mr. EDMONDS personally, we care nothing about it- and we dare say he cares as little. It is, as connected with the management of the parish that we notice it., The legal gentlemen, who, previous to the Radical clique becoming guardians, managed the whole of the parochial business, were the Messrs. WHATELEY Whether they were chosen by the Tory clique for their law or their Toryism, we shall not inquire— they are at least as distinguished for the one as the other. We say this without the slightest intention to detract from their reputation for ability or legal knowledge. The Radical clique, when they came to examine the ac counts submitted to them by the Messrs. WHATELEY thought them immoderately high. We state this merely as a fact, without meaning or wishing to say, that there was the slightest irregularity or overchargi in the accounts. Now, as plain non- legal men, the Radical clique had but one way of ascertaining whe ther their opinion was well or ill- founded ; and that they adopted, by employing another lawyer to manage the next case; and thus to furnish them with a stand aid of comparison. They employed Mr. WRIGHT—; gentleman of great diligence, and very precise and extensive knowledge of his profession. That he was connected with Mr. EDMONDS was, we have not the slightest doubt, an additional recommendation— and most properly. We should think the Radical clique a set of consummate ninnies if it had been otherwise. Three accounts from Messrs. WHATELEY, and three from Mr. WRIGHT, have passed under our view as Guardians, and we proceed to give an analysis of them. First, for those of Messrs. WIIATELEY. These relate to six cases— removals. We may just remark that all the cases managed by the one party and thf other were of the simplest possible nature. The nett charge— we deduct the sums paid out— for conducting these six cases to an issue was 551. 9s. 8d.; the time, as near as we can make out from the accounts, over which the labours of the firm were spread, was twelve days; the items in the three accounts are fifty- six. Mr. WRIGHT'S nett charge— payments made being in his case also deducted— for fourteen cases, four of bastardy and ten removals, was 341. 15s. lid.; the number of days was apparently eighteen; the number of items in the three accounts was sixty- nine. The contrast will he better seen from the following tabular statement:— MESSRS. WHATELEY. £ Charge per case .. per day ... —• per item ... MR. WRIGHT, s. d. £ s. d. 9 4 11 2 9 8 4 12 5 1 18 8 0 19 9 0 10 0 There are other particulars in the two charges which are equally pertinent. For instance, for attendance at Warwick Messrs. WHATE LEY'S clerk charges 3/.; for their own attendance there, Messrs. WHATELEY charge 61. Is.; for a similar attendance at Stafford, We have received the following letter in reference to our article on the Sun newspaper:— To the Editor of the BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL. SIR,— In your article of last Saturday, upon the line of politics taken by the Sun evening paper, there is the fol- lowing passage:—" The Sun was pretty steadily Whiggish, but moderate withal, until its junction with the True Sun, which seemed to have infused into its columns a more ex- tended liberality, though a struggling of old principles with new was still noticeable, even in its most elaborate essays." Now, as I had a compartively small interest in the True Sun evening paper, and a large share in its conduct, I feel bound to correct the impression that part of your article I have quoted would convey to your readers. There was no junction of the True Sun with the Sun in any other sense than can be implied in the fact that the copyright of the daily True Sun was sold to the proprietor of the Sun. Neither the eminent political writer, who was the chief editor ( I do not mean Mr. Harvey) nor myself, to whom alone the merits or defects pf the political articles in the evening True Sun were attributable, ever wrote a line for the Sun. The Sun has many and great merits of its own; but I believe its active proprietor, Mr. Young, would rather deprecate the idea, that the democratic opinions advocated in the evening True Sun ever passed over into his columns. I have two reasons for thus troubling you, first, I would not have your intelligent readers blame the Sun for an assumed inconsistency, which, if real, is in noway attri- butable to " a junction with the True Sun " and, secondlyf because the same writers who were answerable for the Radicalism of the evening True Sun, are still urging the similar opinions in the WEEKLY TRUE SUN. If you can afford a corner for this letter next week, you will oblige a sincere admirer of your journal. THE EDITOR OF THE WEEKLY TRUE SUN. Weekly True Sun Office, 366, Strand, September 10th, 1838. We can assure the most respectable writer, that we have very great pleasure in devoting a corner to the communication with which he has thus honoured us; for, an honour we shall always consider it, to be the vehicle of any communication from one who advocates the cause of general liberty with so much zeal and ability as the editor of the True Sun. Although the information comes to us now, for the first time, in a direct and authentic form, we were not ignorant, when we wrote the article alluded to, that no junction, except a commercial one, had taken place between the Sun and the True Sun. In stating that, for some time, at least, subsequent to that junction, a more liberal spirit seem to be infused into the Sun, we merely referred to a fact of general notoriety. Had we stopped to notice the cause of the change, we should at once have attri- buted it to one, which is, at least, as notorious— the decidedly trading character of the Sun. The whole course of that paper, since it came under its present management, whose great activity we are most ready to acknowledge, and not without gratitude, for we have repeatedly benefitted by it, has been of a trading character. The Sun has, in no instance, endeavoured to make way by literary superiority; by the bold advocacy of established principles; or, a more une- quivocal test, by the promulgation of such as were im- perfectly understood, or partially relished. It has placed its claims to public favour on lower and more obvious grounds— on the speed of its dispatches, the copiousness of its reports, its second and third editions, its queens, captains, and gold lace. We beg to be distinctly understood— we do not mention these things in the way of blame. Every newspaper must partake, more or less, of a commercial character— the necessity of the case brings with it a sufficient vindication. Mr. O'CONNOR, in his late lecture at the TowuHalJ, mentioned a remark of the respectable manager of the Sun, and, at the time that it was made, we doubt not it was a very true one— that Radicalism would not pay. That it would not pay alone, the fate of the True Sun sufficiently testified; but we really thought, on the merging of that exceedingly clever paper in the San, that the proprietor of the latter had disco- vered, that it would pay in company. We were highly gratified to find it so. We thought that the Sun knew the market too well to bring Radicalism into it, unless there was a prospect of a tolerable vend. We fancied from the evident inclining towards our cause, that it was rising, not only in reality, but in estima- tion, and we cannot help opining, notwithstanding the 4 THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, SEPTEMBER 15. aberrations that we remarked upon last week, that this is tbe view which the Sun still entertains; for cer- tainly there has been more earnest apology made for • what we deemed a relapse into Whiggery, than was at all possible, if the Sun's estimate of the popular movement had been founded on any deliberate exami- nation of its motives or tendencies. We sincerely re- joice at the symptoms of retractation that have ap- peared in the late numbers of the Sun. We are by no means insensible to the value of such an organ; and much less are we insensible to the important truth which is implied in the readiness with which its facilities have been tendered. We feel confident, that now at length Radicalism pays, or that there is a cer- tain expectation, amongst our most sagacious public instructors, that it speedily will pay. The Northern ( Newcastle) Liberator of last week, a paper conducted with great spirit and ability, and of the soundest principles, contains the following para- graph :— BIRMINGHAM POLITICAL UNION— The council met last week at the usual time, Feargus O'Connor, Esq., was in at- tendance. A letter was read from Brentford, stating that writers were ready to go for household suffrage, and were open to conviction upon the other points. Mr. O'Connor delivered an excellent speech, denouncing the Weekly Dis- patch and Chronicle, and avowing that for bis own part, he was no longer a leader, but a follower of Mr. Attwood, Mr. Fieldeu, and the Birmingham Political Union. We ( the Liberator') certainly have all needful reliance upon the virtue and public spirit of these men; but we protest against all leadership, save that of the National Conven. tion assembled in London by, and acting under the con- troul of the universal people— we must add, too, that this is the doctrine of the Birmingham Political Union itself. The extra number of delegates elected by Birmingham will, we doubt not, be reduced to a proportionate num- ber should other districts come forward as they ought— and we trust will come— with their quota of represen- tatives. We entirely agree with our cotemporary in the opinion he here expresses. We recognise no leader in this matter, nor do the men of Birmingham, deeply as they respect one of the gentlemen above- named. As little do they claim for the Birmingham Political Union, or any of its councillors, any pre- eminence or power in the approaching convention, farther than their experience, and judgment, and zeal, may chance to give them. The number of delegates chosen by the midland counties' meeting, we ouly repeat what we have formerly said on that head— was measured by the apprehension then entertained, that other and more distant communities might be found backward in the appointment of deputies. Nothing will gratify the men of Birmingham more than to find themselves mistaken in this opinion, and to be called on, in con- sequence to reduce the number of delegates named on the 6th August. There is no news, foreign or domestic. The Lon- don journals are subsisting 011 the parliamentary papers, and their articles are filled with little else but squabbles amongst themselves. The meeting at New Palace- yard is attracting a good deal of their atten- tion. The Herald twaddles at it, the Globe reasons about it, the Sun would fain get rid of it. The meet- ing itself may not be great; Loudon meetings never are; but the delegations will be formidable both for number and influence. Ebenezer Elliot, it is said, will move the first resolution ! Sir William Mules worth and Mr. Leader will also be there. INCORPORATION OF BIRMINGHAM.— Some time ago a second investigation of the anti- corporation petition took place under government authority. The result, it was reported, added about five hundred to the pre- vious number of Tory rate- payers. We have not heard how, in the first calculation, so remarkable an error happened to be committed. Eight or ten days ago the pro- corporation petition was sent down for re- examina- tion ; and on Thursday Captain Dawson and Mr. Denison, arrived for the purpose of checking the re- examination ; which task, we believe, they finished last night. We know nothing of the result of their labours. The corporation committee has had no com xnunication with the Privy Council, nor its agents, since the first scrutiny; but there is a rumour that the final result is to place the Tories in a worse position than when the re- examination was entered on. This is their usual destiny here— the further in the deeper. MR. HAWKES, M. P.— This gentleman was enter- tained on Thursday last at a public dinner given by the master cutler and manufacturers of Sheffield, as a mark of respect for his exertions in the case of foreign articles fraudulently marked with the marks of British manufacturers. A piece of plate was 011 the occasion presented to Mr. Hawkes, as an additional mark of the sense entertained of his services. The weather in Birmingham, during the week, has been cold for the first two or three days, and mild for the remainder. Yesterday was warm. The harvest reports are as discordant as ever. In the neighbour- hood of this town they ate uuderstood to be fairish. Tor the most part, however, the grain is small and wet, and when dry it will be yet smaller. This is the cause we believe, why the markets have risen so slowly; the new wheat has been saleable only at inferior prices We should not wonder, if, in the course of the winter, we have the anomaly of dear bread and cheap grain. This is a case against which the corn- lawmongers did not provide. They provided for dear wheat, but not for Dad wheat. THE FORFARSHIRE STEAMER.— Further accounts of this ill- fated vessel state, that from thirty to forty pas- sengers perished by her striking on the outer Fern Is land, near St. Alby Head. The crew, like cowardly villains, were the foremost to abandon the vessel. The treasurers of the General Hospital have received from the executors of the late Mrs. Phoebe Parker, of Moseley, a legacy of 200/., less the duty of 201. NEW CANAL.— A company is now forming to obtain an act in the next session of Parliament to cut a canal from Birmingham to Manchester. On Wednesday week, the workhouse belonging to the Walsall Union was opened for the reception of inmates. A handsome Bible and two Prayer Books, of large folio size, most elegantly bound, have been presented to the parish church of Wednesbury, by Edward El- well, Esq., churchwarden. A society, we understand, has been formed Handsworth, for the protection of high and bye ways, similar to that which has effected so much benefit at Manchester. On Tuesday evening the guardians again met. Mr. Edmonds in the chair. It was moved by Mr. Muntz, and seconded by Mr. Turner, and, after discussion carried unanimously, " That the grand levy clerk be directed to amend the survey and valuation of 1838, in terms of a schedule drawn up by a committee guardians ; and that the overseers be recommended to make a rate 011 the survey and valuation, as amended " The other business was adjourned until Thursday. THE EARLY TRAINING, AND IMPROVED EDUCATION OF CHILDREN.— The inhabitants of Handsworth are about to enjoy the opportunity of hearing the lectures of Mr. John Smith, of Liverpool, on the important subject of the " Early Training, and Education Children;" lectures which will be long remembered with pleasure and advantage by numbers of the prin cipal families of Birmingham, who attended them at the institution, Cannon- street. The advertisement will be found in our present paper. CONCERTS IN AID OF THE BUILDING FUND OF THE MECHANICS' INSTITUTION.— The arrangements al ready made for these concerts are on the most liberal scale, and the talent engaged of the first- rate order, and reflects the highest credit on the committee of management; a very full attendance, we anticipate, will be the result. at The Politicel Union, at its sitting on Tuesday, unanimously agreed to an address of congratulation to the National Guard of Paris. The address, signed by the Chairman, Treasurer, and Secretary, was transmitted to the General commanding on Thursday night. The Tories at the workhouse are waxing quite amusing. A few more such rehearsals as that of Wednesday night, and they will be fit for any stage. It is proposed that the public be admitted to the next performance at half- a- crown per head. The Birmingham rail way opens on Monday through- out the entire length. THE NEW STREET.— A plan of one of the intended lines of approach between the railway station and the centre of the town, has been engraved, and published by Messrs. Wrightson and Webb. It is pretty— the engraving, we mean. NEW COMMISSIONERS.— On Monday last, the fol- lowing gentlemen were elected commissioners, in the ropm of thirteen others, disqualified by non- attendance or death:— Mr. Morris Banks, druggist, High- street* Mr. W. Kimberley, factor, Inge- street.* Mr. James Moilliet, banker, Union- street. Mr. John Boulton, draper, Temple- row.* Mr. Edmund Heeley, silversmith, Union- street.* Mr. Henry Bourne, grocer, High street.* Mr. W. Party, brass founder, Bread- street. Mr. C. Robins, surveyor, New- street * Mr. Joseph Marshall, jeweller, Newhall- stieet* Mr. James M. Ainsworth, saddler, St. Martin's- lane.* Mr. Wm. Scholefield, merchant, Minories. Mr. Abel Peyton, chemist. Mr. Edward Middleton, draper, Bull- street.* Those marked * are Tories. THE BROAD- ROAD.— It was stated by a gentleman at the Public- office, on Thursday last, that there were now more depredations committed in Broad- street and its vicinity, than in any other district of the town. The congregation of naughty girls, who make this a promenade when the evening sets in, has, it is stated, quite alarmed the young gentlemen who reside at Edgbaston, and are obliged to pass along this great thoroughfare. DIVERSION OF ROADS BY RAILWAYS.— We under- stand that the question of how far the Grand Junc- tion Railway proprietors are authorised, by their Act of Parliament, to divert roads, is likely to be decided, ere long, in a court of justice. It appears that in the neighbourhood of Perry, the proprietors, in their usual cool manner, have stopped up a road, and, instead of making another convenient one, either under or over the railway, they have diverted it a considerable dis- tance, by the side of the railway, into the turnpike road, and absolutely obliged the passengers on a bye- road to pass through a turnpike- gate. The surveyor of the roads determined to assert his right, by passing over the railway. For doing this he was summoned before Captain Devey. Mr. Swift, solicitor to the Company, attended, and the magistrate felt bound to convict in the mitigated penalty of 11. The surveyor was not satisfied with the decision of one magistrate, and crossed the railway again. The case was, a se- cond time, heard by Lord Dartmouth and Captain Devey, and the magistrates both held the opinion that they were bound to convict. The consequence of these two decisions will, probably, be the indictment of the Grand Junction Railway Company for stop- ping up an ancient highway. FIRE.— Wednesday night about half- past eleven o'clock, an alarming fire broke out 011 premises in Brueton's walk, Prospect- row, in the occupation of Messrs. Jones and Griffiths, millwrights and engi- neers. The interior of a long range of shopping was in flames before any alarm was given, and, previously to the arrival of an engine, the whole of the building, two stories in height, together with the machinery and other property, was aheap of ruins. The Birmingham, the District, Norwich Union, and town engines, by their prompt exertions, and with much difficulty, pre- vented the flames from reaching to a more extensive range of shopping adjoining. A detachment from the barracks, and a strong force of night constables and police, was also in attendance, and greatly assisted in keeping order, facilitating the exertions of those who were desirous of rendering assistance. The fire was entirely subdued about half- past twelve. The build- ings are the property of Mr. Greaves of Prospect- row, which, with the machinery, are, we understand, insured in the Norwich Union office. How the fire broke out is yet a matter of doubt. THE LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.— I paid for the children's journey by the railway, half- price for each, which I imagined entitled them to occupy the place of one adult. Accordingly, when we arrived at Rugby, where the railway at present terminates, we mounted at the back of the coach allotted to us, and placed the children between us, when the guard, in no very civil tone, desired us to take the children on our knees. I remonstrated, and represented that, having paid the charge of one adult's place for them, I con- sidered them as entitled to occupy it. I was answered that " halves were always carried, and that they must be." This I peremptorily refused to do, and another passenger was thrust upon the seat, and almost depo- sited upon the knees of my boy, little more than four years of age! I appealed to the only person in autho- rity on the spot, whom I knew, and the affair was terminated by one of the directors, who happened to be inside, taking my little girl into the coach with him. In the hurry and confusion of this mode of travelling, there was no time to enter into the subject with him, and I therefore think it my duty to the pub- lic to put them upon their guard against so gross an exercise of the enormous power which the monopoly of the road gives to these autocrats.— I. AARON. ABORIGINES SOCIETY.— On Thursday evening a meeting was held in the Town- hall, for the purpose of explaining the objects of the Aborigines Society. The subject being comparatively unknown in the town, there was very little interest excited, and few of the leading characters were present. Sir Culling Smith, Bart., who had visited Birmingham for the purpose of presiding at the missionary meeting on Tuesday, took the chair; and, after a few introductory observations, shortly adverted to the objects of the society, which he regretted were, as yet, very little known. The object of the society was to call the attention of the British public to the state and condition of the Aboriginal in- habitants of the British colonies, and those adjoining, with a view of alleviating the condition of these, our unfortunate fellow subjects. The injuries which they had inflicted upon the natives of the colonies which they had conquered, were indescribable, and such as called for the prompt interference of the humane and charitable. It was not intended to propose that even- ing any resolutions upon the subject, but merely call their attention to it, through the voice of the well- known advocate of humanity and negro emancipation, George Thompson, Esq., whom he would have great pleasure in introducing to their notice. It would be presumption in him to say what the amount of interest might be which the subject would yet excite in Eng- land, but he felt it was of that nature that the Abori- gines Societies would, ere long, occupy the place of the negro emancipation societies. Mr. Thompson then rose, and was received with great applause; after which, in a powerful address, he detailed the sufferings to which the Aboriginal inhabitants of our colonies have been subjected, as well as those conquered by other nations. To convey any idea of the variety of facts touched upon by the speaker, in the space which a press of other and earlier matter compels us to devote to it, would be impossible. We can only say his address was, as usual, both brilliant and persuasive. We do not think the cause of the Aborigines Society could, by possibility, be better promoted than by Mr. Thompson supplying the public, through the medium of a pamphlet, with the mass of information which he possesses upon the subject. At the close of the ad- dress, a vote of thanks to Mr. Thompson was proposed, and seconded by the Revs. Mr. Swau and Dr. Hoby, and carried with acclamation ; after which thanks were given to the chairman, and the meeting broke up. LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY.'— The annual meet- ing of this society took place in the Town- hall on Tues- day evening. Sir C. E. Smith, Bart., High Sheriff for the county of Lincoln, presided on the occasion. The galleries and body of the hall were filled by the friends and supporters of the society, comprising Christians of every denomination. The platform was crowded by influential gentlemen, clergymen, and ministers connected with this and other similar insti- tutions, amongst whom were the Rev. Drs. Fletcher, Matlieson, Urwick, and Hoby; the Rev. Thomas Moseley, Rector of St. Martin's; the Rev. Sydney Gedfife; the Rev. W. Ellis, Secretary of the parent Society; the Rev. W. Campbell, Missionary from the East Indies ; the Rev. J. A. James ; the Rev. T. East; the Rev. J. Sibree ; the Rev. Messrs. Watts and Barker, of Spring Hill College; the Rev. Messrs. Salt, Percy, Jackson, Hudson, andjenkyn; and the Rev. Messrs. Morgan and Swan. The proceedings of the evening were introduced with singing and prayer.— The Rev. Thomas Moseley, in moving the first resolu- tion, observed, that 110 one who called himself a Christian could feel indifferent to such a cause as that which they had met to promote, for it was a cause in which the best interests of their fellow- creatures were intimately involved. He bore testimony to the energy and extent of the operations of the London Missionary Society, which stood in the very first rank of mission- ary institutions of the present day, and was deserving of being considered as yielding to none— no, not to one of the many kindred societies which were the glory of their land.— The Rev. Dr. Bennett, of London, seconded the resolution.— The Rev. William Ellis, Foreign Secretary of the Parent Society, moved the next resolution, and entered into an interesting detail of the progress of the society's missions. The trans- lation of the Sacred Scriptures in the Otaheitan language had been completed, and 3,000 copies cf the Bible, and 6,000 copies of the New Testament, had been recently printed, and were now on their way to those islands. In the Navigators' Islands God was also prospering the work, there being, according to the last accounts, not fewer than 40,000 of the inha- bitants under Christian instruction. At the Kat River station, the church consisted of 400 members, and education was rapidly progressing under Mr. Reid. From Madagascar they had no definite letters from their brethren since the outrages that had been com- mitted there, and the death of the honoured individual who had been permitted to seal her attachment to the Cross with her blood ; but the indirect accounts which had been received called loudly for their prayers, in connection with those who were still suffering in that island.— The Rev. Dr. Fletcher next addressed the meeting, and was followed by the Rev. W. Campbell, missionary from Bungalore.— The Rev. Dr. Urwick afterwards addressed the meeting; and a vote of thanks having been passed to the chairman, the meeting separated about ten o'clock. The collections at this anniversary were as follow :— Collected by the Ebenezer Juvenile Mission-") ary Society during the past year, and after > 444 16 sermons on Sunday last J By Carr's Lane Juvenile Society, and after"! rf)- „ sermons on Sunday f By King Street Society, and after sermons! rr „ on same day jdJ Collected at Public Meeting on Tuesda; evening At Carr's Lane Chapel on Wednesday even-\ „ r ing JJ RADICAL DEMONSTRATION.— Every preparation is being made for the attendance of large numbers at the great Radical demonstration on Kersal Moor, 011 the 24th instant. A public meeting was held in Middlefon on Monday, and subscriptions started to defray the necessary expenses.— Manchester Advertiser. LOUGHBOROUGH RADICAL ASSOCIATION.— The ad- journed meeting was held on Monday last, when the enrolling of members was proceeded with. A com- mittee of twenty- one members was elected, including the two secretaries, Messrs. Smast and Hickling, who were instructed to provide a more suitable room for future meetings, and to take into consideration how often it will be advisable to meet. DISSENTING COLLEGE.'— John Lea, Esq., of the Lakes, near Kidderminster, has presented to the com- mittee of the Dissenting College, at Spring- hill, near this town, the munificent donation of 500?.; and we are informed that the committee have appropriated it to found a Scholarship, to be designated " Lea's Scholarship." PLUMS.— On Thursday week Mr. Reeve, alone, re- ceived, for railway conveyance, 416 pots, containing four and a half pecks, the gross weight, reckoning 80lbs. to the pot, 14 tons 17 cwt. or thereabouts; a mere fraction compared with the crop grown in the small circumference of this borough, ( Evesham) the lowest computation of which may be set down at nine thousand pots, by far exceeding the produce of any former year in the memory of the oldest inhabitant. The prices vary according to sort and quality, from 6s. to lis. per pot; it is said above five thousand pots are destined for the great markets of Liverpool, Manches- ter, and even Glasgow.— Correspondent of Worcester Chronicle. THE EARL OF DERBY.— Thare is a gradual improve- ment in the health of the Earl of Derby, who was struck with palsy a few days ago. The alarming symptoms are giving way to appearances of a more favourable nature. SEA BATHING FOR INVALIDS.— Home Tooke ridi- culed this practice, and said if any of the seal species were sick, it would be just as wise for a fish physician to order them to go ashore. Persons declared that sea bathing was only reckoned healthy because many per- sons have been known to survive it. Sheridan's ob- jection to salt water was the most quaint: " pickles,' he said, " dont agree with me." s. d. 71 11 4 2i PUBLIC OFFICE. MONDAY, SEP. 10. ( Before William Beale and DanielLedsam, Esqrs.) GARDEN ROBBING.— William Bully was committed to the House of Correction for two months, and to be kept to hard labour, for being found pulling nuts in Mr. Smith's garden, at Edgbaston. Mary Steel, a disorderly woman, was committed for one month. Mary Herbert was charged with having wilfully broken two large panes of glass in the shop window belonging to Mr. Wmuwright, draper, of Bradford- street. Mr. Wainwright stated that the prisoner came into his shop between seven and eight o'clock 011 the previous Fri- day evening, in a state of intoxication, and asked for some drink. He told her he thought she had had enough, and wished her to leave the shop. In order, however, to get quite rid of her, he conducted her out of the shop, and left her beyond his window, lest she should fall hgainst the glass. He had scarcely, however, left her, when she took off one of her shoes, with which she deliberately smashed two panes of glass, and had he not stopped her she would have demolished all in the sash. The prisoner said she was so tipsy she did not know what she was doing on the night in question. She had no knowledge whatever of having smashed the glass. The magistrates ordered her to be com- mitted to prison for two months. A HOPEFUL SON .— Charles Adams was charged with an assault upon his step- mother. Mrs. Adams, who exhibited a pair of black eyes, stated that the prisoner's general conduct towards her and his fa- ther was very bad. He came home at such hours of the night as he pleased, and was very violent. He had beaten her and his father also. All she required was, that he should be bound over to keep from her house. The magis- trates asked if he would consent to leave his father's house, and promise not to go there again. The prisoner said he should make no such promise, and he was ordered to be locked up until he found sureties to keep the peace towards his mother. Peter Lowry was fined 5s. for being drunk, and in default of payment was ordered to sit in the stocks for one hour. William Turner Elliott was charged with having in his possession a time- piece, which was supposed to have been stolen. James, the street- keeper, stated that on Sunday morning he saw the prisoner go into several houses in Smallbrook- street, and offer for sale a small time piece. ( It was the one produced.) He stopped the prisoner, and asked him who owned the time- piece, when he told him that be had won it the night before at a raffle, at a beer- shop, in Deritend; he afterwards told him another tale. Suspecting from his conduct that he had stolen the article, he took him into custody. In answer to questions by the magistrates, the prisoner said he was very drunk on Saturday night, and be went into a beer- shop in Deritend, and all he could re- collect was, that he was awoke by some person, who told him that he had won a time- piece, and asked him to pay 2s. 6d. spending money. He could not tell who the par- ties were, nor could he tell the name of the bouse. The magistrates said they should order the time- piece to be de- tained to afford time for the officer to make further inquiries. In the meantime the prisoner was ordered to be discharged from custody. A young man, named Yates, was charged with stealing six tumblers and two ale glasses, belonging to Mr. Wynn, pobHcan, of Snow- hilt. James Atford, assistant belonging to Mr. Wynn, stated that 011 Saturday night, the prisoner and four or five other young lads, came into his master's house, and remained there until after twelve o'clock. As they were going away, he perceived some of them go into the yard leading into the kitchen, and, suspecting their intentions, he watched them, and presently he saiv the prisoner, who had got to the front door, with a basket in his hand. He went to him, and found it was his master's basket, containing a number of glasses. He caught hold of the prisoner, when he begged he would not make a noise or call the watchman, and he would make all right again. The prisoner was committed to the sessions. Charles Burton was charged with stealing a rule, a plane, a gouge, a gimlet, and other articles, the property of Mr. William Wilson, coach maker, Newtovvn road.— Chumbley, the Aston officer, stated, that on the previous Friday morn- ing, between five and six o'clock, as he was going along Ashted, he met the prisoner, who, on seeing him ( Chumb- ley), became confused in his manner, and walked very quickly from him. He followed him, suspecting he had something concealed upon his person; and, 011 searching him, found several tools, which he afterwards ascertained had been stolen from out of Mr. Wilson's shop early that morning.— Mr. Wilson identified the property, and the pri- soner was committed to the sessions. Thomas Chermage was next placed in the dock. Chumb ley was again sworn, and stated that on Friday afternoon, between four and five o'clock, as he was passing a broker's shop in Ashted- row, he saw the prisoner going in, cariying something in his apron. From his manner he suspected he was not in possession of his own property, and he followed him, and asked him who and what he was? He told him he was a working smith; that he had been employed by Mr. Benjamin Richards, of Freeman- street; and that the trunk locks he had in his apron were his own manufacture. He then went to Mr. Richards, and found that the prisoner had worked for him; and, on the stock of locks being ex- amined, it was found that a quantity were missing Mr. Richards identified the locks produced by Chumbley, and a bed- key.— The prisoner said he had committed the robbery, and he was very sorry for it He had a wife and two chil- dren, who were in want of bread, and their distress caused him to commit the robbery— Mr. Richards said the pri- soner had not been regularly employed by him; he only worked for him occasionally; and he had always considered him an honest man. In answer to questions by Mr. Beale, the magistrate, the officers said they had never before had the prisoner in custody, but he was known to some of them as a man addicted to drinking The prisoner was com- mitted. Two young men, named Higgins and Allan, were charged with extinguishing the street lamps early on Sunday morn- ing. — Abbot, a watchman, of Aston- road, stated that on Sunday morning he was on duty, when he suddenly saw two of the gas lamps go out, as he thought. He went towards the spot, when he saw the prisoners walk away, and go towards another lamp. He called Higgins, a watchman; and before he came up, three more lights were extin- guished. He and the other watchman followed, and over- took the prisoners, and secured them The prisoners denied that they were the parties, but the two watchmen swore positively that they saw them ascend the lamp- posts, and the magistrates ordered them to pay twenty shillings, and in default of payment, they were committed for three months to prison. Elizabeth Lloyd, on a charge of passing counterfeit money, was remanded, until Thursday. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13. ( Before Richard Spooner, Francis Lloyd, W. Beale, and D. Ledsam, Esqrs. J George Oliver was charged with housebreaking. Mrs. Grimmet, publican, of Floodgate- street, stated, that on Monday night, her husband being from home, she and her daughter went to bed early, having previously locked and secured her doors and windows. Between two and three o'clock she was awoke by the watchman rapping at her door, and when she came down she found her bouse broken open and the prisoner in custody. Two boxes had been removed from a table, and a quantity of papers had been taken Irom the bar. Abraham Grice, the watchman, stated, that at the above hour he was on duty, and perceived the back door belonging to Mrs. Grimmet's house partly open. He went in, when he met the prisoner inside, and presently another man rushed out and made his escape. He secured the prisoner and called up Mrs. GrimmelT The door had been forced open by a crow bar. None of the property had been re- moved. The prisoner was committed. James Black, a temporary coachman belonging to the Carlisle mail, was fined twenty shillings and costs for furious driving, and in default of payment was committed for one month. Mr. Hutton preferred the complaint against the prisoner, and from his statement it appeared that the prisoner, who, in the absence of the regular coachman had been entrusted with the mail on Monday, got drunk, and drove down New- street at a frightful rate. On turning the corner into High- street, the mail met the Edgbaston omnibus, and the pri- soner being unable to stop the horses, the pole of the mail was driven into the body of the omnibus. Had it not been for the omnibus, the mail or pole must have gone through Mr. Dakin's window. William Wall was charged with obtaining money under false pretences. Ann Brackley, housekeeper to Mr. Thompson, of Bloomsbury, Ashted, stated, that seven weeks ago, the prisoner called at her master's house, and rapped at the door, She went down, and the prisoner handed her two stone jars, saying that Mr. Beck, who was a partner of Mr. Thompson, had ordered two jars of blacking for Mr. Brown, of Deritend, and directed that they should be sent home. She took the jars, and paid him Is. 6d., whieh he said was the price. On examining the jars, she found they contained water and a little vitriol. Chumbley, the Aston officer, said he had received inform- ation of the fraud, and in consequence he kept a look out for the prisoner. The day before, he met him, and found a quantity of jars in his basket. He had tricked many persons out of money in the same way. The prisoner was committed to the sessions. Mr. G. R. Collis, attended by Mr. Rawlins, solicitor for the Society for the Prosecution of Felons, appeared before the magistrates, to obtain a warrant against James Carter, a man whom he said had been in bis employment, and had feloniously taken away a quantity of gold, and valuable articles. Mr. Rawlins, in support of the charge, said he should call two witnesses, and Mr. Collis, having been sworn, deposed as follows:— I have employed James Carter as a workman in my shop. I am in the habit of entrusting him ivith gold, for the purpose of making any articles of jewellery which I may require, and putting together other work, parts of which are done by other workmen. He is paid by piece work. He has no right to work for any one else. On Thursday the 29th of March, I required him to bring down all his work, which consisted of three gold brooches, stamped by another of my workmen, and chased by a different work- man ; and three of a smaller size, stamped and chased in the same manner. These brooches were made to fit certain amethyst stones; also belonging tome. Carter bad to fix the stones in these, and put the brooches together, and complete them. He also brought down four Mosaics, one of which I delivered to him to mount, as a locket; two for bracelets; and one for a brooch; these he had to mount, and they were nearly finished. He also brought down twelve other brooches, in an unfinished state, which were to have been set with turquois; the turquois were given to him by me, for that purpose ; and one pin, which he had made. All this work was delivered into my pos- session on the said 29th of March last. Not being satisfied with his conduct, I gave him notice to leave my employ at once; he urged me to allow him to finish the work first, it being then in an unfinished state, which I at length con- sented to, and delivered the whole back to him to be finished. On the second morning afterwards, in conse quence of finding James Carter bad absconded, and had left the key of the shop with William Mason, lodge- keeper, I took the key and went into the shop, and found all the articles I had delivered to him, and the four mosiacs, together with the turquois, were taken away. James Carter was the only person who worked in that shop, which is part of my manufactory, and he always kept the key of it; in a few days after this, the mosaics were returned to me by some person unknown. All Carter's wages had been paid for the work. James Carter had admitted before the magistrates having taken these articles away, and he promised, at the suggestion of the magistrates, to return them on or before the Thursday following; he did not do so, but called upon me to know if I would give him time to pay or the articles; I told him I must have the articles returned, and could have nothing further to do with him he said he could not return them, as lie had had no work since he left me, and had sold the goods to keep him. Willirm Mason, watchman and lodge keeper to the manufactory of George Richmond Collis, being sworn, says: — James Carter came to me about nine o'clock on Thursday evening the said 29th of March last, and asked me to help him down with the boxes out of his shop, as he was leaving. I accordingly took a candle to light him, and he put what loose things there were in the shop together, and took them and the boxes, which were locked up, away with him. There was nothing left in the shop but the fixtures. I bad only entered upon my employment as lodge keeper the day before, and thought Carter bad a right to remove the things. Mr. Spooner was of opinion that the case amounted to a felony ; but as Mr. Collis had not brought the case before them sooner, the magistrates were of opinion he had better apply to the sessions, where he had 110 doubt the case would be brought before a jury. THE QUEEN. The following letter from Bennett, the editor of the New York Journal, presents an amusing description of Her Majesty: — ., T1 , . , " June 16, 1838. i have been singularly fortunate in falling in with the young Queen, in my afternoon excursions at the west end, among the parks and round about the palaces. The first sight I had of her was, however, at the Italian Opera. Old enough, without any knowledge of localities, or any design, I was pushed by the crowd of ladies in rosesand gentlemen in white . gloves, into a seat almost opposite the royal box. This box is on the second tier, the second from tbe stage, or the third, I forget which, and on the left hand. I got very comfortably squeezed into the pit, with a very Dretty young girl directly before me, whose luxurious neck and tresses I could not help almost touching with my long nose. Behind me there were three ladies, two young ones and a fat mother, weighing, heaven only knows, how many stone. One of the young ladies was a perfect magpie in chattering, but quite pretty. She knew everybody and everything that appeared in the boxes or on the stage, and she talked so that I could hear her distinctly. Some time before the young queen came in, she was ' wondering' whether she would come or not. At last, about ten o'clock, when the opera wss halt through, the royal party entered. '" There, there, there,' said the young girl, ' there's the queen, there's the queen,' looking up to the box away to the left. I looked too, and saw a fair, light haired little girl, dressed with great simplicity, in white muslin, plain hair, with a blue riband behind, enter the box and take her seat, half hid in the red drapery, at the corner remote from the stage. " ' Oh ! how sweet and pretty, and so simple too she is!' exclaimed, sotto voce, the girl behind me. " The queen is certainly very simple in her appearance, but I am not sure whether this very simplicity does not set off to advantage her fair, pretty, rather pleasant, little, round Dutch face. Her bust is extremely well proportioned, and her complexion very fair. Then there is a slight parting of the two rosy lips, between whieh, if you are near enough, you can discover little nicks of something like very white teeth. The expression of her face is amiable and good tem- pered. I could see nothing of that awful majesty— that mysterious something that ' doth hedge a queen.' Tome she looks a good deal like a pretty Bowery girl, dressed up on the Sunday, and about to take an excursion to Hoboken, before the Goths and the Vandals cut up the walks. " Apropos, there is no public place or promenade that can equal Hoboken in pieturesqueness, wild grandeur, or ro- mantic beauty. The parks here are more classical, more elegant, more cut and carved into beauty, but they want the wild and unique character of Hoboken as it was, or We- hawkeu as it is. " To return to the queen. During the performance, the queen every now and then drew aside the curtain and gazed back 011 the house with that earnestness that any young girl would. Occasionally she put an opera glass to her eye, and directed it to the different parts of the interior. At such moments tbe male eyes of the pit and stalls were generally directed to her. " Thus much for one ot the sights I have had of the Queen. On another occasion I happened to see her twice on a Sun- day afternoon in Hyde- park. I had been taking a walk over the interior of the park— lounging around the Serpen- tine— and gazing listlessly on the crowd of carriages as they rolled round the gravel drive. Just as I was entering the arched gateway to depart, a sensation spread around the crowd which filled that part ofthe promenade, ' The Queen — the Queen'— spread from lip to lip. In an instant two outriders shot through the gate, near Apsley- house, fol- lowed by a barouche and four, carrying the Qtieen and three others of her suite. She generally sits on the right- hand back seat, leaning a good deal back. She was, as usual, dressed very simple, in white, with a plain straw Leghorn, and veil thrown aside. She also carried a green parasol. " The approach of her carriage caused a singular sound- There are no coachmen oil the box. The carriage was drawn by four bay horses, each pair having a stout rascal of a postilion on his back, dressed in blue clothes and white topped boots. The carriage has dark pamiels, without any ornament, save a crown in gold. The motion of the two outriders who preceded the caniage, and the two postilions on the outside of the carriage horses, caused a sound which to my ear resembled the hollow tones of tbe wind through a wood, or the noise made by the rigging of a ship in a gale. There is an expression in Burns which conveys the idea, thus—' the soughing wind.' The rapid rate at which the royal carriage was driven increased the sound. " As soon as Bhe appeared, the hats of the people flew off at once. The women around looked with great interest. Near me, a little boy, walking with his mother, jumped up, crying, ' Oh, how grand!' Indeed, among the lower orders of both sexes the appearance of the young Queen seems to create great sensation. They look upon the fair thing as a novelty. The beautiful Antoinette was not, before the revolution in France, a greater favourite among the populace of Paris, than Victoria seems to be among the populace of London. Among the aristocracy, par- ticularly the Tory families, I doubt whether she is deeply reverenced. " In a few seconds the royal carriage soon disappeared in the crowd, but the people continued to collect in crowds near the same spot, in order to have another view as she returned by the river. When I found what the people weie at, I stopped too. The afternoon was very beauti- ful. The sun shone as bright as he generally does here, but that is not saying a great deal. On my left lay tbe beautiful sheet of water called the Serpentine River, surrounded with tress, men, women, children, dogs, and carriages. This would be called a pond of dirty water in the lake country of New York, where Narcissus could make his morning toilette. In front of me rose the colossal statue of Achilles, situated in the interior corner of the park, surrounded also with men, women, boys, girls, and dogs. On my left Apsley- house, with the windows smashed in during the Reform riots, not yet repaired. " The crowd continued to increase. ' Does Her Majesty pass this way?' asked a six- foot gruff- looking man, of mei ' 1 can't tell' replied I. ' Oh ! yes, she does,' said a little girl,' and ma and me wait to see— won't we ma?' ' Yes, child, be still.' All the vacant space inside the interior railing now began to be filled up with carriages of all sorts, but principally one- horse vehicles containing those of the middle classes who sport their own carriages on Sundays, no hacks, cabs, or hired vehicles being permitted to enter any of the royal parks. In a few minutes the crowds skirt- ing the avenue leading to the Serpentine began to run and scamper over the grass. "' The Queen's coming— the Queen's coming,' ran through the crowd. " And so she did. She proceeded along the avenue, but at a slower rate than when she enteied, her way being ob- structed by the crowd of carriages. There she sat, a pretty little woman, fair as a May morning, holding up her parasol, and bowing gracefully to the crowd that saluted her as she passed. The English don't talk much. I beard not a single one say, ' God save the Queen,' but they very gene- rally pulled off their hats and bowed, without uttering a word. A great many of the women, particularly those of the lower classes, stood and gazed very comically, some with their fingers in their mouths. In the carriage were also the Countess of Mulgrave, Miss Pitt, and Miss Spring Rice, two rather beautiful young women. " The next time I saw the Qtieen was in going down Constitution- hill, which separates the Green- park fiom St. James's. It was in the evening, a little before sunset. I was lounging along, thinking how we could in New York get such splendid public parks as they have here. Looking down the avenue, I observed a bustle in the crowd, and in a few seconds out rushed the two outriders, as usual, fol lowed by the royal carriage and four. She sat in the same place— was dressed in the same dress— looked the same amiaj. ble, young, fair, roundfaced Dutch Bowery girl as ever. On the left was the Dutchess of Kent, her mother, one of tbe grimest looking old ' uns I ever saw. How she came to have so good- looking a girl for a daughter is past my mathe- matics. But, enough— of course I have not been so fortunate as Prince John, of New York I have not been introduced to Her Majesty, nor ever yet expect to be, but I leajn from good authority, that she looks much the same at a drawing- room, a ball, or a grand dinner, as she does driving round the parks, taking into account the difference of the I dress and the lights. I 6 THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, SEPTEMBER 246. 7 J. POETRY. TO THE QUEEN'S CHAPLAIN. ON HIS PUBLISHING HIS SERMON IN HIS OWN VINDICATION. We never blamed you, Doctor Hook, Before to- day, for word or look, Nor said your duty you mistook. " Whate'er you cliose to preach or pray, You might, for us, have had your way, We never cared— before to- day. Some thought that, for a mere Queen's Chaplain, With too high questions you were grapplin': To us ' twas quite indifferent Or what you said, or what you meant. Whether the bold oration shock'd her, And caused at Court a moving 6cene,~ Whether the Quepn dismissed the Doctor, Or Doctor Hook dismissed the Queen,— We never offered to dispute : While others taxed you, we were mute. For us, you had as well discoursed In Greek or German. But now— Oh! serious affair! Oh! aggravation, hard to bear! This is a grievance— to be forced To read the sermon! Spectator. THE FOUR DEARS. Dear sugar, dear tea, and dear corn Conspired with dear representation, To laugh worth and honour to scorn, And beggar the whole British nation. Let us bribe the dear sharks, said dear tea ; Bribe, bribe, said dear representation ; Then buy with their own the dear humbugged and be The bulwarks of Tory dictation. Dear sugar and tea, said dear corn, Be true to dear representation ; And then the dear crown will be worn. But to dignify dearest taxation. Dear sugar, dear corn, and dear tea, Stick to me, said dear representation; Let us still pull together, and we Shall still rob the dear British nation. Ebenexer Elliot. LITERATURE. LETTERS FKOM THE WEST INDIES. By William Lloyd, M. D.. Darton and Harvey, London.— This is a very pleasant and unpretending volume. Dr. Lloyd was one of the gentlemen who accompanied Mr. Sturge in his examination of the apprenticeship sys- tem. The letters that compose the present work were addressed to his father. There is no glitter of style, nor affectation of learning; the author looks round him with the eye of an unsophisticated observer, and what he sees plainly he plainly describes. There is a map, and several engravings, more important as illus- trations than as decorations. We give a few of the passages which have principally struck us on a some- what hasty perusal, and which will better serve to show of what the letters are made, than our descrip- tion would. The adventure with the Dutch bore is very laughable. DEMEKARA CUSTOMS.— Demerara customs are very dif ferent from English, and do not meet my ideas of comfort. The domestic apprentices live in huts in the yard; some come in with their children to cook, and others to dust the sitting rooms. During the day there are pickaninnies trot- ting about, or lying down in the drawing- room, whilst their mothers are doing the work. The table customs do not suit me; no breakfast to be had ( except a small cup of coffee sent up to one's bed- room) till near ten, after which the sun is so hot, it is exhausting to go out; dinner is served at five, and no tea or supper after, as the fire is then put cut, and the domestics go home. Thus one becomes a prisoner, with two meals per diem ; for walking, to any extgnt, is impossible in the noon- day, and there are neither horses nor carriages to be hired, all who are able keeping their own ; and there are plenty of these private equipages rolling along; and the gay gigs, phaetons, and cars, con- trast strikingly with naked children, which are now and then seen in the streets, and the almost naked apprentices and Indians; most of the former, and all of the latter, having only a girdle around them. The terms for boarding are three dollars per diem, not including wine. A GUIANA NIGHT.— The noon day is hot and quiet, as in Barbadoes; but if the evening chirrup there, attracted my attention, well might my ears be astounded by a Guiana evening serenade. As the sun sinks in the west, the water courses appear to be the abodes of innumerable frogs, differ- ing in speech, but all wonderfully talkative. The frog croaking in England, for a week or two in the spring, is not annoying; but here it rests not, ceases not the live- long year; the effect is compound, the mind rejoices in the hilarity and happiness of animated nature; but when weary, is disappointed, that, after the fatigues of the day, there should not be the " stilly night," to renew exhausted powers. Neither pen nor pencil can describe the concert; the pre- vailing sound is like the word " which," uttered slnrply, and this is conjoined with the deep croak of the larger species. But Irogs are not alone in the converzatione; crickets and grasshoppers lend their aid ; and exactly at six p. m., the rhinoceros beetle, or razor grinder, begins to saw a twig, by fastening on it with its horns, and spinning round it; the sound is like grinding an edge tool, and interested me from the regular time it commenced. Activity and noise remind us only of this world, but silence and repose lead us to a world to come." Now the fire- flies coruscate through tiie air, and about and through the trees, in the most effulgent manner. There are several species, some no larger than flies, with the phosphorescence under the wings; others large as beetles, with a lamp on each side of the head. Now, also, old musquitoe bites renew their nightly irritation, and fresh ones are planted. Woe be to the new comer who daies to sit without boots of some kind to pro- tect his ankles, or to sit without gloves on his hands. Burns or DEMERARA.— Sailing slowly through the ebbing tide, we had a continuous view of the low muddy banks. The waders were very numerous and attractive, from the contrast of colours. The little egret heron, ( ardea garzetta) snowy white; the blue heron, ( ardea cccrulea,) and the red curlew genus, ( fcolopax ;) their local names are white and blue galding, and currie eurrie; these birds, white, blue, and scarlet, stalking at ease along the water's edge, beneath the living green, which knows no change, at once charac terised tropical Guiana. As we ascended the liver, num- bers of the Turkey buzzard ( vullur aura) stood moping in the sun. This is the untiring scavenger of southern lati- tudes, and piotected by law: hence their tameness. Its appearance is disgusting, and the effluvia from its body, when in the hand, offensive; but on high it is the most graceful of aeronauts; speed is not its object, but to pry into every darksome hole and corner, where death and corrup* tion can shelter. Poised on its outstretched wings, it rises and falls without apparently moving them ; its gyres are now close to the earth, and then it wheels aloft, anxious to snuff an odoriferous carcase in the coming breeze. Their plumage is a dark dingy brown; there are no feathers on the head, and half way down the neck ; so that their hooked bills can plunge deep into carrion, without any danger of their feathers being soiled. At night they perch side by side on the horizontal leaves of the tallest cocoa nuts, in quiet broodings ami melancholy musings, till awoke by the morning light, their silent search begins for the savoury morse], here and there, and every where. They acquired the name of turkey from the plumage and wattled head and neck. History says that the first discoverers of Jamaica, were overjoyed at the abundance of these biids, and hastily endeavoured to make ready a turkey feast. The turkeys were knocked down, and tliis was the only preparation, as I believe tliey were left unplucked. Since skinning one of these birds my relish has lessened for the true dindon; so much is in a name. A DEMERARA LITERATEUR— Soon after coming here we received a kind invitation from a planter of Dutch extrac- tion, Van Rossum ; he possesses two estates, one a few miles up the river, De Kindren ( or " the children") and the Edwards, where he resides, nearly opposite our lodgings. He is a man of fine literary talent, and had been secretary to a former governor, but for some time lias been in diffi- culties, owing to his benevolence in purchasing the Eld- wards'; this estate hud been long uncultivated, and run wild ; but the negroes were upon it, and to prevent their being sold, and separating wives from reputed husbands, he bought it and them. The ferry belongs to the estate, and the negroes now only work the ferry boat; the consequence has been he could not meet his engagements. His creditors throateued to sell the negroes; lie clung to them like chil- dren, and prevented it; however, they took possession of the De Kindren, a very profitable coffee estate, netting about five thousand pounds per annum; and have held it a few years, till their claims were liquidated, which has re- cently taken place. V. R. has a large family, and they have resided at De Kindren ; but he has never been there since the trustees got possession, having buried himself at the Ed wards', with one son as a companion. I went over a few days ago to breakfast, believing I was on a visit to first- rate quarters. I walked into the hall, was cordially welcomed, and sat down to breakfast; we were waited upon by. an almost naked black girl. V. R. apologised, said lie could not clothe his negroes, the trustees had taken every thing out of his power; and if he had not obtained a little money from ( he ferry, and caught fish, and employed a good hunter, an Indian, he must have famished, often depending for a dinner on fish or game he might obtain in the morning After a scanty breakfast he took me up into his study, and read and talked to me seven hours successively, viz., till din- ner time. COFFEE. — The next morning early, V. R. and I walked through the coffee plantation ; the trees are in rows, the size of large currant bushes, and shaded by the forest trees which are left at proper distances, for this purpose; the blossom is white and fragrant as the jessamine, and the fruit is the - ize and colour of a cherry, pleasant to the taste: inside the pulp are two seeds, which are the coffee_ berries ; when ripe it is gathered, and carried to the pulping mill; the seeds are next spread 011 a flagged space, ( the barbecue,) to dry in the sun; when dried, the seeds are pressed under revolving perpendicular rollers, to separate the husks, then winnowed similarly to corn; the decayed and imperfect berries are next picked out; the coffee is packed in tierces, and shipped off. On account of the richness of the soil, there are here two crops in the year; the gatherings are in the fifth and ten months. On the trees were ripe berries, the succeeding green berries, and abundance of blossom perfuming the air. The produce varies as the size of the trees, from one to three pounds; as, however, there are many thousands on a plantation, the whole return is large. From ripe berries dropping and growing, there are always sufficient of young trees coming on to replace dead or de- cayed ones. Though not an object for export from this estate, there were many flourishing chocolate trees ( theo- bramo cacao;) the tree is compact and elegant, about twelve feet high ; and the fruit does not hang from the twigs, but grows directly out from the trunk, and larger items; it is in shape like a pine apple, but longer and more pyramidal; the inside is filled with a luscious pulp and with seeds, which are the cocoa nibs of commerce. Plucking this large fruit is much less tedious than gathering coffee berries; the inside pulp has a pleasant acidulous flavour. We returned to the house about ten a. m.; I was faint from the hot sun, and longed for an English breakfast; as yet there were no signs but the table cloth. V. R. called his family together, and read his own composition to us for one hour. It was an address he had prepared for the oc- casion, descriptive of his sufferings, of their duties, of Negio claims, and of his happy restoration to his paternal estate, et cet., et cet. He told us he had followed this practice of writing to his family during his absence occasionally, that they might not feel forsaken. The sentiments on this oc- casion were generous and noble, and the composition talented, amounting to this: " Oh! remember, that if I have fallen far short in duty, the measure of my love hath been full;" but in my judgment both it and the breakfast were out of place. SANTA CRUZ Santa Cruz is devoted to sugar cultivation; there are no mountains, but gently swelling hills, and these have canes to their summits. The produce varies much with ihe season; generally, for the whole island, it is esti- mated at twenty five thousand hogsheads; last year a hogs, head was worth one hundred and twenty dollars. The present is a very dry season, the produce is not expected to exceed thirteen thousand hogsheads, and the price being re- duced to eighty dollars, mercantile gloom is at present felt. I am informed that the King of Denmark receives a greater proportionate revenue from this little spot, tiian from any other portion of his dominions, arising from an export duty of twelve per cent., and a capitation task. I have spent part of a day with an extensive planter, the brother of our hostess, in the centre of the island; the road led through an avenue of cocoa nut palms, with cane fields on every hand. It being crop time, the wind- mills rotate daily and gaily; the boiling houses are at work, and a luscious frag- rance salutes the windward traveller. I had much interest- ing conversation. There are fifteen thousand slaves on the island, and the Danish government extends a degree of parental care towards them. American slave treatment is, in comparison, barbarous and horrid; and even the British apprenticeship does not stand favourably by its side. The gentleman I was visiting told me, 110 planter could punish a slave beyond confinement, till complained of to the judge ; ( two judges being appointed for the island;) that a pregnant woman cannot be worked at all, in the field, and that mothers cannot be punished in any way, till their infants are weaned at twelvemonths old. When slaves are sold, they have the liberty of objecting to a new master, and of choosing their own; therefore, when they know they are to be disposed of, they offer themselves to masters of good character, and whom they think they should like. A gang of fifty were at work in a cane field near by; there was great order, quietness, and regularity; it was the occupa- tion of one to supply the others with water, to quench their thirst. The gaol here is within the fort; on visiting it, I round the apartments were all deserted; no prisoners, whilst in health, are kept in close confinement, or tread a mill; they work daily in the penal pang. This gang may be seen in West End, at different occupations; their ap- pearance is degraded and forlorn. Runaways have a chain round their necks, and a heavy stone at the other end; when moving, they hug the stone under one arm, and thus nurse their enemy; others have fetters round their ankles; a driver attends them with a switch in his hand, as a mark of authority. GRHCIA RESALE.— The lide to the cottage gratifies to the utmost the eye longing and searching after novel scenery; it is riveted by the wildness and originality of nature's eternal hills, united with the evergreen verdure of tropical beauty. On being introduced to Mrs. B and a numerous interesting family, I at once felt at home ; the house is situated on the hill side of a mountain gorge, through which the Hope river tumbles hurriedly along, and by the side of which a capital road has been formed, winding higher and higher m its approach to St. Catherine's Peak, a summit five thousand feet high; being the means of approach to country residences, and coffee plantations, located at the intermediate degrees of elevation. Grecia Regale, a small estate, could not boast of many coffee trees, but there were various plants and productions to in terest the stranger; before the piazza was an orange tree in full bearing, the " golden rinds hung amiable." We gathered tlieni at our pleasure; they were as excellent to the taste as pleasant to the eye; oranges gathered before they are ripe, and which ripen 011 their northern journey to England, deserve no comparison. Here was the sago palm, modestly low, three feet high ; the pimento with its smooth silvery bark and iron hearted stem, sending forth its almost perpendicular branches, thickly clothed with fragrant leaves and fruit. Here the luscious pine apple ( anana) growing as openly as our turnip in unsheltered spots; and the stately mangos, claiming no other succour than common forest trees, and soon rivalling them in height, and surpassing them in a most bountiful lavish re- turn of fragrant fruit; there are ten species of this valuable productive tree, offering tiieir bounty to horses, goats, and pigs, which animals are very fond of them ; the fruit is the size of a moderate sized apple, having a hard core, from which membranous strings radiate to the circumference; these fibres are troublesome to a novice, but the turpentine smack is the most difficult to reconcile; the palate im- proves by practice, and after wounding and throwing many away, I could at last boast of relishing a mango. The de- licate tender star apple also, hung pendent from its parent stem, about twelve feet high; it causes no difficulty; its thin rind, tinted like the rainbow, offers little resistance to the escape of its luscious pulp. Amidst this horticultural profusion, my heart for a moment lost its apprenticeship oppression, and abandoned itself to cheering admiration and useful investigation; questions about distress, oppres- sion, and misery, I deferred to the more appropriate sites of Half- way- tiee workhouse, and Spanish Town gaol; Grecia Regale eliciting other ideas, from the pleasant im- pressions conveyed by its woody labyrinths, and its fruitful bovvers. Obi The Baptist minister, James Gardiner, diove me recently to an estate six miles in tiie country, to see a mem ber of his congregation, who had been " Obeahed" by an Obi man; that is, m administration of African witchcraft, and it. has such influence 011 the negroes, that death has been known to follow; on this account, the la. vs are very severe against the operators, who are imprisoned and tried for their lives. The individual whom we visited, was an intelligent " quadroon," a book- keeper on the estate; he says that the Obi man called at his house, and asked him to change some silver; he offered what change he had; Obi said it would not do, and went away muttering venge ance; that night the book- keeper had frightful dreams about Obi, and a severe pain seized his head and limbs ; he went to Obi, and told him what he had done, and told him he would be punished; a boy afterwards called at his house, and told him he must look at his legs; there were things to come out, though they had no sores at the time; after exa- mining them, the boy produced a basin with odd things in it, shells, bits of pipe, charcoal, insects, and feathers, which things he said he had extracted. The bottle and its con- tents I saw, and the man showed me his legs; on one of them, there are now three irritable ulcers, and two on the other; the sufferer is reduced so much, as to make his re- covery doubtful. The Obi man is imprisoned, waiting the event. The book- keeper's present state is one of actual disease; and of that kind, and to that degree, which would seem to be impossible to be produced solely by a terrified imagination; if not, it was a curious coincidence that dis- ease should establish itself at the precise juncture, when Obi said he should be " Obeahed." THE SUM OF THE WHOLE MATTER. — The cheapest thing in the West Indies is warmth ; it is to be had for nothing, being dispensed freely every day ; not by man, he dispenses ill- will, which by- the.- bye is also cheap. Needful articles are dear enough. Mutton is a shilling per pound; beef tenpence. Where expenses are great the means must be proportionate. W , the young man who teaches the Baptist Queen- street Schools, and occasionally officiates at Port Royal, has a salary of two hundred pounds sterling, and says he could not live for less. A physician's fee is three pounds three shillings; and a gentleman told me he had paid one hundred pounds per annum for medical attend- ance, and his family is small. In a fruitful field, like Jamaica, these things ought not to be; abundance of all things needful might be grown; yet the colonies depend on America for supplies; yes, even to horse corn. Slavery has been a sort of idol, to which all whites are expected to bow in some way or other; either in abuse of the negroes, or in upholding the " peculiar institutions;" in thought, word, and deed; if not, he is an enemy to " ships, colonies, and commerce." There is great enslavement of the mind; the minister is afraid of losing his pulpit; the doctor his patient; the tradesman his customer; and all stand in fear of the planters; which would be well, were they the pat- terns of right feeling and action. Slavery is a " canker worm ;" apprenticeship is a " palmer worm ;" and what the " canker worm has left, the palmer worm has eaten ;" in other words, if any system could more irritate man against man, and awaken deeper malice than slavery, that system is the apprenticeship. Before it, there was the benevolence of the despot; but the power having been taken out of the planter's hands, irritation rankles in his mind, and it has rooted out what kindness had there a place. The climate is healthy for those who need not undergo great exertion, as shop and store keepers; no shivering or cold feet need be dreaded, and from five to seven a. m., exposure in the open air is delightful. Fragrant breathings accompany the wanderer; beauty is before him, and spicy odours at his right hand; in short to sum up, there are balmy mornings, scorching noons, placid evenings, star light nights, skins of ail colours, quadroon and mustee, cruelty in man, magnifi- cence in nature, with now and then a sharp hurricane, and shock of an earthquake. The negro is the man for the West Indies; he alone can cultivate the soil, and therefoie ought to he protected. In Barbadoes, on visiting a cane field, I observed two young men, the proprietors, with very singular faces; on going up to them, I found they had masks on to protect them from the sun. They were sit- ting on horseback, each holding up an umbrella; whilst the apprentices, heedless of the heat, were slashing the canes down. AUSTRALIAN SCENERY AND MANNERS. ( From Major Mitcheil's Three Expeditions.) AUSTRALIA FELIX— The party moved forward in the di- rection of Mount Hope, and leaving the hill on the left, continued towards Pyramid Hill, where we camped at about three quarters of a mile from its base. We were under 110 restraint now in selecting a camp, from any scarcity of water or grass, for every hollow in the plains contained some water, and grass grew everywhere. The strips of wood which diversified the country as seen from the hills, generally enclosed a hollow with polygonum bushes, but without any marks of ever having had any water in them ; although it may be presumed that in very wet seasons it must lodge there, as in so many canals; and this, indeed, seemed to me to be a country wlier^ canals would answer well, not so much, perhaps, for inland navigation, as for Ihe better distribution of water over a fertile country, enclosed as this is by copious rivers. » » * » After tiavelling through a little bitofscrub, we descended on one of the most beautiful spots I ever saw : the turf, the woods, and the banks of the little stream which murmured through the vale, had so much the appearance of a well- kept park, that I felt loth to break it by the passage of our cart- wheels. Proceeding for a mile and a half along this rivulet, through a valley wholly of the same description, we at length encamped on a flat of rich earth nearly quite black, and where the anthistiria grew in greater luxuriance than I had ever before witnessed in Australian grass. The earth seemed to surpass in richness any that I had seen in New South Wales, and I was even tempted to bring away a spe- cimen of it. » » « » * » At two miles on this day's journey, we crossed a deep running stream. The height of its banks above water was twelve feet, and they were covered with a rich sward, the course of the stream being to the westward. The land along the margins of this stream was as good as that we were now accustomed to see everywhere around us, so that it was 110 longer necessary to note the goodness or beauty of any place in particular. * « » » « We had at length discovered a country ready for the im- mediate reception of civilised man, and fit to become even- tually one of the great nations of the earth. Unencum- bered with too much wood, yet possessing enough for all purposes, with an exuberant soil under a temperate climate, bounded by the sea coast and mighty rivers, and watered abundantly by streams from lofty mountains, this highly in- teresting region lay before me with all its features new and untouched as they fell from the hand of the Creator. Of this Eden it seemed that I was only the Adam; and it was indeed a sort of paradise to me, permitted thus to he the first to explore its mountains and streams, to behold its scenery, to investigate its geological character, and, finally, by my survey, to develop those natural advantages all still unknown to the civilised world, but yet certain to become at no distant date of vast importance to a new people. » **** » » At a mile and a half from the camp, a scene opened to our view which gladdened every heart. An open grassy country, extending as far as we could see; the hills round and smooth as a carpet; the meadows broad, and either green as an emerald, or of a rrch golden colour, from the abundance, as we soon afterwards found, of a little ranunculus like flower. Down into that delightful vale our vehicles trundled over a gentle slope; the earth being covered with a thick matted turf, apparently superior to any tiling of the kind previously seen. That extensive valley was watered by a winding stream, whose waters glittered through trees fringing each bank. * * * » * BURIAL PLACES— As we passed a burial ground, called by them " Millmeridien," 1 rode to examine it; and in doing so I remarked, that these natives scarcely lilted up their heads when they passed through it, but continued, although I remained there for half an hour, after which I found them wailing for me about a mile further on. This burying ground was a fairy like spot, in tile midst of a scrub of drooping acacias. It was an extensive place laid out in little walks, which were narrow and smooth, as if intended only for " sprites." All these ran in gracefully curved lines, and enclosed the heaving heaps of reddish earth, which con- trasted finely with the acacias and dark casuarime around. Others gilt with moss shot far into the recesses of tiie bush, where slight traces of still more ancient graves proved the antiquity of these simple but touching records of humanity; with all our art we could do no more for the dead than these poor savages had done. * * » « * On a corner of the plain, just as we approached the land of reedy hollows, I perceived at some distance a large, lonely hut, of peculiar construction, and accordingly rode to ex- amine it. On approaching it, I observed that it was closed on every side, the material consisting of poles and large sheets of bark, and that it stood in the centre of a plot of bare earth of considerable extent, which was enclosed by three small ridges, the surface within the artificial area having been made very level and smooth. I had little doubt that this was a tomb; but on looking through a crevice, I per- ceived that the floor of the hut was covered with a bed of rushes, that had been recently occupied. On removing a piece of bark and lifting the rushes, I petceived, 011 thrusting my sabre into the hollow loose earth under them, that this bed covered a grave. Tommy Came- first, who was with me, at first pronounced it to be the work of a white man; but by the time I had finished a sketch of it, the widow had hailed him from the woods, telling him that it was a grave; alter which 1 could not prevail 011 him to approach it. I carefully replaced the bark, anxious that no disturbance of the repose of the tomb should accompany the prints of the white man's feet. I afterwards learnt from the widow, that the rushes within that solitary tomb were actually the nightly bed of some near relative or friend of the deceased, ( most frequently a brother,) and that the body was thus watched and attended in the grave, through the process of corruption, or, as Piper interpreted her account, until no flesh remains on the bones; " and then he yan ( i. e. goes) away I" No fire, the constant concomitant of other places of shelter, had ever been made in that solitary hut, the abode alike of the living and the dead, although recent remains of several fites appeared 0: 1 the heath outside. THE NATIVES As I was reconnoitering the ground for a camp, I observed a native ou the opposite bank; and, with- out being seen by him, I stood awhile to watch the habits of a savage man at home. His hands were ready to seize, his teeth to eat, any living tiling; his step, light and noiseless as that of a shadow, gave no intimation of his approach; his walk suggested the idea of the prowling of a beast of prey. Every little track or impression left on the earth by the lower animals caught his keen eye; but the trees overhead chiefly engaged his attention. Deep in the hollow heart of some of the upper branches was still hidden, as it seemed, the opossum on which he was to dine. The wind blew cold and keenly through the lofty trees on the river margin; yet that broad brawny savage was entirely naked. Had I been unarmed, I had much rather have met a lion than that sinewy biped: but I was on horseback, with pistols in my holsters, a bioad river was flowing between us, and I over- looked him from a high bank; and I ventured to disturb his meditations with a loud halloo. He then stood still, looked at me for about a minute, and then retired with that easy bounding kind of step which' may be termed a running walk, exhibiting an unrestrained facility of movement, appa- rently incompatible with dress of any kind. It is in bound- ing lightly at such a pace! that with the additional aid of the " vvam- merah," the aburigiisaruativecan throw his spear with sufficient force and velocity to kill the emu or kangaroo, even when at their speed. * * * « » A fire was burning near the water, and at it sat a black child of about seven or eight years old, quite blind. All the others had fled, save one poor little girl still younger; who, notwithstanding the appearance of such strange beings as we must have seemed to her, and the terror of those who fled, had nevertheless lingered about the bushes, and at last took her seat behind the blind boy. A large supply of the balyan root lay beside them, and a dog, so lean as scarcely to be able to stand, drew his feeble body close up beside the two children, as if desirous to defend them. They formed indeed a miserable group; exhibiting, never- theless, instances of affection and fidelity creditable both to the human and canine species. * » • * At this camp, where we lay shivering for want of fire, the different habits of the aborigines and us strangers from the North were strongly contrasted. On that freezing night, the natives stript off all their clothes, ( their usual custom,) previous to their lying down to sleep in the open air ; their bodies being doubled round a few burning reeds. We could not understand how they bore the cold thus naked, when the earth was white with hoar frost; and they were equally at a loss to know how we could sleep in our tents without having a bit of fire beside us to keep our bodies warm. For the support of animal heat, fire and smoke are almost as ne- cessary to them, as clothes are to 11s: and the naked savage is not without some reason on his side, for with fire to warm his body he has all the comfort he ever knows; whereas we require both fire and clothing, and can therefore have no conception of the intensity of enjoyment imparted to the naked body of a savage by the glowing embrace of a cloud of smoke in winter, or in summer the luxury of a bath which he may enjoy in any pool, when not content with the refresh- ing breeze that fans his sensitive body during the intense heat. . Amidst all this exposure, the skin of the Australian native remains as soft and smooth as velvet; and it is not improbable that the obstructions of drapery would constitute the greatest of his objections in such a climate to the perma- nent adoption of a civilized life. * * » As I approached a fresh tract, I saw a kangaroo, which sat looking at my horse until we were very near it; and I was asking Woods whether he thought we could manage to carry it back if I shot it, when my horse suddenly pricked his ears, drew my attention to a native, apparently also in- tent on the kangaroo, having two spears 011 his shoulder. On perceiving me, he stood and stared for a moment; then, taking one step back and swinging his right arm in the air, he poised one of his spears, and stood streched out in an at- titude to throw. He was a tall man, covered with pipeclay; and his position of defiance then, as lie could have never be- fore seen a horse, was manly enough. I could not retire at that moment, although most anxious to avoid a quarrel with the natives. I therefore galloped my horse at him ; which had the desiVed effect, for he immediately turned, and disap- peared at a dog- trot among the bushes. - 1 gained a conve- nient cover by going forward, which enabled me to retire upon the river without seeming to turn, as I in fact did, to avoid further collision with the natives at so great a distance from the party. " THE LADY VICTORIA."— The following lines are taste- fully introduced by Mr. W. S. Landor, in his Pentameron; or, Interviews of Petrarca and Boccacia. The latter was speaking of the poetical composition of a friend of his, a " stranger who resided long in Italy." " Although he was tinder no obligation to the House of Este, nor wished, nor needed it, he felt at a distance the geneaal joy which announced the destinies of the lady Victoria. This little poem is curious, as being the only one upon the occasion which never left its place for court or crowd, contented with one solitary aspiration. I think there are only two stanzas : " I will not look into the sky, To augur aught of future years; Enough the heavens have shown us why Our hopes are sure, and vain our fears. Victoria! thou art risen to save The land thy earliest smiles have blest: A brave man's child will cheer the brave, A tender mother the distrest." AN ITALIAN SUNDAY IN THE MIDDLE AGES— As Pe- trarca approached Certaldo, the whole country was per- vaded by a stirring and diversified air of gladness. Laughter, and songs, and flutes, and rich inviting voices, and comply- ing responses, mingled with merry bells, and with proces- sional hymns, along the woodland paths, and along the yellow meadows. It was really the LORD'S DAY for he made his creatures happy in it, and their hearts were thank- ful. Even the cruel had ceased from cuelty, and the rich man alone exacted from the animal his daily labour Ser Francesco reached the gates of Certaldo more than half an hour before the time of service, and he found laurels suspended from them, and being suspended ; and many pleasant and beautiful faces were protruded from between the ranks of gentry and clergy who awaited him. Little did he expect such an attendance, but Fra Biagis, of San Vivaldo, had scattered the secret of his visit throughout the whole country. A young poet, the most celebrated of the town, approached the Canonico with a long scroll of verses, which fell below the knee, beginning, " How shall we welcome our illustrious guest? " To which Ser Francesco immediately replied, " Take your favourite maiden, lead the dance with her, and bid all your friends follow— you have a good half hour for it." Universal applauses succeeded ; the music struck up, and couples were instantly formed. The gentry 011 this occa- sion led out the cittordinanza, as they usually do in the villegiatura, rarely in the carnival, and never at other times. The elder of the priests stood round in their sacred vest- ments, and looked with cordiality and approbation at the youths, whose hands and arms could indeed do much, and did it, but whose active eyes could rarely move upwards the more modest ones of their partners. While the elder of the clergy were thus gathering the fruits of their liberal cares and paternal exhortations, some of the younger looked on with a tenderer sentiment, not unmingled with regret. Suddenly the bells ceased; all hastened into the church, and many hands that joined on the green met together at the font, and touched the brow reciprocally with its lustral waters, in soul- devotion. After the service, and after a sermon a good church hour in length to gratify him, en- riched with compliments from all authors, christian and pagan, informing liim, at the conclusion, that although he had been crowned at the Capitol, he must die, being born mortal, Ser Francesco rode homeward. The sermon seemed to have sunk deeply into him, and even into the horse under him, for both of them nodded, both snorted, and one stumbled — The Pentameron, p. 142. THE TABLE D'IIOTE AT ANTWERP.— It was one of those beautiful days, the first of the virgin summer, half sun, half cloud; the latter lazily gliding in the soft sunny atmosphere, blending their light and airy forms with the hazy blue, as I stood by the large wide entrance to our " hostelrie." Look- ing up, for I could not help gazing on that lovely spire— the chimes began to play, so thrillum, so silveiy and musical, that I could have fancied some " spirit of air" was passing by, wafting music from his wings! Being " cleaned, dressed, and shod," we were ready for the table d'hote. The " salle a manger" was nicely decorated; ormolu and cut glass chandeliers, immense mirrors, marble slabs round the room, and marble slabs finely wrought: but this material is so common that even our bed- rooms could boast of it in the shape of slabs, wash tables, and et ceteras. The dining- room Poor was covered with what I fancied, at the first glance, an elegant carpet. O11 a more critical inspection, i perceived the boards were literally painted with oil colours; though, probably, the pattern was stamped with blocks, similar to those used in oil cloth ma- nufactories. Dining commenced immediately after two; and, for the first time, I was failly initiated into the recondite mysteries of a continental table d'hote. The master of the house, or head waiter, calls, and points out your place. The first couise always begins with meagre, tasteless soup, and beef boiled to rags. These disjecta membra are then handed round to each individual, in the same way as cheese at our own tables. Knives are not used, save for the purpose of cutting the principal lump into smaller portions. Fork and bread perf . m the requisite functions. At die first, I laid both knife and fork on my plate for the purpose of being changed. The waiter, very unceremoni- ously, as I thought, slipped off the knife, leaving it with every accumulation, on the cloth before me ; exchanging my fork and plate only. Indeed, the greater portion of our guests seemed to content themselves with clean plates alone, wiping both knife and fork on the biead, of which, as may be supposed, they took a liberal supply. Occasionally the waiter would indulge our excessive nicety, but the num- ber of dishes really seemed interminable. The rapidity and regularity, however, with which matters are conducted, was very pleasant. Waiting is here no sinecure ; the ope- rators, in a literal sense, labour with " the sweat of their brow." After a profusion of dishes tortured from their native taste, it is not until the third and sometimes fourth course, that vegetables are brought on, steeped in oil and butter. At length, your plates having been changed, probably from twenty to thirty times, and your appetite already tempted to satiety, a large leg of mutton is produced, cut into slices and sent round; this delicate tit- bit intended, I sup- pose, to excite and tickle the stomach, already in a state of repletion. In vain, during the firsf and second . course, have I asked for vegetables to . my meat. A solemn shake of the head was the usual answer. If urged further, 1" The next course, monsieur,'' was all the satisfaction my ignorance anil appe- tite were destined to receive. The order of dishes was almost invariably as follows : — Soup, bouilli, cfttelette, poissdil, roti, gibier, legumes, creme, confectionary, dessert. Of course, these are only generic characters : the. species peculiar to each it is impossible to enumerate. With regard to eating, I have seen Geimans, as well as Frenchmen, after taking as much soup and boiled be'ef as would have settled my appetite for the day, help themselves to every thing in rotation. Again, at the vegetable course, their plates were often heaped tip to such an extraordinary height with asparagus, they were generally obliged to use another for mixing hard- boiled eggs with melted butter, and dipping in the juicy stems with their fingers. In addition to which, the immense rolls of bread subjected to the opera- tion of their perpetually going jaws, would have served my dinner table for a week. The confectionary is superb; and I am not inclined to grumble, turn up my nose, and set my stomach against their unimaginable dishes. To be sure,, the use of sugar and sweets with meat or vegetables, as, for instance, stewed prunes to mutton or pork, rather savours of incongruity. But we forget our own jams and jellies to mutton, hare, and venison— sugar and currants to pig and potatoes p- and I well remember, on visiting a friend at Geneva, who had previously been to England, he ordered currant jelly to be brought in during tea, along with slices of cold mutton ; having informed the ladies of the house, that an Englishman would never think of eating mutton without it! J shall not soon forget their grimaces at seeing me help myself to this luscious dainty. Of course, such a combination as cold mutton and currant jelly, I was previously a stranger to; but was determined to force my appetite to the task, for the sake of enjoying a joke. No doubt the story has been often told 6ince, that they have really, and with their own eyes, seen Englishmen devouring such materials. I had forgotten to say that each individual is furnished with a black bottle of the common wine of the country, without any extra charge. Should he call for another sort, he pays for it according to the list of wines and prices always hung up in the room. Bordeaux is here two francs per bottle, and of good quality. Wine is rarely taken, even the poorest, undiluted with water, and is drunk out of small tumblers. There is no pledging; each sips from his glass in silence. Often, before the cloth is removed, one by one slips quietly out of the room; and if there be ladies, which is not rarely the case at a public table abroad, her male companion, if she have one, disappears along with her. There is rarely any sitting after dinner, but each moves off according to his inclination Moby. THE CATHEDRAL OF COLOGNE Our steps were now turned to the cathedral; we were just in time, or a little too late only, but made our way through one of the side aisles towards the choir. Immediately, and with great at tention, we were shown into one of the richly decorated stalls, and enjoyed an excellent opportunity of hearing and seeing all that was going forward ; one of the most imposing and fascinating performances I ever saw or heard. The splendid robes of the priests, of which there were numbers — chaunting- boys with censors, flinging frankincense, in graceful curls, to the very roof— the exquisite music of t!: u choir, and the deep bass voice of the monks— altogether a scene perfectly novel; and its effect on the mind, awful and exciting in the extieme. The service was, I think, one of Haydn's masses ; a sub- lime production, and executed by a full choir. The orchestra was disposed in front of the organ, erected much higher than with us ; a complete instrumental hand, the con- ductor and his baton perched 011 a high desk in the middle; prima donna, second ditto, soprano, tenore, basso, together with chorus; there were twelve females, and al- together about fifty performers. Haydn's, Mozart's, Bee- thoven's music must be heard in Germany, to be fully felt and understood. With us the chorus is too loud: in Ger- many they are admirably trained; the lights and shadows brought out with a finish and precision quite unknown in England. In more important matters they are, alas! lamentably deficient. The ladies especially, smiling and giggling at each other more frequently than was either necessary or desirable. The service, as a whole, to me at least, was anything but devotional. An opera, a tragedy, or any sublime scenic representatidn, would have given birth to similar feelings, without one spark from a higher and holier source. There was no rising of the soul to communion with heaven. I felt too satisfied, too pleased with earth and its witcheries, inso- much that a thought of the more awful solemnities of another, and an eternal state of existence, seemed an intru- sion and an abhorrence. What effect such performances may have on others I cannot determine. An elderly Spaniard in the next seat, seemed in a fever of ecstasy, but whether fiom earth or heaven I may not judge. . During service, great numbers were parading the aisles and nave— a cool promenade during a hot sunshine. Service being concluded, we had an opportunity to examine the building at our leisure. The choir, or upper part of the cross, completed in 1320, is the only portion finished inside and out— au amazingly sublime effort of architecture. The altar is of black marble, highly wrought and embellished ; but the whole of this part is covered with the most elaborate decorations— fruits, flowers, foliage, arabesques, and every diversity of ornament the most fertile imagination could conceive, thrown off with a lavish profusion; their ramifi- cations, extending to every pillar and capital, are lost in the trellises and beams of the roof. Behind the high altar is the chapel of the three Kings, who, it is well known, were called Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar; and that they were the Easter Magii, or wise men of the East, led by the star to Bethlehem. Their bodies were brought from Jerusalem to Constantinople, by the Empress Helena, thence to Milan, by Eustorphius, and their last shift was by Archbishop Reynold, in the twelfth century. In the choir of this renowned chapel is the chest containing these relics, ornamented with gold and precious stones; you may see the bones themselves, which are of transcendent value, 011 paying a small fee. The altar- piece represents the adoration by these same bones, when clothed with vitality: likewise several of the saints are pourtrayed; though born long afterwards, they are represented as joining in worship. This picture has given rise to many disputes among the learned, as to whether it was painted before or after Van Eyck's reputed discovery of painting in oil colours. Knowing nothing, whatsoever, but probably as much as any one else, about the matter, I will not venture an opinion. As a specimen of the early style of art, it is curious and valuable; but the whole is hard, stiff, and ill- drawn. These relics have actually divine adorations paid them ! litanies and prayers expressly composed, and addressed to this worthless trumpery\— Roby. AMERICAN DISCOVERIES.— A report has been made to congress on the discovery of the longtitude by Dr. Sher- wood. The report is favourable, and 5000 copies were ordeied to be printed for distribution. The doctor contem- plates visiting England in the course of the fall, for the purpose of claiming the reward offered by the board of admi- rality, and to secure a patent for the united kingdoms. The report lias created quite a sensation among our scientific men, who appear divided upon its practicability. Professors Dwight and Silliman approve the discovery, and their appro- val gives a sanction to it at once with a large class. Profes- sor Rogers disapproves, and a number give way to his opinion. For my own part, I feel perfectly convinced that the doctor has stated no more than is actually true, and in which he will be borne out by the most perfect demonstration. Mr- Bennett's improved fuel saving steam engine has been taken from the original boat, and is shortly to be pla- ced in another. There can be no doubt of its eventual suc- cess, though Mr. B. is poor, and this may prevent his per- fecting his discovery for some time to come. It has been proposed to introduce upon our waters the high- pressure boats of the Mississipi; and I think another year will see them used generally for the purpose of towing vessels in arid out New York Harbour. They are much more powerful than the low- pressure engines, and give very little motion to the boat. They are generally horizontal; and the boats do eighteen miles with the current, and twelve against it, per hour. Our North River and Long Island boats are all low pressure. Their speed is generally from six- teen to eighteen miles per hour. We are making rapid advances in the cultivation of the mulbeiry and the growth of silk. Seveial large cocooneries have lately been established in the state of Connecticut, and bid fair soon to yield a handsome profit. Our country is particularly calculated for the growth of the mulberry, and the next ten or twenty years will find the Union exporting, in- stead of importing, silk. I have now upon me a very beau- tiful vest, made of the finest American silk, manufactured in Connecticut. It is a pure white, and pronounced equal to any foreign ever imported tp this market. To be sure, it cost more than French or English; but we are improving so rapidly, that we can soon furnish the article as cheap as we can purchase it abroad. Some exertions are making toward the culture of the sugar beet in Ohio, and I understand the project is likely to suc- ceed well, though I can at present give no particulars, except that large tracts of land have been purchased, and the seed of the sugar- beet imported from France. I was yesterday invited by the American Institute to view a new screw- cutting machine, which will, I think, be of great utility. It is simple, and costs but little. It is constructed after the model of the common chaser. Four small wheels, with chasers on the peripheries, are placed so that the edges come near a centre beneath a common driver. The screw descends between the chasers while they are re- volving, and is neatly threaded in six seconds. This ma- chine will enable us to make screws as cheap, if not cheaper, THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, SEPTEMBER 15. 7 than we can import them. The inventor is a raw Yankee. That is, what we call a Yankee in this country. He is from Connecticut, and has, I understand, several other very valu- able machines. His screw- cutter was patented on the 9th of July last. A machine with two cutters can be driven by a boy at a wheel, and costs only 58 dollars. Our cheapest, heretofore, have cost from 100 dollars to ISO dollars, and required 6' earn or horse power. The electro magnetic engine has not been improved since my last, and I fear the ingenious inventor has more difficulty to contend against, than lie at first contemplated. It has, however, excited great interest, and Mr. Davenport has now rivals who are endeavouring to excel him in completing a perfect engine. They have power to drive a small wagon, weighing about thirty pounds, round a circular railroad. Beyond this they have done nothing— Literary Gazette3 BKRNADOTTE I was not prepared ( from circumstances to which it is unnecessary to advert) to receive that singu- larly kind accueil, and that royal and affectionate favour, which His Majesty, after a lapse of twenty- three years, was pleased) on my visiting his kingdom, to bestow on me and mine; and we all know, when a monarch gives the tone, how cordially all the court and subjects follow its im- pulse. Charles Jean ivas fifty years of age in 1813; I found him, therefore, with twenty- three years added to bis won- derful life, and in appearance little changed; the same vigour of mind, and apparently of body, the same elasticity of intellect; and if his singularly coal- black hair had, in this lapse of years, received a tinge of a lighter hue, and if it had not its former glossiness, there appeared the same quantity; and the frame of the soldier, the warrior, and the man, was in no degree altered or shrunk, nor in force ( to appearance) diminished. One singular feature in the King of Sweden has always made a great impression on my mind. In conversing with him, he has the art, as a painter of the first order, of bring- ing into operation every colour that can embellish the sub- ject Of which he treats. He foims, as it were, the tableau of his discourse; " il pose les principes;" and when his groundwork is sufficiently laboured to rivet the attention of the eager listener, he beautifies his allusions, and attracts you by his epigrammatic sentences, while he alludes to history, both ancient and modern, and you are enraptured with the brilliancy and playfulness of his conversation. It has been my lot to communicate, personally and confidenti- ally, with many of the first characters of the age, and I know no individual ( not even excepting Prince Metternich) who more entirely interests and completely gains possession of your faculties than the King of Sweden, wlien he chooses to converse with you with that freedom and ease which he can employ. I enjoyed several long conversations with him on nearly every public and political subject during my stay at Stock- holm ; on which it would be unnecessary and injudicious to dilate. The general purport of his observations was favour- able to England. Some little uneasiness, perhaps, towards Russia had lately been created, on account of her having pressed vigorously the completion of the fortifications on the island of Aland, and of her preparing a large dockyard for the whole of her fleet; at which station an immense armament might at any time be collected within forty- eight hours' sail of Stockholm. In alluding to this point, I asked the king why he did not, in like manner, increase the bat- teries and fortifications on the islands and channel up to his own capital ? He replied, he fully intended to do so, and to render it impregnable in the course of time, and when the means were provided by the country for so important an object. Desirous of knowing if the king persevered in the same custom as formerly— when I was obliged, from my duties, to visit His Majesty at all hours— of sitting up very late, and getting up at one or two in the day, and, while dressing, dictating his letters and business— I heard that in this re- spect his habits had undergone no change; and that he was known in winter to be six or seven months without going out of his room; and yet, if occasion required it, he could at once change his way of life without the least inconveni- ence, and be all night on horseback, not feeling the worse for it. He was on the kindest terms with the Queen; who, although doatingly attached to Paris and France, reconciles herself to her great and important duties. She seems the most amiable person imaginable. We had several dinners with Her Majesty during our short stay, both at the pa'ace in town, and at Rosenberg in the park.— Lord Londonderry. RUSSIAN CHARITIES If I were to particularise any of the great institutions at Moscow, which called forth my warmest admiration, it would undoubtedly be the " Eta- blissement des Demoisselle Nobles." In contemplating a seminary of six or seven hundred young women, from the ages of eight or nine to eighteen or nineteen, the daughters of nobles, and the fairest flowers of the empire, it is im- possible not to take a peculiar interest in the management that is submitted to your observation. The young ladies are in classes according to their ages. In the class- rooms hey are instructed in languages and accomplishments. They have their large saloon for recreation, dancing, and exercises, a magnificent hall for their meals, and an airy and capacious dormitory, their hospital ward and rooms, with convalescent apartments. In the above distribution there is much the same order of arrangement preserved as in the military academies and the Corps des Cadets Institution. The governesses and preceptors seem to be chosen with the greatest possible care. The education is at the expense of the crown ; and at twenty they leave the institution, being then complete in their acquirements. To an observer, it is impossible to see anything work better than this system appears to do. The governesses appear respectable and well- informed ladies, and refined in their manners. The eleves ( especially the elder ones) not only displayed, on examination, great know- ledge, but exhibited it naturally, without ostentation or af fectation. Their carriage and grace struck me as very distinguished. Most particular attention seemed to be paid to their neatness in dress. In short, were I to offer an opinion, I should say, that were it not for the insurmountable obstacles which the difference of religion presents to a Protestant, I would infinitely prefer placing my girls in the Institution des Demoiselles Nobles, to educating them at home. But then the question arises in Russia, what are the future prospects of perhaps two- thirds of these young persons, when sent from the establishment? It is notorious, that the greater part of them belong to poor, though well- born, families. They come for admission from all parts of the empire; and much interest is necessary to secure it, and there is great emulation- and rivalry in endeavouring to ob- tain it. They are brought up in every luxury; they have every incitement and opportunity, till twenty years old, of cultivating their talents, and of acquiring knowledge of every description. But then, turned adrift, what is to be their fate ? If they do not marry, they are thrown back upon their poor parents, no longer treated as they have been, and may be called upon to return to the drudgery of a Russian house and Russian menage; they pine after all they have left behind; they become unhappy and miserable. If, on the other hand, they marry a poor soldier or a man of small means, they are wholly unfit for the duties of an humble lot; and their beautiful embroidery is lost sight of in the more necessary employment of making and working coarse brown cloth; their drawings are given up for keeping house ac- counts, their music and dancing for attending to the dairy and looking after the flock. These are mournful but true reflections; and my doubt is, whether the plan is not on too luxurious and princely a scale. It is, however, clear that these endowments furnish to the empire a perfect nursery for governesses. The young ladies going forth into such great families as can make them members of their interior, and associates of their children, may feel none of the changes or deprivations to which I have above alluded; and certainly many of them may, by the protection of the empress and the imperial family, be placed in positions where their education will have made their fortune and their happiness. But I am apprehensive as to the fate of many of these young persons, until this vast empire becomes richer and more advanced— Lord London- derry. GRAND DAHLIA SHOW, This exhibition opened on Wednesday. Consider- able fears were felt from tlie extreme cold of the few- previous nights, that the flowers intended for exhibi- tion, in our neighbourhood at least, might have seri- ously suffered, nor are we certain that injury may not have been done to the fair claims of the Birmingham florists from this cause. The show, notwithstanding, was a very splendid one, though the competitors did not appear to be so numerous as might have been de- sirable ; but it takes a great many stands to fill, even moderately, the vast area of our Town- hall. The blooms were many of them perfect; we speak as un- initiated admirers. There are, in respect to dahlias, as other flowers, certain technical rules of judging the reasons for which are not obvious, perhaps, because like other technical rules in more important departments, reason had very little to do with the framing of them. Tiie prizes, as on the last occasion, went, with hardly an exception, to competitors from a distance, and those stands sent in by nursery- men were very greatly superior to those sent in by ama- teurs ; confirming a special and general observation made by us on a former occasion— 1st, that the florists of Birmingham are by no means so advanced as they had, previous to these open competitions, been led to believe— and, 2nd, that there is no department of art, high or low, difficult or simple, which is not best filled by those who make a trade of it. The nursery growers here will, we have no doubt, contrive— they must do it— to attain to an equality with those of Cam. bridge, Oxford, and other places; but we believe that the amateurs will, as hitherto, best show their love of the art by encouraging those who cultivate it on the ordinary principles of traffic. After the show of Thursday was over, a number of persons, chiefly interested in it, dined at the White Horse, in Friday- street, Mr. Alexander Pope in the chair, and Mr. Edwin Hill as vice- chairman, when the prize cups, which are very handsome, were pro- duced, and filled with juice of the best plant that ever the skill of the gardener was employed to per- fect. The customary toasts of the " Queen," the " Royal Family," and the " Show," haviug been toasted, the chairman gave " The Metropolitan Society." Mr. LOWE, in noticing the toast, said, that though a member of the society he was not at all connected with the proceedings. There were some old members present, who belonged to the committee, who he had no doubt, if so disposed, would give them some information as to the ins and outs of that society. He would, in conclusion, give " The Birmingham Society of Floriculture and Hor- ticulture." Mr. POPS, as' chairman of the Floricultural and Horti- cultural Society, felt grateful for the compliment passed to that body. They all felt anxious to do the best they could, not for themselves, but for the good of the Floricultural world at large; this must be fully evident from the fact of strangers taking the prizes the two last years. But, in future, they should endeavour to place them in a different position. ( Laughter, and " You want the sorts.") That there was a spirit and feeling in the public mind in favour of such meetings, must be evident from the vast numbers which had attended the exhibitions of this and last year; and if they were well supported by the public, the Flori- culturists of this district should be second to none in the kingdom. Mr. WIDNALL rose and said, there was no doubt in his mind about the society flourishing; and as far as his exer- tions could be made available for sustaining such a society, they should be given. He begged to hand over 51, to the chairman towards the exhibition next year. ( Applause.) Mr. S. BURMAN said, as one of the committee of the Bir- mingham society, he could not allow the very handsome present of Mr. Widnall to pass over without tendering him his thanks. A good example was generally followed, and he had no doubt but the society would progress yearly. In the name of the committee he begged to thank Mr. Widnall for the very handsome donation he had made. Mr. MOUNTJOY said the Metropolitan Society had stood high, and he hoped it might again take the same position it formerly did. Certainly, it appeared, at present, as if it was likely to die a natural death ; but he hoped it would revive. If the committee, of which body two or three were present, had been remiss in their duty, he hoped they would endea- vour to do better than they " had done, by taking a lesson from the Birmingham society; amongst the members of which he saw more activity and efficiency than, he was sorry to say, he had ever witnessed in the Metropolitan society. " The health of Mr. Widnall, the successful competitor for the premier prize, and thanks to him for the splendid assortment of Dahlias which he displayed that day"— three times three, out of the Prize Cup. Mr. WIDVALL said, it gave him much pleasure to receive the good wishes of gentlemen for whom he entertained a high respect, and he begged to return them his thanks for the warm manner in which they had drunk his health. There was no society with which he was connected which equalled that of Birmingham : it was conducted upon those principles of liberality and disinterestedness which must en- sure its prosperity and success. There was no society, or body of men, he felt greater pleasure in meeting than those connected with this society. In proposing " the health of Mr. Searle," the second suc- cessful competitor, Mr. POPE said, he regretted that he was not present; but to evince that he was interested in Hie welfare of the Metropolitan society, he had to report to them, that be had subscribed two sovereigns towards next year's exhibition. The health of the other successful competitors was then proposed and acknowledged by the respective parties. The following is the list of prizes:— PREMIER PRIZE.— Twenty four Blooms.— Mr. Widnall, Grantches. ter, near Cambridge— Widnall's NePlas Ultra, Duke of Devonshire, Rienzi, Cambridge Hero, Horatio, Conductor: Royal Standard, Suffolk Hero, Dodd's Mary, Queen of Scots, Variabilis, Unique, Rhoda, Topaz, Lady Klnnaird, Glory of the West, St. Leonard's Rival, Ruby, Springfield Rival, Conqueror of Europe, Ovid, Eva, and Brown's Sarah. AMATEURS,— Twenty- four Blooms.— First Prize.— Mr. Searle, Cam. bridge— Countess of Mansfield, Kingscote Rival, Rienzi, Widnatl's Perfection, Squibb's Purple Perfection, Conqueror of Europe, Knight's Victory, Sir H. Fletcher, Topaz' Ruby, Springfield Major, Rosa Elegans, Bhindina, Etonia, Jeffries'Triumphant, Suffolk Hero, Middlesex Rival, Sarah, Countess of Torrington, Beauty of Lul- lingston, Dodd's Mary, Royal Standard, and Conductor. Second Prize.— Mr. Hellier, Oxford— Middlesex Rival, Dodd's Mary, Sir H. Fletcher, Suffulk Hero, Stone's Yellow, Louthianum, Oxford Rival, Diadem of Flora, Knight's Victory, Beauty of Bed- ford, Topaz, Juliet, Springfield Rival, Glory of the West, Grand Duke, Day's Mary Anne, Blandina, Napoleon, Lady Kiunaird Bontesholl, Ruby, Flower of Eden, Bronze, Pandora. Third Prize.— Mr. Sadler, at Sir Charles Throgmorton's, Coughton Court— Rival Sussex, Smith's Lord Byron, Elphinston's Purple Perfection, Sir Isaac Newton, Royal Standard, Clio Perfecta, Mar- quis of Lothian, Dodd's Mary, Hopwood's Lady Anne, Rosea Su- perba, Foster's Eva, Jeffries' Triumphant, Ansell's Unique, Beauty of Lullingston, Diadem of Flora, Marchioness of Tavistock, Knight's Victory, York and Lancaster, Doctor Halley, Girling's Horace, Rosetta, Middlesex Rival, Hermione, and Mulberry Rival. Fourth Prize.— Mr. Mitchell, Lord Vernon's Sudbury Hall, Der. byshire— Sir H. Fletcher, Dodd's Mary, Lady of the Lake, Lady Cowper, Hopwood's Lady Ann, Countess of Sheffield, Springfield Rival, Mount Pleasant Rival, Giroff, Jeffries'Triumphant, Goliah, Lord Liverpool, Topaz, Sir Walter Scott, Cassina, Hermione, Rival Sussex, Rhoda, Burgundy, Beauty of Berkshi.- e, Brown's Sarah, Vandyke, and Wilmer's Superba. Fifth Prize.— Mr: James Burbury, Stoneleigh— Kelnor's Etonia, Girling's Topaz, Kingstone's Nimrod, Sir Edward Sugden, Brown's Beauty, Grant Thorbon, Suffolk Hero, Maria Edgeworth, Dodd's Mary, Sir Henry Fletcher, Cambridge Hero, Brown's Sarah, Day's Oxford Rival, Lord Stanley, Sussex Rival, Ansell's Unique, Bar- ratt's Stuart Wortley, Springfield Major, Clarke's Julia, Conqueror of Europe, Blandina, Calliope, Addison, Bowman's Premier. AMATEURS.— Twelve Blooms.— First Prize— Mr. Searle- Knight's Victory, Squibb's Purple Perfection, Rhoda, Hope, Etonia, Koyal Standard, Ruby, Jeffries' Triumphant, Topaz, Suffolk Hero, Csnduc- tor, and Countess of Torrington. Second Prize Mr. Foreman, Chellastone— Topaz, Marquis of Lothian, Summum Bonuin, Knight's Victory, Dodd's Mary, Pan- dora, Brown's Beauty, Bontisholl, Jubilee, Simmond's Alpha, Lord LyndhHrst, and Royal Standard. Third Prize.— Mr. J. Bunbury, Stoneleigh— Sussex Rival, Marquis of Lothian, Whale's Royal Standard, Dodd's Mary, Foster's Eva, Cambridge Hero, Conqueror of Europe, Widnall's Duke of Devon, shire, Girling's Topaz, Widnall's Conductor, Maria Edgeworth, and Clarke's Julia. Fourth Prize.— Mr. G. Mussell, Mr. C. Ratheram's gardener- Purple Perfection, Corinne, Springfield, Duke of Devonshire, Dodd's Mary, Suffolk Hero, Squibb's Purple Perfection, Brown's Beauty, Sir H. Fletcher, Conqueror of Europe, Marquis of Lothian, Dodd's Mary, and Queen of Scots. Fifth Prize.— Mr. Thomas Taylor, Hinckley— Sir H. Fletcher, Dodd's Mary, Unknown, Rival Suffolk, Blandina, Addison, Perfec. tion, Springfield Rival, Suffolk Hero, Perfection, Glory of the West, and Ruby. Sixth Prize.— Mr. Hcllier— Ruby, Napoleon, Springfield Rival, Mrs. Broadwood, Sir H. Fletcher, Dodd's Mary, Oxford Rival, Sam Weller, Alman's Grand Duke, Bath Rival, Day's Mary Anne, and Suffolk Hero. AMATEURS.— Six Blooms.— First Prize— Mr. Searle— Suffolk Hero, Blandini, Kuight's Victory, Topaz, Royal Standard, and Dodd's Mary. Second Prize.— Mr. Hellier— Clio Perfecta, Suffolk Hero, Dodd Mary, Sir H. Fletcher, Oxford Rival, and Beauty of the Grove. Third Prize— Rev. Mr. Cresswell, Radford, near Nottingham- Pandora, Bontisholl, Glory of the West, Beaumont's Premier, Royal Standard, and Suffolk Hero. Fourth Prize.— Mr. Henney, Wolverhampton— Marquis of Lothian Suffolk Hero, Sir H. Fletcher, Independent, Middlesex Rival, and Brown's Beauty. Fifth Prize.— Rev. Frederick Smith, Elmshurst— Dodd's Mary, Napoleon, Fisliertou Rival, Springfield Rival, Topaz, and Conqueror of Europe. Sixth Prize.— Mr. Mussell— Dodd's Mary, Topaz, Marquis of Lo. thian, Suffolk Hero, Foster's Hero, and Etonian. NURSERYMEN.— Tiuenty- four Blooms.— First Prize. — Premier Cup, Mr. Widnall, as above. Second Prize.—- Mr. Brown, Slough— Royal Standard, Suffolk Hero, Topaz, Squibb's Purple Perfection, Conqueror of Europe, Jeffries' Triumphant, Beauty of Berks, Maria Edgeworth, Hope, Mrs. Wil. kinsou, Hero of Navarino, Metropolitan Yellow, Unique, Conductor, Eva, Marquis of Lothian, Dodd's Mary, Bontisholl, Robert Burns^ Lady Kinnaird, Rienzi, Premier, Springfield Rival, and Rival Sussex. Ihird Prize.— Mr. Hodges, Cheltenham— Dodd's Mary, Widnall's Conductor, Widnall's Duke of Devonshire, Whale's Royal Standard, Beauty of West Riding, Hope, Stamford's Perfection, Clio Perfecta, Rival Granta, Topaz, Springfield Major, Lady Dartmouth, War. minster Rival, Suffolk Hero, Carraock's Boadicia, Widnall's Rienzi Rival Sussex, Widnall's Perfection, Foster's Eva, Girling's Ruby, Springfield Rival, Girling's Exquisite, Knight's Victory, and Ansell's Unique. Fourth Prize.— Mr. Bates— Knight's Victory, Dodd's Mary, Mar- quis of Lothian, Countess of Torrington, Springfield Major, Foster's Eva, Duke of Rutland, Clio Perfecta, Squibb's Purple Perfection, Oxford Rival, Elphinstone'a Purple Perfection, Ansell's Unique, Macket's Helena, Suffolk Hero, Widnall's Lavinia, Carmine Perfec. tion, Jeffries' Triumphant, Glory of the West, Ruby, Lady Vernon, Blandina, Marquis of Northampton, Pandora, and Sir Henry Fletcher. Fifth Prize.— Messrs. Mountjoy and Son, Ealing, Middlesex— Sir F. Burdett, Springfield Major, No Plus Ultra, Middlesex Rival, Ovid, Bontisholl, Clio Perfecta, Essex Rival, Sylvia, Jeffries' Triumphant, Perfection, Squibb's Purple Perfection, Grant Tliorburn, Springfield Rival, Dodd's Mary, Exquisite, Unique, Independent, Dodd's Queen of Scots, Horwood's Defiance, St. Leonard's Rival, Ruby, Conductor, and Rival Sussex. NURSERYMEN— Twelve Blooms.— First Prize.— Mr. Widnall— Wid- nall's Rienzi, Widnall's Conductor, Eva, Springfield Rival, Suffolk Hero, Topaz, Dodd's Mary, Ruby, Unique, Lady Kiunaird, Brown's Sarah, and Marquis of Lothian. Second Prize.— Mr. Browu, Slough— Middlesex Rival, Conqueror of Europe, Rienzi, Beauty of Berks, Bontisholl, Unique, Oxford Rival, Lady Kinnaird, Bowling- green Rival, Eva, Topaz, and Sir H. Fletcher. Third Prize.— Mr. Earl, Bristol. road, Birmingham— Barratt's Hero of Wakefield, Barratt's Honourable Stuart Wortley, Beauty of Kingscote, Dodd's Mary, Widnall's Reliance, Widnall's Con- ductor, Springfield Rival, Brown's Corinna, Maria Edgworth, Wid- nall's Duke of Devonshire, Middlesex Rival, and Conqueror of Europe. Fourth Prize.— Messrs. Mountjoy and Son, Ealing— Summum Bo- nuro, Dodd's Mary, Middlesex Rival, Metropolitan Yellow, Jeffries' Triumphant, Springfield Rival, Suffolk Hero, Ansell's Unique, Bon- tisholl, Lord Byron, Addison, and Ruby. Fifth Prize.— Mr. Willmer, Sunbury, Middlesex— Topaz, Heal's Glory, Dodd's Mary, Springfield Rival, Clio Perfecta, Widnall's Duke of Devonshire, Grant Thorburn, Holman's Scarlet Perfection, Bowman's Premier, Hope or Metropolitan Rose, Foster's Eva and Rienzi. SEEDLINGS. First Prize.— Cup, Mr. Smith, Worcester; Second Prize Mr. Widnall. Third Prize.— Mr. Willmer. Fourth Prize.— Messrs. Brown, of Slough. Fifth Prize.— m. Widnall. Sixth Prize.— Mr. Willmer. DEVICE OR 6ROUP. First Prize.— Mr. Coudrey, Edgbaston, Second Prize.— Master William Pulling. LORD BROUGHAM. was well enough suited to a former state of things, and did occasionally service to the country, but which, in he pre- sent day, can have no other effect than to defraud the nation of its just rights, and to suspend the progress of public im- provement. With my best respects to the other gentle- men, I have the honour to be, sir, your faithful and obedient servant, BROUGHAM. W. Tait, Esq., Edinburgh. P. S— I trust that nothing in this letter will lead you to suppose that I consider the people bound to be still and in- active upon questions of great moment, such as the Corn Laws, the Irish Church, or Popular Education, because they are deprived of their just share in the representation. That by no means follows. They may do great good in keeping their representatives right, even under the present defective system. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. The following is the answer from this nobleman to a letter from Mr. Tait, of Edinburgh, enquiring if his lordship meant to visit Scotland during the recess— Brougham Hall, Sept. 5, 1838. SIR,— In answer to the inquiries of you and those other friends whom I had the great pleasure of seeing here two years ago, I have to state that the supposition of my having determined to visit Scotland this autumn was founded on i; misapprehension. At one time I thought it probable that I should be obliged to attend a ceremony in one of the Northern Universities. But as I know, from the experience of 1834, how very diffi cult it would be ( with every disposition I might have, and every precaution I might take) to avoid attending political meetings if 1 went there, I have done my endeavour to avoid going there at all this season, and I trust I have suc- ceeded. It may be asked, why I have so strong a dislike to attend political assemblies, especially during the recess of Parlia- ment ; or rather why I do not overcome that disinclination, for the advancement of my political principles. My answer is, that I should now, as I occasionally have done before, lay my own inclinations out of the question, if I really could be convinced that any good would result from my undergoing a great personal inconvenience. But I am sure that more advantage will follow from confining my exertions in behalf of those principles to my place in Parliament, where I am always to be found. Let not our friends, the friends of Reform and improve- ment, imagine that I conceive the present to be a time when their most strenuous exertions can be dispensed with. It is now clear, if anything can be clear, that for farther improvement in their condition, the people must look to their own efforts. The folly ot those who suffer themselves to be lulled into inaction by the accident of a friendly court— or rather a court not hostile— can only be equalled by the knavery of those who attempt to practice this delusion. It is a good fortune which a thousand chances may at any mo- ment reverse, and leave them bitterly to lament that they have refused to awake and take heed " while it is called to- day." And, with all this temporary advantage, what lias been gained? They bid us look to Ireland. Look, then, to Ireland. First, a poor- law was imposed on that country, to the universal dismay of its inhabitants, without distinction of rank, party, or sect. Then a faint resistance to the changes made in the Corporation bill was followed by some kind of alarm, that some kind of mischief might come to some people if the bill was accepted as altered; so that measure was lost altogether. An unqualified submission, however, to the same power which had dictated those Cor- poration bill changes, was made when the great tithe mea- sure came on the carpet. Against all " gages and pledges," the only one merit the bill ever could boast, the appropria- tion, was abandoned by those who had taken office on the ground of that provision being indispensably necessary; and a new prop was purchased for the Irish church at the heavy cost of the people of this country; while some of those who made us pay for it, avowed that we were only throwing good money after had, for nothing could save the building from tumbling down! Thus there would be no great satisfaction in going to tell the people of Scotland how little they had gained under the new dispensation ; and little good in warn- ing them against ever again cherishing those hopes that but lead to disappointment. Accidental circumstances have lately given me occasion to re- consider, very deliberately, the political opinions with which I entered upon public life thirty years ago, und which have ever since stuck by me, so inconveniently to some other folks, that I seem to give the same kind of uneasiness to them that a good looking- glass does to a superannuated beauty— with this material difference, however, that the beauty has only to accuse time for the change, and not her- sel'f, and that she may break the mirror, or at least turn away her head from the sight; whereas this operation is not found to he so easy when attempted (. as, indeed, it has been) upon the glass, which is now held up to certain leaders of the Liberal party. But has time, and experience, and reflection, produced no change in my own opinions? In some small measure it has. The opinions remain substantially the same; but I cling more by them as I grow older, and I carry them some- what further, from longer trial of their quality. I feel more deeply than ever the necessity of the people exerting themselves to work out their own political regeneration. I am more convinced than ever that they may be safely en. trusted with political power, inasmuch as they are now far better qualified to use it. I am thoroughly persuaded that without it they will never have any security for good and cheap government; and I think the time is come when they must prove traitors to themselves, and cannot be served or saved by any man, unless they show a firm determination to think for themselves, and allow no more party combina- tions, or mere paltry leaders, to make and to dictate their opinions. Good, safe, wholesome government consists in all intelligent persons of the community having a direct share in the administration of its powers; and an ordinary education is all that can be required for giving men sufficient intelligence to discharge this highest duty, and exercise this most sacred right. My firm belief is, that the domestic peace and good order of a country will be always better preserved— that its foreign affairs will always be more steadily administered— that the two first blessings of the political state, the very end and object of all polity ( I mean peace at home and abroad) will be most certainly main- tained— in the country whose government is founded upon the most extensive, that is, the most popular base. We are far enough from that at present— and accordingly we are in the east pulling down and setting up princes, and extorting subsidiary treaties from our royal puppets— in the west pass- ing wholesale bills of attainder against persons in their ah sence, and without even any notice— and every where keep- ing up costly settlements for the sake of the patronage they bestow; while at home we have had the public burdens nearly stationary for these twenty years of peace, and find a close union of both the regular parties in the state to sup- port the laws by which bread is made dear, the trade in all corn hut our own extinguished, and the foreign markets closed against the produce of our manufactories. Mark, too, in passing, the evil effects, the gross, and even ridicu- lous, inconsistencies of the party principle, when abused, which in its just uses is so favourable to popular rights, and so great a shield against oppression. In 1820 I had the hearty support of the regular Whig partizans ( we being all then in opposition) against the very worst act the Tories ever did, their bill for keeping the Queen out of her adopted country, to please the King, all " without shedding her blood," of course— hut the Tory bill was not made behind the Queen's back. We were heard for two months against it, and we defeated it. Yet those same Whig partizans now, to please a viceroy's blundering council ( for I am sure it can be no measure of his own) defend a bill, passed in two hours, for the attainder of sixteen men, wholly unaware of the measure, and whom it is only intended to keep out of their native country, " without shedding their blood," of course— a bill described by one of its authors, without any exaggeration, as " an act of horrible injustice and despot- ism." When Parliament meets we shall see whether or not the same resistance to all reform will continue to be offered, by which the opening of the last session was so remarkably distinguished from all its predecessors. If the interval shall be employed by the people in calmly but firmly making their sentiments and their determination known to their representatives, better things may be expected for ourselves at home, as better things have been effected than were at first granted for our fellow- subjects in the colonies, by the force of public opinion alone. If the people show them- selves indifferent to what most concerns them, then another exhibition will be made of the mere game of parties, which SPADE CULTIVATION. SIR,— As you hare, in your last number, accom- panied my review of Dr. Yelloly's pamphlet, by your own remarks, by way of an antidote; I trust you will allow me the benefit of a little space for a rejoinder. I take j'our points as they occur. The true economist will never consider that opera- tion, a " retrograde" movement, which increases the quantity of produce in proportion to its cost; and if by ther" distaff," yarn could be produced more cheaply than by the " mule- jenny," the latter ought to be dis- carded. " The superiority of spade culture over the plough," as Mr. Heathecot well observes, in a letter to myself, " consists in its breaking up the FLOOR OF THE SOIL, and rendering it pervious to water," If the steam- plough, invented by this gentleman, will have this effect, as he seems to anticipate, combined with cheapness, I should vote for making a feu dejoie of the forks, spades, and horse- plough, though our agricultural population should, in consequence, be re- duced below their present state— below the abject- ness of the hand- loom weaver. The most direct means are always to be used, regardless of the con- sequences, if these be disastrous, it is because we are yet novices in the science of society. You will perceive by the typographical marks, that the phrase " clumsy and imperfect" as applied to the plough, is not mine, but a quotation from my author. Another glance will also show that, following Dr. Yelloly, I oppose dibbling quite as much to DRILLING, as to broad cast. I introduced it as an instance of the alleged beneficial abandonment of a machine. I was not prepared for your literal reading of the term " profound," as applied to science. I wished to express, that the scientific spade- cultivator based his system of deep, or if you please, " profound" digging, oh the united action of chemistry and mechanism, as adapting to the nutrition of the plant, the pabulum set at liberty, or brought into action, by the forcible movement of the soil. You lay down your " theory," and state your " belief." Such belief and such theory were held by the neighbours of Mr. I. R., ( see the letter in your possession,) who warned him against " bringing to the surface the cold mineral sub- soil." Mr. R. dismissed theory, trenched his ground two- feet deep, brought up several inches depth of CLAY, and was abundantly rewarded by the extraordinary prod uce. Such, sir, is my case, I have no theory to support; my political economy, too, is of the hardest possible nature. I appeal, to what appears to ine, to be " FACTS;" to actual practice, as illustrative of certain principles. If my informants speak falsely, it is another affair ; but the coincidence of their testimony is, in my opinion, too complete to be stultified by the mere expression of a contrary " belief."— I am, sir, & c THE WRITER OF THE REVIEW OF DR. YELLOLY ON SPADE HUSBANDRY. Birmingham, September 10, 1838. TO JOSEPH STURGE, ESQ. What, he would ask, was that man who claimed liberty for himself, and denied it toothers? What was he but a base hypocrite? What term in the English language would be too severe for him ?— Dr. Lushington's Speech, Town- hall, August 1, 1838. SIR,— At the late Town- hall meeting to celebrate negro emancipation, the eulogiums bestowed upon you for the perseverance, firmness, and the uncompro- mising disposition you manifested in the cause of black freedom, were truly gratifying. Would that I could induce you to become the professed and fearless advocate of English freedom. You are regarded by all, a disinterested friend of humanity ; but there is another feeling of which your public spirit makes you pre- eminently worthy; that generous and unsuspect- ing confidence, which a virtuous and intelligent peo- ple repose in a brave and incorruptible patriot. I re- gret that such moral power as that which your example would inspire, is not engaged to alter and repeal the laws that operate against the very existence of the working people. To me, it seems anomalous, that Englishmen should devote their energies exclu- sively to emancipate black slaves, at the time that the misery amongst white slaves, surpassed the most heart- rending details, that the warmest advocates of the negro are able to furnish. Let us go amongst the starving hand- loom weavers at Bolton, in Lancashire. A paragraph in the Leeds Mercury, dated the 18th of November, 1837, tells us that the aggregate wages of 502 weavers, for six months, were 8211. 19s. 6d., or upon an average, two- pence a day per head. This statement is corroborated by evidence given before a committee of the House of Commons, in their report of 1835, ( page 5) :— Your committee find upon the evidence of Mr. Makin, a manufacturer, that the weavers are labouring under the most incredible privation, notwithstanding they are fully employed, & c.; that they do not earn a sufficiency to pro- cure them meat, except occasionally, not more frequently than once in the week, that their ordinary food is oatmeal and potatoes; that a man having a family of five children, cannot, with the assistance of his wife and two of his children, earn more than 2% d. for each per day, applicable for food and clothing. How does this look, when put by side of an account given by Fortescue, Lord High Chancellor of Henry VI.; and Lord Chief Justice of England for twenty years:— The inhabitants of England are rich in gold and silver, and in all the necssaries and conveniences of life. They drink no water, unless at certain times, upon a religious score, and by way of doing penance. Tbey are fed in great abundance with all sorts of flesh and fish, of which they have plenty everyday; they are clothed throughout in good woollens; their bedding and other furniture in their houses, are of wool,' and that in great store. The acts of Parliament to protect working- infants in cotton manufactories, are proof enough of the hor- rible extent of suffering amongst that class of little white- English- slaves. Our own town awfully testifies the assertion that want pervades the mass of the peo- ple ; last winter, fresh in our recollection, with the prospect of similar distress next winter, is further proof of how little our wrongs and grievances are re- garded by the law- makers. Now, sir, what is the remedy for this appalling state of things, but that the honest voice of the working man be heard in the House of Commons ? This would be the best protection to labour, and the greatest security for property. It is the only way to prevent the monstrous extravagance of the factions ; the only peaceable way to obtain a cheap and a powerful go- vernment. The delegated body is the exact similitude of the constituent body; neither have the least care to the wants and privations of the people. A House of Commons fairly chosen, would not, and dared not have passed the atrocious money bill of 1819, at the bidding of the Tory- Peel, doubling his already over- heaped load of stores, and cruelly doubling the pres- sure of taxation. One can hardly think, when the ruin to thousands of virtuous families, and the misery to millions of helpless people, were so distinctly fore- told by Cobbett and Attwood, and in a manner so con- vincing, that any one but a demon would have per- sisted in a measure so grinding. A House of Com « mons so chosen, would not have passed the starvation- Poor- law bill, a direct invasion of the rights of the working people; a bill enacted for the purpose of forcing the people to live on " coarser food;" to enable the landlord to squeeze more rent from his tenant; to force the jaged and helpless into a bastile ; to separate the orphan from its mother; to create a motive to infanticide, while the system enforces hanging for the crime. These two infamous laws would never have been contemplated by legislators appointed with the univer- sal consent of the people. Game laws, transporting men to distant countries for merely killing a wild animal, would not have been thought of by a Com- mons so chosen— a law made directly at the poor man. Corn laws would not have been kept in operation, making bread dear, while money was scarce. Such a house would not continue a pension list, to pamper the pride and profligacy of the favourites of the aristocracy. There needs no further proof of the necessity of change. The " thing" cannot stagger along much longer. A concentration of moral energy is required for a short time only, directed to the one great object, an extension of the suffrage, which must not be one atom short of " universal suffrage." To those who are sticklers for \ authority, who refuse to listen to any innovation, un- less it be proposed and sanctioned by some great per- sonage ; for the consideration of such, I submit the following law authorities:— Thomas Smith, in the Commonwealth of England, says, " that every Eng- lishman is intended to be in Parliament, either in person or by procuration and attorney, of what pre. eminence, state, or quality soever lie may be, from the prince to the lowest person in England, and the con- sent of Parliament is taken to be every man's consent." The book of the assizes, a book of great authority, says, " that laws to bind all must lie assented to by all," and Cobbett, in commenting upon this conclusive sen- tence, makes the following remarks :—" How are all to assent to laws, if only a part, and that, too, a very small part, have a voice in choosing those who have power to make the laws ?" Blackstone, in his commentaries— he was a court lawyer, and no one, after reading this high authority, will treat with rudeness the great question of universal suffrage, says in book 1, chap 2, " that every man is, in judgment of law, party to making an act of Parlia- ment, being present thereat by his representatives." But the grand principle, the clencher of all the rest, is to be found, as Cobbett remarks, in book 14, chap. 1, " The lawfulness of punishing criminals is founded upon this principle, that the law by which they suffer was made by their own consent.'''' On the great prin- ciple of universal suffrage no more can be said ; but respecting the question of annual Parliaments, a prin- ciple that springs out of the other, as a matter of course, I am constrained to make a quotation from a letter written by the late Mr. Cobbett to Earl Grosvenor, in February, 1817— If there are people to suppose that the House of Com- mons would, by annual elections, be so varying for ever in its members, that the laws would be continually changing, I beg your lordship, besides the weight of the observation ot Mr. Baron Maseres, to remember the old maxim, that " short reckonings make long friends;" than which a truer maxim never dropt from the lips of wisdom ; and the history of all mankind shows, that those quarrel least who have the most frequent power of adjusting their affairs. The Legis- lative Assembly of Pennsylvania, for instance, is elected by new writs annually; and, I venture to assure your lordship, that new faces and changes of laws are much less frequent there than in the House of Commons in England. The government of Pennsylvania is no very new thing. It is a3 it was originally formed by the famous Englishman whose name the state hears. He carried to those deserts the laws of England. He built his government upon those laws, while the Stuarts were trampling them under foot at home. He knew that annual Parliaments were the law of the land. He planted them in his new domain ; there they have lived and flourished, and under them a system of sway which hasi produced a scene of social tranquillity and happiness, such as is to be found in no other part of the world. Because I refer to this instance, in support of my argument, I am not to be supposed to desire other changes here, after the model of Pennsylvania; but, as far as the instance goes, it is, I pre- sume, entitled to all the weight to which any case in point can be entitled. Lord Brougham, when Mr. Brougham, in pointing* out the necessity of shorter Parliaments, said, that members always attended most strictly to their Parlia- mentary duties, to the wishes and interests of their constituents, in the last session of Parliament." The ballot needs no argument in its support. As you are professedly the enemy to bribery and drunkenness, so are you the friend to this peaceable, and comfortable, and secure mode of conducting an election. I am, sir, yours, very respectfully, Sept. 4, 1838. JOSEPH CORBETT. STATE OF THE WORKHOUSE UP TO SEPTEMBER 10. Wo- INFANTS, Men. men. Boys. Girls. Male. Fern. Total: 179 197 9 22 10 11 428 Admitted since .... 5 6 2 1 1 15 Born iu the House 184 203 11 23 10 12 443 Dlaohgd, absconded, 5 11 3 1 1 2 23 Total of each 179 192 8 2- 2 9 10 420 2,815 213 * Of whom 4 men died. DEATHS On Tuesday, at Summer hill terrace, deservedly regretted, William, son of the late Mr. Edward Hughes, of Paradise- street, after a long continued illness. On Thursday last, aged 77, deeply regretted by all who knew him, and by none more than his respected employers, whom he had faithfully and honourably served during the long period of forty- lour years, Mr. Thomas Wilkinson, clerk to Messrs. William Hunt and Sons, of the Brades Steel Warehouse, Ann- street. On the 7th instant, aged 25, after a long illness, at Llan- gollen, on her way from the sea coast, Mary, the beloved wife of J. Bickerton Williams, Jun., Esq., solicitor, Clare- mont, Shrewsbury, and the second daughter of Josiali Robins, Esq., Aston Brook, near this town. On Saturday last, in his 58th year, Mr. James Fletcher, o£ Soho- road, Gibb Heath. On Tuesday last, aged 70, Elizabeth, relict of Richard Middlemore, Esq., of Hawkesley, Worcestershire. On the 29th ult., of consumption, in the 25th year of her age, Emma, third daughter of the late Mr. Jonathan Brown, of Lively- street. On Thursday week, aged 38, Mr. Joseph Smith, o£ Nechell's place. On the 31st ult., after a lingering illness, which she bore with Christian fortitude and resignation, Elizabeth, wife of Mr. William Fisher, Newton- street. On the 10th inst., Esther Chatwin, relict of the late Mfi Thomas Chatwin, of Livery- street, in this town. X BIRTH. On the 6th instant, at the vicarage, Cam, Gloucestershire, the wife of the Rev. George Madan, of a son. MARRIAGES. Yesterday morning, ( by license,) at Cannon- street chapel, by the Rev. Thomas Swann, Mr. William Borrow, mer- chant, Leipzig, to Charlotte, youngest daughter of the late Mr. T. J. Broadfield, of Birmingham. On the lltb instant, at St. George's Church, Borough, London, Samuel Berry, Esq., surgeon, of this town, to Emma, second daughter of Joseph Haycraft, Esq., of Greenwich. On the lltli instant, at St. Philip's church, by the Rev. B. Spurrel, Mr. Joseph Hollington, linen draper, Spiceal- street, to Sarah, relict of Mr. John Taylor, of Edgbaston- street. On the 11th instant, at Bickenhill, by the Rev. T. G. M. Luckock, M. A., Mr. Josiah Rock, of Walsall, to Caro- line, the third daughter of Mr. Thornley, of Marston Hall, Bickenhill. On Wednesday, at Handsworth, by the Rev. D. N. Walton, M. A., Mr. Stephen Hill, surgeon, of Handsworth, to Elizabeth Mary, eldest daughter of Mr. John Bettridge, of Hamstead- row. On the 6th instant, at Edgbaston, Mr. William Burdett, of Lionel- street, to Mrs. Mary West, widow of the late Mr. Samuel West, of Upper Marshall- street. 8 THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL, SEPTEMBER 15. 7 M& V O STLER'S STATEMENT or THE MONEY BALANCES BETWEEN HIMSELF AKD MR. THORNHILL— The balance WAS struck; I was. by the books, £ 2709 lis. 4| d. in his debt. I told him I had spent all that, and much more, in his ser- vice- ' I hoped he would r. ot expect me to pay him ; but if he did enforce the payment, then I was thankful to say J had property, not just then convertible, but sufficient to cover that and everything else which I owed to him and to others. I gave him a statement of my debts and credits, which he holds at this moment. This settlement and explanation took place December 13th, 1834. After the books were balanced, Mr. Thornhill said to me, • Well, now, Mr. Oastler, about you leaving me; I have no wish to part with you ?" This led to a long discourse about his conduct and my expenses. He said that " he did not wish te be represented in the manner 1 had described ; that 1 had. no occasion to give anything, either to persons or horses; that all I hail to do was to walk persons into the office, transact his business with them, and tben let them leave ; and if they had horses or caariages, let them wait at the office door." I told him that if I represented him, I must and would do it as I had done, & c., & c. The result was, that he urged me to remain in his service; and, as an inducement, offered me an increase of salary of £ 200 a- year. I told iiim I would consult my friends. I did so; and [ re- mained. Our next settlement was December 19th, 1835 ; when I owed him £ 2405 8s. 7d., being a reduction of £ 304. 2s. 9Jd. Our accounts are always settled up to the 1st of July iu every year. 1 had been especially invited by Mrs. Thornhill to spend the Christmas holidays, and celebrate Mr. TJiornbill's birthday, at Riddlesworth. This was a mark of respect and friendship which neither my father nor myself had ever been honoured with before. Be pleased to observe that this was the year after 1 hadfully explained every thing about my circumstances to Mr. Thornhill. He wished to have a note for the balance. 1 gave him one for the sum of £ 2405 8s. 7d. We have had two settlements since then, one March 4, 1837, when the balance was £ 2264 3A. 10d., and the last on July 7th, 1837, when I owed him, according to the books, £ 1741 13s. 3d.; those two reductions in the amount, of £ 141 4s. 9d. and £ 522 7s. 10d., are entered by Mr. Tliornhill himself on the back of that note ! Since 1 gave him that note he has never, by word or letter, asked me for the money; or alluded to it in any way I In fact, the only notice be has ever taken of it has been to make these two entries on the back, until his letters in the public newspa- pers, dated Cowes, 17th August, in one of which he changes me with stealing that money!— in the other with owing it to him ! On the very same day— horn the very same place, ( Cowes, 17th August, 1838,) I have a latter written by him- self to me, in which he does not even mention the circumstance, v hint at it in any way. I ask every banker and tradesman what he thinks of such Dnduct? Is a man to be publicly denounced as a thief be- Ruse he owes money? Then is trade, altogether, theft! lever was such a charge, under such circumstances, made ) efore.— Letter to the people of England. THE SCOTS RADICALS AND O'CONNELL Perhaps we may lave damaged our own right of blaming the conduct of Mr. O'Connell, by acting so long, in relation to the Whig. Tory Ministers. We have probably forborne too long, though not to the extent which satisfied him. Last year, when our dis- satisfaction at his Parliamentary conduct had been expressed, only in the most delicate and gentle manner, O'Connell both in speech and letters, complained that along with every thing British, even Tait's Magazine had turned against him. Still we were silent. We resolved to try him, as he tries the Whigs— for one more session, and this year also we have been silent, even when we felt forbearance with O'Con- nell, for the sake of his country, verging upon betrayal of the common cause of reform in Great Britain and Ireland. We have a score of our own to clear with " The Liberator." This magazine was among the first, if not the very first of the British periodicals, that unreservedly and warmly advo- cated the civil and religious rights of the Irish people. We were among the bumble but disinterested and zealous instru- ments, who for the sake of Ireland and Reform, paved the way for'the triumphant progress of O'Connell through the north of England and Scotland, and gave him power and influence in Great Britain, which we fondly hoped he was to employ for very different purposes than abetting or shel- tering the Whigs in their desertion of Reform. Since then, session after session has passed, and we have looked with perplexity, apprehension, and, at length, with something of the suspicion avowed by all English Radicals, upon many parts of'his public conduct. In this suspicion, many of his own countrymen participate. Yet we cannot go their length — we cannot doubt of O'Connell's fidelity to Ireland. He has been bred in a bad school. He finesses too much, he temporises too much. What we consider far worse than his subserviency to the Whigs, is his obvious desire too keep assunder Irish and British Reformers— to keep alive distrust ofji^ uiriong the people of Ireland. For this there can be r. o good motive. He should remember Cobbett's lesson— ' Were this indifference and dislike even true— you, O'Con- nell, should be the last man to tell it.' But we leave Mr. O'Connell for the present in the hands of his patriotic coun- tryman, Mr. Sharman Crawford, to whose unimpeachable probity and singleness of mind he basso often borne testi- mony. Having most reluctantly broken silence, we shall feel it a duty to continue to tell the Irish what the warmest friends of Ireland in Britain think of the conduct of O'Con- nell. To ourselves it is most painful and mot tifying to think of him but as the firmest friend of his native land, and the able champion of liberty everywhere Tait's Magazine for September. FIRES IN LONDON.— In the last five years there have been ( exclusive of ignited chimneys) 2476 fires in the metropolis, or 495 per year. In 5 per cent of these fires the premises were totally destroyed ; in 25 per cent they were seriously damaged ; and in 68 per cent the injury was slight. The smallest number of fires occurred on Saturdays, and the lar- gest on Fridays. The fewest fires occurred from five to nine o'clock in the morning; and the greatest number from ten to two in the night. Thus, the return for the five years showed that 98 broke out at five in the evening; 105 at six; 122 at seven ; 182 at eight; 188 at nine; 199 at ten ; 197 at eleven; 165 at twelve; 129 at one; 113 at two; 80 at three; 68 at four; 50 at five ; 47 at si*; and so on. Only 165 were traceable to unavoidable accidents. 594 occurred through the incautious use of candles ; 72 from palpable carelessness in various ways; 29 from children playing with fire; 20 from fires kindled on hearths, and in other improper situations; 330 from choked flues; 17 from incautious communications in the buildings ; 44 from over- heated lurnaces ; 153 from sundry accidents with gas; 7 from intoxication ; 31 from arson; 1* 4 ( in two years) from the ignition of wearing appa- rel; and 131 ( in three years) from clothes being carelessly left to dry at the fire British Association Report. LONDON GAZETTES. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. BANKRUPTS. C Tht Bankrupts to surrender at the Court of Commissioners, Rasingitall- street, when not otherwise expressed.'} CHRISTOPHER GEORGE, Paddiugton- street, Marylebone, builder, September 17 and October 19, at the Bankrupts' Court. Sol. Mr. Bickuell, Manchester- street, Manchester- square. Pet. Cr. Robert Mopsey, 11, Southampton- row, Kussell- square, boot maker. Seal. September 5. GEORGE ' CLARKSON, Sheerness, Kent, victualler, September 22 and October 19, at the Bankrupts'Court. Sol. Mr. Hardingham, Millman.' street, Bedford. row. ret. Cr. Joseph Vickers, Stephen Child, John Bowers Child, John Vickers, and George Harris Child, Stoney. street, Soutliwark, distillers. Seal. September 5. JOSEPH CORNS, jun., Birmingham, cabinet maker, September 17 and October 19, at Dee's Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Sols. Messrs. Pliilipps and Conquest, Size- lane, Bucklersbury. Pet. Cr. Joseph Corns, sen., Wellington- street, Bristol- road, Edgbaston, near Birmingham, gent. Seal. August 29. DIVIDENDS. W. CHARLETON and J. H. REDDELL, Berners. street. Commer. cial- road- east, white lead manufacturers, September 29. E. POPE, March, Cambridgeshire, draper, October 3. R. MARTIN, Oxford street, linen draper, October 1. J. H. TRYBand S. LIGHTFOOT, Great St. Helen's, merchant", October 3. It. PEASE, I. eeds, mahogany merchant, September 29. B. and B. BOOXHBY, Nottingham, ironfouace. p, September - 8. W. HARRIS, Manchester, merchant, October 11. W. and J. E. MARSH ALL, Horton, Yorkshire, worsted spinners, October SI- J. J. and W. FOSTER, Carlisle, Cumberland, bankers, Cc'o'er 3. T. PITT, Southtown, otherwise Little Yarmouth, Suffolk, mer- chant, October 9. B. CLAY, Huddersfleld, timber merchant, October 2. T. TABBKRER, Birmingham, cheesemonger, October 8. S. PITCHFORTH, Brighouse, Yorkshire, wood sawyer, October 2. T. MIL WARD, Bradford, Yorkshire, grocer, October 3. S. NU5JN, Rickinghall Superior, Suffolk, hay merchant, October 6. T. THEOBALD, Norwich, bombaain manufacturer, September 29. F. HOWE, Margate, hotel keeper, September 28. S. BROWN; Tealby, Lincolnshire, grocer, October 11. G. SAFFERY, Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, scrivener, October 11, J. PATCHETT, Liverpool, saddler, October 24. C. COOPER, Liverpool, grocer, September 29. CERTIFICATES, SEPTEMBER 28. S. Morgan, Birmingham, Dublin, aud Limerick, toy merchant— W. Grundy, Piikington, Lancashire, cotton spinner— C. Palmer, Hertford. street, Mayfair, wine merchant— J. Sisley, East Peckham, shopkeeper— E. Marshall, Liverpool, grocer— J. Scantlebury, David, street, York- place, New. road, carpenter— R. Lowe, jun., Worcester, skianer— W. Wood, Atherstone, Warwickshire, clock manufacturer D. Morgan, Hedge- tow, Islington, butcher. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. VV. Gosling and T. EglQy, New Bond- street, booksellers— T. and Massey, Norwich, manufacturers— Macfarlan, Maitland, and Co., rndon, and Maitland, Macfarlan, and Co., Edinburgh— Taylor and Marrion and Marrion and Taylor, carpenters— C. arid A. Briant, Bognor, Sussex, tailors_ J. Williams and G. Pulliugcr, Chichester, printers— Fenton and Co , Barbican, an'd Falcon- wharf, Baiikside,* Southwark, glass and'coal merchants- Skipper and Mayott, Great Tower- street, wax chandlers- D. Owens and Co., Liverpool, timber dealers— W. Lawton and J. Heatlicote; Rumworth, Lancashire, engineers— Orchard and Gilbert, Liverpool, tea dealers— Hamilton and Morley, Manchester, fustian manufacturers— Quesnee and Pa- rent, Frith- street, Solio, tailors- Phillips, Fisher, and Porter, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, linen drapers— Crisp and Co., Beccles, Suffolk, and Gillingham, Norfolk, brewers— T. RusseU and W. Branscombe, Exeter, carriers- T. Russell, R. S. Courtis, and W. Loscombo, London, carriers- T. Russell, W. Branscombe, R. S. Courtis, and W. Loscombe, common carriers— Whitfield and Pattin. son, Ashton- under. Line, architects— J. Morbey and Co., Darentli, Kent, and George. street, Mansion- house, paper makers. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. David Bruce, Wick, merchant. George Somervillc, Glasgow, builder. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER II. BANKRUPTS. JOHN SAUNDERS, jun., Paternoster- row, bookseller, September 21 and October 23, at the Bankrupts' Court. Sols. Messrs Ad. lington, Gregory, Faulkner, and Follett, Bedford row. Pet Cr. Edwin Furrell, 28, Oxford. street, straw hat manufacturer. Seal. September 8. 0 CHARLES PRICE, Clerkenwell- green, lamp manufacturer, Sep. tember 20 and October 23, at the Bankrupts' Court. Sol. Mr. Murray, London- street, Fenchurch- street. Pet. Cr. John Fell Christy, Stangatc Glass Works, Lambeth, glass manufacturer. Seal. September 10. . . ,, CHARLES HYACINTHE DUBOC, Prince's- street, spitalhelds, silk dyer, September 18 and October 23, at the Bankrupts- Court. Sol. Mr. Gray, jun., Flemming's- street, Klngsland. road. let. Cr. John Beazley, 3, Spicer- street, Brick. lane, Betlinal- green, dry. Salter. Seal. September6. JANE HUTCHINSON, East Retford, Nottinghamshire, wine dealer, September 26 and October 23, at the White Hart Inn, East Retford. Sols. Messrs. Hawkins, Bloxam, and Stacker, New Boswell. court. Pet. Cr. Eleanor Bailey, Gainstone, Notts, widow. Seal. August21. JOHN BEALL, Truro, Cornwall, mine agent, September 21 and October 23, at Pearce's Hotel, Truro. Sofe. Messrs. Sole, Alder- manbury. Pet. Cr. John Norman and William Hodge, Devon- port, bankers. Seal. September 3. BARNABAS MITCHELL, York, builder, September 24 and Oc- tober 23, at the Black Swan Inn, York. Sols. Messrs. Strangways aud Walker, Barnard's. inn. Pet. Cr. John Clayton, Kippax, Yorkshire, gent. Seal. September 3. WILLIAM GADSBY, jun,, Cheethain, Lancashire, joiner, October 1 and 23, at the Commissioners'. rooms, Manchester. Sol. Mr. Appleby, King's- road, Bedford. row. Pet. Cr. William Scales Sutton, Manchester, pork butcher. Seal. August 29. WILLIAM HOUGHTON, Kirkham, Lancashire, tow spinner, September 25 and October 23, at the Town. hall, Preston. Sol. Mr. Appleby, King's. road, Bedford. row. Pet. Cr. Joseph Hud. son, Preston, banker. Seal. August 11. ROBERT BRIGGS, Ulverstone, Lancashire, cotton spinner, Sep. tember 26 and October 23, at the Braddyll Arms Inn, Ulverstone. Sols. Messrs. Taylor, Sharpe, Field, and Jackson, Bedford. row. Pet. Cr. Isaac and George Braithwaite, Kendal, Westmoreland, drysalters. Seal. A ugust 16. THOMAS JENNINGS, jun., Canterbury, slate merchant, Septem. ber 28 and October 23, at the Guildhall, Canterbury. Sol. Mr. Kirk, Symond's- inn, Chancery. lane. Pet. Cr. James Read Reader, Canterbury, gent. Seal. September 3. DIVIDENDS. A. COCKBURN, Carlisle, Cumberland, grocer, October 3. R. PROCTER, Nettleham, Lincolnshire, farmer, October 2. R. WALL, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, linen draper, October 5. S. BROWN and J. CHEETHAM, Manchester, commission agents, October 3. W. CLARKSON and J. WATERHOUSE, Stanningley, Yorkshire, cloth manufacturers, October 3. H. CONWAY, Liverpool, general merchant, October 19. T. SMITH, Stockport, Cheshire, ironmonger, October 2. W. WHITMORE, Stockport, Cheshire, watch manufacturer, Oc. tober 2. J. TAYLOR, Ulverstone, Lancashire, victualler, October 3. H. NORFOLK, Manchester, brewer, October 4. CERTIFICATES, OCTOBER 2. J. Lovell, Leamington Priors, Warwickshire, plumbers— C. Evans, Manchester, banker— T. Ashton, Stockport, Cheshire, cotton spinner — W. H. Williams, Birmingham, paper colourer— W. Williams, Bexley, Kent, draper— W. Medley, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, Uxbridge, and Windsor, banker. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Rowland, Strood, Kent, and F. Hight, Dover, builders— J. Cross and K. R. E. Foote, Rood. lane, wine merchants— G. Cooke and S. Manlove, Holy- moor- hill, Derbyshire, bobbin turners— J. and R.- Dempster, Wells, Somersetshire— T. and T. Proudfoot, Mortimer- street, Cavendish- square, bookbinders— D. Clayton and W. Airey, Harden Beck, Yorkshire, machine makers— M. and T. Burnell, Bridgwater, Somersetshire, drapers— J. Harris and E. Rye, Golden- square, Westminster, attorneys— J. Fishwick and W. Jackson, Old- ham, Lancashire, veterinary surgeons— R. L. and S. Phillips ( so far as regards L. PlrillipsJ— E. and G. Smith, Wliistooes, Worcester, shire, carpenters— Winterbottom and Chadwick, Ashton- under- Line, Lancashire, cotton spinners— C. Pooley and Co., Manchester, cotton spinnors— Meredith and Ellis, Dublin, schoolmistresses— H. and J. Lister, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, ship carpenters. LONDON MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE, MONDAY, SEPT. 10.— Wheat, Essex Red, new, 56s to 60s i tine, 63s to 65s; old, — 8 to — s; white, new, 60s to 65s j fine, 66s to 68s; superfine, 68s to 70s; old,— s to — s.— Rye, to 38s.— Barley, 28s to 34s ; old, 36s to 38s ; superfine, — s 00— s.— Malt, 50s to 56s; fine, 58s to 60s.— Peas, Hog, 34s to 35s ; Maple, 3( is to 37s; white, 36s to 40a; Boilers, 40s to 42s— Beans, small, 40s to 42s; old, — s to — s; Ticks, 33s to 35s; old, 37s to 39s; Harrow,— s to — s.— Oats, feed, 21s to 23s; fine, 24s to 26s ; Poland, 243 to 26*; fine, 27s to 28s; Potatoe, 28s to 29s ; fine, 30s to32s.— Bran, per quarter, 8s Od to9sOd,— Pollard, fine, per ditto, 14B. 20s. GENERALAVERAGEPRICEOFBRITISHCORN FORTIIE WEEK ENDING SEPT. S, 1838 Wheat, 70s 2d ; Barley, 34s 2d; Oats, 24s Id; Rye, 36s lid; Beans, 41s 2d ; Peas, 37s Od. DUTYON FOREIGN CORN FORTHE PRESENTWEEK. — Wheat, Is Od Barley, 10s iod ; Oats, 12s 3d; Rye, 12s 6d ; Beans, 9s 6d; Peas 15s 6d. PRICE OF SEEDS, SEPT. 10— Per Cwt.— Red Clover, English, 50s to 65s ; fine, 70s to 80s ; Foreign, 48s to 60s; fine, 65s to 70s— White Clover, 60s to 60s ; tine, 63s to 70s.— Trefoil, new, 18s to 20s fine, 21s to 22s ; old, 12s to 20s Trefolium, 8s to 10s ; fine, lis to 13S Caraway, English, new, 42s to 46s ; Foreign, 0s to 0s— Coriander, 8s Od to 10s Od. Per Quarter St. Foin, 40s to 44s ; fine, 46s to43s ; Rye GrasB, 28s to 30s; new, 30s to 31s ; Pacey Grass, 0s toOs; Linseed for feeding, 46s to 50s; fine, 50s to56s ; ditto for crushing, 42s to 46s.— Canary, 60s to 65s.— Hemp,— s to — s. Per Bushel.— White MustardSeed, 9s Od tol3s0d; brown ditto" 15sOd to 18s ; Tares, 5s Od to6s0d ; fine new, Spring, 7s Od to8s0d ; Per Last.— Rape Seed , English, S6Ito38(; Foreign, 34? to 36'. OILS.— Rape Oil, brown, £ 43 0a per tou ; Refined, £ 45 0s ' Linseed Oil, £ 30 0s ; aud Rape Cake,£ 6 0s Linseed Oil Cake, £ 11 10s per thousand. HAY ANDSTRAW.— Smithfield Hay, 70s0dtoll2s Od; Inferior, — s to — s; Clover, 60s to 130s; Inferior — s to — s; Straw, 36s to 44s. Wiutechapet.— Clover, 100s to 135s ; new, 60s to I10s; second cut, — s to — s; Hay, 80 to 115s ; new ditto, 45s to 953 ; Wheat Straw, 30s to 45s. Cumberland.— FineUpland Meadow and Rye. grass Hay, 110s to 115s ; inferior ditto, 105s to 110s ; superior Clover, 120s to 126s ; Straw, 45s to 46s per load of 36 trusses. Portman Market. — Coarse heavy Lowland Hay,— sto — s; rtew Meadow Hay, 80s to 90s ; old ditto, 100s to 118s ; useful ditto, — s to — s; New CI over ditto; — s to— s; old ditto, 100s to 126s ; Wheat Straw, 40s to 48s per toad of 36 trusses. SMITHFIELD, SEPT. 10,— TO sink the offal— per 81b.— Beef, 3s 4d to 4s 2d; Best Down and Polled Mutton, 3s lOd to 4s 8d; Veal 4s Od to 5s 4j ; Pork, 4s 2d to 5s 6d ; Lamb, 4a 8d to 5s 4d. The following is the statement in Messrs. Sturge's circular :- PRESENT PRICES OF GRAIN. Birmingham, September 13, 1838, s. d. s. l WHEAT, English, White, per bushel of021b. Old " English, Red Old 6 0 0 0 0 0 81 6 0 0 29 0 21 0 Irish, White — 0 Red ,~^~ none 0 Old none 0 Foreign^ ™ ™ ^^,^—.—— none 0 BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. Quarter Irish . . — Grinding, per Quarter of3921bs. ™ ., OATS, English, White, per Imperial Quarter „ Welsh, Black and White, per 3121bs.,~~.~~ 23 0 Irish, ( weighing 41 to 421bs.) do. 25 6 ( 37to3S) lbs.) ™ do. ™ ~ 23 6 Black do. ~ 23 0 BEANS, English, Old, per bushel of651bs. 5 4 New ; . 5 6 Irisli^ ww., . none 0 0 Foreign 4 10 PEAS, Boiling, per Imp. Quarter 46 0 Grinding, per Quarter o! 392lbs 30 0 FLOUR, English, Fine, per Sack of2801bs 56 0 Seconds ........... 48 0 to 8 4 .. 8 9 .. 8 2 .. 8 6 .. 0 0 .. 0 0 .. 0 0 .. 0 0 .. 37 6 .. 0 0 .. 31 0 .. 34 0 .. 24 0 .. 27 0 .. 25 0 .. 24 0 .. 6 0 .. 5 10 .. 0 0 .. 5 6 .. 54 0 .. 33 0 .. 58 0 •• 51 6 Gloucester, September 8, 1838. WHEAT, English, White, per Imp. Bushel Old English, Red < i Old Irish, White, per601bs. Red Old Foreign BARLEY. Engliah, Malting, per Imp. Quarter. Irish ... „) Grinding, per Quarterof3921ba OATS, English, White, per Imp. Quarter Welsh, Black and White „, Irish ( weighing41 to 421bs); per Qr. nf31! ( 37to391bs.) ; Black„ BEANS, English, Old, per Imp. Bushel New —— Irish Foreign ™ PEAS, Boiling, per Imp. Quarter Grinding, per Quarter of 3921bs. „ FLOUR, English, Fine, per sack of 2801bs„ Seconds s. d. s. d. 7 9 to 8 0 ' 8 0 .. 8 6 7 3 .. 8 0 8 0 .. 8 2 0 0 .. 0 0 0 0 .. 0 0 0 0 .. 0 0 r. 0 .. 9 0 30 0- ,. 34 0 0 0 .. 0 0 28 0 .. 30 0 22 0 .. 32 0 21 0 .. 23 0 .22 0 .. 26 0 21 6 .. 23 0 <*>. 0 .. 23 0 5 3 .. 5 6 5 0 .. 5 4 0 ' 0 .. 0 0 4 10 .. 5 4 44 0 .. 60 0 28 0 .. 31 0 55 0 .. 58 0 53 0 .. 55 0 Wheat, Barley. Oats „ Beans Peas _ WORCESTER WEEKLY AVERAGE. Qrs. Bush. 825 12 20 213 0 s. d. • 56 10} . 26 8 , 28 0 . 40 8f . 0 0 NEWGATE ANHLEADENHALL.— By the Carcase Beef, 2s lid to 3s6d ; Mutton, 3s4d to 4s Od; Veal, 3s Od to 4s lOd ; Pork, 4s0d to 5s 4d ; Lamb, 4s Od to 5s Od. COUNTRY MARKETS, & c. BIRMINGHAM MARKET. Corn Market, September 13. A fair supply of both old and new Wheat to this day's market. The trade was more lively than of late, and the quality and con. dition of the new being pretty good, last week's rates were main- tained. Barley, both malting and grinding, was a dull sale, at barely the terms of this day se'nnight. Oats offering at a shade less money. No alterations in the valae of Beans or Peas. WHEAT— per6' 2lbs , t. d. s. d. White 8 3 — 86 Red 8 0 — 8 4 Irish 7 6 — 7 9 BAIILEY— per Imp. Quarter. For Malting 31 6- 33 6 For Grinding, per 392lbs SO 0 — 31 6 RI ALT— per ImperialBushel. Old and new 0 0 — 00 OATS— perWlbs. Old 21 0- 21 0 New 0 0— 0 0 Irish 24 6 — 26 6 BEANS— per bag, 10 score gros s. d. s. d Old..-; 15 9 — 17 0 New 0 0— 0 0 PEAS— perbag of 3 Bush. Imp. FOR BOILING. White 0 0 — 0.0 Grey 15 0— 16 0 FOR GRINDING. perbag of 10 score 14 6 — 15 6 White 15 0 — 15 0 FLOUR— persaclc of- 2mbs. net. Fine 50 0 — 52 0 Seconds.... 45 0 — 47 0 GLOUCESTER WEEKLY AVERAGE. Qrs. Bush. Wheat. Barley ~ Oats Peas — Beans 337 110 1567 5 90 » . d. 65 7 29 8 23 3 • 42 0 . 38 8 Birmingham, September 13, 1838. At Gloucester and Worcester markets on Saturday last Wheat was 3s. to 4s. per quarter lower. Barley maintained its value, Oats were a slow sale at 6d. to Is. decline. Beans dull. During the present week, owing to the firmness in Mark. lane, holders of Wheat were unwilling to submit to any reduction in price, and millers declining to purchase at last week's rates, little business has been transacted. Malting Barley without variation. Oats were offered on lower terms by 6d. per quarter, without find- ing buyers. In Beans little passing. A few old grinding Peas changed hands at 15s. 6d. per 1961bs. The weather continues very fine, but the supply of new Wheat being much less than the two preceding weeks, and complaints of the yield increasing, an advance of Is. to 2s. per quarter was ob- tained, whilst for old the sale was tolerably free, at Is. over the currency of this day se'nnight. Some fine new Barley was disposed of at 35s. per imperial quarter. Grinding could not be sold except at a reduction. Beans dull, and rather cheaper. Good Peas in demand, and 50s. to 54s. per imperial quarter was obtained for small parcels of fine white boilers. IMPORTS INTO GLOUCESTER From the 6th to the 12th inst. Wheat. Oats. Barley. Beans. Qrs S97Qrs Qrs Qrs Coastwise.. 1053Qrs Qrs Qrs Qrs Foreign.... Qrs Qrs Qrs Qrs Peas. Flour. Rye. Vetches. Qrs Sacks Qrs Qrs Coastwise.. Qrs Sacks Qrs Qrs Foreign.... Qrs Sacks Qrs Qrs WARWICK, SATUROAV, SEPT. 8.— Wheat, per bag, old 25s Od to 30s Od ; new, — s Od to — s Od ; Barley, per quarter, 32s 0d to 36s Od ; grinding, 32s Od to 34s Od ; Oats, 30s Od to 33s 0d; New, 26s Od to 28s 0d; Peas, per bag, 0s Od to 0s Od ; Beans, 16s Od to 18s Od ; new, 15s Od to 17s Od j Vetches, 0s Od to 0s 0d; Malt, 56s Od to 64s 0d per quarter. HEKEFORI), SEPT. 8.— Wheat, per bushel Imperial measure, 9s Id to 9s lid. Ditto, new, per bushel, 8s 8d to 9s 3d. Barley, 0s 0d to 0s Od. Beans, 0s Od to 0s Od. Peas, 0s Od to 0s Od. Vetche8, 0s Od to 0s Od. Oats, 0s Od to 0s Od. CHELTENHAM, SEPT. 8.— Wheat, 8s 0d to 8s 3d per bushel Ditto, red, 7s 0d to 7s 8d. Barley, 3s Od to 4s Od. Oats, 3s Od to 4s Od. Beans, 5s 0d to 5s 6d. GLOUCESTER SHIP NEWS, From September 7 to September 12. IMPORTS : The Juno, from Dantzic, with 432 pieces of timber, 540 deck planks, 120 redwood deals, and 16 fathoms of lathwood, con- signed to J. M. Shipton— Sarah, London, 12J£ tons of hides, Thomas Slatter; 8 puncheons of compos, Kent and Sons ; general cargo, Gopsil Brown— Antigua Planter, London, 1052 six- eighth quarters of wheat, J. and C. Sturge— Anna, Wyburgh, 840 deals and 132 deal ends, Price, Washbourne, and Price— Newport Trader, Newport, general cargo, Southan and Son— O. Cambridge, Parry Port, 115 tons of coals, John George— Swift, New Ross, 964 barrels of oats, J. and C. Sturge— Anna Maria, Carmarthen, 46 boxes of tin, Hack and Britton ; 12 boxes of tin, Southau and Son— Margam Packet, Port Talbot, copper and tin, Southan and Son— Pilgrim, Barrow, 36 tons of iron ore, Kendall and Son— Sarah, Swausea, general cargo, Southan and Son— Dolphin, Swansea, 1200 oysters, Hawkes — Ann and Maria, Neath, 15 tons of copper, Parker and Forster ; 16>£ tons of copper and spelter, Partridge and Co.— Hebe, Cadiz, wine, John- sons and Co.; wine, Tasker and Co.; wine, Jenkins and Wood, house; wine, Martin, Washbourne, and Lloyd— Williams, Port Madoc, slates, Price, Washbourne, and Price— Speedwell, Bangor, slates, Sanders. EXPORTS : The Hope, for Newport, with 17 § tons of salt, from Southan and Son— Borough, London, 343 tons of salt, Gopsil Brown — Belinda, Swausea, 21 tons of bricks, 15 tons of salt, and 2 tons of sundries, Southan and Sou— Jules, Swfftisea, Fox, Sons, and Co.— Eliza, Plymouth, 46 tons of salt, Gopsil Brown; 8000 bricks, Thos. Davies— Nautilus, Hayle, 40 tons of salt and 25 tons of bricks, Southan and Son— John, Revel, 420 tons of salt, Gopsil Brown- Elizabeth and Ann, Carmarthen, 39 tons of salt, Gopsil Bown— En- deavour, Cardiff, 40 tons of iron, Kendall and Son— Margaret, Lon- don, 130 tons of iron, Kendall and Son ; 2 tons of box wood, 5 tons of oil, 4 quarter. casks of braudy, 9 dozen of wine, and 2 tons of empties, Gopsil Brown ; 6 quarter. casks of wine, Johnsons and Co. — Henrietta, Newport, John Forster— Mary, Cork, 23 tons of iron, Kendall and Son ; 21% tons of bark, Thomas Slatter— Louisa, Pen- zance, 45£ tons of salt, Southan and Son ; 1000 bricks, Thomas Davies— Union, Wexford, Wait, James, and Co.— Margam Packet, Bristol, 6 tons of iron, Kendall and Son— Newport Trader, New- port, general cargo, Southan and Son— Pratt, Swansea, J. M. Shipton — Edward, Newry, 38 tons of salt, Kendall and Son— Otter, New- port, Vining and Sons. BETTS'S PATENT BRANDY. ri^ HE extraordinary patronage with which this fa- I vourite beverage has been honoured, by the Nobility, the Medical Profession, and by all classes of the community, since its introduction in 1829, affords, of itself, sufficient evi- dence of its unequalled merits. To this triumphant success must be attributed the fact that each succeeding year has witnessed the birth and death of some new Brandy Establishment; called into life byjea lousy of the success of the PATENT BRANDY, and doomed to certain failure as a necessary consequence; being totally un- able to produce an article capable of sustaining a competition with it. The Distillery, No. 7, SXMITHFIELD BARRS, LONDON, is the only Establishment of J. T. BELTS & Co. 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. DR. JOHN ARMSTRONG'S LIVER PILLS. " I care not how I am physicked, so it be not by the adventure of a quack but advice of a physician, who, I am sure, will prescribe no more for me than may consist with my safety, and need doth require.'' — Old Divine. THESE LIVER PILLS have now established themselves as a favourite FAMILY APERTENT, as a safe and sure destroyer of WORMS in children, as a most effectual remedyfor an INACTIVE LIVER, and consequently as an ANTIBILIOUS. Obstinate sores heal, and the STONE and GRAVEL are invariably cured under a course of them. The occasional use of these Pills, instead of any other Aperient, renders the COMPLEXION beautifully clear, and free from eruptions. Many DROP- SICAL persons are now never without these Pills. Taken a few nights before a VOYAGE, they prevent SEA- SICKNESS. They contain no Aloes, Gamboge, or Colo- cynth ; occasioning 110 Piles, nor any pain in their operation. By permission of the Board of Stamps and Taxes at Somerset- house, the proprietor has had the name of his in- valuable medicine, " Dr. John Armstrong's Liver Pills," engraved in white letters on the government stamp, to which he continues to affix, in red wax, his coat of arms, a Tower on a Shield of ermine and gold. The LIVER PILLS are now prepared only by the pro- prietor's new compounding agents, Edward Winstanley and Son, 7, Poultry, London, in the stead of John T. Eddy, of Bishop Stortford, who ceased to be the proprietor's agent on the 9th Feb., 1838, but continues, he his heirs, adminis- trators, and assigns, by virtue of an agreement duly stamped and executed, bearing date Oct. 7th, 1837, liable to a penalty of 500?., if he or they ever divulge the secret of the prescrip- tion, or again prepaie the Pills, or sell any other Pills of his or their preparing, under the name of Dr. John Armstrong's Liver Pills. The trade is informed that the proprietor, a gentleman of piivate fortune, has directed his new agents to put thirteen boxes into every dozen packet, and that the Is. ljd. size only will now be prepared. Messrs. Winstanley are to supply only the London wholesale houses; to whom, there- fore, retailers are requested to address their orders. Sold retail by all patent medicine Vendors, in boxes, ac- companied with the late Dr. Armstrong's own directions, and some interesting cases, at Is. ljd. each. N. B. Askfof " Dr. John Armstrong's Liver Pills." ACERTAIN DISEASE PREVENTED by the use of Rowed'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 transcendent qualitiesin resisting a disease so destructive to health and happiness— while un- like the mineral poisons administered by many Practitioners, 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) witli 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, Farringdon- street, Lon- don. A THE A 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-, STUEET, 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 gonorrhoea and simple cases, but when salivation and all other means have failed. Messrs. Perry and Co., Surgeons, continue to direct their studies to those dreadful debilities arising from the too free and indiscriminate indulgence of the passions, which not only 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 bodily senses, producing melancholy, deficiency, and a numerous train of nervous affections. In this distressing state, whether the consequence of such baneful habits orany othercause, their mild mode of treatment will effect a speedy restoration to sound and vigorous health; and to those whose constitu- tions have beeome enfeebled, in consequence of improper treatment, or the venereal virus not being entirely rooted from their system, as well as from the dreadful effects of mercury, or from secondary symptoms of the venereal disease, including strictures, gleets, and all urethral dis- charges, their medicine will be found a most safe and inva- luable remedy. Messrs. PERRY may be personally consulted from nine in the morning till ten at night, and will give advice to persons taking the above, or any other of their prepara- tions, without a fee. Attendance on Sundays from nine till two, at No. 4, Great Charles- street, Birmingham; where tbeir medicines can only be obtained, as no Book- seller, Druggist, or any other Medicine Vendor is supplied with them. Country letters, ( post paid) containing a remittance for medicine, will be immediately answered. ASHLEY COOPER'S BOTANICAL PURIFY- ING PILLS are established by thirty years'experi- ence, are prescribed by most of the eminent Physicians and Surgeons in London, and are always administered at several public hospitals, as the only certain remedy for Gonorrhoea, Gleets, Strictures, and all other forms of Ve- nereal diseases, in either sex, curing in a few days, by one small pill for a dose, with ease, secrecy, and safety. Their operation is imperceptible, they do notrequire theslightest confinement, or any alteration of diet, beverageorexercise. They do not disagree with the stomach, nor cause any offensive smell to the breath, as is the case with all other medicines in use for these complaints, and after a cure ef- fected by the use of these pills, the party 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 retur n, 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 mostefficient remedy for Pimpled Faces, Scurf, Scorbutic Affections, and allEruptions of the Skin. Captains of vesselsshould make a point of always taking them to sea, their unrivalled effi- cacy in curing Scurvybeingknownthroughoutthe world. The following letter selected from numerous other pro- fessional recommendations forwarded to the proprietor when lie first offered these pills to the public, may be considered interesting. From that eminenisurgeon, the late Joshua Brookes, Esq., F. R. S., Professor of Anatomy, & c. & c. Theatre of Anatomy, Blenheim- street. Dear Cooper,— Iliave tried your pills in numerous instances, and 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 I had never before ivitnesBed; but what I consider their most invaluable property is. that they entirely eradicate the complaint, and never leave those dis. tressing secondary symptoms ( that harass the patient for life) which usually arise after the use of those uncertain remedies, Mercury and Copaiba. I think you cannot fail to have a very large sale for them Believe me, yours, very truly, JOSHUA BROOKES. Dr. Borragan presents his compliments to Messrs. Hannay and Co., and writes to say, that having for some years prescribed Ashley Cooper's Pills to his patients, with the most successful results, he ferl* called upon to add his testimony to their great efficacy in curing sexual diseases, and they deserve well of the public profession. The Purifying Drops ar. e also a most valuable antiscorbutic medicine. Dr. B. has found them to be' a decided specific for those eruptions' of the skin which frequently appear at the rise and fall of the year. London, — street, June 12,1,838. Gentlemen,— I cannot express the. feelirgs which induce me to forward my name, in addition to those who have gratefully returned their thanks for a complete cure of gonorrhoea, by the use of Cooper's Botanical Pills, I beg merely to say, that I have experi- enced an entire cure from the small quantity of six boxes of those invaluable pills, a very urgent and distressing species of the above disorder : and my gratitude shall be ever evinced in my strongest re o emendation of them to all I may hereafter meet suffering in the same manner. If this communication can be of the least service, I beg you will accept it, merely reminding you, that if made public my residence may be omitted.— I am, gentlemen, your much obliged and obedient servant, JOHN HARBISON. Ashley Cooper's Botanical Purifying Pills are sold in boxes at 2s. 9d. and 4s. 6d. each, wholesale and retail, at HANNAY and Co.' s General Patent Medicine Warehouse, 63, Oxford- street, the corner of Wells- street, London, where the publiecan besupplied with every Patent Medi- cine oflepute, ( with an allowance on taking six at one time) warranted genuine and fresh from thevarious makers. Orders by post, containing aremittance, punctually attended to, and the change, if any, can be returned with the order. Sold by appointment by W. Wood, High- street; R. Matthison, 71, Edgbaston- street; Hodgetts, Spiceal- street; Watts, Snowhill; and Guest, Steelhouse- lnne, Birmingham; and by the principal medicine vendors in every other town in the kingdom. THE ONLY CURE FOR CORNS AND BUNIONS. AMSBOTTOM'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 recourseto the dangerous opera- tions of cutting or filing. The proprietorpledges himself that it does not contain caustic or any otherarticle that will inflame the skin; being white it will not stain the stocking; and the advantage it has over plaister is mani- fest, and fullyappreciated, as the very high recommenda- tion bestowed upon it by everyindividual that hasused it testifies. Price Is. l^ d. and 2s. The various counterfeits that are attemptedto be im- posed upon the public in lieu of this invaluable remedy, render it imperativelynecessary for purchasers to ask for S. Ramsbottom'sCorn and Bunion Solvent, and to see that it has the signature of" S. Itamsbottom" written upon the label that is pasted 011 the outside of the wrapper of every genuine bottle, in addition to the name of the article, and words sold by Hannay and Co. 63, Oxford- street, being the name and address of the proprietor's wholesale agents. The following letter from Mr. John Winfield, of Bir- mingham, is one of many hundreds of the same tenor: — Gentlemen— Having read an advertisement in a Birmingham paper, I was induced to purchasefrom your agent, Mr. Maher, Ann- streot, a bottle of Ramsbottom's Corn and Bunion Sol vent;— after a week'sapplication I found it had the desired effect. 1 have since re- commended it to many of myfriends. You are at liberty to make any use you please of tliiscommunication.— Your obedient servant, Birmingham, AuguBt6,1836. JOHN WINPIELD. Mr. Phipp, of Westbourn- road, Paddington. green, writes he had been so severe a sufferer from corns, as to be quite a cripple, requir- ing the aid of two sticks to walk with, for many months, until he was recommended to try Ratnsbottora's Corn Solvent, which entirely cured him, and that he has not been troubled with them since, anu will be most happy to answer any personal enquiries as to its effi- cacy. ALSO FROM DR. CHENVILLE. Dr. Orenville presents his compliments to Messrs. Hannay and Co., and begs to add his testimony ( publicly) to the efficacy of Rams bottom's Corn Solvent, which he purchased at their shop, when in London last season : it completely answers the purpose, the danger possible to arise by cutting them too deep is avoided, and it is far more agreeable than plaister. Sold by appointment by W. Wood, High- street,; R. Matthison, 71, Edgbaston- street; Hodgetts, Spiceal- street; Watts, Snowhill; and Guest, Steelhotise- lane; and by the principal patent medicine vendors in every other town in the kingdom. 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 was, and it, in its own turn, produced a constant excitement of coughing. I am now about, to the wonder of my friends and neighbours, entirely free from cough. One smalt phial of your inestimable medicine, teu years back; would have saved me not less than £ 3,000 in medical fees, but it would have done more— it would have saved my having had to swallow, from time to time, upwards of a hogshead of their nauseous, and, as they all proved, useless drugs. The agreeable flavour of the medicine is a great recommendation: I think you ought to put it up and sell it to the public, and if any one should doubt its efficacy, refer them tome. I shall have the pleasure of being with you in a few days, when I shall press on your consideration the propriety of making it up for sale; it would prove an enormous fortune to your grand- children. If you make up your mind to do so, as I am what the worldstyles an idle man, you may enlist me in your service in any way that you think would be useful. But I should advise you to place the management in the hands of one of the great medicine houses in London. Hannay's, in Oxford. street, are beingadvertised in all the papers here, as wholesale agents for Ramsbottom' 6 Corn Solvent, which, by the bye, my girls all say is really a care, and manyother medicines. 1 should say this would be a very good house, Oxford- street being one of the most public situationsin Lon. don. All join me in kind remembrance to yourself and Mrs. M. Believe me, yours, very truly, T. Mulreaddy, Esq. ROBERT GRANT. Birkenhead, Jan., 1835. Dear Sir,— The bottle of Medicine you left for me the other day has greatly relieved the wheezing I have been so long subject to ; and I do not now find the cold produce the sensation it used previous to taking your medicine; it used formerly to nip me on going out, aud I seemed as though 1 had a string run through my body, and the breast and backbones were drawn together. If you will be so good as to give me another bottle, I am sure it will work a perfect cure. I am, sir, your mostobedient servant, T. Mulreaddy, Esq. NICHOLAS BROWN. Liverpool, Dee., 1834. MydearSir,— You most assuredlydeserve thethanks of society for presenting it with such an invaluable cure for Coughs. For years past, during the winter mouths, and aiways on foggy days, have 1 heretofore been compelled to confine myself a close and soli- tary prisoner in mylibrary, to prevent the possibility of being tempted to join in conversation, the excitement of which always produced such violent paroxysms of coughing, that I have been in constant dread of sudden dissolution, by bursting of a blood- vessel. At the commencement of the present season, by your kind liberality, I com- menced takipg the medicine you sent, and have taken twelve bottles. After I had taken three, I could respire as vigourously as in the earlypartof my life, and I now believe that 1 was then perfectly cured— a cure not to have been expected at my advanced age, 86 years— but I persevered in taking it until I had consumed the whole twelve bottles. Your situation m life, I know, places you beyond the necessity of preparing an article of the kind for sale, but it must and shall be done, aud 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 wilt find your cottage attacked by myriads of my former fellow- sufferers, for a share of your bounty, and I myself now apply for the first, trusting that your goodness will not suffer you to refuse m « a pretty considerablequantity, and I promise to distribute it most usefully. Wheneveryou have made up for sale, send me one thou- sand bottles. Ever your sincere well- wisher, T. Mulreaddy, Esq. W. HCCIIES. Mr. Mulreaddy begs to observe, that to publish copies 0' the whole of the letters he has received of the above tenor » would require several volumes. The selection here pre- sented he considers quite sufficient, but begs to say, that upon trial of his Cough Elixir, it will give itself the best recommendation. It will be sold by his appointment, whole- sale and retail, by his agents, Messrs. HANNAY and Co., 63, Oxford- street, London ; and retail by every other respecta- ble vendor of medicines in bottles at Is. l^ d. each. Iggr Purchasers should observe that it is wrapped up in white paper, on which, in a blue label with white letters, are printed the words,— Mulreaddy's Cough Elixir, pre- pared by Thomas Mulreaddy, Liverpool, ami sold byhisap- pointmentat Hannay and Co.' s, Patent Medicine Ware- house, 63, Oxford- street, London. Price Is. l^ d. and 4s. 6d. Sold wholesale and retail by HANNAY and Co., 63 Oxford- street, London, wholesale Patent Medicine Ven- dors and Perfumers to the ltoyal 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, Vvith an allowance on taking six or more of any other article at the same time. Sold by appointment by Wood, High- street; R. Mat- thison, 71, Edgbaston- street; Hodgetts, Spiceal- street; Watts, Snowhill; Guest, Steelhouse- lane; and by the principal patent medicine vendors in eveiy other town in the kingdom. 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 maybe 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, Sept. 15,1838.